The Baby

[Repertory of Characteristics and Observable Symptoms – Part 1]¹

By W. A. Yingling, MD, Emporia, Kansas

Affectionate, extremely, manifested by kissing, Puls.
Anger of mother or wet nurse, injury from, Acon., Opi.
Angry and has spells of rage, Acon.
Apathetic condition, lies in and, now and then sighing, and reaching with trembling hands to its head, Hell.
Awakens, cries of discomfort with, or soon after, Acon.
Awakens, fear with, in brain disease, Zinc.
Awakens, frightened, looks around bewildered, then drops to sleep again; after short time repeats the same, Lyc.
Awakens, frightened and in confusion, Aescul. hip.
Awakens, kicks off the covering and behaves in an angry manner, Kali-c, Lyc.
Awakens night, and remains unusually bright and playful, and evinces no desire to sleep again, Cyprip.
Awakens, piercing cries and trembling all over, with, Ign.
Awakens, screaming and holding on to the sides of the cradle without apparent cause; very sudden, Borax.
Awakens, screaming and imagines someone is going to hurt her, Kali-brom.
Awakens, suffocation and anguish, with; able to inhale but not to exhale, Samb.
Awakens two hours after going to bed at night in a tantrum, kicking, crying and refusing to answer a question; strikes at the attendant and even says, “no” when asked if she wants to urinate, but when put on the vessel will then go to sleep readily, Thuja.
Awakens unamiable, very, Lach., Lyc.
Awakens, weeps and tosses about, Bell.
Bite on something hard, desire to, Phyto.
Biting and grinding its teeth (in meningitis), Bell.
Breathing ceases when crying without being angry, Cupr.
Breathing difficult, suffocative attacks after being lifted from the cradle, after nursing or after crying, Calc-ph.
Carried about and held upright, seems better when, Ant-tart.
Carried, cries all the time, but ceases when carried quietly; cries when nurse stops and becomes angry, Cham.
Carried, cries piteously when, Cina.
Carried continually, wants to be, Ant-tr., Cham., China, Kali-c, Stann.
Carried, crying ceases when, Cham.
Carried, dizzy when, seizes hold of nurse, fearing to fall, Gels.
Carried, mother and no one else, wants to be by its, will scream if any other person approaches or touches it, Ant-tart.
Carried, point of nurse’s shoulder on, and will be quiet in no other position, Stann.
Carried quietly, cries unless; cries when nurse stops, and becomes angry, but can be comforted by rapid rocking, Cina.
Carried quicker and quicker, wants to be, Bell.
Carried quickly and even to be shaken, wants to be, Verat-a.
Carried quickly, and says, “run run”’ in croup, Brom.
Carried rapidly, wants to be, Ars., Brom.
Carried slowly, wants to be, Puls.
Cerebral disorders, incipient, when child is sleepless, laughs and plays at night, Cyprip.
Choking from drinking fluids; can swallow solids easily, Kali-brom.
Chews and swallows in sleep, frequently, Bry., Calc-c.
Colic, with constipation, Sil.
Colic, crying from; relief obtained by carrying it with belly on point of nurse’s shoulder or pressing firmly against it, Stann.
Colic, eat, at every attempt to,; cries when nursing, Calc-ph.
Colic, eating, immediately after, Graph.
Colic, full of wind, Senna.
Colic, Motion relieves, continuous, Gels.
Colic, night, during, the; rests all day, Jalap.
Colic, noise like animal croaking in abdomen, Thuya.
Colic, pressure, relief from, or carrying on the shoulder point, Stann.
Colic, urinating, while, Cham.
Colic, worse by uncovering an arm or leg, Rheum.
Colic 5 p. m., may be well all day, but comes on at; walls of abdomen retracted and hard, Kali-brom.
Constipation, straining to pass even a soft stool, Alum.
Constipation, painful stool, with, Verat-a.
Convulsions, laughing and playing after excessive, Coff.
Convulsions, nursing at 11 a. m., immediately after, Calend.
Convulsions, ten days, every, Lach.
Coughing spells come on when getting angry, Ant-tart.
Coughing and gaping consecutively, Ant-tart.
Coughs, cries every time it, as though it dreaded it, or even before coughing, Arn.
Cries. Compare Anger, Shrieking, Screaming.
Cries all day and all night, Psor.
Cries all day and sleeps all night, Lyc.
Cries all night and sleeps all day, Jalap.
Cries all day, especially from 4 to 8 or 9 p. m., draws up knees to abdomen; sleeps well at night; stool straining, hard, seldom. Colocyn.
Cries all night, about daylight goes to sleep and sleeps all forenoon, Calc-c., (Luesinum).
Cries, birth, much soon after, Luesinum, Medor.
Cries, cause, without any discernable; only pacified by rubbing or being taken into cool air, Sulph.
Cries, colic, as from, Aethusa.
Cries, colic, as from, and calls for water frequently, Cina.
Cries, colic, or common bellyache, Cupr.
Cries, flatus, seems full of incarcerate; turns blue all over, Senna.
Cries, frightened from seeing hideous objects, as if, Stram.
Colic, hands to back of head, putting and boring head into pillow, Bry.
Cries, hand to lead it, terribly if taken by the, Cina.
Cries, least thing, from, Caust.
Cries, moved, if, in fever, Bry.
Cries, nursing, cries and squirms for an hour after, Nux-v.
Cries, nursing, while, Calc-ph.
Cries, put it down into cradle, on attempting to, takes hold of things near, as if afraid of falling, Borax.
Cries, refused the least thing, pitifully when, Cham.
Cries, spoken to kindly, when; obstinate, Sil.
Cries suddenly and ceases suddenly, appearing as if nothing had been the matter, Bell.
Cries, whines, and seems afraid to breathe, Bell.
Delirium, calls for mamma and papa, though present and consoling, Stram.

1. The Homoeopathic Recorder. The Baby. v. 36. 1921. Boericke & Tafel. p. 114-116