Formica rufa

 Common name (Fr)., Fourmi fauve des bois.

 Formica rufa, Linn.
 Class, Hymenoptera.
 Preparation: Tincture of live ants.

 Emotional. Mind unusually excited (after thirty minutes). An exhilarated condition, almost like that produced by champagne, began after the pain in the vertex had somewhat abated, and continued until after 9 p.m; at the same time, a cold feeling inwardly when inhaling (as from mint). All day very happy and inclined to be jolly (second day). During the day remarkably happy and able to study; everything of mind and body, but easily depressed, and by slight causes this happy state was changed for a short time to despondency; sudden, but momentary spells of unhappiness; everything looks dark (mentally), (third day).
 Easily depressed; things do not look as cheerful as on yesterday and before; little things cause lowness of spirits, yet soon return to cheerfulness (forty-sixth day). Sudden and unexpected returns of sense of mortification and grief, with vivid recollection of circumstances long since passed, which had caused great mortification and pain, and which had rendered several years of his life unhappy; this was caused by the transaction of a near relative; this grief continues, and manifests itself whenever he is not occiput (after several weeks). Irritable feeling, with disposition to become angry easily and at slight things (first day). Morose and disinclined to work, fearful and apprehensive, all the evening. Intellectual. Remarkable and unexpected activity of the mind during the day, with absence of the usual dulness and sleepiness (second day). Unable to study long at night (first day). She begged earnestly to be removed, and then became unconscious, and with rattling in the throat died in three-quarters of an hour.

