DIGITALIS



When he wishes to look at distant, dark bodies hover before his eyes, like flies. [BAKER, in Medical Essays of the London College of Physicians, iii. (Effects of digitalis in a case of anasacra. The “dark bodies like flies” repesent “muscae volitantes” in the original.) ]

All sorts of figures hover before the eyes. [PENKIVIL, l. c.]

Appearances before the eyes. (“Fiery appearances” in the original.) [LETTSOM, l. c.]

60. When he covers up the eyes, bright bodies seem to dance before his eyes. (The mucae of S. 57 become these when the eyes are covered and pressed upon.) [BAKER, l. c.]

In the morning, on awaking, all objects seem as if covered with snow. [MOSSMANN, in Phys. Medorrhinum Journ., l. c.]

The flame of the candle appears to him larger to him larger and brighter (In the original (“whiter.) than natural. [BAKER, l. c.]

In the dusk he saw glittering colours, red, green an yellow, before his eyes, like flickering light (aft. 8 h.). [Ln.]

The faces of persons coming into the room appeared to him deadly pale. [BAKER, l. c.]

65. Illusion of vision: objects appear of a green or yellow colour. [WITHERING, l. c.]

Objects appear yellow to him, even silver. [PENKIVIL, l. c.]

The eyes water. [WITHERING, l. c.]

The tears running from his eyes smart.

In a moderately warm room, less in the open air, the eyes become full of water; they are dim, hot, full of red blood vessels, with aching pain, and the canthi are full of mucus (as in severre coryza). [Stf.]

70. In the inner canthus a painful scraping sensation, as of coarse dust hat got into ot. [Hbg.]

(Swelling of the lower eyelid, which interferes with his looking down.)

The edges of the eyelids are painful, as if excoriated, when they are shut (in the evening in bed). [Rkt.]

Inflammation of the Meibomian glands on the borders of the eyelids.

Paralytic drawing beneath the left zygomatic process in front of the ear. [Gss.]

75. Cramp-like drawing pain on the zygoma, which goes off by strong pressure. [Fz.]

Cramp under the right zygomatic arch on moving the lower jaw, which, when he bites, is closed spasmodically, and more strongly than he wished. [Fz.]

An erosion and itching on the cheek and chin, worst at night.

In the ears a sensation as if they were contracted internally; he hear the pulse in them (the hearing remained good). [Fz.]

A tensive pressure in the left ear. [Stf.]

80. Hissing before both ears, like water boiling. [Trn.]

Single stitches behind the ear, externally. [Trn.]

A large pimple with smarting pain inder the left nostril (aft. 1 h.). [Trn.]

Epistaxis; bright blood from both nostrils (aft. 1 h.). [Trn.]

Drawing pain in thr muscles under the mastoid process. [Fz.]

85. Under the right mastoid process, a drawing, which goes off by strong pressure. [Fz.]

Aching drawing on the occiput at the seat of the insertion of the cervical muscles, on bending back the head. [Fz.]

Stiffness of the posterior and lateral cervical muscles, with pressive pain like blows (aft. 10 h.). [Hbg.]

Shooting pains externally in the cervical muscles on moving the neck. [Bch.]

A painful stiffness and tension in the cervical muscles and nape, especially on moving. [Stf.]

90. Eruption on the neck.

Swelling of the lips and tongue ((In a woman from an ounce of the decotion, in whom the swelling of the lips and tongue was accompanied by foetid salivation and suppression of urne. (The patient was ascitic. There is no mention in the original of foeter about the salivation. (See S. 102.) [W. HENRY, in Medorrhinum and Chir. Journal, Edinb., 1811.]

In the morning, white coated tongue (aft. 48 h.). [Lr.]

Excoriation internally in the mouth, on the tongue and gums, Medorrhinum Subjects, London, 1773, pp. 39, 41. (Not accessible.)]

Excoriation of the inside of the mouth, fauces, oesophagus, stomach. [BOERHAVE, Hortus lugd. Batav., p. 308. (Observed effects. This ascribed by tge owner to the acrimony of the plant.) ]

95. Collection of saliva. [WITHERING, l. c. – LENTIN, Beobachtumngen einiger Krankheiten, 1774, p. 167. (From an overdose.) ]

Accumulation of saliva, as after vinegar. [Hbg.]

Collection of watery saliva in the mouth, which at first tastes sweet, but afterwards very salty, in frequent fits (aft. ½ h.). [Stf.]

100. Collection of very sweet saliva. [SCHEIMANN, l. c.]

Collection of saliva in the mouth, with spitting of it out, and great nausea on swallowing the saliva (aft. ¼ h.). [Bch.]

Profuse flow of saliva of a foetid smell. (For “foetid smell” read “viscid consistence.”) [HENRY, l. c.]

Bad smell from the mouth (aft. 4 h.).

Flat, slimy taste, and a soft flossy feeling in the mouth, as if it were lined inside with velvet. [Trn.]

