Phosphorus

Generalities

General relaxation and emaciation.

Persistent bleeding from small openings, even from free surfaces ; the blood fluid and difficult to coagulate.

Tendency to haemorrhage from all the orifices of the body, with feeble pulse and cold limbs.

A general jaundiced hue.

Muscular motion uncertain, like palsy, trembling.

Numerous paralytic symptoms, with particular loss of sensation so great that one is obliged to lie in bed ; dread of all exertion, either mental or physical.

General heaviness of the whole body ; especially a sensation of tightness about the chest.

Increased tendency to take cold in the open air.

Symptoms < change of weather.

A general aggravation in the morning, in the evening in bed, and after eating.

At times, symptoms appear while eating, and cease afterward.

Aggravation from getting hands and feet wet and in hot weather.

Mind

Delirium, loquacious, with difficult respiration.

Delirium, that he was in several pieces and could not collect them.

Erotic delirium, she uncovers herself.

Spasmodic laughing and crying.

Unable to make any mental effort, even to converse.

Great anxiety and oppression, especially lying on the left side.

Apathy ; is unwilling to talk and answers slowly ; cannot keep the mind on any subject.

Stupor ; is aroused with difficulty and immediately relapses.

Head

Vertigo in the morning on rising, sometimes with nausea and headache.

Rush of blood to the head, with heat and throbbing.

Fore part of the head seems heavy, pressed downward ; pain extends into the root of the nose and eyes as if they would be pressed out.

Headache < stepping hard, music, laughing, and in general < slight causes.

Stupefying headache, with pale face.

The hair becomes very dry and falls out, bald spots form.

Dandruff, with great dryness of the scalp and falling of the hair.

Eyes

Upper lids swollen, moved with difficulty.

Pupils dilated.

Vision dim, > shading the eyes.

Vision of green halo about the candlelight ; of black floating points : like a black veil.

Flickering, with roaring in the head.

Eyes tire easily on reading.

Ears

Hearing difficult, as if ears were stopped.

Words and sounds re-echo in the ears.

Nose

Swollen and red.

Stopped and bleeding, dryness.

Foul odor from the nose.

Acute coryza, with stupid headache.

A discharge of purulent mucus or of blood.

Face

Usually pale, puffy, yellow.

Face puffy, but with dark rings around the eyes, which seem to be sunken.

Violent pains in the bones of the face, usually associated with necrosis and numerous attendant symptoms.

Mouth

Rapid decay of the teeth ; tearing and shooting pain in the teeth ; < open air and warm food.

Toothache in the morning when chewing.

Gums swollen, bleeding easily, retracted from the teeth.

Saliva increased, salt or sweet, of foul odor.

Tongue swollen, chalky white or dry and black.

Easy bleeding from erosions of the mucous membrane of the mouth.

Throat

Dryness of the mouth and throat.

Scraping and roughness in the fauces.

Stomach

Loss of appetite, with feeling of fullness in throat.

Ravenous hunger at times in the night, with desire for acids and spices.

Unquenchable thirst, but lack of thirst is the usual accompaniment of fever.

Eructations of food, empty ; vomiting of food or blood ; vomiting temporarily > ice-cold drinks, returning as the stomach becomes warm.

Extreme faintness and goneness in the region of the stomach.

Soreness in the pyloric extremity.

Sensation of pressure, as from a hard substance or of a heaviness on the stomach.

Clinical

Ulceration of the stomach, with haemorrhage ; vomiting, temporarily relieved by cold drink.

Violent gastralgia as from knives or burning, with external pressure.

Burning, extending to the back.

Gastric troubles, aggravated by hot weather.

Abdomen

Numerous flatulent symptoms, tension, tympanitis, rumbling.

A feeling of emptiness and sinking down.

Coldness.

Symptoms of inflammation of the liver ; enlargement of the spleen.

Inflammation of the pancreas, with greasy stools.

Rectum and Stool :

Smarting and burning in the rectum and anus, with exhaustion.

Haemorrhage of the anus from the haemorrhoids or bowels.

Diarrhoea, preceded by rumbling, evacuations watery and slimy, undigested, with flakes of white mucus.

Diarrhoea involuntary.

Rectum does not retain its contents.

Bloody stools, without tenesmus.

Urinary Organs

Urine at times copious and colorless, at others scanty and passed frequently.

Bloody ; with pain in the region of the kidneys and liver, with jaundice.

Urine covered with an iridescent film.

Sediment white, sandy or flocculent, albuminous ; containg fatty casts.

Sexual Organs

Sexual desire increased, but with lack of power.

Frequent emissions at night, even following coition.

Menstruation too frequent and scanty, usually bright red.

Uterine haemorrhage between menses.

Leucorrhoea, corrosive.

Respiratory organs :

Rawness in the larynx, with hawking and hacking cough.

Hoarseness, larynx seems coated, cannot speak aloud, with prostration.

A sense of suffocation in the larynx and trachea, and especially across the upper part of the chest, as from a heavy weight.

Cough caused by tickling or itching in the throat and chest ; at times with rawness and usually with hoarseness ; often dry, with bursting headache, caused by cold air or using the voice.

Expectoration salty or even sometimes purulent, with tenacious mucus and blood.

Numerous chest symptoms, most especially oppression as from a heavy weight on the chest.

Symptoms of inflammation of the larynx, with cough and bloody expectoration, always aggravation lying on the back or left side.

Pneumonia, with fever, but without much pain, usually without thirst, with general prostration and apathy, but with aggravation from lying on the left side.

General tendency to bloody expectoration, bright red, mixed with mucus.

Heart and Pulse :

Pain and anxiety in the region of the heart and palpitation ; a sense of great pressure.

Valvular murmurs, either anaemic or the result of organic disease ; aggravation lying on the left side.

Pulse usually soft, compressible, rapid.

Back

Sensitiveness of the spinous processes of the dorsal vertebrae and burning between the scapulae.

General weakness of the spine, as if crushed, with weakness and trembling of the limbs on the least exertion.

Extremities

Weakness and bruised pain, with heaviness of the hands and feet, and trembling so that he could scarcely hold anything with his hands.

The arms feel stiff, lame and paralyzed.

The hands fall asleep, are numb, the fingers feel like thumbs.

Pain in the hip, as if wrenched, with drawing and tearing, extending to knees ; weakness of the legs and numbness, especially of the tips of the toes.

The tibia is inflamed and becomes necrosed with attendant symptoms.

Chilblains and corns develop on the toes.

Skin

Jaundice.

Petechiae.

Ecchymoses like purpura haemorrhagica.

Ulcers form and bleed easily, and will not heal.

A general formication and numbness in the skin.

Sleep

Persistent sleepiness during the day and before midnight ; afterwards sleeplessness, with anxiety and restlessness, at times with fright or followed by prostration in the morning.

During sleep frightful dreams.

Fever

Shivering, worse in the evening and generally without thirst, coldness, particularly of the extremities, of the knees in bed.

Heat at night, without thirst.

At times, with unnatural hunger, followed by or alternating with chilliness ; heat usually internal, sometimes partial, as of one leg.

Sweat general in the morning, on slight effort, exhausting at times, cold and clammy.

A low type of continued fever, with stupid delirium, apathy, lack of thirst.