Cuprum Aceticum

Acetate of copper; verdigris. Cu 2O2 H^ O.y,- H^ 0.

The symptoms are principally toxicological and clinical. See Cuprum metal- licum.

Clinical AutHoeities Hallucinations, Mossa, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 29; Effects of over-study, Schmid, B. J.

H., vol. 1, p. 241 ; Dementia, Schmid, Eiick, Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 23; Mania from suppression of menses, Kissel, Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 4; Mania after labor, Schmid, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 1, p. 23; Irritation of brain. Gross, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 5, p, 41; Apoplexia nervosa, Schmid, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 91 ;

Paralysis of I. nervm abducentis, Heinigke, Norton's Opth. Therap., p. 76 ; Facial neuralgia, Mossa, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 245 ; Tonsillitis, Kissel, Riick.

Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 238; Obstinate vomiting, Dudgeon, Times Retrospect, 1877, p. 23; Urcemic vomiting, Koeck, Hah.

Mo., vol., 12, p. 638; Diarrhoea after suppres- sion of eczema, Drummond, B. J. H., vol. 31 , p. 401 ;

Summer diarrhoea, Drummond, B. J. H., vol. 31, p. 414; Cholera, J.

C. Morgan, Bering's Monograph; Cholera paralytica, Quaglio, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 5, p. 474 ; Tape worm (60 cases reported), Kissel, Riick. Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 387;

Croup (12 cases reported), Kissel, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 755 ; Spasmodic whooping cough.

Bellows, Hom. Obs., vol. 6, p. 142; Whooping cough, Neidhard, B. J.

H., vol. 12, p. 437 ; Angina pectoris, Bayes, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 127 ; Paralysis of nervus ulnaris, Heinigke, Raue's Rec, 1870, p. 304; Paralysis of I.

Ze(7, Heinigke, Raue's Rec, 1870, p. 304; Measles, Miller, Raue's Rec, 1873, p. 222; Scarlatina, Gardiner, Hering's Monograph; Spotted fever with clonic spasms, Neidhard, Hering's Monograph ;

Chorea, Drummond, B. J. H., vol. 31, p. 413.

Memory weak ; brain functions in general decreased ; must frequently think long before he finds the right ex- pression; temperature low; hands always cold; in win- ter, hands become bluish-black.

■ Great absence of mind; tendency to start; eyes sunken, staring, as if riveted in sockets; cold sweat; spasmodic distortion of face. ^Irritation of brain.

I I Loud speaking arouses them from their fancies, they are obliged, however, to think a long time before they can answer.

I Fixed idea that he sees persons connected with the law who are about to seize him, causing great anxiety, and making him cry like a child; at times sees thieves in the room, spirits, and various other immaterial objects; although he describes some of his symptoms truly, others are misrepresented or cannot be expressed by him; great despondency and anxiety; seems in despair;

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attacks of unconsciousness ; pulse weak ; skin cool and covered with a cold sweat. I Hallucinations of all kinds of figures and grimaces, es- pecially in evening when going to bed and shutting eyes; at one time saw these appearances also through day, and heard them talk; headache; glimmering be- fore eyes; whizzing and drumming in ears; chronic bronchial catarrh; frequent vertigo while walking on street.

■ Delirium.

■Attacks of mania, with full, rapid, hard pulse, inflamed eyes, wild look, and disconnected talking, ending with sweat.

I I Crying like a child.

■ Awoke suddenly from sleep and ran about room crying,

scolding and screaming, and wished to escape; thinks she is about to die and desires to see the pastor; pain in head; pulse small, soft, 100; has not menstruated for several months.

■ Unexpectedly jumps out of bed, it requiring at times

great force to retain her; eyes staring, look vacantly fixed upon some object; temperature slightly elevated in head, and lessened in extremities. ^Mania after labor.

■ Great anxiety ; tossing about bed.

■Attacks of anxiety ; cannot control herself; cries, is in despair ; coldness of the body, very slightly affected by external heat.

■Slightest exertion brings on profuse and exhausting per- spiration ; no appetite; pulse weak, accelerated, irregu- lar ; skin moist ; feet cold ; at times a feeling of anxiety which cannot be resisted ; giddiness in head, with in- ternal pain, sometimes causing insensibility ; sleep rest- less and unrefreshing, with distracted and annoying dreams ; diarrhoea ; rapid decline of strength. ^Effects of over-study.

■Afraid of falling ; holds on to his nurse's hair, hugs up to her, afraid of being injured, would not stay in bed. ^Scarlatina.

