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I Icy coldness of feet, or burning in soles ; suppressed foot- sweat, or sweating of feet. ^* Limbs in General. ■ Severe cramps in muscles of extremi- ties, making her cry out with pain; flexors strongly contracted, she imagines every moment the joints will break ; limbs hot and very sensitive to touch.

I Cramps in limbs, fingers and toes.

• Weakness and weariness of limbs.

I Coldness of limbs and hands, bluish appearance of fingers; low temperature, prostration.

I Contraction of joints, particularly knees.

■Twitching and jerking of arms and legs. ^Spasms.

t: Itching and tearing in limbs, and muscles of back, can hardly bear it.

I Tingling in extremities; twitching and jerking of limbs.

■ Peculiar contractions of fingers and toes. 6'Cholera.

■ Convulsions beginning with cramps in lower extremi-

ties, and drawing in of fingers and toes, throwing about of limbs, frothing at mouth, and choking in throat.

■ Lameness, dragging of 1. leg; twitching of 1. arm; im-

perfect speech, tongue trembling; inability to grasp and hold anything. ^Chorea. ^ Rest. Position. Motion. Lying: headache >; drum- ming in ear upon which he lies; pain in forehead >; sensation as of a ball going to and fro under ribs > ; spasmodic jerking of diaphragm >; twitchings >.

Sitting: sadness while walking compels; sudden attack of epilepsy.

Standing: sadness wdiile w^alking compels quiet; painful drawing in knees.

Sitting in bent position: during asthmatic attack.

Motion: headache <; pain in forehead < ; spasmodic jerking of diaphragm < ; twitching in arms and upper part of body brought on.

On opening eyes: eyeballs move about.

On moving eyes: pain in orbit.

Looking up: vertigo, with dimness of sight.

Lying down: sudden cries, clonic spasms of lower limbs.

Sitting up: giddiness of head while in bed, prevents; sud- den suffocation compels.

Rising: drumming in ear >.

Bending backward: dyspnoea <; cough <.

Walking: sadness while; dyspnoea < by quick; asthma <; painful drawing in knees; involuntary doubling up of knees.

Exertion: angina pectoris coming on. ^ Nerves. ■Senses less acute, in cholera.

■Restless tossing about and constant uneasiness.

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I Nervous trembling, with very great acuteness and sensi- tiveness of all the senses. ■Weariness of long duration.

■ Great weakness of muscles and relaxation of body.

I Great prostration, with nervous excitability, constant

restlessness driving out of bed. I Twitching, jerking or starting during sleep. iStarting, grinding of teeth, in brain affections. ■Twitching of limbs, followed by unconsciousness. iTwitchings and jerkings, which commence in fingers;

spasms often affect only one side, are painful, spread

over whole body. ^Chorea.

■ Periodical chorea, muscular contortions, with laughter,

grimaces, exaltation and ecstasies; irregular movements commencing in fingers and toes; twitchings, often con- fined to one side; > when lying.

■ Involuntary motions of 1. arm and leg resulting from

fright, and finally developing into chorea, so that she is unable to keep "^limbs cjuiet while awake; control of tongue lost, and for a long time speech absent.

■ St. Vitus' dance in a girl of 7 years, after seeing a child

in convulsions; attack begins with shooting and burning in 1. arm; arm convulsed, tossed about, so that whole body has to follow; horrible distortion of eyes and face; neck drawn to r. shoulder; face red, sweating; fever and thirst; ends with making fun — creeping under table — irritable, changing from a mild, sentimental mood to most stubborn obstinacy.

■ Chorea, or other clonic spasms, during pregnancy, when

attacks commence in one part — the fingers, or a limb — and gradually extend until the whole frame is involved.

■ Face deathly; lips cyanotic; breathing only as it were

by voluntary efforts; rolling alternately each time the chest heaved, from r. side to back, from back to r. side again; pulse thready, tense, 120 per minute.

Spasmodic affections in general; whooping cough where attacks run into catalepsy; epilepsy; spasms, particu- larly which begin in fingers and toes, then spread all over body; clonic spasms.

Spasms preceded by violent vomiting of mucus; after spasm child screams, turns and twists until another occurs; all troubles seem inclined to be translated to brain, threatening that organ with paralysis or dropsy.

■ ■Spasms with blue face and thumbs clenched across

palms of hands. I I Spasms come on in paroxysms, grouped with other symptoms which always appear with these parox- ysms. ^Chorea.

