INTRODUCTION
TEREB. Oleum Terebinthina. See Hartlaub and Trinks “Annals.”.
COMPARE WITH
Aconite, Belladonna, Camph., Cantharis, Nux-v., Pulsatilla
ANTIDOTES
Camph.,? Cantharis?.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
General languor. Loss of strength. Fainting. Dropsy.
SKIN
Inflammation, redness, and painfulness of the skin. Suddenly appearing and disappearing erythematous, papulous, and even vesicular eruptions.
SLEEP
Frequent waking and tossing about at night. Nightmare. Sopor.
FEVER
Chilliness. Increased sweat. Feverish heat through the whole body, pulse hard and frequent, headache, red face, thirst and sensation of dryness of the mucus membranes. Fever, with violent thirst.
MIND AND DISPOSITION
Mania.
HEAD AND SENSORIUM
Vertigo. Intoxication. Dull headache, with colic. Aching pains in the whole head, with vomiturition. Slight lacerating headache. Lacerating from the forehead to the right ear. Cutting in the forehead.
EYES
Black motes, momentarily, with quickly-passing sensation of vertigo.
FACE
Drawing in the bones of the right half of the face and fore- head, in the evening. The face is pale and sunken. Herpes on the tibia.
NOSE
Violent bleeding at the nose.
TEETH AND MOUTH
Drawing in the teeth. Burning soreness and interstitial distention of the gums.
THROAT
Warmth and scraping in the pharynx and stomach.
APPETITE
Want of appetite. Rancid eructations. Slight nausea. Vomiting of yellow mucus.
STOMACH
Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as if from without. Pinching below the pit of the stomach, with nausea and eructations. Feel- ing of warmth and pair in the region of the stomach. Burning in :3 the stomach, with nausea and vertigo.
ABDOMEN
Meteorism, frequent colic and movements in the bowels. Sensation of coldness in the abdomen, as if uncovered. Violent burning pressure in the hypochondria. Cutting in the hypogastrium. Constant cutting in the whole thence extending into the thighs, both during rest and motion. Sensation as if the bowels towards the spinal marrow were constricted, with anguish, hunger and thirst. Sensation of heaviness and pain in the region of the kidneys. Violent burning, drawing pains in the regions of the kidneys. Fleeting lacerating pains in the symphysis-pubis. Slight and painful swelling of the inguinal glands.
STOOL
Ineffectual urging. Costive, with distention of the abdomen. Diarrhoea stool. with diminution of the nausea. Thin yellow stools, with discharge of taenia and ascarides. Violent burning in the rectum.
URINE
Inflammatory symptoms about the bladder. Violent dragging and cutting in the bladder. Burning in the bladder. Strangury. Dysuria sometimes real urethritis, with painful erections, as in chordee. Complete suppression of urine. Enuresis. Urine scanty and red even bloody. The urine deposits a thick, muddy, white- yellow sediment. Haematuria.
MALE GENITAL ORGANS
Violent, crampy drawing in the left testicle, and along the left spermatic chord. Seminal emission at night.
FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS
Drawing in the thighs, with colic. Increased menses.
CHEST
Dryness of the mucous membrane if the air-passages. Aching pains behind the sternum, sensation of troublesome prickling in the trachea, as at the commencement of bronchitis, sometimes attended with blood-streaked expectoration. Difficulty of breathing the lungs seem congested. Dyspnoea.
BACK
Drawing pains in the small of the back. Aching pain in the back.
ARM AND LEGS
Stiffness of the limbs. Heaviness in the limbs. Pain as if sprained in the muscles of the upper arm. Drawing and lacerating pain in the hip-joint. Drawing in the groins and thighs. Pains in the feet.
