Causation
Chill. Exposure. Wind. Sun.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
When lying down mental faculties and memory perfect, but on attempting to move, vertigo. Anxiety and palpitation. Cross.
Head
Vertigo: with headache (and nausea), blindness, pains in limbs, weariness, while stooping and looking down, with aching in face. Every motion causes vertigo. Aching in forehead, followed by rending in bones of right and left side of face, shooting down into teeth, moving backward down neck and outwardly on both sides, followed by pains in left shoulder, rending in bones of legs and feet. Pain in right eye, giddiness, eyes weak and watery. Pressing pain on a small spot right side of head. Headache internally, with sensation when turning of something loose in head diagonally across top. Pain between shoulders coming up over head to temples (not affecting eyeballs). Neuralgia every afternoon and night, begins back of neck and runs up, affects also face, worse right side. A cracking in head frightens him, it ends in a sound in ears like blowing a horn. Drowsy feeling, followed by raging headache in temples and occiput. A shuddering without coldness commences with cracking as if surcharged with electricity. Severe pressing headache worse and better with sun. Sensation of heat in head, morning. Dullness pains. Headache worse in evening and in open air. A shock towards occiput from back of neck, with heat. Rheumatic pain in scalp (right).
Eyes
Glimmering before eyes. Almost complete blindness when in erect position. Blindness worse in erect position, worse during paroxysms of vomiting, worse looking down. (Retinitis albuminuric, pain in back as if it would break.) _ Sclero- choroiditis anterior, with glimmering before eye, worse on reading with the other.) _ Severe pain in right eye extending over forehead, begins at sunrise, increases till noon, and leaves at sunset (cured after Aco. and Belladonna failed). Pains in eyes, worse turning them, worse evening and in open air. Stiffness in muscles round eyes and lids. Pressure (right)stitches, itching in eyes.
Ears
Stitches in and behind right ear, in neck and thighs, at night. Acute inflammation of meatus. Sound like blowing a horn, after cracking in head. Meniere’s disease.
Nose
Coryza, with increased sense of smell, with sneezing, dulness, headache, and hoarseness. Tearing in root of nose and nasal bones, with nausea.
Face
Face: red, with throbbing headache, pale. Anxious expression. Flushing with vertigo. Pressing pains, right side of face, especially between eye and nose. Prosopalgia (right), pains, agonizing, stupefying or threatening delirium, with alkaline taste in mouth. Neuralgia involving going down right arm, attended or succeeded by numbness in the parts, pains shooting downward, irregular, worse by worry or mental exertion, better by food. Face itches at night. Cheeks rough in summer. Lips swollen, dry, stiff. Cracked lips, with dry skin. Stinging in jawbones. Tired feeling in masticator muscles. Stitches and tearing in lower jaw.
Teeth
Teeth tender with neuralgia of face. Pressing pain in molars, late in evening.
Mouth
Bitter taste with nausea, better after eating. Tongue: white, dry, sore left side, hurts when talking. Stitches in tongue. Cutting pain in right side of tongue better by biting on it. Tingling in salivary glands, immediately after eating, with sense of fermentation in oesophagus and copious salivation. Sublingual salivary gland inflamed.
Throat
Throat feels swollen, sensation as of a ball rising. Sensation of dryness in throat (and actual dryness with aching pains, dryness causing cough), difficult swallowing, thirst. Pressure in throat, stitches in eyes and nausea.
Stomach
Pains better by food. Eructations. Nausea, everything black before eyes, pressure in throat, incarcerated flatus, oppressed breathing, pains in limbs. Vomiting with ruminating action, without the least nausea. Wind better vomiting. Pressure in pit of stomach, like a marble: worse sitting in stooping position (yet a feeling as if this was necessary), better sitting erect, Rumbling and sense of emptiness in stomach, as if he had no breakfast. Pit of stomach sore to touch.
Abdomen
Pains in region of liver. Incarcerated flatus with nausea. Sensation of weakness in abdomen extending to throat, better by eructation. Sudden pains in paroxysms, across abdomen, above umbilicus, from lower border of liver downward towards I., then ceasing in right side, worse from motion and from lying on either side, obliged to lie on back, better sitting up. Neuralgia of bowels in married women.
Stool
Stool like mush, easily discharged, as if glazed, followed by pressure on rectum. Diarrhoea, with dulness, dizziness, weariness, nausea, and bellyache.
