COMOCLADIA.
Comocladia dentata, Jacq.
Natural order
, Anacardiaceæ.
Common name
, Guao.
Preparation
, Tincture of the leaves and bark.
Authorities.
1, (J. G.
Houard, Phil. J. of Hom., 4, 74), Otto’s proving with 1 to 4 drops of tincture; 2, Miss J., aged 18, took 4 drops, afterward 3 drops; 3, Mr. G., aged 21, took pellets of the 1st, and afterward of the
2d dil.; 4, same, took 2 and 3 drops of tincture; 5, Otto, effects of juice applied to the skin; 6, Navarro, general effects of application of juice to skin, Am.
Hom. Rev., 3, 420; 7, Dr. Humphreys’s provings (while
Professor in Philadelphia) with the 2d cent. dil.; from unpublished MSS. furnished by him
for this work.
MIND.
► (Self-complacent
thoughts and contempt of others)?; (after three hours and a half), [7]. ► Combative, vindictive
disposition all the week, and contempt for opponents (sixth day), [7].
HEAD.
► Confusion and Vertigo.
► Head only somewhat confused, muddy (third day), [7]. ► At times feels
dizzy, [3]. ► General
Head. ► Heaviness of the head, in the morning
(second day), [2]. ►
The head feels very heavy and large (first day), [2]. ► Severe pain at intervals, extending from the posterior
portion of both eyeballs through the head to just below the occipital protuberance, with
sensation of pressure on the superior surface of the eyeballs, seeming to move the eye
downward and outward (sixth day); this pressing and rolling sensation was felt more or less
during the last two days, [1]. ►
Violent pain extending from the posterior portion of the right eye through the head to the
occipital protuberance, with great soreness in the eyeball, very profuse lachrymation, and
sensation as if the eye were as large as two eyes, continuing an hour until she fell asleep
(sixth day), [2]. ►
Cannot describe the headache (first day), [2]. ► Stupefying throbbing headache (from merely passing by, in the
shadow of the tree), [6]. [10.]
► The head feels worst near the warm stove, and when
stooping it is almost impossible to hold the head down, relieved by being in the open air
(first day), [2]. ►
Forehead. ► The head feels heavier about the
forehead and eyes (first day), [2]. ► On sitting down, pain and pressure deep in the anterior
portion of the brain (after one hour), [7]. ► Severe pain, deep in the brain over the right eye, lasting
but a moment (fifth day), [7]. ► Temples. ► Quite a
severe pain in the right temporal region for some minutes (after three hours and a half), [7]. ► Pressing pains in
the right temple for a few minutes, at 1 P.M. (seventh day), [7].
► Severe pressing pain in the temporal region, soon
passing off (after ten minutes), [7]. ► Shooting pain through the left temple, recurring at intervals
for three hours, and at times for several days, [3]. ► Sides. ► Frequent
returns of pains in the right side of the head (after nine hours and a half), [7]. ► Pressing constrictive
feeling in both sides of the head as if they were pressed together (after three hours and a
half), [7]. [20.] ► Compressive headache from the sides of the head (eleventh
day), [7]. ► Occiput.
► Sharp pain in the occiput extending down the neck
(after twelve hours), [7]. ►
External Head. ► Itching of the scalp, mostly
the superior left parietal region, exciting one to scratch it (after ten minutes), [7].
EYE.
► Objective. ► Eyes look dull and glassy; vessels congested; lids red,
swollen, and inflamed (fifth day), [1]. ► *The eyes feel very heavy, larger than usual, painful and pressing
out of the head, as if something was pressing on the top of the eyeballs, moving them
downward and outward (first day), [2]. ►► *Right eye very painful, feeling much larger and more
protruded than the left, at 3 or 4 P.M. (fifth day), [1]. ► Aching soreness in the
eyeballs, which increases in severity during the evening, sometimes making him very dizzy,
lasting from 4 or 5 P.M. till 10, aggravated by looking at a lighted candle and by motion;
stooping or moving the head causes flow of tears (third day), [3].
