COLOCYNTHIS.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
Objective. ► Contraction of all the limbs, so
that he resembled a hedgehog, [19]. [800.] ►
Twitching of different parts of muscles in the limbs, [11].
► Weakness of all the joints, especially of the knee and
elbow, [31]. ►
Weakness of all the limbs on walking in the open air, as after a long walk, with great
trembling of the lower legs, especially of the right, so that sweat broke out over the whole
body (after eleven hours), [6]. ►
Disagreeable feeling in all the limbs on making any intellectual exertion, [49]. ► Tired sensation in the
joints (nineteenth day), [50]. ►
Migrating pains in the joints of the fingers and feet (tenth day), [50]. ► The rheumatic gouty pains
came on more violently than ever before, sometimes in the joints, and sometimes in the bones
of the upper and lower extremities, but did not last long, [37].
► The rheumatic pains in the limbs and joints are the more
important phenomena, and with greater certainty ascribable to the drug; inasmuch as I had
never experienced the like before or since, [35].
► Some of the joints feel as if they were compressed by a
tight ring (twenty-sixth day), [50]. ► Boring and burning pains in the muscles of the extremities
and of the buttocks (twenty-fifth day), [50]. [810.] ► Boring and drawing in
the joints of the fingers, in the shoulders, in the knees, in the shin-bones and ankles
(thirteenth to fifteen day), [30]. ► Drawing pressing-boring pains in the wrist, fingers, knees,
muscles of thighs, in the morning after rising, and again in the evening (fifteenth day), [50]. ► Drawing in
different parts of upper and lower extremities when walking (twenty-second to thirty-first
day), [30]. ►
Drawing and pressing in all the joints; more when sitting than when walking; lasting the
whole day (sixteenth day), [50]. ►
Transitory drawing in the upper and lower limbs towards evening, [37]. ► Transient drawing in
various joints of the upper and lower limbs, especially of the fingers and toes,
disappearing instantaneously on motion, and as rapidly recurring in rest, [40]. ► Towards evening the pains
increased in the extremities while sitting, and are especially severe in the knees, feet,
and shoulder-joints; it is a pressing-drawing pain, a sensation of tiredness (thirteenth
day), [50]. ►
*Tearing-drawing in both thighs and in the left arm down to the finger joints, [28], [29]. ► Pressing in several of the finger and toe joints, especially
during rest, [41]. ►
Tearing drawing-pressing in different joints and parts of the head, especially boring behind
the right ear and on the right side of the head (nineteenth day), [50]. [820.] ► Pressing and boring pains in the joints of the toes and
fingers at 9 P.M. (eleventh day), [50]. ► Pressure in the joints of the hands and feet after rising
(eleventh day), [50]. ►
A great deal of pressure in the knees and wrists when sitting; also in the thighs (sixteenth
day), [50]. ►
Feeling of pressure in the joints, [40]. ► Tearing in the joints of the arms and legs, more when
resting; during the night very little pain in the joints (tenth day), [50]. ► Bruised feeling in all the
joints (twentieth day), [50]. ►
Bruised sensation in the knees, arms, shoulders, when sitting (seventeenth day), [50].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Sensation of weakness in the arms (seventeenth day), [50].
► Sensation of swelling in the arms, [30]. ► Pain in the left arm, soon
disappearing (after one hour), [47]. [830.] ► Pressive-drawing
bone-pains in the long bones of the arms during rest, especially painful on the head of the
humerus and across the wrist, where it seems as if the pain were in the periosteum, on
raising the arm, [1]. ►
Paralytic pressing in the whole of the left arm, [30].
► Stitches in the arms from time to time, now here, now
there (after four hours), [8]. ►
Paralytic bruised pain in the arms from time to time (after five days), [8]. ► Pulsation in the left arm, [47]. ► Shoulder. ► Axillary glands swollen and painful (twenty-third to
thirty-first day), [50]. ►
(Suppurating swelling of the axillary glands), [13]. ► A drawing aching came on in both shoulders in the afternoon, [37]. ► Boring in the
shoulder (twelfth day), [50]. ►
Boring in the right shoulder, then in the left knee, then in the right one (twelfth day), [50]. [840.] ► Painful tension in the right shoulder on first waking,
continuing and becoming worse from using the arms, [31].
