Causation
Anger, Coffee. Alcohol. Debauchery. Masturbation. Sexual excess. Injury.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Hypochondriacal, peevish, morose (stubborn), thoughtful and sorrowful humour, sometimes with inclination to weep, without being able to do so. Hypochondriac humour of persons of sedentary habits, and of those who dissipate at night, with abdominal sufferings. Inclined to find fault and scold, morose, stubborn, an insane desire when alone with her husband, whom she adores, to kill him. Melancholy, with great uneasiness respecting the health, eagerness to speak of the disease, despair of a cure, and fear of approaching death. Desire for solitude, repose, and tranquillity, with repugnance to conversation. Anguish, anxiety, and excessive uneasiness, often with agitation which allows no rest whatever, as from consciousness of having committed a crime, and which urges even to suicide, but is afraid to die. The fits of anguish take place mostly on lying down in evening, or after midnight, towards morning, and are sometimes accompanied by palpitation of heart, heat and sweat, nausea, and vomiting, dilation of pupils, and oppression of heart. After anger, chilliness alternating with heat, vomiting of bile and thirst. Moral exaltation and excitability, with extreme susceptibility of all organs, great sensitiveness to least pain, to least smell, noise or movement, extraordinary readiness to take fright, and sensibility so great that music even causes tears to flow. Light and music unbearable. Anxiety and restlessness in the evening. Does not wish to be touched, wants to be alone. Dizziness of the mind, *i.e., an unsteady, wavering conditions. Uncontrollable irritability, and lamentations, complaints and cries (during the sufferings), sometimes with heat, and redness of cheeks. Timidity, mistrust, and suspicion, with wavering and indecision. Frightfully apprehensive about getting married, girl lies on a sofa and throws here arms and legs about and refuses to see a doctor (cured with high potency, Skinner). Inclination to weep, with great susceptibility and irritability, disposition to be angry (habitual), to yield readily to passion, to criticize, and to utter reproaches. Spiteful, malicious. Delirium tremens with oversensitiveness, nervous excitability, and malicious vehemence. Every harmless word offends, every little noise frightens, cannot bear the least, even suitable medicine. Humour peevish and malevolent, quarrels, insults, and invectives, with immodest expressions and excessive jealousy, mingled with tears and cries. Fiery, excited temperament. Ill-humour, vexation, and anger, breaking out in acts of violence. Awkwardness and drowsiness. The time passes too slowly. *Ennui (great laziness), with dislike to and unfitness for bodily and mental labour. Incapacity for meditation, tendency to misapply words when speaking, difficulty in finding suitable expressions, mistaking weights and measures, frequent confusion when writing, with omission of syllables, or entire words. Extravagant and frantic actions, frightful visions, loss of consciousness and delirium, sometimes with murmuring.
Head
Head bewildered, and confused, with cloudiness, as after a debauch, principally in open air, and in sun. Intoxication, stupor, and dizziness. Intoxication from the drunkenness of the previous day, with vanishing of sight and hearing, worse after dinner and in sun. Vertigo with sensation of revolving and of wavering of the brain, principally during or after a meal, as well as when walking and exercising in open air ( better when wrapping head up in warm, room and when at rest,) on sneezing, on coughing, on stopping or on rising up again, in morning or in evening in bed, when lying on back, and often with cloudiness of eyes, danger of falling, staggering, fainting, buzzing in ears, and loss of consciousness. Heaviness and pressure in head after dinner, especially on moving eyes. Congestion of blood to head (with burning in it and with heat and redness of the bloated face, worse in morning, on moving head and when walking in open air), with humming in ears. Loss of consciousness, with coma somnolentum, and paralysis of lower jaw, of organs of deglutition, and extremities. Pressing headache in forehead, with sour vomiting, worse morning in bed, better when leaning head against something or when lying on back. Pressing in head as if something heavy were sinking down in forehead or head. Tension in forehead as if it were pressed in at night and in morning, worse on exposing head to cold air. Periodical headache in forehead, sore as from ulceration, with constipation. Stunning headache in the morning, after eating, and in sunshine. Pressing headache as if skull pressed asunder. Heaviness, pressure, and sensation of expansion in head, as if forehead were bursting, principally above eyes. Burning in forehead in morning on waking and after eating, worse from mental exertion and when exercising in open air, better when at rest and in the warm room. Bruised sensation of brain, generally one- right sided, better when lying on painless side. Sensation as from a bruise in the back part of the head. Tearing, drawing or jerking pains in head, or shootings, or blows or pulsative pains, or digging, and sensation as if a nail
