Phosphorus

• ▸J.
• ▸Meredith (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxiii.
• ▸127) has recorded the effects observed on a science

student from grinding up this salt and inhaling the fumes. Eye-soreness, coryza, sore throat and

chest with difficult breathing, were the main symptoms. They lasted fourteen days from the

exposure; and were cured by Bell. 3x internally and a one per cent. Jodine lotion locally as a

compress at night.

• ▸Anger.
• ▸Fear.
• ▸Grief.
• ▸Worry.
• ▸Mental exertion.
• ▸Strong emotions.
• ▸Music.
• ▸Strong

• ▸odours.
• ▸Gas.
• ▸Flowers (fainting).
• ▸Thunderstorms.
• ▸Lightning (blindness).
• ▸Sexual excesses.
• ▸Loss of

• ▸fluids.
• ▸Sprains.
• ▸Lifting.
• ▸Wounds.
• ▸Exposure to drenching rains.
• ▸Tobacco (amblyopia).
• ▸Washing

clothes. Having hair cut.

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

Affections of the mind in general; amativeness; dizziness of the

mind.—Nymphomania.—Melancholy sadness and melancholy, sometimes with violent weeping,

or interrupted by fits of involuntary laughter.—Laughs at serious things.—Stupor, low, muttering

delirium; loquacious.—Thinks he is several pieces, and cannot adjust the fragments.—Stupor from

which he could be aroused for a moment only to lapse back into a muttering lethargy; and

forgetfulness.—Great apathy; very sluggish; dislike to talk; answers slowly or not at

all.—Anguish and uneasiness, esp. when alone, or in stormy weather, principally in evening, with

timorousness and fright.—Anguish respecting the future; or respecting the issue of the

disease.—Susceptibility to fright.—Fear: in evening; of darkness; of spectres; of things creeping

out of corners.—Hypochondriacal sadness.—Disgust to life —Apathy alternating with angry

words and acts.—Becomes easily vexed and angry, which makes him exceedingly vehement,

from which he suffers afterwards——Any lively impression = heat, as if dipped in hot

water.—Great irascibility, anger, passion, and violence.—Involuntary and spasmodic weeping and

• ▸laughter.
• ▸—Misanthropy.
• ▸—Repugnance to labour.
• ▸—Shamelessness, approaching insanity.
• ▸—Great

indifference to everything, and even to patient's own family.—Great forgetfulness, esp. in

morning.—Great flow of ill-assorted ideas ——Zoomagnetic condition; state of

clairvoyance.—Ecstasy.

Affections of inner chest; shinbones; bones of legs; of r. upper or r. lower

• ▸extremity; r.
• ▸upper or r.
• ▸lower side.
• ▸—Profuse secretion of mucus.
• ▸—Affections of axillary glands;

inflammation of glands in general; glands painful, particularly stitching pains; hot swelling of

• ▸glands.
• ▸—Glandular diseases, esp.
• ▸after contusion.
• ▸—Bleeding from inner parts; threatened phthisis

• ▸pulmonalis.
• ▸—The pains of Phos.
• ▸are continuous, or, at least, irregular as to time.
• ▸—Arthritic and

rheumatic tearings and stitching pains, principally in limbs, sometimes after a slight chill, esp. in

bed at night.—Burning pain in limbs.—Tension, cramp, jerking, and distortion of some of the

• ▸limbs.
• ▸—Sprains, easy dislocations.
• ▸—Ataxia and adynamia.
• ▸—Convulsions.
• ▸—Rigidity of some

parts —Fits of paleness and numbness in some of the limbs, which then appear dead.—Mucous

membrane pale.—Trembling of limbs from least exertion, but chiefly during labour.—Tendency

to strain the back.—Ebullition and congestion of blood, sometimes with pulsation throughout

body.—Sensations: of fulness; of itching or tickling; of knocking, beating, or throbbing; of

darting; darting pain; of roughness-all occurring in inner parts.—Sensation of dryness or of

festering in internal parts—Bleeding from various (internal) organs.—Inflammation and stinging

• ▸pain of inner parts.
• ▸—Itching of inner parts.
• ▸—Small wounds bleed much.
• ▸—Blood fluid non-

coagulable.—Bleeding from all cavities; also from soft cancer.—Weakness and soreness in joints,

• ▸esp.
• ▸knees.
• ▸—Great weakness and paralytic lassitude, which sometimes come on suddenly, esp.
• ▸in

• ▸bed in morning, or after a very short walk.
• ▸—Can only lie on the r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Lying on the I.
• ▸side at

night causes anxiety—Spasms of the paralysed side.—Paralysis, formication, and tearing in

limbs; anzesthesia; increased heat —Exostosis, esp. of skull —Hip-joint disease, oozing a watery

• ▸pus.
• ▸—Epilepsy with consciousness.
• ▸—Fainting fits; from strong odours.
• ▸—Excessive sensibility of

all the organs.—Hysterical lassitude.—General dejection and nervous debility—Heaviness of

limbs and sluggishness.—Paralysis with tingling in the parts affected ——Emaciation and

• ▸consumption.
• ▸—Inability to remain in open air, esp.
• ▸when cold.
• ▸—Strong tendency to take cold,

which is often followed by headache and toothache, coryza, with fever, shivering, &c.—Effects

of hair-cutting and chill to head.—Pains in limbs on change of weather.—The majority of

symptoms manifest themselves morning and evening, in bed, as well as after dinner, while

several others appear at the beginning of a meal and disappear after it —<: In morning; evening;

before falling asleep; on waking; before breakfast; after taking cold; while coughing; before or

after eating; from violent bleeding; from spraining parts; while lying on back; lying on 1. side;

from laughing (often producing cough); from light in general; light of the lamp; warm food

("very thirsty, takes water, likes it, feels better, gets warm in stomach and is vomited"); reading

aloud; from strong smells; after stool (exhausted, &c.); while Swallowing drink; in the wind;

when singing; when the weather changes either way.—>: In the dark; lying on r. side; from being

mesmerised; from rubbing; from scratching; after sleep; from cold things; cold food; cold water

(till it gets warm).

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

Cloudiness and dizziness, esp. in morning.—Vertigo when rising from bed in morning;

when rising from a seat, with faintness and falling to the floor; < morning and after

meals.—Dulness of head > washing face with cold water—Frequent attacks of vertigo at different

times, and at different hours in the day, esp. in morning, in middle of day, and in bed in

evening.—Vertigo when seated; with hypochondriasis, during which chair appears to

rise.—Vertigo with nausea and pressive pains in head.—Obstinate vertigo; falls back whenever he

attempts to rise from bed.—Vertigo very pronounced; up and down vertigo; things move up and

• ▸down, or else patient feels sinking through the floor (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)—Apoplectic unchanging vertigo

• ▸(R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Vertigo with loss of ideas —Stupefying headache, morning, when moving, and < on

stooping; ceasing for a short time after eating; > when lying down and in cold air.—Attacks of

headache, with nausea and vomiting, and throbbing, jerking pains.—Nocturnal headache,

preceded by nausea in evening.—Headache caused by vexation.—Headache in

morning.—Headache with increased mental power.—Weakness of head, which is fatigued by

music, laughter, a heavy step, a warm room, &c.—Pain in brain as if it had been

bruised —Stunning headache, sometimes with violent ebullition of blood, and paleness of

face.—Congestion to head, with burning, singing, and pulsations in head, red face, puffiness

under eyes, < morning when sitting and in evening in bed.—Sensation of emptiness in head with

• ▸vertigo.
• ▸—Headache as if too full of blood from intense study.
• ▸—Headache above |.
• ▸eye with

floating spots before vision.—Numb, dizzy sensation in brain, inability to work.—Feeling as if

everything had stopped in brain.—Jerks in head, esp. during stool—Sensation as if brain stiffened

on remaining in open air.—Sensation of heaviness, of fulness, and pressure in head.—Tearing in

• ▸head, and esp.
• ▸in temples, or semilateral.
• ▸—Lancinations in different parts of head, esp.
• ▸in

evening.—(Incessant shooting pains through brain with sensation as if eyes being pulled out,

beginning in forehead, lasting day and night, with vomiting, > by either warmth or cold.—R. T.

