It seems an act of impertinence to prove a drug which has already been proven by Hahnemann. As a matter of fact, however, every reproving should be of value, as it is a process of precisioning and delimiting. On one side is the Law of Similars. This is like charity. It never faileth. By a reproving we are attempting to get out the symptomatic indications in the same category. Here are my findings in the 30th potency.
EMOTIVE AND SENTIENT.
1. Felt a good bit stronger. 2. The prover becomes very discouraged, “blue” and tearful. 3. Tired. 4. Tired. 5. Tired on ascending steps. 6. Nervous biting of the lips (?). 7. Nervousness which is worse at night. 8. Asthenia worse in the morning. 9. Prover notes the clear thinking. 10. At first it caused general weakness. On pushing remedy becomes stronger. 11. Tired in the evening and she looks tired. 12. Tired all day. 13. More perception is noticed on playing bridge at night. 14. When she sits still she imagines that her feet are moving. 15. So sleepy could not get awake in the morning. 16. Very weak on walking; out of breath on walking. 17. Asthenia. 18. Asthenia worse in the morning. 19. On walking up and down the steps, weak spells. She felt smothery and all gone.
20. Very exhausted in the evening after a trip to the city. 21. Very drowsy all day, not relieved by a nap. 22. Awakened feeling very weak, the pulse is 80 and it is very weak. 23. The prover felt dizzy on walking. It lasted ten minutes. It was about 5 p.m. 24. The prover wanted to cry. 25. Weakness at 9 p.m. 26. Awoke at 6:30 a.m., was giddy and real tired. Amelioration from coffee drinking. 26. Tired. 27. The weakness after breakfast improved. 28. Tired on walking. 29. Tired during the evening. 30. Dizzy when she lay down at night. 31. Felt rather weak with a slight dizziness. Felt as if trembly. 32. The proving developed a bit of temper.
Ordinarily she can control it. 33. Felt very tired constantly for two days. Felt heavy all over and weak with it. Was worse late in the afternoon. Rest did not seem to help the weakness. There was a sense of chilliness all over when she was weak. 34. So tired could not go to sleep at night. Tired in the morning and felt like sleeping then. Pulse at this time 84, and temperature 97.1. 35. A prover begins to feel stronger and the heart is less rapid. 36. Shaky all over when she first arose. 37. The head is not quite clear. 38. Dizzy on arising in the morning. 39. Prover feels as a whole a lot stronger.
It produces a subnormal temperature, however, with a normal pulse. 40. At 6:30 p.m. felt like fainting. 41. Very very tired after doing some work. After 3 p.m. felt better, which condition continued. 42. Weak all over. 43. Proving ran the pulse to 85 and dropped the temperature to 97.6. 44. Weak all over. 45. A very nervous trembling all over. 46. Dizziness in the middle of the day. 47. Very tired. 48. At 8 a.m. she arose and was dizzy. It lasted ten minutes. It was better by lying down. 49. Less tired. 50. Vertigo in the evening. 52. Feels stronger. 53. Stronger. 54. Felt nervous from a thrilling movie which kept her awake. 55. The dampness seems to make her worse.
HEAD.
1. A vertical headache is produced. Constant all day. 2. A nervous biting of the lips (?). 3. Frontal headache. 4. A steady frontal headache all day long. 5. Dull frontal headache in the morning. 6. Lips feel sore on the corner. 7. The lips are cracked and feverish. 8. Sharp headache through eyes (and in back?) and in the forehead. 9. The lips are cracked and feverish. 10. Small fever blister on upper lip (?). 11. The headache is dull, constant, and generalized. The next day, the same headache, more severe in the late afternoon. 12. The headache is relieved in the back of the neck by massage; grating sound pronounced in back of neck and than relief. The frontal headache continued. 13. A jerking and trembling of the neck continues.
14. Awoke with a headache, which was short-lived. It was dull and frontal. 15. Two fever blisters on lip. 16. Fullness in head. 17. More pallor for two or three days. 18. Slight flushing of face and a little warmth of the face. 19. Flushing in the face lasted one half a day. A feeling of weight on top of the head with it. Two days later, flushed face after the evening meal. It lasted for two or three hours. A puffing around the eyes noted with this. 20. Quite pale in the face. 21. A very bad head cold, very loose. 22. Frontal headache is dull and constant. 23. A little flushing of the face. 25. Fever blisters on her lip and at the end of the nose.
26. The skin is red and sore under the nose. 27. The head felt full. 28. The head is not quite clear. 29. Helped the feeling of big head. 30. Frontal dull headache, better from coffee. Worse after sleep in the morning (?). 31. A sudden severe and constant headache. 32. Headache but not so severe. 33. Dull headache all day. 34. Headache all day. Dull headache. 35. Headache dull and generalized. 36. Neck muscle very painful, with sharp stabbing pain at the base of the skull. 37. Headache and neck pain severe.
