ÆTHUSA.
Æthusa cynapium, L. Nat. order,
Umbelliferæ. Common names, Fool’s Parsley; (Fr.) Petite
Ciguë; (Germ.) Gleisse, Hundspetersilie; (Ital.) Cicuta minore. Preparation,
Tincture, from the whole flowering plant.
Authorities.
1, N-g, Prac.
Mitth., 1828; and H. and T. Annalen, 4, 113; 2,
Hartlaub, ibid.; 3, Petroz, Bulletin d. l. Soc. Méd.
Hom., 4, 337; 4, Didier, Archiv. d. l. Med. Hom., 1,
318; 5, Roth (Mat. Mad., includes several poison cases; 6, Bigler, Am. J. of H. M. M., 5, 459 (observed in a patient
After the 3d dec.); t, Toxicological.
MIND.
► Rage, [t]. ► Liable to
transports of rage, [3], [5]. ► Fury, [t]. ► Frenzy, [t], [2]. ►
Delirium, mania, [4]. ►
*Imagined she saw rats run across the room, [6].
► *Delirium; he imagines he sees dogs and cats, [5]. ► *Delirium; he jumps
out of window, [5]. [10.] ► Hilarity,
talkativeness, facetiousness, [3], [5]. ► Very lively (second day);
(seems to be secondary action), [2]. ► In the forenoon, gay, good-tempered; in the afternoon, sad
and anxious, [5]. ►
Toward noon, better mood, [1], [2]. ► Sadness, when alone, [3]. ► The disposition
becomes retiring and tearful, as in nostalgia, [3]. ► Anxiety and dejection, [t].
► *Anxiety, [tt].
► *Restless anxiety, [t], [2]. ► *Great anxiety and restlessness; soon afterward, violent pains in
head and abdomen, [t], [2]. [20.] ►
Fright, [t]. ►
Apprehension, [t], [2].
► Very cross and fretful (afternoons), [1]. ► Fretful and cross in open
air; after reentering the room, better (a quarter of an hour), [1]. ► She looks very fretful and
serious and does not speak willingly, during heat of head, [2].
► Awkwardness; discontent, even to vexation, [3]. ► Excessive
sensitiveness, [3]. ►
Very great and long-lasting nervous susceptibility, [5].
► A fixed idea, which she cannot throw off, of a garment
made the day previous; she also dreamed of it, [1]. ► Slowness or unsettled state of his ideas, even to absence of
thought, [3]. [30.]
► Loss of comprehension; a kind of stupefaction, as if
there was a barrier between his organs of sense and external objects, [3]. ► Stupidity, [5]. ► Stupefaction, [tt]. ► Stupor, [t]. ► Perfectly
unconscious (boy aged 8), [t]. ►
Senseless, [t], [2].
► *The child lay unconscious, [t], [2]. ►
*He lies stretched out, without consciousness, [5].
HEAD.
► *Head confused; brain
feels bound up (two and a half hours), [1],
[2]. ► The head is
confused during the coryza, [3]. [40.] ► The head is heavy and
confused, [4]. ►
Somewhat stupid in the head, like intoxication, soon after taking, [1]. ► Feeling in the head as if
shattered (afternoons), [1]. ►
Vertigo, [tt], [2], [5]. ►
Vertigo in the open air, [3]. ►
Vertigo when sitting down, aggravated on trying to rise from his seat, [3]. ► Vertigo after the colic, [t]. ► Vertigo after
every new dose; disappears in open air, [1]. ► Vertigo even in open air; must lean against something so as
not to fall, [1]. ►
*Vertigo with sleepiness; eyes will close (soon after), [1]. [50.] ► Vertigo with sleepiness, on sitting and after rising up
(a quarter of an hour), [1]. ►
Sudden attack of vertigo on sitting; disappears after rising (second day), [1]. ► The vertigo is more
especially felt toward midday, [3]. ► Giddiness in the head, [t].
► Giddiness and oppressive headache, [t]. ► Dizziness; he cannot keep
upright, [5]. ►
Dizziness, with headache, [5]. ► *Dizziness and sleepiness, [4].
► Violent headache, [t].
► Headache, [5]. [60.] ► Frequent headache, [t], [2]. ► Pains in head, [t]. ► Great pain, [t]. ► Headache, with green vomiting, [t].
