Antimonium Chloridum

Antimonious chloride. Sh 01^.

The old and famous butter of antimony. Not proved. Poisoning symp- toms collected by Cattell. Given in cancer. See 9.

^ Mind. Stupor, but from which he could be aroused by questions.

Stupor and cold feet. See 8. ^ Sensorium. Insensibility. '* Eyes. I I Pupils dilated and inactive.

I 1 Eyes sunken, lustreless. ^ Face. I I Features set, pale and collapsed.

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Stupor, face pale, collapsed. See 1. ^ Lower Jaw. I Cancer of the lower lip. " Speech, Tongue. Unable to speak for some minutes.

Tongue dry in centre. ^^ Mouth. Mouth full of thick, tenacious, transparent mucus. 13 Throat. Great pain in his throat. I I Severe pain in throat and fauces. Sense of burning in throat. Fauces inflamed.

Heat and uneasiness in mouth and throat, with pain on swal- lowing. Severe burning pain in throat, increased by deglutition. Bright scarlet patches in throat, with difficulty in swallowing. Numerous abrasions on mucous membranes of mouth and fauces, with slight fever. ^^ Belching. Nausea and vomiting. Incessant vomiting.

Vomiting for two hours, followed by prostration. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Burning pain in epigastrium, and tumefaction of abdomen. Severe burning pain in stomach. ^^ Abdomen. Tenderness of abdomen to the touch, with sensation of burning. Excruciating griping pains in abdomen.

Incessant efibrt to vomit, and frequent abortive desire to defe- cate, with cold skin. ^'^ Stool. Frequent abortive efforts to defecate. ^^ Breathing. Seems choked.

Respiration very slightly apparent ; heavy. -^ Pulse. Pulse 80, small. '

Pulse small, accelerated, very feeble or hard. Pulse rises to 120, with sleepiness. 36 Jferyes, Great or complete prostration of strength. Restlessness.

Faintness, general weakness. 40 J'ever. I l Cold skin. See abdomen. I I Surface of body cold and clammy. Slight feverishness. ** Tissues. From mouth to jejunum, black.

Mucous membranes destroyed, and the submucous tissue and peritoneum covered with flocculent matter easily scraped off; they are soft and readily torn. ^^ Skin. Skin cold and mouth full of mucus.

Skin cold and clammy. *^ Relationship. Similar to other salts of antimony, and to the acids (typhus), also to Arsen., and Carbo veg. (in prostra- tion, stomach and abdominal symptoms) ; Conium (cancer on lower lip and ineffectual urging for stool).

317 ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.

ANTIfflONlUM CRUDUM.

Natiim Sulphide of Antimo7iy. ShS^.

The sulphuret of antimony, a mineral, native in J? ranee and Germany, found also in the United States, see Stibnite of Dana, p. 29. What is to be had in the shops is obtained b}^ simple fusion of the ore. Used by the an- cients for dying hair and eyebrows. First known as a sulphuret by Hohen- heim Paracelsus (not the imaginary person called Basil Valentin), in 1430.

Since then given by the Anti-Galenists in numerous preparations and for- bidden by the Academic Francaise, 15G6 until 1666, and in later times considered inert because not soluble.

Proved by Caspari, in 1<S26, edited and published by Hartlaub, in 1828. Classed among his antipsorics by Hahnemann, with many additions, in 1835.

^ Mind. Insensible ; bed sores formed, yet he complained of no pain. Imbecility more frequent than insanity. Delirium.

I Child delirious, drowsy with nausea, hot and red face; pulse

irregular ; feverish heat ; cries when washed in cold water ; better washed in v/arm water.

I I Loathing of life.

I inclined to suicide by shooting ; at night he is obliged to get

out of bed, because he cannot free himself of the idea. Anxious, lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her.

d Intermittent. Ill-humor ; irritability. 6 Headache. Sulky, does not wish to speak with any one.

I I Child is fretful and peevish, turns itself away, and cries when touched. 6 Diarrhoea, d Colic.

Indisposition to work, dull mood, d Colic.

Dejection.

Aversion to work and pain in stomach, with gulping up.

Cheerfulness and activity of mind and body.

Sorrowful, irritable humor ; the sound of a bell, as well as the

sight of those around him, excites him to tears; he breathes

wearily and short. I The greatest sadness and woful mood. ^Intermittent fever. ■ Sadness, with weeping and impressibility. Anxiety in relation to his present and future condition. Feeling

of grief. Is driven to despair, resolved to drown himself.

