VOICE AND LARYNX.
Hoarseness after the least speaking, she must vomit in order to clear her throat; hoarseness, when talking, phlegm sticks in larynx.
Hoarseness for years, aphony, he cannot speak a loud word; after a slight cold she cannot speak loud, but must whisper.
Hoarseness and catarrh, very often or almost constantly.
Talking is very fatiguing.
Voice weak and trembling.
Tickling, throat as if narrowing, must cough to relieve it. Suppuration of larynx and bronchial (laryngo-bronchial phthisis).
RESPIRATION.
Cannot get breath, chest expands with great difficulty; short of breath or want of breath; must keep arms spread wide apart in order to breathe (Lach., Laur., Nux v.).
Convalescents go our for walk, instead of being invigorated return home in order to get breath or to lie down so that they can breathe more easily, feel < instead of > from being in open air.
Want of breath in open air, must hurry.
Dyspnoea < our doors, must come in to breathe better; must spread his arms far apart even over head to relieve breathing.
Dyspnoea worse when sitting up to write, > when lying down (Calc. p., Kali bi.); congestion to head after dinner, great despondency; < the nearer the arms are brought to the body.
Anxious dyspnoea, with palpitation and pain in cardiac region.
Obstruction of breath, with stitching pains in chest on slightest amount of walking, he cannot go a step further (angina pectoris).
Attacks of suffocation especially after midnight; the patient has to sit up or leave his bed and stand stooping forward leaning on his hands; he has to open the windows or get out into open air; palpitation, following by eructations and yawning, and the spasm terminates with or without coughing and expectoration.
Bronchial asthma.
Asthma when merely moving, not when walking.
Asthma with loud difficult, at times sibilant, respiration.
Asthma on moving, with or without cough; asthma mostly while sitting.
Asthma, spasmodic, when she come into open air it takes her breath.
Asthma in attacks lasting several weeks, can breathe better while lying with arms spread far apart (can breathe better standing: Bapt., Can. sat., Spig.).
Asthma as if he would die, precursor to hydrothorax, stitches from behind forward in chest and back when breathing.
Asthma with palpitation and anxiety, especially at night. Hay asthma (IOD., Phleum, Sabad.).
COUGH.
Cough: from tickling in larynx; dry hard, caused by tickling in trachea; in evening with pains in chest and throat, passing off when she was quiet; produced by talking; with sensation of weakness in chest; dry with soreness under sternum, with stitches in chest; dry with constricting pain in chest; < mornings on waking and in evening on lying down; coughs a long time before expectorating; periodic attacks; chronic spasmodic; of twenty- five years duration.
Severe dry cough with oppression of chest and pain as if everything in chest were raw and scratched; fever in evening; great depression of spirits, making life a burden.
Cough causing tearing from centre of chest to throat, all on right side; cough < at night; urine escapes when coughing.
Cough with frequent irritation and crawling in throat; the cough torments him, until perspiration breaks out over his face and hands.
Dry cough with constriction pressure in chest neat sternum, excessive irritability, ill humor.
Cough with palpitation and pain in chest. Cough < pain in liver and pain in chest extending to shoulder.
Cough: < by drinking: < by cold drinks (Ars., Hep., Sil., Squill., Thuja, Verat.a.); < before a storm (Phos., Sep., Nat. c.); < from uncovering (HEP., SIL., Bell., Merc., Rhus t.); < during the night: < stretching out arms (raising arms, Tuberc.); < after waking in the morning; < after eating (NUX V.); < with every deep breath (Hep., Lyc., Rumex, Squill.); < from cold bath (bathing chest in cold water > cough, Borax); < from drinking milk; < first lying down.
Cough is only relieved by retching and vomiting, mostly in morning or in evening; > by raising arms above head; > by lying (Calc. p., Euphras., MANG.).
Cough mostly in evening after lying down and when the head is too low.
Cough ends with sneezing (Agar., Bell., Seneg., Squill.).
Cough wakens the patient after the first brief sleep.
Cough causing sensation of soreness in chest or at times stitches in the side of the chest or the abdomen.
Expectoration: yellow, resembling pus, with or without blood; salty tasting; green mucus; sticks firmly, can be raised only with difficulty; copious mucus; thick greenish; of blood with hot sensation in chest; yellowish green; odor of rotten meat.
