TABACUM.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Quiet
delirium, murmuring to himself, [17].
► He went to sleep in the cabin,
which was full of large packages of tobacco, but was harassed by wild
and frightful dreams, and suddenly awaked about midnight, bathed in a
cold dew, and totally unable to speak or move. He knew, however,
perfectly where he was, and recollected everything that had occurred the
preceding day; he could not make any bodily effort whatever, and tried
in vain to get up, or change his position. The watch on deck struck four bells, and he counted them, though it
seemed to him as if he did not hear the beat, but received the vibration
through his body. About this time a seaman came into the cabin with a
light, and carried away an hour-glass without observing the sufferer.
Shortly after a pane of glass was broken in the skylight, and he saw the
fragments of glass drop on the floor. These circumstances which really
occurred, are mentioned to show that Mr. H. experienced real sensations,
and was not still under the influence of perturbed dreams. His inability
to move was not accompanied by any pain or uneasiness, but he felt as if
the principle of life had entirely departed from his frame. At length he
became totally insensible, and continued so till an increase of wind
made the sea a little rough, which caused the vessel to roll. The
motion, he supposes, had the effect of awakening him from his trance,
and he contrived somehow or other go get up and go on deck. His memory
was totally lost for about a quarter of an hour; he knew that he was in
a ship, but nothing more. While in this state he observed a man drawing
water from the sea in buckets, and requested him to pour one on his
head. On the seaman doing so, all his faculties were immediately
restored, and he acquired a most vivid recollection of a vast variety of
ideas and events which appeared to have passed through his mind, and to
have occupied him during the time of his supposed insensibility, [74]. ►
By loud calling and vigorous shaking, he was aroused from his comatose
condition, when he began in a high state of nervous excitement to cry,
“Oh, my head! Oh, my head!” at the same time clutching his
forehead with his hands, and staring wildly about him. At one time, in
great trepidation, he begged that some imaginary bottles should be taken
out of the room; indeed, his conduct and appearance at this time were
not unlike one suffering with delirium tremens, [89]. ► After
a time the patient changed from a state of stupor into one of wild
intoxication, started up in bed with ridiculous, foolish talking,
accompanied by convulsive movements and spasms of the facial muscles, [34]. ►
Complete intoxication, [33]. ► Felt as if intoxicated with spirituous
liquor (after one hour), [32]. ► Extreme agitation, [70]. ►
Intoxication for more than twenty-four hours, [14]. ► (The
Mexican priests incite courage and bravery by means of an ointment of
tobacco), [11]. [10.] ►
Great joyfulness and talkativeness, as from intoxication (first day), [1]. ►
Frequent laughter without cause, [106].
► She sings the whole day (twelfth
day), [2]. ►
Joyful and lively, second and third days, [2].
► She is very lively and jolly,
danced about on one leg for joy, and laughs without reason nearly all
day (first day), [2]. ► He was queer for days after, the
principal symptom being weak and irritable pulse, [165]. ►
Misanthropy, [96]. ► Very morose and fretful (first day), [2]. ►
Despondency, [49]. ► Low spirits, want of resolution and
general hypochondriasis, [56]. [20.] ►
Gloom, hypochondria, apprehensions of sudden death, [58]. ► Most
profound gloom, constant fear of death, yet attempting suicide, [56]. ►
Nervous and hypochondriac, [61]. ► Psychical alteration and hypochondria in
a high degree, [131]. ► Hypochondria in a high degree, [130]. ►
Extremely hypochondriac mood (first day), [4a],
[4b]. ►
Anxiety, [9], [11], [160].
► Anxiety and sickness (woman), [32]. ►
Anxiety on being alone at night, [139].
► Anxiety with very depressed,
melancholy thoughts while walking (third day), [2]. [30.] ► Uneasiness and anxiety in the afternoon,
as if some misfortune would occur (tenth day), [2]. ►
Apprehensive and insensible, [18],
[19]. ►
Apprehensive towards evening, several days, [2]. ►
Apprehension and anxiety occurred several afternoons, and were relieved
by weeping, [2]. ► Apprehensive, faint-hearted, and
despondent, with nausea; she thought she would die, which disappeared
after vomiting, after dinner, [1].
