Lyssin – Medicine



Increased sexual desire. (Dropsy of spine with sheep Hydrophobia of sheep.).

Priapism, with frequent seminal emissions.

Satyriasis in a stallion; hot breath streamed from nostrils.

Insufficient seminal discharge.

Semen is discharged too late or not at all during coition.

During a very strong and warm embrace excitement diminished at its height, and there followed no emission.

No emission during coition, but afterwards semen escaped unconsciously in sleep.

A seminal emission with dreams, quite unusual.

Without being preceded by an erection there is a discharge of prostatic fluid, smelling salty and musty; the glans penis is dry.

Feeling of weakness around and in sexual parts.

After coition, with difficult and tardy emission, there is a sensation of emptiness and discomfort in parts, lasting all of next day.

Painful urging in penis, as after excessive coition, accompanied by lasciviousness.

Itching and burning on corona glandis, with tickling and discharge of greenish pus, in afternoon.

Glans is dry and sticks to foreskin.

Burning and tenesmus as if in prostatic gland and in urethra; in afternoon.

Itching on os pubis, left side, extending to root of penis.

Increased peristaltic motion of scrotum, all afternoon and evening; motion of testicles also increased.

Scrotum tightly drawn up for two or three weeks.

Hanging down of scrotum on eighth day, while before and after it was contracted.

Painful sensation in testicles.

Pain in testicles on day after an embrace, particularly felt towards noon and first afternoon hours.

Hydrocele.

Atrophy of testicles; testicles diminish in size, first l., then right.

Complaints resulting from abnormal sexual desire.

Female Sexual Organ

      Aphrodisiac sense deficient.

Pain extending from uterus into breast and right side of abdomen.

Insatiable heat; with cows.

Pain in left ovarian region, uneasiness there.

Bearing down in uterine region.

Sharp pain in uterus, shooting down to labia.

Occasional acute pain in and below uterus; at times a violent shooting pain in left of vagina, extending upward, so severe as almost to cause her to scream.

Increase of uterine sensitiveness, conscious of having a womb.

With a painful sensitiveness of womb, slight degree of prolapsus, so that after any considerable effort there would be a strong conviction that it was prolapsed.

Considerable pain in lower part of back, with a soreness felt through public region, which was clearly proved to be in neck of womb by an increase of pain from pressing finger on neck; principally at point where finger came in contact with womb.

Womb high up in abdomen, enlarged in fundus.

Abrasion about os tincae (treated with caustic) some tumefaction of cervix and walls of vagina remained, showing a low degree of inflammation.

Speculum showed os tincae of size of a small goose quill, smooth and normal, except that there was a string of bloody mucus of size of os hanging from it, so tough and viscid that it was difficult to wipe it away with a sponge.

Swelling of womb in all its parts, extending somewhat into vagina. Prolapsus.

Bright redness of vaginal portion of womb.

After menses found that prolapsus uterus, a case considered incurable, was in its proper position, and continued so after an interval of two months, though she has done much to test the cure, lifting a heavy child in and out of bed at night, when she was necessarily without her supporter.

Prolapsus uteri of seven years’ standing.

Metritis, prolapsus or induration of uterus; in cows.

A girl, age 14, and another age. 21 took the 30th after their catamenia had ceased for three days, next day it reappeared.

Catamenia appeared (after a few globules of 30th) two weeks before time, and very copious.

Menstruation, with hemorrhoids, pulsations in anus and weakness of back.

Menses rather frequent, protracted, dark, and at times fetid.

During interval of menses ” a show” that seemed quite obstinate.

Anemia in consequence of disturbed sexual function.

Continual discharge of offensive mucus from uterus for several months.

White discharge like leucorrhea, which weakened her; never had leucorrhea.

Slimy leucorrhea.

Severe leucorrhea, with pains in back and lower part of bowels; sore vagina.

Sensitiveness of vagina rendering coition quite painful.

Menses too profuse, at times a little too frequent.

Discharge of blood from rectum during menses.

Weakness in back, with copious catamenia.

Tearing, followed by pressing downward, could not make a hard step during catamenia.

