APPENDIX: SARRACENIA.
MIND.
►
Frequent delirium. ► Madness, with
wickedness and fury, or good humor and extreme complacency. ► Dementia, with disposition to injure and
to destroy himself. ► Idiotism. ► Laughing and involuntary crying. ► Goodheartedness, or impatience and
irritability. ► Disposition for
excesses, to get angry and to speak injurious words. ► Despair with sorrow and crying and
snuffling. ► Melancholy and
mournfulness, with great anxiety about everything. [10.] ► He
is afraid, and reproaches himself; thinks he has committed something
wrong, or disgraced the family or his absent friends. ► Rancorous character, with great
punctiliousness, especially as he feels sick. ►
Capricious humor, sometimes good-natured, then irritable. ► Invidious, distrustful, and suspicious
character. ► Indifference and feeling
of annihilation, he tolerates offences without saying anything. ► Great disposition to work at
architecture. ► Affluence of ideas,
hindering sleep during the night, with sweat, heat, intense thirst, and
restlessness.
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo, with
cramps in the neck, spreading to the forehead, especially in the
evening. ► Vertigo, dulness, with
sensation of intoxication; he does not know to keep himself straight. ► Vertigo, with dulness in the head and
contractions in the spinal column. [20.]
► Frequent dizziness, especially in
the afternoon, after eating. ► General
Head. ► He drops his head
and supports it on his arms. ►
Heaviness of the head, with great difficulty of thinking; excessive
debility of the intellectual faculties. ►
Dulness of the head, with loss of memory, insensibility of the right
side, loss of hearing and smell. ►
Rush of blood, pulsations, and burning heat of the head, with sensation
as if it would split. ► Excessive
headache, with constant desire to sleep. ►
Headache with chills, nausea and vomiting, dimness of sight, and buzzing
in ears. ► Periodical pulsative
headache with desire to recline. ►
Aggravation of the headache, in the evening, at night, and in bed, or in
the morning when waking up, in fresh air and in great heat. ► Sensation as if the head were bound by an
iron band, with contractive pains in the temples. [30.] ►
Sensation as if he had received a knock on the head, with vertigo,
stupor, and vacillating gait; he is obliged to support himself and to
lie down. ► Sensation as if the head
would be crushed on a wheel, especially the neck, with abolition of
venereal desire and impotence. ►
Pressive and lancinating pains, as in tuberculous meningitis, with
sensation as if the head were full of water. ►
Sensation as if the right temple were pierced by a sharp-pointed
instrument, changing to the left ear, with spasmodic pains and deafness.
► Intense neuralgic pains, spreading
from the temples to the jaws. ► External
Head. ► The hair changes
color and falls out. ► The hair feels
stiff and as if it were a foreign body. ►
The hair entangles and feels like wool. ►
Inflammation and swelling of the scalp. ►
Eruption like stings of insects, and ulcers on the scalp. [40.] ►
Herpes with dark thick scabs, which fall off easily and leave the scalp
of a bright-red color; the same on forehead. ►
Pruritus and heat of the scalp during the whole afternoon. ► The skin of the head painful and full of
scales.
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Inflammation
of the eyes and lids, with great injection of the conjunctiva and
sclerotica. ► Eyes congested with
vesicles on the conjunctiva. ► In the
cornea a spot like a cataract. ► The
crystalline lens appears opaque and whitish. ►
Subjective. ► Difficulty
of moving the eyes and impossibility to discern objects. ► Excessive dryness of the eyes and lids,
with great difficulty in opening them. ►
Burning in the eyes, as if sand were in them. [50.]
► Excessive itching in the eyes,
especially in the afternoon and night. ►
Pricking and pulsations in the eyes, as if congested. ► Orbit. ►
Cutting-penetrating pains in the orbits. ►
Lids. ► Swelling and
redness of the lids. ► Scabs and
thick tumors on the borders of the eyelids. ►
Lachrymal Apparatus. ►
Very abundant lachrymation, especially in open air. ► Acrid and corrosive lachrymation. ► Abundant secretion of mucus of the eyes. ► Pupils. ►
The pupils frequently contracted. ►
Vision. ► Mistiness of the
sight and paroxysms of blindness, with malaise and desire to vomit. [60.] ►
Great weakness of sight. ► Objects
are seen too far off or nearer than they really are. ► A strong light is necessary to
distinguish objects. ► Great
photophobia. ► Myopia and presbyopia.
► Objects appear multiplied. ► Looking at the light he sees a multitude
of rays, which spread out. ► All
objects appear covered by a white veil.
