Phosphorus phos.

CAVITIES: Head. LUNGS. Heart. CIRCULATION: Blood. BLOOD-VESSELS. Arteries. MUCOUS MEMBRANES: STOMACH. BOWELS. Lungs (lower). NERVES: Brain. Cord. Bones: Jaw; upper. Shin. Spine. Liver.

LYING ON: LEFT or painful side. BACK. SLIGHT CAUSES: EMOTIONS. Talking. Touch. Odors. Light. COLD: HANDS (in water). Open air. WARM INGESTA. Salt. Puberty. Sexual excesses. Weather: Sudden changes. Windy. Cold. Thunder-storms. Morning and evening. Mental fatigue.

Eating. Sleep. Cold: Food. Water; to face. Rubbing (Magnetic). Sitting up.

Active metabolism. Rapid growth. Insidious onset, gradually increasing debility, ending in severe or rapid disease (Tarn.). Recurring effects, colds, croup, bleedings, etc. HÆMORRHAGE; vicarious; blood-streaked discharges of ulcers, etc. Decomposition. Polypi. Symptoms due to heart and lung affections. Tall, gracile, nervous and delicate. Phthisical habit. Acidosis. Weak spells; in joints; < exertion. Emptiness; in chest, stomach, etc. Acute senses. Erethistic exhaustion. TIGHTNESS; chest (l), cough, etc. Spots; pains or soreness in. Internal paralysis; throat, rectum, etc. Internal itching, tickling. Throbbings, here and there. Numbness. Jerkings, localised; subsultus. Joints stiff, with little pain. Human barometer.

Amative, but excitable and easily irritated. Anxious; fears being alone, twilight, ghosts, thunder - storms, etc. Quickly prostrated by unpleasant impressions. Timid and irresolute. VERTIGO; accompanies many symptoms; floating; on waking; whirling; > stool. Head, heavy, aches over one eye; with hunger; < children; < lying on r. side; > cold. Burning in temple. Cold occiput. Vertex throbs. Dandruff. Bald spots. Lachrymation, in wind. Vision; flashes; halos; red; green; black; > shade; narrow fields of; colored, then migraine. Choroiditis. Retinitis albuminurica. Glaucoma. Ears; echoes or reverberations in; deaf to human voice. Otitis; media. Mastoiditis. Nose; nervous motion of alæ; coryza, flows and stops; on alternate sides; swelled; caries; ulcer, etc. Epistaxis; of youths; then pneumonia; with cough, etc. Sneezing; < odors, smoke, etc. with dyspnœa. Descending nose colds. Sensitive smell. Pale about nose and mouth. Changing, sickly face; hollow eyes, with blue rings. Numb teeth. Gum sore behind central incisors. Palate itches. Abscess of hard palate. Sour taste and eructations. As of cotton or something hanging in throat. CRAVES COLD DRINKS WHICH >, but are VOMITED IN A LITTLE WHILE; after chloroform. Regurgitates ingesta. Waterbrash. Ravenous hunger; nightly; precedes attacks. Craves salt; what is refused when offered. Burning in gullet and stomach, < eating. Pressure above epigastrium. Stomach; EMPTY, HOLLOW FEELING IN; as if hanging down; < emotions; tremor, flutter or rolling over in. Sore spot in epigastrium. Rubs abdomen for >. Stool, like cooked sago; granular; slender; tough; diarrhœic, gray, bluish, watery, pouring out, painless, nervous, involuntary, exhausting. Anus open; prolapsed. Dysentery. Urinates, then weak. Pellicle on urine. Periodical albuminuria. Sexually erethistic, but impotent. Prolonged menses; replaced by smarting leucorrhœa. Oppressed for breath; < least motion. Tight, suffocating breathing, < cough. Larynx, raw, sore, furry; pains on speaking. Voice, low, hoarse, < evening; croupy, then bronchitis. Cough; hard, wheezing; dry; violent; painful; tickling; hacking; exhausting; with retching, burning in air-passages or trembling; < change of temperature, before strangers, laughing, exertion or singing. Expectoration; easy, bluish, rusty, salty, foamy or cold. Pneumonia; l. lower lung; secondary, with sopor. Chest full, heavy; stitches (l. upper); pains into throat or r. arm or alternating sides; rattling, < cold drinks. Dry, burnt feeling in chest with cough, at first dry then loose. Heart, pains into r. arm; violent palpitation from least thing; during goitre, etc.; weak; fatty; orgasms to. Left infra-mammary pain. Mammary abscess. Between scapulæ; cramp; burning. Spinal irritation, < heat. Pain forward from l. scapula. Tearing in l. shoulder at night. Burning spot in lumbar region. Numb fingers and toes. Palms burn. Paralyzing stitches in hips; then up back. Pain in tibiæ; periostitis. Ankles, as if to break. Suppressed foot-sweat. Tottery; stumbles easily. Icy cold feet. Toes cramp. Blood red spots. Thin, foul, bloody pus. Pyæmia. Yellow spots on abdomen. Jaundice; as a concomitant. Skin burns on shaving. Fatty cysts. Sleepless; eyes won't stay shut; from internal heat. Sleepy by day, sleepless before midnight. Sleeps in cat naps. Dreams, of fire; lewd. Somnambulism. Congestion to head, lungs, etc. Soft pulse. Coldness in cerebellum; of knees, in bed. Chilly in a warm room; down back. Craves ices, during the chill. Burning heat; local; up back. Hectic. Sweaty; early morning; sticky; without relief. Painless fevers.

Complementary: Lyc. Sang. Sep. Antidotes: Coff. Nux-v. Related: Caus. Con. Sil.

Adapted to tall slender persons of sanguine temperament, fair skin, delicate eyelashes, find blond, or red hair, quick perceptions, and very sensitive nature. Young people, who grow too rapidly, are inclined to stoop (to walk stooped, Sulph.); who are chlorotic or anaemic; old people, with morning diarrhoea. Nervous, weak; desires to be magnetized (Sil.). Oversensitiveness of all the senses to external impressions, light, noise, odors, touch. Restless, fidgety; moves continually, cannot sit or stand still a moment (restless, fidgety feet, Zinc.). Burning: in spots along the spine; between the scapulae (as of a piece of ice, Lachn.); or intense heat running up the back; of palms of hands (Lach.); in chest and lungs; of every organ or tissue of the body (Ars., Sulph.); generally in diseases of nervous system. Haemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed profusely (Kreos., Lach.); from every mucous outlet. Great weakness and prostration; with nervous debility and trembling; of whole body; weakness and weariness from loss of vital fluids (Cinch., Phos. ac.). Pain: acute, especially in the chest, < from pressure, even slight, in intercostal spaces, and lying on left side; excited by slightest chill; open air intolerable. A Weak, empty, all-gone sensation in head, chest, stomach and entire abdomen. Apathetic; unwilling to talk; answers slowly; moves sluggishly (Phos. ac.). Weary of life, full of gloomy forebodings. Dandruff, falls out in clouds (Lyc.); hair falls out in bunches, baldness of single spots. Eyes: hollow, surrounded by blue rings; lids, puffy, swollen, oedematous (upper lids, Kali c.; lower, Apis). Longs for: cold food and drink; juicy, refreshing things; ice cream > gastric pains. As soon as water becomes warm in stomach it is thrown up. Regurgitation of ingesta in mouthfuls (Alum.). Nausea from placing hands in warm water; sneezing and coryza from putting hands in water (Lac d.). Constipation: faeces slender, long, dry, tough, and hard (Stap.); voided with great straining and difficulty (Caust.). Diarrhoea: as soon as anything enters the rectum; profuse, pouring away as from a hydrant; watery, with sago-like particles; sensation, as if the anus remained open (Apis), involuntary; during cholera time (which precedes cholera, Phos. ac.); morning, of old people. Haemorrhage: frequent and profuse, pouring out freely and then ceasing for a time; metrorrhagia, in cancer; haemoptysis, vicarious, from nose, stomach, anus, urethra, in amenorrhoea. Heaviness of chest, as if weight were lying on it. During pregnancy; unable to drink water; sight of it causes vomiting; must close her eyes while bathing (Lys.). Cannot talk, the larynx is so painful; is dry, raw, rough, sore. Cough: going from warm to cold air (rev. of Bry.); < from laughing, talking, reading, drinking, eating, lying on the left side (Dros., Stan.). Perspiration has the odor of sulphur. Necrosis of the (left) lower jaw.

Complementary: Arsenic, with which itis isomorphic; Cepa, its vegetable analogue. Incompatible: with Causticum, must not be used before or after. Phos. removes the bad effects of Iodine and excessive use of table salt. Follows well: after, Calc. or Cinch. Hahnemann says: "Acts most beneficial when patient suffers form chronic loose stool or diarrhoea.".

Evening, before midnight (Puls., Rhus); lying on left or painful side; during a thunderstorm; weather changes, either hot or cold. Cold air relieves the head and face symptoms but aggravates those of chest, throat and neck.

In the dark; lying on right side; from being rubbed or mesmerized; from cold food, cold water, until it gets warm.

This remedy is particularly adapted for complaints existing in tall, thin persons, having dark hair, especially in women.

Affections of the mind in general; amativeness; indifference; dizziness of the mind. Nymphomania.

Colors appear black before the eyes; weak-eyed people who see a halo around the lamp light; shortsightedness; dimsightedness when things appear of a dim gray; momentary loss of sight. One sees variegated colors when there may be only one color.

Blood comes every time the nose is blown; smelling too sensitive; foul imaginary smells.

A very characteristic symptom is found in the stool, which is long, slim, hard and dry, and is evacuated with a great deal of difficulty; it may be compared to a dog's stool in appearance and in manner of evacuation, is often accompanied with the same straining, trembling of the limbs, etc. Diarrhœa, which pours out in great quantity, like water from a hydrant, and is very exhausting to the patient (often accompanied with a very weak, empty or gone feeling in the abdomen); painless; stools large; involuntary; mucous. Affections of the anus; rectum; dartings and shooting in the rectum. (This may occur in children, causing them to cry out, is usually worse in the evening or night; they appear to have worms; they will put their hands to the seat, and show by various signs where and what the matter is.)

A very WEAK, EMPTY, or GONE SENSATION, felt in the whole abdominal cavity; this is an indicative point whether found existing among a complication of troubles or occurring alone, and especially when accompanied by a sensation of heat in the back between the shoulder-blades. Vomiting as soon as any substance taken (whether it be food or drink) becomes warm in the stomach; vomiting of blood; of sour matter. Sharp pains through the abdomen; belching of large quantities of wind, also of sour substances; rumbling and rolling in the bowels. Flatus in general.

Hard, tight, dry cough which racks the patient and is very exhausting, usually aggravated by going into the open air; with or without expectoration; saltish expectoration; with expectoration in the morning, without any in the evening; of a bloody, purulent matter; of yellow matter; of sour taste. Growing hoarse toward evening; complete aphonia; voice very hoarse. Respiration oppressed; anxious; complaints attending respiration as e.g. stitches, etc. Palpitation of the heart with anguish.

Female: Sexual desire too strong. Nymphomania. Menstruation too early; discharge of blood before the proper time; acrid leucorrhœa. Mammary glands, especially when there are stitching pains in them and are threatened with abscess.

Exanthema which comes out in pustules; is scaly. Ulcers in general. Summer freckles; hard swellings here and there on the body; wounds that bleed very much, even if very small; wounds which appear to have healed, break out again and bleed; wounds that continually heal and break out again.

Falling asleep late; complaints preventing sleep; general sleepiness in the daytime; overpowering sleep coming on after dinner, if only a moderate dinner has been eaten; sleeplessness before midnight; sleeplessness with drowsiness. Dreams anxious, vivid.

Pulse changed in general; very quick. Internal or external heat of single parts; flushes of heat; perspiration viscid.

Of emptiness in the abdominal cavity; of heat or burning in the bock, between the shoulder-blades. Neuralgia of the head, when it must be kept warmly wrapped up night and day. Burning pain of external parts, or of internal parts; inner parts with sensation of dryness; of fulness, of itching or tickling; of knocking, beating, or throbbing; of darting; darting pain; of roughness--all occurring in inner parts. Stitching pains.

Affections of the inner chest; of the shin-bones; of the bones of the legs; of the right upper or right lower extremity; right upper or right lower side. Profuse secretion of mucus. Affections of the axillary glands; inflammation of the glands in general; glands painful, particularly stitching pains; hot swelling of the glands. Bleeding from the inner parts; threatened phthisis pulmonalis.

In the morning; in the evening; before falling asleep; on waking; before breakfast; after taking cold; while coughing; before or after eating; from violent bleeding; from spraining parts; while lying on the bock; lying on left side; from laughing (often producing cough); from light in general; light of the lamp; warm food. Very thirsty; takes water, likes it, feels better, water gets warm in the stomach and is vomited. Reading aloud; from strong smells; after stool (exhausted, etc.); while swallowing drink; in the wind; when singing; when the weather changes either way.

In the dark; lying on right side; from being mesmerized; from rubbing; from scratching; after sleep; from cold things; cold food; cold water (till it gets warm).

Bellad., Bryon., Calc. carb., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

Nux vom.

Pulsations, sticking and burning in the brain. As soon as water becomes warm in the stomach, it is thrown up. Chronic painless diarrhoea of undigested food, with much thirst during the night. Frequent diarrhoea during cholera time; cholerina. Constipation; feces slender, long, dry, tough and hard, like a dog's; voided with difficulty. Cannot talk on account of pain in larynx. Pains in chest with coughing, relieved by external pressure. Dry tickling cough in the evening, with tightness across the chest. Trembling of the whole body while coughing. Can lie only on right side. Small wounds bleed much. Cough worse in evening and night, from change from warm to cold air. Most symptoms aggravated before midnight, and during a thunder storm.

Phosphorus

Phosphorus irritates, inflames and degenerates mucous membranes, irritates and inflames serous membranes, inflames spinal cord and nerves, causing paralysis, destroys bone, especially the lower jaw and tibia; disorganizes the blood, causing fatty degeneration of blood vessels and every tissue and organ of the body and thus gives rise to hæmorrhages, and hæmatogenous jaundice.

Produces a picture of destructive metabolism. Causes yellow atrophy of the liver and sub-acute hepatitis. Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous debility, emaciation, amative tendencies, seem to be under the special influence of Phosphorus. Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms. Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc. Polycythemia. Blood extravasations; fatty degenerations, cirrhosis, caries, are pathological states often calling for Phosphorus. Muscular pseudo-hypertrophy, neuritis. Inflammation of the respiratory tract. Paralytic symptoms. Ill effects of iodine and excessive use of salt; worse, lying on left side. Tertiary syphilis, skin lesions, and nervous debility. Scurvy. Pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis. Ataxia and adynamia. Osteo myelitis. Bone fragility.

