DIGITALIS



350. Weakness almost to death (Opium proved to be the antidote.) (Rather, “as if to death.”) [MAC:EAN, l. c., 1802, Febr.]

Constant inclination to syncopes. [MACLEAN, l. c., 1800, Aug.]

Great inclination to syncopes. [DRAKE, l. c., p. 126.]

Tendency to faint, and relaxation of the vital power. [DRAKE, l. c., p. 124.]

Syncopes. [WITHERING, l. c.]

355. Syncope during the sickness. (Rather, between the attacks of sickness.) [WITHERING, l. c.]

He feels as if the body were very light (aft. 4 h.). [Fz.]

Frequent yawning and stretching. [Stf.]

Frequent drowsiness to a considerable degree. [MACLEAN, l. c.]

Drowsy fatigue, slumber (aft. 8 h.).

360. Frequent drowsiness. [DRAKE, l. c., p. 128.]

A deep sleep. (Curative effect.) [MACLEAN, l. c.]

Sleep with many not disagreeable dreams. [Hbg.]

At night sleep disturbed by disagreeable dreams of miscarriage of his projects (aft. 23 h.). [Lr.]

At night merely slumber in place of sleep, half consciousness, without being able to get to sleep.

365. Restlessness sleep with tossing about in bed at night, and comical dreams. [Frn.]

At night restless sleep on account of constant urging to urinate. [Myr.]

Nocturnal restlessness snd tossing about, half awake and not fully conscious. [Rkt.]

He woke up frequently at night as from anxiety, and with the impression that it was time to get up.

At night frequent waking, as from fright (aft. 47 h.). [Lr.]

370. At night frequent waking in fright, as from a dream, as if he fell from a height or into the water (aft. 24, 72 h.). [Lr.]

Restless sleep; he could not lie on one spot, and could only lie on his back. [Ln.]

At night violent pain in the left shoulder and elbow-joints, in half sleep, in which the consciousness was not quite clear, whilst he lay on his back with the left arm above the head. [Rkt.]

Convulsions. [WITHERING, l. c.]

Epileptic convulsions, then blindness and amaurosis, for three days. [REMER, l. c.]

375. Febrile state. (Not found.)[QUARIN, l. c.]

Slow pulse. (Not found.) [LENTIN, l. c.]

The pulse for twenty-four and even forty-eight hours was much slower, but thereafter all the quicker and suppressed. (Rather,” but thereafter quicker and proportionately weaker.”)(This is the most usual phenomenon from foxglove, that after the preliminary slowness of the pulse (primary action), after somedays it is the reverse (reaction or secondary action), a much quicker and smaller pulse is permanently induced; see also 383. From this we see how wrong the ordinary physicians are who endeavour to produce a pemanently slower pulse by means of foxglove.) [LETTSOM, l. c., p. 172.]

Pulse 40 beats per minute. [WITHERING, l..c]

Pulse slower, but stronger. [Hbg.]

380. Along with weakness and laziness of the whole body, diminution of the pulse-beats from 82 to beats; in longer or shorter intervals it made short pauses; the beats were feeble. [Bch.]

The pulse at first slow, then suddenly commences to make a couple of beats, or the finger placed on it now and then loses a whole eat. (Litherally, “Pulse suddenly quicker for a few beats, then slow again; or it loses a whole beat.” )[MACLEAN, l. c.]

The pulse sank from 65 to 50 beats, which were quite irregular, always between three or four soft beats a fuller and harder one, on the first day; on the third day it was 75. [Fz.]

Diminution of the pulse from 100 beats down to 40. [MOSSMANN, Essays, l. c.]

The pulse sinks to 50 and finally to 35 beats. [WITHERING, l. c.]

385. Pulse slower by one half, for several days.

Pulse beats diminished to almost half their number. [BAKER, l. c.]

When the pulse has become slow, it is increased in quickness by te slightest corporeal exertion. [MACLEAn, l. c., 1800, Aug.]

Irregular pulse, from 40 to 58 beats. (Rather “from 48 to 56.) [BAKER, l. c.]

The number of the pulse beats diminishes scarcely at all when standing, little when sitting, most when lying, when the number sinks to 60, (Should be “40.” This is a statement from observation.) whereas it is 100 when he stands. [BALDON, in Edinb. Medorrhinum and Surg. Journal, vol. iii, pt. 11th, No. iv. ]

390. Hard, sm, quick pulse.

Before death, 100 pulse beats in a minute. (Subsequent to S. 384.) [WITHERING, l. c.]

Frequent yawning and stretching with chilliness. [Stf.]

Inetrnal coldness in the whole body (aft. 5 m.). [Gss.]

Shivering all over the back (aft. 1 h.). [Myr.]

395. In the afternoon, three or four times shivering, and in the night, profuse sweat, even on the hair.

Slight rigor in the back (aft. 30.1/2 h.). [Bch.]

By day, internal chilliness without shivering; when walking in the open air he was chilly so that he could not get warm.

Constant chilliness, chiefly in the back. [Stf.]

Coldness first of the fingers, hands and feet, then of the palms and soles, then of the whole body, especially the limbs.

400. Feeling of coldness and actual coldness, first in the hands and arms, then through the whole of the rest of the body down into the feet (aft. ½ h.). [Bch.]

Coldness of the body with sticky sweat. [MACLEAN, l. c.]

Cold sweats. [WITHERING, l. c.]

Coldness and chill internally and externally in the whole body (aft. 36 h.). [Gss.]

Internal chill in the whole body with unusual warmth perceptible externally (aft. 14 h.). [Gss.]

405. Cold feeling through the whole body at once; the body felt cooler, and the face excepted, which had no sensation of coldness and remained warm (aft. ½ h.). [Bch.]

One hand was cold, the other warm. [Ln.]

A suddenly arising warmth through the whole body, which just as suddenly went off again, and left behind a weakness of all the parts (aft. 25 h.).[Bch.]

Fever: succession of shivering, heat and strong transpiration. [MOSSMANN, in Phys. Medorrhinum Journ., l. c.]

Frequent warmth all over the body, but in the forehead cold sweat – thirteen or fourteen hours after the coldness. [Bch.]

410. Along with slight chilliness in the back, burning of the head, face and ears, with red cheeks; at the same time the left eye seems much smaller (after a meal in a moderately warm room). [Stf.]

Redness and heat of the whole face, with chilliness over the rest of the body (aft. 3 h.).

[Trn.]

The inner surface of the hands is warm and perspiring. [Hbg.]

In the morning on waking he found himself in slight perspiration (aft. 24 h.). [Lr.]

Perspiration in sleep at night.

415. Great desire for work(aft. 1.1/2 h.).

Disposed for mental work and for all kinds of business. (Curative action.) [Hbg.]

Indisposed to speak. [Hbg.]

Gloominess and peevishness. [Hbg.]

Gloomy, morose humour; he scolds about everything. [Rkt.]

420. Lachrymose sadness about many things in which he has been unsuccessful (aft. ½ h.).

He is sad and has a feeling of being very ill; all objects appear to him as in fever.

Dejection of the mind and apprehensiveness. (Not found.) [WITHERING, l. c.]

Dispirited. (On account of the apparent inefficiency of the medicine.) [PENKIVIL, l. c.]

Fear of death.

425. An anxious feeling as if he had done something bad. [Ln.]

(Secret mania with disobedience and obstinacy; he tries to run away).

Mind indifferent, as insensible to surroundings, as if he had not slept snough, but without sleepiness. [Trn.]

The disposition is sociable and in other respects tranquil, except that he has very lively fancies. (Mostly secondary and curatvie action.) [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.