Causation
Chill. Tobacco.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Sadness and discouragement.- Agitation and anxiety, with restless care concerning the future.- Timidity.- Afraid of pointed things, pins, &c.- Sits as if lost in thought, stares at a single point. Moroseness, to the extent of suicidal mania.- Great dejection in evening, he could have killed himself (with chilliness of body).- Weakness of memory.- Absence of ideas.- Difficulty of thinking.- Unfitness for intellectual labour.
Head
Head confused, as from intoxication or dizziness.- Giddiness when looking downwards.-Vertigo, to such an extent as to fall down when walking, standing, or looking down.- Vertigo, with nausea.- Headache, on shaking head, with vertigo, and sensation of heaviness.-Neuralgic pains flying from one part to another.- Headache beginning in cerebellum, morning, spreading over left side of head, causing violent and pulsating pain in left temple
and over left eye, with stitches in left eye, returning periodically. Painfulness of cerebellum with stiffness of neck.- Stitches in left side of head and out of left eye.- Headache like a heaviness, on drawing the facial muscles it seems as though the skull would burst upward and asunder.-Fine burrowing-tearing pains in brain, especially violent in left parietal bone, worse on false step.- Sharp shaking just behind and above right frontal eminence.-Pressive pain in right side of head involving right eye, morning in bed, worse after rising, pain deeply seated, unaffected by pressure, very acute on motion, on suddenly turning head brain seemed loose, worse every jar, step, even straining at stool.- Stitches like electric sparks in head.- Pains in head worse by slightest movement, by least noise, and by opening mouth.- Headaches are worse from least noise, better when lying with head high, and from washing head with cold water.- Painful tenderness of the occiput, with sensation of numbness and stiffness in nape of neck.-Periodical headaches.-Pressing asunder in head, especially in right temple, worse from motion and opening mouth, better while at rest.- Pressure in head, compressive or expansive, worse by stooping.- Sensation of a tight band around head.-Pain, as if head about to burst, when coughing and speaking loud. Tearing, digging, or boring headache from within to without, in forehead, vertex, or cerebellum, worse during movement.- Sensation of soreness in forehead and vertex.- Tearing in forehead in paroxysms, with fixed ideas.- Pulsative lancinations in forehead, with noise as of hammering before the ears.- Commotions and blows in head, while walking in open air.- Shaking in brain at every step, and at every movement of head.- Burning pain in exterior of forehead and temples as far as eyes.- Tension in scalp.-Painful tenderness of scalp when touched, worse when moving the scalp.- Head feels too large.
Eyes
Neuralgia of eyes, especially where there is great soreness, and can scarcely bear a touch, affections of the eyeball, eyelids, optic nerve, dilated pupils, ocular illusions _ sees strange things, fiery, luminous rays, sparks, &c.- On shutting eyes a sea of fire appears.- Illusion as if hairs or feathers on lashes, worse on moving them.- Impending amaurosis.- Pains in eyes, deeply seated in sockets.- Aching (pressure) in the eyeballs, especially when turning them.-Pains in the eyes during movement, as if eyeballs were too large.- Digging, boring, and shootings in eyes, penetrating into head, sometimes with pain, which drives to despair. Pains as if needles thrust into right eyeball.-Movement of eyes and muscles of face worse the pains.- Tingling in eyes.- Itching in right eyeball, returning after rubbing.- Dry heat and burning sensation in eyes. Which forces them to close.- Redness of sclerotica, with injection of blood vessels.- Inflammation of eyes and of cornea.- Inflammation and ulceration of lids, with smarting pain as from excoriation.-Eyes confused and dull.- Profuse lachrymation.- Acrid, smarting tears.- Great sensitiveness of eyes to light. Hanging down of lids as from paralysis.- Sensation as of a hard substance under right upper lid, better by rubbing.- Violent burrowing stitch in middle of eye and in inner canthus that does not prevent vision, but presses upper lid down. Upper lids feel hard and immovable.- Pain as if left orbit were pressed from above downward.-Tendency to wink.- Weakness of eyes, in whatever direction they are turned they remain.-Difficulty in raising the eyelids, with painful sensation of stiffness. Contraction and involuntary movement of eyes.- Squint, convergent. “A dose of *Spigel. always produced squint in us when children” (American lady’s testimony.- R.T.C.). -Strabismus whether from worms or not (Macfarlan).-Pupils dilated.-Loss (momentary suspension) of sight. Presbyopia.
