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T. F. Allen - Εγκυκλοπαίδεια της Καθαρής Materia Medica (φάρμακα που απουσιάζουν από τα άλλα βιβλία) · Timothy Field Allen · 17,708 χαρακτήρες
General EN
The element, Tin.
Preparation , Trituration of the pure metal.
Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 12 , from Hahnemann, Chr. Kn.) 1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Franz; 3 , Gross; 4 , Guttmann; 5 , Hartmann; 6 , Haynel; 7 , Herrmann; 8 , Langhammer; 9 , Wislicenus; 10 , Alston, Mat. Med., 1, 152 (statement of a case reported to him, -Hughes); 11 , Gusschlaeger, in Hufel.
Journ. (effect of swallowing granulated Tin, -Hughes); 12 , Meyer, Abr. Diss. Cantel. de Anthelmint, Gött., 1782 (observation, -Hughes); 13 , Stahl, Mat.
Med., cap. vi (not accessible, -Hughes); 14 , Dr. Pitet, Jour. de la Soc. Gall., vol. iv, proving of Bichloride of tin (fuming), 3d dil. in watery solution, repeated doses, and in progressive order, during ten days in January and February; 15 , a young woman took a few doses of fuming Bichloride of tin for pruritus of vulva; 16 , another woman took a few doses of the same; 17 , effects on a third woman immediately after a dose; 18 , G. W.
Hazeltine, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xxxi, 1844, p. 38, T. A.
E., aet. fourteen years, swallowed a draught of Bichloride of tin; 19 , Meinel, Deutsche Klin., 1851 (S. J. 74, 167), effects of Muriate of tin and salt; 20 , E. P. Angell, M.D., Ohio Med. and Surg.
Rep., vol. ii, 1868, p. 152, a family ate a cold chicken-pie baked the previous day in a new tin pan; 21 , Dr. Angell ate a similar dish, very heartily, as a test; all the other members of the family had similar attacks, varying in degree with the quantity eaten; 22 , a family ate a custard cooked in a new tin pan the day previous.
Mind EN
Excited and inclined to storms of anger (fourth day), [3] .
Violent, very transient anger, [3] .
Remarkably joyful, [4] .
Talkative; sociable, [8] . Quiet good-humor (after fourteen hours), [8] .
Quiet, absorbed in himself, with great discomfort of the body, [4] .
Quiet, absorbed in himself, solicitous for the future, [8] .
Sad, hypochondriac mood, [1] .
Discontented, [1] . [10.] Great anxiety and depression a week before the menses, ceasing on the appearance of the flow, [1] .
Indescribable anxiety and despondency for several days, [1] .
Discouraged, [1] .
Contented with nothing without being fretful, [1] .
Fretfulness disappearing, in the open air, the whole day, [2] .
Quiet fretfulness; he answers unwillingly and abruptly ; easily vexed, and easily gets into a temper, [7] .
Peevishness and transient sensitiveness (first three days), [3] .
Vexatious; nothing goes to suit him, [8] .
Aversion and dread of people, [1] .
Restless and distracted; no persistence in work, immediately, [1] . [20.]
Fruitlessly busy, as if a rush of ideas prevented him from completing his work at a certain time; all sorts of things occur to him to be done, [3] .
Indolent and irritable, with heat in the face; would do everything, but really does nothing, [1] .
Is inclined to do no work, and inability to think, [7] .
Dulness of mind, indifference to external objects, indisposition, with paleness and darkness about the eyes, [4] .
Disinclination to talk, [1] .
Want of memory, in the morning on waking, [1] .
Head EN
Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion and dulness of the head, as before coryza, which, however, did not occur, with sneezing, [1] .
Vertigo, as if the brain were whirling around; all thought vanished, and he could not continue to read, and sat as if without his senses, [7] .
Sudden attacks of vertigo, while sitting down, [9] .
Vertigo, as if all objects were at too great a distance, [9] . [30.] Stupefying vertigo, only when walking, in the open air; he reels as if he would fall, [8] . Dizziness in the whole head , [7] .
Dizziness, while sitting, as if he would fall, [4] .
Dizziness, in the morning on waking from a long sleep, as if he had not slept enough, [4] .
General Head.
Heaviness and dulness of the head, worse in the evening, [1] .
Heaviness of the head during rest and motion, in the evening, lasting two hours (after nine hours), [1] .
