GELSEMIUM.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► In connection with
the general prostration, accompanied by diuresis, there was always much
flaccidity, with coldness of the genital organs, [10]. ►
Irritation of small spots on the mucous surface of the prepuce, with
surrounding congestion (third night), [6].
[320.] ►
In the afternoon and evening some irritability of the right testis,
afterwards dragging pain in the same, extending into both groins and the
hypogastrium, followed by discharge of flatus and relief of the pain
(first day), [6]. ► *Emission of semen without erection
(twelfth night), [2]. ► Female. ►►
Severe, sharp labor-like pains in the uterine region, extending to the
back and hips (part of S. 74), [31].
► A discharge of blood per vaginam;
came on about 4 P.M., after the symptoms had subsided, lasting one hour
(second day); after 6 P.M. (third day), [7].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx and Trachea. ► Paralysis of the glottis, with difficulty
of swallowing, [10]. ► When eating, the food drops into the
trachea, causing strangling, [9]. ► Burning in the larynx and down into the
chest under the sternum, [10]. ► Voice. ►
*Voice seems weak, [5].
► Voice thick, as if the tongue were
too large, [10]. ► Paroxysms of hoarseness, with dryness of
the throat, [5]. ► Cough and Expectoration. [330.] ►
Cough from tickling, and dry roughness of the fauces, [10]. ► Cough,
hacking, with a feeling as if a drop of liquid had entered the windpipe,
with frequent clearing of the throat, [9].
► Inability to expectorate, [27]. ►
Breathing slow, sighing, and at time sobbing, [29]. ►
Breathing slow and superficial, with now and then a deep inhalation, [9]. ►
Slow breathing, with rapid pulse (primary), [10]. ►
Breathing unnaturally slow, [10]. ► Peculiar slowness of respiration, seven
to the minutes (fifty-five minutes after third dose), [34]. ►
Respirations somewhat diminished in number; afterwards breathing
spasmodic, [23]. ► Respiration almost imperceptible, [10]. [340.]
► Irregular breathing and slow
respiration (part of S. 510), [25].
► Sighing respiration, [10]. ►
Respirations of a sighing, catching character, [10]. ►
Respiration gasping, three or four per minute (after three hours), [28]. ►
Breathing stertorous, and very imperfect, [26].
► Fetid breath, [11]. ►
Offensive breath, slow breathing, and slow pulse (primary), followed by
rapid breathing and quick, weak pulse (secondary), [10]. ► Heavy
breathing (in the morning), (eighth day); (in the afternoon), (seventh
day), [7]. ►
Heavy and labored respirations, [10].
► Sudden sensation of suffocation, as
in hysteria, [10]. [350.] ►
He complained of choking (after half and hour), and soon rose struggling
for breath, pushing his fingers into his throat, as if trying to tear it
open, [28].
CHEST.
►
Great weakness in the chest on speaking (second day), [8]. ►
Heaviness upon the chest in the afternoon (seventh day), [7]. ► Burning
in the chest (part of S. 211), [7].
► Burning in the chest, with fulness,
sighing, and anxiousness, going into the pit of the stomach, and
radiating all over the whole abdomen like a tree the stem of which is in
the pit of the stomach, and the branches of which burn asunder towards
the abdomen; this burning is different in kind from the one observed on
the first day; it is to her feel, not in the intestines, but in the
parts covering them; at 12 M. (fifth day), [7]. ►
Constrictive pain round the lower part of the chest, [5]. ► Short
paroxysmal pain in the superior part of the right lung on taking a long
breath; it sticks from above downward; this pain is one of the prominent
symptoms (first day), [1]. ► Stitches in the chest, [5]. ► A
sensation of soreness in the chest when coughing, [10]. ► Pain
behind the fifth rib to the left of the sternum, from flatus, relieved
by eructation (third night), [6]. [360.] ►
Burning under the lower part of the sternum, with heaviness of the
chest, drawing towards the place of the stitch in the left lower
anterior side of the chest, which also now is repeated, and pain like
ulceration, tender to touch; as soon as the burning went over to the
left side, the chest felt easier; in the afternoon (eighth day), [7]. ►
Burning like fire at the very spot where she lately had the stitch in
the left lower anterior side of the chest, as large as a dollar, and
painful to the touch, like an ulcer, and from the pressure of even a
loose dress, with fulness, at 8 A.M., lasting five minutes, and repeated
four times (fifth day), [7]. ► Cramp in the right side of the region of
the last short ribs, [9]. ► A dull, full aching, extending from the
ensiform cartilage along under the free ends of the right short ribs to
the lumbar region, as if the liver were congested; the worst pain is
about a hand’s breadth from the lower end of the sternum, [9]. ► At 2
P.M., when lying down, pain under the floating ribs of the left side,
suddenly, as if thrust with a sharp instrument; in an instant the pain
disappeared, but appeared as suddenly in the left temple, causing an
involuntary contraction of the brow (fourth day), [4]. ► Stitch
in the anterior lower left side of the chest in the afternoon (tenth
day), [7]. ►
Stinging in the left lower anterior side of the chest through to the
left shoulder-blade, and irregular beating of the heart on sitting
quiet, and worse than yesterday (third day), [7]. ►
Stinging though the left lower side of the chest into the left
shoulder-blade, also more severe than yesterday; at the same time
irregular beating of the heart, with dyspnœa, worse than yesterday
(second day), [7]. ► Mammæ. ►
Shuddering pain in the right breast, [5].
