Lyssin – Medicine



Teeth very sensitive; feel as if on edge.

Headache and earache extend into teeth.

Chilling painfulness starts in teeth of right side behind and below in bone of lower maxilla and passes upwards.

Neuralgic pain in gums, principally in front.

Aching in swollen gums on right side.

Drawing in gums, most in front.

Taste and Tongue

      Food does not have right taste.

Scrapy taste, with much saliva.

Bitter taste in morning, on awaking.

Salt victuals tasted too strongly of salt, other food seemed to lack salt.

Speech is labored, short and pathetic.

Difficult, incorrect speech.

Impediment in his speech, would begin a sentence with difficulty after several fruitless attempts, some palatal vowels he could not pronounce, others but incorrectly.

A cool feeling on tongue like after peppermint.

Pain in root of tongue and left side of throat.

Peculiar pain at root of tongue as if it was swollen.

Tickling, queer feeling in throat and root of tongue.

Tongue usually moist and clean, frequently slightly coated, more seldom dry and thickly coated.

Tongue coated with thin layer of yellowish white fur.

Tongue coated with foam.

Tongue dark red on sides, coated in center.

Tongue large, pale and flabby.

Pricking sensation under tongue.

Ranula returns periodically, with dryness of mouth, agg. in afternoon, soreness when chewing; with hemorrhoids and constipation.

Throat

      Slight redness of palate and throat, with spasm of esophagus and difficult speech.

Sore throat, as after swallowing red pepper.

Quite a sore throat, constrictive sensation much agg. when attempting to swallow liquids, which he could not do without pain; solids not painful.

At 11 A. M.: soreness in throat till noon.

Sore throat: very severe; all day; in forenoon; amel. at 6 P. M. after supper (7 P. M.); not able to swallow without great pain; as if swelled; as if raw; aches; on right side; with headache; with soreness in eyes; with increased tenacious saliva.

Cooling sensation in esophagus.

Throat quite sore, headache in both temples, numbness in both arms, slight pain in lumbar region all day.

Fauces an pharynx as far as one can see are slightly inflamed, there is inclination to swallow, and increase of saliva.

Painful sore throat, throat much inflamed, headache agg. tenacious mucus in mouth and throat, great weakness with aversion to move.

Inflammation of throat with foamy saliva.

Violent spasm in throat as if he would suffocate, from 2 P. M. to 9: 30 P.M.

Great heat in throat and about heart.

Sudden jerks going from esophagus to heart.

Sore throat, constant desire to swallow, much saliva and feeling as if beaten.

Periodical spasm of esophagus, continual painful inclination to swallow without being able to swallow anything; constriction is most severe when taking water into mouth, if he tried to swallow it forcibly, he had burning and stinging pain in throat, cough and retching which forced fluid from his mouth; difficult speech.

Difficulty in swallowing; particularly fluids.

Dryness in throat and difficult swallowing, with slight erysipelatous redness in pharynx.

Stinging sensation when swallowing.

Sore throat at 2 o’clock; with difficulty in swallowing fluids; felt as if epiglottis was paralyzed.

Sore throat with great inflammation, could only swallow with difficulty, fluids returned through nose.

A peculiar sense of constriction in back of throat at 3 P. M., agg. at 4 P. M., could not swallow without pain; disappeared at 6 P. M., but returned at 7 and lasted until bedtime.

Sore throat with constriction, particularly when attempting to swallow fluids, which is painful.

Terrible pain in throat, particularly when swallowing.

Constant inclination to swallow, or remove phlegm which seems to stick between nose and throat.

Constant desire to swallow, painful and ineffectual.

Some will drink water without difficulty.

Activity to drink is restored before sudden death.

Warm drinks, milk, soups and wine are often more easily taken than water.

Imagines that he cannot swallow anything.

Difficulty in swallowing can, at first, be overcome by firm resolution.

Declared he could not swallow for something in throat that interrupted the passage.

Swallowing more difficult at 5 P. M. than in the morning (after Bellad).

Solid food sometimes consumed with great difficulty.

Absolute impossibility to swallow anything; whenever attempt is made, attacks of suffocation and spasms of respiratory muscles as well as of muscles of face, neck and rest of body, with great mental disturbance.

