PHYSOSTIGMA.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Frequent
erections, with but slight sexual desire, in the forenoon (second day), [46]. ►
Two emissions, without dreams or excitement, [65]. ► Female.
► Pains in the womb, as if menses
were coming on (sixth day), [33]. ► A great deal of leucorrhœa (ninth day), [33]. ►
Leucorrhœa and much weakness, at 4 P.M. (eighth day), [33]. ► (At
the time of taking Calabar bean, had been troubled with a bland,
milk-white, stringy leucorrhœa for about two months, not at all
profuse, but rather scanty; have not been troubled with it since taking
the bean), [57]. [540.] ►
My condition altogether very like that induced by profuse flooding after
delivery (forty minutes after 12 grains), [1].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Bronchi. ►
Irritation of right bronchi, [65].
► Cough. ►
Dry tickling cough, at 6 P.M. (old ailment), (sixth day), [67]. ► Cough,
caused by tickling in the throat (after half an hour, eighth day), [46]. ►
Slight constant inclination to cough, from filling the lungs, [65]. ►
Slight cough; coughs till small white plug of mucus is thrown off, [65]. ►
Respiration. ► Oppressed
breathing (third day), [60]. ► *Labored respiration (first night), [43]. ►
*Sighing respiration (after one hour), [36a]. ► *Yawning
and sighing respiration (tenth day), [34]. [550.] ► Respiration accompanied with a little
difficulty, and with a slight degree of dyspnœa (after ninety minutes);
requires an effort (after one hundred and ten minutes), [2]. ► In the
morning his breath was offensive (third day), [32]. ► During
the proving there was shortness of breath, and a sensation of collapse
of the lungs, as if all the air was expelled at each expiration, causing
long and deep inspirations and a sighing expiration, [43]. ►
Dyspnœa, at 10 P.M. (second day), [71b].
CHEST.
►
Cannot fill left lung, as it produces a dull pain in upper part,
relieved by pressure, [65]. ► Stitching pain near the apex of the right
lung, at 5 P.M. (fifth day), [71b].
► Soreness around the body at the
waist, at 6 P.M. (fourteenth day), [33].
► The severest pain in the left side,
and entirely unlike any pain in the lungs that I have had, [33]. ►
Pain in right deltoid muscle, which kept me awake during forepart of
night, which was relieved only by violent motion (pain, nervous,
uneasy), [57]. ► A slight pain in right side in region of
sixth and seventh ribs, at 7 P.M. (eighth day), [50]. [560.] ► Severe muscular pains beneath the
clavicles, extending down the inner sides of both arms, at 3.45 P.M.
(fifteenth day), [44]. ► Slight twitches across the pectoral
muscles (after 12 grains), [1]. ► Awoke with stitches in left breast;
unable to take a long breath; symptoms continued all day; pains were so
uncomfortable that no more medicine was taken (fourth day); pain in left
side all gone (fifth day), [62].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Heart. ► Dull pain in
region of heart, lasting nearly an hour (after three hours), [62]. ►
Uneasiness and distress about the heart, mostly without violent
palpitation, but with a fulness and pulsation over the body, so that I
counted the pulse, 72, by the ear; this uneasiness is principally at
night, causing restlessness, tossing from one side to the other, with
dry heat all over, [43]. ► I took a cup of strong coffee, after
which I speedily felt an indefinable change within me, and on examining
the condition of the heart, I found it had become perfectly and
permanently regular (five hours after 12 grains), [1]. ► *Violent
palpitation of the heart, with the nervous motions
(fourteenth and fifteenth days), [23].