 General Head. Great congestion of head and chest. A stupid feeling in the head, with a sensation of stiffness in the neck at the same time. Dulness of the head, and pressure on both sides between the temples of ears. Heaviness of the head, and a sensation as if the brain were too large and heavy (first day).
 Fullness and dulness of the head (part of S.92). Headache daily, from 12 M. till 10 , worse when stooping. Headache all day long, better after combing. Headache in the posterior upper and inner part of the head, increased by drinking coffee, and each time during and after washing with cold water, in the morning (after a dose), (second day). Headache, with nausea. Headache, with vomiting of yellowish, bitter mucus, and stitches in left side of chest, in the morning when waking (fifteenth day). After a day of unusual exertion in the garden, had a severe sick headache, with nervous shudderings and vomiting; is subject to these sick headache after overfatigue, but this was more severe than usual, and accompanied by shooting neuralgic pains in the temples, which she never had before; in the afternoon (fifth day). Headache, with occasional fluttering of the heart, in the afternoon (sixth day). Dull headache in evening (ninth day).
 Dull pain in the head (commencing at the base of the cranium and extending upwards), most in the temporal regions. Dull pain in the whole head, with occasional boring pain in the right temporal region, with vertigo; pain also in the left. On getting up has the small dull, thick headache at the posterior upper and inner part of head (fourth morning). A little headache in the afternoon (fourth day). Forehead. Pain in forehead, with nausea, at 11 p.m (second day). Dull pain in forehead during the afternoon (fifth day). Dull, heavy pain in the forehead (three hours and a half after third dose, first day). Dull, uncomfortable pain in the forehead, with heat, fullness, and pulsation (third day). Dull headache in forehead in morning (seventh day). Headache, dull, in the right frontal region (first day). A dull headache in the front of the head, with occasionally a shooting pain from the right temple into the head, in the afternoon (second day). Frontal headache, dull, lasting from 12 M. to 10 (second day); headache as bad as yesterday; at 12 m. some pain, and still lasting (third day). сonsiderably more pain in the forehead, also more pricking, with slight itching (third day). Sensation like a bubble bursting in the forehead, running around the left side of the head, at noon (first day). Temples. Lancinating pain in the right temporal region (from within out). Vertex. Headache on the top of the head and forehead, particularly through the temples (first day).
 Surging in upper part of the brain, momentary, and followed by slight dimness of vision, at 10 (second day). Headache after dinner on the left side, same as first day (third day).
 Drawing headache in left side, after 12 o’clock, relieved after supper (fifth and sixth days). Tearing pain in occiput at 10 (third day). External Head. The hair on his head ceases falling out when combing (third and fourth days). вefore a snowstorm, pain in the aponeurosis and muscles of the head, neck, shoulders, and back. Heat in the scalp (feverish).
 Eye.
 Pain in the eyes mornings when awaking, which become better by washing. A cool burning in the eyes, as though snowflakes were falling on the conjunctive and cornea. Feeling of fullness in eyes and ears, with fine stinging in ears (second day).
 Irritation in the eyes, as from sand. вrow and Orbit.
 Inclination to pain about one inch above the left eye, alternating with pain in the left parotid region, accompanied with pain in the whole temporal region, when touching it with the hand (second day). Pain over both eyes, every day from 12, aching; earlier every day; the same also in the morning. Slight pressure over left eye for a few minutes (after fifteen minutes).
 A violent stitch-like tightening over the left eye, posteriorly and inwardly, as if a stick were pressing around something (after a few seconds); this is repeated for several minutes with greater violence, with a burning sensation; it is followed by a painful dulness of the head, except the upper back part. Pain in the left supraorbital region, with giddiness, when going to bed at 11 (second day). Pain (boring) in the right orbit, followed by pain in the left ear. Dull, pressing pain deep in the orbits.
 Lids. Spasmodic twitching of upper lid of right eye, lasting an hour (third day). Itching and soreness in the outer canthus of the right eye, with dimness of sight; sensation as of sand in the eyes, much lachrymation and soreness of the lids. сonjunctiva.
 An intolerable itching in the conjunctiva in the morning, which burns when rubbed (first day). вall. Shooting pain in left eyeball (second night). Vision. Appearance when looking at objects as if seen through a mist (second day).
 Ear.
 All the part around the ear swollen and uncomfortable. Pain in left ear (part of S.63). Pain in the left ear (after one hour); subsequently also in the right, but not so severe. Slight pain in left ear (third day). Slight pain in the deaf ear, extending up into the temple, with external sensitiveness. Slight earache for a few hours, almost immediately (after fourth powder).
 Pressive pain in both ears (with heat). Stitches in left ear, in afternoon (eleventh day). Slight stitches in left ear (nineteenth day). Long, deep stitches in left ear, lasting two hours, afternoon (second fifth, and thirteenth days). Shooting pain in left ear, at 10 (third day). A sharp shooting pain in the left ear. Ten or twelve sharp twinges of pain in the right ear (perhaps attributable to a thin muslin nightcap), in the morning before rising (fourth day). Deep seated itching in left ear, at times amounting almost to pain (fifth and sixth days).
 Nose Objective.
 Sneezing and fluent coryza, followed by a severe pain in the vertex, like a stitch from a dull instrument, a little to the left of the middle, near 9 ; the coryza lasted but fifteen minutes, the pain longer. A cold in the head coming on (sixth day). She was suddenly attacked with a cold in the head, without any other symptom of having previously taken cold; this passed away in about half an hour, in the evening (after fourth powder). Several days after ceasing to take the remedy she got a catarrh (cold in her head), very common to her, only on the right side of the nose, and affecting the right eye; it lasted two days, then suddenly disappeared without going to the left side, which had always been the case in former attacks. сoryza fluent, thin, acrid, causing a burning in the nose. Subjective. Nose sore to the touch, feels as if stopped up. Smell. Smelling Irish whisky, which contains a little creosote, he gets a decided aversion to it.
 Face.
 The entire left side of the face and cheek feels as if paralyzed, as if everything were loosely hanging down. Very red cheeks, in the evening, which burn so much as to feel uncomfortable (first day).
 Lower lip dry and cracked (fourth day). Soreness at corners of the mouth (sixth day). Great stiffness of the articulation of the jaws, cannot open her mouth (tenth day).

 Confusion and Vertigo. Dull, confused sensation in the head, which continued for twenty minutes (fifteen minutes after first dose); same sensation, but more distinct (after second dose); still more distinct and of longer duration (after third dose), (first day). Dizziness in the morning, after dressing, when writing (second day). Inclined to be giddy while eating (second day). Giddy, on attempting to rise, at 4 p.m (third day). The head symptoms more marked than formerly; slight vertigo; confusion of ideas; difficulty of thinking (after fourth dose).

 Teeth. Dull pain in a carious tooth, with inflammation of the gums and swelled cheek (pain being of a dull, pressive character). Tearing, drawing, grumbling in the two incisor teeth, superior maxillary bone on right side; this pain was accompanied by much soreness; teeth felt elongated; about 5 (third day); recurrence of this pain at regular periods of the day for about five days, when it gradually disappeared. Tongue.
 Root of the tongue sore. General Mouth. Sensation of stinging in palate, worse from eating, smoking or contact, at 12 M. (second day); this stinging continued for two days, and then extended to the tip of the tongue. Taste. Watery, to him very offensive, taste in mouth. After using with his meal some fresh and sweat fat he has a long after-taste, which finally turns into a decided rancid taste (sixth day).
 Throat.
 Dry huskiness and sore feeling in the throat. Very sore throat and earache in both ears, on getting up in the morning, several times. Fauces and Pharynx. A cold feeling in the fauces and throat, as from mint-drops (after thirty minutes). Slight pain in right side of pharynx in empty deglutition, at noon (fourth day). Esophagus. Sensation of contraction in oesophagus, at 12 M. (third day). Swallowing. Difficult deglutition, at 12 M (third day). Food passes with difficulty and causes pain, this sensation continued for about twelve hours (third day).

