GELSEMIUM.
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Rheumatic pain in
the left side of the neck, on lying down, soon passing off (one hour
after 15 drops, sixth day), [6]. ► Aching and soreness of the muscles of the
neck and shoulders continued for four days (after eight days), [4]. ►
Aching on the left anterior part of the trapezius muscle (in the neck),
when leaving a warm room (eighth day), [6].
[410.] ►
Contractive sensation in the right side of the neck at 5 P.M. (seventh
day), [6]. ► Back. ►
Feeling of weakness in the back and limbs, with sleepiness, [15]. ►
Pain in the back, as in the cold stage of ague (many cases), [5]. ►
Dorsal. ► After breakfast,
sharp shooting pain from the right shoulder to the dorsal vertebræ
(seventh day), [2]. ► Soreness of the trapezius muscles on
moving (eighth day), [4]. ► Lumbar. ►
Dull pain in the lower lumbar and sacral region (tenth day), [2]. ►
Aching in the loins (eighth day), [4].
► Sacral. ► Dull pain in the sacral and lower lumbar
region (first night), [2]. ► At supper-time, going into a warm room,
aching in sacro-iliac and lumbar regions and lower part of left thigh,
with languor and thirst, as when a fever is commencing; felt the pains
more when eating (ninth day), [6].
► Dull aching pain in the sacral and
lumbar regions, which came on about 3 A.M. (third day), [2].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
[420.] ►
*Trembling in all the limbs; in the afternoon (eighth day), [7]. ►
Trembling in the limbs, with chill, at 1.30 P.M., followed by violent
stinging in left mamma, from inside outwards, along the lactiferous
ducts, especially in one spot, in the sternal half of the breast (second
day), [7]. [When seventeen years
of age she had a sore breast, with ulceration, pain on touch; this was
the result of a cancerous tumor from a contusion by a cows horn, and
drawn out by an application of a black paste of a veterinary surgeon,
Dr. Lang; the breast got well, though it became smaller in size than the
right; she afterwards nursed her six children and never had any trouble
in it; yet there was not so much milk in it and the children did not
like it as well as the right; twice during pregnancy she had stinging in
the place mentioned, after taking cold, but without further consequence;
also from homeopathic remedies she had never observed any pain there;
still in feeling with the finger, she can detect a kind of cavity, which
is always somewhat sensitive on pressure, probably from rough handling
at the first confinement.] ► I
gradually lost the control of my limbs, so that
I could not direct their movements with precision, [16]. ►
Weakness of the limbs towards 12 o’clock (second day), [7]. ►
Heaviness in all her limbs (after four hours and a half), [7]. ► A
sensation as if a galvanic current were passing down the forearms and
hands; the same also in the feet; while sitting (after one hour, fifth
day), [4]. ►
Awakened by pains in the limbs, at 4 A.M. (seventh day), [2]. ► During
the night pains in the extremities, worse after midnight, abating during
the day (ninth night), [2]. ► During the night pains of the limbs as
usual, especially forearms and calves; also in the elbow and
knee-joints, all similar to the previous, only less severe (eleventh
day), [2]. ►
Pains in left elbow, wrist, and knee, and in both ankles (after second
dose, third day), [4]. [430.] ►
Slight pain in the muscles of the extremities (thirteenth night), [2]. ►
Awoke about 3 or 4 A.M., with severe pains in both the upper
extremities, which seem to be seated deep in the muscles; also severe in
the left arm and forearm, and in both the calves (fifth morning), [2]. ►
Deepseated pains in the muscles of the extremities, relieved by movement
(seventh morning), [2]. ► Rheumatic pains in the extremities (sixth
day), [2]. ►
Rheumatic pains in the bones and joints of the extremities and back
(third night), [2]. ► Burning, running through all the limbs,
with burning in the first joint of the left index finger, as if the
blood would come out, in the afternoon (eight day), [7]. [This joint is stiff and anchylosed from a
wound, incised, when she was three years old.] ►
Dull pain in the humeral region, and also in the lower extremities,
which seems to be in the bones or deep in the muscles, at 10 A.M.
(second day), [2]. ► Dull aching pain (deepseated), both in
the upper and lower extremities, and joints generally (third day), [2]. ►
Pulsative pains in the left hand and joints of the fingers, and at the
same time in the right foot, more severe in the ball of the great toe,
continuing for two hours; when lying down (after five hours, fifth day),
[4].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Arm. ►
Spasmodic pains extending from the inner condyle of the right arm to
axilla (third day), [1]. [440.] ►
Dull pains in the muscles of the right arm and shoulder, and some of the
time in the left arm and lower extremities (twelfth day), [2]. ► Elbow.