38. The face on the right side is sore to the touch. It is an aching. 39. Headache dull and generalized continues. It is like a cutting knife in the back on the least movement. Each day it becomes worse in the evening. 40. Dull continued pain up the back of the head, right side of face, across the forehead, and through the eyes. 41. A sleepy headache but did not rest well until Friday night. 42. A big fever blister develops on the right corner of the mouth.
EARS.
A prover sat in a draft. It started up sinus trouble and the right ear ached, caused by an infected tooth, so she had very little sleep. 2. The left ear feels full, and it is sore to the touch, it is like a boil. 3. Some pulsation in left ear, especially when holding the head down. 4. Fullness in head and throbbing in ears. 5. The left ear feels stuffy. 6. Ringing like a bell tolling in left ear. It lasted all night. 7. A beating in the ear, worse stooping, worse in evening. 8. Earache on the right side. When pain went into ear, it was sharp. Sometimes it is only a few minutes, sometimes a good deal longer.
EYES.
1. The eyes watered freely all day. 2. Sharp headache through eyes. 3. Vision is not good. Blurring in both eyes all of the week. 4. Puffing around eyes is noted with a flushed face. 5. The vision is much clearer by the proving. 6. The eyeballs ached last night in a dull way. 7. Vision becomes unusually poor, and worse from every headache. 8. Black spots before the left eye. 9. Dull continued pain through eyes. 10. Vision is only fair. Not as clear as it should be.
NOSE.
1. Had a great deal of mucous discharge from the nose. 2. Bleeding from the left nostril at 11:30 a.m. 3. Fever blisters in the nostrils. Soreness with it. 4. A very bad head cold, very loose. 5. Rhinorrhoea like water, worse in daytime. 6. Frequent sneezing, worse during the day. 7. “Fever blister” develops at the end of the nose. 8. The nose is running just like water. 9. The skin is sore and red under the nose. 10. Stuffy in nose. Then a sneezing started at 4 p.m. 11. The nose runs like water, worse in a hot room. 12. Constant running from nose, but it is getting thicker now and yellow. 13. Constant running of nose like water. 14. Cartilage of the nose is very sore to the touch. 15. In morning, sneezed about six times.
THROAT AND MOUTH.
1. A nervous biting of the lips (?). 2. The lips feel sore on the corner. 3. The lips are cracked and feverish. 4. Mouth is dry in the morning with thirst. 5. Does not have to strain to raise mucus when he coughs. 6. The mouth dry with thirst. 7. The proving helped his voice to become stronger. 8. The throat very low down, on the left side mostly, feels very rough. 9. Felt as if a tight band were around the throat. 10. A burning sensation on the tongue with the throat condition. 11. The lips are cracked and feverish. 12. Small fever blister on upper lip (?). 13. Thirst. 14. Thirst develops with a very dry mouth. 15. Two fever blisters on lips and one under tongue. Painful on eating. 16. Dryness of mouth with thirst, worse at night. 17. Tickling in throat.
18. Sore throat on left side and throat was red. It lasted a couple of days. 19. A fever blister on her lip. 20. More thirsty than usual in evenings. 21. White expectoration and not very thick. 22. Awake at night with a dry mouth. 23. The throat is sore on the left side. It hurt to swallow. 24. Tickling in the throat. 25. The expectoration was at first white, then yellow. 26. The throat is sore on the left side and it hurt to swallow. 27. Tickling in throat. 28. Expectoration is first white, then yellow. 29. The throat burned as if on fire. 30. Tickling in the throat. 31. Spitting up heavy mucus, worse at night on lying down. 32. Dry in throat, worse lying in bed. 33. An aggravation from talking (the cough and the tickling). 34. The proving affects the womans left tonsil. 35. The mouth is uncomfortably dry today. It even feels hot. 36. White mucus is raised in throat in morning. It is thin.
CHEST AND RESPIRATORY.
1. Shooting pains all over the chest in the afternoon. 2. When she breathed, catching pain in the left chest. Cannot breathe well. 3. An aggravation from coughing. 4. Unable to lie on the left side, on account of the pain. 5. Dry tickling cough. 6. If ascending the stairs, two or three times, out of breath and pain in the midsternal area. The pain is dull and steady and better by pressure. 7. Cardiac palpitation after ascents. 8. It is difficult to take a full breath. 9. Out of breath on walking. 10. Worse on ascents as regards cardiac palpitation and breathlessness. 11. On walking up and down the steps felt smothery and all gone. 12. Through the center of the chest sore on breathing. 13. Palpitation noticed several times but not heavy.
