SOLANUM NIGRUM.
Solanum nigrum, Linn.
Natural order
, Solanaceæ.
Common names
, Black nightshade; (Fr.),
Morelle noir.
Preparation
, Tincture of plant.
Authorities.
1,
Pihan Dufeilly, Journ. de Chim. Méd., iv, p. 143, poisoning (from Roth,
Mat. Med., 3, 5); 2, Hirtz, Gaz.
Méd. de Strasburg, 1842, ibid.; 3,
Camerarius, Wepfer Hist. Cicut. Aquat., p. 288, [Edition, Basel, 1679,
p. 226, a communication from Dr. Camerarius concerning the poisoning of
three children, aged six, four, and three years, by eating the berries
of “Solanum vulgare” (Nigrum). -T. F. A.], ibid.; 4, Rucker, poisoning of four persons,
Commercium Litt. Norinberg, ibid.; 5,
Journ. de Chim. Med., 1840 (Hygea, 13, 403), poisoning of three
children; 6, same, a case; 7, Tardieu, “Empoisonnement,”
poisoning of a child by leaves; 8,
same, another case; 9, same, another
child; 10, Kontyu, Preuss. Med.
Zeit., 1862 (A. H. Z., Mon. Bl., 6., 31), a child poisoned by leaves and
berries; 11, Lembke, Allg. Hom.
Zeit., 45, 74, proving with tincture, doses of 5 to 50 drops; 12, Moreaux, Élements de Thérap., poisoning
of a boy by berries (from Hale’s Compilations, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc.
State of N. Y., 1870); 13, Eberle,
Therap., a girl ate berries, ibid.; 14,
Same, a child ate four ripe berries; 15,
two boys poisoned, Journ. de Chim. Méd.; 16
and 17, omitted; 18, Gataker, effects of infusion of 1 to 3
grains of leaf, ibid.; 19, omitted; 20, J. M. Cunningham, proving with tincture,
took first day, 10 drops at 5 P.M.; second day, same at 7 P.M.; third
day, 15 drops at 8 A.M.; sixth day, 15 drops at 7 P.M.; seventh day, 15
drops at 7 A.M.; eighteenth day, 20 drops at 9 A.M. and 2 P.M.;
twentieth day, 20 drops at 8 P.M.; twenty-second day, 20 drops at 7
A.M., ibid.; 21, symptoms, by Louis
Deventer, from MS. from Dr. C. Hering.
MIND.
►
Delirium, with stammering speech, efforts to escape and to get out of
bed, [7]. ►
Delirium, [8]. ► Delirium, cries and convulsions, [3]. ►
Piercing cries, such as are heard in cases of hydrocephalus (third
hour), [2]. ►
Dull drowsy feeling, with indisposition to study (twenty-third day), [20]. ►
The understanding seems lost; the patients do not appear to comprehend
what is passing around them; but every now and then they utter
indistinct words, like delirious or intoxicated persons (in three
hours), [2]. ► *Complete cessation of mental faculties,
[15]. ►
She was found entirely insensible, lying in a deep apoplectic stupor, all the muscles relaxed,
the face flushed, and the pulse and irregular; she continued in this
state about six hours, then gradually recovered, [13]. ► A
state of stupor and coma, attended with fever, [12]. [10.] ► Coma with twitching, [6]. ►
Comatose sleep, [10].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo,
[1], [5], [6], [21]. ►
Vertigo, nausea, and colic, [1]. ► Vertigo on rising and moving about, with
dizziness before the eyes (fifth day), [20].
► Brain seems to swim; vertigo worse
on moving the head (twentieth day), [20].
