Calcarea Sulfurica
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General
Calcium sulphate, CaSO 4 . Preparation , Triturations.
Authority. Dr. Clarence Conant, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1873. 1 , proving with the 30th; 2 , proving with the 200th.
Mind
Emotional.
Good spirits, but inclined to solitude (twenty-first day), [2] .
Special good nature, late in afternoon (first day), [1] .
Excessive gayety of spirits, in the afternoon (twenty-seventh day), [1] .
Good spirits; best about 6 P.M.
(ninth and thirteenth day), [2] .
Hilarious good humor always after taking drug, with eructations and sour taste (second day), [1] .
Great depression of spirits (forty-eighth day), [1] .
Excessive, bitter melancholy, with distressing apprehensions of evil to loved ones (forty-ninth day), [1] .
Inclined to brooding, gloomy melancholy; easily aroused to take part in conversation, etc., but never cheerful (fourteenth day), [2] .
General low-spiritedness, especially in the afternoon and evening (twentieth day), [1] . [10.] Excessive grieved melancholy, in afternoon and evening (forty-seventh day), [2] .
Rather gloomy and moody in evening, and very weary (fiftieth day), [2] .
Excessive melancholy all day, but easily diverted (twelfth day), [2] .
Very low-spirited in early evening, then more cheerful, then "blue" again (fifty-sixth day), [2] .
Very irritable late in afternoon, less so in evening (twenty-fourth day), [2] .
Quarrelsome (fourth day), [2] .
Intellectual.
Good spirits, but a dazed state of mind in evening (twentieth day), [2] .
Suddenly, after lunch, lose all memory and power of thought, can scarcely remember what I was going to do; old issues, which have been long decided, are presented to mind, and I can't recall my decision (forty-seventh day), [2] .
Head
Spasmodic throbbing headache, mostly in right frontal region, in morning (twenty-third day), [2] .
Headache and inflammation of eyes (thirty-fourth day), [1] .
Forehead. [20.] Frontal headache (sixth day), [2] .
Frontal headache, in morning and evening (thirty-second day), [2] .
Frontal headache in the afternoon, worse on right side (third day), [2] . Worse after afternoon nap, having frontal headache and some influenza (fourth day), [2] .
Slight frontal headache (twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth days, etc.), [1] .
Slight frontal headache, passing to temporal region in evening (thirty-first day), [1] . Slight frontal headache, with some fever but no sweat (thirtieth day), [1] .
Severe frontal headache (ninth day), [2] .
Severe frontal headache, worse in the forenoon (thirty-fifth day), [1] .
Severe frontal headache in evening (twenty-fifth day), [2] . [30.] Severe frontal headache after dinner (thirteenth day), [2] .
Severe frontal headache, worse after dinner and in evening (fifty-fifth day), [2] .
Vertex.
Darting pain in vertex in the afternoon, after dinner (forty-third day), [1] .
Neuralgic pains in left side of head and forehead, an hour after tea; soon passed (tenth day), [1] .
External Head.
Hard, tender swellings on scalp, in edge of hair (thirty-second day), [1] .
Pimples appear on scalp (seventh day), [1] .
Pimples on scalp disappear and leave a yellow scab (eleventh day), [1] .
Eye.
Inflammation of eyes, most about 6 and less at 10 P.M.
(second day), [1] .
Inflammation of eyes at night (seventeenth and eighteenth day), [1] .
Slight inflammation of the eyes (thirty-second and thirty-fourth day), [1] . [40.]
Slight inflammation of the eyes, in the forenoon (fifth day), [1] .
Considerable inflammation of the eyes (thirty-fifth day), [2] .
Severe inflammation of the eyes, worse in the corners of the eyes and in evening (forty-eighth day), [1] .
Eyes smart in afternoon and in evening (thirty-eighth day), [2] .
Eyelids smart, especially in inner corners, and in morning (forty-sixth day), [2] .
Conjunctivae of eyes yellow (eighteenth day), [2] .
Pressing pain in left eyeball (second day), [1] .
Cutting pain in left eyeball, with some soreness; in the evening (third day), [1] .
Vision.
Sees only half an object late in evening (forty-ninth day), [2] .
Ear.
Takes dark-brown wax from right ear in morning (ninth and fourteenth day), [2] . [50.] Wipes blood from concha of left ear, in morning after usual bath (twenty-fourth and twenty-eighth day), [1] .
