LOCATION: Upper lids. Muscles of eyeballs. Optic nerve. Face. Palate. Tongue. Throat. Oesophagus. External throat. Rectum, Bladder. Larynx. Chest. Back. Upper limbs. Hand. Lower limbs. Motor nerves. Extensors.
CAUSES: Apoplexy. Exertion. Diphtheria. Rheumatism. Toxic origin. Taking cold. Getting wet, of damp cold.
CHARACTER: Painless.
AGGRAVATION:Damp weather, fog, before a thunder storm. Mental emotion or excitement. Bad news. Tobacco-smoking. When thinking of his ailments. When spoken to of his loss. 10 a.m. Fright.
AMELIORATION: Profuse urination. Open air. Continued motion. Stimulants Bending forward.
LOCAL SYMPTOMS: Paralysis of the glottis with difficult deglutition. Paralytic affections, muscles weak and will not obey the will. Various degrees of motor paralysis. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, Sphincter extremities, etc. Post diphtheritic paralysis. Tongue paralyzed. Post diphtheritic paralysis of throat. Partial paralysis of rectum and Sphincter. Paralysis of the upper lid, with drooping of the lid, ptosis and paralysis of the muscles of the eyes causing at times double vision. Functional paralysis. Paralysis after emotion (Nat. m.). Tongue feels so thick he can hardly speak; partial paralysis.
ATTENDING SYMPTOMS: Bad effects from great fright or fear. Great irritability, does not wish to be spoken to. Every exciting news causes diarrhoea. Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness and trembling. Stage fright. Apathy regarding his illness. Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Vertigo spreading from occiput. Band feeling around head. Headache, occipital, preceded by blindness, better profuse urination.
Wants to have the head raised on pillow. Eyelids heavy, can hardly open them. Yellow colour of face. Lips dry, hot and coated. Yellow saliva. Thirstlessness. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach. Trembling of the hands when lifting them up. Hot dry hands, especially the palms of the hands. Cold feet. Perspiration relieves the pains. Smoking tobacco aggravates the headache. Muscular pains in legs, better by motion.
PLUMBUM.
TYPE:Chronic Hemiplegia. Hysterical. Painless. Agitans. Infantile. Lead. Post-diphtheritic. Spinal. Partial with colic. LOCATION: Lids. Upper lid. Optic nerve. Face. Right side of face. Palate. Tongue. Throat. Oesophagus. Sterno-mastoid, Intestines. Rectum. Bladder. Larynx. Heart. One side. Right side. Upper-limbs. Right upper limbs. Forearm. Wrist. Hand. Right hand. Fingers. Third finger. Lower limbs. Right lower limbs. Hip Leg. Foot. Extensor muscles.
CAUSES: Apoplexy. Lead. Diphtheria. Convulsions. Hysteria. Disease of spinal cord. Parturition.
CHARACTER: Painless. Painful with emaciation of parts. With coldness of parts. With trembling of parts. Hyperesthesia of the well side..
AGGRAVATION: At night. (Pains in limbs) Motion.
AMELIORATION: Rubbing. Hard pressure.
LOCAL SYMPTOMS: General or partial paralysis. Lead paralysis chiefly of extensors, forearm or upper limb, from center to periphery with partial anaesthesia or excessive hyperaesthesia preceded by pain. Infantile paralysis. Bulbar paralysis. Tongue seems paralyzed, cannot put it out. Paralysed lower extremities. Paralysed single muscles. Cannot raise or lift anything with the hand. Extension is difficult. Paralysis from over exertion of the extensor muscles in piano players. Wrist drop. Paralysis of the upper eyelid.
Paralysis of the throat, with inability to swallow. Paralysis of the tongue preventing speech. Paralysis of the lower limbs and feet. Paralysis of the limbs. Emaciation, especially of the paralyzed parts, followed by swelling of those parts. Paralysis of the limbs of those who work in lead. Paralysis first attacking the extensors of the extremities with the resulting wrist-drop and then becoming general, with terrific pains in the extremities. Infantile paralysis, with emaciation.
“There is first paresis and finally paralysis of parts first and finally of the whole.” Paralysis of single muscles and these muscles wither. There is paralysis of both extensors and flexors but especially extensors. The paralysis begins in extensors, so that we have wrist-drop. He cannot raise or lift anything with the hand. Extension is difficult. This occurs in piano players (Curare) Paralysis from over exertion of the extensors muscles,” Kent.
