Arsenicum Hydrogenisatum

Arseniuretted Hydrogen. As H3. Solution in distilled water. QUoaL— Collapse of cholera. Hiccough. Suppressed menses. Yellow fever.

Characteristics

Arsen, hydro, was used by Drysdale as a substitute for Arsenic in the collapse stage of cholera. The symptoms set in suddenly but develop slowly. In poisoning cases death often took place in the second week, and one person, who recovered, suffered seven weeks. Though like Ars. alb. in general symptoms, the

Relations p. 188

Trembling of the limbs, chiefly the arms and legs.— Trembling of the limbs (in drunkards).— Stiffness and fixedness of the limbs, sometimes with sharp rheumatic pains. — Paralysis and contraction of the

Limbs p. 188

Paralysis, especially of the lower extremities. — Faintingfits, sometimes with dizziness and swelling of the face. — Fainting, from weakness, with scarcely perceptible pulse.— Sensation of torpor in the limbs, as if they were dead.

Skin p. 188

Desquamation of the skin of the body. — Skin dry as parchment, cold and bluish. — Yellowish colour of the skin. — Shootings, hot itching, and violent burning in the skin. — Reddish or bluish spots in the skin. — Petechiae. — Inflamed spots, as from morbilli, chiefly in the head, face, and neck. — Miliary eruptions, red and white. — Conical pimples, whitish or reddish, with burning itching.— Nettle-rash.— Eruption of painful black pustules.— Eruption of itchy pimples, small and tickling. — Eruption of small red pimples, which increase and change into gnawing ulcers, covered with a scurf. — Vesicular eruptions. — Herpes, with vesicles, and violently burning, esp. at night, or with coverings, like fish-scales. — Skin jaundiced ; general anasarca ; black blisters,- Pustules filled with blood and pus.— Tettery spots, covered with phlyctenae and furfur, with burning nocturnal pains. — Ulcers with raised and hard edges, surrounded by a red and shining crown ; with the bottoms like lard, or of a blackish-blue colour, with burning pains or shooting, principally When the parts affected become cold. — Ulcers, hard on the edges, stinging, burning spongy ; with proud flesh ; turning black ; flat ; pus thin, ichorous (cancers). — Fetid smell, ichorous suppuration, ready bleeding, putridity, and bluish or greenish colour of the ulcers. — Thin crusts or proud flesh on the ulcers. — Spacelus. — Want of secretion in the ulcers. — Carbuncles (burning). — Inflammatory tumours with burning pains. — Warts. — Ulcers in form of a wart —Chilblains.— Varices.— Discoloured nails.

Sleep p. 188

Constant drowsiness with strong and frequent yawnings. — Nocturnal sleeplessness, with agitation and constant tossing. — Drowsiness in the evening. — Coma vigil, often interrupted by groans and grinding of the teeth. — Unrefreshing sleep ; in the morning it seems as if more sleep were needed. — Starting of the limbs when on the point of falling asleep. — During sleep, startings with fright, groans, talking, querulous exclamations, grinding of the teeth, convulsive movements of the hands and fingers, sensation of general uneasiness, and tossing. — In sleep, lying on the back, with the hand under the head. — Light sleep ; the slightest noise is heard, though the patient dreams continually. — Frequent dreams, full of cares, threats apprehensions, repeating and inquietude ; anxious, horrible, fantastic, lively and angry dreams ; dreams of storms, of fire, of black waters and darkness ; dreams with meditation.In the night, jerking of the limbs, heat and agitation, burning under the skin, as if there were boiling water in the veins, or cold, with inability to get warm, stifling sensation in the larynx, asthmatic attacks, great agitation, and anguish at the heart. — Frequent waking during the night, with difficulty in sleeping again. — Sleeplessness, from anguish and restlessness, with tossing about (after midnight).

Fever p. 188

Cold over the whole body, sometimes with cold and viscid

Heart p. 188

General coldness, with parchment-like dr3aiess of the skin, or with profuse, cold, clammy perspiration. — Chilliness without thirst ; worse after gas has symptoms of its own. A striking case of sudden suppression of menses was cured with it after failure of Ars. a. BelationB. — Compare: Arsen. alb. antidoted by: Am. acet. (breathing) ; Sinapisms (breathing) ; Nux v. (fever) ; drinks con* staining sulphuretted hydrogen.

Head p. 189

Stapef3ring feeling in the head as if a load were there.

Face p. 189

Face looks old and has an expression of pain.

Stomach p. 189

Loss of appetite. — Tormenting hiccough with oversensitive epigastrium. Z2« Abdomen. — Abdomen burning outside; cold feet. — Constipation, with a feeling of heaviness and stiffness like a weight in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus p. 189

Frequent flying pains in perineum to anus or upwards in anterior wall of rectum.

Urinary Organs p. 189

Pressure in kidneys extending to shoulderblades. — Discharge at times of large quantities of pale urine. — Haematuria.

Male Sexual Organs p. 189

Foreskin and glans covered with numerous pustules leaving round superficial ulcers. ze. Female Sexual Organs.— Sudden suppression of menses with internal chills for three days, followed by tearing pains in hands and feet, confused head, ringing in ears ; red diarrhoea ; dry, red, cracked tongue ; night cough, causing retching (Ars. h, cured immediately after failure of Ars. a.). vj. Respiratory Organs.— Ammoniacal breath. — Constriction of chest

Neck and Back p. 189

Pain as if something sticking behind r. shoulder-blade.

Generalities p. 189

Coldness of limbs. — Great prostration and malaise. — <From cold and damp ; general chilliness on slight exposure in change of temperature.

Skin p. 189

Dark-brown, sallow look of skin. — Deadness from hands up to middle of forearm, and feet to knees, then nose and region of eyebrows, with cessation of pulse. — Hair becomes white over the "deadened" parts.

Fever p. 189

Much heat and burning in different parts of the body, particularly over renal region.