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. ARGENTUM NITRICUM. 470 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. ^'^^ ARGENTUM NITRICUM. ■ 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. ARGENTUM NITRICUM. 472 ^ 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 473 ARGENTUM NITRICUM. 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. ARGENTUM NITRICUM. 474 Headache mostly with chilliness, sometimes with increased