► Sensation as if the bed was turning
rapidly in a circle, within ten minutes after going to bed (twenty-first
day), [20]. ►
Feeling, on stooping, as if everything was moving around in a circle
(twenty-third day), [20]. ► Great vertigo, on rising in the morning,
somewhat relieved on going out into the open air (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
While talking the body seems to reel in various directions (after 50
drops), [11]. [20.] ►
While walking the body inclines to the left (after 50 drops), [11]. ►
General Head. ► Dulness of
the head, followed by dilatation of the pupils (after 10 drops), [11]. ►
Dulness of the head, with slow pulse and contracted pupils (ten minutes
after 25 drops), [11]. ► Dull pain in the head, at 11 A.M. (fifth
day), [20]. ►
Dull heavy headache, at 8 P.M. (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ► Dull
heavy headache, continuing without intermission (twenty-fifth day), [20]. ►
Dull throbbing headache, during the forenoon (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
Heavy sensation in the head, on waking in the morning as if he had not
had enough sleep (twenty-third day), [20].
► The head seems too heavy (after 35
drops), [11]. ► Fulness and heaviness of the head, [21]. [30.]
► Slight fulness in the head (after
about an hour), [20]. ► Feeling of lightness in the head
(twenty-first day), [20]. ► *Headache, [6]. ► Violent
headache, which wakes him up at night, [3].
► Constant and violent headache, [15]. ►
Violent headache, at 11 A.M. (twenty-third day), [20]. ►
Horrible headache, [15]. ► *Frightful headache, [5]. ► Very
severe pain in head immediately over the eyes; so severe as to make him
partially close his eyes; light seems to aggravate it, and it is worse
on stooping over; it lasts about an hour, very severe, at 10 A.M.
(eighteenth day), [20]. ► Headache increased when first beginning
to move after sitting, but after walking for a time in the open air,
somewhat relieved (twenty-fourth day), [20].
[40.] ►
Headache worse in a close room (twenty-third day), [20]. ►
Feeling as if the head would split (twentieth day), [20]. ► On
moving the head, the brain feels as if it were shaking about in the
skull, at 10 A.M. (eighteenth day), [20].
► Feeling, on the least motion after
sitting, as if the brain would burst from the forehead (twenty-third
day), [20]. ► Forehead. ►
Dull feeling in forepart of the head, all the afternoon (fifth day), [20]. ►
Heaviness in the forehead (after 35 drops), [11]. ►
Heaviness and pressure in the forehead (after 40 drops), [11]. ►
Violent headache in the front part of the head, at 8 P.M. (twentieth
day), [20]. ►
Sensation as from a blow, in the forehead (fifth day), [20]. ► Slight
pain in the forepart of the head, on waking, going off in the course of
the morning (twentieth day), [20].
[50.] ►
Slight pain in the forepart of the head, on waking in the morning
(twenty-second day), [20]. ► Pressure deep in the forehead (after 25
drops), [11]. ► Pressure and dulness in the forehead
(after 35 drops), [11]. ► Pressive pains in the forehead, [21]. ►
Violent throbbing pain in the forepart of the head, during the whole
afternoon (twenty-third day), [20].
► Temples. ► Tensive drawing pain in the region of the
temples, [21]. ► Severe pain through the temples, as if
the head would split, at 12 M. (fifth day), [20]. ► Severe
pain in the left temple, of a throbbing beating character, worse on the
slightest misstep, and worse on stooping, at 1 P.M. (twenty-third day), [20]. ►
Pressure in the temples, extending toward the forehead deep in the
brain, repeated several times (after 50 drops), [11]. ► Sharp
gnawing pain in the right temple, at 9 A.M., causing him to grasp his
hand and shut his eyes from the severity of the pain (twenty-third day),
[20]. [60.]
► Stitches in the temple
(twenty-third day), [20]. ► Throbbing of temporal and carotid
arteries, at 11 A.M. (twenty-third day), [20].
► Vertex. ► Pain in a small circumscribed spot on the
top of the head, which soon passed off (eighteenth day), [20]. ►
Pressure on the vertex and forehead (soon), (after 50 drops), [11]. ►
External Head. ► During
the last week, has had an eruption on forehead of small red pimples,
sore to touch and very hard; when one went away another would come
(twenty-fourth day), [20]. ► Scalp feels sore, on moving the hand
through the air (twenty-third day), [20].
