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Myristica fragrans, Houttuyn (1774). M. moschata, Thunb. M.
Officinalis, Linn. M. aromatica, Lam.
Natural order: Myristicaceae.
Preparation: Tincture and triturations of the seed deprived of its arillus (mace) and testa.
Officinalis, Linn. M. aromatica, Lam.
Natural order: Myristicaceae.
Preparation: Tincture and triturations of the seed deprived of its arillus (mace) and testa.
Mental
Emotional. Insanity. She fell into a delirium, that lasted several hours. After a few;hours, he was attacked with violent vertigo and delirium, so that he made remarkable gestures; then he used improper language;in a loud tone, and could in no way be quieted or made to sleep until he had taken tea and been bled, after which he fell into a profuse perspiration, with deep sleep, from which he woke well. From three nuts of M. tomentosa, taken for diarrhoea and tenesmus. Delirium with the dysmenorrhoea. Mental derangement. Possesses narcotic properties, causes reeling, delirium, and apoplexy. They became foolish and delirious (in five soldiers). It causes foolishness. сompletely distracted in the head, and as if intoxicated (in pregnant woman, from ten pieces of the nuts). сauses intoxication and indolence.
Unusually lively, laughing and bright, in the forenoon. Felt foolishly happy, but could not talk; had no desire to talk (first evening). Everything provokes laughter, quite contrary to habit; this was especially noticeable on going into the open air. He stood still upon the street, made foolish gestures; between the attacks he sank into absence of mind, and on collecting himself everything about him seemed ludicrous. During this he looked foolish and childish, like an idiot. On being brought into the house he became somewhat better (first day). I took a broken nutmeg and put it in my pocket, and in the course of six hours, I had eaten half a one. Soon after I felt a dizziness and an unaccountable derangement of intellect, transient loss of memory, but a perfect consciousness of all that I said or did; I became remarkably loquacious, and seemed to be neither in this world nor the other; I felt;happy and free from any pain; I was truly in an indescribable state; I felt as I supposed one might feel that had;been magnetized; my friends were greatly alarmed, and the;doctor was sent for in great haste; bleeding was proposed, but as I thought I knew at least as much as any one, I was not willing to be bled; after keeping them laughing and crying till about 11 o’clock at night, I retired to bed, without anything having been done for me; I woke in the morning, and was as well as usual, having;never been sick a day in my life. Since this occurred, several cases have come to my knowledge in which persons having eaten nutmegs, were affected in the same way that I had been. Had I eaten a little more, I have no doubt it would have proved fatal, as I learn it has done in other cases. He seemed to himself to be remarkably lively, with constant throngs of joyous fancies, and he managed to see something ludicrous in everything. Effects of the inunction of the tincture to the abdomen. Great fear of death, at 5.30 Weeping mood, with burning in the eyes, and lachrymation (first day). Precordial anxiety. Reeling and great anxiety. Violent anxiety (second day).