Urinary Organs
Frequent micturition of large quantities of yellow urine. Profuse micturition better headache. Frequent micturition in small quantities, it feels hot. Albuminuria: with pains in lower limbs, with dropsy, casts, triple phosphates, sallow complexion, skin very dry.
Male Sexual Organs
Frequent, spontaneous, lasting erections, without desire. Pain in right testicle, morning, changed to left, afternoon.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses to soon, regular but painful. During menses, pains in limbs, loins, back, and interior of thighs. Suppressed one week after menses, symptoms worse during leucorrhoea.
Respiratory
Organs Pressure as if one squeezed throat with thumb and finger. Noise as from spasm of glottis when breathing. Hoarseness with coryza. Tickling in trachea. Frequent cough caused by dryness or scraping in throat. Expectoration easy, smooth, grey, tasting putrid, saltish. Difficult and oppressed breathing, throat feels swollen, nausea. Oppressed breathing with palpitation, anxiety, with pain (angina pectoris).
Chest
Feverish heat with great pain in chest, worse when breathing and from slightest motion. Pain in chest as from a sprain. Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blade, pain in left arm. Stitches in lower chest. Stitches below breast. (False pleurisy of winter season.). Rheumatism of muscles of thorax and back, worse from every motion.
Heart
Fluttering of heart. Palpitation, with anxiety, suppressed breathing, with faint feeling, with dyspnoea, pain in limbs, stitches in lower chest, right-sided prosopalgia. Palpitation up into throat, after going to bed, trembling all over, worse lying on left side, better lying on back, anxiety. Severe pain in cardiac region, slow, small pulse (hypertrophy, dilatation, aortic obstruction). Paroxysms of anguish about heart, dyspnoea, febrile excitement, rheumatic endocarditis, with consequent hypertrophy and valvular disease. Pressure like a marble from epigastrium towards heart, with strong, quick heart-beats, every beat has a strumming as if it would burst, along sternum to throat, third or fourth beat louder, followed by an intermission. Wandering rheumatic pains in region of heart, extending down left arm. Shooting stabbing from heart through to left scapula causing violent beating of heart. Quickened but weak pulse._Pulse: slow, weak, arms feel weak, scarcely perceptible, limbs cold, irregular, remarkably slow, 40 to 48, slow, very feeble.
Back and neck
Muscles of neck sore to touch and on moving them. Stiffness in neck, greatest at vertebra prominens. Pain in sternomastoid muscle. Tearing in nape. Pains from neck down arm to little and fourth finger, neck tender to touch, pain, paroxysmal, worse in early part of night, and attended by stiffness, slow pulse. Violent pain in upper three dorsal vertebrae, extending through scapula. Constant pain in spine, sometimes worse in lumbar region, with great heat and burning. Sticking in lumbar region worse on motion, comes and goes. Pain in back during menses. Lameness in lumbar region. Sensation as if spinal column would break with an anterior convexity. Feeling of paralysis in sacrum. Aching across joints.
Limbs
Rheumatic pains, mostly in upper arms and lower part of legs, worse when going to sleep. Joints hot, red, swollen. Pains shift suddenly.
Upper Limbs
Pain in shoulders. Deltoid rheumatism, especially right Stitches in lower part of left scapula Paroxysmal pains in right arm._Pain in left arm. Cracking in elbow-joint. Stitching in hands, hands feel as if they had been sprained. Pain in left wrist, causing hand to feel paralysed. Erysipelatous eruption on hands extending further. Weakness in arms, pulse slow.
Lower Limbs
Tearing pains from hip (right) down leg to feet. Stitches: externally on knee, in feet, soles, toes, big toe. Sensation of weakness in calves. Feet feel sprained. Unable to walk, ankles swollen, pains, though mostly confined to ankles, shift about from joint to joint.
Generalities
Rheumatism often attacks heart, and generally goes from upper to lower parts, pains shift suddenly. Weariness in all muscles, shuns all exertion, can hardly go upstairs. Weary and giddy, with diarrhoea. Weakness the only general symptom with neuralgia. Trembling, thrilling, strumming, with palpitation.
Skin
Sensation of rigidity of skin. Pricking sensation in skin, with moderate sweat. Dry skin. Erysipelatous inflamed eruption on hand (like that of Rhus), with oppressed breathing. Eruption like itch. Red inflamed places here and there, exceedingly painful, as if boils would form.
