Slow, unsteady gait.
Unconquerable lassitude. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
Laziness. [STUTZ, l. c. – FR. HOFFMANN, de Correct. Opii, § 16.]
430. Great desire to lean against everything, to stretch out the lower limbs lazily and to support the head on a hand. [Sche.]
Feeling of strength.
Exhaustion (aft. 8, 12 h.).
Relaxation, laziness. [REINEGGS l. c.]
Lazy movement. [MURRAY, l. c., p. 285.]
435. Exhaustion; everything external is distasteful to him, he is sleepy, dazed, stupefied, sad, and his memory fails him. [MURRAY, l. c. (When the primary action of the opium is passed.) ]
Exhaustion. [BERGIUS,- (immediately) WILLIS, l. c.]
Checks the activity of the voluntary muscles, diminsensibility and hence induces sleep. [TRALLES, l. c., p. 110.]
Diminishes (in robust persons) the power of the muscles subject to the will, causes weight of the head and great exhaustion. [TRALLES, l. c., p. 107. (Opium diminishes only in the secondary action the power of the muscles subject to the will, and then also paralyses them completely; but in its primary action it excites them, but if this primary action is interrupted by stupefaction and stupefied slumber, then in this opium sleep one or another limb twitches.) ]
Premature senility. [BERGIUS, l. c.]
440. It causes remarkable loss of the powers and deprives the firm parts of tone and mobility. [FR. HOFFMANN, Medorrhinum Rat., ii, p. 270.]
Relaxation of the limbs and weakness. [HAMBERGER, l. c., § 16.]
The power of movement of the muscles is depressed. [ETTMULLER, l. c.]
Heaviness of the limbs (aft. 1.1/4 h.). [Gn.]
Weakness of the powers. [KAMFER, l. c., p. 645. (From large doses.)]
445. Apoplexy not rare. [WEPFER, de Apoplexia, p. 24. (Not accessible.) – Mead l. c., p. 133. – VAN SWIETEN, l. c., p. 325. – LORRY, l. c.] (From large doses.)
Sinking of the powers. [CLARK,- WILLIS, l. c. §]
Debility, sinking of the powers. [REINEGGS, l. c.]
Unfit for all work, exhausted and weak. [CHARDIN, l. c.]
He can scarcely move the feet, can hardly walk forwards even when forcibly compelled to do so. [SCHELHAMMER, l. c.]
450. Exhaustion of the powers and inability to move. {FR. HOFFMANN, Dissert, de Operatione Opii, p. 8.]
He lay in the greatest weakness. [TRALLES, l. c., p. 238.]
The muscles move with greater difficulty. [BERGER, l. c., § 10.]
Increased immobility of the limbs. [SCHELHAMMER, l. c.]
The muscular tone is relaxed, so that a kind of paralysis ensues. [FRIEND, l. c., cap. 14.]
455. All the muscles relaxed. [LASSUS, l. c.]
Paralysis. [BAGLIO, (Statement.) Prax. Medorrhinum, lib. 1, p. 65. (From too many and too strong doses of opium.) ]
The limbs lay immovable, and remained lying in the place where they were laid. [KILIAN, l. c.]
Great prostration, sinking of all the vital spirits. [WILLIS, l. c.]
Discomfort, ill feeling of body and mind (aft. 8, 12 h.).
460. Syncope. [MULLER, l. c.- FR HOFFMANN, Diss de Correct. Opii, § 16.]
Syncope recurring every quarter of an hour; he closes the eyes, lets the head hang down, with weak respiration; without consciousness, with unaltered pulse; then some spasmodic shocks of the body, whereupon after a few minutes the paroxysm ends with a sigh; followed by anxiety. (The symptoms of Mullers’s patient before and after taking the opium were so similar, that the effects ascribed to the drug on his authority are very dubious.) [MULLER, l. c.]
Flow of blood from a recently opened vein (until death). [PET. BORELLI, cent. 4, obs. 57. (Observation.) ]
With increased powers she tries to get up out of bed, but immediately becomes faint and giddy; on lying down again she immediately revives. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
Inclination to lie down. [GRIMM, l. c.]
465. yawning for several hours, with pain in the jaw-joints as if they would break. [Stf.]
Drowsiness. [BERGIUS,- MATTHAEI, l. c.]
Great inclination to sleep. [CHARVET, l. c.]
Sudden falling asleep (aft. a few m.). [CHARVET, l. c.]
Waking sopor.
470. Incomprehensible chattering in the sopor.
A kind of stupefied sleep, with half-opened eyes, eyeballs turned upwards under the upper lid, mouth more or less open and stertorous inspiration.
Drowsiness, slumber, stupefaction. [FRIEND, l. c., xiv, p. 140.]
Slumber. [SAUVAGES,- BUCHNER, l. c.]
In place of sound sleep it easily induces a morbid slumber. [TRALLES, l. c., p. 112.]
475. He lay as if sunk in slumber. [SCHELHAMMER, l. c.]
Nocturnal, continued sopor, with increased thirst, tongue almost clean, with dark red border and dry cracked lips. [JUNCKER and BOHMER,- MATTHAEI.;/ c/]
Soporous stupefaction. [DE LA CROIX, l. c.]
