Tellurium tell.

Spine. Nerves. Ears. Eyes. Skin. Right to left.

Touch. Lying on part. Cold. Empty swallowing. Spinal injuries. Weekly.

Offensive; like putrid fish brine or garlic. Salty; taste; mucus from throat; pus, etc. Acrid discharges; excite itching, vesicles, etc. Periostitis. Numbness. Sharp, quick pains, then soreness. Sense of retention.

Vertigo; < falling to sleep. Linear head pains. Thick tarsi. Inflamed, bluish, puffy ears. Otitis. Fluent coryza, hoarseness and watery eyes. Twitching face; pains jerk angle (l) of mouth up. Rancid belching. Retching, ends in yawning. Stomach feels hollow. Sprained pain in chest muscles, over heart, < raising arms. Very sensitive or sore spine. Deep sciatic pain, < coughing, sneezing, straining or lying. Itching, pricking, as from bugs. Circular eruptions. Ringworm. Burning in an old scar. Chills down spine, < lying on back.

Related: Cep. Sele.

The Metal Tellurium (TELLURIUM)

Marked skin (herpes circinatus), spinal, eye and ear symptoms. Very sensitive back. Pains all over body. Offensive discharges. Slow development of symptoms (Radium) Sacral and sciatic pains.

Neglectful and forgetful. Pain in left side of head and in forehead above left eye. Distortion and twitching of left facial muscles; when speaking left angle of mouth drawn upwards and to left. Fear of being touched in sensitive places. Congestion to head and nape of neck, followed by weakness and faintness in stomach. Itching of scalp; red spots.

Lids thickened, inflamed, itching. Pterygium; pustular conjunctivitis. Cataract, following ocular lesions; aids the absorption of infiltrations in iris and choroid.

Eczema behind ear. Catarrh of middle ear, discharge acrid, smells like fish-pickle. Itching, swelling, throbbing in meatus. Deafness.

Coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness; better in open air (Cepa). Obstructed; hawks salty phlegm from posterior nares.

Craving for apples. Empty and weak feeling. Heartburn.

Pruritus ani et perinei after every stool.

Pain in sacrum.--Pain from last cervical to fifth dorsal vertebra, very sensitive; worse touch (Chin s; Phosph) Sciatica; worse right side, coughing, straining, and at night, with sensitive vertebral column. Contraction of tendons in bends of knees.

Itching of hands and feet. Herpetic spots; ringworm (Tuberc). Ring-shape lesions, offensive odors from affected parts. Barber's itch. Stinging in skin. Fetid exhalations (Sulph). Offensive foot-sweat. Eczema, back of ears and occiput. Circular patches of eczema.

Worse, while at rest at night, cold weather, from friction, coughing, laughing, lying on painful side, touch.

Compare: Radium; Selenium; Tetradymite-crystals from Georgia and North Carolina containing Bismuth, Tellurium and Sulphur--(coccygodynia, ulceration of nails; pains in hands, in small spots, ankles, heels, and tendo-Achilles); Sep; Ars; Rhus.

Sixth potency and higher. Takes long time to develop its action, which is very prolonged.

With this remedy I have had the pleasure of curing several cases of otorrhœa of long standing, generally following scarlatina in childhood. I used the 6th in these cases. The high failed.

Quiet disposition.

Vertigo, in the morning, after rising from the bed ; worse when walking, when sitting up, when turning the head ; with accelerated pulse, nausea and vomiting of food ; better when lying perfectly quiet. Vertigo while going to sleep. Heaviness and fulness in the head in the morning. Violent (linear) pain in a small spot over the left eye.

Deposit of a chalky, white mass on the anterior surface of the lens. (Cataract).

Itching and swelling (left ear with painful throbbing in the external meatus ; after three or four days, a discharge of a watery fluid, smelling like fish pickle, which causes a vesicular eruption upon the external ear and the neck wherever it touches the skin ; the ear bluish-red, as if infiltrated with water ; hearing impaired.

Coryza with hoarseness, while walking in the open air.

Sudden flushes of redness over the face.

Profuse bleeding of the gums. Sore throat and sensation of dryness of the fauces, always removed by eating and drinking. Sensation of weakness (like faintness) in the stomach after local congestion of blood in the head and nape. Passage of very offensive flatus.

Stools colored black through and through.

Urine highly colored, acid.

Breath smells of garlic. Dull pain in the region of the heart when sleeping on the left side ; relieved when lying on the back. Palpitation of the heart, with throbbing through the whole body and full pulse, followed by perspiration.

Painful sensitiveness of the spine, from the last cervical to the fifth dorsal vertebra ; sensitive to pressure and touching. Pain in the sacrum, passing into the right thigh ; worse when pressing at stool, when coughing and laughing ; it extends from the sacral plexus through the great sciatic foramen, along the sciatic nerve, down in the thigh (especially on the right side). Sciatica.

Chilliness with the pains. Perspiration at the face. The spots which perspire itch more.

Ringworms cover the whole body ; red, elevated rings, very distinctly marked, especially on the lower extremities. Ringworms on the abdomen, head, above the wrist on the forearm.

