Lac Felinum

Great depression of spirits

Very cross to every one

Fear of falling downstairs, but without vertigo

Morbid conscientiousness; every little fault appeared a crime

Mental illusion that the corners of furniture, or any pointed object near her, were about to run into eyes; the symptom is purely mental; the objects do not appear to her sight to be too close (asthenopia).

Dull pain in forehead in region of eyebrows

Heaviness in forehead

Heavy pressure in sides of head and vertex

Pulsations in head with sensation of heat in forehead, and constriction across bridge of nose

Acute pain on vertex

Acute pain in frontal region

Intense pain early in morning on vertex, and l. side of head: it commences just in front of vertex, with a flush of heat which extends front about an inch, and is followed by the intense pain; the heat and pain then spread, never crossing median line, down l. side as a veil, taking half the nose and jaws, and entering ear, causing her to close the eyes from its intensity; during the pain, head drawn down so that chin pressed heavily on chest, and her agony was so great that she had to hold the head firmly in her hands, and rush through the house from room to room screaming (from the 17th potency)

Acute pain over l. eye and temple

Pain in head < from reading

Sharp lancinating pains passing zig-zag down l. side of head about every ten minutes from vertex towards l. ear

Pain commencing with a chilly sensation at root of nose; also a cold pain passing up median line to vertex, and passing down to ear (like the previous symptom)

Headache over eyes (l.)

Pain in forehead, occiput, and l. side of head, with rigidity of cords of neck (splenius and trapezius), and heat in Vertex; the pain in forehead is heavy, pressing down over eyes (headache)

Intense pain from head along lower jaw, causing mouth to fill with saliva

Crawling on top of brain (asthenopia)

Weight on vertex (asthenopia)

Terrible headache penetrating l. eyeball to centre of brain, with pain in l. supra-orbital region extending through brain to vertex (headache)

Burning in l. temple near eye, < at night (keratitis).

Sharp lancinating pain through centre of l. eyeball, leaving in very sore internally, and causing profuse lachrymation (from the 1m.)

Heavy pressure downwards of eyebrows and eyelids, as if the parts were lead

Inclination to keep eyes shut

Eyes feel as if sunken in head, and l. eye occasionally waters

Twitching of outer end of l. upper lid, inside.—(Twitching of eyelids r. and l.).—(Ciliary neuralgia.)

Sharp lancinating pain in centre of r. eyeball extending externally to temple and frontal region over eye, with intense photophobia, redness of conjunctiva and lachrymation;

< by reading or writing; the pain appears to be in interior of eyeball, and extends thence to posterior wall of orbit, and then to the temples, with throbbing; dim sight when reading: also constipation, loss of appetite, lassitude in legs (choroiditis).—(Have had great success with it in eye cases, esp. where there is severe pain in back of orbit, indicating choroiditis

Swan.)

On looking fixedly, reading, or writing, darting pain from eyes nearly to occiput; much < in r. eye (asthenopia)

When reading letters run together, with dull aching pain behind eyes, or shooting in eyes, the confused sight and shooting being < in r. eye; symptoms excited by catching cold or by over-fatigue (asthenopia)

Pain in eyes, back into head, extremely sharp, with a sensation as if eyes extended back; great photophobia to natural or artificial light; any continued glare results in this pain (improved)

Darting pain going backwards in centre of r. eye, < at night (keratitis)

If she lies on l. side. r. eye feels as if it were moving about and too heavy, with great pain.—(Ulceration of cornea.)

Photophobia.—[L. eye feels hot and adheres in morning

White spot on outer edge of l. cornea, with red vessels running up to it from conjunctiva, and shooting pains from the spot to occiput

Pain in r. lower orbital border as if sore, with tenderness there on touch, and shooting in r. eye

R. eye inflamed, with shooting backward where the white spot is; l. eye also inflamed, but without shooting

Stye on l. upper lid

Two styes on r. lower lid

Eyes get bad every September

Eyes ache by gaslight.

(Cured in various cases of ulceration of cornea)].

Sensation as if tongue were scalded by a hot drink

Redness under tongue, on gums, and whole buccal cavity

Soreness and sensation of ulcers on tongue and roof of mouth

The parts of mouth seem to stick together, requiring an injection of air or saliva to separate them

Loss of taste

Brassy taste in mouth

Salivation, tongue enlarged and serrated at edges by teeth

Small white ulcers covering tongue and whole buccal cavity

Elongation of palate

Very sore mouth.—(Dryness of mouth.)

Tough mucus in pharynx

Stringy, tough mucus in pharynx, cannot hawk it up and has to swallow it; when it can be expectorated it is yellow

Mucus in pharynx between head and throat is thick, yellow, tough, stringy, expectorated with difficulty, and has a sickish sweet taste

Posterior wall of pharynx slightly inflamed, with sensation of soreness.

No appetite

After eating feels swollen; has to take off her dress and loosen clothes

Great desire to eat paper

Stomach sore all around just below the belt, < l. side

Occasionally very slight nausea

Heat in epigastrium

Great soreness and sensitiveness of epigastric region.

Pain in abdomen and back, as if menses about commencing

Pain in bowels

At midnight, sensation of a cold bandage over lower part of abdomen

Great weight and bearing down in pelvis, like falling of the womb, as if she could not walk;

< when standing

Pain in pelvis through hips on pressure, as when placing arms akimbo.

Dulness, sleepiness, gaping

Heavy, profound sleep, not easily awakened

Dreamed of earthquakes.