C.).—Shocks in occiput, loud snaps; shocks in whole head, with shattered sensation as if

something had exploded; brought on by over-work or worry.—Washerwoman's

headache.—Burning in forehead, with pulsations, morning and afternoon, after eating < in warm

room, > in open air.—Pulsation in head, with singing and burning in it, mostly in forehead, with

nausea and vomiting from morning till noon; < from music, while masticating, and in warm

room.—Congestion in head, with beating, buzzing, heat, and burning sensation, esp. in

• ▸forehead.
• ▸—Splitting headache from cough.
• ▸—Sensation of coldness in head.
• ▸—The headaches are >

by open air.—Neuralgia of head, when it must be kept warmly wrapped up night and

day.—External shootings in side of head.—Distressing sensation, as if skin of forehead were too

tight, and tension in face, as if the skin were not large enough, frequently only on one side; <

from change of temperature and while eating; > after eating, with anxiety.—Tendency to suffer

from a chill in head, with a sensation in open air as if brain were congealed._(Sensation of

coldness in cerebellum, with sensation of stiffness in brain.).—Inflammation of brain with

pulsations and singing in head; the heat enters head from the spine, and from it extends to feet; <

in warm room, > when moving about in cold air—Headache over |. eye.—Headache extending to

eyes; to root of nose.—Itching in scalp, < from scratching, with dandruff.—Falling off of hair (in

large bunches on forepart of head, and) esp. above ears (alopecia areata).—Dry scabs and great

scaliness of scalp.—Dry, painful heat of scalp, compelling one to uncover head; temperature of

body not increased; > when lying down.—Clammy perspiration on head only, and in palms of

hands, with discharge of much turbid urine.—Sensation as if pulled by the hair.—Exostosis on

cranium.

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

Great soreness of mucous membranes of eyes and nose, with copious intermittent

runnings; lasts all night.—Shades eyes from light reflected from tablecloth at dinner.—Whites of

eyes congested.

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

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

Irritation and copious intermittent running.—The intolerable smell of the fumes cannot

be forgotten at night, and sleep is impossible.

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

Face pale, wan, sallow, earth-coloured, with hollow eyes, surrounded by a blue

circle.—The colour of the face is very changeable.—Paleness, alternately with redness of face,

and transient heat.—Redness and burning heat of cheeks.—Circumscribed red spots on

• ▸cheeks.
• ▸—Ashy, anzemic; blue lips; waxy.
• ▸—Bloatedness of face, esp.
• ▸round eyes.
• ▸—Jerking of

muscles of face.—Tension of skin of face and forehead, sometimes on one side

only.—Desquamation of skin of face.—Painful sensibility of one side of face on opening

mouth.—Painful, drawing, and tearing shootings in bones of face, esp. in evening, or at night in

bed, or after the slightest chill—The pains in face are renewed by speaking or by slightest

• ▸touch.
• ▸—Eruption of pimples and of scabs on face.
• ▸—Lips bluish.
• ▸—Lips dry and parched, swollen,

covered with brownish scabs.—Cracked lips; crack in middle of lower lip.—Tetters and pimples

• ▸round the mouth.
• ▸—Ulceration of corners of mouth.
• ▸—Cramp in jaw.
• ▸—Necrosis of lower jaw, more

• ▸rarely of upper.
• ▸—Necrosis of |.
• ▸lower jaw; swelling of jawbones.
• ▸—Engorgement of submaxillary

glands.

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

Teeth, both healthy and carious, crumble, without pain.—Ataxia of muscles of

articulation, great effort of will required to form the word.

Drawing or tearing (pricking, stinging) toothache, or else gnawing, boring, pulsative,

jerking, and shooting, esp. in open air, or in evening and morning, sometimes at night only, esp.

in heat of bed, or else from contact with hot food.—Toothache after washing clothes; from having

the hands in cold water.—Toothache with salivation, after slightest chill —Pains as of ulceration

• ▸in teeth during a morning meal.
• ▸—Caries in teeth.
• ▸—Teeth become very loose.
• ▸—Bleeding of

teeth.—Grinding of teeth.—Painful sensibility, inflammation, unfixing, ulceration, swelling and

ready bleeding of gums.—Gums separated from teeth, and bleed easily, esp. from touch.

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

Risings, with pain in stomach, as if something were being torn out of it—Tobacco

smoke produces nausea and palpitation of heart.—Frequent risings, generally empty, esp. after a

meal and after drinking; sometimes also abortive, or spasmodic, or else sour, or with taste of the

• ▸food.
• ▸—Sour regurgitation of food.
• ▸—Pyrosis.
• ▸—Hiccough.
• ▸—Nausea of various kinds, esp.
• ▸in

morning or in evening, or else after a meal.—Nausea with violent hunger or thirst, which

disappears on eating or drinking water.—As soon as the water (or food) becomes warm in the

• ▸stomach it is thrown up.
• ▸—Waterbrash, esp.
• ▸after eating acid things.
• ▸—Vomiting with violent pains

in stomach and great weakness.—Greenish or blackish vomiting.—Vomiting of acid

• ▸matter.
• ▸—Vomiting of food, esp.
• ▸in evening.
• ▸—Vomiting of bile or of mucus at night, sometimes

with coldness and numbness of hands and feet.—Vomiting of blood.—Vomiting with

• ▸diarrhcea.
• ▸—Pain in stomach, esp.
• ▸when it is touched and when walking.
• ▸—Violent pains in

stomach, > by a cold drink.—Sensation of contraction in cardia; the food, scarcely digested,

• ▸returns into throat.
• ▸—Fulness in stomach.
• ▸—Shootings and pressure in stomach, esp.
• ▸after a meal,

with vomiting of food.—Pain in scrobiculus when it is touched, also in morning.—Sensation of

coldness, or heat and burning sensation in stomach and scrobiculus.—Inflammation of

• ▸stomach.
• ▸—Ulceration of stomach in anzemic girls (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)—Spasmodic pain, sensation of

clawing and contraction in stomach, sometimes with choking.—The pains in the stomach are > by

cold food (ice-cream, ice).—General uneasiness, but which is felt more particularly in

stomach.—The pains in stomach manifest themselves chiefly after a meal, as well as in evening

and at night.—Oppression and burning in epigastrium.—Drawing pain in pit of stomach,

extending to chest.

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

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

Increased secretion of watery urine.—Frequent emission of a scanty

stream of urine (only a small quantity each time).—Urine with white, serous, sandy and red, or

else yellow sediment.—Turbid urine, with sediment like brick-dust.—Pale, aqueous, or whitish

urine.—Variegated pellicle on surface of urine.—Hzematuria (with acute pain in region of kidneys

and liver, and jaundice).—Smarting and burning sensation when urinating.—Tension and jerking,

or burning pain in urethra when not urinating (with frequent desire to urinate).

