STRAMONIUM.
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ►
Increased appetite, [1]. ► A kind of hunger was associated with the
tearing in the abdomen, but still the patient was unable to take any
food (after third dose, [127]. ► Felt hungry too soon after a meal (second
and third days); in the morning (fourth days), [219]. ►
Undiminished appetite, with colic, diarrhœa, and vomiting, [15]. ►
Poor appetite, at breakfast (fifth day), [219].
[890.] ►
In large doses it diminishes the appetite, [93]. ►
Diminished appetite for breakfast (second day), [68]. ► Loss
of appetite (after 120 drops), [133].
► Loss of appetite, with oppression
at pit of stomach, [200]. ►► *Thirst, [22], [78],
[98]. ►
Thirst with the headache, [15]. ► *Thirst, with great dryness of the throat,
[15]. ►
Thirst, drinking much at a time (first day), [227]. ► With
the headache, considerable thirst; drank much more water than usual
(second day); drank a great deal (third day), [188]. [900.]
► Thirst and drunkenness, with
headache, [13]. ► Long-continuing thirst, [15]. ►
Violent thirst, with copious secretion of burning urine, [15]. ► In
spells of restlessness he would drink when water was offered him, but
did not ask for it, [66]. ► Extremely troublesome thirst, with
drooling, [8]. ► Great thirst, attended with considerable
constriction of the muscles of the throat in attempts at swallowing, [157]. ►
*Thirst intense and unallayed by water, [143]. ►►
*Violent thirst, [15], [71], [111],
[120], etc. ►
Thirst for acids (after 120 drops), [133].
► *Excessive thirst, with desire for sour
drinks, [119]. [910.] ► Great
desire for acids, [107].
► Eructations and Hiccough. ► Eructations in the evening (first day), [222]. ►
In evening, frequent offensive bilious eructations (seventh day), [223]. ►
Odorless eructations (after 120 drops), [133].
► Sour eructations, [15]. ►
Hiccough, [37a]. ► Violent hiccough, [15]. ► An
incessant hiccough, [40]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea (after twenty minutes), [143], [152],
[192]. ►
Nausea, disgust, [1]. ► Nausea, but no vomiting (immediately), [83]. [920.]
► Nausea, with inability to bring up
anything, [200]. ► Feeling of nausea with the uncomfortable
sensation in middle line of chest (?
in œsophagus), [226]. ► Nausea, with flow of an extremely salt
saliva, [15]. ► 5.30 P.M., nausea and retching; at last,
vomiting of a whitish fluid; the attempts to vomit cause pain in the
stomach (second day), [210]. ► Inclination to vomit with profuse
salivation, in the evening, [15]. ► Ineffectual efforts to vomit, [102]. ►
Nausea and retching (after one hour), [203].
► Frequent ineffectual retchings to
vomit, [40]. ►
Nausea and straining to vomit (after three hours), [187]. [930.]
► Began to feel ill (after half an
hour), [141]. ► Nausea and vomiting (after two hours), [124a]. ►
Nausea, followed by vomiting, [120].
► Sick and giddy, [23]. ►
Sickness and vomiting (after a quarter of an hour), [202]. ► Was
sick, while sitting on a sofa; at the same time fancied she was falling
off, kept holding on to everything, about 2 P.M., [214]. ►
Vomiting, [59], [98], [164],
[173]. ►
Vomiting, at night, [15]. ► Vomited several times, [279]. ►
Vomiting of a sour-smelling mucus, [15].
[940.] ►
Vomiting of mucus, in the evening, [15].
► Vomiting of a green mucus, with
thirst, [15]. ► In the evening, he vomits up bile with
mucus, [15]. ►
Vomiting of green bile, in the evening, [15].
► Vomits bile after the least motion,
even on sitting up in bed, [1]. ► Vomited several times, a dark
greenish-looking substance mixed with his food, [131]. ► Even
after sunset, soon after food, vomited food mixed with nearly black
clotted thick blood; the vomiting was difficult, and caused shooting
pain at stomach-pit, and was preceded and followed by retching; he never
vomited blood before (fourteenth day), [221].
