BELLADONNA.
CHEST.
► In General.
► Inflammation of the lungs, [213]. [1750.] ► Engorgement and abscesses of the breasts, [215]. ► *Erysipelatous swelling of
the breasts, [215]. ►
The breasts suddenly become flaccid and flat, or else inflamed and swollen, with increased
secretion of milk, [215]. ►
Burning in the chest, with sensation as if the lungs were swelling up and inflating the
thorax, [215]. ►
Burning and drawing pains in the nipples, especially the right, [215]. ► Violent constriction
across the chest, as if it were being pressed inwards from both sides (after eight hours), [8]. ► In the evening in
bed, such a constriction in the chest, which did not pass off on coughing for the purpose,
that he could with difficulty draw in his breath, just as if the mucus in the larynx
prevented him, accompanied by a burning in the chest (after sixty hours), [1]. ► *Tightness of the chest,
[73]. ► *Oppression of
the chest, [57]. ►
Oppression of the chest and difficult breathing, especially when walking and in the evening
in the bed, with sibilant mucous and often crepitant râle, [215].
[1760.] ► Exceeding
weight and oppression of the whole chest, [219]. ► *Painful pressure in the chest, extending into the back, [215]. ► *Pressive pain in
the chest and between the shoulders, [1]. ► Pressing pain in the chest with shortness of breath, and at
the same time between the scapulæ, in walking and sitting, [4].
► Acute pressing in the region of the sixth true rib from
within outwards (after a quarter of an hour), [14]. ► Stitches and pulsations in the chest, [215]. ► In waking, fine stitches
below the clavicle from before backwards (after four days), [14].
► 3 P.M., stitches in chest and just below right axilla
(second day), [217]. ►
Fine shooting pain in the chest, [40] (Case 11 and
18). ► Shooting, disappearing quickly, like stabs with a
blunt knife, below the last two ribs, close to the xiphoid cartilage, and above the false
ribs (after eight minutes), [3]. [1770.] ► Scraping, digging,
and often lancinating pains in the chest, with constant inclination to cough, often without
the ability, [215]. ►
Great inquietude and beating in the chest, [1]. ► Sternum. ► Pain at
sternal extremity of fifth rib (after less than one hour), [217].
► Sharp, cramping pain just below the extremity of the
sternum, gradually extending to the pit of the stomach and upward to the sternum, and over
the cardiac region (after nine hours), [217]. ► An acute pressing pain in the sternum directly above the
xiphoid cartilage, [3]. ►
Stitches in the sternum in coughing and yawning, [1]. ► Shooting, pinching pains in the chest, on both sides of the
upper part of the sternum, [14]. ►
A beating pain under the sternum above the scrobiculus cordis, [3]. ► Sides. ► Pains more in the left than right side of the chest, [215]. ► *Burning in the
right chest, [4]. [1780.]
► Pressing in the right chest, which causes anxiety, [1]. ► Pressing-squeezing
pain in the left and right sides of the chest, [4]. ► A pressing pain below the right nipple, [3]. ► Intermittent, pressing
cutting in the right side of the chest, unaffected by either inspiration or expiration
(after three hours), [14]. ►
In the right side of the chest, a deeply penetrating and constant stitch, unaffected by the
breathing, [14]. ►
Fine stitches in the left side of the chest from the sternum towards the axilla, more
violent during motion, unaffected by the breathing, [14].
► In the right side of the chest, stitches here and there
below the skin, in some measure external, [1]. ► Stitches in the side of the chest under the right arm, which
hinder the breathing, towards evening, [1]. ► (Pressive shooting pain in the left side under the ribs), [1]. ► Constant pressive
shooting in the cartilages of the left ribs, more violent, and changing into an almost
burning sensation, during expiration (after three hours), [8].
[1790.] ► A
corroding-gnawing pain beneath the cartilages of the last ribs on the right side (after two
hours), [3].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Præcordium
and Heart. ► Great anxiety about the
præcordia, [74]. ►
Præcordial anxiety during the catamenia, [40]. ► After dinner and supper, præcordial anxiety, headache,
redness of face, and bitter taste in the mouth, [40],
(Case 14). ► Anxiety was noticed about the heart, a
peculiar troublesome sensation from time to time, like that noticed with an intermitting
pulse; in fact the pulse did intermit at times (after one hour), [92]. ► Pressure in the cardiac
region, which arrests the breathing, and causes a sense of anxiety, [1]. ► Sensation of cardiac
oppression in the scrobiculus cordis; she could not breathe properly; thereupon nausea,
rising up in the throat as if she would vomit; and so oppression and nausea alternated every
seven minutes (after a quarter of an hour), [13a]. ► The action of the heart was feeble (after two hours), [179]. ► The action of
the heart was feeble, and the pulsations of the radial artery were 116 in the minute,
regular, and weak (after two hours), [179]. ► Weak but frequent beat of the heart (after a quarter of an
hour), [86]. [1800.]
