APIS.
GENERALITIES.
► Actual
swelling, or “puffing up,” of the whole body, without any noticeable change of
color, except in the face, [1], (E. U. J.). ► (No blood, when venesection is attempted), [1]. ► The blood let from a young,
healthy woman, five minutes after she was stung, was colorless, and only red in the centre
of the vessel, [1]. [750.]
► Twitching of the muscles, [1], (A. R. M.). ► Jactitation of
the muscles, [1], (A. R. M.). ►
Trembling, [1]. ►
Stretching, [12]. ►
She was found to be in a spasm, generally tonic, but in a measure clonic; her knees were
drawn up to her breast, and her hands and arms moved convulsively, [1], (J. P. D). ► Convulsions, [1]. ► The whole nervous
system seemed most violently affected, [1]. ► Terrified starting during evening sleep, [12]. ► Excessive irritability of
the nerves, [18]. ►
The sting instantly strikes through his whole frame, like an electric shock, thrilling both
ends of his fingers and toes, [1], (A. R. M.). ► Restlessness; would constantly like to go from one place to
another, [18]. [760.]
► An extraordinary restlessness overcomes him in the
afternoon, with as much exhaustion as if he had done very hard manual labor. (After smelling
the bee poison, when gathering a swarm), [13]. ► Nervous restlessness, [1].
► Nervous restlessness, during the latter half of the
night, [2]. ►
Nervous restlessness; she did not know what to do with herself, so that tears came to her
eyes, [1]. ► Bodily
unrest, as if after hard work, [13]. ► General lameness, especially in the lower limbs (humble-bee),
[24]. ► *Tired, as if
bruised in every limb, especially in the back, as one feels in the morning, after exertion;
especially perceptible on rising after sitting, must stretch himself even in the
street (after six hours), [9]. ►
*General feeling of lassitude (second day), [3]. ►► *General feeling of lassitude, with trembling, [3]. ► For several days, totally unfitted for labor of any kind, [1], (E. U. J.). [770.] ► Frequent loss of all strength with a trembling sensation, [15]. ► Great weakness at
intervals, [9]. ►
Attack of weakness, during which she grows dizzy (evenings, third day), [12]. ► So weak directly, that he
was obliged to lie down, and lost his consciousness (after a sting in the middle finger), [1]. ► During continual
diarrhœa, weakness increases, and headache diminishes, [13].
► Scarcely able to walk; staggering, [1], (A. R. M.). ► Truly
distressing prostration and lassitude, [1]. ► With all the rest of the symptoms, a constant feeling of
lassitude and great prostration, [13]. ► Much prostration, [1],
(A. R. M.). ► Sudden prostration, with coldness, [1], (A. R. M.). [780.] ► Great prostration for several days, [1]. ► Sudden prostration of the
vital forces (shortly after), [1], (E. E. M.). ► Sudden prostration of the vital forces; severe vomiting;
profuse diarrhœa; cold extremities; pale face; severe griping pains in the abdomen; pulse
weak, scarcely perceptible at the wrist. (From a sting on the eyebrow), [1]. ► Prostration and depression
(soon), [13]. ► Heavy
and prostrate in fever, [10]. ► Was obliged to be led into the house; threw himself on the
bed; unable to hold himself up, [1]. ► Without feeling either weakness or faintness, she is yet
suddenly compelled to lie down on the ground, [1]. ► Sinks quite exhausted at stool, [1]. ► Felt as if dying, nor could
he describe the feeling in any other language, [1],
(E. U. J.). ► Must lie down, he feels so unwell, [1]. ► Must lie down, [1]. [790.] ► Lies down, but rises again to go to the neighboring brook;
after a few steps, dies, [1]. ►
Goes home and lies down; wants his red face bathed; wants to be raised up; asks for water;
lips are cold; he dies, ten minutes after the sting of an humble-bee, in the temple, [1]. ► Faintness, [1], [2]. ► Fainting; trembling, [1].
► Faintness (wasp), [1].
► Faintness, with nausea, [1].
► He felt very strangely in an instant; it seemed to him
as if he were going to faint. He asked for water just before death (after a sting in septum
of nose), [1]. ► A
faint and deathly feeling came over him, [1], (E. U.