■ Afraid of everyone who approaches him, shrinking away

from them. ^Scarlatina.

■ Feared bedclothes or house would catch fire. ^Scarlatina. I I Fear of death. ^Cholera.

■ Restless, cross and full of fear ; respiration, sobbing, short

and anxious ; face pale and bloated ; when drinking, child bites into glass or spoon ; strength gradually sink- ing. /^Irritation of brain, due to dentition.

■ Disconnected delirious talking; talks all the time.

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^ Sensorium, l Vertigo, marked and persistent, with stupe- faction. I I Great confusion and heaviness of head.

^ Inner Head, l Agonizing headache at distinct intervals like paroxj'sms, lancinating pains, sometimes in fore- head, sometimes in top of head, sometimes in temples or occiput, < from slightest pressure. I Inflammation of brain ; prostration, breathing short and anxious, face puffed and pale ; when drinking child bit on the glass or spoon.

^ Sight and Eyes. Eyes staring, fixed, sunken.

■ After riding several hours in railroad car, sudden in-

distinct and double vision. ^Paralysis of 1, nervus ab-

I Face puffed and pale. ^Inflammation of brain. D Flushed features, face cyanotic. ^Cholera.

■ Facial neuralgia, behind r. ear, in cheekbone and upper

jaw, < morning, none at night; pain < from mental emotions; pain in upper and Towner extremities, tingling in fingers, jerks and drawing in limbs ; pain in face, > by chewing and external pressure; feeling of coldness in head ; pain > from wrapping parts up warmly ; when there is no pain she cannot bear warm things around head ; brain is void and absent, mental activity much impaired; inclined to gape and cry; appetite poor; sleeps well lying on affected side.

*^ Throat. I Inflammation of tonsils, or wdien they are en- larged will favor suppuration and cause rapid healing.

^^ Eating and Drinking. iWhen drinking child bites at glass or spoon. ^Inflammation of brain.

■ Nausea and vomiting of greenish liquid, or yellowish-

green vomiting.

■ Violent vomiting of greenish water, coming on suddenly

and attended by copious greenish diarrhoea and violent

pain in bowels. ■Very frequent vomiting, usually after drinking. ■About every ten days has an attack of vomiting, preceded

by headache in forehead, heat of head, and soreness or

pain in eyes ; attacks come on when awaking in morn-

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ing, and consist only of frothy saliva ; < from slightest movement, > lying still ; attacks last one or two days, during which time he can take no solid food and scarcely any liquid ; during intervals of attacks, tenderness of epigastrium to pressure, creeping or fluttering sensation between shoulders and at back of neck.

■ Constant fruitless attempts at vomiting, after which, nearly unconscious, he fell back into bed; at first, vomiting of food followed by vomiting of murky water mixed with green slimy strings; every swallow of water or food sets him vomiting ; no appetite ; excessive thirst, burning pain in stomach, great lassitude. ^Ur£e- mic vomiting. ^' Scrobiculum and Stomach. 1 1 Violent griping and press- ure in stomach, followed by vomiting.

1 1 Violent pains and cramps in stomach and bowels. ^^ Abdomen, i Severe griping and colicky pains in stomach and bowels.

I I Retracted abdomen. ^^ Stool and Rectum, i Great irritability of stomach, every kind of nourishment being rejected ; continual desire to vomit with most distressing retching ; bowels irritable ; frequent, small, papescent stools, often mixed with mu- cus and blood; nervous depression; fretting, despond- ent. ^ After suppression of eczema.

I Black stools, copious, painful, bloody, with tenesmus, and weakness.

iRice-watery purging; inelastic cold skin. ^Cholera.

1 Sudden severe constricting pains in abdomen, with nausea, profuse, spurting diarrhoea, and cramps in muscles of legs; lies in an apathetic condition; twitch- ings; groaning; clonic spasm of muscles of leg; diffi- cult respiration; cyanosis; is conscious, but desires- nothing but water to quench the burning thirst; eyes . dim, fixed, retracted, and surrounded by dark circles ; face sunken and cold ; tongue, breath, hands and feet icy cold; voice hollow, feeble; impulse beat of heart extremely weak, radial pulse lost; stool less frequent, ashy gray, with grayish flakes; forcible vomiting; urine suppressed. ^Cholera paralytica.

• Severe cases of summer diarrhoea, with griping pains and cramps of extremities.

iDiarrhf^a with irregular pulse, twitchings, starlings, and jerks in limbs, subsultus tendinum, and fainting.

