MAGNESIA CARBONICA.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► Twitching
without pain, in the vessels of the thighs, shoulders, and often also in
the face, [1]. ► Tremulous and weak, in the morning in
bed, disappearing after rising (ninth day), [4]. ► The
body is relaxed (after seven days), [1].
► Becomes easily sprained and
strained; on bending the arm backward, the shoulder pains as if
dislocated, and when touched feels bruised; she is unable to turn the
head to the left without great pain, [1].
► *In the morning after a good sleep, he
is more weary than in the evening on lying down, [1]. ►
Easily becomes weary while walking (after six days), [1]. [760.] ► Weakness and weariness of the whole body,
especially of the feet (seventh day), [4].
► She was unable to sit up in the
evening, on account of weakness (forty-second day), [4]. ► While
eating, she became weak, [1]. ► After eating, weakness, paleness of the
face, nausea, and vomiting of dark-colored food (after seven days), [1]. ►
Weakness after the stool (after seven days), [1]. ► General
weakness, suffering expression and some qualmishness (twenty-seventh
day), [4]. ►
Very weak and prostrated after vomiting (forty-second day), [4]. ►
Very weak while sitting and walking, less so while standing, in the
afternoon (sixth day), [4]. ► During the menses, great weakness, so
that she could scarcely walk, [4].
► Exhaustion of mind and body (after
twenty days), [1]. [770.] ►
Sudden exhaustion when walking in the open air, [1]. ►
Completely exhausted and a bruised feeling in the hands and feet, with
trembling and weakness, in the morning on waking; she was obliged to lie
down again, after which she became better, though she felt cold
immediately on getting out of bed, [4].
► So exhausted, weary, and sleepy
after dinner (of rather undigestible food), that he suddenly fell asleep
while standing and talking, with confusion of the head, which made all
thought impossible, [5]. ► Prostrated, weak, uncomfortable, with
anxious warmth and perspiration (twenty-fifth day), [1], [4]. ► During the menses, very prostrated and
weak all day; with perspiration, without thirst, [4]. ►
Internal restlessness, with distraction of mind, so that while writing a
letter he was obliged to stand up several times and write the letter
over three times; with trembling of the hands (after three weeks), [4]. ►
He tossed from side to side in bed for two nights, and if his body lay
quiet the arms and legs jerked all night, even while awake, but without
pain; on waking he knew nothing of the occurrences of the night (after
eight days), [1]. ► Subjective. ►
Great sensitiveness of the skin of the head and body, especially to
cold; cold creeping though the skin, and chilliness through and through,
from every slight draft, [1]. ► Stiffness of the whole body, in the
morning on rising, [1]. ► Feels weak in the morning in bed (after
seventeen days), [1]. [780.] ►
General heaviness and prostration all day (soon), [4]. ►
Extremely uncomfortable, apathetic and weak, in the morning (second
day), [4]. ►
Pains here and there, in all parts of the body, [1]. ► Burning
needle-like stitches here and there, [1].
► Tearing in the left ear, left upper
back teeth, and in several other places, generally shifting every
moment, in the forenoon (twenty-seventh day), [4]. ► The
whole body is sore, [1]. ► Violent jerking-tearing, now in the
vertex, now in the occiput, upper arms and thighs, all day (twenty-fifth
and twenty-sixth days); while in bed she was free from pain, but on
rising the jerking pains here and there began again (twenty-eighth day),
[4]. ►
She was attacked with frightful dizzy faintness, with coldness at 9
P.M., after lying down; after which she was qualmish for half an hour;
she then fell asleep, but frequently woke; with great nausea from the
slightest motion, less when quiet; in the morning after rising it was
worse; wherewith she had a very disagreeable taste, almost like bad
eggs, and similar eructations, with a pale face and coldness
(twenty-fifth day), [4]. ► The symptoms seem to reappear after three
weeks, [4]. ►
The symptoms which occur while sitting are usually relieved by walking,
and the symptoms seem better in the open air than in the house, [4].
SKIN.
►
Eruptions, Dry. [790.] ► A number of small red spots on the chest,
neither elevated nor itching (thirtieth day), [4]. ► On the
left side of the navel, spots not larger than could be covered with one
digital phalanx, which on pressure pained as if ulcerated (eleventh and
twenty-fifth days), [4]. ► Large nodes beneath the skin, with
sticking pains, in the axillæ and above the elbow-joints, [1]. ►
Eruption of large pimples here and there on the body, [1]. ► Fine
eruption on the mouth (after three days), [1].
