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Difficulty of moving and formication in the limbs, with watering of the eyes. [GREDING, l. c., p. 302.]

360. Sensation in the arms and legs as if the limbs were severed from the body. [Fr.H-n.]

Sensation as if every portion of the limbs were completely severed in the joints from the other parts and could not be joined together again.

He feels his hands and feet as if separated in the joints, and he is inconsolable on account of this sensation. [Fr.H-n.]

The limbs go to sleep.

The limbs go to sleep. (Not found.)[DODERLIN, l. c.]

365. Difficulty of moving, with almost extinguished pulse. [SWAINE, l. c.]

Immobility. [DU GUID, l. c.]

Stiff immobility of the body, the child’s arms and legs could not be moved (aft. 1 h.). [HEIM, (From seeds, in a child.) in Selle’s Neue beitrage z. Nat. u. Arzn., ii, p. 125.]

Immobility of the limbs, she cannot move (a kind of catalepsy).

Voluntary muscular movement is lost (catalepsy (The author says nothing about “catalepsy.”) ) and the senses are gone, but swallowing is unaffected. [KAAW BOERHAAVE, l. c.]

370. Stiffness of the whole body. (aft. 1 h.). [UNZER, l. c.]

Paralysed limbs. [SWAINE, – VICAT, l. c.]

Paralysed thighs. [VICAT, l. c.]

Various parts of the body become paralytic. [KING, l. c.]

He is like to fall down on rising from a seat (in the first 8 h.). [Fz.]

375. He cannot walk alone; he falls when not supported. [M., in Baldinger’s Neues Magaz., (Not found.) vol. I, p. 35.]

The lower extremities knuckle under him when walking. [Fz.]

Weakness of the body, weariness of the feet.

Weak in walking. [SAUVAGES, Nosolog., ii, p. 242.]

He cannot stand on his feet. [SCHROER, l. c.]

380. All his parts of the body, and also in the palms, a great eruption of lumps, like wheals, with pricking itching as from stinging-nettles per se, aggravated by rubbing.

Intense desire to lie down.

He must lie down in bed. [DU GUID,- SWAINE,- LOBSTEIN, l. c.]

Drowsy and staggering. [BRERA, l. c.]

385. Sleep. [SCHROER, l. c.]

Sleep for a few hours (aft. a few m.). [SAUVAGES, l. c.]

Drowsiness by day. [GREDING, l. c., p. 281.]

He falls asleep by day, and wakes with an important and pompous air. [Fr.H-n.]

He often falls asleep, and on awaking assumes a comical majestic look.

390. Quiet sleep. (Curative effect.) [GREDING, l. c., p. 267.]

Quiet sleep on the cessation of the convulsions. [LOBSTEIN, l. c.]

Sleep for four and twenty hours. [J. C. GRIMM, (Observation.) in Eph. Nat. Cur., cent. ix, obs. 94.]

Difficulty of waking in the morning.

It causes in some deep sleep, sometimes for twenty-four hours, so that they lie as if dead. [GARCIAS AB HORTO, (Statement.) De Plantis, lib. ii, cap. 24.]

395. After a deep dreamful sleep (aft. 24 h.)., in which he has a seminal emission, he is quite dizzy and only sees as if through a veil. [Fz.]

Deep, sound sleep, in which he breathes deeply with a great effort, and snores during inspiration and expiration [Fz.]

Deep sleep with snoring. [UNZER, l. c.]

Deep snoring sleep with occasional drawing up of the thighs. [KAAW BOERHAAVE, l. c.]

Slumber with rales.

Bloody foam before the mouth; dark brown face, death. (After six hours, from swallowing the seeds, in child of eighteen months, in whom after death were many brown stripes on the body externally, and on opening the body there is found much yellow water in the abdominal cavity, the bowels distented with flatulence, similar brown stripes on the liver, spleen and lungs much water in the percardium, the heart shrivelled, and in it, as also in all the blood-vessels, quite fluid, thin blood.) [HEIM, l. c., p. 126.]

400. He lies on his back with open, staring eyes. [KAAW BOERHAAVE,. c.]

Restless sleep.

Restless sleep, violent headache, and profuse diuresis. [GREDING, l. c., p. 310.]

Very restless dreamful sleep, with turning about in bed. [GREDING, l. c., p. 295.]

Vivid historical dreams.

405. Dreams of various kinds. [RAY, (From the root.) Histor. Plantar., tom. i.]

After restless sleep violent headache, vertigo, flow of tears and saliva. [GREDING, l. c., p. 279.]

Sleep brokenby crying out. [GREDING, l. c., p. 283.]

At night crying and howling. [GREDING, l. c., p. 268.]

Waking up from sleep with crying out. [GREDING, l. c., p. 334.]

410. Remained awake all night, turned about restlessly in bed, and uttered a piercing cry. [BRERA, l. c.]

Sleeplessness. [SWAINE, (Not found in SWAINE.) l. c. – GREDING, l. c., p. 268.]

Persistent cramp on both hands and feet. [GREDING, l. c., p. 296.]

The hands are doubled up into a fist (yet the thumbs are not bent in), but they can be spread out. [KAAW BOERHAAVE, l. c.]

