Medorrhinum

• ▸Weak memory.
• ▸Loses the thread of conversation.
• ▸Cannot speak without weeping.
• ▸Time passes too slowly (Cannab ind; Arg n).
• ▸Is in a great hurry.
• ▸Hopeless of recovery.
• ▸Difficult concentration.
• ▸Fears going insane (Mancinella).
• ▸Sensibility exalted.
• ▸Nervous, restless.
• ▸Fear in the dark and of some one behind her.
• ▸Melancholy, with suicidal thoughts.

Forgetfulness: of names; later of words and initial letters —Time moves too

slowly.—Dazed feeling; a far-off sensation, as though things done to-day occurred a week

ago.—Loses constantly the thread of her talk —Seems to herself to make wrong statements,

because she does not know what to say next, begins all right but does not know how to finish;

weight on vertex, which seems to affect the mind.—Difficulty in concentrating his thoughts on

abstract subjects—Could not read or use mind at all from pain in head —Thinks some one is

behind her, hears whispering; sees faces that peer at her from behind bed and furniture —One

night saw large people in room; large rats running; felt a delicate hand smoothing her head from

front to back.—Is sure she is going to die.—Sensation as if all life were unreal, like a

dream.—Wild and desperate feeling, as of incipient insanity—Cannot speak without

crying.—Suicidal.—Is in a great hurry; when doing anything is in such a hurry that she gets

fatigued.—Spirits in the depths, weighed down with heavy, solid gloom, > by torrents of

tears —Is always anticipating; feels most matters sensitively before they occur and generally

• ▸correctly.
• ▸—Dread of saying the wrong thing when she has headache.
• ▸—Apprehensive.
• ▸—Fear of the

dark.—Feeling as if he had committed the unpardonable sin and was going to hell.—Irritated at

little things.—Very impatient —Great selfishness.

• ▸Gangrene.
• ▸—Trembling.
• ▸—Spasms.
• ▸—Epileptiform spasms, foaming at

• ▸mouth.
• ▸—Opisthotonos.
• ▸—Risus sardonicus.
• ▸—Collapse.

• ▸Burning pain in brain; worse, occiput.
• ▸Head heavy and drawn backward.
• ▸Headache from jarring of cars, exhaustion, or hard work.
• ▸Weight and pressure in vertex.
• ▸Hair dry, crispy.
• ▸Itching of scalp; dandruff.

Vertigo: when stooping; slightly > lying; < on movement.—Sensation of tightening in

head causing intense vertigo.—Frontal headache: with nausea; feeling of a tight band across

forehead, < leaning head forward; as if skin were drawn tight; with fluent coryza; with pressure

back of eyes, as if they would be forced out; extending over brain to neck.—Brain seems weary;

slightest sound annoys and fatigues her—Wakes with headache over eyes and in temples; < from

sunlight.—Pain in centre of brain; in evening sharp pain through temples; pains commence and

• ▸cease suddenly.
• ▸—Brain exceedingly tender and all mental work irksome.
• ▸—Pain in 1.
• ▸parietal bone

when the wind blows on it.—Pain circling through head and around crown.—Terrible pains all

through head in every direction, with continuous and violent vomiting, followed by aching in

sacrum and down backs of legs to feet—Constant headache < while coughing; light (through the

eyes) seems to hurt it—Intense headache for three days, with inflammation of eye.—Intense

cerebral suffering, causing continual rubbing of head in pillow, rolling from side to side.—Dull

pain in cerebellum.—Intense burning pain in head, < in cerebellum.—Tensive pains in head as if

she would go crazy; could not read or use mind.—Aching pain in base of brain, with swelling of

cords of neck.—Head feels heavy and is drawn backwards.—Pain in back of head and in r.

eye.—Hair lustreless, dry and crispy; electrical —Intense itching of scalp; quantities of dandruff.

• ▸Feels as if she staredat everything.
• ▸Eyeballs ache.
• ▸Feels as if sticks in eyes.
• ▸Lids irritated.

When eyes were shut, felt as if pulling out of head to one side or other; when open all

things seemed to flicker.—A blur over things; numberless black, sometimes brown spots dancing

over her book; sees objects double; things look very small; sees imaginary objects.—Neuralgic

pain in eyeballs: when pressing eyelids together; < when rolling them.—Feeling of pain and

irritation, and sensations of sticks in eyes, lids, and esp. inner canthi, redness and dryness of lids,

congestion of sclerotics and sensation of a cool wind blowing in eyes, esp. inner canthi.—Ptosis

of outer end of both upper lids, particularly L, requiring exertion to open them. Decided tendency

to irritation of edges of lids Hardness of upper lid, as if it had a cartilage in it.—Swelling under

eyes.

Partial deafness, pulsation in ears. Quick, darting pains in right ear.

Nearly total deafness of both ears, with very little noise; had to use a trumpet.—Partial

or transient deafness; pulsation in ears.—Singular sensation of deafness from one ear to the other,

as if a tube went through head, while yet there was an over-acuteness of hearing —When

whistling, the sound in ears is double, with peculiar vibration as when two persons whistle

thirds.—Quick, darting pains in r. ear, from without inward; pains followed each other in quick

succession.—Ringhole in |. ear sore and almost gathered.

• ▸Intense itching.
• ▸Coldness of tip.
• ▸Posterior nares obstructed.
• ▸Chronic nasal and pharyngeal catarrhs.

Intense itching in nose, internally near point, had to rub all the time.—Very great

burning in both nostrils when breathing through them.—Coldness of end of nose.—Entire loss of

• ▸smell for several days.
• ▸—Nose goes to sleep.
• ▸—Epistaxis.
• ▸—Nose inflamed, swollen.
• ▸—Posterior

nares obstructed, > by hawking thick, greyish mucus, followed by bloody mucus.—Soreness and

crawling feeling, as of a centipede in |. nostril in morning.

Pallor, acne, blotches of reddish color. Small boils break out during menses.

