General Action
Attacks of syncope, with threatening cardiac failure and cold extremities. Extreme dryness of the skin and mucous membranes. Twitchings and general spasms.
Generalities;
Great weakness; faintness. Weakness, especially of the back and knees, with sleepiness. Great sensitiveness to parts upon which one lies. Symptoms (<)cold, wet weather; (>)external warmth.
Mind
Extremely changeable mood, laughing and crying in rapid succession. Inability to think. Absence of mind; cannot finish what he he begins, but stands, in a dazed condition. While writing his thoughts vanish entirely. Thought slow and difficult; waits a long time before answering. Omits letters and syllables when writing, and is incoherent when expressing her thoughts. Loss of memory. Momentary attacks of unconsciousness, which seem to last a long time. complete loss of ideas, so that one thinks they had been asleep.
Head
Head feels heavy and drops forward or rolls abut on the shoulders involuntarily; must hold it with both hands. Fulness; a distended feeling in the head, painless. Violent pain in a small spot in the left side of the forehead. The pain feels loose on moving it or on walking, (<)hot weather.
Eyes
Excessive dryness, reading is difficult, eyes, close as from sleepiness. Pupils dilated and insensible. Objects seem very large, especially in the evening.
Nose
Dryness and stoppage of the nostrils. Over-sensitiveness of smell and then loss of smell.
Face
Face generally pale, though the cheeks are sometimes hot and red.
Mouth
Lips, mouth and throat, perfectly dry, with-out thirst. Sticking toothache, (>)external warmth; (<)cold wet weather, in the evening. Teeth feel as though they were covered with chalk.
Stomach
Unnatural appetite, with hasty eating. Chalky taste, or as if he had eaten excessively of salt food. Deathly nausea on raising the head from the pillow. Nausea when riding in a carriage.
Abdomen
Tension; a feeling of heaviness in the upper abdomen. Cutting and twisting about the navel, though with sleepiness. Numerous flatulent symptoms, disturbing sleep.
Stool
Stool soft but difficult, indolent. Diarrhoea like beaten eggs, undigested, with sleepiness.
Urinary Organs
Frequent micturition, sometimes involuntary. Urine smells like violets.
Sexual Organs
Menstruation irregular, even suppressed, with persistent attacks of fainting. Obstinate uterine hemorrhage of the thick, dark blood.
Respiratory Organs
Voice hoarse, unsteady or lost entirely (aphonia). Hoarseness, caused by walking against the wind. Oppression of the chest, with a feeling as if the blood rushed towards the heart and then spread over the whole body. Paroxysms of suffocation. Constriction, or a feeling of a heavy weight on the chest.
Heart
A feeling of sudden rush of blood to the heart. Palpitation, with attacks of faintness.
Neck and Back
Pain in the back as if bruised or broken, (<)riding in a carriage.
Extremities
Numbness. Tingling in the toes as after being frozen, with pain in the soles, as if bruised.
Sleep
Overpowering sleepiness (with all symptoms).
Fever
Chilliness, with pale face, especially on uncovering, and in cold wet air. Febrile attacks, with sleepiness, without thirst, with dry mouth and throat. Internal fever, with cold, dry skin. General absence of perspiration.