The Materia
Medica of the Nosodes.
By Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D.
Presented and arranged by Dr Robert Séror.
LYSSIN.
(Hydrophobinum ; saliva of a rabid
dog).
Introduced and proved by
Hering
in 1833,
fifty years before the crude experiments of Pasteur
with the serum.The toxic or non-toxic property of animal saliva has long been a
question of scientific discussion. Trevinarus found that the human
saliva became red by the addition of tincture of iron;
and Gmelin discovered that this color was caused by Sulpho-cyanate.The question in dispute appeared to be that Cyanic acid being a
poison, Sulpho-cyanate also must be one, and of course its combination
with alkalies, and being poisons, they could not be in the saliva.
Year, before this discovery, Oken had declared that “saliva is
poison.” But the discoveries of Liebig and other chemists have
demonstrated that Sulpho-cyanic acid is to be found in sheep, dogs and
many other animals.The experiments of Bernard and others, in
Virchow’s
Archives, 1858,
have decided that Sulpho-cyanate of Potash found in saliva of animals,
acts as a poison under certain conditions. Bernard considered that it
acted only by application to cellular tissue. In this he was, no
doubt, in error, bein ;
;
misled by the analogy of the snake poison. But, Weir Mitchell in his
“Researches on the Venom of the Rattlesnake,” page 34,
says, he “could not discover any in the rattlesnake poison,
notwithstanding repeated experiments.”Livingston, the African explorer, has reported the bite of the lion
as poisonous;
and the same claim is made in the East Indies regarding the bite of
the tiger. From time immemorial it has been known in every country
village that the bite of an angry cat is poisonous, and the effects
often severe, even fatal. This is also true with the bite of all other
animals, human beings included, when in a fit of passion.Hering
reports a
case taken from a French journal in which a healthy farmer, apt. 19,
while holding a duck in his lap was bitten on the lip by the angry
drake. The same day he felt sick, grew rapidly worse, and a few weeks
after died. He also says, that “after the bite of a dog not rabid
difficult healing ulcers will follow.” It is further known, that
after the bite of a rabid clog not only the wounds made by the teeth
heal in an unusually short time, but several physicians have observed
that even the usual cauterizations are not inclined to inflame, rather
more inclined to heal quickly. We may take this for a pathognomonic
symptom of the slumbering poison of Lyssin
;
the same thing is true of leprosy before it breaks out.Now comes the work of
Pasteur,
in 1878,
1879
and 1880
:His experiments furnished evidence that the malignant disease,
splenic fever, was caused by bacteria.An animal inoculated with a few drops of a liquid containing this
bacteria, develops the disease with astonishing rapidity and dies
within one or two days. But, he claims that chickens are an exception
to this rule, because when similarly inoculated they remain in perfect
health.Pasteur’s
explanation of this strange fact is based on a higher bodily
temperature of birds than any other warm blooded animals.The temperature of animals most readily affected by splenic fever
ranges from33
to 35C.,
while the blood temperature of chickens is from 4-
to 43C.
degrees. Now, by reducing the temperature of the chicken’ after
inoculation, Pasteur
found it had died of splenic fever, the same as any other animal.
Further experiments by Pasteur
convinced him that propagation of bacteria is arrested by a
temperature of 44
or more degrees.These facts called
Pasteur’s
attention to radiate heat as the best local application to prevent the
generation of bacteria. And the same principle has been applied in
domestic practice for the cure of a snakebite by killing a chicken,
cutting it open and applying the warm surface to the bitten limb,
replacing it as soon as it became cold by another, and in this way it
is claimed that on the plains of the West, where the bite of the
rattlesnake is so common, that nearly every case has been cured ;
the 10
degrees of greater heat seemed to be sufficient in the bite of the
rattlesnake as well as of the bacteria of splenic fever.In June,
1831,
Hering
published a letter in Stapf’s A
;–chives, Vol.
10,
which was dated June 18th,
1830,,
in which he says :
“The proving of snake poison [night pave the way to the
prevention of hydrophobia and variola by the proving of their
respective morbific poisons.” And on page 30,
of the same volume, he says :
” Same is said of psora.”It will be remembered that
Hering’s
immortal proving of Lachesis was begun in 1828,
and experimented with for three years, when it was finally published ;
hence the experience which Hering
obtained in the proving of the serpent poison was evidently the
inspiration for his suggestion that the proving on the healthy of Lyssin,
Variolinum, Psorinum and other nosodes would form valuable remedies in
the treatment of many of our obstinate diseases. Hering
no sooner became firmly convinced of the truth of his, suggestion than
he at once set to work to put it into execution.But, the first thing to do was to find a mad dog. The opportunity
occurred on the27
th of August, 1833,
when a German baker invited him to come to his house to examine a dog.
The following description of his capture of a rabid dog and obtaining
the saliva for a proving, is taken from a paper by Hering
in the North
American Journal of 1878
:It was a middle-sized, chestnut-brown terrier, not more than two or
three year, old, a female, with puppies of two or three months old. It
had been bitten ten days before(17
th August)
in the street by a running do„ which was, biting all around, and had
been killed soon afterwards as tread. The owner, in trying to save his
terrier, had beaten the strange dog with a stick aster it had killed
one of the puppies, and had already taken hold of another. The mother,
in defending her young ones, had received three bloody wounds.She carried the dead one in her mouth from the street Route into
the yard. Since that she was somewhat changed, but continued to nurse
the remaining puppies, one of which had received a bite. She had been
otherwise true it her nature until the previous day(Aug.
26th),
when site had commenced snapping and biting her young.The master had then suspected her, and kept her in the yard, tied
by a rope;
and several times she had been biting and trying to loosen herself.
She soon crew worse and commenced to bite at everything. Her voice was
entirely altered. On the 26
th of August, in
the evening, she had commenced to howl in a peculiar way arid to run
against the doors. Ste shook her head a great deal, and scraped the
ground with her fore feet ;
and afterwards turned her head in a strange way. She put her mouth
into the water placed before her, as if she was trying to swallow but
could not.When seen on August
27th.
he was furious ;
snapping ;
and biting, had a wild look, injected red eves, frothy saliva around
the month, and seemed evidently to be in the last stage of the
disease. An empty flour-barrel was, from behind, put over her ;
and, in order to make it possible to secure some of the saliva, the
barrel was lifted on one side until the dog, in trying to escape, put
out her head, between the edge of the barrel and tile ground. She
seemed to be in convulsive motions as from anger or fury ;
but while a quill was used to get as much of the saliva as possible
out of her mouth and from her teeth (part
to be put into milk sugar and part into alcohol t, the motions
lessened and the dog lay quiet and exhausted, breathing quick and
short, with eyes closed. While the quill was still held in her mouth,
and while the baker had hold of the barrel, the dog suddenly sprang
up, snapping and trying to get on to its feet ;
but the owner prevented its escape.After enough had been collected, the dog was allowed to with-draw
its head;
and by a heavy weight was secured under the barrel. After a box had
been prepared, the dog was brought into it by means of the rope, and
thus transported, with both puppies, to my house.Next morning the mother was dead, and no permission given by the
inmates to make a post mortem. Both the young ones were returned to
the master;
and even the bitten one remained well. They were given to inhale in
the evening some of the 6th
centesimal potency, just prepared. Of course, a true Hahnemannian
never draws his conclusions, as the slanderers have said :
post hoc ergo
propter hoc, nor
even the equally foolish ;
it followed, but could not have been caused by it.The saliva obtained in the aforesaid war was on the same day
triturated;
one drop with one hundred grains of milk sugar, and, exactly according
;
to Hahnemann’s
method, carried to the 3d
centesimal ;
and, by the aid of some water and alcohol, further by alcohol alone,
ill)
to the 6th
centesimal, and later to the 30
th.brom the tincture of the saliva put in alcohol, some weeks after,
one drop was also potentized ill the usual way for the purpose of
comparative experiments. All the rest, collected on split piece, of
quill for inoculation, was one night clandestinely taken by the lady
of the house and thrown into the fire.All this has been related in its particulars as an advice to others
who may have a chance to get saliva from another dog. It might he of
some use to get it from a male for comparison.Symptoms were observed during the hours of trituration, as there
had been triturating the Lachesis poison, and they were afterwards
corroborated by provings with the lower;
the very peculiar feelings of apprehension became so intolerable that
the higher were preferred in further provings. Nothing was written for
publication in the Archives
until flay, 1834.
This was printed in the beginning of 1836,
Archives, 15,
left, P. 33.To the provings of
Schmid
and Behlert*
were added those of John Redmond Cox, in 1853,
when a suggestion was made that, in order to remove the stigma of
cowardice in the profession, their shrinking from their first duty of
proving remedies on themselves was made in a public meeting. Dr. Cox
not only offered to prove it on himself, but on his entire family and
his friends besides, and furnished us perhaps the best provings that
have ever been made of Lyssin
;
he also furnished the day-books in which the symptoms were recorded.*Note
:
An enthusiastic student in Allentown, a Mr. Schmid, made a very good
proving ;
and one of our nearest friends (an
experienced prover, a former engraver, Behlert, by name, at that time
a paralyzed man)
persuaded all his acquaintance, a dozen of women and girl, and some
boys, to prove the higher preparations. None of his prover, knew
anything of the origin of the drug, and they were examined every day
with great care, according to the advice of Hahnemann.Many of the most valuable symptoms were from provings by
Hering,
on himself, but he was prevented from continuing by the most terrible
feelings of apprehension.Dr.
Knerr
made some valuable provings, in 1869,
on a woman bitten by a dog in the fleshy part of right arm.Dr.
Lippe
cured an important case in which he was guided by a symptom produced
only from bites, but never observed any provings. But Lippe’s
observation was confirmed by many other good observers. Some symptoms
from bites of rabid dogs have been added :Pasteur
‘s method
of administration is, very different from that employed by homeopath :,
but he is working on homeopathic lines in seeking to neutralize a
virus in the system by introducing a modification of the sauce virus.
His experiments led hum to produce the rabic poison in a highly
intensified form in the spinal cords of rabbits. He then modified it,
intensity in different degrees by exposure to air for a longer or
shorter period. Patient, who come to the Institute are inoculated
first with the least potent, and later with the most potent ”
vaccin,” after which they are pronounced “cured.” The
“cure” is, however, extremely uncertain, as the degree of
susceptibility to the poison is .unknown in any case, and many
hundreds of the patient, subjected to the inoculations have died of
the disease. Pasteur’s
first method was admitted to be too strong, and was soon modified ;
a number of patients having died from the inoculations. One of these
cases I
investigated, and the symptoms were sufficiently striking to deserve
recording.The patient was Arthur Wilde, of Rotherham, aged
29,
and I
received the account from his mother, who nursed him through his
illness. He had been bitten severely by a maim suffering from
hydrophobia, and was persuaded, much against bis wish, to go to Pasteur.This he did a few days after the bite, returning on October
19,
1886,
after undergoing the course. On Saturday, October 30
th, he complained of a pricking sensation below the ribs in the right
side, iv the part where the injections had been made. Pressure
relieved the pain somewhat. That evening he vomited, and the vomiting
continued, and he became very prostrate. On Monday the prostration was
intense, vomiting continued ;
restless ;
skin cool, perspiring ;
quite conscious.The spots where the inoculations were made were dark and livid.
Twitching occurred every few hours, sometimes more violently than
others;
most marked on the abdomen. From Monday through Tuesday he was making
a peculiar loud noise, something like a waggoner driving horses,
“his ” ..whoo,” though he had never had to do with
horses. he seemed completely helpless.On Tuesday night vomiting ceased and he began to froth a great
deal. Early on Wednesday morning he began to talk thick. His
breathing, which had been peculiar all through-he would hold his
breath for a long time when making the noise, and then breathe rapidly
for a few breaths-became very bad at3
A. Al. on Wednesday. He died shortly after 12,
having been apparently conscious to the end, though unable to speak
for the last hour. The frothing had increased up to the time of his
death and he seemed to choke with it.This case was paralleled by that of Goffi, an attendant at St.
Thomas’ Hospital, who was bitten by a cat and sent toPasteur.
On his return he was taken ill, and hi., case was at first diagnosed
as Landry’s paralysis, but finally proved (by
experiments made with his spinal cord)
to be “paralytic rabies,” the result of inoculation. It was
after the occurrence of these and similar “accidents” that
the intensity of tile “vaccins” was reduced.- Clarke.Thus, nearly fifty years after the experiments of
Hering
with the virus of hydrophobia, Pasteur’s
work began. But, on account of the crude preparation, like Koch’s
experiments with Tuberculin, many of Pasteur’s
cases were fatal. No better illustration can be found in medicine of
the scientific accuracy and its successful clinical demonstration than
is to be had in the results of the labors of these two men. The
homeopathic methods have been demonstrated to be not only accurate and
scientific, but safe and efficacious.The following case is from
El
Siglo Medico :
Finally swallowing was impossible, restraint had to be used to
prevent him biting his nurses in the hospital, when, as a last
resource, a piece ofAgave
was offered to the boy by the doctor in attendance, cut from a hedge
of the plant with which the hospital grounds were fenced. To the
astonishment of all, the boy reached for it and ate it greedily,
almost without chewing. By evening a decrease in the violence of the
nervous attacks was manifest, though they remained as frequent as
before.The improvement was slow but continued. On the fourth day he took
some nourishment, but also continued chewingAgave
and swallowing the juice. On the fifth day he recovered consciousness,
but still demanded Agave.On the eighth day he said he did not want any more, as ” it
tasted too bitter and caused a burning in the mouth.”Fagus
:
Dread of liquids ;
profuse salivation ;
swelling of the mouth ;
intense frontal headache ;
trembling ;
convulsions with periodic spasms ;
stiffness and coldness ;
pointing to the same kind of nerve irritation as caused by the poison
of rabies.Lachesis is closely allied
(< from sun ; bluish discoloration of wounds and ulcers ; irritability ; < from warm, damp air ; from touch and a pressure ; < after sleep ; and Clarke adds, "though the late evolution of Lyssin is in striking contrast with the lightning like rapidity of the effects of snake venom ").
Characteristics
Bluish discoloration of wounds
(Lach.).
Cannot bear heat of sun
(Gels.,
Glon., Lach., Nat.).Complaints resulting from abnormal sexual desire
(from
abstinence, Con.).Constant desire to urinate on
seeing
running water (Canth.,
Sulph.)
;
urine scanty, cloudy, contains sugar.Convulsions
:
from dazzling or reflected light from water or mirror (Stram.),
from even thinking of fluids of any kind ;
from slightest touch or current of air.Difficulty in swallowing, even spasm of esophagus from swallowing
liquids;
gagging when swallowing water.Headache
:
from bites of dogs, whether rabid or not ;
chronic, from mental emotion or exertion ;
< by noise of running water or bright light.Leucorrhea, profuse, running down the legs
(Alum.,
Syph., Tub.).Lyssophobia
;
fear of becoming mad ;
exceedingly apprehensive.Mental emotion or mortifying news always makes him worse
(Gels.).
