The white oxide of metallic arsenic. As^^ O3. One of the oldest of Hahnemann's provings, but not published in the Fragmenta, nor in the first volume of his Materia Medica. The reasons for this omission he gives in 1816, in the second volume. The ignorant, maltreated, easily frightened people, seeing the great effects of small doses, cried him out a " poison doctor." The first edition oi Arsenicum contained 294 of his own, and 368 from other sources; some from his disciples, Stapf, and Hornburg; the rest quotations from various authors, on which, how- ever, he never placed much value. In 1824, in the second edition of his Materia Medica, his own symptoms had increased to 431, and the symptoms of others to 516; Stapf, 23 ; Horn- burg, 15; Langhammer (one of the best provings we have of this remedy) 58 ; Frederic Hahnemann, 13 ; Baehr, 11 ; Meyer, 6 ; the rest are quotations from the old school ; total, 947. In 1833, in the third edition of his Materia Medica, we have a much im- proved edition, although containing some symptoms from Fowler's solu- tion, in all, comprising 1068 symptoms. In 1839, as an appendix to the second edition of his Chronic Diseases, Hahnemann gives us a fourth and last revision, with many more internal improvements and abridgements, including a proving by Nenning, in all 1231 symptoms. The administration of Arsenicum is more often disappoint- ing than that of any other drug, the cause of which lies in the too numer- ous collections of poisonings, and the lack of symptoms produced by higher potencies. This view is corroborated by the collection of the Sulphur symptoms were the relation is the reverse. ^ Mind. I Loss of consciousness. ^Vertigo. ^Typhus. ^ Heart disease, d Yellow fever. Loss of consciousness, and falling before the epileptic attack. She lay upon the bed in a state of unconsciousness, muttering, eyes fixed, cold sweat on forehead, trembling all over, pulse small, hard, and very rapid. I Stupor, broken by anxious moaning, d Child with gastritis mucosa. I Loss of memory. ^Yellow fever. Thoughts crowd upon him ; he is too weak to keep them off or to hold on to one idea. When alone, he falls to thinking about disease and other things, which he can scarcely keep out of his mind. Grloomy forebodings while lying in bed, in evening, fears some- thing may have happened to his relatives. ARSENICUM. 32 B Thoughts of death and the incurability of his complaint. 6 Cancerous inoculation. Fixed idea that he and his family will die of starvation. Dullness and weakness in head, cannot think, and is irritable ; as if he had a bad cold, or had lost sleep. I Mental derangements with satiety of life in drunkards. Imbecility. Stupidity, with loss of hearing, and almost total blindness. B Thinks he must die. ^Megrim. B Tormenting hallucination, as if there was one by his side who did all that he was doing, eating, washing, etc. d Diabetes mellitus. He sees all kind of vermin on his bed, throws handsful of them away, and tries to escape from them. He imagines that he sees burglars in his room, and listens under the bed ; he is bathed in cold sweat. Periodically returning fancies. Talks wildly, with open eyes, and is not conscious of being flighty. B Delirium. ^ Yellow fever. ^Typhus. Bin her delirium she thinks she is well, d Girl set. 7. B Delirium, with great prostration. B Delirium during heat, unconsciousness, mania, wants to be held ; with a tearing headache. 6 Intermittent. Mania ; headache ; terrible anxiety, noise in his ears as of many bells ; sees a man who has hung himself beckoning to him to cut him loose ; on failing to accomplish this, he attempts to hang himself; being prevented, he falls into de- spair, and becomes so restless he can scarcely be kept in bed, loses speech, with full consciousness, tries to write, but can make only unintelligible characters ; he trembles, weeps, his forehead is covered with anxious sweat, finally kneels down and lifts his hands in supplication. Rage ; had to be chained. Her desires are greater than her need ; she eats and drinks more than is good for her, and walks farther than she ought to. B Suicidal mania. A barber felt an inclination to cut his customer's throats. Talking and quarrelling in sleep. Great loquacity while awake and asleep. 77 If people came to see him, he did all the talking, d Can- cerous inoculation. He wept and whined, but spoke little. Hysterical crying, instead of fear. B Whimpering and gnashing teeth. BLoud moaning, groaning, and weeping, d During catamenia. 