Kreosotum

A product of distillation of wood tar.

Provings by Syrbius, Hartung, Sen. and Jun., Immisch, Lange, Koch, Heine- mann, Lunderstadt, Wahle, Eichhorn, Thomas. See Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 5, p. 408.

Additional verified symptoms from provings by Hering and Kummer, MSS.

Clinical Authorities Difficulty of hearing during menstruation, McClatchey, Trans. Horn. Med.

Soc. Pa., 1881, p. 157 ; Syphilitic deafness, Teste, B. J.

H., vol. 29, p. 780 ; Cancerous tumor on lower lip, Thompson, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 97 ; Carious teeth, Liedbeck, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 1, p. 463 ; Hemorrhage after extraction of tooth, Kleinert, Riick. Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 859 ;

Vomiting, Wahle, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 557 ; Gastromalacia, Kreuss, Rummel, Goullon, Krummacher, Arnold, Riick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 605 ; Painful, hard spot in stomxich, Wahle, Riick. Kl.

Erf, vol. 1, p. 637 ; Diarrhaa, Kurz, Riick. Kl. Erf, vol. 1, p. 836 ;

Enuresis, Perrussell, Raue's Rec, 1871, p. 137 ; Boenninghausen, Sommer, Rampai, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 43;

Chronic ovarian affection, Proll, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 737 ; Uterine affection, Wahle, Ruck.

Kl. Erf, vol. 2, p. 354 ; Reisig, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 2, p. 354 ; Uter- ine affections in middle-aged women, Kurtz, Riick. Kl. Erf, vol. 2, p. 354 ;

Ulcers on neck of uterus, Wahle, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 353 ; Cauliflower excrescences around OS uteri, Neidhard, Org., vol. 2, p. 105;

Menorrhagia, Giilzon, Allg. Horn. Ztg., vol. 103, p. 51; Wesselhceft, Hom.

Clin., vol. 4, p. 87; Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 178; Leucorrhosa, Landrey, B.J. H., vol. 29, p. 166;

Molin, Riick. Kl. Erf, vol. 2, p. 363 ; Puerperal metritis, Bentsch, Riick.

Kl. Erf, vol. 2, p. 448 ; Perichondritic laryngismus, Unsin, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 5, p. 740 ; Whooping cough, A. R., Riick. Kl.

Erf, vol. 5, p. 723; Hemorrhage from lungs, Wahle, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 217;

Consumption, Frank, Kurtz, Lobethal, Schron, Riick. Kl. Erf, vol. 3, pp. 377-379; Phthisis (2 cases), Wahle, Riick.

Kl. Erf, vol. 3 p. 216 ; Gangrene of lungs, Wil- lard, Trans. Hom.

Med. Soc. Pa., 1876, p. 297 ; Hemorrhages, Trinks, B.

J. H., vol, 29, p. 318.

^ Mind. Stupid feeling in head; vacant gaze; neither seeing

nor hearing. Frequent vanishing or failure of thought. I I Weakness of memory; forgetfulness. ^After nosebleed. I I Thinks herself well. /^Metritis. iSorrowful mood, inclined to weep, or longing for death ;

music and similar emotional causes impel him to weep. Anxious, apprehensive mood.

Ill humor; moroseness; peevishness, ill temper, obstinacy. I Fretful, irritable, agitated, screams nights. ^Bronchitis

during dentition. Excited condition; ailments from emotions.

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■ Confounding ideas; also in puerperal fever with putridity. Seeks for unpleasant things and broods over them.

^ Sensorium. Stupefaction, dizziness and vacancy in head, with complete loss of thought, sight and hearing. I Painful dulness of head, as after a carouse. ■Vertigo: mornings, in open air, with staggering like from drunkenness, must hold on to something ; passes off in room ; danger of falling on turning round quickly. I I Roaring in head. ^ Inner Head. ■Throbbing and beating in forehead from 1. side of head.

■ Dull feeling in head as from a board across forehead.

I I Pulsation in forehead and vertex, when awaking in

morning, with heat in face. iChronic periodic headache in forehead, piercing pain;

wheals or swellings on scalp.

■ Heaviness or pressure in various parts of head, with sen-

sation as if brain would force through forehead,

■ Occipital headache; much pain and soreness.

■ Headache: after a carouse; with sleepiness; tearing,

drawing and jerking pains; jerking, tearing, sticking, burning pains in anterior part of head ; semilateral and extending to cheeks, jaws, teeth and neck; induced by talking, moving, sitting up or lying on side not affected, with great excitability and nervous irritabilit3\ * Outer Head. ■Eruptions on forehead, as with drunkards.

■ Falling off of hair,

■ Sensibility of scalp to touch, and when hair is combed.

■ Scales in large, indurated masses fall off freely, ■Scald head.

'^ Sight and Eyes. ■Dimsighted: as if looking through gauze ; as if something was floating before eyes, obliging to wipe them constantly.

■ Staring, dull, lifeless and stupid look.

I I Itching and smarting sensation in eyes, on edges of lids; < rubbing. • II Suggilation on conjunctiva of r. eye. I I Burning and redness of conjunctiva.

■ Acute aggravations of chronic keratitis; hot, smarting

lachrymation.

■ Blenorrhoea of conjunctiva, with moderately profuse

discharge and much smarting in eyes.

■ Heat in eyes, with ulceration.

■ Burning heat in eyes, with tears, < by bright light,

I I Hot, acrid, smarting tears, like salt water ; < in a bright

light, on rubbing eyes and early morning. 1 I Slight inflammation of Meibomian glands.

