Understanding Platina

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo M.D., F.F.Hom. (Lon.) et al.

What is Platina’s first impression of reality? 

Can we assume that her haughty and proud attitudes are reactions, consequences due to some sort of suffering? So, departing from that point of view, when Platina becomes acquainted to her surroundings, what was her first sensation? 

She was a happy child. She wanted to become in good mood, she wanted to sing, laugh, to have a good relationship with her parents, friends, relatives. She is even fighting to keep her emotional state present through out her childhood, although her first sad experiences with those persons she met in early life are starting to shake her confidence in the world.

Very lively mood, so that she could have danced, half an hour after weeping, [2]. 

Involuntary inclination to whistle and sing,

At first very lively for two days, everything seems joyous, she could laugh at the saddest thing, then on the third day great sadness, in the morning, and evening, with weeping even at joyous and laughable things, also if she is spoken to, [2]. 

(…) so that she would embrace anything, and laugh at the saddest things, [2].

Very earnest and taciturn the first day, on the next day she made jokes and laughed, at everything, 

Puerperal mania of a violent type; she would dance, sing, talk rapidly and continuously, when awake; everything was removed from the room in which she was confined (except her piano, of which she was fond), because she would destroy everything she could lay hands upon; she would play for hours at a time upon her piano, sometimes beautifully, and at other times would bang and pound without any attempt at harmony; assumed or seemed to feel herself a person of great superiority; when her violent paroxysms were off, more moderate, she complained of pain in back.

But, strange to say, this lively mood comes in Platina associated with a very particular quality. It comes altogether with a sensation of strength.

Attacks of cheerfulness; increased feeling of strength.

Sensation of increased vigor, mental quiet, and inclination to think, [2]. 

We believe that this combination, her lively and happy mood, combined with her sensation of strength will be her guiding lines through out her live. She will fight with all her strength to keep it, to maintain her cheerfulness along her entire live. No one will make her sad, unhappy or depressed.

Out of sorts with the whole world; everything seems too narrow; weeping mood.

We know that life is a hardship burden to everyone. We lose our beloved ones, finding a mate for life is almost like winning a lottery and society will impose its rules at every moment in our lives stating what we should do or not do. And people are being send to war, to concentration camps, to gas chambers and being bombed with nuclear or chemical weapons. We are supposed to marry the undeserved husbands and wives, to face the hardships in our jobs, to survive sexual violence. 

Some of us will accept it as a natural consequence of life and probably will suffer its consequences. And some of us are endowed to some kind of diplomacy that enables this person with a better social strategy.

But Platina will simply not accept it. She also knows, deep in herself, that she can’t trust anyone.

Fears that something will happen, fears that her absent husband will never return to her, though he comes back regularly.

She can rely only in herself; she suns the craziness around her. She wants to be happy, to have a long and cheerful life. And she will fight for it.

Reserved, cold, absent-minded in the company of friends, in the open air; she only answers, when spoken to, in a semi-conscious way; only after having answered does she reflect whether the answer was suitable; she is constantly absent-minded, without knowing where her thoughts are, [2]. 

Everything seems strange and horrible to her. 

Illusions of fantasy on entering the house, after walking an hour as if everything about her were very small, and all persons physically and mentally inferior, but she herself physically large and superior; the room seemed gloomy and unpleasant, with apprehensive, sad, fretful mood, whirling vertigo, and discontent with the surroundings of which she was usually food; everything always disappears in the open-air sunshine, [2]. 

Then comes what we most commonly known about Platina: her pride, her sensation of being superior to the others. Why? Because she just wanted to be happy. We know how much it takes for being happy in this world…

She is now using her strength to find her way in this world: she will not accept anything that comes against her desire of happiness.

Delirium, with fear of men; often changing, with overestimation of oneself.

Kent: (…) It is especially suited to hysterical women such as have undergone fright, prolonged excitement, or from disappointment, shock, or prolonged hemorrhages. She becomes arrogant and haughty.

