Argentum Nitricum

Nitrate of Silver. AgO, NO^.

First prepared by the Arabians. Introduced into practice by Paracelsus. In olden times called Hell-stone, a prophetic name, indicating the horrible abuse of it in our age. See Skinner's pamphlet on Diseases of Women.

After the short proving of the 15th centesimal by Hahnemann (see his Materia Medica, 1813), it was not proved until Dr. J. O. Miiller proved it and published one of the most learned treatises in medical literature, in 1845, in the Austrian Journal, under Watzke's editorship. See Vol. 2, 1846, page 1 to 112.

The late Grauvogl, who made it a kind of polychrest, supposed that the silver, united with the chlorine always contained in water. Vol. II., § 315.

This could only be ascertained by a proving of Argent, mur., commenced by Dr. Lembke, Neue Zeitschrift fur Klinik, Vol. II., contained in Allen's En- cyclopaedia, Vol. I., page 452, but not enough to compare it with the other.

^ Mind. I Loss of consciousness; faint feeling. 1 1 Loss of memory. ^Headache from dancing. I Loss of memory; lies with closed eyes, shunning light and conversation, d Melancholia.

■ Weakness of memory, which frequently did not allow him to

find the right word, hence falters in speech, d Melancholia.

I In conversation, forgetting what he wanted to say, he looked around as if expecting some one to help him out. ^Hypo- chondriasis.

Time seems to pass very slowly.

Dullness of head, mental confusion ; dizziness ; tendency to fall sideways.

I To fix his thoughts on anything, or give his business any

consideration, was impossible for him ; on attempting it, it immediately got dark before his eyes and the headache in- creased. 6 Malarial ataxy.

■ Great weakness of mind. ^Headache.

■ General appearance imbecile ; talk very childish ; don't work

because he thinks it will do him harm, or that he is not able to stand it. d Hypochondriasis. Awful faces appear on shutting the eyes.

I I The sight of high houses always made him dizzy and caused him to stagger ; it seemed as if the houses on both sides would approach and crush him.

■ Frequently settled upon the time he should die. ^Hypo-

chondriasis.

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1 Thinks he has softening of the brain, or some other incurable affection, which almost drives him to despair, d Hypochon- driasis.

I When walking, gets nervous, thinks he will have a fit or die suddenly, which makes him walk faster, but soon has to stop, because he gets tired, d Hypochondriasis.

■ Possessed of the distressing idea that all his undertakings

would and must fail, d Melancholia. I Feels as if everything at home had changed and that his mind is weak, d Hypochondriasis.

■ Thought he was neglected and despised by his family.

d Melancholia.

I He wept and assured every one that he was lost beyond hope for this world ; that no one could delude him in that respect and no one could reason him out of it. d Melancholia.

Thoughts about suicide.

■ Thinks about killing himself. See 26. 6 Cholera.

■ On crossing a bridge, almost irresistible desire to jump into

the river ; meeting some one prevented it. d Hypochon- driasis.

■ Often awakes his wife or child, to have some one to talk to.

d Hypochondriasis.

■ Constantly talking about his sufferings. ^Hypochondriasis.

■ ■Impulsive, must walk very fast; frequent turns of anxiety.

■ Always hurried. ^ Prolapsus uteri.

If a time is set, they get uneasy already the day before ; they are worried and are ready a long time before. 6 Chronic diarrhoea. 6 Epilepsy.

Reserved, sad, taciturn, with dullness of the head and throb- bing in the whole body.

■ Frequently remains in bed on the slightest pretext of being

"indisposed." ^Hypochondriasis.

■ No real inclination to work. ^Asthma.

■ Does not work, thinking it will do him harm or that he is not

able to stand it. 6 Hypochondriasis.

■ Easily wearied, d Headache from dancing.

■ Great weariness and depression. ^Melancholia. Gloomy, dull ; wishes to do nothing.

Sad ; fear of apoplexy (no apoplexy).

Sad and taciturn, with dullness of the head and throbbing in the

whole body. Weeping mood.

■ Melancholic, constantly complains of vertigo.

Great melancholy and weakness of mind with the congestion to the head.

■ Melancholy since an undeserved slight; fixed idea that he

was neglected and despised by his family ; his calling became indifferent to him.

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■ Despaired of help from himself or others, d Melancholia.

■ Fits of despondency and all kinds of fanciful notions ; for

example, that whilst walking along the street I could not

pass a given point without falling. Frequently settled on

the time I was to die. d Hypochondriasis. Alarmed by vertigo and weakness of left side. B Apprehension of some serious disease, d Hypochondriasis. 1 1 Apprehension when ready to go to church or to the opera •

diarrhoea sets in. '

Easily frightened; fears the disease may result seriously: weeping mood.

Fear, or thinking brings on diarrhoea.

I Great nervousness and prostration ; fears to be alone, because he thinks he will die ; is apprehensive of some serious dis- ease, which almost drives him to despair. /? Hypochon- driasis.

BFears if passing a certain corner or building that he will drop down and create a sensation ; is relieved by going in another direction, d Hypochondriasis.

■ Incessant mental distress with respiration 28, pulsations 88.

o Melancholia.

■ Tormented with anxiety. /? Asthma.

■ Frequent attacks of anxiety with weakness in the legs, com-

ing on about 11 A.M. ; > after drinking a little whisky. tj Hypochondriasis.

■ When walking, becomes faint with anxiety, which makes him

walk the faster, d Hypochondriasis.

■ Became insensible to all social pleasures and lost all desire for

labor, d Melancholia. Apathy.

■ Was utterly bereft of all power of will, d Melancholia.

■ Very irritable when nervous.

■ So much unstrung and irritated that, without the knowledge

of his physician, he sprang up to get into the open air. 6 Malarial ataxy.

■ Against whatever was proposed he had the queerest objections.

6 Melancholia.

She became angry very easily, whereupon she always had to

endure for many days stitching pains in chest and cough.

'^zfm^^^^^ ^^^-^ °^"^^ excited and murmured constantly. u Typhus. "^

■ Sometimes nerves got so unstrung that he was in a frenzy of

excitement ; when seized with these attacks did not desire to move or talk, but always sought a chair and stubbornly stuck to it. "^

Thinking intently increases the headache and causes dimness of vision.

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^ Sensorium. l Dullness of the head, mental confusion, dizziness, with tendency to fall sideways.

I Confusion of head during indigestion, d Gastralgia.

I Confusion of the head and constipation.

I Perversion of senses, d Iritis.

I Vertigo, with cerebral congestion.

I The sight of high houses makes him dizzy, he feels as if they would fall on him.

Vertigo Iwhen walking with eyes closed, which alarms him ; ■ staggers when walking in the dark, has to seize hold of things.

I On stooping while walking, he staggers.

IlBuzzing in ears; llgeneral debility of the limbs and trem- bling.

■ Vertigo in the morning, as if turning in a circle, has to sit or

would fall. 6 With headache.

■ Vertigo in the morning with headache. ^Prolapsus uteri.

■ Once during attack of vertigo, 1. arm became paralyzed, re-

maining so for several days, d Hypochondriasis.

■ Alarmed by vertigo and weakness of the whole left side.

d Asthma.

■ In morning, pain in left side of head, followed by vertigo and

on several occasions by momentary blindness, d Hypochon- driasis.

■ Cerebral complication. ^Iritis.

■ Loss of consciousness, faint feeling.

■ Heaviness, especially in occiput. ^Asthma.

