MEZEREUM.
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Kidneys and Bladder. ►
Sticking in the kidney, and pain as if torn, [43]. ► A
pinching sensation in the bladder, [4].
► Urethra. ► Discharge of mucus from the urethra, [1]. ►
Discharge of watery mucus from the urethra, on moving about, [1]. ►
Discharge of tenacious transparent liquid from the orifice of the
urethra before urinating, in the forenoon (ninth day), [35]. [760.] ► (Blennorrhœa, with dark-red inflammation
of the inner surface of the prepuce, with violent itching, without
swelling, and with a sore sensation in the evening, and tearing and
drawing in the glans penis), (after three weeks), [4]. ► *Burning
urine, [1]. ► Some biting burning in the forepart of
the urethra, near the close of micturition (during stool), (fifth day), [27a]. ►
Slight drawing in the urethra, [39].
► Acute drawing and cutting-drawing
pain in the forepart of the urethra, and neck of the bladder, while
walking in the open air (third day), [27].
► Some cutting in the orifice of the
urethra, [39]. ► Pain (cutting) in the forepart of the
urethra after micturition, [27]. ► Violent cutting in the orifice of the
urethra after urinating, [39]. ► Sticking in the orifice of the urethra
and frequent desire to urinate, [39].
► A constant sticking painful
sensation in the urethra, in the evening, [1].
[770.] ►
Sticking-crawling pain in the urethra, and emission of some fluid, [1]. ►
Some pain in the urethra, sometimes when touched, sometimes when
urinating, [1]. ► Itching sore sensation in the urethra,
aggravated by pressure, [4]. ► Slight itching in the urethra, while
urinating, [37]. ► Micturition. ►
Rose to urinate towards morning (second night), [27]. ► Woke
with desire to urinate very early, towards morning (first night), [27]. ►
Frequent desire to urinate immediately after urinating, [39]. ► Urgent
desire to urinate (third day), [27a].
► Urgent desire to urinate, several
times during the forenoon (second day), [27a].
► Very urgent desire to urinate
(fourth morning), [27]. [780.] ►
Very urgent desire to urinate after waking and rising, for several
mornings (that had existed before taking the Mezereum), disappeared
during the proving, [27]. ► Frequent micturition, [1]. ►
Frequent emission of much watery urine, in the forenoon (third day), [27]. ►
Emission of urine more indolent than usual, in the morning after rising
(second day), [27a]. ► *After urinating, a few drops of blood are
passed, [1]. ► Had not voided urine (sixth hour), [48]. ►
Urine. ► Urine dark, [51]. ►
Urine somewhat red (seventeenth day), [12].
► Urine dark wine-yellow, becoming
turbid after an hour; later, floating flocculi and a reddish sediment, [11]. [Corrected by Hering, l. c.] ►
Urine copious, pale, [41c]. [790.] ►
Profuse pale urine, even at night (third to eighth day), [38]. ► Urine
pale, evacuated only once or twice a day (usually six to eight times),
(first to fourth day), [35]. ► Secretion of urine scanty (second
morning), [27]. ► Urine scanty, in the morning, with
increased thirst (third day), [27].
► Urine scanty, dark-colored, hot
when passed, of a strong odor, in the morning (second day), [27a]. ►
Urine much more scanty than usual, even after drinking much, [11]. ►
Urine very scanty, with slight desire (second day), [27]. ►
Burning and red urine, [50]. ► *Urine hot, with a reddish sediment, [12]. ►
Bloody urine, [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. [800.]
► Swelling of the penis, with
increased warmth (second day), [27].
► Frequent erections during the day, [6]. ►
Persistent violent erections, with yawning and sleepiness, in the
evening (first day), [27]. ► (Transient pain in the forepart of the
penis), (after half an hour), [27a].
► Frequent acute pain in the glans
penis, [27]. ►
Burning in the region of the glans penis while urinating, [1]. ► Fine
pricking stitches in the penis and tip of the glans penis, [3], [4],
[5], [6]. ► Tearing
and jerking tearing in the glans penis, [4].
