DIGITALIS.
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Sleepiness.
► Frequent yawning and stretching, with chilliness, [72]. ► Drowsy and
incapable of study till evening (eighth day), [70]. ► Sleepiness early in the evening, with indolence and dullness
of mind for several days, [10]. [990.] ► Frequent sleepiness, [20]. ► Great sleepiness
after eating, with frequent yawning after dinner, for several days, [1]. ► Frequent great sleepiness, [34]. ► Sleep, [28]. ► Deep sleep, [34] [Curative effect. -Hughes.] ►
Fell into a deep sleep, [83]. ►
Deep sleep from noon till midnight, [28]. ► A long, sound slumber (first cupful), (immediately), [85]. ► Lethargic sleep,
lasting several hours, [82]. ►
Coma, [28]. [1000.]
► Coma, followed by death (after twenty-two hours), [82]. ► Coma, interrupted
by violent convulsive attacks of vomiting, [23], [49]. ► Sleeplessness.
► Difficult falling asleep (sixth and seventh days), [6]. ► It was with
difficulty that I could sleep, although I was at times in a state of stupor (nineteenth and
twentieth days), [65b]. ►
Sleep disturbed and uneasy (fifth day), [61]. ► Uneasy sleep; he lies only upon the back, [8]. ► *Sleep uneasy and unrefreshing (second
day), [62]. ►
Uneasy sleep at night on account of constant urging to urinate, [9]. ► Uneasy sleep, with tossing
about the bed and voluptuous dreams, [5]. ► Very uneasy sleep, with frequent waking, and burning heat of
the face, subjective as well as objective as well as objective (first night), [64c]. [1010.] ► *Frequent waking, as from anxiety, and as if it were time
to rise, [1]. ►
Frequent waking at night in fright, by dreams of falling from a height or into
water, [7]. ► But
little sleep, disturbed by dreams (sixteenth night), [65b].
► Slept but little during the night, and my mind had
somewhat of that restless activity which I have experienced after taking too much wine, but
particularly after taking Tinct. Opii (sixth night). Very drowsy when I went to bed, but did
not sleep soundly (seventh night), [70]. ► Restless sleep, with tossing about and waking with
semi-consciousness, [11]. ►
Tossing about at night, with frequent waking, always lying upon the back, with emissions, [10]. ► At night, only
slumbering instead of falling asleep; complete consciousness without being able to sleep, [1]. ► Inability to
sleep; night very restless, violent palpitation, with an almost jerking pulse at one o’clock
at night (seventh night), [64d]. ►
Restless night, starting after in my sleep (second night), [66].
► Very restless night, with frequent waking (second
night), [64d]. [1020.]
► Night very restless. The gentle sleep which I had
several times was troubled by dreams which were remarkable for excessive imagination (first
night), [63]. ►
Night generally very restless, sleep frequently interrupted by waking, and full of dreams
(third night), [64g]. ►
Sleepless night, which, however, had not produced any moral depression (fourteenth night), [85b]. ► Night was
sleepiness, and I felt in no way disposed to sleep. This state resembled that into which I
had been brought under the influence of Mercury in other experiments (fifteenth night), [65b]. ► Passed a wakeful
night, suffering from palpitation of the heart and uneasiness, especially when lying on the
left side, together with pulsations in the ears, especially the left (fifteenth night), [66]. ► No sleep for five
nights, [76]. ► Dreams.
► Many dreams, not unpleasant, [5]. ► Many confused, vivid
dreams, [10]. ►
Anxious confused dreams, [6]. ►
Unpleasant dreams, full of unsuccessful projects, disturb the sleep, [7].
FEVER.
► Chilliness.
[1030.] ► *Skin cold,
[81]. ► Skin very
cold, with palpitation, [74]. ►
Coldness of the body, with clammy sweat, [51] [Not
found. -Hughes.] ►► *Great coldness of skin.
(soon), [77]. ►
Cold pale, covered with a copious perspiration, [74]. ► Excessive sensitiveness to the cold, [10]. ► Chilliness, [12]; (after eight hours), [80].
