Understanding Arsenicum alb.

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

 

What is Ars. first impressions of reality?

Our hypothesis comes from a combination of aspects brought to life by the provers. The first is that Ars. was born with an internal certitude of what must be done. He is endowed with an easy and strong mind, a general calmness inside himself. He was born with a quality that many of us will search to achieve through life:

Calm and equable mood; no event disturbed his equanimity..

She retained her mental faculties, clear consciousness, and an unshaken quiet disposition, 

Great seriousness,

Placid mood; remained the same no matter what happened.

In the first minutes, great tranquility of soul and cheerfulness; half an hour after, excessive anxiety and restlessness; (…)

He looks to reality with seriousness and balance. But to what reality is he looking? What he first saw when he did lay his eyes to our world? 

He sees all kinds of vermin on his bed, throws handfuls of them away, and tries to escape from them.

Dreams full of care and danger; he wakes with a cry, and, when asleep again, dreams of something else.

Dreams: full of care, sorrow and fear; about thunderstorms; of fire; of black water and darkness; of death and dead persons; misfortunes; embarrassments and vexations. 

Then comes the result of this combination. A clear mind, looking into reality with the eyes that only sees dreadful and threatening things. And he has to help. He must help his family, everyone else and himself. He must do something, even if he doesn’t know clearly what he must do. His conscience will never aloud him a moment of rest. He shouldn’t stop, by no means. Not helping his fellow men is like not helping himself. Not saving them from death is like not saving himself from death itself.

Dissatisfied and angry with himself all day; thinks he has not accomplished enough, and reproaches himself bitterly. 

Nightly dreams full of threats, apprehensions, or repentance.

Gloomy forebodings while lying in bed, in evening, fears something may have happened to his relatives. 

Fixed idea that he and his family will die of starvation.

There is that dream about someone else who had regretted hanging himself and now is crying for help. As the dreamer could not cut loose this poor fellow knot, he himself is overwhelmed by grief, guilty and took the blame to himself; this time he will be the one to die at the gallows.

Mania; headache; excessive anguish; noise before the ears, as of many large bells, and when opening his eyes he constantly saw a man who had hung himself in the garret, and who requested the other by signs to cut him down; the former ran up to the latter with a knife, but not being able to cut him down, he became desperate, and attempted to hang himself; this attempt being foiled, he became so restless that he could scarcely be kept quiet; he lost his speech, though he had his full understanding; and when attempting to express himself in writing, could only write down unintelligible signs, trembling and weeping all the while, the forehead covered with the sweat of anguish, kneeling down and raising his hands as if praying).

Fighting against a world like the one Ars. saw in his fantasy is a very hard task to perform. He has before him a quest that will last as long as he lives. His extreme conscienciousness - summoned by his deranged view of reality - will throw him at the direction of a man who will directs his life into a full dedication to the others. His conscience will never leave him in peace. He must do better, helping more and more folks. He must save the others from the darkness, from the “blackwater”, from death himself. 

Most of the symptoms that had been left are related to his great effort to succeed, his exhaustion due to the extreme task he performed or his frustration of not been able to do it. 

Anxiety like that of one who has committed murder; driven from place to place; avoids meeting persons, thinking that he has offended them. θ Mania.

Continued anxiety, a mental anguish, as if he had not done his duty, without however, knowing wherein.

Not accomplishing his task, not saving people´s lives is like not to save himself from death, from the darkness, from disease and from poverty.

Anxiety and fear; he sees an absent acquaintance lying dead upon the sofa, and has great dread of him,.

The greatest fear and anguish; she ghosts day and night.

He has so much fear that he jumps out of his bed, and hides himself in the wardrobe, which he can hardly be induced to leave. 

He is now prone to reproach, scold to himself and the others. 

Very fretful, indignant, capricious; every word offends her, and makes her very angry, when she should answer.

Indignation, alternating with mildness; in her indignation she looks at nobody, and does not want to hear anything; she also cries.

Ill-humor, when waking in the morning; she knew not what to do with herself from ill-humor; pushed the pillows and bed-cover away, and would not look at or talk to anybody.

Dissatisfied the whole day, and very fretful at himself for not having done enough,

Melancholy; after financial losses; cannot be consoled; thinks he will have to die, with his family, from starvation; sleepless nights; walks about wringing his hands, with moaning and groaning.

