Silicea sil.

NUTRITION. Children. Tissues: Elastic. Cellular. NERVES. GLANDS. Tubes: Eustachian. Tear ducts, etc. Fistulæ. Bones. Cartilage. Mucous membranes. Skin.

COLD CHANGES: AIR. DRAFTS. Damp. Uncovering. Bathing. Checked sweat, < feet. Sensitive to: Nervous excitement. Light. Noise. Jarring spine. Change of moon. Night. Mental exertion. Alcohol.

WARM: WRAPS; to head. Becoming. Profuse urination.

Cachectic or senile patients. Large head, with wasted body. Fair, clear complexion. KEENLY SENSITIVE; to noise, pain or cold; hugs the stove. Violent sticking pains; localized; in ears, throat, ulcers, etc. Exaggerated reflexes. Contracted sphincters. Spasms. Tendency to easy exhaustion, abnormal sweats and suppuration. Cerebral softening (Phos.). Slow, incomplete processes, then induration. EVERY HURT FESTERS; stubborn suppuration; fistulæ; abscess; proud flesh; induration; cicatrices, etc. Torpid cellular tissue. Mal-nutrition. Arrested development. Late learning to walk. Swelled, diseased glands. Emaciation. Scrophulo-rachitic diathesis. Parts lain on go to sleep. Œdema in A.M. Extrudes foreign bodies.

Mental acuteness, with physical weakness or torpidity. Fidgety. Lacks grit. Slouchy gait. Sullen and stubborn. ASCENDING EFFECTS; violent vertigo; OCCIPITAL PAINS, etc.; > pressure. Headache, then blindness. Migraine. Vertex throbs. Open fontanels, with distended abdomen. Lumps on scalp. Inflamed eyes. Spotted vision. Cataract. Deafness; hears again with a snap. Frothy nasal discharge. Coryza; with epistaxis. Waxy pallor. Enlarged parotids. As of a hair on tongue, in throat, etc. Bitter taste in throat. Abscess at roots of teeth. Hawks down foul lumps. Averse to hot food. Averse to mother's milk; vomits it. Big, hard or hot belly; with thin legs. Rectum; cutting; cramping; paining into testes; < coition. Stools; receding; < menses; retained, for fear of pain. Fissure ani. Foul urethral discharge. Itching, moist spots on scrotum. Hydrocele. Cutting upward in vagina, < urinating. Nursing < utering flow. Biting, gushing leucorrhœa. Itching vulva. Retching, shaking, gagging cough; < cold drinks. Respiration difficult from draft on neck. Profuse, foul, lumpy sputum. Rattling in chest. Sore, retracted nipples. Nodes or fistulæ in mammæ. Sharp pains in breasts and uterus. Axillary glands swelled. Fingertips painful; dry. Panaris. Weak ankles. FOOT-SWEAT; FOUL; itching; acrid, destroying shoes; suppressed. Sore ache in arch of foot. Distorted, ingrown nails. Bunions. Soggy, wilted skin. Acuminate eruptions. Carbuncle. Ulcers; painfully sensitive; foul; spongy; on feet, toes; at nails; > heat. Osteitis. Somnambulism. Frightful dreams, wake him on falling to sleep. CHILLY; < lying in bed, exertion, etc. Coldness of painful part. Icy chills. Hectic. SWEAT; profuse; on upper parts; head, or affected parts; at night; foul; easy; acrid.

Follows: Calc-c. or Hepar. Complementary: Flu-ac. Pho. Thu. Related: Calc-c. Hep. Kali-p.

Adapted to the nervous, irritable, sanguine temperament; persons of a psoric diathesis. Persons of light complexion; find, dry, skin; pale face; weakly, with lax muscles. Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition, not because food is lacking in quality or in quantity, but from imperfect assimilation (Bar. c., Calc.); oversensitive, physically and mentally. Scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads; open fontanelles and sutures; much sweating about the head (lower than Cal.) which must be kept warm by external covering (Sanic.); distended abdomen; weak ankles; slow in learning to walk. Great weariness and debility; wants to lie down. Nervous debility; exhaustion with erythism; from hard work and close confinement; may be overcome by force of will. Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise. Anxious, yielding, fainthearted. Mental labor very difficult; reading and writing fatigue, cannot bear to think. Ailments: caused by suppressed foot-sweat (Cup., Graph., Psor.); exposing the head or back to any slight draught of air; bad effects of vaccination, especially abscesses and convulsions (Thuja); chest complaints of stonecutters with total loss of strength. Want of vital heat, always chilly, even when taking active exercise (Led., Sep.). Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of glands, cervical, axillary, parotid, mammary, inguinal, sebaceous; malignant, gangrenous. Has a wonderful control over the suppurative process - soft tissue, periosteum or bone - maturing abscesses when desired or reducing excessive suppuration (affecting chiefly the soft tissues, Calend., Hep.). Children are obstinate, headstrong, cry when spoken kindly to (Iod.). Vertigo: spinal, ascending form back of neck to head; as if one would fall forward, from looking up (Puls., - looking down, Kal., Spig.). Chronic sick headaches, since some severe disease of youth (Psor.); ascending from nape of neck to the vertex, as if coming from the spine and locating in one eye, especially the right (left, Spig.); < draught of air or uncovering the head; > pressure and wrapping up warmly (Mag. m., Stron.); > profuse urination. Constipation: always before and during menses (diarrhoea before and during menses, Am. c., Bov.); difficult, as from inactivity of rectum; with great straining, as if rectum was paralyzed; when partly expelled, recedes again (Thuja). Faeces in ano alternates with chest symptoms (Berb., Cal. p.). Discharge of blood from vagina every time the child takes the breast (compare Crot. t.). Nipple is drawn in like a funnel (Sars.). Night walking; gets up while asleep, walks about and lies down again (Kali br.). Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates (Graph., Hep., Merc., Petr.). Crippled nails on fingers and toes (Ant. c.). Takes cold from exposure of feet (Con., Cup.). Sweat of hands, toes, feet and axillae; offensive. Intolerable, sour, carrion-like odor of the feet, without perspiration, every evening. Fistula lachymalis; ingrowing toe-nails (Mag. p. a., Mar. v.); panaritium; blood boils; carbuncles; ulcers of all kinds; fistulae, painful, offensive, high spongy edges, proud flesh in them; fissura ani; great pain after stool. Desire to be magnetized, which > (Phos.). Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from the tissues; fish bones, needles, bone splinters.

Complementary: Thuja, Sanicula. Compare: Hep., Pic. ac., Kali p., Hyper., Ruta., Sanic., Gettysburg. Follows well: after, Calc., Graph., Hep., Nit ac., Phos. Is followed well: by, Hep., Fluor. ac., Lyc., Sep.

Cold; during menses; during new moon; uncovering, especially the head; lying down.

Warmth, especially from wrapping up the head; all the symptoms except gastric, which are > by cold food (Lyc.). Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla.

Dazzling of the eyesight; blindness, and momentary attacks of blindness; spotted vision, i.e., on looking at an object, spots appear before the eyes; eyes water very much; dimsightedness; amaurosis. Affections appearing in the angles of the eye, in the region of the tear-duct.

Hardness of hearing; paralyzed auditory nerves; discharge of pus from the ears.

Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot, which, when broken open, smell very offensively (like Phosphor., excepting the latter remedy has a hot feeling in the throat); cough with expectoration in the day, without expectoration at night; expectoration bloody, or purulent.

Want of appetite; extreme hunger; aversion to meat; taste is lost; nausea and vomiting in general, particularly of what has been eaten.

Constipation where the stool comes down with great difficulty, comes a little way through the anus, and then slips back before it can be voided; obstructed evacuation of the bowels; fetid flatus. Stool like pus; with maw worms; with tape-worms.

Female: Discharge of blood before proper period. Menses too late; protracted; suppressed; blood acrid.

Abscesses which do not break, but burrow under the skin. Exanthema in general which corrode and spread; old and difficult to heal; which itch; fungus articularis; hæmatodes; spongy excrescences. Tetters in general; corroding and spreading. Ulcers in general, wherever pus is discharged from any part of the body or when appearing in the urine; ulcers burning; scabby; hard; fistulous; indolent; putrid; spongy; when circumscribed with redness; very high, hard ulcers; with itching around; with proud flesh; with corroding pus.

Bones of the leg. Bending and caries of the bones; inflammation of the bones: bones very sensitive and tender to the touch.

Not being able to sleep again after waking; sleeplessness in general--especially after midnight.

Griping pains with a tearing away feeling, of twisting or of writhing; or as if something were being torn away; sensation of heaviness in inner parts; jerking pains; debility; weakness of the joints, especially of the ankle-joints.

Affections in general of any kind appearing chiefly in light-haired people; in right side; left side; back; left lower extremity; scalp: external head behind the ears; external surface of the inguinal ring; inguinal ring and hernia of long standing; finger nails, especially if there are white spots on the nails.

Feet perspire very much, and smell very offensively; feet become sore and blistered between the toes. Head perspires very much in the evening on going to sleep (this looks like Calc. carb., but in Silic. the perspiration extends lower down on the neck, and is apt to have an offensive smell). Incontinence of urine in bed at night. Imperceptible pulse.

In the night, chiefly in latter part; in the open air; in children of Silicea temperament where they are sickly, have worms, etc.; when single parts are cold; from taking cold in the feet; with profuse salivation; on uncovering; from a draft of air; after eating; after drinking; lying on the painful side; looking fixedly at an object; from wine; from outward pressure; from reading; stepping heavily on the ground or floor; in stone-cutters; when the weather changes; from getting the feet wet; from worm troubles of any kind; when writing; from uncovering the head; from wrapping the head up; in the room.

Arsen., Asaf., Bellad., Calc. carb., Hepar., Lycop., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sulphur, Nux vom.

Hepar., sometimes Camphor.

Headache better from binding head tightly, or from wrapping it up warmly. Head wet from sweating, particularly at night, likes wrapping it up. Water tastes bad, vomits after drinking. Increased menses with repeated paroxysms of icy coldness over the whole body. Offensive foot sweat, rawness between the toes, also complains after checking it. Want of vital warmth even when taking exercise Ailments following vaccination; abscesses. etc., even convulsions. Slow suppurating processes in general.

Silica. Pure Flint (SILICEA)

Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition. It goes further and produces neurasthenic states in consequence, and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Silica can stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar-tissue. In phthisis must be used with care, for here it may cause the absorption of scar-tissue, liberate the disease, walled in, to new activities (J. Weir). Organic changes; it is deep and slow in action. Periodical states; abscesses, quinsy, headaches, spasms, epilepsy, feeling of coldness before an attack. Keloid growth. Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking. Ill effects of vaccination. Suppurative processes. It is related to all fistulous burrowings. Ripens abscesses since it promotes suppuration. Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter. Lack of vital heat. Prostration of mind and body. Great sensitiveness to taking cold. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants. Ailments attended with pus formation. Epilepsy. Want of grit, moral or physical.

Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious. Nervous and excitable. Sensitive to all impressions. Brain-fag. Obstinate, headstrong children. Abstracted. Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts them.

Aches from fasting. Vertigo from looking up; better, wrapping up warmly; when lying on left side (Magnes mur; Strontia). Profuse sweat of head, offensive, and extends to neck. Pain begins at occiput, and spreads over head and settles over eyes. Swelling in the glabella.

Angles of eyes affected. Swelling of lachrymal duct. Aversion to light, especially daylight; it produces dazzling, sharp pain through eyes; eyes tender to touch; worse when closed. Vision confused; letters run together on reading. Styes. Iritis and irido-choroiditis, with pus in anterior chamber. Perforating or sloughing ulcer of cornea. Abscess in cornea after traumatic injury. Cataract in office workers. After-effects of keratitis and ulcus cornæ, clearing the opacity. Use 30th potency for months.

Fetid discharge. Caries of mastoid. Loud pistol-like report. Sensitive to noise. Roaring in ears.

Itching at point of nose. Dry, hard crusts form, bleeding when loosened. Nasal bones sensitive. Sneezing in morning. Obstructed and loss of smell. Perforation of septum.

Skin cracked on margin of lips. Eruption on chin. Facial neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; worse, cold damp.

Sensation of a hair on tongue. Gums sensitive to cold air. Boils on gums. Abscess at root of teeth. Pyorrhea (Merc cor). Sensitive to cold water.