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Amativeness.

Sentimental mood in the moonlight, particularly ecstatic love.

Ecstasy and exalted love, with great anxiety about his fate, and inclination to shoot himself; worse when walking in the moonlight, and then his conduct is like that of an insane person. •«.

I Sentimental or distrustful mood. ^Diarrhoea.

Peevishness, d Chlorosis.

Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or verses. 6 Intermittent.

Restless, inclined to be excited by the least disturbance.

Consequences of disappointed love.

Anxiety produces sweat, with headache. " Sensorium. iRush of blood to the head.

B Vertigo, nausea, nosebleed.

Weakness of head.

■ Heaviness in forehead.

Vertigo with nausea and confused feeling, as if drunk. 6 Headache.

I Vertigo, from deranged stomach. ^ Inner Head. I Headache, mostly in forehead, left side.

I Slight, dull headache in forehead, and vertigo; increased by ascending stairs.

Stupefying, dull headache in forehead, so violent that sweat broke out from anxiety ; better when walking in open air.

Stupefying headache with nausea in throat, I < evening, < from smoking, >> walking in open air. d Headache.

In left temporal region : pressure inwards ; drawing ; slow pul- sation, with fine pricking.

■ Violent headache, after bathing in the river, with weakness

of limbs and aversion to food.

Splitting sensation in forehead.

Lacerating pain in whole head.

B Headache over one eye in a spot ; worse at noon, decreases at night ; not relieved by vomiting.

Bx^ching in forehead, t' Intermittent.

B Congestion to head, followed by nosebleed.

Momentary drawing and boring in temples.

Dull, frontal headache on awaking.

Into the head : toothache penetrates.

After headache with giddiness, nosebleed.

B Aching headache, as if the forehead would burst, from catarrh of the frontal sinus, with stoppage of nose.

Tearing in forehead, temples and vertex.

B B Headache : after bathing in the river, from deranging sto- mach, drinking alcoholic drinks, after a chill, after sup- pressed eruption, from taking cold.

Headache with aversion to food, nausea, loathing, inclination to vomit, aching in limbs, weakness.

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I Gastric headache from fruit, acids or fat. * Outer Head. I Gnawing pain on top of head, as if in perios- teum.

Soreness of periosteum on vertex with swelling ; a sensation as if bones were swollen, «< from warmth, >> in open, cool air.

Soreness in a small spot on left parietal bone, as if periosteum was swollen ; painful to touch.

Lentil-sized, flat tubercles here and there on scalp, painful to pressure, crawling sensation around them.

i Formicating itching on scalp; losing the hair.

■ Disposition to take cold about the head after getting wet, or

bathing in cold water ; worse evenings and on getting warm ; better in open air and when at rest.

Head, sensitive to cold, getting wet or cold bathing, <; even- ing and overheating himself, >> in rest and cool air.

I Troublesome itching on head, with falling out of hair. ' Sight and Eyes. Aversion to light.

Looking into the fire increases cough.

I Eyes red, inflamed, with itching and nightly agglutination and morning photophobia.

Eyes worse from glare of snow.

Redness of left eye, with aversion to light.

Soreness in the canthi.

!B Soreness of outer canthi.

IB Redness and inflammation of eyelids.

I Small humid spots in external canthus, very painful if sweat

touches them. Mucus in canthi mornings, with dry crusts on lids. Lids red, with fine stitches in ball. Itching in canthi.

■ Chronic inflammation of eyes.

II Chronic blepharophthalmia of children. I Ophthalmo-blenorrhoea.

I Inflammation of lachrymal gland and ducts. J Metastatic ophthalmia.

Pain on a small place above either eyebrow, d Megrim. ^ Hearing and Ears. Slight noises startle. Ringing before the ears, roaring in ears. A kind of deafness of right ear, as if a leaflet was lying before

the tympanum ; boring with finger does not relieve it. Drawing pain through right ear and into the eustachian tube,

after dinner. Redness, burning and swelling of left ear. lOtorrhoea.

I I Pains in ears. 6 Measles. Drawing through the r. ear and eustachian tube.

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I On external ear and behind ears moist eruption. ^Scrofu- lous otorrhoea. ^ Smell and Nose. Nosebleed with vertigo.

I Stoppage in nose.

Nosebleed: evenings; Bafter headache, with giddiness; Ifol- lowing rush of blood to head.

