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General
(The following symptoms are by Hahnemann.) Intoxication, (a. 8 h.) Stupid feeling in the head. Intox- ication, and heaviness in the body. (a. 1 h.) Vertigo : the head feels drawn backward; he is moreover very drowsy. — 5. Dis- agreeable lightheadedness, with a feeling of weakness in the head. Diminished memory. The loss of sense seems to be accompanied with an internal uneasiness, and to proceed from it. Clawing headache.
The black letters seem to him gray, and as if a second let- ter of the same kind, and of a light-gray color, were placed sideways or above (a kind of diplopia), for example :
F Fi
— 10. Objects appeared to be in an oblique position. He saw things as if through coarse linen, only fragments of them, and as if cut through ; for instance, of a face he only saw the nose,
' When he attempted to draw this phenomenon on paper while he saw it, he drew but one F, and afterwards carried ihe pen over the same lines, imagining that he had drawn a second F.
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etc., as if the eyes had but a small vision, and he was only able to see a small point at once. He imagines he sees a red- dish-gray border around white things, for instance, aromid paper.
When reading, he was unable to distinguish a syllable ; the letters seemed to move and become blurred. Dullness of vision, like a fog before his eyes, as if he saw things through a glass of turbid water; the objects looked as if they had be- come diffused and were too distant. — 15. Almost complete blindness for six hours ; on the days following, he experienced a pressure as from the middle of the eyeball, at every change of light, either when going from a dark place into a lighter, or from a light place into a dark.
Distinct vision, more so than usually. (Curative effect, after 24 hours.) Swelling and in- flammation of the eyelids. Involuntary lachrymation.
Beating toothache, as if a portion of the teeth would fall out. — 20. Sensation as if the inner mouth were raw and sore, (a. 24 h.) Dryness in the throat. Great dryness in the mouth, so that white bread tastes to him like straw. Great dryness in the mouth, so that he is unable to spit, although the tongue looks moist. Ptyalism.
Strangulating Sensation In The Throat
The velum pendulum palati hangs down very low ; food and drinks went down with a good deal of difficulty, and with a scraping pain in the velum pendulum palati.
Inability to swallow.
Diffi- cult deglutition, with stinging pain in the fauces.
Difficult deglutition, with aching pain in the sub-maxillary glands.
Loss Of Appetite
Increased appetite.
Nausea.
Bil- ious vomiting, after the least motion, even after sitting up in the bed.
Constant bitterness of mouth, the food tastes bitter. — 35.
Pressure in the region of the heart.
Colic, as if the ab- domen were puffed up ; the abdomen was painful even when touching the side.
Tearing pain in the abdomen, as if the umbilicus were being torn out, which afterwards retreats into the chest.
Sensation as if the abdomen were extremely tense.
Distention of the abdomen^ which is not hard. — 40.
Dis- charge of coagulated blood from the anus.
Haemorrhoidal flux for several days.
Constipation for six days, without any pain from repletion, or without any distention of the abdomen. Suppression of all the excretions.
Emission of urine without any power ; he was indeed able to retain the urine, but he felt all the time as if he had not the power to retain the urine and to close the neck of the bladder;
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accompanied with a sensation as if the urethra were too nar- row and unable to be distended.
Tntnor In The Groin
Increased menstrual flow ; the blood conies off in large pieces, and is coagnlated. Excessive menstrual flow, metrorrhagia, with drawing pains in the ab- domen, the thighs, and other limbs.
His nose feels obstructed and dry, although be is able to breathe through it.
Difficult breathing. — 50.
Oppressed breathing.
Aching pain in the chest and sternum, excited by talking.
Sensation as if something were turning about in the chest ; afterwards heat in the face.
Bruising pain in the back and abdomen, excited by motion, (a. 12 h.) Bruising pain in the back and shoulder, (a. 13 h.) — 55.
A spot in the back which is painful when touched or no.
Small spot in the back, occasioning a drawing pain when touched.
Drawing-tearing pains in the back and epigastrium.
(a. 1 h.) Drawing pain in the middle of the spine, with draioing pain in the opposite posterior fart of the stomachs Draiving pain in the middle of the spine. — 60.
Drawing pains in the small of the hack.
Trembling of the arms when eating.
Drawing pains in the thighs.
Vacillation of the limbs when walking or stand- ing.
Trembling of one and m,ore limbs. — 65.
Trembling of one hand, when eating.
Convulsions of the limbs.
All the limbs ache.
The limbs feel as if gone to sleep.
Sensation as if one part of a joint were separated from another, and could not be joined to it again.
Pimples, like blotches, on several parts of the body, and also in the palm of the hands, occasioning a stinging-itching, in- creased by rubbing.
Immobility of the limbs, she is unable to stir (a sort of catalepsy).
Weakness of the body, weariness of the feet.
Violent desire to lie down.
Cutting pain in the sternum, after lying down in the night, disappearing after emission of flatulence, but returning afterwards.
Restless Sleep
Vivid dreams about historical facts.
He goes frequently to sleep, and, when waking, has a comic- ally majestic appearance.
Cold limbs. — 80.
Coldness of the whole body.
Coldness and chilliness for eight hours.
The feet were ex- tremely cold early in the morning, and nevertheless they were extremely sensitive to every cold current of air.
Heat in the face.
Sensation of heat in the face, when the coldness and chilliness are passed.
He Feels Hot
He covers himself carefully during the
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heat ; but if he merely stretches a finger from under the cover, the pains become very violent.
Fever : first heat in the head, afterwards coldness of the whole body, followed by heat of the whole body with anguish ; sleeps during the heat, and violent thirst after waking, so violent that he feels a stinging in his palate, until he drinks.
Slight sweat at night.
Heat and sweat all over, without thirst, (a. 5 h.) Red rash over the shin.
(Irregular spots on the arm resembling flea-bites.) (a. 3 h.)
Loquacious dementia : he complains of a dog cutting and. tearing his breast with the teeth.
He imagines he is dying and cannot live until evening; he rejoices at dying, makes preparations for his funeral ; his mind being othervi^ise in good order, and his health being good.
He is very sad after lying down in the evening, has thoughts of death, and weeps vio- lently.
Despair
Great ill-humor, even unto vehemence, fol- lowed immediately after by a disposition to laugh aloud.
OBSERVATIONS OF OTHERS.
Head
Vertigo.
Vertigo, with redness of face.
Vertigo, with pain in the abdomen, and a gauze before his eyes. — 50.
Vertigo, with diarrhoea.
Vertigo, headache, dimsightedness, violent thirst, tenacious mucus in the mouth, rumbling in the abdomen, and pain in the epigastrium.
Vertigo for eight days.
Vertigo ; he staggers to and fro like one drunk.
He becomes giddy while sitting or standing in a room; he staggers. — 10.
Vertigo, want of thought four mornings in succession after ris- ing ; he has but a dull and distant recollection of things, (weakness in the memory,) and he sees as if through a gauze, for two hours.
