COLCHICUM.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► On
attempting to walk, it seems as though he would lose the use of his limbs, [13]. ► Hip. ► Slight snapping in the left hip, [27]. ► Sensation as of something
living in the left hip, [27]. [940.]
► Pains in the hips and loins (third day), [14]. ► Drawing in the hip-joints
(soon), [33]. ►
Slight drawing pain in the hip-bone, on moving about at night (second day), [32]. ► Pinching pressure on and
above the right hip, [52]. ►
Transient stitches in the hips, especially in the left, [27].
► Tearing in the region of the hip, [52]. ► Slight tearing in the
right hip-joint, extending through the thigh to the knee (after seven hours), [71]. ► Drawing tearing deep in
the region of the left hip, which seems to have its seat in the ligaments; worse at night, [51]. ► Thigh. ► Thighs abducted, [80]. ► Stiffness of the left thigh, making walking difficult, [71]. [950.] ► Pinching in the thigh like a cramps, as if it were asleep, [52]. ► Drawing deep in
the muscles of the thigh, [51]. ►
Drawing pains in the left femur, at times worse, at times better, as from excessive fatigue,
or like growing pains, [34]. ►
Sudden sticking-drawing pain beneath the left nates, extending into the perineum, lasting
half a minute, [39]. ►
Severe paralytic drawing in the whole of the right thigh, in the evening in bed, [52]. ► Pressure upon the
bones of the thighs; the middle portion is especially painful, [35]. ► Tearing in the thigh,
extending towards the hip, [52]. ►
Tearing in the upper part of the left thigh, [52]. ► Tearing high up on the inner side of the right thigh, [52]. ► Tearing deep in
the nates towards the anus, [52]. [960.] ► Tearing in the middle
of the left thigh, in the evening, in bed, [52]. ► Jerking-like tearing in the upper portion of the right thigh,
[52]. ► Transient
tearing shooting from the left hip-joint to the leg, [52].
► Knee. ►
Slight momentary snapping on the left surface of the right knee, [27]. ► The knee feels broken
(weary) on going up steps, [27]. ►
The right knee-joints is painful, in the evening, in bed, with sensation as if it were
paralyzed (fifth day), [71]. ►
Painful sensation in the bend of the right knee, extending down the calf, where it was
tensive; during a long walk, [43]. ► Very violent constant pain in the left knee, [75]. ► Pressive pain in the inner
side of the right knee, [52]. ►
Transient stitches in the knees and ankles (first day), [32].
[970.] ► Tearings
just below the patella, [34]. ►
Tearing pain just above the left knee, in the evening, in bed, [52]. ► Tearing pains beneath the
patella, posteriorly, [34]. ►
Stitches in the knee-joint (second day), [33]. ► Leg. ► Pains in the
legs, [76]. ► Pains
in the calves and feet, [19]. ►
Pain on the forepart of the tibiæ, like a chilliness in the bones, not relieved by warmth, [34]. ► Violent pain in
the forepart of the leg, as from chilliness, especially on the tibia, with coldness of the
lower legs, even in bed, [34]. ►
Very sensitive pain in the forepart of the tibia, a dull pain, feeling as if the bone were
chilled, or like growing pains, [34]. ► *Cramps in the legs, [69].
[980.] ► Drawing in
both calves and in the right metatarsus (after seven hours), [71].
► Tearing in the lower portion of the right calf, [52]. ► Tearing in the
left side of the left calf, [52]. ► Tensive tearing on the left lower portion of the left tibia, [52]. ► Pinching-tearing
pain at the insertion of the right tendo Achillis, [34].
► Ankle. ►
Tearing in the left tarsal joints, [52]. ► Painful pressure in the right external malleolus, as from
fatigue, at 8 P.M. (first day), [37]. ► Foot. ► Weakness of
the feet (soon), [33]. ►
Sensation of weakness in the feet, [30]. ► Great heaviness of the feet, extending down into the lower
legs (second day), [44]. [990.]
► Cramp in the feet, [77].
► Very painful cramps in both feet, especially in
the left, [75]. ►
Tearing in the feet, feeling as if they were paralyzed, [73].
► Tearings through the whole of the left foot, [73]. ► Tearings on the
inner side of the metatarsal joints, [34]. ► Tearing on the back of the left foot, [52]. ► Drawing tearing on the
right instep, [52]. ►
Violent painful cramps in both plantar regions (soon), [78].
► Tearing in the sole of the left foot, not far from the
toes, [52]. ►
Tearing on the inner curvature of the right foot, between the ball of the great toe and the
heel, [52]. [1000.]
