Stramonium
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General EN
Stramonium.
Datura stramonium. Thorn-apple. Jamestown-weed. Stink-weed. (Grows in vicinity of cultivation on rank soil where refuse is deposited in all parts of the world.) N. O. Solanaceae. Tincture of fresh plant in flower and fruit.
Clinical EN
Anasarca (after scarlatina). Aphasia. Apoplexy. Burns. Catalepsy. Chordee. Chorea. Delirium tremens. Diaphragmitis. Ecstasy. Enuresis. Epilepsy. Erotomania. Eyes, affections of. Headache; from sun. Hiccough. Hydrophobia. Hysteria. Lochia, offensive. Locomotor ataxy. Mania. Meningitis. Nymphomania. Oesophagus, spasm of. Scarlatina. Stammering. Starting. Strabismus. Sunstroke. Tetanus. Thirst. Tremors. Trismus. Typhus.
Characteristics EN
The first to use Stram. in medicine, according to Teste, was Stoerck, who was one of Hahnemann's predecessors Stoerck first tried it in mental alienation, because it was supposed to produce "a marked and persistent disorder of the mental faculties." Hahnemann proved it, and introduced it into the homoeopathic materia medica. In his introduction to the remedy he points out that, though it produces many uncomfortable symptoms, it does not in its primary effects cause actual pain.
Hahnemann attached a good deal of importance to this. "Stram.," he says, "allays some spasmodic movements, and restores suppressed excretions in several cases in which absence of pain is a prominent symptom." In addition to the absence of pain there is with Stram. (and in many mental cases) an extreme muscular mobility. This mobility affects muscles of expression and muscles of locomotion.
The movements of Stram. are generally gyratory and graceful when they occur in the arms. The forms of mania specially mentioned by Teste as calling for Stram. are: Nymphomania of lying-in women. Certain forms of religious monomania, in exaggerated and ridiculous scruple of conscience. Fixed notion that some unpardonable sin has been committed (which the patient is nevertheless unable to remember); that he is possessed of the devil.
Hallucinations. The delirium of Stram. is for the most part terrifying. It corresponds exactly to many cases of delirium tremens. Visions of animals enter largely into it.
In a case of severe pleuro-pneumonia of right side, supervening on scarlatina, the patient, a young man, said he saw a large black dog about the room. This led me to give Stram., which rapidly altered the whole case for the better, including the pneumonia, and resolved a situation of no little anxiety. Stram. is also called for in congestions without actual inflammation, but with high mental exaltation and furious delirium and little or no fever; without pain but with some coma.
J. Emmons Briggs (New Eng. M. Gaz., xxx. 151) relates this case of poisoning: Briggs had an urgent call to see James M., 4, in "convulsions." He found him lying on the bed in a state of wild delirium, requiring the constant combined efforts of two people to keep him in bed.
Face exceedingly flushed; expression becoming in rapid alternation pleasant and anxious. Pupils widely dilated; iris scarcely visible, giving the eye a very brilliant appearance. Marked convergent strabismus, skin hot and dry, resembling scarlatina eruption. Abdomen tense.
The most alarming symptom was rapidly recurring convulsions with twitching of the arms and lower limbs. Thirty or forty of these spasms occurred in rapid succession, followed by a moment during which the countenance brightened and seemed at rest, only to be followed in an instant by a series of clonic contractions. Grasping at imaginary objects before the eyes, when expression frequently became anxious, as if the patient was trying to ward off imaginary foes. At times the mind was very active, and the patient talked rapidly and incoherently.
Between the spasms laughter and crying frequently occurred. The boy, it transpired, had been chewing a Thorn-apple. When he came home he seemed rather dazed, and vomited. He then threw himself on the sofa and slept very soundly till he awoke in the convulsions.
The boy recovered under Kali bro. in five-grain doses, though it was with great difficulty that he was made to swallow. This difficulty of swallowing is a marked feature of Stram., and with the intense thirst, delirium, and hallucinations completes the picture of many cases of hydrophobia. Another symptom indicating it here is "< by bright light, mirror or surface of water." S. A.
Jones (quoted A. H., xxii. 410) relates the case of a little girl with brain symptoms for whom he had prescribed a remedy. The report was brought late at night, that the patient was much worse. "She vomits," said the father, "if she even raises her head from the pillow." The vomit was green.
