COCA.
MOUTH.
► Greenish and
stumpy teeth, [34]. ►
Toothache in a hollow tooth (fourth day), [7]. ► Tongue. ► Tongue
coated (twenty-first day), [3]. ►
At tip of tongue, towards right side, an appearance of a vesicle that had broken, with a red
circle around it; tongue there feels sore occasionally, when eating, touching it, and at
other times; at first, the soreness was as if it had been scalded with hot tea; then more
like a sore place (one hundred and first and one hundred and second days); well next day, [16]. ► Cocaine causes a
numb feeling on the tongue, [19]. ► General Mouth. ► A
swelling inside right lower lip; a few days after, a similar swelling inside left cheek, at
upper part, nearly opposite first upper molar; sometimes rather painful when eating
(sixtieth day), flattened on two sides (that next the cheek, and the opposite one), with a
thin border; red, with a whitish patch at tip on the side next cavity of mouth, as if from
pus; not so painful (sixty-third day), feels smaller, somewhat semicircular; apex more
pointed; getting smaller (after sixty-four days), nearly gone (eight-sixth day), [16]. ► Dryness of mouth on
waking, about 6.45 A.M., gone in half an hour (sixty-third day); 7.30 A.M., again
after a short sleep (on one occasion, with mouth open), (eighty-ninth day); soon after
waking (ninety-third day); immediately on waking (about 7 A.M.), mouth and lips, removed by
breakfast (one hundred and tenth day); with disagreeable taste (one hundred and
twenty-fourth day); still dry (one hundred and fifty-fourth day), [16]. ► Cool feeling, verging on
numbness, in the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat, similar to that after taking
strong Aconite into the mouth, [29]. ► Slight burning in mouth
and throat, with increased thirst, set in, [22]. [160.] ► Fresh leaves burn in
the mouth, like Cantharides, [36]. ► Mouth and palate felt as if burnt with pepper, in morning, [12]. ► Swollen sensation
in the arches of the palate, which made swallowing difficult with at times tickling, causing
cough, returned as in a former proving, [6]. ► Saliva. ► Increased
flow of saliva, first of a bitterish, later of an aromatic taste (after chewing 1 drachm of
the leaves), [22]. ►
Taste. ► Mouth out of taste, for two hours,
3.30 P.M., again, on rising; going off after drinking cold water (seventy-eighth day), [16]. ► Taste slimy
(fourth day), [3]. ►
Salt taste at tip of tongue, 4 P.M.; about 9 P.M., transient on anterior portion of right
side (twenty-ninth day); during morning, again (thirtieth day). At tip of tongue 2.45 P.M.
and at 3.50 P.M.; at 7.40 P.M., over a larger portion of extremity, then on the right side
of anterior part till about 9 P.M.; eating a gingerbread removed it awhile; again removed by
supper, but again returned (forty-third day), [16]. ► Bitter taste on waking in morning, lasting only a short time;
afterwards an unusual flow of water from nose, [27]. ► Bitter taste in mouth, for a minute or so, about 7.15 A.M.
(tenth day), [16]. ►
Bitter taste on right half of tongue, for about a minute, at 12.45 P.M. (second day), [15]. [170.] ► Bitter taste on right side of tongue, at 6.40 P.M. (fifteenth
day), [15]. ►
Insipid, grapy taste of the infusion, [9]. ► Water tastes burnt (twelfth day), [3]. ► Butter tastes like herring
(ninth day), [3].
THROAT.
► Sensation of
dryness in the throat (after two hours), [7]. ► Soreness at back of throat on rising (thirteenth, nineteenth,
and forty-first days), [16]. ►
Scraping in the throat, with swollen uvula; this caused frequent hawking and expectoration
of mucus (second day), [6]. ►
Tickling at back of throat, on rising (forty-third day), [16].
► *Hawking up of small, transparent lumps of mucus,
chiefly in morning (third day), third proving, [27]. ► Tonsils and Uvula. ►
The uvula became long and red (from chewing the leaves), [6].