Coryza : fluent or dry.

Nose painful when breathing, as from inhalation of cold air or of acrid vapors.

IB Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils. See 9.

Coldness in nose when breathing the air. ^ Face. Sad expression.

Face red and hot, a child. See 40.

Twitches in facial muscles.

Heat and itching on cheeks.

B Pimples, pustules and boils on face.

B Eruption like nettle-rash.

B Yellow-crusted eruption on left cheek, painful to touch and easily detached.

IB Suppurating and long-lasting eruption on cheeks.

Freckles on face. ® Lower Jaw. Dryness of lips.

I I Cracks in the corners of mouth. See 7.

Burning, stinging on chin, as from a hot spark.

I Small, honey-colored granules on chin, with sore feeling when

touched. ^^ Teeth and Gums, l Toothache from hollow or decayed teeth ;

< from warmth of bed, cold drinks, cold air, evenings and

in bed ; >> out of doors. BB Toothache in hollow teeth, pain sometimes penetrates into

head ; worse at night after eating and from cold water ;

touching the tooth with the tongue causes pain, as if the

nerve was torn ; better walking in the open air. Stitches in the tooth when drawing air into the mouth. BJerking pain in hollow teeth. BGums detach from teeth and bleed easily.

I I Gnawing pain in carious teeth ; after every meal. Toothache after eating; before menses.

" Taste, Speech, Tongue, i Taste lessened. Bitter taste in the mouth. 0 Intermittent. 11 Tongue coated: thick and white; milky white; yellow.

d Apyrexia. Much saltish saliva in the mouth. Sore feeling and redness on border of tongue, bitter mouth.

6 Apyrexia. I iWhite tongue, d Gastric catarrh. " Mouth. I Dryness of mouth.

iPtyalism, with saltish tasting saliva. ^Diarrhoea.

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" Palate and Throat. Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus when clearing throat.

Must draw quantities of thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares into throat, and spit it out.

1 Sensation as if a foreign body had lodged in the throat, which gives rise to a constant desire to swallow, d Chronic angina. ^* Appetite, Thirst. ■ G-reat desire to eat but gets no strength. d Scrofulous children.

Good appetite, with burning at pit of stomach.

Diminished appetite in summer owing to the heat, loathing of food, with a bitter taste.

I Long-lasting loss of appetite, with disgust for all food, d Gas- tric catarrh, d Headache, d Colic.

I I Hunger early on waking, without appetite ; eating does not relieve it ; at the same time sense of emptiness in pit of sto- mach, and want of animal heat.

■ Intense thirst, with dryness of lips ; I more at night. ^Head-

ache. Thirstless. d Cholera infantum, d Rheumatism, d Ovaritis.

d Intermittent fever, d Gastric complaints (nausea, vomiting,

etc). I Desire for acids, I for sour pickles. ^Diarrhoea. Desire for beer, with chill. See 40. I Complete loss of appetite, with costiveness and dull head.

I Total want of appetite, heaviness and fullness in stomach, cos-

tiveness. d Gastric fevers. ^° Eating and Drinking. 1 1 Bread and pastry particularly occa- sion nausea and cutting colic.

Directly after meals much flatulency, wind does not pass.

Laziness, with desire to lie down, after eating ; lassitude.

Fullness and tension, after eating, alternating with lightness, cheerfulness and activity of mind and body.

I I After bad, sour wine, vomiting, d Gastric catarrh. After nursing, diarrhoea.

■ Nursing children throw up a little sour milk, as soon as they

take the breast or bottle. I I Worse from pork ; ■ from acids ; especially vinegar, d Diar- rhoea. 6 Whooping-cough.

■ Worse from alcoholic drinks; after a glass of wine, nausea.

■ ■ After vinegar, or acid wine, loose stool.

■ Aggravation of gastric symptoms by wine even when diluted

with water. After eating : drawing through right ear into the eustachian

tube; toothache; sensation of emptiness in intestines goes

off ; deep sighing respiration ; fullness of chest. Gastric catarrh from overeating ; eating does not relieve the

hunger. Gastro-intestinal affections during pregnancy.

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Nausea and Vomiting. Hiccough after smoking tobacco.

1 1 Constant discharge of wind up and down, immediately repro- duced, for years.

11 Belching, with taste of what has been eaten. ^ Colic. d Tertian fever. 6 Headache.

Burning at pit of stomach like heart-burn, with good appetite.