► Scalp very sore to touch, feeling
as if the hair had been very severely pulled (twenty-fourth day), [20].
EYE.
►
Wrinkles around the eyes, on the upper lip, and on the fingers (eleventh
day), [4]. ►
Eyes wide open, moist, and sparkling (in three hours), [2]. ► Redness
of the eyes, [21]; (twenty-fourth
day), [20]. [70.] ►
Fulness and tension in the eyes, [21].
► Eyes feel dull and heavy
(twenty-fourth day), [20]. ► Burning in the eyes (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
Eyes very sensitive to the light (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ► Eyes
feel as if there were sand in them, on waking in the morning
(twenty-fifth day), [20]. ► Brow and Orbit. ►
Slight pain over left eye (after one hour, second day), [20]. ► Severe
pain in the supraorbital region, on waking in the morning; it passed off
in the course of an hour, leaving a dull heavy sensation in the forepart
of the head (third day), [20]. ► Severe pain over the eyes, aggravated by
motion and stooping (third day), [20].
► Violent pain in the supraorbital
region, on waking in the morning; worse on arising and from the
slightest motion; the least misstep sends violent pains through the
temples; the acute pain passed off about 10 A.M., leaving a sensation as
if the forehead had been bruised (fourth day), [20]. ► Dull
heavy pain over the eyes, with insipid taste in the mouth, on waking in
the morning (sixth and seventh days), [20].
[80.] ►
Sharp shooting pain over right eye, at 4 P.M. (eighteenth day), [20]. ►
Violent pain over the eyes, going off in the course of an hour, at 9
P.M. (twenty-second day), [20]. ► Severe pain over eyes, almost unbearable
when looking at a bright object (twenty-third day), [20]. ► Dull
bruised feeling over the eyes, on waking in the morning (twenty-fifth
day), [20]. ► Lids. ►
Biting in the margins of the lids (after 40 and 50 drops), [11]. ►
Burning sensation in the eyelids, [21].
► Pain in inner canthus of left eye
(twenty-third day), [20]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Watering of the eyes, [21]. ► Pupils.
► Dilatation of the pupils, [21]. ►
Increasing dilatation of the pupils, [8].
[90.] ►
Pupils dilated (very soon after 5 drops), [11].
► Pupils dilate very easily (after 10
drops), [11]. ► Pupils very much inclined to dilate
(after 25 drops), [11]. ► Pupils greatly dilated (one hour after 25
drops); returned to their normal size (two hours after 25 drops), [11]. ►
Pupils dilated, the inner margins of the iris seems bright yellow as if
illuminated, with bright spots and black objects before the eyes,
intermingled with mistiness of vision (forty-five minutes after 35
drops); after another forty-five minutes the pupils were at times very
small, and at other times very large, [11].
► Excessively dilated pupil, [1], [5].
► Pupils enormously dilated and
insensible, [9]. ► Both pupils are dilated to utmost extent
(after three hours), [2]. ► Dilatation of the pupil alternating with
contraction, [6], [15]; (second day), [1]; (one hour after 20 drops), [11]. ► Vision.
► Great weakness of sight, aggravated
by bright sunlight, [21]. [100.] ►
Erethitic amaurosis, [21]. ► Mistiness before the eyes, [5], [15]. ► Muscæ volitantes, [21]. ► He can
scarcely distinguish surrounding objects, [1].
