COLOCYNTHIS.
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► Rectum.
► Pain in the lower part of the rectum, as from swollen
hæmorrhoids, while sitting, walking, and urging to stool, [1].
► Ineffectual pressing toward the rectum, [36]. ► Stitches in the rectum, [30]. ► Anus. [550.] ► Blind hæmorrhoids, [1]. ► A small painful
hæmorrhoidal knob in ano (sixteenth day), [50]. ► Moisture at the anus and perineum, [30]. ► Soon after dinner, when
walking in the open air, oozing at the anus and discharge of moisture from the rectum,
instead of the expected flatulence. This oozing continued the whole afternoon; at 6 P.M.
another pappy stool, with much mucus and subsequent burning of the anus, [30]. ► [Discharge from the anus,
some hours after dinner], [17]. ►
Discharge of blood from the anus, [20]. ► Discharge of blood from the anus, which after more than a year still
continues in greater or less quantity daily, with violent sticking and burning pain in the
small of the back and anus (during the first days), [26]. (Before this proving he had never had a discharge of blood from
the anus.) ► Sensation at the anus as if successive
slippery bubbles were escaping, [31]. [560.] ► Burning at the anus, [30]. ► Burning and
sticking in the anus, [41]. ►
Burning and excoriated pain, with moisture at the anus, as after diarrhœa, [30]. ► Burning and excoriated
pain, with moisture at the anus, as after diarrhœa, [30].
► Slight burning and moisture at the anus, as after
diarrhœa, [30]. ►
Occasional pressing at the anus, as if a quantity of fæces were about to be discharged,
with escape of only a little mucus, [31]. ► Frequent pressure at the anal sphincter, which ceased at once
on the escape of the slightest quantity of wind or mucus, [31].
► Violent itching sticking in the anus and rectum (after
one hour), [1]. ►
Violent itching sticking in the anus when at stool, [5].
► Twitching and burning at the anus and in the rectum in
the afternoon, [36]. ►
Prickling and oozing from the anus, [30]. ► Stools caused great soreness of anus and surrounding parts, [51]. [570.] ► Sensitiveness around the anus, with frequent urging to stool,
which was unsatisfactory and diarrhœic, but painless, [44]. ► Itching at the
anus, and at the orifice of the urethra, [36]. ► Itching in the anus all day, [24].
► Severe itching at the anus for several days, [47]. ► Violent itching
at the anus, [47]. ►
Urging. ► Urging to stool twice the first day,
[47]. ► Urging to
stool (which, however, was under control), [42]. ► Urging to stool and a soft evacuation after dinner, [40]. ► Urging to stool
without an evacuation, which appeared an hour afterwards in single pieces of a stony
hardness, [37]. ►
Frequent urging to stool, without any evacuation, [37].
[580.] ► Violent
urging to evacuate the bowels, demanding instant attention (after five hours), [40]. ► *Excessive urging to
stool, which was copious, yellowish-brown, partly thin, as from a purge, and with a sourish
offensive odor, followed by transient relief of the colic, [4]. ► *Frequent excessive urging to
stool, with sensation in the anus and lower portion of the rectum as if the parts were
weakened and relaxed by long-continued diarrhœa, [4].
► Ineffectual urging to stool, [29]. ► Repeated inclination to
stool, which, however, was easily resisted, [44]. ► An easily resisted inclination to stool (after one hour), and
subsequently a half watery half solid evacuation, [27].
► *Urgent almost irresistible inclination to stool
(after five hours), and, in quick succession, two abundant, first
pappy, then fluid evacuations, with ulcerative pain in the bowels, ameliorated by bending
forwards, aggravated by an upright position, [30].
► Sudden tenesmus, soon followed by a copious pappy
evacuation, succeeded by griping, and sensation as if taking cold in the abdomen;
sleepiness, disinclination to study, [38].
STOOL.
► Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa (after half an hour), [48]. ► Diarrhœa day and night,
with nausea, without being able to vomit, [3]. [590.] ► Diarrhœa (twelve
stools daily), [55]. ►
Diarrhœa, fifteen stools in eighteen hours, with gradual relief of the colic, [3]. ► Diarrhœa followed
by much flatulence, and an unpleasant not very marked sensation of weakness, [38]. ► Slight diarrhœa, preceded
by griping in the umbilical region, [52]. ► Violent diarrhœa, with colic, [54].
► *Copious fecal diarrhœa, accompanied by great discharge of
wind, [40]. ►
Greenish-yellow diarrhœa, with a feeling as if he had taken cold, [3]. ► Looseness of the bowels, [26]. ► Great looseness, [39]. ► Dysentery, [23]. [600.]
► Fatal dysentery, [15].
► Several small evacuations a day, with frequent
inclination to stool, [44]. ►
Several pappy stools a day, [42]. ► Several thin pappy stools every day, [42]. ► Three copious discharges
from bowels at short intervals, each followed by temporary relief of the abdominal pain
(after five hours), [51]. ►
Three very soft brown stools (after five hours), [34].
► Three pappy stools, [35]. ► Three fluid mucous, but
painless stools, [36]. ►
Quite liquid evacuation three times in the evening, and once the following morning, [49]. ► Two pappy stools
(after each dose), [24]. [610.]
► Two pappy evacuations daily (after three days), [24]. ► Contrary to his
usual habit, two pappy stools a day, with slight griping in the upper abdomen, [23]. ► Two pappy stools,
with discharge of flatulence, [32]. ► Two pappy yellow painless stools in the forenoon, [42]. ► Two, almost
fluid, yellowish stools in the afternoon, [39]. ► Two unsatisfactory stools, [41].
► A second stool at 4 P.M., with slight subsequent
burning at the anus, [40]. ►
The usual normal stool was soon followed by one of pappy consistence and subsequent burning
in the anus, and at the same time prickling in the orifice of the urethra after urinating, [30]. ► A stool in the
morning and another after dinner, hard and unsatisfactory, [41].
► Stools at first watery, slimy, then bilious, at last
bloody, [11]. [620.]
► Stools dark-green, thin, mushy, but not watery, [51]. ► Pappy stools,
with burning at the anus, [36]. ►
Stools gradually became more pasty and thinner, always very brown; together with much
rumbling in the abdomen, [52]. ►
Stools consistent, remarkably brown, often quite blackish-brown, [52]. ► Dysenteric stools, with
passage of blood and remarkable burning pain in the sacral region (after five hours), [53]. ► *Bloody stools,
[10], [12]. ► Diarrhœic stool after dinner, without colic or tenesmus, [43]. ► A yellow
diarrhœic stool, without tenesmus or pain, after dinner, [42].
► Diarrheic evacuation, with tenesmus, [35]. ► Liquid evacuation (soon), [49]. [630.] ► Watery stool, with griping, followed by continued and almost
irresistible tenesmus, [30]. ►►
*Fluid stool after eating, with discharge of flatulence
and painful feeling in the abdomen the whole afternoon, which was only removed when he got
warm in bed, [25]. ►
Fluid stool, with rectal tenesmus, [25]. ► A soft, fluid, rapidly discharged stool, after a continual
gentle pressure, and the passage of a quantity of slippery flatus at noon, [31]. ► A semifluid stool,
accompanied by a perfect storm of flatulence, and followed by a considerable discharge of
wind, [38]. ► *Thin,
frothy, saffron-yellow stool, of a musty odor, smelling almost like burnt gray
blotting-paper (after twelve hours), [4]. ► Soft but not copious stool, [17].
► A very slippery soft stool at about 11 A.M.; tensive
pressure over the whole forehead at its evacuation. The same symptoms returned in the
afternoon, and were succeeded by pressure upon the bladder, alternating with pressure upon
the anal sphincter, [31]. ►
Stool soft, pappy, leaving behind it tickling in the rectum, [30].
