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FACE.

[270.] ► Sullen, low-spirited look, [3].
► Paleness of the face, [1].
► Paleness and redness of the face alternating in quick
succession, [1]. ►
Skin of the face rough, especially on the forehead, [1].
► Itching pimples on the forehead, the right side of the
nose, and the left angle of the mouth; upon being pressed they run together (six to nine
days), [3]. ► Every
day flushes of heat in the face, [1]. ► Heat and tension in the left side of the face, in the evening
(first day), [6]. ►
His face seems to him larger or swollen, and the eyes smaller, so that his sight is impeded;
after dinner (first day), [3]. ► *The skin of the face is tense, even around the eyes, as if the
white of an egg had dried upon it
; after dinner, when walking in the open air
(fifth day), [3]. ►
Formication in the right side of the face, with stinging pain in the hollow of the ear, and
tearing in the right knee, [3]. [280.] ► Violent itching in
the face, [1]. ►
Itching, with a violent desire to scratch, in the face and under the chin; succeeded by
small pimples like rash (fourth day), [3]. ► Itching of the forehead, cheeks, around the eyes, and of the
chin, [3]. ► The
cheeks look as red as copper, as in brandy drinkers, [6].
► A painful red spot upon the right cheek, [1]. ► Small, red, painless
pimples upon the right cheek, which feel rough (twelfth day), [4].
► Upon the right cheek a pimple, which is painful to the
touch like a sore, [1]. ►
Pimples on the left cheek and forehead (tenth day), [3].
► One boil after the other on the left cheek, [1]. ► Drawing and
tearing in the left cheek and gums; in the afternoon (after thirtieth day), [4]. [290.] ►
Crawling on the internal surface of the cheeks (after three hours), [5]. ► Itching of the cheeks, with
burning after scratching, [3]. ►
Itching of the left angle of the mouth, and the zygoma; it disappears on being scratched, [3]. ► Tearing in the
sides of the face, especially in the right side, in the zygoma; upon rubbing the part it
passes off: it sometimes attended with tearing pain in the teeth of this side, [3]. ► The vermilion
border of the lips is bluish (during and after the fever), [6].
► Swelling of the lower lip, [1]. ► On the internal surface of
the lip a bright vesicle as large as a pea (second day), [5].
► Swelling of the lips with vesicles upon them, [1]. ► Chapped (dry) lips, [3], [4], [5]. ► Both his lips
appear to him larger and swollen, [3]. [300.] ► The
lips peel off (fourth day), [3]. ►
Crusty eruptions on the lower lip, [1]. ► Small pimples on the chin, which pass off again next morning
(after eighth and thirteenth day), [3]. ► Sensation around the chin, as if it were covered with cobweb,
[1]. ► The jaws are
firmly set against each other (one hour), [5]. ► Remarkable shortening of the lower jaw; the upper teeth
project over the lower for three days, [6]. ► The jaw is so swollen that he cannot open the mouth without
pain; there are stitches going up to the malar bone and the temple, [1]. ► Tension and drawing in the jaws and cheeks, with increased secretion of
saliva (second day), [5]. ►
Painful tension in the articulation of the jaws, when chewing or opening the mouth, [1]. ► Itching
formication on the right side of the lower jaws, [3].
   

MOUTH.

