CAMPHORA.
NECK AND BACK.
► Neck.
► Stiffness in nape of neck, [38]. ► Tensive pain in the
muscles of the nape of the neck and lower portion of the neck; worse on every motion and on
turning the neck (after fifteen hours), [4]. ► Drawing on left side of nape of neck, toward the shoulder, [36]. ► Stitches in the
neck, near the right shoulder, on motion (after one and a half hours), [2]. [590.] ►
Tearing pain in the nape of the neck, on bending the head forward (after two hours), [1]. ► Several painless
drawings in the cervical vertebræ, on motion, [5]. ► Creeping sensation in the left side of the neck, above the
clavicle, [36]. ►
Swelling of cervical glands, [63]. ► Back. ► Violent pain
in the back, all day, [36]. ►
Pain in course of spine, [51]. ►
Painful tearing along the medulla spinalis, [45]. ► Dorsal. ► Tearing
pressure on the anterior margin of the shoulder-blade, which renders motion of the arm
difficult (after thirty-two hours), [2]. ► Drawing, painful stitches through the shoulder-blades, and between
them, extending into the chest on moving the arm, for two days (after twenty-four
hours), [2]. ► Lumbar.
► Pressure in the small of the back, [43]. [600.] ► Tired feeling in the small of the back, when walking, [36]. ► Sacral. ► Sensation of sticking coldness in the sacral region, which
passed with lightning-like velocity along the side of the vertebræ to the nape of the neck,
and over the whole body, alternating with a feeling of transient heat, [66].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
Stretching of limbs, [63]. ►
Trembling limbs, [63]. ►
Convulsive agitation in the limbs, after the tetanic stiffness, [54]. ► Violent cramps in
extremities (after three days), [60]. ► Limbs as heavy as lead, [43].
► The limbs are difficult to move, [1]. ► General painful
sensitiveness in limbs, [63].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Arms more convulsed than lower limbs, [59]. [610.] ► Pressure and drawing
on the inner side of both arms, during rest of the parts, ceasing while moving them, [36]. ► Heaviness in the
left arm, [36]. ►
Sensation of fatigue in the left arm, [36]. ► The pain immediately begins again during rest of the arm;
also in the right arm, when that is at rest, [36]. ► Tired feeling in
the left arm, commencing at the left shoulder, extending into the wrist; relieved by motion
of the arm, [36]. ►
Tearing on the inside of the left arm, passing at times into the thumb and index finger, [37]. ► Shoulder. ► Pressure on the top of the shoulder (after two hours), [2]. ► Violent pressure
on top of right shoulder, [36]. ►
Drawing pain in the left shoulder, [35]. ► Bruised pain in both shoulders, [36]. ► Arm. [620.] ► Tearing pressure in
the middle of the posterior portion of the right upper arm, [4].
► Jerking, fine tearing from the middle of the inner
surface of the left upper arm to the middle of the forearm (after three-quarters of an
hour), [4]. ►
Drawing in the muscles of the left upper arm, when walking, [36].
► Tearing in the muscles on the inner side of the left
upper arm, [37]. ►
Elbow. ► Painful pressure in the right
elbow-joint, more violent on leaning upon it, when it extends into the hand
(after one and a half hours), [4]. ► Bruised pain in right elbow, wrist, and fingers, [36]. ► Forearm. ► Tired feeling from the left elbow into the hand, [36]. ► Pressure in right
forearm, [36]. ►
Tearing pressure on the inner surface of the left forearm, [4].
► Stitches in the forearm (after one and three-quarters
hours), [2]. [630.]
► Bruised pain in the lower part of the left forearm, [36]. ► Painful pressure
on the inner surface of the left forearm (after one and three-quarters hours), [4]. ► Tearing pressure
in the left radius, somewhat above the wrist (after seven hours), [4]. ► Wrist. ► Violent, continued, pressive pain in the flexors of the left
wrist, [36]. ► Hand.
► Trembling in the hands, especially noticed when
writing, [30]. ►
Constant movement of the hands (after six hours), [69].
