Stramonium stram.

BRAIN. Circulation: Throat. Skin. Spinal nerves: Arms. Hip (L). Genitals.

Glistening objects. Fright. AFTER SLEEP. Dark, cloudy days. Suppression. Intemperance.

LIGHT. Company. Warmth.

A remedy of TERRORS, BUT LACKING IN PAIN; with suppressed excretions (Ver-a.), passing neither urine nor stool (Led.). Very mobile states. Tremor; nervous. Disorderly, graceful or rhythmic motions (Elap.), < head or arms. Chorea. Spasms, < night.

DREADS DARKNESS, and has a horror of glistening objects. Fearful, desires company or wants to escape. Active, variable delirium; talks incessantly; sees many, vividly brilliant or hideous phantoms, more to one side. Wildly excited, as in night terrors or delirium tremens, or does all sorts of crazy things. Raving mania, with cold sweat, cursing and praying. Religious insanity. The talk of others is intolerable. Self accusation. Loss of reason or speech. Stupid. Imbecile. Vertigo, < in dark. Jerks head up and drops it again. Fixed sparkling stare. Squint. Diplopia. Night blindness. Green vision. Crowding, visual hallucinations. Sees black. Delusions as to size and distance. Red, bloated or rapidly changing face; now flushed, now pale; a sardonic grin, then expresses terror. Frowning. Fine red dots on tongue. Stammering. Constantly spits saliva. Dry throat, with great thirst, yet dreads water; it chokes him. Hydrophobia. Putrid, dark, painless, involuntary diarrhœa. Sexual excitement (in males). Excessive menses, preceded by sexual excitement. Grasps the genitals. Nymphomania. Spasmodic cough. Spasm of larynx. Voice suddenly fails, in higher tones. Nervous asthma. Drawing in back. Sensitive spine. Violent pain in hip. Unilateral paralysis, with twitchings. Crawlings, as of many bugs. Non-appearing exanthema. Fiery scarlatinous rash. Sopor. Weeping, in dreams. Awakes in fear or screaming. Frightful visions.

Antidotes: Cof. Nux-v. Related: Bell. Hyo. Op.

Adapted to: ailments of young plethoric persons (Acon., Bell.); especially children in chorea; mania and fever delirium. Delirium: loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses, raves; simulates Bell. and Hyos., yet differs in degree. The delirium is more furious, the mania more acute, while the congestion, though greater that Hyos., is much less that Bell., never approaching a true inflammation. Disposed to talk continually (Cic., Lach.); incessant and incohorent talking and laughing; praying, beseeching, entreating; with suppressed menses. Desires light and company; cannot bear to be alone (Bis.); worse in the dark and solitude; cannot walk in a dark room. Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen. Hallucinations which terrify the patient. Desire to escape, in delirium (Bell., Bry., Op., Rhus). Imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, lying crosswise, etc. (Petr.). Head feels as is scattered about (Bap.). Eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant; pupils widely dilated, insensible; contortion of eyes and eyelids. Pupils dilate when child is reprimanded. Face hot and red with cold hands and feet; circumscribed redness of cheeks, blood rushes to face; risus sardonicus. Stammering; has to exert himself a long time before he can utter a word; makes great effort to speak; distorts the face (Bov., Ign., Spig.). Vomiting: as soon as he raises head from pillow; from a bright light. Convulsions: from consciousness (Nux - without, Bell., Cic., Hyos., Op.); renewed by sight of bright light, of mirror or water (Bell., Lys.). Twitching of single muscle or groups of muscles, especially upper part of body; chorea. Hydrophobia: fear of water, with excessive aversion to liquids (Bell., Lys.); spasmodic constriction of throat. No pain with most complaints; painlessness is characteristic (Op.). Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Cham., Op.).

Stramonium often follows: Bell., Cup., Hyos., Lys. In metrorrhagia from retained placenta with characteristic delirium, Sec. often acts promptly when Stram. has failed (with fever and septic tendency, Pyr.). After overaction, from repeated doses of Bell., in whooping cough.

In the dark; when alone; looking at bright or shining objects; after sleep (Apis, Lach., Op., Spong.); when attempting to swallow.

From bright light; from company; warmth.

The principal range of this remedy is found in the mental affections. In young people who are sometimes hysterical showing the following condition: praying and singing devoutly, beseeching, entreating, etc. Young women with suppressed menses may be affected in this manner. In some kinds of fevers, where the patient can't bear solitude or darkness, if they are left alone or are in a dark room, the mental affections are very much aggravated; also in unconscious delirium when the patient will every now and then jerk the head up from the pillow, then let it fall again--this being kept up without intermission for a long time; women in puerperal fever or convulsions have many absurd notions--that they are double, that some one is in bed with them, and other strange and unmeaning fancies. Affections of the intellect in general; madness.

Dilated pupils; blindness; amaurosis; momentary loss of sight. Diplopia.

Pulse full; irregular; hard; slow; small.

Face red and bloated. Cannot walk or keep on the feet in a darkened room, is sure to fall. Saliva decreased; painless diarrhœa having a cadaverous odor; retention of urine in any fever; menses profuse; sighing respiration; restlessness of the body; staggering when walking; pithy, numb feeling of outer parts. Complaints concomitant to morbid sleep.

Epilepsy; spasms in general, especially clonic puerperal convulsions; involuntary motions; hydrophobia.

During perspiration; after sleep, when first awakens from sleep will shrink away as if in fear; in the dark; in solitude.

In company.

Bellad., Bryon., Hyosc., Nux vom., sometimes, Acon.

Bellad., Nux vom., sometimes, Hyosc., Tabac.

Attacks of rage with beating and striking. Desire for company and light. Twitches in the face, frowns in the forehead. Difficult deglutition from spasmodic constriction of the throat. The child awaking is frightened at everything it sees, it wants to get away from them. During the chill the head is hot, does not want to be uncovered. Red, hot face with cold feet. Excessive aversion to liquids, water, a mirror, or anything bright. excites convulsions or spasmodic constriction of throat.

Thorn-apple

The entire force of this drug seems to be expended on the brain, through the skin and throat show some disturbance. Suppressed secretions and excretions. Sensation as if limbs were separated from body. Delirium tremens. Absence of pain and muscular mobility especially of muscles of expression and of locomotion. Gyratory and graceful motions. Parkinsonism.

Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking. Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing, swearing, praying, rhyming. Sees ghosts, hears voices, talks with spirits. Rapid changes from joy to sadness. Violent and lewd. Delusions about his identity; thinks himself tall, double, a part missing. Religious mania. Cannot bear solitude or darkness; must have light and company. Sight of water or anything glittering brings on spasms. Delirium, with desire to escape (Bell; Bry; Rhus).

Raises head frequently from the pillow. Pain in forehead and over eyebrows, beginning at 9 am; worse until noon. Boring pain, preceded by obscure vision. Rush of blood to head; staggers, with tendency to fall forward and to the left. Auditory hallucinations.

Seem prominent, staring wide open; pupils dilated. Loss of vision; complains that it is dark, and calls for light. Small objects look large. Parts of the body seem enormously swollen. Strabismus. All objects look black.

Hot, red; circumscribed redness of cheeks. Blood rushes to face; distorted. Expression of terror. Pale face.

Dry; dribbling of viscid saliva. Aversion to water. Stammering. Risus sardonicus. Cannot swallow on account of spasm. Chewing motion.

Food tastes like straw. Violent thirst. Vomiting of mucus and green bile.

Suppression, bladder empty.

Sexual erethism, with indecent speech and action. Hands constantly kept on genitals.

Metrorrhagia, with loquacity, singing, praying. Puerperal mania, with characteristic mental symptoms and profuse sweatings. Convulsions after labor.

Awaken terrified; screams with fright. Deep snoring sleep. Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell).

Graceful, rhythmic motions. Convulsions of upper extremities and of isolated groups of muscles. Chorea; spasms partial, constantly changing. Violent pain in left hip. Trembling, twitching of tendons, staggering gait.

Shining red flash. Effects of suppressed eruption in scarlatina, with delirium, etc.

Profuse sweat, which does not relieve. Violent fever.

Worse, in dark room, when alone, looking at bright or shining objects, after sleep, on swallowing. Better, from bright light, company, warmth.

Compare especially: Hyoscy and Bellad. It has less fever than Bellad, but more than Hyos. It causes more functional excitement of the brain, but never approaches the true inflammatory condition of Bellad.

Antidotes: Bellad; Tabac; Nux.

Thirtieth potency and lower.

Wildly delirious, with red face and great loquacity. Loquacity.

Pupils widely dilated; wants light and company; fears to be alone; wants hand held.

One side paralyzed, the other convulsed.

Awakens with a shrinking look; frightened; afraid of the first object seen.

Painlessness with most complaints (Opium.) Jerks the head suddenly from pillow in spasms.

The last of the trio is pre-eminently the high-grade delirium remedy, differs from the other two chiefly in the degree of intensity.

The raving is something awful singing, laughing, grinning; whistling, screaming, praying piteously or swearing hideously, and above all remedies loquacious. Again the patient throws himself into all shapes corresponding to his changeable delirium, crosswise, length-wise, rolled up like a ball, or stiffened out by turns, or, especially, repeatedly jerks up suddenly his head from the pillow. Things look crooked or oblique to him.

The whole inner mouth as if raw; the tongue after a while may become stiff or paralyzed. Stools loose blackish, smelling like carrion, or no stool or urine. Later there may be complete loss of sight, hearing, and speech with dilated, immovable pupils and drenching sweat which brings no relief, and death must soon close the scene unless Stramonium helps them out.

By way of still further comparison Stramonium is the most widely loquacious.

Hyoscyamus is the most insensibly stupid.

Belladonna in this respect stands half way between.

Stramonium, throws himself about, jerking head from pillow.

Hyoscyamus, twitches, picks and reaches, otherwise lying pretty still.

Belladonna, starts or jumps when falling into or awaking from sleep.

All have times of wanting to escape.

The same state of mind and sensorium is found in chronic and acute manias. I have cured several such cases. One was a lady about thirty years of age, who was overheated in the sun, on an excursion. She was a member in good standing in the Presbyterian church, but imagined herself lost and called me in six mornings in succession to see her die. Lost, lost, lost, eternally lost, was her theme, begging minister, doctor and everybody to pray for, and with her. Talked night and day about it. I had to shut her up in her room alone for she would not sleep a wink or let anyone else.

She imagined her head was as big as a bushel and had me examine her legs, which she insisted were as large as a church. After treating her several weeks with Glonoine, Lach., Natrum carb. and other remedies on the cause as the basis of the prescription, without the least amelioration of her condition, I gave her Stramonium, which covered her symptoms, and in twenty-four hours every vestige of that mania was gone.

But for the encouragement I gave the husband that I could cure her she would have been sent to the Utica Asylum, where her friends had been advised to send her by the allopaths. I gave her the sixth dilution or potency.

