STRAMONIUM.
SLEEP.
►
Sleepiness. ► Frequent
yawning, with inclination to sleep, with great restlessness (after 200
drops), [133]. ► Drowsy and staggering, [6]. ►
Drowsiness in daytime, [15]. [1530.] ►
*Drowsiness succeeded by coma (immediately), [83]. ► After
a deep sleep, full of dreams, during which he has an emission, he feels
quite dizzy, and he sees as through a gauze (after twenty-four hours), [3]. ►
Sleepiness, but scarcely had she fallen asleep when she woke, and began
to prattle and laugh in a senseless manner, [232]. ►
Unusually sleepy on waking (eighteenth day), [219]. ►
Sleepiness, in the evening (seventh day), [213].
► Sleepiness all evening, on and off
(after fifteen minutes), [212];
(after five minutes), [211]. ► Sleepy in the evening, after dark (first
day), [222]. ►
Excessive sleepiness, at 9.30 P.M. (sixteenth day), [219]. ►
Complained of being tired on waking up, in the morning; got up and went
to bed again two or three times (next morning), [120]. ► Great
desire to lie down and sleep, [161].
[1540.] ►
In half an hour felt sleepy, ate a part of a sour apple and slept a
short time, but soon started up in a fright, with flushed face and mild
delirium, [204]. ► Sleep, [27].
► He often falls asleep, and when
waking, assumes a comically majestic appearance, [1]. ►
Sleeping in the daytime; he wakes with an important and solemn look, [2]. ►
Slept later than usual (seventeenth day), [219].
► Quiet sleep, [15]. [Curative effect. -Hughes.] ► Sleeps a few hours (after some minutes), [25]. ►
Sleeps twenty-four hours, [15]. ► Awakes with difficulty, in the morning, [1]. ►
*Deep sleep, with snoring, [28].
[1550.] ►
Deep sleep and various dreams; one full of different apparitions, [77]. ►
Some fall into a deep sleep, even twenty-four hours long; they lie as if
dead, [13]. ►
Deep, snoring sleep, sometimes drawing up the leg, [13]. ► *Stupefied
half slumber, [5]. ► Deep sound sleep; during it, very deep
breathing, with the greatest exertion, and snorting during inspiration
and expiration, [3]. ► Slumber, with rattling breath, and bloody
froth at the mouth; dark-brown face; death, [17]. ►
Sleeplessness. ►
Sleepless, [15]. [After emetics
and clysters. -Hughes.] ►
Sleeplessness, with walking about the room, and with hallucination, [168]. ►
Remained awake all night, tossed about his bed, and uttered screaming
cries, [6]. ►
Restless night, [86], [232]. [1560.]
► Restless sleep, violent headache,
and profuse urination, [15]. ► *Restless sleep, full of dreams, with tossing
about the bed, [15]. ► Troublesome night, awaking three or four
times, with sickness and vomiting, [37a].
► While slumbering he hears two
persons talk, but he does not know who they are, [3]. ►
Starting in sleep, with rising up in bed and looking vacantly around,
with incoherent talking (second night), [66].
► Frequent starts, at night, [146]. ►
*In sleep, twitching of limbs, [64].
► [Sleep interrupted by screams], [15]. ►
[Screaming and howling, at night], [15].
► Snoring during a swoon, [15]. [1570.]
► Did not rest well, at night;
frequent waking, [146]. ► Waking, with a start, as though dreaming,
[172]. ►
[Wakes from his sleep with a scream], [15].
► Dreams. ► There is no disposition to sleep, but it
produces agreeable dreams, [93]. ► Wandering, indistinct dreams, [146]. ►
Strange dreams of a frightful kind, [200].
► Amorous dream (third, sixth, and
thirteenth night), [219]. ► Sleep disturbed by dreams, such as he
never before remembered to have had, [122].
► Vivid dreams about things that have
happened, [1]. ► Different kinds of dreams, [24].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. [1580.] ► Chilliness and shivering in the limbs, at
night, [15]. ►
Coldness and chill, for eight hours, [1].
