MEZEREUM.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► All the flesh
seemed to soften and waste during the proving, [27]. ►
Emaciation and loss of strength, with tensive pains across the thorax,
and dry cough day and night, [43].
► Activity and desire to work (second
day), [30]. ►
Tremulous condition, as after too much wine (first day), [30a]. ►
Irregular actions of the tendons, [45].
► Stretching (first day), [30a]. ►
Indolence, [41a]. ► Indolent, phlegmatic and weary in the
extremities; walking is not agreeable to him, [6]. ►
Indolent, not inclined to do any work; like to be completely inactive;
is indifferent to everything; is obliged to force himself to take up his
business (second day), [27]. [1280.] ►
Great indolence and weakness after a deep sleep, [35]. ►
Unusual indolence; every word is an effort (second day), [30b]. ► Very
lazy; no desire to work; with constant yawning, [8]. ►
Gradually become listless, languid, and drowsy, and exhibited other
signs of approaching narcotism; after six hours she was lying on her
back, her countenance sunk and ghastly, [43].
► Weariness (seventeenth day), [42]. ►
Great weariness (second day), [31].
► Great weariness, was obliged to
sleep for an hour (fourth day), [31].
► Great weariness, with heaviness and
dullness of head (ninth day), [33].
► Very weary, sick, and irritable
(second day), [31]. ► Very weary and unusually sick (soon), [30a]. [1290.]
► So weary in the afternoon that she
was obliged to lie down and sleep four hours; with agreeable dreams
(with constant faceache, which frequently aroused, but never quite awoke
her), (fourth day), [31]. ► Extremely weary in the morning on rising,
but not afterwards during the day (fifth day), [27a]. ►
Extreme weariness and anxiety (seventh day), [42]. ►
Overpowering weariness, without being able to sleep, in the evening
(second day), [31]. ► Unusual sinking of strength, [14]. ►
Weakness, relieved after a short nap (after second day), [30a]. ► Great
weakness, as in faintness (after a few minutes), [27a]. ► Great
weakness, with inclination to sleep (third day), [31]. ► Great
weakness while walking, [8]. ► Weakness, exhaustion, [1]. [1300.]
► General exhaustion, with great
inclination to sleep, at least to lie outstretched (second day), [31]. ►
Debilitated, low-spirited, and listless, to such an extent that she
almost seemed imbecile, [50]. ► Very much worn out and pale all day, as
though he had not slept enough, [6].
► Restlessness, [45]. ►
Unusual restlessness (seventh day), [42].
► Great restlessness and peevishness,
with redness and heat of the face and forehead, [43]. ►
Subjective. ► Sensitiveness to
cold air, [3], [4]. ►
Sensitiveness to cold water while washing, in the morning; and also in
the teeth, while drinking (second morning), [27]. ► On
washing, in the morning, the water seemed too cold (as after taking
cold) he was also very averse to cold air, especially sensitive on the
head, even noticed once while sitting in the house, as if cold air were
blowing on his head (second day), [27a].
► Great desire for walking in the
open air (soon), and soon after dread of the open air, [11]. [1310.]
► While walking, he is inclined to go
with the upper part of the body bent forward, to hurry and to sing,
though everything is performed with difficulty and constraint, [11]. [Revised by Herring, l. c.] ►
Inclination to stretch, [37]. ► Unusual desire for rest, in the afternoon
(second day), [42]. ► Inclined to be indolent (second day), [31a]. ►
Falls asleep late, and after a short nap wakes shortly before midnight,
with a sensation as of diminished sensibility of all the extremities,
even of the penis and abdomen, [4].
► *Feeling of great lightness of the body,
[1]. ►
Uncomfortable feeling in the whole body, with yawning and stretching,
pain in the abdomen and eructations, [8].
► General uncomfortable feeling;
better towards noon (seventh day), [33].
► *General sick feeling, [41a]; (second day), [27]. ►
General indescribable sick feeling; on going into a close room this
amounted almost to nausea, which disappeared on going into the open air
(first day), [41]. [1320.] ►
Very sick and weary (second day), [31a].
► Pains in the tibiæ and other parts
of the body, even while walking, [39].
