PHYSOSTIGMA.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Pain in lower limbs, at 9 A.M. (tenth
day), [33]. ►
A feeling as if all the power were going out of my limbs (legs), and
they would give way under me, and I could not walk across the room, as
if the cause of the weakness came from the spot in the back between the
hips, and took away all power below that spot from the limbs, at 6.30
P.M. (eighth day), [33]. ► Slight twinging pain in the lower limbs
(fourth day); particularly sharp momentary twinges in the ankle (fifth
day), [28]. [670.] ►
Lower extremities felt unusually warm, [65].
► A feeling of weakness, as though
paralyzed, passed downward from the occiput through the back to the
lower extremities; the feeling in the legs was like that known as being
asleep (after fifteen minutes, second day); same feeling in legs, but
the sensation less perceptible in the back (after fifteen minutes, third
day), [30]. ►
Slight difficulty in walking (after seventy-five minutes); great
difficulty (after one hundred and ten minutes), [2]. ►
Staggered and was scarcely able to walk, [12].
► Staggering gait, [15]. ►
Staggering on attempting to walk, [14].
► Could neither stand nor walk, [13]. ►
Hip. ► Stiffness in the
hip and knee-joints (after two days); continued stiffness of lower limbs
(fifth day); slight stiffness (eighth and thirteenth days), [71d]. ►
Slight stiffness in the left hip, at 7 P.M. (third day), [71c]. ►
Slight stiffness of the left hip and right knee, at 9 P.M. (fifth day), [71c]. [680.]
► Slight stiffness in the left hip,
at 2 P.M. (second day); at 9 A.M. (third day); still continues (fourth
and eighth days), [71b]. ► Left hip and right knee quite stiff, at 6
P.M. (third day), [71a]. ► Stiffness in the hip and knee-joints
(fourth to eighth day), [71]. ► Thigh. ►
Severe cramplike pain in the left popliteal space; walking was very
painful; it lasted two hours, gradually passing off; during rest the
pain ceased, but commenced again on motion; but by continued motion it
was relieved (one hour after second dose, seventh day), [23a]. ► Pain
in the left thigh, and in both knees, after walking only a few steps,
about noon (fourteenth day), [33].
► A few thrusts with an aching
sensation down the left thigh (after thirteen hours), [34]. ► In the
afternoon, when walking, felt a stiffness in both rectifemoris muscles
(second day), [42]. ► Frequent paroxysms of muscular twitchings
in the lower third of vastus externus muscles; these paroxysms came on
every time I sat down, and so continued all day (third day), [59]. ►
Severe aching in glutei muscles, right side, neither increased nor
diminished by walking (third day), [68].
► Knee and Leg. ► (The knee was better, in the morning),
(second day), [27]. [690.] ► A
numb pain was felt in the knees and ankles, while sitting, with desire
to move frequently (third day), [23a].
► Pain on the outside of knee
(thirteenth day), [33]. ► Shooting pain under the left knee, near
or in the popliteal space, returning again and again (after twelve
hours), [34]. ► Going downstairs, pain under the patellæ
of both knees (fourth day), [49]. ► Weakness in the right knee, at 9 A.M.
(third day), [71b]. ► On walking, feeling of unsteadiness from
knees downwards, so that he had to tread carefully, especially when eyes are shut; feels as if he
must look to see where he is going. On going out in open air must take a
stick to steady himself, and has a feeling of weakness about the ankles.
Determined exertion of the will relieves the unsteadiness (second day), [42]. ►
Cramps in calf of left leg, in bed, [63].
► Intermittent, momentary
constrictive pain around the left leg, just above the ankle (after
eleven hours and a half), [34]. ► Sense of weight in the legs (after two
days), [71d]. ► A sensation as of a drawing of cords
behind the leg and the knee, making it hard to walk, especially
upstairs, at 6.30 P.M. (eighth day), [33].
[700.] ► Gnawing sensation in the left tibia, at 2
P.M. (second day); at 9 A.M. (third day); still continues (fourth and
eighth days), [71b]. ► Gnawing sensation in the left tibia, at 6
P.M. (third day), [71a]. ► Sharp twinges in the right instep (after
half an hour), [26]. ► Foot and Toe. ►
Cramp in the left foot, in the evening, while in a warm bath (thirteenth
day), [33]. ►
Numbness in left foot, [65]. ► Pain in right great toe, transient; ache
around the toe, [40].