Extreme ill-humor (first day). Petulant and irritable, when roused. Disposed to be petulant. Variable mood; at one time he wishes to do something, but when he is about to accomplish it changes his mind (first day). At one time mood more earnest, at another more inclined to laugh (first day). Felt perfectly careless; nothing could have offended me (first evening). As soon as she lay down felt a sinking sensation, as though she were going to die, with no fear, however, being perfectly at ease in mind, and free from pain or any suffering; felt happy and unconcerned; sensation was not complete; faculties undisturbed up to this time, save in the expression of her idea; knew all that was transpiring about her, but could not express herself clearly (ideas muddled, tongue thick, with coldness commencing in lower limbs). Indifferent mood (first day). Intellectual. Thought uncontrollable, at 2 While writing he omitted letters, wrote in different alphabets against his will, and changed form one subject to another (after six hours). From the flowers. The words he employed to express his sensations remarkable for their merit of being the opposite to what he should have used; on the third day his thoughts hardly submitted themselves to his control, unless by a consciously great effort. Many ridiculous or extravagant acts or expressions, like idiocy, while she seemed perfectly conscious, and at the next moment would appear chagrined at her conduct, and said she could not control her actions; disposition to laugh or jest at everything; stupid look for a moment; changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying (after seven hours). He cannot comprehend that he;is reading, does not know what he is reading (first day). Ideas were somewhat confused. Great incoherency on attempting to express her idea (after seven hours). Great confusion of ideas, with strange feeling over the whole system (after four hours). Unfitted fro any work (first day). Loss of memory, at 2 The preserved nuts, if eaten too frequently, destroy the memory. It causes forgetfulness. When writing, he had scarcely written half of the thoughts in his mind when everything vanished; the other part could be recalled only with difficulty, or frequently not at all; was first obliged to rest; commenced to write anew, but could write only a single word, when he had to stop and collect his thoughts (first day). Dizziness and vanishing of thought, and on forcibly arousing himself, he is first obliged to collect his thoughts. While reading he gradually sinks into absence of mind, which passes into sleep (after three hours). вefore he could answer a question he was obliged to wait awhile and collect his thoughts; frequently in spite of everything he was unable to give a suitable answer immediately; a kind of slowness of ideas (after five hours). He staggered when walking, and when reflecting his mind ran upon one idea until all at once he woke from where he was (after five hours). Absence of mind, cannot think; great indifference to everything; scalp very much stretched; he laid down at noon to sleep for half an hour, but slept soundly for four hours; before falling asleep, boring pains in the root of a tooth; on falling asleep, some dull headache on the left side (after six hours). He talks very little; confused images appear before his mind; whenever he wishes to say anything he is first obliged to collect his thoughts (first day). He never accomplishes what he undertakes, but remains standing in one place, absent-minded; he appears quite changed to his companions.
It became difficult to recall to mind things learned shortly before; for many such things the mind seemed paralyzed for many days together. In a state of apparent unconsciousness. Dulness of senses and loss of control; she could have been led anywhere without resistance; loss of power (first evening). Total loss of consciousness, seemingly to her of a half hour’s duration, but really only momentary, at 2 Senselessness. Senselessness, intoxicated condition, and absence of mind (first day). After about an hour he was seized with drowsiness, that gradually increased to complete stupor and insensibility, and not long afterwards he was found fallen from his chair, lying on the floor of his chamber in the state mentioned; being laid in bed he fell asleep, woke a little from time to time, when he was quite delirious; he thus continued alternately delirious and sleeping or several hours; by degrees these symptoms diminished, so that in about six hours from the time of taking the nutmeg he had pretty well recovered. Although he still complained of headache and was somewhat delirious, he slept naturally, and the next day was quite well. From about 2 drachms of the powdered nutmeg.
*) From eating three nutmegs, after a moderate dinner, he is taken with unconquerable desire to sleep; he passes the afternoon in delirious slumber, with pleasant, peaceful dreams; at half past 5 O’clock he went to the theatre, which was at some distance; the way seemed to have no end; he has perfect control over his limbs, but is lost each moment in fanciful images, from which he has to tear himself away, with great energy, in order to continue on his way. Although he was, at times, quite unconscious, his limbs did not fail to do their service; he went straight on, without recognizing the streets that crossed his way; he was most concerned about the time; he feared to come too late, but came to the theatre much earlier than he thought; during the entire play, fancy and reality battled with each other. It surely possesses narcotic and stupefying properties.
She fell into the deepest stupor, was deprived of all motion and sensation. She lay immovable and stupid the whole of the first day, as in coma. State of mind similar to that of the opium- eater, entertaining no apprehension of the result, although aware of the presence of some danger.