EAR.
►
Inflammation and swelling of the auditory canal, yellowish otorrhœa,
thick and frequently bloody. ► Ulcers
and fissures in the interior of the ear. [70.]
► Lancinating and spasmodic pains in
the ears, with a sensation as if a pointed instrument were stuck in the
parotids. ► Spasmodic pains in the
ears, spreading to the brain, with heaviness and pressure on the vertex.
► Frequent spasms in the ears, with
headache. ► Cramps in the ears, with
sensation as if they pulled off. ►
Heat and sensation of numbness in the ears. ►
Sensation as if a firm body or a tumor were in the ear. ► Intense otalgia, so that he is afraid of
losing his senses. ► Hearing
excessively sensitive; any great noise produces headache and desire to
vomit. ► Momentary deafness. ► Noise of confused music and resonance of
the pulse in the ears. [80.] ► Noise of waves, tingling, buzzing, and
sometimes detonations in the ears.
NOSE.
►
Swollen red nose, with pressure and pulsation at the root. ► Small tumors, showing a chancrous
character in the nostrils. ► Nasal
discharge of green-yellowish, bloody, black, and foul-smelling matter. ► Fluent coryza, with cold chills and loss
of smell. ► Coryza, with abundant
mucous discharge, tickling and burning in the nostrils. ► Dry coryza, with occlusion of the
nostrils, especially night and mornings. ►
Epistaxis, nearly producing fainting. ►
Frequent sneezing, with jerking in the brain and stupefaction. ► Sensation of evulsion and torsion in the
nose, with excoriation of the skin. [90.]
► Burning, pulsative, and pressive
pains in the nose, with swelling of the nostrils on the same side. ► Fetid smell.
FACE.
►
Erysipelatous swelling of the face. ►
The face swollen, red, and inflamed. ►
The skin of the face tense, with impossibility to smile or open the
mouth. ► Yellowish-green face, with
black circles round the eyes. ► Great
paleness of the face, with heat and chill alternating. ► Sensation as if he had a leaden mask on
his face. ► Smarting, heat, or
coldness on one side of the face, or on the other. ► Lips. ►
Lips swollen, hard, and chapped. [100.]
► Small indurated tumor upon the
upper lip. ► Ulcers like chancres on
the lips. ► Jaw. ► Spasmodic and contractive pains in the
lower jaw.
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Teeth yellow,
brown, very brittle, and denuded at the roots. ►
Appearance or aggravation of toothache, in the morning, in the evening,
at night in bed, also when talking or eating, when taking anything hot
into the mouth, from the least contact and cold air. ► Toothache accompanied by headache,
swelling of the cheeks, extending to the eyes. ►
Lancinating, pulsative, breaking, and grinding pains in the teeth, with
heat of the face and great prostration. ►
Gums. ► Inflammatory
swelling of the gums about the maxillary sinus. ►
Tongue. ► Hard nodosities
and tumors, with an angry look upon the tongue. ►
Small pimples on the tongue with pain, as if burnt. [110.] ►
Gray coating on the tongue. ► General
Mouth. ► Bad odor from the
mouth, with bitter saliva and efforts to vomit. ►
Inflammation of the whole mouth and gum, with burning and great
difficulty in chewing. ► Numerous
small white-gray ulcers surrounded by a red areola, mostly on the palate
and isthmus faucium. ► Inflammatory
swelling of the palate. ► Mouth dry
and parched, as if lined with plaster. ►
Taste. ► Bitter burning
taste, especially after liquid food, flat and sweet. ► Taste putrid, flat, bloody, with dry and
pasty throat. ► Food, bread and wine
have a bitter taste.
THROAT.
►
Small very painful ulcers in the throat, with difficulty of talking, and
finally with inability to utter many words. [120.]
► Swelling of the throat, with great
difficulty in moving the head. ►
Pains in the throat worse in the evening and in the open air, seeming to
be relieved by drink. ► Pain as if
the whole of the throat were excoriated. ►
Lancinations, pulsations, heat, and burning in the throat. ► Burning heat in the throat and stomach. ► Burning in the throat and borborygmi
during a meal, with a sensation as if the breasts were drawn tight, and
impossibility of raising the arms. ►
Sensation as if the whole of the throat were burnt, with much tenacious
mucus, which seems to come from the nasal fossæ. ►
Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils, with a sensation as if they
were excoriated. ► Swallowing
difficult and painful, with a sensation of constriction and ulcers in
the throat. ► Swelling and very
decided induration of the submaxillary glands. [130.]
