Heart
Palpitation of the heart, also at night, or after a meal, sometimes with anxiety and trembling movements of the heart. Shootings, pressure, and contraction in the region of the heart. Pricking shootings in the muscles of the chest.
Neck and Back
Rigidity of the neck. Hard and strumous swelling of the thyroid gland. -Hard and painful swelling of the glands of the neck. Tumour between the shoulder-blades. Suppuration of the axillary glands.- Pains, as of dislocation, in the loins, back, and in the neck, as if caused by a strain in lifting a weight.- Pain in the small of the back (as if sprained), he can scarcely rise from his seat, after being seated. -Shooting pains in the shoulder-blades, loins, and back. -Nocturnal pains in the back. -Pains in the lumbar region, when riding in a carriage. -Drawing between the shoulder-blades, or pressive pain, with sensation of suffocation. -Pressive pain between the shoulder-blades, impeding breathing, when moving. -Swelling, and distortion of the spine.
Limbs
As if the parts would burst, were pressed, or pushed, asunder, as if cold, damp stockings were on the feet, sensation of crepitation, cramp pain in the muscles, creeping on the limbs like a mouse.
Upper Limbs
Drawing pains in the arms, even at night. -Cramp, and cramp-like pains, in the arms, hands, and fingers.- Sudden attacks of paralytic weakness in the arms (left). -Acute, cramp-like pains in the forearm. Furunculi on the forearm. -Pains, as of dislocation, in the wrist-joint (right). Swelling of the hands. – Arthritic nodosities, swelling of the wrist, and of the joints of the fingers. -Swelling of the veins of the hands. -Sweating of the hands. -Perspiration of the palms of the hands. -Trembling of the hands. -Hands and fingers dead, even in a warm temperature, and especially on taking hold of an object. -Warts on the arms and on the hands. -Furunculi on the hands and the fingers. – Tingling in the fingers, as when they are asleep. -Frequent paralytic weakness in the fingers. -Heavy movement of the fingers. -Contraction of the fingers. -Panaris.
Lower Limbs
Drawing lancinations, or incisive, acute pains in the hips and in the thighs, chiefly when resting upon them. -Limping, which occurs when resting on the toes in walking. -Weight and stiffness of the legs. -Cramps in the legs.- Pain, as of dislocation, in the joints of the hips, knees, and the feet. -The legs go to sleep when one is seated. -Itching in the thighs and the feet. – Varices in the legs. -Tearing and stinging in the knee. – Drawings, shootings, and acute pains in the knees, especially when standing or sitting, also when walking. -The child is late learning to walk. -Swelling of the knees. -Tension in the ham, when in a squatting position. -Cramps in the hams, the calves of the legs, the soles of the feet, and the toes, chiefly on extending the legs, pulling on boots, or during the night. -Red spots on the legs phlegmasia alba dolens. -Erysipelatous inflammation & swelling of the legs. Ulcers on the legs. – Swelling of the malleoli and of the soles of the feet.- Inflammatory swelling of the instep. Furunculi on the feet and legs. Burning in the soles of the feet. -Sweating of the feet. – In the evening, coldness and numbness of the feet, especially at night, in bed. -Painful sensibility of the great toe. -Corns on the feet, with burning pain, as of excoriation. Contraction of the toes.
Generalities
Cramps and contractions of the limbs (which draw the limbs crooked), especially of the fingers and toes.- Wrenching pains. Pulsative pains.- Shootings and drawing pains in the limbs, chiefly at night, or in summer, and on change of weather.