Giddiness as if drunk, with lassitude and weakness of lower limbs. ^ Inner Head. ■Painful fullness and heaviness in the head, with inability to recollect, glowing red cheeks.

■ Excessive congestion of blood to the head, with throbbing of

the carotid arteries, obliging him to loosen his cravat ; with heaviness, stupifying dullness of the head, and great melan- choly and weakness of mind.

■ Spells of rush of blood to the head, since which objects are

misty or seem double.

■ Pulsations in the left side of the forehead. Congestion to head and face, head feels much enlarged.

■ Pain in the head, it seems enlarged.

■ Woke up with dull headache over eyes. ^Hypochondriasis.

■ Boring in left frontal eminence, worse at night in warm bed.

■ Constant clawing digging in the left frontal eminence, with

drawing tearing along the left arm.

■ Frontal headache during indigestion. ^Gastralgia.

■ Complains of a constrictive pain in forehead, as if a small

spot, size of a dime, were daily contracting and getting

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smaller, and thinks that as soon as it has drawn together he will be crazy, d Hypochondriasis. I At 12 o'clock, violent boring in the left temple.

■ Has left-sided headache in the morning for several hours.

d Hypochondriasis.

■ Constantly complains of headache, chiefly confined to r.

side, although it is the left eye that is most dim ; girl, aet. 10. 6 Myopia.

■ Digging pains in the right hemisphere of the brain.

■ Digging, cutting motion through left hemisphere, from occi-

put to frontal protuberance, recurs frequently, increases and decreases rapidly.

■ Dull, pressive, persistent headache encircles the calvarium

like a wreath.

■ Stitches from right to left ear, as from a knife.

I Constant pains in all parts of the head, especially in the occi- put, which deprived him of sleep. 6 Malarial ataxy.

■ Pressing pains in the whole head, from mental exertion or

from dancing ; better from firm pressure.

■ Tendency to headache, especially bad whenever she rose

early in the morning, d Myopia. Headache <C in open air, in warmth, at night, from light, mental labor, and > from bandaging the head tightly.

■ Congestive hysterical headache.

■ Headaches of hysterical young women.

■ Headaches, particularly habitual gastric headaches, to which

delicate or literary men are subject. Head symptoms are concomitants of all other diseases.

■ Violent pressure in the forehead commencing over the eyes,

spreading upwards to the coronal suture ; in morning ; reel- ing- Vertigo, dim sight, ringing in the ears ; stomach feels relaxed ; better after dinner and from wine ; worse from coffee.

■ In the morning pain in 1. side of head, followed by vertigo,

and on several occasions by momentary blindness, d Hypo- chondriasis.

■ Headache from dancing, with attacks of vertigo.

■ Pains in the head, finally extended to eyes and lower jaw.

■ Hemicrania; pressive, screwing, throbbing pain in one frontal

protuberance, temple or into the bones of the face. At its height, trembling of the whole body, intense nausea, which ends in watery, bilious vomit ; lies senseless, eyes closed, shuns light and conversation. ^Jaundice before the attack.

Sick headache followed by debility ; profuse menses.

Pleadache, with chilliness and trembling of body.

Awakes with headache, pressure deep in the brain, with chilli- ness the whole forenoon.

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Headache mostly with chilliness, sometimes with increased

I Εγκεφαλική δυσπεψία. * Εξωτερικό κεφάλι. llΤο κεφάλι αισθάνεται πολύ διογκωμένο, ή το μάτι από την

προσβεβλημένη πλευρά. Αισθάνεται σαν τα οστά του κρανίου να χωρίζονται, με αύξηση της

■ Almost constant boring cutting in bones of forehead, vertex,

temples and face. 1 Pressing pains sometimes on vertex, sometimes left frontal

bone, relieved by pressure or by tight bandaging ; worse

from any exhaustive mental labor ; letters would then run

together. I Frequent sensation of constriction of scalp, as if something

were tightly drawn down over the skull, d Hypochondriasis. Itching, creeping, crawling, as from vermin ; roots of hairs feel

as if pulled upwards ; she had to scratch all the time.

■ Herpetic eruption on the occiput.

■ Burning in the scalp, which feels as if drawn tight; cold feel-

■ Photophobia, eyes filled with mucus.

■ Sight worse by candle-light than by daylight, d Myopia.

■ Cannot walk in the dark without reeling. 6 Locomotor

ataxia.

■ If objects come closer than 12 or 14, they are indistinct.

d Want of accommodation.

■ Far sighted; has to push the book away to see the letters.

■ Unable to see to thread a needle, unless she holds it up within

an inch or two of her eye. 6 Myopia.

■ A cloud continually over the left eye in twilight and cloudy

weather.

■ Gray spots and serpent-like bodies moved before him.

■ Dull expression of eyes ; black motes before the eyes, especi-

ally before the right one.

■ Black motes before eyes, < the right eye. ^Hypochon-

driasis.

■ Sight failed for near objects, everything appeared blurred or

indistinct, d Paralysis of accommodation.

■ Letters become blurred.

i Photophobia and weak sight, preventing his writing.

■ Right pupil dilated, both acting feebly; sight of left eye

diminished. 6 Locomotor ataxy.

■ Vanishing of sight, he must constantly wipe away the mucus.

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lAn attempt to use eyes, even on coarse work, produced pain in eyes and head, d Want of accommodation.

■ Such as have been constantly engaged in near work, and

obliged to increase the power of their glasses from time to time to overcome symptoms of asthenopia. 6 Hypermetropia.

lEyes red,_ shuns light, after straining them while sewing; 1 1 worse in the warm room, better in the open air.

1 Pain from brain to eyes. ^Iritis.

■ Shooting, itching biting pain in r. eye, I sometimes very vio-

lent, 1 excessive, photophobia lessening toward night.

■ Sensation of fullness, dryness and heat, especially on moving

the eyeball, d Iritis. (An interesting case of paralysis of the accommodation is re- ported in which Arg. nit.\ four times daily, worked a bril- liant cure; also a case of retino-choroiditis successfully treated by this remedy).

■ ■Dilated pupils, d Want of accommodation.

■ Right pupil somewhat contracted, both sensitive to light.

d Locomotor ataxy.

■ Dull expression of the eyes, d Hypochondriasis.

■ Coldness in the eye with boring pain in the head, scalp as if

drawn tightly. Heat and pain in the ball on motion and touch.

■ Eyeball sensitive to touch. ^Iritis.

Fundus of eye injected, large blood-vessels indistinct. Ophthalmia, often with intense pain, abating in the cool and open air, but intolerable in a warm room.

■ ■Purulent ophthalmia.

■ Syphilitic form of iritis.

■ iChemosis with strangulated vessels, most profuse purulent

discharge, even the cornea beginning to get hazy and look- ing as though it would slough.

■ ■Cornea opaque; ■■■ulceration of the cornea in newborn

infants ; profuse purulent discharge from the lids.

■ Destruction of tissue, as ulcer of the cornea, in one case with

pains like darts through the eye mornings, better even- ings ; kerato-iritis with violent congestion of the conjunc- tiva; a vascular eroded cornea, with terrific pains from the vertex into the eye and with burning heat in the eyes. From the local application of this drug, most violent inflam- mation of the conjunctiva of the lids and ball ensues, with profuse muco-purulent discharge which is not excoriating to the lids.

