Impetigo covering back of head, extending over whole back to buttocks and even into vagina, covering labia and extensors of forearms.
Boils.
Malignant pustules.
Bad effects of vaccination.
Small dusky red spots on legs, not disappearing on pressure.
Proving.
Miss. A. W. C.; a large brunette; unusually well and strong; aged 50, a nurse.
Wednesday, Dec. 6. Took twenty pellets of Malandrinum, the 35th, at 5: 30 P.M.
Thursday evening, Dec. 7. Toothache in right upper eye-tooth beginning about 8 P.M. and lasting for two hours until bed time.
Friday evening, Dec. 8. Peculiar feeling of snuffles in the nose without discharge, with an unusual feeling of apprehension.
Saturday, Dec. 9., 9 A.M. A peculiar dull ache in my left chest near the heart lasting about two hours.
In the afternoon about 2 P.M. a severe dull pain in ball of foot, under big toe; worse when stepping on it. This lasted all the rest of the afternoon.
Sunday, Dec. 10. Felt very well today and with the exception of the above sensations have felt an unusual exhilaration and have had an especially good appetite during the last four days.
No more symptoms until December 19th, when I took ten pellets of the two hundredth in the morning before breakfast.
Had a dull, uncomfortable headache which passed off after sundown.
December 21. Back of head aches from early morning all day, after a sleepless night with a patient.
December 22. Have had unusually vivid dreams and very unpleasant ones.
December 23. Dreams again vivid, but not as unpleasant (I very rarely dream.) Felt very well otherwise except an unusual apprehension about patient, for no reason that I can account for.
December 25. Unusually vivid dreams.
December 26. All night quarrelsome dreams. Woke in the morning with left arm very lame and a peculiar restlessness in the arm, which was exceedingly uncomfortable.
Sudden pains in my right hand which come and go quickly and have continued during the whole afternoon.
Mrs. G. F. S., widow, aged 58, Blonde, well developed, inclined to obesity. Remarkably healthy woman, whose appearance and vivacity would place her at the age of 40.
Dec. 6. 1905. Took fifteen pellets of the 35th potency at 10 P.M.
Before eleven o’clock began to feel a creepy sensation in my skin, particularly in the face, like the crawling of ants over it, accompanied by itching.
It was red, and I had to resist a desire to jerk my fingers and twist my hands; this continued and increased even after I had taken my warm bath.
Went to bed about twelve very sleepy, but could not get to sleep because I could not lie still on account of creepy sensation which spread over my arms, shoulders and upper part of my body, with jerking of the limbs.
I turned from one side to the other, but could not be quiet long enough to get to sleep. Accompanying this was a ringing in my head, as it once had when years ago I had taken quinine, but it was not of long duration.
At half-past one I got up and wrote this. My lower limbs did not seem to be affected by any of these sensations, but I kept scratching my arms and face, head and shoulders, and my hands and fingers felt particularly restless and nervous. Had no internal disturbance other than my head. Finally fell asleep at half-past two and slept soundly until six.
Dec. 7, Awoke with all the symptoms of the night before gone, but had a sharp headache, and a bad taste in my mouth. By seven o’clock these too were gone, and I arose feeling all right.
While I was out walking I was taken with a severe pain in the back, or, rather, at the left side of the sacrum low down, with stitching pains in rectum. It lasted about an hour.
At two o’clock began to have a bad headache over eyes, and with a sense of fullness in my head.
My feet were somewhat swollen when I put on my boots in the early morning, but by twelve o’clock after walking (not without some pain) the swelling left. By half-past three in the afternoon my headache was entirely gone (it lasted only one and a -half hours), also the sense of fullness in the head. Have felt perfectly well ever since until friday morning.
Dec. 8. About eleven o’clock when I suddenly had another attack of headache, and I find that I am liable to a return of these attacks, with the sense of fullness, at odd times, apparently without any reason.
Friday had three attacks, but they did not last long; from half an hour to an hour and a- half, not longer, also since Wednesday evening, when I took the pills, until Friday night, Dec. 8th, I have not had any discharge from my bowels.