As we saw in the gallows dream, Ars. wants to kill himself for not been able to save that man’s life. His fear of death will be at his side all his life. He knows - from the beginning of his life - that he must help otherwise he will be himself held responsible for not saving someone’s life and then should be sentenced to death penalty. 

Terrible anxiety, flushing up; restless glance, no rest by day or night; inclination to commit suicide. θ Mania.

Disposition to suicide, 

After midnight, a frequent desire to kill himself, by stabbing his heart through and through. 

He despairs and weeps, and imagines no one can help him, that he must die; he is cold and chilly, and afterwards generally weak. 

Ars. may express his fearful mind through out a series of events. But they must all be related to something he didn’t achieve, and this must always be related to someone else. For instance: “If I fail the test my parents would have to pay for my studying year the same amount all over again and I know they can’t afford it” (even if it’s not the case).

It’s not so difficult to understand now why Ars. is so clean, tidy and neat. As he perceives the world as a place filled with blackwater, his natural reaction should be as follows.

 

Groups em Arsenicum alb.

Hahnemann, Hering, Allen & Kent

Kent:

The anxiety that is found in Ars. is intermingled with fear, with impulses, with suicidal inclinations, with sudden freaks and with mania.

It has delusions and various kinds of insanity; in the more active form, delirium and excitement. Sadness prevails to a great extreme. So sad that he is weary of life; he loathes life, and wants to die, and the Arsenic patient does commit suicide. It is a remedy full of suicidal tendencies.

The anxiety takes form also in the restlessness, in which he constantly moves. If he is able to get up lie goes from chair to chair; the child goes from the nurse to mother, and from one person to another. When in bed, unable to sit up, the patient tosses and turns from side to side; if he is able, he climbs out of bed and sits in the chair, keeps moving from one place to another, and when thoroughly exhausted, he gets back into bed again.

The restlessness seems to be mostly in the mind; it is an anxious restlessness, or anguish with the idea that anguish is a deathly anxiety. That is an effort to express it in the extreme. It seems that he cannot live, and it is not pain that drives him to anguish, but it is an anxiety intermingled with restlessness and sadness.

The mental symptoms show in the beginning anxious restlessness, and from this a continuation towards delirium and even insanity with all that it involves; disturbance of the intellect and will.

"He thinks he must die."

I went to the bedside of a typhoid patient once with all the general aspect I have described; he was able to talk, and he looked up at me and said:

"There is no use of your coming, I am going to die; you might as well go home; my whole insides are mortifying."

His friend was seated on one side of the bed, giving him a few drops of water, and just about as often as he could get there with it he wanted it again.

That was all he wanted; his mouth was black, parched and dry. He got Arsenic. One of the characteristic features of Arsenic is thirst for small quantities often, just enough to wet the mouth. It is commonly used as a distinguishing feature between Bryonia and Arsenic for the purpose of memorizing the Bryonia has thirst for large quantities far apart, but Arsenicum little and often, or violent unquenchable thirst.

"Thoughts of death and of the incurability of his complaints."

"Thoughts crowd upon him; he is too weak to keep them off or to hold on to one idea."

That is, he lies in bed tormented day and night by depressing ideas and distressing thoughts. This is one form of his anxiety; when tormented with thoughts, he is anxious. In the delirium he sees all kinds of vermin on his bed.

 

 

These are instances of insanity that take on first a state of anxiety, restlessness, and fear. Religious insanity, with the delusion that she has sinned away her day of grace, the biblical promise of salvation do not apply to her, there is no hope for her, she is doomed to punishment.

She has been thinking on religious matters until she is insane. Finally she enters into a more complete insane state, a state of tranquility; silent, and with aversion to talk. So we see one stage enters into another; we have to take the whole case together; we have to note the course that the case has run in order to see it clearly and note that in one stage there were certain symptoms and, in another stage, other symptoms.

 

Fear is a strong element in the mental state, fear to be alone; fears something is going to injure him when he is alone; full of horror; he dreads solitude and wants company, because in company he can talk and put off the fear; but as this insanity increases he fails to appreciate company and the fear comes in spite of it. He has a violent increase of his fear and horror in the dark and many complaints come on in the evening as darkness is coming on.

Extreme anxiety in the evening in bed.

"Averse to meeting acquaintances, because he imagines he has formerly offended them."

 

Great mental depression, great sadness, melancholy, despair, despair of recovery. He has dread of death when alone, or on going to bed with anxiety and restlessness. He thinks he is going to die and wants somebody with him.