She is afraid of men, of what they represent to her. We can’t forget that this symptoms were brought to light in the XIX century, a very different time, when women were playing a very specific role in society: they were prepared to become mothers, wives, to live in the shade of her husbands. Their behavior were guided and established by the rules and moral behavior of that social and religious period in mankind. There is in Hering’s MM this beautiful case:

Melancholia in a woman æt. 60; twelve years ago, after catamenia had been absent for months, there occurred a permanent leucorrhœa, of very fetid odor; one morning did not quit her bedroom as usual and never left it for twelve years; spent her time seated on bed, in deep meditation or praying aloud; complaining, weeping and howling; rejected all cooked food and took no notice of anything about her; only at night got out of bed and ran about room without apparent object; suffers unspeakable pangs of conscience in consequence of a faux pas when thirty-two years old; says she has brought disgrace upon her family, and that she has incurred the penalty of damnation; in order to do penance gave away whatever she could lay her hands upon, so that she had to be constantly watched; after her confessor asserted that she could not hope for pardon or heaven, she seemed in absolute despair; bemoaned her misery throughout the night, wringing her hands and beseeching that she might be delivered from the hell of her conscience; twice attempted self-destruction; in spite of her tendency to suicide, dreaded death and disliked any conversation pertaining thereto; wished to live and do penance in order to mitigate her eternal punishment.

If we read the case, there’s nothing about Platina in it. Everything is about cultural behavior of that time. But the prescriber for the case was intelligent and sensitive enough to perceive were the real and only symptom was: the faux pas, when she was 32 years old. Again, in our times, to have a sexual relation or even being in love to someone else outside marriage will never bring someone at the gates of hell. This symptom must be understood with the eyes of the past.

A faux pas is a socially awkward or tactless act, especially one that violates accepted social norms, standard customs, or the rules of etiquette.[1]

The expression comes from French, where it means "false step", "misstep" (in a physical as well as a figurative sense).[2] It has been used in English for over 300 years.[3] 

Source: Wikipedia

As we said, all the rest is cultural. Her priest, the Church and its assertions, her damnation and, as a consequence, she blaming herself through her entire life. 

But why Platina was prescribed? Because she had enough courage to do it, she took her chances and give way to her desires. One day in her life she decided not to follow the rules of society, she had decided to do what she wishes to do. And Platina cures the lady from that life long depression.

The next consequence is already predictable: her pride as a reaction to society, as a defense mechanism to the strong criticism that will fall upon her. 

Arrogant, reserved, absent-minded.

Cold, haughty, too well satisfied with one's self, and not at all anxious about the future. 

Disturbed state of mind: religious, with taciturnity, haughtiness, voluptuousness and cruelty. Mania: with great pride; fault-finding; unchaste talk; trembling and clonic spasms; caused by fright and anger.

Arrogant, proud feeling, [2]. 

Affections from pride.

We all know what it means not to follow the religious and social rules of our times. The individual that do not follow the rules of his social, ethnical or religious group will be casted away. He will no longer be accepted as part of that group. And that’s why Platina feels that way. She decided that she was strong enough to fight for herself, for what she believes concerning her happiness in this world. And she is paying the price.

Thinks she is left entirely to herself and stands alone in the world.

Very restless disposition, so that she could not remain anywhere, with sadness, so that the most joyful things distressed her; she thought that she had no place in the world, life was wearisome, but she had great dread of death, which she believed near at hand, [2].

It seems to her as if she does not belong in her own family; after a short absence everything seems entirely changed, [2]. 

As we can read in the symptom, dying is never an option. She wants to live, she wants to enjoy life as much as she can, in the way she regards as her on way. She is very afraid of dying.

Much anguish; she feels as if she would lose her senses and die soon.

Feeling as if he would die soon, with shuddering at the thought, [2

Feeling as if she would soon die, with very lachrymose mood and actual weeping, [2]. 

Precordial anguish with palpitation and fear of death and of imaginary forms, ghosts.

After anger alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death. 

She is now tired to fight for herself against the world, she is tired to convince others to let her doing what she wants to do. She has never accepted men’s rules, she despised her mother’s resigned behavior towards her father and she will never obey anyone else that she doesn’t agree with. She must be listened, accepted, respected. Her will and her longings must be considered, because she just want to be happy.

And if is not happening, she will turn herself onto a very angry person.

