STRYCHNINUM.
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Clenching of the
teeth, with twisted sensation in the jaws (forty-first day), [128]. ►
Severe toothache, at midnight (third day), [128]. [300.]
► Violent attack of toothache in the
upper teeth, left side, shooting to the cheek-bone (twenty-third day), [128]. ►
Sharp attack of toothache in left half of the teeth (twenty-sixth
night), [128]. ► Toothache in the upper teeth at
intervals, a sensation as if the teeth were loose and too long
(thirty-second day), [128]. ► Toothache in the upper teeth at
intervals, they feel too long (thirty-third day), [128]. ► Sharp
attacks of toothache, worse in the right upper teeth, coming on at
intervals, at night (thirty-fourth day), [128].
► Severe pains in the teeth, as if
the nerves were suddenly pulled out, at night (thirty-fourth day), [128]. ►
Sharp pains in nerves of teeth, in the evening (thirty-eighth day), [128]. ►
Sharp pains in the nerves of the teeth (forty-fourth night), [128]. ►
Drawing toothache in left upper teeth (fiftieth day), [128]. ►
Violent shooting pains in upper teeth (thirty-fifth day), [128]. [310.]
► Sharp pains in the back teeth and
jaws (fourth day), [128]. ► Sharp pains in the back teeth and in the
articulation of the jaws (fifteenth day), [128].
► Pains in the back teeth and
articulation of jaws (nineteenth day), [128].
► Tongue. ► Tongue, gums, and lips violet, [12]. ►
Tongue dry and papillæ erect, [49].
► Tongue dry with white moisture on
the edges, [26]. ► Tongue much coated, bad taste (seventh
day), [178]. ►
Tongue coated, bad taste (twenty-ninth day), [128]. ►
Tongue felt hot (after thirty minutes), [123].
► Soreness of the tongue and roof of
the mouth (thirteenth day), [128].
► General Mouth. [320.] ►
Mouth distorted, [76]. ► The mouth was closed, but apparently not
as rigidly as in tetanus, for the will could control it to a certain
degree; yet as it seemed, they fearing exciting uncontrollable spasms by
any motion of the jaws, its muscles were held tense and tight, [64]. ►
Frothing from the mouth, [22]. ► Violent itching in the roof of the mouth
(thirty-fourth day), [128]. ► Taste. ►
Bad taste (several days), [128]. ► Feverish taste (several days), [128]. ►
Hot and bitter taste in the mouth and fauces (after one hour and
three-quarters), [136]. ► Very bitter taste in the mouth
constantly, [43]. ► Dry taste in the mouth, [145]. ► Saliva.
► Flow of saliva, [32]. [330.] ► It caused a great quantity of saliva to
flow, and she shook her head, seemingly much disgusted, [31]. ►
Excessive spitting of frothy saliva (after twelve hours), [126]. ► Mouth
filled with frothy saliva (after one hour), [124]. ► Teeth
covered with frothy saliva, [141].
► Mouth covered with saliva, which
ejected by spasmodic jerks, [89]. ► Speech. ►
Difficult to articulate with distinctness, in the interval between the
spasms, [34]. ► Articulation difficult (after twenty
minutes), [39]. ► Articulation extremely difficult (after
twenty minutes), [42]. ► Speech indistinct, [24]. ► Unable
to speak, muttered only unintelligible sounds, which seemed to
correspond to the rhythmical movements of the lips, which, however, were
soft and mobile, and moved as though he wished to speak, [6]. [340.] ► Complete loss of speech (after a few
minutes), [103]. ► Speechless but conscious, [133].
THROAT.
►
Choking sensation in the throat, [71].
► Dreadful sensation of choking, [57]. ►
Choking sensation, as if something were tied round the throat tightly
(seventeenth day), [128]. ► Most uncomfortable sensation about the
throat and head and slight spasms of the muscles, [38]. ►
Sensation of spasm in the throat and stomach, associated with
ineffectual efforts to vomit, [72].