GENERALITIES.
►
Only one case proved fatal, a boy of six years, who ate six of the beans
and did not vomit; he lived about two hours, [14]. ► The
appearances presented were as if the nervous system had received a great
shock, amounting to complete collapse, in the worse cases, [14]. ►
Looked sleepy, listless, and depressed, and begged to be put to bed, [13]. ►
Collapse after the vomiting, [18].
[710.] ►
Convulsions and twitchings (especially in the back); death in thirty
minutes, [20]. ► Trembling of legs, as if I could not walk
straight, at 7.30 A.M. Seized with violent trembling all over, in the
street, at 9.30 A.M. Felt for an instant as if I should lose
consciousness, and could hardly get home; riding in a car for twenty
minutes did not relieve the sensations; these trembling spells came on
in fits, and at the least thing that startles; at 10.30 A.M. trembling
of hands, so that I could hardly sew; this spell lasted an hour, when
the soreness at the pit of the stomach came on (seventeenth day), [33]. ►
Almost instantly felt a shuddering and trembling run down through all
the nerves of the body; the sensations appeared to begin in the head and
run down through the pit of the stomach, where they were strongest of
all, and through the womb and all the body. The chief sensation in the
head was the one in the middle of the forehead, between the eyes, above
and over, and in the left eye a pain, with muscæ volitantes, [33]. ►
Very restless through the night (first night), [54]. ►
Somewhat restless towards morning (first day), [54]. ► Very
restless in bed, not feeling satisfied in any position, at 10 P.M.
(fifth day), [51]. ► Quite restless through the night (seventh
night), [51]. ► Very restless, moving from side to side,
throwing the arms about the head, but no position seemed to afford
relief (tenth day), [34a]. ► Restless (first, second, and third
nights), [57]. ► A constant desire to change from side to
side, [52]. [720.] ►
Feeling of great debility (after six hours and a half, third day), [44a]. ►
Great sense of fatigue (general), as from long-continued labor, with
fulness in forehead, and tendency to ache, mostly right side, continuing
through the afternoon (after five hours), [34].
► Rather fatigued during the forenoon
(second day), [38]. ► Sensation of general fatigue, with the
headache (after four hours), [31a].
► Disinclination to move (fourteenth
day), [33]. ►
General weariness of whole body; easily exhausted upon going upstairs;
greatly exhausted after a stool (third day). Very weak, especially in
groins, at 9 A.M.; some weakness of body, and easily exhausted, at 9
P.M. (fourth day). A little weak (fifth day). Easily exhausted (sixth
day). General weakness and tired feeling; weakness after stool; great
weakness of right side (eighth day). Great weakness and stupidity; feel
as if I had been out carousing the night previous (or as those feel who
do go out carousing at night), (ninth day). Some weakness, at 9 A.M.;
tired feeling, at 10 P.M. (tenth day). Easily exhausted (eleventh day).
Some exhaustion on walking (twelfth day), [50].
► Great deal of weakness and torpor
since taking the medicine (eighth day), [33].
► A steady erect position was with
difficulty retained while going through with the dumbbell exercises
(after twenty minutes); muscular weakness still experienced (after two
hours and ten minutes), [3]. ► For the rest of the forenoon I felt too
weak to leave my bed (five hours after 12 grains), [1]. ► Felt
stupid and giddy as she walked along the street, with a sensation of a great feebleness over the whole body, rendering
progression a matter of difficulty, [7]. [730.] ► Much weakness and leucorrhœa, at 4 P.M.
(eighth day), [33]. ► Sense of weakness, extending from the
head downwards through the back and legs, attended in the legs by the
thrilling sensation heretofore described; slight exertion caused
lameness and weakness in small of back (after three hours), [30]. ►
During the forepart of the day (which was sultry) he had at times a
feeling of weakness, though there was uncommon
mental activity (second day), [30].
► On walking became excessively
tired; could hardly get along (fourth day), [54]. ►
Muscular weakness on going upstairs (third day), [43]. ►
Muscular weakness (after ten minutes), [4].