The attacks of anxiety at night drive him out of bed. This is an anxiety that affects the heart, and so the mental anxiety and cardiac anxiety almost seem to coincide. A sudden anxious fear comes over him at night; he jumps out of bed with fear that he is going to die, or that he is going to suffocate.

"Anxiety like one who has committed murder."

This is one form of his anxiety; he finally works up to the idea that the officers are coming after him, and watches to see if they are coming in to arrest him. Some unusual evil is going to happen to him; always looking for something terrible to happen.

"Irritable, discouraged, restless."

"Restlessness, cannot rest anywhere."

"As a consequence of fright, inclination to commit suicide."

 

Sensitiveness is a feature of Arsenic; sensitiveness to smell and touch; over sensitiveness of all the senses. A peculiar feature that perhaps I have not brought out is the over sensitiveness to the circumstances and surroundings of the room.

The Arsenicum patient is an extremely fastidious patient. Hering once described him as "the gold headed cane patient." If this is carried out in a woman who is sick in bed she is in great distress if every picture on the wall does not hang perfectly straight.

Those who are sensitive to disorder and confusion and the disturbed and made worse until everything is placed in order have a morbid fastidiousness which has its similimum in Arsenic.

Humor

Calmness of mind

Placid mood: remained the same no matter what happened. 

Tranquility of soul. θ In a man afflicted with melancholy. 

At first great tranquility and cheerfulness, followed in half an hour by terrible restlessness and anxiety.

Calmness of mind (in the case of a despairing melancholy person), 

Calm and equable mood; no event disturbed his equanimity*.

She retained her mental faculties, clear consciousness, and an unshaken quiet disposition, [134]. 

 Great seriousness,. 

Talks in his sleep, divulged a secret which otherwise would not have passed his lips. θ Cancerous inoculation.

 

*Equanimity (Latin: æquanimitas having an even mind; aequus even animus mind/soul) is a state of psychological stability and composure which is undisturbed by experience of or exposure to emotions, pain, or other phenomena that may cause others to lose the balance of their mind. The virtue and value of equanimity is extolled and advocated by a number of major religions and ancient philosophies.

Cheerfulness

Inclined to cheerfulness and activity. 

Cheerfulness, alternating with ill humor. 

 Rather cheerful and disposed to busy himself, 

Mind energetic and fresh, inclined to gayety 

 He likes to converse with others,. 

Anxiety

Excessive anxiety. θ Headache. θ Hematemesis. θ Colic. θ Intussusception. θ Œdema pulmonum. θ Hydrothorax. θ Measles, etc. 

Attacks of anxiety at night driving out of bed. θ Mania.

Great anxiety, must jump out of bed. θ Ascites.

Frequent attacks of anxiety, < at night; fears death. θ Influenza. θ Diarrhœa. 
Anxiety and restlessness. θ Chill of intermittent. θ Hepatitis. 

Anxiety and restlessness with pains; fainting from pain. θ Gastralgia. 


Anxiety, with nausea and gnawing in scrobiculum. θ Chill.

Great anxiety, with constriction of chest and dyspnœa. 

Anxiety and restlessness, < after midnight. 

Anxiety and impatience. 


Precordial anxiety, feels constricted. 

Great anguish, tossing about. θ Colic. θ Pneumonia. θ Emphysema. θ Intermittent. 

Great anguish and restlessness. θ Stricture of œsophagus. θ Gastralgia. θ Hematemesis. θ Colicodynia.

Indescribable anguish, restlessness. θ Metritis. θ Pericarditis. θ Cholera Asiatica. 

Mental anxiety, 

Indescribable anxiety, 

Extreme anxiety, 

(Most intolerable anxiety), 

*Real deathly anxiety, [207]. 

Excited and anxious, [124]. 

The anxiety and restlessness are indescribable; "Kill me," he cried, "or relieve my pains!", 

Great anxiety and oppression, 

Anxiety and breaking out of cold sweat, 

Anxiety, with sweat,]. 

Anxiety and heat do not permit her to fall asleep before midnight, for many days, 

Anxiety in the evening after lying down; at 3 o'clock after midnight, after waking,. 

Violent anxiety at 3 o'clock in the night; he now felt hot, now as if he would vomit,

Præcordial anxiety for a long time, 

Anxiety and restlessness in the whole body (after nine hours

Anxiety like that of one who has committed murder; driven from place to place; avoids meeting persons, thinking that he has offended them. θ Mania.

