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Credit: Materia medica pura (Volume 3). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![wearied by fatigue. Weariness of the legs and lower limbs, (a. 8, 9 h.) Twitching and creeping in the gastrocnemii mus- cles, as when a limb has gone to sleep. Pinching pain in the right foot. (a. 4 h.) [—70. Pain in the left knee as if sprained, especially when walking ; the pain is less frequent and perceptible when sitting. (a. 1 h.)] General Symptoms : Drawing pain in the humerus and femur in the evening after lying down, (a 5 h.)—95. Cracking in the joints. (Pricking pains in different parts of the body, excited by motion, and terminating in burning pains.) Bruis- ed pain in all the bones, (a. 3 h.) Pain in the joints as when the limbs go to sleep, (a. 3 h.) Weakness, Fits, and Sleep : Drowsiness.—100. Sleep (immediately.) Sleep with the eyes half open. (a. 6 h.) Sleep full of restlessness and moaning. When she is about to fall asleep she feels shocks in all her limbs. Starting when asleep. —105. Sleep interrupted by frequent waking and frightful dreams, (a. 10 h.) Anxiety in the blood in the morning when waking, as if he had great heat or had perspired a good deal, or waked up from anxious dreams, although he was nei- ther hot nor felt sweaty ; at the same time he felt a heaviness in the head as if the brain were pressed upon. Moaning fear- fulness when askep. Emprosthotonus and opisthotonus, (a. 10 h.) (See 78,109,110.) The body of the child is stretched stiff. —110. Rigid stretching of the whole body, followed by a spas- modic jerking of the arms towards one another. ( a. x h.) Sud- den, spasmodic jerking of the arms towards one another. Pal- pitation of the heart. Palpitation of the heart almost without anxiety. [Drowsiness and laziness in all the limbs, (a. 2 h.) Debility. Drowsiness and weariness, (a. 2 h.) Restless sleep.—75. Vi- vid dreams which he is unable to recollect; he had previously waked several times in the night as if he were too wakeful.] Fever : Shuddering with yawning. He feels quite cold in the body. Chilliness, he is unable to bear the least warmth. Constant chilliness under the skin, increasing when sitting near a warm stove. Excessive sensitiveness to cold and warmth.—120. He felt chilly in his bed the whole night, and was unable to sleep from chilliness. His body feels cold. Shud- dering (at four o'clock in the afternoon,) afterwards chilliness with coldness without thirst, (a. 5 h.) Hands and feet are icy cold and dripping with cold sweat, one of the cheeks being red. the other pale, mind and body feeling wretched and faint, and the pupils being dilated, (a. 10 h.) External coldness and internal heat.—125. (External heat without internal.) (a. seve-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21125284_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