► Beat of heart and pulse smaller and somewhat
contracted, but not accelerated, [118]. ► Starts and trembling of the heart, which feels large and
heavy, [215]. ►
When she goes upstairs the heart clucks; a sort of palpitation, [13a]. ► Violent beating of the
heart, [222]. ►
Beating and palpitation of the heart, with great oppression of the chest, [215]. ► Violent palpitation, [219]. ► Violent
palpitation, and active, accelerated pulse, [105]. ► Palpitation of the heart, with pulsation of the carotid and
temporal arteries, heat and redness of face; generally with congestion to the head, and
fever (after a quarter of an hour), [91]. ► (During rest, palpitation, with feeling as if the concussion
extended to the throat, more violent during movement, and with difficult, slow respiration),
[1]. ► Pulse.
► Very feeble pulse (after one hour), [184]. [1810.] ► Pulse very feeble and almost countless, [180]. ► Pulse scarcely
perceptible, [185]. ►
Pulse small contracted, not to be counted, [102], [129]. ► Pulse full, and
slightly accelerated, [239]. ►►
*Full, frequent pulse, increased by ten beats,
[1]. ► *Pulse full and
quick (90 to 100), (after six hours), [239].
► *Pulse full, about 120, [178]. ► Pulse strong frequent, [229]. ► Strong, rapid
pulse, [10]. ►►
*Pulse much increased in force and frequency, [177].
[1820.] ► Very small,
quick pulse, [1]. ►
Pulse small, compressed, and very quick (120 to 130), (after six hours), [239]. ► Pulse regular, small, and
120, [226]. ► Pulse
very feeble, and quick, [181]. ►
Pulse extremely accelerated, [220]. ► Accelerated pulse, strong or small, sometimes full and slow,
or small and slow, or hard and tense, [215]. ► Pulse 80 (second day), [218].
► Pulse 80 to 90, and regular, [228]. ► Pulse 90 (second day), [228]. ► Pulse 100, [227]. [1830.] ► Pulse 110, [228]. ► Pulse 120 to 130, [231].
► Pulse very slow and full, [221]. ► Large, full, slow pulse, [1]. ► Very small, slow
pulse, [4]. ► The
pulse was soft, and slower than usual, [90]. ► Pulse weak and show, [225].
► Pulse extremely slow, filiform, and irregular, [236]. ► Pulse sank from
80 to 75 per minute (after ten minutes), [218]. ► Pulse 70, feeble, and compressible, [190]. [1840.] ► Pulse 60 (after five and a half hours), [218]. ► Pulse 37, radial artery
full, hard, and firm to the touch, with entire insensibility; a vein being opened in the
arm, the blood, which flowed slowly, was dark and thick, [197].
► Pulse irregular; one strong beat is quickly followed by
four or five weak ones (after half an hour), [136]. ► Pulse small and intermitting, [106].
► Pulse contracted, very accelerated, often intermitting
(after seven hours), [112].
NECK AND BACK.
► Neck.
► *Swelling of the glands on the left side of the neck, at
which spot he also frequently complains of a burning pain, [118]. ► *Swelling of the glands in
the nape of the neck, with cloudiness of the head (after six days), [1]. ► *Inflammation and
swelling of the glands of the neck and of the back of the throat, [215]. ► *Swelling and stiffness of
the neck and nape of the neck, especially on the left side, with crampy pains at
the least movement, [215]. ►
Drawing pains and pressure at the nape of the neck, [215].
