Nose
Insupportable itching in nose. Sensitiveness and inflammatory redness of the internal nose. Pain, as of excoriation, or ulceration, in nostrils, also margins. Obstruction of nose, sometimes on one side only, and often with itching in nostrils, and discharge of mucus. Troublesome, dry catarrh of nose which usually comes on very early in morning. (Dry sneezings, chronic coryza, much mucus after getting up as if cold air caught her nose, and which lasted an hour, right ***R.T.C.). Obstruction in head, worse in morning, or at night, and dry coryza with heat and heaviness in forehead, and stoppage of nostrils (in infants). Fluent coryza by day, or in morning, with dryness and nocturnal stoppage of nose. Tip of nose cold. Scraping (crawling) in nose and throat, heat in nostrils (with headache, heat in face, chilliness) and frequent sneezing during coryza (which is fluent during day, worse in warm, room, better in the cold air, dry coryza during evening and night). Acrid discharge from the obstructed nose. Sanguineous mucus in nose. Bleeding in nose, and discharge of clots of (dark) blood from nostrils. Fetid exhalation from nose. Great acuteness of smell. Odour before nose, like burning sulphur, decayed cheese, or snuff of a candle.
Face
Sickly aspects, with livid circles round eyes, and sharpened nose. Face pale, yellowish (especially round nose and mouth) and earthy. Yellowness around mouth and nose, or around eyes. Reddish-yellow face. Heat (swelling) and redness of face or (of one) of the cheeks, sometimes alternating with paleness. Patient feels as though sitting before a hot fire. Cold sweat on face. Muscular palpitations in bed, in evening, or tingling itching in face. Drawing in masseter muscles, with stiffness. Tearing and drawing pains in face, sometime only on one side, extending into ear, with swelling of cheek (and pain in cheek-bone). Tension round mouth, nose, and eyes, with swelling of the parts. Swelling of face, sometimes only on one side, swelling of a pale colour. Pimples in face from the excessive use of spirituous liquors. Intermittent neuralgia, worse in infra-orbital branch of trifacial, always worse in morning, better sometimes when lying in bed, especially after abuse of coffee or liquors. Small, purulent pimples on cheeks and head. Painful dryness, fissure and desquamation of lips. Scabs and (corroding) ulceration on the red part of lips, and corners of the mouth. Small, purulent pimples round lips and chin. Sensation of excoriation, and small ulcers, on internal surface of lips (painful to touch). Tettery eruption on chin. Distortion of mouth. Side-to-side movement of jaws. Spasmodic clenching of jaws. Periodical prosopalgia nervosa, worse at night. Shooting (swelling) in sub-maxillary glands, when swallowing.
Teeth
Pains, as of excoriation, or ulceration, or drawing, jerking pains, with shootings, or searching and boring in teeth, and jaws, or only in carious teeth, worse at night, or in morning on waking, or after dinner, or when walking in open air, or when breathing fresh air, or in evening, or from meditation and any intellectual effort, often extending into head, ears, and zygomatic process, or with painful engorgement of sub-maxillary glands, swelling and soreness of gums, red and hot spots on cheek and neck, plaintive disposition, and dejection. Tearing in the teeth extending to head through bones of face, renewed from cold drink, better by warmth. Stinging in decayed teeth, burning- stinging in one whole row of teeth. Toothache often semi lateral, sometimes worse by heat of room, and better in open air. Toothache from taking cold, caused or worse by mental exertion, better heat. Drinks and hot soups, as well as cold water, wine, and coffee, equally renew of worse the toothache. Loosening and loss of teeth. Grinding teeth. Stomacace. Putrid and painful (white) swelling of gums, sometimes with pulsation, as in an abscess, burning, pulling, and ready bleeding. Ulcer in gums.
Mouth
Aphthae (of children). Small aphthous ulcers in mouth and throat, with putrid smell, bloody saliva runs out at night, gums scorbutic, spits coagulated blood. Fetid, putrid, and cadaverous smell from mouth, principally after a meal, and when fasting in morning. Great dryness, principally of fore part of mouth and tongue, especially after midnight. Pain in mouth, tongue, and palate as if the whole were raw and excoriated. Accumulation of yellowish white mucus in mouth. Ulcers of a fetid smell, pimples and painful blisters in mouth, tongue, palate, and throat. Inflammatory swelling of palate, throat, and gums, with difficult deglutition. Inflammatory swelling and stitches in palate. Accumulation of water in mouth, nocturnal salivation, bloody saliva, haemoptysis. Tongue covered with a (heavy) white, thick, or yellowish coating, or tongue dry, cracked (on edges), brownish or blackish, with bright red margins. Great heaviness of tongue, with difficulty of speech, and sensation when speaking, as if tongue had become thicker. Stuttering. Lisping. Sour taste in mouth, sour odour of breath.