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

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

Nymphomania.—Aversion to coitus.—Tearing in genital organs,

and stitches upward from vagina into uterus.—(Small pustulation of vulva with great

• ▸irritation.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—CEdema of labia (< 1.
• ▸), later gangrene.
• ▸—Catamenia too early and too

profuse (and of too long duration), or too early and too scanty and serous.—[Phos. patients

generally menstruate regularly but profusely, and not uncommon symptoms are, vertigo on rising

in morning, with weakness of legs, so that for a few moments after getting out of bed, they

• ▸cannot stand.
• ▸—H.
• ▸N.
• ▸Martin.
• ▸].
• ▸—Discharge of blood from uterus during pregnancy.
• ▸—Catamenia of

too long duration, with toothache and colic——Before menses: abundant bleeding of ulcers;

leucorrhcea; want to urinate; and weeping.—Frequent and profuse metrorrhagia—On appearance

of menses incisive, griping pains in the back and vomiting. —After menses: weakness, blue

circles round eyes, and anxiety.—Menses: of too short continuance retarded.—During menses

shooting headaches; fermentation in abdomen; expectoration of blood pains in (small of) back;

soreness of limbs; great lassitude and fever; or palpitation of heart; shiverings; swelling of gums

and cheeks, and many other sufferings.—Sterility on account of excessive voluptuousness, or if

the menstruation comes on too late and is too profuse.—Smarting, corrosive leucorrhoea (drawing

blisters).—Hard and painful nodosities in breasts.—Inflammation (erysipelatous) of breasts, even

after formation of pus.—Erysipelatous inflammation of mamme, with swelling, burning pains,

• ▸and shootings.
• ▸—Anxious feeling beneath |.
• ▸breast, with bitter eructations.
• ▸—Burning, pinching in

r. breast, heat mounting to head.—Cramp pain in breast, high tip, under sternum, with

• ▸eructations.
• ▸—At 3.
• ▸30 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸pain from I.
• ▸nipple to r.
• ▸nipple, thence to r.
• ▸shoulder and r.
• ▸little

• ▸finger.
• ▸—Pain below nipple shooting like electricity.
• ▸—Nipples hot and sore.
• ▸—Papular eruption on

breasts.—Abscess in mamme, also with fistulous ulcers; bluish colour.

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

Very strong sexual desire, with constant wish for coition.—Impotence

after excessive excitement and onanism.—Erections which are too energetic in evening or

morning.—Frequent (involuntary) pollutions.—Feeble erections or none at all—Feeble and too

speedy emission during coition.—Pains in testes and swelling of spermatic cord—Hydrocele.

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

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

Noisy and panting respiration. —Difficult respiration, esp. in evening, with anguish in

chest, < by sitting down.—Respiration oppressed, quick, anxious.—Difficult inspiration;

heaviness, fulness, and tension on chest.—Obstructed respiration and oppression of chest of

various kinds, esp. in morning or evening, as also during movement.—Spasmodic

• ▸asthma.
• ▸—Constrictive spasms in chest.
• ▸—After a cough, asthma.
• ▸—Fits of suffocation at

• ▸night.
• ▸—Pressure at chest.
• ▸—Heaviness, fulness, and tension in chest.
• ▸—Contractive spasms in

• ▸chest.
• ▸—Tearing in chest.
• ▸—Lancinations in chest, and esp.
• ▸in 1.
• ▸side, sometimes prolonged, or else

when the parts are touched.—Burning pain as from excoriation in chest.—Inflammation of lungs

• ▸(1.
• ▸side).
• ▸—Pneumonia nervosa (lungs hepatised).
• ▸—Tuberculosis (phthisis mucosa).
• ▸—Sensation of

fatigue in chest—Anguish in chest.—Congestion in chest, with sensation of heat which ascends to

• ▸throat.
• ▸—Pain under |.
• ▸breast, when lying upon it.
• ▸—Yellow spots on chest.

Anxiety about heart with nausea and a peculiar hunger, somewhat > by

• ▸eating, distressing even in bed.
• ▸—Sensation of warmth about r.
• ▸side of heart.
• ▸—Pressure; heaviness;

aching in heart.—Rush of blood to heart and palpitation, that becomes very violent after

eating.—Palpitation of heart of different kinds, esp. after a meal, morning and evening, as also

when seated, and after all kinds of mental excitement.—Palpitation of heart with obstructed

respiration; palpitation from every mental emotion.—Violent palpitation with anxiety, evenings

and mornings in bed; on slight motion.—Blowing sounds in heart.—Pressure in middle of sternum

and about heart—Pulse rapid, full, and hard; small, weak, easily compressed.

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

Rigidity of nape of neck.—Pressure on shoulders.—Swelling of

neck.—Engorgement of axillary glands and of those of nape of neck and of neck.—Itching and

shooting under axillze—Fetid sweat under axille.—Paralysed sensation in upper sacrum and

lower lumbar vertebree.—Contusive pain in loins and back (as if back were broken), esp. after

having been seated a long time, hindering walking, rising up, or making the least

movement.—Pain in small of the back when rising from a stooping position.—Burning in back or

small of back (esp. with delayed menses).—Tabes dorsalis ——Burning pains in

loins.—Sensitiveness of spinous processes of dorsal vertebrz to pressure.—Softening of

spine.—Heat or burning in back, between scapule.—Tearings and stitches in and beneath both

scapulee.—Pain in coccyx impeding easy motion, can find no comfortable position; followed by

painful stiffness of nape.—Coccyx painful to touch as from an ulcer.—Transient pain from coccyx

through spine to vertex that drew head back during the stool—Backache and palpitations prevail

• ▸(R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

Limbs unsteady; gait tottering; associated with undercurrent shooting pains

in limbs and abdomen.

24. Generalities—Complete expression of ataxia stood with limbs separated; walking wholly

impossible when eyes closed would stagger and fall——No anzesthesia; electric irritability of

muscles greatly increased.

Phosphorus Muriaticus.

Phosphorus pentachloride. PCls. Solution.

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

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

Exanthema which comes out in pustules; is scaly.—Ulcers in general—Summer

freckles —Hard swellings here and there on body.—Wounds which appear to have healed break

out again and bleed; wounds that continually heal and break out again ——Desquamation of

skin.—Burning in the skin —Excoriated spots on skin, with cracks and shootings.—Round, tettery

spots over whole body.—Freckles (nose).—Dry, furfuraceous tetters—Yellow or brown spots on

• ▸skin (esp.
• ▸chest and abdomen).
• ▸—Copper-coloured or bluish spots, like petechize.
• ▸—Red

• ▸spots.
• ▸—Jaundice.
• ▸—Pale skin.
• ▸—Ecchymosis.
• ▸—Furunculi.
• ▸—Lymphatic abscess with fistulous ulcers

(which have callous margins, secreting a fetid and colourless pus) and hectic fever.—Large ulcers

surrounded by small ones.—Ulcers bleed on appearance of menses.—Fungus

• ▸haematodes.
• ▸—Copious bleeding even from very small wounds.
• ▸—Polypus.
• ▸—Chilblains (fingers and

toes) and corns on feet, sometimes very painful —Tingling in skin.—Nettle-rash.

