CARBOLIC. ACID.
CHEST.
► Dull pain through
the upper lobes of lungs, [18]. ►
While walking out of doors, feeling of expansion (of lightness) in the lungs, also in the
nasal passages (after five minutes), [1]. ► Tight feeling in both lungs, especially in the centre of the
chest, [17]. ► *Feeling
of narrowness in the chest, as if the diaphragm depressed the lungs, [17]. [380.] ► Chest feels as if compressed, or as if a load were pressing
in front, with a desire to dilate it (second day), [17].
► Oppression of chest, [17].
► Oppression of chest, requiring great effort to fully
inflate the lungs, [18]. ►
Front. ► Dull pressure under the sternum, in
the region of the sixth rib (after three hours), [17].
► Compressed feeling across lower end of sternum, [14]. ► Sides. ► Transient dull pain under left clavicle, [18]. ► *Slight uneasy pains in
right lung (after one hour and a half), [3]. ► Dull aching pain, whole left side of chest and abdomen,
running around to shoulder-blades (after two hours and five-sixths), [3].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Præcordium.
► Stitches, region of heart (after one hour and a
quarter), [3]. ►
Heart’s Action. ► The beat of the heart, as
well as the pulse, could not be felt, [40]. [390.] ► Heart’s action
irregular (after eighteen minutes), [45]. ► Pulse. ► Pulse rapid,
irregular, undulating, [28]. ►
Pulse very rapid, [35]. ►
Feeble, intermittent, rapid pulse, [29]. ► Pulse quick, 95 (after five minutes), [4]. ► Pulse very quick, 100
(after twenty-five minutes), [4]. ► Pulse accelerated, 82 (after thirty-five minutes), [3]. ► Pulse small,
frequent, and intermitting, [44]. ► Pulse 75 (after one hour and a half), [3]. ► Pulse 82 (after twenty
minutes), [5]. [400.]
► Pulse rises from 66 to 75, intermittent (after five
minutes); pulse 90 (after ten minutes); pulse 80 (after fifteen minutes); 9 A.M., pulse 100,
regular (second day), [6]. ►
Pulse risen from 70 to 82 (after one hour and a quarter), [3].
► Pulse risen from 70 to 84 (after fifty-five minutes), [3]. ► Pulse 86 (after
two hours and a half), [3]. ►
Pulse 88 (after seven hours), [46]. ► Pulse 90 (after half an hour), [5].
► Pulse 100 per minute, feeble, and very intermittent
(after five minutes), [31]. ►
Pulse 120 per minute, and very weak; could be counted with great difficulty, [25]. ► Sinking pulse and
temperature, [44]. ►
Pulse 68 (after one hour and five-sixths), [3]. [410.] ► Pulse 68, rather slow
(after three hours and one-twelfth), [3]. ► Pulse 68 (third day), [7].
► Pulse 68, small, [38].
► Pulse 64 (after half an hour), [5]. ► Pulse weak and fluttering, [33]. ► Pulse weak and
flickering, [30]. ►
Pulse very weak, [37]. ►
Pulse scarcely perceptible, [46]. ► Pulse scarcely perceptible (after eighteen minutes), [45]. ► Pulse and
heart-beat almost imperceptible, [32]. [420.] ► Pulse imperceptible, [34]. ► Pulse
imperceptible, and the beat of the heart scarcely noticed, [36].
NECK AND BACK.
► Neck.
► Neck feels lame and stiff when moving head (after one
hour), [3]. ► While
smoking, after tea, lameness in back of neck and shoulders (after two hours and a half), [3]. ► One of the most
painful sensations, and one which remained a very long time, was a very great sense of a
weight on my neck, with a tenderness even to the touch, over the seventh cervical vertebra, [23]. ► Drawing in
muscles of right side of neck, think in splenitis capitis
(after one hour), [7]. ►
Awoke with stitching pain in right side of neck, which increased during day (seventh day).
Pain in neck very severe, with twinges of pain that would last a few seconds, then wear off;
in five seconds it would return as before. This condition lasted some eight hours (ninth
day), [22]. ►
Soreness of muscles of neck (splenii capitis), (third
day), [7]. ► Back
weak and sore (second day), [17]. ► Back. ► Good deal of
pain in back and right side, [14]. [430.] ► *Soreness of muscles of
back and limbs (third day), [7]. ► Pains in small of back, and it hurts to straighten himself,
and they became still worse by riding, where jolting aggravates, [17]. ► Aching pain across the
small of back and in the lower limbs (after one hour), [3].
