Antimonium et Potassæ Tartras
Allen, The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1874, Vol. I, p. 379
Tartar emetic, 2[K(SbO)C^H^Oe]H20. Preparation, Triturations.
Aidhorities.-\ 1, Hartlaub and Trinks, Reine Arznei-Mittldehre, 2, 209 ; 2, S. Hahnemann, Archive, 3, 2, 146; 3, Ricker, do.; 4, Gross, do.; 5, Staph, do. ; 6, Fr. H-n, do. ; 7, Hering, Archive, 13 z., 183; 8, " M.," in Buchner's review, Hygeia, 18, 274, took first dil. repeated doses ; 9, do. took one grain at once; 10, Molin, Comptes rendus du Congress Med. Ham. d. Paris, 1851-56, proving with sixth and eighteenth dilutions, repeated doses; 11, Doubling, N. Z. f. H. K., 14, 80, proving with several small doses and subcutaneous injection ; 12, Becker Beitrage, crude proving; 13, Mayerhofer, in* Becker Beit., effects of one one-hundredth of grain ; 14, De Moore, Rev. de 1. Mat. Med., 5, 436, proving with one-quarter grain ; 15, Macfarlan, Am. J. Ham. M. M., 4, 60, prov. 3" Fincke; 16, Woodbury, N. E. Med. Gaz., 4, 238, four grains a day for fifteen days; 17, Giaccomini, N. Archive, 1, 2, 107, one scruple; 18, Hutchinson (in Staph 's collection, Archive, 3, 2, 146, effects of inunction), (see also Wibraer) ; 19, Blackburne, do. ; 20, Horst, do., inunction (Hufeland's Journ., 1813); 21, Boletus, do.; 22, Elias, do. (Hufel. J., 20), eight grains in a clyster; 23, White, do.; 24, Baiumlinus, do. ; 25,Stutz, do. (inunction) ; 26, Autenreith, do. (inunction) ; 27, Meeker, do. (inunction) ; 28, Walter, do. (four pounds in milk, the curds eaten by two students); 29, Series, from Hencke's collection, A. H, Z., 88, 5 (and also from Wibiner) ; 30, Groschen, do. ; 31, Driver, do. ; 32. Male, do.; 33, Duffin, do.; 34, La Clinicus, do.; 35, Med. Gaz., do.; 36, Wetzler, do.; 37, Krebs, Hygeia, 20, 289; 38, Hildebrand, do.; 39, Imbert-Gourbeye, Brit. Journ., 19, 367, et seq., eruption from inunction ; 40, Boeckh Frank's Mag.; 41, Leinbert, do.; 42, Crichton, do.; 43, Wesener, do.; 44, Schneider, do. ; 45, Carbon, from Wibmer; 46, Orfila, Toxicologic (from Both Mat. Med.); 47, Readier, do.; 48, Constant, from Both; 49, Savory, do.; 50, Schi, do.; 51, Baumbach, do.; 52, Freer, Lancet, 1847 (effect of two drachms); 53, Harley, Lancet, 1846 (effect of ten grains on a child) ; 54, D. Kiger, O. M. and S. Rep., 5, 171 (child swallowed oneself ounce crude).
Mind p. 380
Furious delirium (third day)
(Suicidal mood ; he raves and does not know what he is doing),l
Excitement of disposition
He was talking to himself
Despondent and apprehensive about his recovery
Hopeless, despondent mood, toward evening, with chilliness,.pain in the chest, and great sleepiness
4.30 p.m., very morose, dejected, and sad
The anxiety increases with the nausea, together with a slight pressure and some warmth in the abdomen, which moves about with the free flatulence
She is frightened at every trifle
Apprehensive, with fulness about the heart and increased warmth (eighth day),l
Apprehensive and restless
Dreaded to be left alone even for a few moments, lest he should be dreadfully nervous and not know what to do with himself
Bad humor, everything goes wrong
Bad humor, noise is intolerable
Everything displeases her of which she thinks (after two hours,^).
Peevish and quarrelsome
He rubs his eyes with his hands as if in a stupid sleep, and wakes in a very ill-humor, e. g, if one looked at him he began to howl
The child will not alloiv itself touched, without whining and crying, whereby the toes and fingers are drawn inwards
The whole time an unusual, noticeable (more to others than to herself) wild gayety, toward evening; this gave place to fretfulness, peevishness, and anxious thoughts about the future ; she thinks she will remain in her present condition
Excited mentally (ninth day)
Restless, excited mind
Became senseless
Loss of consciousness; he falls into a state of stupor, interrupted from time to time by spasms
Head p. 380
Head confused (second day),l
Head confused
Head much confused (fifth day)
Head confused in the morning, which disappeared after rising (first day)
Head confused, with a warm forehead, depression of vigor, and indifference to everything
Confusion of the head, like a stupefaction, with a feeling as if he ought to sleep
Head confused, with heaviness and pressure in the forehead (eighth day)
Confusion of the head, like a pressure in the temples (immediately)
Marked confusion of the head, with increasing nausea
Head heavy, confused,'l
Head heavy, much confused (ninth day)
Head heavy, pressive, and confused
Head heavy, confused, with great discomfort on waking, mornings (ninth day)
The head is heavy, confused, and painful, with internal heat in the head (3 p.m.) ; it becomes better in the open air, and does not return again in the room
Vertigo '^
Vertigo (eighth day)/.
Attacks of vertigo (third and fourth day)
Vertigo often on closing gyggi
Vertigo on walking; he totters
Vertigo, with flickering before the eyes (third day)
Whirling in the head (ninth day),l
On trying to lift his head he felt a dizziness which obliged him to replace it on the pillow
Dulness, dizziness
No pustules, but an inflammation of the meninges of the brain ; the patient ran about delirious (inunction of four grains)
Congestion to head
Headache
Headache (second day)
Very painful headache, that she cannot well describe
Stupefying headache (ninth day)
Violent headache, with pressure and throbbing in the forehead and temples (eleventh day)
Severe headache, palpitations, vertigo
Stupefaction of the head, as if confined
Headache, like a tension, with drawings and burrowing, even as far as the root of the nose (afternoons)
Headache, with sensitiveness of epigastric region
Heat in the head increased by motion (third day)
Sensation of heat in the head, 4 p.m.
Frequent risings of heat in the head, with thirst (sixth day)
Compression of the head
External weakness of the head; she cannot hold the head erect
Internal weakness of the head,l
Heaviness of the head
The head seems very heavy
The head is heavy, and feels enlarged (4 p.m.)
The head is so heavy that she can scarcely hold it upright, with very fretful disposition, in the forenoon
The head is heavy and requires supporting behind
Pressure in the brain
Pressive headache all day, especially in forehead (eleventh day),l
Stitches in the head, from 11 a.m. till evening (second day),l
Sharp stitches in the head on motion
Raging and beating in the whole head, as if the brain would suppurate, which disappears in the open air, but returns in the room, 2j p.m.
Forehead covered with cold sweat
Forehead covered with sweat, head is cold,'-
Slight attacks of frontal headache
Violent pain in forehead and vertigo (five minutes),^l
Heat on the forehead, without sweat, in the morning,l
On coughing, heat and sweat of the forehead, so that she became very dizzy
Fine burning on the frontal bone above the right temple (after one and a half hours)
* Headache,as from a band compressing the forehead
Inward boring into the frontal bone, between the left root of the nose and the eyebrows
Dull boring, as from a blunt instrument, below the right frontal eminence
Headache draws about, painfully, in the forehead and vertex, with tension and pressure
Dull pain in the forehead, as if some one had beaten him on the head (fourth day),l
In the forehead a dull pain, sometimes becoming a sticking, which extends to the temple, increased by coughing (fourth <\a,j)
Pressure in the forehead, especially on motion (four hours )
Pressure in forehead and occiput (fifth day),l
A dull, wavelike pressure on the right frontal eminence
Headache from morning till 5 P.M. ; a painful pressing forward from the occiput across the vertex into the frontal region, where it seems to her as if everything would come out ; worse at 1 p.m. (seventh day)
Pressive headache in the centre of the forehead, above the nose,l
For several months, a pressive, tensive pain, especially in the forehead, immediately after waking, relieved by cold water (especially the third day ),\~* Pressive pain in the forehead, move like a sticking, extends downwards into the left eye, with unusual inclination to close the eyes (four hours)
A fine tearing from the left frontal eminence toward the temple, on speaking (after one hour)
Slight sticking in the forehead (second day),l
Sticking (or rather tearing) in the forehead Twenty hours) from 2 p.m. till 3 a.m.