■ Summer complaint of children, with brain affections, 1 I Constipation.

■ Tape worm.

^' Urinary Organs, i Suppression of urine.

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^® Respiration. ■ i Difficult respiration.

I Breathing short and anxious. ^Inflammation of brain.

iSuffocative loss of breath,

I Chest spasmodically constricted, impeding respiration,.

and increasing her anxiety. ^ Cough. I Frequent, violent, dry cough, with tearing pain

in head ; cough followed by violent pulsation of heart,

lasting several minutes ; anxiety and pressure in chesty

< sitting; cough comes on at night between 11 and 1. iRedness efface; blueness around mouth and lips during

attack; rapid, wheezing respiration, with groaning;

rattling of phlegmj starting in sleep ; great fretfulness;

distinct whoop after each paroxysm of cough, and crying.

^Whooping cough.

■ Whooping cough; when spasmodic condition becomes

manifest. 1 Whooping cough, in most obstinate cases, particularly where there is a chronic cough, and a tendency to con- sumption of lungs. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. ■ Deathly feeling behind ensiform cartilage. ^Cholera.

■ Frequent attacks of angina pectoris, coming on when

exerting herself, or when excited.

^^ Upper Limbs, l Numbness and lameness of 1. hand, espe- cially of fingers as far as they are supplied with th& nervus ulnaris.

^ Lower Limbs. 1 1 Cramps in lower extremities, especially in calves. I Cramps of legs, particularly in old people.

■ Dragging of 1. foot in walking; numbness and lameness

in sole of 1. foot gradually extending up to knee ; walk- ing and standing very difficult; no noticeable atrophy, but skin, subcutaneous tissues, muscles and ligaments considerably relaxed ; sense of feeling much decreased ; . constant cold foot, scarcely changed by application of hot bricks; at times dull pain from hip down to knee. ^* Limbs in General, l Violent drawing and tension in limbs, with frequent shuddering and chilliness, though skin is not cold.

■ Periodic, spasmodic, painful contraction of fingers and

toes, frequently so severe that fingers could scarcely be extended by any force.

■ Cramps in extremities, and convulsive movements of

■ Coldness and severe cramp in extremities.

■ Coldness of extremities.

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Change of posture : frequent.

Chewing: facial neuralgia >.

Motion: chorea <.

Walking : dragging of 1. foot.

Throwing body about : great restlessness. Nerves, i Affects specifically spinal cord; congestion of brain, with convulsive motions of extremities ; cannot hold head up; eyes dim, lustreless, sunken, with blue rings; sad, depressed features; dry mouth, great thirst for cooling drinks ; nausea, vomiting ; torpid stool ; nerv- ous trembling, with very great acuteness and sensitive- ness of senses ; clonic spasms beginning at periphery ; deep sleej) or coma; paralysis of all muscles of back up to neck. ^Meningitis cerebro-spinalis.

■ Convulsions before eruption breaks out, or when eruption suddenly disappears, with tendency to metastasis to brain ; quick, small, irregular pulse ; low temperature ; sopor; rolling of eyes; facial distortion, and also of all flexor muscles ; great restlessness, throwing body about ; spasmodic action of heart; vomiting; cold face, blue lips, coldness all over; < from contact. ^Scarlatina.

■ Metastasis during an attack of catarrhal or exanthemic fever; stage of exudation; delirium, with loud screaming, precede the sopor; convulsions begin at periphery and extend upwards ; great stiffness of neck, with remark- able paleness of skin ; pressure in prsecordial region and sunken abdomen ; great irregularity of pulse, sinking sometimes far below normal; trismus; tetanus; cramps; grinding of teeth; inability to hold up head; bloodshot eyes; insatiable thirst; cold hands and feet. ^Hydro- cephalus acutus.

■ Convulsions coming on in lower extremities, or in fingers or toes, with much throwing about of limbs, frothing at mouth, and choking in throat; spasms preceded by violent vomiting of mucus.

■ Convulsions; limbs and body stiff, jaws clenched.

■ Consciousness lost; face distorted with convulsions; mouth drawn to one side; tongue partially paralyzed and awry; speech impeded or completely lost; one ex- tremity, generally an arm, moved with greater difficulty than the other. ^'Apoplexia nervosa.

