Twenty-sixth day.—Sense as if sprained in the left knee and cracking when walking.
Twenty-eighth day.—Restless night. Desire to cry. 430. Fever, inability to close her hand. Sad, vexing thoughts.
Twenty-ninth day.—Sensation as if floating in the air. No sleep. Starting in bed. 435. Sensation as if she were falling to the ground. Lancinating pain under the heart; it continues, more or less feeble. Bad digestion, the stomach feels yet full since supper.
Thirtieth day.—Restless night, starting during sleep. Sense of weariness in the lumbar region, all night. 440. Pain at the sacrum as from a recent blow, this pain increases until four o’clock in the evening. Pressure at the sacrum, with weariness in the left thigh. Heaviness at the sacrum, when sitting. Sensation as if worms were crawling in the posterior and external portion of the sacrum.
Thirty-first day.—The pain at the sacrum obliges her to keep bent; this pain shifts up and down from the sacrum to the left thigh, and is accompanied by chattering of the teeth, which interrupts the speech, and by cold hands and feet. 445. Quickly-passing tingling and twisting pain in the right leg, at three o’clock in the evening, when lying. Twisting pain extending from the sacrum into the left leg, and obliging her to lie down. Every paroxysm of pain excites a nervous laugh, with moanings like those of a sick child. Sensation as if dogs had bitten her where the pain is felt. Sensation as if she had a plaster at the region of the kidneys. 450. The pain descends along the vastus externus muscle. Mottled face, in the beginning of the proving it became red, now it is sometimes pale. She cannot walk, without fearing to fall. No solicitude for the future, generally speaking; tears with ennui; she thinks of death without fearing it. The pain at the sacrum is worse when sitting, and obliges her to lie down.
Thirty-second day.—455. Sleep during the night, but the pain in the renal region returns as soon as she rises from bed. The pain is seated in the sacro-lumbar articulation; it extends to the glutei muscles with sensation as though she were gnawed by dogs. At times the right thumb feels numb.
Thirty-third day.—Pain in the vertebral column. Sense of luxation, with pain in the glutei muscles, of the same nature as the day previous.
Thirty-fourth day.—460. Twisting sensation in the groin. Nosebleed, when lying. Vesicular pimples all over, with red spots as if the skin had been rubbed. Large blotches on the legs like mosquito-bites. Sensation in the renal region and buttocks as if gnawed by dogs. 465. Continual sneezing for two hours.
Thirty-seventh day.—Sensation in the thighs, as if bitten by dogs. The pimples increase during an increase of temperature, and leave large red spots in the renal region and on the hips. Since she had the pains in the sacrum, she is unable to sleep or rest on the stomach.
Thirty-eighth day.—Uneasiness, sometimes she cries in the street. 470. Acute headache, like a circle which rolls quickly over the forehead. Dizziness. Profuse nosebleed from both nostrils. The nosebleed is preceded by a smell of blood. Red face, with little pimples between the skin and flesh. 475. Heat at the face. Sensation as if the skin of the face were stretched too much. Frequent emission of watery urine. Sense of coldness in the right-thigh.