Camphora Officinarum camph.

DIGESTIVE TRACT. Cerebro-spinal nerves. Urinary organs. Nose.

Cold. Drafts. When half asleep. (Mag-p-au. Nit-ac.). Mental exertion. Shock. SUPPRESSION. Inattention.

Free discharges. Sweat. Thinking of it.

Algidity; can't get warm; at start of colds, cholera, etc. Bluish, old, pinched look. ICY COLD, YET AVERSE TO COVERS (Sec-c.), or wants them off then on; with internal burning heat; and anxious. Sudden weakness; dry collapse. Cholera. Scanty or retained discharges. Violent tonic spasm; of bladder; then stupor, with coldness.

Insensibility or anxiety. Head feels knotted up. Hammering in occiput. Inhaled air seems cold. Coryza; in old age. Retracted lips; upper. Cold tongue. Burning thirst. Burning in stomach. Strangury. Hæmaturia. Sexual excitement. Satyriasis. Hoarse, squeaking voice. Asphyxia neonatorum. Cold breath. Thumbs cramp backward. Cramp in calves. Dry skin. Erysipelas. Very sensitive to cold air or taking cold. Shaking chill, with cold skin. Wants cover during hot stage only. Sudden, inflammatory fevers with rapid alternation of heat and cold; followed by rapid prostration. Heat or sweat, > covers. Corrects spoiled cases and antidotes most remedies. Chilly, below scapulæ; before colds.

Antidotes: Coff. Op. Pho. Related: Carb-v. Cup. Op. Sec-c.

Pain better while thinking of it (Hell. - worse, Cal. p., Helon., Ox. ac.). Persons physically and mentally weak and irritable. Exceedingly sensitive to cold air (Hep., Kali m., Psor.). Bad effects of shock from injury; surface of body cold, face pale, blue lips livid; profound prostration. Surface cold to the touch yet cannot bear to be covered; throws off all coverings (Med., Sec.). Entire body painfully sensitive to slightest touch. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling. Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea; nose cold and pointed; anxious and restless; skin and breath cold (Ver., Jatr.). In first stages of cholera morbus and Asiatic cholera; severe, long- lasting chill (Ver.). Great coldness of the surface with sudden and complete prostration of the vital force; often a remedy in congestive chill; pernicious intermittent (Ver.); pulse weak, externally small, scarcely perceptible. Measles and scarlatina when eruption does not appear; with pale or cold blue, hippocratic face; child will not be covered (Sec.). All sequelae of measles.

Camphor antidoes nearly every vegetable medicine; also tabacco, fruits containing prussic acid, poisonous mushrooms; should not be allowed in the sick room in its crude form; Compare: Carbo veg., Opium, Verat., Sec.

When thinking of existing complaint; warm air; drinking cold water. Note for thought. - All our progress as a school depends on the right view of the symptoms obtained by proving with Camphor and Opium. - Hering.

Very strong characteristics of this drug are: coldness of the surface of the body to the touch, and in spite of this coldness, the patient throws off all covering, and will not remain covered; the face presents a bluish and pinched appearance.

In the autumn we frequently find patients suffering from the abuse of camphor during the summer for diarrhœa, etc.; stools smell of camphor, and other signs may be observed. The administration of Camphor, in a high potency, will very often effect a perfect cure in these cases.

Anxiety.

Heaviness of; influenza; headache with catarrhal affections, brought on by change of the weather; sun-stroke, where there is restlessness and depression of spirits. Face pale. Eyes, sensation as if objects were too bright and shining; pupils contracted. Ears, ulcers in left. Mouth, saliva in; teeth feel too long; lock-jaw, with cold surface of the body.

Almost continual eructations after dinner; nausea relieved by eructation. Stomach, violent pressure in pit of; painful to touch.

Burning in the.

Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness of body, anguish, burning in œsophagus and stomach. Stool blackish, involuntary.

Burning: strangury.

Mucus in the air-passages with danger of suffocation.

Stitches in left: oppression like suffocative catarrh.

Stitches from between the scapulæ through the chest.

Upper: Pain in elbow. Lower: Cracking of joints; tearing or cramp pains. Cramps in the calves of the legs; affections of the patella; back of the foot.

Coldness of the body with paleness.

Diarrhœa with colic-like pains; pain in inner parts as if bruised. Sleeplessness; difficult motion of limbs. Great weakness. Sinking of vital forces with paleness.

From cold air in general.

From warm in general.

Arsen., Bellad., Coccul. ind., Nux vom., Rhus tox., and Veratr.

Opium, Dulcam.

Cholera and choleric conditions; first stage or when discharges are scanty or suddenly suppressed; dry skin; icy coldness of the body and collapse.

Camphor

Hahnemann says: "The action of this substance is very puzzling and difficult of investigation, even in the healthy organism because its primary action, more frequently than with any other remedy, alternates and becomes intermixed with the vital reactions (after effects) of the organism. On this account it is often difficult to determine what belongs to the vital reactions of the body and what to the alternating effects due to the primary action of the camphor."

Pictures a state of collapse. Icy coldness of the whole body; sudden sinking of strength; pulse small and weak. After operations, if temperature is subnormal, low blood pressure, 3 doses camph. 1x, 15-minute intervals. This condition is met with in cholera, and here it is that Camphor has achieved classical fame. First stages of a cold, with chilliness and sneezing. Subsultus and extreme restlessness. Cracking of joints. Epileptiform convulsions. Camphor has a direct relationship to muscles and fascia. In local rheumatic affections in cold climates necessary. Distention of veins. As a heart stimulant for emergency use of Camphor is the most satisfactory remedy. Drop doses on sugar as often as every five minutes.

It is characteristic of Camphor that the patient will not be covered, notwithstanding the icy coldness of the body. One of the main remedies in shock. Pain better while thinking of it. Very sensitive to cold and to touch. Sequelæ of measles. Violent convulsion, with wandering and hysterical excitement. Tetanic spasms. Scrofulous children and irritable, weakly blondes especially affected.

Vertigo, tendency to unconsciousness, feeling as if he would die. Influenza; headache, with catarrhal symptoms, sneezing, etc. Beating pain in cerebellum. Cold sweat. Nose cold and pinched. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling. Fleeting stitches in temporal region and orbits. Head sore. Occipital throbbing, synchronous with the pulse.

Fixed, staring; pupils dilated. Sensation as if all objects were too bright and glittering.

Stopped; sneezing. Fluent coryza on sudden change of weather. Cold and pinched. Persistent epistaxis, especially with goose-flesh state of skin.

Pale, haggard, anxious, distorted; bluish, cold. Cold sweat.

Pressive pain in pit of stomach. Coldness, followed by burning.

Blackish; involuntary. Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness of body, anguish, great weakness, collapse, tongue and mouth cold.

Burning and strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. Retention with full bladder.

Male--Besire increased. Chordee. Priapism. Nightly emissions.

Præcordial distress. Suffocative dyspnœa. Asthma. Violent, dry, hacking cough. Palpitation. Breath cold. Suspended respiration.

Insomnia, with cold limbs. Subsultus and extreme restlessness.

Rheumatic pain between shoulders. Difficult motion. Numbness, tingling and coldness. Cracking in joints. Cramps in calves. Icy cold feet, ache as if sprained.

Pulse small, weak, slow. Icy coldness of the whole body. Cold perspiration. Congestive chill. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling.

Cold, pale, blue, livid. Cannot bear to be covered (Secale).

Worse, motion, night, contact, cold air. Better, warmth.

Camphor antidotes or modifies the action of nearly every vegetable medicine--tobacco, opium, worm medicines, etc. Laffa acutangula (whole body ice-cold, with a restlessness and anxiety; burning thirst). Camphoric acid--(a prophylactic against catheter fever; cystitis 15 grains three times a day; also for prevention of night sweats).

Incompatible: Kali nit.

Complementary: Canth.

Antidotes: Opium; Nitr sp dulc; Phos.

Compare: Carbo; Cuprum; Arsenic; Veratr.

Tincture, in drop doses, repeated frequently, or smelling of Spirits of Camphor. Potencies are equally effective.

Great coldness of the external surface, with sudden and complete prostration of the vital force; collapse.

The patient objects to being covered, notwithstanding the objective coldness; throws off all the covering.

Pains disappear when thinking of them; exceedingly sensitive to cold air.