Prolapsus uteri
;
many cases of years’ standing cured.Saliva
:
tough, ropy, viscid, frothy in mouth and throat, with constant
spitting (Hydr.).Sensitiveness of vagina, rendering coition painful.
Sore throat, constant desire to swallow
(Lac
c., Mer.).The sight or sound of running water or pouring water aggravates all
complaints.Relations
Compare
:
Agave,
Bell., Canth., Fagus, Hyos., Lach., Stram., in hydrophobia.Antidote
:
For overaction of potencies, Agave,
Coc., Nux.Lyssin
antidotes
effects of bite of non-rabid animals.Agg. stooping
;
heat of sun ;
slight touch ;
draft of air or electric fan ;
warmth, damp air.Lyssin
is an
analogue of many animal and nearly all the serpent poisons, especially
Lachesis and Vipera.Compare
:
Apis, Bell., Gels., Glon., Nat. c., Lach. ;
heat of sun or summer, Lach. ;
bluish color of wounds or ulcers ;
sensitive to pressure or touch ;
rapid, lightning-like action, Coc., Con., Gels. ;
symptoms of ascending paralysis ;
Adren., Bell., Gels., Sol. n. m., paralysis of respiration ;
Coc., Sanic., bad effects of car, carriage-riding and sea-sickness ;
Canth., Sulph., desire to urinate on seeing running water ;
Stram., convulsions from dazzling light ;
Helon., consciousness of a womb ;
Hell., Hep., Hyos., hurried speech and drinking ;
Gels., mortifying news ;
Agar., Arg. n., Lil., Sep., prolapsus uteri ;
internal coldness, Camp., Helod., Ver.It follows well
:
Arg. n., Con., Gels., Hyos., Stram., Lach. Is followed by :
Gels., Nat. c., Nat. m. and serpent poisons.Aggravation
Sight
or
sound of water ; bright,
dazzling light (Stram.)
;
carriage-riding (Coc.,
Sanic. ;
better from, Nit. ac.).Amelioration
Bending head backward,
>
pain in neck ;
heat, hot steam or hot water ;
warm bathing ;
cold air >
headache.Mind (Lyssin)
II
Lyssophobia ;
fear of becoming mad.II
When he hears
water poured out, or if he hears it run, or if he sees it, he becomes
very irritable, nervous ;
it causes desire for stool and other ailments.I
A musician
received a bite from a small pet dog in calf of left leg while walking
through a dark entry ;
the bite was very slight, scarcely wounding skin ;
the animal was in a healthy condition and remained so ;
a pain in bitten place kept returning from time to time independently
of mind dwelling on it, until it finally grew to a burning which
extended through entire body, causing an indescribably strange
sensation ;
in night trembling, and a tormenting fear that he would have
hydrophobia ;
was thirsty and drank water freely ;
it was two years after the bite when these and the following symptoms
appeared ;
frequent spitting of saliva all through day, only ceasing awhile after
taking strong tea in evening ;
disturbed dreams at night ;
finally could not partake of food or drink, and complained of pricking
stitches under tongue ;
mental excitement now as all his life, affects him badly ;
hot vapor relieved burning pain in bite, and Lyssin 2C.
(Jenichen)
improved all symptoms rapidly ;
in three weeks he considered himself cured, and started on a journey.I
Attacks of
nervous headache become awful and insupportable if he hears water run
out of a hydrant.I
Break out of
their stables furiously and run and jump over ditches and fences.
Lyssa of sheep.I
Exhilarated,
felt as if he had received joyful intelligence.I
Feels as if he
cannot physically endure his fears much longer, and shall be compelled
to go into an insane asylum.I
Felt
same rheumatic pain his brother complained of.I
Frequent
gaping without being sleepy, most when he has to listen to others.I
Ill humor.
I
Inclination to
be rude and abusive, to bite and strike.I
Mania
spermatica ;
stallions.I
Mary M., aet. 17,
had been bitten several years previously by a dog, and reading of
several cases of hydrophobia as reported in papers, was found in
following condition ;
crouched in corner of sofa, dark red bloated face, expression of
terror in face, eyes glistening, conjunctiva injected red ;
was brought into this condition by endeavoring to take a drink of
water, and could not hear water mentioned without a shudder of fear,
could not swallow, pulse very high, tongue dry and coated red ;
Lyssin 200
one dose ;
she was better next day, but had several slight attacks afterwards,
always induced by running of water, but always yielding to remedy ;
has not had an attack in nearly a year.I
Memory for
single words much improved.I
Mental emotion
always makes him worse.I
Not afraid of
dogs, but dislikes to see them because their sight renews her fear. (Lyssophobia,
after bite by non-rabid dog.)I
Restless,
constant bleating in a hoarse voice.I
Sometimes he
could control inclination to stool by a strong effort of will, but
effort caused much nervous irritation.I
Strange
notions and apprehensions during pregnancy.A certain confusion, unsteadiness, weakness of mind.
A certain wildness of humor.
A kind of savageness in his temper.
A strong and uncontrollable impulse to do certain acts
;
to spring at and bite any moving object that came within reach ;
dog is continually tempted to bite her pillow at night.A sudden fright starts convulsions.
After attacks of fury, evinces great regret at his behavior, making
earnest apologies, warning those about him not to allow him to bite
them.After fainting spell he wrote on paper
:
I
am forsaken by all ;
even the birds of heaven, they do not look at me, do not feed me if
hungry ;
I
hunger with the young ones and am thirsty with their she ones ;
my nest is made out of dirt, not gotten by my own exertions, but by
driving them out of their nests and sitting there with the females and
the young.An attack of mental depression and indifference quite strange to
him;
feels as if he could do nothing ;
if he forces himself he lacks mental power.Anxiety of mind
;
restlessness, with great prostration ;
with pain in heart ;
with headache ;
fear of being alone.Before and after as well as during paroxysms, shrieks or in
articulate sounds expressive of utmost despair.Before every spell of somnambulism he crowed like a cock.
Believe that they are reduced to their present wretched condition
by the instrumentality of those about them.Biting, snapping, with convulsions.
Cannot bear to hear others sing, or eat apples.
Complains bitterly that a fire has been lighted and that the stove
is smoking, although there is no fire;
another continually directed a window to be closed, which was not
opened.Copper, if in his room, makes him restless and full of pain.
Could not get rid of the indescribable tormenting feeling that
something terrible was going to happen to him.Declares amid violent sobs that she is suffering the torments of
hell.Deny, with great obstinacy, that they have ever been bitten.
Depressed, as if something would happen.
Desperate efforts were made to break chain
;
dog.Disinclination to change position of head
;
two distinct trains of thought existing at one time in her mind, the
idea that she was unable to move her head (when
lying down),
with the positive conviction that she has only to make up her mind
that she will do it to achieve it.Disposed to get angry
;
flying into a passion.Does not answer questions.
Does not converse as well as usual, but plays chess better
;
more inclined to reflect than talk ;
not at all lively.Does not see nor hear persons around him.
Driven incessantly about without any definite aim.
Dullness and stupidity
;
at night restlessness.During convulsions, mental illusions and hallucinations
;
in intervals of consciousness mental faculties are retained.During fits, snapping motions of the jaws, of an involuntary and
spasmodic character.During night delirium
<.
During the tranquil intervals responded correctly to questions put
to him, recognized those around him, and with a presentiment of
impending death begged them to pray for him and not to leave him
alone.Even the sight of water, or other fluid, or of anything having the
least resemblance to it, such as a looking glass or white substance,
whereby an occasion will be given for renewal of idea of their former
pain, occasions greatest distress and a return of convulsions.Every offense she feels very much.
Everything affects him more powerfully
;
also tobacco.Exalted state of smell, taste and touch, with a feeling of anxiety
and a fear of being alone.Excitability prevents sleep.
Fancies he is being blown at by several persons, some of whom are
not present.Feels as if something disagreeable would happen
;
when thinking the matter over, the feeling passes off.Feels depressed and very weak all day.
Feels nervous and irritable.
Felt as if she was going to die
;
as if she was going to sink away.Felt as if she was going to get a fit
;
at 11
P. M.Fits of abstraction, takes hold of wrong things, often does not
know what he wants, says wrong words which have but a remote
similarity of sound.Fretful, hypochondriac mood in evening.
Goes about house all day singing
;
moves with greater alacrity and precision than ordinary.Had a good cry before going to bed.
Had no symptoms of disease for four months until after receiving
ill usage.He cautioned people around him not to inhale his exhaled air, it
was spoiled, stinking like rotten eggs, worse than cholera, and could
injure.He could hear what was spoken in next room, and counting coppers in
a room below him.He feels as if he had heard unpleasant news, or would soon hear it
;
until 4
P. M.He knew exactly where his nurses, his doctors and acquaintances
were, if at any distance from him.He knows every one, and answers questions, also is in mesmeric
rapport with his physicians.He says he can see hands on dial plate of church clock.
His mania takes a gloomy character.
his mind against his will
;
feels impelled to do reckless things,Hit oeser piyesnvessnfall the senses.
Hyperesthesia, current of air, bright light, sight of any shining
object, slightest touch, even conversation in vicinity of patient, may
throw him into a most violent agitation and bring on severe
convulsions.Imagine that they are being abused, and energetically defend
themselves against attacks and insults, which in reality are products
of their own fancy.Implacable hatred against owners of dog that bit her, with
inclination to utter maledictions which, by reason of her careful
bringing up and sobriety of her parents, shock her dreadfully.Incessant talking during night.
Inclined to use insulting language, scold his friends, beat and
abuse those near him.Indecision even in small matters.
Insane ideas enter his head
;
for instance, to throw a glass of water, which he is carrying in his
hand, into some one’s face, or to stab his flesh with the knife he is
holding, and the like.Is astonished in his dream at the readiness with which he can
express himself in elegant Latin.It is very difficult for him to think, sometimes impossible.
It seems to her as if two entirely different trains of thought
influenced her at the same time.Lament with greatest anxiety their inability to relieve thirst
which afflicts them, and by various contrivances endeavor eagerly to
drink.Linen dipped in sugar water, put on pit of stomach, gives a sweet
taste in mouth.Loses consciousness for a moment.
Loss of consciousness sometimes at an early stage, but not
generally until a short time before death.Lyssa of sheep.
Lyssophobia.
Makes speeches in his delirium
;
thinks he is a man of great authority.Mortifying news affects him very much.
Most commonly the mental faculties are in a superior state of
excitement, shown by quick perception, amazing acuteness of
understanding and rapidity with which they answer questions.Nose pains from thinking.
Occasionally exhilarated, then again morose, both feelings going
off very readily upon conversing.On a watch held to scorbiculum he sees the hour and minute hands.
Ordered her husband to go away, as she wanted to bite him, and
joining act to threat, she bit herself in arm.Pain in head makes him very uneasy.
Pieces of carpet put into kennel for dog to lie upon were torn up
until they became heaps of loose wool.Pressing headache,
< while reading and thinking.
Quiet patients spit into provided vessels, more excited ones
discharge saliva upon all sides.Range of ideas extremely limited, if left to himself is occupied
continuously with the same thing, bringing frequently forward same
ideas within a short space of time and always in same manner.Raved about the dog that had bitten her
;
imagined it to be. near her and fought as if to drive it away.Restlessness and anxiety at precordia, frequent change of posture
and sighing.Restlessness, driving him hither and thither, although weak enough
to lie down.Sang more than usual, but involuntarily
;
she did not feel at all happy or cheerful.Severe headache and nose ache upon going to bed, after writing all
her symptoms.She feels as after night watching and great anxiety. Unusually
exhausted.She has been unable to sleep a wink for several nights
;
is driven from bed by indescribable anxiety ;
can but sit and walk, or find momentary peace in prayer.Showing him a bird, he got frightened and thought it was a mouse.
Sighing
:
with oppressive breathing ;
with pain in heart.Slight fits of delirium occur
(in
advanced state)
;
patients frequently forget their friends and relatives ;
delirium attended with constant talking.Some delirium and illusions
;
fancied doctors were two young girls who had come in to see her.Speech, labored, short and pathetic.
Strange sensation in head, with loss of memory.
Such as were afflicted with grief from any cause were much sooner
affected with the disease.The majority of patients have no adequate conception of real origin
of their malady, and affirm in decided terms that the scar is of no
significance whatever and causes them no pain.The mere idea of drink, fluids, pouring out fluids, may cause a
paroxysm.The mere sight of a drinking vessel containing water is intolerable
;
they turn away their faces, shriek out loud, beckon anxiously with
hands to have the water removed, for voice and breath fail.The mere thought of fluids, of drinking, of swallowing, or offer of
anything to drink, is sufficient to bring on severe convulsions;
the same effect is produced by other sources of irritation, such as a
simple breath of air, the attempt to touch the sick, every hurried
approach towards him, the light of shining objects.They appreciate the formidable character of the disease and
:speak
frequently with a remarkable quick and sharp articulation of the
impending fatal results.They fancy that they see objects, animals and men that are not
present.Thinking of fluids of any kind, even of blood, brings on
convulsions.Thinks he is a dog or a bird, and runs up and down chirping and
twittering, until he falls down fainting.Thoughts of something terrible going to happen come into
throwing child, which he carries in his arms, through the window
and the like.To such as had continual apprehension respecting their safety it
appeared a shorter time since bite.Very cross, so much so that his children expressed great surprise
;
he took offense at veriest trifles, scolding his wife and children,
felt wretched, could not concentrate his attention on anything ;
sullen, does not wish to see or speak to any one.Very uneasy
;
mental disquietude, with headache.Was much frightened during attack, and began to pray
;
her husband had to sit up with her and hold her hand ;
did not get entirely over attack until 3
A. M.Weary and incapable of mental exertion
;
school tasks, which before had been a pleasure to her, had to be laid
aside.Weeps bitterly on account of headache.
While reading and thinking, headache.
