SECALE CORNUTUM.
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► *Excessive
appetite; ate enormously of whatever was given him, [32]. ►
Very great appetite in girls, two, five, and eight years old, [70]. [310.]
► *Ravenous appetite, [86]. ►
*Insatiable appetite, [77],
[82]. ►
Unusually great appetite, [70]. ►► *Unnatural appetite, even when dying from
exhausting discharges from the bowels, [35]. ►
Increased appetite, [84]. ► Ravenous hunger, with improvement after
eating, [106]. ► *Ravenous hunger, [138]. ►
Constant ravenous hunger after the spasms, special desire for bread, [142]. ►
A kind of ravenous hunger and mental weakness for a long time, [76]. ►
Greediness; anything satisfied him; constant longing for food, [139]. [320.]
► Extreme greediness, especially for
acids, [47]. ►
Patients eat a great deal without being nourished, [32]. ►
Bulimia, [34]. ► Increased hunger, [76]. ► Desire
to eat through the whole illness, [42].
► The appetite is either natural or
ravenous, [61]. ► Ate more than usual (second day), [124]. ►
Appetite moderately increased, [64].
► Loss of appetite, [90], [95],
[100], etc. ►
Great aversion and inclination to vomit (after two hours), [69]. [330.]
► Aversion to food, [64], [84].
► Complete disgust for food, with an
occasional feeling of coldness at the stomach that thence pervaded the
whole frame, [108]. ► Loathing of food and drink (tenth day), [155]. ►
Anorexia, for two days, [151]. ► Thirst. ►►
*Constant and intense thirst, [157].
► Intense thirst, with no abatement
by iced water or lemonade (second and third days), [156a]. ►►
*Great thirst, [84], [160]. ►
Great thirst, but unable to drink much on account of its causing
distress in the stomach (eleventh day), [155].
► *Great thirst and dryness of the mouth
and throat, with burning and tingling of the tongue (seventh
day), [155]. ►
Urgent thirst, with a desire for acidulated drinks (first day); loathes
everything except sour drinks; desires acids (third day); great thirst
and desire for sour drinks (fourth, fifth, and sixth days); thirst
(seventh day), [155]. [340.] ►►
*Unquenchable thirst, [61],
[64], [100], [153].
► *Excessive thirst, for two
days, [151]. ► *Violent thirst, [47], [135],
[153]. ►
*Thirst, [131], [155], [161].
► Desire to drink undiluted wine at
dinner, an unusual circumstance, [126].
► They constantly long for drink, and
desire to have the limbs stretched; with incessant pain and oppression,
and pressure in the pit of the stomach, and constant ineffectual efforts
to vomit, [47]. ► Thirst and dryness in the throat, [64]. ►
Eructations and Hiccough. ►
Eructations having the odor of ergot, [108].
► Frequent eructations of offensive
flatus (fourth day), [124]. ► Frequent eructations (after one hour), [128]. [350.]
► Sour eructation, [148]; (fifth and sixth days), [155]. ►
Eructations, [64]; (after one
hour), [127]; (after two hours), [130]. ►
Singultus (fifth, seventh, and following days), [155]. ►
Heartburn. ► Heartburn, [64]. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. ► *Nausea,
[64], [66], [71],
etc. ► *Excessive nausea and debility,
with very little vomiting of a dark-brown, coffeegrounds fluid
(first day); incessant vomiting of a brownish water, with occasional
streaks of blood (second and third days), [156a].
► Nausea, after the chill, relieved
by the diarrhœa, [136]. ► Constant nausea, all day, [78]. ►
Nausea, caused by the odor of the plant, [74].
► Nausea, after eating, [127]. [360.]
► Either nausea, and consequently
sedation, or diminished frequency of the pulse, without nauseating, in
twenty-five or thirty minutes, [103].
► Slight nausea (after thirty
minutes); nausea increased (after forty minutes); vomiting (after
forty-five minutes); slight nausea (after one hour); no nausea (after
two hours), [120b]. ► In three cases it produced slight nausea
but no vomiting, [103]. ► Transient slight nausea (after each
dose), [96]. ►
A sensation resembling nausea alternated with the heavy confused feeling
in the head (after half an hour), [94].