The great characteristic around which the whole action of Camphor seems to revolve is: "Great coldness of the external surface, with sudden and complete prostration of the vital forces. " It is no wonder Hahnemann headed his trio (Camphor, Cuprum and Hellebore) of cholera remedies with Camphor. If we were to sum up the same condition in one word it would be collapse. No remedy comes nearer to Camphor than the last of the trio, viz., Veratrum album, but Camphor has the collapse with painless stool or even no stool at all, while Veratrum has the collapse seemingly as a consequence of the very profuse evacuations of stomach and bowels. Both have great external coldness, but Veratrum has a very marked appearance of cold sweat upon the hippocratic face, especially forehead. Cuprum leads the trio, when the cramp in stomach and extremities is the most prominent symptom. These remedies are indicated when these characteristic symptoms appear, not only in cholera, but in any disease. There is one peculiarity in the coldness of Camphor, viz., the patient will not be covered, or objects to it, no matter how objectively cold he is. Secale coldness or collapse is exactly like this, and even in gangrena senilis it proves a great remedy on the same indications. The signal success of Dr. Rubini, of Naples, in treating five hundred and ninety-two cases of cholera with Camphor verified the prediction of Hahnemann beyond question.

Collapse with cold surface and aversion to heat may come on in retrocedent exanthema, or in the later stage of so-called cholera infantum, in pneumonia, or capillary bronchitis, from exposure to intense cold or traumatic shock. Indeed it does not matter from what cause except death. Camphor is the first remedy to be thought of, and according to susceptibility or strength of the patient the dose must be varied from tincture to highest potency.

Great anguish and discouragement. Mania to dispute. Confusion of ideas ; delirium.

Giddiness, with heaviness of the head and vanishing of the senses. Sensation of constriction in the brain, especially in the cerebellum ; the pain ceases when he thinks of it. Inflammation of the brain, (after sun-stroke), with pulsation and sensation of constriction in the brain, spasmodically turned head, (to the side or backward), worse from movement, or in the cold air ; better when lying down, or when thinking of it.

Staring, wild look. Eyes sunken. Contraction of the pupils. Aversion to light ; the objects appear too bright and shining.

Lobules red, hot. Ulcer in the (left) meatus auditorius, (with stinging pain).

Dry coryza.

Death-like paleness of the face, alternating with redness. Icy-cold, purple, pale face. Distorted countenance. Lock-jaw. Foam at the mouth.

Burning in the mouth and throat, extending to the stomach. Dry, scraping sensation of the palate.

Thirstlessness, or violent thirst. Food tastes bitter. The taste is more acute.

Burning in the stomach. The pit of the stomach is very sensitive to the touch. Burning heat in the abdomen.

Constipation, from want of peristaltic motion of the intestines. The rectum fools narrow and swollen ; is painful during the emission of flatulence. Involuntary diarrhœa ; stools blackish.

Strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. Burning of the urine during emission. The stream is thin, as if the urethra were contracted. The urine is yellowish-green.

Sexual desire wanting ; impotence. Sensation of contraction in the testes.

Violent oppression of breathing, with constriction of throat, as if produced by the vapor of sulphur. Accumulation of mucus in the air-passages, with danger suffocation. Audible palpitation of the heart, (after eating). Trembling of the heart.

Upper. Hands icy cold. Convulsive rotation of the arms. Lower. Great weakness of the legs. Cramps in the calf of the leg and feet.

Epileptic and convulsive attacks ; he falls down insensible. Diminished circulation of the blood to the parts most distant from the heart. Icy coldness of the whole body, with paleness of the face. Sudden and great sinking of strength.

Torpor, with delirium or snoring. Sleeplessness from nervous over-excitability. During sleep, the inspirations are shorter than the expirations.

Pulse small, weak, and slow. The blood does not circulate to the parts distant from the heart. Chilliness, and sensitiveness to cold air. Coldness, with chilliness and shaking. Icy coldness of the whole body, with congestion to the head and chest. Heat, with distended veins, aggravated from every movement. Cold perspiration, often clammy, and always very debilitating.

Dryness of the skin. Erysipelatous inflammation.

Most pains are felt during a half-conscious condition, and disappear when thinking of them. Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air ; the pains are aggravated by it.

Camphor. C 10 H 16 O. - N. O. Lauraceæ. A gum obtained from Laurus camphora. Solution in rectified spirit.

Angina pectoris. Bed-sores. Cholera Asiatica . Chordee. Cold . Convulsions. Epilepsy. Eruptions, suppressed . Erysipelas. Gonorrhœa. Heart affections. Hyperpyrexia . Influenza. Measles. Memory, loss of . Priapism. Rheumatism. Sexual mania. Sleeplessness. Snake-bites. Spasms. Strangury . Sunstroke. Taste, disordered . Tetanus. Tobacco habit . Twitching. Urethra, spasmodic stricture of. Urine, suppression of .

"Chill; cramp; convulsion with mental anguish" — these give an idea of the essential action of Camphor . It causes retreat from the circumference to the centre; and its chief remedial action is in correcting just such conditions — cold, collapse, repercussed eruptive diseases. "Great coldness of surface, with sudden and complete prostration of the vital forces." Feeling as if a cold wind were blowing over body. In all kinds of sudden internal pains arising from chill, or other causes, Camphor in rapidly repeated doses will be very likely to prove Curative. In these conditions it is often prescribed on broad indications and given in the lower potencies, but those whose knowledge of Camphor is confined to its coarser actions will never understand what a great remedy it is when used according to its fine symptomatic indications and given in the higher potencies. Camph . produces tetanic spasms, with showing of teeth by drawing up the mouth corners (like Nux and Phytolacca , but the deathly coldness of Camph . distinguishes it from both). Camph . has internal heat and external coldness. In the collapse of cholera it corresponds rather to the initial chill before either vomiting or diarrhœa. (The collapse of Carbo v . is rather the result of alvine discharges.) The tongue is cold. If he can speak, the voice is either high pitched or husky. The cramps of Camph . are less pronounced than in Cupr .; but cramps with icy coldness of limbs is characteristic of Camph . The coldness of Camph . resembles that of Verat ., but with the latter the discharges are copious, and Camph . has marked nausea, and the expression of nausea, upper lip drawn up. In some epidemics, Camph . given early has alone cured a large majority of the cases treated, and that whether given in drop doses of the tincture or in the 30th. Salzer ( On Cholera , p. 68) says the cases calling for it are those in which "arterial spasm," with difficult breathing (spasm of pulmonary arteries), coldness and lividity are the leading features. In its actions on the genito-urinary sphere Camph . approaches Canth . in intensity, and is one of the antidotes to the latter. Strangury and priapism are among its effects. Camph . is indicated in many conditions of sudden collapse from overpowering influences acting on the nervous centres. For example, sunstroke: vitality ebbing away; fainting spells growing worse; body icy cold and bathed in cold sweat. Some characteristics are: Most pains are felt during a half-conscious condition, and disappear when thinking of them . Afraid of his own thoughts; wants to be diverted from thoughts of himself. Fears to be left alone. Memory lost. Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air; which < pains takes cold easily. Surface cold to touch, yet throws off all covering . Extremities cold, with cramps. Awkwardness. Spasmodic movement of head; head drawn to r. side; rest of body relaxed; unconscious. Spasmodic drawing of head laterally or backwards with deathly coldness. Erysipelas spreading to central membranes. Repercussed eruptions. Soft parts drawn in. Skin painfully sensitive. In the form of the ordinary Camphor pilules, I have found it an excellent remedy for simple sleeplessness. In this, as in its effect on colds, it resembles Acon. Irritable, weakly blondes most affected. Scrofulous children most sensitive to Camph .

Camph . has very important antidotal relations. It is antidoted by: Op., Sp. nit. dulc., Dulc., and Phos. It antidotes: Am. c., Canth., Carb. v., Cup., Lyc, Squil., Nat. m., so-called worm-medicines, tobacco, bitter almonds, and other fruits containing prussic acid; also the secondary affections remaining after poisoning with acids, salts, metals, poisonous mushrooms, &c. Incompatible: Nitrum. Tea, coffee, and lemonade, as a rule, do not interfere, but sometimes coffee < . Compare: Alo.; Carbo v. (coldness from undeveloped exanthema, collapse; epistaxis, dark, persistent; low hæmorrhages generally); Canth.; Cup.; Dulc.; Sec. (skin cold with desire to uncover); Lyc. (head drawn to one side-Lyc. to left, Plumb. and Stram. to right, Bufo to either); Op. (narcotism, heart affections); Pho. (anguish and burning in cholera). Sp. dul. nit., Squil., Verat. Teste puts Camph. in his Belladonna group, with Agar., Lach., Cedr., Stram., Tabac., and others. He notes that it acts much more powerfully on carnivorous animals than on herbivora.