Worse while reading or writing
;
headache ;
aching in lower jaw.Wrote to doctor
:
I
am waiting with impatience that you give me and my young ones
something to eat.Head (Lyssin)
II
Beating,
throbbing headache ;
most severe in r. temple and above r. eye ;
each bone feels shattered and sore ;
from temple to temple.II
Burning
aching from left side of occiput down neck.II
Dizziness :
as if something was drawing around in a circle, and as if she could
not hold her head straight ;
after lying down, like a shock in upper part of brain. ;
with inclination to fall to r. when stooping ;
towards evening in upper part of head, as if she would fall, while
walking ;
frequent and transient ;
with dim sight while walking and sitting ;
and nausea ;
with cramps in abdomen ;
temporarily >
by return of diarrhea ;
< by teaching, spelling, or being obliged to notice letters ; after lying down in bed, shock in upper part of brain ; dimness of vision on rising from stooping ; on rising from chair, staggers ; while sitting ; on rising, cannot walk straight.II
Frequent
pressure on vertex, as if a cast, which fitted top of head, was
pressing it down.II
Headaches
from bite of dogs, rabid or not.II
Peculiar
lightness in head ;
lightness after nausea.I
Afternoon,
pain in head ;
sick headache.I
At noon slight
headache, lasting all day.I
Maddening
outward pressing pain in forehead ;
he presses his head against the wall.I
Pain as if
head would burst.I
Rush of blood
to head :
while lying down ;
from chest upward, with toothache ;
during pregnancy ;
when rising.I
Violent
headache and backache.I
Violent
headache, most in temples and forehead, < during day and from stooping and stirring about.A darting from within outward to scalp, on r. side of vertex,
followed by itching.A peculiar sensation in head all day, as if ‘something drew the
head towards shoulders.A sensation in forehead as of something moving.
A slow vacillation or wavering of head, from something being loose
in upper part of head.Aching in bones above eyes, particularly r.
;
< by stooping.All morning severe headache which makes him impatient.
At
3
P. m. ;
headache very severe ;
dull heavy pain in head.Beating pain in forehead, parietal bone, occiput and nape of neck
;
>
in neck when bending head backwards.Boring in r. temple very short,
5
P. M.
;
repeats every other day ;
but on fourth day in left temple, and in morning when getting awake.Burning, surging towards head.
Continual dull pain in forehead, principally on left side, with
stupefaction, in afternoon and eveningCrying bitterly during headache.
Dull heavy pain in afternoon in head.
Dull heavy pain in forehead and sharp pricking in left temple,
alternating at times, with throbbing and jerking.Dull pain in forehead, with a stupid feeling afternoon and evening.
Dull pricking pain in left side, from head to waist.
Dull weight, first on l. side of head, then on vertex.
Dullness
:
of head ;
in forehead, more to r. side ;
in middle of brain, where it surges ;
and stupidity at night, with restlessness ;
amounting to pain in occiput.Feeling of tension in head
;
much pressing pain in head.Frequent attacks of headache, in which head, nose and teeth
appeared to be soldered together.Hair which is usually dry has become very oily.
Head feels as if it would split with severe pressure on vertex.
Headache
:
with dizziness, lasting all day ;
in morning, violent, with vertigo (>
by Tabac.)
;
over eyes ;
in temples ;
very severe in afternoon ;
< from writing ; >
by cold air ;
from noon until evening ;
from 3
to 9
P. M., < from writing ; >
by cold air ;
alternating with hot flushes in face ;
with shooting pain in upper face ;
toward noon, with increase of saliva ;
and sore throat all day ;
< on seeing water or hearing it run.Headache at times very severe in r. temple.
Headache extending into r. eye.
Headache in bones of skull.
Headache most severe one and a half inches above left ear, in
evening.Headache with nausea and sore pain in heart, in afternoon
;
>
in cold air.Horrible headache, accompanied by general weariness.
In occiput
:
painful dullness ;
pressure in left side ;
tearing and stinging as if in bones ;
< after rising ; aching ; burning ; pain in left side, < during wet weather ; dreadful pains running up neck and down spine, < when lying down.In rare cases serous effusion in opaque sub arachnoid tissue and
lateral ventricle, and also increased adherence of membranes of brain
to convolutions.In vertex
:
dullness and tensive sensation ;
stupefied feeling ;
vertiginous shocks ;
a peculiar sensation ;
pressing weight ;
pressing stinging ;
r. side :
pressing shooting ;
pressing beating ;
pressing heaviness, r. side ;
strange pulsation ;
burning surging ;
throbbing.Intolerable headache extending to ends of nose and into teeth
;
some pressure on head, and for a moment a feeling as of an invisible
hammer striking upon back of head (relieved
by Tabac.).Irritable headache, touching head makes it ache
;
very sensitive scalp.Itching in locality of acquisitiveness.
Left side of head is now, and has always been, most severely
affected.Numbness of left side of head.
Occasional stitches in r. temple.
On top of head, pressing heaviness, same in r. parietal bone.
Pain above left eye before going to bed.
Pain from mouth up through head and down back of neck.
Pain in a small spot above r. eyebrow
< while writing.
Pain on top of head and in teeth running into each other.
Painful pressure on top on moving head, with fever and prostration.
Painful pressure, most on upper part of head,
< when moving head ; later also in forehead, with considerable heat and prostration.
Painful rush of blood to head after moving, turning around, or
stooping.Passes hand across forehead.
Piercing pain in r. side of head, with sensation of stiffness, or
as if part would become insensible.Pressing from forehead to vertex and jaws.
Pressing in forehead, with slight sensation of heat,
6
P. M.Pressing in vertex and in forehead, particularly when stooping or
moving head;
afternoon.Pressing inward, throbbing or drawing above r. eye.
Pressing or burning pain in forehead.
Pressing pain in forehead and top of head, returns
4
P. M., seventh day, with uneasiness of mind when reading or thinking.Pressing weight on r. parietal bone.
Pressure in upper part of head and forehead
;
< stooping or moving head ; at 4 P. M., while
reading and reflecting, with mental restlessness.Right side of head feels stiff, as if it would become numb.
Scalp feels contracted and pinched.
Sensation as if a small leaden ball was rolling about in brain.
Severe headache in both temples and above eyes, beginning at
9
A. M., so
unbearable that he cries bitterly ;
violent jerking in limbs.Severe headache, extending from behind forehead to organ of
firmness, soon after spreading over vertex and to eyes, at2
P. M., lasting all day.Severe pressing pain in left side of head, occasionally boring
stitches from without in, later pressing extends to left side of
forehead and left orbit;
10
P. M.
Severe shooting pains in head, above eyes and temples.
Sharp pain above eyebrows and up nose five minutes after walking,
with headache.Sharp pain above eyebrows, followed by burning in lids.
Sharp pain across eyebrows and up nose, while walking out doors
;
exceedingly fatigued and weary after a short walk.Sharp pricking pain in l. temple, alternated with throbbing and
punching.Singular sensation in vertex, as if he momentarily lost
consciousness, but only in that place;
or as if a habitual feeling had disappeared from there ;
it is no fullness, no motion, but it causes a vacillating motion of
head ;
in evening.Slight frontal headache in morning on waking.
< after rising.
Small pustule, painful when touched, on left frontal eminence,
later same on right.Surging towards head is felt inwardly, deep in brain.
Tearing and stinging in occiput, as if in bones,
< after rising.
Tearing from middle of forehead towards left side.
Tearing pain
:
in r. temple ;
from jaw to temple.Throbbing headache in forehead, vertex and occiput, down to neck.
Throbbing pain in forehead, vertex and occiput, extending into nape
of neck.Two
P. M., intense
pain in head, extending back of forehead to organ of firmness ;
soon after to whole top of head and to eyes, lasting all day.Unbearable headache for three days making her snappish, harsh and
irritable;
trifles annoy her ;
lower jaw feels stiff and aching, hands numb.Uterine disease.
Very annoying headache, more outside, near vertex,
>
by gentle scratching, or by rubbing, but it must be done by hands of
others, thus by a kind of mesmerizing.Violent headache from temple to temple.
Violent vertigo during morning, accompanied by a chill and an
intolerable snappish headache.Woke in morning with a burning, aching headache in left side of
head and down neck.Eyes and Sight (Lyssin)
II
Swelling of
eyelids after bite of dogs. In sheep.I
Could not see
or hear.I
Extreme
ulceration of eye, lids closed and puffed up by pus. In sheep.I
Great
inflammation in an eye from which gushes foamy pus ;
pustules around eye ;
in morning lid puffed up like an eggshell, small pustules on one
finger.I
Inflamed, dim,
watery, staring eyes, with very much dilated pupils, upper lid drawn
up, and diminished sight.I
Sight of water
:
agitation ;
renews idea of pain ;
causes convulsions (pregnancy).I
Since five
years could not read longer than a few minutes at a time, when she
would see letters double and would read something else than the right
words ;
had tried all sorts of spectacles without benefit, was often ashamed
because she could not sign her name properly.I
Sore eyes and
some fever after a bite in nose.Aching over eyes, as if in bone,
< r. side and stooping.
At
9
P. M. : severe
shooting pains in head, over eyes and in temples ;
also very violent aching pain inside of and all over chest.At
9
P. M. felt
a curious stinging pain in left eye, extending to forehead, over r.
eye, painful.Burning in lids.
Burning of eyeballs.
Dimness of vision with vertigo
;
dizziness when walking and sitting.Disturbed look, or eyes firm and penetrating.
Dog-bite.
Drawing, beating pain over eyes and into balls.
Drawing, beating pain over r. eye, extending into eyes.
Dullness and inflammation of eyes
;
dogs.During period of tranquility, in last stage, pupils are contracted
or of unequal size, eye fixed, strabismus.Eye draws heat from nape of neck.
Eyelids feel paralyzed on awaking in morning, and appear to be more
firmly closed, as if glued together.Eyelids fly open involuntarily.
Eyes ached intensely
;
feeling of soreness.Eyes are wild, rolling, staring and livid.
Eyes bloodshot and painful.
Eyes congested and painful.
Eyes feel very bad, severe pain in them and in all his joints.
Eyes red and cornea somewhat inflamed.
Eyes slightly red, and occasional stitches in r. temple.
Eyes somewhat red and inflamed
(cornea).
False vision, dullness of sight, together with dilatation of
pupils, sometimes actual blindness.Great weakness in eyes, without pain.
Headache extends into r. eye.
If mental anxiety is great, pupils are in some cases dilated, while
face and conjunctiva are injected.Itching heat in eyes.
Lachrymal glands evince increased activity.
Left eye exceedingly sensitive to light and water.
On looking up eyes are very weak.
Pain in small spot over r. eyebrow,
< writing.
Pain over left eye previous to retiring.
Pain over r. eye, pressing inward.
Pressing sensation in orbits.
Pressing sensation in upper part of r. orbit.
Pressure in left side, shooting to eyes in evening.
Pupils were a little dilated and eye had a somewhat wild and
restless appearance.Sensitive to light.
Sharp pain across eyebrows, afterwards burning in eyelids.
Something moves to and fro before eyes while sewing, but always a
little farther off the point at which she is looking.Soreness in eyes and above them, pain in forehead.
Sparks before eyes.
Throbbing over r. eye.
Vanishing of sight.
Vision much impaired or absent
;
lasts twelve hours.Ears and Hearing (Lyssin)
II
Hearing water
poured out in next room makes him very irritable and nervous.I
After the pain
following an evacuation had lessened, and he was sitting at open
window, the large street water plug was opened to cleanse the streets,
and as soon as he noticed water running down gutter in front of his
house, he was seized with violent pains and had to go at once to the
water closet.I
During his
attacks of chronic headache, which come after mental emotion or
excessive mental exertion and last a day or two, he cannot bear to
hear running water ;
if hydrant is allowed to run in an adjoining room, or even if water is
poured into a basin, his headache increases to an insupportable
degree.I
Hearing water
poured out brought on convulsions.I
If, during
night, or in morning before rising, he heard pouring out of water in
next room, he was immediately obliged to rise and have an evacuation.Above left ear, headache most severe.
Bending pain in r. ear.
Burning and heat in ear.
Buzzing in r. ear.
Chronic camp diarrhea.
Conversation in vicinity of patient
Convulsions excited by barking of dog, from great sensibility
;
any other sudden noise, shutting a door or a blast of wind, produce
the same.Dysentery.
Ear tickles, after rubbing pain.
Earache extends into teeth.
Hears various noises in night.
In morning, pressing in forehead and drowsiness, with stitches
passing inward in both ears.Itching in a small spot in upper part of both ears, disappears
after scratching.may throw him into a most violent agitation.
On crossing ferry, soon after eating, noise which water made caused
unspeakable torture in her back.Pressing burning in r. concha, in evening.
Pressing from nape of neck into ear.
Pressive burning in r. external ear.
Ringing of church bells makes him anxious, and causes a sharp,
salty taste, with stitches in heart.Rush of blood to r. ear
;
after pressure like from a dull point.Sensation as if blood rushed to r. ear, then a pressure as from a
dull knife, interiorly and superiorly.Shooting stitches in r. ear, from without in.
Sound as of rushing water in left ear.
Stinging pressure behind ears
;
afternoon.Sudden noise causes involuntary startings.
Tearing pain a few inches from r. ear.
Tearing pain from lower jaw into ear.
Temporary stoppage of r. ear
;
about two hours afterward while thinking upon it, ear commenced aching
;
pain extends into teeth and through head.The ears feel stiff.
Water poured into a basin, with splashing noise, caused paroxysm to
be reproduced, with convulsion and agitation.Nose and Smell (Lyssin)
Coryza, with tickling in roof of mouth and in front of nose
(relieved
by Phosphorus).During three days her sense of smell, which is always extremely
acute, became painfully so, particularly in reference to unpleasant
effluvia;
action of nostrils extremely painful.Fluid discharge from nose.
Frequent bleeding from nose
;
repeatedly some clotted blood in nose.Frequent sneezing, mostly early in morning or late in evening, as
if a coryza would begin;
also when looking at something bright, and from every little dust.Headache extends into nose.
Itching in nose all day.
Nose extremely sensitive to touch.
Nose feels bruised.
Nose itches all day.
Nose, r. neck and side feel very stiff, more about jaws.
Pain in nose.
Repeated sneezing, which stops on being interrupted.
Sensation of stiffness in nose, in r. side of neck, and principally
in jaws.Strong odors may start spasms.
The greatest sensibility to smell of, tobacco
;
taste of snuff while box is one foot distant.Thick green mucus runs out of nose
(horse).
Tickling in nasal cavity causes sneezing.
Face (Lyssin)
II
Masseter
muscles not affected by spasms.I
Appearance
peculiar ;
skin sallow, pale or anemic ;
bloated all over, but no “pitting.”I
Pain in left
cheek near nose, from fifth to seventh day ;
followed by a hard, painless swelling of size of a pea, turned redder
on thirtieth day, and became covered with a small scab ;
on thirty-second day it grew soft and turned bluish red, particularly
around edges ;
on puncturing, a disagreeable yet not severe pain at some distance
from swelling and more inside of cheek ;
a small quantity of blood and matter was discharged ;
on fortieth day the place ceased to discharge and healed.A chilling, biting, burning sensation on inner side of r. upper
lip, as if a corroding acid had touched spot;
sensation passes up and back, in a lesser degree, to r. nasal cavity,
where it produces tickling and sneezing ;
subsequently increase of saliva ;
after several hours.A feeling of heat and soreness in middle of left cheek. Heat in
face, with soreness of left cheek, from thinking.A sensation moves about in r. side of face and goes across
forehead.Attempted to bite her fingers before death.
