Adapted no persons of slow, indecisive, phlegmatic temperament; sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, easily moved to laughter or tears; affectionate, mild, gentle, timid, yielding disposition.
Weeps easily; almost impossible to detail her ailments without weeping.
Pains: drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to another; accompanied with constant chilliness, and the more severe the pain the harder the chill; appear suddenly, leave gradually, or tension, which increases until very acute, and then “lets up with a snap” (toothache, neuralgia).
Symptoms ever changing; no two chills, no two stools, no two attacks alike; very well one hour, very miserable the next.
Thirstlessness with nearly all complaints.
Gastric difficulties from eating rich food, cake, pastry, especially fat pork or sausage; the sight or even thought of pork causes disgust.
Derangements of puberty; catamenia suppressed from getting the feet wet; too late, scanty, slimy, intermitting flow, with evening chilliness.
Sleep: wide awake in the evening, does not want to go to bed; first sleep restless, sound asleep when it is time to get up; wakes languid and unrefreshed.
Styes, especially on upper lid from eating fat, greasy, rich food or pork.
Threatened abortion; flow ceases and then returns with increased force; pains spasmodic, excite suffocation and fainting; must have fresh air.
Vertigo in the morning, on rising from bed, on account of which he was obliged to lie down again.
Headache in the evening.
Headache as if one had eaten too much, or as if the stomach had been disordered by being overloaded with too much fat meat.
Throbbing, pressive headache, relieved by external pressure.
Burning and itching in the eyes.
The margin of the lower lid is inflamed and swollen, with lachrymation, in the morning.
The inner canthus seems agglutinated with matter, in the morning.
The eyes are full of water in the wind.
During the menses it became black before the eyes, and she felt worse on going into a warm room.
Violent pain in the ear, as from something forcing outward.
Difficulty of hearing, as if the ears were stopped, with roaring in them like a loud distant noise.
Stoppage of the nose, as from catarrh, in the evening, on going to bed, and in the morning a thick yellow opaque mucus, as in old catarrh, is blown from the nose.
Bad smell, as of old catarrh, in the nose.
Toothache immediately on taking anything very warm into the mouth.
The tongue is covered with tenacious mucus, as with a membrane.
Accumulation of much sweat saliva in mouth.
Slimy taste in the mouth.
Constant bitter, bilious taste in the mouth, especially after eating.
Loss of thirst.
Frequent eructations tasting of the food.
Vomiting of food that has been eaten a long before.
Sensation in the stomach as if one had eaten too much; food rises up into the mouth, as i one would vomit.
Pain in the stomach, an hour after eating.
Gnawing sensation in the stomach, like ravenous hunger.
Flatus moves from one part of the intestines of another, with loud rumbling, with gurgling, and with a griping sensation, especially in the evening in bed.
Sensation of heaviness, like a stone, in the abdomen, just before the menses.
Drawing and drawing-tensive pains, extending from the abdomen through the spermatic cords into the testicles, that hang down.
Painful, protruding, blind haemorrhoids, with itching in the anus.
Diarrhoea: changeable stools; no two alike; at night; after ice-cream; after fruit; from warmth or in a warm room.
Frequent desire to urinate.
Involuntary urination, at night, in bed.
Right side of the scrotum swollen.
Painful drawing pains in the spermatic cords.
Painless leucorrhoea, with thickish mucus of the color of milk, especially noticed on lying down.
Acrid thin leucorrhoea.
Contractive pain in the left side of the uterus, like labor pains, obliging her to bend double.
Retarded or delayed menses, in young girls.
Menses suppressed, especially from cold, from getting the feet wet.
The menstrual discharge is thick, viscous, black and coagulated, or changeable. The menses flow only in the daytime.
Constant cough in the evening, after lying down.
Dry cough at night, it disappears on sitting up in bed; but returns on lying down.
Cough, with expectoration of yellow mucus.
Pain in the small of the back, as if sprained, on motion.
Pains in the limbs.
Painless swelling of the knee.
Varicose veins.
Boring pain in the heels, towards evening.
Longing for fresh air.
A (burning) itching over the whole body, on becoming warm in bed, before midnight, aggravated by scratching;
is unable to sleep on account of it; less during the day, and only after becoming heated from walking or after rubbing; there is no appearance of an eruption.
Irresistible sleepiness, in the afternoon.
Sleep before midnight prevented by a fixed idea.
Confused dreams.
Chilliness, yawning, and stretching before the appearance of the menses.
Intolerable burning heat at night, in bed, with uneasiness.
Dry heat of the body, in the evening, with distended veins and burning hands, that seek out cool places; external warmth is intolerable.
