URINARY ORGANS
Paralysis of the bladder; retention of urine, as if the bladder were paralyzed, with great urging to urinate; suppression of the secretion of urine. Frequent urging to urinate, with burning; with emission of a quantity of urine at night, obliging him to rise frequently. Involuntary micturition, even at night during sleep; diminished discharge of urine, with burning; scanty, dark- yellow urine; increased, copious, and sometimes burning hot urine; the urine is almost colorless; excessively turbid; greenish dark brown, turbid when leaving the bladder, and not becoming clear by standing; urine depositing a slimy sediment. Painful, difficult micturition; strangury. Haematuria. During micturition: burning, sometimes at the commencement only; contractive pain in the left groin. After micturition, a feeling of weakness in the epigastrium, with trembling. Biting and tearing in the urethra.
MALE GENITAL ORGANS
Itching of the parts; corrosive itching of the penis. Inflammation and swelling of the genital organs, excessively painful; gangrenous; the glans is swollen, blue, and red, with rhagades; swelling of the scrotum. Erysipelatous inflammation of the scrotum of chimney-sweeps? Discharge of prostatic fluid during a diarrhoeic stool.
FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS
Profuse catamenia; too soon, after twenty days. Suppression of the catamenia. During the catamenia: various kinds of complaints; lancinations from the rectum to the anus and pudendum; laceration in the back and abdomen. Bloody mucus after the catamenia. Leucorrhoea; dropping out while the woman is standing, with emission of flatulence; acrid, corroding, thick and yellowish. Induration, or even cancer of the uterus.
LARYNX AND TRACHEA
Tremulous voice. Hoarseness, with roughness, early in the morning; with violent coryza and sleeplessness. Feeling of dryness and burning in the larynx; phthisis of the trachea, with deficient secretion of mucus; acute and chronic inflammation of the trachea; grippe, particularly when accompanied with inflammation of the eyes and photophobia. Cough: as if occasioned by the smoke of Sulphur, with sense of suffocation or constriction in the trachea; after drinking; cough occasioned by a constant irritation or titillation in the trachea; cough occasioned by jerking in the hip; during movement, with want of breath; during a walk in the open cold air; early in the morning, very violent, or shortly after taking tea; in the evening when in bed, or at night, obliging him to sit up, or with asthma and suffocative fits. Dry cough; deep and short, after midnight; fatiguing and violent; short and hacking, with soreness, as from excoriation in the chest, or soreness from the pit of the stomach upwards, with short, labored breathing. Expectoration difficult; scanty and frothy; consisting of tenacious mucus which is lodged in the chest; saltish expectoration, with pain in the chest while raising, preceded by oppression of the chest; expectoration, consisting of a blood-streaked mucus, sometimes with a burning heat in the whole body, or succeeded by nausea, as if he would vomit; haemoptoe. Periodical spells of coughing; whooping-cough; incipient phthisis-pulmonalis. Symptoms during the cough: water in the mouth, like water-brash; arrest of breathing; danger of suffocation, with swelling of the throat (at night);nausea as if he would vomit (in the evening in bed); soreness in the chest, as if ecchymozed; sensation in the abdomen as if bruised; lancinating pains in the pit of the stomach, under the ribs, in the side of the chest and abdomen, or in the sternum; heat in the head, and aggravation of the pain.
CHEST
Difficulty of breathing, in windy weather; in the room, even when clad warmly; when laughing and moving about; with coldness of the body; with cold sweat. Shortness of breath; anxious and oppressive shortness of breath; painful breathing; moaning breathing. Asthma, chronic; returning frequently; occasioned by chagrin; after exertions, as from anguish. Oppression, labored breathing; when ascending an eminence, especially when going up- stairs; when walking, particularly when walking rapidly; when coughing. Arrest of breathing; from pain in the pit of the stomach; from anguish, and a pain in the abdomen, with moaning and lamenting; in the evening, when getting into bed, with wheezing in the trachea, and constriction of that organ. Suffocative oppression, and arrest of breathing, sometimes with weakness and excessive debility; at night, or in the evening in bed; suffocative catarrh. Angina of the chest; with low breathing, which she is unable to accomplish, except by bending the chest forward; asthma Millari; spasmodic asthma of full-grown people. Constriction of the chest, with anguish; pressure, in the sternum; feeling in the chest as if excoriated and raw; internal chilliness in the evening, particularly after a meal; heat in the chest extending below the diaphragm; burning in the chest and sternum. Dropsy of the chest? Irritated beating of the heart; palpitation of the heart, violent, excessive, particularly at night, also irregular, with anguish; when lying on the back. Yellow spots on the chest.
