China

Characteristic symptoms

Diseases of nutrition • profound alteration of the blood ; debility, attended with a certain amount of irritability ; jerking tearing, increased by contact, and Aith lameness of the affected parts ; wandering pains ; painful weariness in the limbs, with constant disposition to stretch, move or shift the position of the limbs ; lassitude and languor, mental and physical ; bruised pains of the bones in the joints, especially when lying, less when moving about ; aggravation of the pains, especially by contact, also at night or after a meal ; nervousness, with feeling of debility ; painful w weariness in the joints, with pressure as if from a weight; lameness and tremulous weakness; emaciation and consumption ; yellow color of the skin ; dropsical swellings or hard, red inflammatory swellings ; drowsiness in the daytime, but no sleep at night in consequence of fancies ; disturbed sleep with heavy anxious dreams, with waking in a state of half consciousness ; coldness and shuddering over the whole body ; fevers commencing with shaking and chilliness, mostly in the evening or afternoon, followed by heat and then sweat at night, with thirst during the sweat, as well before as after the chill ; hypochondrial indifference and apathy ; despises everything as dull and of no account ; quarrelsome, fitful mood ; ill-humor from the impossibility to regulate the ideas which press on his mind ; heaviness of the head, with reeling sensation ; soreness of the brain, as if bruised, when making an effort of the mind ; rush of blood to the head with pain, as if the skull would burst ; painful sensitiveness of the hairy scalp when touched ; yellowness of the eyes ; ringing in the ears ; dimness and weakness of sight ; yellow, livid complexion ; or pale, sunken face, with hollow eyes and pointed nose ; foul smell from the mouth, especially early in the morning ; ptyalism with nausea ; flat bitter taste of all food ; great weakness of digestion, with pains even after the slightest meal ; great desire for wine or dainties ; oppression of the stomach and spasmodic pains, particularly after eating or drinking ; swelling of the liver, also with hardness ; emission of a quantity of flatulence, sometimes very fetid ; various kinds of diarrhœa, particularly after a meal or at night ; black watery diarrhœa ; involuntary undigested stool after eating fruit ; lascivious fancies, with frequent erections ; sexual excitement ; suffocative fits at night ; accumulation of phlegm in throat and in the chest ; pressure between the scapulae, as if from a stone.