Formica Rufa form.

Joints. Spine. Liver. Kidneys. Right side.

Cold; wet. Motion. Before snow-storms.

Pressure.

Sudden rheumatic or gouty pains. Takes cold easily. Tuberculosis. Hyper-plasia.

Light, foaming stools. Hydrops ovarii. Nervous asthma. Hives, in flat plaques. Profuse sweat, without relief.

Related: Rhus-t. Urt-u.

Crushed Live Ants (MYRMEXINE)

An arthritic medicine. Gout and articular rheumatism; pains worse, motion; better, pressure. Right side most affected. Chronic gout and stiffness in joints. Acute outbursts of gouty poisons, especially when assuming the neuralgic forms. Tuberculosis, carcinoma, and lupus; chronic nephritis. Complaints from overlifting. Apoplectic diseases. Has a marked deterrent influence on the formation of polypi.

Vertigo. Headache with cracking in left ear. Brain feels too heavy and large. Sensation as if a bubble burst in forehead. Forgetful in the evening. Exhilarated. Coryza and stopped-up feeling in nose. Rheumatic iritis. Nasal polypi.

Ringing and buzzing. Cracking in left ear with headache. Parts around ear feel swollen. Polypi.

Constant pressure at the cardiac end of the stomach, and a burning pain there. Nausea, with headache, and vomiting of yellowish bitter mucus. Pain shift from stomach to vertex. Gas cannot be passed.

In the morning, difficult passages of small quantities of flatus; afterwards diarrhœa-like urging in the rectum. Pain in bowels before stool, with shuddering chilliness. Constriction in the anus. Drawing pain around navel before stool.

Bloody, albuminous, with much urging; quantities of urates.

Hoarseness, with dry, sore throat; cough worse at night, with aching in forehead and constrictive pain in chest; pleuritic pains.

Seminal emissions; weakness. "Slothful to venery".

Rheumatic pains; stiff and contracted joints. Muscles feel strained and torn from their attachment. Weakness of lower extremities. Paraplegia. Pain in hips. Rheumatism comes on with suddenness and restlessness. Sweat does not relieve. Relief after midnight and from rubbing.

Red, itching and burning. Nettle-rash. Nodes around joints (Ammon phos). Profuse sweat without relief.

Worse, cold and cold washing, dampness, before a snowstorm. Better, warmth, pressure, rubbing. Combing hair.

Compare: Formic acid (Chronic myalgia. Muscular pains and soreness. Gout and articular rheumatism, which appear suddenly. Pains usually worse on right side, motion and better from pressure. Failing vision. Increases muscular strength and resistance to fatigue. Feels stronger and more "fit" in ordinary walking. Marked diuretic effect, greater elimination of products of disassimilation, particularly urea. Tremor. Tuberculosis, chronic nephritis and carcinoma, lupus, etc, have been treated successfully with injections of Formic acid of a dilution corresponding to the 3d and 4th centesimal. In prescribing it for varicose veins, polypi, catarrh, Dr. J. H. Clarke orders an ounce or two of a solution of Formic acid in the proportion of one part of the acid to eleven of distilled water. Of this one teaspoonful is taken in a tablespoonful of water after food once or twice daily. Pain in aponeurosis and muscles of head, neck and shoulders before a snowstorm). Rhus; (Dulcam, Urtica and Juniperus contain Formic acid), Wood alcohol, when taken as a constituent of a beverage so common in these prohibition days, is not eliminated easily and is slowly converted into Formic acid, attacking the brain and causes death or blindness.

Dr. Sylwestrowicz of the Hering Research Laboratory of Hahnemann College, Philadelphia contributes his experience with Formic Acid, as follows:

"The best field for the formic acid treatment are cases of atypical gout. Under this classification are to be mentioned disturbances in the muscles such as myositis, periostitic processes of the bones in form of doughy swellings, changes of the fascias such as Dupyutren's contraction, skin troubles such as chronic eczema, psoriasis and loss of hair, kidney disturbances such as subacute and chronic nephritis. In these cases formic acid in 12x and 30x, hypodermically 1 cc is indicated at intervals of 2-4 weeks. Eight till twelve days after the first injection an aggravation is often noticed.

In acute rheumatic fever and acute gonorrhœic arthritis formic acid 6x, every six days 1 cc, sometimes 12x in sensitive patients shows often splendid results abolishing the pains and preventing reoccurrence.

