Symptoms
1. Phlegmatic subjects; hydrogenoid constitutions.
2. Persistent, irreconcilable ill-humour, (<) consolation; child fractious, complaining, resents least touch (Ant. Cr.).
3. Respiratory troubles, with great accumulation of mucus; coarse rales; no expulsive power yet if expectorates temporarily ((>)); attacks of suffocative dyspnoea with cyanosis.
4. Prostration with great drowsiness and cold sweat.
5. Gastric troubles with nausea and vomiting; latter temp. ((>)) (rev. Ipecac.): loathing of food; moist, heavily coated white tongue; desire for acids (esp. apples) which (<); (<) milk.
6. Choleraic diarrhoea; stools slimy, generally yellow or brown, occasionally bloody.
7. Fever with shiverings and marked sense of cold; violent but short-lasting sensation of heat; pulse rapid and weak; sweat profuse and exhausting; thirst for cold water little and often (Arsenicum).
8. Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region; slightest movement causes vomiting an cold sweat.
9. Widespread pustular eruptions. Small-pox (Variolinum).
10. Modalities; (<) heat and (<) cold. damp weather evening towards night; anger or vexation.