Tarentula

Paroxysms of insanity; presses her head and pulls her hair; repeated after intermissions, threatening manners and speech; restlessness of the legs; mocking laughter and joy expressed in her face; comes out of the attack with severe headache, eyes staring and wide open, sees small figures hovering before her eyes, and moves her hands

Great excitement caused by music, one hour after it general and copious sweat

Hysteria: with bitter belching;

< by moaning, > by sighing, with repeated yawning; ludicrous and lascivious

Visions: monsters; animals; faces; insects; ghosts

The colours red, yellow, and green, and particularly black, produce heavy mist before the eyes

Sees strangers in the room

Great taciturnity and irritability; desire to strike himself and others

Excessive gaiety, laughs at slightest cause; maniacally happy mood

Joy and strong emotion with trembling when seeing beloved persons

Sings until hoarse and exhausted

Fits of nervous laughing; followed by screams

Profound grief and anxiety

Desire to take things which do not belong to her

Indifference, disgust, and sadness from morning to 3 p.m. were marked, < after midday; from 3 p.m. to evening the gay disposition returned

Wants to be without any light and without being spoken to

Irritability, rage, fury

Mischievous, destructive

Ennui

Fear of impending calamity

Little intelligence and poor memory.

Vertigo: on walking; after breakfast, with bad taste in mouth; sudden, in air, on coming downstairs; transient during the night; preceded by gastric symptoms, < by carrying anything heavy on head; causing failing without loss of consciousness; when fixing sight on any object, with headache, severe pain in cerebellum, accompanied by incomplete erection of penis and formication of soft palate

Contortions and extraordinary movements of head and hands, with rage and nervous agitation

Must move head from r. to l. and hit it against some object, with crossness

Head heavy, difficult to open eyes; tendency to incline head backward

Headache on waking compels her to lie down again

Headache with giddiness when fixing the sight on any object

Pain in head and heart with cough and nausea, morning on waking

Deep, intense headache, with restlessness, compelling to move from place to place; the pain flies to forehead and occiput with photophobia; a strong light compels to complain and swear

Compression; hammering; lancinating; burning pains in head

Great burning in head, the hair troubles to the point of wanting to remove it; continually tossing head without finding a place where to rest it; uneasiness, impatience; ill-humour, oppressive breathing and desire to pull out her hair

Headache < by touch

Inclining head forward < frontal pain; inclining backward < occipital pain; inclining to either side < pain in that side

Frontal headache, pain in vertex and parietal bones, as if cold water was poured on the head, with great noise internally

From 3 to 7 p.m. pain in forehead, esp. r. side

Neuralgia of temples

Pain in upper and middle part of head extending to cheek-bones, with nausea and desire to vomit

Headache particularly affecting l. eye

Lancinating pain l. side of head; with itching of r. ear

Pains extending to occiput, with necessity of shutting the hands, which >

Headache on occiput and temples when coughing, as if striking it with a hammer

Pain in occiput: as if struck with a hammer; burning, scorching; with burning thirst; as if a nail driven in; compression, extending towards neck.

Blue circles round eyes

Eyes glassy, red

R. pupil much dilated, l. contracted

Feeling of a hair in l. eye, which pricked it; pricking caused her to rub it, < on waking

Pain in l. eye as if cold water poured into it

Sensation: of splinter; sand; eye-lash; pin pricking eyes

Shooting, lancinating, stinging pains in eyes

Light irritates eyes; company annoys him

Itching of eyes and very thick tears

Pain in eyebrows

Lids agglutinated on waking

Itching of lids; herpes

Photophobia

Vision: weak, obscure; sees ghosts, faces, flashes.

Profuse mucous secretion from r. ear

Violent pain at external meatus, < by touch, which = sensation as if a nail were driven through head, or a general shaking

On rising snap in r. ear followed by thick, brownish discharge

Snapping cracking in r. ear with pain and hiccough

Deafness with buzzing, whizzing, and vertigo

Noise in ears: in night < waking; in r. with mucous discharge; in r. of clear bell on waking, vanishing on getting up

When a snapping or cracking is felt the hearing is >.

Sneezing and coryza (r.)

Profuse epistaxis, with a flow of black, quickly coagulating blood

Great itching in l. nostril and frequent sneezing

Epistaxis > throbbing carotids and fulness in head.

Face: expression of terror; pale, earthy, strongly contrasting with purple neck; flushed with burning heat, also heat and sweat of palms

Burning and scorching sensating on lips as after a fever

Pain in angles of lower jaw, so severe he thinks he is going crazy

Pain in lower jaw as if all teeth going to fall out

Pain in direction of r. lower maxillary nerve, with a tickling sensation in stomach, dizziness, vanishing of sight, buzzing in ears.

