Understanding Phosphorus

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo M.D. F.F.Hom. (Lon.) et al.

What is Phosphorus first impression of life? What came up first to his attention?

He is a happy child. A very sensitive baby, she is tender and full of laugh and joy. His parents will describe him as a sweet child, sensitive to her mother caresses, always happy, laughing. He loves to be in his mother’s arms, he loves to feel the physical contact between mother and son.

Joyfulness,. 

Freedom of mind, good humor, with agreeable warmth of the whole body, especially of the hands, that are quite red from rush of blood; everything seems brighter to her. 

Very good-humored, especially in the afternoon, 

Lively, good-humored; she sings and hums to herself. 

But soon his first strong characteristics will surface. His sensitiveness will show someone very excited, someone very sensitive to his surroundings. His parents will provide his first strong features: that he is affected by everything around him. His mood changes according to his environment, to who is beside him, to the weather, to noise, music, etc.

Excitable, easily angered, vehement, from which he afterwards suffers. 

Extreme excitement, with very great heat, great thirst.

Great excitement: she sang, laughed, and afterwards fell asleep; on the next morning woke with great anxiety 

Great emotional excitement. 

Great emotional excitement, without any cause, 

Excited by every trifle. 

There is now his sensitiveness to everything around him. And we know that an excess of sensitivity always turns itself into suffering. And the first stage is to become irritable.

Over sensitiveness of all senses; oversensitive to external impressions, light, odors, noises, touch, etc. 

Very irritable and excited mood, so that she was excited by the least trifle,. 

Very capricious, sensitive, 

Very bad humor, even under the best circumstances. 

Irritability of mind and body; prostrated from least unpleasant impression. 

Now his irritability is bringing him his first clinical symptoms:

Very peevish before dinner at the merest trifle, followed by a sensation of heat and then pressure in the stomach; afterwards nausea, with much heat in the face, and complete loss of appetite, 

His mother will bring her baby to our care and his symptoms will be related to that: Digestion difficult, nausea, over sensitiveness to the environment, a very happy child, always with a smiling face. 

But his irritability will grow into a state of mind. It will turn itself into a general mood.

Very irritable and fretful mood. 

Very irritable and excited mood, so that she was excited by the least trifle,

Morose, very much affected by every object, especially by people or noises. 

His over sensitiveness is turning itself against him. He is now suffering from it. That one, before a happy and sensitive child, has become a very peevish girl or boy. 

More peevish than ever

Obstinate,. 

Mental irritability, uncommon vehemence in argument.. 

But Phosphorus sensitivity does not come alone. Altogether with his excitement and sensitiveness a group of symptoms will came up with a strong intensity, showing his true nature. His fears will come up very soon in his life and together with his sensitiveness will turn his life into a nightmare.

Fear and dread: in evening; of death; as if something were creeping out of every corner; late in evening as if a horrible face were looking out of every corner.

Felt nervous, as if I were going to die,  

Fear and dread, in the evening,  

An indescribable feeling of fright, 

Very easily frightened,. 

Frightened feeling, as if I was about to be run over by a locomotive, 

As the darkness of night began to enclose the earth, my peace was disturbed by the most frightful visions and thoughts; constant fear of death, with an almost uncontrollable desire to commit suicide (after twenty-four hours), [43]. 

When thinking of anything disagreeable, he falls into a kind of apprehension, the sensation of which is mostly in the pit of the stomach, [1].

My mind was greatly oppressed with melancholy; tears would start without cause; a feeling of dread, as if awaiting something terrible, yet unable to resist or move, overcame me; sometimes it seemed as if I was beginning to bloat, and then I could hear a multitude of voices saying in high glee, "Fill him up a little more and he will burst," followed by demoniacal laughter, which made the cold chills run over me. I imagined myself an aurora borealis, and could distinctly hear voices shouting, "Beautiful! Oh, was not that splendid?" as the pains became more severe and lasting; soon, however, the agony became so great that it threw off in a measure the stupor that clouded my senses. 

His first “indescribable” fears will turn themselves into recognizable fears.

He will soon materialize his fears upon reality.

Nightmare: so that he cried out; from a dream of imminent danger. 

Anthropophobia. 

Horrible fearfulness, late in the evening, as if a horrible face were looking out from every corner.

Dream of robbers. 

Anxious phantasm; on falling asleep; as if a bad man grasped him by the throat and tried to choke him.. 

Distressing dreams of vermin. 

Anxious dreams of biting animals; she cried out and woke in great anxiety. 

A fearful dream of being bitten by a ferocious black horse; so vivid as to make a very painful impression on the mind.

Dream that she was pinched on the back and breast; and tickled on the soles. 

Dreams of fire; anxious; of biting animals.

Dreams of fire; with crying out and beating about her. 

And together to these frightful menaces from the world, also his health will become a thread to him.

Hypochondriac,

Dejected, a most marked case of hypochondriasis.

Hypochondriasis; sadness alternating with mirth and laughter; uneasy about one's health; paroxysms of anguish, when alone or in stormy weather, with timorous disposition; told those about him repeatedly that he could not possibly recover, and gave some disjointed directions about his business affairs.

Told those about him repeatedly that he could not possibly recover, and gave some disjointed directions about his business affairs. 

Imagines he has hydrothorax, 

Fear of apoplexy. 

Discouraged about his health.

Dream of a hæmorrhage, 

This very sensitive and excitable person, threaded by the world and by his health, will become someone always worried by what will coming next or what will become of him/her. He is always waiting for the worst to happen.

Anxiety, gloomy forebodings. 

Fear that something will happen. 

Anxious at twilight. 

Anxious when alone. 

Apprehensiveness. 

Weary of life; full of gloomy forebodings. 

Filled with gloomy forebodings.. 

Apprehensive during thunderstorms, which brings on many complaints; palpitation, diarrhea and trembling. 

Anxious: filled with gloomy forebodings; as if about to die; about termination of her illness; and restless; at twilight; when alone; about the future; during a thunderstorm; with palpitation; as if below her left breast, so painful that her whole body trembled, at times with bitter eructation and palpitation; and restless with much sweat on forehead and heat of head; oppression. 

