Coryza, with discharge of thick, white mucus.
One nostril stopped up, the other free and discharging; these conditions alternate; discharge acrid, nose and upper lip raw Arum, Cepa.
Itching of roof of mouth [Pulsatilla, Wyeth.].
Diphtheria and tonsillitis; symptoms change repeatedly from side to side.
Sore throats and cough are apt to begin and end with menstruation; yellow or white patches; painful swelling of submaxillary glands.
Throat sensitive to touch externally [Lachesis]; agg. by empty swallowing Ignatia constant inclination to swallow, painful, almost impossible [Mercurius]; pains extend to ears (Hepar, Ignatia, Kali bichromicum, Mercurius, Phytolacca) begins on left side (Lachesis)
Shining, glazed appearance of diphtheritic deposits, chancres and ulcers.
Very hungry, cannot eat enough to satisfy; as hungry after eating as before Casc., Calcarea, Cina, Lycopodium, Stront.
Sinking at epigastrium; faintness in stomach.
Menses: too early; too profuse; flow in gushes, bright red, viscid and stringy [dark, black, stringy, Croc.]; breasts swollen, painful, sensitive before and during [Conium] Stool: urging, but passes nothing but flatus or small black balls.
Discharge of flatus from vagina (Bromium, Lycopodium, Nux moschata Sanguinaria)
Breasts: inflamed, heavy, painful; agg. by least jar and towards evening; must hold them firmly when going up or down stairs( Bry)
Serviceable in almost all cases when it is required to dry up milk Asafoetida; to bring back or increase it [Lac d.].
Sensation a if breath would leave her when lying down must get up and walk [Am-c. Grindelia, Lachesis
Loss of milk while nursing, without any known cause [Asafoetida].
Palpitation violent when lying on left side, amel. turning on right (Lachesis, Tabacum).
Sexual organs easily excited, from touch, pressure on sitting, or friction by walking (Cinn., Coffea, Murex, Platina).
When walking, seems to be walking on air; when lying, does not seem to touch the bed Asarum europaeum; legs as if floating Sticta.
Backache: intense, unbearable, across super-sacral region, extending to right natis and right sciatic nerve; agg. by rest and on first moving Rhus.; spine aches from base of brain to coccyx, very sensitive to touch or pressure Chin-s. Phosphorus, Zincum met.
Mind
Very forgetful; in writing, uses too many words or not the right ones; very nervous.
Omits final letter or letters of a word, when writing; in speaking substitutes name of objects seen, instead of object thought of.
Find it very difficult to read understandingly anything requiring mental effort.
Very absentminded; makes purchases and walks off without them; goes to post a letter, brings it home in her hand.
Cannot remember what she reads, but can remember other things.
Cannot collect her thoughts; confused feeling.
Very restless; cannot concentrate her thoughts or mind to read; wants to leave everything as soon as it is commenced.
Is impressed with the idea that all she says is a lie; it seems to be very difficult to speak the truth, but continually distrusts things; when reading anything she rapidly changes the meaning, omitting or adding things.
Every time a symptom appears she feels very confident that it is not attributable to medicine, but that it is some settled disease.
Sensation as if she were going deranged, when sitting still and thinking; sometimes she has most horrible sights presented by her mental vision [not always snakes.], feels horribly afraid that they will take objective form and show themselves to her natural eye.
Thinks that she is looked down upon by every one, that she is of no importance in life, and feels insulted threat.
Imagines that he wears some one else’s nose.
Imagines to be dirty.
Imagines she sees spiders.
Feels very short in morning; while walking; same in evening.
Woke at daylight feeling that she is a loathsome, horrible mass of disease [while the breasts were affected.]; could not bear to look at any portion of her body, not even hands as it intensified feeling of disgust and horror; could not bear to have any one part of her body touch another, had to keep even fingers apart [cannot bear one foot to touch the other, Lac-f.]; felt that if she could not in some way get out of her body, she should soon become crazy; could not think of anything but her own condition; feels weak, and nerves thoroughly out of order.