► Swelling of the parotids.
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ►
Disgust for food, which always seems hard and insufficiently cooked. ► Great thirst, with momentary sensation as
if one choking for want of drink. ►
Great thirst and boulimia, with burning pains in the stomach. ► Eructations. ►
Frequent rising of food and of bitter water from the stomach, especially
in the afternoon and at night, with fatiguing and ineffectual efforts to
vomit. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea and vomiting, principally in the
evening and night, also when sitting bent over at writing, and after
eating and drinking. ► Vomiting of
food and bile, often without any effort. ►
Frequent vomiting of food and of yellow bile. ►
Vomiting of blood, with a dry cough or without cough. ► Stomach. ►
Burning, distensive, and contractive pain in the stomach with
oppression. [140.] ► Bad digestion with regurgitation of bile,
as in vomiting. ► Stomach excessively
inactive, need to take light food and to masticate it much in order to
digest it; also need to drink very slowly. ►
The thirst passes off frequently, and then the stomach feels as if it
were full of water. ►
“Pituite,” with a sensation of coldness in the stomach. ► Painful sensitiveness in the epigastric
region. ► Sensation of indurations
and ulcers in the stomach. ►
Difficult digestion, especially of pastry and fat food. ► Burning and lancinating pains in the
stomach requiring her to hold and press upon the epigastric region. ► Pains in the stomach, with nausea,
eructations, emission of flatus, vomiting, and diarrhœa. ► Pain as from an abscess, in the stomach,
and a sensation as if worms were moving about it.
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. [150.] ► Burning pains in the hypochondria and
kidneys, with the sensation as if a red-hot iron passed through them; he
is obliged to lie on his belly. ►
Inflammation and swelling of the liver. ►
Sensation of pain and of tickling in the liver, as if there were a mass
of pus in that organ. ► Pulsations in
the region of the liver, aggravated by the least movement. ► Pulsative pains in the liver intermingled
with pains as from the thrusts of a knife. ►
General Abdomen. ►
Swelling of the abdomen as in ascites, with excoriating pains in the
kidneys and intestines. ►
Inflammation and swelling of the abdomen with constipation and tenesmus.
► Very offensive flatus. ► Colic and cutting, with desire to apply
cold water to the abdomen; vomiting and diarrhœa, chiefly in the
evening and after eating and drinking. ►
The pains in the abdomen and stomach are so violent as to almost cause
faintness. [160.] ► Distensive pain in the abdomen and
hypochondria with tenderness of the skin of the abdomen. ► Sensation as if the abdomen were full of
boiling water and of vesicles, which burst and increased the amount of
water in the abdomen. ► Sensation of
tearing and excoriation in the abdomen and anus during stool. ► Burning and lancinating pains in the
whole abdomen, with a sensation as if the intestines were corroded. ► Excessive burning in the abdomen with
lancinating pain, borborygmi, and flatulent colic, principally in the
evening, when riding in a carriage, after having eaten and taken a walk.
► Spasmodic pains in the pelvis and
thighs, frequently after urinating. ►
During menstruation, great debility in the pelvis, as if it were broken,
with spasmodic pains in the legs, tingling pains, and many other
sufferings.
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Hæmorrhoidal troubles, especially in the afternoon and evening. ► Blind hæmorrhoids become fluent, with
burning, with indurated tumors in the anus. ►
Many suppurating pimples in the anus. [170.]
► Constant rush of blood to the anus,
with fistulous abscesses. ► Frequent
desire for stool, in the morning and evening, and on lying down. ► Very pressing desire for stool, and
stools large, black, very painful to evacuate.
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa, especially in the morning, with colic, cutting pains, fever,
and prostration. ► Diarrhœa
yellowish, of a very deep color, of the odor of musk. ► Dysentery, with colic, tenesmus, and
great heaviness. ► Stools semiliquid,
yellow, profuse, with burning and griping in the intestines. ► Stools black, mixed with blood, with
enormous distension of the abdomen, and sensation as if the intestines
were excoriated. ► Involuntary
stools, at night. ► With the stool,
evacuation of a number of small, very active worms.
URINARY ORGANS.
[180.]