Jones found this under Stram. by aid of the Cypher Repertory. He gave Stram., and the next morning the case was entirely changed for the better. Acting on this analogue, Jones also cured a "vomiting of green stuff always induced by bright light." On the other hand, the Stram. patient is dependent on light and company; cannot walk in the dark (hence it is indicated in locomotor ataxy); and going through railway tunnels without a light in the carriage may cause fainting. Some of the head-movements of Stram. are characteristic: Continually jerks head up from pillow; head bent back; boring head into pillow.
The twitchings of single muscles and the squint mark Stram. as the remedy for many cases of chorea. I find it correspond to about an equal proportion with Agaricus; and when there is fright in the causation Stram. will almost certainly avail. Stram. has a relation to the hip-joints, and Stram. has cured both coxalgia and morbus coxae (left). This is accompanied by very severe pain, and is one exception to the "painlessness" of Stram. affections.
The effect of Stram. on the secretions is to suppress them; and this makes Stram. an excellent remedy in many cases of illness due to suppressed secretions—menses, lochia, sweat, eruptions. Stram. causes high fever with rashes, some scarlet, like scarlatina; petechiae; spots on the arms like flea-bites; vesications; and it corresponds also to burns and scalds. Stram. 30 caused the face of a boy to whom I gave it to swell and come out in blotches soon after commencing the remedy.
(I have seen Dulc. 30 produce furfuraceous rash on the face in the same way.) In a case of mine Stram. relieved an extensive eczematous eruption which came on after a fright. As a result of suppressions convulsions occur. These may be general, or they may be partial or choreic. The convulsant, spasmodic properties of Stram. are shown in the respiratory sphere in constriction of the chest, asthmatic symptoms, and cough of the whooping-cough type.
The common practice of smoking Stramonium leaves for asthma is roughly homoeopathic. Peculiar Sensations of Stram. are: As if spinning or weaving. As if objects were smaller than they really are. As if dizzy.
As if he had no limbs. As if drunk. Head as if drawn backward. Starts as if a shock of electricity had been passed through her body.
As if eyes were forced out. As of sparks of fire rushing from stomach to eyes. Eyelids as if swollen, or as if oppressed with sleep; as of wind rushing out of ears. As if sawing cheek-bone; as if a hole were there and the brain were touched.
As if nose were shifted. As if pins and needles were in forehead. As if he was seeking something. As if bones were sawed through.
As if front teeth would fall out. Teeth as if pressed together. Moving fingers as if searching for something. Cries as if from sight of hideous objects.
As if lips would grow together. Inner mouth as if raw. Soft palate as if drawn down. As of boiling water in throat.
As if a ball were wedged in throat. As if falling. As if he would vomit. As if navel were to be torn out.
Abdomen as if puffed up. As if abdomen were expanded to extremest degree. As if urine could not be passed on account of narrowness of urethra. As if a cylindrical body were being passed through urethra.
As if he had not power to close neck of bladder. As if very tall. As if something turned round in chest. Limbs feel as if gone to sleep.
As if parts of limbs were completely separated from body. Hands and feet as if loose in joints. As if cold water were poured down back. Stram. is an ill-smelling plant, and the discharges and secretions it causes are often foul and even cadaveric in odour.
Stram. is Suited to: Ailments of young, plethoric persons; especially of children (chorea, mania, fever, delirium). The symptoms are: < By touch; by pressure. Motion <; removing head from pillow = vomiting of bile; walking = involuntary micturition; walking in dark = vertigo. < After motion (vomiting of bile; palpitation; pain in back, shoulder, and abdomen).
Whilst sitting: involuntary micturition; cough = lower limbs to be jerked up. Lying > pulsating heat of vertex; in evening prosopalgia in l. cheek; = cutting pain in sternum. Lying on side < vertigo. Warmth >.
Wind <. Cold <. < Evening and night. < In dark.
> In light. > In company. < Looking at shining objects, water, &c. < Sun.
Great desire for acids; citric acid >.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Lemon-juice, Vinegar, Tobacco injections; Senna for cerebral symptoms; Bell., Hyos., Nux; and "Particularly Camphor" (Teste). Antidote to: Merc., Pb.
Follows well: Cupr., Bell. Incompatible: Coffea. Compare: Metrorrhagia, from retained placenta with characteristic delirium, Sec. (Sec. often acts when Stram. fails), Pyro.
(with fever and septic tendency). Delirium, Bell., Lach., Agar., Cupr., Zn. Illusions of shape, Bapt., Petr., Thuj. Erysipelas, Bell., Rhus.
Stuttering; unable to combine consonants with vowels, Bov. Bright light = convulsions, K. bro. > Light, Stro. Hiccough, Ign.
