SPIGELIA.
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa for two days, thin stools mixed with some tenacious yellow
mucus, two to four times a day, at irregular intervals (after three
days), [2]. ►
Thin watery stools twice a day (after sixteen days), [2]. ► A loose
evacuation (after two hours), [21a].
► Fecal evacuation, the first of
which was hard, the last thin, the evacuation followed by two pressive
thrusts from within outward in the forehead (after twenty-six hours), [5]. ►
White stools daily, [1]. [360.] ►
Nodular stool, with violent pressure, [21].
► No stool (first day); a hard stool
(second day); evacuated only after great efforts (after a repeated
dose), [5].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Prostatic fluid presses out of the orifice of the urethra
(after twenty hours), [6]. ► Burning stitch in the urethra, with
urging to urinate (after fifty-nine hours), [5]. ► Desire
to urinate, as after taking diuretics, [8].
► Frequent desire to urinate, with
passage of much urine without any difficulty (after three hours and
three-quarters), [10]. ► Obliged to urinate frequently and
profusely (after three days), [5].
► Urinates ten times, a large amount
of urine, in one night, with pressive pain upon the bladder, which
always disappears after the urine has passed (after twelve hours), [1]. ►
(Spurting of urine on external pressure on the bladder), [1]. ► Sudden
and involuntary dribbling of five or six drops of urine four times in
succession, in the afternoon on rising from a seat; the dribbling was at
times followed by burning in the forepart of the urethra, [1]. [370.] ► During the night the urine passes with
difficulty, and is followed by burning, [1].
► Evacuation of much urine twice in
succession, though he had urinated just before taking the drug (after
one hour and a half), [5]. ► Frequent and profuse secretion of urine
for three days and a half, [6]. ► Urine watery (after two hours and a
half), [11]. ►
Urine deposits a whitish sediment for several days, [6].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Frequent erections without internal physical sexual excitement, though
with voluptuous thoughts (after seventeen hours), [6]. ►
Swelling of half of the glans penis (after seven days), [1]. ►
Crawling about the glans penis every day, [1].
► Itching on the scrotum (after four
days), [5]. ►
Burning stitch in the right testicle and penis, [5]. [380.] ► Itching stitch in the right testicle and penis
from behind forward, [5].
► Itching stitch in the left testicle
(after fifty-one hours), [6]. ► Emission, with a lascivious dream (very
unusual), in the morning shortly before waking, without subsequent
exhaustion, [12].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Cough and Expectoration. ► Cough in the morning after the coryza had
mostly disappeared (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► Cough
and catarrh at night, [1]. ► Very sudden violent cough, caused by
water getting from the mouth into the trachea, [3]. ► Short
dry cough, causing soreness in the chest, in the open air, [2]. ►
Cough dry, violent, hollow, caused by an irritation low down in the
trachea, especially provoked by stooping; the cough takes away his
breath, [1]. ►
A kind of suffocative cough, as from a large amount of water running
down the air-passages, [3]. ► Respiration. ►
Respirations 10 and deep (after five minutes); 8 and deep (after ten
minutes); 6 and deep (after fifteen minutes); 8 and deep (after twenty
minutes); 10 and deep (after twenty-five minutes); 14, no longer deep
(after thirty minutes); 16 (after thirty-five minutes); 17, natural
(after sixty minutes). Taken by surprise by the slow and deep breathing,
which was in fact a process of slow and deep sighing, [24].
CHEST.
[390.]
► Violent pressure upon the chest beneath
the left clavicle, [4].
► Excessive hard pressure upon the
whole chest towards evening, [3]. ► Pressure, and at the same time drawing,
in the chest while standing, [3]. ► (Pressive pain in the whole chest after
hawking and clearing the throat), [1].
► Tearing constriction in the pectoral
muscles while standing, [4].
► Drawing together in the chest, with
sticking, so that he could not get his breath, [1]. ►
Sensation of excessive hunger in the chest, with accumulation of saliva
in the mouth posteriorly (after four hours), [3]. ►
Alternations of pain in the chest, [11].