■ Eyes sunken, with blue rings around, or protruding.

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1 1 Chronic swelling of eyelids and their margins ; agglu- tination of lids.

I I Uncontrollable twitching of lids. ^ Hearing and Ears. > Hardness of hearing with buzzing.

iRoaring in head ; also humming and difficulty of hear- ing before and during menses.

■ Girl, set. 9, syphilitic deafness; teeth wedge shaped; old

looking ; had snuffles when a baby ; attacks of vomiting.

■ Stitches in ears; otitis.

I Heat, burning, swelling and redness of 1. outer ear, pro- ceeding from a pimple in concha, stiffness and pain in 1. side of neck, shoulder and arm.

I I Itching in ears.

I Humid tetter on ears, with swelling of cervical glands and livid grey complexion.

I I Affections of external ear. ''Smell and Nose, i i Subjective putrid smell with loss of appetite ; in morning, on awaking.

iNosebleed: with heaviness and throbbing in forehead, sleepiness ; thin, bright red blood.

■ Frequent sneezing; especially in morning; with stoppage

of nose ; rough and scraping sensation in throat ; with

dry, nasal catarrh. Nasal secretion thick. I I Catarrh fluent or dry, with much sneezing.

■ Chronic catarrh with old people.

■ Epithelial cancer on right ala nasi,

■ ■Lupus on nose; 1. side.

® Upper Face. iSick, suffering expression ; old looking children.

■ Complexion: wretched; earthy; livid; pale, green, with

swelling of cervical glands ; pale, bloated ; coppery ap- pearance.

■ Burning pains; < from talking or exertion, > lying on

affected side ; nervous, excitable.

■ Face cold, of pale, bluish tinge, especially on temples and

around nose and mouth.

■ Flushes of heat, with circumscribed redness of cheeks.

■ Face hot, cheeks red, feet cold.

■ Great heat and brown redness of face (during siesta), with

throbbing in cheeks and forehead, and frequent mictu- rition. • I I Scaly herpes on eyelids, cheeks and around mouth.

■ Acne in face.

^ Lower Face. ■ Dry lips, peeling off, easily cracked.

■ Wants to moisten lips frequently, without being thirsty, I I Tumor, size of a pea, on lower lip, with acrid, watery

ichor, making surrounding parts sore. vol.. VI.— 32.

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I I Eruption on under lip.

I I Pustulous pimples, with yellow scabs on chin and cheek. ^*^ Teeth, and Gums. liBad odor from decayed teeth.

II Toothache: extending to temples and to 1. side of face;

drawing, extending to inner ear and temples ; caused

by caries. I I Teeth wedge shaped. ^Syphilitic deafness.

I I Great restlessness, wants to be in motion all the time,

and screams whole night. ^Dentition. IB Teeth show dark specks and begin to decay as soon as they appear.

I I Gums : bluish red, soft, spongy, easily bleeding, inflamed, ulcerated, scorbutic.

i Protruding gums infiltrated with dark watery fluid.

■ After extraction of tooth, persistent oozing of dark, slightly coagulated blood, finally checked by application of alum ; hemorrhage reappeared at shorter or longer intervals, at first only from teeth, later entirely from nose, continuing one year, and causing great debility.

I Absorption of gums and alveolar process. " Taste and Tongue. ' i Bitter or flat taste.

• Bitter taste, especially in throat

I I Everything eaten tastes bitter ; bitter taste of food, not perceived until just as it is being swallowed.

I Tongue dry; with mucous coating; coated white. ^" Inner Mouth, n Putrid odor from mouth. ^^ Throat. ' i Pressure on r. side of throat when swallowing.

iScraping in throat, with roughness and dryness.

I I Small, round, bluish red spots (petechise) on throat.

I Diphtheria; malignant form, when confined to fauces, with terrible fetor oris.

I Fever, vomiting, loss of appetite, restless sleep, general languor, swelling of glands; three days later, suddenly, very much exudate in fauces ; fetor oris. ^Diphtheria.

• Scrofulous and lymphatic patients, with black softening

and decomposition of mucous membrane, with atony and extension of softening, especially towards oesopha- gus. ^Diphtheria. " Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions, i Greedy drinking followed by vomiting ; great thirst.

• Keen appetite, especially for meat; craves smoked meats. I i Loss of appetite, aversion to meat, vomits after it.

I Desire for spirituous drinks, weakening leucorrhoea. I I Stomach aches, from acid food. ^^ Eating and Drinking, n Water, after it is swallowed, tastes bitter. Worse from eating cold food ; > from warm diet. Dares not remain fasting.

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'^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i Belching

and hiccough, especially when sitting up or being carried.

iBelching: sour; empty; after dinner, with throwing off

of frothy saliva, and with scraping roughness in throat.

■ Deep and lasting disgust for food in convalescents.

1 Nausea : during pregnancy ; constant inclination to vomit without doing so; with chilliness morning and evening.

II Vomiting: of sweetish water; of undigested food; in evening of all food eaten during day; of undigested food two or three hours after eating ; with dimness of vision; of everything eaten; of large quantities of sour, acrid fluid, or of white, foamy mucus.

I I Continuous vomiting and straining to vomit.

■Sympathetic vomiting, as of phthisis, of cancer of liver or uterus, of pregnancy, and of chronic kidney disease.

