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

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REVISION OF ÆTHUSA.

RÉSUMÉ.

MIND. ► Imagined she saw rats
run across the room
, [8]. ► A fixed idea, from which she could not free herself, of a
garment made the previous day, of which she also dreamed, [1].
► Liable to transports of rage, [4]. ► Excited, lively in the
forenoon; apprehensive, sad in the afternoon, [1]. ► Hilarity, talkativeness, facetiousness, [4]. ► Great good-humor (second
day); (seems to be the secondary action), [2]. [530.] ► Sadness when alone, [4]. ► Anxiety,
characterized by a feeling of weight on the chest, [4].
► Uneasiness, anxiety, [2].
► Incessant anguish, [7].
► Disposition becomes retiring and tearful, as in
nostalgia, [4]. ►
She looks very fretful and earnest, and does not talk willingly during the heat of the head;
towards noon, better humored, [1]. ► Very ill-humored, fretful, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Peevish and ill-humored in
the open air; after entering the house she again felt better (after one hour and a quarter),
[1]. ► Awkwardness;
discontent, even to vexation, [4]. ► Slowness or unsettled state of his ideas, even to absence of
thought, [4]. ►
Loss of comprehension; a kind of stupefaction, as if there were a barrier between his organs
of sense and external objects, [4]. [540.] ► Somewhat stupid
dulness, like an intoxication, soon after a dose, [2].
   


HEAD.