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

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

Shuddering and shivering, esp. in bed, in evening (without thirst, with aversion to

being uncovered and with swollen veins on hands), sometimes with yawning, followed by heat

• ▸or otherwise.
• ▸—Coldness of limbs.
• ▸—Internal chilliness and chill not > by heat of stove.
• ▸—Chilliness

in evening till midnight, with great weakness and sleep.—Chill running down back.—Shiverings,

followed by heat, with thirst and sweat, esp. at night, and in afternoon —(Chronic feverishness

• ▸with recurring albuminuria.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Internal or external heat of single parts.
• ▸—Flushes of heat

running up back.—Burning in back, between shoulder-blades.—Burning pain of external parts or

of internal parts.—Transient or anxious heat—Nocturnal heat (disturbing sleep).—Flushes of heat

over whole body, beginning in hands.—Perspiration most profuse on head, hands, and feet, with

increased secretion of urine.—Perspiration on fore part of body.—Perspiration frequently smells

of sulphur or of garlic.—Intermittent fever: heat and perspiration at night, with faintness and

ravenous hunger, which could not be satisfied with eating; afterwards chilliness with chattering

of teeth and external coldness; the chilliness was succeeded by internal heat, esp. in hands, while

the external coldness continued.—Fevers with soporous condition, dry, black lips and tongue and

open mouth.—Typhus fever (often with pneumonia and bronchitis, that developed into

consumption).—Hectic fever, with dry heat towards the evening, esp. in palms of hands, sweat,

• ▸and colliquative diarrhoea, circumscribed redness of cheeks (1.
• ▸more than r.
• ▸), &c.
• ▸—Pulse changed;

quick, full, and hard; occasionally small and weak.—Nocturnal and viscid sweat.—Sweat in

morning.—Cold, clammy sweat.

Phosphorus Hydrogenatus.

• ▸Phosphoretted Hydrogen.
• ▸Phosphine.
• ▸PH.
• ▸Solution.

• ▸Electricity antidoted the effects.
• ▸Compare: Locomotor ataxy, Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸, Alm.
• ▸, Helod.

• ▸Visional defects, Benz.
• ▸din.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸s.

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

Incompatible: Caust.

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

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

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

• ▸Very sensitive to change of weather, like Phos, and Rhod.
• ▸; aggravated before a thunder storm.
• ▸Often sensitive to air and cold.
• ▸Lean,

emaciated subjects ; threatening consumption. Eruptions disappear of

themselves or are suppressed. Hands and feet burn ; wants the palms

and soles out of bed. Do not be too sure Sulphur because the soles

• ▸burn, or too sure of Silicea because the feet sweat.
• ▸Sweating of single parts.
• ▸Eruptions in patches.
• ▸Itching in patches.
• ▸Coldness in

• ▸parts.
• ▸Complaints come in single parts.
• ▸The most striking offensiveness is about the feet and in the axillae.
• ▸There are many strange sensations which arc peculiar and striking.
• ▸Study closely the skin symptoms and compare with Graphites and Sulphur,

PHosviroRus

The complaints of Phosphorus are most likely to arise in the feeble

constitutions, such as have been born sic k, grown up s lender, and

grown too rapidly. Its complaints are found in such as are emaciated,

and in those who are rapidly emaciating ; in children who are going

into marasmus, and in persons who have in them the foumlation o|^

consumption J^rly jwcHJa^^^ Delicate, waxy, anaemic . and emaciated

Ejects. Th persons who are vehement, irascible. This expresses the

persoiTs disposition somewhat as well as his internal constitutional

state. Internally he is in a turmoil. Subject to ^v iolent puls ations,

complaints from electri c changes in the atmosphere ; vi olent palpi tations Imd orga?ms. "~"^TF"c&forotm who have grown too rapidly and

h^ve_suddenly t^ n on weakness, pallor, green sickness, with menstrual, difficult^ Ebullitions and congestions. J Haemorrhagic consti -j t

tutions. Small wounds bleed much ; the prick of the needle will bubble forth much bright red blood, haemorrha ge from small wounds ,

fro m the nose, fro jn^ the lu np, from the stomach, froni the bladder

and -from th e u terps. Bleedmg from ulcerations. False granulations

• ▸that bleed.
• ▸Purpura haemorrhagica.
• ▸Black and blue spots.
• ▸Blood

settles beneath the conjunctiva, or beneath the skin an ywher e. Bloody

^liva ; evidences of disorganized blood, or that the blood seems to become fluid. Small bruises take on broad blue spots. Blows much

blood out of the nose. Petechia* all over the body, such as are found

in typhoid fever, low forms of continued fever with ha emorrhag es .

Fungous growth. Fatty (regener atio n is a maiTced Tea ture of PHos»

phorus, and can be found in the liver, heart or kidneys. General

'dropsical condition. Bloating of the hands and feet, especially dropsical conditions after scarlet fever. The mucous membranes are all

pale, such as is found after bleeding or in low forms of disease. A

• ▸marked state of anaemia and relaxed condition of the muscles.
• ▸Muscles flabby.
• ▸Fattyi d egeneration jof the muscles .
• ▸The genitals hang

down. In th ^ woman, relaxation oTThe pelvic organs, prolapsus and

other displacem e n tj^. Snjl'ness is a maiked f eature of Ph ospho rus.

Phosphorus is a useful remedy in diseases of the kidneys, especially

diabetes, with sugar in the unne when there is great thirst for ice-cold

thin^ and ice-cold water. Gradual emaciation ; gradual' weakness ;

considerable heat of the head ; coldness of the extremities, and sugar

in ihe urine. Phosphorus will cure fatty degeneration of the lidhevs. ’

Rena Lcalculi. No desire to pass iirine though the blatlder is Tuir

There is a paralytic weakness which resembles the paralytic weakness

throughout all the muscles of the body. He is unable to strain to

pass the urine because such straining increases pain in the region of

the bladder. Profuse, pale, watery urine ; frequent and scanty or

completely suppressed urine. Turbid, whitish urine ; curdled like

• ▸milk.
• ▸Albuminous urine.
• ▸Jnv'oluntary urination during sleep.
• ▸Tearing in the urethra ; twitching and burning in the urethra.
• ▸Periodical

sick headaches sometimes arc preceded by scanty urine and sometimes

by a copious watery flow of urine.

The male sexual organs furnish many symptoms of Phosphorus.

Violent sexual desire driving him frantic. Erections frequent and

painful day and night. Seminal emissions at night even without lascivious dreams. Sexua l debility from the inordinate use of table salt.

Impotence after excessive cxcitcrhenf and secret vice, preceded Ty

over-excitement of the sexual organs. Frequent discharges day and

night of thin, slimy, colorless fluid from the urethra. Sexual abuse

with spinal disease. Discharges of prostatic fluid during a hard stool.

Chronic urethral dischargH duenFo hypertrophy of the prostate gTahd';

gleety discharge. Swelling and soreness of the testes and cord ; inflammation of the testes and cord. It has cured hydrocele following

gonorrhoea.

In the woman it is equally useful. Phosphorus has cured many

cases of sterility supposed to idepctoii upon violent sexual jgxcUement. '

Violent sexual excitement with avciiion to coition. Violent pain in

the ovaries extending down the inn^r side of the thighs during menstruation caused by inflammation of the ovaries. Inflammation of

the uterus during menstruaiion and during pregnancy or during

pyaemia. Copious haemorrhages from uterus, bright red, clotted blood

after confinement, during menstruation or during the climacteric

period. Frequent and profuse haemorrhages from the uterus caused

from cancerous affections. The menstrual per iod i s too ear ly, , flow

bright red, l asting too long, is c opious ; duri ng th^^mensU-ual^

i^coia p^ia-ia-the^back, iO^oken _

rings around eyes ; loss of flesh ; much fearfulness. It has also menstruaT sup^ in consumptives with cough, bleeding from the

nose, and spitting of blood. Violent sexual excitement driving to

secret vice. C opious yellow l eucorrhoea with gr eat weakness ; leuc orrhoea instead of menses ; wTute, watery leucorrhoea, acrid, excoriating ;

milky Teucorrhma,“cbp^ when walking. The ^leucornh oea^is so excoriating that blisters form upo n the genitals . Burning and smarting

'wTthc vapna. Stitching pains upward from the vagina into the

pelvis. While there is violent sexual excitement during coition there

is lack of sensation in the vagina, as if it were numb. Condylomata

appear like fig warts and excrescences about the genitals and in the

^jgina. Bleeding warts^ Erectile tumors on the external genitals.