► Most horrible pains in head, stomach, and abdomen, [t], [2]. ► The pains in the head stop for awhile, when eating, but soon
return, [4]. ► The
pains of the head return periodically, and are often accompanied with pale face,
trembling in the jaws and pains in the præcordial region, [3].
► The pains of the head are felt especially when he wakes
up; they are easily brought on by getting chilled; sleep causes them to cease, and they are
ameliorated by emission of flatulence, [3]. ► Heat in head and burning in face, for half an hour (one and a
half hours), [1]. ►
Heat rushes to the head, with increased warmth in whole body, redness of face, and relief of
vertigo (second day), [1]. [70.]
► Flushes of heat in the head, with increased bodily
warmth, [4]. ►
Feeling of tension in the head, [3]. ► Beating and sticking in whole head (afternoons), [4]. ► Tearings and
shootings in different directions in the head, [1]. ► Tearing pain in the head, [3].
► On entering a room, a hustling, now here, now there, in
the head, though only for a short time, [1]. ► Throbbing in the head, [3].
► Headache; throbbing in head, on entering a room from
open air (seventh day), [1]. ►
*Pains in the forepart of the head, [5]. ► Headache in the whole forepart of the head, as if strongly
compressed behind and above, [4]. [80.] ► Violent pains in
forehead, as if the head were compressed with all force, behind and above, [2]. ► Pain in forehead, [t]. ► Violent pains in
forehead, [2]. ►
Sudden painless sense of heaviness in forehead, that seems to press down the lids, with
ill-humor during dinner (second day), [1]. ► Great sense of heaviness in whole forehead, that would press
down the head, with great ill-humor while sitting (second day), [1]. ► Pressive but dull pains in
forehead, and then on right side of occiput (a quarter of an hour), [2]. ► Feeling in forehead as if
something turned itself round therein (third day), [1].
► Throbbing in the forehead, with sense of heaviness in
occiput, [1]. ►
Sticking in the forehead, on turning head to the right (afternoons), [1]. ► Throbbing in left frontal
region, very painful (fourth day), [2]. [90.] ► Pain at the eyebrows, [3]. ► Tension above the
root of the nose, [3]. ►
Tearing pain across the eyes, [3]. ► Jerking-tearing over left eye, in orbit, on sitting (second
day), [1]. ►
Convulsive tearing above left eye, in frontal sinus, when sitting, [4]. ► Pain in left temple, on a
small spot, as if a vessel were torn out (for two minutes) (second day), [1]. ► A sudden crack in right
temple (afternoons), [1]. ►
Sticking in left temporal region; then throbbing of this part (one and a quarter hours), [1]. ► A stitch in left
temple; then drawing into the head (one and a quarter hours), [1].
► Violent stitching and throbbing in left temple,
disappearing on pressure, but returning (two and a half hours), [1]. [100.] ► Pain in the vertex, [3].
► Dull pain at the vertex (one and a half hours), [1]. ► Painful sticking
and throbbing on vertex; disappears on rubbing (afternoons), [1].
► Very painful sticking-tearing in left side of head, [1]. ► Stitches and
throbbing at the right parietal bone, [5]. ► Sticking and throbbing on upper part of right parietal bone
(two hours), [1]. ►
Tearing and throbbing in right side of head, then again sticking in left half (five hours), [2]. ► Painful
screwing-together from both sides of the head; jerkings in right side of head; then sticking
under left female breast; very sensitive, especially on inspiration (afternoons), [1]. ► Sticking and
beating in upper part of right side of occiput (five hours), [1].
► Distressing pains in occiput and nape of neck,
etc. (see Neck). [110.] ►
A crack in right occiput pierces the whole head, extends to right side (afternoons), [1]. ► Tearing-sticking
from occiput forwards (afternoon), [1]. ► Sense of contraction at the hairy scalp, [3]. ► The head is inclined to
fall backwards, [3]. ►
After soup, all troubles disappear, but return in half an hour, [1].
EYES.
► Staring, strange
look, [t], [2]. ► Staring, lifeless eyes, [t],
[2]. ► Fixed,
lifeless look, [4]. ►
Fixed look, [t], [5]. ► The eyes are very wide
open, [3]. [120.] ► Eyes brilliant and prominent, [4].
► Glittering, somewhat protruding eyes, [t], [2]. ► Sparkling, bloodshot eyes, [t].
