An invention of the alchemists, very popular with them, forbidden by the French Academy, finally introduced and much used and abused by the Old School. Proved by Hahnemann and some of his students. Published by Stapf, in 1844, and proved since by many others. We have made use of the mas- terly monograph of Dr. R. Hencke, from 1874, who collected all poisonings, provings and cures. ^ Mind. Unconsciousness, but rarely. Stupefaction, with numbness of head. I I Stupid and sleepy ; stupefying meningitis. See 3. Confusion of the head ; with feeling as if he ought to sleep. Dullness of mind, imbecility. Apathy and indifference to everything, even death would have been welcome. ^^^ ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. Delirium, with pleasurable expression. /? Bronchial catarrh. Contradiction between mind and will. The child must be carried, it cries if touched. Anxious face. See 8. Moaning and groaning, with oppression on chest. Crying, with the cough. I Pitiful whining before and during the attacks. ^Infantile catarrh. ■ Continual crying and whining of a child for three days, gets only little sleeps of 15 or 30 minutes, d Summer complaint. Child cries on attempting to take the breast. Child clings to those around, calls for help in a hoarse voice with cough. See 27. ' The child will not allow itself to be touched without whining and crying. ° Fear and dread of being alone. Indolence ; aversion to all work. See 19. Uneasiness of mind, indisposed to work, apparently proceeding from the abdomen. IB Bad humor. ^ Bronchial catarrh. Dejection. Despondent and apprehensive that he would not recover ; t. Hopelessness, I I despondency. Hopeless mood, d Colic. Hopeless and despairing when awake. 6 Intermittent. I I Despondent, hypochondriacal ; inclined to violence. I Melancholic. /^Chronic metritis. I Complains about his numerous symptoms, d Pneumonia. ■ Despairs of his recovery. ^Pneumonia. Depression of mind and fear he will never get well. Apprehensive and restless. Great concern about future with beating in stomach. See 17. Anxiety and restlessness. ■ Anxiety during the paroxysm, often lasting 2 to 3 hours. d Pregnancy, Anxiety with nausea. ■ Indescribable anxiety and oppression of the chest, d Cholera Anxiety, d Intermittent. Despair and hopelessness, with lethargy, with cold sweat. After attacks, in good humor, playing. 6 Catarrhal croup. During the day hilarity, in the evening anxious, timid. Wild gaiety toward evening. Merry all day, in the evening anxious and full of fear. Gaiety, wild mirthfulness, with subsequent ill-humor and' anx- iety for the future. By day an unusual wild gaiety, less noticeable by herself than by others ; toward evening this disappeared, and on the other hand there was peevishness, irritability, and anxious thoughts ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. 338 about the future ; she feared she must remain in this con- dition. Boldness. Desire to bite. I I Excessively peevish and quarrelsome (a boy set. 3). Peevishness. 6 Laryngo-tracheitis. The children get angry, weep and cry. ^Whooping cough. Mental excitement. Frightened at every trifle. Highest degree of mental restlessness. See 19. Consequences of anger or vexation. Worse after getting angry, d Cough. See 27. Strong emotion followed by amblyopia, d During pregnancy. ^ Sensorium. Heaviness of the head. Stupefying dullness with unconquerable drowsiness. Felt giddy and sick ; immediately. Dizziness, with the cough. Vertigo with alternate drowsiness. Vertigo : on closing the eyes ; on walking ; when lifting the head, must lie down, with nausea. ■ Pressing pain in forehead with vertigo, stupor and dullness of head, slightly delirious, drowsiness but cannot sleep. 6 In- fluenza. iVertigo with flickering before the eyes, d Rheumatism. ■ Vertigo with dimness of vision and a pressing headache. d Pneumonia. Vertigo and violent chills running through the body with a sudden shock. Fainting, with sweat on forehead. ■ Child gets insensible, limbs cold, pulse weak, almost imper- ceptible ; recovery after brandy and water. Fainting after a cold feeling in scrobiculum, followed by sleep. Asphyxia; t. After vomiting once, a heavy asphyxia, and when coming to herself again, violent colic. ■ Asphyxia from drowning. ^ Inner Head. ' ' Cerebral congestion. Arachnoid membrane too opaque ; t. ■ Dull head, like a strong pressure, more in r. forehead, with boring, sharp shooting tearing deep in brain, d Rheumatism. Violent pain in forehead and giddiness. ■ Headache, as from a band compressing the forehead. Tensive pain in forehead and one side of head, as if the brain were in one lump, with drowsiness, <C evening, after eating and sitting bent ; > sitting up, lying high with head and in the cold. Pressing headache, as if brain were put together in lumps. ■ Feels as if the brain was pressed together ; stupid and sleepy ; 339 ANTIMONIUM TARTARIC UM. more when resting ; in the evenings and at night ; better when moving about, or after washing the head. I I Heavy pain in the forehead like waves increasing and de- creasing. Reverberation of pulse- in the head. See 29. Very sensible pressure on vertex with violent pulsation in the temples. ■ Throbbing in r. forehead, < evenings, sitting bent, from warmth and >> sitting up and in the cold. Pressive pains in forehead ; stitching extending downwards into left eye. Painful drawing in right temple, extending down to the zygoma and upper jaw. Tearing pains in head. Stitches in left parietal bone on stooping, extend forwards. Headache and feeling as if paralyzed, d Pneumonia. I I Stupefying headache, d Meningitis. Occiput heavy, requires support. On stooping, feeling in occiput as if something fell forward. Headache with vomiting. ■ Headache. ^Variola. Headache with sensitiveness of region of stomach. ■ Violent headache during the heat, d Tertian. ■ Headache also in the apyrexia. ^Intermittent. ■ Inflammation of brain. See 43. ■ Apoplexia nervosa and serosa.