_First day._—Tension in the nape of the neck and inability to turn the
head. Dark, almost red complexion. Pain in the urethra while urinating.
125. Pricking in the left gums. Desire for food, with aversion to
eating. Lassitude in the limbs. Prickling under the toe-nails. Sense of
excoriation at the nape of neck. 130. Violent pains in the lumbar region,
like a band extending to the uterus. Weight at the uterus. Weight at the
stomach after eating. Acidity, nausea and faint feeling. Weight at the
left side of the uterus. 135. Unquenchable thirst. Feeling of coldness
in the chest after drinking. The lower limbs give way. Pain in the
right instep as after a forced journey. Colic gradually spreading all
through the colon, from the cœcum to the rectum. 140. Sleeplessness with
uneasiness. Weight at the vagina, in consequence of an attack of hysteric
colic. After a continued congestion of the blood to the thoracic
viscera, it seems to rush to the viscera of the abdomen. Prickling in
the uterus, vagina and pubic region, extending to the epigastrium, with
painful lancinations. Lancinations at the umbilicus from above downward,
extending to the womb. 145. Vomiting of green bile, followed by bilious
diarrhœa. Buzzing in the ear. In cleaning the meatus auditorius, small
balls of hardened and black wax are taken from it.
_Second day._—Dull pain in the right lung, worse while walking, with
distress and rush of blood to the throat. Prickling and pulling in the
right lung. 150. Blear-eyedness. Constriction of the thorax as by a
corset. Pressure under the right arm. White, albuminous leucorrhœa.
Sensation as of sand in the eyes. 155. Discharge of white and watery
mucus from the nose. Constant tickling at the nose. Great weight at the
uterus when rising, worse during a walk. Coryza when exposed to the least
current of air; sneezing. Acute contusive pain at the inner side of the
left leg, and sensation as if something were rising and descending in
the tibia. 160. Difficulty of opening the eyes. Sensation as if long and
white filaments were floating before the eyes. In closing the eyes, every
thing looks red, dotted with black points. Itching in the right meatus
auditorius. Stoppage in the œsophagus, after eating, as if a sponge had
lodged there. 165. The beverage is arrested in the œsophagus as by a
spasmodic contraction of this organ, after which it falls heavily into
the stomach. Lancinations from above downward in the posterior muscles
of the trunk, from the occiput to the sacrum, attended with pains in
the temples. Lancinations in the soles of the feet, while seated; they
disappear by walking. Pains in the forehead. Discharge of black blood,
between the menstrual periods. 170. In the morning the hairy scalp, at
the occipital protuberance, feels as if raw. Violent itching in the
vagina. Prickling as with thousands of pins. Aching pain in the left
side. Cramps in the calves, worse in the afternoon.
_Third day._—175. Breakfast agrees pretty well, but the dinner distresses
him. Very sensitive to the cold. Warmth in the hollow of the hand,
after dinner. Coldness in the back. Blear-eyed. 180. Sensation, in the
right eye, of a gauze having a bluish-white or mother-of-pearl color.
Sense of stiffness and spraining in the knee-joint. Disposition to
faint. Sleeplessness or else drowsiness, with distressing dreams about
the business of the day. 185. Lancinations in the vagina. Heat in the
left nostril, and swelling of the nasal septum. Weight in the vagina, on
the left side, and acute pain which prevents her from going up-stairs.
Sensations in the abdomen as of a tube which can suddenly be closed by
means of a valve, and through which a column of some liquid is poured
into the abdomen, where a violent rumbling takes place. The left eyebrow
is painful and drawn down. 190. Eructation tasting like spoiled eggs in
the throat. Lancinations which proceed simultaneously from the groins and
cross each other at the symphysis pubis. Violent diarrhœa, consisting of
sanguinolent mucus and yellow bile, whereas it had been green heretofore.
Sensation, while walking, of a black disk of four inches in diameter,
at the distance of a few paces from the eye. Discharge of black blood
with stool, with acute colic as though the intestines would be twisted
together. 195. Stye at the left eye, with violent lancination. Tickling
and reddish streaks of the sclerotica. Red spot on the knee-pan. Violent
colic as though the intestines would become twisted amongst each other.