Anxiety, as if he would die, at times, in the evening.

Anxiety, as from impending misfortune.

Anxiety; oppressed, as if I had heard unpleasant news.

She is made anxious by a disagreeable event, mingled with fear and vexation, and is inclined to weep. 

Anxiously solicitous concerning the unfortunate termination of her illness.. 

Sadness and melancholy, as if some misfortune had happened (after fourteen days), 

Surrounded and threaded Phos. needs now to build his own strategies of survival. He must develop a way to protect himself from what is coming from the world. We found out two different strategies and both can be present at the same time. He will develop a very strong capacity of perceiving things that are about to happen. He will amplify our animal resources of preventing an attack, of perceiving a danger coming towards ourselves.

Excited imagination; zoomagnetic condition; ecstasy; clairvoyance.

Excitability even to ecstasy and clairvoyance. 

Phos. will become someone who can predict the future. He needs to protect himself from what can hurt him, so he develops this capacity. His senses become all oversensitive, helping him to prevent and to avoid what is threading him.

Phos. can also develop another strategy and this will prove itself very disturbing and destructive.

The world was frightful to him, only weeping could relieve him; soon afterwards complete dullness and indifference. 

(…) as if she were on a distant island; (…)

Great indifference to everything. 

He took no notice of things which were passing about him, but his responses were always correct (third day),. 

From his first extreme sensitiveness and excitability, altogether with his frightful experience of reality, Phos. succumbs into a great indifference to everything and everyone.

He had found out that he could survive on moving to the opposite side of his sensitiveness.

Apathy: indifferent even to his own children; answers no questions, or replies wrongly; took no notice of things about him, but his responses were always correct; answers slowly, moves sluggishly. 

Apathy or indifference; indifferent to his friends and surroundings. 

Indifferent to his children. 

Ill-humor during the last days of the proving; she became exceedingly sensitive to the crying of a child, which affected her very unpleasantly, which had never before been the case. 

Answers no questions, takes no notice of his family and things about him, answers slowly, thinks sluggishly, seems dazed or in a stupor. 

Indifferent to her child, of whom she was usually fond, 

Recognized no one. 

Frequently failed to recognize those about.

Phos. now has no more affection for his beloved ones. Or if he had turned himself indifferent since his childhood, he will live a life without feelings, without love to anyone else. He will be indifferent to his surroundings, toward his family, parents, brothers and sisters.

Suppressing his feelings and his sensitiveness will turn him into someone else, so much different from that happy and lovely child when he was born. His amativeness and strong sexuality are prone to surface.

Extreme irresistible desire for coition, [20], [21]. 

Satyriasis; lascivious, strips himself, sexual mania; extreme irresistible desire for coition; frequent erections and emissions; strong desire with feeble erections; all erectile power gone. 

Shamelessness; uncovers herself and wishes to go naked, as if insane.

Almost unrestrainable desire for coition on the following days, [53]. 

Weeping, sad, hysterical; will uncover the body and expose his person. 

Amativeness; erotic melancholia. 

Lascivious dreams and emissions. 

Erections day and night,

Seminal emissions: at night; with or without lascivious dreams; caused by exuberance of strength and nervous excitement, followed by impotence; (…)

Sexual abuse producing dorsal consumption, trembling, imbecility, mania, epileptic fits and indigestion. 

Nymphomania.

Sterility from excessive voluptuousness or with late or profuse menses. 

Nymphomania with spasms during seventh month of pregnancy (…)

This state is followed with some mental symptoms. Altogether with his perverting sexual behavior, a mental attitude is also present.

(…) monomania de grandeur et de la richesse (…)

My wants were numerous and varied, 

Felt exceedingly petulant all day; nothing went right; felt as dissatisfied with myself as with others; seemed as if everybody said or did something to provoke me. 

Delirious fantasies, while slumbering and waking, was a noble lady, etc..

He has become someone hard to the others, easily offended and vexed, angry at trifles.

Very much affected, even by a slight vexation. 

Vexation causes violent anger and rage 

Great vexation from the slightest cause, with cold hands, hot face, and palpitation, 

Vexed, so that he was beside himself at every trifle, 

Very easily provoked to anger, 

Vexatious dream. 

He is moving towards the destruction of his life. His affections have gone, he has no family, no relatives, his sexual powers are exhausted.

Mental depression and a most uncommon fearfulness or timidity with great sense of fatigue.

Sadness and anxiety, regularly recurring at twilight; from nervous exhaustion.

Weary of life; full of gloomy forebodings. 

Dejection; thought he would die. 

Melancholy, sheds tears; or with attacks of involuntary laughter. 

Mental depression, and a most uncommon fearfulness or timidity, with a great sense of fatigue.

No capacity for mental work, absence of thought, as if he could not grasp any thought; disinclination to study or converse; slow flow of ideas, absence of mind. Unable to collect his senses, in morning on rising; head dizzy, heavy, painful, as if he had been lying at night with bead too low. 

Delirium tremens: increasing prostration;

Mental symptoms come on after excitement at theatre and she becomes sleepless; then full of fear, especially at piano; constantly on lookout for something to happen; hears voices; hot head and face; sexual dreams and violent sexual excitement. 

Maniacal attacks, coming on during sleep; fury and extreme violence, so that no one dare approach him; destroys everything in the room; eyes remain closed; after two or three hours lies down and sleeps a few minutes, recollects nothing on waking. 

Loss of senses, as if he could not grasp any thought, with headache, 

Unable to collect his senses, in the morning on rising; the head is dizzy, heavy, and painful, as if he had been lying at night with the head too low,. 

Nervous debility: from simple weakness to complete paralysis; often in pneumonia, typhus, exanthematic diseases, croup, bronchitis, vitality reaches its lowest ebb, cerebrospinal system is depressed, surface is cold, pulse like a thread, rattling breathing, trembling of whole frame; frequent fainting spells, caused by intemperance; constitution undermined by grief, care or excessive mental exertion; excesses in venery, or onanism. 