► Violent palpitation of the heart,
with throbbing all over the body, at midnight (first day), [43]. ►
Woke about 2 A.M., with a rapid tumultuous action of the heart as in
high fever; but there was no unusual heat (fourth day), [43]. ►
Happening to get upon the left side, my attention was, for the first
time, directed to the tumultuous action of the heart, which compelled me
to turn again on the back, to escape the strange sensation (after 12
grains), [1]. [570.] ► As
the fresh bracing air strikes me, a choking sensation, with
fluttering of the heart (suffered frequently from this nervous affection
between the age of sixteen and twenty) overcame me, and oppressed me
during the whole forenoon; I heard and felt the fluttering of my heart
in the throat, with the sensation of faintness by motion, and some
relief in a recumbent sitting position, not by lying down (Bromine [50] without relief); fluttering keeps
steadily on, with attacks of vertigo, towards evening, especially when
changing position; heart’s action irregular, thus about its action, —
— —, v v v, one, two,
intermission; one, two, three, intermission; one, two, three, four; the
choking sensation in pit of the throat is steadily present; sometimes it
seems to me as if I could hear every artery of my body heat; I took a
dose of Sulphur [30]; in about
twenty minutes afterwards a severe aggravation set in; I had to lean
forward to catch my breath; deep sighing relieved me; hot sweat stood on
my forehead; my hands were cold and damp; this lasted about a quarter of
an hour, when the spasmodic action of the cardiac ganglia gradually
ceased and I had a comfortable evening (fifth day). Heart’s action still
irregular, and sometimes tumultuous; radial pulse weak, 75, every eight
to ten minutes beat intermitting (sixth day), [38]. ► While
sitting still, he felt a pulsation through the whole body, particularly
in the chest; each beat of the heart was distinctly perceptible in the
chest and temples (after thirteen hours, third day, and other times), [26]. ►
The heart and pulse extremely feeble and tumultuously irregular (forty
minutes after 12 grains), [1]. ► Could readily count my pulse in the
carotids, and hear the two sounds of the heart as my head lay upon my
pillow (second day), [58]. ► Pulse. ►
Pulse accelerated (fifth day), [37].
► Acceleration of pulse (96), usually
about 74 (tenth day), [34a]. ► Pulse of right side nearly double in
strength that of the left (fifth day), [44].
► Pulse 60, at night (first day); 74,
in the morning (second day), [60].
► Pulse 93 (second day), [58]. ►
Full pulse, 72 (second day), [55].
[580.] ►
Pulse 70 (before the proving); reduced to 65, at times, [52]. ► Pulse
slow (after three hours and three-quarters, second day), [49a]. ► The
pulse has been, through the whole time, from 66 to 69; when well about
70, [54]. ►
No change in frequency of pulse till twenty minutes, when it began to
diminish in frequency and strength; afterwards could not be counted, [4]. ►
Pulse slow by several beats (fourth day), [49].
► Pulse 50 to 60, with feeble impulse
(sixth day), [31]. ► Pulse small and frequent, [18]. ►
Extremely feeble pulse, [14]. ► Feeble pulse, [15]. ► Pulse
feeble and slow, [12]. [590.] ►
Pulse variable (after one hour), [36a].
► Pulse variable, full, and strong
(after one hour and a half), [36].
► The pulse had been examined at
different times within fifteen minutes and found to average 68 (before
the experiment); 74 (after six minutes); 72 (after ten minutes); 72
(after thirty minutes); 76 (after fifteen minutes); 75 (after twenty
minutes); 69 (after thirty-five minutes); 66 (after forty minutes); 68
(after forty-five minutes); 64 (after fifty minutes); 65, full and
regular (after fifty-five minutes); 62, and rather feeble (after sixty
minutes); 62 (after sixty-five minutes); 60, very small and wiry, but
regular (after seventy minutes); 62 (after seventy-five minutes); 60,
thready, and difficult to count (after eighty minutes); 60 (after
eighty-five minutes); 58 (after ninety minutes); 59, very feeble, with
occasional intermissions (after ninety-five minutes); 56 (after one
hundred minutes); 56, thready and intermittent (after one hundred and
five minutes); 58 (after one hundred and ten minutes); 60 (after two
hours); 59 (after two hours, five minutes); 60, rather fuller (after two
hours, ten minutes); 58 (after two hours, twenty minutes), [2]. ►
Normal pulse, 60 to 65; at 5.30 P.M. 83, full and strong (first day);
74, full and strong (third day); 76, in the morning, not as full or
strong; at 5 P.M., variable, 76, quite weak (fifth day); not having
taken any medicine for three days it returned to 60, [65]. ► Pulse
averaged 70 (before the experiment); 76 (after five minutes); 63,
thready and feeble (after one hour); 54 (after one hour and a half);
between 52 and 60 for one hour longer; 68, strong and full (after four
hours), [5]. ►
Three calculations of the pulse within fifteen minutes gave an average
of 74 per minute (before the experiment); 76 (after three minutes); 70
(after five minutes); 72 (after ten minutes); 66 (after fifteen and
twenty minutes); 68, soft and compressible (after thirty minutes); 62
(after thirty-five minutes); 64 (after forty-five minutes); 58, and very
feeble (after fifty-five minutes); 60 (after sixty-five minutes); 57
(after seventy-five minutes); 54, soft and compressible, and with
occasional intermissions (after eighty minutes); 57 (after ninety-five
minutes); 63, rather stronger (after two hours); 58 (after two hours,
ten minutes); continued to range between 60 and 70, till three hours
after the commencement of the experiment, [3].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Inclination to
stretch out the neck, “to run the head out,” from uneasy
sensations in the back of the neck (ninth day), [33]. ►
Stiffness of right side of neck; not able to move the head, with a
feeling of drawing and tension, which lasted several days (sixth day), [67]. ►
Stiffness of neck on left side, [63].
