Symptoms
1. Young plethoric persons who desire light and company, dread the dark and solitude.
2. Acute manias and deliriums, great terror, attempts to escape, hallucinations esp. of terrible animals; great rage with screaming, biting and scratching loquacity, constant praying and entreating; staring, brilliant eyes, widely dilated pupils; strange imaginations, e.g. of double personality, of scattered limbs, etc.
3. Spasmodic complains; convulsions, chorea (facial muscles chiefly affected), epilepsies; from fright, renewed by bright light, sight of brilliant objects, at attempts to swallow liquids; strabismus, stammering, hydrophobia.
4. Painlessness with most complaints but (>) intense pain of suppuration particularly in abscess of left hip joint or in panaritium.
5. In fever with intense, bright scarlet-red rash over whole body, and often suppression of all secretions and excretions.