► Stiffness about throat, [145]. ►
Constriction of the throat and tightness of the chest, with rigidity of
the muscles on attempting to move (after five minutes), [34]. ► There
seemed to be some constriction about the throat, as it was difficult for
him to swallow, [34]. [350.] ►
Constriction of the muscles of the throat and larynx, [80]. ►
Contraction of throat (after five minutes), [33]. ► A
feeling of contraction in the throat, left side, shortly after rising in
the morning (sixth day), [128]. ► Spasmodic feeling of contraction in the
throat (eighteenth day), [128]. ► Contraction of the throat, with intense
difficulty of swallowing (twenty-seventh day), [128]. ►
Suddenly a sense of contraction in the throat; a feeling as if something
were constantly rising in the throat, with sickness, in the afternoon
(forty-eighth day), [128]. ► Feeling as of a lump in the throat, in
the evening (thirty-sixth day), [128].
► Painful dryness and contracted
feeling in the throat (eleventh day), [128].
► Painful dryness of the throat
(twelfth day), [128]. ► Dry contracted feeling in the throat
(fifteenth day), [128]. [360.] ►
Dry contracted feeling in the throat, in the morning (forty-ninth day), [128]. ►
Hot pains and dry sensation in the throat, coming on at intervals and
lasting a short time (second day), [128].
► Dry hot feeling in the throat
(third day), [128]. ► On rising in the morning, a slight
sensation of a sore throat, left side, with a general dry heat in the
throat (fourth day), [128]. ► Soreness in the left half of the throat
(seventh day), [128]. ► The throat begins to feel much worse; hot
pains shooting from the left side of the throat into the ear and eye, at
8 P.M. (seventh and eighth days), [128].
► Throat painful and sore, with
redness and slight swelling (eighth day), [128].
► Throat sore and painful the entire
day (ninth day), [128]. ► Scraping in the throat, [29]. ►
Spasmodic pains in throat and chest, with sick faint feeling, in the
evening (fifty-fourth day), [128].
[370.] ►
Burning and suffocating sensation about throat and chest, [119]. ► Fauces.
► Sense of constriction in the
fauces, and at times could only swallow with difficulty (after one
hour), [124]. ► Constriction of fauces with difficulty of
swallowing (after twelve hours), [126].
► Swallowing. ► Deglutition almost impossible, [141]. ►
Every attempt at deglutition produced violent spasms of the muscles of
the pharynx, [152]. ► Swallowing with some difficulty, [43]. ►
He swallowed with difficulty, even in the intervals of the most complete
remission of the convulsions, [80].
► External Throat. ► Severe dull pains in the muscles and
glands of the neck, and at times shooting up into the head (thirteenth
day), [128]. ►
Dull shooting pains in the glands of the neck, and at the back of the
ears (second day), [128]. ► Dull pains in the glands of the neck and
behind the ears (third day), [128].
[380.] ►
Sharp pains in the glands of the neck and in the back of the head
(seventeenth day), [123].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ►
Unusually good appetite, she enjoys her food amazingly (third day), [128]. ►
Feverish thirst (sixteenth day), [128].
► She asked for drink, [57]. ► Great
thirst, [49]. ► Intense thirst, dry mouth and tongue, [43]. ►
Eructations. ► Eructations
of bitter wind before vomiting, [43].
► Eructations of tasteless wind, [43]. ►
Bitter greasy risings, with bad taste (fourteenth day), [128]. ► Nausea
and Vomiting. ► Nausea, [43]; (sixteenth day), [128]. [390.]
► At times felt great nausea (ninth
day), [128]. ►
Nausea and bad taste (twenty-first night), [128]. ►
Nausea and bad taste, in the forenoon (twenty-seventh day), [128]. ►
Nausea, with a feeling of pressure in the back of the brain, at noon
(thirty-fifth day), [128]. ► Tendency to nausea, actual vomiting being
only kept off by constant spitting (forty-fifth day), [127]. ►
Nausea and vomiting (after first powder), [129].
► Almost constant retching, [87]. ►
Frequent effort to vomit, [73]. ► Vomiting, [62],
[110], [121], [126].
► Violent vomiting, [5]. [400.]
► Immediately became violently ill
and cried and screamed in a most alarming manner, [143]. ► At
times vomiting of thin colorless liquid, [23].
► The chamber vessel contained about
a pint of coffee-colored fluid, mixed with a more solid brown material,
the whole supposed from its odor to have been vomited, and to contain
most of the Strychnia (having drank coffee at supper), [113]. ►
Vomited small quantities of some alcoholic fluid, [132]. ► Stomach.
