Neck and Back.
Oedematous, painless swellings of the neck and of the lower jaw. Tetters between the shoulder-blades. Violent and burning pain in the back, powerfully aggravated by the touch. Acute drawing pains in the back and between the shoulder-blades, which necessitate lying down.
Upper Limbs
Acute drawing pains in the arms and in the hands. Swelling of the arms, with blackish pustules of a putrid smell. Acute drawing pains in the night, beginning from the elbow and extending to the armpits Acute pulling and shooting in the wrists. Cramps in the fingers. At night, sensation of fullness and swelling in the palms of the hands. Excoriation between fingers. Hard swelling of the fingers, with pain in the finger-bones. Ulcers at the extremities of the fingers, with burning pain. Discoloured nails.
Lower Limbs
Cramp in the legs. Acute drawing pains in the hips, extending to the groins, the thighs, and sometimes even to the ankle-bones, with uneasiness, which obliges one to move the limb constantly. Tearing and stinging in the hips, legs, and loins Tearing in the tibia. Rheumatic pain in the legs, and especially in the tibia. Paralytic weakness of the thigh. Pain, as from a bruise in the joint of the knee. Old ulcers on lower limbs, with burning and lancinating pains. Contraction of the tendons of the ham. Tetters on the ham. Cramps in the calves of the legs. Affections of the shin-bones. Burning and shooting ulcers in the leg. Itching herpes in the bends of the knee. Varices. Fatigue in the legs and in the feet. Swelling of the foot, burning, hard, and shining, with burning vesicles of blue-blackish colour on the instep. Corrosive and ulcerous vesicles on the soles of the feet and on the toes. Pains in the fleshy part of the toes, as if they were galled by walking.
Generalities
Paroxysms of suffering with anxiety coldness, rapid failure of strength, and wish to lie down. Burning, chiefly in the interior of the parts affected, or sharp and drawing pains. Nocturnal pains, which are felt even during sleep, and which are so unbearable that they excite despair and fury. Aggravation of suffering by conversation, as well as after a meal, in the morning on rising, in the evening in bed, on lying on the part affected, or during repose after prolonged exercise, mitigated by external heat, as well as by assuming a standing posture, or by walking, and movement of the body. Return of suffering periodically. Oedematous swellings, with burning pain in the parts affected. Excessive indolence, and dread of all exertion. Want of strength, excessive weakness, and complete asthenia, even to prostration, sometimes with paralysis of the lower jaw, eyes dull and deep, and mouth open. Rapid failure of strength, and sensation of weakness as if from want of food. Inability to walk, the patient is obliged to remain lying down. When lying down, the patient feels stronger, but on rising, falls from weakness. Deficiency of blood, dropsy of outer and inner parts, inflammation of mucous membranes, ulcers in the glands. Emaciation and atrophy of the whole body, with colliquative sweats, great weakness, face earthy, and eyes sunken, with a dark ring surrounding them. Violent convulsive attacks, spasms and tetanus. Epileptic fits, preceded by burning in the stomach, pressure and heat in the back, extending to the nape of the neck, and to the brain. with dizziness. Oedematous inflation and swelling of the whole body, chiefly of the head and face, with enlargement of the abdomen, and engorgement of the glands. Burning pains of inner or exterior parts (glands). Emaciation. Trembling of the limbs, chiefly the arms and legs. Trembling of the limbs (in drunkards). Stiffness and fixedness of the limbs, sometimes with sharp rheumatic pains. Paralysis and contraction of the limbs. Paralysis, especially of the lower extremities. Fainting, fits, sometimes with dizziness and swelling of the face. Fainting, from weakness, with scarcely perceptible pulse. Sensation of torpor in the limbs, as if they were dead.
