temple and forehead, where also continuous violent tearing was felt, recurred almost every day; I have no relish for food; I feel languid and disinclined for all work; the motions are, on the whole, looser, and occur several times daily; the spirits have been very low for some weeks; I feel very unhappy and have no disposition to talk.

30th. Until the 16th I suffered daily from toothache periodically occurring, which, however, after returning from a three days' excursion into the Harz hills on the 17th, did not recur; my countenance has again a fresh appearance, and my spirits are cheerful; my appetite also has returned,

14.-ON PRIVATE SECRETARY R.

Name: Frederick Augustus R-, private secretary, æt. 54, very thin, five feet eight inches high, strong bones, muscles moderate. Diseases undergone: besides the ordinary children's diseases, scarlatina and measles, a typhus in 1816, rheumatism of head in 1845, caused by getting the feet wet in snow water, which ended with an eczematous humid swelling, first of the right then of the left dorsum of the hand. In September, 1861, I had a low rheumatic fever, with pneumonia; skin white; complexion pale; hair blond, thin, soft; eyes blue; appetite very good, sometimes almost morbid, continuing after a meal; fond of vegetables and animal diet (poultry, beef, game), less so of veal; fond of sugar; dislike to puddings; I have given up beer and cigars, as they are very injurious to my throat, causing dryness and a choking sensation. Character: very easily excited to anger, soon repented of; after a fit of vexation, loss of appetite; easily affected by the sufferings or sadness of others, or by reading sad stories; of a yielding sympathetic disposition, cheerful; love of music (not noisy music) and song and cheerful society; make up mind rapidly; courageous. Other peculiarities: rheumatic sufferings before and during wet weather; damp, cold, and draughts of air cause suffering; dry wind in the open air agrees; dry cold or heat are not disagreeable; easily tired with standing,

or with mental or bodily efforts, the later readily producing perspiration; being in a newly scrubbed room, and the smell of newly washed linen, very disagreeable, headache and vertigo caused thereby.

January 20th, 1862.-At 10 p.m., ten drops of the 1st dilution taken in place of the mother tincture by mistake; slept from 11 till 8 without dreaming.

21st.-At 11 a.m., ten drops of mother tincture. At 10 p.m., fifteen drops. At 8 a.m., a tensive feeling on right side of head from right temple to middle of forehead; at noon, yawning; stretching; drowsiness, as after a sleepless night; disinclination for work; laziness all day; ill humour; dizzy heaviness and tension on upper part of head, especially in vertex, which pains as if raw when touched, unaltered by rest, motion, warmth or cold, only aggravated by thinking; on combing the hair pains in the roots of the hair, as if ulcerated; a gurgling or quivering movement in the front of the neck above the larynx, without pain, lasting some seconds and returning in a few minutes, all day long; bowels, as usual, regular.

22nd. At 10 a.m., twenty drops. At 5 p.m., twentyfive drops. At 9 p.m., twenty-five drops. Undisturbed sleep; dreams of funerals and corpses; on rising from bed vertigo, with inclination to fall forwards (for a minute); all the symptoms of yesterday unchanged. At 10 p.m., the tensive heavy feeling in the top of the head extended into the occipital protuberance, and the head feels as if surrounded by a band; in throat and windpipe a choking feeling, increased by breathing, as from taking beer in former days, or strong cigars; an eruption on the dorsum of the left hand, which was there sixteen years ago, and only showed itself every year by a slight desquamation of cuticle, comes back in increased intensity; the back of the hand is somewhat swelled; red reticulated patches appear which gnaw and itch without exuding, and then scale off; constipation. 23rd. five drops. At 7 p.m., thirty drops. undisturbed; wide awake from 4 till

At 10 a.m., thirty drops.

At 5 p.m., twentySlept from 11 till 4 5, then sound sleep

without dreams till 9 a.m.; no vertigo on rising, but the symptoms of yesterday continue unchanged; a fixed pain as if raw in the left lung, which was inflamed four months ago, the pain increased by deep breathing; motion hard, knotty, and passing with difficulty, with sore pain in

anus.

24th.-At 11 a.m., forty drops. At 3 p.m., forty drops. Again sound sleep in the night; dreams of cemeteries and funerals; drowsy laziness, yawning, stretching, cross, illhumoured; still like a band round the head; pain of hairs' roots; tenderness of vertex; choking in throat and windpipe; quivering in the neck near the larynx; the pain in left lung less; constipation.