 Abdomen.
 Hypochondria. Stitching pain in the right hypochondriac region.
 Pain beneath the short ribs when taking a deep inspiration. Dull pain beneath the short ribs. Stitching pain in the region of the liver. Dull pain in the region of the spleen. Umbilical. Pain as if bruised in the umbilical region, extending across the abdomen, after taking a drink of cold water. General Abdomen.
 Rumbling in the bowels, with a nervous feeling as from strong coffee, at 4 ; compelled to get up; a loose diarrhoeic stool followed, which left a desire for another stool, with an uncomfortable feeling in the anus, as if the passage were not all through and more must pass (third day). Small, very fetid flatus, almost putrid (had eaten for dinner only barley soup and beef). Difficult passage of small quantities of flatus, during the morning hours, afterwards diarrhoea like urging in rectum.
 Wind passes from the anus with more force than usual (third and fourth days). Sensation, with much yawning, as if diarrhoea would set in, followed by a regular stool, the last part of which was thinner, having a very peculiar smell, known to the prover, but he could not define it. Dysenteric feeling (third day). On waking felt much pain in transverse and descending colon from incarcerated flatulence; was obliged to rise; stool papescent, followed by constriction of the anus; another stool at 9 p.m, with violent tenesmus, and constriction of the anus after the stool (fourth day). Hypogastrium. Pain through the pelvis, as if from one acetabulum to the other (sixth day). сolicky pain in the lower part of the abdomen, with passage of flatus, which relieved but momentarily; subsequent passage of soft stool, with heat and burning irritation of the anus, accompanied by a sensation of great weakness in the bowels.
 Rectum and Anus.
 On the third day she had for the first time in her life protruding painful piles; they appeared without constipation, lasted a week and then disappeared. Pressure in the rectum (second, third, and fourth days). Pressure in the rectum, worse in the evening and in bed. All the evening a sensation as though diarrhoea would set in; this sensation is, however, only in the anus. Sensation of constriction in the anus (second, third and fourth days). Itching in anus, relieved by scratching, at 10 (second day). Intolerable itching about the anus, relieved by scratching, in the afternoon (third day). Painful desire in the anus and rectum for stool, which, however, will not pass (third day).
 Stool.
 Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea early in the morning, as soon as awake; compelled go to stool at once, with rumbling in the bowels; the stool is soft and painless; another stool immediately after breakfast, with urging (fourth day). Diarrhoea, with some tenesmus; pain in lower umbilical and upper hypogastric regions before moving the bowels; relieved after stool (second day).
 Before taking the medicine was troubled with constipation, with sensation of constriction of sphincter ani; relieved of these symptoms entirely, afterwards the diarrhoea set in. Slight diarrhoea, two passages, small, and without pain, in the; morning (fourth day). Two stools every day from the second to sixth days (one stool is the rule). Loose stool at 8 p.m (second day).
 Soft pappy discharge from the bowels in the morning (second day).
 Soft pappy stool in the morning, with some inclination to sit at stool (forty-sixth day); the same kind of stool every morning, for four succeeding days, when it was natural; the passage was accompanied by a feeling as though the mucous membrane was thickened and stiff. сonstipation. Stool constipated; passed but two small balls after much straining, at 11 p.m (second day). Evacuation of bowels with difficulty, ending in thin faeces, painless (second day). She had been very costive all her life; on the sixth day her bowels began to move regularly; have been getting a little worse since, but not so bad as before.

 Appetite. After 9 o’clock hunger (something quite unusual at this time), then pain below the knees and in the shines (twenty minutes after 9). Thirst. Violent thirst. Eructation. Acid eructations, rising of fluid from the stomach, which tastes like sour food, causing the mouth and throat to smart (second day).
 Belching of wind tasting sour. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea (part of S. 26) Nausea, in morning, followed by stitches in the left ear, lasting all day (eighth day). Nausea, and vomiting of yellowish, bitter mucus (sixth and tenth days). Nausea and vomiting, with oppression (after the sweat). Slight nausea, each time after taking the fluid. Vomiting of green, bitter mucus, with headache, at 9 p.m (sixteenth day). Pain in epigastric region, extending from left to right, then shifting to top of head, and followed by creeping down the back, at 10 (third day). Severe pain in the stomach, in the evening, cramp like, with passage of flatus from the bowels, which gave relief.
 Sensation of heat in the epigastrium, extending over a large space. вurning pain in stomach, with oppression and weight (first day). A constant pressure at the cardiac end of the stomach, as if something had lodged there, at 6 , four hours after dinner (first day).