Greenish, shining appearance of skin.—Blotches on skin.—Flushes of heat in face and

• ▸neck.
• ▸—Fever blisters near corner of r.
• ▸upper lip, small but very sore.
• ▸—Enormous fever sore on

• ▸lower lip near 1.
• ▸commissure.
• ▸—Sweat of face; on upper lip.
• ▸—Neuralgia of r.
• ▸upper and lower

jaws, extending to temple.—Face covered with acne; dry herpes; freckles.—Tendency to stiffness

in jaws and tongue.

Tongue coated brown and thick, blistered; canker sores. Blisters on inner surface of lips and cheeks.

Taste: coppery on rising; disagreeable; bad in morning.—Tongue coated: brown and

thick; thickly in morning, with bad taste: white at base, the rest red; white, with papille showing

through.—Tongue blistered.—Small sores, pustules (canker sores) on edge, tip, and under tongue,

very painful; also inside lips and in throat.—Foul breath in morning.—Dryness of mouth; feels

burnt.—Blisters on inner surface of lips and cheeks, skin peeling off in patches.—Stringy mucus

comes out of mouth during sleep.

Teeth have serrated edges, or are chalky and easily decay.—Sore teeth, particularly

eye teeth; feel sore and soft.—Yellowness of teeth.

Throat: scraped; sore, stiff; dry; swallowing painful.—Back part of throat constantly

filling with mucus from posterior nares.—Sore throat and cold in head > by salt-water bathing.

• ▸Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted hydrogen.
• ▸Ravenous hunger soon after eating.
• ▸Very thirsty.
• ▸Cravings for liquor, salt, sweets, etc, warm drinks.
• ▸Pernicious vomiting of pregnancy.

Appetite: ravenous, immediately after eating; lost —Thirst enormous; for

liquor.—Craves: salts; sweets; hard, green fruit; ice; sour things; oranges; ale.

Hiccough.—Nausea: with frontal headache; after drinking water; after dinner;

always after eating; before eating —Violent retching and vomiting for forty-eight hours; first

glairy mucus, then frothy and watery, and lastly coffee-grounds; accompanied by intense

headache, with great despondency and sensation of impending death; during paroxysm was

continually praying.—Vomiting thick mucus and bile; black bile without nausea, tasting bitter

and sour, with considerable mucus.—In pit of stomach: sensation of pins forcing through flesh;

sick gnawing not > by eating; trembling; burning.—In stomach: feeling of lump after eating;

cramps; clawing, < drawing up knees.—Intense pain in stomach and upper abdomen, with a

sensation of tightness.—Sensation of sinking and agonising sickness at stomach, with a desire to

tear something away.

Violent pain in liver and spleen. Rests more comfortably lying on abdomen.

Terrible pains in liver, thought she would die, they were so acute.—Grasping

pain in liver and spleen.—Intense agonising pain in solar plexus; surface cold; eructations tasting

of sulphuretted hydrogen and, after eating, of ingesta; applied r. hand to pit of stomach and I. to

lumbar region.—Tensive pain in r. side of abdomen, as of a hard, biconvex body; with heat and

gnawing aching pain, continued a short time; it was between spine of iltum and recti

• ▸muscles.
• ▸—Darting pain from centre of r.
• ▸ovarian region to lower edge of liver.
• ▸—Beating as of a

• ▸pulse in abdomen vertically —Cutting in r.
• ▸lower abdomen running into r.
• ▸spermatic cord; r.
• ▸testis

very tender.

• ▸Can pass stool only by leaning very far back.
• ▸Painful lump sensation on posterior surface of sphincter.
• ▸Oozing of fetid moisture.
• ▸Intense itching of anus.

Bilious diarrhoea, verging on dysentery, with mucous stools.—Pains of

most intense kind (threatening cramps) in upper abdomen (darting and tearing pains) coining on

at stool; stool diarrhceic, thin and hot, but not copious; after stool, profound weakness and mild

cramp in I. calf.—Profuse bloody discharges from rectum, sometimes in large clotted masses,

followed by shivering.—Black stool —White diarrhoea.—Stools tenacious, clay-like, sluggish,

cannot be forced, from a sensation of prolapsus of rectum.—Can only pass stool by leaning very

far back; very painful, as if there was a lump on posterior surface of sphincter; so painful as to

• ▸cause tears.
• ▸—Constriction and inertia of bowels with ball-like stools.
• ▸—Child, zt.
• ▸15 months,

brought on a pillow to clinic, apparently dead; eyes glassy, set; could not find pulse, but felt heart

beat; running from anus greenish yellow, thin, horribly offensive stool.—Oozing of moisture

from anus, fetid like fish brine.

Intense renal colic; severe pain in ureters, with sensation as of passage of

calculus; during kidney attack, great craving for, ice.—Dull pinching pain in region of supra-renal

capsules at 11 a.m.; fingers cold at same time; great pressure in bladder, greater than amount of

urine warrants; urine scanty and high coloured.—Pain in renal region, profuse urination

>.—Urine: high coloured; strong-smelling; covered with thick, greasy pellicle; intensely

yellow.—Slow flow; cutting across root of penis transversely just as last drops are voided;

intermittent.—Diabetes.—A fter urination, syncope.

• ▸Painful tenesmus when urinating.
• ▸Nocturnal enuresis.
• ▸Renal colic (Berb; Ocim; Pareir).
• ▸Urine flows very slowly.

• ▸Intense pruritus.
• ▸Menses offensive, profuse, dark, clotted; stains difficult to wash out, urinates frequently at that time.
• ▸Sensitive spot near os uteri.
• ▸Leucorrhoea thin, acrid, excoriating, fishy odor.
• ▸Sycotic warts on genitals.
• ▸Ovarian pain, worse left side, or from ovary to ovary.
• ▸Sterility.
• ▸Metrorrhagia.
• ▸Intense menstrual colic.
• ▸Breasts cold, sore, and sensitive.