Staggering.
He staggers about the room and looks as if he were seeking something. — 15.
He stumbles against the door whenever he goes through it.
Intoxication.
Intoxication, with thirst, and a profuse flow of a burning urine.
Rush of blood to the head.
Heat of the head, and sparkling eyes. — 20.
Apoplexy.
Weakness of the head.
Heaviness in the head.
Stupefaction of the head.
Stupefaction of the head, with dimsightedness. — 25.
Stupidity.
She sits sense- less and immovable like a wooden figure.
Dulness of the head.
Obscuration of all the senses.
Obscuration of all the senses and anxiety, followed by a red rash on the back, and sweat. — 30.
Extreme insensibility of all the senses.
Insensi- bility.
Headache.
Dull or violent headache. — 35.
Pain in the head and pelvis.
Headache with anorexia.
Headache and
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distention of the abdomen at times.
Beating headache in the right temple, with dianhfra.
Giddy, headache with fainting and thirst. — 40.
Headache and pain in the eyes.
Violent headache and toothache, with profuse lachrymation.
Convul- sions of the head and arms, with hiccough.
Spasmodic draw- ing, only in the head and eyes, with grinding of the teeth. — 45.
He frequently raises his head from the couch.
Spasmodic drawing of the head to either side, with screaming and raising of the arms over the head.
Early in the morning he moves his head to and fro, with excessive thirst.
He moves his head to and fro ; this movement is only interrupted by hiccough.
Swollen face, turgid with blood. — 50.
Swelling of the face.
Face and Eyes : Swelling of the face and redness of the cheeks.
Swelling of the face, eyes and tongue.
Swellingand redness of the eyes and face — 55.
The skin on the forehead is wrinkled, the eyes stare, the whole face looks wild and frightful, (a. 3 h.) At first his face looks friendly, except the staring eyes ; at last it becomes quite disfigured by deep fur- rows from the inner canthus to the cheek, by folds running from the nasal wings across the angle of the mouth, and by knitting the eyebrow^s, and it looks frightful on account of the sparkling eyes; after the lapse of an hour the eyes look dim and the face has a dismal expression, (a. ^, 2 h.) At first his face looks quite friendly, except the dilated pupils, but after- wards it looks dismal, like that of a man who is anxious, with deep furrows and wrinkles.
The cheeks are red and bloated, but the upper part of the face looks gloomy and contracted.
Frequent redness of the face, with staring eyes. — 60.
Erysip- elas on the right side of the cheek, nose and face.
Pale face.
Frequent sweat in the face and on the forehead.
Contracted pupils ; they do not dilate in the dark ; all things appear to him smaller and at a greater distance, and like one dazzled by the light, (a. ^ h.) Dilatation of the pupils. — 65.
Extreme dilatation of the pupils, with obscuration of sight.
The dilated pupils contract again after drinking vinegar.
The pupils are dilated and immovable.
Dim, sad look. — 70.
Sparkling eyes ; he complains of the rays of the sun dazzling him and of the loss of appetite.
Glistening eyes.
Staring eyes.
Star- ing, somnolent eyes.
Burning of the eyes, with dimsighted- ness and profuse sweat. — 75.
Pressure and tension in both eyes, for six days.
(a. 2 h.) Pressure in the eyelids, as if swollen, which is really the case, or as if oppressed with sleep ; hence a great disposition to sleep, which he is however able to overcome, (a. 3^ h.) Ulcerated eyelids.
Agglutination of the eyelids, at night.
Swelling of the eyes.
Swelling of the eyes,
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with dilated pupils and contortion of the eyeballs in every direc- tion.
His eyes close, his eyes see black.
The upper eyelid hangs down, as if caused by a spasm of the orbicularis muscle.
Red- ness of the whites of the eyes and the margins of the eyelids ; the eyes run profusely.
Extreme sensitiveness of the eyes to the light, (a. 24 h.)— 85.
Lachrymation of the left eye, of the right eye, and of both eyes together.
He sheds tears without knowing it.
Lachrymation of both eyes, with obscuration of sight. — 90.
He opened his closed eyes only when spoken to.
Dimsightedness.
Obscuration of sight, excessive. — 95.
Dim- sightedness every morning, as if a gauze were before the eyes.
Dimsightedness with great thirst.
Dimsightedness with thirst and sweat.
Bleareyedness after dimsightedness. — 100.
Ver- tigo and headache after dimsightedness.
Presbyopia for a long time ; he was only able to read distant print.
Contraction of the pupils occasioned by drinking vinegar after the pupils had been dilated by the stramonium : during this contraction all objects appeared to him extremely small ; as to the distant objects, he did not see them at all ; but on looking at the sun, the pupils remain staring, and his eyes became entirely black.
The patient is unable to discern small things, such as the point of a pin.
Indistinct, confused sight. — 105.
All things look as if in an oblique direction.
Diplopia: he sees small things at the places where they are, but he sees a second representation thereof a little higher and to one side.
The objects are multi- plied and of various colors.
Black things seem to him gray. — 110.
He sees objects in a room which do not exist.
Fiery visions before her eyes.
Disappearance of sight and hearing.
Ears
Wind rushes out of both ears. Shuddering about the chin.
Mouth and Teeth : 115.
Trembling of the lips, hands, and feet.
The lips have a yellow streak along the vermilion border, as in malignant fevers, and adhere hrmly together ; he fears lest they should grow together.
Toothache.
Grinding of teeth.
Grinding of teeth, with shuddering over the whole body. — 120.
Grinding of teeth ; he raises his hands above his head, and he moves them as if he were winding a ball of thread.
Grinding of teeth, with gloominess in the head.
Grinding of teeth, contortion of the hands and shudder- ing-lock-jaw, with closed lips.
Muttering. — 125.
Constant muttering.
The patient screams until he is hoarse.
He screams until he has lost his voice.
Stuttering.
Stuttering and uttering of inarticulate sounds. — 130.
He talks little, and utters single inarticulate sounds with a loud voice.
His voice has not the usual sound ; it is much higher and finer than
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usual ; it is a mere sounding, he is unable to utter an intelli- gible word (he hears and feels it himself); this makes him anxious.
A kind of paralysis of the organs of speech ; he has to exert himself a long while before he is able to utter a word ; he merely stammers and utters inarticulate sounds.
He is mute and does not answer.
Dumb, he expresses his wish by pointing to things. — 135.
He was mute, immovable, and pulseless for six or seven hours, and his limbs were paralyzed, without consciousness ; after that period he tossed about in his bed with great rage, made itmumerable signs to those around him which were not understood, and then became quiet again.
His tongue is paralyzed ; it trembles when he attempts to put it out, as in typhus fever.
Swelling of the tongue.
Swelling of the tongue all over. — 140.
The swollen tongue hangs out at the mouth.
Bloody froth at the mouth.