I Nausea: after drinking a glass of wine; I with vertigo, from

overloading the stomach. Nausea with a child. See 45.

I I Loathing, nausea and desire to vomit.

I In apyrexia, nausea, vomiting, aching in stomach, desire for

sour drinks, bitter taste, belching, and loss of appetite, d Tertian.

I I Gastric symptoms predominant; disgust for drink and food, bitter mouth and vomit, d Apyrexia.

■ Nausea and vomiting. ^ Gastric catarrh. ^Headache. They throw up a little sour milk. 6 Nursing children.

1 1 Vomiting : lof mucus and bile ; I I of drink only ; id whoop- ing cough) ; — I renewed by food or drink ; — I I persistent, tongue white, no thirst ; {6 marasmus of children ;) gastric catarrh, etc.

■ Violent vomiting and diarrhoea. Nausea ceases, vomiting continues.

■ Vomiting with convulsions.

Not relieved by vomiting. ^Headache.

■ Gastric complaints, with eructations, nausea and vomiting.

6 Intermittent. Vomiting renewed on taking food or drink. ^Diarrhoea. Nausea and vomiting after getting overheated, after deranging

stomach, with vertigo.

■ Gastric sordes. ^Toothache.

■ Gastric derangement, ■after a cold.

^^ Stomach. ■Deranged stomach from eating together what does not agree, particularly if the tongue is very much coated, with belching, tasting of food, and aversion to any kind of food ; after acid wine ; after fresh beer ; with fever.

Derangement of the stomach, producing eructations, tasting of the ingesta, and especially nausea and inclination to vomit.

Emptiness in pit of stomach. See 14.

Chronic weakness of stomach, much belching, frequent vomit- ing, acids disagree, with vertigo and dullness in head.

■ Habitual sensation in stomach as if overloaded.

■ Painful sense of fullness of stomach, which is sore to pressure.

■ Pain at stomach, (^headache) ; as after eating too much, with

distended but not hard abdomen. 6 Colic.

■ Cramp-like pains at stomach.

Burning, spasmodic pain at pit of stomach, driving to despair, resolved to drown himself.

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1 1 Stomach weak, easily disturbed digestion.

1 1 Gastric catarrh: white tongue, nausea and vomiting;

cough ; bowels loose or stools in lumps. Caused bj : over

eating, sour wine, hot weather, bathing ; during measles ;

metastasis of gout or rheumatism. Dyspepsia with acrid secretions ; rheumatic or gouty pains in

the feet. Gouty metastasis to the stomach and bowels. Relapses from deranging the stomach, d Intermittent. ^^ Hypochondria. Slight tension in the hypochondria. ^^ Abdomen and Groins. Full feeling and distension, as after

overeating. See 24. Abdomen very much distended, 34 ; after eating much, 17. I I Incarcerated flatus ; costive. I I Rumbling in abdomen.

I I Pinching and sensation as if diarrhoea would come on. Sensation of emptiness in intestines, going off after a meal. I Colic, with loss of appetite, 1 Ihard stool, red urine; child

will not be looked at. I I Violent cutting in abdomen, feeling of oppression coming

from stomach, indisposition to work, dull mood and pain at

stomach with eructations. Hard gland in left groin, painful to pressure.

■ Cutting in bowels, with watery diarrhoea. As if arising from abdomen : cough. See 27.

''*' Rectum and Stool. I Summer complaint, or diarrhoea and vom- iting of children ; hot dry skin ; vomiting, expelling the drink ; yellowish, very bad-smelling stools. Stinking flatus. I Bowels loose. ^Gastric catarrh.

■ Diarrhoea after nursing.

Diarrhoea watery, with deranged stomach, white or yellow- coated tongue, belching with taste of food, cutting in abdo- men.

■ Acrid diarrhoea.

Stools: watery, with vomiting; watery, profuse; ■■watery, with little hard lumps, ■or containing undigested food; ■ liquid, containing portions of solid matter; mucous morn- ings.

Cutting pain before loose stools.

■ ■Diarrhoea, worse from vinegar and other acids; sour wine;

overheating ; after cold bathing ; at night and early morn- ings.

■ ■Diarrhoea of old people. '

■ ■Alternate diarrhoea and constipation, with old people. Hard stools with colic.

■ ■Difficult, hard stool; feces too large; ■costive with in-

carcerated flatus.

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I Stools white, dry, irregular.

Hard lumps of curd. ^Nursing children.