Skin
Desquamation of the skin of the body. Skin dry as parchment, cold and bluish. Yellowish colour of the skin. Shootings, hot itching, and violent burning in the skin. Reddish or bluish spots in the skin. Petechiae. Inflamed spots, as from morbilli, chiefly in the head, face, and neck. Miliary eruptions, red and white. Conical pimples, whitish or reddish, with burning itching. Nettle-rash. Eruption of painful black pustules. Eruption of itchy pimples, small and tickling. Eruption of small red pimples, which increase and change into gnawing ulcers, covered with a scurf. Vesicular eruptions. Herpes, with vesicles, and violently burning, especially at night, or with coverings, like fish- scales. Skin jaundiced, general anasarca, black blisters. Pustules filled with blood and pus. Tettery spots, covered with phlyctenae and furfur, with burning nocturnal pains. Ulcers with raised and hard edges, surrounded by a red and shining crown, with the bottoms like lard, or of a blackish-blue colour, with burning pains or shooting, principally when the parts affected become cold. Ulcers, hard on the edges, stinging, burning spongy, with proud flesh, turning black, flat, pus thin, ichorous (cancers). Fetid smell, ichorous suppuration, ready bleeding, putridity, and bluish or greenish colour of the ulcers. Thin crusts or proud flesh on the ulcers. Sphacelus. Want of secretion in the ulcers. Carbuncles (burning). Inflammatory tumours with burning pains. Warts. Ulcers in form of a wart. Chilblains. Varices. Discoloured nails.
Sleep
Constant drowsiness, with strong and frequent yawnings. Nocturnal sleeplessness, with agitation and constant tossing. Drowsiness in the evening. Coma vigil, often interrupted by groans and grinding of the teeth. Unrefreshing sleep, in the morning it seems as if more sleep were needed. Starting of the limbs when on the point of falling asleep. During sleep, startings with fright, groans, talking, querulous exclamations, grinding of the teeth, convulsive movements of the hands and fingers, sensation of general uneasiness, and tossing. In sleep, lying on the back, with the hand under the head. Light sleep, the slightest noise is heard, though the patient dreams continually. Frequent dreams, full of cares, threats apprehensions, repenting and inquietude, anxious, horrible, fantastic, lively and angry dreams, dreams of storms, of fire, of black waters and darkness, dreams with meditation. In the night, jerking of the limbs, heat and agitation, burning under the skin, as if there were boiling water in the veins, or cold, with inability to get warm, stifling sensation in the larynx, asthmatic attacks, great agitation, and anguish at the heart. Frequent waking during the night, with difficulty in sleeping again. Sleeplessness, from anguish and restlessness, with tossing about (after midnight).
Fever
Cold over the whole body, sometimes with cold and viscid sweat. General coldness, with parchment-like dryness of the skin, or with profuse, cold, clammy perspiration. Chilliness without thirst, worse after drinking, with stretching of the limbs and restlessness, with external heat at the same time, when walking in the open air. Shiverings and shuddering, chiefly in the evening in bed, or on walking in the open air, or after having drunk or eaten, and often with the addition of other sufferings, such as sharp pains in the limbs, headache, oppression of the chest, and difficulty of respiration, drawing in the limbs, anxiety and restlessness. Universal heat, principally at night, and often with anxiety, restlessness, delirium, heaviness and perplexity in the head, dizziness, vertigo, oppression and pricking in the chest, redness of the skin, etc. Febrile attacks, mostly in the morning or evening, often with shivering and heat slightly developed, burning thirst or perfect adipsia, quartan or tertian, or sometimes quotidian, sufferings before the attack, and sweats after, on going to sleep, apyrexia (or shivering or heat), with great weakness, dropsical affections, pains in the regions of the liver and of the spleen, dull or shooting headache, sharp and drawing pains in the limbs, in the back and in the head, pressure, fullness, tension, and burning in the stomach and in the epigastrium, prickings in the chest and in the sides, difficulty of breathing, anxiety, face puffed, earthy, etc. Pulse irregular, or quick, weak, small, and frequent, or suppressed and trembling. Pulse frequent in the morning, slower in the evening. Frequent colliquative, or cold and viscid sweats, sweat at night, or in the evening on going to sleep, or in the morning on waking, partial sweat, chiefly on the face and legs. Perspiration at the beginning of sleep, or all night, cold, clammy, smelling sour or offensive. During perspiration, unquenchable thirst, after the fever, attack of headache. Perspiration, which imparts a yellow colour to the linen and to the skin. During the sweat, heaviness in the head, buzzing in the ears and trembling of the limbs.