I cured a case just as bad since then with the C M. potency. I could relate other experience, just as remarkable, cured with this remedy, but why do so? Aside from the uses of the remedy, which are the main ones, I will mention now a few symptoms that have been found very reliable guides:

Staggers in the dark with eyes closed.

Eyes wide open; prominent, brilliant pupils widely dilated.

Desires light and company.

Face hot and red, cheeks circumscribed.

Convulsions, aggravated in bright light.

Mouth and throat dry. (Bell.)

Fear of water and aversion to all fluids.

Metrorrhagia, with characteristic mind symptoms.

Great pain in hip disease, or abscesses.

One side paralyzed, the other convulsed. (Bell.)

Entire absence of pain. (Opium)

Mental derangement especially in drunkards. Loquacious delirium and mania. Attacks of rage with beating and striking persons. Desire for company and light. Very changeable disposition ; alternate ; anticipation of death and rage ; laughable gestures and melancholy deportment ; affected haughtiness and inconsolableness ; loud laughing and groaning. Mania-a-potu with clonic spasms, with consciousness and desire for light and company. Insensibility to mental impressions.

Staggering vertigo with obscurations of vision, headache and red face, colicky pain and diarrhœa. Stupefaction with vanishing of vision and bearing, and convulsive movements of the head. Fainting with paleness of the face, dryness in the throat, an, subsequent red face. Congestion of blood to the head, with pulsation in the vertex, loss of sight and hearing, bloated turgid face, total loss of consciousness, and painlessness. Inflammation of the brain, with beat and pulsation of the vertex, attacks of fainting, loss of sight and bearing, convulsive movements of the head, frequently raising the head up or bending it backward, better while lying still. Hydrocephalus with convulsive motions of the head, sensation of lightness of the head, and frequently raising the head up. Painful dark-red swelling of the highly-congested head and turgid face, with convulsive movements, delirium, and desire for light and company.

Red, inflamed, swollen eyes. Staring, glistening eyes. Photomania. Contortion of the eyes and eyelids. Pupils dilated, insensible. Blindness (at night), (periodical). The objects appear blue. Double vision, the objects appear oblique.

Wind is rushing out of the ears. Hardness of hearing ; deafness.

Red, swollen, turgid face. Circumscribed redness of the face. Stupid distorted countenance. Anxiety and fear is expressed in the countenance. Deep furrows and wrinkles in the face. Distortion of the mouth. A yellow stripe in the red part of the lip. Trembling of the lips.

Grinding of the teeth. Dryness of the mouth ; dry, sticky lips. Violent thirst (for large quantities, drinking with avidity). Fear of water and aversion to all fluids. Bloody froth before the mouth. Difficult deglutition from dryness and spasmodic constriction of the throat. Swelling and paralysis of the tongue. Stuttering with distortion of the face. Speechlessness.

The food tastes like sand or straw, or they have no taste at all. Violent (spasmodic) hiccough. Bitter taste in the mouth. Vomiting of sour mucus or green bile. Anxiety in the pit of the stomach with dyspnœa. Abdomen hard, tymphanitic. Painfulness of the abdomen when moving and to the touch. Pain in the abdomen as if the navel were pulled out. Hysterical abdominal spasms.

Constipation ; unsuccessful urging to go to stool. Putrid smelling diarrhœic stools. Discharge of clotted blood through the anus.

Suppressed secretion of urine (in typhus). Involuntary secretion of urine. The urine is only discharged in drops with constant painful urging.

Menstrual flow too profuse of black blood in large clots. Metrorrhagia. Eclampsia. During menstruation rank stench of the body. Too profuse secretion of milk in nursing-women.

Difficult sighing breathing. Spasms in the pectoral muscles. Constriction of the tic chest with dyspnœa. Constrictions of the larynx. Fine shrieking voice. Periodically returning attacks of painless, barking, spasmodic cough, in fine shrieking tone, from constriction of the larynx and chest, without expectoration.

The back is drawn backwards.

Upper. Convulsive movement of the arms over the head. Trembling of the hands. The hands are closed to a fist. The fingers go to sleep. Lower. Twitching in the limbs. Trembling of the feet. The legs give way when he walks ; he falls over his own legs.

Trembling of limbs (also in drunkards). Tingling in the limbs ; sensation as if the limbs were separated from the body. Spasms and convulsions, caused whenever he is touched, or from light and glittering objects. Cataleptic stiffness and immovability of the body. The body is bent backwards with distorted countenance. Convulsions (in children) with profuse perspiration, followed by sleep. St. Vitus' dance ; eclampsia. Epileptic convulsions with consciousness. The movement of the muscles subject to the will is easier and increased. Painlessness with most all ailments. Suppression of all secretions and excretions.

Deep stupefied sleep with snoring. He lies on his back with open staring eyes. Sleep interrupted by screams. Frightful visions during sleep.

Pulse very irregular, generally full, hard and quick, or small and rapid, at times slow and scarcely perceptible, occasionally intermitting and trembling. Chill and general coldness with redness of the face and twitches. General coldness in the afternoon after previous heat of the head and face, followed by general heat. During the chill great sensitiveness to being uncovered. Chill running down the back. Heat over the whole body, with red face and perspiration. Hot red face with cold hands and feet. Anxious heat with vomiting. Profuse perspiration already during the heat with violent thirst. Greasy, oily, putrid-smelling perspiration. Cold perspiration over the whole body fever. Intermittent fever. Chill over the whole body without thirst, followed by heat with anguish ; sleep during the hot stage, and violent thirst after waking up, which causes a stinging in the throat, until he drinks something.

Suppressed eruptions and the consequences from it.

Aggravation after sleep (in the morning) ; during perspiration ; from being touched ; from looking at glistening objects ; in the dark ; when alone. Amelioration from bright light.

Datura stramonium. Thorn-apple. Jamestown-weed. Stink-weed. (Grows in vicinity of cultivation on rank soil where refuse is deposited in all parts of the world.) N. O. Solanaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant in flower and fruit.

Anasarca (after scarlatina). Aphasia . Apoplexy. Burns. Catalepsy. Chordee. Chorea. Delirium tremens . Diaphragmitis. Ecstasy. Enuresis. Epilepsy. Erotomania. Eyes, affections of . Headache; from sun. Hiccough. Hydrophobia . Hysteria. Lochia, offensive. Locomotor ataxy. Mania . Meningitis. Nymphomania. Œsophagus, spasm of. Scarlatina. Stammering. Starting . Strabismus. Sunstroke. Tetanus. Thirst. Tremors . Trismus. Typhus.

The first to use Stram . in medicine, according to Teste, was Stoerck, who was one of Hahnemann's predecessors Stoerck first tried it in mental alienation, because it was supposed to produce "a marked and persistent disorder of the mental faculties." Hahnemann proved it, and introduced it into the homœopathic materia medica. In his introduction to the remedy he points out that, though it produces many uncomfortable symptoms, it does not in its primary effects cause actual pain . Hahnemann attached a good deal of importance to this. " Stram .," he says, "allays some spasmodic movements, and restores suppressed excretions in several cases in which absence of pain is a prominent symptom." In addition to the absence of pain there is with Stram . (and in many mental cases) an extreme muscular mobility. This mobility affects muscles of expression and muscles of locomotion. The movements of Stram . are generally gyratory and graceful when they occur in the arms. The forms of mania specially mentioned by Teste as calling for Stram . are: Nymphomania of lying-in women. Certain forms of religious monomania, in exaggerated and ridiculous scruple of conscience. Fixed notion that some unpardonable sin has been committed (which the patient is nevertheless unable to remember); that he is possessed of the devil. Hallucinations. The delirium of Stram . is for the most part terrifying. It corresponds exactly to many cases of delirium tremens. Visions of animals enter largely into it. In a case of severe pleuro-pneumonia of right side, supervening on scarlatina, the patient, a young man, said he saw a large black dog about the room. This led me to give Stram ., which rapidly altered the whole case for the better, including the pneumonia, and resolved a situation of no little anxiety. Stram . is also called for in congestions without actual inflammation, but with high mental exaltation and furious delirium and little or no fever; without pain but with some coma. J. Emmons Briggs ( New Eng. M. Gaz ., xxx. 151) relates this case of poisoning: Briggs had an urgent call to see James M., 4, in "convulsions." He found him lying on the bed in a state of wild delirium, requiring the constant combined efforts of two people to keep him in bed. Face exceedingly flushed; expression becoming in rapid alternation pleasant and anxious. Pupils widely dilated; iris scarcely visible, giving the eye a very brilliant appearance. Marked convergent strabismus, skin hot and dry, resembling scarlatina eruption. Abdomen tense. The most alarming symptom was rapidly recurring convulsions with twitching of the arms and lower limbs. Thirty or forty of these spasms occurred in rapid succession, followed by a moment during which the countenance brightened and seemed at rest, only to be followed in an instant by a series of clonic contractions. Grasping at imaginary objects before the eyes, when expression frequently became anxious, as if the patient was trying to ward off imaginary foes. At times the mind was very active, and the patient talked rapidly and incoherently. Between the spasms laughter and crying frequently occurred. The boy, it transpired, had been chewing a Thorn-apple. When he came home he seemed rather dazed, and vomited. He then threw himself on the sofa and slept very soundly till he awoke in the convulsions. The boy recovered under Kali bro . in five-grain doses, though it was with great difficulty that he was made to swallow. This difficulty of swallowing is a marked feature of Stram ., and with the intense thirst, delirium, and hallucinations completes the picture of many cases of hydrophobia. Another symptom indicating it here is " < by bright light, mirror or surface of water." S. A. Jones (quoted A. H ., xxii. 410) relates the case of a little girl with brain symptoms for whom he had prescribed a remedy. The report was brought late at night, that the patient was much worse. "She vomits," said the father, "if she even raises her head from the pillow." The vomit was green . Jones found this under Stram . by aid of the Cypher Repertory. He gave Stram ., and the next morning the case was entirely changed for the better. Acting on this analogue, Jones also cured a "vomiting of green stuff always induced by bright light." On the other hand, the Stram . patient is dependent on light and company; cannot walk in the dark (hence it is indicated in locomotor ataxy); and going through railway tunnels without a light in the carriage may cause fainting. Some of the head-movements of Stram . are characteristic: Continually jerks head up from pillow; head bent back; boring head into pillow. The twitchings of single muscles and the squint mark Stram . as the remedy for many cases of chorea. I find it correspond to about an equal proportion with Agaricus ; and when there is fright in the causation Stram . will almost certainly avail. Stram . has a relation to the hip-joints, and Stram . has cured both coxalgia and morbus coxæ (left). This is accompanied by very severe pain, and is one exception to the "painlessness" of Stram . affections. The effect of Stram . on the secretions is to suppress them; and this makes Stram . an excellent remedy in many cases of illness due to suppressed secretions — menses, lochia, sweat, eruptions. Stram . causes high fever with rashes, some scarlet, like scarlatina; petechiæ; spots on the arms like flea-bites; vesications; and it corresponds also to burns and scalds. Stram . 30 caused the face of a boy to whom I gave it to swell and come out in blotches soon after commencing the remedy. (I have seen Dulc . 30 produce furfuraceous rash on the face in the same way.) In a case of mine Stram . relieved an extensive eczematous eruption which came on after a fright. As a result of suppressions convulsions occur. These may be general, or they may be partial or choreic. The convulsant, spasmodic properties of Stram . are shown in the respiratory sphere in constriction of the chest, asthmatic symptoms, and cough of the whooping-cough type. The common practice of smoking Stramonium leaves for asthma is roughly homœopathic. Peculiar Sensations of Stram . are: As if spinning or weaving. As if objects were smaller than they really are. As if dizzy. As if he had no limbs. As if drunk. Head as if drawn backward. Starts as if a shock of electricity had been passed through her body. As if eyes were forced out. As of sparks of fire rushing from stomach to eyes. Eyelids as if swollen, or as if oppressed with sleep; as of wind rushing out of ears. As if sawing cheek-bone; as if a hole were there and the brain were touched. As if nose were shifted. As if pins and needles were in forehead. As if he was seeking something. As if bones were sawed through. As if front teeth would fall out. Teeth as if pressed together. Moving fingers as if searching for something. Cries as if from sight of hideous objects. As if lips would grow together. Inner mouth as if raw. Soft palate as if drawn down. As of boiling water in throat. As if a ball were wedged in throat. As if falling. As if he would vomit. As if navel were to be torn out. Abdomen as if puffed up. As if abdomen were expanded to extremest degree. As if urine could not be passed on account of narrowness of urethra. As if a cylindrical body were being passed through urethra. As if he had not power to close neck of bladder. As if very tall. As if something turned round in chest. Limbs feel as if gone to sleep. As if parts of limbs were completely separated from body. Hands and feet as if loose in joints. As if cold water were poured down back. Stram . is an ill-smelling plant, and the discharges and secretions it causes are often foul and even cadaveric in odour. Stram . is Suited to: Ailments of young, plethoric persons; especially of children (chorea, mania, fever, delirium). The symptoms are: < By touch; by pressure. Motion < ; removing head from pillow = vomiting of bile; walking = involuntary micturition; walking in dark = vertigo. < After motion (vomiting of bile; palpitation; pain in back, shoulder, and abdomen). Whilst sitting: involuntary micturition; cough = lower limbs to be jerked up. Lying > pulsating heat of vertex; in evening prosopalgia in l. cheek; = cutting pain in sternum. Lying on side < vertigo. Warmth > . Wind < . Cold < . < Evening and night. < In dark. > In light. > In company. < Looking at shining objects, water, &c. < Sun. Great desire for acids; citric acid > .