► Periodical pains in the pectoral
muscles (third day), [1].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. [370.] ► Stitching sensation in the region of the
heart, [5]. ►
Shocks at the heart, with heavy breathing, at 12 M. (tenth day), [7]. ►
At every exertion, shocks at the heart, throbbing of the pulse through
the whole body, tremulousness, weakness, and sweat, in the forenoon
(eleventh day), [7]. ► Heart’s Action. ► *Irregular beating of the heart form 12 M. till
5 P.M. (eighth day), [7].
► Beating of the heart irregular as
to quantity and quality (part of S. 211, 367), [7]. ► Irregular
beating of the heart, less violent than before (during the
shaking, trembling of the body), in the afternoon (fifth day), [7]. ►
*Palpitation of the heart in the afternoon (eighth day), [7]. ►
Pulse. ► Pulse continued
accelerated (after second dose, third day), [4]. ► Pulse
rapid and feeble (after three hours), [28].
► Pulse very rapid, small, and weak, [29]. [380.]
► All the afternoon pulse very small
and quick, [5]. ► Directly after the reaction has followed
the chill, the pulse rises a as far above the normal state as it has
been previously below it, [15]. ► On the 12th of November, at 9 P.M., six
drops were taken, at 9.30 six drops more, and at 10 o’clock ten drops;
the results, which were as follows, more also indicated on the chart.
Not being perfectly well, there existed either a recoil or dicrotic wave
in the preliminary tracing, which in thirty minutes seemed rather to
become more prominent, and, but for the records that follow, might be at
once set down as a true dicrotous wave, as at this time there will also
be seen diminution of compressibility, as shown by diminished amplitude
under the same pressure; the prominence of the waves, whatever its
explanation, must be ascribed to a morbid condition, viz., that produced
by the influence of the poison administered; the pulse at this interval
has reached a minimum as to frequency, and in ten minutes more shows
slight impairment of rhythm; the new dose of ten drops exhibits its
first influence in the tracings in thirty minutes, by increased arterial
tension and nervous stimulation, followed however in five minutes by
diminution of both, and great decrease in frequency; from this time on
to the end of an hour the tension in the arterial system slowly
increased, although the frequency remained nearly the same, and after
one hour and a half the appearance of some obstruction, as shown in the
flattening of the conjoined apices of the first and second events, was
manifest, and irregularity of impulse and of rhythm exhibited the
effects of the poison upon the heart. The simple deduction from this
investigation, apart from what is already known of the remedy, lies in
this, that while reducing the frequency of the pulse, it does so with an
increase of arterial tension, and
after awhile impairment of the heart’s action, indicating a toxic
influence upon the nervous system, [34].
► Some depression of the pulse, [27]. ►
Pulse very uniformly depressed, and rendered less frequent by 10 to 20
beats per minutes, within the last five or ten minutes, if the subject
remains quiet, but subject to great variations from exercise; in one
case the pulse increased from 60 to 70 in the first five minutes, but in
the next trial it was diminished 10 beats in five minutes, [5]. ►
Within a few minutes, sometimes within two or three, a marked depression
of the pulse, which becomes 10, 15, or 20 beats less in a minute if
quiet; greatly disturbed by movement, [10].
► Within a few minutes (sometimes two
or three) a marked depression of the pulse is observed, with a
diminution of 10, 15, or 20 beats per minute, but this only in a state
of rest; when moving it is variable, [15].
► Pulse slow and full, or slow and
soft, [13]. ►
Pulse slow and weak, [9]. ► Pulse 100, regular, but weak, [26]. [390.]
► Pulse, when sitting, 76 at 11 A.M.
(third day), [6]. ► Pulse 72 in the evening (sixth day), [6]. ►
Pulse 65 in the forenoon (eleventh day), [7].
► After writing awhile, pulse 64 to
68 at 11.30 P.M. (seventh day), [6].
► On lying down, pulse 54 to 60; when
sitting up, 64 to 68, in the afternoon; when sitting, 72, and always
full and strong, as usual, in the evening (third day), [6]. ► Pulse
53, small and weak, at 12.30 P.M. (fifth day), [7]. ►
Irregular pulse in the afternoon (tenth day), [7]. ► Pulse
feeble, irregular, and sometimes intermittent (after five hours), [25]. ►
Pulse 58, weak, wiry, unequal; when the first stroke is stronger than
the preceding one, the second one is scarcely perceptible, or vanishing
altogether; irregular double action of the heart, as described above,
with intermittent pulse, shaking of the heart, so that she feels it as
far as the neck, at 12 M. (ninth day), [7].
► Pulse 60, hardish, intermittent,
after about 10 beats; during the intermission of the pulse, two quicker
double strokes of the heart are observed by auscultation, changing in
rhythm, but not in time, at 12 M. (eighth day), [7]. [400.]
► Fluttering pulse, [13]. ► Pulse
full, 120, [13]. ► Pulse regular and full, [19]. ► Weak
pulse, [21]. ►
Pulse small and feeble; afterwards, almost imperceptible, [23]. ► Pulse
soon becomes very feeble in many cases; sometimes scarcely perceptible,
with chilliness, cold feet, heat and pain of head, etc., [5]. ► Pulse
frequently soft, weak, so feeble as to be sometimes imperceptible, [13].
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