■ ■Acute granular conjunctivitis, conjunctiva intensely pink or

scarlet red, discharge profuse, inclined to be muco-purulent. I I Conjunctiva both ocular and palpebral, becomes congested, swollen and infiltrated, with scarlet redness.

■ Chemosis of conjunctiva, d Iritis.

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■ I Ciliary blepharitis from being over a fire; better from cold

air and cold applications. 6 Ectropion. I Ciliary blepharitis after measles in a hyperopic person.

d Blepharitis. iNon-excoriating lachrymation. ^Iritis. BCanthi as red as blood, the caruncula swollen, standing out

like a lump of red flesh ; clusters of intensely red vessels,

extend from inner canthus to the cornea. The margins of lids are thick and red ; canthi red and sore.

■ Conjunctiva towards inner canthus is red and swollen, like

pterygium. Burning, biting and itching in the eyes, especially in the canthi. iWith pannus. d Blepharitis.

■ Pterygium of a pink color.

Profuse mucous discharge in the morning on waking, with dull- ness of the head, especially in the forehead and root of the nose.

IB Blepharitis if lids are very red, thick and swollen, especially if complicated with granulations, conjunctivitis or some deeper inflammation of the eye.

IB Discharge causing firm agglutination of lids in morning. d Blepharitis.

■ Conjunctiva of ball and lids intensely congested; bright red

especially on moving the ball, which is sensitive to touch ;

I Left upper eyelid fell further over the ball than the right. ^Hearing and Ears. Dull hearing; l complete deafness.

6 Typhus. Ringing in the ears ; whizzing and feeling of obstruction, with

■ Tearing pain in the ears. ^Earache.

■ Otalgia.

^ Smell and Nose. ■ Sense of smell blunted. ^Typhus.

■ Smell as of pus before the nose ; small ulcers in the nares.

■ Great pain in nose. ^Dyspepsia.

I Stenosis of nasal parts, external ear or inferior part of rectum.

■ Discharge of whitish pus, with clots of blood.

iCoryza with stupifying headache over the eyes, had to lie down ; sneezing, chilliness, lachrymation, sickly look.

■ Violent itching of the nose, must rub it constantly.

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Nasal bones painful as if bruised.

I I Nasal catarrh, constantly hawking thick tenacious mucus.

I Nasal discharge like boiled starch.

■ Acute coryza.

I Face blue, heavy breathing, pulseless.

I I Looks prematurely old ; also in cholera infantum.

■ Circumscribed red cheeks.

I I Left side swollen, with great heat and burning ; lips much swollen and burning.

■ Prosopalgia.

■ Neuralgia of head and face, which almost takes away her eye-

sight. ^Dyspepsia. During attack of prosopalgia, sour taste.

■ Infra-orbital neuralgia, left side.

■ Sweat stood in drops on his face. 6 Typhus.

■ Lupus.

■ Could not separate his jaws, can only swallow liquids.

■ Food escapes from the mouth during chewing.

Lips: ■trembled when he spoke; Band finger nails blue.

d Typhus. Lips dry and viscid, without thirst. ^^ Teeth and Gums. ■ Odontalgia.

Teeth pain, especially when chewing, eating sour things or

putting anything cold into the mouth ; grumbling, digging

pains as if becoming carious.

■ Teeth sensitive to cold water.

■ Teeth black. /? Typhus.

■ Gums tender and bleed easily ; but neither painful nor swollen. Gums inflamed and stand off from the teeth in the shape of

indentations.

■ Chronic irritation of gums.

" Taste, Speech, Tongue. Taste : sweetish bitter ; sour ; me- tallic, astringent ; inky ; lost.

■ Speech stammering. /9 Typhus.

■ Cannot talk ; spasms of the muscles of tongue and throat.

■ Tongue coated white; yellow-white.

■ ■ Red, painful, tip of the tongue, papillae erect, prominent.

■ Tongue dry, hard as a chip, and black like the teeth, d Typhus.

■ Red streak down middle of tongue. Tongue dry, with thirst.

■ Glossitis.

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1 Tongue white and moist (Pulsat. after Arg. nitr.).

I Tongue furred, with clean edges. ^Dyspepsia. ^^ Mouth. Fetor from the mouth ; morning.

Ptyalism.

Inner mouth covered with a whitish-gray coat. Tough phlegm in the mouth. ^^ Palate and Throat. ■ Chronic angina.

I I Uvula and fauces dark red.

\ Chronic induration of tonsils.

I i Thick tenacious mucus in the throat, obliging him to hawk ; causing slight hoarseness. See 7.

I Rawness, soreness; scraping in the throat, causes hawking

and cough.

I I Sensation as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when swallowing, eructating, breathing, stretching or moving the neck.

I Wart-like excrescences feel like pointed bodies when swallow- ing.

I Felt as if he had a stick in throat when swallowing.

I Sense as if throat was contracted, swallows with pain. 6 Dyspepsia.

■ Swallowing difficult. ^Typhus.

I Food feels as if lodged in throat. 6 Dyspepsia. I Burning and dryness in fauces and pharynx.

■ Paroxysms of cramp in oesophagus.

'* Appetite, Thirst, Desires. I Appetite fair. ^Hypochon- driasis.

■ Appetite sometimes fair enough, is generally very bad.

d Myopia.

■ Appetite good but nearly all kinds of food distressed, whether

abstemious or eating heartily, d Hypochondriasis.

■ Appetite dulled by the pain. 6 Gastric ulcer.

■ ■Loss of appetite; much thirst, or no thirst.

■ Refuses the drink unless it is sweetened, yet thirsty.

■ Diminished appetite, frequent eructations, nausea with hum-

ming in the ears, d Locomotor ataxia.

■ Want of appetite. ^Melancholia.

Refused food, saying one who does not work should not eat ;

but driven by hunger he tried to secretly procure it.

d Melancholia. ■Most fond of plum sauce, though swallowing was difficult.

d Typhus.

■ ■Irresistable desire for sugar. I I Desire for strong cheese.

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Sour things lessen nausea.

I Pain immediately after eating. ^Dyspepsia.

I Ten minutes after eating, flatulence. ^Dyspepsia.

Nausea after each meal, mostly after dinner.

BSoon after taking food pain in stomach begins and continues so long as the food remains down ; vomiting results about an hour after, d Gastric ulcer.

I Pains come on soon after eating, sometimes immediately on swallowing, as if oesophagus were irritated as much as the stomach., d Gastralgia.

I Pain after every meal, half an hour after eating, epigastric, extending to left side, d Dyspepsia.

I Pain after eating, sometimes directly, sometimes an hour or more, with much belching and rumbling in bowels, d Dys- pepsia.

I Pain after eating extends from the pit of sternum to round along under the heart, corresponding to the situation of the stomach, d Gastric ulcer.

I After a hearty meal, melancholia, especially after liquid food.

26. llFluids go " right through him." ^ Cholera infantum, etc.

^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Hiccough.

closed, ineffectual effort to eructate.

I I Most gastric ailments are accompanied by belching.

1 1 Belching after every meal; stomach as if it would burst with wind ; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence.

Tasteless, lor sour eructations, with constriction of the bowels.

1 1 Eructation relieves.

1 1 Flatulence passes upwards in quantities, I inducing faintness. 6 Dyspepsia.

■ Suffers much from flatulency by the mouth. ^Dyspnoea.

■ Frequent eructations and flatulency.

■ Great accumulation of gas in stomach, tasteless; when gas

was forming he was greatly distressed, melancholic, nervous ; relieved by belching. 6 Hypochondriasis.

