Tellurium - General symptoms - T.F. Allen

GENERAL

General

The next morning while dressing, a very violent attack of vertigo, which became much worse after walking out.

he could hardly stand.

was compelled to lie down and to remain at home several days.

the vertigo caused nausea.

after eating rice he was obliged to vomit.

at every motion while he was lying down, even when he turned his head, still more on sitting up, the vertigo returned.

at the same time the pulse was more frequent.

he had previously had similar attacks, also a severe one after Glonoin ^Glonoin.

on other occasions Aconite ^Aconite had always helped him.

this time it did not, nor did Glonoin ^Glonoin nor Belladonna ^Belladonna.

it gradually passed away after three or four days,.

A peculiar kind of vertigo every evening while getting asleep, about half an hour after going to bed, a sensation as if he were wafted and drawn forth very quickly in the direction of his legs.

he was always wakened by it.

it never returned later in the night.

on the contrary, one night when he had gone to bed earlier than usual, about 8.30 P.M., the sensation appeared in like manner, about half an hour after he had lain down, and when he was first getting asleep.

this vertigo kept coming for eight or nine days.

was interrupted at one time by two days of quiet sleep, returned, and then ceased altogether,.

About 10 A.M., a pain above the left eye.

it came suddenly and went as quickly.

it seemed to have been caused by a sudden rush of blood thither.

as it was passing off the pain was accompanied by a sensation not easy to describe, along the left side of the neck, as if the blood there had suddenly been retained in one of the large veins, or had streamed backwards.

next followed a feeling in the stomach like weakness or faintness, and a pain in the left chest (tenth day),.

About fifteen or twenty days after the first dose, the left ear began to itch, burn, and swell.

there were aching and throbbing pains in the external meatus, and in the course of three or four days, there was a copious watery discharge from the ear, smelling like fish-pickle.

this discharge was acrid and caused a vesicular eruption on the lower lappet of the ear and on the neck, wherever it touched the skin.

the inflammation of the ear generally was not vesicular.

the color was a bluish red, and the ear had the appearance of being infiltrated with water.

this eruption, which was very troublesome from its itching and burning, and from the copious, offensive, and acrid discharge, lasted for a long time.

if memory be not in error, nearly three months,.

Little stinging prickings in various parts of the skin of the whole body, continuing all the afternoon and evening, and forcing me instantly to rub the spot (first day).

came on again like flea-bites here and there, and lasted all day (second day).

this pricking continued very troublesome at times, principally when at rest, for several weeks, but gradually subsided. A little spot of herpes circinnatus made its appearance a few days since on the forehead, perpendiculary above the external canthus of the right eye, and about half an inch above the eyebrow.

I do not remember ever before to have had an eruption of the kind.

it was at first a little cluster of globular vesicles, on an inflamed base, which dried into thin scales and spread by the circumference.

it itches and pricks slightly (eleventh day). The herpetic spot is now circular, about half an inch in diameter, and consists of an elevated ring of vesicles, some larger than others, on an inflamed base, inclosing a depressed area of red skin, which desquamates, but contains no vesicles.

it continues to itch slightly, and to furnish successive crops of thin white scales (eighteenth day). The troublesome stinging became very annoying the whole of the evening of this day, when sitting still, wandering all over the body. A herpetic spot, similar to the one on the forehead, has made its appearance on the left side, midway between the ribs and the crest of the ilium, accompanied by very troublesome itching, which changes into smarting on being rubbed.

it forms about three-quarters of a circle, and is rather irregular.

there are indications of another spot just above it (nineteenth day). For the last week the stinging in the skin has been much less, but it is succeeded by a constant itching of the scalp, which requires continual scratching.

the itching is apparently due to an eruption of little fine vesicles upon a slightly-inflamed base, which, after remaining a few days, dry up and fall off in little white scales.

they are most plentiful on the occipital scalp, on the nape in the borders of the hair, and on the posterior surface of the auricles.

this itching has been constant and very annoying for a week, and bids fair to continue.

the spot on the forehead is breaking up, there being several gaps in the ring, which is now three-quarters of an inch in diameter.

just above it another spot has appeared, precisely similar, but smaller (forty-third day). The eruption has nearly disappeared from the head, and the itching has ceased almost entirely.

the spot on the forehead is no longer to be discerned, the skin being scarcely reddened where it existed.

the new one is slightly increasing, and forms about two-thirds of a circle, but it is not as vigorous as its predecessor.

the spots on the side have disappeared.

I still have occasional stingings in the skin, but rarely (forty-ninth day). The spot have all gone, and I have no further symptoms (fifty-sixth day),.

After two or three days an eruption makes its appearance, such as he had never had.

small red pimples, very bright red and very sharply defined, with minute vesicles upon them, first on the lower extremities, then also upon the upper, most on the left side.

they began first on the outside of the calves, and then on the inside of the forearms, above the wrist, and spread from that point, caused very severe itching, day and night, but worst at night after going to bed,.

