FIFTH PROVING.
First day.—Violent lancinations in the right side of the chest for a few minutes, below the third rib, every few moments. Acute pain at the inner side of the right tibia.
Second day.—Heaviness of the body. 250. Drowsy all day. Bad night, nervous restlessness. Pains in the left brain, spreading from above the left eye (which experiences a contractive sensation) to the vertex, the back part of the head, and lastly to the nape of the neck where they remain seated for a time. The pains seem to be seated in the cerebral membranes, and succeed each other, never appear simultaneously. Sharp stitching pain, in the region of the heart, with lancinations under the false ribs. Violent headache, as if a hammer were beating inside and as if the brain were bounding in an empty space, for half an hour. 255. Sharp pain in the right lower jaw-bone, all the teeth being sound. Palpitation of the heart.
Third day.—Night less restless. Sleeps all the time. Heaviness of the head, with an undefined feeling of malaise in the brain, especially on the left side. 260. Painful sensation at the right zygoma, for a short time.
Fourth day.—On waking, acute pains in the head and posterior cervical muscles. Intense lancinating pains in the muscles of the right hand, and its phalangeal articulations. Two hours, similar sensations in the right shoulder-blade, accompanied by pains in the right wrist, all these pains are well marked, but short.
Fifth day.—Restless night, without any apparent cause; no sleep.
Sixth day.—265. Prickling in the eyes, in the evening, as from some astringent body. Eyeball and lids congested. Lancinations in the right shoulder-blade.
Seventh day.—Continual redness and pain in the eyes. Lancinating pains above the eyes and in the temples.
Eighth day.—270. Eyes still red, but less; no prickling.
Ninth day.—Eyes well.
Thirteenth day.—Acute and repeated pains in the cervical muscles, and those of the left shoulder-blade. Violent headache in the morning, which lasts until 2 o’clock.
Fourteenth day.—Heavy and drowsy.
Fifteenth day.—275. Recurrence of the pains in the neck and shoulder-blade, in the morning. Heavy and drowsy; unable to apply himself to a serious work; at 3, continued his work with ease.
Sixteenth day.—Acute pains in the muscles of the neck and shoulder-blade. Violent headache, in the evening, with sense of compression in the forehead; from temple to temple. Dry mouth and throat.
Seventeenth to nineteenth day.—280. Violent headache, all day, from ten every morning until night. Violent palpitation of the heart. Violent pains in the muscles of the neck, thigh and left leg, frequently recurring, but short. (Rising of air in the evening, without acidity).
Twentieth day.—No headache. Same symptoms as on the preceding days, in the muscles of the left side. 285. Passing palpitations. Eructations. Loathing of food, especially meat. Pains in the maxillary bones, as if all the teeth were affected.
Twenty-first day.—Lancination above the left eye and in the left temple. 290. Lancinations in the left jaw-bone. No appetite, loathing of meat.
Twenty-second and -third day.—No appetite. Pains in the left side of the head. 295. Palpitations of the heart.
Twenty-fourth day.—The stomach feels better. Slight darlings in the head, always on the left side.
Twenty-fifth day.—The appetite returns.