Letra Homeopatica

Belladonna atropa

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

What is Belladonna’s first impressions of reality? His symptoms of delirium, altogether with the violence associated to them, are underlined by a series of sensations and notions about himself and his environment. Seen as a whole, we can assume that his perceptions of what’s is happening around him are the main core from what everything will develop later. The following group of sensations, in relation on what is offered to him since childhood, was selected as his first experience:

The boy ran around room laughing immoderately, desired neither food nor drink; a piece of bread, which he took to be a stone, he threw far from him; his delirium was always merry, he became totally unconscious; pulse very slow, full; pupils widely dilated, not sensitive to light abdomen somewhat distended.

He took a piece of bread for a stone, and threw it far away, laughing violently and running about the room.

Lively and playful the next morning, apparently well, but completely unconscious, so that when he was offered a piece of bread he thought it was a stone, and threw it from him,

As if drunk, immediately after a meal

Directly after a meal, as if intoxicated (after six and a half hours

He lay four days without taking any nourishment, motionless, like a dead person; he could not be roused,

He perceives that the food offered to him (represented here through the image of bread) is a stone. And he threw away that stone, he strongly reacts against it. Violence from now on can be associated to his first relatives. How could a parent offer a stone instead of bread? How Bell. should then react? Through out the symptoms, we can assume that he simply doesn’t recognize those folks around him anymore. These people should not be his dear ones.

Rage: the boy does not know his parents, [71]. [Made up of S. 1409 and 42. of Hahnemann's pathogenesis.]

Delirium; the boy jumped out of bed, talked a great deal, was lively, and often laughed; consciousness was entirely gone; he did not recognize his parents

The boy does not recognize his parents,

He did not know his own relations,

Once again, his symptoms show us that he now had to relate on his primitive self in order to survive. He must call from inside himself his primeval strength, the beast that we all got inside ourselves that had been tamed through the centuries of civilization:

Crying and howling of children, as from rage.

Instead of eating, bit wooden spoon in two, gnawed plate, and growled and barked like a dog.

Great mirthfulness after supper; the vital powers were increased to an extraordinary degree for a quarter of an hour, after which came drowsiness,

Through out all his symptoms, the Bell. patient shows a high degree of violence and rage. He bits, strikes and scratches. He is reacting against what he had perceived around him. That there’s no civilization, no order between the human beings; he is in a savage world. The world that he sees is reflected on these symptoms:

When closing eyes, though not asleep, patient sees fierce, wicked looking large animals with horns and bushy heads; room seemed to be full of strange men passing in and out, who would snatch at her as they passed, which frightened her very much, she thought the men wanted to take her away from home; she then saw children sitting on low benches in rows as in a school-room.

Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces and various insects.

Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them.

Became fearful when persons approached him in street, and when they had passed, he insisted on it that he had stabbed them.

Starts in affright at approach of others.

He is afraid of an extraordinary black dog, the gallows, etc.; he sees ghosts and insects; gets vexed easily, and then weeps; he tears things around him, bites and strikes, and when restrained, spits at those around him, strikes himself, curses and uses horrible words.

Anxiety and fear of imaginary objects and hallucinations, ghosts, soldiers which come to take them away, black animals, rats, dogs, wolves, etc.

At the height of the poisoning, the woman was in a state very closely resembling that so often seen in delirium tremens. Excessive terror was painted on her countenance, and she responded to all questions by pointing with a trembling finger to swarms of unclean beasts, which she fancied were scrabbling all over the walls, beds, table, etc., of the wards (from 5 grains used as a suppository

Fancied he saw ghosts and animals in the fire,

At night, very stupefied sleep, anxious dreams about murderers and street-robbers; he heard himself shouting loudly once, but did not thereupon come to his senses

Now he has to fight for his life. One day, long time ago, he was forsaken by his parents, they had refused to nourish him; instead, they fed him with stones instead of bread. They had offered him something that could not be digested, could not be chewed and will destroy his teeth on trying. And our teeth are our first possibility to defend ourselves. We could not avoid the relationship between Belladonna’s inclination for biting, present in so many symptoms and the thread he suffered when he was offered a stone to eat. We all know what a stone can do to our teeth, if we bite it.

