(From vol. iv, 2nd edit., 1825.)
(A mixture of equal parts of finely powdered oyster shells and quite pure flowers of sulphur, kept for ten minutes at a white heat, and stored up in well-corked bottles. I have found a very small portion of a grain of the million-fold attenuation (by means of sugar) quite sufficient, often too large, for a dose.)
[HAHNEMANN was assisted in this proving by FRIEDRICH HAHNEMANN and STAPF]
Two symptoms are taken from
HINZE, A. H., in Hufel. Journ. d. pr. A., Sept., 1815.
In the 1st edit the number of symptoms of hepar is 206; in this 2nd edit 298; in the Chr. Kr. there are 661.]
When driving in a carriage such great vertigo that on getting out she could not stand alone.
Faint vertigo and a staring of the eyes, as if he sat wrapped in thoughts, but without seeing anything.
On shaking the head vertigo and headache.
In the morning on awaking aching pain in the head.
5. In the morning in bed dull headache, which diminished after rising. [Stf.]
Drawing and aching in the temples by day.
In the right half of the brain a sharp pressure, varying in intensity.
Tensive headache above the nose.
In one half of the brain a continued pain as from a peg or blunt nail driven into the brain.
10. On rising up again after stooping and on every movement stitches in the head, especially after walking in the open air.
A boring pain on a small spot in the side of the head.
Boring pain in the right temple extending into the upper part of the head.
The hair falls out very much (aft. 5 d.).
The hair on several parts of the head falls out, and bald spots are formed.
15. Eruption of pimples, like wheals, on the hairy scalp and nape, which feel sore when touched, but not when let alone.
Eruption of many pimples on the side of the forehead, worst in the room, but which soon get better in the open air.
Two painless, swollen elevations on the forehead.
At night violent headache, as if the forehead would be torn out, with general heat without thirst.
In the morning as soon as he wakes until some time after rising, pain in the forehead, as if sore, almost as if bruised, increased by moving the eyes; at the same time a similar, slight, but very disagreeable pain in the abdomen.
20. Internal pain in the forehead, like needle-pricks.
From midnight onwards (in bed) until noon, pain like a boil in the forehead, and when stooping and coughing like needle-pricks; externally when touched the forehead was also painful like a boil and needle-pricks, several mornings.
On lying down in the afternoon, as spasmodic twitching in the frontal muscles, which only went off on getting up.
Boring pain in the bones of the upper part of the orbit.
(In the outer canthus of the eye a cutting pain.)
25. Eruption of pimples on the upper eyelids and below the eyes.
Inflammation, redness and swelling of the upper eyelid, with pain more aching than shooting.
On waking the eyelids are closed, so that he is unable to open them for a long time.
The eyes get sore, they become gummed up in the night; in the evening he cannot see the candle-light well, the eyes become dim and matter is secreted in them.
One eye sore, inflamed and swollen; redness of the white.
30. The eyes are red and have aching pain, especially on moving.
Aching pain in the eyeballs and bruised feeling when touched.
Yellowness of the face, with blue rings round the eyes.
Yellowish skin and complexion.
All day sensible and visible redness of the cheeks, without thirst or shivering, for several days.
35. In the evening (about 7 o’clock) heat in the face.
Heat in the face in the night and on waking in the morning.
In the morning erysipelatous swelling of the cheeks (aft. 48 h.).
Swelling of the left cheek, for two days. [Fr.H-n.]
Heat, redness and itching of the outer ears, for six days.
On blowing the nose violent stitches in the ear.
40. In the evening on going to sleep, until he falls asleep, roaring and beating before the ears.
Drawing pain in the nose, which then goes into the eyes and becomes a smarting (in the morning.)
Pain on the back of the nose on touching it, as if sore.
Bruised pain on the tip of the nose.
45. Feeling of ulcerated nostrils.
He blows coagulated blood from the nose.
Every morning some drops of blood come out of the nose.
Epistaxis, repeated two days.
Loss of the smell.
50. Very acute smell. (Seems to be curative action.)
In the middle of the upper lip a tensive pain.
Great swelling of the upper lip, which is very painful when grasped, but at other times is only tense, for three days. [Fr.H-n.]
An ulcer on the commissures of the lips. (Which bellabonna removes, as it does also many other of the sufferings caused by hepar, where the symptoms correspond together in similarity.)
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.