► After writing for a few minutes,
crampy pain in the bend of the right elbow while waking (ninth day), [6]. ►
At 7.30 P.M., violent aching in the left elbow (thirteenth day), [2]. ►
At 3 P.M., in a draughty church, felt a drawing and aching about the
left elbow, for a quarter of an hour (fourth day), [6]. ►
Sensation as if a galvanic current were passing through the forearms, at
6 P.M., continuing for half an hour (eighth day), [4]. ► Pain in
the flexor muscles of the right forearm (first day), [1]. ► At 9
P.M., pain in the right wrist of a full kind, with great weakness of the
same (fourteenth day); the pain less severe, but still it is still quite
weak (fifteenth day), [2]. ► At 6 P.M., sharp pain in the right wrist
(thirteenth day), [2]. ► The flexor muscles of the hands and arms
were paralyzed, while the extensors were nearly so, [22]. ►
Sensation in hands and arms blunted, but not in proportion to the loss
of motion, [22]. [450.] ►
Drawing stitches in the dorsum of the right hand, running down into the
middle and ring fingers, [9]. ► Pain in the little and fourth fingers
(first day), [1]. ► Early in the morning sharp shooting pains
in the joint of the last phalanx of the right thumb (twelfth day), [2].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Objective. ►
Staggering like one intoxicated, [32].
► Gait staggering and very infirm
(one hour after first dose, third day), [4].
► *He tried to walk, but staggered as if
drunk, [29]. ► He staggered, reeling from one room to
another, as in intoxication (after half an hour), [28]. ►►
*Fatigue of the lower limbs, after slight exercise, [11]. ►
During and after a walk, it seems as if the limbs could not be moved
another step, [3]. ► Loss of voluntary motion of the lower
extremities, [11]. ► Subjective. [460.]
► Pain in the lower limbs (very
common), [5]. ► Paroxysmal pain in the left lower
extremities (first day), [1]. ► Dull pain in the lower extremities, [2]. ►
During the headache excessive drawing, contracting, and crampy pains in
the lower extremities, extending from the thighs to the toes; the pains
appear to proceed from the bones as well as the muscles, [3]. ► Hip.
► Pain in the left hip, only in the
joint; it at times extends to the outside of the thigh; it is a sharp
drawing pain, much worse on movement (first day), [1]. ► Thigh.
► Transient crampy pain in the inner
part of the thigh when walking (sixth day), [6]. ► At 7
P.M., dull pain in the left thigh and under the left scapula (thirteenth
day), [2]. ►
Aching of the left rectus femoris muscle and drawing in the right calf,
at 11.30 P.M. (first day), [6]. ► Drawing pain in the lower third of the
left thigh (part of S. 559), [8]. ► Drawing pain in the left hamstring,
extending across the joint to the origin of the gastrocnemius, [9]. [470.]
► Sharp stitches of pain, as of
drawing or cramping of single fasciculi of muscle, about the origin of
the gluteus maximus, on the left side; the stitches run in the direction
of the hip-joint, [9]. ► Continual jerking from the right
sartorius muscle about the middle of the thigh, [9]. ► Slight
jerking about the middle of the rectus muscle of the right thigh, [9]. ►
Slight jerking in the vastus externus muscle of the right thigh near the
knee, [9]. ► Knee. ►
When walking, a feeling in the knee-joint as if the relation of the
bones were deranged, and they did not fit, as in a partial luxation
(seventh day), [6]. ► Pain under the right knee when walking, [5]. ►
Rheumatic pains in the right knee on walking, soon passing off (one hour
after 15 drops, sixth day), [6]. ► Sudden catch or twist on the inside of
the patella, when sitting down to breakfast (eleventh day), [6]. ►
When the pains are felt above the knee, they are not felt below, and vice versâ, [3].
► Leg. ►
A slight, sharp crampy pain in the left gastrocnemius, about the largest
part of the muscle, [9]. [480.] ►
Excessive drawing and contracting pains in the gastrocnemius muscle of
the left leg, which do not go off in a sitting posture as all the other
pains in the limbs; no position relieves it, [3]. ► At 3
P.M. sharp shooting pain in the right calf (thirteenth day), [2]. ►
Violent shooting pain in the leg in paroxysms, every one is more violent
midway between the knee and ankle (first day), [1]. ►
Soreness of the gastrocnemii muscles, as if they had been beaten, [11]. ►
Ankle. ► Pain in the left
ankle, with spasmodic contraction of the toes and drawing pains in them
(first day), [1]. ► Foot. ►
Excessive crampy pains in the whole of the right foot, [3]. ► Cramp
in the instep of the right foot, [9].
GENERALITIES.