Gradual loss of strength; coition causes prostration for several days; paretic condition of left side of body, particularly of limbs, face and tongue less affected, although speech is impaired; movements of limbs unsteady; sensibility not entirely impaired; pain in affected limbs at times severe, with frequent involuntary motions of same, they are also stiff, so that flexion is difficult; frequent attacks of vertigo; confusion of head; mental dullness, recollection tardy and incomplete; answers to questions are slow, short and unsatisfactory; appetite impaired, stool delayed and difficult; sleep restless, disturbed; feels < after sleep, and formerly when he could leave bed arose very late; although he has control of his motions they are very unsteady; hand trembles when reaching for an object, and when grasping or lifting anything there is no strength ; complete mental and physical weakness and prostration; veil before eyes; face pale, becomes red on slightest motion; easily overheated but quickly becomes cool again, feels chilly and desires to stretch limbs. 

Groups in Phosphorus

Hahnemann, Allen, Hering & Kent

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo M.D., F.F. Hom. (Lon.)

Humor

Excitement

Excitable, easily angered, vehement, from which he afterwards suffers. 

Extreme excitement, with very great heat, great thirst (seventh day), [140]. 

Great excitement; she sang, laughed, and afterwards fell asleep; on the next morning woke with great anxiety (after half an hour), [135]. 

Great emotional excitement (fourth day), [31]; (second day), [208]. 

Great emotional excitement, without any cause, [40]. 

Excited by every trifle, [1]. 

Excited and passionate, almost without cause, [1]. 

Excited mood (first day), [42b]. 

General excitement, followed by delirium, and afterwards by somnolence, afterwards again by delirium (third day), [171].

Passionate, at times, [1]. 

Joyfulness, [18]. 

Was obliged to laugh against her will while she was sad, [1].

Hysterical alternation of laughter and weeping.

Spasmodic laughing and weeping, [1]. 

Freedom of mind, good humor, with agreeable warmth of the whole body, especially of the hands, that are quite red from rush of blood; everything seems brighter to her (second day), [10]. 

Very good-humored, especially in the afternoon, [10].

Lively, good-humored; she sings and hums to herself, [10]. 

Tenderness (secondary action), [1]. 

Tender mood, [1]. 

Very capricious, sensitive, [6]. 

Morose and irritability

Morose, very much affected by every object, especially by people or noises, [1]. 

Morose and indolent, [1]. 

Moaning and groaning, [214]. 

Very ill-humored, [10].

Ill-humored, [1], [7]; (third day), [35]. 

Very bad humor, even under the best circumstances, [1]. 

Ill-humored and fretful, [10]. 

He woke very ill-humored every night after midnight, [1]. 

Out of humor with everything, sad, fretful, [10]. 

Irritability of mind and body; prostrated from least unpleasant impression. [1]. 

Very irritable mood; every word excites her and she becomes despondent on account of it, [1].

 Very irritable mood, [1]. 

Very irritable and fretful mood (second day), [42]. 

Very irritable and excited mood, so that she was excited by the least trifle, [40].

Mental irritability, uncommon vehemence in argument (third day), [30]. 

Irritable and peevish, [1]. 

Very peevish before dinner at the merest trifle, followed by a sensation of heat and then pressure in the stomach; afterwards nausea, with much heat in the face, and complete loss of appetite, [1]. 

Very peevish, and unable to forget the cause of vexation, [1].

Very peevish, in the forenoon, [1].

More peevish than ever, [1].

Obstinate, [6]. 

Anxiety

Anxious oppression, [1].

Dull and oppressed, ill-natured, [51]. 

Increasing anxiety and restlessness (after three days), [143]. 

Great anxiety, [117]. 

Internal anxiety, [58]. 

Anxiety; oppressed, as if I had heard unpleasant news, [51]. 

Anxiety and restlessness, with much sweat on the forehead and heat of the head, [1].

Great anxiety and irritability when alone, [1]. 

Great anxiety and restlessness, immediately, in bed, in the evening, [1]. 

She woke every morning with anxiety, [1]. 

Attack of anxiety, as if below the left breast, that was so painful that her whole body trembled, at times with bitter eructations and palpitation, [1].

She is made anxious by a disagreeable event, mingled with fear and vexation, and is inclined to weep, [1]. 

Anxiety all night, without heat, as if he had murdered some one, with constant tossing about, [1]. 

Much anxiety, in the evening (after eight days), [1]. 

Anxiety, as if he would die, at times, in the evening (first day), [1]. 

Anxiety, as from impending misfortune, [1]. 

Anxiety and heat, [15]. 

Anxiety, [25], [103]. 

Anxiety and internal restlessness, without grounds therefor, [1]. 

Anxiously solicitous concerning the unfortunate termination of her illness, [1]. 

Extremely discontented, [1]. 

Discontented and irresolute, [1].

Sadness and Depression

Mental depression and a most uncommon fearfulness or timidity with great sense of fatigue.

Sadness and anxiety, regularly recurring at twilight; from nervous exhaustion.

Weary of life; full of gloomy forebodings.

Gloomy, taciturn, sad and reflective.

Dejection; thought he would die.

Melancholy, sheds tears; or with attacks of involuntary laughter. 

Inconsolable grief, with weeping, and crying, in the morning (after five days),

Cried loudly in bursts (sixth day), [207]. 

Moody, melancholy, and violent weeping, towards morning, on waking from a dream, that caused depression of spirits; he could not stop weeping or get quiet, but continued to moan for more than a quarter of an hour, [8]. 

Melancholy, [1]. 

Sadness and melancholy, as if some misfortune had happened (after fourteen days), [10].

Sadness in the twilight, for several evenings in succession, at the same hour, [1]. 

Everything looks dark, he is weary of life, gloomy and says nothing.

Filled with gloomy forebodings (sixth day), [217]. 

Great sadness, [103]. 

Weary of life, [1]. 

Sad and ill-humored, though not weeping, [1].

Sad mood and very susceptible to emotional disturbances, especially to apprehension, through the whole proving, [8]. 

Sad, apprehensive, despondent, [10].