33 ARSENICUM. Pitiful complaining, with great anxiety and restlessness, witli disagreeable sensation in abdomen, and dyspnoea. Piercing, pitiful moaning, interrupted by fainting spells. ■ Lamentations, despair of life. ^ Colic. ■ Screaming with the pains, d Headache. Loud screaming ; says it is something within him that screams. ■ Picking of the bedclothes. ^Typhus. Fear drives him out of bed ; he hides in a closet. Runs about the house at night, looking for thieves. I Hasty in all its motions; grasps the tumbler or anything it wants eagerly, d Eclampsia. Says little, but complains of fear. Aversion to all occupation. Placid mood ; remained the same no matter what happened. Averse to meeting acquaintances, because he imagines having formerly offended them, though he knows not how. ■ Tranquillity of soul. ^ In a man afflicted with melancholy. At first, great tranquillity and cheerfulness, followed in half an hour by terrible restlessness and anxiety ; t. Inclined to cheerfulness and activity. Feels uncomfortable and takes pleasure in nothing. Hypersensitive, delicate mood ; sad and given to weeping ; the least thing troubles her. ■ Her mind is depressed, sad. d Relapse of intermittent. Sad and gloomy, with restless tossing. ■ Melancholy, sadness after dinner. ^Headache. ■ Melancholy after mental over exertion. ■ Melancholy ; after financial losses ; cannot be consoled ; thinks he will have to die, with his family, from starvation ; sleep- less nights ; walks about, wringing his hands, with moaning and groaning. ■ Deep seated melancholic affection ; ceased after tetter-like ulcers appeared on lower limbs. ■ Periodical attacks of melancholy only at twilight ; sometimes at night, d Woman set. 65. Religious melancholy ; hopelessness, despair. ■ Fear of being left alone, d After vexation, d Dysmenorrhoea. ■ ■Dread of death when alone, or on going to bed. ■ ■Fear of death. ^ After vexation, d Cholera asiatica. ■ ■Anxiety and restlessness, worse after midnight. Hypochondriacal anxiety, which seems to originate in the upper part of the chest ; restlessness, no palpitation. Anxiety and impatience. ■ ■Excessive anxiety. ^Headache. Hsematemesis. Colic. Intussusception. (Edema pulmonum. Hydrothorax. Measles. ■ ■ iVttacks of anxiety at night driving out of bed. d Mania. ■ Great anxiety, must jump out of bed. ^Ascites. VOL. II.— 3. ARSENICUM. 34 ■ Frequent attacks of anxiety, worse at night; fears death. 6 Influenza, d Diarrhoea. 1 1 Anxiety and restlessness. ^ Chill of intermittent. He- patitis. 1 1 Anxiety and restlessness with the pains; fainting from the pain, d Gastralgia. ■ Great anguish, tossing about. ^ Colic. ^Pneumonia. ^Em- physema, d Intermittent. Precordial anxiety, feels constricted. ■ Anxiety like that of one who has committed murder; driven from place to place ; avoids meeting persons, thinking that he has oifended them., d Mania. ■ Terrible anxiety, flushing up; restless glance, no rest by day nor night ; inclination to commit suicide, d Mania. ■ ■Great fear, restlessness, trembling, cold sweat, prostration. ■ ■Great anxiety, with constriction of chest and dyspnoea. ■ ■Great anguish and restlessness. ^ Stricture of oesophagus. d Gastralgia. d Hsematemesis. d Colicodynia. ■ Indescribable anguish, restlessness. ^Metritis. ^Pericar- ditis, d Cholera Asiatica. ■ Anxiety, with nausea and gnawing in scrobiculum. 6 Chill. ■ Great despondency, d Scurvy. ■ The pains seem intolerable, drive one to despair and frenzy. d Headache. ■ Great indifference. ^Yellow fever. ^Typhus. ■ Apathy; if roused by loud calling, they open the eyes with difficulty and stare at you. d Typhus. Cheerfulness, alternating with ill humor. Indecision ; the merest trifle alters his resolve. ■ Irritable, despondent and anxious; cardiac anxiety, with in- supportable pain, d Intermittent. ■ Irritable mood, alternating with despondency. ^Icterus. Touchiness. Disposed to discuss the faults of others. ■ Disposed to quarrel. 0 Hemorrhoids. ■ Very cross and despondent, d Chronic intestinal catarrh. Dissatisfied and angry with himself all day ; thinks he has not accomplished enough, and reproaches himself bitterly. The child is irritable, whining and restless ; wants to be carried. Irritability, with dull, confused feeling in head. Irritability, with flushes of heat and chilliness when talking or moving. ■ Irritable, discouraged, restless ; vexed about trifles. Vexed and dissatisfied with everything ; the least noise or light annoys her, she is so sensitive to external impressions. The least thing offends him, and moves him to anger. ■ ■Vexation, with anxiety, restlessness and chilliness. 35 ARSENICUM. She became furious when something to eat was oiFered her while complaining of loss of appetite. Obstinacy, avarice, inclined to malice and satire. 1 1 Restlessness, cannot rest anywhere, moves from place to place ; wants to go from one bed to another. Inward restlessness, with dullness in head and stupor ; with aphasia ; with backache. Restlessness and moaning, with sleeplessness; anxious rest- lessness, with weak, irregular pulse, limbs cold on the sur- face ; inward heat. Great restlessness, alternating with drowsiness. I Anxious restlessness and nausea. I After a fit of passion, d Nosebleed, asthma, cough. I After great care and grief, d Colic in pregnancy. The pains are aggravated by other peoples' talking. lAs a consequence of fright, inclination to commit suicide. ' Sensorium. Great weight in head, most in forehead. I Heaviness in head, with humming in ears; goes off in open air, but returns on entering room. ■ Whirling vertigo, heaviness of the head. ^Dropsy. Vertigo and buzzing before the ears, d Bright's disease. ■ Vertigo, when shutting eyes, as if he would fall, when walk- ing over an open space. I Vertigo, reels when walking, d Headache. I Vertigo : preceding an attack of epilepsy ; before the chill in intermittent. Sensation as if brain moved and beat against skull, during