Chronic arthritis needs a special discussion. Clinical experiments of the Hering research Laboratory of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia on a great number of cases of arthritis with formic acid showed that it preferably acts on the ligaments, capsula and bursa of the joints. Such kind of cases respond very readily to treatment.

The prognosis depends to a large extent upon the etiology of the case. The most satisfactory cases are chronic arthritis in connection with gouty diathesis. Chronic arthritis following an attack of acute rheumatic fever shows also remarkable results although often pains of a neuralgic character persisting in certain spots are very stubborn. Finally chronic arthritis of traumatic nature can be cured by formic acid. In the latter case formic acid 6x showed quicker and better results than 12x or 30x which are indicated in the previous cases. In general the disappearance of the stiffness of the joint is the first sign of improvement. Then the pain and swelling cease gradually in 1-6 months time.

The prognosis of the formic acid treatment is not so favorably in chronic arthritis in which deformans processes have already taken place on the articular surfaces. Such processes in the beginning can be checked completely, advanced cases frequently show an improvement. But there is always the possibility that this improvement is only temporary. This is particularly to be expected in the cases of the so-called arthritis deformans in which even the inflammations on the ligaments and capsula are of a very progressive character".

Sixth to thirtieth attenuation.

Formica rufa. The Ant. N. O. Hymenoptera. Tincture from crushed live ants. Contains formic acid (HCO, OH).

Apoplexy. Brain, affections of. Bruises. Chorea. Cough. Diarrhœa. Dislocations. Dropsies. Eyes, affections of. Facial paralysis. Foot-sweat, checked, consequence of. Gout. Hair, falling out. Headaches. Nodes. Overlifting, complaints from. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Sight, affections of. Spine, affections of. Spleen, pain in. Throat, sore.

Formica causes many rheumatic and gouty pains; the pains appear suddenly, and dart from place to place: left, then right; right, then left. The spinal cord is affected, paralyses and spasms occurring. Sensation as if brain too heavy and large. Sensation as if a bubble burst in forehead. It is of use "in all kinds of apoplectic diseases. It strengthens the brain" (Hering). Cooper has given the 3x with success in cases of weakness of lower extremities. J. W. Thomson ( H. P ., xvi. 32) reports the case of a gentleman, aged 84, who had severe neuralgic pains between posterior of right ear and centre of occiput. From this he apparently recovered. Eighteen months later he returned with a steady, sore, and burning pain in same region; swollen and tender around, but especially behind, right ear. He could only sleep in one comfortable position, which he could not describe, but only knew when he found it; and he must be covered up warmly behind right ear and between that and occiput and neck — all right side. Better from taking right hand and rubbing gently behind right ear. Sweat afforded no relief ; the whole head seemed to sympathise with the distress; he had dribbling of urine. Formica rufa was given, six doses, one before each meal. On the second day, towards evening, he felt worse, and on the third day there were twinges and spasms of severe pain in addition to the sore pain which he had before experienced. These gradually got better, and on the fourth day even the soreness was much better. The main thing, however, was that he felt mentally better; said his mind and head felt stronger, and from feeling depressed he had become cheerful, and life did not seem the burden it had for some time past. Hering gives as an indication for Formic acid : "Burning pain, burning from washing; renewed burning from cold washing." Symptoms are > after midnight. Motion < ; also sitting. Hot irons > pain in neck. > By rubbing; by combing hair. Cold water application < (headache; burning pains). Great liability to take cold; consequences of cold and wet; cold bathing; damp weather. Clammy skin; disagreeable sweat during night; sweat without relief.

Compatible: After Cham. Compare: Ars., Bry., Dulc. (rheumatism); Urt. u. (nettle-rash; gout; rheumatism. Nettles contain Formic acid); Frag. v. (lack of mammary secretion); Tromb. (diarrhœa); Caps. (burning pains < by cold water).

Checked foot-sweat.

Want of memory; in evening. — Indisposed, morose, fearful, apprehensive. — Exhilarated after pain in vertex abated. — Mind unusually excited. — Remarkable and unexpected activity of mind during the day, with absence of usual dulness and sleepiness.