Violent movement of the limbs. [PFENNIG, l. c.]

415. Constant movements of the hands and arms, as though he were spinning or weaving (aft. 8 h.). [PFENNIG, l. c.]

Convulsions of the limbs.

Convulsions. [KAAW BOERHAAVE, – DODERLIN,- BUCHNER, l. c.]

In bed the most violent convulsions, during which he was furious, so that he must be bound (aft. 6 h.). [BRERA, l. c.]

Horrible convulsions on seeing a light, a mirror or water. [BRERA, l. c.]

420. The convulsions and delirium are particularly apt to be excited by touching, and they are followed by weakness. [LOBSTEIN, l. c.]

The convulsions with dilated pupils still continued, even after the pulse had become slower, the breathing freer, and the tension of the abdomen was gone (after emetics and clyster.) (aft. 18 h.). [LOBSTEIN, l. c.]

Spasmodic movements. [DE WITT, l. c.]

Spasms firsts on the left arm, then on the right leg, then very quick spasms of the head in all directions. [GREDING, l. c., p. 297.]

He moves the limbs to and fro. [KELLNER, l. c.]

425. Trembling of the hands on grasping anything, [Fz.]

Spasmodic jerking drawing upwards and inwards of the anterior crural muscles. [Fz.]

Convulsions, jerk-like twitchings. [Fz.]

Twitchings in the left lower extremity, which commences as shocks, and draw it upwards and inwards. [Fz.]

Spasmodic jerking up of the limbs. [Fz.]

430. Contractions of the hands and feet alternately. [LOBSTEIN, l. c.]

Slow contraction and extension of the limbs, in recurring fits. [KAAW BOERHAAVE, l. c.]

Trembling of one and of several limbs.

Trembling of the limbs. [B. BUSCH, (Not found. – (Given as “B. RUSH” in first edition – see SS. 455, 487, 498 of this transation; but this name also untraceable. ALLEN refers all the symptoms under these two names to “B. RUSH, Trans. Of Am. Phil. Soc., Philad., 1769; a child, aet. Between 3 and 4 years, swallowed over 100 dried seeds.) in Philos. Transact., vol. 60, Lond., 1771. – KELLNER, l. c.]

Trembling all over the body. [Fz.]

435. Persistent trembling of the feet. [GREDING, l. c., p. 302.]

Trembling, weak, irregular, sometimes intermittent pulse. [KELLNER, l. c.]

Small, rapid pulse. [SWAINE, l. c.]

Quick, intermittent pulse. [KAAW BOERHAAVE, l. c.]

Frequent, quick, small, irregular pulse. [BRERA, l. c.]

440. Small, quick, at last scarcely perceptible pulse. [VICAT, l. c.]

Extinguished pulse. [VICAT, l. c.]

Strong, full pulse of eighty beats. [PFENNIG, l. c.]

Strong, full pulse of ninety beats. [PFENNIG, l. c.]

Rigor through the whole body with single twitches, sometimes of the whole body, sometimes of single limbs, of the elbows and knee joints, without thirsts. [Fz.]

445. Every time he takes starmonium there comes over him a disagreeable shuddering chill, just as though he were frightened at it (aft. 3, 4, 5 h.). [Fz.]

Coldness of the limbs.

In the morning the feet were very cold and yet very sensitive to every cold draught of air.

Great coldness all over the limbs and trunk. (Literally, “his extremities, and also the trunk of his body, were cold.”) [SWAINE, l. c.]

Coldness of the whole body.

450. Coldness and chilliness for eight hours.

Cold, insensible, weak, she lies on the ground, with weak respiration (aft. 2 h.). [PFENNIG, l. c.]

In the afternoon, chilliness down the back. [GREDING, l.c., p. 288.]

In the night. Chilliness and shivering of the limbs. [GREDING, l. c., p. 303.]

In the afternoon, a trembling tossing or beating of the knees and feet, with perfect consciousness, as from a severe rigor. [GREDING, l. c., p. 330.]

455. Violent fever. [RUSH, l. c.]

Fever in the afternoon. (Apparently only sympathetics, and also the trunk of his body, were cold.”) [GREDING, l. c., p. 265.]

At noon, violent fever, which occurs with equal violence at midnight. [GREDING, l. c., p. 270.]

After the vomiting in the evening, a persistent, violent fever, with profuse sweat. (The beginning of phtisis, of which the patient died.) [GREDING, l. c., p. 265.]

Daily fever, afternoon. [GREDING, l. c., p. 273.]

460. On two days, fever in the evening. [GREDING, l. c., p. 274.]

Fever: at first heat in the head, then coldness of the whole body, then heat of the whole body, with anxiety – sleep during the heat, and after waking very great thirst, so that he has pricking in the palate, till he drinks.

Heat in the face.

Sensation of heat in the face, when the chilliness and coldness are over.

Becomes hot.

465. Towards noon, great heat, redness of the face, vertigo and flow of tears from the eyes. [GREDING, l. c., p. 302.]

Great heat with quick and small pulse, and bright red, vermillion-coloured face. [M., l. c., p. 34.]

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.