Lachesis Mutus

Great anguish, insupportable anxiety, and uneasiness, from which patient seeks relief in open air

Fear, and presentiment of death

Discouragement; distrust; easily affected to tears

Mental dejection and melancholy, with apprehension, uneasiness about one's malady, great tendency to give way to sorrow, to look upon the dark side of everything, and to think oneself persecuted, hated and despised by acquaintances

Dread of death; fears to go to bed; fear of being poisoned

Thinks she is some one else; in the hands of a stronger power; that she is dead and preparations are being made for her funeral; that she is nearly dead and wishes some one would help her off

Sadness when awaking in the morning or night (particularly in the morning); no desire at all to mix with the world

Restless and uneasy; does not wish to attend to business, but wants to be off somewhere all the time

Sadness, and disgust to life

Mistrust, suspicion, and a strong tendency to take everything amiss, to contradict and to criticise

Frantic jealousy

Indolence, with dislike and unfitness for any labour whatever, either mental or bodily

Timidity of character, with variableness and indecision

Great apathy and extraordinary weakness of memory, everything that is heard is, as it were, effaced, even orthography is no longer remembered, and there is forgetfulness even of things on the point of utterance

Confusion as to time

Mistakes are made in speaking and writing, as well as in the hours of the day and the days of the week

Imbecility and loss of every mental faculty

Over-excitement and excessive nervous irritability, with a tendency to be frightened

Perfect happiness and cheerfulness followed by gradual fading of spirituality, want of self-control and lasciviousness; felt as if she was somebody else and in the hands of a stronger power

Amativeness

Affections of the intellect in general

State of ecstasy and exaltation which even induces tears, desire to meditate, and to compose intellectual works, with a sort of pride

Frantic loquacity with elevated language, nicely chosen words, and rapid and continual change of subject-matter

Loquaciousness, with mocking jealousy, with frightful images, great tendency to mock, satire and ridiculous ideas

Nocturnal delirium with much talking, or with murmuring

Dementia and loss of consciousness.

Head fatigued from intellectual labour

Momentary vertigo on closing eyes

Giddiness after resting

Vertigo chiefly on waking in morning, as well as after lying down in evening, on going into open air, on raising arms, and often with fainting, paleness of face, nausea, vomitings, congestion in head, bleeding of nose, and lassitude of limbs

Intoxication, stupor, and loss of consciousness

Apoplectic fits, with blue face, convulsive, movements of limbs, and extravasation of blood in brain

Softening of brain and its membranes

Violent pain in head, with yellow face and flushed cheeks

Headache, with congestion of blood, sparkling before the eyes, drowsiness, shiverings and inclination to lie down, or with nausea and vomiting

Headache preceding coryza

Cephalalgia from heat of sun

Pains deeply seated in brain; or in the sockets of the eyes; or above the eyes; or in occiput; with stiffness in nape of neck

Pain as from a bruise in crown of head, or sensation of boring, with jerks and throbbings on moving the head

Heaviness and pressure in head, as if it were going to burst, or tension, as from threads drawn from occiput towards the eyes, or shootings, as from knives, in different parts of the head, and as far as the eyes

Pressing headache in temples as if the brain were pressing out, in the morning after rising, from motion, from stooping;

< from pressure and while ascending;

> from lying down after eating

Cutting headache as if a part of the r. side of the head were cut off, < after rising or ascending;

> from heat and after belching up wind

Pains which spread from the interior of head to ears, nose, and neck

Headache extending into root of nose

Headache with flickering before the eyes

Headache every morning on awaking, or after dinner; or else on every change of weather

Pulsating, beating headache with heat in head, esp. on vertex, or on r. side, or over eyes, preceding a cold in the head, with stiffness of neck

Swelling of head, muscular throbbings in temples, tension in occiput extending to nape of the neck, painful sensibility of scalp, with troublesome itching, excessive desquamation, and falling off of the hair

Falling off of the hair, esp. during pregnancy, with great aversion to rays of sun

Sensitiveness of scalp in l. vertex down, and l. side of face on touch or moving muscles, a sensation as if sunburnt

Cannot bear to have hair touched.

