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Credit: Materia medica pura (Volume 3). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![taken a resinous cathartic or rhubarb, with painful emission of hot, putrid flatulence. He feels sick and qualmish in the region of the intestines, as if they were bruised, with inclination to vomit, as if he had taken a purgative, accompanied with emis- sion of fetid flatulence and diarrhoea, (a. 16 h.) Every emission of flatulence is preceded by pinching in the abdomen. Pain in one side of the abdomen shortly after stool. Pressure of a protruding hernia, (a. £ h.)—95. Tensive and at the same time burning pain in the epigastrium and hypogastrium, followed by a drawing and tensive pain in the calves, (a. 20 h.) Itching of the umbilicus. [Pain as if a band were pressing over the stomach, felt in both sides. A sort of rushing through the stomach and the intestines, mingled with stitches.—30. Pressure in the stomach with cramps in the direction of the upper parts; restlessness which did not permit her to remain at any one place ; heavi- ness of the tongue, paleness of the face, and coldness of the body, the pulse being very small, tight, unequal. (This series of symptoms appeared every day at the same hour, for ten days in succession, in three females, decreasing more and more.) Crackling and cracking in the pit of the stomach, as when a clock is wound up. Sensation of an agreeable distention in the region of the diaphragm. Violent rumbling in the abdo- men. Burning and digging-up in the abdomen like a heaving.] Stool : Frequent but almost unsuccessful desire for diar- rhoea in the morning, alternating with rumbling of the flatu- lence in the abdomen. Diarrhoea without colic. Painless di- arrhoea mixed with flatulence, (a. 12 h.)—100. Constipation with headache for several days, as if there were something wrong in the brain ; the head is uniformly affected, the mind feeling vexed and impatient. Constipation as if the rectum were constricted and contracted, (a. 36 h.) Violent hemor- rhoidal fain in the anus after stool (erosive), as if sore, and as if the rectum were constricted. Burning at the anus when sitting, as in a kind of haemorrhoids. Itching haemorrhoids.— 105. Blind haemorrhoids after soft stools, as if the varices on the margin of the anus felt sore, both when sitting and walk- ing. Prolapsus recti when going to stool. Pain on either side of the anus, consisting of itching and soreness when walking in the open air. [35. Desire for stool in the intestines. Diarrhoea of several days standing. Haemorrhoids.] Urinary and Genital Organs: Burning in the blad- der, especially in the region of the neck of the bladder, a few minutes after urinating. Burning in the urethra, in the region](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21125284_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