Continued anxiety, a mental anguish, as if he had not done his duty, without however, knowing wherein, [1].

Irritability

Irritable, despondent and anxious; cardiac anxiety, with insupportable pain. θ Intermittent. 

Irritable mood, alternating with despondency. θ Icterus.

Touchiness.

Disposed to discuss the faults of others. 

Disposed to quarrel. θ Hemorrhoids. 

Very cross and despondent. θ Chronic intestinal catarrh.

Irritability, with dull, confused feeling in head.

Irritability, with flushes of heat and chilliness when talking or moving.

Irritable, discouraged, restless; vexed about trifles.

Talking and quarrelling in sleep. 

Crying at the slightest provocation. Excessive irritability, and quarrelsome inclination. (This latter feature was very remarkable, for during the two years we were free from arsenical paper, the boys were always happy together, and remarked for their gentleness to each other), [225].

Vexed

Vexed and dissatisfied with everything; the least noise or light annoys her, she is so sensitive to external impressions.

Vexation, with anxiety, restlessness and chilliness.

 Vexed about trifles

He is vexed about every trifle, and constantly talks about other people's faults,

Fretfulness

Fretfulness, even amounting to anger, 

Very fretful, indignant, capricious; every word offends her, and makes her very angry, when she should answer,

Indignation, alternating with mildness; in her indignation she looks at nobody, and does not want to hear anything; she also cries

Very fretful and contented with nothing; she finds fault with everything; every conversation, noise, even the light, is disagreeable to her, 

Ill-humor, when waking in the morning; she knew not what to do with herself from ill-humor; pushed the pillows and bed-cover away, and would not look at or talk to anybody

Indignation in the morning when in bed; pushes the pillows about indignantly, uncovers himself, sees no one, and does not want to be spoken to 

The least thing offends him, and moves him to anger. 

Rage

She becomes furiously mad when offered something to eat, without having the least appetite, 

Rage; he had to be bound; he endeavored to escape

A barber felt an inclination to cut his customers' throats.

She became furious when something to eat was offered her while complaining of loss of appetite. 

Sadness

Sad mood,

Spirits depressed, 

Sad and depressed, 

Her mind is depressed, sad. θ Relapse of intermittent. 

Sad and gloomy, with restless tossing. 

Attacks of madness and sorrow

*Exceedingly sensitive, despondent, sad, and weeping; the least trifle fills her with care and solicitude,

Discontented; has no desire for anything 

Melancholy

Melancholy, sadness after dinner. θ Headache.

Melancholy after mental overexertion. 

Periodical attacks of melancholy only at twilight; sometimes at night; woman æt. 65. 

Religious melancholy; hopelessness, despair. 

Deep-seated melancholic affection; ceased after tetter-like ulcers appeared on lower limbs. 

Melancholic, sad, after eating, with headache (after eighty hours),. 

Excessive melancholy,

He despairs of his life, [15]. ["Not found."] 

Her disposition has changed very much since the poisoning (four months ago); *her natural cheerfulness was quite banished, she was afraid of solitude and death; the slightest cause was sufficient to put her into anger and rage, which especially occurred when one spoke of her complete recovery, which she considered wholly impossible. At times also an indescribable melancholy attacked her. 

Crying

Hypersensitive, delicate mood; sad and given to weeping; the least thing troubles her. 

Continued sobbing, with childish spells of crying

Not until after a year did her wonted cheerfulness return (Roth.). 

He wept and whined, but spoke little. 

Hysterical crying, instead of fear. 


Whimpering and gnashing teeth. 

Loud moaning, groaning, and weeping. θ During catamenia. 

Pitiful complaining, great anxiety and restlessness, with disagreeable sensation in abdomen, and dyspnœa. 


Piercing, pitiful moaning, interrupted by fainting spells. 

Lamentations, despair of life. θ Colic. 

