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Grinding of the teeth, during which he raises the hands above the head and moves them as if he were winding thread. [GREDING, l. c., p. 394.]

140. Grinding of the teeth, with dulness of the head. [GREDING, l. c., p. 394.]

Grinding of the teeth, twisting of the hands and shivering. [GREDNIG, l. c., p. 294.]

Trismus with closed lips. [KAAW BOERHAAVE, l. c.]

He mutters to himself. [DU GUID, – PFENNIG, l. c.]

Constant muttering. [PFENNIG, l. c.]

145. The patient cries out till he is hoarse. [GREDING, l. c., p. 272.]

He cries out till he loses his voice. [GREDING, l. c., p. 323.]

The patient stammers. [KING, – DU GUID, – (aft. ½ h.). SWAINE, – KAAW BOERHAAVE, l. c.]

He stammers and speaks imperfectly. [BRERA, l. c.]

He speaks little, and then stammers out single, interrupted words in a loud voice. [Fz..]

150. His speech is quite deficient in proper modulation; it is much higher and finer, it is a mere intonation of the voice, he cannot bring out any word that can be understood (He hears and feels this himself and gets anxious about it). [Fz.]

A kind of paralysis of the vocal organs, he must try for a long time before a word comes out; he only stammers and stutters (aft. 4, 5 h.). [Fz.]

He is dumb and does not answer. (With S. 37.) [PFENNIG, l. c.]

Dumbness. [SWAINE, – VICAT, l. c.] – GREDING, l. c., p. 272.]

To a great extent dumb, he indicates his wishes by pointing to objects. [SAUVAGES, (Observation.) Nosol. Ii, p. 212.]

155. Dumb, quiet and pulseless, with paralysed limbs, he lay for six to seven hours without consciousness, then tossed about raging furiously in bed, made innumerable signs to those around him which could not be understood, and then again became quiet [DU GUID, l. c.]

Sensation as if the interior of the mouth were raw and excoriated (aft. 24 h.).

The tongue is paralysed, or when he wishes to put it out it trembles, as in typhoid fever. [KING, l. c.]

Swelling of the tongue. [FOWLER, Edinb, Medorrhinum Comment., v., p. 170.]

The tongue is swollen all over. [GREDING, l. c., p. 285.]

160. The swollen tongue hangs out of the mouth. [LOBSTEIN, l. c.]

Bloody foam before the mouth. [UNZER, (Not accessible.) Medorrhinum Handbuch, ii, § 28.]

Hydrophobia. [BRERA, l. c.] (In connexion with the symptoms recorded in their proper places: restlessness; the most violent convulsions, during which he was furious so that he must be bound; sleepless, he turned very restlessly about in bed, and uttered a piercing cry; he was delirious without memory or consciousness; extremely dilated pupils; excessive desire to bite and tear everything with his teeth; extreme dryness of the interior of the mouth and fauces; horrible convulsions on seeing a light, a mirror, or water, insuperable repugnance to water, with constriction and convulsion of the oesophagus, slaver from the mouth, and frequent spitting.)

Fear or horror of water and every other liquid, with spasmodic movements. [DE WITT., (Observation. – (Vol. I, p. 84, or English edition.) in Phys. Medorrhinum Journale, Lepiz., 1800, January.]

Horror of watery fluids, as in hydrophobia, which became transformed into fury when his lips were wetted. (The convulsions (S. 420) thereupon returned.) [LOBSTEIN, l. c.]

165. Excessive dryness in the mouth, so that he can hardly eat a bit of roll; it tastes like straw.

Dryness of the palate, so that he cannot eat a bit of roll. [Fr.H-n.]

Great dryness in the mouth, so that he cannot spit out any saliva, with moist-looking, clean tongue.

Extreme dryness in the mouth and absence of saliva; he can not spit, though the tongue is pretty moist and clean. [Fr.H-n.]

Dryness of the tongue and palate so that they felt quite rough, at first without thirst (aft. ½ h.). [Fz.]

170. Velum palati drawn deep down, food and drink went down with difficulty and with scrapy pain of the velum palati.

Extreme dryness of the interior of the mouth. [BRERA, l. c.]

Extreme aridity of the tongue and mouth. [DU GUID, l. c.]

Sensation of dryness of the tongue and throat. [SWAINE, l. c.]

Great feeling of dryness in the mouth and absence of saliva, whilst the tongue looks moist and clean. [Mch.]

175. Great dryness in the mouth and fauces. [GREDING, l. c., p. 295.]

Dryness of the mouth, thirst; dimness of vision, sparkling eyes, sweat and diarrhoea. [GREDING, l. c., p. 286.]

During the dryness of the mouth and palate, violent thirst (aft. 6 h.)., and at the same time such a want of taste that he drank nearly a pint of vinegar at a draught; without tasting it. [Fz.]

Tobacco alone has still some taste, but food tastes like sand and becomes packed together in the oesophagus, so that he fears he shall be choked (aft. 3 h.). [Fz.]

Buttered bread tastes like sand, on account of dryness of the mouth; it sticks in the oesophagus and threatens to choke him. [Fz.]

180. Dryness in the throat.

Inability to swallow on account of dryness in the throat. [GREDING, l. c., p. 297.]