► Pappy stool immediately after dinner, [35]. [640.] ► Pappy stool, with shivering over the head and back,
immediately after dinner, [30]. ►
Pappy stool after eating, with subsequent burning at the anus, [30]. ► Pappy evacuation followed
by slight intermitting griping, accompanied by a feeling of having taken cold in the
umbilical region, and rumbling in the bowels, [38]. ► An almost formed stool, accompanied by slight tenesmus, [27]. ► Was obliged to
retain the stool with great exertion in order not to pass it involuntarily at night, [4]. ► Disturbances in
relation to the character and time of the stools, which were either absent, or, instead
of coming, as normally, in the morning, appeared in the afternoon
and were either too soft (diarrhœic), or too hard and unsatisfactory, [41]. ► Stool hard and
unsatisfactory; on another occasion the evacuation which began knotty and dry ended in a
diarrhœa, [33]. ►
The stool, which showed for several weeks a tendency to diarrhœa, is in the evening more
constipated (second day); a soft stool of dark-brown color, at 8 A.M. (third day); soft in
the morning, fluid, light-yellow, at 3 P.M., fluid, dark, 6 P.M. (fourth day); soft yellow
in the evening (fifth day); hard, dark about noon (sixth day); small, yellow, consistent at
9 A.M., copious, soft light-yellow, with flatus at noon; fluid, light-yellow, preceded by
great gurgling in abdomen, at 2 P.M.; fluid, light-yellow, preceded and accompanied by a
great deal of colic (seventh day); fluid, light-yellow, at noon (eighth day); light-yellow,
soft at noon (ninth day); small, hard, dark, at 9 A.M. (tenth day); hard, dark-green after
rising; firm, dark, in the evening (eleventh day); hard, dark (twelfth day); hard, dark in
the forenoon, soft, dark in the evening (fourteenth day); hard, dark in the morning, and in
the evening another (fifteenth day); hard, dark in the morning; during last days the hard,
dark stool consisted mostly of hard knotty pieces, at 2 P.M.; soft, light-colored, mixed
with hard knots (sixteenth day); light-colored, soft at 6 A.M.; small, hard, knotty towards
evening (seventeenth day); hard, lumpy, with copious flatulency (nineteenth day); towards
morning, dark, small, lumpy; soft, dark-green in the evening (twentieth day); towards
morning, small, dark-green, lumpy, with flatulence (twenty-first day); dark, soft in the
morning (twenty-third day); two soft ones (twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth days); two soft
ones, mixed with lumpy fæces and great flatulency (twenty-seventh day); two soft ones
(twenty-ninth day), [50]. ►
Constipation. ► Constipation (secondary), [54]. ► The bowels were
sluggish, acting only every other day, but the stools were not particularly hard, [38]. [650.] ► The intestinal canal was torpid during the whole time he was taking
from three to five drops; the evacuations were hard, and took place, contrary to his usual
habit, only once in two or three days, [55].
► Viscid, soft, scanty stool every three days, [27]. ► Scanty,
tenacious, and slimy fæces, [4]. ► A hard, unsatisfactory evacuation about 5 P.M., discharged
with difficulty, [40]. ►
Stool hard, with slight urging (after forty-eight hours), [5].
► *A very hard evacuation, as if he were passing stones,
[37]. ► Very hard
stool passed in pieces (after five and six days), (secondary action), [8]. ► The usual morning stool was
absent, [41]. ► No
evacuation the whole day, [37], [40].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Bladder.
► *Violent pressure upon the bladder which was full, suddenly
set in, but as suddenly passed off on the expulsion of considerable flatus in rapid
succession, which drove before it some mucus fluid; (after half an hour). These flatulent attacks frequently returned in alternation, with other
symptoms, [31]. [660.]
► Painful stitches in the bladder, and subsequently
alternating in the rectum, disappearing on the discharge of flatulence, [27]. ► Urethra. ► Burning in the urethra, after urinating, [30]. ► Burning in the orifice of
the urethra, on the passage of the last few drops, [31].