Periodical quinsy. Pricking as of a pin in tonsil. Colds settle in throat. Parotid glands swollen (Bell; Rhus; Calc). Stinging pain on swallowing. Hard, cold swelling of cervical glands.

Disgust for meat and warm food. On swallowing food, it easily gets into posterior nares. Want of appetite; thirst excessive. Sour eructations after eating (Sepia; Calc). Pit of stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking (Ars; Verat).

Pain or painful cold feeling in abdomen, better external heat. Hard, bloated. Colic; cutting pain, with constipation; yellow hands and blue nails. Much rumbling in bowels. Inguinal glands swollen and painful. Hepatic abscess.

Feels paralyzed. Fistula in ano (Berb; Lach). Fissures and hæmorrhoids, painful, with spasm of sphincter. Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again. Great straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool. Feces remain a long time in rectum. Constipation always before and during menses; with irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhœa of cadaverous odor.

Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment. Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool. Nocturnal enuresis in children with worms.

Burning and soreness of genitals, with eruption on inner surface of thighs. Chronic gonorrhœa, with thick, fetid discharge. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions. Hydrocele.

A milky (Calc; Puls; Sep), acrid leucorrhœa, during urination. Itching of vulva and vagina; very sensitive. Discharge of blood between menstrual periods. Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body. Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily; drawn in. Fistulous ulcers of breast (Phos). Abscess of labia. Discharge of blood from vagina every time child is nursed. Vaginal cysts (Lyc; Puls; Rhod) hard lumps in breast (conium).

Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently muco-purulent and profuse. Slow recovery after pneumonia. Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot, which, when broken, smell very offensive. Cough with expectoration in day, bloody or purulent. Stitches in chest through to back. Violent cough when lying down, with thick, yellow lumpy expectoration; suppurative stage of expectoration (Bals. Peru).

Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back. Pain in coccyx. Spinal irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of bones of spine. Potts' disease.

Night-walking; gets up while asleep. Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head. Frequent starts in sleep. Anxious dreams. Excessive gaping.

Sciatica, pains through hips, legs and feet. Cramp in calves and soles. Loss of power in legs. Tremulous hands when using them. Paralytic weakness of forearm. Affections of finger nails, especially if white spots on nails. Ingrowing toe-nails. Icy cold and sweaty feet. The parts lain on go to sleep. Offensive sweat on feet, hands, and axillæ. Sensation in tips of fingers, as if suppurating. Panaritium. Pain in knee, as if tightly bound. Calves tense and contracted. Pain beneath toes. Soles sore (Ruta). Soreness in feet from instep through to the sole. Suppurates.

Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers. Delicate, pale, waxy. Cracks at end of fingers. Painless swelling of glands. Rose-colored blotches. Scars suddenly become painful. Pus offensive. Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tissues. Every little injury suppurates. Long lasting suppuration and fistulous tracts. Dry finger tips. Eruptions itch only in daytime and evening. Crippled nails. Indurated tumors. Abscesses of joints. After impure vaccination. Bursa. Lepra, nodes, and coppery spots. Keloid growths.

Chilliness; very sensitive to cold air. Creeping, shivering over the whole body. Cold extremities, even in a warm room. Sweat at night; worse towards morning. Suffering parts feel cold.

Worse, new moon, in morning, from washing, during menses, uncovering, lying down, damp, lying on, left side, cold. Better, warmth, wrapping up head, summer; in wet or humid weather.

Complementary: Thuja; Sanic; Puls; Fluor ac. Mercurius and Silica do not follow each other well.

Compare: Black Gunpowder 3x (Abscesses, boils, carbuncles, limb purple. Wounds that refuse to heal; accident from bad food or water.--Clarke). Hep; Kali phos; Pic ac; Calc; Phos; Tabasheer; Natrum silicum (tumors, hæmophilia, arthritis; dose, three drops three times daily, in milk); Ferrum cyanatum (epilepsy; neuroses, with irritable weakness and hyper-sensitiveness, especially of a periodical character). Silica marina-Sea sand--(Silica and Natrum mur symptoms. Inflamed glands and commencing suppuration. Constipation. Use for some time 3x trit). Vitrum-Crown glass--(Pott's disease, after Silica, necrosis, discharge thin, watery, fetid. Much pain, fine grinding and grating like grit). Arundo donax (acts on excretory and generative organs; suppuration, especially chronic, and where the ulceration is fistulous, especially in long bones. Itching eruption on chest, upper extremities and behind ears).

Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200th and higher of unquestioned activity. In malignant affections, the lowest potencies needed at times.

Weak, puny children; not from want of nourishment taken, but defective assimilation.

Inflammations tending to end suppuration or refusing to heal; becoming chronic.

Coldness, lack of vital warmth, even when taking exercise; must be wrapped up, especially the head, which >.

Suppressed sweat, especially of feet, which is profuse and offensive.

Weak, nervous, easily irritated, faint-hearted; yielding, giving up disposition, "grit all gone." Constipation; stool protrudes and then slips back again, again and again; week expulsive power.

Scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads; open fontanelles and sutures; much sweating about the head, which must be kept warm by external covering; large bellies; weak ankles, slow in learning to walk.

Diseases, caused by suppressed foot sweat; exposing the head or back to any slight draft of air; from vaccination (Thuja); dust complaints of stone cutters, with total loss of strength.

Vertigo; spinal headache ascending from nape of neck to head, as if one would fall forward; worse looking upward.

Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates.

Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from the tissues, fish bones, needles, bone splinters.

Silicea is another of our invaluable constitutional remedies, and also one which is of little or no use except as developed by Hahnemann's process of potentization. Like Calcarea, it is especially useful in sweaty-headed children (Sanicula) with defective assimilation. It is not in the fat, torpid, obesic patients, over-nourished in one part and insufficiently so in another, like Calcarea that Silicea is indicated, but in the over-sensitive, imperfectly nourished (generally), not from want of food, but from imperfect assimilation. The Silicea child is not larger than natural anywhere except in its "big belly," which is due to diseased mesentery. Its limbs are shrunken, its eyes sunken and its face pinched and old looking. It does not increase in size or strength, learns to walk late; in short, if not actually sick in bed, everything seems to have come to a standstill so far as growth or development is concerned. Now if this state of things continues the bowels become very constipated, and a peculiar constipation it is, too. The little fellow strains and strains, the stool partly protruding and then slipping back (Sanicula and Thuja), as though the general weakness of the patient affected the expulsive power of the rectum, or else the bowels become very persistently loose, especially during dentition or the hot weather of summer. The stools are changeable, but Pulsatilla does no good, almost every kind and color of loose stool appearing. The child takes nourishment enough, but, whether vomited or retained, goes on emaciating and growing weaker and weaker until it dies of inanition, unless Silicea checks this process. Many such cases have I saved with this remedy and made them healthy children. I have always used the 30th and upwards, hence cannot speak of the lower preparations. (Silicea also has constipation < before and during menstruation).

Silicea ranks among the first of our remedies for inflammations ending in suppuration. It seems to make no particular difference whether the suppuration takes place in the soft or hard parts, for it is equally efficacious in glandular or bony ulcerations. It seems to come in at a later stage than Hepar sulph. or Calcarea sulphide which expedite the discharge of pus already formed, while Silicea comes in for healing after the discharge has taken place. Cellular tissues with deep-seated suppurations, including tendons and ligaments, also come within the range of its healing powers. In these cases the constitution of the patient has an important bearing in the selection of this remedy. The Silicea subject is weakly, with fine skin, pale face, lax muscles. Even the mind and nervous symptoms come into the general picture of "weakness." He is nervous and irritable, weak, faint-hearted, yielding, giving-up disposition, "grit all gone." (Pulsatilla). In such a case Silicea is grand. I hate to use the term, but as the old school would say, "it builds them up," and so it seems, for under its action the patients spirits rise, hope revives, the weakness and depression give way to a feeling of returning strength and health. It makes no difference whether the ulcerations are in the tissues already named, in the lungs, intestinal tract, or mammæ, or elsewhere, the effect is the same, and the improvement in the local affection generally follows the general constitutional improvement. This condition of weakness seems to attack the general nervous system, affecting the spine, and so we get those cerebro-spinal headaches, or headaches beginning in the nape of the neck and running forward over the head to the eyes, for which Silicea is so useful. Vertigo also ascends from the nape to head, < looking up. (Pulsatilla).

There seems to be lack of nerve power to resist outward depressing influences. He is cold, or, as Hering puts it, there is "want of vital warmth, even when taking exercise." He is sensitive to cold air, takes cold very easily, especially when uncovering the head or feet. On the contrary, he is relieved by "wrapping up the head " (Magnesia mur.), or, in other words, supplying artificially the warmth that he lacks naturally.

I have several times found a Silicea child suffering from epileptiform spasms which were always worse at new moon. A few doses of Silicea 200th set them all right.

Silicea subjects are often afflicted with offensive foot-sweats (Sanicula, Psorinum, Graphites), which are easily suppressed by getting the feet cold. Such suppression must be remedied, the sweat restored and cured by proper medication or serious results often follow, such as convulsions and other spinal troubles, even locomotor ataxia. Silicea is the remedy to restore and cure such sweats by correcting the conditions upon which the sweats depend. (Baryta carb., Graphites, Psorinum, Sanicula).

The Silicea patient desires to be magnetized and is relieved thereby (Phosphorus).

This is one of the remedies of which, like Sepia, Lachesis, Lycopodium and others, the old school knows little or nothing, because their chief virtues are only developed in potencies above the 12th.

Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla.

Modalities: < from cold or draft, motion, open air, at new moon; > in warm room, wrapping up head; magnetism and electricity.

Desponding, melancholy, tired of life. Yielding, anxious mood. Compunction of conscience about trifles. The child becomes obstinate and headstrong ; cries when kindly spoken to.

Vertigo, as if one would fall forward ; when stooping, riding, raising the eyes upwards ; ascending from the neck to the head, with nausea. Burning in the head, with pulsation and perspiration of the head ; worse at night, from mental exertion and talking, relieved by wrapping the head up warm. Pressing headache, as if the head would burst, ascending from the neck to the forehead. Pulsating and beating, most violent in the forehead and vertex, with chilliness. Tearing headache, frequently only on one side of the head, with stitches through the eyes and in the cheek-bones ; heat in the forehead and great restlessness ; worse from a draught of air and motion. Heaviness in the head, pressing out in the forehead ; worse from evening till night, from stepping up hard, from uncovering the head, or if the head becomes cold in the open air. Stitches in the forehead and in the temples principally the right, from within to without ; worse at night, from moving the eyes, from talking and writing. Most all the headaches are aggravated from mental exertion, stooping, talking and cold air, and are relieved in the warm room, and from wrapping the head up warmly. Eruption on the back part of the head and behind the ears dry, offensive smelling, scabby, burning-itching ; when scratching it, burning feeling, more sore, and discharging pus. Itching pustules and bulbous swellings on the hairy scalp and on the neck ; very sensitive to pressure, touch, and when lying on it ; better when wrapping it up warm. Sensitiveness of the scalp to pressure (of the hat) and to contact ; worse in the evening and when lying on the painful side ; burning after scratching. Open fontanelles ; the head is too large and the rest of the body emaciated, with pale wax color of the face ; hot, swollen abdomen, and fetid stools. Burning and itching, mostly on the back part of the head ; worse from scratching, which causes burning and soreness ; worse when undressing in the evening and on getting warm in bed. Tearing pain in the scalp worse at night, and from pressure. Profuse, sour-smelling perspiration, on the head only (in the evening), with great sensitiveness of the scalp, with pale face and emaciation. Tendency to take cold in the head, which cannot possibly be uncovered.

Lachrymation in the open air. Agglutination of the eyes. Swelling of the tear-gland. Ulcers (and fungus hæmatodes) on the cornea. Redness of the eyes with biting pains in the corner of the eye. Spots and cicatrices on the cornea. When reading the letters run together, look pale. Obscuration of sight, as from a gray cover. Black spots and fiery sparks before the eyes. Aversion to light ; day-light dazzles the eyes.

Otalgia, with stitches out of the ears. Itching in the ears. Stoppage of the ears, which open at times with a loud report. Difficult hearing, especially of the human voice and during the full moon. Over-sensitiveness of the hearing, to noise. Swelling of the external ear, with discharge of pus from the ear. Scabs behind the ear. Increased secretion of very thin cerumen. Hard swelling of the parotid gland.