Great lowness of spirits. Easily vexed. Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner. Clairvoyant state. Great tendency to start. Over-sensitive to external impressions. Loss of memory. Memory. Paralysis of the insane. Ecstasy. Dread of death when alone. Brain feels tired. Insanity, with an exaggerated idea of one's own importance. Excitable, produces heat all over. Restless, fidgety. Hypo-sensitive, indifferent.

Vertigo of the aged, after rising (Bry). Heat comes from spine. Neuralgia; parts must be kept warm. Burning pains. Chronic congestion of head. Brain-fag, with coldness of occiput. Vertigo, with faintness. Skin of forehead feels too tight. Itching of scalp, dandruff, falling out of hair in large bunches.

Cataract. Sensation as if everything were covered with a mist or veil, or dust, or something pulled tightly over eyes. Black points seem to float before the eyes. Patient sees better by shading eyes with hand. Fatigue of eyes and head even without much use of eyes. Green halo about the candlelight (Osmium). Letters appear red. Atrophy of optic nerve. Œdema of lids and about e eyes. Pearly white conjunctiva and long curved lashes. Partial loss of vision from abuse of tobacco (Nux) Pain in orbital bones. Paresis of extrinsic muscles. Diplopia, due to deviation of the visual axis. Amaurosis from sexual excess. Glaucoma. Thrombosis of retinal vessels and degenerative changes in retinal cells. Degenerative changes where soreness and curved lines are seen in old people. Retinal trouble with lights and hallucination of vision.

Hearing difficult, especially to human voice. Re-echoing of sounds (Caust). Dullness of hearing after typhoid.

Fan-like motion of nostrils (Lyc). Bleeding; epistaxis instead of menses. Over-sensitive smell, (Carbol ac; Nux). Periostitis of nasal bones. Foul imaginary odors (Aur). Chronic catarrh, with small hæmorrhages; handkerchief is always bloody. Polypi; bleeding easily (Calc; Sang).

Pale, sickly complexion; blue rings under eyes. Hippocratic countenance. Tearing pain in facial bones; circumscribed redness in one or both cheeks. Swelling and necrosis of lower jaw (Amphisbæna; Hecla lava).

Swelled and easily bleeding gums, ulcerated. Toothache after washing clothes. Tongue dry, smooth, red or white, not thickly coated. Persistent bleeding after tooth extraction. Nursing sore mouth. Burning in œsophagus. Dryness in pharynx and fauces. Thirst for very cold water. Stricture of œsophagus.

Hunger soon after eating. Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal. Belching large quantities of wind, after eating. Throws up ingesta by the mouthfuls. Vomiting; water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach. Post-operative vomiting. Cardiac opening seems contracted, too narrow; the food scarcely swallowed, comes up again (Bry; Alum). Pain in stomach; relieved by cold food, ices. Region of stomach painful to touch, or on walking. Inflammation of stomach, with burning extending to throat and bowels. Bad effects of eating too much salt.

Feels cold (Caps). Sharp, cutting pains. A very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity. Liver congested. Acute hepatitis. Fatty degeneration (Carbon tetrachloride; Ars. Chlorof). Jaundice. Pancreatic disease. Large, yellow spots on abdomen.

Very fetid stools and flatus. Long, narrow, hard, like a dog's. Difficult to expel. Desire for stool on lying on, left side. Painless, copious debilitating diarrhœa. Green mucus with grains like sago. Involuntary; seems as if anus remained open. Great weakness after stool. Discharge of blood from rectum, during stool. White, hard stools. Bleeding hæmorrhoids.

Hæmaturia, especially in acute Bright's disease (Canth). Turbid, brown, with red sediment.

Lack of power. Irresistible desire; involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams.

Metritis. Chlorosis. Phlebitis. Fistulous tracks after mammary abscess. Slight hæmorrhage from uterus between periods. Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long. Weeps before menses. Stitching pain in mammæ. Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses. Amenorrhœa, with vicarious menstruation (Bry). Suppuration of mammæ, burning, watery, offensive discharge. Nymphomania. Uterine polyps.

Hoarseness; worse evenings. Larynx very painful. Clergyman's sore throat; violent tickling in larynx while speaking. Aphonia, worse evenings, with rawness. Cannot talk on account of pain in larynx. Cough from tickling in throat; worse, cold air, reading, laughing, talking, from going from warm room into cold air. Sweetish taste while coughing. Hard, dry, tight, racking cough. Congestion of lungs. Burning pains, heat and oppression of chest. Tightness across chest; great weight on chest. Sharp stitches in chest; respiration quickened, oppressed. Much heat in chest. Pneumonia, with oppression; worse, lying on left side. Whole body trembles, with cough. Sputa rusty, blood-colored, or purulent. Tuberculosis in tall, rapidly-growing young people. Do not give it too low or too frequently here, it may but hasten the destructive degeneration of tubercular masses. Repeated hæmoptysis (Acal). Pain in throat on coughing. Nervous coughs provoked by strong odors, entrance of a stranger; worse in the presence of strangers; worse lying upon left side; in cold room.

Violent palpitation with anxiety, while lying on left side. Pulse rapid, small, and soft. Heart dilated, especially right. Feeling of warmth in heart.

Burning in back; pain as if broken. Heat between the shoulder-blades. Weak spine.

Ascending sensory and motor paralysis from ends of fingers and toes. Stitches in elbow and shoulder joints. Burning of feet. Weakness and trembling, from every exertion. Can scarcely hold anything with his hands. Tibia inflamed and becomes necrosed. Arms and hands become numb. Can lie only on right side. Post-diphtheritic paralysis, with formication of hands and feet. Joints suddenly give way.

Great drowsiness, especially after meals. Coma vigil. Sleeplessness in old people. Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage. Lascivious dreams. Goes to sleep late and awakens weak. Short naps and frequent wakings.

Chilly every evening. Cold knees at night. Adynamic with lack of thirst, but unnatural hunger. Hectic, with small, quick pulse; viscid night-sweats. Stupid delirium. Profuse perspiration.

Wounds bleed very much, even if small; they heal and break out again. Jaundice. Little ulcer outside of large ones. Petechiæ. Ecchymosis. Purpura hæmorrhagia. Scurvy. Fungous hematodes and excrescences.

Worse, touch; physical or mental exertion; twilight; warm food or drink; change of weather, from getting wet in hot weather; evening; lying on left or painful side; during a thunder-storm; ascending stairs. Better, in dark, lying on right side, cold food; cold; open air; washing with col water; sleep.

Complementary: Ars; Cepa; Lyc; Silica. Sanguisuya 30-Leech--(Persistent hæmorrhages; effects of use of leeches). Phosph pentachloride (great soreness of mucous membrane of eyes and nose, throat and chest sore).

Incompatible: Caust.

Compare: Tuberculinum follows Phosphor well and complements its action. Phosphorus hydrogenatus (crumbling teeth; hyperæsthesia; locomotor ataxia); Amphisbæna (right jaw swollen and painful). Thymol (Typical sexual neurasthenia; irritable stomach; aching throughout lumbar region; worse, mental and physical exertion); Calc; Chin; Antim; Sep; Lyc; Sulph. In Pneumonia, Pneumococin 200 and Pneumotoxin (Cahis) taken from the Diplococcus lanceolatus of Fraenkel. Pneumonia and paralytic phenomena; pleuritic pain and pain in ilio-cecal region (Cartier).

Antidote: Antidote to Phosph. Poisoning: Turpentine with which it forms an insoluble mass. Also Potass permang. Nux. Phos antidotes the nausea and vomiting of chloroform and ether.

Third to thirtieth potency. Should not be given too low or in too continuous doses. Especially in tuberculous cases. It may act as Euthanasia here.

Tall, slender, narrow-chested, phthisical patients, delicate eyelashes, soft hair or nervous, weak persons who like to be magnetized. Waxy, half anæmic, jaundiced persons.

Anxious, universal restlessness, cant stand or sit still. < in dark or when left alone, before a thunder storm.

Burnings prominent in every place, as in mouth, stomach, small intestines, anus, between scapulæ, intense, running up spine, palms of hands, heat begins in hands, spreads to face.

Craving for cold things, ice cream, which agrees, or cold water, which is thrown up as it gets warm in the stomach. Must eat often or he faints. Must get up at night to eat.

Sinking, faint, empty feeling in head, chest, stomach and whole abdominal cavity.

Cough, < twilight till midnight, < lying on left side, > on right side. Right lower lobe most affected.

Diarrhœa, profuse, pouring out as from a hydrant; watery with sagolike particles or dysenteric, with wide open anus.

Apathetic, unwilling to talk, answers slowly, moves sluggishly.

Constipation: fæces slender, long, dry, tough and hard like a dog's; voided with difficulty.

Hæmorrhagic diathesis; slight wounds bleed profusely, hæmoptysis; metrorrhagia worse; vicarious, from nose, stomach, anus, urethra in amenorrhœa.

Cannot talk; the larynx is so painful; cough, going from warm to cold air, laughing, talking, reading, eating lying on left side (Dros., Stan.).

As a general characteristic, Burning is almost as strong under this remedy as under Arsenicum and Sulphur. There is no organ or tissue in which it may not be found, from the outer skin to the innermost surface of every tract or parenchyma. It may be subjective only without actual rise of temperature, or it may attend organic changes in malignant diseases, with great rise of temperature. The sensation of burning in an intense degree should always place Phosphorus in the front rank for consideration. Again, there is perhaps no remedy having stronger action on The Nervous System. It attacks it in its very citadel of strength, the brain and spinal cord, producing softening or atrophy with all its attendant symptoms in their order, as prostration, trembling, numbness, and complete paralysis. It does this in both acute and chronic form of disease.

It will be found in acute typhoids as well as in that slowly progressive disease, locomotor ataxia. Its causes may be sudden, like pneumonia, typhus, exanthematic diseases, croup, bronchitis, when vitality reaches its lowest ebb, or may arise in a condition undermined by grief, care, or excessive mental exertion; excess in venery or onanism.

Its action at the first may be characterized by a burning heat in various parts, and especially in the skin, with restless moving and anxiety, especially at twilight. Over-sensitiveness of all senses, such as external impressions; light, odors, noises, touch, etc., and later when organic changes have taken place the other extreme, of loss of motion, sensation, and sensitiveness obtains.

In the former state there is one very characteristic symptom, the patient moves continually, can't sit or stand still a moment. Instead of fidgety feet, like Zincum, he is fidgety all over. Phosphorus affects every tissue. The blood becomes broken down or impoverished. Chlorosis and pernicious anæmia obtain. Apis and Kali carb. also each have anæmia or a pale waxy or what is called bloodless appearance of the patient. They all have œdema or bloating, and there is one peculiar difference in the face between them. In Kali carb. the upper lids bloat and hang down like a bag of water. In Apis it is more in the lower lids, while in Phosphorus they bloat all around the eyes; and the whole face bloats. Under Phosphorus the blood becomes so broken down that it will not clot any more, and we have purpura hæmorrhagica. Even in apparently healthy tissues we have this strong characteristic discovered by Hahnemann, viz.: "Slight wounds bleed much." This is what is called the hæmorrhagic diathesis, and much to be feared, as many persons having it may bleed to death from any slight abrasion; and this same tendency to bleed extends to fungoid growths like fibroids, fungoids, cancers, etc., and are very dangerous and troublesome.

Then again Phosphorus attacks the bones in the form of necrosis. It is so especially of the lower jaw, but is also true of other parts, as the vertebræ; and I once cured a very extensive and long standing case of caries of the tibia with it.

Fatty degeneration of heart, liver and kidneys, with the characteristic anæmic condition, should call attention to this remedy. General emaciation, rapid or slowly progressing like atrophy in children, also comes under its tissue destroying power.

And so we find it to be a remedy of wide range and great power. But it is never enough for the homœopathist to know simply the action in general upon any organ or set of organs. He must know how it acts differently from other remedies when acting upon the same tissue or organs. Now while Phosphorus acts upon the mind, to cause, "great anxiety and restlessness" as in other remedies, Aconite, Arsenicum, etc, it must be remembered that it is the anxiety and restlessness that precedes another state.

It belongs to a stage of irritation in the brain and nervous system which if not checked will go on to organic changes, which will be attended with a very different set of symptoms such as come for instance from actual brain softening in which appears apathy, sluggishness; talks slowly, is indifferent or won't talk at all. There is one particular symptom worthy of note: the patient fears to be left alone; is afraid: afraid of the dark, in a thunder storm, etc. This is more during the irritable stage of which we have spoken. Phosphorus is a great remedy in typhoids, especially with lung complications, and here we often get stupor and low muttering delirium like Lachesis, but while Lachesis is worse after sleep, Phosphorus is generally better, if he can get to sleep. In the late stage of brain or nervous troubles, calling for this remedy, we find the patient losing all ambition to do anything; either mental or physical labor is shunned. There is great indifference. He cannot think with his usual clearness; cannot apply himself to study or mental operations, ideas come slowly or not at all. Again the patient is sometimes amative, or like Hyoscyamus shamelessly exposes himself.

There is no remedy that covers a greater variety of mind symptoms arising from brain trouble than Phosphorus. No remedy produces greater vertigo, with a longer list of various connections. I have found it one of the best and oftenest indicated for vertigo of the aged. Chronic congestion to the head is characteristic, and the sense of burning in the brain is prominent; the heat and congestion seems to come up from the spine.

Heat running up the back is more characteristic of this than any other remedy. Deafness is prominent, and is peculiar, in that it is especially deafness to the human voice, a common symptom in the aged. The most frequent use I have made of the remedy in nose affections is in a chronic catarrh, in which the patient frequently blows small quantities of blood from the nose; the handkerchief is always bloody.

As I said when writing upon the tissues, the face of Phosphorus is characteristically pale and bloated around the eyes, but in pneumonia we often find circumscribed redness of the cheek upon the side of the lung inflamed. This is also true with Sanguinaria. About the mouth and tongue I do not know anything particularly characteristic. It has a peculiar symptom of the throat. The food swallowed comes up immediately as if it had never reached the stomach. This is supposed to be due to spasmodic stricture of the œsophagus.

Under appetite and thirst we have some very valuable indications for this remedy.

Hunger is one, must eat often or he faints; right after or soon after a meal, is hungry; hungry in the night; must eat. He is relieved by eating, but is soon hungry again. This calls to mind Iodine, Chelidonium, Petroleum, Anacardium, etc.

The thirst is also peculiar. He wants cold things, like Pulsatilla, but as soon as they get warm in the stomach they are vomited.

Some people have an abnormal craving for salt, or salt food, and eat too much of it. Phosphorus is a good remedy to counteract the bad effects. (Nat. mur.).

We have many kinds of vomiting under Phosphorus, but nothing characteristic except the one already mentioned.