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Dropsical swelling of the labia. Cauliflower excrescences with much

bleeding. Painful, hard, large nodosities in the female mammary

glands. Fibroid tumors of the breast. Fibroid tumors of the uterus

with copious haemorrhages.

During pregnancy and lactation violent sexual desire ; vomiting of

pregnancy. Much prostration, sinking, and trembling, puerperal convulsions ; pain in the back, as if it would break. Increased secretion of

milk out of season. Inflammation of the mammary glands with much

heat, weight, and suppuration. Erysipelas of the breasts or of the

genitals.

Inflammation of the larynx with hoarseness in the morning ; husky

voice ; great sensitiveness of the larynx to touch and cold air ; pain and

burning in the larynx on talking ; weakness in the vocal cords ; violent

tickling of the larynx while talking ; constriction and spasms of the

larynx ; constant irritation to cough in the larynx ; tuberculous condition

of the larynx ; bleeding ; loss of voice ; cannot sp eak a word on accoun t

of pai n in the lary nx ; sensation of velvet in the larynx ; rawness and

smarting in the larynx. Phosphorus has cured many cases of croup,

membranous croup, when all the symptoms were present. Every change

of weather, from becoming overheated, and colds settle in the larynx,

producing loss of voice and hoarseness, especially in public speakers

and singers. H oarse ness an d loss of voice; great dryness in the

larynx and all of the air passages. Hard, dry, rasping cough that

shakes the whole body from irritation in the larynx. The irritation

travels down the air passages, affecting the trachea, along with difficult

respiration ; asthmatic breathing ; clutching in the larynx ; suffocation ;

dyspnoea ; spasms and constrictions of the chest. Violent, stridulous

inspiration in tlie evening on falling asleep ; fear of suffocation ; labored

breathing. Paralysis of the lungs ; fulness in the chest after eating,

much irritation in the larynx ; difficult breathing ; scraping of mucus

from the larynx after eating.

In the chest, Phosphorus produces oppression ; anxiety, weakness and

constriction going along with its chest complaints. Heaviness as if a

great weight were lying upon the chest. With the cough, bronchitis,

pneumonia and cardiac symptoms there is always more or less constriction of the chest as if bound, or as if bandaged, or as if tied tight

with a string. Tightness felt over the sternum, and with all complaints

great weakness of the chest ; pressure as of a weight over the middle of

the sternum ; feeling of a rush of blood to the chest with or without

violent pulsations. Sensation of heat in the chest mounting to the

head ; flushes of heat in the chest extending upward. Stitching pain in

the chest ; spasmodic pains in the chest ; violent stitching pains in the

left side of the chest better by lying on the right side. These are pains

likely to occur in pleurisy or iu pleurisy with pneumonia. Ck)mplamt8

of chest, worse in cold air. Rawness in the trachea extending into the

lungs ; burning in the chest ; acute pain in the lower part of the lungs ;

violent pain in the chest with coughing. The patient is compelled to

hold the chest with the hand. Inflammation of the lungs with anxiety,

oppression, and expectoration of bright red blood. The Phosphorus

patient suffers from copious haemorrhages from the lungs in phthisical

conditions, in inflammation, inflammation of the bronchial tubes with

intense fever and violent shaking cough ; the body trembles with the

cough ; tearing pains in the sternum with the cough ; suffocation and

constriction of the chest. Pain in the larynx. The expectoration may

be blood-streaked or rust-colored as it is in pneumonia. It may be

purulent. In the later stages it becomes thick, yellow, sweetish. Phosphorus is a useful remedy in old bronchial catarrhs, in complaints that

date from pneumonia or from bronchitis. Every cold settles in the

chest. The lungs seem to be w^eak. Again, in hepatization during

pneumonia with hard, dry, hacking cough ; in hepatization of the lungs

during pneumonia Phosphorus, Sulphur and Lycopodimn arc the most

frequently indicated medicinCsS. Phosphorus is often the remedy to

follow Arsenic when Arsenic has been suited to the restlessness, prostration, and anxiety that comes to a place where because of hepatization it is capable of accomplishing no more toward the cure of a case.

If, then, the patient has_thirst^J§r ice-cold water, constriction of the

chest, dry,^ hacking cough, p araly :ic weakness of the , lungs, ^ and ex- ,

^etdf au frothy myic us Phosphor ns. is ^

Inpneumonia, there may be burning in the chest, burning in the head,

hot cheeks, and fever ; gesticulation and delirium ; violent thirst for

ice-cold water ; fan-like motion of the nose ; difficult breathing ; catchy

inspiration ; lying on the back with the head thrown far back ; short, dry

cough. The carotids pulsate. Rawness in the chest ; bruised feeling in

the chest ; pains are cutting, burning or sharp and tearing in the lungs

when coughing. Suffocation, or inspiration almost impossible, especially at the beginning of hepatization when the face becomes livid and

the features pointed with cold sweat and quick, hard pulse. Frothy expectoration in low forms of pneumonia known as typhoid pneumonia.

Threatened paralysis of the lungs. Again, Phosphorus is a useful remedy when tuberculosis is about to make its appearance, in persons who '

are narrow-chested, slender, and of feeble vitality. All colds settle in <

the chest. After each cold, much rat tling^ hgrd cough that shakes then

whole body, i n persons who^ a re fccbTc," pale , sickly, and di sposed- ,tp )

haemorrhage s. Cough comes on in cold air. Emaciation ; emaciation )

of the chest and neck. Along with these conditions comes lactic fever ^

in the last stages of ph thisis ; intense fever, red fa ce, an^nipit Tweats : ^

fevelr^oi ^g onHSTme aftern oon and last ing until after midni^^ A c

powder of Pfios^orus very liigh will re^uce^tKIs" fever and make the

patient comfortable until death. In all incurable cases after the

Jias been reduced, Phosphorus shouH noT be ^iven, as it will intensify

e fever and do lust what it was ^ven to avoid. It is not uncommon

for a crisis to follow the administration of Phosphorus. Prolonged

sweat and diarrhoea, these should never be interfered with as they will

soon stop of their own accord and the patient will be left in a state of

quietude. Bosphor us is a ^ng erous medicine to give very high in

isome cases of phthisis^ in the last s tage s pLphthmg,,. In this case they

i should Tiave rcceli^d Phosphorus when they were yet curable. In these

jea^es Phosphorus jjoth miay sometimes be used with saf ety an d ft will

act as a test in doubtful cases to see whether reaction can be brought

about. In such cases where reaction can be brought about the administration later of a still higher potency may be found useful, but in the

beginning with Phosphorus m phtMsical cas es far advanced it is better

not to go higher than t he 30th or aootli. Phosphorus v ery loj ^will act

as ^j)qisonjn^ really Phosphorus cases and the only safety some patients have had ^o have received PEosphoius so very low was due to

the fact that the Phosphorus was not similar enough to cither kill or

icurc.

