Elaps Corallinus - Abdomen symptoms - T.F. Allen

ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Lancinations from the umbilicus downwards to the uterus (first day),

Eating

Desire for food, with aversion to eating (first day),

Loathing of food; every mouthful causes acidity (first to third day),

For a whole month, bread does not mingle with other food; it is returned through the nose all day, while other articles are either digested or thrown up by the mouth (eighth day),

Breakfast agrees pretty well, but dinner distresses him (third day),

Weight in the stomach after taking food; it is disposed to reject what is eaten (third day),

Flatus

Borborygmi and noisy flatulence (fourth day),

Nausea

Acidity, nausea, and faint feeling (first day),

Vomiting

Constant hunger, which cannot be appeased on account of the continual vomiting (tenth day),

Nausea and Vomiting.

Nausea, with vomiting (twenty-fourth day),

Vomiting of ingesta (thirteenth day),

Watery vomiting in the morning (twelfth day),

Vomiting of green bile, followed by bilious diarrhoea (first day),

Violent vomiting of mucus in the evening (forty-first day),

Hypochondria

Pressure at the right hypochondrium (third to sixth day),

Swelling of the diaphragmatic region (fourth day),

Flanks.

Pressive pain in the left flank (second day),

Pressure in the left flank, extending to the vertebral column (third to sixth day),

General Abdomen.

The peristaltic movement of the bowels is reversed, the blood appears to flow back in the abdomen, with great pain and frightful palpitation, followed by lancinations, which prevent walking (fourth day),

Noisy and very violent borborygmi (sixth day),

She feels as if she had a tube inside her which closed suddenly by means of a valve, and through which a column of some liquid was poured into the abdomen, where a violent rumbling takes place (third day),

Cramps in the whole of the right side (fourth day),

Pressure from above downward (in the abdomen) for some minutes, on account of which she was unable to stand, worse from warm drinks, especially coffee or tea (fourth day),

The intestines are hurriedly rolled together, are twisted, for some moments, like a rope, and then suddenly seem tied up, as by a knot, which violently constricts the abdomen from side to side (thirteenth day),

Very sharp pains in the descending colon (twelfth day),

Cutting pain in the abdomen towards 7 P.M., sudden, at one time disappearing, suddenly better about 10 P.M., worse after midnight, disappearing in the morning (third day),

Colic, gradually spreading al through the colon from the caecum to the rectum (first day),

Colic returns at 5 P.M., as if she would sink together, worse while sitting, better while walking about and resting the hands on the hips (fourth day),

Colic, with urging to stool (sixth day),

Sudden colic, with diarrhoea (fourth day),

Violent colic, as though the bowels were twisted together (third day),

Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.

Very sharp pains in the right iliac bone, as though its crest were swollen and the periosteum inflamed (fourth day),

Swelling of the inguinal glands (sixth day),

Lancinations starting simultaneously from the groins and crossing each other at the symphysis pubis (third day),

The left groin is painful to contact (sixth day),