Camphora

Camphor. Lauraceoe.

All our progress as a school depends on the right view of the symptoms obtained by proving with camphor or with opium. — C. Hg.

^ Mind. Unconsciousness.

Grew dizzy while studying in school, 12.30 p.m., book seemed to go round, could hardly keep his seat ; felt as if falling toward r. side and as if going into a state of sleep or uncon- sciousness ; >■ in open air ; a boy, set. 13 ; t.

Vomiting and convulsions, with loss of consciousness and fre- quent desire to make water.

Loss of consciousness, during which he was attacked with vio- lent convulsive fits, and maniacal frenzy.

Falls down, without consciousness, with howling cries.

Stupefaction of senses, like fainting.

Half stupid and senseless, moaning and groaning.

Want of memory.

Complete loss of memory, after an attack of catalepsy, with loss of consciousness, followed by vomiting.

■ Memory lost, after mental or sensorial disturbances. Though he could remember the name of every thing, when he

looked at it, yet it was not without investigating its nature, that he could discover its use.

■ Awkwardness.

Unusually clear-headed ; also intellectual dullness.

Uneasiness of body and a confusion of mind, impossible to describe.

Ideas were confused, delirium.

Monomania, with horrible visions and torturing ideas about religion, which he cannot shake off, although he is conscious that they are morbid ; is worse at night.

A tumult of crude ideas floated through his mind, with a noise in his ears, followed by insensibility.

I He lay with closed eyes, seemingly asleep, answering no ques- tions ; when the distant town-clock struck, he lifted his arm at every stroke ; one evening he went to the piano with

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closed eyes and played with greatest precision, what at other times he could not have done without his notes ; several times he wrote letters in an acquired language more correctly than in a waking state ; once he occupied himself for several hours with the number 6 ; at times he had violent spasms and priapism. It was to him as if he moved in his own little world, in which all things were clear and defined ; ontside of which, uncer- tain and undefined ; t.

■ Thought he would die. ^Gastralgia.

Very nervous ; imagined various things ; that he would get

yellow fever, etc. ; boy, set. 13; t. Confused fancies, and delirium.

■ Delirious, somnolent, with slow fever, at night. Stupefaction, coma and delirium.

Delirium with heat in throat and thirst.

Delirium, with pain in stomach.

Most furious delirium, being with difficulty restrained in bed

by two men. I Rage, with foaming at mouth.

■ Violent rage; scratches, spits and bites; tears her clothes

and foams at mouth. ^Puerperal mania.

■ Mania, with melancholy.

Disposition to cry out frequently, he knew not what for, but would frequently find himself crying out when at work or when walking about.

Desire to be diverted from thoughts of himself; t.

Desire to dispute ; self-willed.

■ Wants to get out of bed.

Often felt as if he ought to kill people, when in street ; never felt a disposition to kill any of his own family, but thought he ought to kill somebody.

■ Impulse to jump out of window.

He talks irrationally, and proposes absurd things. Talked wildly, constantly repeating the same sentence. Gestures and conversation very wild and strange.

■ Greatly excited, talks incessantly. ^Puerperal mania. TiMind wandering ; talking, shouting, crying and laughing by

turns; t. ^Spasms. Was found much excited, screaming loudly, "I shall not faint!

I shan't faint, for if I do, I will have fits and never come out

of them! " Uttered a strange scream, a sort of howl, leaped from bed,

apparently in great agony, and bent on something desperate. • Screamed, raved and scolded in most indecent language;

4th day. ^Puerperal mania.

■ Cries for help, takes hold of others, will not be left alone.

■ Weeping or crying, does not know why.

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Sighing and muttering in sleep.

■ Tosses anxiously in bed, weeps incessantly; full irritable

pulse, violent headache. ^Hysteria,

Restless tossing about ; heart palpitates.

Children throw things in the air with crazy laughter...-

Strips himself, and tries to jump out of window.

He beats himself on chest, and falls into a faint.

Child creeps into a corner, howls and cries ; everything that is said is taken as if one were ordering him, and he were con- sidered naughty and would be punished.

I Violent outbursts of rage and vituperation ; abuses her child. ^Puerperal mania.

I Hasty in action and speech. ^Puerperal mania.

Does not speak unless questioned.

Aversion to all kinds of work.

Greatly exhilarated, lively mood.

Depressed, sad and irritable, despondent.

I Indescribable wretchedness.

Felt a vague sense of impending danger to life, > moving about, rushed out of house and walked violently until he perspired, which relieved ; t.

Dread of being alone in dark.

Afraid of mirrors in room, lest he should see himself in them ; so excessive was this fear at times in night that he would have got up and broken the mirrors, only that he was still more afraid to get up alor^e in the dark.

Indescribable dread of being drawn upwards.

I Very great anxiety.

I Prgecordial anxiety, with weeping.

TrAnxiety, restless tossing in bed. ^Cancer labii.

■ Anxiety, almost loses consciousness. /^Puerperal mania.

An indifference whether the world uses one well or ill, every- thing is repulsive.

Very irritable and fretful ; every word irritates and ex- cites him.

Fretful, anxious, at night, with frightful visions.

Palpitation ; vexed by want of sympathy, afraid to be alone a moment, fears death ; boy, set. 13 ; t.

Dogmatical, easily offended.

Voluptuous ideas.

Great excitement, almost amounting to frenzy.

Excitement, as of intoxication.

Easily startled.

Want of irritability ; general apathy.

■ Lethargy ; cannot be roused. ^Typhus.

■ ■Better when thinking of the existing complaint.

Thinks he is going to die; < when he thinks about it; boy, set. 13; t.

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I Mania after mental overexertion, in a boy, jet. 14; talks dis- connectedly, refuses to answer; wants to lie on bare floor, and wallows in his own filth. ^ Seusorium. -Severe dizziness, flushing of face, followed by ex- treme pallor ; t. ^Spasms.

Sensation as if all objects were too bright and glittering.

On looking through window everything in street appears in utmost tumult and confusion.

I Vertigo: in frequent short attacks; after nausea and retch- ing, giddy, sparks before eyes, dim sight, singing in ears, heat and tremor ; vomiturition ; Avith tendency to fall for- ward, 10 a.m., while walking; so severe that knees knock together, and he nearly falls ; on stooping ; when sitting.

■ Staggers, or totters in walking; feels drunken.

iFeels as if lighter, not touching the ground; as if he conld fly. Uncertain in his gait; in looking down it seems as if all ob- jects were commingled ; t.

■ Lightness or dizzy heaviness of head.

■ Loss of consciousness, fainting, delicate people suddenly sink

down, turn pale, shut eyes; breathing and pulse very weak; after recovering, one-sided lameness or blindness.

■ All senses vanish, even the touch; cannot distinguish cold

or hot.

■ Stupor; fainting; apoplexy.

Vertigo without nausea, uncertainty of motion, and a fainting fit, in which he remained unconscious for four or five min- utes ; t. ^ Inner Head. Head confused, stupefied, burning hot, congested, generally clear consciousness, sometimes unconscious.

■ Frontal headache ; pressing outward ; also left-sided.

■ Contraction, as if laced together, in cerebellum and glabella,

with coldness all over. Throbbing headache in forehead, over root of nose, with heat. Fine tearing in head, especially in 1. side of forehead and

occiput.