► Drawing and burning in the muscles of the left axilla
down the arm; after a while also in the right axilla (seventeenth day), [50]. ► Drawing and boring in the
shoulders and joints of the hands (twelfth to fourteenth day), [50]. ► Drawing and tearing in the
right shoulder-joint in the morning, lasting all day, [24].
► Drawing in the right shoulder when lying in bed at
night, [24]. ►
Transient drawing in the right shoulder, [42]. ► Pressing in the shoulders when sitting (twenty-second to
thirty-first day), [50]. ►
Tearing in the shoulders, [27]. ►
The arm is painful behind the right scapula, as if sprained, during rest and motion, [4]. ► Arm. ► Prickling-burning pain on motion of the right upper arm, [5]. [850.] ► Drawing in the right upper arm the whole day, and continuing
into the next forenoon, [34]. ►
Slight drawing in the right upper arm, remarkably increasing after dinner, and becoming
almost painful, but decreasing again when walking in the open air, [34]. ► Pressing in the joints of
the upper arm (twelfth to fifteenth day), [50]. ► Flying stitches in the humeri in the evening, [27]. ► Tearing in left upper arm
(eleventh day), [50]. ►
Frequently repeated throbbing, finally twitching pain in the right upper arm in the region
of the insertion of the deltoid, whence it extended through the shoulder to the upper teeth,
and as far as the region of the temples and vertex. The pain was in the periosteum, and,
after it had frequently returned, the muscular parts of the arm there became painful on
pressure as if sore, [30]. ►
Elbow. ► Drawing in the right elbow-joint, [41]. ► Pressure in the
elbow-joints (eleventh day), [50]. ► Fine itching sticking in the bend of the right elbow during
rest, [5]. ►
Frequently returning stitches in the right elbow and forearm, [42].
[860.] ► Tearing and
burning pain in the right elbow (fourteenth and fifteenth days), [50]. ► Forearm. ► Stiffness of the right forearm, with painfulness of the
extensors; continuing the next day, [34]. ► Falling asleep of the right forearm, [30]. ► Occasional violent pains
in the right forearm in the morning, [47]. ► Tensive pain in the right forearm (after twenty-seven hours),
[5]. ► Very crampy
pain in the left forearm, [47]. ►
Pressing drawing in the forearms (sixteenth and seventeenth days), [50]. ► Drawing pains in the left
forearm, persisting at the elbow, [47]. ► Transitory drawing sticking in the periosteum of both bones
of the forearm, [37]. ►
Wrist. ► Boring and pressing in the wrists and
forearms, (seventeenth day), [50]. [870.] ► Severe boring in the
wrists (seventeenth day), [50]. ►
Severe and frequent pressing in the wrists (fourteenth and fifteenth days), [50]. ► Drawing-pressing pains in
the wrists when sitting (sixteenth and seventeenth days), [50].
► Hand. ►
Feeling of stiffness in the hands, [27]. ► Contractive pain in the right hand, which constantly
increased until a similar one occurred in the left malar bone (in a quarter of an hour); the
pain in the right hand then spread over the forearm as the facial pain decreased, and again
grew milder when the facial pain and some pain in the bowels occurred, [47]. ► Cramplike pains in the
palms, so that the fingers can only be opened with difficulty; worse during rest than
motion, [5]. ►
Frequent drawing in the hands and fingers (twelfth to fifteenth day), [50]. ► Many drawing and pressing
pains in the joints of the hands, fingers, and shoulders (tenth day), [50]. ► Pressing in the palmar
joints (twenty-first day), [50]. ►
Pressing pains in the joints of the hands (eleventh day), [50].