■ Loathing of food, d Dyspepsia.

Deathly nausea with headache, not abating after vomiting.

■ Nausea after each meal, most after dinner.

■ Nausea with constant and troublesome efforts to vomit.

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I Awakens at midnight, with oppression at stomach as from a heavy lump, inducing vomiting ; in the morning throws up glairy mucus which can be drawn into strings ; during the afternoon desire to vomit, tremulous weakness.

I Vomit streaked brown, flocculent, like coffee grounds. ^Yel- low fever.

I The vomited substances tinge the bedding black,

■ Incessant vomiting of food, with a smooth, dry tongue, appa-

I I Flatulent dyspepsia.

■ Irritative flatulent gastralgia.

Sensation as if stomach and oesophagus were filled with food ;

food oppresses, lies like a weight. Pain under the manubrium sterni. 6 Pharyngitis.

■ Fullness of the stomach; painful swelling at the pit, with

great anxiety.

■ During pain in stomach it becomes swollen.

■ Periodic constrictive sensation in the stomach. Gnawing at the stomach ; a sort of hunger with nausea.

■ Gnawing pain like something pulling and as a weight.

6 Dyspepsia.

■ Constant drawing and gnawing, increasing daily to violent

attacks, ending in vomiting of clear, saltish water.

■ ■Gastrodynia. ■Gastralgia.

Throbbing and trembling ; weakness at pit of stomach, relaxed

feeling. I Gastritis with acid vomiting.

■ Inflammation of the stomach.

■ Ulcerative pain in the stomach after dinner.

■ Perforating ulcer of stomach.

■ Small spot between the xyphoid and navel, sensitive to the

■ Terrific spasms across the lower part of chest and in stomach

(due to ulceration in mucous membrane of stomach and duo- denum) coming on at about 9 o'clock, P.M., lasting all through night.

■ ■Pain in left side of stomach, below the short ribs, more in-

tense during inspiration and on touching the parts, d Dys- pepsia.

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Stitches in the stomach and short breathing.

I Stitches in scrobiculum and short breathing, d Cholera.

■ Stinging, ulcerative pain in the left side of stomach, worse

from touch and deep inspiration.

■ Regularly towards midnight, attacks of pain preceded by vom-

iting of slimy and bilious fluid.

Gastralgia in women with irregular menses, too early and co- pious ; vomiting a sour, bitter, yellow, green, tough fluid.

Gastralgia, with pains through to the sacrum, anxiety, cold sweat.

■ ■Q-astric derangements are accompanied by belching.

■ Pain in the stomach here and there, frequently for weeks at a

time, with nausea and vomiting.

■ After ice-cream, gastralgia, pain radiating in all directions;

worse after food. ^^ Hypochondria. ■Well marked spasm of diaphragm, d Cholera asiatica.

■ Cutting like knives in hypochondria, chiefly in left and at

epigastrium. 6 Gastralgia.

■ Great pain in epigastrium, extending around to the cardiac

region and left shoulder-blade, d Dyspepsia.

■ Pain at epigastrium and under left ribs immediately after eat-

ing, with flatulence, loud rumbling, d Dyspepsia.

■ Region of the liver sensitive to pressure; periodical attacks

of pain about liver and navel, with nausea, retching and vom- iting of tough phlegm.

■ Tension as from a band around the hypochondria, d Asthma. ^^ Abdomen. ■ Griping in bowels, d Cholera.

■ Shooting pains through the abdomen and stomach. ^Pro-

lapsus uteri.

■ Pain in left side of abdomen, d Dyspepsia.

■ Abdomen swollen and distended.

Fullness and heaviness of the abdomen, with anxiety, impeding

■ Constriction in the bowels, as if tightly tied with a band.

■ Stitches dart through the abdomen like electric shocks, espe-

cially when suddenly changing from rest to motion ; left

after stool.

■ Periodical abdominal pains. ^Asthma.

■ Loud rumbling with cutting pain. ^Dyspepsia.

■ ■Flatulence. ^Dyspepsia.

■ Distension of abdomen and stomach. ^Prolapsus uteri.

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■ Swells and becomes tympanitic; then it passes away sud-

■ Bowels regular. ^Hypochondriasis. ^Myopia. ^Dyspepsia. I Bowels regular, stools occasionally black looking. 6 Gastric

ulcer.

■ Inclined to watery relaxations of bowels. 6 Subacute pleu-

ritis.

■ In diarrhoea of nursing children, with tormina and viscous

sanguinolent stools and tenesmus ; after drinking, nausea and serous green and lienteric stools.

■ Diarrhoea of children after weaning ; stools bright yellow

thin, fetid ; also in chronic diarrhoea of children.

■ Diarrhoea and dysentery especially during dentition. \ Chronic diarrhoea of adults.

Looseness after exalted imagination.

■ ■Diarrhoea as soon as he drinks.

■ ■Child is very fond of sugar, but diarrhoea results from

eating it. 6 Cholera infantum.

■ Diarrhoea with very sensitive abdomen. 6 Gastric fever.

■ I Croup of the rectum ; thin, unshapely strips pass in masses,

with burning, constriction and sore pain in left side of abdo- men.

■ ■Masses of epithelium connected by muco-lymph, looking red

or green and shreddy, with severe bearing down in hypogas- trium ; advanced dysentery, with suspected ulceration. Voluntary defecation impossible ; but fasces and urine pass in- voluntarily.

■ Stool and urine passed involuntarily and unconsciously.

6 Typhus.

■ Constipation aggravates every complaint; ■alternates with

diarrhoea. Constipation, fgeces dry.

■ When costive, he has more tremor, weariness, disgust for la-

bor and sleeplessness. 0 Asthma. Awakened 6 a.m. with sudden urging to stool, which is bright yellow, copious, liquid; no pain or straining.

■ Whitish stools. 6 Cholera.

■ ■ Stools of green, fetid mucus, with noisy flatus at night ;

green, brown, bloody, worse after midnight; slimy, watery, greenish, bloody, with tenesmus ; green, watery, sour taste in mouth.

■ ■ Green stools ; sopor, large pupils.

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I Green, watery, sour stools. 6 Cholerine.

I Stools like spinach flakes; passed forcibly, with much flatus; belching and stool relieve pain.

Painless lienteric stools.

I Stool copious, fluid, followed by vomiting.

I Taenia or thread- worms ; the latter, especially with much itch- ing at the anus ; pieces of taenia with the stool.

I Hemorrhoids: with burning and tenesmus. ^Asthma.

I Hemorrhoids ; blind, very annoying, d Melancholia.

■ Bleeding from the anus, d Typhus abdominalis.

■ Paralytic debility of the lumbar region and kidneys. Acute pain about kidneys, extending down ureters to bladder ;

worse frona slightest touch or motion, even deep inspiration.

Ulcerative pain in middle of urethra, as from a splinter.

• Chronic induration of urethra.

I No triple phosphates but epithelium in the urine. ^Albumi- nuria.

I Urine highly colored and scanty, passes gravel, d Subacute pleuritis.

I Urine dark red, without albumen ; deposits red crystals of

uric acid.

I I Urine passed unconsciously and uninterruptedly. 1 1 Incontinence of urine at night and also by day.

1 1 Urging to urinate; urine passes less easily and freely.

I Urine burns while passing, urethra feels as if swollen, with

feeling as if the last drops remained behind. Stream of urine spreads asunder. iBleeding of urethra; painful erections. ^Gonorrhoea.

