Mind
Nymphomania with aversion to her own sex, the touch of a woman’s hand caused weariness, disgust, and fury. Capricious mania, stupefaction with sadness and tears, alternating with hopefulness. Excitement of brain, sense of intoxication of waking, at dinner, though she only drank water. Sadness, irrepressible tears, melancholy, and numbness. Fatigue of mind and body, loss of memory, effort to pursue a train of thought causes confusion of head. Aversion to children, especially to girls (in a woman). Want of spirit, it seems to her as if she were dead, as if she could not bestir herself to drive away the flies that settle on her face. Great anguish, with fear of death, which is believed to be so near that the patient desires religious consolations.
Head
Head, bewildered on awakening in morning, with dull pain (pressure) in forehead. Vertigo: with dim sight, in evening, head feels tightly bandaged. Headache, waking him from sleep, 3 to 4 a.m. Headache after dinner. At 11 a.m. violent rush of blood to head and chest, causing cough, preceded by burning. Headache, pressure on eyes from without inward, extending to behind ear. When writing feels a shock in brain, when sitting down suddenly, sensation in ears as when drowsy. Headache and confusion in forehead and vertex in morning succeeded by flushes which end in coolness of whole surface. Severe headache in temple, eyes, and root of nose. Brain feels tender and sore from least jar. Violent pain in forehead. Aching in (skin of) forehead, sometimes throughout night, or with confusion in head, Aching (pressure) above eyes, with obscuration of sight, which disappears after a fit of vomiting. Aching above root of nose. Lancinating pains in vertex. Tightness in skin of vertex. Dull pain in occiput, better by throwing head back. Gnawing in occiput followed by numbness. Sweat on head, after rising.
Eyes
Blue rings round eyes. Eyes deeply sunken. Redness of eyes. Oedema of lower lid, pupils slightly dilated. Pricking in eyes, heat when shutting them, coldness when opening them. Itching of left eye with deep stitches. Coldness in left eye. Eyes filled with blood, sight lost. Sight stronger, and longer in a myopic patient. Congestion with dim vision on awaking. Pressure above eyes, with loss of vision, better after vomiting.
Ears
In left ear tearings and shootings, which seem to be in the bone. Lancinations in right ear. Loss of sight and hearing just before vomiting, followed by vomiting with great effort. Itching in concha of left ear, which is painful to the touch.
Nose
Nose pointed. Epistaxis of deep red blood, better head. Dull pain in root of nose extending to occiput. Pressure, as from a weight, on back of nose. Breath feels burning hot in nose. Smell as of bad oil burning, seems to come from interior of head or root of nose, where is a gnawing sensation as from a sore place. Stoppage of nose. Smell of horse-radish. Frequent sneezing, or at least frequent want to sneeze.
Face
Face, red, sombre. Cheeks burn, are red, whole head and face red. Face disfigured, with pointed nose and yellow cheeks, or else with hollow eyes and livid complexion, so that the patient becomes alarmed at his own looks. Face pale, with expression of anxiety, great feebleness, and much suffering. Yellow complexion, especially in morning, on rising. Tearing in left malar bone, and zygoma. Gland of lower jaw hard and swollen.
Teeth
Lancinating toothache in (1.) molars. Incisors become loose, gums ulcerated. Gnawing pains in teeth and gums, teeth feel as if made of papier mache. Abscess on gums. Gums turn black. Gums feel as if separated, painful, inflamed, ulcerated. Toothache worse during pregnancy, evening, lying down, better walking about.
Mouth
Tongue: white, covered with a thick white coating. Tongue pale and bluish red, with a deep furrow, and minute pale red spots in the center (when the improvement commences). Heat at root of tongue. Frequent burning in fore part of tongue. Must keep mouth open to breathe, air entering causes pain, burns as if everything was alive, uvula swollen and red, tongue rather white, red on edge.
Throat
Heat and burning in throat, at times, chiefly in tonsils, with lancinations. Swelling, redness and pain in tonsils, as if raw. Accumulation of mucus in throat, as in bronchial catarrh, copious expectoration of white and very viscid mucus, which becomes detached from gullet and oesophagus in morning, after heavy sleep, with pain of excoriation in throat.
