CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES
The right side of the body seems to be more affected than the left. Several of the symptoms seem either to appear or to become aggravated in the open air. Many of the symptoms are aggravated in the evening.
SKIN
Itching of the skin of the whole body; burning pimples, of the size of a millet-grain, on the nape of the neck and on the fore- arms. The whole upper part of the body is red, as if covered with scarlatina. Rash on the left side of the neck and the left lower arm. Chronic rash. Small red tubercles around the elbow, and on the neck, cutting and painful, a few of them ulcerated. Unusual sensitiveness of the skin to cold.
Sleep
Weariness, uneasiness, or chilliness. Spasmodic yawning in the evening; sleepiness during the day; very sleepy when not busy. Sleepiness in the day, with yawning; unconquerable sleepiness after supper; does not sleep well in the night; cannot fall asleep on account of uneasiness, dry heat, and sometimes burning at the stomach; or on account of itching and stinging of the skin; towards morning falls into a heavy sleep, with perspiration. Light sleep at night; uneasy, unrefreshing sleep, tosses about; uneasy sleep, with frequent waking. Frequent waking at night, with chilliness; with inability to fall asleep again; frequent waking up, with groaning and sobbing; frequent starting
from sleep, as if in affright, at night, with subsequent great fearfulness. Sleep full of dreams; he dreams while awake, at night; vivid, fanciful, lewd, romantic, or anxious dreams. At night, attack of great anxiety, as if she had to die, with cold sweat, audible palpitation of the heart, and involuntary weeping; she was unable to move her eyes, or to speak, accompanied by labored breathing and trembling of the hands; vertigo at night, rush of blood to the head, at night, and heat in the face on waking; boring and lancinating pain in the head, sparks before her eyes on waking; attacks of nausea, the whole night, preventing sleep; pressure at the stomach, at night; violent colic; dry coryza, and obstruction of the nose, while lying in bed; all the limbs pain at night, with a gnawing pain in the small of the back; motion gives him pain; easier to lie on the left side than on the right.
FEVER
Excessive seething of the blood at night; he imagines that the blood will burst the vessels and heart; chilliness at night; frequent chilliness, towards evening, continuing until he goes to bed. Frequent paroxysms of feverish chilliness, in the evening. Chills before falling asleep; chilliness in the open air, or upon coming out of the open air and entering the room. Attacks of chilliness in the evening frequently with horripilation, blue hands, blue nails, chattering of teeth, and shaking; sometimes
these symptoms are (followed by nightly heat, and by sweat early in the morning Chills and heat for several days, mostly shaking chills, followed by a general dry heat; a little sweat early in the morning. Alternate chilliness and heat, with sensitiveness to cold; nausea, thirst, pressure at the chest, with stitches in the left side of the chest, tearing in the forehead, and dullness of the head, alternate redness and paleness of the cheeks, pressure at the stomach, with disposition to eructate, with a violent coryza and sleeplessness; for several days during the catamenia. Feverish heat for several evenings in succession, one hour and a half, accompanied by headache. Heat at night, in the forenoon. Feverish heat in the head, with cold feet. Continual night- sweats. Sweats early in the morning; in the joints. Sweat in the day-time.
MORAL SYMPTOMS
Serious mood; sad, disposed to weep (particularly in the evening), with thoughts of death. Full of care and gloomy anxiety. Anxiety with the weakness; uneasiness in the evening; turns of anxiety; great anguish, as if he had committed a crime, every afternoon, accompanied with weakness and apprehensive anxiety; uneasiness, with fear of danger, sometimes with violent oppression of the heart. Dread of labor. Out of humor, particularly in the morning; in the forenoon, with headache, in bad weather. Loathing of life. Nervous and irritable mood; disobedience, want of docility. Vexed and vehement, particularly in the evening, with scolding mood. Excessive exaltation of the fancy; great tendency to start; mirthfulness or laughter about trifles. Fearfulness.