Vertigo; all things seem to move to and fro, and reeling of body; pain in l. supra-orbital region when going to bed, with dizziness; blackness before eyes, > by sitting down. — Fulness; stupid feeling, with sensation of stiffness in neck. — Dulness; pressure on both sides between temples and ears. — Fore part of head aches with the cough. — Sensation like a bubble bursting in forehead, running around l. side of head. — Headache in l. forehead and temple back to occiput, with cutting extending into ear. — Headache with cracking in l. ear, followed by pain in l. temple, then in vertex with nausea and abatement of pain in forehead. — Pain on top of head, shifting from epigastrium. — In morning, headache in posterior, upper and inner part of head; < drinking coffee; each time during and after washing with cold water. — Pain from neck up to back of head. — Sensation running up into head from body like lightning. — Headache, < sitting up in bed; > after combing hair. — Itching of scalp. — Hair ceases failing out. — Contusions of head.

Pain in l. supra-orbital and l. temporal region, the seat of pain being tender to touch; pain and aching over l. eye; objects appear as if seen through a mist; blackness before eyes, must sit down for a few moments. — Pain in eye when awakes, > by washing. — Dim sight. — Flickering before eyes. — Nebula; leucoma; pterygium. — Maculæ and ulcers on cornea. — Rheumatic ophthalmia. — Spasmodic twitching of upper eyelid (r).

Ringing buzzing in ears. — Cracking in l. ear with headache. — Deafness. — External sensitiveness of r. ear and temple.

Entire l. side of face and cheek feel as if paralysed.

Sore throat in morning, with much mucus. — Sore throat < l. side.

Pain in neck when hawking and gargling; when eating and drinking, esp. when closing jaws. — After drinking tea copious sweat. — Nausea and vomiting; with diarrhœa; in evening; with cough. — Burning pain in stomach, with oppression and weight. — Constant pressure at cardiac end of stomach, and a burning pain there.

Dull pain in region of spleen. — Sensation across abdomen as if bruised below navel, also tired feeling in back. — Flatulence. — Hardening of mesenteric glands.

Diarrhœa after meals, or only during day, not at night; or day and night, or before midnight. — Diarrhœa with tenesmus; pain in bowels before stool. — Loose diarrhœic stool, with feeling as if more was to pass. — White stools. — Constipation and sensation of constriction in sphincter. — Pressure in rectum, < evening and in bed. — Painful desire in anus and rectum for stool, which, however, will not pass. — Tape-worm.

Paralysis of bladder. — Double the quantity of urine, even at night; increased for two or three days. — Urine like saffron; bright yellow; no sediment; passed frequently.

Long-lasting erections after urinating in morning. — Seminal emissions. — Scanty ejaculation with incomplete erection.

Menses scanty and pale, with bearing-down pains in back third day; fourth day darker; crampy pain through hip-joint and pelvis. — Menses appear eight days too soon. — Lack of milk with nursing women.

Hoarseness with sore throat. — Small piece of phlegm in throat, which cannot be brought up by coughing. — Cough tedious and long lasting; < at night and from motion; with an aching in forehead and a constrictive pain in chest. — Violent attacks of cough, with vomiting, day and night.

18, 19. Chest and Heart. — Pleuritic pains. — Uneasy pain in region of heart. — Fluttering palpitation. — Violent penetrating pain in region of r. nipple. — Violent prickling pressing stitches in region of l. nipple, later on l. side of back, but more violent; still later the same sensation on other parts of the body.

Soreness in neck and up into head. — Severe, pain l. side of neck while chewing. — Stiffness l. side of neck extending down l. arm; < by least motion; turn, or twist; > by application of a hot iron. — Severe pain across sacrum and dorsum of each hand. — Affection of spinal cord.

Sensation as if muscles were strained and being torn from attachment. — Rheumatism appearing suddenly, mostly in joints, with restlessness; patients desire motion, although it < pains; > by pressure; sweat without relief; < r. side. — Stiffness and contraction of joints.

Itching in armpits in morning. — Pain from neck down l. arm; in evening to r.; could scarcely move her arm. — Severe pain above r. elbow.

Severe pain through pelvis as if from one acetabulum to the other. — Bruised pain in hips at night, causing him to change from side to side. — Chronic gout. — Checked foot-sweat (chorea from).

