Alumen

Alum. Aluminii et Potassii Sulphas.

The well-known astringent double salt, found as a native mineral near the volcanoes of the Lipari Isles, in Sicily; abundant in this country in Maryland and in Tennessee. One of the oldest medicines ever used.

Introduced and proved by C. Hg., in 1845, with the assistance of Drs. Husmann and Rhees. . Also proved by Dr. Jeanes, whose frequently cor- roborated symptoms are included.

A full monography was published in the Journals, in 1872, and is con- tained in C. Hg's Mai. Med., Vol. I, published by Boericke & Tafel, 1873. 734 numbers on 39 pages.

^ Mind. Lectrophilie, keeps bed without necessity, plaguing her family.

I I Anxiety, doubts if medicine will relieve her.

Feels like after unpleasant news.

Spells of rage, attacks people.

Thinking about her disease causes palpitation.

Unpleasant news excite and cause nervous tremors. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo lying on his back, with weakness in pit of stomach ; ^ opening eyes ; > turning on r. side.

Giddy looking down, as if falling forward; rush of blood to head.

Death-like fainting spell, with loss of all faculties. ^ Inner Head. I Neuralgic headache. ^ Nasal polypus.

Jerking in left forehead, evening.

I I Pressing on top of head.

Pains coming and going, from place to place ; in the forenoon.

I I Pain •< morning, on awaking.

Shooting through temples, with sickness, relieved by drinking cold water.

Rush of blood to head. ^ Sight and Eyes. iWild look, with spells of rage.

I Sees things double by candlelight.

Pupils dilated.

I Right eye squints towards the nose.

■ Spots on the cornea.

■ Prolapsus iridis after cataract operation.

■ Staphyloma cornese.

Bruised feeling on the inferior edge of orbit of left eye, on pressure, or by moving the eyelids.

■ Varicosities of the conjunctiva.

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I Trachoma (topically and internally). iPurulent ophthalmia of infants.

Itching burning on the border of the lower lids ; right to left. ^ Hearing and Ears. I l Hears every little noise in sleep. Heat in both ears and left side of face at night.

■ Purulent otorrhoea.

'' Nose. Dryness of the nostrils and choanse. Nosebleed. I Nasal polypus left side, with rough skin all over the face and

body, and neuralgic headache. I Lupus or cancer. ^ Face. Expression animated ; with fever. Left side red and hot. Complexion sickly, sallow ; yellow. Pale as a corpse, lips blue. ^ Jaw. Pain in the left articulation of the jaw close to the ear. ^^ Teeth and Gums, i Teeth loose.

I Gums swollen and inflamed, spongy; covered with a gray, dirty coating. Teeth surrounded by proud flesh, d Stoma- titis. I Profuse hemorrhage after extraction of a tooth. " Taste, Speech, Tongue. Taste : l bitter ; sourish, astringent ; sweetish, disgusting after-taste. Tongue clean, except a slight coating of slime on the back part. Tongue : I I dry ; burning in evening ; sour feeling ; stitches

worse at the tip. iScirrhus of the tongue. ^^ Mouth. Mouth dry, without thirst.

■ Spreading ulcers in the mouth. iNoma.

Mouth burning, ulcerated ; gray, dirty spongy skin about a tooth, which is surrounded with proud flesh ; offensive saliva. I Profuse ptyalism, mercurial in origin or not. ^^ Hard Palate to (Esophagus. I Uvula inflamed and enlarged. I Uvula elongated, relaxed after catarrh.

■ Predisposed to tonsillitis.

I Veins about the fauces distended ; velum red ; much hawking.

Catarrh of fauces and throat.

I Neuralgia of the throat.

Spat a lump of coagulated blood in the morning after rising.

I Throat sore and dry when talking or swallowing fluids ; diflB-

cult swallowing. I Throat relaxed, ulcerated.

■ Burning and severe pains ; heat up from the stomach.

■ Spasmodic constriction in oesophagus; fluids can scarcely be

swallowed. Prickling sensation in both sides of throat and great dryness, with constant desire to drink.

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I Throat chronically aiFected ; mucous membrane covered with mucus, causing troublesome cough. ^* Appetite and Thirst. Appetite increased, even with a fullness in stomach.

Loathes food.