The boy was quite beside himself, struck at his mother, bit her, made terrible grimaces and contortions of limbs, did not remain a moment in one place.

Inclination to bite those about him, and to tear everything about him to pieces, [29]. Bites at his attendants and himself, screams furiously. θ A boy, æt. 3.

Mania, with desire to bite, strike and run away.

[Rage; he injures himself and others, and beats about him], [40]

Inclination to tear everything about them to pieces, [29].

Such fury (with burning heat of body, and open, staring and immovable eyes) that she had to be held constantly, lest she should attack some one; and when thus held so that she could not move, she spat continuously at those around her.

Surrounded by enemies, ghosts, thieves and soldiers, he has no one to count on. He is using his primitive self, his fury and his teeth (biting and tearing) to fight against all threats.

Anger, proceeding even to paroxysms of convulsive rage.

She turns about in her bed in a perfect rage.

Quarrelsomeness cannot be quieted, with disposition to violent rage.

Emotions, Rage, and Fury.

Anger, proceeding even to paroxysms of conclusive rage,

She tosses about in her bed in a perfect rage,

Fury,

Raging violent fury

Furious delirium,

Fury; she pulled at the hair of the bystanders,

The forcible administration of fluid medicine makes her furious,

Fury, with grinding of teeth and convulsions],

But how a Bell. patient lives, up from his point of view? How is he at school, at work, how he establishes his relationships, his sexual life?

Where is he at this moment? Which whom he is relating to?

Our hypothesis is that Belladonna will establish his own way of living, together with his fellow friends. He will join people who got the same attitude towards society and towards its rules. He will live in discord, somehow like the ‘green hair punk guy” then the “love and peace hippie”. We must not forget that Bell has this violent issue on him. Drugs, sexual abuse, violence, aversion to a regular work, difficulties at school, learning impaired, family conflicts, all connected to a social group of “different people”, outsiders, punks, gang members, people who draw their own social laws.

They don’t recognize civilization. It’s not a revolutionary. That’s someone that didn’t perceive society as it is nowadays. That’s his deranged imagination: we should not forget his perception of reality, what he it through his perturbed senses.

Insanity: they stripped themselves and clad only in their shirts ran out into streets in broad daylight, gesticulating, dancing, laughing and uttering and doing many absurd things.

She did foolish things, tore her clothes, pulled stones out of the ground and threw them at the passers-by,

Fondness for games of chance,

Continual laughter, whereby the subjects jumped high up, from emotions of wild joy, danced, made the most remarkable gesticulations, and performed different motions of the body with the greatest rapidity and dexterity (after one hour),

[She breaks out into loud laughter, sings, and touches things near her], [40] (Case 17).

[Laughing and singing, she touches objects around her the whole day], [46] (Case 22).

He sings and warbles

Singing and loud talking in sleep,

Sighing, alternating with jumping and dancing,

Mania, in which the patient was often very merry, sang and shouted; then again spit and bit,

Dancing, running and creeping about in shirt.

Groaning, alternating with bursts of laughter, songs, and gambols,

State of joyous intoxication; she danced and jumped about in such a way that the neighbors thought she had been drinking

When approached, this is what we get from a Belladona patient:

Desire to escape or hide herself.

Love of solitude, aversion to society, and dislike to conversation,

► Not inclined to talk; he desires solitude and quiet; every noise and the visits of others are disagreeable to him,

He paid no attention to those about him, in fact, seemed unconscious of their presence; only now and then, when addressed in a loud voice, he stared at the speaker for an instant, like one suddenly roused from a sound sleep. The face was a little flushed (after eight hours),

Belladonna will stay in his own world, with his own friends. Nothing else matters, in fact this whole world is a huge thread to him. And at the end we will find the Belladonna patient at the verge of suicide, of putting an end to this miserable life. She even begs for being killed:

Nearly all symptoms lead to violence of action; patient must do everything violently; she wishes those around her to kill her.

