Aurum

Characteristic symptoms

Bruised pains, especially in the joints, early in the morning, when in bed, most violent when at rest ; passing off immediately after rising ; numbness and insensibility, more when lying still than in motion ; violent seething of the blood ; excessive susceptibility to every sort of pain ; formication ; laming tearing in the bones ; restless sleep, with frightful dreams and delirium ; prevailing chilliness and great sensitiveness to cold air ; religious melancholy, great anxiety, longing for death, suicidal mania ; quarrelsome, peevish and vehement ; the least contradiction excites his wrath ; rush of blood to the head, with tumult and roaring in the head; fatigue and nausea from mental labor ; half-sightedness, as if the upper part of the eye were covered with a dark body ; black spots and fiery sparks before the eyes ; roaring in the ears ; dark, brown red, slightly elevated spots on the nose, painful when touched ; ulcerated scurfy nostrils, with swelling of the nose ; swelling of the cheek and lip, with drawing tearing in the bones; gum-boil, with swelling of the cheek ; fetid odor from the mouth ; flatulent colic ; disposition of exciting hernia to protrude ; jumentous urine, like buttermilk ; sexual excitement, with frequent nightly erections and pollutions ; swelling and contusive pain in the testes ; nocturnal asthma and constrictive oppression in the chest ; palpitation of the heart, with congestion of blood to the chest ; shaking of the heart, when walking, as if it were loose.