Hydrophobia (with other symptoms mentioned in their re- spective places, we have) : restlessness, violent convulsions, the patient being so violent that he had to be tied ; he rolled about in his bed sleepless and uttered crowing-screams : he was delirious without memory or consciousness ; his pupils were extremely dilated, violent desire to bite, and to tear every thing with his teeth ; extreme dryness of the inner mouth and fauces ; the sight of a light, mirror or water excited horrible convulsions ; irresistible aversion to water, Avith constriction and convulsions of the oesophagus, froth at the mouth, and frequent spitting.
Dread of or aversion to water and any other liquid, with spasmodic motion.
Aversion to watery liquids ; he became enraged when his lips were moistened.
Pharynx, CEsophagus : — 145.
Inability to swallow, on account of dryness of the throat.
Dryness of the tongue and palate, so that they feel quite rough, without any thirst at first, (a. ^ h.) Extreme dryness in the mouth and want of saliva ; he is unable to spit up any thing, although the tongue is pretty moist and clean.
The palate feels parched, so that he is not able to eat a mouthful of bread. — 150.
Excessive dryness of the inner mouth.
Extreme acidity of the tongue and mouth.
Sensation of dryness on the tongue and in the throat.
Feeling of great dryness in the mouth and want of saliva, although the tongue looks clean and moist.
Great dryness of mouth and fauces. — 155.
Dryness of mouth, thirst ; dimsightedness, sparkling eyes, sweat and diarrhoea.
Dryness of mouth and palate with violent thirst (a. 6 h.), and such an absence of taste that he drank a pound of vinegar at one draught, without tasting it.
Tobacco has yet some taste, but the food tastes like sand, and forms a round lump in the
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cesophagus, so that he apprehends suffocation, (a. 3 h.) Bread and butter taste to him like sand ; on account of the dry- ness of the mouth, the things remain in the oesophagus and threaten to strangle him.
Thirst with great dryness of heat. — 160.
His oesophagus feels constricted.
She tries to eat bread and milk, but is unable to swallow either.
Constrictive sensation in the fauces after a meal.
(a. 2-^ h.) His throat feels con- stricted as if he should suffocate, or as if he were threatened with an apoplectic fit.
Constriction and spasm of the oeso- phagus.— 165.
Thirst, violent, or with headache.
Violent thirst with copious secretion of burning urine. — 170.
Trou- blesome thirst with the slaver hanging out in threads.
Fre- quent spitting.
Slaver hanging out at the mouth.
Frequent ptyalism.
Long continuing ptyalisrn and diuresis. — 175.
Profuse ptyalism with constantly increasing thirst.
Copious ptyalism, day and night ; he loses from three to four pounds of saliva.
Ptyalism with hoarseness.
Tenacious ptyalism.
Viscid mucus in mouth, with good appetite.
Gastric Symptoms : 180.
Hiccough.
Violent hiccough.
Sour eructations- Constant bitterness in mouth, and the food has a bitter taste.
Food has a spoiled taste. — 185.
Every kind of food tastes to him like straw.
Diminished appetite.
Undiminished appetite, with colic, diarrhoea and vomiting.
(The limbs are convulsed, while an artificial vomiting is exci- ted.) Inclination to vomit. — 190.
Inclination to vomit, with profuse ptyalism, in the evening.
Nausea, with flow of an ex- tremely saltish saliva.
Vomiting at night.
Vomiting of green bile at night.
In the evening he vomits up bile with mucus. — 195.
Vomiting of green mucus, with thirst.
Vomiting of a sour-smelling mucus.
Vomiting of mucus in the evening.
Stomach
Biting pain in the stomach.
Aching pain in the stomach. — 200.
Anxiety about the pit of the stomach.
Anxiety about the pit of the stomach, before noon.
Anxiety about the pit of the stomach, with dry heat of the body.
Anx- iety about the pit of the stomach, with difficult respiration.
Abdomen
205.
Bloated abdomen, especially in the region of the pit of the stomach.
In the evening the abdomen is bloated, with heat of the body and anxiety in the pit of the stomach.
Bloated, but not hard abdomen.
The abdomen of children becomes highly bloated from the seed of stramonium, with anxiety in the pit of the stomach, cold sweat, chilliness of the limbs, confusion of intellect, stupefied half-slumber, and anxious evacuations upward and downward. — 210.
Bloated abdomen, painless to the touch.
The epigastrium is tense, hard and painful.
Rumbling in the abdomen.
Rumbling in
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the abdomen, with diarrhoBa.
Rumbhng in the abdomen with coHc. — 215.
Violent fermenting in the abdomen for 7 days.
Rumbling in the abdomen, with obscuration of sight.
He complains of rumbling in the abdomen, as if living animals were crying and moving about in all the bowels.
Colic, rumbling and diarrhofia.— 220.
Colic, diarrhoea.
Itching in the abdomen.
Colic, watery vomiting and diarrhoea.
Stool
He has a desire to go to stool, but he has an evacuation only 24 hours after.
Constipation.
A writhing pain in the bowels, previous to every evacuation ; a blackish diarrhoea every hour.
(a. 36 h.) Diarrhoea, six days in suc- cession.
Diarrhoea, ceasing after a profuse perspiration. — 230.
Diarrhoea, with increase of appetite.
Diarrhoea, with paleness of face.
Stools have a cadaverous smell.
Emission of a large quantity of flatulence.
Urinary Organs
He was frequently obliged to urinate, but the urine was retained a minute before it came, and although it came out merely in drops, yet a large quantity was passed in the forenoon, (a. 4 and 5 hours). — 235.
During micturition, no stream is formed in spite of all pressing and urging ; the urine is warmer than usual, but it comes out only in drops ; he is not able to hasten the emission or to press out the last drops, but without experiencing any painful sensation in the urethra, except the sensation as if a cylindrical body were pushed through the urethra.' Suppression of the excre- tions from the bladder and stool.
Retention of urine.
Diuresis, with shuddering and rumbling in the abdomen.
Profuse, in- voluntary emission of urine. — 240.
Profuse diuresis.
Profuse diuresis without thirst.
Genital Organs: Lasciviousness.
Complete inability to perform an embrace.
Impotence. — 245.
During the menses the body sraelled as of semen.
Excessive loquacity during the menses.
Watery menses.
Discharge of black blood from the uterus. — 250.
Metrorrhagia.
Reappearance of the menses which had been suppressed for four years.
Erysipelas of the left cheek immediately after the menses.
Hiccough and moan- ing after the menses.
Catarrh and Chest : Obstruction of the nose. — 255.
Sensation as if the nose were obstructed, although he breathes freely.
Frequent sighs.
Violent stricture across the chest.
Hard pressure on the cartilages of the third and fourth rib, with difficult respiration ; he is unable to inspire a sufficient
' After drinking vinegar, the urine came out again in a thin stream, and the desire to urinate was not as frequent.
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quantity of air ; he does not feel any great anxiety, (a.
J h.) Oppressive and unusual pains,— 260.