► The parts affected feel, on being
touched, as if swollen, which is not the case, [43]. ►
Violent boring in the ankles, especially in the left, and the left side
of the forehead, [39]. ► Transient drawing or jerking here and
there, after which a constant aching remains, [5]. ► Drawing
pain through the whole left side of the body, with a sensation of
falling asleep, especially acute in the hand and foot, [4]. ►
Wandering-drawing pains in the lumbar region and occiput, also in the
shoulders, in the flesh of the thighs, and in various parts of the head,
[39]. ►
General oppression, without seated pain (third day), [42]. ►
Stitches in various parts of the body, especially in the left chest, in
the evening (third day), [31]. ► Momentary stitches over the whole body
(fourth day), [31]. [1330.] ►
Slight stitches in various parts of the body side, shoulder, arm,
fingers; soon disappearing (first day), [31].
► *Hot jerking stitches in various parts
of the body, [12]. ► Tearing pains in different parts of the
body, while sitting, [39]. ► Crawling and some stitches in various
parts of the body (second day), [31a].
► Incessant shifting of the pains,
which, however, are much inclined to return to the original spot, [39]. ►
In general, the wine half of the body seems more affected than the
right, [39]. ►
(The effects of wine seem to be increased by Mezereum), [30]. ►
Symptoms not affected by rest or motion, [39].
► Wine and coffee do not seem to
affect the action of the drug, [6].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► Roughness of
the skin, with here and there desquamation, [35]. [1340.]
► The epidermis peeled off, [50]. ►
Desquamation of the skin of the whole body, [15]. ► *The usual
liver spots on the chest and arms became very dark, with much
desquamation (fifth day), [27].
► Great suggillation on the back of
the right hand, above the index finger, without cause from pressure or
blow; it is an irregular spot, about an inch in diameter,
bright-colored, without any pain; together with violent itching on this
hard by not on the suggillated place, especially on the wrist, so that
he was obliged to rub it until it was sore (second morning), [27]. ►
A fresh wound (on the knee) becomes inflamed, burns very much, with
sharp stitches from time to time extending into the leg, [5]. ► The
habitual “liver spots” seemed to desquamate more than usual
(second day), [27]. ► Eruptions, Dry. ►
Blotches break out over the whole body, [43].
► Itching eruption over the whole
body, like fleabites, disappearing after three days, remaining for a
long time only on the head, and becoming scurfy, [34]. ► *Red
itching rash eruption on the arms, head, and over the whole body,
partly isolated, partly in spots; very distressing, [25]. [Omit “and obstinate.” -Hughes.] ► *Eruption on both lips, outside of the red, with
violent fluent coryza, [1].
[1350.] ►
Eruption of red spots on the chest, like fleabites, with violent burning
and inclination to scratch; the burning remains for several days after
the disappearance of the spots, [8].
► Brownish rash on the chest, arms,
and thighs (fifth day), [35]. ► *Violent itching rash on the nape of the neck,
[1]. ►
Violent itching rash on the nape of the neck, back, and thighs, always
worse and gnawing after scratching, and sticking as from needles,
[1]. ►
Elevations as large as peas on the skin of the right forearm, with
violent itching, becoming hard after scratching, [11]. ► Small
elevations on the skin, preceded by itching, about the scapulæ and on
the right nates, with biting pain when touched, soon opening on rubbing,
and discharging some blood (third day), [6].
► A few pimples on the chest (second
day), [27]. ►
Some elevated pimples on the lower extremities, with sticking pain when
touched (after one hour), [12]. ► Small red pimples on the forehead, that
only at times itch, but are not painful, [11].
► A smooth red pimple on the right
side of the neck, painfully sore to touch, becoming flat under the skin
after a few days, and so remaining for several weeks, [4]. ► Eruptions,
Moist. [1360.] ►► *The skin of the face is of a deep
inflammatory redness, and the eruption is “fat” and moist
(impetigo), [43]. ► Heat blisters on the ball of the right
hand, lasting several days, [12]. ► Vesicles full of clear serum on the back
of the nose; the skin beneath the ruptured vesicle was inflamed,
followed by the formation of a brown scab, [35]. ► *Burning
vesicles, surrounded by a red areola, on the sides of the fingers,
rather in the skin than elevated above it; they dry up and either leave
a bright-red spot, or the epidermis desquamates in round scales, [38]. ►►
*Vesicles appear around the ulcers, itching violently and burning like
fire; after eight days these
vesicles dry up, leaving scabs, the tearing off of which causes great
pain and retards the healing, [43].