Tellurium. An element; (generally considered non-metallic). Te. (A. W. 125). Trituration of the precipitated element.

Axilla, offensive sweat of; tumour of. Barber's itch. Cataract. Conjunctivitis. Coryza. Eczema. Entropion. Eyes, inflammation of. Foot-sweat, fetid. Gleet. Herpes. Hoarseness. Levitation. Pityriasis versicolor . Post-nasal catarrh. Ringworm. Sacrum, pain in . Sciatica. Spinal irritation . Worms. Yawning.

Tellurium occurs in the native state and in combination with gold, silver, lead, and antimony. It resembles Sulphur and Selenium in its chemical reactions. It was proved and introduced into homœopathy by Hering in 1850. The most notable feature of the proving was the irritation of the skin, including skin of eyelids and ears, of spinal column and of some nerves. The most characteristic form of the skin irritation of Tell . is herpes circinatus, and it has probably cured more cases of ringworm, especially of the face and body, than any other remedy. (I cured with Tell . an Indian officer home on furlough whose body was covered over with a ringworm-like eruption.) The odour of the body and of the sweat is offensive and garlic-like. The prover had to sit apart from the rest of the class during a whole session on account of this. In parts where the skin forms openings, as the ear, the effect of Tell . is intensified. The characteristic odour of the ear discharge is that of fish brine. The discharge is so acrid it vesicates any part of the skin it touches. Tell . is one of the most important remedies in otorrhœa. Nash cured several cases of post-scarlatinal otorrhœa, using the 6th, higher attenuations having failed. Eyelids are inflamed, and the vesicating property extends to the eye itself, setting up phlyctenular conjunctivitis. Other parts of the skin affected by Tell . are the hair-roots, the breasts, the perinæum, and the anus. There is itching in the rectum after stool. Tell . has caused expulsion of threadworms. The offensiveness of Tell . appears in the breath and in the flatus; and it is a leading remedy in offensive foot-sweat. In addition to the inflammation of the eyes caused by Tell ., it has pains over the eyes. Skin and nerves are closely allied, and Tell . is a remedy in many neuralgic conditions, notably sciatica. The right side is most affected, and these are characteristic Conditions: the pain is < coughing, sneezing, or straining at stool; < lying on painful side. Many of the pains and symptoms of Tell . come and go suddenly. The ears are suddenly stopped. There are sudden rushes of blood to the head. Tell . has great sensitiveness to touch. This is shown in the neuralgic hyperæsthetic state of the spine. It has also a vulnerary action as shown in a case of Kent's (quoted A. H ., xxiii. 439). A boy, 4, slid down banisters and struck his head on a tiled floor. He became unconscious and a surgeon was summoned, who found him in that state and with a clear, watery discharge from the ear, which the surgeon pronounced to be cerebro-spinal fluid. This condition lasted three days, and the case had been pronounced hopeless when Kent first saw the boy. Kent noticed that the discharge was acrid, and reddened whatever part it came in contact with. One dose of Tell . was given. In two hours the child vomited, a sign of reaction, and in two weeks was well. Shelton ( H. R ., vii. 103) relates three cases: ( 1 ) Widow, 50, had pain and soreness upper part of back for a long time. She shrank from the slightest touch on the part. The sensitiveness was so acute that when touched the pain extended into the occiput and all over the upper region of the back . Tell . 6 cured in eighteen days. ( 2 ) Miss X., 45, had a fall, striking a severe blow on the sacrum. She suffered for some weeks from concussion, with one point of great soreness in the sacral region, just above the spot where the blow was received. She was kept in bed for some weeks and improved generally, but the painful spot remained and sensitiveness appeared over the back, especially its upper third. Tell . 6 cured all completely. ( 3 ) Miss Y., 29, who had had severe spinal meningitis ten years before, consulted Shelton for a burning, pressing pain at base of brain. He diagnosed the condition as pachy-meningitis. The patient grew worse, and gradually ptosis, and then right and then left hemiplegia set in. Finally hyperæsthesia of the back became so distressing that it was a question of finding any support that did not intensity the pain. She could not bear the slightest touch, complaining that it not only hurt her at the point of contact, but she felt it in the head and in remote parts of the body . Tell. cleared up the case. Skinner ( H. W ., xviii. 535) cured two sporting dogs of ringworm with Tell . 1m F. C. The irritating property of Tell . is shown again in the coryza, post-nasal catarrh, tickling in larynx, hoarseness, and cough. There is a good deal of drowsiness with Tell .; yawning after retching; drowsy after eating. I once gave Tell . to a child for an eruption, and cured it incidentally of constant yawning, with which it had been troubled. The eruption improved at the same time. Peculiar Sensations are: Fear of being touched on sensitive places. As if in air on going to sleep. Brain as if beaten. As if lashes were turned in. As if air whistled through left Eustachian tube. As if strapped together in epigastric region. As if fluid wanted to discharge in lobe of right lung. There is periodicity about some of the symptoms. One prover has a return of them every Tuesday for several weeks. More symptoms appear on the left than on the right side. The symptoms are: < By touch; touch = bleeding from ear; spine sensitive to touch. Pressure lump in axilla to be painful. Rest < . Lying: > vertigo; on left side = throbbing over right ribs and vice versâ ; on left side = pain in heart. > Lying on back. Lying on affected side < sciatica. While sitting up: vertigo; face red. Stooping, coughing, laughing, straining at stool < . Many symptoms are < in morning, on being wakened, and at night; eating = drowsiness. Eating rice = vomiting. Eating and drinking > sore throat.

