It is also cold, yet throws the covers off and wants to be fanned. It is < by warmth, even when too cold to be fanned. It is < by warmth even when too cold to touch, as in collapse. It is also < by wet, damp, draft and thunderstorms. As to time it is worse from sunrise to sunset, worse mornings and bright evenings. Its functional disturbance covers a long period before organic destruction begins. Its general condition is > near the seashore and < inland.” (H.C. Allen).
SLEEP.
Excessive desire to yawn; sleepy, yawning, chilly, sleepy but cannot sleep. Spasmodic yawning, cannot suppress it, followed by spasm of the glottis.
Asleep but hears everything, answers questions as if awake. Nightmare or feels as if she would have nightmare.
Sleeps at night on knees with face forced in pillow, in kneeling position (Petrol., Sepia), child sleeps on hands and knees (Cina), can only sleep on back with hands over head, if she lies on either side the contents of chest and abdomen seem to press upon each other and cause discomfort.
Sleep with wearing dreams of walking, waking with impression that she had slept for hours, although it had only been 30 minutes, a short nap seems a long one but relieves (Nux vom.) On falling asleep starting and violent jerking up of legs.
Very restless nights and terrible dreams of ghosts and dead people, dreads night to come. Restless sleep, talking and tossing all night with copious sweat of head, neck and chest, had to dry her hair several times in the night; when asleep day or night, no mater several times in the night; when asleep day or night, no matter how short the nap, profuse perspiration on face and neck. Bites tip of tongue in sleep.
Awakens from sleep in fright several times during night, frightened sensation on waking as if something terrible had happened, startled on waking. Complaints rousing from sleep. On waking there is a confused and semiconscious state of anxiety, fear and restlessness.
Great restlessness at night, sleepy but cannot sleep, sleepless forepart of night, after midnight, after 4 a.m. (Bac., Sulph).
Dreams horrid, painful, exhausting, that she is drinking, of friends and places of long ago, sad and full of remorse, < after midnight, mournful tinge to dreams concerned with past events, of ghosts and dead people, of walking.
Slept well but awoke with a frightened sensation at an early hour, as if something dreadful had happened, the weight on the head was heavy and great heat in it, could not rest in bed, felt as though she must do something to rid her mind of this dreadful torture, she struggled against it, fought with what seemed to be the adversary, scolded herself herself for her weakness, all to no purpose, and grew weak with effort, she cannot describe the mental agony she endured. (Dr. H.C. Allen).
CHILL, FEVER, TEMPERATURE, WEATHER.
Chills with shivering and chattering, begin in fingers and toes with thirst during chill, none during fever, feet cold first, after chill excessive languor, coldness of legs up to knees, also of hands and forearms, coldness of right hand, then left, chills alternating with flashes of heat, shivering chill with boring pains in chest.
Chilly, followed by fever lasting until 2 a.m. followed by sweat, seldom slept until fever began.
Chilliness < 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with fear of becoming unconscious and incapacitated.
Creeping chills running up and down back, and all over body in zigzag course.
Chills at 10:30 a.m., from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 10 to 11 a.m., 11 a.m., 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
Cold and pulseless with cold sweat, cold skin but blood feels hot (Sec.cor.).
Sensitive to heat with chilliness.
Sensitive to drafts and coolness, extremely sensitive to cold, damp weather.
Burning heat with sweat, wants to uncover but is chilled by uncovering. Must be fanned all the time, throws off covers yet surface is cold, mostly subjective burning of hands and feet, wants them uncovered and fanned.
Great general internal heat after dinner, as if blood was boiling hot in veins, also after slight exertion, great burning heat all over body with flashes of heat in face and neck.
Fever with or without thirst, with gushes of perspiration on face followed by languor, with nervousness from midnight to 3 a.m., falls asleep during fever, after fever sweat on palms, feet and legs.
Great tendency to perspire on exertion with sensitiveness to cold, profuse sweat about neck, copious night sweat, easy sweat towards morning, profuse perspiration without weakening effect, offensive perspiration.
SKIN.
Great yellowness of skin, discoloration of skin in varying shades of black, pearly whiteness of skin, especially of legs, with exfoliation of a shower of fine flakes on rubbing briskly. Psoriasis.