25th. At 8 a.m., thirty-five drops. At night pretty sound sleep without dreams. The other symptoms continue; at 5.30 p.m. there occur, in addition, intoxicated vertigo with nausea till 9 p.m., and warm perspiration on the face, neck, and chest, with internal and external heat, regular pulse and no thirst, for half an hour; vertigo and nausea unaltered by walking, sitting, lying, in the open air or in the room. At 6 p.m. a stool, very hard, knotty, difficult, with cutting pain in anus and rectum; after stool rumbling in bowels, with sensation of deranged stomach, lasting an hour and a half; the pain in left lung again felt, increased by coughing and sneezing; at 9 p.m. a kind of prickling in the feet as after a long walk; at the same time internal and external rigor, with great weight in occiput and drawing in nape from above downwards; at 10.30 p.m. in bed, which had been warmed, increased rigor and chattering of teeth for about half an hour; then sound sleep with few unremembered dreams; pulse regular.

26th. At 9 a.m. Giddy weight in upper part of head, like a band round the head; tenderness of vertex and of hair; rheumatic drawing pain in nape, worse when turning head to right or left; choking sensation in throat and larynx; quivering in neck; increased pain in left lung; anorexia; nausea with pasty taste; prickling in feet continues; rigor or heat not noticcable; at noon slight rheumatic pains in left hip and left knee for five hours, and in

right elbow-joint until 10 p.m.; constipation; at night very quiet sleep without dreams.

27th. The giddy weight in head diminished, but the feeling of a band round the head is still there; moreover, the sensations in throat and lung are less; rheumatism in nape scarcely observable. Gone are rheumatism in hip, arm, and elbows; nausea and bad taste; the quivering in neck only occurs every three or four hours; stool, at first, rather hard, then passed more easily and without pain; great thirst for cold water, which when slaked, always returned; from 11 p.m. till 3.30 a.m., no sleep (this, however, was attributable to a cup of coffee drank late).

28th. The symptoms of yesterday are milder; the vertex, when touched, feels as if a wound was healing below it; the head still feels bound round, but with a looser band; hardly any pain in the lung; the choking in throat less, but still there; the quivering in neck occurred only a few times during the day for an instant; the eruption on the left hand gone; bowels regular without effort, not hard; sleep quiet, dreamless.

29th. In the morning still some oppression of head, and in place of the choking feeling, rough and scrapy feeling in throat; no other symptoms observed; great thirst for cold water; mind freer, more cheerful, increased inclination for work.

Addenda.-1. During the proving, the mind and spirits were more passive, depressed. 2. The desire for cold water went off, and a wish for warm drinks came on. 3. The pulse even in the febrile states was always normal. 4. No perceptible effect in urine and genitals.

Before commencing the next proving, I observed myself attentively for more than a week, but noticed nothing peculiar that could be confounded with the symptoms caused by this medicine; moreover, I have not reperused my former proving of this medicine, in order to protect myself against the influence of the imagination, and I believe I have recorded all that happened to mind and body truly and faithfully. Although several symptoms, especially the affections of the mind and spirits, were ex

tremely disagreeable and troublesome, and though my body to this day feels the effect, still I made the proving with pleasure and enthusiasm.

June 16th. At 2 p.m. slight confusion of upper part of head; at 5 pressing sensation in top of head; the scalp is tender and hot to the touch, also heat in upper part of head; after taking some mild beer increased heat of head; painful sensation in eyeballs on looking up; no stool; profound sleep without dreams.

17th.-Diminished aching in head; sore feeling of upper part of scalp, and heat is to be felt; the aching extended into occipital protuberance; a shooting pain and heat in index and middle fingers, which had been sprained by a fall eight weeks before; the pain in eyeballs less felt to-day; at noon, choking sensation in larynx and surrounding parts (as formerly after taking beer and cigars); tongue white, furred; slight nausea without loss of appetite. At 6 p.m. drowsiness; dimness of eyes; after rubbing them a little, burning feeling in them, in the lids and the surrounding parts.

18th. At 8 a.m. the pressing sensation in vertex and occiput moderate; scalp tender and hot; drowsiness; dimness of eyes; burning in them and the lids; slight pain in eyeballs on moving them; the choking and pressing in larynx more felt; the shooting and heat in fingers continue; tongue furred, white; slight transient nausea; diminished appetite. At 6 p.m. still giddy weight in forehead; very sound sleep from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. uninterrupted, dreamless.

19th. At 8 a.m. the whole head heavy; aching in forehead and temples extending to nape; on moving eyes pain in eyeballs and feeling of sand in eyes; drowsiness; itching of borders of eyelids; scalp painful and hot to the feel; on combing the hair, the roots of the hair are painful; on moving the head the neck is stiff on both sides, and painful on taking a deep breath; feeling in left lung as if a wound was there; frequent yawning and thereupon pains in sternum just over the scorbiculus cordis ; shooting in index and middle fingers as yesterday; saliva viscid and slimy;