Kali Chloricum

Potassium chlorate, KCIO3.

Preparation for use. Solutions in water (triturations).

Authorities (1 to 16 from Martin’s provings, Archiv f. Horn., 16,1,181). 1, Blaufuss took 1 gi-ain (first and second days), 3 grains (fourth day), 10 grains (eighth day); 2, Graefe took one dose of 1 grain; 3, Hilpert took various doses, 1 to 5 grains; 4, Horn, various doses of 1 to 5 grains ; 5, Kunzmann, various doses, 1 to 5 grains; 6, Martin, various doses, 1 to 5 grains and 3d trit.; 7, Oehler, doses 1 to 5 grains; 8, Reichmann, 1 to 5 grains; 9, Vulpius, 1 to 5 gi-ains; 10, Werther, 1 to 3 grains; 11, Wilken, repeated doses of 4 grains; 12, Chisholm, in Hufeland’s Journ., ii, p. 84, effects of 30 grains daily for twenty-one days for faceache; 13, Rollo, from the English of Juggler, ii, p. 131, effects of 64 to 120 grains within a week ; 14, Swediaur, Maladies Syphilit., 1801 ; 15, Wendt, Mat. Med., 2d ed.; 16, Ferrier Samml., etc.; 17, Dr. Tully’s provings, Bost. Med. and Surg. J., 1832, vol. 6, p. 327, E. J. D. took a scruple at one dose; 17 a, same, took i ounce; 17 6, same, took 1 ounce; 17 c, same, took ^ ounce; 17 d, same, 1 ounce; 18, a gentleman took ^ ounce, from Fully; 18 a, same, took 1 ounce; 19, William Seven, “On the Blood,” p. 156, general effects ; 20, Hutchinson, Lancet, 1858,effects of 15-grain doses every four hours for two days in case of carbuncle ; 21, same, boy, aged 8, took 8 grains three times a day for four days for ophthalmia; 22, same, effects in a little girl with ophthalmia; 23, Dr. Henry Osborn, Lancet, 1859, p. 364, took a dose of 5 grains, after a few weeks 10 grains, and after a few months 15 grains, also effects of solution used for cleaning teeth, symptoms similar to former but less severe; 24. Isarabert, effects of 1 to 20 grammes, Bost. Med. and Surg. J., 1860, p. 32; 25, John S. Tittle, suffering from phthisis, effects of daily doses of f ounces, Br. Med. J., 1861; 26, Dr. Ferris, effects of “a large spoonful” taken by accident, Phil. Med. Times, 1873; 27, Chevalier, fatal poisoning by a dose of 20 grammes, repeated the next day, Gaz. Med. de Paris, Ang. 28th, 1875.

Mind p. 317

Slight acceleration of spirits for two days (after 15 grains)

Sad, without desire to live, apathetic mood, with chilliness, in the evening ; recurring several evenings

Ill-humor without cause, following great liveliness

Ill-humored, anxious, hypochondriac condition of the ganglionic nerve, persisting until relieved by twice repeated bleeding of the nose

Almost complete loss of consciousness, suddenly after a glass of wine

Head p. 317

Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head **, etc.; without headache,'’; on walking in the open air

Confusion in the occiput, with a peculiar sensation in the muscles of the nape of the neck

Vertigo, with congestion of blood to the head, after violent motion

A small drink of beer intoxicates very easily

General Head. Congestion of the brain to such an extent that one-half of the head, face, and nose felt paralyzed ; for two days (after 15 grains)

Sense of congestion of the head, accompanied by pain in the forehead (after 5 grains); continuing about two days (after 10 grains)

Headache; with vertigo

Constant headache

Quite violent headache; in evening, relieved next day

Cutting pain in the head, extending into the malar bones

Forehead. Tension in the forehead

Tension across the forehead, followed by sneezing and catarrh

Headache in the frontal region (“S.”?).

