SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Anxiety preventing sleep. Weak intellect, he stares at persons who talk to him, and does not understand them. Depressed, low spirited. Ill-humoured, during which nothing pleases, alternating with hilarity. Stupor and delirium.
Head
Vertigo with coldness, cold perspiration, with deafness when stooping. Heaviness of head. Congestion to head and face, with burning of the cheeks. Violent frontal headache. Stitches in the forehead. Pain like a drawing in pericranium. Chilliness on head, lancinating pains in muscles on back of head. Syphilitic tumours of brain. Profuse sweat on forehead. Swelling of head and neck. Hair falls out.
Eyes
Eyes inflamed and prominent. Look fixed. Burning and dryness of eyes. Inflammation of eyes, pain pressing, burning, the pupils lose their roundness, are angular, eyes feel too small. Inflammation of the iris, with irregular-shaped pupil. Pupils contracted, with red face. Eyes sparkling, very movable. Pupils contracted and insensible. Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation. Redness of conjunctiva. Pains behind eyeballs, as if they would be forced out. Lids everted, swollen, red, excoriated, burning, and smarting, edges covered with thick crusts or pustules. Tearing as if in bone above left eye, near root of nose, and in other parts of the bone. Objects appear smaller. Double vision. (Retinitis: haemorrhagic, albuminuric. Iritis. Keratoiritis. Episcleritis. Hypopion. Phlyctenular ophthalmia.).
Ears
Inflammation with stitches in ear. Discharge of fetid pus from ear. Violent pulsation in ears, worse left In afternoon burrowing and lancinations in left ear so violent he involuntarily weeps and cries for three minutes, later no traces of it.
Nose
Swelling and redness of nose. Fluent coryza, loss of smell, rawness and smarting in nostrils. Frequent nose-bleed. Ozaena, discharge from nose like glue, drying up in posterior nares, perforation of septum.
Face
Face and cheeks swollen, hard, bright red, puffy, bloated. Distortion of features, paleness of distorted face. Tearing in left zygoma. Tearing in upper jaw, in antrum, towards eye, followed by swelling. Intense prosopalgia darting along jaws better by day worse night, worse 4 to 10 p.m. Countenance pale, anxious, as if exhausted. Oedematous swelling of face, paleness, albuminuria. Yellow color of face. Face covered with cold perspiration. Lips black, dark-red swollen lip, lip excessively swollen and tender, dry and cracked, incrusted with a dry secretion. Swelling and turning up of upper lip. Stiffness of jaws, soreness.
Teeth
Looseness of teeth, they pain, fall out. Sordes. Soreness in teeth and gums, aching at night. Gums swollen and spongy, bleed easily, detached from teeth, ulcerated. Gums are covered with a false membrane and become gangrenous.
Mouth
Lips and tongue whitish and contracted. Tongue coated with thick white mucus, or dry and red, papilla elevated like a strawberry, coated white and swollen and stiff. Tongue excessively swollen and inflamed, red with black coat, covered with a greyish white crust, moist edges, red, pale dirty yellow posteriorly and edges. Swelling of lips, mouth, tongue, and throat. Mouth dry with unquenchable thirst. Mouth inflamed, dry, burning, and parched, as if scalded. Burning in mouth and gums. Foetid breath. Exudations and ulcers on mucous membranes of mouth and throat. Ptyalism with salty (or very bitter) taste, bloody, yellowish, tough acrid. Accumulation of tenacious saliva, expectorated with difficulty. Painful burning in mouth extending to stomach. Discharge of albuminous mucus from mouth. Swelling of tongue with ptyalism. Swallowing not so painful as depressing the tongue.
Throat
Pricking in throat as from needles. Tonsils swollen and covered with ulcers. Swelling of throat to suffocation, inability to swallow any fluid, with heat in mouth, tongue, and throat. Violent burning, raw, stinging, smarting pain in throat and oesophagus, worse by slightest external pressure. Pharynx dark red, painful to contact. Dryness of fauces. Uvula swollen, elongated, dark red. External throat and glands of throat enormously swollen. When he makes the effort to swallow, retching and vomiting. Spasms of oesophagus and stomach on attempting to swallow a drop of liquid. Burning in oesophagus. Taste in mouth, metallic or salty.
Stomach
Burning from pit of stomach to mouth, in stomach. Swelling, distension of pit of stomach, not permitting the least touch. Violent unquenchable thirst for cold water. Repugnance to hot food, desire for cold. Drink frequently regurgitates through nose. Painful retching and vomiting. Vomiting of albuminous matter, of tough mucus, of blood, streaks of blood in the matter vomited, vomiting of stringy mucus, of green bitter substances like coffee-grounds, with coagulated blood, of bile, incessant green bilious vomiting, of pus.