After about five days, there appeared on the left hand small red points, shining through the skin, which sometimes itch.

the feet also itch, especially the left one, as though there were some heat-vesicles there.

after the lapse of several days, there appeared, first on the calves, and then extending up to the thighs, similar small red isolated points, which itch, like those on the hand.

the itching is especially in those spots where the skin perspires most.

the abdomen seems not to be affected.

but, after a few days, a number of similar pimples, itching like the others, appear in the epigastrium.

on rubbing the parts that itch, these points become more visible.

the itching is not unlike that caused by bed-bugs.

from the epigastrium the eruption extends towards the left nipple, and lingers here as well as at the epigastrium longer than on the before-mentioned localities, and it finally turns towards the left axilla.

at the same time also it itches in various parts of the back.

meanwhile a spot is remarked on the right side of the forehead which is sore when pressed upon, as if a blow had once been received there, which he does not remember to have been the case, neither is there any red or blue spot to be seen.

the itching now begins at the head, only at the posterior and superior parts, not towards the anterior part.

the itching at the head lasts about fourteen days,.

The sensation of dryness in the fauces, worse on the left side, comes again in the morning, but is milder.

while walking in the open air, and after doing so (11 A.M. to 12 M.) it ceases.

in its stead the right side becomes painful, worse on empty swallowing.

the pain at the same time extends into the right ear, which feels internally as if stopped.

the sensation of dryness is always perceptible morning and evening (sixth day),.

When lying on the left side, a throbbing sensation on the right side under the ribs, somewhat towards the epigastrium, as from wind balls, undulatory.

in the morning it is as if, when lying on the right side, wind had accumulated in the corresponding spot on the left side.

flatus does not pass off so freely in the morning as is customary, and the hitherto rather diarrhoeic stool intermits.

latterly the flatus became stinking,.

A cough which often came on by day or night in slight attacks, with a wheezing in the larynx without becoming loose, especially after smoking, drinking, and much walking, or after going upstairs, came on again, and always towards morning, and with much violence.

after a few days it became loose and then ceased.

after taking cold it came again, and then ceased permanently, so that even taking fresh colds did not bring it on again,.

During the second month of the proving, the spine, from the last cervical to about the fifth dorsal vertebra, became very sensitive, and the seat of a peculiar sense of irritation, which made the prover dread having the part touched or even approached.

this dread was disproportioned to the actual sensibility of the part when pressed or rudely touched, for this sensibility was not really very great.

from the vertebrae above mentioned, a peculiar irritation seemed to radiate upwards into the neck outwards into the shoulders, and forwards through the thorax to the sternum.

the distress caused by this sensation was aggravated by fatigue, but only partially relieved by repose.

it was great and very annoying, and lasted, as I remember, nearly two months,.

Pain in the sacrum, worse on stooping or when rising from a sitting or recumbent posture.

the pain passes down in the right thigh in the direction of the sciatic nerve.

it is therefore, almost impossible for him to press when at stool.

the pain in the sacrum and in the sacral ligaments was sometimes, when moving, like a stab with a knife,.

The pressing across the sacrum comes again immediately on stooping, and becomes almost intolerable when the stooping posture is persisted in.

the pains in the sacrum and leg cease by motion in the open air.

increased when pressing at stool.

also, when coughing and laughing, the pain then extends from the sacral plexus through the large foramen ischiaticum, along the great sciatic nerve down into the thigh.

worse on the right side (sixth day),.

Frequent spasmodic pains in bowels, as if from incarcerated flatulence, chiefly in the afternoon (from fifth to ninth day).

to-day, about 6 P.M., while eating, the spasmodic pain was excessive, with urging to stool.

copious stool followed.

after this no spasm, but only feeling of flatulence in bowels (ninth day).

pains returned between 3 and 4 P.M., followed by copious stools, after which the pains went off (thirteenth day),.

In the forenoon, in school, she had always a fulness and oppression in the epigastrium and was obliged to loosen her clothes.

ate much less. was obliged to lie down after eating, which, however, gave no relief.

the oppression became, indeed, rather worse.

the left thigh upon which she lay became numb and her feet cold.

at last she took Nux Vomica ^{Nux vom}., lay down again and then slept better (after four weeks),.

Urine acid, rather small in quantity (17.5 fluid ounces in twenty-four hours), deep red, sp. gr. 1030 (eighteenth day). The urine was analyzed several times during the proving, but no remarkable peculiarity was observed, except the great abundance of the coloring matter, hydrochloric acid developing a very striking change of color. The examination to-day gave.

urine acid. high-colored.

sp. gr., 1030. 22.5 fluid ounces in twenty-four hours.