PHYSOSTIGMA.
HEAD.
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Confusion and Vertigo. ►
In five minutes he felt as if he had drank a glass of liquor; the head
was confused, there was vertigo, and the legs lost their strength; he
staggered like a drunken man, and went to bed with his head swimming. He
fell asleep, but woke repeatedly through the night with terrible
thoughts; he feared he was becoming crazy, and that he might get up and
do some mischief, [24]. ► Vertigo and slight nausea, at 4.30 P.M.
(seventh day), [71b]. [20.] ►
Giddiness, in some cases, [14]. ► Giddiness, [12];
(after one hour), [36]. ► Giddiness, very disagreeable (after one
hour); with a constrictive feeling of head (after seven hours and a
half); giddiness has been a constant symptom (after thirteen hours and a
half), [36a]. ► A slight degree of giddiness (after fifty
minutes), [2]. ► A slight giddiness, which occurred in
fifteen minutes, was ascribed to the force of the imagination, and I
proceeded to take a warm shower-bath, which process, with the subsequent
scrubbing, might take five or six minutes more; the giddiness was then
very decided, and was attended with the peculiar indescribable torpidity
over the whole frame which attends the action of Opium and Indian hemp
in medicinal doses. I now swallowed the shaving water which I had just
been using, by which the stomach was effectually emptied. Nevertheless,
I presently became so giddy, weak, and faint that I was glad to lie down
supine upon the bed. On getting up, after a tolerable dinner, I was so
giddy as to be glad to betake myself to the sofa for the evening (after
12 grains), [1]. ► Dizziness (after ninety-five minutes), [3]. ►
Dizziness in the head, at 3 A.M. (third day), [33]. ►
Dizziness, and a sensation of wavering in the brain was felt in walking
(after half an hour), [23]. ► In walking downstairs, great dizziness
and dimness of vision. Progression and gait very unsteady; encountered
the wall and handrail more than once on the way out, [4]. ► There
was dizziness in walking, and it required an effort of the will to keep
from staggering (third day), [23a].
[30.] ►
Dizziness, with faintness and muscæ volitantes, on moving, at 1 P.M.
(fourteenth day), [33]. ► At night a strange dizziness was
perceptible; she held to the bedstead to keep from falling, and made an
effort to shake off the feeling, [25].
► In the evening, in church, when in
passing people in the doorway, if they stepped in front of me, felt very
dizzy (second day), [66]. ► Unable to continue reading, especially
because of the dizziness (after seventy-five minutes), [2]. ►
Dizziness (after sixty minutes); in a slight degree (second day), [2]. ►
General Head. ► Head
drooping listlessly, [12]. ► Head feels as if it were falling forward;
vertigo; stumbles on going up and downstairs (third day), [60]. ► Brain
feels tired (fifth day), [37]. ► Brain felt confused, after waking from
midday nap (fifth day), [37]. ► Sensation as if the brain were loose and
rolling about in the skull (after one hour), [36]. [40.] ► Stupid feeling in the head (third day), [42]. ►
Stupid feeling in the head (third day), [50].
► Head feels stupefied, at 7 P.M.
(eighth day), [50]. ► Head feels dull and heavy (tenth day), [50]. ►
During the whole time of proving she felt heavy and dull in the head, [29]. ►
Dull heavy feeling in the head, at 8 A.M. (sixth day), [71]. ► Heavy
feeling in the head, and darting pains through the temporal regions,
worse from motion (after one hour), [36a].
► Head dull, heavy, and full (fifth
day), [37]. ►
Dull heavy feeling of head; headache through forehead, [65]. ►
Feeling as if something heavy were pressing the brain out (sixth day), [67]. [50.]
► A dull, heavy, bruise-like pain in
the whole brain, but rather more severe in the left temple, with a
sensation of general fatigue; this continued throughout the day till
evening, together with a general sensitiveness to cold or change of
temperature (after four hours), [34a].
► Dull pain, and a disagreeable
confused feeling in the head, worse from motion (after ten hours and a
half), [36]. ►
Darting pains in the head (after six hours and a half), [36]. ►
Deepseated pain in the head, all day, aggravated by making a heavy or
misstep, as if the brain were bruised (second day), [34]. ► Awoke
with aching pains in whole brain, worse on left side (second day), [55]. ►
Pain in the top and forepart of my head; this increased until I had to
lie down; much better when I sat up in bed; strong pressure also
relieved (second day), [58]. ► Pain in head, more severe over left eye,
commencing in the morning; in the afternoon growing worse, and gradually
increasing till 10 P.M., then beginning to subside; at same time, head
bathed in warm perspiration (seventh day), [51]. ► Cannot
study for the pain in my head (third day); could not study (fourth day),
[54]. ►
Headache (second day), [41];
(third day), [44a], [52]. ► A
severe headache occurred after drinking freely of new milk, which
generally agreed with him (fifth day), [26a].
