STRAMONIUM.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ►► *Delirium,
[23], [33], [78],
etc. ► *Violent delirium, [87]. ►
*Foolish delirium, [73].
► *Delirium, furious, [20]. ►
*Joyful delirium, [107].
► *At times delirium with open eyes,
[27]. ►
*Delirium with sexual excitement, [107]. ► *Almost
constant delirium, [107],
[119]. ►
*Sudden delirium, with ridiculous gestures, [86]. [10.] ► Became quite delirious recognized no one,
[79]. ►
Delirium; an unceasing disposition for motion in all the muscles,
weeping, screaming, laughter, and rapid incoherent exclamation, [76]. ►
Symptoms closely resembling delirium tremens, [88]. ►
[Insane delusion that he was killed, roasted, and being eaten], [15]. ►
*Maniacal delirium supervened, symptoms
resembling hydrophobia, [44].
► The mother and one daughter were
raving like maniacs, while the other was rapidly sinking into coma, [206]. ►
*Delirium with incoherent talking, [242]. ► Grew
violently delirious, and died comatose, [182].
► Maniacal delirium, [209]. ► In a
state of delirium, he dances, gesticulates, shouts with laughter, and
sings (after three hours), [16]. [20.] ► He
was delirious, and without memory or recollection, [6]. ►►
*Delirium of fear, as though a dog were attacking him, [15]. ►
*Delirium; furious mania, requiring several persons to hold her,
[41]. ►
Violent delirium, which was alternately mirthful, furious or dolorous,
directed to some imaginary source of pleasure or repugnance, and
accompanied with corresponding gesticulations, [142]. ► *Much
excited and rather delirious, under
the impression of some immediate danger, clinging to the person who had
him in her lap (after one hour), [138]. ►
Delirium, with uneasy movements of the eyes and hands, [120]. ►
*Delirious and unintelligible, the patient was busy with a thousand not
unpleasant fantasies, made known his wants by gestures, without
speaking, ran about for several days, busy with his fantasies, with a
joyful mood, [25]. ► A peculiar delirium, a very busy
delirium, especially in women, followed by sopor, after waking from
which, great weariness, pain in the limbs, and disinclination to think, [140]. ►
Merry delirium, spasmodic laughter, [45].
► Became delirious during the night,
desired to get out of bed, but never uttered a sound. The delirium was
of short duration, however, and he soon relapsed into the former
insensible state, [229]. [30.] ►►
*Noisy delirium, with hallucinations, [183]. ►
Delirium for three or four hours before collapse, [201]. ►
Greatly excited and delirious, [93].
► Great excitement, [157]. ►
Delirium, restlessness, constant incoherent talking, dancing, and
singing, [186]. ► In about an hour she became delirious,
commenced tossing about, picking her clothes, and talking incoherently, [184]. ►
High delirium, furious, unmanageable, talking in an incoherent manner,
and inclining to be abusive in her language; she could not be restrained
in one position, but was rolling about the veranda as if she was blind, [180]. ►
During the succeeding night an attack of delirium, which caused him to
fall out of bed, on his face, as a consequence of this, a very abundant
bleeding from the nose, [175]. ► Loss of mind, [18]. ► His
mind was unsteady, [10]. [Revised
by Hughes.] [40.] ► *Wildness of manners, [102]. ►
Symptoms were somewhat of a hysterical character (after a few hours), [135]. ►
*Violently delirious, resembling in a marked degree, the most excited
stage of delirium tremens, struggling to get out of bed, and continually
rolling from side to side; she was unable to stand by herself, and,
unless supported, fell forward to the ground. When her hands were not
restrained, it was observed that she pursued imaginary objects in the
air, or picked at the bedclothes, as in the delirium of typhoid fever,
[179]. ►
*The appearance of the patient suggested mania, and I might
at once have pronounced it a case of delirium tremens, had I not well
known the temperate habits of my patient. As I sat observing him, he
suddenly turned towards the wall, exclaiming, “There are those bugs, help me to catch them!”
“What bugs?” I asked.
“There,” he replied, “a long
train of bedbugs, and after them a procession of beetles, and here come
crawling over me a host of cockroaches. “He shrank back in alarm.
Then suddenly he turned to me, saying,” I believe I know they are
not really bugs; but, except once in awhile, they seem real to me!”
This scene was many times repeated, [191]. ►
*It was in a state of wild delirium. It was with great difficulty that
the mother could hold it in her lap. It would forcibly throw out its
legs and stiffen them, and at the same time throw then wide apart from
each other. The arms were being constantly thrown out, as if trying to
reach and get hold of something; and sometimes it seemed as if some
object had been secured, and was for a moment fumbled in the fingers.
The pupils were dilated and the eyes looked wild. Its cry was a kind of
scream; a little froth was in the mouth; the surface of the skin was
hot; the restlessness was very great, [230]. ► *Began to
look stupid, seemed to forget herself, and gave incoherent answers
(after one hour); seemed to sit like a perfect
idiot, for two and a half hours (after two hours and a half);
began to grow worse, biting a man’s hand,
sometimes crying out that she saw cats, dogs,
and rabbits, at the top, sides, and middle of the room; at other times, with great eagerness, catching at
imaginary objects with her hands, and declaring that she saw many people
who were not present. She suffered a continuance of these
symptoms with little variation, and totally without rest for nine hours,
being all this time restrained in bed by force in a raving and maniacal
state, [37]. ►
In about five minutes he became “wild, and didn’t know any
one.” In ten minutes I found him seated in a chair, leaning forward
on his knees, staring wildly, countenance bathed in perspiration, pupils
largely dilated, talking vaguely, and perfectly unconscious of
surrounding objects, pulse 90 and full, hands and arms convulsed, every
few moments legs unable to support his body, and dragged after him when
we tried to get him to walk, [205].