► Confusion and Vertigo.
► The head is confused during the coryza, [4]. ► Vertigo, [15]. ► Vertigo on awaking [6]. ► Vertigo, with
sleepiness, during and after rising from a seat (after quarter of an hour), [1]. ► Vertigo after every new
dose, disappearing in the open air, [1]. ► Vertigo, with sleepiness; the eyes close involuntarily, soon
after a dose, [1]. ►
Vertigo in the open air, [4]. ►
Vertigo, even in the open air; she was obliged to support herself to prevent falling, [1]. [550.] ► Sudden attack of vertigo while sitting, disappearing after
rising (second day), [1]. ►
Vertigo when sitting down, aggravated on trying to rise from his seat, [4]. ► The vertigo is more
especially felt towards midday, [4]. ► General Head. ► The
head is inclined to fall backward, [4]. ► Head dull, brain seems bound up (after two hours and a half), [1]. ► Rush of heat into
the head, with increased warmth of the whole body, redness of the face, and relief of the
vertigo (second day), [1]. ►
Head, face, and hands seem swollen, after walking in the open air; disappearing in the house
(after one hour), [1]. ►
Heavy, undefined sensation in the head, like a general headache, [12]. ► Violent headache, [5]. ► General headache, [10]. ► The pains in 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 flatus, [4]. [560.] ► The pains of the head return periodically, and are often
accompanied with pale face, trembling in the jaws, and pain in the præcordial region, [4]. ► Feeling of tension
in the head, [4]. ►
Raging here and there in the head on entering the house, though lasting only a short time, [1]. ► Sensation as if
shattered in the head, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Slight constricted feeling about the head, [14]. ► Painful screwing-together
from both sides of the head, [2]. ► Tearing pain in the head, [2].
► Beating and sticking in the whole head, in the
afternoon, [1]. ►
Throbbing in the head, [4]. ►
Headache, throbbing in the head on entering the house from the open air (seventh day), [1]. ► Forehead. [570.] ► Sensation of great
heaviness in the whole forehead, which seems to press the head downward, with great
ill-humor, while sitting (second day), [1]. ► Sudden painless sensation of heaviness in the forehead, it
seems to press down the eyelids, with fretful humor; during dinner (second day), [1]. ► Headache in the
forehead, shooting up over the eyes, [12]. ► Aching in brows, a feeling of constriction. [15]. ► Awoke with intense
frontal headache, with sensation of constriction from points vertically over each eye;
relieved by pressure, [10]. ►
Violent pains in the forepart of the head, as if the head were compressed posteriorly and
superiorly, with great force, [3]. ► Intermittent pains in the forehead, located vertically over
each eye, in lines, [12]. ►
Sensation of tension, as of a band passing around the forehead, and made fast at each
Zygoma, [10]. ► A
sensation in the forehead as if something were turning around in it (third day), [1]. ► Forehead feels
constricted, and yet a sensation of pressure, as from within outward, [10]. [580.] ► Pressive but dull pain in the forehead, and then on the right
side of the occiput (after one quarter of an hour), [2].
► Pressure in the frontal sinuses and upper nasal
passages, [10]. ►
Crampy pain in the forehead, with disposition to contract the eyebrows, [15]. ► Jerking tearing in the
frontal sinus, above the left eye, while sitting (second day), [1]. ► Sticking in the forehead on
turning the head to the right, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Very painful throbbing in the left frontal region (fourth
day), [1]. ► Temples.
► Aching in left mastoid process, [10]. ► A sudden tear in the right
temple, in the afternoon, [1]. ►
Rapid sticking-shooting pain in left temple, [15]. ► Pain in a small spot in the left temple, as if a bloodvessel
had been torn out, lasting two minutes (second day), [1].
[590.] ► Sticking in
the left temporal region; then throbbing in the same place (after one hour and a quarter), [1]. ► Sticking in the
left temple; afterwards drawing in the head from below upward (after one hour and a
quarter), [1]. ►
Violent sticking and throbbing in the left temple, disappearing on pressure, but immediately
returning (after two hours and a half ), [1]. ► Vertex and Parietals. ►
Pain in the vertex, [4]. ►
Dull pain on the vertex (after one hour and a half), [1].
► Painful sticking and beating on the vertex,
disappearing on rubbing it, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Jerking in the right side of the head, and then sticking
beneath the left mamma, very acute, especially on inspiration, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Tearing and
throbbing in the right side of the head, then again sticking in the left half of the head
(after five hours), [1]. ►
Very painful sticking tearing in the left side of the head,
[1]. ► Sticking and beating on the upper part of
the right parietal bone (after two hours), [1]. ► Occiput and External head. [600.] ► Sensation of heaviness
in the occiput, and beating in the forehead, [1]. ► Occasional aching in the back of the head, [15]. ► Distressing pain in the
occiput and nape of neck, extending down the spine
; relieved by friction with hot
whiskey. A feeling as if the pain in, the back would be ameliorated
by straightening out, and bending stiffly backwards, as in opisthotonos
, [8]. ► A tearing in the
right side of the occiput, which shoots through the whole head, and extends to the right
side, in the afternoon, [1]. ►
Tearing stitches extending forward from the occiput, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Sticking and beating in the
upper part of the right side of the occiput (after five hours), [1]. ► Sense of contraction at
the hairy scalp, [1].
   

EYE.

► The eyes are very
wide open, [4]. ►
Swelling of the Meibomian glands; gum in the canthi, [4].
► Spasm of the eyes, [4].
[610.] ► Distortion
of the eyes during sleep, [4]. ►
The eyes close involuntarily from sleepiness, which disappears in the open air, [1]. ► Violent burning
in the eyes in the house, as if smoke were in them (after half an hour), [1]. ► Pressure in the eyes, [4]. ► Pain of
excoriation around the eyes, [4]. ► Tearing pain across the eyes, [4].
► Stitches around the eyes and in the orbits, [4]. ► The eye-symptoms
are generally felt on awakening, or in the open air, [4].
► Pain at the eyebrows, [4].
► Eyes watery, [1].
[620.] ► Chronic
inflammation of the edges of the eyelids, [4]. ► Troublesome sensation around the eyelids, [4]. ► Pain of excoriation in the
lids, [4]. ►
Itching of the canthi, [4]. ►
Vision confused; sometimes objects appear double, [4].
► Objects seem enlarged, and sometimes double, [1].
   

