Part 10

Twenty-fourth day.—Restless sleep. 195. Slight prickling pain at the sacro-lumbar articulation, in going up-stairs. Sense of oppression at the chest.

Twenty-fifth day.—Pressure at the forehead. Heat in the sacro-lumbar region; sense of oppression at the chest, and rush of blood to the larynx, with suffocative oppression; taste of blood and tearing in the chest.

Twenty-sixth day.—Restless sleep. 200. Throbbing and weakness in the sacro-lumbar region. Nausea while riding in a carriage, before breakfast. Sense of heat in the renal region, after a long ride in a carriage. Slight aching pain at the forehead and vertex.

Twenty-seventh day.—Restless sleep. 205. Beatings in the lumbar region, with slight pullings or shudderings. Weakness in the lumbar region. Weakness in the knee-joint; sense as if sprained, after a walk.

Twenty-eighth day.—Restless sleep, with dreams about work, wild beast devouring meat in a public slaughter-house. Sense of heat with throbbing and fatigue in the lumbar region and above the iliac bones. 210. Paleness, cold hands and feet, with weakness all over while the pains last.

Twenty-ninth day.—Dream about revolution, gun-shots, demolition of some public edifice; he walked among the ruins. Sense of well-being, in the morning on rising. Doughy mouth every morning, with sputa that has the color of chocolate with cream, and fœtid smell. Spits blood in the morning that seems to come deep out of the throat. 215. Swelling of the left lower gums, over the molar teeth, outside, with toothache in this region. Small pimples on the right knee, with smarting as from a tetter and painful itching when touching them; they emit a fluid when pressed upon; itching at the tibiæ.

Thirtieth day.—The swelling of the gums continues, but the toothache is less. The cheek threatens to swell. Taste of blood in the mouth and throat, very marked, with scratching or tearing sensation when drawing breath. 220. Headache at two o’clock, as from a nail in the vertex, with violent toothache, swelling of the gums, after a walk. Beatings in the left side of the face, extending up to the eye. The feet, and mostly the whole body are constantly damp and cold, with weakness. Uneasiness at the stomach. His breakfast does not seem to sit well on his stomach; he eats with a good appetite, however (from the twenty-fourth day).

Thirty-first day.—Restless night. Intolerable erections, sexual dreams, with emissions. 225. Large pimples on the legs, around the root of each hair. In the evening, large pimples, swollen, like mosquito-bites, with violent itching, and raw feeling when touched.

Thirty-second day.—Weakness, with painful stitch in the lumbar region. Uneasiness in the stomach, every day after the noon-meal. Violent headache on the left side.

Thirty-third day.—230. Sense of tearing and spraining in back when sitting (for one minute). Spitting of blood, with sense of rawness in the throat and the respiratory passages, after talking. Contractive sensation on the skin of the forehead. Pimples all over the body, similar to those above described; suffocative sensation rising to the larynx.

Thirty-fourth day.—Taste of blood in the mouth during an embrace. 235. General emaciation. Inability to incline forward; he can only walk by reclining the trunk backwards; when inclining forward ever so little, he feels a pulling in the lumbar region and is obliged to straighten himself.

Thirty-fifth day.—Uneasiness at the stomach from the noon-meal until four in the afternoon. Irritable mood.

Thirty-eighth day.—Frequent desire to urinate. 240. Clear urine, after a return of the pain in the sacro-lumbar region. Tearing sensation in the renal region; acute pain, with faint feeling and pale face.

Forty-sixth day.—Cold sweat at night.

Fifty-fifth day.—Pale, sickly face; rings around the eyes. Red lips. 245. Emaciation. Weakness in the sacro-lumbar region. Dimness of sight, and prickling in the eyelids. (From this period, he gradually gets better.)

Second prover: Chr. Dieudonné Joly, twenty-four years old, sanguine-nervous temperament, robust constitution.

At eight o’clock in the evening, took one dose of assacù of the fifth attenuation.

First day.—Contraction of the papillæ on the tongue, immediately. 250. Heaviness of the head. Acute pain in the right kidney while walking, with urging to urinate, at nine o’clock in the evening; for two minutes.

Second day.—In the morning, while walking, pain as if sprained in the left coxo-femoral articulation, for some moments. Prickling at the margin of the eyelids, in the day-time. Face looks weary, with rings around the eyes. 255. Lancinations in the left index and thumb. Dull lancinations in the right hand. Itching at the left side and calf. Stitch in the right index-finger at eight o’clock in the evening. Feeling as of sand in the left eye, at ten o’clock.

Third day.—260. Nocturnal emission. Sneezing at noon, as when a catarrh is about setting in. At two o’clock, dark redness and almost complete insensibility of the sides of the neck in the region of the sterno-cleido-mastoideus-muscles; he pricks the parts and does not feel any pain until one hour after.

Fourth day.—No sleep at night, and drowsy in the day-time. Livid complexion at noon. 265. At nine o’clock in the evening, itching at the left eyelids.

Fifth day.—Violent nosebleed, at seven o’clock in the morning. Stinging in the ball of the right thumb. Slight pain in the medius of the left hand.

Sixth day.—Itching at the margin of the left eyelids. 270. At noon, pimple at the right lower part of the lower jaw. At ten o’clock in the evening, in bed, smarting and itching of the puncta lachrymalis and the left lower eyelid.

Seventh day.—At two o’clock: Aching pain like a stitch in the side, under the right lower ribs, for one minute.

Tenth day.—At three o’clock in the afternoon, slight colic, and nausea. Dull and heavy head, with weak legs.

Eleventh day.—275. At eleven o’clock, hypochondria, sadness, despair; he imagines that he is abandoned by his family.

Twelfth day.—Fatigue, and weakness of sight.

Thirteenth day.—Eyes red, with weak sight, he reads with difficulty. The upper and lower limbs feel weak.