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- Cushing studied the affect of lobster poison, noting the specific affect eating lobster has shown on specific occasions.
- Noting that perso ns have been known to die after eating lobster and then drinking milk, Cushing put a little of the poison into warm milk.
- In ten minutes it was a hard mass.
- Cushing found that milk aggravated his symptoms during the provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces..
- “Worse from milk.” Other prominent symptoms from his proving included a severe sore throat, dry, inflamed throat with large, granulated blood vessels.
- Throat burns with tough mucus.
- Headaches, chiefly frontal and temporal pain, with soreness in eyes.
- Pain in stomach and abdomen, better after eating.
- Deranged digestion.
- Belching.
- Disturbed sleep, waking at night with flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind..
- Chilliness.
- Itching of the skin.
- Sharp and sudden pains, all day and after retiring.
- Back pains.
- Strange, dull feeling all over, not dizzy.
- Sick feeling, unable t o move, but better moving.
- Nervous feeling, restlessness, but dread of moving.
- Sexual excitement