► Flickering before the eyes, [21]. ►
Black points and streaks before the eyes when reading (after 25 drops), [11]. ►
Darkness before the eyes, with white spots and stripes and black rings
and greatly dilated pupils (one hour and three-quarters after 35 drops),
[11]. ►
Black points and stripes before the eyes, with heaviness and dulness in
the head and easily dilated pupils (after fifteen minutes); everything
seemed too bright, as if too much light entered the eyes, with biting on
the margins of the lids and pressure over the eyes and deep in the eyes,
especially on looking at the daylight; at a distance everything seemed
mixed, with pressure in the forehead (after half an hour); the pupils
were contracted, yet at times everything seemed too bright, and the eye
was sensitive to light (after three-quarters of an hour); sticking in
the inner canthus of the right eye, pupils very much contracted, with
many floating spots and points before the vision, alternating with very
dilated pupils, that remained dilated (after one hour); the eyes
remained very sensitive on reading all day (after 40 drops), [11]. ►
Black points and objects before the eyes, with dilated pupils (after a
quarter of an hour); everything seems dark (after half an hour); the
pupils continue dilated for more than an hour (after 50 drops), [11].
EAR.
►
Subsequent to the poisoning the child suffered from the most violent
parotitis, [10]. [110.] ►
Stitches in the ear (twenty-third day), [20].
► Everything heard seems at a greater
distance than natural (after 50 drops), [11].
► Buzzing before the ears, [21].
NOSE.
►
The nose is of a deep-red color (fourth day), [4]. ►
Considerable sneezing (with discharge from nose), (twenty-third day), [20]. ►
Discharge during the day of a thin watery substance from the nose, with
considerable sneezing; great discharge of water from right nostril, the
left being closed, as from a cold (twenty-third and twenty-fourth days),
[20]. ►
Burning in the nose (twenty-fourth day), [20].
FACE.
►
Highly congested face, expressive of wildness and anxiety (in three
hours), [2]. ►
Swollen and flushed face (second day), [1].
► Flushed face, [1], [13]. [120.] ►
Face red, swollen, [5]. ► Red, bloated face, [15]. ► Red,
fatigued face, [15]. ► Expression of fright and terror, [9]. ►
Face pale, [8]. ► Face looked as though he had been
intoxicated, at 11 A.M. (twenty-third day), [20]. ► Sharp
neuralgic-like pain shooting from the lower jaw up into the left ear,
leaving suddenly and coming as suddenly (twentieth day), [20]. ► Lips
dry and blistered (twenty-third day), [20].
► Lips and tongue feel dry as if
scalded (twenty-fourth day), [20].
► Trismus (after three hours), [2]. [130.]
► Very sharp pain running from the
lower jaw up into the left ear, of a neuralgic character, at 10 A.M.
(twenty-fifth day), [20].
MOUTH.
►
Tongue sore as if burnt (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
Dryness of the back of the tongue and arch of the palate (after 10
drops), [11]. ► Dryness of the mouth (after 35 drops), [11]. ►
Great dryness of the mouth (after 40 drops), [11]. ► Mouth
very dry (after 50 drops), [11];
(twenty-third day), [20]. ► Insipid taste in mouth (with pain over
eyes), on waking in the morning (sixth and seventh days), [20]. ►
Utterance becomes uneasy, [1].
THROAT.
►
Dryness in the throat, [21]. ► Stitches in the right side of the throat
(twenty-third day), [20]. [140.] ►
Raw sensation in throat, painful on swallowing anything solid or liquid
(twenty-third day), [20]. ► Throat very sore on swallowing
(twenty-fourth day), [20]. ► Tickling sensation in throat, causing him
to cough frequently (twenty-fifth day), [20].
► Fauces dry (one hour and a half
after 25 drops), [11]. ► Constant sticking in the fauces,
especially on swallowing, at times stitches shooting from the fauces
towards the drum of the right ear (after 40 drops), [11]. ► Left
tonsil feels swollen, with soreness on swallowing, [15]. ► Left
tonsil feels swollen as from cold, sore on swallowing (twentieth day), [20]. ►
Feeling as if there were a splinter in the right tonsil (twenty-third
day), [20]. ►
Stitching pain in tonsil (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
Sensation of cramp in the œsophagus (after twenty-five drops), [11]. [150.]