Drawing in the forehead, recurring

Frequently-recurring jerking in the upper and lower portion of the frontal bone

Temples. Pain in the temporal region

Headache in the left temple

Sticking pain in the right temporal region, now appearing and now disappearing; returning again very violently after six days

Parietfds. Headache in the left side

Occiput. Pain in the occiput in the evening, at times extending down into both jaws

Headache in the occiput

Eyes p. 317

Redness of both eyes in the evening, with some pain

Tendency to rush of blood to both eyes

Feeling of strength in the eyes

Cramp in the left eye

Twitching in the canthi

Violent pressure in the eyes

Some stitches in the eyes

Jerking in the inner canthi

Pain in the upper lid, in the evening

Detected in the tears

Appearance of light before both eyes, when coughing or sneezing

Far p. 317

Roaring in the ears, with a painful bloody stool

Nose p. 318

Objective. Sneezing; with violent catarrh; followed by catarrh

Frequent sneezing

Slight increase of secretion from pituitary membrane

Violent catarrh

Violent catarrh, with much sneezing and profuse secretion of mucus, quite unusual

Bleeding from the right nostril

Nosebleed twice

Violent nosebleed

Detected in the nasal mucus

Nosebleed at might,\SiibjecHve. Drawing at the root of the nose

Irritation at the root ot the nose

Irritation in the nose, frequent sneezing, with increased secretion of mucus; this occurred also next day, with jerking in the masseter muscles, which also recurred subsequently

Face p. 318

Tension in the face, with pressure towards the eyes, especially on the right side

Drawing and tension in the right half of the lace

At times sticking in various parts of the face

Increased sensitiveness of the whole face

Cheeks. Tension in the right cheek beneath the eye, extending thence to the ear, afterwards on the left side

Drawing tension in the right cheek, followed by an inclination to sneeze

Drawing in the right cheek and in the gum, with a kind of cramp in the muscles of the right cheek

Drawing in the right cheek, with pain in the lobule of the right ear, at one time more beneath the orbits, at another more in the masseter muscles

Violent drawing in the right cheek

Tensive drawing in the left cheek near the orbital margin

Cramplike drawing in the cheeks, extending into the joint of the lower jaw, at times with slight tearing in the upper jaw

Drawing pain in the right cheek until he sneezes

Pressive pain in the right malar bone beneath the margin of the orbit, followed by tension in the whole cheek and temple

Lips, Blue lips

Swelling of the upper lip ; of the lower lip

Chin. Cramplike pressure in the articulation of the lower jaw, with some stitches in both the jaw and teeth, especially of the right side

Jerking in the nerves of the lower jaw at the foramen maxillary posticum

Loath p. 318

Teeth. The teeth become blunted

Toothache in the upper jaw

Pain extending from the temporal bone to the eye teeth

The gum becomes bright-red

Gams. Reddens the gums much faster than mercury

The •gum bleeds easily when brushing the teeth as usual

Tongae. Tongue white; in the middle

Tongue coated,**; with the diarrhoea

Back of the tongue coated

Two symmetrical ulcers on the sides of the tongue, each about the size of a fourpenny piece

Feeling of coldness on the tongue, immediately

Coldness on the tongue and in the throat, lasting five minutes; immediately

Fine sticking-burning on the tongue

General 31outh. Mucous membrane of the mouth and throat appeared tanned, as if this had been effected by tannic acid (after 15 grains)

[“ Mr. Hutchinson has recently drawn our attention to some interesting cases illustrative of the power of the chlorate of potash to produce a form of stomatitis exactly resembling one over which it possesses specific curative powers”]

* Most acute ulcerative and follicular stomatitis. The whole mucous surface was red and tumid, and in the cheeks, lips, etc., were numerous gray-based ulcers

Stomatitis, not so severe as in the preceding

Muscles of the palate felt contracted (after 15 grains)

Saliva. Traces of it are detected in saliva (after five minutes)

Increased secretion of saliva

Profuse secretion of acid saliva

Although less powerful than a mercurial salivation, the results of overstimulation were apparent in a weakness of action of the salivary glands for five or six succeeding days; the intensity of the salivary excitation was proportioned to the dose administered