► Catarrhal symptoms in the head; eyes seem sore, with
more or less lachrymation, attributed to a cold, at 4 or 5 o’clock, and continuing through
the evening (fourth day), [1]. ►
Looking at a lighted candle makes the eyes more painful, and causes profuse lachrymation
(first day), [2]. ►
Eyes were aggravated by moving the head, by reading, by looking at a lighted candle and
bright objects (sixth day), [1]. [30.] ► *The eyes feel more
painful when near the warm stove; with profuse lachrymation also when stooping
(all this time the eyeballs are very sore, the right worse than the left), (first day), [2]. ► Eyes were relieved
by sitting quietly before a wood fire on the hearth (sixth day), [1]. ► The right eye worse than
the left during the day, in the evening vice versâ
(sixth day), [1]. ►
Left eye worse than the right towards and during the evening (fifth day), [1]. ► Lids. ► Fine stitches in the external canthus of left eye, about 8.30
P.M., these stitches seem to resemble very fine needles (about half an inch long), and moved
rapidly from below upward, lasting only a few seconds (tenth day), [1]. ► Slight itching at external
angle of the right eye, then at the lower border of the left eye (after ten minutes), [7]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus.
► More or less lachrymation for some time, worse in the
open air (sixth day), [1]. ►
Profuse lachrymation during the day, worse in the open air (fifth day), [1]. ► Ball. ► *Right eyeball very sore, worse on moving the eye; at 6
A.M. (fifth day), [1]. ►
*Eyeballs feel worse on moving them (first day), [2].
► Vision. [40.]
► On rising from bed everything looked dark, [3].
EAR.
► Dulness of hearing, [3]. ► Slight ringing in
the ears and sensation of giddiness (after three hours and a half), [7].
FACE.
► Face most dreadfully
swollen, my eyes projecting far out of their sockets, and I could see only a faint glimmer
of light with the left, [5]. ► A painful burning on my face and
arms, and particularly about my eyes, [5]. ► Face around the
eyes felt swollen at 6 A.M., very much puffed just below the superior tarsal cartilage in
the afternoon (fifth day), [1]. ►
Sensation as if the skin was puckered or drawn up from the face, and about the nose,
rendering me slightly dizzy (after ten minutes), [7]. ► Lips. ► Inferior lip
blistered and swollen, [3]. ►
The lips have been dry and chapped for three or four days, at 9 P.M. (eighth day), [7]. ► The lips remained
dry or chapped, often bleeding, for several weeks, a circumstance without precedent in my
history, [7]. ► Jaws.
[50.] ► Slight pain
in the lower jaw from the ears (after nine hours and a half), [7].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► Sensation as if all the molar teeth on right side were loose,
about 4.30 P.M., lasting thirty minutes (eighth day), [1].
► Aching in the bodies of all the teeth, lasting a
minute, but returning every five minutes; which intermittent aching continued for half an
hour (second day), [2]. ►
Aching in a middle molar tooth of the upper jaw of the right side (the molar tooth
immediately below it is carious, or in popular language hollow); at 12 M. it increases and
becomes of a twitching character, that is, a sensation as if the tooth was drawing out of
its socket or alveoli, putting the nerve on the stretch, and suddenly pressing into the
socket again, the pain shooting up to the temple of the same side; the tooth felt about an
inch and a half long, and lasted till 3 P.M., relieved by pressing on the jaw with the hand,
and by holding the affected side close to a hot stove; aggravated by holding cold water in
the mouth (first day), [2]. ►
Sore pulsating pain in the body of the middle molar tooth of the right upper jaw (this tooth
is perfectly sound), lasting half an hour, and then relieved by holding the right side of
the face to a hot stove, at 6.30 P.M. (thirteenth day), [1].
► Gum. ► The
gum of a carious tooth is swollen (ninth day), [1]. ► Steady aching and soreness of the gum and root of the middle
molar tooth of the right lower jaw; this aching continued until I went to sleep (9.30 P.M.);
relieved by holding the right side of the face to a warm stove, or very hot wood fire;
holding cold water in the mouth produced no change (ninth day), [1]. [This tooth is carious, and has been so for several years, and
it is loose, but never ached before.] ► Tongue. ► Tongue coated in the morning, dirty yellow coating, which is
easily removed, [3]. ►
Tongue like a chip, with burning and swelling of the lower lip, which remains chapped
(eleventh day), [7]. ►
Tongue feels burnt (eleventh day), [7]. [60.] ► Tongue has still the
burnt sensation, and more smooth and red on the tip than usual (third day), [7]. ► Severe burning in the
tongue, which looks redder and dryer than usual, more the anterior portion, in the forenoon
(second day), [7]. ►
Violent unpleasant burning in the tongue (after ten minutes), [7].