(In sick:) Became crazy; got one leg over the window to kill himself, had to be tied down; died next day; within ten hours, two doses. θ Consumption.

She rather desires death than fears it.

In his delirium he threw himself down from a height.

Weary of life, with desire to drown herself.

In her momentary lucid intervals she complains of intolerable anguish, so that she wishes to die,

In walking in the open air, she is overwhelmed with tearful anguish; she is weary of life, and inclines to drown herself,

[She begs the bystanders to kill her],

[He strikes his face with his fists],

In his delirium he threw himself down from a height,

She jumped into the water, [66].

She tries to strangle herself, and begs to bystanders to kill her, because she believes that she will certainly die], [40] (Case 22).

Groups in Belladonna atropa

Symptoms from Hahnemann, Hering, Allen & Kent

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo, M.D.

Humor

Melancholy; hypochondriasis; hopelessness.

She is very despondent.

Tremulous despondency.

Despair.

Hysteria, with melancholic mood.

Anxiety

She was violently delirious, screamed and wept aloud, and was unmanageable,

suffered greatest anxiety and despaired of recovery.

The patient is conscious but tormented by terrible anxiety.

Anxiety, restlessness, nausea and pain in back, with wind colic.

Anxiety, anguish, trembling, constant restlessness.

By day great anxiety; she has no peace anywhere; it seemed to her as if she must fly away.

Anxious and confused, fears she is about to die.

Tremulous, anxious, nervous.

Anxious and timorous.

Nervous anxiety, restlessness, desire to escape.

Anxiety, followed by sweat.  

Great restlessness and indescribable anxiety, cannot sit or lie long in any position; they seek to fly. place.

Great inquietude, goes from place to

Great distress, with inquietude.

Loss of courage.

Weeping and vexation about trifles, with headache and pressure in forehead, and great dryness of mouth.

Morose and serious.

Rage and Fury

Intolerable anguish during time she is free from rage, with desire to die.

Anger, proceeding even to paroxysms of convulsive rage.

She turns about in her bed in a perfect rage.

Quarrelsomeness, cannot be quieted, with disposition to violent rage.

Emotions, Rage, and Fury.

Anger, proceeding even to paroxysms of conclusive rage, [215].

She tosses about in her bed in a perfect rage, [65].

Fury, [79], [69].

Raging violent fury, [1].

Furious delirium, [86], [231].

Fury; she pulled at the hair of the bystanders, [55]. [20.]

The forcible administration of fluid medicine makes her furious, [17].

Fury, with grinding of teeth and convulsions], [56].

Mania.

Madness; in his exceeding restlessness he jumped on the table, bed, and stove, [120].

She talks like a maniac, with staring, protruded eyes.

Loquacity

Garrulity; he constantly uses foolish and absurd language, at which he often laughs aloud; when addressed he turns toward the speaker, but does not answer correspondingly (after half an hour), [136].

Great garrulity, with a silly unmeaning smile and laugh, [115].

Garrulity, unlike his usual mood, with squinting (vesguice) and extremely stupid

After the talkativeness, dumbness, [20]. [190.]

Mirth and laughter

Quarrelsome, during exuberant mirth.

Mania, at one time merry, again would spit and bite at those around.

Changes from quiet to gay and merry mood, in which trills and sings ditties; great thirst, violent motion of arms.

Unrestrained and exuberant mirth; inclined to quarrel without cause, and disposed to laugh in an annoying manner, [6].

Very mirthful mood; he is inclined to sing and whistle (in the evening, after thirteen hours), [14].

Great mirthfulness after supper; the vital powers were increased to an extraordinary

Frequent laughter, [40] (Case 5).

Constant loud laughter, [23].

Involuntary, almost loud, laughter, without having any laughable thoughts, [13].

Stupid laughter and merry delirium, [236].

She laughs a long time with herself, [40] (Case 5).

[She breaks out into loud laughter, sings, and touches things near her], [40] (Case 17).

[Laughing and singing, she touches objects around her the whole day], [46] (Case 22).

Singing, [233].

He sings and warbles,

Singing and loud talking in sleep, [1].

