Causation
Over-lifting or over-straining (prolapsus uteri). Summer (diarrhoea).
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Conscious during chill, but cannot talk, forgets words. Delirium, loquacious during heat, forgetful after of what has passed. Depression: imagines he is going to die or be very ill, in gastric affections. Disgust for life, headache, biliary disorders. Over-fatigue of mind from business, when in bed he rolled his head on waking and while awake.
Head
Vertigo: while standing, in open air, with tendency to fall forward, with sensation of fulness over eyes, from gastric or bilious disorders. Momentary darts of pain in forehead, obliging one to shut eyes. Stunning headache through temples, better by pressure. Sudden pain in forehead, with soreness of throat, evening. Pressing in temples, forenoon, with drawing in eyes as if strabismus would follow. Throbbing in temples, aching eyes, hot tears, in morning. After stool, 10 a.m.: Frontal headache with feverishness, sensation of great dryness in forehead and eyes, better for short time by bathing with cold water. Sick headache accompanied by constipation. Headache alternating with diarrhoea. Bilious headache, burning at vertex and over forehead, pain lasts twenty-four hours, ends in vomiting, pale urine during attack, passes much bile next day, worse from over-excitement or walking. Morning headache with flushed face and heat in vertex. Dull headache with pain behind eyes, liver torpid. Pain in vertex on, rising in morning. Sick headache most in occiput, preceded by blur before vision, coming suddenly. Head hot, rolling head from side to side, dentition. Reflex irritation of brain from
disorders of bowels, grinding teeth at night, morning in sleep, eyes half-closed, head sweaty.
Eyes
Inflammation of eyes with excruciating, heavy pain, great turgescence of vessels. Superficial ulceration of each cornea with general congestion of conjunctivae, ulceration central and extensive, in right eye its base was densely white, as if lead had been used (after ten days, from the dust while grinding the root). Eyes inflamed in morning. Left eye sore. (Arcus senilis lessens and a dribbling of saliva ceases in an old man. ***R. T. C.) Eyes glazed and motionless (from ripe fruit). Eyes sunken. Heaviness of eyes with occasional pains at vertex. Smarting, inflammation of lids. Pain in eyeballs and temples, with heat and throbbing of temporal arteries. Drawing in eyes as if squint would follow. Scrofulous ophthalmia worse in morning. (Cataract has been known to clear after Podophyllum given internally. ***R. T. C.).
Ears
Aching pain in right ear, with rough feeling extending from there along right Eustachian tube.
Nose
Nose pinched. Soreness and little pimples on nose.
Face
Corpse-like pallor. Complexion sallow, dingy. Hot, flushed cheeks. Under jaw fallen.
Mouth
Total loss of taste, could not tell sweet from sour, sleepless, restless. Everything tastes sour or putrid, sweet. Taste of fried liver in mouth at night. Bad taste after other symptoms had disappeared. Feeling as if tongue, and sometimes palate and throat, had been burned. Tongue, furred white with foul taste, white, moist, shows imprints of teeth, dry, yellow, full and broad with pasty coat in center, red, not bright red, rough with uniformly erect papillae, dull bluish colour, red, dry, cracked, somewhat swollen and often bleeding. Offensive breath, at night, perceptible to patient. Copious salivation. (Dribbling of saliva in an old epileptic case ceases. ***R. T. C.) Much viscid mucus in mouth (morning). Mouth and tongue dry on awaking. Nursing sore mouth, canker.
Teeth
Great desire to press gums together, jaws clenched, grinds teeth at night, difficult dentition. During dentition, catarrhal cough, catarrh of chest, cholera infantum, hydrocephaloid. Teeth covered with dried mucus in morning.
Throat
Dryness of throat. Burning in throat (from the ripe fruit). Soreness of throat extending to ears, right to left., left side sore, worse swallowing liquids, morning. Rattling of mucus in throat. Goitre. Dry, rough feeling in pharynx and oesophagus, extending along right Eustachian tube with aching pain in right ear.
Appetite
Indifference to food, loss of appetite, smell of food causes loathing. Satiety from small quantity of food, followed by nausea and vomiting. Appetite variable, at times voracious. Great thirst for (cold water in) large quantities, moderate thirst during fever. Increased thirst after eating. Desire for something sour. Thirst towards evening. After eating: regurgitation of food, sour, hot, sour belching, diarrhoea, vomits food an hour after, craving appetite afterwards, depression of spirits. After eating and drinking: diarrhoea. After acid fruit and milk: diarrhoea.
