BELLADONNA.
MIND.
► Emotions, Rage, and
Fury. ► *Anger, proceeding even to paroxysms of
conclusive rage, [215]. ► *She tosses about in her bed in a perfect rage, [65]. ► *Rage: the boy does
not know his parents, [71]. [Made up of S.
1409 and 42. of Hahnemann’s pathogenesis.] ► [Rage; he
injures himself and others, and beats about him], [40]
(Case 12). ► *He bit at whatever came before him, [60]. ►► *Inclination
to bite those around them, [29]. ► [He tries to bite those standing about him, at night], [40] (Case 18). ► *Instead of
eating what he had asked for, he bit the wooden spoon in two, gnawed the plate,
and growled and barked like a dog, [60]. ►► She attempted to bite and strike her attendants, broke into
fits of laughter, and gnashed her teeth. The head was hot, the face red, the look wild and
fierce, [186]. [10.]
►► *Inclination to bite those about him, and to tear
everything about him to pieces, [29]. ►► *Inclination to tear everything about them to pieces,
[29]. ►► *She
tears her nightdress and bedclothes, [65]. ► [He tears everything about him, bites and spits], [65]. ► [He strikes his
face with his fists], [40] (Case 12). ► They stammered out violent language, [29]. ►► *Fury, [79], [69]. ►► *Raging violent fury, [1]. ►► *Furious delirium,
[86], [231]. ►► *Fury; she pulled at the hair of the bystanders, [55]. [20.] ► The forcible administration of fluid medicine makes her
furious, [17]. ►
[*Fury, with grinding of teeth and convulsions], [56].
►► *Such fury (with burning heat of the body and open,
staring, and immovable eyes) that she had to be held constantly, lest she should attack some
one; and when thus held, so that she could not move, she spat continually at those about her,
[17]. ► Mania.
► Mania, in which the patient was often very merry, sang
and shouted; then again spit and bit, [32]. ► Madness; in his exceeding restlessness he jumped on the
table, bed, and stove, [120]. ►
Violent madness; the children scratched themselves with their nails, [127]. ► Insanity, [44]. ► Insanity, with various
gesticulations, [44]. ►
He is beside himself, raves, talks much about dogs, and his arm and face swell, [60]. ► *Insanity; they
stripped themselves, and, clad only in their shirts, ran out into the streets in broad
daylight, gesticulating, dancing, laughing, and uttering and doing many absurd things,
[28]. [30.] ► Crazy fits, with great loquacity or absolute speechlessness,
or with absurd buffoonery, fantastic gestures, and improper behavior, [215]. ► *Left the house and stripped
themselves naked; one woman went into the fields to work, at night; another went
into the street before the house to dust and sweep; another, with excited singing, cut open
the pillows, and scattered the feathers about the yards and street; another went naked to
the neighbors to caress the men, [232]. ► *The paroxysms of madness were occasionally interrupted by loud
laughing and grinding of the teeth; the head was hot,
the face red, the look wild and staring; pulse small,
and very frequent; pupils dilated; the arteries of the
neck and head visibly pulsating; pulse full, hard, and frequent, [128]. ► She did foolish things,
tore her clothes, pulled stones out of the ground and threw them at the passers-by, [65]. ► He took a piece
of bread for a stone, and threw it far away, laughing violently and running about the room, [113]. ► Ridiculous
gestures; she feels after those about her; now she seats herself; now she acts as if she
were washing or counting money, or as if she were drinking, [42].
► [He claps the hands, wags the head to either side,
while stringy saliva hangs down from the lips], [40]
(Case 22). ► [She claps the hands together over the head,
with a short, very violent cough, which threatened suffocation at night], [40] (Case 22). ► *He talks like a
maniac with staring, protrude eyes, [20]. ► Delirium. ►►
*Delirium, [46]. [40.]
