TARENTULA.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Painfulness of the
genitals; testicles relaxed and painful to touch; pain in the groins and
stricture of the urethra, [13]. ► Swelling of the penis, with pain in the
groins, fatigue, weakness of the legs, and stricture of the urethra, [13]. [510.]
► Erections, with sexual appetite, [13]. ►
Erection when awake, without erotism, only ceasing when violently
exercising the whole body, [13]. ► Erection without erotism, [13]. ►
Erections, disappearing easily when moving or fixing the attention on
any other object, [13]. ► Incomplete erection, with dizziness and
formication, [13]. ► After taking the medicine for eight days,
an indolent tumor, the size of a filbert, was developed in each
testicle, [13]. ► Heaviness and pain in the testicles;
considerable swelling of the right one; is obliged to stay in bed;
sexual excitement; seminal emissions, [13].
► After having felt, when taking the
medicine, a slight pain and swelling of the spermatic cord and right
testicle, the latter became as large as a lemon, with adhesion to the
scrotum in some parts; uneasiness and restlessness, with aggravation in
the night and when moving, [13]. ► About the second day, increased pain in
the spermatic cord, with heaviness of the left testicle, and great
sleeplessness without cause (better by riding in a carriage), [13]. ►
Drawing-pulling sensation in the left spermatic cord, with borborygmus
and constant expulsion of gas, for six minutes, [13]. [520.] ► During the emission of semen, a sensation
of heat is felt in its passage, and it is of a rose color, due to some
blood mixed with it, [13]. ► Increased sexual appetite, though
moderate, [13]. ► Sexual excitement, and continued seminal
emissions on account of onanism, followed by imbecility, stupid
laughter, and progressive wasting away, [13].
► Excitement of the sexual appetite, [13]. ►
Constant sexual excitement, which nothing can control; sufferings of the
prostate, debilitating sweats, unconquerable sadness, and stupidity;
erotism, [13]. ► Constant sexual excitement in a virtuous
man, followed by hypochondriasis and unhappy mood, [13]. ►
Lasciviousness in a man thirty-five years old, reaching almost to
insanity, [13]. ► Lasciviousness in a man forty years old;
constant sexual excitement at the sight of obscene objects; onanism,
followed by prostatic sufferings, [13].
► Difficult coition, with little
pleasure, [13]. ► Difficult coition, followed by fatigue
and cough, [13]. ► Female. [530.]
► Swelling and induration of the
uterus, which is the seat of contractions; constant desire to urinate;
pain in the kidneys and legs, and impossibility to walk, [13]. ►
Swelling of the uterus, with burning and smarting pains, [13]. ►
*Swelling and induration of the uterus, with difficulty of walking, [13]. ►
The uterus is hardened and seems deranged by the bladder, which feels as
if filled, with constant desire to urinate, [13]. ► The
uterus is hard, distended, and seems to contain a foreign body, [13]. ►
Discharge of blood from the uterus, alternating with leucorrhœa, which
weakens considerably the patient, [13].
► Discharge of a pale blood;
weakness; gastric malaise; ecchymotic spots on the fleshy parts, varying
in size from one to four inches in diameter, [13]. ► Loss
of blood, followed by leucorrhœa; pain in the groins; kidneys, and
thighs, and difficult digestion, [13].
► Uterine discharges, with pain in
the groins, [13]. ► Expulsion of gas through the vagina,
proceeding from the uterus, [13]. [540.] ►
Uterine symptoms, resulting in unconsciousness of existence, with stupid
laughter, staring look, and immobility, [13].
► Uterine symptoms in a young lady of
twenty-eight years; excessive, immoderate laughter; nervous movements,
followed by insanity (under the influence of an unfortunate love), [13]. ►
Repetition of hysteralgia, with pains like colic and borborygmus
(relieved by Magn. carb.), [13]. ► Hysteric pains, with much borborygmus and
sensitiveness of the uterus, lasting three days, and ending with the
expulsion of gases, [13]. ► Unbearable spasmodic pains in the uterus,
particularly when trying to walk; gastric derangement, vomiting, and
anguish, [13]. ► Unbearable contractions of the uterus,
seeming to take such a development that there is not sufficient space
for it, and pushes violently the intestines, [13]. ►
Excruciating pains in the uterus; desire to vomit, and vomiting of food
taken, in small quantities; nervous trembling, changing into a nervous
crisis, followed by complete prostration, [13].
