Skin and conjunctiva becomes jaundiced.
Soon after the rigor, sometimes a subcutaneous abscess forms, or discolorations and pustules are seen on the skin. Jaundice appears.
Bed sores easily form and skin shows a tendency to slough on very slight pressure.
Patches of superficial gangrene frequently occur, without provocation.
Erysipelas.
Skin pale, cold, or earthy ashy hue.
Obstinate, varicose, offensive ulcers of old people.
Cases.
Mrs. T. B., pale, slender, delicate, but in good health; primipara; was successfully delivered April 10th, 1901. On the 20th found her with a temperature of 102; lochia scanty, pale offensive; but she felt well and had no pain. Fever increased in severity gradually for several days, until temperature reached 105 and 106, with a pulse of 120-130; still she insisted she felt well and would not go to bed. Several remedies, Baptisia, Belladonna, Ech., Tar., were given without effect. Finally a severe shaking chill followed in a few hours by another sent her to bed. and the nurse was recalled. Pyrogen was given. Following day temperature 102; lochia reappeared in natural color; the abdominal sensitiveness ceased and in two or three days disappeared entirely; She rapidly recovered.
Mrs. W. S. C., a slender woman; primipara; delivered June 10th, instrumental. Severe peritoneal laceration, which was repaired.
The morning of the third day had shake; cutting spasmodic pain in uterus, which was swollen and sensitive; lochia dark, profuse, clotted; both iliac regions sensitive to pressure agg. left side.
Belladonna gave no relief. Fever continued to rise; lochia darker, more offensive, containing threads and clots. The odor and other symptoms indicating approaching sepsis she received Pyrogen with very gratifying results, and a rapid recovery.
Carrie, aged 16 years, been sick two or three times months under allopathic care. Breath, perspiration, expectoration, menses, urine and feces horribly offensive, carrion-like; disgust up to nausea about an effluvia that arises from her own body; soreness of the chest and abdomen, menses last but one day and a sanguineous leucorrhea that is of the same odor; pulse 106, with a bad cough, worse coming into a warm room; large, fleshy, pale, greenish or chlorotic face, mother having just died of consumption. Pyrogen cm., one dose, and better in ten hours, and on November 12th cough, odor and soreness nearly all gone, pulse 80, tongue clean. Sac. lac., and she remains well to this writing. – Wakeman.
Mind
Loquacious; can think and talk faster than ever before (S).
Irritable (S).
Delirious on closing eyes; sees a man at foot of bed.
Whispers; in sleep.
Sensation as if she covered the whole bed, knew her head was on pillow, but did not know where the rest of her body was.
Feels when lying on one side that she is one person, and another person when turning on the other side.
Sensation as though crowded with arms and legs.
Hallucination that he is very wealthy; remaining after fever.
Increased buoyancy of spirits, although he felt ill.
Great depression.
Muttering delirium.
Anxiety, restlessness.
The muttering delirium sets in early, leading to unconsciousness and death.
The signs of infection are horror, delirium, stupefaction.
Brain active during the night, could not sleep, was making speeches and writing articles.
Head
Staggers as if drunk on rising in morning (S).
Dizziness on rising up in bed.
Pains in both mastoids, agg. right; dull throbbing in mastoid region(S).
Great throbbing of arteries of temples and head; every pulsation felt in brain and in ears, the throbbing meet on top of brain (S).
Painless throbbing all through front of head; sounds like escaping steam (S).
Frightful throbbing headache amel. from tight band.
Excruciating, bursting, throbbing headache with intense restlessness (often accompanied with profuse nose-bleed, nausea, and vomiting.
Sensation as if a cap were on.
Rolling of head from side to side.
Forehead bathed in cold sweat.
Throbbing of carotids and vessels of the neck; a distinct, wavelike throb from the clavicles upwards.
Child with cerebrospinal meningitis was so sick that at one time it seemed as though she could not recover; there was automatic motion of the right arm and right leg; rolling the head from side to side, this kept up until it would turn her around from left to right till her feet would get on the pillow or touch the head-board; she was brought out of this condition with Pyrogenium.
Dull headache.
Cerebral symptoms are not usually severe, but there is often a low form of delirium.
Dizziness, headache.
Heavy headache, uncomfortable.
Morning headache.