Sad, silent, reflective, [10].

Sad and despondent for a long time, [10].

Sad, depressed, [6].

Mental depression, and a most uncommon fearfulness or timidity, with a great sense of fatigue (fourth day), [30]. 

Great depression, [79], [158]. 

Great dejection (after five days), [1]. 

Depressed mood, despondent, [1]. 

Very much depressed in spirits, with disinclination to work, without cause (seventeenth day), [31]. 

Despondency (fourth day), [131]. 

With himself

Grandeur

(…) monomania du grandeur et de la richesse (…)

My wants were numerous and varied, [43]. 

Felt exceedingly petulant all day; nothing went right; felt as dissatisfied with myself as with others; seemed as if everybody said or did something to provoke me, [90]. 

Delirious fantasies, while slumbering and waking, was a noble lady, etc. [1].

Excited imagination; zoomagnetic condition; ecstasy; clairvoyance.

Mind is overactive; great flow of thoughts difficult to arrange.

Any lively impression is followed by heat, as if immersed in hot water.

Anxious: filled with gloomy forebodings; as if about to die; about termination of her illness; and restless; at twilight; when alone; about the future; during a thunderstorm; with palpitation; as if below her left breast, so painful that her whole body trembled, at times with bitter eructation and palpitation; and restless with much sweat on forehead and heat of head; oppression. 

Hypochondriac

Hypochondriac, [1]. 

Dejected; a most marked case of hypochondriasis.

Hypochondriasis; sadness alternating with mirth and laughter; uneasy about one's health; paroxysms of anguish, when alone or in stormy weather, with timorous disposition; told those about him repeatedly that he could not possibly recover, and gave some disjointed directions about his business affairs.

Told those about him repeatedly that he could not possibly recover, and gave some disjointed directions about his business affairs, [217]. 

Imagines he has hydrothorax, [51]. 

Fear of apoplexy. 

Discouraged about his health, [1].

Anxiety, gloomy forebodings. 

Fear that something will happen. 

Anxious at twilight. 

Anxious when alone. 

Apprehensiveness. 

Apprehensive during thunderstorms, which brings on many complaints; palpitation, diarrhea and trembling. 

Trembling of the whole body.

Fear

Fear and dread: in evening; of death; as if something were creeping out of every corner; late in evening as if a horrible face were looking out of every corner.

Felt nervous, as if I were going to die, [52]. 

Fear and dread, in the evening, [1]. 

An indescribable feeling of fright, [52]. 

Very easily frightened, [1]. 

Frightened feeling, as if I was about to be run over by a locomotive, [52]. 

Attacks of indigestion from fear. 

Fear in the evening, fear of death. 

Fear of strange old faces looking at him from the corner. 

Delirium (fourth day); dozed off frequently, but only to lapse, into a semi-delirious state (sixth day); a peculiar phase developed itself in his delirium; wherever he turned his eyes he saw faces; they swarmed by him in long panoramic succession; they leered at him over the footboard of the bed; they squinted at him through the windows, or came trooping in when the doors were left ajar; he would watch these apparitions for hours, complaining that they would not let him sleep (eighth day); the haunting faces of the previous hallucination had disappeared, and he fancied he was some one else, or that he was in several pieces and could not get the fragments properly adjusted (tenth and eleventh days), [217]. 

Reveries, with preoccupation of mind (fifth day), [140].

Full of strange, insane imaginations. 

On the border land of insanity.

As the darkness of night began to enclose the earth, my peace was disturbed by the most frightful visions and thoughts; constant fear of death, with an almost uncontrollable desire to commit suicide (after twenty-four hours), [43]. 

When thinking of anything disagreeable, he falls into a kind of apprehension, the sensation of which is mostly in the pit of the stomach, [1].

Apprehensive, as if she were grieving about something, frequently recurring,

Involuntary starting on some one's opening the door; noise very troublesome to me (after second dose, second day), [30].

My mind was greatly oppressed with melancholy; tears would start without cause; a feeling of dread, as if awaiting something terrible, yet unable to resist or move, overcame me; sometimes it seemed as if I was beginning to bloat, and then I could hear a multitude of voices saying in high glee, "Fill him up a little more and he will burst," followed by demoniacal laughter, which made the cold chills run over me. I imagined myself an aurora borealis, and could distinctly hear voices shouting, "Beautiful! Oh, was not that splendid?" as the pains became more severe and lasting; soon, however, the agony became so great that it threw off in a measure the stupor that clouded my senses (after five hours), [43]. 

An aurora (plural: aurorae or auroras; from the Latin word aurora, "sunrise") is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earth's magnetic field into the atmosphere. Aurora is classified as diffuse or discrete aurora. Most aurorae occur in a band known as the auroral zone,[1][2] which is typically 3° to 6° in latitudinal extent and at all local times or longitudes. The auroral zone is typically 10° to 20° from the magnetic pole defined by the axis of the Earth's magnetic dipole. During a geomagnetic storm, the auroral zone will expand to lower latitudes.

In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis (or the northern lights), named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, by Pierre Gassendi in 1621.[5] Auroras seen near the magnetic pole may be high overhead, but from farther away, they illuminate the northern horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction. Discrete aurorae often display magnetic field lines or curtain-like structures, and can change within seconds or glow unchanging for hours, most often in fluorescent green. The aurora borealis most often occurs near the equinoctes. The northern lights have had a number of names throughout history. The Cree call this phenomenon the "Dance of the Spirits". In Europe, in the Middle Ages, the auroras were commonly believed a sign from God. [6]

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Excitability even to ecstasy and clairvoyance.

Fantasies

Very vivid fancies, caused by reading a foolish story, so that I was obliged to make earnest exertion to do my work, [42f]. 

Such vivid fantasies usually in the evening, that the presence of disagreeable things caused shuddering, [1]. 

With the others

The fitful slumbers were filled with dreams of fighting; or of violent physical exertion; accompanied by a running comment of incoherent talk (eighth day), [217]. 

Indifference

Apathy: indifferent even to his own children; answers no questions, or replies wrongly; took no notice of things about him, but his responses were always correct; answers slowly, moves sluggishly. 