Heaviness and tearings throughout the head (twenty-fifth day), [14] .
Almost constant heaviness throughout the head, sometimes only at the top (thirtieth day), [14] .
Painful heaviness throughout the whole head, sometimes in the forehead only, or in the temples (tenth day), [14] .
Now and then, violent heaviness in the head, sometimes general, sometimes partial; sometimes at one point, sometimes at another (twelfth day), [14] . [40.]
General heaviness throughout the head, especially in the occiput (twentieth day), [14] .
Feeling of weakness in the head, and sleepiness, [1] .
Pain and heat in the head, in the morning on waking, [1] .
Headache mostly every morning, with loss of appetite; nausea and fretfulness, [1] .
The action of raising or of bowing the head causes pain in the muscles which are involved in these movements (twentieth day), [14] .
Painful sensation on shaking the head, as if the brain were loose and beat against the skull, [2] .
Boring, pressive, stupefying pain in the left half of the brain, on the surface, [5] .
Dizzy pressure through the whole head, [7] .
*Constriction and sudden pressure in the whole upper part of the head , slowly increasing and decreasing , [3] .
Painful pressing in the brain towards the vertex and occipital bones, in the evening, also after lying down, [6] . [50.]
Frequent sensation, as if screwed inward in the head, with slow jerks or drawing pressure here and there at times, [3] .
Pain, as if the brain were forced asunder, and were tense, [1] . Cramplike pain, as if the head were externally constricted by a band, [1] .
*Sharp jerking pains in the right anterior lobe of the brain, above the orbit (twenty-fourth day), [14] .
Pressive tearings from each side of the brain to the top of the skull (twenty-fifth day), [14] .
Sharp and deepseated stitches in the lower part of the left anterior lobe of the brain (above the arch of the orbit), (tenth day), [14] .
Tingling in the head; noise resounds in it, [1] .
Forehead. *Headache in the frontal region , [20] . *Pain, as from a crashing, in the forehead , [1] .
Pressure in the forehead, [1] . [60.]
Pressure in the forehead; aggravated by bending backward, relieved by pressure, [3] . Pressive stupefying pain in the brain, just above the eyebrows, during rest and motion, [8] .
Pressing outward at the frontal eminence, [1] .
Pressure outward at the forehead, with sleepiness, relieved by pressure, [3] .
*Dull pressure from within outward, in the forehead , [7] . Pressure in the middle of the forehead, extending deep into the brain, [4] .
Pressure in the forehead, temples, and vertex, relieved by external pressure, [3] . A sudden pressive jerk in the left forehead and temple, so that he cried aloud, [3] .
Violent jerks in the forehead, alternating with dull pressure, [5] .
Drawing through the forehead and vertex, with a pressive sensation, [3] . [70.]
Burning pain, like fire, in one-half of the forehead, as also in the nose and eyes, with external heat in the parts all alike, during rest and motion; was obliged to lie down, with nausea and retching as to vomiting, from morning till evening, [1] . *Pressive tearing in the forehead , [7] .
*Pressive tearing in the right half of the forehead at intervals, aggravated by stooping , [5] .
Tearing pain, but transient, in the forehead, the top of the head, and the occiput; afterwards shifting now to one point, then to another, and sometimes affecting the whole head; generally more violent in the forehead (twenty-fourth day), [14] .
Frequently during the day, cutting, penetrating pains in the left anterior portion of the brain; they last some moments, and cease, to be renewed subsequently (fortieth day), [14] .
Shootings from the anterior portion of the brain to the right side (twenty-third day), [14] . Dull shootings in the left anterior side of the head (thirty-fifth day), [14] .
Stitchlike headache, especially in the left side of the forehead, with fluent coryza, [8] .
Sticking headache in the forehead, even during rest, for several days, on stooping, everything presses outward at the forehead, [1] .
A long, dull stitch in the left frontal eminence, [3] . [80.]
Fine stitches in the middle of the forehead, [2] . Temple.
Boring pain in the left temple all day, [1] .
Boring pressive pain in the right temple, relieved by external pressure, [5] .
Compression in the temples and occiput, [1] .
*Pressure in the left temple beginning slight, then increasing and so again diminishing as if the forehead would be pressed inward , [3] .
Pressive pain outward in the right temple, almost as if external, [4] .
*Pain, like a pressing inward in the temples all day , [1] .