► The digestive functions were
somewhat disordered, [127]. ► Heavy feeling in the stomach, [43]. ►
There appeared to be much pain in the epigastrium, [132]. ►
Intense pain in the stomach and bowels, [87].
► Intense pain in pit of stomach
(after six hours), [130]. ► Complained of pain at the pit of the
stomach, [67]. [410.] ►
At intervals, deep pains at the pit of the stomach (tenth day), [128]. ►
Spasmodic pain about the pit of the stomach, extending to the heart at
intervals, in the afternoon (twelfth day), [128]. ► Sharp
pains at the pit of the stomach, extending round to region of liver
(fourteenth day), [128]. ► A kind of internal twitching and nervous
feeling radiating as it were from the pit of the stomach (sixteenth
day), [128]. ►
Sharp pains at the pit of the stomach (seventeenth and forty-eighth
day), [128]. ►
Jerking sensation in the stomach, when opening the mouth (thirty-seventh
day), [128]. ►
Violent jerks at the pit of the stomach and in the chest, on attempting
to open the mouth (forty-first day), [128].
► Sudden jerks in the stomach,
(forty-third day), [128]. ► Violent attack of spasm at the pit of the
stomach, coming on suddenly while at dinner and lasting about an hour;
it was attended with very severe pain and feeling of suffocation, so
much so that she had to unloose her clothes, in the afternoon
(thirty-third day), [128]. ► Spasms of diaphragm very marked (after
twenty minutes), [30]. [420.] ►
Heat in the stomach, [71]. ► Burning along the œsophagus and in the
stomach, [80]. ► Sense of burning about the stomach (after
twenty-minutes), [42]. ► Burning pains at pit of stomach, at noon
(forty-ninth day), [128]. ► Sensation of burning in stomach, [87]. ►
Immediately felt a burning sensation in the stomach for about a minute,
and then felt as if his blood grew cold, [121].
► At times, hot pains at pit of
stomach (fifty-second day), [128].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Peculiar
aching sensation in the right hypochondrium, at intervals, with sick,
faint feeling (forty-third day), [128].
► Tense pain in right hypochondrium
(first night), [127]. ► Sharp cutting pains in left hypochondrium
(twelfth day), [128]. [430.] ►
Sharp pains right hypochondrium (twenty-seventh day), [128]. ► Keen,
needlelike pains in the right hypochondrium, at the pit of the stomach,
and also at intervals in the right knee-joint (thirtieth day), [128]. ►
Sharp pains in left hypochondrium, at times, shooting to the pit of
stomach, in the morning (nineteenth day), [128].
► Rapid pulsation in left
hypochondrium and left temple, in the morning (fortieth day), [128]. ►
General Abdomen. ►
Abdominal muscles and those of neck and back in a state of tetanic
spasm, [145]. ► Bowels much distended, [143]. ►
Distressing flatulence, (twenty-ninth, thirty-sixth, and forty-eighth
days), [128]. ► Distressing flatulence with sick feeling,
at night (thirty-fourth day), [128].
► Rumbling in the bowels, with a
feeling of diarrhœa; also deep pains in the abdomen generally, at 7
P.M. (eleventh day), [128]. [440.] ►
Rumbling in the bowels, with feeling of threatening diarrhœa, in the
forenoon (eighteenth day), [128]. ► Sore, contracted feeling in the muscles
of the abdomen generally (after one hour and three-quarters), [128]. ►
Sore, contracted feeling in the muscles of the abdomen, especially the
upper half (twenty-seventh day), [128].
► Sore, bruised sensation in the
muscles of the abdomen (twenty-eighth day), [128]. ►
Painful soreness of muscles of upper half of abdomen, with sick feeling
(thirty-seventh day), [128]. ► Painful soreness of the muscles of the
abdomen, upper half, and at the pit of the stomach (forty-third day), [128]. ►
Deep, sore pains in the muscles of upper half of abdomen (forty-first
day), [128]. ►
Severe, sharp pains in the muscles of the abdomen (fifth day), [128]. ►
She seized her abdomen as if to tear it, such was the intense pain
there, [116]. ► Griping pains in the bowels (second day),
[128]. [450.]