Yellow colour of the white of eyes

Eyes yellow or turbid, dull and dejected, or bright and convulsed, with fixed look

Pupils strongly dilated

Ecchymosis and haemorrhage of the eyes

Haemorrhages into interior chamber

Dryness of eyes, as if full of dust; or lachrymation with tears, which sometimes seem to be cold

Photophobia

Over-sensitive to light

Itching and burning of the eyes

Itching, and shootings as from knives, in eyes, or violent aching, as if the ball were going to start from the socket, < by moving eyes

Eyes red and inflamed, with redness of conjunctiva and sclerotica, burning heat and lachrymation

Eyes water with headache from a cold

Sensation as if the eyes were too large or the sockets too small

Feels when throat is pressed as if eyes were forced out

Swelling and inflammation of the eyelids or of the edges

Convulsions, heaviness, and paralysis of eyelids

Weakness of sight and presbyopia

When reading the letters appear to be confused

Clouded vision as when looking through a veil

Obscuration and loss of sight

Dimness of vision; black flickering before the eyes; often makes reading difficult

Bright blue rings, filled with fiery rays, about the light; zigzag figures

Flames and sparks appear before the eyes, or a blue veil or blue circles round the candle

Eyes appear small and inexpressive

Fistula lachrymalis accompanied by long-standing eruption on face.

Ears cold, sensitive to the wind

Painful swelling of interior of ear

Dryness of ears

Cerumen scanty, too hard and too pale, or like pap, and white, with diminution of the power of hearing

Very disagreeable throbbing, tinkling, roaring, cracking, buzzing and rolling, or a resounding noise, as if a drum were beaten, in ears

Whizzing, as from insects in ear

Ears as if stopped

Excessive sensibility, or hardness of hearing

Haemorrhage from the ears

Pain in ears with sore throat

Tearing extending from zygoma into ear

Swelling of parotids

Excoriation and scabs behind ears.

Nocturnal pains at bridge of nose

Stoppage of nose, as from an internal swelling, principally in morning, or with coryza

Swelling, redness and excoriation of edges of nose, with scabs in nostrils

The nose bleeds when it is blown (blood dark), and blowing of blood from the nose, esp. in the morning

Nose-bleed in amenorrhoea, typhus, &c

Copious bleeding from nose, of a bright-red, or thick and black

Flow of (blood and) pus from the nose

Paroxysms of sneezing in hay fever

Dry, chronic coryza, with stoppage of nose, or fluent coryza, with abundant discharge of serous mucus, lachrymation, frequent sneezing, and inflammation and excoriation of nostrils

Imperfect coryza, with many sufferings of head and mind, all of which disappear as soon as the catarrhal flux commences

Red, chronic pimples on nose

Redness of the point of the nose

Many symptoms end with catarrh.

Face pale, wan, wasted, and cadaverous; leaden, or earthy, discoloured, yellowish complexion

Red spot on cheeks with yellowness of rest of face

Dark bluish-red patch on l. side of nose and cheek, coming on when flushed, generally at noon or after wine; never in evening or night (Cooper)

Blue circle round eyes

Small red veins in cheeks

Bloatedness, sometimes to a frightful extent, tension and red swelling of face

Heat and redness of the otherwise pale face

L. side of face and lower jaw swollen and sensitive to touch

Tri-facial neuralgia, l. side, orbital; heat running up into the head

Heat and redness of face (during delirium)

Erysipelas in face, sometimes with itching, pimples or vesicles, cracks and corrosive oozing, burning pains and swelling

Miliary eruption and pimples on face

Tetter with thick scabs in region of whiskers

Tensive and crawling pains in face, pains in bones of face, prosopalgia, with vomiting of food

Feeling of stiffness of the malar bone coming from the cervical glands

Lips dry and swollen, pimples on lips, trembling of the lips

Weakness and paralysis of lower jaw, with distortion of features

Trismus, with clenching and grinding of the teeth; chattering of the teeth.

Boring pains in the teeth which are carious, principally after dinner, and sometimes with swelling of the cheeks, and a sensation as if the teeth were too long

Toothache every morning after waking, or after dinner every day, with tearing, drawing, and shooting pains in roots of teeth (of lower jaw); from warm and cold drinks

Toothache with pains in head, shiverings, heat and heaviness of the legs

The toothache affects the ears

Brittleness and looseness of the teeth; the carious teeth become soft, and pieces of them are broken off

Swelling and painful sensibility of the gums

Gums bleeding; swollen, spongy

Hot and cold drinks renew the pains.