■ Throbbing-stinging in forehead, all night, with a dry, thirst-

less heat. Tearing-sticking in forehead, and pressure on upper part of

frontal bone. Pressure : in forehead, in middle, on r. side, on 1. side ; over

1. eye, in evening. Heaviness and heat in forehead, •< when walking. Slight headache in forehead, which gradually became more

violent, and accompanied by stitches, apparently starting in

temporal bones, and returning every five minutes. Dull headache above frontal bone, with nausea. Pressive headache, alternating in forehead and at sides.

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Headache, beginning in frontal region and extending to

occiput. I Boring in temples, shooting towards eyes or teeth in short

attacks, early in morning. Single violent stitches in r. half of brain. Fine tearing in r. temple and forehead. Tearing pressure in r. temple. Throbbing pressure in temples. Headache, with drawings in r. side. Pressure by jerks, in head, over 1. ear. I Throbbing of temporal arteries, and distended jugular veins.

I Aching in middle of head, from forehead backwards, lasted

through evening and next day. Cutting jerks or shocks from forehead and temples towards

middle of brain, in short intervals, soon after lying down. Heat and heaviness of head, especially vertex. Severe pressure on r. side of vertex. Dull pressure in region of vertex.

I I Throbbing, like beats with a hammer, in cerebellum, iso- chronous with pulse ; head hot, face red, limbs cool, > in standing ; mostly with such as were deprived of sexual in- tercourse.

Pressure in occiput.

Cutting pressure from 1. side of occiput towards forehead.

A contractive pain at base of brain, especially in occiput, and above root of nose, which continues without cessation, where- by head is leaned to one or other side ; a pain which is very much < by stooping low, lying down, or by external press- ure ; with coldness of hands and feet, hot forehead, and coma vigil.

Uneasy feeling at back of head.

TrSensation of cold in cerebellum.

1 1 Contraction, as if laced together in cerebellum and glabella, with coldness all over. ^Cerebro-spinal meningitis.

Heat in head, and tearing headache, soon passing oJBT and dis- appearing on pressure.

Transient headache, as if brain were compressed from all sides, only felt during half consciousness, when he was not paying attention to his body ; if he became conscious of his pain and thought of it, it immediately disappeared. ' Drawing sensation all around head, as if nerves of head were all drawn up ; drawings for some minutes, then remissions, then drawings again.

Headache, as if bruised, or as if brain were sore.

Head heavy, with anxiety, brilliant eyes, red face and great agitation.

iDizzy heaviness of head; head sank backwards.

I Rush of blood to head, with heaviness of head ; > from ex-

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ternal pressure; heat in head, as if sweat would follow, while crawlings run over limbs and belly.

Throbbing headache ; alternate pallor and flushes.

Intense headache and giddiness.

TrHeadache, with burning in stomach and praecordial anxiety. ^Cancer labii.

Headache, with burning pain in stomach, eructations, great thirst, and a sense of formication in extremities.

iPains run from head to tips of fingers, with trembling and uneasiness.

Headache, in morning, after rising, for several days in suc- cession.

Pressive headache from within outward, immediately.

■ Hydrocephalus: great coldness of skin, yet child cannot bear

to be covered.

■ Inflammation of brain after sunstroke.

* Outer Head. iCold sweat on forehead. ^Cholera infantum. Hot sweat on forehead and in palms. Scalp intensely hot.

Heat of head, hands and feet, yet thirstless. Drawing around head, as if it were drawn upwards, in short attacks, with crawls.

■ Spasmodic motions of head. Head is thrown back.

Head drawn to r. shoulder; rest of body relaxed; unconscious. Spasmodic drawing of head, laterally or backwards, with

deathly coldness Premature gray hairs.

■ Anterior fontanelle much depressed. ^Cholera infantum. ' Sight and Eyes. Sensation of increased and dazzling light.

■ Objects appear too bright or glittering, at same time black

spots are seen. Flickering before eyes. Objects quivered before his eyes.

■ Cannot read, letters run together; dim and dark.

Strange visions before his eyes ; hallucinations ; wonderful forms float before eyes.

■ Sees bright colors, sparks and fiery wheels, alternating with

mistiness. .

■ After using eye for awhile objects become indistinct, as if

seen through a fog, often they appear double ; the upper portion of large objects is not visible.

■ Objects, upon which she fixes her gaze, appear to move to

one side, with a jerk. Sees objects plainly at arm's length, things farther ofi" appear

dim and undefined ; t. Eyes sensitive to light; photophobia.

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Darkness before eyes, as if objects were encircled in a cloud;

sight obscured or dim. iDimness of vision diminishes as attacks of vertigo increase. I Sees better after breakfast, not at all in evening. I Pupils contracted and immovable or dilated. lEyes worse in sunlight. Conjunctiva injected, pupils dilated. I Chronic inflammation of eyes. Red spots on white of eye.

;rHeat, redness and burning in eye, with lachrymation. Eyes brilliant and glittering. He looks at one staring and wondering, without consciousness.

■ Disturbed wild and roving glances, disheveled hair. ^Puer-

peral mania. lEyes staring, sparkling, a little convergent; 3d day. ^Puer- peral mania. OEyes fixed, staring, turned upwards or outwards. BEy5s protrude, with monomania, despair of salvation, wants

to cry, but his eyes are dry. TrEyes turned to right, upwards and backwards, head the

same; t. ^Spasms. lEyes deeply sunken ; blue rings ; pale face. Soreness or tense, stiff feeling in eyes and eyelids all day. Sensation in eyeballs as from pressure and pushing upon them

from behind. Lachrymation in open air ; lids feel stiff, sore or tense. Twitching or biting in external canthus. Smarting, biting-itching, sticking, or burning in eyelids. Burning or biting in edges of lids.

Twitching of lids ; quivering in upper lid ; constant agitation. Eyelids are covered with many red spots. I When closing eyes in slumber, things appear to grow thicker

or thinner, as the pulse beats. Pressure above r. eye. ^Hearing and Ears. I Singing, ringing, buzzing, or roaring

in ears. Burning, stitches, or tearing in ears.

■ Stitches from a draft of air. Tearing behind and above ears.

I Pain in 1. ear from a dark red pimple, which suppurated in thirty-six hours.

■ Yellow blisters around ear, with erysipelas of face.

■ Ear-lobe hot and red. I I Congestion to ears.

^ Smell and Nose. Sudden, momentary boring in r. side of nose. Drawing in 1. side of nose.

In anterior corner of nostrils, stinging as if sore and would ulcerate.

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Itching in nose, and 1. nostril.

Air of room, breathed through nose, seems cooler, when walking.

Violent stitching, or crawling, from root of nose almost to tip.

1 1 Nose cold and pointed. ^Summer complaint. ^Cholera.

I I Sneezing, beginning coryza.

iCoryza, fluent or dry.

Nose stopped on r. side, afterwards running.

I Catarrhal affections, with headache, from sudden change of weather.

I Nosebleed. ^ Upper Face. ■ Features changed, distorted, relaxed, and ex- pressionless.

• scarlet-red and puffy; flushed, with wild expression; bluish and pinched ; pale, anxious and haggard ; distorted and sunken ; livid, cold and deathly.

Spasmodic distortion of facial muscles, with froth from mouth.

I Red and glowing face. ^Puerperal mania.

I I Redness of cheeks and lobules of ears.