Difficulty of breathing, with anxiety about the pit of the stomach.
His breathing be- comes more and more difficult, and he becomes blue in his face.
Feeling of dryness in the chest.
Spitting of blood.
Slow in- spirations and sudden expirations. — 265.
Drawing (rheumatic) pain, extending from the side of the neck into the limbs.
Extremities
Fine, sharp stitches in the forearm and a rheumatic constrictive pain in the deltoid muscle.
The sound hand trembles when eating.
He grasps at a thing quickly, imagines he has seized the thing before touching it, and, if he does hold the object, he does not feel that he has hold of it.
(a. 4—5 h.)— 270.
Spasmodic rigidity of the whole of the lower limbs, (a. 36 h.) Severe pain in the loins.
Pain in the right thigh.
A few sharp stitches in the outer part of the right tibia.
Boils on the feet. — 275.
Burning and itching of the feet.
Rheumatic drawing in the left tarsus, evening, (a. 36 h.) More or less violent burning in the dorsum of the foot.
(a. 24 h.)
Fainting Fits: He wants open air.
He hurries off" too fast in going to a place.— 280.
Extreme irritability ; he moves about so fast in the first hour, that all motion is finally arrested and his eyes see blacl% He performs all his movements with great force and hurriedness, so that he feels anxiety if he can- not achieve them at once.
Although he staggers, yet his limbs obey the will so readily, that he feels as if he had none ; they seemed to him much longer than they were, so that when walking, he thought he had already touched the floor, when the foot was yet half a foot away from it ; this makes him finally set down the foot very rapidly.
When going down stairs he takes two steps for one, and is not aware of it till he stumbles.
Fainting.— 285.
Fainting in the forenoon, with great paleness of face, and afterwards loss of appetite.
Faint- ing, with great dryness in the mouth.
Snoring dnringa swoon.
After the swoon there remains a spasm of the head to either side, Avith redness of face.
Heaviness of the limbs.— 290.
Heavi- ness of the feet and weariness of the legs.
Slow motion of the limbs, with creeping in the same.
Heat over the whole body and sweat, during the least motion, (a. 24 h.) Difficult motion and creeping in the limbs, with lachrymation.— 295.
Sensa- tion in the arms and limbs as if they were separated from the body in the joints.
The limbs go to sleep.
Difficulty of mov- ing the limbs, the pulse being almost extinct.
Immobility. — 300.
Loss of voluntary motion (catalepsis) a nd loss of senses ; deglutition remains uninjured.
Stiffness of the whole body, (a 1 h.) Paralyzed limbs.
Paralyzed legs.
Paralysis of
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several parts of the body. — 305.
When rising, he threatens to fall (in the first eight hours).
He is unable to walk alonn, he falls unless he is held.
The lower limbs bend suddenly when walking.
Weak when walking.
He is unable to stand. — 310.
He has to lie down.
Sleep
Drowsy and staggering.
Sleeps a few hours.
Drowsiness in daytime. — 315.
He sleeps in the daytime, and he wakes with an important and solenm look.
Quiet sleep.
Q-uiet sleep after the convulsions had ceased.
Sleeps twenty- four hours.
Some sleep twenty-four hours ; they lie like dead persons. — 320.
After a deep sleep full of dreams (a. 24 h.), during which he has an emission of semen, he feels quite drowsy, and he sees as through a gauze.
Deep, sound sleep ; he fetches breath with great trouble and snores during an expira- tion and inspiration.
Deep sleep with snoring.
Deep, snor- ing sleep, drawing up the leg rarely.
Slumber, with snoring and a bloody froth at the mouth ; dark-brown countenance, death. ^ — 325.
He lies on his back with open staring eyes.
Restless sleep, violent headache and profuse diuresis.
Restless sleep full of dreams, with tossing about in the bed.
Restless sleep followed by violent headache, vertigo, lachrymation and ptyalism. — 330.
Sleep interrupted by* screams.
Screaming and howling at night.
Wakes from his sleep with a scream.
Remained awake all night, tossed about in his bed, and uttered crowing screams.
Sleepless. — 335.
The limbs of the child were quite stiff.
Continual cramp in hands and feet.
The hands are clenched (not the thumbs), but they can be opened.
Violent motion of the limbs.
Constant movement of the hands and arms, as if he were spinning or weaving, (a. 8 h.) — 340.
Convulsions.
Violent convulsions in bed, during which he was like frantic, and had to be tied.
(a. 6 h.) Frightful convulsions at the sight of a candle, mirror, or of water.
The convulsions and the delirium could especially be excited by contact ; they were followed by great weakness.
The convul- sions ai]d the dilatation of the pupils remained when the pulse had already become slower and the abdomen relaxed, (a. 18 h.) — 345.
Spasmodic movements.
Spasms in the left arm, afterwards in the right leg, followed by sudden spasms of the
' In the case of a child of eighteen months, six hours after swallow- ing the seed. The body was covered with a number of brown stripes, the abdomen was filled with a yellowish water, the bowels were dis- tended with air, the liver, spleen and lungs, were likewise covered with brown stripes, there was a good deal of water in the pericardium, the heart was flaccid, and it, together with the blood-vessels, was filled with a quantity of fluid thin blood.
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head in all directions.
He moves his limbs to and fro.
His hands tremble when seizing any thing.
Spasmodic drawing up and inwards of the anterior muscles of the thigh, in parox- ysms.—3.50.
Convulsions, jerks.
Convulsions of the left lower limb ; they commence with a shock and the linib is drawn inwards and upwards.
Spasmodic tossing up of the Hmbs.
Alternate contractions of the hands and feet.
Slow- contracting and stretching of the limbs, in paroxysms. — 355.
Trembling of the limbs.
Trembling of the whole body.
Con- stant trembling of the feet.
Fever
Tremulous, weak, unequal, sometimes intermittent pulse.— 360.
Small, quick pulse.
Frequent, quick, small, irreg- ular pulse.
Small, quick, and at last scarcely perceptible pulse.
Extinct pnlse.
Strong, full pulse of 80 beats.— 365.
Strong, fall pulse of 90 beats.
Chill through the whole body, with single jerks partly of the whole body, partly of single hmbs, of the elbows and knee-joints, without any thirst.
Whenever he takes a dose ot stramonium, he experiences a disagreeable, shuddering chill, as if he dreaded the stramonium, (a. 3, 4, 5, h.) The limbs and the trunk are cold all over.
She lies on the floor, cold, senseless, and breathing feebly, (a. 2 h.)-370.
Chilliness along the back, in the afternoon.
Chilliness and shuddering of the limbs at night.
In the afternoon he experiences a tremu- lous tossing of the knees and feet, as of violent chilliness, his mind being intact.
Violent chill.
Fever in the afternoon.— 375.
Violent fever at noon, returning with the same violence about midnight.
After the vomiting, in the evening, he expe- riences a continuous, violent fever, with profuse sweat.
Fever every day, after noon.
Fever in the evening, for two days.
