Characteristic Symptoms
Disconnected talking. Wild delirium, with tossing from side to side, biting at bystanders, eyes anxious and protruding, pupils small, pulse rapid. Anxiety. Fear of imaginary troubles. Thought difficult. Coma. Unconsciousness. Violent stupefying headache; on bending head the brain seems to beat against it. Disturbance as if the brain were on fire. Apoplexy. Feeling as if all about him moved slowly. Pressure on right side of the forehead, extending to occiput and down nape. Pain in occiput and down nape. Pain in occiput and forehead, extending to frontal sinuses, worse on the right side. Pupils motionless or dilated and then contracted. Jaws clenched in rigid spasm. Froth before the mouth. Tongue cold. Drink rumbles through throat and intestines. Noisy and agitated breathing. Pulse irregular, hardly to be felt. Cold limbs. Forehead and face cold and dry.
Aggravation: Afternoon and evening.
Amelioration: Open air, coffee.
Therapeutics
Hysteria or epileptic convulsion, frequent violent attacks, with feeble irregular beating of the heart. Tetanus, complete loss of consciousness, cyanosis, coldness; action of heart irregular, feeble. In hysteria drinking of water seems to gurgle down the throat. Uraemic convulsions. Attacks of faintness, cyanosis, cold skin, gurgling on drinking. Collapse of Camphor, with sudden cessation of all discharges, cyanosis and gurgling on drinking. Gastralgia, worse when the stomach is empty, and relieved by food. Chronic dyspepsia, with vomiting of food in evening and night. (Ferrum). Paralysis oesophagi, the fluid taken runs gurgling down. (Elaps). Dry, spasmodic, suffocating cough, also in consumption. (Laurocerasus). Recent and uncomplicated asthma, with difficult and spasmodic respiration, contraction of the throat and feelings of suffocation. (Cuprum). Whooping-cough. Angina pectoris. Violent palpitation of the heart. Threatening paralysis of lungs and heart. (Muriat. acid). Last stage of cholera, asiatica; involuntary stools, great coldness of the whole body. Body livid blue. Pulselessness, rapid asphyxia. No evacuations. Urine retentions. Malignant scarlatina, the rash being livid from the very beginning.