FIFTH PROVING.

_First day._—Violent lancinations in the right side of the chest for a

few minutes, below the third rib, every few moments. Acute pain at the

inner side of the right tibia.

_Second day._—Heaviness of the body. 250. Drowsy all day. Bad night,

nervous restlessness. Pains in the left brain, spreading from above the

left eye (which experiences a contractive sensation) to the vertex, the

back part of the head, and lastly to the nape of the neck where they

remain seated for a time. The pains seem to be seated in the cerebral

membranes, and succeed each other, never appear simultaneously. Sharp

stitching pain, in the region of the heart, with lancinations under

the false ribs. Violent headache, as if a hammer were beating inside

and as if the brain were bounding in an empty space, for half an hour.

255. Sharp pain in the right lower jaw-bone, all the teeth being sound.

Palpitation of the heart.

_Third day._—Night less restless. Sleeps all the time. Heaviness of the

head, with an undefined feeling of malaise in the brain, especially on

the left side. 260. Painful sensation at the right zygoma, for a short

time.

_Fourth day._—On waking, acute pains in the head and posterior cervical

muscles. Intense lancinating pains in the muscles of the right hand, and

its phalangeal articulations. Two hours, similar sensations in the right

shoulder-blade, accompanied by pains in the right wrist, all these pains

are well marked, but short.

_Fifth day._—Restless night, without any apparent cause; no sleep.

_Sixth day._—265. Prickling in the eyes, in the evening, as from some

astringent body. Eyeball and lids congested. Lancinations in the right

shoulder-blade.

_Seventh day._—Continual redness and pain in the eyes. Lancinating pains

above the eyes and in the temples.

_Eighth day._—270. Eyes still red, but less; no prickling.

_Ninth day._—Eyes well.

_Thirteenth day._—Acute and repeated pains in the cervical muscles, and

those of the left shoulder-blade. Violent headache in the morning, which

lasts until 2 o’clock.

_Fourteenth day._—Heavy and drowsy.

_Fifteenth day._—275. Recurrence of the pains in the neck and

shoulder-blade, in the morning. Heavy and drowsy; unable to apply himself

to a serious work; at 3, continued his work with ease.

_Sixteenth day._—Acute pains in the muscles of the neck and

shoulder-blade. Violent headache, in the evening, with sense of

compression in the forehead; from temple to temple. Dry mouth and throat.

_Seventeenth to nineteenth day._—280. Violent headache, all day, from

ten every morning until night. Violent palpitation of the heart. Violent

pains in the muscles of the neck, thigh and left leg, frequently

recurring, but short. (Rising of air in the evening, without acidity).

_Twentieth day._—No headache. Same symptoms as on the preceding days, in

the muscles of the left side. 285. Passing palpitations. Eructations.

Loathing of food, especially meat. Pains in the maxillary bones, as if

all the teeth were affected.

_Twenty-first day._—Lancination above the left eye and in the left

temple. 290. Lancinations in the left jaw-bone. No appetite, loathing of

meat.

_Twenty-second and -third day._—No appetite. Pains in the left side of

the head. 295. Palpitations of the heart.

_Twenty-fourth day._—The stomach feels better. Slight darlings in the

head, always on the left side.

_Twenty-fifth day._—The appetite returns.

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