Earache in the left ear in the morning, relieved by taking a lump of dark-brown wax from ear (forty-fourth day), [1] .
Nose
Pinched appearance about the nose in the morning (second day), [2] . Tendency to influenza and sneezing, disappearing in the open air (first day), [1] .
Slight influenza, usually in the morning, [1] .
Slight influenza in the evening (third day), [2] .
Very little expectoration but considerable influenza, disappearing in open air, and worse in the right nostril (twenty-eighth day), [2] .
Considerable coryza, especially in evening (forty-ninth and fiftieth day), [2] . Watery coryza from anterior nares; posterior nares closed tight (twenty-third day), [2] .
Watery coryza in open air, slightly excoriating (forty-second day), [2] . [60.]
Excoriating coryza in open air, soon disappearing in the house and after washing face in cold water (forty-sixth and forty-seventh day), [2] .
Dry coryza, left nostril, in the forenoon; right nostril discharges white watery mucus in small quantities; at night this reversed, left nostril discharges, and right nostril is dry (twenty-eighth day), [1] .
Always blow yellowish or greenish mucus from nose in morning after bath (forty-sixth day), [2] .
Blow streaked mucus from nose in morning after bath (fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh days), [2] .
Very little blood-streaked mucus from left nostril after bath (thirty-ninth and fortieth day), [2] .
Right nostril stopped (mostly posteriorly), day and evening (twenty-second day), [2] .
Right and left nostrils alternately open and stopped with transparent watery sticky mucus, (twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirsty-first, and thirty-second days), [1] .
Edges of nostrils slightly sore, as if excoriated (fifty-seventh day), [2] .
Face
Faceache all night on right side (forty-seventh day), [2] .
Vague pains in right side of face and right upper back decayed molar, which is somewhat tender (thirty-fifth day), [2] . [70.] Neuralgic pains in right upper jaw, proceeding from a decayed molar tooth; inside of gum swollen and sore; great aggravation by gently stroking the gum (eleventh day), [1] .
Darting, neuralgic pains in right side of face (sixteenth day), [2] .
Tooth seems to cause neuralgic faceache in both jaws of right side, mostly in evening (forty-ninth days), [2] .
Mouth
Teeth and Gums.
Toothache just after dark (fifty-fifth day), [2] .
Tooth aches at night in sleep (fifty-third day), [2] .
Toothache immediately aggravated by cold water, but at last relieved by it (fifty-second day), [2] .
Right upper back teeth decayed.
Molar very sensitive to cold air, water, etc., and tender (seventeenth and twenty-fourth day), [2] .
Gums bleed easily while brushing them (fifty-fifth day), [2] .
Tongue.
Tongue yellow-coated at base (twenty-second day), [1] .
Tongue seamed with a deep red line in its centre, antero-posteriorly (twenty-seventh day), [1] . [80.] Slightly puckered sensation at base of tongue (third day), [1] .
General Mouth.
Soreness of left side of roof of mouth at dinner, as if burned; better at tea (sixth day), [2] .
Taste
Slightly soapy taste in mouth (second day), [1] .
Sour, bitter taste (third day), [1] .
Sour, acid taste always after taking drug (third day), [1] .
Throat
Throat red and sore internally (twenty-second day), [1] . Throat longitudinally inflamed in strips, like ulceration (twenty-seventh day), [1] .
Profuse expectoration of yellowish mucus from throat and right posterior nares (twenty-seventh day); scanty (twenty-eighth day), [1] .
Expectoration from posterior nares (fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth days), [2] . Pharynx very red and sore (twentieth day), [2] .
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. [90.] Ravenous appetite (twenty-ninth, thirtieth, and thirty-first days), [1] .
Ravenous appetite (second day), [2] . Excessive appetite and thirst, and soreness of mouth externally (second day), [1] .
Hunger decreases; marked desire for green, acid fruits and vegetables (fifth day), [1] .
Hunger less, but marked desire for fruit as before (sixth day), [1] . No appetite for meat (twenty-third day), [1] .
Marked thirst in the forenoon (twentieth day), [1] . Great desire for tea and claret, the latter unusual at night (first day), [1] .
Eructations.
Bitter eructations in the morning after bath (fiftieth day), [1] .
Sour, bitter eructations at night (twelfth day), [1] .