I 1 Red face, with warmth of body.

I I Pale face, with crawling.

I Looks pinched and blue. ^Cholera asiatica.

■ Erysipelatous red cheeks and ear-lobes.

■ Face now pale, then livid, expressing despair; incessant

spasmodic movements, grimaces. Very pale face, with at first closed, afterwards open staring

eyes, with eyeballs turned outward. Excessive paleness of face, with a fixed and stupid look.

■ Flushed and bloated face, brilliant eyes, full rapid pulse and

hot skin ; cannot bear heat. ^Cancer labii.

I Pale face, dry skin, not hot, cool forehead ; 3d day. ^Puer-

peral mania. Black in face. iFace hippocratic. ^Scarlet fever. ^Cholera.

■ Distorted features. ^Puerperal mania.

I I Cold sweat, with vomiting. ^Cholera.

I Cold sweat stood in drops on his face, nose icy-cold and pinched, upper lip everted ; could not see. ^Gastralgia.

■ Flushes and grows pale by turns. ^Puerperal mania.

In morning, disturbed countenance, with blue rings around eyes.

Heat in face and cold hands.

Stitching in 1. cheek.

Drawing in 1. zygoma ; boring in right.

Burning in face.

Slight twitchings of face.

■ Buries face deep in pillow to shut out hideous sights. ^De-

lirium. ^ Lower Face. ■ Froth or foam at mouth.

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■ Upper lip drawn up, exposing teeth.

Lips everted as in bleating, head hot, feet cold ; t.

iBlue lips. ^Cholera infantum.

^rCancer of under lip.

I Lockjaw, with coldness (and brownish look of eruption, dur- ing partial repercussion, in scarlatina).

Drawing in angle of r. lower jaw.

Tensive pain in masticators.

Stitching in chin.

Glands near lower jaw are swollen; seem to cause a toothache. ^^ Teeth and Gums. A little froth about teeth, which were firmly clenched.

Drawing in upper incisors, and in hollow lower molars.

Transient, cutting shootings through gum to roots of incisor and canine teeth.

Transient toothache, now in one, now in another tooth.

I Cutting toothache, which seems to originate from swelling of a sub-maxillary gland.

Painful looseness of teeth ; teeth seem too long.

During coition toothache ceases, immediately after which he sleeps quietly for the first time.

When walking, drawing in decayed upper incisors.

On going into cold, or windy air with the toothache, a stitch shoots from tooth into eye.

Gums loosened, of a livid color.

■ Constant pressure, makes him mad, with great itching of

swollen gums, teeth too long. ^^ Taste and Tongue. ■ Taste: acute; beef broth tastes too strong; food tastes bitter, meat more so than bread; tobacco has an offensive, bitter taste.

■ Bad taste, with nausea and vomiting, in morning. Great difficulty of speech and thought.

■ Speech uncertain, impeded ; when roused, he had scarcely any

power to articulate.

■ Speech feeble, broken, hoarse.

Could not speak from words seeming to choke him in larynx.

■ Red tongue. ^Polydipsia.

Tongue : felt swollen and numb ; dry, or covered with aphthae.

■ Sensation of dryness on back part of tongue, like a scraping,

with much saliva. I Tongue thick, spongy, fissured, covered with much yellowish

mucus. Burning on edge of tongue and hard palate.

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iBurning sensation on end of tongue, as from pepper.

1 1 Tongue cold, flabby, trembling.

I Tongue and teeth dirty and dry. ^Typhus. ^Suppression of urine. ^^ Inner Mouth. ' i Mouth open.

Foaming at mouth.

I Saliva : running together, watery ; at times slimy and tena- cious ; children "slobber."

Mouth dry and parched, red tongue, no thirst ; t.

Mouth, tongue and gums feel swollen.

■ Whole mouth interiorly, with tongue, gums and palate, feels

as if swollen.

■ Sensation in mouth, as after eating peppermint-lozenges, and

same in stomach.

■ Dryness and after it aphthous sponginess of mucous membrane. Continued dryness of mouth, with increased thirst.

■ Unpleasant heat in mouth and stomach.

■ Coldness in mouth.

A cold sensation rises into mouth and to palate.

Sense of coolness changed to that of sharpness and burning.

■ Offensive odor from mouth, in morning, which he himself

noticed.

■ Boiling hot tea seems cold to him.

^* Throat. iHeat: on hard palate ; in throat; in oesophagus.

■ A dry scraping sensation on palate.

■ Single coarse stitches in palate.

■ Burning from palate down oesophagus; it makes him drink,

but this does not lessen it.

■ Repeated short stitches at back and toward 1. side of pharynx.

■ Sore throat when swallowing, and even more when not swal-

lowing, as if throat were sore and torn up, with a sensation as if she had eaten rancid substances. Scraping in throat.

■ A hot vapor seems to rise up throat and out of mouth. ^Scar-

let fever. Slight warmth in oesophagus and stomach, extending over whole body.

■ A cooling sensation rising up the throat to roof of mouth.

■ Rattling in throat. ■ Scarlet fever.

■ Swallowing is impossible. ^Typhus.

^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. ■Neither appetite

nor thirst.

■ Aversion to accustomed tobacco-smoking without its tasting

badly; he soon becomes averse to it, even to vomiting.

■ Desire to drink without feeling thirsty.

■ Continued thirst, with frequent drinking.

■ Insatiable burning thirst, not quenched by incredible quan-

tities of cold water. ^Polydipsia.

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■ After meals: he feels heart beating against ribs; a drawing

through whole body, with coldness, cold arms, hands and feet ; constant belching.

Drinking difficult.

Better from drinking cold w^ater. ^® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i Belching and gulping up contents of stomach.

I I Empty eructations frequently after eating, and almost con- tinuous.

BNausea: with vertigo, twitching in face, salivation, retching and vomiting ; with accumulation of saliva ; and prostra- tion, 10 to 11 A.M.

Nausea and inclination to vomit, which disappeared every time after an eructation.

Retching.

Nausea and vomiting, especially mornings.

She drank some coffee, which excited vomiting.

■ Constant vomiting. ^Viper bite.

I Vomit: bilious; of some blood; mostly sour.

■ Watery, slimy vomit. ^Summer complaint. Vomited black-streaked fluid smelling of camphor.

■ Chronic vomiting, in morning, of sour mucus.

■ Vomiting, with cold sweat in face.

■ Coldness after vomiting.

■ Sometimes nausea and vomiting, with cold sweat. ^Cholera.

■ Absence of nausea and vomit, icy-cold. ^Cholera.

^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Pain in epigastric region.

■ Terrible anguish and burning at pit of stomach driving to

despair. ^Cholera asiatica.

■ Pain, as if beaten, or distended, in pit of stomach, with fulness

of abdomen ; sensitive to touch.

Sensation in region of pit of stomach as if distended at this point, and diaphragm thereby pressed upward; oppression of breathing.

Pain, at first moderate, but afterwards very intense, in epi- gastrium, radiating all over belly and into limbs, accom- panied by uterine tenesmus.

Gradually increasing pain in epigastrium, loins, and bowels, with strangury and vomiting.

Pressive pain in pit of stomach, or in anterior part of liver.

An oppressive sensation, with a feeling of warmth, in pit of stomach.