► General Mouth. ►
Mouth dry, [3]. ►
Mouth very dry at night (tenth day), [7]. ► Dry mouth and tongue for several nights (eleventh day), [7]. ► Taste. ► Bitter taste, in the morning, [3].
THROAT.
► Objective.
► A girl inoculated when she was six years old suffered
from severe attacks of inflammation of the throat, until the period of womanhood, when they
ceased, [6]. ►
Hawking up of increased quantity of mucus, for several days (seventh day), [7]. ► Fauces. ► Immediately sense of roughness and scraping in the fauces and
throat, [7]. ►
Swallowing. [70.] ►
Difficulty of swallowing in empty deglutition (second day), [7].
STOMACH.
► Eructation with
relief (after ten minutes), [7]. ►
Unpleasant eructations coming up from the stomach (sixth day), [7]. ► Frequent eructations of
wind, at 9 A.M. (ninth day), [7]. ► Sour eructations, two hours after eating, [3]. ► Felt sick at the stomach,
which feeling continued over an hour (after two hours, second day), [2]. ► Constant pressure and
heaviness in the region of the stomach, [3]. ► While lying on the left side, at night, a number of very fine
sticking pains or stitches in the scrobiculus cordis, worse on inspiration, lasting a few
seconds (this sensation seemed as if about a dozen fine pins or needles, half an inch in
length, were dancing about in every direction), (tenth night), [1].
ABDOMEN.
► Hypochondria.
► Stinging pains about the hypochondrium, lasting but a
moment, at 11 A.M. (seventh day), [7]. ► Umbilical. ► Pains
round the umbilicus, and extending up to the epigastrium, at 8.30 P.M. (twenty-first day), [1]. [80.] ► Acute sore pain extending across the abdomen, just across the
umbilicus, affecting the breathing, lasting several minutes, also slight bubbling in the
abdomen, and very much wind there, and emission of hot flatus, at 9.30 P.M. (twentieth day),
[1]. ► General Abdomen.
► Discharge of flatus, with desire for stool (after ten
minutes), [7]. ►
Still a good deal of flatulence, with noisy eructations upwards and discharge of flatus
(tenth day), [7]. ►
Some uneasiness in the bowels (after ten minutes), [7].
► Constant uneasiness and pain in the bowels (after nine
hours and a half), [7]. ►
Abdomen feels swollen, [3]. ►
The abdomen seems unusually full and bloated, with some pain (after nine hours and a half), [7]. ► At times dull pain
in the abdomen; clothes too tight, [3]. ► Pain and rumbling of flatus in the left abdominal region,
from thence extending over the abdomen (after one hour), [7].
► Continual throbbing like a thumping in the left
posterior side, in the region between the spleen and kidneys, not painful but very singular,
[7]. [90.] ► The throbbing in lower left side, which was from twitching of
the tendons, occurred at times during the night (first night), [7]. ► Colic pains in the abdomen,
especially during eating (seventh day), [7]. ► Colic pains in the abdomen and distension, with rumbling and
discharge of flatus (eighth day), [7]. ► Frequent returns of colic pains in various parts of the
abdomen, sometimes mounting up to the axilla (after nine hours and a half), [7]. ► Frequent returns of colic
pains through the day, more noticed and more severe after eating. Quite severe colic pain in
the right ilio-cæcal region, coming on like a thrust (fourth day). Colic pains still come
on by turns, more in the right abdomen, and when sitting indoors (fifth day), [7]. ► Quite unpleasant colic
pains, all the evening (eighth day), [7]. ► Hypogastrium. ► Slight
shifting pains in the hypogastric region, lasting about six minutes, at 9 P.M., after lying
down in bed (twelfth day), [1]. ►
Dull pain, gurgling, and uneasiness in the intestines, in the hypogastric region, and
accompanied by emission of odorless flatus, in the night (tenth night), [1].
STOOL.
► Diarrhœa. ► Stool loose, but normal (ninth day), [7]. ► Loose stool in the morning
(sixth day); loose urgent stool, with aching at the anus (seventh day), [7]. ► Constipation. [100.] ► Bowels sluggish, [3]. ► No stool, which is
very unusual (after three hours and a half), [7].
URINARY ORGANS.
► The urine
discharged yesterday and during the night is covered with a thin pellicle, and has a cloud
of mucus suspended in it; fair quantity and color (second day); rather scanty and no cloud
(third day), [7].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Cough.