Sighing, alternating with jumping and dancing, [55].

Mania, in which the patient was often very merry, sang and shouted; then again spit and bit, [32].

Dancing, running and creeping about in shirt.

Groaning, alternating with bursts of laughter, songs, and gambols, [215].

State of joyous intoxication; she danced and jumped about in such a way that the neighbors thought she had been drinking, [239].

The expression and actions denoted uncommon cheerfulness; with incessant senseless talking, [130]. [130.]

Merry craziness, [67].

Became wantonly (desenfreadamente) merry, ran from house, and exposed their nakedness.

Merry craziness; while laughing or singing she constantly touches things around her.

The slight delirium that followed the action of the narcotic was of a strange, yet not unpleasant, kind. The intellectual operations at times were very vivid. Thoughts came and went, and ludicrous and fantastic spectacles were always uppermost in my mind. I was conscious that my language and gesticulations were extravagant, yet I had neither the power nor will to do otherwise than I did; and, notwithstanding my bodily malaise (mal-estar), my mind was in a state of delightful exhilaration, [178].

[Weeping], [29].

Very excited mood; she is readily brought to weep, [2].

Violent weeping, whimpering, and howling without cause, accompanied with timorousness, usually within twelve hours, [1]. [150.]

Weeping and extreme ill-humor on awaking out of sleep, [1].

Much moaning, distress, a sudden crying out. θ Retention of urine.

Weeping and screaming, made < by gentle comforting.

Irritability and fretfulness

Very sensitive, irritable mood.

Very excitable mood, easily brought to tears.

Weeping, irritable mood.

Fretfulness; nothing seemed right to him; was vexed with himself.

Extreme irritability of temper, [219].

The merest trifle provokes and irritates him; he is dissatisfied with everything, [215].

Exceedingly irritable and sensitive humor, with inclination to utter abusive language and to strike, [215].

Fretfulness; nothing seemed right to him; he was vexed with himself, [5].

He was fretful about this and that, [1]. [180.]

Extremely morose and serious, [4].

Silent ill-humors (after eight hours); on the two following days he was in his wonted mood; the day after that, however, his ill-humor returned, [7].

Whining ill-humor about trifles, with headache as if a stone were pressing the forehead, [1].

Want of cheerfulness, ill-humor, inclined to nothing, [1].

Extreme ill-humor after sleep; he bites those around him, [20].

He is very easily made angry, even about trifles, [7].

Violent quarrelsomeness, which cannot be appeased, [1].

At times he is delirious, at times he answers rightly when questioned, and bemoans himself, [31].

At one time he utters ridiculous nonsense, at another he talks rationally, [1].

Hourly alternation of weeping and fretful humor, [1].

At first, sad, weeping, which then passed into impatient and vehement howling (with chilliness), (after one hour), [1].

With the others

[At one time he hurriedly grasps at those standing near, at another he starts back in fear], [65].

Insanity; they stripped themselves and clad only in their shirts ran out into streets in broad daylight, gesticulating, dancing, laughing and uttering and doing many absurd things.

Left the house and stripped themselves naked; one woman went into the fields to work, at night; another went into the street before the house to dust and sweep; another, with excited singing, cut open the pillows, and scattered the feathers about the yards and street; another went naked to the neighbors to caress the men, [232].

She did foolish things, tore her clothes, pulled stones out of the ground and threw them at the passers-by, [65].

Desire to escape or hide herself.

Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces and various insects.

Dread of solitude, of ghosts and thieves, [215].

Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them.

Frightful visions; she wishes to hide herself.

Violent delirium; broke into fits of laughter, then gnashed teeth; disposed to bite and strike those around.

She attempted to bite and strike her attendants, broke into fits of laughter, and gnashed her teeth; head hot, face red, looks wild and fierce.

Bites at his attendants and himself, screams furiously. θ A boy, æt. 3.

Mania, with desire to bite, strike and run away.

Fury; they pulled at the hair of bystanders.

Inclination to bite those around him and to tear everything about him in pieces.

She wishes to strike, bite and quarrel.