EAR.

► Purulent discharge
from the ears, [4]. ►
Stitching pain behind the ears, [4]. ► Lancinating pain in the ears, from within outward, [4]. ► Violent jerking in
both ears, not removed by scratching, [1]. [630.] ► Sticking into the
right ear (after three-quarters of an hour), [1]. ► Rapid sticking-shooting pain in left ear, [15]. ► Sticking in the left car
(after one hour); after the sticking fine tearing about the ear, extending to the top of the
head, [1]. ►
Sticking in the left ear, with a feeling as if heat were coming out of it, alternating with
stitches in the left costal region (after five hours), [1].
► At one time sticking, at another tearing in the right
ear, only somewhat relieved by rubbing, [1]. ► Transient, though painful sticking in the right ear, [1]. ► Sticking in the
right ear, removed by boring in with the finger, [1]. ► Sensation of heat escaping from the ear, [4]. ► Sensation of stuffiness in
perfectly sound right ear, with feeling of coldness in, around, and behind the same, seeming
to be in the bone, [10]. ►
Dryness of the ears; want of cerumen, [4]. [640.] ► Stopped sensation in
the ears, with hardness of hearing, which lasted longer in the left ear (after one hour), [1]. ► Several of the
ear-symptoms are ameliorated by contact and pressure, [4].
► Troublesome whistling in the ears, [4].
   

NOSE.

►> Sneezing once, [1]. ► Ineffectual
desire to sneeze, [4]. ►
Inclination to sneeze in the left nostril (after half au hour), [1]. ► Coryza in the morning, [4]. ► Coryza in the
open air, [4]. ►
Coryza, with viscid secretion, [4]. ► The coryza has a nauseous smell, [4]. [650.] ► The coryza loosens on the second morning; much thick mucus is
discharged, [1]. ►
Sudden stoppage of both nostrils for a quarter of an hour (after five minutes), [1]. ► Sudden stoppage
of the nose, lasting a quarter of an hour, in the morning after waking, [1]. ► Tension above the root of
the nose, [4]. ►
Ulcerative pain in the fossa of the left side of the nose, as if there were an open spot, [1]. ► Sense of pressure
in the nose, [4]. ►
Acute stitches in the left side of the nose externally, then a very fine painful burning on
the right side, then fine burning, as with a glowing needle externally, in the pit of the
stomach, [1].
   

FACE.

► Face beginning to
look peaked and hollow-cheeked, [10]. ► Puffiness of the face during the menses, [4]. ► The face has a tired look, [4]. [660.] ► Face expressive of anguish, [4].
► Face flushed and hot, [11].
► Jactitation of the muscles around the mouth, [4]. ► Cheeks sunken, [10]. ► Crampy aching in
the malar bones, principally the left, [15]. ► Tearing in both malar bones, and very painful, though only
for a short time, [1]. ►
Violent tearing in the left malar bone, in the cold air (fourth day), [1]. ► Sticking and tearing in
the right malar bone; afterwards tickling in the left upper teeth; afterwards stitches in
the left ear (after three hours), [1]. ► Dull stitch like a tapping with the finger, with tearing in a
small spot in the middle of the left cheek (second day), [1].
► Chap on the upper lip,
[4]. [670.] ►
Tearing in the lower lip, extending into the neighboring teeth, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Tearing in the
right lower jaw (after one hour and a quarter), [1].
   

MOUTH. ► Teeth.