[310.] ► Thick, badly smelling mucus on the teeth (fifth day), [3]. ► Two rotten molar
teeth (one above, the other below) catch into each other on opening the mouth, [6]. ► Ulceration of the
roots of all the teeth, [6]. ►
In chewing the least she suffers the most violent toothache; the roots of the teeth are then
painful, as if they were ulcerated, [1]. ► The toothache extends down to the larynx, with irritation of
the nerves, as after having caught cold, or having used too much chamomile, [6]. ► The teeth are very painful
when she chews; she is afraid of pressing them against one another (after second day), [1]. ► Upon setting the
teeth together, a toothache, as if the teeth were loose, [1].
► The hollow teeth are very painful when food gets into
them, [1]. ► Sense
of coldness of the teeth, with great sensitiveness, [3].
► Sensation as if the teeth were too long (first
day), [5]. [320.] ► In the evening, boring (tearing, grinding) in the teeth
(after one hour), [1]. ►
Boring in various hollow teeth, [1]. ► Drawing pain in the teeth of the right side, in the evening;
it disappeared after having laid down, [3]. ► Gnawing pain in one of the front molar teeth of the lower
jaw, with tearing behind the ear, as if the ear would be torn out; worse at nine o’clock in
the evening, and then slowly decreasing; sitting up in the bed gives a little relief; after
midnight there is only gnawing in the tooth; the pain remains the same under all
circumstances; in daytime it is dull, [3]. ► Drawing and tearing pain in the front lower teeth, extending
to the zygoma and the temples, [1]. ► Drawing pain, extending from one tooth as far as the ear, in
the side of the head, [1]. ►
Pressive pain in one of the incisors, both when chewing and not, [1]. ► Tearing in the molar teeth
at different times of the day, sometimes as high up as the temples, [3]. ► On biting on a stump it
pains, as if violently pushed into the socket, [1]. ► Cutting toothache, in the open air and on lying down in the
evening bed (after two and three hours), [1]. [330.] ► Bruised pain in one
of the right upper molar teeth; pressing upon the tooth, which makes it feel loose, relieves
the pain (eleventh day), [3]. ►
One of the upper molar teeth is painful to the touch, [1].
► At night, when in bed, throbbing of the roots of the
teeth, like pulsations, [6]. ►
Jerking and tearing toothache wakes her up after midnight; it disappears after rising (fifth
day), [3]. ►
Jerking pain in one of the first molar teeth of the left upper row (first day), [3]. ► Tickling in the
teeth and of their roots, immediately after dinner (the fourth and fifth days), [3]. ► Swelling of the gums,
[1]. ► On the gums
of the left side of the lower row of teeth an ulcer forms, which opens immediately, and
discharges blood which tastes saltish, [3]. ► Bleeding of the gums (fourth day), [2]. ► Drawing pain in the gums,
as if they were sore, [1]. [340.]
► Tongue coated white, with a good taste, [4]. ► Tongue coated
yellowish-white, with bitter taste, [4]. ► Sense of roughness on the tongue (after three-quarters of an
hour), [3]. ►
Crawling in the tongue (stinging, and transient) (one hour), [5].
► Itching in the tip of the tongue; he would like to
scratch it to pieces (after fifth and seventh days), [3].
► *Number of little ulcers in the mouth, [1]. ► Thick mucus runs from the
posterior nares into the mouth, [1]. ► *Musty, bad smell from the mouth, [1]. ► The mouth continually feels
as if it were burnt (after dinner) (after forty-eight hours), [3].
► Painfulness of the inner mouth, palate, tongue, gums;
they feel so sore that he can scarcely eat, [1]. [350.] ► On waking, the mouth
is dry and the tongue sticks to the palate, [1]. ► Dryness in the mouth, although saliva is not wanting;
this causes frequent painful swallowing, [5]. ► *Increased secretion of saliva and mucus (first and second
days), [3], [5].
► The secretion of saliva becomes real ptyalism, [5]. ► In the morning,
spitting of much saliva and mucus, [6]. ► Increased secretion of saliva, with a sense of contraction in
the mouth, or with continual crawling upon the surface of the cheeks (after half an hour), [5]. ► A large quantity
of saliva accumulates in the mouth, when in bed in the evening (third day), [5]. ► Constant collection of
sweetish or sourish water in the mouth (fifth and eighth days), [3]. ► Collection of much mucus in
the mouth; on spitting it out it is continually formed, whilst the throat remains dry (first
day), [5]. ► Water
in the mouth, [4]. [360.]
► Sour liquid rises into his mouth, [1]. ► Frequent collection of
watery saliva in the mouth; he is obliged to spit it out the whole day, most in the
afternoon; never at night (after ten minutes, and second day), [3]. ► Early in the morning, flat,
metallic taste in the mouth (fourth and fifth days), [5].
► Sourish, saltish taste (first day), [3]. ► Bitter, insipid taste in
the mouth, [2]. ►
Bitter taste in the mouth (shortly after taking it), [3].
► Bitter and slimy taste in the mouth, in the morning on
rising (five days), [3]. ►
Bitter taste in the evening, after having eaten apples, [1].
► Astringent acrid taste upon the tongue, as from eating
sloes (one to eight days), [3], [5]. ► Taste in the mouth of
blood, for half an hour (seven days), [3]. [370.] ► Everything tastes
flat, [6]. ►
Everything she eats seems tasteless, and not salted, especially in the evenings; bread
tastes like sponge (first and second days), [3]. ► Meat, especially, does not seem to have any taste, [1]. ► Beer tastes bitter
and nauseous; this causes retchings (twelve days), [3].
   