■Seasickness. '^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. ■Cold feeling at epigastrium internally, as if cold water or ice was there.

■ Feeling of fulness, as after having eaten too much.

■ Tension over stomach and scrobiculum; tight clothing

is intolerable.

■ I Painful hard spot, at or to left of stomach. ■Malignant induration, fungus and ulcers of stomach;

painless gastromalacia ; pressing, gnawing, ulcerative pain in stomach, with hsematemesis.

■ Gastromalacia, preceded by great restlessness and sleep-

lessness, and accompanied by vomiting and diarrhoea. ■Sudden vomiting of all food, soon followed by lienteric stools; slimy coating on tongue; rapid and extreme emaciation; constant whining; sleeplessness. ^Gastro- malacia.

■ For several weeks diarrhoea, finally smelling cadaverous;

vomiting; extreme blueness of face, as from nervous congestion. ^Gastromalacia.

■ Rapid emaciation in children, vomiting, intense thirst,

bloating in region of stomach, greyish white or chopped offensive stools. ^Gastromalacia.

■ Very frequent and sudden vomiting of food; frequent

hiccough, belching, especially when raised up ; remark- ably rapid emaciation of whole body, but particularly - of neck and face ; bluish pale appearance of face, espe- cially about temples, nose and mouth; dull, staring, vacant look, eyes sunken, surrounded by blue rings; coldness of face and hands ; drowsiness, with half open eyes; feeble whining; quick, scarcely perceptible pulse; red, slightly elevated eruption on 1. forearm. ^Gastro- malacia. ^^ Hypochondria. ■Stitches in region of liver. ^Pregnancy.

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iBruised pain in region of liver, with sensation of fulness. I I Constriction of hypochondria, cannot tolerate tight

clothing. I I Pressure in region of spleen ; spleen painful to pressure. ^^ Abdomen, l ' Ulcerative pain in abdomen. I I Pain in region of umbilicus. I I Sensation of contraction in abdomen, as if a hard twisted

ball was lying in umbilical region.

■ Distension of abdomen, as after a copious meal. I Abdomen distended and tense, like a drum.

■ Burning in bowels.

I Laborlike payis in abdomen, with drawing in upper abdomen, extending to small of back and pressing toward lumbar vertebrae, with flushes of heat in face, palpitation of heart, frequent pulse and ineffectual urg- ing to urinate, finally small quantities of hot urine are passed ; after paroxysm chill, and discharge of milky leucorrhoea.

I I Sore pain in abdomen during deep inhalation.

1 I Shattering sensation in abdomen.

■ Painful sensation of coldness in abdomen; icy coldness

in epigastrium. ^Dyspepsia. ■Violent abdominal spasms, < in groins.

■ Colic, resembling pains of labor.

■ Tabes mesenterica, with hypertrophied glands in fleshy,

flabby subjects. ^ Stool and Rectum. Stools: watery ; papescent; dark brown ; watery, putrid, containing undigested food ; greyish or white, chopped, very fetid; frequent, greenish, watery; cadaverous smelling. 1 I Ineffectual painful urging to stool. 1 I Constipation, stool hard, expelled after much pressing.

■ Cramplike pain in rectum during stool.

■ Children struggle and scream during act of defecation,

and seem as if they would go into fits.

■ Diarrhcea in nursing infants during dentition.

■ Diarrhoea, with vomiting; continued vomiting, strain-

ing to vomit predominates; child resists tightening of anything around abdomen, which increases restlessness and pain; much thirst; gums hot; coldness of hands and feet.

■ Cholera infantum, second and third stages, with bloody,

shreddy, mucous evacuations, with or without oppres- siveness, gagging, dull, leaden countenance, somnolence; incipient hydrocephaloid.

■ Constant vomiting and greedy drinking; belching or

hiccoughing when carried. ^Cholera infantum.

■ Much blood, often in clots, in diarrhoeic, thin, fetid stools,

which are always followed by great prostration. ^Typhus.

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iStitches in rectum, extending towards 1. groin.

I Constriction of rectum in case of uterine cancer. ^^ Urinary Organs, n Frequent urgency to urinate, with co- pious, pale discharge; at night cannot get out of bed quick enougli.

B Diminished secretion, though drinking much.

i Urine : chestnut brown ; clouded; reddish, with red sedi- ment ; depositing white sediment ; colorless ; fetid ;

. alkaline.

I Wets bed at night, wakes with urging, but cannot retain urine, or dreams he is urinating in a decent manner.

I Urine flows during deep, first sleep, fjcom which child is roused with difficulty. ^Enuresis nocturna.

iChronic enuresis; patient thin, emaciated.

llSmarting and burning in pudenda during and after micturition.

1 Diabetes mellitus. ^ Male Sexual Organs. 1 1 Sexual desire too weak.

■ Burning in genitals, during coition, with swelling of

penis next day.

B Prepuce bluish black with hemorrhage and gangrene. ^Syphilis. ^ Female Sexual Organs, b After chill menses suppressed for six months; unable to lie on either side; dull pain in region of ovaries, could not bear strong pressure; morning urine colorless; brownish yellow, acrid leucor- rhoea; constipation. ^Chronic ovarian affection.

B During coition, burning in parts, followed next day by discharge of dark blood.

BHard lump on neck of uterus; ulcerative pain during coition.

i Ulcerative pain in cervix uteri.

