GENITAL ORGANS
Continual pressing and prickling in the glans, especially morning and evening. Drawing pain in the spermatic cord, and crampy pain in the testicle, during emission of urine, and some time afterwards.. Violent erection, early in the morning, when rising, which can only be subdued by cold water.. Purulent discharge from the urethra. Gonorrhoea. Discharge of fetid mucus from the vagina. Coldness of the scrotum, and impotence. Tabes-testiculorum; dwindling of the testes to the size of a bean, extinction of the sexual instinct, emaciation, falling off of the beard, and weakness of sight. Those among the French soldiers in Egypt who drank brandy which had been poisoned with “Solanum-CAPSICUM and Pseudo-capsicum,” were afflicted with the following symptoms: loss of sensibility in the testicles, softening and gradual dwindling of those parts. At first this was not noticed by the patient, until the testicles were reduced to the size of a bean, insensible, hard, and drawn up close to the abdominal ring, and suspended by a shrivelled spermatic cord. LARREY, “Observation sur plusieurs Maladies qui ont affecte les Troupes pendant l’ Expedition de l’ Egypte.
LARYNX AND TRACHEA
Hoarseness. Frequent and short, barking cough. Cough, especially towards evening. In the evening, after lying down, tingling and ticking in the larynx, and dry, short, and hacking cough. Painful cough. Pain in the throat, when coughing, as of a simple, painful swelling. Aching in the throat, only during the coughing fit, as if an ulcer would open. Headache during cough. Cough excites and inclination to vomit. Continual stitches in the throat, in the region of the of the epiglottis, exciting a dry cough, without going off by it. Coughing, accompanied with an aching pain in the ear. Drawing pain when coughing, in the side of the chest, extending up to the neck.
CHEST
Pain in the region of the ribs and sternum, when taking an inspiration. Simple pain in the region of a rib, at a small place, worst when touching the parts, but excited neither by breathing nor by coughing. Sticking pain in the side of the chest and back when coughing. Several violent stitches in the region of the heart. Involuntary, violent expiration. Deep breathing, almost like a sigh. Asthma, Sensation of fullness in the chest. Asthma, apparently coming from the stomach. Asthma, with redness of the face, eructation, and sensation as if thee chest were extended. Orthopnoea. Pain as if the chest were constricted, oppressing the breathing, and increasing, even by the slightest motion. Asthma in walking. Throbbing pain in the chest. Aching pain in that side of the chest on which she is resting.
BACK
Drawing-aching pain in the back. Stiffness of the nape of the neck, diminished by motion. Painful stiffness of the nape of the neck, which is felt only when moving it. Drawing-lacerating pain in, and by the side of, the spinal column. Darting-lacerating pain in the cervical glands.
ARMS
Pain in the shoulder-joint, as if sprained. Drawing pain with lameness above and below the elbow-joint. Drawing-lacerating pains extending from the right clavicle to the tips of the fingers.
LEGS
Drawing pain in the hip-joint, increasing by contact and by bending the trunk backwards. Lancinating pain from the hip-joint down to the feet, especially when coughing. Pain from the muscles of the thigh, resembling an aching, and as if the parts had been strained pain, as from bruises, in the right thigh, disappearing when walking, but returning when at rest. Convulsive jerking and twitching, now of the thigh, then of the lower arm. Tensive pain in the knee. Straining pain in the calves when walking. Pain, as from bruises, in the heel-bone.