Jerking and drawing, with a tension in the forehead, especially over the left eye (one hour)
A sensitive pain in the right side of the forehead, the whole evening, with a sensation as if the brain pressed too hard there, balled into heavy lumps
Throbbing in the right side of the forehead (fourth day)
On waking in the night he always has the same bad headache, as if the brain were balled into a heavy lump, only in the left half of the forehead
Pressive headache on the left side of the forehead, with pressure on the eyes
Violent pulsating of the bloodvessels in the temples (fifth day),l
Pressing inward in the left temple
Feeling as if both temples were pressed together
Feeling as if the head were compressed, at both temples, with dull instruments
Fine tearing in the left temple, on motion in the open air (after two hour^)
Sticking in the temples (third day),l
A longcontinuing, sensitive, drawing pressure in the right temple
In the temples a tension, as if squeezed, with a kind of stupefaction (one-quarter of an hour)
Pain ful drawing in the right temple extends down to the zygoma and upper jaw
Tension on the vertex (second day)
[HO.] Very sensitive pressure on the vertex (fifteenth day)
In the afternoon, on motion, a surging from the neck upward across the vertex, toward the forehead, with stupefaction and confusion of the senses, on standing for one minute
Burning and itching, in a place as large as a half dollar, in the anterior part of the right parietal bone, on stooping ; on rising, it is somewhat relieved, but constantly returns on stooping, and disappears on scratching (after one hour)
Intermittent tearings in the right side of the head
Tearing in the right side of the head, and especially deep in the right ear, on raising the head, after stooping (after three-quarters of an hour)
A kind of stupefaction with a tensive sensation attacks the left half of the head (one-quarter of an hour)
Slight tearing, drawing headache in the left half of the head from behind forward
A tensive pressing-in headache in the left half of the skull
On stooping, several violent stitches in the left parietal bone, extending forward (after half an hour)
Such a violent stitching-tearing from the posterior-inferior portion of the left parietal bone to a place in front of the vertex, that it seems as though a piece were being torn from her head; deep within, on standing, 8 a.m. ; the same pain returns on the following day, at the same hour
The occiput becomes heavy, and an anxious oppressive sensation sets in
Sensation in the occiput, on stooping, as if something fell forwards (three hours),l
Raging or throbbing pain on the right side of the occiput, like ulceration, on rest and motion, 1^ p.m.
Heaviness in the head, and the scalp is so sensitive that she can scarcely bear the comb (morning and evening)
Eyes p. 382
Squinting eyes,''l
Enlarged, swollen eyes
Bloodshot eyes
Weak and dim eyes,'l
Weakness of eyes (eleventh day)
Eyes feel so tired that they would close
Burning in the eyes, evenings, as if he had studied long by the light
Pressure on both eyes
Sense of weight on eyes
Inclination to press the eyes tightly together
Dull pressure over the nose and one eye
Violent "tearing between the root of the nose and the right eyebrow, as if some one took hold of her there by the skin ; very painful and long-lasting (after half an hour)
Difficultv of moving the lids (second day),^l
Sticking, like electric stitches, in both inner canthi, and pressure in the eyes,l
Burning and biting in the right internal canthus and redness of the conjunctiva
Acute conjunctivitis, with much lachrymation,'l
Yellowness of the sclerotica
The eyeball pains as if bruised, especially on touch,l
Sudden, rather severe, tensive pain in the upper part of the right eyeball,l
Vanishing of sight (niutb day)
Vanishing of sight and hearing
The sight vanishes when she "looks at an object for a long time, 42 p.m.
Sparks before the eyes
* Flickering before the eyes " 'I
Flickering before the eyes, especially on rising from sitting, several times in an hour, of short duration ; she sees only as through a thick veil, with vertigo (several days)
Blackness before the eyes
Ears p. 383
Twitching-tearing in the right concha, in the evening on lying down, which disappears in hed
Ulcerative pain in the right concha, in the evening (after two days)
Twitching, painful tearing in the right ear, in the morning (second day)
Roaring in the ear (fourth day),l
Fluttering before the left ear, as from a large bird ; at the same time a warmth passes to this ear, as if she stood near a hot stove ; gradually disappearing (after one and a half hours)
Nose p. 383
The corners of the nostril are ulcerated and painful (fourth hour)
Nose pointed
Violent sneezing, five times
(Twice hearty sneezing)
Sneezing, fluent coryza, and chilliness, with loss of taste and sniell
Fluent coryza,l
Fluent coryza and tickling cough, with violent eructations, retching, and vomiting of a tough, watery mucus (eleventh day)
Catarrhal symptoms toward evening (eighth day),l
Catarrhal stoppage of the nose, with thick, mucous discharge
Catarrh in the left nostril, with stoppage of the nose and loss of smell (1.30 p.m.)
Now stoppage of the nose, now a fluent catarrh
Nose-bleed at 3 p.m., followed by fluent coryza, with sneezing,l
Stupefying tension across over the root of the nose, as if laced with a band
A tearing and crawling in the left nostril, as of sudden irritation to sneeze, which, however, does not occur (after half an hour)
Face p. 383
Red face
Face bright-red
Face smutty color.'l
Livid face
Pale face
Great paleness
Remarkably pale face, for an hour
* Pale, sunken face 'I
Face unusually pale, and wore an expression of extreme anxiety
Countenance livid, bathed in clammy sweat, and expressive of great suffering (one hour),^-.
Cold sweat onface
Spasmodic agitation of the facial muscles
* Convulsive twitches in almost every muscle of the face
Countenance distorted, with peculiar tetanic spasms of the jaws, as though she was endeavoring to bite everything within reach
Burning heat of face
Tensive feeling in face and neck (second day)
Dull pressure on the left malar bone
Sensitive drawing, at last dull pressure, on left malar bone
Lips livid
Cracked lips, at night on waking (fourth day)
* Dry, scurfy lips (third hour),l
The right and left sides of the upper lip are full of clear, itching vesicles, which, on drying up, are replaced by new ones ; the itching is especially violent in the evening
On the Light side of the lower lip several clear vesicles ; at the same time the right side of the upper lip is swollen and covered with small pimples, with tensive pain on pressure
Burning externally on the right side of the chin, which lasts but a short time (after one hour and a half)
Burning on the right side of the chin, as if one held a hot coal to it (after one hour and three-quarters)
Drawing from the chin along the right side of the lower jaw
Mouth p. 383
Violent toothache in the morning (fourth day),l
Tearing in three to four teeth of the lower left row, which soon disappears (after an hour and a half)
Pain in a root of a tooth of the right lower row, as if it were being taken out, which frequently returns
Gums bleed, as if scorbutic
Several burning blisters on the left side of the tongue, which spon disappear, but return a day later (sixth day)
Tongue dry and red (one hour),*-.
Tongue very red and dry in the centre/
Tongue coated,'-.
Tongue in morning thick yellow, thicker in p.m.
Tongue coated gray
Tongue thickly white coated
"'■'Tour/ne covered with a thick, white, pastry coat
Tongue coated slimy (fourth day)
Tongue coated pappy, slimy
Moist, clean tongue
Tongue difficult to move,'-.
It is painful to move the tongue about
Tearing pain on the left side, behind the root of the tongue, noticed On swallowing
In the morning after rising, the mouth is so sore that she can scarcely swallow, with white tongue and sour taste (second day)
An unpleasant sensation on the palate the whole time
On the posterior part of the palate, sensation of soreness, and as if a hard body lay against it; without swallowing ; it disappears on eating bread (8 A.M.)
Itching below the right corner of the mouth, where, after scratching, three vesicles arise ; also under the left corner (second day)
Mouth dry (ninth day)
Increase of saliva
Saliva increased ; must frequently expectorate
Salivation
Copious saliva runs from the mouth (fourth day)
Great accumulation of water in the mouth
Accumulation of water in the mouth, without nausea, though with a qualmish, filthy taste
Collection of water lu the mouth
Flow of tasteless, clear water in the mouth, which runs out in great quantity, with retching and straining, without fetching up anything beyond a little clear mucus
Profuse spitting
Must often spit, even while eating
Bad taste in the mouth (eighth day)
Very impleasant taste in the mouth
Clammy mouth
Salty taste
Bitter mouth
Bitter mouth in morning
Taste bitter and pasty (fourth day)
Taste dry and pasty (first day)
Sour taste in the mouth, in the morning after waking (sixth and seventh days)
In the morning on waking, very sour taste on the posterior part of the tongue, as of salt, which disappears after eating (second day)
Taste pappy or flat
No taste to the food (fourth hour),l
Tobacco has no taste
Difficult speech
Speechless
Throat p. 384
Increased raucous secretion in the throat
Much mucus in throat and short breathing (eighth day
Sharp pain at the throat
Choking sensation
Roughness in the throat, with sensation as if a small leaf obstructed the windpipe, on hawking; for one hour (after one hour)
Great roughness in the throat, which soon disappears (7 p.m.)