Shock from injury. Eruptions, suppressed. Cold air. Sunstroke. Vexation.

Anxiety with fretfulness. — Great anguish and discouragement. — Afraid of his own thoughts. — Quarrelsome and combative humour; mania to dispute. — Dulness of the senses. — Loss of consciousness. — Confusion of ideas; delirium. — Rage. — Loss of memory.

Dizziness, as if from intoxication, esp. on walking. — Giddiness, with heaviness of the head and vanishing of the senses. — Vertigo, and heaviness of the head, which obliges the patient to incline the head backwards. — Headache, as if the brain were bruised, or sore from a wound. — Dull headache above the os frontis, with inclination to vomit. — Constrictive headache, esp. in the occiput and above the root of the nose, greatly aggravated by stooping, by lying down, or by the touch, and disappearing when the attention is directed to the pain. — Incisive shocks in the head on lying down. — Pulsative headache at night, with shootings in the forehead and heat of the body. — Congestion in the head. — Inflammation of the brain. — Inflammation of the brain (after sunstroke), with pulsation and sensation of constriction in the brain, spasmodically turned head (to the side or backward), < from movement or in the cold air; > when lying down, or when thinking of it. — Spasms, which draw the head on one side.

Inflammation of the eyes. — Red spots on the eyelids. — Trembling of the eyelids. — Staring, wild look. — Eyes sunken. — Eyes haggard, and turned convulsively upwards. — Contraction of the pupils. — Obscuration of the sight. — Visions of strange objects. — Photophobia. — Everything appears too bright and brilliant.

Heat and redness of the ears, esp. in the lobes. — Abscess in the meatus auditorius, with deep redness and pressive shooting pain.

Dry coryza. — Coryza fluent or dry. — Sneezing, beginning of coryza. — Catarrhal affections with headache, from sudden change of weather. — Nose-bleed. — Nose cold and pointed. — Violent stitching or crawling, from root of nose almost to tip.

Face deadly pale; or deep red. — Icy-cold, livid, pale face. — Erysipelas in the face. — Convulsive distortion of the features. — Convulsive clenching of the jaws. — Hippocratic face. — Foam at the mouth. — Cold sweat on face, upper lip everted.

Toothache, as if from swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with sensation of lengthening of the teeth. — Acute shocks in the roots of the incisors. — Painful looseness of the teeth. — Flying toothache, gnawing boring in molars, mostly in hollow ones; much < if even a soft little crust of bread touches the affected tooth; < from drinking coffee or spirituous liquors; > after drinking beer or cold water; but < from water kept in mouth; > by coition.

Breath fetid in the morning. — Foam at the mouth. — Abundant accumulation of a viscid and slimy saliva.

Soreness in the throat on swallowing, as if from excoriation of the throat, which is felt even at night. — Dry, scraping sensation of the palate. — Burning heat in the throat, extending from the palate to the stomach. — More decided relish for all food, and esp. for broth. — Bitter taste of tobacco and of food, esp. of meat. — Dislike and repugnance to tobacco smoke. — Excessive thirst.

The pit of the stomach is very sensitive to the touch. — Almost continual eructations after dinner; nausea > by eructation. — Inclination to vomit, followed by attacks of vertigo. — Vomiting of bile or of blood. — At the commencement of the vomiting, cold sweat, chiefly on the face. — Sensation of burning and heat in the stomach. — Pain, as from a bruise, in the epigastrium. — Strong pressure in the epigastrium.

Cramps in the abdomen. — Cutting colic at night. — Belly-ache as if diarrhœa would follow. — Drawing pain, as from a bruise, on the entire of r. side of the abdomen. — Sensation of fulness in the abdomen. — Sensation of cold or of burning heat in the epigastrium and in the abdomen.

Constipation. — Difficult evacuation, as if from inactivity of the intestines, or from contraction of the rectum. — The rectum feels narrow and swollen; is painful during the emission of flatulence. — Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness in body, anguish, burning in œsophagus and stomach. — Diarrhœa: with colicky pain, esp. when caused by cold; attack very sudden; sudden and great sinking of strength. — Involuntary diarrhœa. — Blackish fæces.

Retention of urine. — Strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. — Urine flowing slowly and in a small stream, as if the urethra were contracted. — Urine of a yellowish green, turbid, and of a mouldy smell. — Hæmaturia. — Burning pain during the emission of urine. — Urine thick and red, with turbid and thick sediment.

Inceased desire. — Erethism. — Attacks of violent priapism during dreams. — Absence of sexual desire, and impotence. — Sudden laxness of penis. — Nocturnal emissions. — Involuntary masturbation. — Sensation of contraction in the testes. — On l. side of root of penis, while standing, a pressure outwards as if a hernia would protrude. — Strangury from stricture.

Sexual orgasm. — Erethism of sexual system. — Labour-like pains. — Menses too profuse; or absent.

Voice husky; weak; mucus in air passages, not removed by hacking; high and squeaky. — Constriction of larynx, feeling as if throat tied. — Cutting, cold feeling deep in windpipe; causes a slight cough. — Dry feeling at bifurcation of trachea. Breathing: anxious; oppressed; sighing; quiet; deep and slow; snoring; almost completely arrested. — Asthma, < from bodily exertion. — Hot breath (with acute eruptive diseases). — Cool breath. — A cold feeling in chest followed by cold breath. — Fatiguing, hacking, dry cough. — Every inspiration starts the cough.

Suffocating oppression of the chest, and constriction of the larynx, as if from the vapour of sulphur. — Excessive accumulation of mucus in the respiratory organs, with danger of suffocation. — Cramps in the chest. — Shootings in the chest.

Palpitation of the heart, which can be heard striking against the side, esp. after a meal. — Anxiety at heart. — Spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest when lying on l. side, > when turning on r. side.

Tension and stiffness of the neck on moving it. — Heat with an inward vibration spreads from neck and from between shoulders into limbs. — Drawing stitches through and between shoulder-blades, extending into chest when moving arms. — Pressure in small of back with leaden-like heaviness of lower limbs. — Coldness in small of back and loins; inner coldness < by walking a few steps. — Sensation as if cool air was blowing on back.

Drawing lancinations between the shoulder-blades, while moving the arms. — Convulsive movement of the arms, which describe circles. — Pressure and acute drawing in the arm and forearm. — Hands icy cold. — Hands do not feel anything he touches. — Fingers stiff, open, distorted; thumb drawn back.

Pains, as from a bruise, in the thighs and in the knees. — Great weakness of the legs. — Cramp-like pains and acute drawings in the legs, and in the instep. — Cramps in the calves of the legs; with icy coldness. — Acute drawing in the extremities of the toes and under the nails, on walking.

Convulsions and cramps of different kinds. — Tetanus, with loss of consciousness, and vomiting. — Attacks of epilepsy, with rattling in the throat; face, red and puffed; convulsive movements of the limbs, and even of the tongue, of the eyes, and of the muscles of the face; hot and viscid perspiration on the scalp, and on the forehead; after the fit, comatose drowsiness. — He falls down insensible. — Diminished circulation of the blood to the parts most distant from the heart. — Uneasiness, relaxation, and heaviness over the whole body. — Sinking of all strength. — Fainting fits. — Cracking in the joints. — Rheumatic lancinations in the muscles. — Difficulty in moving the limbs. — Painful sensibility of the periosteum of all the bones. — Sufferings in consequence of a chill. — Icy coldness of the whole body, with paleness of the face. — The majority of the symptoms appear during movement, or else at night, or are aggravated by cold, the open air, and contact. — The symptoms often disappear as soon as attention is called to them.

Skin sorely sensitive, even to the slightest touch. — Erysipelatous inflammations. — Skin, bluish and cold, with coldness of the body. — Dryness of the skin.

Strong desire to sleep in the day. — Coma, with incoherent words. — Nocturnal sleeplessness, from nervous excitement. — Snoring and tossing during sleep. — During sleep, the inspirations are shorter than the expirations. — Dreams: anxious; fearful; visions of spirits; about what Is intended or what has happened in morning hours. — Extreme restlessness with anxiety.