Great sexual desire after menses in a single woman.—A great deal

of pain in |. ovary, with a sensation as if a sac was distended and if pressed would burst;

sensation as if something was pulling it down, causing it to be sore; pain when walking passed to

1. groin, as if leg pushed something, with a great amount of heat—Tense pains passing diagonally

in r. ovary, followed by a bubbling sensation.—Intense, excruciating, neuralgic pains in whole

pelvic region, extending downwards through ovarian region to uterus; cutting like knives, forcing

tears and groans.—Distinct soreness and nervous pain in one spot in lower part of uterus on 1.

side, < walking or moving |. leg —Profuse menses; dark clotted, stains difficult to wash out; also

bright blood, with faintness and some pain.—Intense menstrual colic, causing drawing up of

knees, with terrible bearing-down, labour-like pains, with pressing of feet against support, as in

Labour.—A burning pain in lower part of back and hips during menses.—A fter very profuse

menses, neuralgia in paroxysms in head, with twitching and drawing in of limbs and cords of

neck, which were like wires; pain in lower abdomen, with profuse yellowish

leucorrhcea.—Itching of vagina and labia, thinking of it makes it <—Small chancres on edge of r.

labia (had no sexual intercourse for three years, never had venereal disease).—Short, shooting

pains, passing outwards, chiefly in breasts.—Breasts as cold as ice to touch, esp. nipples (during

menses), rest of body warm.—Large but not painful swelling of 1. breast Breasts and nipples

very tender to touch, also inflamed.—Soreness of nipples, a gummy secretion drying on orifice;

when picked off nipple bleeds freely.

• ▸Nocturnal emissions, followed by great weakness.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Gleet; whole urethra feels sore.
• ▸Urethritis.
• ▸Enlarged and painful prostate with frequent urging and painful urination.

Emissions during sleep: watery, causing no stiffness of linen;

transparent, consistence of gum arabic mucilage, too thick to pour, and voided with difficulty;

thick, with threads of white, opaque substance.—Impotence.—Intense and frequent erections day

and night.—Pains along urethra while urinating, drawing burning. —(Suppressed gonorrheea).

• ▸Much oppression of breathing.
• ▸Hoarse while reading.
• ▸Pain and soreness through chest and mammae.
• ▸Incessant, dry, night cough.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Incipient consumption.
• ▸Larynx feels sore.
• ▸Dyspnoea; cannot exhale (Samb).
• ▸Cough; better lying on stomach.

Hoarseness, esp. while reading, with occasional loss of

voice.—Choking caused by a weakness or spasm of epiglottis, could not tell which; larynx

stopped so that no air could enter, only > by lying on face and protruding tongue —Dryness of

glottis, very annoying, with pain during deglutition; great hoarseness.—Soreness in larynx, as if

ulcerated.—Tenacious mucus in larynx.—Sensation of a lump in larynx; severe pain on

deglutition.—Bronchial catarrh spreading into larynx, swelling of tonsils and glands of throat

extended also into ears, causing transient deafness.—Great oppression of breathing every

• ▸afternoon about 5 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸; sense of constriction.
• ▸—Has to fill lungs, but no power to eject

air.—Breath hot, feels so even when breathing through the nose.—Cough from tickling under

upper part of sternum.—Incessant dry cough, < at night; wakes just as she is falling asleep; <

from sweet things.—Terrible, painful cough, as if larynx would be torn to pieces and as if mucous

membrane was torn off, with profuse discharge of viscid greyish mucus, mixed with

blood.—Cough < on lying down, > lying on stomach.—Expectoration: yellow white, albuminous,

or little green, bitter balls; ropy, difficult to raise; as if flecked with infinitesimal dark spots.

Sharp pain in bottom of |. lung.—Chest sore to touch, at times burning extends over

chest; cold seems to < it; a piece of ice seems to cool it for an instant, then it is hotter; lung feels

as if beaten or bruised.—Singular sensation through chest, bounded by a line drawn across lower

end of sternum and another about middle; as if there was a cavity extending from side to side,

filled with burning air, which dilated in puffs in all directions and could be felt impinging on

• ▸walls of cavity —Pain in r.
• ▸shoulder as though it came from 1.
• ▸straight through.
• ▸—Constricted

sensation at bottom of both lungs; dull, heavy pain at top of 1. lung —Coughing gives great pain

in chest, as if it was painfully contracted.—Incipient consumption.—Pain and soreness through

chest and mamme.—Sensation of an abscess between pectoralis major and minor.—Great

soreness to pressure of muscles of lower |. chest front and back, soreness when moving I.

shoulder-blade.

Palpitation after slight exertion.—With heat in chest, heart felt very hot, beat very

fast and felt large, accompanied by a bursting sensation.—Feeling of a cavity where heart ought

to be.—Pain in heart: acute, sharp, quick; dull; quick.—Intense pain in heart, seemed to radiate in

different parts of |. side of chest; < from least movement.—Burning in heart, went through to

back and down into 1. arm.

Drawing in cords of neck, causing desire to throw head back.—Spasms of

neck muscles, notably sterno-mastoid, drawing chin firmly down to breast.—Contractive pain

from superior angles of scapulze, passing to seventh dorsal vertebra, drawing shoulders back tight

as if bones would be crushed; < moving shoulders, neck, or arms.—Intense burning heat,

commencing in back of neck and extending gradually down spine, with a contractive stiffness

extending into head and seeming to thicken the scalp.—Weak, stiff, aching back —Heat in

medulla and spine for a whole week.—Whole length of backbone sore to touch, also ribs of 1.

side.——Lumbago caused by straining or lifting. —Pain in back of hips, running around and down

limbs.—Pain in sacrum and coccyx.