Towards noon he experiences great heat, redness in the face, vertigo and lachrymation.— 380.
Great heat with quick and small pulse and bright-red vermilion-colored countenance.
In the evening he feels a burning above the knee when walk- ing, and heat through the whole body, with excessive thirst.
(a. 12 h.) Heat of the whole body.
Great heat, slight sweat, quick, soft pulse.— 385.
Great heat, and talking during sleep.
Copious sweat.
Sweat whh diminished appetite.
Profuse sweat at night. — 390.
Sweat after severe thirst.
Sweat in the back.
Frequent sweat with good appetite, diarrhoea, dis- tention of the abdomen and colic.
Violent sweat, with great thirst.
Profuse sweat, with colic— 395.
Great sweat, with increase of thirst.
Cold sweat over the whole body.
Erup- tion' over the whole body, with swelling, inflammation and itch-
' All the eruptions and the itching occasioned by Stramonium, seem to be secondary symptoms.
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ing.
Blisters upon the skin, breaking out after the violent symptoms have made their appearance.
Inflamed, painful pustules on the right leg, emitting an acrid water, (a. a few weeks.) — 400.
Itching eruption.
Chest and back are covered with a red rash, pale in the morning, redder and more frequent in the afternoon, and perceptible in the warmth, for 11 days ; after the lapse of that period the scales drop off.
Itching over the whole body, early in the morning, after waking.
Tnigling in all the limbs.
Creeping under the skin. — 405.
Creeping, extending from the left side into the thigh, or into the toes of the same side, thence into the abdomen, whence the creeping descends again into the right thigh and foot.
Moral Symptoms: Uneasiness, delirium.
While slum- bering he hears two persons talk, but he does not know who they are.
He does not seem to notice the objects around him, and he really does not notice them. — 410.
Stupefaction of the senses ; some laugh all the time, but they neither hear nor see, although they have the thing constantly before their eyes ; they even talk and answer the questions put to them, as if they had their senses, although the whole is like a dream to them.
After waking he does not recognise any thing around him ; he takes his book and goes to school, but he enters by the wrong door.
After waking, all things appear to him as if they were new, even his friends, as if he had never seen them.
He im- agines he is very tall, but the objects around him seem to him very small.
Absence of mind ; bland delirium (for 24 hours). — 415.
He apprehends the loss of his senses.
Imbecility.
Insanity. — 420.
Dullness of sense.
Confusion in the head.
Strange fancies.
Loquacious delirium. — 425.
Delirious, he had no memory or consciousness.
During the intervals of his half consciousness, he recollects his waking dreams, but not those things which he had done or said in his lucid mo- ments.
He talks with a person whom he does not know, and answers that person as if he were in his senses ; but, upon coming to his senses he does not recollect the coiiversation.
He talks with absent persons as if they were present, accosting dead figures, such as chessmen, with the names of those per- sons, and not noticing any of the persons around him.
He walks about the room taciturn with staring, sparkling eyes and blue margins around the same, but he does not notice the ob- jects around him, and is interested only in the objects of his fancy. — 430.
He dreams with open eyes, talks nonsense, and if his friends tell him so, he excuses himself, saying that they had induced him to talk nonsense ; after that he is again ab- sorbed in his dreams, and continues his nonsense.
The patient is in a state of insanity, he is full of not unpleasant fancies,
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expresses his wishes by signs, and runs about for some days busy with his fancies, and cheerful.
He dances on the church- yard, at night.
Insane, he dances, gesticulates, breaks into a laughter, sings, (a. 3 h.) He sings and utters unclean things. — 435.
He is like one enchanted and beside himself.
He grasps at the air with his hands, laughs, crawls about his bed.
He shows by his gestures that his mind is confused : he kneels down and extends his arms as if he were looking for some- thing.
With his eyes staring, and his pupils dilated, he saw nothing, did not recognise any of his family, carried his hands about as if he would grasp at something, and stamped with his feet.
He bends his knees, and kneels down, and stretches his arms as if he were looking for something. — 440.
Confusion of intellect, he laughs, moans.
Paroxysms of constant talking, or of rage, or he breaks into a loud laughter, or he acts as if he were spinning.
Senseless quarreling.
Continued violent quarrel.
He beats those aiound him with a terrible cry, and rages. — 445.
He bites a person's hand.
Rage.
Furious de- lirium.
Indomitable rage.
She has to be kept in her bed by force. — 450.
A strong man was scarcely able to hold him.
He assails men, beats them, and endeavors to seize them.
Great desire to bite, and to tear every thing with his teeth, even his own limbs.
Alternation of convulsions and rage: he had such violent spasms that his mother was not able to hold him ; when the spasms abated he became furious, beat and bit those who attempted to hold him.
Rage, he wants to murder men. — 455.
Rage, he wants to kill himself He imagines he will be slaughtered, roasted and eaten.
He jumps out of his bed at night, and exclaims that the disease will break forth from his head.
She sometimes exclaims about dogs, cats, and rabbits approaching her from above, from the side and in the middle of the room.
Delirium, he is frightened as if a dog would bite him. — 460.
He imagines he sees ghosts.
He starts up in affright.
Sadness.
His imagination is confused, and is dis- turbed with fear.
Strange objects intrude upon his fancy, frightening him. — 465.
She imagines she sees a number of persons and grasps at them, and yet they were not present.
Frightful fancies, his features show fright and terror.
In his lucid moments he requested to be held lest he should fall.
The things, and persons around him appear to be changed : although he knows at first that his friends are around him, yet he forgets it immediately after; he imagines he is quite alone in a wilderness, abandoned ; he is afraid ; figures of animals jump up out of the ground, side by side, causing him to fall to one side, where, however, similar forms start up, causing him
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to run forward.
He sees more horrifying figures on his sides than before him (between three and four hours). — 470.
He imagines he is alone all the time, and he is afraid.
He has no rest any where ; he is frightened by visions even with his eyes open, forms of dogs, cats, and other frightful animals growing out of the ground by his side, and causing him to start to one side in atfright.
Inclines to start.
Alternate con- sciousness and rage.
LEONTODON TARAXACUM.
(Express the juice from the recent plant before it begins to blossom, and mix it with equal parte of alcohol.)
Like many other drugs, this too has been abused in the treatment of disease from mere speculative suppositions, by giving it in excessive quantities in the treatment of disease.
In all cases where the so-called practical look of the phy- sician failed in establishing the fact that the case before him required the remedy indicated in the books, he suspected ob- structions of the capillary vessels in the interior of the body, and prescribed Taraxacum to dissolve the viscid and inspis- sated humors. The milky juice of that plant sufficed to lead to the supposition that it would act like soap, and dissolve the obstructing humors in the same manner as soap dissolves chemically all sorts of substances in a vessel.
If the Taraxacum had been proved upon healthy persons, its pathogenetic effects would have indicated its therapeutic powers, and would have shown that Taraxacum, like any other drug, can only cure diseases to which it is homoeopathic.