(< after eating, smoking, emotions), Ver. (after hot drinks). Hears voices from far off talking to him; behind him, Anac. Body bathed in hot sweat.
Op. Gyrating movements (Hyo., angular). Loquacity, Cup., Hyo., Lach., Op., Ver. Hands constantly on genitals, Zn.
Laughs and weeps by turns, Aur., Pul., Alm., Lyc., Caps., Graph., Phos., Sep., Sul., Ver. Tetanic convulsions < touch and light, Nux (Stram. with mania; Nux, mind clear). Desire to escape in delirium, Bell., Bry., Op., Rhus, Hydrophobia, Hfb.
Painlessness, Op. Sleepy, but cannot sleep, Bell., Cham., Op. < After sleep, Apis, Lach., Op., Spo. Objects appear small, Plat.
Night-blindness, Bell., Nux.
Causation EN
Shock. Fright. Sun. Childbirth. Suppressions.
Mind EN
[The principal range of this remedy is found in the mental affections
In young people who are sometimes hysterical, showing the following condition: praying and singing devoutly, beseeching, entreating, &c
Young women with suppressed menses may be affected in this manner
In some kinds of fevers, where the patients can't bear solitude or darkness, if they are left alone or are in a dark room, the mental affections are very much <; also in unconscious delirium when the patient will every now and then jerk up the head from the pillow, then let it fall again, this being kept up without intermission for a long time; women in puerperal fever or convulsions have many absurd notions—that they are double, that some one is in bed with them, and other strange and unmeaning fancies
Affections of the intellect in general; madness
H.
N.
G.]
Melancholy
Sadness, with deadly anguish, and copious tears, esp. in evening, in bed
Anguish of conscience
Inconsolable disposition, and susceptibility to irritation by trifles
Great activity and rapidity of movement
Obstinacy and self-will
Bursts of laughter, alternating with choleric passion or moaning
Howling and groans
Murmurs, or continued cries
Ungovernable fury, desire to bite, to strike and to kill
At one time great indifference to matters of business, at another time fear of being found incapable of discharging them properly
Love of procrastinating and loss of will-power (cured in a man, 75—R.
T.
C.)
Desire to run away
Desire for society, candle-light, sunshine, because darkness and solitude < the moral symptoms
The moral Symptoms are <-After the autumnal equinox
Loss of memory (loses thoughts before she can utter them; calls things by wrong names)
Dulness of all the senses, insensibility to external influences (insensibility to mental impressions)
Dizziness, with internal agitation
Mental derangement, esp. in drunkards
Loquacious delirium and mania
Mania-à-potu with clonic spasms and desire for light and company
Deliria, generally characterised by terror, with visions of frightful spectres
Loss of consciousness, so that the patient forgets his own Relations
Fixed ideas; the body is supposed to be cut in two
Carphologia
Delusions of fancy, in which all surrounding objects appear to be very small, and the sufferer himself very large, and on an elevation
Deliria, with strange ideas
Mental alienation, with praying and pious actions (prayers, hymns, devout aspect, &c.)
Mania, generally with endless fictions of imagination, lascivious talking, conversation with spectres, affectation of importance, dancing, laughter, and blows, or ridiculous buffoonery, in constant alternation with sad and serious behaviour
Hallucinations: a voice near r. mastoid process scolding her; frightful, of rats, mice, cats, dogs, and animals moving
Hallucinations that = terror or rage
Saw people coming out of all corners
Rush of blood to head with furious loquacious delirium
Fear: of losing his senses; that his lips will grow together; that he will suffocate; of failing; of everything falling on her
Boy seemed to see black objects, spoke of black people, black clouds, and grasped at air
Awakens with a shrinking look as if afraid of first thing she sees
Dulness of senses before a rash
Conversing in different languages
Talking in Jewish jargon
Ecstatic
Mania from shock
Nervousness and restlessness.
Head EN
Intoxication and dizziness
Vertigo; cannot walk in the dark, failing to l. or backward
Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering, or with clouded sight, headache (red face, colicky pain and diarrhoea)
Vertigo, head feels drawn backward
Stupefaction With vanishing of vision and hearing, and convulsive movements of head
Headache, with clouded sight and dysecoia
Headaches with tendency to speak incoherently (much relieved
R.
T.
C.)
Anaemia of the brain in old people (relieved
R.
T.
C.)