► A pimple beneath the right, and
another beneath the left ear, with itching, but not maturating
(fourteenth day), [4]. ► Eruption of pimples on the left arm,
which after scratching disappear, but do not itch; they last two days
(after ten days), [1]. ► A number of small pimples on the right
side of the chin, almost daily disappearing to give place to fresh ones
(after nine days), [4]. ► Numerous small pimples above the knee,
not sensitive, that dry after twenty-four hours, [4]. ► Red
pimples above the knee, soon disappearing, without sensation, [4]. [800.] ►
Eruption of hard pimples in both corners of the mouth (eleventh day), [4]. ►
A hard pimple on the right temple above the ear, painful only when
touched (forty-third day), [4]. ► A hard pimple deep in the skin in front
of the left shoulder, which is painful, and stings like a boil only on
pressure, with redness, that increases the second and disappears on the
third day; above this pimple there is also a smaller one, with red
areola, [4]. ►
An itching pimple on the inner surface of the left forearm (twelfth
day), [4]. ►
Swelling, redness, and heat in the right middle finger, with itching
pimples upon it, on the days when he had no stool, [1]. ► Itching
on the shoulders, on the outer surface of the thigh, and on the throat
in the evening before going to sleep and in the morning while dressing;
after scratching there appeared on several places-as, for example, on
the thighs-itching pimples, which did not last longer than twenty-four
hours (eleventh day), [4]. ► Violent itching on the nates and inner
surface of the forearm in the evening while undressing; after scratching
violently, itching pimples appeared, which also itched worse after
scratching, but disappeared in bed (twentieth day), [4]. ► Small
pimples between the fingers of the left hand, that contain no liquid,
but itch so much that she could scratch them off; in the afternoon they
disappeared (twentieth day), [4]. ► Violent itching on the inner surface of
the left forearm while washing with cold water and soap; after
scratching, the whole place became filled with red itching pimples,
which soon disappeared after drying; in the afternoon (nineteenth day), [4]. ►
Eruptions, Moist. ► On the
wrist an itching pimple, exuding clear water on pressure (thirteenth
day), [4]. [810.] ► A
vesicle on the back of the nose, without sensation, in the morning
(sixth day), [4]. ► A vesicle on the first joint of the left
index finger (after ten days), [1].
► A vesicle on the left index finger,
near the nail, [1]. ► A vesicle on the lower lip, near the
right corner of the mouth, which desquamates on the third day (sixtieth
day), [4]. ►
Vesicles on the hands, with stinging pain, [1]. ►
Numerous vesicles on both sides of the forehead and the right corner of
the mouth (sixteenth day), [4]. ► Clear vesicles, with tensive pain in the
left corner of the upper lip (seventeenth day), [4]. ► Clear
vesicles on the left side of the nape of the neck, without sensation, in
the morning (second day), [4]. ► Clear vesicles above the right breast and
on the right shoulder, in the morning (tenth day), [4]. ► Violent
itching of the palm of the left hand, and after scratching a long time
some clear vesicles appeared; even on the following day the itching
continued (after fourteen days), [4].
[820.] ►
Crawling and itching, as from vermin, in various parts of the body,
especially on the shoulders; after scratching, small, clear vesicles
appear, which dry up in twenty-four to forty-eight hours; in the
afternoon, evening, and morning (after thirteen days), [4]. ► Violent
itching between the third and fourth fingers of the right hand; after
violent scratching, there appeared two vesicles containing clear water,
but not itching, and on the spot that had been scratched on both sides
of the fingers, there appeared long white streaks (nineteenth day), [4]. ►
Violently itching vesicles on the sides of the nose two days before
menstruation (fifty-seventh day), [4].
► Eruption of tetter all about below
the whole mouth, [1]. ► Small, red, somewhat elevated, smooth
tetter, that afterwards desquamates, without sensation, on the chest and
calves (twenty-first day), [5]. ► A blister formed in the scar of an old
burn, from which he suffered for six weeks, [1]. ► A small
scab, as after a vesicle that had been scratched off, on the left side
of the forehead, without sensation, lasting eight days, [4]. ► Eruptions,
Pustular. ► Pustules on
the upper lip (second day), [1]. ► Pustules on the lower lip (third day), [1]. ►
A pustule on the tip of the nose (ninety-seventh day), [4]. [830.] ► A pustule beneath the right nostril; at
first it itches, on the second day it suppurates, and afterwards leaves
a burning scab (thirteenth day), [4].
► A number of small boils on the
posterior surface of the lower portion of the right thigh, with redness,
but without itching; next day, most of them had disappeared, and the
skin was rough in the evening (fifteenth day), [4]. ► A small
pustule in front of the right ear, without sensation (twenty-eighth
day), [4]. ►
A small boil on the left side of the forehead, and another on the right
side of the throat (eighth day), [4].