Contemptuous, pitiful, looking down upon people usually venerated, with a kind of casting them off, in paroxysms against her will. 


Illusions of fantasy on entering the house after walking an hour, as if everything about her were very small and all persons mentally and physically inferior, but she herself physically large and superior; the room seemed gloomy and unpleasant, with apprehensive and fretful mood.

Irritable, easily angered, sometimes quite violent, at same time great bodily activity; at other times very melancholy and lachrymose, with indifference; depressed condition of physical powers; she would lie on sofa, would hardly speak, anxiousness and fear of approaching death; menses much too frequent, with copious leucorrhœa between periods, consisting of clear mucus; menstrual flow intermingled with clots which were discharged with preceding pain in belly and a certain feeling of bearing down; aversion to coition and yet dreams of intense lasciviousness, terminating an emission of profuse sticky fluid; bowels constipated or diarrheic.

Quarrelsome, [3]. 

Very peevish and easily excited, he could have beaten any one without provocation, [2].

Very peevish and irritable about innocent things and words, so that she could have beaten herself and friends, at times, [2]. 

Ill-humored for a long time, from a slight vexation; spoke only when obliged to, extremely unfriendly, abrupt, quarrelsome, [2]. 

Very ill-humored and indolent, in the morning (after forty-eight hours), [2].

Arrogant, reserved, absent-minded. 

Altogether with her sensation of strength, with her desire of happiness and her strive to lead a cheerful life, comes Platina sexual drive. Her sexual desire is part of her longing for pleasure and enjoyment of life. It’s something like – let’s party – way of seen things.

Excessive sexual desire, particularly in virgins; premature or excessive development of sexual instinct.

Erotomania of a hysterical girl; insatiable desire; hyper-irritation; itching in uterus; restlessness and sleeplessness; either moroseness or excessive hilarity; cries very easily; menses profuse, lasting six to eight days.

Nymphomania, < in the lying-in; tingling or titillation from genitals up into abdomen.

Satyriasis.

Sexual desire excessive, with violent erections, especially at night. 


Too frequent pollutions; epilepsy arising from onanism.

Platina is probably to be found in men and women living in permanent conflict with society, religion and moral rules. Their desire for good living, “dancing and singing” and for the pleasures of sex will bring them on a every day conflict basis with everyone around them. It started long ago with her parents, brothers and sisters, and she had been seen as a disobedient child, full of voluntarism and haughtiness. Her mother will probably state that she is a child who does only what she wants to do. That she is courageous, she faces all the difficult situations and she has no respect for her, mother, only for her father.

Platina starts his sexual life very early, even against her family or religious traditions, creating a lot of disagreement with her family.

She will soon consider her friends and relatives through a critical look, as if they were not subjects to have any special consideration. They are inferior and small.

She just wants to not to be bothered, she wants to do what she wants: she will not be tied down to some sort of social cuffs, will not being impeded to enjoy all the pleasures of life.

She is now at war against society and its rules. Why they don’t leave her alone? Why they don’t accept her like the way she is? Why her will is not to be respected?

She will follow her desires and longings because she is strong enough to do it.

But then come life and its troubles. 

We will see someday someone in our praxis, telling this very same tale…

Groups in Platina

Hahnemann, Allen, Hering e Kent

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo M.D., F.F.Hom. (Lon.)

Humor

 

Sensitive mood.

Sensitive mood,. 

 

Attacks of cheerfulness; increased feeling of strength.

Sensation of increased vigor, mental quiet, and inclination to think, [2]. 

Dancing, laughing and singing.

Very lively mood, so that she could have danced, half an hour after weeping, [2]. 

Involuntary inclination to whistle and sing,

Involuntary disposition to whistle or sing; canine hunger ; eats greedily. 

Talks almost continually about fanciful things or such as have really occurred; of faithless love; of her teacher and school days; laughs, sings, dances, weeps, makes grimaces, and gesticulates; clings obstinately to her ideas, without, however, growing angry about it; face distorted; eyes fixed; no desire to eat or drink; things offered her are hastily dispatched. 