► I tried to raise myself on my elbow
to vomit, but failed; I made a second, more vigorous, effort, but
scarcely moved; at once it struck me, “This is not debility, but
volition is inoperative;” in a third effort I was more nearly
successful, and in the fourth, a resolute exercise of the will, I did
succeed, but could not vomit; the abdominal muscles acted too feebly,
nor were they much aided by a voluntary effort to make them act (after
12 grains), [1]. ► Felt very languid and dull (second day), [54]. ►
Feeling a languid, at 1 P.M. (second day), [42]. ►
General languor (ninth day), [50];
(8 A.M., sixth day), [71]; (9
A.M., third day), [71b]. [740.] ►
Very marked sensation of languor and indisposition to move, but by an
effort of will my muscles were as fully under my control as before, [21]. ►
General lassitude and dizziness; had to stop reading, [4]. ► Some
lassitude (third day), [43]. ► Her whole frame seemed lessened and
powerless (second day), [25]. ► Complete muscular relaxation, with
continued fibrillar twitchings of the muscles, [18]. ► Quite
prostrated, [14]. ► Very prostrate and pale (forty minutes
after 12 grains), [1]. ► Appeared to be perfectly prostrated, [12]. ►
Great prostration of muscular system; feel as if I had taken
a five-mile walk (after one hour and a quarter); still have this same
feeling of prostration, with some headache, at 12 M.; prostration not so
marked, at 10 P.M. (second day); prostration and headache light, at 12
M. (third day), [53]. ► Prostrated; felt severely indisposed; had
to lie down and wanted the doors to be shut (third day), [41]. [750.] ► Complete relaxation of the whole body, as
if every nerve were unstrung, even to the eyes, which felt as if all
power to see were going out of them, at 6.30 P.M. (eighth day), [33]. ►
Great feeling of prostration, nervous, tremulous, especially felt in the
left arm, at 7 P.M. (third day), [71c].
► General feeling of prostration, at
8 P.M. (fourth day), [71a]. ► Felt completely prostrated and obliged to
lie down, at 10 A.M.; only wanted to be let alone, be well covered with
woollen blankets, shut my eyes, and doze away the time, at noon (third
day). All I wish is to rest and sleep, if the gripes would only allow it
(fourth day). As the day wore on a general prostration set in again, as
if my feet were too weak to hold me up; reading was tiresome, and
speaking an effort; I tried to walk out, but had to five up on account
of general prostration and soreness of bowels, produced by the motion
(sixth day), [38]. ► Extreme faintness, not, however,
unpleasant (forty minutes after 12 grains), [1]. ►
Faintness with the dizziness (fourteenth day), [33]. ►
Attacks of faintness (after a quarter of an hour), [18]. ►
Sensation of faintness, with the trembling of the nerves at the pit of
the stomach (fifth day), [33]. ► Great aversion to usual cold bath (third
day), [68]. ►
Very great reluctance to take my accustomed bath; felt uncomfortable
after bathing; did not enjoy the bath (second day), [67]. [760.] ► Am in the habit of taking a cold sponge
bath every morning, but I feel a perfect horror
for cold water, and therefore omit it (fourth day), [38]. ►
I have noticed that both days I felt the weakness have been particularly
cool and bracing, [33]. ► General sensitiveness to cold, or change
of temperature, with the headache (after four hours), [34]. ►
Excessively nervous; cannot endure pain; especially sensitive during the
filling of a tooth (eighth day), [44].
► Felt sickish (after a very few
minutes), [7]. ► Felt sick, and lay down in bed (after two
hours and twenty minutes), [1]. ► Complained of sickness (second day), [12], [13].
► Felt uncomfortable (second
morning), [1]. ► On walking, noticed some two or three
times during the day, on raising my foot, a momentary feeling as though
I was going up, floating-like, and on foot touching ground and
unpleasant feeling that made me feel a shuddering sensation pass over
me, [52]. ►
Confused feeling, dull, stupid, sluggish, at 8 A.M. (third day), [71a]. [770.]