► Delirium (mother and child, within an hour), [228]. ► Continued
delirium, [234]. ►
Constant delirium, [46]. ►
*Rambling delirium, [81], [56], [31], [30], [21], [57]. ► Idle musing; raving;
delirium, with illusions of the senses, [215]. ► Delirium, returning by paroxysms, [16]. [Not found.] ► *Delirium, either
continuous or recurring in paroxysms, mirthful at first, but subsequently changing to fury,
[73]. ► Delirium;
she lay upon on side, the head bent forward, and the knees drawn up, gesticulating
violently, and murmuring unintelligible words, [225]. ► *Very delirious; she would persist that there were very horrid
monsters all over the room, staring at her, [135].
► Wildly delirious, but quite fantastic, almost
hysterical, laughing, crying, and not at all conscious, [183].
[50.] ► During the
delirium, loud screaming, cries, and laughing, [234]. ► *Delirium; the boy jumped out of
bed, talked a great deal, was lively, and often laughed;
consciousness was entirely gone; he did not recognize his parents, [113]. ► Delirium; the child is
very restless, talks confusedly, runs, jumps, laughs convulsively; face purple; pulse
accelerated; the look very much changed; he has fever (after one hour), [128]. ►► *In the evening he was
seized with such violent delirium that it required three men to confine him. His face was
lived; his eyes injected and protruding, the pupils strongly dilated; the carotid arteries
pulsating most violently; a full, hard, and frequent pulse, with loss power to swallow,
[193]. ► The
delirium was of a busy, restless, vivid character, but generally rather pleasing than
otherwise. The patients appeared to think they were pursuing their ordinary occupations; one
boy appeared eager in flying a kite, another pulled tables and chairs about, thinking he was
working in a coal-pit, and a woman appeared to be remarkably busy with her household duties.
All their movements were of a quick excited character, strikingly resembling delirium
tremens, [187]. ►
The delirium was attended with phantasms, and in this respect resembled that caused by
alcohol, but the mind did not run on cats, rats, and mice, as in the case of drunkards.
Sometimes the phantasms appeared to bed in the air, and various attempts were made to catch
them or chase them with the hands; at other times they were supposed to be on the bed. One
patient (a woman) fancied the sheets were covered with cucumbers, [189]. ► His delirium would now be
of a merry, now of a quarrelsome character; sometimes he would see figures which he tried to
catch, etc., [137]. ►
The slight delirium that followed the action of the narcotic was of a strange, yet not
unpleasant, kind. The intellectual operations at times were very vivid. Thoughts came and
went, and ludicrous and fantastic spectacles were always uppermost in my mind. I was
conscious that my language and gesticulations were extravagant, yet I had neither the power
nor will to do otherwise than I did; and, notwithstanding my bodily malaise, my mind was in
a state of delightful exhilaration, [178]. ► She complained first of “a sensation of madness in her
brain,” then suddenly lost the power of speaking and swallowing, and fell into a
comatose state. The head was bent forward on the chest, eyes closed, breathing heavy and
stertorous, pupils widely dilated, hands and feet cold, pulse scarcely perceptible, jaws
firmly fixed. After rousing, appeared conscious when spoken to, but could not answer.
Soporose throughout the day, speech gradually returning. (Second day.) Has passed a restless
night, sleep being much disturbed by frightful dreams; complains of
intense pain in the head, and says that it feels enormously large; great intolerance of light and nose. At noon, very delirious, and would persist that there were horrid monsters all over
the room staring at her. (Third day.) Head much relieved after leeching. Passed a
restless night, her sleep, she says, being disturbed by “miserable phantoms.” From
this point gradual amendment took place, [185]. ► Soon after the spasms, delirium (in which, however, the
patient knew his doctor), [238]. [60.] ► Delirium, with
fierceness, [47]. ►►
*Delirium and heat, [16]. ► Violent delirium, alternating with lethargy; the boy appeared
very much heated, [119]. ►
*Excited and delirious, with violent motion of the arms and legs, increasing to a raging
delirium, [235]. ►
At times he is delirious, at times he answers rightly when questioned, and bemoans himself, [31]. ► She mutters like
one asleep, [42]. ►
Senseless talk, [31], [20],
[40] (Case 5). ►
Continual senseless chattering and laughter (after half an hour), [104]. ► Speech loud,
disconnected, [223]. [70.]
► [*Delirious talking; obscene], [40] (Case 11). [See S. 864.] ►
She spoke constantly and rapidly, talking nonsense, [66].