Increased secretion of mucus in the mouth

Taste. Sourish taste

Disagreeable, saltish, sour taste

An acid taste remains

Sticking-burning, acid taste

Very transient, bitter, sourish taste

Persistently bitter taste, with coldness on the tongue, immediately ; returning after breakfast and again after dinner, immediately after the drug; expectoration of mucus removes the disagreeable taste

Burning, alkaline taste

Saline taste

Taste as of blue vitriol, immediately

(Taste like laurel-water with salt)

Loss of taste, being scarcely able to distinguish different kinds of meat (after lb grains)

Throat p. 319

Dryness of the throat

Dryness in the throat and chest with violent cough, as after inhaling sulphur vapor (occurring after every dose of Ith or kth grain, in a girl suffering from faceache).

Scraping in the throat

Pressive pain in the throat and stomach, with inclination to eructate

Rawness in the throat

Difficult swallowing

Stomach p. 319

Appetite. Increase of appetite

Great hunger at an unusual time

Paroxysms of ravenous hunger, disappearing after a drink of fresh water; afterwards loss of appetite

Deficiency of appetite (second day), continuing (fourth day)

Considerable diminution of appetite for several days

Appetite much diminished (second day), lasting three or four days

Loss of appetite

Tllivst. Thirst, after large doses (in several syphilitic patients)

Eructation. Eructations

Eructations and nausea

Violent eructations, with alternating pains in the thorax and abdomen

Eructations of air

Sourish eructations

Slight pyrosis (after large dose of too concentrated solution)

JV^nausea aud Vouiitiug. Nausea, with slight shivering, immediately

Nausea aud three or four attempts to vomit, though nothing but air was ejected (about the time the Opium was taken)

Incessant vomiting (fourth day), aud finally death

Stomach. Feeling of warmth in the stomach

Warmth in the stomach

(Gastralgia)

Cardialgia (within an hour)

Moderate degree of cardialgia

Pressure in the epigastric region,’.-

Pressure in the stomach with a feeling of-emptiness

Pressure in the pit of the stomach with an apathetic mood and chilliness

Sensation of weight and oppression in the stomach almost amounting to pain, accompanied with slight but constant cardialgia, and considerable flatulence (within an hour), increasing so much as to nearly prevent sleep at night, continuing in a diminished degree (second day)

Sensation of weight and oppression in the stomach (within an hour), increasing to a steady and uniform gravative pain (after three hours), which at last was so urgent that a grain of Opium was taken

Sensation of weight, fulness, and distension of the epigastric region, which regularly aud gradually increased and was attended with a sensation of twisting, continuing about six hours, soon; repeated second day, but subsiding at night; recurring (third day)

Strong sense of weight and distension in the region of the stomach, in the morning (second day), continuing (fourth day)

Severe, heavy, and oppressive pain and a sensation of sinking in the stomach, after a walk of one-eighth of a mile (after four or five hours)

Cutting in the stomach

Pressure in the left hypochondrium

Pressure in the right hypochondrium, extending to the umbilicus

Abdomen p. 319

Tensive pressure in the right hypochondrium, disappearing after the emission of flatus

Sensation of weight aud tension in the umbilical region, with considerable pain, which resembled the commencements of colic ileus, or common colic (first night), relieved by Opium ; returning for three or four days

Frequent moving about in the abdomen. with inclination to diarrhoea

Flatulence (second day) ; lasting (fourth day),*"'; (within an hour)

Much flatulence during the day

Much flatulence for several days

Troublesome degree of flatulence, all the afternoon

Inability to sleep on account of flatulence and epigastric distress (first night), returning for three or four days ; relieved by Opium each day

Pain in the abdomen

(Pain in the abdomen and diarrhoea), (after 232 grains in seven days, in a syphilitic)

Pain in the bowels became very severe (fourth day)

Griping in the abdomen

Violent colic (first dose)

Pain in the pelvic region recurs after repeated doses and continues with diarrhoea for ten days

Rectum and Anus p. 320

A troublesome degree of proctica marisca took place immediately, and was not subdued for ten days