► Eruptions, Pustular. ► Eruption of red pustules on the outer
portion of the arms and lower extremities, with tickling burning, only
on undressing, [1]. ► A small pustule on the lower portion of
the left side of the chin, in he beard (second day), [27]. ► Small
painless pustules, like millet seeds, on the forehead, at the margin of
the scalp, [11]. ► Burning red, rashlike pustules on the
thighs, [38]. ► *The ichor from the scratched face excoriates
other parts, [43]. [1370.] ► *The
whole skin is covered with elevated white scabs, [43]. ►
Eruption pale red, itching after scratching; the scabs are adherent and
depressed in the centre, [43]. ►► *The child scratches the face
continually; it becomes covered with blood; in the night the child
scratches its face so that the bed is covered with blood in the morning;
and the face is covered with a scab which the child keeps constantly
tearing off anew, and on the spots thus left raw, large
(“fat”) pustules form, [43]. ►
Between the glutei, four large scabs, surrounded by dark redness, and on
hardened bases, [43]. ► Posterior surface of both wrists, in the
region of the radius, have been scratched sore, with violent itching,
and there form small, dry, very superficial dark-brown scabs, scarcely a
line in diameter; the itching has ceased (fifth day), [27]. ► *A
honey-like scab around the mouth, [43]. ► Small
comedones were easily scratched out of the nose and cheeks, but others
formed in their places, [11]. ► Boils on the face, [1]. ► A boils
on the left arm, [1]. ► *Cutaneous ulcers form over the bony
protuberances, [11]. [1380.] ►
*[Ulcers on the upper lip, extending to the nose], [19]. [“Bracket.” -Hughes.] ► Eruption on the wrists, which appeared
after violent itching, healed after about three weeks; while scratching
there were no distinct pimples; after scratching there formed several
small superficial dark-brown scabs, a line in diameter; these at last
became quite white and scaly, and seemed conical; the ulcers when healed
had a brownish color, as large as the scab, surrounded by a brownish
areola, [27]. ► A pimple on the left lower portion of the
chin became a small ulcer, with a thin oily discharge and very painful
(fifth day), [27]. ►► *Ulcers covered with thick,
whitish-yellow scabs, under which thick yellow pus collects, [43]. ►
Papular, ulcerating eruption (on the finger-joints), itching mostly in
the evening, [1]. ► Around the ulcers, fiery-red areola,
shining like a mirror, [43]. ► Linen or charpie sticks to the ulcers;
when it is torn away they bleed, [43].
► Subjective. ► A slight cut pains excessively for a long
time (fourth day), [27]. ► Burning in the skin in different parts,
especially the nape of the neck, [39].
► In the ulcers, burning pain, in the
evening, in bed, [43]. [1390.] ►
Stinging-burning sensation in the skin, [45].
► Drawing-sticking pain in the margin
of an ulcer, [1]. ► Stitches, especially in the evening, in a
previously existing ulcer, [1]. ► Fine, at times itching, stitches here and
there in the skin, especially in the evening, in bed, [6]. ►
Burning-stinging sensation, as from the stings of insects, in various
parts of the body (first day), [30].
► Violent gnawing and throbbing in a
bruised wound, [5]. ► Throbbing around the ulcer, and,
encircling it, a bright-red areola, with burning pain, [43]. ►
Itching over the whole body, very obstinate, lasting several days, [1]. ►
Itching on several parts of the body, especially the scrotum and margins
of the nostrils; in the evening (third day), [27a]. ► *Itching,
as from vermin, on the head and over the whole body, after scratching,
soon recurring in another place, [5]. [1400.]
► Itching as from fleas, mostly in
small spots, after some time disappearing, and appearing in other
places, especially in the evening, less during the day, scarcely at all
at night, [5]. ► Itching and burning here and there, with
increased warmth of the body, in the evening, [4]. ►
Itching, with redness, about an ulcer, [12].
► Itching and pain about an ulcer on
the slightest touch, [12]. ► Oft-recurring severe itching, compelling
to scratch, now here, now there, on almost all parts of the body, and
very soon after taking the drug; especially on the scalp above the
forehead, in one or the other eyebrow, also under the eye; and
especially a persistent, oft-recurring itching on the external ear, and
in the left concha. The itching often extended over the whole body; I
felt it simultaneously on back, abdomen, and scalp, impelling to
scratch, and relieved by scratching. I could perceive no difference in
the time of day. At times it was a burning itching, or a tickling, as
from insects, on the chin, the shoulder, the clavicle, the right thorax,
along the lower ribs, and the back; also, the thumb and right middle
finger. The later the itching began, the greater the inclination to
scratch, [44]. ► Extremely distressing itching of a wound,
even after it is closed, [35]. ► Extremely violent itching in almost every
part of the skin, now in the throat, now on the chest, extremities,
obliging scratching, after which it changes to another part, especially
towards evening, for several weeks, [36].
