MORAL AND MENTAL SPHERE: 1. She answers no, whenever she is asked a
question. Sensitive mood. Aversion to talking. Sensation as if one were
falling out of bed, even while awake. 5. Loss of consciousness. She
exclaims: he is in the lions’ den, but they will not bite him. Magnetic
state; she hears a strange voice, follows it and tilts against the doors;
she has three such attacks, occasionally interrupted by laughter and
tears. Ineffectual desire to weep. Loss of memory. 10. Magnetic state;
she hears nothing, and sees a black skeleton. Mania. He thinks he will
die, especially when alone. Depression of spirits. Despair. 15. Anguish.
HEAD: Sensation as of a red-hot iron in the vertex. Lancinations in right
temple. Violent ache at the vertex. Burning forehead. 20. Contusive pain
at the occiput. Tightness of the head, from above. Her head feels heavy,
with stupor. Sensation in the head as if some thing alive were walking
about in a circle. Shocks in the brain. 25. Painful pressure in the
temples. Sensation as if the brain were pressed upon by an iron helmet.
Headache as if the forehead would split, with weight above the eyes.
Pain in middle of forehead. Pain in the interior of the head. 30. Pain
under the right orbit and in right side of forehead. Frontal headache,
afterwards all over the head. Sensitiveness of the having scalp.
EYES: Pain under the lids. Sensation as though her eyes would fall out.
35. Profuse lachrymation. Heavy pain at back part of orbit and left
eyebrow. Vacant stare. Weight on the orbits, at night. The eyelids feel
heavy. 40. Itching of the canthus. Yellow rings round the eyes. Blue
dazzling light before the eyes. Twitching of the eyebrows. Sensation as
if the eyeball were pulled towards the temple by a thread. 45. Sense of a
grain of sand in the outer canthi. The left eye feels as if drawn towards
the temples. Contractive pressure at right eyeball, which felt as if
drawn out. Cutting round the eyeball.
EARS: Buzzing in the ears while going down-stairs. 50. Lancinations in
the meatus auditorius. He imagines he hears some one walking behind him.
Sensation as if some one were moaning. Titillating itching in the ears.
Deafness. 55. Swelling of the right ear.
FACE: Yellow complexion. Alteration of the features. Formication in the
face. Flushes of heat in the face. Pain in left cheek.
NOSE: 60. Ulceration of the inner nose. Discharge of a bloody liquid from
the nose. Sense of burning and redness of the skin, with depression, at
the orifice of the right nostril. Nosebleed. Smarting in the nostrils.
65. Insipid, nauseous smell all day, as in a hospital. The tip of the
nose is drawn up.
TEETH: Pain in lower gums as from a red-hot iron. Aching in the upper
molares, at night, with inflammation of the gums. The molar teeth are
sensitive and set on edge. 70. Aching pain in left gums.
MOUTH: Paralysis of the tongue. Burning and prickling at the tip of the
tongue. Itching of the tongue. Tongue of a scarlet-red. 75. Pain in the
tongue. Spitting of black blood. Spitting of blood, mixed with thick
phlegm. Discharge of white mucus from the mouth. Greenish spitting in the
morning. 80. Black, bloody froth around the lips in the morning. Thick,
viscid saliva which it is difficult to get out.
TASTE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: Salt taste in the mouth, not removed by
drinking sugar-water. Taste as of onions in the mouth, before rinsing
it. Aversion to food. 85. Desire for snow. Desire for food, passing off
on seeing it. Thirst. Fainting from hunger. Coldness in the back after
eating. 90. Anorexia all day. The soup descends into the stomach quite
suddenly, and lies there like a heavy body, with pain in the back.
Stitch in the left side, after drinking when drawing breath. Colic after
drinking. Aversion to meat. 95. Sweat and debility after eating. Desire
to vomit.
THROAT: Constriction of the throat. Sensation of a lump in his throat.
Difficulty of swallowing. 100. Sense of dust in the throat. Burning and
constriction in the throat. Tingling in the throat.
STOMACH: Stomach-ache, when eating, as if too empty. Faint feeling at the
stomach. 105. Pulling in pit of stomach. Sensation of an opening in pit
of stomach, through which air passes. Pain from stomach to navel. Burning
pinching at the pylorus. Feeling of coldness in the stomach, after eating.
ABDOMEN: 110. Sensitiveness of the epigastrium. Pressive points in the
abdomen. Lancing pains in the large psoas-muscle. Pains in lower part of
belly when taking a cold drink. Pain across the umbilical region, with
alternate sensation of spreading out and pinching together. 115. Itching
at the epigastrium. Shock at the epigastrium. Falling of the rectum.
Weight at the diaphragm. Sense of bands round the abdomen. 120. Pressure
in abdomen, towards the navel. The abdomen is sensitive. Discharge of an
albuminous substance from the rectum, preceded by tenesmus. Borborygmi.