■ Urging to urinate, worse from obstruction of bowels, d Asthma.

■ Scanty and rare emission of a dark yellow urine.

When going to have a stool, urine passes first, then feces in- voluntarily.

■ Retention of urine; bladder distended; dribbling of urine.

d Locomotor ataxia.

■ Discharge of urine in drops. ^Prolapsus uteri.

■ Urine contained blood, was passed often and little at a time,

in drops. ^ Nephritic colic.

■ Quick urging to urinate; the flow is copious and clear.

■ Sensitiveness near the orifice of the urethra.

^^ Male Sexual Organs. ■ Impotence; erections, but they fail when coition is attempted.

■ Want of desire, organs shrivelled.

■ In connection with spermatorrhoea. ^Want of action of

ciliary muscles.

■ Priapism; dysuria; bloody urine. See 21.

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I Coition painful; urethra as if put on the stretch, or sensitive at its orifice.

I Ulcers on the prepuce small, covered with pus ; later spread- ing, bowl-shaped, with a tallow-like coating.

I I Contusive pain, with enlargement and hardness of right testicle.

■ Orchitis.

I Chancre in the urethra. Urethra swollen, hard, knotty and painful. *^ Female Sexual Organs. ■ Cutting pain in the r. ovarian region and back.

I Pain in ovarian region radiating to the sacrum and thighs.

d Metrorrhagia.

I I Coition painful, followed by bleeding from the vagina.

■ Pains like sticks or slivers in and about the womb, excited

whilst walking or riding and by the evacuation of the bowels. 6 Prolapsus uteri. I Uterus softened ; metrorrhagia with horrible pains in abdomen and hips.

I Granulations on the cervix uteri.

I I Prolapsus with ulceration of os or cervix.

I Ulcers of uterus, bleeding; hemorrhage of short duration; shooting pains through the abdomen and stomach, d Pro- lapsus uteri.

Uterine hemorrhage with much trouble in the head.

Metrorrhagia returns in short attacks ; region of ovaries pain- ful, with pains radiating to sacrum and thighs.

■ Metrorrhagia in young widows. ^Prolapsus uteri,

■ Metrorrhagia in sterility and in those who have borne no

children. 6 Prolapsus-uteri.

■ Metrorrhagia with nervous erethism at change of life.

Climaxis : flushes ; congestive headache ; nosebleed ; conges- tion to the chest ; melancholy ; nervous erethism ; itching of the skin.

■ Always coughs before periods, d Dyspepsia.

■ Monthly period is regular, but attended with a great deal of

pain, coming on a day before each period, makes her feel horribly faint, 6 Gastric ulcer.

Menses : too early, profuse, long lasting ; with headache ; cut- tiDg in small of back and groin ; at night tormenting press- ure in prsecordia ; internal trembling in epigastrium.

Menses irregular, too soon or too late, too copious or too scanty, but always with thick coagulated blood.

■ Menses clotted. ^ Prolapsus uteri.

■ Menses too early, too profuse and too long, d Prolapsus

uteri.

■ ■Menses now too soon and at other times too late; irregular.

d Prolapsus uteri.

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1 1 Menses scanty, ^Asthma. ^Prolapsus uteri.

I Her monthly period lasts one day only, the pain ceasing with

a free discharge, d Grastric ulcer.

■ Leucorrhoea mucous, bloody, corroding, yellow and profuse.

I I During pregnancy stomach feels as if it would burst with wind ; head feels expanded. See 16.

■ Puerperal convulsions; spasms preceded by a sensation of

general expansion, mostly of face and head. I Sometimes just after an attack she lies quiet, but before

another she becomes very restless ; has a presentiment of

the morning. Phlegm in the larynx causing a rattling, whistling breathing,

until removed in small lumps by cough.

I Rawness, soreness high up in the trachea, when coughing.

I I Chronic laryngitis of singers ; raising the voice causes cough.

I Chronic catarrhs and laryngitis.

Small, round, greasy lumps of mucus in the larynx, relieved

by a slight cough. ■When in bed, rattling in larynx or trachea synchronous with

the pulse. ^Aphonia.

■ Tickling, itchiness and sometimes burning in the larynx.

d Aphonia. ^^ Respiration. I Breath very offensive, d Myopia.

I Many people in the room seem to take away his breath.

■ Motion, going up stairs or bodily exertion cause asthmatic

attacks ; face congested ; palpitation, d Chronic asthma. Short breathed, with deep sighs ; much oppression ; violent

attacks of dry, spasmodic asthma, forcing him to rise and

walk about. Respiratio abdominalis.

■ Upper abdominal walls are drawn in during inspiration; ex-

pand during expiration ; the effort to breathe deeply takes away the breath at once, d Paralysis of diaphragm.

■ Spasms of the respiratory muscles; great constriction and

stitches in the epigastrium ; cannot talk ; drinking suffo-

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cates ; even a handkerchief before the nose impedes breath- ing ; agony, thinks of killing himself, d Cholera.

■ Respiration short. ^Typhus.

■ Respiration oppressed, sometimes interrupted by cough.

d Typhus.

I Awakes with attacks of suffocation. ^Asthma.

I Can breathe deeply, but cannot retain the breath long, d Head- ache from dancing.

Panting, quick, sibilant breathing.

I The effort to breathe deeply, at once took away his breath. d Locomotor ataxia. ^^ Cough. I Very much cough for two months, with pain and sense of soreness in 1. side, preventing lying on it, thus interfering with sleep, d Subacute pleuritis.

Paroxysms of cough are brought on by : phlegm in larynx ;

irritation under the sternum ; a fit of passion ; laughing ;

stooping ; smoking ; ascending stairs ; when lying down,

and on awaking. \ Acute period of whooping-cough, during the convulsive stage.

■ Whooping-cough.

Gets out of breath with the cough.

■ Bloody sputa. ^Typhus.

■ Expectoration purulent, mixed with light blood.

■ Suddenly coughed up blood, d During catamenia. Catarrh at first dry, later loose, with rattling cough, profuse

sweat, sickly look, hollow eyes, restless sleep ; expectoration yellow.

Belching, or straining to vomit, during the attack of cough.

I Often during nights, fits of coughing with gagging and vomit- ing, d Aphonia.

■ Nocturnal aggravation, with a dry cough and flow of saliva,

with some expectoration of mucus striped with blood. d Aphonia.

■ Cough with occasional bloody sputa, d Dyspepsia.

■ Occasionally spat blood; sputa are always more or less

streaked with it. d Subacute pleuritis. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Sensation of warmth between the scapulae and sternum, gradually changing into a pressure in the epigastric region.

■ Pain in chest and between shoulders, half an hour after eat-

ing, lasting two to three hours. 6 Dyspepsia. Heavy feeling on the chest, with belching.

■ Feels in the morning as if ligated with cords around chest or

waist, d Dyspepsia.

■ Feels like a bar of iron around her chest. ^Dyspepsia.

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Aching, tensive pain in the chest, in various places of the size of a half dollar.

■ Dead pain in lower part of chest, 1. side, coming on after eat-

ing, d Gastric ulcer.

■ Severe cramps or spasms of chest, once or twice a week, com-

ing with a sudden, violent piercing in chest, pulse stopped, hands and face icy cold. In a few moments pulse began to rise, face became red, she cried out violently several times, and had such a working and rumbling in her chest as if something must give away ; at the same time the whole body shook and trembled as in fever and ague ; tumult gradually subsided, a , profuse, warm sweat set in, she fell asleep and nothing remained but great exhaustion.

iDeep pains in the chest not increased by coughing. ^Pneu- monia.