At first very lively for two days, everything seems joyous, she could laugh at the saddest thing, then on the third day great sadness, in the morning, and evening, with weeping even at joyous and laughable things, also if she is spoken to,. 

Very earnest and taciturn the first day, on the next day she made jokes and laughed, at everything,

Anxiety

Anxiety with trembling of hands and flushes of heat over whole body.

Deathly anxiety, as if her senses would vanish, with trembling of all the limbs, oppression of breath and violent palpitation.

Anxiety, weeping and palpitation, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws.

Anxiety, with palpitation, especially on walking, [1]. 

Anxiety,  

Anxiety, with trembling of the hands and flushes of heat over the whole body,

Deathly anxiety, as if her senses would vanish, with trembling of all the limbs, oppression of the breath, and violent palpitation, [2].

Anxiety and apprehension about the heart, and fretful all day, [2]. 

Frequent sudden feeling of anxiety through the whole body, [2]. 

Great anxiety, with violent palpitation, when attempting to talk in company, so that talking was difficult, [2]. 

Weeping mood

Out of sorts with the whole world; everything seems too narrow; weeping mood.

Silence, with involuntary weeping.

Weeping mood and sadness; < in house; > in open air.

Sits alone, sad and morose, without talking; followed by inconsolable weeping, especially when spoken to.

Low-spirited; inclined to shed tears; < in evening; weeps with the pains.

Weeping mood and crying after being mildly reproached.

Weeping mood and sadness; < in house; > in open air.

Weeping and laughing; yawning, again weeping, aversion to everything, [3].

Weeping mood, and crying after being mildly reproached,.

Very lachrymose and fretful; she often wept involuntarily, which relieved her,

Silence, with involuntary weeping, even after the most friendly conversation, so that she was very much vexed with herself.

Mental disturbance after fright, grief or vexation.

Trifling things produce profound vexation; remains a long time in the sulks.

Ill-humored

Quarrelsome, [3]. 

Very peevish and easily excited, he could have beaten any one without provocation, [2].

► *Very peevish and irritable about innocent things and words, so that she could have beaten herself and friends, at times, [2]. 

Ill-humored for a long time, from a slight vexation; spoke only when obliged to, extremely unfriendly, abrupt, quarrelsome, [2]. 

Very ill-humored and indolent, in the morning (after forty-eight hours), [2].

Ill-humor in morning.

Morose and discontented.

Arrogant, reserved, absent-minded.

Irritable, easily angered, sometimes quite violent, at same time great bodily activity; at other times very melancholy and lachrymose, with indifference; depressed condition of physical powers; she would lie on sofa, would hardly speak, anxiousness and fear of approaching death; menses much too frequent, with copious leucorrhœa between periods, consisting of clear mucus; menstrual flow intermingled with clots which were discharged with preceding pain in belly and a certain feeling of bearing down; aversion to coition and yet dreams of intense lasciviousness, terminating an emission of profuse sticky fluid; bowels constipated or diarrheic. θ Melancholia.

Sudden great depression, [3].

Mental depression from onanism. 

Depressed, quiet, sad, [2]. 

Vacillating mood, [2

Alternating and contradictory states

Very lachrymose, and much too easily disturbed by slight causes, [1]. in the open air, so that she would embrace anything, and laugh at the saddest things, [2].

Very earnest and taciturn the first day, on the next day she made jokes and laughed, at everything, [2].Sad and fretful the first morning, on the next indescribably happy, especially 

After anger alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death. 

Irritable, easily angered, sometimes quite violent, at same time great bodily activity; at other times very melancholy and lachrymose, with indifference; depressed condition of physical powers; she would lie on sofa, would hardly speak, anxiousness and fear of approaching death; menses much too frequent, with copious leucorrhœa between periods, consisting of clear mucus; menstrual flow intermingled with clots which were discharged with preceding pain in belly and a certain feeling of bearing down; aversion to coition and yet dreams of intense lasciviousness, terminating an emission of profuse sticky fluid; bowels constipated or diarrheic.

Mood changing; cheerful or depressed.

Physical symptoms disappear and mental symptoms appear, and vice versa.

