Head
Peculiar lightness in head, lightness after nausea. A slow vacillation or wavering of the head, from something being loose in upper part of head. Rush of blood to head: while lying down, from chest upward, with toothache, during pregnancy, when rising. Maddening outward pressing pain in forehead, he presses his head against the wall. Beating, throbbing headache, most severe in right temple and above right eye, each bone feels shattered and sore, from temple to temple. Violent headache, most in temples and forehead, worse during day and from stooping and stirring about. Frequent pressure on vertex, as if a cast, which fitted top of head, was pressing it down. Headaches from bites of dogs, rabid or not. In rare cases serous effusion in opaque subarachnoid tissue and later ventricle, and also increased adherence of membranes of brain to convolutions (R.). At noon slight headache, lasting all day. Burning aching from left side of occiput down neck. Violent headache and backache. Irritable headache, touching head makes it ache, very sensitive scalp. Hair which is usually dry has become very oil. Scalp feels contracted and pinched.
Eyes
Sensitive to light. Sight of water: agitation, renews idea of pain, causes convulsions (pregnancy). False vision, dulness of sight, together with dilatation of pupils, sometimes actual blindness. Vision much impaired or absent, lasts twelve hours. Clairvoyance. Pain in small in spot over right eye brow, worse writing. Eyes are wild. rolling, staring and livid (R.) Swelling of eyelids after bite of dogs (cured in sheep). Extreme ulceration of eye, lids closed and puffed up by pus (in sheep).
Ears
Conversation in vicinity of patient may throw him into a most violent agitation (R.). Hearing water poured out in next room makes him very irritable and nervous. Clairaudient.
Nose
Strong odors may start spasms. The greatest sensibility to smell of tobacco, tastes snuff while box is one foot distant. Frequent sneezing, mostly early in morning or late in evening, as if a coryza would begin, also when looking at something bright, and from every little dust.
Face
Both jaws feel stiff, tingling in cheek-bones. Gnawing and crawling sensation in (right) zygoma. Facial muscles become variously contorted, countenance changes its aspect frequently. Face sweat: with sensation of heat, with flushes. The jawbones feel sore, aching in lower jaw. Masseter muscles not affected by spasms. Lower jaw stiff and painful, with inclination to yawn, with headache, imagines he cannot open his mouth. Spasms with froth before mouth (R.).
Teeth
Grinding of teeth. Toothache and other complaints during pregnancy, with internal ebullition of blood from chest to head, head feels as if filled with air to bursting.
Mouth
Difficult, incorrect speech (stricture of throat). Tongue coated with foam (R.). Pricking sensation under tongue. Ranula returns periodically, with dryness of mouth, worse in afternoon, soreness when chewing, with haemorrhoids and constipation. Feeling of coldness in mouth, like essence of peppermint. Severe pain passing from mouth upward through head and down into neck. Tough, short frothy phlegm in mouth (horse). When vomiting ceased, frothing at the mouth began and was so excessive as nearly to choke him (P.). Frothed at mouth, attempted to spit out with much difficulty (before death). Saliva more viscid, constant spitting, feeling of general malaise. Entire mucous membrane of mouth and pharynx was of an equally distributed pink without any swelling.
Throat
Slight redness of palate and throat, with spasm of oesophagus and difficult speech. Sore throat, as after swallowing red pepper. Cooling sensation in oesophagus. Sore throat, constant desire to swallow, much saliva and feeling as if beaten. Periodical spasm of oesophagus, continual painful inclination to swallow without being able to swallow anything, constriction is most severe when taking water into mouth, if he tried to swallow it forcibly, he had burning and stinging in the throat, cough and retching which forced fluid from his mouth, difficult speech.
Appetite
Voracious appetite, swallowed wheat without chewing. Excessive desire for salt. Abnormal cravings during pregnancy. Aversion to fat food and drink, there remains a long greasy aftertaste, worse after mutton. Warm drinks, such as milk, soups and wine, are more easily taken than water. Inability to take solid food, or else it is consumed with greatest difficulty.