■ Unpleasant feeling in gastric region, with transient vertigo. Digestion impaired, < after taking cold, with pressure or

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burning above navel, great thirst, prsecordial anxiety, heat, .burning and dryness of skin, limbs heavy as lead. Stitches and burning in stomach.

■ Sensation of heat in stomach, with chilliness in loins and

small of back.

■ Coldness in stomach. Feeling like hunger in stomach.

I Awoke in night, with cramp in stomach so violent he thought he would die. ^Gastralgia. ^* Hypochondria. I Constrictive pain below short ribs, extend- ing to lumbar vertebrae.

I Aching pressure in both hypochondria.

I Aching in anterior part of liver.

In r. hypochondrium a stitch from front to back, <^ when running.

Pressive pain in hypochondria.

Under short ribs a painful contraction, through to lumbar vertebroe.

I Stitches in spleen, from front backwards, < afcer quick walking. *^ Abdomen. I Cutting colic, at night.

Slight cuttings in region of navel, followed by passage of flatus, inclination to stool, and urging to urinate.

Movements in intestines, and in afternoon, frequent passage of offensive flatus ; and during next night, from 1 to 2 o'clock, violent pressive pain, located in coeliac ganglia, so severe that he feared that inflammation would ensue, which caused great anxiety and sweating.

Sticking-drawing heaviness, which is distinctly felt on pressure in r. side of lower abdomen.

I In r. side a stinging-drawing heaviness, more perceptible when pressed ; a drawing soreness, more inward than outward, extending to region of liver and chest, <C when inhaling.

Drawing bruised pain, more internally than externally, especi- ally on inspiration, in whole r. side of abdomen, extending into region of liver, and into chest.

Drawing in 1. side of lower abdomen, with a tensive bruised sensation.

I Pinching in region of navel.

■ Bellyache, as if diarrhoea would follow.

At first, passage of much flatus, and after several hours, in morning, pressure in abdomen as of distension from flat- ulence.

iHard pressure in 1. side of lower abdomen.

Pressure and burning about navel.

I Violent burning heat in upper and lower abdomen.

■ Burning in bowels. ^Cholera asiatica.

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I Heat in abdoinen.

Sensation of hardness and heaviness in abdomen, above .navel.

I Coldness in upper and lower abdomen, followed by burning heat therein.

I Cold feeling in abdomen spreading over chest.

I An aching in abdomen seems to cause a suffocating contrac- tion of chest.

Burning-sticking in a surface as large as hand, below anterior crest of ilium, extending to groin.

Itching-crawling in r, groin, >■ on rubbing.

Abdomen retracted.

■ Transient ascites, or dropsy with ischuria after abuse of can-

tharides. ^^ Stool and Rectum. Flatulency ; wind passes without relief.

I Rice water stools ; difficult passage of feces preceded by pas- sage of much wind, but with the same difficulty. ^Summer complaint.

Involuntary stools, thin and blackish.

I Cholera infantum : vomiting and diarrhoea suddenly cease ; coldness of body, blueness of nails and lips, cold sweat on forehead and upper part of chest, with icy cold feet; hoarseness.

■ Cholera infantum : cold spell coming on at night, with desire

to be uncovered.

■ Diarrhoea with colicky pain, particularly when caused by cold.

■ I Anxiety and restlessness, absence of evacuations, frequently

chilly or feeling as if cold air was blowing on covered parts ; great sinking and collapse. ^Cholera asiatica.

■ Diarrhoea: attack very sudden ; sudden and great sinking of

strength ; cold sweat on face ; eyes sunken and fixed ; icy coldness of whole body ; face pale, livid, purple, icy cold, distorted ; upper lip drawn up, exposing teeth ; foam at mouth. ^Cholera morbus. ^Cholera asiatica.

■ After taking cold, cutting with involuntary loose discharge of

dark -brown or black feces, like coffee-grounds.

■ Stool: generally painless; dark-brown, thin and scanty;

blackish, like coflee-grounds ; sour ; involuntary ; sluggish and incomplete. Urging to stool : stool of usual hardness, but only a little passes, followed by very violent urging again, and a scanty discharge again.

■ Urging to stool and insufficient discharge, cramp in sphincter

ani.

■ Faeces passed with difficulty, not without exertion of ab-

dominal muscles, as if peristaltic motion of intestines was diminished, and at same time rectum was contracted.

■ Constipation from inactivity of bowels.

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I Rectum seems contracted, swollen, and painful, on passing

■ Frequent urination, passes more than he drinks; loses strength;

emaciates. Frequent desire to make water, with some pain in course oi spermatic vessels.

■ Frequent and difficult urination ; contraction of bladder less

powerful, urine passes slowly and by drops.

Diminished power of bladder ; urine passes very slowly, with- out any mechanical hindrance.

I Urine passes in a very thin stream, passes almost involunt- arily, and after it a painful contraction going from front backwards.

■ Involuntary escape of urine ; urine dribbles.

■ Difficult urination. ^Impotentia virilis.

■ Urine scanty, in drops, or suppressed. Urine increased, of a dark-brown color.

Urine contains sugar, is pale, odorless ; contains mucus, with- out sediment. Yellowish-green, turbid urine, of a musty odor.

■ Urine red, bloody; after irritating drugs, or in exan thematic

fevers.

Urine with white or red sediment.

Urine profuse, colorless, frequent, almost every five minutes.

Urine quite clear, but having, like the perspiration, a very strong odor of camphor.

I I Urine burns, passing in drops ; painful urination ; hot burn- ing in urethra as after cantharides.

■ Retention of urine ; a pressure on bladder ; desire to urinate.

^Pregnancy. ^Ischuria of infants. ^Measles.

■ Tenesmus of neck of bladder. ^Strangury.

■ Hemorrhage from urinary organs after irritating drugs, especi-

ally cantharides, and during exanthematic fevers. 22 Male Sexual Organs. Increased sexual desire.

■ Nervous erethism of sexual organs following frequent excite-

ment, without satisfaction of desire.

■ Increased sexual desire; unusual sexual ardor, with continued

delusions respecting the object of embrace.

■ Attacks of violent priapism, during dreams.

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iWant of sexual desire, with weakness of parts, want of erec- tions ; testicles relaxed. ^Impotence.

■ Stultified by sudden laxness of penis ; at night the fancy be- comes excited in dreams, and a discharge is the result.

iNightly emissions ; sometimes occurring without a dream.

Involuntary masturbation.

Contractive sensation in testicles.

Stinging-itching on inner surface of prepuce.

I On 1. side of root of penis, while standing, a pressure outwards, as if a hernia would protrude.

1 Gonorrhoea, with constant sticking together of meatus.

iChordee.

B After gonorrhoea: suppression of urine, with restlessness, pain in hypogastric region, weak but rapid pulse, and delir- ium ; strangury from stricture. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. Sexual orgasm.

B I Erethism of sexual system. ^Puerperal mania.

Os uteri enlarged and hot.

B Dropsy of uterus ; red, sometimes greenish urine, deposits a thick sediment ; urine passed slowly, bladder being nearly paralyzed, body cold.

Severe labor-like pains, as in parturition.

Slight discharge of blood from vagina.

B Labor pains: weak or ceasing ; will not be covered, restless ; skin cold.

B Cramps during pregnancy ; cannot remain covered.