► The vomiting, which was induced by
sulphate of zinc, caused the most violent suffocative spasms of the
glottis, so that for ten minutes artificial respiration was required, [239]. ►
Became sick and vomited; after which he wished to get out to get
assistance for his wife, but he had scarcely gained the door of the room
ere he felt so enfeebled that his knees bent under him, and he was
forced to sit down, but in a few seconds he fell senseless to the
ground; on recovering he vomited repeatedly, was greatly agitated,
became torpid, with a lethargic tendency, and lost for some time all
sense of feeling, [112]. ► Stomach. ►
The epigastrium is tense, hard, and painful, [15]. [950.] ► Epigastric tenderness, in all cases, [139]. ►
Attacked at 7 P.M. with great distress, apparently in his stomach, [131]. ►
Gastric irritation continued nearly a month, [111]. ► Pain
in the epigastrium, [135]. ► Severe pain at pit of stomach (after
twenty minutes), [143]. ► Great pain of her stomach and left arm, [36]. ►
Great pain in the region of the stomach and bowels, [173]. ►
Slight stationary pain in stomach-pit (tenth day), [228]. ►
Pressure in the stomach (after 120 drops), [133]. ►
Stomach sensitive to pressure, [107],
[119]. [960.]
► Pressure in the stomach and
diminished appetite (after 100 drops), [133].
► (Pressive pain in the left side of
the stomach towards the heart, aggravated by external pressure), (fourth
day), [120]. ►
Pressing pain in stomach, [13]. ► Anxiety in pit of stomach, [3]. ► Anxiety
in the pit of the stomach and difficult breathing, [15]. ► Great
anxiety in the pit of the stomach, [15].
► Great anxiety about the pit of the
stomach, before noon, [15]. ► Great anxiety about the pit of the
stomach, with dry heat of the body, [15].
► Indescribable anxiety at stomach, [97]. ►
Corroding pains in stomach, [11].
[Not found. -Hughes.] [970.] ► Shooting inwards, very acute, of short
duration, in stomach-pit (second day), [227].
► Shooting inwards in stomach-pit and
right side of abdomen (seventh day), [226].
► Shooting inwards in stomach, first
on left side, then right (second day), [228]. ► A
kind of burning pain in the stomach comes and goes, lasts for half an
hour, then intermits for an hour or more (third day), [188].
ABDOMEN.
►
Pain in the hepatic region, lasting half a year after the poisoning, in
one man, [140]. ► Abdomen tense, neither touch nor pressure
painful, [23]. ► Abdomen soft, not distended, [101]. ►
Abdomen hard, but not much swollen (after six hours), [127]. ►
Abdomen tense and hard, [79]. ► Bellies tumid but not hard, [35]. [980.]
► Bloated abdomen, especially in the
region of the pit of the stomach, [23].
► Much bloated abdomen; not painful
when touched, [28]. ► In the evening the abdomen is bloated,
with heat of the body and anxiety in pit of the stomach, [15]. ► With
children, abdomen becomes highly bloated, with anxiety in pit of
stomach; cold sweat, chilliness of the limbs, confusion of mind,
stupefied half slumber, and anxious evacuations, upward and downward, [5]. ►
Distension of the abdomen, [73],
[77], [84], etc. ►
Abdomen distended, painless, [100].
► A distension of the abdomen, not hard,
[1]. ►
Upper abdomen tense and painful, [15].
► Abdomen tympanitic, [157], [158],
[172]. ►
A tympanitic state of the bowels, belly extremely tense, [102]. [990.]
► Abdomen retracted and tense, [163]. ►
Abdomen spasmodically retracted, [85].
► Increased sensitiveness of the
abdomen, [90]. ► Rumbling in the abdomen, [132]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen, with obscuration of vision, [15]. ►
Rumbling and growling in the abdomen, [19].
► Rumbling in the abdomen, with
colic, [15]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen, with diarrhœa, [15].
► During micturition rolling in
abdomen; rigors, [50]. ► He complains of rumbling in the abdomen,
as if living animals were screaming and moving in all the intestines, [15]. [Words from “as if” not
in original. -Hughes.] [1000.]
► A great many emissions of flatus, [15]. ►
The greatest development of wind in the abdomen, sometimes after each
dose of the tincture; after some rumbling in the abdomen the flatus
passed of downward, [11]. ► Violent fermenting in the abdomen, for
seven days, [2]. ► Meteorismus, [150]. ►
Colic, followed by diarrhœa, [15].
► Colic, rumbling, and diarrhœa, [15]. ►
Colic, watery vomiting, and diarrhœa, [15].
► Colic, as if the abdomen were
puffed up; abdomen painful, even when touching the side, [1]. ► Colic
and diarrhœa, [15]. ► Colicky pains, [30]. [He speaks only of borborygmi. -Hughes.] [1010.] ►
Colicky pain and rumbling in the bowels, [200].
► Violent colic, coming suddenly in
the evening, with sensation of fainting and cold shivers, [200]. ► Pain
in the abdomen, with the vertigo, followed by looseness, [15]. ►
Sensitiveness of abdomen very great, [58].