► Jerklike tearing in the penis, with
a wavelike pain above, in the right side of the abdomen, [4]. ►
Sticking jerking on the back of the penis, [6]. [810.] ► Itching internally on the prepuce, in the
evening (third day), [27]. ► Very acute itching on the inner surface
of the prepuce, after urinating (fourth day), [27]. ► *Itching
in the glans penis, [1].
► Testicles painful to pressure, [38]. ►
Pressive-drawing pains in the spermatic cords, frequently, [38]. ►
Painless swelling of the left side of the scrotum, [6]. ► A
pressive stitch on the right side of the scrotum, [12]. ►
Excessive sexual excitement after an emission, with crawling over the
whole body, as from excessive lasciviousness (after three weeks), [4]. ►
Female. ► Mucous discharge
from the vagina, [1]. ► Leucorrhœa like the white of an egg, [1]. [820.]
► *Menses too frequent, [And
too profuse. [°] -Lippe.] and
lasting too long, [43])
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx and Trachea. ► The larynx seems too tight, on deep
inspiration he hears and feels the air pass through the larynx; in
general, he is conscious that “he has a larynx,” [11]. ►
In the larynx, a tickling as if with a feather, which causes coughing, [43]. ►
Inflammation of the trachea, with violent burning pain between the hyoid
bone and thyroid cartilage, somewhat relieved by eating (sixth to night
day), [36]. ►
Pain in the trachea were closed while breathing (second day), [33]. ►
Voice. ► Voice altered,
trembling, [51]. ► Voice rough, husky (soon), [27]. ►
*Hoarseness (fifth day), [1];
(eighth day), [33]. ► Hoarseness as far down as the pit of the
throat, [1]. [830.] ►
*Hoarseness, with cough and rawness in the chest (seventh
day), [33]. ► Cough and Expectoration. ► Nightly cough, especially after midnight,
[1]. ►
Sleep frequently interrupted by cough and colic (seventh day), [33]. ►
*When he has eaten anything, he must cough until he vomits, [43]. ►
Cough after walking (fifth day), [33].
► Cough, with retching and
scratching, or scraping in the pit of the throat, as if something sweet
lay there which could not be coughed up, [43].
► Moderate cough, between 6 and 7
A.M., at no other time, [43]. ► Violent uninterrupted cough for some
hours, causing vomiting (after one hour), [1].
► Dry cough, [39]. ► Dry
cough day and night, with emaciation and loss of strength, and tensive
pains across the thorax, [43]. [840.] ►
Dry cough, with retching amounting to vomiting, in the afternoon and
towards evening, [1]. ► Dry cough, with scraping in the lower
portion of the sternum, and sticking in the right frontal eminence, [9]. ►
Cough caused by an irritation low down in the chest, and which does not
abate until vomiting and discharge of water saliva results, [1]. ►
*Violent inclination to cough, in the evening in bed, and in the
morning, lower down in the trachea than can be reached by the cough;
hence its violence and the impossibility to loosen anything by coughing,
[1]. ►
Much dry cough, at night, [39]. ► Frequent short dry cough, caused by
tickling in the larynx, both day and night; on one day the cough was
especially distressing, during which the symptoms of the limbs were less
noticed, [39]. ► Constant inclination to cough, preceded
prattling in the chest on breathing, and a sore pain on coughing
anything loose (tenth day), [33]. ► Cough, at first day, with a feeling of
soreness beneath the sternum, and a distressing headache; subsequently,
profuse expectoration of mucus, [38].
► Much expectoration of mucus (first
day), [32]. ►
Some streaks of blood in the expectoration, in the morning (second day),
[27]. [850.]
► Expectoration somewhat bloody, in
the morning (fourth day), [27]. ► Bloody expectoration, in the afternoon
and night, with moderate cough and restless sleep, with heavy frightful
dreams, [1]. ► Respiration. ►
A kind of whistling in the nose on inspiration (immediately), [11]. ►
Respiration slow (after six days), [48].