BSevere pain in small of back and uterine region, extend- ing to thighs; deep in pelvis burning as of red hot coals; whimpering and whining; discharge of offensive blood in large clots; vagina swollen and burning hot, mucous membrane greatly puffed ; uterus high up, neck hard and swollen ; at orifice of uterus small, warty growths ; parts extremely irritable and painful to touch; exter- nally, fundus of uterus swollen, painful like a blood boil on slightest touch; pulse small and hard; great debil- ity; sleeplessness.

■ Painful pressure towards genitals ; stitches, from small of

back through pelvis to external genitals; constant burn- ing pain in small of back ; bland leucorrhcea finally acrid, watery, occasionally ichorous, bloody, with pun- gent, off'ensive smell ; severe pain during coition, with fear and trembling at thought of it; general aggrava-

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tion during menstruation; sick, suffering appearance; prostration from least exertion; > during rest; dwin- dling and falling away of mammae, with small, hard, painful lumps in them ; cervix scirrhous, hard and very painful to touch ; os open, almost everted, inner surface like cauliflower; pulse small, weak, 100 ; anxious, fearful.

I Putrid state of womb after childbirth.

I I Inveterate ulcers on neck of uterus.

lUterine affections of middle aged women; long lasting leucorrhoea, or frequently recurring uterine hemor- rhages, both accompanied by pressing sensations ; finally discharges become offensive, bloody and watery," acrid, ichorous or clotted ; burning, occasionally stitching in back and lower abdomen; on standing sen- sation as if a load was resting in pelvis ; coition pain- ful ; general aggravation during menstruation ; exami- nation painful ; vagina hot, mucous membrane puffed and follicles often hypertrophied ; at mouth of uterus w^arty or cauliflower excrescences.

I Cancer of uterus (much improved).

iMenses: too early, too profuse and too protracted; suc- ceeded by an acrid smelling, bloody ichor, with itching and biting in parts ; more or less pain during flow, but much < after it ; flow intermits, at times almost ceasing, then recommencing; in third month of pregnancy.

IMenses very profuse; blood clotted ; sometimes with ute- rine pain, and always a week too late, with severe head- ache before and during menses.

■ Menorrhagia, < lying, > getting up and walking about.

■ Before menses : hardness of hearing ; foamy eructation or

vomiting of mucus ; bloatedness ; griping about navel ; burning in back ; leucorrhoea ; excitement and restless- ness ; looks swollen as if pregnant. iBuzzing in head, before, during and after menses.

I I Severe headache before and during menses. iCatamenia with uterine pain.

■ During menses: hardness of hearing; rushing sound in

ears ; humming and pressing outwards in head ; stitches in side; cutting pain in abdomen; borborygmi; diar- rhcea; chills; sweat on chest and back.

■ Painful urging toward genitals.

■ Bearing down and weight in pelvis; as if something

w^as coming out of vagina ; < by motion. ■She thinks she is almost well when the discharge reap- pears. ^Menses. ^Metrorrhagia.

■ ■Her hemorrhage seems to pass into a corrosive, ichorous

discharge, and then to freshen up again and go on. After menses: laborlike abdominal cramps; uterus ten-

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der; constricting pain in vagina, followed by fluor albus; prolapsus.

I Metrorrhagia: blood dark and offensive; in large clots;

fainting; pulseless.

■ Metrorrhagia continuing four weeks ; fainting and pulse-

less; discharge dark and offensive.

■ Constant flow of thin, watery and offensive blood, <

lying; emaciation; debility. ^Menorrhagia. ULeucorrhoea: putrid, acrid, corrosive; stains clothing yellow, stiffens like starch ; mild or acrid, causing much itching; milky, after coccyodynia; < between menses ; or for a few days before menses; with great weakness ; < standing or walking, not sitting ; flowing like menses.

I I Discharge from vagina frequently looks quite white, and then had odor of green corn.

■ Bland, yellow leucorrhoea, preceding each urination, with

frequent desire to micturate.

■ Drawing pains along coccyx down to rectum and vagina,

where a spasmodic, contractive pain is felt; > when rising from sitting ; subsequent milky leucorrhoea. ■Sterile from leucorrhoea.

■ Electric-like stitches in vagina, seem to come from abdo-

men, always make her start.

■ Voluptuous itching deep in vagina.

■ ■Violent itching of vagina, so that she is obliged to rub

it; posteriorly there is smarting; external genitals swollen, hot and hard ; on urinating, vagina pains as if sore ; in evening.

■ ■Corrosive itching in vulva; sore and burning after

scratching.

■ iScirrhus of vagina, painful to slight touch,

■ Burning and swelling of labia.

■ Violent itching between labia and thighs.

■ Aphthous or inflammatory state of external parts, symp-

tomatic of ovarian or uterine disease. ^* Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation. ■■During preg- nanc}'^: nausea and vomiting; ptyalism ; vomiting of sweetish water before breakfast; vomiting after supper; metrorrhagigi threatening abortion (third month) ; leu- corrhoea; tightness across pit of stomach.

■ ■Lochia: blackish, lumpy, very offensive; excoriating;

almost ceasing, freshen up again ; persistent, brown and offensive.

■ Chill, then general heat, finally sweat; pulse soft and

quick ; trembling, anxiety, confusion of mind, weakness of memory, thinks herself well ; lochia dark, lumpy and very offensive; vagina moist, not very hot; abdomen soft and sensitive ; constipation. ^Puerperal fever.