► Burning in the orifice of the urethra after urinating,
lasting an hour, [41]. ►
Pressive pain in the tip of the urethra, as though it were crushed, soon after urinating
(after fourteen hours), [6]. ►
Stitches along the urethra, [39]. ► A stitchlike tearing through the urethra, [1]. ► Urging to urinate, [30], [49]. ► Urgency to urinate, with discharge of a great quantity of clear
watery urine (returning at nearly hourly intervals), in the forenoon, [6]. ► Urging to urinate,
with pressure in the pubic region (after eight hours), [4].
[670.] ► Urging to
urinate, without being able to pass any urine, which generally was very scanty, [4]. ► Repeated urging to
urinate, [30]. ►►
*Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty emission,
[39]. ► Tenesmus
vesicæ, frequent, with scanty micturition (after one hour), [16].
► Micturition. ►
Frequent urination, [30], [40]. ► Frequent urination, with
an apparently increased flow, [44]. ► More frequent urination, [41].
► Increased urination, [36].
► Increased secretion of urine, [37]. ► It almost always caused
increased passage of urine, with more or less change of the quality of the urine; *it was, however, especially like brown beer, becoming turbid as soon as
cold, and depositing a copious sediment, [53].
[680.] ► Urine
remarkably increased, [33]. ►
Copious urination, [30]. ►
Copious urine, [39]. ►
Very copious discharge of urine, [30]. ► Profuse urination, [23].
► Secretion of urine diminished, [47]. ► The urine seems to be
scantily secreted, [4]. ►
Urine apparently rather diminished, [38]. ► Retention of urine, [14].
► Retention of urine, with painful retraction of the
testes and priapism, [54]. ►
Urine. [690.] ►
Discharge of clear, watery urine during the whole day, [27].
► Urine clear, diminished in quantity, dark
orange-colored, sp. gr. 1030 (normal 1018); reaction acid, “urophain” and uric
acid increased, chlorides diminished, epithelium remarkably increased, [45]. ► Bright urine, but of a
somewhat deep wine-yellow, and containing a transparent cloud, [42]. ► The urine presents a very
striking similarity in appearance to that in dropsy after scarlatina. It is of a faint
flesh-color, deposits a light-brown, flocky, unequal, translucent sediment, and upon the
vessel, small, hard, and solid reddish crystals, which adhere so strongly that they are not
easily removed by water. The urine passed during the day is somewhat lighter
colored than that passed towards evening, night and morning, [42].
► Urine, immediately, of intolerable odor; on standing it
becomes very thick, gelatinous, glutinous, like coagulated albumen, [18]. [Not found. -Hughes.]
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Male.
► The prepuce was drawn back, and, as it were, slightly
constricted behind the glans, at night. Every time he brought it forwards, but found it
again drawn back at his next waking, [40]. ► Frequent erections, [30].
► Priapism, [14]. ► Complete impotence, the foreskin remained drawn back behind
the glans, although he was not entirely averse to sexual intercourse, [1]. ► Tearing pain in the glans
penis, [1]. [700.]
► Prickling in the end of the glans, [30]. ► Painful drawing up of the
testicle, [14]. ►
Severe drawing pain in the left testicle, [23]. ► Painful twinges in the right testicle, [1]. ► Excited sexual desire, [38]. ► Sexual desire
highly excited, [31]. ►
Exceedingly increased sexual desire for several days, [30].
