Graphites - Throat symptoms - T.F. Allen

THROAT

Throat

Objective.

Much mucus low down in the throat,

Much hawking of mucus, with dryness of the palate from talking,

Subjective.

A sensation in the throat as though catarrh and coryza were approaching,

She was unable to speak a loud word on account of burning in the throat, as though everything was sore,

Pain in the throat as from a swelling of the glands,

Feeling as of a plug in the throat; at times much difficulty of swallowing,

Feeling in the throat as of a growth or firmly adherent mucus, so that when he attempted to swallow anything small (a crust) it remains sticking to this place,

Sensation on the left side of the throat as though he had to swallow over an elevation, with scraping in it, not worse on swallowing food than on empty swallowing,

On swallowing, a sensation as though there were a lump in the throat, and especially on empty swallowing a constrictive retching from the oesophagus up to the larynx,

Feeling in the throat as if it were sewed together; constant scraping in it,

Pinching pain in the throat (after five days),

Cramp in the throat, with nausea (after three days),

Constant cramp in the throat, obliging him to retch, as if the food would not go down (after twenty-four hours),

Pressure in the region of the pit of the throat, as if he were too satiated, or had swallowed too large a morsel,

Pain in the throat in the morning on rising; a pressure and sticking,

Sticking in the throat, when not swallowing,

Sticking and retching in the throat, on swallowing, with sensation of dryness in the back part of the left side of the throat, on the palate,

Severe stitch in the throat, when swallowing, with ulcerating pain and retching,

Sudden jerking stitches in one point low down in the right side of the throat; only when moving the neck, when talking, when stooping, and then rising up, not when swallowing,

Raw throat (after six days),

Rawness in the throat, only noticed on speaking,

Rawness and scraping soreness in the throat,

Scraping in the throat (after twenty-four hours),

Scraping in the throat, which provokes a dry cough,

Scraping in the throat, with rawness and roughness (after a meal),

Scraping in the throat, with feeling in the fauces, behind the arch of the palate, as if it were dry, which was only relieved after the detachment of some adherent mucus; in the morning on waking, several days in succession,

Intolerable scraping and scratching in the throat,

Tonsils.

Swelling of the tonsils, with pain on swallowing,

Fauces.

Much mucus in the fauces, for several days, which he is obliged to expectorate by hawking,

External Throat.

Inflammation and swelling of the right submaxillary gland, which, after a few days, becomes indurated and desquamates,

Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with pain when touched, and stiffness of the neck,

The glands in the side of the neck down to the shoulder are swollen and painful when bending the neck to one side, or lying upon it, as if tense and stiff,

Pressive pain in the submaxillary glands,