Appetite
Putrid, salt, sweetish, or metallic taste. Bitter taste, principally when fasting, in morning. Rye-bread has a bitter or sweetish taste. Acid and mucous taste during a meal, also at other times. Saltish taste on lips. Violent burning thirst, day and night, with desire for cold drinks, and principally for milk and beer. Desire for wine and spirits. Insatiable appetite and craving (or complete loss of appetite), with apparent insipidity of food. Appetite only for bread and butter, aversion to butter. Bulimy, with great weakness. Canine hunger, even after eating Want of appetite. No wish for food, which, however, is agreeable to the taste when eaten. Thirst more decided than appetite. Speedy satiety when eating. Stomach feels replete and constricted. Dislike to all food, principally solid nutriment, meat, sweetmeats, cooked victuals and coffee. Has no appetite for dry food, likes liquid food. Great weakness of digestion, with continued hunger, and pressure in stomach, frequent risings, pyrosis and many other inconveniences after a meal. Bread is heavy on stomach.
Stomach
Excessive nausea and inclination to vomit, often with incisive and pressive pains in stomach, chest, and abdomen, anxiety and inquietude, headache, vertigo, cloudiness of eyes, and transient heat. The nausea often increases after a meal, and is accompanied by a sensation in throat, as if things sweetened with sugar had been eaten. Rising of air. Risings, principally after eating, and often of a putrid or bitter or sour and rancid taste. Violent empty risings. Regurgitation (of ingesta) after eating and drinking. Pyrosis, regurgitation of a rancid liquid, and hiccough during and after a meal. Retching and vomiting of mucous or bitter matters, or of bile. Violent vomiting with convulsive movements. Burning, violent pain, and excessive sensibility (especially to touch) in the stomach, and in the precordial region. Tension, fulness, and pressure as from a stone in pit of stomach, principally during or after a meal, however little may have been eaten, stomach hangs down heavily. Sharp constrictive pain in precordial region. Cramp-like pains in stomach, even after a very light repast.
Abdomen
Painful sensitiveness of hepatic region, with shooting, burning pains, worse by every movement of body, or of the parts affected. Region of liver swollen, painfully sensitive to contact, cannot lie on right side. Chronic atrophy of liver, with emaciation and dessication of the body. Swelling and hardness of liver. Complete icterus. Abdomen hard and inflated, with soreness when touched, principally in umbilical region. Colic which only passes off in a recumbent position. Violent colic (with diarrhoea), with cuttings, lancinations as if by knives, painful contractions and pinchings in abdomen, principally at night or in cool of evening, especially when he touches or takes hold of anything cold. Tension, distension, and pressure, as by a stone, principally in umbilical region (and painfulness to contact). Burning in abdomen, round the navel. Excessive and insupportable pains in abdomen, which cease only on lying down. Pain in abdomen, as if caused by a chill. Sensation as if intestines were loose, and moving about in abdomen, when walking. Intestines feel bruised if he lies on right side. The pains in abdomen are often accompanied by shivering, or by heat and redness of cheeks, as well as by great sensitiveness of abdomen, and of precordial region, to all contact, and to least pressure. Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen. Sufferings from flatulency, principally at night, with distension of abdomen, borborygmi, and rumbling. Cutting stitch in lower abdomen right to left, worse walking. Tension, aching, and lancinations in groins as by knives. Inflammation of peritoneum and of intestines. Boring pain in right groin. Obstruction and inflammatory swelling of inguinal glands, with redness and painful sensitiveness, when walking and standing. Affections of inner region of liver, external belly, which may be hard and sensitive to touch, inguinal ring, either one (H. N. G.). Painful hard, hot, sensitive swelling in ileo caecal region. Ulceration and suppuration of inguinal glands. Buboes. Abdomen externally cold to touch.
Stool and Anus
Stool: acrid, bloody, knotty, containing pus, viscid. Complaints before stool (a sick, painful, faint feeling comes on just before). Complaints during stool, tenesmus, tenesmus without stool, diarrhoea with slime (Mercurius Is rarely indicated in these troubles where there is no slime. H. N. G.). Constipation, with hard, tenacious and knotty faeces, which cannot be expelled without straining. Faeces of small shape, ribbon-like. Ineffectual, but frequent want to evacuate, especially at night, and sometimes with tenesmus, protrusion of haemorrhoids, and nausea. Loose and dysenteric evacuations, principally at night, with colic and violent cuttings, urgent want to evacuate, tenesmus and burning in anus, pyrosis, nausea and risings, anguish, heat or cold sweat on face, shivering and shuddering, exhaustion and trembling of all limbs. Diarrhoea (preceded by colic), caused by the fresh air of evening. Chilliness between the diarrhoeic stools. During a diarrhoeic stool nausea and eructations. Scanty evacuations of sanguineous mucus. Evacuations which are mucous, or bilious, or putrid, or acid, or of a greenish or brownish colour, or reddish, or yellow, like sulphur, or a greyish white. Faeces of consistence of pap, or frothy, or like hash. Evacuation of corrosive and burning fecal matter. Discharges of bloody mucus accompanied by colic and tenesmus, dysentery. Discharge of blood, or of mucus, from rectum, even with evacuations that are not loose, and when not at stool, sometimes with tenesmus in anus. Protrusion of haemorrhoids. Ejection of ascarides and lumbrici. Itching, shootings, and excoriation in anus. After stool prolapsus ani, or when pressing and straining to stool. Prolapsus recti, which, when it protrudes, appears black and bloody. Evacuation of substances undigested, or black, and like pitch, blood and mucus, undigested, smelling sour, excoriating anus.
