Cantharis

Characteristic symptoms

Lancinating pains and stitches from without inwardly ; burning sore pains, especially in the mucous membranes; the right side particularly affected; amelioration by lying down ; great emaciation with debility, forcing one to keep the recumbent position ; convulsive tossing of the limbs with shrieking and roaring; trismus, tetanus and opisthotonus ; fevers consisting almost exclusively of the cold stage or violent, acute, burning fevers ; great restlessness and anxiety ; paroxysms of rage and hydrophobia with convulsions, renewed by the sight of water ; miserable looks ; hippocratic countenance ; great paleness, or yellowwretched, sickly appearance ; foamy ptyalism ; blisters on the gums and tongue; difficult deglutition, especially of fluids ; vomiting of food or hsematemesis with violent retching; burning thirst, with aversion to drinks; constipation or dysenteric diarrhœa ; violent pains in the neck of the bladder ; suppression of urine; paralysis of the neck of the bladder ; strangury with discharge only of a few drops ; priapisms ; frightful satyriasis ; inflammation and gangrene of the sexual parts ; severe catarrh with discharge of tough mucus from the nose ; feeling of weakness in the chest with faint speech.