J.). ► Faintness, deathlike prostration, which continued
half an hour, accompanied with intense anxiety and distress at the stomach, oppression of
the chest, dyspnœa, short, rapid breathing, pulse accelerated, [1], (A. R. M.). ► Fainting and
twitchings, when the pains are violent, [1]. [800.] ► She
falls down, [1], (B.). ►
She staggered and fell, [1], (J. P. D.). ► Fell to the ground and died in a few minutes, [1]. ► My flesh was as sensitive
as if cut with many lancets (next day, after many stings), [1].
► Sensitive to steel points that are directed towards
her; it seems to her as if the skin in the glabella were being drawn up towards the
forehead, [18]. ► *The
whole surface of the body becomes exceedingly sensitive to the touch; every hair is painful
when touched (6th dil.), [2]. ► *Skin extremely sensitive to contact; painful to the
slightest touch; could not bear the sheet upon him, [1],
(A. R. M.). ► Numbness over the whole body, at once, [1]. ► A very strange
feeling, which she could not define (in the minutes), [1],
(J. P. D.). ► Violent pain, [1]; for days, [1]. [810.] ► Screamed aloud at
great pain, that increased with intense rapidity (directly after the sting of a wasp), [1]. ► Sensation in whole
body, as if everything were too large, [1]. ► Sensation as if crushed over the whole body, on the sides,
hips, back, in short, everywhere; with restlessness all night, and loose, urgent stool,
mornings. (From several pellets of the 6th, taken evenings, on account of great warmth; the
same symptoms are repeated in the same order, three times, after similar doses), [2]. ► Felt very sore
from head to foot (after first day), [1], (J. P. D.). ► Bruised sensation all over; sides, hips, back, in fact, he
ached everywhere (after reaction), [1], (E. E. M.). ► Trembling sensation, with heat, [11].
SKIN.
► Desquamation of the
whole surface of the skin (wasp), [1]. ► Inflammatory swelling of the whole body; the right eye
entirely, the left almost closed; cheek and nose level; the lower cheek hung down upon the
breast; the breast was like a great loaf, [1]. ► *Rapid, considerable swelling, [1]. ► *Swelling of the whole body,
[1]. [820.] ► Spreading, inflammatory swelling (humble-bee), [24]. ► Inflammatory swelling till
death, [1]. ►
Painful, red swelling, [1]. ►
*Diffuse inflammation of the cellular tissues, ending in their destruction, [1]. ► *Swelling and an erysipelatous
redness, [1]. ►
*Sharp pain and erysipelatous swelling, very hard and white in the middle, [1]. ► From 1 to 4,
mornings, tension and swelling in the face and lips, [18].
► Hand, arm, face, and head, swell considerably (after a
sting in the middle finger), (wasp), [1]. ► Face, neck, breast, and limbs considerably swollen, [1]. ► Swelling of the
whole left side of the body (side of the sting, in the testicle), first in the joints, [1]. [830.] ► Blotches on the body, and on the back of the hand, with
stinging as of nettles, [3]. ►
*Body covered with large wales, size of a silver half dollar, slightly elevated and white
(C. C. C.), [1]. ►
The whole body covered with red spots, as if scalded, with burning and sticking (after a
sting in the neck), [1]. ►
*Red and white blotches over the body and extremities like nettlerash, [1], (A. R. M.). ► Red
place near the sting, with swelling on the stung spot, and red stripes along the fingers and
the arms, [1]. ►
Erysipelatous redness of the toes, [2]; and the feet, [15]. ► Redness of the
stung spot; not till later, when the attacks were improving, [1].
► Red lines along the lymphatic vessels, from a sting in
the middle finger and the arm (wasp), [1]. ► Over the whole body, the most violent inflammation and
excessive pressure when rubbing; covered with small white spots, resembling mosquito-bites, [1]. ► Large, florid
blotches appeared upon the skin, resembling erysipelas. This lasted for something over an
hour, but was essentially relieved by a solution of borax, [1],
(S. D.). [840.] ►
Rash; red blotches, with great sensitiveness of the skin to contact. This sensitiveness
extended all over the body, [1], (A. R. M.). ► Spots of the size of a dollar swell up, without changing the
color of the skin, and become uncommonly sensitive to the touch, as if sore (θ and 1st), [2].