► Severe aching pains in small of back, somewhat relieved
by pressing the hand against it (fifth day), [17]. ► Tired sensation in renal region, [17]. ► The first two doses of the
acid of the first centesimal dilution, taken three hours apart, relieved a severe pain in
the lumbo-sacral region, which had existed more or less, mostly during the latter part of
the night, for two years, [19]. ►
Having another attack of backache, took a dose of Carbolic acid, 30th dil., which relieved
the pain like magic, and have had no other attack up to date (about three weeks). Health in
every respect excellent, [19].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Shoulder. ► Drawing pain in left arm, from
shoulder to elbow (transient), [3]. ► Lameness and soreness of right shoulder, when walking (second
day), [3]. ►
Rheumatic pain in right shoulder-joint nearly all day. He regarded it as an attack of
rheumatism in the shoulder, having suffered with several attacks during the last eighteen
years; they never lasted less than three or four days; this passed off suddenly in the
evening, like all the other Carbolic acid pains (second day), [21].
[440.] ► Acute but
transient pain in right shoulder-joint (after one hour and a half), [3]. ► Aching pain in right
shoulder, when bending forward, [3]. ► Aching pain in hip has gone to left shoulder-joint; although
not very severe; he is reminded of it from time to time (second day), [3]. ► Arm. ► *Constant tired, heavy feeling in left arm, [3]. ► Aching pain in
left arm and right wrist (after one hour and a quarter), [3].
► *Soreness of muscles of right arm (after one
hour and one-third), [3]. ►
Forearm. ► *Aching pain in left forearm
(after fifteen minutes), [3]. ►
Hand. ► The hand very much swollen, so that he
could not write, [38]. ►
Trembling of hands (cannot write steadily), [17]. ► A peculiar feeling of stiffness and discomfort (pricking) of
the entire hand. This discomfort remained on the middle finger until night. At one spot it
never left until there appeared a small pimple, which increased in size until it became a
sore resembling a carbuncle. The flesh suppurated until a probe could be passed nearly
through the finger. For several days the sore hand was intensely painful, and prevented
sleep for several nights. It healed finally, but was a serious sore, [12]. [450.] ► Contracting pain in palm of right hand (after two hours and
one-third), [3]. ►
Fingers. ► Pain in second phalangeal joint of
middle finger, right hand (after two hours and five-sixths), [21].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Cannot walk straight (after twenty-five minutes), [4].
► *Lower extremities feel heavy as lead (fifth
day), [17]. ►
Draggy sensation about lower extremities, which occasioned a little unsteadiness in walking
(from 20 drops), [13]. ►
Hip. ► Occasional pains in hips and shoulders
(third day), [3]. ►
Aching pain in both hips (after forty-five minutes), [3].
► Transient pains in right hip (after one hour and a
half), [3]. ►
Aching in right hip (transient), (after thirty-five minutes), [3].
► Transient aching pain in right hip and left knee (after
two hours and a half), [3]. [460.]
► Hard, aching pain in right hip, like a sciatic pain,
which slowly moved along the course of that nerve, and at night was in the bend of the knee,
and then ceased altogether (fifth day), [22]. ► Very severe aching pain in right hip-joint, felt only when
walking (second day), [3]. ►
Thigh. ► Transient pain in muscles of right
thigh (after a few moments), [3]. ► Deepseated muscular pain, on inside of upper third of left
thigh, that almost made him walk lame; lasted from five to ten minutes (after half an hour),
[21]. ► The dull
aching pains extend from the spine down the posterior muscles of the thigh, [17]. ► Drawing in right thigh and
right zygoma (very soon), [17]. ►
His thighs feel bruised (second day), [17]. ► About 7 P.M., while walking, bruised pain in the middle of
anterior part of right thigh, deepseated and lasting only for a few minutes (second day), [21]. ► Knee. ► In the night, pain for a few minutes on inside of left
knee-joint (fourth day), [21]. ►
Pain on inside of left knee-joint, lasting for a considerable time (third day), [21]. [470.] ► *Aching soreness beneath left patella, all day up to about 4 o’clock
P.M.; feels as if it would be stiff and sore to move it, but on the contrary during motion
it is not felt at all (second day), [21]. ► Leg. ► Sensation just
below the knee, on the shin, as if the part was touched with a piece of ice (after
forty-five minutes), [3]. ►
*Aching pain to the left of middle of left shin-bone (after two days), [2]. ► *Sharp pain in left
shin (after one hour and a half), [3]. ► Cramps in the calves, [42].
