Stomach. Excessive, ravenous hunger; must eat frequently; if he does not eat, headache and lassitude. Complete loss of appetite (Alumina, Arsenicum, Cinchona, Plumb.); feels full and aversion to food beginning to eat (Lycopodium). constant thirst; thirst for beet (Aconite, Coccul., Phosphorus ac., Sulphur). Milk disagrees, and causes much distress (Carb. v.), waterbrash (Natr. carb.), mornings or after meals (Arsenicum, Nux v.). Heartburn. Sour or empty eructations, especially after meals and in morning (Ambr., Bryonia, Carb. v., Nux v., Phosphorus); testing of bad eggs. Burning in the stomach (Arsenicum, Cantharis, Iris., Lobelia, Mez.). Nausea and qualmishness; mornings (Calcarea c., Nux v., Pulsatilla); before meals; during stool. Vomiting of food or acid substances, morning, s evening, s or after meals. Feeling of fullness in stomach after eating but little (Cinchona, Ledum, Lycopodium). Anxious pain in pit of stomach; at night with palpitation. Pain in region of stomach; after eating; at night, better from eructations. Empty, gone, faint feeling (Cimic., Hydras. Ignatia, Petrol., Pulsatilla, Sepia), about 11 o’clock A.M. Pressure and heaviness in the stomach, also after eating (Arsenicum, Bryonia, Nux v., Phosphorus). Stitches in stomach and pit of stomach.
Abdomen. Stitches, or dull, pressing pain in region of liver Aconite, Arsenicum, Bryonia, Calcarea c., Chelidonium, Cinchona, Kali carb., Mercurius, Nux v., Step.). Bile increased. Swelling and induration of the liver (Cinchona, Phosphorus). Soreness in both hypochondria, which are sensitive to the touch, mornings. Stitches in region of spleen (Natr. carb., Natr. mur.); in left side of abdomen, on deep breathing. Griping pains about the navel, relieved by emission of flatus (Carb. v., Coloc.). Tension and pressure in the umbilical region. Distension of the abdomen (Carb. v., Cinchona, Graphites). Rumbling and the abdomen (Agaricus, Aloe, Lycopodium, Zincum met.). Stitches. Fullness and tension in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence (Carb. v., Cinchona, Lycopodium, Kali carb., Phosphorus). Bruised pain is muscles of abdomen on touch. Emission of much flatus, smelling of rotten eggs (Arnica); worse evening and night. Colic and griping in abdomen, relieved by bending double (Aloe., Coloc., Iris., Nux v., Rheum.); before stool. Cutting in hypogastrium, with thin stool. Pressure downward in abdomen, toward anus. Painful sensitiveness of the abdomen to touch (Aconite, Belladonna, Cuprum, Mercurius).
Stool and Anus. Burning and pressure in rectum during stool; burning in anus after stool (Natr. ars.). Violent stitches and crawling in rectum, especially in evening. Violent itching in rectum and anus (Causticum, Nux v., Silicea). Sticking and sore pain in anus. Anus red, inflamed, swollen, covered with red veins. Much moisture about anus, with soreness and itching. Bearing-down in anus, in forenoon when sitting, with tenesmus. Sensation in rectum after stool as if something remained (Nux. v.). Itching in perineum, with soft stool. Frequent ineffectual urging to stool (Ambr., Coni., Natr., Carb., Nux v., sil.). Moist, blind, or bleeding haemorrhoids. Diarrhoea some hours after midnight, or driving out of bed early in the morning (Agaricus, Aloe., Drosera, Natr. ars., Rumex., Podophyllum). Dysenteric stools, with colic; straining and violent tenesmus (Mercurius, Nux v.), especially at night. Involuntary stool when sneezing or laughing, with emission of flatus. Stools watery; frothy, green, or bloody mucus; pappy, greenish-yellow; foetid; slimy; tough; gluey; bloody; excoriating (Arsenicum, Mercurius); semi-fluid; involuntary (Arsenicum). Passing of thread- worms during stool. Constipation; stools hard, as if burnt (Bryonia); scanty, difficult and insufficient.
Urinary Organs. Retention of urine (Aconite, Belladonna), Frequent and sudden desire to urinate, especially at night, with copious discharge. Constant desire, with scanty urine. Dragging in bladder in the morning after urinating. Pressure soon after urinating, as from as full bladder. Nocturnal enuresis (Arnica, Caust, Cuprum, Graphites, Pulsatilla). Burning in the urethra, also white urinating (Arsenicum, CAnth., Can. Sat., Coni.). Stitches and shooting pain in urethral in fore part. Itching in the urethra. Stream intermits, or is thinner than usual. Urine turbid (Ant. tart., Belladonna); reddish; offensive (Calcarea, Kreosotum); excoriating (Mercurius); fatty pellicle.
Male Organs. Involuntary emissions (Cinchona, Phosphorus ac.). Coldness of penis; sexual powers much weakened (Agn., Berberis, Caps.). Increased powers (Phosphorus). Inflammation and swelling, with redness and burning of the prepuce, with phimosis. Stitches in penis. Itching in glans penis (Mez.). Pressure and tension in testicles and spermatic cords. testicles relaxed (Camph.); hanging down (Clem.). Offensive sweat around the genitals. Itching of scrotum; in morning on waking. Soreness and moisture of scrotum (Petrol.).