► Pain in abdomen, [15], [212].
► Cramping pain in abdomen, making
her bend double when walking, with constipation and ineffectual desire
for stool (second to fifth day), [235].
► Pressing pain in abdomen, [15]. ►
In the abdomen, in the region and in the direction of the transverse
colon, a drawing sensation, which soon changed into tearing, as if two
dogs were drawing the bowel in opposite directions, and were ready to
tear it asunder; with this symptom was connected a kind of hunger, when
the tearing sensation had subsided a little, but still the patient was
unable to take any food (three-quarters of an hour after third dose), [127]. ►
Dull pain in lower colon (ninth day), [233].
► Tearing pain in the abdomen as if
the navel would be torn out; the pain goes then into the chest, [1]. [1020.]
► Sensation as if the abdomen were
expanded to the extremest degree, [1].
► A writhing pain in the bowels
previous to every evacuation; a blackish diarrhœa every hour (after
thirty-six hours), [2]. ► Before stool, twisting in the bowels;
during stool, colic, distension of abdomen, rolling in abdomen,
vomiting, paleness, [30]. ► In lower abdomen, shooting from before
backwards for half and hour, twenty minutes after dinner (second day), [236]. ►
Shooting and griping pains in bowels, with looseness, [146a]. ►
Burning in the abdomen that was distended, [107]. ►
Several times a day, dull griping pain in pubic region, also during
stool (seventh day), [238]. ► Severe griping pains of short duration,
in centre of hypogastrium (fourth day), [222].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Hæmorrhoidal flux, for several days, [1].
► Coagulated blood passes from
the anus, [1]. [1030.] ►
A desire for stool, but nothing passes off till twenty-four hours after,
[3].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Violent
purging, with and followed by pain in rectum, shooting downwards, for
two hours (after two hours, fifth day), [226].
► Next night a smart attack of
diarrhœa, lasting all next day; the stools were exactly like those in
the former attack, pappy, feculent, dark brown, with dull griping across
hypogastrium before stool, some
straining during stool, and a
straining with the urine at the same time, [224]. ►
Diarrhœa, six days in succession, [2].
► Diarrhœa, ceasing after a profuse
sweat, [15]. ►
Diarrhœa, with increase of appetite, [15].
► Diarrhœa, with paleness of face, [15]. ►
Watery diarrhœa, preceded by violent crampy pains in bowels; this
lasted three days (after eleven days), [221].
► From 3 to 7 P.M., several
diarrhœic stools, brown, watery, sometimes brownish yellow and frothy,
preceded by pain in the abdomen; during the passage of stools, scalding
at the anus; rectum feels filled, but on straining, only pass liquid
stools (second day), [210]. ► Looseness of bowels, with flatulence and
borborygmus, and occasional sharp pains; it continued nearly a week
after vomiting the medicine, [146a].
[1040.] ►
Several brothlike evacuations, which gave much relief, followed the
tearing in the bowels (after three doses), [127]. ► Two
natural stools instead of one (sixth and seventh days); while straining
on the bladder, a slightly relaxed stool (seventh day); stool this
morning rather relaxed, a darker brown than usual (eighth day), [222]. ►
Several discharges from the bowels, thin and watery, [151]. ►
Stools have a cadaverous smell, [15].
► One or two dark-chocolate-brown
relaxed stools (ninth day), [223].
► (Bloody stools), (after two days), [90]. ►
In afternoon, painful and difficult stool, requiring much straining; the
last part could not be evacuated by straining, but came easily after the
straining ceased (fourth day), [225].
► Bowels were moved, the fæces very
hard and dry (third day), [241]. ► She seemed to have a motion to stool, and
passed a living lumbricus teres, fourteen inches long, with a little
water, but without any fæces or relief of symptoms (after six hours), [37]. ►
Constipation. ► Bowels
more constipated, [159]. [Revised
by Hughes.] [1050.] ► Constipation for six days, without
complaining of fulness of distension of the abdomen, [1]. ►
Obstinate constipation, [116]. ► (Constipation and ineffectual desire for
stool, with the cramping pain in the abdomen), (second to fifth day), [235]. ►
Bowels have not acted for two days (third day), [227]. ►
Bowels do not act, but without inconvenience (fifth to seventh day), [210]. ►►
*Stool and urine suppressed, [139].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Bladder. ► Sphincter of
the bladder paralyzed, permitting the urine to dribble away more or
less, for forty-eight hours, [241].
► Paralysis of the bladder and
consequent incontinence of the urine from the repletion of the viscus, [102]. ►
*Bladder empty, [163]. ► Great irritation of the urinary passages;
in two children incontinence of urine, [140].
