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Mind
Loss of consciousness; faint feeling.
Loses his memory; frequently cannot find the right word, hence falters in speech; lies with closed eyes, shunning light and conversation.
Imbecility.
Time seems to pass very slowly.
Dullness of the head, mental confusion; dizziness, tendency to fall sideways.
Thinks about killing himself.
Impulsive, must walk fast; frequent attacks of anxiety.
Indifference to occupation, loses all inclination for work; believes that all his undertaking will fail.
Reserved; sad; taciturn, with dullness of the head and beating in the whole body.
Feeling as if a cloud hung over him, with great depression; usually with sighing respiration, worse in a close room.
Easily frightened; fears the disease may result seriously; weeping mood.
Easily angered; from it cough and stitches in the chest.
Thinking intently increases headache and causes dimness of vision.
Noticing beating of heart, increases it.
Apprehension when ready to go to church or opera, bringing on diarrhoea.
Sensorium
Vertigo: when walking with eyes closed, with eyes closed, which alarms him; staggers when walking in the dark. has to seize hold of things; buzzing in ears; general debility of the limbs and trembling; vertigo and complete but transient blindness; epilepsy.
Drowsy,. dilated pupils; green stools. Hydrocephaloid.
Inner Head
Congestion of blood to head and face.
Rush of blood, throbbing carotids, head seems too large; relieved by tight bandage.
Boring in left frontal eminence, worse at night in warm bed.
Pressing pains sometimes on vertex, sometimes left frontal bone, relieved by pressure or by tight bandaging; worse from any exhaustive mental labor; letters would then run together.
Violent pressure in the forehead commencing over the eyes, spreading upwards to coronal suture; in morning.
Hemicrania: pressive, screwing; throbbing pain in one frontal protuberance, temple or into the bones of the face. At its height, trembling of the whole body, intense nausea, which ends in watery,. bilious vomit; lies senseless, eyes closed, shuns light and conversation.
Digging pains in right hemisphere of the brain.
Digging, cutting motion through left hemisphere, from occiput to frontal protuberance, recurs frequently, increases and decreases rapidly.
Outer Head
Almost constant boring, cutting in bones of forehead, vertex, temples and face.
Head feels much enlarged.
Itching, creeping, crawling, as from vermin; roots of hair feel as if pull upwards; she had to stretch all the time.
Herpetic eruption on the occiput.
Burning in the scalp, which feels as if drawn right; cold feeling in eyes.
Eyes
Far-sighted.
Grey spots and serpent-like bodies moved before him.
Letters become blurred; run together.
Photophobia, eyes filled with mucus.
Photophobia and weak sight, preventing his writing.
Vanishing of sight, he must constantly wipe away mucus.
Paralysis of accommodation from errors of refraction, glasses failing.
Eyes red, shuns light, after straining them while sewing; worse in the warm room, better in the open air.
Conjunctiva towards inner canthus is red and swollen, like pterygium.
Canthi as red as blood, the caruncula swollen, standing out like a lump of red flesh; clusters of intensely red vessels, extend from inner canthus to the cornea.
Cornea opaque; ulceration of the cornea in new born infants; profuse purulent discharge from the lids.
Conjunctiva of ball and lids intensely congested; bright red granulations on lids; lids swollen, thick pus discharges.
OEdema of the lids and sensation of fulness, dryness and heat, especially on moving the ball, which is sensitive to touch; chemosis; non-excoriating lachrymation.
Lids crusty, swollen, thick; with pannus.
Ciliary blepharitis from being over a fire; better from cold
air and cold applications. Ectropion.
Ears
Dull hearing; complete deafness in typhus.
Ringing in the ears; whizzing and feeling of obstruction, with hard hearing in left ear.
Stitches from right into left ear, with congestion to head.
Fulness and ringing in the ears. Meningitis.
Tearing in the ears.
Nose
Sense of smell blunted.
Smell as of pus before the nose; small ulcers in the nares.
Discharge of whitish pus, with clots of blood.
Coryza, with stupefying headache over the eyes, has to lie down; sneezing, chilliness, lachrymation, sickly look.
Violent itching of the nose.
Face
Face sunken, pale, bluish; leaden colored; old looking, ashen; yellow, dirty looking.
Circumscribed red cheeks.
Left side swollen, with great heat and burning; lips much swollen.
During attack of prosopalgia, sour taste.