Unusually lively, laughing and bright, in the forenoon. Felt foolishly happy, but could not talk; had no desire to talk (first evening). Everything provokes laughter, quite contrary to habit; this was especially noticeable on going into the open air. He stood still upon the street, made foolish gestures; between the attacks he sank into absence of mind, and on collecting himself everything about him seemed ludicrous. During this he looked foolish and childish, like an idiot. On being brought into the house he became somewhat better (first day). I took a broken nutmeg and put it in my pocket, and in the course of six hours, I had eaten half a one. Soon after I felt a dizziness and an unaccountable derangement of intellect, transient loss of memory, but a perfect consciousness of all that I said or did; I became remarkably loquacious, and seemed to be neither in this world nor the other; I felt;happy and free from any pain; I was truly in an indescribable state; I felt as I supposed one might feel that had;been magnetized; my friends were greatly alarmed, and the;doctor was sent for in great haste; bleeding was proposed, but as I thought I knew at least as much as any one, I was not willing to be bled; after keeping them laughing and crying till about 11 o’clock at night, I retired to bed, without anything having been done for me; I woke in the morning, and was as well as usual, having;never been sick a day in my life. Since this occurred, several cases have come to my knowledge in which persons having eaten nutmegs, were affected in the same way that I had been. Had I eaten a little more, I have no doubt it would have proved fatal, as I learn it has done in other cases. He seemed to himself to be remarkably lively, with constant throngs of joyous fancies, and he managed to see something ludicrous in everything. Effects of the inunction of the tincture to the abdomen. Great fear of death, at 5.30 Weeping mood, with burning in the eyes, and lachrymation (first day). Precordial anxiety. Reeling and great anxiety. Violent anxiety (second day).
Extreme ill-humor (first day). Petulant and irritable, when roused. Disposed to be petulant. Variable mood; at one time he wishes to do something, but when he is about to accomplish it changes his mind (first day). At one time mood more earnest, at another more inclined to laugh (first day). Felt perfectly careless; nothing could have offended me (first evening). As soon as she lay down felt a sinking sensation, as though she were going to die, with no fear, however, being perfectly at ease in mind, and free from pain or any suffering; felt happy and unconcerned; sensation was not complete; faculties undisturbed up to this time, save in the expression of her idea; knew all that was transpiring about her, but could not express herself clearly (ideas muddled, tongue thick, with coldness commencing in lower limbs). Indifferent mood (first day). Intellectual. Thought uncontrollable, at 2 While writing he omitted letters, wrote in different alphabets against his will, and changed form one subject to another (after six hours). From the flowers. The words he employed to express his sensations remarkable for their merit of being the opposite to what he should have used; on the third day his thoughts hardly submitted themselves to his control, unless by a consciously great effort. Many ridiculous or extravagant acts or expressions, like idiocy, while she seemed perfectly conscious, and at the next moment would appear chagrined at her conduct, and said she could not control her actions; disposition to laugh or jest at everything; stupid look for a moment; changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying (after seven hours). He cannot comprehend that he;is reading, does not know what he is reading (first day). Ideas were somewhat confused. Great incoherency on attempting to express her idea (after seven hours). Great confusion of ideas, with strange feeling over the whole system (after four hours). Unfitted fro any work (first day). Loss of memory, at 2 The preserved nuts, if eaten too frequently, destroy the memory. It causes forgetfulness. When writing, he had scarcely written half of the thoughts in his mind when everything vanished; the other part could be recalled only with difficulty, or frequently not at all; was first obliged to rest; commenced to write anew, but could write only a single word, when he had to stop and collect his thoughts (first day). Dizziness and vanishing of thought, and on forcibly arousing himself, he is first obliged to collect his thoughts. While reading he gradually sinks into absence of mind, which passes into sleep (after three hours). вefore he could answer a question he was obliged to wait awhile and collect his thoughts; frequently in spite of everything he was unable to give a suitable answer immediately; a kind of slowness of ideas (after five hours). He staggered when walking, and when reflecting his mind ran upon one idea until all at once he woke from where he was (after five hours). Absence of mind, cannot think; great indifference to everything; scalp very much stretched; he laid down at noon to sleep for half an hour, but slept soundly for four hours; before falling asleep, boring pains in the root of a tooth; on falling asleep, some dull headache on the left side (after six hours). He talks very little; confused images appear before his mind; whenever he wishes to say anything he is first obliged to collect his thoughts (first day). He never accomplishes what he undertakes, but remains standing in one place, absent-minded; he appears quite changed to his companions.