We have already spoken of the hungry, faint feeling in the stomach. Sometimes this is described as an empty, gone feeling, and here again we think of such remedies as Ignatia, Hydrastis, Sepia and others; but Phosphorus does not stop here with this sensation, but extends through the whole abdomen. No remedy has this feeling in the abdomen so strong as Phosphorus. Under stool and rectum occur some very characteristic symptoms also, for instance: Stools profuse, watery, pouring away as from a hydrant, with lumps of white mucus, like grains of tallow. Stools bloody, with small white particles like opaque frog-spawn. Stools involuntarily oozing from a constantly open anus, or dysenteric stools with wide-open anus and great tenesmus. Constipation; fæces slender, long, dry, tough like dog stools. No remedy has a richer array of stool symptoms, and as we see by the above few select ones, some of them are very unique and have often been verified. It will repay any physician to carefully and frequently look them over.

This remedy powerfully excites the sexual appetite in both sexes. It is almost irresistible, and leads the patient into a mania in which he will expose himself. This is succeeded by the opposite extreme of impotence, though the desire remains after the ability to perform is gone. Of course, these sexual symptoms are accompanied with concomitant symptoms of the drug.

Upon the female sexual organs Phosphorus is true to its general hæmorrhagic tendencies; if the menses do not appear, there is often vicarious bleeding from the nose or lungs instead. Phosphorus is bound to bleed. It is so with cancer of the womb or breasts also. They bleed easily. Upon the respiratory organs also this is one of our greatest remedies. Beginning with the voice and larynx, it causes and cures great hoarseness. Patient can hardly make a loud noise, and is apt to be worse in the evening or fore-part of the night. There is pain in the larynx, worse by talking, or can't talk at all on account of it. In croup, it sometimes comes in after Aconitum and Spongia have failed. The disease has progressed downward until it involves the bronchi and parenchyma of the lungs. It is of indispensable value here, and, also when, after the violence of the affection seems to have abated, the patient hoarses up every evening and seems to be inclined to relapse.

In bronchitis the cough is tight, worse from evening to midnight, also from speaking, laughing, reading aloud (Argentum met.), cold, and lying on left side. The patient suppresses the cough with a moan just as long as he can, because it hurts him so. The whole body trembles with the cough.

It has great oppression of breathing in both acute and chronic affections of the lungs. There is heaviness, as of a weight on the chest. In pneumonia, for which Phosphorus is one of our best remedies, it attacks by preference the lower half of the right lung. It is apt to be indicated by the symptoms, either at the beginning of the stage of hepatization, when it puts a stop to the further progress of the disease, but its more frequent application comes in where the stage of hepatization is past and we want to break it up and promote absorption or resolution. Here it has no equal, as I am fully convinced by abundant experience.

Now, do not misunderstand and give the remedy blindly on a pathological indication only. If you do you will sometimes fail, and ought to. But I repeat, this remedy will oftener be found the indicated one here than any other. After the hepatization begins to break up, other remedies like Tartar emetic, Sulphur and Lycopodium will come in.

In pleuritis you will find stitches in the left side increased by lying upon the left side. Remember in both affections Phosphorus is characteristically increased by lying upon the left side.

In tuberculosis, it is oftenest indicated in the incipient stage with symptom of cough, oppression and general weakness already mentioned; but I have often found it indicated in the later stages, and if given very high and in the single dose and not repeated have seen it greatly benefit even incurable cases. If given too low and repeated it will fearfully aggravate.

One of the most characteristic symptoms of this remedy is, "feeling of intense heat running up the back." Again the burning may be in spots along the spine. Also it has intense heat burning between the scapula (See also Lycopodium.) These, like the rest of the burning of Phosphorus, often occur in diseases of the spine and nervous system, but not necessarily so. Like Zinc, these burnings may be purely subjective, but are none the less valuable as therapeutic indications.

Another very characteristic symptom of Phosphorus is burning of the hands. It is as strong as the burning feet of Sulphur, and is found both in acute and chronic diseases; cannot bear to have the hands covered. The flashes of heat all over (which Phosphorus has) begin in the hands and spread from there even to the face. It now remains to call attention to the Constitution of Phosphorus.

1. "Tall, slender persons of sanguine temperament, fair skin, blonde or red hair, quick, lively perception and sensitive nature."

2. "Tall, slender phthisical patients, delicate eyelashes, soft hair."

3. "Tall, slender women disposed to stoop."

4. "Young people who grow too rapidly and are inclined to stoop."

5. "Nervous, weak persons who like to be magnetized."

Now, in number four there is not the tendency to grow fat, like Calcarea carbonica, but tall, and you will notice that the Phosphorus element in Calcarea phosphorica takes away the fat producing property of the Calcarea element.

Now, in closing, we desire to say we have only touched upon the wonderful virtues of this drug, which must be studied in its entirety. Enough, however, we trust to convince of its great value.

Great excitability ; becomes easily vexed and angry, which makes him exceedingly vehement, from which he suffers afterwards. Great anxiety and restlessness, especially when alone, or during a thunder-storm. Zoomagnetic condition ; clairvoyance. Ecstasy. Melancholy depression, sometimes with shedding of tears or with attacks of involuntary laughter.

Vertigo when rising from the bed in the morning ; when rising from a seat, with fainting and falling to the floor ; worse in the morning and after meals. Stupefying headache in the morning when moving, and worse on stooping ; ceasing for a short time after eating ; better when lying, down and in the cold air. Congestion to the head, with burning, singing and pulsations in the head, red face, puffiness under the eyes ; worse in the morning when sitting, and in the evening in bed. Burning in the forehead, with pulsations in the morning and in, the afternoon ; after eating worse in the warm room, better when walking in the open air. Sensation of emptiness in the head, with vertigo. Sensation of coldness in the cerebellum, with sensation of stiffness of the brain. Pulsation in the head, with singing and burning in it, mostly in the forehead, with nausea and vomiting from morning till noon ; worse from music, while masticating and in the warm room. Inflammation of the brain, with pulsations and singing in the head ; the heat enters the head from the spine, and from it extends to the feet ; worse in the warm room, better when moving about in the cold air. Headache over the left eye. Tension in the skin of the forehead and in the face, as if the skin was not large enough, frequently only on one side ; worse from change of temperature and while eating ; better after eating, with anxiety. Itching on the scalp, worse from scratching, with dandruff. Dry, painful heat of the scalp, compelling one to uncover the head, the temperature of the body not increased ; better when lying down. Clammy perspiration on the head only, and in the palms of the hands, with discharge of much turbid urine. Falling off of the hair in large bundles on the forepart of the head, and on the sides above the ears. The headache is aggravated from music, laughing, and in the warm room.

Burning in the eyes, with profuse lachrymation in the wind. Agglutination in the eyes in the morning, with lachrymation in the open air ; worse in the wind. Inflammation of the eyes, with pressing and burning pains. Pain in the bones of the orbit of the eye. Aversion to light. Pupils contracted. Mistiness of sight ; dim-sightedness (gauze before the eyes). Halo around the candle. Black motes floating before the eyes (muscæ volitantes). Momentary loss of sight, as from fainting. Cataracta viridis.

Roaring before the ears. Hardness of hearing, especially of the human voice.

Bleeding from the nose, during stool ; blowing of blood from the nose. Swelling and redness of the nose. Painful dryness of the nose. Bad smell from the nose ; foul smell. Over-sensitiveness of smell. Polypus of the nose (bleeding easily). Profuse discharge of green (or yellow) mucus from the nose, without coryza. Freckles on the nose.

Pale, hippocratic countenance. The color of the face is very changeable. Bloated face ; puffiness under the eyes ; eyes sunken, a blue ring under them. Circumscribed red spot on the cheeks. Tearing and stinging in the facial bones. Ulcerated corners of the mouth. Bluish lips.

Pricking-stinging in the teeth ; worse in the open air, and from warm food. Necrosis of the (left) lower jaw ; swelling of the jaw bones. Swelled and easily bleeding gums ; inflamed gums, with ulcers on them. Toothache after washing clothes. Tongue dry, white, coated with white mucus. Stinging in the tip of the tongue. Burning in the œsophagus. Dryness of the throat day and night. Spasmodic constriction of the œsophagus. Tonsils and uvula are much swollen. Saliva increased, saltish, sweetish ; soreness of the mouth. Spitting of blood. Hawking of mucus in the morning.

Want of appetite, caused by a fulness in the throat. Hunger soon alter eating. Immoderate hunger, especially at night (during an attack of gout), with great weakness, so great that he faints if the hunger is not soon allayed. Thirst, with longing for something refreshing. Taste saltish, sour, sweetish ; bitter after eating. After eating sleepiness. Frequent empty and sour eructations. Rising up of sour ingesta. Throwing up of the ingesta by mouthfuls. Vomiting of bile ; of what has been drunk as soon as it becomes warm in the stomach ; of blood ; sour. Painfulness of the stomach to the touch and when walking. Load rumbling and rolling in the intestines. Great pressure in the stomach after eating. Burning in the stomach ; inflammation of the stomach. Spasms of the stomach. The cardiac opening of the stomach seems contracted (too narrow), the food scarcely swallowed comes up again. The pains in the stomach are relieved by cold food (ice-cream, ice). Soreness of the abdomen to the touch when walking. Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. Flaccidity of the abdomen. Large yellow spots on the abdomen.

Constipation ; the small-shaped, hard stool is expelled with great difficulty. Stools very soft, pap-like. Painless, debilitating diarrhœa (worse in the morning). Stools black or green ; watery, with flakes of mucus ; bloody ; involuntary ; indigested. Discharge of blood from the rectum, also during stool. Spasms in the rectum. Paralysis of the lower intestines ; of the sphincter ani. Discharge of mucus out of the wide open anus. Stinging or itching at the anus. Hæmorrhoidal tumors easily bleeding.

Increased secretion of watery, pale urine. Frequent micturition, but a small quantity each time. Hæmaturia. Urine whitish, like curdled milk, soon becoming turbid with brick-dust sediment, with a variegated cuticle on the surface. Twitching and burning in the urethra, with frequent desire to urinate. Involuntary discharge of urine.

Men. Sexual desire increased, with irresistible desire coition. Impotence. Frequent involuntary seminal emissions. Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse, and of too long duration, or too early and too scanty (and watery). Stitches upward in the vagina into the pelvis. During menstruation pains in the small of the back ; palpitation of the heart. Sterility on account of excessive voluptuousness, or if the menstruation comes on too late and is too profuse. Leucorrhœa acrid, drawing blisters and excoriating. Inflammation (erysipelatous), even after the formation of pus. Ulceration of the mammæ, with hardness ; bluish color ; fistulous openings, with burning and stinging.

Hoarseness ; loss of voice. Great painfulness of the larynx, preventing talking. Stitches, soreness, roughness and dryness in the larynx. Croup ; bronchitis. Cough, with stitches over one eye ; splitting headache ; dryness and burning in the throat, hoarseness, aphonia, soreness, roughness and dryness in the larynx. Cough, dry, from tickling in the throat and chest ; from cold air ; from reading aloud or from talking ; from laughing, from eating and drinking ; from a change in the weather, and from strong odors ; from lying on the left side or on the back. Cough, with expectoration in the morning, without expectoration in the evening ; expectoration bloody, frothy, pale-red, rust-colored, streaked with blood, purulent, white and tough ; cold mucus, tasting sour, salt or sweet. Hollow, hacking, spasmodic tickling cough, especially if caused by tickling in the chest. Cough worse in the evening and at night. Respiration oppressed, quick, anxious. Difficult inspiration ; heaviness, fulness and tension on the chest. Congestions to the chest ; anxiety in the chest. Constrictive spasms in the chest. Inflammation of the lungs (left side), with stitches in the sides of the chest. Pneumonia nervosa (lungs hepatized). Tuberculosis (phthisis mucosa). Palpitation of the heart from every mental emotion. Yellow spots on the chest.

Pain in the back as if it were broken, impeding all motion. Stiffness of the neck. Stitches in the shoulder-blades. Pain in the small of the back when rising from a stooping position. Burning in the back or small of the back. Tabes dorsalis.

Trembling of the limbs from every exertion. Upper. Rheumatic pains in the arm, especially in the joints. Trembling of the hands, if holding any thing. Burning in the palms of the hands ; clammy perspiration in the palms of the hands (and on the head). Numbness and insensibility of the fingers. Lower. Rheumatic stiffness of the knee. Rheumatic pain extending from the knee to the feet. Swelling of the feet, with stinging. Pains in the soles of the feet, as if bruised. Nightly tearing pain in the feet of pregnant women. Swelling of the tibia. Numbness of the toes. Corns and chilblains on the toes.

Great emaciation. Great nervous debility ; trembling in all the limbs from the least exertion. Over-sensitiveness of all the senses. Burning in the body and limbs internally and externally. Sensation of dryness or of festering in internal parts. Increased secretion of mucus. Hæmorrhages from internal organs. Inflammation and stinging pain of inner parts. Ebullitions and congestions. Itching of inner arts. Sprains, easy dislocations sleep. Sleepiness in day-time. Sleeplessness before midnight ; goes to sleep late. Wakes frequently in the night. Sleepiness with drowsiness (coma vigil). Anxious, vivid dreams. Frequent waking from feeling too hot without perspiration. Somnambulism.

Pulse generally accelerated, full and hard ; occasionally small and weak. Chill, generally only in the evening, without thirst, with aversion to being uncovered and with swollen veins on the hands. Internal chilliness and chill not relieved by the heat of the stove. Chilliness and heat alternately during the night. Chilliness in the evening till midnight, with great weakness, and sleep. Chill at night with diarrhœa. Chill running down the back. Flushes of heat over the whole body, beginning in the hands. Heat with anxiety and burning in the hands and face, in the afternoon and evening. Heat at night disturbing the sleep. Heat running up the back. Heat with desire to sleep. Perspiration most profuse on the head, hands and feet, with increased secretion of urine. Perspiration only on the forepart of the body. Profuse perspiration after midnight and in the morning-hours, followed by great debility. Clammy perspiration. The perspiration frequently smells of sulphur. Intermittent fever. Heat and perspiration at night, with faintness and ravenous hunger, which could not be satisfied by eating ; afterwards chilliness, with chattering of teeth and external coldness ; the chilliness was succeeded by internal heat, especially in the hands, while the external coldness continued. Chilliness in the afternoon, followed by heat and thirst with internal chilliness ; heat and perspiration followed, lasting all night. Fevers with soporous condition, dry black lips and tongue and open mouth. Typhus fever. Hectic fever.

Blood-boils. Fungus hæmatodes ; small wounds bleed much. Polypus. Petechiæ. Red spots. Dry herpes. Burning in the skin. Pustulous and scaly exanthema. Yellow spots (chest and abdomen). Freckles (nose). Swelling of the bones (left lower jaw, tibia). Glandular diseases especially after contusions. Chilblains (fingers, toes). Corns.