Dec. 9. When I went to bed last night, after lying down, my head had a sharp pain for perhaps ten minutes. This morning when I woke I had that disagreeable taste in my mouth, but felt all right until about 9 o’clock, when I went out, and I did not have any vitality, and found it hard work to lift my legs. I thought it might come from not taking coffee (which you have asked me not to do during the proving), as I have done for so long a time, so I went and had some rolls and omelet and drank a cup of weak tea, but did not feel any better. My movements seemed to be uncertain. I was afraid of falling, or tripping. It was difficult work getting in and out of the cars. I had occasion to go up two flights of stairs, very old, narrow and rickety, and was afraid that I should fall on my way down. I have had all day, not a headache, but a feeling that made me scowl, and keep closing my eyes. I felt as if I must get home as soon as possible.
For two days, several times, I have been troubled by feeling very hot in the face; never cold. Sometimes when the face felt burning hot I would perspire on the face and head.
This morning I had a movement of the bowels, the first since Wednesday, Dec. 6th.
I have been troubled a great deal with rheumatism in my hand, the right one, and thigh and hip, although the pain was not constant, but since taking the pellets on Wednesday last, I have not had any pain of this kind anywhere. I have had a slight eruption on my cheeks and sometimes a place larger than a dollar would be burning red and shining on my right cheek at the side of my nose.
Sunday, Dec. 10. No symptoms today until now, 7 P.M., both cheeks are burning and have the inflamed shiny look. Perhaps it is also another symptom that I have been very irritable all day.
Dec. 11. The rheumatism has returned in right hand and hip. After I have been walking a very short distance, my legs pain me and get so heavy and my back and hips drag so that I have to sit down, and when I sit down, all these feelings go away. Two or three times today my right eyelid has kept twitching.
Tuesday, Dec. 12. Twitching in left eye only. Same trouble in my hips and legs and back, when walking. My stomach and abdomen have been much swollen for two days.
Wednesday, Dec. 13 Nothing more.
Thursday, Dec. 14. Nothing.
Dec. 17. Took two hundredth potency in solution at eleven o’clock P.M. A tablespoonful of twenty pellets dissolved in four tablespoonfuls of water.
At 12: 30 A.M., my skin began to itch and my legs were very fidgety, also all my body was very restless. Arms and shoulders were not affected as before, however, with itching and restlessness. It seemed to be the lower part of my body this time, although my face felt some of the irritation, but in a much less degree.
Monday, Dec. 18, 7: 30 A.M. Slept soundly from 12: 30 to 7: 30 this morning, with all the symptoms of the night before one gone awaking.
At 4 P.M. began to have excruciating pain in my forehead over the left eye, which continued until about midnight. Once it ran down behind my left ear for a short while. It left me as suddenly as it came. Took the last tablespoonful that night. Slept well without disturbance.
Dec. 19. That day was without pain or other disturbances, except I felt in a state of collapse nearly all day. Had no strength in my arms or legs, and every little while was obliged to lie down wherever I happened to be. Would almost fall asleep and my breathing was very deep and heavy, like puffing. My body felt heavy, and I had difficulty in lifting my legs and walking. Frequently low sighs would come. This was all much better by 6 P.M.
While taking the medicine this time, I have had no operation of the bowels, and the last day there was more or less of an eruption on my cheeks and at the side of the nose, but not the red shiny look I had when taking the remedy the first time in pills (the 35th).
Each time I took the medicine (the first time in pellets and this time in solution) I had a slight return of the breaking out round my waist which I had when afflicted with shingles years ago. I was not rheumatically affected this time as I seemed to be when I first took the pills. Ever since I began taking the pills, from the first day until now, I have found that when I started out walking, however well I felt, after a short time I gave out all over, and especially in my bowels, thighs and legs, also the toes of my left foot, except the big-toe, were affected in a way I never before felt, not like cramp or gout; and whereas I am always light on my feet and move quickly and easily, during these days it has been hard for me to get about and I have felt heavy and moved heavily, also a great deal of headache, a thing unusual for me; also often a shortness of breath with an inclination to wheeze.