Rheumatic pain in top of |. shoulder, < from motion; occasional little darts

of pain if kept still—Rheumatic pain in (r.) shoulder and arm.—Brown, itching eruption on 1.

shoulder.—Cold numbness outer side of arms just below elbow.—Cracking of joints, esp.

elbows.—Much pain in |. arm; cannot hold a paper; veins become enlarged; < raising

arm.—Trembling of arms and hands.—Burning of hands, wants them fanned and uncovered;

• ▸always cold hands.
• ▸—Backs of hands rough.
• ▸—Small yellow spots on hands.
• ▸—Transverse

depression on nails, as if they were bent.—Consumptive incurvation of nails.

Woke with sharp pain in |. hip, preventing stooping, walking difficult; like a

stiff neck —Legs heavy as lead; walking difficult, esp. up and down stairs Numbness, paralysed

feeling, in 1. leg from knee to hip.—Longs to stretch legs —During heavy thunderstorm very sharp

pains in knees start upwards; pains < by stretching.—Aching in legs with inability to keep them

still in bed, < when giving up control of himself, as when trying to sleep (> after Lil.

• ▸t.
• ▸).
• ▸—Trembling in legs from knees down (< 1.
• ▸), burning in feet—Cramps in soles and calves at

night—Ankles turn easily when walking.—Sudden intense pain in |. ankle, back of joint, on going

to bed, could not move limb or body without screaming; could find no position of

comfort.—Burning in feet, wants them uncovered and fanned.—Cold feet with chills all

• ▸over.
• ▸—(Edema of feet followed and > by diarrhcea.
• ▸—Soreness in ball of foot under toes.
• ▸—Cold,

sweating feet—Old foot-sweats, < during winter for seven years.—Great toe covered with tettery

scales.—Corns very tender.

• ▸Pain in back, with burning heat.
• ▸Legs heavy; ache all night; cannot keep them still (Zinc).
• ▸Ankles easily turn when walking.
• ▸Burning of hands feet.
• ▸Finger-joints enlarged, puffy.
• ▸Gouty concretions.
• ▸Heels and balls of feet tender (Thuja).
• ▸Soreness of soles.
• ▸Restless; better, clutching hands.

• ▸Yellow.
• ▸Intense and incessant itching; worse night and when thinking of it.
• ▸Fiery red rash about anus in babies.
• ▸Copper-colored spots.
• ▸Favus.
• ▸Tumors and abnormal growth.

Yellowness of skin.—Intense and incessant itching, fugitive, < towards night,

sometimes confined to one side.—Itching (and pricking) all over, < back, vagina, labia, and <

thinking of it.—Fiery red band passing down neck, back, and perineum, and involving genitals

• ▸and pubes.
• ▸—Fiery red rash about anus in babies; "the water scalds it terribly.
• ▸".
• ▸—Scald-

head.—Tinea capitis, eyelids involved.—Copper-coloured spots (syphilitic) remaining after

eruptions, thin yellow-brown and detach in scales, leaving skin clear and free —Small

pedunculated warts, with pin-heads, like small button mushrooms, on various parts of body and

thigh —Favus.—Fetid odour of body.

Dreams she is drinking (Ars; Phos). Sleeps in knee-chest position.

Sleepy, yawning, chilly—Spasmodic yawning, cannot suppress it; followed by spasm

of glottis.—Asleep, but hears everything, answers questions as if awake.—Bites tip of tongue in

sleep.—Sleeps at night on her knees with face forced in pillow.—Can only sleep on back with

hands over head; if she lies on either side, the contents of lower part of chest and abdomen seem

to press on each other and cause discomfort.—Dreams: horrid; painful; exhausting; that she is

drinking; of walking; of ghosts and dead people——Wakeful; slept towards morning.—Great

restlessness at night; sleepy but could not sleep.

• ▸Wants to be fanned all the time.
• ▸Chills up and down back; coldness of legs, hands, and forearms.
• ▸Flashes of heat in face and neck.
• ▸Night-sweat and hectic.

Creepy chills running down back and all over body in a zigzag course.—Chills: up

• ▸and down back; several times a day.
• ▸—Chilly 3 to 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Cold hands with coldness extending all

• ▸over body.
• ▸—Flashes of heat alternating with chills —Coldness: r.
• ▸hand, then 1.
• ▸; a slight flush of

heat succeeded, then sensation of a foreign substance in r. eye, then in 1—Must be fanned all the

time, throws clothes off, yet surface is cold; burning mostly subjective of hands and feet, wants

them uncovered and fanned.—Fever: with or without thirst; with gushes of perspiration in face;

• ▸followed by languor; with nervous restlessness from midnight to 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; at 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸preceded by

cold feet; fell asleep during fever; after fever, sweat on palms, feet and legs; with rapid pulse at

• ▸night; in afternoon; and malaise.
• ▸< 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸to | p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Great tendency to sweat on exertion;

sensitive to cold.—Profuse sweat about neck.—Night-sweats.

• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Clonic spasms.
• ▸Corns.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Dysmenorrhcea.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Eyes,

• ▸inflammation of.
• ▸Favus.
• ▸Gleet.
• ▸Gonorrhea, suppressed.
• ▸Gonorrheal rheumatism.
• ▸Headache,

• ▸neuralgic.
• ▸Liver, abscess of.
• ▸Masturbation.
• ▸Ovaries, pains in.
• ▸Pelvic cellulitis.
• ▸Polypi.
• ▸Priapism.

• ▸Psoriasis palmaris.
• ▸Ptosis.
• ▸Renal colic.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Shoulder, pains in.
• ▸Stricture.

Urticaria. Warts.

Characteristics—Medorrh. is one of the most important of the nosodes. The constitutional

nature of the gonorrhcea poison has within recent years been recognised in the old school as well

as the new. Noegerath of New York and Angus Macdonald in this country have pointed out a

causal connection between post-partum pelvic cellulitis and latent gonorrhoea in the husband.