Liability to take cold, and from it stinging and tearing in the limbs. Sensitiveness to cool weather and to the open air. The head and face symptoms are relieved by the cold air, but the chest symptoms are aggravated by it. Aggravation; in the evening, at night, especially before midnight ; after breakfast ; when alone ; after eating (something warm), when lying on the back or on the left side ; when rising from a seat ; from light ; during a thunder storm ; from a change of weather ; from singing, laughing, strong smells (cough). Amelioration; in the dark ; while lying on the right side ; from rubbing ; after sleeping ; from eating something cold. Especially suitable for lean, slender persons. In a condition of great debility the person is much easier beneficially affected by Phosphor., being mesmerized before taking the remedy. Phosphor, is an antidote to over-doses of Camphor.

The Element. P. (A. W. 30.96). Saturated solution in absolute alcohol. Trituration of Red amorphous Phosphorus.

Alopecia areata. Amaurosis. Amblyopia. Anæmia, acute pernicious . Anus, fissure of. Antrum, disease of. Arteries, disease of . Asthma. Bone, diseases of. Brain, affections of ; softening of. Brain-fag. Breast, abscess of; fistulæ of. Bronchitis ; membranous. Cancer; of bone. Cataract . Catarrh; intestinal; nasal. Chilblains. Chlorosis. Chorea. Ciliary neuralgia. Coccygodynia. Cold. Constipation. Consumption. Corpulency. Cough . Croup. Dandruff. Diarrhœa. Dropsy. Ecchymosis. Enteric fever . Ephelis. Epilepsy. Erotomania . Exophthalmos. Exostosis. Eyes, affections of . Fainting. Fatty degeneration . Fistula. Flatulence. Fungus hæmatoides. Gastritis . Glaucoma. Gleet. Gums, ulceration of. Hæmoglobinuria. Hæmorrhagic diathesis . Headache. Heart, degeneration of ; murmurs of. Hydrocele. Hydrocephalus . Hysteria. Impotence. Intussusception. Jaundice ; malignant; of pregnancy; of anæmia. Jaw, disease of. Joints, affections of . Keratitis. Lactation, disorders of. Laryngitis . Levitation. Lightning, effects of. Lienteria. Liver, diseases of; acute yellow atrophy of. Locomotor ataxy. Lumps, hæmorrhage from ; œdema of; paralysis of. Marasmus. Menorrhagia. Menstruation, symptoms before. Mollities ossium. Morphœa. Muscæ volitantes. Nævus. Nails, ulcers round. Neuralgia . Nightmare. Nipples, sore. Nose, bleeding from. Numbness . Nymphomania. Odour of body, changed. Œsophagus, pain in . Ozæna. Pancreas, disorders of. Paralysis; pseudo-hypertrophic; general of insane . Periostitis. Perspiration, abnormal . Petit mal. Plague. Pneumonia. Polypus . Pregnancy, vomiting of. Proctalgia. Proctitis. Progressive muscular atrophy . Pruritus ani. Psoriasis. Puerperal convulsions. Purpura. Pylorus, thickening of . Retinitis. Rheumatism; paralytic. Rickets. Screaming . Scurvy. Shiverings. Sleep, disordered . Somnambulism. Spine, curvature of . Spleen, enlargement of. Sprains. Stammering. Sterility. Syphilis. Syringo-myclia. Throat, mucus in. Tobacco habit. Trachea, tickling in . Tuberculosis. Tumours; erectile; polypoid; cancerous. Typhus fever. Ulcers. Urethra, stricture of . Vaccinia. Variola. Voice, loss of. Whitlow . Wounds. Yellow fever.

