Pain pressing from within outward . . Pains steady or in attaclcs,with short inter- missions; intolerable, most violent; rest- lessness, with agony even to furious de- spair, fainting fits ; coincident with inflam- matory symptoms. Lameness; H.Gr. Paralysis of limbs . . Day and night, continuous pains in the joints, worse from the least motion, with swell- ing and exceeding sensibility to the touch. Complaints in joints; rending, shooting, cramp-like or cracking; loss of power.f Pulse changed; frequent, full and hard, or quick and irregular; intermitting. H.Gr. Chills creeping upward; heat, with thirst; thirst constant during all stages. Feels cold or hot in the suffering part ; when hot or sweating, likes to be uncovered. Ill red miliary fever : Increasing restlessness, agonizing tyixiety and heat of ])ody. Measles : Dry, barking cough ; painful iioarseness ; eyes red ; cannot bear light ; jerks of left leg or 1. arm, or grinding of teeth; restless moaning and lamenting; lying in a comatose state. Sleeplessness, more after midnight; from fear, fright or anxiety; with fear of the future-^ sometimes in consumptives. Anxious dreams (with mental exertion*) . Foreboding of death, predicting the day . Clairvoyance, perception of distant things . I]asily frightened and startled by things out- side of himself, particularly by noise. Tossing himself about, the limbs, head, etc. Dejection — Hopeles.sness — Fretfuiuess — Malice — Absent-mindedness — Fancies. Answers only with Yes or Xo "Weakness of memory predom Threatenings of apoplexy; bnrning pain in the brain ; pressing, contracting pain above root of nose, red eyes, face red and puffed, pulse hard, either full and strong or small and quick. Crackling (crepitation) in temples, forehead and nose; worse towards evening and from motion ; better from sitting. Headache from talking Aversion to noise ; it startles him .... Pains pressing from without inward. Pains remit or increase; often in attacks, with longer intermissions; seem to be exquisite, insufferable ; patients are be- siilc themselves, whining, crying, anxious; with other nervous symptoms.* Great motor agility.* Ischias (rending, shooting) or X. cruralis in attacks, inc. by walk'g; rel. by pressure, ex- cept on foramen ; worse aftern. and night.* No pain in joints.* Pulse, if changed, more frequent, but less vig- orous, even small and infirm. Grauvogl.* Chills creeping downw. ; heat without thii'st ; no thirst during chill, constant after the heat and during the sweat. Affected parts sensitive to warmth or cold air : cannot bearuncover'g.* In the same: Increasing pains in head and throat, comliined with a dispos. to weep.* Measles : Frequent, short, and dry cough, hoarse when crying; skin and all senses over-sensitive; spasmodic motions, trem- bling, grinding of teeth; over-wakeiul- ness, with heat and sweat in face. Sleepl. ; children want to play; before and at midnight; from being kept awake, or after typhoid fevers.* Pleasant dreams (even merry.*) Fear of death during the suffering.* Vivid imagination, ecstatic or sentimental.* Slight passive motions (rocking, etc. ) startle him; are perceived as enormous.* Throws things about, away, down, etc.* Joyousness; ailments after excessive joy or disappointed love; easy comprehension. Answer short, not disposed to talk, or endless volul)ility w'hen describing his ailments.* Memory active. Threatenings of apoplexy ; over-excited, exalted; talkativeness; full of fear, pangs of conscience, discouraged, complaining, aversion to the open air, sleepless, con- vulsive grinding of teeth.* Crackling noise, synchronous with the pulse, in one side of the head ; worse in the morn- ing and out of doors, better within doors.* Congest, fr. talking; headache fr. thinking.* Aversion to noise: it hurts him.* t It seems in all organs surround' d by serous membranes the capillaries are injected, reddening their surface, ■with shootini:, piercing pains, an over-action of their function lo rarify the air. On the other hand, Coffea promotes the changa of matter in bones; hence, as a dietetic, is injurious to children, palliative in old a^e.