LACHESIS.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► Stretching of
the whole body, commencing in the toes and going to the fingers, [5]. ►
Stretching after breakfast, [8]. ► Jerkings, [12].
► Sudden jerking together of the
whole body, starting from below, while sitting, [1]. ► Always,
after sleep, so stiff that he could scarcely stir or move; rubbing and
stroking by another person did him good, and soon entirely removed it, [1]. ►
Trembling of the whole body, with ennui, [2].
► Trembling of the body, with fever,
from pain on the back of the foot, [1a].
[In elephantiasis.] ► Muscular
laxity; exhausted by motion and by the most moderate exertion, [2]. ►
Indolent; disinclined for business or study, [10]. [1240.]
► Indolence; heaviness after eating, [1]. ►
Weary, sick, dejected, with fulness after eating, [1]. ►
Constant and fatiguing labor does not agree with him; he soon becomes
weary, [7]. ►
Great weariness on going out in the evening; the accustomed walk seems
endless, [1]. ► At mealtime, while walking on the street,
so weary that he could scarcely proceed; yet he ate but little, [1]. ►
Weakness, especially of the arms, [7].
► *Weakness, especially of the legs,
[7]. ►►
*Weakness of the whole body, in the morning on rising, especially in the arms and feet, [7]. ►
*Weakness in the morning, in all the limbs; inclined to
sleep; general exhaustion, even to lying down; better after lying down;
therewith inactive, sad, disinclined to work, indifferent or gloomy, as
after a night’s debauch; physically prostrated and mentally indolent
(second to sixteenth days), [9]. ► *Weakness every morning; in the
beginning rather a physical prostration, then inclining him to sleep;
afterward, rather a mental prostration (second to sixteenth days), [9]. [1250.]
► Weakness after breakfast, [3]. ►
Weakness after supper, [1]. ► Weakness after the nightly attack of
vomiting, [9]. ► Weakness a few hours after waking, after
emissions, [7]. ► Weakness, with headache, after an
emission, [7]. ► Weakness, with confusion of the head, [9]. ►
Great weakness, now and then during the day, [7]. ► *Great
weakness in the morning after rising; she constantly desired to sink
down again, on the slightest exertion the arms sank down exhausted;
therewith she felt her heart beat; often also in the evening
she was very weak, so that she could not remain up long, [7]. ► *He
would constantly sink down from weakness, [7].
► Suddenly, towards evening, deathly
weak, with insatiable thirst; dry mouth; became pale and distressed, as
if about to be attacked by a violent fever, [1]. [1260.] ► Great exhaustion of mind and body (after
an ecstasy the day previous), (sixth day), [1a]. ► Great
exhaustion and weariness in the evening; sleepiness, without however
being able to fall asleep (first day), [1a].
► Physical, not mental, exhaustion, [1]. ►
Physical exhaustion and weariness, with mental excitement, [1]. ►
Physical and mental exhaustion, [1].
►► *Great physical and mental
exhaustion, especially in the
morning, [1]. ► Motion is very exhausting, throughout the
proving, [2]. ► Faintness during breakfast, with nausea, [1]. ►
Faintness and coldness, so that all the limbs became stiff, and he sank
to the earth powerless (after two hours and a half he was found as
above, and died, in spite of all remedies). [From the bite of a serpent
“boschmeister,” similar to the “surukukir;” in an
Indian who had been bitten above the elbow; he followed and killed the
snake, and rubbed its gall into the wound.] ►
Transient faintness, with nausea, vertigo, even to falling down;
vanishing of sigh for two or three minutes during breakfast; during the
day, frequent attacks as if it would return, [1]. [1270.] ► He falls unconscious to the ground, as if
struck by lightning; has an involuntary stool and vomits (bite). ► Restlessness often drives him into the
open air, [1]. ► Restlessness drives him into the open
air; he desires to accomplish much and begins many things, [1a]. ►
*Restless tossing about, with moaning, in children with sore throat,
[7]. ►
He is obliged to do everything very rapidly; he bolts his food, and
afterwards is unable to remain sitting, [2].