Distressing sensation of lightness and weakness in head
Woke up with fearful headache and extreme sickness, got up at noon but could hardly speak to any one all day; this went on for three days and then left (produced in a woman, 60, fourth day after single dose of Ø
R.
T.
C.)
Head feels empty, hollow; sensitive to every sound
Throbbing pains in vertex, with syncope
Congestion of blood to head, with heat
Congestion of blood to head, pulsation in vertex, loss of sight and hearing, bloated, turgid face, total loss of consciousness, and painlessness
Inflammation of brain, with heat and pulsation of vertex, attacks of fainting, loss of sight and hearing, convulsive movements of head, frequently raising head up or bending it backward;
> while lying still
Hydrocephalus with convulsive movements of head, sensation of lightness of head, and frequently raising head up
Painful dark-red swelling of the highly congested head and turgid face, with convulsive movements, delirium, and desire for light and company
Retraction and convulsive movements of head
Lifting head frequently from pillow when lying down
Bores head into pillow
Bends head backward
L. side of head numb
Head perspires more than usual.
Eyes EN
Eyes red (inflamed) and swollen
Pressure and tension in eyes and lids
Inflammation of margins of lids
Eyelids ulcerated
Involuntary lachrymation
Nocturnal agglutination of eyes
Eyes wide open, staring, prominent
Conjunctiva injected, as if the vessels were filled with dirty liquid
Eyes fixed, wide open, and sparkling
Eyes half open in sleep
Photomania
Vague, melancholy look
Paralysis and spasmodic closing of lids
Eyes convulsed
Contortion of eyes and lids
Marked convergent strabismus
Pupils dilated and insensible
Cloudiness of sight
Transient blindness
Blindness (at night), periodical
Objects appear blue
Myopia
Diplopia
Indistinct, confused sight.—(Everything looks jumbled up
R.
T.
C.).—(Used as a lotion to prevent cataract by a well-known oculist
R.
T.
C.)
Amblyopia
Confusion of letters, when reading
Errors of vision; objects appear oblique or coloured
Illusions of vision
Hallucinations dark; black spots before eyes
Luminous vibrations; fiery sparks
Sees balls of fire roll over the counterpane
Sensation as of sparks of fire rushing from stomach to eyes.
Ears EN
Wind rushes out of both ears
Dryness in Eustachian tube
Pains in ears
Pain in l. ear pressing down to l. side of cheek
Tearing pain in r. ear with shooting through forehead and vertex
Hearing very acute
Hallucinations of hearing
Deafness
Deafness of r. ear improves at once from 30th (twitching of pomum Adami led me to it
R.
T.
C.).
Nose EN
Obstruction of the nose
Alae nasi white, face red
Nasal discharge yellow, bad-smelling, quickly liquifies
Nose feels obstructed and dry, though she is able to breathe through it
The cold of Stram. is accompanied by catarrh of nasal passages and shooting pains over r. eye (produced
R.
T.
C.)
Spasmodic sneezing.
Face EN
Dull and bewildered air, with timid behaviour
Stupid, distorted countenance
Anxiety and fear is expressed in the countenance
Sardonic grin
Painful distortion of features
Facial muscles in constant play during delirium
Twitching in muscles of face; frowns on forehead
L. side of face for moments distorted with painless convulsions; contraction of zygomatic muscles draws cheeks and mouth from below up, and from face backward to temples
Face deeply furrowed and wrinkled
Face bloated, puffed with blood, sometimes with an idiotic expression
Circumscribed redness of cheeks
Hot cheeks
Blood rushing to face
Deep red, or very pale colour of face
Fainting with paleness of face, dryness in throat, and subsequent red face
Erysipelas on one side of face and nose
Boils come out on face while taking Stram.
(R.
T.
C.)
Lips dry and glued together
A yellow streak in red part of lips
Quivering in lips
Distortion of the mouth
Crawling sensation on chin
Chewing motion with mouth
Mouth spasmodically closed
Lock-jaw.
Teeth EN
Grinding of the teeth.—Pulsative toothache, as if the teeth were going to fall out.
Mouth EN
Dryness of mouth (dry fauces and dry, sticky lips)
Dribbling of glairy saliva from mouth
Copious salivation
Saliva decreased
Sanguineous froth before mouth
Haemoptysis
Tongue swollen and paralysed
Tongue felt stiff, dry, and parched to the very root; as if edges rolled up as hard and dry as leather
Tongue paralysed, trembles when put out
Imperfect speaking and stammering (with distortion of face)
Continued murmurs
Complete loss of speech
A trembling tongue.