Antidoted by: Nux (epigastric oppression). Compare: Tetradymite, which contains Tellur. Restlessness; garlicky odour, Ars. Coryza, Cepa. Otitis, Puls., Bell., Ter. Ringworm, Bac., Sep., Nat. m. Ringworm in clusters Sep., Calc. Threadworms, Teucr. Pains come and go suddenly, Bell., Lyc. < Laughing, Pho. < Straining at stool, Indm. Cough and skin, Osm.

Falls. Rice (vomiting).

Forgetful. — Fear of being touched, in sensitive places. — Excitable, disposed to fly into a passion. — Rough, angular disposition. — Mind depressed.

Vertigo; when going to sleep; morning after rising; < walking, sitting up, or turning head; > lying perfectly quiet. — Brain feels as if beaten on slightest movement. — Heaviness and fulness of head in morning. — Violent linear pain in small spot over l. eye; pain, short, sharp, and defined. — Congestion to temples and forehead on waking in morning. — Sudden rush of blood to head. — About 10 a.m. pain above l. eye, came and went suddenly. — Sensation of numbness in occiput and nape. — Red spots and fine blisters on occiput, neck, and behind ears, and on posterior surface of ears.

Deposit of chalky-looking white mass on anterior surface of lens (cataract). — Pterygium. — Herpes conjunctivæ bulbi; phlyctenules near edge of cornea; < from crying. — Pustular conjunctivitis with eczema impetiginodes on lids and much purulent discharge from eyes; offensive discharge from ears. — Scrofulous inflammation; < l. upper lid; lachrymation, itching, and pressure in lid. — Eyelids: thickened, inflamed, covered with pustules; pale red, œdematous, oozing. — Feeling as if lashes of lower lid were turned in. — Palpebral swelling of l. upper lid; ulceration on outer surface of lid, near outer canthus; pain < at night.

L. ear began to itch, burn, and swell; aching and throbbing pain in meatus, followed by a copious, watery, acrid discharge. — Dull, throbbing pain in ears, day and night; thin, watery, excoriating discharge. — Ears suddenly stopped in forenoon; < l. — Sometimes, for an instant, sensation as if air catches itself in, or whistled through l. Eustachian tube; when snuffing or belching air passes through. — Vesicular eruption on membrana tympani; suppurating and perforating. — Itching and swelling, with painful throbbing in external meatus; in three or four days discharge of watery fluid smelling like fish-pickle, which = vesicles wherever it touches; ear bluish red, œdematous; hearing impaired. — Waked during night with dull aching deep in r. ear, continued three days with depression of spirits. — Eczema behind ears, with formation of thick crusts; scrofulous conjunctivitis, blepharitis, and catarrh of middle ear.

Fluent coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness when walking in open air, with short cough and pressure in middle of chest under sternum; > after being in open air some time. — Nose dry, then becomes fluent with relief of headache; r. eye becomes hot with profuse lachrymation. — Nose obstructed, must breathe through mouth. — Hawks from posterior nares dried yellowish-red phlegm tasting salty, mornings.

Sudden flushes of redness over face. — While sitting, face red. — Twitching in l. facial muscles, l. corner of mouth drawn up when talking. — Burning in lips. — Ringworms on face; barber's itch. — Pimples on face.

Gums bleed easily and profusely. — Tongue somewhat swollen, furred white, shows print of teeth. — Breath has odour of garlic. — Coldness of mouth and pharynx on drawing in air. — Copious saliva. — Tenacious mucus runs from mouth (dog). — Taste earthy, metallic.

Painful dryness of fauces. — In morning hawks from back of nose pieces of yellowish-reddish phlegm tasting salt. — Rough, scratching sensation in throat; < towards evening. — Throat feels sore with a prickly, rough sensation evening and morning; throat sore on simply swallowing; > after eating or drinking. — Pain in throat extends into ear.

Hungry at night; wants an apple in middle of night. — Longs for beer. — After meals, great drowsiness. — After eating rice obliged to vomit. — Belching with taste of food eaten. — Heartburn with warmth in stomach as from alcohol. — Sensation of weakness like faintness in stomach after local congestion of blood to head and nape, also with chest symptoms. — Fulness in pit of stomach, must lie down after dinner. — Constrictive feeling in stomach as if strapped together.

Fulness and oppression in hypogastrium, her dress must be loosened. — Pressing first l. then r. side as from wind. — When lying on l. side, throbbing under r. ribs and vice versâ . — Pinching in abdomen. — Frequent spasmodic pains in bowels as from incarcerated wind; mostly from 5 to 9 p.m.