One drop of the tincture is sufficient at a dose.
TARAXACUM.
(observations of others.)
Head
Yertigo when walking in the open air, as if intoxi- cated ; the head now inclined to the right, now to the left side, (a. 2^ h.) Unsteady step and vertigo, when walking in the open air, as if he would fall over.
(a. 10 h.) Great obtuse- ness and dizziness of the head, when walking in the open air; he thinks he feels giddy and staggers.
At times he feels a contraction and a whirling above the nose in the forehead,
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like vertigo ; at times a sensation as if the brain were distend- ed in various places ; this sensation gives no pain. — 5.
Sen- sation in the head as if the brain were constricted from all sides by a soft pressure.
When walking in the open air, he feels a crawling pain in the forehead, with pressure, spreading from the middle of the forehead, as if it contained something alive, (a. 4 h.) Sensation in the head, half pressure, half itching.
Pressure in the lowest part of the occiput, and hea- viness of the same.
Heaviness of the head, with heat and redness of the face. — 10.
Painful pressure in the sinciput in the direction of the forehead.
Oppressive stupefying pain in the forehead, as after an intoxication, (a. 1 h.) Aching pain in the right temple, (a. 35 h.) Burning painful pressure in the head from below upward.
Painful pressure in the head from within outward, (a. 2J h.) — 15.
Heaviness in the occiput, going off when stooping, and coming on again when raising the head and keeping it straight ; in this case it is worst.
When sitting, he feels an oppressive stupefying pain in the whole forehead, so that he lost his senses when reading, and did not know where he was, accompanied with nausea ; he felt better in the open air.
(a.
If h.) Continued painful pres- sure upon the forehead, (a. 4 h.) Drawing aching pain in the temple.
Painful drawing pressure on the frontal bone, when standing. — 20.
Drawing paiii in the left temple ivhen sitting, ceasing when walking or standing, (a. 5 h.) Tearing pain in the occiput, when walking, going oil when standing still.
Tearing in the outer parts of the occiput, when walking.
Lancination in the occiput, behind the right ear.
Lancination in the left side of the forehead in quick succession. — 25.
Continuous sticking pain in the left side of the head (for six hours).
Prickings in tlie left temple when sitting, ceasing when standing, (a. 1^ h.) Violent, continuous pain in the left temporal region, when waliiing, going oft' when standing, (a. 38 h.) Sharp stitches in the left and outer side of the forehead, not abating to the touch, (a. 13 h.) Dull sticking pressure in the outer parts of the forehead, (a. \ h.)— 30.
Pimple on the right side of the hairy scalp, above the temples, painful when touched, as if there were subcutane- ous ulceration, (a. 15 h.) Tension of the forepart of the scalp, as if it were fastened tight to the skull.
Eyes
Pimple in the middle of the left eyebro\v, occa- sioning a painful pressure when touched, (a. 27 h.) Con- traction of the pupils, (a. 4 h.) Dilatation of the pupils, (a. 26 h.) — 35.
Agglutination of the eyelids, early in the morn- ing when waking, for several days.
The eyes do not bear the
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light of day, they water constantly, accompanied with a pres- sure in the region of the right upper eyelid, as if there were something which he tries in vain to wipe off.
Burning in the left eyeball, (a. 11^ h.) Violent burning in the right eye- ball, towards the inner canthus. — 40, Burning, fine pricking in both eyelids of the left eye.
(a. ^ h.) Stinging-burning pain in the left eyeball, (a. 20 h.) Burning pricking in the left eyeball^ toward the outer canthus.
(a. ^ h.) Sharp sticking pain in the right eye.
Sharp pressure as of a grain of sand, in the inner canthus of the right eye, with sensation as if the eyelids were swollen.
Ears
45.
Hardness of hearing ; in the evening his hear- ing is dull.
Pressure in the interior of the left ear from with- out inward.
Chirping in the left ear, as of grasshoppers, (a. 33 h.) Tearing in the outer meatus auditoiius, and sharp pressure behind the ramus of the lower jaw.
Stitches behind the ear, with tearing along the side of the neck. — 50.
Stick- ing in the right ear from within outward, which ended with being felt from without inward.
Itching-burning stitching in the right ear.
Drawing pain in the outer jjarts of the right ear.
(a. 5 h.)
Face, Mouth and Teeth : Sharp pressure in the right cheek, (a. -J- h.) Stitch with pressure iu the cheek. — 55.
Pustule on the npper part of the left cheek, with a red area, occasioning a gnawing pain when touched, (a. 24 h.) Pus- tule on the right wing of the nose.
(a. 8 h.) He twice bleeds from tlie left nostril, before dinner, (a. 30 h.) Cracking of the middle of the upper lip.
(a. 6 h.) Pustule near the right corner of the mouth, (a. 49 h.) — 60.
Sudden itching below the chin.
(a. 1 h.) Acute pain when moving the jaw and neck, in the region of the loM^er part of the parotid gland and in the muscles of the neck, and extending from the sternum up to the mastoid process.
Jerking in the lower part of the side of the neck.
(a. 15 h.) Sharp, boring stitches in the left side of the neck from within outward, for a few minutes (immediately).
Jerking, with pressure, in the posterior cervi- cal muscles, behind the left ear.
(a. 3^ h.) — 65.
Sticking in the left side of the nape of the neck, as of a somewhat dull pin., when standing, going off when sitting down.
(a. 1; h.) Sticking, with pressure, in the nape of the neck.
Painful pressure, like two shocks, in two incisores, rather in the crown.
Sour-tasting blood flows out of the hollow teeth of the right side.
Sensation in the teeth, when chewing, as if they had been made dull by eating some fruit, (a. 37 h.) — 70.
Drawing pain in the hollow teeth of the right side, extending
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along the cheek as far as the eyebrows.
Burning pricking in the left side of the tongue, (a. 9 h.) Tongue coated white, (a. 2| h.) White-coated tongue, peeling off here and there gradually, (a. 11^ h.) The tongue is coated with a white ski?i, xvith a sensation of raivness in the outer parts of the tongue ; it then peels off in patches and leaves dark-red, delicate, sensitive places, (a. 34 h.) — 75.
Dry, brown-coated tongue, early in the morning, when waking.
Confluence of saliva in the mouth, and sensation as if the larynx were closed by pressure, (a. 31 h.) Difficult deglutition ; a kind of pressure as from an internal swelling of the throat.
Sharp pressure in the anterior wall of the pharynx and larynx, be- tween the acts of deglutition, inducing cough, but going off when swallowing.
Confluence of sourish water in the mouth. — 80.
The phlegm tastes sour, and sets the teeth on edge, (a. 3, 4 h.) Dryness and stinging in the throat.
Feeling of dryness in the throat, and a bitter phlegm in that region, making the speech sound hoarse.
Taste and Gastric Symptoms : At the tip of the tongue the butter has a repulsive, saltish-sour taste ; when reaching the palate, it has the usual taste.
