MEPHITIS
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Asthma
- Blindness
- Choking, easy
- Cold, sensitiveness to
- Eyes, affections of
- Laryngismus
- Sight, weak
- Whooping-cough
- Choking while eating or drinking
- Cough on reading aloud, while talking, and after drinking
- Lower ribs painful to touch or pressure
- Spasmodic cough with a crowing sound
- Very violent cough, coming on spasmodically, and seeming as though each spell would terminate life
- Nervous exhaustion
- Catarrh is slight
- Whoop decided
- Suffocative feeling
- Cannot exhale
- Vomits food sometimes hours after eating
- Constant hacking cough during conversation
- Coughs after reading aloud, or drinking any fluid
- Cough spasmodic, hollow, hoarse
- Rush of warmth it causes to various parts
- Enables patients to endure extreme cold
- Makes them less chilly in cold weather
- Washing in ice-water is pleasant
- Awakens at night with congestion to legs
- Legs uneasy as if they would become insensible
- Fidgety feet
- A short sleep seems to refresh
- Weak sight
- As of fire thrown into eye
- Sensation on opening the lids as of breaking glass
- Rest and lying down <
- Sitting up and motion >
- Night and daybreak <
- Warm stove > colic from cold
- Cold washing >
- Ice-water < asthma
- Touch <
- Ill-humour about trifles or imaginary troubles
- Unfitness for intellectual labour
- Too lively an imagination
- Excessive loquacity
- Excitement, with heat in head
- Dejection, with painful muscles
- Indolence, with desire to stretch
- Vertigo on stooping suddenly, when seated, when moving the head, when turning in bed, or in the evening
- Confused dulness in the head, as if it had grown larger, accompanied by ill-humour and nausea
- Violent headache, with sensation of fulness, as if caused by a weight or by pressure, esp. in the occiput
- Violent pain in head as if a fulness were pressing upwards
- Sensation in (back of head) various parts, as if the finger were pressed into them
- Pain above eyes
- Headache from motion of a carriage, or else in evening
- Lancination in eyes like the pricking of needles
- Pains in eyes on turning them (in certain directions), as if some foreign body were in them, or as if they were much fatigued
- Heat, burning, and aching in eyes, esp. morning and evening
- Aching (pressing) of eyelids, and burning on margins, as if a stye were forming
- Injection of veins in sclerotica
- Redness of conjunctiva, as from ecchymosis
- Myopia
- Confusion of letters when reading (they become blurred, he is unable to discern them, they run together)
- Inability to read small print
- Nocturnal blindness
- While the sight is weak there are generally pains in eyes or head
- Eyes affected principally in evening
- Tearing in the ears, or in the jaw and teeth
- Otalgia
- Itching heat, redness, blisters, and erysipelas in the external part of the (r.) ear
- Dryness of the nose
- Epistaxis
- Prolonged inclination to sneeze
- Fluent coryza, with pain, as from excoriation in the chest
- Pains in teeth which are carious (molars), esp. in lower jaw
- Sudden shocks in roots of teeth
- Drawing and tearing in teeth
- Nausea, with scraping in throat (emptiness in stomach), and sensation as if the head were swollen, when fasting
- Sobbing eructations
- Risings, > by discharge of flatus
- Tendency to choke, when drinking and speaking
- Troublesome and ineffectual want to hawk
- Metallic (coppery) taste
- Desire for salted food
- Hunger, alternating with absence of appetite
- Absence of appetite in morning, and also repugnance to tobacco-smoke
- Painful weariness, and desire to sleep after a meal
- Pains in hypochondria
- Rheumatic pains in r. side (pressure), or pains as from flatulency (in l. side)
- Aching (in region of liver) in stomach, with colic
- Sensation of emptiness in stomach and nausea
- Colic, as from diarrha, but without evacuation
- Aching and movements in abdomen, as if caused by a chill, with sensation of coldness, trembling, and want to urinate, relieved when near fire
- Pains in abdomen in evening
- Evacuations infrequent, but liquid
- Diarrha
- Frequent want to make water, esp. at night, with emission of clear urine
- The urine becomes turbid (in morning), and deposits a sediment, in evening, after an attack of fever
- Itching in scrotum
- Heat in genital organs
- Excoriation of genital organs, in females, and swelling of labia majora
- Cough when reading aloud, when speaking, and after a fit of choking whilst drinking (liability to have something get into larynx)
- Cough in morning, with expectoration proceeding from catarrh
- Mucus expelled by a fit of coughing every morning
- Catarrhal sufferings
- Pains in (l.) ribs, when touched, but esp. when coughing and sneezing
- Cough with fluent coryza and soreness in chest
- Pain, as from excoriation, in back part of ribs, and in chest, when taking a deep inspiration, and when moving the back
- Rattling cough every morning
- Whooping-cough, < at night and after lying down; with convulsions; with complete suffocative feeling, he cannot exhale; vomiting of all food some hours after eating, bloated face
- Pains in chest (on last l. short rib) when touching and pressing on it; but esp. when coughing and sneezing
- Asthma, as from inhaling vapour of sulphur; of drunkards; during sleep
- Pains in (r.) side of neck
- Tension in muscles of nape
- Pain, and a sort of paralysis, in back and in all limbs
- Lancination in spine during motion
- Contusive pains in loins in morning
- Rheumatic pains in arms, with paralytic drawings, > by movement
- Uneasiness in (l.) arm, which is, as it were, insensible
- Trembling in arm on resting upon it
- Jerking in hand
- Distressing sensation in first phalanx of finger, which renders it needful to stretch and crack it
- Drawing and rheumatic pains in thighs, hip, and foot, but chiefly in leg
- Contusive pains in knee
- Cramp-like and sudden pain in (l.) foot, which causes patient to hop
- Uneasiness in legs, as if they were about to go to sleep
- Lancinations in foot
- Pain in heel, resembling gout
- Pricking or sensation of pinching in great toe (as if it were being pinched off)
- Burning in little toe
- Constant pains and burning in corns
- Rheumatic pains
- Shifting pains, with want to urinate
- Occasionally a sensation as if struck by electric sparks
- Convulsions
- Sensation of paralysis, esp. during the pains
- Great dejection and lassitude, during which the muscles are painful when touched or exercised
- Internal agitation of whole body, with sensation of unspeakable uneasiness
- Slight quivering of the nerves, as far as interior of bones, causing a good deal of anxiety
- Many symptoms manifest themselves in morning
- Great inclination to sleep, so great that patient will fall asleep even when in company
- Diurnal sleepiness, with sound sleep at night
- Frequent yawning, which causes tears to flow
- Very vivid dreams, the recollection of which is retained
- Dreams of fire, water, distressing losses, of spitting of blood, &c
- Nightmare
- Waking at night, with rush of blood to, and heat in limbs (lower legs)
- Somnolent heaviness in morning, with burning in eyes and tearing in limbs; greatly > by a change of position
- Frequent and early waking, often with a feeling of good health
- Coldness in evening, with want to make water, and colic, as if preceding diarrha
- Heat in head, in genital organs and in legs, at night
- Increased heat, esp. in morning, with skin less sensitive to cold and cold water
- Washing with cold water is found very agreeable