[60.] ►
(During the afternoon, a severe attack of my habitual headache set in
(had a sunstroke about seven years ago, and since then the left frontal
and temporal region is liable to severe pressing-boring pain, as if a
coal of fire were imbedded there, and the heat radiating to all sides;
the veins of the forehead are swollen and stand out prominently),
steadily increasing towards evening), (second day); (old headache
moderately on left side), (sixth day), [38].
► Headache began about 5 o’clock,
across top of forehead, increased till after going to bed and asleep,
lying down, [40]. ► Constant headache, not severe, but more
of a dull heaviness; confused feverish feeling, alternating from the
forehead to the top of the head (eighth day), [71]. ► (While
travelling, in the cars, had an attack of the customary headache, which
lasted from noon till late at night; pain and throbbing in the forehead,
worse on moving; irresistible desire to sleep;
soporific sleep, extremely distressing; paleness of the face;
the sleepiness he never had before; the face was pale, and the attack
was unusually severe), (second day), [26].
► Sudden attack of headache, with
nausea and bitter rising, followed by dull pain under the sternum; it
was increased by suddenly turning the head, bending forward, or throwing
the shoulders forward. On auscultation, heart’s action was found to be
retarded, with diminished impulse; rate, 56; there were no abnormal
sounds, but the radial pulse was very irregular and weak. He thinks the
symptoms may have come from a strain he had about a month ago, in
lifting a heavy weight, as he had a similar feeling at the time; he
lifted moderately the same day he took the medicine, but was unaware of
any strain at the time (third day), [31].
► Dull stupid headache, from the top
of the head down through the head, in the evening (sixth day), [71]. ►
Dull headache, at 8 P.M. (second day), [71c].
► Dull headache, at 10 A.M. (third
day), [45]. ►
(Have been suffering from a dull pressing headache for nearly six
months; comparatively free from it in the morning, on rising, but
increased by the least mental exertion, until at night, after retiring,
it would become almost unbearable; accompanying the pain were
sleeplessness and inability to stop thinking; in the course of an hour
or two, the headache would pass away suddenly, with a sharp radiating
flash of pain, sometimes starting from the occiput and passing forward,
at other times passing from before backwards; this
headache I found to disappear after taking this medicine), [64]. ►
Some headache (after eleven hours); arose with a dull headache, not
persistent, at 8 A.M. (second day), [45b].
[70.] ►
Headache at times severe, generally a dull solid feeling (third day), [68]. ►
Awoke at about 3 A.M. with a severe pressing headache, confined to
sinciput and over left eye (ninth day), [51].
► Stupefying headache; dull pain
through forehead, worse over the left eye (after one hour and a
quarter); headache increased; continuous through the entire day until
about 6 P.M. (third day), [51]. ► Arose at 8 A.M. with a heavy aching head,
better after rising (second day), [45a].
► Heavy headache and pain in
eyes, with much heat in head and face, at 2 P.M. (tenth day), [33]. ►
Tensive headache; brain and scalp feel tight (second day), [42]. ►
Headache, with fulness and a sense of faintness (sixth day), [31]. ►
Congestive headache, all the forenoon (twelfth day), [33]. ►
Headache, of a burning aching character, at 7 P.M. (eighth day), [50]. ►
Headache, in the morning, with epistaxis, left side (sixth day), [37]. [80.]
► Headache, in the evening (fifth
day); in the morning (sixth day), [61].
► Walking increases the headache, [58]. ►
Troubled with headache for some weeks after, which was greatly relieved
during mental application, and aggravated when walking in the open air, [68]. ►
During the afternoon some headache, increasing towards evening; pain
subsided by 10 P.M.; head feels strange and confused (eighth day), [51]. ►
More or less headache or heavy feeling about the head, during the day
(second day), [45]. ► Fulness of head, almost to faint
feelings, at times, [52]. ► Dull pressure encircling the head, with
the sleepiness (third day), [26]. ► Constricted feeling in the head, as if
some tight bandage were tied around it (after two hours and a half), [36a]. ►
After taking the medicine, in the morning, fasting, there was a feeling
of constriction around the entire top of the head, as if a tight cap
were being pressed down as far as the temples; at the same time there
was a severe pressure along the sagittal suture, as if from fulness in
the longitudinal sinus, and dull aching in each temple; similar effects
appeared each night and morning, about fifteen minutes after taking the
medicine, [26b]. ► A stimulus, as he called it, in the neck,
in occiput, going through the whole head until it reached the eyes; this
lasted an afternoon and evening, [41].