Toothache: with sense of formication; with hiccough; as if loose, and electric sparks passed through them; throbbing;

< coming in con I tact with the air

Great dryness of mouth and teeth

Painful aphthae on tongue; with fetid breath

Tongue drawn backward preventing speech

Patch of suspicious cancerous nature in mouth and on fauces

Palate feels scalded.

Sore throat: when swallowing, at same time shooting in l. eye; when coughing; talking; yawning; with painful constriction when smoking

Sensation when swallowing of constriction in throat

Throbbing sore throat

Sensation as if cold water continually dropping down throat

R. tonsil: painfully swollen; painful constriction, extending to ear, < by swallowing

Fauces inflamed purplish

External swelling of neck so great as to cause danger of choking

Constant throbbing pain In cervical and submaxillary glands, with occasional sharp stinging pains

Tonsillitis; high fever, delirium, red face, tonsils so swollen, suffocation feared.—(Diphtheria with same symptoms.)

Loss of appetite, intense thirst; general prostration; vomiting after eating; and getting out of bed; craving for raw food; disgust for meat.—(Disorders of pregnancy.)

Opium habit

Taste of food: flat; bitter; salty: piquant

Flat or sweetish taste in mouth.

Hiccough; with toothache

Nausea: with dizziness compelling to lie down

Vomiting: acid; mucous; with intense burning pains in stomach and oesophagus

Pain in stomach < by drinking water

Gastric symptoms with slight pains in roots of teeth, esp. when touching each other.—(Many digestive symptoms are peculiar on account of accompanying sympathetic neuralgic pains, in sides of head, face, ears, teeth, malar bones.)

Swelling of hypochondria

Lancinating pain in spleen, with pain in stomach and uterus

Hepatic region painful to touch

Sharp pain in umbilical region; violent burning in abdomen and rectum; stools profuse, dark, fetid, with violent urging; constipation

Bloating

Borborygmus

Fibrous tumour in hypogastrium compressing genitals, and causing uterine discharges

Burning in hypogastrium with great weight, interfering with walking and causing pruritus of vulva

Pain in hypogastrium, hips and uterus, as if these parts were compressed; at same time unconquerable drowsiness

Pain in groins; with relaxed sensation; as from rupture, esp. r., < by cold water.

Pain and burning in anus after stool

Repeated shooting in anus

Violent effort to have a passage; hard stool with blood

Tenesmus

Constipation; with involuntary passing of urine on coughing or any effort

Profuse diarrhoea with prostration, nausea, vomiting, fainting

Stools: three or four times daily, very dark, fetid, partly formed, containing much mucus, expelled with difficulty, and followed by smarting and burning in anus; stools occur immediately on having head washed

Weakness of sphincter, faeces appear natural but are passed as fast as accumulated.

Pain in kidneys; with prostration

Cystitis; with high fever, gastric derangement, excruciating pains and inability to pass a drop of urine; bladder seems swollen and hard; great tenderness and spasmodic action, debilitating patient, who passes only by drops a dark-red brown, fetid urine, with gravel-like sediment

Pain in region of bladder; urination frequent, very painful; extremely nervous; could get no relief in any position;

< night

Urine: hot, thick, much sediment; difficult micturition; incontinence and pain in kidneys

Diabetes

Incontinence when laughing, coughing, &c.

Extreme sexual excitement, lasciviousness almost to insanity

Onanism followed by prostatic ailments and hypochondriasis

Painfulness of genitals; testes relaxed, painful to touch; pain in groins and stricture of urethra

Erections

Emissions

Indolent tumour developed in each testicle

Heaviness, pain and great swelling of (r.) testicle and cord

Drawing pulling in left cord

During emission of semen a sensation of heat is felt in its passage, it is rose-coloured containing some blood

Difficult coitus, followed by fatigue and cough.

Extreme sexual excitement; menses too early and profuse; pains and spasm of uterus; pruritus vulvae; leucorrhoea

Violent nymphomania;

< from coitus

Nymphomania; reflex chorea; hyperaemia and hyperaesthesia of sexual organs

Sexual desire in a woman who had a shining callosity on l. index finger

Fibrous tumour of uterus with bearing-down pains

Discharge of blood alternately with leucorrhoea

Uterine discharge with pain in groins

Spasmodic pains < when trying to walk

Expulsion of gas from uterus

Anguish, malaise in sexual organs; impossible to walk; seems as if a living body moving or tingling in stomach with. tendency to rise to throat

Sensation as if uterus had not room enough and were pushing away intestines

Pain in uterus with constrictive headache

Shooting: in vagina; in genitals followed by leucorrhoea

Cutting in uterus or pain as if a heavy blow struck on it

Pruritus vulvae, after menses

Profuse menstruation: with erotic spasms; crossness; ennui, and deep dissatisfaction;

< after sleep

Menses seven days too early.—(Uterine neuralgia

Dysmenorrhoea.)