It became difficult to recall to mind things learned shortly before; for many such things the mind seemed paralyzed for many days together. In a state of apparent unconsciousness. Dulness of senses and loss of control; she could have been led anywhere without resistance; loss of power (first evening). Total loss of consciousness, seemingly to her of a half hour’s duration, but really only momentary, at 2 Senselessness. Senselessness, intoxicated condition, and absence of mind (first day). After about an hour he was seized with drowsiness, that gradually increased to complete stupor and insensibility, and not long afterwards he was found fallen from his chair, lying on the floor of his chamber in the state mentioned; being laid in bed he fell asleep, woke a little from time to time, when he was quite delirious; he thus continued alternately delirious and sleeping or several hours; by degrees these symptoms diminished, so that in about six hours from the time of taking the nutmeg he had pretty well recovered. Although he still complained of headache and was somewhat delirious, he slept naturally, and the next day was quite well. From about 2 drachms of the powdered nutmeg.
*) From eating three nutmegs, after a moderate dinner, he is taken with unconquerable desire to sleep; he passes the afternoon in delirious slumber, with pleasant, peaceful dreams; at half past 5 O’clock he went to the theatre, which was at some distance; the way seemed to have no end; he has perfect control over his limbs, but is lost each moment in fanciful images, from which he has to tear himself away, with great energy, in order to continue on his way. Although he was, at times, quite unconscious, his limbs did not fail to do their service; he went straight on, without recognizing the streets that crossed his way; he was most concerned about the time; he feared to come too late, but came to the theatre much earlier than he thought; during the entire play, fancy and reality battled with each other. It surely possesses narcotic and stupefying properties.
She fell into the deepest stupor, was deprived of all motion and sensation. She lay immovable and stupid the whole of the first day, as in coma. State of mind similar to that of the opium- eater, entertaining no apprehension of the result, although aware of the presence of some danger.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo. They experienced such violent vertigo and heaviness of head that they seemed deprived of memory. Several persons, after taking cold wine punch containing eight nutmegs. Vertigo, and fatal apoplexy. Pain and vertigo in the frontal region, with the strange feeling over the whole system (after four hours). He seemed like one intoxicated and reeling (first day). She is dizzy. So dizzy that they seemed intoxicated and half crazy. Two soldiers, the day after sleeping under a nutmeg tree. Dizzy, as if intoxicated and sleepy. He reels far to the left instead of walking upright (in the evening, while walking in the open air), (first day). She made an attempt to walk to an adjoining room, and upon standing erect became very dizzy, immediately followed by swimming in the head. She began to feel giddy and light in her head, about 1 o’clock; gradually increased in severity. Feeling faint, with lightness, giddiness, and emptiness of head, at 5.30 Lightness, giddiness, and emptiness, with a faint feeling, at 5.30 Injurious to the head; makes dizzy, sluggish, foolish, and causes other complaints. She seemed intoxicated the whole day; the head was heavy; at first it was painful on the left side, between the forehead and temple, which sensation afterwards extended towards the occiput (first day). In General. The head inclined to drop forward, the chin resting on the breast, and it could only be raised with much effort, which, when done, again would drop forward. сould not bear to have her head raised from the pillow, on account of the deathly sickness produced thereby. Rush of blood to the head, obscuring the sight. On rising from dinner (after four hours), felt the blood rush to my head, but the feeling was as if an electric current had passed from the crown of the head downwards; I made an effort and got mechanically downstairs; I then felt the same sensation which I suppose a person would experience who had become nearly insensible from extreme cold, and that, if I yielded myself to its influence, I could have slept away out of existence without pain; I felt this sensation twice; in a few minutes a cold shiver came upon me; from that time I felt every variety of heat and cold from their respective extremes; at every time the blood went from and returned to my head the current changed the sensation, sometimes feeling myself very hot, and the next very cold, but never the same sensation; I felt at one time such a pressure in the head that it appeared as if all the blood in the body had rushed to obtain possession of that region, and I thought I could hear it gushing in my ears; these symptoms became gradually weaker. Head throbbed. Head ached severely. Headache (after a few hours).
