Cinnabaris

Symptoms

(acting nine days.)

Roaring in the head, half an hour after dinner and in the evening before going to bed ; this makes him dizzy. Sensation in the outer parts of the head as if they were standing out, only in daytime. The outer skull is painful when feeling the head, even the hairs are painful.

(Inflammation of the right eye ; itching, pressure and stinging in the inner canthus and lower lid, with constant lachrymation when looking at a thing, and violent fluent coryza.)

5. Contractive, burning sensation in the palate. Contractive aching pain in the throat, during empty deglutition. Dryness and heat in the mouth and throat at night ; he was frequently obliged to drink ; felt some pricking in the posterior part of the lower surface of the tongue. Stinging itching in the front part of the throat and in the anterior part of the chest, with slight swelling of the cervical glands ; red stigmata make their appearance, running together and forming round spots covered with hard, granular pimples ; the eruption becomes burning when scratched, and then itches still more ; finally the spots become painful. A good deal of appetite for eating and drinking, and great desire for an embrace.

10. Great desire for food and for an embrace. No appetite ; he loathes every kind of food. Inclination to vomit, immediately. Ascension of heat from the stomach into the throat and head, in the night while lying in the bed, and going off when sitting up.

Two easy, loose evacuations every day, preceded by pinching, which is less after the evacuation.

15. Pain like soreness in the urethra, during micturition, although the urethra is painless when pressed. Swelling of the penis. Jerking in the penis. Itching pain directly behind

133 the glans, with exudation of pus of a disgustingly sweet smell.

20. Small, red spots on the glans. Lancinations in the glans. Red stigmata shine upon the glans, as if pimples would make their appearance. Burning-stinging itching of the corona glands, in the evening, disappearing after friction, but recommencing shortly afterwards so much more violently. Redness and swelling of the prepuce ; it looks sore, with itching pain.— 25. (Little warts on different parts of the prepuce, bleeding when touched.) Leucorrhcea, occasioning a pressing in the vagina while it escapes. Violent erections in the evening while in bed.

A good deal of coryza. (When lying down, she is obliged to cough uninterruptedly, she coughs less when sitting down ; the cough consists in single dry turns.) — 30. Pulsative beating and stitching here and there near the sternum and under the short ribs, most when walking, least when sitting and lying down. Tearing pain in the side of the back, and as if every part of it were broken, especially in the night while in bed and making the least movement, or in the arm while writing ; both those pains may be diminished by the warmth of the stove. Severe stitches in the arm, occasionally. Sweat between the thighs while walking, corrosive, and smelling badly. Painful jerking in the leg, in the evening after falling asleep, waking him. — 35. Feeling of pressure in the foot, as if the foot would go to sleep. (Rheumatic pain in the big toe.) Uncomfortable sensation in the body after a meal, as if distended and puffed up ; sense of oppression across the chest and stomach. Coldness in the joints ; shuddering and drawing in the upper and lower limbs. Paralytic sensation in all the limbs ; he feels lazy and drowsy.

40. Nightly sleeplessness, without pain or lassitude ; in the morning he felt strong, and as if he did not require any sleep. He wakes suddenly after midnight as from a dream, being unable to breathe ; a sort of nightmare.

Excessive headache. Pain in the cervical vertebras as if dislocated. Nightly diarrhoea for two weeks, without colic. (The border of the ulcers becomes painful and tensive.)