Pulsation felt in head, painless throbbing.
Eyes
Left eyeball sore, agg. looking up and turning eye outward (S).
Projecting eyes.
Lids seem dry and roughened as if filled with sand; mucus collecting in inner canthi; agglutinated and crusty borders on waking in the morning.
Sticky and inflamed eyes.
Intense photophobia, lies with fists pressed tight in eyes.
Phlyctenular keratitis, both eyes agg. by light.
Ears
Loud ringing, like a bell, in left ear, ringing and roaring in right ear agg. at night.
Ears cold.
Ears red, as if blood would burst out of them.
Sound as of escaping steam, a puffing, purring sound.
Loud ringing in right ear lasting but a few minutes.
Nose
Nose-bleed; awakened by dreaming of it and found it was so.
Sneezing: every time he puts hands from under covers; at night.
Nostrils closing alternately (S).
Cold nose.
Fan-like motion of alae nasi.
Sneezing at night, nostrils closing and alternating from side to side.
Thick, gluey discharge from nose agg. right.
Face
Face: burning; yellow; very red; pale, sunken, and bathed in cold sweat; pale, greenish, or chlorotic.
Circumscribed redness of cheeks.
Hectic flush in afternoon and evening, coming on regularly at 3 or 4 P.M. and lasting till midnight; then face covered with large drops of cold perspiration.
Face assumes a pinched and anxious expression.
Mouth
Tongue: coated white in front, brown at back; yellowish brown, bad taste in morning (S).
Tongue: coated yellowish grey, edges and tip very red, large, flabby, yellow brown streak down center.
Tongue clean, smooth and dry, first fiery red, then dark red and intensely dry; smooth and dry; glossy, shiny as if varnished; dry, cracked, articulation difficult.
Tongue dry and not a particle of moisture on it. Has had no thirst since she has been sick. Bitter taste in the mouth, tongue dry down the center.
Taste: took one dose of Pyrogen cm. (Swan) in the afternoon.
During the evening a terribly fetid taste, as if mouth and throat were full of pus, which lasted 24 hours; sensation as of a broken abscess in the mouth. A nauseating, offensive taste in morning, for many days during proving.
Tongue dry and brown.
Bad taste in the mouth.
Sticky saliva.
Pasty, furred tongue.
Throat
Diphtheria with extreme fetor.
Relaxed throat.
Elongated uvula.
Ulcerated tonsils.
Stomach
Belching of sour water after breakfast.
Nausea and vomiting.
Vomiting: persistent; brownish, coffee-ground; offensive, stercoraceous; with impacted or obstructed bowels.
Vomiting and purging.
Vomits water when it becomes warm in stomach; vomiting amel.
Urging to vomit; with cold feet.
Stomach feels too full; agg. after eating and amel. by frequent sour eructations.
Nausea amel. by drinking very hot water and by vomiting.
Vomiting is not infrequent.
Nausea on first rising.
Dyspepsia.
Belching some water after breakfast.
Stomach and bowels feel too full to eat.
Appetite
No appetite or thirst (19th day). Complete loss of appetite.
Great thirst for small quantities, but the least liquid was instantly rejected.
Drinking very hot water, amel. thirst and vomiting (dog).
No appetite, yet nourishment is freely taken and digested.
Poor appetite for breakfast.
No appetite, as stomach and bowels feel so full.
No appetite for dinner.
Unusual appetite for chocolate.
Abdomen
Full feeling and bloating of abdomen.
When lying on left side bubbling of gurgling sensation in hypochondria, extending back to left of spine.
Pain in umbilical region with passage of sticky, yellow, offensive stool.
While riding in a buggy aching in left of umbilicus; agg. drinking water; amel. passing flatus.
Soreness of abdomen so severe she can breathe with difficulty, and hardly bear any pressure over right side.
Very severe cutting pains right side going through back, agg. by every motion, talking, coughing, breathing deep; amel. lying on right (affected) side; groaning with every breath.
Great distension of the abdomen, with high temperature – lochial discharge, intensely offensive, as if rotten. Peritonitis.
Irregular action of the bowels.
Sensation of cold in abdomen.
Sensation of heaviness in abdomen.
Ascites (Bright’s disease).
Stool
Feculent and thin mucus, and finally bloody diarrhea and tenesmus (dog).