► Chilliness before the stool, [1]. ► Chilliness over the whole
body, with heat and redness of the face, [13]. ► Constant chilliness, mostly in the back, [11]. [1040.] ► Internal chilliness of the whole body, white externally
perceptible warmth, which is increased, [4]. ► Internal chilliness during the day; he was unable to get warm
on walking in the open air, [1]. ►
Coldness and chilliness, internally and externally, of the whole body, [4]. ► Coldness of the whole body,
perceptible externally, with warm face, [2]. ► *Internal coldness of the whole body, [4]. ► Felt cold all over (after
three hours), [81]. ►
Very cold, [85]. ►
After the last vomiting, a chill, which was followed by considerable heat and dryness of the
surface of the body, to which succeeded slight pain in the inferior extremities, especially
in the calves and knees (second day), [65]. ► I shivered at a temperature of 15° (Reaum), (twenty-second
day), [65b]. ►
Shivering three or four times in the afternoon, followed by sweat at night, even of the head
and in the hair, [1]. [1050.]
► Frequent shiverings (fourth day), [63]. ► Slight shiverings, which
were followed by increase of the heat of the skin (sixteenth day), [65b]. ► Frequent shudderings, [93]. ► Slight rigor,
followed by increased heat (after ten hours), [76]. ► Chilliness in the back, [2].
► Chilliness in the back, cold hands, lasting several
minutes, [95]. ►►
*Cold extremities, [74]. ►► *Coldness of the limbs, [23], [49]. ► Coldness, first of the arms and hands, then of the whole
body, [2]. ►
Coldness, first of the fingers, then of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, then
of the whole body, especially of the limbs, [1]. [1060.] ► Coldness of one
hand, with warmth of the other, [8]. ► Shivering over the back, [9].
► Heat. ►
Slight heat of the skin (after twelve hours), [63]. ► Skin was a little hot, dry, and rough (third day), [65]. ► Slight increase
of heat at the surface of the body (eight and ninth days), [63b].
► Considerable degree of heat on the surface of the body,
especially towards the head (first evening), [83]. ► The surface of the body was alternately hot and cold
(nineteenth and twentieth days), [65b]. ► Frequent warmth over the whole body, with cold sweat on the
forehead, thirteen to fourteen hours after the coldness, [2].
► Sudden warmth over the whole body; speedily
disappearing, followed by weakness of all parts, [2]. ► Restless night, being hot and feverish (fourth night), [70]. [1070.] ► General violent heat, with swollen veins and rapid pulse, [95]. ► Febrile
condition, [44] [Not found. -Hughes.] ► [Febrile paroxysm, first shivering then heat, then profuse
perspiration], [39] [Accompanying purulent
expectoration. -Hughes.] ► The disease did not differ
essentially from what is usually called typhoid fever, with particular affection of the
gastric viscera, [63]. ►
Heat in the head and face, [95]. ►
In the beginning, heat in the back, then creeping coldness, with cold hands, shuddering
through the back, lasting several minutes, [95]. ► Burning heat in the hands, [95].
► Burning of the head, face, and ears, with redness of
the cheeks and slight chilliness in the back; the left eye is also much smaller than the
other (after eating in the room), [12]. ► Sweat. ► Skin inclined
to be moist (eight and ninth days); moisture increased (fourteenth and fifteenth days), [65b]. ► Nightsweat
during sleep, [1]. [1080.]
