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SUMBUL. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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RESPIRATORY ORGANS.

[350.] ►
Tickling in the windpipe, [6a]. ► Voice. ►
Voice like speaking through the nose, from obstructing mucus at root of
nose, extending down into the throat, in the evening (eighth day); voice
rough (eleventh day); hoarseness and tenacious mucus in throat; which
renders it convenient to keep the mouth constantly open (eighteenth
day); hoarseness (nineteenth day); hoarseness from the mucus in throat
(twenty-sixth day); voice obstructed by mucus in throat hoarseness,
after 9 A.M. (thirty-third day); voice obscured (thirty-fifth day);
hoarseness, at 8 A.M. (thirty-sixth day); hoarseness (forty-seventh
day); on rising, the voice gruff, bass and hoarse; obstructing sweetish
mucus in throat; voice becomes clearer after a short time (forty-eighth
day), [3]. ► Cough and Expectoration. ► Dry cough several times, [1]. ► Hacking
cough, from tickling in larynx, chiefly in morning (fourteenth day), [4]. ►
Hacking cough, from irritation in throat, as if from warm air ascending
spirally, in the daytime (nineteenth day); cough, in the evening
(twentieth day); cough, in the morning (twenty-first day); hacking
cough, in the morning (twenty-second day); hacking cough, at short
intervals, from irritation in throat, as of hot air rising spirally, at
6 P.M., and in the evening (twenty-sixth day); cough hacking, from
irritation in throat, as of hot air rising spirally, morning, noon, and
evening (twenty-eighth day); hacking cough, troublesome, frequent,
excited by speaking, and tickling in throat, in the morning
(twenty-ninth day); cough hacking, which detaches sweet mucus into the
mouth (thirty-first day); cough ejects sweet mucus into mouth; cough
hacking, from tickling in throat, at intervals (thirty-second day);
cough, from tickling in throat, at intervals, in the morning; coughing
and hiccoughs; shaking hacking cough (thirty-third day); hacking cough
(thirty-fourth day); cough from tickling in throat; two or three single
coughs in succession (thirty-sixth day); cough in series, 10 to 11 A.M.
(thirty-seventh day); cough single, hacking, in the morning, at
intervals (forty-eight day); cough, with hiccough, at intervals
(fifty-ninth day), [3]. ► Increased secretion from the mucous
membrane of the respiratory organs, [5].
   

CHEST.

►
Feeling of tightness in chest with diminished secretion of mucus; the
asthmatic symptoms went off after a few hours, [6a]. ► Pains
as of knives darting through the chest (after meal), decreasing towards
night (eleventh day); after every meal (twelfth day), [4]. ► Pain in
the chest on both sides, as if from a knife (twenty-fourth day), [4]. ►
Darting pains in the chest under lower sternum (sixteenth day), [4]. [360.]
► Paroxysms of dull pressure under
the sternum, [1]. ► Oppression in left chest, clogged
sensation, as if it were difficult to force the blood through that lung,
worse on stooping (forty-seventh day), [3].
► Dull pains through the left chest,
worse on moving the left arm or leaning forward (forty-eight day), [3]. ►
Tightness, tensive-stretched feeling across chest between left breast
and sternum, and in left breast, worse on inspiration, in the morning
(twentieth day), [3]. ► Tightness under left breast (thirty-first
day), [3]. ►
Tightness, tensive pain in left chest under breast, especially during
inspiratory inflation (forty-ninth day), [3].
► Tensive pain in left side under
ribs, in a line with the nipple; worse on inspiration, at 9 A.M.
(thirty-fifth day), [3]. ► Tensive pains in left side just below
axilla (sixteenth day), [3]. ► Dull tensive pains in left chest under
arm-pit and near nipple, in a line with it externally (forty-eighth
day), [3]. ►
Dull tightened pain in left chest on blowing the nose (forty-eighth
day), [3]. [370.] ►
Dull pain in left side (under axilla, in a line with nipple), in the
evening (thirty-fifth day), [3]. ► Anteriorly, under left clavicle on
inspiration a shrill, whiffing, slightly jerking tubular sound, the
jerks perceptible throughout inspiration, but the shrill tubular
whiffing perceptible only at the commencement of inspiration, [3]. ►
Pain like a knife darting through left chest, from a spot a little below
the breast, also slightly in right chest, chiefly during the inspiration
(fifth day), [4]. ► Pain as of a knife in right side, at noon
(fourteenth day); (sixteenth day), [4].
► Pain like a knife in left side
under the ribs (twenty-first and twenty-seventh days), [4]. ► Aching,
as if bruised, in the left clavicle, increased by moving the arm, in the
evening (forty-nine day), [3]. ► Pains in left chest in the spot below
breast; pricking as of needles, in the evening (tenth day); at 5 P.M.
(thirteenth day), [4]. ► Uneasiness in left chest over heart, in
the afternoon (one hundred and seventy-seventh day), [3]. ►
Sensation of uneasiness in left lung (sixty-first day), [3]. ►
Prickings in left side under rib (eighteenth day); slight (nineteenth
day), [4]. [380.] ►
Prickings in left side under ribs, (twenty-ninth day), [4]. ►
Pricking pains in left side, close under ribs in the evening (thirtieth
day), [3]. ►
Prickings in left chest, in a line with nipples externally (a few
inches), (forty-eighth day), [3]. ► Prickings in left pectoral muscle on
moving the arm (forth-ninth day), [3].
► Left chest remained affected till
the seventy-third day, gradually improving, [3]. ►
Pricking in the right side under ribs (seventeenth day), [4]. ►
Prickings in right side (twenty-third day), [4]. ► Tensive
pain like a string pulling in right breast (third day), [3]. ► Tensive
pains in left breast, in the evening (thirtieth day), [3]. ►
Lancinations and biting pains in left breast, increased by a deep
inspiration (eleventh day), [3].
   

