Spongia Tosta - General symptoms - T.F. Allen

GENERAL

General

Spongia officinalis, Linn.

Animal kingdom.

Sub-kingdom, Coelenterata.

Class, Spongia.

Preparation, Tincture prepared by digesting 20 grains of powdered sponge, which has been roasted brown (in a manner similar to Coffea Tosta ^{coffea tosta}), with 400 drops of Alcohol.

In the afternoon, headache in the occiput like a heaviness and stitch, whenever he turned the head, with heat of the face, hands, and feet, and chilliness of the rest of the body, and inclination to coryza.

with weakness of the body and bitterness in the mouth.

in the evening after undressing shaking chill, and a quarter of an hour afterwards, in bed, heat over the whole body, except on the thighs, which were numb and chilly.

at night, sweat,.

The coffee (she is accustomed to take for breakfast) has a bitter and disgusting taste.

dinner tastes well (second day).

taste like Glycerin, from the ninth day until the nineteenth, then suddenly changing to that of fresh nuts.

also desire for dainties.

these symptoms disappeared after one drop of 30th attenuation of Saccharum Lactis ^{Saccharum lactis},.

Very short sleep, with many dreams, four nights in succession.

he woke about midnight, but could not fall asleep again on account of uneasiness, since, till morning, he only needed to close his eyes to be wide awake.

the most vivid images passed before him.

at one time it seemed as if a battery were discharged.

at another, everything was enveloped in flames.

at another. scientific subjects crowded upon his mind.

in short, numerous subjects were mingled in his fancy, which immediately disappeared on opening his eyes, but returned on closing them,.

Fever. in the morning, first pain in the head and abdomen, followed by violent shaking chill, with cold blue hands and some thirst.

afterwards, while lying down, a dry burning heat, with some thirst and much restless slumbering, for thirty-six hours.

throughout the night, while awake and moving, nausea and vertigo.

at intervals of twelve hours slight perspiration, when from time to time the heat moderated.

afterwards, tearing and sticking in the left eye and left cheek, and eruption on the lips,.

After moderate motion in the open air she suddenly became weak and sank upon a chair.

with great anxiety, nausea, paleness of the face, short sighing respiration, with surging of the heart into the chest, as if it would force out upward.

with involuntary closing of the eyes, almost spasmodic, and forcing out of tears from between the closed lashes.

she was conscious, but unable to make the will act upon the body,.