BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS
Depressed and very anxious in the evening.
Anxiety, as if engaged in a lawsuit or quarrel exciting uneasiness.
Anxiety about his disease, with fear of death. Morbid fear of cholera.
Anxious about his illness: constantly thinks about past troubles.
Mind weak and wandering.
Hopeless despair.
Nervous, excitable, especially after abuse of Mercury.
Vexed at least trifle.
No disposition to work, to perform any serious business.
Great weakness of memory.
After continued loss of sleep, long-lasting anxiety-over- exertion of mind or body from nursing the sick [Compare Cocc.]- great anguish of mind from loss of dearest friend.
VERTIGO on rising in the morning: had to sit down.
Heaviness, obtusion, fullness in HEAD. HEAD as if surrounded with a tight bandage.
Sensation, “head in a vice from ear to ear over vertex.”
Painful tension inside head extending to eyes: with nausea.
Head very sensitive to pressure of hat: (<) evening, and part lain on. As if confused all over, or in spots. Right side skull painful.
Profuse falling out of hair: especially vertex: from congestion of blood to scalp: from syphilis: nervous headaches, debility, emaciation.
Double vision.
Stitches in EYES: smarting.
In morning difficult to open eyes and to raise upper eyelids. [Compare Sepia, Causticum.]
Ophthalmia: neonatorum: scrofulous: gonorrhoeal: syphilitic: from abuse of Potash and Mercury.
(Curious symptom, eyelashes of right side all point stiffly towards nose.)
Roaring in EARS. Cracking when chewing.
(Deafness: (>) riding in carriage or train [Compare Graphites]: with induration tonsils: after abuse of Mercury: syphilitic.)
Violent itching in NOSE. Nose bleed. (When eating small pieces of food get into posterior nares: are not got down till swallowed with saliva [Compare Gelsemium]
Nasal catarrh; acrid, watery at night, yellow, offensive; corroding: with swelling upper lip. With scarlet fever, diphtheria; or syphilitic.
(Ozaena: green casts every a.m. with ulcers; syphilitic, involving upper lip, which is swollen and honeycombed with ulcers.)
Ulceration of nostrils, scurfy; of inner nose with frequent bleedings.
Corners of MOUTH ulcerated and scabby: with sticking pain.
Cracking in articulation of jaw when chewing and eating.
Foul, cadaverous smell from mouth.
Ulcers, mouth, with sticking pain as from a splinter: within cheeks: edges of tongue; deep eating: at first lardaceous, later discolored, dark, dirty, putrid, destructive: syphilitic.
Mucous membrane gets between teeth easily bitten: swollen, ulcerated: with pricking pains: especially after abuse of Mercury; aphthous, covered with white or thin yellow-grey membrane.
Saliva; profuse; fetid, acrid, makes lips sore; bloody.
Swelling of parotid and submaxillary glands with loose teeth and bleeding gums, after abuse of Mercury.
Looseness of teeth when chewing. [Compare Mercurius]
Putrid smell from mouth.
Small painful pimples on sides of tongue.
THROAT. A morsel sticks in pharynx when eating, as if pharynx constricted.
Swallowing very difficult: distorts face and draws head down: cannot swallow even a teaspoonful of fluid: causes violent pain extending to ear.
Tonsils red, swollen, uneven with small ulcers; yellow streak; white patches.
Stinging pains in swollen throat.
Sticking, painful sore throat.
Longing for fat: herring: chalk: lime: earth. (Calcarea)
Bread disagrees.
Jaundice: pain, region of LIVER; urine scanty and strong- smelling.
Awakened at midnight with crampy pains in small intestines: chilly: pain worse if moved.
Stitches, region of liver.
Abundant flatulence: rumbling in abdomen.
Nausea after a MEAL. Sweat all over after a meal.
Eructations before and after a meal.
Constant desire for STOOL: unsuccessful. Colic, sometimes drawing, before stool.
Profuse discharge of blood during stool.
Burning of the varices of ANUS.
Itching of the rectum.
Burning: itching; of the anus. Moisture.