Intense and incessant itching, fugitive, < towards night, sometimes confined to left side, itching all over body, but most on back and vagina and labia, < thinking of it, intense itching all over body, would scratch till it bled, but no relief from scratching, no eruption, itching of skin, > undressing, itching of back, voluptuous on sides near axilla, no eruption, erratic itching, not > by scratching, < towards night.
Spiderweb capillary enlargement.
Red macular eruption, especially from knees up, or forearms, and around waist.
Copper colored spots remaining after eruption, turn yellow brown and detach in scales, leaving skin clear and free.
Small pedunculated warts, with pin heads like small button mushrooms, on various parts of body and thighs.
Child of six, since infancy terribly disfigured with tinea capitis. Scalp a mass of dense crusts, exuding a foetid ichor. The only semblance of hair being a few distorted stumps, ending in withered roots. One dose of Med. cured in a few months (Dr. Wildes).
Girl of eleven, face mottled with red scurfy sores, eyelids involved and nearly denuded of lashes, hairy scalp one diffuse mass of thick yellow scabs, from beneath which oozed a highly offensive mixture of ichor and serum, which causes the clothing to stick to the body. Cured by one dose of Med. CM. (Dr. Wildes).
TISSUES.
Medorrhinum has cured many cases of marasmus in infants that had inherited sycosis, children of a sycotic father are especially subject to attacks of diarrhoea, vomiting and emaciation (Dr. J.T. Kent).
At birth I give a dose of Med. if child is inclined to be gross with a large head; if it is a little bit of a skinny baby, that is snuffling almost as soon as it breathes, under weight, wrinkled and old looking, I give a dose of Syphilinum (Dr. J.W. Krichbaum).
Thin, scrawny, but appetite unusual.
I have cured with Med. rheumatic troubles which were very obstinate under our usual remedies (Dr. E.B. Nash).
Great heat and soreness with enlargement of lymphatic glands all over body.
Leukaemia occurring in children of sycotic parents.
Sensation as though she had taken a severe cold with most distressing aching in bones, throat very sore and swollen, deglutition of either liquids or solids impossible.
There is scarcely a spot on body from head to foot which is not full of pain, of tensive and letting go character, accompanied by subjective heat. Sore all over as if bruised. The pains seem to tighten the whole body, especially the feet and thighs.
Feeling as if all the bones were out of joint on getting up, shakes herself to get them in place, joints feel loose.
Sequelae of acute articular rheumatism, walks leaning on a cane, bent over, muffled in wraps to ears, looking like a broken down man.
Small carbuncular boils discharge slowly and show dark red streaks, pains are intolerable, preventing sleep.
Haemorrhagic tendency, small wounds bleed profusely (Lach., Phos).
Glandular enlargement in various parts of the body with rachitis is traced to hereditary gonorrhoea, patients are better at the seaside (Gilbert).
Wildes thinks that suppression of favus when derived from gonorrhoea in the father leads to hydrocephalus, capillary bronchitis, obstinate teething diarrhoeas and cholera infantum, if derived from the grandfather suppression leads to consumption and other lingering diseases.
To quote Dr. H.C. Allen:.
I have traced epithelioma, phthisis, cauliflower excrescences, sterility and erosions to sycotic origin; pernicious anaemia often had gonorrhoea for its base, suppressed gonorrhoea may produce iritis, syphilis produces it without suppression. The suppression of the external manifestations of gonorrhoea seems first to involve the central nervous system functionally, and is much later in attacking the organism destructively. For the constitutional effects of maltreated and suppressed gonorrhoea, when the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve.
For persons suffering from gout, rheumatism, neuralgia, and diseases of the spinal cord and its membranes, even organic lesions ending in paralysis, which can be traced to a sycotic origin. For women with chronic ovaritis, salpingitis, pelvic cellulitis, fibroids, cysts and other morbid growths of the uterus and ovaries, especially if symptoms point to malignancy with or without sycotic origin. For scirrhus carcinoma, or cancer, either acute or chronic in development, when the symptoms correspond and a history of sycosis can be traced. Bears the same relation to deep-seated chronic affections of the spinal and sympathetic nervous system that Psorinum does to the deep-seated affections of the skin and mucous membranes.
GENERALITIES.
SYCOTIC TAINT
(Nat. sulph., Thuja).