All night dry throat, woke her out of sleep. — Disagreeable sweat during night, awoke with clammy skin. — Could get to sleep if she could get the right position. — Wakes early, and feels she has had sufficient sleep. — On awaking: headache; vomiting with headache; pain in eyes; stitches in ears.

Want of memory ; forgetful in evening.
Indisposed, forgetful, morose, fearful and apprehensive.
Exhilarated condition after pain in vertex had abated.

Vertigo ; all things seem to move to and fro, and reeling of body.
Inclined to be dizzy while eating ; giddiness after dressing in morning or on attempting to rise ; pain in left supra-orbital region when going to bed, with dizziness ; blackness before eyes, > by sitting down.
Giddy on attempting to rise.
Fulness in head ; stupid feeling in head, with sensation of stiffness of neck.
Heaviness of head ; sensation as if brain was too heavy and large ; congestion to head ; pulsations in head.
Dull, sleepy feeling, with heaviness of eyelids, and inability to study.
Dull, uncomfortable feeling in forehead, with heat, fulness and pulsations.
Dulness of head ; pressure on both sides between temples and ears.
In all kinds of apoplectic diseases.
Strengthens the brain.

Forepart of head aches, with the cough.
Sensation like a bubble bursting in forehead, running around left side of head.
Dull frontal headache, with occasional shooting pains from r. temple into head, in afternoon.
Headache in left forepart of head and temple back to occiput, beginning earlier every day, with a sore pain over eye, increasing gradually, with cutting, extending into ear.
Headache with cracking in left ear, followed by pain in left temple, then in vertex, with nausea, and abatement of pain in forehead.
Sick headache, with shooting, neuralgic pains in temples.
Lancinating in right temple, from within out.
Dull pain in whole head, with occasional boring in right temporal region.
Severe pain in vertex, like a stitch from a dull instrument, as from a pressing nail.
Pain on top of head shifting from epigastrium.
Headache on top of head and forehead, particularly through temples.
In morning headache in posterior upper and inner part of head ; < drinking coffee ; each time during and after washing with cold water.
Tearing pain in occiput.
(In sick :) Pain from neck up to back of head.
(In sick :) Sensation running up into head from body like lightning.
When waking in morning, headache with vomiting, stitches in right side of chest.
Headache : with nausea ; < sitting up in bed ; with nausea and vomiting ; in afternoon, with occasional fluttering of heart ; daily from 12 M. to 10 P. M. ; < stooping ; all day, > after combing hair.
Nervous headache.

Itching of scalp and head.
Hair on head ceased falling out when combing.
Contusions of head.

Pain in left supraorbital and left temporal region, the seat of pain being tender to touch ; pain and aching over left eye ; objects appear as if seen through a mist ; blackness before eyes, must sit down for a few moments.
Dimness of sight.
(In sick :) Although improved, she cannot see, has flickering before eyes, and eyes are very weak.
Nebula ; leucoma ; pterygium.
Maculæ and ulcers on cornea.
(In sick :) Pain in eyes mornings when awaking, > by washing.
Rheumatic inflammation of eyes and sequela.
Spasmodic twitching of upper eyelid of right eye.

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Formica rufa, L. A tincture made of the live ants, crushed.

Apis.

Pink, flat, spreading swelling of the bitten part, with itching, the S. increased so that it was tender on bending wrist, then the S. went up arm, red like erysipelas, with itching pitting on pressure, leaving a white indentation with crimson areola, aching in wrist, S. amel. warm bathing, the itching by Arnica. ▶ Shooting from back and hips down thighs, and in shoulders shooting to bands and fingers, with pricking in skin over region of the pain, the pain agg. left side; darting S. in arm, neck and chest of right side. ▶ Sharp, corroding, sore feeling or pain here and there, more or loss all day. ▶ Aching in bones, with feverish state of system and with fulness and dullness of head; before a snowstorm. ▶ A. in aponeurosis and muscles of head, neck, shoulders and back. ▶ Discomfort.

Wretched condition, causing gaping and stretching. ▶ Indisposed in evening, forgetful, sleepy and tired, much affected on hearing of a threatening evil. ▶ Liability to take cold and bad effects from it. ▶ Lightness. ▶ Agility increased. ▶ Dullness in morning with heaviness and bruised sensation. ▶ Indisposition to exercise muscles, they pain when exercised, agg. extensors of legs. ▶ Languid feeling in whole system, pain in all limbs, with chills and horripilations along spine. ▶ Weakness, with paralyzed feelings in muscles. ▶ Powders taken at night have most effect. ▶ Aggravation in open air. ▶ Symptoms all on right side. ▶ Pains recurred after a slight cold; P. agg. study and sitting quietly, amel. smoking; P. agg. at 10 A.M., when sitting after a walk.