Stinging and cutting in outer and inner parts. Arthritic tearing in the muscles.- Arthritic nodosities. Attacks of torpor and paleness of some parts of the body, which appear as if dead. Great tendency to strain the back in lifting, often followed by pains in the throat, or stiffness and swelling of the nape of the neck, with headache. Tendency of the limbs to numbness. Bleeding from inner parts.- Sensation of dryness of inner parts. Ebullition of the blood, mostly in plethoric individuals, and often with congestion in the head and chest. Startings in different limbs. Epileptic convulsions, also at night with cries, during the full moon, with hallooing and shouting. The symptoms are aggravated or renewed after laboring in the water, as well as in the evening, at night, in the morning, after a meal, and every second day. The sufferings are periodical and intermittent. Great uneasiness, which forces the patient to move constantly and to walk much. Visible quivering of the skin, from the feet to the head, with which he becomes dizzy. Trembling of the inner parts. Frequent trembling of the whole body, increased in the open air. St. Vitus’ dance. Pain, as from a bruise, in the arms and in the legs, and also in the loins, especially on moving, and on going upstairs. General uneasiness in the evening, as preceding an attack of intermittent fever. Want of strength, and dejection, chiefly in the morning early. Fatigue and nervous weakness, often with paleness of the face, palpitation of the heart, vertigo, shivering, pain in the loins. Fainting, especially in the evening, with obscuration of the eyes, sweat on the face, and cold in the body. -Great fatigue after speaking, or after a moderate walk in the open air, as well as after the least exertion, with ready and abundant perspiration.- Strong desire to be magnetised. -Excessive dejection, sometimes with violent fits of spasmodic laughter. -Tendency in children and young persons to grow very fat.- Bloatedness of the body and of the face, with enlargement of the abdomen, in children.- Emaciation (with swelled abdomen), without failure of appetite.- Great plumpness and excessive obesity.- Sensation of coldness in inner parts. Great tendency to take cold, and great sensibility to cold and damp air. -On walking in the open air, sadness with tears, headache, inflation of the abdomen, palpitation of the heart, sweat, great fatigue, and many other sufferings.
Skin
Flaccidity of the skin. Visible quivering of the skin from head to foot, followed by giddiness. Burning, smarting, itching. Ephelis. Nettle rash, mostly disappearing in the fresh air. Eruption of lenticular red and raised spots, with great heat, much thirst, and want of appetite. Skin hot and dry during motion. Skin of the body rough, dry, and as if covered with a kind of miliary eruption. Furfuraceous coating of the skin, burning, chapped. Humid, scabby eruptions and tetters, or in form of clusters, with burning pains. Itching pemphigus over the whole body. Skin excoriated in several places. Skin unhealthy, every injury tends to ulceration, even small wounds suppurate and do not heal. Ulcers deep, fistulous, carious. Ulcers with too little pus. Erysipelatous inflammations. Furunculi. Warts. Corns, with pain as of excoriation, and burning. Polypus (nose, ear, uterus). Encysted tumors, which are renewed and suppurate every month. Bloatedness. Swelling and induration of the glands, with or without pain. Varices. Arthritic nodosities. Swelling, softening, curvature of, stinging in, caries and distortion of the bones. Ulceration of the bones. Panaris. Flaws in the fingers.
Sleep
Drowsiness in the day and early in the evening. -Retarded sleep and sleeplessness from activity of mind, or in consequence of voluptuous or frightful images, which appear as soon as the eyes are shut. During sleep, talking, groans, cries, and starts, anxiety which continues after walking, or movements of the mouth, as if one were chewing or swallowing. Snoring during sleep. Dreams frequent, vivid, anxious, fantastic, confused, frightful, and horrible, or dreams of sick and dead persons. Sleep disturbed, with tossing about and frequent waking. Sleep of too short duration, from eleven in the evening till two or three in the morning only. Waking too early, sometimes even at midnight. At night, agitation, asthmatic suffering, anxiety, heat, pains in the stomach and in the precordial region, thirst, beatings of the head, toothache, vertigo, headache, ebullition of the blood, fear of losing the reason, pains in the limbs, and many other sufferings. On waking, lassitude, exhaustion, and desire to sleep, as if the patient had not slept at all. Fearful of fantastic dreams during sleep.
Fever
Pulse full, accelerated or tremulous. Excessive cold, internally. Shivering and shuddering, principally in the evening, or in the morning after rising. Heat with thirst, followed by chilliness. Frequent attacks of transient heat, with anguish and beating of the heart. Heat in the evening, or in bed at night. Quotidian fever towards two o’clock in the afternoon, with yawning and cough, followed by general heat, with desire to lie down, at least for three hours, after which the hands become cold, all with absence of thirst. Tertian fever in the evening, at first heat of face, followed by shivering. Profuse sweat by day, after moderate corporeal exercise. Sweat with anxiety. Nocturnal sweat, chiefly on the chest. Sweat in the morning.