► *Tearing constriction in the lower
portion of the chest, above the pit of the stomach, with oppression;
afterwards, also, the same pain in the upper part of the chest, beneath
the pit of the throat, with palpitation, [4]. ► Cutting
constriction, in the chest, with anxiety, [4]. [400.] ► A jerking-sticking pain in the upper part
of the chest below the axilla (after fifty-five hours), [6]. ►
Sticking from within outward in the chest when not breathing; he cannot
breathe easily, [1]. ► An itching stitch beneath the clavicle, [5]. ►
A stitch from within outward transversely through the chest, mostly in
the sternum, in all positions, [11].
► Boring stitch in the region of the
diaphragm, in the right side, persistent during inspiration and
expiration, [5]. ► A pinching stitch in the left side of the
diaphragm so violent that it took away his breath, so that he was
obliged to remain standing (after two hours and three-quarters), [5]. ►
Front and Sides. ►
Pressure above the ensiform cartilage while standing, [3]. ► Violent
painful, distressing pressure upon the middle of the chest, [4]. ►
Sudden drawing, fine-sticking pain near the sternum, extending downward,
[8]. ►
A sudden fine-jerking pain, as from electric sparks, in the forepart of
the chest, [8]. [410.] ►
Violent pain, as from a sprain, in the upper and left side of the chest
only on turning the body to the right side, on making a false step, or
on turning the left arm, lasting a day (after seven days), [6]. ►
A painful bruised sensation in the first four ribs of the left side
during the stool and when straining at stool, that always disappears
after the evacuation, [2]. ► Dull stitches in the right side of the chest,
lasting only during inspiration (after two hours), [3]. ►
Stitches, as with fine needles, in the right side of the chest (after
five hours), [10]. ► Tensive stitch in the right false ribs,
always persistent during expiration, [5].
► Tense persistent stitch in the
right chest, worse on inspiration and expiration, [5]. ► Tensive
drawing stitch in the right true ribs, continuing during inspiration and
expiration, aggravated by external pressure, [5]. ► A
momentary violent sticking pain in the left side of the chest, towards
the clavicle, preventing respiration in the evening (after twelve
hours), [12]. ► Constant tensive stitch in the right side
of the chest and abdomen, continuing during inspiration and expiration,
worse while walking, lasting two hours (after eighty-two hours), [6]. ►
*Violent stitch in the left side, just beneath the heart,
that in a short time changes to a kind of crawling; afterwards the
stitch returns just as violently (after three-quarters of an hour), [6]. [420.]
► Several stitches beneath the left
ribs, in the evening, bending him over, [1].
► *Dull sticking at the point where the
beat of the heart is felt (after fifty-six hours), [4]. ►
*Recurrent dull stitches rhythmical with the pulse at the point where
the impulse of the heart is felt, or rather more externally
(after three hours), [7]. ► Tensive boring stitches in the left
chest, continuing during expiration (after fifty-seven hours), [5]. ►
Tensive stitch in the left chest, more violent on expiration (after
twenty-seven hours), [5]. ► A dull stitch in the left side of the
chest, lasting during inspiration and expiration, [5]. ► An
itching stitch in the left pectoral muscles (after ten hours), [5]. ►
Tearing-boring pain, extending from within outward, beneath the right
nipple; the pain always extends to the sternum, and becomes a sharp
pressive-tearing pain (after two hours), [7]. ►
Cutting-tearing pain that begins beneath the left nipple and extends to
the region of the scapula and upper arm, violent only on inspiration and
deep breathing (after eleven hours), [7].
