Discharge from the nose acrid. Severe pain as if the brain were forcing itself out just above nose. Nose-bleed when washing face or hands in morning. It has many complaints from bathing, and a prominent feature is that the skin is covered with red, mottled spots after bathing. Bathing produces surging all over, here and there, as well as nose-bleed.
Palpitation is worse from bathing.
The glands outside of the throat and neck are enlarged and felt as lumps. In diphtheria, when the nose is stopped, the child starts from sleep gasping for breath. Here again we observe its relation to Lachesis and the ophidia, for soon after the patient drops to sleep he wakes up suffocating, in diphtheria, in chest troubles with great prostration, the patient is worse after sleep. Menses too soon. The menstrual blood is blackish, often in clots.