Biting snapping with convulsions.
Both jaws feel stiff
;
tingling in cheek bones.Burning neuralgic pain down left side of face.
causes a tickling
;
returns after drinking coffee.Chronic camp diarrhea.
Complexion pallid and cyanotic, and expression stupid.
Darting pains in r. side of face.
Disturbed look with dyspnea.
During phrensical fits, snapping motions are made with jaw of an
involuntary or spasmodic character, bearing some resemblance to
motions of biting.Expression of face quite variable
;
reddening countenance often exhibits reflections of utmost mental and
physical misery, of most horrible agony.Face flushed
;
complained of his head, said they were running needles into his brain.Face pale and yellowish, almost brownish.
Face sweat
;
with sensation of heat ;
with flushes. In morning (6
A. m.),
tickling in left cheek. Heat and redness of face.Facial muscles become variously contorted, countenance changes its
aspects frequently.First heat in r. side of face and in ear, then a quiet aching in
front of upper part of head;
this headache lessens, the heat increases.Flushes and headache alternately.
Gnawing and crawling sensation in r. zygoma.
Heat in face in morning, with redness
;
at times very deep.Heat in r. side of face and r. ear, followed by headache in vertex
and forehead;
as soon as headache gets >,
heat returns ;
heat comes from within and spreads from back of neck to ear and into
eyes and face, accompanied by constant pain in nape of neck, which
increases after heat and headache disappear.Heat in r. side of face, and particularly in eye, where it
It seldom happens that froth is observed around outside of mouth.
Jawbones feel quite sore.
Jaws feel sore and stiff
;
a great disposition to press hand against lower jaw.Jaws feel stiff
;
crawling in zygomatic arch.Lips cracked on inside of middle line.
Lower jaw stiff and painful
;
with inclination to yawn ;
with headache ;
imagines he cannot open mouth.On left cheek near nose, towards eye, a pain,
< when touched ; a pimple with soreness around.
Painless hard nodules on cheek, where a pimple seemed to have
appeared;
on ninth day a little scurf on it and redness ;
if picked or prickled, a very disagreeable kind of pain, but not
violent, is felt in cheek even a distance from nodule, and here and
there deep in upper part of jaw ;
cheeks bluish red and soft ;
discharges after the scurf is scratched off, lymph and blood.Pale face with squeamishness and nausea.
Pimple on eminence of forehead, painful to touch
;
later one on right cheek.Quivering in face.
Sensation as if she had been bitten in left side of face near
mouth.Sensation as if she would have mumps.
Shooting pains in upper jaw and violent headache.
Slight twitchings in face and hands.
Slow maturing bluish pimples on face.
Spasmodic affections take place in muscles of face, occasioning
violent contortions and most horrid assemblage of features;
in muscles moving lower jaw, inducing involuntary gnashing and a
grinding of teeth, which some have construed into a desire of biting ;
during convulsive attack expression of face indicates great anxiety
and alarm.Spasms with froth before mouth.
Tearing in r. lower and upper jaw up into ear.
Tearing in r. upper jaw extending into ear, same in temple.
The jawbones feel sore
;
aching in lower jaw.The scratches on cheek became red, thirty-three days after bite,
and on following day looked quite fresh, as if they had been made only
a few hours before, but were a little darker in color than newly made
abrasions.Tickling on left cheek, at
6
A. M.Transitory drawing in left side of face, from cheek bone toward
nose, as if in muscles, in evening.Violent jerking pains in lower jaw.
When reading or writing, felt a pain in lower jaw
;
the longer she read the < it got.Teeth and Gums (Lyssin)
I
Aching in
swollen gums on r. side.I
Grinding of
teeth.I
Toothache and
other complaints during pregnancy, with internal ebullition of blood
from chest to head ;
head feels as if filled with air to bursting.Aching in carious root of a molar.
Chilling painfulness starts in teeth of r. side behind and below in
bone of lower maxilla and passes upwards.Drawing in gums, most in front.
Frequent shooting pain in teeth
;
all the teeth ache.Headache and earache extend into teeth.
Neuralgic pain in gums, principally in front.
Painful sensation of coldness shoots into teeth, it passes from
lower posterior part upward and into jaw.Sensation in r. lower jaw, in bone as it were, it shoots into root
of a decayed tooth.Shooting pain in r. eyetooth, preceded by burning, passing down
esophagus.Teeth hurt more on r. side, it is a kind of aching dullness.
Teeth very sensitive
;
feel as if on edge.Taste and Tongue (Lyssin)
II
Difficult,
incorrect speech.I
Impediment in
his speech, would begin a sentence with difficulty after several
fruitless attempts ;
some palatal vowels he could not pronounce, others but incorrectly.I
Pricking
sensation under tongue.I
Tongue large,
pale and flabby.A cool feeling on tongue like after peppermint.
Bitter taste in morning, on awaking.
Food does not have right taste.
Pain in root of tongue and left side of throat.
Peculiar pain at root of tongue as if it was swollen.
Ranula returns periodically, with dryness of mouth,
< in afternoon, soreness when chewing ; with hemorrhoids and constipation.
Salt victuals tasted too strongly of salt, other food seemed to
lack salt.Scrapy taste, with much saliva.
Speech is labored, short and pathetic.
Tickling, queer feeling in throat and root of tongue.
Tongue coated with foam.
Tongue coated with thin layer of yellowish white fur.
Tongue dark red on sides, coated in centre.
Tongue usually moist and clean
;
frequently slightly coated, more seldom dry and thickly coated.Mouth (Lyssin)
II
Frequent
spitting.I
At 10
A. M. began to spit a great deal, continuing all day till supper.I
Constant
sensation of intense dryness of mouth and throat.I
Large
quantities of tough saliva in mouth, with constant spitting.I
Spits all the
time small quantities of a frothy saliva ;
with pain in limbs.I
Tough, short
frothy phlegm in mouth (horse).Accumulation of foaming saliva, with inflammation of throat.
Dark, coffee colored fluid oozed from mouth
(before
death).Dryness in mouth
:
in afternoon ;
with thirst.Ejected saliva is frothy, slimy and ropy.
Entire mucous membrane of mouth and pharynx was of an equally
distributed pink without any swelling.Fauces and pharynx pervaded by an equally diffused purplish scarlet
blush, no pain in throat, except when patient attempts to swallow.Feeling of coldness, like essence of peppermint.
Follicular enlargement is common, involves also pharyngeal
follicles and lymphatic glands in neighborhood of jaw;
similar swelling upon inner side of epiglottis, pretty firm and
characterized by abundance of lymph corpuscles found in gland
substance.Frothed at mouth, attempted to spit out with much difficulty
(before
death).Great flow of saliva and difficulty in swallowing liquids.
Hyperplasia and recent swelling of tonsils and follicular glands of
tongue;
flat, roundish swellings at root of tongue, in middle of each one of
which was seen dilated opening of a follicle.Mouth full of saliva, total disinclination to drink.
Much mucus in throat and nose
;
hanging in posterior nares.Much tenacious mucus in mouth and throat.
Much tenacious saliva, with sore throat.
Mucous membrane of pharynx and epiglottis of a deep red color and
injected;
soft palate frequently reddened and swollen.Quantities of saliva are collected in and about mouth
;
presents a frothy appearance ;
patient is constantly endeavoring to get rid of it by wiping it with a
handkerchief, or spitting it out with great force.Saliva in back part of mouth like after sugar, or when liquorice is
swallowed.Saliva is not ejected, but runs from open mouth.
Saliva more plentiful, but thin and of yellow color.
Saliva more viscid, constant spitting, feeling of general malaise.
Saliva runs together in mouth, without occasion
;
flows back and is swallowed.Scraping sensation on palate where cool sensation had been, slight
coughing does not reach spot, hemming and hawking does occasionally.Secretion of a thick and frothy saliva, but without any morbid
repulsion toward drinks.Sensation as if uvula was too long
;
it is slightly inflamed but not elongated.Severe pain passing from mouth upward through head and down into
neck.Sore mouth, feels as if there were lumps in it.
Throat (Lyssin)
II
Sore throat,
constant desire to swallow ;
much saliva and feeling as if beaten.I
A slight
redness of affected parts.I
Burning
stinging in throat.I
Constant
desire to swallow, painful and ineffectual.I
Difficulty in
swallowing ;
particularly fluids.I
Had difficulty
in speaking ;
a connected sentence could only be uttered after making several
fruitless attempts ;
palatic letters could not be pronounced at all, all were pronounced
wrong.I
Periodical
spasm of esophagus, continual painful inclination to swallow without
being able to swallow anything ;
constriction is most severe when taking water into mouth, if he tried
to swallow it forcibly, he had burning and stinging pain in throat,
cough and retching which forced fluid from his mouth ;
difficult speech.I
Periodical
spasms of esophagus.I
Slight redness
of palate and throat, with spasm of esophagus and difficult speech.I
Sore throat,
as after swallowing red pepper.I
Trying to
swallow water forcibly, it caused burning and stinging in throat,
besides cough and gagging, which forced out contents of mouth.I
When taking
water into mouth, constriction was greatest.A ball, as it were, rises from stomach up to throat, seems to
threaten suffocation.A peculiar sense of constriction in back of throat at
3
P. M., < at 4 P. m., could not swallow without pain ; disappeared at 6 P. M., but returned at 7 and lasted until bedtime.A terrible pain in throat all day, and great pain on swallowing.
Absolute impossibility to swallow anything
;
whenever attempt is made, attacks of suffocation and spasms of
respiratory muscles as well as of muscles of face, neck and rest of
body, with great mental disturbance.Activity to drink is restored before sudden death.
After some days patient equally abhorred solids as well as fluids
;
when importuned to eat, he was thrown into convulsions.Any attempt to swallow bread occasioned greatest agony.
At
10
A. M. felt a soreness and suffocation in back of throat.At
11
A. M. :
soreness in throat till noon.At
3
P. M.. felt
a strange constrictive sensation in back part of throat, never
experienced before, < at 4 P. M., could
not swallow without great pain ;
went off at 6
P. M.
;
returned in an hour, lasting until 10
P. M.
Attempt to drink water starts convulsions.
Burning down esophagus.
Burning stinging in left side of chest, with palpitation in
afternoon.Constant inclination to swallow, or remove phlegm which seems to
stick between nose and throat.Cooling sensation in esophagus.
Declared he could not swallow for something in throat that
interrupted the passage.Difficulty in swallowing can, at first, be overcome by firm
resolution.Dryness in throat and difficult swallowing, with slight
erysipelatous redness in pharynx.Fauces and pharynx as far as one can see are slightly inflamed,
there is inclination to swallow, and increase of saliva.Feels as if he had swallowed a small quantity of red pepper.
Great heat in throat and about heart.
Great heat in throat and around heart.
Imagines that he cannot swallow anything.
Inflammation of throat with foamy saliva.
Intense and deep seated inflammation of mucous membrane of mouth,
gums, throat and larynx, with smarting pains on swallowing.No disgust for fluids until difficulty in swallowing came on
;
when fluid touched fauces it seemed at the peril of his life.Often happens that they succeed in drinking after those who were
around them have retired, or when attempt is made with closed eyes and
with aid of a straw.Pain extended upwards from wounded arm toward throat.
Painful sore throat, throat much inflamed, headache
<, tenacious mucus in mouth and throat ; great weakness with aversion to move.
Quite a sore throat, constrictive sensation much
< when attempting to swallow liquids, which he could not do without pain ; solids not painful.
Sensation of a lump in throat with desire to swallow.
Solid food sometimes consumed with great difficulty.
Some will drink water without difficulty.
Sore throat
:
very severe ;
all day ;
in forenoon ;
>
at 6
P. M. ;
after supper (7
P. M.)
;
not able to swallow without great pain ;
as if swelled ;
as if raw ;
aches ;
on r. side ;
with headache ;
with soreness in eyes ;
with increased tenacious saliva.Sore throat at
2
o’clock ;
with difficulty in swallowing fluids ;
felt as if epiglottis was paralyzed.Sore throat with constriction, particularly when attempting to
swallow fluids, which is painful.Sore throat with great inflammation, could only swallow with
difficulty, fluids returned through nose.Spasm of throat.
Stinging sensation when swallowing.
Stitching sensation when swallowing.
Sudden jerks going from esophagus to heart.
Swallowing more difficult at
5
P. M. than
in the morning (after
Bellad.).Terrible pain in throat, particularly when swallowing.
Throat quite sore, headache in both temples, numbness in both arms,
slight pain in lumbar region all day.Violent spasm in throat as if he would suffocate, from
2
P. M. to 9:30
P. M.Violent spasms of throat at
2
P. M., feeling as if he was about to be suffocated ;
went off at 9
P. M.Warm drinks, milk, soups and wine are often more easily taken than
water.Appetite, Thirst, Desires, Aversions (Lyssin)
I
Abnormal
cravings during pregnancy.I
Appetite good,
but digestion deficient ;
a portion of nearly everything he ate passing bowels in an undigested
state.I
Aversion to
drinking water, but can take small quantities of chocolate.I
Aversion to
water ;
imagines he cannot swallow ;
says he is thirsty, but cannot look at water or hear it poured out.I
Could take no
nourishment (with
spitting),
could not remain at table.I
Drank some
strong tea at supper, after which salivation discontinued until 8
P. M., then commenced again.I
Excessive
desire for salt.I
Felt very
thirsty and had no aversion to drink, on contrary drank large
quantities of water.I
Had not been
drinking any water for some time, only some hot tea.I
Want of
appetite.Aversion to fat food and drink
;
there remains a long greasy aftertaste, < after mutton.Aversion to fluids
;
great sensitiveness to every breath of air and reflection of light.Aversion to water of place he arrived at.
Called for burnt brandy and drank it
;
next day a strong rising in his stomach and an impossibility to drink.Chronic camp diarrhea.
First days, smoking unpleasant
;
after first week, a crazy, insatiable desire to smoke, he does not
allow pipe to cool.Hydrophobia of sheep.
Little appetite in morning
;
want of appetite, headache, depression.No appetite, except for sour things.
Picked up bits of cotton and shreds of cloth
;
bits of chips and coal were devoured whenever getting near ;
anything that was within reach and could be grasped by the jaws was
gnawed away very quickly ;
a dog.Since bite she has a frightful aversion to water
;
at first she could wash herself by dint of great self-control, but
later not at all.Symptoms of digestive organs extremely variable
;
excessive thirst, vomiting, constipation.Thirst and desire to drink, but is prevented from doing so by
spasmodic constriction of throat, attempts excite most disagreeable
sensations, even spasms.Thirst and disinclination for food.
Thirst much increased, complains of burning pains in throat.
Urine and feces were frequently devoured as soon as they were
voided;
a dog.Voracious appetite
;
swallowed wheat without chewing.Wine tasted poorly and affected him more than usual.
