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Total unconsciousness.
Weak memory.
Diminished power of mind over body; cannot fix ideas; slow in answering, stares unintelligently; muscles do not act properly if the will is not strongly fixed upon their action; as when spoken to, the attention being thereby diverted, she drops things.
Dull says nothing.
Delirium.
Thoughtless staring.
Constantly picking his lips and clothes.
Much lamenting, moaning.
Involuntary sighing.
Frequent screams in meningitis, or hydrocephalus.
Tries to escape, to throw herself into the river.
Melancholy: silent during puberty; with anguish.
Homesickness.
Woful, despairing mood.
Indifferent.
Irritable; worse from consolation, does not want to be disturbed.
A noise or shock shortens the attacks. θ Eclampsia.
Thinking about the symptoms lessens them.

Vertigo: with nausea watery vomit and loose bowels; while stooping, ceasing when becoming erect.

Pressing headache, from within outwards; stupefaction; heavy head; worse from moving head, from exertion; better in the open air.
Stupefying headache, with coryza (4 to 8 P.M.); worse from stooping; better at rest and in the open air.
Shooting pains in the head. θ Dropsy after scarlatina.
Stupefied; head hot, heavy; boring head in the pillows, chilly; fingers cold.
Dropsy of the brain; post scarlatinal.
Burning heat in head; pale face.
Sensation in occiput, as from a blow.

Sore feeling as if bruised, worse in back part of head; worse on stooping.
Rolls head night and day, moaning.
Throws head back, and from side to side.
Hair falls off, with pricking on scalp, worse on the occiput; face and body œdematous.
Partial sweat on the scalp.
Humid scurf.

Photophobia, without inflammation.
Intensible to light. θ Hydrocephalus.
Pupils: Contracted; dilated alternately contracted and dilated.
Nyctalopia.
Eyeballs turned upwards, squinting.
Vacant look, pupils dilated, eyes wide open.
Eyeballs red, glassy.
Eyes sunken, blue edges.
Lids sticky, dry, sensation as if they were pressed down.
Loses hair, from the eyebrows.

Roaring and ringing in the ears.

Smell diminished.
Nostril look as if smoked, sooty.
Nose pointed; nostrils dirty, dry.
Frequent rubs the nose.
Sneezing.

Face: red, hot, but pale; pale, œdematous, distorted; pale, sunken, icy-cold; livid, with cold sweat.
Forehead or face wrinkled.
Stupid expression.
Left-sided neuralgia; parts so tender, cannot chew.

Constant chewing motion.
Corners of mouth sore; steady flow of saliva; upper lip cracked; lips dry, cracked.
White blisters on the swollen lips.
Lower jaw hangs down.

Grinds the teeth.
Toothache during the chill.

Taste bitter.
Tongue: dry; white, morning; dry and red in typhus; slightly protruded and oscillating; trembling; numb, insensible; swollen; full of vesicles; pimples on the tip.

Mouth dry, also palate, with cutting, scraping in palate on moving the mouth to swallow.
Mouth, gums and tongue full of flat, yellow ulcers, with elevated, grey edges; or red, swollen bases; carrion-like odor; salivation; aphthæ.

Hunger: child nurses greedily; with disgust for food.
Greedily swallows the cold water; bites the spoon, but remains unconscious. Hydrocephalus.
Thirst: with disgust for drink; but no appetite.

Nausea, cannot take food, though hungry.
Vomiting of greenish-black substances, with colic.

Intense burning into the œsophagus.
Fulness and distension of pit of stomach.
Pit of stomach sunken.
Pressing in region of stomach.
Stomach painful when coughing, or walking.

Griping, pinching about navel, followed by gelatinous stools.
Gurgling, as if bowels were full of water.
Abdomen swollen, distended, painful to touch.
Ascites: especially after scarlet fever; in scrofulous children.
Excessive colic, weakness, features sunken, face cold, pale, covered with a clammy sweat; pulse thready; thin diarrhœa.

Stools: loose, watery; of white mucus, jelly-like, with tenesmus; involuntary.
Feeling as if the intestines had no power to evacuate the feces, during soft stools.
Blennorrhœa of rectum, with spasms of the bladder.