► Although he changed postures a
little, yet he remained stupid for six or seven hours; then he raged
furiously, requiring two persons to hold him in bed; notwithstanding
which, he raised himself up, tossed greatly, and seemed to catch at the
bystanders with his hands, uttering incoherent sentences; at last he
became sensible and more quiet, restless, and delirious by turns, [34]. ►
She is all the time inconsolable; much affected by trifles; makes much
fuss about trifles; disposed to weep, and sometimes also very easily
vexed; now and then neglects her duties; now and then thinks she is not
fitted for her position; after the fall equinox; from the darkness, being alone, and in the morning her
state is aggravated; she wants light (sunshine) and company, [54]. ►
*The child had the look of one suffering from the effects of alcoholic
drinks; an excited condition, not a moment quiet, constant motion of the
hands and feet, at one time singing, jumping, whistling, with lively
grimaces, and a most jovial condition, in which she sang melodies in a
perfectly correct manner; at another time she became excited, beat about
her, jumped out of bed, reeled whenever she attempted to stand, and when
she attempted to sit up fell over to either side; the next moment she
had the most vivid hallucinations; talked much in a disconnected manner,
it seemed as though her tongue could not follow her chaotic thoughts,
[232]. [50.]
► Complete stupefaction and general
insensibility to external impressions, only interrupted by a few
transient moments of recognition; as a rule, they boy noticed nothing
about him, did not recognize his parents and sisters, heard nothing and
felt nothing; he seemed to be in a condition of frightful excitement,
with constant mental activity, as shown by the expression of the face
and gesticulations, appearing to be occupied
with the most vivid fancies, especially joyous, and, at times, frightful
images; at times, when he was able to talk, his speech
consisted of the most foolish and active delirium, with prattling;
sometimes he seemed to be frightened, sometimes astonished, sometimes
pathetic; but it was very seldom that he uttered intelligible words, and
as a rule, there were no words, only a shrill screaming and groaning or
loud laughing, with attempts to sing or whistle, [233]. ► *She
would, while held in her mother’s lap, suddenly start as if in terror, with outstretched arms
and glaring eyes, and with such an effort that it required much exertion
to hold her. This would last but a moment, during which she
would cry incoherently; then a calm would come over her, and she would
laugh, grasp at imaginary objects, conveying the hand to her mouth as if
eating berries, point to something on the floor, etc., [204]. ► *He
muttered unintelligible sounds, looked wildly around, and could not be
made to do what he was told, though he apparently understood all that
was going on. He kept wanting, seemingly, to clutch at some person or
persons, whom he imagined were before him; but he could not use his
arms, though he tried to do so (after twelve hours), [201]. ►
Complete insensibility, broken occasionally by a paroxysm, during which
they would utter some indistinct sounds, and throw the hands about the
head as if attempting to ward off some threatening evil; this would soon
subside into a semicomatose state, not the stupidity, however, which
results from Opium or its preparations, but rather a state of intense
apathy, which persisted for a few seconds, when the delirium would again
recur unless sooner produced by the efforts of those about to render
assistance, when the state of excitement assumed such a form and
violence as to render necessary a certain amount of restraint to prevent
escape from the imaginary object which engaged the attention;
occasionally they would grasp at something in the space in front, appear
as if they possessed or rejected it, then turn the head as if called by
a voice beside them and attempt to speak to it; *the
sound resembling a squeak more than the natural tone of the voice.
Neither of them was able to support himself alone upon his feet, but
would take a step or two with staggering gait, falling to the floor as
if intoxicated or in a state of complete exhaustion. ► *During the period of excitement the extremities
were in constant motion, co-ordinate only so far as they related to the
corresponding limb, yet wanting in that harmony of action which is found
in those movements of a higher order, as standing in the
erect posture, walking, etc.; there was
constant action of the fingers as if attempting to pick something from
the person or the bedclothes; at times they would burst into paroxysms
of excessive laughter, which would persist some seconds, then
suddenly cease; at times they would have a smile, so quiet and pleasant,
that we could not but contrast it with the highly excited state
previously witnessed, [193]. ► *Sometimes she would appear for a moment
to be relieved from her anxiety, and sit silent, with her eyes fixed on
the ground, as if absorbed in contemplation; whilst
her hands were employed in picking at the clothes, or anything that
happened to be before her, similar to those in the last stage
of some fevers. ► *Then, again, she would
start involuntarily, quick as if a shock of electricity had passed
through her body, with an air of affright, and a loud shriek; her limbs
writhed with convulsive motions, and her countenance and body distorted
in every direction; apparently affected with great pain and anxiety.
At other times, in her intervals of ease, she would sing, and sometimes
laugh, but could not be made to utter a word; neither did she appear to
take notice of anything that was said to her. In short, the functions of
her mind appeared to be entirely deranged. These paroxysms occurred at
intervals of five or ten minutes, and continued about the same period. She manifested a great aversion to fluids of every kind.