► Sudden, indescribable sensation over the whole body,
with a stinging feeling; red and white spots on the palms, on the arms and feet, [1]. ► Her whole body was
covered with thickly swelled wales, without itching or burning; whereupon other symptoms
disappeared, [1]. ►
Light-red, raised, hard swelling of the sting, and a chilly sensation around it (wasp), [1]. ► *Elevations on the
skin, as after the bite of insects, painfully sore, sensitive to touch, [2]. ► Small elevations
on the skin, as after the bites of ants, appear at the extreme end, over the left eyebrow,
pain as if sore, and are very sensitive to pressure (third day), [2]. ► In a few minutes after the
cessation of the spasms, there appeared all over her body and limbs, and even on her ears, a
red eruption; some of the elevations in circumference the size of a pea, but generally like
millet-seed. This eruption continued visible for an hour, and was very itchy while passing
away, [1], (J. P. D.). ►
With swelling of the face, and the whole body, he is covered with a kind of urticaria, that
is somewhat paler than the usual color of the skin, [1].
► *Itching and appearance of blotches, like nettlerash, after
scratching, [1], (B.). [850.] ► *Eruption, like
nettlerash, over the whole body, with burning and itching (second day, after 30th
dil.), [3]. ►
*Nettlerash over the whole body, and lessening of the previous symptoms, [1]. ► *Nettlerash after
fever, [1]. ►
Very soon, a dense nettlerash over the whole body, that itched very much, and disappeared
after a good sleep, [1]. ►
Nettlerash (appeared a week after the sting; the symptoms had disappeared), [1], (C. C. C). ► Sensitive
pimples, (B.). ► Red pimply eruption, covering the entire
body, but more evident and thicker upon his chest and back than upon his face and limbs, [1], (E. U. J.). ► Tetter
on the lobe of the ear, [12]. ►
Eruption around the lips, [2]. ►
Inflammation, violent pains, and gangrene, [1]. [860.] ► Pain of the sting
seemed to penetrate deeply, and as if a hook were being drawn out there (wasp), [1]. ► Violent sensation
of burning like fire, in the seat of the sting (wasp), [1].
► *Sensation of burning heat and stinging, in various
portions of the surface of the body, at the same time, [4]. ► Vivid, stinging pain,
swelling and inflammation, [1]. ►
Over the whole body, from head to foot, as if he were being stung by insects, so that it
prevented him from sleeping all night, [20]. ► Stinging, prickling, burning, smarting, itching sensation,
all over the skin, [1], (E. E. M.). ► Stitch, as from an insect, and then swelling, [18]. ► Throbbing in the swelling,
[1]. ► Prickling over
the whole body, externally and internally, [1].
► Prickling all over the body, most on the back
and palms of the hands, the face, forehead, and under the eyes; chiefly in circumscribed
points (directly after taking the 6th dil.), [2], [5]. [870.] ► Prickling over the whole body, as after the sting (lasting
one to two weeks, returning after every exertion), [1].
► Intense burning itching all over his body, so
severe that he retired to his room, and rubbed himself vigorously with his flesh brush
(almost immediately), [1], (E. U. J.). ► *Burning itching in several places, [9]. ► Burning itching places,
here and there, especially on the back (second day), [9].
► *Itching pricking in the skin in different parts of the
body, more on the lower extremities, and continued through the day (first day), [3]. ► In evening, an
intolerable itching, attended with a burning, fiery sensation, commencing in the arms, and
finally spreading over the whole surface of the body, reaching to the feet, [1], (S. D.). ► Itching
over the whole body (humble-bee), [24]. ► The most violent itching, like pricking with needles, so that
his whole body had to be rubbed with cloths, [1]. ► Itching over various parts, especially on head and fingers
(humble-bee), [24]. ►
Itching on the head, [11]; on the forehead and face, [2]; about the eye, [2];
and about the eyebrows, [15]; the lids, [2], [3], [6], [15]. [880.] ► In the canthi, [2], [15]; in the eye,
[2]; on the nose, [12];
on the back, [2]; on the
hands, [1], [2],
[11]; the palms, [11];
fingers, [24]; on the thighs, [11]; the knees, [9]; the lower
limbs, [3]. ►
Violent itching of the tensively swelled scrotum, [1].
