BELLADONNA.
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Hæmorrhoidal flow for several days, [1]. ► Hæmorrhoidal discharge of decomposed blood, even when not at
stool, [215]. ►
Sense of constipation, [219]. ►
*Squeezing, constrictive pain in the lowermost intestines, alternately with dull shoots or
jerks in the direction of the perineum (after thirty-six hours), [1]. ► Contractive pain in the
rectum, then ulcerative pain in the epigastrium; thereupon rapid evacuation of mucous diarrhœa;
lastly, tenesmus, [1]. ►
Pressing in the rectum towards the anus, [12]. ► *A sort of tenesmus, a constant pressing and urging towards the anus
and genitals, alternating with painful contractions of the anus (after twelve
hours), [1]. ►
Distinct, rapid, severe shootings in the rectum, during stool (after three hours), [1]. ► Raw feeling with
burning and constrictive pains in the rectum, [215]. [1470.] ► Voluptuous tickling
in the lower part of the rectum, [1]. ► Itching in the lower part of the rectum, [1]. ► Prolapsus ani during stool,
[215]. ►
Intolerable itching at the anus, [215]. ► Violent itching, and at the same time constrictive sensation
in the anus, [3]. ►
Itching at the anus externally, when walking in the open air, [1].
► Itching and moisture at the anus and perineum, [91].
STOOL.
► Urgent inclination
to go to stool, [215]. ►
Constant desire for stool, [1]. [1480.] ► Urging to stool, which
is thinner than usual, but passes in proper quantity, [7]. ► Urging to stool and colic, [36]. ► *Frequent urging to
stool, without result, or with a very scanty and hard evacuation, [7]. ► *Frequent urging to stool,
sometimes ineffectual, and with tenesmus, [215].
► Ineffectual urging to stool, followed by vomiting, [1]. ► *Straining to stool;
the evacuation is undoubtedly diarrhœic, but very little is voided, and immediately after
follows much-increased straining (after three hours), [13a]. ► First, a soft diarrhœic
stool; subsequently, however, frequent desire for stool, of which little or nothing comes, [14]. ► Frequent
evacuations, [111]. ►
Diarrhœa, [235]. ►
A times, diarrhœic evacuations, [91]. [1490.] ► When taken by the
mouth in poisonous doses, Belladonna sometimes causes diarrhœa, [194]. ► Copious and frequent
stools, [215]. ►
Very frequent small stool; one evacuation is hardly finished before an urging is felt for
another, [215]. ►
Small, loose stools, with sharp, stitching pain above the umbilicus (after one and
three-quarter hours), [217]. ►
Stools often with sweats and flow of urine, [215]. ► Frequent thin stools with tenesmus; frequent desire for
stool, obliging him to go every quarter of an hour (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► [Several watery stools,
immediately after profuse sweat], [49]. ► Frequent watery stools, studded with small white flocks, with
colics, cramps in the stomach and limbs, chills, headache, debility, and restlessness, [215]. ► An offensive,
greenish diarrhœa (after nineteen hours), [233]. ► Diarrhœa with dark discharges (second night), [230]. [1500.]
► Diarrhœa, inclination to vomit, and pressure at the
stomach, [40], (Case 14). ►
Diarrhœa, with pressure at the stomach, burning in the abdomen, and inclination to vomit, [215]. ► [Involuntary
passage of fæces], [40], (Case 22). ► Small, rapid, involuntary evacuations, [1]. ► Light-colored, rapid, and
involuntary stool, [215]. ►
Involuntary evacuation, temporary paralysis of the sphincter ani, [29]. ► Unusually diminutive
stool, only very small evacuations resulted for several days, [4].
► Stool somewhat less consistent than usual, and colored
greenish; this greenish color of the fæces was observed during the whole time of the
proving, [211]. ►
Pappy stools mixed with mucus, [4]. ► Soft, yellowish, greenish, brownish, or whitish stools, [215]. [1510.] ► Passage is considerably harder and more scanty than usual, [88]. ► Stool as white as
chalk, [76]. [Not found.] ►
A copious, fluid, greenish evacuation, [124]. ► Granular, yellow, somewhat mucous stool, [1]. ► [Greenish stool], [40], (Case 25). [Return of bile to stool; curative effect.]