► General slight sweat in the morning on waking, [7]. ► *Covered with a
copious perspiration, [85]. ► Cold sweat, continuing six days, [78]. ► Body covered with cold
sweat (seventh day), [78]. ►
Warm perspiration in the palms of the hands, [5].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), On
stooping, immediately after rising, headache; on waking, headache; on waking, all objects
seem covered with snow; coryza; vomiting; pain about
umbilicus; in bed, pain in abdomen, etc.; in bed, colic; hoarseness;
after rising, dry cough; on rising from bed, indolence, etc.; on waking, general sweat. ► (Afternoon), About six
o’clock, anxiety, etc.; towards evening heartburn; about five or six o’clock, vomiting,
etc.; towards evening, colicky pains, etc. ► (Evening), Dullness of mind, etc.; pressure in head; headache;
frontal headache; heaviness of lids; in bed, on closing eyes, pain in margin of lids; in
bed, toothache; especially on rising from sitting, tearing in abdomen; desire to take deep
breath; especially while writing, pain in chest. ► (Night), Delirium; irrational talking, etc.; sneezing; nausea,
etc.; vomiting; urging to urinate; pain in left shoulder, etc.; swelling of hand, etc.;
biting, etc.; on cheeks, etc.; itching on hand; itching on foot; sweat. ► (Midnight), Cough. ► (Bending backwards),
Headache. ► (Bending forwards),
Pain in sternum. ► (After dinner),
Pain, etc., of stomach; bruised pain in epigastrium; sensation in heart, etc.; yawning. ► (Drinking), Vomiting. ► (While eating), Stitches
in side. ► (After eating),
Nausea; fulness of stomach, etc.; while sitting, not while standing, food presses in
stomach; cough; sleepiness. ► (Excitement),
Feeling in ears, etc. ► (Expiration),
Stitches in side of abdomen. ► (Heat),
Headache. ► (On laying one leg
over the other), Cutting in thigh. ► (Movement), Headache; pain in abdomen; tearing, etc.; in back;
pain in small of back; aching in thighs, etc. ► (Music), Apprehensiveness, etc. ►
(Pressure), Stitches in thumb. ►
(Rising from sitting), Vertigo, etc.; difficult
respiration. ► (In room),
Lachrymation. ► (Sitting),
Contraction in abdomen; dyspnœa; drawing in side of thigh. ►
(Long sitting), Cough, etc. ►
(Standing), Headache. ►
(Before stool), Chilliness. ►
(After stool), Pressure on both sides of spine. ► (Stooping), Headache;
tension on parietal portion of brain; pain in small of back. ►
(On straightening up body), Pressure in stomach. ► (Thought), Pressure in
forehead. ► (Touch),
Only when standing, not when sitting, stitches in pit of stomach. ►
(Walking), Headache; tearing in umbilical region; pain
in middle of sternum; stitches in upper arm; sticking in bend of thigh; pain in tibiæ. ► (Warm room), The
symptoms. ► Amelioration. ►
(Beating on chest), Pressure in chest, etc. ► (Lying), Undulating
headache. ► (Pressure),
Pain behind mastoid process; pressure in zygoma; pain in pit of stomach; pain in side of
black. ► (Stooping),
Undulating headache.
SUPPLEMENT: DIGITALIS.
Authorities.
96, Bull. de
Thérap., vol. lvi, p. 101 (Brit. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1860 (2), p. 380), a woman, æt.
twenty-seven years, for swelling of the limbs, took a large quantity of freshly-expressed
juice; (97 to 100,
Sharp’s Essays on Medicine, tenth edition, 1874, p. 717); 97,
1 drop of 1st (cent.) was taken, repeated after six and twenty-one minutes; 98, 2 drops tincture (equal to 1 drop of sap of plant); 99, 6 drops of tincture; 100,
8 drops of tincture; 101, Dr. C. Kohnhorn, Deutsche
Militaire Zeit. (Lancet, 1876 (1), 582), a recruit, æt. twenty-two years, ate Dig. pills
for some time to escape service, death; 102, T. D.
Nicholson, M.D., Month. Hom. Rev., 1876, p. 766, experiments; 103,
Dr. P. K. Guild, Pub. of Mass. Hom. Med. Soc., vol. iv, p. 30. Mrs. H., for a cough, drank
freely of a tea made of Digitalis instead of Mullein.
MIND.
► Intellect
destroyed, [96]. ►
Coma (fifth day), [96].
HEAD.
► Dizziness, [101]. ► Headache, [101].
EYE.
► Conjunctiva anæmic,
[101]. [1090.] ► Dimness of vision, [101].
EAR.
