Boericke's Materia Medica
- Suppressed secretions and excretions
- Sensation as if limbs were separated from body
- Delirium tremens
- Absence of pain and muscular mobility
- Gyratory and graceful motions
- Parkinsonism
- Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking
- Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing, swearing, praying, rhyming
- Sees ghosts, hears voices, talks with spirits
- Rapid changes from joy to sadness
- Violent and lewd
- Delusions about his identity
- Religious mania
- Cannot bear solitude or darkness
- Sight of water or anything glittering brings on spasms
- Delirium, with desire to escape
- Raises head frequently from the pillow
- Pain in forehead and over eyebrows
- Boring pain, preceded by obscure vision
- Rush of blood to head
- Staggers, with tendency to fall forward and to the left
- Auditory hallucinations
- Eyes seem prominent, staring wide open
- Pupils dilated
- Loss of vision
- Complains that it is dark, and calls for light
- Small objects look large
- Parts of the body seem enormously swollen
- Strabismus
- All objects look black
- Hot, red face
- Circumscribed redness of cheeks
- Blood rushes to face
- Distorted face
- Expression of terror
- Pale face
- Dry mouth
- Dribbling of viscid saliva
- Aversion to water
- Stammering
- Risus sardonicus
- Cannot swallow on account of spasm
- Chewing motion
- Food tastes like straw
- Violent thirst
- Vomiting of mucus and green bile
- Suppression of urine, bladder empty
- Sexual erethism, with indecent speech and action
- Hands constantly kept on genitals
- Metrorrhagia, with loquacity, singing, praying
- Puerperal mania, with characteristic mental symptoms and profuse sweatings
- Convulsions after labor
- Awaken terrified, screams with fright
- Deep snoring sleep
- Sleepy, but cannot sleep
- Graceful, rhythmic motions
- Convulsions of upper extremities and of isolated groups of muscles
- Chorea, spasms partial, constantly changing
- Violent pain in left hip
- Trembling, twitching of tendons, staggering gait
- Shining red flash
- Effects of suppressed eruption in scarlatina, with delirium
- Profuse sweat, which does not relieve
- Violent fever
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Anasarca
- Aphasia
- Apoplexy
- Burns
- Catalepsy
- Chordee
- Chorea
- Delirium tremens
- Diaphragmitis
- Ecstasy
- Enuresis
- Epilepsy
- Erotomania
- Eyes, affections of
- Headache from sun
- Hiccough
- Hydrophobia
- Hysteria
- Lochia, offensive
- Locomotor ataxy
- Mania
- Meningitis
- Nymphomania
- Oesophagus, spasm of
- Scarlatina
- Stammering
- Starting
- Strabismus
- Sunstroke
- Tetanus
- Thirst
- Tremors
- Trismus
- Typhus
- Mental alienation
- Muscular mobility
- Gyratory movements
- Nymphomania of lying-in women
- Religious monomania
- Hallucinations
- Convulsions
- Twitching of arms and lower limbs
- Grasping at imaginary objects
- Laughter and crying
- Difficulty of swallowing
- Vomiting of green stuff
- Cannot walk in the dark
- Head bent back
- Boring head into pillow
- Squint
- Coxalgia
- Morbus coxae
- Suppressed secretions
- High fever with rashes
- Petechiae
- Spots on the arms like flea-bites
- Vesications
- Delirium
- Illusions of shape
- Erysipelas
- Objects appear small
- Night-blindness
- Praying and singing devoutly
- Beseeching
- Entreating
- Unconscious delirium
- Jerking up the head from the pillow
- Absurd notions
- Affection of the intellect
- Madness
- Melancholy
- Sadness
- Deadly anguish
- Copious tears
- Anguish of conscience
- Inconsolable disposition
- Susceptibility to irritation by trifles
- Great activity and rapidity of movement
- Obstinacy
- Self-will
- Bursts of laughter
- Cholerric passion
- Moaning
- Howling
- Groans
- Murmurs
- Continued cries
- Ungovernable fury
- Desire to bite
- Desire to strike
- Desire to kill
- Indifference to matters of business
- Fear of being found incapable of discharging them properly