[Rage; he injures himself and others, and beats about him], [40]

He bit at whatever came before him, [60].

Inclination to bite those around them, [29].

[He tries to bite those standing about him, at night], [40] (Case 18).

She attempted to bite and strike her attendants, broke into fits of laughter, and gnashed her teeth. The head was hot, the face red, the look wild and fierce, [186]. [10.] Inclination to bite those about him, and to tear everything about him to pieces,

Aversion to noise and company.

Became fearful when persons approached him in street, and when they had passed, he insisted on it that he had stabbed them.

Starts in affright at approach of others.

When put into bed, he sprang out again in delirium, talked constantly, laughed out, and exhibited complete loss of consciousness; did not know his own parents (this lasted the whole night), [221].

Love of solitude, aversion to society, and dislike to conversation, [215].

► Not inclined to talk; he desires solitude and quiet; every noise and the visits of others are disagreeable to him, [7].

Sleep full of dreams; she was occupied with a great number of people; she wished to get away, but could not, [9].

Fondness for games of chance, [215].

With himself

Paroxysm of cerebral exaltation with abundance of ideas and images, generally fantastic and incoherent.

Her mind was disordered so that speech did not correspond to thought, nor thought to sense, nor sense to objects present.

(In sick:) Became crazy; got one leg over the window to kill himself, had to be tied down; died next day; within ten hours, two doses. θ Consumption.

She rather desires death than fears it.

In his delirium he threw himself down from a height.

Weary of life, with desire to drown herself.

In her momentary lucid intervals she complains of intolerable anguish, so that she wishes to die, [17].

In walking in the open air, she is overwhelmed with tearful anguish; she is weary of life, and inclines to drown herself, [1].

[She begs the bystanders to kill her], [40]

Nearly all symptoms lead to violence of action; patient must do everything violently; she wishes those around her to kill her.

[He strikes his face with his fists], [40]

In his delirium he threw himself down from a height, [21], [22].

She jumped into the water, [66].

[She tries to strangle herself, and begs to bystanders to kill her, because she believes that she will certainly die], [40] (Case 22).

The paroxysms of madness were occasionally interrupted by loud laughing and grinding of teeth; head was hot, face red, look wild and staring; pulse small and very frequent; pupils dilated; arteries of head and neck visibly palpitating, pulse hard and frequent.

She sought continually to spring out of bed.

Anxious and confused, fears she is about to die.

By day, great anxiety; she has no peace anywhere; it seemed to her as if she must flee away, [1].

Timid mistrust, [1].

Cowardice, distrust, suspicion, inclination to run away, [215].

Events which had been previously anticipated with pleasure appeared to him in an anxious light; he thought them fearful and dreadful, [13].

He feared that death was near, [30].

[*She is so anxious and confused that she fears she is about to die], [72].

Anxious dreams: about murder; street robbers; of danger from fire; of swimming.

Jumping out of bed with fear, trying to run away and hide.

With the environment

Likes to brood in silence, supreme indifference, nothing makes an impression.

Disinclination and indifference to everything; deficient activity of mind and body, [12].

Apathy; nothing could make an impression on her; after some days there succeeds a

Extreme indifference for hours; one could have taken her life without affecting her,

Timorous insanity; he is afraid of an imaginary black dog; of the gallows, etc.

Fixed ideas, thinks he is riding on an ox, uses a stick for a gun, growling and barking like a dog.

Delirium: with frightful figures and images before eyes; is afraid of imaginary things; sees monsters; talks of dogs as if they swarmed about him; furious.

Very delirious; she would persist that there were very horrid monsters all over the room, staring at her, [135].

The delirium was attended with phantasms, and in this respect resembled that caused by alcohol, but the mind did not run on cats, rats, and mice, as in the case of drunkards. Sometimes the phantasms appeared to bed in the air, and various attempts were made to catch them or chase them with the hands; at other times they were supposed to be on the bed. One patient (a woman) fancied the sheets were covered with cucumbers, [189].