► Fingers. ►
Pain in the last joint of the thumb, as if sprained, on moving it (after twenty hours), [1]. ► Drawing in the
left fingers, especially in the joints, [37]. ► Drawing in the ball of the left thumb, [36]. ► Drawing-stitching in the
second joint of the left index finger, [36]. [640.] ► Tearing in the third
left finger, [37].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Tottering, weariness, and heaviness of the lower limbs (after one hour), [4]. ► The gait was tottering, [34]. ► The legs are
difficult to move and weary, [1]. ► Could walk with difficulty (after six hours), [60]. ► Tired feeling in the legs,
especially in the knees, when sitting, [36]. ► Pressure and drawing on the inner side of both legs,
extending to the ankles, during rest of the parts, ceasing while moving them, [36]. ► Hip. ► Cracking and creaking in the hip, knee, and ankle-joints,
[1]. ► Pressure in
right hip-joint, [36]. ►
Thigh. ► Pain in the posterior portion of the
thigh, above the hollow of the knee, as after a long walk, [2].
[650.] ► When
walking, painful sensation of stiffness in the outer side of the right thigh, [39]. ► Internal coldness through
the right thigh, as if cold air blew on it, [36]. ► Drawing in the gluteus maximus, in the upper part, at its
attachment to the crest of the ilium, as if it would make the leg lame, [2]. ► Drawing bruised pain in the
thighs, after walking (after five hours), [2]. ► Drawing bruised pain in the right thigh, and on the inner side, near
and below the patella, he fears that the leg will bend forward suddenly (after
four and a half hours), [2]. ►
Pressure deep in the whole right thigh, [36]. ► Tearing in the thighs (after twenty-eight hours), [2]. ► Knee. ► The knees feel as though they would suddenly bend forward,
and as if beaten (after twenty-six hours), [2]. ► Heaviness and pressure in both knees, when sitting, [36]. ► Pain in right
knee, as if fatigued, [36]. [660.]
► Sensation of coldness in right knee, extending into the
foot, when sitting, [36]. ►
Severe heat in right knee, [36]. ►
Pressive-drawing below the patella, on the inner side of the knee (after thirty hours), [2]. ► Pressure in the
right knee, [36]. ►
Pressing in the left knee, [36]. ►
Tearing in the knees, below the patella, mostly when walking (after six hours), [2]. ► Stitches in the
right patella, while sitting (after half an hour), [2].
► Leg. ►
Heaviness in the legs, [36]. ►
The leg goes to sleep, when sitting and bending the knee, with cold sensation (after
twenty-one hours), [1]. ►
Sensation of numbness in the right leg, [36]. [670.] ► Pressure in left leg,
[36]. ► Pressure
above in right leg, [36]. ►
Pressure below in the leg, [36]. ►
Heaviness in the lower leg, as from a weight hanging from the knee-joint, and dragging
downward, [4]. ►
Pressure in the middle of the inner surface of the legs lower leg, [4]. ► Pressure in the left lower
leg, above the malleolus and posteriorly, [4]. ► Stitching in the calves, [36].
► Drawing in left calf, [36].
► Pressure in the centre of the left calf, when walking
and sitting, [36]. ►
Fine stitching in the left calf, [36]. [680.] ► Stitching, when
walking, on both sides of the tendo Achillis, [36]. ► Ankle. ► Pain in the
ankle, as from a sprain or strain, in the morning, on rising and walking (after eighteen
hours), [1]. ►
Pressive-drawing pain below the right ankle-bone, when standing, between the malleolus and
the tendo Achillis; on moving the foot, it becomes a tearing (after four and a half hours), [2]. ► Pressure in the
ankles, [36]. ►
When walking, the pressure is worse in the ankles; when sitting, in the knees, [36]. ► Foot. ► Trembling of the feet, [1].
► Tremulous tottering and unsteadiness of the feet, [1]. ► Great weariness of
the feet, when walking; the leg feels bruised and as if tense, [5]. ► Numbness in right foot, [36]. ► Violent drawing
in right foot, [36]. [690.]
► Tearing in the forepart of the left foot, in the tips
of the toes, and under the nails, when walking (after ten hours), [2]. ► Drawing-pinching pain on the
backs of the feet, especially on moving them, [2].