► Momentary griping pains in the
bowels (third day), [128]. ► Griping pains in the bowels and
constipation (fourth day), [128]. ► Griping pains in the bowels, with feeling
of diarrhœa, in the morning (twenty-second day), [126]. ►
Griping pain in the bowels, at daybreak (twenty-seventh day), [128]. ►
Griping pains in the bowels, with feeling as of diarrhœa (thirty-ninth
day), [128]. ►
Griping pains in the bowels, with feeling of diarrhœa (forty-third
day), [126]. ►
Griping pains in the bowels, with feeling of diarrhœa, in the morning
(fifty-fourth day), [128]. ► Intense aching round the waist, in the
morning (fifty-first day), [128]. ► Pressing down in the bowels, [43]. ►
Pains in abdomen (after two hours), [140].
[460.] ►
Sore pains in the bowels, with a sensation of threatening diarrhœa
(sixteenth day), [128]. ► Sore pain in upper half of abdomen
(thirty-eighth day), [128]. ► Deep, sore pain in abdomen, especially
the lower half, at noon (fifty-fifth day), [128]. ► Deep
pains in the abdomen, at intervals, generally beginning at the lower
half and afterwards going upwards (thirteenth day), [128]. ► Deep,
bruised sensation in the abdomen, from the groins over the hips and
across the back, with external tenderness, in the morning (thirty-second
day), [128]. ►
Dull gnawing pains in abdomen and pit of stomach, in the morning
(fifty-fourth day), [128]. ► Sharp cutting kind of pains in the right
lower half and left upper half of abdomen (third day), [128]. ►
Violent cutting pains in the bowels, with feeling of diarrhœa, in the
morning (twenty-ninth day), [128].
► Sharp cutting pains in the bowels,
with feeling of diarrhœa (forty-fourth night), [128]. ►
Severe cutting pains in the bowels, in the morning (forty-fifth day), [128]. [470.]
► Uneasiness in the bowels, with
constipation (twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth days), [128]. ►
Warmth in the bowels, [43]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ► Fixed, deepseated pains in the lower half
of the abdomen (first day), [128].
► Deep pain in the left lower half of
the abdomen, coming on at intervals during the day; also occasionally
the same kind of pains at the pit of the stomach (tenth day), [128]. ►
At times spasmodic pain in the lower abdomen, in the afternoon (twelfth
day), [128]. ►
Violent cramplike pain in lower right half of abdomen (nineteenth
night); in the morning the same kind of pain in the abdomen as during
the night; in addition, severe cutting pains in the bowels, with a
feeling of diarrhœa coming on (twentieth day), [128]. ►
Deep-boring pains in the right lower half of abdomen, changing suddenly
from one part to another (fifteenth day), [128].
► Deep, sore, contracted feeling in
the left lower half of abdomen (twenty-fifth day), [128]. ► Deep
aching pains in the lower half of abdomen, right and left sides, passing
through to the back, with aching over the hips (thirty-first day), [128]. ►
Dull sore pain in lower half of abdomen, followed by a peculiar
momentary pressure in left iliac region (forty-fourth night), [128]. [480.]
► Deep sore pains in lower half of
abdomen (fortieth day), [128]. ► Deep painful soreness in lower half of
abdomen (forty-second day), [128].