► A
sort of shocks in the lower teeth, [4]. ► Grumbling in a right lower back tooth, it seems as though the
headache arose from the teeth (seventh day), [1]. ► Painful sensitiveness of a right lower decayed molar, still
worse when touched (first day), [1]. ► Gum. ► Stitches here
and there, in the gum (ninth day), [1]. ► Fine sticking and tearing in the gum, now in the right, now
in the left side, frequently (eleventh day), [1]. ► Tongue. ► Dryness of
the tongue, [15]. ►
Sensation as if the tongue were too dry, [4]. ► General Mouth. ►
Aphthæ in the mouth, [4]. ►
Redness and swelling of the velum pendulum and adjacent parts; distress so great that he
fears suffocation, [1]. [680.]
► Mouth and lips dry, [10].
► Burning in mouth, [15].
► Saliva and Taste. ►
Stitching in the arch of the palate, [4]. ► Inclination to spit and clear the throat, [15]. ► Profuse salivation, [15]. ► Insipidity in
the mouth, with a sweetish taste in the morning after waking,
[1]. ► Food all tasted alike, in fact was nearly
tasteless, [10]. ►
Indescribable taste, both before and after a meal, [4].
► Sweetish taste, with dryness of the mouth (eleventh
day), [1]. ► Taste
of cheese in mouth, [4]. [690.]
► Food tastes salt, [4].
► Metallic taste in the mouth, [12]. ► Metallic, slimy taste in
the mouth, with dryness, [10]. ►
Taste of onions, [4]. ►
Speech.
► Slowness of speech, [4]. ► Speech almost prevented, [4].
   

THROAT.

► Inflamed aphthæ and
pustules in the throat, making the patient’s condition almost desperate
, [4]. ► Redness of the
throat, [4]. ►
Dryness in the throat and frequent hawking (after two hours),
[1]. ► Dryness of the throat, [15]. [700.] ► A sensation in the throat, as though she could not swallow,
with spasmodic contraction in the right side of the throat and ear, lasting an hour, in the
afternoon while sitting (ninth day), [1]. ► Sharp stitches in the throat when not swallowing (second
day), [1]. ►
Burning in the throat, [15]. ►
Warmth and uneasy sensation in the œsophagus and stomach,
[12]. ► Burning in the œsophagus, [4]. ► Itching and scraping in
the œsophagus, [4]. ►
A desire to swallow, as though to keep something down, [10].
   

STOMACH. ► Appetite.

►
Indisposition to eat, although the appetite was average fair,
[10]. ► Total loss of appetite for every kind of
aliment, [4]. ►
Want of appetite, although with clean tongue, [4]. [710.] ► Want of appetite, in
the evening, [4]. ►
Thirst, [5]. ►
Eructation.
► Eructations after drinking [4]. ► Eructations of a
rancid taste, causing burning in the œsophagus and throat,
[15]. ► Difficult eructations, [4]. ► Eructations tasting of the
broth (after one hour and a quarter), [1]. ► Empty eructations, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Uprisings of food, [15]. ► The eructations
are allayed by lying down, [4]. ►
Eructations, tasting of the ingesta, [4]. ► Hiccough. [720.] ►
Hiccough, in the evening, [1]. ►
Waterbrash of sour, hot fluid, [15]. ► Heartburn, [15]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ►
Nausea, [11], [12], [14], [15]. ► Nausea, with
prostration, [4]. ►
Nauseated at the sight of food, [10]. ► Sensation of nausea extended down the œsophagus and into the
stomach, with rumbling and gurgling in the stomach and upper bowels, and a sensation of
fluttering motion in the stomach, [10]. ► Instantaneous sensation of nausea, confined to the mouth and
pharynx, [10]. ►
Efforts to vomit, [5]. ►
Retched, and threw up phlegm, [1]. [730.] ► Vomiting, with
chills, sweat and debility, [4]. ► Stomach. ► General
feeling in the stomach, as if I had been on a spree last night, [10]. ► A sensation in the
stomach, as if something had become turned about, then an uprising burning sensation
extending into the chest (after one hour and a quarter), [1].
► Weight and heaviness in the stomach, which lasted two
hours, [13]. ►
Weight in stomach, [15]. ►
Feeling as of an indigestible load in my stomach, [10].
► Uncomfortable feeling of indigestion, [15]. ► Slight uneasiness in the
stomach, as if a precursor of an attack of gastric catarrh,
[13]. ► Feeling in stomach and bowels, as if
diarrhœa were coming on, [10]. ► Painful contraction of the stomach, [4]. [740.] ► Painfulness of the epigastric region, [4]. ► Burning in the stomach, [15]. ► Pains in the
stomach and upper bowels, as though caused by something hard and indigestible, [12]. ► Cutting pain and violent
vomiting, [7]. ►
Sticking pain in the epigastrium, [5]. ► Dull sticking in the side near the stomach, extending deeply
inward on sitting bent over, disappearing on becoming erect (first day), [1].
   