► Speaks in broken sentences and deliriously, [240]. ► *Her mind was
disordered, so that speech did not correspond to thought, nor thought to sense, nor sense to
the objects present, [37]. ► Her heightened but deluded fancy conjures up before her a
multitude of beautiful images, [9]. ► The boy’s fancy was very active, but he passed quickly from
one idea to another; they were mostly of a lively character, relating to his plays, [118]. ► Hallucinations
and confusion of mind, [91]. ►
Hallucinations, with vertigo, [122]. ► Hallucinations, with great restlessness; she did not know the
bystanders; she laughed out, [222]. ► *He imagined he saw things not present, [80], [236]. [80.] ► Groped for things
which did not exist, [237]. ►
He imagines he sees birds flying off through the chimney, and wishes to follow them by the
same route, [229]. ►
[Delirious talk of dogs, as if they swarmed about him], [48]. ► Talks of wolves being in
the room; with full pulse, [41]. ►
He looked about; he talked about mice and other dark-colored
animals which he saw, [233]. ►
Visions of wolves, dogs, giants, and fire, [215]. ► At the height of the poisoning, the woman was in a state very
closely resembling that so often seen in delirium tremens. Excessive terror was painted on
her countenance, and she responded to all questions by pointing with a trembling finger to
swarms of unclean beasts, which she fancied were scrabbling all over the walls, beds, table,
etc., of the wards (from 5 grains used as a suppository), [196].
► Fancied he saw ghosts and animals in the fire, [237]. ► He imagines he
sees ghosts and various insects, [98]. ► He imagines he is riding on an ox, or some such thing, [41]. [90.] ► It seems to her that her nose is transparent, and a spot on
the left side of the head transparent and colored brown, [9].
► [He raves as in a dream, and cries he must go home,
because everything is burning up there], [40] (Case
21). [These two symptoms are taken from the following: “On December 6th, raved in his
sleep; he cried out, ‘All is on fire at home; it is necessary that I should return
there.'”] ► Lying in bed in the evening, it appears
to him as if he were floating away with his couch; ten evenings in succession, he imagined,
immediately after lying down, that he was floating in his bed, [5]. ► Lively and playful the next
morning, apparently well, but completely unconscious, so that when he was offered a piece of
bread he thought it was a stone, and threw it from him, [221].
►► *He sought continually to spring out of bed,
[30]. ►► *When
put into bed, he sprang out again in delirium, talked constantly, laughed out, and exhibited
complete loss of consciousness; did not know his own parents (this lasted the whole night), [221].
► *In his delirium he threw himself down from a height,
[21], [22]. ► She jumped into the water, [66].
► *In his delirium he picked at the bedclothes and threw them
off, and sought continually to spring out of bed,
[30]. ► Condition
resembling constant intoxication, [215]. [100.] ►
Intoxication, [1]. ►
State of joyous intoxication; she danced and jumped about in such a way that the neighbors
thought she had been drinking, [239]. ► State of intoxication, with disturbed vision and difficult
speech; he imagines that he cannot move his tongue (after five hours), [239]. ► As if drunk, immediately
after a meal, [1]. ►
Directly after a meal, as if intoxicated (after six and a half hours), [11]. ► Intoxication immediately
after drinking the least quantity of beer, [1]. ► Great excitement; mow he sings, now scolds, while the limbs
are in constant motion, [137]. ►
Various gesticulations, [44]. ►
(She makes preparations for returning home), [40]
(Case 21). ► A tailor was poisoned with a Belladonna
injection, and for fifteen hours, though speechless and insensible to external objects, went
through all the customary operations of his trade with great vivacity, and moved his lips as
if in conversation, [197]. [110.]
► He performs foolish ridiculous tricks (after one to
eight hours), [1]. ►
The speech was more incoherent in the evening, [15]. ► [Nightly delirium, which is absent during the day], [40] (Case 7). ►
[Incoherent ravings at night; during the day he is in his right mind], [40] (Case 16). ► The delirium
ceases after a meal, [5]. ►
Talkativeness, [233], [235].