After inhaling a gas for extraction of teeth, very strange sensation in head [such as he felt when going off under gas.]; sometimes imagines heart or breathing is going to stop, or otherwise frightens himself, and this makes heart beat violently; occasionally very depressed, and fancies he is going out of his mind.
After menses, imagines all sorts of things about snakes.
Wakes at night with a sensation that she was lying on a large snake.
Sensation or delusion as if surrounded by myriads of snakes, some running like lightning up and down inside of skin; some that are inside seem long and thin; fears to put her feet on floor, lest she should tread on them and make them squirm and wind around her legs; is afraid to look behind her for fear that she will see snakes there, does not dream of them and is seldom troubled with them after dark; on going to bed she was afraid to shut her eyes for fear that a large snake, the size of her arm, would hit her in the face. Worries herself lest pimples which appear during menses will prove to be little snakes, and twine and twist around each other.
Horrible visions, fears they will take objective form; when sitting still and thinking.
On lying down either by night or day begins to think how horrible it would be if a very sharp pain, like a knife, should go through her, and thought of it causes great mental distress.
Attacks of rage, cursing and swearing at slightest provocation.
Cannot bear to be left alone for an instant.
No desire to live.
Anxious.
Fear of disease; of consumption; of heart disease.
Sits and looks under chairs, table, sofa and everything in room, expecting yet dreading to see some terrible monster creep forth, and feeling all the time that if it does it will drive her raving mad; she is not afraid in dark, it is only in light where she can imagine that she can see them.
Fits of weeping two or three times a day.
Child cries and screams all the time, especially at night, and will not be pacified in any way.
When paroxysms of intense nervousness come on, feels like tearing off her clothes; takes off her rings; cannot bear anything to touch her, especially over l. ovarian region, from which she frequently lifts bed clothes.
Depression of spirits, doubts her ability and success, thinks she will have heart disease and die of it.
Chronic “blue” conditions; everything seems so dark that it can grow no darker.
Gloomy feelings, agg. as headache gets worse.
Fears she will become unable to perform her duties.
Fear of death, with anxious expression of countenance.
Very nervous; constant dread; a feeling as if she was going to become unconscious.
Wakes distressed and obliged to rise and occupy herself in some manner; fears she will be crazy.
Has great fear of falling down stairs at times.
Very cross and irritable only while headache lasts.
When awake, very irritable and cries constantly.
Intense ugliness and hatefulness; writes to her best friends all sorts of mean and contemptible things.
Easily excited.
Too excited to allow examination of throat.
Feels weak, and nerves so thoroughly out of order that she cannot bear one finger to touch another.
Exceedingly nervous and irritable.
Very easily startled.
Maud R., aged 10, a light brunette, parents healthy, while playing one and a half years before, fell forward and hurt her chest. Nothing was thought of it at the time, but when brought to me she was pale, emaciated, capricious with no desire to play. Sleep disturbed by frightful dreams, during the day piteously begs her mother to take her, she is so afraid. She feels as though snakes were on her back. In response to advice, Lac can 50M., one dose dry on her tongue, as given, and in 24 hours the child became more lively and cheerful, and very soon all abnormal sensations disappeared and never returned.-E. T. Balch, Hom. Phys.
Head
Dizzy sensation with slight nausea.
After inhaling diphtheritic breath, light headed, with tingling on vertex and slight sore throat.
Constant noise in head, very confusing; agg. at night and at menses.
Wakes at night with sensation as if bed was in motion; noise in head bad beyond description; first thought on waking that headboard was swaying, and so occasioning distress, but found it arose from internal causes.
Frontal headache.
Headache first on one side of the forehead, then on the other.
On going into cold wind, terrible pain in forehead as if it would split open, amel. on going into warm room.
After midnight, very severe frontal headache, and a piercing pain on vertex.
Headache both frontal and occipital, agg. by turning eyeballs upward.
Headache over eyes, agg. when sewing.
Headache: in afternoon, principally over left eye: over left eye in first awaking.