Nausea. [100.] Slight nausea (second and third days), [1] .
Slight nausea in the evening after taking the drug (second day), [2] .
Increased nausea and slight colic about noon (second day), [1] .
Increased nausea, as from tobacco, and painful consciousness of oesophagus from mouth to stomach (second day), [1] .
Stomach
Indigestion during breakfast relieved by hot cocoa (thirty-third day), [1] .
Indigestion after breakfast (seventeenth and thirty-first days), [1] .
Indigestion twenty minutes after breakfast (tenth day), [1] .
Indigestion in morning after breakfast, followed by pressure on bowels, as if to diarrhoeic stool (thirty-fifth day), [2] .
Indigestion after breakfast and forty minutes ride in city cars, followed by diarrhoeic stool, with great tenesmus and pain in abdomen, leaving a hot feeling of anus and bowels (twenty-first day), [3] .
Indigestion after dinner and breakfast (thirty-fourth day), [1] . [110.] Indigestion an hour after tea (tenth day), [1] .
Slight indigestion after dinner, at 2.30 P.M.
(sixteenth day), [1] .
Severe indigestion after breakfast (thirty-second and thirty-eighth days), [1] .
Severe indigestion after breakfast (ninth and twelfth days), [1] .
Severe indigestion soon after breakfast (fourteenth day), [1] .
Sensation of weight in stomach and chest in the morning, relieved by dinner (forty-seventh day), [1] .
Pain and soreness at stomach (third day), [1] .
Dull vague pains and external soreness in stomach at night, about 10 P.M. (twenty-ninth day), [1] .
Wandering pains in stomach and abdomen (second day), [1] .
Vague cramps in the stomach in the afternoon (second day), [2] . [120.] Colic in epigastrium in afternoon (twenty-fourth day), [2] .
Severe colic in stomach in evening, relieved ( pro tem .) by drinking cold water, with a sensation of constriction in stomach, followed by stool, with some colic; after stool much flatulence and eructations (forty-ninth day), [2] .
Colic in stomach after breakfast (second day), [1] .
Stomach externally sore (thirty-second day), [1] .
Hypochondria
Pain in the left hypochondrium in afternoon, followed by dull pain or cramp in stomach (eighth day), [2] .
Cramps in hypochondria from about 10 A.M., all day, disappearing late in the evening (second day), [2] .
Cramps in hypochondria late in evening (thirteenth and fourteenth days), [2] .
Cramps or colic in hypochondria, at night after retiring (fourth day), [2] .
Cramps in hypochondria, with great restlessness after retiring at night (fourth and fifth days), [2] .
General Abdomen.
Considerable putrid-smelling flatus (fourth day), [2] . [130.] A single burst of putrid flatus in the afternoon, an hour after dinner (nineteenth day), [1] .
Flatulence in afternoon (twelfth day), [1] .
Flatulence two and a half hours after tea (tenth day), [1] .
Flatulence and eructations after bath (forty-seventh day), [1] .
Severe attack of incarcerated flatus after dinner, distending abdomen, and causing colic; somewhat relieved by walking and singing; distension and consequent discomfort continued during afternoon and evening (thirty-eighth day), [1] .
Cramps in abdomen and flatulence at night (twenty-first day), [2] .
Colic in the morning on rising (sixth day), [2] .
Colic in abdomen on rising (forty-seventh and forty-eighth days), [1] .
Colic in abdomen in morning after bath (ninth day), [2] .
Colic in abdomen and aching weakness in back while riding; soon passed; same later also in afternoon (seventh day), [2] . [140.] Colic after ice water; soon passed; very unusual (tenth day), [1] .
Sharp colic in abdomen on rising (twenty-fifth day), [1] .
Darting colic in abdomen, late at night before retiring (nineteenth and twentieth days), [1] .
Pressure on bowels, as if to stool (second day), [1] .
Pressure on bowels, as if to stool, and constriction of the anus after breakfast (seventh day), [2] .
Hypogastrium.
Voluptuous burning-aching sensation in the exterior pubic arch late in afternoon (eighth day), [2] .
Pain in right side of pelvis, followed by weariness, nausea and pain in the stomach (fifth day), [1] .
Colic in lower part of abdomen, in morning, after bath (seventh day), [2] .
Rectum And Anus.
Sensation of constriction at anus (twenty-second day), [2] .