- Love of procrastinating
- Loss of will-power
- Desire to run away
- Desire for society
- Candle-light
- Sunshine
- Loss of memory
- Dulness of all the senses
- Insensibility to external influences
- Dizziness
- Internal agitation
- Mental derangement
- Loquacious delirium
- Mania-a-potu
- Clonic spasms
- Terror
- Visions of frightful spectres
- Loss of consciousness
- Fixed ideas
- Carphologia
- Delusions of fancy
- Deliria with strange ideas
- Mental alienation with praying and pious actions
- Endless fictions of imagination
- Lasciuious talking
- Conversation with spectres
- Affectation of importance
- Dancing
- Blows
- Ridiculous buffoonery
- Sad and serious behavior
- A voice near right mastoid process scolding her
- Frightful hallucinations of rats, mice, cats, dogs, and animals moving
- Rush of blood to head
- Furious loquacious delirium
- Fear of losing his senses
- Fear that his lips will grow together
- Fear that he will suffocate
- Fear of failing
- Fear of everything falling on her
- Awakens with a shrinking look
- Dulness of senses before a rash
- Conversing in different languages
- Talking in Jewish jargon
- Ecstatic
- Mania from shock
- Nervousness
- Restlessness
- Intoxication
- Vertigo
- Head feels drawn backward
- Stupefaction
- Headache
- Clouded sight
- Dysecoia
- Tendency to speak incoherently
- Anemia of the brain
- Distressing sensation of lightness and weakness in head
- Head feels empty, hollow
- Sensitive to every sound
- Throbbing pains in vertex
- Syncope
- Congestion of blood to head
- Heat
- Pulsation in vertex
- Loss of sight
- Loss of hearing
- Bloated, turgid face
- Total loss of consciousness
- Painlessness
- Inflammation of brain
- Attacks of fainting
- Convulsive movements of head
- Hydrocephalus
- Painful dark-red swelling of the highly congested head
- Turgid face
- Retraction
- Lifting head frequently from pillow
- Bores head into pillow
- Bends head backward
- Left side of head numb
- Head perspires more than usual
- Eyes red and inflamed
- Eyes swollen
- Pressure and tension in eyes and lids
- Inflammation of margins of lids
- Eyelids ulcerated
- Involuntary lachrymation
- Nocturnal agglutination of eyes
- Eyes wide open
- Eyes staring
- Eyes prominent
- Conjunctiva injected
- Eyes fixed
- Eyes sparkling
- Eyes half open in sleep
- Photomania
- Vague, melancholy look
- Paralysis of lids
- Spasmodic closing of lids
- Eyes convulsed
- Contortion of eyes and lids
- Pupils dilated
- Pupils insensible
- Blindness
- Objects appear blue
- Myopia
- Diplopia
- Indistinct confused sight
- Amblyopia
- Confusion of letters when reading
- Errors of vision
- Objects appear oblique
- Objects appear colored
- Illusions of vision
- Hallucinations dark
- Black spots before eyes
- Luminous vibrations
- Fiery sparks
- Sees balls of fire roll over the counterpane
- Sensation of sparks of fire rushing from stomach to eyes
- Wind rushes out of both ears
- Dryness in Eustachian tube
- Pains in ears
- Hearing very acute
- Hallucinations of hearing
- Deafness
- Obstruction of the nose
- Nasal discharge yellow, bad-smelling
- Nose feels obstructed and dry
- Catarrh of nasal passages
- Shooting pains over right eye
- Spasmodic sneezing
- Dull and bewildered air
- Timid behavior
- Stupid, distorted countenance
- Anxiety and fear is expressed in the countenance
- Sardonic grin
- Painful distortion of features
- Facial muscles in constant play during delirium
- Twitching in muscles of face
- Frowns on forehead
- Face deeply furrowed and wrinkled
- Face bloated, puffed with blood
- Circumscribed redness of cheeks
- Hot cheeks
- Blood rushing to face
- Deep red color of face
- Pale color of face
- Fainting with paleness of face
- Dryness in throat
- Erysipelas on one side of face and nose
- Boils come out on face
- Lips dry and glued together
- Yellow streak in red part of lips
- Quivering in lips
- Distortion of the mouth
- Crawling sensation on chin