Inflammatory swelling of the buccal cavity

The mouth and palate are excoriated and very painful

Dryness of the mouth and tongue, or accumulation of water in the mouth and salivation

Tongue shining, dry, red and cracked; or inflamed, swollen (covered with blisters), brownish or blackish

Stiffness, immovableness, and paralysis of the tongue

Aphonia, or confused, indistinct speech, nasal tone of voice, difficulty in pronouncing certain letters or particular words; the speech is louder and more precipitate than the speaker wishes

Tongue heavy; cannot open mouth

Tongue trembles when protruded, or catches behind the teeth

Stammering.

Constant tickling in throat, as if a crumb of bread, or something similar, were stopping in it

Partial or general dryness of throat, often extending to ears, nose, and chest

Burning and pain as of excoriation in throat, principally on swallowing

Painful excoriation and inflammatory swelling of throat, with redness of parts affected, as if they were coloured with vermilion

Swelling of the tonsils (mostly l.)

Large and small tumours in throat, which impede deglutition

Cannot swallow the food after masticating it, because it rests on the back part of the tongue, and produces a thrilling pain there

Constant desire to swallow, and a sensation on swallowing as if there were a tumour, or a piece of something, or a plug in the throat

Sensation of contraction, of strangulation, and of constriction in throat

The throat as it were stiff and paralysed

Convulsions and spasms in throat

Impeded deglutition, with dread of drinks, which often pass through nostrils

Hydrophobia

Much slimy saliva, esp. in back of mouth

The pains in the throat are < by slightest contact, and by least pressure on neck, as well as after sleeping, and while swallowing the saliva; the pains are > by eating

When swallowing the pain extends to the l. ear

Sore throat, which affects only a small part, or which, on the contrary, affects the ears, larynx, tongue, and gums; frequently with dyspnoea and danger of suffocation, salivation and hawking up of mucus

Much hawking up of mucus, which is exceedingly painful

Empty swallowing < the pain in throat more than swallowing food; or fluids are swallowed with less pain than solids

Copious accumulation of tenacious mucus in throat

In old chronic sore throats: throat may not be very sore, but a great quantity of mucus will stick there, and occasions much hawking and spitting to no purpose; the mucus will stick and can't be forced up or down

Sore throat alternately with stoppage of nose, or with sufferings, while speaking

Ulcers on palate, on back, of mouth (on the inflamed tonsils), and in throat, with fetid odour, abundant suppuration, and sharp pains on swallowing food

The inflammation and ulceration of throat begin on l. side and extend later to r. side

The external throat is very sensitive to touch (not painful, but an uneasy sensation); on lying down, with suffocative sensation; even to touch of linen.

Disagreeable, or saccharine, acid, rough, astringent, or metallic taste

Want of appetite; complete indifference to food and drink

Repugnance to bread, which it is impossible to swallow

Irregular appetite, at one time anorexia, at another bulimy

Sickly craving, with nausea, convulsive yawnings and fainting fits, if food is not eaten instantly, or with gnawing and aching in stomach, which is renewed shortly after eating

Insatiable thirst

Thirst, with dry tongue and skin

Desire for wine or for milk, both of which, however, disagree; desire for oysters

After a meal: pressure on stomach, risings, vertigo, flatulency, inclination to vomit, or vomiting of food, weakness in knees, indolence, and heaviness of body, mental fatigue, uneasiness, regurgitation, diarrhoea, difficult respiration, pain in head and teeth, and aggravation of all the sufferings.

Hiccough after having drunk; or after smoking tobacco

Violent empty risings, with danger of suffocation

Risings, which > the sufferings

Acid risings, with taste of the food

Pyrosis from the throat, as if the whole of the oesophagus were filled with rancid substances

Nausea and inclination to vomit, principally in morning, or after a meal; as well as in consequence of many other sufferings

Violent and convulsive vomiting of everything taken, or of bilious, bitter, greenish matter

Vomiting of pure blood, or of bloody mucus

Vomiting, with diarrhoea, obscuration of sight, pains in stomach, and diuresis

Excessive sensibility of precordial region to slightest touch; tight garments are insupportable, and the least pressure is very painful

Great weakness of stomach; it can bear neither food nor drink

Stitches extending into the chest

Gnawing in stomach;

> after eating, but returns when stomach gets empty

Painless gnawing

Pressure in stomach; after eating; with weakness in knees

Sensation as if something encumbered the cardia and impeded deglutition

Aching in stomach, extending to chest, and a sensation as if a worm were moving about in it and gnawing it.—(Every evening) cramps and violent pains in stomach, with risings, retching, and vomiting of slimy matter.