► Severe bruised pain beneath left tendo Achillis close
to posterior part of tibia, as if struck with a club; in a few minutes it disappeared for a
short time, when he had a sharp pain in middle joint of large finger of left hand; this pain
was only momentary, when it went back (but less intense) in the leg again (after one hour
and a quarter), [21]. ►
Ankle. ► Dull pain in right ankle and left
knee, most of the morning (second day), [4]. ► Aching pain in right ankle, and in lower part of abdomen
(after one hour), [3]. ►
Pain in left outer malleolus (after three hours and one-fifth), [21]. ► Foot. ► His feet, though he was lying flat on his back, felt as
though they could not support his body, even by a strong effort of the will, [17]. [480.] ► Feet feel heavy (after fifteen minutes), [4]. ► The feet feel as if
bruised, all the time, [17]. ►
Toes. ► Pain in right great toe as if pressed
upon, [3]. ► Pain
in under surface of big toe of left foot (after three hours), [21].
► Pressing pain in left great toe (after fifteen
minutes), [3]. ►
Tingling in left great toe, followed by a feeling as if pressed on (after a few moments), [3]. ► Sharp, stinging
pain through corns (third day), [7].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
► Objective.
► Body much swollen before death, [31]. ► Trembling, [29]. ► Slight tremor over whole
body, steadily increasing (after ten minutes), [40]. [490.] ► Muscles relaxed, [32]. ► Muscles
completely relaxed, [36]. ►
Loss of involuntary motion and speech, [44]. ► Became convulsed, [30].
► Convulsed (immediately), [45].
► Convulsions, [29].
► Violent convulsions, with trismus, and blood passing
from the mouth in consequence of the teeth having wounded the tongue, [46]. ► She fell to the ground in
convulsions, was delirious and without consciousness, [33].
► Disinclined to work; even correcting proof is fatiguing
(second day), [7]. ►
Feeling of languor, enervation, indisposition to attend to professional duties, and
drowsiness, with uncomfortable feeling of fulness in the head, varied occasionally by a
passing pain through the forehead, or right or left temple, [13].
[500.] ► Feel
languid; must lie down to rest after a light day’s work (second day), [7]. ► Languid and sleepy; retired
early (fourth day), [7]. ►
*Great languor, [8]. ► *Easily fatigued by the least walk (am usually a good
walker), [17]. ►
*Complains of being very tired (after twenty-five minutes), [4]. ► Very tired at night, and not at all amiable (third day), [7].
► *Weakness, [44].
► Physical exhaustion (second day), [18]. ► Great prostration, [29]. ►► *Profound
prostration, [27]. [510.]
► Faint feeling, spreading from the thighs all over the
body, [17]. ►
Administered chloroform in large quantity (one-third of a pound), to a patient during an
operation, and was thereby affected nearly as much as the patient; obliged to go into the
fresh air in order to keep from fainting (fourth day), [17].
► Fell insensible (immediately), [45]. ► Fell from her seat to the
floor, [30]. ►
Extreme syncope, [47]. ►
Complete anæsthesia, [34]. ►
Complete anæsthesia, even of the conjunctiva, [44]. ► Numbness of skin of hands, [8].
► Subjective. ►
Physical and mental exhilaration, [18]. ► Shuddering sensation when he took it in his mouth; imagined
he could taste the acid, [21]. [520.] ► General feeling of
dulness and heaviness, [20]. ►
Felt badly the whole day, especially from a burning in the stomach, with a sore feeling to
the touch (second day), [17]. ►
Said he felt mean, and left for home before his usual time, [14].
► Feels as if he had taken a violent cold (second day), [6]. ► Soreness, as if he
had taken cold (thinks he has not), (third day), [7]. ► General soreness, worse in back, abdomen, and chest (third
day), [7]. ► All
the muscles prominently used are sore and stiff (fourth day), [7].
► All symptoms go from the head downward, [17]. ► Pain felt only on right
side, [22]. ► The
pains seem to affect the right side first, and afterwards the same parts of the left (after
thirty-five minutes), [3]. [530.]
► The pains appeared most frequently on left side; came
and went very suddenly, and generally lasted but a short time; they generally affected the
muscles and joints, but not the bones, [21]. ► *I became thoroughly unfit for study, as every exercise at reading
increased all my symptoms, especially the pressing at the occiput, [23]. ► Relief of symptoms, except
frontal headache, after a hearty lunch, [17].
SKIN.
► Eruptions, Moist.
► Slight eruption of a vesicular character all over the
body (third day), [5]. ►►
*Vesicular eruption on hands and all over body, which itches excessively; better after
rubbing, but leaving a burning pain, [6].
[Arsenicum had no effect on the eruption. Prover has the itch some eight or nine years ago,
which was cured by the external application of Sulphur. The present eruption looks very much
like the itch, but the insect is wanting. Rhus and Sulphur were given, but exerted very little influence over the
eruption. It gradually got better without treatment, and diseappeared in about three weeks.]