► Great apprehension with oppression
of the chest, and a very despondent, sad mood, as if he apprehended some
misfortune, preceded by inclination to vomit; relieved by weeping (first
day), [2]. ►
Apprehension, anxiety, and despondency, as if she dreaded death, at 4
P.M., two days in succession, [2].
► Terrible apprehensions of immediate
death, [56]. ►
Despondent, joyless mood, [1]. ► Discouragement, [96]. [40.] ► His manner is nervous, restless, and
uneasy; he looks as though he were frightened, and confesses to a
feeling of anxiety without any cause for it, [99]. ► From
having been one of the most healthy and fearless of men, he had become
sick all over, and as timid as a girl; he could not even present a
petition in Congress, much less say a word concerning it; though he had
long been a practicing lawyer, and had served much in a legislative
body. By any ordinary noise, he was startled or thrown into
tremulousness, and afraid to be alone at night. During the narrative of
his sufferings, his aspect approached the haggard wildness of
distemperature, [67]. ► Evenness and mildness of temper,
notwithstanding he felt very uneasy about his health, [92]. ►
Ill-humor, [45], [47], [48],
[51]. ►
Irritability, [30], [60]. ► He was
incapacitated for business of any kind, weak, irresolute, and
despondent, [58]. ► Completely indifferent, would not answer,
immovable, [79]. ► Intellectual. ►
Indolent (first day), [2]. ► Disinclined to work (second day), [2]. ►
Dread of work, [45], [47], etc. [50.]
► Psychical uneasiness, [130]. ►
Exalted action of the brain; copious flow of ideas; during this sort of
intellectual paroxysm, which often continues all night long, leaving me
in the morning worn-out and sick, I would conceive and elaborate about
twenty undertakings, of which probably not one would ever come to light,
[96]. ►
Mind dull, [107]. ► She feels dull, cannot rightly collect
her thoughts (fourth day), [2]. ► Difficulty in concentrating his mind for any
length of time on one subject, [136].
► Confusion of ideas, [41], [126],
[149]. ►
Understanding transiently confused, [7].
► The primary effects of tobacco on
my constitution exactly corresponded with the secondary effects of
coffee, viz., turpitude of the cerebral functions; confusion of ideas,
and lack of words to express them, [96].
► She is unable to grasp an idea,
something else constantly occurs to her and crowds out the former
thought, with heaviness and dulness of the head, all of which disappears
after vomiting, after dinner, [1].
► Twenty-three manifested serious
derangements of the intellectual faculties, [143]. [60.] ► Loss of intellectual power, [44]. ►
Memory has failed of late, [174]. ► Stupefaction, [10], [11],
[37], etc. ►
Profound stupor, [161]. ► He no longer recognized his surroundings;
when spoken to he understood, but the answers he endeavored to make were
only unintelligible sounds, [17]. ► Lost consciousness for a moment; he
screamed out that smokers must go out of the room, though no one was
smoking, that the fumes took away his breath, etc.; immediately
afterwards he became quiet, but talked incessantly and irrationally,
with open, staring eyes, spoke of events in his past life, then returned
to consciousness, [16]. ► Completely dumb and insensible, [14]. ►
Complete loss of consciousness, [10],
[89], etc. ►
Unconscious as if in a faint, [33a].
► Became senseless and unconscious,
without apparent respiration, [34].
[70.] ►
Fell unconscious to the ground, [126].
► She fell to the ground unconscious,
with stoppage of the respiration and scarcely perceptible pulse, [36]. ►
Complete insensibility to pinching and sticking, [127]. ►
Complete unconsciousness with appearance of quiet sleep, [127]. ► The
child lay in a soporous condition with the eyes half closed, with a
staring look, dilated pupils, with violent trembling of the limbs, rapid
respiration, violent beating of the heart and carotids, extreme thirst,
profuse sweat, and cold extremities (after twenty-four hours), [38]. ►
Coma, [31], [80], [160],
[169]. ►
The person seemed in a comatose condition for some moments, then he was
roused by the pain, but uttered no complaint, but made violent automatic
movements, rose, walked a few steps as if intoxicated, and threw himself
upon the bed and tossed about, [17].