I Violent pain in left side, d Dyspepsia.

Bursting pain after going up stairs ; has to press with both hands.

Stitching pains in region of fifth rib, left side, with frequent blood-spitting.

Coarse, crepitant rales limited to a spot behind the left 5th rib.

iNo cough ; respiratory murmur scarcely audible in several places ; only in upper part of lungs it was dry, vesicular and more acute. ^Asthma.

Lung capacity much diminished ; can attempt a deep breath without pain, but the thorax is but slightly elevated thereby.

■ Subacute pleuritis on left side, indicated by feebleness of

breathing opposite the seat of pain, with catching breathing in other parts of lung.

■ Subacute pleuritis in phthisical subjects.

■ Chronic pleurodynia.

'^ Heart and Pulse. ■Constant anxious feeling in region of heart; ■burning feeling. Fearful pains about the heart ; they thought she would die ; breathing almost impossible, choking.

■ Anxiety, with palpitation and throbbing through the whole

body, especially head and abdomen ; when sitting quietly he frequently thinks his heart stops beating ; suddenly he will feel two strong beats apparently arising from the stomach and passing into the head, d Hypochondriasis.

■ Violent palpitation from the slightest mental emotion or sudden

muscular exertion ; in a horizontal position evenings, in bed, chest worse. Palpitation of the heart; ■with faintish nausea.

■ Palpitation of heart. ^Dyspepsia.

■ Palpitation at night.

■ Attack of palpitation, with anxiety and trembling while rid-

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ing, compelling him to get out of the wagon and walk, 1 I and that real fast too. d Hypochondriasis.

■ Palpitation obliges her to press her hand hard against her

side for relief, d Gastric ulcer. Heart beats like a sudden falling from above towards the middle,

with a bursting feeling in the upper chest. I I Heart's stroke somewhat more frequent and rather weak.

d Incontinence of urine.

■ Heart's action irregular, intermittent, with an unpleasant sen-

sation of fullness ; exertion causes strong beating, •< when noticing it ; > when moving about.

■ Heart's stroke feeble, d Typhus.

■ Pulse when sitting quiet for a short time is 70, full and soft.

d Hypochondriasis.

■ Pulse dicrotic, finally small, could not be counted, d Typhus. Sudden violent piercing in the chest, pulse stopped, hands and

face icy cold ; then pulse rises, face reddens ; violent cry- ing, whole body trembled, warm sweat broke out, and sleep ended the paroxysm. ^^ Outer Chest. Violent pain in muscles of chest.

Chest hurts when lying on it, ^^ Neck and Back. ■Indurated glands on the neck, with sus- picion of former syphilis. Acute pains in the dorsal region after a fall.

■ Suffers much from pains across loins, d Subacute pleuritis.

■ Lower lumbar region is slightly sensitive to pressure, d Hy-

pochondriasis.

■ Complains very much of pain in lower back, coming on after

breakfast, sometimes remaining all day, sometimes going away soon after breakfast, but generally much increased during the monthly, d Gastric ulcer.

■ Frequently pains in back and lower limbs of a cramping

character, especially in left leg. d Hypochondriasis. ■Backache, especially at night, with great weakness of legs.

■ Pains in the back, cannot walk with eyes closed or in the

dark, d Locomotor ataxia.

■ Lower lumbar region slightly sensitive to pressure.

■ Cutting in the small of the back and groin. d Menorrhagia.

■ Pain in the small of the back, relieved when standing or

standing ; worse sitting and with stool.

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Small of the back feels weary ; heaviness and drawing in the

Pimple on hand near wrist, feels as if a splinter was in it. Spasmodic contraction of the adductors of the fingers, can

B Lassitude of lower limbs, with dizziness as from intoxication. B Paralytic heaviness and weakness of the legs, she does not

know where to put them. Staggering gait.

Emaciation, particularly of the legs; also with paralytic weak- ness. Itching pustules on the left shin bone, one of which developed

into an ulcer. ^ BCEdema of the feet. 6 Pneumonia.

^* Limbs in GeneraL BB Lassitude, weariness of forearms and legs. BB Trembling.

B Paralysis of the extremities.

B Rheumatic tendency in right arm and thigh, d Asthma. BDuring the day, tormented with formication of arms and legs.

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I Chorea-like convulsive motion of limbs ; legs drawn up ; arms jerked outward and upward.

I She felt much worse in rest, than when walking in the open air.

lis obliged to lean forward in order to get breath. ^Asthma.

I Unable to walk or even stand, d After a fall.

She was lying motionless on her back, since every motion of her body caused her inexpressible pain ; touching the region of the kidneys increased these pains at once to the highest degree.

I Unable to sleep on her right side from its bringing on palpi- tation of heart, d Gastric ulcer.

Must lie down : coryza with frontal headache.

Lying down after dinner : noise in larynx.

I Lying on abdomen : stitches in back.

I Lying on r. side: pain in stomach; palpitation.

I Uncomfortable lying on 1. side.

When sitting : heaviness in sacrum ; pain in small of back ; gets very sleepy.

Cannot sit on account of pain m sacrum.

While standing : drawing in side of abdomen ; pain in small of back better.

Stooping : causes pain ; cough ; digging in sacrum.

Chewing : < toothache.

Moving neck : << sore throat.

Lifting arms high : ■< stomachache.

Worse from opening or spreading out the hands.

Rising from a seat : backache.

Bending the arms : chest muscles pain.

Putting boots on : ■< pain in chest.

Worse when moving the part and lifting diseased limb.

Quick turning of upper part of body, hurts in mammae.

Changing quickly from rest to motion : stitches through abdo- men.

Inclination for motion.

Worse from moving : headache ; eyeball, heat, fullness ; sensa- tion of splinter in throat when moving neck ; pain about kidneys ; sudden muscular exertion causes palpitation ; con- fusion, dullness and pain, with hemorrhage.

The slightest motion after having been in rest, increases head- ache.

Curious feeling makes him walk very quickly.

During walking, stitches from liver into the chest ; pain in small of back ; tottering ; afraid to walk, giddy.

Must rise and walk about : short-breathed with deep sighs.

491 , ARGENTUM NITRICUM.

After a short walk, dyspnoea.

Walking or standing relieves pain in small of back.

Worse from walking fast, d Asthma.

Goes to the left side instead of straight forward.

After a long walk, ebullitions at night.

Going up stairs : dyspnoea ; cough ; bursting pain in chest ;

palpitation ; pain in the calves. Ascending : <^ heart symptoms. lOn exposure to any exhausting labor, he always had a pain

which affected the whole head, and which made the letters

night. ^^ Nerves. I Walks and stands unsteadily, after hard mental labor,

especially when he thinks himself unobserved.

■ Restless, in continual motion. ^Headache.

■ Very restless. ^Dyspepsia.

I Great nervousness and prostration. ^Hypochondriasis.

iNightly nervousness with heat and fullness in the head.

I Nerves so unstrung that he got in a frenzy of excitement.

d Hypochondriasis. I Hysteria. iNervous, faintish, tremulous sensation, as if a severe disease

were going to attack him.

■ Tremulous weakness, accompanied with general debility, as

after great physical exertions and apathy. I Trembling and tremulous sensation.

■ Trembling of the whole body and headache. ^Eye diseases.