Meat, especially gravy, tastes sour to him, when it touches the tongue. — 85.
Bitterish taste in the mouth, before a meal ; food however has a natural taste.
Bitter taste rises into the mouth from the oesophagus.
Tobac- co has no good taste, it occasions a burning in the throat, almost like heartburn, and arrests the breathing, goes off" again by drinking.
Bitter eructations and hiccough.
Empty eruc- tations, continuing for several days, and came on especially after drinking, (a.
I h. — 90.
Nausea, accompanied with anxiety, when sitting, going off' when standing, (a. 2-^ h.) Nausea, as if the stomach were overloaded with fat things ; he felt as if he should vomit, with an oppressive stupefying pain in the forehead, he felt relieved in the open air.
(a.
If h.) dualmishness and nausea in the pharynx, (a. 2f h.) Great chilliness after eating, and especially after drinking.
Stomach And Abdomen
Painless motion and grunting in the abdomen. — 95.
Rumbling in the umbilical region, toward the left side.
Sudden continuous movement in the abdomen, as if bubbles burst in it.
(a. b^ h.) Tension in the pit of the stomach, and pressure on the xiphoid cartilage, when stoop- ing.
Pressure below the ribs of the left side.
Aching pain in the left side of the abdomen. — 100.
Pinching in the abdomen, (a. li h.) Pinching in the abdomen, followed by emission of flatulence, (a. 3, 16 h.) Continuous stitches with pressure in the left side of the abdomen, (a. 24, 30 h.) Boring pain in
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the region of the umbilicus, from within outward, toward the right side. — 105.
Single, violent and sharp stitches partly in the left portion of the epigastrium, partly in the left or right side of the abdomen, partly in the hypogastrium.
(a. 14, 31 h.) Severe stitch in the side of the abdomen, continu- ing for a minute.
Burning stitches in the left portion of the hypogastrium, in the direction of the genital organs, (a. twenty-five hours.) Pressure in the left lumbar region from within outwards.
Itching-stinging pain in the right abdom- inal muscles. — 110.
Painless bubbling in the muscles of the left iliac region.
Feeling of pain in the left groin when walk- ing, as if sprained, somewhat relieved by standing and touch- ing the part.
(a. 6 h.) Titillation in the perinaeum, between the anus and the genital organs, obliging him to scratch, (a. 14 h.) Voluptuous itching of the perinaeum ; after scratching a corrosive pain was felt in the part scratched, lasting for hours, (a. 32 h.)
Stool
Two soft stools on the first day, difficult and re- quiring much pressing, (a. 8J h.) — 115. Third evacuation on the first day, hard, and requiring a good deal of pressing, (a. 16 h.) The stool comes on sooner than usual, and is papes- cent ; the urging continued, without any thing being passed.
Urinary and Genital Organs : Desire to urinate, without pain.
(a. 1 h.) Frequent desire, with copious emis- sions, (a. 3 h.)' Frequent desire with scanty emissions, (a. 25 h.)' — 120.
TickHng of the prepuce, (a. 7^ h.) Continuous boring pain in the glans.
Fine stitch in the left testicle.
Burn- ing stinging in the right testicle.
Nocturnal emission every other night. — 125.
Long-lasting, involuntary erections, (a. 9 d.)
Respiratory Organs : Frequent sneezing when walking in the open air.
(a. 4, 28 h.) Titillation in the region of the pit of the stomach, inducing a hacking cough ; he felt it com- ing a few seconds previous, but was not able to prevent it.
(a. 40 h.) Boring and digging pain in the right chest, more vio- lent and continuous when walking, (a. 3 h.) Pressure in the left side of the chest, below the axilla. — 130.
Pressure in the internal surface of the ribs, during an expiration, when stand- ing, in the right side of the chest, from the hepatic region into the chest, in a place of the size of the hand.
Burning pressure
' These two symptoms, the former of which is the primary, the lat- ter the secondary effect, show how wrongly the common physicians pro- ceed in endeavoring to cure dropsical swelhngs, with diminished secre- tion of urine, by Taraxacum. It will be found useful in some kinds of diabetes, provided they do not depend upon a chronic miasm, as they often do.
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in the sternum, more violent during an expiration than during an inspiration, (a. ^ h.) Stitch, with pressure, in the right chest, going off during expiration or inspiration ; when pressing upon the part, the stitch returned and spread as a continuous stitch, (a. 2 h.) Stitch into the right side of the chest, (a. 4 h.) Dull stick- ing in the left chest, (a. 1 h.)— 135.
Sticking in the left side toward the back.
When standing, during an inspiration, he experiences stitches in the chest from without inward.
Con- tinuous sticking in the right side of the chest when walking.
Violent sticking in the sternum, (a. 6 h.) Stitch in the right chest, directly below the axilla, (a. 11 h.)— 140.
Three vio- lent stitches, one at every inspiration, below the last rib of the left side, posteriorly.
Severe stitch in the region of the sixth rib.
Violent sticking in the left side of the chest, in the region of the lowest rib.
Boring-sticking drawing in the region of the acromial extremity of the right clavicle. — 145.
Jerking in the left intercostal muscles.
Jerking in the right intercostal muscles, (a. 14 h.) Tensive pain in the region of the dia- phragm, during a deep inspiration.
Back
Pressure in the small of the back.
Soft pressure in the small of the back, when standing. — 150.
Painless creep- ing in the small of the back.
Tensive sticking in the back towards the right side.
Sticking pain, with pressure, in the whole of the spine towards the right side, when lying down, with difficult breathing, especially violent in the small of the back.
Continuous dull stitch in the right scapula, from within outward, (a. 21 h.) Rumbling and htihbling in the right scapula.
Upper Limbs : Throbbing on the top of the left shoulder for one minute.
Jerking in the top of the left shoulder.
Pain- less rumbling on the top of the left shoulder, with chilliness all over.
Jerking in the external muscles of the left upper arm.
(a. 4 h.) Twitching in the upper arm. — 160.
Paroxysmal throbbing in the internal surface of the upper arm.
Aching pain in the muscles of the left upper arm.
(a. 30 h.) Aching pain in the internal side of the left upper arm.
Pain in the outer side of the left upper arm, resembling electric shocks.
Itching pain in the internal side of the left upper arm. — 165.
Sharp stitching in the outer side of the left arm.
A series of painful, and partially violent prickings in the posterior surface of the upper arm, going off by friction.
Intermittent stitches in the outer side between the elbow and the middle of the right upper arm, in rest.
Sticking in the right elbow-joint.
Sting- ing in the left forearm, in rest and motion, (a. 13 h.) — 170.
Sharp stitches in the right forearm, going off by contact, (a.
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13 h.) Jerking in the muscles of the left forearm, (a. 10 h.)
Burning in the right forearm.
Acliing pain in the internal side of the right forearm.
Frequently returning drawing pains in the forearm. — 175.