► Tearing-pinching pain on the back of the foot, extending
along the outer side of the calf to the thigh (after thirteen hours), [2]. ► Drawing on the
back of the foot, [36]. ►
Tearing pressure on the back of the right foot, [4]. ► Burning and stitching in the sole of the right foot, [36]. ► Pressure on the
sole of the left foot, [36]. ►
Stitching in the ball of the left foot, [36]. ► Toes. ► Numbness or
right toes, [36]. ►
Pressure in right toes, [36]. [700.] ► Sore pain in the
knuckles of the toes, and in the corns (after twenty-six hours), [2]. ► Prickling in the tips of
the left toes, then of the right, [36].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
► Objective.
► Appears drunk, [51].
► Extreme emaciation, [43].
► Flesh and strength decreased, [43]. ► It predisposes to
inflammations, [11]. ►
Distension of the arteries, [36]. ► Relaxation and heaviness of the whole body (after twenty-five
minutes), [4]. ►
After the violent symptoms had diminished, in about twenty minutes, he lay quiet for the
next three hours muttering incoherently to himself, and following with his eyes the motions
of persons about the room, [56]. ►
General excitement of the muscular power (soon after taking), [34].
[710.] ► *He is hasty
in his actions and speech, [1]. ► *Often easily startled when awake, and then feels throbbings or
palpitations, [49]. ►
Trembling, [7], [25].
► Trembling, which prevented writing, [33]. ► Trembling, mostly of the
heart, [20]. ►
Subsultus tendinum and insensibility, [51]. ► Spasms, [8]. ► Spasm which was like an epileptic spasm (after one-quarter of
an hour), [48]. ►
*Convulsions, [65]. ►
Convulsions, [7], [22].
[In Alexander’s case during loss of consciousness.) [720.]
► Convulsions in children, [63].
► True convulsions, with loss of consciousness, more or
less prolonged, [59]. ►
Strong convulsions, [55]. ►
Violently convulsed, [62]. ►
Violent convulsions, [27]. ►
Violent convulsions, with disordered expression of countenance; livid aspect, [59]. ► Most violent general
convulsions, especially of the hands and feet, so that five men could scarcely hold him, [44]. ► Clonic convulsive
movements, at intervals of a few seconds, sometimes a minute. ►
*Convulsive circular motion (rotation of the arms), [1].
► Several times the body curled itself up into a ball,
and was projected out again with great activity, [59].
[730.] ► Perfectly
stiff, and in an early stage of opisthotonos, [54]. ► Cataleptic rigidity, with loss of consciousness, for a
quarter of an hour, followed by relaxed sinking down of the whole body, so that he could
scarcely be held upright for a quarter of an hour; followed by vomiting, after which
consciousness returned (after two and a half hours), [6].
► Falls from his chair in a kind of epileptic fit, which
lasts about ten minutes (after twenty minutes), [51]. ► He rubs his forehead, head, chest, and other parts; does not
know who he is; he leans against something his senses leave him, he slides, and falls to the
ground, stretched out stiff; the shoulders bent backward, the arms at first somewhat bent,
the hands bent outward and somewhat clenched, the fingers spread apart; afterwards all parts
are stretched out stiff, with the head bent to one side, the lower jaw open, stiff, the lips
drawn inward, the teeth clenched, the eyes closed, incessant twitching of the facial
muscles, cold all over, without breathing, for a quarter of an hour (after two hours), [6]. ► Languid and
listless (after twenty minutes), [67]. ► Lassitude, [36]. ► Unusual lassitude and depression of spirits, [15]. [Corrected.] ► Weariness, [36]. ► Complaints of
weakness, [44]. ►
Felt weak (after four and a half hours), [70]. [740.] ► Great weakness, [66]. ► Remarkable
weakness, [65]. ►
*Excessive weakness, [10]. ►
Peculiar sensation of weakness (morning), [37]. ► Great prostration and weakness, almost faintness, [63]. ► Attacks of
prostration, with faintness and total relaxation of all the limbs, [66]. ► *Great exhaustion, [51]. ► General
exhaustion and suppression of urine for three months (after twenty minutes), [51]. ► Slight faintness (after
half an hour), [50]. ►
Attacked with a dreadful feeling of faintness, shivering, and numbness (soon after), [61]. [750.] ► Fell down insensible (after two and a half hours), [54]. ► Paralytic
relaxation of the muscles, [1]. ►
For several days partially paralyzed, [62]. ► Restlessness, [63]. ► Very restless at night; jumps and tosses about, [49]. ► She tosses
anxiously about the bed, with constant weeping, [16]. ► Insensible to touch, [44].