Throat EN
Spasmodic constriction of throat
Impeded deglutition, with shootings in throat, or pressure in submaxillary glands
Deglutition obstructed, sometimes by dryness in throat
Dryness of throat and fauces not > by any sort of drink
Paralysis of pharynx and oesophagus
Contracting, tearing in throat; sensation as if a ball were lodged in throat
Twitching of pomum Adami, up and down movement as in swallowing (R.
T.
C.)
Spasm of oesophagus.
Appetite EN
Loss of taste
Food tastes only of sand, or straw (or has no taste at all)
Violent thirst (for large quantities, drinking with avidity)
Violent thirst, esp. for acid drinks
Constant bitterness in mouth, with bitter taste of food
Burning thirst, generally with dread of water and all liquids.
Stomach EN
Risings, with sour taste
Nausea
Watery vomiting, with colic and diarrhoea
Vomiting of mucus, which is greenish, or of a sour smell
Vomiting of green bile after slight exercise
Convulsive hiccough
Pain in stomach, with smarting or pressive sensation
Anxietas precordium, with obstructed respiration.—(Inflammation of stomach.)
Diaphragmitis; delirium; burning along diaphragm; short-breathed; spasms; struggles against the water offered.
Abdomen EN
Abdomen painful when touched
Abdomen distended, not hard
Abdomen inflated, hard, distended
Contusive pain in abdomen during movement
Violent pains in abdomen, as if navel were being torn out
Hysterical spasms in abdomen
Swelling of inguinal glands
Borborygmi and fermentation in abdomen
Expulsion of much flatus.
Stool And Anus EN
Constipation (unsuccessful urging to go to stool)
Tenesmus
Fetid faeces (painless) of a corpse-like smell
Diarrhoea, with pain and borborygmi in the abdomen
Discharge of coagulated blood from anus
Suppression of both stool and urine.—(Stools passed unconsciously and very frequently loose, with mental derangement
R.
T.
C.)
Urinary Organs EN
Suppression of secretion of urine (in typhus)
Emission of urine, drop by drop, with frequent want to urinate
Involuntary emission of urine
Urine: profuse flow; sudden; and burning.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Lasciviousness (exalted sexual desire in both sexes)
Constant uncovering of genitals; indecent talk
Priapism
Scrotum oedematous
Testes retracted, penis erect as in chordee
Onanism, causing epilepsy
Impotence.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Nymphomania
Increased catamenia, with discharge of large masses of coagulated black blood.—(Menses too profuse and attended with headaches
R.
T.
C.)
Increased sexual desire
Metrorrhagia (with characteristic mental symptoms)
Eclampsia
During catamenia, fetid smell from body, great loquacity, drawing pains in abdomen and thighs
Sobs and moaning after catamenia
Too profuse secretion of milk in nursing women
During pregnancy: mania; faceache; is full of strange fancies
Cadaverous odour of lochia; she is full of strange fancies and visions.
Respiratory Organs EN
Voice: hoarse and croaking; high, fine, squeaking; indistinct.—(Sudden aphonia in hysterical girl just recovering from chorea
R.
T.
C.)
Twitching of pomum Adami
Constrictions of larynx
Periodically returning attacks of painless, barking, spasmodic cough, in fine, shrieking tone, from constriction of larynx and chest, without expectoration
Voice loud and bawling
Want of breath
Difficult (hurried or) sighing respiration
Suffocating obstruction of respiration
Oppression with desire for open air.—(Asthma continually recurring, with some gouty tendency: attacks < at night
R.
T.
C.)
Dyspnoea on waking up every morning, cold winds catch her breath, "can cough at any time" (much relief
R.
T.
C.)
Chest EN
Constrictive oppression on chest (with dyspnoea)
Pressure on chest, < by speaking
Sensation, as if something were turning over in chest
Spasm in pectoral muscles
Red rash on chest.
Heart And Pulse EN
Pressure about heart
Angina pectoris
For a week after single dose of Ø felt as if heart beat insufficiently, and had a suffocating feeling in throat (R.
T.
C.)
Palpitation
Pulse rapid, full, strong; irregular, hard, slow, small, frequent.
Neck And Back EN
Neck stiff, cannot bend head backward
Pain in nape, from neck over head
Sensitiveness along spine
Pain as of a fracture in back, when moving
Drawing and tearing in the back and loins
Spine sensitive; slightest pressure = outcries and ravings
Drawing pains in middle of spine; in sacrum
Opisthotonos (with distorted countenance).