► Nausea for twenty-four hours, [84]. ►
*Nausea and vomiting, [98];
(after three-quarters of an hour), [106].
► Nausea, with occasional vomiting, [100]. ►
Constant retching and vomiting of raw very offensive bilious substances,
[61]. ►
Incessant retching, with pressure in the pit of the stomach, [70]. [370.]
► Constantly retching, and could not
retain a particle of either food, drink, or medicine on her stomach, [157]. ►
Inclination to vomit, [126], [128], [128a].
► Sinking and sickness at the stomach
(sixth day), [155]. ► Sometimes sickness of the stomach, [81]. ►
Sensations similar to those, attending sea-sickness (after half an
hour), [94]. ►
Fruitless efforts to vomit, [127].
► Violent vomiting, followed by
death, [143]. ► Violent vomitings, [118]. ►
Sudden attacks of incessant vomiting, at night, with most violent
headache and pain over the whole body, [140].
► Vomiting, followed by relief, [127a]. [380.]
► In two, violent emesis (in one
hour), [103]. ► Easy vomiting, [78]. ► *Vomiting,
[28], [64], [67],
[76], etc. ►
Vomiting of dark-brown slimy mucus, and also of everything taken into
the stomach (first day); greater irritability of the stomach, and more
difficulty of retaining food and medicine is observed at 8 P.M., than in
morning (second day); vomited twice (second night); some nausea and
vomiting, at 8 P.M. (fourth day); nausea and vomiting of sour dark-green
matter (fifth day); vomited a pint of matter, in the morning, very sour,
and of a dark-green color (sixth day); vomited sour dark-green mucus,
containing shreds of disorganized membrane (seventh day); matter vomited
contained shreds of mucous membrane (eighth day); vomiting of dark
bilious matter, at intervals of a few minutes; constant nausea and
vomiting; matter vomited is of a dark-green color, containing mucus,
bile, and shreds of membrane, in the evening (ninth day); stomach can
not retain even medicine or water (tenth day); vomiting
of blood, bile, membrane, and coffee-grounds matter;
inability to retain anything on the stomach; vomiting ceased eight hours
before death (eleventh day), [155].
► Vomiting of mucus or of worms,
giving relief, [61]. ► *Hæmorrhage from the stomach (tenth
day), [155]. ►
Frequent vomiting of food, [153]. ► Mucous and biliary vomiting, [152]. ►
Occasional vomiting of coffee or chocolate colored matter, for two days,
[151]. ►
Vomiting of chocolate-colored substances, [153].
[390.] ►
Vomitings of bilious matters; intermixed with blood, [119]. ►
Violent vomiting of tenacious bilious mucus, at times affording relief, [47]. ►
Vomiting of tenacious mucus, in the morning fasting, [82]. ►
Vomiting of sour matters or of tenacious mucus, [64]. ►
Vomiting of hardened black bile, [64].
► Vomiting without great effort, soon
after eating the bread, especially after a hearty meal, without
diminished appetite, [72]. ► Vomiting of a slimy substance and
frequently of round or thread worms, [64].
► Stomach. ► *Tenderness of the epigastrium
(second and third days), [156a]. ► Great weight and oppression at the pit of
the stomach, as if a stone were in the stomach (tenth day), [155]. ►
Weight and oppression of the stomach (tenth day), [155]. [400.]
► *Great distress and oppression at the
stomach (tenth day), [155].
► Oppression at the stomach, [134]. ►
Epigastric oppression, [152]. ► Oppression at the stomach, [134]. ►
Feeling of weight at the epigastrium, [125].
► A sensation of weight in the
epigastrium, which, slight at first, became in a short time very
painful, [108]. ► Unpleasant pressure at the stomach, which
increased to such an extent as to obstruct his breathing; along with
this there was a strong desire to eat (after three-quarter of an hour);
the pain in the stomach was very tormenting, and attended with pyrosis
(next morning), [124]. ► Pressure in the epigastric region (after
three-quarters of an hour), [106].
► Pressure in the stomach, [70]. ►
Pressure and disagreeable sensation in the pit of the stomach, a kind of
cardialgia, without loss of appetite, [42].
