Causation
Alcohol. Cold, moist winds. Excessive venery. Self-abuse. Injury to lower spine. Over-lifting. Strains. Mental strain. Losses of fluids. Suppressed sweat. Suppressed eruption. Suppressed menses. Fright.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Melancholy, dejection, and sadness. Disposition to weep, even about trifles. -Vexation and lamentation, on account of old offences. -Anxiety and anguish, excited by fancies, or frightful stories, also with shuddering and dread during the twilight, or at night. -Excessive anguish, with palpitations of the heart, ebullition of the blood, and shocks in the epigastrium. -Anxious agitation, forbidding rest. -Disposition to take alarm. -Sadness, with heaviness in the limbs. -Apprehensions. Easily frightened or offended.- Children are self-willed.- Despair in consequence of the impaired condition of the health, or hypochondriacal humour, with fear of being ill or unfortunate, of experiencing sad accidents, of losing the reason, of being infected by contagious diseases. Discouragement and fear of death.-Impatience, excessive excitability, and excessive liability to mental impressions, the least noise fatigues.-Excessive ill-humour and mischievous inclination, with obstinacy and a disposition to take everything in bad part.-Indifference, apathy, and repugnance to conversation. -Aversion to others. -Solitude is insupportable. Disgust and aversion to all labor whatever.- Absence of will. Great weakness of memory and of conception, with difficulty in thinking.-Dizziness of mind.- Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, and to take one word for another.- She fears she will lose her understanding, or that people will observe her confusion of mind.- Loss of sense and errors of imagination.- Delirium with visions of fires, murders, rats and mice.
Head
Head compressed, as if by a vice.- Dizziness after scratching behind the ear, or else, before breakfast, with trembling. Headache, with empty eructations, and nausea, vertigo, worse from mental exertions, stooping, or walking in the open air, better by closing the eyes, and by lying down.-Vertigo, sometimes with obscuration of the eyes, on mounting to a great height, or only a flight of stairs, on walking in the open air, on turning the head briskly, or after a fit of anger.- Vertigo at night, in the evening, or in the morning.- Headache from over-lifting, straining the back, or from having wrapped the head in a handkerchief, or in consequence of a chill. -Headache every morning on waking. Attacks of semi-lateral headache, with risings and nausea. Pulsations in the occiput. -Pains in the head, producing giddiness, pressive or pulsative, worse especially by reading, writing, or any other intellectual labor, as well by spirituous drinks, or by stooping. -Fullness and heaviness of the head, especially of the forehead, with shutting of the eyes, worse by movement and physical exertion.- Heat in the vertex.- Pressive pains at the vertex, appearing in the open air.- Tensive and cramp-like pains, with pressure outwards, commencing from the temples and extending to the vertex. -Drawing pains in the right side of the forehead, the part is painful when touched.- Shooting pains in the head.- Piercing in the forehead, as if the head were going to burst.- Pains of hammering in the head, which force the patient to lie down, and which appear especially after a walk in the open air. -Icy coldness in and on the head, especially at the right side, with pale, puffed face. Congestion in the head. – Congestion of blood to the head, with heat and stupefying headache, with redness of the face and bloatedness, worse in the morning when awaking, and from spirituous drinks. -Buzzing and pains in the head, with heat of the cheeks and in the head. Movement of the brain on walking. -Immense size of the head, with the fontanelle open in children.- Sweat on the head (profuse, particularly where it stands out in large, bead-like drops, and in such profusion as to soak the pillow thoroughly, it may run down upon the face and neck) in the evening.-Profuse perspiration, mostly on the back part of the head and on the neck ( in the evening). Strong disposition scaling off of the skin at the scalp (dandruff, milk crust).- Painful sensibility in the roots of the hair.- Falling off of the hair (sides of head, temples). -Tumors and boils in the scalp, which tend to suppuration.