Dryness of the throat, with frequent urination. [GREDING, l. c., p. 275.]

Thirst with great dryness of the throat. [GREDING, l. c., p. 275.]

His oesophagus is as if constricted. [DAN CRUGER, l. c.]

185. Inability to swallow.

Dysphagia with shooting pain in the oesophagus.

Dysphagia with (aching) pain in the submaxillary glands.

She attempts to partake of bread and milk, but cannot swallow either. [FOWLER, Edinb. Medorrhinum Comment., v., p. 170.]

Constrictive feeling in the fauces after eating (aft. 2.1/2 h.). [Fz.]

190. The throat is as if constricted, as though he would choke, or would have a stroke of apoplexy. [LOBSTEIN, l. c.]

Constriction and spasm of the oesophagus. [BRERA, l. c.]

Choking in the throat.

Thirst. [ODHELIUS, l. c.]

Extreme thirst. [GREDING, l. c., pp. 271, 293.]

195. Thirst with headache. [GREDING, l. c., pp. 271, 293.]

Violent thirst with frequent discharge of urine with scalding sensation. [GREDING, l. c., p. 301.]

Long-continued thirst. [GREDING, l. c., p. 283.]

Extremely troublesome thirst with slavering. [Commentarii de rebus in med. et sc. Nat. gestis, (Not found.) vol. ii, p. 241.]

Frequent ejection of saliva. [BRERA, l. c.]

200. Slaver from the mouth. [BRERA, l. c.]

Salivation.

Great flow of saliva. [GREDING, l. c., pp. 273, 290.]

Long-continued salivation with diuresis. [GREDING, l. c., p. 283.]

Great flow of saliva with ever increasing thirst. [GREDING, l. c., p. 314.]

205. Excessive flow of saliva, amounting to three or four pints in the day and night. [GREDING, l. c., p. 316.]

Salivation with hoarseness. [GREDING, l. c., p. 278.]

Flow of viscid saliva. [GREDING, l. c., p. 328.]

Good appetite with very viscid saliva in the mouth. [GREDING, l. c., p. 330.]

Hiccup. [FOWLER, l. c.]

210. Violent hiccup. [GREDING, l. c., p. 298.]

Sour eructation. [GREDING, l. c., p. 306.]

Persistent bitterness in the mouth, all food also tastes bitter. [Fr.H-n.]

Food has a spoilt taste. [GREDING, l. c., p. 275.]

215. Everything tastes like straw. [Fr.H-n.]

Diminished appetite. [GREDING, l. c., p. 275.]

Loss of appetite.

Undiminished appetite with pain in the abdomen, diarrhoea and vomiting. [GREDING, l. c., p. 283.]

Increased appetite.

220. (During artificial vomiting the limbs twitched.) [KAAW BOERHAAVE, l. c.]

Nausea, loathing.

Inclination to vomit. [FOWLER, – BRERA, l. c.]

In the evening, inclination to vomit, with profuse salivation. [GREDING, l. c., p. 279.]

Nausea, with flow of exceptionally salt saliva. [GREDING, l. c., p. 334.]

225. At night vomiting. [GREDING, l. c., p. 265.]

Vomiting of bile after slight movement, even on merely sitting up in bed.

In the evening vomiting of green bile. [GREDING, l. c., p. 264.]

In the evening he vomits bile with mucus. [GREDING, l. c., p. 269.]

Vomiting of green mucus, with thirst. [GREDING, l. c., p. 288.]

230. Vomiting of sour-smelling mucus. [GREDING, l. c., p. 297.]

In the evening vomiting of mucus. [GREDING, l. c., p. 266.]

Smarting pain in the stomach. (Not found.) [DODERLIN, l. c.]

Pressive pain in the stomach. [GREDING, l. c., p. 279.]

Pressure at the praecordium.

235. Anxiety about the scrobiculus cordis. [GREDING, l. c., p. 274.]

Anxiety about the scrobiculus cordis, with dry heat of the body. [GREDING, l. c., p. 274.]

Great anxiety about the scrobiculus cordis. [GREDING, l. c., p. 276.]

Anxiety about the scrobiculus cordis and difficult respiration. [GREDING, l. c.]

240. Abdomen distented, especially in the region of the scrobiculus cordis. [PFENNIG, l. c.]

Distension of the abdomen in the evening, with heat of the body and anxiety in the scrobiculus cordis. [GREDING, l. c., p. 278.]

Distension of the abdomen. [FOWLER, l. c.]

Sensation as if the abdomen were distented to the utmost.

A not hard distension of the abdomen.

245. Distented, but not hard abdomen. [LOBSTEIN, l. c.]

In children the abdomen is greatly swollen, from eating thorn apple seeds, with anxiety in the scrobiculus cordis, cold sweat, chilliness in the limbs, confused intellect, stupefied half-slumber, and anxious evacuations upwards and downwards. [ALBERTI, (Effect of eating seeds.) Jurisp. Medorrhinum, I, p. 206.]

Abdomen excessively distented, not painful to the touch. [PFENNIG.]

Upper part of the abdomen tense, hard and painful. [GREDING, l. c., p. 285.]

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.