Excessive sensibility to fresh air, and tendency to take cold. — Cold over the whole body, with deadly paleness of face, shivering, and chattering of the teeth. — Icy coldness of the whole body, with congestion to the head and chest. — Heat of the body, with redness of face, esp. in the cheeks, and in the lobe of the ear. — General heat, which becomes excessive on walking. — Heat with distended veins, aggravated from every movement. — Pulse remarkably small and slow, or excessively quick and full. — The blood does not circulate to the parts distant from the heart. — Sensation of dryness on the whole cutaneous surface.

Unconsciousness.
Grew dizzy while studying in school. 12.30 p. m., book seemed to go round, could hardly keep his seat ; felt as if falling towards right side and as if going into a state of sleep or unconsciousness ; > in open air ; a boy, æt. 13 ; t.
Vomiting and convulsions, with loss of consciousness and frequent desire to make water.
Loss of consciousness, during which he was attacked with violent convulsive fits and maniacal frenzy.
Falls down, without consciousness, with howling cries.
Stupefaction of senses, like fainting.
Half stupid and senseless, moaning and groaning.
Want of memory.
Complete loss of memory, after an attack of catalepsy, whith loss of consciousness, followed by vomiting.
Memory lost, after mental or sensorial disturbances.
Though he could remember the name of everything, when he looked at it, yet it was not without investigating its nature that he could discover its use.
Awkwardness.
Unusually clear-headed ; also intellectual dulness.
Uneasiness of body and confusion of mind, impossible to describe.
Ideas were confused, delirium.
Monomania, with horrible visions and torturing ideas about religion, which he cannot shake off, although he is conscious that they morbid ; is < at night.
A tumult of crude ideas floated through his mind, with a noise in his ears, followed by insensibility.
He lay with closed eyes, seemingly asleep, answering no questions ; when the distant town clock struck he lifted his arm at every stroke ; one evening he went to the piano with closed eyes and played with great precision what at other times he could not
have done without his note ; several times he wrote letters in an acquired language more correctly than in a waking state ; once he occupied himself for several hours with the number 6 ; at times he had violent spasms and priapism.
It was to him as if he moved in his own little world, in which all things were clear and defined ; outside of which uncertain and undefined ; t.
Thought he would die. θ Gastralgia.
Very nervous ; imagined various things ; that he would get yellow fever, etc. ; boy, æt. 13 ; t.
Confused fancies, and delirium.
Delirious, somnolent, with slow fever, at night.
Stupefaction, coma and delirium.
Delirium with heat in throat and thirst.
Delirium, with pain in stomach.
Most furious delirium, being with difficulty restrained in bed by two men.
Rage, with foaming at mouth.
Violent rage ; scratches, spits and bites ; tears her clothes and foams at mouth. θ Puerperal mania.
Mania, with melancholy.
Disposition to cry out frequently, he knew not what for, but would frequently find himself crying out when at work or when walking about.
Desire to be diverted from thoughts of himself ; t.
Desire to dispute ; self-willed.
Wants to get out of bed.
Often felt as if he ought to kill people, when in street ; never felt a disposition to kill any of his own family, but thought he ought to kill somebody.
Impulse to jump out of window.
He talks irrationally, and proposes absurd things.
Talked wildly, constantly repeating the same sentence.
Gestures and conversation very wild and strange.
Greatly excited, talks incessantly. θ Puerperal mania.
(In sick :) Mind wandering ; talking, shouting, crying and laughing by turns ; t. θ Spasms.
Was found much excited, screaming loudly, "I shall not faint! I shan't faint, for if I do, I will have fits and never come out of them!" Uttered a strange scream, a sort of howl, leaped from bed, apparently in great agony, and bent on something desperate.
Screamed, raved and scolded in most indecent language ; 4th day. θ Puerperal mania.
Cries for help, takes hold of others, will not be left alone.
Weeping or crying, does not know why.
Sighing and muttering in sleep.
Tosses anxiously in bed, weeps incessantly ; full irritable pulse, violent headache. θ Hysteria.
Restless tossing about ; heart palpitates.
Children throw things in air with crazy laughter.
Strips himself, and tries to jump out of window.
He beats himself on chest, and falls into a faint.
Child creeps into a corner, howls and cries ; everything that is said is taken as if one was ordering him, and he was considered naughty and would be punished.
Violent outbursts of rage and vituperation ; abuses her child. θ Puerperal mania.
Hasty in action and speech. θ Puerperal mania.
Does not speak unless questioned.
Aversion to all kinds of work.
Greatly exhilarated, lively mood.
Depressed, sad and irritable, despondent.
Indescribable wretchedness.
Felt a vague sense of impending danger to life, > moving about, rushed out of house and walked violently until he perspired, which relieved ; t.
Dread of being alone in dark.
Afraid of mirrors in room, lest he should see himself in them ; so excessive was this fear at times in night that he would have got up and broken mirrors, only that he was still more afraid to get up alone in the dark.
Indescribable dread of being drawn upward.
Very great anxiety.
Precordial anxiety, with weeping.
(In sick :) Anxiety, restless tossing in bed. θ Cancer labii.
Anxiety, almost loses consciousness. θ Puerperal mania.
An indifference whether the world uses one well or ill, everything is repulsive.
Very irritable and fretful ; every word irritates and excites him.
Fretful, anxious, at night, with frightful visions.
Palpitation ; vexed by want of sympathy, afraid to be alone a moment, fears death ; boy, æt. 13 ; t.
Dogmatical easily offended.
Voluptuous ideas.
Great excitement, almost amounting to frenzy.
Excitement, as of intoxication.
Easily startled.
Want of irritability ; general apathy.
Lethargy ; cannot be roused. θ Typhus.
Better when thinking of the existing complaint.
Thinks he is going to die ; < when he thinks about it ; boy, æt. 13 ; t.
Mania after mental overexertion, in a boy, æt. 14 ; talks disconnectedly, refuses to answer ; wants to lie on bare floor, and wallows in his own filth.

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The camphor bottle is, a great mischief in the house, as camphor antidotes most of our remedies. Camphor in potentized form will cure many complaints.

It is suitable in some acute complaints attended with nervous excitement, even to frenzy, with spasms and convulsions and finally exhaustion. The Camphor state is one of convulsions or coldness.

In the most acute period of the Camphor excitement, the excitability and frenzy of the patient are extreme, or he goes into the other extreme, in which the irritability is lost and there is loss of sensation, unconsciousness and coldness.

The two extremes may be seen in one patient, one earlier and the other later. He may go from the extreme of mental excitement and violence to one of prostration and exhaustion, in which the body is blue and cold and yet must be uncovered.

In the mental state, there is anxiety and extreme fear; fear of persons, of strange spheres, of the dark; the dark is filled with imaginary specters; he dare not get out of bed in the dark; everything that moves is a specter and the inanimate things of the room become alive and terrify him.

Frenzy. Coupled with this, there is kidney and urinary trouble, like that of Cantharis, and because of this similarity, the two remedies are both complementary and antidotal to each other. If a woman has poisoned herself with Cantharis, and there is present the frenzy and excitement, Camphor will act as an antidote.

The details of the mental symptoms are worthy of much consideration. The patient goes into a state not unlike imbecility, and the appearance is as if it had come on slowly. The mind and memory are gone. He closes the eyes, seemingly asleep, and answers no questions. Delirious with the heat, rage and mania, wants to jump out of bed or out of the window. Screams and calls for help. Tosses anxiously in bed.

Anxiety and almost loss of consciousness. These symptoms will indicate Camphor in puerperal fever, in congestion of the brain, or in shock from violent inflammation of organs. Confusion comes from the shock and comes with violence.

The more violently the patient suffers, the sooner he is cold, and when he is cold, he must uncover even in a cold room. This is somewhat like Secale. In Secale the patient, when cold, wants to uncover and to be in a cold room, and it also has frenzy, and so there is nothing in what we have yet seem to distinguish Secale from Camph.

But there is another thing that runs through Camph., by which a distinction can be made. The coldness, frenzy and heat very often intermingle. When the Camphor patient is becoming cold, he has spells of heat which come over him; flashes of heat intermingle with rending, tearing, burning pains, either in the inflamed organ or along the nerves.

The patient is a most troublesome patient to nurse; nobody and nothing suits. If an inflammation of the bladder comes on, there is intense pain and tenderness, and from the shock of the suffering the mind is in a state of frenzy.