► Deep cramplike pain in the lower
left half of abdomen, at night (forty-sixth day), [128]. ► Deep
boring pain in lower half of abdomen (forty-ninth day), [128]. ► Sharp
cramplike pain in lower half of abdomen, in the morning (forty-eighth
day), [128]. ►
Deep sore pain in lower half of abdomen (fifty-fourth day), [128]. ►
Burning pains in lower half of abdomen, at intervals (fifty-third day), [128]. ►
Sharp needlelike pains in the left groin, lasting a few minutes
(forty-seventh day), [128].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Gurgling sounds in the rectum, with sudden darting pains of greater or
less severity. Some few days afterwards the symptoms in the rectum
became much more marked; there was a constant gurgling sound, as if a
considerable amount of fluid was there, in closed in a loose sac; the
spasms of darting pain became more frequent, and were sometimes so
unbearable as to force him down on the ground as if shot, [127]. [Sulphur 30 in globules, taken dry on the
tongue three times a day, brought about rapid and almost complete relief
of all the rectal symptoms.] ► During
the night, two most agonizing darts of pain in the rectum (forty-fifth
day), [127]. [490.] ►
Before going to bed, two darts of pain in the rectum, resembling shocks
from a strong galvanic battery (forty-seventh day); excruciating pains
in the rectum, of the same character as before (forty-eighth day), [127]. ►
Slight twinges of pain in the rectum (fiftieth and fifty-first days), [127]. ►
Spasmodic jumping in the anus, at night (fifth day), [128].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Copious
watery diarrhœa, [89]. ► Purged copiously during the night, [50]. ►
Sharp attack of diarrhœa (twenty-seventh day), [128]. ► Fæces
discharged involuntarily during the spasms, [49]. ► The
dejections lumpy and dry, the flatus having a smell as of fresh putty;
dejections afterwards lumpy and accompanied by mucus, [127]. ►
Constipation. ► Very
obstinate constipation, [33]. ► Constipation and griping pains in the
bowels (fourth day), [128]. [500.] ► Large doses of cathartics were at first
necessary to procure a movement of the bowels, and the black draught
seemed to do better than any other form of cathartic, [161].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Bladder and Urethra. ► The
bladder seemed to participate in the general contraction of the
voluntary muscles, and expelled small quantities of urine as fast
apparently as it flowed into the viscus, [44].
► After about ten days, perfect
paralysis of the coats of the urinary bladder came on, and the regular
use of the catheter was necessary for about two weeks, when the normal
function of the bladder was gradually restored, [161]. ►
Painful pressure in the bladder and rectum, [103]. ►
Uneasiness about the bladder and urethra, at first slight, but daily
increasing, aggravated by walking or sitting on anything hard
(thirty-first to fortieth day), [127].
► Occasional darting pains from the
bladder down the thighs (thirty-first to fortieth day), [127]. ►
Shooting pains about the neck of the bladder and down the rectum
forty-fourth day), [127]. ► Shooting pains down the front wall of the
bladder, and thence along the urethra (forty-first day), [127]. ►
Unable to leave the house on account of the burning pain caused in the
urethra by walking (forty-first day), [127].
► On the forty-fourth day the pains
left the bladder and settled in the glans, where they became constant
and very severe, [127]. [510.] ►
Renewal of scalding pain in the urethra (forty-seventh day), [127]. ►
Occasional scalding pains in the urethra (fiftieth and fifty-first
days), [127]. ► Micturition and Urine. ► Constant urging to make water, the
urgency not being removed by the act (thirty-first to forty-first day), [127]. ►
No rest at night, being continually obliged to rise and attempt to make
water (thirty-first to fortieth day), [127].
► Very copious secretion of urine, [3]. ►
Passes some urine under her, [132].
► Urine scanty, with constant urging
(twenty-fifth day), [128]. ► Urine very variable in character,
sometimes natural in appearance, sometimes as dark as bad table-beer,
sometimes with a thick red sediment, and sometimes with
albuminous-looking masses floating in it (forty-fourth day), [127].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Left spermatic
cord painful and the testicle swelled (forty-fifth day); testicle still
swelled and painful (forty-sixth and forty-ninth days); testicle remains
as before, swelled, but causing no pain, except in standing up or
walking about (fifty-second day), [127].
► The testicle continued in the same
state, hard and swollen; eventually there came on burning pain in the
left side of the scrotum, where the skin was tense over the testicle,
and a large abscess formed in the dartos and cellular tissue. This was
opened by a small incision, and yielded a very large quantity of
semitransparent fluid, partly mixed with blood, after the discharge of
which the size of the testicle became somewhat less; there was
apparently no connection between the testicle and abscess, [127]. ►
Female. [520.] ► While falling asleep, quite suddenly
several hysterical jerks as from the womb, with burning, irritating heat
and violent pulsation in the passages; also a feeling of great pressure
and bearing down (twenty-seventh night), [128].
► Darting pain and thrilling
sensation in the vagina, with momentary pulsation coming on at short
intervals (thirty-first day), [128].
► Violent tearing pains in the womb,
coming on at intervals and lasting a few minutes (thirty-sixth day), [128]. ►
The menstrual period came on the fifth day and lasted for the usual
time, quite unaffected apparently by the proving. The menses came on
again at the proper time, but lasted only two days, and were very
scanty, [128].® 2000
Article