■ ■Periodical trembling of the body.

■ Chorea, with tearing in legs. See 34.

■ Creeping and jerking in various parts, more in paralyzed

parts.

■ Every succeeding spasm is announced by a very marked degree

of restlessness. 6 Meningitis, d Hydrocephalus.

■ ■ Convulsions preceded by great restlessness. See 24.

■ Convulsions with great restlessness and tossing about, preced-

ing each convulsion, d Scarlatina.

■ Epileptiform convulsions. ^Meningitis.

■ Epilepsy from fright, during menstruation; at night; pupils

always dilated for a day or two before.

■ Very weak and feeble. ^Prolapsus uteri.

■ So weak, must lie down; then becomes apathetic, with yawn-

ing ; cold shuddering.

■ She feels so debilitated she is scarcely able to walk across the

room, complaining a good deal about rigidity in the calves.

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Paralysis generally one-sided.

B After a severe illness, most after diphtheria. ^ Want of ac- commodation of ciliary muscles.

Incipient paralysis.

IB Any voluntary motion of the body was for a long time im- possible for him. d Typhus.

B Voluntary motion impossible; left side indescribably weak.

BB Paraplegia from debilitating causes.

B Paralysis after diphtheria.

B Completely apathetic. ^Headache. ^^ Sleep. I I Such a weakness in all her limbs that she was obliged to go to bed, where she frequently fell into a soporous con- dition with yawning, and a cold shudder over the whole body, and lost all her appetite.

B Sleepless at night, during the day drowsy. ^Hypochondri- asis.

Bis prevented from falling asleep by fancies and images before his imagination.

After long wearisome fatiguing night watching.

BMuch excited at night; murmured constantly; nothing but shaking would arouse him ; scarcely are his eyes open before he again closes them, d Typhus.

Ebullitions at night after a long walk.

BAt night troubled with throbbing in the head, must get out of bed ; when he does sleep he is annoyed with horrid dreams. d Hypochondriasis.

Drowsy by day, sleepless all night.

B Sleep is short; awakened often by attacks of suffocation; I I must rise and open the window.

B Restless sleep, awakes almost every hour, disturbed with many dreams.

B Sleep much broken, especially forepart of night, with horrible dreams, d Hypochondriasis.

BSees departed friends, the dead, ghosts at night; dreams of putrid water, B of serpents, which fill him with horror.

In the morning, dreams he is hungry ; this awakens him, and he finds he has a violent spasm of the stomach, with hunger, nausea and flatulence.

BNot refreshed by a night's rest, d Subacute pleuritis.

On awaking: B nightly restlessness; on awaking in the morn- ing, limbs feel bruised, aching in the side of the chest ; Bfrom a good sleep, dull headache over the eyes ; spasms return.

BCannot sleep at night because he is " so nervous." ^Hypo- chondriasis.

493 ARGENTUM NITRICUM.

cough ; hoarseness ; beating of heart ; epileptic attacks ;

pains in chest, oppression ; I spasms ; nervous ; itching of

■ Worse in the morning: eyes; fetor from mouth; gastralgia;

hunger ; colic ; nervousness ; sweat ; soreness in larynx.

I Very languid, worse early part of day. ^Myopia.

Forenoon : chill and fever,

iNervous attacks about 11 o'clock, A.M., relieved by stimulat- ing drinks, d Hypochondriasis.

Noon : tickling, suffocative cough.

Afternoon : headache > ; stitches in left forehead ; exhausted, faint.

I Feels faint towards evening, d Gastric ulcer.

■ The day half is to the night half as 3 : 2. B I Day half, more cough ; night, diarrhoea.

^' Temperature and Weather. Worse from cold diet, > from

feeling.

■ Always kept himself covered, because he was easily chilled. Heat, with aversion to uncover.

■ ■Utter insensibility of the body, except a sensitiveness of the

lowered temperature, even from removing the clothes when

dressing the bed-sores. 6 Typhus. Worse from cold: ■ asthma in cold weather, from taking cold;

■ chill when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up;

after thorough exposure to cold, bones of skull pain ; teeth

■ Indifference to moist and damp weather, longing for fresh air.

d Pneumonia.

■ I Great longing for fresh air, d Pneumonia.

Irresistible inclination to leave the bed and sit by the open window; every time he sat by the window he felt much re- freshed, d Pneumonia.

■ ■Asthma drives him to the open window; if windows are

closed, he becomes restless ; at night he wakes up as if suffo- cating, runs to the window to breathe.

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I Bin March they had to leave a -window open, day and night, for when it was shut the patient became restless, d Typhus. Generally better in open air, worse in-doors.

■ Amelioration in cool, open air.

General feeling better in the open air, particularly catarrhs

(eyes, stomach). inOpthalmia less; stomach relieved in open air. In rest he feels much more unwell as when walking in the

■ Constant chilliness up the back and over shoulders ; < after

meals ; < coming into the room from the open air.

General chill followed after a short interval by general heat ; the former lasting longer, and returning quickly on uncover- ing, even during the heat ; the latter with perceptible pulsa- tion of the left temporal artery ; both stages without thirst.

■Night-sweats.

Morning sweat.

■ Evening chill followed by sweat, d Typhus.

■ Skin dry, but not very hot. Temperature sunken.

Intermittent fever, with pulmonary hemorrhage ; generally no thirst.

■ Malarial fever in a lady, set. 75; constant retching, most

intensely bitter taste, with desire for fresh air (followed by

Rhus tox.). Profuse sweat ; it stands out on the face in beads ; stitches in

the side, cough during the attack. Sweat and chilliness, as soon as he gets warm in bed.

■ Gastric intermittent. \ Typhus abdominalis.

*^ Attacks. ■ Attacks increasing and decreasing quickly, or gradu- ally increasing and decreasing. ■Pains in skull sometimes remit, and are followed by more violent hemicrania.

■ Asthmatic attacks at night, with rapid pulse.

■ Moral and nervous disturbances come on in quite regular

paroxysms, d Prolapsus uteri. ^^ Locality and Direction. Right : headache ; digging in hemi- sphere of brain ; pupil dilated ; shooting itching biting pains in eye ; pupil contracted ; contusive pain in testicle ; cut- ting in ovarian region ; paralytic pain in arm. Left : headache ; arm paralyzed, see 2 ; weakness of whole side, see 2 ; pains side of head ; throbbing in forehead ; boring clawing digging in frontal eminence ; drawing tearing

495 ARGENTUM NITRICUM.

along arm ; boring in temple ; dimness of eye ; digging and cutting through hemisphere of brain ; sight of eye dimin- ished; boring above eye; upper lid fallen; deafness; face swollen ; neuralgia under eye; pain in epigastrium extend- ing to side ; hypochonder ; cutting in hypochonder ; pains from epigastrium round to shoulder blade ; pains in abdo- men ; constriction in abdomen ; soreness in side ; in lower part of chest, dead pain ; violent pain in chest ; stitching pain in region of fifth rib, and crepitant rales ; subacute pleuritis ; crampy pain in leg ; pain in shoulder and arm ; in middle finger ; ring and little fingers insensible ; stifi"ness of leg ; on shinbone, itching pustules. In various places, ot the size of half a dollar, aching, tensive

pain in chest. From r. to 1. ear : stitches.

Cutting : like knives in hypochondria and epigastrium ; in ab- domen ; in r. ovarian region and back ; in small of back and groin. Stinging: in 1. side of stomach.

hemisphere of brain ; in teeth. Clawing digging : in 1. frontal eminence.