Infraorbital neuralgia, left side.
Lower Face
Hard, pale blotches on the vermilion border of the upper lip, sore to the touch.
Lips: trembled when he spoke; lips and finger nails blue.
Teeth Teeth; Sensitive to cold water; black; Gums tender, bleed easily; neither painful nor swollen.
Teeth
Teeth; sensitive to cold water; black; Gums tender, bleed easily; neither painful nor swollen.
Tongue.
etc.
Taste: sweetish-bitter; sour; metallic, astringent; inky; lost.
Cannot talk; spasms of the muscles of tongue and throat.
Tongue coated white.
Tip of the tongue red, painful (see ); papillae erect, prominent.
Tongue dry; hard as a chip, and black like the teeth.
Red streak down middle of tongue.
Mouth
Fetor from the mouth; morning.
Ptyalism.
Inner mouth covered with a whitish-grey coat.
Throat
Uvula and fauces dark red.
Thick tenacious mucus in the throat, obliging him to hawk, causing slight hoarseness.
Rawness, soreness; scraping in the throat.
Sensation as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when swallowing, breathing or moving the neck.
Wart like excrescences feel like pointed bodies when swallowing.
Swallowing difficult.
Burning and dryness in fauces and pharynx.
Paroxysms of cramp in the oesophagus.
Desires Aversions
Irresistible desires for sugar.
Loss of appetite; much thirst, or no thirst.
Desires for strong cheese.
Eating and Drinking
Eating: or a swallow of wine, relieves the head; coffee aggravates.
Sour things lessen nausea.
Warm fluids relieve, cold aggravate the pain in stomach after drinking, dyspnoea.
Nausea after each meal, mostly after dinner, or after supper.
fluids go “right through him.”.
Nausea and Vomiting
Belching after every meal; stomach as if it would burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence.
Tasteless, or sour eructations.
Deathly nausea with headache, not abating after vomiting.
The Vomited substances tinge the bedding black. Yellow fever.
Awakens at midnight, with oppression at stomach as from a heavy lump inducing vomiting; in the morning throws up a glairy mucus which can be drawn into strings; during the afternoon desire to vomit, tremulous weakness.
Stomach
Small spot between the xiphoid and navel, sensitive to the slightest pressure; pain radiate in all directions; increases and decreases gradually; Gastrodynia.
Regularly towards midnight, attacks of pain preceded by vomiting of slimy and bilious fluid.
Constant drawing and gnawing, increasing daily to violent attacks, ending in vomiting of clear, saltish water.
After ice cream, gastralgia, pain radiating in all directions, worse after food.
Stitches in the stomach, and short breathing.
Trembling; weakness at pit of stomach.
Fulness of the stomach; painful swelling at the pit, with great anxiety. Flatulent dyspepsia.
Stinging, ulcerative pain in the left side of stomach, worse from touch and deep inspiration.
Gastric catarrh after a long “spree,” tip of tongue red. See.
Ulceration of stomach, worse from cold food; mucous stools.
Hypochondria
Region of the liver sensitive to pressure; periodical attacks of pain about liver and navel, with nausea, retching and vomiting of tough phlegm.
Tension as from a bend around the hypochondria.
Spasms of the diaphragm.
Abdomen
Fullness and heaviness of the abdomen, with anxiety, impending respiration; after supper.
Rumbling, gurgling; wind cannot pass.
Tension of abdomen, cannot bear to be touched. See. Constriction in the bowels, as if tightly tied with a band.
Stitches hard through the abdomen like electric shocks, especially when suddenly changing from rest to motion.
Bearing down in the hypogastrium.
Hemorrhoidal colic mornings, during cold, misty weather.
Stool etc.
Stools; of green, fetid mucus, with noisy flatus at night; green, brown, bloody, fetid mucus worse after midnight; watery, greenish bloody, with tenesmus; green, watery with sour yellow thin, fetid, after weaning; before stool fermentation.
Green stool; sopor, large pupils Croupous inflammation of the rectum thin unshapely strips pass in masses, with burning, constriction and sore pain in left side of abdomen.
masses of epithelium connected by muco-lymph looking red or green and shreddy, with severe bearing down in hypogastrium; advanced dysentery, with suspected ulceration.
Looseness after exalted imagination; chronic diarrhoea after mental shock.
Stool and urine passed involuntarily.
Diarrhoea as soon as he drinks.
