Characteristic Symptom
The patient is low-spirited, sad, or timid. Feeling as if the brain was distending at the centre. Metallic taste on the tongue, with feeling of constriction in pharynx. Tearing pain four fingers’ breadth over the left knee- joint, extending to one finger’s breadth over the left ankle-joint, evening in sitting, ceasing by rising and walking about, returning in rest. Irritation of the bladder with mucus in urine.
Therapeutics
Chronic catarrh of the bladder, urethral stricture threatening after gonorrhoea (Tests). Burning in the mammae during the menses (Guernsey). Epileptiform spasms, which seem to be reflex from the irritation of worms. Children are aroused at night with horrible itching at the anus. Headache with sensation as if the head was frozen, and anorexia.