Causation
Vexation and reserved displeasure. Injuries. Suppressed eruptions. Quinine, Morphia. Indigestible Foods.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Cannot endure the least noise. Cries and howling (of children) Anxiety and fear of death Moroseness, with contempt for everything. Disdainful humor. Desire for a number of things, without knowing exactly which. Irritability, and disposition to be angry. Ailments from mortification or vexation, with indignation Impatience. Slowness of conception.
Head
Vertigo when walking, and when turning round, with tottering and staggering. Pain, as of a bruise, in all bones of the head, as far as the root of the tongue (with nausea and vomiting). Headache as of a bruise of the brain and skull, which pierces through all the cranial bones into roots of teeth, with nausea. As if brain compressed. Attacks of headache, with nausea and vomiting. Tearing in the forehead, excited or aggravated by being touched. Lancinating headache, with heaviness of the head. Stitches in the vertex (or forehead). Painful pressure on the forehead. Pain in the occiput and nape of the neck. Hydrocephaloid.
Eyes
Eyes red and inflamed. Neuralgia of eyes, especially right, extended to nose and mouth, in evening biting and pressure in eyes, he was awakened between 2 and 3 a.m. by tearing pains in eyes, especially right, radiating to forehead and driving him out of bed, worse from strong light, accompanied by chilliness, heat, sweat. Eyelids closed, painful expression of face, the pillow was soaked with tears which flowed freely on opening right eye. Twitching of left upper lid with three black spots before sight on lifting lid. Scrofulous ophthalmic, pain in forehead and temples, photophobia and corneal ulceration. Conjunctiva rose- coloured, cornea opaque, sight gone from right eye, could not read, evening, from being dazzled by candle-light, which appeared multiplied five or six times, next morning fiery iridescent rings before left eye, which had been less affected. Humour in the corners of the eyes. Trembling of the eyelids. Twitching of the eyelids. Hardened mucus in the external canthi Pupils dilated. Confused sight.
Ears
Coldness and chilliness of the ears (during the febrile heat).
Nose
Epistaxis Loss of Smell Coryza, with stoppage of the nose.
Face
Pale, earthy, or yellowish colour of the face, which is bloated with livid circles round the eyes. Convulsive startings of the muscles of the face. Lips covered with small aphthae and eruptions. Rash in the face Fine granny eruption on face, with or without irritation. Pityriasis. Pain, as from excoriation, in the lips. Convulsive startings of the lips. Redness of the skin around the mouth.
Teeth
Odontalgia by fits, as if a tooth were being extracted. Toothache better while eating; worse afternoon and night. Toothache worse by day; pain every few minutes with a jerk radiating into r. temple and nose, as if tooth being extracted. The neuralgic pains of *Ipecac. and *Viol.od. often make for r. temple (Cooper). Dentition.
Mouth
Painful sensibility of all parts of the mouth. Smarting in mouth an on (margins of) tongue. Copious secretion of saliva. Constantly obliged to swallow saliva. Saliva runs from mouth on lying down. Tongue: clean, white or yellow, pale.
Throat
Sore throat, during deglutition, as from swelling of the pharynx. Difficult deglutition, as from paralysis of the tongue and of the gullet. Spasmodic contractive sensation in the throat. Fauces, stinging, rough, sore, and dry.
Appetite
Insipid and clammy, or bitter taste, especially in the morning. Sweetish taste, as of blood in the mouth. Desire only for delicacies and things sweetened with sugar. Want of appetite, the stomach feels relaxed. Bad effects from eating pork, veal &c. Gastric catarrh from indigestible food, or from ice-cold things. Adipsia. Beer has an insipid taste. Tobacco smoke is nauseous, and causing vomiting. Great repugnance and dislike to all food. Water-brash.
Stomach
Nausea, as if proceeding from the stomach, with copious salivation, violent itching in the skin, and empty risings. Retching, especially, after drinking anything cold, or after smoking. Vomiting of drink and of ingested food, or else of bilious, greenish, or acid, or mucous, gelatinous matter, somethings immediately after a meal. Vomiting of blood. Vomiting on stooping Vomiting of black matter, like pitch Sensation of excessive uneasiness in the stomach and epigastrium Horrid, indescribable pain and sick feeling in the stomach. Sensation, as if the stomach were empty and flaccid. Swelling in the region of the stomach. Pinching round the epigastrium and in the region of the hypochondria. Pressure on the stomach with vomiting.