When a cup of water was brought to her lips, she would instantly start
from it, and sometimes relapse into her paroxysm; so great was her
aversion to it, that it was with the utmost difficulty a teaspoonful of
any fluid could be forced down her throat, [40]. ► The
appearance of the family was extremely ludicrous. The children were
laughing, crying, singing, dancing, and playing all imaginable antic
pranks. They had no correct estimation of
distance, or the size of objects; were reaching their hands to catch
hold of objects across the room, and again running against persons and
things which they appeared to view as distant. The nail-heads
in the floor were pieces of money, which they eagerly tried to pick up.
A boy, apparently fancying himself undressed, caught a hat belonging to
a student, thrust his foot into it, pulled with both hands on the brim,
and began to fret that he could not “get on his trowsers.” The
parents frequently called on the children to behave themselves; but
their own actions being equally eccentric, they afforded a ridiculous
exhibition of family government, [109].
► They turned natural fools upon it
for several days. One would blow up a feather in the air, another would
dart straws at it with great fury; another, stark naked, was sitting up
in a corner, like a monkey, grinning and making mouths at them; a fourth
would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and sneer in their faces, with
a countenance more antic than a Dutch doll. In this frantic condition
they were confined, lest in their folly they should destroy themselves.
In eleven days they recovered, unconscious of anything which had passed,
[110]. ►
He became delirious, and knew nothing of himself until he was relieved;
during this time he performed many queer antics; one time he was off to
hitch up his team; again he gathered up sticks and placed them together
to build a fire; then he would motion as though he would scrape lice and
bugs together, shake them out of hats; pull the paper off the wall to
get them out; pick them off himself and tramp them, etc.; see rats
running and try to catch them; he was very talkative; did not know even
his wife, nor where he was; wanted to go home, etc. (after fifteen to
thirty minutes), [234]. ► *Screaming, catching at imaginary objects in the
air, or rather striking at them, for it was evident that these spectra
were of a frightful nature, since at the moment of darting out the hand
in the direction where the eyes were fixed, she always suddenly, and
with great vehemence, withdrew herself, expressing the utmost terror in
her look; at the same time screaming and sobbing violently.
Her eyes would, to appearance, follow the imaginary object for a moment
or two, before she made the effort to escape from its supposed approach.
She rapidly became furiously delirious, struck
at, pushed, or attempted to bite, every person who came near, or any
object that was offered to her. In two and a half hours she
knew no person, and had been wholly insensible to surrounding objects
for above an hour and a half. She remained in this condition for about
three hours, when a stage of coma supervened, lasting two hours. There
was a return of the excitement, but not so severe as that which first
presented itself; neither was it attended by ocular spectra, or tetanic
spasm, [102]. ► The first symptom was a high degree of
exhilaration, in which she caused much merriment by her extravagant
gestures and speeches. This soon became alarming, and when I was called
to see her, she was laughing, crying, and singing, by turns, proceeding
from one to the other state with the greatest rapidity. She occasionally
started with great force and alarm, crying out that she was going to
fall, when she would cling to her mother with as much desperation as if
she were about to be thrown from a precipice. She would next become
calm, then whistle, and afterwards point with her finger at muscæ
volitantes, which she followed with the eye and hand, at last clutching
at them, with an appearance of disappointment at want of success, [91]. [60.]
► The child was to all appearance
happy, talking all the incoherent nonsense that can be imagined,
laughing, and in constant motion; but labored under so great a debility,
that it could not stand or walk without tottering, and several times in
attempting it fell down; it was a perfect delirium mite, [74]. ► The
unfortunate, after swallowing the powder (of Stramonium), remains for a
long time out of his mind, laughing or crying or sleeping, for the most;
even speaking to another and answering, so that you might think
sometimes that he was in his right mind, although he is not in his
senses, nor recognizes the one to whom he is speaking, and does not
recollect the conversation when he returns to consciousness, [58]. ►
After sleeping a few hours he suddenly sprang up with most remarkable
jumping about on his hands and feet, and talking animatedly; eight hours
after this he became conscious, *with trembling
of the limbs, which were in constant motion; the face was red and puffy,
with violent throbbing in the arteries; the pupils were extremely
dilated, respiration short, rapid, abdomen meteoric and painful to
pressure, tongue white and dry, [139]. ► On
becoming warm in bed, I felt a host of new sensations creeping over both
body and mind. My whole frame was affected with a tremulous vibration,
but most sensibly felt through my abdomen, attended with a prickly
sensation over the whole body. My mind became extremely timid and
restless, which rendered all attempts to compose myself to sleep
fruitless. After a teaspoonful of elixir of paregoric, I felt every
symptom getting worse; the surface of my body was bathed with a clammy
perspiration; whenever I attempted to close my eyes I was assailed by
imaginary spectres, in the most hideous forms and menacing attitudes;
and what was still to my torment, my bed was suspended and tantalized
like a feather between two floors, [92].