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Dulness of senses ; before a rash.
Coma, spasms ; later snoring, unconscious, jaw hangs, hands and feet twitch, eyes roll ; pupils dilated ; automatic grasping of hands toward nose, ears, etc. ; difficult to swallow liquids.
Continual motions with hands and arms as if spinning or weaving ; frequent lifting up head, red face, staring eyes, with large immovable pupils, constant murmuring, frequent sighing, total stupefaction of senses.
Semi-conscious ; dilatation of pupils marked.
Consciousness totally lost ; did not answer questions ; stared around stupidly ; pupils much dilated, insensible to light ; signs of vertigo, aversion to fluids.
Face red ; eyes uneasy, shining ; pupils much dilated, staring, immovable ; drunken look ; unconscious ; disconnected talk ; jumped up ; restless ; started ; grasped about in air, catching at imaginary things, no fever ; slow, tardy
pulse ; chills ; perspired, skin warm ; drink swallowed hastily.
Unconscious ; snoring ; lower jaw hanging down ; twitches of hands and feet ; rolling eyes ; dilated, immovable pupils ; automatic motions ; grasping about with hands ; skin cool ; pulse somewhat frequent, single beats
omit ; greatest difficulty to swallow liquids.
Sat up in bed unconscious, continually babbling, occasionally starting up suddenly, his hands apparently directed to imaginary things in air ; pulse very slow, no fever, intense thirst and violent sweat from incessant motion.
He was mute, did not move ; pulseless ; limbs lame for six or seven hours ; lying without consciousness ; after that tossed about in bed with great rage, made innumerable signs to those around him, which were not understood, and then became quiet again.
Unconscious and stupid : during chill ; < in hot stage, sometimes during sweat ; in typhus.
Stupor : weakened intellect ; torpor and fits ; extreme excitement of sexual parts, constipation ; resembling highest state of intoxication from spirituous liquors.
Loss of memory.
Paroxysms of loss of memory, during which he recognizes neither persons nor objects ; questions remain unanswered.
Memory confused ; great restlessness ; red face and staring eyes ; sadness, weeping, thoughts of dying ; stammering, gets words out with great difficulty ; cold feet, restless sleep, with visions ; fear of wild animals and black dogs.
Memory weak ; loses thoughts before she can give them utterance ; weeps about her weak mind. θ After sunstroke.
Loss of recollection appears connected with an inward uneasiness and to proceed from it.
Does not recognize his friends and family, calling bystanders as if absent. θ Typhus.
After awaking he recognizes nothing about him.
Recognizes no one, did not take any notice of loudest calling, moved her head constantly from one side to other ; forehead covered with perspiration.
Does not recognize the one to whom he is speaking.
Does not seem to notice objects around him.
Calls things by wrong names, his boots logs of wood ; his bedroom the stable, and this without knowing it.
No correct estimation of distance, or size of objects ; reaching hands to catch hold of objects across room, and running against persons and things, which they appeared to view as distant.
During fever she cannot speak or reply to any question ; shows with hands where pain is seated, and when writing down has to think what letters to use.
Uses wrong words in talking.
Desires to relate a story, but cannot connect a sentence ; cannot find right words, and becomes displeased at this interruption.
Inability to give a proper answer, rapid change of ideas, so that he seldom completed a sentence, but, e. g., united the half sentence of answer to a question addressed to a person not present.
Conversing in different languages. θ Typhus.
Talking in Jewish jargon. θ Mania.
Tries to find right expression.
Dull, difficult thinking ; cannot think clearly about anything ; loses thoughts before she can give them utterance.
After getting out of bed, vertigo and loss of thought ; everything hovers dimly and distantly before his memory, there seems to be a veil before his eyes.
Walks about room, absorbed in himself, with fixed, sparkling eyes, surrounded by blue circles, takes no notice of surrounding objects, is solely occupied with objects of his fancy.
Sits silent, with her eyes fixed on ground, as if absorbed in contemplation, while her hands are occupied in picking at her clothes.
Talks disconnected words in a high screaming voice.
Mind wandering, and unusual quick motions with eyes and hands.
Confusion of mind.
Wild thoughts when she is awake ; frightful sensations, without perspiration.
Mental derangement ; violent headache, followed by excessive delirium, loss of sight and hearing, striking about with hands and feet, excessive dilatation of pupils, slow pulse.
Mental derangement, with spasmodic symptoms, staring look, attempts to escape with shrieks, frightful visions, fever heat, redness of face, moist skin.
Aberration of mind ; one carries home all sorts of wood, in order to manufacture brandy ; another placed two axes across each other in order to split wood in this way ; a third burrowed in ground like a pig with his mouth ; a fourth alleged he was a wheelwright and
began to bore holes ; a fifth ran into forge to catch fish, which he saw swimming there ; a lacemaker threw about her bobbins incessantly, and threw everything into confusion ; another girl ran about the room and cried out that all evil spirits were pursuing her.
Stares stupidly ; looks vacantly around.
She feels dull ; stupid in head, almost insensible and indifferent to everything and everybody.
Stupid, unable to articulate, with a certain peculiar wildness of countenance and flushed face, lying in bed.
Physiognomy expresses stupidity and perturbation ; insensibility to mental impressions, with fixed, weeping eyes and enlarged pupils, hardly responding to irritation.
Stupid, after delirium.
He is like one enchanted and beside himself.
Ecstatic.
Alternations between exalted states and settled melancholy.
After spasms she fell into a trance, says she is under influence of spirits, and has had conversation with spirits, communications from God ; delivers emphatic sermons, prophecies.
Very restless in evening in bed ; converses with spirits who approach his bed, lays hold of a stick and strikes about him, to drive fiend who is after him from room ; red face, glistening eyes, great thirst, distended abdomen and great sexual excitement.
The things and persons around him appear to be changed ; although he knows that his friends are there he forgets it immediately afterward ; imagines he is quite alone in a wilderness, abandoned ; is afraid ; animals jump suddenly out of ground sideways, so
that he moved quickly to other side, where, however, others start up pursuing him, so that he runs forward.
Dreaming with open eyes. θ Typhus.
Hallucinations which terrify patient ; sees ghosts, hears voices back of his ear ; sees strangers.
He thinks that he is dying and that he will not live over night, rejoices and gives directions about his funeral.
Believes to be in his grave ; shrives, prays, asks to be killed ; accuses his wife of infidelity ; scolds, strikes at everybody who wishes to restrain him ; thinks they are dogs and barks at them to make himself understood.
Strange, absurd ideas ; thinks herself tall, double or lying crosswise ; one-half of body cut off ; bed is full of creases ; that he was killed, roasted and being eaten.
Imagines objects smaller than they really are.
Imagines he is alone, and is frightened.
Started with great force and alarm, crying out that she is going to fall, clings to her mother with as much desperation as if she were going to be thrown from a precipice.
Imagines that he is very large and tall, but surrounding objects small.
Thinks she is not fitted for her position.
Imagines she sees a number of strange people, and tries to seize them, though there are none present.
An old lady had a vision every night since six weeks, in which many persons, all strangers, came into her room and to her bedside, causing her such fear that she had to leave bed.
Saw people coming out of all corners.
"There," he replied, "a long train of bed-bugs, and after them a procession of beetles, and here come crawling over me a host of cockroaches ;" sank back in alarm, then suddenly said : "I believe I know they are not really bugs, but, except
once in a while, they seem real to me."
Woke suddenly in night and said there were snakes under and about her ; looked wild, screamed and pointed to them.
After waking, all things appeared to him as if they were new, even his friends, as if he had never seen them.
Hears dancing, music, sees men and hears them talk in foreign tongues.
Hallucinations, as if near right mastoid process a voice were scolding her, < at night, sometimes voice seemed to be under bed.
Hallucinations bring him into a rage.
Fears : he will lose his senses ; his lips will grow together ; to suffocate ; falling ; everything is falling on her ;
Frightful fancies take hold of his mind, his features express fright and terror.
Sees more horrifying images at his side than in front of him, and they all occasion terror.
Hallucinations cause fear and fright.
Exclaims about cats, dogs and rabbits approaching her from above, from side and middle of room.
Frightful figures, rats, mice ; saw animals moving, cats, dogs, etc.
He converses with absent individuals as if they were present, and addresses inanimate objects, as chessmen, by names of such persons, but observes none of those standing about him.
Patient had a constant vision of an executioner standing before him, in spite of which he was lively, talkative laughed and joked about his hallucination, yet it seemed to him a reality.
Boy seemed to see black objects, spoke of black people and black clouds, and grasped at air.
Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of first thing she sees. θ Metritis.
Delirium : bland ; murmuring ; violent ; foolish ; joyful ; loquacious ; incoherent ; chattering ; with open eyes ; vivid ; merry ; with spasmodic laughter ; furious ; raving ; wild,
attempts to stab and bite ; with queerest notions ; with sexual excitement ; fear, as if a dog were attacking him ; conscious of her condition ; calls for papa and mamma, who are present and trying to console child ; with open eyes ; noisy, with
hallucinations ; shy, hides himself ; tries to escape ; full of fear ; talks incessantly, absurdly, laughs, claps her hands over head, wide-open eyes.
Rush of blood to head, with furious loquacious delirium.
Loquacious delirium ; disposed to talk continually, with desire to escape out of bed ; exposes genital organs.
Delirious and unintelligible, patient was busy with a thousand not unpleasant fantasies, made known his wants by gestures, without speaking, ran about for several days busy with his fantasies with a joyful mood.
Delirium of a lively, active, vivid character, alternating in short periods with apparent horrified, fright, seeming to dread approach of some imaginary monster, and giving utterance to most piteous appeals for help.
She rapidly became furiously delirious, struck at, pushed or attempted to bite every person who came near, or any object that was offered to her.
Delirium by day and night, without rest or sleep ; sang or whistled or entertained himself in different languages with departing people, or jumped wildly from bed to run away or to attend to business. θ Vesicular
erysipelas.
After a dreadful shock, occasioned by the death of his brother, who fell dead in his arms, talked incoherently, struck at all around him with his feet and hands, raved and spat in face of his attendants, tore his clothes, spoke at one time in Hungarian, and then in Wallachian
language ; sang Latin paternosters, declared that he was God, and then that he was the devil ; talks incessantly unintelligible nonsense ; sits down and rises again ; kneels and then pushes against wall, alternately stretching out his hands to full extent, and laying his
finger in his mouth ; tore his clothes and broke a very strong chain and padlock, with wonderful rapidity ; bored large holes in wall with his fingers ; will not answer any questions, avoids the eye ; pupils are contracted, eyes weary and collapsed ; cannot sleep or
eat.
Furibund delirium, during an attack of erysipelas faciei et capitis ; suppression of urine ; singing and whistling between paroxysms.
Delirium, tendency to throw herself out of bed, great restlessness and sleeplessness. θ Facial erysipelas.
Loquacious delirium, with desire to escape out of bed ; tongue yellowish-brown, dry on centre ; lips sore and cracked ; sordes on teeth. θ Bilious typhoid.
Mania : with fits of rage, hallucinations of sight and hearing, loss of memory ; complains that a dog is biting and tearing flesh off his chest ; merry exaltation ; with pride and affectation ; runs about, complains of violent
headache ; claps his hands together, steals from his room-mates everything he can get hold of ; with anxiety, and disposition by words and deeds to scold persons whom he otherwise loved.
Mania ; thinks he is lying on his sepulchre ; confessing, praying, wants to be killed ; laughs as if tickled ; wants to be kissed ; accuses his wife of being faithless ; scolding, beating in a rage, will not be taken hold of by attendants ; takes