►
Objective. ► He was lying
on the left side, [23]. ► Tremulousness (accompanying profuse urination),
[10]. ►
*Trembling and weakness in the afternoon (seventh day), [7]. [490.]
► Trembling, with chill in the whole
body, at noon (third day), [7]. ► Shaking, trembling in the whole body, and
whimpering (tingling) in the legs, as if asleep, in the afternoon (fifth
day), [7]. ► *Muscles relaxed (after three hours),
[28]. ►►
*Complets relaxation of the whole muscular system, with entire motor
paralysis, [29]. ► Mental and bodily inactivity during the
afternoon (ninth day), [6]. ► Listless and languid, [5], [29]. ► At 10 A.M. I went to the Penn Hospital,
where I saw a number of severe wounds; I am not usually affected much by
the sight of wounds, but to-day, that or
something else caused very unpleasant sensations; I became very weak,
and my friend remarked that I was very pale, accompanied with nausea and
trembling of the lower extremities; these continued some ten
minutes, but disappeared in the open air (sixth day), [2]. ► When
reclining, some languor and drowsiness (just before a heavy shower),
(third day), [6]. ► Languor and drowsiness on reclining for
the purpose of study; slept and hour, and when aroused felt at first
unwilling to move; less languor after stirring around awhile, in the
afternoon (third day), [6]. ► *Great lassitude, [5]. [500.]
► *General fatigue (eighth
day), [4]. ► *Easily fatigued, especially the lower limbs,
[5]. ►
*Became tired and greatly exhausted very easily, [3]. ►
Weakness at 12.30 P.M. (fifth day), [7].
► Weakness and a fluttering (part of
S. 211), [7]. ►► *Weakness and trembling through the whole
system, [5]. ► Weak and dizzy (second morning), [24]. ►
Very weak, as after severe sickness, in the afternoon (eleventh day), [7]. ►
*Great feebleness, [21].
► Great prostration and muscular
weakness, particularly of the elevators of the lower jaw and eyelids,
and the muscles of the arm, [26]. [510.] ►
Great prostration, with irregular breathing and slow respiration (after
five hours), [25]. ► Complete prostration of the system, with
emaciation, [1]. ► *Complete loss of muscular power; was
unable to move the limbs or even to raise his eyelids, although he could
hear and was cognizant of all transpiring around him, [18]. ►
Paralytic symptoms made themselves manifest through the muscular system,
first experienced in the knee, and then in the inferior tibial region,
increasing unto falling, [11]. ► General restlessness, with chill after
breakfast (fifth day), [2]. ► Great restlessness (par of S. 257), [25]. ►
Subjective. ► General
vigorous feeling at 8 A.M. (third day), [6].
► Sensation as though the blood had
ceased to circulate, [13], [19]. ►
Feeling of lightness of the body and sense of instability of the whole
system, [5]. ► Feeling of relaxation of the whole body,
especially of the hands and feet, with indisposition to move,
[9]. [520.]
► Inclination to lie down (after
three-quarters of an hour), [17]. ► Languid feeling of the whole body,
especially of the hands and feels, [9].
► Feeling of danger of stumbling or
falling, [5]. ► One feels as though he had had “a
fit of sickness,” [5]. ► General feeling of illness, as in fever, [5]. ►
Running in all “nerves,” especially in the fingers, and a
sensation of jumping, as from ant-bites, in the finger-ends; on looking
at them, she found the nail blue halfway up from the root, at noon
(third day), [7]. ► Feels as if she had risen from a severe
sick-bed in the forenoon (eleventh day), [7].
► Dull pains of a shifting character
all day (thirteenth day), [2]. ► Erratic pains of a rheumatic character
(seventh day), [4]. ► Fugitive or fixed pains here and there, [5]. [530.]
► Drawing and aching pains, which
seem to come from the bones, [3]. ► In my own provings, I have frequently
experienced a succession of acute, sudden, darting pains, evidently
running along the single nerve branches in almost every part of the body
and limbs, sometimes so sudden and acute as to make me start; at one
time, a quick succession of these acute sudden pains coursed down the
outside and front of the tibia for over half an hour, leaving a line of
considerable tenderness marking its track, [5]. ► The
effects were dissipated within a few hours, [12].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► Yellowness of
the skin in the forenoon (eleventh day), [7].
► Pale yellow color of the face and
of the whole body in the afternoon (eighth day), [7]. ► Eruptions.