► A clouded state of faculties,
horrible obfuscation. A patient twice told me he was quite alarmed at
seeing how bewildered and incapable I was; I upset everything I touched;
he seemed to me to be talking out of a cloud, or as if he was a figure
in a vision and not a reality, and when he ceased talking, I subsided
into a sort of bewilderment, from which I could with difficulty rouse
myself to attend to his case; my writing was almost an unintelligible
scrawl; I lay down again till evening, dizzy and incapable, with dull
headache on vertex, but not much pain; I could not realize anything; my
wife sitting by my bed seemed like a phantom, and I put out my hand
occasionally, to feel if she were a real existence. Before this extreme
condition of bewilderment came on, I was excessively forgetful; would
begin a sentence with a perfectly clear idea of what I intended to say,
but forgot all about it before I had completely expressed myself; also I
used wrong words, and expressed my meaning badly. My speech was thick,
as if my tongue were too large for my mouth, though I felt nothing wrong
in my tongue, but only a sort of globbering articulation (ninth day), [233]. ►
She was first discovered after drinking the tea, wandering in the
backyard scrambling along the fence, as if trying to get hold of
something indistinctly visible, for being called to account for her
strange behavior, she could give no reply, but slavered and muttered as
if drunk. She appeared foolish, had the peculiar facetious leer often
observed in drunkenness. If let alone, she continued clawing everything
within reach, and seemed inclined to constant motion, [166]. ► When
asked, she said she had eaten Stramonium; this was all she remembered
(after half an hour); her mother gave her medicines, but she continued
dull and stupid the greater part of the day, till brought to the
dispensary; part of the day she was unmanageable and talked wildly, so
that her mother had to give her the medicine by force. On admission
(after eleven hours), she had a wild appearance, was stupid, and
unconscious of her state; when roused, she gave a foolish vacant look
around, [183]. ► When pinched or tickled, he became very
angry, and muttered incoherently, turning upon his face and kicking
backward, with alternate movements of the feet, [172]. ► [With
horrible cries he strikes at those around him, and is furious], [13]. ►►
*Hydrophobia, [6], [113]. [With other symptoms,
restlessness, violent convulsions, the patient
being so violent that he had to be tied; he rolled about in his bed,
sleepless, and uttered shrill screams; he was delirious, without memory
or consciousness; his pupils were extremely dilated; violent desire to
bite and to tear everything with his teeth; extremely dilated; violent
desire to bite and to tear everything with his teeth; extreme dryness of
the inner mouth and fauces; the
sight of a light, a mirror, or water, excited horrible convulsions;
irrestistible aversion to water, with
constriction and convulsions of the throat; froth at the mouth and
frequent spitting. -Hahnemann.] [70.]
► *Apparent dread or aversion to water or
fluids of any kind, [75].
► *Raving, biting, [114]. ►
*Great desire to bite and to tear everything with his teeth, that comes
before his mouth, even his own limbs, [6]. ►►
*Excessive aversion, amounting even to rage, when it was attempted to
administer any liquid, appearing like hydrophobia; he even had the
spasmodic irritation of the pharyngeal muscles, so that anything taken
choked him and was regurgitated, [153]. ►
*Rage, [29]. ► *Rage; unmanageable; grasping with his hands,
laughing; rolling and creeping around in bed, [27]. ► [Rage;
he wants to kill people], [15]. ► [Rage; he wants to kill himself], [15]. ►
Indomitable rage, [27]. ► After fifteen minutes, giddy; loss of
senses; sleepy, finally asleep with more or less open eyes. When
disturbed, she jumped up in a rage, and said a few unintelligible words;
when others sang she commenced to dance. Her pulse was slow and full;
mouth very dry; lasted twenty-four hours, without eating or drinking
anything, [65]. [80.] ►
Periodic raving; he attacked the people in the room with great violence
and endeavored to bite them, [79].
► Raving (after six hours); sometimes
reasonable answers, [55]. ► *Raving, [96]. ► *She began
to cry, when her mother taking her up, she became furious, and began to
scratch and bite (after one hour), [187]. ►
Easily excited to anger, and is then very vehement and furious (after
two months); had been, previous to the poisoning, quite mild and gentle,
[187]. ►
Raving furiously; screaming, tossing his hands, and striking at whatever
approached him, [238]. ► One became furious and ran about like a
madman, the other died, with the symptoms of genuine tetanus, [104]. ►
Very passionate and great feebleness (second day), [66]. ► *The child
wanted to bite and strike at those around her, [241a]. ► *Great
cerebral disturbance, accompanied with starting, muttering, occasional
screaming, and catching at imaginary objects; frequent maniacal
paroxysms, alternating with moaning, apparently occasioned by
the condition of the epigastrium and the abdominal distension. After
emetics and purgatives, the stage of excitement passed away and was
succeeded by a taste of depression and strong comatose tendency, [157]. [90.]
► *They got wild, ran about the room,
jumping, talking nonsense; saw chickens and cats, spoke to them, also to
their toys, [67]. ► After the usual treatment, for about
twenty minutes, the child went to sleep, and woke in about twenty
minutes, and was like a mad child; it would hold out its hands as though
it wanted a glass of water, then bring them to its mouth and sup as if
it were drinking water or other fluid; it would put its fingers into its
mouth and even bite them, and also its mother’s fingers, whenever she
put them about its mouth, also screaming incessantly, [119]. ► Their
attention could not be aroused to anything which was said, and they
resisted all attempts at interference with piteous cries and violent
struggling, [142]. ► Child so wild and restless as to be
controlled with difficulty, and in raging delirium, biting with fury at
those who restrained him, [155]. ► Very noisy when shaken, and sat up with
his eyes open, with a fixed dilated pupil, quite insensible to a lighted
candle, [162]. ► He made numerous signs which could not be
interpreted by those about him, [31].
