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Characteristic symptoms

Crampy pains with red swelling, hardness and painfulness of the affected parts ; tension, as if the muscles there contracted/ sudden darting pains, especially in parts affected with ulcers ; the extremities go to sleep; stiffness of the joints; liability to take cold; he has to avoid a draft of air ; pulsation in the whole body after slight exercise; nervousness with tremulousness, or moaning; excessive emaciation ; aggravations of all pains, when getting guai. 543 cold ; dryness of the skin and deficient exhalation ; erysipelas, steatoma, glandular swellings; moist herpes, phagadenic blisters, sore places, disfigured nails, fetid ulcers and other diseases of the skin ; fanciful ravings at night ; restlessness with anxious dreams; waterbrash at night; chilliness, early when in bed ; cold feet and hands ; sweat at the least motion ; night-sweats; disposition to grief and despondency; anxiety about the smallest things, even unto despair ; humid eruptions on the hairy scalp ; falling off of the hair of the head, even on this sides of the head ; gray hairs ; photophobia ; daylight dazzles the eyes ; eruptions and soreness behind the ears ; fetid smell and stinking discharge from the nose; pale or yellow color of the face, with blue edges round the eyes; hemiplegia and distortion of the muscles of the face ; ulcerated corners of the mouth; scurfy eruptions around the mouth and skin; frequent discharge of saliva; foul urinous smell from the mouth ; sensation in the throat, when swallowing, as if a plug had lodged in it ; dyspepsia, excessive flatulence and constant vomiting after taking food ; fullness and hardness of the abdomen ; distended abdomen ; discharge of foul smelling winds ; feeling of weight in abdomen ; chronic constipation with hardness in region of liver ; hard knotty stool with discharge of mucus and blood ; pains in hemorrhoidal knobs; prolapsus recti, without straining, as if the sphincter ani were paralyzed ; light or brown colored, half digested, thin and intensely stinking passages with burning in rectum ; watery leucorrhœa at time of menstruation ; swelling of both ovaries, with sensation, as if they were in motion with pains on stooping or pressure ; sore pains in back from sexual ex cesses ; sexual excitement ; suppressed, or scanty and pale menses ; pains and cramps during menstruation ; soreness of the pudendum and between the thighs; hoarseness and titillation in the throat ; voice not clear ; soreness of the nipples with humid blisters ; fetid sweat of the feet.