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typhoid fever, with sliding down in bed, trembling and jerking of the muscles. Paralysis withformication and tearing in the limbs. Paralysis that comes with apoplexy.Jerking and twitching of the muscles such as has been found in paralysis. Spasms of theparalyzed parts. Tearing, drawing, burning pains throughout the body. The Phosphorus patient wants tobe rubbed. He is generally better after sleep. Always wants to rest. Always tired. The Phosphoruspatient undergoes great excitement. Tremulousness. Wild thoughts. Excitability, keeping him awake atnight. Violent imaginations. Excitability even to ecstasy and clairvoyance. The mind may be overactiveor may be extremely passive with loss of memory. Irritability of mind and body and great prostration ofmind after slight mental effort, and of the body after slight physical exertion. Anxiety, gloomyforebodings. Fear that something will happen. Anxious at twilight. Anxious when alone.Apprehensiveness. Apprehensive during thunder-storms, which bring on many complaints; palpitation,diarrhea and trembling. Trembling of the whole body.Attacks of indigestion from fear. Fear in the evening, fear of death. Fear of strange old faceslooking at him from the corner.Full of strange, insane imaginations. On the borderland of insanity. Inability to sustain a mentaleffort. Fear of apoplexy.Reflecting brings on headache and difficult breathing associated with apprehensiveness orsinking at the pit of the stomach. His fear seems to begin at the pit of the stomach. Apathy orindifference; indifferent to his friend and surroundings.Indifferent to his children. Answers no questions, takes no notice of his family and things abouthim, answers slowly, thinks sluggishly, seems dazed or in a stupor. Everything looks dark, he is wearyof life, gloomy and says nothing. Dejected; a most marked case of hypochondriasis. Weeping, sad,hysterical; will uncover the body and expose his person. Violent, loquacious; delirium. Delirium of lowforms of fever, or delirium of mania a potu. Maniacal attacks come on during sleep with fury andextreme violence, so that no one dares approach him, and this progresses to imbecility, silliness, weakbrain, idiocy. Brain- fag from mental overwork and constant strain of eyes. Vertigo is a very commonsymptom throughout all of the complaints of Phosphorus. Staggering while walking as if intoxicated.Vertigo when in the open air; vertigo after eating; vertigo in the evening. Heaviness and confusion inthe head and thing go round; great weakness of the head. All of these mental symptoms are worse frommental exertion; aggravated from noise. All symptoms are worse in the dark; worse when alone;sometimes worse from music; worse from excitement; worse from playing the piano.The headaches of Phosphorus are congestive and throbbing. The blood mounts to the head. Theheadaches are ameliorated from cold and worse from heat, worse from motion, and better from rest,worse lying down. The patient is often compelled to sit upright, with great pressure upon the head andcold applications. The face is flushed and hot; burning in the brain. The warm room, warmsurrounding, warm food, putting the hand into warm water will increase the headache. The complaintsof the head like the complaints of the stomach are worse from heat, warm applications and from warmfood, and better from cold things; while the complaints of the body are better from warmth and worsefrom cold. The headaches are most violent and are often attended with hunger or preceded by hunger;headaches with vomiting, red face, and scanty urine; uraemic headaches; violent neuralgic painsdarting, tearing, shooting through the head; pressing pains in the head. Periodical headaches, headachesbrought on from mental exertion. Great heat in the head and stiffness in the muscles of the face andjaws. This is sometimes attended with coldness in the back of the head. Shocks through the brain. Theheadaches are worse from noise, from light; apoplectic congestion of the head.It has cured acute hydrocephalus and hydrocephaloid symptoms.Chronic inflammation of the meninges of the brain; softening of the brain; imbecility; insanity.Violent head pains; atrophy of the brain; medulla oblongata. The scalp is covered with dandruff; thehair falls out in patches, leaving bad places here and there.Great heat in the scalp; tension in the scalp and face and forehead as if bound by a bandage.Scaly eruptions on the bald places of the head; exostoses on the skull. The complaints of the head arebrought on from becoming overheated. Sensation as if the hair were pulled; great soreness of the scalp;must let the hair hang down during headaches.The eye symptoms are very numerous; burning, redness, congestion, enlargement of the bloodvessels.Objects look red and often blue in the field of vision, or objects sometimes look green and grayas is observed in incipient cataract. Colors, also, appear black before the eyes. Vision is vague; the eyesgive out while reading; sees better in the morning, in the twilight. The eye symptoms, like Phosphorusin general, have amelioration after rest. Momentary blindness like fainting; seems to suddenly becomeblind; paralysis of the optic nerve; blindness after electric shocks, or after a stroke of lightning. It has

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