► [Green stool, with profuse urine, and also with sweat],
[40], (Case 24). [See note to last S.] ► Green stool, fæces enveloped in reddish mucus (seventh day),
[211]. ► *Slimy and
bloody diarrhœic stools, [215]. ► Stools have a very sour smell, [1].
► Discharge of ascarides and lumbrici, with stool, [215]. [1520.] ► Torpid state of the bowels, [230].
► Evacuation slow and dry (after one hour), [92]. ► Delayed and
difficult, although soft stools, [215]. ► The passage is perceptibly retarded, [89], [118], [126], [129], [108], [119], [137], [135]. ► Suppression of fæces and urine, with profuse sweat, [17]. ► She discharge
neither fæces nor urine, but sweated extraordinarily, [108].
► (Constipation), [45].
► Constipation, [222].
► Constipation, with colic, uneasiness, and burning in
the abdomen, [215].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Bladder,
Kidneys, and Urethra. ► The bladder half
paralyzed, [203]. [1530.]
► His bladder was full of urine on admission (after nine
hours), [190]. ►
Pain in the region of the bladder; desire to urinate; only a few drops of urine were
evacuated by the catheter, [223]. ► Burning in the bladder, with frequent urination, especially
at night, [215]. ►
Sensation of turning and twisting in the bladder, as if from a large worm, without desire to
micturate, [1]. ►
*Tenesmus of the bladder, [238]. ► *Dull pressing in the vesical region during the night, [1]. ► Nephritic colic,
often accompanied with vomiting, [215]. ► Painful sensation on urinating and evacuation, for some time,
[109]. ► Irritation
in the urinary passages, especially the neck of the bladder, with strangury, and passage of
dark, bloody urine, with great heat; scarlet redness of skin, the whole body, palate, and
pharynx (after one hour), [117]. ►
Burning in the urethra and violent urging to urinate, without being able to pass any, [106]. [1540.] ► A long stitch in the urethra, which commenced in the bulb and
extended to the orifice, in walking (after three hours), [8].
► Between the acts of micturition, dull shootings in the
urethra behind the glans, especially during movement, [1].
► Raw pains in the urethra, with discharge of a few drops
of thick, yellowish mucus, and sometimes of blood, [215].
► Titillation in the urethral canal, with feeling as if a
sound was being turned round in it, [215]. ► Urination. ► No
inclination to pass water, [230]. ► Frequent desire to urinate, [222].
► *Very frequent desire to urinate, even if only a few drops
had accumulated, [89]. ► *Frequent desire to urinate, but the urine voided in remarkably
small quantities, although of a natural color, [3],
[4], [20], [40]. ► Urging to
urinate, but can only do so drop by drop, [215]. ► Frequent call to pass water, which yet could only be done
after a great effort and guttatim. ►
The urine was normal, and micturition caused no pain, [195].
[1550.] ► Violent
urgency to urinate, the urine, however, passed only with difficulty, in a small stream, [87]. ► Two hours later,
he was affected with extreme desire to micturate, though he could pass only a few drops of
perfectly colorless urine. From this time till he lost consciousness his desire to pass
urine was constant; wherever he could retire he did so, but succeeded in expelling from the
bladder, with considerable effort, only a few drops of colorless fluid, [188]. ► Frequent urinating, [123]. ► Frequent
micturition, obscuration of vision, and thirst in the morning, [40] (Case 14). ► Much urinating, [89]. ► Some urine passed
(after an enema) for the first time (after thirteen hours); twenty-four hours after this
urine excreted copiously, [185]. ►
Urine more copious than the drink taken would warrant, [46].