Sticking in rectum and spasmodic contraction in anus, during stool, lasts many hours.
With stool pain, as if something in rectum would be torn asunder.
Diarrhoea: great straining, but little passes: as if stayed in rectum and could not be expelled: with soreness and rawness of anus.
Constipation: painful, hard, difficult irregular stool: stool in hard masses: with every stool protrusion of haemorrhoids with profuse bleeding: great pain during and after stool, as though there were fissures of anus. Piles bearing down on standing.
Hemorrhoids: constant pressing out: painful or painless: prolapsing with every stool.
Needle-like stitches in orifice of URETHRA.
Ulcers in urethra: bloody mucous or purulent discharge.
SEXUAL ORGANS much affected: with small itching vesicles: ulcers exuding an offensive moisture: bleeding when touched: sharp stitches.
Condylomata: fetid: bleeding when touched: moist: resembling cauliflower: on thin pedicles: oozing: after abuse of Mercury.
Gonorrhoea: discharge yellowish or bloody: bloody mucus:- horrible pain. condylomata abut genitals and anus. [Thuja.]
Itching, swelling and burning.
Haemoptysis. COUGH: dry, barking; tickling in larynx and pit of stomach with complete ptosis of both eyes from coughing.
Chronic dry, laryngeal, with stinging smarting, as if small ulcers were in larynx, generally felt on one side.
Sputum seems to stick like glue: greenish-white casts as if from air cells: expectoration by day and dark blood mixed with coagula; or yellow, acrid pus of offensive odour. Pain low down in lungs as if something were tearing away.
HEART, fourth beat intermits: alternate hard, rapid, and small beats.
Want of breath, palpitation of heart and anguish when going upstairs. Sudden want of breath and palpitation when walking slowly. Panting breathing.
Stitches in and between scapulae.
Neuralgic pains up back, especially left side.
Herpes between fingers.
Paronychia (applied in its incipiency).
Drawing all limbs, stretching being very agreeable.
Stitches in all parts of the body: drawing pains in all parts of body, suddenly appearing and disappearing.
Tearing in bones of lower extremities, especially at night.
Syphilitic nodes upon shin bones, with severe nightly pains.
o WEAK: almost constantly obliged to lie down. Loss of breath and speech.
Weakness: trembling: shocks on going to sleep. Depressed.
Great debility, heaviness and trembling of limbs: (<) in a.m.
PERSPIRATION, in the morning.
Night sweats every other night; or every night.
Profuse perspiration on the soles, causes soreness of toes and balls of feet, with sticking pain as if walking on pins.
Drowsiness by day.
Wakes at 2 o’clock every night and is unable to fall asleep again.
Among queer sensations are:-
Skull constricted by a tape, etc. (Sulphur).
Pain as from splinters in eruptions.
As of a splinter in nose.
Teeth as if elongated: would fall out: as if soft and spongy.
As if a splinter in ulcers in mouth.
As if food would not go down.
As if abdomen would burst: “a boiler working in bowels”.
As of a dry, hot cloth on abdomen.
As if stool stayed in rectum.
Splinters in rectum. Sharp sticks pressed into anus: jagging in ulcers of scrotum.
As if a splinter or piece of glass in finger (Silicea).
As if dogs gnawing flesh and bones.
Sharp splinter stuck in big toe.
Splinters running through carbuncles.
Haemorrhages: bright, profuse; dark: from bowels: after miscarriage: post-partum: form over-exertion of body: uterine:- epistaxis: haemoptysis: from rhagades.
Syphilitic bone pains.
Inflammatory swelling of inguinal or axillary glands, especially after abuse of Mercury or in syphilitic subjects.
Discharges thin, offensive and excoriating: if purulent, dirty yellow-green.
Diseases depending upon the presence of syphilitic, scrofulous, mercurial or gonorrhoeal poison. Broken-down constitutions.
Warts, sticking and pricking: on upper lip smarts and bleeds on washing. Soft and moist. Large, jagged, often pedunculated: exuding moisture and bleeding readily. Syphilitic condylomata, elevated, exuberant, cauliflower-like.
