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Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Abortion, threatened
- After-pains
- Anger
- Asthenopia
- Blepharospasm
- Brain, congestion of
- Chorea
- Dysmenia
- Fainting
- Gastric affections
- Hmoptysis
- Hmorrhages
- Headache
- Heart, affections of
- Hysteria
- Lachrymation
- Laughter
- Leucorrha
- Mania
- Menstruation, profuse
- Metrorrhagia
- Nose, bleeding of
- Operations, effects of
- Ophthalmia
- Pregnancy, imaginary
- Tumours
- Ulceration
- Wounds
- Hmorrhage from various parts, blood black, viscid, clotting, forming long black strings
- Sensation as if something alive were moving about in the abdomen or chest
- Rapid alternation of mental conditions
- Anger with violence rapidly followed by repentance
- Laughter quickly followed by tears
- Uncontrollable laughter
- Hysterical laughter
- Sensitive to music, involuntarily joins in on hearing any one sing
- Stitches
- Shocks
- Throbbings
- Broad thrusts
- Cuttings
- Jerkings
- Twitchings of single sets of muscles
- Warm sensation ascending to the heart, impeding breathing
- Tingling, crawling, pricking and itching in the skin
- Scarlet redness of the whole body, or scarlet spots on skin
- Painful suppuration of bruised parts
- Old cicatrised wounds re-open and suppurate
- Lipoma and encephaloma of scalp
- Tumours with ulceration and characteristic bleeding
- Deafness
- Ecchymoses
- Sadness alternating with great gaiety and joyousness
- Inclination to laugh, jest, and sing with excessive weakness
- Loquacious
- Sings involuntarily, and then laughs
- Immoderate, improper laughter
- Changeable disposition
- Frolic-some and jesting mania
- Paleness of face
- Headache
- Obscuration of the eyes
- Abandonment of free will
- Choleric passion and violence, frequently followed by prompt repentance
- Alternate austerity and mildness of character
- Forgetfulness and distraction
- Quickness of memory
- Stupefying cephalalgia, as during intoxication
- Downcast eyes
- Giddiness, as if intoxicated, in the forehead
- Vertigo, with fainting
- Confused vertigo on rising from a reclining posture
- Vertigo when raising the head, with heat of the whole body
- Cephalalgia above the eyes, with burning pain
- Burning and aching in the eyes
- Head heavy in the morning, with aching at the vertex
- Drawing pain in the forehead, with nausea
- Semi-lateral pulsation in the head and face
- Blows in the forehead and the temples
- Sensation of looseness of the brain, during movement
- Itching in the eyelids
- Tingling in the eyebrows
- Pressure, pain as from excoriation, and sensation of burning in the eyes and eyelids
- Sensation of swelling in the eyes, as from much weeping
- Dryness of the eyes
- Lachrymation on reading
- Quantity of tears rush from the dim eyes as soon as he begins to read
- Lachrymation in the room, not in the open air
- Heating and lancinating pains in the eyes after surgical operations
- Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids
- Visible quivering of the eyelids
- Heaviness and cramp-like contractions of the eyelids
- Nocturnal cramps in the eyelids
- Constant winking of the eyes
- Inclination to wipe the eyes, as if a pellicle of gum were drawn over them
- Pupils dilated
- Constant necessity to rub the eyes
- Confused sight, as when looking through a veil
- White paper seems of a pale rose colour when reading
- Sparkling before the eyes
- Sudden flashes like electric sparks
- Otalgia, similar to a cramp
- Tinkling in the ears, in the evening, after lying down
- Buzzing in the ears with hardness of hearing
- Epistaxis of black and viscid blood
- Cold perspiration on the forehead
- Occasional fainting
- Violent and frequent sneezing
- Face of an earthy colour
- Redness and paleness, alternately, in the face
- Circumscribed, burning red spots on the face
- Burning heat in the face
- Lips cracked and ulcerated
- Pulsation on one side of the face
- Scraping and roughness in the mouth
- Accumulation of water in the mouth
- Tongue moist, and charged with a white coating, with erection of the papill
- Unusual warmth in the mouth
- Sore throat as if caused by elongation of the uvula, or as if there were a plug in the throat
- Scraping and roughness in the throat
- Nauseating, acid, sweetish taste
- Nausea, disappearing in the open air
- Sweet or bitter taste in the bottom of the gullet
- Constant thirst in the evening, with uneasiness in the abdomen after drinking
- Absence of appetite, with sensation off fulness
- Empty risings, while fasting in the morning