[180.] ► Pain on
swallowing, as from soreness and swelling, in a small spot on the right side of the uvula
(seventh day), [6]. ►
Sensation of dryness in the throat; and unpleasant sensation on swallowing, as if swollen
(second morning), [6]. ►
Fauces and Pharynx. ► By a slight cough,
loosened and swallowed some mucus from back of pharynx, 8.20 P.M. (ninety-first day), [16]. ► 3 o’clock A.M.,
dreamed he was trying to remove mucus from pharynx by hawking; on waking, in midst of dream,
found himself doing so; could not succeed by coughing or hawking; voice hoarse; cold water
did not affect the throat in any way (ninety-sixth day), [16].
► Great dryness of fauces, [27].
► Feeling as if some mucus were at back of pharynx, not
removed by coughing, or hawking, 11 P.M. (eighty-ninth day); still there, 8.27 (ninety-first
day); gone, 8 (ninety-second day), [16]. ► At back of pharynx soreness and feeling of obstruction, not
removed by coughing or hawking, with hoarseness, early morning (eighty-ninth day); after
rising (eighty-ninth and ninetieth days), a slight cough loosened mucus; brought up a piece
of green mucus (ninety-first day). Tickling or kind of soreness when talking (the same, one
hundredth day); slight cough loosening mucus (ninety-first day); after rising (ninety-second
day), not removed by coughing or hawking up, which however loosened; the cough caused
soreness, [16]. ►
Tickling at left side of pharynx when talking, 8.45 A.M. (one hundred and thirty-sixth day),
[16]. ► When
talking, tickling at back of pharynx towards left side (ninetieth day), [16]. ► Swallowing. ► Difficulty in swallowing; the uvula is swollen, without
special redness (second day), [6]. [190.] ► Pain on swallowing,
with great swelling of the uvula, on waking in the morning (third day), [6].
STOMACH.
► Appetite.
► Appetite increased for last few days (one hundred and
thirty-second and one hundred and thirty-fifth days), [16].
► Great appetite (after three hours), [6]. ► Sudden voracious appetite,
especially for animal food, contrary to usual habit, [9].
► Great hunger; dinner was eaten with appetite, even at
11 A.M., though less was eaten than on the preceding day, when he had no special hunger
(sixth day), [5]. ►
Morbid hunger, even to swallowing animal excrements; chronic symptom of chewers, [9]. ► Longing for food,
although the abdomen was somewhat distended in the epigastric region, as from an overloaded
stomach (second day), [1]. ►
Indians, after chewing all day, not eating any food, ate at night like hungry men, and
sometimes at a single meal swallowed as much as would serve others two days, [32]. ► Appetite diminished; could
not take his usual moderate quantum of food, [12]. ► Slightly diminished appetite, [14].
[200.] ► Great
diminution of the usually vigorous appetite; chewing the leaves suspended the sensation of
hunger; though eating one-half less than usual, his weight did not diminish, nor the
capacity to endure labor, [29]. ►
Little appetite (fourth day), [3]. ► Very little appetite the first week, especially for meat, of
which I was usually most fond (fifth day), [3]. ► Loss of appetite, [9]. ► Loss of appetite, with speedy satiety (twenty-first day), [3]. ► Want of appetite;
weak digestion, and nervous irritation, with headache, [9a].
► Drinking the decoction at 3 or 4 o’clock P.M., it has
invariably and totally deprived him of all appetite for dinner, and of his rest at night;
under these circumstances he always passed the night in reading or writing; he felt no
fatigue or hunger on the following morning, [24]. ► Retards approach of hunger (taken as tea), [34]. ► Enables the body to feed
upon itself, without the hunger-pains and weakness usually accompanying prolonged abstinence
from ordinary food, [34]. ►
Very little need for nourishment, even during heavy work, with remarkable vigor, [10]. [210.] ► Did without food for full forty hours, and the next food
taken was then exceedingly well digested, [22]. ► Indisposed for food; ate very little dinner, and no tear or
supper, [12]. ► No
relish for food (first day), [7]. ► No desire for dinner, in spite of which much was eaten with
relish (second day), [5]. ►
Great satiety, without longing for nourishment, for a long time, [10]. ► Appetite extremely
irregular, for the aversion to all food is often suddenly followed by an insatiable craving,
especially for animal food, [9]. ►
Appetite extremely irregular; aversion to all food is soon followed by the most ravenous
hunger, especially for animal food, [9a]. ► Sometimes aversion to all food, with sudden voracious
appetite, especially for animal food, [9]. ► Thirst. ► Thirst;
drank about half a tumbler of cold water between 8 and 9 P.M. (third and tenth days), [16]. ► Great thirst
(seventh day), [7]. ►
Eructation and Hiccough. [220.] ► Eructations, with heaviness in the stomach and constant
desire to eructate, lasting three hours (thirteenth day), [6].