► While taking usual morning cold
bath, was suddenly seized with stiffness in right side of neck, which
extended during the day to the right shoulder, and also to clavicle,
which felt sore, and was swollen over sterno-mastoid muscle; there was
much pain from every attempt to move, and was relieved from leaning head
towards right side; this pain continued quite acute all day, extending
towards evening through right lung also; at times the pain in neck and
shoulder was so severe as to cause nausea; considerable sharp pain also
in right ear (third day). Stiffness in neck and pain in ear almost
entirely disappeared only a little soreness remained (fourth day). A
little soreness still in muscles of neck (fifth day), [66]. [600.]
► Pain in back of neck, reaching to
first dorsal vertebra (after two hours and a half, second day), [62]. ►
In the afternoon, a peculiar pain across the back of the neck, I should
say at the base of the brain, as if it were cutting off the body from
the head; it went right through the neck, and seemed to go to the back
part of throat, which was stiff and sore; a feeling of loss of power and
sensation in the back of head, as if the head would fall over forward,
and the natural supports of the head would no longer hold it back; this
was followed by pains all down the back of the neck, especially in the
most prominent bone there, and on each side of it, drawing whenever the head was turned (fifth
day), [33]. ►
Soreness and pains, as from rheumatism, in left side of neck (after four
hours and a half), [36a]. ► Seemingly rheumatic pains in left side of
neck and shoulder of same side (second day), [36]. ► Back.
► Back very weak; am unable to stand
erect (continued two days), (after three days), [60]. ► Pain
in the back came on again, at 2 P.M. (sixteenth day), [33]. ► Dull
pain in the back, with almost constant desire to urinate (third day), [60]. ►
Dull pain and downward pressure in the back, accompanied by the
appearance of the menses (after two weeks), [27]. ►
Chilly, creepy sensations passing up the back, at 7 P.M. (first day), [71d]. ►
A creeping numbness over the back of the head, and all down the spine,
especially in the part between the hips; between 8 and 9 P.M. (fifth
day), [33]. [610.] ►
Stiffness and pain going all down the spine; with these pains in the
back there is an inclination to bend forward, as if hard to sit up
straight (at 1 P.M., nineteenth day), [33].
► Cramplike stitches up and down the
spine, [65]. ► Dorsal. ►
After dinner there came on a heavy pain in the back, under the left
shoulder, which, after continuing severe for an hour, slowly passed
away, [25]. ►
Pain under right shoulder-blade, felt while sitting, transient (deep),
in the afternoon, [40]. ► (Pain under right shoulder-blade), (old
ailment), (sixth day), [67]. ► Aching in region of and below right
scapula, [68]. ► Stitches under interior angles of scapulæ
during expiration, [65]. ► Lumbar. ►
Backache, which kept me restless all night; pain seemed to be in region
of the kidney; no position favored the pain in my back (second day), [58]. ►
An unusual feeling, a drawing pain low in the back and abdomen, with
bearing down, as if the menses were coming, although it was a week
before the time; but, after four hours, it all passed off (after third
powder, on the second morning). The menses came at the right time, and
without the usual unpleasant premonitory symptoms, [29]. ► The
rest of the night, after 3 A.M., I felt a dragging pain over the left
hip, towards the back; I slept, but was conscious of dull pain (first
night), [27]. [620.] ►
Dull heavy pain over the left hip, and extending to the back; this
continued through the afternoon and evening, with bearing down, strongly
indicative of the return of the courses; the pain diminished gradually
in the night, and I slept soundly (after three hours, second day), [27]. ►
Pain in the lumbar region of the back (after second day), [71d]. ► Pain
in back, between the hips, and a slight feeling of numbness in the
region of the womb, at 6.30 P.M. (eighth day), [33]. ►
Soreness in lumbar region (after four hours and a half); with dull,
heavy pains (after fourteen hours and a half); the severe heavy pain has
followed me all day (second day), [36a].
► Pain on motion, in the sacral
region, to the left of the spine, as if strained by lifting, with a
feeling that a violent motion would produce lumbago (ninth day), [43]. ►
Pain in left of sacrum, in the afternoon (fourth day); in the morning
(fifth day), [61]. ► Contractive pain of the anterior surface
of os coccygis, as if dysentery were coming on; since verified (second
day), [43].