Headache the whole afternoon and evening (first day). The head became dull. Dulness of the head. From the preserved nutmegs. Heavy and pressive dulness of the head, with a sensation as if the left half of the head and face were somewhat swollen, and a prickling sensation as from an electric current, soon. Head seemed bulky, and rolled around almost uncontrollably, being obliged to bring to its support one or both hands, while sitting at a table. Head felt full and expanded, but without pain (first evening). A violent pressing forward in the head towards the sinciput; it seems as though it would be pressed out, and twice as thick as natural; at the same time he is dizzy, as after intoxication, and as if he would stagger (first day). The head seems compressed from the forehead and occiput, on waking from the midday nap (thirteenth day). From the flowers. Slight tingling in the head (after fifteen minutes). Felt especially bad about the head; while upright and walking could hold the head erect, but when sitting it would drop forward. With the confusion of mind he had a somewhat painful sensation in the upper half of the skull and brain, as though the parts were pressed together from above and the side, and spasmodically seized or constricted; together with inclination to sleep (first day). Affects the head very much. Effects of the flowers. Forehead. Forehead confused and dull, immediately. Muddled and fatigued in the forehead and temples (after half and hour). She is immediately seized with aching in the forehead. A kind of pressure in a small spot in the upper part of the right side of the forehead (second morning). Pain in the upper part of the left side of the forehead, in the organ of wit (after three minutes); this extended after two minutes over the left eye, where it became very severe; a gnawing pressing in the organ of locality and smell. Pressive pain in the forehead, with stupefaction; at times it made the lids close, and he was obliged to yawn). Pain in a small spot in the forehead, about the left eye, pressing forward, in the morning (after two days). From the flowers *) Headache in the forehead, in the morning (second day). Intense frontal headache, with tense and painful sensation in scalp.
Pressive headache in a small spot above the left frontal eminence (after nine hours). Pressive-throbbing headache above the left eye, in the morning. Temples. Pain, especially in the temples; on shaking the head there is a feeling of looseness, as if the brain beat against the skull; the temples would not tolerate touch, and there was a feeling of heat in the head (after six hours).
Pressive and sticking pain in the left temple, of short duration, soon. A pain, rather sticking, in the right temple, frequently returns, and lasts for several days. Paroxysmal and transient stitches from within outward in the temples, immediately. A kind of hot pressure on the sides of the head, especially on the temples, like a pressure from within outward. Vertex. Headache on stooping; it presses from the vertex towards the forehead (after one hour). Warmth mounts towards the crown, with a sensation of constriction and pressing inward on the top of the head, immediately. Pain on the crown of the head, extending over a space about the size of a penny (after one hour and a half). From the vertex a drawing pain into the eyes (second morning). Single hard pressive pain on the top of the head, in the forenoon (tenth day). Pains in the left side of the sinciput and in the left upper arm, lasting several hours. Pain in the sinciput, extending towards the left eye, a kind of pressure, with a stupefying sensation, lasting two hours (first day). Parietals and Occiput.
Pains in various parts of the left side of the upper part of the head, in the forepart, above the forehead lasting an hour.
Headache on the right side, in the afternoon (first day).
Pressure in the right side of the head, in part above the ear, in part at the right angle of the occiput, as from a pressure inward upon the bone; very transient (first day). Pain in the left side of the occiput, towards the nape of the neck. Pressure in the head, between the vertex and occiput (after a quarter of an hour).
Eye.
Objective. Deep blue semicircles under the eyes, at 5.30.
