INTRODUCTION
JUNC. Following Rush. Water; Gladole. See ‘Archiv, ” XIX, p. 188.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Jerking in the muscles of the extremities, in the knee, in the articulations of the jaws on either side, and in the clavicles. the limbs go to sleep. Painless cracking of the joints.
CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES.
The pains of the left side predominate. the pains appear to become aggravated at night; they came on again in the morning and evening, particularly the pains in the chest and neck.
FEVER.
Chilliness through the whole body on rising from bed. Anxiety and frequent beating of the heart, going off on raising the trunk.
HEAD.
VErtigo. Vertigo with nausea when walking. Distensive pain in the forehead when stooping. Digging pain in the forehead and occiput, as from subcutaneous ulceration, on raising the head early in the morning in bed.
EARS.
Cramp-pain in the outer ear. Sensation as if the meatus auditorius internus were swollen.
NOSE.
Catarrhal sensation in the nose. Dry coryza.
TEETH.
Dull sticking toothache.
MOUTH.
Whitish-yellow coating of the tongue, with slimy taste in the mouth, after dinner.
THROAT
Painful laming-drawing, stretching, and pulling in the cervical muscle. Pain and scraping in the throat. Pressure in the throat during deglutition, as if the tonsils were swollen.
ABDOMEN.
Swelling of the pit of the stomach. Tightness in the pit of he stomach, as from fullness and swelling. spasmodic pulling pain in the pit and region of the stomach, increased by external pressure. Pain in the right side of the abdomen as from subcutaneous ulceration. Pinching colic, as if diarrhoea would set in, or as if one had taken cold.
STOOL AND ANUS.
Itching at the rectum.
URINE.
The urine looks like loam-water, depositing a red sediment in the few hours. Tension in the urethra with sensation as of something living were creeping along in it. Slight itching burning in the urethra.
GENITAL ORGANS.
Itching of the glands and scrotum.
LARYNX.
Hawking up of a quantity of yellow mucus, without cough, for several days, accompanied with an excessive pain in the middle of the chest, as if the pulmonary pleura adhered and had become inflamed.
CHEST.
Violent pressure in the lower portion of the chest, worst during expiration, and aggravated by turning the trunk to one side. Pulling tensive pain in the lower part of the chest, during inspiration. Dull sticking pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration, particularly when bending the body to one side.
BACK.
Drawing with pressure in the cervical vertebrae, as if the head would be drawn to the right side. Drawing and pulling in the dorsal vertebrae. Bruised pain in the scapulae. Tensive pain between the scapulae. Aching pain in the small of the neck, occasioning an anguish, or attended with asthma.
ARMS.
Lacerating and drawing in the bons of the arm and hand.
LEGS.
Bruised pain in the drawing in the bones of the arm and hand itching and jerking in the knee. heaviness in the calves and thighs.