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. 

Indifferent to her child, of whom she was usually fond, [1]. 

Recognized no one (after seven days), [56]. 

Frequently failed to recognize those about (tenth and eleventh days), [217].

Disappointed love

Suddenly fell to ground unconscious, life apparently extinct; pulse and respiration lost; face red and like rest of body cool to touch; irresponsive to loud calls; friction brought about no reaction and only when a needle was plunged deeply into sole of foot there occurred a slight twitching; after grief from disappointed love. θ Apoplexy.

Crazy deliria in a young woman who was strictly moral and unhappy in her love; accused herself of the most obscene actions, of which she never was guilty; simultaneous hysterical laughing and crying spells.

Anthropophobia, [1]. 

Horrible fearfulness, late in the evening, as if a horrible face were looking out from every corner, [1].

Dream of robbers, [1]. 

Anxious phantasm; on falling asleep; as if a bad man grasped him by the throat and tried to choke him (after four days), [1]. 

Nightmare; so that he cried out; from a dream of imminent danger, [32e]. 

Dreams of dead people; of fights; etc., [10]. 

Sleep full of dreams; interrupted; exhausting, [1]. 

Dream of a hæmorrhage, 

Vexed by others.

Very much affected, even by a slight vexation, [1]. 

Vexation causes violent anger and rage, [1]. 

Great vexation from the slightest cause, with cold hands, hot face, and palpitation, [1].

Vexed, so that he was beside himself at every trifle, [1]. 

She is very easily vexed, [1]. 

Very easily provoked to anger, [1]. 

Vexatious dream, [1]. 

Does not like to be alone. 

Did not like to be alone, [50].

Ill-humor during the last days of the proving; she became exceedingly sensitive to the crying of a child, which affected her very unpleasantly, which had never before been the case, [39b]. 

With the Environment

The world was frightful to him, only weeping could relieve him; soon afterwards complete dullness and indifference, [1]. 

(…) as if she were on a distant island; (…)

Great indifference to everything, [1]. 

Feeling of indifference, with prostration and heaviness of the head, in the evening (first day), [42b]. 

Indifferent mood (first day), [42f]; (fifth day), [42a]. 

Indifferent, [34]. 

He took no notice of things which were passing about him, but his responses were always correct (third day), [99]. 

Distressing dreams of vermin, [10].

Dreams of fire; anxious; of biting animals.

Dreams of fire; with crying out and beating about her, [1]. 

Anxious dream; as if an insect were stinging behind the ear, [1].

Anxious dreams of biting animals; she cried out and woke in great anxiety, [1]. 

A fearful dream of being bitten by a ferocious black horse; so vivid as to make a very painful impression on the mind (fourth day), [30].

Dream that she was pinched on the back and breast; and tickled on the soles, [1]. 

Historical dreams; every night, [1]. 

MALE SEXUALITY

Frequent lascivious dreams; with emissions, [34d]. 

Lascivious dreams and emissions, [31c], [30]. 

Frequent lascivious dreams; with erections, [34]. 

Ludicrous dreams, [1].

Satyriasis; lascivious, strips himself, sexual mania; extreme irresistible desire for coition; frequent erections and emissions; strong desire with feeble erections; all erectile power gone. 

Extreme irresistible desire for coition, [20], [21]. 

Strong desire for coition, with feeble erections, [50]. 

Excessive sexual desire, [1]. 

At first he was tormented by great desire for sexual intercourse; this, however, disappeared at a later period, and for the last six months all erectile power had left him, [61]. 

Almost unrestrainable desire for coition on the following days, [53]. 

Sexual desire increased, [52].

Much internal sexual irritability, in the forenoon, [1]. 

Well-marked venereal desires (first evening), [115]. 

Violent delirium, at first alternating with intervals of consciousness, afterwards interrupted; this delirium, which preceded death, was erotic, with indications of great excitement of the sexual system, followed by stertorous respiration and death, [111]. 

Shameless

Weeping, sad, hysterical; will uncover the body and expose his person. 

Amativeness; erotic melancholia.

Violent erections, in the morning (after six days), [1]. 

Frequent erections, at night (after four days), [1].

Painful erections twice during the night, without dreams, [51]. 

Frequent and painful erections, which awoke me several times, [51]. 

In one case (age fifty, dose one-twentieth of a grain, tri-daily), morning erections became more frequent, [229]. 

Erections, in the morning, after waking, [3]. 

Erections day and night, [1]. 

Erection, without desire, in the evening, [10]. 

In an old man an occasional vigorous erection the first seven days, then none at all for twenty-two days, but from the twenty-ninth to the forty-third again, all the more vigorous, [1]. 

Erections: frequent and painful; day and night; ineffectual during coition; absent with inward sexual desire.

Seminal emissions: at night; with or without lascivious dreams; caused by exuberance of strength and nervous excitement, followed by impotence; nearly every night with great prostration and burning, aching distress in lumbar region; paralysis; soon after coition; too rapid during coition; patient is anxious or irritable, emaciated, easily alarmed, with difficult breathing and sticking pains in chest, has lost his memory, has occipital and frontal headaches, painless, watery diarrhœa, blotches on his face and no appetite.

Sexual debility from inordinate use of table salt. 

Impotence: after excessive excitement and onanism; from or preceded by overexcitement of sexual organs, as in young men who, trying to restrain their natural passion, have this local erethism by reason of celibacy or sexual excesses. 

Frequent discharge, day and night, of thin, slimy, colorless fluid from urethra, without and erection; paralytic or spasmodic symptoms in extremities. 

Sexual abuse producing dorsal consumption, trembling, imbecility, mania, epileptic fits and indigestion.

Hydrocele: after gonorrhœal orchitis, with sexual weakness; after seminal losses.

Profuse emissions two or three nights in succession every week, [36]. [This was very remarkable, since formerly emissions were very infrequent and slight.]

Seminal emissions nearly every other night, [50]. 

Two emissions in one night, [48]. 

Nocturnal emissions, with dreams, [34a].

