EMOTIVE SPHERE.—1. Quarrelsome, irritable mood. Dread of work.
Hypochondriac mood. She wants to enjoy a change of scenery, &c. She
fancies she is miserable, and dwells much on the future.
SENTIENT SPHERE.—5. Crowd of ideas. His attention is easily disturbed by
other things.
HEAD: Heat in the head, evening. Heaviness of the head; in the vertex;
on stooping and then raising the head again. Catarrhal dulness of the
head, especially the forehead. 10. Headache at noon; increased by the
smell of spirits. The head feels too heavy, she has to make an effort to
support it. Pressure above the eyes, on waking. In the forehead: violent
pain, all day; stitching pain; with dulness of the head, and disposition
to fall forwards. Slight beating in the temples. 15. Sensation as if the
hair would be torn out on the vertex.
EYES: Prickling about the lids, the surface of which is red. Spasmodic
contraction and twitching of the left upper lid. Burning in the lids.
Prickling and burning in the eyes. 20. Congestion of the conjunctiva.
Lachrymation on waking.
EARS: Ringing in the left ear.
NOSE: Repeated sneezing, followed by feeble cough. Nosebleed.
FACE: 25. Face hot and red. Mounting of heat to the face, now and then.
Upper lip bleeding, cracked.
TEETH: Swelling of the mucous membrane of the inner margin of the two
incisores. Teeth covered with white mucus.
MOUTH: 30. Dry mouth. Salt taste. Taste of raw potatoes. The mucous
membrane of the velum palati seems to become detached here and there.
Tongue swollen, cracked, early in the morning; coated white or
yellowish-white; or coated white, with red tip, or yellowish along the
median line. 35. Prickling in the right half of the tongue.
THROAT: Inflamed fauces, she is unable to swallow the saliva.
APPETITE: Canine hunger. Food tastes bitter as gall. Great desire for
liquor and oranges.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: 40. Eructations followed by rumbling in the stomach.
Sour eructations causing a cough. Acidity, bitterness, and gulping-up,
after eating. Cardialgia after breakfast, dinner, and supper.
STOMACH: Pain in the stomach, with red face, after breakfast. 45.
Spasmodic pains, griping-tearing at night.
ABDOMEN: Pains and working in the bowels, early in the morning.
Painfulness of the abdomen to contact along the median line. _In the
abdomen_: pain after eating; spasmodic pains, as though the bowels became
twisted together; dull pains in the hypogastric region, at night; pain
with chilliness; rumbling: the clothes cause a feeling of tightness.
Emission of flatulence, also with colic. 50. Pain, as if sprained, in the
right groin.
STOOL AND ANUS: Frequent urging to stool. Stool scanty, with straining,
passing off in small, black lumps; she has to strain until tears come;
hard, large, lumpy; with violent burning in the anus and rectum; hard and
large, followed by two liquid stools. Copious, greenish-yellow diarrhœic
stool. Constipation for five days. 55. Violent colic previous to stool.
Alternate protrusion and retraction of the rectum during stool, with
feeling of chilliness in the body.
URINARY ORGANS: Urine reddish, mingled with mucus. Thick urine;
it becomes covered with white mucus after standing; turbid, of a
dingy-yellow, with copious white sediment; turbid, dingy-yellow, covered
with an oily pellicle. Pain in the urethra, after urinating.
SEXUAL PARTS: 60. Weight in the right testicle, the whole day.
Suppression of the menses. Menses smelling of foul fish, mixed with black
coagula. Small pimples and intolerable itching of the labia. Spasmodic
pains striking through the uterus. 65. Burning and itching in the vagina.
WINDPIPE: In the windpipe: tearing, prickling, with cough; tearing, with
phlegm; sensation as of an obstacle, followed by cough and expectoration
of a lump of hard, yellowish-gray mucus. Hoarseness, on walking. Cough,
with expectoration of yellow mucus, at night. Dry cough, day and night.
70. Cough, as from stoppage in the pharynx. Expectoration of lumps of
black blood, early in the morning.