► Subjective. ► Inclination to lie down, [4]. ►
Inclined to lie down, in the morning and forenoon, [9]. ► Great
inclination to lie down, especially after eating, [1]. ►
Very great inclination to lie down, sitting is almost intolerable (sixth
day), [1a]. ►
Aversion to motion, [2]. [1280.] ►
*Feeling of weariness, [4].
► Feeling of weariness drives him to
sleep early, [1a]. ► *A decided sensation of weakness in the morning
in sleep; on waking general sick feeling, vertigo, feeling of lead in
the occiput, can scarcely raise the head from the pillow; all the joints
seemed sprained; pressure in the small of the back and
fulness in the abdomen; after half an hour everything disappearing;
afterwards repeated in a less degree, [2].
► *Feeling as though the body were
overwhelmed by a disintegrating tendency, with sinking of all the forces,
[3]. ►
Paralyzed feeling, especially in the knee-joints, which gradually
disappears while walking, [12]. ► Feeling as if paralyzed, cannot bend the
feet or close the hands; at times only on the left side, [2]. ► Feeling
of faintness, spasmodic yawning, while waiting for a meal, [1a]. ►
Feeling as if he would become faint, caused by aching sensation in the
stomach, [17]. ► He is in a suffering, emaciated condition, very
weak and prostrated, and is constantly inclined to rest, [3]. ►
He became very sick after drinking wine, also after strong beer (during
the curative action), [1]. [1290.] ►
Constantly very sick for ten days before the menses; constant beating in
the temples, headache, and cutting in the abdomen, so that she feared
the occurrence of the menses every moment, [7]. ► Began
to feel great heaviness and lassitude all through the body, but
particularly the back and legs, soon after noon (about three hours); the
feeling of lassitude had increased, and walking tired me much more than
usual, at 3.30 P.M.; this feeling partially passed off after supper
(first day); general lassitude more marked (second day); lassitude
continued (third day); increased (fourth day), [22]. ► Pains,
here and there, when coughing, [8].
► Intolerable pains extending from
the hand that is bitten to the chest (bite). ►
Rheumatic pain, first in the left side, then in the right,
and frequently alternating; at times from right to left and back again,
but always in different places, in the shoulder, arm, wrist, hand, lower
extremities, knee, calf, foot, and teeth, [8].
► Tearings, now in one place, now in
another, in the flesh; afterwards, here and there, in the body (third
day); all over the body, afterwards in the limbs, here and there (fourth
day); in all the limbs (seventh day), [5].
► Tremulous sensation over the whole
body as from anxiety, without real anxiety, [3]. ►
Faintlike sensation of trembling, [1].
► Sticking sensation over the whole
body, loins, face, in the evening, worse in the night, also lasting the
next day (after three doses), [9].
► Some needle-like stitches, often
very violent, in various parts of the body, [3]. [1300.]
► Feels bruised all day, [1]. ►
Feels bruised, in the morning after waking, [1a]. ► Always
after sleep, day or night, bruised and stiff, [1]. ► Bruised
feeling after the midday nap, [1a].
► Feels very much bruised, with pains
in his loins, between the shoulders and in the spine, after sleep (sixth
day), [1a]. ►
Weary, bruised feeling, with catarrh, cough, sore throat,
morning-nausea, rumbling in the upper abdomen, etc., as often in warm spring weather, [1]. ►
Feels beaten the whole day (first day), [1a].
► The whole body feels beaten and
weak, in the forenoon, as after a night’s debauch, also mentally very
indolent (sixteenth day), [9]. ► Slight touch is intolerable, almost
puts him into a rage, [2]. ► After confinement, all her former
troubles (pain in the left side beneath the breast, tearing in right
foot, violent headache, and attacks of colic) became again more violent,
though only transient, [7]. [1310.] ►
After seven doses of Lachesis 30th (the last in water), the symptoms
became violent and constant, especially the headache and catarrh; he
then smelled of Lachesis 30th, whereupon everything was speedily
relieved, especially the catarrh, and after three to four days it
disappeared, [15]. ► (Acids disturb the curative action), [1]. ►
The symptoms occur in the afternoon, [5].