Sensation of copious stool, but only flatus escapes, with finally very hard stool ; I stools in lumps. 6 Gastric catarrh.

I Pain in rectum during stool; feeling of soreness as if an ulcer had been torn open.

I Copious hemorrhage from bowels, with solid feces. 6 Hemor- rhoids.

II Mucous piles, pricking, burning; continuous mucous dis- charge, staining yellow ; sometimes ichor oozes out.

I Pain in rectum during loose stool.

■ Protrusion of rectum with loose stools.

■ Hemorrhoids ; a good deal of mucous is continually dis-

charged from the anus.

■ Constant secretion of a yellowish-white mucus at the anus.

■ Hemorrhoids. ^ During pregnancy. See 24.

■ Costiveness in the heat of summer; ■in childbed.

■ Diarrhoea after nursing.

1 I Constipation and diarrhoea. 6 Intermittent.

Useful after abuse of laxatives.

Diarrhoea : after deranging the stomach ; after acids ; after a

debauch ; of old people ; changing with constipation ;

watery ; with nausea and vomiting ; with colic ; with much

belching. ^^ Urinary Organs. ■Frequent and profuse emission of urine,

with loose bowels. Tenesmus of bladder rouses him from sleep at night.

■ Frequent urination, with much mucus, intense burning in

urethra and backache during emission.

Cutting in urethra while urinating.

Urine : gold-yellow, with scarcely perceptible cloud ; ■brown- red; ■ with small red corpuscles after standing twenty-four hours ; red, with colic.

Involuntary urination.

Involuntary escape of copious urine with the cough.

■ Chronic catarrh of the bladder.

^^ Male Sexual Organs. Sexual desire and wakefulness. See 37.

■ Excited sexual desire, with uneasiness of whole body, which

prevents him from sitting long. Impotence.

Nightly pollutions, with or without voluptuous dreams. Itching : of penis ; of tip of glans. Biting, itching, as from salt on left side of scrotum. \ Gonorrhoea. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. Nymphomania from checking cata- menia.

■ Tenderness over ovarian region, after catamenia has been

checked by taking a bath, d Nymphomania.

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I Pressure in womb, as if something would come out. Menses commence at an early period, are profuse, then cease ; subsequently chlorosis.

■ Menstrual molimina.

■ Before menses, toothache, with boring into temples.

■ Discharge of acrid water from vagina, which caused a smart-

ing down the thighs.

■ Leucorrhoea watery and containing lumps.

24 Pregnancy. ■ Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea during preg- nancy. During pregnancy : gastro-intestinal and hemorrhoidal affec- tions ; feels full and distended as after overeating, d Diar- rhoea. Skin diseases during pregnancy. ^' Larynx to Bronchia. Voice gone, scarcely able to utter a single word. 6 Laryngitis of singers.

■ Aphonia from getting overheated, either from the weather or

in a warm room ; better after rest.

■ Feebleness of voice.

■ Violent spasms in larynx and pharynx, as if throat were filled

with a plug, which becomes alternately thicker and thinner, accompanied by a feeling of soreness.

• Bronchial catarrh.

Phthisis laryngea with dry cough. ^^ Respiration. Short, heavy breathing ; dyspnoea.

Deep, sighing breathing, as from fullness of chest, afternoon and after eating.

Oppression coming from stomach. . Constriction almost to suffocation.

When exhaling, sharp stitches in chest.

Deep sighing respiration after eating.

Spells of sighing.

Hot breath, d Whooping-cough. ^' Cough. Frequent dry cough.

I I Cough shaking the whole body, with involuntary escape of copious urine.

I I Cough : after rising in the morning, in attacks ; ■as if arising from abdomen; ■■first attack is always most severe, subse- quent ones weaker and weaker, until the last resemble only a hacking, d Whooping-cough, d Gastric cough.

Cough : in the hot sun ; on coming into a warm room from cold air.

Looking into the fire increases cough. See 5, 27.

■ Whooping-cough as a sequel to measles.

■ Whooping-cough aggravated from becoming overheated in a

warm atmosphere, in the burning sun, and from the radia- tion of a fire. Cough with burning in chest.

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I Cough and oppression ©n the chest.

^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Oppression and pressive pains in chest, more the right. Stitches in chest.

I I Pain in chest with heat. ^Intermittent fever. . , Burning and sticking in chest ; with the cough.