Sensation of motion in uterus, like a foetus

Disorders of pregnancy

Swelling of breasts with itching of nipples.

Roughness in larynx and trachea with seine dry cough, and smarting in eyelids

Aphonia with increased difficulty of breathing

Hoarseness

Cough: painful; dry; gagging; fatiguing; = distensive pains in head, chest, and uterus with sadness and anxiety; but when walking in open air a sensation of happiness

Cough when getting out of bed, with vomiting and involuntary emissions of urine

Chronic suffocating catarrh

Loose cough followed by tickling in larynx and bronchial tubes which renews cough

Attacks of suffocation, with crying, screaming, and restlessness.

Great oppression in chest; panting respiration

Sensation as of a blow at base of l. lung

In chest, pains; stinging; pressive; cramp-like; shooting.

Diseases of heart < by wetting hands in cold water

Praecordial anxiety, tremulous beating of heart

Pain in heart as if squeezed, also in aorta

Nervous spells with pain in l. ovary

Sensation as if heart turned or twisted round

Palpitation, stitches interfering with breathing

Painful throbbing of carotids, with fulness in head, esp. region of medulla, > by epistaxis

Trembling and thumping of heart as from fright or bad news

Pulse: hard, infrequent; irregular.

Neck stiff; cannot move it without pain

Pain l. side of neck when turning head to r

Mole on neck with sensation as of needles sticking into it when touched

Pain in neck and back followed by general paralysis

Swelling (or tumour, or rheumatoid prominence) on spinal column with laboured breathing

Tabes dorsalis

Scapula: pain in; shooting pain under l

Shooting in l. loin above hip

Acute convulsive pains in l. lower part of vertebral column on appearance of menses, ceasing with them

Repeated lancinating, shooting pain in coccyx.—(Coccygodynia after confinement; burning, smarting leucorrhoea, painful uneasiness in coccyx > standing, < slightest movement, sitting, lying in bed, or least pressure).

Rheumatism checked by putting extremities in cold water, panting respiration, anxiety, cramps in heart or twisting pains; arm feels tense, stretched; morning and night cold extremities

Weakness, numbness, and dulness

Necessity to move legs extends to hands with desire of taking something and throwing it away; to roll something between fingers; followed by general fatigue

Great pain in knuckles and toes, can scarcely bear the weight of lightest linen.

Heaviness in arms (soon)

Squeezed pain in l. arm and hand (forenoon)

Pain and swelling in wrists

Restlessness of hands

Unbearable pains in thumbs, esp. r., > pressure

Burning and sweating of palms.

Uneasiness of legs, must keep moving them

Weakness of legs, cannot plant them firmly; do not obey will

Numbness of legs followed by paralysis

Convulsive shaking and twitching in r. leg

Pain in r. internal malleolus

Shooting: in r. tendo Achillis; r. great toe; r. little toe

Painful cramp in r. sole

Itching in soles of feet.

Ecchymosed spots

Hepatic spots

Furfuraceous spots

Miliary eruption

Indolent pimples

Vesicular eruption like crusta lactea

A small callosity, whitish, indolent, in r. palm between middle and index fingers, increased, with heat and pain, extended, broke, leaving an ulcer with callous edges, healed leaving a small scar

Painful callosity at end of r. thumb fell off

Callosity in l. index fell out

Every year intense pain in toes from re-opened wound

Formication; pricking; itching over whole body.

Yawning

Sleeplessness

Dreams: of business; of drowning; sad with weeping

Wakes up cross.

Constant chill and coldness during four days

Scorching heat on whole body alternating with icy coldness

Intermittent febrile attacks; during heat continued coldness of feet

Chills and fever with choreic convulsions; shakes almost continuously with involuntary movements in limbs, abdomen, chest, back and face, < l. side; could not speak (after a severe scolding or punishment)

Toxaemic fevers of a typhoid or intermittent form; chilliness or burning heat, chilliness predominating

Scorching heat of skin, which is scarlet

Debilitating sweats

Night-sweats

Cold sweat.