Heart
Precordial anxiety. Deep-seated pain in region of heart. Sensation of weakness and pressure in epigastrium rising to heart. Sensation as if heart would stand still, a pain deep in above heart. Sensation of weakness in precordium extending upwards and downwards. Dyspnoea and suffocation from every rapid movement, with vertigo, and threatened loss of consciousness and a peculiar confusion of head. Pulse small, and weak.
Back and neck
Swelling and pain left side of neck. Rheumatic pain between the scapula. Pain under right scapula worse bending forward. In back: lassitude, with heaviness of head, burning and incisive pains at lower part of spine, pain in loins, violent cramp-like squeezing in posterior part of iliac region, which renders contact with anything, or motion, almost insupportable.
Upper Limbs
Rheumatic feeling in right shoulder-joint, goes to left upper arm and around elbow-joint. Fine crawling stitches inside of right deltoid. Pain in shoulders of an elderly lady who had not menstruated for two years, *Lobelia i. relieved the pain and brought on menstruation. Rheumatic pain in right elbow-joint. Sweat of palms, backs of hands dry and cool, tips of fingers cold.
Lower Limbs
In the legs, lassitude, acute tearing in tibia, extending to knee-joint, cramps in calf in morning, on waking from a troubled sleep. Inflammatory rheumatism in right knee, with tearing pains in fibula.
Generalities
Lancinating pains throughout body, extending to ends of fingers and toes, trembling of limbs, likewise of whole body, feeling of’ depression, unusual lassitude, prolonged weakness, exhaustion, state of stupefaction, convulsions, sometimes such as to require two men to hold the patient, followed by death, violent convulsive jerkings, followed by death. Other symptoms coming on when a discharge ceases.
Skin
Prickling itching of skin all over body. Eruption between fingers, on dorsa of hands and on forearms, vesicular itch-like pustules with tingling itching (Teste). Vesicular eruption on skin.
Sleep
Gaping, worse followed by crawling in nose and sneezing, then gaping and belching of wind. Wakened early by very impressive dreams: arm amputated, wounded by a shot, etc. Disturbed sleep with many dreams, sometimes anxious, painful dreams, numerous, without intermediate awakening, cold sweat.
Fever
Pulse: accelerated, frequent and softer than usual, slow, in evening (after a stronger dose). Intermittent fever: commencing at noon, with great paleness and anorexia, quotidian, sometimes every morning at ten o’clock: at first violent shivering, alternating with moderate heat until noon, afterwards a predominance of heat, with slight shuddering, until evening, also, copious nocturnal sweat, great thirst by fits (especially during the shivering), respiration short, anxious, impeded and fainting, with a feeling of constriction in chest, sensation of weakness and of oppression in pit of stomach, and in chest generally, tickling in larynx, with frequent fits of short coughing, violent frontal cephalalgia, anorexia during and after the attack, white tongue covered with a thick coating on right side, and great weakness. Coldness of whole body, heat, with tendency to perspire, especially on face, tendency to perspire excessively. Thirst before the chill and through the whole fever, often only before the chill, not during the chill, but again during the heat. Drinking worse the violence of the shaking chill and the coldness. At the end of the heat, perspiration with heat.
