Chest
Difficult respiration, shortness of breath, asthmatic constriction and oppression of chest, worse at night or in morning, or in bed in evening, when lying down as well as when going up an ascent, or when walking or after dinner, and often with choking, anxiety, pressure in epigastrium, humming in ears, quick pulse and sweat. (The wind catches her on going out into open air and takes away her breath. Hay asthma. ***R.T.C.). During the attacks of asthma all tight clothing round the hypochondria is insupportable. Slow and wheezing respiration, sometimes alternately with quick breathing. Breath fetid or of an acid smell. Want to take a full inspiration. Pain as from constriction, and cramp-like contraction in chest. Heavy, pressing pain in chest, as from a heavy load. Tensive pressure in chest, as from a weigh, worse at night and in open air, and often with difficult respiration. Dyspnoea, asthma from spasmodic constriction of lower thorax. Shootings in chest and in sides, worse by breathing and by movement in thorax. Sensation as if something were torn loose in chest. Heat and burning in chest (with congestion to it), sometimes at night, with agitation, anxiety, and sleeplessness. Pain, as of a bruise, in chest, often with shortness of breath, and principally in the sternum in the sternum and sides. Intercostal neuralgia, better when lying on well side. Pulsation in chest and sides.
Heart
Shootings, blows in region of heart. Anxious palpitation of the heart. Palpitation worse eating, from coffee, from protracted study, when lying down or in morning, sometimes with nausea, inclination to vomit, and sensation of heaviness in chest.
Neck and Back
Pulling pain as from a bruise, rigidity, and sensation of heaviness in nape of neck. Swelling of muscles of neck, with pain as if they were too short. Cervico-brachial neuralgia, neck stiff, worse in the morning or after eating, and from touch, _ Pains, like those of a bruise, in back and loins, with sensation of weakness in those parts, as after childbirth (also after difficult parturition). Pain as if bruised in the small of the back and back so violent that he cannot move. (Lumbago, especially with constipation and vesical weakness, stiffness across loins. Cannot turn in bed, right ***R.T.C.). Dreads to stoop for fear of back catching here. Sacral pains at night, which do not permit turning in bed. Wrenching pain (or tension between the shoulder-blades), or pain like that caused by a strain, in back and shoulder-blades. Back spasmodically curved like an arch. Jerks like electric shocks up spinal column, which raised up body, respiration checked. Rheumatic, drawing, and burning pains in back, sometimes in evening. Convulsions in back, with throwing back of head. Burning, pressing, and stitches between the shoulder-blades. Shootings and constrictive pains between shoulder-blades.
Limbs
Bruised pain in limbs and joints, worse in morning in bed, better or rising. Spasmodic pain in joints after yawning and stretching, with chilliness and internal beating. Trembling of limbs and jerking of heart. Great weariness and relaxation in all limbs after taking open air. Chilliness of back and limbs in morning, with pain of skin as from freezing cold, and falling asleep of limbs. Sensation of sudden loss of power in extremities in morning. Falling asleep of arms, hands, and soles of feet.
Upper Limbs
Rheumatic pains, with sensation of weakness in shoulders and arms. Soreness in shoulder-joint. Drawing in the arms, extending from the shoulder to the fingers, with sensation as if the arm were asleep, loss of motion of the arm, especially at night. Sluggishness, heaviness, weariness, and feebleness of arms. Paralysis of arm, with insensibility, and sensation as of ebullition of blood (as if the blood would start out of the veins). Pulling in arms, with sensation of torpor and immobility, worse at night. Itching miliary eruption on arms. Swelling of muscles of forearms, with pain as if they had been burned. Numbness and torpor of forearms in morning. Wrenching pain in wrists. Paralytic weakness of hand. Tendency of hands and fingers to be benumbed. Cold, sweaty hands, with cold nose. Hands cold and chilly. Profuse, and sometimes cold, sweat on palms. Heat in palms. Swelling of veins in arms and hands. Pale swelling of hands and fingers. Cramp-like contraction of hands and fingers, with pain, as if tendons were too short, principally during the shiverings, or after midnight. Hot and painful swelling of thumb, which becomes an abscess at the joint. Redness and burning itching in fingers, as with chilblains.