► Constant unintelligible talking, [238]. ► *Garrulity; he constantly
uses foolish and absurd language, at which he often laughs aloud; when addressed he turns
toward the speaker, but does not answer correspondingly (after half an hour), [136]. ► Great garrulity,
with a silly unmeaning smile and laugh, [115]. ► Garrulity, unlike his usual mood, with squinting and
extremely stupid expression, [123]. ► Desires and Aversions. [120.]
► Takes pleasure only in voluptuous ideas, [215]. ► Inclination to violent
exercise and rapid travelling, [215]. ► Fondness for games of chance, [215].
► Love of solitude, aversion to society, and dislike to
conversation, [215]. ►
Dread of solitude, of ghosts and thieves, [215]. ► Not inclined to talk; he desires solitude and quiet; every
noise and the visits of others are disagreeable to him, [7].
► She abhorred all liquids, and acted frightfully, bit
the jaws tightly together, and raved so that she was obliged to be tied down, [108]. ► Aversion to all fluids,
so that she demeaned herself frightfully at the sight of them, [17]. ► Abhorrence of all liquids;
he would scream violently as soon as a spoon or glass containing liquid was brought to his
lips, would convulsively set his teeth together, and, if forced to swallow some, violent
general convulsions would immediately occur, [118]. ► Moods. ► The
expression and actions denoted uncommon cheerfulness; with incessant senseless talking, [130]. [130.] ► Merry craziness, [67]. ► In the evening, the boy was uncommonly lively and cheerful;
he laughed, screamed, sang, and quarrelled in a loud voice, but very soon became sick, and
vomited, [137]. ►
Unrestrained and exuberant mirth; inclined to quarrel without cause, and disposed to laugh
in an annoying manner, [6]. ►
Very mirthful mood; he is inclined to sing and whistle (in the evening, after thirteen
hours), [14]. ►
Great mirthfulness after supper; the vital powers were increased to an extraordinary degree
for a quarter of an hour, after which came drowsiness, [12].
► Frequent laughter, [40]
(Case 5). ► Loud laughter, [37],
[29], [44], [57]. ► Constant loud
laughter, [23]. ►
Involuntary, almost loud, laughter, without having any laughable thoughts, [13]. ► Stupid laughter and merry
delirium, [236]. [140.]
► She laughs a long time with herself, [40] (Case 5). ► Continual
laughter, whereby the subjects jumped high up, from emotions of wild joy, danced, made the
most remarkable gesticulations, and performed different motions of the body with the
greatest rapidity and dexterity (after one hour), [112].
► [She breaks out into loud laughter, sings, and touches
things near her], [40] (Case 17). ► [Laughing and singing, she touches objects around her the
whole day], [46] (Case 22). ►
Singing, [233]. ►
He sings and warbles, [57]. ►
Singing and loud talking in sleep, [1]. ► [Weeping], [29]. ► Very excited mood; she is readily brought to weep, [2]. ► Violent weeping,
whimpering, and howling without cause, accompanied with timorousness, usually within twelve
hours, [1]. [150.]
► Weeping and extreme ill-humor on awaking out of sleep, [1]. ► In the intervals
free from spasms, she utters the most violent cries, as if she were suffering great pain, [37]. ► Dejected,
despondent, [19]. [Not found.] ►
She is so anxious and confused that she fears she is about to die, [72]. ► Anxiety and inquietude, [30]. ► Very anxious and
timorous, [12]. ► *By
day, great anxiety; she has no peace anywhere; it seemed to her as if she must flee away,
[1]. ► *Anxiety,
anguish, trembling, constant restlessness; groans, cries, and weeping, especially
in the afternoon and at night, [215]. ► Anxiety during the menses, [50].
► Much anxiety, followed in an hour by perspiration, [43]. [160.] ► In her momentary lucid intervals she complains of intolerable
anguish, so that she wishes to die, [17]. ► In walking in the open air, she is overwhelmed with tearful
anguish; she is weary of life, and inclines to drown herself, [1].
► [She begs the bystanders to kill her], [40] (Case 22). ► Tearful
timidity, [1]. ►
Timid mistrust, [1]. ►
Cowardice, distrust, suspicion, inclination to run away, [215].