them for dogs, and barks at them ; talking in Jewish jargon ; supposes his house to be surrounded by carts, Jews and geese, offending him, driving him into a rage ; pale, eats nothing, does not sleep, while muscles of face are in constant twitching motion.
Mania ; great restlessness, confused memory ; a hot face, with coldness of body alternating with anxiousness and thirst ; frequently a red face, with a staring look ; sadness, weeping, thoughts of death ; stammering and muttering before a word comes out ;
cold feet ; nervous, anxious sleep, with strange visions, fear of malicious animals, black dogs ; a young man of loose habits.
Conjunctiva injected, pupils immensely dilated ; whole expression of eyes brilliant, restless, suspicious and roving ; brow corrugated.
Mania, with convulsive attacks every half hour ; sudden falling ; grasping with fingers ; intended to scream, but could not, as mouth was full of rattling phlegm and froth on lips ; bending spine backward ; beating with one arm, grasping with other ; face
pale ; no consciousness.
Mania puerperalis.
Mania ; affects being a distinguished person, of high rank ; is full of fear.
Acute mania ; frenzy ; tears his clothing ; hallucinations ; violent impulse to be active ; threatens to use knife on those about him.
Paroxysms, during which he threatens to knock everybody down, to break furniture, to throw himself out of window.
Mania for light and company, cannot bear to be alone.
Mania, with insomnia ; very talkative ; thinks he has every imaginable disease ; that he has power over all disease ; masturbates ; at times perfectly rational ; fills his pockets with anything he can find ; thinks he
has snakes in him.
Had many strange fancies, such as imagining his wife had lovers concealed behind stove ; wandered restlessly about, and could only be restrained by force from running, out into street ; afterward had a fit that looked so much like apoplexy that he was bled.
Mania puerperalis in course of peritonitis ; phlebitis puerperalis.
Mania, originating in childbed ; sitting up, talking incessantly, in one strain for fifteen minutes, and with great vehemence ; always wants to go away.
Timid mania, in childbirth.
Delirium tremens : hallucinations which, especially at night, put patient in wildest restlessness, is chased about as if crazy ; heard continually, on right side of occiput, a loud voice, scolding, vituperating and accusing him of
ungodliness ; region of bladder distended, urine very scanty, for a few days previous, since day before, almost entirely suppressed ; constipated ; tongue white ; conjunctiva dirty yellow ; on reading letters blended, and danced before eyes ; talked continually,
sometimes prayed, expecting, with great anxiety, the flash of lightning which was to kill him ; considerable thirst ; profuse, fetid, warm sweat ; on lower extremities, which sweat much, a red, granular, itching eruption (lichen) ; trembling of limbs violent ; pulse
small ; makes mistakes about time, speaks of all sorts of affairs, which have happened at his office ; people seem to appear before him ; night very restless, talked much to himself, wanted to leave bed ; quaking, trembling of limbs ; misplaces words in
speaking ; glittering eyes, with sharp, staring look, pupils generally dilated ; inability to distinguish objects at a short distance ; on looking at objects a little way off (twenty to thirty steps) fantasies disappeared, hence sought the open air.
Young man with delirium tremens, had received, shortly before, a cut in cheek, and wound was in an inflamed condition ; pain in forehead ; tendency to sweat ; motions unsteady, hasty ; hands and tongue tremble ; appetite
poor ; chills in back ; continuous scintillations before eyes ; spoke of lizards and worms being on his clothes, and in air before him ; starts up suddenly as from fright ; pulse weak.
Often leaves his chair to rush at people whom he thought he saw fighting and quarrelling before him.
Has been drinking too hard, weather very hot ; since about five days, is walking day and night, can find no rest ; could not sleep ; saw a door open where there was none ; frightful dreams about fighting and killing ; takes offensive in
imaginary quarrels, and attacks aggressor ; runs against supposed object to attack it ; personifies voices, hears clock talk, and argues with it ; sores in mouth and tongue, probably from biting ; unquenchable thirst ; tingling in hands, which sometimes get
cold ; heavy, dull sensation in head ; left nostril closed ; feels > in cold air ; would like to die ; rolling of eyes ; trembling of hands ; urine scanty, red ; pulse full and hard ; afraid of delirium tremens ; weather very hot.
Nymphomania ; with diaphragmitis ; violent attacks, even to rage ; exalted sexual passion.
Religious mania ; pious looks, praying ; restless nights ; inspired talking, singing ; despairs of her salvation.
Hydrophobia ; water, a mirror, or anything bright, excites convulsions ; screams or howls in a high voice ; bites ; mouth dry ; pupils large ; unconscious ; afraid to be alone ; great desire to bite and to tear himself with his teeth ; wants
to bite those around him, with a terrible cry and rage ; fancies full or fright and terror, staring eyes, dilated pupils, turgid, swollen face, bloody froth at mouth, excessive restlessness ; aversion to watery liquids ; frequent spitting, slaver hanging from mouth ;
horrible convulsions ; stiffness of whole body.
Very violent ; loquacious ; wild ; difficult of restraint ; seeing rats and cats in room, and on walls ; pulse 120 ; high fever ; several men required to prevent him from getting out of bed, or jumping out of
window ; wanted a razor ; would take nothing out of a spoon or cup. θ Erysipelas of head and face.
Rage ; unmanageable ; grasping with his hands ; laughing ; rolling and creeping around in bed ; unable to stand on his feet ; pupils wide open ; insensible ; wants to kill people or himself.
With horrible cries he strikes at those around him, and is furious.
Uncontrollable fury, can scarcely be restrained ; flies at people ; strikes and endeavors to seize them.
Very changeable disposition, alternate anticipations of death and rage ; laughable gestures, and melancholy deportment ; affected haughtiness and inconsolableness ; loud laughing and groaning.
A woman, æt. 50, became weak-minded, childish, and laughed without cause ; had two paralytic attacks, each at 2 A. M. ; lay quietly on her back, with closed eyes ; delirious talk, < in evening ; wants to get away, throws things out of
window ; at 3 A. M. violent spasms, return every half hour ; wants to scream but cannot ; gurgling sound in throat ; foams at mouth ; opisthotonos ; strikes with one arm, grasps with other ; pale face ; unconsciousness.
Incoherent talking ; incessant ; like that of dementia ; says many curious, incomprehensible, foolish things ; prattling ; continual babbling ; constant senseless chattering ; talking in one strain, with distressed
face. θ Typhus.
Talkative ; but talking is impeded.
Excessive loquacity each time during menses ; tears and prayers and earnest supplications.
Inspired talking.
Great talkativeness ; full of wit, but indecent, sometimes in a rage, tearing his clothes ; pulse frequent, full and hard.
Talkativeness about lewd subjects.
Talks incessantly foolish things which nobody can understand ; sits down, rises up, kneels, or takes other queer positions ; tears his clothing and breaks chairs with remarkable celerity ; gives no answer, and evades carefully looks of other persons.
Ceaseless talking, mostly devout ; very earnestly beseeching. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Constant muttering to himself.
His thoughts ran upon obscene things, frequently put his hands to erected penis ; sought to bite or to catch flies.
Talks in a foreign tongue. θ Typhus.
Loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses.
Child awakens terrified, knows no one, screams with fright, clings to those near.
Sings, talks, fancies there are dogs in room, which he describes and attempts to chase, springing suddenly to his feet, and as suddenly toppling over.
Sings and utters obscene things.
Delirious laughing, making faces and behaving generally like an intoxicated person or like a fool, pulling his clothes, making laughing grimaces, with a staring look.
Prattling incessantly, without any sense or understanding.
Screams until he is hoarse, or loses his voice.
Crazy with distress ; jumps out of bed ; acts as if bed were being drawn from under her ; with spasmodic motions of head.
Falling down with a scream ; loud shriek, during fits.
Screams about growling in abdomen.
Would like to scream, but could not on account of phlegm.
Moaning ; tossing about.
He uttered constant moans, with occasional shrieks, and could only be pacified by holding his chest pressed close to his mother's breast.
Groaning ; moaning after menses ; restless motions.
Wife complains of husband neglecting her ; man accuses his wife of being faithless.
He is mute, does not answer ; expresses a wish by pointing to things.
He talks little and utters single, broken words in higher voice.
At times active efforts at utterance.
Could not utter a word ; sitting silent and brooding.
Disposed to weep : violently ; involuntary ; during day ; at night ; about her mental weakness.
Laughing.
Making all kinds of faces and imitating motions, gestures and voices of different animals.
After suffocative paroxysms with elevations of sternum had been > by tinc. amygd. amaræ : face red all over, eyes glassy and staring impudently or spitefully, followed with her eyes her little brother, moving her lips backward and forward, lips covered with shining
moisture ; choking frequently ; bitten by dog a year ago, dog not known to be mad.
When his father got him to recognize him, boy said : "Why, papa, is that you ?" and commenced stroking, or rather clawing, with his fingers his father's face.
Tears clothes ; breaks chairs with incredible quickness ; destroys things.
Disposition to suicide ; wanted a razor to cut his throat.
Endeavors to escape, imagines he is alone all the time, and is afraid.
Wandering up and down floor.
Starts involuntarily, quick as if a shock of electricity had passed through her body, with an air of affright and a loud shriek ; limbs writhed with convulsive motions, and her countenance and body distorted in every direction.
Grasps at things quickly and in a hurry, thinks he has seized a thing before touching it ; if he does hold the object he does not feel that he has hold of it.
He makes all motions hastily, with great force and hurriedly, so that he feels an anxiety if he cannot finish them at once.
While sitting on a sofa, fancied she was falling off, kept holding on to everything ; while in bed said that bed was being drawn from under her.
In his conscious moments, he asked to be held because he was falling.
Cries out fearfully, hides face in pillow, is terrified by presence or approach of physician ; after an attack of typhoid.
Intense pain in right side of head, with profuse lachrymation ; had frightful imaginings, would start up, scream out ; if spoken to would answer correctly, but immediately relapse into her wild state, head drawn spasmodically to one side, not continuous.
Inclination to climb up.
Hasty ; hurries off too fast, with all his might, if he wants to go to another place.
Gay excitement, alternations of laughing, crying out, singing, whistling, leaping up, catching at flies, picking at flocks.
Phlegmatic, with weariness of mind and sadness of heart ; everything is indifferent to him.
Not disposed to any real work.
Doleful, weeping, thoughts of death.
Crying mood, with inclination to give offence and to feel offended.
Downcast and full of anguish, believes herself unworthy of eternal bliss, because she is unable to perform her duties.
Feels as if nothing could give her any enjoyment.
In evening after lying down, very sad, with thoughts of death, and violent weeping.
Sad ; apprehends evil consequences from trifling things.
Melancholia, with walking about, crying and lamentations ; complains her husband has neglected her.
Inconsolable ; much affected by trifles ; disposed to weep, sometimes vexed ; neglects her duties, thinks she is not fitted for her position ; < after Fall equinox ; in darkness, when alone, and in morning ; wants light (sunshine) and
company ; heat and anxiety, rise from abdomen, causing redness of checks.
A peculiar sensation of anxiety ; anguish ; despair.
Pangs of conscience ; thinks he is not honest.
Ill-humor unto vehemence, followed immediately by a disposition to laugh, even aloud.
When spoken to appeared peevish and irritable, and answered by a sharp cry, or said sharply, "Let me alone," all his words being curtailed in a curious way.
Formerly an obedient boy, he is now headstrong and obstinate ; but in presence of strangers timid and anxious.
Very passionate, easily provoked into a rage.
Extreme irritability ; makes all his motions so fast that finally he cannot move any more, and all turns black before his eyes.
Slightest contradiction irritates her so much that she sobs with anger.
Continued violent scolding ; senseless quarrelling.
Child is very cross, and strikes or bites.
After fright : mania ; melancholy ; chorea ; epileptic attacks ; spasms.
On being reprimanded pupils dilate immediately.