Throat raw; swallowing difficult and painful
Itching and dryness in the throat, which provokes a hacking in the morning (seventeenth day)
The soft palate and pharynx very red, covered with vesicles; many are opened, swollen, and covered with mucus,''l
Rapid swelling of the cervical glands and tonsils
Sensitiveness of oesophagus, so that chewed morsels cause much pain,'l
Swallowing sensitive
Difficulty in swallowing
Great dysphagia
Deglutition is impossible
Stomach p. 384
Appetite increased (second day)
Canine hunger on walking in open air
Though food tastes good and he has some appetite, yet he can only gradually get some food into his stomach, from which he feels better, and the pressure in the abdomen is somewhat relieved (first ^ay)A
On eating, soon satiated, almost nauseated, must stop eating
* He eats at noon with appetite, but after he is satisfied a kind of nausea attacks him at times
Some appetite, but food was quickly rejected
Usually good appetite, only sometimes poor,l
Extraordinary appetite for apples, and thirst for cool water ; evenings he is soon sleepy, against his usual habit
No more desire for tobacco
Cannot eat, on account of nausea and aversion,'l
Appetite diminished (third day, et seq.) 'I
Loss of appetite
Appetite completely lost (fifth day)A
Loss of appetite in the morning/
The child eats little but drinks much,l
Thirst (second day)A
Great thirst/l
Thirst increased (fourth day )
Urgent thirst/
Thirst constant and insatiable
Much thirst one day, the next none at aU
Thirst, with internal heat
Thirst for beer or sour milk, with dryness in the throat (6 p.m.)
Desire for strong liquors and acids
Desire for acids
* Absence of thirst
Absence of thirst the whole day,l
Eructations
Eructations frequently through the day, slight gagging (iburth day),l
Eructations, sometimes tasteless, sometimes nauseous
Bitter eructations (eighth day)
Eructations acid, bitter (fifth day)
Eructations of a salty, nauseous fluid (second hour)
[290.*j Sour eructations
Eructations of watery fluid, often of sharp, salty taste
Eructations, with taste of the breakfast
* Empty eructations I
Empty eructations relieve the nausea for a very short time
In the morning frequent eructations, with yawning, and great ill-humor (fifth day)
First eructations, then frequent risings of fluid (as of food), which she again swallows, after which a sour taste and scrapy sensation down the throat remain
General hiccough, like eructations of air
Hiccough
Violent hiccough, but no vomiting
Uprisings of milk and an acid fluid (one hour)
Waterbrash
Qualmishness, a reminder of nausea, rises from the stomach
Qualmish, uncomfortable, and depressed
* After dinner, qualmishness in the stomach of some duration
Several times gagging severely, sweat starts out on the forehead, the limbs become very weak, and much water flows from the mouth ; followed by weakness
Violent retching (a half hour)
Retching
Retching gradually comes on, which becomes more severe, till vomiting (with great effort) ensues of tenacious mucus and bile (ninth day)
Indescribable nauseous internal sensation
An especially disgusting sensation in the stomach ; she believes it would do her good to eructate ; with frequent attacks of nausea in the stomach, which extends into the chest (after three-quarters of an hour)
Nausea
Nausea (one hour)
Continued nausea
Nausea from swallowing the saliva
Nausea after eating '-.
Nausea after eating or drinking
Nausea rises suddenly from the umbilicus and epigastric regions, in repeated attacks
Nausea, causing anxiety (fifth day)
Nausea, and great aversion to food (eighth day)
Great nausea, with aversion to the accustomed food, and with pinchings in the abdomen,l
Nausea, accompanied by increased frequency of pulse, rising till he vomits, and followed by slow, weak pulse
Nausea, which causes a particularly disagreeable feeling in the throat
"^-Nausea, with slight pressure in the pit of the stomach, followed by headache in the forehead
Nausea increased, frequent hiccough, aversion, eructations, pressure in the throat (ninth day)
Nausea, inclination to vomit, after each dose
Constant nausea, inclination to vomit
Ineffectual efforts to vomit
Nausea, vomiting (two hours)
Nausea and vomiting after eating
Violent nausea and incessant vomiting through the whole night, and four stools in twelve hours
Nausea and vomiting of curdled milk (in an infant whose nurse had taken Ant. tart.). (Hencke.)
* Nausea (in a quarter of an hour), then yawning xvith prof use lachrymation, followed by vom iting
Nausea and vomiting of mucus, with acceleration of the pulse from 62 to 75, where it continued till night
Unheard of vomiting
Enormous vomiting (a strong dose)
Violent vomiting (three grammes)
Intolerance of food and drink
* Vomits till he becomes faint
Vomiting in any position, except lying on the right side
After a violent pressure on the stomach it increases to vomiting
Retching, and once difficult vomiting of bitter, bad-smelling, pasty, and fluid matter (it had an acid reaction, and showed traces of antimony), (fifth day )
Green vomiting
Painful vomiting of much mucus and bile mixed with some blood (half an hour)
Vomiting of some tough, watery mucus, then pasty food, and at last fluid mixed with bile, with most violent exertion of the chest and abdomen, and anxious sweat,l
Vomiting of food
Vomiting of food, from the cough
Vomiting speedy and easy, followed by great retching (thirteenth day i,l
Vomiting, with headache, and trembling in the Aa?K/,9 (half an hour *
First violent vomiting and purging (4 grains to an old woman)
[350. | Vomiting, xvith frequent door (40 grains)
* Violent vomiting and purging, with great prostration (ten minutes),'^l
Vomiting, followed by constant uiooluntary watery stools (one hour),°l
Vomiting, with anguish
* Vomiting difficult after long retching, and followed by great prostration
No vomiting (5 centigrammes),*l
No vomiting (from 15 centigrammes)
Heaviness in stomach (second day)
Weakness in the stomach (eleventh day)
Irritation in stomach and nausea (fourth day)
Indescribable malaise in the region of the stomach and abdomen ; ontouchlng the parts gently with the hand the pain increases in the region of the stomach and diminishes in the abdomen
Pains in the stomach
Acute pains in the stomach
Craving sensation at stomach
Creeping sensation in the stomach
Unpleasant sensation of warmth in the stomach (in five minutes), which continually increased to a painful burning, and caused great restlessness,^l
Slight burning in the stomach
Burning heat in the stomach,^"
Burning and pressure in (an apparently full) stomach (eighth day)
After the nausea, sensation of emptiness in the stomach
Fulness in stomach
Sensation after dinner as if one had overloaded, with nausea, griping in the region of the navel, and sticking headache in the forehead and occiput
* In the night, sensation as if she had loaded her stomach with something ; eructations frequent, like fold eggs ; sleep restless
Feeling of a weight in the region of the stomach, involving the whole abdomen, and causing great malaise ; this condition is ameliorated in the open air, and aggravated in the room ; it is also diminished by eructations
Cramps in the stomach
Flatulent, audible motions in the epigastric region (three hours)
Pain at the epigastrium
Slight pain at the epigastrium (second day)
Violent pains atthe epigastrium, which was tense
Violent throbbing in e})gastric region (a quarter of an hour)
(Continual whirling in the pit of the stomach, evenings on going to sleep, with very violent rapid beating of the heart, which threatens to rupture the heart),l
Feeling as of cold water at the pit of the stomach ; with it he feels faint; he will fall down; then follows heat in the head
In the region of the pit of the stomach, a sensitive aching as from incarcerated flatulence, late in the evening ; sometimes forcible expulsion of flatus with relief
Pressure in pit of stomach (second day)
Pressure in pit of stomach (ten minutes)
Troublesome feeling of pressure in pit of stomach (fifth day)
Pressure in the pit of the stomach, with very great nausea
A cutting sensation extends upward, from time to time, from the pit of the stomach
Sticking pain below the pit of the stomach, especially felt on drawing in the abdomen
Abdomen p. 386
Around, below the short ribs, sensitive painful tension, so that he can hardly sit, but would rather lie, from incarcerated flatulence, which passes off from time to time
Dulness over the liver, increased one finger's breadth at the base
Epigastric and liver region somewhat tense (fifth day),*-
Liver sensitive to contact
Warmth about the navel, gradually extending over the whole abdomen (after quarter of an hour)/.
Colic around the umbilicus, early in morning
Inflammation of the abdomen
Inflated abdomen
The abdomen is somewhat distended, and- there is gurgling in it, perceptible externally
Abdominal meteorism
Distension and tension in the abdomen, relieved somewhat by discharge of flatulence, but often returning
Upper abdomen distended aud painful
Bowels relaxed (second day)
Rumbling in abdomen, as if water were in it, relieved by passage of wind, up and down
Much rumbling in the not-distended abdomen, before the diarrhoea
Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen
Rumbling in abdomen, after eating
Much commotion in the abdomen, soon after taking
Slight moving about in the whole abdomen, with fine pinching, as if stool would occur (after one and a half hours)
As the nausea paroxysmally increases, and slight retching motions arise in the throat, a spasmodic motion is perceptible in the upper abdomen
Astonishing amount of flatulence, with rumbling in the abdomen, and only slight griping; the easy passage of it relieved (second day)
Frequent offensive flatulence, preceded by rumbling and uneasiness in abdomen
Pains in- abdomen, after eating
Violent pains in abdomen, after vomiting
The pain in the abdomen, though not so very severe, is yet so distressing, that he is in an extremely restless mood, and disinclined to do any work,l
Must lie and stretch out long, on account of discomfort in the upper and lower abdomen ; at last he goes to sleep (11 a.m.)