► He starts in affright very readily, especially when any
one approaches him, [13]. ►
Events which had been previously anticipated with pleasure appeared to him in an anxious
light; he thought them fearful and dreadful, [13]. ► *Timorous insanity; he is afraid of an imaginary black dog,
of the gallows, etc.; more in the first twelve hours than afterwards, [1]. ► On seeing a drink which was
offered him, he became very restless, the gesticulations and rolling of the eyes became more
violent, and the face assumed an expression of great fear, [137].
[170.] ► He feared
that death was near, [30]. ►
[*She is so anxious and confused that she fears she is about to die], [72]. ► [She tries to
strangle herself, and begs to bystanders to kill her, because she believes that she will
certainly die], [40] (Case 22). ►
[He tries to escape], [65]. ►
He escaped, under some pretext, into the open field, [60].
► *Extreme irritability of temper, [219]. ► The merest trifle
provokes and irritates him; he is dissatisfied with everything, [215]. ► Exceedingly irritable and
sensitive humor, with inclination to utter abusive language and to strike, [215]. ► Fretfulness; nothing
seemed right to him; he was vexed with himself, [5]. ► He was fretful about this and that, [1]. [180.] ►
Extremely morose and serious, [4]. ► Silent ill-humors (after eight hours); on the two following
days he was in his wonted mood; the day after that, however, his ill-humor returned, [7]. ► Whining ill-humor
about trifles, with headache as if a stone were pressing the forehead, [1]. ► Want of cheerfulness,
ill-humor, inclined to nothing, [1]. ► Extreme ill-humor after sleep; he bites those around him, [20]. ► He is very easily
made angry, even about trifles, [7]. ► Violent quarrelsomeness, which cannot be appeased, [1]. ► At times he is
delirious, at times he answers rightly when questioned, and bemoans himself, [31]. ► At one time he utters
ridiculous nonsense, at another he talks rationally, [1].
► After the talkativeness, dumbness, [20]. [190.] ► Hourly alternation of weeping and fretful humor, [1]. ► At first, sad,
weeping, which then passed into impatient and vehement howling (with chilliness), (after one
hour), [1]. ►
Sighing, alternating with jumping and dancing, [55]. ► Groaning, alternating with bursts of laughter, songs, and
gambols, [215]. ►
[At one time he hurriedly grasps at those standing near, at another he starts back in fear],
[65]. ►
Disinclination and indifference to everything; deficient activity of mind and body, [12]. ► Apathy; nothing
could make an impression on her; after some days there succeeds a very sensitive, fretful
mood, in which nothing gives her pleasure, [1]. ► Extreme indifference for hours; one could have taken her life
without affecting her, [9]. ►
Intellect, Thought. ► *Paroxysm of cerebral
exaltation, with abundance of ideas and images, generally fantastic and incoherent,
[215]. ► His
uncommon liveliness and readiness of thought, and the absence of his customary hypochondriac
moods, seemed remarkable to himself and the physician, [129].
[200.] ►
*He spoke rapidly and hastily, [119]. ► [Mental confusion], [70].
► Mental confusion, so that he knew not whether he was
dreaming or awake, [58]. ►
Confusion of mind; he imagined himself rich, owner of a large house, etc. (after a quarter
of an hour), [86]. ►
Confusion of mind, general trembling, transient heat of face (after half an hour), [104]. ► Confusion of
mind, with flickering before the eyes, [103]. ► Confusion of the senses; sleepy, yet awake, he imagines he is
dreaming, [58]. ►
Thoughts became disturbed and confused, [237]. ► Talked confusedly, [237].
► Speech slow and confused, [123]. [210.] ► Disordered consciousness, [43].
► First this occurred to him, and then that, he could not
think in an orderly manner, and forgot immediately whatever he thought or red about, [11]. ► His manner of
expression is incomplete; speech very difficult, [115].