► Diuresis, [40]. ► (Belladonna is, indeed, in the truest sense of the word, a
diuretic, and more powerful, perhaps, than any other we possess). ►
One other fact relative to the effects of Belladonna is worthy of note, viz, its tremendous
diuretic power. I Have observed that it does not seem to reach the kidneys until it has been
some time in the stomach, and has exerted its specific influence upon the brain. But its
power over the secretion of urine is very great. I am confident I passed, in the course of
an hour, three pints of urine, accompanied with a slight strangury at the neck of the
bladder, [178]. [1560.]
► The diuretic effect of the drug now (after two and
three hours) began to be experienced, he patient evacuating an enormous quantity of limpid
urine, [177]. ►
[Frequent micturition of profuse urine], [65]. ► Frequent and copious emission of urine (after one hour), [138]. ► Frequent copious
emission of pale, diluted, watery urine, [37]. ► Frequent, rather scanty, discharge of thick, reddish-brown,
iridescent urine, [215]. ►
[Diuresis at night, with profuse sweat], [40]. ► [Diuresis, with the appearance of menstruation], [34]. ► Emission of urine
increased, and mostly involuntary, [130]. ► *He cannot retain his urine, [1].
► Involuntary micturition (in three children), [19]. [1570.] ► Involuntary emission of urine (in three children), [118]. ► [Involuntary
emission of urine; temporary paralysis of the neck of the bladder], [29]. ► The urine
continued to flow involuntarily without interruption, and was like clear spring-water,
without smell. When one attempted to catch the urine in a chamber, the patient took the
vessel, and held it off with one hand outside the bed, while with the other he held his
penis, and continued to urinate, [129]. ► Unconscious emission of urine while in a stupor, [140]. ► *His urine escaped
from him during a deep sleep in the daytime, [1].
► Involuntary urination, often at night and during sleep,
[215]. ► After
urinating, cold sweat all over the body, [215]. ► The urine became more scanty, and passed with exertion
(after one hour), [92]. ►
*Diminished urine, [220]. ► Remarkable diminution in the urinary excretion, [89], [137]. [1580.] ► *The urine was scanty
for the first twenty-four hours, [180]. ► Anuria in two cases, [210].
► Excretion of urine now increased, now diminished, [91]. ► Difficulty in
urinating, [230]. ►
Bladder full and distended; the urine flows slowly and sluggishly through the catheter, [226]. ► Ischuria for
twenty-four hours; for six days after this the secretion did not exceed six ounces in the
twenty-four hours, very high-colored, and apparently very thick (on twelfth day of taking
one-half a grain of extract three times a day for diabetes insipidus), [210]. ► Violent strangury towards
the close, [197]. ►
Violent strangury, with bloody micturition (case of poisoning by 46 grains of the extract), [197]. ► Could neither
urinate nor discharge stool, [237]. ► He passed no urine, and the bladder was evacuated by the
catheter, the quantity being scanty, and strongly ammoniacal, [181].
[1590.] ► Retention
of urine, [126], [119],
[135]. ►►
*Retention of urine, which only passes drop by drop, [52]. ► Retention of
urine almost invariably occurs during the action of a full dose of Belladonna, and dysuria
very often follows. When may encourage a patient to make prolonged efforts to pass urine
when fully under the influence of the drug, and he will wither fail altogether, or only pass
a few drachms, and this not in little jerks which indicate spasm, but in weak driblets.
Indeed, the absence of spasm is readily determined. If a full-sized flexible catheter be
passed under these circumstances, it meets with no opposition, but passes readily into the
bladder, and the urine flows as sluggishly as from the bladder of a patient afflicted with
hemiplegia, [194]. ►
Retention of urine; often he would take the chamber without success; he ran much about,
could not lie quiet for a minute, and had twitching of the facial muscles (after a quarter
of an hour), [122]. ►
Suppression of urine, sometimes with constipation, sometimes with diarrhœa, [215]. ► Suppression of urine and
stool, for ten hours, [1]. ►
Urine. ► Emission of a quantity of watery
urine, with sweat, [18]. ►
Frequent discharge of pale, watery urine, with copious sweat, [215].