► Slight cough from irritation, at night, in bed (first
night), [7]. ►
Respiration. ► The breath is continually
oppressed, [3]. ►
Difficulty in breathing, worse in the morning while in bed, better while moving about and in
the open air (third day), [2].
CHEST.
► Feeling of fulness
and tightness across the lower part of the chest and upper part of the abdomen, as if
nothing could move, and causing great difficulty in breathing (the prover said she swelled
in those parts), (third day), [2]. ► Sharp pains in the superior region of the chest on taking a
deep inspiration, at night, in bed, for two nights in succession, apparently in the pleura,
lasting for some time (seventh day), [7]. ► The whole chest feels sore on contact; flannel irritates
without much soreness, [3]. ►
Front. ► Occasional digging sensations in the
centre of the sternum, without pain, from within outward, [3].
[110.] ► Stingings
for a few moments beneath the sternum, more towards the right side (fifth day), [7]. ► Sides. ► Cannot draw a long breath on account of sharp pain felt at
the centre of the thorax on the left side, [3]. ► Sharp, stitching pain in left chest, just below the apex of
the heart, not worse on motion or inspiration (after three hours and a half), [7]. ► Stinging-pricking pain
between the nipple and axilla of the left side, [3]. ► Fine prickling in the costal cartilages of the eighth, ninth,
and tenth ribs, in the right side (twelfth day), [1]. ► Soreness in a small spot just below the ribs, on the right
side; also and first on the left side, but worse on the right side, at 7.30 P.M. (twentieth
day), [1]. ► Mammæ.
► Very acute pain in the left mammary gland, about an
inch above the nipple, while sitting in the house, and lasting about five minutes; this
pain, I think, I cannot describe intelligibly; sometimes it seemed to be a throbbing sore
pain, at others as if a sharp edge of a small knife-blade was pressing on the spot, and with
great force, increasing in intensity, and with a sore bruised feeling of the ribs beneath
when pressed with the hand; relieved by walking about, particularly by deep inspiration;
aggravated by expiration; at 3.30 P.M. A return of this pain at 5 o’clock, immediately after
eating supper. After leaving the mammary gland it passes down the side as low as the spleen.
At 6.30 a return of the pain in the mammary gland. Immediately after leaving the mammary
gland, a sensation of a lancing pain passing down the right side of the chest and inner side
of the right upper arm, then to the elbow, down the lower arm and along the dorsal surface
of the second and third fingers, after which, pain in the left carpus; it returned at 7.25
and 9.20 (twentieth day), [1].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Palpitation, hard beating of the heart on slight exercise, all the morning (second day), [7]. ► Pulse somewhat
accelerated for several days, at 9 A.M. (eleventh day), [7].
NECK AND BACK.
► Continual
burning pain in the left scapula, just above and posterior to the spine of the scapula, [3]. [120.] ► The back and right half of the abdomen and outer part of the
right thigh presented a streaked appearance of alternate red and white (the former the
broadest); this redness vanished by pressing with the fingers, but returned immediately on
taking away the pressure; the streaks extended as high up as the scapulæ; the redness
seemed to be of a dull hue; at 9 o’clock, on retiring to bed (seventeenth day), [1]. ► Chronic ailments
of the spine much aggravated, especially between the scapulæ, [3].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Shoulder. ► Easy trembling in left arm and
shoulder, on reclining and supporting the body with that hand (after three hours and a
half), [7]. ► More
pain in right arm, but more tremulous sensation (and loss of power?) in the left (after
three-quarters of an hour), [7]. ►
Drawing or cramplike pain in the right axilla, lasting half an hour (third day), [3]. ► Heavy
aching-drawing pain in the left axilla, extending through the shoulder, with a sensation as
if the shoulder would be drawn towards the neck, lasting half an hour (fourth day), [2]. ► Axillary glands
feel swollen and sore, especially the left, [3]. ► Forearm. ► The arm
feels numb when holding anything with the hand (seventh day), [2].