Emission in the night (third and sixth days), [32]. 

Unusual emissions, with confused dreams, two nights in succession (ninth and tenth days), [31]. 

Emissions, without dreams, [31a].

Emission during restless sleep, about midnight, after which the sleep was better, [32e]. 

Emission soon after coition, [1]. 

Emissions, without excitement of fancy (after eight days), [1].

Emissions, at night, without lascivious dreams (after eight and ten days), [3]. 

Emissions, at night, with erections and pleasant sensation, [3]. 

Kent: 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. 

Sexual debility from the inordinate use of table salt.

Impotence after excessive excitement and secret vice, preceded by over-excitement of the sexual organs.

Ineffectual erections during coition, which was seldom; he had never suffered from this before this proving, [37e]. 

No erections (after seventeen days), [1]. 

(There was no sexual excitement, except in dreams, during the proving, but a slight exaltation of that function has been noticeable ever since (after three months); in that respect I am quite sure that the Phosphorus had exerted a curative power), [30]. 

Sexual desire disappears during the first days, [1].

Diminished sexual desire, with too sudden ejaculations of semen during coition, lasting for about four months after the proving, and gradually disappearing, [31]. 

The proving of the drug had a depressing influence upon the sexual organs for several months, [42b].

Sexual desire, that has been very active for ten days previous to the proving, becomes suddenly diminished (first day), [42c]. 

Diminished sexual desire, and a sensation as though erections would be incomplete (fifth day), [42a]. 

Aversion to coition (in a man), (after twenty-five days), [1]. 

Complete impotency; no longer erections, [1]. 

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS

Shamelessness; uncovers herself and wishes to go naked, as if insane.

Destroys what comes into her hands; talks in a vehement, commanding tone; spits at nurse, lifts up her clothes and kisses hotly all who come near her; does things wrongly and talks disconnectedly; tongue whitish; sleeplessness; menses scanty, pale and watery. 

Delirium: loquacious; violent, at first alternating with intervals of consciousness, afterwards interrupted; erotic with indications of great excitement of sexual system; violent, forgot to pass water; respiration very difficult, pulse very small, skin dry, tongue brown; fancied he was in several pieces and could not get the fragments properly adjusted.

Nymphomania.

Sterility from excessive voluptuousness or with late or profuse menses. 


Unusual irritation of genitals.

Aversion to coition. 

PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. 

Nymphomania with spasms during seventh month of pregnancy; weak empty feeling in abdomen, cutting pains; narrow, dry, long and difficult stool, like a dog's stool.

Vomiting of pregnancy: nausea to faintness, < fasting, drinking at night, assuming an erect posture, cold extremities, flow of water from mouth, vertigo, vomiting of sour and bilious matters; unable to drink water, sight of it causes vomiting, must close her eyes when bathing.

Increased secretion of milk, great debility; deterioration of health from nursing; cramps in stomach.

Left breast swollen three times natural size, hard, livid and extremely sensitive to touch; scanty watery discharge from nipple beneath which a fluctuating point could be felt; very irritable; lachrymose; emaciation; fever towards evening. 

Work

Solicitous dreams of necessary business; for attention to which he frequently rose and made preparations, [1].

Dreams vivid: full of restless work and business, which he could not finish;

Many dreams upon scientific and philosophical subjects (first night);

Uninterrupted remembered dream of the business of the day; at night, [1]. 

(…) had a great deal of business, (…)

Distracted in mind, though inclined to work, [1].

Disinclined to work, and unhappy, though without confusion of the head, [1].

Disinclination for every work, [39b]. 

For one or two months there was very great indisposition to mental or physical exertion, much more marked than that which almost every one feels and knows under the name of "spring fever," [30]. 

Disinclination to study or converse, [51]. 

Disinclination to study, [50].

No inclination to work, [34d]. 

Aversion to thought or mental activity, [34d]. 

Brain fag from mental overwork and constant strain of eyes. 

Dreams

Unusually vivid and constant dreams; at night (eleventh day), [31]. 

Vivid dreams; at night (second day), [31]. 

Unusually vivid dreams remembered after waking; in the morning (quite unusual); (twenty-third day), [31].

Vivid dreams, [8]. 

Vivid; partly recollected dreams, [10]. 

Sad dreams, [1]. 

Fretful dreams, [1]. 

Hideous dreams, [52]. 

Immediately on falling asleep; he dreams of things that make him anxious; and he wakes, [1]. 

Heavy anxious dreams; towards morning, [1]. 

Frightful and anxious dream (first night), [1]. 

Confused dreams; at night, [1].

Anxious dreams (after forty-eight hours), [1]. 

Very anxious dreams, [1].

Intellectual

Memory generally quick

Increased activity, during the first days, [19]. [Not found. -Hughes.] 

My mind became very clear; I could remember with the utmost distinctness my past life; orations delivered during college days I could rehearse word for word, and tell the day and circumstances attending their delivery; lectures I had heard years before came before my mind (after twenty-three hours), [43]. 

Rush of ideas that were difficult for her to put in order, [1]. 

Inability to think, [52]. 

Could not study nor keep his mind on any particular subject long at a time, [50]. 

Slow flow of ideas, absence of mind, [6]. 

Forgetful and dizzy, [1].

Forgetful and stupid, so that he did something quite different from what he wished, [1]. 

Loss of intelligence (tenth day), [100]. 

Consciousness remained perfect to the last, [142]. 

Inability to sustain a mental effort. 

Great indisposition to mental or physical exertion.

No capacity for mental work, absence of thought, as if he could not grasp any thought; disinclination to study or converse; slow flow of ideas, absence of mind. Unable to collect his senses, in morning on rising; head dizzy, heavy, painful, as if he had been lying at night with bead too low. 

While reflecting: headache and dyspnœa; feeling of apprehension at pit of stomach; weak feeling in head.

Neurological & psychiatric symptoms

Seemed dumb and dazed for many days.

Stupor, delirium, grasping at flocks.