Eyes
Aching in the eyes.- Itching and shooting in the eyes.- Pressure, itching, burning and stinging in the eyes. Smarting, burning, and incisive pains in the eyes and the eyelids, especially on reading during the day, or by candle-light. Sensation of cold in the eyes. Eyes inflamed, with redness of the sclerotica and abundant secretion of mucus. -Inflammation of the eyes from foreign bodies coming into them, in infants or scrofulous subjects.- Ulcers, spots, and opacity of cornea. Dimness of the cornea. Flow of blood from the eyes.- Inflammation and swelling of the corners of the eyes. Lachrymal suppurating fistula.- Lachrymation, especially in the open air, or early in the morning. -Quivering in the eyelids. -Red and thick swelling of the eyelids, with abundant secretion of humour and nocturnal agglutination. -Closing of the eyelids in the morning.- Pupils greatly dilated. -Confusion of sight, as if there were a mist, a veil, or down, before the eyes, chiefly on reading, and on observing an object attentively. Obscuration of the sight on reading, or after a meal.- A dark spot is seen before the eyes, on reading, to accompany the letters. Great photophobia and dazzling from too strong a light. Presbyopia.
Ears
Shootings in the ear.- Pulsation, beating, and heat in the ears. Internal and external inflammation and swelling of the ear. Purulent discharge from the ears.- Humid eruption upon and behind the ears. Polypus in the ears.- Humming, buzzing, tingling, or rumbling, sometimes alternately with music, in the ears. Crackling and detonation in the ears, when swallowing and when chewing. -Sensation, at intervals, of stoppage in the ears, and hardness of hearing.- Hardness of hearing, especially after the suppression of intermittent fever by Quinine. -Inflammatory swelling of the parotids.
Nose
Inflammation of the nose, with redness and swelling, chiefly at the extremity.- Ulcerated and scabby nostrils. Epistaxis, chiefly morning and night, sometimes producing fainting. Fetid smell from the nose.- Sense of smell dull, or exceedingly sensitive. – Painful dryness in the nose. Obstruction of the nose by yellowish and fetid pus.- Polypus of the nose.- Dry coryza, in the morning, with frequent sneezing.- Excessive fluent coryza. Coryza, alternately with cutting pains in the abdomen.- Fetid odour before the nose, as if from a dunghill, rotten eggs, or gunpowder.
Face
Yellow color of the face. Face pale and hollow, with eyes sunk and surrounded by a livid circle. Red patches on the cheeks. Heat, redness, and puffing of the face.- Erysipelas in one cheek. -Ephelis on the cheeks. Itching and eruption on the face, chiefly on the forehead, in the cheeks, and in the region of the whiskers, sometimes humid and scabby, with burning heat (sycosis menti).- Milk crusts.- Acute pains in the face and the bones of the face.- Swelling of the face without heat. Pale bloatedness of the face.- Eruptions and scabs on the lips and round the mouth. Lips cracked.- Swelling of the upper lip. Ulcerated corners of the mouth. Fissures in the ulcerated lips. Attacks of torpor and paleness in the lips, which appear as if dead.- Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.
Teeth
Toothache, aggravated or excited by a current of air, or by cold air, or by taking anything too hot or cold, or by noise, or else during and after the catamenia, the pains are, for the most part, shooting, piercing, contractive, pulsative, or gnawing, and digging, with a sensation as of excoriation. -Toothache at night, as if from congestion of blood.- Sensation of lengthening and loosening of the teeth. Fetid odour of the teeth. Painful sensibility of the gums, with shootings. -Difficult dentition. Ready bleeding and swelling of the gums, with throbbings and pulsations. Fistulous ulcers in the gums of the lower jaw.
Mouth
Accumulation of mucus in the mouth. Constant spitting of acid saliva. -Vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue. -Cramp-like contraction of the mouth.- Dryness of the tongue and of the mouth, chiefly at night and in the morning on waking. Swelling of the tongue, sometimes on one side. Tongue loaded with a white coating. -Burning and pain as of excoriation on the tongue and in the mouth. -Tongue difficult to move, with embarrassed and indistinct speech. -Ranula under the tongue.
Throat
Sore throat, as if from a plug or a swelling in the gullet. Constriction in the throat, and cramp-like contraction of the gullet. -Excoriation of the gullet, with shooting and pressure on swallowing. -Inflammatory swelling of the gullet, and of the uvula, which are of a deep red color, and covered with vesicles. Swelling of the amygdalae, with sensation of contraction in the throat on swallowing.- Affection in the throat after straining the back. Hawking up of mucus.