► A small boil on the left side of
the chest, suppurating on the following day (eighteenth day), [4]. ►
Subjective. ► Itching here
and there over the whole body, from evening till 3 A.M. (after
twenty-three days), [4]. ► Itching here and there over the whole
head; after scratching it always appears in other places; in the evening
(tenth day), [4]. ► Incessant itching at night, like a biting
through the whole body, so that she often started, [1]. ► Violent
itching over the whole body, [1].
► Violent itching, especially above
the hips, [1]. [840.] ►
Violent itching here and there over the whole body, that after
scratching always appears in another spot, three nights in succession,
lasting till 5 A.M. (after forty days), [4].
► Itching-burning above the upper
lip, towards the left corner of the mouth, at 1 P.M., [4]. ► An
itching stitch above the right hip, obliging scratching and then
disappearing, [4]. ► Extremely fine itching-burning stitches,
as from fleas, now in the right, now in the left hip, left sacral and
right hypochondriac regions, [4]. ► Violent itching-biting in the nape of the
neck and on the throat, which burn after scratching, in the evening, [4]. ►
Crawling, as from ants, on the under surface of the first joints of the
toes of the right foot; afterwards, the same on the dorsum of the foot, [4]. ►
Itching in various places, especially on the forehead, nose, throat,
forearms, removed by scratching (second day), [4]. ► Itching
on the forehead during dinner, [4].
► Itching on both sides of the
forehead, disappearing on scratching, [4].
► Itching on the right temple,
remaining after scratching, [4]. [850.] ►
Itching behind the right ear, removed by scratching, [4]. ► Itching
in various places on the face, removed by scratching, at 10 A.M., [4]. ►
Itching of the upper lip, with a feeling as if an eruption would break
out, in the forenoon, [4]. ► Itching on the chin half an hour after
dinner, [4]. ►
Itching on the nape of the neck, removed by scratching, at 6 P.M., [4]. ►
Itching on the right side of the neck, with burning after scratching
(ninth day), [4]. ► During the menses, itching on the neck
and shoulders in the afternoon, [4].
► Itching on the back, as from
vermin, removed by scratching, at noon and in the evening (thirteenth
day), [4]. ►
Itching over the whole back, and burning after scratching, in the
evening on lying down (twenty-fifth day), [4].
► Itching in the middle of the back;
on scratching, it appears on the left shoulder, where it disappears
after scratching; an hour and a half after dinner, [4]. [860.] ► Itching here and there on the posterior
portion of the trunk, [4]. ► Itching between the shoulders, and after
scratching burning there, at 6 P.M. (third day), [4]. ► Itching
on the shoulder, removed by scratching, but returning after half an
hour, [4]. ►
Itching in the left axilla (twenty-seventh day), [4]. ► Itching
on the right forearm, from the first joint of the thumb extending up
along the radius, removed by scratching, at 1.15 P.M., [4]. ► Itching
on the anterior surface of the right forearm, below the elbow; after
scratching it disappears, but a red spot appears, [4]. ► Itching
on the inner surface of the left wrist, [4].
► Itching of the palm of the left
hand, removed by scratching, in the morning after rising (second day), [4]. ►
Itching on the right hip while standing; after scratching, burning
(after three-quarters of an hour), [4].
► Itching of all the toes of the left
foot, so violent that she could tear them out, an hour after dinner, [4]. [870.]
► Transient itching beneath the right
ear, removed by scratching, [4]. ► Frequent itching of the pudenda, [1]. ►
Constant itching on the nates, not at all relieved by scratching, [4]. ►
Violent itching on the left side of the throat at night; she woke in
order to scratch, after which a red spot appeared (fifteenth day), [4]. ►
Violent itching on a spot as large as the hand in the right groin with
internal burning, both disappearing after scratching, with chilliness of
the body (fifth day), [4]. ► Violent itching on the back, removed by
scratching, but frequently returning, [4].
► Violent itching of the left hand,
so that she could scratch it to pieces, at 10 P.M. (second day), [4]. ►
Violent itching of the palm of the left hand, she could not scratch it
enough, from 7 P.M. till lying down, [4].
► Violent itching on the right
shoulder; after scratching the spots burns; in the afternoon (third
day), [4]. ►
Violent itching on the right calf, removed by scratching, at 4 P.M., [4]. [880.]
► Violent, prolonged itching between
the fourth and fifth toes of the left foot, [4]. ►
Voluptuous itching externally about the throat, removed by scratching,
but frequently returning, [4]. ► Painful itching of the upper part of the
left side of the nose, near the eye (twenty-fifth day), [4]. ►
Burning-itching in the small of the back, above the nates, [1].® 2000
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