► The right forearm continues slightly numb, especially
along the ulnar nerve to the end of the last two fingers, and prickles on resting on the
elbow (after three hours and a half), [7]. ► Numb tensive pain of the forearm, and rheumatic stiffness of
the shoulders and elbow-joints, lasting three hours, at 6 P.M. (second day), [4]. [130.] ►
Dull aching pain extending from a little above the elbow down the posterior portion of the
arm, dorsum of the hand, to the ends of the fingers, lasting two hours and a half; relieved
by exercising the arm (seventh day), [2]. ► Hand. ► Trembling in
left hand and forearm, when even holding the paper to write (after three hours and a half), [7]. ► Painful weakness
of the right hand; especially the two last fingers are inclined to numbness on writing
(third day), [7]. ►
Drawing crampy pain in the middle of the palm of the right hand, extending to the pits of
the fingers (not the thumb), as if the fingers would be drawn towards the palm of the hand,
lasting three hours and a half (fifth day), [2]. ► Fingers. ► Pain in the
palmar surface of the last phalanx of the third finger, at 3 P.M.; a recurrence of the pain
at 7 (twenty-first day), [1]. ►
Burning and aching in the ends of the fingers, more of the right hand (after nine hours and
a half), [7]. ►
Severe aching pain in the little finger of the right hand, while sitting quietly reading;
continuing some time (sixth day), [7]. ► Return of the crampy sensation in the first phalanx of the
ring finger of the right hand, lasting ten or fifteen minutes; at 5 P.M. a similar sensation
in the first phalanx of the index finger of the right hand, lasting ten minutes, at 6.30
P.M. (thirteenth day), [1]. ►
Drawing crampy sensation in the first phalanx of the ring finger of the right hand, and as
if the third finger would be flexed on the palm; this drawing sensation seemed to move
towards the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation, lasting about ten minutes (twelfth day), [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Thigh.
[140.] ► Twitching of
the tendons of the right buttock, at 8.30 P.M. (seventh day), [7].
► At 10 P.M., numb tensive pain on the inner part of the
thigh, extending from the scrotum to the condyle (second day), [4]. ► (Aching-tensive pain in the
anterior and lower part of both thighs, at 8 P.M., the right worse than the left; lasting
over an hour in the left, and until I went to sleep in the right; by pressing on the parts
with the hand the periosteum feels bruised and sore) (twentieth day), [1]. ► Knee. ► Very short stitches in the popliteal space in the left leg;
it seems as if there were a dozen or more small pins or needles shooting in every direction
in the part, which was so intolerable that she was compelled to rub and scratch the part,
but without any relief; lasting over half an hour (fifth day), [2]. ► Leg. ► Severe intolerable aching pain in right leg, above the ankle
in the lower third, almost making one cry out, while sitting, somewhat relieved by walking,
returning with increased violence on sitting down, at 9 P.M. (eighth day), quite severe
during the early part of the night (eighth night), [7].
► Violent smarting in the popliteal space in the left
leg, as if it had been burned at a hot stove, lasting fifteen minutes (fifth day), [2]. ► Foot. ► Pain in the right instep, soon passing off (after nine hours
and a half), [7].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
► Objective.
► Swelling of the whole body (from merely passing by in
the shadow of the tree), [6]. ►
Under a good deal of nervous excitement, with fever, hard pulse (tenth day), [7]. ► Restless at night,
continual rolling from side to side, [3]. ► Cannot sit still; constant change of position because it
gives relief, [3]. ►
Subjective. [150.] ►
General malaise, fever, and headache, [6]. ► Worst symptoms on the left side, [3].
SKIN.
► Objective. ► The swelling was quite gone in the course of a few days, and
it was followed by the breaking out of a red color all over the
body, resembling scarlet fever, [5]. ► Eruptions, Dry. ► A
boy was subject to occasional burning eruptions on the skin for some years after the
inoculation, [6]. ►
The lower portion of the right hypochondriac region down to the crest of the right ilium,
and extending two-thirds across the abdomen (from right to left) presented a pale-red
appearance, as if an eruption would make its appearance; by passing the hand over this
portion of the abdomen beneath the skin is covered with papillæ; next morning, could see no
trace of these papillæ on the right side, but the left side of the abdomen presented a
similar appearance as the right side, but the left side of the abdomen presented a similar
appearance as the right side of the night previous, but much less marked (eighteenth day), [1]. ► At night, on
retiring (9 o’clock), observed several pimples on the back part of the neck, shoulders, both
scapulæ, and lower down on the back; some of them presented a white appearance at their
apex; these pimples did not lose their redness on pressure with the fingers (eighteenth
day), [1]. ► Small
round dull-red pimples on the right scapula, anterior, and upper half of the left forearm,
in the same region of the right arm, but more numerous on the left; also on the outer and
upper parts of the calf of the left leg. When observed, those on the calf of the left leg
and left arm looked dry and scaly, as if the parts had been scratched with the finger-nail
(fifteenth day), [1]. ►
A red, hard pimple appeared on the left side of the sacrum, painful when touched (second
day), [4]. ► Ulcers.