Violent pain in epigastrium, and over the whole abdomen (one hour)
The pain in the abdomen causes great restlessness in the body ; one must constantly move a limb or change position,l
* The abdomen seems stuffed full of stones, though he has eaten nothing, and it does not feel hard; a sensation that he feels after long-continued sitting at nork
Violent pressive tension in the abdomen, especially over the bladder, which decidedly increases toward 6 p.m., and lasts toward six days (second day)
A kind of cramp in the upper and lower abdomen, between nausea and tendency to diarrhoea, in which now one now the other seems to predominate ; at times relief from empty eructations, and inclination to pass wind, or actual passage of wind
(Spasmodic pains in the abdomen ; when they begin his eyes close forcibly, and he is obliged to sleep whether he wishes or not)
Gripings in the bowels, with development of flatulence
Griping and cutting, and repeated nausea, with empty eructations, and passage of flatus with relief
After a meal, violent griping and cutting in the abdomen, which is not relieved by a stool at 3 oclock ; it lasts till 4 oclock (third day)
Pinching pain in abdomen below nave],'l
Waking at 4.30 A.M., with some pinching and commotion in the abdomen, followed by soft stool (second day)
In sitting, a crawling in abdomen, which becomes griping and- flatulence, (afternoons)
A transient nausea repeatedly in the abdomen, like an approaching griping, as if diarrhoea would set in
Painful drawing, now in the right side of the abdomen, now in the left, so that she can only sit stooping, returning frequently
* Violent pressure in the abdomen, as from stones, as if fall; much worse on sitting, especially on stooping; at times it changes into griping about the umbilical region (one hour),l
Pressive and griping pains in abdomen
Hard pressure in upper abdomen
The pressure in the abdomen becomes sometimes more severe, and presses toward the rectum, when soft, boiling, hot flatus passes, which relieves the pressure,l
Pressive pain in abdomen, in evening, after eating, relieved by bending backwards aud stooping,^-.
Pinching pressure and tension in the abdomen (eighth day)/.
Dull pain in abdomen
Dull bellyache in the mesogastric region, with slight horripilation, and goose-skin
Cutting in the abdomen, evening, toward 9 oclock (fourth day)
Stomach-ache, as if the intestines were cut,'^l
* Cuttings in the abdomen ; and across the lower abdomen it lies like a stone, with great nav,sea; after six times ineffectual retchings, followed by ineffectual tendency to diarrhoea, vomiting with great exertion, trembling in the abdomen, and bending together; first food with persistent sour taste, followed by a continued scraping feeling in the throat ; afterward chilliness, then two diarrhoeic stools in succession, the last time it passes like m^er/.
Cutting and griping in the abdomen, as from wind
Violent cutting and twisting in the abdomen, and tearing from the hypogastrium down through the thighs to the knees, like labor pains, with fine but severe stitches at the navel, with nausea and waterbrash ; soon afterward diarrhoea, preceded by rumblings, and moving of wind in the abdomen
Violent colic
Colic in the abdomen
Colic precedes the purging (fortyeight hours),l
Short, tearing pain in the leftside of the upper abdomen, frequently repeated
Stitching in intestines
Stitches in the upper abdomen,l
Abdomen sensitive (eleventh day)
Abdomen sensitive to contact
Increased sensitiveness of the abdominal walls (eighth day)
Abdomen sensitive to touch (fifth day)
On drawing in the abdomen, a small spot in the left side of upper abdomen hurts
Frequent sensation of pulsating in the abdomen
Violent, rheumatic, long-lasting pain in the whole left side ; this pain is repeated
A stitch extends downwards from the stomach, in the left side of the abdomen, and again upward ; on expiration and on touch it aches
Warmth in the lower abdomen, as if she had drunk something very warm ; it wanders about, and finally up toward the stomach (after half an hour)
The tension in the abdomen seems to draw more toward the bladder on the third day
At 1 A.M., she wakes, on account of violent cramping and griping pain above the pubis, with icy coldness on the whole trunk, head, and arms ; cold sweat breaks out in such profusion, that the shirt becomes drenched, with great internal heat ; sensation of dryness of the tongue, which is nevertheless moist ; with warm lower extremities ; frightful apprehension ; restlessness; she constantly throws herself from side to side; but, with sensation of great heat, cannot bear to be uncovered. After a quarter of an hour, she is inclined to eructation, without being able to ; then empty eructation and small discharge of flatulence, without relief; thirst; rising of water into the throat, with great nausea in the stomach ; paleness of the face ; on the lower extremities warm sweat ; and such great lassitude of the feet that she is unable to raise them ; inclination to stool ; hardness and sensitiveness of the lower abdomen on rubbing ; even long before this, she felt the pain while asleep. (After a small dose of Ipecac, the sweat disappears, after quarter of an hour ; then the coldness, aud lastly the pains, which occur at longer and longer intervals, till they disappear altogether), (after half an hour.) After cessation of this frightful attack, she slept soundly; 6 a.m., on waking, heaviness of the head, and appearance of the menses ; blood thick and black ; they are too soon, but without any other difficulty, and last as usual, three days (fourth day)
(Spasmodic drawing from the thigh to the abdomen)
Pressure in the hypogastrium and aching, with cold shivers, as if menses would appear
Stitches over the pubis
Very violent burning soreness in the right groin
Slight sticking, tearing pains in a small spot on the left side of the lower abdomen
Slight rheumatic sensation in the left pelvic bones
Stool and Anus p. 389
Several painful tearings in the rectum, after dinner
Sticking pain in the rectum (second day),l
Transient stitch in the rectum (ninth hour)
Sudden, violent, alarming stitch from the lower abdomen, down through the rectum (fourth hour)
(Hremorrhoids)
Burning in the anus after stool
Violent tension in the perineum, especially on walking, with strong desire to urinate (uninterrupted for several days)
In the morning, after rising, the usual stool, with cutting in the rectum, preceded by pinching in the abdomen (fourth day)
Stool after eating,'-.
Stool solid at first, then pasty, with tenesmus (fifth day)
After repeated desire, stool, which seems to be almost thin fluid, but really is only pasty
Pasty stool (three in twelve hours),*l
Copious alvine evacuation
Soft copious evacuation
Liquid, greenish stool, with heat at anus
Stool, thin mucus, with rumbling and pressure in the bowels (ninth day)
Stool soft, half fluid "(sixth and seventh days)
Soft stool every day, for four days
In the evening, two soft stools
Two thin fluid stools, with sensitive drawing pains in the abdomen (eleventh day)
Though he had his usual stool a few hours before, yet he is obliged to go again to stool
Repeated tendency to stool
Diarrhoea
Abundant diarrhoea
Diarrhoea yellowish-brown
Thin, bilious, mucous diarrhoea, 'I
Diarrhoea slimy, appears like yeast, with a marked cadaverous smell
Diarrhoea is very watery
Bloody stools
Very offensive diarrhoeic stools
* Diarrhœa and vomiting
Involuntary diarrhoea (death thirty hours after)
Involuntary evacuations of much mucus, and dead roundworms
Involuntary, watery, blood-streaked stools
Fjeces mixed with mucus and bile
Stools varv, sometimes soft, sometimes hard
Uncommonly hard stool, difficult to pass (first day)
Hard stool, it omits one <lay,l
Desire for stool ineffectual, though the bowels seem full and pressing (eighth day)
No stool for several days
Constipation (third day)
Urinary Organs p. 389
A very sensitive sticking pain in the lower part of the bladder; he believes that the pain must be caused by troubles from a stone (third day)
* Burning in the urethra while urinating (eighth day),':
* Violent burning in the urethra after urinating (third day)
Slight tearing pain in the forepart of the urethra
Continued sticking pain in the posterior portion of the urethra, the whole forenoon (second day)
* T/ie urging to urinate and the burning in the urethra increase, only a little urine passes ; the last drops are bloody and accompanied by violent pain in the bladder (fourth day)
Increased desire to urinate (ninth day)
Frequent desire to urinate (eighth day)
Violent urging to urinate, during which it burns in the urethra (second day)
(He can hold his water no longer)
Diuresis
Frequent urinating, and pressure to urinary passages
Urinates more frequently (fourth day)
Frequent passage of dark urine (fifth day)
Fi-equent urinating, forenoons and evening (sixth day)
Frequent urinating, followed by relief of symptoms (eleventh day)
Increased urination
Copious urination
Profuse urination
Urine profuse (second day)
Urine increased ; clear, watery
Urine increased, dark, turbid (ninth day)
Urine more copious and frequent ; diminishes at last
Retention of urine followed by fatal eclampsia (inunction), Krebs
The urinary troubles last from two to six days continually, at first increasing, then gradually decreasing
* Urine dark brownish-red, turbid, and with a strong odor
Urine turbid and dark, at first, afterward clear/.
The urine at first clear like water, deposits a milky sediment, which mixes readily on shaking the glass, and gives a milky look to the whole (fourth day)
The urine becomes cloudy, and deposits an earthy sediment (first day)
The urine deposits a violet-colored, earthy sediment (after one and a half hours
Albuminous urine
On the fifth day, the urine has a red inflammatory look, and on standing deposits bloody red fibres
Sexual Organs p. 390
Sexual organs first excited, then relaxed,'-.