THROAT.

► *Redness,
inflammatory, in the back part of the throat
(nine days), [5]. ► Inflammation of the throat,
terminated by a marked livid border round the buccal cavity, several days (after two days), [5]. ► *Thick viscid
mucus flows into the throat from the posterior nares, [1].
► He cannot hawk up the phlegm in his throat, because it
is too far down, [3]. ►
A piece of phlegm gets into his throat, which chokes him until he swallows it (after ten
minutes), [3]. ►
*Collection of thick viscid mucus in the throat, especially in the evening, and morning on
waking
, which increases the soreness of the throat; it induces frequent clearing
of the throat, and can only be expectorated in little lumps, with great effort (first day), [5]. [380.] ► Clearing the throat of saltish phlegm, after dinner (two
days), [3]. ►►
*In the evening, dryness of the throat, which induces frequent clearing of the throat

(three days), [5]. ►
Dryness of the throat and mouth (shortly after taking it), [5].
► *Dryness and scraping of the throat (one day), [3]. ► Great dryness of
the throat, mouth, and lips, as if the parts were parched,
attended with torturing thirst, [1]. ► Sourish taste in the throat, then bitter eructations, shortly
after having eaten his milk soup in the evening (four days), [3].
► Sourish taste appearing suddenly in his throat, without
eructations, in the forenoon (four days), [3]. ► Sweet taste in the throat, with vertigo, followed by
expectoration of mucus mixed with blood, early in the morning (twenty-eighth day), [3]. ► On waking in the
morning, his throat is rough and his chest oppressed; he cannot raise anything from his
throat, and is obliged to sneeze a good deal (after twelve hours), [1]. ► *In the evening (and at night),
roughness of the throat, which causes-hawking, with secretion of mucus, several days in
succession
, [3], [5]. [390.] ►
Rancid and rough in the throat; this obliges him to clear the throat (four days), [3]. ► Hoarseness and
rancidity of the throat, the whole afternoon (after five days), [3]. ► Sense of burning in the
throat, in the evening (three days), [5]. ► Burning in the throat, like heartburn, with a sense of
roughness (five days), [3]. ►
In both sides of the neck, sensation as of an external swelling, with stinging pains, [1]. ► Sensation in the
throat as if it were narrowed, and the air cut off, as in a violent sore throat after a
cold, or in an inflammation of the throat; this always lasts only a few minutes (first seven
days), [2]. ►
Constrictive (pressive) pain in the throat and pharynx, with much mucus in the mouth, in the
evening (one, two days), [5]. ►
*Scraping high up in the throat
, [1]. ► Drawing and tensive pain in the right side of the throat,
especially on moving the tongue (nine days), [5]. ► At nights, spasmodically drawing pain in one side of the
throat and in the ear, disturbing the sleep, and increased by deglutition (nine days), [5]. [400.]
► *Pressure in the throat as from a lump, with soreness,
rough voice, and dryness of the throat
, [1].
► Pressive and tensive pain in the inner right side of
the throat, as far as the ear (one day), [5]. ► Sense of scraping in the throat, as if he had swallowed
pepper (after three hours), [5]. ►
Constant griping scraping in the throat (five days), [3].
► After eructation, scraping in the throat, which obliges
clearing the throat (two days), [3]. ► *Rawness and roughness of the throat, which induce
coughing, in the evening (four days), [3], [5]. ► Sore throat in
swallowing
, [4]. ►
Burning soreness in the throat during and after deglutition, in the morning, for several
days in succession (four days), [5]. ► *After clearing the throat, which she finds very difficult, it feels
very sore
, [3]. ►
Aching sore throat during empty deglutition, in the evening, for several days in succession
(caused by a swelling in the throat) (four days), [5].
[410.] ► Sore throat,
pressure in the throat, even when not swallowing, with internal heat in both hands (after
two hours), [1]. ►
*Transient stitches in the throat, shooting here and there, on swallowing, and something
pointed sometimes seems to stick in the throat in the evening
(two, four days), [5]. ► Stinging in the
throat, on empty deglutition, [2], [3]. ► *Violent tickling in the
throat, exciting frequent cough (four days), [5]. ► Pressive pain in the left tonsil, during and after swallowing
(one day), [5]. ►
In the morning, dull stitches in the right tonsil (four days), [5]. ► Swollen tonsils (six days),
[5]. ► *Sense as of
constriction from the œsophagus down to the stomach, every time he swallows a morsel of
food
, [1]. ►
Contraction of the œsophagus, and want of action, in the morning, on waking, [1]. ► *Violent pressive pain, as if a
portion of the œsophagus were contracted or compressed
, in the middle of the
chest, especially during deglutition, but also when not swallowing, with oppression of the
chest alternating with palpitation of the heart, especially after a meal (eight, nine days),
[5]. [420.] ► Impeded deglutition at night, as from a spasmodic
constriction of the throat (one day), [5]. ► Spasmodically pressive pain in the middle of the chest, on
swallowing food and drink, [5].
   

