Relations
*Antidoted *by: Ipecac. (dry cough), *Compatible: Sulph. (especially when stool drives out of bed). *Compare: Pic ac. (inability to walk right, priapism), Camph. and Secale (collapse, skin cold yet throws off all covering), Veratrum (collapse with cold sweat), Syphilinum (reverse aggravation _ sunset to sunrise ), as if in a dream, Ambr., Anacardium, Calcarea, Cannabis indica, Conium, Cuprum, Rhe., Stramonium, Val., Verbascum, Ziz. better By leaning back, Lac caninum Fish- brine odour, Sanicula
Mind
Forgetfulness: of names, later of words and initial letters. Time moves too slowly. Dazed feeling, a far-off sensation, as though things done to-day occurred a week ago. Loses constantly the thread of her talk. Seems to herself to make wrong statements, because she does not know what to say next, begins all right but does not know how to finish, weight on vertex, which seems to affect the mind. Difficulty in concentrating his thoughts on abstract subjects. Could not read or use mind at all from pain in head. Thinks some one is behind her, hears whispering, sees faces that peer at her from behind bed and furniture. One night saw large people in room, large rats running, felt a delicate hand smoothing her head from front to back. Is sure she is going to die. Sensation as if all life were unreal, like a dream. Wild and desperate feeling, as of incipient insanity. Cannot speak without crying. Suicidal. Is in a great hurry, when doing anything is in such a hurry that she gets fatigued. Spirits in the depths, weighed down with heavy, solid gloom. Better by torrents of tears. Is always anticipating, feels most matters sensitively before they occur and generally correctly. Dread of saying the wrong thing when she has headache.
Apprehensive. Fear of the dark. Feeling as if he had committed the unpardonable sin and was going to hell. Irritated at little things. Very impatient. Great selfishness.
Head
Vertigo: when stooping, slightly better lying, worse on movement. Sensation of tightening in head causing intense vertigo. Frontal headache: with nausea, feeling of a tight band across forehead, worse leaning head forward, as if skin were drawn tight, with fluent coryza, with pressure back of eyes, as if they would be forced out, extending over brain to neck. Brain seems weary, slightest sound annoys and fatigues her. Wakes with headache over eyes and in temples, worse from sunlight. Pain in center of brain, in evening sharp pain through temples, pains commence and cease suddenly. Brain exceedingly tender and all mental work irksome. Pain in left parietal bone when the wind blows on it. Pain circling through head and around crown. Terrible pains all through head in every direction, with continuous and violent vomiting, followed by aching in sacrum and down backs of legs to feet. Constant headache worse while coughing, light (through the eyes) seems to hurt it. Intense headache for three days, with inflammation of eye. Intense cerebral suffering, causing continual rubbing of head in pillow, rolling from side to side. Dull pain in cerebellum. Intense burning pain in head, worse in cerebellum. Tensive pains in head as if she would go crazy, could not read or use mind. Aching pain in base of brain, with swelling of cords of neck. Head feels heavy and is drawn backwards. Pain in back of head and in right eye. Hair lusterless, dry and crispy, electrical. Intense itching of scalp, quantities of dandruff.
Eyes
When eyes were shut, felt as if pulling out of head to one side or other, when open all things seemed to flicker. A blur over things, numberless black, sometimes brown spots dancing over her book, sees objects double, things look very small, sees imaginary objects. Neuralgic pain in eyeballs: when pressing eyelids together, worse when rolling them. Feeling of pain and irritation, and sensations of sticks in eyes, lids, and especially inner canthi, redness and dryness of lids, congestion of sclerotics and sensation of a cool wind blowing in eyes, especially inner canthi. Ptosis of outer end of both upper lids, particularly left, requiring exertion to open them. Decided tendency to irritation of edges of lids. Hardness of upper lid, as if it had a cartilage in it. Swelling under eyes.
Ears
Nearly total deafness of both ears, with very little noise, had to use a trumpet. Partial or transient deafness, pulsation in ears. Singular sensation of deafness from one ear to the other, as if a tube went through head, while yet there was an over- acuteness of hearing. When whistling, the sound in ears is double, with peculiar vibration as when two persons whistle thirds. Quick, darting pains in right ear, from without inward, pains followed each other in quick succession. Ring hole in left ear sore and almost gathered.
