STRYCHNINUM.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Spasm of the muscles about the larynx and those of one arm; she felt and
looked as if strangled; the muscles
on each side of the larynx became tense like chords, [20]. ► Spasm
of the respiratory muscles, so that breathing was irregular,
intermittent, and difficult, [4]. ► Voice. ►
He spoke in a very low voice, which was somewhat indistinct, not only
from his weakness, but from the frequent interruptions his utterance was
subjected to from the violent jerks his whole frame suffered from
tetanic spasms, [69]. ► Hoarseness, with a feeling as of a cold
on the chest, lasting about two hours, in the morning (thirty-eighth
day), [128]. ►
Complete aphonia (soon), [104]. ► Cough. ►
Occasionally spasmodic explosive cough (seventh day), [127]. [530.]
► Dry spasmodic cough (forty-eighth
day), [128]. ► Respiration. ►
Accelerated respiration, [12], [122]. ►
Respiration quick and difficult, and attended with great pain in the
præcordial region, [89]. ► Respiration rapid, with hard, rapid
pulse, [26]. ►
Breathing rapid and difficult, but larynx quite free (after twenty
minutes), [30]. ► Breathing hurried, catching, and
difficult, [63]. ► Respirations 35 per minute during the
spasm, [136]. ► Inspiration deep, [71]. ► Short
breathing with dry cough (fifty-fourth night), [128]. ►
Respiration short and labored, [88].
[540.] ►
Short breathing with dry cough (thirty-fifth day), [128]. ► Deep
respiration, without convulsions, with loss of consciousness, followed
by death, [26]. ► Respiration became irregular,
intermittent, and short, [196]. ► Respiration sobbing and difficult, [122]. ►
Choking character of breathing (after fifteen minutes), [107]. ►
Difficult and interrupted breathing, [103];
(soon), [164]. ► Respiration difficult, [25], [97].
► Breathing difficult, there being
short spasmodic efforts at inspiration, and the expiration accomplished
by a sort of moan or sound indication of anxiety or pain, or both, [64]. ►
Difficulty in breathing during the spasms, [136]. ►
Respiration difficult, rattling, [3].
[550.] ►
Breathing becomes always more and more difficult, with increasing
spasms, until at last it ceased entirely for a short time, associated
with arrest of the beating of the heart, [4].
► Respiration difficult, stifled,
tight, [33]. ►
Respiration very difficult (after six hours), [150]. ►
Respiration very difficult, with much motion in the larynx, [24]. ►
Oppressed breathing, [62]. ► Tightness of breath, [29]. ►
Complained of want of air, and requested the window to be opened (after
five minutes), [33]. ► Great want of breath after the spasms,
with sighing, [43]. ► Respiration seemed entirely suspended; no
respiratory murmur detected, but the heart’s sounds were quite audible, [79]. ►
Great dyspnœa, [141]. [560.] ►
Excessive dyspnœa, with screaming, followed by convulsions, repeated
every ten minutes; the extremities became rigid; the patient could not
sit; the hands were clenched; the head drawn backward; the patient was
perfectly conscious and sensitive; spoke a few words, [73]. ►
Respiration suspended during the spasms; 19, in the intervals of rest,
at the close of each fit, [28], [49]. ►
He died asphyxiated during a violent convulsive attack, which fixed all
the respiratory muscles, [86].
CHEST.
►
Walls of chest fixed, [130]. ► Spasmodic contraction of the muscles of
the chest, about four times in a minute, with a feeling of impending
suffocation (after twelve hours), [126].
► Considerable oppression of the
chest; constriction when taking a long breath (after twelve hours), [43]. ►
Oppression in chest after meals, with flatulence (fifty-fourth day), [128]. ►
Tightness about the chest, [33], [42], [49].
► Soreness of the muscles of the
chest and shoulders (twenty-second day), [128].
► Sharp contractive pains in the
muscles of the chest (first day), [128].
[570.] ►
Severe, sharp pains in the muscles of the chest and in the
shoulder-joints, at 7 P.M. (third day), [128].
► Sharp pains in the upper part of
the chest, right side, and in the top of the shoulders, coming on a
short intervals (fourth day), [128].
► Deep spasmodic pains in the chest
and back, at 2 P.M. (eighth day), [128].
► Sharp, deep pain in upper part of
chest (twelfth day), [128]. ► Sharp darting pain in the lower part of
the chest, in the evening (twenty-second day), [128]. ► Sharp
darting pains in upper chest (twenty-seventh day), [128]. ►
Spasmodic pains in the muscles of the chest and back part of shoulders
(thirty-third day), [128]. ► Violent pains in the muscles of chest and
neck (forty-third day), [128]. ► Gnawing and darting pains in the muscles
of the chest and abdomen, accompanied by a sick, faint feeling
(fifty-third day), [128]. ► Shooting pains in the muscles of the
chest, left side, and under the jaws (second day), [128]. [580.]