► Some had twitchings, startings, and
catching at imaginary objects, and other symptoms of cerebral
disturbance. In all the graver cases, the stage of excitement was
succeeded by excessive drowsiness and depression of pulse, with much
prostration, [152]. ► *Restless, uneasy, tossing, throwing herself
suddenly forward; striving to get out of bed; grasping with her hands
vaguely, as though under the influence of spectral illusions; picking at
the bedclothes, [171]. ► *While in bed lying on right side, screamed and
said that the bed was being drawn from under her, and that everything
was falling on her; kept holding on to the walls; asked her mother not to leave her, as something was
going to hurt her; all this lasted from 9.30 P.M. till
midnight, when she slept. Since then she has not like to be left alone
in the dark, [214]. ► *While sitting on a sofa, fancied she was
falling off, kept holding on to everything; at the same time
was sick, about 2 P.M., [214]. [100.] ► *In his conscious moments he asked to be held
because he was falling, [21].
► *There seemed at times to be motions
indicating that the patient thought she was falling, and used every
exertion to prevent it, [204].
►► *Constant staring about, then a
fixed gaze (in one direction) for
one or two minutes, with sudden
startings (not interrupting the
fixed look) of the arms and lower
extremities, accompanied with low mutterings, then sudden and furious
screaming, biting, scratching, and tearing with the hands, and kicking
(after six hours), [187]. ► When allowed to get up she staggered, and
appeared quite blind, [171]. ► He hurries off too fast, with all his
might, if he wants to go to another place, [3]. ► *Great
exertion of strength; a strong man could scarcely restrain him,
[23]. ►
[He jumps out of his bed, at night, and exclaims the disease will break
forth from his head], [15]. ► *Constantly springing up in haste, restless,
twitching, grasping about with hands and beating the air, [132]. ►
*He grasps at things quickly and in a hurry, and thinks he has seized a
thing before touching it, and if does hold the objects, he does not feel
that he has hold of it (after four and five hours), [3]. ►►
*He makes all motions hastily, with
great force and hurriedly, so that he feels an anxiety if he cannot
finish them at once, [3].
[110.] ►►
*From the expression of his face and movements, he seemed at times to be
chasing, or fleeing from imaginary objects, [135]. ► He
can nowhere obtain rest, he is terrified by
fanciful delusions (even though his eyes are open), *they appear to him to grow out of the ground at his
side, in the form of large cogs, cats, and other horrible beasts, from
which he springs away to one side, with signs of terror, and cannot get
rid of them, [3]. ►► *Continually strange objects intrude upon
his fancy, frightening him, [3].
► [Frightful fancies, he sees
ghosts], [15]. ► [Frightful delirium, as if a dog took
hold of her], [15]. ►► *He sees in general more horrifying
images at his side than in front of him, and they all occasion terror
(between three and four hours), [3].
► Wonderful fancies, [24]. [Add, in his sleep. -Hughes.] ►► *The boy seemed to see black objects,
spoke of black people and black clouds, and
grasped at the air, [153].
► *The patient had a constant vision of
an executioner standing before him, in spite of which he was lively,
talkative, laughed, and made jokes about his hallucinations, yet it seemed to him a reality, [168]. ►
Fancied that she saw objects that did not exist, and had repeatedly a
sensation of flashing light, which made her think that she saw it
lighten, [36]. [120.] ►
After a time the involuntary convulsive movements of the limbs and body
seemed to change to more voluntary movements, as if the boy were acting
in pantomime, though at times real convulsions occurred; after two hours
(and after a bath) he began to move his mouth as if he wished to speak;
this continued for some time, until he tried to utter articulate sounds,
which became more and more distinct; the first words he spoke were,
“Take care, I shall strike;” after a time he seemed to be
living in a perfectly ideal childish world, with games of school, etc.;
these ideas seemed to alternate in a loose way with speeches, songs, and
verses, which were recited and sung in various tones; also he seemed to
be eating berries, cherries, etc., made chewing motions with his mouth,
and counted with his fingers; in all these acts he seemed to be playing
and happy; *all his ideas seemed to consist of
mere reproductions; there was nothing original, and there were no new
combinations, [144]. ►► *She appeared occupied with
hallucinations, her gaze was fixed, and she seemed trying to reach
towards something which she saw, [169]. ► For
some days the patient was affected with hallucinations, and thought that
one side of him was alive, while the other side was buried, [129]. ►
At times, when under the influence of the poisons, she seemed to herself
to be engaged in her usual avocation, and would thus thread her needle,
tie the knot at the end, and imitate in every respect the routine
procedure of one thus engaged, [133].
[She is a seamstress by trade.] ► At
one time the child seemed to hear and paid attention when spoken to, at
other times paid no attention, and seemed unconscious, and was, apparently, occupied with hallucinations and
fancies, [233]. ► *He walks about the room absorbed in himself,
with fixed, sparkling eyes, surrounded by blue rings, but takes no
notice of surrounding objects, but
is solely occupied with the objects of his fancy, [13]. ►
The boy repeatedly said there were “big sores” on him (first
evening), [66]. ► He imagines that is very tall and large,
but the surrounding objects seem to him too small, [3]. ► *He always
imagines that he is alone, and is frightened, [3]. ► After
waking all things appear to him as if new, even his friends, as if he
had never seen them, [3]. [130.] ►
The apartment seemed all on fire, [242].