ABDOMEN.

► Painfulness of
the hypochondria, [1]. ►
A painful pressing inward and a burning with stitches in the left hypochondrium, twice in
quick succession (after one hour), [1]. ► A stitch in the right hypochondriac region, and immediately
afterwards in the right ear, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Sticking in the left hypochondriac region, frequently, and
lasting a long time (after four hours), [1]. [750.] ► Constant stitches in
the left hypochondriac region, with burning, only transiently relieved by rubbing, [1]. ► A stitch in the
left hypochondriac region, extending backward, then sticking deep internally beneath the
left female breast, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Painful movings about below the navel, with desire for stool,
after the morning broth; followed after a few minutes by a hard stool (after one hour), [1]. ► A rush as of
boiling water in the umbilical region, followed by griping in the stomach, [1]. ► In the morning after
rising, at first some griping about the navel, and then two soft stools, [1]. ► A sudden burning, as from
a glowing hot needle, at one time in the left loin, then in the right hypochondriac region
(after four hours), [1]. ►
Digging sensation in the abdomen, [4]. ► Sensation of load in upper bowels, [10]. ► Warmth in the upper
bowels, [12]. ►
Sharp cramps in the small intestines, localized in spots, and quickly shifting from place to
place, [10]. [760.]
► Sensation in the upper bowels as if she had taken a
dose of medicine, which was working, [11]. ► Colic on awaking, [6]. ► Pain in bowels, as if diarrhœa would follow, [15]. ► A painful cutting as with
a knife in the abdomen, above the navel (second day), [1].
► Cutting pain and flatulence, [5]. ► Throbbing in the abdomen, [4]. ► Movements in the
abdomen, followed by a stool, the first part of which is hard, the last soft, [1]. ► Sensation of great
coldness in the whole upper abdomen, immediately after a dose,
[1]. ► Sensation of coldness in the abdomen after
every dose, [1]. ►
Coldness in the region of the transverse colon, [15]. [770.] ► Cutting in the lower
abdomen, with urging to stool; a soft stool follows, succeeded by tenesmus and continued
straining (tenth day), [1].
   

RECTUM AND ANUS.

► Feeling
as if the hæmorrhoidal tumors were excoriated, [4]. ► Contraction of the rectum, [4].
► All the symptoms disappear after broth, but return
after half an hour, [1]. ►
Sensation of dryness at the anus, [1].
   

STOOL.

► Loose discharge
from the bowels, of a yellow color and sour smell, [14].
► Very hard stool, with clawing in the anus, and great
straining (second day), [1]. ►
*Stools of partly digested food, shortly after a meal or at night, [4]. ► Constipation, [4]. ► Most obstinate
constipation
, with feeling as though all action of the bowels bad been lost, [8].
   

URINARY ORGANS. [780.]

►
Cutting pains at the bladder, [4]. ► Frequent urging to urinate, [4].
► Frequent urging to urinate at night, [4]. ► Urine increased, [10]. ► Increased flow
of urine, of a sweet odor, [12]. ►
Copious emission of urine, [4]. ►
Excessive flow of pale urine, [10]. ► She passes much urine as pale as water, three times (second
day), [1]. ► Urine
diminished, [10]. ►
Red urine voided with difficulty, [4]. [790.] ► Urine depositing a
white sediment, [4].
   

