When sitting, if he throws the left leg over the right, the muscles on the posterior side of the right thigh towards the hough seem to be in a twitching movement, which is not observable in aother posture or when the legs are not crossed. [Gss.]
Painful stiffness and paralyzed feeling of the knees when at rest and when moving.
When walking a simple pain in the right knee.
265. Pain in the knees as if they were tightly bound, when sitting and walking.
The right knee is weakened by walking, so that when he treads, and also after walking, in every position, a drawing pain is felt in it for a long time (aft. 24 h.). [Gss.]
Unsteadiness of the knees.
Aching on the left tibia when he stretches out the leg. [Fz.]
Above the ankles, on both sides, dull, gnawing pain, and single sharp stitches in the tendo Achillis, when at rest, which at rest, which go off when moving (aft. 14 h.). [Ws.]
270. Tensive pressure near the right inner ankle (aft. 5 d.). [Hrr.]
The heels pain as if festering or as if they were filled with blood.
(Violent stitches behind the toes on the dorsum of the foot.)
(Digging pain in the place where a chilblain had been) (aft. 1 h.)
Pain as if bruised and dislocated in the proximal joint of the big toe when walking.
275.Paralytic drawing in the right metatarsal bone of the big toe, extending to its tip. [Hrr.]
Paralytic drawing in the toes of the right foot. [Hrr.]
Fine tearing in the toes of the right foot. [Hrr.]
Drawing in the toe-joints. [Hl.]
Pressure as from something hard in the hollow part of the sole.
280. Tearing pain on the posterior part of the right sole (aft. 30 h.) [Hrr.]
In the morning and all the forenoon, pain of all the joints as if beaten.
In the morning, at dawn, in bed, simple or bruised pain in all the joints, especially in the sacrum and knees, which increases the longer he lies still, whether on the back or the side, but soon goes off after getting up.
In the whole body an extremely great sensitiveness; too sensitive to every pain; on merely thinking of pain he imagined he felt it; a feeling of intolerance of everything. [Hl.]
In the afternoon prostration and painful drawing in the blood-vessels.
285. Comfortable feeling in the whole body.(Curative action.)
All his sensation are fine and acute. [Hl.]
Even in the worst weather he feels well and comfortable in the open air. [Fz.]
(Formication on the body here and there. [Hl.]
Itching burning radiations darting here and there, almost like stitches.
290. In the afternoon when sitting and reading he was overcome by great exhaustion, during which he fell asleep, but it was quite gone when he woke (aft. 9.1/2 h.). [Lr.]
Remarkable ebullition in the blood (aft. 24 h.)., as if it boiled in the blood-vessels.
A weakness of the head combined with sopor while sitting, in the daytime.
Irresistible sleep after dinner, and during this nap he thinks a great deal (aft. 4 h.). [Fz.]
Frequent waking out of sleep as from fright. [Lr.]
295. He moans aloud in his sleep. [Gss.]
Agreeable and very rational but little remembered dreams (aft. 8 h.).
Frightful dreams.
He has frightful dreams of thieves, and cries out aloud in sleep.
Dreams of dead people.
300. He awakes in vivid dreams.
Dreams as if he should fall from a great height.
Dreams full of quarreling.
Every night dreams and erection of the penis.
In the evening immediately after going to sleep, almost half awake, she dreamt much, as if someone were speaking to her.
305. All night long she dreamt that she was in the dark.
The child slept till 3 a.m., then it became wide awake, and spoke in bold tones deriliously, with rapid utterance and red face: “Mother, thou art my gold daughter!” “What dog is that?” “What head is that on the wall?” “What is that running about the room?” and her raving consisted always of questions.
Frightful dreams at night. [Gss.]
At night unremembered dreams. [Lr.]
At night vivid yet unremembered dreams. [Lr.]
310. All night long wide awake and sleepless, although without pains, and yet neither sleepy nor tired in the morning, as is usually the case after a sleepless night.
In the morning from 4 o’clock onwards he cannot sleep properly any longer; he tosses about restlessly from one side to the other, because he can not lie long in one position; the hand on which he lies becomes soon tired; he often wakes up. [Gss.]
In the morning on waking very weak.
In the morning in bed, immediately on waking, bruised headache and bruised pain in all the joints, worst when quite at rest; immediately after getting up these pains disappear.
In the morning very tired; her legs are painful so that she would like to lie down again.
