BY SAMUEL SWAN, MD
NEW YORK
1. B. Fincke, MD, 1st proving with the crude, marked "1A." 2nd proving
on a woman, who took one drop of 15M, fourteen days after menses.
2. . Reichenbach in Der Sensitive Mentsch; the action of sunlight on sensitives;
transcribed by Dr. Fincke.
3. S. Swan, MD.
4. Mrs. L. (took one dose of 1M).
5. Miss Julia M. (took one dose of 1M).
6. S. B. Higgins, MD.
7. "Highwood" in American Observer, ix., 210, quoted by Dr. Fincke.
Sol, Luna, and the Spectrum Rays are made by placing Sac. Lac on a glass exposed to the concentrated ray, and stirred with a glass rod till saturated. The potencies used were Fincke's.
Excitement and anxiousness in all her nerves, at first with trembling at the heart, finally it remained in stomach pit; all that night and next day very sensitive and easily frightened; it was as if all the nerves were trembling inside of them; the anxiousness in stomach-pit passes off the second evening. 1 (1).
Anxiousness if somebody comes towards her, being frightened thereat. 1 (2).
Violent headache from vertex down to forehead, pressing, with sensation of heat in face; this headache was repeated the second day, three times; it seems to be in connection with the excitement and anxiousness at stomachpit. 1 (lst night).
All the sensitives are very sensitive to the immediate action of the sunshine upon the vertex. 2.
Extreme painfulness if the sunshine strike the bare head. 2.
Most violent stitches in the brain. 2.
Disagreeable feelings, such as from retrograde passes, go into the brain, cause stitches and headache, and if she not gain the shade, stomach-ache and nausea follow. 2
Violent headache. 2.
Left-sided headache. 2.
Headache from sunshine on the bare head, diminished laying a glass of water on stomach-pit. 2.
In morning, severe pain in crown, and then in neck, passing off after breakfast. 4 (2).
Heavy pressive pain in vertex. 3.
Intense entire cephalalgia. 6.
Pain in forehead; it seems as if the forehead would crush itself down upon the eyes. 6.
Sensation of undulating or floating in head after mental excitement, such as attending to business or writing letter. 8.
Instantaneous shock to the brain, followed by prostration a scalding sensation on top of head (remedied by orange-cloth in stove-pipe hat). 7.
Excessive perspiration of head and neck. 6.
Sunlight diminished the sensitivity of the eyes; od.-blindness. 2
Suffusion of veins of sclerotica. 6.
Sensation of swelling, as if the eyes would force themselves out of their sockets. 6.
The light offends the eyes. 6.
Sharp shooting pain from 1. ear to nose, continued at intervals for some time. 6. Partial deafness. 6.
Sneezing, with a little sore throat, as if she had taken cold. 4 (4).
Jws are rigidly set as in trismus. 6.
Grinding of teeth as in helminthic spasms. 6.
Tastes like something she cannot tell. 1 (1).
She puts anything she is going to eat in the sunshine, because then it is more palatable to her. 2.
Two glasses of water of equal temperature, the one put in the shade, the other in the sunshine for quarter of an hour, the latter tastes agreeably cool to sensitives, and stale and disagreeable to non-sensitives, whilst the other tastes quite the reverse. 2.
Stupid; cannot articulate a word. 6.
Articulates with difficulty. 6.
Slight inclination to, or actual vomiting. 6.
Heat in pit of stomach. 1 A.
Empty feeling of stomach, as if she had not eaten anything substantial yesterday and to-day. 1(3).
Sensation of faintness and vacuity in stomach-pit. 6.
In the abdomen, distension and hardness, as large as a child's head, as if it were the womb, and running throughout from it to the mammae as if the milk would rush in as when a child nurses; this lasted the first whole night till the morning; before the distension and hardness came on, a sensation as after childbirth or at conception (with great excitement). 1 (1).
A glass of water exposed to the sun for six to eight minutes propagates coolness, not only in the stomach, but round about in the viscera. 2.
Constipation. 4 (3).
Had to urinate five times in the night. 1 (1).
Urine and stool invariably suspended. 6.
Menses six to seven days too soon. 1 (25).
Weakness about heart. 4 (8).
Pain in back. 4 (3).
Backache. 4 (5).
Drawing together of the l. fingers. 1 A.
The back of the hand exposed to the sunshine feels warm while, at the same time, a coolness appears in the palm and runs up the whole arm into the temple. 2.
Cool refreshed hands from holding a stick partially exposed to the sun. 2.
Hands and feet cold. 6.
An agreeable coolness extends over whole body, though the surface of the body perceives the physical heat of the sun's rays; simultaneously a kind of coldness interiorly pervades the whole body, so that the sun makes warm and cold at the same time, but the feeling of cold supersedes that of warmth to such a degree that the latter is overlooked. 2.
Running chills of increasing sensation of cold in a limbs from holding wires partially exposed to the sun. 2
Felt cold in night; drew up more cover and perspired. 4 (5)
Congestive chill from exposure to sun after drinking cold water freely. 6.
Perspiration streaming out of stomach-pit over the whole body. 1 A.
She could not sleep the first night, except from 8 to 4 a.m.; otherwise no idea of sleep the whole night long. 1 (1).
Heead very much excited; could not sleep for hours. 4 (5).
Great sleepiness all through the head, and not merely in the eyes; heavy sound sleep all through night. 5.
Dermatitis, which often, with cold extremities, degenerates into megrim. 2.
Amelioration of the bad effects of the sun by every cloudy veil drawing over the sun. 2.
If beds and wearing apparel have lain too long in the sunshine, the agreeable feeling after using them turns suddenly into the most disagreeable, so that she cannot bear it, and falls into headache and spasm. 2.
After riding about on horseback in his woods in the sunshine all the forenoon, and lying down about noon on his bed to rest, he gets suddenly peculiar attacks drawing through all his limbs; after rising and making a few steps up and down, they disappear; this repeats itself several times. 2.
Spasm coming with sunrise and ceasing with sunset. 2.
Some spasms appearing at sunset. 2.
Faintness. 1(1).
Prostration. 4 (4).
General stiffening up of the system; the bodily strength seems more equalized. 8.
The r. side, arm, and foot, which had been weak as from partial paralysis,
became equally strong as the left. 8.