Lower Limbs
Cold legs. Sensation in the toes and whole foot, as if too large, swollen and stiff. Legs (ankles) and feet waxy, pale, and oedematous. Burning in the toes with redness, feet cold. Suppressed perspiration of the feet. Numbness and coldness of feet, even paralysis. Dropsy of limbs in diphtheritic albuminuria. Puffy swelling of the knees.
Generalities
Great debility, as if he had worked hard, he is obliged to lie down. Sudden “puffing up” of the whole body.- Tired, as if bruised in every limb, and especially in the back, as after exertion, worse on rising after sitting.- Complete anasarca, no thirst, pale, waxy, almost transparent.- Burning, stinging pains, like bee-stings, occurring occasionally. -Great sensitiveness to touch and pressure (abdomen). Clonic and tonic spasms. Sudden weakness with coldness. Tension (over the eyes in the left side of head) behind the ears, in the neck. Dark haemorrhages.
Skin
OEdematous swellings. Skin usually white, almost transparent (ovarian dropsy). Hives. Urticaria like bee-stings, or stings from other insects, with intolerable itching at night. Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pains. Eruption like nettle- rash over the whole body. Erysipelas, with gangrenous spots. Swelling and dry erysipelatous redness. Scarlet eruptions. Body covered with large, elevated, white wheals. Panaritium (burning, stinging). Boils and swellings of all descriptions with stinging pains.
Sleep
Much yawning. Great desire to sleep, extreme sleepiness. Sleep disturbed by many dreams. Dreams full of care and toil, of making long journeys, of flying through the air, of hot stones, of walking over hot floors, of walking a long way over wet roads. Sleep, late in the morning. -Awakens from sleep with a shrill shriek (child suffering from hydrocephalus).
Fever
Pulse full and rapid, small and trembling, intermitting. Chill, mostly towards the evening (3-4 p-m.). Chilliness from the least movement, with heat of the face and hands, runs down the back with great prostration. During hot stage more or less violent headache, generally a continuous deep sleep. Heat with thirst, wishes to uncover. Dry heat towards evening with sleepiness. Sweating stage either absent or of a very light grade. The sensation of heat is more felt about the pit of the stomach and in the chest. Perspiration, alternating with dryness of the skin. Much burning of the skin on various parts of the body. Thirst wanting during sweat, may or may not be present during heat, always thirst during chill. Sweat after trembling and fainting, then nettlerash. After the fever paroxysm, sleep. Apyrexia: urine scanty, feet swollen, limbs sore, restless, urticaria.