► Dull and sluggish (fourth day), [71b]. ►
Dull and sluggish throughout the day (after two days), [71d]. ► Feel
dull and languid (second day), [54].
► Just before 6.30 P.M. I felt a
sudden access of vigor, and felt particularly strong, and the symptoms
which followed seemed to come like a reaction (eighth day), [33]. ►
Feels as if he had taken a cold (second day), [41]. ► Feel
sore and stiff all over; feel as if I had taken a severe cold (second
day), [36]. ►
A kind of paralyzed feeling in the left side throughout (after fourteen
hours and a half), [36a]. ► Intense suffering, producing perspiration
on forehead (tenth day), [34]. ► Pains, which are of a darting character,
wander from one place to another (fourth day), [58]. ►
Darting pains in various parts of the head, aggravated by motion (after
eight hours and a half), [36a]. [780.] ►
Slight momentary pains in various parts of the body, as twinging pain in
the fingers of the left hand (after a few minutes), [28]. ►
Various twinging pains about the body (after half an hour), [26]. ►
Occasionally sharp pain in different parts of the body, head, limbs,
knees, and elbows (fifth day), [23a].
► The severity of the pains
frightened her, and she declined to continue the proving, [35]. ► (Felt
the customary stitches in the left side), (after half an hour, second
day), [27]. ►
(All old ailments returned with renewed force), (sixth day), [67]. ►
Nervous motions go not only down through the body, but through the arms,
and it seems as if a little stronger dose would make the arms move; this
time the motions were accompanied with violent palpitation of the heart,
at 3 P.M. (fourteenth day); with much weakness at the pit of the stomach
(fifteenth day), [33]. ► A strange indescribable sensation
throughout the system, continuing many days (after half an hour), [25]. ►
For two weeks after taking the last dose had frequent recurrence of the
head, throat, hip, and knee-joint, symptoms, growing gradually less
frequent and severe, [71]. ► All the forenoon I was engaged in packing
in camphor-chest; I was in the midst of crude camphor, which suspended
the symptoms entirely for the time; but very soon afterwards, in less
than an hour, they returned (fourth day), [33].
[790.] ►
In the first action of the medicine, all the symptoms run through two
days, with one exception, that of soreness in the tongue and difficulty
of moving it; the medicine has begun a second round or course, which has
been much longer (third day). All
the symptoms are more decided, distinct, and prolonged than the first
time, and the medicine seems to act more searchingly than in the first
round, although the dose has not been repeated (fifth day), [33]. ►
The symptoms continued without abatement for about sixteen hours,
notwithstanding several remedies had been tried; at length the fact that
the pain seemed to be produced by hard pressure on the lower end of the
sternum, led to the selection of Arnica
[30], which afforded prompt and
decided relief, [34a]. ► The chief action of this medicine seems
to me to be in the nerves; all the other symptoms have been entirely
accessory and secondary; and it seems to me, so far as I can judge, to
have a very curious double action on the nervous system; the nerves in
front of the body (which I believe are the ?? voluntary nerves, or ??
nerves of motion), it appears to excite to involuntary motion, causing
tremblings, and going up and down in wavelike motion, all down through;
but the nerves in the back of the body (the ?? passive nerves or nerves
of ?? sensation), it seems to paralyze and numb, and during this numbing
process it causes a good deal of pain, very similar to a pain in a tooth
when its nerve is dying or being killed, [33].
► The medicine seemed to act more on
the left side than on the other, [33].
► I think the medicine hinders
voluntary motion as well as causes involuntary motion, [33]. ► Better
in warm room, from not moving, [65].
► Walking seemed to relieve the
pains, but I had not strength to continue any length of time (second
day), [58]. ►
Worse from motion, better in the open air (after two hours and a half), [36a]. ►
State very like the effects of an overdose of Aconite (after 12 grains),
[1]. ►
Symptoms wore off gradually in two or three days (after six days), [66].
SKIN.
[800.] ►
Eruption upon the back about the size of fleabites; the same petechial
eruption on the arms (fourth day), [56].
► Fever blisters in and around left
nostril (seventh day), [67]. ► Applied to the skin it benumbs, and
causes a pricking all over the spot, [6].
► Itching of the left palm (fourth
day), [23a].® 2000
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