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OUTER HEAD.
Face swollen and inflamed ; swelling extends upward over head.
Alopecia.
SIGHT AND EYES.
Vision, especially right eye, growing dim.
Eyes turned red and twitched.
Swelling and puffiness of lower lids.
Eyes nearly closed, two or three hours after sting.
Injection of conjunctiva of right eye.
Itching of eyelids ; adhesion in morning.
Itching and redness in eyes.
Itching of right lid in evening, slight tumefaction ; lids more swollen and painful ; swelling
increased, considerable pain in eyeball and lids all night ; lids greatly tumefied with what seemed
to be erysipelatous inflammation ; whole side of face painful and swollen ; on opening lids
discovered almost complete chemosis of conjunctiva, it being raised up on sclerotic membrane
more than half over eye to border of cornea, as if fatty matter were underneath it, caused by
effusion of lymph ; an abscess opened upon inside of upper lid about its centre ; swelling began
to abate and chemosis to flatten down, assuming instead of a semi-transparent, a reddish hue, as
in common ophthalmia ; discharge from abscess profuse ; in fourteen days chemosis entirely
disappeared.
Right eye inflamed for six days ; it had commenced with lachrymation ; had taken Aconite
without relief ; now there is redness of conjunctiva of right lower lid ; in left lower half of right
eye is a semi-transparent baggy swelling of conjunctiva extending up to cornea, and on pressing
it upward it partly covers cornea ; much lachrymation of right eye, < in open air, right eyelids
adhere in morning ; man, at. 60.
HEARING AND EARS.
Subdued, stitchlike pain deep in right ear.
FACE.
Face : anxious ; livid ; bluish ; smooth, dark-red and bloated.
Facial neuralgia.
An ulcer lasting three months after a sting in cheek.
Stings in face, swelling closing eyes.
Tongue very much swollen and tense ; considerable swelling immediately below chin, between
that and hyoid bone ; pain referred to a point in middle line of tongue about three-quarters of an
inch from apex.
Found her in a state of terrible anxiety, with eyes and face oedematous, and quite unable to
articulate or to protrude her tongue, but she could open her mouth a little and I could see sting
embedded in middle third of tongue ; I at once extracted it ; tongue itself with its root and whole
floor of mouth swelled so that cavity of mouth was entirely filled therewith and then nothing else
could be seen ; she could not articulate a single word ; suffered great pain in tongue, which she
described afterward as burning, throbbing and aching ; great anxiety, appearance of face, mouth
and throat that of severe cynanche ; great dysphagia ; surface of tongue and lining of cavity of
mouth did not seem especially red, swelling being diffused and deep-seated.
INNER MOUTH.
Sting on roof of mouth caused immediately swelling in mouth and throat ; burning pain ; nausea
and vertigo ; two hours afterward violent fever, pulse 126 per minute ; loss of consciousness,
delirium ; face, neck, arms and chest swollen and red and glistening ; breathing oppressed ;
swallowing very difficult. (Spirits of Camphor relieved).
PALATE AND THROAT.
Sore throat.
Sensation of heat in throat.
Throat greatly swelled.
Dangerous swelling in oesophagus.
Erythema spread into mouth and down into stomach, causing vomiting with temporary relief.
Tonsils repeatedly inflamed.
Pharyngeal varicosis.
Hypertrophied tonsils secreted a cheesy matter.
Swelling of mouth and throat with violent burning pains, nausea and vertigo so that patient was
obliged to go to bed ; after two hours a violent fever, unconscious and delirious, face, neck and
arms swollen and shining red ; respiration impeded, swallowing very difficult ; pulse 126 ;
hearts action irregular and tumultuous. (Cured by Camphor).
EATING AND DRINKING.
Indigestion with flushing after meals.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING.
Eructations.
Nausea, with faint feeling and trembling.
Vomiting.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH.
Weight in stomach with nausea.
Heat or cold feeling in stomach.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS.
Uneasiness in bowels.
Restlessness in abdomen.
Flatulence.
STOOLS AND RECTUM.
Constipation.
URINARY ORGANS.
Marked tenderness on deep pressure over renal region.
