Teeth
Grinding of the teeth. Pulsative toothache, as if the teeth were going to fall out.
Mouth
Dryness of mouth (dry fauces and dry, sticky lips). Dribbling of glairy saliva from mouth. Copious salivation. Saliva decreased. Sanguineous froth before mouth. Haemoptysis. Tongue swollen and paralysed. Tongue felt stiff, dry, and parched to the very root, as if edges rolled up as hard and dry as leather. Tongue paralysed, trembles when put out. Imperfect speaking and stammering (with distortion of face). Continued murmurs. Complete loss of speech. A trembling tongue.
Throat
Spasmodic constriction of throat. Impeded deglutition, with shootings in throat, or pressure in submaxillary glands. Deglutition obstructed, sometimes by dryness in throat. Dryness of throat and fauces not better by any sort of drink. Paralysis of pharynx and oesophagus. Contracting, tearing in throat, sensation as if a ball were lodged in throat. Twitching of pomum Adami, up and down movement as in swallowing (R.T.C.). Spasm of oesophagus.
Appetite
Loss of taste. Food tastes only of sand, or straw (or has no taste at all). Violent thirst (for large quantities, drinking with avidity). Violent thirst, especially for acid drinks. Constant bitterness in mouth, with bitter taste of food. Burning thirst, generally with dread of water and all liquids.
Stomach
Risings, with sour taste. Nausea. Watery vomiting with colic and diarrhoea. Vomiting of mucus, which is greenish, or of a sour smell. Vomiting of green bile after slight exercise. Convulsive hiccough. Pain in stomach, with smarting or pressive sensation. Anxietas precordium, with obstructed respiration. (Inflammation of stomach). Diaphragmitis, delirium, burning along diaphragm, short-breathed, spasms, struggles against the water offered.
Abdomen
Abdomen painful when touched. Abdomen distended, not hard. Abdomen inflated, hard, distended. Contusive pain in abdomen during movement. Violent pains in abdomen, as if navel were being torn out. Hysterical spasms in abdomen. Swelling of inguinal glands. Borborygmi and fermentation in abdomen. Expulsion of much flatus.
Stool & Anus
Constipation (unsuccessful urging to go to stool.) Tenesmus. Fetid faeces (painless) of a corpse-like smell. Diarrhoea, with pain and borborygmi in the abdomen. Discharge of coagulated blood from anus. Suppression of both stool and urine. (Stools passed unconsciously and very frequently loose, with mental derangement. R.T.C.).
Urinary Organs
Suppression of secretion of urine (in typhus). Emission of urine, drop by drop, with frequent want to urinate. Involuntary emission of urine. Urine: profuse flow, sudden, and burning.
Male Sexual Organs
Lasciviousness (exalted sexual desire in both sexes). Constant uncovering of genitals, indecent talk. Priapism. Scrotum oedematous. Testes retracted, penis erect as in chordee. Onanism, causing epilepsy. Impotence.
Female Sexual Organs
Nymphomania. Increased catamenia, with discharge of large masses of coagulated black blood. (Menses too profuse and attended with headaches. R.T.C.) Increased sexual desire. Metrorrhagia (with characteristic mental symptoms). Eclampsia. During catamenia, fetid smell from body, great loquacity, drawing pains in abdomen and thighs. Sobs and moaning after catamenia. Too profuse secretion of milk in nursing women. During pregnancy: mania, face ache, is full of strange fancies. Cadaverous odour of lochia, she is full of strange fancies and visions.
Respiratory Organs
Voice: hoarse and croaking, high, fine, squeaking, indistinct. (Sudden aphonia in hysterical girl just recovering from chorea.
R.T.C.) Twitching of pomum Adami. Constrictions of larynx. Periodically returning attacks of painless, barking, spasmodic cough, in fine, shrieking tone, from constriction of larynx and chest, without expectoration. Voice loud and bawling. Want of breath. Difficult (hurried or) sighing respiration. Suffocating obstruction of respiration. Oppression with desire for open air. (Asthma continually recurring, with some gouty tendency: attacks worse at night. R.T.C.) Dyspnoea on waking up every morning, cold winds catch her breath, “can cough at any time” (much relief. R.T.C.).
Chest
Constrictive oppression on chest (with dyspnoea). Pressure on chest, worse by speaking. Sensation, as if something were turning over in chest. Spasm in pectoral muscles. Red rash on chest.
Heart and Pulse
Pressure about heart. Angina pectoris. For a week after single dose of felt as if heart beat insufficiently, and had a suffocating feeling in throat (R.T.C.). Palpitation. Pulse rapid, full, strong, irregular, hard, slow, small, frequent.