Passes very offensive wind. — Passes a large quantity of threadworms. — Spasmodic pains with urging to stool, copious stool with feeling of flatulence in bowels. — Costive. — Tetter on perinæum, itching. — Itching in rectum after stool. — Itching at anus.

Pain and soreness in kidneys. — Increased urination. — High-coloured, acid urine.

Erections all night. — Increased desire, followed by long-lasting indifference. — A drop of viscid fluid glues meatus. — Secondary gonorrhœa. — Herpes on scrotum and perinæum.

Painful soreness in region of kidneys, extending downward like a weight, mostly to r. and in sacrum; < morning, making her irritable. — Shooting deep in pelvis across to l. — Menses too early in climacteric years.

Hoarseness in morning with fluent coryza; a rough, pressing, tickling sensation in larynx. — Coughing on laughing < aching in small of back. — Cough towards morning; after a few days looser.

Pain in region of clavicle. — Pain in middle of chest; going through to back; from dorsal vertebræ through to sternum; in or behind sternum. — Shooting in l. chest, fifth rib. — Feeling as if some fluid wanted to discharge, pressing downward in middle lobe of r. lung. — Cutting around and in l. nipple, through to scapula. — Eruption about nipple.

Dull pain in region of heart when lying on l. side; > lying on back. — Palpitation of heart, with throbbing through whole body and full pulse, followed by sweat.

With the pain above the eye, sensation along l. side of neck as if the blood there had suddenly been retained in one of the large veins, or had streamed backwards. — Numbness in nape and occiput. — When lying on l. ear sharp pressing pain from neck into ear. — Pressing ache in r. scapula, later in l. — Painful sensitiveness of spine from last cervical to sixth dorsal vertebræ; sensitive to pressure and touch. — Weak feeling in back. — Pain in sacrum, passing into r. thigh; < pressing at stool, coughing, and laughing.

Sharp, quick pains in elbows, ankles, and other parts. — Aching all over, mostly in limbs, < r. side and in walking.

Offensive sweat of armpits, smelling of garlic. — Lump in anterior wall of l. axilla, painful from pressure or motion. — Near thumb-joint. — Finger-tips feel dead on stretching hand. — Rheumatism of r. little finger, < moving it.

Sciatica, r. side; < lying on affected side. — Sciatica with sensitiveness of vertebral column. — Tonic muscular contraction of long standing. — Contraction of tendons of bends of knees. — Bruised pain in hip-joints after walking. — Feet sweaty, mostly on toes. — Fetid sweat of feet.

Persistent fetid body odour. — Restlessness. — Lassitude.

Ringworm: on face; barber's itch; whole body, < lower limbs; on single parts. — Stinging in skin. — Small red pimples, very bright red and very sharply defined, with minute vesicles upon them, first on lower limbs, then also on upper, most on l. side; they began first on calves, then on inside of forearms above wrist and spread from that part, caused very severe itching day and night, < night after going to bed. — Little stinging prickings in various parts, compelling him to rest; circular vesicular spots appeared. — Body thickly covered with elevated rings of herpes circinatus. — Psoriasis. — Skin dry, hot. — Scrofulous eczematous eruption. — Itching < in cool air.

Yawning and belching. — Drowsy after a meal. — Sleepless; restless turning from weariness and bruised feeling. — At night pains all over. — On going to sleep feels as if in air, quick drawing towards feet awakens him.

Chilly, with pains. — Skin hot and dry; sensation as if overstrained, as if bruised, as if he had taken cold after severe exertion. — Heat: in sinciput; in face. — Sweat: on face; on spots with increased itching of these places; often throbbing through whole body; generally warm, while sitting in a cool breeze.

Tellurium. The Element.
Introduced by Hering in 1850.
The triturations are prepared from the precipitated metal.
Provings by Hering, assisted by Tietze, Kitchen, Gardiner, Whitey, Gosewisch, Dunham and Raue, Am. Hom. Rev., vol. 5, Metcalf, N. Am. Jour. Hom., vol. 2, 1852.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Conjunctivitis , Allen, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 88 ; Norton, Trans. N. Y. S., 1873, p. 432 ; Scrofulous conjunctivitis , Haynes, M. I., vol. 10, p. 184 ; Affection of lids , Berridge, N. Y. J. H., vol. 2, p. 210 ; Hom. Phys., June, 1889 ; Otitis , Houghton, Times Ret., 1876, p. 52 ; Hom. Times, vol. 3, p. 155 ; Hah. Mo., vol. 11, p. 159 ; Otorrhœa , Dunham, Hom. Cl., vol. 1, p. 25 ; Linsley, Hom. Cl., vol. 1, p. 74 ; Offensive axillary sweat , Lippe, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 3 ; Tonic muscular contraction of leg , Kershaw, Org., vol. 1, p. 311 ; Fetid foot sweat , Jones, H. W., vol. 11, p. 233 ; Herpes circinatus , Metcalf, N. A. J. H., vol. 2, p. 408 ; Eczema behind ears , Hah. Mo., 1889, p. 608 ; Scrofulous eruption , Boynton, Hom. Times, vol. 3, p. 203.

