Upper Limbs
Swelling of shoulder, with pain. Swelling and sore pain of axillary glands. Cracking in shoulder-joint when moving or raising arm. Pain, as from blows and bruises, under right shoulder joint, especially when moving and touching it. Tearing in left shoulder-joint. Pressure on shoulder. Tension, tearing, pulling, in muscles and joints of shoulders, arms, hands, and finger. Cold stiffness and numbness of arms, especially in the cold, or after violent exercise. Want of energy in arms and hands, especially in morning in bed. Frequent startings in arms. Stiffness in joint of elbow. Paralytic pain in wrist. Shootings in wrist and fingers during movement. Trembling of hands when writing. Coldness of hands. Skin of hands rough and cracked. Torpor and numbness in extremities of fingers. Burning pain in extremities of fingers. Gnawing vesicles on fingers. Startings in fingers when sewing. Tearing between thumb and index finger.
Lower Limbs
Acute pullings (rheumatic pains), especially at night, in joints and bones of hips, legs, feet, and toes. The limbs fall asleep while lying. Numbness and great inclination of whole right limb to fall asleep, especially lower leg. Stitches in left hip-joint while standing. Tearing in hips and knees even while sitting. Paralysis of thighs. Cramp in right thigh and calf. Stiff,
cramped feeling in both calves, lasting all day and coming on when walking in morning (Cooper, from Potash water.) Tearing in and on nates not far from hip-joint. Great weakness of right thigh, feeling as if it would give way when walking. Difficulty in knees on going up or downstairs. Dull pains in side of knee, walking or extending leg. Frequent tearing in knees. Pressive pullings and tearings in legs. Jerking of muscles of buttocks and thighs. Burning pain and lancinations in legs and feet. Uneasiness (restlessness) in legs in evening. Torpor and numbness of legs. Crawling shuddering on tibia. Swelling of legs and feet. Swelling and redness of soles. Stiffness of joint of foot. Shootings in joints of foot. Cold feet, even at night in bed. Numbness of feet after a meal. Fetid perspiration on feet. Burning pain and shootings (red chilblains on toes) in ball of great toe. Corns on feet, painful when touched. Stitches in the painful and sensitive corns. Sensation as if nail of big toe would grow into flesh. Tips of toes very painful when walking.
Generalities
Affections in general, occurring in right hypochondriac region, right abdominal ring, left chest, left upper extremity, external and internal ears, of inner surface of liver, inner region of kidneys, lower part of chest, shoulder, shoulder-joints, elbow and elbow-joints, hollow of elbow, wrist joint, big toe, tips of toes, joints of legs in general, joints of toes. Disgust of food in general. Inflammatory swelling of the part, with characteristic (stitching or jerking) pains. Dryness of the skin. Painful sensibility of extremities in whatever position they are placed. Pressive pains in joints. Spasmodic contraction of some parts. Drawing, tearing, rheumatic pains in limbs, especially during repose, with swelling of the parts affected. Rheumatic pains in back, chest, shoulders, and arms, worse on moving them. Shooting pains in joints, muscles, and internal organs. Swelling and hardness of glands. Anaemia, with great debility, skin watery, milky white, muscles weakened, especially heart, hence weak pulse is a general characteristic. Dropsical affections of internal organs, or of whole skin of body. The pains often manifest themselves towards 2 a.m., and are then stronger than by day during movement. Shiverings immediately after pains. Remaining in open air greatly worse many of the symptoms (especially the febrile), while some others are better by it. Hectic fever. Burning at various places under the skin. Spasmodic attacks and convulsive stating of limbs and muscles. Nocturnal epileptic fits. Tendency of suffer a strain in loins. Tendency in limbs to become numbed, when lying down. Paralysis. Dropsical affections and paralysis of old persons. General sensation of emptiness in whole body, as if it were hollow. Heaviness and indolence. Weakness, as if on the point of losing consciousness, and trembling, especially after a walk. A short walk fatigues much. Attacks of weakness with nausea, sensation of heart and lassitude in pit of stomach, vertigo, and dizziness. Violent ebullition of blood, with throbbing in all arteries. Excessive dread of open air and of currents of air. Great tendency to take cold, especially after heating exercise.
Skin
Painful sensibility of skin, as if it were ulcerated, when pressing on it. Skin dry, with obstructed perspiration. Sensation of burning, or burning and lancinating itching, in skin. Itching, burning, yellow, or red spots on body (over abdomen and around nipples), sometimes with oozing after being scratched. Miliary nettle-rash. Corrosive vesicles. Chilblains of a reddish blue. Warts. Tetters. Bleeding of ulcers, especially at night. Fissure in cicatrix of an old issue. Ascites and anasarca. Swelling and induration of glands, after contusions.
Sleep
Drowsiness and yawning. Great drowsiness during day and early in evening. Falls asleep while eating. Half-sleep at night. Tardy sleep. During sleep, shuddering, tears, talking, and starts with fright. Frightful dreams. Dreams of robbers, death, danger, serpents, sickness, spectres, devils, etc. Fits of anguish at night, gastric sufferings, pains in stomach and precordial region, colic, flatulency, diarrhoea, frequent erections and pollutions, asthmatic sufferings, nightmare and cramps in calves of legs. Arrest of breath rouses him from sleep at night. At night left leg and right arm go to sleep. Waking too early, particularly at 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning, sleepiness in evening, sleeplessness after midnight, sleeplessness in general.
Fever
Pulse very variable, frequently move rapid in morning than in evening, strong pulsations in arteries. Chilliness generally in morning. Shivering in evening, with thirst, often accompanied by toothache. The chilliness in evening is better near warm stove and after lying down. Internal heat with external chilliness. Morning perspiration. Perspiration more on upper part of body and worse by warm drinks. Perspiration is fetid or smells sour. Intermittent fever, constant chilliness, with violent thirst from internal heat, hot hands, loathing of food. Long yawning, with heat, pain in chest and head, pulsations in abdomen, 9 a.m. and 5 p-m. Chills and heat alternate in evening, followed by perspiration during night. Evening fever, first, chilliness with thirst (for one hour), then heat without thirst, accompanied by violent, fluent Coryza, afterwards slight perspiration with sound sleep. Chill and fever, with oppression of breathing, constriction of chest, pain in region of liver, most of the thirst during chill. Intermittent fevers, with whooping _ cough. Shivering immediately after pains. Frequent shuddering during day Heat in morning, in bed, with pains in loins and chest. Want of perspiration and inability to perspire, or else great tendency to perspire during intellectual labour, or during a walk. Nocturnal sweats, every night.
