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STOOL.

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Diarrhœa.
► Violent
diarrhœa; evacuations involuntary (after one hour), [13]. ►
Profuse diarrhœa, [7]. ► *Diarrhœa, with cutting colic, [1]. ►
Diarrhœa, with a disordered stomach, especially in stormy weather, [1]. ►
Inclination to diarrhœa and two soft stools (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
Diarrhœa-like stool twice, followed by excessive exhaustion, [1]. ►
Profuse mucous diarrhœa (after a few hours), [1]. ► Free
movement; diarrhœic, lightish-brown color, and very thin, at 6 A.M. an;
an hour later, had an urgent desire to have a movement, but did not go
out, and it passed off; the desire, ineffectual, however, returned a
little later. No more movements of the bowels till about 6 P.M., when a
natural movement occurred (second day). At 3 A.M. was awakened by an
urgent desire to have a stool; movement very free and watery, came with
a gush, a little pain just before and after; awakened again at 5 o’clock
and had another similar movement; also another at 6 A.M.; at 8 A.M., had
an ineffectual inclination to a movement (third day), [3]. [470.] ► Diarrhœa of much bloody mucus (after
four days), [1]. ► Frequent stools, consisting only of
bloody mucus, with great weakness, [1].
► Watery stools, with colic, for six
days, [1]. ►
Stools watery, containing scrapings of the intestines and blood (second
day), [7]. ►
Copious thin stools (soon), [19]. ► Frequent thin stools, [17]. ► Soft
difficult stool, as from inactivity of the intestines, [1]. ►
Evacuation of ascarides, [1]. ► Stool soft, but with tenesmus, [1]. ►
Copious, pasty, brownish-yellow stools, [8].
[480.] ►
The child passes blood with a difficult stool, [1]. ► Mucus
with the stool, [1]. ► Ascarides pass with the stool, [1]. ►
The stool becomes harder in the secondary action (after twenty-eight
days), [1]. ►
No stool (first day); two thin stools (second day), [16]. ► Bowels
a little constipated, [12].
   

URINARY ORGANS.

►
Kidneys and Bladder.
►
Catarrh of the pelvis, of the kidney, and of the bladder (second day), [19]. ►
Bladder moderately distended; micturition excessively painful and very
scanty (second day), [7]. ► Violent constriction in the region of the
neck of the bladder, at both sides of the mons veneris, especially
during micturition, during which the urine often stopped, [1]. ► Cutting
in the neck of the bladder, at the commencement and close of
micturition, [1]. [490.] ►
Burning in the neck of the bladder, during micturition, [1]. ►
Pressure upon the bladder; is obliged to urinate as many as ten times in
the afternoon; he always waits a long time before the urine passes
(after nine days), [1]. ► Jerking in the urethra, as in ejaculation
of semen, [1]. ► Burning pain in the urethra, towards
evening, [1]. ► Itching in the female urethra on
urinating, preceded by urging to urinate, [1].
► Burning pains during micturition
(first night), [16]. ► Micturition and Urine. ► Very frequent micturition, always very scanty
(after four, and seven days), [1].
► Micturition twice as frequent as
usual and far more than the liquid taken (after twenty-four,
twenty-five, and twenty-six days), [1].
► He woke two or three times at night
to urinate, and passed much urine, [1].
► Profuse micturition (after ten
days), [1]. [500.] ► *Involuntary micturition, [1]. ► Much
micturition, at night, [1]. ► Frequent desire to urinate; the urine
passes in a divided stream, with burning pain, and with a tearing in the
glans penis, [1]. ► Frequent desire to urinate, but only a
little urine is passed, [1]. ► Desire to urinate, with burning
micturition (first day), [4]. ► *Dribbling of urine, after micturition,
[1]. ►
Offensive odor to the urine; it deposits a red slimy sand that adheres
tightly to the vessel, [1]. ► The urine has a very ammoniacal odor, [1]. ►
Burning urine, [1]. ► Urine bloody red and turbid, [1]. [510.]
► Urine suppressed (after twelve
hours); scant, with brick-colored sediment and of carbon-oil smell
(second day), [11]. ► Urine brown, of a very offensive and
sourish odor, [1]. ► Urine, with a white sediment (after nine
days), [1]. ►
Very dark-yellow urine, with much red sediment (after three, and four
days), [1]. ►
Dark-brown clouds in the urine, after standing awhile, [1]. ► The
urine speedily deposits a red sediment, and the surface is covered with
a glistening film, [1]. ► Albumen and sugar were found in the
urine, (second day), [19]. ► Discharge of mucus with the urine, [1].
   