315. Chilliness in the evening on bed; the legs up to the knees are icy cold; he cannot get warm all night; sleeps in all scarcely two hours, only for half an hour at a time, during which he has anxious but unremembered dreams (aft. 16 d.).
Alternate heat and chills. [Fr. H-n.]
Shivering through the whole body, with goose skin on the thighs, and with shock of the brain under the frontal bone (aft. 10 h.) [Fz.]
In the evening before lying down, headache, and after lying down shivering and chilliness.
Rigor in the back.
120. Sometimes chilliness betwixt the scapulae.
(When he got into bed in the evening his soles and patellae became cold. [Hl.]
In the evening in bed, before going to sleep, a febrile rigor over the whole body as if he had taken a chill in a draught of air (aft. 19 h.). [Lr.]
In the evening febrile rigor all over, during which the hands were cold, but the face and forehead warm, without thirst (Aft. 14 h.). [Lr.]
At night in bed, before going to sleep, a febrile rigor through the whole body; he could hardly get warm in bed (aft. 16 h.). [Lr.]
325. When he lies down in bed in the evening he is quiet, yet sleep is not to be thought of; he thinks it is owing to the position, and he changes it ever and anon, but cannot sleep before 3 a.m.; in the morning, waking up at 6 a.m., he is as refreshed as if he had slept sufficiently, for three successive nights. [Hl.]
In the evening febrile rigor over the whole body, with stuffed coryza, not followed by heat, and without thirst (aft. 14 h.). [Lr.]
Heat of face with cold hands and feet.
Slight transpiration at night like a vapour, and only between the thighs moisture like perspiration (aft. 10 h.)
Morning sweat all over.
330. All day long humour; he was talkative and contented with himself. (Alternating action?) [Lr.]
Cheerful humour; he was always disposed to converse with others and was quite contented with his position. (Alternating action?) (Though without name attached, this symptom occurs among “observations of others.” )
Tolerable gaiety and agreeable comfort. (Alternating action?) (aft.. 2 h.). [Gss.]
In the evening sometimes weeping, sometimes laughing, as if she was not quite conscious.
Trembling agitation of the nerves as if under the influence of some joyous hope (aft. 36 h.). [Fz.]
335. Quiet morosenese (aft. 1 h.); cheerfulness (aft. 3 h.); the two emotions afterwards alternated with one another. [Hrr.]
Moroseness; he is indisposed to talk (aft. 8 h.). [Hrr.]
Very much given to feel offended; the slightest thing which he thought offensive affected him deeply, and caused him to resent it. [Hl.]
Irascibility; he is very excitable, and the slightest contradiction excites the utmost anger (aft. 48 h.). [Gss.]
Choleric.
340. He sits apart, all by himself in a corner, wrapt up himself, as if in the deepest melancholy, when left undisturbed, but the slightest contradiction excites the greatest heat and anger, when he quite forgets himself, at first with quarrelling and much talking, afterwards with few disconnected words (chiefly aft. 5 d.). [Hrr.]
Constant, Sulky seriousness and reservedness. [Lr.]
Peevish dejection; he thinks nothing will succeed with him. [Ws.]
He thinks that everything happens awkwardly or that he does everything awkwardly. [Hl.]
Discontent with all his circumstances; he imagines that he finds everywhere some obstacle in the way; at one another that he himself is to blame for it; when the latter was the case he was particularly mortified and dejected. [Hl.]
345. An urging to activity, bodily as well as mental; when he did anything, he thought he did not do it quick enough, and that he had a great deal more to do; he could not live to his liking. [Hl.]
Remorse about his idleness, and yet he cannot work at anything; it drives him out of the house, he must be always moving. [Fz.]
Always very restless and undecided – thought he was neglecting something for which he must reproach – without perceptibleebullition of blood; he seemed to carry about this restlessness with him in his inmost parts; this condition deprived him of all perseverance, all energy. [Hl.]
A noise before the door made him anxious; he feared lest some one would come in; like anthropophobia. (Hence it was useful in cases of too great hesitancy of mind.)
Palpitation of the heart, extraordinary anxiety, weariness of all the limbs and drowsniness (for an hour.)
350. Great anxiety that has its origin in the praecordial region; it draws him to a place that was previously a favourite one, and drives him away again, and so from one place to another, so that he can remain long in no place. [Fz.]
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.
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