With oneself

Kent: The Platinum proving represents the woman's mind perverted. It is especially suited to hysterical women such as have undergone fright, prolonged excitement, or from disappointment, shock, or prolonged hemorrhages. She becomes arrogant and haughty.

One of the most striking characteristics of this drug is pride and over-estimate of one’s self. She imagines that she is of a high born family and that her friends and relatives are of lowly origin and looks down upon them.

Her acquaintances are inferior to herself. A strange thing about this remedy is that this imagination extends to the body. She imagines that her body is large and that the bodies of other people are smaller in comparison with her own. She is in a contemptuous mood, anxious and serious over matters that. are not serious, irritable about trifling things, is moody and sulky over slight vexations, anxious, weeping. Palpitation, trembling in all limbs during every little excitement, fears death and loathes life.

Fear is a very prominent feature in this remedy. Fears that something will happen, fears that her absent husband will never return to her, though he comes back regularly. Restless disposition, excitable, walking, moving about, and weeping.

The mental symptoms alternate with the physical symptoms. Strange illusions of fancy. Imagines than she does not belong to this race and becomes insane over religious matters, sits in the corner and broods and says nothing. Takes on insanity; becomes a sexual pervert, utters unchaste speech and trembles.

Spasms will come on from vexation or anger. Whistles, sings, and dances. Talks constantly about fanciful things. She may go into melancholy or into mania. Any disturbance of her pride will bring on her symptoms.

Death

Much anguish; she feels as if she would lose her senses and die soon.

Feeling as if he would die soon, with shuddering at the thought, [2

Feeling as if she would soon die, with very lachrymose mood and actual weeping, [2]. 

Precordial anguish with palpitation and fear of death and of imaginary forms, ghosts.

Disgust for everything, no desire for anything, [3].

Proud feeling

Puerperal mania of a violent type; she would dance, sing, talk rapidly and continuously, when awake; everything was removed from the room in which she was confined (except her piano, of which she was fond), because she would destroy everything she could lay hands upon; she would play for hours at a time upon her piano, sometimes beautifully, and at other times would bang and pound without any attempt at harmony; assumed or seemed to feel herself a person of great superiority; when her violent paroxysms were off, more moderate, she complained of pain in back.

Arrogant, reserved, absent-minded.

Delirium, with fear of men; often changing, with overestimation of oneself.

Cold, haughty, too well satisfied with one's self, and not at all anxious about the future. 

Disturbed state of mind: religious, with taciturnity, haughtiness, voluptuousness and cruelty. Mania: with great pride; fault-finding; unchaste talk; trembling and clonic spasms; caused by fright and anger.

Arrogant, proud feeling, [2]. 

Affections from pride.

Reserved, cold, absent-minded in the company of friends, in the open air; she only answers, when spoken to, in a semi-conscious way; only after having answered does she reflect whether the answer was suitable; she is constantly absent-minded, without knowing where her thoughts are, 

Melancholia in a woman æt. 60; twelve years ago, after catamenia had been absent for months, there occurred a permanent leucorrhœa, of very fetid odor; one morning did not quit her bedroom as usual and never left it for twelve years; spent her time seated on bed, in deep meditation or praying aloud; complaining, weeping and howling; rejected all cooked food and took no notice of anything about her; only at night got out of bed and ran about room without apparent object; suffers unspeakable pangs of conscience in consequence of a faux pas when thirty-two years old; says she has brought disgrace upon her family, and that she has incurred the penalty of damnation; in order to do penance gave away whatever she could lay her hands upon, so that she had to be constantly watched; after her confessor asserted that she could not hope for pardon or heaven, she seemed in absolute despair; bemoaned her misery throughout the night, wringing her hands and beseeching that she might be delivered from the hell of her conscience; twice attempted self-destruction; in spite of her tendency to suicide, dreaded death and disliked any conversation pertaining thereto; wished to live and do penance in order to mitigate her eternal punishment.

She could not think what was the matter with her, [3].

Alone

She thinks she is left wholly to herself, and stands alone in the world, [2]. 

Thinks she is left entirely to herself and stands alone in the world.

Very restless disposition, so that she could not remain anywhere, with sadness, so that the most joyful things distressed her; she thought that she had no place in the world, life was wearisome, but she had great dread of death, which she believed near at hand, [2].