Persistent pain in the rectum

Urging to stool

Constant desire for stool, with a normal evacuation

Stool p. 320

I)diarrhoea. Violent diarrhoea, always liquid, at last after six days consisting only of mucus, continuing till the ninth day

(Painful diarrhoea)

Copious alvine evacuation, which resembled the operation of a full dose of a refrigerant purging salt (after three hours)

Faeces soft, without pain during the evacuation

Stool somewhat thinner than usual

Liquid stool the next morning

Liquid stools with pain in the pelvic region for ten days

Thin liquid stool

Faeces lighter colored than natural for ten days

Faeces often tinged with green,®b

Stool very dry, at last mixed with mucus and blood

Stool harder than usual

Stool hard and dry

Stool very indolent, delayed ; only occurring at 11.30 P.M.,®.

Constipation, Torpor of the intestines, indicated by costiveness, which was immediately attended with a moderate degree of proctica marisca, continuing third day

The usual evening stool is omitted

Urinary Organs p. 320

Itching in the urethra

31acta 1‘ition, Unusual desire to urinate

Frequent urging to urinate

Frequent micturition (after 20 grammes daily)

Frequent micturition and a discharge of nearly double the quantity of urine, with considerable of that sort of irritation about the bladder and urethra which the experimenter remembers having formerly experienced not only from Nit. of Potassa, but from Carb. of Potassa (during urinating)

Inability to empty the bladder

TJiine. (It acts as a diuretic, especially in dropsy)

Obvious increase of urine in the evening and night

Urinary secretion nearly doubled at night (first night)

Hematuria

(The urine which was previously turbid became clear; it had become turbid after doses of 1 grain) ; this followed a subsequent 5-grain dose

Urine very turbid ® ®

Urine strongly acid and deposits urates abundantly

Traces of it in the urine (after fifteen minutes)

Sexual Organs p. 320

Violent erections with emissions

Continued violent erections, with itching on the scrotum

Very much depressed sexual desire, with chilliness and apathetic mood

Respiratory Organs p. 320

Irritation to cough in the larynx

Hoarseness

Cough

Violent cough with catarrh

Chest p. 320

Rush of blood to the chest

Constriction in the chest as from sulphur fumes (in a girl suffering from pain in the face), repeated three times (after ith gr. of 5th trit.).

Tightness of the chest

Painful pressure in the left costal region, superiorly

Oppression of the chest, with violent beating of the heart

Oppression of the chest, with a sensation as if the lungs were constricted with a fine thread; this continued till the next morning when a new dose was taken ; in the afternoon the pain in the chest returned with renewed violence, and in the evening without farther cause had become exceedingly annoying; this continued three days, but entirely disappeared on the fourth day, so that a new dose was taken, which also caused oppression of the chest, lasting two days

Detected in the milk of two noises who were taking it as a medicine

Heart and Pulse p. 321

Hears Action, Distinctly perceptible (to the touch) though not accelerated beating of the heart, with coldness in the precordial region

Violent but regular beating of the heart (80)

Violent, almost audible beating of the heart, oppression of the chest and cold feet,h

Paise. Pulse increased in frequency,h

Accelerated pulse

Pulse accelerated to 80,h

(Pulse 90 in a syphilitic after taking 116 grains in seven days)

Pulse accelerated, 86 (usually 65)

Pulse 70 (usually 64 to 67), (soon after 5 grs.); even after sixty to seventy hours it was still beating 72,®.

