Mygale Lasiodora

Mind

Felt sad all day. {Howard.) Great anxiety and fear of death. {S/ile.) Despondency and fear of death. {Jloward,) Delirious and restless all night, with talk about his business. C/6.)

B ali night with ridiculous dreams. (li.)

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44* MTGALE LASIODOEA.

Head

° Frontal headache — in cliorea — vertigo.

FEice. Face flushed and hot.

Mouth And Throat

Tongue dry and parched, or dry and hrowa. ° Grating of the teeth — nights.

Gastric. Nausea, with palpitation of the heart. Excess ive thirst — with the fever.

TJrinary Organs. In the morning increased discharge of urine, with stinging

pain in nrethra. The urine during the day was bnming hot, it seemed scalding.

Chest

Difficult respiration, with anxiety.

Heart

Strong palpitation of tiie heart, dimness of sight, nausea, and general weatnese.

Back

Pain in the hack, extending around to the front. Twitching in the muscles of the back. Extremities, The local inflammation (from a bite) was very extensive, reach- ing from foot to knee, leaving a large violet spot which afterwards became greenish. {Howa/rd.) Intense redness in streaks, ibllowing the course of the lym- phatics— from the calf upward to the body, with great anxiety, twitching of the limbs, etc. (Jlale.)

* Convulsive, uncontrollable movements of the arms and legs. Pulsative, stinging pains in the foot.

Fever, Severe chill, followed by fever, with trembling of tlie whole body, excessive thirst, face flashed, jwJse 130, tongue dry and brown, difficult breathing, despondency, fear of death, delirium.

Oeneralities.

* Convulsive, uncontrollable movements of the back, arms and

legs.

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MTKICA OEKIFEKA. 445

"Chorea: arms and limbs in constant motion, facial muscles distorted, conld not help herself; headache, vertigo, grat- ing the teeth nights; quiet during sleep; worse in the morning. {Dr. Spooner.)

° Chorea: jerking in left leg, facial muscles, etc. (Dr. Blake's patient improved in a short time under Mygale.)

° Chorea — alter Cimicifuga— " the twitching was now confined to the left arm (cured bj Mygale 1st)." (^Dr, jBla&e.)