Coldness then comes on and the patient wants to be uncovered, wants cold air, wants the windows open, but before all this can be done, a flash of beat comes on and then he wants the covers on, and the register turned on, and wants a hot iron and hot bottles; but this stage now passes off, and while the nurse is bringing the hot irons he wants her to open the windows and have everything cool.

You will see at once that these are serious cases. This occurs with opisthotonos, convulsions, inflammation of the brain, liver, kidney, bladder, coming on from violent shock and cold with great exhaustion. You will see this in one who has worked for hours for his life, and when the excitement is over reaction sets in and it is like a whirlwind; he has worked until he is exhausted and now he is prostrated, cold and blue; here is the sphere where the old woman with her Camphor bottle has established a reputation, but potentized Camphor will do more for him than the Camphor bottle, it will put him into a refreshing sleep.

It is useful in the climacteric period with flushes of heat and sweat in a warm room; the limbs and abdomen are very cold and she suffers from cold when uncovered and sweats copiously when covered. She cannot endure covering to warm her limbs though she suffers from cold.

The head is full of pain; throbbing pain. Contractive feeling as if laced together in the cerebellum. The whole back of the head and neck throb like hammers, worse from bending head forward; burning and stinging. Frontal headaches.

We have heard about Camphor in cholera, which is a disease that brings the patient down quickly. The face is cold, blue and shriveled, without much sweat, in the cases that would make one think of Camphor.

There is not much discharge from the bowels, not much vomiting and not much sweat; but suddenly he becomes cold, blue and collapsed, as it were paralyzed and goes into a stupor.

Convulsions with frothing at the mouth. Blue lips, lockjaw, tetanus. Cold sweat on the face with vomiting. Erysipelatous appearance of face.

There is a desire to drink without thirst. There is also insatiable thirst; he is not satisfied with incredible quantities of cold water. Cannot get it cold enough, and cannot get enough, but he soon vomits it up.

The gastric irritation is marked. Everything is vomited. The tongue is blue and cold and the breath is cold. Everything coming out of the body is cold. The air as it leaves the chest feels like that from a cellar, like Carbo v. and Verat.

The tongue is cold and trembling. Such states are found in cholera. All through the cold stage there is burning. The inside of the body seems to burn, or there is a sense of internal smarting like a rawness or a sense of burning without heat.

The pain in the stomach in gastritis is so violent that the anguish on the face is equal to that in Arsenic; a deathly anguish is felt in his stomach and he feels that he must die. Burning, rending, tearing pain in the stomach, with retching and vomiting.

Cramps in stomach and bowels and spreading to other parts of the body until there are convulsions and opisthotonos.

Anguish at the pit of the stomach drives him to despair. Heat in the stomach, Cold feeling in the stomach. Abdomen is full of colic and burning. Cold feeling in the abdomen.

Cholera stools; rice water discharges, with anxiety, restlessness, spasms of the muscles, cramps of the chest, prostration, increasing coldness and blueness; wants to be uncovered and he is going into collapse.

The old Camphor, Cuprum and Veratrum still hold together for Asiatic cholera. In Camphor there is prostration, blueness, coldness and yet he wants to be uncovered and the body is cold and dry.

The other two remedies have all there is in cholera, but in Cuprum there is not so much coldness, more cramping, more convulsive tendency and not so much prostration.

The more cramping there is the more it is Cuprum. The more copious the discharge from the bowels and the more profuse the vomiting and sweat, the more we would think of Veratrum. Cold and dry: Camphor. Cold and copious discharge Veratrum.

After taking cold there is cutting, with involuntary discharge of dark brown faeces like coffee grounds. Tenesmus. At times the cholera patient, with the coldness and blueness, is retching and straining to vomit and suffering with horrible tenesmus to get rid of a little stool and has convulsions here and there. These bowels symptoms gradually increase until there is no ability to strain at stool, a paralytic condition. Rectum seems contracted and painful.

There is suffering in the urinary and sexual organs. Burning urination. Strangury. Frequent urination.

Frequent desire, with difficulty. The same state arises in the bladder as in the rectum, and there is retention with horrible torture. The patient sits on the commode and strains to pass the urine, but there is a paralytic condition of the bladder. The urine is red, bloody, and comes by drops like Canth. Tenesmus of the neck of the bladder.

Camphor increases the sexual erethism to an unbearable degree. In some cases from large doses this is seen in the extreme, and in other cases the reverse takes place.

It has both sexual erethism and impotency in its provings. I once knew a French woman who had an insane desire to keep her boys always at home with her, and she thought she could accomplish this if she could only keep them away from the girls; and to destroy their sexual desire she kept a bag of camphor under their pillows. All of them were made impotent. But in some provers it establishes sexual erethism. It has this like Canth.

Camphor produces a coryza, with a profuse discharge from the nose and from the air passages, from the nose to the bronchi. Bronchitis of children and old people. Old withered up people take cold at every exposure to weather and become cold and chilly.

Ant. crud., Am. carb. and Camph. are wonderful remedies in octogenarians. Every cold seems threatening. Old people don't come down with cold the same as young people; they are prostrated, sinking, have rattling in the chest and the family think it is the death rattle and that it is grandpa’s last spell.

These three remedies fit the case, they are like the advanced stage of pneumonia. Ant. t., Ant. c., Am. c. and Camph. cover these cases in which the hot stage is omitted.

Camph. has very little heat; it has the sensation of heat; but not a marked hot stage. There are other symptoms in this medicine such as you will find in old people.

Jerking of the muscles, trembling and jerking. Spasmodic conditions with trembling. Trembling of the tongue.

The general constitutional state of a Camphor patient is coldness and extreme sensitiveness to cold. In acute inflammatory conditions he is cold and wants the covers off.

In acute complaints there is violent thirst, in chronic complaints thirstlessness. It is the same in Arsenic, in the acute thirsty, but in the chronic thirstless.

In Camphor an important thing to recall in the acute is that during the heat and when the pains are on he wants to be covered up. The coldness is relieved by cold, he wants more cold.

Blondes most affected; persons very irritable and mentally weak. Catarrhal and choleraic diseases.

Exceedingly sensitive to cold air (Hep., Kali m., Psor.). Surface cold to the touch, yet cannot bear to be covered; throws off all the covering (Med., Sec.).

Bad effects of shock from injury; surface of body cold, face pale, blue, lips livid; profound prostration.

Skin of the whole body painfully sensitive, slightest touch hurts.

Sudden attacks of diarrhœa and vomiting; nose cold and pointed; sweating, vomiting, purging; anxiety and restlessness; skin and breath cold.

Long-lasting chill, great coldness of skin and sudden and complete prostration.

Great coldness of the surface with sudden and complete prostration of the vital force; often a remedy in congestive chill; pernicious intermittent (Ver.); pulse weak, extremely small, scarcely perceptible; yellow fever.

* NOTE FOR THOUGHT.—All our progress as a school depends on the right view of the symptoms obtained by proving with Camphor or Opium.—HERING.

Antidotes many vegetable remedies; hence its use in the sick room in the crude form of tincture is not advisable.

In most other cases the smelling of Camphor is not antidotal, but palliative by producing the symptom, "pain better while thinking of it."

Cold air; night; motion; lying covered.

When thinking of existing complaint; warmth; warm air; drinking cold water.

Periodicity not marked. Pernicious fevers: the so-called sinking or congestive stage of intermittents (Ver.); yellow fever.

At any time. All periods.

Without thirst. Long-lasting, terrible chills; icy-coldness all over; extremities cold and blue, with death-like paleness of the face (Ver.). The body generally is quite cold; coldness of the skin. Excessively sensitive to cold air; great aversion to cold air; he is obliged to wrap himself up warmly, and even then he is chilled through and through. Great chilliness; excessive chill; shaking chill and chattering of the teeth, with cold arms, hands and feet. The skin of the whole body is painfully sensitive and sore to the slightest touch (Apis). Coldness for an hour, with deathly paleness of the face. Coldness increased by walking. Hands and feet extremely cold, complains of freezing, worse when walking. Chill with anxiety; pale face; unconsciousness; clonic spasm; skin cold as marble, yet the child cannot bear to be covered; hot breath (cold breath, Carbo v.). Frequent chilliness of back and loins (Caps.). Paroxysm of fever; severe chill, with gnashing of the teeth and much thirst; he sleeps immediately after the chill, with frequent wakings, almost without the slightest heat. Chill the predominant stage. Congestive chill.