► Eyes inflamed and bloodshot, [t]. ► Spasm of the eyes, [3]. ► Great pain in the
eyes, [t]. ► The
eyes burn violently in the room, as if smoke were in them (half an hour), [1]. ► Pain of excoriation around
the eyes, [3]. ►
Stitches around the eyes and in the orbits, [3]. ► Pressure in the eyes, [3].
[130.] ► Troublesome
sensation around the eyelids, [3]. ► Pain of excoriation in the lids, [3]. ► Chronic inflammation of the
edges of the eyelids, [3]. ►
Morning, agglutination of the lids by a dry substance, which he is obliged to soften in
order not to pull out the lashes, [5]. ► Swelling of the Meibomian glands, [5]. ► Swelling of the Meibomian
glands; gum in the canthi, [3]. ►
Itching of the canthi, [3]. ►
Many red vessels show in conjunctiva, [t], [2]. ► Eyes staring;
pupils dilated, [t]. ►
*Pupils moderately dilated, and rather sensitive to the light (in four children),
[t]. [140.] ► *The pupils are dilated, but sensitive to light, [t]. ► Wide open,
insensible pupils, [t]. ►
Vision confused; sometimes objects appear double, [3].
► Objects seem enlarged, and sometimes double, [3]. ► The eye-symptoms
are generally felt on awaking, or in the open air, [3].
EARS.
► Violent twitches in
both ears, not dissipated by scratching, [1]. ► Sensation of heat escaping from the ear, [3]. ► Lancinating pain in the
ears, from within outward, [3]. ►
Shootings and tearings in the ears, [4]. ► Transient though painful stitches in right ear, [1]. [150.] ► Stitches in right ear from without inward, [5]. ► Now sticking, now tearing,
in right ear; somewhat relieved by rubbing, [1]. ► Sticking in right ear, going away on boring with the finger, [1]. ► Sticking,
extending into the right ear (three quarters of an hour), [1].
► Sticking in left ear, with sensation as if heat issued
from it, alternating with sticking in left ribs (five hours), [1].
► Sticking in left ear, followed by fine tearing around
the ear, extending into top of head, [1]. ► Stitching pain behind the ears, [3]. ► Ears feel stopped up, [4]. ► Sense of stoppage
of the ears, with hard hearing, which lasts longer in the left ear (one hour), [1]. ► Dryness of the
ears; want of cerumen, [3]. [160.]
► Purulent discharge from the ears, [3]. ► Troublesome whistling in
the ears, [3]. ►
Several of the ear-symptoms are ameliorated by contact and pressure, [3].
NOSE.
► Coryza in the
morning, [3]. ►
Coryza in the open air, [3]. ►
Coryza with viscid secretion, [3]. ► The coryza has a nauseous smell, [3]. ► Sudden stoppage of the
nose, mornings after waking (one quarter of an hour), [1].
► Sudden stoppage of both nostrils (five minutes), [1]. ► The coryza loosens
on the second morning; it discharges copious, thick mucus, [1].
[170.] ► Ulcerative
pain deep in left side of nose, as if there were an open place there, [1]. ► Ineffectual desire to
sneeze, [3]. ►
Irritation to sneeze in left nostril (half an hour), [1].
► Sneezing once, [1].
► Sensitive sticking in left side of nose externally,
then a very fine, painful burning in the right side; then fine burning, as with a glowing
needle, externally in the pit of the stomach, [1]. ► Sense of pressure in the nose, [3].
FACE.
► Countenance wears a
cold expression, [t]. ►
Remarkably sunken, very much altered face, [t]. ► The face has a tired look, [3].
[180.] ► *Face
expressive of anguish, [3]. ►
*The features have an expression of great anguish and severe pain, [t]. ►► *A draw condition,
beginning at the ala nasi, and extending to the angle of the mouth, gave the face on
expression of great anxiety and pain, [t]. ► Pale face, [t]. ► Face periodically puffy and spotted red, [t]. ► Red, sunken countenance,
[t]. ► Moderately
red face, [t]. ►
Puffiness of the face during the menses, [3]. ► Cold sweat on the face, [3].
► Sweat on the face, [3].
[190.] ► Small
vesicles on the skin of the face, [3]. ► Different circumscribed and painful swellings in the face,
transient, and flying from place to place, [t]. ► Pulling, tearing pains in the face, [t]. ► Œdematous swelling of the
cheeks, [t]. ► A
dull stitch, like tapping with the finger, with tearing, in middle of left cheek, in a small
spot (second day), [1]. ►
Tearings in both malar bones, very painful, though transient, [1].