► Numerous symptoms a few hours after
eating, [1]. ► Symptoms occur, are renewed, or are
aggravated after drinking wine, [3].
► Wine seems to have less effect than
usual upon him, [1a]. ► Great longing to go into the open air, [1]. ►►
*Obliged to open the clothes, which affords relief, with faintness, [17]. ►►
*Obliged to wear the clothes very loose, especially about the stomach;
even in bed is obliged to loosen and raise the night-dress, in order to
avoid pressure; she dares not even lay the arm across the body on
account of the pressure, [7].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ►► *Sore
spots became fungoid, dark-red to brownish, with whitish spots; burning on wiping, [1]. ►
Eruptions, Dry. [1320.] ► Small tubercles on the right forearm
(fifth day); these gradually extend over the whole body, excepting the
face, chest, and abdomen; very violent itching at night in bed;
afterwards the eruption assumed a different character, partly larger,
like nettles, hives, or insect-bites; partly, after scratching, becoming
like scarlatina, or roseola, or prickly heat; and disappears the second
day (in June), [14]. ► Pimples, especially on the hairy portion
of the genitals (second day), [9].
► Several pimples on the body (eighth
day); afterwards here and there; in the morning, on the genitals, arms,
face, etc., [2]. ► Red pimples here and there on the body,
with at times tickling in them; scratching causes pain; the tickling is
worse in bed; she is unable to sleep on account of the biting-itching;
is frequently wide awake (first night); she slept well (second night), [5]. ►
(Hives in a leprous person, caused after Lachesis), [1a]. ► In the
forenoon the whole body began to bite and itch, especially on the upper
arms; after scratching, thickish elevated spots appeared (hives), which
soon disappeared (second day), [1a].
[In leprous patients.] ► Desquamation
of the skin of the forehead, with biting-itching, [5]. ► The
skin of the face and scalp desquamates more than usual, for three or
four days, [9]. ► A small wound beneath the nose bleeds
unusually profusely, [18]. ► (A red spot on the prepuce, without
itching), [2]. [1330.] ►
Scarlet-red spot as large as the hand on the right chest, shoulder, and
arm, with great thirst, rapid pulse, short breath, coated tongue, [7]. [Within twenty-four hours after the
administration of Lachesis for cancer of the right breast, after a
shaking chill and dry heat with thirst.] ►
The whole arm of the diseased side and the shoulder, and also the chest,
became covered with scarlet-red spots as large as the hand; pulse rapid;
thirst great; breathing short, and moaning; tongue coated, [7]. ►
A red burning spot on the thumb, followed by a large hard vesicle, [1]. ►
Itching on the sides and on the short ribs towards the umbilicus, in the
morning, where there are red spots like bug-bites; the itching is
increased in the evening while walking, still worse in bed; at the same
time there are white hives on the left scapula, also involving the whole
back; on the next morning these hives were red (third and fourth days), [11]. ►
*Pain as if burnt on different places on the tibia, at first itching,
but after rubbing there appeared rather sensitive spots as large as a
quarter dollar, with dark blue-red margins and dry scurf, [10]. ►
Small red points here and there on the fingers, which itch very much
(fourth day), [1a]. ► Itching on the lower legs, obliging him
to scratch; red wheals appear, [1].
► After incessant itching there
appears a round, red, very hard bunch on the back of the middle finger,
lasting a long time, without vesicles and without suppuration; a small
deep point of pus slowly forms, of which very little exudes; only on
swallowing the hand to hang down there is a sticking pain; six weeks
later, after a blow on the bunch (which had almost entirely
disappeared), it bled unusually profusely, [1]. ► A warty
elevation on the back of the left middle finger, after some days,
following itching vesicles; it afterwards disappeared, leaving a scar, [1a]. ►
A small group of flat warts appeared on the outer side on the left thumb
(ninth day), remaining for a year, [1a].
