(The drug is taken at 10 o’clock in the evening.)
_Spitting of black blood._ 15. Prickling all over the body. Starting
during sleep. Sleeplessness. Fright at night, without knowing about
what. 20. Sleep in the morning. The tip of the nose is drawn up as by a
string which is fastened to a central point of the forehead. Tingling in
the throat. Salt taste in the mouth which cannot be removed by drinking
sugar-water. 25. Pulse a little heavy. Small red conical pimples on the
wrist. Painful pulling on the sides of the neck in turning the head.
Feeling of coldness in the stomach, after having eaten. Sensation as if a
peg were sticking in the middle portion of the liver. 30. Aching pain at
the gums, left side. Circular pain round the abdomen, terminating at the
navel. Two lancinations under the right shoulder, as if with a dagger,
arresting the breathing and reverberating in the chest. Sensation as of
a grain of sand in the outer canthi of the eyes. Burning pinching at
the pylorus. 35. Constriction in the thyroid body. Sensation as if the
right lower limb, from the hip to the heel, were shorter; this sensation,
though illusory, causes him to limp. The left eye feels as if drawn
towards the temple. Burning and constriction in the throat.
_Second day_: Pain in the inner head. 40. The feet are cold. The arms are
weak. Contusive feeling at the inner side of the right shoulder-blade.
Painful heaviness in the loins. Appearance of a blue dazzling light
before the eyes. 45. Borborygmi. Painful pressure in the temples. Desire
to vomit. Sensation, below the breasts, of subcutaneous ulceration.
Lancinations in the dorsal spine as from needles. 50. The prover imagines
he hears some one walking behind him. The cranium presses on the brain
on all sides like an iron helmet. Pulling in the pit of the stomach.
Itching on the thighs. Titillating itching in the ears. 55. Swelling
of the right ear. Deafness. Dreams about parties with illuminations;
quarrels, battles. Frontal headache, as if the forehead would split,
with weight above the eyes, especially at night. Pain in the stomach
extending to the navel. 60. Weariness of the arms and lower limbs.
Smarting in the nostrils. _Cutting sensations all round the eyeball as
if cut out with a penknife._ Pain in the left cheek. Sweat and debility
after eating. 65. Greenish spitting in the morning. Sensation in the
head, as if some living being were walking about in a circle. Shocks in
the brain so violent that one is near losing one’s equilibrium. Continual
twitching of the eyebrows, especially the left. Black, bloody froth
around the lips, in the morning. 70. Tongue of a scarlet-red. Jerking in
the fingers. Pain in the elbow as if the bones were pulled. Sensation as
if a thread were rolling in the eye and were pulling the eyeball toward
the temple. Acute pulling in the thigh, with momentary paralysis in the
right pelvic extremity. 75. Acute lancinations in the right temple.
Very thirsty. Belly-ache after drinking. Pressure in the whole abdomen,
in the direction of the navel. The abdomen is exceedingly sensitive.
80. Great desire for food, suddenly passing off at the sight of the
latter. Loathing of meat. Yellow rings around the eyes. Discharge of an
albuminous substance from the rectum, preceded by tenesmus and urging.
Falling of the rectum for ten minutes. 85. Pain in the hollow of the hand.
_Third day._—Pain in the chest which reaches as far as the back.
Sensation as of an opening in the pit of the stomach through which air
passes. Sleeplessness with agitations. Headache as if the forehead would
split. 90. Headache, nosebleed, and excited feeling in consequence of
having been roused from sleep suddenly. Drawing-up of the lower limb from
the hip to the foot, with crampy pain. Leucorrhœa. Small pimples on the
hairy scalp. The toes remain bent. 95. The nails are red. Sensation as
of water in the chest, with efforts to throw it up, and sensation as if
the heart were floating in a liquid. Constant yawning. Itching of the
tongue. Smarting at the tips of the fingers. 100. Sensation as of dust
in the throat. The pimples at first look like flea-bites, after which
they become elevated like little cones and constitute the centres of an
exfoliation less extensive than that caused by the elaps coralinus, with
a little black speck remaining in the middle. Itching in the canthus of
the eye. Acute sensation of burning and redness of the skin which is
perceptibly sunken in at the opening of the right nostril. The prover
imagines he hears some one moan. 105. The thorax and head feel as if
pressed upon by an iron armor. Sensation as of bands round the abdomen.
Pain in the elbows. Pain in the jugular veins when moving the neck.
Abundant discharge of nasal mucus, at night. 110. Foul taste, or taste
as of onions in the mouth until it is rinsed. Burning and prickling at
the tip of the tongue. Swoon which passes off in the open air. Anorexia
all day, and a good deal of appetite in the evening. Pain above the right
breast. 115. The soup falls into the stomach quite suddenly, and lies
there like a stone, with pain in the back. Stitch in the left side when
drawing breath after drinking. Lancinations in the side.
_Fourth day._—Violent lancinations in the uterus while washing one’s-self
with cold water, the lancinations become frightful when using warm water,
with weight at the uterus. Itching under the feet. 120. Formication in
the feet as high up as the ankles. Prickling in the bends of the knees.
Faint feeling at the stomach. While in a clairvoyant state, he speaks to
somebody who does not answer him. 125. Feeling of fright at night. First
the blood is felt rising in the carotid arteries several times; this
is followed by a faint feeling and lastly by a sensation as if a valve
were suddenly opened. Violent blow at the epigastrium. All his limbs
tremble. Chilliness all over which continues even under the bed-cover.
130. Violent ache at the vertex, and sensitiveness of the hairy scalp
to the touch. Extinction of the voice. Great weakness. Depression of
spirits. Suffocative oppression and fear of another paroxysm. 135.