Painful dryness of the nose. Gnawing pain and ulcers high up in the nose with great sensitiveness of the place to contact. Acrid, corroding discharge from the nose and stoppage of the nose. Loss of smell. Scabs and ulcers in the nose. Bleeding of the nose. Frequent violent sneezing. Long-continued stoppage of the nose from hardened mucus.

Pale, earth-colored face. White or burning red spots in the face, especially on the cheeks. The skin of the face cracks. Blood boils on the cheek. Ulcerated corners of the mouth. Scabby eruptions on the hips, which smart. Ulcers in the vermilion border of the lower lip. Herpes on the chin. Swelling and caries of the lower jaw. Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands. Scirrhous indurations of the face and upper lip. The articulation of the jaw is spasmodically closed (lock-jaw).

Toothache from warm food and from drawing cold air in the mouth. Tearing in the teeth ; worse at night, or only when eating. Stinging in the teeth, preventing sleep. Painful inflammation, swelling, soreness, and easily bleeding gums. Dryness of the mouth. Accumulation of mucus in the mouth. Sensation as if a hair were lying on the forepart of the tongue. Soreness of the tongue. One-sided swelling of the tongue. Tongue coated with brown mucus. Sore throat with much mucus in the throat. When swallowing, soreness and stitches in the throat (Quinsy). Swelling of the palate. Difficult deglutition, as if the throat were paralyzed. When swallowing, the food easily gets into the posterior nares.

Ravenous hunger, with want of appetite. Want of appetite and excessive thirst. Aversion to warm, cooked food ; he desires only cold things. Loss of taste. Bitter taste in the morning. Aversion of the child to the mother's milk ; refuses to nurse, and if it does it vomits. After eating, sour eructations, fulness and pressure in the stomach ; water-brash and vomiting. Eructations tasting of the food eaten, or sour. Water-brash, with chilliness. Continuous nausea and vomiting ; worse in the morning. Vomiting whenever he drinks. Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to pressure. Abdomen bloated and hard (especially in children). Pain in the abdomen ; colic in children from worms. Cutting pain in the abdomen (colic), with constipation. Colic, with yellow hands and blue nails. The region of the liver swollen and hard. (Inflammation an induration of the liver). Beating soreness in the liver ; worse on motion and when walking, or when lying on the right side, or when breathing. Pressure in the abdomen, especially after eating. Painful inguinal hernia. Incarcerated flatulency ; difficult discharge of flatulence very offensive flatulence. Much rumbling of flatulence in the abdomen.

Constipation ; difficult, hard stool ; the feces are large, and if partly expelled slip back again, as if there were not power enough to expel them ; even the soft stool is expelled with much difficult. Frequent papescent fetid-smelling stools. Itching in the anus and rectum ; also during stool. Urinary organs. Strangury. Continuous urging to urinate, with scanty discharge ; also at night. Involuntary micturition at night. Sediment of red sand or deposit of yellow sand.

Men. Red spots and itching on the corona glandis. Itching, humid spots on the genitals, especially on the scrotum. Prepuce red and itching ; swollen and itching humid pimples on it. Hydrocele. Increased sexual desire ; frequent violent erections. Discharge of prostatic fluid when urinating and passing stool. After coition soreness in the limbs, and sensation in one side of the head as if paralyzed. Women. Menstruation too early and too scanty (or too profuse). Suppressed menstruation. Discharge of menstrual fluid while nursing. Itching on the genitals. Abortion. Leucorrhœa, during micturition, acrid, corroding. Inflammation of the nipples. Suppuration of the mammæ.

Hoarseness, with roughness and soreness of the larynx. Deep sighing-breathing. Shortness of breath and panting, from walking fast or from manual labor. Dyspnœa when at rest ; when lying on the back. Stitches in the chest and sides of the chest, through to the back. Pulsation in the sternum. Phthisis pulmonalis. Cough, with copious expectoration. Suffocative cough at night. Hollow, spasmodic, suffocative cough from tickling in the throat, especially the throat-pit, with expectoration only during the tough, the day of profuse, yellowish-green pus, or of milky, acrid mucus at times of pale, frothy blood, generally tasting greasy and offensive smelling.

Spasmodic pain in the small of the back, which does not allow one to rise. Swelling and curvature of the vertebræ. Inflammatory abscess on the psoas muscle. Sensation of soreness between the shoulder-blades. Glandular swellings on the neck and arm-pits, with suppuration.

Upper. The arms go to sleep when lying on them, or when laying them on the table. Heaviness and paralytic weakness of the (fore) arms, with trembling from the least exertion. Blood-boils and warts on the arms. Stitches in the wrist at night, extending to the arm. Paralysis of the hands. Burning in the tips of the fingers. Panaritium. Yellow, crippled, brittle finger-nails. Lower. Blood-boils on the thighs and calves. Swelling of the knee. Red, smarting spot on the tibia. Ulcers on the lower leg, on the tibia. Caries of the tibia. Cramps in the calves, in the soles of the feet. Numbness of the calves. Coldness of the feet (after suppressed foot-sweat). Sweat of the feet offensive, causing soreness between the toes. Voluptuous tickling in the soles of the feet, driving to despair. Ulceration of the big toe, with stinging pain.

Twitching of the limbs day and night. Epileptic attacks (at night, during new moon). The limbs go to sleep easily. Great restlessness in the body when sitting long. Soreness and lameness in the limbs, in the evening. Stinging in the limbs at night. Takes cold easily, especially when uncovering the head and feet. Sensation of great debility and sleepiness during a thunderstorm. Ebullitions and thirst from drinking small quantities of wine. Great nervous debility ; emaciation ; fainting when lying on the side. The child learns to walk.

Sleeplessness with sleepiness. Sleeplessness from ebullitions of the blood ; restlessness and heat in the head. Frequent starting jerks, and twitches during sleep. Night walking ; gets up while asleep, walks about, and lies down again. Sleep disturbed by many unpleasant, anxious, fantastic dreams. Awakens with erections and urging to urinate. Snoring when asleep ; nightmare.

Pulse small, hard and rapid ; frequently irregular and then slow. The circulation is easily agitated. Violent chill in the evening in bed, aggravated from uncovering oneself. Great chilliness from every movement. Continuous internal chilliness, with want of animal heat. Chill in the evening, with sensation as if cold air were blowing around the waist ; not relieved by wrapping up ; followed by severe fever and perspiration. Heat predominates. Frequently during the day short flushes of heat, principally in the face. Violent general heat, with violent thirst in the afternoon, evening and all night. Periodically returning heat during the day, without any and previous chill and followed by slight perspiration. Debilitating perspiration at night, or only during the morning hours. Perspiration from slight exercise ; most profuse on the head and face. Perspiration only on the head. Night-sweat sour or offensive smelling. The perspiration comes periodically ; is worse 11 P.M., 6 A.M., or 3 to 5 P.M. Intermittent fever, heat predominating.

Painless swelling of the glands ; they only cause very unpleasant itching. Suppuration of the glands. Lymphatic swellings, with suppuration. Bones swollen, inflamed. Caries. Skin painful and sensitive. Itching over the whole body. Rose-colored blotches. Suppurations ; ulcers with good and bad pus, especially in membranous parts. The skin heals badly ; a small injury suppurates much. Ulcers of all kinds ; also after the abuse of mercury. Ulcers smell very offensive. Ulcers with proud flesh and putrid acrid ichor. Ulcers with stinging, burning, pressing, itching, and smarting. Painful, hard, high, and spongy edgers of the ulcers. Panaritium ; blood-boils ; carbuncles ; warts. Cancerous ulcers ; fistulous ulcers.

Aggravation; in the night ; in the open air ; from cold, upon single parts getting cold ; from getting wet ; after eating ; from uncovering the head or feet ; when lying on the painful side ; from drinking wine ; from external pressure ; during sleep ; during the new (and full) moon, and from change in the weather. Amelioration; from wrapping the head up ; in the room ; from warmth ; from wrapping oneself up warmly. Especially suitable for scrofulous children, who have also worm diseases, and for children during dentition. It is an antidote to Mercury when it has produced bad effects in large doses, but it does not follow well after Mercury, nor does Mercury follow well after Silicea. Fluoric acid follows well after Silicea, and antidotes the bad results from too frequent repetition of Silicea.

Silicea terra. Pure Flint. Silex. Silicic anhydride. Silicon dioxide. SiO 2 . Trituration of pure, precipitated Silica.

Abdomen, distended. Abscess . Acne. Anæmia. Ankles, weak . Anus, fissure of; fistula of. Appetite, depraved. Back, weakness of. Boils. Bones, necrosis of . Brain, concussion of. Brain-fag. Breast, sinuses in. Bunion. Cancer. Carbuncle. Cataract. Cellulitis. Cheloid . Chin, eruptions on. Cicatrix. Circulation, feeble. Coccygodynia . Conjunctivitis, phlyctenular. Constipation. Coryza. Cough. Debility. Dentition. Diabetes . Ear, affections of. Elephantiasis. Enchrodroma . Enuresis. Epilepsy . Eruptions. Excrescences. Eyes, affections of. Feet, burning; perspiring. Fester. Fibroma. Fistula . Foot-sweat; suppressed. Foreign bodies, expulsion of. Fractures . Ganglion. Gastric catarrh. Glandular swellings. Headache. Hernia . Hip-joint disease. Homesickness. Housemaid's knee. Hydrocele . Hypopion. Irritation. Jaw, caries of. Joints, sinovitis of . Lachrymal fistula. Lactation . Locomotor ataxy. Mania. Meningitis . Metrorrhagia. Miscarriage. Molluscum contagiosum. Molluscum fibrosum. Morphœa. Morvan's disease. Nails, diseased . Necrosis. Neuralgia. Nodes. Nose, tip, redness of . Panaritium. Parametritis. Perspiration, offensive . Phimosis. Pleurisy . Prepuce, eruption on. Psoas abscess. Pylorus, suppuration of . Rheumatism; chronic; hereditary. Rickets . Sinuses. Somnambulism. Spermatorrhœa. Spinal irritation . Strains. Strangury. Suppuration. Teeth, caries of. Tenesmus. Trachea . Tumours. Ulcers. Urethra, stricture of . Urine, incontinence of. Vaccination. Vagina, spasms of . Vertigo. Walking, delay in . Whitlow. Worms. Writer's cramp.