I iBlenorrhoea pulmonum or phthisis mucosa. ^^ Heart, Pulse. Violent palpitation of heart.

Pulse extremely irregular ; now accelerated and again slow, changing every few beats ; with a child. See 40.

Slow pulsation with fine pricking headache. ^^ Outer Chest. Severe itching upon chest continuing all day.

Thorax elevated, with dyspnoea. ^^ Neck and Back, l Rheumatic pains in nape of neck and loins.

Swelling of cervical glands. See 13.

Spasmodic drawing pain in muscles of nape of neck, reaching to scapulae, evening after lying down and morning ; aggra- vated by stooping, exerting arms and turning head to the left.

Itching of neck and back.

Spasmodic stitches in right scapula, when sitting.

Violent pain in small of back when rising from sitting ; disap- peared when walking.

Backache, d Variola.

At coccyx a heavy weight. See 23.

■ Drawing in sacrum. ^Intermittent.

^^ Upper Limbs. Shoulders raised with diflBcult breathing. See 26. Cracking in elbow-joint, when moving it. Drawing pain : in arms ; in fingers and their joints. Murrt let the arms sink down. See 8.

I Painful inflammation of ligaments of elbow, with intense red-

ness and contraction of arm. Paralytic trembling of hands with every motion and when

writing. Trembling of hands with vomiting.

I I Arthritic pains in fingers.

1 Finger nails do not grow as rapidly as formerly, and skin be- neath the nails painfully sensitive. I Crushed finger nails grow in splits, like warts, with horny spots. I A horny growth under the nail. Horny warts on hands. ^^ Lower Limbs. Pustules on thighs. See 22. I Legs fall asleep while sitting quietly. Painful drawing in hip-joints. Painful stiffness of the knee ; knees pain. Pain just below the knee, as if it had been tied too tightly.

■ Drawing pain : in knees; in lower part of left tibia; in left

heel ; — and tearing through right great toe. 6 Gout. Violent pains in lower limbs.

32T ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.

Smarting down the thighs from acrid water out of vagina. See 23.

■ Pulling pain in lower limbs.

■ Numbness of legs during rest and while sitting. I Tumor of the knee; white swelling.

Ankles pain.

Heel inflamed and red.

SI Large horny places on the soles, close to toes.

I Corns on the soles and toes.

■ Inflamed corns.

B I Great sensitiveness of soles when walking. ^^ Limbs in General. Convulsions and trembling of limbs.

Lassitude, tremulous fatigue and heaviness of all the limbs, as if coming out of abdomen ; with trembling of hands when writing, and subsequent discharge of much stinking flatus ; abdomen distended, after dinner.

■ Rheumatic or gouty pains, generally with gastric symptoms. Heaviness in limbs.

Weakness of limbs, d Headache. Aching of the limbs. ^® Rest. Position. Motion. Can scarcely keep still during pregnancy, on account of hemorrhoids. See 24. Rest: outer head, > ; cold in head > ; loss of voice >. Desire to lie down : after eating. Lying down : drawing in muscles of neck.

■ Must lie down for hours, d Chlorosis.

Sitting : stitches in right scapula, legs fall asleep.

Cannot sit long. See 22.

Rising : << cough in morning ; <^ pains in small of back ; >

after rising from bed. Stooping : aggravates drawing in muscles of neck. I I Ascending stairs : -< headache and vertigo. Turning head to left : aggravates drawing in muscles of neck. Exertion of arms : aggravates drawing in muscles of neck. Motion of elbow : cracking in joint. Writing : hand trembles.

Walking: soles sensitive; pain in small of back >. Walking in open air: headache <;, 3; toothache, > 10. Motion increases the heat, especially exercise in the sun. ^® Nerves. Excessive depression and exhaustion. Uneasiness of whole body. Restlessness with cough. Trembling and shaking with the chill.

■ Great jactitation of muscles. ^Puerperal convulsions.

■ Convulsions with vomiting; with rattling of mucus. Disposition to start, even at slight noises. Twitching of muscles, of many parts of body. Great lassitude.

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Uncomfortable feeling after eating.

Exhaustion and debility ■ after severe illness, if appetite does

not return. Faintness with nausea. Great prostration after vomiting. I Useful after night debauches; laffcer getting drunk. Collapse with diarrhoea.

I As if paralyzed. ^Pneumonia.

