Almost no feeling in the legs. [YOUNG, l. c.]
Severe itching in the legs, in the evening. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
Weakness if the legs. [GRIMM, l. c.]
375. Sensation sometimes as if flashes of fire, sometimes as if ice-cold water flowed through the blood-vessels. [JUNCKER and BOHMER, l. c.]
Drawing tearing pain in the back.
He kicks his feet up and down as in convulsion, with sudden loud cry.
Numbness in the foot.
The foot is so stiff and sensitive that he cannot tread on it nor walk.
380. Swelling of the foot.
Heaviness of the feet after eating )aft. 2 h.).
Frightful pains, that penetrate through the marrow of his bones. (In confirmed opium-eaters.) [CHARDIN, l. c.]
Emaciation of the body. [BERGIUS, l. c.]
Dropsical state of the body. [REINEGGS, l. c.]
385. Intolerance of the open air and feeling as I he would catch cold.
Pale, bluish colour of the skin. [GRIMM, l. c.]
Blueness of the skin of the body, especially of the genitals. [AEPLI, l. c.]
Blue spots here and there on the body (aft. 15 h.). [Histoire de l’ Academie des Sc., 1735. (Not accessible.)
Redness of the whole body. [J. HUNTER, l. c.]
390. Burning pain, (In the original simply “burning.”) sometimes itching of the skin. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
Burning, itching and elevation of he epidermis into pustules. [HECQUET, l. c. (From taking opium frequently.) ]
Here and there in the skin pricking itching.
Itching, especially on the upper part of the body, from the chest up over the face, especially the nose. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
Very tiresome itching. [WILLIS, l. c.]
395. Tiresome itching all over the body. [BERGERm, l. c., § 3.]
Redness and itching of the skin. [GEOFFROY, l. c.]
Itching all over the body; after scratching there come thick red lumps (wheals) which itch much, but soon go off. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
Cutaneous eruption and occasional itching. [FRIEND, (General statement.) opera, tom. I, Emmenol., cap. 14, p. 139.]
After perspirations, frequent cutaneous eruptions and smarting itching on the skin. [TRALLES, l. c.]
400. Small red, (Matthaei adds :thick” to “red”) itching spots here and there on the skin. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
Itching and formication in all the limbs (Schelhammer simply speaks of “pruritus.”) (aft. 5 h.). [SCHELHAMMER, l. c.]
First diminution of sensibility, afterwards diminution of the irritability.
Obtuseness and insensibility of the limbs. [STUTZ, l. c., x, 4.]
Numbness and insensibility of the limbs with coldness of the whole body (aft. 2 h.). [SCHERLHAMMER, l. c.]
405. Cold, stiff body. (“The whole body paralysed and stiff” is Pyl’s statement.) [PYL, l. c.]
Tetanus. [MUZELL, l. c.]
Beginning of opisthotonos. [AEPLI, l. c.]
Head bent backwards (a kind of tetanus of the nape)(aft. 1 h.).
The back is stiff and straight (a kind of tetanus)(between 1 and 2 h.).
410. Bending of the trunk like a bow from the violent trembling movement in the limbs, which strains all the nerves. [JUNCKER and BOHMER, l. c.]
Stiffness of the whole body (aft. 1 h.). [LEVESQUE-BLASOURCE, l. c.]
Tetanus and epileptic convulsions. [STENTZELIUS, de Venen. I, § 46. (Shortly before death.) ]
Convulsions. [VAN SWIETEN, (General statement.) l. c., p. 372.- Acta Nat. Cur., cent. I, obs. 54. (General statement.) – SCHWEIKERT, l. c. (From large doses.) ]
Spasmodic movements accompanied by crying. [LEVESQUE-BLASOURCE, l. c.]
415. Convulsive movements. [MUZELL, l. c.]
Epilepsy. [MUZELL, l. c.]
Epileptic fits, with violent delirium. [MUZELL, l. c.]
Foam before the mouth. [REINEGGS, l. c.]
Restlessness in the sound limbs, which cannot remain a moment in one place. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
420. Trembling in the whole body, as if he had been frigthened, with single jerks of the body and twitchings in the limbs, in which only the flexor muscles are involved, with external coldness of the body.
Convulsive trembling of the limbs. [AEPLI, l. c.]
Spasmodic trembling of the limbs. [STUTZ, l. c.]
Trembling movement in all the limbs, which distorts all the nerves. [JUNCKER and BOHMER, l. c.]
Staggering. [REINEGGS,- GRIMM, l. c.]
425. Unsteadiness; he cannot walk without staggering. [SCHELHAMMER, l. c.]
Agreeable lassitude, as from intoxication. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
Slow, unsteady gait.
Unconquerable lassitude. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
Laziness. [STUTZ, l. c. – FR. HOFFMANN, de Correct. Opii, § 16.]
430. Great desire to lean against everything, to stretch out the lower limbs lazily and to support the head on a hand. [Sche.]
Feeling of strength.
Exhaustion (aft. 8, 12 h.).
Relaxation, laziness. [REINEGGS l. c.]
Lazy movement. [MURRAY, l. c., p. 285.]
435. Exhaustion; everything external is distasteful to him, he is sleepy, dazed, stupefied, sad, and his memory fails him. [MURRAY, l. c. (When the primary action of the opium is passed.) ]
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.