- Chewing motion with mouth
- Mouth spasmodically closed
- Lock-jaw
- Grinding of the teeth
- Pulsative toothache
- Dryness of mouth
- Dribbling of glairy saliva from mouth
- Copious salivation
- Saliva decreased
- Sanguineous froth before mouth
- Hemoptysis
- Tongue swollen and paralysed
- Tongue felt stiff, dry, and parched to the very root
- Tongue paralysed
- Trembling tongue
- Imperfect speaking
- Stammering
- Continued murmurs
- Complete loss of speech
- Spasmodic constriction of throat
- Impeded deglutition
- Shootings in throat
- Pressure in submaxillary glands
- Deglutition obstructed
- Paralysis of pharynx
- Paralysis of oesophagus
- Contracting tearing in throat
- Sensation as if a ball were lodged in throat
- Twitching of pomum Adami
- Spasm of oesophagus
- Loss of taste
- Food tastes only of sand or straw
- Violent thirst
- Constant bitterness in mouth
- Burning thirst
- Dread of water
- Dread of all liquids
- Risings with sour taste
- Nausea
- Watery vomiting
- Colic
- Diarrhea
- Vomiting of mucus
- Vomiting of green bile
- Convulsive hiccough
- Pain in stomach
- Smarting
- Pressive sensation
- Anxietas precordium
- Obstructed respiration
- Diaphragmitis
- Burning along diaphragm
- Short-breathed
- Spasms
- Struggles against the water offered
- Abdomen painful when touched
- Abdomen distended
- Abdomen inflated
- Hard Abdomen
- Contusive pain in abdomen during movement
- Violent pains in abdomen
- Hysterical spasms in abdomen
- Swelling of inguinal glands
- Borborygmi
- Fermentation in abdomen
- Expulsion of much flatus
- Constipation
- Tenesmus
- Fetid feces
- Corpse-like smell
- Discharge of coagulated blood from anus
- Suppression of both stool and urine
- Suppression of secretion of urine
- Emission of urine drop by drop
- Frequent want to urinate
- Involuntary emission of urine
- Urine profuse flow
- Urine sudden
- Urine Burning
- Lasciviousness
- Exalted sexual desire
- Constant uncovering of genitals
- Indecent talk
- Priapism
- Scrotum edematous
- Testes retracted
- Penis erect as in chordee
- Onanism
- Impotence
- Nymphomania
- Increased catamenia
- Discharge of large masses of coagulated black blood
- Headaches
- Metrorrhagia
- Eclampsia
- During catamenia fetid smell from body
- During catamenia Great loquacity
- During catamenia Drawing pains in abdomen and thighs
- Sobs and moaning after catamenia
- Too profuse secretion of milk in nursing women
- During pregnancy mania
- During pregnancy faceache
- During pregnancy is full of strange fancies
- Cadaverous odour of lochia
- Voice hoarse and croaking
- Voice high
- Voice fine
- Voice squeaking
- Voice indistinct
- Twitching of pomum Adami
- Constrictions of larynx
- Periodically returning attacks of painless barking spasmodic cough
- Voice loud
- Voice bawling
- Want of breath
- Difficult respiration
- Hurried Respiration
- Sighing respiration
- Suffocating obstruction of respiration
- Oppression with desire for open air
- Dyspnea
- Asthma
- Constrictive oppression on chest
- Pressure on chest
- Sensation as if something were turning over in chest
- Spasm in pectoral muscles
- Red rash on chest
- Pressure about heart
- Angina pectoris
- Palpitation
- Pulse rapid
- Pulse full
- Pulse strong
- Pulse irregular
- Pulse hard
- Pulse slow
- Pulse small
- Pulse frequent
- Neck stiff
- Pain in nape
- Sensitiveness along spine
- Pain as of a fracture in back when moving
- Drawing and tearing in the back and loins
- Spine sensitive
- Drawing pains in middle of spine
- Drawing pains in sacrum
- Opisthotonos
- Distorted countenance
- Twitching of hands and feet
- Trembling of limbs
- Limbs fall asleep
- Convulsive movements of arms above head
- Convulsive movements of arms and hands
- Contractive pain in arm
- Acute lancinations in forearm
- Distortion of hands
- Clenched fists
- Cramps in hands
- Trembling of hands
- Numbness of fingers
- Coxalgia
- Violent distracting pain when abscesses form