Articular rheumatism and gout; the rheumatism appears suddenly, with restlessness, but motion aggravates the pain, pain amel. pressure, right side most affected (Hering).

Rheumatic inflammation of the eyes and its sequelæ leucoma, pterygium, ulcers of the cornea, etc. ▶ (Hering).

Exaltation, desire to run but soon tired, agg. evening; E. almost as from champagne, after pain in vertex had abated till after 9 A.M., with internal coldness as from mint. ▶ Very happy during the day, and able to study, everything seemed easy to accomplish; H. changed by trifles to transient despondency. ▶ Excitement. ▶ Sudden return of mortification and grief. ▶ Irritable and low-spirited. ▶ Morose in evening, disinclined to work and apprehensive. ▶ Very active during the day. ▶ Inability to study long at night. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Unconsciousness.

Aching all day, amel. combing hair; A. daily from noon till 10 P.M., agg. stooping; in afternoon; in afternoon, with occasional fluttering of heart; with nausea; with vertigo and occasional boring in right temple and pain in left ; at base of cranium, extending upward, agg. temples; sick, in afternoon after unusual exertion in garden, with nervous shudderings and vomiting, is subject to these headaches from overfatigue, but this was more severe than usual and was accompanied by shooting neuralgia in temples, which, she never had before. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Dullness with pressure between temples and ears. ▶ Stupid feeling, with stiffness of neck. ▶ Heaviness, with sensation as if brain were too large and heavy. ▶ Congesting, and to chest. ▶ Vertigo; in morning when writing after dressing.

Frontal pain from noon till 10 P.M.; over eyes every day from 12, earlier every day and in morning; P. in right, over left eye; with pricking and itching; heavy; in front of head in afternoon, with occasional shooting from right temple into head. ▶ Lancinations outward in right temple. ▶ Pain in vertex and forehead, agg. through temples. ▶ Surging in upper part of brain at 10 P.M. then dim vision. ▶ Headache on left side after dinner. ▶ Drawing headache on left side in afternoon, amel. after supper. ▶ Tearing in occiput at 10 P.M. ▶ Headache in right upper posterior part; headache in posterior upper and inner part in morning, agg. drinking coffee and washing with cold water.

Pain in morning on waking, agg. washing. ▶ Irritation as from sand. ▶ Fulness, and in ears, with stinging in ears. ▶ Cool burning as if snow were falling on conjunctiva and cornea. ▶ Itching of conjunctiva in morning, with burning when rubbed. ▶ Shooting in left ball at night. ▶ Itching or right outer canthus, with soreness, dimness of vision, sensation of sand in eyes, lachrymation and soreness of lids. ▶ Stitchlike tightening posteriorly and inwardly over left as if a stick were pressing around something, with burning, then painful dullness of head, except upper back part. ▶ Boring in right orbit, then pain in right orbit, then pain in left ear. ▶ Pain deep in orbits. ▶ Vision misty.

Swelling of all surrounding parts, with discomfort. ▶ Shooting in left ; at 10 P.M. ▶ Sharp twinges of pain in right in morning in bed (perhaps attributable to a thin nightcap). ▶ Pain; in left, then agg. right; in the deaf ear, extending into temple, with external sensitiveness. ▶ Itching deep in left, at times almost painful.

Sneezing at 9 P.M., with fluent coryza, then sticking in left side of vertex. ▶ Coryza; sudden transient in evening; thin, acrid, nose sore to touch and feels stopped.

Cheeks red and burning in evening. ▶ Paralyzed feeling in left side as if everything were hanging loosely. ▶ Lower lip dry and cracked. ▶ Lips sore at the corners.

Periodical tearing in right upper incisor, with drawing, grumbling soreness and elongated sensation. ▶ Pain in a carious tooth, with inflamed gum and swollen cheek. ▶ Tongue sore at root. ▶ Stinging in palate, agg. eating smoking or touch, extending after two days to tip of tongue. ▶ Watery, offensive taste. ▶ Long aftertaste after using fresh and sweet fat with his meal, changing to a rancid taste.