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iMammse: stitches; dwindling away; small, hard, pain- ful lumps in them ; hard, bluish red and covered with little scurfy protuberances, from which blood oozes whenever scurf is removed. ^'^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia, i Scrap- ing and roughness in throat; hoarseness, ceasing in morning, after sneezing.

■Perichondritis of larynx, septic form, with softening and degeneration affecting mucous membrane of larynx, and particularly that of oesophagus.

■ Heavy pressure on sternum. ^Bronchitis.

■ Bronchial irritation accompanying dentition; child ex-

tremely fretful, irritable, much agitated, and screaming in night.

■ Chronic bronchial and laryngeal catarrh, with hoarseness;

hawking mucus from trachea and bronchi, sometimes bloody, especially that from trachea; heavy pressure on sternum when turning over in bed in morning ; < on approach of warm weather ; no cough.

^^ Respiration. ■Shortness of breath, heaviness, anxiety, fre- quent desire to take a deep breath ; chest feels bruised, as if beaten ; as if sternum was being crushed in. ^Nervous asthma.

^ Cough. Cough: whistling; dry; tormenting; evening, in bed ; caused by crawling below larynx, or, as if in upper bronchi; with dyspnoea; convulsive, with desire to vomit; dry, spasmodic, in morning, causing retching; concussion of abdomen and escape of urine; with easily detached white expectoration; scraping, with profuse, thick, yellow, or white mucous expectoration ; dry, wheezing, hollow; during dentition; with pain inchest and sternum, compelling to press hand on it ; stitches and soreness in chest. I Aggravation of cough: morning and evening; while exhaling; from motion; from music; when awaking, when lying on side or turning in bed. ■During cough : scratching in throat; stitches and bruised pain in chest; asthma; jarring of abdomen; retching; discharge of urine ; chills and heat; sleepiness.

■ After coughing spell, copious, purulent expectoration.

■ Periodical blood spitting, greenish yellow, puslike sputa.

■ Expectoration: white; thick yellow; black coagulated

■ Συχνή αιμόπτυση, έντονοι πόνοι στο θώρακα, απογευματινός

πυρετός και πρωινή εφίδρωση.

■ Κουραστικός βήχας σε ηλικιωμένα άτομα, άφθονα πτύελα.

■ Βίαιος χειμερινός βήχας ηλικιωμένων, με σπασμωδικές κρίσεις

τη νύχτα και πολύ άφθονα ανοιχτόχρωμα βλεννώδη πτύελα· πόνος ή πίεση αναφερόμενη στο στέρνο.

505 KREOSOTUM.

I Λοιμός βήχας.

I Βήχας επί αρκετές εβδομάδες· έμετος σκληρού, λευκού φλέγματος με τον βήχα, ενίοτε κιτρινωπού χρώματος· βήχας < το βράδυ και το πρωί· μετά από κατάκλιση και από κόπωση· έρπηση κάτω από τον λάρυγγα, που προκαλεί βήχα· ιδρώνει μετά τον βήχα και αισθάνεται αδύναμος· το στομάχι φουσκώνει το βράδυ, πρέπει να λύνει τα ρούχα του· ενίοτε φτερνίζεται όταν βήχει. ^^ Εσωτερικός θώρακας και πνεύμονες, φοβερό κάψιμο στο θώρακα· στένωμα.

■ Σουβλιές: στον αριστ. θώρακα, ακριβώς πάνω από την καρδιά· κατά πλάτος του θώρακα, το πρωί μέχρι μεσημβρίας· πρώτα στον αριστ. μετά στον δεξ. θώρακα· στον δεξ. θώρακα, διακόπτοντας την αναπνοή· κάτω από την ωμοπλάτη. I Οξείες σουβλιές στο μέσο του θώρακα, < κατά την εισπνοή, συνοδευόμενες από αίσθημα αδυναμίας και εκτεινόμενες μέχρι την άρθρωση του αγκώνα κατά μήκος του δεξ. ώμου, όπου οι πόνοι είναι πιο βίαιοι με την ανύψωση των χεριών· χρόνια λευκόρροια.

■ Πόνοι στο θώρακα, > από πίεση.

■ Αγχώδες αίσθημα βάρους και πίεσης στο θώρακα.

■ Αναπνοή ταχεία και εργώδης, φούσκωμα των παρειών και βίαιη κίνηση των ρινών. ^Πνευμονία. • Περιοδικές κρίσεις αιμόπτυσης, με πυρετό και απόχρεμψη πρασινοκίτρινου πύου· πόνοι στο θώρακα· μπορεί να ξαπλώσει μόνο στο ένα πλάι. ^Φθίση.

■ Αιφνιδίως προσβάλλεται από βήχα και απόχρεμψη αίματος· κείται στο κρεβάτι, πολύ κατεστραμμένος· φοβάται να ανοίξει το στόμα του· βαρύτητα και πίεση στο θώρακα· δυσκοιλιότητα· τη νύχτα βήχησε πολύ μαύρο αίμα· όρεξη χαμένη· σφυγμός αδύναμος, κατασταλμένος, διακεκομμένος· πρόσωπο γκριζοκίτρινο.

■ Κρίσεις βήχα κάθε Φθινόπωρο και Άνοιξη, με απόχρεμψη κιτρινοπράσινου πύου και αίματος, πυρετό και αδυναμία να ξαπλώσει στο ένα πλάι. ^Φθίση.