► Sharp needlelike pains in upper
chest and muscles of neck (thirty-fourth day), [128]. ► Sides.
► Keen, sharp pains in the upper part
of the chest, right side (eighteenth day), [128]. ► Keen,
needlelike pains in right upper chest, in the forenoon (thirtieth day), [128]. ►
Sharp pains in the left side under the ribs (thirty-fourth day), [128]. ►
Severe, fixed pain in the upper part of the chest, left side (third
day), [126]. ► Mammæ. ►
Severe stabbing pains in the right breast, passing through to the back,
at intervals (thirty-fifth day), [128].
► Violent tearing pain in the left
breast, at intervals (thirty-sixth day), [128].
► Sharp pains in the left breast
(twenty-eighth day), [128].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Tightness
about the præcordia, [63]. ► During the day, dull pain shifting along
the line of the aortic arch (fourth day), [127].
[590.] ►
Fluttering sensation about the heart, with faintness, in the morning
(fifty-fifth day), [128]. ► Heart’s Action. ►
The heart’s action was distinctly felt by the hand applied to the
præcordia, [64]. ► Sudden palpitation of the heart, lasting
a short time (forty-fourth night), [128].
► Palpitation of the heart
(twenty-seventh night), [128]. ► Tumultuous action of the heart, [9]. ►
Impulse of heart strong (after twenty minutes), [30]. ►
Irregular action of the heart, [145].
► Pulse. ►
Pulse 88 and regular, [79]. ► Pulse regular, about 90 (between the
spasms), [66]. ► Pulse accelerated, [3], [4], [29]. [600.] ►
Pulse weak and rapid, [25]. ► Pulse very rapid, small, [122]. ► Pulse
very rapid and easily compressed, [6].
► Pulse quick, [119]. ► Pulse
rapid, small, [106]. ► Pulse more rapid than usual between the
spasms, [57]. ► Pulse about 150, [64]. ► Pulse
frequent (about 130), but soft, [63].
► Pulse 130 per minute, [121]. ►
Pulse 120, small, regular, and corded or tense,
and strong (after three hours and three-quarters), [50]. [610.]
► Pulse varying from 120 to 140, [131]. ►
Pulse 115 to the minute (after one hour), [124].
► Pulse 110, very compressible, [24]. ►
Pulse 110 (after one hour and three-quarters); 140 during the spasms, [136]. ►
Pulse 96, rather small and very irregular (after one hour), [94]. ►
Pulse full and rapid, [138]. ► Pulse full, about 100, [43]. ► Pulse
large and full, [73]. ► Pulse full and strong, but irregular, [82]. ►
Pulse hard, full, slow, intermittent, [3].
[620.] ►
Pulse weak, rapid, and almost imperceptible, [130]. ► Pulse
70, hard and contracted, [139]. ► Pulse small and frequent, [42], [97].
► Pulse small and slow (after one
hour and a half), [46]. ► Pulse small, suppressed and rapid, [4]. ►
Pulse imperceptible, [147]. ► It was impossible to count the pulse
during the convulsions, and it was very little more than a flutter
during the interval, the slightest touch throwing the patient into a
paroxysm, [138]. ► Radial pulse imperceptible during the
spasms; in the intervals of rest 110; at the close of each fit 128, [49]. ►
Nearly pulseless (after one hour), [69].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Neck swollen, the
jugular veins distended, [4]. [630.] ►
Marked rigidity of cervical muscles (after one hour), [124]. ► When
she tried to lift her head the neck felt very stiff, [107]. ►
Peculiar contractions of the muscles of the neck, especially the
sterno-cleido-mastoids (after a few minutes), [141]. ► Neck
feels stiff, [43]. ► Painful stiffness in muscles of neck and
chest, extending down the back to the waist (forty-sixth day), [128]. ►
Stiffness of nape of neck, with darting pains in the head and neck, in
the morning (thirty-sixth day), [128].
► Stiff hard feeling of the muscles
of the neck (fourth day), [128]. ► Momentary stiffness in left half of neck
(twenty-sixth night), [126]. ► Hard rigidity of the muscles of the neck
(thirty-fourth day), [126]. ► Stiff sensation in the muscles of the
neck, extending down the back to the waist (thirty-fifth day), [126]. [640.]
► Sharp cramp pains in the muscles of
the neck (tenth day), [128]. ► Violent pains in the muscles of the neck
and down the spine, in the forenoon (twenty-second day), [126]. ►
Darting pains in the muscles of neck and to of shoulders (thirty-fifth
day), [128]. ►
Keen knifelike pains in the muscles of neck, chest, and abdomen, with
sick feeling (forty-first day), [128].