► Deglutition is effected only when
their jaws are forced wide open in order to make them swallow liquids, [2]. ►
Throbbing of the carotid arteries, at 8 P.M. (twentieth day), [20]. ►
Violent beating of the carotids (twenty-third day), [20].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ►
Want of appetite; they go to bed without wanting their supper, [1]. ►
Thirst, [21]. ► Great thirst, causing me to drink often,
and in large quantities (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ► Very
urgent thirst, but the liquids taken were soon vomited up again (second
day), [2]. ►
Unquenchable thirst, [1]. ► Excessive thirst, [5], [6], [15]. ►
Eructations. ► Empty
eructations (with burning in the stomach), (fifth day), [20]. ► Heartburn.
[160.] ►
Slight heartburn, of short duration, immediately after eating breakfast
(seventh day), [20]. ► Heartburn, with nausea, at 6 P.M.
(eighteenth day), [20]. ► Violent heartburn after eating dinner;
burning sensation up into the œsophagus, passing off in the course of
an hour (twentieth day), [20]. ► Heartburn after going to bed in the
evening (twenty-first day), [20]. ► Heartburn, in the afternoon, lasting for
about an hour (twenty-second day), [20].
► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea, [1], [21]. ► Nausea, with sparks before the eyes,
continuing until he went to sleep (twenty-first day), [20]. ► Nausea
and retchings, [12]. ► Nausea, with efforts to vomit, followed
by profuse vomiting, at first of mucus, afterwards of bluish or
grayish-black liquid, [5]. ► Vomiting, [6].
[170.] ►
Vomiting of all food, [6]. ► Loathing vomiting of ingesta, [15]. ►
Vomiting of ingesta, then of a blackish-green liquid, [1]. ► Copious
vomiting, at first of mucus, then of a thick, blackish-green liquid, [1]. ►
Seldom failed to either vomit, sweat, or purge the patient moderately,
or to increase the quantity of urine; it sometimes occasioned a
giddiness, especially when it made the patient sick (nauseated), but
neither the sickness or giddiness were constant symptoms, and when they
happened they generally abated or ceased entirely after the first dose, [18]. ►
Frequent vomiting, first of mucus, afterwards of a bluish or
gray-blackish fluid, [15]. ► Stomach. ►
Severe pain in the region of the stomach, extending up into the region
of the heart and left shoulder, at 5 P.M. (fifth day), [20]. ► Great
pain in the pit of the stomach, [12].
► Great pressure in the stomach in
paroxysms (after ten drops), [11].
► Constant pressure in the stomach
(after thirty-five and forty drops), [11].
[180.] ►
Pressure in the stomach (after fifty drops), [11]. ► Severe
cramps in the pit of the stomach, at 5 P.M.; worse on walking; gradually
subsiding after eating supper (sixth day), [20]. ► Sharp,
cutting pains in and across the stomach, relieved by pressure and
bending forward, at 5 P.M. (fourth day), [20].
► Severe burning in the stomach, with
vomiting, [15]. ► Burning pain in the stomach after the
evacuations (fourth day), [20]. ► Burning pain in the stomach, extending
upwards, with nausea (after loose evacuation), (fifth day), [20]. ►
Burning in the stomach, with empty eructations (fifth day), [20]. ►
Slight burning in stomach, with nausea (after two hours, sixth day), [20]. ►
Burning sensation in stomach, extending up into the œsophagus
(eighteenth day), [20].
ABDOMEN.
►
Violent cutting in the umbilical region (after thirty-five drops), [11]. [190.]
► Abdomen excessively distended and
tense, [8]. ►
Meteorism to such an extent that he seems almost to swell up visibly, [2]. ►
Colic, [10]. ►
Colic and ineffectual urging to stool, [1].
