Ovi Gallinae Pellicula

(Deep melancholy; in connection with ovarian pain.).—Depression before

menses.—Hopeless, tearful mood.—Profound melancholy, without knowing cause, passing off

like a cloud.

Weakness and giving way feeling,< in lower limbs, esp. knees, followed by

pushing down, rushing in womb.—Debility with dread of motion; wants to keep

quiet.—Intolerance of bands on wrists, arms, waist, or garters.

Whirling sensation in head and sense of depression.—Dizziness, fear of failing, and

catching her breath on descending stairs; or walking on anything narrow when raised above the

ground.—Fulness of head with great pressure outward in mastoid region, with headache in

• ▸occiput (cured).
• ▸—Occipital headache.
• ▸—Aching pain, afternoon, from back of I.
• ▸ear, extending

down towards shoulders half-way from neck.

Sharp darting pains in |. eye through to occiput; very violent compelling him to press

eye to prevent its leaving its socket, which it seemed as if it would do (Ballard).—Sensation of a

shade over eyes.—Sunken eyes, haggard look.

From a slight change of underclothing, severe cold and coryza, with much mucous

discharge from nose, came suddenly, lasted three days, ceased as suddenly, much mucus

discharged from nose (quite different from usual colds).—Sensation of severe cold, sneezing

catarrh, cracked lips.

Looks haggard; eyes sunken; skin discoloured, dark.—Eruption of small pustules on

forehead and chin.—Slight soreness and stiffness of jaw (passed off in a few hours).

Exceedingly and peculiarly offensive breath during menses (a lady near said it was

indescribable, seemed to enter her mouth and pass directly to her womb).—Taste of fresh eggs in

the mouth.—Exceedingly acid saliva (cm).

Sore throat |. side as if it had been scalded; lasted several days, only at night; catarrh

with hard clinkers hawked back, which would invariably shoot down the throat.—Sore throat

with sensation of a lump on 1. side low down causing cough; throat looked inflamed; tonsils

swollen.—Sensation of dryness causing cough, tonsils inflamed on one side (Ka/m. >).

Nervous dyspepsia; low spirits; very weak; sleeplessness occurring every

week.—Sensation of lump between lower end of sternum and back as if a hard potato had been

swallowed; with this severe sacral pain (relieved with cm).—Burning and heaviness in pit of

stomach (cured).—Vomited three gall-stones.

Suddenly a pain in epigastrium passing down in middle line, then pain in 1.

• ▸ovary to 1.
• ▸limbs.
• ▸—Distended almost to bursting, before menses, with bearing-down pain.
• ▸—Heavy

pressing down in lower abdomen.—Between periods, |. side of abdomen very sore, with sharp

pains occasionally darting through it, and bearing down in womb as if weight hanging to

it.—Pain in hypogastrium, < on side lain on, and in sacrum when lying on back.

Constipation; stools irregular, from five to eight days.—Stool mixed with a

sand-like substance that fell heavily to bottom of vessel and was voided with much

pain.—Diarrhcea with cutting colic pains (was icy cold), in a collapsed state.—Increased

peristalsis.—Diarrhoea mixed with corrugated skins.—Griping cramps and diarrhoea coming

suddenly; at night.—While riding in cars, sudden (bright) haemorrhage from rectum, severe pain

across sacrum.—During menses, followed by burning at anus; hemorrhage from bowels.

Every time she sneezes or coughs the urine spurts out (after cessation of

• ▸menses).
• ▸—Urine scalds vulva, esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸side, which itches intensely.
• ▸—Urine dark yellow-red.