► Sharp darting pains in the muscles
of the neck, in the morning (forty-second day), [128]. ►
Violent pains in the muscles of neck and chest (forty-third day), [128]. ►
Sharp needlelike stitches in muscles of the neck and in upper chest
(thirty-fourth day), [128]. ► Intense gnawing pain in the left half of
the neck, at night (seventh day), [128].
► Dull aching pains at the nape of
the neck and up behind the ears (first day), [128]. ►
Violent pain in the nape of the neck and down the spine, at intervals,
and lasting several hours, in the forenoon (twenty-third day), [128]. [650.]
► Sharp pain in nape of neck and down
the spine at intervals (twenty-fifth day), [128]. ► Sharp
pains in the muscles of the neck and down the spine at intervals, at
noon (twenty-sixth day), [128]. ► Sharp cutting pains in nape of neck
(twenty-seventh day), [128]. ► Sharp stabbing pains in the nape of the
neck and down the spine, in the morning (thirty-fifth day), [128]. ►
Sharp darting pains in nape of neck and bottom of left heel
(thirty-eighth day), [128]. ► Violent pains in the muscles of the nape
of neck and over the shoulders to the chest (forty-first day), [128]. ►
Shooting pains in nape of neck at intervals, in the afternoon
(forty-ninth day), [128]. ► Darting pains and contracted feeling in
the back of the neck and head and behind the ears (fourth day), [128]. ►
Severe darting pains in the back of the neck and head (eleventh day), [128]. ►
Pains in the muscles of the back of the neck and articulation of the
jaws (twelfth day), [128]. [660.] ►
Severe pains in the muscles of back of neck (thirty-third day), [128]. ►
Darting pains in back of neck and in left breast (thirty-seventh day), [128]. ►
Sharp darting pain in back of neck and down the spine, in the afternoon
(thirty-ninth day), [128]. ► Sharp pain in muscles of back of neck
(fiftieth day), [128]. ► Pains in the muscles of back of neck
(forty-fifth day), [128]. ► Sharp needlelike pains in muscles of back
of neck (fifty-third day), [128]. ► Back. ►
Stiffness of the back; it is very painful to move about, in the morning
(fifty-first day), [128]. ► Spine feels stiff, as if an iron rod were
pushed from one end of it to the other, [43].
► Stiffening sensation down the back
(seventeenth day), [128]. ► Stiffness down the spine and in the knees
(eighteenth day), [128]. [670.] ►
Extreme stiffness of the back (nineteenth day), [128]. ►
Stiffness of the back, and the same sharp darting pain at nape of neck,
at intervals (fortieth day), [128].
► Tight stiff sensation up the spine
when bending the head down (second day), [128].
► Stiffening of the muscles of the
back and neck, following a similar sensation in the muscles of the legs
(fourteenth day), [128]. ► Hard rigid feeling in the muscles of the
back and neck; darting pains in the back and neck (twenty-fourth day), [128]. ►
Intense aching and stiffness in back, after standing or walking
(fifty-second day), [128]. ► Convulsive jerks in the back, when
attempting to open the mouth (fiftieth day), [128]. ►
Violent jerks in the spinal column, from the waist upwards (fiftieth
day), [128]. ►
Great muscular soreness, principally of the muscles along the spine, [115]. ►
Sore pains and stiffness of the back (sixteenth day), [128]. [680.]
► Deep sore sensation in the left
half of the back above the waist (forty-first day), [128]. ►
Intense aching down the spine and behind the ears (twenty-fourth day), [128]. ►
Aching of the back and over the hips (forty-first day), [128]. ►
Extreme aching and stiffness of the back (forty-sixth day), [128]. ►
Rheumatic pains in left half of back about the waist (thirteenth day), [126]. ►
Intense aching and icy coldness of the entire back (thirteenth day), [126]. ►
Intense pain in the back, aggravated by the least exertion; constant
aching around the waist, in the morning (fiftieth day), [128]. ►
Violent pains along the spine, followed by frightful twitching, tetanic
spasms, and death, [41]. ► Pains in the back, [25]. ►
Increased pain in the back (fiftieth day), [128]. [690.]
► A great deal of pain up and down
the spine, [43]. ► Agonizing gnawing pain in the back and
neck, and in the muscles of the legs above the knees (fourteenth day), [128]. ►
Intense gnawing pain in the left half of the back from the shoulders to
the waist, in the forenoon (eighth day), [128].