Post-diphtheritic paralysis, lower limbs entirely paralyzed, excessive hyperaesthesia of the skin, could not bear to be touched anywhere it hurt him so (From Nash P. 305) “Wrist-drop from paralysis of the extensor muscles of the wrist. This Plumbum has cured when it has arisen from other causes than lead poisoning.
This paralysis extends to other parts of the body, always involving extensor muscles in preference to flexors. . . . it is characterized by atrophy of the affected parts.” Farrington. Paralysis of thighs and feet. Painful paralysis of arms and hands. Paralysis of extensor muscles of fingers of right hand. Paralysis of feet. “Paralysis of legs with swelling and emaciation.” (Gentry.) Paralysis with atrophy of legs (after parturition) with loss of motion and sensation.
ATTENDING SYMPTOMS: Anxiety, with restlessness and yawning. Mental depression. Vertigo on stooping and on turning the eyes upwards. Dryness of hair it falls off. Delirium alternating with colic. Pain in head as if a ball rose from throat to brain. Cold nose. Face pale, yellowish. Skin of face greasy, shiny, Peeling off of the lips. Distinct blue lines along margins of gums. Teeth become black.
Yellow mucus on the teeth. Teeth smelling offensive, crumbling off. Sensation of a lump in throat. Mouth dry. Cracked or coated yellowish or green. Sweetish taste. Sweetish eructation. Sweetish water in mouth. Violent colic, the abdomen drawn in especially the navel which seems to drawn back by a string to the spinal column. Colic and paralysis of the lower extremities. Excessive colic radiating to all parts of body. Desire to stretch with colic. Colic alternate with delirium and pain in atrophied limbs. Offensive sweat of feet. Loss of sexual power. Cramps in calves. Hands and feet cold. Sensitiveness of the skin to the open air. Yellowness of skin.
COCCULUS.
TYPE: Post-diphtheritic. Rheumatic. Agitans. Hemiplegia. Painless. Hysterical.
LOCATION: Lids. Upper lid. Optic nerve. Face. Tongue. Throat. Pharynx. Upper limbs Hand. Fingers. Lower limbs. Feet.
CAUSES: Diphtheria. Convulsions. Rheumatism. Sexual excesses. Apoplexy. Typhoid. After taking cold.
CHARACTER: Paralysis of one side, numbness of the other. Painless. Painful, with coldness of parts, with perspiration of parts.
AGGRAVATION: From eating, drinking, riding in a carriage, talking and sleeping. In the open air. Loss of sleep. Smoking, Swimming. Touch, Noise. Jar. Afternoon. After emotional disturbances.
AMELIORATION: In the warm room.
LOCAL SYMPTOMS: Palsy of limbs or paralyzed limbs which may be painful or not. One-sided paralysis, worse after sleep. Paralytic pain and paralysis of the back and small of the back. Paralysis of the lower limbs, from the small of the back downwards. The thighs feel paralyzed and bruised. Paralytic immobility of the lower limbs. The arms go to sleep, are insensible. Paralysis one sided, with numbness of the limbs. Complete paralysis. Paralysis of the muscles of the face. Paralysis of the oesophagus.
Paralytic condition of the throat after diphtheria. Numbness and paralytic feeling in the limbs. One side is numb and the other is paralyzed. Paralysis of the lower extremities proceeding from the small of the back. Paralysis of the lower limbs with stiffness, numbness and bruised feeling. Paralysis of the extremities the symptoms preceded by convulsive movements of groups of muscles.
Paralysis of arms. Paralysis from small of back downward with numbness stiffness and bruised feeling. Paralysis of lower extremities. Paralytic pain in hips and legs. Paralysis, chiefly semi-lateral, with insensibility of the parts affected. “Functional paralysis from fatigue or from mental emotion. (Stann. Cocc. Ign. Phos. Nat. m. Collinsonia)” Farrington.
Paralysis of face tongue and of pharynx, so that he has to speak slowly and has difficulty in swallowing.
ATTENDING SYMPTOMS: Time passes too quickly. Disposition to be frightened. Disposition to take everything in bad part and to be angry. He sits as if wrapped up in deep, sad thoughts. Capricious. Irresistible desire to sing. Profound sadness. Cannot bear contradiction. Speaks hastily. Very anxious about the health of others.
Sensation of emptiness in the head. Spasmodic trembling of the head caused by the weakness of the muscles of the neck,. worse after sleeping and in open air, from coffee and tobacco, better in the warm room. Coldness in the head, increased by eating and drinking. Vertigo when riding. Opening and sleeping shutting sensation in head, especially.
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