► Pain in bowels (after one hour,
second day), [20]. ► Pain, at 5 P.M., as if the intestines
were cut with knives, which continued until after supper, when it
gradually subsided (fourth day), [20].
► Pains in the abdomen and desire to
lie down; after about an hour the pains increased and were accompanied
by nausea, without vomiting, [7].
ANUS.
►
Tenesmus in the anus, [5], [15].
STOOL.
►
One or more of the natural evacuations were almost always increased, [19]. ►
The bowels, which have been somewhat constipated, are rather loose;
stools semifluid; 10 A.M. bowels still somewhat loose; evacuations of a
yellow color, somewhat watery, at 5 P.M. (fourth day), [20]. [200.] ► Loose evacuation of a yellow, watery
character, ate 10 A.M., followed by burning pain in the stomach,
extending upwards, with nausea (fifth day), [20]. ►
Constipation, with small, dry, hard stools (eighteenth day), [20]. ►
Bowels somewhat costive (twenty-fourth day), [20].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
If a sweat did not break out, then an extraordinary discharge of urine
was the consequence, and frequently followed by a purging, [19].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Respiration rapid, [8]. ► Difficult respiration, [5], [15]. ► The breathing is quick, but easy, [2]. ►
Stertorous breathing, [1].
CHEST.
►
Slight oppression of the chest (soon after ten drops), [11]. ►
Constriction of the chest, [21]. [210.] ►
Pressure on the sternum and at the tenth dorsal vertebra (after
thirty-five drops), [11]. ► Cutting pain in left side (twenty-fourth
day), [20].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Anxious feeling in the region of the heart, [21]. ► Pulse
very rapid, scarcely perceptible, [8].
► Pulse rapid, irregular, [6], [15].
► Small and very frequent pulse (in
three hours), [2]. ► Frequent and somewhat irregular pulse
(second day), [1]. ► Pulse from 90 to 95 (twenty-third day), [20]. ►
Pulse 95, during forenoon (twenty-fifth day), [20]. ► Pulse
about 95, at 8 P.M. (twenty-fourth day), [20].
[220.] ►
Pulse slow, small, and soft (after thirty-five drops), [11]. ► Pulse
small and slow (after twenty and forty drops), [11]. ► Pulse
full and irregular, [13].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck feels sore and stiff, as if bruised; worse on moving the head
(seventh day), [20]. ► Severe pain in muscles of neck
(twenty-fourth day), [20]. ► Great pain in the back of the neck, and
shoulders, and lower extremities (with fever), (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
Pain in back of neck and between shoulders (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
Bruised feeling in the back and limbs (seventh day), [20]. ► Pain
in back and limbs, at 9 P.M. (twenty-third day), [20].
EXTREMITIES.
►
Restlessness in the limbs, with carphologia, [8]. [230.] ► Pain in limbs (and back), at 9 P.M.
(twenty-third day), [20]. ► Wandering pains, first in the shoulders,
then down the arm, then in the lower extremities (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
Severe pain in all the limbs, at 8 P.M. (twenty-fifth day), [20]. ►
Painful drawing in arms and feet, [21].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Arms heavy, as if prostrated, especially
the right (after fifty drops), [11].
► Dull, heavy pain in right arm,
extending down to the ends of the fingers, at 10 A.M.; this continued
until 3 P.M., when it gradually disappeared (fifth day), [20]. ► Pains
extending down the left arm of a lancinating character, at 9 P.M. (fifth
day), [20]. ►
Pain shooting through left arm and wrist (twenty-fifth day), [20]. ►
Pain in the left shoulder and right wrist (after fifty drops), [11].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Gait unsteady, heavy, insecure (after 35
drops), [11]. [240.] ►
Trembling of the lower extremities, especially of the muscles of the
thighs, like small, successive jerks (after 20 drops), [11]. ► The
lower extremities seem prostrated, especially the left (after 50 drops),
[11]. ►
Weakness of the thighs (ten minutes after 25 drops), [11]. ► Pain
in the right knee, extending upwards towards the hip (fifth day), [20]. ►
Legs feel sore on walking, as if bruised (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
Compression in the left calf, as before cramp (after 35 drops), [11]. ►
Crawling in the left calf (after 50 drops), [11]. ►
Pulling pains in the calves (twenty-third day), [4]. ►
Swelling of the feet (fifty-second day), [4].