Stomach
Heartburn, water brash, heat in stomach. Eructations: smelling like rotten eggs, hot, sour. Nausea: distressing and extreme, with attempts to vomit, motion of gagging is made with mouth but not accompanied with retching, stomach contracts so hard and rapidly that the wrenching pain causes patient to utter sharp screams, gagging or empty retching. Gagging in infantile diarrhoea. Nausea and vomiting with fulness of head. Vomiting: of milk in infants, with protrusion of anus, of food with putrid taste and odour, of thick bile and blood, of hot, frothy mucus, with congestion of pelvic viscera during pregnancy. Acidity in afternoon with unpleasant, sickly sensation in stomach. Tender over stomach and bowels, worse least touch or motion. Hollow, empty, weak, sinking feeling at epigastrium, without hunger. Stitches in epigastrium from coughing. Dyspepsia from calomel, aching behind eyes, clayey stools. Gastric catarrh. Awakened by violent pains in stomach and bowels. After breakfast and dinner burning in stomach as if caused by hot steam. Heat in stomach. Cold water worse, it causes oppression and uneasiness, small quantities of it were ejected, tasting bitter and causing much burning in oesophagus.
Abdomen
Acute burning in region of pyloric orifice, with violent retching and vomiting of bile and belching of wind, constipation, after attacks, prostration, slight jaundice and persistent tenderness to touch in one spot corresponding to entrance of common bile duct into duodenum. Fulness in right hypochondrium, with flatulence, pain, and soreness. Twisting in right hypochondrium with burning. Stitches in hypochondria, worse while eating. Pain in region of liver with inclination to rub the part with the hand. Excessive secretion of bile, great irritability of liver. Hepatitis with costiveness, tenderness and pain in region of liver. Gall-stones and jaundice. Biliousness, nausea and giddiness, bitter taste and risings, tendency to bilious vomiting and purging, dark urine. Abdomen swelled almost to bursting (fruit). Flatulence. Abdominal plethora: bloated feeling, soreness, uneasiness, better after stool, causing uterine troubles. Rumbling. Colic. Awakened by violent pains in stomach and bowels, griping, stitching, better for short time by pressure, 3 a.m. (first night). Pain in transverse colon, 3 a.m., followed by diarrhoea. Pain in limbs at daylight, better by external warmth and bending forward while lying on side, worse lying in back. Heat in bowels with inclination to stool. Woke 2 a.m. with stitches in bowels and desire to go to stool, better flexing things or abdomen. Symptoms generally, and especially abdominal symptoms, worse morning, better in evening. Tenderness over hypogastrium. Pain extended into lower bowels and right ovary.
Stool and Anus
Emission of fetid flatus. Morning diarrhoea, then no more stools during day. Diarrhoea early in morning, continuing through forenoon, followed by natural stool in evening. Diarrhoea immediately after eating and drinking. Stools in morning, with strong urgings in bowels and heat and pain in anus. Small, frequent, bilious stools with tenesmus. Diarrhoea, yellow stools, one every hour for five hours. Stools of pure blood (produced. ***R.T.C.). Infantile dysentery (cured. ***R.T.C.). Dysenteric diarrhoea. Stools: thin, watery, green,, muco-gelatinous with pain in sacrum, 4 a.m., yellow, undigested faeces, mixed with mucus, offensive, with violent tenesmus, burning, acrid, causing much bearing down during and after stool, with gagging and excessive thirst in children, gushing, watery, profuse, green, with sudden urging, often painless, offensive, worse in hot weather, pasty, yellow, watery, with meal-like sediment, smelling like carrion, mucous and blood-streaked, black, only in morning, tar-like, changing colour. Stool with much pain and deadly nausea. Diarrhoea and constipation alternating every day or two, for several days after the most prominent symptoms had disappeared. Diarrhoea with great sinking at epigastrium, sensation as if everything would drop through pelvis, prolapsus ani. Small stools, yellow, watery, coming after meals with sick feeling, in pregnancy. Diarrhoea from indigestion after eating canned fruit. Before stool: intense nausea, sudden urging, loud gurgling as of water, rumbling in left side, violent colic or absence of pain, prolapsus ani. During stool: urging in bowels,
