Arsenicum Hydrogenisatum

Arsenetted hydrogen, Arsenious hydride or Arsine (AsHg). Preparation, Dissolve the freshly prepared gas in ice-cold distilled water. (Provings were made by inhaling the gas.)

Aidhorities. 1, Gehlen, Buchner Tox., 1827; 2, Schindler, Graefe and Walter Journ. (inhaled an amount representing i grain of the metal) ; 3, Eiseumenger, Z. f H. Kl., 1, 103; 4, O'Really, Dublin Journ., 1842; 5, Olivier, Gaz. d. Hop., 1863.

3111111. — Anxiety, he believes his death is near, and despairs of being better (during the vomiting ; more courage afterward till the next vomiting turn), (six hours),". — Disinclined to work,^ — Almost unconscious,^

Head

Vertigo, violent on going upstairs, so that he staggered against the sides of the stairs (the vertigo was not noticed on a level floor or going downstairs), (three hours ),l

Vertigo and general weakness

Headache increased during the chill

Violent headache in the forehead

Violent pressive frontal headache, especially worse at night, and accompanied by such excessive weakness that he was obliged to lie in bed for several hours, after eating (first and second days)

Eyes

Eyes yellow, deeply sunken, with broad blue circles about them

[10-] All the hair on the deadened parts became snowy white, and the white brows formed a strange contrast to the dark-brown face

Eyes sunken, lustreless; conjunctiva bulbi red

Nose

Nose and lips somewhat excoriated

Violent sneezing, and such coldness of the nose that it must be wrapped up with warm cloths

Face

Face pale

Face yellowish

The features were painfully drawn,l

Lips colorless

Mouth

Tongue yellow,l

Taste bitter

Stomach

Appetite very poor,l

Thirst great

Thirst excessive

Eructations

Spasmodic eructations of enormous quantities of tasteless gas, from the stomach, without relief of the pain in the abdomen that causes him to moan (six hours)/.

Incessant retching and vomiting

Vomits everything taken into the stomach/.

Violent vomiting, could not retain the slightest thing/.

Vomited food/.

Vomiting with the colic, of green mucus, bitter (six hours),l

Pressure in the stomach/.

Pains in epigastrium

Pressure in epigastric region, during chill,l

Violent cutting pains in the epigastric region and below it (six hours),l

Pressure of the hand causes dull pain in the epigastrium

Abdomen p. 551

Distension of abdomen, during chill

Glowing hent in the abdomen, with cold extremities

Stool and Anus p. 551

Obstinate constipation

Urinary Organs p. 551

Hmnaturia, passed two ounces of blood through urethra

Urine dark, reddish-black; it formed a thick clot of blood in the vessel

Sexual Organs p. 551

The foreskin and glans were covered with pustules, which left behind small round superficial ulcers, sixty-five on the outside of the foreskin alone

Respiratory Organs p. 551

Voice whispering

Chest p. 551

Oppression of the chest during the chill/.

Heart and Pulse p. 551

Pulse small, rapid,l

Pulse 90, weak

Neck and Back p. 551

Tearing pain in the neck, during the chill

The pain in the region of the kidneys became exceedingly severe, with urging to urinate

An unpleasant pressive feeling in the kidney region, which rapidly increased, and spread up the back to between the shoulders (four hours)

Slight pain in the lumbar region

Very violent pain in the lumbar region

Extremities in General p. 551

Coldness of the extremities (four hours)

L^O-] Extremities cool

Upper Extremities p. 551

A kind of stiffening of the upper extremities, which afterward extended to the lower extremities, and caused a pricking sensation

Tearing pains in the upper extremities, during the chill

Pains in the elbows and upper arms (five hours)

Lower Extremities p. 551

Pain in lower extremities, especially in the right

Rheumatic tearing pains in the knees (four hours),l

Generalities p. 551

All the hair over the deadened parts became snowy white, and the white brows formed a strange contrast to the darkbrown face

Motion difficult

Great fatigue and weakness,l

Weak and prostrated on waking/.

Sudden, indescribable weakness and nausea

The hands as far as the middle of the forearm, the feet as far as near the knees, the nose, the eyebrows, became dead, the pulse ceased, and every sign of life left these parts, though they could be moved (five hours)/.

Unpleasant crawlings in the deadened limbs (as they became restored), especially in the nose

Skin p. 551

Skin became dark-brown,l

Sleep and Dreams p. 551

Sleepless

Fever p. 551

Temperature diminished

Chill

Chilliness over the whole body (four hours)

Chilly while walking

Chilliness became very violent on undressing, at iO p.m. (in five hours)

Severe chill (on the third day), at 3 p.m., at the time when the headache was usually worse; beginning with yawning, discomfort, anxiety, and chilliness, accompanied by oppression of the chest, pain in the neck, and drawing in the upper extremities ; increased frontal headache. After a two-hour's chill, came a moderate heat, which lasted till 8 p.m., with a hot, dry mouth, thirst only little. After the heat, a very slight sweat, during which the patient fell asleep; at first frequent startings, during the unrefreshing sleep, but after midnight he became quiet/.

On the fourth day a slight fever-paroxysm/.

On the fifth day, a paroxysm severe as on the third day, after which it returned every day (this attack was cured by Nux vom., but was renewed on a snl.)sequent occasion from inhaling the same gas)

Conditions p. 552

Aggravation.

(Night), Frontal headache; pain in lower extremities.

(3 p.m.), Severe chill, etc.

(After moving in open air), Aggravated always.

(During chill), Headache ; pressure in epigastric region ; distension of abdomen ; oppression of chest; tearing in neck; tearing in upper extreraiti.^s.

(Damp atmosphere), Aggravated always.

(After eating). Frontal headache.

(Pressure), Dull pain in epigastrium.

(Undressing), At 10 P.M., chill became very violent.

(On waking). Weak, etc.

( While waking), Chilly.

(On walking upstairs). Vertigo.

Amelioration p. 552

(Sweat), "Deadness in limbs.

(During vomiting), More courage.