*Loud (pranto) wailing, 

Moaned grievously, 

She lies crouched in bed, groaning and moaning, 

*She spends the night in moaning and groaning,

He cried and howled, and spoke little and abruptly, 

(Piercing lamentations, interrupted by attacks of weakness), 

 

Foolish answers 

Indisposition to reply to questions, 

Anguish

Excessive anguish, with oppression of the chest, and difficult breathing

Internal anguish, 

 (Deathly anguish with vomiting), 

Anguish despair driving from one place to another for relief, 

Anguish from the heart, interrupted by attacks of weakness, 

Anguish, so that he several times fainted, 

Talks but little, only complains of anguish, 

Great anguish, trembling, and tremor, with violent tearing in the abdomen, 

With inexpressible anguish and increasing pain, he seemed to be at his last gasp, [13]. [The anguish was not the bodily pains. -Hughes.] 

Piteous complainings, that an extremely unpleasant sensation in the abdomen and excessive anguish took away his breath, and forced him to bend double in this or that direction, or to rise and walk about, [13]. [The anguish was not the bodily pain. -Hughes.] 

With Himself

Feels uncomfortable and takes pleasure in nothing. 

When alone, he falls to thinking about disease and other things, which he can scarcely keep out of his mind. 

When alone, he thinks about disease and similar things, from which he finds it difficult to force his mind, [1]. 

Hypochondriacal anxiety, which seems to originate in upper part of chest;

Loud screaming; says it is something within him that screams.

Dissatisfied and angry with himself all day; thinks he has not accomplished enough, and reproaches himself bitterly. 

Great despondency. θ Scurvy. 

Dissatisfied the whole day, and very fretful at himself for not having done enough,. 

Her desires are greater than her need; she eats and drinks more than is good for her, and walks farther than she ought to do.

Her desire exceeds her need; she eats and drinks more than is good for her; she walks further than she needs to do, 

Indecision, irresolution

Indecision; the merest trifle alters his resolve.

Irresolution, by repeated moods; desires something, and when everything is done to fulfill his wish, the least trifle is sufficient to change his mind, and he will not have it, 

Restlessness

Restlessness, cannot rest anywhere, moves from place to place; wants to go from one bed to another.

Inward restlessness, with dullness in head and stupor; with aphasia; with backache. 


Restlessness and moaning, with sleeplessness; anxious restlessness, with weak, irregular pulse, limbs cold on surface; inward heat. 

Great restlessness, alternating with drowsiness. 

Anxious restlessness and nausea. After a fit of passion. θ Nosebleed, asthma, cough. 

Starvation

Gloomy forebodings while lying in bed, in evening, fears something may have happened to his relatives. 

Melancholy; after financial losses; cannot be consoled; thinks he will have to die, with his family, from starvation; sleepless nights; walks about wringing his hands, with moaning and groaning. 

Fixed idea that he and his family will die of starvation.

Fear

Says little, but complains of fear. 

Fear of being left alone. θ After vexation. θ Dysmenorrhœa. 

Great fear, restlessness, trembling, cold sweat, prostration.

Fear, [

He has so much fear that he jumps out of his bed, and hides himself in the wardrobe, which he can hardly be induced to leave 

Fear drives him out of bed; he hides in a closet. 

Frightful, anxious dreams 

Sense of deadly fear, 

Apprehension

Sometimes awakened with horrible anxiety, palpitation and restlessness, fear of death.

Constant dread of death, 

Dreams about death, 

Thoughts of death and the incurability of his complaint. θ Cancerous inoculation. 

Dread of death coming on suddenly when left alone, or on going to bed

Dread of death when alone, or on going to bed. 

Fear of death. θ After vexation. θ Cholera Asiatica.

Anxiety and fear; he sees an absent acquaintance lying dead upon the sofa, and has great dread of him, [10].

The greatest fear and anguish; she ghosts day and night, 

Dreams full of care, sorrow, and fear, disturb his sleep

Nightly dreams full of threats, apprehensions, or repentance 

Dreams full of care and danger; he wakes with a cry, and, when asleep again, dreams of something else

Dreams: full of care, sorrow and fear; about thunderstorms; of fire; of black water and darkness; of death and dead persons; misfortunes; embarrassments and vexations.

Uninterrupted dreams about thunderstorms, fire, black water*, and darkness, [1]. 

*Blackwater is a term dating to at least the 1970s[1] used to describe wastewater containing fecal matter and urine. It is also known as brown water, foul water, or sewage. It is distinct from greywater or sullage, the residues of washing processes.

Blackwater contains pathogens that must decompose before they can be released safely into the environment. It is difficult to process blackwater if it contains a large quantity of excess water, or if it must be processed quickly, because of the high concentrations of organic material. However, if blackwater does not contain excess water, or if receives primary treatment to de-water, then it is easily processed through composting. The heat produced by naturally occurring thermophilic microorganisms, will heat the compost to over 60 degrees C, and destroy potential pathogens. The compost is eventually reduced to safe fertilizer after about 1 year. 