STOMACH.

► He is always
hungry; could always be eating, [1]. ► Very hungry, [2]. ► Rapid hunger; he is panting for his dinner, and can scarcely
await it, [4]. ►
She is hungry, but she eats nothing with relish, [3]. ► She has no aversion to food, but no desire to eat; on looking
at the food she is already satisfied; she could go a whole day without eating (for many
days), [1]. ►
Strong appetite for vegetables, fruit, and soft food, [1].
► *No desire to eat, no appetite, no hunger; food
does not taste badly, but it does not taste at all; everything tastes like straw or
shavings, [1]. ► He has
no appetite
, and eats with reluctance, [4].
[430.] ► Little
hunger and no appetite for many days, even when he eats nothing at dinner (one to fifteen
days), [3]. ►
Diminished appetite, with fulness of the abdomen, [5].
► *Aversion to meat, [1]. ► Aversion to meat, even unto
vomiting, for three days (after six days), [3]. ► Very thirsty the whole day, also at dinner, [3]. ► Aversion to the usual
smoking, [1]. ►
Smoking does not relish, and intoxicates him, for four days, [3].
► Smoking does not agree with him, [1]. ► Frequent empty eructations
(after two hours), [1]. ►
Empty eructations after supper (two days), [3]. [440.] ► Frequent eructations
tasting of milk-soup which he had taken, from supper until he lay down, [3]. ► Eructations, with pressive
pain in the chest, while eating (after three-quarters of an hour), [3]. ► Bitter eructations after
eating potatoes; he feels a loathing which makes him shiver; in the evening (five days), [2]. ► Rancid
eructations, leaving a burning in the throat for a long while (one day), [5]. ► Rancid eructations,
especially after dinner (ten to thirteen days), [5]. ► Rancid eructations after breakfast soup, [3]. ► Acrid eructations, [1]. ► Sour eructations,
in the evening, when in bed, [1]. ► *Sour eructations, with burning in the throat, like
heartburn, (one day), [3]. ►
In the forenoon, acidity rises into his mouth; it continues for a long time, and is attended
with a sensation of heat in the mouth, [1]. [450.] ► Waterbrash, [4]. ► Gulping up of sour
mucus; afterwards, burning in the throat, like heartburn, coming on frequently, especially
after the soup for breakfast, [1]. ► Sweetish risings from the stomach; the phlegm which he throws
up tastes sweetish, continues a long time, early in the morning (three days), [3]. ► Hiccough after eating, at
noon and in the evening, [1]. ►
Hiccough after dinner, also after eructations from the breakfast soup (one to two days), [3]. ► When standing, she
becomes nauseated, [1]. ►
Nausea, even to fainting; her breathing is arrested on account of it at night, [1]. ► Nausea as soon as
4 o’clock in the morning, [1]. ►
Frequent nausea, as if he would vomit; his appetite is, nevertheless, tolerably good, [1]. ► Inclination to
vomit in the morning, [4]. [460.]
► In the morning, retching in the throat, as if one would
vomit, [1]. ►
Inclination to vomit after eructation of air, with chilliness of the body, which rises from
the feet into the abdomen, [4]. ►
Nausea, with an inclination to vomit, and retching; this caused her to put her finger into
the throat, after which she vomited phlegm and water, but the breakfast, which she had eaten
two hours before, remained (fourteen days), [4]. ► After supper, nausea, loathing, and weariness, for several
evenings, [1]. ►
Loathing and qualmishness in the œsophagus (one hour), [1].
► Qualmishness at the stomach, with faint-like nausea and
vertigo; the room turns round with her; after this, her head remains confused (ten days), [4]. ► Frequent nausea,
especially during the chills, [6]. ► Nausea, with rising of air, [4].
► Nausea and chilliness the whole day, [4]. ► Attack of nausea, with
headache, paleness of the face, want of appetite, several evacuations of the bowels,
loathing, subsequent inclination to vomit, creeping chilliness; after a walk he is obliged