Stomach
Nausea: with giddiness, headache and pale face after diarrhoea, food does not taste right, and loss of appetite in evening, 10 to 11 p.m. Gagging when he forcibly attempts to swallow water, forces it out of his mouth. Nausea and vomiting after diarrhoea. Vomiting of food, of fluid while drinking, followed by faintness, of what was eaten at supper, at night in sleep. Vomiting throughout three days, with prostration and restlessness, when vomiting ceased frothing began and nearly choked him (P.). Great oppression in stomach, has to open her clothes.
Abdomen
A pressing pain: in right side, near last ribs, with breathing, in hypochondria, after quick walking. Painful throbbing as if an abscess was forming in region of spleen, but very deep in, exact locality in half-way between median line and outline of left side, it lasted eight days, with it departed remnant of a similar affection in this locality, against which eleven years of allopathic treatment had proved of no avail. Tearing from left hypochondriac region to right _ General soreness in whole of lower abdomen. Rigidity of muscles of abdomen. Pain in both groins, in right, two small kernels under skin, very painful. Inguinal glands very much swollen, they pain for two hours.
Stool and Anus
Tenesmus during and after stool. Dysenteric stools with tenesmus, renewed as soon as he hears or sees water run. When in the morning some water was poured out from pitcher into basin, pain and desire to stool returned. Diarrhoea: with much pain, most during day, eighteen hours after dose, lasting twenty-four hours, with pain in lower part of bowels, worse in morning, followed by nausea as if she would have to vomit, attended with violent pains early in morning, after stitches in side. Stools of bloody mucus. Involuntary stools.
Urinary Organs
Urine too scanty and high-coloured (cured in a case of camp *diarrhoea). Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water, urinates a little at a time. Prostatic juice passes after urinating.
Male Sexual Organs
Lasciviousness: after eating, with feeling of weakness in parts, with erections in afternoon. Strong erections, without sexual excitement or thoughts, in evening, while undressing in a cold room. Sexual indifference with erections, even during act of coition, which is perfectly performed. Increased sexual desire (dropsy of spine with sheep, hydrophobia of sheep). Priapism, with frequent seminal emissions. Satyriasis in a stallion, hot breath streamed from nostrils. Semen is discharged too late or not at all during coition. No emission during coition, but afterwards semen escaped unconsciously in sleep. Glans is dry and sticks to foreskin. Hydrocele. Atrophy of testicles, testicles diminish in size, first left then right Complaints resulting from abnormal sexual desire.
Female Sexual Organs
Pain in left ovarian region, uneasiness there. Increase of uterine sensitiveness, conscious of having a womb. With a painful sensitiveness of womb, slight degree of prolapsus, so that after any considerable physical effort there would be strong conviction that it was prolapsed. Any change of position that would tilt or rotate os uteri would cause much pain. Prolapsus uteri of seven years’ standing. Severe leucorrhoea, with pains in back and lower part of bowels, sore vagina. Sensitiveness of vagina rendering coition quite painful. Weakness in back, with copious catamenia. During pregnancy: strange notions, desires or cravings, rush of blood from chest upward, toothache, backache and other complaints, great sense of bearing down, intense pain from
inflammation of os and cervix (formerly treated with caustic), great soreness in lower part of back and bowels. Spasms excited whenever she attempts to drink water, or if she hears it poured from one vessel into another, sight or sound of water affects unpleasantly, even though desiring water (puerperal convulsions). Since cessation of lochia a severe leucorrhoea, pain in back and lower part of bowels, soreness of vagina. Both breasts swollen when waking in morning, she can hardly get up, three mornings in succession, same swelling of breasts at night when opening her dress.
Respiratory Organs
Voice altered in tone, tones much suppressed, hoarse, rough, harsh and weak (last stage), shrill, inarticulate sounds, shrill sounds of utmost despair, or occasioned by violent expirations, very shrill and piercing bark, changing near its termination into a distressing, continuous howl (dogs). Epiglottis crisp and dry (R.). Sighing, with pain in heart. Dyspnoea: with flatulency, cough and rattling in chest, with sighing, groaning respiration, from cardiac pain, worse lying down. Oppression in breathing before a severe suffocative attack, induced by spasmodic contractions of respiratory muscles, combined with spasmodic, alarming constriction of pharynx. Breathing during paroxysm gasping, irregular and usually quite rapid, often with decided dyspnoea. Breathing peculiar, held for a time, and then a few rapid breaths (P.). Frothed at the mouth very much, almost choked with it (P.).
