Uterus prolapsed; region sore to touch. This condition continued for weeks.
Menses one week too soon, too profuse, and what is very unusual, attended with much bearing, pressing down pain.
Second month, four days too soon, flow darker than customary and offensive, but not clotted, lasts two days longer and is too profuse but not weakening.
Vertigo at the time of the menses with pain and heaviness in the pelvis for a week before the menses.
Unusual amount of pain and heaviness in pelvis for a week before menses.
Flow darker, much more profuse (formerly profuse for one day only) but this lasted four days.
Considerable clotting.
Pregnancy, Parturition and Lactation
Arrested development of fetus.
Discharge of blood during pregnancy.
Threatened abortion: more especially at third months; with copious flow of black, liquid; false labor pains, with bloody discharge; in feeble, cachectic women, having a wan, anxious countenance, pulse almost extinct, fear of death, convulsive movements.
Extremely violent pains, almost without intermission, she seemed to be in the last stage of labor, but on examination os was found about the size of a half dollar, thick and somewhat rigid.
Extremely violent pressing labor pains, os however, being only about as large as a ten cent piece; hysterical convulsions.
When advanced about seven and a half months in pregnancy was taken with labor pains, wriggling and not distinctly intermitting; os tincae open, and about size of a shilling, dulness and slight aching of head, despondent.
Prone to abortion in third month; had passed through five, although she kept her bed as soon as pregnant; some labor pains with bloody discharge; was able to attend to her household duties and went to full term.
After lifting a heavy weight during sixth month of pregnancy severe pains in stomach, abdomen and small of back and a pushing-down sensation, violent movements of fetus; cold feet, numbness and tingling in feet, small weak pulse.
After abortus: difficult contraction of uterus; thin, black, foul-smelling discharge.
Retained placenta, after miscarriage, especially when occurring during early months of pregnancy, offensive discharges; patient cold and often almost pulseless from loss of blood; uterine contractions very imperfect, or else prolonged tonic contraction.
During eighth month of pregnancy violent convulsions with frothing at mouth, etc., followed by variable spasms; insensibility and clonic spasms, agg. at every pain; on return of consciousness complained of dull frontal and occipital headache and incessant uterine pains. Premature labor.
During pregnancy: frequent and prolonged forcing pains, particularly in thin, ill-conditioned women, cramps, in calves.
Uterine pains prolonged but ineffectual.
A sensation of constant tonic pressure in uterine region; causes great distress, desires fresh air, does not like to be covered.
Hour glass contraction.
During labor: prolonged bearing-down and forcing pain in uterus; pains irregular; pains too weak, pains feeble, or ceasing; everything seems loose and open, no action, fainting fits.
Strength of uterus weakened by too early or perverted efforts.
Thin, scrawny women, skin shrivelled, dry and harsh, sallow face, weak in labor; pains seem to be entirely wanting; uterus flabby; bearing down in sacral region, a sort of prolonged urging feeling in abdomen.
While the head was passing in lower strait, she was suddenly seized with violent convulsions lasting about three or four minutes, followed by a stupid state with stertorous breathing and uneasy moaning as if from pain.
Labor ceases, and twitching or convulsions begin.
Puerperal convulsions with opisthotonos.
Retained placenta, with constant, strong bearing down in abdomen, or with relaxed feeling of parts.
After labor, pale, weak, uterus distended, burning pains therein, hard, painful to least touch, discharge of black, coagulated or brown, watery offensive-smelling blood; throbbing, tearing pains in thighs extending down to toes, pain agg. from motion; strong pulsation in umbilical region, which could be felt by the hand at wrist weak and rapid; frequent yawning.
Postpartum hemorrhage, with relaxation of uterus only temporarily relieved by compression; after – pains excessive, agg. when child nursed. After – pains: too long and too painful.
Violent after-pains with hemorrhage arising from irregular contractions; the longitudinal fibres alone contracting in such a manner as to leave a sulcus in middle, making it appear as if uterus were split open from top to bottom.
Cessation of lochia, with fever, inflammation of uterus, subsequently an abscess opened through vagina.