Outside homœopathy Flint as an internal remedy is practically unknown. Hahnemann introduced it into medicine, and it was his method of attenuating insoluble substances that enabled him to discover its powers. Silica forms one of the most important remedies of the Chronic Diseases . A large proportion of the earth's crust is composed of Silica . Sea sand ( Silica marina ) is mainly composed of it. The spicules of many sponges are made up of Silica . Silicates are taken up by plants and from them Silica is often deposited on the surface or in the interior of their stems. The strength of straw is due to Silica. Equisetum generally contains as much as 18 per cent. of Silica to the fresh plant. Flint supplies the "grit" of the earth's crust, of plant life, and to a large extent of animal life also. "Want of grit, moral or physical," is a leading indication for Sil . in homœopathic practice. Teste puts Sil . in his Pulsatilla group of remedies, the other members of it being Calc., Hep., Graph., Pho . According to Teste, Sil . is the "chronic" of Puls ., — it corresponds to the chronic form of such diseases as Puls . cures when acute: Rush of blood to the head, especially to the right temple and vertex; headache everyday; photophobia; lachrymation; loss of taste; aversion to fat food with rancid or oily taste in mouth, &c. The symptoms of Sil . differ from those of Puls . in being more constant, more deep-seated, and lasting longer; for instance, the mucous secretions of Puls . become easily purulent under the action of Sil . Teste points out that Puls . flourishes best on sandy soils (as Bell . does on calcareous soils). Schüssler, who was a homœopathist before he was a Biochemist, describes the sphere of Sil . from the Tissue-Remedy point of view as follows: " Silicic Acid is a constituent of the cells of the connective tissue, of the epidermis, the hair and the nails. — If a suppurative centre is formed either in the connective tissue or in a portion of the skin, Sil . may be used. — After the functional ability of the cells of the connective tissue, which had been impaired by the pressure of the pus, has been restored to its integrity through a supply of molecules of Sil ., these cells are thereby enabled to throw off inimical substances (the pus). In consequence, the pus is either absorbed by the lymphatics or it is cast out. In the latter case there is a so-called spontaneous breaking open of the suppurative centre. — Sil . may also cause the absorption through the lymphatics of an effusion of blood in any tissue. If the reabsorption of a sero-albuminous exudation in a serous sac cannot be effected through Calc. phos ., then Sil . may be used; for the delay in the absorption may also be caused by deficiency of Sil . in the subserous connective tissue. — Sil . will also cure chronic arthritic-rheumatic affections, as it forms a soluble combination ( Sodium silicate ) with the soda of the urate of soda; this combination is then absorbed and removed through the lymphatics. For the same reason it may also be used in renal gravel. — Sil . can also restore the perspiration of the feet when this has been suppressed, and is thus an indirect remedy in diseases arising in consequence of such suppression ( e.g ., amblyopia, cataract, paralysis, &c.). — When a number of cells in the connective tissue are gradually deprived of Sil ., they become atrophied. Such a disease is by no means rare in the external meatus auditorious with old people. The meatus in such a case is dry and enlarged," (Schüssler adds that he generally gives the 12x trituration.) The indications of Schüssler correspond so exactly with those already pointed out by Hahnemann that we are left in doubt as to how much he was indebted to Hahnemann for his facts and how much to his own theories. Be that as it may, the relation of Sil . to the connective tissues is a very real one. Sil. is a great evacuant. Sil. produced in the provings sensation of "splinter in the finger," of "a pin in the throat," and whenever foreign bodies have became embeded in the tissues; or whenever portions of the tissues have become necrosed and quasi-foreign, Sil . will set up suppuration in the vicinity and bring about their expulsion. (It is this property which makes it necessary sometimes to use Sil . with caution; if there are deposits which have became encysted and so far rendered harmless, the administration of Sil . might set up suppurative action, to the risk of the patient's life.) Sil . both matures abscesses and reduces excessive suppuration. It will also resolve indurations left after suppuration; this has been particularly noted in the case of tonsils which refuse to heal after the pus has been evacuated, and in abscesses which leave sinuses and fistulæ. Sil . affects the nails, cripples them, and produces inflammation around and under them. "Sensation as if the finger-tips were suppurating" is one of the symptoms which led to its use in such cases. Sil . causes inflammation, swelling and suppuration of all the lymphatic glands and also the glands of the skin. The skin is unhealthy and every little injury ulcerates. Hands and feet are sweaty, and the sweat is generally offensive. The feet may give off an intolerable odour without any sweat. The head sweats, and this may be offensive. Sil . corresponds perfectly to many cases of rickets: children with large heads; Open fontanelles and sutures; much sweating about the head, which must be kept warm; distended abdomen; weak ankles; slow in learning to walk. This constitutes type No. 1, to which Sil . is particularly suited . It is also suited to: ( 2 ) Nervous, irritable persons, with dry skin, profuse saliva, diarrhœa, night-sweats. ( 3 ) Weakly persons, fine skin, pale face, light complexion; lax muscles. ( 4 ) Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition due to lack of assimilating power; oversensitive physically and mentally. ( 5 ) Scrofulous children who have worm diseases during dentition. ( 6 ) Stonecutters' ailments (chest affections and total loss of strength. — The action of Sil . on the connective tissues may end in new growth as well as in suppuration and ulceration. It has a specific relation to scarred tissue; and I have cured with it a case of recurrent cheloid: Eleanor W., 14, had a growth on left temple. Five months before she had been an inmate in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and had had a tumour removed from the spot, the tumour having existed for two years. A month after the operation a new growth appeared on the scar. Two months later this was removed. But it rapidly recurred, and when I saw her there was a linear elevation an inch long, three lines wide, and raised about two lines. It was red, shiny, and slightly nodulated; was tender to touch and the seat of Shooting pain . Before the first operation there had been no pain and no discoloration of the skin. Hahnemann gives this symptom in the proving of Sil . "Stitching, aching pain in the spot where an ulcer had been formerly on the leg." Sil . 3 gr. iii., night and morning, was prescribed. There was no further increase in the size of the growth, though it was still painful, the pain being apparently somewhat increased. In three months there was evident diminution in size, and from that time the pain began to diminish. In seven months the growth had entirely disappeared. — The sensitiveness of Sil . is one of its keynotes, and an over-susceptibility to nervous stimuli is a frequent accompaniment of conditions requiring Sil . The surface is tender and the least touch is painful. The senses are morbidly keen. Brain and spine cannot bear even ordinary vibrations. This condition may be caused by losses of fluids as in spermatorrhœa; by over-worked brain. Sil . causes tendency to paralysis and paralytic weakness from defective nutrition of nerves of brain and spinal cord. Constipation is often an accompaniment of these conditions. There may be epileptic convulsions. These have a well-marked course, starting from the solar plexus; are < at full and new moon; and < from any overstrain of mind or emotions. Sil . is indicated in locomotor ataxy when the fingers feel stiff with loss of power in them. There is spinal irritation. The neck is stiff causing headache. The small of the back aches as if beaten. The part of the body lain on goes to sleep. The headaches of Sil . present one of the grand characteristics of the remedy. They are of the chronic kind, and may owe their origin to some severe disease of youth. They ascend from the nape of the neck to the vertex, as if coining from the spine, and locate in one eye, especially the right; < from draught of air or uncovering head; > pressure and wrapping head up warmly ; > profuse urination. The vertigo of Sil . in the same way ascends from the back of the neck; as if one would fall forward (sometimes backward); < looking up; closing eyes; lying on left side. The sensitiveness of Sil . comes out in the mental symptoms: "Sensitive to noise; and anxiety therefrom." "Sensitive, weeping mood." "Yielding, faint-hearted." "Children become obstinate, headstrong; cry when kindly spoken to." A curious symptom and one of great value is this: "Fixed ideas: the patients thinks only of pins, fears them, searches for them, and counts them carefully." This symptom enabled me to make a rapid cure of post-influenzal insanity in the case of a man of bad family history, one of whose sisters had become insane and had drowned herself, another sister being affected with lupus. The patient's wife told me one morning that he had " been looking everywhere for pins ." Sil . 30 rapidly put an end to the search and restored the patient to his senses. Sil . has another link with insanity in its aggravation at the moon's phases: epilepsy and sleep walking are < at the new and full moon. The Sil . patient likes to be magnetised, and is > by it. This is related to the persistent want of vital heat which characterises the Sil . condition; even exercise will not get up any warmth. Another curious symptom of Sil . is: "discharge of blood from the vagina every time the child takes the breast." Another symptom in this relation is important in connection with cancer cases: "nipple is drawn in like a funnel." Always before and during menses there is constipation. The constipation of Sil . is characteristic. The stool is difficult as from inactivity of rectum; with great straining as if rectum was paralysed; when partly expelled recedes again . Fæces remain a long time in rectum. Rushmore ( H. P ., xii. 530) verified a peculiar symptom of Sil . in a lady suffering from scirrhus of left breast. She had a feeling of dryness in her finger-tips, as if made of paper; at night. Ant. t . and Sil . have this symptom, but only Sil . in afternoon. Sil . removed this and took away sharp, stinging pains in the tumour as well. Peculiar Sensations of Sil . are: Susceptibility to nervous stimuli, to magnetism. As if she would die. As if gradually losing senses. As if feeling for pins. Sensation as if she were divided into halves and that the left side does not belong to her. As if one would fall forward. Vertigo as if drunk. As if head were teeming with live things whirling around in it. Headache as if beaten. As if everything would press out and burst skull. As if brain and eyes were forced forward. As if head would burst with throbbing in it, internal and external at same time. As if forehead would be torn asunder; as from a heavy weight over eyes. As if head were forced asunder. As of water-pipes bursting in head. As if tremendous weight were falling on vertex. Head as if in a cushion and some one were pressing two fingers into it at occiput. As if brain collided with skull. Head as if bruised. As if waves of water from occiput over, vertex to forehead. Sick-headaches as if coming from spine and locating over one eye. Head as if too large. As if head were falling off; as if it were hanging by a piece of skin at nape. As if right side of head paralysed. As if looking through a grey cover. As if cornea were a mass of hypertrophied tissue. Eyes as if too dry and full of sand. As of a splinter in upper lid. As if both eyes were dragged back into head by strings. Objects as if in a fog. As if something alive were in ears. As if nasal bone has been beaten. As if a hair were on tip of tongue extending into trachea. As of a lump on right side of throat. As of a pin in throat. Throat as if filled up. As if he could not swallow. As if he swallowed over a sore spot. As of a load in epigastrium. As if knives were running into stomach. As if there were no power in rectum to expel stool. As if rectum paralysed. As if anus constricted. As of a heavy lump in anus. As if vulva were enlarged. As if tied round chest with a tape. As if sternum were grasped. As of a stone under sternum. As if mould were forming over whole body. As if a hand had grasped her breastbone. Cords of neck as if pulled. Small of back as if beaten; as if dead. Arms and hands as if filled with lead. As of a splinter in finger. As if a panaritium would form in index finger. As if tips of fingers were suppurating. As if finger were thick and bone enlarged. As if joints of fingers were being pulled out of sockets. Limbs and feet as if paralysed. Femur as if beaten. Knees as if too tightly bound. Calves as if too short. As if spasms in ankles. As if toe-joints being pulled out of sockets. Nails as if decayed. As if beaten all over. As if he had lain in an uncomfortable position. The direction of the Sil . action is upward and outward: there are shootings out through eyes and out of ears. The symptoms are: < By touch; contact; combing hair. Binding tightly > headache; but pressure of hat = pain. Pressure < . Rest > . Motion < . Lying down < asthma; = headache. Lying right side < pains in liver. Lying left side = vertigo. Sitting < . Gaping or swallowing > stoppage of ear. Opening eyes < pressive pain. Writing = tonic spasm of hand. Walking < ; every step is painfully felt (incarcerated flatus). Open-air < headache; = lachrymation; burning in back. Cold air (especially on head, eyes, back of neck, back); cold draught; changing linen; uncovering < . < Washing. Change of weather < pain in ears; < pain in limbs. < Before and during a storm. > Summer. < Approach of winter. < At new moon; increasing moon (hysteria); and full moon. > In warm room; by warm wraps. < Mental exertion; talking. Pain in head > while eating. < after eating. Milk < ; = diarrhœa. Aversion to mother's milk and vomiting whenever taking it. Drinking cold water = dry cough. Warm drinks. > cough. Averse to warm food. > From magnetism and electricity.

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Indifferent, apathetic.
Confusion of mind ; difficulty in fixing the attention.
Mental labor is very difficult.
Reading and writing fatigue, cannot bear to think.
Becomes confused, makes mistakes ; she is unable to control herself.
Affections from egotism.
Compunction of conscience about trifles.
Overanxious about himself ; low-spirited ; weeps every evening.
Longing for his relations and home.
Very irritable, low-spirited, peevish mood.
Sensitiveness to noise and anxiety therefrom.
Very sensitive, weeping mood.
Desponding, melancholy, tired of life. θ Spermatorrhœa.
Gloomy, feels as if she would die.
Wishes to drown herself.
Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious mood.
Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise.
Child becomes obstinate, headstrong ; cries when kindly spoken to.
When crossed has to restrain himself to keep from doing violence. θ Megrim.
Screaming violently, groaning. θ Epilepsy.
She screams during increase of moon. θ Somnambulism.
Imagines to be in two places at the same time.
Complains of pain in throat on swallowing ; although there is no indication of any inflammation, the condition of her throat is the sole thing occupying her mind ; believes she has swallowed pins, and asks those about her whether she has not done
so ; seeks for hours for lost pins ; will take no sewing into her hand, and carefully examines her food for fear of pins ; very indifferent to friends and former amusements ; restlessness ; anxiety ; vertigo, < stooping ; headache daily, <
mornings ; loss of appetite ; constipation ; emaciation ; entire absence of menses ; < during increase of moon. θ Hysteria.

Vertigo : as if one would fall forward ; ascending from dorsal region, through nape of neck into head ; inclining to fall backward ; < from motion or looking upward ; accompanied by nausea ; with rachitis ; from excessive
use of eyes ; when riding ; with sleepiness ; all day, while stooping at work ; during sleep ; when rising from a recumbent position ; is obliged to walk to the right side ; commencing in cerebellum ; in neurasthenia and epilepsy ; as if
drunk ; is obliged to sit down ; when closing eyes ; from lying on left side.
The brain feels muddled and thick.
Heaviness in head. θ Paralysis.
Disagreeable feeling, as if head were teeming with live things whirling around it.
Fainting ; when taking cold ; from suppressed foot sweat.