Soreness mornings on getting up with earache; S. with huskiness. ▶ Pain in right side of pharynx at noon during empty swallowing. ▶ Coldness, as from mint-drops. ▶ Difficult swallowing at noon, with contracted sensation in œsophagus.

Hunger after 9 o'clock. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations of sour wind; of fluid tasting like sour food, causing smarting in mouth and throat. ▶ Nausea; after sweat, with vomiting and depression. ▶ Cramplike pain in evening, amel. emission of flatus. ▶ Pain in epigastrium at 10 P.M., extending from left to right, then shifting to vertex, followed by creeping down back; P. in S. as if something had lodged at cardiac end at 6 P.M., four hours after dinner; burning P., with oppression and weight. ▶ Heat in epigastrium, extending over a large space.

Forcible emission of flatus; difficult, scanty emissions in morning, then diarrhœa-like urging; fetid, almost putrid F. (had eaten at dinner only barley soup and beef). ▶ Sensation as before diarrhœa, with much yawning, then regular stool, the last part of which was thinner and of peculiar odor. ▶ Sticking in region of liver; in right hypochondrium. ▶ Pain beneath short ribs; in deep inspiration; in region of spleen; in lower umbilical and upper hypogastric regions, amel. after diarrhœa, with tenesmus; in pelvis, from one acetabulum to the other; in hypogastrium, amel. transiently by emission of flatus, then soft stool with heat and burning irritation of anus and weak sensation in bowels; in transverse and descending colon from incarcerated flatus on waking, papescent stool, then constriction of anus, another stool at 9 A.M., with tenesmus, then constriction of anus. ▶ Bruised pain in umbilical region after drinking cold water, extending across abdomen.

Painful, protruding piles without constipation. ▶ Constriction of anus. ▶ Itching of anus at 10 P.M., amel. scratching; also A. in afternoon, amel. scratching. ▶ Sensation in A. all the evening, as before diarrhœa. ▶ Pressure in rectum; agg. in evening and in bed.

Scanty, painless diarrhœa twice in morning; painless D. in morning on waking, compelled to go at once, with rumbling, another stool immediately after breakfast, with urging. ▶ Pappy every morning, with inclination to sit at stool and feeling as if mucous membrane were thick and stiff. ▶ If two small balls after straining. ▶ Twice daily.

Urine copious, even at night. ▶ Urine like saffron, passed often.

Feeling on ascending stairs as if asleep. ▶ Hot red swelling of prepuce. ▶ Increased secretion under prepuce. ▶ Nervous fluctuations in left half of penis, in region of prostate, with jerking pain. ▶ Erections in forenoon when riding in a carriage; strong, in morning, with increased desire; long-lasting, in morning, on lying down after urinating; insufficient, during coition. ▶ Itching of scrotum. ▶ Excitability. ▶ Menses eight days too soon, scanty and pale, with bearing-down pain in back, darker next day, cramplike pain through hip-joint and pelvis the third day, next day scanty and pale again.

Cough from irritation in larynx, with loose expectoration during the day. ▶ Sticking in right side of chest at 4.30 P.M., arresting breath. ▶ Pain in chest on full inspiration; P. in lower part of left breast, then of right at 8 P.M., with chilliness down back and lower limbs; sudden P. in left lung, then sensation as if I were falling. ▶ Warmth in lower part of chest and in abdomen.

Palpitation in afternoon. ▶ Heart's action increased. ▶ Pulse 92, irregular.

Pain in neck in evening, agg. looking up; P. in left side, sometimes with itching or burning; as if it would break, agg. left side of spine, in region of ninth rib. ▶ Shooting in region of left scapula from 11.30 to 12 P.M.; S. in left lumbar region. ▶ Acute pain in lower part of scapula at noon. ▶ Pain in chest and dorsum of ilium at noon, extending across sacrum with traction at attachment of muscles; P. in sacrum and dorsum of ilia as if muscles were strained and about to be torn from their attachment, at 5 P.M. and after going to bed, agg. motion.

Tearing down left arm and leg at 10 P.M., with drawing. ▶ Pain in bones, shifting about in right arm and leg, agg. joints.