Blue rings around the eyes (first day). вoth eyes presented a bloodshot appearance, and were much swollen. Eyes bloodshot and much reddened, almost swollen shut; could scarcely see. The right infraorbital region becomes puffy (first day). From the flowers. The eyes, that seemed to him dry, appeared agglutinated so that he could scarcely open them, with constant inclination of the head to the left side, from sleepiness (first day). Eyes very dull and heavy-looking. Dull eyes (after two hours and a half). Eyes looked injected. Subjective. Sensation of fullness in the eyes, wherewith the pupils seemed contracted (second day). Eyes and lids felt swollen, bulged out (first evening). Sensation of dryness in the eyes; reading by artificial light was difficult; the eyes would close from sleep; the head and forehead were dull, in the evening (first day). He could not easily open and close the eyes, on account of a sensation of dryness and roughness (first day). Dryness of the eyes (first day). Lids. Upper eyelids were swollen and red around the border, and drooping; looked as though she had been weeping (first evening). The eyes were firmly and spasmodically closed under the influence of the spasm. Eyelids drooped, and could only open fully with use of hands. Inability to open her eyes; lids felt heavy and stiff. Tension and dryness in the lids (first day).
Tension about the right eye, especially in the lower lid, as though she could not open, it with pressure in the eyes; she was obliged to draw the eye together, whereby it seemed as though she could open it wider (after eighteen hours). Pressure in the lids, as from sleepiness. Lachrymal Apparatus. Remarkably burning in the eyes, with profuse lachrymation (after two hours). Pupil and Vision. Pupils greatly dilated and insensible (second day).
Momentary paroxysms of blindness, when she would grasp her head, saying, How strange my head feels (after seven hours). Looked bewildered, but vision at this time was good; later, however, objects looked as if enveloped in mist. Darkness and mist before my eyes (first evening). Enlargement of eyes, with intolerance of light, while objects seemed to float before the vision. Objects would vanish for an instant, at 2 Vision indistinct; everything looked red (first evening). Her hand to her looked red, and as if covered with red spots, and looked too large (first evening). Everything looked too large; my hand looked double its natural size (first evening). In a rather dark room, got out of bed and walked to the window in front of me; the window on my right, which is at right angles with the other, appeared much nearer to it, and diverging from it at an obtuse angle (this amounts to, objects appear too close together, too distant, and oblique), (first night).
Ear.
The auricular group of muscles were involved in the general disturbance, as the ears could be seen to act in concert with the rest of the muscular structures (also the epicranial and palpebral group of muscles seemed involved). Some earache. Pains in the ear, as though a not very dull instrument were pressed back and forth in it (second and third days). Pain between a pressure and a sticking in the right ear, in the morning (second day). While riding in a wagon, towards evening, just before a storm of wind and rain, he experienced a painful sensation of heat, extending from within the ear towards the posterior wall of the pharynx (tuba Eustachii), almost as if a rough body had lodged there, and had to be pressed out forcibly; the sensation began first in the posterior wall of the pharynx, afterwards in the ear, and at last extended to the buccal cavity (eleventh day). Somewhat sharp pressure in the left ear, seeming to be aggravated and in part caused by motion of the lower jaw. Several stitches in succession in the right ear, in the forenoon (tenth day). Some stitches in the ears (first day). Hearing. вuzzing in ears. No answer to loud summons when called by name.
Nose.
Dryness of the nose, immediately. From snuffing the powder for nasal polypus. Frequent and violent sneezing, in the morning (third day). Frequent sneezing (from the odor and smell of nutmegs). Stoppage of the nose, mostly of the left nostril, with crawling, as from coryza, and sneezing three times; the stoppage was so violent that he was obliged to keep the mouth open in order to breathe; it was immediately relieved on moving about, and entirely disappeared after rising (after one hour). Stoppage of the left nostril, lasting three days (after nine hours). It feels like a catarrh in the nose; is obliged to sneeze (first day). The left nostril seems affected with catarrh; it is neither dry nor stopped, but it seems to him as though he could get no air through it (second day). Irritation and stinging in the nose, compelling violent rubbing (after one hour).