Back and neck
Neck stiff, cannot bend head backward. Pain in nape, from neck over head. Sensitiveness along spine. Pain as of a fracture in back, when moving. Drawing and tearing in the back and loins. Spine sensitive, slightest pressure causes outcries and ravings. Drawing pains in middle of spine, in sacrum. Opisthotonos (with distorted countenance).
Extremities
Twitching of hands and feet, of the tendons. Trembling of limbs, they fall asleep.
Upper Limbs
Convulsive movements of arms, above head. Convulsive movements of arms and hands, carphologia. Contractive pain in arm, with acute lancinations in forearm. Distortion of hands. Clenched fists. Cramps in hands. Trembling of hands. Numbness of fingers.
Lower Limbs
Coxalgia, left hip, violent, distracting pain when abscesses form. Pain in muscle of outer side of right hip. Morbus coxae, left Drawing pains in thighs. Jerking in legs, as from a shock, with retraction. Drawing pains in thighs. Bending of legs when walking (he falls over his own legs). Trembling of feet. Contractive cramps in feet.
Generalities
Face red and bloated. Cannot walk or keep on the feet in a darkened room, is sure to fall. Restlessness of the body, staggering when walking, pithy, numb feeling of outer parts. Complaints concomitant to morbid sleep. Worse during perspiration, after sleep, when first awakens from sleep will shrink away as if in fear, in the dark, in solitude. Better in company. The *Stramonium patient longs for light, if lying down, longs to sit up, and dislikes having head on pillow. Spasmodic, drawing, paralytic pains in muscles and joints of limbs. Contractive cramp in limbs. Tingling in the limbs. Sensation as if limbs were separated from body. Slow contraction and extension of limbs. Attacks of cramps of different kinds. Tetanus. Opisthotonos (the body is bent backwards with distorted countenance) Cramps, and other hysterical sufferings. Stiffness and contraction of several of the limbs. Attacks of cataleptic stiffness in body, with loss of consciousness, preceded by headache with vertigo. Easy movement, or great heaviness, of limbs. Involuntary motions, hydrophobia. Excessive aversion to liquids. Convulsions, which resemble St. Vitus’ dance. Convulsions (in children) with profuse perspiration followed by sleep. The movement of the muscles subject to the will is easier and increased. Convulsive jerking of limbs, with weeping. Convulsive movements and jerks, especially on touching, or fixing the eyes on brilliant objects (such as a candle, a mirror, or water), or else appearing periodically. Convulsions, as in epilepsy, but without loss of consciousness. Puerperal convulsions. Syncope, with stertorous breathing. Unconscious snoring, jaws hang down, hands and feet twitch, pupils dilated. Trembling of limbs (also in drunkards). Tottering of limbs, when walking, and when standing upright. Paralysis, sometimes after an attack of apoplexy. (General paralysis of insane. R.T.C.) Symptoms as from old age, sight becomes dim, has to use glasses, mind gets weak, cannot complete sentences, avoids people and suspects them, wakes with right arm over his head and cannot get it down again (produced. R.M. Theobald.) Weakness, with necessity to lie down. Suppression of all secretions and excretions. Painlessness with most all ailments. Movements hurried. Restlessness and nervousness beyond description. Whole body sensitive to touch and every movement aggravates.
Skin
Suppressed eruptions and the consequences thereof. Intense, bright, scarlet-red rash over whole body.
Sleep
Strong disposition to sleep by day. Deep sleep, with snoring, cries, and howling. Lies on back with open, staring eyes. Restless sleep, with tossing about, twitching, and screaming. (Restlessness of old age, she constantly wakes up those about her. R.T.C.) Comatose somnolency, with a ridiculously solemn expression of countenance on waking. (Boy wakes in a great fright from indefinable terrors, stammers and puffs on least excitement. R.T.C.) Agitated sleep, with vivid dreams. Frightful visions during sleep. Kneeling position in bed, and starting at least touch, with shrieks and wild gestures.
Fever
Coldness of whole body, especially of limbs, with shaking and shivering and general jerking. Coldness of hands and feet, with redness of face. General coldness in afternoon after previous heat of head and face, followed by general heat. During chill great sensitiveness to being uncovered. Chill running down back. Heat over whole body, with red face and perspiration. Profuse perspiration already during the heat with violent thirst. Greasy, oily, putrid-smelling perspiration. Cold perspiration. Intermittent fever. Chill over whole body without thirst, followed by heat and anguish, sleep during hot stage, and violent thirst after waking up, which causes a stinging in throat, until he drinks something. Heat, with anxiety, and redness of cheeks, or else with thirst and vomiting. At first, heat in head, then general coldness, followed by heat and thirst. Pulse very irregular, generally full, hard, and quick, or small and rapid, at times slow and scarcely perceptible, occasionally intermitting and trembling. Frequent profuse sweat. also at night. Retention of urine in any fever.