[410.] ►
Frightful pressure in the stomach for four days after a dose, [84]. ►
Pressure in the pit of the stomach, [47],
[48]. ►
Violent pressure in the stomach, [34]. ► Great
irritability of stomach, toast-water, lemonade, and ice-water being
ejected almost as soon as swallowed (second day), [156]. ► Very
irritable stomach, [85]. ► Gangrene of the stomach, lungs, and
liver, preceded by inflammation, [15].
► Cardialgia, [34]. ► Spasm
of the diaphragm (pleurospasmus), associated with suffocative loss of
speech and twitching of the muscles, [61].
► Painful sensation in the epigastric
region, [64]. ► Violent pain in the epigastric and
hypogastric region (first day), [155].
[420.] ►
Pain and soreness in the stomach (seventh day), [155]. ► Pain
in the stomach and bowels (sixth day), [155].
► Pain in the pit of the stomach, [127], [127b],
[128b]. ►
Little pain or soreness in any part of the body except the stomach
(eleventh day), [153]. ► Pain in the stomach, [132]. ► The
pain in the stomach and waterbrash were most distressing (fourth day), [124]. ►
Pains in the stomach and abdomen, [100].
► Pain and cramp of the stomach, [99]. ►
Attacks of violent cramps in the stomach, [61].
► Cramp in the stomach, [62]. [430.]
► Gastric disturbance, [64]. ►
Spasmodic constriction of the stomach, with nausea and vomiting, [146]. ►
Painful constriction at the epigastrium (after one hour), [126]. ►
Uneasiness at stomach (after one hour), [126a].
► Warmth in the epigastric region
(after one hour), [127]. ► Sensation of warmth and excitement in the
epigastric region, [69]. ► Prickling in the stomach almost
agreeable, relieved in the open air, recurring in a warm room, [109]. ►
*Sensation of burning in the internal organs, [64].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Tenderness
in the right hypochondriac region (ninth day), [155]. ► Pain
in liver, stomach, and bowels (tenth day), [155]. [440.]
► Torpidity of the liver (tenth day),
[155]. ►
General Abdomen. ► *Abdomen
tympanitic (first and fifth days), [155]. ►
*Meteorismus, [64]. ► Abdomen tense, [146]. ► *Abdomen
distended, [42]. ► Abdomen very soft, [135]. ►
Abdomen hard, tense, painful to touch, [42].
► Soreness, bloating, and rumbling of
wind in the bowels (seventh day), [155].
► Rumbling of wind in the bowels
(fifth day), [155]. ► Borborygmi (after two hours), [130]. [450.]
► Convulsive colic, [63]. ►
Violent colic, [77]. ► *Colic, [76], [113];
(after two hours), [130]. ► Griping pains accompanied stools, [166]. ►
Complained urgently of abdominal and epigastric pain, [151]. ►
Severe paroxysms of abdominal pains, recurring every fifteen minutes,
and lasting hardly sixty seconds (after one hour), [168]. ►
Abdominal pain, [170]. ► Pain and soreness in the bowels (seventh
day), [155]. ►
Patient describes the pains in the bowels as if a hundred knives were
drawn through the parts down to the womb, ovaries, urethra, and vulva
(eighth day), [155]. ► Severe pain in abdomen, which was
swollen, tense, and exquisitely tender, [149].
[460.] ►
*Pain in the abdomen and burning in the stomach, [153]. ►
Painful contractions in the upper abdomen (after one hour), [123]. ►
Spasmodic tension of the abdomen, [142].
► Pressure as from much flatus in the
abdomen, [110]. ► Pressure and drawing into the abdomen,
relieved by slight stroking with the hand, [109]. ► A
coarse stitch suddenly extending from the abdomen into the right
testicle, while coughing, [109]. ► Paralysis of the intestines towards the
last, [139]. ► *Sensation of remarkable coldness in the abdomen
and back, [61]. ► Sensation of coldness in the abdomen and
back, [47]. ►
Sensation of disagreeable coldness, horripilation of the abdomen, back,
and limbs, [64]. [470.] ►
Increased warmth in the abdomen, especially in the epigastric region, [69]. ►
Hypogastrium. ► Pressure
and dragging in the hypogastrium, as from flatus, extending into the
scrotum, in the evening, two days in succession, [109]. ►
Sudden circumscribed pain in the lower abdomen (after delivery), [98]. ►
*Pains in hypogastrium region, [105].