CHEST: Constriction and difficulty of breathing, caused by dryness of the
mouth. Oppression after supper. Tearing in the chest, also with dryness
of the mouth. 75. Sensation, on making the least motion, as though a
hollow body were moving about in the chest quickly and with a noise,
after which she fancies she will faint, early in the morning. Prickling
as from a thousand pins, on the inner surface of the sternum. Violent
stitching pain above the right breast. The mammæ are painful, especially
when raising the arm. Congestions to the chest. 80. Acute pain in the
left side, like a stitch. Painful stitches in the right side. Palpitation
of the heart, for moments; at night; when lying; when raising one’s-self;
as though the heart would turn; with fainting feeling; with oppression of
the chest (less when lying); irregular (after eating).
BACK: Violent beating in the spine, early, when lying. Prickling
sensation in the spine, during sleep, waking her. 85. Stinging pain in
the large dorsal muscle, right side, when drawing breath. Burning and
painful sensation on the fifth dorsal vertebra, caused by the friction
of the clothes. Sensation of weariness in the whole back. Stiffness in
the muscles of the back. Sense of weight in the back part of the neck.
90. Sensation as if something on the os-sacrum became detached. Pain at
the sacrum, when walking or touching the part. Tingling at the os-sacrum.
Beating in right shoulder. Prickling in the psoas-muscles. 95. Violent
beating in the loins. Pain in the lumbar vertebræ, impeding walking.
Intolerable pain in the lumbar region, obliging her to walk bent.
UPPER EXTREMITIES: Feeling of weariness in the muscles, posteriorly.
Pain as if sprained, in the right upper arm, after leaning on the elbow.
100. Beating in the middle portion of the triceps brachealis. Heat in
the hands. Stinging in the left little finger. Beating in the right
ring-finger.
LOWER EXTREMITIES: Acute pains in the hip-joint, caused by the least
motion. 105. Painful pressure on the hip-joint, as with an iron bar,
compelling her to lie down. In the left gluteus muscle: beating; pain,
accompanied by loathing. Lancinations in the posterior part of the right
thigh. Weary feeling in the muscles of the right side, after walking.
Feeling of dislocation in the hip-joint, with pain in the womb, after a
slight exertion. 110. Shooting pain in the posterior and inferior femoral
muscles, when bending the knee. Beating in the internal femoral muscles.
Alternate heating and throbbing above the patella, in both limbs. Pain as
if sprained, in the whole of the vertebral column, striking through the
posterior parts of the thigh, and extending down to the heels. Drawing
pain in the posterior part of the right lower limb, from the gluteus
muscle down to the heel.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: 115. General and partial debility. Debility, she
is about to faint. Weariness in all the limbs, on waking. Pain as if
bruised, in bed, preventing her from stirring. Cold water causes a sense
of oppression.
SKIN: 120. Small pimples on the back; causing a violent itching. Small
red pimples on the cheeks. The skin in the face peels off a little.
SLEEP: Irresistible drowsiness. Very sleepy in the evening. 125. Restless
sleep. Starting from sleep, as in affright. Sleepless. Confused dreams,
about fires, revolution, corpses, thieves, &c. Amorous dream. 130. He
dreams that he is to dress or draw the body of a drowned person, but is
prevented in consequence of the body falling all the time on the clothes
or paper. Dreams about men who become transformed to talking animals. He
dreams that his hands are cut to pieces. He dreams that he is falling
from a steeple. 135. She dreams that she is eating human flesh. She
dreams that she is swimming in a river, and that she cannot get out of it.
FEVER: Chilliness and sensation of internal coldness. Coldness, with
chattering of teeth. Repeated chilly creepings through the whole body,
in the evening. 140. Feeling of coldness all over, she is unable to
get warm, her cheeks being very red, in the afternoon. Heat all over,
with sweat. Violent paroxysms of heat, suddenly passing through the
whole body, and proceeding from the vertex. Alternate burning heat and
chilliness, at night, in bed. Exhalations from the skin, when performing
the least work. 145. Sweat all over, early in the morning, in bed. Cold
night-sweat. The sweat smells of potatoes, in bed. Pulse irritated;
irregular; hard and tense.