to lie down (eleven days), [2]. [470.] ► Early in the morning,
faint-like nausea; after breakfast, relieved (nine days), [4].
► On waking in the morning, nausea, qualmishness, and
lassitude, with stickings over the eyes, and pain in the kidneys during motion (nine days), [4]. ► She wakes in the
morning with nausea and qualmishness at the stomach, and physical depression, as if sleep
had not recruited her, accompanied by a quick feverish pulse, with internal heat (three
days), [4]. ►
Violent nausea and tremor after supper, [1]. ► Disagreeable sensation of hunger and emptiness in the
stomach, without, however, much appetite, [1]. ► Violent pain in the stomach, with sensitiveness to external
pressure in the region of the stomach in the evening (six days), [3]. ► Pain at the stomach; it
feels full or bloated; painful to external touch; empty eructations and fermentations, or
loud rumbling and rollings in the abdomen, as of something working therein, after dinner
(one to five days), [3]. ►
After having eaten potatoes, the stomach aches; sick feeling, nausea, and then colic, [3]. ► Sensation of
coldness in the stomach, as if she had been drinking cold water, in the evening; also in the
forenoon, after an eructation, and while some eructations are continually taking place; in
the afternoon; it passes off (two to five days), [3]. ► Heartburn after drinking water, [1]. [480.] ► Heartburn after supper, [1].
► Heartburn, with profuse discharge of water from
the mouth, [2]. ►
Sensation of pinching at the stomach, in the afternoon (one day), [3]. ► Drawing pain at the
stomach, [1]. ►
After dinner, drawing in the stomach; this caused a sensation of tension in the whole body,
which made her so tired that she was obliged to lie down, [1].
► Gnawing in the region of the stomach, awhile after
dinner (two to three days), [5]. ►
Pressure and constriction in the region of the stomach (thirty-one days), [2]. ► Pressure and soreness
transversely across the stomach and upper abdomen, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Disagreeable pressure in
the region of the stomach before the evacuations had taken place (nine days), [2]. ► Oppression at the stomach
upon eating, although she eats with relish, [4]. [490.] ► Oppression at the
stomach, extending up to the throat, after having eaten potatoes; eructations relieves, in
the morning (eight days), [3]. ►
Oppression in the stomach, towards noon or evening, [2],
[3]. ► Griping in
the pit of the stomach, in the evening, when in bed, [1].
► Drawing pain from the pit of the stomach, up into the
pharynx, with difficult breathing, [1]. ► Violent pressure at the pit of the stomach, and from thence
great oppression of the chest; she was obliged to stand still every moment, and was unable
to walk further, [4]. ►
Sensation of pressure and constriction at the pit of the stomach, extending into the chest
and between the scapulæ (thirteen days), [2]. ► Pressure and crawling at the pit, as from a worm (after two
hours), [3]. ►
Twisting and constriction in the region of the stomach, extending into the chest and throat,
attended with difficult breathing, [2], [3]. ► Sensation of cutting in the
region of the stomach; it is painful to the touch, in the afternoon (two days), [3]. ► Stitches in the
pit of the stomach and of the chest, [1]. [500.] ►
After dinner, stitches in the stomach and chest, coming out at the shoulder, with short
breathing and great anguish; for several hours in the evening (after twelve days), [3]. ► After an
evacuation, and during the period of digestion, he experiences a sense of scraping in the
stomach and the mouth, [1]. ►
Ulcerative soreness at the pit of the stomach, early in the morning, on turning in the bed, [1]. ► Tearing sore pain
from the pit of stomach down into the abdomen, as if everything would be torn out, [1].

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