► Whitish urine, [1].
► Bright-yellow, clear urine (after four hours), [1]. [1600.]
► [Clear, lemon-colored urine], [49]. ► Golden-yellow urine, [4]. ► [Yellow, turbid urine],
[15]. ► Urine with
greenish reflections, [215]. ►
Water deep red, with a light sediment, [230].
► Blood-colored urine, [215]. ► Urine dark, and
increased, [91]. ►
Emission of dark, bloody urine (after one hour), [117].
► Belladonna increases the vesical mucus in the urine, [211]. ► Urine with a
white, thick sediment (after twelve hours), [1]. [1610.] ► *The urine becomes
turbid like yeast, with a reddish sediment, [1].
► Thick, yellowish-red brickdust sediment in the urine, [215]. ► Discharge of
gravel with the urine, [215].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Male.
► Red pimples and growths like small condylomata on the
penis, [215]. ► A
soft, painless tumor on the glans, [1]. ► Frequent erections, [91].
► Frequent involuntary erections and involuntary emission
of urine, [200]. ►
Weakness and relaxation of the genitals (from one and seven-eighths grain), [195]. ► Irritation of the genital
organs, in boys, which was manifested by constant erections, and by seizing the member with
the hands, [118]. ►
Immediately after urinating, a smarting pain in the outer edge of the prepuce, [1]. [1620.] ► Heat and redness of the penis, with constant semi-erection, [215]. ► In the forepart
of the glans, and itching titillation resembling a flea-bite, [4].
► Sensation as if caused by an accumulation of serum in
the scrotum, [215]. ►
Inflammatory swelling of the testicles, [215]. ► Drawing and lancinating pains in the spermatic cords and
testicles, [215]. ►
During micturition, drawing in the spermatic cord, [1].
► Before falling asleep in bed in the evening, a tearing
upwards in the left spermatic cord, repeated a few times, [12].
► Violent shootings in the testicles, which are drawn
upwards (after ten, eighteen, and thirty hours), [11].
► Increased sexual desire, [215].
► Indifference in the night to the distinction of the
sexes; no lascivious, lustful thoughts will enter his head; the sexual desire in the
imagination is as if extinct, [11]. [1630.] ► Entire loss of
sexual desire, [215]. ►
Discharge of prostatic juice, [215]. ► Discharge of prostatic juice from a relaxed penis, [1]. ► Nocturnal
pollutions, [215]. ►
Nocturnal emission of semen, during relaxation of the penis, [1].
► Nocturnal emission of semen without lascivious dreams
(the first night), [11]. ►
Feeble, but abundant, ejaculation of semen, [215]. ► Female. ► *At every step
violent shootings in the genital region, as if in the internal sexual organs
(after sixteen hours), [13a]. ►►
*Badly smelling hemorrhage from the uterus, [35].
► *Burning, pressure, uneasiness and weight in the uterine
region, [215]. [1640.]
► Cramps of the womb, with feeling as if it was growing
narrow, [215]. ►
Before the menses, uterine colic with weakness of sight, [215].
► *Burning in he ovarian region, [215]. ► Leucorrhœa and colic, [40] (Case 14). ►
Flesh-colored or milky leucorrhœa, with a great deal of colic, [215]. ► Metrorrhagia of light
clotted blood, [215]. ►►
*Metrorrhagia, the blood having a bad smell, [3].
►► *A violent pressing and urging towards the sexual
organs, as if everything would fall out there; worse on
sitting bent and on walking, better on standing and sitting erect (after ten
hours), [13a]. [Lying, sitting, C. D.] ► Bringing on of the catamenia, [1].
