PHOSPHORUS.
GENERALITIES.
►
Greatly increased vigor on the following days, [53]. [3170.]
► Increase of the general health, [18]. ►
Increase of muscular activity, [174].
► Increased muscular power, [58]. ►►
*Emaciation, [73], [151], [218].
► Extreme emaciation, [17]. ►
Reduced almost to a skeleton (tenth day), [217]. ► Rapid
emaciation, [102]. ► Emaciation, especially in the hands, so
that the veins were very prominent, [8].
► She turned the head alternately to
the right and left, and kept the eyes fixed, [135]. ► Those
who have been often affected by inflammatory catarrh, and these
constitute the majority, are strikingly emaciated, sometimes suffer from
palpitation of the heart, although the heart or large vessels are not
diseased, [76]. [3180.] ►
At one time the patient seemed quiet, as if sleepy, at another made most
violent jerking motions of the upper and lower extremities (fourth day),
[163]. ►►
*She lay constantly on the right side, throwing the body
about, but especially the head, [125].
► The patient lay upon the left side,
with the feet drawn up, because it was impossible to lie in any other
position (fourth day), [171]. ►► He lay only on the right side, at night,
[1]. ►
*Dorsal decubitus (fifth day), [223].
► He walks as if paralyzed, without
noticing it himself, [1]. ► Symptoms of paresis of the right side of
the face and right arm, followed by complete paralysis of the facial and
hypoglossal nerves (second day), [160].
► Consumption and hectic fever, [21]. [With S. 1490, 1571, 2023.
-Hughes.] ►► *Mucous membranes pale
(fifth day), [197]. ► Death caused especially by erysipelas and
inflammation, [13], [16], [20],
[27]. [In one case all parts of
the corpse were luminous.] [3190.] ► The affection of the bone is difficult to
characterize; it is not a simple caries, nor is it a simple necrosis;
the soft parts detach themselves from the bone to a large extent, and
leave below a bony, gray, rough, but solid surface, and a gray fetid
suppuration exhales; after an uncertain period this separates, without
any appearance of new bone being formed, [66].
► Swelling of the body (fourth day), [172]. ►
*Vomiting of nearly pure blood (fifth day). Vomiting, or rather regurgitation, without effort, of
nearly pure blood, with very profuse epistaxis, oozing of blood from
both ears; the blood of these
hæmorrhages was very fluid and difficult to coagulate
(twenty-first day). The next day the patient
raised a little blood from the throat; with these hæmorrhages nervous
symptoms returned, pain and numbness of the left arm, and afterwards of
other extremities, pain in the region of the throat, stricture of the
throat, and sensation of suffocation;
as the hæmorrhages diminished, the skin became
more deeply jaundiced. After more than a month the
hæmorrhage returned; the stools contained a
large quantity of pure blood; there was epistaxis,
regurgitations of blood in the throat, and hæmaturia, followed by great
prostration, almost complete loss of voice,
very feeble pulse, cold extremities, bruit de
souffle with the first sound of the heart; these hæmorrhages
gradually diminished, and ceased entirely after about a week. On the
fiftieth day there were renewed hæmorrhages from the throat, nose,
anus, bladder, with pain in the right iliac fossa and in the thigh of
the same side, with weakness of the limbs, so that the patient was
unable to walk; these renewed hæmorrhages lasted several days, except a
little blood with the urine, which continued for five days; the patient
was very much less prostrated by this hæmorrhage than by the preceding.
After seventy days blood reappeared in the urine; the patient stated
that she had lost as much as two glassfuls of nearly pure blood with the
urine. On the next day there was profuse vomiting of blood; the urine
continued to be colored by blood for nine days. This patient, even after
three months, suffered from weakness, the bruit de souffle in the
præcordial region persisted, and though she was pregnant she did not
miscarry; the blood seemed to be completely restored, and her vital
forces re-established; but afterwards, in the
fifth month, she was taken with profuse uterine hæmorrhage,
which, however, was arrested, and miscarriage did not take place; she
passed through her pregnancy, and was delivered without accident, but afterwards she was seized with inveterate diarrhœa,
not bloody, which could not be stopped, and which terminated her life
eight months after the poisoning, [224]. [Autopsy showed only a slate-colored tint
of the whole mucous membrane of the intestinal canal.] ► *Hæmorrhages from free surface and from the
tissues, [181]. ► Orgasm of blood from the customary smoke
(after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Frequent orgasm of blood, with at times
violent palpitation, [1]. ► Great orgasm of blood, [1]. ► Orgasm
of blood, at night, with chilliness and trembling, together with
uneasiness in the intestines, [1].