Forgetful ; when engaged in doing one thing, forgets and neglects others.
Fear of being touched in sensitive places.
Excitable and disposed to fly into a passion.
Rough, angular disposition.
Mind depressed.

Vertigo : morning after rising from bed ; < when walking, sitting up, or turning head ; pulse accelerated, nausea, vomiting of food ; > lying perfectly quiet ; when going to sleep.

Brain feels as if beaten on slightest movement.
Heaviness and fulness in head in morning.
Violent linear pain in small spot over left eye ; pain short, sharp and defined.
Congestion to temples and forehead on awaking in morning ; < on stooping, when there is a heavy full feeling.
Sudden rush of blood to head.
While sitting, face red.
Headache on being awakened toward morning.
Congestion to head and nape of neck, followed by weakness, faintness in stomach.

Tearing in left half of head.
Itching in scalp.
Red spots, with fine blisters on occiput, neck and behind ears, and on posterior surface of ears.

Deposit of chalky-looking white mass on anterior surface of lens. θ Cataract.
Pterygium.
Herpes conjunctivæ bulbi ; veins enlarged, running horizontally toward cornea, ending in little blisters near edge of cornea ; < from crying.
Conjunctivitis pustulosa ; with eczema impetiginoides on lids and much purulent discharge from eyes ; offensive discharge from ears.
Scrofulous inflammations ; < left upper lid ; lachrymation ; itching and pressure in lid.
Eyelids : thickened, inflamed, covered with pustules ; itching ; pale, red, œdematous, oozing.
A feeling as if lashes of lower lid were turned in.
Palpebral swelling of upper lid, left side ; ulceration on outer surface of lid near external canthus ; pain < at night.

Left ear began to itch, burn and swell ; aching and throbbing pain in meatus, followed by a copious, watery acrid discharge.
Dull throbbing pain in ears day and night ; thin, watery, excoriating discharge.
Vesicular eruption on membrana ; suppurating and perforating.
Membrana tympani permanently injured and hearing greatly diminished.
Itching and swelling, with painful throbbing in external meatus ; in three or four days discharge of watery fluid smelling like fish-pickle, which causes vesicles wherever it touches ; ear is bluish-red, œdematous ; hearing impaired.
Sensation as if something suddenly closed in ear, or as if air whistled through left eustachian tube ; when snuffing or belching, air passes through.
Waked during night with dull aching deep in right ear, continued, with great depression of spirits, for three days.
Constant rather severe pain deep in right ear.
A transparent yellowish watery fluid constantly oozed from meatus, which was obstructed by amberlike crusts ; discharge offensive, sometimes putrid, but generally of a musty smell like fish-brine ; ears itched ; outer ear swollen, inflamed ; some pustules had arisen wherever discharge had touched any abraded surface of ear or face.
A girl, æt. 13 ; for nearly five years discharge of pus and blood from both ears ; frequent attacks of intolerable otalgia ; deafness with thunderous roaring in ears ; frontal headache and frequent epistaxis.
Deaf, with a purulent offensive discharge from ears ; bleeding from ear very profuse, provoked by slightest touch on meatus by finger ; external ear swollen ; bluish-red, shining and studded with vesicles ; it exuded a thin watery fluid ; whole ear looked as if water-soaked. θ After scarlatina.
Ulceration in external auditory meatus.
Eczema behind ears, with formation of thick crusts ; scrofulous conjunctivitis, blepharitis and catarrh of middle ear.

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Forgetful.
Quiet disposition.
Rough, angular disposition.

Vertigo: morning, after rising from bed; worse when walking, sitting up, or turning head; pulse accelerated, nausea, vomiting of food; better lying perfectly quiet; when going to sleep.

Brain feels as if beaten, on slightest movement.
Heaviness and fulness in head in morning.
Violent (linear) pain in a small spot over left eye; pain short, sharp and defined.

Deposit of a chalky-looking white mass on anterior surface of lens.
Pterygium.
Purulent discharge; eczema impetigenoides on lids.
Left upper lid worse; lachrymation, itching and pressure; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Herpes conjunctiva bulbi; veins enlarged, running horizontally towards the cornea, ending in little blisters near edge of cornea; worse from crying.

Dull, throbbing pain day and night; thin, watery, excoriating discharge.
Vesicular eruption on membrana, then suppuration and perforation.
Membrana tympani permanently injured and hearing greatly diminished.
Itching and swelling, with painful throbbing in external meatus; in three or four days, discharge of a watery fluid, smelling like fish-pickle, which causes vesicles wherever it touches; ear is bluish-red, as if œdematous; hearing impaired.
Sensation: as if something suddenly closed up in the ear; as if air whistled through left eustachian tube, when snuffing or belching, air passes through it.

Fluent coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness when walking in open air.

Sudden flashes of redness over the face.
Twitching and distortion of facial muscles, worse when talking.
Ringworm.

Salivation; gums bleed easily and profusely.

Breath has a garlic-like odor.

