Cuprum Sulfuricum

Sulphate of Copper, CuSO 4 5H 2 O; Blue vitriol; Cuprum vitriolatum.

Preparation , Solution in water.

Authorities. A , Hahnemann, from Fragmenta de viribus. 1 , Greding udov, Adv., I, 535, effects of grain doses in epileptics, from Hahnemann's Cuprum in Chr. Kn.; 2 , Kinglake, Lond. Med.

Phys. Journ., V, 438, from Cup. sulf., given for epilepsy, from Hahnemann; 3 , Simmons, Med. and Phil. Comm., IV, 33, from touching wound in hand with cup. sulf., from Hahnemann; 4 , Journ. de Chim. Méd., 3, 639, a man took 10 grains in by water, from Wibmer; 5 , Rust's Mag., 1824, a workman swallowed some by mistake (Frank's Mag., 1, 465); 6 , Willich, Baldinger neues Mag., 1785, a woman was poisoned by blue vitriol becoming mixed with pepper in a mortar; 7 , Moschka, translated in Hahn.

Month., 7, 66, F. H., aged 16 swallowed some; 8 , Med. Times., 1847, a woman, aged 36, swallowed about 1 1/2 scruples; 9 , Todd, Lancet, 1841, a woman, aged 18, took some in a solution; 10 , Andral, Brit. Ann. of Med., 1837, from Bull.

Gén. de Thérap., a man took an ounce (Berridge's coll.); 11 , Simon, effects of inhaling vapor and dipping hands into a solution, The Chemist, 1840 (Berridge's coll.).

Intellectual. Remarkable disturbance of mind; all the utterances of the patient were distorted, [6] .

[He lost his senses and thoughts for a short time, immediately], [1] .

All his senses vanish, [A] .

Headache, [11] . Complained in the morning of severe headache , [7] . [10.]

Conjunctiva.

Pupils equal (after two days), [7] .

Tongue swollen, stiff, and as if paralyzed, [6] . The nervous papillae of tongue became tumefied and horribly annoying; at first thought he had scalded tongue with hot broth, but the symptoms increased, tongue became ulcerated in centre, and considerably swollen on each side, and was furred as if a thin layer of spermaceti ointment had been nicely spread over it, [11] .

Burning in the mouth, and oesophagus in the morning, [7] .

Sweetish taste in the mouth, [A] .

Bitterness in the mouth, [7] .

Coppery taste in the mouth, [7] . [30.] Unpleasant coppery taste in mouth (after six days), [9] . Often felt a copperish cold subacid taste, particularly in opening mouth to inhale fresh air, [11] .

Fauces tumefied and inflamed, [11] . A choking and contracting sensation in pharynx, [7] .

Hiccough.

Hiccough, [A] . Nausea and Vomiting. [40.]

Nausea without vomiting (after six days), [9] . Nausea and qualmishness, lasting a quarter of an hour (immediately), [A] .

Occasional nausea, [2] .

Excessive nausea , [1] . *Qualmish nausea , [A] .

Sickness at stomach (soon); followed by incessant vomiting, [8] .

Vomiting, [1] , [5] .

Pressure in the pit of the stomach , [A] .

Rectum And Anus.

[Bleeding of the haemorrhoids for four days], [1] . [Repudiated by the reporter as caused by Cuprum. -Hughes.]

Micturition.

Urine scanty and containing much blood (after two days), [7] .

Diuresis scanty, containing blood, albumen, and some bilious pigment, [7] . No urine secreted for twelve hours, [8] .

The scanty urine, passed per catheter, contained neither albumen nor blood, [7] .

Respiratory Organs. Cough and Expectoration. [80.]

Cough, [A] . Cough interrupting, and almost suppressing the respiration, [A] .

Cough uninterrupted for half or a whole hour, or even lasting two hours, very early in the morning, [A] . Hacking cough that impedes respiration (on returning to consciousness), [A] .

Haemoptysis, [A] .

Anxiety in the chest, [6] .

