INTRODUCTION
1. The symptoms marked (c) belong to the copper pole; (s) signifies the silver, and (z) the zinc pole.
GALV. Caspari, “Bibliot.,” III.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Painful tightness throughout the whole body (c). Slight shakings as in fever and ague (s). Tetanic spasms. Reappearance of the former epileptic spasms. Fainting. Asphyxia.
SKIN.
Scarlet redness on the extremities, chest, and neck, with rash (c). Inflammation and swelling. Scarlet rash over the whole body, except the face.
SLEEP.
Drowsiness. Sleeplessness.
FEVER.
Alternation of heat and chilliness, with giddiness, headache, burning in the throat, and difficult breathing (c). Increased warmth along the back of the nerve in the paralyzed limb. Burning flushes of heat over the whole body (c). Pulse full and strong (z). Pulse quick, small, contracted (c). Sour exhalation from the body.
MORAL SYMPTOMS.
Sighing and malaise. Oppressive anxiety. Ill humor and obstinacy.
SENSORIUM.
Dullness of the mind. Involuntary activity of the mind, with almost entire suppression of the power of the voluntary muscles. Stupefaction. Vertigo with flashes before the eyes. Vertigo with deafness. Vertigo with alternation of heat and chilliness.
HEAD.
Catarrhal feeling in the head and nose. Roaring in the head. Chronic hydrocephalus.
EYES.
Inflammation of the eyes. Swelling of the eyes. Styes. Amaurosis. Things appear crooked, larger. Things appear tremulous, brighter, blackish, or dark-blue (z). Flashes before the eyes. Ball of light before the eyes.
EARS.
Inflammation and suppuration of the outer ear. Deficiency of ear-wax. Discharge from the hard-hearing ear, first watery, then purulent (z). Ulcers in the ears. Haemorrhage from the ears. Deafness. Whizzing and singing in the ears. Sounds as during hiccough (z). Sounds as of wind-instruments. Roaring, rumbling in the ears.
NOSE.
Strong pressure in the nose (z). Violent cutting and stinging. Soreness of the mucous membrane. Bleeding of the nose. Putrid smell in the nose (s).
FACE AND TEETH.
Redness of the face, as from erysipelas. Swelling of the face. Convulsions of the lips and facial muscles.
MOUTH AND THROAT.
Increased secretion of saliva. Convulsive contraction of the tongue. Heaviness of the tongue, with impeded deglutition.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.
Sourish taste in the mouth (z). Metallic taste. Vomiting of a grass-green liquid (c).
ABDOMEN.
Dull colic. Pinching and cutting in the abdomen, as from flatulence, with eructations, emission of flatulence, and diarrhoea.
STOOL AND ANUS.
Urging to stool. Diarrhoea with violent vomiting. Beating and working in the rectum (z). Contraction in the anus. Increased haemorrhoidal flux.
URINE AND GENITAL ORGANS.
Violent burning in the bladder (z). Violent pains in the region of the bladder. Increased gonorrhoeal discharge. The menses, which were suppressed, appear.
LARYNX AND CHEST.
In tuberculous subjects the tubercles soon became soft and the troublesome cough disappeared. Asthma (c). Deep, slow, rattling breathing. Great oppression of the chest, with violent anguish, palpitation of the heart, hurried, intermittent pulse, nausea, ptyalism, tightness in the pit of the stomach, and copious secretion of a red, fiery urine. Violent pains in the chest.
ARMS.
Rheumatic stiffness of the neck and nape of the neck. Stiffness of the shoulder. Burning and beating of the shoulder, with drawing extending to the fingers. Drawing pain and tightness in the arm (c). Warmth in the arm (z). Coldness in the arm (c). Tetanic stiffness and languor of the arm. Burning in the hand. Continued numbness of the fingers. Sensation as if the finger were constricted, as if swollen and inflamed.