[90.] ►
Constant desire to move the head from side to side (ninth day), [33]. ►
Increase of head symptoms, with a little perspiration (after sixty-five
minutes), [2]. ► Forehead. ►
Severe pressing pain in the forehead, as though something hard was bound
tightly on it, accompanied by dizziness while walking; this lasted all
the forenoon, gradually subsiding (fourth day), [23a]. ►
Deepseated pain in the forehead, with desire to rub it (third day), [23a]. ►
Heavy pain in frontal region, worse from motion (after one hour and a
half), [36]. ►
Darting and transient pains in frontal and temporal regions (after
fifteen minutes); worse from motion (after half an hour), [36a]. ►
Intolerable pain over both orbits (sixth day), [67]. ► Sharp
pain in the supraorbital region, running off towards the nose (third
day), [60]. ►
A burning and aching pain in forehead, at 9 A.M., continuing during the
day, and until retiring, at night (third day), [50]. ► An
aching-burning pain in forehead, at 1 P.M.; frontal headache on eating,
exercise, or mental exertion, at 4 P.M. (eighth day), [50]. [100.]
► Pain in the right frontal region
(sixth day), [43]. ► Pain in the head, over the right eyebrow,
extending to the temple (fourth day), [43].
► Pain over right eye, all the
evening, [65]. ► At 3 P.M., have had, since noon, a
persistent, dull, aching pain, not very severe, and situated over left
eye; the pain was from motion or pressure (second day), [45b]. ► Pain
in head, over the right eye, dull and weary (after three hours and
three-quarters, second day), [49a].
► Woke up with severe headache in forehead (second day);
headache light at 12 M. (third day). This headache was very severe, and
never before experienced; could not put my mind on anything, could not
recollect anything; a mental exhaustion, not confusion, [53]. ► Severe
and sudden headache, over right eye, with pulsation felt in occiput, at
2 P.M. (fifteenth day), [44]. ► Severe headache, over the right eye,
lasting two days (after ten days), [24].
► Violent frontal headache, with
slight chills and fever, at 8 P.M. (third day); hot and dry skin, at 10
A.M., at times extending to the vertex, in the afternoon (fourth day), [71a]. ►
Headache in left frontal region, with sensation of heat in the abdomen,
and slight nausea, at 10.15 A.M.; headache continues, but dull and
heavy, at 11.15 A.M.; headache has become general over the whole head,
with qualmishness and slight perspiration over the body, at 4 P.M.;
headache continues, with qualmishness, at 10 P.M. (second day). Headache
less, in the morning; has continued nearly all day, with lame bruised
feeling in the region of kidneys (third day), [34]. [110.] ► Awoke with headache in left frontal
region, which afterwards extends all over the head; the pain is of a
dull heavy character; at 1 P.M. the headache still continues, but seems
to increase in the left frontal region; at 10 P.M., still continues; can
hardly sit up (second day). The headache is the worst I ever had; cannot
study for the pain in my head; not so tormenting, at 10 P.M. (third
day). Headache, dull, heavy; began in left frontal eminence; extended
deep into brain; headache, when walking in the open air, lying down;
could not study (fourth day), [54].
► Heavy, dull, and oppressive frontal
headache, with peculiar inability to express my thoughts clearly and
intelligently, at 10 A.M. (twelfth day), [44].
► Heavy headache over left eye and
extending over whole forehead, but most severe over left eye, as from a
blow, at 1 P.M. (second day), [45a].
► Dull frontal headache, in the
evening (second day), [71a]. ► Dull frontal headache, at 2 P.M. (second
day), [71b]. ►
Dull heavy headache in forehead, before rising, [65]. ► Woke
next morning with a dull frontal headache; by noon the headache involved
the whole cerebrum; great fulness of the bloodvessels of the brain, [68]. ►
Wakened in the morning with dull, heavy frontal headache, over the eyes, which passed off on rising
(third day), [57]. ► Some frontal headache (ninth day), [50]. ►
Fulness in forehead and tendency to ache, with the sense of fatigue
(after five hours); a dull heavy ache, more in right side (after
thirteen hours), [34]. [120.] ►
Constant weight over the eyes, at 5 P.M. (fifth day); at 8 P.M. (eighth
day), [71b]; at 8 P.M. (second
day), [71c]. ►
Feeling of constriction around the forehead and temples, changing into
oppressive pain over the left orbit, and extending to the forehead and
temples; very troublesome in reading (after half an hour), [26]. ►
Sensation as of a rush of blood to the frontal and temporal regions
(after fifteen minutes), [36]. ► Temples. ►
Pressure in temples (seventeenth day), [33].