Lochia: dark, very offensive; scanty or profuse; painless or accompanied by prolonged bearing-down pain; suppressed, followed by metritis; suddenly changes character and becomes of a dirty brown or chocolate color, with fetid odor, grows sad and melancholy and fears death, of too long duration.
Fever with frequent watery stools. Puerperal fever.
Strong tendency to putrescence; discharge of sanious blood, with tingling in legs and great prostration; urine suppressed; offensive diarrhoea, voice hollow with difficult breathing, feeble and inaudible; burning fever interrupted by shaking chills, does not care to be covered; cold limbs, cold sweat over whole body, gangrene.
Suppression of milk, the milk will not flow from the breast.
Lack of milk with stinging in mammae.
In women who are much exhausted from venous hemorrhage; thin, scrawny women, the breasts do not properly fill with milk.
Thin, scrawny children with shrivelled skin, spasmodic twitching, sudden cries, feverishness.
Pendulous abdomen.
Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from uterus.
Married woman, aged 25, had severe pain in the pelvic region, great bearing-down, excruciating rectal and vesical tenesmus; restless sleep, high fever, and heavily-coated tongue. Sub peritoneal hematocele was diagnosed in consultation. Tumor increased rapidly, and increased fever; pulse 130 to 150, tongue dry, dark brown; sordes on the teeth; vaginal secretions fetid; frequent urgent micturition; mucous dysentery, with increased tenesmus; countenance expressive of great suffering. Under Secale, tumor discharged through the rectum, large quantity of dark, thick blood, patient gradually recovered.
Respiration
Respiration: slow; labored and anxious; oppressed; moaning; constant sighing; hiccough.
Blood is sometimes expectorated during violent efforts to breathe.
Lungs during chill felt as though respiration fanned air on a perfectly dry surface; only during chills.
Sharp pains through left chest, especially when walking.
Cough
Hard, hoarse cough, with but little expectoration.
Concussive cough; profuse perspiration; sleepless nights; inclination to colic; diarrhoea; bloated abdomen; emphysema. Bronchitis.
Spitting of blood, with or without cough.
Larynx and trachea
Voice: hollow, hoarse, with difficult breathing; feeble and inaudible; weak, unintelligible, stammering.
Thickening of mucous membrane of air passages.
Lungs during chill felt as though respiration fanned air.
Inner chest
Cramp in chest.
Pains over nearly whole front part of chest, agg. from coughing and motion.
Expectoration of dark, frothy, rather viscid blood, brought up by a slight cough and amounting to a teacupful in four hours; a spot as large as a crown piece on right side of chest to right of nipple, dull on percussion, with bronchial respiration and mucous rale over that part.
Back and neck
Tumors on neck discharging yellow pus.
Gentle, creeping sensation in back, as if a soft air were blowing through it.
Tingling in back, extending to fingers and toes.
Pain in small of back.
Stitch in back.
Sudden “catch” or “kink” in back.
Pains in sacrum with bearing down as if parts would be forced out, agg. when moving.
Hard, hoarse cough, with but little expectoration; pains nearly all over front part of chest, agg. from coughing and motion; for several years tenderness of lower cervical and upper dorsal spinous processes, with stiffness of neck; agg. from every exertion or strain upon spine; pressure upon diseased portion of spine produces pain there, as well as all through chest, with irritation to cough.
Stitches in upper dorsal vertebrae (between shoulders), constant when sitting, intermittent when standing, at times extending into hands, agg. by pressure upon vertebrae; frequent formication through all limbs; at times rigidity and spasmodic stretching of fingers so that for several minutes he cannot sew; frequent pressure and swelling beneath epigastrium; pain in back agg. when sewing.
Violent pain in back, especially in sacral region; anesthesia and paralysis of limbs, convulsive jerks and shocks in paralyzed limbs; painful contraction of flexor muscles; paralysis of bladder and rectum. Myelitis.
Myelitis diffusa.
Paraplegia preceded by cramps and muscular pains.
Difficult, staggering gait; complete inability to walk, not for want of power but on account of a peculiar unfitness to perform light movements with limbs and hands: contraction of lower limbs on account of which patient staggers; trembling of limbs, sometimes attended with pains; formication of hands and feet; excessive sensation of heat, with aversion to heat or being covered.