Bloody dysentery, followed by sleep. 200. The menses appear before their
regular period. Pressure between the shoulders. Greyish gauze before
the eyes, like a cloud, which becomes thicker; at first it is of the
size of a penny, and spreads until finally it covers the whole field
of vision. Sensation as if an iron bar were pressing on the loins.
Lancination in the stye on the left eye. 205. Lancinations in the dorsal
muscles, especially in raising the arms. The right side is numb and as if
paralysed, from the shoulder to the knee. Pulling at the cardiac orifice,
with sensation of hunger and boring feeling extending to the vertebral
column. Pain in the spinal marrow, from the nape of the neck to the
sacro-lumbar articulation. The neck remains twisted when turning it,
with constriction in the thyroid gland. Crampy constriction at the bend
of the elbow, especially when moving it. 210. Weight in the stomach after
the introduction of food; it turns, with desire to vomit. Constrictive
pain at the bend of the elbow and knee. Itching in the meatus auditorius.
This itching spreads in the interior of the cheek all along the duct of
steno. Watery saliva. 215. The viscous saliva is more abundant. Changing
one’s position is painful, one would like to remain seated or lying.
Diarrhœa consisting of undigested food. The teeth are loose; one is
unable to chew bread. Loose cough.
_Fourth day._—220. Complete paralysis of the right side, with inability
to rise in the morning. Violent itching in the left eye. Complete
blindness for five minutes. The right hand is benumbed; a stitch is felt
through the thickness of the metacarpus. Smarting under the nails. 225.
Painful drawing at the inner part of the arm, from the axilla to the
wrist; but especially distressing at the spot where the prover had been
bled. Small red tetter at the corner of the right nostril, spreading
to the cheek, with tickling. Stoppage of the nostrils, one has to
breathe by the mouth. Suffocative oppression while eating. 230. Violent
distress throughout the thoracic viscera. Cyanosis and reddish spots of
the extremities. Violent itching under the axilla, and appearance of a
tetter. The blood rushes to the right hand, which is of a violet color
and as if paralysed. Shuddering up to the shoulder when dipping the
hand in water. 235. The arm and hand are swollen, blueish, and covered
with red spots, likewise the right leg and foot. Cramps in the whole of
the right side. Cramps in the calves. Swelling of the stomach. Acute
lancinations, from time to time, in the fourth toe of the left foot, as
if pierced by a needle. 240. Quick and transitory lancinations in the
back, sides and arms. Pain at the roots of the hairs on the occiput.
Fruit and cold drinks lie in the stomach like ice. Sudden colic, with
diarrhœa. Lancinations and stitches in the upper part of each lung.
245. Bloat in the region of the diaphragm. After taking a cold drink,
shuddering from the head to the feet, and chattering of the teeth.
Lancinations in the inner side of the knee. Lancinations from the root of
the nose to the ear. Sensitiveness in the pit of the stomach. 250. The
tips of the fingers peel off, which is painful. Redness and pain under
the nails, the parts look as if raw. Biting one’s hand during sleep,
without waking. Pressure between the shoulders. Liquids descend in the
œsophagus with a sound like glou-glou. 255. The nose continues to swell
and the pain extends to the ear. Prickling in the eyebrows, especially
the left. Acute pain in the iliac bone, on the right side, as though the
crest were swollen and the periosteum inflamed. The right leg up to the
knee is cold as ice. Frontal headache. 260. Discharge of black, liquid
blood from the bowels. Borborygmi and noisy flatulence. Constriction of
the sphincter, a quarter of an hour after the discharge. The peristaltic
motion of the intestines takes place from below upwards; the blood
seems to flow backwards in the abdomen, with violent pain and frightful
palpitations, succeeded by lancinations which prevent walking.
_Fifth day._—Dreams about dead persons; she kisses dead persons, falls
into pits where her feet get entangled; she walks sideways. 265.
Quarrelsome, irritable mood, with agitation of the mind. Good appetite.
The heel begins to peel off the same as the fingers. While dreaming she
bites her forearm. Vertigo so as to fall forwards. 270. Sensation as
if falling forward, though the prover remains immoveable. When raising
the hand to the right side of the nape of the neck, a penetrating pain
is felt which spreads to the ear. Stitch in the side, a whole day. The
breathing through the nose is interrupted. One hears some one talking.