A burning irritation, very singular, more like a tickling, though not at all voluptuous; rather very troublesome ; not relieved by anything ; extends from the region of the rectum, through the urethra, to the glans, where the tickling is most severe (lasts six to seven days without interruption, and is his most distressing symptom)
Sexual desire aroused (eleventh day)
Leucorrhoea for two days only
The menses six days too early, weak, and only for two days
Respiratory Organs p. 390
Tough secretion of mucus from airpassages (fifth day)
Large increase in amount of carbonic acid expired
Violent tickling in the air-passages provokes a short cough
Pain in larynx, and short cough on talking,'l
Fulness and oppression in bronchi (third day)
Irritation to cough, with tough mucus in the throat, oppressed breathing, and sensitive stitches in the left breast (ninth day)
Voice small, changed; evening (ninth day)
Morning hoarseness
Hoarseness, worse on talking
Increased hoarseness, with cough, hawking, and expectoration
Cough for half an hour before midnight,l
Cough after eating; the child vomits his food and mucus
The catarrh provokes a cough, though she had no power to cough
Much cough and sneezing
Dry, frequent cough
Slight, dry cough
Two attacks of dry cough (after one hour)
Difficult cough, with some expectoration
At the beginning of every paroxysm of coughing she often snuffed for air, as if she could not get it, before she got the strength to cough
Cough and hawking of mucus in morning; comes up easily
Cough about 2 or 3 A.M., with expectoration
Sputa white, frothy; expectoration abundant
Easy expectoration of a great deal of sweetish, transparent mucus
Rapid breathing
* Respiration short
* Respiration heavy, anxious
Respiration hard and anxious (third day)
Repiration hard, full (fifth day)
Respiration deeper (in general), 'I
* Difficidt respiration
In sleep, expiration was snoring, inspiration in two jerks, intermitting; breathing often irregular and interrupted
i>?/s/jno2a
* Di/spncea; she must be supported in a sitting position in bed
Loss of breath
Asthmatic ever since the proving
Respiration hindered on account of swelling of the pharynx and accumulation of tough mucus there, with fever and delirium
* It seems as if he wovJd suffocate, evenings, in bed; he cannot get air, and is obliged to sit up the whole night
* About 3 A.M. she was suffocated and oppressed , and had to sit up to get air; only after cough and expectoration she became belter
Chest p. 390
* Th.e mucus rattles in the chest; oppression of the chest
Large pustules on the chest and neck, like cow-pox, with a red areola ; after three weeks it is covered with a crust, and leaves a deep scar
Anxious feeling in chest and around heart
'■ Anxious, with oppression of the chest and rising of warmth from the heart
Pain deep in chest and pharynx, after violent sneezing
Burning in the chest (before each of his usual epileptic attacks), which rises into the throat
Fulness in the chest (sixth and seventh days)
^- Chest feels all the time very full
Fulness in luncjs,^-.
* Constriction of chest (fifth day)/.
Constriction in chest, frequently associated with cough/
* Oppression of chest
Uncommon oppression of the chest (fourth day)/.
Pain, as if bruised, in the up[Ter part of the chest, on bending the head forward; on rising, it is relieved, but returns on stooping again (after two hours)/.
An almost sore, paroxysmal feeling in the chest, especially in the left side, toward evening, the second day, with a hopeless, despairing mood
Rawness and constriction in chest, and expectoration of mucus,'l
On stooping, a fine stitch on the right lowest rib (after one and a half hours)
Pain in right side, behind and at base of chest, aggravated by deep breathing
An itching stitch on the right nipple (after three-quarters of an hour)
Burning in the left breast, near the shoulder, more externally; on pressure or rubbing, it is worse; then it diminishes and intermits somewhat of itself (after half an hour)
Long-lasting painful stitching in the upper leftside of the chest, near the clavicle, and at the same time in the left axilla (after two hours)/.
A fine stitch in the left side of the chest below the axilla, on motion of the trunk (after hall an hour)
Crawling, as of insects, above the left mamma
Burning under the upper part of the sternum ; afterwards, in the stomach (after half an hour)
Very unpleasant heavy feeling in the pr£ecordium (ninth day)
Pressure or heaviness in the precordial region
Heart and Pulse p. 391
Pulsation of the heai-t small and irregular (fifth day)/.
Heax-t's action accelerated, irregular (eighth day)
Palpitation (almost), (fourth day)
Palpitation of the heart
Frequent palpitation
Violent palpitation, with the purging,l
Repeatedly apprehensive and warm about the heart, with violent beating of the heart, so that it seems as though he felt it in his head
This whirling and beating of the heart comes on every night regularly, and lasts until he breaks out into a sweat/.
'-^Oppression at the heart (fifth day)
Pulse rapid and almost audible; a general pulsating which she believes must be audible to the bystanders (fourth day),l
Pulse somewhat excited (third day),l
Pulse full and rapid
Full, rapid pulse,'l
Pulse full, accelerated (thirteenth day)
Pulse full, irregular, accelerated (fifth day),l
Frequent, irregular, full pulse
* Pulse rapid, weak, trembling
Pulse 88
Pulse full and hard; the skin warmer than usual
Sloiv,full pulse
Decreased action of the heart; retarded pulse (after repeated small doses)/
In general, pulse slower and weaker
Pulse 10 beats slower
Pulse sank from 78 to eO
Pulse weak (sixth to seventh day)
Pulse depressed
Pulse small, contracted
Pulse small, contracted (ninth (Jay)
Small, contracted pulse
Pulse small, intermittent (eleventh da.y)
Small, tight, hardly perceptible jow^se
Pulse suppressed, imperceptible/'-
Pulse imperceptible (one hour)
Neck and Back p. 391
Cramp in muscles of neck/ 'I
Pressive sense of fatigue in the cervical muscles, close to the occiput, especially on the right gj^]e_5_
Does not like anything to touch him; inclination to unbutton "the collar of his shirt
On turning the neck, over the left scapula, and also on taking hold of anything, painful aching, which comes suddenly, and then becomes continuous; twenty-four hours later, over the right scapula
A fine stitch between the shoulder-blades (after two hours)
Pain in the back, as from fatigue, several days, especially after eating and while sitting
Short sticking tearing pain, especially in the lower right side of the back, near the right hip,l
A pain in the small of the back, before and on rising from the bed, as if one had carried a weight there; after rising, it (disappears
Rheumatic pain iu the lower part of the back, just above the sacrum, mornings
Sharp stitches iu the region of the kidneys on moving the arm,l
Pain iu the loins
Extremities in General p. 392
ImensibiliUj and coldness of limbs; weak, almond imperceptible pulse, without vomiting (child),-''l
Right arm and hand and both great toes were cold to the touch
Heaviness in all the limbs (eighth day)
Great heaviness in the feet and arms, so that she must let them sink down
Constant inclination to stretch the limbs
Weakness of the limbs
* TFeaA/ie*;,- in all limbs (sxt and seventh days)
Weakness of limbs, especially legs,'l
Extremities tired and weak (second day)
Fatigue in the limbs
Burning and tearing in the joints (sixth to seventh day)
Drawing and tearing in the joints (eleventh day)
SlightVheumatic drawings through the whole right hand, immediately afterward, drawing through both legs from above downward, especially in the region of the knee, and noticed on walking (two hours)
(Tearing in the limbs),l
Tearing and drawing in joints
Tearing and drawing in the extremities (eighth day)
Rheumatic and bruised sensation iu the limbs, on rising and shortly before it
Upper Extremities p. 392
Frequent twitching of the tendons in the arms and hands
A kind of dislocated pain in the right shoulder
A cracking in the shoulder-joint, with tearing pains to the hands
Soreness in shoulder-blades
Short, rheumatic pain, around and in the shoulder-joint, and the left breast
A violent tearing, externally in the right shoulder, followed by itching (after one hour)
Violent itching in the left shoulder; after scratching, a number of small vesicles arise, and she must scratch till they bleed, without relief to the itching, whereupon the spot burns; the vesicles dry after three days
Fine stitching and twingeing below the left axilla ; then a stitch, with twingeing, on the condyles of the left elbow (after two hours)
A twingeing sensation in front of the left axilla, as if one raised the skin (after two hours)
Tearing twitching in the arm and left side
Severe jerking in the right arm, is not relieved by motion (immediately)
Burning on the inner surface of the right upper arm, toward the shoulder, with yawning (after two hours)
A drawing down along the outer surface of the left upper arm, almost as if in the bone, in several short paroxysms
A fine boring in the right humerus, as if in the marrow, which frequently increases, then extending into the shoulder, frequently somewhat diminished; it disappears on pressure, and is relieved on motion of the arm, but frequently returns (after one hour)
Short, rheumatic pain in the left elbow
Itching on the external surface of the right elbow, which disappears on scratching (after three-quarters of an hour)
On the forearm near the wrist, an eruption of pimples like the uch, also on the upper arm ; the itching is relieved by scratching
Transient, rather severe tearing in the muscles of the left forearm
A twingeing or sensation as if something would raise the skin, on the inner surface of the left forearm ; on pressure it disappears, but returns again (after half an hour)
Violent itching on the external surface of the left forearm ; on scratching, small pimples appear, which burn, and the skin becomes rose-red, but white on pressure; the redness continues two hours (6 P.M.)
