Arsenicum lodatum

Iodide of Arsenic. As I3. Trituration.

Clinical

i4cff« rosacea Aneurism. Angina pectoris. Breast, tumour of. Bronchitis. Cancer. Catarrh. Consumption. DehUity, Dropsy. Epithelioma. Gastritis. Hay-fever. Hearty affections of. Hydrothorax. Laryngitis. Leucocythemia. Lichen. Liver, affections of. Lungs, affections of. Meades. Otorrhoea. Pneumonia. Rheumatism. Scrofulous ophthalmia. Syphilis. OhanotevistlOB.— This medicine was originally used by H. Nankivelly on analogical grounds, in cases of phthisis. It has had a short, independent proving, and symptoms observed on patients have increased the pathogenesis. The Conditions resemble more closely

Mind p. 190

Irritability. — Unable to study.

Head p. 190

Dulness of head, with dull pain in l. malar bone and occasional slight frontal headache all morning. — Bad headache on waking, lasting all day ; dull, heavy ; pressing from within outwards, < on motion, stooping, or studying.-— Severe frontal headache with dulness of entire head during forenoon, with stiffness and soreness of l. side of neck, < when moving head. — Pain over root of nose as if she would go silly. — Head seemed enormously large and heavy with the pain.— Scalp covered with inflammatory scaly eruptions.

Eyes p. 190

Eyes weak, with burning pain; smarting; secretion of meibomian glands increased.

Ears p. 190

Very sharp pain in forehead and ears « I.), when riding in a sharp, cold wind.

Nose p. 190

Chronic nasal catarrh, discharge gluey, like yellow honey, excoriating.

Face p. 190

Face sallow ; peaked ; cadaverous, with purple, livid hue.

Teeth p. 190

Intermittent pains in first r. upper molar.

Throat p. 190

Throat dry. — Hawking up from throat thick mucus and clotted blood ; it seemed to come from head and relieve the pain. ID. Appetite. — Loss of appetite. — Appetite at first increased, later pain in epigastrium. — Intense thirst, with uncontrollable desire for cold water, which is almost immediately ejected.

Stomach p. 190

Distressing nausea and vomiting. — Pain and pyrosis unbearable ; < rising after sitting ; > raising wind and a greasy fluid as after eating pork. — (Subacute gastritis.)— Vomiting an hour after food.

Abdomen p. 190

Abdomen hard and distended with flatus, which is constantly discharged. — Cutting pains, obliging to bend double.

Stool and Anus p. 190

Continual aching in anus, with seeming inability to keep sphincter closed; amounts to real dysenteric straining at stool. — Excoriating diarrhoea. — Diarrhoea or dysentery ; stools not at all at night, but urging commencing on beginning to move in morning.

Urinary Organs p. 190

Skin dry, urine increased. — (Diseases in urogenital organs, esp. in females with scrofulous taint)

Female Sexual Organs p. 190

Lump in mamma, sensitive to touch and painful ; nipple retracted. vj. Respiratory Organs. — Slight hacking cough, with dryness and stoppage of the nostrils. — Asthmatic sensations; must sit up to breathe. — Expectoration heavy night and morning. — Frequent cough with mucopurulent and occasionally stringy expectoration.— Greenish-yellow pus-like expectoration; haemorrhage (chronic induration of the lungs). — Chronic bronchitis with difficult expectoration and short breath. — Pneumonias that fail to clear up. ZQ. Heart. — Irregular pulse ; cardiac weakness ; pain either with or without valvular disease, esp. when accompanied with induration of lung tissue.

Neck and Back p. 190

Soreness of back, esp. of back of neck, as if he had been beaten. — Burning heat in lumbar region, as if the clothes were on fire. tz. Limbs. — Sharp pain in upper third of r. humerus while writing ; sifter tea minutes shifted to metacarpal bones, and was then felt in l. femur. —Cold limbs. Lower Limbs. — Peculiar chilliness back of l. thigh, followed by formication and weight of l. foot, the latter extending later up the leg ; clothes feel cold ; partially > by walking ; removed by applied warmth. — Severe laming pain L calf. — Painful formication outer border l. foot, followed by burning on instep.

Skin p. 191

Persistent itching of various parts of body, most of back. — Chronic skin affections. — Psoriasis.