Pressure in the right temple when lying upon it, disappearing on rising up, [4] .
Pressive drawing in one temple and half of the forehead, causing confusion, [3] . Often-recurring, sharp, but transient pains in the right temple (twenty-second day), [14] . [90.] Sharp pains in the left temple; less severe in the right temple (seventh day), [14] .
Pulsating stitches in the temples, with heat in the head, chilliness of the body and weakness of the head, so that he almost loses his reason, with slumbering and insensibility, [1] .
Throbbing headache , in the temples, [1] .
Vertex and Parietals.
Painful sensation of heaviness in the top of the head, almost at the forehead (seventh day), [14] .
Sometimes painful heaviness in the top of the head; now and then shootings in the right parietal region (seventeenth day), [14] .
Sudden sharp pressure on the vertex, with a sensation as if the hair moved, [3] .
Pressive tearing in the left side of the vertex, [7] . Sudden dull stitches in the top of the head, [3] .
Burning stitches on the vertex, [2] .
Pressive heaviness, with a feeling of emptiness in the left half of the brain, [5] . [100.] Pressive pain outward, in the right side of the head, [4] .
Drawing pressure from the right parietal bone to the orbit, [3] .
Pressive tearing through the right side of the head, [9] .
Tearing pressure in the right half of the head, [7] .
Tearing in the left parietal bone, and in the forehead, [7] . From time to time, violent dartings in the left side of the head, or in its posterior portion (twelfth day), [14] .
Occiput.
Painful heaviness in the occiput (twenty-first day), [14] .
Painful and almost constant sense of weight on the occiput, [14] .
Headache in the occiput, [19] .
Boring in the occipital bones, with acute heaviness, [5] . [110.] Compression in the occiput, under the skull, [2] .
Pressure outward, in the left side of the occiput, [6] .
Pressive tearing in the left occipital bone, [5] .
Pressive tearing in the left side of the occiput, [7] .
Shooting in the left posterior portion of the head (twentieth day), [14] .
Constrictive pain in the right side of the occiput, [4] .
External Head.
Pain, as from suppuration on the head, externally, [1] .
Burning tension on the forepart of the scalp, just above the right side of the forehead, [4] .
Eye.
Objective. The eyes are prominent and painful, as after weeping, [1] .
Nightly agglutination of the eyes, with weakness during the day, [1] . [120.]
Dim, weak, sunken eyes (after two days), [7] .
Eyes dim, [1] . Subjective.
Pain in the eyes, as from rubbing with a woollen cloth, removed by moving the lids, [1] .
Pressure in the eyes, [1] .
Pressure in the left eye, as from a stye on the lid, [2] .
Jerking in the eyes, [1] .
Twitching in left eye, lasting a week, [1] .
Several sharp, dartings in the globe of the right eye (twenty-first day), [14] .
Burning sticking in the right eye, toward the outer canthus, [4] .
Burning in the eyes, [1] . [130.]
Biting in the eyes, as after rubbing with a woollen cloth, [2] .
Brow and Orbit.
A pimple on the left eyebrow, with burning by itself and with pressive pain when touched, [1] .
Sudden sensitive dull thrusts in the outer side of the upper margin of the left orbit, [3] .
Jerklike drawing tearing externally above the left eyebrow, [8] .
Drawing pressure in the upper margin of the left orbit, [3] . Sudden jerks on the upper margin of the right orbit and in other parts, with sensitive stupefaction of the head, [3] .
In the upper part of the right orbit, shootings which penetrate from before backward into the substance of the brain (forty-second day), [14] .
Lids.
Stye in the inner angle of the right eye, [15] .
*Pustular swelling of the left inner canthus , like a lachrymal fistula, [1] .
Twitching in the right inner canthus, [6] . [140.]
Pressure in both upper lids, [4] . Pressive pain in the right inner canthus, [7] .
*Pressure in the left inner canthus, as from a stye, with lachrymation , [7] .
Constriction of the eyelids, with redness of the white of the eyes and a burning sensation, [1] .
Sensation as of a hard substance behind the right eyelid, [4] .
Burning pain in the left lower lid, [4] .
Small violent burning stitches in the lids of the right eye, more towards the outer canthus, [5] .
Fine sticking burning in the left canthus, [4] .
Itching in the upper eyelids on each side, with slight swelling (thirty-third and thirty-fifth days), [14] .
Itching in the inner canthus, [1] .