The pelves of kidneys shrunk irregularly to one-third of their usual capacity.
Kidneys enlarged and flabby, lobulated in outline, soft on section ; cortical part pale, medullary
portions deep red and hypertrophied.
Mucous membrane lining both ureters much thickened and loaded with tenacious mucus.
Bladder free from disease ; mucous membrane thickened and tuberculated from previous
inflammation.
Urine sometimes red and hot, always too frequent.
In urine frequent blood disks, no casts of any kind.
Irritation invaded urinary passages ; remittent dysuria with backache.
Incessant enuresis.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS.
In less than an hour his hand became greatly swollen and painful, followed by swelling and
puffiness of lower lids and scrotum, together with integuments of penis ; parts swollen more than
twice their usual size ; almost immediately skin on abdomen, arms, legs, neck and nearly all of
back turned purple (almost black), followed by an eruption of urticaria, which completely
covered body ; two or three hours after sting his eyes were nearly closed, and this dark color and
urticaria were fully developed ; they all continued about twenty-four hours, when they gradually
disappeared in order in which they came.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.
Pain in left ovarian region.
Catamenia : intermittent ; sometimes brown ; always accompanied by pain and flatulence,
preceded by mental depression, pain, pressure and constipation.
Fundus purple from congestion, dark blood oozing from incised surface.
An irritable ulcer surrounded os tinca.
Vagina healthy, an ulcer encircled os and extended irregularly into cavity of cervix, half an inch
in deepest part.
Irritation passing into pudenda, gives rise to ulceration.
Irritation especially painful in inguinal regions ; thence passing to pudenda.
VOICE AND LARYNX, TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA.
Hoarseness ; entire loss of voice.
RESPIRATION.
Dyspnoea ; suffocation.
Respiration : hurried, 34, not particularly labored, and not strikingly laryngeal ; and deglutition
much impeded.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION.
Aching in heart.
Slow beating of heart, hardly perceptible.
Palpitation on exertion.
Pulse : small and quick ; feeble, quick ; 64 ; 160.
Itching : of eyelids ; in eyes ; of right lid ; of right arm ; over whole body ; of right thumb.
TISSUES.
Red lines showed the course of the absorbing vessels.
Rapid decomposition of body.
SKIN.
Cheek much swollen and skin of bright-red tint ; redness spread rapidly in all directions over
head and down neck, shoulders, back and from of chest ; wherever it traveled it was
accompanied with pain and tenderness.
Hands, feet and chest becoming as red as if he had scarlet fever.
Erythematous blush on left half of body, from head downward, lasted eight to ten days and
desquamated ; then rheumatic pain in left instep lasting a week.
Prurigo-like, pinkish, lentil-shaped spots on hand and forehead, on neck and all over to feet.
Sting followed by a burning sensation as if something were sticking and drawing out ; part stung
was bright-red, elevated, with a hard swelling, redness surrounded by a circle of cold, chilly
sensation, soon changing to general chill, repeated at short intervals that seemed to extend in
waves all over body.
Intense itching of part (r. side of neck) every day about 3 or 4 A. M., lasting about half an hour,
slightly > by vinegar applications (after third day) ; immediately after itching there was burning
for half an hour.
Intense itching of part (r. thumb) ; it came on about 3 or 4 A. M., about 8 or 9 A. M ; and again 3
P. M. ; it lasted half an hour each time and was immediately followed by burning for half an
hour ; itching > by application of salt and vinegar ; this lasted four days ; for next three days
itching only came between 8 and 9 A. M. and was shorter and less severe.
Itching all over to a dreadful degree.
Subsequent desquamation of whole abdomen.
Was stung all over by wasps four or five years ago, followed by abscesses all over body, that
caused great emaciation ; every now and then gets seizures of prostration, with enuresis somni ;
heat especially overpowers him ; purulent catarrh of middle ear of both sides.
An ulcer, lasting three months after sting.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION.
at. 16, scrofulous since birth, stung by a wasp, carious bones, severe rheumatism, suppurating in
hands.
A pale, light-haired, worn-looking woman ; swollen face.
Mrs. E., at. 58 ; oedema of face, etc.