Itching on the inner surface of the left forearm ; after scratching, a number of small pimples arise (in the forenoons)
* Trembling of hands (eleventh day)
* Cold hands and icy cold tips of the fingers (third day)
The left hand is remarkably cold, the right not
* Viands cold and moist
On coughing, heat and moisture of the hands, and sweat of the head
On the back of left hand, on touching the hairs, fine severe stitches.
Tearing and stitching in the border of the left thumb, so violent that it seems as if the tendons would be torn out (9 a.m.)
When she wants to clench her fist, or extend the fingers, they are tense, as if swollen (4 p.m.)
Fingers firmly contracted down upon the shoulders, with every muscle in an extraordinary state of rigidity
On the lowest joint of the right middle and ring fingers, frequent violent pinching pain, with sensation as if the tendons would contract ; still, motion remains free (fifth day)
Stitching in the lowest joints of the left middle and ring fingers, as from a thistle, worse on pressure (sixth day)
Twitching, tearing below the right third finger, as if in the marrow, extends towards the arm ; disappears only gradually, iu the afternoon
Tearing on the back of the left middle finger, as if it would tear out the tendon (for one minute)
The tips of the fingers become dead, dry and hard, without sensation, several days
Lower Extremities p. 393
Numbness and coldness iu the legs
Lower extremities heavy and stilt, as if lamed
Drawing, tensive pain in lower extremities (fourth day)
Tension and tearings iu lower extremities
Rheumatic pain iu and over the left hip
Just below the left hip, transient rheumatic pains
Spasmodic twitchings of the muscles of the thigh (eleventh day)
Tension in the havistriuf/s on walking, evening
Rheumatic drawing iu the upper part of the right thigh
Twingeing on the anterior surface of the left thigh, as if one pinched him, or raised his skin with a needle ; the spot continued to pain still longer in the open air (after two hours)
Fatigue iu the knees
Burning pricking iu the knees
In the morning in bed, and on rising, aching in the bones of the knee-joint, as if the limb iuul no power, and as if the tendons were overstretched and strained
Tearing, a hand's breadth above and below the knee, ou the external surface (after two hours)
Evenings in bed, sticking iu the knee and hip (first day)
On the left side below the left knee, a slow, throbbing, sensitive picking, in rest aud motion
Painful cramps in the calves
Cramp iu the calves frequently wake him
Cramp in the calves, afternoons, disappears ou walking about (fifth day)
Spasmodic drawing sensation in the calves (ninth day)
Soreness in calves, 'I
Tearing internally in the right calf, and at the same time burning externally (after half an hour)
Slight twitches in the left calf (second day)
Rheumatic pain on the left side of the left calf
Tearing and itching on the external surface of the left calf (after two hours)
Violent pinching and clutching in the left calf, aud from the popliteal space to the external malleolus; extremely painful
Itching below the left calf, which causes scratching, after which a considerable lump arises, which continues to itch
An outward sticking in the varices
A painful, biting itching in the leg, where there are varices, as if a suppurating inflammatory swelling would ensue
Very violent, rheumatic pains between the calf and the malleolus uf the left leg ; together with rheumatic pains in the right lower back teeth,l
Slight swelling and stiffness of the malleoli of the right foot (eleventh day)
* The feet go to sleep immediately after sitting down each tinge
The right foot goes to sleep while standing, with crawling (2 p.m.)
Weariness in the feet (third day)
Cold feet
She can scarcely raise the feet on account of heaviness (6 p.m.)
Suddenly across the left instep, a transient, pressive, pricking pain, as from a blow
On the left instep, near the inner malleolus, suddenly a pricking transient pressure, as from a blow ; it goes as quickly as it came
During the day, on walking, a tension on the dorsum of the foot
Itching soreness between the little and next toe of the right foot, for ten days
A sudden, painful, rhythmical picking in the left great toe
Generalities p. 394
Face and whole body very pale (twelfth hour)/
Loss of seven pounds, in weight, in three weeks
Spasmodic movements
Convulsions (death in a few hours)
Convulsions and loss of consciousness
Convulsions and tetanic spasms
She lay on the ground distorted by cramps, rigid, as if dead ; one foot was gangrenous and afflicted with most violent pain
Constant contraction of all tue muscles, especially of the abdomen aud upper extremities (two hours),^l
Vomitingand epileptic spasms (inunction on a child)
As soon as he got warm in bed, at night, he sprang into the air
Trembling,''-
Whole body trembled and felt very sick
A very peculiar internal trembling) (third day)
* Long-continued trembling of the head, and a paralytic trembling in the hands on every motion (15 grains J
Throbbing and pulsating in all the vessels of the body, perceptible externally, yet without anxiety, only with ill-humor
Relaxed condition of the whole body
His condition was such, that he might have been taken for a man intoxicated on wine .
Blood loses fibrin, and becomes thinner
Restlessness excessive (ninth day)
* Either general restlessness or nausea
Restlessness, vertigo, syncope
Anxious restlessness and tossing about (fifth day)
Great general discomfort, which starts from the abdomen; he groans and moans involuntarily; restlessness drives him from sitting to standing, and walking about
For two days, indolence and great sleepiness
Weakness, general and great depression of spirits (eleventh day),l
Great weakness
Great weakness and lassitude
Weakness and exhaust ion
Weakness so great that he must lie in bed
After vomiting, great weakness, fatigue, and sleepiness; disgust for all the customary food; pale, earthy face; swimming dim eyes, yet appetite for cooling things, like apples
* Such great general weakness, and so warm about the heart, that she must let the arms sink down
The child wishes to be carried constantly
Great fatigue
General fatigue on waking
Very weary,'l
Whole body very weary and prostrated (4 p.m.)
Prostration and weariness in all the limbs (ninth day)
* Great prostration and sluggishness of the body ; he feels best when he sits still and does nothing
So prostrated, that she can only raise her feet with difficulty, in the forenoons
Faintness
Faintness ; he lost consciousness
Attacks of faintness
Syncope
Alternations of unsteadiness and syncope
Loss of sensation
Loss of sensation in the anointed parts
General malaise
Malaise after supper
Malaise, nausea (in a few hours)
Head, hands, and feet feel swollen and enlarged, after walking in the open air (4 p.m.)
Drawings here and there
Tearing in all the limbs, the chest, abdomen, testicles, and eyes
Tearing and drawing in the bowels, and in all the limbs
Skin p. 394
Rash, where the salve had been rubbed in
Reddish rash,l
Rash on the arms, breast, and occiput.l
Itching eruption on the skin
Eruption of bright red, small, conical, distinct, hard pimples, with an inflamed base like lichen simplex, thickly covered the breast, anterior surfaces of the upper arms, wrists, hypogastrium, and inner surfaces of the thighs
Vesicular eruption over the body (internal use)
A very itching rash, which snpijurates
Rash over the lace and whole body, with profuse sweat; respiration very difficult with continued heat, thirst, and headache
Painful pustular erit^jiJioM.'l
Pustules, when it is rubbed in, also on other parts of body, as nasal fossae, margin of anus, glans penis. genitals, arms, etc.
A tJiick eruption like pocks, often pustular, as large as a pea, filled with pus
Eruption of itching pustules, which soon dry up
From applying antimonial ointment to the dorsal region considerable local eruption was produced; in six days itching on scrotum ; on ninth day five pustules on scrotum and three on penis/
Eruption of pimples and vesicles, ivhich in two days are filled with pus, are like the pustules of smallpox and are very painful; these pustules dry up and form crusts; tfiis eruption appears first on the internal surface of the forearm, then on the back (from internal use)
At first small, red pustules; the third day increased in number and size ; the fourth day most of them had a brown everted margin, were covered by crusts similar to cow-pox, and contained much matter in the centre; the sixth and seventh days some were as large as the thumbnail, shaped like a flat ulcer, and contained much thin matter
Most of the suppurating places became confluent the eighth day, and discharged blood and matter
The corners of the nostrils are ulcerated and painful (four hours),l
Cracked lips, at night, on waking (fourth day),l
Dry, scurfy lips (three hours)
The right and left sides of the upper lip are full of clear, itching vesicles, which, on drying up, are replaced by new. ones; the itching is especially violent in the evening
On the right side of the lower lip several clear vesicles; at the same time the right side of the upper lip is swollen, and covered with small pimples, with tensive pain on pressure
Eruption of pimples like pocks on the side of the chin; tickling sensation ; must rub it
Two boils behind on the right side of the tongue, painful on touch, 3 f.m.