► Inclination to take a deep breath
(second day), [31a]. ► Respiration full, not free, not so easy
as usual, [11]. ► Respiration short, difficult, [51]. ►
Great irritation, and it was difficult to carry on respiration, [49a]. ►
Slow difficult respiration, with anxiety; is unable to inspire
sufficient air, and thinks he must suffocate, [2]. ►
Tightness of breath because the chest seems to be constricted from both
sides, [6]. [860.] ►
While talking, he easily loses his breath in the middle of his speech,
and is obliged to begin again, [11].
► While washing his hands, he filled
his mouth with water and stooped forward; he then lost his breath, so
that he was obliged to let the water run out of his mouth, [11]. ►
Dyspnœa, for several hours, [1]. ► Paroxysmal dyspnœa, as if something
heavy were lying upon the chest, [1].
CHEST.
►
The exhalation from the lungs is offensive, like bad cheese, [1]. ►
A contraction of the diaphragm beneath the ribs, at times, [1]. ►
The chest feels affected and weak, especially the left side of the
forepart, whence the bloody expectoration usually seems to come (it only
occurs from special cause, from drugs, taking cold, etc.); this is
located in the region of the fourth and fifth ribs, about four inches
from the sternum (fifth day), [27].
► Anxiety in the chest, [3]. ►
Pain in the chest when coughing anything loose (ninth day), [33]. ►
Pain in the middle of the chest, extending up to the throat, on holding
the head up (seventh day), [33]. [870.] ►
Pains in the pectoral and dorsal muscles of the right side, in the
evening, [39]. ► Tightness of the chest, better while
standing, often intolerable while sitting, relieved by becoming erect,
better toward evening, worse again after supper (first day), [33]. ►
On inspiration, a sensation as if the chest and trachea were too tight,
not aggravated by running or going up stairs, [11]. ► On
deep inspiration, a feeling as if was too tight in the region of the
third and fourth ribs, [12]. ► The chest feels very tight on stooping
and while sitting; he is obliged to loosen the clothes; respiration slow
and short, [11] [Revised by
Herring, l. c.] ► Tensive pains across the thorax, with dry
cough day and night, emaciation and loss of strength, [43]. ►
Tension in the pectoral muscles, on stretching out the arms, [1]. ►
Sensation as if the chest were constricted (second day), [31a]. ►
Cramplike constrictive pain across the lower pectoral muscles, lower
portion of the back, and upper arms, while walking in the open air, [1]. ►
Pressive constrictive pain in the back part of the chest on becoming
erect, very much aggravated by deep inspiration, and then extending
through the whole lower portion of the chest; on bending forward, the
pain is scarcely noticed, but appears like a kind of rheumatism on
moving the arms, while bending far backward, [7]. [880.] ► Tensive pressure in various parts of the
chest, [12]. ►
Pain in the chest on stooping; a pressive pain in the middle of the
chest (tenth day), [33]. ► Pressive pain within the chest, a dull
pressure in a small spot, at first towards the right, then towards the
left side, [4]. ► Oppression of the chest (second day), [31a]; with palpitation, [1]. ►
Oppression in the chest, as from the heart, with long deep respiration
(first day), [30a]. ► Oppression and anxiety in the chest,
especially about the heart, with very deep and frequent respiration
(second day), [30a]. ► Chest feels oppressed and constricted
(second day), [31]. ► Sticking pain in the chest, shooting to
the right side after coughing (seventh day), [33]. ►
Sticking pains in the chest, commencing beneath the left breast and
shooting through the breast out between the shoulders, occurring on or
aggravated by inspiration and making respiration difficult (fifth day), [31]. ►
Sticking bone-pain in the clavicle, [1].
[890.] ►
Violent sticking in the pectoral muscles on inspiration, while sitting,
and also in the left side, beneath the short ribs, near the spine, [39]. ►
Fine sticking pain in the chest, [1].