[1340.] ►
Soft cartilaginous nodes in the skin about an ulcer, [1]. ► A large
number of small flat warts suddenly appear on the hands of one who
already had several very large ones, which do not disappear, [1]. ►
Eruption on the eye, [9]. ► Eruption on the left side of the upper
lip, [4]. ►
Biting in the lobule of the ear, afterwards pimples on it, [5]. ►
Pimples on the arms, [9]. ► Small pimples on the face, [1]. ► A small
pimple on the outer portion of the right thigh, around which for some
distance it is extremely painful, [1].
► Some very small pimples on the left
arm (fourth day), [9]. ► Very small pimples with white pus on the
upper lip, also on the face (fourth day), [9].
[1350.] ►
Several small pimples on the forehead and cheeks (some days after the
dose), [5]. ►
Small red pimples on the forehead not far from the root of the nose, [14]. ►
Small pimples, not unlike the vesicles of scabies, on the face, [11]. ►
Papulous eruption on the right forearm, afterwards over the whole body, [7]. ►
Itching and a papulous eruption on the elbow-joint, [10]. ►
Eruption like nettlerash over the whole face (twenty-sixth day); it
disappeared and returned, [1]. ► Hives on the shoulders, [11]. ►
Itching hives on the legs, [1]. ► Hives on the back, [11]. ► A
sticking-burning inflamed tetter as large as a pea on a toe of the right
foot that was somewhat exposed to pressure; the pain lasted eight hours,
the spot three days, [9]. [1360.] ►
*Erysipelatous eruption beneath the left eye, which first itches at
night; she was wakened with fright about trifles; in the morning the
skin began to redden and swell, and became worse after the midday nap;
the next morning very thick and red, with incessant itching scarcely to
be endured; the whole lower lid was swollen, red, and itching;
preceded and followed by beating headache, on stooping, [1]. [Rhus 30th relieved.] ► Eruptions, Moist. ► Vesicular eruption on the left nostril, [13]. ►
Itching-burning and vesicles on the hands and fingers, [1]. ► Small
clear vesicles on the right fourth finger, [1]. ► Violent
itching on the right heel, afterwards on both heels, then on the right a
hand and fingers, on the top of the foot, and toes; always worse and
burning after scratching, followed by small,
hard, white, deeply seated vesicles, [1]. ► Many
itching vesicles on the outer margin of the right hand, with voluptuous
burning after scratching (during second week), [1a]. ►
Itching in several places between the fingers, where, after scratching,
hard shiny elevations appear, followed by small vesicles with burning
and tension, often lasting a week, [1a].
► Small itching vesicles on the backs
of both feet, [1]. ► Small itch-vesicles here and there on the
fingers (fourth and following days), [1a].
► Groups of deep hard itch-vesicles
on the right hand, [1]. ► (A blister on the tip of the left second
toe breaks and is moist), [1]. ► Eruptions, Pustular. [1370.] ►
Pustules, especially on the thighs, as large as the head of a pin,
surrounded by a red areola, some of them as large as the cornea, [7]. ►
Pimples had as large as the head of a pin on the face, with pus;
afterwards also on the upper lip beneath the nose, on the brows, and on
the chest; they disappear on the next day but return; also on other
parts, on the arm; for a week, [9].
► A red spot as large as the hand
appears on the left shoulder and exudes moisture; small vesicles
suppurate and break, [7]. ► Some pustules filled with matter on the
right brow and face, [4]. ► *Boils half an inch in diameter near the spine,
with violent burning-throbbing pain; disappearing without
suppuration, [6]. ► A large boil on the heel, with violent
shaking chill on the formation of matter; caused by very slight rubbing
of the shoe, in one who had never before had anything like it (after
eight weeks), [1]. [Zinc followed
by Hepar sulph. speedily cured.] ►
Ulceration of a nail after a bruise, [8].
► Small ulcers on the elbow, [1a]. ►
(Ulcers become cleaner, and the areola painful to pressure), [1]. ►
*The slightly brownish-red areola about the ulcer became blackish-blue,
[1]. [1380.]