Headache or cold feeling rising from nape of neck to vertex ; extreme heaviness of head.
Congestion to head ; cheeks hot ; slight burning in soles of feet.
Burning in head, with pulsation and sweat of head ; < at night from mental exertion, talking ; > by wrapping head up warmly.
Shooting from nape to vertex.
Violent periodic headache, in vertex, occiput or forehead ; one-sided, as if beaten ; throbbing in forehead ; coming in night, with nausea, vomiting.
Violent headache, with loss of consciousness or reason.
Loud cries, nausea to fainting ; subsequent obscuration of sight. θ Megrim.
Obstinate morning headaches, with chilliness and nausea.
Headaches, with or followed by severe pain in small of back ; heaviness and uncomfortable feeling in limbs.
Tearing, frequently one-sided, with stitches through eyes and in cheek bones.
Pulsating, beating, most violent in forehead and vertex, with chilliness.
Headache worse : from mental exertion ; excessive study ; noise ; motion, even jarring of room by footstep ; light ; stooping ; pressing at stool ; talking ; cold air ; touch.
Headache better : from wrapping head up warmly ; hot compresses ; in warm room ; lying down in dark.
Headache every seventh day.
Vibratory shaking sensation in head when stepping hard, with tension in forehead and eyes.
Headache caused by hunger.
Headache as if everything would press out and burst skull ; as if brain and eyes were forced forward.
Headache wakes him at night.
Tearing in whole head starting from occipital protuberances and extending upward and forward over both sides.
Tearing pain as if head would burst, with throbbing in it, commencing at crown as if internal and external at same time, with chilliness ; was obliged to lie down and tossed about in bed for four hours ; > by binding head tightly.
Violent tearing in head as if forehead would be torn asunder.
Violent headache above eyes so that he could scarcely open them.
Stitches in temples.
Hard jerk-like pressure in top of head, extending deep into brain, in paroxysms lasting one or two minutes.
The hat causes acute pain in occipital protuberance.
Pressive headache in occiput as if in bone.
Pressure in occiput, followed by stitches in forehead, with chilliness in nape of neck and back.
Pressure in both sides of occiput.
Bruised pain above eyes, could scarcely open them ; first affected left side of forehead, a sticking extending to right side, pressive, < by opening eyes.
Pressive jerking in middle of forehead renewed by suddenly turning around, stooping or talking.
Pressure as from a heavy weight in forehead over eyes.
Tearing in frontal region.
Acute sticking pain in forehead.
Roaring and shattering in brain when stepping hard or knocking foot.
Tension and pressing in head as if pressed or forced asunder.
Pressive headache at night ; could not remember where she was ; everything turned around, with throbbing at heart.
Violent pressive headache in morning, extending into eyes, with violent chill in afternoon, nausea and weakness, thought she would faint ; eyes painful on turning them sideways or closing them, and when closed are still more painful to touch.
Constant pressive headache from above downward over whole head, with intermittent itching at vulva.
Pressure at occiput and nape of neck in morning.
Headache with small lumps or nodules on scalp.
Diseases of brain, spinal marrow and nerves of a paralytic nature.
Fluttering feeling in both temples and aching at occiput.
Frontal sinus affected ; pounding and throbbing in forehead and up into head. θ Chronic coryza.
Feeling like water pipes bursting in head.
Headache from organic causes, excessive study, nervous prostration with vertigo and weak memory.
Sickening pain in left side of head, < from pressure or least movement.
When coming into dark she feels a pressure on vertex as if a tremendous weight were falling on it.
Strange coldness about breadth of two fingers across vertex in a line with forepart of ears ; rush of blood to forehead.
Extreme heaviness of head ; she cannot hold it up, it feels so weighty.
Rushes of blood to forehead.
Congestion to head, hot cheeks and burning in soles of feet. θ Chronic hepatitis.
Heat in head. θ Spermatorrhœa.
For years terrible headaches coming on in evening in bed, with shivering and coldness over body ; the pain began in cervical vertebræ, extending to cerebellum and from there went to forehead where it was most severe ; pain > wrapping head
warmly ; feeling in neck as if some one pulled downward on cords of neck.
Chronic headache ; never entirely free, at times fearful ; when it reaches its height scalp becomes covered with papules and is then so sensitive that she cannot comb her hair ; these violent spells are caused by draft and scrubbing ; cannot bear cold or heat ;
during headache she has violent roaring in ears, as if something alive were in them ; chronic sweat of feet ; habitual constipation.
Head felt constantly as if it were in a cushion and some one were pressing his two fingers in it at occiput, as if feeling for pins in side ; with occasional lightning-like flashes in eyes and feeling as if something obscured vision ; < in cold weather or in a draft ;
> wrapping head up warmly.
Cephalalgia from spinal irritation ; pain began in spine and neck, coming up and over right temple and thence to l. temple ; scalding feeling in vertex ; burning pain in head ; feeling of internal soreness as if sore brain collided with skull ; pain very hard to
bear ; < from light, noise, least jar and odors ; sore aching in nape, < by moving head, > from wrapping head in pillow and from contact of any warm hand.
Pain at one time in vertex and occiput, at another in forehead ; sometimes affects only one side, head then paining as if bruised and being very sensitive to touch ; throbbing in forehead, with weakness of sight, is awakened from sleep by the pain and has then nausea and
vomiting ; pain < from touch, motion, open air ; food tastes like clay ; discharge of particles of tapeworm ; trembling of limb and general feeling of weakness with the pains. θ Headache.
Severe headache, every two or three weeks, lasting from thirty-six to forty-eight hours ; pain commences in nape of neck and base of brain and extends up and over whole head in paroxysms ; pain so severe that she calls for some one to hold her head tightly to keep it from
bursting.
Feeling of waves of water from occiput over vertex to forehead, making her feel with each wave as if she would gradually lose her senses, > from warm wraps around head ; vomiting of bitter yellow substance on moving, > when perfectly quiet.
Chronic sick headaches since some severe disease in youth ; rising from nape of neck to vertex, as if coming from spine and locating in one eye, especially r ; > by pressure and wrapping up warmly.
Congestive, gastric, nervous and rheumatic headaches.
Headaches from excessive mental exertion, from overheating, from nervous exhaustion.
Cerebral apoplexy, preceded by deep-seated stitches in right parietal region and dull, heavy, crampy pain in arms.
Child grasps at its gums continually, as if they were painful ; profuse sweat about head at night, scrofulous diathesis. θ Meningitis. θ Hydrocephalus.

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The action of Silica is slow. In the proving, it takes a long time to develop the symptoms. It is, therefore, suited to complaints that develop slowly.

At certain times of the year and under certain circumstances peculiar symptoms will come out.

They may stay with the prover the balance of his life. Such are the long-acting, deep-acting remedies; they are capable of going so thoroughly into the vital order that hereditary disturbances are routed out. The Silica patient is chilly; his symptoms are developed in cold, damp weather, though often better in cold, dry weather; symptoms come out after a bath.

The mental state is peculiar.

The patient lacks stamina. What Silica is to the stalk of, grain in the field, it is to the human mind. Take the glossy, stiff, outer covering of a stalk of grain and examine it, and you will realize with what firmness it supports the head of grain until it ripens; there is a gradual deposit of Silica in it to give it stamina. So it is with the mind; when the mind needs Silica it is in a state of weakness, embarrassment, dread, a state of yielding.

If you should listen to the description of this state by a prominent clergyman, or a lawyer, or a man in the habit of appearing in public with self-confidence, firmness and fullness of thought and speech, he would tell you he had come to a state where he dreads to appear in public, he feels his own selfhood so that he cannot enter into his subject, he dreads it, he fears that he will fail, his mind will not work, he is worn out by prolonged efforts at mental work.

But he will say that when he forces himself into the harness he can go on with ease, his usual self-command returns to him and he does well; he does his work with promptness, fullness, and accuracy. The peculiar Silica state is found in the dread of failure.

If he has any unusual mental task to perform, he fears he will make a failure of it, yet he does it well. This is the early state; of course there comes a time when he cannot perform the work with accuracy and still he may need Silica.

Another case is illustrated in a young man who has studied for years and is now nearing the end of his course. He dreads the final examinations but he goes through them all right, then a fatigue comes upon him and for years he is unable to enter his profession. He has this dread of undertaking anything.

Irritable and irascible when aroused; when let alone he is timid, retiring, wants to shirk everything; mild, gentle tearful women. The Silica child is cross and cries when spoken to. It is the natural complement and chronic of Puls. because of its great similarity; it is a deeper, more profound remedy.

Religious melancholy, sadness, irritability, despondency. Lyc. is stupid, the dread of undertaking any thing in from a general knowledge of inability. In Silica it is imaginary.

Silica is not suitable for the irritability and nervous exhaustion coming on from business brain-fag, but more for such brain-fag as belongs to professional men, students, lawyers, clergymen. A lawyer says,

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Adapted to the nervous, irritable, sanguine temperament; persons of a scrofulous diathesis.

Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition, not because food is lacking in quality and quantity, but from imperfect assimilation (Bar. c., Calc.); oversensitive, mentally and physically.

Scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads; open fontanelles and sutures; much sweating about the head (lower than Cal.), which must be kept warm by external covering (Psor., Sanic.); large bellies; weak ankles, slow in learning to walk.

Persons of light complexion; fine, dry skin; pale face; weakly, with lax muscles.

Diseases: caused by suppressed foot-sweat; exposing the head or back to any slight draft of air; from vaccination (Thuja); chest complaints of stone cutters, with total loss of strength.

Want of vital heat, always chilly, even when taking exercise (Led., Sep.).

Nervous debility; exhaustion with erythism; from hard work and close confinement; weariness, wants to lie down; may be overcome by force of will.

Has a wonderful control over the suppurative process—soft tissue, periosteum or bone—maturing abscesses when desired or reducing excessive suppuration (chiefly affecting soft tissues, Calend., Hep.).

Children are obstinate; headstrong, cry when kindly spoken to (Ant. t., Sanic., Iod.).

Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise.

Anxious, yielding, faint hearted.

Mental labor very difficult; reading and writing fatigue, cannot bear to think.

Vertigo: spinal ascending from back of neck to head; as if one would fall forward; from looking up (Puls.—looking down, Kal., Spig., Psor.).

Chronic sick headaches, since some severe disease of youth (Psor.); ascending from nape of neck to the vertex, as if coming from the spine and locating in one eye, especially the right (left, Spig.); < draught of air or uncovering the head; > pressure and wrapping up warmly (Mag. m., Stron.); > profuse urination.

Constipation: always before and during menses (diarrhœa before and during menses, Am. c., Bor.); difficulty, as from inactivity of rectum; with great straining, as if rectum was paralyzed; when partly expelled, recedes again (Thuja); remains a long time in rectum.

Discharge of blood from vagina every time the child takes the breast (compare Crot. t.).

Nipple is drawn in like a funnel (Sars.).

Night walking; gets up while asleep, walks about and lies down again (Kali br.).

Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates (Graph., Hep., Merc.).

Crippled nails on fingers and toes (Ant. c.).

Takes cold from exposure of feet (Con., Cup.).

Sweat of hands, toes, feet and axillæ; offensive.

Intolerable, sour, carrion-like odor of the feet, without perspiration, every evening.

Desire to be magnetized, which $>$ (Phos.).

Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from the tissues; fish bones, needles, bone splinters.

Complementary: Thuja, Sanicula.

Graphites, Fluoric acid and Hepar follow well.

Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla.

Cold; during menses; during new moon; un-covering, especially the head; lying down.

Warmth, especially from wrapping up the head; all the symptoms except gastric, which are $<$ by cold food (Lyc.).

Periodicity not characteristic. Stages ill defined. All kinds of fever.

Midnight to 8 A. M.; 10 A. M. to 8 P. M.

Evening chill from 5 to 6 P. M. Chilly all day.

Fever without chill 12 to 1 P. M.

If the fever can be traced to a suppressed foot-sweat, Silicea is the first remedy to be thought of.

Without thirst, on every movement (Arn., Nux); very chilly all day; in the morning fell asleep from excessive weariness. Very chilly even in a warm room. Cramp-like chill in the evening in bed, with shivering. She did not dare to put her foot out of bed on account of consequent chilliness (Bar., Canth.).