Sore throat, dry sensation in fauces, better when eating and drinking.

See 13.

Weak feeling, like faintness in the stomach, after congestion of blood in head and nape.

Pinching in abdomen.

Flatus peculiar and stinking.

Increased urination.
High-colored, acid urine.
Drop sticking at mouth of urethra.

Increased sexual desire.
Herpes on scrotum and perineum.

Dull pain in region of heart, when lying on left side; better when lying on back.
Palpitation of heart, with throbbing through whole body and full pulse, followed by sweat.

Painful sensitiveness of spine, from last cervical to fifth dorsal vertebra; sensitive to pressure and touch.
Pain in sacrum. See sciatica.

Pain in sacrum, passing into right thigh down sciatic nerve, worse when pressing at stool, coughing, laughing, also when lying on the affected side. θ Sciatica.

Lying quietly: 2; on left side: 29; on back: 29; on affected side: 33. Sitting: 2. Rising: 2. Walking: 2, 7. Motion: 3. Turning head: 2.

Morning: 2, 3. Day and night: 6.

Open air: 7.

Chilly, with the pains.
Sweat on face.
Sweat on spots, with increased itchings of these places.

Right: 33. Left: 3, 5, 6, 29. Above downward: 33.

Touch: 31. Pressure: 31.

Ringworms: cover the whole body, more distinct on lower limbs; on single parts.

Pure metallic Tellurium is triturated.

See symptoms of spine and skin.

Ars., Rhus t., Cepa.

Pains over whole body, agg. limbs and scapulæ, agg. right side, agg. waking; fugitive and indistinct P., "first right, then left". ▶ Restless (Ars., Rhus t.). ▶ Weakness, then sharp, quick pains in elbows, ankles and various parts. ▶ Heaviness in morning after deep sleep and bad dreams, with dullness.

Forgets and neglects much, it is too much trouble to observe and write down the symptoms, when thinking of any business he forgets everything else. ▶ Quiet.

Aching; in afternoon, agg. left side, and at 6 P.M., agg. forepart; towards evening; agg. vertex. ▶ Brain felt bruised on every movement. ▶ Dullness. ▶ Heavy, full and sleepy. ▶ Sudden rush of blood when sitting quietly working, with head bent forward, almost twice daily, now in morning, now in afternoon, with reddening of face. ▶ Every evening on getting to sleep, vertigo as if he were wafted and drawn forth quickly in the direction of his legs, always waking him.

Stitches anteriorly, pressure above eyes as after lack of sleep. ▶ Liner pain behind left brow. ▶ Congestive pain in F. and temples in morning on waking, agg. stooping, when there was weight, amel. lying. ▶ Pressure outward deep in a long line above eyes, agg. right side. ▶ Pain in a spot in left sinciput, pressing like a hazelnut at night and through next morning.

Tensive pain externally in left half in morning when lying on left side. ▶ Pressure upon a spot behind vertex. ▶ Occiput, pain in right side; confusion at sides and agg. towards back part; numbness, and in nape.

Red, dropsical, biting, itching swelling of left upper lid towards inner angle, secreting some fluid, then a scab, globe reddened. ▶ Itching of left upper lid towards inner canthus towards evening, with pressure as if a hair had grown in the wrong direction.

Eczema impetiginoides of the lids and conjunctiva. ▶ Scrofulous ophthalmia.

Eczema of the external ear, with itching and swelling and painful throbbing, discharge smelling like old fishbrine, vesicular eruption externally. ▶ Numerous cases of otorrhœa have been cured. ▶ Deafness.

Sciatica, agg. lying down at night, straining at stool, coughing or laughing, agg. right side.

Herpes circinatus. ▶ Eczema.

Sudden obstruction in forenoon and at 10 P.M., agg. left. ▶ Air catches itself in left Eustachian tube; on taking a pinch of snuff and on eructation of wind. ▶ Itching within, with thin wax. ▶ Itching of left, with burning and swelling and with aching and throbbing in external meatus, then discharge from ear, copious, Watery, smelling like fish-pickle, acrid causing vesicles wherever it touched ear or neck, the inflammation of ear generally was not vesicular ear was bluish-red and appeared infiltrated with water.

Obstruction of right nostril; of left in forenoon, slime running off posteriorly. ▶ Sudden dryness (as from sudden stoppage of fluent coryza or as from an abortive attempt to sneeze) in right side of N. and fauces between 4 and 5 P.M., then painful heat in right eye, with lachrymation. ▶ Fluent coryza when walking in clear air (from 11 A.M. till noon), amel. stay in open air, with hoarseness and lachrymation (Allium cep.), short cough and pressure under sternum; C., with thick mucus. ▶ Thick slime on waking, he had breathed through the mouth at night, nose sometimes stopped. ▶ Dry coryza, worse at irregular intervals.

Distortion of left facial muscles when speaking, left angle of mouth drawn to the left and upward. ▶ Burning in lips in afternoon after being in cold air in the forenoon; in middle of upper in afternoon. ▶ Pain in left teeth, which had been filled with lead. ▶ Garlicky breath. ▶ Mouth and pharynx cool as after peppermint, agg. drawing in air. ▶ Taste metallic, earthy.