Pulse frequent (after two days); small, filiform (seventh day), [7] . Pulse quick and small, [8] .

Pulse small, accelerated (after half an hour), [7] . Pulse, 150 (after six days), [9] .

Pulse full and hard, [6] .

Neck And Back. Uneasiness between shoulders, [11] .

Superior Extremities.

[Inflammation of the lymphatics from the hand to the shoulder, with great swelling of the hand], [3] . [100.]

[Pain in the axillary glands], [3] .

Inferior Extremities.

Lower extremities flexed over abdomen (after two days), [7] .

General Symptoms. Objective.

Visible mucous membranes remarkably pale (after two days), [7] . After having washed hands three or four times, water became blue from sulphate of copper absorbed into the system, [11] .

Was unable to hold the head erect, or stand upon the feet, for several days, [6] . Exhaustion (after six days), [9] . [110.]

Patient dies, with all the symptoms of total collapse (seven day), [7] .

Restlessly throws himself about in bed (after two days), [7] .

During the night the patient was very restless, groaned, moaned, [7] .

Jactitation, [A] .

Subjective. Sudden feeling as if going to faint, [11] .

Objective. Skin pale (after half an hour), [7] .

General exsanguined state of the surface (after six days), [9] .

Considerable itchiness, [11] .

Cold sweat on forehead and extremities (seventh day), [7] .

SUPPLEMENT: CUPRUM SULFURICUM.

Intense pain in head (after five hours), [12] .

After rising from bed, pain like a tight narrow band all around head, on a level with upper part of forehead, and feeling as if top of head would come off; this lasted all day, varying in severity; worse on laughing or stooping; relieved by cold wind. It was accompanied by a desire to be quiet (after two days), [17] . [130.] Shooting inward in temples at short intervals, the left being first affected, relieved by pressing temples with hands, and causing irritability of temper (after three hours and three-quarters), [14] . Throbbing in left temple (after four hours and a quarter), [14] .

Awoke next morning with a metallic taste in the mouth, [15a] .

Sick feeling in stomach (after three hours and a quarter), [14] . At 9 P.M., after sunset, directly after supper, nausea and once vomiting of food, with much straining; the nausea lasted all night (first day); nausea at times (second day); nausea in the morning (third day), [13] .

Obstinate vomiting, food being regurgitated back as soon as taken, of a blue or green color, [19] . Complained of pains, especially in stomach, declaring she was "burning up" (after nine hours); anything like continued pressure on the epigastric region caused great suffering (after nine hours), [12] .

Cramps in stomach and bowels (after five hours), [12] .

This morning diarrhoea as soon as she rose from bed, preceded and attended by griping, lasting all day, frequent (third day), [13] .

Heart And Pulse. Feeling as if there were a throbbing lump in the heart internally; the beating of the heart seemed louder; this lasted five minutes, then went away gradually, [16] . [140.] Pulse full, hard, and 120 per minute (after nine hours), [12] .

Inferior Extremities.

Dull, aching soreness in middle of right tibia, felt when walking, not when at rest, with tenderness on pressure, [13] .

Convulsions (after five hours), [12] .

Severe clonic spasms of the jaws, arms, and legs (after nine hours), [12] .

Sore pustule in left nose near tip and dorsum (fourth day), [13] .

Very restless; did not sleep till 3 or 4 A.M. (first night); slept better (second night), [13] .

Heat beginning on dorsa of feet, first left , then right , then extending up anterior part of legs as far as knees; it lasted thirty minutes and then went off, leaving a sensation as if needles were pricking the parts, for five minutes (after two hours and five minutes), [14] . All night there was coldness in and on the abdomen (both subjective and objective), and weight, and griping in abdomen; the abdomen was relieved by warmth (first day); abdominal symptoms at times (second day); all day the coldness and weight, but less (third and fourth days), [13] . All night felt hot, except in abdomen (first day), [13] . Coldness beginning in small of back, going all over body, then suddenly going into legs, first the left, then the right, with shivering, so that she sat near the fire; this lasted a few minutes (after two hours and a quarter), [14] .