Satiety of life, with taciturnity and fear of death.

Past events trouble her.

Mental disturbance after fright, grief or vexation.

With the Others

Very peevish and easily excited, he could have beaten any one without provocation.

Very peevish and irritable about innocent things and words, so that she could have beaten herself and friends, at times, [2]. 

Very peevish and easily excited; he could have beaten any one without provocation

Reserved, cold, absent-minded in the company of friends, in the open air; she only answers, when spoken to, in a semi-conscious way; only after having answered does she reflect whether the answer was suitable; she is constantly absent-minded, without knowing where her thoughts are, [2]. 

Looking down to others

Kent: Her acquaintances are inferior to herself. 

Pride and overestimation of one's self; looking down with haughtiness on others.

She imagines that her body is large and that the bodies of other people are smaller in comparison with her own.

Contemptuous, pitiful, looking down upon people usually venerated, with a kind of casting them off, in paroxysms against her will.

Illusions of fantasy on entering the house after walking an hour, as if everything about her were very small and all persons mentally and physically inferior, but she herself physically large and superior; the room seemed gloomy and unpleasant, with apprehensive and fretful mood.

Delirium, with fear of men; often changing, with overestimation of oneself. 

Mania: with great pride; fault-finding; unchaste talk; trembling and clonic spasms; caused by fright and anger.

Forgetful, absent-minded; listens often attentively to conversation, and at the end knows nothing about it; melancholy with great fear of death; imagines himself superior to his wife; griping in umbilical region, particularly towards evening, as if he had drunk unfermented beer; although there are frequent urging and pressure in rectum, stool does not occur daily, is difficult and discharged in pieces, with much pressure of abdominal muscles

Dislikes her children; calls them too litlle.

Inclination to embrace everybody.

Great indifference.

Indifference, he does not seem to care whether his absent wife dies or not, [2]. 

While suffering from a slight erysipelas faciei, took leave of her children, exhorted her husband to join church, wanted people to join her in prayer, felt happy to join her Redeemer.

Strange illusions of fancy. 

Imagines than she do not belong to this race and becomes insane over religious matters, sits in the corner and broods and says nothing

She thinks all persons are demons.

It seems to her as if she does not belong in her own family; after a short absence everything seems entirely changed, [2]. 

He dreamed of the death of a distant sister, and wondered that he had had no intimation of it, 

With the Environment

Out of sorts with the whole world, everything seems too narrow, with weeping mood, [2]. Everything seems strange and horrible to her.

Precordial anguish with palpitation and fear of death and of imaginary forms, ghosts.

It seems to her as if she does not belong to her own family; after a short absence everything seems entirely changed.

Illusions of fantasy on entering the house, after walking an hour as if everything about her were very small, and all persons physically and mentally inferior, but she herself physically large and superior; the room seemed gloomy and unpleasant, with apprehensive, sad, fretful mood, whirling vertigo, and discontent with the surroundings of which she was usually food; everything always disappears in the open-air sunshine, [2]. 

Dreams of fires; she could not get ready to go to them, [2].

Dreams: amorous, with debility, in both sexes; of fire, wants to go, but cannot get there.

Anxious dreams, and on suddenly waking, gloomy thoughts and sad visions, [1]. 

Anxious confused dreams of war and bloodshed, [2]. 

Sexuality

Kent: Sexual excitement will bring on her symptoms. The usual mental symptoms are intermingled with trembling of the limbs, sexual excitement, and numbness of various parts of the body and limbs. Compressing sensations, pressing pains, pressure of the limbs as if bandaged or constricted, tension of the skin of the limbs as if bandaged.

Extreme sexual erethism is found in both male and female.

In the male there is great sexual erethism driving to secret vice. It has cured epilepsy arising from onanism. Sexual erethism is one of the most prominent features of Platinum, in women. Unbearable sexual excitement and voluptuous crawling in the genitals.

Such extreme sensitiveness of the external genitals that it is impossible for the woman to wear a napkin during menstruation. Such extreme sensitiveness of the vagina that it is impossible for the physician to make an examination with the index finger. It is not an inflammation but a hyperesthesia.