► *Inflammation of the part, with deep, hard-edged
ulcers, which discharge a thick, purulent, greenish-yellow matter, having a very peculiar
fetid smell, the parts becoming in appearance similar to a piece of raw decayed meat, while
the surrounding skin is covered with small shining scales, [6].
► Subjective. ► A
tormenting itching and burning came over my whole body, [5]. [160.] ►
Itching of the nose, burning in the open air, worse in a warm room (seventh day), [2]. ► Itching all over
that portion of the nose inferior to the bridge, internally and externally, continuing
constantly until she went to sleep at night, momentarily relieved by rubbing (sixth and
seventh days), [2]. ►
Itching on the abdomen, at 8 o’clock (first day), [4].
► Itching on the dorsum of the left hand, also on the
left scapula (several times during the proving, itching on the inner side of the right and
left thighs), (sixteenth and seventeenth days), [1]. ► During the forepart of the day itching on various parts of
the lower extremities, in the evening (fourth day), [1].
► Itching on different parts of the face, most about the
mouth, causing one to rub it (after ten minutes); occasional returns of itching (seventh
day), [7]. ►
Occasionally some itching of the face, scrotum, and of the scalp, but quite transient (third
day), [7]. ►
Itching of the scrotum quite severe for some time, when sitting and standing (after three
hours and a half), [7]. ►
Itching and warmth of the palm of the hand (after ten minutes), much lessened or disappeared
on getting up and moving around (after one hour), [7].
► Itching on the upper part of the calves, at 4 o’clock
(first day), [4]. [170.]
► Itching on various parts, which continued during the
evening (third day), [1]. ►
Itching on various parts of the body, mostly on the extremities; in the forepart of the day,
worse on the upper extremities; in the after part worse on the lower extremities; the
general character of the itching seemed to be tingling, increasing in intensity the longer
it lasted; relieved by rubbing or scratching; better in the open air and on motion; worse in
a warm room, warm weather, and during rest (eighteenth day), [1].
► Intense itching on the scrotum and lower part of the
penis, extending to the prostate gland, and also on the inner surface of the prepuce, about
noon (second day), [4]. ►
Violent itching, immediately below the right elbow, disappearing by rubbing the part, with
sensation as if it would return if I ceased rubbing, at 7.30 P.M. (twelfth day), [1]. ► Violent burning
itching of the right ear and surrounding tissue, extending out into the whiskers (after ten
minutes), [7]. ►
Stinging itching between the metacarpal bones of the thumb and first finger of the right
hand, also at same time slight itching on the lower part of the left scapula, with sensation
as if there were pimples there, lasting about ten minutes, afterwards on the right scapula,
at 3.30 P.M. (seventeenth day), [1]. ► At intervals during the day, tingling itching along the lower
limbs; the itching appears to spread over a space of three inches in length and one in
width; it changes its position and is relieved by scratching (second day), [4]. ► Tingling itching on the
lower part of the sternum, and shortly after on the whole chest (first day), [4]. ► Tingling itching on the
ankle, at 10 o’clock (first day), [4]. ► Continued tingling itching of the scrotum, during the night
(second day), [4]. [180.]
► While sitting in church felt severe tingling itching on
the left side of the scrotum, which continued several minutes, about 8 P.M., then shifting
to the inner side and lower half of the left thigh; it seemed almost insupportable, causing
me to rub the part, which gave relief. The itching on this part seemed to extend from above
down, spreading over a surface of about two inches in width and four to six inches in
length. After leaving this part I felt it just below the knee, on the inner side of the same
extremity. Then on the upper extremities, the left one first, then on the right lower
extremity. The itching seemed to change rapidly from one place to another, relieved by
rubbing or scratching; worse in a warm room or during rest, and for the most part proceeding
from above down, particularly on the lower extremities, and generally of a tingling
character (second day), [1]. ►
Violent burning-tingling itching of the lower limbs (third day), [4].® 2000
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