Without thirst; of the whole body, which becomes excessive when walking. Heat with distention of the veins, increased by every motion (> by motion, Caps.). Glowing heat, with full rapid pulse. Heat in the head, face, occiput, back, legs, lobules of the ears; body hot and sweating, but averse to uncovering.

At first warm and profuse, which relieves; then profuse cold sweat over the whole body, very weakening. Sweat most profuse during sleep, and on slightest exertion (Bry., Cinch.). Excessive perspiration of hands and feet. Sweat profuse, shirt and clothes drenched, having penetrated to lower side of feather-bed (Thuja). Sweat often clammy and always exhausting. Cold sweat on face, when beginning to vomit (Ver.).

Cold, trembling, flabby, spongy, covered with a tough yellowish mucus.

Small, weak, slow, often imperceptible.

Great weakness and exhaustion; lassitude. Convulsions may occur in children. Weak, weary and great anxiety. Face anxious, pale, livid, haggard and sunken. Yellowish, green, red, brown, turbid urine, of a musty odor. Terrible sinking and exhaustion.

In 1829, on the approach of Asiatic Cholera to Western Europe, Hahnemann, from a description of the disease, published in advance of its approach, that Camphor would be the remedy in the stage of collapse; and the clinical experience of each subsequent epidemic demonstrated his prediction. This power of prevision; the crowning glory of our school of medicine; the absolute proof that "similia" is a "Law of Cure;" the demonstration of the claim of Homeopathy to be ranked as a medical science; was first shown by Hahnemann in the fatal typhus which followed the terrible retreat of Napoleon from his Russian campaign in 1812. He published in advance that Rhus would be the principal remedy, and the recognition of Homeopathy by the Austrian Government was the reward of its successful administration.

There is probably no stage of any disease that bears so close a resemblance to the collapse of cholera as the true, "pernicious" "sinking," or "congestive" stage of intermittent fever. Hence, Camphor should deservedly be placed in the front rank with Apis, Carbo v., Gels., Lach., Nux, Ver., as one of our "sheet anchors" in this form of fever, instead of Quinine, often so indiscriminately and empirically used.

This abuse of Quinine is borrowed by the pseudo-homeopath from his allopathic brother, who has no "law of cure" upon which to rely, and is compelled to depend upon his theories (malarial and cryptogamic) to prevent the return of the paroxysm.

Quinine may suppress it, as it will many simpler forms of the fever, but there are many cases it will neither suppress nor cure, and these are generally the fatal cases that so often occur in the practice of regular (?) medicine. The fatal “third paroxysm” is rarely known under the properly selected homeopathic remedy.

It is a “bug-bear” of allopathic teaching and practice. No ho- meopath, surely, would think of giving Quinine in cholera col- lapse, for no better reason than it is given by the rational (?) school of medicine. The statistics of comparative mortality of each system of practice “in cholera” ought to be convincing.

A CASE.—Last summer I had two cases, one a boy the other a girl, which defied all my efforts. When I saw her she was in the sweating stage; face looked cold, pale blue, pinched, anxious, and was covered with a profuse sweat. When I looked at her I thought if you were suffering from cholera

I would give you Camphor. Why should I not give Camphor in this sick- ness? I accordingly gave her the 2x trit., three or four powders per day.

I was agreeably surprised to find that she did not have a recurrence of the chills; has remained free ever since.

Her fever was of the tertian type.—R. C. ALLEN, M. D., Med. Investi- gator, Sept., 1885.

Chill; severe, long, terrible; congestive, of per- nicious fever. Sensitive to cold air. Face and extremities cold, blue, pinched; cannot bear to be covered.

Heat; light, without thirst; of single parts.

Sweat; cold, profuse, exhausting.

Loss of memory.
Awkwardness.
Delirious, somnolent, with slow fever, at night.
Afraid to be alone, especially at night.
Anxiety, precordial; restless tossing about; palpitation of heart.
Mental excitability.
Thinking about an existing pain causes it to disappear.

Feels lighter, as if not touching the ground.
Vertigo: in frequent short attack; after nausea and retching; and heaviness of head, worse on stooping.
Totters in walking.
Staggers as if drunk.
Vanishing of all the senses, even touch.
Sunstroke or inflammation of the brain arising from exposure to the sun.
Stupor.
Fainting.
Apoplexy.

Rush of blood to the head, with heaviness of head; better from external pressure.
Frontal headache; pressure outward; also left-sided.
Contraction, as if laced together, in the cerebellum, and glabella, with coldness all over.
Throbbing, like beats with a hammer, in the cerebellum, synchronous with the pulse; head hot, face red, limbs cool, better standing; mostly with such as were deprived of their usual sexual intercourse.
Pains run from head to tips of fingers with trembling and uneasiness.

Spasmodic motion of head.
Premature grey hairs.

Objects appear too bright, at the same time black spots are seen.
Sparks and fiery wheels, alternating with mistiness.
Letters run together, while reading.
Eyes fixed, staring, turned upwards or outwards.
Eyes closed at first, and later staring, looking upwards.
Pupils contracted, immovable.
Conjunctiva injected, pupils dilated, lachrymation in open air; lids stiff, sore or tense; quivering of upper lid.
Chronic inflammation of the eyes.
Eyes worse in the sunlight.

Singing, ringing or buzzing in the ears.
Pain in left ear from dark red pimple, which suppurated in thirty-six hours.
Ear-lobe hot and red.
Yellow blisters around the ear, with erysipelas of the face.

Fluent coryza, with headache, on sudden change of weather.

Face: red, with warmth of body; bluish and pinched, deathly; pale, with crawlings; pale, distorted and sunken; pale and haggard; pale and livid; cold.
Wild, staring, unconscious look.
Cold sweat on face, with vomiting.
Erysipelatous red cheeks and ear-lobes.

Lockjaw, with coldness and pale surface, (and brownish look of eruption, during partial repercussion, in scarlatina).
Froth or foam at the mouth.

Teeth seem too long, cutting toothache, which seem to originate from the swelling of a submaxillary gland.

Taste: acute beef broth tastes too strong.
Food tastes bitter, meat more so than bread.
Speech: feeble, broken, hoarse.
Tongue: cold.

Saliva, running together, watery.
Coldness in the mouth.

Heat: on hard palate; in throat; in œsophagus.

Neither appetite not thirst.
Drink pleases, yet has no thirst.
Burning thirst, drinks large quantities without relief.

Circulation worse after eating.

Belching and gulping up the contents of the stomach.
Vomit: bilious; of some blood; mostly sour.
Chronic vomiting, in the morning, of sour mucus.
Watery, slimy vomit. θ Summer complaint.
Coldness after vomiting.
Absence of nausea and vomit; body icy-cold. θ Cholera.

Sensation of heat in the stomach.
Coldness in the stomach.
Anguish and burning on œsophagus and stomach.
Pain, as if beaten, or overstretched, in the pit of stomach, with fullness of the abdomen; sensitive to touch.

Aching in the anterior part of liver.
Constrictive pain below short ribs, extending to lumbar vertebræ.
Aching pressure in both hypochondria.

Coldness in the upper and lower abdomen, followed by burning heat therein.

After taking cold, cutting pain, with a loose discharge of dark brown or black feces, like coffee grounds.
Rice-water stools. θ Summer complaint.
Diarrhœa, great prostration, cold, yet will not be covered.
Diarrhœa, with colicky pains, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air.
Absence of discharge; body icy-cold. θ Cholera.
Constipation from inactivity of the rectum.
Urging to stool, and insufficient discharge.

Urine: scanty, not often; by drops; burning; yellowish-green turbid of musty odor; reddish in dropsy. See 23.
Unsuccessful urging to urinate.
Retention of urine: strangury.

Want of sexual desire, with weakness of the parts; want of erections; testicles relaxed; impotence.
Gonorrhœa, with constant sticking together of the meatus.
Chordee.

Menses increased.
Dropsy of the uterus; red, some times greenish urine, deposits a thick sediment; urine passed slowly, bladder being nearly paralyzed, body cold.

Labor-pains: weak or ceasing; will not be covered, restless; skin cold.
Suppuration of the mammæ; fine stinging on the nipples.
Newborn children: hard places in the skin on the abdomen and thighs, quickly increasing and getting harder; sometimes with a deep redness spreading nearly over the whole abdomen and thighs; violent fever, with startings and tetanic spasms, with bending backwards.

Voice: hoarse; husky; hollow; weak; uncertain.
Cutting, cold feeling deep in trachea, causes a slight cough.