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■ Before outbreak, she feels a sudden metallic-sour taste in

mouth, with flow of saliva; dulness and heaviness of head, and an increasing anxiety which drives her to bed; face grows red; carotids pulsate; reddened bulbi become distorted; throat and chest feel constricted; she cannot speak; respiration hurried and noisy, arms and legs jerk; especially 1. arm is convulsively jerked as by an electric shock; total loss of consciousness; spell lasts from twenty to twenty -five minutes; body breaks out in sweat of an unpleasant odor; urine flows involuntarily; gradually pulse grows slower, and moaning child falls into a comatose sleep, from which she awakes with dul- ness of head, slow remembrance, and excessive prostra- tion ; spasms every fourteen days. t'Spasms from fright after operation.

1 1 Spasms after vexation or fright.

■Stiffness of whole body; sometimes body bent forward.

■ Spasms from metastasis from other organs to brain.

■ Tonic spasms, throwing patient about bed with such

violence, as to require several ])ersons to hold her, some- times body is bent backward like a bow; unconscious- ness; constant trickling of saliva from mouth; consti- pation; frequent scanty, turbid urine.

■ In anaemic conditions; shrill cries during attack; drowsy

and stupid condition during intervals, with nausea and vomiting of slime; bloated abdomen, with involuntary, thin discharges from bowels; also when child loses its breath from crying, and draws its feet spasmodically upwards and backwards upon nates. ^Convulsions of children. General convulsions, with continued vomiting and violent colic, ursemic eclampsia with loquacious delirium, fol- lowed by apathy, tongue and breath cold; face distorted, often red; eyes projecting, staring; long, shrill screams; finally exhaustion, sweat, torpor, and cessation of con- vulsions.

■ Eclampsia of children, during dentition; violent spasms,

similar to epilepsy; red face; head and face puffed up; shrill shrieks before attack; nausea, violent retching with vomiting of mucus; lethargy; twisting, turning, screaming; belly distended and hard; involuntary thin stools; sometimes convulsive twitching of limbs, fol- lowed by senselessness.

■ Child lies on belly and spasmodically thrusts breech up.

■ Convulsions with biting.

Epilepjtic convulsions: trembling, tottering and falling unconscious, without a scream; preceded by drawing in 1. arm; aura epileptica; followed by headache; during sleep at night; each new moon.

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I She becomes suddenly pale; loses consciousness; muscles efface and limbs jerk; at last whole body becomes stiff; falls down sometimes ; two or three attacks every week ^Epilepsy.

1 Epileptiform convulsions; he trembled, staggered, and fell down unconscious, without crying.

Before attack: nausea, retching and throwing up of phlegm, bloated abdomen, drawing sensation in 1. arm, arm is drawn involuntarily close to body, formication and tearing in r. hand, shuddering, goose-flesh, palpi- tation of heart, or sudden shriek and falling down, without any premonitory signs.

During attack: fingers become dead; involuntary dis- charge of urine; bluish color of pit of stomach and chest; chest and head covered with perspiration.

After attack: w^eeping; headache; profuse discharge of clear, watery urine ; long trembling and shaking of r. hand; sleep.

During intervals: anxiety; tendency to be frightened; burning in chest and abdomen, with chilliness of re- mainder of body ; burning and tearing in small of back; numbness of arms.

lln clearly idiopathic cases of epilepsy, w-ith no organic lesions; < about new moon; after mental excitement; fright.

1 Nocturnal epilepsy, or when the fits return at regular in- tervals (menses), beginning with a sudden scream ; un- consciousness; loss of sensibility and throwing the body upwards and forwards; coldness of hands and feet; lividity of face; clinching the thumbs; suffocative paroxysms; frequent emission of urine; turbid urine; piercing, violent screaming; difficult comprehension or stupor; convulsions of children during dentition or from retrocession of exanthemata.

i Epileptic attacks in consequence of getting wet; drew herself up in bed like a ball, began to scream at slightest touch, or distorted her face as if from pain, and tried in every way to prevent feeling the pulse.

I One or two days after cessation of menses, during night, unconsciousness, moaning, rattling in throat, frothing at the mouth, clinching of thumbs, with cramps in abdomen, loss of appetite, and yellowish-white coating of tongue. ^Epilepsy after falling upon head.

;;rOpisthotonic spasms, body arched, resting on occiput and heels.

■ Tetanus, with bending head back, and escape of urine.