Macdonald published several fatal cases. The effects of the poison, constitutional or acute, may

be taken as data for homeeopathic prescriptions; but the virus has had an extensive proving in the

potencies, and the symptoms there recorded have been largely verified in practice. The nosodes

may be used according to their indications in exactly the same way as other homceopathic

remedies, and not merely for manifestations of the disease from which they are derived. At the

same time, a knowledge of the origin of obscure disorders, especially if hereditary, will often

give the clue to the remedy required. Deschere published a case in point: Miss X., 23, had

chronic blepharitis since eleven. Her suffering was intense. Light, especially gas-light, was

intolerable, and this prevented her from going into society. She could not read in the evening,

and in the morning the lids would be closed, and she suffered much on getting them separated.

There was much discharge. Before coming under Deschere she had been under strict

homeeopathic treatment all the time. Deschere remembered treating her father for gonorrhoea

before his marriage, and he suspected the taint had reappeared in this form. Medorrh. was given

in high potency, single doses repeated as the effect of each wore off, and she was entirely cured.

A case of favus which had resisted all the external applications that allopaths could devise, and

which had such an appalling odour that the patient, a little boy, had to be isolated from the

family, was traced by Skinner to the same hereditary cause and cured with Medorrh. 1m. Many

cases of stunted growth and arrested development in children are due to latent gonorrhoea and

syphilis, and unless this factor is discerned and taken into consideration in prescribing, no great

good will be achieved. I have cured on this hypothesis extremely offensive body odours in

children with Medorrh. One important point in distinguishing between the sycotic or gonorrhceal

taint and that of syphilis is in the time aggravation, and consequently in the indications for this.

Syph. has < from sunset to sunrise, as also have all the great anti-syphilitic remedies. Medorrh.

has < from sunrise to sunset; always brighter in evening, < in early morning hours. With

Medorrh. there is intense nervous sensibility, especially to touch of garment or a lock of hair by

• ▸any one not en rapport.
• ▸Sensibility is exalted almost to clairvoyance.
• ▸As if in a dream.
• ▸Starting at

• ▸slightest sound.
• ▸Tremor; spasms.
• ▸There is a state of collapse and a desire to be fanned.
• ▸Among

the Peculiar Sensations are: As of sticks in eyes, lids, and inner, canthi; as if cold wind blowing

in eyes; as if upper lid had a cartilage in it. As if something crawling in ear and nose. Lump in

• ▸stomach.
• ▸Tumour right side of abdomen.
• ▸As if left lung collapsed or paralysed.
• ▸As if an abscess

between left pectoralis major and minor muscles. As if blood was boiling hot in veins. As if all

bones were out of joint.—The pains seem to tighten the whole body, especially the thighs. There

is scarcely a spot on the body that is not full of pain. Obstinate rheumatism. Sequelee of acute

• ▸rheumatism.
• ▸D.
• ▸C.
• ▸McLaren relates in Hahn.
• ▸Advoc.
• ▸(quoted Amer.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸, xxii.
• ▸408) a case

which illustrates the power and sphere of this nosode. A young French Canadian of delicate

constitution, after working in a factory all winter, began coughing in spring and running down in

health. He returned home and came under McLaren's care in May. The cough persisted and

prostration increased, in spite of carefully selected remedies, and the patient took to his bed. It

was then observed by McLaren that the cough and general condition was > from lying on the

face. This, coupled with a knowledge of there being a syphilitic taint in the boy's parentage,

suggested Medorrh., which was given. The next day a profuse gonorrhceal discharge appeared,

and the cough and all threatening symptoms promptly disappeared. Exposure to contagion had

occurred several weeks before, but from lack of vitality the disease could not find its usual

expression and was endangering the patient's life. Ernest Nyssens ("La Sycose de Hahnemann,"

Jour. Belge d'Hom, vi. 244) quotes some important observations by old-school authorities on

constitutional gonorrhoea. Wertheim in a case of gonorrhceal cystitis watched the entrance of the

gonococcus into the blood stream. With the gonococcus taken from the blood of this patient he

made cultures to the fifth generation. A youth who had never had venereal disease volunteered

for inoculation with this. The subacute urethritis which resulted was so grave, and, in spite of all,

became complicated so cruelly with cystitis, epididymitis, prostatitis, synovitis, and pleuro-

pneumonia, that Wertheim asked whether the gonococcus did not redouble its virulence by

passing into the blood. Louis Jullien and Louis Sibut (from whose paper Nyssens quotes the

above) witnessed the following case in Saint Lazare hospital: Louisa M., 17, entered the hospital

June 8th with urethro-vaginitis, and was treated with tampons (¢iges) of Ichthyol dissolved in

glycerine (1 to 5). The urethritis ran a normal course till July 6th, when this condition was

reported: The patient has had sufferings in the abdomen for a week, but has made no complaint.

However, they became so acute the previous night that an injection of Morphia was given. Rectal

• ▸temperature 100.
• ▸2.
• ▸Tongue saburral.
• ▸Right side abdominal pain.
• ▸In spite of rigid contraction of

the recti muscles there seemed to be a swelling deep down, but the observers were not certain it

was not a swelling of the muscles themselves. Intestinal functions normal; rectum empty. An

eruption of roseolous spots appeared on the body, abdomen, and chest, so exactly like those of

typhoid that the possibility of this was discussed. There was also acute pain in muscle of right

calf. This pain persisted the following day when the abdominal pains had disappeared. July

9 —Right knee painful, swollen. At same time synovitis of left wrist, dorsal aspect, the tendons

• ▸attacked being the extensor proprius of thumb and index.
• ▸Temperature normal.
• ▸Ju/y 10.
• ▸—Very

few and slight traces of the eruption. Right arm the seat of acute lancinating pain, especially at

the level of the deltoid "V," deep down near the bone at the insertion of the tendon (probably a

hygroma). On examining the tendo Achillis, pain at the level of the left ankle, nothing to the

right at the same level, but the pain is above all acute along the inner border of the right tibia, to

five or six centimetres from the flat surface. This part is oedematous and painfully sensitive.