B Puerperal mania: staring eyes, sparkling, somewhat conver- gent ; pale face, dry skin, not hot ; cool forehead ; sits up in bed held by three women whom she scolds in the most indecent and abusive terms ; constantly bares her breast.

B Lochia suppressed. ^Puerperal mania.

BFine stinging in nipples.

B Suppuration of mammae.

B B New-born children : asphyxia; hard places in skin on ab- domen and thighs, quickly increasing and getting harder, sometimes with a deep redness spreading nearly over whole abdomen and thighs; violent fever, with startings and tetanic spasms, with bending backwards ; make no water. ^^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia, b Voice husky and deep. ^Cholera asiatica.

B Talked in a husky voice. ^Gastralgia.

B Voice : weak ; uncertain ; bleating ; whispering ; murmur- ing ; hollow.

BB Influenza.

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I Mucus in air-passages ; it makes voice husky and is not re- moved by hacking, or clearing throat.

Pain in air-passages and bronchial tubes, mostly in couo-hino-, and even when hacking and clearing throat.

Contractive sensation in larynx, as from sulphur-fumes.

I Constriction of larynx, or feeling as if throat were tied.

B Cutting cold feeling deep in windpipe ; causes a slight cough.

I Dry feeling in bifurcation of trachea. ^® Respiration. B Breathing: anxious; oppressed; sighing; quiet; deep and slow ; heavy, difficult and slow ; short and snoring ; irregular and hurried ; hurried and labored ; almost com- pletely arrested, neither audible nor visible.

B Suffocative oppression.

Choking sensation ; it threatens to suffocate him and constrict larynx.

TrGasping for breath, chest feels dry, could scarcely speak.

B Asthma, < worse from bodily exertion.

I I Inhalation shorter than exhalation, in sleep.

I I Snoring in sleep, with inhalation and exhalation.

B Asphyxia, or apparent death of new-born children.

B Suspended respiration ; heart ceases to beat, life seems gone. Follows well after Tart. emet.

BHot breath, with acute eruptive diseases.

BBCool breath, as from the grave playing upon hand held be- fore mouth. ^Cholera asiatica.

bA cold feeling in chest, followed by cold breath. ^Em- physema.

Short cough, from scraping in throat.

8 Very fatiguing cough without bringing anything up.

B Violent dry cough, with hoarseness. ^Seqael to measles.

B Cough, with pain in throat, chest, stomach and abdomen.

BDry cough every forenoon for two weeks.

passages.

Stitches through to spine, mostly through I. lung.

B Stitches : from shoulders into chest ; in 1. side of chest when walking ; through chest to spine.

Soft pressure internally in chest, below sternum, with difficult

inhalation, and a cold sensation rising up into mouth. Pressure in upper part of sternum, as from a load.

B Trembling in 1. side of chest and arm, when lying on 1. side ; it ceases on turning to r. side.

B Contraction of chest, and oppression.

8 Mucus in air-passages.

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II Congestion to chest.

■ Pneumonia notha of old people, with sinking of forces, dry

burning heat and dyspnoea ; slight moisture on face ; ratt- ling breathing indicating threatening paralysis of lungs.

I In later stages of pneumonia, short, anxious, oppressed breath- ing, with chill and heat alternating.

I Hepatization of r. lung ; of lower lobe of left.

I Hepatization of 1. lung, and some pleuritic exudation. ^Pleuro- pneumonia.

■ Emphysema pulmonum.

I Sensation of coldness, extends from pit of stomach over whole

sternum, and exhaled as a cold breath. ^Asthma emphy-

sematicum. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Great anxiety in prsecordial

region. iPrsecordial distress, when, spoken to, with sensation of severe

coldness and irresistible sleepiness. Spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest,

regular. Palpitation, as if heart turned forward and over ; stoppage

of breath and gasping ; has to walk about the room ; boy,

set. 13 ; t.

■ Palpitation: after eating; I I trembling with anxiety; with

regular slow beats ; after awaking, with twitches ; with cold face, limbs and body ; with pale face and coldness of surface ; with sudden oppression of breathing.

Often easily startled when awake, and then feels throbbings or palpitations.

Pulse: full; 1 1 weak; 1 1 not perceptible; frequent and scarcely perceptible ; accelerated without fever ; very much acceler- ated, but undulating, and without strength ; very rapid ; full and rapid ; full and irritable ; irritable in evening ; hard or soft; Ifrequent and small (hepatized 1, lung); 1 1 extremely small ; small and slow, sixty beats to minute ; small and hard, becoming slower and slower ; small, weak and quite frequent ; could not be counted ; 1 extremely rapid and weak (typhus) ; audible and full ; weak and thready.

■ Diminished flow of blood to those parts remote from heart.

^^ Outer Chest. iOn upper part of sternum, pressure like a heavy load, while standing.

■ Tearing pain from his r. nipple to chest.

Fine tearing pain near r, nipple, extending down into pelvis. Fine stitches in nipples.

■ Small rash on outer throat and chest.

■ Cold sweat on upper part of chest. ^Cholera infantum.

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^^ Neck and Back. Painful drawing or tearing along medulla

spinalis. I Painful drawing and stiffness on side of neck, when walking

in open air. Stiffness in nape of neck.

between shoulders into limbs.

■ Rheumatic pain between shoulders.

■ Drawing stitches through and between shoulder-blades, ex-

tending into chest when moving arms. I Stitches near r. shoulder, tearing when moving, from neck

up into head, tensive pain with motion and turning. Sensation of sticking coldness in sacral region, which passed

with lightning-like velocity along side of vertebrae to nape

of neck and over whole body, alternating with a feeling of

transient heat. Tired feeling in small of back, when walking.

■ Pressure in small of back, with leaden-like heaviness of lower

Violent pain in back all day.

I Constricting pain from short ribs to lumbar vertebrae. Pain runs through back into limbs repeatedly.

■ Coldness in small of back and loins.

■ Inner coldness in loins and small of back ; <C by walking but

a few steps.

I Sensation as if cool air was blowing on back.

1 I Cold feeling on back.

I I Chilliness in back, and as if sweat would break out. ^^ Upper Limbs. Drawing, painful stitches through shoulder- blades and between them, extending into chest on moving arm, for two days.

Tearing pressure on edges of shoulder-blades impeding motion of arm.

Pressure on top of shoulder, particularly right ; drawing pain in left.

Bruised pain in both shoulders.

Tearing pressure in middle of posterior portion of r. upper arm.

Drawing in muscles of 1. upper arm, when walking.

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Tearing on inside of 1. arm, passing at times into thumb and index-finger.

Tired feeling in 1. arm, commencing at 1. shoulder, extending into wrist ; >■ by motion of arm.

Jerking, fine tearing from middle of inner surface of 1. upper arm to middle of forearm.

I I Painful pressure in r. elbow-joint, < leaning upon it, when it extends into hand.

Bruised pain in r. elbow, wrist and fingers.

Tired feeling from 1. elbow into hand.

Sensation of fatigue and heaviness in 1. arm.

Pressure and drawing on inner side of both arms, during rest of parts, ceasing when moving them.

TiRight arm extended above head, as if catching something ; t. ^Spasms.

I Convulsive rotation of arms.

I Rotary movement of r. arm; thumb clenched. ^Cholera in- fantum.

Arms move involuntarily from time to time ; eyes are turned up ; girl, set. 5.