- Pain in muscle of outer side of right hip
- Morbus coxae
- Jerking in legs
- Drawing pains in thighs
- Bending of legs when walking
- Tottering of limbs when walking
- Trembling of feet
- Contractive cramps in feet
- Face red and bloated
- Cannot walk or keep on the feet in a darkened room
- Restlessness of the body
- Staggering when walking
- Pithy, numb feeling of outer parts
- Complaints concomitant to morbid sleep
- Spasmodic
- Drawing paralytic pains in muscles and joints of limbs
- Contractive cramp in limbs
- Tingling in the limbs
- Sensation as if limbs were separated from body
- Slow contraction and extension of limbs
- Attacks of cramps of different kinds
- Stiffness and contraction of several of the limbs
- Attacks of cataleptic stiffness in body
- Easy movement of limbs
- Great heaviness of limbs
- Involuntary motions
- Hydrophobia
- Excessive aversion to liquids
- Convulsions
- The movement of the muscles subject to the will is easier and increased
- Convulsive jerking of limbs
- Weeping
- Trembling of limbs also in drunkards
- Paralysis sometime after an attack of apoplexy
- Weakness
- Necessity to lie down
- Suppression of all secretions and excretions
- Hurried movements
- Restlessness and nervousness beyond description
- Whole body sensitive to touch
- Suppressed eruptions
- Intense bright scarlet-red rash over whole body
- Strong disposition to sleep by day
- Deep sleep with snoring
- Cries during sleep
- Howling during sleep
- Restless sleep
- Tossing about
- Restless sleep Twitching
- Restless sleep Screaming
- Comatose somnolency
- Agitated sleep
- Vivid dreams
- Frightful visions during sleep
- Kneeling position in bed
- Starting at least touch
- Shrieks
- Wild gestures
- Coldness of whole body
- Coldness of limbs
- Shaking and shivering
- General jerking
- Coldness of hands and feet
- Redness of face
- General coldness in afternoon
- Heat of head and face
- Chill running down back
- Heat over whole body
- Red face
- Perspiration
- Profuse perspiration during the heat
- Greasy perspiration
- Oily perspiration
- Putrid-smelling perspiration
- Cold perspiration
- Intermittent fever
- Chill over whole body without thirst
- Anxiety during heat
- Redness of cheeks
- Vomiting during heat
- Frequent profuse sweat
- Retention of urine in any fever
Allen's Keynotes
- ailments of young plethoric persons; especially children in chorea; mania and fever delirium
- delirium: loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses, raves
- disposed to talk continually; incessant and incoherent talking and laughing; praying, beseeching, entreating; with suppressed menses
- desires light and company; cannot bear to be alone; worse in the dark and solitude; cannot walk in a dark room
- awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen
- hallucinations which terrify the patient
- description to escape, in delirium
- imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, lying crosswise, etc
- head feels as if scattered about
- eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant; pupils widely dilated, insensible; contortion of eyes and eyelids
- pupils dilate when child is reprimanded
- face hot and red with cold hands and feet; circumscribed redness of cheeks, blood rushes to face; risus sardonicus
- stammering; has to exert himself a long time before he can utter a word; makes great effort to speak; distorts the face
- vomiting: as soon as he raises head from pillow; from a bright light
- convulsions: from consciousness; renewed by sight of bright light, of mirror or water
- twitching of single muscle or groups of muscles, especially upper part of body; chorea
- hydrophobia: fear of water, with excessive aversion to liquids; spasmodic constriction of throat
- no pain with most complaints; painlessness is characteristic
- sleepy, but cannot sleep
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