► Shaking chill through the whole
body, with single jerks, partly of the whole body, partly of single
limbs, of the elbows and knee-joints, without thirst, [3]. ►
Chilliness along the back, in the afternoon, [15]. ►
Whenever he takes a dose, a disagreeable, shuddering chill runs over him
as if he dreaded it (after three, four, and five hours), [3]. ► From 6
to 7 P.M. felt chilly (second day), [210].
► General shivering, with the
uneasiness about the throat, [123].
► *Shivering sensation on the chin,
[12]. ►
She lies on the floor, cold, senseless, and weak, and breathing feebly
(after two hours), [23]. [Earliest
effects. -Hughes.] ► *Coldness of the
whole body, [1]. [1590.] ►
Temperature diminished, [103]. ► Affected with a “sudden coldness in
a very extraordinary manner,” [157].
► Temperature diminished, skin cold,
covered with cold sweat, [153]. ► Skin cool, [153].
► Skin rather cool, but no more than
could be attributed to an hour’s exposure in the wind, [166]. ► Skin
icy cold, and covered with clammy sweat, the hands and feet livid (after
seven hours), [201]. ► Skin cold and moist, [98]. ► Skin
cold, and covered with sweat, [97].
► Face, hands, and feet blue and
cold, [118]. ►
Extremities and trunk cold, [34]. [1600.] ► Extremities cold, almost immovable, [31]. ►
Coldness and paralysis of the limbs, [78].
►► *Coldness of the limbs,
[1], [81], [98],
etc. ► *Hands and feet cold, [153]. ►
*Hands and feet cold, often bluish, [233]. ►
Inferior extremities cold, [102]. ► The feet were extremely cold early in the
morning, and, nevertheless, very sensitive to the least cold draft, [1]. ►
Heat. ► Fever, [186]; (first day), [227]. ►
Typhoid fever of the remittent character, with pains beginning in the
left ear and terminating in the left side of the chest, with dry cough,
which aggravates the pain very much, [66].
►► *Violent fever, [33], [181].
[1610.] ►
[Fever, after noon], [15].
[Apparently only a sympathetic of an inflamed arm. -Hughes.] ► Violent fever at noon, returning with the
same violence about midnight, [15].
► Fever daily, in the afternoon, [15]. ►
Fever, in the evening, for two days, [15].
► After the vomiting in the evening,
continuous, violent fever, with profuse sweat], [15]. [The beginning of phthisis, of which the
patient died. -Hughes.] ► Fever;
first heat in the head, afterwards coldness of the whole body, followed
by heat of the whole body, with anguish; sleeps during the heat; after
awaking, violent thirst; he feels a stinging in his palates until he
drinks, [1]. ►
High fever; burning heat and redness of the skin, attended with an
itching eruption over whole face and trunk of the body; but the feet and
legs were paler and cooler than natural, [40].
► Temperature increased, [100], [239].
► Temperature, especially of the
head, elevated, [168]. ► Temperature very high, [144]. [1620.]
► Becomes hot, [1]. ► Heat of
the whole body, [23]. ► Heat and sweat all over, without thirst
(after five hours), [1]. ► With the least motion, heat over the
whole body, and sweat (after twenty-four hours), [3]. ► Heat
and anxiety rise from the abdomen upward, causing redness of the cheeks,
[54]. ►
Feeling of general heat for some minutes (after second dose, second
day); feeling of great heat (after third dose, second day), [210]. ►
She is hot, then cold, shivering; she feels as if cold water was being
poured down her back, [200]. ► *Dry heat over the whole body, [192]. ►
*Glowing heat and redness of the head and face, with coldness, and
paleness of the rest of the body, [233]. ► Great
heat of the body, [14]. [1630.] ►
Great heat, with quick and small pulse, and bright-red vermilion-colored
countenance, [23]. ► Towards noon great heat, redness of the
face, vertigo, and tears in the eyes, [15].
► Hot cheeks, [18]. ► He
covers himself carefully during the heat; but if he merely puts out a
finger from under the cover the pains immediately become very violent, [1]. ►
Skin hot, [91], [206], etc. ►
Skin excessively hot and congested, especially the face and upper
extremities, [150]. ► Skin burning hot, and dry, [129]. ► Hot
and perspiring skin on the surface of the trunk, [102]. ► *Skin hot
and dry, [101], [149], [174].