► Sharp pains and aching in the back
(forty-second day), [128]. ► Sharp tearing pains in the back, down the
entire length of the spine, in the morning (twenty-first day), [128]. ►
Sharp cutting pains at times in left half of back (twelfth day), [128]. ►
A single stabbing pain in the upper part of back, passing down the
spine, in the afternoon (thirty-second day), [128]. ►
Contracted feeling in the muscles of neck (sixteenth day), [128]. ►
Lumbar. ► Pains in lumbar
region, [143]. ► Sudden stiffness in the lower part of
back and hips, in the afternoon (forty-fourth day), [128]. [700.]
► Intense aching in the small of the
back (first day), [128]. ► Intense aching in lower part of back and
over the hips, in the evening (twenty-eighth day), [128]. ►
Aching and stiffness in lower part of back, in the afternoon
(fifty-fourth day), [128]. ► Intense aching and stiffness in lower
part of back, after standing or walking, in the evening (fifty-fifth
day), [128]. ►
Sharp needlelike pains in the back about the waist (forty-eighth day), [128]. ►
Suddenly violent cutting pain in the back about the waist, as though she
were chopped in half, extending right and left to the stomach, at night
(forty-ninth day), [128].
EXTREMITIES.
►
Fingers and toes violet-colored, the former spasmodically doubled inward
and the latter drawn backward, [12].
► Extremities outstretched and rigid
and at times affected by jerking movements, especially rotating muscles,
[78]. ►
The arms became spasmodically drawn over the chest, the forearms
immovable at the elbows; the lower extremities became rigid, [106]. ►
During the paroxysms, arms and legs extended and rigid, [145]. [710.]
► Muscles of legs and arms rigidly
flexed, [141]. ► Stiffness of the limbs, [48], [97].
► Hard rigidity of the muscles of
arms, legs, face, and neck (twenty-seventh day), [128]. ►
Intense stiffness of the muscles of the legs, shoulders, and upper part
of the chest, especially the calf of left leg, with external tenderness
(twenty-sixth day), [128]. ► Stiffness of extensors of thighs and
muscles of back of neck and hand, causing inability to write (fifth
day), [127]. ►
Slight stiffness of toes and arms (fifty-third day), [128]. ► A
peculiar kind of twitching over her limbs (after one hour), [40]. ►
Violent jerking of all the limbs, [3].
► Severe drawing up of the legs and
arms (after half an hour), [46]. ► Twitching of the limbs in bed, and spasms
as if the heart was being firmly grasped (seventeenth day), [127]. [720.]
► Convulsive throwing about of the
extremities, especially violent motions of the arms and hands towards
the face, so that they had to be tightly held, with perfect
consciousness and without pain, [7].
► Spasms of the extremities
interrupted by painful shocks, [75].
► Convulsions of both upper and lower
extremities, [51]. ► After a few minutes he began to feel
tingling in his hands and arms, followed by rigidity, and spasms soon
set in, [155]. ► Violent shuddering in the limbs as in
paroxysms of ague, only on every attempt to move them; repeated in a
tertian type and always ending in perspiration, [2]. ► Extreme
weariness of the limbs, [23]. ► Extreme prostration and weariness of the
limbs, [6]. ►
Cramps in hands, feet, and legs (after thirty minutes), [123]. ► Pains
in the left knee, and in the palms of the hands and left thumb, as if
they would be stiffened (after five hours and three-quarters, fifth
day), [128]. ►
Violent pain in left upper leg and arm, at night (forty-second day), [128]. [730.]
► Violent darting pains in the
muscles of the arms and hip-joints (thirty-sixth day), [128]. ►
Violent pain in the limbs, especially in the feet, with spasmodic
jerkings, [8]. ► Rheumatic pains in the arms and legs
(fifty-fifth day), [128]. ► Rheumatic pains in right hand and left
foot, in the afternoon (twenty-seventh day), [128]. ►
Rheumatic pains in the muscles of the arms and left hand, also in the
knees, coming on at short intervals (twelfth day), [128]. ►
Rheumatic pains in front of thighs, and in forearms and fingers
(twentieth day), [127]. ► Sharp cramp pains in the palm of left
hand and sole of left foot (tenth day), [123].
► Darting pains in the muscles of the
arms and in calf of left leg (third day), [128].
► Sharp tearing pains in the muscles
of the arms and in the right knee, with tremulous feeling (twenty-first
day), [128]. ►
Cutting pains in the calf of left leg and in the left wrist-joint
(eighth day), [128]. [740.] ►
Sharp cutting kind of pains in the left ankle-joint, and shortly after
in the left arm, at 9 A.M. (third day), [128].
► Sharp pains in the right wrist, and
then in the left arm from the shoulder to the wrist (second day), [128]. ►
Sharp pain in the little finger of right hand, and at the same time such
an intense aching in the ankles that she must sit down, at 10 A.M.
(third day), [128]. ► Tingling of fingers and toes (fifty-third
day), [128]. ►
Crawling in the limbs after spasms, [10].® 2000
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