Phosphorus - Rectum, Anus, Stool symptoms - Clarke

RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Stool

A very characteristic symptom is found in the stool, which is long, slim, hard, and dry, and is evacuated with a great deal of difficulty; it may be compared to a dog's stool in appearance and in manner of evacuation, is often accompanied with the same straining, trembling of the limbs, &c.

Diarrhoea in great quantity, like water from a hydrant, and is very exhausting to the patient (often accompanied with a very weak, empty, or gone feeling in abdomen); painless; stools large; involuntary; mucous.

(Emaciating diarrhoea, skin dry and hard.)

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Constipation.

Fćces hard, small, slow, interrupted, difficult to evacuate, and much too dry (like a dog's).

Urgent and distressing want to evacuate.

Prolonged looseness of bowels.

Fćces of the consistence of pap.

Serous diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea with diminished strength (agg. in morning).

Mucous diarrhoea.

Bloody diarrhoea.

Undigested fćces.

Greenish, grey (or whitish-grey), or black fćces (with flakes of mucus).

Stools watery, with whitish-yellow and cheesy masses; lumps of white mucus.

Stools odourless save for a slight mouldy smell.

Stools like scraping of intestines.

Involuntary evacuations.

Discharge of mucus from anus, which remains continually open.

Tenia, or ascarides from rectum, during stool.

Discharge of blood during the evacuation.

After stool pressure, burning pain, and tenesmus in anus and rectum, with great exhaustion.

Dartings and shakings in rectum and anus (this may occur in children, causing them to cry out, is usually agg. in evening or night; they appear to have worms; they will put their hands to the seat, and show by various signs where and what the matter is).

Nettle-like stitches in rectum when not at stool.

Stitches in anus.

Biting and itching in anus.

Tearing in rectum; and genitals, even to sinking down.

Pain in anus so violent it seemed as though the body would be torn asunder, with cutting and movements in whole abdomen, constant ineffectual desire for stool, heat in hands and anxiety; amel. only by application of warm cloths.

Shaking and clawing l. side of anus.

Crawling stitches.

Pruritus ani.

After stool, frightful tenesmus for some time.

Paralysis of lower intestines; of sphincter ani.

Anus wide open.

Sensation of rectum paralysed.

Cramps and contraction of rectum.

Protrusion and ready bleeding of hćmorrhoidal tumours in rectum and anus, with pain as from excoriation, when sitting or lying down.

Fissure of anus.