_First day._—1. Merry mood, desire to sing. Is disposed to take every
thing in good part. Buzzing in the ears and whizzing like the wind, when
walking. Urine scanty and whitish. 5. Sensation of heat and trembling in
the chest. Constant eructations like volumes of air. Watery vomiting.
Violent pain in the abdomen, as if he had been struck by the point of a
stick.
_Second day._—10. Heavy sleep, and late waking. Evanescent ideas.
Sensation of paralysis immediately after rising, his hand trembles a good
deal; he is unable to open the door of his room. Absence of thought.
Disposed to be silent. Deep tranquillity of mind, in the morning. 15.
Sadness. Drowsy after breakfast. Embarrassed breathing when falling
asleep again. Redness of the skin. Sweat in the palm of the hands whereas
the rest of the body is perfectly dry. 20. Pain at the lower part of
the head, and weight as if he had knocked it against any thing. Small
pimples. Beating pain at the left side of the neck. Pain all around the
neck like beats with a hammer. Pain at the right side of the head while
hearing the strokes on an anvil, he felt as though he were struck with a
hammer. 25. Pain at the nape of the neck and forehead when stooping; it
is a dull, confused pain which he cannot describe. In the day-time the
hands become red. Sense of weight over the eyes. His nose is looser than
usual. Pain all round the head as from a blow after having remained in
the sun for a time. 30. Redness and heat of the ears. Alternate hunger
and loss of appetite. Weak stomach. Loathing. Profuse urine, but always a
little white. 35. Acute pain with weight in the pit of the stomach, for a
minute. Eructation during an expiration, like a volume of hot air, which
ascends to the mouth with a feeling of oppression. Metallic taste in the
mouth. White expectoration. Beating pain in the abdomen after breakfast.
40. Disagreeable sensation while hearing the noise of a saw. When hearing
blows with a hammer the counter-shock is felt in the whole body. He
alternately lays himself down and raises himself again. Swelling of the
veins of the hands. Constant pain all day, in the wrist and metacarpus,
as if strings were tied round very tightly. 45. Three slight beats on the
arm, as if touched with the finger. Easy stool. The face is yellow and
the body red. Copious emission of wind. Weak all over in the day-time.
50. Two attacks of colic and diarrhœa, with pulling and pinching in the
bowels, at midnight.
_Third day._—Sad, then merry dreams. Every thing is unpleasant to him.
The headache continues and renders him impatient. Feeling of tenderness
and deep pity. 55. Profuse and whitish urine. The chest dilates a good
deal, when drawing breath, even with the mouth closed. The chest feels
bruised, with embarrassed respiration. The constrictive pain at the wrist
shifts to the middle of the arm for an hour, after which it returns again
to the wrist.
_Fourth day._—Lancinating pain in the left temple. 60. Buzzing in the
ears, and drumming noise when walking against the wind. Lancinating
pain in the chest. Prickings through the heart. The moral emotions are
accompanied by an indescribable malaise, beating pain in the chest and
loss of speech. When making the least exertion, he is attacked with
violent cough and painful prickings in the throat. 65. When commencing
to talk, a sudden suffocation and violent beatings in the chest.
Suffocation and beatings in the chest when attempting to cough. Beating
pain in the head and nape of the neck, with inability to bend the head
forwards for the purpose of writing. Weak chest. Thirst every hour in
the day-time; desire for water, with aversion to wine or any other
liquor. 70. The weakness increases. Sadness. Colic and diarrhœa. Full
and frequent inspirations. Urine clear and abundant, but whitish. 75.
Lancinations in the bladder when commencing to urinate, he feels relieved
after urinating. Pulling and dragging pain in the bowels.
_Fifth day._—Headache. Pain in the chest when making the least motion.
The breathing is no longer embarrassed. 80. Extraordinary desire to
smoke. Pricking in the feet when sitting. Weakness all over. Pain in
the bends of the knees as if bruised. 85. Constriction round the thighs
and legs as if a thread had been tied around. Lancinations in the
groins. Sexual desire. Continual thirst in the day-time. Dry mouth. 90.
Depression of spirits. Sadness. Cold extremities. Profuse and clear
urine. Deep sleep in the day-time. 95. Aversion to work.
_Sixth day._—Dream about ghosts and phantoms. Headache. Sad in the
morning. Increasing thirst in the day-time, until evening. 100. Heaviness
all over. Profuse and clear urine. Loathing of every thing. Aversion to
work. Desire to lie down.
_Seventh day._—105. Headache with vertigo, especially in the morning,
after eating a piece of bread. Sensation as of a blow in the abdomen,
followed by stool. Formication in the right hip, and lancinations when
walking. Continual thirst. Sadness. 110. Clear and profuse urine.
_Eighth day._—The urine becomes natural again.
_Ninth day._—The previous symptoms disappear. Active mind, disposed to
work. Good appetite.
_Eleventh day._—115. Tetter of an inch in diameter on the left arm; it
disappears on the following day. Beating pain in the neck, abating for
a few moments by reclining the head. Pricking in the mouth when eating
bread. Desire to remain lying. Frequent stool. 120. Swelling of the left
ankle. Pricking for two hours at the left knee-joint.
_Twelfth day._—Lancinating pain in the head. Heaviness at the head. Pain
at the head after thinking, as from bandaging the head from temple to
temple with the skin of a bladder. 125. Confused pain in the head when
writing. Lancinating pain in the head, as soon as one sets about eating.
Contusive pain at the clavicles, when turning the head right or left.