Limbs EN
Twitching of hands and feet; of the tendons.—Trembling of limbs; they fall asleep.
Upper Limbs EN
Convulsive movements of arms, above head
Convulsive movements of arms and hands; carphologia
Contractive pain in arm, with acute lancinations in forearm
Distortion of hands
Clenched fists
Cramps in hands
Trembling of hands
Numbness of fingers.
Lower Limbs EN
Coxalgia, l. hip; violent, distracting pain when abscesses form
Pain in muscle of outer side of r. hip
Morbus coxae, l
Drawing pains in thighs
Jerking in legs, as from a shock, with retraction
Drawing pains in thighs
Bending of legs when walking (he falls over his own legs)
Trembling of feet
Contractive cramps in feet.
Generalities EN
Face red and bloated Cannot walk or keep on the feet in a darkened room. is sure to fall Restlessness of the body; staggering when walking; pithy, numb feeling of outer parts Complaints concomitant to morbid sleep.—< During perspiration; after sleep, when first awakens from sleep will shrink away as if in fear; in the dark; in solitude.—> In company
The Stram. patient longs for light; if lying down, longs to sit up, and dislikes having head on pillow Spasmodic, drawing, paralytic pains in muscles and joints of limbs Contractive cramp in limbs Tingling in the limbs
Sensation as if limbs were separated from body Slow contraction and extension of limbs Attacks of cramps of different kinds Tetanus
Opisthotonos (the body is bent backwards with distorted countenance) Cramps, and other hysterical sufferings Stiffness and contraction of several of the limbs Attacks of cataleptic stiffness in body, with loss of consciousness, preceded by headache with vertigo
Easy movement, or great heaviness, of limbs Involuntary motions; hydrophobia Excessive aversion to liquids Convulsions, which resemble St.
Vitus' dance Convulsions (in children) with profuse perspiration followed by sleep The movement of the muscles subject to the will is easier and increased Convulsive jerking of limbs, with weeping
Convulsive movements and jerks, esp. on touching, or fixing the eyes on brilliant objects (such as a candle, a mirror, or water), or else appearing periodically Convulsions, as in epilepsy, but without loss of consciousness Puerperal convulsions Syncope, with stertorous breathing
Unconscious snoring; jaws hang down; hands and feet twitch; pupils dilated Trembling of limbs (also in drunkards) Tottering of limbs, when walking, and when standing upright Paralysis, sometime, after an attack of apoplexy.—(General paralysis of insane
R. T. C.) Symptoms as from old age, sight becomes dim, has to use glasses, mind gets weak, cannot complete sentences, avoids people and suspects them; wakes with r. arm over his head and cannot get it down again (produced
R. M. Theobald.) Weakness, with necessity to lie down
Suppression of all secretions and excretions Painlessness with most all ailments Movements hurried Restlessness and nervousness beyond description
Whole body sensitive to touch and every movement <.
Skin EN
Suppressed eruptions and the consequences thereof.—Intense, bright, scarlet-red rash over whole body.
Sleep EN
Strong disposition to sleep by day
Deep sleep, with snoring, cries, and howling
Lies on back with open, staring eyes
Restless sleep, with tossing about, twitching, and screaming.—(Restlessness of old age; she constantly wakes up those about her
R.
T.
C.)
Comatose somnolency, with a ridiculously solemn expression of countenance on waking.—(Boy wakes in a great fright from indefinable terrors; stammers and puffs on least excitement
R.
T.
C.)
Agitated sleep, with vivid dreams
Frightful visions during sleep
Kneeling position in bed, and starting at least touch, with shrieks and wild gestures.
Fever EN
Coldness of whole body, esp. of limbs, with shaking and shivering and general jerking
Coldness of hands and feet, with redness of face
General coldness in afternoon after previous heat of head and face, followed by general heat
During chill great sensitiveness to being uncovered
Chill running down back
Heat over whole body, with red face and perspiration
Profuse perspiration already during the heat with violent thirst
Greasy, oily, putrid-smelling perspiration
Cold perspiration
Intermittent fever
Chill over whole body without thirst, followed by heat and anguish; sleep during hot stage, and violent thirst after waking up, which causes a stinging in throat, until he drinks something
Heat, with anxiety, and redness of cheeks, or else with thirst and vomiting
At first, heat in head, then general coldness, followed by heat and thirst
Pulse very irregular generally full, hard, and quick, or small and rapid, at times slow and scarcely perceptible, occasionally intermitting and trembling
Frequent profuse sweat, also at night
Retention of urine in any fever.