► Skin hot, and not dry, [231]. [1640.]
► Great heat of the whole surface
(after fourteen hours), [81]. ►► *Skin hot, dry, and burning, of a
continuous scarlet color over the whole body (after six
hours), [187]. ► Heat of surface elevated and dry, [110]. ►
Skin warm, [41]. ► Skin warm and dry (after eleven hours), [183]. ►
Skin hot, and presenting a bright scarlet efflorescence of a lobster
color, somewhat raised above the plane of the cuticle, and rough to the
touch, [157]. ► Head moderately warm (after one hour), [203]. ►
Head hot, [123], [180]. ► Heat
of the head and sparkling eyes, [15].
► Head hot; also the whole body, [54]. [1650.]
► During chill, heat in head; during
the hot stage, cold feet; during the sweat, cannot bear to be uncovered,
[64]. ►►
*Head very hot, [157]. ►► *Heat in the face, [1]. ►
*Hot, red face, with cold hands and feet, [18]. ►
Sensation of heat in the face, when coldness and chilliness passed, [1]. ►
Skin of face and upper extremities burning hot, [178]. ►
Alternately a feeling of great heat and cold in the limbs, which were
affected with trembling (after two hours), [121a]. ► Sweat.
► Sweat, with thirst and dim vision, [15]. ►
Perspiration, with warm skin, [132].
► Skin moist, [100], [234].
[1660.] ►
Sweat, with diminished appetite, [15].
► Sweat, after severe thirst, [15]. ►
Copious sweat, [16]. [During
convalescence, after antidotes. -Hughes.] ►
Frequent sweat, with good appetite, diarrhœa, distension of the
abdomen, and colic, [15]. ► Profuse sweat, with pain in the abdomen, [15]. ►
Profuse sweat, with burning of the eyes and dim vision, [15]. ►
Copious perspiration (after one hour), [203].
► Violent perspiration from incessant
motion, [209]. ► Slight sweat, at night, [1]. ► Very
great sweat, at night, [15]. [1670.] ►
Profuse sweat, at night, [15]. ► A cold clammy sweat covered the entire
surface of the body, [229]. ► *Cold sweat on whole body, [6]. ►
Cold, clammy perspiration, [173], [202]. ►
Greasy sweat, with increased thirst, [15].
► Head all day wet with perspiration
(second day), [188]. ► Head perspired more than usual (second
day), [189]. ►
Perspiration on the forehead while the rest of the body was red, dry,
and hot, [120]. ► Very profuse sweat on the face and
forehead, [15]. ► Sweat on the back, [15]. [1680.]
► Cold sweat on the paralyzed limb, [89]. ►
Lower part of paralyzed lower limb covered with sweat, [88]. ► Whole
body dry, [233].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Mental state; vertigo; frontal
headache; dim vision; cough; itching. ►
(Forenoon), The symptoms. ► (Noon),
fever. ► (Evening),
When walking, unsteadiness; in dark-room, blue spots before eyes;
eructations; cough; fever. ► (Night), Pain in sternum; sweat. ► (When alone),
Mental state. ► (Cough), Pain in chest. ►
(Coffee), Stupor, anxiety, etc. ► (Darkness),
Mental state. ► (Eating), Trembling of hands. ► (Light of a lamp),
Convulsions. ► (During menses), Loquacity; voluptuous odor of
body. ► (After
menses), Sobbing and whining. ►
(Motion), Vomiting of bile; pain in
abdomen and back. ► (Pressure), Pain in stomach. ► (Sitting),
Giddiness. ► (Standing), Vertigo. ►
(Swallowing), Dryness of throat;
spasm of throat. ► (Talking), Pain in chest and sternum. ► (Walking),
Giddiness; pain in right side of head; pain in chest; pain in breasts;
pain in right hip-joint; pain in thigh. ►
(Walking in open air), Frontal
headache. ► Amelioration. ► (Indoors),
The symptoms. ► (Imbibing liquid), The symptoms. ► (Leaning head to
right), Pain in right side of head. ►
(Rubbing), Itching in eye; feeling
and sand in eye. ► (Vinegar), Stupor, anxiety, etc. ► (Warmth),
Pain in chest. ► (Cold water), The symptoms.