Increased sexual excitement in young girls, in hysterical girls. Violent sexual desire in married women with itching, tingling, and voluptuous sensations. Pain in the ovarian region, especially the left. It has cured sterility of long standing, especially sterility that is supposed to come from excessive sexual excitement.

Male Sexuality

Satyriasis.

Sexual desire excessive, with violent erections, especially at night.

Too frequent pollutions; epilepsy arising from onanism.

Morbid excitement inducing onanism, especially if prepubic; child has a melancholy and sheepish look; epileptiform spasms; hollow eyes; yellow skin; face pale and sunken; consciousness not often; limbs usually drawn up and spread apart.

Constant erections, at night, without emissions or lascivious dreams, [2]. 

Erections, always in sleep, with amorous dreams (after six days), [2].

Erections, towards morning, [2]. 

Coition, with very little satisfaction, and very short, [1]. 

Female Sexuality

Nymphomania, < in the lying-in; tingling or titillation from genitals up into abdomen. Voluptuous crawling in genitals and abdomen, with anxious oppression and palpitation, followed by painless pressure downward in genitals, with exhaustion and stitches in sinciput; sympathetic with ovarian and uterine troubles, especially in barren women, driving to despair. Excessive sexual desire, particularly in virgins; premature or excessive development of sexual instinct.

Erotomania of a hysterical girl; insatiable desire; hyper-irritation; itching in uterus; restlessness and sleeplessness; either moroseness or excessive hilarity; cries very easily; menses profuse, lasting six to eight days.

Sudden sexual passion in a woman of 40, of very phlegmatic temperament and without the least sexual inclination; terrible sexual excitement, so that her whole nature seemed changed; wanted only to satisfy this passion, which seemed to stifle everything else; although fulfilling her marital duties, was insatiable; in her dreams saw only voluptuous pictures, and awake spoke of nothing else; unusual voluptuous itching in uterine region. 

Genitals excessively sensitive; cannot bear to be touched; will go into spasms from an examination; will almost faint during intercourse.

Intelectual

Very absent-minded and forgetful.

Any serious thought is terrifying.

She could not think what was the matter with her, [3]. 

Disinclination for mental work, [2]. 

Absent-minded, she hears a conversation, but after it is finished knows nothing of it, [2]. 

Memory deficient, [3]. 

Very absent-minded and forgetful, she does not hear what is addressed to her when repeated several times, [2].

Neurological symptoms

Weak hysterical women sigh much; lungs feel so weak they cannot take a full breath.

Palpitation and trembling of heart; labor-like pains in uterine region; lower lumbar vertebræ sensitive to pressure. θ Hysteria.

Spasmodic affections of hysterical women and children; tetanic spasms, with wild shrieks, alternating with catalepsy; twitches of single muscles, trembling, shivering; < at dawn.

Spasms: from sexual erethism; alternating with dyspnœa to suffocation; preceded or followed by constriction of œsophagus and respiratory embarrassment; tonic, without loss of consciousness; face pale, sunken; child after spell lies on its back, kicks off clothes, and draws up knees and spreads them apart.

Spasmodic rigidity of limbs without loss of consciousness, with spasmodic yawning, followed by locking of jaws; loss of speech; distortion of eyes; involuntary twitching of corners of mouth and of eyelids; during intervals restless sleep, in which child lies upon back, with legs flexed, knees separated and drawn towards abdomen; constantly kicks covering off legs; face pale, sunken; eclampsia with anemia.

Spasms followed by an adynamic condition in which she would lie motionless upon back for days unable to speak, partly on account of trismus and partly on account of aphonia; consciousness unimpaired; this condition alternated at times with constriction of chest; twitching of eyelids; eyes distorted, rolled upward, so that only whites are visible; roaring in head like the noises of a mill; short, dry cough; difficult, anxious, deep respiration; tension, pressure and stitches in both sides of chest, so that she cannot lie upon sides; stiffness of nape of neck and pain on turning head; pain in abdomen; constipation; stool only after much exertion; pressure in stomach after eating; aversion to meat; at times rigid extension of arms, fingers and feet; paroxysms at daybreak; pulse soft, small.