Eating and Drinking (Lyssin)
After coffee
:
more frequent beating of pulse ;
heat in face.After dinner and in evening disinclined to think.
After eating
:
all cooling, burning, wavelike sensations disappear, also congestion ;
pressing inward in epigastrium ;
lasciviousness with sexual excitement ;
lewdness with a sensation of weakness in parts, but inclined to an
emission of semen ;
increased lassitude and drowsiness, slept an hour without making it
any better.After meals very ill disposed, every noise irritates him
;
if others eat apples, or hawk, or blow their noses, it brings him
beside himself ;
passes away after siesta and coffee.After supper
:
pressing in spleen.After supper,
7
P. M., feels >,
less sore throat, no difficulty in swallowing.At times ability to drink is restored before death.
Before dinner a very strange sensation, a strangeness of whole
body.Inability to take solid food, or else it is consumed with greatest
difficulty.Nausea after eating eggs or fat food.
Tobacco affected him more than usual.
Warm drinks, such as milk, soups and wine, are more easily taken
than water.Hiccough, Belching, Nausea, and Vomiting (Lyssin)
I
Gagging when
he forcibly attempts to swallow water, forces it out of his mouth.Belching in afternoon
;
sour, in afternoon.Continual belching of wind
;
convulsive eructations.Hiccoughing.
Nausea
:
with giddiness, headache and pale face ;
with pale face after diarrhea ;
food does not taste right ;
and loss of appetite in evening ;
at 10
to 11
P. M.Nausea and vomiting of a foamy, mucous, dark colored substance
resembling coffee grounds.Nausea and vomiting, after diarrhea.
Rising of bile into throat during day, at same time an unusual
quantity of tenacious saliva in mouth and throat.Squeamish sensation
;
a want of appetite in evening, followed by great lightness of head.Vomiting
:
of food ;
of fluid while drinking, followed by faintness ;
of what was eaten at supper, at night in sleep.Scrobiculum and Stomach (Lyssin)
A cooling pain in stomach, with here and there a sharp and pointed
pressure.A loud cooing noise in stomach, to left, and after a while repeated
as a quick croaking.A sensation of motion in stomach.
A slightly hot, quiet, aching sensation below chest, sometimes
lower down, often in entire abdomen, as if in intestines.Aching, with coldness in stomach.
Distress in epigastrium and precordial region with dyspnea.
Great oppression in stomach, has to open her clothes.
In epigastric region sensation half coldish, half burning.
Loud gurgling in left side of stomach, becomes more continuous,
like water from a bottle.Pain in epigastric region, deep in, as if in or behind duodenum.
Pressure in epigastrium after eating.
Stomach empty, or may contain a dark, opaque substance, frequently
resembling coffee grounds;
in mucous membrane of stomach and intestines, decided injection of
blood-vessels ;
upon former frequently hemorrhagic erosions.Suffocating pain at pit of stomach.
Hypochondria (Lyssin)
I
Painful
throbbing as if an abscess was forming in region of spleen, but very
deep in, exact locality is half way between median line and outline of
left side ;
it lasted eight days ;
with it departed remnant of a similar affection in this locality,
against which eleven years of allopathic treatment had proved of no
avail.A pressing pain
:
in r. side, near last ribs, with breathing ;
in hypochondria, after quick walking.Aching from below waist to feet.
Fatty degeneration of liver.
In upper part of abdomen, left side
(region
of stomach and spleen),
a continued gnawing pressure in forenoon.Pain from within outward in r. side.
Pain in left side at
8
A. M.Pain in region of liver and r. kidney.
Pressing pain in region of spleen when walking fast.
Shooting in r. side of abdomen.
Tearing from left hypochondriac region to right.
Under mamma hot sensation, quietly aching, sometimes same lower
down or in whole of abdomen, as if in intestine.Abdomen (Lyssin)
I
General
soreness in whole of lower abdomen.A burning, waving and surging, proceeding from abdomen, spreads
through entire chest to head.A drawing in abdomen below navel.
A rending pain across abdomen from left to r., in evening when in
bed.A sense of motion, with slight stinging in middle of abdomen.
Aching
:
in loins ;
into–back ;
down to feet.Aching from groins to feet, in evening.
After cooling sensation and scratching in esophagus had subsided,
there appeared a half cooling, half burning sensation in entire upper
part of abdomen.Colicky pain in abdomen
;
when it subsides, stinging in small of back.Cramp in lower part of abdomen.
Distension of abdomen
;
every evening.Drawing from groins downward, then cramps in abdomen, accompanied
by dizziness.Drawing, dragging pain in groins
;
heavy, bruised feeling in thighs.Dull pressing pain above r. inguinal region on a defined place.
From both loins a drawing downward, followed by cramps in lower
abdomen.Inguinal glands very much swollen, they pain for two hours.
Pain down left side of abdomen.
Pain in both groins
;
in r., two small kernels under skin, very painful.Pain in r. groin, with some swelling.
Pain in r. side of abdomen proceeding from uterus.
Painful sensation deep in upper portion of abdomen, as if behind
duodenum;
in forenoon.Pressing in abdomen.
Rigidity of muscles of abdomen.
Severe bellyache, lasting an hour, awoke from sleep at
11:30.
Shooting in abdomen.
Sticking
:
in r. side of abdomen, when taking a breath ;
in abdomen above hip ;
with feeling of motion in lower part of abdomen.Stitches
:
in r. side of abdomen ;
in belly, an inch from crista ilea.Violent bellyache.
Stool and Rectum (Lyssin)
II
Dysenteric
stools with tenesmus ;
renewed as soon as he hears or sees water run.II
Stools of
bloody mucus.I
Chronic
diarrhea contracted in Southern camps.I
Stools watery
and profuse, with severe pains in lower bowels ;
frequency of stools not uniform, some days five or six, others fifteen
or twenty, usually more frequent in morning.I
Straining to
evacuate, causing a violent pain in small of back and in rectum,
afterwards compelling him to walk about, although weak.I
Tenesmus
during and after stool.I
When he sees
or hears running water, violent pain and tenesmus return ;
in a case of dysentery in Summer, of six weeks standing, in which
stools were most frequent in night, consisted of bloody mucus and were
followed by pains in rectum and small of back, which forced patient to
walk about in spite of great weakness ;
could neither stand nor lie down ;
had drank no water whole time, only hot tea occasionally.I
When in
morning some water was poured out from pitcher into basin, pain and
desire to stool returned.Bowels constipated
;
stool very dark in color.Chronic camp diarrhea.
Darting into anus causes contraction.
Diarrhea
:
with much pain, most during day, eighteen hours after dose, lasting
twenty-four hours, with pain in lower part of bowels ;
< in morning ; followed by nausea as if she would have to vomit ; attended with violent pains early in morning ; after stitches in side.Difficult passage of flatus as if anus resisted expulsion.
Difficult stool, piles protrude.
Dysentery.
Hemorrhoidal troubles, passes blood from anus during catamenia.
Involuntary stools.
Passage of bright red blood from anus, with terrible burning and
pricking in it as from thorns.Stool became dark and thickish in appearance, mingled with shreds
of wool or cotton, bits of wood and coal that had been swallowed;
a dog.Throbbing in anus externally.
Urinary Organs (Lyssin)
I
Constant
desire to urinate on seeing running water ;
urinates a little at a time.I
Urine too
scanty and high colored.A cooling, burning, congested feeling in region of bladder, in
evening.A whitish yellow sediment in urine.
After passing feces and urine there is an urging to urinate again,
it moves slowly several times from above downward without succeeding
in passing a drop.Brighter colored urine and in larger quantities, but not more
frequent.Dull pressure in region of left kidney.
Flying pains increase, seize urinary organs
;
create a difficulty and heat in discharging urine.If he passes but a small quantity of urine his sense of weakness is
increased;
weakness after urinating as if he passed his strength away.In morning and evening urine is yellowish brown, turbid and
diminished in quantity;
reddish sediment.Profuse watery urine, in evening.
Prostatic juice passes after urinating.
Since fourteenth day after bite says she has passed no water
;
passes daily from time to time a little dark blood from uterus,
differing in quantity and quality from menstrual flow.Some pain about neck of bladder in evening.
Tickling burning in urethra near orifice after urinating.
Urging to urinate after a slight accumulation.
Urine dark, brownish, with whitish sediment, visible when urinating
upon snow.Urine scanty or muddy, often of a dull, greenish yellow color
;
dog.Urine scanty, no albumin
;
dark, cloudy, frequently contains sugar, evidently the result of
lesions in medulla oblongata.Male Sexual Organs (Lyssin)
II
Complaints
resulting from abnormal sexual desire.I
Atrophy of
testicles ;
testicles diminish in size, first left, then right.I
Hydrocele.
I
Increased
sexual desire. (Dropsy
of spine with sheep. Hydrophobia of sheep.)I
Satyriasis in
a stallion ;
hot breath streamed from nostrils.I
Semen is
discharged too late or not at all during coition.I
Strong
erections, without sexual excitement or thoughts, in evening while
undressing in cold room.A seminal emission with dreams, quite unusual.
After coition, with difficult and tardy emission, there is a
sensation of emptiness and discomfort in parts, lasting all of next
day.Burning and tenesmus as if in prostatic gland and in urethra
;
in afternoon.During a very strong and warm embrace excitement diminished at its
height, and there followed no emission.Erections with but little desire.
Feeling of weakness around and in sexual parts.
Glans is dry and sticks to foreskin.
Hanging down of scrotum on eighth day, while before and after it
was contracted.Inclined to lascivious ideas, although there is not much sexual
desire.Insufficient seminal discharge.
Itching and burning on corona glandis, with tickling and discharge
of greenish pus, in afternoon.Itching on os pubis, left side, extending to root of penis.
Increased peristaltic motion of scrotum, all afternoon and evening;
motion of testicles also increased.Lasciviousness
:
after eating, with feeling of weakness in parts ;
with erections in afternoon.No emission during coition, but afterwards semen escaped
unconsciously in sleep.Pain in testicles on day after an embrace, particularly felt
towards noon and first afternoon hours.Painful sensation in testicles.
Painful urging in penis, as after excessive coition, accompanied by
lasciviousness.Priapism, with frequent seminal emissions.
Scrotum tightly drawn up for two or three weeks.
Sexual indifference with erections, even during act of coition,
which is perfectly performed.Without being preceded by an erection there is a discharge of
prostatic fluid, smelling salty and musty;
the glans penis is dry.Female Sexual Organs (Lyssin)
II
Sensitiveness
of vagina rendering coition quite painful.I
Abrasion about
os tincae (treated
with caustic)
some tumefaction of cervix and walls of vagina remained, showing a low
degree of inflammation.I
After menses
found that prolapsus uterus, a case considered incurable, was in its
proper position, and continued so after an interval of two months,
though she has done much to test the cure, lifting a heavy child in
and out of bed at night, when she was necessarily without her
supporter.I
Anemia in
consequence of disturbed sexual function.I
Bright redness
of vaginal portion of womb.I
Considerable
pain in lower part of back, with a soreness felt through pubic region,
which was clearly proved to be in neck of womb by an increase of pain
from pressing finger on neck ;
principally at point where finger came in contact with womb.I
During
interval of menses “a show” that seemed quite obstinate.I
Insatiable
heat ;
with cows.I
Menses rather
frequent, protracted, dark, and at times fetid.I
Menses too
profuse, at times a little too frequent.I
Menstruation,
with hemorrhoids, pulsations in anus and weakness of back.I
Metritis,
prolapsus or induration of uterus ;
in cows.I
Prolapsus
uteri of seven years’ standing.I
Severe
leucorrhea, with pains in back and lower part of bowels ;
sore vagina.I
Speculum
showed os tincae of size of a small goose quill, smooth and normal,
except that there was a string of bloody mucus of size of os hanging
from it, so tough and viscid that it was difficult to wipe it away
with a sponge.I
Swelling of
womb in all its parts, extending somewhat into vagina. Prolapsus.I
Tearing,
followed by pressing downward, could not make a hard step during
catamenia.I
Weakness in
back, with copious catamenia.I
With a painful
sensitiveness of womb, slight degree of prolapsus, so that after any
considerable effort there would be a strong conviction that it was
prolapsed.I
Womb high up
in abdomen, enlarged in fundus.A girl, aet.
14,
and another aet. 21
took the 30th
after their catamenia had ceased for three days, next day it
reappeared.Aphrodisiac sense deficient.
Bearing down in uterine region.
Catamenia appeared
(after
a few globules of 30th)
two weeks before time, and very copious.Continual discharge of offensive mucus from uterus for several
months.Discharge of blood from rectum during menses.
Increase of uterine sensitiveness, conscious of having a womb.
Occasional acute pain in and below uterus
;
at times a violent shooting pain in left of vagina, extending upward,
so severe as almost to cause her to scream.Pain extending from uterus into breast and r. side of abdomen.
Pain in left ovarian region, uneasiness there.
Sharp pain in uterus, shooting down to labia.
Slimy leucorrhea.
White discharge like leucorrhea, which weakened her
;
never had leucorrhea.Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation (Lyssin)
II
During
pregnancy :
strange notions, desires or cravings ;
rush of blood from chest upward ;
toothache, backache and other complaints ;
great sense of bearing down ;
intense pain from inflammation of os and cervix (formerly
treated with Caustic.)
;
great soreness in lower part of back and bowels.I
All changes of
position that tilt or rotate to a moderate extent the os uteri cause
much pain.I
Since
cessation of lochia a severe leucorrhea ;
pain in back and lower part of bowels ;
soreness of vagina.I
Since
childbirth more pain with coition and a dislike to it.I
Spasms excited
whenever she attempts to drink water, or if she hears it poured from
one vessel into another ;
sight or sound of water affects unpleasantly, even though desiring
water.Both breasts swollen when waking in morning, she can hardly get up
;
three mornings in succession ;
same swelling of breasts at night when opening her dress.Voice and larynx. Trachea and bronchia (Lyssin)
I
Pain next to
larynx, on r. side, felt on turning neck and on pressure.Epiglottis crisp and dry.
Inflammation or redness in superior part of trachea.
Voice altered in tone
;
tones much suppressed ;
hoarse ;
rough ;
harsh and weak (last
stage)
;
shrill, inarticulate sounds ;
shrill sounds of utmost despair, or occasioned by violent expirations ;
very shrill and piercing bark, changing near its termination into a
distressing, continuous howl (dogs).Respiration (Lyssin)
II
Sighing with
pain in heart.I
Dyspnea :
with flatulency, cough and rattling in chest ;
with sighing, groaning respiration ;
from cardiac pain ;
< lying down.A general feeling of discomfort in chest forces him to deep
breathing or to emit sighs, which alleviate.Asthmatic sensation, air going through larynx makes a kind of
wheezing.At
9
A. M. suffocating feeling in chest, had to sigh several times, lasting
till 10:30
P. M., when he fell asleep.Breathing accelerated or rattling in last stage.
Breathing during paroxysm gasping, irregular and usually quite
rapid, often with decided dyspnea.Breathing laborious and difficult, quickly repeated, and attended
with a constant and peculiar kind of hawking, in order to expel
breath, which has been taken for an imitation of bark of a dog.Can scarcely speak from weakness.
