Part 12

Twelfth day.—385. Small pimples on the back, with itching. Nosebleed, at 8 o’clock. Hard stool for 8 days. Nosebleed, at 10 o’clock.

Thirteenth day.—390. Restless night, dream about a sea-voyage. Heaviness of the head, nosebleed on rising. Headache, heaviness with beating in the forehead, all day. Red pimples on the shoulders, with pricking when touched. Lancination and pricking in the left little finger, three or four different times.

Fourteenth day.—395. Hot and red face. Itching red pimples on the shoulders.

Fifteenth day.—Sense as of crumbs in the eyes. Sclerotica red, with margins around the eyes, red eyelids, red face. Red pimples on the sides of the hips, smarting.

Sixteenth day.—400. Sharp pain, followed by an acute lancinating pain about the heart.

Seventeenth day.—At eight o’clock in the morning, sharp, lancinating pain, by fits and starts, at the right side of the sacrum, more or less violent. Ten o’clock in the evening: wry neck on the right side.

Eighteenth day.—While slumbering, sensation as if she were hanging three feet from the ground. Sensation as if she would fall into a ditch. 405. Coldness and heat, alternating at night.

Nineteenth day.—Acute pain at the left hip, at 9 o’clock in the morning. The pain recurs at 9 o’clock in the evening, and continues for several days at the same hour. Pain at the uterus as if compressed. Pain at the heart, which is at times very sharp, almost unbearable. 410. The breathing is arrested; this pain makes her very uneasy. Lancinating pain in the head.

Twentieth day.—Pain at the left knee, as if sprained.

Twenty-first day.—Writhing colic, and diarrhœa, five times in the day.

Twenty-second day.—Restless night. 415. In the evening, pain at the loins and on each side of the ovary. Violent lancinations with prickling, afterwards lancinating pain in the vagina; appearance of the menses, but very slight.

Twenty-third day.—Pain in the uterus as if a sharp instrument were thrust in. Lancinating pain above the left breast. Pain at the right little toe, like an intermittent throbbing, with intolerable prickling, at half past 10 o’clock in the evening.

Twenty-fourth day.—420. Sleep disturbed by a violent itching caused by small pimples on the shoulders. In the morning, the pain of the little toe returns, but it does not last as long as the day previous. Pain in the renal region, with sense of weariness in the region of the sacrum. Cold and heavy pain at the left hip. Painful pricking in the wrist and along the left hand, between the middle and ring-finger.

Twenty-fifth day.—425. Prickings and stitch above the left breast, hindering breathing, whether walking or sitting. Acute pain when drawing breath.

Twenty-sixth day.—Sense as if sprained in the left knee and cracking when walking.

Twenty-eighth day.—Restless night. Desire to cry. 430. Fever, inability to close her hand. Sad, vexing thoughts.

Twenty-ninth day.—Sensation as if floating in the air. No sleep. Starting in bed. 435. Sensation as if she were falling to the ground. Lancinating pain under the heart; it continues, more or less feeble. Bad digestion, the stomach feels yet full since supper.

Thirtieth day.—Restless night, starting during sleep. Sense of weariness in the lumbar region, all night. 440. Pain at the sacrum as from a recent blow, this pain increases until four o’clock in the evening. Pressure at the sacrum, with weariness in the left thigh. Heaviness at the sacrum, when sitting. Sensation as if worms were crawling in the posterior and external portion of the sacrum.

Thirty-first day.—The pain at the sacrum obliges her to keep bent; this pain shifts up and down from the sacrum to the left thigh, and is accompanied by chattering of the teeth, which interrupts the speech, and by cold hands and feet. 445. Quickly-passing tingling and twisting pain in the right leg, at three o’clock in the evening, when lying. Twisting pain extending from the sacrum into the left leg, and obliging her to lie down. Every paroxysm of pain excites a nervous laugh, with moanings like those of a sick child. Sensation as if dogs had bitten her where the pain is felt. Sensation as if she had a plaster at the region of the kidneys. 450. The pain descends along the vastus externus muscle. Mottled face, in the beginning of the proving it became red, now it is sometimes pale. She cannot walk, without fearing to fall. No solicitude for the future, generally speaking; tears with ennui; she thinks of death without fearing it. The pain at the sacrum is worse when sitting, and obliges her to lie down.

Thirty-second day.—455. Sleep during the night, but the pain in the renal region returns as soon as she rises from bed. The pain is seated in the sacro-lumbar articulation; it extends to the glutei muscles with sensation as though she were gnawed by dogs. At times the right thumb feels numb.

Thirty-third day.—Pain in the vertebral column. Sense of luxation, with pain in the glutei muscles, of the same nature as the day previous.

Thirty-fourth day.—460. Twisting sensation in the groin. Nosebleed, when lying. Vesicular pimples all over, with red spots as if the skin had been rubbed. Large blotches on the legs like mosquito-bites. Sensation in the renal region and buttocks as if gnawed by dogs. 465. Continual sneezing for two hours.

Thirty-seventh day.—Sensation in the thighs, as if bitten by dogs. The pimples increase during an increase of temperature, and leave large red spots in the renal region and on the hips. Since she had the pains in the sacrum, she is unable to sleep or rest on the stomach.

Thirty-eighth day.—Uneasiness, sometimes she cries in the street. 470. Acute headache, like a circle which rolls quickly over the forehead. Dizziness. Profuse nosebleed from both nostrils. The nosebleed is preceded by a smell of blood. Red face, with little pimples between the skin and flesh. 475. Heat at the face. Sensation as if the skin of the face were stretched too much. Frequent emission of watery urine. Sense of coldness in the right-thigh.

Fortieth day.—480. Dreams about dead bodies, assassins, decayed oxen, yellow water. Continual nosebleed, especially in the morning. The pains in the renal region decrease.

Forty-third day.—Nervous twitching at the left lower eyelid.

Forty-fifth day.—Flow of sad thoughts; she imagines she will lose somebody who is dear to her. 485. She cries every moment, and, for several days past imagines she is seeing the dead person before her eyes.

Fifty-eighth day.—Painful sensibility of the whole right half of the head, especially when touching it. Lancinations in the jaws, pain at the right arm. Impatience, anger; she bites her hands, and gets mad because her ideas flow too slowly.