► Gelsemium produces a
peculiar and very marked eruption in most of the provers; it appears
most on the face, less frequently and less conspicuously on the back
between the shoulders, etc.; it is papulous, very much the color of the
eruption of measles, which it considerably resembles, but the papulæ
are larger, more distant and distinct; although very conspicuous, they
are attended with little or no sensation, the subject being unaware of
their existence until he happens to see himself; persons have frequently
been asked what was the matter, if they had the measles, etc., when they
were not aware of the eruption; this generally appears on the second or
third day of the proving, and would seem to be more constantly produced
by the 2d or 3d dilution than by the tincture; the eruption continues
one or two weeks, or longer, [5]. ► Erythema of the face and neck, [13]. ►
Papulous eruption on the face, very nearly resembling measles, [13]. ►
A sore pimple on the left side of the neck at 8 A.M.; the pimple is
sore, and has an areola embracing the diameter of a pea, quite red and
inflamed (such an eruption not experienced at any other time), (sixth
day). Two more pimples, on at the right corner of the os hyoides, the
other at the left anterior temporal ridge, above the brow (eighth day).
Another pimple, sore to touch, on the left side of the larynx; the first
one less sore, like a small cutaneous induration; these are like minutes
furunculi; thus far no suppuration (ninth day). The first pimple sorest,
the other less so (tenth day), [6].
► Eruption of vesico-pustules,
painless, but having no other analogy to measly, appeared on the inside
of the thighs, [12]. ► Subjective. [540.]
► Sudden stinging in the skin over
the whole body, as if an eruption would break out, with greenish-yellow
color of the skin, then burning, then itching, with profuse sweat, at 4
P.M. (eleventh day), [7]. [At
fourteen years old she had a similar sensation, when she had a dangerous
“Rösselausschlag,” as they call it in Upper Austria, with
sore throat, the body being densely covered with red granules, except
the anterior part of the chest. Rossalia
squamosa? Cf. Schmalz’s Diagnost. Tabellen, 2014; or
Scarlatina miliaris?] ► Itching about
the elbows and forearms at 11.30 P.M. (first day), [6]. ► Intense
but transient itching of small points in the face and at the edge of the
hair, on the forehead, right side, and elsewhere on the scalp, at 11.30
P.M. (first day), [6].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Disposition
to yawn; a sort of stupor; cannot keep the eyes open; is obliged to lie
down and sleep, [5]. ► Drowsiness in the forenoon, [9]. ►
Drowsiness, with dimness of vision; a kind of drunken stupor, [11]. ►
At first it seemed to cause drowsiness, afterwards aggravated the
habitual sleeplessness, [12]. ► Slightly drowsy (half an hour after first
dose); increasing (forty minutes after third dose), [34]. ►
Sleepiness, like a lethargy, came on after 2 P.M., lasting all the
afternoon and evening (seventh day), [7].
► Sleepiness and long and sound sleep
are very general symptoms, [5]. [550.] ►
Inclined to sleep, with deep respiration and numbness of the whole body,
[24]. ►
Early sleep after supper (seventh day), [6].
► Sound sleep until 7 A.M.;
difficult, weary waking (second morning), [6].
► Sleeplessness. ► Sleeplessness the whole night (sixth
night), [7]. ►
Wakeful till 1 in the morning, with desire to study; sound sleep the
last half of the night and weary waking (third night), [6]. ► Very
little inclination to go to sleep, and when it does come on, he dreams
much about business, etc., [3]. ► *Very restless night (first night), [2]. ►
*Very restless during the night, especially towards morning
(forty-third night), [2]. ► *Had a very restless night, with unpleasant
dreams after midnight (first night), [2]. ► Could
not get asleep for a long time; on falling asleep, a sort of nightmare
awoke me again, so that no sleep came; at last it was like falling
asleep, when a second time a kind of nightmare came on, never
experienced before; it was as if the whole left side from the neck along
the chest, trunk, and thigh, as far as the knee were a kind of soft
muscle, spasmodically jerking up and down, somewhat with the elasticity
of a mass of jelly; this motion extended deep into the interior of the
chest, and the centre of this motion seemed to be in the region of the
heart; it was, indeed, one great
motion which concerned the whole left side as a mass, with the exception
of the head and foot; this whole half of the body seemed to me to be
going up and down, while the right side of the back, on which I lay, was
quiet; I wondered in my mind at this turmoil going on in my body, but
was unable to stir; when I wake up from this condition, I was well aware
of what had happened, and found myself quietly lying on the same spot
where I had fallen asleep, and the pulse, with everything else, was
quiet; I certainly had not moved, and all, then, was my imagination; I
only felt a drawing pain in te lower third of my left thigh, which was
repeated the next day, [8]. ► Dreams. [560.]
► Dreamy sleep and early waking
(ninth night), [6]. ► Dreams of working and of many people
(first, second, and third nights), [7].
► Many dreams of hard work (seventh
night), [7]. ►
During the night, much annoyed with unpleasant dreams (first night,
after 6 drops), [2].® 2000
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