■ Μετά από λοιμό βήχα, συνοδευόμενο από φλεγμονώδη νόσος πνευμόνων και λάρυγγα, φθίση πυώδης· με κάθε παροξυσμό βήχα, απόχρεμψη μεγάλης μάζας πύου, ακολουθούμενη από τόση μεγάλη εξάντληση που μόλις που μπορεί να μιλήσει· έντονες απογευματινές εξάρσεις· απώλεια όρεξης· κατεστραμμένος· πρέπει να μένει στο κρεβάτι. ^Φθίση.

■ Μετά από παραμελημένη πνευμονική καταρροή, βίαιος, επίμονος, σπασμωδικός βήχας, συχνά συνοδευόμενος από έμετο· απόχρεμψη άφθονη, βλεννώδης και πυώδης· πρέπει να κάθεται όρθιος σχεδόν όλη τη νύχτα· συνεχείς σουβλιές στον αριστ. θώρακα· πικρή γεύση στο στόμα· δυσοσμία στόματος· συχνή πρασινωπή, υδαρής διάρροια· πυρετός εκλυτικός, /^Φθίση.

■ Πρέπει να μένει στο κρεβάτι· πρόσωπο και σώμα πολύ κατεστραμμένα· βήχας με άφθονη και συχνή απόχρεμψη· συχνή αιμόπτυση· έντονοι πόνοι στο θώρακα· πυρετός το απόγευμα· ιδρώνει το πρωί· φθίση.

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lΚατεστραμμένος· έντονος εκλυτικός πυρετός· νυχτερινές ιδρώτες· δύσπνοια· ξηρός, ερεθιστικός βήχας· μεγάλη αδυναμία.

1 1 Γάγγραινα πνευμόνων. ^^ Καρδιά, σφυγμός και κυκλοφορία, i Αγχώδης αίσθημα στην καρδιά· πίεση της αναπνοής.

I I Σουβλιές: πάνω από την καρδιά· στην καρδιά.

■ Σφυγμός σε όλες τις αρτηρίες, σε ηρεμία.

■ Σπασμωδικό τράβηγμα από πίσω προς τα εμπρός, στα γεννητικά, ή κάτω στους μηρούς· σουβλιές. ^Καρκίνος μήτρας.

■ Τραβηγμένος πόνος κατά μήκος του κόκκυγα προς το ορθό και τον κόλπο, όπου αισθάνεται σπασμωδικός, συσπαστικός πόνος. I I Συνεχές κάψιμο στην οσφύ. ^' Άνω άκρα, lΠόνος στους ώμους σαν να ήταν γυμνοί όλη τη νύχτα.

■ Ωμοπλάτες σαν μωλωπισμένες.

■ Σουβλιές στο χέρι, από την άρθρωση του ώμου μέχρι τα δάχτυλα, που αισθάνονται σαν μουδιασμένα, χωρίς δύναμη ή αίσθηση. I I I Πόνος σαν μωλωπισμένος όταν αγγίζεται η εσωτερική πλευρά του άνω βραχίονα.

I I Πόνος στην άρθρωση του αγκώνα, σαν οι τένοντες να ήταν πολύ κοντοί.

Ελαφρά ανυψωμένα κόκκινα στίγματα στον αριστ. πήχη.

I 1 Πόνος στους ωλενιαίους μύες, εκτεινόμενος στο μικρό δάχτυλο· σπασμωδικός στον αριστ. βραχίονα· τραβηγμένος, με αδυναμία στον δεξιό.

I I Τα δάχτυλα γίνονται λευκά και αναίσθητα, ιδίως το πρωί μετά την έγερση.

■ ■Αριστερός αντίχειρας πονάει σαν θλασμένος και σκληρός. I I Ραγάδες στο δέρμα των χεριών.

^^ Κάτω άκρα. I ' Μωλωπισμένος πόνος στην ακρολοφία του λαγονίου, σαν από βαρύ φορτίο, ή μετά από τρέξιμο· σουβλιές από εκείνη μέσα από την κοιλιά· πόνος εκεί και στις οσφυϊκές σπονδύλους, το πρωί, σαν κουρασμένος.

■ Πόνος στην αριστ. άρθρωση του ισχίου, σαν εξαρθρωμένη· σαν το πόδι να ήταν πολύ μακρύ όταν στέκεται.

■ Διατρητικός πόνος στο δεξ. ισχίο, εναλλασσόμενος με μούδιασμα και απώλεια αισθήσης όλου του μηρού. ^Ρευματική ποδάγρα. I I Μυρμήγκιασμα ή βουητό στα κάτω άκρα.

■ Πόνος σε όλο το πόδι, σαν από έλκος.

I I Αίσθημα σαν η άρθρωση του γόνατος να υποχωρεί αιφνιδίως.

I I Εναλλακτικό οίδημα των αρθρώσεων των γονάτων και των καρπών, με αισθημα μουντζούρας και ακαμψίας των άκρων.

507 KREOSOTUM.

I 1 Οίδημα και ακαμψία των ποδιών· λευκό, ψυχρό οίδημα. I I Σουβλιές στον δεξ. αστράγαλο και αριστ. πτέρνα.

I I Κόκκινο, λεπιοειδές δέρμα στις καμπές των γονάτων, σαν έρπης.

and hiccough. Standing: sensation as if a load was resting on pelvis;

repose than during motion. Spasms during dentition ; swelling over a tooth not quite through.

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I Child moans constantly, or dozes with half open eyes, or

in a snow storm ; of being poisoned ; of bright fire ; of

very dirty (clothes) wash; that he is urinating, and

awakes to find the dream a reality.