► Eructations several times after his usual coffee (after
one hour and a half), [1]. ►
Loud eructations, without taste or unpleasant sensation in the stomach (after 10 drops), [6]. ► Many eructations
(second day), [5]. ►
Many eructations of air, without taste, recurring every quarter of an hour (after one hour),
[6]. ► Slight
eructations after dinner (second day), [1]. ► Slimy eructations, [3].
► Repeated painless hiccough, following a tepid
shower-bath taken after supper, hiccough going off soon after lying down in bed (first day),
again when eating sandwiches about 12 P.M. (sixteenth day), [16].
► Nausea and Vomiting. ►
Slight nausea, [13]. ►
Great nausea after breakfast (after four hours), [7]. [230.] ► Slight sick feeling
before supper, removed by it; had little appetite (eighty-fifth day), [16]. ► Violent vomiting, very
slimy water, without bitter or sour taste, at 6 P.M. (first day), [7]. ► Distension of the stomach
and continued gulping and desire to eructate, returning after dinner and lasting till
evening (thirteenth day), [6]. ►
Increase of digestive powers, [37]. ► Digestion goes on with great activity, [22]. ► Digestion became
extraordinarily good and continued so, [12]. ► Debility of digestive organs at first seems to be slight
uneasiness, soon reaches a frightful intensity, [9]. ► Dyspepsia (nineteenth day), [3].
► Dyspepsia, with tasteless eructations, nausea, and
great weariness (eighteenth day), [3]. ► Satisfied, comfortable feeling in stomach, as after a meal
taken with a good appetite, [70]. [240.] ► After breakfast,
emptiness; again after a long walk (one hundred and sixth day), [16]. ► Feeling of emptiness of
stomach, as if from want of food; about 8 A.M., before breakfast, removed (sixth
day); again (seventy-seventh day), 6 A.M. (in bed), fell asleep; on waking at 7, it was
gone; again, 10 P.M., after having a good meal a short time before; removed by some
strawberries, soon returning; when reading intently did not notice it, but at 11 P.M., on
leaving off reading, I felt it again; (on the one hundred and sixteenth day), after rising,
removed by breakfast, for which he had not much appetite; (one hundred and seventeenth day),
7.30 A.M., after rising, removed by breakfast; in morning before rising (one hundred and
nineteenth day); soon after rising, going off before breakfast (one hundred and nineteenth
and one hundred and twenty-second days); (one hundred and thirty-first day) about 8.30 A.M.,
renewed by breakfast, [16]. ►
Peculiar sensation of emptiness in the stomach and abdomen (four hours), [6]. ► Painful contracted
sensation in the stomach, with a pain in the left side, something like a so-called stitch in
the spleen (after fourth hour), [6]. ► An intense gnawing, hungry sensation, at the pit of the
stomach, [28]. ►
Sensation of fulness in the epigastric and mesogastric regions (after two hours and a half),
[1]. ► A sensation
of gastric fulness and repletion, as after a very full meal, continuing several hours,
followed by a total disinclination to eat or sleep, for a period of twelve or twenty-four
hours, depending upon the quantity of the leaves taken, [24].
► When walking, a pain about region of cardiac end of
stomach, gradually increasing; would have amounted to a cutting pain; after standing, 4
P.M., it went off, returning during a walk, soon (first day), [16].
► Pricking pain in a spot about the cardiac end of
stomach, when sitting indoors, 7 P.M., [16].
ABDOMEN.
► Hypochondria.
► Bilious affections appear, with their numerous
tormenting sufferings, common under a tropical sky; obstinate constipation, jaundice,
headache, debility, emaciation, [9]. [250.] ► Intense pains in
region of liver; biliary affection; gallstones frequent and severe, [38]. ► General Abdomen. ► Abdomen distended, tense, tympanitic, [1]. ► Abdomen very much distended
(eleventh day), [7]. ►
Abdomen very much distended, in the evening (third day), [7].