Pregnancy Parturition and Lactation

      During pregnancy: strange notions, desires or craving; rush of blood from chest upward; toothache, backache and other complaints; great sense of bearing down; intense pain from inflammation of os and cervix (formerly treated with Caustic); great soreness in lower part of back and bowels.

All changes of position that tilt or rotate to a moderate extent the os uteri cause much pain.

Spasms excited whenever she attempts to drink water, or if she hears it poured from one vessel into another; sight or sound of water affects unpleasantly, even though desiring water.

Since childbirth more pain with coition and a dislike to

it.

Since cessation of lochia a severe leucorrhea; pain in back and lower part of bowels; soreness of vagina.

Both breast swollen when waking in morning, she can hardly get up; three mornings in succession; same swelling of breast at night when opening her dress.

Respiration

      The breath is hot; sulphurous.

Hot breath streams from nostrils. Satyriasis in a stallion.

On inspiring: a cooling sensation; stinging on left side.

Can scarcely speak from weakness.

Weakness of chest; tired from talking or reading.

When breathing, stitches in right side of abdomen.

Breathing accelerated or rattling in last stage.

Asthmatic sensation, air going through larynx makes a kind of wheezing.

Sighing and groaning respiration, may be occasioned by violent expiration.

Frequent sighing and sobbing.

A general feeling of discomfort in chest forces him to deep breathing or to emit sighs, which alleviate.

Sighing with pain in heart.

Now and then he has to take a deep breath, with coldish feeling far back and deep in throat, followed by great relief.

At 9 A. M. suffocating feeling in chest, had to sigh several times, lasting till 10: 30 P. M. when he fell asleep.

Breathing laborious and difficult, quickly repeated, and attended with a constant and peculiar kind of hawking, in order to expel breath, which has been taken for an imitation of bark of a dog.

dyspnoea; with flatulency, cough and rattling in chest; with sighing, groaning respiration; from cardiac pain; agg. lying down.

Constriction about breast and difficulty in breathing become so extreme, that on a blast of air blowing on them they are seized with greatest distress, cover their mouths, seem ready to expire, as if struggling for breath.

On attempting, at request to drink a little water; a violent spasm of muscles of neck and throat came on, preceded by a deep sigh or gasp, as if she might just have plunged into cold water.

Difficult breathing and spasmodic sensation in trachea.

Suffocative spasm in throat.

Convulsive breathing and spasm in muscles of throat, either come together or breathing precedes throat spasms.

The convulsive breathing during paroxysms are very similar to those produced by a sudden cold water bath, and are always combined with spasm in throat muscles.

Oppression in breathing before a severe suffocative attack occurs, induced by spasmodic contractions of respiratory muscles, combined with spasmodic, alarming constriction of pharynx.

Breathing during paroxysm gasping, irregular and usually quite rapid, often with decided dyspnoea.

Cough

      Barking like a dog, with a sort of noisy cough; headache.

Coughing when attempting to swallow water forcibly, forces it out of mouth.

Cough and gagging.

Voice & Larynx.

     Trachea & Bronchia.

Voice altered in tone; tones much suppressed; hoarse; rough; harsh and weak (last stage); shrill, inarticulate sounds; shrill sounds of utmost despair, or occasioned by violent expirations; very shrill and piercing bark, changing near its termination into a distressing, continuous howl (dogs).

Epiglottis crisp and dry.

Inflammation or redness in superior part of trachea.

Pain next to larynx, on right side, felt on turning neck and on pressure.

Inner Chest & Lungs

      Chest and abdomen feel expanded; expanding chest seems to invigorate him, though usually it fatigues.

Pressing in chest, between tenth and eleventh ribs, right side.

Rheumatic pain across chest when drawing her breath.

Pain as if in nerves, from side of chest up to throat.

Cramp like pain and stitches in left side, followed by diarrhoea and afterwards nausea and inclination to vomit.

Pinching pain: at fourth rib on right side.

Stinging in lower part of chest.

Stitches under left mamma going towards left.

Shooting between left mamma and last ribs.

Shooting, flying pains through left chest.

Burning, surging through chest.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.