► Tearing in a small spot in the forepart of the right
foot, three finger’s breadth from the malleolus, near the sole of the foot, [52]. ► Drawing tearing in the
sole of the left foot, [51]. ►
Tearing pains in the sole of the left foot, in a small spot in the metatarsus, [34]. ► Tearing in the
right heel near the sole, [52]. ► Toes. ► Pain in the
left great toe, as though the nail would enter the flesh, [52].
► Pressive-drawing pain in the whole of the left great
toe, afterwards also in the right, and then in the left middle toes; the pain seems to be
more on the lower surface of the toes, [52]. ► Sticking-drawing sensation in the right great toe, [39]. ► Very sensitive,
sharp, boring stitches across the top of the nail, at the tip of the right great toe, [52]. ► Sticking tearing
in the ball of the right great toe, near its lower side, [52].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
► Objective.
► The solid constituents of defibrinated blood were
diminished, as also was the absolute amount of blood-corpuscles and of the plasma, [22]. [1010.] ► The quantity of colored corpuscles in the blood was somewhat
diminished, [11]. ►
The gait is very unsteady and tottering, partly on account of weakness, and partly on
account of sudden sticking-tearing jerks which shoot through the periosteum, always with a
sensation of paralysis, and with actual transient paralysis, [51].
► Stretching, [39].
► Convulsions; the right arm could not be extended, the
left could not be flexed; both feet were drawn upward; the soles formed a half circle, and
the toes were spasmodically drawn inward (after seven weeks), [20].
► Convulsions of the left side and muscles of the face
(tenth day), [20]. ►
The patient gradually developed convulsions, in which the extremities were spasmodically
flexed; fingers and toes flexed; the eyes convulsively rotated; the left hand, which
constantly kept hold of the penis, trembled; the convulsions became more and more frequent,
extending to the muscles of the neck; the lower jaw became firmly pressed against the upper;
and the patient frothed at the mouth, [20]. [The
remaining symptoms noted during the progress of this case, subsequent to the administration
of antidotes. Tartar emetic, Ipecac, etc., have not been taken.] ►
Weakness, [39]. ►
Weakness, as after exertion, [55]. ► Weakness and weariness the whole day, disappearing in the
evening, [13]; (fifth day), [10]. ► Great weakness in the
morning, [37]. [1020.]
► *Great weakness and exhaustion, [69]. ► General weakness, [39]; (soon), [33]. ► Sudden sinking of the strength, so that after ten hours he
was scarcely able to speak or walk across the room, [51].
► Painful loss of power in the muscles, especially about
the knee-joints, so that the knees frequently give way, particularly on raising the leg to
step over a high object, as for example, over a doorstep, [51].
► He is quite powerless, and the whole body feels
paralyzed, especially the arms, [51]. ► Exhaustion, [50]. ►► *Great exhaustion, [19],
[80]; (second evening), [21].
► General prostration, [19].
► Great prostration and weakness (after twenty-four
hours), [71]. ►
Complete paralysis of the right side with only slight sensation; the toes were on the
slightest touch drawn towards the sole (ninth day), [20].
[1030.] ► Faintness
after a copious stool, [7]. ►
Restlessness, [11]. ►
Extremely restless, constantly turning the head from left to right (second morning), [20]. ► Uneasiness, [85]. ► Great uneasiness
(after sixteen hours), [20]. ►
Subjective. ► *Very sensitive to the slightest
touch (second day), [20]. ► Disinclination to work, [39].
► Weariness in the morning on waking (second day), [32]. ► Great weariness
in the morning, on rising, [30]. ►
Great weariness, indolence, sleepiness, prostration of the limbs, and disinclination to work
after a stool, [10]. [1040.]
► Very great weariness and prostration, [16]. ► Sensation of weariness on
ascending steps (after ten minutes), [27]. ► Sensation of weakness over the whole body; the feet feel
weary (after five hours), [71]. ►
Very severe distressing sensation of weakness in the whole body, while sitting quiet, with a
kind of nausea in the throat, and confusion of the head; immediately relieved on moving,
especially in the open air, but returning at once on sitting down, [35]. ► Great feeling of
prostration accompanied with restlessness (after four hours), [82].
► *Complaints of excessive prostration, [78]. ► Such great
prostration of mind, such weariness, painfulness, and sensitiveness of the whole body, that
he could scarcely refrain from weeping, [51]. ► All the muscles, especially those of the limbs seem
paralyzed, [51]. ►
Inclination to faint. ► Great discomfort (fifth day), [36]. [1050.] ► His sufferings seem intolerable, [51]. ► Attack similar to cholera,
with constant rice water vomiting, and similar evacuation of the bowels, which were forcible
and accompanied by tenesmus, [68]. ► Rheumatic pain in the whole body, especially in the back,
upper arms, and shoulders, in the evening, [35]. ► Asked is she had not got rheumatic fever. Some females in the
room were also struck with the similarity of the symptoms, [83].
