Ferrum Muriaticum

Ferrum Chloratum; Ferrous chloride or dichloride, FeCljIOH^ (crystals).

Preparations, Tincture, consisting of 25 parts of crystals to 225 parts of Alcohol.

Aidhorities. 1, Rahuteau, experiment with 50 centigrammes in 60grammes of water and 40 grammes of alcohol, L’Union Med., 1872; 2, Drumming; a boy aged 13, growing rapidly, complaining of weariness, took cod-liver oil and five min. doses of Ferrum muriaticum three times a day. Am. Observer, 1865, p. 22 ; 3, Venot, fatal poisoning by concentrated solution injected into the urethra for gleet, L’Art Med., 1857, p. 53 (from Journ. de Med. de Bordeaux, 1857); 4, Markwich, effects of 5 drops of tinct. three times a day, in a lady, B. J. of Horn., 19, 310; 5, Sir James Murray, poisoning by three ounces of undiluted tinct.. Ranking’s Abstract, 13, 342; 6, Warburton, poisoning of a woman by one ounce (“undoubtedly caused by free hydrochloric acid”). Lancet, 1869, Jan.

Mind

Loquacity

Much depressed in spirits

Head

* Headache

He improved for six weeks and then complained of severe pain in the right temple and right side of the face, stopped the medicine and the pain quickly subsided; he resumed the steel drops, and in two days he was as bad or even worse than before; again they were discontinued and no other medicine was given, and the pain disappeared the next day; after being free from the neuralgia for four days, he again took the steel, and the day but one after the neuralgia returned with increased severity, and continued to return in irregular paroxysms for the next three days, when it again disappeared

Eyes

Eyes injected

Bright redness of the margin of the lids

Face

Face somewhat flushed

Face swollen and livid

Flushed cheeks

Mouth

Tongue very coated

Tongue swollen and protruded, with ropy mucus from the mouth

Dryness of the tongue

Palate and interior of mouth burnt, and presented a parboiled appearance

Unable to speak, and apparently unconscious

Throat

Extremely severe sense of burning and constriction in the throat

Stomach

No appetite

Rather thirsty

Hand riveted to region of stomach, as the principal seat of pain,®. . Abdom en

Complaining of great pain along the whole length of the colon ; much increased by pressure and any movement of the body/.

Hypogastrium swollen and very sensitive, especially above the pubis

Piercing pains in the hypogastrium (immediately)

Stool p. 330

Diarrhoea, Half an hour after the sickness, had an attack of diarrhoea, Avith black stools, which soon ceased

She had had diarrhoea for the two previous days, which last night assumed a decidedly dysenteric character, the bowels having been repeatedly moved, with considerable pain and tenesmus, the evacuations consisting entirely of blood and membranous shreds

Stools darker than usual (first day)

Stools sometimes rather darker than usual

Nearly two quarts of inky evacuation passed off at stool

Constipation, Obstinate constipation

Urinary Organs p. 330

Alieturition, Urine rather scanty

Almost complete retention of urine

Urine, Amount of urine 1225 grammes during first twenty-four hours; next day, 1075 grammes

Urine acid, depositing neither uric acid nor urates, and containing only 1 or 2 centigrammes of iron : i. e., three or four times the normal amount

Respiratory Organs p. 330

Respiration noisy and stertorous, and suffocation impending

Noise of breathing resembled that of a bad case of croup

Breathing, especially inspirations, became oppressed

Heart and Pulse p. 330

Pulse small and accelerated

Small, frequent, and concentrated pulse

A quick, small pulse

Pulse very feeble

General Symptoms, Blood, on venesection, remarkably 6^ac^*, and so thick and viscid, that it would not flow until he cut a much larger orifice in another vein

Violent convulsions affecting the whole body, which was much contorted ; the muscles of the extremities contracted violently, and the teeth were clenched and ground together. Required to be restrained upon the couch, and her hold upon those near her could not be unloosed until the spasm suddenly ceased; duration of attacks about two minutes, that of the intervals three

Exceedingly weak, with an anxious, feverish countenance

Restlessness

Fever p. 330

Skin cold and clammy

Skin hot and disposed to be clammy