[880.] ► At 7 A.M.,
while writing, exceedingly painful, long stitches in the right
metacarpus, frequently repeated in the course of a few minutes, and somewhat embarrassing
the operation of opening the hand and stretching the fingers. The stitches
appeared during both rest and motion, a symptom which I had never had before. At 8 P.M.,
while reading, the symptoms recurred, only the pain was more continuous the stitches more
intense and longer. The same symptoms were repeatedly felt at different times on subsequent
days, [42]. ► Tearing
in the joints of the left hand, [28], [29]. ► Fingers. ► Unusual burning of some pin-scratches on the fingers, also in
the face and head, [47]. ►
Burning pain in one point in the right middle finger, [4].
► Tensive pain in the left thumb, impeding its motion,
[35]. ► Violent
drawing pains in the right thumb as if in the tendon, commencing in the ball and
disappearing in the tip of the thumb (after five hours), [6].
► Pressure in the right fingers (tenth day), [50]. ► Rather violent
pressing pain in the left little finger about 6 P.M., particularly towards the middle joint,
soon disappearing; then the same pain in all the right toe-joints, except those of the great
toe, lasting eight minutes, [40]. ► Drawing-tearing pains in the finger-joints of the left hand,
[28], [29]. ► Bruised pain in the right middle finger at noon, [42].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
[890.]
► His legs were unusually weak; going upstairs was hard
work, [30]. ►
Heaviness of the lower limbs, [38]. ► Severe boring pains in the joints of the lower extremities,
worse towards evening, more frequent when sitting than when walking or standing
(twenty-seventh day), [50]. ►
Pressing-throbbing pain on the upper part of the inner side of the right leg, extending to
the posterior side of the thigh upwards towards the ischium (when sitting and walking), [30]. ► Pains in the
lower extremities increase until noon, so as to be frequently troublesome in walking, [39]. ► The pain in the
lower extremities disappeared after drinking beer; the headache was aggravated, [39]. ► Hip. ► Transient stiffness in the hip-joint, [39]. ► Pains in the hips and
knees, in the morning (tenth day), [50]. ► Boring in the right hip-joint (ninth day), [50]. ► *Dull stitches in the region
of the right hip, suddenly appeared and just as suddenly disappeared, during a walk of some
hours; they were so severe that I was obliged to cease walking for several minutes at a
time, and became so frequent that I was obliged to cut short my walk and return home; while
sitting there was some relief, but instead of the stitches there was a sensation as of a
heavy weight in the lumbo-dorsal region, somewhat relieved by lying upon the left side, with
some increase of the temperature and sensibility of the
part affected; on rising and walking about this latter
sensation disappeared, while the stitches returned; the pain disappeared at night in the
warmth of the bed, but awoke me from sleep about 4 A.M., when it had changed its character,
insomuch that it was now throbbing and almost boring, but persistent in this locality;
the origin of the trouble lay in the sacral region, corresponding
to the position of the plexus ischiadicus, thence it extended through the incisura
ischiadica major towards the hip-joint, down the posterior portion of the thigh into the
fossa poplitea, [45]. [900.] ►
*Drawing twitching with dull throbbing in the region of the left hip, and in the right loin
over the crest of the ilium, towards the buttock, [30].
► Thigh. ►
Weariness of the thighs, especially perceptible when going upstairs, [30]. ► *The right upper thigh is
painful, only when walking, as if the psoas muscle which raises it were too short
(after thirty-two hours), [5]. ►
Burning and drawing in the muscles of the thighs (fourteenth day), [50]. ► Boring in the muscles of
the thighs (tenth day), [50]. ►
Cramp on the middle of the left thigh (after three hours), [31]. ► A drawing tension in the
right thigh, [1]. ►
Drawing in the inner side of the left thigh, as far as the flank, [41]. ► Drawing in the inner side of
the left thigh, the whole afternoon, [41]. ► Drawing in the external condyle of the right femur, in
the elbow, fingers, toes, but especially in the knees, on motion, [41]. [910.] ► Transient drawing in the left trochanter, followed by drawing
pressing in the left metatarsus, and when this ceased, drawing in the teeth, in the
forenoon, [41]. ►
Drawing pain on the outside of the right thigh, during which there was a toothache in the
left upper molars, [47]. ►
*Drawing pain in the right thigh, as far down as the knee, continuing with nearly
equal intensity through the next three days, [35]. ► Pressure in the middle of the left thigh, [41]. ► A great deal of pressure
in the muscles of the thighs (sixteenth day), [50]. ► Severe pressing pains in the muscles of the thigh, when
sitting (twenty-seventh day), [50]. ► Burning-pressing pains in the muscles of the right thigh, so
that he can only walk with difficulty (fourteenth day), [50].