► Constant orgasm of blood, in the
evening, and a feeling of warmth, [1].
► Rush of blood at night; he hears
the rush through the body at the same time, [1]. [3200.]
► *Discharge of blood from various parts
of the body, hæmoptisis, bleeding of the gums, hæmorrhoids,
etc., [1]. ►► *Small wounds bleed very much,
[1]. ►
*The blood when drawn seemed very pale, and under the microscope
exhibited only about twice as many red as white corpuscles
(tenth day), [176]. ► *A drop of blood drawn from the finger had a
grayish-red appearance, containing only twice as many red as white
corpuscles (seventeenth day), [197].
► Very great anæmia remained after
the poisoning, [176]. [The patient
had taken iron during the latter part of the trouble.] ► Extreme anæmia, [173]; (sixteenth day), [227]. ► The
general appearance is that of a person laboring under typhoid fever,
great depression, and general prostration; she can with difficulty raise
herself in bed (after three days, and a half), [143]. ► *The
patient presented the phenomena of ataxia and adynamia, that
reminded one of typhoid fever, [135].
►► *Lax muscular system,
[77]. ►
*Muscles became flabby, [43].
[3210.] ►
*General relaxation of muscular power; when going upstairs the muscles
of the lower extremities seem to refuse to act, so that she was in
danger of falling down, [96].
► Towards evening an incomplete
attack of syncope, whilst drinking a glass of cider (second day), [100]. ►
*Motions involuntary and uncertain, as one attacked with palsy,
[43]. ►
*Considerable tremulousness, especially of the hands, whilst writing
(third day), [30]. ► Trembling, [21],
[166]. ►
Tremulousness, in the morning, with perceptible jerking in the limbs
(after eight days), [1]. ► Muscular tremors, amounting even to
clonic spasms, contractions, and general convulsions; symptoms of
collapse, with weakness of the heart, but perfect consciousness,
followed by death, [181]. ► Trismus, with clonic spasms of the limbs,
dilated and insensible pupils, profuse sweat, and death (after ten
days), [179]. ► Convulsions, [21], [59],
[88], [105], [162].
► General convulsions, that lasted
almost without intermission for two days (after which the patient lived
for three days), [84]. [3220.] ►
Convulsions on the fourth day preceding death, [202]. ►
Convulsively agitated (after seven days), [56].
► Convulsed, hands clenched, and
eyeballs fixed (first day), [172].
► Convulsions, followed by death, [128]. ►
Symptoms of irritant poisoning, with convulsive attacks, apparently of
an hysterical kind; she died at the end of seventy-seven hours, [129]. ►
Spasms, followed by death (tenth day), [57].
► Spasms, [120]. ► One
worker, especially exposed to the fumes, was attacked with fatal tonic
spasms (the post-mortem showed spinal arachnitis and partial softening
of the spinal cord), [83]. ► Weariness, on walking, with pains in the
limbs (after three weeks), [150]. ►► *The patient complained of great
weariness, [160]. [3230.] ►►
*Great weariness, [125].
► After getting the feet a little wet
and cold, weariness in all the limbs, burning in the hands, headache and
lying down, followed the next day by coryza, [1]. ► *Unusual
weariness from a short walk, with some headache, [1]. ►
Weariness and exhaustion of the whole body, in the morning, after
waking, disappearing after rising, [10].
► Weariness in the whole body,
especially in the thighs, in a usually robust man (after nine days), [1]. ►
So weary in the afternoon after a little wine that he was obliged to
sleep for a few hours, followed by a sleepless night (after forty-eight
hours), [1]. ► *Great debility, [77], [79].
►► *Weakness, [103], [181];
(sixth day), [217]. ►► *Weak, oppressed sensation all day,
[1]. ►
Frequent sudden attacks of great weakness, [1]. [3240.] ► Weak and sick, towards noon, without
cause; was obliged to lie down for an hour (after fifteen days), [1]. ►
Great weakness, with nausea, [1]. ► Much weakness, in the morning, on rising,
[1]. ►►
*Weakness and prostration, [170].