(Souce: Wikipedia)

Suicidal

Mental derangements with satiety of life in drunkards.

Thinks he must die. θ Megrim.

Suicidal mania. 

At last perfectly unable to perform any mental work, afraid of his fellow-men, irritable and passionate; he got so downhearted from continued sleeplessness (from October 6th, 1855, to November, 1856), that he committed suicide, 

Terrible anxiety, flushing up; restless glance, no rest by day or night; inclination to commit suicide. θ Mania. 

As a consequence of fright, inclination to commit suicide.

Disposition to suicide, [99]. 

After midnight, a frequent desire to kill himself, by stabbing his heart through and through, 

In the first minutes, great tranquility of soul and cheerfulness; half an hour after, excessive anxiety and restlessness; he imagined that the effects of the poison would be terrible, and desired that he might continue to live (in the case of a man who had poisoned himself with Arsenic and despaired on that account), [9]. 

Great indifference, 

Indifference to life, 

Calm indifference; without caring about their approaching death, they neither expected nor desired to recover (secondary effect, in two suicides who had taken Arsenic) 

Quiet, with haggard expression, without complainings, 

Great indifference. θ Yellow fever. θ Typhus.

Apathy; if roused by loud calling, they open eyes with difficulty and stare at you. θ Typhus.

With the others

Mania; headache; terrible anxiety, noise in his ears as of many bells; sees a man who has hanged himself beckoning him to cut him loose, on failing to accomplish this, he attempts to hang himself; being prevented he falls into despair, and becomes so restless he can scarcely be kept in bed, loses speech, with full consciousness, tries to write, but can make only unintelligible characters; he trembles, weeps, his forehead is 

Mania; headache; excessive anguish; noise before the ears, as of many large bells, and when opening his eyes he constantly saw a man who had hung himself in the garret, and who requested the other by signs to cut him down; the former ran up to the latter with a knife, but not being able to cut him down, he became desperate, and attempted to hang himself; this attempt being foiled, he became so restless that he could scarcely be kept quiet; he lost his speech, though he had his full understanding; and when attempting to express himself in writing, could only write down unintelligible signs, trembling and weeping all the while, the forehead covered with the sweat of anguish, kneeling down and raising his hands as if praying), [11].

 

Obstinacy, avarice, inclined to malice and satire.

Tormenting hallucination, as if there was one by his side who did all that he was doing, eating, washing, etc. θ Diabetes mellitus. 

He despairs and weeps, and imagines no one can help him, that he must die; he is cold and chilly, and afterwards generally weak

Looking for thieves

He imagines that he sees burglars in his room and listens under the bed; he is bathed in cold sweat.

He runs through the whole house at night in search of thieves,

He imagines that the whole house, and the space under the bed, are full of thieves, which causes, from fright, anxious cold sweat to break out over his body, 

He sees thieves in his room, and therefore hides himself under the bed, 

Runs about house at night looking for thieves. 

Averse to meeting acquaintances, because he imagines he has formerly offended them, though knows not how.

Great loquacity while awake and asleep. 

(In sick:) If people came to see him, he did all the talking. θ Cancerous inoculation. 

 (He is anxious and trembling and is afraid he shall not be able to prevent himself from killing a person with a knife), 

With the Environment

He sees all kinds of vermin on his bed, throws handfuls of them away, and tries to escape from them.

He sees vermin and bugs crawl about his bed, from which he wants to escape, and constantly throws away whole handfuls of them, 

Work/Occupation

Aversion to all occupation. 

 

Male Sexuality

Emission, with sexual dreams, 

Emission, without dreams, followed by a continued erection, 

Sexual desire increased. 

Involuntary seminal emissions. 

Sexual powers lost 

Erections in the morning, without emission 

Erection, with burning in the anterior part of the prepuce, 

Sexual power lost.

Female Sexuality

Sexual furor of a woman; she requires an embrace twice a day, and if not satisfied, the orgasm takes place spontaneously 

Increased sexual desire, with involuntary discharge of mucus.

Pregnancy

After great care and grief. θ Colic in pregnancy.

She experienced active fœtal movements during the attack

Childhood

The child is irritable, whining and restless; wants to be carried. 