 Sensation of pain in the forepart of the urethra (third day).
 Double the quantity of urine, even at night (third day); increased for two or three days. Urine like saffron; bright yellow; no sediment; passes urine often (fourth day); frequent urination, urine darker (fifth and sixth days).
 Sexual Organs.
 Male. In the forenoon erections while riding in his carriage (fifth day). In the morning after getting up to urinate, he lies down again, and has long-lasting erections (fourth morning). In the morning strong erections, with increased sexual desire (sixth day). During coition, insufficient erection. Hot red swelling of the prepuce (fifth and sixth days). Secretion under the prepuce, much increased (fifth and sixth day); continuing for one week. On ascending the staircase leading to his chamber, he feels that the sexual parts have gone to sleep. A kind of nervous fluctuating (schuebend) and jerking pain in the left half of the penis in the region of the prostate, very often repeated (fifth and sixth days). Female. Menses appeared eight days too soon, rather scanty and pale, with bearing-down pain in the back (third day); same discharge darker (fourth day); the menses continue, with a crampy pain through the hip-joint and pelvis (fifth day); the discharge becomes scanty and pale again; the pain in the back is diminishing (sixth day); all the symptoms have ceased (eighth day). She had always been regular before. Great sexual excitability (fifth day).

 Hysterical attack of coughing, followed by shedding of tears, in the night (tenth day). сough from irritation in the larynx, with loose expectoration during the day).
 Chest.
 Pain in the chest when taking a full inspiration. Sudden pain in the left lung, followed by a sensation as if I were falling (first day). Pain in right side of chest, could not breathe for a moment; stitching pain, at 4.30 (third day). Pain in left side of chest, in the afternoon, continuing one hour and a quarter; better when walking; worse when sitting and taking a deep breath, which causes stitches and the sensation of an adhesion (twelfth day). Pain in the lower part of left breast, followed in two minutes by the same sensation in right breast, accompanied by continued chilliness down the back, and extending down the inferior extremities, at 8 (third day).

 Uneasy pain in the region of the heart, lasting an hour or more (after two hours and a half). Slight palpitation of the heart, which lasted about five minutes, in the afternoon (first day); perhaps a slightly increased action of the heart (second day).
 Pulse 92, irregular (first day).

 Sensation of stiffness in the neck (part of S. 19). Pain in the neck, more on the left side when riding in the carriage, as if it would break in two. Pains in the neck in the evening, which become insupportable in looking upwards. Pressing pains in the left side of the neck, sometimes a kind of itching or burning there, soon. вack. The pains in the back and hips have increased, they are of a sharp shooting character, shooting down the thighs; also shooting pains in shoulders and down the arms to the hands and fingers, a sensation of pricking over the skin in the region of the pain; the pain is more on the left than right side (one hour after fourth dose, first day). Small jerks along the left side of the spine, in the region of the ninth rib, due to spasm of a small portion of muscles. Dorsal. Acute pain in the inferior part of the scapula, at 12 M. (seventh day).
 Shooting pain in region of, from 11.30 to 12 (second day). Lumbar. Stitches in left lumbar region, lasting only a few seconds (after fifty minutes). Sacral. Severe pains in the crest and dorsum of the ilium, extending across the sacrum with a sensation as though there was powerful traction at the attachment of the muscles, at 12 M. (seventh day). At 5 very severe attack of pain across the sacrum and dorsum of each ilium; every movement caused very severe pain; could only rise with great difficulty from the chair, or walk, or move my body in any way; the sensation was as if the muscles were strained, and on the point of being torn from their attachment; much pain for awhile after going to bed (twelfth day).
 Extremities in General.
 Pain in arm and leg of right side; pains mostly in the joints; deep seated pains as though they were in the bones; the pains shifted about and did not remain long in one spot (third day).
 Aching of the bones, with a feverish state of the system, with fullness and fullness of the head.
 Tearing and drawing in left arm and leg from above downwards, at 10 (third day).
 Superior Extremities.
 When riding in his carriage a sensation in both arms and hands, as if they had gone to sleep, more in the hands. On awaking his left hand and arm have gone to sleep (fourth morning). Darting, sticking pains in the arm, neck, and chest of right side (second day). Shooting pains in the arm, neck, and chest of right side (second day). Shooting pains in the arms, extending to the elbows, at 12 M. (seventh day). Shoulder. сontinued soreness, very painful in the anterior part of the left armpit (third day).

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