Lachrymal Apparatus. [150.]
Acute itching in the right lachrymal caruncula (thirty-second and thirty-third days), [14] . Ball.
Shootings in the globe of the left eye, in the evening (thirty-sixth day), [14] .
Tensive stitch in the left eyeball, most violent on moving it, [4] .
Itching in the left eyeball, somewhat relieved by rubbing, [4] .
Pupil.
Pupils first contracted, then dilated, [8] .
Vision.
Sees a rainbow about the candlelight, [1] .
Ear.
Ulceration in the hole for the earring in the lobule of the ear, [1] .
Shooting in the cartilages of the right ear (twentieth day), [14] .
A drawing stitch in the upper part of the left concha, [4] .
Pressure externally on the bones behind the ear, [1] . [160.] Griping tearing through the cartilage of the lobule of the left ear, with at times a sensation as if a cold wind were blowing in it (after four hours), [9] .
Earache; in the outer ear a drawing pain, [3] .
Boring pain in the right ear, with cold feet, [1] .
Frequent drawing in the left ear, like an earache, [3] .
Drawing in the whole right ear externally and internally; painful on moving the lower jaw, [1] .
Cramplike pain in the whole right ear, lasting eight hours, [4] .
Tearing in the right meatus, like an earache, [7] .
Itching in the left ear, [1] .
Stopped sensation in the left ear, with deafness, which was relieved by blowing the nose, in the morning after rising, lasting four days, [6] .
Hearing.
Screaming in the ear when blowing the nose, [1] . [170.]
Rushing in the ears as from a stream of blood, [2] .
Ringing in the left ear, [8] .
Creaking in front of and in the left ear, as from a door, in the evening, [2] .
Rustling noise of a grasshopper in the left ear (eighteenth day), [14] .
The jarring of his steps (on walking) resounds painfully in the head (twentieth day), [14] .
Nose EN
Frequent sneezing without coryza, [8] .
Violent sneezing, in the evening (eighth day), [14] . Profuse coryza (after four days), [1] .
Intense coryza, alternating with stoppage of the nose, [16] . Coryza of the left nostril (tenth day), [14] . [180.]
Violent coryza all day (eleventh day), [14] .
Diminished coryza (twelfth day), [14] .
Blood is blown from the nose, in the morning (seventeenth and eighteenth days), [14] .
Nosebleed, in the morning, immediately on rising from bed, [6] .
Violent nosebleed, in the morning, immediately on waking, [1] .
Stoppage of the nose, in the morning (ninth day), [14] .
Violent stopped catarrh; can get air through only the right nostril, at noon; on the fourth day the nose becomes free, [2] .
Can get no air through the left nostril, which is excessively swollen, red, and painful to touch, [1] .
Heaviness and a stopped sensation in the upper part of the nostril, [7] .
Respiration through the nostrils is impeded in consequence of a permanently congestive condition of the palato-nasal mucous membrane (twenty-third day), [14] .
Face EN
[190.]
*Face pale and sunken, sickly; features elongated , [1] . Constrictive pain in the bones of the face and teeth in the right side, as if they would be drawn up shorter, [3] .
Pressive gnawing in the left side of the face, especially in the malar bone, [9] .
Stupefying pain in the face, especially in the forehead, [8] .
Cramplike pressure in the muscles on the left malar bone, [9] . Drawing pressure in the bones of the right side of the face, especially in the malar bone and orbits, paroxysmal, [3] .
Cheek.
Painful swelling of the left cheek, with an ulcer on the gum; the pain causes sleeplessness, [1] . Burning cramplike pain in the left cheek, in the evening, soon followed by swelling of the cheek, with cutting pressive pain only on drawing up the face, as if a splinter of glass were between the cheek and the teeth, [2] .
Pain in the malar bone, on touch, before the menses; during the menses, pain, as from a blow, even on moving the muscles of the face, [1] .
Tearing extending from the malar bone down into the lower jaw, near the corner of the mouth, [3] . [200.]
Constriction and pressure internally beneath the right cheek, [2] .
Burning pain in the right cheek, beneath the eye, [4] . Burning-itching sticking on the malar bones, [1] .
Pain and swelling of the upper jaw; the cheeks are red, with sticking in them, [1] . Lip.
A sticking-tearing pain in a small spot in the lower lip, [1] . Chin.
Broad cutting stitches in the forepart of the chin, [9] .