She feels of those around her; at times she seats herself; at times she acts as if she was washing, or as if she counted money, or as if she was drinking; she mutters as if asleep; she talks like a maniac, with staring, protruded eyes; talks about dogs that swarm around her; converses with a late sister in a churchyard; beautiful images present themselves to her as if by a charm.

Anxiety and fear of imaginary objects and hallucinations, ghosts, soldiers which come to take them away, black animals, rats, dogs, wolves, etc.

[Delirious talk of dogs, as if they swarmed about him], [48].

Talks of wolves being in the room; with full pulse, [41].

He looked about; he talked about mice and other dark-colored animals which he saw,

Visions of wolves, dogs, giants, and fire, [215].

Fancied he saw ghosts and animals in the fire, [237].

He imagines he sees ghosts and various insects, [98].

He imagines he is riding on an ox, or some such thing, [41].

[He raves as in a dream, and cries he must go home, because everything is burning up there], [40] (Case 21). [These two symptoms are taken from the following: "On December 6th, raved in his sleep; he cried out, 'All is on fire at home; it is necessary that I should return there.'"]

Anxiety and apparitions prevent sleep; burning heat, thirst, with difficult deglutition; restless tossing about, even twitching.

Went to bed after 11 o'clock; sleepless from 2 to 5; laughed, and said she saw laughing masks.

She wakes in night full of fright and fear; it appeared to her as if there was something under bed which made a noise; she felt dry heat on awaking.

Sleep much disturbed by frightful dreams; complains of intense pains in head, and says that it feels enormously large; great intolerance of light and noise; at noon very delirious, and would insist that there were horrid monsters all over room staring at her.

At night, very stupefied sleep, anxious dreams about murderers and street-robbers; he heard himself shouting loudly once, but did not thereupon come to his senses, [12]. Sleep disturbed by miserable phantoms, [185].

Great irritability and impressionableness of senses; he tastes and smells everything more acutely; sense of taste, of sight and of hearing is keener, and the mind is more easily moved, and thoughts more active.

Excessive nervous excitability, with exalted sensibility of all organs; least noise, least light is annoying.

His senses deceive him.

Inclination to bite those about him, and to tear everything about him to pieces, [29].

Inclination to tear everything about them to pieces, [29].

She tears her nightdress and bedclothes, [65].

[He tears everything about him, bites and spits], [65].

Nourishment

He took a piece of bread for a stone, and threw it far away, laughing violently and

Lively and playful the next morning, apparently well, but completely unconscious, so that when he was offered a piece of bread he thought it was a stone, and threw it from him, [221].

As if drunk, immediately after a meal, [1].

Directly after a meal, as if intoxicated (after six and a half hours), [11].

Intoxication immediately after drinking the least quantity of beer, [1].

He lay four days without taking any nourishment, motionless, like a dead person; he could not be roused, [62].

His delirium would now be of a merry, now of a quarrelsome character; sometimes he would see figures which he tried to catch, etc., [137].

Her heightened but deluded fancy conjures up before her a multitude of beautiful images, [9].

He imagines he sees birds flying off through the chimney, and wishes to follow them by the same route, [229].

Lying in bed in the evening, it appears to him as if he were floating away with his couch; ten evenings in succession, he imagined, immediately after lying down, that he was floating in his bed, [5].

State of intoxication, with disturbed vision and difficult speech; he imagines that he cannot move his tongue (after five hours), [239].

Great excitement: now he sings, now scolds, while the limbs are in constant motion,

Dreams of performing gymnastic exercises, of walking, running, and riding in a carriage.

He dreams of danger from fire, and awakes in consequence, [1].

Dreams of battles, fires, and of being pursued by giants, [215].

Sexuality

Delirious, obscene talking.

Loud laughter, wild abandon, singing, whistling, lascivious conversation.

Mania: with intense craving for snuff (rapé); voracious appetite, they swallow everything in their reach; generally constipated; wild, unsteady look, eyes brilliant, face flushed, breathing anxious, irregular; sexual excitement, inclined to masturbate; sleepless and restless.

Increased sexual desire, with great inclination to masturbation.

Nymphomania.

Sexual desire decreased.

Nocturnal emission of semen, during relaxation of penis.