Throat
Scraping (as after heartburn) and pain as from excoriation, in throat, worse when swallowing, and when breathing fresh (cold) air. Sensation of swelling in palate, and pain during empty deglutition, as if there were a tumour, or a plug in throat, or as if pharynx were contracted. Lancinations in throat, worse when swallowing, and sometimes extending as far as ears. Swelling of uvula, and tonsils, with pressive and shooting pains. Relaxed uvula with its attendant cough (many cases cured, ***R.T.C.). Choking, or spasmodic contraction in throat. Pain from pharynx to pit of stomach in morning. Tickling sensation in throat, with a desire to scratch. Burning in throat, worse at night, and sometimes extending to mouth and oesophagus.
Appetite
Salt, Sulphurous, sweetish, metallic, herbaceous, or mucous taste in mouth. Acid taste in mouth, worse in morning, or after eating (and drinking). Acid taste of food, especially of bread (of rye or of wheat) and of milk. Putrid taste, worse in the morning. Bitter taste in mouth, of sputa, of food, and especially of bread-Insipidity of food (hunger with aversion to food), especially of milk, bread, meat, coffee, and tobacco. Want of
appetite, and dislike to food, especially rye-bread, tobacco, and coffee, and sometimes with constant thirst. No hunger. Thirst, sometimes with dislike to all drinks, principally water, milk, and beer, or with desire for beer or milk. Ravenous hunger after drinking beer. Craving for brandy or for chalk. Hunger, sometimes with dislike to food, or prompt satiety. Tastelessness for all food. Periodical bulimy in afternoon. During a meal, heat in head, sweat on forehead, nausea, and fainting. After a meal, risings and regurgitations, nausea, inclination to vomit, and vomiting of food, pressure and cramp-like pains in stomach, pressive inflation in epigastrium, colic, pyrosis, head bewildered and painful, uneasiness and hypochondriacal humour, anxiety, vertigo, and syncope, coldness and shivering, with heat in head and face, redness of cheeks, fatigue, and drowsiness. Drinks oppress the stomach, and often cause nausea, with inclination to vomit. Rye-bread and acids equally occasion sufferings, but fattest food is sometimes taken with impunity. Animal food worse.
Stomach
Abortive risings, with painful feeling of spasmodic contraction in oesophagus. Frequent, and often bitter and acid risings and regurgitations. Frequent and violent hiccough. They want to belch, but a kind of oesophageal constriction seems to prevent it. Belching of wind, which is difficult. Pyrosis, worse after taking acids, or fat food. Continual nausea, and inclination to vomit, worse in morning, or during a meal, or after eating or drinking. Constant sick feelings affecting body here and there. Heartburn. Scraped sensation in pit of stomach. Nausea, particularly where patient feels very sick at the stomach, feels ” If I only could vomit, I would be so much better.” _ Water brash. Empty vomiturition, straining to vomit (in drunkards). Periodical attacks of vomiting, of food, of sour-smelling mucus, of dark, clotted blood, and during pregnancy. Retching, and violent vomiting of mucus and sour matter, or of food, or insipid matter, or bile, worse after having drunk or eaten, or in morning, or else at night, and often with headache, cramps in legs and feet, anxiety, and trembling of limbs. Regurgitation and vomiting of blood, mixed with clots and black substances, with cuttings, ebullition in the chest, and flow of black blood, with hard feces. After dinner (some hours after), pressure in stomach, dulness of head and hypochondriacal mood. Colic and pressure in stomach extending to shoulders in morning, fasting, and after eating. Pressure and tension in pit of stomach, with tension opposite, between shoulder-blades. Constrictive colic generally, with water brash. Colic of coffee and brandy drinkers. Pressure on stomach and epigastrium, as by a stone, or cramp-like, contractive, and gnawing pains, worse after drinking or eating, or in morning, or when walking in open air, or after partaking of coffee, or at night, and often with tension and inflation of the epigastrium, oppression and constriction of chest, eructations, retching, and vomiting. Sinking in pit of chest with craving appetite follows an overdose. Disordered stomach from over- eating, from debauchery, from high living, from drugs, from sedentary habits. Pain, as from a bruise, pulsation, burning pain, sensation of excoriation and distressing pains in stomach. Painful sensitiveness in pit of stomach to least pressure, tight clothes are insupportable. Great uneasiness in precordial region, as if heart would burst. Sensation in cardia as if the food were stopped there and returned into oesophagus.