Ears
Earache with an ichorous, scalding discharge, hearing very sensitive, noise in the ear as of something fluttering.- Pain in margin of left concha.- Drawing in left antetragus.-Itching in right concha.-Pressive pains in right ear.-Otalgia, with pressive, troublesome pain, as if there were a plug in ear.- Jerking tearing in ears.-Squeezing, itching, and burning sensation in external ear.- Itching in right vesicle.- Stoppage of ears, with or without dysecoia. Periodical deafness.- Sensation of distant ringing in ears, with sensation as if the ear were loosely stopped or a thick mist were in front of it.- Roaring, buzzing, and pulsation in ears.- Noise of hammering before ears.
Nose
Itching in nose, with tickling.- Tickling on back of nose, as if lightly touched by hairs, or as if a gentle wind were blowing across it.- Tingling, shooting, boring, smarting and itching in nose.- Herpetic eruption on nose with pain, as from excoriation.- Stoppage and dryness of anterior nose, with copious discharge of whitish and yellowish mucus from posterior nares.-Frequent sneezing, discharge of bloody mucus.- Mucus at one time white, at another time yellow, is discharged from nose, at same time much mucus is discharged from mouth.- Fluent coryza, which recurs frequently, especially after slightest chill.
Face
Face pale and wan, with yellow circles round eyes.-Redness of face, perspiration on face.- Cheeks and lips at one time a deep red, at another time pale.- Burning in right side of upper lip.- Bloatedness of face, especially after sleeping.-Facial muscles seem distorted and swollen, morning on rising.-Prosopalgia (mostly left sided).- Jerking tearings, burning sensation, and aching in region of zygomatic process, or violent pains, which cannot bear the slightest touch or least movement, with shining swelling of side affected.- Periodical neuralgia, from morning until sunset, worse at noon, worse from motion or noise.-Semi lateral pains in face, with praecordial anxiety and great agitation.-Exostosis of the temporal part of the orbit.-Lips tense and burning.- Small blackish pimples on upper lip.-Pressive pain in angle of lower jaw, as if in the jaw or in the teeth, proceeding from the ear.- Tearing in lower jaw, radiating to ear and about it as far as nape, could not move head without pain.- Pain as if right side of lower jaw would be torn out of its joint, only when chewing.
Teeth
Toothache (in evening) after customary smoke in evening.- Toothache better by tobacco smoke.- Pain, like pressing asunder, in the teeth, immediately after a meal, or at night, which does not permit continued lying down,- Toothache so that he was unable to sleep at night, it drove him out of bed, not during day, except just *after eating, not *while eating.- Toothache better by warmth of bed. Toothache like a pressure outward, worse lying on right side.-Jerking toothache, or with pulsative tearings, especially in carious teeth, worse by cold water after eating or by contact with the open air, better whilst eating and when lying down.-Toothache with prosopalgia, paleness and bloatedness of face, yellowish circles round eyes, palpitation of heart, shivering and agitation.
Mouth
Offensive exhalation from the mouth, noticed only by others.- (Stinging) lancinating dryness in mouth on waking in morning.- Much white, frothy saliva in mouth. White or yellow mucus in mouth and palate.- Tongue cracked.- Vesicles, with burning pain, on tongue and palate.- Took away the pain of cancer of tongue (Bayes, ***H. W., xviii. 3).
Throat
Sore throat, with lancinations and swelling in palate.- Discharge of mucus from fauces all day, most from posterior nares.- Cervical glands swollen.
Appetite
Putrid, fetid taste.- Anorexia, with violent thirst.-Repugnance to tobacco-smoke and snuff.- Dislike to coffee.- Bulimy, sometimes with nausea and thirst.
Stomach
Risings after every meal.- Sour risings.- Nausea (in the morning) when fasting, with a sensation as if something were ascending from stomach into throat.- Accumulation of mucus in the stomach.- Pressure in stomach and scrobiculus as from a heavy body (as from a hard lump).-Lancinations in pit of stomach and diaphragm, sometimes with obstructed respiration. Dull- stitches in pit of stomach, worse from inspiration, with oppression of the chest.- Inability to bear tight clothing round scrobiculus, the least contact causes anguish, with redness and heat of face, and sensation as if something were torn away in chest.