^"^ Sleep. Gaping after coughing ; dozing of children, with cough. Drowsiness with trembling of head, with shortness of breath,

with the cough. Drowsiness or coma ; a child. See 40. Drowsiness. 6 Remittent fever. Somnolence in day time.

Sleepy after eating, after vomiting, with bellyache. During sleep unequal breathing. Somnolence with heat. See 40. Sleep restless, with sensation in stomach. See 27. Somnolence with numbness of head, with the chill.

I I Great sleepiness during the day ; mostly forenoon. At 7 P.M. feels overwhelmed with sleep.

I Coma. I I Deep, unrefreshing sleep. ^Chlorosis.

Slight raving during sleep.

I Restless sleep. ^Anosmia.

Wakefulness, with shivering over the left side, on which he

does not lie ; or with the sexual desire and erections when

getting warm. Sleepless, more after 12 p.m. Frequent waking, as from fright ; from anxious dreams of being

wounded. Dreams ; of quarrelling ; I voluptuous ; horrible, about mutila- tion of men. Restless sleep, frequently awakened by itching here and

there. Ailments from night debauches. Rouses from sleep at night : tenesmus of bladder. On awaking : dull frontal headache ; sweat. ^^ Time. Night: << suicidal mood; headache; toothache worse;

dry lips and thirst < ; loose stools ; tenesmus of bladder ;

pollutions ; heat in bed ; before midnight heat. After midnight : sleeplessness worse. Morning : agglutination of eyelids ; photophobia ; mucus in

canthi ; toothache ; coryza ; hunger ; mucous diarrhoea ; loose

when cough after rising ; drawing in nape of neck; sweat;

stools ; lassitude on awaking. Forenoon : I sleepiness. Toward noon : chills. Noon : < headache.

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. Ecstasy during the day, beginning in the morning, d Megrim. All day : toothache better ; itching on chest ; sleepiness ; chill

predominates. Afternoon : buzzing in ear, deep sighing breathing ; fullness in

7 P.M. : overwhelmed with sleep. Evening : out of humor ; outer head aches ; cold in head worse ;

nosebleed ; drawing in muscles of neck ; thirst ; after lying

down pain in nape of neck. ^^ Temperature and Weather. In moonlight, mental symptoms

erections. iWarm weather: < Blexhausted; night sweats; sleepy;

nausea ; vomiting. Hot weather : caused gastric catarrh.

■ Overheated in a warm atmosphere. ^Pertussis.

Warm room : cough is produced when coming into it from cold

1 1 cannot bear the heat of the sun ; < worse from exertion

in the sun. When becoming hot from getting overheated : loss of voice.

I Heat of summer insupportable.

I I Worse overheating near the fire, from the radiation of the fire. d Whooping-cough.

1 1 After overheating: diarrhoea. Child is better after warm washing.

Open air : headache > or < ; outer head > ; cold in head >> ; toothache > when walking; I inclination for open air.

■ I Sensitive to the cold: inhaling cold air; stitches in teeth

cold in head therefrom ; caused gastric catarrh ; causes

Fainting from the heat of summer, or in hot, crowded rooms. Injury by the sun; warm weather; after overheating I at the

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■ Sensitiveness to cold.

Bad effects from : getting cold ; from washing ; after bathing. Colds after bathing in a river.

■ Worse from cold water or cold food. ^ Loose stools. ^^ Fever, Cold to the touch : limbs.

Coldness : with cholera ; in blood-vessels.

Want of animal heat.

Skin pale and cold, d Convulsions.

Chilliness at every motion, with cough.

Chilliness after vomiting.

Chill predominating during the day, even in warm room.

Violent, shaking chill toward noon, with thirst (for beer).

Shivering over the back ; feet cold as ice, with sweat on rest of

■ Sweat breaks out during the heat, but soon disappears, and is

followed by dry heat.

Heat at night, mostly before 12 p.m., with cold feet.

Great heat from the least exercise, particularly in the sun.

Sweat in the morning when awaking, which causes a shrivelling of tips of fingers.

Sweat, which returns at precisely the same hour, usually every other (third) morning.

Sweat during the heat, d Intermittent.

Cold clammy sweat from motion.

Cold sweat on hands with cough.

After copious sweating, cough.

Sweat with rheumatic pains ; with headache.

Sweat on awaking.

Sweat making canthi painful to the touch.

The child is delirious, drowsy, with nausea ; red, hot face, irre- gular pulse and feverish heat, cries when washed or bathed in cold water.

