A lady, 32, had severe fever, temperature from 103 to 105, attended with headache, backache and cramps in muscles of limbs, with severe abdominal and pelvic pains, the results of instrumental abortion. As the acute symptoms passed off, there was great fear and mental restlessness, which Aconite failed to relieve.
Each evening at 6, would become restless and break out in profuse icy cold sweat, continued all night, very exhausting, not amel. by external heat. As evening approached, great fear of the on coming cold sweat and icy chilliness. With the cold, copious sweat, was a foul taste and very offensive odor. Psorinum dmm., one dose dry on tongue amel.
Voice Larynx, trachea and Bronchia
Hoarseness; when talking, phlegm sticks in larynx.
Talking is very fatiguing.
Voice weak, trembling.
Suffocative and crawling sensation in larynx, producing a paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough.
Tickling, throat as if narrowing, must cough to relieve it.
For eleven years hay fever, coming on about 20th of August.
Hoarseness, after the least amount of speaking; she must vomit in order to clear her voice.
Hoarseness, also sometimes aphony (she cannot speak loud but must whisper), after a slight cold.
Constant hoarseness and aphony for years; he cannot speak a loud word.
Suppuration of the larynx and the bronchia (laryngo-bronchial phthisis).
Hoarseness and catarrh very often, or almost constantly; his chest is continually affected.
Cough; there is frequently an irritation and a crawling in the throat; the cough torments him, until sweat breaks out upon the face (and upon the hands.).
Respiration
Short breath or want of breath.
Convalescents go out for a walk, instead of being invigorated return home in order to get breath or to lie down so they can breathe more easily, feel agg. instead of amel. from being in open air.
Chest expands with great difficulty; cannot get breath.
Anxious dyspnoea, with palpitation and pain in cardiac region.
Dyspnoea: Agg. when sitting up to write, amel. when lying down, congestion to head after dinner, great despondency; agg. the nearer arms are brought to body.
Must keep arms spread wide apart.
Asthma, as if he would die; precursor of hydrothorax.
Stitches from behind forward, in chest and back, when breathing.
Want of breath in open air, must hurry.
Obstruction of the breath, with stitching pains in the chest at the slightest amount of walking, he cannot go a step farther (angina pectoris).
Asthma, merely when moving the arms, not while walking.
Attacks of suffocation especially after midnight; the patient has to sit up, sometimes he has to leave his bed, stand stooping forward, leaning on his hands; he has to open the windows, or get out into the open air, etc.; he has palpitations; these are followed by eructations or yawning, and the spasm terminates with or without coughing and expectoration.
Palpitation with anxiety, especially at night.
Asthma, loud, difficult, at times also sibilant respiration.
Shortness of breath.
Asthma, on moving, with or without cough.
Asthma, mostly while sitting down.
Asthma, spasmodic; when she comes into the open air it takes her breath.
Asthma, in attacks, lasting several weeks.
Cough
Cough: from tickling in larynx; dry, hard, caused by tickling in trachea; in evening with pains in chest and throat, passing off when she is quiet; produced by talking; with sensation of weakness in chest; dry, with sensation of heaviness in chest; dry, with soreness under sternum, with stitches in chest; dry, with constricting pain in the chest; agg. mornings when awaking and evenings on lying down; coughs a long time before expectorating; periodic attacks; chronic spasmodic, of twenty- five years’ duration.
Severe, dry cough with oppression of chest and pain as if everything in chest were raw scratched; fever in evening, great depression of spirits, making life burdensome to him.
Cough, causing tearing from center of chest to throat, all on right side; cough agg. at night; urine escapes when coughing.
An old, dull cough, palpitation and a fixed pain in chest disappear, the entire feeling is better, only the lower white of eye turns red and ulcers from on it, eye waters, without pain, with photophobia, amel. in fresh air.
Dry cough, pain in the chest for last three months, a constricting pressure at fourth and fifth ribs near sternum, excessive irritability and ill humor.
Cough with expectoration; asthma, thinks he will die.
Cough with expectoration of green mucus, nearly like matter; especially in morning when waking and in evening when lying down, with nausea;; it sticks firmly and he can only expectorate with difficulty.