Phosphorus has violent palpitation ; worse from motion, and from

lying on the left side especially in the evening ; worse at night on waking, with orgasms of blood in the chest, accompanied by much suffocation. Tightness in the chest and palpitation over the body ; pressure in

the region of the heart. Phosphorus has cured endocarditis. Phosphorus has cured enlargement of the heart and dilatation and also fatty

degeneration. With fatty degeneration where there is much veinous

stagnation, puffiness of the face, particularly under the eyelids, Phosphorus is often the remedy. In all of these cardiac affections thirst for

very cold water will always be present. Internal heat ; he wants something cold to cool his insides. Violent orgasms of blood in the chest

from every excitement, from worry, and from anticipation. Phosphorus has many neuralgic pains upon the outer chest and yellow brown

spots. There are many symptoms in the back ; stiffness in the back and

in the back of the neck, between the shoulders, and in the small of the

back. Stiffness on rising from a seat. Sensation of intense heat in the

back running up the back. The patient complains of a hot spine. Soreness in places up and down the spine ; soreness to touch between the

shoulders ; pulsations in various places in the back and in the whole

spine. The coccyx is sensitive to pressure ; pain in the coccyx as if

ulcerated, preventing motion. Pain in the back during menstruation

and during confinement as if the back would break. Spinal affections

and inflammations. Weakness of the limbs after mental exertion,

prolonged physical exertion, being overheated, sunstroke and sexual

excesses ; paralytic weakness. Myelitis ; softening of the spine ; propaoSPHORUS

gressive spinal paralysis. Phosphorus has been a useful remedy in

locomotor ataxia, palliating many of the symptoms ; the pains ; restoring the reflexes. Phosphorus is often suitable and restrains the

progress in multiple sclerosis where there is much weakness and

trembling of the extremities. Phosphorus has cured caries of the

vertebrae in scrofuous children. Phosphorus is a broad remedy in

various diseases of the spine.

In the limbs we hav e par a lytic weaknes s extending^ to b(^ a rms and

legs, with trembling and numbness ; paralysis of one or of both lower

extremiues~or~of~the upper extremities with trembling and numbness.

The hands and arms become very cold. The limb s emaciate_and the

veins become distended ; the arms bum ; periodical constriction of the

fingers ; numbness increasing to complete insensibility of the fingers ;

finger tips feel numb and insensible. Great restlessness in the lower

limbs ; weariness in the lower limbs ; weakness in the lower limbs, especially observed on walking, unsteady and trembling gait ; paralysis of

the lower limbs. Acute inflammation of the joints of the knees and

hip joint. Burning, tearing pains in the limbs from exposure to cold.

Rh eumatism of the joints and muscl es ; stiffnes s of the joints on becoming cold. All complaints of the limbs are am eliorated by heat,

while complaints of the head and s tomach are amelio£aited ^ cold.

'I'he complaints of the chest are axniillorateid hy Eeat. The lower limbs

• ▸are covered with foetid sweat.
• ▸The lower limbs are gangrenous.
• ▸Inflammation of the periosteum of t|he tibia.
• ▸Ulcers upon the lower

limbs ; feet icy-cold. The Phosphorus patiept wants to lie down; exhausted ; he is unable to walk ; staggers when walking from weakness

and from vertigo. A gradual progressing weakness creeps over him ;

weakness ; trembling ; faintness, [ericing and twitching of the musses ;

spasms of the paralyzed parts. Epilepsy ; convulsions ; neufal^c pains

of the various parts of the body and of the limbs especially, ameliorated

by heat. It has cured multiple neuritis.

Restless sleep ; starts in sleep ; feels in the morning as if he has not

slept enough, yet most of the complaints and aches are ameliorated by

sleep, especially the head symptoms ; walks in his sleep. He sleeps on

the right side . Lying on the left side causes anxiety and pain in the

heart and palpitat ion. Late fafling to sleep in the evening ; lies awake

thinking about the affairs of the day and borrowing trouble. Phosphorus is a usual remedy in low forms of typhoid fever on the symptoms previously mentioned.

There are many eruptions in Phosphonis. The eruptions are dry

and scaly ; dry furfuraceous herpes ; blood blisters ; purple spots ; yellow

spots on the chest and abdomen ; formication and itching in the paralyzed parts ; numbness of the skin ; irregular brown spots upon the

body; psoriasis of the kness, legs, elbows, and eyebrows; hives and

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blood boils ; phlegmonous inflammation. Chronic suppurating c^Kaiings with hectic fever ; fistulous openings ; ulcers bleed on appearance

of the menses ; deep eating ulcers ; indolent ulcers ; malignant ulcers.

Very useful in cancerous ulcers that bleed and take on fungous appearance, and in low forms of scarlet fever where the rash is very dusky or

disappears and suppuration begins in various places about the neck or

upon the extremities or upon the ends of the fingers and there is violent

thirst for cold water, purple appearance in the throat, and dry, hacking,

shaking cough.

Stiffness on beginning to move. Limbs stiff like a foundered horse,

especially in the morning. Rheumatic stiffness in all the limbs.

Phosphorus has tearing, drawing pains in the limbs. Drawing, tearing pains in affected parts. Phosphorus complaints are \yorsc i n cold

weather . The patient himself, generally considered, is sensitive to

cold. All his complaints arc .worse fro m, cold and cold applications,

and better from heat and wa rm app licalions, exc ept the complaints. ^

the head and stomach, which at^ ameliorated from, cold as will hereafter be described. Phosphorus has been ^'ery useful in weak, relaxed

conditions of the joints following sprains, when the symptoms agree.

Necrosis is another feature of Phosphorus, especially of the lower jaw,

but may be useful in necrosis of any of the bones. Exostoses of the

skull with tearing pains. Tearing, boring pains, especially at night.

Ph osphorus has cured polvpi of the noj^ and car§. Scrofulous and

glandular swellings. Glands enlarge, especially after contusions like

Beilis, Glandular affections of weak, pale, sickly individuals, such as

suffer from diarrhoea, such as suffer from exhaustive conditions, abscesses, fistulous openings, with hectic fever. Abscesses with copious

discharge of yellow pus. Malignant growths are greatly restrained

by the use of Phosphorus, when the symptoms agree. Burning pains

are observed everywhere. Burning in the brain, burning in the skin.

Burning in the stomach, in the chest, and in various parts.

The Phosphorus patient is very sensitive to all external impressi ons ;

o dors, noises, touch. Slight causes lead to exhaustion of either

body or mind. Trembling throughout the body from slight causes,

using the hands, from slight exertion, from debility, from coughing.

Weakness prevails in a marked degree, finally becoming paralysis or

paralytic weakness such as occurs in most forms of typhoid fever, with

sliding down in bed, trembling and jerking of the muscles. Paralysis

with formication and tearing in the limbs. Paralysis that comes with

apoplexy. Jerking and twitching of the muscles such as has been

• ▸found in paralysis.
• ▸Spasms of the paralyzed parts.
• ▸Tearing, drawing, burning pains throughout the body.
• ▸The Phosphorus patient

wants to be rubbed. He is generally better after sleep. Always

wants to rest. Always tired. The Phosphorus patient undergoes

• ▸great excitement.
• ▸Tremulousncss.
• ▸Wild thoughts.
• ▸Excitability,

keeping him awake at night. Violent imaginations. Excitability even

to ecstacy and clairvoyance. The mind may be overactive or may be

extremely passive with loss of memory. Irritability of mind and body

and great prostration of mind after slight mental effort, and of the

body after slight physical exertion. Anxiety, gloomy forebodings.

Fear that something will happen. Anxious at twilight. Anxious

when alone. A p pr ehensiveness . Apprehensive during thunder

storms, which brings on many complaints ; palpitation, diarrhcjea and

trembling. Trembling of the whole body. Attacks of indige stio n

from fear. Fear in the evening, fear , of dcatlL. I'ear of strange old

• ▸Taces looking at him from the corner.
• ▸Full of strange, insane imaginations.
• ▸On the border land of insanity.
• ▸Inability to sustain a mental effort.
• ▸Fear of apoplexy.
• ▸Reflecting brings on headache and difficult breathing associated with apprehensive ness or j^inkin^ at^ the pit

of the stomach. His fear seems to begin at the pit of the stomach.