■ Very difficult to waken child out of sleep. ^Enuresis.

■ Generally better after sleep.

^® Time. Morning: vertigo; pulsation of forehead and ver- tex ; hot, acrid tears ; loss of appetite ; frequent sneezing; chilliness after sneezing ; hoarseness > ; turning over in bed pressure on sternum ; dry, spasmodic cough ; cough <; sweat; stitches across chest; fingers white and insensible; pain in lumbar vertebrae; faintness; sweat.

Afternoon : fever.

Evening : chilliness ; vomiting ; vagina as if sore ; cough < ; stomach swells ; exacerbations ; itching drives him almost wild ; herpes on palms of hands, in ears, elbows, knuckles and malleoli <.

Before midnight : sleeplessness <.

Night: screaming; cannot get out of bed quick enough to urinate; wets bed; spasmodic cough; coughed up much black blood ; sweats ; pain in back ; tosses about. ^^Temperature and Weather. Warmth: herpes >.

On approach of warm weather : heavy pressure on sternum.

Open air: vertigo; herpes <. *" Fever, i i Transient chill without thirst.

i I Chill, predominating when at rest.

I I Shaking chill, with severe flushes of heat in face, red face and icy cold feet ; after the chill, thirst.

I I Chill : great bodily restlessness ; alternating with heat.

■ Coldness of face and hands. I Heat mostly in face.

■ Flushes of heat, with circumscribed redness of face.

I I Sweat scant and only during morning, with heat and redness of cheeks.

■ Putrid fever.

^^^ KREOSOTUM.

For several weeks: diarrhoea.

Before aiicr during menses: humming and difficulty of

For one year: hemorrhage from teeth and nose. ^^y ^^*®^' coition : swelling of penis ; discharge of blood Locality and Direction. Right: suggilation on conjunc- tiva of eye ; pressure on side of throat; stitches in chest ; lameness in elbow joint and shoulder; drawing and lameness in arm; boring pain in hip ; stitches in ankle Left: throbbing and beating in side of head; heat burning, swelling and redness of outer ear; stiffness of neck; lupus on nose; toothache extending to side of face ; slightly elevated eruption on forearm ; stitches in groin; stitches in chest; red blotches on forearm- cramplike pain in arm ; pain in hip joint ; stitches in heel.

First 1. then r. : stitches in chest; pain in wrists. From behind forwards : drawing into genitals. Stitching downward ; pressing inward. *^ Sensations. As if a board was across forehead ; as if brain would force through forehead; as if looking through gauze; as if something was floating before eyes; as if cold water or ice was in epigastrium; as if a hard twisted ball was lying in umbilical region ; as if chil- dren would go into fits during defecation ; burning as of red hot coals deep in pelvis; as if a load was resting on pelvis; as if something was coming out of vagina; va- gina as if sore ; chest as if beaten ; as if sternum' was being crushed in ; as if small of back would break ; as if shoulders had been uncovered all night; scapulse as if bruised ; fingers as if asleep ; inner side of upper arm as if bruised ; as if tendons of elbow joint were too short; 1. thumb as if sprained; as of a heavy burden on crest of ilmm ; lumbar vertebrae as if tired ; hip joint as if luxated; as if leg was too long when standing; pain m leg as if from an ulcer; as if knee joint would sud- denly give way; limbs as if beaten, or as if after a long walk; weariness as if from too long a foot journey; sei> sation in skin as from ulceration.

Pain: in occiput; in 1. side of neck, shoulder and arm; in teeth extending to temples and 1. side of face; in region of umbilicus; in uterus; in vagina; in chest and sternum ; in small of back and sacral region; in shoul- ders; in arm; in elbow joint ; in ulnar muscles; in 1. thumb; in abdomen and lumbar vertebras; in 1. hip joint; in whole leg; in all limbs.

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Violent pain : elbow joint across r. shoulder.

Severe pain : in head ; in small of back and uterine re- gion, extending to thighs; during coition; in chest.

Violent spasms: in groins.

Cutting : in abdomen.

Tearing, drawing, jerking pains: in head.

Piercing: in head.

Stitches: in ear; in region of liver; in rectum; from small of back through pelvis to external genitals; in side; in chest; just over heart; across chest; in r. chest; under scapula; in middle of chest; in heart; from back into genitals ; in arm from shoulder joint through to fingers ; from crest of ilium through abdo- men ; in r. ankle and 1. heel ; in joints.

Electric-like stitches: in vagina.

Stitching : in back and lower abdomen ; in chin and cheeks.

Ulcerative pain : in abdomen; during coition, in cervix uteri ; in soles.

Pressing, gnawing, ulcerative pain : in stomach.

Drawing: in teeth, extending to temples and inner ear; in upper abdomen ; along coccyx down to rectum and vagina ; from behind forward into genitals or down into thighs ; in r. arm.

Griping : about navel.

Cramplike pain: in rectum ; in 1. arm.

Laborlike pains: in abdomen.

Contractive pain : in vagina.

Colic: in abdomen.

Throbbing and beating : in forehead ; in cheeks.

Burning pain : in r. hip.

Bruised pain: in region of liver; on crest of ilium.

Shattering sensation : in abdomen.

Rheumatic pains : in joints.

Pulsation : in forehead and vertex.

Burning pains: in face; in small of back.

Sore pain : in abdomen.

Burning: of conjunctiva; of outer ear; in bowels; in pudenda ; in genitals ; in female sexual organs ; in back and lower abdomen ; of vagina ; of labia ; in chest ; in small of back.