SEXUAL ORGANS.

► Awakened
with a strong sexual desire, [10]. ► Sexual desire diminished, [10].
► Stitching pains in sexual parts (female), [4]. ► The menstrual
blood is watery, [4].
   

RESPIRATORY ORGANS.

►
Slight cough, [4]. ►
Cough, aggravated by lying down, [4]. ► Cough, with stunning pain in the head, [4]. ► Cough, with titillating
sensation in the throat, [4]. ►
Frequent short hacking cough (after half an hour), [1].
[800.] ►
Cough, with tearing pain in the chest, [4]. ► Cough, with sweetish taste in the throat, [4]. ► Cough, with paleness of
the face, [4]. ►
Cough, followed by mucous expectoration, [4]. ► Dry cough in several paroxysms, after dinner (after four
hours), [1]. ►
Hoarse breathing, [4]. ►
Sibilant respiration, [4]. ►
Hoarse and sibilant respiration, especially when lying on the back, [4].
   

CHEST.

► Sensation of
pressure, as from a hand around the chest, [4]. ► Crampy constriction in the right chest, [15]. [810.] ► An incessant painful dull stitch in the middle of the chest
on inspiration, on rising after sitting bent over; the pain was aggravated by deep
breathing; 6.30 P.M. (first day), [1]. ► A sharp stitch in the middle of the sternum, followed by
burning in the same spot, so that she thought it was all over with her, disappearing on
pressure, but returning (after five hours), [1]. ► Digging and tension in the right thorax, in front of the
axilla, [1]. ►
Painless tension in the region in front of the right axilla, while knitting in the evening
(fifth day), [1]. ►
A stitch in the region of the right ribs, in the afternoon, [1].
► Swelling of the mammary gland, [4]. ► Burning, as from a glowing
hot iron in a small spot below the left breast (second day),
[1].
   

HEART AND PULSE.

► Crampy
constriction in heart, with a feeling as though I could not take a long breath, [15]. ► Palpitations
which resound in the head, [4]. ►
Palpitation, with vertigo, headache, and restlessness, [4].
[820.] ► Small,
frequent, irregular pulse, [4]. ►
Pulse decreased in frequency, and soft, [14]. ► Pulse (usually 76), 90 (after two hours), [15].
   

NECK AND BACK.

► Drawing
pain in the right side of the neck, as if a tendon or a bloodvessel would be torn out,
disappearing on rubbing (eleventh day), [1]. ► Painful tearing in the tendons in the right side of the neck
(seventh day), [1]. ►
Violent tearing in a spot of the breadth of two fingers on the right side of the neck
(second day), [1]. ►
A sharp stitch extending inward in the left cervical muscles, then a similar stitch in the
upper part of the left parietal bone, then a beating in the whole head, more on the right
side and backward, with a feeling of heaviness, [1]. ► Sticking jerking in the nape of the neck (after two hours), [1]. ► Throbbing tearing
in a small spot on the tendons, on the left side of the neck (second day), [1]. ► Weak feeling in the back, [4]. [830.] ► Pulling in the back, [4].
► Painful aching about the left scapula, sometimes
extending into the left arm; attempt to relieve it by rigid expansion and closing the fist,
as in a tonic spasm, [8]. ►
Pain between shoulderblades on waking in the morning, [10].
► A violent stitch between the scapulæ, [1]. ► Burning externally in the
small of the back, disappearing after rubbing, [1]. ► Aching in small of back, [15].
► Heavy aching pain in my back across my kidneys, on
waking, in the morning, [10]. ►
Frequent sensation in the small of the back, as if screwed together, [1]. ► Drawing in the right
lumbar region while walking, disappearing on sitting (after one hour and a quarter), [1]. ► A stitch in the
right lumbar region, then a sensation of slight pressure, as though a light body were lying
there (after one hour and a quarter), [1].
   

