Characteristic Symptoms
Stiffness in different parts of the body from slightest exposure to draught of damp air, ameliorated in dry weather. Repugnance to every occupation. Vertigo, beginning with bruised sight. Emptiness in stomach with general lassitude, vertigo, and nausea. Suffocation when walking fast or lying on the left side. Rheumatic stitches in right clavicle and in the right side of the chest, then in heart with fear of death and general coolness, aggravated by lying on the left side and by deep breathing. Sharp erratic or rheumatic pains in the extremities.
Therapeutics
Pains in different parts, worse in joints, constantly changing place. (Puls). Rheumatic pains in clavicles. Vertigo, palpitation of heart, suffocation, numbness of the left upper limb. Valvular diseases of the heart, dyspnoea from pain in the heart and fear of death. Endocarditis, articular rheumatism and crampy pain in heart alternating with lancinations. Pericarditis and cardiac hypertrophy with constriction of the throat. Aortic aneurism. Angina pectoris.