Kali arsenicosum
Allen, The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1874, Vol. V, p. 212
Potassium arsenite, As20,K20.
Preparation, Solution in water.
Authorities. 1, Berndt, from Wibmer, a man took a few drops ; 2, Prov. Med. and Surg. J., 1848, p. 459, a boy, aged 16, took three drops three times a day for scaly eruption on arms and legs; 3, Cattell, additional effects from Med. Times, old series, 12, p. 390, etc.
Mind
Dementia
Eyes
Inflammation of tarsi
The eyes are suffused with tears
Conjunctiva injected ; or glassy
The conjunctiva is slightly inflamed
Conjunctivitis
Sight dim
Throat
Constriction of the throat
Submaxillary glands swollen and tender
Stomach
Nausea, vomiting, and purging; the vomiting was repeated more than two hundred times (after a quarter of an hour),h
Vomiting, severe colic, and general prostration of the strength
Gastritis
Slight pain at epigastrium
Mucous irritation of the stomach
Abdomen
Severe colic, vomiting, and general prostration of the strength
Stool
Violent diarrhoea
Urine
Urine not very plentiful, and covered with a pellicle
Heart
Palpitation
Extremities in General
Trembling of the limbs
Great weakness and partial paralysis of upper and lower extremities, with burning pains in the feet
Superior Extremities
The hands become quite stiff, insensible; the right hand was flexed, with a sticking sensation in the palms
Inferior Extremities
The knees were bent up so that he could not move the feet
Generalities
with febrile heat
Weariness
Agitation and alarm
Neuralgic pains
Aggravation from a slight cold
Skin
Desquamation of cuticle
Nettlerash (ninth day)
Faint pityriasis all over covered parts, which are dirty-brown, or dingy, and have an unwashed appearance
Pustular eruption
Ecthyma
Pruritus, and with papulje on scrotum
Sleep and Dreams
Want of sleep at night
Restless nights
Fever p. 213
Hands and feet icy cold, insensible
Flushes of heat
Febrile beat with lassitude