EXTREMITIES. [840.]

► Sleep
prevented by pains in the limbs, [4].
   

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.

►
Numbness of the arms
, [8]. ► Sensation, as if the arms had become much shorter; so vivid
that she had to examine them in the morning to be convinced that it was not actually so, [8]. ► Paralyzed
sensation on the left shoulder, afterwards in the right forearm (second day), [1]. ► Tension at first on the
left, then on the right shoulder; very painful (first day),
[1]. ► Pain in the axillary glands, [4]. ► Arthritic stiffness of the
elbow-joint, [4]. ►
Sensation of great weakness in the right forearm, a hand’s breadth above the wrists,
extending to the little finger (fifth day), [1]. ► Sudden weariness of the forearms while knitting; she was
obliged to lay it aside, when it became better (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ► Heaviness of the forearm, [4]. [850.] ► Paralytic pain in the left forearm while sitting (second
day), [1]. ►
Tension in the tendons of the left forearm while flexed, she did not dare to extend it, and
yet the tension was relieved only by extending and moving the fingers; while knitting (after
five minutes), [1]. ►
Fine tearing in a small spot on the inner surface of the left forearm, [1]. ► Sticking tearing in the
middle of the left forearm, along the upper surface, as far as the wrist, [1]. ► Sticking in the tendons of
the right forearm while using the hand (first day), [1].
► A stitch in the left external styloid process (of the
wrist), (after one hour and a half ), [1]. ► Cramp of the hand, [4].
► Frequent tearing on the back of the right hand, in the
tendons of the thumb, for several days (seventh day), [1].
► Tearing in the metacarpal bone of the right index
finger (second day), [1]. ►
Tearing in the metacarpal bone of the left index finger, [1].
[860.] ► Tearing
between the little and ring fingers of the hand, aggravated on stretching them out (second
day), [1]. ►
Swelling of the fingers, [4]. ►
Contraction of the fingers, [4]. ►
Formication in the fingers, [4]. ►
Jerking in the left thumb (after two hours), [1]. ► Jerking tearing between the first and second joints of the
left thumb, as if in the marrow (second day), [1]. ► Extremely painful sticking in the ball of the left thumb on
flexing it, less on extending it (first day), [1]. ► While sewing a sensation in the left thumb as if it were
stiff and immovable, and as if she could not extend it, which, however, she was able to do
(first day), [1]. ►
A fine sticking as from a thistle in the left side of the tip of the right index finger,
which disappears on pressing on it a long time (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ► Tearing on the lower
surface of the third joint of the right little finger, [1].
   

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES. [870.]

►
Great weakness of the lower extremities (third day), [1].
► Boring pain in the lower extremities, [4]. ► Lancinating, tearing pain
in the lower extremities, [4]. ►
Formication referred to the bones of the lower limbs, [4].
► Tension in the right hip, then again sticking tearing
in the right ear, in the afternoon, [1]. ► A pinching in the right hip, externally (after two hours and
a half), [1]. ►
Sticking and drawing from the left hip into the thigh, [1].
► Paralytic pain in the middle of the right thigh while
sitting, disappearing on motion, [1]. ► Sticking in the upper part of the left thigh, [1]. ► Sticking in the right knee,
in the evening while standing, [1]. [880.] ► Tearing deep in the
right instep, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Sticking in the right sole, below the heel (after five
hours), [1]. ►
Tearing sticking in the right heel, extending thence into the sole, as far as the ball of
the foot (after three-quarters of an hour), [1].
   

GENERALITIES.