A boil behind on the left side of the tongue, which pains as if sore when she presses it with the tongue, or on swallowing (from the morning after rising till evening), (second day)
Several burning blisters on the left side of the tongue, which soon disappear, but return a day later (sixth day)
Itching below the right corner of the mouth, where, after scratching, three vesicles arise ; also under the left corner (second day)
Skin from waist to knees covered with an infinite number of small pimples, which itch intolerably; she is compelled to scratch till the blood comes; external genitals much swollen
Pimply eruption on the genitals
Small red pustules on the genitals
Frequently observed that when the pustular eruption was very copious where the ointment was applied, similar eruptions developed on the genitals
Pustules developed on the scrotum, five weeks after the removal of an antimonial plaster, from between the shoulders
Large pustules on the chest, like cow-pox, with a red areola; after three weeks it is covered with a crust and leaves a deep scar
Several small pimples on the upper part of left side of the chest, and a similar one on the right side (eighth day)
A red, somewhat swollen, streak, two inches long, on the left side of the neck, without sensation, which does not disappear on pressure, but lasts twenty days
Violent itching in the left shoulder; after scratching, a number of small vesicles arise, and she must scratch till they bleed, without relief to the itching, whereupon the spot burns ; the vesicles dry after three days
Itching on the anterior surface of the right upper arm ; after scratch ing, small, deepseated pimples appear, which continue to itch (third day)
On the forearm, near the wrist, an eruption of pimples, like the itch; also on the upper arm ; the itching is relieved by scratching
A tetter, as large as a penny, on the inner surface of the left forearm, which disappears after three days, but returns after eight days, and itches violently, especially when scratched ; the place remains rough for some time after
Small, red, elevated spots, like flea-bites, appear on the hands, without pain, and disappear after two hours (fourth day)
Dark-yellow spots of large size appear od several fingers, remain two days (fourth day)
On each buttock three or four tensive paining pimples, which pain like a boil on pressure, and last four days
Voluptuous itching below the right calf ; after scratching, a number of deepseated pimples arise, which do not cease to itch till scratched bloody, and then the place itches and burns for a long time (second day)
Itching below the left calf, which causes scratching, after which a considerable lump arises, which continues to itch
Itching *l
Itching in the skin
Itching, now here, now there, which disappears on scratching
Biting itching over whole body (eleventh day)
Itching around an old ulcer
A crawling itching in the sore itself (evenings on lying in bed)
Itching below the left lower jaw, which disappears on scratching
Voluptuous itching in the nape of the neck, which causes scratching, till the blood comes, on which it does not disappear (7 P.M.)
Itching on the middle of the right shoulder-blade
Itching on the external surface of the right upper arm, just above the elbow, which disappears on scratching (10 A.M.)
Itching on the external surface of the right elbow, which disappears on scratching (after three and a quarter hours)
Itching on the inner surface of the left forearm ; after scratching, a number of small pimples arise (in the forenoon)
Violent itching on the external surface of the left forearm ; on scratching, small pimples appear, which burn, and the skin becomes rose-red, but white on pressure: the redness continues two hours (6 p.m.)
Violent itching in the palm of the left hand, which disappears ou scratching (after one and a half hours)
Burning itching on the inner side of the left thigh ; after scratching, pain as if sore, and on touch as if bruised (6 P.M.)
Itching on the front part of the left knee, which disappears on scratching
A painful biting-itching in the leg where there are varices, as if a suppurating inflammatory swelling would ensue,l
An itching and biting in the right sole, so that he must scratch, evenings in bed
Sleep and Dreams p. 396
Yawning
Frequent yawning
Frequent, great yawning
Frequent yawning, although she has slept sufficiently
Yawning and stretching the limbs
Constant stretching and yawnings, forenoons
Inclination to sleep
Inclined to rest and sleep,'l
Inclined to sleep, with anxious dreams
Great desire to sleep
* Great sleepiness (ninth day)
Exceptional sleepiness and overweening inclination to sleep,'l
Forenoons, great desire to sleep ; if he sits still he sleeps immediately, with 'vivid dreams of a continuation oj his previous thoughts (second day),l
The eyes close involuntarily, forenoons; he falls asleep, and often starts up violently, but at once goes off again (first day)
In the morning, at 10 oclock, could not get out of bed from sleepiness, and was so heavy and inclined to sleep, and his limbs were so tired and gone-to-sleep that he could hardly stand,^l
At 10 A.M., he still feels a disposition to sleep, which he is unable to shake off"; he is so fatigued and prostrated that he can scarcely keep himself up,*-.
Sleepiness by day,l
Such an irresistible inclination to sleep by day that when he went about and stood, fell asleep as soon as he sat down
Even when getting on horseback, in the strong air, he feels sleepy, and can hardly overcome his drowsiness
Could hardly keep awake, and was dizzy when riding in the open air,'^l
Evenings (quite contrary to custom), he is sleepy very early that he can hardly keep awake, and half an hour later he becomes wide awake and remains so till late at night
Unusual sleepiness at mghi
-Great drowsiness and inactivity, for two daijs
Involuntary slumber, with heavy sleep ; on waking knows nothing about it (thirteenth day)
Sleep sound, with great sweat
Stupid sleep (eleventh day)
He lies ou his back in sleep, the left hand under the head (nine hours)
Somnolence ; the eyes close involuntarily; he sleeps with the head held erect; so fast asleep that he did not wake when the eyelids were separated (pupils were found contracted) ; with moderate warmth of the hands and face and quiet breathing; only for a few minutes roused by the occasional efforts to vomit (one quarter of an hour), (child )
He talks much in his sleep, plainly and coherently
Sleep after dinner
Deep sleep at night, with very heavy dreams (ninth day)
Difficulty in going to sleep
He has to lie in bed till 1 oclock at night before he can get asleep, and then lies merely in a dreamy state ; he seems to be obliged to wade in deep water and cannot get out
He gets asleep late and with difficulty, and often wakes and tosses about
Restless sleep,'"*-.
Restless sleep,l
At night tue child screamed out of sleep, with staring eyes ; ^'trembled, it drew up its arms and feet
He had scarcely fallen asleep when he was seized with electric shocks and jerks, all of which came from the abdomen ; it thi-ew now one arm now another away fi-om his body ; now a foot ; now it threw the whole body into the air,l
Sleep; remained restless and dreamy a long time
Sleep restless, with many confused heavy dreams (eighth day)
Extremely restless sleep the whole night ; she wakes often from anxious dreams, with dryness in the mouth and cracked lips (fourth day),l
Exceedingly restless at night
Little sleep (fifth day)
Sleeplessness before midnight
Only slumber before midnight
He awoke at midnight with violent thirst and urging to urinate (second day),l
He awoke at night with violent thirst and urging to urinate, but only a little passed (second night)
Loss of sleep at night till morning,'.- -No sleep for several nights
Sleep more dreamy than usual (first day.
Light sleep at night, full of liveliest, though unimpassioned, only historic dreams (eight hours)
Dream of a lively nature
Very heavy dreams at night (third day)
Troublesome dreams, with nightmare all night
The first night he dreams continually of bright glowing fire, from which he must frequently fly ; the fire breaks out all around wherever he goes, still it does not burn up the house ; the second night he preaches without having memorized and gets stuck ;" this occurrence worries and makes him anxious, as on the previous night, the larger part of the night
Fever p. 397
Cold skin
Cold sensation on skin
Chills
Chilliness
He is chilly and very cold
Violent shivers through whole body
Slight chilliness (third day)
Feeling as if cold run through all the vessels (soon after taking it)
Feverish chills
Constant chilliness with very warm clothing (sixth and seventh days)
Chilliness from within outward, spreads from the spine over the abdomen and extremities (fourth day)
Chill at night and on rising in the morning
Severe chill several forenoons
From morning till evening constantly chilly, as soon as she goes from the Loom into the open air
During normal stool cold shivers through the skin
Chill over whole body, with trembling and shaking at 3 p.m. (for several hours)
* He looks pale and suffering, and is so chilly on going into the open air that he trembles
Chilliness, as if cold water had been dashed over him, with gooseflesh on the arms, and repeated yawning (soon after taking it)
In the morning after rising, for half an hour, chill, with gooseflesh, and likewise at 7 P.M., for two hours, after which thirst follows, at 9 oclock (third day)
Chilliness, with gooseflesh and cold skin over the whole body, which remained a long time on the hands (ninth day)
* Trembling and chilliness over whole body, always from within outward, without ability to get warm, with a general sick feeling (eighth day),l
Slight chill, drowsiness, and weakness
Warmth of skin
Temperature elevated,'l
(7/msitr<^ heat of the body
Violent heat
General warmth over whole body (fourth day).l
General increased warmth over whole body (fifth day)
Heat,^l
Flushes of heat rising to the head
Dry heat, driving him out of bod
Fever
Fever of the same kind, at the same time, for the two following days
Constant heat in the afternoon, increased by the slightest motion ; it affects the head especially ; daily,l
Evenings, great heat all over, especially in the face, without marked thirst
Restlessness, violent febrile excitement, great heat, thirst, and headache, and the night after it very profuse sweat
Heat, with weak pulse,'l
Heat and thirst, for several days,l
Toward 6 oclock, fever as yesterday, with want of appetite, followed by increased pain in the abdomen (fourth day),l
Creeping coldness and heat, with nausea and faintness
Chilliness, with heat of certain parts, especially face
Fever first appears toward 8 p.m., chill, with flushes of heat (third day),l
Chill, on motion, alternating with heat
Violent febrile chill, evenings at 6 ; after eating, violent heat, with drawing in the occiput (first day),l
Feverishness, with coldness, starting from spine and extending to extremities, and especially to abdoraeu,''l
Alternate heat and coldness,'l
Chill alternates with heat till toward 8 p.m. ; at night he wakes with thirst and urging to urinate (second day),l
Sweat
* Sweat all over
Sweat general (ninth day),l
Sweat on forehead and neck,^l
Perspiration profuse (second day,^"*', etc.