HEART AND PULSE.

►
Heart.
[390.] ► Palpitation of the heart (ninth day);
palpitation of the heart, with transient flushes of heat (eleventh day);
sinking of the heart, which beats softly as if in water (twelfth day);
slight palpitation of the heart (twentieth day); palpitation of the
heart, from the least exertion (thirty-fifth day); palpitation of the
heart at 9 P.M. (thirty-fifth day); palpitation and jerking of the heart
at intervals, worse during the flush of heat, and especially after
drinking stout (forty-first day); palpitations; jerkings
of the heart, in the evening (forty-fifth day); palpitation of the
heart, violent and visible, prolonged after running upstairs
(forty-ninth day); palpitation of the heart after drinking beer,
increased by paying attention to it (fifty-first day); beatings of the
heart at intervals, without any apparent exciting cause, with the heat
(fifty-ninth day); heart still palpitated violently and irregular at
times, with a bellows’ sound; after a dose of Spig. 3-3d, the heart
became quiet (fifty-nine day); flushes of heat in floods from the back
(sixty-first day); heart’s impulse strong; pulse irregular (one hundred
and seventy-seventh day); uneasiness over heart, palpitation
intermittent; jerking whilst lying down or sitting (one hundred and
seventy-eighth day); uneasiness over heart, it flutters slightly,
especially after quick exertion, chiefly in the afternoon (one hundred
and eightieth day); heart’s impulse strong (one hundred and eighty-first
day); heart’s impulse strong, jerking,
especially after exertion, or ascending stairs, and during digestion
(one hundred and eighty-second day); the action of the heart full, and
sharp strokes at times, irregular, beating rapidly eight or ten times,
then slowly; (like arnica heart), [3].
► Pulse. ►
Accelerated full pulse, [9f]. ► Circulation perceptibly accelerated, [6]. ►
Pulse 70, weak, low, and irregular (fourth day); pulse 78, irregular;
afterwards 80, low and weak; subsequently sinks to 70, irregular (ninth
day); pulse 90, strong, in the evening (twelfth day); pulse 82, full;
afterwards 74; strong, very irregular;
very compressible during the flush (sixteenth day); pulse 96-100, very
irregular (eighteenth day); pulse very
irregular
, 66, weak, low, and occasional quick, full beats, compressible; afterwards 70, very irregular,
strong, the narrow, compressible
(nineteenth day); pulse 58-60, with occasional powerful quick beats, in
the morning; rises to 88 after dinner; 70 in the evening (twentieth
day); pulse 52-6, compressible, very irregular; afterwards 90, followed
by moisture on the skin, in the morning subsequently narrow
(twenty-second day); pulse 88, irregular in the morning (twenty-fourth
day); pulse irregular, 82-88, compressible, narrow, occasionally strong
(twenty-seventh day); pulse very irregular, compressible (thirtieth
day); pulse strong, compressible, very
irregular (thirty-first day); pulse 72, very irregular, compressible
(thirty-second day); pulse narrow, compressible, 94, very irregular (now
at 66, now 100) (thirty-second day); pulse full, very irregular,
compressible, in the evening (thirty-second day); pulse accelerated in
the afternoon (thirty-ninth day), [3].
► Pulse irregular (fourteenth
day), [4].
   

