Pyrus Americana

• ▸P.
• ▸amer.
• ▸, the American Mountain Ash (the British is P.
• ▸aucuparia), was

proved by Gatchell on himself, a married woman, and two lads. Gatchell's only symptom was

"irritation of the eyes." Another prover had a similar symptom. By far the greatest number were

induced in the woman; though hers were largely confirmed by those of the boys. Neuralgic,

rheumatic, and gouty symptoms were very severe. The emotional balance was disturbed and a

kind of clairvoyance induced. Labour-like or spasmodic pains were frequent—in uterus; in

bladder like prolapse; constrictive at base of lungs and round waist; like spasm of heart; as if left

leg drawn up. Peculiar Sensations are: As if full of cold water; as if stomach full of cold water;

coldness extends up cesophagus under sternum. As if she were outside of herself and could see

into herself. As if rectum were shrunken and dried up. As if left leg drawn up and would never

straighten again. The symptoms were < by moving about (pains and chilliness); < by exposure to

cold.

Feels like crying.—Sad, weeping mood; tears will come (in a lad).—Feels gloomy and

discouraged but cannot cry.—Feels resolute; full of gloomy determination.—Hypochondriac, not

nervous; lazy, would like to lie in bed and be waited on.—Thinks she is clairvoyant, can read

character and understand motions, see into herself.—Seems to be able to go out of herself for a

short distance, to walk round and return into her body; seems to her that fundus of stomach is

depressed in abdomen, and pyloric end on fire, a red spot like raw beef there as if stomach burnt

up with raw whisky.—Cries, feels babyish apprehension; fears something terrible going to

happen.—Feels weak as if about to die, moans, groans, calls for help.——Brain active, intellect

clear, thoughts vivid, whole being intensified.—Indolent, indifferent, no inclination to read.

Headache begins over eyes; pains knife-like; |. side of head aches terribly, like a

• ▸toothache —Headache extends to r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Head feels as if it would burst.
• ▸—Great weight at

vertex.—Shooting pains in forehead.—Headache penetrating in temples.

Craves hot tea.—Wants soft food, feels as if meat would not digest.—Stomach

feels weak as if nothing would digest; it feels dry and wrinkled.—Feels as if stomach full of cold

water.—Thinks mucus accumulated in cold stomach.—Feeling of coldness extends up sternum

and oesophagus.

Sense of prolapse of womb.—Bearing-down and pressing out as if

swollen and burning all over.

Hoarseness.—Dry cough, as if pharynx stuffed with cotton —Can

hardly breathe, as if cold water in stomach.—Can't talk loud; voice gone.-—Some

cough.—Spasmodic breathing as of nervous women (in a lad);

Aching at heart.—Oppression about heart as if it had stopped beating, as if going into

• ▸convulsions.
• ▸—Sense of spasm at heart; as if blood too thick to circulate (> Camph.
• ▸).
• ▸—Heart aches

as if from some great sorrow.

Pains drawing, rending along backs of thighs to toes, < l.—Feels as if 1. leg

drawn up and would never straighten again.—Tight feeling of patella.—Knees and toes feel as if

• ▸immensely swollen and ache.
• ▸—L.
• ▸great toe feels as if torn from its socket.
• ▸—Toes burn.
• ▸—Pain in

knees subsides and is followed by pain in tendons and along calves; drawing, cutting

pain.—Unendurable aching of bones of toes.

24. Generalities—Aches everywhere, in every joint; pains acute, intense, like inflammatory

• ▸rheumatism.
• ▸—Feels as if full of cold water.
• ▸—< Motion; dreads to move on account of joints.
• ▸—<

Cold; sensitive to cold and air.—Pains seem to move in meandering lines.

Chilly when air strikes him.—Chilly down back and both legs.—Very cold, shivering

internally; thinks she must look blue.—Cold creeping all over.—Glow all over; hands

sweat.—Chilly and with a very tranquil feeling, esp. of consciousness.

• ▸Bladder, irritation of; prolapse of.
• ▸Chills.
• ▸Clairvoyance.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Heart,

• ▸affections of.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Rectum, constriction of.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Tongue, paralysis of.

Uterus, prolapse of.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸Compare: Neuralgic and gouty pains, Pru.
• ▸sp.
• ▸Heart, Crateg.

Chilliness, Camph.