Arms more convulsed than lower limbs.

Arms: stiff; powerless.

Hands : tremble ; cold ; bluish.

a His hands do not feel anything he touches.

B Fingers stiff, open, distorted ; thumb drawn back at nearly r. angles with its metacarpal.

■ Sensation in joint of thumb as if sprained.

I Skin of fingers shriveled. ^Cholera asiatica.

Bitching on back of hands, in palms and on knuckles. ^^ Lower Limbs. B Drawing in nates, as if it would paralyze the thigh.

B Soreness as if beaten in thighs, after walking.

B Drawing, bruised pain in r. thigh, and on inner side near and below patella ; he fears that the leg will bend forward sud- denly.

B Tearing in anterior muscles of r. thigh.

! Cracking and creaking in hip, knee, and ankle-joints.

Pressing in 1. knee and leg, and above r. knee.

B Stitches on patella.

Blvnees give way ; tremble; tottering gait.

B Heaviness in knees.

iLegs heavy like a weight, hanging from knee down.

iSubsultus tendinum of r. lower limb.

B Cramps in calves. ^Cholera asiatica.

Drawing-pinching pain on backs of feet, especially on mov- ing them.

B Joints of feet ache as if sprained, when walking.

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I Tearing, crampy pain on backs of feet, extending up outer

side of calves to thighs. I Toes drawn up or spread.

■ Lower extremities paralyzed. ^Typhus. ^Suppression of

^* Limbs in General. Cracking and creaking in hip, knee, and ankle-joints.

■ Drawing in fingers, then in toes.

■ Blueness of nails. ^Cholera infantum. Limbs as heavy as lead.

I I Limbs are difficult to move.

Stretching, trembling, and general painful sensitiveness of limbs.

■ Hands and feet tremble, if he attempts to move them.

^Shock from injury. Convulsive agitation in limbs, after tetanic stiffness.

■ Rheumatism returns repeatedly, attacking part after part,

even internal organs. Violent cramps in extremities.

■ ■Coldness of limbs.

TrExtremities and limbs cold and cramped ; t. ^Spasms.

■ Cold extremities, clammy sweat, great prostration. ^Cholera

■ Tosses in agony. ^Cholera Asiatica. While sitting: cold feel-

ing in r. leg.

Lying down : cutting in head ; < contractive pain base of brain ; spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest, when on 1. side, or turning to r. side.

Standing : > throbbing like beats with a hammer, in cerebellum.

Stooping: < contractive pain base of brain.

Moving: drawing, pinching pain on backs of feet; pain in fifth, sixth and seventh cervical vertebrse from moving head ; arms, drawing stitches through and between shoulder-blades; nausea, chronic vomiting.

Running: < stitch from front to back in r. hypochondre.

Exertion: bodily < asthma.

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^^ Nerves. Increase of muscular power. iSubsultus tendinum.

■ Great nervous excitability, jerking, twitching and trembling.

■ Trembling of inner parts.

■ Easily startled when awake, and then feels throbbing or pal-

pitation.

Starting with tremor of limbs ; t.

Convulsive circular motion.

I I Clonic and tonic spasms and convulsions ; falls down uncon- scious.

■ Spasms of children, with sopor; from suppressed eruptions ;

from suppressed catarrh of head or chest.

■ Spasms, bending body backwards and twisting extremities.

^Cholera.

■ Trismus, especially of new-born children; tetanus.

■ Tetanic spasms of arras, hands, feet and Ipwer jaw; body stiff,

with slight opisthotonus, from suppressed scarlatina.

■ Eclampsia, with anaemia ; coldness.

■ Epilepsy ;. throws himself back with dreadful shrieks ; en-

deavors to tear everything within his reach.

■ Violent epileptic spasms after vexation ; girl, get. 17.

■ Shock from injury: cold extremities, trembling of tongue,

■ Attacks of malaise.

■ Loses strength suddenly. ^Cholera asiatica.

■ Fainting spells follow each other in rapid succession. ^ Viper

bite.

■ Want of bodily irritability ; insensibility to touch.

■ His whole body is insensible to touch and cold as marble.

■ Feels no inward warmth.

■ A tremor seized on every part of his body ; quieted by bath-

ing his hands and face in cold water.

■ Lassitude and depression of spirits, with frequent yawning and

stretching. ^^ Sleep. I 1 Yawning and sleepiness during day ; falls asleep in evening.

■ Sleep: profound; deep; unrefreshing ; coma.

■ Sleepless and restless.

■ Sleeplessness, alternatirig with coma.

■ Afraid to go to bed ; suddenly all sleep is gone.; eyes open

against will, and awful sensations disturb him.

■ Snoring during inhalation and exhalation; moaning; sighing.

■ Much sweat during sleep.

■ Talking all night in a gentle voice.

■ Twitchings, also on awaking, followed by palpitation.

■ Gets awake with a night-mare, or cannot get fully awake.

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I Dreams : anxious ; fearful ; visions of spirits ; about what is intended, or what had happened in morning hours. ^^ Time. ' ' All complaints worse as soon as it gets dark.

Night and solitude frighten him.

Night: monomania; delirium; low fever; burning in oeso- phagus; seminal emissions.

All night: throbbing, stinging in forehead.

Morning: shooting in temples ; bad taste; offensive odor from mouth; headache after rising; early attacks of boring in temples, shooting towards eyes or teeth; bad taste, with nausea and vomiting.

10 to 11 A.M.: nausea, vertigo, vomiting, prostration.

Forenoon: cough.

1 to 2 P.M.: colic.

Afternoon : movements in intestines, frequent passage of offen- sive flatus.

Evening: fever.

8 P.M.: drawing in fingers and toes.

All day: soreness or tense, stiff feeling in eyes and eyelids. '' Temperature and Weather. Effects of sunstroke.

He is excessively sensitive to cold air.

The surface cold to the touch, yet they throw off all covering, will not remain covered.

After change of weather, catarrh with headache, or diarrhoea with colic.

.Sunstroke; sunburns on face and hands; restless and depressed.

Is improved by warm air.

I Takes cold easily; after it, toothache; weak digestion; fevers,

rigors or diarrhoea.

I I Very sensitive to cold air. Better from drinking cold water.

Open air : painful drawing and stiffness on side of neck when walking in open air. *" Fever. ■ Chill, chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air ; crawlings with gooseflesh.

■ General coldness; clammy sweat; circumscribed redness of cheeks ; quiet delirium ; sinking pulse. ^Nervous fever.

Illcy coldness all over, with death-like paleness of face ; dim- inished circulation to parts most distant from heart.

I Great coldness of surface, with a desire to uncover.

I Skin becomes very cold. ^Cholera asiatica.

I I Rigor, with chattering teeth, thirst, followed by sleep.

I Chill : with anxiety ; with unconsciousness ; with pale face ; with clonic spasm ; congestive chill.

I Chilly all over, followed by heat and warm sweat on forehead, with nausea.

Increased warmth of body, with redness of face.

I Heat all over, getting much worse while walking.

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I Heat, with distension of veins, increased by every motion.

I Heat or sweat, with aversion to uncover; he cannot get warm.

B Sweat profuse, warm and improving. •

BfiCold, clammy, weakening sweat.