Shaking chill at 6 P. M.; was obliged to lie down and could not get warm in bed for a long time. Icy cold shivering frequently creeps over the body, not relieved by heat of fire (Phos.). Affected parts feel cold. Coldness with ravenous hunger (Cina). Coldness of knees and arms; finger-nails white (coldness of knees, Apis, Carbo v., Phos.). Nose cold as ice. Icy coldness of the feet and legs as far as knees.

With thirst and chilliness, at 11 A. M. Violent heat in the head, and dark redness of the face (face of a mahogany red, Eup.). Fever in evening, worse at night (Cina). Afternoon paroxysm, consisting of heat with intense thirst and very short breath. Great heat all night, with catching respiration. Heat returning periodically during day, followed by slight sweat.

Profuse and general at night (Cinch.). Sweat only on the head or head and face (reverse of, Rhus, Sec.). Sweats periodically; 6 A. M., 3 to 5 P. M., 11 P. M. Sweat only on the head, running down the face. Profuse night-sweat, offensive, sour, debilitating; worse after midnight; from least exertion (Sep., Sul.). Offensive sweat of feet, they become sore while walking (Graph.).

Clean or coated with brown mucus. Loss of taste and appetite; or taste of blood; of soap-suds; rotten eggs; oil. Sensation as if a hair were lying on the forepart of the tongue. Disgust for meat. Averse to warm food; desire only for cold things (Lyc.).

The constitutional symptoms developed during this stage are numerous and always reliable.

Confusion of mind.
Difficult in fixing attention.
Wishes to drown herself.
Screaming violently.
Over-anxious about herself; low-spirited; weeps every evening.
Gloomy, feels as if she would die.
Desponding, melancholy, tired of life.
Also melancholic with weak arms, aching sacrum, burning of feet, with sweat; all better after a seminal emission.
Compunctions of conscience about trifles.
Indifferent, apathetic.
Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious mood.
When crossed has to restrain himself, to keep from doing violence.
Child obstinate, headstrong; cries when kindly spoken to.
Restless, fidgety, start at least noise.
Reading and writing fatigue; cannot bear to think.

Vertigo: as if one would fall forward; ascending from dorsal region, through nape of neck, into head; worse from motion, or looking upward; accompanied by nausea; with rachitis; from excessive use of the eyes; when riding with sleepiness.
Fainting, when taking cold from suppressed foot-sweat.

Cold feeling from nape of neck to vertex, extreme heaviness of head.
Congestion of head; cheeks hot; slight burning in soles of feet.
Burning in head, with pulsation and sweat of head: worse at night, from mental exertion, talking; better by wrapping the head up warmly.
Shooting from nape to vertex.
Violent periodic headache, vertex, occiput or forehead; one side as if beaten; throbbing in forehead; coming in night, with nausea, vomiting.
Violent headache, with loss of reason.
Loud cries, nausea to fainting; subsequent obscuration of sight; megrim.
Obstinate morning headaches, with chilliness and nausea.
Headaches, with, or followed by, severe pain in small of back; heaviness and uncomfortable feeling in all the limbs.
Tearing, frequently one-sided, with stitches through eyes and in cheek-bones.
Pulsating, beating, most violent in forehead and vertex, with chilliness.
Headache from occiput through to right supraorbital region.
Headache worse: from mental exertion; excessive study; noise; motion, even jarring of room by foot-step; light; stooping; talking; cold air; touch. Better: from wrapping head up warmly; hot compresses; in warm room; lying down in dark.
Headache every seventh day.
Vibratory shaking sensation in head when stepping hard, with tension in forehead and eyes.

Open fontanelles; head too large and rest of body emaciated, with pale face; abdomen swollen, hot.
Cephalhæmatoma neonatorum.
Tearing in scalp, worse from pressure and at a night.
Lumps rise on the head, hair falls out, scalp sensitive to touch, even to the hat; tearing pains.
Profuse head-sweat; body dry; likes wrapping up; sweat sour; face pale; emaciated; large abdomen; weak ankles.
Patches of eruption on scalp, exfoliating thin, dry furfuraceous scales.
Eruption on back of head, moist or dry, offensive, scabby, burning itching, discharging pus.
Itching pustules on scalp and neck very sensitive; better wrapping up warmly.
Phagedenic ulcer on forehead painful and discharging offensive pus.

Long-lasting photophobia; daylight dazzles eyes.
Letters run together, appear pale; dim vision after suppressed foot-sweat.
Occasional lightning-like flashes in eyes and a feeling as if something obscured the vision; nervous sensation in head.
Black spots before eyes; a persistent speck before right eye.
Momentary loss of sight, with uterine affections; pregnancy, etc.
Cataract; also after suppressed foot-sweat, or preceding ringworms.
Day blindness, with sudden appearance of furuncles.
Amblyopia from abuse of stimulants; nervous, sensitive persons.
Tearing, shooting, or, at times, throbbing, stinging pains in eyes in paroxysms; worse in draught or before a storm.
Ulceration of cornea; sloughing ulcer; non-vascular, with photophobia.
Pustular keratitis after psoriasis.
Opaque cornea after small pox.
Spots and cicatrices on cornea.
Corneal fistula.
Eye inflamed from traumatic causes; abscesses.
Hypopion.
Lachrymation in the open air.
Fistula lachrymalis; bone affected.
Swelling of right lachrymal sac, skin over it inflamed; glistening; throbbing pain; tears hot; worse evening.
Big styes; also to prevent their recurrence.
Blepharitis, with agglutination in morning.

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Pure silica (Silicic acid) is triturated for use.

It produces a well-defined irritability of the nervous system, with extreme sensitiveness (Nux v.); the spine is sore and pressure on it causes remote pains, the sphincters are irritable and close spasmodically; painful parts are extremely sensitive, and must be wrapped up warmly. ▶ Its tendency to suppurative processes, especially to fistulous burrowings, is very clear and useful. ▶ It is adapted to some forms of deeply seated scrofulous cachexia, and occasionally antidotes septic infection.

Fluoric ac., Phos. ac., Pic. ac., Mur. ac., Hep. s. , Merc., Nit. ac., Calc. c., Sulph., Kali c., Nux v. , Op., Arn., Hyper., Ruta.

▶ Emaciation; with pale, suffering expression. ▶ Trembling when writing. ▶ Actions unsteady and confused. ▶ Coldness of left side of body, then slumbering and starting up as if she would go away without knowing whither, then she spoke unintelligibly, recognized on one, was so weak that she could not turn over alone, then convulsions with staring distortion of eyes, twitching of lips, lolling of tongue, stretching and distortion of head and limbs, then roaring, dropping of tears from eyes, frothing at mouth, then general warm sweat and slumber.

▶ Epileptic attack at night, about the time of new moon, the body was stretched out, then tossed about, without cries and without biting of tongue. ▶ In evening after slumbering he unconsciously began to thrash about with hands and feet, and to jerk, with closed eyes and snoring froth from mouth then he lay as if dead, and if one attempted to arouse him he became stiff, opened his eyes that were fixed and began to mumble (epileptic attack?).

▶ Loss of appetite, pale, suffering expression, every morning sweat (Phos. ac., Mur. ac., Calc. c.), heaviness and wariness of lower limbs, forcing her to lie down, nausea, chilliness every evening before sleep sticking here and there in sides of chest in abdomen, limbs, so that sometimes she started in fright, pain beneath sternum on inspiration, itching on arms and lower limbs, with pimples. ▶ Paroxysm. ▶ Became pale, quiet lost her appetite, complained in a weeping manner of sticking in ear, vomiting, weakness of hands.

Sticking in different parts, agg. right side of head and right hand; in left side so that she cannot lie on it; in various parts of left side of body, agg. chest, agg. deep inspiration; in different parts, with tingling. ▶ Feeling as if knives were running into her. ▶ Pain in all parts; in whole body in morning before waking, agg. right upper arm and left shoulder, amel. rising; in all muscles on motion; as if ulcerating, in whole side on which he was lying, with shivering on slightest uncovering (Hep. s. Nux v., Rhus t.), thirst and flushes of heat in head ; acute, here and there in bones, agg. morning on rising.

▶ Bruised pain in whole body (Arn., Hep., Ruta); after coition; at night as if he had lain in an uncomfortable position (Rhus t.); agg. morning on stooping or turning suddenly, agg. small of back and right side. ▶ Drawing in ears, jaws, hands and tibiæ. ▶ Sensation as if divided in half and as if left side did not belong to her. ▶ Easily strained by lifting, which causes sticking in pit of stomach and vomiting at night, after cutting in hypogastrium, with accumulation of flatus. ▶ Painless shocks through whole body. ▶ Took cold easily; and had a cough therefrom (Kali c., Nux v., Dulc., Hep. s.). ▶ Restlessness; after sitting a long time; with excitement. ▶ She feels in head and limbs every change of weather (Merc.).

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Irritability and sensitiveness of the spine, with numerous reflex pains; irritability and spasmodic closure of the sphincters; hyperæsthesia of painful parts.

Emaciation, trembling.
Shooting pains, < night.
Lameness, weariness, paralytic sensation in the limbs.
Nervous weakness and restlessness after sitting a long time.
Pains in various parts of the body, as if ulcerating, especially in the side on which he lies.
Bruised pain, as if he had been lying in an uncomfortable position at night.
Weakness, with desire to lie all the time; takes cold easily, and is very sensitive to open air.
General aggravation at night and from cold, amelioration from warm wrappings.

Clinical:
In general hyperæsthesia and exaggerated reflexes.
Pain, as from suppuration has lead to its use in deep-seated abscesses, in which it is characterized by the relief from warm applications, and the general "nervous" symptoms of the patient.
The intolerance of alcoholic stimulants is very marked.
It has been found very useful in diseases of the bones.

Very sensitive and annoyed by noise or any excitement which causes anxiety.
Easily startled.
Peevish.

Bursting pain, extending into the eyes, < touch.
Shattering in brain, < a hard step.
Throbbing or bursting headache, with rush of blood.
Headache at night from the nape of the neck to the vertex.
Heaviness, or shooting pain in the occiput, > wrapping the head up warmly.
Scalp is very sensitive to the touch, even the hat causes pain.
Pains extend from the spine and occiput through the head, becoming seated over the eye, > binding the head tightly.

Lachrymation in the open air.
Agglutination.
Biting in the canthi.
Inflammation and swelling in the region of the lachrymal sac.
Vision dim and flickering, especially after headache.
Letters confused when reading and writing.

Clinical:
Ulceration of the cornea; suppurative inflammation, internally.
Inflammation of the lachrymal sac; acute, suppurative, even lachrymal fistula, with occlusion of the lachrymal canal.

External ears swollen, with discharge of thin matter from the canal and deafness.
Very sensitive to noise.

Obstinate dryness in the nose.
Gnawing pain or ulceration in the upper part of the nose, with great sensitiveness to touch.
Discharge from the nose, acrid, often bloody.

Skin cracked, especially on the margins of the lips.
Ulcers in the corners of the lips, with itching, painful.
Eruption on the chin.

Tearing pain in the teeth at night.
Gums very sensitive to cold air.
Boils on the gums.
Sensation of a hair on the fore part of the tongue, with crawling, extending into the throat.

Sticking pains on swallowing or on touch, with a sensation of swelling.
Hawking of much mucus from the throat, often offensive.

Loss of appetite, with much thirst or at times with ravenous hunger.
Aversion to cooked, warm food; craves only cold things.
Aversion to meat, milk.
Pain, burning, heaviness in the pit of the stomach, especially after eating.
Eructations; sour or tasting of the food.
Uprisings of water, with shivering.
Pit of the stomach painful to pressure.

Distended, hard, hot.
Cutting pains; > warm applications.

Constipation, with constant, ineffectual urging; stinging and cutting pains in the rectum and anus; discharge of mucus, with chilliness.
Expulsion of stool prevented by spasmodic contraction of sphincter ani.
Violent constriction of the anus during stool, with burning, stinging pains, followed by soreness and oozing of moisture.
(Symptoms of fissure of anus, with great irritability; > hot applications.)
Soft, pasty stools, of the odor of Asafœtida.

Sexual erethism, with persistent sexual thoughts, often nocturnal emissions.
Itching and moisture on the genitals, especially on the scrotum.
Menstruation early, but scanty; rarely profuse.
Sexual irritability; desire increased in women.
During menses, burning, soreness and itching of the pudenda.
Leucorrhœa; acrid, excoriating.

