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Vaccininum

Keynotes and Characteristics · H. C. Allen

Open remedy: Vac.

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A Nosode from Vaccine matter

General

Mind. Crying.

Ill-humor, with restless sleep. Nervous depression, impatient, irritable; disposition to be troubled by things. Morbid fear of taking small-pox. Confusion, she does not remember things at the time she wants them. Head. Frontal headache. Forehead felt as if it would split in two in median line from root of nose to top of head. Stitches in r. temple. Severe headache all over head. Prickling in l. temple, as if going to sleep. Eyes. Tinea tarsi and conjunctivitis in a woman, aet, 28, remaining as result of variola in infancy, conjunctiva painfully sensitive. Weak eyes; falling out in forehead as if it were split. Keratitis after vaccination. pain in forehead and eyes as if split. Gauze sensation before eyes in morning, cannot see well. Nose. Full feeling of head, with running of nose. Bleeding at nose preceded by feeling of contraction above and between eyebrows, soon after eating meat; menses rather profuse and too frequent; cured by revaccination. Neck. Swelling of neck under right ear [Parotid gland] with sensation like being cut. Face. Redness and distension of face, chill running down back, till afternoon. Mouth. Dry mouth and tongue. Appetite. Appetite gone, disgust to taste, smell, and appearance of food. Coffee tastes sour. Good appetite. Stomach. Aching in pit of stomach, with short breath. Abdomen. A stitch in hepatic region, at margin of last lower rib, axillary line. Stitch in splenic region. Blown up with flatulence. Urinary Organs. Nephritis with albuminuria, hematuria, and dropsy, developed eleven days after vaccination; child recovered. Respiratory Organs. Whooping-cough. Chest. Stitches in r. side under short ribs in front from r. to l. then at corresponding place in l. side, but from l. to r., lasting five minutes, felt in liver and spleen. Heart. Aching at heart. Back. Backache. Aching pain in back, (<) in lumbar region extending around waist. Twisting pain in lower back. Weakness in small of back coming on suddenly (>) by lying down. Upper Limbs. Rheumatic pains in wrists and hands. Lower Limbs. Soreness of lower extremities, as if heated or over-heated. Twisting pain in both knees. Skin. A general eruption similar to cow-pox. Small pimples develop at point of vaccination with fourth dilution. Red pimples or blotches in various parts, most evident when warm. Eruption of pustules with a dark-red base and roundish or oblong elevation, filled with pus of a greenish-yellow color, at l. side of trunk, between shoulders, on l. shoulder, behind r. ear, resembling varioloid, some as large as a pea, some less without depression in the centre, coming with a round, hard feel in the skin [like a shot], very itchy. Vaccininum 200th quickly (<) severer symptoms of variola occurring in a child, aet. six months; two days before appearance of eruption had been re-vaccinated [after an interval of eight days] on a navus near r. nipple; deglutition difficult through implication of tongue and fauces; pustules, many of large size, scattered over scalp, face, body, and limbs. Eruption of small, r. vesicles on left upper arm and chest dying off after a few days. Pustule filled with matter, with a depression in centre and red halo on l. shoulder. Pustules suddenly much depressed. Eruptions all over body of small pustules, some with a central depression, some brown. Generalities. Restlessness. General malaise. Languor, lassitude. Tired all over, with stretching, gaping feeling; unnatural fatigue. Child wants to be carried. Many persons faint when being vaccinated. Weakness.

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