EXTREMITIES.
►
The limbs felt weary, as after great fatigue, with a constant desire to
move (fourth day), [22a]. ► Heaviness and weakness of limbs (third
day), [50]. ►
A numb or tired feeling of limbs (fifth day), [37]. [630.] ► A certain pleasant feeling of slight
numbness in the limbs, like that which precedes the sleep caused by
Opium or Morphia, which I remarked when awake for a minute, once or
twice during the night (after 6 grains), [1].
► Bruised feelings in my joints
(second day), [38]. ► Slight stiffness in the joints, at 9 P.M.
(seventh day), [71d]. ► Pain in limbs (eleventh day), [33]. ►
Slight pains in the limbs (seventh day), [28].
► Darting pains in joints; more in
the legs than arms, extending up into the body; pain in my knees, worse
when I flex them (third day), [38].
► Neuralgic stitches in muscles of
knees and arms, [32].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Shoulder. ►
Sharp shooting pain in the left shoulder, at 7 A.M. (fourth day), [71c]. ►
Rheumatic pain in left shoulder, at 8 P.M. (second day), [71]. ►
Drawing rheumatic pains through the left shoulder (after six hours), [29]. ►
Arm. [640.] ► Nervous, uneasy pain in right arm (second
day), [57]. ►
Sharp pain, first in left arm, then in the right, involving the
shoulders of either side, [35]. ► A momentary constrictive pain suddenly
seized the left arm, extending around, just above the elbow (after ten
hours and a half), [34]. ► The next day felt pains in right arm (as
from hitting the nerve), tingling, extending from elbow down the ulnar
surface and into the third finger, repeatedly for three days, [39]. ►
Pains down the arms, with weakness of the same (sixteenth day), [33]. ►
Tired feeling in arms, and difficulty in lifting them (fourteenth day), [33]. ►
A dumbbell, previously used with ease, was found a great burden, and the
arm was with difficulty extended with it (after twenty minutes), [3]. ►
Numbness in the left arm (after two days), [71d]. ►
Numbness in the left arm and down the ring finger, at 7 P.M. (sixth
day), [33]. ►
Numb feeling down the left arm (sixth day), [31]. [650.] ► Burning throbbing sensation in the left
arm and hand, as if it had been out in the snow or cold, with the
sensation felt on coming to the fire, also a nervous, tremulous, weak
feeling in the arm, at 11 A.M. (sixth day), [71]. ► Elbow.
► Sharp darting pain in the right
elbow-joint, extending down the outside of the arm to the two middle
fingers (third day), [23a]. ► Acute pain in left elbow, and darts of
pain from thence to fourth and fifth fingers, same side (these pains
seemed to begin in left side of neck and elbow, and thence extend to
left leg, locating in left knee, and were constant for hours), (after
seven hours and a half), [36a]. ► Forearm. ►
Deep pain in muscles of right forearm and wrist came on about 8 P.M.,
and with it a dull aching pain at times occurred (first day). Pain
moving; gnawing in inner aspect of wrist, deeply situated; from wrist it
ran up along ulnar side of forearm to elbow; had a desire to move the
arm and work it out, which did not relieve (second day), [57]. ► Dull
numbness of the left forearm, with stitching pain passing down the arm,
at 5 P.M. (fifth day), [71b]. ► Wrist. ►
Aching in the joints of wrists and hands, also in the knees (after
fourteen hours), [34]. ► Wrists feel weak; dull aching pain in
them, [65]. ►
Sharp pain in the left wrist, at 11 A.M.; frequent recurrence of the
pain, lasting about five minutes at a time, at 8 P.M. (eighth day), [71b]. ►
Pain in right wrist, as if squeezed and gradually let go (deep in the
bone, in the afternoon), [40]. [660.] ►
Pain in dorsum of right hand (sixth day), [67].
► Hand and Fingers. ► Hands powerless, [12]. ► Hands
feel trembling, as if he must make an effort to keep them steady (second
day), [42]. ►
Numbness of the left hand, as if asleep (seventh day), [33]. ►
Benumbed sensation in hands, very much increased by feeling of the
pulse, at 11.30 A.M. (fifth day), [44].
► At 3 A.M. I had ten or twelve sharp
darts of pain through my right thumb, at the root of the nail, and
several weaker ones through the finger-joints of the right hand (second
day), [27]. ►
Sharp pain in forefinger of left hand (sixth day), [67]. ►
Sensation of pain in the right knuckle, as from the sting of a bee, pain
lasting about two hours, at 2 P.M. (sixth day), [71].® 2000
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