Chininum Arsenicosum

Arsenite of chinin, 2C20H24N2O2,AsH3O4+8H2O.

Preparation, Triturations.

Authority. Dr. Mur, effects of triturating 10 grains with 90 grains of sugar of milk for one hour, A. H. Z., 88, 39.

Head

Slight painful pressure in forehead and temples.

Slight sudden th robbings of temporal arteries, after 1 p.m. (second day).

Mouth

Taste metallic, bitter (immediately).

Abdomen

Very severe colic (after a few hours).

Respiratory Organs

Respiration very free, as if the thorax were hollow, in the afternoon (second day).

Heart and Pulse

The heart began to tremble, with a rumbling noise, and I was unable to distinguish the pulsations; this lasted one hour, after which the beat of the heart and pulse (the latter could not be felt on the left side) became irregular, and numbered 200 per minute (soon after 8 oclock, morning after triturating).

* Palpitation, noticed on leaning against the back (second day).

Sensation as if the heart had stopped still ; no perception of the beating of the heart ; after 1 p.m. (second day).

The beat of the heart became regular toward noon ; pulse, felt in the temples and at radial artery, 200 (pulse usually 76 ).

Back. In the "solar plexus a pressure (usually felt only after eating tough meat or hard nuts, of which I had not now partaken) extended toward the back, where it changed to a pinching sensation ; spine painfully sensitive to touch at this point (second day).

Superior Extremities

Painful weariness felt in shoulder and elbow-joints (second day).

Inferior Extremities

Weariness of lower extremities (second day).

Sleep

Sleep frequently interrupted.