the stomach after dinner. Hard pressure in. the left hypochondrium. Pain in the hypochondria.
ABDOMINAL REGION.
Cutting and stinging in the liver. Affection of the liver, ending in fatal dropsy. Fine stitches in the spleen, coming on at intervals. emptiness of he abdomen, with nauSea. Fullness, heaviness, and distention of the abdomen, with anxiety, whole abdomen down to the groin, with tension, as in ascites. Painful tension and pressure in the abdomen, as if sore and ulcerated. which is painfully irritated. Sensation as of a ball ascending from the abdomen into the throat. Processing pain in the groins, more violent when touching them. cutting in the small of the back abdomen. Colic around the umbilicus. Flatulence.
STOOL.
Frequent evacuations of a greenish, very fetid mucus with emission of noisy flatulence.
Acts powerfully upon the intestinal canal, occasioning from four to give stools a day,. Frequent evacuations, with slight pain in. the abdomen. Diarrhoea with cold. Violent Diarrhoea. Bloody evacuations., Bloody evacuations. Bloody stools with great debility. Several evacuations of bloody stools mucus, without any peculiar pain, towards morning. A good deal of during during the diarrhoea. Colic previous to the Diarrhoea. Constipation; the substances evacuation were dry and of a firm consistence, whereas his bowels were generally loose. Slowness and denomination of the faecal and urinary discharge. Dry, firm, alvine evacuations. Diarrhoea or constipation. Intestinal phthisis, ulceration of the intestines. Creeping and burning in the anus. Itching of the anus. discharge of a quantity of the ascarides. Discharge of taenia.
URINARY ORGANS.
Pains in the kidneys., at first he urinary organs are greatly irritated. is a diuretic and diaphoretic. Frequent emission of pale, strong smelling urine. Copious urination. Scanty and rare emission of a dark yellow urine. emission of a few drops of urine after urinating, with a sensation as if the interior of the urethra were swollen. Burning micturition and feeling in the urethra as if swollen. Burning after micturition. Dragging pains during micturition. Painful pushing in the urethra. heat, itching, and titillation, in the morning when urinating for the first time. The urethra is painful, as if closed by by selling and ulcerated. Ulcerative pain in the middle of the urethra, a s if a a splinter had been pushed in. the urethra feels swollen, hard, and knotty. Inflammation nd violent pains of the urethra, with increase gonorrhoea, priapism, dysuria, bloody urine, m fever. Slight burning in whole course of the urethra, a increase gonorrhoea, burning during micturition, painful tension during erections, chordee, bleeding from urethra, shooting in the same from behind forward. Oozing of mucus from the urethra. Stricture of the urethra.
MALE GENITAL ORGANS.
Chancre-like ulcers on the prepuce; at first their tips were covered with pus, but afterwards the ulcers became diffused through a pretty spacious depression, exhibiting the came diffused through a pretty spacious depression, exhibiting the tallow-like coating of chancres. The right testicle is enlarged and hard. Painful coition. Want of sexual desire, the genital organs having become shriveled.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.
Congestions to the uterus. Haemorrhages from the uterus. The menses are accompanied with cutting pains in the small of the back and groin. Suppression of the menses, miscarriage and metrorrhagia. Suppression of the mucus leucorrhoea;l it reappeared in the few weeks, but less and milder.
LARYNX AND TRACHEA.
Hoarseness with roughness in the throat. Nightly hoarseness, with turns of dry cough, after which she throws off blood- tinged mucus mixed with saliva. Dry tickling in. the larynx, occasioning a cough. Dry, fatiguing cough, occasioned b a violent, almost burning titillation in throat, before retiring in the evening. Paroxysms of dry cough at night, sometimes so violent as to induce vomiting. Suffocative cough for several days at noon. ‘cough after dinner, impeding speech.
CHEST.
Violent, continual irritation, with cough and spitting of blood, with torturing oppression of breathing. Nightly cough and sweat. Fullness and anxiousness in the chest, with disposition to sigh. heaviness in. the cavity of the chest, with desire to sigh. Oppression of the chest, with a crampy sensation. Difficult of breathing. Excessive suffocating oppression of breathing. suffocative fits. Nightly pain in he chest. STitches in the chest. Aching native pain in the chest. Pressure and weight as of stone, in the middle of the sternum. Burning in the chest. Palpitation of he heart, with a faintish nausea. Beating of the heat. the outer chest is painful to the touch. the glands of the chest are painful, as if ulcerated. itching of the chest and the axilla.
NECK.
Sensation as of a cramp in the right anterior cervical muscles. Bounding pulsations of the left carotid at regular intervals, distinctly seen by the naked eye.
BACK.
Violent pressure between the shoulders. itch-like eruption, especially in. the back. Tensive squeezing pains in the back. Nightly pains in the back. Weight in the small of the back. Violent pain in. the small of the back, a s if sprained, early in the morning, when sitting. Pain in the small of the back, relieved when standing walking. The small of the back feels weary. Digging, cutting in the small of the back. The lumbar region feels bruised. Heaviness and drawings in the loins, with debility and weariness, trembling in the lower limbs, as after a fatiguing journey. Stiffness, heaviness, and paralytic sensation in the region of the os-sacrum.
ARMS.
Tensive pain in the shoulders and arms. Pain in the wrist, as if sprained. Painful eruption. Rheumatic tearing in the joints of the fingers.
LEGS.
Paralytic heaviness and debility of the lower limbs. periodical nervous (cramp-like) drawing, from the hip down to the knees. Paralytic weakness of the lower limbs, and emaciation of the same. Itching, blotch-shaped pimples principally at night. Paralytic painful drawing, as if bruised, above the left patella. Violent tearing, raging, digging-up pain under the patellae. Drawing tearing from the knees into the legs. Rigidity in the calves, with great debility and exhaustion, as from fatigue. Excessive weariness of the calves, as from fatigue. Violent drawing in the calves when going upstairs. Arthritic drawing in the foot. Staggering gait in the open air.
PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
The plexus-choroideus and the veins of the fourth ventricle presented a lead-colored appearance, in the case of a female, of thirty years, who died in the Salpetriere, and who had taken for a long while the Nitrate of Silver against epilepsy, and finally died of tuberculous phthisis. What is remarkable in her case is the fact that her skin had a lead-colored appearance during her life, and that this discoloration disappeared after her death in every part of her body except around her mouth. Partial erosion of the mucous membrane of the fauces and the oesophagus; slight detachment of the membrane. The stomach is deprived of its mucous membrane in throat portion of it which is turned towards the oesophagus and in the region of curvature, the space being from four to five inches; the other membranes in the above mentioned parts of the stomach offered so slight as resistance that they were torn by the mere weight of the contents of the stomach. More or less intense redness of the mucous membrane of the stomach; here and there greyish-white or blackish-dark crusts were discovered in it. The mucous membrane having been destroyed, the muscular coat of the stomach became inflamed, and exhibited a vivid redness, and here and there a crusty appearance. The stomach was perforated where the poison acted intensely. The mucous membrane of the intestines, especially of the stomach, was covered with a whitish coagulum, or into white-grey or brownish black scurfs; those parts were sometimes seen perforated. The liver was softened, large, and flabby. The kidneys exhibited a lead-color The lungs and the veins of the body look black-green, the veins looked as if they had been injected with black-green blood. (A portion of the vena-cava became white by dipping it into muriatic-acid). The lungs were congested, infiltrated with seem, or pats of the lungs looked ecchymozed and were of a black red color; the heart looked dark-red and livid; the ventricles and the trunks of the lungs veins were turgid with black blood.