► Secretions
diminished, [10]. ►
Feeling of weakness, [7]. ►
Weakness on awaking, [6]. ►
Great weakness and prostration, with sleepiness (second afternoon), [1]. ► Wakened in the morning with
a sort of seething feeling in my blood, [10]. ► Weak feeling, like paralysis, when raising himself in bed,
when turning in bed, and during movement, [4]. ► She thinks she is much better and fresher after entering the
house from the open air, [1]. [890.]
► Reacted more freely than usual from my shower-bath
(second morning), [10]. ►
Numerous fine sharp stabbing pains, lasting five minutes,
[10]. ► Clothes seem loose, [10]. ► Symptoms relieved after a
few doses of laudanum, [7]. ►
Tea and a few glasses of wine removed the symptoms, [6].
► Most of the symptoms disappear in the open air, but
soon return in the house, [1].
   

SKIN.

► Skin had a dry,
white, leathery, pinched look, [10]. ► Herpetic eruption itched very much from the heat especially
in the evening, [4]. ►
Small vesicles on the skin of the face, [4]. ► Yellowish spot on the upper lip, [4]. [900.] ► Pimply eruption on the genitals (female), [4]. ► A painful boil in the
sacral region, [1]. ►
Skin of hands dry and shrunken, as if they had been washed in lye, especially on the palmar
surface, [10]. ►
During one day appearance and disappearance of reddish-blue spots on the trunk and left leg,
causing the patient to fear an attack of spotted fever, [8].
► Excessive sensitiveness,
[4]. ► Tingling, itching, [4]. ► Itching from the heat, [4]. ► Itching of the
least affected portions of the skin; they swell up, [1].
► Itching at the sexual parts (female), [1].
   

SLEEP.

► Desire to sleep, [5]. [910.] >>
Sleepy, without yawning, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Sleep very restless for the first hours, [5]. ► Slight spasmodic movements
during sleep, [4]. ►
Frequent waking, caused by a feeling of cold, [4]. ► Sleep broken by frequent waking, [4]. ► Waking up, followed by
several hours of sleeplessness, [4]. ► Fatiguing dreams, in the morning, [4]. ► Troubled dreams, [4].
   

FEVER. ► Chilliness.

►
Chilliness through the whole body, and external coldness, without thirst, lasting two days, [2]. ► Violent chill and
external coldness, so that he could not get warm in the forenoon, soon after a dose, with
sleepiness, which lasted the whole day, [2]. [920.] ► Shivering, which is
more frequent in the afternoons, [4]. ► Horripilation in the open air,
[4]. ► During the horripilation the limbs feel as
if broken, with hot breath and restlessness, [4]. ► Shivering on entering the house from the open air (second
day), [1]. ►
Horripilation, with heat, which pervades the whole body, [4].
► General coldness, [4].
► During the whole day a general cold feeling, [5]. ► General coldness
during sleep, [4]. ►
Coldness, with red face, [4]. ►
He cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat, [4]. [930.] ► Internal coldness, [4]. ► Sensation of
coldness at the chin, and at the labial commissure, [4].
► 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, [8]. ► Coldness of abdomen and
lower extremities, [8]. ►
Coldness of lower extremities, particularly the left, with coldness in abdomen, etc, [8]. ► Feet and limbs
cold, nearly to the knees, [10]. ► Heat. ► The febrile
symptoms occur more particularly in the morning, and are accompanied with very great malaise
and tendency to delirium, which cease during the sweat, [4].
► Heat all through the body, [12]. ► Heated, flushed feeling,
as if she had taken a glass of liquor, [11]. ► Feeling of glow over the entire body on waking in the
morning, [10]. [940.]
► General peripheral sensation of warmth within five
minutes, [10]. ►
Burning heat of the skin, [4]. ►
Heat in the head and burning in the face, lasting half an hour (after one hour and a half ), [1]. ► Heat and pressure
in forehead, [10]. ►
Sensation of heat and fulness in the face, [10]. ► Sensation of heat extending up the back, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Sweat. ► General perspiration, [4].
► Perspiration increased,
[10]. ► Sweat when going to sleep, [4]. ► Perspiration on the
forehead, [12]. [950.]
► Sweat on the face, [4].
► Cold sweat on the face,
[4].

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