Indifference in the night to the distinction of the sexes; no lascivious, lustful thoughts will enter his head; the sexual desire in the imagination is as if extinct, [11].

Entire loss of sexual desire, [215]

Pregnancy

During pregnancy: mental derangement; toothache; spasms and convulsions; spasmodic hacking cough; fainting.

Lying-in women: milk fever; deficiency of milk, or too great a flow; puerperal fever, particularly after a violent emotion, or after suppression of milk.

The breasts become filled with milk (in a female who is not pregnant), the milk running out.

Too copious flow of milk.

Work

Aversion to all mental occupation; indolence.

She will sit and break pins into pieces, half a day at a time.

Ridiculous gestures: she feels after those about her; now she seats herself; now she acts as if she were washing or counting money, or as if she were drinking, [42].

Takes pleasure only in voluptuous ideas, [215].

Disinclination to all kinds of mental exertion, [4].

Aversion and incapacity for all work, and especially for all efforts of thought, [215].

Childhood

Delirium; the boy jumped out of bed, talked a great deal, was lively and often laughed; consciousness was entirely gone; he did not recognize his parents. In evening he was seized with such violent delirium that it required three men to confine him; his face was livid; his eyes injected and protruding, pupils strongly dilated; carotid arteries pulsating most violently; a full, hard pulse, with loss of power to swallow.

The child cries out suddenly, and after awhile it ceases crying as suddenly as it began and appears as if nothing had been the matter.

Crying and howling of children, as from rage.

Instead of eating, bit wooden spoon in two, gnawed plate, and growled and barked like a dog.

The boy was quite beside himself, struck at his mother, bit her, made terrible grimaces and contortions of limbs, did not remain a moment in one place.

Both children played with each other at hide and seek, calling each other in their sleep.

Kent: These symptoms often occur with cerebral congestion, the violent cerebral congestion of the infant. If they are old enough to talk they will talk about the hammering in the head.

In Bell. the infant also commonly remains in a profound stupor, the profound stupor that goes with congestion of the brain pupils dilated; skin hot and dry; face red, throbbing carotids.

Finally the child becomes pale as the stupor increases and the neck is drawn back, because as it progresses the base of the brain and spine become involved, and the muscles of the neck contract; drawing the head -backwards; and he rolls the head; eyes staring, pupils dilated.

Rage: the boy does not know his parents, [71]. [Made up of S. 1409 and 42. of Hahnemann's pathogenesis.]

Delirium; the boy jumped out of bed, talked a great deal, was lively, and often laughed; consciousness was entirely gone; he did not recognize his parents, [113].

The boy does not recognize his parents, [130].

He did not know his own relations, [79].

Violent madness; the children scratched themselves with their nails, [127].

Delirium (mother and child, within an hour), [228].

Delirium; the child is very restless, talks confusedly, runs, jumps, laughs convulsively; face purple; pulse accelerated; the look very much changed; he has fever (after one hour), [128].

The delirium was of a busy, restless, vivid character, but generally rather pleasing than otherwise. The patients appeared to think they were pursuing their ordinary occupations; one boy appeared eager in flying a kite, another pulled tables and chairs about, thinking he was working in a coal-pit, (mina de carvão) and a woman appeared to be remarkably busy with her household duties. All their movements were of a quick excited character, strikingly resembling delirium tremens, [187].

The boy's fancy was very active, but he passed quickly from one idea to another; they were mostly of a lively character, relating to his plays, [118].

In the evening, the boy was uncommonly lively and cheerful; he laughed, screamed, sang, and quarreled in a loud voice, but very soon became sick, and vomited, [137].

The child became flushed, wanted to escape, struck at people, became delirious and restless.

Great restlessness, boy wished to escape, and had to be kept on his couch by force, at same time he developed a vigor and strength beyond his age.

Ophthalmia; spasms; sleeplessness and crying of newborn infants; troubles from teething.

Heat and redness of gums during dentition.

Difficult dentition; convulsions, etc.

Complaints during dentition and puberty.

Uneasy sleep before midnight; the child tosses about, kicks and quarrels in its sleep.