Typhus : greatest weakness ; cold sweat all over ; quickly de- creasing temperature, especially of extremities ; small, very frequent, scarcely perceptible pulse ; great nervous restless- ness of body and limbs ; collapse in face ; cold, pointed nose ; automatic motions of muscles ; delirium ; syncope ; snatches of sleep ; great thirst, with red, dry tongue ; fre- quent involuntary stools, after much rolling and rumbling in bowels.

i Severe and long chill at beginning of yellow fever, with tremb- ling of internal parts and coldness of limbs. *^ Attacks, Rheumatic attacks remit, go to one part after another.

Attacks come suddenly.

Every five minutes stitches in temporal bones.

Remissions: in the drawing sensation all around head. ''^ Locality and Direction. Within outwards : pressing headache ; pressing on eyeballs.

Backwards : stitches in spleen.

Left: of neck, creeping; shoulder, tired; lung, stitches through ; chest and arm, trembling, it ceases turning to r. side; lung hepatized; cutting 1. side of occiput; ear pain; side of nose, drawing; nostril, itching; sided headache; fine tear- ing in head; drawing in lower abdomen; hard pressure in lower abdomen; root of penis, while standing pressure out- wards, as if a hernia would protrude; spasmodic stitches in region of heart when lying on 1. side; drawing 1. side of nape of neck toward shoulder; ear, pressure by jerks; stitches in 1. cheek; zygoma drawing; pharynx, stitches; side, drawings.

Right: itching, crawling in r. groin, < on rubbing; spasmodic stitches in region of heart, ceases on turning to r. side; thigh, drawing bruised pain in; head drawn to r. shoulder; eye, pressure; side of nose, boring; nose stopped; lower jaw, drawing; hypochondre, a stitch; lower abdomen, sticking, drawing ; itching, crawling in groin ; lung, hepa- tized; shoulder, pressure; arm, rotary movement; thigh, tearing ; lower limb, subsultus tendinum. ^^ Sensations. As if bruised, headache; mouth as after eating peppermint lozenges; as if throat were sore and torn ; as if she had eaten rancid substances ; pain in stomach as if dis- tended ; as if cool air was blowing on back ; thumb as if sprained.

Boring: in temples; r. side of nose; in r. zygoma.

Jerking: fine tearing from middle of inner surface of 1. upper arm.

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Tearing: fine, in head; sticking in forehead; in r, temple and

. forehead; in ears, behind and above; pain from r. nipple

to chest; along medulla spinalis; pain in nape of neck; r.

shoulder; r. upper arm; r. thigh; pain in backs of feet; in

tips of toes; here and there in joints.

Cutting: jerks or shocks from forehead and temples towards middle of brain ; shooting through gum to roots of incisor and canine teeth; colic at night; region of navel; deep in windpipe.

Stitches: starting in temporal bone; r. half of brain; in ears; from a draft of air; violent in root of nose; 1. cheek ; in chin ; shoot from tooth into eye; in palate; in stomach; r. hypo- chondre; in spleen; coeliac ganglia; in chest; through to spine; in region of heart; in nipples; in neck near r. shoul- der; on patella.

Shooting: towards eyes or teeth; here and there in joints, from temples; through gum to roots of incisor and canine teeth.

Sticking: drawing heaviness below crest of ilium; burning

before urination; coldness in sacral region. .Stinging: anterior corner of nostrils; r. side of lower abdomen; on inner surface of prepuce; in nipples.

Biting: in external canthus; itching in eyelids; edges of lids; in back part of urethra.

Burning: in edges of lids; in ears; in face; on edge of tongue ; end of tongue; from palate down oesophagus; anguish at pit of stomach; above navel and about navel; below anterior crest of ilium ; before and during urination ; dryness of skin.

Smarting: in eyelids; in rectum.

Chapped feeling in rectum.

Scraping: back part of tongue; in throat.

Gnawing boring in molars.

Aching: in middle of head; in both hypochondria; anterior part of liver; in abdomen.

Drawing; pain in r. thigh; pain in back part of feet; through shoulder-blades; pain in 1. shoulder; 1. upper arm; inner side both arms; r. side of head; all around head; 1. side of nose; 1. zygoma; in angle of r. lower jaw; r. side; 1. side; along medulla spinalis and stiffness on 1. side of neck ; stitches through between shoulder-blades; in nates.

Pressure: headache; r. temple; by jerks over 1. ear; on eye- balls, from behind; pain pit of stomach; pain in both hypo- chondria; 1. side lower abdomen; about navel; in small of back; with leaden-like heaviness of lower limbs.

Pressing: outwards, frontal headache; on upper part of frontal bone; r, side of vertex; in occiput; above r. eye; above navel; in bladder; in chest; upper part of sternum; on chest

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like a heavy load; on top of r. shoulder; painful, in elbow

night; in temples; of temporal arteries; like beats with a

hammer in cerebellum. Tense: feeling in eyes and eyelids; pain in masticators; pain

Uneasy : feeling in back of head. Contraction: as if bound together, in cerebellum and glabella;

pain base of brain; painful under short ribs through lumbar

vertebrae; in testicles; in larynx; of chest. Constriction: pain below short ribs; in larynx; pain from

in windpipe; in small of back and loins. Itching: 1. nostril; swelling on gums; on inner surface of

prepuce; in groin. Dryness: all over body ; on back part of tongue; in bifurcation

of trachea. ^* Tissues, I Soft parts drawn in.

E Cyanosis ; external parts turn black.

I Internal congestions.

I Cramps in inner and outer parts.

I Cracking of joints.

I Stenosis after inflammations.

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I Dropsy of external parts; less often of internal.

I Glands inflamed.

I Flow of black coagulated blood. ^Viper bite.

I Pains in periosteum of all bones.

I Tearing-shooting here and there in joints.

■ Greatest emaciation.

I Rheumatic fevers ; pains changing place; persistently return.

External pressure : < contractive pain at base of brain ; > rush of blood to head.

Disappearing on pressure: heat in head.

Sensitive to touch : distended stomach.

From pressing hand thereon : improved pain in upper vertebrae.

Painful pressure in r. elbow joint: ■< leaning upon it.

llEffects of shock from injury: surface of body cold, face pale and bluish, lips livid; diarrhoea; pulse feeble; nervous anxi- ety and stupefaction; sighing respiration ; great exhaustion. *^ Skin. Skin: I I flabby; relaxed; leather-like; loose; sensitive; burning ; itching.

I Skin dry, even in bed ; not a trace of sweat ; dry with heat.

I Skin tense, hot, dry, like parchment.

I Skin cold, bluish on face and hands, looks shrivelled.

I Skin cold as marble, frightfully cold to touch, still patient would not be covered ; very great excitability and fear of being left alone.

iPetechise over entire body, which is cold. ^Viper bite.

■ Erysipelatous inflammation, with coldness, paleness and sink-

ing, and aversion to being covered.

■ Measles: pale face, cold skin, bluish ; tetanic rigidity ; dys-

uria ; eruption does not appear.

■ ■All sequelae of measles.

■ Scarlatina: with cold, blue, hippocratic face; rattling in

throat ; with hot breath, hot sweat on forehead ; child will not be covered.

■ Sudden sinking away of variola pustules.

■ Bedsores.

■ Blood blisters ; erysipelas; gangrene; hard spots.

■ Girl, set. 17. ^Epilepsy.

■ A man, aet. 65. ^Anthrax.