► Profound narcotism, stupor, [134]. ►
Fell into a comatose state and died, [52].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo and Confusion. ►
Head confused, [47], [48]. [80.]
► Great confusion of the head, [50], [51].
► Confusion, long continued, [11]. ►►
*Vertigo, [7], [8], [9],
[10], [11], etc. ►
Excessive vertigo (after half an hour, and second and fourth days), [2]. ►
Vertigo and intoxication, [12]. ► Vertigo, with some colic, [7]. ►
Frequent paroxysms of vertigo, [158].
► Vertigo and fulness of the head, [56]. ►
Vertigo, with no steadiness of the body, [4c].
► Vertigo on motion, [131]. [90.] ► Vertigo on every attempt to rise, [77]. ►
Vertigo, so that she could not rise up, [88].
► Vertigo, with qualmishness in the
stomach (fifth day), [2]. ► Vertigo, which amounted to loss of
consciousness, [3]. ► Vertigo, as from intoxication (first and
second day), [2]. ► Vertigo, a turning in a circle with
pressive headache in the forehead and temples, [1]. ►
Frequent attacks of vertigo, which caused staggering and falling, while
everything seemed to turn round, [137].
► Vertigo, everything about him
seemed to move from right to left, or from above downward, and then the
reverse, [158]. ► Vertigo; it seems as if the whole room
were turning about in a circle, and she does not dare to rise from her
seat for fear of reeling (after a quarter of an hour), [2]. ► Vertigo
on entering the house after walking in the open air, with nausea and
inclination to eructate; the nausea increases in a warm room, so that
she is obliged to go into the open air, when she vomits the food eaten
at noon, [1]. [100.] ► Dizzy and reeling (after five minutes), [2]. ►
Dizziness and physical prostration, soon, [4a].
► Reeling, [13]. ►
Reeling in the morning after rising from bed (eleventh day), [2]. ►
The girl walked about as if intoxicated, [38].
► Slight giddiness and occasional
headache at the time the eyes began to fail, [174]. ►
Giddiness in occiput, [153]. ► General Head. ►
Head thrown back, amounting almost to opisthotonos, [130]. ►
Slight tremulous motion of the head while reading (after a quarter of an
hour), [4b]. ►
Slight trembling of the head and hands, [96].
[110.] ►
Apoplexy, [9], [30]. ►
Congestions to the head, [108]. ► Frequent congestions to the head and
chest, [76]. ►
Much congestion of blood and flushing of heat towards the head (first
day), [2]. ► *Heaviness of the head, [136], [139].
► Heaviness of the head on stooping
(after half an hour), [1]. ► Feeling of heaviness in the head after
dinner, [1], [2]. ► Head
heavy and dull, [126]. ► Heaviness of the head, she could
scarcely hold it up (first day), [2].
► Great heaviness of the head; it
constantly sinks forward (first day), [1].
[120.] ►
Dulness and confusion of the head, [35a].
► Dulness of the head, with dull
pressure on the root of the nose, with sensation as if the ears were
stopped, [4c]. ► *Headache, [8], [11], [36], [39],
etc. ► *Headache with vertigo,
[1]. ►
Woke with headache and pressure in the vertex and temples, which lasted
nearly all day (fourth day), [2]. ► Violent headache in the morning on
moving, as if something were shaking within the head, relieved during
rest (second day), [2]. ► Severe headache for three or four months,
[174]. ►
Headache towards evening, as if both temples were compressed (seventh to
tenth day), [2]. ► Headache with a feeling of slight
throbbing in both temples, [1]. ► Pain in head and eyes, [167]. [130.]