► He sat lost, as one in a dream, [4]. ► Heedlessness and frequent
absence of mind, [215]. ►
Mental weakness, [79]. ►
Weakness of the mind and memory, [215]. ► Loss of understanding and memory, [215]. ► Stupidity, [74]. ► Irrationality, stupidity, [215]. [220.] ► Loss of the thinking faculty; one stupid, and like an idiot, [215]. ► Intellectual
obscuration, [238]. ►
Obtuseness of sense, [1]. ►
Impaired understanding for some weeks, [63]. ► Entire disappearance of intelligence, [20], [65]. ► He does not seem to know where he is, [238]. ► He paid no attention to
those about him, in fact, seemed unconscious of their presence; only now and then, when
addressed in a loud voice, he stared at the speaker for an instant, like one suddenly roused
from a sound sleep. The face was a little flushed (after eight hours), [188]. ► Disinclination to all
kinds of mental exertion, [4]. ►
Aversion and incapacity for all work, and especially for all efforts of thought, [215]. ► Memory. ► Lively memory (after twenty-four hours), [1]. [230.] ►
He remembers things long bygone, [80]. ► He remembers things which happened three years ago, [57]. ► Temporary return
of the lost memory, [40] (Case 5). ► Diminished memory, [1].
► Loss of memory, [237].
► Forgetfulness of what had taken place, [235]. ► His memory, for two or
three days after, was very defective, [188]. ► Memory very poor for two or three days; he remembered nothing
which took place after the doctor came, [238]. ► Very weak memory; he forgets in a moment what he was about to
do, and cannot recollect anything, [1]. ► Absence of mind; he is apt to do his business wrong, and
forgets things which he had just intended to do, [14].
[240.] ► During the
headache, disappearance of the thoughts; she forgets what she has just thought, and cannot
recollect herself, [2]. ►
He did not know his own relations, [79]. ► The boy does not recognize his parents, [130]. ► Insensibility. ► Insensibility, loss of consciousness, [13a], [73], [42], [37], [63], [30]. ► Insensibility to all external objects, [197]. ► Insensibility, rattling
breathing, and convulsive movements in the face and hands, [17].
► Entire insensibility, stiffness of the lower limbs,
extreme distension of the superficial bloodvessels, with strangely red, swollen countenance,
very full and rapid pulse, and excessive sweat, [17]. ► Complete loss of consciousness, [234]. ► Consciousness disappears;
he no longer recognizes his surroundings, and begins to rave (after half an hour), [136]. ► Loss of the
senses, [42], [37],
[63] (after two hours), [30],
[44]. ► [Loss of
the senses, with convulsions of the limbs], [20]. [250.] ► [Loss of
consciousness and convulsions of the arm, at night], [40]
(Case 14). ► Senselessness, as in intoxication, and a
kind of active delirium, [102]. ►
After a little time, loss of consciousness, with stertorous respiration, [230]. ► He lay four days without
taking any nourishment, motionless, like a dead person; he could not be roused, [62]. ► Lethargic,
apoplectic condition; for a day and a night they lay without any motion of the limbs; if
pinched by the bystanders, they opened their eyes, but uttered no sound, [74]. ► The patient’s manner was
apoplectic, and severe engorgement of the vessels was present. This state of partial coma
was alternated by paroxysms of uncontrollable tendency to motion and rapid automatic
movement, attended with convulsive laughter. No well-marked convulsions made their
appearance, although, during the brief intervals of sleep, a slight subsultus of the muscles
of the face and extremities was noted. ► A sort of coma,
with small, weak, unequal pulse, [19]. ► *Comatose condition, with rattling in the throat, very red face,
dilated pupils, convulsions of the upper extremities, very hot skin, with red spots on neck
and chest, and feverish pulse (after half an hour), [109]. ► Stupor and loss of
consciousness, [215]. [260.]
► Slight stupor or lethargy, [231]. ► Persistent stupor (after
five and a half hours), [239]. ►
Stupor, with violent convulsions of the extremities, [134].
► Stupefaction, [20],
[61], [74], [79]. ► Well-marked state
of stupefaction, [239]. ►
Very great stupefaction, [61]. ►
Profound stupefaction, which, at times, is interrupted by a shrill scream, betraying great
anxiety, [140]. ►
Stupefaction and vertigo, from congestion of the head, [129].
► He lies as if stupefied; rattling in the throat;
twitchings of face and hands (after half an hour), [107].
► Stupefaction; she lost consciousness, became restless,
and struck about forcibly (after hour hours), [126].® 2000
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