► (Various most severe muscular pains in the legs and
abdomen, less in the chest, arms, and back; they may possibly be ascribed to a five hours’
horseback ride; they continued nearly eight days), [46].
► A tremulous sensation in the whole body as from
fasting, in the afternoon, especially immediately after dinner, [52]. ► Tearing tension in small
spots here and there in the body, for example, somewhat below the pit of the stomach, in the
ribs of the left side, a little below the axilla, in the right popliteal space, [52]. ► Griping and
crawling in some of the toes, in the ball of the right foot, in the fingers, ears, and
several places of the skin of the face, as after taking cold, or change in the weather, in
the evening, [54]. ►
Slight drawing and jerking, also tearing in the incisors, eyelids, muscles of the face, and
other parts of the body here and there, [51]. ► Sudden tearing jerks all through one-half of the body, like
electric shocks, [52]. [1060.]
► Frequent single tearing jerks, mostly in the left side,
[54]. ► The pains
seem to become intolerable in the evening; he could get into a rage with himself if he had
the strength, [51]. ►
Very much affected by any work, especially reading or writing (sixth day), [36]. ► Relieved after a dose of
Pulsatilla (fifth day), [36].
SKIN.
► Objective. ► Paleness of the skin, [77].
► Skin livid, dry, and hot (second day), [20]. ► The whole body became
scarlet-red (after a few hours), [20]. ► Eruptions. ►
Pityriasis on the inner surface of the left thigh and corresponding portion of the scrotum
(after one month), [37]. ►
(During this proving two dry wartlike pimples on the nape of the neck, lasting six weeks,
and disappearing with desquamation), [32]. ► A small round ulcer on the vermilion margin of the lip, [34]. [1070.] ► Sticking in the skin, so that it jerks through the whole
body, [51]. ►
Violent jerking stitches, as from fleabites, in various places, obliging me to scratch, and
then disappearing, [34]. ►
Itching over the whole body, [30]. ► Itching over the whole body, as from burning nettles or from
jelly-fish, [61]. ►
Itching of the skin in various parts of the body, [51].
► Burning itching in small places here and there; after
scratching the skin becomes red, and the itching changes to another place, [34]. ► Sticking itching in
various parts of the body (first day), [34]. ► Very burning sticking-itching, here and there, in the skin,
obliging scratching, whereby it was driven to another part, [34].
► Crawling on the inner surface of the great, second, and
third toes of the right foot, as if they were asleep, [52].
► Itching and eruption on the face, [56]. [1080.] ► Sensitive itching of the skin of both forearms on the ulnar
side, where, without scratching, the skin becomes red, [71].
► Obstinate itching of the hands, [56].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Yawning, [39]. ►
Yawning, with rumbling in the abdomen, after dinner, followed by very copious stool (second
day), [46]. ►
Repeated yawning (soon), [32]. ►
Was frequently obliged to yawn, [51]. ► Sleepiness during the day, [51].
► Sleepiness; disinclination to work; with confusion of
the head (after half an hour), [54]. ► Unusual sleepiness in the afternoon (first day), [33]; (second day), [32].
► Unusual sleepiness in the evening (first day), [32]. [1090.] ► Excessive sleepiness soon after supper (after five hours), [27]. ► Overpowering
sleepiness in the afternoon, [35]. ► Very sleepy till midnight, then waking with sensation of
heavy oppression in the stomach, after which he was wide awake for two hours, [32]. ► Unusually strong desire to
sleep (third night), [25]. ►
Irresistible desire to sleep in the evening (first day), [25].
► At night deep sleep, with vivid dreams and grinding of
the teeth, [32]. ►
Soporous condition for two hours and a half, [12]. ► The child was found in a soporous condition, lying on its
back in bed, with half open eyes and loud respiration, [19].
► Sleeplessness. ►
Sleeplessness, [76]. ►
Uneasy sleep, [55]. [1100.] ► Uneasy sleep, with
anxious dreams (third day), [26]. ► Sleep uneasy, unrefreshing, [74].
► Sleep very uneasy (second day), [30]. ► Afternoon nap on the sofa
very uneasy, only slightly refreshing, [10]. ► The afternoon nap did not refresh him, [11]. ► Sleep restless and
exhausting, [71]. ►
Sleep restless, with many dreams, [39]. ► Very restless night, with heavy dreams, [28]. ► Frequent waking from sleep
in fright, with the idea that there were mice in the bed; two nights in succession, [52]. ► Many dreams at
night (first night), [27]. [1110.]