SUPPLEMENT: STRAMONIUM.
Authorities.
244,
J. E. Chancellor, M.D., Virginia Med. Month., March, 1879, p. 962, a
child, æt. two years and a half, drank an infusion of the seeds; 245, F. H. Underwood, M.D., Pub. Mass. Hom.
Med. Soc., vol. iv, p. 355, Miss A., æt. twenty-two years, in good
health, except occasional attacks of nervous restlessness, with a
sensation of fear, took a gobletful warm, of a strong decoction made
with boiling water.
MIND.
►
Intoxication, with a feeling of heaviness in the body. Diminished
memory; she would begin to speak of something, and before finishing
would forget what she was talking about. She does everything in great
haste. Her movements are all hurried. Stupefaction of the senses. All
things appear to her as if they were new; even her friends appear to her
as if she had never seen them before. She apprehends the loss of her
senses, ot that she is becoming imbecile. She has strange fancies.
Frightful fancies. Her features show fright and terror. She does not
dare to walk without assistance, lest she should fall. Great anxiety and
fear. Restlessness and nervousness beyond description. Constant fear of
sudden death. At times believed herself dying, and could not be
convinced to the least contrary. Great fatigue from the least exertion;
when going from her bed to the door of room, only a few steps, she was
obliged to sit down twice. Her whole body was sensitive to touch, and
every motion aggravated. Frequent attacks of gloomy fancies, accompanied
with tears, [245].
HEAD.
►
Head feels empty, hollow, and sensitive to every sound; it is confused,
and she is unable to think much or reckon. Stupid feeling of the head.
Vertigo; the head feels drawn backward. Great dislike to move about, and
an inability to sit up straight any length of time. Vertigo when raising
the head from the pillow. Her voice, to her, did not seem to have its
usual sound; it seemed higher and finer than usual. Great heat of the
head: Cold face. A disagreeable lightheadedness, with a feeling of great
weakness in the head. Red rash on the face, neck, and back, which
resembles that accompanying scarlet fever. Giddiness while sitting or
standing in a room. Giddy headache, with faintness. Frequent inclination
to raise the head from the pillow. Moves her head to and fro. Redness of
the face and eyes. Frequent redness of the face. Her nose feels
obstructed and dry, although she is able to breathe through it, [245].
EYE.
►
A sensation as of sparks of fire rushing from the stomach to the eyes.
Obscuration of sight; things looked blue and smoky, and at times could
see only half an object at once. Redness of the eyes and face. Eyes are
staring. All things look smaller, and at a greater distance than they
are. Dilatation of the pupils. Extreme dilatation of the pupils. She
complains that the rays of the sun dazzle her eyes. Eyes glisten.
Dimness of sight; she is unable to discern small things, such as the
point of a pin. Indistinct, confused sight. Fiery visions before the
eyes. With staring eyes and dilated pupils she saw nothing; did not
recognize any of her family. Every one’s face looked to her as clear and
as smooth as a piece of satin; and small spots like freckles, on a
person’s face, were not discernible for ten days after taking the
poison, [245].
MOUTH.
►
Tongue. ► Tongue felt
stiff, dry, and parched to the very root, and felt as if edges rolled up
as hard and stiff as sole-leather. Tongue is paralyzed; it trembles when
she attempts to put it out. Swelling of the tongue, which hangs out of
the mouth. Dryness of the tongue and palate, so that they feel quite
rough, with no thirst at first, [245].
► General Mouth. ► Sore lips; they parch up and chap, then
peel. Grinding of the teeth. Bloody froth at the mouth every morning.
Feeling of great dryness in the mouth, with want of saliva, [245]. ►
Taste. Water tasted like leather for three weeks. Eggs tasted
like Sulphur. Food tastes bitter. Constant bitter taste in the mouth.
Loss of appetite, [245].
THROAT.