► *He converses with absent individuals
as if they were present, and addresses inanimate objects (as chessmen)
by the names of such persons, but observes none of those standing about
him, [3]. ► *The things and persons around him appear to be
changed; although he knows at first that his friends are around him, yet
he forgets it immediately after; he imagines that he is quite alone in a
wilderness, abandoned; he is afraid; animals jump suddenly out of the
ground sideways, so that he moved quickly to the other side, where,
however, others start up, pursuing him so that he runs forward,
[3]. ►
He dances at night in the churchyard, [25].
► *He jumped and danced about the bed and
knocked against the wall with incessant and disconnected talking and
great violence, without the slightest consciousness; he laughed, stared
about him and talked in the most foolish manner, [133]. ►
*An incoherent delirium, imagining herself surrounded by objects that
had no existence; her vagaries were of a pleasant character,
and created great merriment with the other children present, [163]. ►
*Delirium of a lively, active, vivid character, alternating in short
periods with the most apparent horrified fright, seeming to dread the
approach of some imaginary monster, and giving utterance in the most
piteous appeals for help, protection, [170]. ► *Sings,
talks, fancies that there are dogs in the room, which he describes, and
attempts to chase, springing suddenly to his feet, and as suddenly
toppling over; sometimes talks of events of the day as though
they were now taking place, [133].
► *He sings and utters obscene things,
[18]. ►
Great excitement continued for some time, the child sang and screamed,
turned the eyes about and moved the hands for several hours, till at
last he fell asleep; even the next day singing and screaming continued, [121]. ►
He dreams with eyes open, begins to chatter nonsense, and when his
friends set him right, he excuses himself, that they should have told
him of it before, and immediately recommences his waking dreams and to
speak to the same objects, [3]. [140.] ►
He sways to and fro like a drunken man, [10].
[Revised by Hughes.] ► *Phantasmata are
around him, [10]. ► *Caught at the bedclothes and everything around
her, [33]. ► Frequently he lay down upon his knees,
stretched out his arms, and groped about as though seeking something, [34]. ►
He often raised himself on his knees, continually stretched out his
arms, and employed his hands as if searching for something he wanted, [34]. ►
Outward grasping of the hands; at times at the nose or head, [135]. ►
She was observed to catch at the blaze of the fire in a very singular
manner, and a few moments after fell on the floor as if she had been
paralyzed on one side, [76]. ► *Constantly picking at the bedclothes and
frequently bursting into violent fits of laughter, [241]. ►
*There was a constant reaching of the hands for some imaginary objects,
[207]. ►
*Picking at bedclothes, [172].
[150.] ►
*Picking at imaginary objects in the air, and has a violent
maniacal action (after four hours and a half), [157]. ► *He
grasps at the air with his hands, laughs, crawls about his
bed, [27]. ►
He would sit up occasionally, but never shut his eyes, and would
sometimes catch at imaginary objects, [152].
►► *Quite irrational, picked the
bedclothes, saw bugs, etc. (after two hours), [134]. ► When
left to himself, he groped about with his hands, and, touching objects,
he immediately withdrew them; but when he felt himself falling he
endeavored to catch at something so as to prevent it, [160]. ► With
fixed eyes and dilated, immovable pupils, he saw nothing, recognized
none of his friends, stretched out his hand around him continually, as
if he would lay hold of something, and stamps his feet, [21]. ► *Subsultus
tendinum, picking about the bedclothes, and grasping at random around
her, [183]. ► *The limbs were motionless and paralyzed;
the arms, on the contrary, were constantly
reaching forwards and upwards, with an uncertain tremulous motion, as if
the patient were endeavoring to seize some object, which he indistinctly
perceived in the air, [191].
► When roused he seemed bewildered,
and would not give any account of himself. He could stand when placed
upon his legs; but groped about and caught at imaginary objects, as
patients are observed to do in cases of poisoning by Belladonna, [161]. ►
Next morning, got up two or three times, and went to bed again each
time, [68]. [160.] ►
He jumped from his bed at midnight, and ran about the room, caught at
every one as he passed them, said a man was chasing him, and repeatedly
said, “You shan’t have me,” [66].
► When his father got him to
recognize him, the boy said, “Why, papa, is that you?” and
commenced stroking or rather clawing with his fingers at his father’s
face, [66]. ► *Talkative mania; he complains that a dog is
biting and tearing the flesh of his chest, [1]. ► *Much
talking, with difficult speech, [79]. ►
[Paroxysms of constant talking, or of rage, or he breaks into loud
laughter, or he acts as if he were spinning], [15]. ► *During
catamenia, excessive loquacity, [15]. ► *Continual
incoherent talking, [207].
► Constant talking and yet unable to
articulate a syllable, [133]. ► After being put to bed, the child began
to sing and talk in a confused manner; she talked incessantly and
unintelligibly, and frequently cried; she constantly beat the air with
hers hands as though trying to grasp something or searched about the bed
with the fingers, [130]. ► They lie in bed stupid, with a muttering
delirium, [134], [135], [136].