► Excessive sexual desire, with erections, [1]. ► Sexual desire remarkably
diminished, [39]. ►
A pollution, two nights in succession, [49]. ► Female. [710.] ► Great swelling of the labiæ, rapidly increasing, with
sensation of dragging and increased warmth in the vagina (this swelling of the labiæ
continued during the remainder of the pregnancy, and was only partially relieved by a
palliative), [53]. ►
Her courses, usually regular and copious, have not appeared, although a week over time, [51].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx,
Trachea, and Bronchi. ► Distressing dryness of
the air-passages; on the two next days a perceptible and disagreeable feeling of fatigue in
the affected parts, [24]. ►
Constriction of the larynx, disappearing in the open air (after half an hour), [35]. ► Sensitiveness of
the larynx began, and the voice became rough and hoarse, towards evening, [24]. ► A spot in the larynx which
scratches and provokes coughing, feels somewhat scrapy on inspiration, [7]. ► Frequent tickling
irritation in the larynx, with a dry cough, [7]. ► Titillation in larynx, dry, short cough, especially during
the night, and waking him from sleep (fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth days), [30]. ► Cough. ► Cough, [40]. ► During the day, and, apparently, as the articular pains,
increase, the cough is less frequent (twelfth day), [50].
[720.] ► Hacking
cough, on smoking, in the evening, [6]. ► Frequent teasing cough day and night (twenty-third,
twenty-fourth, and twenty-eighth days), [50]. ► Tickling cough in the day and night (twenty-ninth, thirtieth,
and thirty-first days), [50]. ►
No symptoms during the night, except tickling cough, [50].
► During the day dry tickling cough, with nausea,
vomiturition, nearly vomiting. Talking, cold air, etc., do not produce coughing, but it
comes suddenly without any cause, in the fresh air as in the room (eleventh day), [50]. ► Titillating cough
frequently during the night (thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth,
seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twenty-second days), [50].
► Much titillating cough, with choking and vomiturition,
several times during the day (sixteenth, seventeenth, and twenty-second days), [50]. ► Frequent
titillating cough in the evening, and during the night, without expectoration (eleventh and
twelfth days), [50]. ►
Respiration. ► Respiration is short and rapid,
for several days, without dyspnœa or heat, [1]. ► Attack of dyspnœa, at night, with slow, difficult breathing,
which provokes cough, [1].
CHEST.
► Objective. [730.] ► Whistling in the
chest on inspiration, in the morning (after one hour and three-quarters), [6]. ► Subjective. ► Tension over the chest and forehead, during a very soft and
smoothly passed stool, [31]. ►
Some constriction in the chest (after two hours); subsequently stitches in the upper part of
the left half of the chest, especially when walking, [32].
► Constrictive sensation, with transient stitches in the
chest, beginning soon after the dose, and troubling him all day, especially when walking, [32]. ► Frequent pressure
and oppression of the chest, in the afternoon; dull stitches in the chest and sides, [42]. ► Pressive pain in
several places on the thorax, in the hepatic region, and over the heart, impeding
respiration (continuing several hours), towards evening, [43].
► Oppression and stitch on respiration in the right side,
not very considerable, [49]. ►
*Oppression of the chest (after two hours), [32].
► Oppression of the chest, in the evening, [40]. ► Oppression of the chest,
or pressure upon the chest, very severe in the evening, [48].
[740.] ► Oppression
of the chest, soon after eating, [32]. ► Oppression of the chest, as if everything were too tight;
with compression on the sides, especially on stooping forward, while sitting, and in the
evening, for six days, [8]. ►
Great oppression of the chest, before midnight, driving away sleep, [35]. ► Great oppression of the
chest, as from external pressure, on inspiration, which also causes sticking in the chest, [8]. ► Troublesome
oppression of the chest, [35]. ►
Some stitches in the chest, and under the ribs, here and there, every day, [8]. ► Dull stitches on
expiration; slight pressure in the chest, for six days, [8].
► Front. ►
Pressure in the middle of the sternum, as if something were lying upon the lungs, [8]. ► Spots on the
anterior part of the thorax that were sore and painful, as if bruised, [42]. ► Sides. ► Constant burning in a spot on the right side of the chest,
towards 11 o’clock, [42]. [750.]