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When considering Stram. the idea of violence comes into mind.

One cannot look upon a patient who needs Stram., or who has been poisoned with it, without wondering at the tremendous turmoil, the great upheaval taking place in mind and body.

Full of excitement, rage, everything is tumultuous, violent; the face looks wild, anxious, fearful; the eyes are fixed on a certain object; face flushed, hot raging fever with hot head and cold extremities, violent delirium. In his anxiety he often turns away from the light, wants it dark, is aggravated especially if the light is bright.

High fever with delirium; the heat is so intense that it may be mistaken for Bell., but it is usually a continued fever, only at times remittent, while the intense fever of Bell. is remittent always.

Stram. is like an earthquake in its violence. The mind is in an uproar; cursing, tearing the clothes, violent speech, frenzy, erotomania, exposing of the person. These symptoms are found in continued fevers, insanity, cerebral congestion. It is useful in violent typhoids.

It is useful in mania that has existed for some time; attacks of mania coming on in paroxysms, appearing with more or less suddenness, so that a single attack would look like Bell., but the history differentiates. Bell. would hardly be more than a palliative in the first attack, and the second exhibition of it would do nothing.

When the delirium is not on, the patient has the appearance of great suffering, forehead wrinkled, face pallid, sickly, haggard. In head pains this anxious look, indicative of intense suffering from meningeal involvement.

"Delirium bland, murmuring; violent, foolish, joyful, loquacious, incoherent chattering with open eyes; vivid; merry, with spasmodic laughter; furious, raving, wild; attempts to stab and bite; with queerest notions; with sexual excitement; fear as if a dog were attacking him."

Strange ideas about the formation of his body, that it is ill-shapen, elongated, deformed; strange feelings concerning his physical state. All sorts of illusions and hallucinations. One must distinguish between these states. An illusion is an appearance in the vision or mind which the patient knows is not true.

A hallucination is a state that appears to be true. A delusion is a more advanced state, when the patient thinks it is true and cannot be reasoned out of it. Fear and great anxiety on hearing running water.

He sees animals, ghosts, angels, departed spirits, devils, and knows they are not real, but later he is confident of it. He has these hallucinations especially in the dark. At times he has an aversion to a bright light which is painful, and again he must sit and look into an open fire, but this may cause cough and other symptoms.

"Sings amorous songs and utters obscene speech.

Crazy with distress, jumps out of bed, acts as if the bed were being drawn from under him.

Screams until he is hoarse or loses his voice.

Screaches and screams day and night with fever, with forms of mania.

Hasty, hurries with all his might if he wants to go to another place."

Violent laughter with sardonic expression on his face.

"Child awakens terrified, knows no one, screams with fright, clings to those near."

Hyosc. has wild maniacal delirium, but with very little fever. In Stram. there is considerable fever. In Bell. the fever is in the afternoon and evening, 9 P.M. to 3 A.M., and then a remission.

Violent convulsions involving every muscle of the body, opisthotonos, violent distortions, contraction of the limbs, biting of the tongue and bleeding from the passages. During spasms, covered with cold sweat; sometimes almost as cold as ice; cold sweat in mania; this feature is equaled only by Camphor.

Hysterical convulsions of long standing, associated with spinal trouble; worse from fright. Convulsions in nervous, excitable people brought on by fright.

Puerperal convulsions and insanity. It has the septic nature. Those cases going on for a while as melancholic, low spirited; she believes she has sinned away her day of grace, yet she has lived an upright life; sad; imagines strange things, does strange things, until finally violent delirium comes on; she screams aloud; exhorts people to repent; face red, and eyes flashing; exhorts and prays in incoherent speech. In such cases Stram. should be compared with Veratr.

In cerebral congestions, the delirium subsides into unconsciousness the patient has the appearance of profound intoxication; pupils dilated or contracted (in Bell. they are dilated).

Marked stupor, stertorous breathing, lower jaw dropped. So in typhoid and the low forms of fever, foetor, oozing of blood from the mouth and other passages.

Throat and mouth dry, tongue dry, swollen, so that it fills the mouth, pointed, red like a piece of meat, bleeding from the mouth, sordes on the teeth, lips dry and cracked; at times violent thirst yet dread of water.

Diarrhoea copious, involuntary; abdomen tympanitic, involuntary urination.

Basilar meningitis from suppressed ear-discharge. The Old School have no remedy for such cases. Forehead wrinkled, eyes glassy, staring, dilated pupils and scarcely any fever; awful pain through the base of the skull and there is a history of necrosis about the ear.

Violent headache from walking in the sun, and from the heat of the sun. Aggravated all day and at night the patient must sit up because of increased pain on lying down; he is worse from every motion on jar; eyes fixed and glassy, face flushed, but later it is pale, eyes fixed on a corner of the room, motionless; delirium, says strange things. Pain in the occiput.

High grade inflammation which it carries to the finish. Pus forms, abscesses with excruciating pain ( Hepar, Merc., Sil., Sulph.). Violent catarrhal inflammations, vicious, septic states. Chronic abscesses, carbuncles, boils, abscesses in the joints, the left hip-joint is a special locality. You will often be able to abort a case of hip-disease, and even when pus is present or fistulous openings have formed it is very useful. Fullness, suppuration, and pain in the cartilages.

Stram. stands alone among the deep acting remedies, in its violence of mental symptoms. Stram. cures eye troubles and irritation of the brain from overstudy; in students who are obliged to do much night work to keep up with day lectures. The patient seems almost blind; there is much pain in the eyes in dim light, relieved in intense light. The mental symptoms, cough, headache, etc., are worse from light.

"Dryness of throat and fauces, not benefited by any sort of drink.

Swallowing difficult and impeded with stinging pain in the throat, with pain in the submaxillary glands with convulsions; particularly fluids from constriction of throat."

Choking on attempting to swallow water. It has done some good work in hydrophobia. ( Hyosc., Bell., Canth., Hydroph.)

In old cases of suppuration of the lungs where the cough is worse from looking into the light, Stram. is often a great palliative and causes no aggravation.