Spasmodic urging, causing spasms; very little urine passes.
Bladder overdistended; retention of urine from atony of muscular coats.
Urging frequent, with scanty discharge.
After great pressure he passes, with much pain, a few drops of blood.
Passes blood and slime, with burning and stinging.
Suppressed urinary secretion, with dropsy.
Urine: scanty, dark, with floating, dark specks; like coffee-grounds; albuminous, scanty; profuse, passed in large quantities.

Desire suppressed; genitals relaxed; no erections.

Suppression of the menses; amenorrhœa from disappointed love.
Uterine dropsy.

Puerperal convulsions.

Voice weak, with hydrocephalus.

Sighing.
Chest constricted gasps from breath, with open mouth; propped up in bed. θ Hydrothorax.
Breathing difficult, with anxiety, worse every evening; must sit up.

Dry, worse at night, with gagging; dry, while smoking tobacco.
Tension in region of left short ribs, during cough.

Pulse: often slower than beating of heart; frequent, soft, intermittent in hydrocephalus; small, wiry, in hydrothorax; almost imperceptible.

Neck rigid in spotted fever.
Cervical muscles stiff.
Cervical glands swollen.
Cramp in spinal muscles. θ Hydrocephalus.
Severe pain down neck, in left side of face and in teeth.

Arms moving continually, automatically, except when asleep.
Thumb drawn in to the palm.
Boring sticking in wrist and finger-joints.
Ulceration around the nails.
Humid painless vesicles between fingers.

Pricking in the left hip.
Boring, stinging in knee and foot-joints.
Legs drawn up, with every attempt to change her position. θ Hydrocephalus.
Legs œdematous.
Humid painless vesicles between the toes.

Piercing in limbs, with uterine dropsy.

Slides down in bed. θ Typhoid.
Lies on the back limbs drawn up. θ Typhoid.
Worse from bodily exertion.
Motion: 40. Moving head: 3. Exertion: 3. Walking: 17. Getting out of bed: 40. Must sit up: 26. Erect: 2. Stooping: 2, 4. Lying down: 40.

Convulsive twitching of muscles.
Automatic motion of one arm and leg in hydrocephalus.
Convulsions: with extreme coldness; of sucklings.
Epilepsy, with consciousness, followed by deep sleep.
Sudden relaxation of muscles.
Great debility.

Drowsy, when left alone, he goes to sleep.
Constant somnolence; can be aroused, but not to full consciousness. θ Typhoid fever.
Soporous sleep, with shriek and starts.
Dreams: confused, anxious, cannot by remembered.
During sleep, muscles twitch.

Remission during the day.
Worse from evening until morning.
Evening: 26, 40. 4 to 8 P.M.: 3. Night: 27. Toward morning: 40. Night and day: 4.

Worse from uncovering; better in warm air, or wrapping up.
Feels better in open air; with sensation as after a long illness.
Cool air: 44. Open air: 3. Aversion to uncovering: 40.

Chill spreads from arms; gooseflesh, pains in joints; face hot; drowsy; worse after getting out of bed, and from motion.
Burning heat, followed by chill and colic.
Burning heat, with internal chilliness and aversion to drink; can drink but little at a time; evening in bed.
Heat or sweat, with aversion to uncover.
After lying down in bed, heat, generally with sweat.
Sweat: cold, clammy; sticky; less after sleep; relieves; towards morning, temperature unchanged.

Left: 27, 31, 33.

Pricking, tearing, pressing pains, running across affected parts.

Red parts become white; anæmia.
Loss of flesh; aphthæ.
Dropsy: of brain, chest or abdomen; suddenly swellings; anasarca; after scarlatina, nephritis, intermittents, etc.
Concomitants: debility, fever, pains in limbs, diarrhœa, suppressed urine.
Stinging-boring, in the periosteum: worse in cool air.

Touch: 19. Chewing: 8.

Itching unchanged by a scratching.
Skin: pale; yellow.
Livid spots on the skin.
Painless ulcers.
Skin peels off; hair and nails fall out.

During dentition, brain symptoms.
Weakly, scrofulous children.

Antidotes: Camphor, Cinchon.