Another painful spot in the abdomen is behind the right anterior superior iliac spine, and beside

the navel (probably muscular). The urethral discharge contained abundant bacilli besides

• ▸gonococci.
• ▸Treatment by daily injection of one centigramme of Merc.
• ▸cor.
• ▸was commenced.
• ▸The

next day there was sharp fever, saburral tongue. The abdominal pains were frankly muscular.

Trace of albumen in the urine. Next night there was delirium, and epistaxis in the morning. This

case went on to recovery. Another case, also in a girl of seventeen, of phthisical history, and

even complicated with syphilis, presented the same order of symptoms, along with epistaxis,

hemoptysis, albuminuria, endocarditis with suffocative attacks and violent palpitations, ending

in permanent disablement. These cases may be regarded as provings of Medorrh. from the

homeeopathic stand-point.—The rheumatic symptoms are of extreme intensity, and Medorrh. will

cure many cases where the symptoms correspond. I have cured many cases of dysmenia with it,

following Burnett. Burnett cured with Medorrh. 1m: (/) A patient who had fits at every

menstrual period, the fits coming on in the early morning. (2) A man who had clonic spasms, the

legs suddenly shot up from the bed. (3) A case of right wrist rheumatism. (4) Polypi having their

origin in a chronic suppurating discharge. (He regards Medorrh. as "the mother of pus and

catarrhs"). (5) Masturbation in children. (6) Albuminuria when the urine contains some mucus as

• ▸well.
• ▸(7) Sycotic asthma, <2 to 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸(8) Psoriasis palmaris.
• ▸Gilbert (Trans.
• ▸Amer.
• ▸Inst.
• ▸, 1895,

• ▸quoted H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xi.
• ▸71) traces rickets to hereditary gonorrhoea; there are often in these cases

glandular enlargements, and the patient is > at seaside. In such cases he gives Medorrh. (When

there is syphilitic paresis and the patient is > in the mountains, he gives Syp/h.). In acute bowel

• ▸troubles in rickety children he finds Medorrh.
• ▸of great value——Thomas Wildes (H.
• ▸P.
• ▸, xii.
• ▸70)

considers that favus and scald-head and ophthalmia tarsi simplex (margins scaly, scurfy, often

angry red, falling of lashes) are due to suppressed gonorrhcea in one or both parents. The red,

angry condition of skin may extend from face or scalp, down neck and back to perineum and

genitals. (/) Girl, 11, had been treated by many physicians with salves and ointments to the

general impairment of her health. Face mottled with a profusion of red scurfy sores, eyelids

involved and nearly denuded of lashes; hairy scalp one diffuse mass of thick yellow scabs, from

beneath which oozed a highly offensive mixture of ichor and sebum. Passing down neck, back,

perineum and involving genitals and pubes was a fiery red band as broad as the child's hand,

oozing a pale yellow serum which caused the clothing to stick to the body. Wildes told the

mother he could cure the case, but it would certainly get worse the first three months. This was

• ▸not objected to.
• ▸Medorrh.
• ▸c.
• ▸m.
• ▸(Swan) was given, one dose on the tongue.
• ▸The external

appearance grew rapidly worse, but appetite, sleep, and general health steadily improved, and in

nine months she was completely well. (2) Child, 6, since infancy horribly disfigured with tinea

capitis. Scalp a mass of dense scabs exuding fetid ichor, the only semblance of hair being a few

distorted stumps ending in withered roots. One dose cured in a few months, and at the time of

Wildes' writing patient was a healthy and extremely talented young lady and the possessor of a

luxuriant head of chestnut hair. Wildes thinks that suppression of favus when derived from

gonorrhcea in the father leads to hydrocephalus, capillary bronchitis, severe teething diarrhceas,

cholera infantum, &c.; if derived from the grandfather, suppression leads to consumption and

lingering diseases. Fiery red rash developing about the anus in babies a few days old;

constipation with hard, dry stools; when the nurses say "baby's water scalds it terribly," the

indications for Medorrh. are clear. Wildes regards the latent gonorrhceal taint as the true

explanation of many of the disease-manifestations included by Hahnemann under Psora. Burnett

in a way confirms this, as he traces gout to a sycotic origin. Wildes regards Medorrh. too

dangerous a remedy to give in acute cases whether of gonorrhoea, rheumatism, or scarlatina, on

account of the intensity of the aggravation it is liable to cause; though single doses are often

useful when there is a tendency to sinking in dangerous cases of cholera infantum. Among other

diseases Wildes traces to the same source are: Vascular meningitis in infants and cerebro-spinal

meningitis. In the former the efficacy of Medorrh. is doubtful, but in the latter it is very

• ▸efficacious after Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸has allayed the first acute symptoms.
• ▸In the convalescent stage Lyc.
• ▸has

been his chief remedy. He quotes from old-school authorities the following conditions traceable

to latent gonorrhoea communicated from husband to wife: Ovarian tumours, oophoritis,

salpingitis, metritis, parametritis, endometritis, and even peritonitis,—Medorrh. is the remedy in

single doses, but it is rarely if ever to be given in the acute stages of a disease. In general motion

• ▸<, rest >.
• ▸Lying on face or stomach > cough.
• ▸Stretching out <.
• ▸Leaning head forward <.
• ▸Leaning

far back > constipation: can only pass stool so. (I cured with Medorrh. 200 a most aggravated

case of constipation on this indication. The patient said he was obliged to lean far back on the

seat or he could not get rid of the stool. He was passing urine containing long white mucous

shreds. Many years before he had had gonorrhoea.) There is great sensitiveness to draught of air;

takes cold easily. At the same time there is great desire to be fanned. < In the sun; by warmth of

bed; entering a warm room (cough). Salt-water bathing > sore throat and cold in head. Damp

weather > pain in limbs. Craving for ice. Chronic rheumatism of joints is < inland, > near sea.

• ▸The early morning < (especially 3 to 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸) is a leading characteristic of Medorrh.
• ▸and all

sycotics.