275. Violent itching of the hairy scalp.
_Sixth day._—Strange illusion of hearing; she heard whistling and
ringing, and rises to see where it is. Frightful dreams; she buries a
dead person and, with a knife, digs about in his wounds. Afterwards the
experiences a burning remorse and sheds a flood of tears. She dreams
that she has a fight with a man condemned to the galleys. 280. Desire to
strike and pick a quarrel. Mental excitements. Itching of the soles of
the feet, which continue to peel off. Small pimple with a good deal of
itching. Slight discharge of a clear mucus from the urethra. 285. At the
least contrariety the body shudders and the blood boils, with pricklings.
Lassitude in all the limbs.
_Seventh day._—Desire to go to the country and play about in the
grass. Desire to be alone; for days she remains in the corner of the
anti-chamber. Sound sleep. Plans about travelling, &c. 290. She hears
distant whistling. Bread tastes flat, like the triturated poison which
had been swallowed for the purpose of proving it. She wants to leave the
house at the moment when she is going to bed. She retires to a distant
room to work. Irresistible desire to cry out with all her might. 295.
Loathing of meat, bananas, and particularly bread. Desire for oranges,
acids, and especially for sour beef. Profuse cold sweat all over the body.
_Eighth day._—During a whole month, bread does not mix up with other
food, it returns by the nose the whole day, whereas the other kinds of
food are either digested naturally or thrown up again by the mouth.
Metrorrhagia. 300. Violent aversion to light; one prefers to be in the
dark. Violent diarrhœa, continued. Breaking out of little pimples with an
oval base, they dry up and are followed by desquamation of the epidermis.
_Ninth day._—Complete loss of appetite, she eats nothing but oranges.
Bruising pain in the upper portion of the deltoid muscle, as if she
had received a violent blow on the shoulder. 305. Tongue black or of a
dark-red color. The tetter at the wing of the nose peels off. Yellow,
irregular spots on the hand and around the fingers, over a considerable
space. A red, transversal bar of an inch in thickness is seen in opening
the eyes, and a red disk when shutting them. Boils on the arm. 310.
Profound ennui. Depression of spirits; desire to be in a deep cavern,
where nobody can be seen. Absence of thought. Complete loss of one’s
self, so that the time passes away without one being conscious of it in
the least.
_Tenth day._—After eating an orange and bread, the orange returns by the
mouth and the bread by the nose. 315. Coldness at the back part of the
thighs. Furfuraceous tetter and itching at the hairy scalp. She feels
hungry and yet is unable to eat. Small miliary pimples upon a red base
at the corner of the nose. Violent hunger. 320. Burning in the stomach
which extends to the duodenum. Suffocative oppression after eating. Pain
in the right side, as if in the pleura, striking to the axilla. Constant
hunger which cannot be appeased on account of the continual vomiting.
Small suppurating pimples on the hands, fingers, wrists, gums, at the
inside of the cheeks. 325. Violent itching at the abdomen, especially
while walking. Innumerable white pimples at the inside of the thighs,
which get inflamed in the day-time and prevent one from walking in the
evening. Burning of the eyebrows. Drowsy in the day-time, especially at
two o’clock, and sleepless at night. Tickling at the root of the nose,
as from worms. 330. Tongue swollen and whitish, in the morning. Bloating
around the eyes which appear sunken in the morning. The arterial blood
spirts from the nose and ears. Formication at the anus as if a worm were
gnawing at the parts. Suppression of urine. 335. Tickling and frightful
formication at the vulva. Very thirsty; desire for milk. Cold sweat all
over. Slow digestion, one has to drink after every mouthful that one
swallows. Excessive horror of rain. 340. Discharge of a black blood from
the womb. Noise as from a valve closing in the trachea and causing a
column of air to ascend to the pharynx.
_Eleventh day._—Discharge of blood from the ear. The bread returns by the
nose.
_Twelfth day._—Loathing of bread and other food. 345. Decided taste for
oranges and salad. Watery vomiting in the morning. Ellyptical pimples
full of serum. Acute pains in the descending colon. Small red pimples at
the tips of the fingers.
_Thirteenth day._—350. The gums become loose near to the roots of the
teeth. The intestines seem to turn violently about one other, after which
they feel for a few moments as if twisted together like a cord, and then
are suddenly strung together as by a knot, causing a sensation as if the
abdomen would be choked from side to side. Extreme sensation of coldness
after drinking and as if ice-water were rising and descending through a
cylindrical opening in the left lungs. Vomiting of food.