SEXUAL ORGANS.

►
Male.
► Tearing and
twinging stitches in the seminal ducts, especially of the right side
(after two days), [4]. ► Burning in the genitals, with some
discharge of blood (after a few hours), [1].
[520.] ►
A smooth red spot on the glans penis, without sensation (after twelve
days), [1]. ►
Reddish eruption on the glans penis, with itching, [1]. ► Tearing
in the glans penis (immediately), [1].
► A stitch in the penis while
urinating, [1]. ► Itching in the glans penis, becoming a
sticking, [1]. ► Red and moist soreness on the side of the
scrotum, [1]. ► An itching pulling in the right side of
the scrotum, persistent, [1]. ► Itching and moisture on the scrotum, [1]. ►
Cramplike pain in the left testicle (spermatic cord?), with retraction
of the scrotum, [1]. ► Erections every morning on waking (first
eighteen days), [1]. [530.] ►
It restored erections and sexual power, for two months, [1]. ►
Frequent erections, without amorous thoughts (after twenty-one days), [1]. ►
Erections at night, without amorous thoughts, [1]. ► Two
emissions (first night), [1]. ► Emission during caresses (after eleven
days), [1]. ►
Emission, followed by anxious heat, in the morning (after forty-eight
hours), [1]. ►
Violent desire for an emission, in the morning, after waking, within the
genital organs, without flatulent symptoms (after four days), [1]. ►
Emission delayed on coition (after twenty-one days), [1]. ► Less
inclination to coition and less excited fantasies than usual (the first
days), [1]. ► Female. ►
Soreness near the pudenda, [1]. [540.] ►
Profuse leucorrhœa daily, for several days (after a few hours), [1]. ►
Leucorrhœa like the white of an egg, [1].
► The menstrual blood causes itching
on the genitals, [1]. ► Menses too early (after four days), [1]. ►
Menses some days too early and two scanty (the fourth day), [1]. ►
Menses several days too early (after eight days), [1]. ► Menses
about five days too early (after two days), [1]. ► Menses
about six days too early, [1]. ► Menses delayed about ten days, till the
time of the full moon (after twenty-four days), [1]. ►
Reappearance of the long-absent menses (after six days), [1]. [550.] ► Aversion to coition (in a female), (first
four weeks), [1].
   

RESPIRATORY ORGANS.

► Bronchi and Trachea. ► Bronchial catarrh, with frothy,
wine-yellow sputum of an oleaginous appearance and consistence (after
three weeks), [13]. ► Rattling in the trachea on breathing, in
the evening, in bed, [1]. ► Rattling in the trachea, in the evening,
in bed, before falling asleep, [1].
► Voice. ►
Voice weak (after half an hour), [9].
► *Hoarseness, in the afternoon, [1]. ►
Great hoarseness, for several days, [1].
► Cough and Expectoration. ► Cough always on smoking, [1]. ► Dry
vexatious cough that takes away the breath; she cannot cough it out, [1]. ►
Coughing and retching, [8]. [560.] ►
Cough towards evening, caused by irritation, low down in the trachea,
affecting the chest, [1]. ► *Cough, at night, [1]. ► Very
violent cough, only at night, after falling asleep, [1]. ► Cough
from low down in the chest (after three days), [1]. ► Cough,
with scraping in the throat (after four days), [1]. ► Cough,
caused by dryness in the throat (after ten days), [1]. ► Short
cough (after eighteen days), [1]. ► Cough, caused by scraping in the throat
(after nineteen days), [1]. ► Violent cough and much expectoration for
eight days (after twenty-three days), [1].
► Profuse expectoration of
grayish-white mucus from the pharynx, [8].
► Respiration. [570.] ►
Respiration short and rapid (after half an hour), [9]. ►
Difficult respiration, especially on ascending steps, on beginning to
walk, and on loud talking, [1]. ► Sobbing respiration (second day), [7]. ►
If the child fell down once or hit against anything, it immediately lost
its breath, [1]. ► Dyspnœa, in the evening, for several
hours, [1]. ►
Dyspnœa and suffocation, as from constriction of the trachea, with
tickling, provoking a dry cough, [1].
► Complete asphyxia, [8].
   

CHEST.