► Subjective. ►
General comfortable feeling (after one hour), [50]. ► General discomfort, [63].
► Discomfort of the whole body (after three
hours), [4]. [760.]
► Uncomfortable sensation through whole body, [63]. ► Inexpressible
discomfort of the whole body (after half an hour), [4].
► Deathlike sensation, [65].
► Intoxication, [8],
[10], [12], etc.
► Symptoms of intoxication, [69]. ► Drunkenness, [63]. ► Feeling as if
drunk, with staggering (soon after), [2]. ► Symptoms like delirium tremens, such as optical delusions,
fright, screams, hideous sights, and he buried head in pillow, [64]. ► At night, felt as if he
could fly, or rather as if he must be and was being drawn up into the air, in spit of
himself, [49]. ►
Feeling of dryness in and over the body, especially on the head and in the bronchial tubes
(after two hours), [1]. [770.]
► Pain in the periosteum of all the bones, [1]. ► Nervous drawings, with
something like a shivering, [49]. ► Rheumatic sticking pain in all the muscles, especially
between the shoulders, [1]. ►
Tearing stitches here and there in joints, [63]. ► Most of the pains of camphor during the first days only exist
under a condition of partial attention (so tearing in various parts of the body only occur
when falling asleep) and disappear, especially the headache, as soon as he becomes conscious
that he has the pain and pays attention to it; on the contrary, on the succeeding days he is
only able to bring on the pains by thinking of them, or he notices them much more when
paying strict attention to himself, and feels best when he is not thinking of himself, [2].
SKIN.
► The skin appeared
in general to be pale and moist, and heat of surface diminished, [59]. ► Skin shrivelled, relaxed,
often cold, [63]. ►
Skin became leathery, dry, burning, without a trace of sweat, [43].
► Erysipelatous inflammation, [1]. [From the external application of camphor.] ► Erysipelas (from the external use), [24]. ► Vesicle on neck and chest,
[63]. [780.] ► Very dry skin, even in bed, with good appetite, [16]. ► Acute drawing in
the skin, above and below the left clavicle, [36]. ► Stitches in the skin of the right forefinger, on the side of
the last joint, [36]. ►
Itching here and there over the body, in the evening, after lying down in bed (after six
hours), [1]. ►
Severe itching (from the external use), [24]. ► Itching in the palms of the hands (after five hours), [2]. ► Continually
increasing itching on the backs of the hands and knuckles, with sticking pain, relieve by
scratching (after four and a half hours), [2]. ► Itching on the knuckles and between them (after twenty-five
hours), [2].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Sleepiness.
► Yawning, [63]. ► Yawning and sleepiness, [12].
[790.] ► Frequent
yawning, [5]. ►
Much yawning, when walking, without sleepiness, [36]. ► Sleepiness, [1], [36]. ► Sleepiness,
towards noon, with marked confusion of the head, [29].
► Weary with sleep; it seems as though he should fall
asleep (after one hour), [4]. ►
He became overpowered by sleep at 7 P.M., and slept for more than two hours; on waking he
did not know that he had been awakened in the meantime and had spoken to some one, though he
was usually awakened by the slightest nose; after waking the headache was relieved, but he
continued to feel sleepy, [28]. ►
Sleep deep, prolonged, refreshing, [28]. ► Stupid slumbering, with pinching headache, great heat of the
whole body, with distended veins, very rapid breathing, and bruised pain in the back,
without thirst and with natural taste, [1]. ► Sleep during the first night very sound and deep, could
scarcely get awake in the morning; in the night following, he awoke at midnight, and was
unable to fall asleep again, but in the morning he could not arouse himself on account of
sleepiness, [35]. ►
Sleeplessness. ► Sleeplessness, [36], [43]. [800.] ►
Loss of sleep, [11]. ►
The usual evening sleep, which he had taken upon a sofa, is omitted, [35]. ► Restless sleep, [36]. ► Sleep restless,
he was continually awakened by thirst, [33]. ► Distressed sleep, with fearful dreams, visions, spectres,
etc., [49]. ►
Starts in his sleep, [49]. ►
Snoring during sleep, on inspiration and expiration, [1].