Phosphorus (Light-bearer, Morning Star) "was discovered in 1673 by Brandt, an alchymist of Hamburgh, and shortly afterwards by Kunkel, in Saxony." Teste, from whom I quote, says that attempts were made to use Phos . in medicine immediately after discovery. Kunkel made it into his "luminous pills," and Kramer claimed to have cured with it diarrhœa, epilepsy, and malignant fevers. Teste gives a list of old-school cures, which include: Continuous, bilious, and intermittent fevers; general œdema; measles; two cases of pneumonia of left lung, with ataxic symptoms; chronic rheumatism of the legs; apoplexy; hydrocephalus; periodic headaches (in one case with menstrual irregularity); catalepsy; epilepsy; gutta serena; asthenia facilis; chronic lead poisoning, — a list which shows a very good idea of the range of action of Phos . Hahnemann's proving brought out the fine indications, without which the generals are of little service, and to Hahnemann's symptoms have been added those of later provings and of numerous cases of poisoning, and the effects on workers in match factories, especially necrosis of the lower jaw. The vapour given off by unignited Phos . is Phosphorus oxide . The jaw affection, called "Phossy-jaw" by the workpeople themselves, is accompanied by profound adynamia, and not unfrequently ends in death. The form of the disease differs according to whether the upper or lower jaw is attacked. In the, former case it pursues generally a chronic and mild course, ending in exfoliation, cicatrisation, and cure. In the latter the necrosis may be either acute or chronic., but is always severe, and the patients usually die of "consumptive fever" ( C. D. P .). Here is a typical case quoted in C. D. P . from B. J. H ., iv. 287: J. D., 21, had been four years in a match factory. For two and a half years he had only laryngeal irritation from the local action of the fumes. He then began to cough very much and expectorate thick white mucus. Then most violent toothache set in, with swelling on right side of face. A molar was extracted but without relief, and one tooth after another dropped out. He became too weak to walk. A swelling as big as an egg formed below right orbit, burst in a fortnight, and discharged a large quantity of white pus. He grew worse all the teeth fell out; gums of lower jaw were retracted. Examination found right cheek swollen. At right angle of lower jaw an opening discharging laudable pus, through which a probe can be passed two inches along bare bone, and two inches anterior to this another aperture leads to the same. On opening mouth the whole lower jaw as far as ascending rami and down to reflection of mucous membrane is denuded and of leaden greyish colour. On right upper jaw probe can be passed over bare bone. Pareira ( C. D. P .) has observed in phosphorus workers "a peculiar sallow, bloated complexion, with dull expression of eye and gastric derangement," when there was no affection of the jaws. [Wagner found Phos . symptoms long before local disease appeared, e.g ., cardialgia, anorexia, eructation of gas smelling of Phos .; also dizziness, faintness, and cachectic appearance. The first symptoms in the jaws are tearing pains, the teeth being sound, swelling and suppuration of the gums, and loosening of the teeth follow, and the bone becomes denuded. Langenbeck objects to the term "necrosis," stating that it is a periostitis in which bony deposit occurs, enclosing the jaws more or less as in a sheath. There is no exfoliation. This osteo-periostitis may arise from rheumatism. — - Klin. Woch , Jan. 2, 1872.] In cases of acute poisoning the most remarkable effect noted is acute fatty degeneration of the liver and engorgement of the lungs. At first there is tenderness of the liver, but as it shrinks this passes away. The right lung is more affected than the left. The symptoms of acute Phos . poisoning are exceedingly painful if consciousness is retained; violent tearing pains in œsophagus, chest, stomach; vomiting and diarrhœa; rectal, vesical, uterine tenesmus; bloating of abdomen; sensitiveness to touch; hæmorrhages from all orifices. Death may take place in a few hours, or it may be delayed for months. In the case of a child of 2 1/2 who had sucked the heads of matches, two days afterwards there was some feverish excitement, later violent convulsions, lasting three hours, and ending in death. There were found after death no fewer than ten invaginations of the small intestines, which, however, were empty, and there was no sign of strangulation ( C. D. P .). In a woman, 45, who swallowed the Phos . from 120 matches, Ozanam found a typhoid febrile state, profound prostration; inability to raise herself; dry tongue; much thirst; stomach sensitive; vomiting of black, sooty matter. Death took place on the second day ( C. D. P ). A man, 48, inhaled vapour of burning Phos . Among his symptoms were: A sensation as if something twitched under skin or was creeping between skin and flesh. Twitching of single bundles of fibres at different times like playing on a piano. Tongue when speaking often refuses to move, so that he stammers ( C. D. P .). A case reported by J. O. Müller and translated in C. D. P . brings out some very characteristic symptoms of Phos . A strong woman, 30, took about three grains of Phos . from matches. Among her symptoms were: After eight hours violent and noisy, vomitings. Prostrated, cold, pallid, as if moribund and unconscious. Cold, clammy sweat, general; skin here and there waxy yellow; complexion leaden grey; dark blue rings round eyes; pulse small, hard, slow, unrhythmic, intermitting. Abdomen distended, very sensitive all over, the slightest touch causing violent pains; could not bear weight of nightdress. Senses and mind in unconscious apathy; could only be roused by loud calling into her ear. Aco . 1 every ten minutes revived her. She complained of very violent burning pain in lower chest (œsophagus?), stomach, and whole abdomen < by every touch or change of posture. Vomiting and diarrhœa had ceased, but she still had retching and ineffectual straining at stool with burning like fire in large intestine and anus . She passed with difficulty small quantities of dark yellow urine, smelling strongly of garlic, after micturition very severe burning . Boring, burning pains in bones, especially of skull, palate, nose, jaws, and teeth, < taking cold or warm things into mouth or chewing, only tepid liquid nutriment could be borne. At times numb pain in teeth; they felt loose as if they would fall out. Apathy alternating with angry words and actions. After menses, burning leucorrhœa that made the parts sore. Soft parts of joints swollen. Considerable rigidity of joints. The skin, which had been pale, put on a yellow tint, bloated swellings appeared in places on eyelids and face, pitting on pressure. On nape, back, and other parts the skin could be raised by the fingers in large folds, which slowly smoothed down again. Finally a peculiar exanthema appeared on the skin about the joints like eczema; vesicles in groups turned rapidly into scabs and frequently recurred. Sulph . was given and gradual recovery occurred. In a youth poisoned by Phos . there was nausea and sour taste; milk tasted burnt; every smell (tobacco, wine, beer) < the nausea. One of the provers had: Loathing of butcher's meat and bad appetite. Phosphorus burns are among the most painful of all burns, and the burning sensations of the poisonings are prominent also in the provings: "Glowing sensation throughout epigastrium and chest." "A flame seemed passing through me." "Warming sensation right side of heart and below left clavicle. This heat spread to apex of left scapula and to acromion, when it left the heart." "From 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. remarkable numb feeling in left leg from knee to toes, sometimes sensation as if hot blood flowed into it." Other symptoms from the provings are: "Drawing forcing towards pelvis and rectum as if menses coming on." Intense sexual excitement in men with erections, emissions; later impotence. Dr. Sorge, 34, had this symptom: "Weight in occiput and nape, down whole spine a dull feeling as if over-filled with blood, and in sacrum a peculiar paralytic feeling like what one feels in the limbs when exposed to unavoidable danger; heaviness of feet, which were not placed on ground with usual energy. Walk less strong, often stumbled on a smooth road. Diminished sexual appetite, and feeling as if the penis would not become erect when excitement was present. Mental indifference (quite unusual)." E. R. Heath had some decidedly "phosphorescent" symptoms: Darting, cutting pains, causing much distress, starting from different points and flashing over whole abdomen; imagined an aurora borealis and seemed to hear distinctly voices shouting "Beautiful, oh! was not that splendid?" as the pains became more severe and lasting. He sprang from bed and tried to collect his thoughts; had numbness all over with sensation of myriads of needles slightly pricking him. Throat dry and parched; a flame seemed to pass through him. Feet seemed glued to the floor. With great difficulty he reached the vessel, and as soon as the bowels began to act the pains changed to cramps. Stools were like scrapings of intestines, almost constant, with tenesmus, for over two hours, after which he lay down in bed, weak, sore, almost helpless. The same prover had: Intolerable thirst; drink did not quench it, but caused cold, clammy sweat to exude the moment the water entered the stomach. Later: Involuntary passages, periodic; rectum insensible; sphincter paralysed; slight prolapse after each stool. Stools inodorous save for a slight mouldy smell. H. Noah Martin proved Red amorphous Phosphorus . The symptoms do not differ from those of transparent Phos ., and are included in the Schema. — Such are the materials out of which the picture of the great remedy known in homœopathy by the name Phosphorus has been drawn, the characteristic features being pointed up with the added light and shade of clinical experience. The types of constitution in which Phos . has been found particularly suitable are strongly marked: ( 1 ) Tall, slender persons, of sanguine temperament, fair skin, blonde or red hair, quick, lively perceptions and sensitive nature. ( 2 ) Young people who grow too rapidly and are inclined to stoop; chlorotic; anæmic. [In experiments on young animals Phos . has produced rickets. Kessel ( H. W ., xxxi. 394) gave Phos . to young dogs, in whom it caused fatal disturbance of digestion and fatty liver, and "marked atrophic process where bone was being deposited."] ( 3 ) Persons of waxy, translucent skin; half anæmic, half jaundiced. ( 4 ) Tall, slender, narrow-chested, phthisical patients; delicate eyelashes, soft hair. ( 5 ) Tall, slim, dark-haired persons, especially women, disposed to stoop. ( 6 ) Nervous, weak persons who like to be magnetised. ( 7 ) Hæmorrhagic patients; slight wounds bleed profusely. Phos . profoundly affects the nutrition and function of every tissue, notably the hardest (bone) and the softest (nerve and blood). It causes irritation, erethism, exaltation of all the senses, and later a typhoid state and fatty degeneration. In fevers of typhoid type and in pneumonia Phos . has an important place. It is indicated especially when the morbid action becomes localised in the right lung, particularly the lower lobe. In the year 1876, in the course of a severe attack of typhus fever during my residence in Liverpool, my state, as I am told (for I was in delirium), suddenly became very critical through pneumonic consolidation of the right lung. Phos . was the remedy selected by Drs. Drysdale, Hayward, and Hawkes, who attended me, and under its action I made a rapid recovery. — Hard, dry cough, rusty sputa; < at twilight and till midnight ; < lying on left side ; > lying on right side ; abdomen distended, sore, very sensitive to touch ; stools offensive, bloody, involuntary; the anus appearing to remain open . Each one of the symptoms I have italicised is a keynote of Phos . When any of them are present (with or without the pneumonia) Phos . is likely to be the remedy. The delirium is low, muttering, stupid; or violent; or there may be a state of ecstasy; or odd ideas, that his bones are in fragments and he cannot fit the pieces together. As a leading constituent of nervous matter Phos . has a deep action on the organ of mind and sensation. It produces an excitable condition, exaltation of mental faculties, and the condition which follows over-exertion. The mind, like the special senses, is too excitable and impressionable. Easily angered and becomes vehement; actually gets beside himself with anger and suffers physically in consequence. At other times anxious and restless, especially in the dark and at twilight (the restlessness of Phos . is universal; patient cannot sit or stand still a moment; it belongs to the stage of irritation, and is succeeded by apathy if the condition is not arrested). Imagines he sees faces grinning at him from the corners of the room. Such conditions are found in cases resulting from losses of fluids; over-work of brain; sexual excesses and abuse, and take shape in general paralysis of the insane with mania of grandeur; and in apoplexy and its sequelæ; in Duchenne's pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, in locomotor ataxy and other paralyses. A very characteristic condition of Phos . in nervous cases is fibrillary twitching of individual bundles of fibres in muscles. Numbness and formication in paralysed limbs indicate it in hemiplegia and paraplegia. Spasms on paralysed side. In other cases the burning pains of Phos . are prominent: burning between the scapulæ; burning in spots along the spine; feeling of intense heat running up the back (no other remedy has exactly this symptom). The uncertain gait, neuralgic pain, and fuzzy feeling of the feet, give the correspondence with locomotor ataxy, when the conditions correspond. Epilepsy from masturbation. Petit mal: epilepsy with consciousness. Man of Itzehoe ( H. R ., xv. 268) cured this case of sciatica: An elderly lady had for eight weeks a continual burning pain running along back of left thigh and leg, compelling her to spend most of the day in bed. Entire limb so weak that she could hardly walk. < Lying on left side. > Lying on right side or on back. < By movement. < By cold air. > Being warmly-covered. < In evening. Phos . 6x, every two hours, caused aggravation for the first three days, and after that gave relief, but did not cure. Phos . 30, one powder every evening, completed the cure in a week. But the action of Phos . is not confined to the brain and spinal cord, it also affects the cranial bones and spinal column. I cured mainly with Phos . 1m a case of spinal caries with paralytic symptoms in a lady aged 67. That is, I cured the caries and removed the paralysis, though the curvature remained. There was a history of a strained back thirty-five years before, and of lumbago and sciatica five years before I saw her. She had many pains in the scapula and chest, and could not walk unless supported about the waist. Incidentally Phos . set up a symptom of its own: Dryness of mouth, lips, and throat. Phos . has burning thirst for cold water; cold water relieves, but as soon as it becomes warm in the stomach it is vomited . This is one of the keynotes of Phos ., and distinguishes it from all other remedies in cases of vomiting. Desire for cold foods and preference for cold meat is very characteristic of Phos ., and the cold food, like the cold drink, may be vomited as soon as it becomes warm inside. Ice cream > the gastric pains. There is nausea on putting hands into warm water; sneezing and coryza from putting hands in water. Regurgitation of ingesta in mouthfuls. During pregnancy the sight of water = vomiting. The appetite of Phos . is remarkable: Must eat often or he faints . Hungry soon after a meal; hungry in the night, must eat. Craving for salt ( Phos . remedies the effects of excessive salt-eating). The sinking, faint feeling of Phos. is felt in the whole abdominal cavity ; also in head, chest, and stomach. The stools of Phos . are peculiar, whether constipated or diarrhœic: Long, tough, hard fæces (like a dog's); voided with great difficulty and straining. Diarrhœa as soon as anything enters the rectum; profuse pouring away as from a hydrant; watery with sago-like particles; with sensation as if the anus stood open involuntary; during cholera-time painless; morning of old people bloody stool; blood-streaked stool; stool like shreddy membranes. With the stool there is burning in the anus and tenesmus. There are also pains of all descriptions in the anus, notably stitches shooting up rectum. A man suffering from pneumonia, to whom I gave Phos . 3, after a few days developed attacks of violent pain in rectum and anus, with distension of abdomen and desire for stool; stool light, lumpy, constipated, only passed by aid of glycerine enema; after stool, complete relief of pain; sometimes the attack waked him from sleep. With Phos . 200 I cured a very severe proctalgia coming on at every menstrual period. During urination, and also when not urinating, there is burning in the urethra. Another very characteristic burning of Phos . is burning palms , cannot bear to have the hands covered. Flashes of heat beginning in hands and spreading to face. The fever is more of the yellow fever, typhus, or typhoid, nervous or hectic, type. In intermittents when there is heat at night beginning in stomach; faint and hungry in night; heat of hands. There is also chilliness towards evening; icy coldness of hands, knees, and feet, even in bed. Sweat is anxious, profuse, exhausting on slightest exertion; profuse at night; cold and clammy, smelling of sulphur or of garlic. Phos . corresponds to yellow fever in many particulars; disorganisation of the liver and blood with jaundice; hæmorrhages. It has caused acute fatty degeneration of the liver; and corresponds also to fatty degeneration of pancreas with gastric symptoms and oily stools, and fatty and amyloid degeneration of the kidneys. Phos . stands at the head of hæmorrhagics, and corresponds to the hæmorrhagic diathesis. The blood loses its coagulability. Very small wounds bleed profusely. Blood-streaked discharges are very characteristic when from lungs, nose, bowels, or other orifices. Hæmorrhoids. Menses are more profuse and longer-lasting than usual. There may be vicarious menstruation in the form of hæmoptysis, epistaxis, or hæmaturia. Left ovarian pain. Leucorrhœa which causes blisters. Sexual excitement is great in both sexes, going to the extent of satyriasis and nymphomania. Frequent erections in men, and sexual thoughts entirely beyond the patient's control. Erections in spite of efforts to control passion in young men. Impotence from over-indulgence or from celibacy. The female breasts are the seat of many burning, shooting, cramping pains, and Phos . has proved a leading remedy in mammary abscess and fistulæ. The characteristics are: Erysipelatous appearance; red streaks starting from opening; thin, ichorous discharge. The hæmorrhagic action of Phos . is seen in many forms of pulmonary hæmorrhage and congestion: blood-streaked or rusty sputa; tasting salty; when patients with delicate chests bring up phlegm tinged with blood whenever they take cold Phos . will generally clear up the case. Phthisis florida may also need Phos . It has also a "stomach-" or "liver-" cough; cough comes on after eating, and starts from a tickling in pit of stomach. Cough < when strangers enter the room. Cough < from strong odours (part of the general sensitiveness of the drug). Bronchial catarrh > in all grades may require it. Cough = tearing pain under sternum as if something was being torn loose. Suffocative pains in upper part of chest with constriction of larynx and engorgement of lungs; mucous râles; panting and laboured breathing, even emphysema. After the cough an asthmatic attack. The Conditions of Phos . will generally decide when it should be given. T. D. Stow ( J. of Homœopathics , August, 1890) reports the case of H. B., 52, farmer, who had for six months a sharp pain with soreness in third intercostal space, three inches to left of sternum, limiting inspirations. Dyspnœa on exercise; dry cough during the day till 10 p.m. Thick, yellow, sweetish sputa from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Cough < lying on left side; when talking; when eating and just after eating; on going into cold air; by change of weather. > In fairly warm room; lying on right side. Prefers cold food. Has become alarmed by the persistence of the attack and loss of flesh. Three doses of Phos . 500 (Dunham), taken on three successive days, cured. This case was translated in Hahn. Month , September, 1890, from Alg. H. Zeit .: Whilst walking rapidly against the west wind three months before, X. felt a pain under middle of sternum with sensitiveness of the part to pressure. Pulse rapid. Phos . 6 removed the symptoms for two weeks, when pain and sensitiveness returned, and with the pain a sensation as though gas would rise from epigastrium. Phos . 3 cured. W. A. Nicholas ( H. W ., xxv., 495) reports the case of T. B., 51, whom he saw after a four months illness, which began with congestion of the brain on the sudden death of his wife, and was followed by bronchitis. During all this time he was heavily drugged. A rather long walk brought on a severe attack of angina pectoris. Bell . 1x gave much relief. Nicholas noticed the patient at times put his hand to the back of his neck. Phos . 1 relieved entirely. Phos . corresponds to headache and other sufferings from grief. Hot vertex after grief. It has shocks in occiput; coldness in cerebellum; congestion of brain seeming to rise from spine into head. Phos . has "splitting headache caused by cough." Neuralgic pains of many kinds, and impending paralysis. The attacks are induced by mental exertion; worry; washing clothes ; and are < by music; noises; strong odours. Gale, of Quebec, discovered in Phos . a remedy for "washerwoman's headache" ( Organon , iii. 30). His patient had these symptoms: Whenever she washes clothes or walks fast she has — rush of blood to head, red face and eyes, heat on head, scalp sensitive to touch, sudden shooting pains, especially in vertex. Phos . cm cured. I cured a somewhat similar case ( H. W ., xxiv. 455) with Phos . 30 every four hours; only in my case the headaches always appeared the morning after washing: violent shooting pains left side of vertex, > wrapping head in flannel. I had given several medicines previously which had improved the general health, but had done very little for the headaches. Phos . affects all parts of the eye — retina, choroid, vitreous and crystalline lenses, cornea, and conjunctivæ. It has arrested cataract and glaucoma, and cured retinitis albuminuria from suppressed menses. The leading symptoms are: Colours appear black before the eyes. Always sees green. Halo round candle. Letters appear red whilst reading. As if a grey veil over everything. Blindness after typhoid; sexual excess; loss of fluids; lightning. Twitching of lids. Pustule on cornea. Burning pains. The characteristic skin of Phos . is waxy , and either clear and pale or yellow. Under a " Phosphorus treatment" which was in vogue a generation ago, patients had a peculiarly waxy, fine, clear complexion; and in one case which came under my observation there was also very marked enlargement of the liver. In a case of rheumatism in an old lady who had waxy pallor , Cooper gave Phos . and set free all the joints. All kinds of eruptions May be set up. Exanthema with pustules (like small-pox), ulcers, psoriasis, lichen, eczema, blood boils, purpura. Hansen cured a case of purpura in a girl of ten ( H. W ., xxxv. 105). The disease began with loss of appetite and pains in the stomach, but as soon as the purpura spots appeared the pains ceased and the appetite returned. The inner aspects of the thighs were affected. Phos . 2 cured. The ulcers of Phos . bleed easily at the slightest touch, and open cancers or fungus hæmatodes with this characteristic have been cured with Phos . "Large ulcers surrounded by smaller ones." Ulcers affecting the nails. Inflammation and eruptions about joints. Fistulæ with callous edges from glands. The joints most affected by Phos . are the hip and knee. The left side of the lower jaw is more affected than the right. Caries and exostoses of spine and other parts have been cured with Phos . De Noë Walker cured with Phos . 6 a large exostosis of the femur which had been pronounced osteo-sarcoma by old-school authorities. There are some forms of rheumatism which only Phos . can cure. These are characterised by great stiffness of the joints, more stiffness than pain. A drawing, tearing, tight feeling in parts. Stiffness of old people. Paralytic rheumatism from exposure to rain. The tight sensation appears in the girdle pain of spinal affections; tightness of skin of face and forehead. (Also stiffness in brain; in eyes.) Allied to the rheumatic symptoms of Phos . is its sensitiveness to effects of storms, especially thunderstorms. Phos . has cured more cases of headache always coming on when thunderstorms are about than any other remedy in my experience. It has also cured blindness from lightning stroke. The headaches from inhaling the steam of a washtub perhaps come in the same category as effects of vapour-laden air when storms are about. Mills (quoted H. W ., xxxi. 33) relates a typical case of thunderstorm effect: Mrs. R, tall, thin, dark, of mild and gentle disposition, was seen by the doctor during a thunderstorm. He found her sitting on the stairs, trembling and cold and bathed in cold, clammy sweat, full of nervous dread, and almost beside herself. One dose of Phos . cm cured. Some weeks later she witnessed a worse storm with complete unconcern. The power of Phos . over septic conditions is illustrated in a case of Howard Crutcher's (quoted H. W ., xxxiii. 405). A girl, 16, had perforating appendicitis, operation having been delayed too long in consequence of opposition of friends. Although he deemed it useless he was persuaded to operate, and found a large abscess behind the colon, freely communicating with the peritoneal cavity. Up to the fourth day the patient progressed favourably. Then there was a collapse: pulse 130, mind wandering, urine and fæces passed without restraint. The patient was rapidly sinking; Arsen . gave no help. The doctor sent word to the students who were nursing the patient that they might try a hot saline enema. On attempting to give it the rectum was found to be open , no resistance being offered by the sphincter. Greyish-while fæcal discharges, watery and offensive, passed constantly . "The students, recognising the indication for Phos ., gave a dose of that remedy, and instead of dying the girl got well." Peculiar sensations are: As if about to die. As if immersed in hot water. Anxiety as if below left breast. As if he had been lying at night with head too low. As if everything had stopped in head. As if chair were rising. As if eyes would be pressed out; or pressed down by weight about them. As if painful nodes under scalp. As if pulled by hair. As if head would burst. As if something exploded in head. As if skin of face too tight. As if something were pulled tight over ears. As if dust in right eye; sand in left eye; eyeballs large. As if something lay before ears; foreign body in ears. As if nose stuck together. As if nails driven into jaws. As if food did not digest properly. As if heavy Weight in stomach. Stomach as if freezing. As if something cooking in stomach. Anus as if open. Larynx as if lined with fur. As if skin on larynx. As if a piece of skin hanging loose in larynx. As if something in middle of sternum torn loose. As if heart had grown fast. As if chest eviscerated. As if a narrow band encircled body and lay upon heart. As if great weight lying on middle of sternum. Back as if broken. As if quicksilver moved up and down spinal cord. Coccyx as if ulcerated. Soles as if he had walked too much. Feet as if asleep. Ankles as if sprained. Suddenness is a feature of Phos .: Sudden prostration such as may occur in diphtheria, measles, scarlatina, or any disease in which the system has sustained a profound shock. The left side is somewhat more affected than the right, the venous more than the arterial system. The symptoms of Phos . are < from touch (cannot bear touch of nightdress); from pressure (but pressure > feeling as if something before ears and pains in chest). Rubbing > . Mesmerism > . Rest < pain in arms and shoulders. Lying down = intense pains in eyes; < colic and tearing in jaws; > heat of scalp and incarcerated flatus. Weakness after stool and after urinating, compelling lying down. Lying on back < diarrhœa; asthma; > pneumonia; pain in arm. Lying on left side < ; on right side > . Sitting < . Motion; exertion; walking, especially fast walking, < . Exertion physical or mental < . Laughing < (cough). Coughing = headache. Talking < pain in larynx. < From spraining parts. < Lifting arms. < Before sleep, > after. (Some symptoms are < on waking, but this is less characteristic.) < Morning; evening (especially twilight ); before midnight. Heat < boring in teeth; back pains; itching spots of skin. Warm food and drink < (but hot drinks > flatulent colic). Warm water, putting hands in = toothache. Warm wraps > neuralgia of head and heat of scalp. Weather changes (either way) < . Open air > pain in forehead; hemicrania; stuffed feeling in nose; < vertigo; toothache cough tearing in labia taking cold easily. Wind < . Thunderstorm < . Washing with cold water > . Washing clothes; wet weather < . < Light noise music; piano playing. > In the dark.