Burning, drawing, or cutting pains in liver

Acute pain in liver, extending towards stomach

Inflammation and softening of liver

Hepatic abscess

Gall-stones

Pains and stitches in region of spleen, sometimes on riding in a carriage or walking

Enlargement of abdomen in young girls

Painful distension, flatulence; can bear no pressure, surface nerves sensitive

Sensation of emptiness in abdomen

Pains in abdomen, in consequence of a strain in the loins

Pains, generally pressive, in umbilical region, sometimes with difficult respiration, < an hour after a meal, and > by eructations

Tearing and cutting pains in r. side of abdomen

Cutting pains, so violent as to drive patient distracted; or acute pullings, with contraction of abdomen

Burning in abdomen, with pressure on bladder

Abdomen hot, sensitive; painfully stiff from loins down thighs; peritonitis; pus formed

Inflammation of intestines

Extravasation of blood in peritoneum

Swelling in caecal region; must lie on back, with limbs drawn up (typhilitis)

Abdomen hard and distended, with flatulent colic, pain in back, vomiting, diarrhoea, and diuresis

Frequent emission of flatus; the flatus sometimes penetrates into inguinal ring

Pain, as if a hernia were going to protrude.

Slow evacuation

Obstinate constipation with hard and difficult evacuation

Constipation, anus feels tight as if nothing could go through

Faeces small, scanty, and tenacious

Constipation alternately with diarrhoea

Diarrhoea, with violent colic, nausea, vomiting, anguish, pains in rectum during passage of faeces, tenesmus and excoriation of anus

Stool lies close to anus without passing and without urging

Loose evacuations, principally at night, or after a meal, or in warm (and damp) weather, or from having taken fruits and acids

Diarrhoea after food, with occasional pain across navel, loins, and back

Involuntary and unperceived evacuations

Stools excessively offensive

Evacuation of fetid matter, or of soft faeces, of the consistence of pap, or liquid, or slimy, like pitch, or sanguineous and purulent, or of undigested substances, or of pure blood, or of sanguineous mucus

Stools watery, offensive, dark; watery, frequent, sudden, about midnight, offensive, ammoniacal; soft, bright yellow; pasty, putrid

During the evacuations: pain, tenesmus, and burning in anus

After the stool: congestion of blood to head, vertigo, debility, pains and throbbings in anus

Painful constriction of anus and rectum

Anus feels closed: sensation of a plug

Prolapsus recti during evacuation

Discharge of mucus and blood from rectum, sometimes with violent colic

Haemorrhoids with colic, or with burning and cuttings in rectum, or with congestion of blood in anus, and diarrhoea

Stitch in rectum when laughing or sneezing

Sensation in anus as of several little hammers beating there

Piles irritable, with painful drawing upward like a mouse tugging at one side and drawing it up

Bleeding haemorrhoids

Haemorrhoidal tumours protrude after stool, with constriction of sphincter

Large haemorrhoidal tumours (in persons addicted to spirituous drinks)

Haemorrhoidal tumours protruding with stitches at each cough or sneeze.

Pressure on bladder, with urgency to urinate, or with cuttings and burnings in abdomen

Frequent want to urinate, with copious emission even in night

Violent pain, as if a ball were rolling about in bladder, and thence into urethra

Violent tenesmus, with scanty emission of urine

Paralysis of bladder

Continual incisive shootings in urethra

Small tumour in urethra, with retention of urine

Urine turbid and brown, or red, or deep yellow, and sometimes with frequent but scanty emission, or with brown and sandy or red or brick-coloured sediment

Frothy urine

Urine frequent, foaming, black

Involuntary and unnoticed emission of urine

Pains in back and loins during the want to make water

Sensation of burning in urethra on making water, and many other sufferings, all of which are renewed by motion of a carriage, and return after drinking wine

Pain, as from excoriation, in urethra and in glans

Flow of urine after evacuating and after urinating.

Pressure in testes, as if a hernia were going to protrude, when making an effort to urinate

Pimples on the hairy parts

Strong sexual desire without physical power, and with flaccidity of the penis

Erections without sexual desire

Pollutions night and day, sometimes with debility and sweat

Flow of prostatic fluid when urinating, or after having urinated

Semen of a pungent smell

During coition the emission is tardy or does not occur at all

Abundant secretion behind the glans

Spots and red pimples on the glans and on the corona

Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers

Attenuation of scrotum and hardness of testes

Thickening of prepuce.