■ Periodical chorea; irregular movements commencing in fingers or toes, or in one arm, and spreading all over body; twitchings often confined to one side; terrible contortions and awkward movements, accompanied by laughter, grimaces, exaltation and ecstacies ; melancholy and dread of society; attacks often painful; cramps in calves; inability to speak, or only imperfectly ; sudden

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and twist; when awakened is rational. ^^ Time. Morning : facial neuralgia < ; attack of vomiting on awaking.

Night: cough comes on between 11 and 1. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Warmly wrapped : facial neuralgia >.

Hot bricks : do not > cold feet.

*" Fever. sMeasles with bronchitis; delirium, wants to go

home; expectoration only during night; on falling

asleep, begins to talk, scold, turn, twist and screams ; on

being aroused, perfectly rational ; tongue and mouth red.

At times: dull pain from hip to knee ; risus sardonicus.

Lasting several minutes : cough and violent pulsation of heart.

Frequent: vomiting; violent cough; attacks of angina pectoris; change of posture.

Paroxysm : of cough.

Periodic : contraction of fingers and toes ; chorea.

Distinct intervals : agonizing headache.

Every ten days : attack of vomiting. *^ Locality_ and Direction. Left : paralysis of nervus abdu- centis; numbness and lameness of hand; dragging of foot in walking ; numbness and lameness of sole of foot.

Right: neuralgia behind ear. ^^ Sensations. Pain : in upper and lower extremities ; in eyes.

Agonizing: headache.

Lancinating pains : in forehead ; in top of head ; in tem- ples ; in occiput.

Tearing pain : in head.

Violent pain : in bowels ; in stomach.

Griping : in stomach ; in bowels.

Colicky pains : in stomach ; in bowels.

Cramps : in stomach ; in bowels ; in muscles of legs ; of extremities; in calves.

Spasms : clonic, of muscles of legs.

Neuralgia : behind r. ear ; in cheekbone ; in upper jaw.

Constricting pain : in abdomen.

Contraction: painful spasmodic of fingers; of fingers and toes.

Burning pain : in stomach.

Deathly feeling : behind ensiform cartilage.

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Dull pain : from hip to knee.

Soreness : in e.yes.

Distressing feeling of constriction : in oesophagus ; across chest in direction of diaphragm.

Drawing : in limbs.

Tension : in limbs.

Jerks : in limbs.

Pressure : in stomach.

Numbness : of 1. hand ; of fingers ; of sole of 1. foot ; ex- tending to knee.

Lameness: of 1. hand; of sole of 1. foot ; extending to knee.

Heaviness: of head.

Tingling : in fingers.

Creeping sensation : between shoulders ; at back of neck.

Coldness : of extremities ; of head. *^ Touch, Passive Motion, Injuries. Pressure : slightest, headache < ; pain in face > .

After riding in railroad car : sudden indistinct and double vision. ^ Skin. iSurface of body cyanotic in a high degree. ^Cholera.

I Acute exanthemata when checked in stage of eruption, or suddenly disappear in stage of florescence; pulse quick, small, weak, irregular; temperature of skin greatly reduced ; skin chilly and covered with perspira- tion ; affections of nervous system present, as convulsive movements of various parts of body, distortion of eyes, face, mouth, head, etc.; spasmodic affections of chest; sometimes eclampsia; great restlessness, frequent change of posture, sopor, or delirium.

■Scarlatina, miliary rash, measles, smallpox, purpura, erysipelas of face, disappear suddenly and are follow^ed by symptoms threatening paralysis of brain.

Leprous eruption, consisting of spots, without itching.

■ Inelastic cold skin. ^Cholera. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Carbo-nitrogenoid constitu- tion.

Child, set. 22 months; whooping cough.

Girl, set. 3J years ; irritation of brain.

Boy, set. 9 years ; scarlatina.

Girl, set. 19, robust ; cholera.

Girl, set. 23 ; mania.

Man, £et. 29 ; paralysis of nervus abducentis.

A young soldier in Louisiana ; cholera.

Woman, set. 30, married, no children; diarrhoea after suppression of eczema.

Woman, set. 32, a year ago had intermittent fever, for which she took quinine, after this chlorosis, for which she took iron; facial neuralgia.

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Man, set. 40 ; paralysis of 1. leg.

Man, set. 50, suffering from renal troubles ; ursemic vomit- ing.

Man, set. 60 ; hallucinations.

Ann H., set. 63 ; angina pectoris.

Man, set. 64; obstinate vomiting.

Compatible: after Act. rac, Agaric, Stramon., in choreic affections.

Calc. ostr.

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