► Pains in the uterus and abdomen,
which is very swollen; the pains are those that precede an abortion;
great dejection and prostration, [13].
► Pain in the uterus, and compressive
pain in the head and chest, uneasiness, and agitation; relieved by the
musical air called “Tarantella,” [13]. ► Pain
in the uterus, as if scratching, followed by pain in the stomach, great
thirst, great sadness, unhappy mood, and disposition to get angry, [13]. [550.]
► Pains of different kinds in the
uterus for three days, with expulsion of gas, preceded by hysteric
phenomena, [13]. ► Pain in the uterus, with a severe
constrictive headache, [13]. ► Bruised pain in the uterus, extending to
the vulva, [13]. ► Pains in the uterus, as if caused by an
abortion, [13]. ► Pressive and burning pains in the uterus,
hips, and os sacrum, with tearing pain in the stomach and colic in the
abdomen, [13]. ► Cutting and burning pains in the uterus, [13]. ►
Cutting pain in the uterus, or pain as if striking a heavy blow on it,
with swelling, followed by a spasmodic erotism, [13]. ►
Anguish, malaise, in the sexual organs; the kidneys and thighs are
painful; impossibility to walk; it seems as if a living body were moving
or tingling in the stomach, with tendency to ascend to the throat, [13]. ►
Shooting in the genitals, followed by some leucorrhœa, [13]. ► Pain
in the genitals parts for a day, but by spells, the day before
menstruation, [13]. [560.] ►
Shooting in the vagina, [13]. ► Shooting in the vagina and anus, [13]. ►
Great pruritus at the vulva after menstruation, [13]. ► Return
of leucorrhœa, which she had not had for a year, worse in the evening
and night, [13]. ► Profuse menstruation, with pain in the
sacrum, hips, and uterus, as during labor, [13]. ►
Profuse menstruation, accompanied by frequent erotic spasms, crossness,
ennui, and deep dissatisfaction; a quiet sleep of half an hour is
followed by crossness and ennui, with debility, painful giddiness, as
when coming out from a warm room into an intense cold air (Lycopod. was
the antidote), [13]. ► Menstruation appears seven days before
the usual time, [13]. ► Menstruation more abundant than usual;
when ceasing; the urinary symptoms also disappeared, [13]. ►
Menstruation appears thirteen days in advance, and is preceded by
derangements more or less marked, [13].
► Menstruation appeared after
thirty-four days; it lasted six days, and was more abundant than usual, [13]. [570.]
► Appearance of catamenia, scanty and
pale, about the third day of taking the medicine, in a young girl who
had not menstruated before. The next day, when dressing, nausea and
vomiting of acid substances, followed by burning in the abdomen,
particularly in the epigastrium, fatigue on going upstairs, and, since,
the beginning of the proving, loss of memory, talkativeness, and happy
mood. After thirty-two days, new menstruation for twenty-four hours, in
the same girl, scanty and pale, preceded by coryza, and pains in the
abdomen for three days, [13]. ► Sexual desire in a woman, who had a
shining callosity on her left index finger, with heat and shooting pains
in it, aggravated by pressure; dry cough, happy mood, and poor memory.
After two days of taking the medicine (Tarantula), the callosity
detached itself, but the cough and the sexual appetite lasted for eight
days longer, [13]. ► Sexual appetite (in a woman of twenty-six
years), with some dry cough by spells; facility to express herself, but
hesitation, incertitude, and changeable in her actions and ideas. The
sexual appetite lasted in this woman forty-five days, and was not
influenced by menstruation. During all this time there was poor memory,
quarrelsome and changeable temper, and her look was at times vivid and
passionate, [13]. [The sexual
desire was so manifest in this woman that when playing or dancing with
gentlemen, she hugged them before every body. The just remarks on her
conduct made her irritable; she cried, was angry, and finished by
promising not to do it again; however, she did not keep her promise
long. During this period the catamenia were scanty and pale, with severe
pains in the teeth and buttocks. At times she experienced the desire to
take things which did not belong to her. A circumstance worth
mentioning, was that the “Tarantella” played on the violin and
guitar did not produce any effect on her, but as soon as she took in her
arms a little girl, she commenced to cry until the child was taken away
his never took place with her before. These experiments were repeated
several times, always with the same results.]