■ Violent chill without thirst; ■■heat with thirst followed by

sweat.

■ ■After the sweat is over, heat and thirst return. Quotidian or tertian intermittent with ■ loathing, nausea, vom- iting, cutting in bowels and looseness.

■ No gastric symptoms. ^Intermittent.

■ ■ Gastric fevers.

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^' Attacks. Sweat at same hour, every other day.

Symptoms repeat every five, six, or twelve weeks.

I Returning periodically : coma, earache.

Increasing and decreasing headache.

Remitting types. See 40.

Cough in attacks, first severe, the following weaker and weaker.

In paroxysms : leucorrhoea.

Attacks of fainting. *^ Locality, Direction. On a small place above eyebrow, r. or 1 : pain.

Through thighs down to knees : labor-like pains.

Right : deafness ; drawing through ear ; oppression and press- ive pains in side of chest; stitches in scapula; tearing through great toe ; back ; arm.

Left : pains in temporal region ; soreness on parietal bone ; redness of eye ; swollen red ear ; crusty eruption on cheek ; hypochondria ; hard gland in groin ; left abdominal ring ; itching on side of scrotum ; drawing in tibia and heel ; shiv- ering over side ; cannot lie on it.

Left side predom. ; particularly lower left and upper right side.

Symptoms go from one side of body to the other.

Tremulous fatigue and heaviness of limbs.

Stitches : in eyeball ; in tooth ; in chest when exhaling.

Cutting : in abdomen ; before loose stools ; in urethra.

Lacerating in head.

Tearing : in forehead, temples, and vertex ; in r. great toe.

Jerking : in hollow teeth.

Boring : into temples.

Splitting sensation : in forehead.

Gnawing : on top of head ; in carious teeth.

Pinching : in abdomen.

Pricking : fine, in 1. temple.

Burning : and stinging on chin ; at pit of stomach ; — spas- modic pain at pit of stomach ; in urethra ; and sticking in chest.

Smarting : down thighs, from acrid vaginal discharge.

Rawness : of palate.

Soreness : of periosteum on vertex ; in a small spot on 1. parie- tal bone ; in canthi ; of nostrils and corners of mouth ; of eruption on face and chin ; on border of tongue ; in stomach ; to pressure ; of soles, when walking ; of skin when scratched.

Aching : in forehead, as if it would burst ; in limbs, with head- ache : in limbs.

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neck and loins ; with gastric complaints. Pulling pains : in lower limbs.

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■ Anasarca.

■ Eruption like boils and blisters.

■ Pustules like varicella.

■ Itching of skin, feels sore when scratched.

■ Pimples and vesicles as from stings of insects, especially on

■ Acne; with people of a nervous constitution. So-called liver spots ; brownish spots.

■ Tetters in scrofulous people.

■ Deep, spongy ulcers; especially with gastric symptoms. Fistulous ulcers.

■ Eruption with thick, hard scabs ; often honey-yellow ; here

and there a crack oozing a green, sanious fluid ; he sufi"ered as if immersed in burning embers ; much prostration.

■ ■Horny excrescences.

■ Smooth warts, which are often soft. Ulcers breaking out around a wart.

■ Chronic skin (and other) affections traceable to suppressed

eruptions or ulcers.

■ Urticaria, white lumps with red areolae which itch; comes

■ ■Measle-like eruptions; delayed, vomiting sets in during

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^^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Hydrbgenoid constitution.

I Old people : alternate diarrhoea and constipation ; pulse hard

and quick.

I I Elderly persons with diarrhoea all at once get costive. Drunkard's diarrhoea ; pneumonia ; trembling ; scrofulous

Related to : Ipec, still more to Lyeop. (Teste).

Similar in gastric vertigo to Pulsat. ; gastric headache from sour things, to Pulsat. or Arsen. ; inflamed eyes, to Aeon., Euphras. ; in toothache in hollow teeth, to Pulsat. ; in les- sened appetite from summer heat, Bryon., Garb. veg. ; cramp in stomach, Pulsat. or Ipec. ; watery diarrhoea, Ferrum ; after getting overheated, gastric symptoms, Bryon.

Useful after lp>ec. or Pulsat. ; in intermittent.

I Polypi with Pulsat. and Mercur.

After Ant. crud. follow well: Pulsat., Mercur. Sulphur.

Antidotes to Ant. crud. : Calcar., Hepar., Mercur.

Ant. crud. antidotes : stings of insects.

Squilla.

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