Part 42 (1/2)

Stomach swollen in the afternoon; went to bed at 10 o'clock and slept one hour, awoke with urging to vomit and soon after threw up acid water and the food taken the preceding day.

Griping in the abdomen, extending down into the r.e.c.t.u.m, with a feeling as if this organ was ligated; she feels so weak that she has to support herself to keep from falling, with cold sweat in the face, lasting half an hour.

Severe itching in the abdomen which ceases and is always followed by copious white expectoration, with flashes of heat in the face and great weakness.

At first coldness in the feet, then stinging and pressing pains in the right hypochondrium. From here the pains pa.s.s to the stomach with swelling of the abdomen; then they extend up the spine to the shoulders.

Spasmodic, stabbing pains, one after the other, in the Mons Veneris, when standing on her feet she has a desire to put one foot over the other.

A spasmodic pain in the left inguinal region as of incarcerated wind, which extends upward across the abdomen, causing a painful spot in the region of the spleen.

STOOL.

Bowels confined for two days and very hard; the evacuation occurs in small pieces.

No evacuation for three days, the abdomen seems very full, as if much had been eaten, with loss of appet.i.te.

Evacuations accompanied with stinging, cutting pains in the r.e.c.t.u.m which persist more than an hour, with vehement tenesmus.

Obstinate constipation in children is readily cured.

The child has a movement only once in three or four days, accompanied with severe pain in the a.n.u.s.

Frequent desire for stool without result.

Stools hard but occurring every day.

After going for three days without stool he is obliged to remain an hour before expelling anything and becomes very much fatigued.

Evacuations hard as nuts expelled with much difficulty, with spasmodic pains in the intestines; the feces escape in small pieces.

Chronic constipation with hemorrhoids and continual urging to stool without result.

URINARY ORGANS, ETC.

Often pa.s.ses much urine.

Frequent desire to pa.s.s urine after cramps in the stomach.

Was obliged to urinate three times in the s.p.a.ce of four hours, but only a small quant.i.ty each time; otherwise she only urinated once during the same length of time and with strangury.

Urine very hot and light colored.

Pa.s.ses much urine and after a quarter of an hour pa.s.ses an equally large quant.i.ty, although she had drunk but little.

Slight itching and burning in the v.u.l.v.a when not urinating.

Feeling of heat in the v.u.l.v.a.

Very hot urine causing heat at the v.u.l.v.a.