► Occasional pain in hypogastric
region, [81]. ► Burning pain in the lower abdomen, [98].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
*Paralysis of rectum (tenth day), [155]. ► *Anus
stood wide open, [87]. ► Stinging-cutting pains in the rectum;
great irritability of the sphincter ani, with spasms (ninth day), [155]. ►
Severe cutting pain in the rectum (tenth day), [155]. [480.]
► Pain and spasm in rectum (tenth
day), [155]. ►
Excruciating pain in hæmorrhoidal veins (tenth day), [155]. ►
Distressing itching in the anus, [110].
► Frequent ineffectual efforts for
stool, [47]. ►
Urging to stool, with pressive pain in the abdomen, relieved after a
normal evacuation, in the morning (second day), [109]. ►
Ineffectual desire for stool, [153].
STOOL.
►►
*Diarrhœa, [32], [47], [50],
etc. ► *Diarrhœa, lasting from five to
fourteen days, very exhausting, [42]. ► *Very
offensive diarrhœa, [64].
► *Pernicious diarrhœa, [64]. [490.]
► *Diarrhœa; frequent, brown, and slimy
discharges from the bowels (first day); diarrhœa continued, discharges from the bowels very
fetid, and dark-colored (second day), [155]. ►
Diarrhœa; the stools were of a dark-gray color, looked as though meal
had been stirred through them, and had a peculiar sickly indescribable
odor, [166]. ►
Sharp diarrhœa (after four hours); this yielded to repeated hot baths;
but for two weeks there was constant tendency to diarrhœa, [168]. ►
Three or four hours after the chill, spontaneous diarrhœa commenced,
continuing five or six hours, [156].
► *Thin involuntary discharges from the
bowels, [62]. ►► *Stool thin, olive green, for
the second time in the forenoon, without colic, followed by persistent
burning extending, high up in the rectum, itching in the anus, making
him almost beside himself (second day), [109].
► Stool at first mucus, afterwards
bilious or sanguinolent, [119]. ► Discharges from the bowels of a great
quantity of disorganized mucous membrane, resembling that thrown off in
dysentery (eighth day); movement from the bowels of watery feculent
matter (eleventh day), [155]. ► *Hæmorrhage from the bowels (ninth
day), [155]. ► *Hæmorrhage from the bowels (tenth
day); hæmorrhage; the blood does not clot, and is very thin and almost
black (eleventh day), [155]. [500.] ► Evacuation of worms, [47]; in children, [48].
► Motion of the bowels for the first
time since taking the Secale (fourth day), [124]. ►
*Constipation, [64], [82], [145],
[155].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Great sensitiveness of the bladder and ovarian region (sixth day), [155]. ►
*Paralysis of bladder (tenth day), [155]. ► Spasm
of meatus urinarius (ninth day), [155].
► Cutting pain and smarting in the
urethra, as if a knife were drawn through the parts, when attempting to
urinate (fifth day), [155]. ► Burning in the urethra during
micturition, [84]. ► Frequent desire to urinate, though not
without effort, [84]. ► Violent but ineffectual urging to
urinate, [153]. [510.] ►
Obliged to urinate at night, contrary to habit, also no desire to
urinate, in the morning, yet a large quantity of clear urine was
vigorously passed during stool, [109].
► Copious micturition, [115]. ►
Involuntary micturition, [87]. ► Micturition difficult, with constant
desire in the bladder, [42]. ► Micturition seldom, dribbling and without
relief, [47]. ► Retention of urine, [145]. ►
Inability to pass water, [151]. ► Increased discharge of urine, [84], [146],
[147]. ►
Frequent and pretty copious discharges of urine (after second dose), [94]. ►
Urine somewhat increased (after two hours), [130]. [520.]
