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sometimes milky ; costiveness ; trembling of the 

 limbs ; occasional twitching of the limbs on one 

 side of the body, and apparent paralysis of those 

 of the other side ; painful turning inwards of the 

 big toes, extorting cries from the patient ; accele- 

 rated pulse, which soon becomes slower, irregular, 

 intermittent and rather hard ; these symptoms in- 

 form us that life is in danger, the more so the 

 more numerous they are grouped together. 



In comparing with these symptoms the following 

 symptoms from Hering's American Provings, Part I., 

 3d Num., p. 294 : " 40, 41, muttering during sleep ; 

 muttering and delirium during sleep; 83, 84, he 

 had lost all consciousness of the things, around him ; 

 he sank iato a state of insensibility ; 140, 144, sense 

 of weight and fulness in the fore part of the head ; 

 heaviness and fulness in the vertex; dull pain in 

 the occiput, aggravated by shaking the head ; pres- 

 sure, fulness and heaviness in the occiput ; 170, her 

 whole brain feels tired, as if gone to sleep ; ting- 

 ling; she experiences the same sensation in both 

 arms, especially in the left, and from the left knee 

 down to the foot; 175, 176, sensation as if the head 

 were too large; swelling of the head; 391, when 

 biting the teeth together, swallowing ; after gaping 

 or at other times, a sort of gritting the teeth ; only 

 a single, involuntary jerk frequently repeated ; 501, 

 nausea and vomiting ; 506, nausea, as if one would 

 vomit, with fainting; 512, vomiting of the ingesta; 

 619, retention of stool; 640, retention of urine; 

 665, scanty and dark-colored urine ; 980, 984, 985, 

 trembling, convulsions, starting during sleep as if 



