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Tendency to perspire at every movement.

Exhaustion in all the limbs.

Exhaustion all over the body as though he had walked too far (aft. 2 h.). [Trn.]

Exhaustion as though the air were too hot.

565. Long-continued weakness.

Prostration and weakness of the whole body, especially of the arms and hands, so that it was impossible for him to hold out a not heavy book before him. [Bch.]

In the morning drowsy exhaustion, which prevents him rising from bed.

He cannot stand up for eight hours, but must either sit or lie; if he stands up he is tortured by horrible anxiety, during which the forehead is covered by cold sweat, and he becomes sick to vomiting (aft. 3 h.). [Trn.]

When lying the exhaustion was not relieved, but all the other sufferings were, and they recurred only when he stood up; when sitting they went off, the headache alone remained. [Trn.]

570. Extreme weakness. (Iron seemed to remove this.)

Extreme weakness. (Smyth says, “especially in lower extremities.”) [BENIVENIUS, – SMYTH, – VICAT, l. c.]

The strength gives way, he sinks together.

Paralytic sinking of the strength.

Rapid sinking of all the strength, which invited to sleep, in the forenoon.

575. Slow movement of the body.

Relaxation of the muscles.

He dreads an attack of syncope. [LORRY, l. c.]

Syncope.

Syncope. [FOREST, l. c.]

580. Apoplexy. [DOBERZEWSKY, (Effects of root taken medicinally – By this term the resimply means unconsciousness which supervened upon much vomiting and purging.)

Imperceptible pulse. [RODDER, l. c.]

Pulse very slow and almost extinguished (aft. 4 and more h.).

The pulse of ordinary rapidity, but quite weak and almost imperceptible (aft. 8 h.). [Bch.]

585. Yawning.

After the midday nap yawning and stretching. [Stf.]

Yawning, often so violent that it caused a roaring in the ears. [Bch.]

Repeated yawning and stretching, with weakness and bruised feeling in the joints, as though he had not slept enough (in the morning). [Fz.]

General powerlessness of the body as though he had not slept enough, with liveliness of the mind (in the morning). [Fz.]

590. On account of excessive liveliness of the mind he could not get to sleep before midnight, for two successive nights; at the same time an intolerable feeling of heat in bed (he endeavoured to throw off the clothes) with restless tossing about. [Stf.]

He is late of falling asleep. [Stf.]

Long, uninterrupted sleep.[GREDING, l. c., p. 43.]

(Too profound sleep.)

Sleep for three days, even during the epileptic fits. (In an epileptic patient.) [GREDING, l. c., p. 32.]

595. Tranquil sleep, with thirst and diuresis. [GREDING, l. c., p. 49.]

Stupefied sleep, waking sopor.

Waking sopor; one eye remains open, the other is closed or half closed, and he often starts, as if from affright (aft. ½ h.).

(After going to bed, in the evening, almost until midnight, anxiety and, during waking sopor, drawing movements in the abdomen, which cause roaring in the head.)

Drowsiness with starting in affright, which prevents him sleeping; afterwards febrile symptoms.

600. He fell asleep he lays his arms over his head (the first hours).

Moaning in sleep.

Sleep interrupted by anxiety and emotional disturbance, with complaints that the blood in all his blood-vessels, especially in the head, was burning, and spasm rose from the chest to the throat, with particular heat of the head and hands; heat and anxiety went off in the open air, and were followed by frequent yawning. [GREDING, l. c., p. 82.]

(At night waking up with much chilly trembling in the right arm.)

605. Indistinct dreams; in the morning he wakes unusually early. [Fz.]

Vivid anxious dreams of robbers; he woke up in a fright and continued to believe that the dream was true.

Dream of being violently hunted.

Frightful dreams, and then vomiting of very viscid green slime. [GREDING, l. c., p. 45.]

At night frightfully anxious dreams, e.g. that a dog bit him and he could not escape. [Bch.]

610. At night quarrelsome dreams. [Trn.]

Coldness of the whole body.

Coldness of the body. [VICAT, l. c.]

Coldness and feeling of cold in the whole body (aft. 11 m.). [Bch.]

Coldness running over the whole body soon after taking it. [Bch.]

615. Feeling of internal chill ran through him from the head to the toes of both feet at once, with thirst (immediately after taking it). [Bch.]

Chilliness in the whole body. [RODDER, l. c.]

Shivering, horripilation in the skin, e.g. of the face (aft. 2 h.).

In the morning, chilliness and shivering. [GREDING, l. c., p. 60.]

Continued rigor in the back and over the arms. [Stf.]

620. All day chilliness and shivering and drawing pain on the neck and in the back. [GREDING, l. c., p. 87.]

Chilliness in the limbs and drawing pain in them. [GREDING, l. c., p. 81.]

