The muscles of the arms and hands feel relaxed when laughing. Rigid feeling in the wrist-joints as if too short. Spasmodic contraction of the hands. Lameness of the wrist-joints and fingers when grasping any thing. Fine, granular, itching eruption on the hands. Heat in the hands.
"Lower Extremities.—The lower limbs feel numb. Laming-drawing pain in the lower limbs. Burning, tearing and drawing in the hip. Rigid and crampy-feeling in the hip-joints, thighs and knees. Uneasiness and heaviness in the lower limbs. Aneurism on the knee. The knees feel stiff and go to sleep. Herpes on the knee. Crampy feeling in the legs and soles of the feet, and, at night, in the calves. Sweaty feet. Chronic numbness of the feet. Redness and swelling of the toes, with stinging pain, as if frozen."
Now if homœopathy is true, all the foregoing symptoms and affections, with sixty more belonging to the same catalogue, which are quite too vulgar for common readers, are produced whenever a healthy individual swallows the decillionth of a grain of common charcoal, and these affections last thirty-six days. (See Jahr's and Possart's New Manual, page 565.)