► Dull sticking-pinching pain beneath the
right nipple, in the thorax, extending from within outward, violent only
on inspiration (after eight days), [7]. [430.] ► Sharp stitches from without inward above
the left nipple, recurring at various intervals, while writing, when he
sat bent over; on becoming erect they suddenly disappeared (after
thirty-one hours), [7].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Heart. ► Dull oppressive
stitches at the heart, between the place where the beat of the heart is
felt and the pit of the stomach; also some sticking in the pit of the
stomach and above it, and oppression of the chest, [4]. ►► *The
palpitation was constantly aggravated by sitting down and bending the
chest forward, [4]. ► *Palpitation in the morning, after rising while
sitting, with anxious oppression;
the heart seemed to be in tremulous motion, [4]. ►► *In
the morning, as soon as he sat down after rising from bed, the heart
began to beat violently, and above the point where the beating was felt
there seemed to be a painfully oppressive weight upon the chest, which
caused oppression; together with cutting and digging in the lower
abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus, which continued longer than the
palpitation, [4]. ► *On taking a deep inspiration, and on holding
the breath, the anxiety increased; there
was an attack of palpitation and oppression of the chest, the heart beat
more violently, and the palpitation was even felt by the hand at the pit
of the stomach, [4]. ►► *Palpitation and anxious oppression of
the chest, [4]. ►► *Unusually violent beating of the heart,
so that he frequently could hear the pulsation, or so that the beats
could be seen externally through the clothes, [7]. ► Pulse.
► *Pulse weak and irregular, at one time
rapid, at another slow (after seven hours), [7]. ► Pulse
usually 72, was at the time of the morning fever only 54 (after
twenty-four hours), [4]. [440.] ►
Pulse 77 (before taking); 79 (after two minutes); 78 (after five, ten,
fifteen, and twenty minutes), [23].
► Pulse 77 (before taking); 76 (after
one minute); 75 (after four minutes); 78 (after eight minutes); 77
(after ten, twelve, and twenty minutes), [22].
► Pulse 78 (before taking); 80 (after
two, and five minutes); 82 (after ten minutes); 84 (after fifteen
minutes); 80 (after twenty minutes); 79 (after twenty-five, and thirty
minutes); 78 (after thirty-five minutes); 77 (after sixty minutes), [24].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► After stooping for
a while it seemed as though he could not raise the head again on account
of pain in the nape of the neck, [1].
► Pain in the nape of the neck, in
the morning after rising from bed; if he keeps it still it hurts as if
asleep; was also obliged to move it constantly, because during motion it
did not hurt, [1]. ► Intermittent drawing in the posterior
cervical muscles, and up to the occiput, [3].
► Sensation of paralysis in the left
side of the neck, which, however, did not hinder motion of the head, and
soon disappeared (after one hour), [6].
► Sticking pain in the right side of
the neck; on swallowing, sticking in the parotid gland and within the
ear itself, something between an earache and a throatache, [1]. ►
Back. ► Bruised feeling in the
spine, even during rest (after thirty-eight hours), [5]. ►
Needlelike stitches in the back, extending to the left side while
walking (after twelve hours), [10].
[450.] ►
Twitching in the dorsal and costal muscles, [5]. ►
Sensation in the left scapula, as though blood were dropping through a
valve, a kind of bubbling (after a quarter of an hour), [14]. ►
Itching stitch in the right dorsal muscles, [5]. ►
Needlelike stitches in the upper dorsal vertebræ (after thirty-two
hours), [5]. ►
Stitches in the back, opposite the heart, [4].
► Sharp stitches in the right
scapula, recurring at regular intervals, [7].
► Dull boring stitching in the left
scapula (after seventy hours), [5].
► Stitches in the small of the back,
worse during inspiration and expiration, while sitting (after two hours
and a quarter), [5].
EXTREMITIES.
►
Trembling of the lower, and afterwards of the upper limbs, [8]. ►
Constant uneasiness in all the limbs at night; he was constantly obliged
to move them from place to place; at one time to bend them up, at
another to stretch them out, on which account he could not get a
moment’s sleep (after ten hours), [1].
[These symptoms were removed a short time by gold. -Hahnemann.] [460.] ►
Great heaviness in the upper and lower limbs; could get his breath only
with difficulty after going upstairs, [11].
► Writing is difficult on account of
great heaviness in the arm; walking is difficult on account of great
heaviness in the lower extremities, [11].
► Tearing in the limbs, either
immediately above, or somewhat below the joints, in the loins, as if
they were scraped, [11]. ► The limbs are affected, mostly when walking; the
spine feels bruised, [5].