►
Dryness of the throat, with a saliva like stiff froth, mixed with
cotton-wool. Dryness of the throat. Strangulating sensation in the
throat. Food and drink were swallowed with great difficulty, and with a
scraping pain. Inability to swallow, on account of dryness of the
throat, [245].
STOMACH.
[1690.]
► Loss of appetite. Great desire for
acid drinks. Sickness at the stomach, with a desire to vomit, but an
inability to do so; followed by dizziness, faintness, and a difficulty
in swallowing and breathing. Indescribable feeling at the stomach,
followed by partial loss of consciousness. Weak feeling at the stomach,
as if everything were gone. Weakness from the least exertion, vomiting
of sour-smelling mucus. Sour stomach. The first food taken, which was
rice-water, had no taste, and felt apple-cores in the stomach. Stomach
smarted and felt ragged, as if full of sores. Vomiting of mucus at
night. Anxiety about the pit of the stomach. Anxiety about the pit of
the stomach, with difficulty of breathing. A sensation of weakness so
great that she could not describe it. Nausea. Bilious vomiting after the
least motion, [245].
ABDOMEN.
►
Abdomen bloated, but not hard. Rumbling in the abdomen. Feeling in the
abdomen, as if living animals were moving in it. Emission of large
quantities of flatus, [245].
CHEST.
►
A feeling of great faintness, as there were no air, or, as if the air
did her no good. Difficult breathing. Sensation as if something were
turning about in the chest. She is unable to inspire a sufficient amount
of air. Feeling of dryness in the chest. She has paroxysms of fainting;
says she wants more air, [245].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
A sudden sensation of weakness, and violent beating of the heart. She
would wake from a deep sleep with violent beating of the heart. Pulse
full and strong. Pressure in the region of the heart, [245].
EXTREMITIES.
►
Trembling and shuddering of the limbs. Limbs were paralyzed for eight
hours. Hands and feet numb, or like wooden ones, or as if they did not
belong to the body. Trembling of the arms when eating. Trembling of one
hand when eating. Trembling of one limb. Convulsions of the limbs. The
limbs feel as if gone to sleep. Drawing pain in the thighs. Sensation as
if one part of the joint were separated from another. Immobility of the
limbs. Creeping in the limbs. Tingling in all the limbs. Creeping
extending from the left side into the thigh. When walking, although she
staggers, her limbs obey the will so readily that she feels as if she
had none; they seem much longer than they are, [245].
GENERALITIES.
►
After thirty minutes I saw her; she was lying on the bed, with her face
very red, the pupils dilated; pulse full and strong; great trembling of
the limbs, and frequent unsuccessful attempts to vomit. From evident
paralysis of the throat she was unable to swallow enough of a mustard
emetic to cause emesis. She exhibited great inclination to go to sleep,
which she was prevented from doing by the attendants walking, or, I
should say, dragging her about the room, her limbs being so paralyzed
that she could not walk, or even stand; and she presented a most perfect
picture of intoxication. The severity of the narcotism lasted about an
hour, and was followed by a state of wakefulness, which lasted about
twenty-four hours. During the first two weeks of her sickness, I
gathered from her the symptoms, which she assured me were entirely new
to her, and many of them, she has since informed me, continued her
frequent companions for more than a year. The first effect of the drug
she noticed about ten minutes after she had taken it, [245]. ►
Spasmodic twitchings of the muscles of the upper and lower extremities,
unsteady gait and inability to stand erect, with restlessness and
incoherence of speech, alternately laughing, crying, and singing; some
nausea and disposition to emesis; pupils widely dilated; difficult
deglutition; tumultuous action of the heart; expressions of alarm and
dread of falling, [244].
SLEEP.
►
Very drowsy. Restless sleep. While slumbering she heard two persons
talk, but did not know who they were, [245].
FEVER.
►
Cold feet and hands. Slight sweat at night. Chills through the whole
body, with single jerks, at times, of the whole body, and at other times
of single limbs. Cold limbs. Chilliness and shuddering of the limbs at
night. Fever in the afternoon. Sweat on the back. Frequent sweats.
Profuse perspiration of the limbs, [245].® 2000
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