Chininum Arsenicosum

Dislike of mental occupation in spite of clear-headed lightness about head and feeling of exhilaration

Memory impaired

Anxiety

Child sits up in bed lamenting

Irritable mood precedes headache.

Sudden attacks of vertigo, < by looking up

Severe darting, tortuous pains, running up into head and preventing sleep

Head full as if it would burst

On sitting down, head seems to be covered with an iron cap

Hemicrania (l.) from fright; flickering before l. eye and lachrymation, ringing in ears, pain tearing, boring

Penetrating pain in region of l. temple

Dull, heavy headache, frontal and occipital; in cerebellum, < from slightest motion.

Intense photophobia and orbicular spasm gushing hot tears, ulcers attacking each eye, < from midnight to 3 a.m.

(Keratitis.)

Flickering before l. eye, with pain and lachrymation.

(Hemicrania.)

Profuse coryza > erect position and out of doors

Post-nasal catarrh < l. side

Copious epistaxis.

Trembling of facial muscles, esp. orbicularis palpebrarum (immediately)

Dull pain in l. temporal region at articulation of lower jaw

Face pale, sallow, bloated.

Tongue thickly furred; appetite bad

Yellow, slimy coating on tongue, with bitter taste

Fetid breath

Dryness in roof of mouth, gnawing and nausea

Metallic bitter taste, without changing taste of victuals.

Appetite gone

Violent thirst for cold water

Desire for sweets

Empty sensation

Hiccough and belching; followed by urging to stool

Sudden, indescribable general nausea, with flying heat and waning strength, esp. of lower limbs

Nausea and vomiting followed by sleep

Eggs or fish cause painless diarrhoea at once

Gnawing and nausea as before vomiting as at beginning of tobacco-poisoning

Pain in stomach as if it had contracted itself round an uneven stone

Disturbed in night by severe pain in stomach as if it were pressed against spinal column;

> by eating, for a few moments; repeated several mornings

Contracting gastralgia, as if pushed up;

> only for a moment by tasteless eructation.

Pain in epigastrium as from foul stomach

Pain as from flatus wedged into flexure of colon

Aching around navel and in ilium

In evening severe colicky pains > by pressure.

Violent urging to stool, evacuated in prolonged rush till bowel empty; stool thin, brown, painless

Diarrhoea, morning, hardly had time to dress, brown, liquid with jelly-like lumps: pain in l. iliac region, quite severe when walking

Towards morning, frequent, bad-smelling flatus

Stool pappy; watery, fetid

Stool, fecal, with mucus and blood, preceded and followed by tenesmus

Stool hard, voided with difficulty; aided by pressing finger on coccyx

Could eat no breakfast, but took some dinner, and immediately thereafter great urging to stool, which was watery and blackish; some pain in hypogastrium.

Breathing unsatisfactory, wants more air than he can take into his lungs

Respiration very free, as if thorax were hollow

Suffocative attacks beginning in morning and lasting till noon;

> sitting bent forward at open window, < every other position

Senile subacute bronchial catarrh with periodical fever, generally < at night.

Severe stitching pain, in chest; later in precordia;

< on inspiration

Asthmatic breathing on ascending

Tightening sensation in mediastinum, in front at l. of breast-bone

Peculiar pain, dull with pressure, as if caused by flatulence, base of l. chest, coming and going rapidly and frequently repeated.

Angina pectoris

Palpitation on leaning against back

Sensation as if heart had stopped

Heart began to tremble, with a rumbling noise;

I was unable to distinguish the pulsations (lasted one hour)

Slow pulse

L. intercostal neuralgia as if torn with hot tongs.

Pain in muscles between l. shoulder and neck, as if sprained, on rising from sleep, 4 p.m

Back feels weak as after a long journey

Pressure in solar plexus (usually only felt after eating tough meat or hard nuts, of which I had not partaken) extended toward the back, when it changed to a pinching sensation; spine painfully sensitive to touch at this point.

Pain in l. wrist, stiffness of l. arm

Pain of fatigue in r. wrist

Burning pain as in periosteum of l. elbow

Annoying feeling of fatigue in r. shoulder, as if humerus were torn out of its socket

Sore, tired aching in joints, bones and muscles: in l. biceps for some hours.

Dull pain in r. temporal region, at articulation of jaw and r. hip

Pain in r. astragalo-tarsal joint as if bones drawn in opposite directions;

> walking

Pressure on tuberosity of tibia, which is somewhat swollen

Pain in r. knee as from a fall

Cramp in calf

Pains back of r. thigh and in calf

Numbness of legs after hardly having lain down

Weakness of lower limbs.

Goose flesh, esp. of lower extremities

Periodical furuncles, which relieve the head

Burning, erysipelatous redness and violent itching < by warmth > by cold.

Night full of visions; heavy sleep till morning

Nervous restlessness, anxious dreams

Sleep frequently interrupted.

General chill and cold

After the feverish cough in the chill, no reaction of warmth

Flying heat with nausea

Cold, clammy sweat.