Variable humour; ill humour alternating with mild friendliness; in the ill-humoured state will not look at anyone nor hear about anything; he weeps also.
Weak in body and mind (down-hearted), he does not speak and yet is not morose.
(Talking nonsense, with open eyes, without being conscious of having fancies either before or after.)
1055. Great indifference and want of interest.
Life appears to him naught; he attaches no value to it.(See also KAISER, l..c, S. 4, “Indifference to life.”)
Uncommonly tranquil disposition; quite unconcerned about their approaching death, they neither hoped nor wished to recover. (A seondary or curative action observed in two suicides, who in the most intolerable depression of mind took one a drachm the other about two scruples of powdered arsenic, and in a few hours died with the greatest clamness of mind.)
Religious melancholy and reserve. (Not found.) [EBERS, l. c., p. 18.]
Tranquillity of mind (in a despairing melancholic).[LABORDE, in Journ. de Medicine, lxx.] (LA MOTTE in Hahnemann. A woman taking arsenic for suicide. The calmness was rather mental, from her determination, than physical.)
1060. Tranquil serious mood; he remained undisturbed throughout all the events that occurred. [Lr.]
Good humoured; he had pleasure in entertaining himself with others. [Lr.]
More disposed to gaiety and inclined to be always occupied. [Lr.]
Sensitive peevish disposition; the least thing can annoy him and almost cause him to be angry. [Lr.]
All day long discontented with himself and very cross with himself; he imagines he has not done enough, and reproaches himself bitterly. [Lr.]
1065. The first minutes great calmness of mind and cheerfulness, In a despairing suicide, in whom the preliminery calmness of mind was a curative action.) after half an hour, however, extreme anxiety, restlessness; he had a great dread of the effects of the poison and desired to live. [Stf.]
Great seriousness.
After death, the lips and the nails of the hands and feet quite blue, as also the glans penis and scrotum quite blue; the whole body, and especially the limbs, quite stiff and contracted; the large intestine very much contracted. [PYL, Samml. v, p. 106.]
The corpse was still fresh and undecomposed after 16 days. [PYL, Samml., vi, p. 97.]
(For the sake of comparison I will here gibe the history of poisoning of a horse by arsenic from the Anzeiger der Leipziger okonomishcen Societat. Amid frightful symptoms there gushed streams of green water from the nose, the eyes stuck out of the head and were severly inflamed, the pupils of the eyes were round and preternaturally dilated; the nostrils widely opened, and on account of the rapid, short, difficult, and anxious respirationin constant motion; the gums, palate, and ongue swollen, dry, and bluish-red; the pulse excessively small and tremulous; the restlessness indsecribable; the abdomen extremely tense; the whole body covered with cold sweat.
If we had performed many similar (and still more careful) experiments on these useful domestic animals with several simple drugswe should then have for them a pure materia medica, amd should be able to cure them so rationally (homoepathically), quickly, permanently, and surely, in place of the present impotent quackery with a multitude of unsuitable mixtures.
ORPIMENT (Auripigmentum).
While walking in the opne air a severe giddiness in the whole head as from intoxication (aft. 5.1/2 h.) [Lr.]
Stupefaction of the whole head; too many irrelevant things occurred to himk (aft.8.1/2 h.) [Lr.]
Throbbing stitches on the right side of the forehead (aft. 2.1/2 h.). [Lr.]
Needle pricks externally on the right side of the forehead (aft. 5 h.) [Lr.]
5. On stroking the hair of the occiput, a tensive sensation behind the right ear, as if something was sticking behind the ear which pressed the ear forwards (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Lr.]
Eye gum in the canthi of the eyes (aft. 33 h.). [Lr.]
On chewing the food the teeth were painful as if they were loose (aft. 5 h.). [Lr.]
In the morning on waking violent cutting in the abdomen, as from a chill (aft. 25 h.). [Lr.]
10. Needle pricks from within outwards in the right side of the chest (aft. 6 h.)[Lr.]
In the evening on going to sleep a fright as if he fell out of bed. (aft.18 h.). [Lr.]
Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.