Sensation as if a red-hot iron were sticking in the vertex. The eyelids
feel heavy. Pain in the lower gums as if they had been touched by a
red-hot iron. Excessive weight at the diaphragm. Continual contusive pain
between the two shoulders, and sometimes slow and measured lancinations
when inclining backwards, as if a vertebra had been fractured. 140.
Constrictive pain in the thyroid body as if strung together with a string.
_Fifth day._—Coldness in the back after eating. Drawing from the neck
to the epigastrium. Pain in the right clavicle. Weight on the orbits,
at night. 145. The feet are icy-cold. Headache above the eyes, at ten
o’clock in the morning. Stomach-ache when eating, as if too empty. The
heart feels as if beating from above downwards. Internal pain between the
shoulders. 150. The inner nose is ulcerated. He is pursued all over by
the idea of death, especially when alone. He can only think of death with
great depression of spirits. Ineffectual desire to weep. Lancinations
in the meatus and auditorius. 155. Vermillion-colored metrorrhagia.
Paralysis of the tongue. She stands for ten minutes on the window-sill,
and she is arrested when on the point of precipitating herself out of the
window. She rises suddenly at three o’clock, uttering two shrill cries
and throwing herself forward. The vermillion-colored metrorrhagia with
which she had been affected since the morning, disappears suddenly. 160.
Profuse flow of tears. The hands are cold. The hands tremble. Loss of
memory. Second attack at six o’clock, after which she seats herself in
an arm-chair. 165. Burning forehead. Palpitation of the heart. Weeping.
She plays with her fingers like a child. The suffocative oppression
increases. 170. Magnetic state, she hears nothing, and again sees the
phantom of death, an immense, black, fleshless skeleton; her tears and
mania increase. Vacant stare. Pressive points in the abdomen.
_Sixth day._—Bone-pain and swelling of the left clavicle. Dream about
a horse which is bathed in a pond and gets drowned gradually. 175.
Piteous moaning during sleep. Even while awake one feels as if one were
falling out of bed. Acute pain at the sacro-lumbar articulation. Loss of
consciousness, one hears and sees nothing. Coldness in the back. 180.
Oppression of breathing, as though there were not air enough in the
house. Contraction of the toes. Desire for snow, without desiring either
water or wine. Itching at the epigastrium. Heat in the thighs. 185. She
exclaims several times: he is in the lions’ den, but they will not bite
him. At six o’clock in the evening, another fit of mania. Magnetic state,
during which she does not answer any questions but hears a strange voice
on her left side and behind her; she follows it, and tilts against the
doors which had been closed and which she scratches with her nails. Three
very nearly similar attacks succeed each other, they are occasionally
interrupted by silly laughter and always end with a flood of tears. She
exclaims again: he is in the den, but the lions will not eat him.
_Seventh day._—Fainting from hunger, before eating. 190. Contusive pain
at the occiput. Somnolence the whole morning. Another attack of mental
alienation, she hears voices which she follows, and sheds a flood of
tears. Her head feels heavy, with stupor. The humeral extremity of the
left clavicle continues to swell. 195. Intermittent metrorrhagia twice a
day, and alternating with the paroxysms of mania. Involuntary emission
of urine during sleep. Pain across the umbilical region, with alternate
sensation of spreading out and pinching together. Swelling of the three
last toes of the left foot. Excoriation and pustules on the toes of the
left foot. 200. Suffocative oppression. Pain in the bones, especially
in the joints, at the shoulder-blades, elbows, at the phalanxes of the
fingers, at the knees, hip and under the toe-nails. Pressure at the right
hip as with the blade of a knife. The metrorrhagia ceases. She cannot
bear seeing any one on her right side, without experiencing palpitation
of the heart and a real fatigue from pleasure.
_Eighth day._ 205. Dreams about enormous shaggy spiders walking towards
one and attempting to crawl over one’s person. Pain in the large
psoas-muscle resembling lancinations. Suffocative oppression. A circular
spot between the two breasts which is black at the upper and red at the
lower portion. Hepatic spots of a bright-yellow color, or freckles on the
upper part of the right hands. 210. Small red pimples on the left foot,
like those which appeared on the hand on the second day of the proving.
Obstinate constipation. Lancinations, as if stabbed with a knife, in
the uterus and anus, especially while washing herself with cold water.
Pains in the lower parts of the belly when taking a cold drink. Excessive
sensitiveness of the epigastrium, which does not even allow the pressure
of the clothes. 215. The molar teeth are excessively sensitive and set on
edge. Vomiting after breakfast in consequence of drinking tepid water.
Flushes of heat in the face. Violent itching at the calves. Small red
pimples with a white tip. 220. While drinking cold water, the veins of
the bend of the knee have a deep-black color. Buzzing in the ears while
going down-stairs.
_Ninth day._—Ache, at night, in the upper molares, with inflammation
of the gums. Spitting of blood mixed with thick phlegm. Dreams about
dead persons and phantoms. 225. Loathing of food. Very deaf, after a
month. She feels as though her eyes were falling out. Slight pain under
the lids. Discharge of white mucus from the mouth. 230. Discharge of a
bright-red blood from the nose. The last phalanges feel as if broken. The
tips of the fingers are blue. The nails are bare. Yellow complexion. 235.
Pain in the left side. She feels uncomfortable in consequence of having
her courses, and is out of humor on account of having them. Aversion
to talking; sensitive mood. Desire to move about. 240. She answers all
questions with: no. Small red pimples all over. Tightness of the head,
from above. Cramps in the arms, as if the nerves had been tied up in a
knot during a venesection.