Rigidity of limbs and trunk; jaws closed, with loss of consciousness, redness of eyes, ptyalism and frequent micturition.

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Nervous apoplexy, with convulsions, distortions of face, and palsy of speech. Atrophy of paralyzed parts, with paralysis of motor nerve^, while sensation is normal; paralysis of tongue; choreic movement.

I After apoplexy, when there is congestion in chest, strong palpitation of heart, or slow, weak and small pulse; eyelids keep closed and twitch; when opening eyes, eyeballs move about; paralysis after cholera and t^^phus; paralysis commencing at periphery, and progressing towards centre.

Paralysis of tongue, stuttering, deficient speech ; the par- alyzed limbs grow thinner, but preserve sensation ; fre- quently complicated with unyielding contractions or chorea like contractions.

■ Paralysis, could only turn head and neck; feet insensible,, bladder and rectum paralyzed. ^^ Sleep. I Frequent yawning. ^Diarrhoea.

I Sleepy, without being able to sleep.

I Sleeplessness; tossing about.

Sleep heavy, even to comatose state.

Comatose sleep after vomiting.

During sleep: constant grumbling in abdomen ; jerking.

Sleep full of dreams. ^^ Time. In morning: sweat; drumming in ear; slight ex- pectoration with cough.

In evening: delirium; cannot be induced to go among people; fever; exacerbation in brain affections; itching in eyes; cough dry; tetter in bend of elbow with violent itching <.

Night: restless; increased urination ; cough <; three at- tacks of whooping cough in C|uick succession; epileptic convulsions during sleep. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Heat: chilliness not > ; desire for warm drinks and food.

Cold air: hoarseness; cough < by inhaling.

Cold water: prevents vomiting; great thirst for; cough and vomiting > by a swallow; cough > by drinking;. whooping cough >.

From cold air into warm room: cough <.

Wind: asthma < by long continued walking against; cough after sea wind; cough < by north wind; cough < by land wind.

Getting wet: epileptic attacks. *'•• Fever. Shaking chill, with icy coldness, and severe cramps in extremities, and cold, clammy sweat.

Intense coldness and blueness of surface, Avith long con- tinued, general cold sweat and great prostration.

I Chilliness before the coughing attack. ^Whooping cough.

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Chill over whole body, most severe on extremities. Chill after every attack of indisposition. Icy coldness of the whole body.

Skin: moist and cool, particularly extremities; dry, burn- ing hot; warm, dry and withered.

■ Feverish sensation, as if cold wind was blowing out from

the skin. ^Diarrhoea. I Cold shuddering with flushes of heat. ^Brain affections.

■ Either slight heat or burning. ^Brain affections. Flushes of heat.

Fever, with thirst, frequent pulse and heat.

■Skin, in beginning, dry, burning hot; later, moderately warm, dry and withered, or moist and cool, particularly on extremities. ^Pneumonia.

Typhus, without high fever, but excessive w^eakness ; dis- solution of blood; nosebleed and petechia) ; great pros- tration, with nervous excitability; restless tossing about ; eyes dim, lustreless; difficult hearing; paralysis of heart.

■ Yellow fever; attack of vomiting, mostly vomiting of

■ Burning in the soles of the feet.

■ During spell, chest and head covered wdth perspiration;

during interval, burning in chest and abdomen, with

■ Cold sweat on forehead. ^Cough.

■ Sweat, sour-smelling. ^Convulsions. Many attacks end in sweat.

■ Foot-sweat; also suppressed foot-sweat.

^^ Attacks, Periodicity. Sudden: convulsions; cries with clonic spasms of lower limbs; asthmatic attacks ; feeling of suffocation; metallic-sour taste in mouth; paleness; sinking of swelling in erysipelas of scalp.

Constant: restlessness; rotating of eyeballs; eructations; cramps with convulsive motions of lower limbs; rattling on chest; spasmodic jerking of diaphragm; motion of muscles of chest and abdomen; trickling of saliva from mouth; grumbling in abdomen during sleep.

Continuous: pains in stomach and abdomen; violent vom- iting; hoarseness.

Intermittent: colic; aphonia.

Paroxysmal : headache.

Periodical: uttering of shrill screams; chorea; headache;; attacks of vomiting.

Every fifteen, thirty, or sixty minutes: convulsions after confinement.

Every fourteen days: spasms.

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Two or three times a week : epileptic attacks.

