Urinary Organs
Characterised from first by a very profuse flow of clear, or almost colourless urine, nearly colour of water. Three or four times normal quantity. When thinking of urinating I had to go at once. No sediment whatever. Pain in kidneys, hardest in right, with some tenderness. At expiration of every two or three hours after stopping the remedy there was an enormous flow of pale, straw-coloured urine, and with this would gradually disappear the metallic taste which was so well marked. Free urination, dark in colour, no distress. Urine scanty, and looked that of a child troubled with worms, light red-coloured stain on bottom of vessel. Awoke with a heavy pain in kidneys. Urine clear on passing, but becomes turbid on standing (third day). During day urine scanty, with considerable irritation as if muscles of bladder were contracting, better moving about.
Male Sexual Organs
From being naturally of a passionate nature, the desire and ability diminished to impotence. No sexual desire or ability. Bruised feeling in testicles, beginning in right and extending to left (after going to bed). Occasional pain of short duration, in glans. The pain in testicles becomes worse, with extension along spermatic cord and down thighs.
Female Sexual Organs
At left 1.30 p.m. pain in left ovary, like something grasping or holding tightly for about an hour, then disappeared.
Respiratory Organs
Slight accumulation of mucus in larynx, hard to cough it up. Short and quick breathing form the full feeling in abdomen. Hard breathing, as though lungs and bronchi were closing as the chill passes off. A dry cough, from any little exercise. A short cough, with tightness across chest.
Chest
Oppression in lungs at 9 p.m. A warm tingling sensation over left chest, just under skin.
Heart and Pulse
Palpitation after lying down at night, for 15 to 20 minutes. On going to bed, pain, like a wave over heart, worse lying down. Pulse 84, intermittent.
Neck
Pain and stiffness of muscles of back of neck. Numb, pithy or woody feeling about and in the spine (Gent.).
Limbs
Flesh on under side of limbs sore. Sore feeling of all the muscles of right side of body. All the pains come and go quickly, but the muscles remain sore and stiff. Frequent fine pains all over body until 3 p.m., when all disappeared and felt as well as usual. Loss of power to control movements of body or limbs (Gent.).
Upper Limbs
Stitching pain in right wrist for half an hour, leaving a tired feeling in joint. At 12.30, a sharp, cutting pain running from point of shoulder down front of chest to point of hip-bone, going suddenly. Flesh feels as though she had taken a heavy cold. Sharp Pain, with coldness, from left shoulder-joint extending down arm worse in shoulder-joint, better sleep, goes away gradually. Prickling sensation in left arm and hand.
Lower Limbs
Swaying, staggering gait (Gent.) Patellar. Reflex lost (Gent.) _ Stitching pain in right leg and knee-joint for half an hour, leaving a tired feeling in the joint. Hard pain in left big toe- joint. Pain inside of left leg from groin to knee.
Generalities
At 10 a.m. a very sick, exhausted feeling. Weakness and insecurity of all power of locomotion (Gent.). Feeling of intoxication with almost entire loss of vision (Gent.) _ Sense of touch greatly impaired (Gent.). Animals eating it become salves to it and can never be kept from it, they droop, loose flesh, stand with head hanging down, eyes half closed, suddenly will commence to kick violently at imaginary enemies, they are devoid of malice, but cannot be worked as they don’t know when to stop or when to start, or which way to turn, or how to change gait or meet changes in level of road.
Sleep
Dreams of a pleasant or lascivious character. Wakes often. On rising feels sad, weary, despondent. Twitching of muscles on falling asleep roused him (once, for three or four nights). Dreamed of spiders, bugs (first night), of swimming in water (second night), (not in the habit of dreaming).
Fever
Chill at 11.40 a.m., beginning in back and between shoulders, down over body to feet, stomach feels cold, pains all over body during chill, a peculiar sensation of crawling or contraction of abdominal muscles, hardest about navel, lasted about half an hour. As chill passes off a smarting in throat and a feeling as though lungs and bronchi would close up, making breathing very difficult, chill lasted until 2 p-m., when all disappeared. No thirst in either stage. For four weeks on every seventh day had a chill with all the above symptoms, coldness of spine was continuous for eight weeks, and was then removed by *Gelsemium