► Cramps in the kidneys, bladder, and
urethra, with frequent desire to urinate, and incontinence of urine. ► Sensation of obstruction and great heat
in the kidneys, with cerebral congestion. ►
Burning pain in the region of the kidneys, with constant desire to
urinate and emission of urine drop by drop. ►
Sensation of ulceration, of fissures, and like polypi in the urethra,
with painful and difficult emission of urine. ►
Burning and distensive pains in the urethra, with sensation as if it
were stopped. ► Pressing desire to
urinate, principally in the morning on waking, or in the evening on
lying down, but only a few drops were passed with tenesmus, pressure in
the kidneys and bladder, and painful weariness. ►
Frequent emission of watery urine. ►
Involuntary micturition and wetting the bed. ►
Retention of urine, as in hypertrophy of the kidney, with tenesmus and
intestinal colic. ► Urine very
abundant, afterwards scanty, thick, with lancinating pains in the
kidneys. [190.] ► Urine scanty, high-colored, of a bad
odor. ► Urine bloody or
blood-streaked, with pains in the kidneys. ►
Urine thick, with a brownish reflex, gray, blackish, seeming to contain
membranous particles. ► Urine
deposits a gray and somewhat red or mucous sediment.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Sensation as if
the genital parts were bruised and being pushed under with violence. ► Sensation of weariness and prostration,
originating in the sexual organs. ►
Nearly constant semi-erection, during the sufferings of the genital
organs. ► Productions like
condylomata, or like indurated chancres on the penis. ► Heat, redness, and pains, as if
excoriated in scrotum. ► Inflammation
and swelling of the spermatic cords and testicles, with burning and
pulsative pains, with the sensation as if the circulation of the blood
were stopped in said parts. [200.] ► Descent of the testicles, aggravated by
heat and motion. ► Sensation as if
there were granulations and tubercles in the testicles, with cutting and
lancinating pains, especially felt when standing. ►
Sensation of an accumulation of water round the left testicle. ► Debility of the genital functions, with
want of erection during ejaculation. ►
Ejaculation excessively prompt or retarded. ►
Venereal appetite with little power. ►
Female. ► The neck of the
womb swollen and hot. ► The uterus
swollen, as if filled with cysts, with startings and cutting pains,
especially on the right side. ►
Inflammation and excoriation of the vagina, with heat, especially after
urinating. ► Violent spasmodic pains
in the ovarian regions, especially on the right side. [210.] ►
Spasms felt in the womb, with every respiratory motion. ► Heat, with lancinating and distensive
pains in the womb, as if it would be torn. ►
Tensive and contractive pains in the womb, like labor-pains. ► Pulsative pains in the womb, with
swelling, as if from a tumor or dropsy. ►
Watery or milky leucorrhœa, thick, whitish, foul-smelling, with
spasmodic pains in the uterus. ►
Metrorrhagia, with thick and black blood. ►
Bloody discharge at other times than the menstrual epoch, as during the
climaxis. ► Very abundant and
weakening menstruation. ► Burning,
thick, green discharge, as in blennorrhagia, with swelling of the glands
in the groins and thighs. ►
Menstruation anticipating, of clear and rosy blood, or thick and black,
with great nervous excitement and disposition to be vexed. [220.] ►
Retarded, insufficient menstruation, the blood thick.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx. ►
Accumulation of mucus in the larynx, with tickling and itching, so that
he is constantly obliged to cough. ►
Paroxysms of constriction in the larynx, with heat, extending to the
chest. ► Voice. ► Hoarseness, with excoriating pains in
larynx and chest. ► Cough and
Expectoration. ► Intense
spasmodic cough, with expectoration of watery or glairy mucus, stinging
pains, and spasms in the chest. ► Raw
and hard cough, shaking the chest and bowels, and stopping only after
expectorating a quantity of compact mucus. ►
Cough, with expectoration of thick, green, or white mucus, tenacious,
filamentous, with a bitter putrid taste. ►
Cough, with distensive pains in the chest and hypochondria,
palpitations, and pains in the heart. ►
Cough, with desire to vomit and vomiting, paroxysms of suffocation and
epistaxis. ► Fatiguing cough,
especially in the evening and at night in bed. [230.]
► Intense and dry cough, with heat on
both sides of the chest, at a level with the mammæ, with frequent
expectoration of blood. ► Thick
catarrhal cough; continued tussication, with great distress in the
larynx and bronchia. ► Cough, with
hiccough, headache, and dizziness. ►
Nervous cough, divided in two parts, as if sobbing, with heat in the
chest. ► Hæmoptysis, the blood black
and thick, or pale, as if full of water. ►
Respiration. ► Short and
stertorous respiration. ► Great dyspnœa,
with paroxysms of suffocation.® 2000
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