► Great weakness, in the morning, on
rising, and during the day general sick feeling, heartburn, and after
rapid motion ravenous hunger and trembling of the limbs, [8]. ►
Hysterical weakness, so that she could scarcely move the leg, with
constant yawning, uprisings, and distress and pressure on the chest, [1]. ►►
*Great weakness of the whole body, [34b]. ► *So weak
that he was unable to work, [75].
► *Very weak; could lie only on his back
(seventh day), [56]. ► She feels very weak (especially in the
evening) during the menses; has pain in the back, as if beaten and torn,
drawing in the whole body, palpitation, with anxiety, griping above the
stomach, with constrictive pain; is weary and weak, even to sinking
down, and cannot keep up on account of great nausea; is obliged to lie
down, [1]. [3250.] ►
Weak, sore, and almost helpless, [43].
► Even those patients who are
affected in a slighter degree are in a state of excessive weakness, [76]. ►
General weakness, with evening fever, [72].
► Sudden weakness, [102]; (first day), [153]. ► *Extreme
weakness and prostration (after fifty-one hours), [156]. ►
Very weak and almost speechless (fifth day), [172]. ►►
*Great weakness (fourth day), [172],
[176]; (fourth day), [198], etc. ►
*Patient so weak that he could scarcely raise his hands
(seventeenth day), [197]. ►► *Patient complained only of weakness
(first day), [215]. ► *Extreme weakness, being unable to walk without
support, [216]. [3260.] ►
*Complaining of weakness (eleventh day), [215]. ► *General
weakness, [159]. ► *The patient constantly became weaker from day
to day, [158]. ► Great weakness of the whole body,
especially of the affected parts, after eating, [1]. ► *Weakness
and prostration of the whole body, with heaviness of the feet, so that
walking was difficult, [34d].
►► *Walking fatigues him very much,
[1]. ►
*Feeling of weakness in the back, as if crushed, followed by weakness of
the extremities and trembling after the least exertion. When
admitted into the hospital, both the lower
limbs were so feeble that the patient was only able to stagger for a
moment or two with a trembling step; when attempting to stand, his knees
shook and gave way; his hands and arms trembled when he attempted to use
them; so feeble that the patient was neither able to raise
himself nor to remain in a sitting posture; all efforts to help him were
fruitless; he continued to live three or four years longer, although the
paralysis went on increasingly, [61].
► *After urinating, in the morning, he is
so weak that he has to lie down, [1]. ► *Sensation
of weakness and prostration, almost with tremulousness
(fourth day), [42]. ► *Weakness of the whole body, [38a], [39b].
[3270.] ►
*Weakness and prostration for several days, [36]. ► Weak
and prostrated, with peevish, fretful mood (fourth day), [35]. ►►
*Remarkably weak and depressed, without the slightest desire to attend
to ordinary business, [34d].
► Great weakness, with frequent
yawning (third day), [103]. ► *Weakness so great that the patient could
scarcely speak, [110]. ► The symptoms began to abate (after
twenty-three hours); I was not able to assume an upright position while
walking, or endure much fatigue for some time, nor did I become free
from the effects for more than two months; I regained my strength very
slowly, [43]. ► Dressed myself with difficulty and went
to my office; I was as weak as one suffering from a long and severe fit
of illness; I then took eight pellets of Camphor, [3], this being the first I had taken, the attack
being so sudden and prostrating I was not able to help myself to
medicine or call assistance (after thirty-five hours), [43]. ► Not
able to assume an upright position, while walking, for some time, [43]. ►
Sudden general loss of power, with great heat in the face (after eleven
days), [1]. ►
General great and sudden loss of power, [1].
[3280.] ►
Loss of all power, [21]. ►► *Excessive exhaustion (third
day), [109], [141], [143];
(second day), [220]. ►► *Utterly exhausted, after a walk of an
hour (fourth day), [217].
► General exhaustion, with attacks of
faintness, [89]. ► *General nervous exhaustion; inexpressible
heaviness of the whole body, so that every motion was difficult and
unpleasant; the patient desired to keep the bed, and dreaded motion,
[96]. ►
General exhaustion towards noon, less in the afternoon, [10]. ►
*Exhaustion, especially in the chest, for several days, [1]. ►
*Exhaustion of mind and body, in the morning, [1]. ►
Exhaustion (after two hours), [156].
► Profound prostration, [97], [134],
[148], [149], etc. [3290.]
► General prostration, [34a], [133].
