INTRODUCTION
KREAS. See ‘Archiv,’ XVI.
COMPARE WITH.
Phosph., Murex and Acid Sulphuricum, Nitr. ac., Arsenicum, Calcarea carb, China, Chinin. sulph., Cocc., Ipecac., Iodium, Kali-hydr., Mercurius, Nux-v., Petroleum, Phosph., Pulsatilla, Rhus, Secale-corn., sil., Sulphur
ANTIDOTES.
Of small doses: China Arsenicum Ipecac. Cocc.? Nux-v. has been found available against the violent pulsations in every part of the organism, Aconite against the vascular irritation. WAHLE.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Jerking and pinching in every joint. Pinching, here and there. Pains as if sore and ulcerated. Laming pains. Drawing and lacerating. Sticking in the joint. Nightly pains. Pains as if bruised and contused. Great irritation through out the whole body. Uneasiness of the whole body, during rest, also as if every part of the body were in motion. Painful shocks through the body, at night during sleep. Pains as if bruised in every part (limp) of the body, as after running a good deal. weariness in all the limbs, as previous to violent catarrh, with drowsiness and weariness. All her limbs are affected as previous to violent catarrh. Fainting spell, early in the morning when getting up half an hour before her usual time.
CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES.
The pain appear to be aggravated by rest.
SKIN.
Itching, violent towards evening. Itching, with burning and heat over the whole body, at night, not allowing one to sleep. Blotches like nettle-rash. Blisters like bug-bites, over the whole body. Large greasy-looking, pock-shaped pustules over the whole body. Pustules resembling scabies-sarcoptica, over the whole body, with swelling and stiffness of the feet. Herpes, furfuraceous and pustulous, dry and humid.
SLEEP.
Frequent yawning, with pressure in the forehead, and weariness. Great drowsiness, with frequent yawning, accompanied with putrid taste in the mouth and little appetite. A good deal of sleep. Sleeplessness. Restless sleep, with many dreams. Starting during sleep. Symptoms at night, in bed. uneasiness through the whole body after lying down. Feeling of fatigue in the morning.
FEVER.
Slight chilliness. Shivering all over skin. Predominant chilliness. trial chilliness. Shaking chilliness. Fever: shaking chilliness for five hours, then heat in the face, with heat of the hand and coldness of the feet, mingled with chills; alternation of chilliness and heat, with thirst, languor in every part of the body, constant, painful, fatiguing cough. Pulse small and subdued; pulse natural, but perceptible in every part of the body as soon as she remains quiet; strong pulse trough the whole body, with sensation as if the body were vacillating, but only during rest.
MORAL SYMPTOMS.
Sad mood, with constant disposition to weep. Ill-humor. Constantly excited, vexed, and obstinate.
SENSORIUM.
Frequent failure of, thought, the head feeling confused and dull. Weakness of memory. dullness of the head, with beating and throbbing on the vertex. Vertigo, with danger of falling on turning round quickly.
HEAD.
Headache with drowsiness. Heaviness of the head. Tensive pain in the head, aggravated by stooping. painful pressing in the head. Drawing headache, with closing of the eyes as if by force. Lacerating headache, with drawing extending to the eyes. Lacerating pain in the whole head. Beating, throbbing, slight, in the vertex; on the top of the head, with dullness. Lacerating in the sinciput. Throbbing and bubbling in the left temporal bone, as from an ulcer, extending to the vertex and the lower jaw, with twitching and contraction of the eye lids. Whizzing in the head. Ulcerative pain in the right side of the sinciput. The skin of the vertex and sinciput is painful, as from subcutaneous ulceration, on touching or combing the head. Falling off of the hair, particularly on combing the head.
EYES.
Itching and biting in the eyes, of the lids. Warmth or heat in the eyes, with lachrymation. Burning and heat, as from fire in the eyes. Redness of the lid, with some swelling. Swelling of the eye margins of the lids. Chronic swelling of the margins of the lids. Suppuration of the eyes. Lachrymation on looking at bright light. Discharge of the hot, acrid, smarting tears, like salt water. Twitching of the lids. Dim-sightedness as through gauze, with dim,, faint eyes. Sensation as if little particles of a feather were floating before her eyes.
EARS.
Stitches in the ears. Itching in the ears. Humid herpes on the ears, with swelling of the cervical glands, and lived, gray complexion. Heat and burning of the ears, with coldness of the feet. Inflammation of the outer ear, with glowing heat, bright redness, considerable swelling, and tensive burning pains. Hardness of hearing, with buzzing in the ears.