In females who never get well from the change of life -"have never felt well since that time"; may have unnatural unwell periods

During change of life, where she has flashes of heat all day, and cold flashes on retiring at night

Sensation in the abdomen as if a ball were ascending from thence to chest, as in hysteria

Pains from ovaries to uterus, with discharge of pus while at stool

The uterus feels as if os were constantly open

Redness and swelling of external parts (with discharge of mucus)

Swelling of the parts, with itching and sexual desire

Catamenia feeble, tardy, and of too short duration, often accompanied by haemorrhoidal and, other sufferings

Menstruation suppressed

Menstruation too scanty (blood black)

Abdominal spasms during catamenia

Before menses: pains and throbbing in the head, vertigo, epistaxis, aching in stomach, risings, cuttings in hypogastrium, flow of mucus from urethra, and cramps in chest

Before and after menses, diarrhoea with violent colic

Menstrual colic, beginning in l. ovary

Swelling, induration, pain and other anomalies of l. ovary

On the appearance of the catamenia, sacral pains, with pain as of a fracture in hips and chest

During the catamenia, pains in the loins like those of labour, throbbings in the head, and cuttings

Miscarriage.—(The milk of females bitten by the serpent becomes venomous and curdles.)

Mammae swollen

Intolerably itching tetters on and around nipples

Nipples swollen, erect, painful to the touch

Sexual desire excited: nymphomania.

Catarrh, with cough, coryza, shooting pains in head, stiffness of nape of neck, and affection of chest

Continual hoarseness, with a sensation as if there were something in the throat which impeded speech, and which cannot be detached

Oppressed breathing, < when talking and eating

Contraction and constriction of the larynx, with a sensation of swelling and of tension

Painful sensitiveness of larynx and neck to touch, and on slightest pressure, with danger of suffocation on feeling the gullet, and on holding back the head

Sensation of pulsation and of choking between larynx and chest

Dryness, burning, and pain as of excoriation in larynx

Sensation as if there were a ball in the larynx

Voice weak, hollow, nasal

Cough, often fatiguing, and by which nothing is detached, excited mostly by a tickling in larynx, chest, and pit of stomach, or by pressure on the gullet, as well as by conversation, walking, and everything which increases the dryness of the throat

Cough caused by pressure on the larynx, or by any covering of the throat; by a tickling in pit of throat and sternum; when falling asleep; from ulcers in the throat

Constant irritating cough, with or without expectoration

Very chronic coughs

Cough with rawness of chest, difficult expectoration and pains in throat, head, and eyes

Frequent attacks of short cough from tickling in pit of stomach, dry during the night; difficult, sometimes watery, salty mucus, which has to be swallowed again, is raised

The cough is < during the day; after sleeping; from changes in the temperature; from alcoholic drinks; from acids and sour drinks

Cough with hoarseness

Diphtheria

Cough always after sleeping, or at night, when sleeping, or in evening after lying down, as well as on rising from a recumbent posture

Dry, short, suffocating and croaking cough, sometimes with vomiting

Spittle mucous, tenacious, or acid, and of a disagreeable taste, or sanguineous

Haemoptysis

On coughing, accumulation of water in the mouth, sharp pains in pit of stomach, shocks in head, and tension of eyes.

Respiration short, frequent, or convulsive or rattling, stertorous, and croaking, or wheezing, moaning, and deep

Frequent want to draw a long breath

Dyspnoea and oppression of the chest, with effort to breathe

Shortness of breath, principally after a meal, on walking, after making an effort with the arms, and sometimes with sadness, or with an asthmatic cough

Attacks of asthma, and difficulty of respiration, principally after eating, or in the evening on lying down, or at night, during sleep, and sometimes with anguish, thirst, nausea, vomiting, fainting, and cold sweat

Fits of suffocation, esp. on lying down in evening or in bed at night, and principally when anything is placed before nose or mouth

Paralytic orthopnoea

Offensive breath

Pressure on chest, as from a weight, or as if it were filled with wind, and principally at night

Contraction of the chest wakens him after midnight, with slow, heavy, wheezing breathing, compelling him to sit up with his chest bent forward

Violent pains with great anguish and constant movements in the chest

Burning and pain of excoriation in chest, as if it were raw, principally after a meal

Oppressive pain in the chest as if full of wind, > by eructations

Stitches in side and in chest, < by breathing, and sometimes with cough and sanguineous-expectoration

Stitches in (l. side of) chest, with difficult breathing

Extravasation of blood in lungs

Pneumonia (hepatisation of the inflamed lungs)

Gangrene of lungs

Swelling and bloatedness of integuments of chest

Itching, red places, and miliary eruption on chest.