Headache the whole afternoon and evening (first day). The head became dull. Dulness of the head. From the preserved nutmegs. Heavy and pressive dulness of the head, with a sensation as if the left half of the head and face were somewhat swollen, and a prickling sensation as from an electric current, soon. Head seemed bulky, and rolled around almost uncontrollably, being obliged to bring to its support one or both hands, while sitting at a table. Head felt full and expanded, but without pain (first evening). A violent pressing forward in the head towards the sinciput; it seems as though it would be pressed out, and twice as thick as natural; at the same time he is dizzy, as after intoxication, and as if he would stagger (first day). The head seems compressed from the forehead and occiput, on waking from the midday nap (thirteenth day). From the flowers. Slight tingling in the head (after fifteen minutes). Felt especially bad about the head; while upright and walking could hold the head erect, but when sitting it would drop forward. With the confusion of mind he had a somewhat painful sensation in the upper half of the skull and brain, as though the parts were pressed together from above and the side, and spasmodically seized or constricted; together with inclination to sleep (first day). Affects the head very much. Effects of the flowers. Forehead. Forehead confused and dull, immediately. Muddled and fatigued in the forehead and temples (after half and hour). She is immediately seized with aching in the forehead. A kind of pressure in a small spot in the upper part of the right side of the forehead (second morning). Pain in the upper part of the left side of the forehead, in the organ of wit (after three minutes); this extended after two minutes over the left eye, where it became very severe; a gnawing pressing in the organ of locality and smell. Pressive pain in the forehead, with stupefaction; at times it made the lids close, and he was obliged to yawn). Pain in a small spot in the forehead, about the left eye, pressing forward, in the morning (after two days). From the flowers *) Headache in the forehead, in the morning (second day). Intense frontal headache, with tense and painful sensation in scalp.
Pressive headache in a small spot above the left frontal eminence (after nine hours). Pressive-throbbing headache above the left eye, in the morning. Temples. Pain, especially in the temples; on shaking the head there is a feeling of looseness, as if the brain beat against the skull; the temples would not tolerate touch, and there was a feeling of heat in the head (after six hours).
Pressive and sticking pain in the left temple, of short duration, soon. A pain, rather sticking, in the right temple, frequently returns, and lasts for several days. Paroxysmal and transient stitches from within outward in the temples, immediately. A kind of hot pressure on the sides of the head, especially on the temples, like a pressure from within outward. Vertex. Headache on stooping; it presses from the vertex towards the forehead (after one hour). Warmth mounts towards the crown, with a sensation of constriction and pressing inward on the top of the head, immediately. Pain on the crown of the head, extending over a space about the size of a penny (after one hour and a half). From the vertex a drawing pain into the eyes (second morning). Single hard pressive pain on the top of the head, in the forenoon (tenth day). Pains in the left side of the sinciput and in the left upper arm, lasting several hours. Pain in the sinciput, extending towards the left eye, a kind of pressure, with a stupefying sensation, lasting two hours (first day). Parietals and Occiput.
Pains in various parts of the left side of the upper part of the head, in the forepart, above the forehead lasting an hour.
Headache on the right side, in the afternoon (first day).
Pressure in the right side of the head, in part above the ear, in part at the right angle of the occiput, as from a pressure inward upon the bone; very transient (first day). Pain in the left side of the occiput, towards the nape of the neck. Pressure in the head, between the vertex and occiput (after a quarter of an hour).
Eye.
Objective. Deep blue semicircles under the eyes, at 5.30.