[1850.] ► Pressive
pain externally in the neck, when bearing the head backwards and when touching the part, [1]. ► *In coughing, a
violent pressing pain in the nape of the neck, as if it would break (after three
and a half hours), [8]. ►
Sharp pain between the last cervical and first dorsal vertebræ (after four and a half
hours), [217]. ►
Sensation as if the nape of the neck was struck with a hammer, [215]. ► Back in General. ► Weakness of the spine, with heaviness of the head, and
stooping walk, [215]. ►
Stiffness of the muscles of the back and lower extremities prevents him from sitting up in
bed, or raising himself upright; if supported, he is able to stand on his feet, but is
unable to move them or to walk, [136]. ► Rheumatic pain in the back, [40]
(Case 15). ► Burning sensation, as if the spinal marrow
was on fire, [215]. ►
Cramps in the back and chest, [215]. ► Cramplike pressive sensation in the middle of the spinal
column, which becomes tensive when he attempts to straighten the back (after half an hour), [8]. [1860.] ► During the menses, a cramplike tearing, now here and there in
the back, now in the arms, [1]. ►
Pain as if dislocated in the right side of the back and the spinal column, [1]. ► *Gnawing in the spinal column,
with cough, [1]. ►
Pressive pain at the left of the spinal column, under the false ribs, [4]. ► Stabbings as if with a
knife from without inwards in the vertebræ, [9]. ► Shooting and gnawing pain in the spinal column, [1]. ► Dorsal. ► Painful stiffness between the scapulæ and in the nape of the
neck when turning the head and neck to and fro, in the morning (after sixteen hours), [1]. ► Distensive and
rheumatic pains, with feeling of dislocation between the shoulder-blades, [215]. ► Pain between the scapulæ
as from a strain, [1]. ►
Cramp-pain, almost like pinching, between the scapulæ, scapula and the spinal column, [14]. [1870.] ► Violent drawing along the spine between the scapulæ, in the
evening, [1]. ►
Drawing, cutting pain behind right shoulder-blade, [217].
► Pressive pain under the left scapula, more towards the
outer side, [3]. ►
Drawing pressure between the right scapula and the spinal column, [7]. ► Fine shootings in the right
scapula, [14]. ►
Repeated electric shoots from the left scapula to the right (after one hour), [12]. ► Lumbar. ► Burning and weakness in the loins; he walks with difficulty
and bent over, [215]. ►
Spasmodic sensation in the left lumbar region, [3]. ► Cramps and pressure in the loins, extending into the bladder
and groins, with inclination to bend over and squat, [215].
► Cramps and pains of dislocation in the loins and back,
with painful stiffness of these parts, [215]. [1880.] ► Sharp slight pain in
left loin, just above ischium (after ten minutes), [217].
► Cutting pain in right loin, and in lower extremity of
the sternum (after fifty minutes), [217]. ► Intensely painful sensation of cramp in the lumbo-sacral
region and the coccyx; he can only sit for a short time, and while sitting becomes quite
stiff and unable to rise again for pain; he cannot even lie down well; he often wakes at
night because of it, and has to turn on the other side because of the violence of the pain;
he cannot lie at all on the back; he is relieved chiefly by standing and walking slowly
about, but he cannot walk fast (for eight days), [14].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
Objective. ► The bloodvessels of the limbs are
distended, especially the arteries in the neck pulsate, so that when the lower jaw is opened
it strikes against the upper one at every beat, and thus gives rise of slight chattering of
the teeth; at the same time warmth and feeling of warmth in the whole body, more especially
in the head, [5]. ►
Swelling of the injured arm and foot, [60]. ► Laxity of all the limbs (after a quarter of an hour), [86]. ► Trembling of the
limbs, [102], [106].
► Trembling and lassitude of the limbs, [40] (Case 1). ► Trembling of the
limbs; tottering gait, with raising up of one leg, as if he had to ascend a hill; wherefore
he falls down, and is unable to rise again without aid, [123].
► The limbs are in a constant tremble; if a limb was
lifted it would again fall powerless, [105]. [1890.] ► Trembling in all the
limbs, inability to walk, distended veins over the whole body, and disagreeable sense of
irritation in the throat, for several days, [17]. ► (With sudden outcries the hands and feet tremble), [40] (Case 1). ►
Extremities constantly in motion, especially the hands, for he is constantly busy trying to
catch brilliantly colored, glittering, fiery hallucinations, [233].
► The limbs are in constant motion, even without
interruption, during the whole night, [137]. ► *He slowly moves the extremities upwards, trembling; then, with
greater force, he throws them downwards, [125].
► The extremities would often involuntarily perform the
motions peculiar to the daily duties of the individual, [112].
► *Twitchings of the limbs, [81]. ► (Painful) twitchings in
the arms; more in the right than in the left leg, [13a].
► Contortions of the extremities, [236]. ► Alternate strange
distortions of the limbs, and complete immobility, [31].
[1900.] ►
Convulsions of the limbs, [234]. ► *Convulsive movements of the limbs, [63]. ► All the limbs are in
convulsive motion, [135]. ►
*Convulsive momentary extension of the limbs on awaking out of sleep, [1]. ► [Spasmodic
stretching of the limbs, with contortions of the eyes], [40]
(Case 12). ► Convulsive twitching turning, and moving of
the upper and lower limbs, [137]. ► Spasms of all the limbs, [60].