From twenty to twenty-five minutes: attack of spasms.

Beginning in afternoon and continuing into night: chronic headache.

For twenty-four hours: coma.

New moon: epileptic convulsions.

Chronic: headache; glossitis; diarrhoea. '^Locality and Direction. Right: bleeding from side of nose; formication and tearing in hand; sense of con- striction in arm and forearm and of great increase in size; trembling and shaking of hand; neck drawn to shoulder.

Left: pain over eye; pressure over eye; headache < in side; pain in region of parietal bone; extending down neck and arms and across chest; twitching of lids of eye; pain in tonsil ; drawing pain from hypochondrium to hip ; stitches in side of chest; broad stitches under scapula; convulsive jerking of arm ; drawing in arm, arm drawn close to body; lameness and dragging of leg; twitching of arm; involuntary motions of arm and leg; shooting and burning inarm; drawing inarm before epileptic convulsion; blisters on foot. ^ Sensations. As if some misfortune was approaching ; as of a veil before eyes; as if an abscess were forming in brain; as if he would lose his senses; as if nose was stuffed up ; as if brain would press out of forehead ; as if head would be torn asunder ; as if cold water was poured on head; as of something moving on top of head; as of congestion of blood to nose; as if throat was constricted on swallowing; as of a round ball going to and fro under ribs; as though something bitter were in the stomach; as of a stone in abdomen; as if a knife were thrust from umbilical region through to back; as of great dryness in pit of stomach ; as of rush of blood to chest ; as if he would suffocate ; as of constriction in r. arm and forearm and of great increase in size; as if r. arm and forearm were larger than whole body, and not under control of will; as if middle finger were pricked with a needle; as if knee-joint was broken; as if cold wind was blowing out from skin; as if bones w^ould break.

Pain: in head; in forehead, < over 1. eye; in region of 1. parietal bone, extending down neck and arms, and across chest; in eyeballs; acute, in throat ; behind ensi- form cartilage; tormenting, in stomach and epigastric region ; spasmodic in calves ; behind ensiform cartilage, with deathly feeling ; in middle finger ; in bones.

Agonizing : headache.

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Anguish: prsecordial.

Cutting : in umbilical region ; below navel ; in abdomen ; with stool.

Rending pain : from teeth to temples ; in upper limbs.

Tearing: in forepart of head ; in limbs; in small of back; in r. hand ; in limbs and muscles of back.

Boring pain : in and behind ears ; in region of heart.

Piercing pain : in 1. tonsil.

Shooting pain : in sides of chest ; preventing breathing ; in 1. arm.

Lancinating: in forehead, temples or occiput; in small of back.

Stitches: in temples; < in 1. side of chest ; below heart; broad, as with a knife, under 1. scapula.

Stitching : in upper limbs.

Stinging pain : with intestinal ulcers.

Jerking pains: in limbs; in ulcers.

Digging pain : in calves.

Drawing pain : from 1. hypochondrium to hip ; in abdo- men; in calves; in arms; in 1. arm ; in knees.

Constriction: in throat; deathly beneath sternum; in throat and chest.

Contractive pain in stomach ; in chest.

Cramping : after-pains; feeling in pharynx exciting cough..

Griping: about region of heart.

Colicky pain : in abdomen.

Gnawing: in stomach.

Corroding: sensation, in stomach; pain, with intestinal ulcers.

Bruised pain : in brain, and in orbit on turning eye.

Burning: in throat; in epigastric region; in small of back; in soles; in 1. arm; in chest and abdomen; in sacrum.

Shocks: in sacrum.

Pressing : pain in eyes ; in front of ears.

Pressure: over 1. eyes and root of nose; outward, in fore- part of head ; in pit of stomach ; in stomach ; in ab- domen ; painful, in scrobiculum ; on stomach ; behind sternum.

Oppression: of chest.

Aching : top of sacrum.

Dull pain : in 1. tonsil,

Dulness: of head.

Distress: in chest.

Anxious feeling : about heart.

Numbness: of arms; of hands.

Tingling: pain in vertex; in extremities.

Formication : in r. hand.

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Crawling : in vertex ; on top of head.

Heaviness: of head; painful, in ankle.

Lame feeling : in back and lumbar region ; in arms and hands.

Hollow feeling : in head.

I Hsematemesis. ^Yellow fever.

Muscles are knotted and remain so.

I Emaciation.