FACE.
► Face pale, [96]. ► Lips anæmic, [101].
MOUTH.
► Gums anæmic, [101]. ► Tongue moist,
with grayish-white coating, [101]. ► Tongue thickly coated, [101].
► Tongue white, [96].
► Breath fetid, [101].
STOMACH.
► Complete loss of
appetite, [101]. [1100.] ► Heartburn, [101]. ► Frequent
singultus, [96]. ►
Very distressing nausea, together with a headache, and flashes of light before her eyes, [103]. ► Violent sickness
(immediately), [96]. ►
Occasional vomiting, [101]. ►
From Wednesday until Saturday night she had not been able to take any food or drink, or
drink, or to sit up much of the time, [103]. ► Epigastrium painful on pressure, [96]. ► Great tenderness over the
stomach, [101].
STOOL.
► Diarrhœa
frequent, [96]. [1110.]
► Constipation, [101].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Decided
action on the kidneys, shown in increased secretion (after one hour), [97].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
HEART AND PULSE.
► Great
commotion of the heart, a great throbbing and pounding as she expressed it, [103]. ► In two experiments with
Digitalis tinct., I have observed the pulse slightly retarded, but it fell three beats in an
hour after taking 6 drops, in drop doses, every ten minutes, and only two beats after 20
drops in 3-drop doses. In two other experiments the pulse had not varied more than one beat
per minute during the hour. The pulse varied so much after taking 1st dil., that no
conclusion can be drawn as to its action. The sphygmographic tracings show but little
change, [102]. ►
Pulse 72 (before taking); 73 (after two minutes); 74 (after four minutes); 76 (after six
minutes); 74 (after ten minutes); 72 (after forty minutes); 66 (after sixty minutes); 64
(after eighty minutes); 72 (after one hundred minutes), [100].
► Pulse 64 (before taking); 68 (after five minutes); 72
(after ten minutes); 68 (after fifteen minutes); 64 (after fifty minutes), [98]. ► Pulse 66 (before taking);
68 (after two minutes); 67 (after four minutes); 66 (after six minutes); 67 (after eight
minutes); 68 (after ten minutes); 66 (after fifteen minutes); 63 (after twenty minutes); 64
(after twenty-five minutes), [90]. ► Pulse 80 (before taking); continued the same for five
minutes; 76 (after seven and eight minutes); 78 (after ten minutes); 76 (after twelve
minutes); 78 (after fourteen minutes); 80 (after sixteen twenty and twenty-one minutes); 76
(twenty-second to twenty-fifth minute); 78 (after twenty-seven and twenty-nine minutes); 80
(after thirty minutes); 83 (after thirty-two minutes); 84 (after thirty-four minutes); 85
(after thirty-six minutes); 84 (after forty minutes); 80 (after sixty-three minutes), [97]. ► Pulse slow, [96].
GENERALITIES.
[1120.] ► Convulsion, [101]. ► Exhaustion (fifth day), [96].
SKIN.
► Skin pale and ashy
gray, and parchment-like, [101].
SUPPLEMENT: DIGITALIS.
Authority.
104, Drs.
Flechner, Frankel, Schneller, and Winternitz, Zeit. der k. k. Gesel. dur Ærzte zu Wien,
1847, p. 171, three men made a proving with the tincture, beginning with 2 drops and
increasing to 160, and in one case to 400.►
The small doses up to 30 drops, produced scarcely any
effect except a bitter taste and some eructations; larger doses caused in two persons
dryness of the lips, a feeling of rawness or burning in the pharynx, visible increase of
saliva and mucus in the mouth, nausea, inclination to vomit, and a constrictive pain in the
throat and along the œsophagus, with rumbling or griping in the intestines, and tension
caused by flatulence; the stools remained unaffected in two provers, but in one became very
dry and indolent, and in another, after 80 drops, there was sudden diarrhœa. The symptoms
from 100 drops and upwards, were pressive pain in the forehead, obscuration of the eyes; in
one case, oppressive pain beneath the ensiform cartilage, [104].® 2000
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