► [Spasms of the limbs, with hiccough], [20] (Case 14). ► Numerous cramps,
spasms, agitation, and contortion of the limbs, [215].
► Sensations. ►
*Heaviness of the hands and feet, [2]. [1910.] ► [Lassitude of the limbs],
[70]. ► Lassitude
of the limbs, [81]. ►
Intolerance in all the limbs, and indisposition to work, [3].
► In course of time the extremities become so feeble, and
almost lame, that he could neither stand upright nor raise his hands, [237]. ► Paralytic weakness of all
the muscles of the upper and lower extremities (after six days), [4]. ► Paralytic weakness, and
feeling of paralysis in the limbs, or on one side of the body, [215]. ► All the limbs seem
paralyzed (after six hours), [239]. ► [Paralysis of the right arm and right leg], [40] (Case 11). [See not to S. 864.] ►
Stiffness of all the limbs, under the semblance of a feeling of lassitude, [1]. ► Frequent stiffness and
immobility of the limbs; for instance, he was not able to stir his left foot, [13a]. [1920.] ► Great uneasiness in all the limbs, so that he did not know
where to put himself, [1]. ►
Burning, pulsative, lancinating, pressive, crampy, or tearing pains in the limbs, [215]. ► Like gnawing of
many ants internally in the bones of arm and thigh creeping from above downward, [214]. ► Pulling, jerks,
and shocks in the limbs, [215].
UPPER EXTREMITIES.
► In
General. ► Swelling of the arm, [60]. ► Red or dark swellings on
the arms and hands, [215]. ►
Trembling of the arms on the slightest motion, [129]. ► [He raises the right arm involuntarily, and without his
knowledge, above his head], [40] (Case 22). ► She occasionally stretched out her arms and hands, as if she
would seize something, [20]. ►
His upper limbs move as if affected with chorea, [240].
[1930.] ► The arms
and hands were in continual contortions, [19]. ► Convulsive shaking of the arm, as from excessive shuddering, [1]. ► Jerking and
nervous trembling of the arms and hands, [215]. ► [Concussive spasms of the arms], [40] (Case 1). ► [Spasm of the
right arm, with grinding of the teeth], [40] (Case
20). ► Cramps and spasms of the arms and hands, [215]. ► On eating, he
would often put his hand instead of the spoon into his soup; often, also, he was unable to
find his mouth with the spoon, and would run it alongside, [139].
► Sense of great lassitude in the arms, but still more in
the hands, as if she must let them hang down, [13a]. ► Heaviness in both arms, [1].
► A heaviness and paralytic feeling in the upper
extremities, especially in the left arm, [10]. ► Heaviness of the left arm, relieved by venesection, [40] (Case 23). [1940.] ► Stiffness, so that she could not bend it, in the right arm,
upon which she had not lain, at 3 A.M., with a feeling as if it were shorter than the other,
and with a tearing pain therein, [13a]. ►► A (sense of) stretching and twisting in the upper extremities,
[10]. ►►
Paralytic drawing pressure, with weakness, in the right upper and forearm (after
four days), [7]. ►
Shoulder and Arm. ► Painful swelling of one of
the left axillary glands (after five hours), [1]. ►► Shooting pressure on the top of the left shoulder
(after three hours), [7]. ►
Sharp tearing pain under and in right armpit (third day), [217].
► Jerking in the shoulders, with numbness and heaviness
of the arms, [215]. ►
[Spasm of the right arm, with grinding of the teeth], [40].
► Inclination to work the arms, as if performing
gymnastic exercises, [215]. ►
Weakness as of paralysis, first in the right upper arm, afterwards also in the forearm
(after eight hours), [12]. [1950.]
► [Paralysis of the right arm], [40] (Case 11). [See note to S. 864.] ►
[The arm feels numb and painful], [65]. ► [Rheumatic pain in the right arm, with sense of formication;
on the following day spasm of the same arm], [40]
(Case 14). ► Spraining and contused pain in the arms, [215]. ► She complained
of a very painful cramp in the left arm and in the back, which in the evening extended to
the thigh, [40] (Case 6). ►
Crampy and tearing pains in the arms, starting from the shoulders and stopping at the
elbows, [215]. ►
Drawing pain in the inside of the left upper arm, [4].
