Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjure
Type:
Picture
Chapter:
4-5__.__.__
Vipera berus
Mind
Delirium, and raving, with vomiting, alternating with sopor.
Coma, with thirst for water.
Loss of mental functions with drawn features.
Dreams: death, dead people, death of relatives; coffins.
Dreams: murder, killing.
Dreams: mother, children.
Dreams: warts disappearing.
Colour preference: 18D, 19DE, 19C.
General
Type: prematurely old; development of children is arrested.
Weather: cold, chilly, < cold; heat, < morning, with thirst, restlessness, and moderate pains, towards evening, at night, with delirium, then shivering.
Sweat: cold, clammy, copious, < vomiting, < chamomile tea; from abdomen to toes.
Time: periodic, return every year.
Aversion: food, appetite lost.
Desire: drinks, thirst, with moist tongue, for cold drinks.
Sleep: sleepy; heavy,; restless, inability to sleep, constant necessity to change the position; sleepless, from pain.
Body
General: prostration; collapse, faint; bite felt through the whole body like a streak of lightning; bite spot red, swollen, livid, painful, bursting, violent pain, insensible.
Symptoms from bite: nausea, retching, vomiting, abdominal colic, diarrhoea, incontinence of urine and faeces, sweating, fever, vasoconstriction, tachycardia, lightheadedness, loss of consciousness, blindness, shock, angioedema of the face, lips, gums, tongue, throat and epiglottis, urticaria, bronchospasm, anaphylaxis shock, cardiovascular failure; locally immediate, intense pain, swelling, tingling, blisters with; blood, reddish lymphangitic
Fever: fever, irregular, intermittent, chilly, with clammy, cold sweat, with rigidity.
Nervous: poly-neuritis; polio-myelitis.
Vertigo: vertigo, with falling forward, with nose-bleed and anxiety, with nausea and vomiting, so that he fainted, with loss of vision.
Head: ecchymoses in membranes of brain, effusion of bloody serum into ventricles.
Tearing at every change of weather, with sticking.
Headache: with coated tongue and bad appetite, with inclination to sigh.
Eyes: dark yellow, red, inflamed, watery, sunken; pupil dilated, left, right contracted; pressing out of eyes; paralysis of lids, dropped over eyes; staring; vision dim, left eye, lost, in right eye
Nose: bleeding, with vertigo.
Face: swollen, tense, blackish, convulsed, red, pale and hippocratic, with cold sweat on forehead, covered with drops of sweat.
Mouth: swollen; gums with scorbutic line; lips blue, burning, acid; teeth feel swollen; swelling of salivary glands; tongue swollen, pale, brownish-black, black, fuliginous, protruding, covered with saliva; breath fetid, yellow, tip red, white, tremulous, white in middle, moist on edges, with thirst.
Throat: closure, dry, can swallow only water and milk; fauces biting, swelling blackish; swelling like goiter; viscid mucus adheres to pharynx; speech, inarticulate, thick, weak, lost, with closed jaws and difficult speech.
Lungs: suffocation; dyspnoea; breathing anxious, violent efforts, ceased suddenly; croup; threatening asphyxia; edema of lungs.
Heart: pain dragging, sticking, with cold sweat, faintness; stopped, face became livid, tracheotomy was performed, blood drawn from arm flowed scantily, was dark, mixed with bright streaks; pulse slow, feeble, weak, rapid, interrupted, febrile, irregular; haemorrhages, coagulability lost, blood black; cardiac dropsy.
Chest: veins thick and hard; swelling; pain, left side, < pressure; oppression, with anxiety.
Stomach: nausea; retching, with suffocative sensation; vomiting, all food and drink, < milk, with weakness, faintness, shivering, thirst, coldness of body, with colic; vomiting of a mass of round worms, < milk.
Abdomen: pain, tense, uneasiness, epigastrium, umbilical, < pressure; digestion slow; hypochondria tense, sore; swelling, distension, sudden, flatulent, with colic, pain in back, and vomiting; raging pains, spasms, faintness, umbilical region, < pressure.; rumbling; pain, violent, in enlarged liver, jaundice and fever, pain extending to shoulder and hip.
Rectum: pain, tenesmus; diarrhoea, frequent, bilious; stool bilious, bitter, yellow, fluid, green, green liquid, viscid, offensive, fetid, dark, black, bloody, in masses, copious, frequent, mucus, with shivering, urging, thirst, involuntary.
Urinary: urination involuntary, ineffectual desire; strangury; urine increased, suppressed, dark yellow; sticking in kidneys; haematuria.
Female: ailments of menopause.
Limbs: veins varicose, swollen, full, bursting, bordered by inflammation, sensitive to touch, < hanging arms or leg hang down; acute phlebitis.
Limbs: swollen, red; livid spots, yellow, mottled; benumbed, relaxed; trembling; pain, burning, bursting, stitching, stiff, < touch, alternating with pains in abdomen, < snake bite.
Upper Limbs: pain shoulders, arm, extending to chest; arm pain, sore, burning, swollen, livid red, covered with spots; arm paralysis, right; hands violet, covered with phlyctenules, skin dead and detached in large plates, subjacent tissues livid.
Lower Limbs: weak; pain in loins; gait shuffling, convulsive, < paralysis; feeling as if something moved up along thigh; knees tense, stiff; leg swollen, cold, insensible; paralysis of foot; lcers; ankles tense, burning, from heel to tongue
Skin: dry; pale, yellowish, jaundiced on face and trunk, with red patches on limbs, livid, in spots, black petechial spots over whole body, which was cold to touch; herpetic eruption, with itching about the wound; roseola-like eruption on inside of arm and down side of body; ulcers; blisters about the bite, bursting and leaving ulceration, muscles were laid bare, were dark red, dry, looked like smoked meat, insensible to touch, the sore was offensive; gangrene; crawling in soles, then also in palms.