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Excited imagination ; zoomagnetic condition ; ecstasy ; clairvoyance.
Mind is overactive ; great flow of thoughts difficult to arrange.
Memory generally quick.
Irritability of mind and body ; prostrated from least unpleasant impression.
Any lively impression is followed by heat, as if immersed in hot water.
Excitable, easily angered, vehement, from which he afterwards suffers.
Anxious : filled with gloomy forebodings ; as if about to die ; about termination of her illness ; and restless ; at twilight ; when alone ; about the future ; during a thunderstorm ; with palpitation ;
as if below her left breast, so painful that her whole body trembled, at times with bitter eructations and palpitation ; and restless with much sweat on forehead and heat of head ; oppression.
Fear and dread : in evening ; of death ; as if something were creeping out of every corner ; late in evening as if a horrible face were looking out of every corner.
Mental depression and a most uncommon fearfulness or timidity with great sense of fatigue.
Great indisposition to mental or physical exertion.
No capacity for mental work, absence of thought, as if he could not grasp any thought ; disinclination to study or converse ; slow flow of ideas, absence of mind.
Unable to collect his senses, in morning on rising ; head dizzy, heavy, painful, as if he had been lying at night with bead too low.
While reflecting : headache and dyspnœa ; feeling of apprehension at pit of stomach ; weak feeling in head.
Apathy : indifferent even to his own children ; answers no questions, or replies wrongly ; took no notice of things about him, but his responses were always correct ; answers slowly, moves sluggishly.
Seemed dumb and dazed for many days.
Stupor, delirium, grasping at flocks.
Sadness and anxiety, regularly recurring at twilight ; from nervous exhaustion.
Does not like to be alone.
Weary of life ; full of gloomy forebodings.
Gloomy, taciturn, sad and reflective.
Dejection ; thought he would die.
Hypochondriasis ; sadness alternating with mirth and laughter ; uneasy about one's health ; paroxysms of anguish, when alone or in stormy weather, with timorous disposition ; told those about him repeatedly that he could not possibly recover, and gave some disjointed
directions about his business affairs.
Melancholy, sheds tears ; or with attacks of involuntary laughter.
Hysterical alternation of laughter and weeping.
Amativeness ; erotic melancholia.
Shamelessness ; uncovers herself and wishes to go naked, as if insane.
Destroys what comes into her hands ; talks in a vehement, commanding tone ; spits at nurse, lifts up her clothes and kisses hotly all who come near her ; does things wrongly and talks disconnectedly ; tongue whitish ;
sleeplessness ; menses scanty, pale and watery.
Delirium : loquacious ; violent, at first alternating with intervals of consciousness, afterwards interrupted ; erotic with indications of great excitement of sexual system ; violent, forgot to pass water ; repiration very difficult, pulse very small, skin
dry, tongue brown ; fancied he was in several pieces and could not get the fragments properly adjusted.
Crazy deliria in a young woman who was strictly moral and unhappy in her love ; accused herself of the most obscene actions, of which she never was guilty ; simultaneous hysterical laughing and crying spells.
Delirium tremens : increasing prostration ; pulse frequent, soft, tremulous, intermittent ; skin cool, clammy, moist ; respiration rapid, rattling, blowing ; breath cool ; stupor with muttering ; twitching of muscles ; jerkings ;
singultus ; trembling of tongue ; difficult deglutition ; rattling sound when swallowing ; great nervous irritability ; salacity.
Chronic alcoholism : great mental and physical exhaustion ; trembling of limbs when trying to use them ; jerking of single muscles ; arms powerless ; legs paralyzed ; vertigo with loss of consciousness ; indifference even towards dearest
friends ; forgetful and stupid, he does something else than he intended ; monomania de grandeur et de la richesse ; idiocy ; inclined to diarrhœa, stools and flatulency ; dry scaly skin.
Maniacal attacks, coming on during sleep ; fury and extreme violence, so that no one dare approach him ; destroys everything in the room ; eyes remain closed ; after two or three hours lies down and sleeps a few minutes, recollects nothing on waking.
Dementia paralytica ; brain weak, exhausted ; silliness ; idiocy.
Mental symptoms come on after excitement at theatre and she becomes sleepless ; then full of fear, especially at piano ; constantly on lookout for something to happen ; hears voices ; hot head and face ; sexual dreams and violent sexual excitement.
Brain fag from mental overwork and constant strain of eyes.

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The complaints of Phosphorus are most likely to arise in the feeble constitutions, such as have been born sick, grown up slender, and grown too rapidly.

Its complaints are found in such as are emaciated, and in those who are rapidly emaciating; in children who are going into marasmus, and in persons who have in them the foundation of consumption fairly well laid. Delicate, waxy, anemic and emaciated subjects. In persons who are vehement, irascible.

This expresses the person's disposition somewhat as well as his internal constitutional state. Internally he is in a turmoil. Subject to violent pulsations, complaints from electric changes in the atmosphere; violent palpitations and orgasms. In chlorotic girls who have grown too rapidly and have suddenly taken on weakness, pallor, green sickness, with menstrual difficulties. Ebullitions and congestions. Hemorrhagic constitutions.

Small wounds bleed much; the prick of the needle will bubble forth much bright red blood.

Hemorrhage from small wounds, from the nose, from the lungs, from the stomach, from the bladder and from the uterus. Bleeding from ulcerations. False granulations that bleed. Purpura hoemorrhagica. Black and blue spots.

Blood settles beneath the conjunctiva, or beneath the skin anywhere.

Bloody saliva; evidences of disorganized blood, or that the blood seems to become fluid. Small bruises take on broad blue spots. Blows much blood out of the nose. Petechiae all over the body, such as are found in typhoid fever, low forms of continued fever with hemorrhages. Fungous growth. Fatty degeneration is a marked feature of Phosphorus, and can be found in the liver, heart or kidneys.

General dropsical condition. Bloating of the hands and feet, especially dropsical conditions after scarlet fever. The mucous membranes are all pale, such as is found after bleeding or in low forms of disease. A marked state of anemia and relaxed condition of the muscles. Muscles flabby. Fatty degeneration of the muscles.

The genitals hang down. In the woman, relaxation of the pelvic organs, prolapsus and other displacements. Stiffness is a marked feature of Phosphorus. Stiffness on beginning to move. Limbs stiff like a foundered horse, especially in the morning. Rheumatic stiffness in all the limbs. Phosphorus has tearing, drawing pains in the limbs. Drawing, tearing pains in affected parts. Phosphorus complaints are worse in cold weather.

The patient himself, generally considered, is sensitive to cold. All his complaints are worse from cold and cold applications, and better from beat and warm applications, except the complaints of the head and stomach, which are ameliorated from cold as will hereafter be described. Phosphorus has been very useful in weak, relaxed conditions of the joints following sprains, when the symptoms agree.

Necrosis is another feature of Phosphorus, especially of the lower jaw, but may be useful in necrosis of any of the bones. Exostoses of the skull with tearing pains. Tearing, boring pains, especially at night. Phosphorus has cured polypi of the nose and cars. Scrofulous and glandular swellings. Glands enlarge, especially after contusions like Bellis.

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Adapted to tall, slender persons of sanguine temperament, fair skin, delicate eye lashes, fine, blonde or red hair, quick, lively perceptions and sensitive nature.

Young people, who grow too rapidly, are inclined to stoop (walk stooping, Sul.); chlorosis; anæmia; old people, with morning diarrhœa.

Oversensitiveness of all the senses to external impressions, light, noise, odors, touch (Ign., Nux., Tar.).

Restless, fidgety; moves continually, cannot sit or stand still a moment (fidgety feet, Zinc.).

Burning: in spots along the spine; between the scapulæ (as of a piece of ice, Lachn.); or intense heat running up the back; of palms of hands (Lach.); in chest and lungs; of every organ or tissue of the body (Ars., Sulph.); generally in diseases of nervous system.

Pain: acute, especially in the chest, < from pressure, even slight, in intercostal spaces, and lying on left side; excited by slightest chill; open air intolerable.

A weak, empty, all-gone sensation in head, chest,

Cannot talk, the larynx is so painful; cough, going from warm to cold air (rev. of Bry.), laughing, talking, reading, eating, lying on left side (Dros., Stan.).

Acts more beneficially when patients suffer from chronic diarrhœa.

Complementary: Arsenic, with which it is also in isomorphic relation.

Incompatible: with Causticum, must not be used before or after.

Follows well: after Cinchona or Calcarea.

Hahnemann says: "Acts more beneficial when patient suffers from chronic loose stool or diarrhœa.

Evening before midnight (Puls., Rhus); when alone; lying on left or painful side; from light; during a thunderstorm; change of weather, either hot or cold; eating something warm.

In the dark; lying on right side; after sleep; eating something cold; rubbing, or being mesmerized.

Cold air relieves the head and face symptoms, but aggravates those of the chest, throat and neck.

Quotidian. Typhoid, typhus, yellow.

1, 6, 5 to 6, 7 P. M. Afternoon and evening. Same hour every day.

Without thirst. Towards evening, not > by heat of stove (Meny., Nux). Chill at 1, lasting till 5 P. M. Chilliness over whole trunk, as if in cold water, not relieved by external covering (Nux). Chilliness in the evening on falling asleep; from 6 P. M. till midnight, falling asleep from weakness. Chilliness every evening, with shivering, with aversion to uncovering. Violent shaking chill at night, with diarrhœa, followed by heat and perspiration. Chill alternating with heat (Ars.); veins of hands swollen; yawning; goose-flesh. Chill descends; heat ascends, the back (Ver.). Coldness in the kness at night in bed) Carbo v.). Coldness of limbs; icy coldness of the hands and feet, even in bed.

With thirst. Violent chill; he could not get warm at 5 to 6 P. M., followed by heat and internal chilliness; then heat and perspiration all night. Heat at night, beginning in stomach; faint and hungry; then chill followed by internal heat, especially in the hands, the cold continuing externally. Heat and sweat at night, with ravenous hunger, that could not be appeased (hunger in every stage, Cina—hunger after paroxysm, Eup.—hunger before chill, Cinch.). Hot flushes over whole body, beginning in the hands, both afternoon and evening; cold externally. Urine turbid, whitish, brick dust sediment.

Profuse over whole body and on slight exertion.* Morning sweat, most profuse during sleep (Cinch.). Profuse exhausting morning sweat*, sometimes clammy. Sweat on head, hands, feet, fore part of body, alternating with chilliness; urine turbid and milky. Perspiration has the odor of sulphur.

Coated with a thick fur, white or brown, dark centre and red edges; or coated only in the middle.

Hunger, must eat during chill and heat, before he can get up; feels faint; wants cold food, ice water, ice cream. Regurgitation of food, in mouthfuls, with nausea. Food scarcely swallowed, comes up again.

"Intermittent fever; heat and perspiration at night, with faintness and ravenous hunger, which could not be satisfied by eating; afterwards chilliness, with chattering of teeth and external coldness; chilliness succeeded by internal heat, especially in hands, the external coldness continues."—LIPPE.

Apt to become remittent or typhoid; or a remittent fever takes on after a time—or after a partial or complete suppression—an intermittent type, usually the quotidian.

Chill; chilliness every evening, with icy coldness of extremities.

Heat; and sweat at night, with ravenous hunger.

Sweat; profuse, over whole body and on slight exertion.

Stupor, delirium, grasping at flocks.
Hysterical alternation of laughing and weeping.
Great indifference; answers no questions, or replies wrongly.
Gloomy, taciturn.
Dejection, thought he would die.
Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner.
Anxious, restless: at twilight; when alone; about the future; during a thunder-storm; with palpitation.
Melancholy, sheds tears; or, with attacks of involuntary laughter.
Amativeness.
Apathy; indifference, even toward his own children.
Excitable, easily angered and vehement, from which he afterwards suffers.
Mind is overactive.
Irritability of mind and body; prostrated from the least unpleasant impression.
While reflecting, headache and dyspnœa; feeling of apprehension at pit of stomach; weak feeling in head.
Any lively impression is followed by heat, as if immersed in hot water.

Nervous vertigo; or vertigo from abuse of narcotics, coffee; also, on rising from bed, or a seat, with fainting; worse mornings and after meals.
Confusion as from watching; confusion and heaviness, worse in vertex and sinciput; vertigo, tendency to fall forward.
Better in cold air and with head uncovered.
Apoplexy, grasps at the head; mouth drawn to the left.

Cold, crampy pain on whole left side of head.
Sensation of coldness in cerebellum, with sensation of stiffness in the brain.
Pulsation in left temple.
Headache over left eye.
Headache every other day.
Weight and throbbing in forehead on waking, better by cold washing, worse on stooping; sometimes lasts all day.
Impending paralysis of brain and collapse; burning pain in brain.
Congestion to head; burning, stinging pains and pulsations commencing in occiput.
Sick headache with pulsations and burning, mostly in forehead; with nausea and vomiting, from morning until noon; worse from music, while masticating and in warm room.
Hot vertex after grief.
Headache in forehead as if a weight pressed it down into the eyes.
Softening of brain, with persistent headache, slow answering questions, vertigo, feet drag, formication, numbness in the limbs.
Acute atrophy of brain and medulla oblongata, with uræmia.

Scaly, bald spots on the head.
Head affected: from taking cold; from remaining in hot rooms; after having the hair cut.
Tension in face and skin of forehead, frequent only one side; worse from change of temperature and while eating; better after eating; with anxiety.
Dandruff copious, falls out in clouds; roots of hair get grey and hair comes out in bunches; scratching makes itching worse, or burning and itching relieved at time, but worse after scratching.

When reading, letters look red.
After reading, dull pain deep in eyes; black spots pass before the eyes, worse from looking at bright objects and in lamplight; better in twilight.
Contracted pupils.
Glaucoma.
Momentary blindness, as from fainting.
Amblyopia from loss of fluids; also in morbus Brightii.
Has stopped rapidly increasing myopia.
Paroxysms of nyctalopia; or, of a sensation as if things were covered with a gray veil.
Green halo around the candle.
Subacute conjunctivitis, lachrymation; swelling and suppuration of lids, and meibomian glands, with itching and burning pains.
Aching in eyes, forehead and orbits.
Small burning spots on the eyeballs.
Fungus oculi.
Eyelids tremble and quiver; eyes fill with tears.

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A saturated solution of Phosphorus in alcohol corresponds to the 3rd decimal dilution.

A tissue drug of first rank as well as a most virulent poison. ▶ It inflames and causes degeneration of the mucous membrane of the entire alimentary canal, causing gastritis, entero-colitis and dysentery, all characterized by destructive processes and hæmorrhage. ▶ It inflames the kidneys. ▶ It causes acute yellow atrophy of the liver as well as a subacute hepatitis. ▶ It causes inflammation of the whole respiratory tract and pleuro-pneumonia. ▶ It produces an inveterate myelitis of the spinal cord and other nerves, will consequent paralyses. ▶ It destroys bone, particularly attacking the jaw and tibiæ. ▶ It disorganizes the blood and produces hæmatogenous jaundice. ▶ It causes fatty degeneration of every tissue and organ in the body, predisposing to hæmorrhages.

Arsen., Pic. ac., Crotal., Apis, Puls., Lyc., Nat sulf., Ferr., Pod., Merc., Sec. c., Ham., Nux v.