BACK
Debility in the small of the back; sensation as if bruised by blows; painful stiffness. Pains in the back, with uneasiness and anxiety; stiffness, painful sensation as if bruised. Stiffness of the nape of the neck, as if bruised, or as if sprained; tensive stiffness of the neck; contortion of the muscle; swelling of the neck; itching under the jaws; colorless, biting eruption. Bleeding soreness in the axilla; lancinations; glandular swellings.
ARMS
Drawing and lacerating in the arms, particularly at night, from the elbow to the shoulders, or in the elbow and wrist-joint; corrosive itching above the wrist-joint. Swelling of the arm, with black blisters, having a putrid smell. The hands are stiff and insensible. Drawing in the bones and joints of the hands and arms. Cramp and rigidity of the fingers. Coldness of the hands; painless swelling; hard swelling of the fingers, with pains in the bones; burning ulcers on the tips of the fingers. Sickly color of the nails.
LEGS
Coxagra; lancination in the hips, thigh, and groin. Violent pains in the limbs, particularly in the joints; tearing or drawing laceration in the knee and tarsal joints, when moving them or when walking, with uneasiness, worse at night. Cramp in the legs, with lassitude; convulsions of the legs and knees; weariness; sensation as if the lower limbs would break down, in going up-stairs; lameness of the lower limbs; coldness, particularly of the knees and feet, with cold sweat and inability to get them warm; swelling of the lower limbs, with violent pains. Corrosive itching of the thighs; pain as if bruised, as if the flesh were loose, only when touching the parts and when sitting, or when rising from a seat, with sensation as if the parts were sprained; itching herpes in the popliteal space. Spasmodic pain in the legs, early in the morning, with humming and buzzing; drawing, in the tibia; in the calf. Cramp in the calf, when walking, or at night in bed; with coldness, stiffness, and lameness of the leg. Heaviness of the lower limbs, so that he is scarcely able to raise them; wasting away of the lower limbs; swelling of the legs to beyond the calves, preceded by lacerating in the calves; ulcers on the lower limbs; old, with burning and lancinations, or covered with gray scurf, and surrounded with an inflamed margin. Pains in the feet, aggravated by movement; pains as if the foot had been sprained by turning over; lancination and bruised feeling in the feet. Numbness, stiffness, and insensibility of the feet, with swelling and great pains; lameness; coldness, particularly when sitting still, when in bed, with contracted pulse. Swelling of the feet; hot, shining, with burning red spots, or black-blue blisters; hard, red-blue, very painful swelling; itching swelling; colorless swelling of the malleoli, with tearing pains, which are relieved by external warmth. Ulcers in the bottom of the feet, or also in the heels, with bloody pus. The toes are stiff, and do not allow him to tread; soreness of the ball of the foot, when walking, as if the skin had been rubbed off; ulcerated spreading blisters on the tips of the feet.
PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
The bodies of those who have been poisoned with Arsenic generally exhibit two opposite conditions: either they resist putrefaction for a long time, and finally look like mummies, or else they decay rapidly; at first Arsenic seems, indeed, to promote putrefaction, but, after a while, putrefaction is arrested by it; according to the experience of some observers, bodies that have been poisoned suddenly, by large doses of Arsenic, decay rapidly, bodies that have been poisoned slowly, by small doses, become dry like mummies.
In some cases, bodies which decayed slowly had not become very livid even on the third day after death; there was an entire absence of cadaverous spots, no trace of putrefaction anywhere, no very offensive smell of corruption on opening the abdominal cavity, and a complete absence of, or only a moderate rigidity; in some cases, however, the body soon became rigid, the muscles lost their irritability, the fingers and toes were violently contracted and bent backwards, and the mouth was tightly closed. As respects the mummy like desiccation of bodies, which were disinterred a long time after death, the following appearance have generally been discovered. Offensive smell of the body, like old cheese; parchment-like dryness of the skin, like that of a mummy; brown mahogany color of the skin, especially dark-brown color of the face and abdomen; gray, leather-like, indurated skin, having a stiff and firm feel; peculiar toughness and hardness of the cutis, offering the same resistance to the knife as the crust of an old cheese. The adipose tissue is transformed into a mass resembling lard or cheese. Striking toughness and dryness of the muscles, which have preserved their shape, and look only a little paler than the muscles of a recent subject. Destruction of the soft parts of the nose. Transformation of the thoracic and abdominal viscera into a brownish, half desiccated, leather-like, firm substance, without any definite form. Small, shrivelled heart. The omentum, liver, and kidneys look like tallow.