► A stitch deep in the chest on
laughing, [6]. ► Stitches in the chest on respiration
(second day), [31]. ► Violent stitches in the chest, [1]. ►
Violent intermitting stitches in the chest, more toward the right side,
that scarcely permit breathing, [4].
► Acute tearing pain in the right
clavicle and neighboring parts of the neck (second day), [30]. ► Sore
feeling in the chest (seventh day), [33].
► Rawness and scraping in the chest
and throat, on coughing and breathing, it seems as though something
would be loosened, but it is not; constant inclination to cough (sixth
day), [33]. ► Front. ►
Sore burning on the bone of the sternum, in a small spot on
the right side, near the pit of the stomach, [1], [4]. [900.] ► A pressive burning behind the ensiform
cartilage, recurring at intervals, [7].
► *Constricting and contracting pains
transversely across the forepart of the chest, not very
deeply seated, accompanied by and alternating with the same sensation
across the back, in the region of the scapulæ (soon after cutting the
bark), [27]. ►
A cramplike pressure in a small spot on both sides of the sternum, while
sitting, disappearing on walking, [6].
► Pressive pain in the forepart of
the left chest, in the region of the fourth rib, in the evening (first
day), [27]. ►
Sharp pain in a small spot in the anterior wall of the chest and region
of the heart (second day), [30a]. ► Tearing pain transversely across the
forepart of the chest (after a few hours), [27]. ► Sides.
► Pain in the sides of the chest on
deep inspiration, as if the lungs were adherent and could not be freely
distended, [1]. ► Jerking twitching in the right side of
the chest, by the lower ribs, afterwards below, on the lower portion of
the right scapula, in the evening (fourth day), [27a]. ►
Pressive pain in the left side of the chest, [33]. ►
Sticking in the right side of the thorax, [43].
[910.] ►
Sticking beneath the right axilla, between the ribs, [29]. ► Fine
sticking pain in the right side of the chest, mostly on breathing (after
nine days), [1]. ► Violent sticking pain in the right side
of the region of the last ribs, especially on deep breathing, so that
she held the hand over the spot for a long time, [28]. ►
Stitches in the left side of the chest, blow the clavicle, at rhythmical
intervals, extending deep into the chest; soon followed by a dull
aching, aggravated by every inspiration, and recurring several days,
(third day), [5]. ► Dull stitch in the left side of the
chest, back of the heart, apparently in the lung (first day), [27]. ►
Jerking in the left side of the chest, transient and painful like
electric shocks, [5]. ► Mammæ. ►
Sudden burning pain between the mammæ, [5].
► Pressure in the region of the left
nipple, [4]. ►
Constant stitches beneath the left breast (second day), [31a]. ► A
sudden acute stitch from within outward in the right mamma, [5].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. [920.] ► Cramps about the heart, [29]. ► Dull
sticking pains in the præcordial region, apparently in the intercostal
muscles, with acute stitches when coughing and sneezing, most
troublesome and most noticed in the evening on falling asleep, and in
the morning after waking, lasting twelve to fourteen days (after two
days), [40]. ►
A dull stitch beneath the præcordial region on deep breathing, [11]. ►
Heart’s Action. ►
Acceleration of the heart’s action (seventeenth day), [42]. ►
Irregular beating of the heart, afterwards repeated at night, on waking,
while lying on the back, [39]. ► A peculiar rubbing sound in the
præcordial region in the same spot where the pain had been noticed in
the previous proving; the sound was distinctly heard by himself, less
noticed while moving about especially in the evening after lying down,
and indeed while lying on the left side, and on taking a deep breath;
associated with a sensation as though the chest were too tight, and
sufficient air could not be inspired; this rubbing sound lasted two or
three weeks, with an indescribable sensation of heaviness and of an
impediment in the region of the heart, [40a].
► Pulse. ►
Pulse somewhat accelerated, in the forenoon (second day), [27a]. ►
Unusually accelerated pulse, 90, in the evening (first day), [27]. ►
Pulse accelerated by 20 beats, towards evening, with increased warmth of
the body and general excitement, [4].