Thirst : throat dry ; and increased appetite ; with heat in the stomach, relieved by drinking cold water ; intense, with fever.

Mouth dry, but no increase of thirst. ^^ Eating and Drinking. Before breakfast : attacks of nausea ;

During breakfast : cough worse.

After breakfast : cough better.

Eating something relieves her sinking feeling in the stomach.

After the meal, heaviness in the stomach ; throbbing ; disten- sion ; vomited everything.

At dinner : unusual erections.

Drinking cold water : relieves headache. ^^ Nausea and Vomiting. Squalmish at intervals, when awak- ing at night, prevents falling asleep again.

Nausea with headache, pain in the stomach and retching.

Nausea with faintness and weakness, more in the morning, with restlessness and excitement, giddiness ; chilliness.

I Vomits large quantities of glairy mucus; or tough, colorless, sour slime, seldom containing bile, oftener food.

I I Atonic hsematemesis ; vomiting of blood.

Habitual hsematemesis in hard drinkers.

■Vomits everything he eats.

■ Vomiting, with colic.

''^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. A sensation of fullness in pit of stomach urges him to take a deep breath, but he cannot.

Weak faint feeling in pit of stomach ; sinking sensation.

Pain, nausea and rush of blood to the head and drowsiness.

I I Pain with faintness, sickness and cold sweat.

I I Burning heat and feeling of fullness.

I I Heat in stomach, relieved by drinking cold water.

Severe pain to left of scrobiculum, better standing still and pressing on it.

■ Pyrosis and gastric catarrh.

Villi of the stomach becoming disorganized ; mucous lining dark red or brown : walls thickened, more at the pylorus, and hardened, as if tanned (toxic).

Pressing followed by throbbing ; lying on the back in the eve- ning. '^ Abdomen. Warm creeps running down, followed by jerking contractions of abdominal muscles, towards the linea alba.

Relaxed feeling in abdomen.

Distension from wind.

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I I Burning pain low down and in small of back prevents him

getting up ; as if the back would break. I Colic pain better from pressure; worse when walking, with

fullness and heaviness. I I Spasmodic wind-colic.

I Abdomen sensitive to touch during the colic. I Abdomen and navel sunken in; walls hard and retracted

towards the spine. I Potter's colic with sleeplessness, headache, crawling tingling

in the limbs, constipation ; better from pressure ; abdomen

retracted ; tongue dry, black ; urine red and scanty ; violent

delirium and debility ; also after opium. iLead colic, violent as if drunk and enraged; pulse slow;

tongue in folds and dry ; trembling of the limbs and pain as

if they were beaten. -" Stools, Rectum and Anus. Violent, ineffectual urging.

Stool : less frequent, dryer and harder ; large, black, hard or

in small pieces like sheep's dung ; no relief afterwards. I I Difficult stool with some blood and subsequent beating in

the anus. I First hard, then soft stools and pains following.

■ Diarrhoea yellow as an infant's ; Bslimy after colic pains, caus-

ing great weakness.

■ Diarrhoea ichorous, mixed with blood of an offensive odor;

abdominal typhus ; ■ great exhaustion.

■ Very weakening colliquative diarrhoea.

■ ■Masses of coagulated blood. ^ Typhus abdominalis.

■ Putrid dysentery.

Violent pains going from rectum down the thighs.

During stool: ■ dyspnoea; ■pains in the rectum; tenesmus.

After stool: ■■scarcely endurable pain, with scirrhous indura- tions in rectum ; no fissures.

I fi Ulcerations in rectum, painful excrescences; fetid bloody ichor.

■ Anus protruding, tumors inflamed and painful.

A small lump at anus itching violently, worse at night. Itching at anus all the evening ; pruritus.

■ Long-lasting pain in rectum after each stool.

■ Painful, bleeding piles ; with aching in the anus. Bleeding from the anus after wine or whiskey.

^' Urinary Organs, i i Diabetes mellitus.

I I Contractive sensations deep in the pelvis with complaints of

rectum and bladder. Urine increased, free, acid.

■ Frequent urging, with scanty, clear flow, containing lumps

of blood ; sediment slimy, tough or membranaceous.

■ Frequent and painful urging, with painful passing of small

quantities; now and then mixed with blood, at others,

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clear ; after standing, thick as if mixed with clay, dirty, fibrous sediment ; catarrh of bladder, mostly with the aged.