► He murmured and sighed during sleep, [1]. ► Talking in the sleep, the
whole night, in a low tone, [1]. ►
Crying out and starting up in sleep, [63]. ► Dreams. [810.] ► Sleep full of dreams, [63].
► Dreams about projected occupations, [2]. ► Anxious dreams (fourth
day), [38]. ►
Dreams during the first day very confused; afterwards active dreams, and later anxious
dreams, of dying, etc., he also dreamed about circumstances which had been the subject of
conversation the day previous, especially in the morning, [35].
FEVER.
► Chilliness.
► *The body generally quite cold, [1]. ► Coldness of the body, with
paleness, [9]. ►
*Coldness of the skin, [65]. ► Skin cold and insensible (after three days), [58]. ► Cold skin, covered with
clammy, inodorous perspiration, [66]. ► Shivering, [63]. [820.] ► Shivering and
chilliness, in the evening when lying down, [35]. ► Shivering, chilliness, and creeping goose-flesh over the
whole body, for an hour (immediately), [2]. ► Slight shivering, with paleness of face, [12]. ► Sensitive to cool air, [63]. ► In the evening,
great sensitiveness to cold over the whole body, and headache, as from constriction of the
brain, with pressure over the root of the nose (after twelve hours), [2]. ► He is excessively sensitive to
the cold air, [1]. ►
Great aversion to the cold air; it affects him very unpleasantly; he is obliged to wrap
himself up warmly, and even then is chilled through, [35].
► He is unable to endure slight cold, from which either a
chill results, or cutting pain in the abdomen, with a diarrhœa-like passage of
blackish-brown or black fæces, like coffee-grounds, [1].
► Frequent cooling, especially in the pit of the stomach,
[15]. ► Chilliness
(after ten hours), [1]. [830.]
► Chilliness over the whole body (after a quarter of an
hour), [4]. ►
Chilliness over the whole body (after one and a half hours), [40].
► Chilliness over the whole body (after two and a half
hours), followed (after one and a half hours) by increases warmth of the whole body, [4]. ► Chilliness and
shivering, with goose-flesh; the skin of the whole body is
painfully sensitive, and sore to the slightest touch, [1]. ► Great chilliness, [63]. ► Excessive chill, [43]. ► Shaking chill and
chattering of the teeth, [20]. ► Coldness and drawing through the whole body, with cold arms,
hands, and feet (after four and three-quarters hours), [2].
► Coldness for an hour, with deathly paleness of the
face, [21]. (From sixty grains for colic; pain
disappeared, but this condition supervened. On recovering from it she was well.) ► When walking, the internal coldness increases, [36]. [840.] ► Continually complaining of freezing, [61]. ► (Paroxysm of fever; severe
chill, with gnashing of the teeth, and much thirst; he sleeps immediately after the chill,
with frequent wakings, almost without the slightest subsequent heat), [1]. ► Agreeable coolness through
the whole upper region of body, especially in stomach and œsophagus, [50]. ► Cold sensation internally,
first on the right side, then on the left, as if a cold liquid were flowing from the head
downward, [36]. ►
Forehead, cheeks, and hands cold (after six hours), [60].
► Chilliness on the cheeks and in the back, [5]. ► Chilliness in
back, [36]. ►
Frequent chilliness in the back, [5]. ► Internal chilliness within the scapulæ, [36]. ► Chilliness over the back,
mingled with warmth, as if sweat would break out, [5].
[850.] ► When
walking, alternate chilliness and heat in the small of the back, [36]. ► Internal coldness in the
region of the loins and small of back, worse on walking even a few steps, [36]. ► Extremities cold, [44], [55]. ► Extremities cold (after twenty minutes), [51]. ► Hands and feet cold (after
three hours), [70]. ►
The hands become cold when walking, [36]. ► Cold hands and fingers, [36].
