Appetite
Milky or sweetish taste. Loathing of food, and especially of meat. Great desire for coffee. Excessive hunger and thirst. No appetite for plain food in pining boys.
Stomach
Pain in the stomach, as if proceeding from hunger. Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in the stomach. Sensation of indescribable uneasiness in the epigastrium. Swelling of the epigastrium and of the hypochondria, with shooting pains on being touched. Burning at stomach and hot eructations. Burning, drawing, and cutting pain, pressure. Pressure to left of scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs, worse during expiration.
Abdomen
Burning heat and cutting pain in right hypochondrium. Colic, with sensation of great uneasiness and inclination to evacuate. Tensive aching and fullness in the abdomen. Abdomen inflated. Exostosis in the pelvis. Tendency of hernia to protrude, sometimes with cramp-like pains and incarcerated flatus. Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands from syphilis or the use of mercury. Windy colic by night, with pinching, grumbling, and borborygmi. Frequent emission of very fetid wind.
Stool
Copious evacuation. Nocturnal diarrhoea. Nightly diarrhoea, with burning in the rectum. Constipation, stool very large in size, or very hard and knotty.
Urinary Organs
Painful retention of urine, with urgent inclination to make water, and pressure on the bladder. Frequent emission of watery urine. Urine turbid, like butter-milk, with thick mucus-like sediment.
Male Sexual Organs.
Sexual desire greatly increased. The whole genital system is strongly affected. Nocturnal erections and pollutions. Flow of prostatic fluid, with flaccidity of the penis. Swelling of the (lower part) of the testicle (r). Swelling of the testes, with aching pain on touching and rubbing. Induration of the testes. Testes mere pendant shreds (in pining boys). Hydrocele. Bubo. Chancre.
Female Sexual Organs.
Pains in the abdomen, as if the catamenia were coming. Prolapsus and induration of the matrix. Uterine affections with depression and tendency to suicide. Menses too late, and scanty or absent. Drawing pain in pubes, right inguinal region sore to touch. Before menses: swelling of axillary glands. During menses: colic, prolapse of rectum. Leucorrhoea: profuse and corroding, yellow, thick white, not offensive, worse by walking. During pregnancy: suicidal melancholia, jaundice.
Respiratory Organs
Accumulation of mucus in the trachea and in the chest, which is expectorated with difficulty in the morning. Voice nasal. Cough from want of breath at night. Cough with tough yellow sputum on awaking in morning.
Chest
Great difficulty of respiration at night, and on walking in the open, air requiring deep inspirations. Paroxysms of suffocation, with constrictive oppression of the chest, falling, loss of sense, and bluish colour of the face. Pain, as if there were a plug placed under the ribs. Continuous aching in left side of the chest. Incisive pain, and obtuse shootings, near the sternum. Great weight on chest, especially heavy weight on sternum. Much congestion in the chest.
Heart
Anxious palpitation of the heart, from congestion to the chest. Beatings of the heart, irregular, or by fits, sometimes with anguish and oppression of the chest. Pain in heart region extending down left arm to fingers. Floundering heart. When walking, the heart seems to shake as if it were loose. Sensation as if the heart stood still. Palpitation compels him to stop.
Neck and Back.
Swollen cervical glands. Tension in neck as if muscles too short, even at rest, worse stooping. Stinging pains in small of back. Gressus gallinaceus (in spine disease). Pain at lower part of spine. Pains, generally passive, or drawing and acute, in the back, chiefly in the morning, and sometimes so violent as to prevent any motion of the limbs.
Limbs.
Limbs go to sleep, numb, insensible on waking, more when lying than moving. Has to seize hold of left arm during attack of palpitation. Limbs swollen, painful, almost anchylosed.
Upper Limbs
Boring in left shoulder. Aching pains in the arms and in the forearms. Cramp-like and acute drawing pains in the bones of the carpus and of the metacarpus. Acute drawing pains and paralytic weakness in the bones and joints of the fingers. Palms itch, herpes, nails turn blue.
Lower Limbs
Coxalgia. Sharp pains in the thighs, especially morning and evening. Paralytic and painful weakness of the knees, as if a bandage were tightly compressed above them, they are feeble and give way. Drawing pains and acute pullings, with paralytic weakness, in the bones and the joints of the toes. Nodes, caries.
Generalities
Pain, like that of a bruise, with acute pullings, and paralytic weakness in the limbs in general, and chiefly in the joints, especially on uncovering the part affected, in the morning, on waking and during repose, disappearing on getting up. Darting pains in the limbs, with great dejection. Inflammation of the bones, with nocturnal pains. Exostosis on the head, on the arms and on the legs. Great acuteness and delicacy of sensation, with excessive sensibility to the least pain. Over-sensitiveness to all pain, and to the cold air. Hysterical spasms, sometimes with alternate tears and laughter Great sensibility to cold, or strong desire to go into the open air, even in bad weather, because it is found to be a relief. Great ebullitions, with congestions to the head and chest, and palpitation of the heart.
Sleep
Weary, but cannot rest or sleep. Drowsiness after meals. Nocturnal sleep till four o’clock in the morning only. Awakened by bone pains, in despair. Fatigue and weakness in the morning on waking. Restless sleep, with anxious dreams, of thieves. Nocturnal mumbling in the form of questions.
Fever
Pulse small, but accelerated. Febrile shiverings over the whole body, while in bed in the evening, followed neither by heat nor thirst. Cold of the entire body, with bluish colour of the nails, nauseous taste, with inclination to vomit, sometimes followed by an increase of heat. Heat of the face, with cold in the hands and feet. Copious general perspiration early in the morning, mostly about genitals.
