Respiration: Rattling breathing. Labored breathing and snoring. Respiration deep, unequal. Deep snoring breathing with open mouth. Noisy stertorous and rattling inspiration. Difficult slow and intermittent respiration. Obstructed respiration. Fits of suffocation on making an effort to cough. Suffocative attacks during sleep. Continued and steady stertorous breathing.
Pain: Tension and constriction of the chest. Heat in the chest. Burning about the heart.
Pulse: Pulse varies very much; full and slow, with difficult snoring breathing; quick and hard with heat, with quick and anxious breathing.
Patient: Infants, old persons.
Fevers: Absence of perspiration. Very hot sweat. Fever with sopor. Fever with stupor, snoring with mouth open; twitches through the limbs and perspiration on the hot body. Cold perspiration on forehead. Perspiration of the upper part of body, with dry heat of the lower part. Cold limbs. Red face. Unconscious, and desire to uncover.
Conditions: Cyanotic color of the upper part of body. Slow stertorous respiration. Chest hot. Hot sweat. Bed feels too hot. Suppuration of the lungs, labored breathing rattling, snoring. Face becomes blue during cough. Difficult cough with smothering spells. “He gropes with his hands about the bed as though he was hunting something.” “I wish I could be in the house with my family.” Feels as though he were not in his house. Double pneumonia.
Accompaniments: Delirium with open eyes and red face. Stupor, must lie down, snoring sleep and half-open eyes. In difference, complete loss of consciousness. Wants nothing, unable to understand or appreciate his sufferings. Thinks he is not at home. Eyes half-closed; dilated pupils insensible, contracted. Staring look. Eyes turned upwards.
Calcutta