► *A small vesicle formed on centre of nose
(fourth day), [3]. ►
Pustular. ► Vesicle on nose converted into a
pustule, which was opened (fifth day); opened again (sixth day); opened again, and healed up
(ninth day), [3]. ►
Slight pustular eruption on right side of face (second day), [18].
► Sensations. ►
Burning in the skin (second day), [38]. ► Tingling in lower extremities, [17].
► Formication in the extremities, [42]. [540.] ► Itching of scalp and lower part of abdomen, as if bitten by
something (after two hours and five-sixths), [3]. ► Itching of right ear (after thirty-five minutes), [3]. ► Itching of the
face (after fifty-five minutes), [3]. ► Itching of right cheek, and sharp pain about the centre of
cheek, as if bitten by a mosquito. So sudden and peculiar was this pain that I expected to
find something had really bitten me (after thirty-five minutes), [3]. ► Itching of the back of neck
and of the nose (after twenty minutes), [3]. ► Itching of left shoulder and right cheek (after thirty-five
minutes), [3]. ►
Itching of left elbow (after one hour and a half), [3].
► Itching of left elbow (after fifteen minutes), [3]. ► Itching of right
forefinger (after one hour and a half), [3]. ► Itching about the left hip (after forty-five minutes), [3]. [550.] ► Itching of outside of thigh and of the genitals (after one
hour and five-sixths), [3]. ►
Itching of inner part of thigh and scrotum, relieved by scratching, but it soon returns, [3]. ► Itching inner side
of left knee (after one hour and a quarter), [3]. ► Itching of ankles, arms, back of neck, calf of leg, and other
parts of body (after fifteen minutes), [6]. ► Itching of various parts of body, right thigh, buttocks,
back, shin, etc. (after one hour and a quarter), [3]. ► Intense burning-itching of the genitals (after one hour and a
half), [3]. ►
Tingling-itching in right little finger, soon after in the left, [3].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Sleepiness.
► Yawning (very soon), [17].
► Yawning (after thirty-five minutes), [3]. ► Yawned now and then, and
took long inspirations, [14]. [560.]
► Yawning constantly (after twenty minutes), [6]. ► Incessant yawning
(after fifty-five minutes), [3]. ►
Sleepiness (after half an hour), [18]. ► Sleepiness, constant inclination to yawn, [18]. ► Sleepiness, with desire to
stretch, [17]. ►
Sleepy (second day), [7]. ►
Felt sleepy in afternoon, but could not fall into sound sleep, [15]. ► Sleepy and chilly,
although sitting in a room with a good fire, [17]. ► I was constantly heavy and sleepy, but when I would lie down
to sleep would be perplexed with dreams, and would wake up unrefreshed, with coated tongue
and nausea, [23]. ►
Became drowsy, [14]. [570.]
► Soon lapsed into a sound and quiet slumber, [16]. ► Had a very
refreshing sleep; awoke earlier than usual, amiable (second day), [7]. ► Slept soundly all night,
and awoke greatly refreshed in morning, [13]. ► Slept heavy; awoke sore all over, especially the legs
(gluteal muscles), back, chest, and arms (fourth day), [7].
► Instead of the tremors a somnolent state set in (after
two hours), [40]. ►
Riding lulls him to sleep, and walking is an exertion, [17].
► Sleeplessness. ►
Slept well last night, but woke often; no dreams (second day), [3]. ► Restless sleep the whole
night, with busy dreams, [17]. ►
At midnight, after waking, could not get to sleep again; the smell of Carbolic acid seemed
to keep her awake, [9]. ►
Dreams. ► Sleep not refreshing; dreamed much,
but cannot now (A.M.) recall the subjects (third day), [7].
[580.] ► During night
had a great many dreams, some amorous, others he has unable to recall when awake (third
day), [3]. ►
Dreamed of great mental activity; awoke with clear intellect; can work (fifth day), [7]. ► Slept well as
usual, but dreamed of travelling, which is unusual, [3].
► Slept well, but dreamed of fire; so vivid was the dream
that he was awakened; found that he was quite feverish, although the window was open and the
room quite cold (second day), [3]. ► Dreamed she could not get to sleep on account of thinking
about the body I had embalmed; thought she tossed about, and then tried to wake me, to give
her some medicine to stop thinking; she thought she could not wake me, and pulled me out of
bed; and that I was bathed in perspiration; face pale; thought I was dead. The fright awoke
her; she found herself lying on her back, with her mouth wide open, apparently paralyzed
with fear; she aroused me and begged in a whining tone for something to make her go to
sleep. Could not at first be persuaded she had been asleep. Gave her a dose of Nux, and she dropped to sleep at once, and slept soundly; awoke
perfectly well in the morning, [9].® 2000
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