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx. ►
Roughness in the larynx and trachea, with some dry cough, and smarting
in the eyelids, [13]. ► Sensation of roughness and scraping in
the larynx and trachea, with smarting in the eyelids, and indifference, [13]. ►
Dryness, scraping in the larynx and trachea, with frontal headache, [13]. ►
The patient was unable to speak a word, and pointed to the larynx as the
seat of the trouble, [12]. ► Voice. ►
Aphonia, with increased difficulty of breathing, [2]. ►
Hoarseness, [13]. ► Cough and Expectoration. ► Cough, shortness of breath, oppression,
and prostration until 9 A.M., [13].
[580.] ►
Painful cough, and sensation of dryness in the chest; laziness, languor,
sadness, and fear of running into consumption, [13]. ► Cough,
with gagging; cough produces distensive pains in the head, chest, and
uterus, with sadness and anxiety; but when walking in the open air, a
sensation of happiness (tenth day), [13].
► Cough, when getting out of bed,
with vomiting, and involuntary emission of urine, [13]. ► Cough,
with pain in the left side of chest, extending to the arm of the same
side, [13]. ►
Cough, with desire to raise something, but without succeeding, [13]. ►
Cough, excited by smarting in the throat, and bronchiæ; worse at night,
[12]. ►
Cough, when getting up from bed, and nausea, on account of the efforts
to raise the mucus in the chest; pain in the false ribs of the left
side, [13]. ►
Cough, when waking, with retching, and pain in the head and heart, [13]. ►
Dry harsh cough, with oppression in the chest, followed by two soft and
burning stools, with pain and smarting in the anus, [13]. ► Dry
cough, in the morning, as in the beginning of phthisis, [13]. [590.] ► Dry cough, with a slight smarting in the
throat, [13]. ► Dry, fatiguing, and convulsive cough,
with retching, in the night, in bed, relieved by smoking; when waking
up, hoarseness, with sensation of roughness in the chest and throat, [13]. ►
Dry cough, in the morning (in a woman of twenty-six years); in the
evening it is more frequent and spasmodic; hoarseness, roughness in the
larynx and trachea, and pain in the front part of the chest; frequent
pulse, increased heat; dizziness, pain in the whole head, and smarting
in the eyes; thirst, but water disagrees; want of appetite; heat in the
abdomen; shaking chills in the back; convulsive spasms in the posterior
part of the trunk, thighs, and legs; general lassitude, indifference,
and poor memory. These symptoms, which lasted for several days,
increased from 5 P.M. till 5 A.M., with sleeplessness and malaise, in
bed. This woman experienced, at the same time, violent and constant
sexual appetite, [13]. ► Frequent coughing, dry in the beginning,
and followed afterwards by an abundant expectoration of tough, whitish
mucus, of a salty taste, [13]. ► Dry painful cough, with a very thick and
yellow expectoration; pain at the base of the chest; indifference and
laziness, [13]. ► Loose cough, with expectoration; great
oppression; pain in left lung, with a sensation as if the back was
pressed against the chest (relieved by Bovista), [13]. ► Loose
cough, scanty expectoration; great fatigue and oppression in the chest,
as if smothering; general perspiration, particularly on the head and
chest, [13]. ►
Loose cough, followed by tickling in the larynx and bronchial tubes,
which renews the cough, [13]. ► Moist cough, difficult expectoration, and
great debility, [13]. ► Cough, with yellow and thick
expectoration, increased when waking, and followed by pains in the
lungs, particularly the left, when coughing, and during a deep
inspiration, [13]. ► Respiration. [600.] ►
Breathing short and hurried, much worse on attempting to lie down, [16]. ►
Great difficulty in breathing, [2].
► Great difficulty in breathing,
accompanied by a peculiar incessant sighing, [12]. ►
Attacks of suffocation and oppression of the chest, with crying screams
and restlessness. (Nervous attack, hysteria), [13]. ► Feels
suffocated, oppressed at the chest; followed by crying and screams,
without a cause, [13]. ► Feels suffocated on account of so much
laughing, [13]. ► Suffocation; violent and painful
palpitation, causing great anxiety, [13].
► Suffocation, constant want of air,
beating of the heart, ceasing suddenly, then the patient thinks he is
going to die, [13].