Constriction about breast and difficulty in breathing become so
extreme, that on a blast of air blowing on them they are seized with
greatest distress, cover their mouths, seem ready to expire, as if
struggling for breath.Convulsive breathing and spasm in muscles of throat, either come
together or breathing precedes throat spasms.Difficult breathing and spasmodic sensation in trachea.
Frequent sighing and sobbing.
Hot breath streams from nostrils.
Now and then he has to take a deep breath, with coldish feeling far
back and deep in throat, followed by great relief.On attempting, at request, to drink a little water
;
a violent spasm of muscles of neck and throat came on, preceded by a
deep sigh or gasp, as if she might just have plunged into cold water.On inspiring
:
a cooling sensation ;
stinging on left side.Oppression in breathing before a severe suffocative attack occurs,
induced by spasmodic contractions of respiratory muscles, combined
with spasmodic, alarming constriction of pharynx.Satyriasis in a stallion.
Sighing and groaning respiration, may be occasioned by violent
expiration.Suffocative spasm in throat.
The breath is hot
;
sulphurous.The convulsive breathings during paroxysms are very similar to
those produced by a sudden cold water bath, and are always combined
with spasms in throat muscles.Weakness of chest
;
tired from talking or reading.When breathing, stitches in r. side of abdomen.
Cough (Lyssin)
I
Cough and
gagging.I
Coughing when
attempting to swallow water forcibly, forces it out of mouth.Barking like a dog, with a sort of noisy cough
;
headache.Inner Chest and Lungs (Lyssin)
I
Gangrene of
lungs, caused by pneumonia and sexual excitement.Blood mounts from chest to head.
Burning like heartburn in r. side of back, in region where ribs
end.Burning stinging in left side of chest when taking a deep breath.
Burning, surging through chest.
Chest and abdomen feel expanded
;
expanding chest seems to invigorate him, though usually it fatigues.Cramp-like pain and stitches in left side, followed by diarrhea and
afterwards nausea and inclination to vomit.Extending to chest, pain in uterus.
Great weakness in chest, particularly when walking and reading
aloud, chest feels fatigued;
some deep pain in left side.Pain as if in nerves, from side of chest up to throat.
Pinching pain
:
at fourth rib on r. side.Pressing in chest
;
between tenth and eleventh ribs, r. side.Rheumatic pain across chest when drawing her breath.
Satyriasis in stallion.
Shooting between left mamma and last ribs.
Shooting, flying pains through left chest.
Stinging in lower part of chest.
Stitches under left mamma, going towards left.
Upon pleura is often seen a soap like deposit, as in case of
cholera.Heart, Pulse and Circulation (Lyssin)
I
Heart had for
three months not been free from a sticking, drawing, squeezing pain,
result of an attack of rheumatism and cold, together with a
palpitation and difficulty of breathing.I
Pain in
cardiac region, to which he is subject, is < half an hour after, but much >
in several days.I
Stitches in
heart, more while walking ;
they would kill him if they continued.7
P. M., slight,
dull shooting pain in heart, lasting till he went to sleep at 10:30
P. M.A very strange and unusual feeling in heart, something like bands
compressing it, in middle of chest, and as if needles were sticking in
it, a dull kind of stitching pain, very painful, alarming and
disagreeable.At
11
A. M. two or three stitches of a shooting kind in heart, lasting a few
minutes.At
9
P. M., violent pain of a sticking character in heart and to left of
it.Burning pain around heart and in forehead.
Considerable pain in heart, and a corresponding pain in r. side
;
a severe sticking and shooting pain, producing shortness of breath and
sighing.Constant pain in lower part of heart.
Dull pain in heart all day, with a pinching pain about fourth rib,
r. side.Feels beating of pulse through whole body, and from time to time
like a slow rising wave through throat into head, followed by a
sensation of a momentary rush of blood.Heart palpitated violently and felt as if it was coming up, into
throat;
drank several mouthfuls of water, which relieved.Heat and burning in heart.
Pain in heart
:
with headache ;
with sore throat and heaviness in legs.Pain in heart entirely gone, but every two or three hours has a
twitch there.Pain in left chest on a small spot in region of heart
;
more backward and to left in chest.Painful shock or jerk from lower or hind part of esophagus to heart
and front chest.Palpitation causes anxiety.
Pricking sticking pain in heart.
Pulse
:
steady, but rather full and hard, about ten beats above normal
standard (80)
;
slightly accelerated and hard, being more frequently small than full ;
quick and irritable ;
160
;
becomes gradually weaker and quicker, especially after paroxysm, 120
to 180
;
frequently irregular, becoming variable in its rate, and this
variation takes place with great rapidity ;
unequal, some beats stronger, some quickened ;
weak, quick, intermitting ;
very small, irregular and very rapid (last
stage)
;
weak, quick and intermittent (latter
period)
;
becomes constantly more rapid and smaller, until at length it is
threadlike, and finally no longer can be felt.Sensation going from heart through to back, with sinking.
Sharp, shooting pains in region of heart, lasting four hours.
Sticking pains at intervals in heart.
Stinging, sharp pain in heart.
Stitches in and around heart.
Stitches in heart from ringing of church bells.
Violent pain in heart, as if it would burst or had needles running
into it.While writing, a burning ebullition and gurgling from upper part of
abdomen through chest and head, at first followed a pain in ear;
now a pressing stinging in inner upper vertex to r. ;
as if a hot, wavelike stream was moving on and spreading outward, but
not extending to spine or limbs.Outer Chest (Lyssin)
Chest as if beaten, in evening.
Pressure
:
on sternum between mammae ;
between last ribs on r. side.Quivering about sternum.
Soreness across chest, both breasts swollen
;
when waking in morning can hardly get up ;
three mornings in succession.Spasmodic tearing under left ribs
;
at same time it runs to anus, where it causes a constriction ;
also at same time a tearing between skin and flesh down thigh to knee.Stinging in left breast
(between
mamma and last ribs).The clavicles feel as if they would slip from their sockets
;
has to place arms akimbo.Neck and Back (Lyssin)
I
A sore
lameness in back, with some degree of soreness in lower abdomen.I
Backache and
headache.I
Considerable
pain in lower part of back, with a soreness felt through the pubic
region ;
pressing finger on neck increased it.I
Disease
peculiar to sheep, termed the “gid ;
” dropsy of spine.I
Great weakness
in back, as if it would split and fall apart.I
Sheep turn and
wriggle their backs because they cannot bear heat of sun ;
increased sexual excitement ;
symptoms pointing to madness ;
scratching their backs appears to be agreeable to them, as they remain
quiet and make a peculiar motion with their mouths, which does not
express pain.A pain or ache in and between both shoulders, as if a heavy weight
was there, lasting two hours.A stitch in nape of neck.
All day difficulty in moving head.
As if head was being drawn to shoulders.
At
2
P. M. laid down, found his head twisted to l. side ;
under ordinary circumstances would very soon have changed position,
but to his surprise found it quite comfortable and fell asleep ;
woke at 4
P. M., felt a numbness in left side of head, and flesh of lower part
of body looked like goose-flesh.At
2
P. M., severe pain across back between shoulders and waist.At
4
P. M. violent pain in r. kidney, lasting an hour.Back extremely sore
;
as if beaten, in evening.Below r. shoulder-blade a pressure
;
not pressing from out inward or >
by bending backward.Burning in back near last ribs, r. side, like heartburn.
Burning pain in neck.
Constant pain in neck.
Could not bear least touch along whole vertebrae
;
slightest touch produced an irritability akin to convulsions.Cramplike pressure under r. shoulder-blade and between scapulae.
Emphysematous swelling of subcutaneous cellular tissue of lower
part of neck;
may extend along upper portion of breast and into mediastinum.From nape of neck a heat draws over r. ear into r. eye and face,
seems to pass from within outward.From neck heat passes to ear and face.
Going to back from heart, sensation with sinking.
Going to neck
:
pain from head and from back.Head feels lopsided and as if something was drawing it toward
shoulder.In back, near r. shoulder-blade, a pressing with heat, draws into
nape of neck, thence into muscles of left upper arm.Muscles of neck and breast, frequently entire muscular system,
contract spasmodically.Neck feels more comfortable when, in sneezing, she throws head
back.Neck feels stiff
;
r. side of neck stiff ;
muscles felt stiff in morning.Neck feels stiff, held himself more erect than usual.
Pain from
4
A. M. till evening in both kidneys and across hips, severe and a
little burning, >
at 9
P. M.Pain in back across hips, lasting all day.
Pain in back and both groins.
Pain in cicatrix and also some stiffness in muscles of neck and
throat.Pain in lower part of spine severe.
Pain in muscles of neck and along cervical portion of spinal
column.Pains with cutaneous hyperesthesia along vertebral column.
Pressing in neck and up back of head.
Pressing in region of kidneys
;
dull pressure in region of left.Pressing pain in sacrum, r. side
;
later it moves to middle of back (repeated
eight times).Pressing, running from between shoulders to occiput and across r.
ear, in morning.Pressure and drawing pain in neck.
Pressure in back, five inches below point of r. shoulder, one inch
from spine;
had same sensation during each of her pregnancies, always on r. side,
inward from lowest rib to breast bone.Shooting through small of back.
Spine aches
;
r. side of throat sore.Sterno-cleido mastoid muscle on-each side stands out like a thick
cord;
a look of mingled anxiety and terror on countenance.Stiff neck with rending and shooting.
Stiffness in joints of neck
;
if she allows her head to hang awhile, it is difficult to raise.Stinging
:
below r. shoulder-blade ;
in cervical vertebra. Severe backache all day, and numbness of hands.Tearing, stinging and stiffness in neck.
Throbbing pain extending into neck.
Want of strength in back, must lean against back of chair in
sitting.Weakness in region of kidneys, loins and sacrum.
With inward heat, pains in neck,
< if headache is >,
or heat in r. side of face.Upper Limbs (Lyssin)
1
P. M., slight
pain in r. shoulder joint ;
also in head.A cold flush goes down arm as if ice water was being poured upon
it.A sting in sore arm once in a while, which makes her start all over
(dog
bite).Aching in r. arm
(the
left is bitten)
;
feeling as if weather was going to change.After counting copper coin, violent pain in r. hand, between third
and fourth metacarpal phalanx, in some motions and on pressure.After some pain in arm
(finger
had a small wound exposed during dissection of a mad dog, forty days
ago),
feeling of malaise and fatigue, followed by death.All day a tearing, then a stinging in left shoulder joint, as if in
middle of bone, down arm and into finger;
and after getting up from bed, for one hour in r. arm, then all day in
left.Arm aches and is swollen.
Arm itches all over
;
itching on arms appearing suddenly.At
10:30
P. M., soon after taking last dose, numbness in r. arm.At
10
P. M., straining pain in r. hand.Blueness in streaks down r. forearm.
bones of arm to fingers.
Burning pain down wounded arm.
Cramp in arms.
Feeling of great weight on shoulders all day.
Feels a chill strike her r. arm when she goes into open air.
Felt as if fleas were running over r. arm.
Felt two shocks down wounded arm as from a galvanic battery, clear
to finger ends.Hand trembles so much he can scarcely write.
Hands numb with headache.
Has a lump in r. axilla.
Her arm has felt very sore, although wound is almost healed.
In left upper arm, about axilla, pain as if beaten and lame
;
the same near elbow, several minutes after in wrist ;
in evening.Intense pain in forefinger of left hand.
Lame feeling in wrist.
Muscles of forearm, as far as hand, painful when pressed, or taking
hold of anything.Numbness in r. arm at
4
P.M., lasting till bedtime.Pain down wounded left arm
;
generally in afternoon and evening, < 10 o'clock.Pain in first joint of r. ring finger, as if it was going to
gather.Pain in left shoulder joint, as if beaten and paralyzed
;
lameness in left axilla.Pain in r. elbow as if paralyzed, at noon
;
same at 2
P. M., in l., >
in a horizontal position and when allowing forearm to hang ;
soon after in left knee.Pain on top of r. shoulder joint.
Quivering in hands.
Rheumatic pain, first in r. then in left shoulder.
Right arm becomes so heavy and inactive that writing is too great
an exertion, and he allows arm to drop.Right hand numb for a long time, clumsy, stiff.
Right hand swollen.
Slight twitching in r. arm.
Smarting in palm of r. hand.
Soreness in r. hand.
Stiffness of fingers and hand.
Stinging tearing pain in shoulders, passing down through
Sudden sharp, darting pain, in bitten hand, extending up arm to
shoulder and base of brain.The ball of r. hand hard, cramped and swollen.
The pain up arm was followed by cramps and drawing in back and
limbs of bitten side.Throbbing pain in r. forearm on flexor side.
To right of r. elbow a black and blue spot.
Trembling of left hand when taking hold of anything or pressing it
;
muscles hurt most on upper side of forearm down to hand.Trembling of left hand.
Weakness in arms.
Woke at
5
P. M. with stinging in forepart of r. index finger, nail turned quite
blue.Wrists have felt some time as if-strained
;
< in morning.Lower Limbs (Lyssin)
II
A pressive
pain in r. hip bone, goes from there to middle of sacral bone.II
Ulcers on
legs, with emaciation and coldness, left side ;
contraction of hamstrings and relaxation of ligaments of ankle joint
and flexors of toes.I
Great swelling
in heel of a cow from dog bite ;
very restless.I
The pain in
calf came even when he was not thinking of bite at all ;
lately much < and quite severe.A convulsive trembling of limbs during attacks.
A curious feeling in legs, as if calf was heavier than usual.
A pain in legs, as if thighs were too heavy, went off at night.
Aching and heaviness in legs below knee.
Aching in knees and shoulders.
After going to bed, intense pain in back of r. heel.
After sitting awhile, lower limbs go to sleep
;
prickling sensation.All day a feeling of weight in legs below knee, seemed as if there
were several pounds of lead in tibia of each leg.All muscles feel bruised in morning, can neither sit nor lie down.
Along left sciatic nerve a dull pain, returning periodically
;
< when rising from sitting.Balls of heels so sore that it is painful to walk.
Biting and itching on thighs.
Calf of left leg ached as if it had been cramped, after waking.
Cramp in calves of legs at night in bed
;
< from stretching out limbs.Cramp in r. calf.
Cramps in thighs.
Each dose he has taken has made him feel as if he was getting corns
on every toe, his real corns felt remarkably well and did not pain him
at all.Extending to feet, pain from groins.
Feeling of pressure on shoulders and weight in legs.