Palpitation of heart, with (fainting and) anxiety, sometimes excited by cramp-like pains, with cough, and fit of suffocation

Palpitation of heart and choking from slightest anxiety

Feels as if heart hanging by a thread and every beat would tear it off

Irregularity of beats

Constrictive sensation in region of heart

Spasms in heart (with aneurism of r. carotid) and disagreeable pulsation in ears

As if heart too large for containing cavity

Stitches in region of heart, with shortness of breath, fainting fits and cold sweat

Faint feeling about heart, with heats up spine and flushings of face

Faintings, giddiness, and palpitation constantly recurring.

Nape of neck and neck excessively sensitive to least pressure

Rheumatic stiffness of nape of neck and neck

Stitches in back and between shoulders

A small tumour is formed near the spine

Burning in back

Spasms in muscles of back

Painful stiffness from loins to hip, as if muscles were too short

Insupportable nocturnal pains in back, in loins, hip and knee

Pain in the small of back, with constipation, intermittent fever, palpitation of the heart or dyspnoea

Pain in the os coccygis, when sitting down one feels as if sitting on something sharp

Want of strength in back and knees, which forces patient to stoop when walking

Pain, as from dislocation, in loins, as after great exertion

Papulae, vesicles, tetters, pimples, and scarlet spots on back and shoulder-blades.

Lameness in l. shoulder

Pain in r. shoulder-joint with headache

Perspiration in axillae of strong smell (like garlic)

Rheumatic and arthritic pains, and aching pains in bones of arms, in hands, fingers, and wrists

Malignant ulcer on upper part of arm

Tension, as from contraction of tendons, from the elbow to fingers

Erysipelatous inflammation in elbow

Pimples on arms after scratching

Sensation of fatigue or of paralysis, and pain, as from dislocation, in arms

Paralysis of hands

Trembling of hands (in drunkards)

The hands are dry and burning

Extremities of the fingers numbed and painful

Tingling and pricking in l. hand

Prickings in extremities of fingers

Numbness in tips of fingers (morning)

Itching, psoric eruptions, red spots with vesicles, furunculi, excrescences, and warts on hands and fingers

Hard and cold swelling of a bluish black colour, on the back of hand and fingers

The hands are cold, as if dead

Hard swelling from hand to elbow, with excessive pain

Panaris.

Sensation of contraction, and contractions of the tendons of the ham

Nocturnal pains in hip and thigh

Caries of the tibia

Burning spots on tibia

Agonising pains in tibia (with throat affections)

Sharp and drawing pains in legs, when there is change of weather, and in windy weather

Furunculi on thighs

Sensation of heaviness, paralysis, of numbness and trembling in thighs and knees

The knees are, as it were, dislocated, stiff and weak

Stinging in knees

Sensation as if hot air were going through knee-joints, which were shaky

The l. knee feels as if sprained

Swelling of knees

Swelling of feet, < after walking (during pregnancy)

Flat ulcers on lower extremities, with blue or purple surroundings

Gangrenous ulcers on legs (toes)

Cramps and pains in calves of legs

Red pimples on the thighs and on the legs, after scratching

Excoriated places, and superficial ulcers with foul bases, on the legs

Red or bluish, and painful swelling of feet and legs

Heaviness, numbness, icy coldness, sweating of the feet

Itching, psoric eruptions, papulae and spots as from a burn, in feet and legs

Cracks and rhagades between the toes

Abscess in the heels.

Ecchymosis; wounds and ulcers bleed readily and copiously (small wounds bleed a good deal; ulcers bleed readily; cicatrices bleed readily; pain in old cicatrices), wounds bleeding a great while; skin very hard to heal, masses of blood pass through the pores

Varicose swellings

Dropsical swelling over whole body

Hard and pale tumefaction

Skin yellow, green, lead-coloured, or bluish-red or blackish, chiefly round the wounds and ulcers

Yellow, red, copper-coloured spots

Pale, livid spots, with fainting fits

Dry, miliary itch, with eruption of large vesicles of a yellow or of a bluish-black colour, with swelling of parts affected, and pains which drive to despair

