Myristica

Myristica sebifera, Swartz.

Natural order , Myristicaceæ.

Common name (Brazilian), Ucuuba.

Preparation , Trituration of the red, acrid, and very poisonous gum obtained by incising the bark.

Authority.

Mure, Pathogén. Brésil., p. 354.

MIND

• He is indifferent and careless abut his business (second day).
• Inability to concentrate the thoughts, although important business has to be transacted (fifth day).
• Since 4 P.M. he cannot fix his mind upon anything; he is much vexed by a song which keeps running in his head, and which he cannot get rid of (third day).

HEAD

• Vertigo from right to left, on waking in the morning (first day).
• Dizziness, in the morning (second day).
• Head feels heavy (fourth day).
• Pain in the frontal eminence, at noon (fifth day).
• Pain with sensation of pressure from within outward, in the right frontal eminence; this pain intermits now and then, and is less in the open air (first day).

FACE

• Face very red (second day).

MOUTH. [10.]

• Tongue white and cracked (fourth day).
• The whole mouth is painful (third day).
• The whole buccal cavity, the tonsils, and the upper part of the pharynx, are painful and sensitive to contact; every mouthful seems to wound these parts, when chewed or swallowed (second day).
• Palate insensible, with loss of taste (fourth day).
• Bitter mouth (fourth day).
• Strong taste of copper in the mouth, which excites spitting of blood, for twenty minutes (third day).

THROAT

• Burning sensation of the bottom of the throat (second day).
• Constriction of the isthmus of the pharynx; this pain increases progressively (first day).
• Difficulty in swallowing the saliva (first day).
• Swallowing the saliva is easier and less painful (second day).

STOMACH. [20.]

• Thirst (second day).

ABDOMEN

• Sensation as if a foreign body, as large as a walnut, had lodged deep in the left inguinal region, all the forenoon (second day).

STOOL

• Stools mixed with yellow mucus (fourth day).

URINARY ORGANS

• Less frequent micturition (second day).
• Has not urinated since 5 P.M. on the previous day (third day).
• He usually drinks two glasses of water on going to bed, and urinates immediately after; this evening he drinks, but does not urinate (second day).
• The urine is scanty and discharged less frequently, although he drinks much; it is of a reddish-yellow color (second day).

CHEST

• Hard pressure, during the night, on both sides of the chest, but it does not affect respiration (fourth day).

NECK

• Pinching in the right side of the neck (second day).

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• The hands are stiff, as if from squeezing something for a long time (second day). [30.]
• Pain in the left hand (second day).
• The pain in the hands is worse when they touch each other (second day).
• Formication on the left thumb-joint (second day).
• Pain in the finger-nails, with swelling of the phalanges (first day).

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Pinching pain in the right calf (first day).

SKIN

• Two pimples on the left cheek; they disappear in an hour (third day).

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Cannot get to sleep, in the evening in bed (second day).
• Restless asleep, with dreams about business quite foreign to his daily life; then about disputes (fourth day).
• Very restless sleep (fifth day).
• Sleep much disturbed; he dreams of violent wrangling (third day). [40.]
• Violent starting during sleep (fifth day).
• Unconnected dreams about houses being built, beginning at the upper stories (second day).