Pulse 74 (usually 70)

Pulse 78, after twenty-four hours 74 (usually 70)

The pulse which before taking the drug was usually 65, rose within three hours to 80 and then to 90 for several hours together

Obvious and unequivocal diminution of the pulse, both in fulness and force, commencing within an hour and continuing through the evening and night

Pulse 96, which was an accidental increase of 24 beats, before taking; 80 (after half an hour); 68 (after one hour), which was 4 beats less than natural

Pulse 80, before taking ; 64 (after one hour), varying from 56 to 65, a slight exertion or motion raising it to the latter number, and quiet for a time reducing it to the former, at the same time it was considerably smaller and weaker (after two hours) ; 64 (after three aud four hours)

Pulse 76, before taking; diminished considerably in force, and also reduced about 10 beats in frequency (after one or two hours)

Pulse 76, before taking; 56, small and weaker (after one hour) ; 56 when perfectly quiet, but by a slight exertion or motion it would rise to 64 (after two hours); still smaller and weaker, 48 (after four hours); 36 (after four or five hours)

Pulse in the right hand full, soft, slow, 68, intermitting every 25 to 30 beats, not harmonious with the beat of the heart (80 to the minute); in the left baud it was small, soft, very compressible, lasting two hours

Neck and Back p. 321

Slight sense of pain and weight in the lumbar region (after 20 grammes daily)

Superior Extremities p. 321

Drawing in the forearms

Drawing and tearing in both wrists

Slight tearing in the right wrist and along the ulna

Greatly inflamed hang-nails, quite unusual

Cramp in the index finger of the right hand

Inferior Extremities p. 321

Drawing in the thigh

Violently sticking pains in the right knee-joint

Cramp in the lower leg

Generalities p. 321

Objective, Terrible convulsions, followed by death; next day the body had turned slate-color

Great weariness and desire to sleep, returning after every dose

Weakness

Great weakness, with the diarrhoea, transient

Subjective. Feeling of discomfort

Rheumatic pains in different parts of tbe body

Skin p. 321

Objective. Congestion of the surface

Eruptions L>ry. Numerous small red papules

Pimples on tbe forehead

Pimples on the lower lip, with great rush of blood to the eyes

Pimples between the lip aud chin

Pimples on the thigh and on the right corner of the mouth

A pimple with unusual burning on the left cheek

Itching in the skin at night; on the next morning there appeared small red pimples on the legs aud shoulders, not on the joints; they dry up after

Sleep and Dreams p. 321

21 forty-nine hours, and are followed by the appearance of some pimples on the face

Rash, with some painful pimples on the left shoulder, for ten days,b

JSruptioilSf 3Ioist. Itching vesicles on the back of the right hand

Pimples itching very much, with small vesicles on the back of the left hand, disappearing in the course of the day, but returning the following morning

Emptio}ist Pustular. Several pustules filled with matter, surrounded by a red areola, not itching very much

Subjective. Itching over the whole body (first day); on the next day more in the face,b

Itching over the whole body in the evening in bed,b

Much itching on the head and other portions of the body

Violent itching over the whole body

Sleep and Dreams p. 322

Sleeplessness. Uneasy sleep

Uneasy sleep, wakes towards morning, quite contrary to habit, from an anxious dream, lying on the back, with loud snoring and great difficulty of breathing

Sleep restless, frequently interrupted by heavy dreams

Sleep restless, full of vexing dreams, very unusual

Dreams. Many dreams of the occurrences of the day previous

Voluptuous dreams, with profuse emissions

Quiet dreams of prophecies of death

Quiet dreams of death from nervous fever

Fever p. 322

Chilliness. Chilliness

Chilliness over the whole body in the evening

Chilliness in the open air, very unusual, lasting three days

Chilliness, with stiffness of the hands

Continued chilliness

Great chilliness; in afternoon

Remarkable chilliness for several days

Great chilliness, even to shivering

Shivering sensation, immediately

Shivering over the whole body

Coldness in the precordial region

Remarkable coldness in the right arm

Transient internal coldness in the right forearm

Cold feet, with palpitation of the heart

Cold extremities

Cold shivers over the back and neck, with warm feet

Deal. Intolerable heat in the bed

Febrile condition, with violently throbbing pulse and heart

Flushes of heat in the face

Siveat. Detected in the perspiration

Conditions p. 322

Aggravation.

(Afternoon), Chilliness

(Evening), Sad, etc.; headache; pain in occiput; redness of eyes, etc.; pain in upper lid; chilliness.

(Night), Nosebleed.

(Walking in open air). Confusion of head.

(After violent motion), Neriigo.