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CORYZA.
DRY CORYZA –
Dry coryza; nose stopped completely.
Stopped nose; thick, tenacious mucus.
Snuffles in infants.
COUGH.
CROUPY COUGH –
Waking with hoarse, suffocating cough, child grasps at throat: face becomes purple; worse after midnight and with head low.
Constant, loose cough (chronic); profuse, salty-tasting sputa; emaciation and debility; or, chronic, profuse, loose sputa of sweetish, offensive taste.
Rough, hollow, deep, croupy cough; whistling respiration; much very tough phlegm in larynx and bronchi.
Scanty, deep hollow, dry cough, at night.
With difficult exhalations; very inhalations; face very blue; threatened paralysis of lungs.
Short, labored cough; blueness of surfaces.
SPUTA –
None; or, only during day.
Very tough, thick, adhesive phlegm, in scanty amounts.
Very yellow, as if colored with bile; tastes salty.
Easy, profuse, salty, sweetish, or offensive.
Tenacious, sticky mucus in larynx.
WORSE –
After sleep.
From 9 P.M. to 2 A.M.
From midnight to 4 A.M. or 3 A.M.
From dry cold air; during rest.
With head low.
BETTER –
Moving about slowly, better than when absolutely at rest.
From warmth.
CHEST AND RESPIRATION –
Sleeps into bad spell of suffocative cough; wakes very suddenly, almost suffocated, and springs up.
Suffocative attacks coming on in the night, usually from midnight to 4 A.M. wakens in severe suffocative attacks, sits up, turns blue, gasps for breath, which he finally gets; then falls asleep again in similar attack.
High degree of dyspnea, seeming in middle of chest, in intermittent attacks; greatly exhausted.
Difficult inspiration; easy expiration.
Drowsy; breathes with snoring and open mouth before severe attacks of suffocating, distressing cough.
Whistling respiration; difficult exhale.
LARYNX AND THROAT –
Hoarseness and rawness in throat.
Much tenacious, sticky mucus in larynx. Throat and mouth dry, without thirst.
SPECIAL –
Sweats only while awake; dry while asleep; no thirst.
Violent asthmatic attacks; rapid, whistling breathing.
Short, labored coughs; great dyspnea.
Threatened paralysis of lungs.
Marked blueness of lips.
Sleepy and stupid.
Frequent waking as from fright, with anxiety and trembling.
Much heat and restlessness; wakes frightened 9 P.M. to 2 A.M.; hoarse cough.
Cough with malarial heat, stupor and prostration.
Fever; small, frequent pulse; great thirst; sweats at night; or, internal heat, without thirst.
Profuse debilitating sweats, only while awake; goes off in sleep, with dry heat.
Sleepy, but sleep is restless; inclined to stupor.
Complete loss of appetite, with chronic cough.
SENSATIONS-
Wakes up frightened with labored cough and breathing.
Author of "A homoeopathic materia medica on a new and original plan ... A sample fascicle containing the arsenic group."
"Therapeutics of the respiratory system, cough and coryza, acute and chronic : repertory with index, materia medica with index"