Nose
Intense, itching in nose, internally near point, had to rub all the time. Very great burning in both nostrils when breathing through them. Coldness of end of nose. Entire loss of smell for several days. Nose goes to sleep. Epistaxis. Nose inflamed, swollen. Posterior nares obstructed, better by hawking thick, greyish mucus, followed by bloody mucus. Soreness and crawling feeling, as of a centipede in left nostril in morning.
Face
Greenish, shining appearance of skin. Blotches on skin. Flushes of heat in face and neck. Fever blisters near corner of right upper lip, small but very sore. Enormous fever sore on lower lip near left commissure. Sweat of face,’ on upper lip. Neuralgia of right upper and lower jaws, extending to temple. Face covered with acne, dry herpes, freckles. Tendency to stiffness in jaws and tongue.
Teeth
Teeth have serrated edges, or are chalky and easily decay. Sore teeth, particularly eye teeth, feel sore and soft. Yellowness of teeth.
Mouth
Taste: coppery on rising, disagreeable, bad in morning. Tongue coated: brown and thick, thickly in morning, with bad taste, white at base, the rest red, white, with papilla showing through. Tongue blistered. Small sores, pustules (canker sores) on edge, tip, and under tongue, very painful, also inside lips and in throat. Foul breath in morning. Dryness of mouth, feels burnt. Blisters on inner surface of lips and cheeks, skin peeling off in patches. Stringy mucus comes out of mouth during sleep.
Throat
Throat: scraped, sore, stiff, dry, swallowing painful. Back part of throat constantly filling with mucus from posterior nares. Sore throat and cold in head better by salt-water bathing.
Appetite
Appetite: ravenous, immediately after eating, lost. Thirst enormous, for liquor. Craves: salts, sweets, hard, green fruit, ice, sour things, oranges, ale.
Stomach
Hiccough. Nausea: with frontal headache, after drinking water, after dinner, always after eating, before eating. Violent retching and vomiting for forty-eight hours, first glairy mucus, then frothy and watery, and lastly coffee-grounds, accompanied by intense headache, with great despondency and sensation of impending death, during paroxysm was continually praying. Vomiting thick mucus and bile, black bile without nausea, tasting bitter and sour, with considerable mucus. In pit of stomach: sensation of pins forcing through flesh, sick gnawing not better by eating, trembling, burning. In stomach: feeling of lump after eating, cramps, clawing, worse drawing up knees. Intense pain in stomach and upper abdomen, with a sensation of tightness. Sensation of sinking and agonizing sickness at stomach, with a desire to tear something away.
Abdomen
Terrible pains in liver, thought she would die, they were so acute. Grasping pain in liver and spleen. Intense agonizing pain in solar plexus, surface cold, eructations tasting of sulfuretted hydrogen and, after eating, of ingesta, applied right hand to pit of stomach and left to lumbar region. Tensive pain in right side of abdomen, as of a hard, biconvex body, with heat and gnawing aching pain, continued a short time, it was between spine of ilium and recti muscles. Darting pain from center of right ovarian region to lower edge of liver. Beating as of a pulse in abdomen vertically. Cutting in right lower abdomen running into right spermatic cord, right testis very tender.
Stool and Anus
Bilious diarrhoea, verging on dysentery, with mucous stools. Pains of most intense kind (threatening cramps) in upper abdomen (darting and tearing pains) coming on at stool, stool diarrhoeic, thin and hot, but not copious, after stool, profound weakness and mild cramp in left calf. Profuse bloody discharges from rectum, sometimes in large clotted masses, followed by shivering. Black stool. White diarrhoea. Stools tenacious, clay like, sluggish, cannot be forced, from a sensation of prolapsus of rectum. Can only pass stool by leaning very far back, very painful, as if there was a lump on posterior surface of sphincter, so painful as to cause tears. Constriction and inertia of bowels with ball-like stools. Child, aet. 15 months, brought on a pillow to clinic, apparently dead, eyes glassy, set, could not find pulse, but felt heart beat, running from anus greenish yellow, thin, horribly offensive stool. Oozing of moisture from anus, fetid like fish brine.
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