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The sensitiveness of the abdomen so that the sheet cannot be permitted to touch the skin belongs toboth.Another strange state is a peculiar vertigo, a condition, when walking, in which she seems to befloating in mid-air, or, when lying, as if she were not on the bed. Other remedies have this.The sensation as if floating, or not touching the bed, or sinking down, belongs to Thesensation of gliding while waking is strong under The complaints, almostregardless of kind or quality, . The rheumatism is first found in one ankle and then inthe other, and then back again to the original site. If in the knee or hip or shoulder the . The headaches and neuralgias do the same thing. The ambulating erysipelas firstattacks one side, then the other. In inflammation and neuralgia of the ovaries the same alternation isobserved. Sore throats affect alternately the sides of the throat or tonsils. Many cases of this sort havebeen cured by this remedy. The trouble commenced on the right and went to the left and failed,but when it returned to the right the alternation was noticed and the remedy revealed. Only a limitednumber of remedies have alternating sides.One or two provers had many symptoms, and so not all are reliable; but this remedy that it would be easy for them to imagine symptoms, and thatitself is suggestive. Full of imaginations and harassing, tormenting thoughts. Wandering features in themental sphere, wandering and alternating states. Cannot collect the thoughts.She wants to leave everything as soon as it is commenced, a condition of irresolution commonto quite a number of remedies.She is impressed with the idea that all she says is not so, thinks everything she says is a lie, as ifthere is no reality in the things that be. In this it is somewhat analogous to in which thepatient feels as if someone else and not himself were saying everything, a lack of consciousness of thereality of things.Every time a symptom appears she thinks it is a settled disease; fear and anxiety that somehorrible disease has come upon her, a delusion that she was suppurating and in a loathsome state;infested with snakes. Horrible sights are presented to the mental vision, not always snakes, and shefears the objects will take form and present themselves to her eyes. This is analogous to which has the feeling that the atmosphere is full of hovering spirits, although he never sees them.Imagines he wears someone else's nose. Imagines she is not herself and her properties not herown. Imagines she sees spiders, snakes, vermin. She cannot bear to lie alone. In the patientwants to be alone to indulge the strange fancies, and when alone she feels as if she were floating out ofthe window and over the grassy plains, but a sound will bring her back to the world again. This is onthe borderland of insanity or delirium.Although the patient has all these strange feelings, yet she goes around all day about herbusiness, and no one knows them unless she confesses them. Chronic sadness, everything so dark;irritable, ugly, hateful. Full of vertigo, but it is a sensorial symptom, unusually refined: not the vulgarswaying or tossing or feeling as if things were going round It affects the whole body, as if she wereswimming or floating in the air, spirit-like.The headaches are violent and are mostly frontal, but it has also occipital headaches. Headacheabove the eyes from riding in the cold wind, ameliorated in a warm room. Both the frontal and occipitalheadaches are aggravated by turning the eyeballs upwards and using the eyes for fine work. Pains in thehead during the day, first on one side then on the other, either side being first affected. Pains in the faceor eyes, alternating sides, perfectly unbearable, ameliorated going into the open air.The rheumatic symptoms are ameliorated by cold and cold applications, thus classifying it with. and Some headaches are noted as relieved by warmth.Sensitiveness is marked; sensitive to light and noise. The page is not clear when reading. Shesees faces before her in the dark. Old, troubled distorted, disagreeable faces come to the vision orimagination. Dark, hideous faces she has seen come up, and she is tormented by them. This is not reallya symptom of the vision, but a state of the brain.Sounds seem far off. Paralysis of the throat with diphtheria; fluids return by the nose whendrinking. Coryza, with sore throat and sneezing. Stuffed nose; discharge of thick white mucus.Faceache; pain aggravated by exertion, ameliorated by warm applications, but only coldapplications relieve the soreness.Putrid mouth is a strong feature. The mucous membrane and teeth are coated with a fuzzy,shining, silvery substance, somewhat like milk. In the throat there is a felt-like exudation, ashy gray or. It has been used in diphtheria for the class of cases taking alternate sides, andit has also cured paralysis following diphtheria. The pain in the throat pushes toward the left ear. Painstake alternate sides.

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