Abdomen
Pains in liver and right shoulder. Stitches as if in middle of liver. Bloated abdomen, painful, very painful to least touch. Cutting below navel. Bruised pain in abdomen, especially in caecal region and over transverse colon. Pressive pain in inguinal glands. Lancinating drawing in left inguinal region.
Stool and Anus
Diarrhoea, yellow, green, bilious, bloody, with membranous shreds, of faeces with mucus and dark clotted blood. Burning in rectum and anus, during stool. Faeces loose, with bilious and fetid evacuations, green or brown, or composed of thin and sanguineous mucus, accompanied by almost incessant cuttings in abdomen and discharge of small quantities of bloody mucus, almost unsuccessful pressing, straining and tenesmus. Ineffectual want to evacuate. Tenesmus with dysenteric discharges, vomiting of bile, cramps in calves, and stitches in side. (Spasm of rectum after coitus.) _ Painful bloody discharge, with vomiting. Dysentery. Corrosive ichor oozes from anus, excoriating the parts. Itching about anus (while walking). Very persistent distressing tenesmus and cutting colicky pains, after stool burning and tenesmus of rectum and bladder, stools hot, frequent, scanty, nothing but mucus tinged with blood. Stool pasty, dark green, bilious, blackish, offensive. Constipation, tenacious faeces.
Urinary Organs
Tenesmus of bladder, suppressed urine. Increased discharge of urine. The urine is only passed in drops, and with great pain. Urine scanty, brown, with brick-dust sediment, bloody, albuminous containing filaments, flocks or dark flesh-like pieces of mucus, epithelial cells of tubuli uriniferi in a state of fatty degeneration. Gonorrhoeal discharges, first thin, then thicker (greenish, worse at night), and then smarting pain when urinating, with stitches in urethra. Burning in urethra, more before micturition. Paraphimosis.
Male Sexual Organs
Violent erections during sleep. Fine, painful stinging in left testicle. Penis and testes enormously swollen. Chancres assuming a phagedenic appearance, and secreting a thin, ichorous pus.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses too early and too profuse. Leucorrhoea of a yellowish white, with sweetish, nauseous smell. Intense inflammation of the vulva. Painful glandular swellings about nipple. Nipples crack and bleed, severe pain when attempting to nurse.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness, aphonia. Burning, cutting and stinging in trachea, with loss of voice. Respiration slow, interrupted, sighing. Difficult respiration. Spasm of glottis when swallowing. Hollow, dry, shaking cough. Cough, with expectoration of mucus tinged with blood.
Chest
Constriction of chest, breathes with pectoral muscles. Oppression of chest. Stitches in chest, through thorax (right lower side). Nocturnal shootings across chest. Haemoptysis.
Pulse
Pain in precordial region. Palpitation of heart in sleep. Pulse: small, intermittent, irregular, rapid.
Neck and Back
Pains in head, back, and limbs, kidneys affected. Glands of neck hard and swollen. Pott’s disease, lies on back with legs drawn up. Tonic cramps, tension in left scapula, tearing.
Limbs
Coldness in extremities, they look purple, with small, spasmodic, frequent pulse. Rheumatic pains after gonorrhoea suppressed by Copaiva. Paralysis in all limbs, trembling.
Upper Limbs
Rheumatic pains in left shoulder and shoulder-blade. Sensation in left axillary glands as if they would swell up, frequent lancinations. Deltoid muscles feels relaxed. Whole arm up to shoulder is much swollen, red, and covered with vesicles.
Lower Limbs
Pains in lower limbs as from pin-pricks. Stitches in hip-joint, better on motion. Stitches in right hip-joint. Shootings in coxofemoral joint, during repose and movement. Myalgia of thigh muscles. Pain in tibia. Sensation as if legs had gone to sleep. The muscles of thigh and calf feel relaxed. Cramps in calves. The feet are icy cold.
Generalities
Painful drawings in periosteum (like those which precede an intermittent fever) with heat in head. Periostitis (upper and lower jaws.). Inflammation of lymphatic vessels. Twitches, convulsive contractions. Convulsive twitchings of muscles of face, arms, and legs, and convulsions of limbs. Violent starts, with shaking of whole body, on going to sleep. Trembling. Paralysis of upper and lower extremities. Glandular swellings. Lies on back with knees bent up. Great debility. General anasarca. Feeling of coldness, especially of head. Shivering, provoked by slightest exercise, and also by open air (even when weather is warm), sometimes with cutting pains and tenesmus. Heat on stooping, and feeling of relief on raising the body again.