Cough at night after lying down and also in the morning after waking, caused by irritation in the throat.
Dry cough, with soreness in the chest.
Cough, with purulent expectoration or with thick, yellow, lumpy expectoration.
Bruised pain in the chest on coughing; cannot breathe deeply without pain.
Stitches extend from the chest into the back.
Induration in the right mammary gland about the nipple, with drawing and burning pain; extreme sensitiveness.

Stiffness of the nape of the neck.
Swelling of the glands.
Various pains in the spine, with weakness and paralyzed feeling in the limbs.
Stitches or tearing pains in the spine.
Pain in the coccyx on rising, as after a long carriage ride.
Bruised pain at night in the lumbar region and hips, also < stooping and rising from a seat.

Clinical:
It has been found valuable in diseases of the bones, with curvature, abscesses, night sweats, spinal irritability; pressure on the spine causes pain in the head and remote parts of the body.

Weakness, numerous pains, generally < night, > warmth.
Nails become discolored and powdery, like asbestos.
Splinter-like pains in the fingers, as if in the bones, > warm wrapping; sensation as if a felon would form.
Pain in the hips.
Pain in and below the knee, as if tightly bound; the calves feel tense and too short.
The feet exhale a carrion-like odor, even without perspiration.
The soles of the feet become sore, can scarcely step on them, at times, with sharp pains.

An unhealthy condition; wounds heal with difficulty and suppurate.
Painful spots, as if suppuration were taking place subcutaneously.

Clinical:
Proud flesh forms in ulcers.
Abscesses, with fistulous openings, offensive discharges, and general nervous sensitiveness.
Swelling of glands, threatening to suppurate.

Sleeplessness at night, with great orgasm of blood, uneasiness and heat in the head; frequent starting up and jerking in sleep.
Numerous anxious and frightful dreams; waking in fright.

General lack of heat, chilliness all day, especially in the afternoon and evening; very sensitive to the cold air; creeping shivering over the whole body.
Cold legs and feet, even in a warm room and in bed, preventing sleep.
Heat in the afternoon and at night, with thirst.
Heat of the head.
Burning heat of the feet.
Sweat at night, < towards morning; at times, only on the head; on the feet, offensive, the toes become sore when walking.

SILICEA TERRA. SILICEOUS EARTH.

Take half an ounce of rock-crystal which has been comminuted by repeated heating and immersing in cold water, or clean, white sand, washed with distilled vinegar ; this is mixed with two ounces of powdered natrum, melted in an iron crucible, till all effervescence is over and the liquefied mass is clear, when it is poured out on a marble-slab. The glass thus obtained, which is transparent like water, is reduced to powder while still warm and is put into a bottle, adding at least four times its weight of distilled water. If the bottle is thus filled to the top and corked immediately there is formed a solution which remains clear and transparent ; but if it is poured into a open tumbler, only loosely covered with paper, it is at once decomposed, and allows all the snow-white silica to be deposited as a sediment. The causticum of the natrum (which is not yet recognized by the anti-phlogistic chemistry), during melting, combined with the atmospheric air, forming almost instantaneously the (so-called) carbonic acid [*] which was necessary to neutralize and moderate it, so as to allow the silica to be precipitated. The transparent liquid decanted is pure, mild natron, which effervesces with all the other acids.

[] This acid also is not originally present in coal, but is only formed from the caustic substance set free by the ignition of the coal, when this (during the exposure of the coal to the cold air) combines with the atmospheric air ; this takes place even in air which has been before deprived of any carbonic acid which it may contain, through shaking it up with cold, freshly distilled water. This carbonic acid does, therefore, not belong to coal as such ; the acid is, therefore, denominated "carbonic acid" only arbitrarily and improperly*. See the article on Causticum in the previous part of this work.

To lixiviate the silica, the water must be mixed with some alcohol, so that the liberated silica may the more easily settle down. Then it is freed from water on a filter of blotting-paper ; this is finally laid between several sheets of dry blotting-paper, and weights are laid upon it, so as to withdraw the moisture as far as possible from the silica, after which it is entirely dried in the air, or in a warm place.

Silica is dynamized like the other dry medicines. It shows itself especially beneficial, when after having been properly selected, some of the following symptoms were present : Disposed to get vexed ; lack of cheerfulness ; indisposition to work ; intense irritability ; vexation and anxiety about every trifle, owing to great nervous debility ; lack of courage ; restlessness ; lack of memory ; fatigue from reading and writing ; inability to think ; gloominess of the head ; great dizziness in the evening, as if intoxicated ; gloomy, dull feeling in the head ; vertigo so that he must hold to something ; heat in the head ; headache from getting heated ; headache from the nape up the vertex, hindering the sleep at night ; daily headache, a tearing with heat in the forehead in the forenoon ; daily headache from noon till evening, a heaviness pressing outward at the forehead ; drawing pain in the head, as if it would come out at the forehead ; pain in the head, as if would burst ; throbbing headache ; headache on one side ; tearing and shooting out at the eyes and in the bones of the face ; perspiration of the head in the evening ; itching, humid, scurfy scald head ; elevations like lumps on the hairy scalp ; falling off of the hair ; far-sightedness ; photophobia ; the eyes are dazzled in the bright daylight ; cataract ; black motes floating before the eyes ; obscuration of the vision as from a gray cover ; amaurosis ; fiery sparks before the eyes ; weakness of the eyes ; when reading by candle light, the letters flow together ; pale face when reading ; attacks of sudden blindness ; the spectacles are indispensable for writing and reading ; fistula lachrymalis ; lachrymation in the open air ; smarting of the eyes ; agglutination of the eyes ; redness of the eyes with pain in the canthi ; inflammation of the eyes ; sounding in the ears ; noise before the ears ; stoppage of the ears, which sometimes open with an explosion ; deafness, without any noise in the ears ; hardness of hearing ; fluttering before the ears ; boring pain in the ears ; shooting outward from within the ears ; eruptive pimples on the nose ; redness of the tip of the nose ; eruptive pimples in the nose ; troublesome sensation of dryness in the nose ; stoppage of both the nostrils ; lack of olfaction ; epistaxis ; the skin of the face is chapped and cracked open ; heat in the face ; swelling of the bones of the lower jaw ; nightly drawing and shooting in the lower jaw, the closing of the jaws is hindered by turgidity of the neck ; ulcer in the red part of the lower lip ; herpes on the chin ; swelling of the submaxillary glands ; digging and stitches in the teeth ; boring pain in the teeth ; tearing pain in the teeth and in the whole of the cheek, by day and by night ; jerks in the tooth, when he sucks it with the tongue ; tearing toothache, which during eating darts out at the ear ; bleeding of the gums ; dryness in the mouth ; soreness of the tongue ; lack of the sense of taste ; constant mucus in the mouth ; bitterness in the mouth, in the morning, eructation ; sour eructation ; eructation with the taste of the ingesta ; in the morning, nausea ; constant nausea and vomiting ; nausea after every heating exercise ; nausea after meals ; vomiting every time after drinking ; nausea, every morning, with headache and eyeache, on turning the eyes ; cannot digest meat ; waterbrash with shuddering ; intense thirst ; he is averse to all food ; aversion to cooked food ; loathing of meat ; the child refuses the mother's breast and vomits after sucking ; pressure in the stomach ; pressure in the stomach from drinking quickly ; painfulness of the pit of the stomach when pressing upon it ; grasping in the pit of the stomach, also after eating ; pressure in the stomach for many years, waterbrash followed by vomiting, after every meal ; fullness after eating ; hardness and inflation in the hepatic region ; hardness and inflation of the abdomen on the right side and in the middle above the navel, with pain when touched ; distended, hard abdomen (with children) ; distention of the hypogastrium ; burning in the abdomen ; growling and grunting in the abdomen, while exercising ; incarceration of flatus ; difficult discharge of flatus ; painful inguinal hernia ; pinching in the abdomen ; colic ; cutting in the hypogastrium, without diarrhœa ; colicky pains from constipation ; colic with diarrhœa ; worm-fever with scrofulous persons (Whl.) ; several pappy stools a day ; costiveness ; constipation ; the stool is delayed ; costiveness with many ineffectual calls to stool ; itching on the anus ; frequent micturition ; nightly wetting the bed ; lack of sexual impulse and weakness of the sexual powers ; frequent involuntary lewd thoughts ; excessive sexual impulse ; itching on the prepuce ; menses too scanty ; menses suppressed for several months ; menses too early and too weak ; discharge of blood from the uterus when suckling ; acrid, corrosive leucorrhœa ; leucorrhœa discharged during micturition ; leucorrhœa like milk, in a rush, preceded by cutting in the umbilical region ; itching on the pudenda. Abortive sneezing, she cannot finish sneezing ; excessive or too frequent sneezing ; stoppage of the nose for many years ; dry coryza constant coryza ; frequent fluent coryza ; fluent coryza, relieving a chronic obstruction of the nose ; hoarseness ; asthma and short breathing, while at rest ; shortness of breath during slight manual work ; shortness of breath when walking fast ; panting on walking fast ; arrest of breathing, while lying on the back ; arrest of breathing when stooping ; arrest of breathing while running ; arrest of breathing ; coughing with purulent expectoration ; coughing with expectoration of mucus ; suffocating night-cough ; pressure on the chest ; pressure on the chest, while coughing and sneezing ; beating in the sternum ; shooting from the chest through into the back ; shooting under the left ribs ; pain in the sacrum, both per se and when touched ; spasmodic drawing in the sacrum compelling one to lie down, and not allowing the person to rise ; shooting in the back ; tearing in the back ; aching in the trunk, as if broken and bruised ; shooting in the loin above the pelvis, while sitting and lying ; bruised pain between the scapulæ ; weakness in the sacrum, back and nape ; swelling of the glands in the nape of the neck ; pain in the arm on which he lies, as if it was asleep ; heaviness of the arms ; he cannot hold it up long ; the arm feels paralyzed and trembles from a slight amount of work ; drawing pain in the arm ; tearing in the arm ; warts on the arms ; incipient paralysis of the forearm, the hand allow things to fall down, which it should hold ; nocturnal shooting in the wrist, extending up to the arm ; formication in the fingers ; aching in the finger-joints, when pressing upon them ; stiffness ; want of flexibility and loss of strength in the fingers ; panaritium ; drawing and straining in the lower limbs ; pressure in the muscles of the thighs ; swelling of the knee ; drawing pain in the legs ; numbness of the calves ; the feet go to sleep, in the evening ; after manual labor there is cramp of the calves in the evening ; shooting in the ankles, when treading ; coldness of the feet ; sweating of the feet ; suppressed sweat of the feet and coldness of the feet ; fetor of the feet ; swelling of the feet ; when slightly scratching a small spot on the sole of the foot, a voluptuous titillation, almost driving one to madness ; painful, hard callosity on the skin of the sole of the foot ; corns ; stitches in the corns ; ulcer on the big toe, with shooting pain ; ebullition of blood, and thirst, from drinking a little wine ; tendency to strains ; perspiration during a short walk ; readiness to take cold on uncovering the feet ; chilliness ; exostosis ; fetor of the ulcers ; itching all over the body ; ulcers on the legs, with sickly complexion of the face ; itching ulcer on the thigh and on the ankle ; carbuncle (inflamed boil) ; nightly shooting in all the joints ; difficulty in learning to walk ; twitching of the limbs, by day and by night ; epilepsy ; tearing in the arms and legs ; cramp in the arms and legs ; the limbs go to sleep ; paralytic feeling in the limbs, in the evening ; bruised feeling in the limbs in the evening ; nervous debility ; general lack of strength ; faint feeling while lying on the side ; drowsiness in the afternoon ; frequent yawning ; late in falling asleep, in the evening in bed ; the sleep at night is too light, like a slumber ; many dreams and frequent awaking ; many dreams, every nights ; snoring in sleep ; anxious dreams ; starting when asleep ; twitching of the body, at night, in sleep ; raving, at night, with anxious dreams ; talking in sleep ; night-sweat ; dreadful images before the eyes, at night ; nightly dryness of the nose ; frequent shaking chill, every day ; profuse sour sweat, at night. I have found only Hepar sulphuris calcareum to antidote silica. Repeated smelling of a dilution is sufficient for this purpose ; this may be repeated as occasion demands. Camphor gives but a slight and insignificant relief. The abbreviations of names are : (Hg.) Hering ; (Gr.) Gross ; (Stf.) Stapf ; (Gll.) Goullon ; (Whl.) Wahle ; and (Ng.) [*].