► Micturition and Urine. [1060.] ►
Copious evacuation of thin, almost watery urine, [87]. ► The
most astonishing amount of urine was passed, clear, like spring water, [73]. ►
Large and involuntary discharges of urine, [75]. ►
Profuse micturition, [15]. ► Profuse micturition, without thirst, [1]. ►
Passed involuntarily large quantities of urine, [41]. ►
Involuntary evacuations of urine and bloody fæces, [118]. ►
Obliged to void urine four times during the night, [146]. ► Often
obliged to urinate but the emission was delayed for a minute before it
came, and although it came out merely in drops, yet during the forenoon
a large quantity was discharged (after four and five hours), [3]. ►
Urine passed only after twelve hours, [153]. [1070.]
► Unusual straining required to empty
the bladder; the stream stops before it is emptied, and then the
ejection has to be completed by several successive efforts, the flow
being stopped as soon as the effort is discontinued; quantity of urine
increased; more frequent and copious at a time than usual (seventh and
ninth days), [223]. ► It is moderately diuretic, and
impregnates the urine pretty sensibly with the smell of the seeds, [38]. ►
Diuresis, with shuddering and rumbling in the abdomen, [15]. ► The
urine would only pass while the effort was continued strongly, and
stopped as soon as the bearing-down was withdrawn, e. g., to take breath (second day), [224]. ►
*Micturition dribbling, [233].
► Unable to pass urine freely, had to
strain (third day), [188]. ► Retention of urine accompanied the
muscular paralysis, [159]. ► [Retention of urine], [13]. [Greding merely says that the usual
involuntary discharge of urine during the fit did not take place.
-Hughes.] ► When voiding the urine,
no stream is formed in spite of all pressing and urging; the urine is
warmer than usual, but it comes out only in drops; he is not able to
hasten the emission or to press out the last drops, and without any
pains in the urethra, except the sensation as if a cylindrical body were
pushed through the urethra. After drinking vinegar it appeared again in
a thin stream, and the desire was less often, [3]. ► The
urine is passed without any power; he was able to retain it, but still
felt always as if he had not the power to retain it and to close the
neck of the bladder; sometimes a sensation as if the urethra were too
narrow and unable to expand, [1]. [1080.] ►
He recovered promptly from the disagreeable poisoning symptoms, but he
has suffered ever since with alkaline urine, and with so much distress
in passing it, that he is yet confined to his home, [237]. ► Urine
very dark, and of a strong pungent odor (third day), [241]. ► Urine
thick and turbid after the poisoning, [120].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Constant
uncovering of the genitals, [121].
► Priapismus of several hours, [42]. ►
Scrotum œdematous, [63]. ► Testicles retracted, penis erect as in
chordee, [153]. ► Temporary loss of sexual energy after
convalescence from poisoning, [25].
[Revised by Hughes.] ► Complete
inability to perform coition, [26].
► Excitement of the genital organs
with salacity, [131]. [1090.] ►
Excitation of the genital organs, [196].
► Sexual excitement, [119]. ►
Lasciviousness, [18]. ► Extraordinarily increased activity of the
sexual organs, [116]. ► Female. ►
Discharge of black blood from the uterus, [15].
► Reappearance of the menses after
four years’ cessation, [15]. [The
woman was only forty. -Hughes.] ► Too
great menstrual flow, menorrhagia, with drawing pains in abdomen, in the
thighs, and other limbs, [1]. ► Increased catamenia; blood passes in
large coagulated masses, [1]. ► Catamenia excessive, [15]. ►
Catamenia rather more copious, [15].
[Revised by Hughes.] [1100.]
► Dilute menses, [15]. [Revised by Hughes.] ►
Insatiable sexual desire in women, [43].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Pain in the region of the larynx, after the poisoning, [153]. ► *The
local organs were partly paralyzed; the boy often attempted to speak
hastily, but could not utter a word, it was only a bellowing or
stammering; at times he managed to sing a few notes, or to whistle, or
at times to laugh; the voice was
hoarse and croaking, [233].
► Voice. ►► *Voice high, squeaking, and out of tone;
speech unintelligible, [79].