► Increased menses (curative effect), [50]. [1650.] ► *Inordinate menstrual discharge may occur suddenly in females,
[212]. ► Greater
flow of the menses, with retardation till the thirty-second, thirty-sixth, and forty-eighth
day, [40]. ►
Catamenia appear four days too soon, [1]. ►► *Menses too soon and very profuse, of thick, decomposed,
dark-red blood, [215]. ► Menses sometimes delayed, or of pale blood, [215]. ► During the catamenia,
great thirst, [40] (Case 14). ►
During the menses, fever, painful lassitude, colic, pains, in the limbs, weakness and
inclination to remain lying down, [215]. ► Increased sexual desire in women, especially before the
menses and in the evening; absence of desire, and even aversion to an embrace, in the
morning, [215].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
►
Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi. ►► Catarrh, or
cough with coryza, [1]. ► Catarrh, with cough, coryza, and the head and eyes severely
affected, [215]. [1660.]
► A great deal of tenacious mucus in the larynx and nasal
fossæ, [215]. ► *The
dryness extends into the larynx, rendering the voice husky, and often inducing dry cough,
[194], [195]. ►► *Painful dryness in larynx, yet with an unconquerable aversion to all drinks, [237]. ► The sensibility of the
larynx was so much impaired and deglutition so imperfectly performed, that, on introducing a
warm infusion of coffee into the patient’s mouth, the liquid collected about the larynx, and
his features became alarmingly turgid in consequence of impeded respiration, [179]. ► Every inspiration causes
irritation with dry cough, [1]. ►
Pain under larynx, with hiccough, after eating (from one and seven-eighths grain), [195]. ►► *Sensation as
if the larynx was inflamed and swollen, with snoring breathing, and danger of
suffocation, [215]. ►
Secretion of a great deal of watery phlegm, [215]. ► *Sensation as if some one constricted his larynx, [237]. ► Sensation a if
the larynx was narrowed and torn, [215]. [1670.] ► Spasmodic movement
of the larynx as if was being tied up, [215]. ► Sensation of ulceration and bleeding of the larynx, [215]. ► *Violent scraping in
larynx excites a dry cough, [90]. ► *Tickling and burning in the larynx with violent paroxysms of cough,
[215]. ► *In the
evening, after lying down in bed, tickling-itching sensation in the back part of the top of
the larynx, causing a dry, short cough, which he cannot suppress, [1]. ► The upper part of the
trachea is affected; he coughs up a substance resembling old catarrhal mucus, of a purulent
appearance (in the morning in bed and after rising), (after sixteen hours), [1]. ► Noise and rattling in the
bronchial tubes, with insensibility, [63]. ► Voice. ► *Now and then,
when speaking, the voice, which had been weak, becomes suddenly loud and clear, [215]. ► The voice became
so sharp and clear that her own father did not know it (naturally somewhat husky), [223]. ► *Rough, hoarse voice,
[1]. [1680.] ► *Voice hoarse and weak, [188].
►► *Hoarse, rough voice, with dryness in the throat, the seat of which she accurately located in the
larynx; she had to cough frequently, and swallow often; when swallowing, she complained of
pain in the larynx, [96]. ► Hoarse, dull, shrill, whistling, nasal voice, [215]. ► *Hoarseness, [73]. ►► *Hoarseness
(after six hours), [239]. ►
*Hoarseness amounting to aphonia, [215]. ►► *Hoarseness, which was especially noticed when crying,
[102]. ► The voice
seems changed, and slightly oppressed, [115]. ► The voice is changed, soft and hoarse, [118]. ► Speaking is very
difficult for him; he speaks in a piping tone of voice, [1].
[1690.] ► Voice weak,
[226]. ► Temporary
loss of speech (aphonia), [67]. ►
Almost complete aphonia, [114]. ► *Aphonia, or confused sounds uttered with pain, [201]. ► Cough and
Expectoration. ► Rawness and dryness in the
upper part of the larynx excites a cough, [88]. ► Cough, hollow and scraping, [1].
► Cough, with loss of breath, noisy inspiration, face red
and swollen as is hooping-cough, [215]. ► Cough, especially in the afternoon, at night in bed, and
during sleep, [215]. ►
Croupy cough (two boys), [186]. ►
A sort of croupy cough, [134]. [1700.] ►
*Cough, with a bloody taste in the mouth, [1].