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Sil. / (2d S-Sand.) / Silas.

Silicea,-Thou elf of pus!
Thou suppuration omnibus.
There is no ulcer or decay,
That indicateth not thy sway.
Thick yellow matter is thy style,
In every avenue and aisle.
Thou taketh thy catarrhal seat,
With purpose never to retreat.
Perpetual coldness is thy whim,
And hardness is thy synonym.
Thy head with coldness, truth to say,
Hath need of wrappings all the day.
Thy feet are icy cold-and back
Is not exempted from attack.
Embedded in thy hardened soil-
Lo! hard eruptions, gland and boil;
And hardened testes, and among
Thy hardened tissues-hardened tongue.
Hard pimples scalp, dry brittle nails,
And nostrils filled with crusty scales.
Eczema foul upon thy skin,
And crusty herpes on thy chin.
Thy eyes beset with sandy grit,
Whilst mists before thy vision flit.
Where'er Sensations are on hand,
Thou standeth ready on demand,
For itching, pricking, stitching, bruise,
For pinching, cutting; all we choose,
Of queer sensations; and among
Them, sense of hair upon the tongue.
A shocking odor is thy rule,
In scent of foot sweat-flatus-stool.
A scrotum sore, and damp, and foul,
A moist and feted rectal bowel,
An abdomen distended tense,
A stool that merged, slips back again,
Or passed extrudes blind piles with pain.
Thy drinks of water soon come up
From off thy stomach after sup.
Thou hast a state of gums all wrong,
A feeling as of teeth too long,
A headache rising from behind,
With pains that may upset the mind.
Relieved by wrapping warm and tight.
A nervous starting as from fright.
Debility and flushing heat,
A trembling of the hands and feet.
For open cancer, thou doest beg,
For vaccine and diphtheria dreg,
And even cataract and brag
On closing sutures when they lag.
Thou called out, Lascivious sprite!
Night sweats, and spasms in the night.
And faileth not in toils to drag.
The faint heart down with mental fag.
'Til webs of vagary it spins
And toys with needles and with pins.
By warmth thou findest some relief,
Whilst motion only brings to grief.

Silas,-Has hardness of tissue.

Silas Aur-ham and Flora are with the old Jo Kim-bel, in China.

This Silas,-Who is subject to fistula,-Is in a cot with Flora and Bertha.

Hardness- Induration of Tissues: Sil., Aur., Ham., Fl. a., Con., Iod., Kal. m., Bell., Chin. (After inflammation, Bell., Chin., Mag. m., Sil.)

Fistula: Sil., Cal. c., Thuj., Flu. a., Cal. f., Berb., etc.

Indicated in conditions due to imperfect assimilation of food and to innutrition. Frequently employed during the development of suppurative processes, over which it has a marked influence, both in preventing suppuration and in controlling excessive pus-formation and its consequences. It is an antipsoric of far-reaching power, and as such often proves of great efficacy in conditions which seem beyond its range of action, as epilepsy. Its chief sphere of usefulness is in suppurative processes, as abscesses, joint-disease, carbuncle; scrofulous affections of the bone, rachitis, Pott's disease, necrosis, etc.; glandular affections; eczema and eruptions inclined to ulcerate; old, offensive catarrhs; all sorts of abscesses, as tonsilitis and hepatic abscesses; cough of phthisis, with very fetid expectoration; bronchorrhoea, especially of old people.

Coldness of the body, with moisture of the feet.

Head and neck wet from sweating, especially at night; likes to have them wrapped up.

Offensive sweating of hands, feet, axillae; rawness between the toes.

Sensation of a hair on the tongue.

Painless swelling of glands.

Tendency to suppuration of every little hurt.

Sensitiveness to cold air; shivers all over from slight cause.

Finger nails yellow, brittle, crumpled; ingrowing nails.

Hard cough when lying down, with expectoration of thick yellow lumps.

Copious expectoration of foul, muco-purulent matter.

Constipation before and during menses.

Difficult expulsion of soft stools; they seem to recede.

Leucorrhoea, milky, acrid, during urination.

Worse in the morning, from washing, from uncovering, when menstruating.

Better from warmth; from wrapping up the parts.

Enervation from mental exertion. Anxiousness. Dejection and despair with most intense satiety of life. Great obstinacy in children, they cry even when kindly spoken to. Yielding. Anxious mood.

When driving. Vertiginous attacks seeming to ascend from nape into head. Great dizziness, as though' drunken, in evening. When stooping, driving or looking up. As if to fall forward.

Congestion with burning with burning heat in. Throbbing and pounding, most severe in forehead and vertex, with chilliness. Heaviness in, wanting to press out through' forehead, daily from noon till evening. Tearing pains, often unilateral (r.) only, with stitches out through' eyes and in facial bones, heat in forehead and great restlessness, external cold. Outward sticking in forehead and temples, most in right. Painful jerks in middle of forehead when turning quickly. Bursting pressure in. Pains ascend from nape to vertex and are accompanied by weakness. Worse: Night, noon till night, evening, stepping hard, motion, Of eyes, writing, mental exertion, flaking, becoming heated, uncovering head and letting it get cold, drafts, stooping. Better: Wrapping head warmly, tight bandage on, in a warm room.

Enlarged head with upon fontanelle, with emaciation of rest of body. Tearing externally especially on occiput and nape. Sensitive to pressure of hat, etc., and to touch. Burning tickling itching most on occiput, worse from scratching, which causes festering pain and more violent burning. Foul dry crusty, burning (or sticking) itching eruption on occiput and behind ears, when scratched it festers. Itching nodes and nodular elevations on, and in nape. Takes cold in it easily and is intolerant of uncovering. Worse: Night, lying thereon, pressure, undressing, becoming warm in bed, touch, changing weather, at change of moon, stormy weather. Better: Wrapping up warmly, warm room, dry warm weather.

Suppurative agglutination of. Lachrymation in open air. Biting in canthi. Swollen lachrymal glands. Ulcers and fungus hematodes on cornea. Paralysis of optic nerve. Black spots float before vision. Far sight.

Stooped, sometimes opening with a report. Difficult hearing, especially for the human voice and during full moon. Oversensitive to noise.

Nosebleed of acrid, corrosive blood. Long continued sense of dryness in. Ulcers and gnawing pain high up in, with great sensitiveness of this spot, to touch. Fluent coryza. Acrid. Excoriating discharge. Loss of smell. Violent or very frequent sneezing with discharge of thin, acrid mucus. Stuffed coryza and chronic stoppage, from lumps of hardened mucus.

Pale, earth colored or waxy. White, or burning red spots, especially on cheeks. The skin is cracked. Painful scurfs on lips. Herpes on chin. Swelling of lower jaw bone. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Tearing pain in, worse at night. Nightly, sticking toothache by both warmth and cold. Periosteum of lower haw swelled.

Dryness in. Much mucus in throat.

Taste: Sense of, wanting. Bitterness in mouth early in morning.

Pressure like a stone in. Pressure in, waterbrash and vomiting follow each other consecutively after every meal. Pit is painful to pressure.

Appetite: Lost, with great thirst. Ravenous hunger with want of. Aversion to warm cooked food, he wishes to eat cold things only. Repugnance to meat and milk.

Eructations: Tasting of ingesta or sour. Waterbrash with shuddering.

Nausea, etc. - Continuous, with vomiting, early in morning. Vomiting: After every drink: of food, then of bitter mucus, of water, then of food.

Tense, bloated, hard and hot, especially in children. Cutting in (without diarrhoea, much worse when constipated). warm applications. Colic, wherein the hands turn yellow and the nails blue. Colic from worms in children. Painful inguinal hernia.

Flatulence: Incarcerated. Much noise in abdomen, with discharge of very offensive flatus.

Difficult, hard, and constipated, Frequent, papescent, cadaverous or stinking. Discharge of worms.

- Itching and sticking in, and in rectum.

Strangury.

Itching and humid spots on, especially scrotum. Sweat on scrotum. Hydrocele. Excessive sexual desire.

Menses: Too early, but too scanty (or too profuse). Menstrual discharge between the periods. Uterine hemorrhage. Abortion. Acrid, biting, corrosive leucorrhoea.

Whooping, Arrested. Deep, sighing. Short and panting, when walking rapidly and during manual labor. Tightness of chest when at rest.

From cold drinks. Phthisical, with copious expectoration. Hollow, spasmodic, suffocative c., from tickling in trachea, especially in region of throat pit, dry in evening and night, in morning and during day, with copious, yellow, somewhat greenish, purulent, though, sometimes milk - white, acrid, mucus expectoration, or, more rarely, of bright, frothy blood: generally of a fatty taste and offensive odor.

Rattling in. Bruised feeling in. Pressure and soreness on. Stitches extending through' into back. Purulent pulmonary consumption. Suppurating mammae of nursing women. Inflamed nipples. Mammary cancer.

Swelling and curvature of vertebrae. Spasmodic, drawing lumbar pains.

Incipient paralysis of lower arm and hand. Burning in finger tips. Yellow, crippled, brittle finger nails. Panaritia.

Boils on thighs. Swelling of knee. Swelling of feet, in morning. Cold feet. Foot sweat with excoriation between toes. Stinking feet. Ulceration of big toe.

He easily takes cold, especially from uncovering head or feet. Nightly sticking in all joints. Worm complaints in scrofulous persons. Lameness of limbs in evening. Great weariness and sleepiness during storms. Ebullitions of blood and thirst from drinking a small quantity of wine. Restlessness after sitting a long time. Great nervous exhaustion. Great emaciation. The symptoms are intensified at night, at new and full moon and when the weather changes. Part on which he lies goes to sleep.

Painlessly swollen glands, they develop a continued itching only. Suppurating glands.

Swelling and curvature of. Inflammation of, Caries.

Painful sensitiveness of. Suppurating ulcers of all kinds with laudable as well as unhealthy pus especially in membranous parts. Ulcers, with proud flesh, sticking, spongy swelling and painfulness around, gangrenous. Ganglion. Unhealthy, easily ulcerates from slight bruises.

Frequent jerking and starting up in. Sleepiness early in evening. Sleepless: Although' sleepy, from heat, restlessness and great ebullition of blood to head. Many anxious dreams. Somnambulism.

Pulse: Small, but hard and quick: often irregular, and then sometimes also slow. The blood every readily begins to surge. Chill: Strong, in evening in bed, increase when uncovering. Great chilliness, especially during every exertion. Constant internal chilliness and want of natural vital heat. Heat predominant. Frequent short attacks of flying heat, during day, most on face. Universal strong heat, with thirst in afternoon, evening on through' whole night, allowing him no rest. Nocturnal dry heat during day, typically recurring heat without previous chill, followed by slight sweat. Sweat: Debilitating, at night or only in morning, From moderate exercise, most profuse on head and face. Profuse on head only. Nocturnal sour or offensive s. Wholly absent.

Allied Remedies: Agar., Ars., Bell., Bor., CALC-C., Caust., Flu-ac., Gel., Graph., HEP., Iod., Kali-c., Lyc., Merc., Mez., Nat-c., Nux - v., Petr., Phos., Puls., Rhus - t., SEP., Staph., Sul.

Complementary: Acid-f., Hep., Lyc., Thuj.

He catches cold easily, especially when he uncovers his feet and head.

Stitches in all the joints at night.

Many complaints in those of the scrofulous habit favorably affected.

Lameness in the limbs in the evening.

Weakness with associated sleepiness.

Congestion and thirst after drinking but little wine.

Restlessness consequnt upon physical inactivity.

Great weakness of the nerves and states of emaciation.

Painless swelling of the glands with troublesome itching.

Suppuration of the glands and suppuration of all kinds, especially in the membraneous parts.

Of marked usefulness in running ears and fistula lachrymalis.

Psoas abscess.

Fistulas.

Inflammation and swelling of the bones and caries in any part.

Daily headache beginning in the neck.

Enlargement of the head with open fontanelles.

Non-tuberculosis curvation of the spine.

Colic from worms and from constipation.

Little perspiration, illy smelling of the head and malodorous foot-sweats.

Intermittent fever with heat predominating.

Contipation.

Stools very offensive.

Catamenia insufficient.