* (Continued.) Nose bleeds, blood bright red, coagiilatincr, with feverisli heat, eyes injected ; parti- cularly during the climacteric years. Excessive hunger and thirst, but eats slowly. Diarrhoea, from getting wet; slimy, bloody, with violent pains in bowels; tenesmus also between the discharges, the hypo- chondriac regions are sore to the touch. Urine infrequent and scanty, only excep- tionally copious — (Scrotum drawn up.) Catamenia ofteuer scanty than profuse . . During pregnancy, and particularly in child- bed, foreboding of deatli. Violent labor-pains, following in rapid suc- cession, partic. with a large child (head seems immovable), contractions insuffi- cient, pains overwhelming; shrieking; red, sweating face ; (hir.Hty. f Childbed-fever after suppression of lochia, mamma3 lax, no milk; dry, hot skin, hard, frequent i)ulse; or tensive, contracted; fearful, wild, staring, glittering eyes, dry tongue, great thirst, inflated abdomen, sensitive to the slightest touch. Larynx sensitive to the touch; voice croak- ing; cough whisthng, barking, hollow. Cough; always taking cold; worse after drinking, troublesome all the evening, but particularly after midnight ; shooting pain also in side, hypochondria, back and small of back, or with a suffocating feeHng. Palpitation of heart, sometimes intermitting, or with difficult respiration, great anxiety. Nose bleeds, with heaviness of head, exal- tation preventing sleep; as in nervous, irritable persons.* Eating and drinking hastily.* Diarrlioca from too much thought and care about domestic affairs; watery, painless, very weakening, with over-sensibility and great irritability.* Urinating too often, rather copious — (Scro- tum relaxed.*) Catamenia too profuse. During parturition or the afterpains, ex- treme fear of death. *■ Labor-pains unbearable, ineffectual] con- stant whining, crying, lamenting; violent moving of limbs; head hot, red; face puffed, eyes glittering; complete despair, great fear of cleat Ji* Childbed-fever from mental excitement; fre- quent crawling with feverish warmth; tongue moist, no thirst; delirium, talking with open eyes, eyes shining, violent ab- dominal pains, with over-sensitiveness; despair; sleeplessness.* Larynx as if covered with a dry phlegm.* Cough; single, sudden shocks, quickly fol- low'g each other; from irritation in throat, phlegm in back part of throat, with dim- ness before the eyes, dur'g even'g and mid- night, when falling asleep or soon after.* Palpitation of heart violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs.* Remission during the day (except the fore- noon**) and evening. Warmth lessens the pains, particularly warm air ; coldness aggravates. Complementary to Arnica, partic. after hurts. Remission in the forenoon and midnight, (except the cough *) In distressing toothache the only relief is obtained by holding the coldest water or ice in the mouth.* | Complementary to Colocynthis in pains.* Predomin. worse -— — — — ~ — -^^ — ~~-^ Predomin. betler While standinij, and also in the room.^ H.Gr. — When assuming an erect position.* Predomin. better . ■*- -^^ — "" —--- Predomin. tvorse While walking out of doors, and when sitting down. H.Gr.— Children from being rocked or moved about.* N.B. All that is marked with * has been added by C.Hg. t This observation was mnde by I'r. W. Wesselhoft, 18:5.0. Even resolute, enduring women, who had born several cliildren, tossed about in agony. Coffea was first given by Dr Kallenhach, in cases of excessive pains, without a perceptible cause; frequent, weak, empty pulse; great pain in small of back, in nervons women, who get into a state of over-excitem>>Qt or hysteric sensibility, who wished to be killed. The fear of death, as a characteristic, was dis- covered by Dr. Jiiger. The same in allerpains, particularly with primiparse. or after a mole.* + For this observation of Dr. Blair, of Ohio, we have to thank Dr. Hale, of Chicai:o. who confirmed and communicated it afterwards; also Dr. Fanning (H. Rev. S.161 and 214.) In all cases potences, even 2t.'0th were given. § Compare note to .\conit. and Cautharides. ** Dr. J. C. Morgan. Sensitiveness of external parts — Over-sensl- tiveiiess. Dryness of skin, but not in febrile diseases . Apoplexy Pulse, if changed, more frequent, but less vin^orous, even small and intirm. Grauvogl. No thirst until before and during the sweating stage. Sleeplessn. fr. overexcitement of body or mind. Ignatia. Inclination for exercise Aversion to exercise. Sleepless more before and soon after midnifrht; Sleeplessness during the evening: and before wide awake; during the hot stage, partic. midnight; from ebullition of blood; with during the sweat; sX&o after typhoid fevers. starting when falling asleep; inward rest- lessness, thirst, fever with anxiety from 2 to 5 A. M., sleep with the heat so light that he hears very distant noises. Threateningg of apoplexy, with congestion to Threatenings of apoplexy; head feels empty,
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