Arum Dracontium
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General
dime, Kali bich., JRWc acid, Mei'c. iod., PhosphorTia, Phylolwi iSiclO] Sjdpkw, SaTigiiinaria, Spongla, Wyethia.
Shooting pains in the right ear, transient and frequent, and leava a feeling of fulness and slight aching in the middle ear.
A feeling of warmth and fulness in the ears.
Accumulation of mueus in the left Eustachian tube. [See Throat Symptoms.)
Mouth and Fauces.
* There is a feeling of dryness and smarting in the throat, a feel-
ing of tavmcbs, with a sense ot fulness, not really painful, but sufficiently annoying to attract constant attention.
* Hawking ; hoai senebs , expectorated a quantity of thick mucus.
* Produce a continual disposition to clear the throat by swallowing
and oovgkmg
* Throat raw and soic
* Constant rawness of the throai.
* Constant coughing with mucus in the morning.. Bad taste in the mouth :
Tongue and mouth coated with a foul, slimy mucus, having a
putrid tt^te. Expectoration consisting of thick, heavy, yellowish- white pus. (?) Continuation of violent cough. Rawness of throat and purulent expectoration.
Larynx
* Soreness of the larynx and great disposition to cough.
* About midnight great oppression of breathing, soon passing off,
leaving considerable rattling of mucus iu the larynx and upper part of the trachea.
* Paroxysms of dyspnosa would sometimes occur, toith much aching
in the chest, always associated with a considerable secretion
of mucus in the larynx and trachea. Expectoration of thick, heavy, yeUowish-wMte pus from larynx in
large quantities. [Hart.) Oroupy cough, with hoarseness and raiimess of the throat ; during
an epidemic influenza. [Hale^
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668 ARUM DEACONTIUM,
Stomach, Pain in the bowels, causeJ. liy incarceration of flatus. Sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach.
Bilious passives from the bowels, attended with aching in the abdomen, and burning in the rectum.
Urinary,
Irresistible desire to pass urine, which is diminished in quantity, very high-colored, and has a burning or smarting effect on the urethra. (Primary.)
Frequent, copious emissions of limpid urine ; inclination to uri- nate every hour or so during the day.
Urine increased to four or five times the normal amount.
Tenderness and slight smarting or burning of the orifice of the urethra, especially during micturition, (Secondary.)
Sexual, During the proving a great diminution, and moat of the time an
entire absence of the sexual desire. Penis flaccid an3 relaxed.
Eespiratory Organs.
* Awoke ahout midnight with great oppression of breathing, a hind
of asthmatio attack, which, however, soon passed off.
* Paroxysms of dyspncea would sometimes occur, with much ach-
ing in the chest, and always associated with a considerable secretion of mucus in the larynx and trachea.
Heart
Slight aching pain in prsecordial r^ion and down the left arm,
flushing of hands and face, and increased heart's action
Back
Aching along the spine, particularly between the shoulder-blades
and the lumbar region.
Great weakness across the loins.
Feeling of extreme prostration.
Extremities
Tingling, or slight stinging sensation in the fingers.
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AUnUM ARSENTOSTJM ATIEI ET 80D1I CHLOKIDUM.
Tingling, or slight BtiiigiDg sensation in the toes.
Preternatural heat in the palms of the hands.
Buniiug of the soles of the feet.
AUKDM AESENIOSUM.
{Sulph.
Arsenate of Gold.) DiSCKirTiON
Tliere are Iwo sails of these elemenla, a trihasic and a dibasic
The trihasic is formed by precipitation from a gold solution willi the tribasic Arsenate of sodium. It ia a dark-brown precipitate, soluble in water.
The dibasic salt is obtained by precipitation of a solution with the neutral salt arsenite of sodium. It dissolves in pure water, with a rod-brown color.
pBBrAaATiON.— Trituradons, from 3" to 6*.
° ^Mzcida^mamajaceompaniedwithgreatfearof death. ° Ckronio headaches, due to syphilis, necrosis, periostitis, and ozrena.
° Cancer of the face, nose, stomaeh, and uterus.
° Malignant diseases of the intestinal tract.
° Lupus, depending upon scrofula, are rapidly ameliorated and ultimately cured.
° Rapid increase of appetite.
The peristaltic contractions of the stomach and intestines are excited, and absorption occurs with greater rapidity. ° Functional cardiac diseases.
(Sale.)
° Ansemia and chlorosis.
AUKI ET SODII CHLOEIDUM.
(Chloro-amaleqf Sodium.) Desckiptidb'
Crystals are long four-sided prisms, permanent in air. rBErAKATlow
Aqueous Bclutions, and triturations with granular sugar of
Violent gastroenteritis, accompanied by cramps, convulsive trembling, insomnia, priaprisni, insensibility.
Epigastric pains; nausea; loss of appetite; constipation; in- creased secretion of mucus from the intestinal glands.
" Constipation, with intestinal catarrh.
" Nervous dyspepsia, with melancholy, desire for death, with red glazed tongue. Pain in the stomach (left side), of a burn-
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670 BBNZOATE OF I.ITIIIA.
ing, drawing, pressing character, after eating, with tenijoncy
to diarrhcea after eating. ° Gastric and duodenal catarrh, and in some cases of javmdice
from catarrh of the gall-ducts, when the peculiar suicidal
melancholy is present. " St^hilis, after abuse of mercury, or when, during secondary or
tertiary stages, the bones of the nose are affected or the
throat is ulcerated.
Sexual Organs, * Conc/eslive irritation of the uterus and ovaries, resulting in swb~
acute metriiia, ovaritis, profuse and premature menses, habitual
abortion, nympJiomania, and even uleeration of the uterus, and
endo-cermcUis. [p.) " Puerperal mania, with sexual excitement, ovaritis, gastro-intes-
tinal irriiaiion, suicidal impulses f (p.) ° Atonic amenorrhcea; scanty and dda/ged menses; deficient sex-
ualdedre; sterility from ovarian torpor ; ovarian dropsy, (s.) ° Sexual erethism from plethora; seminal emissions with vivid
dreams; strong erections, {p.) ° Decline of sexual power; diurnal seminal losses, or nightly
emissions, with feeble erections aod no dreams; impotence
from weak, inefficient erections, irritability of the sexual
organs, and premature emission of semen, (s.) ° Melancholy, suicidal mania, and hypochondria.
" Cerebral anEeraia; vertigo.
" Dropsy, from chronic Bright's disease. ° Cardiac diseases, from sexual disorders.
BENZOATE OF LITEIA.
Desckiption.^ — ^Prepared by heating Carbonate of lithia and water with Ben/oic acid until efferveacenee ceases, filter, and evaporate to drjness. It is soluble in SJ parts cold and 2J parts Kot water,
Peepakation, — Aqueous solution or triturations.
° Diminishes the uric acid deposits.
Consult the pathogeneses of Lithium and Benzoic acid.
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BEEBERIS AQUIFOLIUM — JilSML'THUM.