► Cough, with tearing sensation in the chest, and painful
shocks at the nape of the neck and in the abdomen, [215].
► Cough, with prickings, as if with needles, in the side
under the left ribs (after six hours), [11]. ► Hard fit of coughing, as if something had “gone the
wrong way,” [215]. ►
(Attacks of coughing, which end with sneezing), [1]. ► Attack of coughing, followed by heat, [9]. ► *Cough commences in the evening
(about 10 o’clock), and occurs every quarter of an hour or oftener
in three or four fits at a time, [1]. ► Night-cough, which frequently awakes her out of sleep, after
which, however, she falls asleep again directly, [9]. ► Cough after eating and great thirst, [40] (Case 12). ► *Violent cough
during sleep, with grinding of the teeth, [1].
[1710.] ► *Before each
attack of coughing the child is quiet, and immediately before the cough comes on, she begins
to cry, [1]. ►
During coughing, the child strains much and is fretful, [1].
► *Dry cough, whereby the throat is scraped, [13a]. ► *Short, dry, noisy,
spasmodic or else hollow and hoarse cough, [215]. ► Violent, dry
cough as if a foreign body had lodged in the larynx, with coryza (after three hours), [11]. ► Attack of
coughing as if one had inhaled dust; he is awakened by it at night, with mucous
expectoration, [4]. ►
[For several days in succession, about noon, violent cough, with expectoration of much
tenacious mucus], [40] (Case 22). ► Mucus in the air-passages expectorated by coughing and
hawking, [211]. ►
Expectoration of viscid and whitish mucus, [215]. ► Phlegm, especially in the morning, [215]. [1720.] ► At times expectoration of blackish, thick mucus, [233]. ► In the morning,
when coughing, expectoration of bloody mucus, [1]. ► Spitting of blood, [215].
► Hæmoptysis of clear, bright-red blood, rarely
coagulated and black, [215]. ►
Respiration. ► Respiration is often sighing,
without apparently being otherwise difficult (after eight hours), [129]. ► [Sighs]. [30]. [Immediately before death.] ►
Stertorous, respiration (after a quarter of an hour), [86].
► The breathings heavy and stertorous, [185]. ► Respiratory murmur
vesicular, though without rattling, [226]. ► The breathing was stertorous, and the respiratory sounds,
hastily examined over the anterior part of the chest, were modified by râles, [179]. [1730.] ► Respiration deep, at times yawning (after seven hours), [112]. ► The breath is
hot; respiration accelerated (after half and hour), [118],
[136], [137]. ► *Respiration rapid and somewhat oppressed, [130]. ► Respiration irregular and
very rapid, [30], [226].
► Respiration by jerks, groaning, accelerated, [140]. ► Violent short,
hurried, anxious respiration (after eighteen hours), [37].
► Respiration retarded, at times whistling, [135]. ► No difference is
observed in the rate of respiration, even during the maximum acceleration of the pulse, [194]. ► Respiration
short and hasty, [105]. ►
Respiration short, hurried, sometimes very oppressed, [203].
[1740.] ► Shortness
of breath, anxiety and suffocative fits, especially at night and in the afternoon, [215]. ► *Shortness of breath
after drinking coffee in the afternoon (after three days), [4]. ► Intermittent breathing in
the night, in sleeping and waking; inspiration and expiration together last only half as
long as the pause before the next inspiration; expiration occurred by fits and starts, and
was louder than inspiration; inspiration lasted only a little longer than expiration, [1]. ► At times he
breathed, at times he appeared to have drawn his last breath, such attacks recurring four
times in a quarter of an hour, [31]. ► Respiration anxious, and attended with the brazen stridulous
sound of croup, [177]. ►
Respiration laborious and occasionally stertorous (post-mortem; congestion of the lungs), [191]. ► Difficult
respiration, [63]. ►
*Breath hot, respiration difficult, [102]. ► Very difficult breathing, [25].
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