Retention of urine, cannot pass it if he ceases to strain; old men who have lost power over the bladder, stream flows slowly, cannot make haste.

Cardiac affections with great constriction of the chest, mental irritability, delusions as to personal identity, inability to sleep in the dark, great anxiety when on a train going through a tunnel, pulse irregular, heart feeble.

Sleep full of dreams and turmoil.

Adapted to diseases of young plethoric persons (Acon., Bell., Ver. v.); especially children, in chorea; mania, fever, delirium.

Delirium: loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses, raves; simulates Belladonna and Hyoscyamus, yet differs in degree. The delirium is more furious, the mania more acute, while the congestion though greater than Hyoscyamus is much less than Belladonna, never approaching a true inflammatory condition.

Loquacious: disposed to talk continually (Cic., Lach.); incessant and incoherent talking and laughing; praying, beseeching, entreating; with suppressed menses.

Convulsions with consciousness (Nux—without, Bell., Cic., Hyos., Op.); renewed by sight of a light, a mirror, or water (Canth., Bell., Lys.).

Desires light and company; cannot bear to be alone (Bis.); worse in the dark and solitude; cannot walk in a dark room.

Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen.

Hallucinations which terrify the patient.

Desire to escape, in delirium (Bell., Bry., Op., Rhus).

Imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, lying crosswise, etc. (Petr.).

Head feels as if scattered about (Bap.).

Eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant; pupils widely dilated, insensible; contortion of eyes and eyelids.

Pupils dilate when child is reprimanded.

Face hot and red with cold hands and feet; circumscribed redness of cheeks, blood rushes to face; risus sardonicus.

Painlessness with most complaints (Op.).

Hydrophobia: fear of water, with excessive aversion to liquids (Bell., Lys.); spasmodic constriction of throat.

Stammering; has to exert himself a long time before he can utter a word; makes great effort to speak; distorts the face (Bov., Ign., Spig.).

Vomiting as soon as he raises his head from pillow; from a bright light.

Twitching of single muscles or groups of muscles, especially of upper part of body.

In the dark; when alone; looking at bright or glistening objects; touch; after sleep (Apis, Lach., Op.); swallowing.

From company; bright light; warmth.

Quotidian; double quotidian; typhoid; typhus; yellow.

6 to 7 A. M. All periods, day or night.

Fever without chill, noon and midnight (11 A. M. and 11 P. M., Cac.).

Without thirst. Shaking chill through whole body, with single jerks, partly of whole body or only of single limbs, elbows and knee-joints. Chilliness runs down along the back as from cold water (as if dashed with cold water, Rhus, Sabad.). General coldness of the whole body, with red face (Arn.), hot head, and twitchings of the limbs. Chills, with great sensitiveness to uncovering (excessively sensitive to cold air, Camph.—chill through and through from the slightest uncovering in warm air, Thuja). Skin icy cold, and covered with cold sweat, hands and feet livid (Ver.). Face, hands and feet blue and cold (Camph., Ver.). Coldness of the limbs. Hands and feet extremely cold, bluish and almost immovable; coldness and paralysis of limbs (Nux—numbness of limbs, Ced.).

With thirst. Violent fever at noon, returning at mid- night (11 A.M., returning at 11 P. M., Cac.). Heat of head and face, then coldness of whole body, then general heat, with anguish; sleeps during heat (Apis, Ign.—falls asleep during heat and sweats profusely, Pod.). Nausea and vomiting in evening followed by violent, anxious heat. Heat over whole body from least motion (least motion relieves the heat, Caps.). Dry, glowing heat over whole body, with redness of head and face, and coldness and paleness of rest of the body (Bell., Op.). Skin hot and burning, with sweat at same time (Sep.). During heat, pains became violent if he put out a finger from under the cover (chilly, if she puts a limb from under the cover, Bar., Canth.). Covers up closely. During chill, heat in head and face; during the hot stage, cold feet and legs; during sweat, cannot bear to be uncovered. Vertigo; delirium; epileptiform convulsions (Hyos.).

With thirst (Ars., Cinch.). Profuse sweat, with burning in the eyes and dim vision. During sweat, good appetite, diarrhœa, distention of abdomen, and colic. Cold sweat over whole body. Perspiration of forehead and face, rest of body red, dry and hot. Oily sweat (Phos.—as if mixed with oil, Cinch.).

Clean or whitish coated, with red papillæ; or swollen, dry and difficult to protrude. Juicy fruit tastes dry; food tastes like straw.

During fever, in children, they cry out in sleep; start suddenly, twitch and jerk; eyes half open; pupils dilated; urine suppressed.

Stramonium, like Nux, cannot bear to be uncovered in any stage; but not for the same reason. The Nux patient is cold and chilly, if uncovered in the slightest, even cold on moving in bed; while the Stramonium patient is cold, and with the coldness comes immediately violent pain.

Dulness of sense; also before a rash.
Coma, spasms; later, snoring, unconscious, jaw hangs, hands and feet twitch, eyes roll; pupils dilated; automatic grasping of hands towards nose, ears, etc.; difficult to swallow liquids.
Unconscious, stupid.
Awakens terrified, knows no one, screams with fright, clings to those near (child).
Feels stupid, with indifference to everybody and everything.
Memory weak; loses thoughts before she can give them utterance; weeps about her weak mind also after sunstroke.
Hallucinations, which terrify the patient sees ghosts, hears voices back of his ears sees strangers or imagines animals are jumping sideways out of ground, or running at him.
Strange, absurd ideas; thinks herself tall, double, or lying crosswise; one-half of body cut off, etc.
Says he converses with spirits; prays fervently; sermonizes.
Ecstatic.
Delirium with grand ideas; general paralysis.
Delirium; shy, hides himself; tries to escape; conscious of her condition; full of fear; talks incessantly, absurdly, laughs, claps her hands over head, wide-open eyes; great sexual excitement, during night.
Lies on the back, knees and thighs flexed, hands, joined; delirium alternating with tetanic convulsions.
Mania: for light and company; cannot bear to be alone; runs about; rage; proud, haughty; merry, exaltation.
Hydrophobia; water, a mirror or anything bright excites convulsions; screams; bites; mouth dry; pupils large; unconscious. (Best drug, change dose till cure certain).
Talks in a foreign tongue. θ Typhus.
Loquacious; talks all the time, sings, makes verses.
Melancholic, fears death; weeps all the time.
Pangs of conscience; thinks he is not honest.
Alternate exaltation and melancholy.
Alternation of delirium and somnolence.
On being reprimanded, pupils dilate immediately (child).
After fright: St. Vitus dance; epilepsy; mania; melancholia.

Vertigo: cannot walk in dark, or with eyes closed; staggering, obscuration of vision, red face; reeling as if drunk.

Tormenting sensation of heat in whole head, mostly vertex, with great dullness; after sunstroke.
Pressure on forehead when rising, could only half open eyes, could not look up.
Headache congestive, morning; worse toward noon, gradually decreasing, toward evening; pains terrible, fears going mad, would run or press head against a wall.
Pulsating in vertex; fainting.
Heat, pulsating about vertex, attacks of fainting, loss of sight and hearing, face bloated, turgid; convulsive motions of head, frequently raising head from pillow, or bending it backward; better lying still.
Sensation of lightness of head.
Pain in head; nausea, delirium, eyes wild, starting, inflamed; frenzy, convulsive spasms and twitchings of nerves, hands and feet become cold, pulse sinking. θ Meningitis.
Headache, with loss of sight and hearing.
Rheumatic headache, with dullness; difficult thinking; worse on vertex or forehead; worse evening and night.
Tearing in neck and over head, shunning light; better from warmth; worse from cold; worse on getting up in morning.

Jerks head up from pillow.
Boring head into pillow.
Head bent backward.
Moves head, thrusts it in all directions: in spasms, mostly to the right.
Supports head with hands while bending or rising; after sunstroke.

Light dazzles; shuns light; convulsions from bright or brilliant objects.
Hemeralopia.
Illusions in colors, often dark, less often blue and red.
Double vision, obliquely.
Vision cloudy, as through a veil.
Total blindness. θ Typhus.
Pupils dilated; sometimes immovable and insensible to light.
Eyes: wide open, staring; brilliant; wild and red; protrude; vacillate; vessels injected; contorted; rolling; squinting; half open, in sleep; inflamed.

Very sensitive to noises; least noise startles him.
Hardness of hearing.
Sensation as of wind rushing out of ear.
Otalgia, left side, violent pains, remitting somewhat at night, better when covering head warmly.

Nose feels stopped, yet he breathes freely.
Nasal discharge yellow, bad smelling.
Nosebleed: dark, in lumps; with whooping-cough.

Red, bloated, hot; red, eyes wild; hot and red, with cold hands and feet; circumscribed redness of cheek; pale.
Forehead wrinkled, frowning often in brain diseases.
Thinks face elongated. θ Hysteria.
One-sided erysipelas, with meningitis; spasmodic symptoms alternately with paralytic.
Prosopalgia nervosa, pains maddening, spasmodic starts and shocks through body, throws arms upward; skin of forehead wrinkled.
Pain in cheek, near left ear, as if sawing the bone; muscle in oscillating motion.

Moves lips back and forward.
Lips: red; with yellow streak on vermilion border, as in malignant fevers; dry; or sore and cracked.
Lock-jaw after convulsions.
Mouth spasmodically closed.
Lower jaw hangs.

Grinding the teeth.
Sordes on teeth.

Taste: bitter, all food tastes like straw to her.
Stammering; distorts face; makes great effort to speak; mouth drawn now to right again to left.
Speechless; sometimes with spasmodic laughter at night, weeping during day.
Tongue: whitish, with fine red dots; point redder than usual; dry, red; dry and parched; pale red, in constant motion; swollen, coated dry; yellow in centre, dry; swollen, hangs out of the mouth.

Mouth and throat so dry they glisten; thirst.
Saliva increased; dribbling.
More saliva with chills and fever.
Viscid slime in mouth.
Whole inner mouth as if raw.

Difficult swallowing, with stinging, pressing pain in submaxillary glands.
Averse of fluids; shrinks from the proffered cup.
Averse to water, even sight of it causes spasm; constriction of throat, froth, spitting; hydrophobia: 36.
Feeling as of boiling water rising in throat.
Spasm of œsophagus, worse trying to swallow.

Appetite either increased or decreased.
Violent thirst.
Troublesome thirst even with much saliva.
Thirstless, sometimes with cold or hot stage and sweat; averse to water during fever.
Averse to water: 13.

Hiccough; restless at night, screaming in sleep.
Nausea: flow of very salt saliva; but cannot vomit.
Vomiting: dark green, mixed with food; in evening; vomits bile.
Diaphragmitis, delirium; burning along diaphragm; short-breathed; spasms, struggles against water offered.

