INTRODUCTION
AMYGDAL. AMAR.
Bitter Almonds. See Noack and Trinks.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Feeling of languor, as if he had no control over his muscles. Falls down without consciousness. Violent convulsions for three- quarters of an hour, recurring, but less violently in fifteen minutes. General tetanic convulsion.
SLEEP.
Deep, snoring sleep.
FEVER.
Slow, full, and hard pulse. Scarcely perceptible pulse at the wrist-joint, neck, and in the region of the heart.
MIND AND DISPOSITION.
Intense emotion. weeping. Excessive nervous prostration. Loss of consciousness, speech, and power of motion. p73.
HEAD.
Feeling of intoxication in the brain, affecting the whole body. Vertigo as from intoxication. Loss of consciousness. Violent pains over the whole head. Aching pain in the frontal region, above the orbits. Feeling of heaviness in the frontal region. Dullness of the left half of the head. Contracted or immovable pupils. Spasmodic distortion of the features. Foam at the mouth. Smell and taste as of Bitter Almonds, constantly.
DIGESTIVE APPARATUS.
Impeded deglutition. Inability to swallow. Eructations tasting of Bitter Almonds. Nausea and vomiting of the ingesta. Colic, distending the abdomen, accompanied by convulsive motion of the jaw, loss of consciousness, foam at the mouth.
GENITAL ORGANS.
Gangrene of the penis.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
Scraping in the larynx and hoarseness, followed in the evening, or during the whole of the following day, by increased secretion of mucus in the trachea, particularly the larynx. Difficulty of breathing the chest being raised spasmodically, and the motions of the chest being hurried. The inspirations are snoring, slow and becoming more and more rare. Several shootings and occasional paroxysms of seated pains under the left nipple in the thoracic cavity, rendering the expirations and inspirations somewhat difficult.