[170.] ►
*Talked foolishly, [134].
► As the boy began to improve he
endeavored to answer, but after speaking two or three words, he again
became incoherent and returned to his wild delirium, [133]. ►
Constant muttering, seeming desirous to say something to his mother, but
unable to articulate, [131]. ► *Speech much confused and incoherent, and he was
totally unconscious of what was said to him, shuddering and seeming much frightened, [160]. ►
Muttering incoherently, and unable to reply to questions, [171]. ►
Muttered frequently, [34]. ►► *Constant muttering, [23]. ►
The mental power was especially disturbed; the patient stammered
incessantly and unintelligibly; shed tears and seemed to be suffering
from the most violent pains, [89].
► *Muttering to himself, [23], [31].
► Stuttering and uttering of
inarticulate sounds, [6]. [180.] ►
*Prattling incessantly without any sense or understanding, and without
any connection, [132]. ► He talks with a person whom he does not
know, and answers that person as if he were in his senses; but, on
coming to his senses, he does not recollect the conversation, [9]. ►
He talks little, and utters single broken words with a higher voice, [3]. ►
[Screams until he is hoarse; until he loses his voice], [15]. ►
Crying, and in an almost convulsive state of agitation, [174]. ► She
was brought home by a friend who found her wandering in the bazaar. At
the sight of her mistress she first began to cry, endeavored to hide
herself, and was afraid of every one who approached her; she picked at
the air with her fingers, sometimes was laughing, at others crying and
rushing away to hide, as if apprehensive of some evil, [185]. ►
Inarticulate cries, [169]. ► Sobbing and whining after the menses, [13]. ►
Moaning, [138]. ► *Delirious laughing, making faces and behaving
generally like an intoxicated person or like a fool, pulling his
clothes, making laughing grimaces, with a staring look, [141]. [190.]
► Occasional laughing for an hour;
after the hour she cried, about 11 A.M., [214].
► The boy was inclined to smile and
jest (after a few hours), [66]. ► *Excited; commenced to sing; confused talk,
continued unintelligible talking; grasping in the air and scratching
with hands on the bedcovers, [60].
► Aberration of the reason, laughing,
whining, [61]. ► A disposition to laugh, and there was a
half smiling look all the time, [231].
► He thought he was dying and would
not live through the evening, he was glad that he was dying, and made
preparations for his funeral, with other-wise perfect reason, and
without feeling remarkably sick, [1].
► In the evening after lying down in
bed, very sad, with thoughts of death and with
violent weeping, [1]. ► Sadness, [29].
[Add, at first. -Hughes.] ► Feels as
if nothing could give her enjoyment, [206].
► Depression of spirits, indisposed
to converse (third day); buoyancy of spirits (fourth day), [226]. [200.] ►
Despair, [1]. ► Peculiar sensation of anxiety, [45]. ►
Great anxiety, [85]. ► Anxiety, [78].
► Inclines to start, irritable (after
thirty-two hours), [3]. ►► *Often starts up in affright, [21]. ►►
*Fear of being in the dark and to a less extent of being alone, in the
evening after sunset (tenth day), [218]. ►►
*His whole conduct and countenance was like that of a child severely
frightened and apprehending some terrible calamity, [1]. ►
Extreme watchfulness, [162]. ► Very ill-humored, even unto vehemence,
followed immediately after by a disposition to laugh, even loud, [1]. [210.]
► The peevishness and fretfulness
lasted for about six weeks, [66]. ► When spoken to he appeared peevish and
irritable, and answered by a sharp cry, or said sharply, “Let me
alone, “all his words being curtailed in a curious way, [162]. ►
Out of temper; irritated all day (second day); very irritable (third
day), [168]. ►
Great depression of sensation and irritability in general, [116]. ►
I felt very nervous, excited, and irritable, and continually paced up
and down my room, [194]. ► Exceedingly irritable and fretful,
nothing pleases him next day; quarrelsome with his brother and sister, [66]. ►
Great irritability of temper (after half an hour), [102]. ►
Increased irritability (after 200 drops), [133].
► Extreme irritability; he makes all
his motions so fast (during the first hour) that finally he cannot move
any more and all turns black before his eyes, [3]. ►
[Continual violent scolding; senseless quarrelling], [15]. [220.] ► Rapid alternations of laughter, weeping,
and singing, [130]. ► Extremely variable humor, [232]. ►
Intellectual. ► Not disposed
to any real work, [61].
► Would not answer questions (after
one hour), [203]. ► Confusion of mind and continual reaching
out for imaginary objects (after three hours), [236]. ►
*Confusion of intellect (after four hours), [196]. ► From
the senses it extends its influence to the mental faculties. The
imagination is confused and disturbed with fear. Terrifying
apprehensions perplex the mind and impress on the countenance the image
of this passion, [39]. ► Dulness of mind (after first dose, second
day), [219]. ►
Intellect affected, [93], [231], etc. ►
Confusion of intellect, he laughs and moans, [9]. [230.] ► Confusion of mind, [5]. ► Great
confusion of ideas (third day), [188].
► As the patient began to improve she
found it difficult to speak the right word in answering, [120]. ► When
writing, put letters in wrong place and omitted them (ninth day), [218]. ►
When speaking, put words in the wrong place, and made mistakes in
spelling when writing (third day), [210].