Drawing in back part of stomach.
Inflammation, burning; anxiety.
Intense pain, vomits nearly all food.
Cardialgia, eructations, vomiting all food; emaciation.
Epigastrium tense, hard, painful.

Heat, anxiety in abdomen.
Wind in abdomen awakens her; screams, thinking herself full of creeping things.
Abdomen hard, tense; tympanitic; distended, but not hard.
Colic: with rumbling; violent, coming on suddenly, in evening with faint sensation and cold shivers.

Stools: black preceded by writhing in bowels, and delirium; smelling like carrion, blackish; painless, diarrhœic.
Cholera infantum; foul-smelling stools; strabismus; awakes with fright; pale face.
Constipation: with convulsions; cardialgia; alternating with diarrhœa.
Hemorrhoids: painful; bleeding.
Coagulated blood passes from the anus.

Kidneys secrete less or none, in acute diseases, especially of children.
Urine: clear, profuse, passed suddenly at night; also after delirium; copious with spasms; passed involuntarily; suppressed, especially in cerebral diseases; dribbles slowly, feebly; despite urging no stream forms, no pain.
During urination: rigors, rumbling in belly.

Exalted sexual passion.
Child constantly has hand on the genitals with spasms.
Onanism causing epilepsy.

Nymphomania; lewd talking; sings obscene songs; has smell of semen.
Excessive menstrual flow; drawing in thighs, abdomen and upper limbs.
Menstrual flow very watery.
During menses loquacity; strong smell as of semen.
After menses; sobbing, whining.
Dysmenorrhœa.
Metrorrhagia, loquacity, singing, praying; sometimes passing large coagula.

During pregnancy: mania; faceache; full of strange ideas.
Threatened abortion; unceasing talking, singing, imploring.
Puerperal convulsions, with copious sweating.
Scanty lochia; puerperal mania, milk still copious; many hallucinations; talks foolishly.

Voice: higher and finer; screeching; indistinct.
Constriction of larynx and thoracic muscles.

Rattling breathing: toward 12 P.M.; in whooping-cough; in chill or sweat.
Frequent inspiration and expiration; breath oppressed.
Breathing: short, difficult; anxious during heat or sweat.
Spasms of muscles of chest; single parts twitch; spasmodic motions of arms; sometimes chest fixed; breathes only with diaphragm and abdominal muscles.
Inspiration slow, expiration quick.

Of drunkards.
Periodical, painless, spasmodic cough, shrill screeching tone; worse morning; from touching throat; from walking in wind; in vaulted rooms; after debauch; after fright; from looking at bright objects; from drinking water.
Whooping-cough, barking, croup-like, with suffocating contraction of chest, violent beating of heart, rattling, anxiety, congestion, blood-spitting; convulsions.

Pain in breast, cough and other pre-pneumonic symptoms during recovery from meningitis.

Palpitation.
Beating of heart, so increased by motions he cannot speak for hours; trembling, twitching as in chorea; murmurs instead of regular sounds; consequent on fright.
Pulse: full, strong; frequent, hard; irregular; small and spasmodic; slow, in typhus; sometimes trembling or imperceptible; sometimes double and very quick, with quiet respiration.

Red rash on chest. θ Typhus.

Constant pain in cervical and upper dorsal vertebræ.
Bending backward.
Drawing pain in spine.
Spot in back pains when touched.
Put right arm often to small of back and draws mouth, as if he had severe pain.

Raises arm above head, claps hands, makes graceful, gyratory motions.
Grasping about with hands, as if reaching for things; searching for things; picking.
Grasps the throat; sighing, groaning.
Hands and arms tremble.
Clapping hand over head.
Hands clenched (not thumbs) but they can be opened.
Difficult to bring hand to tumbler or carry latter to mouth.
Panaritium, pain intolerable, drives to despair; relieves pain of suppuration.

Coxalgia, left side; also for violent pains when abscesses form.
Inside of right thigh red, swollen. θ Typhus.
Spasmodic rigidity of lower limbs.
Paralysis of lower limbs; loss of speech; staring.
Constant trembling of feet.

Arms agitated, lower limbs quiet.
Drawing, laming, somewhat, spasmodic pains in muscles.
Fingers and heels numb, latter sometimes painful, rheumatic headaches.
Limbs feel as if "gone to sleep".
Cold hands and feet.

Lying: 3. Inclined to lie down: 36. Rising: 2, 4. Rising head: 3, 4. Bends backward: 3, 4. Bending: 4, 31. Motion: 4, 29.Walking: 36.

Great inclination to lie down.
Totters as if giddy, cannot make even a few steps without help.
Frequent twitching; sudden jerks through the body.
Trembling of limbs.
Convulsions, especially opisthotonic, from bright, dazzling objects, water or touch.
Child rigid as a board.
Chorea from fright; creeping in limbs, then violent movements generally crosswise; rotate arms over head; jump up, climb over tables, etc.
Hysteria preceded by great sensitiveness, weeping and laughing alternately; sexual excitement.
Spasms; abdomen puffed; alternation of clonic and tonic; body very hot; continually changes character.
Said to be very effective for hydrophobia (vary the dose even to the production of symptoms).
Epilepsy from fright; attacks sudden, with screams, afterwards drowsy; aching in stomach; periodical.
Gives warning of approach by premonitory symptoms.
Catalepsy, limbs can be moved by others.
Tonic spasms.
Muscles will not obey the will.
Paralysis of one, convulsions of other side.
Left side paralyzed, stammering, unconnected words, sheds tears.
Paralyzed limbs after apoplexy.

Drowsy by day; staggering and drowsy.
Sleepy, but cannot sleep; after the convulsions.
Snoring, deep sleep.
Coma, rattling respiration, bloody froth at mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Falls into a deep sleep; deep breathing, snoring.
Sleepless, tosses about.
During sleep: laughs; screams; starts; sexual excitement; emission; spasms; sit up, looks about, talk incoherently.
Awakens: with a solemn air of importance; all things seem new; screaming, seems frightened, knows no one, shrinks away, or jumps out of bed.

Morning: 3, 7, 27. Afternoon: 40. Evening: 3, 16, 19. Night: 1, 3, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, 28. Toward midnight: 20. Toward morning: 7. Day: 11, 37.

Warmth: 3. Warm covering: 6. Cold: 3. Vaulted rooms: 27. Sunstroke: 1, 3, 4.

Chilly, as from cold water down her back.
Chills: run down back; and general coldness, with red face and twitchings; with great sensitiveness to uncovering; with heat in head.
Fever in children; cry out in sleep; start, jerk; eyes half open, pupils large; suppressed urine.
Anxious heat with vomiting.
Afternoon, first heat of head and face, then general coldness, then general heat.
Heat: anxious, with vomiting; delirium, thirst and sweat; of whole body, face vivid red; at the same time sweat.
Covers up during heat.
Sweat: cold all over; with delirium; with impaired vision, or shunning light; oily of putrid odor.

Worse during equinoxes: 36.
Worse in summer: spasms, ecstasy.
Attacks of epilepsy come periodically: 36. Gradually decreasing: 3. Suddenly appearing: 19, 21.

Right: 4, 33. Left: 6, 8, 33, 36. Right to left: 11.

Painful sensations as if joints were loose, with anguish therefrom.
Arms and legs feel as if separated from body.

Mitigates the terrible pains of tumors, abscesses.
Plethoric, especially young persons.
Emaciated, cries day and night; cough.
Anasarca, after scarlatina.

Touch: 31, 36. Pressure: 3.

Whole skin and conjunctivæ red, like crimson.
Skin hot and dry.
Worse when eruptions are suppressed, or do not come out well.
Burns.
Entire face swollen, muttering delirium, small-pox before vesicles form.
Restless, skin itching; rash coppery-red, skin dry, hot.
Measles, before eruption, with convulsions, frightful visions of rats and mice, seem frightened, try to hide; spasms of œsophagus; body hot, face red, puffed.

Children especially; chorea, mania, fever.
Young, plethoric persons.

In metrorrhagia from retained placenta, with clapping hands, delirium, loquacity, etc.; Secale acts better than Stramon.
Ailments from: vapor of Mercur., Plumbum.
Antidotes to Stramon.: Bellad., Hyosc., Nux vom.; against large doses: lemon juice; Senna (cerebral symptoms); tobacco injections; vinegar.
Stramon.: useful in whooping-cough after Bellad., had acted too powerfully.

A tincture is made of the seeds of Datura Stramonium, L.

Stramonium acts like other plants of the Solanum family in producing cerebral excitation, particularly delirium, which here assumes a peculiar form. ▶ Its scarlatina-like eruptions is similar to that of Belladonna. ▶ Suppression of urine is one of the peculiarities to be noted.

Hyosc. , Bell., Merc., Secale c., Verat. alb.

▶ Suppression of all excretions (Secale c.). ▶ Wildness of manners. ▶ Inarticulate cries. ▶ Lying on their backs; upon stomach, boring head into pillow; prostrate and helpless; on the floor, cold, senseless, weak, and breathing feebly. ▶ Muscles hard. ▶ Contraction of muscles; except sphincter of bladder. ▶ Relaxation of voluntary muscles. ▶ Sat upright on a lounge supported by an assistant on each side and refused to be placed recumbent. ▶ Falling over when sitting, especially towards right side, making a circular sweep. ▶ Threatens to fall on rising. ▶ Sways to and fro like a drunken man. ▶ Tottering so as to almost fall from its chair. ▶ Imperfect control over voluntary motions. ▶ Inability to perform co-ordinate movements. ▶ Loss of voluntary motion. ▶ Inability to take food, to see, hear, speak or feel.

▶ Trembling of whole body (Arg. n., gels., Cimicif., Merc.); with rigidity of trunk and limbs, constant moans, occasional shrieks, appeared as if terribly frightened, could not stand and would not lie down, pupils dilated and insensible, the east noise startled him, holding a candle before eyes caused convulsions of limbs, especially a drawing backward and increased rigidity, a nervous effort to swallow, inability to articulate, loss of voluntary motion; agg. abdomen, on becoming warm in bed, with prickling over whole body, mind timid and restless, preventing sleep, aggravation of every symptom after paregoric, with clammy sweat, on closing eyes hideous, menacing spectres, and the bed seemed suspended and tantalized like a feather between the two floors.

▶ Constant restless movements (Hyosc., Merc., Rhus t., Bell.). ▶ Subsultus tendinum (Hyosc.). ▶ Chorea-like movements; and features continually changing, at times laughing, at times expressing astonishment, lips moved as if trying to speak, sometimes puckered as in whistling, mouth often opened and snapped together, tongue often run out rapidly and liked about cheeks, head thrown backward and forward, spasmodic twisting of spine and whole body, limbs in constant motion, not jerking, anxiety and restlessness, rubbing nose and mouth, pulling at lips, groping about, fingering the bed-covers, scratching face or throat at times the arm suddenly sank down relaxed for a moment, whole body exhausted then the spasms would begin anew (See Merc.).