Pain in bones, as if they would break,

■ Promotes suppuration in swellings. I Inflammation of the cellular tissue.

■ Caries.

iGangrena senilis of foot in a man. ^^ Touch, Passive Motion, Injuries. Touch: headache < from; convulsions of head < or renewed by; swelling on head painful to; pain in 1. tonsil <; epigastrium sore to ; pressure in pit of stomach < ; of clothing over epigastrium uncomfortable; pressure in abdomen <; abdomen tender to ; abdomen painful on ; pressure in scrobiculum <; spinal column from sixth cervical vertebra to small of back intolerable to slightest; screams at slightest.

Pressure: headache < from slightest; pressure in pit of stomach <; of tight clothing or bandage around ab- domen >; colic not < by; abdomen sore to. ^^ Skin. I I Skin over-sensitive, particularly in the region of the stomach and fourth and fifth dorsal vertebra.

I Skin: inelastic; dough-like; cold.

■ Unbearable itching, without eruption. Prurigo, in children.

Rash on chest and hands.

■ Rash, on the third day after confinement; copious, sour

sweat; anxiety; starting at everything; head heavy; pressure in stomach; abdomen sore on pressure; great thirst; shocks and burning in sacrum; numbness of arms; convulsions every 15, 30, or 60 minutes.

■ Measles; brings out the eruption, ameliorating the dry

cough quickly.

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Spots on arms.

I Repercussion of eruption, witli convulsions, vomiting or gagging; pale face and twitching of limbs.

Watery vesicles on tips of fingers.

■ Tetters: sj)reading, oozing; in the bend of the elbow, forming yellowish scabs.

;rMany red points, with minute blisters; much itching, mostly during the day; on the left foot, blisters filled with matter; in cases of leprosy.

I I Sudden sinking of the swelling changing into a bluish color; violent brain symj)toms. ^Erysipelas of scalp and face.

Blackness of outer parts ; cyanosis or morbus coeruleus.

Eruptions resembling lepra, dry itch, measles and scarla- tina.

Herpes, with yellow scales.

Hard inflamed ulcers, with jerking pain; sensitive ulcers, with redness around edges ; pus scanty and corroding.

I Old ulcers.

Lepra vulgaris.

Inflammation of lymphatic vessels from hand to shoulder, with violent swelling of the hand. "" States of Life, Constitution, a Light hair.

Corresponds to the carbo-nitrogenoid constitution of Grau- vogl.

Girl, set. 9 months, weak; asthma jNLllari.

A very delicate child, about one vear old; asthma Millari.

Child, set. 2 ; cerebral meningitis.

Boy, set. 4, very irritable and easily angered, father health}^ and robust, with inclination to asthma, of which the grandfather of boy suffers severely; asthma.

Boy, set. 10, small, weak, pale, blonde complexion; epi- lepsy.

Boy, set. 10, delicate, sensitive, excitable, of earnest dis- position, easily excited to nausea; cholera.

Boy, set. 10; epilepsy.

Girl, set. 10, for two years; spasms from fright, after opera- tion for harelip.

Girl, set. 10, since five years; epilepsy.

Girl, set. 11; cram]js.

A young soldier; knees giving way.

A young soldier; spasms after measles, with pneumonic symptoms.

Girl, set. 13; ileus.

Girl, set. 14, otherwise healthy, not menstruated, has suf- fered for three years ; epilepsy.

'Girl, set. 16; epilepsy.

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Girl, set. 18, delicate, with dark hair, brown eyes, and pleasant expression of face; spinal irritation.

Girl, set. 19, healthy; menses scanty, but regular; spasms.

Miss A., set. 20; laryngeal spasms.

Girl, set. 20, blonde; epilepsy.

Young lady, before attack, courses suddenly suppressed by getting wet; chorea minor.

Girl, set. 23, robust, suffering for five years; epilepsy.

Lady, about to be married, became very nervous from overwork and mental anxiety ; hysteria.

Woman, set. 24, stout, after parturition; convulsions.

Woman, married 7 years, childless; disposition to fainting.

Young soldier on Mississippi; measles and pneumonic symptoms.

Large, strong farmer; asthma.

Woman, set. 83, rather delicate and nervous; dyspnoea.

Lady, set. 43, tall, spare, delicate and nervous, had suffered for a long time; neuralgia of head.

Man, set. 47, small, lively disposition; epilepsy.

It antidotes: Aurum, Mercur., Opium.

Calc. ostr.

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