▶ Mucous membranes pale. ▶ Muscular system lax. ▶ Lay always on right side at night (Puls., Nat. sulf.); always on right side, throwing about upper part of body, agg. head; on back; on back at night, with left hand under occiput; on left side, with feet drawn up. ▶ Emaciation (Iod.). ▶ Ataxia and adynamia. ▶ Anæmia. ▶ Consumption, with hectic fever, bad digestion, cardialgia and constipation. ▶ Appearance as in typhoid fever, depression and prostration, difficulty in raising herself in bed. ▶ Swelling of body; agg. lids and face, so that the depression from pressure of finger was but slowly obliterated, on other parts the relaxed tissues, when pinched, but slowly regained their smoothness (Ars., Apis). ▶ Soft parts detach themselves from the bone and leave a bony, gray, rough, but solid surface, and a gray, fetid suppuration exhales, after an uncertain period this separates without any new bone being formed.

▶ Much bleeding of small wounds. ▶ Hæmorrhages from free surface and from tissues (Compare Crotal.). ▶ Blood when drawn was pale and had only about twice as many red as white corpuscles. ▶ Regurgitation, without effort of nearly pure blood, with epistaxis and oozing of blood from ears, the blood of these hæmorrhages very fluid and difficult to coagulate, next day a little blood from throat, with these hæmorrhages return of nervous symptoms, pain and numbness of left arm, then of other limbs, pain in region of throat, stricture of throat, suffocative sensation, as the hæmorrhages diminished the skin was more deeply jaundiced, after a month the H. returned, with pure blood in stools, epistaxis, hæmaturia, then prostration, almost complete loss of voice, feeble pulse, cold limbs, bruit de souffle with first sound of heart, later the H. with pain in right iliac fossa and right thigh and weakness of limbs, afterwards profuse uterine H., but miscarriage was prevented, she was delivered without accident, afterwards diarrhœa, not bloody, which could not be stopped and which ended her life eight months after the poisoning.

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A universal tissue remedy.
Acute gastro-enteritis, with destructive processes and predominating hæmorrhages.
Acute inflammation and degeneration of the liver.
Acute inflammation of the kidneys.
Inflammation of the respiratory tract and pleuro-pneumonia; spinal myelitis and paralysis, inflammation and necrosis of bones; fatty degeneration of muscular tissue and other organs; general predisposition to hæmorrhage.

General relaxation and emaciation.
Persistent bleeding from small openings, even from free surfaces; the blood fluid and difficult to coagulate.
Tendency to hæmorrhage from all the orifices of the body, with feeble pulse and cold limbs.
A general jaundiced hue.
Muscular motion uncertain, like palsy, trembling.
Numerous paralytic symptoms, with particular loss of sensation so great that one is obliged to lie in bed; dread of all exertion, either mental or physical.
General heaviness of the whole body; especially a sensation of tightness about the chest.
Increased tendency to take cold in the open air.
Symptoms < change of weather.
A general aggravation in the morning, in the evening in bed, and after eating.
At times, symptoms appear while eating, and cease afterward.
Aggravation from getting hands and feet wet and in hot weather.

Delirium, loquacious, with difficult respiration.
Delirium, that he was in several pieces and could not collect them.
Erotic delirium, she uncovers herself.
Spasmodic laughing and crying.
Unable to make any mental effort, even to converse.
Great anxiety and oppression, especially lying on the left side.
Apathy; is unwilling to talk and answers slowly; cannot keep the mind on any subject.
Stupor; is aroused with difficulty and immediately relapses.

Vertigo in the morning on rising, sometimes with nausea and headache.
Rush of blood to the head, with heat and throbbing.
Fore part of the head seems heavy, pressed downward; pain extends into the root of the nose and eyes as if they would be pressed out.
Headache < stepping hard, music, laughing, and in general < slight causes.
Stupefying headache, with pale face.
The hair becomes very dry and falls out, bald spots form.
Dandruff, with great dryness of the scalp and falling of the hair.

Upper lids swollen, moved with difficulty.
Pupils dilated.
Vision dim, > shading the eyes.
Vision of green halo about the candlelight; of black floating points: like a black veil.
Flickering, with roaring in the head.
Eyes tire easily on reading.

Hearing difficult, as if ears were stopped.
Words and sounds re-echo in the ears.

Swollen and red.
Stopped and bleeding, dryness.
Foul odor from the nose.
Acute coryza, with stupid headache.
A discharge of purulent mucus or of blood.

Usually pale, puffy, yellow.
Face puffy, but with dark rings around the eyes, which seem to be sunken.
Violent pains in the bones of the face, usually associated with necrosis and numerous attendant symptoms.

Rapid decay of the teeth; tearing and shooting pain in the teeth; < open air and warm food.
Toothache in the morning when chewing.
Gums swollen, bleeding easily, retracted from the teeth.
Saliva increased, salt or sweet, of foul odor.
Tongue swollen, chalky white or dry and black.
Easy bleeding from erosions of the mucous membrane of the mouth.

Dryness of the mouth and throat.
Scraping and roughness in the fauces.

Loss of appetite, with feeling of fullness in throat.
Ravenous hunger at times in the night, with desire for acids and spices.
Unquenchable thirst, but lack of thirst is the usual accompaniment of fever.
Eructations of food, empty; vomiting of food or blood; vomiting temporarily > ice-cold drinks, returning as the stomach becomes warm.
Extreme faintness and goneness in the region of the stomach.
Soreness in the pyloric extremity.
Sensation of pressure, as from a hard substance or of a heaviness on the stomach.

Clinical:
Ulceration of the stomach, with hæmorrhage; vomiting, temporarily relieved by cold drink.
Violent gastralgia as from knives or burning, with external pressure.
Burning, extending to the back.
Gastric troubles, aggravated by hot weather.

Numerous flatulent symptoms, tension, tympanitis, rumbling.
A feeling of emptiness and sinking down.
Coldness.
Symptoms of inflammation of the liver; enlargement of the spleen.
Inflammation of the pancreas, with greasy stools.

Smarting and burning in the rectum and anus, with exhaustion.
Hæmorrhage of the anus from the hæmorrhoids or bowels.
Diarrhœa, preceded by rumbling, evacuations watery and slimy, undigested, with flakes of white mucus.
Diarrhœa involuntary.
Rectum does not retain its contents.
Bloody stools, without tenesmus.

Urine at times copious and colorless, at others scanty and passed frequently.
Bloody; with pain in the region of the kidneys and liver, with jaundice.
Urine covered with an iridescent film.
Sediment white, sandy or flocculent, albuminous; containg fatty casts.

Sexual desire increased, but with lack of power.
Frequent emissions at night, even following coition.
Menstruation too frequent and scanty, usually bright red.
Uterine hæmorrhage between menses.
Leucorrhœa, corrosive.

Rawness in the larynx, with hawking and hacking cough.
Hoarseness, larynx seems coated, cannot speak aloud, with prostration.
A sense of suffocation in the larynx and trachea, and especially across the upper part of the chest, as from a heavy weight.
Cough caused by tickling or itching in the throat and chest; at times with rawness and usually with hoarseness; often dry, with bursting headache, caused by cold air or using the voice.
Expectoration salty or even sometimes purulent, with tenacious mucus and blood.
Numerous chest symptoms, most especially oppression as from a heavy weight on the chest.
Symptoms of inflammation of the larynx, with cough and bloody expectoration, always aggravation lying on the back or left side.
Pneumonia, with fever, but without much pain, usually without thirst, with general prostration and apathy, but with aggravation from lying on the left side.
General tendency to bloody expectoration, bright red, mixed with mucus.

Pain and anxiety in the region of the heart and palpitation; a sense of great pressure.
Valvular murmurs, either anæmic or the result of organic disease; aggravation lying on the left side.
Pulse usually soft, compressible, rapid.

Sensitiveness of the spinous processes of the dorsal vertebræ and burning between the scapulæ.
General weakness of the spine, as if crushed, with weakness and trembling of the limbs on the least exertion.

Weakness and bruised pain, with heaviness of the hands and feet, and trembling so that he could scarcely hold anything with his hands.
The arms feel stiff, lame and paralyzed.
The hands fall asleep, are numb, the fingers feel like thumbs.
Pain in the hip, as if wrenched, with drawing and tearing, extending to knees; weakness of the legs and numbness, especially of the tips of the toes.
The tibia is inflamed and becomes necrosed with attendant symptoms.
Chilblains and corns develop on the toes.

Jaundice.
Petechiæ.
Ecchymoses like purpura hæmorrhagica.
Ulcers form and bleed easily, and will not heal.
A general formication and numbness in the skin.

Persistent sleepiness during the day and before midnight; afterwards sleeplessness, with anxiety and restlessness, at times with fright or followed by prostration in the morning.
During sleep frightful dreams.

Shivering, worse in the evening and generally without thirst, coldness, particularly of the extremities, of the knees in bed.
Heat at night, without thirst.
At times, with unnatural hunger, followed by or alternating with chilliness; heat usually internal, sometimes partial, as of one leg.
Sweat general in the morning, on slight effort, exhausting at times, cold and clammy.
A low type of continued fever, with stupid delirium, apathy, lack of thirst.

PHOSPHORUS.

Phosphorus is chemically prepared from bone-acid (phosphoric acid) by distillation with charcoal ; it is remarkable for its easy spontaneous combustion. It is dynamized for homœopathic use in the manner described at the end of the first part of this work, p. 147. Phosphorus properly potentized in this manner is one of the most indispensable and chiefly antipsoric remedies. [*].

[*] How entirely medicinal substances, by potentizing through trituration and succussion (which were first used by Homœopathy), are removed out of their chemical sphere, may be seen, among other things, by the remarkable fact, that a powder of sugar of milk containing one or two pellets moistened with this medicine, potentized to, say, the decillionth attenuation, though it may have been kept a year and a day, will yet retain its medicinal virtue undiminished, and shows the dynamic effect of phosphorus, and has not, therefore, been turned into phosphoric acrid, which has quite a different effect on the human health.

Nevertheless this medicine will rarely be found appropriate in cases of chronic (unvenereal) diseases, where lack of sexual impulse and weakness in the genital parts is manifest, or the female period is retarded, or generally, where there is too great weakness and lack of vital strength. If it should, nevertheless, be homœopathically indicated, in order to keep up the strength as far as possible, the transfer of vital power from a healthy person (mesmerism) [] should be made use of ; i. e.*, from time to time a kindly, strong, healthy person should hold for a few minutes the hands of the feeble patient in his hands, directing his mind upon him with compassionate heart and with an earnest desire of benefiting him ; or he may lay his hands on the most enfeebled, suffering part of his body, keeping away all noise which might distract the attention of the one who communicates the force and also of the patient ; no persons must be allowed to crowd up while this treatment is going on.

[] So to be named after Mesmer*, in thankful acknowledgement, as he was the first active promulgator of this new power.

This medicine is best adapted to cases where there are long continued soft or thin stools. In cases where the potentized phosphorus was homœopathically indicated, it also removed the following ailments if they happened to be present at the same time. Lack of cheerfulness, apprehensiveness when alone ; anxiety about the future ; irritability and anxiety ; timidity ; liability to be startled ; irritability and peevishness ; aversion to work ; vertigo of various kinds ; stupefying headache ; rush of blood to the head ; morning-headache ; shooting pains, externally on the side of the head ; itching on the head ; falling out of the hair ; burning and erosion on the outer canthus ; inflammation of the eyes, with heat and pressure as from a grain of sand ; lachrymation in the wind ; lachrymating eyes, closed at night by suppuration ; the eyelids are difficult to open ; dimness of vision ; short-sightedness ; day-blindness, when everything appeared covered with a grey covering ; obscuration of the eyes by candle-light ; cataract ; glaucoma ; black appearance before the eyes ; black spots floating before the eyes ; beating, throbbing in the ears ; hissing in the ears ; hardness of hearing, with respect to human speech ; expulsion of blood from the nose ; epistaxis ; bad smell from the nose ; lack of smell ; dirty complexion ; redness and burning of the cheeks ; tearing in the upper and lower jaws, while lying down by night ; toothache as from festering, in the morning when chewing ; shooting toothache, every night till two o'clock ; soreness in the inside of the mouth ; mucus in the mouth ; white tongue ; dryness of the throat, by day and by night ; scratching and burning in the throat ; erosion and burning in the throat ; in the morning, hawking of mucus from the fauces ; slimy taste in the mouth ; cheesy taste in the mouth ; lack of taste ; eructations ; spasmodic eructations ; sour eructations ; hungry morning nausea ; longing for something refreshing ; hunger after eating ; ravenous hunger ; after partaking of acid things, always waterbrash ; nausea after eating ; qualmishness in the abdomen after breakfast ; heat and apprehensiveness after eating ; burning in the hands after eating ; after eating, indolence and drowsiness ; stomachache ; severe pressure in the stomach after eating, with vomiting of all the ingesta ; a sort of constriction of the upper gastric orifice so that the food just eaten returns into the mouth ; painfulness of the scrobiculus cordis when touched ; digging in the scrobiculus cordis ; fullness in the stomach ; bloatedness after dinner ; pains in the abdomen, in the morning in bed ; want of tensive force in the abdomen ; straining in the sides of the abdomen ; rumbling in the abdomen ; growling in the abdomen ; torments from flatus ; incarceration of flatus ; inguinal hernia ; severe tenesmus ; stool too dry ; chronic discharge of thin and soft stools ; discharge of blood with the stool ; discharge of tape-worm ; itching of the anus ; varices of the rectum and anus ; emission of mucus from the anus, which is always open ; tension in the urethra ; erosion in the urethra when urinating ; scalding of the urine ; twitching like burning in the urethra, when not urinating ; too violent erections in the evening ; incessant urging to coitus ; feeble and too rapid emission of semen during coitus ; too frequent pollutions ; stitches in the vagina, extending into the uterus ; menses too scanty and watery ; during the menses, fermentation ; leucorrhœa. Stuffed coryza ; troublesome dryness of the nose ; constant flow of mucus from the nose ; roughness of the throat ; expectoration of mucus from the throat ; tickling in the throat ; exciting cough ; tickling on the chest ; cough caused by tickling ; chronic cough ; cough excited by laughter ; cough leading to vomiting ; cough with rawness and hoarseness on the chest ; nocturnal cough with stitches in the throat ; hard breathing ; loud, panting breath ; pressure on the chest ; heaviness in the chest ; stitches in the left side of the chest, where there is also a stitch when it is touched ; chronic stitches in the side ; pain as of sore burning in the chest ; pain below the left side of the chest, when lying upon it ; palpitation while sitting ; pain as of a fracture in the back ; stiffness of the nape ; thick neck ; pain of the arm on lifting it ; tearing shooting in the arms and the scapulæ ; heat of the hands ; trembling of the hands ; drawing pain in the knees ; twitching in the calves ; exostosis of the tibiæ ; nocturnal coldness of the feet ; the soles of the feet are sore as from festering, when he walks ; jerks in the feet by day, and by night before going to sleep ; tearing in the limbs ; numbness of the tips of the fingers and of the toes ; yellow spots on the abdomen and the chest ; brown spots on the body ; straining by lifting ; pulsations all over the body ; drowsiness by day ; drowsiness in the morning ; late in falling asleep ; sleep full of dreams ; frightful dreams ; chilliness every evening in bed ; transient heat ; morning sweat. My fellow-observers are the Medical Counsellor, Dr. Stapf, Stf. ; Dr. Gross, Gr. ; the doctors Hartlaub and Trinks, Htb. u. Tr. in their "Reine Arzneimittelehre," and three anonymous persons there : Bds., Mbn. and Ng. ibid. ; Dr. Hering, Hg. ; Dr. Schréter, Sr., and Dr. Goullon, Gll. [*].

