Chininum Sulphuricum - Generalities symptoms - T.F. Allen

GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Pandiculation and frequent yawning (twentieth day),

Weakness and fatigue (after forty-five minutes),

Felt weary in the morning (seventeenth day),

Felt utterly weary; had lost some sleep the past week; only left the house under the physician's "must;" slept and lounged about nearly all day (fortieth day),

Sleep and dreams

Sleepiness.

Constant inclination to yawn, with decided weakness (second day),

Yawning (tenth day),

Yawning towards evening (eighth day),

Frequent yawning (third day),

Going out, and whilst in the street, repeated yawning and long expiration, with inclination to end in an audible ha! ho! (evening), (seventeenth day),

Sleepiness during the day, ; (tenth day),

Drowsiness, so that I could not maintain the clearness necessary to enter the charges of the day's visits; had to lie down and go to sleep, evening (weather rainy, since 2 P.M.), (twenty-seventh day),

Drowsiness in car and church, afternoon (twenty-sixth day),

While sitting, drowsiness, with pressure downward in the whole frontal region, extending its influence to the upper eyelids, at noon (twenty-third day),

Whilst sitting in conversation (both before and after dinner), drowsiness (twenty-second day),

Drowsiness in street-car; after getting out, laggy gait (twenty-ninth day),

Sitting, drowsy feeling like warmth about the eyes, and down to throat, in the afternoon (fifteenth day),

In the afternoon, while sitting conversing, drowsy, cannot keep my eyes open; the lids seem to spasmodically contract; worse from glare on white wall (eleventh day); day before yesterday, in like circumstances, dozed in my chair (before dinner; to-day, after dinner),

Feeling a little drowsy while standing, forenoon (twentieth day),

In a close railroad car, very drowsy; fell asleep (eighteenth day),

Felt drowsy and weary one hour; hard to get awake; felt very heavy in the afternoon (seventeenth day),

During the day, when conversing with patients, felt very drowsy, in warm rooms (third day),

Quiet sleep, without dreams (twenty-sixth day, after 8 grains),

Sleep more profound than usual, but did not refresh as usual, throughout the whole proving,

Slept with benefit, and retired earlier than usual; rose the next morning somewhat rested (forty-first day),

Sleeplessness.

Uneasy sleep, with much cough (eighteenth night),

Sleep uneasy, full of dreams (seventeenth night),

Sleep very uneasy, interrupted by wonderful dreams, constant tossing about the bed (ninth night),

Restless sleep at night (first night),

As daylight approached, frequent waking, sleep almost semiconscious (seventeenth day),

Waking earlier than usual from an uneasy sleep,

No sleep at night, except a few hours in the morning (eighteenth day),

Sleeplessness,

Dreams.

Sleep full of dreams (twenty-seventh day),

Sleep interrupted by dreams,

Dream indistinct in the morning (seventh day),

Vivid dreams, towards morning (seventeenth night),

Frightful dreams, with restless sleep,

Convulsions

Convulsions,

Perspiration

Feeling as if I would perspire, spreading from right scapula to left face and hand, forehead, and nape of neck, and down back successively; found my under clothing slightly moist, with general slight perspiration, in the evening (seventeenth day),

Now and then, a feeling as if perspiration might follow (about neck and face), in the evening (seventeenth day),

Sweat breaks out over the whole body from time to time, even during perfect quiet (thirteenth day),

Sweat during the morning sleep so profuse that the bed was soaked with it (eighteenth night),

In a crowded place in the evening, general moderate perspiration (sixteenth day),

Perspiration of parts pressed by clothing, as dorsal, axillary, and perineal regions, in the evening (eighteenth day),

Generalities

Objective.

Very decided emaciation during the proving,

General excitement of the arterial system, similar to that produced by strong wine,

Trembling,

An internal trembling, wherewith the face became pale, with some urging to urinate, followed by pale urine (second evening),

Tremors (68 grains),

Twitchings, in the evening (thirtieth day),

General physical power seems to be increased,

General quietness, indolence, and relaxed condition during the whole day (fifth day),

Woke in the morning feeling inert; dull feeling in head. Hard to get up (fifteenth day),

Weakness (tenth day),

Weakness and dulness on waking from the afternoon nap (twentieth day),

Weakness and trembling of the limbs, especially the knees (seventh day),

General weakness, indolence,

General weakness, especially of the feet, so that she was unable to walk (after half an hour),

Great weakness (eighth day),

Symptoms accompanied by great weakness,

Great weakness of the body, so that he could scarcely remain up (fourth day),

Sinking of strength,

Great loss of power, and weakness throughout the proving,

Disturbance of nervous system and of the heart's action, producing general prostration and feebleness of the cardiac movements,

Exhaustion, as from hunger, a sensation of fasting in the stomach, with loss of appetite, so that the lunch in the middle of the day remained untouched (twentieth day),

Faintness,

Attacks of fainting, now and then,

Often unable to stand, and several times fell suddenly when in the street (a scruple four times daily),

Fell to the earth senseless (after two hours),

Restlessness.

Extreme restlessness,

Night restless,

Very restless at night,

After taking the dose at bedtime, passed a very restless night,

After writing a letter, recurred the "nervous mobility," in the forenoon (thirty-first day),

Uneasiness,

Uneasy, cold sensation in the whole body, at 5 P.M. (second day),

Sensibility.

Excessive general sensitiveness of the body, during the whole proving,

Subjective.

During the day felt rather old and "wooden;" motions and speech unusually deliberate (sixteenth day),

Heaviness and disinclination to work during the whole day (eighth day),

Felt heavy and drowsy, in the forenoon (seventeenth day),

While walking muscular system felt inert, the will also; stooped forward, that gravitation might supplement this inertia, in the forenoon (seventeenth day),

Great weariness (fourth day),

Felt less weariness than usual on rising in the morning (second day),

The several shifting neuralgic pains in the localities most frequently mentioned, have recurred at other times in slight degree, in addition to those here recorded. Also, once or twice in the ball of the right thumb, in the evening (twentieth day),

Internal quivering sensation through the body, at middle, followed by slight eructation, in the afternoon (twenty-fifth day),

At various times since proving began, little shocks or pricks like neuralgia or rheumatism in divers places, as left supra-orbital nerve, right ear, right elbow, right knuckle, etc. (sixteenth day),

(The interest of the symptoms seems to lie largely in their frequent shifting and recurrence in all parts of the body, in localities new and old, many such being necessarily here omitted) (twenty-sixth day),

Uterine epistaxis, coming on generally a few hours after the first dose, and lasting continuously, though moderately, for about sixteen hours (1 gramme daily),

Moderate uterine epistaxis, lasting two days (8 decigrammes daily for two days),