► Tearing on the back of the left
foot (after 50 drops), [11].
GENERALITIES.
[250.]
► Coma, convulsive agitation,
plaintive cries (third day). A Singular proceeding is observed in the
midst of their convulsions; they frequently stretch out their little
hands, as if to grasp something, then carry them eagerly to their
mouths, and go through the motions of mastication and swallowing (in
three hours), [2]. ► *The most violent general convulsive
agitation (in three hours), [2]. ► Convulsions, tetanic rigidity, and death,
[1]. ►
Convulsions and spasms; they stretched their hands during the spasms, as
if they would grasp something, carrying their hands to their mouths,
chewing and swallowing, etc., [15].
► Spasms, with twitching, followed by
tetanic rigidity of the body, and death, [5].
► Trembling, violent starting (in
three hours), [2]. ► *Tetanic rigidity of the whole body, [15]. ►
He lies on his back in a state of entire prostration, disturbed, at
intervals, by spasmodic movements (second day), [1]. ►
(Increased distension and prominence of the varicose veins), [21]. ►
Restlessness, [7]. [260.] ►
After the attack the patient was extremely weak, [10]. ►
Lassitude of the whole body, without inclination to sleep, [21]. ►
All the muscles relaxed, [13]. ► General heaviness (after 5 drops), [11]. ►
Bruised feeling all over body, at 9 P.M. (twenty-third day), [20]. ►
Violent pain in every muscle and joint, on waking in the morning
(twenty-fourth day), [20]. ► All the muscles of his body feel sore to
the touch (twenty-fifth day), [20].
► From bodily exertion, great
tiredness and vertigo, [21]. ► Great sensitiveness to cold air (for
several weeks after being cured), [4].
► Great sensitiveness to cold air, [21].
SKIN.
[270.]
► Red blotches, like scarlatina,
irregularly dispersed over almost the whole cutaneous surface (in three
hours), [2]. ►
The palms of their hands are of a greenish blue color (in three hours), [2]. ►
The face, eyelids, lips, hands and feet are greatly swollen, with
intolerable itching of those parts (first day, in the evening), [4]. ►
The hands, feet, and nose are greatly swollen, very painful, and black
(second and third days), [4]. ► The hands and feet are swollen, and
covered with black spots (second and third days), [4]. ► The
swelling is very painful, it enlarges, becomes shiny, hard, and deep
red; and, in several places, quite black (second and third days), [4]. ►
The black hue of the swollen parts grows deeper, the fingers are
stiffened, and on the upper part of the sternum appears a large round
blotch of a deep-red color (fourth day), [4].
► The tip of the nose, the hands,
from the tips of the fingers to the knuckles, and the toes to the tarsal
joints, become quite black, as if regularly dyed (fourth day), [4]. ►
A few vesicles appear on the back of the hand, which break, and
discharge a yellowish and very acrid fluid (seventh day), [4]. ► The
swelling diminishes, as also the black discoloration; desquamation
commences (seventh day), [4]. [280.] ►
Eruption like confluent small-pox; sloughs are formed on the fingers;
the eyelids are agglutinated so as to exclude the light; the patient is
tormented by an itching burning at the extremities (twelfth to
fourteenth days), [4]. ► Large blisters on both arms, which
discharge acrid serum (eighteenth day), [4].
► The sloughs are detached from the
face, and the right hand swells up again (eighteenth day), [4]. ►
The face cleans off, but the hands are again covered with hard and very
painful crusts, which fall off and are soon replaced by new ones
(twenty-first day), [4]. ► Swelling of the face, arms, abdomen,
scrotum, and penis (fifty-fourth day), [4].