► Urine scanty and dark-colored
(first day); urinary discharges of a dark wine, or
“prune-juice” color (second day); suppressed;
on introducing the catheter, about a gill of dark prune-colored urine
passed, which appeared to be full of gritty sediment, and emitted a very
disagreeable odor (third day); suppressed
but on using the catheter, about a teaspoonful escaped, which was very
dark and fetid; a few drops falling on the linen stained dark brown;
only a few drops passed during the day (fourth day); suppressed, passed three tablespoonfuls of
urine by means of catheter, of a lighter color than formerly (fifth
day); procured a tablespoonful of urine by the use of the catheter, at 9
A.M.; passed a tablespoonful containing albumen, at 8 P.M. (sixth day);
scanty discharges from the bladder of a yellow color, and very fetid;
contained a large amount of albumen (seventh day); thought we detected
casts of the uriniferous tubes in the ounce of albuminous urine obtained
by means of the catheter (eighth day); albuminous, but of better color
and larger quantity than at any time since the suppression commenced,
containing mucus and albumen (ninth day); kidneys more active; urine
more copious, but albuminous, fetid (tenth day); passed involuntarily
for the first time in her sickness, more copious and containing blood
and albumen (eleventh day), [155].
► The urine has a white sediment like
cheese, [85]. ► Profuse thick red sediment to the urine,
that colors the vessel, [84]. ► Urine scanty, watery, clear, [64]. ►
Urine as clear as spring water, at times turbid, [51]. ► Urine
clear, like water, [12]. ► Urine pale, [135].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Numerous
erections, even after coition, [109].
► Strong dragging in the spermatic
cord, so that the testicles seemed drawn up to the inguinal ring; this
lasted for half an hour (after three-quarters of an hour), [124]. ►
Female. ► Abortion, period
about two months, mass perfectly black, [149].
[530.] ►
*Abortion, [83]. ► A six months’ fœtus was born; the
discharge of the placenta was immediately followed by profuse vomiting,
violent jactitation, præcordial pain, pallor, coldness of the surface,
the uterine contractions recurring at irregular intervals; this
continued for half an hour, until unconsciousness and strabismus ushered
in death, [151]. ► Death of the fœtus, [107]. ►
Miscarriage, followed by tearing pain in the extremities, [141]. ►
Miscarriage between the seventh and eighth months, [163]. ► *Uterus
and right ovary much congested and very sensitive to the touch;
sphincter vaginæ and vagina very much relaxed (eighth day), [155]. ►
On examination per vaginam found the os tinca open so as to admit the
first phalanx of the index finger, very sensitive to the touch, hot, and
engorged, with profuse flowing (first day), [155]. ► Os
uteri wide open, thick, soft (before delivery), [98]. ► The
uterus, that had previously been in a normal condition, descended so
that it almost protruded from the labiæ, was hot and painful; the os
was open as large as the middle finger; the patient complained of
excessive desire to urinate, and of labor pains, only relieved by wet
bandages or by pressure upon the abdomen; this lasted three days. She
did not miscarry, though the os remained open during this period;
afterwards the uterus gradually ascended, the pains diminished and after
five or six days the os again contracted. The woman went on to the
eighth month, when she miscarried, [169]. ►
Retention of the placenta due to hour-glass contraction of the uterus
and subsequent sterility, [107]. [540.] ►►
Uterine hæmorrhage, [149].
► Hæmorrhage from the uterus, and
apparent death of the new-born child, [88]. ► *Incessant
metrorrhagia, [153]. ► Gangrene of the whole vaginal mucous membrane;
on holding a part the labiæ this membrane was found of a dark
slate-color, emitting the characteristic odor, [118]. ► *Vagina
hot, [98]. ► *Discharges from the vagina almost black, fluid,
and very fetid (second day), [155].
► Vaginal and urinary discharges of a
dark wine or “prune-juice” color (second day), [155]. ►►
*Cessation of the lochia, with fever, inflammation of the uterus;
subsequently an abscess that opened through the
vagina, [98]. ► Pains in ovaries and uterus (tenth
day), [155]. ►► *Pains of an expulsive character in the
uterus (first day), [155].
[550.] ►
*The drug causes, not regular intermittent, but irregular stormy
contractions of the uterus, [107].
► *Violent labor pains, [163]. ►
Tenderness of the vulva (fifth day), [155].
► Great tenderness of the vulva
(tenth day), [155]. ► Pain in the vulva (sixth and tenth days),
[155]. ►
Pain, soreness, and throbbing heat in the vulva (seventh day), [155]. ►
The menses are too profuse; congestion of blood to the uterus;
metrorrhagia; excessive uterine contractions, so that the uterus seemed
ready to burst; all the symptoms are worse previous to the menses, [129]. ►
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