► Itching of eruptions, [2];
the bunches on the joints, [1]. ►
Stinging itching on the posterior surface of the right thigh, like flea-bites; directly
after, the same on the right arm; better after scratching, afternoon, [11]. ► Itching of the feet, [12]. ► The itching is
relieved by friction, [1], (E. U. J).
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Inclination to yawn, [6]; mornings (fourth or fifth
day), [11]. ► Must
yawn much, and is often sleepy; she feels the least interruption of her morning sleep all
day (third and fourth week), [11]. ► Yawning, chilliness, headache, [11].
► Yawning in uterine hemorrhage, [2]. [890.] ►
Much yawning after rising in the morning, although she had slept long enough (second day), [11]. ► Great inclination to
sleep; still he walks a tenth of a mile, [1].
►► *Great desire to sleep, amounting to most extreme
sleepiness, [13]. ►
Desire for rest and sleep, but they compelled him to move about (wasp), [1]. ► When the other symptoms
diminished again, the prostration, with great desire to sleep, remained, [13]. ► *Very sleepy, early in the
evening (second day), [9]. ► Sleepiness, prostration, and vomiting of bile, [13]. ► Very drowsy
mornings; will not rise; back as if beaten; must extend and stretch himself; is confused in
the head (second day), [12]. ►
She fell asleep while sitting, evenings, and started several times at a noise (after one
hour), [12]. ► They
sleep very long, mornings, for several weeks (with many), (C. Hg.). [900.] ► Too
much sleep (from second to third day), [11]. ► Frequent waking during the night, [1], [3]; to pass urine, [1], [23]. ► Awaking four times from sleep at night, with great thirst for
cold water, [13]. ►
*Anxious starting in sleep, with some cough, [12].
► Sleeplessness, [1].
► Was kept awake and restless during the whole night, by
loose, urgent stools, [1], (E. E. M.). ► Nervous restlessness all night, that prevents sleep, [2]. ► Nervous
restlessness, especially during the latter half of the night, [15].
► Fidgety restlessness in the latter part of the night
(third day, 2d dilution), [2]. ►
Very restless sleep; inclination to frequent awaking during the night, and incessant dreaming, [1]. [910.] ► Has not the least
enjoyment from sleep, it seems to him as if his brain had no rest at all, either day or
night, [15]. ► A
burning pain under the left ribs at night, preventing sleep, [17].
► Stitches in the skin, preventing sleep, as if from in
sects, [20]. ►
Awakes from tension in the face at night, [18]. ► Boring in the temples when awaking, [3]; pressive pain, [2]. ► The symptoms of the sting improve after sleep, [1]. ► Night-sleep full of dreams
(third day); still the same, mostly of travelling (eleventh day), 2d dilution, [2], [5]; repeated at
every proving, [2]. ►
Sensation as of movement from place to place, mostly travelling by railroad, [3]. ► Dreams mostly of journeys, [2]; long distances, [11].
► Often dreams of flying far through the air, [15]. [920.] ► Dream that he made journeys in great leaps through the air,
like a bird, [1]. ►
Feels like a bird in the air; takes great leaps in his dreams, [1]. ► Plagues himself in dreams
all night, with a flying apparatus; tries to arrange the wings, which, however, will not
work, [15]. ►
Dreams of a great, hot stove; was obliged to walk over a hot floor; also, on dirty, wet
roads for a very long distance; them he came to a dinner-table where many people were
assembled (first day), [11]. ►
Frequent waking first night, and dreams, with vexatious care about various kinds of
business, [3]. ►
Dreams of a tormenting, active kind, full of care and toil, [15].
► Dreams of many people who are quarrelling; one among
them, who becomes nearly beside himself, he leads from the room by the arm, whereby he is
calmed (humble-bee), [24]. ►
Disagreeable dreams about fiends, [3]. ► Dreams she has pain in the abdomen and diarrhœa (first
night), [12]. ► A
young man dreams that he is a girl (R. Brauns).® 2000
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