Female Organs. Menses too early, too profuse, but of too short duration; too late; suppressed (Cimic., Pulsatilla). Menstrual blood thick, dark, and excoriating (Ammonium carb.). During menses, headache, rush of blood to the head, nose bleed (bry., Hamamelis); pressure in pit of stomach; before menses, headache; fullness in chest. Profuse, yellowish, corrosive leucorrhoea (Arsenicum, Sepia). Burning in the vagina; is scarcely able to keep still. Troublesome itching of the genitals, with papular eruption around them (Mercurius). Erysipelatous inflammation of mammae (Rhus tox.); they are red, hot, hard, with red rays extending from nipple, and stitching pains.
Respiratory Organs. Voice rough and hoarse, especially mornings; aphonia (Carb. v., Causticum, Phosphorus). Roughness and scraping in throat, with much in the chest; causes cough (Chamomilla, Nux v.)., Shortness of breath from talking (Drosera). or when walking in open air. Dyspnoea; oppression and anxiety (Aconite, Arsenicum, Pulsatilla); at night when lying on the back. Attacks of suffocation, especially at night in bed; wants doors and windows open (Arsenicum, Baptisia, CArb. v.). Dry cough in the evening in bed, or waking from
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sleep, at night (Coni. Hyoscyamus, Mez., Nux v., Pulsatilla, Rumex). Dry cough., with hoarseness, dryness in the throat, and watery coryza. Short, dry, violent cough, with pain in the sternum, or with stitches in the chest. Cough caused by rawness in the larynx (Phosphorus, Rumex.). Congestion of blood to the chest. Heaviness. Weakness of the chest when talking (Carb. v., Stannum); also in evening when lying down. Bruised pain in upper part of chest. Pain in the chest as if sprained. Sensation of constriction in chest. Pain in the sternum on moving arm, with oppressed breathing. Tightness in chest, as if something had grown fast. Pressure in the chest, so she could hardly breathe. Stitches in chest, extending to back, or to left scapula (Kali carb., Mercurius); worse from breathing (Bryonia). and from motion (Bryonia), and when lying on the back. Burning in the chest rising to the face. Exudation after pneumonia.
Heart and Pulse. Palpitation of the short, with anxiety (Aconite, Arsenicum, Spigelia, Veratrum alb.); at night, in bed; when ascending. Pulse hard, full, and accelerated (Aconite, Belladonna). Stitches in praecordial region.
Neck and Back. Stiffness in neck and back. Inflammation of cervical glands. Cracking in the cervical vertebrae, especially on bending head backward. Drawing, tension and stitches in nape of neck. Paralytic sprained pain in neck. Tensive pain between the scapulae, on motion and when lying down. Pain in back, as if sprained (Pulsatilla, Rhus tox.); or bruised. Violent bruised pain in small of back (Cuprum), and in the coccyx, especially when stooping or rising from a seat (Rhus tox.). Drawing pain in back, with weakness. Stitches in the shoulder blades, back and small of black. Curvature of spine; vertebrae softened.
Limbs. Weakness and trembling of the limbs, especially hands and feet. Unsteadiness of joints. Limbs “go to sleep” (Sepia, Silicea), especially when lying down. Bruised feeling, and drawing, tearing pains in the limbs (Bryonia, Coloc., Ledum, Lycopodium, Mercurius). Cramp-like pain in muscles of limbs, on motion.
Upper Limbs. Rheumatic, drawing, tearing pains in shoulders (left), arms and fingers. Stitches between the right shoulder, on motion, extending into the chest. Sensation of weakness and weariness in upper arms. Sprained pain and stiffness in wrist, worse in morning. Very disgusting, offensive sweat in the axillae. Great burning in the palms of the hands (Lachesis). Skin of the hands hard, dry and cracked (Natr. mur.). Hang-nails (Natr. mur., Thuja.). Itching vesicles on back of hand. Thick, red chilblains on fingers. Numbness of the fingers. Ulcers about the nails.
Lower LImbs. Weakness and heaviness of the limbs when walking; violent, shooting pain in hip-joint; worse from touch or motion; from turning over in bed; cannot rise from bed. Cramp-like, tensive pain in muscles of thigh. Itching and soreness between thighs when walking. Stiffness of the knee and ankle-joints. Tension in hollow of knees, as if contracted on stepping. Sticking in the knee and tibia. Weary pain in calves at night in bed. Sprained pain in left ankle, when standing and walking. Stiffness of malleoli. Cramps in the calves of the legs and soles of the feet (Carb. v., Selenium), principally at night (Calcarea c., Camph., Chamomilla, Ferrum, Acid nitricum, Nux v., Stil.); even when walking the calves are painful, as if too short. Burning in the soles (Calcarea c., Lachesis, Silicea); wants them uncovered (Chamomilla). Sticking cutting pain in toes; about the nails. Corns, with aching and sticking pains. Coldness of the feet, especially the soles. Cold sweat on feet.
ALLEN CORSON COWPERTHWAITE was born at Cape May, New Jersey, May 3, 1848, son of Joseph C. and Deborah (Godfrey) Cowperthwaite. He attended medical lectures at the University of Iowa in 1867-1868, and was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1869. He practiced his profession first in Illinois, and then in Nebraska. In 1877 he became Dean and Professor of Materia Medica in the recently organized Homeopathic Department of the State University of Iowa, holding the position till 1892. In 1884 he accepted the chair of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Clinical Medicine in the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan. He removed to Chicago in 1892, and became Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. From 1901 he also served as president of that College. He is the author of various works, notably "Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations" (1876), "A Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (1880), of "Gynecology" (1888), and of "The Practice of Medicine " (1901).