NECK AND BACK.

►
Neck.
► Nape of neck on
right side much swollen from the spine to the mastoid process, and left
maxilla slightly enlarged; the swelling in not tender, but pressive and
hot, the head is with difficulty rotated, but without pain, further than
tension over the part which seems to press on the brain (one hundred and
ninety-second day), [3]. ► Stiffness and pain in muscles of neck and
back, on rotating the head (thirty-third day), [3]. ► Painful
stiffness of the cervical muscles, extending towards the ears and
temples, [14]. ► Tensive pain in muscles of neck along
left shoulder, over superior edge of shoulderblade (twenty-second day), [3]. ►
Uneasiness and sensation of heat over nape of neck, left side (one
hundred and seventy-eighth and one hundred and eighty-third day), [3]. [400.] ►
Slight uneasiness in nape of neck, right side (one hundred and
ninety-second day), [3]. ► Uneasiness in nape of neck increased (one
hundred and ninety-second day), [3].
► Shooting pain, extending from the
cervical muscles of the left side up to the temporal region (after ten
minutes), [12]. ► Pulsation in nape of neck, and between
shoulderblades, with heat (eleventh day), [3].
► Sensation of throbbing in nape of
neck, in abdomen, and lumbar region (eleventh day), [3]. ► Back.
► Tensive pains and pulsations in
swelling, extending down left side of spinal column; the spine is not
tender to touch or pressure, the uneasiness felt within, not externally (one hundred and
ninety-second day), [3]. ► Uneasiness and sensation of swelling in
spinal cord and nape of neck, chiefly on left side, slight prickings and
throbbings as if about to inflame, excited and increased by heat,
especially of the sun; uneasiness in nape of neck and trembling heat,
chiefly in left side below cerebellum, extending in a less degree down
the spinal column to sacrum (twenty-fourth day), [3]. ► Posteriorly,
over left scapular region, an indistinct mixed murmur and purring sound,
similar to that which has been supposed to depend on muscular
contraction, and often associated with rheumatism (like Spigelia); this
sound is not heard at all anteriorly; laterally,
on la line with left nipple, when the inspiratory inflation has been
about half completed there are two most distinct inspiratory jerks, but
nothing of the tubular whiff; a similar jerking inspiratory murmur, very
distinct below left nipple, over seat of pain, but on right side no such
jerking to be discovered, either anteriorly or posteriorly (forty-eighth
day), [3]. [Examined by Mr.
Wilson.] ► Lumbar. ► Pains in left lumbar region (seventeenth
and twenty-fifth day), [4]. ► Aching pain in lumbar region, in the
evening (eighth day), [4]. [410.] ►
Aching pain across lumbar region (seventh and eleventh days), [4]. ►
Aching pains in left lumbar region (twenty-third day), [4]. ► Darting
pains in left lumbar region, in chest, sides, and abdomen, during the
day (twenty-eight day), [4]. ► Sacral. ►
Tensive pain near top of sacrum, left side of back, when walking
(thirty-third day), [3]. ► Shooting pains and throbbings in sacrum
at 6 P.M. (twelfth day), [3]. ► Throbbing in left side of sacrum
(seventeenth day), [3].
   

EXTREMITIES.

►
The left arm (and foot slightly), however, continued affected, it easily
becomes chilled and numbed in the cold, despite gloves, friction or
motion; the fingers, especially the third and fourth, are then
bluish-white, the nails blue, with a sensation as if they were being
rooted up; when brought into the warmth this hand is slow in recovering
itself, and if held near a fire or in a heated room its vessels become
distended much more than those of the right side, and in a cool
temperature this is some time in disappearing; the arm, too, is easily
numbed, even to a sensation as of temporary paralysis, by leaning or
lying upon it; if held up when the vessels are distended they suddenly
become empty, and again immediately refill on its being brought down
(seventy-sixth day), [3]. ► Jerkings in the limbs and starts in the
muscles, increased to contortion and writhing of the whole body, during
the pains; straining and stretching of the facia and muscles; jerking
off the chair upon the floor (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), [3]. ►
Weariness and aching in left extremities and sole of left foot (one
hundred and seventy-fourth day), [3].
► Uneasiness in the extremities and
vibrations along the course of the nerves, better after motion in the
open air, [14]. [420.] ►
Aching in left leg and arm, and in sole of left foot (one hundred and
seventy-third day), [3]. ► Aching in left extremities (muscular),
and in sole of left foot (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), [3]. ►
Aching in left limbs and sole of left foot during the pains (one hundred
and seventy-sixth day), [3]. ► Fulness of hands and feet (thirty-third
day), [3]. ►
Tremulous tingling, dry, in palms of hands and feet (thirty-fifth day), [3].
   