► Very great prostration
(fifth day), [134]; (after eleven
days), [227]. ► General prostration, relieved by
stimulants, [34b]. ► The exertion or attempt to move my arms,
hands, or even turn myself, produced great prostration, [43]. ►
*Prostration of mind and body (second day), [1]. ► Prostration
(second day), [37a]; (after
sixteen hours), [140]. ► Prostration, similar to that of typhus
(fourth day), [173]. ► Faintness, [1],
[23], [61], [110],
[137]; (fifth day), [155]. ► Great
restlessness (fourth day), [114];
(third day), [147]; (seventh and
eighth days), [196]. ► Extremely restless, and appeared to
suffer much pain, rolling about its head and moaning, [162]. [3300.]
► Very restless (fifth day), [207]. ►
Very great and general anxiety and restlessness (third day), [95]. ►
Constant restlessness, with continual crying and sleepiness, followed by
death (ninth day), [222]. ► Patient restless, in bed (third day), [221]. ►
Patient restless and delirious, with talking, afterwards somnolent, [167]. ►
General restlessness, also tossing from side to side (sixth day), [172]. ►
Restless and irritable (fifth day), [161].
► Jactitation and restlessness (tenth
day), [177]. ►
Restlessness (fourth day), [163];
(second night), [206]. ► Great uneasiness (after two days), [1]. [3310.]
► Uneasiness, [25]. ►
Uneasiness at night, caused by pressure in the stomach and nausea, [1]. ►
Uneasiness during a storm, [1]. ► Some uneasiness (immediately); general
uneasiness (malaise), (second day), [95]. ►
Agitation (second day), [118]. ► Frequent desire to change the position,
while lying in bed, [103]. ► Must move about, not satisfied in any
particular place, [50]. ► Violent starting of the whole body,
whilst falling asleep (second night), [30].
► Nervous symptoms, worse in
afternoon and evening, [52]. ► Great excitement of the nervous system, [174]. [3320.]
► Collapse sudden, pupils dilated and
insensible, extremities cold, pulse scarcely perceptible and
intermittent, followed by death, [142].
► Collapse, [166]. ►
Collapse and great restlessness (fourth day), [88]. ►
Condition of complete collapse; limbs relaxed, patient unconscious,
could scarcely be roused by loud cries into the ear, [96]. ► Elder,
collapsed, [105]. ► Collapse, with tightly closed jaws,
followed by death, [195]. ► Collapse, with cold skin, feeble pulse,
and some stupidity (sixth day), [225].
► Takes cold easily, in the open air,
that causes griping in the abdomen, pain in the nape of the neck,
stiffness of the arms, toothache, lachrymation, hiccough, cutting and
sticking in and above the stomach, dulness of the head, or at last
coldness and moist coldness of the feet and hands, with a hot cheek,
etc., [1]. ►
Feeling of taking cold in the whole body, with chilliness and
sleepiness, [1]. ► Sensitiveness to cold weather, [1]. [3330.]
► Takes cold on rising, after a
little nightsweat, with toothache and slight jerking in the teeth, [1]. ►
A kind of insensibility of the whole body, [22]. ►
General malaise, with extreme exhaustion (second day), [221]. ►
Decided malaise, with feeling of exhaustion (third day), [30]. ►
Tremulous feeling in the whole body, like a pulsation, [10]. ► *Paralyzed
and sick feeling in the whole body, [1]. ► General
sick feeling prevents sleep at night, till 2 o’clock, [1]. ► The
whole right side feels paralyzed, with nausea, [1]. ► Feeling
of mental and physical paralysis, in the morning, after rising, lasting
all day, [1]. ► Feeling as if paralyzed, after sitting,
lasting several minutes, [1]. [3340.] ►
Sensation of paralysis, with a tremulous sensation over the whole body
(first day), [42b]. ► Feels paralyzed and bruised, in the
morning, after rising (after six days), [1].
► Great sense of fatigue, with mental
depression, and a most uncommon fearfulness and timidity (fourth day), [30]. ►
*Great languor and disinclination to movement, but the
sufferer still kept about his usual employments (third day), [217]. ►
Languid, unwilling to exert themselves (second day), [105]. ► Great
sense of fatigue (first day); the feebleness did not prevent her from
walking about all day in the rain (second day), [100]. ► Great
lassitude (second day), [136]. ► Extreme lassitude; the patient was
scarcely able to turn or move in bed (second day), [205]. ► Felt
indolent all day (second day), [90].