Appetite.
Taste: of horse-radish, mawkish, bitter, very disagreeable, of pepper. Voracious appetite, after eating feels smaller and less tight than before. After dinner hollow, empty sensation, her stays feel too large. Appetite, without hunger, 4 a.m. in bed. Anorexia. Repugnance to food. Repugnance to tobacco (in the case of one habituated to its use). During the anorexia, longing for boiled milk. Violent and constant thirst. Drank much more than he wanted. Everything swallowed causes pains in back. Burning in oesophagus and chest.
Stomach
Frequent eructations of air from stomach, having a putrid taste. Burning in epigastrium followed by hot eructations lasting whole day and ending with a headache (from eating a single radish). Fits of nausea, as if about to faint, of such a kind that the patient is obliged to sit upright, being unable to lie down, although extremely weak. Relaxation of stomach. Inclination to vomit, frequent, sometimes momentary, with loss of sight and hearing, or with obscuration of sight, and dulness of hearing, with regurgitation of water and of mucus, which is sometimes streaked with blood, when coughing, with pressure on chest, and regurgitation of acid, colourless mucus. Vomiting: violent, of food, of food, mingled with white mucus, sometimes with extreme nausea, great pressure on chest, and coldness, of mucus and of bile, at first of a green and very bitter liquid, afterwards of clear water, each time before vomiting, shuddering over back and arms, heaving of the chest and coldness. Black vomit. Vomiting of faecal matter. Pains in stomach, which urge continual eating. Great pressure in stomach, and pit of stomach, lancinations and pricking in those parts.
Abdomen
In hepatic region, lancinations, or else aching, with pain of excoriation. Violent pain in right lobe of liver, like tightness. Pinchings in abdomen, especially in umbilical region, sometimes with shootings, and pressure at right of navel. Violent cuttings and lancinations in umbilical region, especially on right side, after breakfast. Sensation of heat in abdomen, especially in umbilical region. Burning below navel. Inflation and fullness of abdomen, followed by pinching, as if preceding a stool. Borborygmi in abdomen, especially at night, or else when about to vomit. Emission of wind upwards and downwards, with odor of the medicament, especially after drinking water. No emission of wind takes place for a long time, either upwards or downwards (characteristic). Abdomen greatly swollen, very hard, painful to pressure, especially hypogastrium, it seems she will choke with the swelling. Great swelling of abdomen commencing at stomach. In morning woke with cramping, sore pains in hypogastrium, distension and great tenderness, could not bear the clothes to touch her, no worse before nor better after stool, pains constant, but much worse on motion, bowels sore and tender from least jar in walking. Pains from incarcerated flatus, coming in paroxysms, colon and other intestines project in little tympanitic tumours all over abdomen, which is flaccid in interval, diarrhoea of yellow-brown fluid, with no passage of flatus by mouth or anus for a long time (22 days after ovariotomy). When she leans on her side, loins immediately better, but at same time a pressing pain in lower bowels and sensation as of a round body, impelled from beneath, rises suddenly and stops in throat, where it feels like a morsel too large to be swallowed, thence it seemed to descend into stomach, where it causes a sensation of something hard to digest and left an empty sensation with hunger and lancinations in lower abdomen, each lancination causes flushing as if blood rushed to eyes, eyes burn, dizziness, ebullition of blood throughout body, cold feet with pricking, sensation as if she had put her cold feet into very hot water, then great heat. Pain in hypogastrium and kidneys as before menstruation, lassitude in groins and top of thighs, pain with heat in sides almost with every breath. Feeling in hypogastrium as if a hernia would protrude. Heat in lower abdomen, worse left.
Stool
Frequent want to go to stool, especially at noon. Frequent, liquid and copious evacuations, sometimes ejected violently, of a yellowish brown, or else, brown and frothy (characteristic). Chronic diarrhoea, green, liquid, mingled with mucus and blood. Loose stools of undigested substances. Nine stools, mostly in morning, yellowish-brown liquid, rather copious. Hard stool. No stool. Constipation, bloating of abdomen, no emission of gas up or down, prompt satiety when eating, sedentary life.