The sleep caused by opium passed into an unusual stupefaction. [RIEDLIN, l. c., ann. V, Oct., obs. 30.]
Such a stupefied slumber that an answer cannot be got from him. [STALPAART VAN DER WIEL, Cent. ii, obs. 42.]
480. Very sound sleep with rattling respiration, as after apoplexy (aft. 6 h.). [LASSUS, l. c.]
During almost constant slumber, with half-shut eyelids, he has floccilation and feels all about him. [RADEMACHER, l. c.]
Stupid sleep without any consciousness, with rattling on the chest. [KILIAN, l. c.]
Sleep with consciousness, with rattling on the chest. [KILIAN, l. c.]
Sleep with consciousness; he hears everything about him, but cannot rouse himself; waking after two hours. [CHARVET, l. c.]
On shaking the patient and speaking to her she can be roused from her sleep; she then complained and wished to die. [LEROUX.]
485. Sopor and insensibility, with sufficient warmth and normal pulse and respiration. [WILLIS, l. c.]
Unconquerable sleep, in which, however, he feels pain, and when pinched opens his eyes. [SAUVAGES, l. c.]
Irresistable sleep (immediately after taking two grains and upwards), but which is disturbed by dreams, and on waking he is not refreshed, but feels nausea. [A THUESSINK, l. c.]
Unrefreshing sleep with general perspiration. [GRIMM, l. c.]
After long opium sleep weariness. [YOUNG, l. c.]
490. On awaking faint-heartedness. (In original,”sense of faintness and failing about the heat, seizing him as often as he was dropping asleep.”) [YOUNG, l. c.]
After waking inclination to vomit. [YOUNG, l. c.]
After the opium sleep exhaustion, (Better “Lassitude.”) heaviness of the head, and dryness of the throat. [BERGIUS, l. c.]
During sleep erection of the penis, and after waking impotence – in the male. [STALPAART VAN DER WIEL., l. c., obs. 41.]
After the opium sleep stammering. [PLATER, Observ., lib. I, p. 127. (Not found.) ]
495. After waking difficulty of moving the tongue. (With the dryness of mouth of S. 158.) [SCHEHAMMER, l. c.]
After the sleep dulness of the head. [JORDENS, l. c., xvii, 1.]
Starting in sleep, and after waking he is as of intoxicated and half mad. [TRALLES, l. c., I, p. 282.]
After sleep intoxication and vertigo. [TRALLES, l. c., I, p. 282.]
More exhausted after waking, by uneasy dreams during the night. [TRALLES, l. c., I, p. 122.]
500. A man who had long been unused to dreams, dreams after taking opium. [RIEDLIN, l. c., ann. ii, Nov., obs. 16.]
The sleep from large doses of opium is not without dreams. [TRALLES, l. c., p. 120.]
The whole night occupied with a number of visions and fancies in sleep. [TRALLES, l. c., p. 121.]
The sleep of opium is always associated with dreams and grimaces. [LINDERSTOLPE, l. c., cap. 10, thes. 75.]
Merry dreams. [DE RUEF, l. c.]
505. Sometimes agreeable, sometimes sad, sometimes anxious and frightful dreams. [TRALLES, l. c., p. 120.]
Sleep disturbed sometimes by pleasant, sometimes anxious and frightful dreams. [TRALLES, l. c., p. 120.]
Sleep disturbed sometimes by pleasant, sometimes by horrible dreams, degenerating either into sopor or an apoplectic death with convulsions. [MURRAY, l. c.]
Opium affects the brain and produces uneasy dreams. [BELLONIUS, l. c.]
Deep sound sleep with rattling respiration, like an apoplectic. [LASSUS, l. c.]
Snoring. [DE LA CROIX, l. c.]
510. Snoring in sleep whilst expiring.
Whining in sleep (aft. 2 h.).
Piteous cry in sleep.
Restless sleep, full of sighs and moanings. [YOUNG, l. c.]
Anxious sleep, full of dreams (aft. 7 h.). [GRIMM, l. c.]
515. Anxious sleep disturbed by the saddest dreams, so that in slumberous intoxication he seems to be constantly delirious. [GRIMM, l. c.]
Sleep full of dreams.
Attack of suffocation in sleep (nightmare).
Sleep full of horrible phantasies and frightful dreams. [FR. HOFFMANN, Diss. de Operat. Opii, § 5.]
520. Sleep full of horrors; when he closes his eyes he feels as if he had lost his reason (aft. 3 h.). [SCHELHAMMER, l. c.]
Very vivid, vexatious dreams, in which everything goes wrong, there is much of an annoying and irritating character (aft. 2 h.).
Horrible dreams. [FR. HOFFMANN, l. c.]
Starting in sleep. [TRALLES, l. c., p. 282.]
Soft. Pleasant slumber, from which he is suddenly awakened by horrible jerks in the limbs. [Ct.]
525. Sleep interrupted by starting. [YOUNG, l. c.]
Restless, sleepless (Instead of “schlaflose” original has “traumlose” (dreamless), which, however, may mean the same thing.) night. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]
In spite of drowsiness he cannot go to sleep, with slow pulse. [GRIMM, l. c.]
The sleep-producing power of opium is much diminished by great pain or serious distress. [YOUNG, l. c.]