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Materia Medica Viva Volume 10 – page 2105

morning on waking, and disappearing after rising.
Aching of all limbs so that one is hardly able to lie down; in fever.
Heaviness of arms and legs, as though the bones were made of heavy wood. Peculiar ‘numb pain’, as after a cramp, in both toes and fingers.
Blood oozes from under the fingernails.
Bruised pain in the shoulder bones, extending backward, especially if the arms are moved backwards.
Sore pain at the right olecranon, after a blow.
Peculiar feelings of tension: ‘Fullness, tension and a very disagreeable sensation in the left hand extending upward at the inner side of the arm as far as the axilla’. Or else: a cord-like feeling as if tied up, extending from the left elbow down the front of the forearm, with pain in single spots which remains for some minutes and then passes away, but frequently returns.
Trembling of hands, especially during rest.
Hands go numb from the slightest exertion, a patient reported that ‘they become quite dead’ on sewing.
Violent pain in the left palm, as after a bee-sting but more cramp-like; worse by motion of the middle finger.
Vesicular eruption in the region of the first metacarpal bone, with contraction of some of the flexors and inability to extend the hand; disappear- ing after some days but returning three months later.
Septic processes: palmar abscess, panaritium; also sepsis after injuries to the fingers.
Legs ‘go to sleep’ (paraesthesia) when sitting, especially if they are crossed.
‘Feeling down the whole right lower limb as though it was only half alive. He is compelled to flex the muscles by an involuntary feeling, and when he does so, there is shivering of the upper part of the body, amounting even to shaking the head, with tension of the muscles of forehead and nape of neck’.
Drawing pain through the bones of the left lower limb, from the hip down into the foot.
Dull drawing pain from the left knee to the sole of the foot, which seems to have its seat in the marrow.
Peculiar feelings of tension: ‘During and after walking in the street, a feeling as if a tendon were drawn from the sole of the foot through the long