► Sticking and tearing in right malar bone; then tickling
in left upper teeth, then again violent stitches in left ear (three hours), [1]. ► Jactitation of the muscles
around the mouth, [3]. ►
Yellowish spot on the upper lip, [3]. ► Chap on the upper lip, [3].
[200.] ►
Tearing in lower lip, extending into the neighboring teeth (afternoons), [1]. ► Tearing in right lower jaw
(one hour and a quarter), [1]. ►
Sensation of coldness at the chin and the labial commissures, [3].
MOUTH.
► Shocks in the
teeth, [4]. ► A
sort of shocks in the lower teeth, [3]. ► Grumbling in a right back lower tooth; it seems as though the
headache arose from the teeth (seventh day), [1]. ► Painful sensibility of a decayed, right lower back tooth;
still more sensitive to touch (first day), [1]. ► Sticking here and there in the gums (ninth day), [1]. ► Fine sticking and
tearing in the gums, now on the right, now on the left side, frequently (eleventh day), [1]. ► Shootings in the
gums, [4]. [210.] ► Moist tongue, [t]. ► Moist and white-coated tongue (from milk), with sense of
dryness in mouth, [t]. ►
Sensation as if the tongue were too dry, [3]. ► Aphthæ in the mouth, [3].
► Sensation of pungent heat in mouth and throat, with
great difficulty in swallowing, [t]. ► Stitching in the arch of the palate, [3]. ► Jaws spasmodically fixed, [t]. ► The lower jaw is
fixed to the upper, so that nothing can be introduced into the mouth, [t]. ► Dryness of the mouth, [4]. ► Salivation, as
copious as from mercurial treatment, lasting almost fourteen days, [t]. [220.] ►
Sweetish, insipid taste, [4]. ►
Sweetish taste and dryness in mouth (eleventh day), [1].
► Flat taste in mouth, sweetish; mornings after waking, [1]. ► Unpleasant, bitter taste, [t]. ► Taste of cheese in mouth, [3].
► Food tastes salt, [3].
► Taste of onions, [3].
► Indescribable taste, both before and after a meal, [3]. ► Speech almost
prevented, [3]. ►
Slowness of speech, [3].
THROAT.
[230.] ► Redness of the throat, [3].
► Inflamed aphthæ and pustules in throat, making the
patient’s conditional most desperate, [3]. ► Dryness of the throat and frequent hawking (two hours), [1]. ► Pains in the
throat, [t]. ► Burning
in the throat, [5]. ►
Heat in the throat, [t]. ►
Pointed sticking in the throat, when not swallowing (second day), [1]. ► Redness and swelling of the
velum pendulum and adjacent parts; distress so great that he fears suffocation, [3]. ► Itching and
scraping in the œsophagus, [3]. ►
Feeling in throat as if she could not swallow, with spasmodic contraction of the right side
of the throat and ear, for one hour (afternoons) on sitting (ninth day), [1]. [240.] ►
Great difficulty in swallowing, with sensation of pungent heat in throat and mouth, [t]. ► Inability to
swallow, [t].
STOMACH.
► Total loss of
appetite for every kind of aliment, [3]. ► Want of appetite, [t].
► Want to appetite, although with clean tongue, [3]. ► Want of appetite
in the evening, [3]. ►
Burning, unquenchable thirst, [t]. ► Thirst, [t]. ► Continual thirst, [t]. ► Urgent thirst, [4]. [250.] ► Eructations, tasting
of the ingesta, [3]. ►
Eructations, tasting of the soup eaten (one and a half hours), [1]. ► Difficult eructations, [3]. ► Empty eructations
(afternoons), [1]. ►
Eructations after drinking, [3]. ►
The eructations are allayed by lying down, [3]. ► Hiccough; evenings, [1].
► Nausea, without vomiting (in the evening), [t]. ► Nausea, with
prostration, [3]. ►
Troublesome nausea, with vomiting, [5]. [260.] ► Regurgitation of food
an hour after a meal, [5]. ►►
*Intolerance of milk; the children throw up their milk almost as soon as swallowed, curdled
or not curdled, in from ten to fifteen minutes, by a sudden and violent vomiting; then
weakness makes them drowsy for some minutes, [5].