►► *In his voice the usual
modulation is entirely wanting; it is much higher and finer than usual;
it is a mere sound, he is unable to utter an
intelligible word; he hears and feels it himself, and is anxious about
it, [3]. ► Voice a little hoarse, [93]. ► Voice
hoarse and unintelligible, [103]. ► Hoarseness of voice, and cough (after
some days), [136]. ► Voice hoarse, with the difficult
swallowing, [64]. [1110.] ►
Voice hoarse, with difficult speech (after 120 drops), [133]. ► Voice
hoarse (after one hour and thirty-five minutes), [222]. ► When
talking, hoarse voice; it almost fails me now and then, causing me to
hawk, in order to set it right (second day), [210]. ► Some
hoarseness when talking, in the evening after sunset (fourth day), [216]. ►
Next morning the voice indistinct, hoarse, swallowing very difficult and
painful, [69]. ► Voice weak (after one hour), [203]. ►
Cough and Expectoration. ►
Cough immediately on drinking cold water (tenth day), [215]. ►
*Spasmodic cough, worse in the evening (second day), and again in the
morning (third day); dry cough, [55].
► Rasping, loud, violent dry cough,
caused by the dryness of the throat; nothing seems to effect the cough
(seventh day), [223]. ► Loose rattling cough, with some
expectoration, next morning, [134].
[1120.] ►
Expectorating occasionally a thick mucus, without regard to where it
fell, [171]. ►
Expectoration of white, frothy liquid (after 120 drops), [133]. ►
Sitting of blood, [15]. ► Respiration. ►
Breathing easy, with now and then a deep sigh; twenty-six respirations
in a minute, [160]. ► Respiration rapid, [100]. ►
Respiration somewhat accelerated, [149],
[170]. ►
Respiration hurried, [81], [179]. ►
*Respiration hurried and difficult, [238]. ►
Respiration greatly hurried, and at times gasping and choking, [153]. ►
*Respiration difficult and accelerated, [89]. [1130.]
► During the continuance of the coma
the respiration was extremely hurried, averaging about 100 per minute;
every inspiration, however, completely filled the lungs, [102]. ► The
action of the lungs was enfeebled, not from any impediment, but simply
from want of power, the patient only respiring at long intervals (after
third dose), [127]. ► Slow inspirations and very sudden
expirations, [18]. ► Slow respiration (after four hours), [196]. ►
Respiration slow, difficult, and deep, [120].
► Respiration slow and irregular, [99]. ►
Respiration slow and labored, [178].
► Respiration slow, stertorous, deep,
[163]. ►
Stertorous respiration and unconsciousness, [103]. ►
Stertorous breathing, [137], [152], [172].
[1140.] ►
Breathing heavy and stertorous, blowing at each expiration, but normal
as to frequency, [229]. ► Breathing at times stertorous and
labored, [134], [135], [136].
► Blowing or hissing expirations,
which forced small quantities of a reddish-colored saliva through the
closed lips, accompanied the convulsive movements, [241]. ►
Frequent sighs, [23]. ► Breathing laboriously, with distressing
sense of strangulation, [143]. ► His breathing stops more and more, and he
turns blue in the face, [13]. ► Difficult breathing, [1], [123].
► Oppressed breathing, [1]. ►
Oppressed respiration, with desire for the open air, [140]. ►
Respiration and swallowing impeded, and more frequent, [68]. [1150.]
► *Excessive sense of suffocation
(after three hours), [164]. ► Oppressed respiration, with feeling of
tightness across the chest, [200].
► Terrible dyspnœa; indeed the
function of respiration was rather a succession of deep and gasps and
sobs (after seven hours), [201].
CHEST.
►
During night, tightness of chest, as if I could not get air enough into
lungs, obliging me to take frequent deep forcible inspirations; the same
whether lying on back or sides, or standing, for several minutes
(eighteenth night), [219]. ► Feeling of tightness across chest, with
oppressed respiration, [200]. ► Aching pain in the chest and sternum,
excited by talking, [1]. ► Feeling as if something turned around in
the chest, afterwards heat in the face, [1].
► An odd sensation of dryness in, and
violent girding across the chest, [34].
► Uncomfortable sensation in middle
line of chest (? in œsophagus, E.
W. B.), with a feeling of nausea (ninth day), [226]. ► Sharp
pain in chest about junction of middle and lower third, first on left side, then on right,
worse on walking; entirely disappearing when in a warm place (eighth
day), [226]. [1160.] ►
Cutting pain in the sternum, after lying down, in the night, ceases on
emission of flatus, but returns, [1].
► Hard pressure on the cartilages of
third and fourth ribs, with difficult breathing; he is unable to inhale
breath enough without great anxiety (after half an hour), [2]. ►
Rheumatic pain in sides and back, [15].
► For an hour she had very fine, but
sharp stitches in the vicinity of the fifth and sixth ribs, on a very
circumscribed spot of the size of a fourpenny piece (after third dose), [127]. ►
Aching pain in breasts, worse on walking, first in left, then in right
(after two days), [235].® 2000
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