► A drawing downwards in the muscles of the right upper
arm, which, when it had reached to region of the elbow, twitched upwards again to the
axilla, and there ceased for awhile, [1]. ► Drawing pain in left arm near insertion of deltoid muscle,
relieved by pressure (after five hours), [217]. ►► Paralytic tearing pressure in the anterior surface of the
left upper arm (after five days), [7]. [1960.] ►► Paralytic
pressure in the left upper arm, with paralytic feeling and weakness of the whole of the left
arm, [7]. ►
A violent stabbing pain, as with a blunt knife, below the head of the humerus, from within
outwards, [3]. ►
Tearing pain in the humerus, [1], [4]. ► Bruised pain in the upper
arms (after six hours), [14]. ►
Elbow, Forearm, and Wrist. ► A rumbling in the
bend of the left elbow, as if water or some heavy liquid were running through the veins, [4]. ► (When moving or
touching the elbow it pains as if brunt), [1]. ► Paralytic drawing pain in the elbow, and in the fingers of
the left hand, [4]. ►
Cutting pain in the interior of the left elbow-joint when walking, [14]. ► Sharp shootings externally
in the left elbow-joint (after seventy-two hours), [14].
► Twitching of the tendons and muscles on the inner side
of the forearm (after four hours), [121], [126]. [1970.] ► Feeling of slight warmth along the back of the right forearm,
as of approaching numbness, and a slight paralytic feeling along the anterior tibial nerve
(in a few moments), [217]. ►
Dull aching in the muscles of the forearm (after half an hour), [217]. ► Tearing in the flexor
surface of the left forearm, and in the palm of the hand and sole of foot, [88]. ► Sharp pain shooting from
the wrist along the course of the ulnar nerve to the elbow-joint (after half an hour), [217]. ► Acute and tender
pain in the radius of the left arm, near pronator quadratus muscles. (This pain has been
present at intervals for years, though not for a few months), (after half an hour), [218]. ► Cutting-tearing
in the lower muscles of both forearms, [8]. ► Fine shootings in the left forearm (after twenty-four hours),
[14]. ► Dull
shootings in the middle of the inner forearm, which gradually increase, and at length become
very violent, [3]. ►
11.30 A.M., dull, throbbing pain along the radial nerve of right arm (second day), [217]. ►
Burning-throbbing in the left forearm, near olecranon ulnæ, and posterior ridge of radius,
aggravated by touch and light pressure; this sensation repeated itself often during the day;
in the evening a similar pain appeared at the base of the scapula, near the angle; this spot
appears to be warmer, and also worse on pressure, [88].
[1980.] ► He is not
able to turn the hand easily and freely on its axis (as when dropping into a glass); he can
only turn it by jerks; it is as if there were a deficiency of synovial fluid in the carpus;
this impeded motion, however, is painless (after four hours), [1].
► Paralytic tearing in the carpal bones, [7]. ► Hands and Fingers. ► Swelling of the hands, [78].
► Great swelling of the hand, [60]. ► Swelling and stiffness of
the joints of the hands, [215]. ►
The hands swell and become dry; he could not take hold of anything without dropping it
immediately (after three-quarters of an hour), [93]. ► Constant motion of hands and fingers, [114]. ► The hands were in
covering, and snatched at various imaginary objects, [118].
► Feeling of stiffness in the right hand the fingers; she
cannot bend them, [13a]. ►
Dry sensation in he palms of the hands, which felt uncommonly smooth (after one hour), [92]. [1990.] ► Pain in the bones of the hands as if they were pounded, [215]. ► Dislocating pain
in the joints of the hands, [215]. ► Tearing pressure in the metacarpal bones and the first joint
of the left index finger, [8]. ►
Shooting-tearing in the metacarpal bones of the left hand, [8].
► Sharp shootings in the metacarpal bones of the thumb
(after one hour), [14]. ►
Slight soreness of the hands (after ten days), [230]. ► Soreness of the hands on pressure, [230]. ► The anterior joint of the
middle finger is as if stiff and painful on bending; a simple pain (? sore), [1]. ►► Painful drawing in the
posterior joint of the left middle finger, as if in the periosteum, [7]. ► The tips of the
fingers of the left hand are painful, as if they had been jammed, [4]. [2000.] ► Tearing-cutting in the muscles of the right little finger, [8]. ►► Paralytic
tearing in the middle joint of the right index finger, [7]. ► During general chill,
shootings in the tips of the fingers from below upwards, especially when grasping, [1]. ► Pain in the tip of
the middle finger, as if some foreign body had lodged in it and produced ulceration; the
pain is greater when touching the part, [14]. ► Pulsative or burning pains on the finger tips, as if they had
been forcibly pinched or struck, [215].® 2000
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