► Drawing-pressing pains in the muscles of the thighs
(twenty-first day), [50]. ►
Long stitches on the inner side of the left thigh, from the ischiatic tuberosity towards the
knee, in the forenoon, when walking; frequently repeated for several minutes, [43]. ► Sticking tearing in the
thighs, while sitting and standing, [8]. [920.] ► Clucking in the left
buttock, [30]. ► Knee.
► Stiffness in the left knee, when sitting, disappearing
when walking, yet frequently recurring, [39]. ► Heaviness in both knees; tearing in the left knee,
disappearing when walking, in the evening, [35]. ► Tired feeling in the knees, aggravated by sitting (tenth and
eleventh days), [30]. ►
Continuous pains in the left knee-joint, impeding walking, [37]. ► Paralytic pain in the
knee, when walking, as if the joints were tightly bound, [1].
► Painful feeling of tension in the left patella, in the
evening; the next day the pain became so considerable that walking was painful; patella hot
and somewhat swollen on undressing in the evening, with an indistinct pulsation in the
swelling, [24]. ►
Troublesome cramp pain in the knee and calves, [39]. ► Drawing in the right knee-joint, in the forenoon, and on this
ceasing, drawing in the right thigh, [41]. ► Drawing and feeling of
stiffness alternating between the right and left knees, frequently recurring (after half an
hour), [39]. [930.]
► Drawing and pressing in the knees and shins (eleventh
day), [50]. ►
Boring in the right knee, at 6 P.M., several times repeated (first day), [50]. ► Boring and drawing in the
knees (twentieth day), [50]. ►
Boring and pressing in the knees, when sitting (seventeenth day), [50]. ► Drawing in the left
popliteal region, as if the tendons were too short, on getting out of bed, [40]. ► Towards noon, when
walking, drawing and tension in the interior of the right knee-joint, disappearing and
recurring several times, [31]. ►
Drawing pains in the knees (fourteenth day), [50]. ► Drawing and pressing pains in the knees, when sitting; with
bruised sensation and general malaise (ninth day), [50].
► Frequently repeated pressing in the right knee, in the
evening (twenty-second day), [50]. ► Pressing pains in the knees and ankle (fourteenth and
fifteenth days), [50]. [940.]
► Drawing-pressing pains in the knees, when sitting
(twenty-first day), [50]. ►
Sticking in the right patella comes on when walking, and disappears on continuing to walk, [35]. ► Sticking pains,
as with needles, in the hollow of the knee, only on motion; they at last became itching
sticking, [5]. ►
Bruised feeling in the knees, when sitting (twenty-second day), [50]. ► Pulsation in the left
popliteal space, [30]. ►
Leg. ► Weakness of the legs as from fatigue, [1]. ► The legs feel as
if asleep, [30]. ►
Compressive squeezing around the middle of the left leg, as from a narrow ribbon, [30]. ► Cramp in the legs,
[1]. ► Drawing in
the legs and feet (twenty-first day), [50]. [950.] ► Drawing in the right
leg, when sitting (ninth day), [50]. ► During a walk, drawing in the legs, in the knees, bruised
sensation; the same symptoms when sitting (sixteenth day), [50].
► Drawing-sticking pain on the outer side of the leg,
while walking, [43]. ►
Itching-stitching in the right leg, even on motion, [5].