After some days patient equally abhorred solids as well as fluids; when importuned to eat, he was thrown into convulsions.

Any attempt to swallow bread occasioned greatest agony.

Often happens that they succeed in drinking after those who were around them have retired, or when attempts is made with closed eyes and with aid of a straw.

No disgust for fluids until difficulty in swallowing came on; when fluid touched fauces it seemed at the peril of his life.

At 3 P. M. felt a strange constrictive sensation in back part of throat, never experienced before, agg. at 4 P. M.; could not swallow without great pain; went off at 6 P.M.; returned in an hour, lasting until 10 P.M.

When taking water into mouth, constriction was greatest.

Periodical spasms of esophagus.

Attempt to drink water starts convulsions.

Had difficulty in speaking; a connected sentence could only be uttered after making several fruitless attempts; palatic letters could not be pronounced at all, all were pronounced wrong.

At 10 A. M. felt a soreness and suffocation in back of throat.

Violent spasms of throat at 2 P. M. feeling as if he was about to be suffocated; went off at 9 P.M.

A ball, as it were, rises from stomach up to throat, seems to threaten suffocation.

Sensation of a lump in throat with desire to swallow.

A terrible pain in throat all day, and great pain on swallowing.

Pain extended upwards from wounded arm toward throat.

Stitching sensation when swallowing.

Burning stinging in left side of chest, with palpitation in afternoon.

Burning stinging in throat.

Trying to swallow water forcibly, it caused burning and stinging in throat, besides cough and gagging, which forced out contents of mouth. Spasm of throat.

Burning down esophagus.

Great heat in throat and around heart.

A slight redness of affected parts.

Intense and deep seated inflammation of mucous membrane of mouth, gums, throat and larynx, with smarting pains on swallowing.

Feels as if he had swallowed a small quantity of red pepper.

Stomach

      Pressure in epigastrium after eating.

Suffocating pain at pit of stomach.

Distress in epigastrium and precordial region with dyspnoea.

In epigastric region sensation half coldish, half burning.

Pain in epigastric region, deep in, as if in or behind duodenum.

Aching with coldness in stomach.

A cooling pain in stomach, with here and there a sharp and pointed pressure.

A sensation of motion in stomach.

Loud gurgling in left side of stomach, becomes more continuous, like water from a bottle.

A loud cooing noise in stomach, to left and after a while repeated as a quick croaking.

Great oppression in stomach, has to open her clothes.

A slightly hot, quiet, aching sensation below chest, sometimes lower down, often in entire abdomen, as if in intestines.

Stomach empty, or may contain a dark, opaque substance, frequently resembling coffee grounds; in mucous membrane of stomach and intestines, decided injection of blood-vessels; upon former frequently hemorrhagic erosions.

Appetite, Thirst desires, Aversions.

Appetite good, but digestion deficient; a portion of nearly everything he ate passing bowels in an undigested state. Chronic camp diarrhoea.

Voracious appetite; swallowed wheat without chewing.

Little appetite in morning; want of appetite, headache, depression.

Want of appetite. Hydrophobia of sheep.

Could take no nourishment (with spitting), could not remain at table.

Symptoms of digestive organs extremely variable; excessive thirst, vomiting, constipation.

Thirst and disinclination for food.

Felt very thirsty and had no aversion to drink, on contrary drank large quantities of water.

Thirst much increased, complains of burning pains in throat.

Thirst and desire to drink, but is prevented from doing so by spasmodic constriction of throat, attempts excite most disagreeable sensations, even spasms.

Had not been drinking any water for some time, only some hot tea.

Drank some strong tea at supper, after which salivation discontinued until 8 P. M., then commenced again.

No appetite, except for sour things.

Called for burnt brandy and drank it; next day a strong rising in his stomach and an impossibility to drink.

Excessive desire for salt.

First days, smoking unpleasant; after first week, a crazy, insatiable desire to smoke, he does not allow pipe to cool.

Picked up bits of cotton and shreds of cloth; bits of chips and coal were devoured whenever getting near; anything that was within reach and could be grasped by the jaws was gnawed away very quickly; a dog.

Urine and feces were frequently devoured as soon as they were voided; a dog.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.