(At age of sixteen, whilst shovelling snow, felt something give

way in |. groin, causing great pain, extending down thigh to knee, feet, and toes, compelling her

to keep in bed; afterwards always set up afresh by any slight extra exertion, using arms, reaching

up, lifting; also and esp. whilst menstruating when the ovarian pain was <, and severe bearing-

• ▸down pains were added; entirely > by keeping quiet and idle.
• ▸Took Ovi p.
• ▸g.
• ▸cm (Swan) whilst in

the middle of an attack from over-exertion. In about an hour the pains /eft suddenly, she got up

and dressed, and was never affected by exercise again).—During menses excessively and

peculiarly offensive breath—Night before menses, awaked 1 a.m. with pushing sensation

downward in lower abdomen as though the blood might rush out in torrents, suffering intense,

but no blood appeared or any fluid, till following night, when menses came on; during the

sensation abdomen was distended as if it would burst.—Four days later, whilst playing banjo,

seized with whirling sensation in head, sense of depression, weakness, giving-way feeling in

lower limbs and knees, followed by a pushing down (no pain), rushing feeling in womb followed

immediately by a profuse flow of blood, rushing out, lasting an hour and then ceasing, during

• ▸flow other symptoms completely >.
• ▸—At 8.
• ▸30 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸seized with a pain in epigastric region passing

• ▸down middle line, then pain in |.
• ▸ovarian region, then 1.
• ▸hip, then back of |.
• ▸thigh to hollow of

• ▸knee, with weakness of 1.
• ▸side, and esp.
• ▸|.
• ▸limb; then another discharge of blood, coming on

alternate days.—Heavy pressing down in lower abdomen.—Sensation as if menses coming on (but

they did not).—After menses, leucorrhoea, thick, white, cream-like; preceded by sharp pain in

womb as during menses; leucorrhcea lasted as long as menses, occurring every morning and not

on alternate days as menses did.—While stooping had a pain in |. lower abdomen, and a sensation

as if something within her turned or rolled over; ever since has felt exceedingly well, more

joyous and happy and more free from attacks of depression; no pain; no blood; no

leucorrhcea.—Pains and aches in uterine region and |. ovary as if menses coming on (eighteen

days before due).—Itching of r. labia extending outward to edge—During menses very

• ▸sleepy.
• ▸—After menses: slight pain in front of |.
• ▸thigh; sore spot on pressure in 1.
• ▸ovary; breasts

sore, sensitive to pressure.—Menses flowed all night, colourless, profuse, penetrating clothing; in

morning began to be red, profuse, painless—Before menses for twenty-four hours, depression,

dull, digging pains in lower abdomen.—Between periods bearing down as if weight hanging to

womb.—A fter menses cannot bear pressure of clothes, has to suspend them from shoulders

(passed off suddenly).

Tightness across chest, oppression.—Congested, suffocative feeling in chest as from

wind, in centre under sternum, > beating it with the hand; by jarring; (query: in heart?).—Breasts

sore, sensitive to pressure (after menses).

Dull, heavy aching in region of heart, generally apex, with cold, numb feeling

internally, extending at times to |. ovary (cured).

Backache, with feeling as if a vertebra had dropped out of lumbar region, and as if

spine were tied together with strings.—Pain in every vertebra of spine.—Sharp pain through spine

crosswise.—Severe pain across sacrum (with hemorrhage from rectum).—Awakened at night

with much heat in sacrum, rest of body cool; good deal of aching pain across sacrum and nates.

Pain in |. hip (from ovarian region), down back of thigh and knee; whole

limb weak.—Ache over I. hip, seemed to extend in deep, > during menses, < after.

During sleep, and immediately on going to sleep, whole body jerked (during

• ▸menses).
• ▸—Very sleepy during menses; between the hours of 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸and 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸suddenly taken

with intense drowsiness, sometimes overcoming the will to keep awake.

• ▸Amenorrheea.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Coryza.
• ▸Heart, oppression of.
• ▸Hip, left, pain in.
• ▸Leucorrheea.

• ▸Menstruation, irregular.
• ▸Ovaries, pains in.
• ▸Post-nasal catarrh.
• ▸Pruritus vulvee.
• ▸Throat, sore.

• ▸Uterus, misplacements of; prolapse of; retroverted (?
• ▸).
• ▸Vertebrz, pain in.
• ▸Vulva, soreness of.

Characteristics—This preparation was made by Swan, and proved by a young lady, a patient of

• ▸J.
• ▸C.
• ▸Boardman.
• ▸Swan's paper was read before the Denver Homeeopathic Club, and published in

• ▸a number of Med.
• ▸Visitor, the date of which I have lost, with additions from H.
• ▸P.
• ▸, xiii.
• ▸323.