► Pulse more rapid after eating, and
a feeling as if the heart were beating near the stomach on the left
side, twitching of the eyelids, unusually distinct vision, with a
sensation as if he were looking through concave glasses, and a kind of
swimming before the eyes, [3]. [930.] ►
Pulse frequent, irregular, hard, and cordlike, [51]. ►
Feverish pulse, [50]. ► Pulse rather slow (third day), [27]. ►
*Pulse intermittent, full, tense, hard, [18]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ►
Pulse 44, very compressible, and occasionally intermitting (after six
hours), [43]. ► Pulse somewhat harder than usual, not
accelerated, [41c]. ► Pulse hard, though not accelerated (fifth
day), [41].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Stiff pain in the nape
of the neck, and external cervical muscles, [3], [12]. ► *Stiff pain in the right side of the nape of the
neck and throat, mostly on motion, [6]. ►
Rheumatic pain in the nape of the neck, throat, and occiput, [4]. [940.]
► Tearing on the left side of the
neck, extending into the left ear and near the clavicle, [4]. ► Back.
► Pains in the dorsal and lumbar
muscles, [39]. ► Transient pain in the left side of the
back, [30]. ►
Tensive constrictive pain in the back, extending down to the small of
the back, [9]. ► Sticking pain, extending from the left
side of the back the chest, on inspiration, [12]. ► Sudden
sharp stitches near the spine, extending through the chest into the left
costal cartilage, in the evening, [5].
► Tearing in the left side of the
back, in the morning, [39]. ► Tearing jerkings on the left side of the
neck, [4], [5]. ► Dull
pulsating pain in the back, very near the middle spine, [4]. ► Dorsal.
► Pain beneath the angle of the left
scapula (third day), [30]. [950.] ►
Transient pains beneath the left shoulder, very acute, in the evening
(second day), [31]. ► Rheumatism in the left scapula and nape
of the neck, aggravated by turning to the opposite side (sixth day), [30b]. ►
*Rheumatic pain in the right scapula, in the morning after rising
(fourth day), [27a]. ► *Rheumatic pains in the muscles of the scapula,
like a tension, and as if swollen, making motion difficult
(soon), [27]. ► A tensive rheumatic pain on the right
scapula (third day), [27]. ► Boring pains in the dorsal vertebræ
while sitting, [39]. ► Frequent boring in the dorsal vertebræ, [39]. ►
Drawing pains in the dorsal muscles, [39].
► Drawing pain in the left scapula, [39]. ►
Drawing pain beneath the left scapula (first day), [30b]. [960.]
► Drawing and pressive pain in the
dorsal muscles, [39]. ► Frequent drawing in the dorsal muscles, [39]. ►
Pressure on the scapulæ, [39]. ► Pressure in the right scapula, [39]. ►
Pressive pains in the dorsal muscles, [39].
► Sticking pains in the scapula,
especially in the afternoon, for several days, [38]. ► A
burning stitch and violent muscular jerkings below the left scapula, [4]. ►
Dull stitch in the back near the right scapula, impeding respiration,
most felt on motion, [2]. ► Dull drawing stitches between the
shoulders, extending downward, less on moving the part, [5]. ► Tearing
on the right side of the scapula, [4].
[970.] ►
Transient tearing pain in the tip of the left scapula, [30]. ► Lumbar.
► Pain in the small of back,
extending over all parts of the body (after forty-four hours), [1]. ►
Pain in the small of the back, worse while walking than during rest, [9]. ►
Pains in the right side of the small of the back, [12]. ►
Drawing in the lumbar muscles, [39].
► Frequent drawing pains in the
lumbar muscles, [39]. ► Violent drawing pain near the left side
of the small of the back, [4]. ► A pressive-sticking pain in the outer
portion of the right side of the lumbar vertebræ, aggravated by motion,
[12]. ►
Tearing pains in the lumbar muscles, [39].
► Cutting tearing very low down on
both sides of the small of the back, [4].® 2000
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