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General

General action :

The chief effect is on the mind ; an abnormal exhilaration and excitation of thought.

Ideas crowd upon each other with extreme rapidity, so that time seems infinite, space immense.

The sense of duality is also pronounced.

Convulsions are sometimes induced.

Generalities

Convulsions.

Weakness from a short walk ; could hardly speak, soon followed by a deep sleep.

Mind

Imagines that he hears music, shuts his eyes and is lost in delicious thought.

Exaltation of spirits.

Loquacity.

Incoherent talk.

Uncontrollable laughter, until the face is purple and back aches.

Anguish, better in the open air, with oppression.

Fear that he will become insane.

Fixed ideas.

Absent minded.

Forgetful, cannot finish a sentence.

Unconsciousness every few minutes.

Head

Frequent involuntary shaking.

Sudden shocks through the brain on regaining consciousness.

Vertigo on rising ; on rising, with stunning pain in occiput ; falls down.

Sticking, jerking pains through the head, or a feeling as though the head were opening and shutting.

Eyes

Fixed.

Injected.

Letters run together when reading.

Glimmering before the eyes.

Ears

Throbbing and fullness.

Buzzing and ringing.

Face

Expression drowsy and stupid.

Lips glued together.

Mouth

Mouth and lips dry.

Saliva white, thick, frothy and sticky.

Throat

Dryness ; with thirst for cold water.

Stomach

Appetite increased, even ravenous.

Pain at cardiac orifice, > pressure.

The stomach feels swollen when eating, with oppression, as if he would suffocate.

Rectum and Stool :

Sensation in anus as if he were sitting on a ball ; as if anus and part of urethra were filled with a hard ball.

Painful, yellow diarrhoea.

Urinary Organs

Straining, even after micturition, ineffectual.

Dribbling after urinating.

Frequent micturition, with burning pain.

Stitches in the urethra during and after micturition.

Urine copious, colorless.

Genital organs :

Oozing of white, glairy mucus from the urethra.

Satyriasis.

Menstruation profuse, lasting too long.

Respiratory organs :

Rough cough, scratching in the sternum.

Oppression of the chest ; feels suffocated and has to be fanned.

Heart

Oppression about the heart, with stitches, > deep breathing.

Palpitation ; wakes out of sleep.

Pulse slow.

Back

Stitching pain in the kidneys, keeping him awake at night, or when laughing.

Extremities

Paralysis of the lower extremities.

Paralysis of the right arm.

Pain across the shoulder and spine, forcing him to stoop.

Thrillings through the arm and knees.

Stiffness and tired aching in the knees.

Pains in the soles of the feet, as if treading on spikes, extending to hips on attempting to walk, with drawing pains in the calves.

Numb feeling in the sole and foot, extending to the whole limb.

Sleep

Sleepiness.

Sound sleep.

Talking in sleep.

Starting of the limbs in sleep, which woke him.

Nightmare every night on falling asleep.

Numerous dreams of all sorts.

Fever

Coldness, especially of the face, nose and hands after dinner.

Sticky perspiration in drops on the forehead.