At night boys became restless, spoke irrationally, and could with difficulty be kept in bed.

Children sleep with half-open eyes.

Intellectual

Disordered consciousness, [43].

First this occurred to him, and then that, he could not think in an orderly manner, and forgot immediately whatever he thought or red about, [11].

His manner of expression is incomplete; speech very difficult, [115].

He sat lost, as one in a dream, [4].

Heedlessness and frequent absence of mind, [215].

Mental weakness, [79].

Weakness of the mind and memory, [215].

Loss of understanding and memory, [215].

Stupidity, [74].

Irrationality, stupidity, [215]. [220.]

Loss of the thinking faculty; one stupid, and like an idiot, [215].

Intellectual obscuration, [238].

Obtuseness of sense, [1].

Impaired understanding for some weeks, [63].

Entire disappearance of intelligence, [20], [65].

He does not seem to know where he is, [238].

Memory.

Lively memory (after twenty-four hours), [1]. [230.]

He remembers things long bygone, [80].

He remembers things which happened three years ago, [57].

Temporary return of the lost memory, [40] (Case 5).

Diminished memory, [1].

Loss of memory, [237].

Forgetfulness of what had taken place, [235].

His memory, for two or three days after, was very defective, [188].

Memory very poor for two or three days; he remembered nothing which took place after the doctor came, [238].

Very weak memory; he forgets in a moment what he was about to do, and cannot recollect anything, [1].

Absence of mind; he is apt to do his business wrong and forgets things which he had just intended to do, [14].

During the headache, disappearance of the thoughts; she forgets what she has just thought, and cannot recollect herself, [2].

Neurological

Loss of consciousness.

Stupefaction, with congestion to head, pupils enlarged, delirium.

Insensibility.

Insensibility, loss of consciousness, [13a], [73], [42], [37], [63], [30].

Insensibility to all external objects, [197].

Insensibility, rattling breathing, and convulsive movements in the face and hands, [17].

Entire insensibility, stiffness of the lower limbs, extreme distension of the superficial blood vessels, with strangely red, swollen countenance, very full and rapid pulse, and excessive sweat, [17].

Complete loss of consciousness, [234].

Consciousness disappears; he no longer recognizes his surroundings and begins to rave (after half an hour), [136].

Loss of the senses, [42], [37], [63] (after two hours), [30], [44].

[Loss of the senses, with convulsions of the limbs], [20]. [250.]

[Loss of consciousness and convulsions of the arm, at night], [40] (Case 14).

Senselessness, as in intoxication, and a kind of active delirium, [102].

After a little time, loss of consciousness, with stertorous respiration, [230].

Lethargic, apoplectic condition; for a day and a night they lay without any motion of the limbs; if pinched by the bystanders, they opened their eyes, but uttered no sound,

The patient's manner was apoplectic, and severe engorgement of the vessels was present. This state of partial coma was alternated by paroxysms of uncontrollable tendency to motion and rapid automatic movement, attended with convulsive laughter. No well-marked convulsions made their appearance, although, during the brief intervals of sleep, a slight subsultus of the muscles of the face and extremities was noted.

A sort of coma, with small, weak, unequal pulse, [19].

Comatose condition, with rattling in the throat, very red face, dilated pupils, convulsions of the upper extremities, very hot skin, with red spots on neck and chest, and feverish pulse (after half an hour), [109].

Stupor and loss of consciousness, [215]. [260.]

Slight stupor or lethargy, [231].

Persistent stupor (after five and a half hours), [239].

Stupor, with violent convulsions of the extremities, [134].

Stupefaction, [20], [61], [74], [79].

Well-marked state of stupefaction, [239].

Very great stupefaction, [61].

Profound stupefaction, which, at times, is interrupted by a shrill scream, betraying great anxiety, [140].

Stupefaction and vertigo, from congestion of the head, [129].

He lies as if stupefied; rattling in the throat; twitchings of face and hands (after half an hour), [107].

Stupefaction; she lost consciousness, became restless, and struck about forcibly (after hour hours), [126].

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