CHEST.
►
Murmurs in the chest, and palpitation of the heart, with alternate
acceleration and suspension of the movements of the heart, [13]. ►
Cutting pain in the left lung and heart, with pain in the tonsils, and
necessity of stretching, [13]. [610.] ►
Painful feeling at the base of both lungs, when coughing or inhaling, [13]. ►
Chest expands with difficulty, [13].
► Constriction of the chest, [4]. ►
Oppression of the chest, with rheumatic pains and debility; these pains
flew from the chest to the stomach, from the uterus to the limbs, etc.,
and vice versâ, with weakness in
the arms, preventing work. (Bovista relieved), [13]. ►
Oppression in the chest, with headache, burning heat, general
perspiration, sadness, with palpitation and desire to cry, [13]. ►
When waking, after a quiet sleep, oppression, with pain in the left side
of chest, [13]. ► Oppression in the chest, with cough and
prostration, till 9 A.M., when the headache increases extending to the
neck and throat, with stiffness of the muscles of these parts. (These
symptoms appeared in the morning, when waking, preceded by sadness,
trembling, and headache), [13]. ► *Great oppression in the chest; panting
respiration, palpitation, and prostration, [13]. ► Pain
and oppression in the chest, worse when raising the arms, with the
sensation as if a blow was received at the base of left lung. Repeated
coughing, with desire to raise sputa, which was bloody. Oppression and
panting respiration at the slightest movement. Lying on the left side is
unbearable, and produces suffocation, and necessity of sitting up in
bed. A the same time an exaggerated resonance is detected by percussion,
at the anterior part of the base of the left lung. (The symptoms
resembled much those produced by a cavity. Relieved by Bovista), [13]. ►
Muscular pains in the whole chest, particularly on the left side;
becoming worse and pressive, when touched in the left mammary region, [13]. [620.]
► Constrictive pain in the chest and
head, as if a blow was received there, [13].
► Rheumatic pain in the anterior and
middle part of the chest, extending to both sides, with acute pain in
the hypochondrium and umbilical region, [13].
► Acute pain in the anterior and
inferior part of the chest, towards the left side, with crossness, and
fixed ideas, [13]. ► Pressive pain in the muscles of the
anterior part of the chest, [13]. ► Towards evening, constant stinging pain,
very severe in the interior of the chest, between the fourth and fifth
ribs; worse by lying on the affected side, and by deep inspiration;
better after sleeping. The pain is followed by bitter taste, and gastric
symptoms, [13]. ► Pain in the anterior and lateral walls of
the chest, with cough, sad countenance, indifference, and disgust for
everything, [13]. ► Pain in the right side, towards evening
with a smarting sensation, [13]. ► Pain in the right side, towards evening,
with a very disagreeable sensation, lessening when sitting and pressing
on the parts, [13]. ► Pain under left false ribs, followed by
dryness and smarting in the throat, [13].
► Cramplike pains in the left false
ribs, with cough and difficult expectoration when rising, causing
nausea, [13]. [630.] ►
Cramplike pain in the left side of the chest, with necessity of striking
himself, and scratching his face and neck; at the same time yawning,
stretching, and necessity of putting the fingers in his mouth, [13]. ►
Pain in the subclavian, with cold feet, [13].
► Pressive pain in the left side of
chest, with tearing in the stomach, great thirst and restlessness, [13]. ►
Pressive pain in the left side of chest, and in the left subclavian,
with the sensation as if it was distended, [13]. ►
Shooting in the left side in the morning, [13].
► Shooting pain in the region of the
left subclavian, with sensation as if stretched and shooting in the
heart at times; palpitation and slight murmur at the same time, tearing
pain in the stomach for several hours, and shooting in the spleen, [13]. ►
Mammæ. ► Swelling of the
breasts, with itching in the nipples, [13].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
PRÆCORDIAL. ► Diseases of
the heart and particularly of the circulatory system, become worse after
wetting the hands, in cold water, [13].
► Inability to lie down on account of
the extreme anguish it caused in the præcordial region; did not retire
to bed nor sleep for four nights, [16].
► *Præcordial anxiety, tumultuous
beating of the heart, [13].
[640.] ►
Præcordial anxiety; the movements of the heart are not felt (after a
moral shock), [13]. ► Violent anguish of the heart, [2], [4].