Soreness, very painful in anterior part of left axilla. ▶ Twitching in left triceps at 9 P.M. ▶ Shooting in arms at noon, extending to elbows. ▶ Left arm and hand asleep in morning on waking; asleep sensation in arms and agg. hands, when riding in a carriage. ▶ Intermittent pinching in middle of left upper arm, then on various parts of body lower down. ▶ Pain inwardly on inner side above right elbow, agg. in direction of upper arm. ▶ Rheumatic pain in right elbow. ▶ Pain in right elbow and wrist. ▶ Shooting in forearms and hands at 1 P.M.; S. in course of left ulnar nerve to little finger. ▶ Rheumatic pain in right forearm and wrist; in right wrist and course of ulna. ▶ Shooting in carpal bones at 9 P.M. when writing, extending down third and fourth finger. ▶ Burning pain in left carpal bones at 11 P.M. ▶ Indefinable sensations in and around left wrist. ▶ Inflammation of backs of hands, with redness and swelling, then suppuration under finger-nails, then loosening and falling of nails. ▶ Tearing in left middle finger at noon. ▶ Burning sticking in finger-ends, first in left and agg. evening, then on right and agg. morning, agg. middle finger.

Bruised sensation; in left hip-joint, interfering with walking; in hips at night in bed, causing him to change from side to side, Shooting in thighs down to knees at noon; in hips at 7 P.M., agg. 10 P.M., extending down thighs. ▶ Rheumatic pains from left hip to right. ▶ Pain in hips, small of back and sacrum. ▶ Uneasy painful sensation in hips, and thighs, with desire to change their position often when sitting. ▶ Lancinations in knees, waking him. ▶ Rheumatic pain in left knee; agg. walking. ▶ Right knee gave way in evening when walking on account of pain below it, next day the same and hindrance in walking from a similar pain in left middle toe. ▶ Pain below knees and in shins at 9 o'clock; P. in right tendo-achillis. ▶ Sharp rheumatic pain in ankles, agg. walking. ▶ Cramp in feet at night, agg. under toes, and always in a small spot; C. in soles, agg. in forepart and under toes, agg. right, waking him at 3 A.M., and the same when lying on a lounge in a warm room. ▶ Stinging in left great toe at night, with burning. ▶ Sharp intermittent pain in left fourth, toe then burning pain behind ball of left great toe, then pain in lower of left tibia.

Creeping down back. ▶ Pricking stitches, agg. in region of right nipple, then on left side of back then on other parts. ▶ Tingling of left fingers. ▶ Itching on scalp, arms, abdomen and whole trunk; at right nipple; in left palm; in left axilla, then soreness with a sore place inwardly, afterwards the soreness, agg. scratching; in right axilla, more outwardly mornings, instead of in the inner and anterior part of left ; intermittent on left scapula and left thigh near groin, in evening, night and next day, always amel. scratching; burning in bend of left knee, agg. at 9.30, the same sensation, which is a union of itching, burning and pressure, here and there on body.

Frequent yawning at 1 P.M., with necessity to stretch the limbs. ▶ Sleepiness, with heaviness of eyelids and inability to study; sudden S. after water-soup, and falling asleep in his chair, on waking he does not feel refreshed, but goes to bed and falls asleep at once. ▶ Sleeping easily in evening; easily falls asleep at night after bring disturbed. ▶ He does not feel like getting up in morning he has scarcely aroused himself when he falls asleep again. ▶ Can do with less sleep. ▶ Went to bed at 1 after drinking beer and wine in evening, woke at 3 and felt as if he had slept enough. ▶ Sleeplessness the first twenty-four hours, then alternations of waking and sleeping. ▶ Difficult falling asleep, with frequent waking on alternate nights. ▶ Sleep disturbed, night restless. ▶ Dreams lewd, with erections some nights; vivid, lewd, with erections and emissions; D. not unpleasant; a mouldy sausage in his room caused a D. that he saw a funeral procession with a large coffin and many smaller ones, the persons had died of scarlet fever, the procession almost came up with him and stopped at the corner, as he attempted to get out of the wind which blew from the procession he woke.

Susceptible to cold; agg. walking against the wind in evening. ▶ Chill at night. ▶ Cold feet. ▶ Heat; agg. scalp; of hand and face; of palm; pressing burning in spots on skin. ▶ Clammy sweat on walking; disagreeable S. at night; copious S. after whisky.