Antidoted by: Ipec. (dry cough); Compatible: Sulph. (especially when stool drives

• ▸out of bed).
• ▸Compare: Pic ac.
• ▸(inability to walk right; priapism); Camph.
• ▸and Sec.
• ▸(collapse, skin

cold yet throws off all covering); Verat. (collapse with cold sweat); Syph. (reverse

• ▸aggravation—sunset to sunrise); as if in a dream, Ambr.
• ▸, Anac.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Can.
• ▸i.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Rhe.
• ▸,

• ▸Stram.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸, Ziz.
• ▸> By leaning back, Lac c.
• ▸Fish-brine odour, Sanic.

Compare: (Lactation: Galega; Lactuca). Sulph; Syphil; Zinc.

The very highest potencies only of service. Must not be repeated often.

weH since having a gonorrhoea cured by injections. Rheumatic symptoms in every part of the body. Some symptoms are worse in the

daytinoe. The usual comparison with Syphilinum, which reads, “Med.

in daytime and Syph. at night,” does not hold good as a sweeping

• ▸statement.
• ▸It is true that many Syph.
• ▸pains are worse nights.
• ▸It is

true that some sycotic and Medorrhinum symptoms are worse daytimes. It is also true that many sycotic symptoms are violent day and

night. It is also true that the mental symptoms of Med. are most

violent at night. It will not do to be too sweeping with circumstances

of this nosode. The rheumatic inflammations are worse from motion,

but where swelling is not present these patients act like Rhus patients ;

they are sensitive to cold, suffer from aching and torturesome pains,

and &id relief only in motion — like Rhus. Most sycotic patients suffer

from cold, some are sensitive to heat. Sore, bruised and lame, as if

he had taken a deep cold and was coming down with a fever. Tha

pains come on with a feeling of general tension. Obstinate cases of

rheumatism. Losing flesh. Walks stooped, becoming clumsy.

Stumbles. Looks as if he were going into quick consumption.

Intense nervous sensibility, respecting touch of garment or a lock of

hair by any one not en rapport.

• ▸Trembling and quivering ; growing steadily weaker.
• ▸Intense formication all over the body.
• ▸Starts from the slightest noise.
• ▸Feels faint

and wants to be fanned. Wains open air. Cold and pulseless, with

cold sweat. (Edema of the limik with great soreness and dropsy of

serous sacs. Externally sensitive to cold damp weather. Subject to

neuralgias. Stitching, tearing pains. The pains are ameliorated by

heat. Drawing pains in back and limbs. The patient is extremely

sensitive to pain. The remedy should never be used low.

Forgetful of facts, figures and names ; of what he has read. Makes

mistakes in writing, of spelling, and words. Time move too slowly ;

everybody moves too slowly. He is in a constant hurry, in such a

hurry that he gets out of breath. She is in such a hurry that she

feels faint. Confusion of mind, dazed ; fear of sensation ; loses the

idea when speaking. Great difficulty in stating her symptoms, loses

herself and must be asked over again. Thinks some one is behind

her ; hears whispering. Sees faces that peer at her from behind the

• ▸furniture (Phos.
• ▸).
• ▸Everything seems unreal (Alum.
• ▸).
• ▸Wild desperate feeling as if incipient insanity.
• ▸Weeps when talking.
• ▸Exhilaration in evening.
• ▸Changeable state of mind ; one moment sad, the

next mirthful. Presentiment of death. Frightened sensation on

waking as if something dreadful had happened. Fear of the dark.

Anxiety about her salvation.

Vertigo when stooping ; ameliorated lying ; aggravated on motion.'

Fear of falling.

MEDOftRHINUM

(S46

Wandering neuralgia of head, worse in cold damp weather* Sharp

pains come and go suddenly. No part of head is free from pain.

Pain aggravated from light, and on coughing. Burning pains deep

in, as if in brain. Extreme tension of scalp. Band across forehead.

Pain in occiput and nape, aggravated on motion. Intense itching of

scalp. Herpetic eruptions on scalp ; ringworm. Copious dandruff.

Hair dry and crispy.

Flickering before the eyes. Blurred vision, and black or brown

spots in the field of vision. Objects look double, or small. Sees

• ▸imaginary objects.
• ▸Eyes feel drawn.
• ▸Tension in the muscles.
• ▸Pain

in eyes on turning them. Sensation of sand in eyes. Sensation of

sticks. Inflammation of conjunctiva with ulceration of the cornea.

Blepharitis with much swelling. Lids stuck together in the morning*

• ▸Margins red and excoriated.
• ▸Ptosis.
• ▸Smarting of lids.
• ▸Eyelashes

fall out. Swelling under eyes, as in Bright’s disease.

Impaired hearing and total deafness. Imagines he hears voices or

people in conversation. At first the hearing is very acute. Pain along

Eustachian tubes into ears. Crawling in ears. Itching in ears.

Stitching pains in cars.

This remedy cures obstinate nasal catarrh, also post nasal obstruction with loss of smell. Mucus, white or yellow. A middle aged

man was cured of an obstinate nasal discharge by Med. very high

and a discharge from the urethra which had been suppressed many

years before came back and acted like a chronic gleet, and finally subsided without other treatment. Bleeling from the nose, and bloody

nasal discharge. Nose sensitive to inhaled air. Itching and crawling in nose.

The greenish yellow, waxy, sickly face of the sycotic patient looks

like that of the Arsenic patient, but strange to say, Arsenic docs not

otherwise correspond to the symptoms, but may be mistaken for it.

The skin shines, and is often covered by blotches and there are fever

blisters about the mouth. Herpes on the face. Epithelioma of wing

of nose, or on lip. Rheumatic pains and stiffness of face. Swelling

of the submaxillary glands. The teeth are always sensitive when chewing. The taste is perverted, and the tongue is foul and white at base.

The mouth is full of canker sores. Ulcers in the mouth and on the

tongue. The breath is foul. Stringy mucus in mouth and throat.

Mouth dry and feels burnt. Catarrh of throat, and thick white mucus

is constantly drawn from posterior nares.

