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General

General action :

Powerfully depressing ; produces nausea and vomiting, with feeble heart's action, low temperature, vertigo, delirium and collapse.

Gastro-enteritis.

Tetanic convulsions.

Persistent spasms of arterioles, with cold surface of the body.

Degeneration and atrophy of the nerves of special sense, and paralysis of voluntary muscles.

Generalities

Emaciation.

Anaemia.

Muscular unsteadiness, with trembling, cramps, convulsions.

Neuralgic pains of various sorts, > hot applications.

Extreme restlessness ; must constantly change position.

Profound prostration, slow, shuffling gait.

Sudden faintness, even hemiplegia.

Aggravation from extremes of heat or cold, but amelioration in the open air.

Mind

Nervous excitability.

Despondency and misanthropy.

Difficult concentration of mind, and stupor.

Delirium, like delirium tremens.

Head

General heaviness, with heat of the head, > open air.

Vertigo, with nausea, < warm room, followed by vomiting of food and tremulous weakness.

Eyes

Atrophy of the optic nerve, with various disturbances of vision.

Ears

Hearing becomes dull, with various noises.

Face

Pale, collapsed expression, cold sweat, eyes sunken, features drawn.

Mouth

Tearing toothache in the evening, extending to the bones of the face.

Mouth filled with white, tenacious mucus, causing frequent expectoration.

Salivation, with burning in the mouth and throat, tickling, dryness, rawness, scraping in the pharynx provokes frequent hawking and coughing.

Swallowing difficult on account of spasms of the pharynx.

Stomach

Thirst.

Nausea like sea-sickness, with vertigo and cold sweat ; faintness > open air.

Vomiting of food and of sour or bitter liquid, with deathly nausea, cold sweat and sinking in the region of the stomach.

Stool

Watery diarrhoea, urgent, painless in the morning.

Evacuations like cholera, with deathly faintness, cold surface, irregular pulse.

Respiratory organs :

Cough, suffocative from irritation in the throat and larynx ; < night, respiration difficult, < ascending, with palpitation and distress in the region of the heart.

Symptoms of angina pectoris ; feels as if a crowbar were twisted in a knot about the heart, which seemed to stop, followed by a violent beating and intermitting pulse ; constriction and tightness across the chest, with praecordial oppression.

Palpitation, with pain between the shoulders and the back, < lying on the left side.

Dilation of the heart, with feeble, irregular pulse ; pains extend from the heart to the arms, pinched features, sense of suffocation.

Pulse rapid and small.

Weak and soft ; intermittent.

Extremities

Relaxed and paralyzed.

Gait shuffling, unsteady.

Sleep

Sleeplessness, with uneasy, anxious dreams.

Fever

Chills, with cold sweat.

Cold, clammy sweat at night on the hands and face.