Generalities
Cramp-like pains, cramps and contraction in different parts. Tension in some parts, as from contraction of the tendons. Starting and distortion of the limbs. Arthritic pullings and tearing in the limbs and joints, especially in ulcerated parts. Arthritic nodosities. Tendency to strain the back. Limbs become easily numbed. Stiffness and complete inflexibility of the joints. Hard swellings, with shooting pains. Nocturnal pains, which are felt even during sleep. The symptoms disappear after a walk in the open air. Varices, with shootings, tension, and itching. Swelling and hardness of the glands. Pains during change of weather. General uneasiness (sensation of debility), which extorts groans, without any distinct sensation of pain. Strong pulsation in the whole body, and especially in the heart, augmented by the least movement. Pulling in the whole body, with urgent inclination to extend the limbs. Sensation of trembling in the whole body, with jerking of the limbs. Great emaciation. Great tendency to take cold, and fear of the open air, and of currents of air. General lassitude. Rapid failure of strength.
Skin
Obstinate dryness of the skin, and absence of perspiration. Ephelides. Red spots on the skin, like flea-bites. Erysipelatous inflammations. Vesicular erysipelas, like zona, on the abdomen and on the back. Itching of the varices on the lower limbs. Itching-stinging on the surface of a mole. Eruptions oozing out a thick honey-like fluid. Tetters, and other humid or scabby eruptions, sometimes with secretion of corrosive serum, or with itching in the evening, and at night. Eruption of pimples and nodules (principally under hair and on covered parts) which itch very much. Swelling and induration of the glands. Encysted tumors. Corrosive nodules. Excoriation of the skin (in the bends of the limbs, groins, neck, behind the ears), esp., in children. Unhealthy skin, every injury tending to ulceration. Proud flesh, and fetid pus, in ulcers, with tearing pains, burning, and shooting. Scrofulous and syphilitic ulcers. Burning pain in an old cicatrix. Deformity and thickness of the nails.
Sleep
Great drowsiness during the day, and early in the evening. Difficulty in falling asleep. Agitated sleep at night, with frequent waking. Nocturnal sleep incomplete, as if only dozing. Unable to fall asleep before midnight on account of a fixed idea. Unrefreshing sleep at night, followed in the morning by a comatose sleep. At night, profusion of ideas, sometimes troublesome. Great agitation at night, with anxious and frightful dreams, oppression and choking. During sleep, starts, with fright. Dreams of death and of fire, dreams with meditations. At night, discomforting ideas, anguish, heat, inquietude, starting, gastric sufferings, and other affections. Perspiration about the head, when falling asleep. Bleeding from the nose at night. Wakens at night from a suffocative attack. Constant talking during sleep. Wetting the bed at night while asleep.
Fever
Pulse full and hard, but not accelerated. Shiverings, morning and evening, with or without heat, and followed by perspiration. Chill and chilliness, principally in the evening, after 4 p.m. General dry heat, evening and night, preceded by chill. Heat when riding in a carriage. Perspiration sour, colouring the linen yellow, of offensive smell. Inability to perspire. Perspiration, often very fetid, on the least movement, or on the least fatigue, even from speaking. Nocturnal sweat, sometimes fetid. Quotidian fever, shaking chill in the evening, an hour afterwards heat in the face, and cold in the feet, without any subsequent perspiration.