NOSE.
Bad smell before the nose, with loss of appetite. Bleeding of the nose. Frequent sneezing, particularly early in the morning. Dry coryza.
FACE.
Livid complexion, with swelling of a cervical gland and herpes on the ears. Eruption: pimples on the forehead. Acne rosacea. Scaly herpes on the eye-lids, cheeks, and around the mouth.
TEETH.
Drawing pains in the teeth, Extending to the Temples, and affecting the interior of the ear. Drawing pain in the upper and lower front teeth.
MOUTH, THROAT.
Scraping in the throat, with roughness. Painful choking in the oesophagus.
TASTE AND APPETITE.
Bitter taste in the mouth. The appetite is gone.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.
Sour eructation. Nausea of pregnant females, with spitting, and chilliness through the whole body, as if he would vomit, with burning in the mouth. Vomiting, before Breakfast, of sweetish water. Gagging up of water and mucus on rising in the morning.
STOMACH.
Tightness across the stomach and pit of the stomach. Drawing lacerating in the pit of the stomach. Movement and throbbing in very artery. Frequent stitches in the region of the heat. Scirrhus or cancer of the stomach.
HYPOCHONDRIA.
Continuous stinging in the region of the liver. Pain as if bruised in the superior and anterior lobe of the liver, with feeling of the fullness. Pressure in the region of the spleen.
ABDOMEN.
Contractive sensation in the abdomen, as if a hard twisted ball were lying in the umbilical region. Griping lacerating around the umbilicus, with ulcerative pain of the whole abdomen. Digging and griping in the umbilical region, extending to the throat and occasioning nausea and inclination to vomit. Labor-like colic Spasmodic pain in the abdomen. Cutting around the umbilicus, as if diarrhoea would set in. Drawing pain in the abdomen during the menses. Ulcerative pain in the whole abdomen. Painful feeling of coldness in the abdomen, with scanty secretion of urine. Pain as form a cold in the region of the umbilicus, as if diarrhoea would set in. Tensive pain in the inguinal regions, when walking.
STOOL AND ANUS.
Intermittent stool, every three or four days, hard, dry, with a good deal of pressing. Constipation, with cancer of the uterus Drawing, lacerating, and darting in the rectum, with frequent ineffectual urging to stool, hard stool after a good deal of pressing, and remission of the pains. Spasmodic pains in the rectum extending in to the groin.
URINE.
Diminished secretion of urine. Frequent desire to urinate, with copious emission. Frequent micturition, also at night, sometimes with pressing on the bladder. The urine is hot and smoking with acrid smell and reddish sediment. Mild leucorrhoea, tinging the linen yellow, previous to every micturition, with frequent desire to urinate.
MALE GENITAL ORGANS.
Burning in the parts, and impotence during an embrace, with swelling of the penis the next day.
FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS.
Itching, inducing rubbing in the vagina. Corrosive itching between the labia and the vagina, succeeded by burning swelling of the labia. Hard tubercle in the neck of the uterus, with ulcerative pain during an embrace. Prolapsus of the uterus. Menses too early, with discharge (of dark blood), continuing even eight days, also with pains in the small of the back. Menses every three weeks, profuse, succeeded by the discharge of an acrid-smelling, bloody ichor, with corrosive itching and biting of the parts. Profuse menses, sometimes coming away in pieces. The menses intermit for forty-eight hours, then return for twenty-four, with violent pains in the abdomen and discharge of thin bright-red blood. The menses are preceded by: hardness of hearing; rising of an insipid white froth, or vomiting of mucus; considerable distention of the abdomen, clawing and digging around the umbilicus, succeeded by discharge of white leucorrhoea; great nervousness and uneasiness. The menses are accompanied with. buzzing and humming in the head (sometimes felt also before and after the menses), or with pressing the head from within outwards, worse on stooping; hardness of hearing; emission of flatulence, smelling like rotten eggs. After the menses: violent abdominal spasms, particularly in the groin. Frequent and acute pains remaining after too frequent and too copious menstruation. Metrorrhagia. Leucorrhoea: white, painless, preceded by pain in the small of the back, with flushes of heat in the face, and flowing like the menses; acrid, leaving yellowish white spots on the linen; yellowish, tinging the linen yellow, with great weakness of the lower extremities. Discharge of mucus and blood by the vagina, in the morning on rising. Mild as well as corrosive leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea with great debility. In pregnant females: nausea; appearance of the menses in the third month of pregnancy, with black blood, which flows like a stream. Disposition to miscarriage. Stitches in the mamma.
