Part 19

Twenty-fourth day.—Headache aggravated by the smell of alcohol and disappearing at 3 in the evening.

Twenty-fifth day.—75. Colic on waking. Frequent emission of flatulence. Pains between the shoulders (at 10 in the evening).

Twenty-sixth day.—He dreams that his hands are cut in pieces. Tickling in the throat causing a cough.

Second prover: Charles Dieudonné Jolly, 24 years old, nervous-sanguine temperament, robust constitution.

First day.—80. Pressure at the root of the nose. Dreams about religious things.

Second day.—Heaviness of the head, in the morning. The head and especially the forehead, feel dull as during a catarrh, all the afternoon. Colic after eating. 85. Sexual dream, followed by a dream about women that are changed to animals.

Third day.—Frequent emission of flatulence, in the morning. Tongue slightly coated white, in the morning. Colic and twisting in the stomach after eating. Salt taste in the throat. 90. Pressure in the forehead and above the orbits.

Fifth day.—Slight yellowish-white coating on the tongue, in the morning. Heat in the face, at half past 4 in the afternoon. Pain as if sprained at the right coxo-femoral articulation, posteriorly. Flow of ideas, at 5. 95. Beating at the middle portion of the triceps brachialis, at 8.

Seventh day.—Wakes very early since the third day. Itching at the ball of the thumb, at 9 in the evening.

Eighth day.—Wakes very early. Thin yellowish coating on the tongue, in the morning. 100. Prickling in the lumbar muscles, at 6 in the afternoon.

Ninth day.—Stitch in the left ring-finger, at 7 in the morning. Stitch and sharp pinching in the right groin, near the inguinal ring; this pain was felt shortly after an ordinary stool, while raising one leg as if one would mount three steps at once, at 11 in the morning. Beating in the left thigh at 4 in the afternoon, while sitting. Drowsy at half past 7, waking very early.

Tenth day.—105. Beating under the right shoulder, at 9 in the evening. Drowsy at 8 o’clock in the evening.

Eleventh day.—Weight in the left testicle, the whole day, also in the evening while sitting.

Twelfth day.—Violent pulsations at the lower part of the vastus internus muscle, in a demi-circle, for an hour and a half, in the morning.

Thirteenth day.—Beating in the lumbar muscles at 4 in the afternoon.

Fourteenth day.—110. Headache. Repeated sneezing, at half past 8 in the evening.

Fifteenth day.—Sense of weariness in the muscles of the right thigh, after walking. Involuntary crowding of heterogenous ideas on one’s mind while listening to a discourse or attending to some work; frequently during the proving.

Sixteenth day.—Tongue coated white, in the morning. 115. Contraction and beating at the left superior eyelid, at 7 in the evening. Slight colic and copious flatulence all night.

Seventeenth day.—Restless sleep. Flatulence in the evening. Hard and scanty stool.

Eighteenth day.—120. He dreams that he will fall from a tower. Violent beating of the heart in raising himself. Pricking in the right side of the tongue, from noon until 3. Roughness in the throat, with thirst, in the evening. Cough and yellowish mucous expectoration, at night.

Nineteenth day.—125. He dreams that he is in danger of falling from the roof of a house. Swelling of the mucous membrane of the internal alveolar margin of the two incisores and the left canine tooth. Violent frontal headache and coryza all day. Pain as if sprained at the right scapulo-humeral articulation, after having rested on the elbow, in the evening, in bed. Restless night.

Twentieth day.—130. Confused dreams. Agitated pulse in the morning. Coryza.

Twenty-first day.—Confused dreams. Frontal headache. 135. Coryza. Agitated pulse. Sweats all over, in the morning, in bed. Strong pulsations at the perineum, loins and right ring-finger, at half past 4. Violent frontal headache at 5 in the afternoon, while walking. 140. Large, hard, fragmentary stool. Urinates all the time during stool.

Twenty-third day.—Strong pulsations in the vertebral region, in the morning while lying. Whizzing in the left ear, at 5 in the evening. Disposed to remember past journeys; flow of ideas about theories, &c.

Twenty-fourth day.—145. Aching pain in the right hypogastric region, towards the ring, after a long walk.

Twenty-fifth day.—Reddish urine, with mucus floating in it.

Third prover: Mme Al. J—, 26 years old, of sanguine temperament, good constitution.

First day.—Tearing in the chest and throat, immediately.