Cough with expectoration, asthma, thinks he will die.
Cough with salty salty tasting (ARS., LYC., Tuberc.) green (KALI IOD., PULS., Tuber.) and yellow (CALC. C., PHOS., PULS., SIL., STRAM.) expectoration; oppression of chest; gradual loss of strength; after suppressed eruptions.
Attacks of spasmodic cough (whooping cough).
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS.
Oppression of chest; anxious every morning; with cough. Pressure on chest. Pressive pain on chest on deep breathing and on sneezing.
Dull pressure on right side of chest, extending to whole chest, < bending forward in writing, not aggravated by motion or deep breathing; dry cough with expectoration of small lumps of mucus; speaking aggravates, great prostration a long time after preaching, so that he must rest to recuperate; voice is not husky but it requires all his strength to get through with his work; chest narrow, shoulders projecting. Phthisis.
Burning pressing pain in chest. Hot sensation in chest, burning in chest.
Constriction of chest when inhaling steam from fat.
Often a slightly constricted sensation in chest, which, when it dies not pass quickly causes the deepest dejection.
Pain in chest, great anxiety by spells; excruciating pains in chest; cutting pain as of knives. Stitches: in sternum with backache; from behind forward in chest and back when breathing; in right side of chest when breathing; in left side of chest.
Violent, at times unbearable, stitches in chest at every breath; cough impossible for pain; without inflammatory fever.
Frequent stitches in chest, with or without cough.
Violent stitches in the side, with great heat of body, it is almost impossible to breathe on account of the stitches, with haemoptysis and headache.
Ribs seem dislocated (Agar., Caps., Petrol., Stram.).
Feeling as if everything were torn in chest; whole chest feels sore.
Bruised suppurative pain through whole chest extending towards right shoulder and becoming fixed there, < after frequent coughing, and after cold drinks.
Pain in chest as if raw, as from subcutaneous ulceration; ulcerative pain under sternum.
Pain in chest comes by spells, great anxiety, a feeling of anxiety under sternum; chest inflates only with much exertion; coughs a long time before beginning to expectorate. Phthisis.
Suppuration of lungs; chronic blenorrhoea of lungs; hydrothorax.
Tedious recovery in pneumonia.
Convalescent from lobar pneumonia, lungs had apparently cleared, toxaemia no longer existed, but the room was drenched with a horrible odor. (J. Hutchinson).
Sharp pain in right side opposite tenth rib; fixed pain in right side. Pains in right chest, < from motion, laughing, coughing, with sweat.
Chest pain grow more severe two or three times a day, begin with chilliness and trembling, followed by heat one hour in duration; great anxiety of heart and mind with fear of death; dyspnoea and restlessness; attacks pass off with sour clammy sweat and chilliness; sweat occurs every night independent of attack.
Chest pains from coughing; chest symptoms > when lying down and at rest, < arms on chest.
Pain in chest on walking, as if chest was about to burst.
Rush of blood to chest.
Anxiety in chest (ARS. PHOS.).
Incipient phthisis (MED., TUBERC.).
HEART AND PULSE.
Stitches in cardiac region, low gurgling extending towards heart, for a moment breathing is impossible. Gurgling in region of heart, < when lying.
Pain in heart > when lying down, thinks the stitches will kill him if they continue.
Palpitation: with anxiety; mental disquietude, dislike for work; with coughing; in those suffering from hepatic disorders; < from least exertion; > lying; > lying on right side ( Nat.m., Sabad.); < lying on left side (NAT.M., PHOS., PULS.); < motion; > rest.
Palpitation in paroxysms, as if heart had lost its control. as if running away (PYROG.).
Dyspnoea with palpitation, with pain in cardiac region.
sounds of heart indistinct; bellows murmur with first sound; various cardiac murmurs.
Heart symptoms with general weakness, dusky face, dazed look.
Stenosis of left osteum venosum, purring in region of apex; lips cyanotic; dyspnoea and shortness of breath when walking in open air, > lying down.
Rheumatic pericarditis; pulse 144; skin; pain in head and limbs but more particularly in shoulder; Dyspnoea, with pain in region of heart; effusion, indistinct heart sounds; bellow murmur with first sound; inability to lie down.