Cough with salty-tasting, green and yellow expectoration; oppression of chest; gradual loss of strength; after suppressed itch.
Expectoration: of blood with hot sensation in chest; yellowish green.
Chronic blennorrhea of lungs, threatening phthisis.
Drinking causes cough.
Cough aggravates pain in liver and pain in chest extending to shoulder.
Cough; frequent irritation and crawling in the throat; the cough torments him, until perspiration breaks out on his face (and on his hands).
Cough, which does not abate until there is retching and vomiting, mostly in the morning or in the evening.
Cough, which terminates every time with sneezing.
Cough mostly in the evening after lying down and whenever the head lies low.
Cough, waking the patient up after the first brief sleep.
Cough, especially in the night.
Cough, worst after awaking in the morning.
Cough, worst after eating.
Cough, at once with every deep breath.
Cough, causing a sensation of soreness in the chest, or at times stitches in the side of the chest or the abdomen.
Dry cough.
Cough, with yellow expectoration resembling pus, with or without spitting of blood.
Cough, with excessive expectoration of mucus and sinking of the strength (mucous phthisis).
Attacks of spasmodic cough (whooping cough).
Inner Chest and Lungs
Oppression: in chest; anxious, every morning, with cough.
Pressure on chest.
Burning pressing pain in chest.
Pain in chest, great anxiety by spells.
Constriction of chest when inhaling steam from fat.
Excruciating pains in chest.
Cutting as of knives in chest.
Feels as if everything were torn in chest.
Whole chest feels sore.
At times bruised, suppurative pain through whole chest, extending towards right shoulder and becoming fixed there; agg. after frequent coughing; after cold drinks.
Pain in chest, as if raw, as from subcutaneous ulceration.
Ulcerative pain in chest under sternum.
Stitches: in sternum, with backache; from behind forward in chest and back when breathing; in right side of chest when breathing; in chest (left side).
Sharp pain, right side, opposite tenth rib.
Fixed pain in right side of chest.
Pains in right side of chest agg. from motion, laughing, coughing, with sweat.
Chest pains from coughing.
Pains in chest grow more severe two or three times a day, begin with chilliness and trembling, followed by heat one hour in duration; great anxiety of heart and mind with fear of death, dyspnoea and restlessness; attacks pass off with sour, clammy sweat and chilliness; sweat however occurs every night independent of attack.
Hot sensation in chest.
Tedious recovery in pneumonia.
Dull pressure in right side of chest, extending thence over whole chest, agg. bending forward in writing, not by motion or deep inspiration; dry cough with expectoration of small lumps of mucus; speaking affects him very much; great prostration after preaching, so that he must rest a long time to recuperate;; voice is not husky, but it requires all his strength to get through with his work; chest narrow, shoulders projecting. Phthisis.
Pain in chest comes by fits; great anxiety; a feeling of ulceration under sternum; chest inflates only with much exertion; coughs a long time before beginning to expectorate.
Phthisis pulmonalis.
Suppuration of lungs. Phthisis pulmonalis.
Chronic blennorrhea of lungs.
Hydrothorax.
Chest symptoms amel. when lying down.
Violent, at times unbearable, stitches in the chest at every breath; cough impossible for pain; without inflammatory fever (spurious pleurisy).
Pain in the chest on walking, as if the chest was about to burst.
Pressure pain in the chest, at deep breathing or at sneezing.
Often a slightly constrictive pain in the chest, which, when it does not quickly pass, causes the deepest dejection.
Burning pain in the chest.
Frequent stitches in the chest, with or without cough.
Violent stitches in the side; with great heat of the body, it is almost impossible to breathe, on account of stitches in the chest with hemoptysis and headache; he is confined to his bed.
Rush of blood to the chest.
Heart Pulse and Circulation
Stitches in cardiac region, low gurgling extending towards heart, for a moment breathing is impossible.
Pain in heart amel. when lying down, thinks the stitches will kill him if they continue.
Gurgling (gluckern) in region of heart, particularly noticeable when lying.