► Feel stupefied, intoxicated, dizzy,
and reeling, on waking, at night, [1].
[3350.] ►
A certain light and comfortable feeling in the whole body, [55]. ►
General sick feeling, prostration of all the limbs, [1]. ►
Unpleasant sensation of sickness and discomfort in the whole body,
especially in the stomach, even in the open air, [10], [20].
► Sick, prostrated, joyless, out of
humor with everything, [1]. ► Sick feeling in the whole body, weakness
and exhaustion in the joints, especially in the knees, on motion, and
while sitting (after fourteen days), [3].
► Anxiety and uneasiness in the
blood, after eating a little, [1].
► Tensive drawing in the glands, even
on the neck, [1]. ► Very tired feeling, without having taken
the usual exercise (after second dose, second day), [30]. ►
Feeling of increased vigor (third day); of exhaustion (fourth day), [36]. ►
At no time was I free from pain, [43].
[3360.] ►
General pains (fourth day), [134].
► In intolerable pain (fifth day), [165]. ►
The slightest motion caused great pain, [43].
► Pain in right side, with occasional
stitches, [51]. ► She complained of pain in the whole body,
especially in the bones of the limbs, [135].
► Transient drawing and numb pains
here and there in the body, [40]. ► Drawing pain in the bones of the left arm
and in the lower jaw; also other pains, mostly transient, in various
parts of the body, reminding him of rheumatism, from which he had never
suffered, [36]. ► Tearing pains over the whole body, [191]. ►
Darting-cutting pains gave me much distress, starting from one point and
flashing over the whole abdominal region, each one having a separate
starting-point (after five hours), [43].
► Slight fugitive pains during the
night (first day), [30]. [3370.] ►
Distressing burning and boring pains in the bones, that at night became
intolerable and almost prevented sleep; the pains were especially severe
in the bones of the skull, palate, and nasal bones, and in the teeth
(after two weeks), [96]. ► Burning in the whole right side of the
body, [1]. ►
The moment the bowels begin to move, the pains assume the form of
cramps, [42]. ► Soreness of the body all over, [50]. ►
It seemed as if a flame of fire was passing through me, [43]. ► *Heaviness
of the upper part of the body, with a sensation as if everything about
the chest were too tight, lasting all day, [37b]. ►
Pressive heaviness of the head, spine, and in all the limbs, with
ill-humor, toward evening (first day), [42a].
► Heaviness and a feeling of fulness
of the whole body (first day), [42h].
► He complained also of being heavy
and dull, and inclined to sleep, [151].
► *Painful heaviness in the whole body,
now in the chest, now in the head of the thighs and legs, now all over
at the same time, which made him very inactive and extremely fretful;
previously there was general exhausting perspiration, [1]. [3380.] ►► *Heaviness in the whole body, [1]. ►
*Numbness of the whole body, accompanied by a pricking sensation,
as being encompassed by innumerable needles that just touched, and, on
the slightest motion, entered my body, at first severe, then followed by
vibrations of less distinctness, [43].
► The whole body feels bruised,
powerless, and constantly sleepy; wherewith he is very pale, though with
appetite, [1]. ► Sensation as if the muscles in walking
would lose their equilibrium, with slight dizziness (after first dose,
second day), [30]. ► At times transient, at times sticking or
pressive sensations in various joints or bones of the body
(twenty-fourth day), [31]. ► Some piercing stitches here and there in
the body, [1]. ► Stitches in different parts, passing off
soon, [51]. ►
Violent stitches, [155]. ► The symptoms first manifest themselves
upon the alimentary tract, afterwards upon the respiratory organs, and
then upon the skin, [50]. ► The pains are worse from 5 or 6 P.M. till
towards morning, [1]. [3390.] ►
He experiences pains previous to change of weather, [1]. ►►
*Lying on the left side at night causes anxiety (after
nineteen days), [1]. ► The pains always commence when eating, and last
as long as he continues to eat, at noon and in the evening, [1]. ►
General improvement in the cold open air, [34d].
► The open air seems good to him, and
he feels better in it (after one, and two hours), [10]. ► She is
impelled to walk a long distance in the open air, [1]. ► Most of
the symptoms cease in the afternoon, after eating, [10]. ► The
symptoms gradually disappeared after dinner, [42]. ►
General relief after supper and a glass of beer (second day), [37a]. ►
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