Felt as if hip bones would slip out of their sockets
;
had to rest with hands on hips to >
the feeling.He felt a severe, bruise like pain in shoulders, chest, back, arms
and legs.Heaviness of limbs.
Heavy feeling in lower limbs, as if a weight was attached to
ankles.Her corns have troubled her but on one occasion since the proving
;
where she felt as having corns, she had twinges.Knees ache
;
tearing, drawing pain.Knees tremble at every step.
Laming pain in r. knee joint when getting awake in night
;
next morning same in left knee.Laming pain inside of left thigh above knee joint, and extending
into it.Left hip aches in bone.
Legs feel as if he had rheumatism.
Legs tired and aching
;
feel as if beaten, in evening, feel sore and very heavy.Loss of power in limbs
;
gait unsteady, at times some stiffness of hind legs ;
dog.Lyssophobia.
Numbness in r. leg below knee.
Pain extends from ankle bone to great toe.
Pain from heel into thigh.
Pain going down left leg.
Pain in all joints of feet, like pressure with a dull point, now
here, now there.Pain in anterior part of r. thigh, as from a bruise.
Pain in legs very troublesome, not able to walk.
Pain in r. heel and in toes of left foot.
Pain in sole of right foot extending to ankle.
Pain in thighs, particularly in anterior portion
;
as if fatigued, after going up stairs ;
< after sitting down.Pain like rheumatism
;
shooting and stinging from knees down ;
stinging in palm of r. hand to finger ends, as though she had fallen
on it.Painful lameness in left ankle joint in night while lying in bed.
Pains or aches in all his limbs
;
feeling of languor and extreme fatigue.Right leg falls asleep
;
after seven hours.Severe pain in r. instep
;
< after being in bed during catamenia ; at times extremely painful to move foot ; does not pain much when walking upon side of foot ; left slightly troubling at times.Severe twitches in arms and legs, much resembling chorea.
Shaking or convulsive trembling of limbs.
Sharp, biting pain in left ankle.
Shooting from fourth toe to foot.
Shortly after pain in shoulder joint, afternoon third day
;
pain goes into knee joint of same side.Some pain in toe next to little toe of left foot
;
shooting into foot.Something runs round and round several times in flesh, in region of
hip, then down leg to knee.Stinging in r. knee.
Tearing in first joint of left little toe.
Tearing in l. thigh to knee.
Tearing pain from middle of anterior portion of r. thigh to knee.
Toes of both feet troublesome, as if nails were too long and broken
;
pain in small of back and r. temple.Twitching in legs.
Twitching in r. femur, as if some one was pulling from below
;
not painful, comes and goes.Weakness in legs when going up stairs.
Weight and heaviness of legs and shoulders.
When lying in bed, an unusual morbid contraction and tossing about
of limbs.Rest. Position. Motion (Lyssin)
After a short walk
:
exceedingly fatigued and weary.After moving, turning, or stooping, feels as if head would burst.
After sitting awhile
:
lower limbs go to sleep.All day had a disposition to straighten herself up.
At every step
:
knees tremble.Aversion to move
:
great weakness.Bending backwards
:
does not >
pressure below shoulder blade.Bending head backwards
:
pain in neck>.Can hardly bend fingers
;
stiffness.Can neither sit nor lie
;
all muscles feel bruised.Change of position
:
disinclination to change position of head ;
continual change (dog)
;
that would tilt or rotate os uteri would cause much pain.Could not make a hard step
:
during catamenia.Does not wish to rise.
Going up stairs
:
pain in thighs ;
weakness of legs ;
very weak.Had to rest with hands on hips to
>
feeling as if hip bones would slip out of their sockets.Horizontal position
:
pain in elbows >,
also when allowing forearm to hang.If she allows her head to hang awhile it is difficult to raise.
Least motion
:
all joints cracked.Lying down
:
thinks she is unable to move head ;
like a shock in upper part of brain ;
rush of blood to head ;
pains up neck and down spine ;
impossible, pain in rectum and small of back ;
dyspnea ;
impossible in dysentery ;
could not sleep.Lying in bed
:
contraction and tossing about of limbs.Moved quite briskly, though feeling fatigued.
Moving
:
head < pressing in vertex and forehead.On rising from a chair
:
staggers ;
cannot walk straight ;
dull pain along sciatic nerve.On rising from stooping
:
dizziness and dimness of vision.Parts on which he lies
:
burning heat.Sitting
:
dizziness ;
must lean back, want of strength th in back ;
pain in thighs <.Standing
:
pain in rectum and small of back ;
impossible, dysentery.Standing still
:
on waking, head fixed.Stirring about
:
violent headache < ; painful rush of blood to head.Stooping
:
inclination to fall to r. ;
aching in bones above eyes < ; pressing in vertex and forehead ; violent headache < ; painful rush of blood to head ; aching over eyes < ; dizzy on r. side of head.Stretching limbs
:
cramps in calves.Swallowing
:
difficult, particularly fluids ;
stinging sensation ;
causes constriction of throat ;
causes terrible pain ;
bread causes greatest agony ;
stitching sensation.Taking hold of anything
:
muscles of forearm painful ;
trembling of left hand.Throws head back
:
when sneezing.Turning around
:
painful rush of blood to head.Turning neck
:
pain in larynx.Very little exertion wearies him, and he feels quite languid.
Walking
:
as if she would fall ;
dizziness, with dim sight ;
five minutes after, sharp pain above eyebrows and up nose ;
quickly, causes pressing pain in hypochondria :
pain in region of spleen ;
enforced by terrible pain in rectum and small of back ;
great weakness in chest ;
stitches in heart ;
impossible on account of pain in legs ;
painful on account of soreness of heel ;
on side of foot, instep not so painful.When rising
:
rush of blood to head ;
tearing stinging in occiput <.Nerves (Lyssin)
II
Attacks
returned every few minutes, for five hours, until they were arrested ;
pain passing down spine to loins and hips, and from thence to knees.II
Convulsions
daily ;
rolls head from side to side ;
winking and rolling eyes ;
attempts to bite others ;
pelvis and legs are turned to one side as far as possible. Child, aet.
2,
after scarlatina.I
At times a
singular sensation, a kind of “die away” feeling, quite
instantaneous, cannot describe it ;
seems to extend through heart to back ;
accompanied with quivering around breast bones and pain in nerves,
from left side of chest to throat and left jaw ;
fluttering about heart.I
Continual
trembling sensation through whole body.I
He could
neither lie down nor stand up for any length of time.I
The strange
feeling changed during night into a trembling, and he is full of fear.If during great restlessness she attempts to sit down and work, she
has alternately twitching in arms and legs.A stage of general paralysis
;
an abatement of most distressing symptoms ;
a freer respiration ;
a diminution of reflex excitability ;
less impediment to deglutition ;
a rapidly increasing debility and prostration before death.After singing, suddenly falls down as if dead, with eyes, shut,
face red, quick breathing, pulseAfternoon tremulous in whole body and very weak, can hardly talk.
All things affect him more, tobacco included. Irritability
;
violent agitations.Clonic convulsions
;
decided tetanus or trismus not observed ;
opisthotonos in rare cases.Convulsions came on and lasted for a short time, then perfectly
placid for some time before death.Convulsions conjoined with an exalted state of sense of smell,
taste and touch.Does not wish to rise.
During exhaustion more nimble and active.
Every day at
9
P. M., convulsive startings.Exertion is frequently succeeded by convulsions.
Fatigue and heaviness in legs.
Feeling of malaise and debility at
3
P. M., great disinclination to move.Feels as she did when she got up from a nine day’s illness
;
feels so heavy and sore.Felt irritable, tired and nervous.
Felt quivery all over.
Felt stiff and tired
;
required an effort to draw his breath.Great debility and disinclination to move about, lasting till
2
P. M., gradually diminishing.Great physical relaxation
;
whole body feels fatigued ;
tired all over.Great restlessness, anxiousness, distress
;
tossing about.Great weakness and restlessness, does not know where to turn, would
prefer to lie down, but it affects his breathing.In afternoon whole body trembles, she can scarcely speak
;
stinging in one of cervical vertebra ;
when stooping feels dizzy on r. side.In all motions of her body and in her looks is expressed a peculiar
erethism.In quick succession violent epileptic attacks.
Muscular contractions appear with various degrees of intensity,
from slightest convulsion to those of most severe and clonic form;
frequently tetanic convulsions.Nervous twitching, with trembling of r. hand. Starts now and then.
Pain commencing in cicatrix of bitten thumb, producing
Sensation of convulsive actions in different parts
;
distress of epigastrium ;
heaviness of limbs and general prostration.Severe nervous twitches in whole body all day.
She struck, snapped and bit at everything and every person.
slight spasm, and still greater disposition to snap and bite and to
grind teeth, which were entirely beyond his control, causing him to
fall on floor.Spasms of individual muscles, as well as of muscular system in
general, clonic, rarely tetanic.Spasms of legs and arms, occasionally very severe.
Spasms so violent that four strong men could hardly hold him and
prevent him from hurting himself.Such weakness that knees tremble at every step, and she feels as if
she would fall.Suddenly a severe pain in bitten thumb, after nine days, instantly
passing up spine and thence into brain, producing a violent,. nervous
convulsion for a few moments, with a disposition to snap and bite;
passed off in two or three minutes.The spasms have the character of reflexed spasms
;
their proximate causes are :
attempts to swallow ;
speaking ;
a current of air ;
sight or idea of fluids ;
sight or sound of running water ;
coining in contact with another person ;
a bright light ;
sight of shining objects or of some strange person ;
a loud noise or strong odors.Twitching of muscles throughout entire body
(last
stage).Twitching of tendons, with tendency to general convulsions.
Until dinner time he felt so strangely in his whole body as never
before, without being able to define the feeling.Very soon a sensation of weakness, a kind of flabby lassitude, like
days after great exertion, or after a fever or other disease.Weakness
:
with sore throat ;
after urinating ;
of sexual organs.With numbness of paralytic symptoms the violence of all others
increases.Sleep (Lyssin)
I
During night
slept but little ;
was disturbed by disagreeable, disconnected dreams ;
felt strangely. Lyssophobia.After
10
P. M., while in bed, all symptoms more severe.Became more restless night before death.
Did not sleep more than. thirty minutes until after
2
A. M.Dreams
:
of influential persons to whom he occupies position of servant or
subordinate ;
of a Latin debate with students of law, astonished at facility and
fluency with which he spoke Latin, it being far greater than he was
capable of in a waking state ;
of dogs all the time, but they are different dogs from the one that
bit her ;
of fighting, of high places, of insane asylum, of churches ;
disagreeable, when she falls asleep, night or day ;
only in first half hour.Excited, cannot sleep.
Felt as he did some years since, when sitting up with a sick
relative three nights out of five, unable to sleep during day from
nervous anxiety.Felt drowsy
;
in afternoon ;
irresistible drowsiness, 9
P. M.Felt inclination to gape and stretch.
Frequent yawning, without sleepiness, particularly when hearing
others yawn.Had a restless night, woke repeatedly and felt tired.
Has to scratch whole body, and has no sleep for it all night.
If inclined to sleep, it is short, disturbed, with frightful
dreams, and on awaking is apt to fall into slight convulsions.In morning, after exciting dreams, much fatigued, feels tired in
sacrum and back.Inclination to yawn, with stiffness of lower jaw.
Insomnia
;
sleepless in spite of narcotics.Jumped up in bed.
Late getting awake, and difficult to recover from sleep.
On awaking from siesta, numbness in head.
On waking is morose, inclined to be angry.
On waking stands perfectly still for a time
;
head fixed as if gazing at some distant object ;
a dog.Passed most of his nights sleeplessly, walking up and down in
despair. Lyssophobia.Restless night, with stupefaction in head. Sleep fitful, position
continually changed;
dog.Sleepiness when unable to sleep, and sleeplessness when she might
otherwise have slept;
generally restless at night.Sleepy after a meal, slept one hour without relief.
Slept from
4
to 6
P. M, woke up and felt dreadfully nervous ;
had a great fear as if something was going to happen.Starting in sleep, afternoon.
Went to bed at
10:30
P. M. (as
usual),
could not sleep (a
very unusual circumstance)
;
dozed and heard various noises till 3
A. M., which caused him to get out of bed to ascertain what they were ;
started frequently ;
slept soundly from 1
to 8:30
A. M.Went to bed at
10
P. M in great pain all over ;
woke up at 11:30
P. M. with very severe pain in stomach, lasting one hour.When lying down could not sleep, eyes open, unless he purposely
closed them, when they reopened involuntarily.Woke several times at night with pain in wounded arm.