► Sensation of internal coldness, extending from the knee
into the foot, when sitting, [36]. ► Heat. ► Increased
temperature, [33]. ►
Increased heat of the skin, [36]. [860.] ► Burning heat of skin,
[52]. ► Pleasant
warmth through the whole body (after three hours), [2].
► Increased warmth of the body, with redness of the face
(after three-quarters of an hour), [4]. ► Began to feel warmer and warmer till he experienced a burning
heat, and at the same time heart throbbed more and more frequently till it was impossible to
count the pulse (after half an hour), [47]. ► Heat all over body (after one and a half hours), [40]. ► Heat of the whole
body, which becomes excessive when walking (after five hours), [4]. ► On waking in the morning,
peculiar sensation of heat over the whole skin, as if going to sweat, [36]. ► Heat, burning, and dryness
of the skin, [43]. ►
Heat, with trembling, [25]. ►
[Great heat (after some time)], [15]. [See S. 736.] [870.] ► Early symptoms soon
followed by great heat and a quicker pulse, [68]. ► Glowing heat, with full, rapid pulse, [46]. ► Heat was unendurable, and
aggravated his condition, [46]. ►
Body hot and sweating, [44]. ►
Feeling as if he had been very much heated, together with heat and rush of blood to the
head, [33]. ►
Feeling of coolness gave place to an easily endured burning (after two hours), [50]. ► Irritative fever;
dry heat, and then easy perspiration, [63]. ► Increased sensation of warmth in various parts, [36]. ► Sensation of
warmth in the stomach, [36]. ►
Sensation of heat arising from the nape of the neck into the head, [36]. [880.] ► Sensation of heat in the lobules of the ears, [5]. ► Sensation of heat in face,
with cold hands (after one and a half hours), [2]. ► Sensation of heat through whole back, [36]. ► When sitting, a sense of
heat, and at the same time an internal quaking, proceeding from the nape of the neck and
between the scapulæ, and extending as pressure in the limbs, with heat and perspiration of
the forehead, [36]. ►
Heat in the head and face, [36]. ►
Heat of the head, hands, and feet, without thirst, [1].
► Heat in the head, and a sensation as if sweat would
break out, during shivering of the limbs and abdomen (after three hours), [1]. ► Heat in the occiput, [36]. ► Heat in the face,
with increased redness (after ten minutes), [30]. ► Heat in the hands, [36].
[890.] ► Creeping
heat in back, [36]. ►
Sweat. ► Moist skin of whole body and face, [3]. ► After one and a
half or two hours, skin began to grow moist. Next morning awoke miserably weak, the sweat
having penetrated to the lower side of the featherbed, and shirt and clothes drenched, [47]. ► Some inclination
to perspire, on slight exertion in cool rainy weather, [36].
► More perspiration than usual, [32]. ► Copious perspiration, [33]. ► Perspiration
profuse during the whole day, [28]. ► General warm perspiration, [36].
► Cold perspiration, especially on forehead and chest
(after twelve minutes), [38]. ►
Perspire greatly during sleep, [51]. [900.] ►
Sweat from smelling camphor, [19]. ► Profuse sweat (for one and a half hours), [51]. ► Profuse sweat for several
hours after taking, [30]. ►
Profuse sweat for some hours, and awaking weak and exhausted, [51].
► Profuse sweat relieved the symptoms (after one and a
half hours), [45]. ►
Warm sweat over the whole body, [1]. ► *Cold sweat, [1]. ► Cold sweat when beginning to vomit, especially on the face, [6]. ► Profuse cold
sweat, [20]. ►
Clammy sweat breaking out over body (after two hours), [57].
[910.] ► Cold
sweating of head, [68]. ►
Warm sweat on the forehead and palms of the hands, [1].
► Warm perspiration on forehead (after one and a half
hours), [40]. ►
Perspiration on the forehead when sitting, [36]. ► Perspiration in the nape of the neck when walking, [36]. ► Perspiration on
the back when sitting, [36]. ►
The hands perspire excessively, [36].® 2000
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