Urinary Organs
Urine acrid, turbid, too frequent, complaints while passing, and after. Affections of urethra. Continued want to urinate, day and night, sometimes with abortive efforts, or with scanty emission. The stream of urine is excessively small. Irresistible, sudden desire to urinate. Frequent and copious emission of urine, as in diabetes, with great emaciation. Involuntary emission of urine. Urgent want to urinate, with incontinence of urine. The quantity of urine emitted is greater than the quantity of fluid drunk. Wetting the bed at night. Emission of urine drop by drop. Urine of a deep colour, or red, or brown, or white, as if mixed with flour or chalk, or of the colour of blood. Offensive, turbid urine, which forms a sediment. Sanguineous, pungent, or sour- smelling urine. Corrosive and burning urine. Thick sediment from urine. White and flock-like clouds in urine (or as if containing pus, scanty, fiery red). Emission of hard mucus, or of flocks, and white threads during or after the emission of urine. Discharge of blood from urethra. Incisive and contractive pains in renal region, at night. Pulsation, incisive pains, burning and shooting in urethra, even when not urinating. Inflammation of orifice of urethra, and discharge of thick, yellowish, or serous, whitish matter. Thick greenish (or yellow) discharge from urethra, more at night, (gonorrhea) with phimosis, chancroids.
Male Sexual Organs
Increase of sexual desire, and great lasciviousness, with frequent erections and pollutions. [Erections: little boys may have this, lasting all night, causing emaciation, boys often pull and tear at the prepuce all the time, which may cause great emaciation, and result in death, adults often have this pulling,
a kind of itching being the cause, and feeling as if he “must do so,” collection of smegma behind glans. H. N. G.) _ Total loss of sexual power. Painful nocturnal erections, and sometimes sanguineous pollutions. The penis is small, cold, and flabby. Glans cold and shrivelled. Voluptuous itching, tingling, tearing, and shooting in glans and prepuce. Puffing, or inflammatory swelling of prepuce, sometimes with burning pain, fissures, rhagades, and eruptions. Burning in urethra during coitus. Purulent secretion between prepuce and glans, sometimes with swelling, heat, and redness of front part of penis. Swelling of the lymphatic vessels along the penis. Vesicles and phagedenic ulcers (chancres) with lard-like, or cheesy, bases, and raised margin, on glans and prepuce. Sensation of coldness in testes. Testes, hard and swollen, with shining redness of scrotum, and dragging pain in testes and spermatic cords. Itching, tingling, and shooting in testes. Profuse perspiration of parts when walking. Excoriation between the parts and thighs. Sloughing of scrotum.
Female Sexual Organs
Suppression of catamenia. Catamenia too copious, with uneasiness and colic. Metrorrhagia. Discharge of blood in an old woman, eleven years after menses had ceased. Before catamenia: dry heat, with ebullition of blood, and congestion in head. Congestion of blood to uterus. Inflammation of ovaries and uterus. During catamenia: redness of tongue, with deep-coloured and burning spots, salt taste in mouth, teeth set on edge, and gums blanched. Leucorrhoea in general, complaints concomitant to leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea always worse at night, greenish discharge, smarting, corroding, itching, burning after scratching. Purulent, corrosive leucorrhea, with itching in the parts, better by washing in cold water. Hard tubercles on labia majora. Itching pimples, and nodosities in labia. Itching of genitals, worse from contact of urine. Inflammatory swelling in vagina, with a sensation as if it were raw and excoriated. Swelling of labia, with heat, hardness, shining redness, great sensitiveness to touch, and burning, pulsative, and shooting pains. Prolapsus uteri et vagina, feels better after coitus. Sterility with too profuse menstruation. Easy coitus and certain conception. Hard swelling in breasts, with pain as from ulceration (at every menstrual period), or with suppuration and actual ulceration, ulcerated nipples. Milk in breasts instead of menses, in breasts of boys or girls. Excoriation of breasts. The infant rejects the milk.