► Rumbling in the abdomen, with passage of flatus after
five minutes, and continuing more or less throughout the day (second day), [1]. ► Repeated rumbling in the
abdomen, as from flatulence, with eructations without taste or odor (two hours and a half), [1]. ► Gurgling in the
ileum, extending after ten minutes to the ascending and descending colon (after twenty
minutes), [1]. ►
Peculiar gurgling in the abdomen, with sensation of emptiness (second day), [6]. ► Constant urging of
flatulence, without passage of any, [1]. ► On two occasions flatus from bowels, having the smell of
burnt gunpowder, 8 A.M. (ninetieth day), [16]. [260.] ► Passage of flatus and
urging to stool (after forty-five minutes), [1]. ► Profuse passage of odorless flatus, relieving the colic and
the rumbling in the abdomen, [1]. ► Cutting-drawing gnawing pain in the small intestines, with
rumbling, commencing early in the morning, reaching its greatest severity about 9, and
lasting till about 11 o’clock, relieved by rapid walking and after eating something, but
returning after half an hour; the pain was relieved by repeated pressure in the mesogastric
region, [1]. ►
Colic renewed after a cup of chocolate, [1]. ► The colic is very much aggravated after taking coffee,
continues throughout the day till 5 P.M., then disappears after drinking cold beer, [1].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► Wakened
from sleep by great urging to stool; stool copious, solid (first night), [7]. ► Urging to stool in the
afternoon, followed by diarrhœa (sixth day), [3]. ► 3 P.M., had urgings to stool, but evacuated only a slight
quantity of clear watery mucus, with a few brownish small flocks swimming in it (second
day), [27]. ►
Urging to stool, followed by hard, scanty stool, with sensation as if the sphincter was
paralyzed, [1]. ►
Plagued the whole day with desire to stool, and sulphuretted hydrogen flatulency (seventh
day), [21]. [270.]
► No desire for stool at the usual time in the morning;
no evacuation the whole day, notwithstanding every effort; awoke at 11 o’clock at night,
with great urging to stool, followed by an abundant, firm evacuation, [39].
STOOL.
► Diarrhœa. ► Teaspoonful mushy diarrhœa, 2 P.M. (fourth day); four stools
during the early afternoon, without pain; stools different from his habitual looseness;
stopped taking Coca, and had natural stools (fifth and sixth days), [21]. ► Large diarrhœic stools,
without pain anywhere, also frequent urination of large quantities; had to get up three
times at night to pass water, [20]. ► Two natural stools (in the afternoon and evening), (eighth
day), [6]. ► A
motion rather more abundant and looser than usual, and having more smell, 11 A.M. (second
day), [27]. ► A
stool of moderate quantity, with urging looser, more smell than usual, and a soreness in the
anus while passing it, 2 A.M. (third day); later, more natural, indicating a quicker and
more perfect digestion, almost inodorous, remaining so, [27].
► Soft stool voided with difficulty; looser stool; smells
more; sensation of looseness in the bowels, as if diarrhœa were about to set in, with very
slight gripings, 5 P.M. (second day), [27]. ► Thin stool (nineteenth day), [3].
► Stool thinner than usual, followed by continued urging,
lasting three minutes, without further effect (after one hour), [1]. ► Very pressing motion, with
urgings, almost as abundant as usually after breakfast 1 P.M. (second day), [27]. [280.] ► Natural stool after dinner, but dark (one hundred and first
day), [16]. ► After
dinner, natural stool, perhaps somewhat less than usual (one hundred and tenth day), [16]. ► The fæces lose
by degrees their stercoral odor, but the peculiar odor of the Coca, is to be detected in
them, [22]. ►
Constipation. ► Constipation is of so frequent
occurrence that, from its prominent character in the disease of Coca chewers, it has been
called Opilacion, [9]. ►
Stool delayed (first day), [7]. ►
Daily evacuation delayed for three hours, [12]. ► Evacuations not so regular, drier than usual, partly in small
lumps, and inodorous (nineteenth day), [27]. ► Though the evacuation was soft enough and well former, there
was difficulty in voiding it, [12]. ► Expulsion, with more than usual difficulty, of small lumps of
fæces (after Magnesia), [27]. ►
After breakfast, stool rather less than usual, and dark;
after dinner, somewhat scanty stool, but not dark (ninety-fifth day), [16]. [290.] ► Fæces darker and rather less than usual, and in small pieces
(sixty-seventh day), [16]. ►
Stool after breakfast, scanty, dry, in small lumps, like walnuts (sixty-sixth
day); same after natural desire, with considerable effort (eightieth day); latter portion
like walnuts (eighty-second day); scanty, difficult; at first in small pieces; with the
straining slight pain, apparently in right spermatic cord or testis (one hundred and tenth
day), [16]. ►
Quantity of fæces reduced in bulk about one-third, drier, more consistent, in smaller
lumps, ejected with little effort, and without any smell; the paper used is never stained
(first day); (fourth day), usual morning stool does not take place; vain endeavors to effect
it; later, more constipated, less regular (eighth day), [27].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Urethra.