Apathy or indifference ; indifferent to his friends and surroundings.

Indifferent to his children. Answers no questions, takes no notice of

his family and things about him, answers slowly, thinks sluggishly,

seems dazed or in a stupor. Ev^thing looks dark, he is weary of

life, gloomy and says nothing. Dejected ; a most marked case of

hypochondriasis. Weeping, sa d, hysterical ; will uncover the body and

expose his person. Violent^ loquaci ous ; ^delirium. Delirium of low;

forms of fever, or delirium of mania a potu. Maniacal attacks come

on during sleep with fury and extreme violence, so that no one dares

approach him, and this progresses to imbecility, silliness, weak brain,

idiocy. Brain fag from mental overwork and constant strain of eyes.

Vertigo is a very common symptom throughout all of the complaints

of Phosphorus. Staggering while walking as if intoxicated. Vertigowhen in the open air ; vertigo after earing ; vertigo in the evening.

Heaviness and confusion in the head and things go round ; great

weakness of the head. All of these mental symptoms are worse in

the dark ; worse when alone ; sometimes worse from music ; worse

from excitement ; worse from playing the piano.

Tpbe headaches of Phosphorus arc -congeatixe-^nd thffbbjng^ The

blood mounts to the head. The headaches are ameliorat^|rpiti.-CQld

and worse from heat , worse from motion, and bette r Jrom jr^st, worse

Ijing; d^!^^ is often compelled to sit upright, with great

pressure upon the head and cold applications. The face is flushed

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and hot ; burning in the brain. The warm room, warm surroundings,

warm food, putting the hands into warm water will increase the headache. The complaints of the head like the complaints of the stomach

are worse from heat, warm applications and from warm food, and

better from cold things ; while the complaints of the body are better

from warmth and worse from cold. The headaches arc most violent

and are often attended with hunger or Receded by hun ger : headaches

with vomiting, red face, and scanty urine ; uraemic headaches ; violent

neuralgic pains darting, tearing, shooting through the head ; pressing

pains in the head. Periodical headaches, headaches brought on from*

mental exertion. Great heat in the head and stiffness in the muscles

of the face and jaws. This is sometimes attended with coldness in the

back of the head. Shocks through the brain. The headaches are

worse from noise, from light ; apoplectic congestion of the head. It

has cured acute hydrocephalus and hydrocephaloid symptoms.

Chronic inflammation of the meninges of the brain ; softening of the

brain ; imbecility ; insanity. Violent head pains ; atrophy of the brain ;

medulla oblongata. The scalp is covered with dandruff ; the hair falls

out in patches, leaving bald places here and there. Great heat in the

scalp ; tension in the scalp and face and forehead as if bound by a

bandage. Scaly eruptions on the bald places of the head ; exostoses

on the skull. The complaints of the head are brought on from becoming overheated. Sensation as if the hair were pulled ; great soreness

of the scalp ; must let the hair hang down during headaches.

The eye symptoms are very numerous ; burning, redness, congestion, enlargement of the blood-vessels. Objects look red and often

blue in the field of vision, or objects sometimes look green and gray

as is observed in incipient cataract. Colors, also, appear black before

the eyes. Vision is vague ; the eyes give out while reading ; secs

better in the morning, in the twilight. The eye symptoms, like Phosphorus in general, have amelioration after rest. Momentary blindness

like fainting ; seems to suddenly become blind ; paralysis of the optic

nerve ; blindness after electric shocks, or after a stroke of lightning.

It has cured glaucoma. It has cured inflammation of the retina in

Bright's disease. It has cured opacity of the vitreous humor. It has

cured paralytic weakness of the various muscles of the eyes. It has

cured paralysis of the third pair of nerves where there is falling of

the lids ; sub-acute inflammation of the eyes. Burning, redness, and

smarting ameliorated from cold applications. The eyelids twitch and

tremble ; swelling of the eyelids ; dropsical swelling of the eyelids ;

great darkness around the eyes ; great circles around the eyes. It is

a very useful remedy in malignant growths involving the eye,

straining very much the progress of the disease. The eye symptoms

like the head and mind symptoms arc such as often come on in brain

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workers ; working under a bright light causing much determination

of blood to the head in which the eyes as well as other parts suffer.

Phosphorus has a peculiar deafness. One of the most striking

features of Phosphorus is inability to understand the articulations of

the human voice. Hearing is difficult. He sometimes feels as if there

were something over the ears ; as if the ears were covered, obstructing the waves of sound. Violent itching in the cars ; congestion of the

external ear ; itching, tearing, throbbing, burning pains within the car.

It has cured polypi in the ears.

The nose symptoms are also very numerous ; inveterate nasal

catarrh. He takes cold in the nose, but the most common scat of the

Phosphorus cold is in the chest, and most of his difficulties begin in

the chest, but Phos phor us cures nasal cattarh and coryza. There is

painful dryness in the nose; constant sneezing and ruhriirig from the

no se oF "bloodj water, l^que nt a lternations of fluent and sjtQpped-iip

conditions of the ^ nose; coryza with sore throat; stoppage of the

nostrils ; much sneezing and stopping of the nose alternating with dryness of the nose in scarlet fever ; nostrils filled with green mucus ; a

copious nasal discharge of greenish-yellow, blood-streaked mucus,

worse in the morning ; bad odor from the nose ; frequent blowing of

blood from the nose ; copious haemorrhage from the nose of bright

red blood ; swelling of the nose, redness and shining ; very sensitive

to touch ; necrosis of the bones of the nose. It has cured polypi of

the^ nose, especially bleeding polypi. Fan-like motion of the nose,

like Lycopodium,

The Phosphorus patient preSs^ts a sickly face, earthy, sunken and

pale, such as we find in consumption and those about to go into consumption, and those suffering from deep-seated constitutional conditions ; haggard, anaemic. The color is changeable ; swollen, cedematous face ; puffed under the eyes ; lips and eyelids swollen. Again,

red spots upon the cheeks, which appear in hectic fever ; the hectic

blush. Tension of the skin and of the face ; tearing, shooting pains

all through the face and about the eyes, from the temples and vertex

down to the zygoma. Jerking, tearing pains in the teeth. The pains

of the teeth are often ameliorated by warmth, while those of the

head are ameliorated by cold. The pains of the teeth are worse when

talking and eating, and worse after eating It has violent neuralgias

of the face involving the jaw and temples, with hot, bloated face,

worse from talking and from eating. It has caries of the lower jaw,

with great heat, burning and fistulous openings. Neuralgia of the

face and teeth ; has to be wrappend up at night ; worse in windy weather.

The countenance is sickly, sunken, declining, as if a serious sickness

was coming.

The lips are parched, dry and bleeding. The lips become black,

brown and cracked as in low forms of fever, and with necrosis of the

lower jaw. Inflammation of the parotid gland, especially when it

suppurates or there are fistulous openings. Rapid decay of the teeth.

The gums bleed and settle away from the teeth.

Phosphorus is very useful for the bright red haemorrhage after the

extraction of teeth. The tongue is swollen and speech is difficult.

It is difficult to articulate. The taste in the mouth is bitter or sour,

especially sour after taking milk ; sometimes salty or sweetish ; bitter

after eating. Taste of hydrogen sulphide in the morning. The

tongue is coated like fur ; sometimes chalky-white, sometimes yellow ;

dry, cracked and bleeding ; sordes on the teeth. Crusts form upon

the mucous membranes of the mouth, gums, lips and tongue. The

tongue is s wolle n and the papillae are engorged.