SENSORIUM
Does not seem to be in full possession of his reason. Diminution of the thinking power; absence of thought; great forgetfulness, and inability to collect his senses, with headache when reflecting on anything; great absence and confusion of mind. The head feels muddled and dull, or stupefied. Reeling giddiness, as if from intoxication, towards evening, after having been sitting; dizziness with vertigo, even when turning slightly. Vertigo, especially in the morning, when reading and sitting at night, with luminous vibrations before the eyes, with staggering, as if he would fall; as if everything were turning in a circle, at night, when moving the head; or from morning till evening, and most violent in the evening; with nausea and loss of appetite from the early morning, sometimes relieved by a walk.
HEAD
Chronic headache; headache with nausea, particularly early in the morning, in bed, with pain in the stomach, and ill humor; after dinner. Pressure on the top of the head; over the whole of the head after getting heated; in the brain, moving about, with stitches over one eye. Sense of weight in the head; in the forehead, early in the morning, with pain; after dinner, with beating in the forehead; in the left side of the head, worse in bed; in the right side. Sense of oppressive fullness in the forehead, as if from the vapor of coal; tumult in the head, and pain, as if the contents would issue through the forehead; pushing sensation in the head, as if the forehead would burst, with beating in the forehead, or with tension in the nape of the neck, accompanied with sense of fullness in the forehead. Sensation as if the contents of the head were compressed. Drawing and lacerating in the whole head, early, after rising, and during the whole day. Lacerating in the temples early, and in the evening; behind the left ear, as far as the vertex, with a sensation as if the head were cleft. Headache, with stitches the whole day. Erratic stitches in the head. Headache, resembling a knocking or hacking with a sharp instrument, pain, preventing movement. Painful throbbing and beating in the temple and occiput. Pain, as from ulceration, in moving the head, and on pressing upon it, especially in the occiput, and in that region. Hammering headache. On moving the head, sensation as of the brain falling to and fro, towards the side to which he stoops, some times with stinging pains. Headache, as if water were in the head.
SCALP
The head catches cold easily. Violent itching of the hairy scalp, especially of the occiput. Sensation as if the hair would stand on end, with tingling over the head, and a feeling of coldness after coming out of the open air and entering the room. The scalp and the hair are intensely painful when the hand is moved over them. Falling off of the air.
EYES
The eyes are weak; the patient winks continually. Pressure in the eyes. Pressure and cutting in the eyes. Pressure and fine stitches or prickings in the eyes, Burning of the eyes the whole day, especially early on waking, with intolerance of light, and in the evening on lying down. Feeling of coldness in the eyes. Inflammation of the inner canthus of the right eye, without pain. The eyes are inflamed and dim; or agglutinated early in the morning. Dry gum on the eye-lids, early in the morning, after sound sleep; it takes a long time to open them. The eyes are closed with gum in the morning; they run in the day-time. When reading, the eyes run. Lachrymation; the white of the eye is congested, as in incipient inflammation of the eye; the vessels of the cornea are distinctly visible. When sneezing, white stars twinkle before his eyes. Shortness of sight. Cataract. Dimness of sight, with twinkling before the eyes.
EARS
Frequent and painful stitches in the ear. Throbbing in the ear at night, when resting on it. Twitches and pinching in the internal ear. Lacerating, itching or tingling in and around the ears, sometimes with swelling of the cervical and parotid glands. Whizzing in the left ear. Illusions of hearing; he imagines he hears the ringing of bells. At night, whizzing in the left ear. Every day, after midnight, whispering, as of the wind among trees, in the right ear, when resting upon it in bed. Buzzing in the ears, as if the hearing were dull, and as if something were keeping off the vibrations of the air. Diminished hearing.
NOSE
Furuncle on the tip of the nose. Pustule on the side of the nose. Pustule on the dorsum of the nose, in front. An acrid fluid runs from the nose. Discharge of bloody mucus from the nose, frequently, or of blood from the left nostril. Bleeding at the nose; after dinner, or when washing the face in the morning. Chronic dryness of the nose. Stoppage of the nose, at night particularly; he can only breathe through the mouth, with suffocative anxiety and pain in the chest from making the exertion to breathe. Frequent sneezing; violent; early in the morning, in bed. Coryza, with stoppage of the nose, rattling in the nose, and voice not clear, with stoppage of the left nostril; dry coryza, chronic coryza; fluent coryza; violent, with cough, or with tearing in the left cheek.