Incontinentia urmse. Enuresis.

iMust urinate every hour or two, night and day.

Urine has an oily, iridescent film on it.

Urine scanty, reddish, in colic ; bloody.

Blennorrhoea urethrse.

Itching of the orifice of the urethra. ^^ Male Organs. Unusual erections while at dinner.

I Male parts weak, frequent emissions, d Consequences of

onanism. Spongy, sycotic warts.

I I Gonorrhoea ; gonorrhoea preputialis ; gleet.

Shooting pain from the middle line of the belly, as along a

thread, down into the penis. Cutting pain in the left side of the penis. ^^ Female Sexual Organs, a Affections of left ovary with

troublesome constipation. Insupportable pain near the left groin, towards the region of

the ovary.

■ Weight of the uterus presses down the collum ; granulations

of the vagina ; leucorrhoea copious ; emaciation, yellow complexion.

■ Indurations of the uterus, even scirrhus. I Ulcers of the uterus.

Vagina very sensitive and narrowed by swellings of various

pregnancy, no vomiting ; flushing, followed by throbbing of

the heart.

■ Flooding after child-birth. \ Cancer of mammae.

■ Sore, inflamed nipples.

■ ■Voice entirely lost.

Talking increases hoarseness, causes tickling cough. Scratching in the larynx as from dust, roughness, brings up much clear mucus.

■ Epidemic membranous croup. Constrictive feeling in the windpipe.

■ Bronchitis.

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^^ Respiration. I l Inclined to take a deep breath.

I I Cannot take a full breath.

I Oppression of the chest, with colic.

Breathing oppressed, anxious as from a heavy stone in the chest.

Tightness across the upper part of the chest.

Rapid short breathing with uneasiness in the stomach. ^^ Cough, iWith the cough scraping in the throat.

I Dry cough in the evening after lying down.

I Cough from tickling in the larynx caused by talking.

Coughs a long time every morning, with scratching in the middle of the sternum, pain in the groin, in the region of the ovary. ^Whooping-cough.

I Cough immediately after rising, excited by a tickling in the throat ; worse during, better after, breakfast.

I Chronic morning cough of old people.

Sputa: Iropy. ^ Bronchitis and phthisis. — Iscanty.

I Atonic haemoptysis.

\ Phthisis. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Pain under the clavicle and right shoulder when inhaling.

Stinging from upper chest through to back, wakens at night.

When bending, sore pain under the right nipple or in left chest.

At times feels well, then, when beginning to think of her dis- ease, she feels the heart beat and yet to the hand it seems to beat very little stronger than natural, and at other times motion is scarcely perceptible ; sometimes the contractions are frequent, at others seldom.

Violent palpitation from a throbbing in the epigastrium ex- tending to heart.

Palpitation from mental excitement.

Rapid, violent palpitation, worse lying on the right side, or a length of time in one position.

Palpitation in attacks.

■ Dilatation of heart.

I 1 Pain from heart to lower part of right leg.

Pulse frequent with fever ; slow or thread-like with colic ; in- termitting.

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Feels as if cold water was poured down the back, with head- ache.

Pain where shoulder-blade ends, near spine, right side.

A warm, cramp-like feeling below hips, going up left side.

Pain all evening on both sides of the spine on a line with in- ferior angles of scapulae, with every deep inhalation. ^^ Upper Limbs. Weakness in shoulders, > bending forward.

Pain in left shoulder ; >> from motion.

Feels as if a cord was drawn tightly around upper arm, caus- ing pain in lines from the ligature.

Trembling and twitching of the arms.

Right wrist feels sprained.

Hands weak, dropping things, d During menses.

Pains in the hands with other suffering. ^^ Lower Limbs. Pains in the limbs, particularly at night.

Lassitude, numbness.

Bruised pain when standing.

Feels as if a cord was tied around the leg under the knee.

Cramps in the calves.

Soles sensitive to pressure, when walking.

Stitches in right big toe.

1 I Feet numb and cold, although covered up warm in bed.

Legs cold from knees down.

■ Frozen feet.

: Ingrowing toe nails. ^* Limbs in General, i Bruised pains.

■ Crawling, tingling.

Lying down : dry cough in evening.

