Neck and Back
Tensive stiffness of neck muscles. Glands swollen, often very sensitive, painful when turning neck. Aching pain in the sacrum, chiefly at night. Pain as of a bruise in the sacrum, with pulling pains, like those of labour, extending to the thigh. Shooting, pulling, tearing pains in the back. Painful stiffness in the loins after having been seated some time. Insupportable pains in the loins and in the hip, in the morning, on the side opposite to that on which the patient is reclining. Convulsions in the back, with a throwing backwards of the head, and stiffness of the body as in tetanus.
Limbs.
Cracking in joints, with pain in them as if bruised. Pain in periosteum of limbs with paralytic weakness. Convulsive single jerks in limbs. All joints sore as if bruised and tired out, there is no power in hands or feet, though without corresponding weariness.
Upper Limbs
Numbness and stiffness of the arms on grasping as object. Convulsions of the arms, with clasping in of the thumb. Nocturnal pains, with paralytic weakness in the arms. Swelling, or coldness, and paralytic stiffness of the hands, with cold perspiration in the palms of the hands. Numbness or convulsive movements of the fingers. Finger-joints red and swollen. Retraction of thumbs.
Lower Limbs
Paralytic and drawing pain in the hip and in the thigh, extending to the feet, chiefly at night. Tension of the muscles of the thighs, and of the legs. Cramps in the calves of the legs, chiefly at night. Tearing sensation, with a paralytic condition of the feet, at night. Cramp. Cracking of the knee during motion. Burning in the soles of the feet (at night, he puts his feet out of bed). Sensation of numbness in the toes. Burning and itching in the feet, as from chilblains. Swelling of the foot and of the sole of the foot.
Generalities
Rheumatic, drawing pains, chiefly at night in bed, with paralytic state, and sensation of torpor in the parts affected, and inclination to move them continually, mitigated by external heat. Pain with thirst, heat, and redness (of one) of the cheeks, and hot sweating of the head. Pulsative pains, as from an abscess. Over-excitement, and excessive sensibility of the nervous system, with great sensibility to pain, which appears insupportable and induces despair. Over-sensitiveness of the senses (especially from coffee and narcotics). Great sensibility in the open air, and principally to wind. The extremities feel, as it were, stiff and paralysed. Great weakness and inclination to fall, with prostration of strength to fainting as soon as the pain commences. Syncope, with sensation of sinking and faintness in the precordial region. Attacks of catalepsy, with hippocratic face, extremities cold, eyes half-closed, pupils dilated and dull. Attacks of spasms and of convulsions, with face red and bloated, and convulsive movements in the eyes, the eyelids, the lips, the muscles of the face, and of the tongue. Epileptic convulsions, with retraction of the thumbs, and foam before the mouth, preceded by colic, or followed by a lethargic state. Urgent inclination to remain lying down, a child will neither walk nor be carried in the arms. Cracking, and pain resembling a bruise, in the joints.
Skin
Miliary eruption, with itching and nocturnal tickling. Unhealthy skin, every injury tends to ulceration. In the ulcers, tingling. Itching, burning, and jerking shootings, with excessive sensibility to the touch. Itching pimples form around the ulcer, covered with scurf, and suppurating. Yellow colour of the skin (over the whole body). Rash of infants and during nursing. Red rash on the cheeks, on the forehead. Inflammatory swelling of the glands.
Sleep
Yawning and stretching. Sleepiness, during the day, without being able to sleep, on lying down. Coma, and coma-vigil, with pulling pain in the head, and nausea, or with feverish restlessness, short respiration, and thirst. Nocturnal sleeplessness, with attacks of anguish, visions, and illusions of the sight and hearing. Snoring breathing when asleep. On sleeping, starts with fright, cries, tossing, tears, talking, raving, groans, snoring, and constant separating of the thighs. Fantastic, lively, quarrelsome and vexatious dreams, with morose and sullen aspect. Nocturnal delirium.
Fever
Pulse small, tense, accelerated. Constant alteration of cold, or of partial shuddering, with partial heat, in different parts of the body. Chilliness and coldness of the forepart of the body, while the back part is hot, or *vice versa. General heat, especially in the evening, or at night in bed, with anxiety, thirst, redness of the cheeks, hot perspiration of the head, at the forehead, and the scalp, and sometimes, chiefly on uncovering the body, mixed with shivering or shuddering. After or during the heat, sour sweat, which causes an itching on the skin. Burning heat and redness (often only in one) of the cheeks, chiefly at night, with groans, tossing, and cold or heat in the rest of the body. Intermittent fever, with nocturnal aggravation, pressure on the pit of the stomach, nausea or bilious vomiting, colic, diarrhoea, and painful emission of urine. Chilliness, with internal heat. Chill and coldness of the body, with burning hot face and hot breath. Nocturnal sweat, when asleep. Continuous burning heat, with violent thirst, and starts during sleep, and furious delirium.