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Grumbling digging : in teeth.

Griping : in bowels.

Gnawing : at stomach.

Bursting pain : in abdomen ; in chest.

Burning : in scalp ; heat in eyes ; in 1. side of face and lips ; in urethra ; in larynx ; in region of heart.

Rawness, soreness and scraping : in throat ; in trachea.

Soreness : of larynx and pit of throat : in trachea ; in 1. side, 27.

Tearing pains : in ears.

Drawing tearing : along 1. arm.

Neuralgic pains : in head and face ; in stomach, gastralgia.

Spasms : in lower part of chest and in stomach.

Crampy pain : in back and lower limbs.

Cramp : in oesophagus.

Constriction : in bowels as if ligated ; in epigastrium, see 26 ; around chest or waist.

Constrictive pains : in forehead ; in scalp ; in throat ; in sto- mach.

Feels like a bar of iron around her chest.

Squeezing pains : in back.

Bruised pain : in nasal bones ; in r. testicle ; in limbs, on awaking.

Paralytic pain : from sacrum down along pelvis and hips ; in r. arm.

Drawing : in shoulders ; in r. arm.

Pressing, screwing throbbing pain in the frontal protuberance, temple, or into bones of face.

Pressure : in forehead ; pressive headache encircling calvarium ; pressing pains in whole head ; deep in brain ; in outer head ; in prgecordia, see 23 ; in epigastric region, 28.

Ulcerative pain : in stomach ; in middle of urethra, as from a splinter.

Dead pain : in lower 1. chest.

Undefined pain : in 1. side of head ; in head, which seems en- larged ; in all parts of head, especially in occiput, prevent- ing sleep ; in head, extends to eyes and lower jaw ; in eyes and head from using eyes ; from brain to eyes ; terrific, from vertex into eye ; in nose ; in stomach ; about liver ; in abdo- men ; in region of kidneys ; horrible, in abdomen and hips, with metrorrhagia ; in chest and between shoulders ; fearful pains about heart ; violent in muscles of chest ; in 1. shoul- der and arm ; in calves.

Throbbing : in whole body, see 1 ; of carotids ; in 1. side of forehead ; in head, at night.

Heat : and dryness of eyeballs and lids : in 1. side of face and lips ; warmth, between scapulae and sternum, see 28.

Dullness : of head ; forehead and root of nose.

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Heaviness : in occiput ; in head; in abdomen; on chest; and drawing in loins ; from sacrum down along pelvis and hips ; of 1. arm; of legs, paralytic.

Fullness : in head ; in eyeball ; in lids ; in ears ; in abdomen.

Sense of weight in lower part of sacrum and os coccygis.

Faintness: when walking.

Weakness : in legs, with anxiety ; at pit of stomach ; in legs, with backache ; of legs, paralytic.

Tension : as from a band around hypochondria ; of abdomen ; tensive pains in back.

Jerks : in toes.

Chilliness:, and trembling with headache; with pressure in brain ; up the back and over shoulders.

Cold feeling : in eyes.

Tickling : in larynx.

Formication : of arms and legs.

Numbness : of finger-tips ; of legs, as if made of wood.

Itching : creeping, crawling on scalp ; in eyes ; of nose ; of skin during climaxis; in larynx; pustules on 1. shin- bone ; of thighs and axillge, see 46. ** Tissues. iMelaena.

Acts on the red corpuscles, causing their coloring matter to escape into the plasma, causing ecchymosis and effusions, and later interference with oxidation and ultimate chlorosis.

■ Withered, dried up, look old. d Children, etc.

■ Emaciation, most marked in the legs ; progressive from year

to year. lOEdema of legs; ascites. ^ Affection of the liver. Muscles rigid.

I Septic forms of scarlet fever. \ Impetigo (as a caustic).

■ Excrescence on the skin. ^Iritis.

■ Prevents excessive granulations in ulcers.

■ Chronic syphilis, with papulae and osteocopic pains.

■ ■Bone affections.

■ Getting gradually thinner for twelve months. /? Subacute

pleuritis. Infant loses flesh, gets marasmus ; looks as if it would die

early. • Dropsies.

*** Touch, Passive Motions. Must press chest with hands.

See 28. Rubs nose until raw.

upper lip ; gums sore ; small spot below xyphoid, see 17 ;

stinging left side of stomach ; abdomen tense, cannot bear

touch ; sternal region sensitive ; pains about kidneys.

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Itching, < by scratching.

Complaints from pressure of clothing; headache, however, is better from bandaging.

IB Erysipelatous bed-sore upon 1. shoulder, sacrum and both hip-joints; those on the sacrum became black and hard. 6 Typhus.

I Cannot walk or stand erect, d After a fall.

I While riding: attack of palpitation, with anxiety and trem- bling, compelling him to get out of the wagon and walk, and that "real fast, too."

After scalding with sulphuric acid, a solution applied on the burnt place, healed it, and even new hairs were formed. ^® Skin. ■ Cyanosis, d Cholera.

I Skin from a blue-gray, violet or bronze color, to real black. Skin brown, tense, hard.

Itching, smarting, mostly of thighs and axillae, when warm at night.

I I Bluish-black eruption, d In scarlet fever.

■ Erysipelatous bed-sores, centre covered with dry, bloody in-

crustations ; black, hard on sacrum. Pustulous ecthyma.

■ Syphilitic papulae. ^Iritis. Wart-shaped excrescences.

Women with menstrual disturbances.

Cachectic states, with loss of strength.

I Scrawny, feeble, dried-up looking women, d Prolapsus uteri.

A stout, light-haired boy with enuresis.

Boys' complaints from using tobacco.

Girl, get. 10, myopia, after taking drugs for goitre.

A youth, get. 18, growing up rapidly, masturbating, imbecile. d Hypochondriasis.

Man, get. 27, intemperate for years, now abstaining, d Hypo- chondriasis.

Girl, aged 28, inclined to angemia. d Gastric ulcer.

Man, get. 35, of intemperate habits, also given to venery. d Hypochondriasis.

Woman, get. 43, after a great deal of trial and anxiety, sight failed. 6 Paralysis of accommodation.

Man, get. 49, red face, nervous, depressed, anxious, ill for three years, d Dyspepsia.

Woman, get. 82 ; low, after aggravation, cured.

In low doses it corresponds to the carbo-nitrogenoids, like Sul-

499 ARGENTUM NITRICUM.

Arg. nit. antidotes : Amm. caust.

Boys' complaints, after tobacco.

According to Boenninghausen, as antidotes to Arg. nit., and also to Nitr. ac, are prominent Pulsat., Calcar., Sepia, and next to these three, Lycop., Mercur., Silic, Rhus tox., Phosphor, and Sulphur.

1 Coffea cruda increases nervous headache.

After Arg. nitr. had failed in flatulent indigestion, Lyeop. cured.

It has been given with success : after Bryon. and Spigel., in dyspepsia ; after Spongia was given for a goitre, and myopia followed ; after Veratr. for wind passing upwards in great quantities, inducing faintness.

The main difference between the metal and the nitrate, is, that the latter acts more on mucous membrane, the skin, and es- pecially on the bones and periosteum, and must be beneficial to herpetic patients, and the former acts especially on the car- tilages.

Complaints from pressure of clothes ; also in Calcar., Bryon., Caustic, Lycop., Sarsap., and Stannum.

AMORACEA SATITA. 500