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Materia Medica Viva Volume 7 – page 1591

produce cracking noises on motion.
The limb pain is prominently burning; Geukens describes a case where burning pain in the extremities alternated with the appearance of recurrent mammary tumours, the pain always being present when the tumour had receded.
Icy coldness of the hands and feet. Extremely cold feet, during the day or at night, even long after going to bed. ‘Feet icy cold, but doesn’t feel it.’ Swelling and induration of the axillary lymph nodes; or herpetic eruptions in the axillae.
Wrists painful as if dislocated.
The hands tend to go numb easily; the numbness begins in the fingers and spreads over the entire hand.
Violent trembling of hands in the morning at breakfast, they feel paralysed; on grasping anything fingers become stiff as though from lack of muscular power. Gouty stiffness of finger joints; osseous swellings, indurations of tendons, etc. Annoying feeling of tension in the skin of the lower limbs, with a sensation of burning or of icy coldness.
Stitches in the left hip, when sitting, or violent drawing pain there. Hip pain that causes limping.
Burning pain in the knee-joints.
On walking, cramp in the forepart of the leg, near the tibia; or painful tension in the calves.
Drawing and stinging pain in the legs.
Painful contraction of the tendo Achillis, repeated several times, in the evening. Numbness of the legs, as far as the calves, during the day.
Weakness of the ankles; they turn over when walking; also in children who try to walk.
Chilblains, frost-bitten toes. ‘Swelling of ball of great toe, in the morning, with much heat in it and a pain as though from frostbite or ulceration.’
Corns, painful to the touch.
Pain in the heels: burning; ulcerative; drawing and tearing, felt in the tendons in this region.
Sleep
Sleepiness with frequent yawning all morning; with ‘stupidity’, worse after lunch. Confused, as if in waking slumber all day, sluggishness, diminished