Lying on right side : palpitation worse.

Lying in one position long : palpitation worse.

Turning on right side : relieves vertigo.

Standing still : pain in scrobiculum better ; bruised feeling in limbs.

Motion : of eyelids, bruised feeling of orbit ; pain in left shoulder better.

Bending : sore pain in chest ; weakness in shoulders better.

Cannot get up : pain in small of back.

Can hardly hold head up : with fever.

Walking : colic worse ; soles sensitive. 36 Jf erves. Trembling, after rising, most in arms ; excited.

I I Trembling with pain as if beaten.

Nervous tremor and excitability of feeling as if agitated by un- pleasant news.

I Weak, d Typhus.

I I Weak and relaxed in stomach, abdomen and all the limbs.

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and faint ; internal heat. Evening: jerking in left forehead; tongue burns; pressing

and throbbing in stomach ; itching at the anus ; dry cough ;

spine weak ; pain on both sides of spine. Morning : pain in head on awaking ; spat coagulated blood

after rising ; nausea, fainting, giddiness and chilliness ;

coughs a long time. 4 A.M.: nightmare.

^^ Temperature and Weather, i ' Very sensitive to cold.

After taking cold, has a sore throat.

While washing, chest pains.

Exposure to air : roughens and chaps skin. ■*** Fever. Chill : metallic taste, slight nausea, palpitation ; pain striking from the heart across to the lower extremity of the right lung ; a sensation as of cold water poured down the back, and numbing coldness of the feet, though covered warmly in bed ; death-like faintness with the chill.

Chilly with sick stomach.

Coldness followed by headache.

Coldness of skin followed by heat and tingling. •

Fever with intense thirst, nausea, etc.

Inward heat throughout body, in forehead.

Warm creeps over belly.

Chilliness, and another time inward heat.

Coldness with stomach pain, followed by heat with rush of blood to head ; can hardly hold it up. *^ Attacks. B Sudden attacks disappearing quickly: of beating or fluttering of the heart.

Nausea, flushes, cramps, etc., disappear soon, return quickly.

I I Same hour, 3 p.m., pain in arm.

I Every other morning : nausea, faintness and weakness, with restlessness and excitement.

Every hour or two : must urinate. ^^ Locality and Direction. Right : eye squints towards nose ; pain under shoulder ; soreness under nipple when bending ;

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pain to leg from heart ; pain near spine ; wrist feels sprained ; stitches in big toe.

Right to left : itching on border of eyelids.

Left: jerking in forehead; heat in side of face ; nasal poly- pus ; pain in jaw ; pain in scrobiculum ; cutting side of penis : affection of ovary ; pain in groin ; pain in chest when bending ; soreness about clavicle and second and third ribs ; warm feeling from hips up side ; pain in shoulder.

Above .downwards : warm creeps in abdomen ; pains from rectum to thighs ; shooting from belly to penis ; pain from heart to right leg ; feeling as of water being poured down the back.

Front to back : stinging in upper chest.

Diagonally : pain from heart to right leg.

Below upwards : warm sensation from hips. ^^ Sensations. Throbbing: stomach, anus, chest, whole body.

I Like a cord or ligament about the part.

Burning : lids, tongue, mouth, anus, etc.

Stinging : vertex, temple, chest, sides, tip of tongue, rectum, etc. *^ Tissues. 8 Hemorrhages from leech bites, extracting teeth, etc.

I I Parenchymatous bleeding from mouth, gums, nose, uterus,.

etc.

Mucous membrane : dry ; nose, on tongue, in mouth, larynx, etc.

Emaciation.

Slight scratches bleed.

After extracting teeth, profuse bleeding.

After cataract operation, prolapse of iris.

■ After metallic pessaries, scirrhus. Pressure relieves or increases colic.

II In powdered substance or solutions, in burns or scalds, after a plunge of arm in boiling oil.

■ Rough skin all over the body and face. ^ Nasal polypus. Furuncles on body, on thighs.

■ ■Ulceration less after a burning, or such as remain after dif-

ferent other applications to the skin.

■ Fungous granulations.

■ Proud flesh.

■ Chilblains.

■ Indolent ulcers.

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Antidote to: Head poisoning ; calomel and other mercurial preparations : Aloes (for vomiting of blood).

125 ALUMINA.