105. Rough palate, as if he had smoked too much tobacco, without thirst. [Fz.]

A scrapy, rough feeling in the palate. [Stf.]

(Painfulness of the front teeth.) [Stf.]

After smoking tobacco, taste in the mouth as from sweet almonds. [Fz.]

Spasmodic constriction of the throat. [LENTIN, l. c.]

110. Sore throat; shooting (also) when not swallowing.

Stitches in the back part of the palate an in the commencement of the gullet, not observable when swallowing. [Rkt.]

Little appetite, he is immediately satiated. [Stf.]

Very little appetite on account of nausea. [Bch.]

Anorexia, with indescribable emptiness in the stomach. [ROB. KINGLAKE, in Beddoes’ Medorrhinum facts and Obs., vol. v, Lond., 1794. (Not found.) ]

115. Anorexia, with clean tongue. [PENKIVIL, l. c.]

With good appetie bread tastes bitter. [Trn.]

Appetite for bitter food. [Bch.]

Thirst for sour drinks. [Trn.]

Sour eructation after eating. [Trn.]

120. Nausea.

Nausea. [BAYLIES, l. c.]

Nausea in the gastric region, without retching and vomiting (aft. 11 h.). [Bch.]

Nausea for three days without cessation. [MACLEAN, l. c., 1802, febr.]

125. Deadly nausea. [WARREN, in Samml. br. Abh. p. fr. Aerzte, vol. xi. P. I.]

In recurring fits, deadly sickness, with extreme depression of the mind and anguish. (This lasted every time several, often four, hours, and came on sometimes before, sometimes after the diuresis.) [WITHRING, l. c.]

Vomiting.

Nausea of the worst kind and vomiting. [MACLEAN, l. c., 1800, Aug., p. 585.]

Excessive nausea, with inordinate vomiting, coldness of the limbs, and cold sweats, for two days. [BAKER, l. c.]

130. With excessive nausea, vomiting of green bile. [BAKER, l. c.]

Increased nausea, with vomiting of the food he had eaten, which was enveloped in white tasteless mucus, whereupon the bellyache that was present went off (aft. 8.1/2 h.) [Bch.]

Violent vomiting, for four hours. [BAYLIES, l. c.]

Nocturnal vomiting. (This and the following synptom do not mean vomiting recurring each night or morning, but simply that the vomiting caused by the drug came on on the following night or morning.) [PENKIVIL, l. c.]

Morning vomiting. [MOSSMANN, l. c., 1801, Jul. – PENKIVIL, l. c.]

135. Excessive vomiting. [LENTIN, l. c.]

Long-continued vomiting. [WITHERING, l. c.]

Uncontrollable vomiting, for six days, until death ensud. (In a woman who in two days had taken twelve leaves in six doses; she died the seventh day. In the ileum was found inflammation, and an almost complete adhesion and union of the walls of some parts of this intestine.) [Edinburgh Medorrhinum Comment., vol. x.]

Biliouvomiting for several days. [BEEDOES, in Medorrhinum Facts and Obs., v, London, 1794. (From overdosing). ]

Hiccup, that did not rise quite up into the throat, six or seven times (aft. 21 h.). [Bch.]

140. Hiccup. [LENTIN, l. c.]

Disagreeable sensation in the gastric region. [MOSSMANN, Essays, l. c.]

A weakness of the stomach, like a sinking of the stomach, as if life would be extinguished. (All the patients complained of this in the same terms.) (Literally, “Faintness or sinking at the stomach, as life were going from them.”) [MACLEAN, l. c., 1800, Aug.]

Cardialgia. (Not found.) [WITHERING, l. c.]

Weight in the stomach. [PENKIVIL, l. c.]

145. A feeling of constriction over the gastric region, towards the liver. [Hbg.]

(Anxious tension and constriction under the short ribs.)

After a meal the food presses in the scrobiculus cordis, when he is seated, but not when he is standing. [Fz.]

Weight in the stomach, alternating with exhaustion. [MOSSMANN, in Phys. And Medorrhinum Journ., l. c.]

Pressure, as from a hard weight, in the scrobiculus cordis, on raising up tbe body. [Fz.]

150. Cutting aching in the scrobiculus cordis, with feeling of nausea there. [Gss.]

In the scrobiculus cordis squeezing stitches, unaffected by breathing, increased by touching, only when standing not when sitting (aft. 24 h.). [Gss.]

Aching and burning in the gastric region. [HORN, Neues Archiv, v. I, p. 104. (Not found.) ]

Stomachache, and at the same time sensation of great heat in the stomach and bowels. [WITHERING, l. c.]

Sensation in the bowels as if they were twisted together and the gastric region were retracted. (Literally, “sensation of twisting in the bowels after eacg dose, and of much sinking at the pit of the stomach.” ) [DRAKE, l. c.]

155. Pinching contraction in the abdomen, as from a severe chill, when sitting, but if which he feels nothing when walking (aft. 3, 4, d.). [Fz.]

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

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.