► Fine stitches in the female urethra before urinating;
urine normal (third day); again in the evening (eighth day), [30].
► A desire to urinate frequently, with increased flow of
urine, [28]. ►
Micturition. ► Rose at night to urinate, as he
had to do constantly a long time ago, but not lately, and it ceased
after the proving, [16]. ► Rose to urinate at night often, during the fourth, fifteenth,
nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-third weeks, particularly after midnight,
towards morning, or early in the morning, often in the fifteenth week, and the next
following, [16]. ►
Quantity of urine decreased 47.60 centimetres, [14]. ► Urine. ► Urine
dark-brown (first evening), [7]. ►
Urine has an unbroken film all over its surface, iridescent in certain lights, with an
appearance like fissures in it, mapping it out, and a flocculent, pale sediment floating at
the bottom seen through the film (one hundred and twelfth day); 6 P.M., before dinner (one
hundred and twenty-third day), [16]. [300.] ► Urine acid, smelling
like perspiration, [11]. ►
Urine passed at night formed a cloud in a short time, which by morning gathered into little
bits like crumbs of bread, swimming at the bottom of the vessel, [27]. ► Urine, with a
yellowish-red sediment adhering to bottom of vessel, and a flocculent precipitate floating
there, after standing all night (one hundred and sixty-eighth day), [16]. ► Urine of the night has a
pale orange-colored, somewhat flocculent, sediment, chiefly collected in one spot (eleventh
day), is dark when passed (eightieth and eighty-first days), with a dusky-reddish sediment
adhering to vessel, turbid (even when passed) after standing, with an oily-looking film on
surface (eightieth, eighty-fourth, and ninety-eighth days); more after standing all night,
less of the day urine, [16]. ►
Quantity of urea decreased 2.0101 grammes; of chloride of sodium 3.4167 grammes; of
sulphuric acid .2948 gramme; of free acid .6945 gramme. Quantity of phosphoric acid
increased .0090 gramme. Microscopically there was found in the urine an abundance of
octahedral crystals of oxalate of lime, of all sizes, [14].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Male.
► Weakness of the genital organs, commencing as an
indefinite sick feeling, followed by “bilious troubles,” with their thousand
tormenting complaints, especially constipation, jaundice, and numerous symptoms of
disturbances of the nervous system, [9a]. ► It is looked upon by the natives as a sure aphrodisiac; in
two cases there was an observed after effect on the genital functions, [22]. ► During the night, seminal
emission, with voluptuous dreams; sleep restless, broken, [21].
► Female. ►
Menses delayed for two days; come on about noon; got very profuse during the night, with
some pain in the lower part of the abdomen; not in a steady flow as usual, but in gushes, awakening from sound sleep (tenth day); after
drinking the infusion morning and evening for a whole week, [30].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx
and Trachea. ► Irritation in larynx during
afternoon, exciting cough, while sitting quietly in the room; gradually ceasing after
coughing from fifteen to twenty times, [40]. [310.] ► Tickling and
irritation to cough, in the trachea and larynx, at 2 P.M., [1].
► Frequent tickling in the larynx, causing a short dry
cough, when smoking (fourth day), [4]. ► Voice. ► Hoarseness of
voice, first in the evening (eighty-eighth day); all day (eighty-ninth day); less 9 A.M.