In morning much slime from posterior nares tasting salt, like smoked herring. ▶ The slime in posterior nares has been deposited as a yellow-reddish resin, which is hawked out in morning. ▶ Suffocative feeling in upper part. ▶ Scratching; agg. towards evening. ▶ Soreness of evening on empty swallowing; agg. left side; prickly, in fauces on swallowing, agg. right side. ▶ Pressure in tonsils. ▶ Dryness at 5 P.M.; in fauces towards evening; in fauces, agg. right side; in fauces, amel. eating or drinking, with pain; in fauces in morning, agg. left side, amel. walking in open air from 11 A.M. till noon, then pain in right side extending into ear, agg. empty swallowing, stoppage of right ear, the D. always felt morning and evening; prickly, in fauces in morning, agg. left side, amel. after breakfast; painful, in back part, as from sudden stoppage of fluent coryza or as from an abortive attempt to sneeze, in morning. ▶ Itching in fauces above larynx, with burning, as if he had scalded himself. ▶ Feels fauces and pharynx, and at times has a sensation as if round waves pushed against pharynx below. ▶ Swallowing painful.

Sudden desire for apples at 11.30 P.M. on going to sleep, making him wide awake. ▶ Good appetite, with desire for beer, later both ceased. ▶ No desire to smoke in evening. ▶ Eructations tasting of the food. ▶ Nausea before evening meal, amel. eating with headache; N., caused by vertigo, and after eating rice vomiting; N. with frequent pulse. ▶ Contracting sensation in epigastrium as if it folded together, then pain in side, with soreness. ▶ Empty and weak feeling, yet no appetite. ▶ Discomfort, something comes up to pharynx, as if a wet eructation would occur, but nothing comes up, then difficult retching, then accumulation of water in mouth, then retching, then yawning. ▶ Heartburn in epigastrium and on both sides of it, as after spirituous drinks.

Pinching at 8 A.M., and stool, first thick, then diarrhœa; P. at 10 P.M., amel. emission of flatus. ▶ Spasmodic pain as from incarcerated flatus, agg. afternoon, one day at 6 P.M. while eating, with urging to still, then copious stool, then only feeling of flatulence, the pain returned four days afterwards between 3 and 4 P.M., amel. copious stools. ▶ Full after supper, but not bloated. ▶ Warmth as after spirituous drinks.

Fulness in region of upper A. and liver. ▶ Pressure of incarcerated flatus in left hypochondrium after breakfast, then in right. ▶ Burning in hepatic region as if blistered inside in forenoon when sitting, then heavy pressure. ▶ Gnawing rubbing pain in right side, agg. low in back. ▶ Pain anteriorly on sides and above pubic region; in left flank, within crest of ilium. ▶ Numbness of walls began below umbilicus on each side, extended around and upward to ribs while lying on sofa after supper.

Blind hæmorrhoids. ▶ Itching in anus; in rectum after stool. ▶ Diarrhœa then urging, with burning in rectum, then stronger retraction of abdomen. ▶ Constipation; with much wind. ▶ Stool only every other day and difficult. ▶ Stool omitted for two days, then one not hard, composed of crumbs enveloped in brown-reddish slime, next day the first part was similar, but the last part softer.

Urine dark; deep red, scanty, acid sp. gr. 1030, abundant coloring matter, hydrochloric acid caused striking change of color. ▶ Erections all night. ▶ Sexual desire and power increased; desire powerful, then extinct.

Hoarseness in morning after rising. ▶ In larynx a sensation between roughness and pressure, generally provoking cough, gradually passing into tickling. ▶ Cough with pressure under sternum. ▶ Easy expectoration of white mucus.

Stitches, agg. left side; above left rib. ▶ Drawing cutting in left nipple and around it, extending towards scapula. ▶ Pain in clavicle; in middle of sternum; above first left rib. ▶ Oppression. ▶ Feeling in middle lobe of right lung as if a fluid wanted to discharge itself (pressing downward) in afternoon. ▶ Bubbling in middle lobe of right lung, agg. afternoon. ▶ Undulatory throbbing as from wind-balls under right ribs, somewhat towards epigastrium, when lying on left side. ▶ Flatus does not pass off as freely in the morning as usual and the hitherto rather diarrhœic stool intermits, flatus becomes stinking.

Palpitation, with throbbing through whole body and fulness of pulse, then sweat.

Sharp pain extending into ear when lying on left ear.

▶ Spine sensitive from last cervical to about fifth dorsal vertebra, with dread of having the part touched or approached (Compare Chin. s.), the dread was greater than the actual sensibility from these vertebræ a peculiar irritation radiated into neck and shoulders and to sternum, this sensation agg. fatigue, but only partially amel. repose.