► Violent headache, [32], [126].
► Whilst passing his urine, was
attacked with sudden and most violent pain in the head, followed
immediately by vomiting; the pain was so violent he screamed for
assistance, [128]. ► Acute and persistent headache, [160]. ►
Dull headache, especially in the forehead, aggravated by motion, after
dinner, [4b]. ► Violent headache, especially drawing in
the left half of the forehead and through the left eye, [4c]. ► *The
headache is relieved in the open air, [1]. ►
Compressive pains in the head, especially in the occiput (third day), [2]. ►
Oppression of the head, as though the whole world were resting upon him,
with weakness, [138]. ► Rising sensation like an aura about his
head, [64]. ►
Sensation of rush of blood to the head, [57].
[140.] ►
Shocks in the head, followed by a sensation as if a rush of blood took
place to the head, [56]. ► Roaring in the head, [76]. ►
Complained much of head and throat, and the former was thrown back, [151]. ►
Some deep stitches in the head, extending towards the vertex (third
day), [2]. ► Forehead. ►
Contraction in the muscles of the forehead (first day), [2]. ►
Supraorbital headache, [162]. ► Frontal headache, as if the brain were
compressed; the pain is aggravated by inclining the head towards the
painful side, [51]. ► Pressive pain in the forehead, [46]. ►
Pressive pains in the forehead or vertex, [76].
► Pressive headache above the eyes
(after five minutes); also, with flickering before the eyes, worse on
walking (after one hour), [2]. [150.] ►
Pressive headache above the eyes with heat of the head (after one hour),
[2]. ►
Pressive headache the whole afternoon, especially above the right eye
(second day), [2]. ► Sensation as if the anterior portion of
the brain were pressed backward from the forehead, [49]. ► Dull
pressive pain in the forehead and root of the nose, [1]. ► Dull
pressive pain, deep in the frontal region, [48]. ► Pain
in forehead, [174]. ► Stitches extending from the forehead to
the occiput; they disappeared in the open air, but if he stood still,
they returned; they ceased entirely on lying down (second day), [2]. ►
Temples. ► Pressive
contraction in the temples (after a quarter of an hour), [2]. ►
Pressure in the temples lasting ten days (after four days), [2]. ►
Alternating pressure and sticking in the temples (first day), [2]. [160.]
► Some pain in temple where symptoms
begun, [174]. ► A drawing, sticking pain, extending from
the left temple over the forehead towards the vertex (first day), [2]. ►
Stitches in left temple (after two minutes, and first and third days), [2]. ►
Sore stitches in the temples (second day), [2]. ► Vertex and
Parietals. ► A pressure on
the vertex as if some one was pressing upon it with a board (first day),
[2]. ►
Violent pressive headache in the vertex (after three minutes and
afterwards), [2]. ► Violent internal pressure in the vertex
immediately after eating (first day), [2].
► Pressive pain on the vertex, at
times associated with stitching, [2].
► Stitches in the vertex for ten
days, frequently recurring (after four days), [2]. ► Pain in
both sides of the head as if broken (after one and a half hours), [2]. [170.]
► Pain in the right parietal bone on
pressing on it (first day), [2]. ► Pressive pain in the parietal bones in
the morning on waking, which disappeared on rising (sixth day), [2]. ►
Pressure in the right side of the head during dinner, [1]. ► A
sticking pain in the parietal bone, extending towards the occiput on
walking rapidly (first day), [2]. ► Stitches in the left side of the head
(fifth day), [2]. ► Occiput. ►
Pressure in the occiput (fourth and fifth day), [2]. ►
Pressive headache extending from the occiput to the temples, [45]. ►
External Head. ► Much hair
falls out on combing (fifth and sixth days), [2]. ► Burning
on the head, followed by formication, loss of appetite, violent sticking
in the ears, then by coldness with shivering (eighth day), [2]. ►
Formication above the left temple (second day), [2]. [180.] ► Violent itching of the scalp in a room
filled with tobacco-smoke, [4].® 2000
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