► *Old red ulcer-scars reopened;
after a blow the epidermis easily loosened and would not again heal;
suppurated; then vesicles formed and the epidermis loosened all about; the open spots were dark-red, looking like a flat sponge,
here and there whitish; burning after wiping, [1]. ► (A
cancerous ulcer had on the next morning dark-red, almost black, streaks
of blood, like injected vessels on its base), (after the 30th), [7]. ►
Bleeding of ulcers which then became cleaner, [1]. ► (The
opening of a cancerous ulcer bled very profusely; next day the base
seemed bluish), [7]. ► The place of the bite became gangrenous,
the hands and fingers became swollen and insensible; the inflammation
extended to the arm, the swelling to the shoulder; here and there
gangrenous blisters (the arm was amputated), (bite). ► Subjective. ►
Burning in the skin (after taking acids), [5].
► Sticking-burning everywhere in the
skin, especially starting in the small of the back, [5]. ► A
sticking in the skin, commencing rather deep in the flesh and sticking
outward through the skin, [5]. ► Very fine stitches deep in the skin,
extending outward through it, [5].
► Biting in various parts of the
skin, as from ants, [4]. [1390.] ►
*Itching over the whole body, [10].
► *Sleep prevented by itching, [3]. ►
Itching, especially on the thighs (third day), [1a]. ►
Itching in various places, especially the lower leg and loins; also on
the upper arm; in the evening, [10].
► Itching on the body as from ants,
especially on the loins (eighteenth and nineteenth days); (following
Phosphoric acid as an antidote); the itching was the same as had
occurred in a former proving, immediately after Lachesis, [9]. ►
Sticking-itching in various parts of the body, [4]. ►
Sticking-itching in various parts of the face and body, in the afternoon
(after two hours), [9]. ► Sticking-itching over the whole body,
face, and scalp, as from ants, in the afternoon; worse at night,
accompanied by burning pain, and lasting till the next forenoon, but
then without the burning, [9]. ► Pain as if a pimple would form between
the outer canthus and the temple (fifth day); disappearing (sixth day), [1a]. ►
Pain in and about a scar remaining from a fistula on the thigh healed
the year previous, [1]. [1400.] ► A sand-flea (Sika [Chigoe; jigger; pulex
penetrans.]) causes unusual pain (first day); the small wound remaining
after removing it will not heal, and is painful to touch for several
days; moreover, the skin cracks between the
toes (fifth day), [1a].
► *(Burning in ulcers at night,
so that he was obliged to rise and wash them with cold water), [1]. ►
The skin about the ulcerated spots on the legs feels tense as if too
short, [1]. ►
A crawling about in the arms and jerking in the flesh, also in the legs,
in fever, [5]. ► Crawling in the fingers and calves, [9]. ►
Crawling in the right shoulder, upper arm, and beneath the shoulder, [2]. ►
Crawling and prickling in the left hand and toes, especially violent in
the latter; at times in the whole left side from the vertex to the toes,
[2]. ►
Crawling and prickling in the left toes, [2].
► Itching near the left eye, [6]. ►
Itching in the face, [1].
[1410.] ►
Itching in the face about the eyes and on the cheeks, relieved after
scratching, from morning till evening, [1a].
► Itching on the loins, [10]. ►
Itching between the fingers and on the knees, [7]. ► Itching
on the upper arm, [10]. ► Itching on the hands, [1]. ► Itching
in the bend of the fourth finger, [1].
► Itching on the lower leg, [15]. ►
Violent itching on both arms, hips, and lower limbs, [6]. ► Violent
itching on the left arm, [6]. ► Violent itching on the hips and lower
limbs, [6]. [1420.] ►
Violent itching, as though an insect had pierced the flesh, in a very
small point on the instep, [1a]. ► Itching as from burning nettles on the
left thumb and index finger; followed by formation of two pimples, as
from insect bites (though there had been no insect), with violent
burning after scratching, lasting three days, [4]. ►
Sticking-itching on the hands and feet, in the right ear; in the
afternoon (after one hour), [9].® 2000
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