Tearing drawing in the left wrist-joitit, ex- tending into the three last fingers.
Pimples on the hands, es- pecially on the sides of the fingers, also on the dorsum of the hand, itching somewhat.
Burning pain in the third and fourth fingers of the left hand.
Sticking pain in the fourth finger of the left hand.
Aching pain in the three last fingers of the right hand. — 180.
The tips of the fingers are cold as ice.
(a. 6 h.)
Lower Limbs : Jerking in the left glutei muscles, inferi- orly.
Itching of the left glutei muscles.
Twitching in the upper part of the muscles of (he thighs, (a, 2 h.) Sticking pain in the whole of the left thigh, (a 9^. 10^ h.) — 185.
Boring stitches in the internal side of the thigh when sitting.
A spot in the upper and front part of the the thigh feels painful as if bruised, more so when touched than when walking.
Pressure on the inner side of the right thigh, when sitting or standing, but not when walking, (a. 2 h.) Gnawing itching of the left thigh, obliging one to scratch, (a. 7\ h.) Tearing in the outer hamstring when sitting. — 190.
Drawing-sticking pain in the outer side of the right knee, in rest and motion, (a. 3 h.) Stick- ing pain in the whole of the knee-joint.
Sharp pressure in the outer side of the knee, when bending the leg.
Burning pain in the left patella.
Continuous burning pain in the front part of the right knee. — 105.
Burning pain in the outer side of the right leg.
Burtiing pain in the lower part of the right leg.
Burning in the front part of the tibia.
Violent stinging in the right leg, extending from below upward, when standing, going off when sitting, (a. 30 h.) Prickings in the outer side of the left leg, extending from below upwards, when standmg, going off when sitting, (a. 31 h.) — 200.
Drawing pains in the legs, when sitting and walking.
Weakness of the legs, especially when going up stairs.
When walking, the right leg is weaker than the left, and nevertheless this leg feels as if the muscles were stretched the most.
Corrosive pain in the outer parts of the right leg (when standing), (a.
IJ h.) Tearing pain in the outer border of the left leg (when standing), (a. 2 h.)— 205.
Beating, dull stitches in the surface of the right calf, below the bend of the knee.
Slinging in the right calf.
Continuous burning stitches in the calf (when sitting).
Aching pain in the left calf (a. f h.) Darting pain in the right calf going off speedily when touching the part.
(a. 1 h.) — 210.
Violent itching of the left calf, in the evening when lying down, oblig-
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ing one to scratch ; the itching continues after the scratching ; after the scratching the place became red and humid, (a. 17 h.) Stitch in the dorsum of the left foot, toward the big toe.
(a. 37 h.) Stitch in the internal malleolus of the right foot, when sitting, (a. 32 h.) Itching stinging in the region of the inter- nal malleolus.
Drawing fain in the dorsum of the right foot when standing, going off when sitting, (a. 1 \\.)—'^\5.
Drawing-aching pain in "the dorsum of the left foot, when standing, (a. f h.) Tearing drawing in the left tarsal-joint.
Burning pain in the right foot, externallv.
Burning drawing in the dorsum of the left foot.
(a. 37 h.) 'Pressure in the dor- sum of the right foot.
(a. 22 h.)— 220.
Itching in the dorsum of the right foot, going off by scratching, (a.
If h.) A few itching vesicles on the dorsum of the foot.
Stitches extending from the dorsum into the bottom of the foot.
(a. \\ h.) Bor- ing pain in the bottom of the right foot.
Burning boring in the bottom of the left foot, toward the little toe. — 225.
Sticking pain in the bottom of the right foot, from within outward, when sitting, at times violent, at times fine.
(a. 10, 21 h.) Itching stinging in the bottom of the right foot.
(a. 32 h.) Burning-aching pain in the bottom of the right foot, in the di- rection of the toes, when sitting.
Continuous traction along the tibia, coming from the little toe, when sitting.
Paroxysms of burning in the toes, especially in the dorsum of the right big toe.— 230.
Sticking in the right big toe, in the direction of the second toe.
Burning stinging in the right big toe, when walking, (a. 9 h.) Lancinations in the toes.
Violent itching in the dorsum of the fourth toe of either foot, (a 25 h.) A good deal of sweat between the toes, especially those of the right foot.
General Symptoms : 235.
He moves all his limbs with ease, but he feels as if the moving forces were tied up.
Weak feeling of the whole body ; a languor, during which he would like to sit or lie down ; when doing either he is in a middling state of consciousness and unconsciousness, like one who is on the point of falling asleep.
Internal sensation as if he were very sick ; all his limbs ache when touched or when placed in a forced position.
Almost all the symptoms appear when sit- ting ; they disappear when walking.
Sleep
Frequent yawning when sitting, as if he had not slept enough, (a. 5^ h.) — 240. Drowiness in the daytime (when reading) ; his eyes closed, he had to lie down ; the drowsiness passed off during motion, (a. 5 h.) Irresistible drowsiness after a meal ; when waking he felt a desire to urinate, with some burning ; this was felt only before and
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after the emission of urine.
He falls asleep when listening to scientific objects, in spite of his efforts to the contrary, and he fell at once into vivid dreams.
Anxious, vivid dreams, which he is unable to recollect. — 245.
Dreams full of dispute at night.
Voluptuous dreams.
Frequent waking from sleep, and tossing about in the bed ; he had no rest in any position.
Frequent waking from sleep, as if he had slept enough.
When waking from sleep his whole body was covered with a light sweat, exciting a biting in the skin all over, which in- duces him to scratch, (a. 23 h.) — 250.
In the evening when on the point of falling asleep, his whole body was covered with sweat, which continued the whole night; in the morning he felt bright.
He began to sweat all over when on the point of falling asleep ; the sweat woke him frequently ; every time he woke he felt a heat all over his body, and a more glowing heat on his cheeks ; he was drenched with sweat, but he felt bright in the morning.
Fever
Slight sweat over the whole body.
(a. 22 h.) Sudden warmth of the face when walking in the open air ; also of the rest of the body, without thirst, (a. 37 h.) Heat in the face, to himself and others, ivith redness, (a. 1^ h.) — 255.
Face, hands and the rest of the body are hot, without thirst, (a. 6^ h.) Chilliness through the whole body.
(a. 26 h.) Chilliness for some hours, with continuous, oppressive headache.
Violent chilliness when walking in the open air, as in a paroxysm of fever, without being followed by either thirst or heat.
(a. 2\ h.)
Moral Symptoms : Irresoluteness ; dread of labor, al- though the work progresses satisfactorily as soon as com- menced.— 260.
He feels quite gloomy when unoccupied ; he knows not what to do with himself, and is nevertheless imable to make up his mind as regards doing any thing.
Ill-humored in the morning, and not disposed either to business or talking, (a. 25 h.) Disposed to laugh.
Loquacious to excess.
Firm, religious courage and confidence ; cheerfulness ; he is content with himself and his situation.