Lower Limbs
Pimples, with gnawing itching on buttocks. Shootings, wrenching pain, and jerking in coxofemoral joint. Sharp and shooting pains in thighs, with torpor and paralytic weakness, worse by movement and touch. Pain in thighs as if broken. Miliaria, with burning itching, and furunculi on thighs and knees. Coldness or sweating of thighs at night. Great heaviness, tottering, weakness, and tottering of legs, with yielding of knees, and inability to walk or stand alone. A child falls easily when walking. Rigidity and tension in hams, as if tendons too short, principally on rising from a seat. Sensation of dryness in knee-joint, with cracking on moving it. Painful swelling of knee, with gouty nodosities. Tendency of (lower) legs to become numb and dead. Paralysis, coldness, and insensibility of legs. Tensive pain and cramps in calves, worse at night, or in evening, or after midnight, or in morning in bed. Sensation of paralysis of legs, with sensation of a painful stripe down on inside of thigh. Cramps in feet and toes. Red swelling of leg, with black, painful spots. Facility of dislocation of instep. Swelling in back of feet. Feet readily become numb (dead). When he walks he drags the feet, he cannot lift them up. Contraction of toes. Burning itching in toes, as from chilblains.
Generalities
Shooting, shaking pains, or jerking, tearing, and drawing pains, with sensation of torpor and of paralytic weakness in parts affected. Complaints in back, small of back, lumbago, rheumatism, etc., where patient cannot turn over, something seeming to be in the back which prevents turning over, strong aversion to open air, can’t turn over if air is let in under bedclothes, also makes him chilly. Pains which are felt to be so insupportable that patient would prefer death to the suffering. Affections in general of knee-joint. Pains in limbs and joints as if they had been bruised, chiefly while in bed in morning, and during or after movement. Tension and rigidity, numbness and torpor, heaviness, lassitude, and paralysis of limbs. Trembling of the limbs. Palpitation of muscles, or sensation as if something were moving in them. Immobility of joints. Cramp-like contractions of several parts. Spasms which the patient compares to electric shocks. Feeling of electric shocks after each dose. Affections in general of anus and rectum. Attacks of convulsions, cramps, tetanus, and other spasms, sometimes with cries, throwing back of head, trembling of limbs, involuntary evacuation of feces and emission of urine, vomiting, profuse sweat, thirst, and rattling respiration. Affections of bladder in general. Every distressing emotion brings a recurrence of the epileptic fits. The attacks of chorea are followed by sensation of torpor and numbness in parts affected. Attacks of uneasiness, principally after dinner, in evening, or at night, and sometimes with nausea, which ascends from pit of stomach, anxiety, weakness, and trembling of limbs, transient heat and paleness of face, tinkling in ears, pains in pit of stomach, tingling in feet and hands, and necessity to lie down. Affections in general of right hypochondrium, right abdominal ring, right side of sexual organs, right side generally, *left side of chest. R. abdominal ring where there is protruding hernia. Fainting fits after least exertion, principally after walking in open air, and sometimes with vertigo, stunning, sparkling, blackness before eyes and ebullition of blood. Bleeding in inner parts, especially if the blood be dark. Great lassitude and fatigue, even in morning on walking, or after getting up, and great exhaustion after shortest walk in open air. Rapid and general prostration of strength, and great weakness of muscles, with staggering gait and prostration. Excitability of whole nervous system, with too great sensitiveness of all the organs, principally those of sight and hearing. Affections in general of larynx, trachea, gums, inner mouth, palate, gullet, right side of face, forehead. Excessive sensitiveness and repugnance to the open air, and to a current of air, with great tendency to take cold. Heaviness of body, indolence and dread of every movement, with great desire to remain lying down or sitting, positions in which almost all the pains are better. The sufferings which have appeared during repose in a room are better by walking in the open air, and vice versa. Coffee, wine, tobacco-smoke, meditation and watching, as well as windy weather, also provoke or worse many of the sufferings. Patient generally feels worse on rising in morning or towards 8 or 9 p.m., as well as after dinner, and many sufferings recur regularly at one or other of these periods. Fainting fits, may faint after every labor pain, or patient may have vomiting spells, and faint away after each attack, in diarrhoea may faint after every stool. Emaciation of body. worse Waking at 4 a.m., after midnight, from mental affections, from anger, anger with anxiety, with vehemence, in open air, before breakfast, suppressed catarrh, in cold air, dry weather, while coughing (sometimes shocks are felt in pit of the stomach with every cough), from drinking, in drunkards, after eating (too much), from exertion of mind, from shaking head, also from uncovering it, after intoxication, lying on back, after menstruation, from narcotic medicine, from noise, brandy, coffee, cold food, cold water, wine, involuntary pollutions, pressure of clothes, derangement of the stomach, after stool, before urinating, while walking in open air, in clear, fine weather, in wind, when yawning. On waking in night. better: Head symptoms better from having head wrapped up or covered, lying down, lying on side, from loosening garments, in room, from warmth in general or hot things, on getting warm and on getting warm in bed, in damp and wet weather, after discharging wind, while lying in bed.