► A few small pimples on the back of
the hand, which itched violently (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
Violent itching of both arms, not relieved by scratching (first day), [4]. ►
Painful and itching sensation in chronic ulcers on the feet, [21].
SLEEP.
►
Sleepiness, [21]. ► Very sleepy during the whole forenoon
(twenty-third and twenty-fifth days), [20].
[290.] ►
Very sleepy all day (twenty-fourth day), [20].
► Deep sleep, [14], [15].
► Night very restless, sleepless,
with hallucinations and carphologia, [9].
► In the middle of the night he wakes
up uttering groans, which are wrung from him by a violent headache, [1]. ►
Feeling, on waking in the morning, as if he had lost several night’s
sleep (sixth day), [20]. ► Feeling, on waking in the morning, as if
he had not had enough sleep (twenty-first day), [20]. ► Passed
a very uneasy night (twenty-second night), [20]. ► Sleep
disturbed by dreams, which caused him to awake several times in terror,
with a sensation of falling from a great height (third night), [20]. ►
Sleep disturbed by dreams of snakes, which caused him to awake several
times in fright (fifth night), [20].
► Sleep disturbed by dreams
(twenty-second night), [20].
FEVER.
[300.]
► Alternation of coldness and heat
(fifty-first day), [4]. ► Slightly feverish; flushes of heat across
the face, at 3 P.M. (sixth day), [20].
► Fever all afternoon (twenty-third
day), [20]. ►
High fever on going to bed, which continued for about half an hour, when
a profuse perspiration broke out and lasted about half an hour,
thoroughly saturating his shirt, and the sheet he was lying on
(twenty-third day), [20]. ► High fever, at 2 P.M., with great pain in
the back of the neck, and shoulders, and lower extremities
(twenty-fourth day), [20]. ► Slight fever; heat and redness of the
face (twenty-sixth day), [20]. ► Some fever, at 8 P.M. (twenty-fourth
day), [20]. ►
Fever during the forenoon (twenty-fifth day), [20]. ► The
child at first had fever, and afterwards was in a comatose condition
without fever, had dilated pupils, coated tongue, painfulness in the præcordia,
distension of the abdomen, with, at times, screaming and grasping at the
abdomen, and constipation, [10]. ► Fever attended the stupor and coma, [12]. [310.]
► Burning dry heat (in three hours), [2]. ►
Burning skin covered with sweat (second day), [1]. ► Hot
skin covered with sweat, [15]. ► Hot skin, sweaty, [6]. ► Heat or
warmth diffused in a few hours over the body; a plentiful sweat
succeeding this heat, and a purging the next day, [19]. ► Heat
in the head and back (after 50 drops), [11].
► Increased heat of the head
(twentieth day), [20]. ► Heat in the face, hands, and along the
back (after 50 drops), [11]. ► Increased heat and redness of the face,
at 11 A.M. (twenty-third day), [20].
► Flashes of heat running up and down
the back, at 8 P.M. (twenty-third day), [20].
[320.] ►
Profuse perspiration (after fever, on going to bed), (twenty-third day),
[20]. ►
Profuse sweat over the whole body, [5].
► Frequent sweats over the whole
body, [15]. ►
The whole body is bathed in perspiration, [1].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), On rising, vertigo; on waking, pain
over eyes; insipid taste in the mouth. ►
(Light), Pain over eyes. ► (Motion),
Vertigo; headache. ► (Misstep), Pain in temples. ► (Close room),
Headache. ► (Stooping),
Pain over eyes; pain in left temple. ►
(Sunlight), Weakness of sight. ► (Swallowing),
Pain in throat; soreness of left tonsil. ►
(Walking), Cramp in pit of stomach. ► Amelioration. ►
(Walking in open air), Headache.® 2000
Article