Miliary eruption, which subsequently resembles nettle-rash, scarlatina, or morbilli

Erysipelas and vesicular eruptions with a red crown

Excoriated places, on touching which a burning pain is felt

Rupia and other skin affections, with angioleucitis (Cooper)

Ulcers, surrounded by pimples, vesicles, and other small ulcers (on a purple skin)

Ulcers with great sensitiveness to touch, uneven bottom, ichorous, offensive discharge when touched, esp. around the lower extremities

Gangrenous ulcers

Gangrenous blisters

Superficial ulcers, foul at bottom, with a red crown

Cancerous ulceration (of wounds), or putrefaction of the flesh, which becomes detached from the bones, and falls off piecemeal

Gangrenous wounds, with inflammatory fever, weak, quick, and intermittent pulse, fainting nausea, spasmodic and bilious vomiting, convulsions, and cold sweats

Papulae, warts, hard swellings

Panaris

Red and itching lumps and tuberosities

Carbuncles, with copper-coloured surroundings and many smaller boils around them

Flat exanthemata which do not fill up; pustulous exanthemata; spongy excrescences.

Great drowsiness by day, and principally after a meal

Sleeplessness, chiefly before midnight, with excessive nervous excitement

Lively and wide awake in evening

The patient sleeps into an aggravation, as (e.g.) in croup; is very well while awake, but as soon as goes to sleep the croup symptoms appear in great violence; child almost suffocates, and the mother or nurse is consequently really afraid to let him go to sleep

Also in convulsions; patient has none while he is awake, but as soon as he is asleep they appear

Drowsiness and sleeplessness alternately every two days

When falling asleep he is awakened by a tickling cough

Restless sleep, with many dreams

Sleeplessness in the evening with talkativeness

Light sleep, with frequent and easy waking, agitation and tossing, groans and sighs, starts and fright

Dreams connected and frequent, poetical and meditative or voluptuous; dreams of quarrels, of horrible things, of spectres, and of death

At night, heat, agitation, burning in palms and soles, pains in the bones or rheumatic pains, diarrhoea, emission of urine, mental excitement, and many other sufferings

After sleep, sensation of stiffness, and pain as from fatigue in the limbs, erections with sexual desire, pains in the back and loins, congestion of blood, heaviness and pain in head, pressure in stomach, sore throat, nervous yawnings, and aggravation of all the sufferings.

Icy coldness of the skin or of the limbs, or only of the feet, with great desire to be near a fire, and sometimes with loss of sensation, clammy sweat, weakness and great quickness of the pulse

Shiverings, sometimes only partial, often with pains in the limbs, sacral pains, agitation and tossing, colic, trismus and convulsive movements of the limbs, pain in chest, thirst, chattering of teeth

Chill ascending the back, often on alternate days

Shuddering while the heat continues, and principally on lifting the bed-clothes

Shivering, chiefly after a meal, or in afternoon

Dry heat, principally at night, or in evening, and esp. in feet and hands, often accompanied by agitation and tossing, headache, delirium, insatiable thirst, eructations, bilious vomitings, cries, groans, dryness of mouth and throat, and frequent stools

Heat, alternately with cold (alternating and changing localities), shivering of shuddering

Fever at night or in evening, quotidian, tertian, or quartan, and often accompanied by headache, rapid prostration of strength, and debility which obliges the patient to lie down; want of appetite, hiccough, vomiting, sensibility of the neck to the touch, palpitation of the heart, anguish, yellow urine, diarrhoea, pains in the limbs, back, and loins, nervous and spasmodic yawnings, stretchings, swelling of the body, spots and ulcers

Internal sensation of heat, with cold feet

Chronic fevers; slow fevers; typhoid fevers

The fevers are renewed by acid food

Dry, burning skin

Sweat >

Perspiration colouring linen yellow red

Febrile sweat, principally after hot stage, towards morning; copious sweat; fetid sweat; cold sweat; sanguineous sweat

Pulse intermittent, or feeble and quick (but accelerated), or irregular, or scarcely perceptible, or tremulous, or alternately full and small

Intermittent fever, the paroxysms come on every spring, or after suppression of the fever in the previous fall by quinine; face red; feet cold; during hot stage continuous talking; face yellow or ashy

Typhus fever, esp. when the tongue is red or black, dry or in fissures, esp. at the tip, or when tongue trembles when put out, or if while endeavouring to put it out, the tip remains under the lower teeth or lip and cannot be put out.