Sense of a peg sticking in the middle of the liver. 125. Circular pain
round the abdomen, terminating at the navel.
STOOL: Constipation. Yellowish diarrhœa.
URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS: Emission of a deeply-colored urine.
Metrorrhagia (vermillion-colored). 130. Feels uncomfortable in
consequence of having her courses. Metrorrhagia alternating with mania.
Lancination in uterus, especially when washing one’s self with warm
water, with weight at the uterus. Leucorrhœa.
BRONCHIAL SYMPTOMS: Aphonia. 135. Pain in the larynx. Dry cough, with
tickling in the throat, at night.
CHEST: Round spot between the breasts, black above and red below.
Swelling of the humeral extremity of the left clavicle. Palpitation of
the heart. 140. Suffocative oppression. Oppression of breathing, as
from want of air. Bone pain and swelling of the left clavicle. Anxious
breathing. The heart feels as if beating from above downwards. 145. The
thorax feels as if encased in iron. Pain in the right clavicle. Violent
pains in the chest. Pain above the right breast. Sensation of water in
the chest, and as if the heart were floating in a liquid. 150. Copious
sweat on the chest. Ulcerative feeling under the breast.
BACK: Coldness in the back. Slow lancinations between the shoulders,
when inclining backwards. Acute pain at the sacro-lumbar articulation.
155. Internal pain between the shoulders. Contusive pain between the
shoulders. Lancination in the dorsal spine, as from needles. Painful
heaviness in the loins. Contusive feeling at inner side of right
shoulder-blade.
NECK: 160. Constrictive pain in thyroid body. Swelling of the jugular
veins. He feels the blood rise in the carotid arteries, followed by faint
feeling and sensation as if a valve were opening. Drawing from the neck
to the epigastrium. Pain in the jugular veins when moving, the neck. 165.
Constriction in thyroid body. Painful pulling in the sides of the neck
when turning the head.
UPPER EXTREMITIES: Lancinations under the right shoulder arresting
the breathing. The bitten hand and arm are inflamed and very painful.
Sensation of swelling in the forearm. Violent pain in the whole arm.
Weakness of the arms. 170. Cramps in the arms as if the nerves had
been tied up in a knot, during a venesection. Rheumatic pain in right
shoulder. Trembling of the hands. Slight pain in the hollow of the hand.
Pulling pain in the elbows. 175. Pain in the elbows. Enormous swelling
of the hand. Feeling of coldness in the hand. Jerking in the fingers.
Smarting of the tips of the fingers. 180. The tips of the fingers are
blue. The last phalanges feel as if broken. She plays with her fingers.
Nails are red. The nails are bare. 185. Rheumatic pain in left wrist.
LOWER EXTREMITIES: Sensation as if the whole right lower limb were
shorter; this causes him to limp. Acute pulling in the thigh, with
momentary paralysis. Itching on the thighs. Drawing-up of the lower
limb, with crampy pain. 190. Pressure at right hip as from a knife. Heat
in the thighs. Sense of burning heat in the legs. Prickling in the bends
of the knees. Itching of the calves. 195. Cold feet. Sense of coldness in
the feet. The feet are icy-cold. Itching under the feet. Formication in
the feet. 200. The toes remain bent. Contraction of the toes. Swelling of
the three last toes of the left foot. Violent cramp of the heel.
SLEEP: Sudden rising at three in the morning, and uttering two shrill
cries, with throwing herself forward. 205. Dreams about dead persons and
phantoms. Dreams about spiders attempting to crawl over her. Disposition
to slumber. Somnolence, the whole morning. Moaning during sleep. 210.
Involuntary urination during sleep. Dream about a horse which is drowned
in a pond. Yawning. Dreams about illuminations, quarrels. Sleeplessness.
215. Starting during sleep. Fright at night, without knowing about what.
FEVER: Chilliness all over. Sense of chilliness. Pulse heavy. 220. Pulse
98 to 104.
CUTANEOUS SYMPTOMS: Bright-yellow spots on upper part of right hand.
Red pimples on left foot. Red pimples all over. Red pimples with white
tips. 225. Pustules on the left toes. Pimples on the hairy scalp. Pimples
resembling flea-bites, afterwards becoming raised and exfoliating,
leaving a black point in the centre. Red pimples on the wrist.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: Pain in left side. 230. Trembling of the whole body.
She cannot see any one on her right side without feeling a palpitation of
the heart, and a real fatigue from pleasure. Desire to move about. Pain
in the joints, shoulder-blades, elbows, &c. Trembling of the limbs. 235.
Weakness. Torpor. Pains in the whole body, inducing a moaning. Swoon.
Lancinations in the side. 240. Prickling all over. Weariness of the arms
and lower limbs. Lancinations in various parts of the body.