► *Vomiting of milk, [t]. ► Vomiting, [t]. ► Horrible vomiting, [t]. ► Vomiting, painful,
[t]. ► *Greenish
vomiting, [3]. ►
*Copious greenish vomiting, [t]. ►► *Vomiting curdled milk (in five children, in two
others of greenish mucus mixed with the half-digested green leaves), [t]. ► *Violent vomiting of a frothy,
milk-white mass, [t]. [270.] ► Vomiting after the
colic, [t]. ►
Discharge of greenish mucus from mouth and anus, with violent pains; colored bloody (in two
children), [t]. ►
Vomits bloody mucus, [t]. ►
*Vomiting, with diarrhœa, [5]. ► Frequent vomiting, with frequent painful diarrhœa, [t]. ► Vomiting and
fever, [5]. ►
Vomiting, with chills, sweat, and debility, [3]. ► Very violent pains at the stomach, [5]. ► Sense of pungent heat in
stomach, [t]. ►
Feeling in stomach as if something had turned, followed by burning feeling, which rises into
the chest, [4]. [280.]
► *Painful contraction of the stomach, [3]. ► Pains in stomach,
caused by inflamed aphthæ and pustules in throat, [t].
► *Painfulness of the epigastric region, [3]. ► *Pains in epigastrium,
with nausea, [t]. ►
Deepseated pain at the pit of the stomach, [t]. ► Tearing pains in pit of stomach, extending thence into the
œsophagus, [t]. ►
*Pain in pit of stomach and abdomen, followed by nausea, with or without vomiting,
[t].
ABDOMEN.
► Dull stitches in
the side near the stomach, deep in, on sitting; heat disappears on becoming erect (first
day), [1]. ► A
stitch in the right rib-region (afternoons), [1]. ► Stitching in the lower part of the right rib-region, and soon
again in the right ear (afternoons), [1]. [290.] ► Sticking in lower
rib-region (four hours); frequent and long-continued, [1].
► Constant sticking in left lower rib-region, with
burning, disappearing only for a short time on rubbing, [1].
► A stitch in the left lower rib-region, extending
backwards; then sticking deep internally under the left female breast (afternoons), [1]. ► Painfulness of the
hypochondria, [3]. ►
A painful pressing-in and burning, with sticking, in left hypochondria, twice in succession
(one hour), [1]. ►
Now in left loins, then in the right lower rib-region, a sudden burning, as from glowing hot
needles (four hours), [1]. ►
*Great cold sensations in whole upper abdomen immediately,
[1]. ► *Coldness of the
abdomen, both objective and subjective, with aching pain in the bowels (relieved
by warm wet applications), accompanied by coldness of the lower extremities, particularly
the left one, [6]. ►
A painful thrust, as with a knife, round about the bowels, above the navel, internally, as
it seemed (second day), [1]. ►
Rush, like boiling water, in navel region; then pinching in stomach, [1]. [300.] ► Griping in the umbilical region and hypogastrium, [4]. ► Hard and tense
abdomen, [t]. ►
Contracted and tense abdomen, [5]. ► Swelling of the abdomen, [5].
► Large, inflated abdomen, [5].
► Bloating of whole abdomen; sometimes with bluish-black
color, [t]. ►
Abdomen swollen, sensitive, especially in hepatic region, [t].
► Severe pain in abdomen (in two children), [t]. ► Pains in
intestines, [t]. ►
*Pains in abdomen, [t]. [310.] ► Digging sensation in
the abdomen, [3]. ►
Throbbing in the abdomen, [3]. ► *Cold feeling in bowels after every dose, [1]. ► Moving in bowels, followed
by stool; first part hard, the rest soft, [1]. ► *Excessive griping pain in abdomen, [t]. ► Gripes, with flatulence, [t]. ► *Gripes,
accompanied by fearful vomiting, weakness, and indescribable anguish, [t]. ► *Colic, with diarrhœa, [t]. ► *Colic, succeeded by
vomiting, vertigo, and weakness, [t]. ► Cuttings in the lower abdomen, with urging to stool, which
follows very soft, succeeded by tenesmus and repeated urging (then day), [1]. [320.] ►
Drawing in right lumbar region on walking, disappearing on sitting (one and a quarter
hours), [1]. ► A
stitch in right lumbar region; then sensation of a slight pressure, as though a light body
lay there (one and a quarter hours), [1].® 2000
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