Soreness: in head; in chest.

Smarting : in eyes; in pudenda ; in vagina.

Biting : of female organs.

Heat : in face ; in eyes.

Constriction: hypochondria; rectum; vagina; chest.

Painful dulness : of head.

Dull pain : in region of ovaries.

Painful pressure : towards genitals.

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Painful hard spot: at 1. of stomach ; in mammse.

Scratching: in throat.

Rough and scraping sensation : in throat.

Dull feeling: in head.

Fulness : in stomach ; in region of liver.

Tightness: across pit of stomach.

Contraction: in abdomen.

Bearing down and weight : in pelvis.

Pressure : on sternum ; in region of spleen.

Anxious heaviness and oppression : in chest ; at heart.

Heaviness or pressure: in various parts of head; of fore- head; on r. side of throat.

Stiffness : of 1. side of neck, shoulder and arm ; in limbs.

Stupid feeling: in head.

Numbness: of thigh.

Roaring: in head.

Buzzing : in head.

Tingling and buzzing: in lower limbs.

Crawling: below larynx.

Burning itching : in soles.

Voluptuous itching: deep in vagina.

Itching : in eyes ; in ears ; of female organs ; from leucor- rhoea; in vagina; between labia and thighs.

Painful sensation of coldness : in abdomen. ^ Tissues. I Hemorrhages; small wounds bleed much.

■ Profuse, passive hemorrhages, epistaxis, hsemoptysis and

hsematuria. I Typhoid hemorrhages, with fetid stools, followed by great

prostration. I Fetid evacuations and excoriation of mucous surfaces

generally ; skin wrinkled ; restless and sleepless nights.

■ Profuse and offensive secretions of mucous membranes

and ulcerations of same, with greatly depressed vitality.

■ Rheumatic pains in joints, also stitches, most of hip and

knee ; numbness of whole limb as if asleep.

■ Rapid emaciation.

■ Scrofulous and psoric affections.

■ Spongy, burning ulcers; pus acrid, ichorous, fetid, yellow.

■ Gangrenous, cancerous and putrefying ulcers.

■ Epithelioma; carcinoma ventriculi or uteri.

■ Carbuncle.

■ Tendency to decomposition; great irritability, < at rest.

ful like a blood boil ; cervix scirrhus very painful ; on inner side of upper arm, pain. Pressure: region of spleen sensitive, in region of ovaries unbearable; of hand > pain in chest and sternum.

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Rubbing : smarting in e3'es < ; hot, acrid tears. Tight clothing is intolerable : constriction of hypochondria. *® Skin. ■ I Itching ; toward evening so violent as to drive one almost wild.

■ Wheals like urticaria.

I I Sensation in skin as from ulceration, especially on face

and chin. I I Eruption of nodosities and blisters like bug bites.

■ Eruption dry as well as moist, in almost all parts of body,

especially on backs of hands and feet, in palms, in ears, in popliteal region, and on knuckles of hands, with much itching. I Large, greasy looking, pockshaped pustules, over whole body; skin tense, shining, deep red; greasy moisture.

■ Painless, pustular eruption all over body, especially on

chin and cheeks; sticking. pain.

■ Watery or sero-purulent herpes, on back of hands and

fingers and joints, itching violently towards evening.

■ Herpes in palms of hands, in ears, elbows, knuckles and

malleoli, < evenings and in open air, > from warmth.

■ Old ulcers, painful, putrid.

■ Skin remarkably pale.

^^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Dark complexion, slight, lean.

Complexion livid, disposition sad, irritable.

Often indicated for old women.

Torpid, leuco-phlegmatic temperament.

Old looking children, hard to awaken.

Child, 8et. 6 weeks, bottle-fed; gastromalacia.

Girl, fet. 3 months ; gastromalacia.

Boy, set. 6 months, bottle-fed; gastromalacia.

Boy, eet. 2J, weak, delicate, irritable and wilful ; suffering nine months; diarrhoea.

Girl, set. 5, blonde, delicate ; enuresis.

Child ; daily attacks of vomiting.

Girl, £et. 8, two sisters sick with violent diphtheritis ; diph- theria.

Girl, set. 9, had snuffles when a baby, teeth wedge shaped, very old looking, syphilitic dyscrasia; deafness.

Boy, set. 10, strong; hemorrhage after extraction of tooth.

Girl, set. 13, tall for her age, fair, blonde, delicate; men- strual ailment.

Boy, set. 18, dark complexioned, slight and lean, stature ill developed, suffering since childhood; enuresis.

Girl, set. 18, suffering 3 months; consumption.

Man, set. 18, weak, poor circumstances, suffering since childhood ; incontinence of urine.

Girl, set. 20; consumption.

Woman, set. 25, brunette, with bright red complexion and not very mild disposition ; chronic ovarian affection.

513 KREOSOTUM.

Woman, set. 26, full blooded, after two abortions, a birth,

then two more abortions ; affection of uterus. Young woman, after difficult labor, two years ago ; attacks

metritis. Man, set. 30, tall, good constitution, cheerful disposition;

frequently followed well by Bellad., Calc. ostr., Kali carb.,

Lycop., Nitr. ax:., Rhus tox., Sepia. Incompatible: Carbo veg.

Ant. tart., Carbo an., Graphit., Hepar, lodum,

Ipec, Laches., Mercur., Petrol., Phosphor.

VOL. VI. — 33.

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