Stupor, broken by anxious moaning. θ Child with gastritis mucosa. 

Intellectual

Thoughts crowd upon him; he is too weak to keep them off or to hold on to one idea

*Ideas crowd upon him; he is too weak to repel them in order to dwell upon one idea alone, [1]. 

Memory

Want of memory 

Diminished memory, 

Forgetfulness; thoughts leave him 

Very imperfect memory for a long time, 

From having had a remarkably good memory, she lost her memory completely 

 (Weakness of the understanding), [11]. ["Result of suppression of Ague (malaria) by A."]

Dreams

Heavy dreams,. 

Heavy dreams and nightmare; the dreams hovered before his mind even during the day, and disquieted him, [159].

Dreams full of fatiguing thoughts

Sleep disturbed by anxious dreams, 

Anxious dreams while falling asleep; he wants to cry out, but cannot utter his cry, and

Vivid, vexatious dreams,

Neurological

Sensitiveness

The pains seem intolerable, drive one to despair and frenzy. θ Headache. 

The pains are aggravated by other peoples' talking.

*Frequent screaming from pain, 

During his morning slumber he hears every sound and noise, yet continues dreaming 

In the night he talked sensibly at times, 

Cerebral excitability,  

 Involuntary mental excitement, towards morning, hindering sleep, although he feels very drowsy.

Very easily made to cry or laugh, 

Screaming with pains. θ Headache. 

Delirium

 

High delirium unmanageable, 

 Delirium; he arose to visit his daughter (absent, as he knew), and could with difficulty be quieted, but spoke rationally 

 Loss of reason, returning from time to time 

 *Very violent delirium, especially at night, with great restlessness, 

 Violent delirium during the last three or four days 

 Delirium a few hours before death, 

Violent delirium, with tetanic convulsions, [190]. 

He often raved during the course of the disease, [113]. 

He raves, making motions with his hands, as if measuring with a rule, so that his ravings mostly related to his business, [113].

Raving and carphology, [113]. 

Delirious thoughts with the eyes open, without being in delirium either before or after, [1].

Delirium. θ Yellow fever. θ Typhus.


In her delirium she thinks she is well; girl, æt. 7. 

Delirium, with great prostration. 

Delirium during heat, unconsciousness, mania, wants to be held; with a tearing headache. θ Intermittent. 

Periodically returning fancies. 

Talks wildly, with open eyes, and is not conscious of being flighty. 

Imbecility.

Delusions alternating with half-confused sleep, 

Alternating lively phantasies, 

 

Confusion, 

Confusion of mind, 

 Stupid and confused in his head, as in violent coryza, and when out of humor the head feels like a lantern 

Dullness and weakness in head, cannot think, and is irritable; as if he had a bad cold, or had lost sleep. 

Feels as if she would lose her senses when thinking long about anything, 

Absence of mind 

Answers slowly, 

He returns very short answers when questioned

 

Absence of the understanding and of the external and internal senses; he saw nothing, said nothing for many days, heard nothing, and understood nothing; when one shouted into his ears, he looked at those present like one waking from deep sleep, [17]. 

Does not recognize objects, 

Did not seem fully conscious of his condition, 

(Chronic weakness of sense), [11]. ["Doubtful how much is ague (malaria) and how much A."] 

 Self-consciousness disappears or becomes very indistinct, 

Loss of consciousness. θ Vertigo. θ Typhus. θ Heart disease. θ Yellow fever. 

Loss of consciousness, and falling before epileptic attack. 

She lay upon bed in a state of unconsciousness, muttering, eyes fixed, cold sweat on forehead, trembling all over, pulse small, hard, and very rapid. 

Stupidity, with loss of hearing, and almost total blindness. 

Unconsciousness 

 Loss of consciousness, 

They lay unconscious and insensible, 

Loss of sensation and of consciousness,

Loss of consciousness and speech 

Loss of consciousness and convulsions 

Stupor with staring eyes,

Lies unconscious, and is aroused with difficulty, 

Senseless

(She lay on her bed senseless, muttered unintelligible sounds, with staring eyes, and cold sweat on the forehead; tremor of the whole body; small pulse, hard and very quick), 

Stupor and pervading sleepiness, 

Comatose stupefaction, 

After vomiting and diarrhœa, condition of stupor from which it was difficult to wake her 

Picking of bedclothes. θ Typhus.