Time (Lyssin)
1
P. M. :
slight pain in r. shoulder joint.10
P. M. :
pressing pain in head ;
pain in wounded left arm < ; stinging pain in r. hand ; pains severe until that time.10:30
P. M. :
numbness in r. arm ;
went to bed, could not sleep ;
dozed and heard various noises till 3
A. M., started frequently.11
P. M. :
as if she was going to have a fit.11:30
P. M. :
awakes from sleep with severe bellyache.2
A. M. :
did not sleep more than thirty minutes until after.2
P.M. :
intense pain in head ;
sore throat ;
violent spasm of throat ;
laid down and found head twisted to left side, found it quite
comfortable ;
felt numbness in left side ;
severe pain across back ;
pain in left elbow.3
A. M.:
became cold in bed for one hour.3
P. M. :
headache very severe ;
peculiar constriction in back of throat ;
feeling of malaise and debility.4
P. M. :
constriction in throat < ; violent pain in r. kidney lasting one hour.5
P. M. :
swallowing more difficult ;
woke with stinging in forepart of index finger.6
P. M. :
sore throat >.7
P. M. :
sore throat ;
slight, dull shooting pain in heart till 10:30
P. M.8
A. M. :
pain in left side.8
P. M. :
salivation recommended.9
A. M. :
severe headache begins ;
suffocating feeling in chest lasting till 10:30
P.M.9
P. M. :
severe shooting pain in head ;
curious stinging pain in left eye ;
spasm of throat >
;
violent pain in heart ;
irresistible drowsiness ;
a dripping, warm perspiration from wrist to nails of r. hand.After
10
P. M. :
while in bed all symptoms more severe.After dinner
:
disinclined to think ;
headache very severe ;
pressing in epigastrium ;
sexual excitement.After going to bed
:
intense pain in back of r. heel ;
pain in heel.After supper
:
pressing in spleen ;
lewdness, with weakness of parts, but inclined to an emission.Afternoon
:
very severe headache ;
dull pain in forehead, with stupid feeling ;
pressing in vertex and forehead ;
dull pain in forehead ;
sick headache ;
dull heavy pain in head ;
headache, with nausea and sore pain around heart ;
stinging pressure behind ears ;
ranula, with dryness of mouth < ; stinging in chest, with palpitation ; sour belching ; erections ; itching and burning on corona glandis ; burning and tenesmus as if in prostatic gland and in urethra ; increased peristaltic motion of scrotum ; first hours pain in testicles < ; pain in wounded left arm ; pain in shoulder joint ; whole body trembles ; drowsy ; starting in sleep ; fever.All day
:
felt depressed and weak ;
spitting of saliva ;
headache with dizziness ;
sore throat ;
intense pain in head ;
violent headache < ; a peculiar sensation of head ; itching in nose ; spitting ; very severe sore throat ; slight pain in lumbar region ; terrible pain in throat ; sensation of emptiness and discomfort in sexual parts after coition ; dull pain in heart ; difficulty in moving head ; severe backache and numbness of hands ; pain in back across hips ; a tearing and stinging in left shoulder joint ; weight on shoulders ; feeling of weight in legs ; severe nervous twitches in whole body ; had to lie in bed, with severe pain in all bones.At
10
A. M. :
began to spit a great deal ;
soreness and constriction in throat.At
11
A. M. :
soreness in throat till noon ;
stitches in heart for a few minutes.At noon
:
slight headache, lasting rest of day ;
pain in r. elbow.During day
:
rising of bile in throat ;
diarrhea, with pain < ; unable to sleep from nervous anxiety ; disagreeable dreams when falling asleep, only first half hour.Evening
:
fretful, hypochondriac mood ;
vacillating motion of head ;
dull pain in forehead ;
pain above left ear ;
shooting in eyes ;
pressive burning in r. concha ;
late, frequent sneezing ;
drawing in side of face ;
disinclined to think ;
want of appetite, followed by great lightness of head ;
when in bed, rending across abdomen ;
aching from groins to feet ;
pain about neck of bladder ;
cooling, burning, congested feeling in region of bladder ;
profuse watery urine ;
urine yellowish brown ;
strong erections without sexual excitement or thoughts ;
increased peristaltic motion of scrotum ;
chest as if beaten ;
back extremely sore ;
pain in wounded left arm ;
pain in left arm and wrist ;
legs tired and aching ;
late, less inclined to chilliness.In forenoon
:
sore throat ;
belching ;
gnawing pressure in left side ;
painful sensation in upper part of abdomen.Morning
:
violent vertigo, with chill and headache ;
after rising, slight frontal headache < ; when getting awake, boring in temples ; woke with burning, aching headache ; severe headache ; lid puffed up like an eggshell ; on awaking lids feel paralyzed before rising ; on hearing water poured, obliged to have an evacuation ; pressing in forehead early ; frequent sneezing ; (6 A. M.) tickling in left cheek ; heat in face ; bitter taste ; swallowing less difficult ; little appetite ; stools more frequent, diarrhea, with violent pains ; urine yellowish brown ; both breasts swollen ; muscles stiff ; pressing across r. ear ; wrists as if strained < ; pain in left knee ; all muscles feel bruised ; much fatigued.Night
:
delirium < ; tempted to bite her pillow ; incessant talking ; disturbed dreams ; stupidity with restlessness ; on hearing water poured, obliged to have an evacuation ; hears various noises ; vomiting in sleep ; stools most frequent ; swelling of breasts ; laming pain in r. knee joint when getting awake ; pain in legs goes off ; cramp in calves of legs ; while lying in bed, laming pain in joint of left foot ; painful lameness in left ankle joint ; strange feeling changed into a trembling, generally sleepless ; walking up and down in despair ; stupefaction in head ; woke several times with pain in wounded arm ; sleepless on account of scratching of whole body ; more restless ; disagreeable dreams ; itching quite severe ; intolerable itching in lower part of body to feet ; stitches in heart ; pain in back ; itching on lower half of abdomen.Towards noon
:
headache with increase of saliva ;
pain in testicles < .Until
4
P. M. :
feels as if he had heard or would hear unpleasant news ;
pressure on upper part of head.Until dinner time
:
felt strangely in his whole body.Temperature and Weather. (Lyssin)
I
Burning
sensation in bitten place >
by hot steam striking against it. Lyssophobia.I
Unbearableness
of heat of sun.A very gentle stream of air projected from lips on to patient’s
forehead, and continued only for a few seconds, brought on a violent
spasm.Air, of agreeable temperature, feels cold and disagreeable.
As soon as he gets warm in bed
:–itching
in inner sides of thighs and knees ;
compelled to scratch.Asked her mother to beg him not to breath upon her face again, as
it distressed her so much(after
Bellad.).Blast of air
:
causes greatest distress.Breath of air
:
sensitive to.Cold air
:
>
headache ;
headache, with nausea and sore pain in heart >.Continually directs a window to be closed which is not open.
Draft of air, or opening or closing door, brings on spasms.
Dropsy of spine with sheep.
Expressed a desire to go into bath
;
after warm bath more irritable to external air, the most distressing
symptom that occurs.Extreme sensibility to cold or least variation in temperature of
air.Great sensitiveness to every breath of air.
Heat of sun
:
cannot bear it.In cold room, while undressing
:
strong erections.Open air
:
headache >
;
feels a chill strike r. arm.The damp, warm weather oppressed him.
Warm drinks
:
more easily taken than water.Wet weather
:
aching in left side of head <.Fever (Lyssin)
I
Intermittent
fever.A fever, sometimes preceded by slight shiverings, generally very
mild.After drinking some coffee, a strong heat in r. side of face,
followed by aching in front of upper part of head;
after this again heat from nape of neck up head over ears and r. side
of face ;
with heat in eye from within outward and tickling in ear.At
9
P. M., a dripping, warm perspiration from whole r. hand, from wrist to
nails ;
afterwards hands and fingers stiff, she can hardly bend them.Attacks of vertigo, chilliness, sometimes chills
;
at least one a day for several days, not always accompanied by
vertigo, though always accompanying it.Became cold in bed at
3
A. M., although covered with four blankets ;
lasted about one hour.Cannot bear heat of sun.
Chills intermixed and followed by cold sweat.
Chilly feeling, more down r.
(bitten)
arn.” Desire for heat ” marked.
During paroxysm, limbs cool and livid.
Face sweats, with flushes.
Felt chilly and cold all over
;
shaking.Fever every evening, commencing at dusk and lasting until bedtime
(midnight).
Fever in afternoon.
Feverish heat, with headache.
Great fever, no chill
;
pulse 160
;
no appetite ;
thirst, drinks cold water very often ;
stupid and sleepy.He feels the pulse’s beat through body
;
from time to time there is a surging through throat into head, like a
slow wave.Heat, with pressure in forehead and back.
Late in evening less inclined to chilliness.
Much better after perspiring
Paroxysms of intense coldness with pain in spine.
Sensation as if a hot wave, fine, like vapor, surged through body,
taking an outward course, yet not reaching surface or extending into
limbs.Sensation of burning heat in parts on which he lies.
Sensation of heat felt internally and externally through entire
body, no external warmth, it forces perspiration out on face as from
weakness, and is accompanied by lassitude and aching in legs.Skin covered with clammy sweat
(last
stage).Skin moist, even covered with sweat
;
during spells, limbs cold and livid.Slight fever, with flushes of heat.
Temperature of body
100
to 104°
Fahrenheit, seldom rises to 105
or 106.Attacks, Periodicity (Lyssin)
I
First day >
;
next day < ; on third day salivation returned. Lyssophobia.I
Periodically
since two weeks.After nine days
:
severe pain in bitten thumb, thence to brain, nervous convulsion for a
few moments, passes off in two or three minutes.After seven hours
:
r. leg falls asleep. From noon till evening :
headache.Alternating
:
of heat and headache :
twitches in arms and legs.Attacks every few minutes, for five hours
:
pain down spine to loins and knees.Daily
:
passes from time to time a little dark blood from uterus.Day after embrace
:
pain in testicles.During three days
:
her sense of smell painfully acute.Every evening
:
distension of abdomen ;
fever commencing at dusk and lasting until midnight.Every other day at
5
P. M. :
boring in temples.Every two or three hours
:
has a twitch in heart.First days
:
smoking unpleasant, after first week a crazy, insatiable desire to
smoke.For four hours
:
sharp shooting pains in region of heart.For one hour
:
pain in r. arm.For seven years
:
prolapsus uteri.For several months
:
offensive mucus from uterus.For three months
:
sticking, drawing, squeezing pain in heart.For two hours
:
pain in and between both shoulders ;
pain in inguinal glands.For two or three weeks
:
scrotum tightly drawn up.Forty days ago
:
small wound exposed daring dissection of mad dog, feeling of malaise
and fatigue, followed by death.From
2
P. M. to 9
:30
P. M. :
violent spasm in throat.From
3
to 4
P. M. :
headache.From
4
A. M. till evening :
pain in kidneys and across hips.From
4
P. M. till bedtime :
feeling of numbness in r. arm.In Summer, of six weeks’ standing
:
pain and tenesmus on hearing or seeing running water.Irregular fits of backache and chills, increasing steadily.
Lasted eight days
:
painful throbbing in region of spleen.” Other diseases, when poison is absorbed, have their periods
:
the canine poison depends on climate and constitution and different
periods, from first day till nineteen months.”Paroxysm, combined with a feeling of suffocation, almost produces
strangulation.Periodical
:
ranula ;
spasm of esophagus :
dull pain along left sciatic nerve.Repeated eight times
:
pain from sacrum to middle of back.Spasms of throat.
Sudden convulsions of a paroxysmal character.
Three successive mornings
:
soreness across chest, both breasts swollen.Took several drops of
300,
after having been bitten in nose ;
symptoms next day and the following, and well the third day, first
symptoms returned on the twelfth day.Two weeks before time
:
catamenia.Tissues (Lyssin)
I
Chlorosis.
Aching in bones
;
every bone seems bruised and sore ;
as if every bone had been broken or violently beaten ;
never had such pains, had to return to bed and lie there all day.Affects principally the nervous system.
All his joints cracked on least motion, and pain was quite severe
till10
P. M.Great blueness of veins and redness of arteries on wounded arm.
Lost flesh, getting thinner all over.
Quick tendency of body to putrefaction.
Supraorbital bones feel shattered.
Tearing and shooting as if in bone.
Touch. Passive motion. Injuries (Lyssin)
I
A bite of an
angry dog into r. thigh had not healed, turned into malignant ulcers ;
surrounding bluish red edges, raised and hard, bases badly suppurating
and ichorous, with redness and hardness.I
A cow bitten
by a dog in foot had a large swelling of part, and animal got very
restless.I
Felt a
continued pain in spot on r. calf where he was bitten, but without a
lesion. Lyssophobia.I
Pain on spot
bitten became burning, and extended over whole body, and he felt very
strangely. Lyssophobia.I
Scars from a
bite in nose swollen and red for fifteen months.I
Two puppies,
bitten by their rabid mother, did not get mad after taking Lyssin.I
Ulcers
remaining after bite of evil disposed dogs.I
Wounds from
bite of dogs, in sheep.A lacerated wound on r. cheek, behind ramus of jaw, one and a half
inches, and three lines of abrasion in front of same cheek.Complained of a pain in r. arm
(bitten
part)
;
no inflammation or enlargement of glands of axilla could be
discovered.Disposition to press hand against lower jaw.
Even after application of strong caustics, wounds manifest a strong
tendency to skin over without granulating.Faceache after puncturing a pimple on cheek.
Gentle scratching
:
headache >.Great redness of small bloodvessels around wound.
He cannot bear to ride in a carriage, feels generally unwell during
or after it.It may be a prophylactic to hydrophobia, but never without at the
same time applying radiate heat to the part bitten, and frequent
sessions in hot room of Turkish bath;
during the attack remedies are to be applied according to symptoms.Local sensations of pain in wound or scar continue often after
prodromic stage, in an increased degree in higher stage, but are in
last scarcely heeded.Never saw a wound more disposed to heal
;
he was abroad in five weeks, yet afterwards affected by hydrophobia.Next morning wound red around edges.
No pain, swelling or inflammation in lymphatic glands, between bite
and thorax.Peculiar sensations are frequently experienced at seat of bite, or
in adjacent parts;
like a sensation of pricking, boring or burning, always proceeding
from wound.Presses head against wall
;
headache.Pressure
:
on neck of bladder ;
causes < pain in neck ; causes pain in larynx ; muscles of forearm painful ; violent pain in r. hand.Rubbing
:
headache >
;
causes ear to pain.Scratching
:
itching in both ears disappears ;
scurf off pimple, discharge of lymph and blood ;
sheep’s back makes them quiet ;
< biting and itching in various parts of body ; causes small red spots in a circle on inner side of thighs.Sensation of creeping and pain in scar.
Sensation of creeping and pain in scar.
Shooting out from bitten part towards trunk, less frequently
extending outward from sensorium, or in some locality other than part
injured.Slightest touch
:
brings on convulsions ;
along whole vertebrae causes irritability akin to convulsions.Some are without pain in bitten part.
Soreness in muscles around wound, which is now almost healed.
Tearing pains often proceed from wounded parts, frequently
attributed by patients to effects of a cold and to rheumatism thereby
induced.The ready healing of the wound made by the bite of a rabid animal
is similar to the rapid healing of wounds in those affected with
leprosy.The subsequent inflammatory reaction
(after
caustics)
is generally slight, while pain thereby produced is moderated.The wound healed without irritation kindly in course of twelve or
fourteen days.The wounds heal kindly and are characterized by a striking absence
of inflammatory reaction.Touch
:
on head makes it ache ;
small pustules on frontal eminence ;
nose very sensitive ;
pimple on eminence of forehead painful ;
pain. on cheek <.Touching scar is said to produce peculiar sensations, a shuddering,
feeling of anxiety, and sighing.When water
(in
bath)
was least ruffled, so as to touch a fresh surface, convulsions were
excited.Wound in exceptional cases appears inflamed and swollen
;
of a reddish or bluish hue.Skin (Lyssin)
I
Bluish
discoloration of bitten place (after
Laches.).I
Cancerous
sores.I
Malignant
ulcers from bite of a dog.I
Pustules :
on forehead ;
around inflamed eye ;
on finger (after
bite).I
Red scar from
bite of a dog.Biting, itching in various parts of body,
< by scratching.
Had to scratch frequently, or rather rub.
Herpes circinatus appeared on left leg, below knee and livid yellow
complexion gave way to a healthy color.Itching as soon as he begins to get warm in bed, particularly on
inner side of thighs and knees;
after scratching there appeared small, red spots in a circle.Itching in r. hand, left foot, and in various parts of body.
Itching quite severe during night.
Many underwent smallpox subsequent to reception of bite, and after
their recovery died of hydrophobia.Quick tendency of the wound to heal
(the
same in leprosy).Through night intolerable itching in lower part of body down to
feet.Very slight headache and biting itching all over body and legs.
When in bed he is compelled to scratch
;
cannot sleep all night.Copyright
© Robert Séror 2005