Abdomen
Cutting and pinching in the abdomen (as from a hand, each finger sharply pressing into intestines), worse in the highest degree by movement, better by repose. Pinching pain in both hypochondria, and in region of pit of stomach. Pain, as from excoriation in the abdomen. Colic, with agitation, tossing and cries (in children) Colic, with cramp-like pains, Incisive pains, in the umbilical region, with shuddering. Flatulent colic, with frequent diarrhoeic stools. Colic of strangulated hernia.
Stool
Loose evacuations, like matter in a state of fermentation (like yeast). Obstinate diarrhoea. Loose evacuations, greenish, or yellow (lemon.) coloured, of a putrid smell, or sanguineous, bilious, and mucous. Stools: grassy-green, of white mucus Loose serous evacuations. Diarrhoea, with nausea, colic (and vomiting). Autumnal diarrhoea, much griping about the navel. Diarrhoea of children inclining to dysentery. Dysenteric evacuations, with white flocks, and followed by tenesmus. Evacuation of black matter lick pitch. Haemorrhoids bleed profusely. Itching of anus.
Urinary Organs.
Turbid urine with sediment like brick-dust Unsuccessful urging to urinate. Sanguineous urine, with pains in the region of the bladder, and of the navel, burning sensation in the urethra, inclination to vomit, and pain in the loins and in the pit of the stomach. Discharge of pus from the urethra, with biting pain.
Female Sexual Organs
Troublesome sensation, as of bearing down towards the genital parts, and towards the anus. Menstruation too early and too profuse. Metrorrhagia, with discharge of bright red and coagulated blood, with oppressed breathing. Metrorrhagia, much depression and pain in right half of head, soreness about womb and pain in left hip and back, weight across forehead, and phlegm in back of throat, causing sickness, skin yellowish and very irritable, dark round eyes (cured). Steady flow of bright red blood after confinement. In labor and threatened miscarriage pains fly from left to right, with nausea. Catamenia premature, and too thick. Stitches from navel to uterus.
Respiratory Organs
Cough, especially at night, with painful shocks in the head and stomach, and with loathing, retching, and vomiting. Cough catching the breath, even to suffocation, during the attacks the child gets quite stiff, its face blue. It is excited by a contractive tickling sensation extending from upper part of larynx to lowest part of bronchial tubes, Worse on walking in cold air, on retiring, in morning and evening, on taking a deep breath. Accompanied by cold, as if the navel would be torn out, pains in abdomen like strangury, heat in had and face. The cough causes vomiting without nausea. Rattling noise in the bronchial tubes when drawing breath. Dry cough, excited by a contractive tickling in the larynx (particularly in the upper part), extending to the extremity of the bronchia, especially when lying on left side. Cough, which resembles whooping-cough, with bleeding from the nose and mouth, and vomiting of food. Spasmodic cough, dry shaking, with fits of suffocation, stiffness of the body, and bluish face. Cough as from vapor of sulphur, with expectoration of blood with mucus in the morning. Suffocative cough in the evening, continuous cough with perspiration on the forehead, shocks in the head, retching and vomiting. Anxious and short respiration. Quick, anxious breathing. The breath smells fetid. Suffocative attacks in the room. More in the open air. Whooping-cough, every fresh attack sets in with a long-drawn, difficult howling, sighing inspiration. Spasmodic asthma, with contraction of the larynx, and panting respiration. Sighing respiration.
Chest
Oppression of the chest, and shortness of breath, as if dust had been inhaled. Loss of breath on the least movement. Spasms in the chest. Palpitation of the heart. Red itching spots on the chest, with burning after scratching.
Back and neck
Selling and suppuration in the throat-pit Cramp pain between the scapulae during motion. Tetanic stiffness and bending of the back, backwards or forwards.
Upper Limbs
Coldness of one hand while the other is hot.
Lower Limbs
Convulsive starting of the legs and of the feet (not in the upper limbs). Pain, as from dislocation, in the hip-joint, when sitting. Nocturnal cramps in the muscles of the thigh, with lumps in the thighs. Violent itching in the calves of the legs. Ulcers, with black bases on the legs, and on the food.