Dryness of the mouth and throat ; sore, excoriated mucous membranes of the mouth and throat. The mouth may be covered with

thrush, as in nursing sore mouth ; bloody erosions of the mouth :

nursing sore mouth. Much watery saliva and bloody saliva flows

from the mouth. The saliva is copious, tasting sweetish, saltish or

foul. The mucous membranes of the thioat are like those of the

mouth. Great dryness, roughness, rawmess, excoriation, bleeding,

and inflammation of the tonsils ; inflammation of the throat ; sensation

of cotton in the throat ; sensation of velvet in the throat. The tonsils

are much swollen. Intense pain in the throat and burnTng in the

throaF” that ^extends into the oesophagus. Inability to swallow any

nourishment because of paralysis of the oesophagus or acute inflammation of the mucous membranes of the throat and oesophagus ; constriction of the oesophagus. In Phosphorus there is violent hunger

and v ery soon after eating the hunger returns again . Must eat during

the chill. Must get up in the night to eat. Feels faint and is driven

to eat. Ravenous hunger during headache ; he knows that the headache is coming on because of his violent hunger ; in ^periodical headaches. The hunger is often spasmodic, because at times there is

aversion to food. Again, he wants to cat and as soon as the food is

offered he does not want it. Thirst is one of th^ nmst co^^ features

o f Phosphorus. In acute and chronic cornplaints t here is violent thirst ;

thiiit_^mrJ^-col d drinka*^ Wants something refreshing ; is ameliorated inoimenta^^ drinking cold things, but the thirst appears

as soon as the water gets warm in the stomach. Vomiting comes on

asL ^on as the water becomes war m in the st omac hs but there are

many conditions where the ice-cold " w^atcr agrees. Unquenchable

thirst- When the water is vomited there is always unquenchable

thirst. He wants cold food as well as cold drinks ; refreshing, spicy

things, juicy things ; desir ^for wines and sour things. Phosphorus

often cures the violent longing m inebriates for alcohol. It simply

resembles tRe congestion of the mucous membrane of the stomach.

Aversion to sweets, to me at, to boiled rnlll^jo salt^ fish, to beer, t£

pu3(ii^ s, to tea and coffee.

Many of the complaints of Phosphorus are ameliorated by eating.

The nervous symptoms of Phosphorus drive the patient to eat and he

feels better for a little while, and then he must cat again or the nervous

symptoms will come on. Often he can sleep better after eating and

cannot go to sleep until he eats something.

The stomach symptoms are numerous — pains, nausea, vomiting,

burning. The stomach symptoms arc ameliorated by cold things and

aggravated by warm things. The ncusea and tomiting are brought

on by putting the hands into warm water, from being in a warm room,

from w'arm things and from taking warm things into the stomach.

The nausea of pregnancy is cured when the woman cannot put the

bands into warm water without bringing on vomiting. Another

marked feature of Phosphorus is eructations of food. The food is

eructated by mouthful until the stomach is emptied of the last meal.

Constant nausea except when something cold is in he stomach. As

s,oon as water becomes warm in the stomach it comes up. This very

much resembles the vomiting and nausea of Chloroform, and^hos;:^

phorus is a great friend to the^urgeqn Jiccause. he, can .nearly ^

amidote the stomach Vomiting of blood and violent vomiting, of sour fluids; vomiting of bile and

mucus ; vomiting of black substances, coffee-ground substances.

Awful sinking, gone feeling in tfie stomach. This sometimes comes

.at 1 1 o*c Iock like Sulphur. Pressing pains, burning pains, tearing

pains in the stomach ; pain in the stomach after eating ; sensitiveness

in the pit of the stomach ; inflammation of the stomach. It has been

a very useful remedy in cancer of the stomach, with coffee-ground

vpmiting and burning ; coldness, as il freezing, in the pit of thei

stomach ; paroxysms of knife-like pains in the stomach. The pains

in the stomach arc ameliorated by ice-cold things for a moment ;

spasmodic contractions of the stomach ; haemorrhage from the stomach ;

vomiting of great quantities of clotted blood ; long-standing dyspepsia ;

much flatulence; regurgitation of food ; distended stomach and abdomen ; ulceration of the stomach.

The liver furnishes us many symptoms of Phosphorus. Congestion

of the liver, fulness, pain, hardness, Jaity dcge iieratioH^-of the liver,

hypersemia of the liver. Phosphorus_is o ne of our most use ful liver

liyeXt. With the stomach and liver symj^rns

the re is co mmonlY.iaundicc.

Very s*ensitive abdomen ; painful to touch, rolling and rumbling.

Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen ; sunken feeling in the abdomen. The abdomen feels as if relaxed ; hanging down sensation

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and sensation of great weight in the abdomen. Tympanitic abdomen

such as occurs in typhoid fever. A marked featiu-e in Phosphorus

is the peculiar gurgling which begins in the stomach and gurgles along

down through the intestines, attended with involuntary stool. This

occurs in typhoid fever. The gurgling that occurs in Arsenicum is

down the oesophagus. Flatulence ; colic ; rending, tearing, cutting

pains throughout the abdomen ; stitching pains in the abdomen ; .violent

neuralgic p ains in the abdomen ; inflammation of the bowel s, of the

peri toneum ; appendicitis. Yellow, brown spots on the abdomen ;

petechiaa over the abdomen during typhoid fever. Phosphorus is rich

in symptoms of the rectum and stool ; involuntary discharges from

the bowels ; copious emission of fluids ; fcetid, gushing stools; horribly

offensive, yellow, watery stools. The patient lies as if dying, the

stools passing involuntarily ; stools of white mucus ; stools of slime

intermingled with little specks like tallow ; involuntary oozings from

the constantly wide open anus. Haemorrhage from the bowels in

typhoids, in low forms of disease ; bloody discharges like meat washings, involuntary, on every motion. Burning in the rectum during

stool. Protrusion of the rectum ; protrusion of hacmorrhoidal tumors.

Sharp, stitching pains from the coccyx up the spine to the base of the

brain drawing the neck backward, and this symptom occurs during

stool. It has occurred during involuntary stool. After stool painful

cramps in the rectum ; burning in the anus ; violent tenesmus : sinking

feeling in the abdomen ; obliged to lie down ; exhaustion and fainting.

The copious diarrhoea is like the profuse flow of water from a hydrant.

It is useful in cholera times and in cholera morbus. It is a useful

medicine for chronic diarrhoea with soft, thin stools. It has been a

very useful remedy in cholera infantum. It has also cured dysentery

with bloody mucus, scanty stools with violent tenesmus. It also cures

inveterate constipation. The stool is hard, long, and slender, described

• ▸in the books as like that of a dog.
• ▸Alternating diarrhoea and constipation in old people.
• ▸Spasms of the rectum.
• ▸Paralysis of the bowels

so that it is impossible to strain at stool. Haemorrhage from the

bowels. It has cured polypi of the rectum; inflammation of the

rectum. It has many times cured bleeding, protruding haemorrhoids ;

haemorrhoids that burn. It has cured fissures of the anus. Among

many of these bowel symptoms the anus feels as if wide open.

Weakness in all the limbs as if paralysed; esp. in joints, trembling from every

• ▸exertion.
• ▸—Swelling of hands and feet.
• ▸—Bruised pain in limbs.
• ▸—Extremities, esp.
• ▸hands and feet,

heavy as lead.—Numbness and falling asleep of limbs.—Exanthema on skin about

joints.—Swelling of soft tissues of joints.—Joints stiff.