MORAL SYMPTOMS.
Inconsolable anguish, piteous howlings, lamentations and reproaches, from trifling causes; painfully anxious lamentations, attended by disheartening apprehensions, despair, loud moaning and weeping, bitter complaints and reproaches.- Great anxiety, attended by palpitation of the heart, oppressed breathing, increased heat of the body and face, and great weariness in all the limbs, followed by congestion of the head, and stupefaction, with feeling redness of the face. -Lamenting apprehensions and approaching death, designating the day of her death. Presentiments as if in a state of clairvoyance.-Anthropophobia and misanthropy. A strong tendency to be angry, or to be frightened, and to quarrel.-The least noise, even music, appears insufferable._Fitful humor: at one time sad, depressed, irritable and despairing; at another time gay, excited full of hope, and disposed to sing and dance.-Alternate paroxysms of laughter and tears. -Anxiety respecting one’s malady, and despair of cure.- Fear of spectres.- Disposition to run away from one’s bed.-Mind, as it were, paralyzed, with incapability of reflection, and a sensation as if all the intellectual functions were performed in the region of the stomach.-Paroxysms of folly and madness. Unsteadiness of ideas.-Delirium, especially at night.-Weakness of memory.
HEAD.
Vertigo, particularly on raising the head, or else on rising from one’s seat, from stooping, or moving the head, and often with a sensation of intoxication or reeling in the head, loss of consciousness dimness of the eyes, nausea, and qualmishness at the pit of the stomach. On going into a worm room, the forehead feels as if it were compressed.-Headache, as if a portion of the brain, here and there, were raised up, which is aggravated by the least motion, and even by speaking and drinking.-Pain in the head, with inclination to vomit, also vomiting.-Dull headache, as if the head were bruised, with bruised feeling in all limbs.-The brain feels as if contracted in the forehead.-Compressed, tensive headache behind the orbits.-The forehead is grasped with pinching pain, as if in the bones, or over the root of the nose, as if she would lose her reason, aggravated by walking in the open air.-Fullness and heaviness in the forehead, as from a weight, which, with the entire brain, would press through the forehead, or as if the eyes would start out of their sockets.- Piercing and throbbing, and piercing throbbing in the head, forehead, or temples, as if from an abscess; sometimes induced by walking and abated by sitting.-Lacerating pain in the left temple, with roaring and ringing in the ears.-Sensation as if a ball rose from the umbilical region and diffused a coolness through the vertex and occiput.-Burning headache, as if the brain were moved by boiling water.- Congestion of the head, with heat and redness of face, or with a sensation of heat in the brain, sweat on the scalp, and paleness of the face.- Crepitation, as from the crumpling of tinsel, in temples, nose, and forehead. Sensation in the vertex as if pulled by the hair.-Pain in the head as if from taking cold after profuse perspiration, with buzzing in the ears, cold in the head and colic.-Aggravation of the pains in the head by movement, speaking, rising from a recumbent position, and by drinking; relief experienced in the open air.
EYES
Eyes red and inflamed, with deep redness of the vessels, and intolerable pains. Acute ophthalmia. Profuse lachrymation, and with intense pain. Vertiginous dimness of vision. Frightful inflammation of the eyes, with lachrymation. Transitory blindness in many cases. Heat and burning in the eyes, with pressive and shooting pains, especially on moving the balls. Swelling of the eyes. Dilated pupils. Dryness, heaviness, and pressure of the upper eye-lids, and inflammatory swelling of the lids, especially early in the morning. Eyes sparkling, convulsed, and prominent. Look fixed. Excessive photophobia, or a strong desire for light. Black spots and mist before the eyes. Sudden attacks of blindness.
EARS
Tearing in the ears, or tickling (as of a small worm in the right ear). Ringing and roaring in the ears. A sensation of stoppage of the ears, or as if something obstructed the left ear. Excessive sensitiveness of hearing, and intolerance of every noise.
NOSE
Stupefying pressure over the root of the nose. Bleeding from the nose, especially in plethoric persons. Smell very sensitive. Violent sneezing, with pain in the abdomen, or in the region of the left ribs. Coryza, headache, humming in the ears, and colic.
