Melancholy.
- Fear, even to suicide.
- Paralytic drawing in the limbs in the morning, when awakening and on getting cold.
- Pain in the bones at night.
- Great ebullition and palpitation of the heart.
- Oversensitiveness to all pain and to the cold air.
- Desire for the open air.
- Hysterical spasms, with laughing and crying alternately.
- Desire for the open air.
- Hysterical spasms, with laughing and crying alternately.
- Inflammation of the bones - caries of the palate and nasal bones.
- Offensive breath.
- Aggravation in the morning on getting cold, while reposing.
- Amelioration from moving, while walking and on getting warm.
§ 1
The physician's high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed. ( 1) FN (1) His mission is not, however, to construct so-called systems, by interweaving empty speculations and hypotheses concerning the internal essential nature of the vital processes and the mode in which diseases originate in the interior of the organism, (whereon so many physicians have hitherto ambitiously wasted their talents and their time); nor is it to attempt to give countless explanations regarding the phenomena in diseases and their proximate cause (which must ever remain concealed), wrapped in unintelligible words and an inflated abstract mode of expression, which should sound very learned in order to astonish the ignorant - whilst sick humanity sighs in vain for aid. Of such learned reveries (to which the name of theoretic medicine is given, and for which special professorships are instituted) we have had quite enough, and it is now high time that all who call themsel...