▶ Twitching; and inability to swallow of talk (Hyosc., Op.); of limbs and neck; of jaw, lips and limbs, right side; of jaw, lips left arm and right lower limb; of head from side to side, then general T., trismus, spasms of neck, difficult swallowing, stupefaction, then he lay unconscious on his back, when he was raised the neck and spine bent backward, limbs in constant convulsive motion and frequent shaking of body as from electric shocks; changing to movements as if the boy were acting in pantomime, but at times convulsions, after a bath he moved his mouth as if he wanted to speak, he seemed in an ideal childish world, all the ideas seemed reproductions.

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Suppression of all excretions, particularly of urine.
Trembling of the whole body.
Constant restless movements.
Subsultus tendinum; face constantly changing its expression owing to the involuntary contractions of the various muscles.
Convulsions very easily brought on and reproduced; a lighted candle, a mirror, running water or the attempt to drink, may bring on most frightful spasms.
Convulsions accompanied by screams, shrieking voice, alternating with rage and most violent excitement.

Illusions of the most fanciful or frightful description; seems to see frightful images chasing him, but especially sees small black animals, such as bugs, dogs and all sorts of crawling things.
Mental excitement usually associated with violent spasms of the pharynx, so that any attempt to swallow liquids causes choking and screaming.
Delirium, with sexual excitement and ridiculous gestures.
Errors in judging of the size and distance of objects.
With the frightful delirium, he froths at the mouth, eyes protrude as in terror, bites, strikes, and has a squeaking voice.
Apprehension; starts up in fright, all motions are hasty and forcible.
Much incoherent talking.
Stupefaction, with frequent, wild, starting-up, dilated pupils, difficult swallowing, terror.

Great rush of blood to head, which becomes flushed and hot; with vanishing sight and hearing.

Eyes staring and wild, protruded, pupils dilated, with injected conjunctiva.
Illusions of vision, especially of size and distance; small objects look large, even parts of the body seem enormously swollen.
Eyes distended.

Face red and swollen; often an expression of terror.

Tongue swollen, dry and stiff, bloody froth exudes from the mouth.
Speech becomes difficult, stammering; unintelligible.

Swallowing difficult or impossible on account of spasm.
Dryness and redness, not > water; attempt to drink renews the spasms.

Thirst not > drinking, which he dreads to attempt.
Tastelessness of food.
Sour or green vomiting.

Distended, hard, painful to the touch.
Tearing in the region of the navel, as if it would be torn out.

Intestinal secretions suppressed.

Urine suppressed; bladder empty.

Sexual erethism, with indecent speech and action; hands constantly kept on the genitals.
Menstruation excessive, dark and clotted.

Voice hoarse and croaking, high and squeaking.
Spasmodic, toneless cough.
Suffocation.
Expectoration difficult, with a tight chest; desire for open air.

Palpitation.
Pulse rapid and soft.

Cervical spine sensitive; slightest pressure causes screams.
Drawing in the middle of the spine.
Opisthotonos.

Trembling, twitching of tendons, numbness.
Staggering gait.

Scarlet rash over the whole body, of a very bright color.

Clinical:
Frequently valuable for the effects of suppressed eruption in scarlatina, with delirium, suppressed urine, threatening convulsions.

Shaking chill, with twitchings of muscles and coldness of the extremities, with heat of the head and face.
General fever, particularly in the face and head; hot, dry skin, which is bright red, with anxiety, thirst, often with vomiting.

Stram. / (Stray-Twin.) / Stranger.

Stramonium,-Resembles Bell.,
And Hyoscyamus as well.
He twitches, trembles, wakes with fright,
And wanders in delirious flight.
Falls in convulsions, spasms, fits,
And chokes, and stutters, bites and spits,
Is amorous, devoid of shame,
Or revels in religious flame.
Has mania induced by fright,
Or fits, from sight of objects bright.
Has fever high, hot face and head,
With skin like scarlatina red,
Or from his skin all rash may flee,
And all secretions checked may be.
Is worse alone, and in the night,
And from the sight of objects bright.
But better in the house, to see
The light of day, and company.

The Stranger,-Has starting in sleep.

The Stranger, Zeb S. Apis, is a negro saint.

This Stranger,-Who is subject to stuttering speech,-Is with Ignatia Bovis, the spy.

Starting in Sleep-Out Cries: Stram., ZN., Bell., Sul., Apis, Hell., Ig.

Stuttering-Stammering Speech: Stram., Ig., Bov., Spi.

Indicated in affections of the nervous system, as suggested by the symptoms. In delirium tremens with terrifying hallucinations; in convulsions from fright and in hysterical convulsions generally; in puerperal mania with lewd imaginings and speech; insanity; scarlet fever with brain symptoms, the eruption being tardy or suppressed; spasmodic asthma; hydrophobia; chorea when the choreic movements involve now one set of muscles, then another.

Face red, hot, bloated; eyes staring and wild.

Delirium with terrifying hallucinations, as of wild beasts chasing him. Loquacious, constantly going from one subject to another; merry delirium; great lewdness and obscenity.

Complains that it is dark in the room and demands light.

Diplopia, sees things a little above and to the left of the original.

Throat feels very dry to him, although in reality moist.

Aversion to liquids; the sight of water or anything suggesting it (mirror) causes spasmodic contraction of the throat and great difficulty of swallowing.

Painlessness of all complaints.

Suppression of urine.

Convulsive action of single muscles or of groups of muscles; without loss of consciousness.

Worse in a dark room; when alone; from trying to swallow; when looking at a bright object as a mirror.

Better when not alone; when the room is lighted brightly; from warmth.

Extremely variable phenomena. Changing deliria of various sorts, frightful, loquacious, lead, ridiculous, with pride, etc. Funny pranks alternating with sad demeanor. Loud laughing alternating with sad demeanor. Loud laughing alternating with groaning and lamenting. Drollery alternating with earnestness. Premonitions of death alternating with attacks of rage. Ungovernable rage with great violence, howling, shrieking and striking about. Violent raving mains with frightful phantasies, visions, trembling and clonic spasms. Mental disturbances of drunkards. Extraordinary anxiety. Low - spirited, with weeping and fear of death. Melancholy. In consulate over trifles. Incessant idle talking. Constant restlessness. Want of memory. Insensible to mental impressions. Desire for light, company and sunshine. Illusions of fancy. Affectation.

Reeling, stupefying vertigo, with vanishing of sight and hearing, and headache. Light feeling in head. Fainting, with a dry throat, and a pale, followed by a red face.

Hot, with a glowing red face, cold hands and feet, convulsive twitching of body from every touch, and aversion to uncover. Extraordinary congestion to. Headache, with vanishing of sight and hearing. Heat and throbbing in vertex. With vanishing of sight and hearing. Heat and throbbing in vertex, with fainting attacks. Convulsive motions, frequently raises it from pillow, or moves it to and fro. Meningitis. Hydrocephalus. Worse: Touch. Better: Lying quietly.

Red, inflamed. Staring, sparkling. Distortions of lids. Inflammation of edges of lids. Dilated, insensible pupils. Short sight. Illusions of sight and hearing. Surrounding objects appear blue.

Alternately pale and deep red, swollen, turgid. Stupid, disordered countenance. Anxiety and fear is expressed in countenance and actions. Deep folds and wrinkles on. Wasted countenance. Distortion of mouth. A yellow stripe on red part of lip.

Inclination to gnash.

Dry. Bloody foam at. Difficult swallowing from spasmodic constriction and dryness of throat. Swelling and paralysis of tongue. Stuttering with contortion of face. Complete aphonia.

Anxiety in pit with oppressed breathing.

Hiccough, spasmodic.

Vomiting of sour mucus or green bile.

Appetite: Violent thirst. Fear or aversion to water and all fluids.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth. Tastelessness of food, it has no taste at all.

Hard, tensely distended. Painful to motion and touch. Hysterical spasm of. Bellyache, as though' navel would be torn out, and diarrhoea.

Retained. Cadaverous, stinking. Discharge of blood from anus.

Suppressed. Involuntary discharge.

Menses: Increased, of coagulated, black blood. Rank stench of body during. Uterine hemorrhage.

Periodically recurring attacks of painless, barking, spasmodic dry cough, in a shrill screeching tone, excited by constriction of larynx and chest.

Difficult, oppressed. Frequent sighing.

Constriction of, and of chest muscles. Shrill screeching voice.

Spasm of muscles. Too profuse secretion of milk in nursing women.

Bent backward.

He falls over his own feet.

Trembling of limbs (also in drunkards). Increased and easier mobility of voluntary muscles. Graceful movements. Twitching in limbs. Crawling in limb. Spasmodic attacks. Convulsion. Chorea. Eclampsia. The convulsions are excited by the heat touch, as well as by glistening objects and light. Consciousness, with stiffness and immobility of body or with clonic spasms. The body is bent backward and the countenance distorted. Insensitive. Painlessness with most symptoms.

Effects of suppressed eruptions.

Frightful phantasies during stupefying somnolency with snoring. Awakes frightened.

Pulse: Extremely irregular, mostly full, hard and accelerated, then again small and quick, sometimes slow and scarcely perceptible, also intermittent and trembling. Chill, and universal coldness, often very long continued, with a red face and twitching. Extraordinarily sensitive to uncovering. Running down back. Universal coldness in afternoon, after previous heat of head and face followed by general heat. Inflammatory fevers with deliria. Heat Of whole body with vivid redness of face and mostly with concomitant sweat. Hot, red face with cold hands and feet. Anxious heat, with vomiting. Sweat: Profuse over entire body, even with the heat, with great thirst. Only offensive heat, with great thirst. Oily, offensive General, colds. Copious, at night.

Allied Remedies: AP., Bell., Cham., Cic., Gels., Hell., HYOS., Ign., Nux-v., Op., Plb., Verat-a.

Trembling of the limbs (in drunkards).

Increased and easy movability of the muscles subservient to the will (voluntary musculature) and slowness of the muscles not subject to the will (involuntary musclature).

Suppression of all secretions and excretions.

Twitching in the limbs.

Sensation as if the limbs were separated from the body.

Spasm from fright.

Of use in certain forms of epilepsy.

St. Vitus's dance.

Tingling in the limbs.

The convulsions are induced by contact, after each motion, from light and from glistening objects.

Stiff immovability of the body with consciousness.

Painlessness with most of the ailments.

Faintings with snoring.

Violent perspiration.

Effects from suppressed eruptions and violent congestions of blood to the head.

Visions in delirium.

Desire for light and company.

Violent range.

Mania with continuous phantastical illusions.

Mania, especially of drunkards.

Pain in loins.

Urine turbid, brown and thick, which is very scanty.

No force to the flow of the stream.

Catamenia too profuse, the blood is clotted.

Secretion of milk increased.