► Tensive and pressing pain, in both sides, where the
diaphragm is attached, [31]. ►
Griping pain in the right intercostal muscles, [5]. ► Occasional sticking pains in the right chest, in the
forenoon, [42]. ►
Stitches in the left side, cutting short the breathing, towards evening, [42]. ► Single stitches, as if
from needles, under the left pectoralis, [37]. ► Transient stitches in the right side of the chest, from
before backwards, in the afternoon, [37]. ► Transitory stitches in the left side of the chest, [38]. ► Frequently
repeated long stitches in the left chest and left knee, [42].
► Twitching in the region of the fifth and sixth left
ribs, [30]. ►
Muscular twitches in the right intercostal muscles, which disappear on becoming erect (fifth
hour), [5].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Præcordium.
[760.] ► Oppression
of the heart, towards 8 P.M., [49]. ► Painful stitches in the cardiac region on going to bed, [42]. ► Heart’s Action.
► Palpitation, [30],
[31]. ►
[Palpitation], [18]. ►
Palpitation, when sitting, [30]. ► Pulse. ► [Rapid, full
pulse], [18]. ►
Pulse small, rapid, [54]. ►
Pulse slow, full; first ten hours, [4].
NECK AND BACK.
► Neck.
► Stiffness of the left side of the neck, painful on
motion, [4]. ► *Feeling
of stiffness in the muscles of the nape of the neck when moving the head, [36]. [770.] ► Drawing in the nape of the neck, [28], [29]. ► Painful drawing in the nape of the neck, even during rest;
soon followed by stiffness of the neck, painful by itself, and still worse on moving the
head, [4]. ► *Violent
tensive-drawing pain in the left cervical muscles, worse on motion, [4]. ► In the large
cervical muscles of the left side, drawing pain like a violent contraction; on motion it
extends backward and entirely disappears, [7]. ► Pressing boring-drawing in all the muscles of the neck, on
different parts of the occiput; worse on the right side and in the evening (twenty-seventh
day), [50]. ►
*Troublesome pressure in the left side of the nape of the neck, increased by turning, as in
rheumatism, [30]. ►
Sensation in the neck, extending towards the occipital protuberance, as if a heavy weight
were lying transversely across it; equally sensitive during rest and motion, [4]. ► Tearing in the left side of
the nape of the neck, [30]. ►
Back. ► Pain in the back above the hips, with
nausea and chilliness, [3]. ►
Stitches in the back, [42]. ►
Dorsal. [780.] ►
Drawing in the dorsal muscles, [28], [29]. ► Occasional slight drawings
in the shoulder-blades, [42]. ►
*Drawing pain internally in the region of the right scapula, as if the nerves and vessels
were made tense, [4]. ►
Severe drawing pain extending from the right side of the neck across the scapulæ, as if the
nerves were forcibly torn and stretched, or as if bruised, [4].
► Tensive sticking pain between the scapulæ, mostly when
walking, so that for while he was obliged to walk bent over, [1].
► Dull stitches beneath the right scapula, on
inspiration, [8]. ►
Sore pain in the left scapula, during rest, [5]. ► Pressing inward and dull throbbing in the right lumbar
region, when sitting, [30]. ►
*Tensive sticking in the right loin, only noticed on inspiration, most violent when lying
upon the back, [5]. ►
Pressive bruised pain in the lower portion of the back, with severe pressure in the pit of
the stomach, during rest and motion, [1]. [790.] ► Feeling of weariness
in the small of the back, [27]. ► *Painful lassitude in the small of the back and lower extremities,
in the evening, [27]. ► Pain in the small of the back, [28], [29]. ► The small of the back and lower limbs were painful as if
after a forced march, [27]. ►
Feeling of pressure and heaviness in the small of the back, [40].
► Sacral. ► Aching
in the region of the left sacro-iliac articulation, accompanied by crawling in the whole
left sole, as though it were asleep, [30]. ► Pressive pain in the sacrum, diminished by movement, [37]. ► Transient
stitches in the sacrum, [36]. ►
Bruised sensation in sacrum (ninth day), [50].® 2000
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