Baryta Muriatica

Barium chloride, Bael22H20. Preparation, Solution of the crystals in water (1 to 10), for the lower dilutions.

Authorities. 1, S. Hahnemann, Horn. Archiv., 3, 3, 186 ; 2, Hufeland, ibid.; 3, Durr (in Hufeland's Journ., 11), ibid.; 4, Benign (Dissert.), ibid. ; 5, Thuessink (Waarnem, iii), ibid. ; 6, Kohl (in Hufeland's Journ.), ibid. ; 7, Mother (in Saml., f. p. Aerzte, 17, etc.), ibid. ; 8, Nebel (Hufeland's Journ.), ibid. ; 9, Crawford (in Med. Prese), ibid. ; 10, Schaeffer (Kuhn's Mag., 1), ibid. ; 11, Schonemann (Hufeland's Journ., 20), ibid. ; 12, Michaelis, ibid. ; 13, Orfila in A. H. Z., 8, 297 ; 14, Henke's Zeitschrift, in A. H. Z., 8, 350, poisoning of a woman, set. 42, by half an ounce, taken for gastralgia; 15, Schwelgse, from Wibraer, general statement of effects of 4- to 3 grains ; 16, Walsh, Lancet, 1859, a girl, set. 22, took a teaspoonful by mistake for epsom salts; 17, Wolf, Casp. Woch., 1850, a student took three teaspoonfuls.

Mind

Anxiety

Great internal anxiety, which bends one together

Great anxiety, with retching

Head

Vertigo

Vertigo ; whatever he looked at seemed to turn around

The head is affected

Feels so heavy in the head that he can scarcely sit up

Headache

Sleep and Dreams

Eyes deeply sunken (after one and a half hours)

Catarrh of eyes, ears, nose

The eyes become quite stiff, he cannot move them

Left eyelid paralyzed

Deafness

Face

Face pale, with an anxious expression (after half an hour)

Face red

Spasmodic drawing of muscles of face

Sensitive drawing in the muscles of the face

Mouth and Throat

Looseness of the teeth

Toothache, at first fine sticking, then (twitching), throbbing, like the beat of the pulse, especially after sleeping, and after midnight, which compels him to sit up in bed, but which is neither increased nor diminished by touching it, nor by biting, nor by cold water

Coated tongue

Tongue and mouth dry

Offensive smell from the mouth, as from mercury

Swelling of the palate

* Swelling of the salivary glands

-Profuse salivation

Bad taste in the mouth, even the food tastes badly

Swallowing difficult

Stomach

Loss of appetite

Nausea

Nausea, immediately

Nausea (after half an hour)

Retching

Increasing and incessant, tormenting, ineffectual retching; cannot lie,14.:

Inclination to vomiting

Violent vomiting

Violent vomiting of slimy, watery fluid

Vomiting of everything taken, with stringy mucus (one and a half hours)

Vomiting of small portions of a nauseous looking and tasting substance, for six hours

Vomiting in the morning

Violent vomiting, with anxiety

Vomiting and pain in the abdomen

Troubles with the stomach

Pain in the stomach

Warmth in stomach goes to chest and head

Cramp in the stomach

Pressure in the stomach

Pressure in the stomach, and nausea, with great anxiety

Abdomen p. 66

Pain in the abdomen

Continual pain in the abdomen

Burning pains in the abdomen

Violent burning in the abdomen

Slight colic

Pinching pain in the pelvic cavity

Stool p. 66

Diarrhoea

Continued diarrhoea

Painful diarrhoea

Profuse diarrhoea, without pain in the bowels, for ten hours

Liquid stool

Stool greenish and chopped

Stool coated with mucus

Urinary Organs p. 66

Painful urinating

Increased desire for urinating

Constant urinating

Involuntary urinating

Increased urine (after twenty-four hours)

Urine has white sediment

Sexual Organs p. 66

Frequent emissions at night

Induces menstruation

Respiratory Organs p. 66

Voice weak

Cough

Dyspnoea

Oppression

Heart and Pulse p. 66

Beating of the heart irregular, pulse scarcely perceptible (after one and a half hours)

Pulse rapid, full

Pulse soft and irregular

Pain in the back

Upper Extremities p. 66

Swelling of the hands and feet

Trembling of the limbs, faintness, twitchings

Twitchings in hands and feet

Extreme weariness of the muscles of the limbs (after one and a half hours)

(The limbs are cold, paralyzed)

Hands and feet paralyzed

Painless twitching in the arm, especially at night

Tension in the legs

Cramp in the toes

Generalities p. 66

Trembling

Convulsions

Death, with violent convulsions (after seventeen hours)

Immobility of the body

General paralysis, for two days

Weakness

Laxity of the muscles of the body, and sinking of the strength, so that he was scarcely in a condition to crawl or move the limbs

The body feels so heavy that he cannot keep up, like loss of power

Skin p. 66

Skin inflamed

Small eruptions on the skin

Stitchlike eruptions on the body and throat

Itching eruption on the neck

On the side of the tip of the nose, a broad red pimple, with a biting, tickling, sore sensation, with small fine stitches on touching and rubbing it, though these sensations do not cause him to scratch it

Scurf-like eruption on the abdomen and thighs

A kind of scurf; profusely suppurating eruption on the scalp

Suppurating glands discharge more

Tearingburning in denuded spots

Biting pain in the skin

Fever p. 66

Surface cold (after one and a half hours)

Ice-cold extremities (after half an hour)

Tertian fever

Dry heat of the whole body both day and night

Internal heat in the upper part of the chest

Fever with thirst

Increased perspiration

Sweat

Conditions p. 66

Aggravation.

( Morning), Vomiting.

(Night), Twitching in the arm.

(After midnight), Toothache

(After sleeping), Toothache.