► Oppression and pain in the heart,
as if a misfortune had happened, with weeping and moaning, followed by
cramps and coldness in the inferior extremities, [13]. ► Pain
in the heart, as if squeezed or compressed, also in the aorta, under the
left clavicle, and carotids; with violent throbbing of these arteries
and heart, [13]. ► Pain, as if the heart and aorta were
torn, with a tingling sensation, [13].
► Severe pain in the aorta, extending
to the subclavian, as if it was going to burst, with slight beating of
the heart, [13]. ► Sensation as if the heart turned or
twisted around, with pain in the chest, and general perspiration.
(Relieved by Bovista), [13]. ► Painful compressed feeling in the heart,
with severe headache, bitter mouth and thirst, [13]. ►
Pressive pain in the heart and aorta, with violent throbbing, [13]. ►
Pressive pain in the whole region of the heart, with severe headache,
and a great deal of moaning in the night, [13].
[650.] ►
Pressive pain in the region of the heart, worse by touching, [13]. ►
Shooting pain in the heart and arteries of the left side of the chest,
extending to the left arm. The sensibility of these parts is so
increased, that the contact with the dress is very painful, [13]. ►
Heart’s Action. ►
Palpitation, with sadness, inclined to tears, oppression, headache, with
general perspiration and burning heat, [13].
► Palpitation of the heart, without
any known cause, [13]. ► Palpitation of the heart, with great
oppression, panting respiration headache, and prostration, [13]. ►
Palpitation of the heart, stitches interfering with breathing; pain in
the back, painful feeling in the spinal column, [13]. ► Severe
palpitation, with murmur in the heart, [13].
► Great irregularity in the
circulation, [13]. ► The circulation of the blood, judging by
the pulse, is alternately increased and diminished, [13]. ►
Painful throbbing of the carotids, with fulness in the head, especially
in the region of the medulla oblongata, relieved by the epistaxis, [16]. [660.]
► Trembling of the heart, and
thumping, as when frightened, or when hearing bad news, [13]. ► Pulse.
► Hard and frequent pulse, [13]. ►
Irregular pulse, [11].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Rigidity of the
neck, being so painful that he cannot move without screaming from pain, [13]. ►
Rigidity of the neck, with a great deal of pain, and inability to turn
the head; violent pain in the forehead, as if encircled by a band of
iron, [13]. ►
In the morning, when turning the head, pain in both sides of neck, and
from that time until night pain in the left side of neck when turning
the head to the right, [13]. ► Neck felt sore, [15]. ► All
the muscles of the neck and back are so painful, that movement is
impossible, [13]. ► Pain in the neck and back, followed by
general paralysis, [13]. ► Back. ►
Distortion of the vertebral column (result of rachitis), with commencing
paraplegia, [13]. [670.] ► A
swelling, kind of a tumor or rheumatoid prominence on the vertebral
column, with labored respiration, pain in the limbs, and sleeplessness
(in a person of 14 or 15 years), [13].
► A tumor near the middle of the
vertebral column, with numbness of the inferior extremities, [13]. ►
Narrowing of the vertebral canal, the result of venereal and scorbutic
affections, [13]. ► Pain in the back, from morning till next
day, [13]. ► Dorsal. ►
Pain in the scapulæ, [13]. ► Shooting pain under the scapulæ, [13]. ►
Shooting pain in the scapulæ and abdomen, [13]. ►
Towards evening, sharp shooting pain under the left scapula, causing him
to scream, and leaving a dull pain; movement brought on the shooting
pain; after some hours the pain descended under the false ribs; the pain
and shooting reappeared during the night, when moving or turning, but
did not interfere with sleep, [13].
► Pain along the middle of the back,
as after receiving a lash, [13]. ► Lumbar. ►
Shooting in the left side above the hip, at 9 P.M., [13]. [680.] ► Acute convulsive pains in the left
inferior part of the vertebral column at the appearance of the
catamenia, ceasing with it, [13]. ► Violent pains in the lumbar region;
paralysis of the inferior extremities, and suppression of the urine
(result of concussion of the spinal column), [13]. ► Pain
in the lumbar region as soon as menstruation commences, [13]. ►
Repeated lancinating, shooting pains in the coccyx, [13].® 2000
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