Alcoholism

Delirium tremens: increasing prostration; pulse frequent, soft, tremulous, intermittent; skin cool, clammy, moist; respiration rapid, rattling, blowing; breath cool; stupor with muttering; twitching of muscles; jerking; singultus; trembling of tongue; difficult deglutition; rattling sound when swallowing; great nervous irritability; salacity. 

Chronic alcoholism: great mental and physical exhaustion; trembling of limbs when trying to use them; jerking of single muscles; arms powerless; legs paralyzed; vertigo with loss of consciousness; indifference even towards dearest friends; forgetful and stupid, he does something else than he intended; idiocy; inclined to diarrhœa, stools and flatulency; dry scaly skin.

Delirium of low forms of fever, or delirium of mania a potu.

Maniacal attacks, coming on during sleep; fury and extreme violence, so that no one dare approach him; destroys everything in the room; eyes remain closed; after two or three hours lies down and sleeps a few minutes, recollects nothing on waking. 


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. 

Dementia paralytica; brain weak, exhausted; silliness; idiocy.

Mental symptoms come on after excitement at theatre and she becomes sleepless; then full of fear, especially at piano; constantly on lookout for something to happen; hears voices; hot head and face; sexual dreams and violent sexual excitement. 

Violent, loquacious; delirium. 

About 6 P.M., violent delirium supervened; the patient became restless, wished to get out of bed, and at last had to be tied (fourth night); towards morning, delirium gave place to coma, and he died after a short agony, at 7 A.M. (fifth day), [99]. 

Sudden delirium, followed by a comatose state, interrupted by occasional screams (ninth night); delirium (tenth day), [100]. 

Delirium, with fear of death, carphologia, and shrill cries, with at times stiff bending of the body backward, [96]. 

Violent delirium (with intense icteric color of the skin), (fifth day); this lasted till after the seventh day; the patient forgot to pass water, respiration was very difficult, the pulse very small, skin, dry tongue brown, [201]. 

Violent delirium (fourth day), [202]. 

Mania (after five days), [194]. 

Delirium, in which the patient got out of bed and was found lying on the floor, screaming frightfully and tossing about, [125]. 

Delirium, with constant attempts to escape; it was necessary to confine the patient to the bed; this was followed after some hours by complete unconsciousness, with sunken face, [138].

Delirium, with loud screaming, followed by death (fourth day), [154]. 

Delirium, with fearful cries, striking and biting about him, so that four or five persons were required to restrain him, [148]. 

Delirium, followed by coma and death, [126], [139]. 

Delirium; the patient tried to get out of the room and out of the house (second and third nights), [171]. 

Slight delirium just before death (eighth day), [196]. 

In some cases, evidence of delirium and coma, [137]. 

Delirium, with restlessness, on the last day, [223]. 

Died delirious, with symptoms of paralysis, [166]. 

Delirium at times (third day), [109].

Delirium (ninth day), [57], [155]; (after ten to twelve days), [175]; (ninth day), [177], [181]. 

Slight loquacious delirium (fifth day), [221].

Loquacious delirium (fifth day), [136]. 

Exhilaration of the spirits, [174]. 

Foolish, disconnected talking, followed by quiet delirium, with lucid intervals, [58]. 

Attempts to jump out of bed, symptoms of excitement alternating with sopor (tenth day), [177]. 

The patient became very much confused in mind, sang, cried aloud, passed urine and fæces involuntarily (fifth day), [193]. 

Succession of piercing screams and strong clinching of the hands (fourth day), [119]. 

Constant frightful screaming and biting and tearing the pillow with the teeth, [125]. 

Apathy

Patient, apathetic, delirious at times (fourth day), [169]. 

The patient was apathetic and sluggish (third and fourth days); on the fifth day became agitated, continuing through the sixth day, when he became delirious, screamed without answering, always complained of pains, but did not designate the locality, [134]. 

Great apathy, so that the patient was almost unwilling to talk, [96].

Patient lies apathetic, screams out now and then, so loud that it aroused all in the house; at other times she is unconscious, gives no answer when called, though there are free intervals during which she recognizes those about her (ninth day); on the next day consciousness fails entirely; on the eleventh day she regains consciousness, which she does not again lose, [215]. 

Apathetic; he answers very slowly, moves very sluggishly, [134]. 

Patient apathetic; at times tossing about the bed and moaning (sixth day), [199]. 

The mind that had been clear to the tenth day became confused, the patient became apathetic, followed by death, [191]. 

Apathy (fourth day), [193]; (after five days), [214], [219]. 

Stupor

Seems stupid, at night, on waking, [1]. 

Patient stupid, tossing about the bed, frequently rising up, and calling out the names of people, [195]. 

Stupid (fourth day), [163]. 

The patient is very stupid; at times screams out without apparent cause (sixth day), [169]. 

Stupefaction (third day), [114]; (fourth day), [119]. 

Stupefaction, followed by death, [158]. 

Lay most of the time in a stupor, from which he could be roused, however, for an instant, only to lapse back into low muttering lethargy (tenth and eleventh days), [217].

Loss of senses, as if he could not grasp any thought, with headache, [1]. 

Unable to collect his senses, in the morning on rising; the head is dizzy, heavy, and painful, as if he had been lying at night with the head too low, [1]. 

Seems dumb and dazed for many days, [1]. 

Unconscious

Consciousness impaired (fourth night), [88]. 

Seemingly unconscious, and perfectly quiet, except when, at intervals of from two to three minutes, tetanic spasms with opisthotonos occurred (after one hour), [182]. 

Senses impaired, [117], [181]. 

The period of twelve days was to the patient almost a complete blank; he remembered scarcely anything which occurred during that time, [217].

Unconscious (sixth day), [207], [216]. 

Loss of consciousness, and quiet, alternating with restlessness (eleventh day), [177]. 

Sudden loss of consciousness, with screaming, attempts to escape, biting and sobbing by paroxysms, after which she lay quiet for some time (fifth day)

Unconsciousness, with convulsions and black vomiting (followed by death), [107]. 

Sudden loss of consciousness, restlessness and tossing about the bed, groaning and crying aloud, pulse 140, followed by collapse and death, after five days, [170]. 