Ravenous hunger, even after eating. Unquenchable thirst. Craves

stimulants, tobacco, sweets, green fruit, ice, sour things, oranges, ale,

salt. Nausea after eating, and after drinking water. Vomiting of

• ▸mucus and bile.
• ▸Sour and bkter vomiting.
• ▸Violent retching.
• ▸Vomiting without nausea.

Gnawing in stomach, not relieved by eating or drinking. Trembling in stomach. Clawing in stomach, aggravated by drawing up the

knees. Sinking in stomach. Agonizing pains in stomach.

Terrible pains in liver. Grasping pains in liver and spleen. It has

cured ascites. Pulsation felt in abdomen. Pain and swelling of the

inguinal glands. A young man who had been in good flesh and health

took gonorrhoea. He was treated by injection. Soon he began to lose

flesh. He suffered from pain in the groin, which compelled him to

walk bent. He became pale and waxy ; stiff and lame all over, and

was very sensitive to cold. Took cold frequently, which seemed never

■ to get quite well. After Med. very high the discharge returned, and

he seemed quite well. Pain in spermatic cords.

This remedy has cured many cases of marasmus in infants that had

inherited sycosis from a parent. Children of a sycotic father are especially subject to attacks of vomiting and diarrhtea, and emaciation.

They resist well selected chronic remedies, or are only palliated by

well selected remedies. After Med. high they thrive, and remedies

act better. Constipation. Can pass stool only by leaning far back

when straining at stool. Inactivity of the rectum. Round balls, and

hard lumpy stool. Oozing of moisture at the anus, smelling like fishbrine.

Scanty, high-colored, strong-smdling urine in a patient suffering

from rheumatic lameness and stiffness. Sensitive to cold, with tenderness of the soles. In albuminous ^rine with hyaline casts when the

patient is waxy and there is oedema of feet and ankles, and the soles

so tender he can scarcely walk on them, the skin of soles is bluish and

hot ; also when the swollen legs are so sore he cannot have themi

touched, or endure the pressure to ascertain whether the swelling will

or will not pit on pressure. In the above conditions Med. W'ill act

• ▸promptly if there has been gonorrhoeal history.
• ▸Inflammation of bladder, prostate gland or kidneys.
• ▸Copious mucus in urine.
• ▸Renal colic.

Parenchymatic inflammation of the kidneys. Copious pale urine.

Frequent urination at night. Loses urine in bed. Inactivity of the

bladder and feeble stream of urine. It has cured many cases of polyuria.

Nocturnal emissions and impotency in young men who have had

gonorrhoea several times, especially if treated by injections. Prolonged

glecty discharge with rheumatic symptoms and declining health. For

gonorrhoeal rheumatism it is a most important remedy. It controls the

rheumatic symptoms and restores the discharge. It has cured induration of testes, and pain in the spermatic cords. Pain in left spermatic

cord, left sciatic nerve and lumbago from every exposure to a draft in

one who suffered from gonorrhoea several years ago and was cured bv

Med. 10 m. at long intervals.

MEDORKHINtTM

Chronic pain in ovarian region. Sterility. Painful menstruation.

Obstinate leucorrhoea. Enlarged ovaries. Violent itching of vulva

and vagina. Profuse menses. Drawing in sacrum as if menses would

come on. Cutting like knives in whole pelvic region. Burning in

scrotum and hips during menses.

• ▸Respiration is difficult.
• ▸Suffocation and short breath on slight exertion.
• ▸Asthma in children of sycotic parents (Nat, s.
• ▸).
• ▸Spasms of

the glottis with clucking in the larynx ; air expelled with difficulty, but

inhaled with ease. Several cases of asthma have been cured by this

remedy. Dryness of the larynx causes spasms and cough on falling

asleep. Most obstinate catarrh of air passages with copious viscid

expectoration has been cured by this remedy. Cannot cough deep

enough to reach the phlegm (Caust.). The cough is ameliorated by

lying on the abdomen, is aggravated at night. The expectoration is

yellow, white or green, viscid, difficult to raise. Cough worse in a

warm room.

Many of the patients that need this remedy look sick, pale, and walk

stocked as if about to go into phthisis. Dry cough, with rattling in

chest. Great heat, even burning in chest. Many pains in chest.

Rheumatic, sharp pains through chest on exposure to damp cold air.

When patients who have suffered from gonorrhoea seem to be taking

on a phthisical complex of symptoms and the paucity of individualizing

symptoms makes the remedy doubtful, this remedy will bring better

reaction, and sometimes be the remedy for many months. Intense pain

in chest on coughing. Sensation of coldness in chest and mammae.

Stitching pain in chest. The chest is sore to touch, and aggravated

by the motion of breathing.

The heart manifests all the symptoms usual to rheumatic constitutions. Dyspnoea ; fluttering heart ; palpitation. The pains arc acute,

cutting, stitching; aggravated by motion. Burning in heart, extending to left arm.

“Lame back” is the common complaint of these patients. It is generally a lumbago, or it is a lumbo-sacral pain, and often extends into

the lower limbs. Crural or sciatic pains. Drawing in nape and back.

Pain across the back, from left to right shoulders. Great heat in the

upper part of spine. Stiffness in the back on rising, or beginning to

move. Pains all aggravated in cold damp weather. Tender spine.

Soreness in region of kidneys.

Chronic rheumatic pains in limbs in cold damp weather. The limbs

are lame and stiff. Stitching pains all over the body, and in limbs.

Sharp pains. The patient is extremely sensitive to pain, and feels pain

as sharp and stitching. Some of the pains come on during motion, and

some are better from continued motion. Cold extremltks. Burning

palms and soles. Trembling of the limbs. Rheumatic pains in should-

Almost entire loss of nervous force in legs and arms; exhausted by slightest

• ▸effort—Numb sensation in |.
• ▸arm, hand, and leg; |.
• ▸leg goes to sleep.
• ▸—Eruption under and on toes

and on hands and feet.