Drawing and pressure in right then left scapula. ▶ Pain between scapulæ; in region of kidneys, extending downward and towards abdomen, agg. night, with soreness and weight, the pains agg. next morning especially the soreness; P. in sacrum, agg. stooping or rising, from sitting or lying, it passes down right thigh in direction of sciatic nerve, it is almost impossible for him to press at stool, sometimes on moving the pain in sacrum and sacral ligaments is like a stab; P. in os sacrum as if beaten in morning, agg. stooping, not amel. rising again, extending after a time into renal, region, amel. walking in open air, returning when sitting returning next day when standing in a stooping posture, amel. walking, agg. lying on back, but when lying on left side it is worse towards the right, on third day the pain in sacrum and leg amel. motion in open air, agg. pressing at stool, and when coughing and laughing the pain extends from sacral plexus through large foramen ischiaticum along great sciatic nerve into thigh, agg. right side.

Sprained and bruised sensation in knees, hips, elbows and shoulder-joint on returning from a walk after supper. ▶ Sensation of an internal tumor mat anterior margin of left axilla, with pain on pressure and motion. ▶ Sometimes tearing towards elbow and in palm towards thumb-joint. ▶ Drawing cramplike pain in left supinator longus, just below bend of elbow. ▶ Heaviness of left forearm and hand about 10 P.M., with numbness. ▶ Pain through metacarpal bone of right fourth finger. ▶ Drawing in right hand, afterwards involving forearm. ▶ Sensation as if skin of hands and fingers, agg. right, were contracted, with sensation as if ends of fingers were dead. ▶ Rheumatic pain in right little finger (except last joint), agg. strong pressure or movement. ▶ Pain in first phalanx of left little finger as if he had fallen upon it, with pain on motion.

Burning aching anteriorly at outside of right knee. ▶ Knees and legs, agg. right, feel tired, all the evening drawing in right leg posteriorly from posterior spinous process to calf, agg. kneeholder and after lying down (11.30), so as to prevent sleep, and obliging him to turn frequently, the sleep is very good, with amelioration of all pain. ▶ Pain in right metatarsal bone as if pressed.

▶ Red points shining through the skin of left hand, sometimes with itching, with itching of feet, agg. left after several days similar points on calves and then extending up thighs, the itching, agg. where the skin perspires most, after a few days similar pimples on epigastrium, the points more visible on rubbing, from epigastrium the eruption extends towards left nipple, then turns towards left axilla, at the same time itching in various parts of back, a spot on right side of forehead is sore on pressure, as if bruised, now itching on posterior and superior parts of head.

Pimples on face; small, red, sharply defined, with vesicles upon them, on lower limbs, then also on upper, agg. left side, they began on out side of calves and then on inside of forearms, above wrists, and spread from that points, with itching, agg. night after going to bed; red itching P. on abdomen, inside of thighs and perineum, the itching agg. cold weather.

▶ Vesicles in a cluster on an inflamed base, on forehead, above right external canthus, they dried into thin scales and spread, with itching and pricking, afterwards the herpetic spot was circular, about half an inch in diameter, consisting of an elevated ring of vesicles, some larger than others, on an inflamed base, enclosing a depressed area of red skin, which desquamated but contained no vesicles, it itched and had successive crops of thin white scales, one evening the stinging was very annoying when sitting still, wandering all over body, a similar herpetic spot midway between left ribs and crest of ilium, with itching, which changed into smarting on rubbing, with indications of another spot just above it, afterwards itching vesicles on a slightly inflamed base, falling off in white scales, on scalp, agg. occiput, in border of hair on nape, and posteriorly on ears, the spot on forehead is breaking up now, but just above it is a similar smaller one, afterwards the spot on forehead is red.

▶ Stitching pricking in various parts, agg. rest. ▶ Pricking itching at scrotum in afternoon, agg. right side, then high up on inside of left thigh, then low on right side of abdomen, then on left side, then between buttocks.

Sleepy in evening, went to sleep while sitting. ▶ The sleepy, heavy condition which he had before the proving vanished, and instead thereof a restlessness on going to bed. ▶ Waking about 4 P.M., with sweat. ▶ Nightmare. ▶ Dream of smoking cigars, which he never does.

Internal chilliness, with shudderings. ▶ Skin hot, and dry, with bruised sensation, as if he had taken cold. ▶ Sweat; when sitting writing; offensive; of offensive Tellurium odor at night (from taking cold.); offensive, on feet and toes.

Restlessness.
Weakness.

Clinical:
Basal meningitis, with extreme hyperæsthesia of the whole back.
Intolerant of the slightest touch; could not lie on the back, with motor paralysis of the arms and legs; ptosis.

Swelling, with burning and itching, aching and throbbing of the external ear, followed by a discharge, which is copious, watery, acrid, smelling like putrid fish brine, causing vesicular eruption wherever it touched the skin.

Fluent coryza, with hoarseness and lachrymation.

Spine sensitive from the last cervical to the middle dorsal region; could not bear to have the part touched or approached; the pain radiated to the neck, shoulder and sternum; < fatigue, partially > rest.

Sciatica pains; < lying down at night, < right side.

Vesicular eruption, in clusters on an inflamed base, with itching; < night in bed.
Circular, herpetic eruptions on an inflamed base, with stinging, prickling itching; < when at rest.