►
Pneumonia on the right side (possibly caused by dashing with cold
water), [8]. ►
Very painful cramplike spasm in the chest, that takes away the breath,
immediately after eating, in the morning and at noon; stooping relieved,
though the difficulty of breathing returned on rising again, [1]. ►
*Oppression of the chest
, at night, and restless sleep, [1]. [580.]
► Oppression of the chest and
difficult breathing, more while sitting than while walking, [1]. ►
Pressure and digging in the chest, [1].
► Pressure and tightness in the
chest, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Sticking in the chest and constrictive
pain in the head on coughing, [1].
► Sticking in the chest, [1]. ►
The chest is very sensitive to cold air, and if she sits in it, the
chest is very much oppressed, for several days afterwards, [1]. ►
Feeling of coldness in the chest, in the præcordial region, [1]. ►
Front and Sides.
►
Pressure upon the upper part of the sternum, at night, disappearing
after eructations, [1]. ► Pressure upon the sternum, in the
morning, [1]. ► A griping pressure above the chest from
the forepart, [1]. [590.] ►
Sticking-cutting pain in the forepart, from the right side of the chest
to the left, if he bends the body to the left (during a meal), [1]. ►
Violent pain in the chest below the arm, more tearing than sticking; it
lasts the whole night, after going to bed, [1]. ►
Sticking in the right, then in the left side of the chest, just under
the arm, [1]. ► Acute pressive-drawing pain on the left
short ribs, on the left chest, and in the right hypochondrium, [1]. ►
Violent stitches in the side, [1].
   

HEART AND PULSE.

►
Great præcordial anxiety (after two hours), [14]. ►
Violent stitch at the heart, taking away the breath, [1]. ► At
times, palpitation for a moment, [1].
► A kind of palpitation extends as
far as the umbilicus, in the evening, while sitting still, [1]. ►
Violent circulation of blood, on slight motion, [1]. [600.]
► Violent orgasm of blood, in the
evening, with a bitter taste, [1].
► Violent pulse, especially on
walking and going upstairs (after two or three days), [1]. ► Violent
pulse, while walking, with paleness of the face and difficult speech
(after nine days), [1]. ► Pulse 140 (after twelve hours); 130
(second day); 100 (third day); 80 (fourth day), [11]. ► Pulse
excited, [16]. ► Pulse excited, hard, not compressible, 60
to the minute (in health, 80); afterwards sank to 48 (after half an
hour), [9]. ►
Extremely small, thready pulse, [7].
► Pulse contracted (after two hours),
[14]. ►
Pulse and respiration imperceptible, [8].
   

NECK AND BACK.

►
Neck.
► The right side of
the neck seems stiff, [1]. [610.] ►
*Heaviness in the nape of the nec
k, [1]. ►
Pressive pain in the nape of the neck, aggravated by the slightest
motion, [1]. ► *Very painful distressing drawing in the nape of
the neck, extending up to the occiput
, [1]. ► *Pain in
the nape of the neck
, [1].
► Back. ►
Spine bent backward and stiff (opisthotonos), [10]. ►
Vertebral column bent backward and stiff (after thirty minutes), [11]. ►
The spine is painful from comfortable riding in a wagon, as from a
shock, [1]. ►
Stiffness in the back, [1]. ► Stiffness and drawing in the back, [1]. ►
Drawing in the back, disappearing on bending backward, [1]. [620.] ► Heaviness in the back, [1]. ►
Pressure, heaviness, and weariness in the back (after eleven days), [1]. ►
Pain in the back so violent that he could not move, [1]. ► Pain,
as from a sprain, in the back and scapulæ, extending into the chest,
two or three times a day, impeding respiration, [1]. ► Cramp
in the back and ribs, with pearly drops of perspiration on the face and
arms, for three-quarters of an hour, followed by profuse mucous diarrhœa
(after a few hours), [1]. ► A painful jerk in the back, always on
swallowing, also with incomplete eructations, at times also without
swallowing, during rest; but always followed by oppressed respiration, [1]. ►
Tearing stitches in the back and left shoulder (first day), [4]. ►
Dorsal.
► Pain, as from a
sprain and pressure, between the scapulæ, extending forward into the
chest, [1]. ►
Tearing in the back, between the scapulæ, so that she could not move, [1]. ►
Lumbar.
► Great weariness
and stiffness in the small of the back and coccyx, in the evening, [1]. [630.]
► Weakness in the small of the back,
after walking (after eight days), [1].
► Violent but transient pain in the
small of the back, on rising from a seat (after fourteen days), [1]. ►
Cutting pain in the small of the back, in the morning after rising, and
in the evening before going to sleep, only on moving about and stooping,
not on standing upright, [1]. ► Pain as from a sprain, in the small of
the back, in the morning, in bed, also while sitting, [1]. ► Painful
jerking in the small of the back, on various motions, [1]. ► Sacrum.
► *The coccyx is painful on sitting,
[1].
   