► Intolerable itching over the whole
body, which did not allow him an hour’s sleep; the itching increased
every hour, [52]. ► Sensation of a cobweb, or a draft of cool
air, in the beard on the left side of the face (third day), [30]. ►
Burning in the skin of the forehead, [39].
[1410.] ►
Burning in the skin of the right temple, extending to the right cheek, [39]. ►
Burning in the skin of the cheek, [39].
► Burning of the skin of the right
cheek, [39]. ►
Burning in the skin on the inner surface of the upper arm, [39]. ►
Burning in the skin in various in parts of the leg, [39]. ►
Burning of the skin of the nates, [4].
► Burning in the skin on the inner
side of the right thigh, and on the scrotum, with slight itching, [39]. ►
Burning in the skin of the right tibia, [39].
► Burning in the skin of the left
calf, [39]. ►
Burning and sticking in the skin of the inner side of the left upper
arm, [39]. [1420.] ►
Burning and sticking in the skin of the axilla, [39]. ►
Violent burning in the skin of the left cheek, as from a hot substance, [39]. ►
Violent and persistent burning in the skin of the right cheek, as if
something hot were applied to it, [39].
► Violent persistent burning in the
skin of the right cheek, and in the tip and septum of the nose, [39]. ►
Constant violent burning in the skin of the nose, above the tip and
towards the wings, [39]. ► Sticking in the skin of the left side of
the forehead, [39]. ► Sticking pain in a scar on the tip of the
right middle finger, in which nothing had been felt for two years, [38]. ►
Frequent sticking and burning in the skin of the right cheek, and on the
back of the nose, where it was associated with boring, [39]. ►
Sticking, as with a needle, in several places in the skin of the palm of
the left hand and tips of the fingers, [39].
► Violent stitching and burning
itching on the outer aspect of the right shoulder, as if in the flesh,
as though an eruption would appear there, [44].
[1430.] ►
Burning stitches in the skin, now in the arm, now in the lower extremity
(first day), [30]. ► Prickling and biting in the axilla,
recurring violently after scratching, [5].
► Constant burning prickling on the
left scapula and shoulder, [5]. ► Crawling in the foot, [1]. ►
Sensation of formication in the great toes, recurring every night, and
disturbing sleep; once also a similar sensation in the fingers, as if
starting from the surface of the bones, lasting eight days, [36]. ►
Itching in the eyebrows, [11]. ► Itching in the beard, on the left side
(first day), [30]. ► Itching on the small of the back, chest,
throat, and neck, with sore pain and soreness and scratching, [11]. ►
Itching and burning in the arms and legs, and on scratching, violent
stickings as with needles, [43]. ► Itching on the backs of the hands,
especially on the right, so that he was obliged to scratch until it was
sore (first day), [27]. [1440.] ►
Itching in the hollow of the right knee, [43].
► Itching on the inner side of the
right calf, so that he must scratch it, after which it smarts, [12]. ►
Itching on the inner side of the calf, not relieved by scratching, and
not ceasing until it is scratched bloody, followed by burning; after
twelve hours swelling of the calf, and a bloody scab on the spot that
had been scratched, beneath which was yellowish matter, and bruised
pain, [3], [12]. ►
Violent itching on the margin of the left side of the lower lip (soon), [27]. ►
Violent itching posteriorly on the margin of the lower jaw (fifth and
following days), [11]. ► Violent itching on the legs, so that he
was obliged to scratch, in the evening, on going to bed; it became very
painful in an unusual manner and continued so the next day (first day), [27a]. ►
Woke at night with violent itching of the legs; after scratching, the
parts were very painful (second night), [27].
► Very violent itching in the hollows
of the knees and vicinity, so that I rubbed until it was sore, in the
evening, before going to sleep, indeed before undressing (third day), [27a]. ►
Constant acute itching behind the ears;
after much scratching small pimples appear that are scratched sore and
painful; lasting several weeks, [11].
► Burning itching and tension on the
posterior surface of the lobule of the left ear; on scratching, the
epidermis desquamates in scales half an inch in diameter, [36]. [1450.]
► Burning itching appeared on the
nape of the neck, and on the calves, [38].® 2000
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