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.

► Loss of elasticity in vessels of left arm
(sixty-first day), [3]. ► Excessive weakness and beaten sensation
inside left arm and in triceps (tenth day), [3]. ►
Bruised, beaten sensation in muscles of the arms, chiefly in triceps of
left arm (ninth day), [3]. ► Bruised, beaten feel in muscles of the
arms (ninth day), [3]. ► Left arm weak and easily fatigued
(forty-eighth day), [3]. [430.] ►
Aching pains down left arm, and in knuckle-joint of its forefinger
(forty-eighth day), [3]. ► Aching pain as if bruised down left arm
(forty-ninth day), [3]. ► The arm was easily numbed by the
slightest cold or by resting it upon anything, causing tingling pricking
numbness (sixty-first day), [3]. ► Left arm numb and heavy, weary
(sixty-first day), [3]. ► The right arm down to the thumb feels
numb, [14]. ►
The arm felt bruised (sixty-first day), [3].
► Fatigue in left arm (one hundred
and seventy-ninth day), [3]. ► Shoulder. ►
Shoulder-strap falls over left shoulder (as if it were emaciated), (constant from commencement), the same
suspender, if removed to right side, does not move from its place
(forty-eighth day), [3]. ► The left suspender falls over the arm
(seventy-sixth day), [3]. ► Uneasiness in left shoulder, above
superior edge of shoulderblade, and tensive pain (forty-seventh day), [3]. ►
Arm.
[440.] ► Aching in belly biceps of left arm when
extended or touched (forty-second and forty-third days), [3]. ► Forearm.
► Weakness in forearms (seventh day),
[3]. ►
Hands.
► Hands ruddy and
their veins distended (twenty-second, twenty-ninth, and following days),
[3]. ►
Hands red, and the veins distended painfully, especially in left hand,
which empties on raising the arm, but becomes painfully distended on
depressing it (forty-first day), [3].
► Hands red, with distended veins,
particularly in left hand (forty-fifth and forty-ninth days), [3]. ►
Fingers.
► Swelling of the
fingers, [9f]. ► Shooting pain from back of ring finger to
wrist of left hand (long ulnar nerve) at 10 P.M. (twenty-fifth day), [3]. ►
Sharp, wiry shootings up fingers laterally, and in joint of second and
fourth fingers, left hand (sixty-first day), [3]. ► The
lateral surfaces of the fingers remained sore (sixty-first day), [3].
   

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.

► Knee. ►
Pain in knee, with stiffness of leg, impeding walking, [9f]. [450.] ► Aching rheumatic pain, from right knee to
ankle, externally, when walking (sixteenth day), [3]. ► Aching
in knee-joints, especially the left, when sitting near the fire; it
disappears on walking, or sitting in
the cool (one hundred and seventy-sixth day), [3]. ► Aching
in knee-joints, especially the left, whilst sitting with them near the
fire; it disappears on removing to a cool place, or by walking (one
hundred and seventy-ninth day), [3].
► Aching in knees when near the fire
(one hundred and eightieth day), [3].
► Aching pain around outer angle of
left knee, in front, lightly stiff in walking (one hundred and
ninety-second day), [3]. ► [Sensation (painful), as if internal
ligaments and covering of right knee were loosened, on stepping;
transient, in the morning] (fifth day), [3].
[Did not appear again; symptoms inclosed thus [] are doubtful.] ► Legs. ►
Heaviness and fatigue in the legs, in the morning on awaking, as after
excessive walking (forty-ninth day), [3].
► He felt as if his legs were not his
own, and could not trust himself to walk, [16].
► Slight weariness in right leg (one
hundred and seventy-third day), [3].
► Foot. ►
Trembling of the feet (after ten minutes), [12].

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