Profuse perspiration during sleep
Profuse sweat over whole head and on the chest (fifth day)
Profuse sweat, especially of the affected parts
Profuse general sweat, mornings on waking (eleventh day)
Profuse sweat at night
Cold sweat 'I
Cold simat all over the body (in ten minutes)
Cold sweat very soon (2 grains to a child)
* The whole body breaks out into a cold, clammy sweat (15 grains)
Conditions p. 398
Aggravation.
(Morning'), Head confused ; on waking, head heavy, etc. ; heat on forehead ; heaviness in head, etc. ; twitching-tearing in right ear ; violent toothache ; tongue thick yellow ; after ri,-ing, mouth sore, etc. ; after waking, sour taste in mouth ; on waking, sour taste at back of tongue ; dryness in throat, etc. ; loss of appetite ; frequent eructations, etc. ; early, colic around umbilicus ; after rising, cutting in rectum, with stool ; cough, etc.; pain in lower part of back ; in bed and on rising, aching in kneejoint; on rising, chill ; after rising, chill, etc. ; on waking, profuse, general sweat.
(forenoon), Head heavy, etc. ; sticking in urethra ; frequent urination ; stretching and yawning; eyes close involuntarily, etc. ; severe chill.
(^/i!er;toon), Headache, etc.; coating on tongue thicker; on motion, surging toward neck upwards, etc. ; on sitting, crawling in abdomen ; cramp in calves ; constant heat.
(Toward evening). Hopeless, etc., etc.; fretfulness, etc.; catarrhal symptoms ; sore feeling in chest, etc.
(Evening), Pain in side of forehead, etc. ; heaviness in head, etc. ; burning in eyes ; on lying down, twitching-tearing in right concha; ulcerative pain in right concha; itching heat in upper lip; on going to sleep, whirling in pit of stomach, etc. ; late, aching in pit of stomach ; toward 9 oclock, cutting in abdomen ; two soft stools ; frequent urinating; voice changed; in bed, suffocative feeling; on waking, tension in hamstrings; in bed, sticking in knee, etc.; on lying in bed, itching in the sore ; in bed, itching-biting in left sole ; heat all over.
(Night), On waking, bad headache, etc. ; on waking, cracked lips; violent nausea and vomiting; stomach feels loaded, etc.; whirling, etc., of the heart; child screams, etc. ; chill.
(Before midnight), Cough ; sleeplessness.
(Midnight), Awakes with thirst, etc.
(Morning till evening). Constantly chilly.
(Morning till 5 P.M.), Headache, etc.
(11 a.m. till evening), Stitches in head.
(2 p.m. till 3 a.m.), Sticking in forehead.
(2 to 3 a.m.). Cough, with expectoration.
(About 3 A.M.), Suffocated.
(1 p.m.). Headache, etc.; cramp, etc., in bowels ; pain above pubis, etc.
(3 p.M.),Head heavy, etc.; nose-bleed ; chills all over, etc.
(4 p.m.). Feeling of heat in head.
( Toward 6 p.m.). Tension in abdomen.
(6 p.m.), Febrile chill.
(7 p.m.), Chill, etc.
(Towards 8 p.m.). Fever.
(Open atV), Twitching on left thigh; from warm room, constantly chilly ; chilly.
(Motion in open air), Tearing in left temple.
( Walking in open air). Canine hunger; head, etc., feel swollen.
(Anger), Cough.
(Bending head forward). Pain in upper chest.
(Sitting bent), Pressure iu abdomen; pressure in abdomen, etc.
(Deep breathing), Pain in right side.
(Closing eyes), Vertigo
(Coughing), Heat, etc., of forehead ; dull pain in forehead ; vomiting of food ; heat, etc., of hands, etc.
(After dinner). Qualmishness in stomach ; sensation as if overloaded in stomach, etc. ; tearings iu rectum ; sleep.
(Draw-ing in the abdomen), Sticking from below pit of stomach ; small spot in abdomen hurts.
(After drinking), nausea.
(After eating). Nausea ; nausea and vomiting ; rumbling in abdomen ; pains in abdomen ; cough ; pain in the back ; violent heat, etc.
(Expiration), Stitch iu abdomen aches.
(Before each epileptic attack), 'Barnmg in chest.
(Taking hold of anything). Aching in neck.
(Trying to lift head from pillow), Dizzmess.
(Looking at object a long time). Sight vanishes.
(After a meal), Creeping, etc., iu abdomen.
(Motion), Heat in head ; stitches in head ; pressure in forehead ; trembling of hands ; chill, etc.
(Rapid and violent motion), Pain.
(Moving arm). Stitches in region of kidneys.
(Pressure), Pain in pimples on upper arm ; burning in left breast; stitching iu fingers; i)pimples on buttock pain.
(Before rising from bed). Pain in small of back; rheumatic, etc., sensation in limbs.
(On rising from bed), Pain iu small of back; rheumatic, etc., sensation in limbs.
(Rising from sitting), Flickering before eyes, etc.
(In rooHi), Raging, etc., in whole head ; feeling of weight iu region of stomach, etc.
(Rubbing), Burning in left breast.
(Scratching), Vesicles arise at the mouth ; vesicles arise on shoulder; pimples on left forearm ; itching on left forearm ; itching below left lower jaw.
(Sitting), Immediately, pressure in abdomen ; the attacks ; pressure in abdomen, etc. ; pain in back.
(After sitting down), Immediately, feet go to sleep.
(Sitting down after moving). The pain.
(During sleep), Profuse perspiration.
(After violent sneezing). Pain in chest, etc.
(Speaking), Tearing from left frontal eminence, etc.
(Standing), 8 A.m., stupefaction, etc.; stitching-tearing from parietal bone to vertex; right foot goes to sleep, etc.
(Stooping), Burning, etc., iu right parietal bone; stitches iu left parietal bone; sensation in occiput as if something fell forward ; stitch in right lowest rib.
(Daring stool), Cold shivers through the skin.
(4ticer ^-^oo^), Burning in anus.
(After supper), M.dL\^\&fi.
(Swallowing), V am behind root of tongue ; saliva; nausea.
(Talking), Pain iu larynx, etc.; hoarseness.
(Touch), Eyeball pains; stitch iu abdomen aches.
(Touching parts gently with hand). Pain in region of stomach.
(Touching the hairs of the part), Y me stitches.
(Turning neck over left scapula), Aching in neck.
(After urinating). Burning in urethra.
(After vomiting), Pains iu abdomen ; great weakness, etc.
(On ivaking), General fatigue.
(After waking). Pain in forehead.
( Walking), Totters ; tension in perineum, etc.; drawings through right hand, etc.; tension on dorsum of foot.
Amelioration p. 400
(Opeyi air), Head heavy, etc. ; raging, etc., in head; feeling of weight in region of stomach.
(la bed), Twitching-tearing iu right concha.
(E'a^iH^f Z^caf/), Soreness, etc., iu palate.
( Cold water), Fa'm in forehead.
(After cough and expectoration), Feeling of suffocation.
(Eating), Sour taste on back of tongue; feels better; pressure in abdomen.
(J^r^cto^ton), Nausea ; pressure in stomach ; cramp in abd(ten.
(Lying on right side), Vomiting.
(Moving avoid). Pressure in abdomen.
(Pressure), Boring in right humerus ; twingeing in left forearm.
(Passage of flatus). Nausea ; aching in pit of stomach ; distension, etc., in abdomen ; rumbling in abdomen; rumbling, etc., in bowels; pressui'e in abdomen; griping in abdomen, etc.
(Rising after stooping). Burning, etc., in right parietal bone; tearing in right side of head ; pain in upper chest.
[Scratching), Burning, etc., in right parietal bone ; itching in right elbow ; itching on upjoer arm.
(Standing), Pressure in abdomen.
(Touching part genthj with hand). Pain in abdomen.
(Frequent urinating). Relief of symptoms.
( Vomiting), Cough.
( Walking about). Cramp in calves.
Footnotes
† Symptoms in Staph (Archive, 3, 2, 146), from Sheer, Hufel. J , 1810, are omitted, being observed after tartar emetic given in canelle water; also Schoenfelder, do ; observed from a solution of antimony glance (crudum) in acetic acid; also Goodwin, do., from tartar emetic mixed with camphor; also Barbier, see Heneke's compilation, A. H Z., 88, 5, tartar emetic mixed with chicory; also Jankovich, do., from tartar emetic mixed with opium.