Blue rings around the eyes (first day). вoth eyes presented a bloodshot appearance, and were much swollen. Eyes bloodshot and much reddened, almost swollen shut; could scarcely see. The right infraorbital region becomes puffy (first day). From the flowers. The eyes, that seemed to him dry, appeared agglutinated so that he could scarcely open them, with constant inclination of the head to the left side, from sleepiness (first day). Eyes very dull and heavy-looking. Dull eyes (after two hours and a half). Eyes looked injected. Subjective. Sensation of fullness in the eyes, wherewith the pupils seemed contracted (second day). Eyes and lids felt swollen, bulged out (first evening). Sensation of dryness in the eyes; reading by artificial light was difficult; the eyes would close from sleep; the head and forehead were dull, in the evening (first day). He could not easily open and close the eyes, on account of a sensation of dryness and roughness (first day). Dryness of the eyes (first day). Lids. Upper eyelids were swollen and red around the border, and drooping; looked as though she had been weeping (first evening). The eyes were firmly and spasmodically closed under the influence of the spasm. Eyelids drooped, and could only open fully with use of hands. Inability to open her eyes; lids felt heavy and stiff. Tension and dryness in the lids (first day).
Tension about the right eye, especially in the lower lid, as though she could not open, it with pressure in the eyes; she was obliged to draw the eye together, whereby it seemed as though she could open it wider (after eighteen hours). Pressure in the lids, as from sleepiness. Lachrymal Apparatus. Remarkably burning in the eyes, with profuse lachrymation (after two hours). Pupil and Vision. Pupils greatly dilated and insensible (second day).
Momentary paroxysms of blindness, when she would grasp her head, saying, How strange my head feels (after seven hours). Looked bewildered, but vision at this time was good; later, however, objects looked as if enveloped in mist. Darkness and mist before my eyes (first evening). Enlargement of eyes, with intolerance of light, while objects seemed to float before the vision. Objects would vanish for an instant, at 2 Vision indistinct; everything looked red (first evening). Her hand to her looked red, and as if covered with red spots, and looked too large (first evening). Everything looked too large; my hand looked double its natural size (first evening). In a rather dark room, got out of bed and walked to the window in front of me; the window on my right, which is at right angles with the other, appeared much nearer to it, and diverging from it at an obtuse angle (this amounts to, objects appear too close together, too distant, and oblique), (first night).
Ear.
The auricular group of muscles were involved in the general disturbance, as the ears could be seen to act in concert with the rest of the muscular structures (also the epicranial and palpebral group of muscles seemed involved). Some earache. Pains in the ear, as though a not very dull instrument were pressed back and forth in it (second and third days). Pain between a pressure and a sticking in the right ear, in the morning (second day). While riding in a wagon, towards evening, just before a storm of wind and rain, he experienced a painful sensation of heat, extending from within the ear towards the posterior wall of the pharynx (tuba Eustachii), almost as if a rough body had lodged there, and had to be pressed out forcibly; the sensation began first in the posterior wall of the pharynx, afterwards in the ear, and at last extended to the buccal cavity (eleventh day). Somewhat sharp pressure in the left ear, seeming to be aggravated and in part caused by motion of the lower jaw. Several stitches in succession in the right ear, in the forenoon (tenth day). Some stitches in the ears (first day). Hearing. вuzzing in ears. No answer to loud summons when called by name.
Nose.
Dryness of the nose, immediately. From snuffing the powder for nasal polypus. Frequent and violent sneezing, in the morning (third day). Frequent sneezing (from the odor and smell of nutmegs). Stoppage of the nose, mostly of the left nostril, with crawling, as from coryza, and sneezing three times; the stoppage was so violent that he was obliged to keep the mouth open in order to breathe; it was immediately relieved on moving about, and entirely disappeared after rising (after one hour). Stoppage of the left nostril, lasting three days (after nine hours). It feels like a catarrh in the nose; is obliged to sneeze (first day). The left nostril seems affected with catarrh; it is neither dry nor stopped, but it seems to him as though he could get no air through it (second day). Irritation and stinging in the nose, compelling violent rubbing (after one hour).
Nervous system
Confusion and Vertigo. сauses great confusion of the head.
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