EXTREMITIES.

►
Weakness of the joints (after fifteen days), [1]. ► *The
upper and lower extremities seem stiff and without joints, in the
morning after rising, [1]. ► Twitches in the limbs during the day
(after seven days), [1]. ► Uneasiness of the limbs; cannot remain in
any place, [1]. [640.] ►
Heaviness of all the limbs, and indolence, [1]. ►
Heaviness in the limbs and weariness in the back, at night, [1]. ►
Cramplike drawing and pressure in the limbs (after five days), [1]. ►
Cramps of the extremities, extending into the toes and fingers, [7]. ►
Bruised sensation in the limbs, in the evening; he does not know where
to put them (after thirteen days), [1].
► The upper and lower extremities
easily fall asleep, [1].
   

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.

► Shoulder. ►
Pressure upon the shoulders and in the back, [1]. ►
Frequent jerking in the right shoulder (after eight hours), [1]. ►
Tension and drawing in the shoulder, [1].
► The shoulder-joint is painful on
raising the arm, [1]. [650.] ►
Pain as from a sprain in the shoulder-joint, on raising the arm, [1]. ►
Drawing pain in the left shoulder, extending to the elbow, [1]. ►
Arm.
► Erysipelatous
inflammation of the arm, with burning pain, [1]. ► In the
morning, in bed, the arm stretched itself; he was involuntarily obliged
to stretch it out, [1]. ► Muscular twitches in the arms, [1]. ►
*Great weakness in the arms
, [1].
► Internal trembling of the arm, [1]. ►
Sharp pressure on the right upper arm, commencing like a jerking (after
sixteen days), [1]. ► A sudden cramplike pressure, here and
there in the arm, [1]. ► Violent cramp in the upper arm, renewed
by holding a trifle in the hand, and on the slightest motion; the
deltoid muscle became very hard; the next day the spot was painful, as
if beaten, [1]. [660.] ►
Tearing in the right upper arm, [1].
► Drawing pain in the right arm, then
in the head, [1]. ► Stitches up and down, the whole right
arm, extending above the elbow, especially on bending the arm, also
during rest, [1]. ► The arms and hands fall asleep easily if
he lies upon them at night, [1]. ► The left arm falls asleep, for several
days, [1]. ► Elbow. ►
Paralysis about the elbow-joint, for two days, [1]. ► The
right elbow-joint began to be painful and to swell; the swelling became
so great that it obliterated the fold of the elbow and the olecranon
process of the ulna; here rapidly developed an abscess, which afterwards
rapidly disappeared, [13]. ► Rheumatic drawing in the fingers and
elbow-joints of both sides; it was interesting to note that pronation of
the arm caused pain, while flexion did not cause pain in the joint, but
in the axillary fossa; while supination was painless, [13]. ► Wrist and
Hand.
► The wrist is
painful, as if sprained, [1]. ► Sticking in the right hand, extending
into the fingers, in the morning, in bed (after fifteen days), [1]. [670.]
► Drawing pain in the right hand and
index finger (third day), [1]. ► Fingers. ►
In the evening, stiffness, first of one finger only, then of the other
fingers, at last extending through the whole arm, with an attack of
faintness; on walking rapidly, in the open air, it all disappeared
except persistent palpitation and heaviness of the arm (after nineteen
days), [1]. ►
Pain, as from a sprain, in the first joint of the thumb, [1]. ►
Splitting pain on the first joint of the right thumb, [1]. ►
Transient stitches in the ball of the right thumb (after six days), [1]. ►
Drawing in the fingers
, for a moment, [1]. ► Picking
in a wart on the finger, in the evening, in bed; the warts when touched
are very sore, [1]. ► Burning pain in the warts on the fingers,
as if they would suppurate, in the evening, in bed, [1]. ►
Sticking pain in the last joint of the index finger, as from a splinter
in the bone, with itching externally, [1].
► *The finger nails are painful when
touched, as if bruised
, [1].
[680.] ►►
*Tips of the fingers rough, cracked, fissured, with sticking-cutting
pain
(after eight days), [1].
► Drawing in the tips of the fingers,
[1].

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