In the morning immediately after rising, whilst dressing, febrile rigor. [Bch.]

Chilliness and heat alternating from time to time, at the same time vertigo, constant anxiety and inclination to vomit. [GREDING, l. c., p. 37.]

Sudden alteration of general paleness of the face, with heat and redness of the face. [GREDING, l. c., p. 37.]

625. In the morning febrile chill and coldness with thirst, for half an hour, not followed by heat, woth weakness of the limbs especially the thighs (aft. 24 h.). [Bch.]

Much thirst for cold drinks (immediately). [Fr.H-n.]

In the afternoon and evening much thirst. [Bch.]

In the evening heat and redness in the face (and shivering in the body), also in the morning in bed heat of the face.

In the sinciput and forehead heat which passes first into warm then into persistent cold frontal sweat.

630. Redness and heat of the face with slight febrile rigor.

Heat and redness in the face and heat of the hands, with careless disposition, giving attention only to the things in his immediate neighbourhood, and tendency to start (aft. 1 h.).

Heat and burning and redness of the cheeks with contracted pupils and cold feet (aft. 10 h.). [Fz.]

Febrile movements.

Fever (I have observed it sometimes in the evening, sometimes in the morning.) recurring on several days, sometimes for a long time.

635. Daily fever, before midnight.

Internal heat, and yet he refuses to drink, [GRASSIUS, l. c.]

Heat all over the body and general sweat, without thirst, with pale face (aft. 2 h.). [Trn.]

In the evening in bed immediately heat and perspiration, but more heat.

In the evening while walking slowly in the open air heat in the back, as if perspiration would break out. [Stf.]

640. In the evening, when about to go to sleep, perspiration all over.

In the morning some perspiration, especially on the face; also by day tendency to sweat on the face.

Sweat only on the hands. [GREDING, l. c., p. 45.]

Very profuse sweat all over the body towards morning. [Fr.H-n.]

Bitter smelling sweat, towards morning. [Fr.H-n.]

645. Cold sweat.

Cold sweat. (“On the forehead,” Reimann says.”) [REIMANN, – RODDER, l. c.]

As soon as he rises from his seat cold sweat breaks out on his forehead. [Trn.]

Cold sweat all over the body. [VICAT, l. c.]

Cold sweat breaks out all over the head and on the trunk. [RENIVENIUS, l. c.]

650. Sour sweat. [GREDING, l. c.]

Profuse sour sweat. [GREDING, l. c., p. 77.]

Whilst sweating a burning in the skin. [J. F. MULLER, (Observation on a patient.) in Hufel, Journ. xii, i.]

Long- continued night sweat. [GREDING, l. c., p. 51.]

Profuse, persistent sweat during prolonged sleep. [GREDING, l. c., p. 58.]

655. Profuse sweat, with great thirst and good appetite. [GREDINg, l. c., p. 80.]

During the sweat excessive thirst. [GREDING, l. c., p. 87.]

Anxiety. [MURALTO, – REIMANN, – LORRY, – RODDER, l. c.]

Anxiety and vertigo. [GREDING, l. c., p. 87.]

In the evening and after dinner extreme anxiety, so that he knew not where to turn. [GREDING, l. c., p. 83.]

660. Throughout the night great anxiety. [GREDING, l. c., pp. 58, 59.]

In the morning great anxiety. [GREDING, l. c., p. 58.]

Slight delirium. [GRASSIUS, l. c., p. 66.]

He makes a great noise, tries to run away, and can hardly be restrained. [GREDING, l. c., p. 78.]

Cursing and making a noise all night, and complains of being stupid, with headache and flow of saliva. [GREDING, l. c., p. 78.]

665. Stamps with his feet (with anorexia). [GREDING, l. c., p. 67.]

Along with persistent fury great heat of the body. [GREDING, l. c., p. 69.]

Fury: tears his clothes, and does not speak. [GREDING, l. c., p. 69.]

He bites his shoes to pieces and swallows the fragments. [GREDING, l. c., p. 42.]

He swallows his own excrement. [GREDING, l. c., p. 43.]

670. He does not know his relations. [GREDING, l. c., p. 41.]

Mania: he alleges that he is a hunter. [GREDING, l. c., p. 35.]

He pretends he is a prince and gives himself airs accordingly. [GREDING, l. c., p. 43.]

He asserts that he is deaf and blind and that he had got cancer. [GREDING, l. c., p. 42.]

She asserts that she had labour pains. [GREDING, l. c., p. 54.]

675. She boasts that she is pregnant. [GREDING, l. c., p. 49.]

She announces her imminent confinement. [GREDING, l. c., p. 45.]

She kisses every one who comes near her, before the occurrence of the menses. [GREDING, l. c., p. 45.]

Great redness and heat of the face wit continual laughing. [GREDING, l. c., p. 51.]

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.