Entirely unconscious, with throwing of the hands and feet about the bed (fourth day), [163]. 

She soon became unconscious, and so remained for over twenty-four hours; during this condition she frequently changed her position, often drew her legs up against the abdomen; there was a low temperature, 31.2° in the axilla, 31.8° in the anus. The patient was completely apathetic, pupils insensible to light, pulse small, thready, 80, respiration 30, inspiration short, expiration long and stertorous; the heart gradually became weak, and the patient died, [204]. 

Loss of consciousness, coldness; followed by convulsions and death (fourth day), [114]. 

Sopor, with great restlessness, followed by coma and death, [214]. 

After the cessation of the sickness, the child lay in a drowsy, stupid, and comatose condition, trill within a few hours of its death, when it was seized with convulsions, and died in one of the paroxysms, [60].

She continued getting more drowsy, and died comatose (third day), [139]. 

The patient became partly comatose, although the intellect was not impaired, shortly before death, [220]. 

Coma, followed by death, [148]. 

Prostration, followed by coma and death, [135]. 

Comatose state, cries, trismus, death (eleventh day), [100]. 

Coma (fifth day), [99]; (ninth, tenth, and eleventh days), [100]; (fourth day), [163], [181]

Apoplexy, grasps at head; mouth drawn to left. 


Vertigo: several times a day; staggers while walking so that people might think her intoxicated; in forenoon while walking everything turned around with her; as if chair were rising ; as if all the blood rushed to head ; with roaring in ears, on rising ; in morning constantly increasing, like a heavy pressing downward of forepart of head ; with headache ; as soon as he makes any effort to rise ; on rising from a seat ; on looking up or down ; on moving head as if he would fall; in morning, after rising from bed; nervous, from abuse of narcotics, coffee; with fainting ; < after meals and in morning ; in evening in bed; with congestion of blood to head, nausea and oppressive headache; on rising in morning with weakness in legs, so that for a few moments after getting out of bed they cannot stand ; must lie down a few minutes before they can go about ; < towards evening and in open air ; pain in right side of head after attack, cannot lie on left side because of palpitation ; from overexertion of eyes, with muscæ volitantes; from smell of flowers, gas, ethereal oils, turpentine, with fainting; from loss of vital fluids; followed by nausea and an oppressive pain in centre of brain; with stupefaction and a sensation as if he would fall forward ; as if chair on which he was sitting were rising and as if he were looking down ; with sensation of emptiness in head.

Great heaviness, confusion and dullness in head. 

Great weakness of head so that she could not endure sound of piano.

Sense of exhaustion and bewilderment in brain, with vertigo and disposition to fall down.

NERVES

Over sensitiveness of all senses; oversensitive to external impressions, light, odors, noises, touch, etc.

Great languor and disinclination to move; heaviness in whole body; great weariness; prostration; exhausted after a walk; remarkably weak and depressed, without slightest desire to attend to ordinary business; weakness so great that patient could hardly speak; general nervous exhaustion; inexpressible heaviness of whole body, so that every motion was difficult and unpleasant: desired to keep bed and dreaded motion. 

Feeling of weakness in back as if crushed, followed by weakness of extremities and trembling after least exertion; both lower limbs so feeble that he was only able to stagger for a moment or two with a trembling step ; when attempting to stand knees shook and gave way; hands and arms trembled when he attempted to use them.

After urinating in morning is so weak he has to lie down.

Exhaustion: especially in chest; of mind and body, in morning; sudden attacks; from loss of vital fluids; with increased susceptibility to external impressions; with irritable weakness.

Paralyzed and sick feeling in whole body. 

General relaxation of muscular power; when going upstairs muscles of lower extremities seem to refuse to act, so that she was in danger of falling.

Motions involuntary and uncertain, as one attacked with palsy. 

Trembling: especially of hands while writing; all over body or in single limbs; with nervous debility.

Nervous debility: from simple weakness to complete paralysis; often in pneumonia, typhus, exanthematic diseases, croup, bronchitis, vitality reaches its lowest ebb, cerebrospinal system is depressed, surface is cold, pulse like a thread, rattling breathing, trembling of whole frame; frequent fainting spells, caused by intemperance; constitution undermined by grief, care or excessive mental exertion; excesses in venery, or onanism. 

Frequent fainting: pale, cold; sudden syncope, lying as if lifeless. 

Numbness of whole body, accompanied by a pricking sensation. 

Gradual loss of strength; coition causes prostration for several days; paretic condition of left side of body, particularly of limbs, face and tongue less affected, although speech is impaired; movements of limbs unsteady; sensibility not entirely impaired; pain in affected limbs at times severe, with frequent involuntary motions of same, they are also stiff, so that flexion is difficult; frequent attacks of vertigo; confusion of head; mental dullness, recollection tardy and incomplete; answers to questions are slow, short and unsatisfactory; appetite impaired, stool delayed and difficult; sleep restless, disturbed; feels < after sleep, and formerly when he could leave bed arose very late; although he has control of his motions they are very unsteady; hand trembles when reaching for an object, and when grasping or lifting anything there is no strength ; complete mental and physical weakness and prostration; veil before eyes; face pale, becomes red on slightest motion; easily overheated but quickly becomes cool again, feels chilly and desires to stretch limbs.

All feeling annihilated in upper extremities as far as elbows and in the lower up to glutei, this taking place, progressively, first in tips of fingers and toes, then in hands and soles of feet, and so on; complete anesthesia of nerves of sensation; capacity for movement lost; could grasp large objects with fingers, but could not hold them fast; could sit on bed or chair, but on attempting to stand knees bent under him and he had to be held upright; walking or stepping out with feet quite impossible, in sitting could move them a little, but could not keep them stretched out ; muscles of all extremities flaccid, losing all firmness and tone and atrophied ; temperature of limbs same as that of body ; stool seldom, never without aid of injections ; urine acid, passing frequently, sphincter of bladder having lost its energy ; must satisfy desire to urinate promptly of urine would pass involuntarily, especially at night; brain unaffected; mind clear; no head symptoms; no pain along whole length of spine, even from strong pressure.