► Pain through the temples, as from
pressure of blood to the head, with throbbing of the arteries on the
side of the neck, at 4 P.M. (twelfth day), [33]. ►
Occasionally there was severe, sharp, darting pain in the right malar
bone, and in the ramus of the jaw on the right side (fourth day), [23a]. ►
Darting pains in the temporal regions, worse from motion (after eight
hours), [36]. ► Numbness of the temples, and crawling
sensation over the head, at 4 P.M. (sixteenth day), [33]. ► Severe
pain in both mastoid processes (after ten minutes), [44a]. ► Pain
in both temples; in right temple, shooting pain down to second bicuspid
tooth (two hours after first dose, sixth day), [37]. [130.] ► Flashes of pain in the right temporal
region (second day), [43]. ► Dull pain in both temples, with pressing
outwards in the frontal region (second day), [60]. ► In
church, had a dull aching in temporal and frontal regions, at 11 A.M.;
in the evening, the sound of the organ caused the return of headache;
slight headache until retiring, worse in frontal and temporal region
(second day). Same headache, only more intense, with such sleepiness
that the effort to keep awake produced nausea, at 1 P.M.; this headache
did not abate until about 6 P.M. (fourth day). Headache still
occasionally but very slight, and sleepiness, as before (fifth day).
Worse in a warm room, especially after being in open air (sixth day), [66]. ►
Skin of forehead and nose felt tense, making it difficult to close the
eyes; this feeling continued for some fifteen or twenty minutes, in
church, then a remission, then commenced again (second day), [66]. ►
Headache in the temples (ninth day), [48].
► Headache in the right temple, at
first a heavy dull pain; afterwards it became pulsative, and
occasionally darting and quivering, like the motions of electric fluid
passing from cloud to cloud, or from the cloud to the earth (tenth day),
[34a]. ►
Throbbing of temporal and carotid arteries (second day), [68]. ► Vertex.
► Expansive sensation in top of the
head (after one hour), [55]. ► A pressing, from within outwards, in
vertex and temples, which continued for five hours after taking the last
dose, [26b]. ► Intense painful pressure in vertex and both
temples; the pressure in vertex extending over to occiput; pain so
severe as to obliged lying down (sixth day), [67]. [140.] ► Pressure (bearing down) on top of head
(after seven hours and a half, second day), [62]. ► Dull
weight along the vertex, mostly on the left lobe of the brain (third
day), [26]. ► Parietals. ►
Spasms of pain, at intervals of five and ten minutes, sharp and
lancinating, in region of right parietal eminence, lasting one or two
minutes, leaving a sore bruised feeling; headache relieved, in evening,
by close attention to a metaphysico-theological sermon, renewed by
coming out into open air (second day), [68].
► Shooting pains through the right
side of the head, extending down into the back part of the neck, worse
when rising up or when walking, at 11 A.M. (eighth day), [71b]. ► Sharp
pains, first in left side of the head, then in the right side, [35]. ►
An undefinable pain in the right side of the head, with a feeling as if
it would increase; nevertheless it did not, but continued the same
throughout the day (third day), [34].
► On awakening, pain on right side of
head and right side of neck, with the feeling as though I had slept too
sound; feels sore and stiff, similar to what is called a stiff neck;
cannot bear my pillow high; feel as though my head would be easier on a
single pillow, [52]. ► Lateral headache, early in the morning,
with fear of opening his eyes, because he feared it would increase the
pain (second day), [47]. ► Noise affects me (child crying); caused
lateral headache (third day), [46].
► Lateral headache, which seems deep
in the brain, nearly always relieved by eating (after four days); coming
on while riding in a carriage (seventh day), [46]. [150.] ► Sharp headache on right side, transient
(tenth day), [44]. ► Some headache; worse on right side (ninth
day), [50]. ► Occiput and External. ► Dull pain in left occiput, lasting ten
minutes (five minutes, after second dose), [41]. ►
Occipital headache, more of a tired sensation, in cerebellum (sixth
day), [38]. ►
Contracted feeling of the skin of the forehead, which extended to the
eyelids, causing an effort to close or open them (second day), [68]. ►
A burning spot in centre of forehead (third day), [50].® 2000
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