Quiet; deep and slow; difficult, slow; anxious.
Suffocative oppression.
Asthma, worse from bodily exertion.
Hot breath with acute eruption.
Cold breath; also after cold feeling in chest.

Dry cough in the forenoon.
Violent dry cough, with hoarseness after measles.
Every inhalation starts the cough.

Mucus in the air-passages.
Influenza, when during the stages of invasion the patient feels cold and chilly, body and mind seem in a depressed condition.
Stitches: from the shoulders into the chest; in left side of chest when walking.
Sensation of coldness, extends from the pit of stomach over the whole sternum.
Congestion of the chest.

Trembling palpitation, with anxiety.
Palpitation: with sudden oppression of breathing; with cold face, limbs and body; with pale face and cold body; after eating; after waking, with twitches.
Precordial distress when loudly spoken to; sensation of severe coldness and irresistible sleepiness.
Pulse: full; weak; not perceptible.
Diminished flow of blood of those parts remote from heart.

Fine rash on outer throat and chest.

Pain in fifth, sixth and seventh cervical vertebræ; worse moving the head; better from pressing the hand thereon.
Painful drawing and stiffness on the side of neck when walking in open air.
Drawing stitches through and between the shoulder-blades extending into chest when moving arms.
Cold feeling, or chilliness in the back.

Convulsive rotation of the arms.
Arms: stiff; powerless.
Painful pressure in right elbow-joint, extends to the hand when leaning on it.
Hands: tremble; cold; bluish.
Fingers stiff, open, distorted; thumb drawn back at nearly right angles with its metacarpus.

Cracking and creaking in the hip, knee, and ankle-joints.
Drawing, bruised pain in the right thigh, and on inner side near and below the patella.
Knees give way; tremble.
Cramps in the calves.
Drawing, crampy pain on the dorsum of the feet, especially on moving them.
Tearing, crampy pain on the dorsum of the feet, extending up the outer side of the calves to the thighs.
Tearing in tips of toes of left foot, and under the nails, when walking.

Coldness of the limbs.
Drawing in the fingers, then in the toes.
Rheumatism returns repeatedly, attacking part after part, even internal organs.

Every motion: 40. Moving, head: 31; arms: 31; feet: 33. Walking: 2, 28, 31, 33. Bodily exertion: 26. Standing: 3. Stooping: 2.

Attacks of malaise.
Trembling of inner parts.
Great prostration.
Easily started when awake, and then feels throbbing or palpitation.
Spasms of children, with sopor; from suppressed eruptions.
Eclampsia, with anæmia; coldness.
Tetanic spasms of the arms, hands, feet and lower jaw; body stiff, with slight opisthotonos; from suppressed scarlatina.
Epileptic spasm.
What of bodily irritability; insensibility to touch.

Sleepy in daytime.
Sleep: stupid; deep; unrefreshing.
Dreams: anxious, fearful.
Sleeplessness, alternating with coma.

Morning: 16. Forenoon: 28. Night: 1.

Sun: 5. Open air: 5, 31. Cold air: 40. Change of weather: 7. Will not be covered: 20, 46.

Icy-coldness all over, with deathlike paleness of the face.
Great coldness of the surface without the usually accompanying change of color, and at the same time a desire to be uncovered.
Chill, chilliness and sensitiveness to the cold air.
Chill, with shivering and shaking; teeth chattering.
Chill: with anxiety; with unconsciousness; with pale face; with clonic spasms.
Heat, with distension of veins increased by every motion.
Cold, clammy, exhausting sweat.

Rheumatic attacks remit, go to one part after another.
Attacks come on suddenly.

Right: 18, 32, 33. Left: 3, 6, 28, 33. Above downwards: 3, 32. Below upwards: 28, 33. Behind forward: 31.

Sensations of dryness all over the body.
Cramps all over.

Soft parts drawn in.
Cyanosis.
External parts turn black.
Internal congestions.
Cramps in inner an outer parts.
Cracking of joints.
Stenosis after inflammations.
Dropsy of external parts; less of internal.
Glands inflamed.

Touch: 17, 36. Pressure: 3, 31.

Dryness of skin, not a trace of sweat.
Blood blisters.
Erysipelas.
Gangrene.
Hard spots.
Sequelæ of measles.
Sudden sinking away of variola pustules.
Measle eruption delays; tetanic rigors; skin cold, bluish; dysuria.
Scarlatina: with cold, blue, hippocratic face; rattling in throat; with hot breath, hot sweat on forehead, child will not be covered.

Irritable, weakly; blondes most affected.
Scrofulous children are most sensitive to Camphor.

Antidotes: Opium, Spir. nitr. dulc, Dulcam.
Camphor antidotes Canthar., Cuprum, Squilla.
In most other cases, the smelling of Camphor is not antidotal, but palliative, by producing the symptom "pain better while thinking of it".
Camphor. aggravates the effect of Nitrum, and seems to be injurious if given after it.
Tea, coffee and lemonade do not interfere.

A tincture is prepared by dissolving one part of camphor gum in nine parts of Alcohol.

It produces violent convulsions, hysterical and epileptiform, delirium, and various phases of nervous excitement. ▶ It also produces coldness of the body and profound collapse, with feeble pulse.

Cupr., Tereb., Secale c. , Ars., Verat. a., Carbo v., Op., Hyosc., Stram., Alcohol.

Emaciation. ▶ Distention of veins. ▶ Inflammations. ▶ Drunken appearance. ▶ Symptoms like delirium tremens, optical delusions, fright, screams, hideous sights, and burying his head in pillow (Stramon., Hyosc.). ▶ Hysterical. ▶ Falling down insensible. ▶ Convulsions; in children; with loss of consciousness; with disordered expression of face and livid aspect; violent, especially of hands and feet. ▶ Clonic convulsive movements. ▶ Convulsive circular motion (Rotation of arms).

▶ Subsultus tendinum (Ars., Cupr., Op., Tereb., Verat., Alcohol.) and insensibility. ▶ Epileptic fit; in which his tongue was badly bitten. ▶ Several times the body curled itself up into a ball and projected itself out again with great activity. ▶ Froth oozing from mouth, constant chewing motions, twitching of head, cold sweat on face, which was bluish on purple, cadaverous and distorted, twitching of occipito-frontalis muscle, orbicularis oris rigidly drawn to left, masseter so contracted that the jaw could not be depressed.

Flung himself back on the bed, with dreadful shrieks, fell into strong convulsions, foamed at the mouth, stared wildly, endeavored to lay hold of and tear everything in his reach, then a calm similar to fainting with this difference only, the skin was florid, lost all remembrance of past actions and knowledge of present objects, then slowly began to recover both, though in a manner so amazing that his business connections and everything of the same nature which he had entirely forgotten, at their first occurrence startled his mind as if he had never been acquainted with them before, but after he knew all the family he did not recollect the use of the furniture in the room, and every object appeared as strange as if he had only that moment begun his existence.

He rubs his forehead, head, chest and other parts, leans against something, senses leave him, he slides and falls, stretched out stiff, shoulders bent backward, arms at first bent, hands bent outward and somewhat clenched, fingers spread apart, then stiffness of all parts, with head bent to one side, lower jaw open, stiff, lips drawn inward, gnashing of teeth, eyes closed, twitching of facial muscles, cold all over, without breathing. ▶ Giddy, lost self-control, talked incoherently and excitedly, ran up-stairs and fell on the floor in convulsions, face and neck dusky, foam flying from his mouth, pulse full and pupils dilated.

Convulsions in which opisthotonos was considerable, whole surface red, eyeballs injected and prominent for an instant, then eyes forcibly closed, loud moaning, grinding of teeth and blowing of bloody saliva through closed teeth, then after half an hour the opisthotonos gave place to rapid rolling over and over, now this way, now that, sometimes burying face in bed so that breathing was difficult.

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It produces violent convulsions, hysterical and epileptiform; delirium and various phases of nervous excitement. It also produces coldness of the body and profound collapse, with feeble pulse.

Clonic spasm, with loss of consciousness.
Convulsive rotation of the arms.
Subsultus tendinum.
Rapid sinking of strength.
Opisthotonos.
Restless.
Easily startled, with throbbing.
Weakness, with rapid sinking of strength.
Great sensitiveness to cold, to cold air, which increases all the troubles.
The patient is only partially conscious of most of his pains.

Extreme anxiety; dread of being alone in the dark.
Agitation; haste.
Attacks of violent rage.

