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CORYZA.
FLUENT CORYZA –
Preceded by headache; discharge, watery, with redness of nostrils and herpes on lips.
Preceded one or two days by rawness, soreness and scraping in the throat.
Chronic, nasal catarrh: offensive, yellow, blood-streaked discharge.
DISCHARGES –
Fluent, watery, excoriating the worse and lip.
Chronic, thick, yellow and blood-streaked and offensive.
COUGH.
DRY COUGH –
Persistent cough, from tickling in the larynx; provoked by touching the larynx.
From tickling as soon as he lies down : must sit up : worse after sleeping.
Short, superficial cough; very exhausting; persistent, and sometimes causing gagging and even vomiting; it seems to come from the epigastrium; and wakens from sleep.
Can bear nothing tight around the throat.
SPUTA –
Frequently none; always difficult.
Scanty and very difficult sputa; must cough long and hard before he can raise it.
Of tenacious, yellow mucus; of gray mucus in lumps.
Occasionally of watery mucus : or of blood.
Rarely any sputa at night.
WORSE –
From anything tight about the throat.
Mostly during the day; but also, from sleep, or after sleep : in the morning.
From lying down : must sit up.
From touching the throat.
Grows worse while sleeping; sleep into a bad spell.
From change of temperature; and in the open air.
BETTER –
From raising even the least sputa.
From sitting up and leaning forward, with head thrown back.
LARYNX AND THROAT –
Great rawness, dryness, and stinging, with constriction of larynx and pharynx.
Larynx very sensitive to touch; it cause suffocation.
Larynx and whole throat painful to touch.
Paralysis of vocal cords, especially the left.
RESPIRATION –
Obliged very often to take a deep breath : constriction of chest.
Awakens with a great sense of suffocation : must sit up and lean forward with head thrown backward.
Chest dry or “rattling like peas,”.
SPECIAL-
Very loquacious and talkative, but jumps from one thing to another without any connection.
Much worse on waking; much depressed and anxious on waking.
SENSATIONS –
Very impatient of all constriction, about throat, chest, or limbs, A sense of constriction, though all parts are free.
Feeling of lump, like button in throat; feeling of suffocation in pit of throat.
Feeling as if a crumb had lodged in the throat, with some soreness on swallowing.
Throat feels swollen.