- Pyrosis after eating with a good appetite
- Heartburn after eating
- Qualmishness, uneasiness, and sensation of oppression, in the epigastrium
- Burning pain in the stomach
- Borborygmi, and fermentation in the epigastrium
- Great sinking sensation at epigastrium
- Drawing in the pit of the stomach, back and forth, and up and down
- Violent stitches in pit of stomach
- Abdomen inflated, with sensation of fulness
- Distension of the stomach and abdomen
- Cramp-like pains in the abdomen
- Pinchings in the abdomen after drinking
- Pains in the abdomen from taking cold
- Movements in the abdomen, stomach, pit of the stomach, arms, and other parts of the body, as of something alive hopping about
- Shocks above l. hypochondrium
- Sensation of heaviness in the inguinal region
- Sensation of heaviness in the abdomen, with pressing towards the uterus
- Itching and tingling in the anus
- Creeping in the anus, as from ascarides
- Obtuse shooting in the side, and above the anus
- Stitches and itching at the anus
- Excitement of the sexual desire
- Sensation of something living and moving in the abdomen; abdomen swollen
- Urging of blood towards the genital parts
- Catamenia too frequent and copious
- Catamenia painful
- Metrorrhagia of black and slimy blood
- Flow of blood, during the new and full moon
- Hmorrhage from the uterus
- Threatened abortion
- Post-partum hmorrhage
- Violent dry, shaking cough, much mitigated by passing the hand over the epigastrium
- Cough, with spitting of blood
- Disagreeably smelling breath
- Difficulty of respiration
- Inclination to breathe deeply
- Oppression of the chest
- Sensation from the vapour of sulphur in the throat
- Shootings in the chest and esp. in the sides
- Movements, as if something alive were hopping in the chest
- Shocks in the chest, which suspend respiration
- Jerking pains in interior of l. breast
- Sensation of heat, which ascends to the heart
- Anxiety and difficulty of respiration
- Sensation of heaviness at the heart
- Sensation of great emptiness in precordial region
- Drawing in precordial region extending to stomach
- Stitches beneath heart
- Frequent palpitation
- Anxiety at heart, with sense of weakness extending thence through abdomen to soles of feet
- Sensation of stiffness in the neck during movement
- External swelling of the neck
- Pulling in the loins, with pains in the groins
- Sensation of coldness in the back
- Pain in the shoulder-joint, on moving the arms
- Numbness of the arms and of the hands, with immobility
- Digging pulling in the forearms
- Heaviness and pain, as from a bruise in the forearms
- Burning pricking, and tension in the tips of the fingers
- Chilblains in the hands, and in the fingers
- Sensation of weakness in the thighs, when seated
- Violent cracking of the hip-joint, of the knee-joint
- Nocturnal tearing in the leg, with uneasiness in that part
- Pain, as from a bruise, in the calves of the legs
- Fatigue in the soles of the feet, with burning pain and tingling
- Chilblains on the toes
- Movements, as of something alive in various parts of the body
- Tingling in different parts of the body
- Convulsive attacks, like chorea
- Sensation of relaxation and bending in the joints
- Numbness of some of the limbs, at night
- Amelioration of symptoms in the open air
- Ebullition of blood
- Discharge of a black viscid blood from different organs
- Heaviness and failing of the limbs, after light exercise
- Striking alternation of the most opposite, physical, and mental symptoms
- Symptoms generally appear on the l. side
- Excessive general weakness, with fainting fits, during movement
- Desire for open air
- Great depression in the morning
- Trembling of all the limbs
- Pricking, crawling, burning, and tingling in skin
- Red colour of the body
- Suppuration, painful, of old wounds
- Continuous yawning and desire to sleep
- Great inclination to sleep in the day
- Sings while sleeping
- Drowsiness, with eyes dull and glassy
- Cries, and starts, while sleeping
- Frightful, or gay and pleasant dreams
- Pulse accelerated, feverish
- Chill in the afternoon, growing worse in the evening
- Chilliness extending from the back into the legs, with trembling
- Thirst during the chill and heat
- Chilliness, only of the back part of the body
- Flushes of internal heat, with pricking and tingling of the skin
- Heat, mostly of the head and face, with paleness of the cheeks and thirst
- Perspiration very little, and only at night
- Cold and debilitating perspiration
- Perspiration only on the lower part of the body