*^ Relations. Antidotes: Opium, Sp. nitr. dulc, Dulcam., Phos- phor.

CAMPIiORA.— CANNABIS INDICA. 2G8

Camphor antidotes: Canthar.^ Cuprum, Lycop., Squilla, a.nd the effects of so-called worm medicines, tobacco, bitter almonds, and other fruits, containing prussic acid ; likewise for the secondary affections remaining after poison- ing with acids, salts, metals, poisonous mushrooms, etc.

In most other cases, the smelling of Camphor is not antidotal, but palliative, by producing the symptom "Pain better while thinking of it."

Vaccine virus failed to take effect when kept in proximity to Camphor.

Incompatible: after Nitrum. Tea, coffee, and lemonade, as a rule, do not interfere, but in some cases coffee aggravated and was followed by vomiting.

East Indian Hemp. Cannahinece.

iHead feels very heavy, loses consciousness and falls.

il Every few moments he would lose himself, and wake up, as it were, to those around him.

liHe forgot his last words and ideas, and spoke in a low tone with a thick voice, as if tired.

I BHe begins a sentence, but cannot finish it, because he forgets what he intends to write or speak.

ii Inability to recall any thought or event, on account of differ- ent thoughts crowding on his brain.

iille could not read, partly on account of dreamy spells, and partly because he had not full power of vision.

I Very absent-minded.

B a Constantly theorizing.

His mind is filled with ridiculous speculative ideas.

lExaltation of spirits, with excessive loquacity.

i Great exaltation of mind; at times with enthusiastic language.

B lExaltation of spirits, with great gayety and disposition to laugh at the merest trifle.

BHe could not fix his thoughts upon one subject.

B Sudden transition from one fantasia, when completed, to an-

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other ; the general character may remain unchangeQl ; after visions of great sublimity, usually follow visions of quiet re- laxing; and recreatins; nature.

i Hallucinations and imaginations innumerable; that he is gradually swelling, his body becoming larger and larger ; that some one calls him ; that he hears numberless bells ringing most sweetly ; imagines he hears music ; shuts his eyes, and is lost for some time in the most delicious thoughts and dreams.

i I Exaggeration of duration of time and extent of space ; a few seconds seem ages ; a few rods an immense distance. ^De- lirium tremens.

lit appeared to him that an occurrence, which happened quite recently, had taken place long ago, and again that some- thing, that had to happen soon, seemed exceedingly tardy in coming.

A sense of having two existences ; double consciousness.

1 8 Fixed ideas.

I Incoherent talking.

I I Laughs indiscriminately at every word said to him.

I Uncontrollable laughter, till the face becomes purple, and back

and loins ache.

I I Full of fun and mischief, and laughs immoderately. 1 1 Moaning and crying.

1 1 Great apprehension of approaching death.

I He was in constant fear he would become insane.

I I Horror of darkness.

^Menorrhagia. iNervous; she trembles at least source of agitation. ^Headache. ^ Sensoriuni. Vertigo, on rising, with stunning pain in back part

lid of a tea-kettle.

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1 1 Feels as if top of head was opening and shutting, and as if

calvarium was being lifted. Dull, heavy, throbbing pain through head, with a sensation like

a heavy blow on back of head and neck. I Heavy weight at back of head, from which pains shoot up

sides of head to temples and vertex ; pain at midday forces

pass wind either upwards or downwards; throbbing of occiput. \ Megrim, or sick headache.

* Outer Head. Scalp and skin of forehead felt as though tightly

* Sight and Eyes. Dimness of vision.

Visual clairvoyance.

Sensitiveness of r. eye to light.

Letters run together while reading.

Twinkling, trembling and glimmering before eyes.

Eyes are bright and shiny.

Injection of vessels of conjunctiva of both eyes. ,

Jerking in external corner of eye and eyelid.

* Hearing and Ears. Hearing very acute.

Noise in ears, like of water boiling.

Periodical singing in ears during his dreamy spells, ceasing

Tense feeling in facial muscles.

Skin of face, especially of forehead and chin, feels as if drawn tight. ^ Lower Face. Dryness of mouth and lips.

Lips feel as if glued together. ^° Teeth and Gums. Gritting and grinding of teeth while

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" Throat. Throat is parched, accompanied by intense thirst for cold water.

not caused by amorous thoughts ; violent ; painful. Penis relaxed and shrunken.

Uneasiness, with burning sensation in penis and urethra, accom- panied by frequent calls to urinate. Sharp prickings, like needles, in urethra, so severe as to send a

thrill to cheeks and hands. Gonorrhoea : unaccompanied by pain ; light headedness ; slight tingling, with inflammation around meatus ; slight burning during micturition; discharge yellowish -white and very

profuse. Feeling in urethra as if there were a gonorrhoeal discharge.

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On squeezing glans penis, a white glairy mucus oozes out. Chordee.

lasting eighteen days. ^Menorrhagia. ■ Violent uterine colic, with cramps in extremities. ^Post par-

Hard, dry cough. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Stitches extending from both nip- ples through chest.

^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Palpitation of heart, which

Weariness in both limbs, almost amounting to paralysis ; worse

in left. Agreeable thrilling in both limbs, from knees down, with a

sensation as if a bird's claws were clasping knees. Is unable to walk up stairs on account of an almost entire

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paralysis of limbs, with stiffness and tired aching in both

knees. On attempting to walk, he experienced intensely violent pains,

as if he trod on a number of spikes, which penetrated soles

and ran upwards through limbs to hips ; worse in r. limb and

feels paralyzed; is unable to walk up-stairs, or, attempting

deep sleep. Catalepsy. ■ Exaltation of all the powers of mind and body before the fit.

^Epilepsy. ^'^ Sleep. Desire to sleep, but inability to do so.

Excessive sleepiness ; great desire to lie down in daytime. Felt so weak that he could scarcely speak, and soon fell into a

deep sleep. Starting of limbs while sleeping, which awoke him, when he

feared he would have a fit. Talking during sleep.

Voluptuous dreams, with erections and profuse seminal emis- sions. Dreams : of danger, and of perils encountered ; of dead bodies ;

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Increased heat of body.

catamenial periods. *^ Locality and Birection. Right: jerking in forehead; severe

stitch in temple; pain in head; aching in temple; eye,

sensitive to light; limb feels paralyzed; on attempting to

whole body. Feeling of lightness or buoyancy ; as if he was raised from the

shutting ; as if calvarium was being lifted up ; as if a heavy

blow on back of head and neck; as if he were sitting on a

ball; as if suffocated; as if a bird's claws were clasping

knees ; as if he had on a number of spikes. Stitch: r. temple; sharp, in both kidneys; extending from

ears ; in kidneys ; tired in both knees. Soreness : of scalp to touch.

Dull : pain through head ; pain in region of r. kidney. Pain : in whole side of head ; in bladder and urethra ; across

tight ; skin of head.

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Stretched : tightly over skull, scalp.

Heavy : pain through head ; arms and legs.

Weight : at back of head.

Warmth : in stomach ; in spine, extending to head.

Coldness: of r. hand.

ground. ^'^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Affects persons of nervous and

sanguine temperament most ; the bilious nearly as much ;

the lymphatic but slightly, as, with vertigo, nausea, coma,

drug relations, as the comparisons doubtless apply to Oann.

ind.