► Lascivious dreams towards morning, with erections, [39].
FEVER.
► Chilliness.
► Temperature diminished, [16].
► Cold temperature of the skin, [17]. ► Skin cool, [65]. ► Cold skin and tongue, [69]. ► Skin tongue, and
breath cold, [68]. ►
Chilliness (soon), [33]; (second day), [32]. ► Chilliness in the room, [29]. ► Chilliness the
whole day, [10]. ►
Chilliness of the whole body, even in the room, [34]. [1120.] ► Chilliness the whole
day, lasting till 7 P.M., [11]. ►
Chilliness in the afternoon (second day), [40]. ► Chilliness in the open air in the afternoon (first day), [25]. ► Chilliness in the
room, soon afterwards vertigo, [28]. ► Chilliness and heat alternating, [65]. ► Chilliness and heat
alternating, [17]. ►
Chilliness, with heat of the head at night (second day), [32].
► Constant chilliness (second day), [32]. ► Constant chilliness in the
afternoon (second day), [32]. ►
Coldness in the afternoon after dinner (third day), [10].
[1130.] ► General
coldness, [77], [78]. ► Progressive coldness, [75]. ► Sensation of
coldness, [45]. ►
Sensation of coldness in the evening relieved by warm coverings, but returning on going to
bed as a chilliness, with chattering of the teeth, disappearing after a short time while
lying still; to bed as a it threatened to return on motion, [35].
► General lack of warmth in the body, even in bed, [34]. ► Chilliness in the
scalp, [45]. ►
Chilliness in the knees, [34]. ►
Slight chilly sensation in the abdomen, especially in the stomach, with pain and weakness, [51]. ► Shivering in the
back (second day), [33]. ►
Shivering through all the limbs, [51]. [1140.] ► Frequent shivering
down the back (after a quarter of an hour), [3]. ► Nose, cheeks, and soles of the feet cold, [20]. ► Diminished temperature of
the extremities, [80]. ►
Remarkable coldness of the skin of the hands and legs, even in bed, [34]. ►► *Cold extremities,
[17], [19];
(after four hours), [82], etc. ►
Cold feet and hands, [52]; (second day), [33]. ► Hands, feet, and
forehead cold, [48]. ►
Fingers cold (second day), [25]. ►
The fingers feel cold and fuzzy, [71]. ► Feet cold, [67]. [1150.] ► Cold feet in the
afternoon (second day), [40]. ►
Heat. ► Heat in the body at night, [55]. ► Dry heat at
night, [32]. ► Dry
heat of the skin, [51]. ►
Some dry heat, [28]. ►
Skin hot, [85]. ►
Skin hot, [76]. ►
Frequently repeated flushes of heat in the afternoon (from three to forty-four days), [46]. ► Fever, with
gastric disturbances, [12]. ►
Symptom of warmth, like rush of blood, through the skin of the chest and head, in bed
(soon), [34]. [1160.]
► Sensation of warmth in the small of the back, extending
into the rectum (after eleven hours), [39]. ► Sensation of warmth and throbbing on the side, in the small
of the back, while sitting, [27]. ► Heat passing into headache, [39].
► Heat in the anterior part of the head, [29]. ► Flushes of heat in the
head (after a quarter of an hour), [3]. ► Great heat of the face, [41].
► Flushes of heat rising up along the spine in a warm
room, [27]. ►
Sensation of flushes of heat in the hands and feet, [73].
► Palms of the hands hot (second day), [25]. ► Burning externally on the
right side, near the pit of the stomach, [52]. ► Sweat. [1170.] ► Increased secretion from the skin, [69]. ► Sweat, [55]. ► Slight sweat at night
(first day), [33]. ►
Slight sweat on waking after midnight (first day), [32].
► General sweat, smelling slightly sour (first night), [25]. ► Very easy,
profuse sweat, in spite of thin clothing, [11]. ► Very profuse sweats, of a very sour odor (after eleven
hours), [83]. ►
Skin covered with clammy sweat and blue spots, especially along the spine, [84]. ► Sour-smelling sweat, [14]. ► Sweating easily
on walking, [10]. [1180.]
► Slight perspiration the whole night, [11]; (first night), [10]. ► Transpiration of the skin was constantly increased by
Colchicum; it frequently amounted to profuse sweat, [22].
► Skin moist, clammy, cold as in cholera, [80]. ► Suppressed transpiration, [51]. ► Skin dry, hot,
leaden-colored, [20]. ►
Skin dry, body hot, [19]. ►
Forehead covered with clammy sweat, [19]. ► Face covered with sweat (after six weeks), [20].® 2000
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