► *After several pipefuls, he would begin
to call things by wrong names, e. g., his boots, logs of wood; his
bedroom, the stable, etc., and this without knowing it; and is
remarkable that he almost always miscalled the same things. He was a
very small drinker, and always remembered the subject of his
conversation, but not language. After sound sleep, he would
regain the power of speaking intelligibly, [243]. ► When
about to look for a symptom in repertory, could not think for some time
what I had intended to do (sixth day), [218].
► Activity of mind peculiarly
disturbed, patient stammering unconnected words all the time, shedding
tears; all the symptoms seem to indicate much suffering, [56]. ► Was
able to answer only in a disconnected and lolling manner, [166]. ►
Memory disturbed for a long time after the poisoning, [140]. [240.]
► Rather inclined to be forgetful;
forgot where a paper had been put a day or two ago; hunted for the
spectacles and found they were in my hand all the time (eighth day), [223]. ►
The loss of recollection appears connected with an inward uneasiness,
and to proceed from it, [1]. ► Diminished memory, [1]. ► Absence
of mind, twenty-four hours, bland delirium, [19]. ► In the
intervals of half consciousness he is cognizant of his waking, but at
these times cannot remember what he did or said in the previous lucid
interval, [3]. ► She remembered nothing afterwards, not
even her wandering in the bazaar, [126].
► *Loss of memory, [26], [201],
etc. ► *Stupefaction, [15], [97],
[106], etc. ► *Stupefaction, from which he at times started up
in a wild manner, opened his eyes, which were partly closed, but could
not keep them open; spoke disconnectedly, quarrelled with his mother,
whom he did not know; his face was very red, cheeks glowing hot, with
dry heat over the whole body; at times he moved his lips and tongue,
called for liquid; throbbing carotids, full, very rapid pulse, rapid
respiration; pupils excessively dilated, insensible; swallowing
difficult, [192]. ► Stupefaction of the senses; some always
laugh, but hear and see nothing, although they always have it before
their eyes, they also speak well and answer all questions, although the
whole is like a dream to them, [13].
[250.] ►
Obscuration of all the senses, with anxiety, followed by shivering on
the back with sweat, [15]. ► Deep stupor, for an hour and a half, [125]. ►
Stupor, anxiety, convulsions of the limbs and involuntary weeping, with
an elderly woman; increased very much by drinking coffee, soon cured by
vinegar, [1]. [Taken from Hering.]
► Dulness of sense, loss of reason, [23]. ►
He went to bed after taking a dose, at 7 A.M., and never woke till 11
A.M.; he was then drowsy and incapable of understanding what was going
around. When brought to the dispensary, he appeared as if under the
influence of spirits, with strong fever. He was dull, sleepy, and stupid
for two or three days, with remains of the fever and excitement, [181]. ►
*He does not seem to notice the objects around him, and he really does
not notice them, [3]. ► After waking, he does not recognize
anything around him; he takes his book and goes to school, but he enters
by the wrong door (after six hours), [3].
► She did not recognize her friends
during the paroxysm; and afterwards retained no remembrance of the
occurrence, [204]. ► Sitting half unconscious, the upper body
bent backwards; gagging and pushing out of his mouth a white froth; lips
bluish, swollen; lids closed; eyes dim; pupils dilated. Suffered great
thirst, and complained of general lassitude and great weariness.
Vinegar; next day better, [71]. ► Patient recognizes no one, paid no
attention to the loudest calls, constantly turned the head from side to
side, [120]. [260.] ►
He was quite insensible to sound, seeming not to hear the loudest
talking; rousing and shaking him had no effect; his eyes were partially
open, and the pupils more dilated than I ever have seen. The stupor was
of a drunken kind; there was no disposition to sleep, but a constant
restlessness and turning of the body, attended by a most peculiar
fidgety manner of twisting the fingers and catching at some imaginary
object. This was varied now and then, by grasping the bedclothes very
tight; his body was warm, more from this exercise of the arms than any
other perceptible cause; the tongue was always rolling the pulse rather
quick; and the patient often shrank, as if suffering from a creeping
sensation over his body, [141]. ► He found the child in bed unconscious, [206]. ►
Quite insensible; in two hours the pupils were fixed and dilated; all
the muscles of the body convulsed, the countenance flushed and the pulse
full and slow, two hours after, [70].
► He remained perfectly unconscious
and could not be roused, paid no heed to the loudest shouting, did not
feel the smartest pinching; while the arms and legs, when lifted, fell
flaccid and lifeless (after seven hours), [201].
► Great insensibility of all the
senses, [23]. ► Stupor in a few hours, soon followed by
obstinate insomnia, and in one case delirium tremens, [196]. ► She
was unable to take any food, to see, hear, speak, or feel, [241]. ►
Insensibility, [29], [34]. ►
Complete insensibility, unable to swallow any fluid, or to be aroused
sufficiently to take the least notice of me or her friends, [98]. ►
Sopor alternating with delirium, [150].
[270.] ►
Deep sopor, followed by death, [163].
► Complete insensibility (after two
hours), [81], [197]. ►
Nearly comatose, [178]. ► Coma, [103],
[117], etc. ►
Profound coma, [99]. ► Comatose state, he appeared stunned and
his resolution was impaired, [115].® 2000
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