(ninetieth day); again in the evening (ninetieth and ninety-first days); and soon after
rising, last in the morning (ninety-eighth day), [16].
► Hoarseness, with tickling in the upper part of the
trachea, and some cough (tenth day), [30]. ► Cough and Expectoration. ►
A tickling cough would cause a tingling (one hundred and forty-fourth day), [16]. ► Much dry cough,
in the evening, in bed, as from catarrh of the air-passages, [1].
► Cough in the morning, with expectoration of tenacious
thick whitish-yellow mucus, as in chronic catarrh; with dryness of the throat and mouth, and
thirst, [1]. ►
Occasional slight cough, indoors (forty-second day); sometimes preceded by tickling at back
of throat (forty-third day); with expectoration, which was swallowed, 11 P.M. (eighty-eighth
and eighty-ninth days); during morning (ninetieth day), [16].
► Evening, in open air, rather cool wind, paroxysm of
coughing; afterward, frequent cough, usually preceded by tickling at back of pharynx,
sometimes followed by soreness there, and loosening of mucus, fluent coryza in right
nostril; indoors very slight (ninety-fifth day); when walking in hot sun 4 P.M., short
paroxysm of coughing (ninety-sixth day), [16]. ► Expectoration, after rising, more abundant than usual, and
starchlike, and more difficult to hawk up, [27]. [320.] ► Expectoration of
small lumps, like boiled starch, which he has had for some time, immediately after rising in
the morning, (second day); decreases, and is almost gone (fourth day), [27]. ► Respiration. ► Abominable breath, [32].
► No want of breath on climbing up hill, [41]. ► Difficulty in breathing,
with palpitation of the heart, and a not unpleasant weariness of the whole body, as after a
great exertion, continuing even in bed (seventh day), [6].
► Shortness of breath and slight oppression on ascending
a height (one hour after 30 drops, seventh day), [6]. ► The oppression and shortness of breath, especially on
ascending a hill, continued three or four days, but on the fifth and sixth days there was no
oppression and no shortness of breath, even on rapid walking or ascending a height, [5]. ► Incessant dyspnœa,
a pressure upon the whole chest, with constant desire to take a deep breath, as if thereby
something could be breathed away (after 40 drops, eighth day), [6].
CHEST.
► Great freedom in
the chest and in the whole body; feels very fresh and vigorous, with desire to walk rapidly
and a long distance, although it is very warm and sunny (first day), [6]. ► Heaviness on the chest,
obliging him to take a deep breath frequently; it is neither painful nor unpleasant on
walking or ascending steps (second day), [6]. ► Heaviness and dyspnœa in the chest, in the forenoon while
walking; sometimes a distended painful sensation on the chest, though impeding the breathing
very little (from chewing the leaves), [6]. [330.] ► A peculiar heaviness
in the chest and shortness of breath in the evening, while walking slowly (seventh day after
30 drops of the tincture), [6]. ►
A painful heaviness in the chest, a constant need to take a very deep breath, continuing
while sitting still after walking, with sensation as if the lungs were too much distended
(seventh day), [6]. ►
Dull pains just below clavicles, continuing all day (ninth day), [18]. ► Unusual fulness of the
chest, stomach and abdomen, in the afternoon (second day), [5].
► Shortly after 12 P.M., one-half teaspoonful, a
sensation of compression in the chest, in the region of the short ribs (first day), [21]. ► Oppression of the
chest (after two hours and a half), [1]. ► Oppression of the chest (after four hours), [7]. ► Much oppression of the
chest, shortness of breath, especially on ascending steps, [5].
[This prover formerly suffered from difficult breathing, especially on ascending steps.] ► Soreness in upper lobe of lungs (sixth day), continuing all
day (eighth day), [18]. ►
Sides. ► Pain beneath the first and second
false ribs of the left side while walking (second day), [6].
[340.] ► Slight
stitches in right chest, near the sternum, about the fourth rib (seventh day), [21]. ► Transient
stitches in the left lung, between the third and sixth ribs, aggravated by deep inspiration
(after one hour and three-quarters), [1]. ► Stitching pains under left clavicle, at 12 P.M.; same pains
under right clavicle, 4 P.M. (fifth day), [18].® 2000
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