► When walking he feels every false
step; a painful shooting through all the limbs, [1].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► *Trembling of the upper limbs, [9]. ►
The arm frequently falls asleep when writing, so that he cannot hold the
pen, [1]. ►
Shoulders. ► Some jerks in
the muscles of the right shoulder, [5].
► Twitching on the top of the right
shoulder, [5]. ► The left shoulder and arm hang down, as
if heavy, while walking, with tension on the forepart of the upper arm, [3]. [470.]
► Pain, as if sprained or beaten, in
the shoulder-joints, and in the first joints of the thumb and index
finger, [1]. ►
Tensive pain in the left axilla during rest (after thirty-eight hours), [5]. ►
Burning pain in the left axilla (after thirty-one hours), [5]. ► Fine
itching-biting stitches in the left axilla, towards the forepart (after
one hour and a half), [7]. ► Arm. ►
Sensation of heaviness in the right upper and forearm, while at rest,
and even on slight motion, when raised (after three hours), [6]. ►
Drawing pain in left deltoid, more violent on hard pressure, [7]. ►
Cutting drawing across, above the deltoid muscle, [3]. ►
Twitching in the muscles of the left upper arm (after seven hours and a
half), [3]. ►
Tearing pressure on the middle and inner side of the upper arm, worse
when touched, [7]. ► Elbow. ►
Itching pains, like needle stitches, in the bend of the right elbow,
obliging scratching (after thirty-five hours), [5]. [480.] ► Itching stitch in the tip of the left
elbow (after eleven hours), [3]. ► Violent stitches in the bend of the elbow
and in the fingers, [1]. ► Forearm. ►
Pressive pain in the right forearm, [6].
► Twitching in the muscles of the left
forearm just above the wrist, only during rest (after
fifty-five hours), [5]. ► Pressive pain above the right wrist, during rest
(after thirty-four hours), [5]. ► Violent sticking-cutting pains above the
left wrist, on moving the index-finger while holding the arm firmly
against the body (after forty-five hours), [6]. ► Pain in
the right forearm, as though both bones were pinched between pincers,
during rest (after twenty-two hours), [6].
► Some sticking jerks above the
wrist, [1]. ►
Boring stitches in the right forearm (after fifty-two hours), [5]. ►
Hand. ► The hands are pale
yellow, as after a long illness, [11].
[490.] ►
Trembling of the hands on taking hold of anything, with weakness and
prostration in the whole body (after thirteen days and a half), [2]. ►
Involuntary drawing in the tendons of the left hand, so that all the
fingers were bent, with spasmodic pains in the hollows of the hands, [5]. ►
Drawing pain transversely through the metacarpal bone, [3]. ► The
hands fall asleep while they are resting, with crawling in the tips of
the fingers, disappearing on wetting them, and taking firm hold of
anything, [2]. ► Cramplike pain transversely through the
left metacarpus, extending from the side of the thumb to that of the
little finger, as though the whole hand were squeezed together (after
six hours), [14]. ► Rhythmical tearing in the joints of the
left hand, that at times extends into the metacarpus, almost a cramplike
tearing in the palm of the hand, though with perfectly free motion, [4]. ►
Some sticking jerks near the first joints of the fingers, [1]. ► Boring
crawling in a small spot in the palm of the right hand (after
seventy-nine hours), [6]. ► A crawling in the hands, as though they
were asleep on compressing the hand (after twelve hours), [14]. ► Fine
tearing in the metacarpo-phalangeal articulations (after forty hours), [7]. ►
Fingers. [500.] ► Painful drawing on the first joint of the thumb
where it unites with the metacarpal bone, [7]. ►
Paralytic pain in the right index finger, [6].
► Pressive tearing in the tip of the
left little finger (after forty-eight hours), [7]. ►
Rhythmical tearing in the fingers of the right hand (after twelve
hours), [4]. ► Tearing pain in the phalanges of the right thumb
(after seven days), [7]. ► Burning pain on the joint of the left
thumb, [5]. ►
Burning pain on the back of the first phalanx of the little finger
(after seven hours and a half), [5].
► Itching sticking in the tips of the
fingers (after ten minutes), [14].
► Dull, bubbling stitches in the tips
of the fingers, as if they had been frozen (after a quarter of an hour),
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