► Dull stitches in the left leg, [30]. ► Bruised sensation in both
legs (ninth day), [30]. ►
The hitherto painless varices of the legs become painful, [5].
► Tensive pain in the tibiæ, even while sitting, [8]. ► Cramp in the
muscles near the tibia, at night, towards morning, aggravated by bending the knee, [1]. ► Frequent drawing
in the tibia (twelfth to fifteenth day), [50]. [960.] ► Sticking drawing along
the left tibia into the ankle-bones, accompanied by burning pressure in the left eye;
these pains disappeared again in five or six minutes, in the evening, [37]. ► Itching-stitching in the
right tibia, most violent during rest, [5]. ► Tearing in the left tibia and ankle, on waking at midnight, [30]. ► Twitching in the
right calf, during rest, disappearing on motion, [5]. ► Feeling as if asleep, longitudinally along the outer side
of the right calf, as though in the track of a nerve. This feeling increased in extent, as
if the nerve were swollen in its periphery, passed gradually into a dull
pressing-constrictive sensation and slowly disappeared. Soon afterwards, the same feeling on
the dorsum of the first joint of the great toe of the same side, and a similar but weaker
sensation under the nail of the left great toe, [30]. ► *Cramp in the left calf, [30].
► Violent cramp in the calves, especially after coition, [1]. ► Boring
pressing-pinching in the muscles of the calves (sixteenth day), [50]. ► Boring and pressing in the
calves, when standing (twenty-second to thirty-first day), [50].
► Drawing in the calf and thigh, [40]. [970.] ► Drawing in left calf and tibia; the pains are worse and more
frequent when sitting (twenty-first day), [50]. ► Drawing and burning in the muscles of the calves and thighs,
while walking, so that flexure of the lower extremities becomes painful, a symptom several
times repeated during the day, and rendering walking difficult (seventeenth day), [50]. ► Cramplike drawing
in the right calf, [27]. ►
Pressing in the calves (twenty-second to thirty-first day), [50].
► A sharp cutting in the left calf, on the inner side,
during rest, [5]. ►
Itching-stitching in the right calf, not disappearing on rubbing, [5]. ► Stitches in the calves
(tenth day), [50]. ►
Tearing in the left calf, as far as the heel, [28],
[29]. ► Tearing
pain at times in the calves, while sitting and standing, [8].
► Ankles. ►
Pain in the ankle, coming on when walking in the street, as if from a false step, ceasing
when at rest, [27]. [980.]
► Drawing in right ankle (eleventh day), [50]. ► Drawing in the a right
ankle towards the internal malleolus, [40]. ► Pressure and tearing in the ankle, while sitting, [8]. ► Pressing and
drawing in the right ankle (ninth day), [50]. ► Severe pressing in the left ankle (tenth day), [50]. ► Boring pressing in the
ankles, during walking, neither originating in nor increased by walking, but felt just the
same when sitting (sixteenth day), [50]. ► Tearing-sticking pain about the right internal malleolus, [27]. ► Stitches in the
ankle, [27]. ► Foot.
► Increase in size of both feet, so that all his
boots were too small in the instep, [38]. ► Trembling of the feet, as after great fright, with shaking
chill, [3]. [990.]
► Feeling of numbness, swelling, and heat in the left
foot, which gradually encroaches on the whole leg, with itching and tickling, and lasts for
a considerable time, [30]. ►
The left foot goes to sleep, even during rest, [45].
► Sensation as if the left foot would go to sleep,
evening, when sitting, [40]. ►
As the attention (as if asleep) in the left foot began to decrease, the same feeling came on
in the right, [30]. ► Falling asleep of the feet and knee-joints, when stooping
down, so that it was troublesome to get up again, in the evening, [35]. ► *Drawing aching in the left
foot, [37]. ►
Feeling of burning in the left foot along the tibia (when walking), [35]. ► Boring and drawing in the
joints and dorsum of the foot, when walking, frequently repeated (twentieth day), [50]. ► Gnawing-pressing
pain in the inner ball of the left foot, in the evening, [42].