Vertigo, < stooping.
Heaviness of the head, sometimes with vertigo.
Rush of blood to the head.
The brain feels constricted, especially in the occiput, better when thinking of it.
The head seems drawn sideways or backwards spasmodically.
(The effects of sunstroke, with throbbing pain in the occiput, coldness, etc.)

Eyes sunken, distorted.
Pupils dilated.
Objects seem to glitter, and to be too bright.
A vision of bright colors, alternating with dimness.

Lobules of the ears hot and red.
Ulcers in the external meatus.

Nose cold.
Air breathed through the nose seems colder than natural.
Sneezing.
Various symptoms of coryza, without discharge, with coldness.

Face pale and anxious.
Distorted, sunken and livid.
Icy cold and bluish.
Tetanic cramps of the masseter muscles.

Burning in the mouth and throat, even down to the stomach.
Froth from the mouth.
Tongue cold, speech feeble, hoarseness.
Increase of tenacious mucus.
Taste acute.

Burning heat in the throat, extending down the œsophagus.

Lack of thirst; (usual).
Insatiable thirst; (rare).
Food has a bitter taste, or the taste may be unnaturally acute.
Burning in the stomach.
Great sensitiveness at the pit of the stomach to touch.
Coldness in the pit of the stomach.
Nausea, vomiting, with coldness (not always present with Camphor symptoms).

Burning heat over the whole abdomen.
Coldness in the abdomen.
Constrictive pain below the ribs, extending to the back.

Constipation.
Constipation from inactivity of the bowels, or from a feeling of contraction of the rectum.

Clinical:
In cholera infantum, vomiting and diarrhœa suddenly; pains, with coldness of body, etc.
In Asiatic cholera, in the early stage, when the stools are loose and contain fecal matter; in a later stage, with coldness, but, as a rule, with dryness of the surface of the body, with sudden suppression of the discharges and collapse.
(The remedy should be stopped when the patient perspires.)

Tenesmus of the bladder, with retention of the urine.
Painful micturition.
Micturition involuntary.
Urine often scanty, yellowish-green, of a pungent odor.
Urine, when not retained, may pass in a very thin stream.

Loss of sexual desire; impotency.

Clinical:
Chordee; effects of sudden suppression of gonorrhœal discharge, coldness, strangury, etc.
Sexual excitement in women.
Puerperal mania, with suppressed discharges, dryness of the surface, etc.
Nocturnal emissions, without dreams.

Suffocative dyspnœa from oppression of the chest or pit of the stomach.
Suffocation, with a feeling of constriction of the larynx, something like suffocation from fumes of sulphur.

Clinical:
Asthmatic attacks, with great suffocation.
Violent, dry cough, especially in measles, with suppressed eruption, with congestion of lungs, etc.
In pleuro-pneumonia, emphysema of lungs.

Distress in the region of the heart; feels the throbbing of the heart against the ribs, especially after eating.
Palpitation after eating.
Trembling of the heart.
Pulse usually very slow and weak, or imperceptible.

Drawing stitches through and between scapulæ on moving arm, extending into chest.

Cold, with numbness and tingling.
Hands icy cold, pale, bluish.
Lower extremities very weak; a staggering, as if intoxicated.
Cramp-like pains in the calves and feet.

Skin dry, cold, rarely moist.
(Inflammation, as from erysipelas.)

Sleepiness, with stupefaction, with irrational talking.
Sleeplessness at night, as from nervous irritability.

General icy coldness of the whole body and deathly paleness.
Sensitive to cold air.
Takes cold easily.
Chilliness, with chattering of the teeth, sensitiveness of the skin and to the slightest touch.
Internal coldness.
Internal coldness through the limbs, as from a cold wind.
General sweat at times (not common).

Camp. / Camper.

Camphor., with his chilly breath.,
Brings a coldness as of death.
Chills congestive-great distress,
Inward trembling-giddiness.
In the dark a horrid dread,
As if haunted by the dead.
Deathly pallor of the face,
As in Cholera has place.
Yet the skin, though deathly cold,
Will not bear a covering fold.
Pains, sometimes, that shifting, may
Being thought of, pass away.

The Camper,-Has Cholera.

The Camper, Ira Cooper, seeks a view of Laura Kip, in the Car.

This Camper,-Whose breath and tongue are cold,- Is in the Car with Bel-Ver Cooper, the coachman.

Cholera: Camp., Iris, Cup., Sec., Ver. a., Ars., Lauro., Kal. p., Carb. v.

Coldness of the Tongue: Camp., Carb. v., Bell., Ver. a., Cup., Colch., (Tip of the tongue cold, Colch., Cup.)

Indicated in cholera and cholera morbus, and in attacks of diarrhoea which in violence suggest the choleric state. A few whiffs of camphor in the early stage of a cold often breaks it up.

Intense, uncontrollable anxiety.

Face as though he were approaching collapse; cold; eyes sunken; nose pinched.

Extreme coldness of skin to touch, yet cannot bear to be covered. Extreme restlessness; skin wrinkled, old-looking.

Sudden violent attacks of vomiting; almost incessant; watery.

Violent choleraic diarrhoea, with anguish, coldness of the body, cramps in calves of legs; pulse thready; tongue and mouth cold.

Rapid sinking of the vital forces. Coldness of breath.

Worse from cold air.

Better from warm air.

Vanishing senses. Raving, Great fears. Hopeless dependency. Hurried manner. Madness.

Reeling, vertigo. Stupefied and unconscious.

Violent congestion to. constriction and throbbing in brain, especially in occiput. Meningitis from sunstroke. Convulsively drawn sideways and backward. Worse: Motion, cold, fresh air. Better: Lying down, thinking of the pain.

Troubles, fixed look. Sunken. Distorted. Greatly contracted pupils. Strongly reflecting and very bright objects cause photophobia.

Hot and inflamed, externally. Suppurating ulcers in.

Coryza. Nasal irritation. Feeling of a discharge but there is non.

Deathly pale, alternating with redness. Icy cold, bluish - pale, Erysipelas on. Distorted facial expression. Trismus from spasm of masseter muscles.

Burning in, and down throat into stomach. Foam from.

Burning in. Great sensitiveness of pit to touch, it causes him to scream aloud.

Appetite: Thirstless. (Intense thirst.) Repugnance to tobacco.

Taste: Bitter, of food. Of all food is intensified.

Burning heat in entire.

Irritation as if piles sitting on something hard.

Difficult, on account of narrowing rectum. Constipation, as from want of peristaltic action of intestines.

Retention of, with tenesmus of neck of bladder. Yellowish - green, musty smelling thin, weak urinary stream.

Want of sexual desire. Complete impotency.

Asthmatic oppression of chest (also from copper and arsenical fumes). Intense oppression of chest. with constriction of larynx, as from sulphur vapor.

Crying and whining in a hollow, hoarse tone.

Audible palpitation after eating, Trembling of heart.

Convulsive rotation of arms. Icy cold hands.

Great weakness of lower legs. Tensive pain in calves of legs and feet.

Generalized tonic spasm with unconsciousness. Epileptic and convulsive attacks of a tonic kind, he falls to the ground unconscious, Unusual and rapid sinking of strength. Insensibility. Great tendency to take cold. Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air, all the symptoms an intensified thereby. Most pains are felt only when in a partly inattentive (self - abstracted) states. (Mag-p., Ars.) Camph. antidotes many remedies and corrects spoiled cases (Paor.). setting them in order again. Sometimes it acts powerfully again if an intercurrent dose of Opium is given.

Erysipelatous Inflammations. Dry.

Stupefying somnolence with raving. Sleepiness at night, as though from nervous excitement. Snoring.

Pulse: Small, weak and slow, often imperceptible. Diminished flow of blood to parts distant from heart. Chill: Chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air. With shuddering and shaking. General icy coldness of entire body, with a deathly pale face, and congestion of blood to head and chest. Heat: With distended blood vessels, increased by every movement, Sweat: Cold often clammy, always debilitating.

Allied Remedies: Brom., Canth., Glo, OP., Sec-c., Verat-a.

Dimished circulation of the blood to parts most distant from the heart (coldness of the external body).

Color of the face bluish.

Sudden sinking of strength.

Pains, as if bruised in inner parts.

Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air.

Loss of sensation.

Cracking of the the joints.

Rheumatic stitches in the muscles.

Most symptoms appear during motion and at night, are aggravated by contact, cold air and when thinking of them.

Amelioration from warmth.

Asiatic cholera.