MIND
Patient wants nothing. COMPLETE LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS; APOPLECTIC STALE. Frightful fancies, daring, gay, bright. Unable to understand or appreciate his sufferings. Thinks he is not at home. Delirious talking, with wide open eyes.
HEAD
Vertigo; LIGHTNESS OF HEAD IN OLD PEOPLE. Dull, heavy, stupid. Delirium. Vertigo after fright. Pain in back of head; great weight there. (GELS.) Bursting feeling. Complete insensibility; no mental grasp for anything. Paralysis of brain.
EYES
Half-closed, dilated; pupils insensible, CONTRACTED. Ptosis. (GELS.; CAUST.) Staring, glassy.
FACE
Red, bloated, SWOLLEN, DARK SUFFUSED, HOT. Looks intoxicated, besotted. (BAPT.; LACH.) Spasmodic facial twitching, especially corners of mouth. Veins of face distended. HANGING DOWN OF LOWER JAW. Distorted.
MOUTH
Dry. Tongue black, PARALYZED. Bloody froth. Intense thirst. Blubbering of lips. Difficult articulation and swallowing.
STOMACH
Vomiting, with colic and convulsions. Faecal vomiting. Incarcerated hernia. Hungry; no desire to eat.
ABDOMEN
Hard, bloated, tympanitic. Lead colic. During colic, urging to stool and discharge of hard faeces.
STOOL
Obstinate constipation; no desire to go to stool. ROUND, HARD, BLACK BALLS. Faeces protrude and recede. (THUJ.; SIL.) Spasmodic retention of faeces in small intestines. Stools involuntary, black, offensive, frothy. Violent pain in rectum, as if pressed asunder.
Urine.
Slow to start; feeble stream. RETAINED or involuntary, after fright. Loss of power or sensibility of bladder.
FEMALE
Suppressed menses from fright. Cessation of labor-pains with coma and twitchings. Puerperal convulsions; drowsiness or coma between paroxysms. Threatened abortion and suppression of lochia, from fright, with sopor. Horrible laborlike pains in uterus, with urging to stool.
RESPIRATORY
Breathing stops on going to sleep; must be shaken to start it again. (GRINDELIA.) Hoarse. DEEP SNORING; RATTLING, STERTOROUS BREATHING. Difficult, intermittent, deep, unequal respiration. Heat in chest; burning about heart. Cough, with dyspnoea and blue face; with bloody expectoration.
SLEEP
Great drowsiness. (GELS.; NUX MOSCH.) Falls into a heavy stupid sleep. Profound coma. Loss of breath on falling asleep. (GRIND.) Coma vigil. Picking at bedclothes. Very sleepy, but cannot go to sleep. Distant noises, cocks crowing, etc., keep him awake. Child dreams of cats, dogs, black forms. Bed feels so hot cannot lie on it. Pleasant, fantastic, amorous dreams. Shaking chill; then heat, with sleep and sweat. Thirst only during heat.
FEVER
Pulse FULL and SLOW. Heat extending over body. HOT perspiration. Fever characterized by stupor, snoring respiration, twitching of limbs, intense thirst and sleepiness. General low temperature with inclination to stupor.
Back and Extremities.
Opisthotonos. Swollen veins of neck. Painless paralysis. (OLEAND.) TWITCHING OF LIMBS. Numbness. Jerks as if flexors were overacting. Convulsions; worse from glare of light; coldness of limbs.
SKIN
Hot, damp, sweating. Constant desire to uncover. HOT PERSPIRATION OVER WHOLE BODY EXCEPT LOWER LIMBS.