► Sticking-cutting pain in the right foot, as if a nail
were driven through, [37]. [1000.] ► Drawing sticking in
the joints of both feet, lasting for a minute, often recurring, and not interfering with
walking; it becomes worse after coffee and wine, and is accompanied by boring pain in the
bones of the lower limbs; these pains continued the whole day, with inconsiderable
remissions, but in diminished intensity. The upper extremities are similarly affected, in
the afternoon, [37]. ►
Frequently recurring tearing in the right metatarsus, towards the great toe-joint, in the
evening, [40]. ►
Constrictive pressing in the dorsum and ankle of the left foot, and in the right upper arm, [30]. ► A constant, dull,
pressing, cramplike pain, as if in the periosteum, on the dorsum of
the right foot, in the scaphoid and internal cuneiform bones; the skin was not
discolored or tense over the painful spot; a swelling on the right
edge of the tarsus, soft, pale, painless, clearly circumscribed, and as large as a pigeon’s
egg, appearing like a common lymphatic tumor, lasting six months; the same pain in the left
foot as in the right, and in the same spot; sometimes, also, in the second joint
of the great toe, but less severe, and accompanied by no swelling, [38]. ► While writing he perceived in
the dorsum of the right foot, more on the left side towards the great toe, a painful pressure, with slight numbness of the right leg (after
one hour); the whole was less perceptible when walking, and spontaneously disappeared (after
a quarter of an hour), [38]. ►
Transitory stitches in the dorsum of the right foot, foot-joint, and left great toe, [36]. ► Itching-boring
stitch on the back of the right foot, most violent during rest, [5]. ► Tearing pain in the dorsa
of the feet (eleventh day), [50]. ► Violent tearing on the back of the left foot, [6]. ► Twitching pains in the
dorsa of both feet towards the tibia, when walking in the street, [42]. [1010.] ► Drawing in the soles (seventeenth day), [50]. ► Transient stitches along
the external border of the left sole, [27]. ► Tearing in the sole of the right foot, most severe during
rest, [5]. ►
Tearing in the periosteum of the heel, [1]. ► Toes. ► Very
remarkable feeling of stiffness in the left great toe, [24].
► Pain in the right second toe and knees, alternately
appearing and disappearing for almost four hours, [39].
► Boring in the right toes (eleventh day), [50]. ► Boring in the joints of
the toes, then in the shoulders (thirteenth to fifteenth day), [50]. ► Threatening of cramp pain,
alternately in the right second toe, and in both knees, with feeling of stiffness, [39]. ► Cramp pain in the
second toe of the right foot, extending towards the metatarsus (after two hours), [39]. [1020.] ► Sudden cramp pain in the right great toe, in the evening,
extending toward the metatarsus; waking accidentally in the night, he found the whole right
foot, especially the metatarsus, swollen; this continued the whole of the next day, but was
only painful when stepping on it, or making strong pressure, [39].
► Drawing in the right toes (tenth day), [50]. ► Pressing on the right
great toe, lasting nearly all day, most perceptible during rest, [41]. ► Pressing in some of the
toes, and in the calves, in the afternoon, [41]. ► Pressing in the posterior joint of the left great toe, as if
the boot were too tight, only perceived when quietly seated, disappearing when walking
about; throbbing in the same spot, likewise vanishing on motion; heaviness of the feet, most
troublesome in the forenoon, as though he had made a great journey on foot; constant
sensation in both feet, when sitting, especially in the left, as if they were going to
sleep, [40]. ►
Pressure in the posterior joint of the right great toe, when moving about, lasting all the
evening, [41]. ►
The sensations of pressure and drawing in the posterior joint of the right great toe and
ankle and knee-joints, as well as in the left hip, returned in short paroxysms, especially
when walking about, [41]. ►
Frequent stitches, as with needles, on and below the nails of the toes (twenty-sixth day), [50]. ► Sprained feeling
in all the toes of the left foot, when going upstairs, in the evening, [40]. ► Tearing pain under the
nail of the left great toe, [1].® 2000
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