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Pho. / (2nd P.) / Philip.

Phosphorus, - Thy pleading tongue,
Speaks of soreness in the lung.
And of tightness in the chest,
With pneumonia in attest.
Asthma, hoarseness, loss of voice,
Cough, and croup thy primal choice.
Loss of blood and bloody slime,
Sounds thy key-note every time.
Blood and water on the brain,
Bloody perspiration stain,
Bloody ulcer, bloody stool,
Bloody sputum, bloody drool.
Oft thy ills show indication
Of a spinal irritation;
Such as tremor, petit mal,
Nervous spells hysterical,
Brain exhaustion, paresis,
Failing vision, caused by this,
To which enervating sway
He may add ataxia.
Death-door state may mark thy hold,
Drenching perspiration cold,
Night and early morning sweat,
As in phthisis every met.
Pains neuralgic on the scout,
Pains rheumatic - pains of gout.
Also pains that numbing come
In the periosteum;
With destructive purpose shown,
By a caries of the bone.
On thy skin we see deployed
Measles, shingles, varioloid.
Thou hast vagaries of mind,
Of a melancholic kind,
Or clairvoyance, or a sway
Of erotomania.
Sleeplessness, or in thy sleep
Some somnambulistic freak.
After sleep a sense of ease,
In the night a hunger tease;
Cold must be thy food and drink,
From all sweets thou needs must shrink.

Philip, - Has pneumonia.

Philip Bry Chel, the Bowery actor, lies lifeless on Cato's red settle, at Iva, in Russia.

This Philip, - Who is subject to sleep walking, - Is at Sambo Zip's, in Greece.

Pneumonia: Pho., Bry., Chel., Bell., Ars., Aco., Lyc., Sul., Lach., Ferr. p., Cact., Sang., Sil., Tart. e., Ver. v., Rhus. (Rusty sputum, Bry., Pho., Rhus, Ver. v., - Typhoid pneumonia, Ars., Kal.p., Pho., Rhus)

Sleep Walking - Somnambulism: Pho., Sul., Mer., Bell., ZN.p., Cic.

Indicated in low states, like typhoid fever, with painless diarrhoea, hepatic and splenic enlargement and haemorrhagic tendency; in fatty degeneration of heart, liver and pancreas; in many diseases of the respiratory tract, as laryngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, phthisis and chronic coughs, with absence of fever, and tendency to bleeding from trifling causes; in gastric ulcer, haematemesis, gastritis, gastralgia with burning, constrictive, knife-like pain; in diseases of the liver, as jaundice, especially of a severe type, and cirrhosis; in diseases of the pancreas; in nervous affections, as chorea, paralysis, brain-fag, softening of the brain, insanity, especially with ideas of grandeur; in diabetes; in caries of bones, as lower jaw, nasals, vertebrae; in sexual exhaustion and the evils attending it; well adapted to tall thin persons of amative disposition, with a history of sexual excesses, and to cases of a pronounced haemorrhagic diathesis.

Headache, superficial, violent, tearing, occurring in single shocks, with heat and fulness in the head and buzzing in the ears.

Skin of forehead feels too tight.

Tearing pain (facial neuralgia) as though the flesh were torn off the bone.

Swelling and necrosis of lower jaw.

Pricking and stinging pain in decayed teeth; gums recede and bleed easily.

Red, dry stripe through the center of the tongue.

Thirst for very cold water, which is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach.

Burning and gnawing pain in a circumscribed spot in the stomach, extending back into the spine.

Constipation of long, slender, narrow, tough stools, passed with difficulty.

Stools watery, containing bits of fatty substance like tallow.

Gushing diarrhoea, like water from a hydrant, exhausting.

Loss of control over sphincter ani; oozing of liquids from constantly open anus.

Larynx dry, very sore, so he cannot talk; with tightness and feeling of excoriation in upper chest.

Hoarseness and aphonia; brought on by protracted loud shrieking.

Dry, tickling or hollow, spasmodic cough, with tightness across the chest.

Cough jars the whole body; worse from going from a warm room into the cold air; from laughing or talking; from lying on left side or back.

Expectoration chiefly in the morning; frothy, bloody, rust-colored; purulent, white, tough; of cold mucus; sour, sweet, salty.

Urine thick, turbid, like curdled milk, with brick-dust sediment and opalescent, variegated cuticle on top.

Irresistible sexual desire in men, with loss of power.

Chill extends downward, heat upward.

Slight wounds and polypi bleed much; pustules containing blood; haemorrhagic diathesis.

Worse from sweating; from getting hands and feet wet; from lying on painful side.

Better from lying on the right side; form cold food.

Brain feels tired. Very irritable, easily flies into passion, with consequent suffering. Great anxiety and restlessness, especially when alone. Fear during storms, especially toward evening. Fear of work. Misanthropy. somnambulistic condition. Shamelessness. Clairvoyant state with heightened sensibility.

Whirling, when rising from bed in morning. Frequent, at all time of day. With nausea and pressive headache.

Congestion, with burning, humming, buzzing and throbbing, in forehead, and a red face. Beating and burning in, with inflammation ascending from back into brain, and heat spreading from thence over entire body to feet. Outpressing, bursting, stupefying ache with a pale face. Enervation of, music, laughing, stepping hard, etc., are intolerable. cold feelings in occiput often alternating with heat, with benumbed feeling in brain. Empty feeling in, with vertigo. Stitches now here ow there, or over either eye. Tearing in one temple or side, passing into vertigo. Trusts and pressure. Worst Early on awaking till noon, after dinner, in warm room, sitting, in evening in bed, at rest, after anger, chewing, motion, stooping, mental exertion, after motion in open air, eating warm soup, changes of weather, storms, music. Better: Walking in cool air, after sleep, lying, rubbing, during meals, temporarily from pressure and after eating.

Tension, as if skin of forehead and face were too tight, often one sided only, when opening mouth. falling of whole tufts of hair from bregma and above ears, dryness of hair roots, much dandruff and itching of scalp scratching. Burning, itching, scale covered head, quickly and decidedly by scratching, but festering, burning pains follow. dry, painful, burning heat of, with desire to uncover it.

Burning in, with profuse lachrymation in wind. Pressure as from a grain of sand in, with inflammation. Swelling of upper lid, with difficult moving of same. Myopia. Black, floating spots before vision. Day blindness wherein everything seems covered with gray.

Violent tearing and sticking in. Throbbing pounding and roaring in. Difficult hearing, especially for the human voice (Reverse Ign.). Words sound too loud and re - echo in ears.

Swelling and redness of. Nose bleed and blowing of blood from. Disagreeable dryness in. Fetid smell from. Numerous freckles on. Constant, greenish yellow discharge. Stuffed coryza.

Dirty, pale countenance. Puffy, especially under eyes, they are deeply sunken and surrounded by blue rings. Tearing in bones of. Ulceration of angles of mouth.

Tearing or sticking ache in open air and from warm foods. Painful as if suppurating, early in morning when chewing. the gums are swollen and bleed easily.

Dryness of throat during day and night. Scratching and burning in throat. Increased, sweetish, salty saliva. Blood - spitting. Hawking of mucus early in morning. appearance like white fur or velvet in fauces.

Appetite: Loss of, with a full feeling in upper art of throat. Hunger after eating. Craves something refreshing. Thirst, with loss of appetite.

Taste: Sour after eating.

Eructations: Sour, spasmodic, with pain as though' something would be torn loose at the cardiac orifice of stomach.

Nausea, etc. - With hunger, early in morning. vomiting, with violent pains in stomach. Nightly vomiting of bile. Vomits soured food. Vomits cold drinks after they become warm in stomach.

Fullness and pressure in. Burning in, and in pit. Painful to touch. Narrowing of the cardiac orifice. Sticking in, and in hypochondriae.

Hypochondria: Stitches in.

Distension of, after dinner. Burning in. Yellow spots on. tearing bellyache early in morning in bed.

Flatulence: Causing tormenting pains in abdomen, arising in region of short ribs, especially after dinner. Flatulent colic deep in abdomen. Obstructed flatus.

Chronic diarrhoea, as from paralysis of intestinal canal, stools preceded by rumbling in belly. Involuntary soft s. Watery, frequently greenish, mucus diarrhoea. Undigested, diarrhoeic s. Watery containing flocks. Discharge of blood with stool. discharge of mucus from the constantly open anus. (apis).

- Hemorrhage from, External and internal hemorrhoids bleeding easily. Paralysis of sphincter.

Increased, watery. Iridescent, fatty pellicle on. Urinates often and a little at a time. Haematuria. Burning twitching in urethra when not urinating.

Greatly increased sexual desire. Excessive pollutions. Stitches in vagina, extend into uterus. Sterility caused by excessive venery.

Menses: Too early, too profuse and long lasting. Discharge of blood during pregnancy. Biting, blistering leucorrhoea.

Difficult, with anxiety in chest. Spasmodic rightness of chest. Nightly suffocative attacks.

Hollow, hacking c., excited tickling or itching in chest. with rawness and hoarseness in chest or with sticking in throat. Spasmodic. Dry, straining c., with bursting headache, excited by cold air or reading aloud. Dry in evening and night, in morning and by day expectoration of a tough, whitish mucus apparently mixed with dust, or of a yellow pus - like or a rust - colored, often cold mucus, of a sour, salty, or sweetish taste, or else of bright red, frothy blood. When shopping cough threatens an unfavorable course.

Chronic hoarseness and roughness in. Complete aphonia, with dryness in trachea. Stitches in. Sense of a pieces of skin or flesh hanging loose in. Laryngeal phthisis. Membranous croup.

Anxiety in. constriction. Spasm of. Burning, piercing, soreness and tension in. Congestion to, and violent palpitation, from every emotion, especially vexation. Inflammation of lungs, with stitches in sides. Heaviness, fullness and tension on. suppuration of lungs Phthisis mucosa. Erysipelas, with sticking and burnings in female mammae. Suppurating ulcers on mammae, or festering pains therein after erysipelas.

Sticking in scapulae. Pains in back and lumber region, as though broken hindering every motion. Burning in lumbar region.

Neck: Goiter. Swelling of cervical and axillary glands. Painful stiffness of nape.

Arms and hands tremble when holding anything. Burning of hands with swollen blood vessels. Stiff arms. Paralysis of fingers. frost bites on fingers. Numb finger tips.

Dislocative pain in hip joint. Hip first right to left. Drawing and tearing in knee. Weariness in limbs especially in lower leg. Bony swelling on tibia. Painful swelling of feet in evening or after walking. Numbness of tips of toes. Frost - bites and corns on toes.

Especially suited to tall, weakly people. Painless fevers. Agg. from putting hand into cold water. Great emaciation. Easily takes cold, which results especially in nightly tearing and sticking in limbs, So called human barometer. Trembling of limbs from slightest exertion. Violent trembling of whole body. Burning in all parts of body and limbs. Violent trembling of whole body. Burning in all parts of body and limbs. Violent congestions and ebullitions of blood. Hemorrhages from various organs. General nervous weakness. Heaviness and paralytic weakness of limbs. Very sensitive to cold weather. Complaints are intensified during storms and changes of weather. Most symptoms appear early in morning and in evening in bed, as well as after eating. Many complaints appear while, and cease after eating. After affects of passion, emotions, etc.

Glands affected, especially after bruises.

Swelling of (periostitis). Rachitis.

Yellow or brownish spots on, especially on chest and lower abdomen. Small wounds bleed profusely. Dry, scaling herpes. Boils, Fungus haematodes. Bony exostoses.

Insufficient and unrefreshing in morning. Sopor - like day sleepiness. Late falling to sleep in evening and nightly sleeplessness from anxiety and nightly sleeplessness from anxiety and restlessness. Great sleepiness and indolence after meals. somnambulism. Hideous, frightful dreams. Yawning.

Pulse: Various, ordinarily quickened, at same time full and hard, but sometimes weak and small, more seldom slow or intermittent. Strong ebullition of blood and throbbing of carotids. Chill, Almost only in evening, without thirst, and with aversion to least uncovering, with greatly swollen veins of hands. Internal. with shuddering, not relieved by warmth of stove. And heat alternating at night. Nocturnal, with diarrhoea. running down back. Chilliness in evening till midnight, with great weakness and sleep. Heat: Flying, over the whole body, but first on hands. Universal, anxious heat, afternoons and evenings, with burning on hands and face. Nocturnal., disturbing sleep, mostly after midnight. According back, with somnolency. Sweat: Motes on head, hands and feet, with copious urine. Only on forepart of body. After midnight and in morning copious s., followed by great weakness. Sticky. The transpiration often smells like sulphur.

Allied Remedies: Aeo., Agar., Alum., Am-c., Ars., Aur., Bro., Calc-c., CALC-P., Caust., chin., Cina, Dig., Graph, Hell., Iod., Ip., Kali-c., Lyc., Mos., Nat-a., NUX-V., Op., Par., Petr., Pic-ac., PULS., Sec-c., Sep., Sil., Stront., Verat-a., Verbas.

Often followed by Petr., Kali-bi., Carb-v., or complemented by.

Complementary: Calc-c., Lyc., sang., Sep.

Emaciation.

Easy catching cold and from tearing and stinging in the limbs.

Trembling of the limbs from slight exertions.

Burning in the body and limbs.

Violent ebullitions and congestions.

Haemorrhages from various organs.

Great debility of the nervous system.

Morning weakness in the limbs in bed.

Sensitivenss to cold weather and open air.

Aggravation from change of weather and during a thunder storm.

Most symptoms appear in the morning and evening, while in bed, as well as after eating.

Many symptoms appear while eating and cease after eating.

Glandular swellings, especially after contusions.

Swelling and curious affections of the bones very prominent.

Rachitis.

Weakness of the joints, especially the knees.

Great sensitiveness of the senses and giddiness.

The vital, which have been scarcely swallowed, come up again in the mouth.

Amelioration from drinking cold water.

Strong effect on the respiratory organs and the capillary vessels with inflammation of the lung on the left side.

Small wounds bleed much.

Stools are soft.

Catameina too early, too profuse and of too long duration.