Arsenicum Sulphuratum Flavum

Orpiment. AsS^.

Hahnemann published in his Materia Medica a single short proving, by Langhammer; one of the most truthworthy provers. Some reports of ef- fects by the OLl School physicians are given in Allen's Encyclopaedia, I, 556; also a symptom observed by Hencke.

^ Mind. Intense and torturing anxiety and apprehension ; great- est apprehension after a swoon. Mind clearer than previously. ^ Sensorium. When walking he felt as if dancing up and down, as if he must fly.

Great weakness in the head. Vanishing of thought. See 9. ^ Inner Head. Throbbing stitches in the right frontal region.

Headache in middle of forehead, drawing and stinging. Pain deep in, in left forehead, situated back of inner corner of eye and higher than the eyebrow ; it extends towards the left and deeper in, like a curve or drawn bow-string. After drinking beer pain above the occiput in both sides ; vio- lent pressure in two places, right and left side symmetrical. Nausea, with neuralgic pains about the head, when rising ;

> while lying down. Headache, nausea and vomiting of a whitish fluid ; extremities

covered with cold sweat. 1 Serous apoplexy. * Outer Head. External needle-like stitches in right frontal re- gion. Tearing pain from parietal to frontal region. On stroking the hair on occiput, a tensive feeling behind the right ear, as if something stuck there and pressed it forward. ^ Sight and Eyes. Grum in the canthi.

® Hearing and Ears. Tensive feeling behind right ear on strok- ing the hair. ^ Face. Forehead cold. ^^ Teeth and Gums. Teeth pain as if loose, when chewing the

food. " Taste, Speech, Tongue. Taste bitter.

Tongue : furred, yellow-white ; stiff", immovable ; swollen ; later dry, with disgust for all nourishment. ^^ Inner Mouth. Mouth and throat dry.

Pustules or herpetic ulcers, of a phagadenic character.

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^^ Appetite. Loss of appetite.

^^ Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea at noon after a meal ; and vomiting, witli pain in the stomach and abdomen ; diarrhoea and thirst. Violent, persistent vomiting. After vomiting oifensive bile, was relieved. ^^ Stomach. Cramp in stomach, with fainting, colic, vomiting, diarrhoea, d Gangrene of the bowels. Burning and gnawing in stomach, with vomiting and diarrhoea. Indigestion. ^^ Abdomen. Violent griping, with convulsions.

Violent colic, as from a cold, morning on awaking. Abdomen puffed ; blue spots in fundus of stomach ; reddish- brown erosions. End of ileum more inflamed than the duodenum. Sensation as if diarrhoea would set in. See 9. ^^ Rectum and Stool. Stools like water, green and slimy, and terribly offensive. Diarrhoea daily at 8 a.m. and several times during the day, but

not at night. Diarrhoea with colic and backache and tenesmus. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Gonorrhoea, with terrible pains ; dis- charge copious, yellow, constant; burning day and night, along the entire urethra, with restlessness. Seminal emissions. See 37. 2^ Voice and Larynx. I Laryngeal phthisis. ^In a drunkard. ^ Respiration. Respiration difficult.

B Indescribably unpleasant feeling, with oppression ; everything feels too tight, worse about the hypochondria; ending in sweat. ^^ Cough. Cough from tickling in throat ; with pain in left side ; soreness on chest ; with heat in left chest and face, circum- scribed red cheeks. Cough with soreness in chest and between shoulders. Catarrhal cough with pains in chest and rattling. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Lungs overfilled with blood.

Needle-like stitches from within out in right side of chest. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Yellow serum in pericardium. Pulse: frequent, hard, then small and thready; slow, sup- pressed, quick, and scarcely perceptible. ^^ Neck and Back. Backache confining him to bed;

(with caries of the sternum and cough. Sulphur partly cured the caries, Psorin. the cough, and Arsen. sulj>h. the backache and re- maining caries). Pain in lumbar vertebrae when moving. ^^ Upper Limbs. Eruption on outer side of left wrist ; also on in- ner side, after Sulphur. {Sulphur did not cure, Arsen. sulph. did).

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^^ Lower Limbs. Pain in left knee, with chronic asthma.

Knees pain, and totter.

Pain above the left ankle-bone.

Feet burn. ^* Limbs in General. Severe pain, now in the toes, now in the

shoulders ; now here, now there, ending with sweat. ^^ Rest. Position. Motion. Children are slow in learning to walk.

Worse when rising: neuralgic pains about head.

Better lying down : neuralgia in head.

When moving : pain in lumbar vertebrae. ^® Nerves. General debility.

Nerves severely affected.

Annoying twitching of thirty years' duration.

Spasms, colic, vomiting, diarrhoea, heat and thirst next day.

Faints after a convulsion.

General feeling of lameness, staggering, trembling ; all strength is gone.

I Limbs paralyzed; has itch and dropsy. ^^ Sleep. Starting in sleep, also in falling asleep ; as if he would fall out of bed.

Restless at night, excited ; dreams with seminal emissions. ^^ Time. At 8 a.m. : daily diarrhoea.

At noon : nausea after a meal, etc. See 16. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Relieved by steam or hot water. *" Fever. Chronic intermittent fever, worse every afternoon and evening ; terrible heat at night.

Hectic without thirst. *^ Sensations. Pain in teeth as if loose.

Everything feels too tight about the hypochondria.

Needle-like stitches : in r. frontal region.

Throbbing stitches : in r. frontal region.

Terrible pains : with gonorrhoea.

Tearing pain : from parietal to frontal region.

Drawing : and stinging in middle of forehead.

Griping : in abdomen.

Burning : in stomach ; along entire urethra ; in feet.

Neuralgic pain : about head.

Soreness : on chest ; between shoulders.

Pressure : above occiput, r. and 1. side.

Gnawing : in stomach.

Cramp : in stomach.

Tensive feeling : behind r. ear.

Undefined pain : deep in 1. forehead ; in stomach and abdomen : in 1. side with cough; in shoulders; in 1. knee; above 1. ankle-bone ; in toes.

Tickling : in throat, causing cough.

Heat : in 1. chest and face.

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^* Tissues. I Pain in the joints. ^Rheumatism.

Emaciated children. *^ Skin. Icterus.

Chafing about the genitals and behind the ears, in children.

Skin scaly, blackish.

Skin itching, dry, cracked; rhagades ; itch. ^^ Stages of Life, Constitution. ■ Case of caries of sternum with cough and backache of 15 years' standing. See 31.

I A drunkard with phthisis laryngea. *^ Relationship. Similar to Calc. carb.: (children are slow in learning to walk).

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