• ▸Under Calc.
• ▸ov.
• ▸test.
• ▸[have given an account of the action of Egg-shells in leucorrhcea, and Swan

adds that it has an ancient reputation for "immoderate flux of the courses" (like our Calc. c.), and

for nocturnal enuresis. The Egg-shells were anciently used powdered fresh or roasted, and as

such were and are much used in the treatment of oxyuris vermicularis. Swan prepared the

membrane. As an ovarian product it might be expected that all parts of the egg should have an

action on ovaries. It is recognised that as an article of diet in some forms eggs have a stimulating

• ▸effect on the sexual functions.
• ▸The provings of Ovi g.
• ▸p.
• ▸bear out this relation.
• ▸The first prover

was a young lady who was known to be unable to bear any extra exertion, but the details of this

• ▸were not known until after she had taken the first dose of the c.
• ▸m.
• ▸sent by Swan.
• ▸This had the

effect of removing suddenly the whole of the trouble which prevented her from exerting

herself—a left ovarian pain extending down the left limb, brought on some years before, when

she felt something "give way" in the groin whilst shovelling snow. The sensitiveness to exertion

never returned, though the dose created much disturbance of the generative functions before it

had finished its action. The symptoms of the second prover, a married woman who took the 30th,

confirmed the symptoms, both cured and pathogenetic, experienced by the first. This prover had

also haemorrhage from the rectum; incontinence of urine whilst sneezing or coughing; post-nasal

• ▸catarrh.
• ▸Yingling contributed this case to Hahn.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸(quoted Amer.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸, xxii.
• ▸412): H.
• ▸E.
• ▸, 42,

blonde, had these symptoms: A dull, hard, heavy aching in region of heart; generally about apex;

extending at times to left ovarian region. Occasionally a cutting which extends to base of heart

and prevents breathing; after the cutting a sensation as if something went "thud," after which

pain seems to recommence at apex. At times heavy aching in base of heart, which makes

• ▸breathing very difficult.
• ▸Only bending backward > respiration.
• ▸Ovi g.
• ▸p.
• ▸(a preparation of

Fincke's) one dose, dry on the tongue. In a very few minutes the pain was all gone. "Feels

splendidly since taking the remedy." Without knowing what it was, said she had "a taste of fresh

eggs in the mouth since taking the powder." Among the noteworthy features of the provings are:

Suddenness of onset and ceasing; both provers manifested these. Jerkings on going to sleep and

in sleep; heat in sacrum, the rest of the body being cool. The bearing-down sensations in the

uterus were very marked. Pushing and rushing feeling in womb, as if blood might rush out in

torrents (which sometimes happened and sometimes did not). Sensation as if something turned

over inside. The symptoms were < by movement; reaching lifting arms; over-exerting. < At

menses: before, during, and after though some symptoms were > when flow appeared. > Bending

backward (dyspneea in cured case). > jarring or beating breast (dyspnoea). < Pressure and touch

(abdomen, breasts, ovaries); intolerance of pressure of clothing. < Descending stairs. < At full

moon.

• ▸Compare: Calc.
• ▸ov.
• ▸test.
• ▸(leucorrhoea, &c.
• ▸).
• ▸In pains in heart and left ovary, Naja.

• ▸Clinkers in catarrh, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸Sensitiveness to touch and pressure, Lact.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸Suddenness of pains,

• ▸&c.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸Symptoms > by flow, Lach.

• ▸Compare: Calc; Naja; Ova tosta-Tosta praeparata-Roasted egg-shells-Calcarea ovorum--(leucorrhoea and backache.
• ▸A feeling as if the spine were broken and wired, or tied together with a string.
• ▸Pain of cancer.
• ▸Warts).
• ▸Also Egg Vaccine for Asthma.
• ▸Much interest is shown in Dr.
• ▸Fritz Talbot's method to cure one form of asthma in children by the use of egg vaccine.
• ▸Asthma due to susceptibility of the proteid substance in eggs can be cured by immunizing against egg poisons by repeated doses of egg white.
• ▸After the skin has been cleansed with soap and alcohol the egg-white is rubbed into a slight scratch.