FACE
Bluish face, with black lips. (During the febrile paroxysms) the face is swollen, red, and hot, or red and pale. Redness of one cheek and paleness of the other, or redness of both cheeks. On rising up, the red face becomes pale as death. Sweat on the forehead, the upper lip, and the cheek on which one is lying. Distortion of the facial muscles. Tingling pain and sensation as if swollen in the cheeks. Ulcerative pain in the malar bones. Lateral prosopalgia, with swelling of the lower jaw. Lips black and dry. Burning, tingling, and piercing jerks as in the lower jaw.
TEETH
Toothache (especially from cold) in a raw air, with throbbing pains in one side in the face, intense redness of the cheek, congestion of the head, burning heat in the face, and great restlessness. Rheumatic tooth and faceache, especially in sensitive and congestive subjects, renewed or aggravated by wine or other stimulants; also if caused by agitation of the mind, especially chagrin. Congestive tooth (and faceache), especially in lively, young, and sedentary girls.
MOUTH
Sensation of dryness, or dryness of the mouth and tongue; also with heat, ascending from the chest to the head. Coolness and dryness of the mouth, or sensation of dryness and roughness of the middle of the tongue, without thirst. Numbness and tingling of the tongue. Tingling, biting, piercing, and burning of the tongue. Paralysis of the tongue, especially at its point. Trembling, temporary stammering speech. Soreness of the orifices of the salivary ducts, as if corroded. Ptyalism, with stitches in the tongue.
THROAT AND OESOPHAGUS
Scraping in the throat, with difficulty of swallowing. Piercing choking, at first of the left, then of the right side of the throat, especially when swallowing or talking. Burning, fine piercing, and astringent sensation in the fauces. Acute inflammation of the throat, with violent fever; also with dark redness of the parts (the fauces, velum-palati, tonsils), almost entire inability to swallow, and hoarseness. Dryness of the throat. Violent pain in the throat.
APPETITE AND TASTE
Taste bitter, or insipid and fishy, as from stagnant water, or from bad eggs. Bitter taste of all kinds of food and drinks, excepting water. Loss of appetite, with sourish taste in the mouth; or bitter taste, with pains in the chest and under the short ribs. Aversion to food. Pepper taste. Burning, unquenchable thirst for beer, which sometimes oppresses the stomach.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS
Rising of sweetish water into the mouth, like water-brash, some times with nausea. Scraping sensation from the pit of the stomach to the throat, with nausea, qualmishness and a sensation as if water would rise. Singultus, especially in the morning, or else after eating or drinking. Empty, or ineffectual effort to eructate. Loathing, qualmishness, nausea, and inclination to vomit, especially in the pit of stomach, sometimes while walking in the open air; sometimes worse when sitting, and better when walking. Inclination to vomit, as after eating anything sweet or fat. Vomiting, with nausea, thirst, general heat, profuse sweat, and eneuresis. Vomiting of blood, of blood and mucus, of green bile, of lumbrici. Inclination to vomit, with violent diarrhoea. In a hysterical person, before eating in the morning, vomiting of mucus, with nausea and gagging, renewed after eating and drinking, with stomach-ache, and violent pressing pains in the forehead and orbits of the eyes. Vomiting of large quantities of dark-red, coagulated blood.
STOMACH
Pressure, as of a load or stone in the stomach and pit of the stomach (with feeling of repletion); it increases to asthma, or extends to the back, with contraction, sensation of stiffness, as from lifting. Stomach-ache. Aching and coldness of the stomach. Feeling as if a cold ball lay in the stomach, and ascended, and spread a cool air over the vertex and occiput. Painful feeling of swelling in the pit of the stomach, with want of appetite, and paroxysms of shortness of breath. Contraction in the stomach, as of astringents. Violent pains in the stomach, after eating or drinking. Inflammation of the stomach? Tightness, pressure, fullness, and weight in the hypochondria. Pressure in the region of the liver, with oppression and arrest of breathing. Acute hepatitis, with violent fever, and painful sensitiveness of the region of the liver to the touch. Jaundice. Complete jaundice, twice produced in one case, toxicologically.