were driven into brain, or tension and squeezing, or pain as of ulceration. Violent jerking or dull stitches in left side of brain, from orbit to parietal bone or occiput. Pain in occiput and cervical spine with pressure as of a stone in stomach, with vomiting of food and sour mucus, followed by languor and weariness (cured with 30th, ***R.T.C.). Pressing in vertex. Shocks and sounds in brain at every step. Semi-lateral headaches from excessive use of coffee. The headache are often deeply seated in brain, or in occiput, or on one side only, or in forehead, as far as eyes, and at root of nose, they appear principally in morning after waking, or rising, or after a meal, or in open air, or recurring at same hour every day, and they are worse or renewed, by intellectual labour and meditation, by wine, coffee, rough and hot weather, by walking, stooping, or moving head. Rheumatic headache with nausea and acid vomiting. Headache with unfitness for meditation, or with loss of consciousness and delirium, or with nausea, eructations, and vomiting, or with heat and redness of the cheeks, and shiverings in rest of body, or with fatigue, lassitude, and great need to lie down. Head is turned backwards, during convulsions. Small, painful swelling (nodes) on forehead. Soreness of scalp, and roots of hair, with great sensitiveness to touch. Pain, like excoriation, in scalp, from a rough wind ( better warmly covering head). Liability to take cold on head mostly from dry wind, draft of air. Small painful tumours on forehead. Clammy sweat on forehead, when walking in open air. Semi-lateral, fetid sweat on head during the semi-lateral pains (head cold to touch, the pain with anxiety and dread worse from uncovering).
Eyes
Eyes surrounded by a livid circle, and full of tears. Pressive and tensive pains in eyes, worse on opening them, and looking into the air. Tearing pains in eyes by night, or burning pain, smarting, sensation of dryness, itching and tickling, as from salt, worse in canthi (itching better from rubbing). Smarting, dry sensation in inner canthi, in morning in bed. Bruise-like pain in eye. Eyes inflamed, with redness and swelling of sclerotica, or of conjunctiva. Inflammation of sclerotica, with stitches and aversion to light of sun. Yellow colour of sclerotica, principally in lower part of eyeballs. Ecchymosis of the sclerotica, and sanguineous discharge from eyes. Painless, circumscribed red spots, like extravasation of blood, in white of eye. Canthi red, and full of humour, with nocturnal agglutination. Pupils dilated, or contracted. Burning itching, or sharp drawing pains, or sensation of excoriation in lids and in margins, worse in morning on being touched. Twitching of lids. Swelling and redness of the lids. Movement of lids difficult on account of stiffness of muscles. Contraction of lids as from heaviness. Eyes fixed and brilliant. Anxious starting look. Excessive sensitiveness of the eyes to light of day, worse in morning. Sparks, or black and greyish spots before eyes. Presbyopia. Amaurotic cloudiness of eyes. Sensation, as if all objects were brighter than they really are. Sparks (or streaks), like lightning before eyes. (Night-blindness.).
Ears
Otalgia with tearing-stinging pains. Tension in the ears when he raises his face. Squeezing in ear, worse when chewing, and clenching teeth. Tingling and itching in ears, especially at night. Itching in the ear and through the Eustachian tube, which compels frequent swallowing. Deafness from blockage of right Eustachian tube with hard mucus. The pains in the ear are worse after entering the room and in bed. Acute and painful blows (tearing) and shootings in ears, which extort cries, worse in bed, in morning. Stitches in ear when swallowing. Pain in ear on swallowing, as if it were pressed from outside. (Pain shoots from one ear to the other when swallowing). Ringing, roaring and hissing in ears. Humming in ears. Sighing, whistling, buzzing, and tinkling in ears, or cracking when masticating. Words sound loudly in the ears of the speaker. Swelling of parotids.
