Antimonium Crudum

(GRAY ORE OF ANTIMONY, TERSUI.PHATE OF ANTIMONY, STIBIUM SULPHURATUM NIGRUM.)

The pharmaceutic remedies containing the sulphuret of antimony as kermes minerale, and sulphur auratum antimonii primse, seconds, tertise praecipitationis contain very different quantities of the sulphuret of antimony according to their varying mode of preparation.

Where the crude ore of antimony is found homoeopathic in its pure effects, it will be found the more serviceable if the following symptoms are at the same time present:

Intolerance, in a child, of being touched and looked at: rush of blood to the head; troublesome itching of the head wnth falling out of the hair {Htb.)\ redness and mflamination of the eyelids; sore nostrils; heat and itching of the cheeks; paiiis m the hollow teeth; long continued loss of appetite; eructation vith the taste of the ingesta; loathing, qualmishness and nausea from spoiled stomach; colic with loss of appetite, hard stool and red urine, in a child; pinching in the belly with a sensation as if diarrhoea was coming on; alternating diarrhoea and constipation in older persons (Htb.); difficult, hard stool; constant discharge of yellowish-white mucus from the anus 303 (Htb. ) ; frequent urination with much emission of mucus and burning in the urethra with pain in the small of the back {Htb. ) ; cutting in the urethra during micturition; stoppage of the nose; painful inflammation of the tendons in the elbow-joint with severe redness and flexion of the arm; going to sleep of the legs while sitting still; \dolent pains in the lower limbs {Htb. ); corns on the sole of the foot {Htb.)] large, horn}^ places on the sole of the foot, near the toes {Htb.); honi}^ excrescence anteriorly under the nail of the big toe; malformations of the skin (Htb.)', sensitiveness to cold; somnolence {Htb.).

Hepar sulphuris and mercury according to Dr. Hartlaub, are the antidotes of crude antimony.

The abbreviations of the names of my fellow-pro vers are : C. , Dr. Caspar i; Htb., Dr. Hartlaub; Lgh., Dr. Langhamnier.

Symptoms p. 303

Ill-humored and sad in the evening.

Melancholy, irritated mood the whole forenoon; the sound of bells, as well as the appearance of all his surroundings, moves him even to tears; his breathing is labored and short.

Dejection by day. [Lgh.]

He does not speak (2d d. ). [C.]

5. anxieties. [Gmklin, allgein. Gesch. d. mineral. Glfte.]

Uneasy (2d d. ). [C.]

Anxious meditation, during the day, about himself, his present and future fate. [Lgh.]

Decided impulse to shoot himself, at night, but no inclination to any other kind of suicide; he was compelled to rise from bed because he could not get rid of the thought. [//M.]

Very much inclined to get frightened at a slight noise. [C.]

10. Ill-humor the whole day. [Lgh.]

Disheartened, he feels hot in the forepart of his head.

Peevish, unwilling to speak to anyone. [Lgh.]

Annoyed, cross without any cause (2d d.). [6'.]

Weakness of the head. [C.]

15. Insanity. [Hildanus.]

Insanity; idiocy; she did not leave her bed, would not speak unless asked, demanded neither food nor drink, but she would gladly eat if anything was offered to her and she was hungry, and would refuse it if she was not hungry; at the same time she would keep pulling her neck-cloth, or Ibid a cloth and unfold it. or she would shred threads from the bed and gather them together: she was so deficient in sensation that she had bed-sores on several places, owing to evacuations discharged which had passed under her; she did not feel these bed-sores, and never uttered a complaint. [Camerarius, sylloe memorabilhim.]

Delirium and death, after an emetic of Croc, vidall. [Inde- STOLPE, de veneris.]

Continuous state of enthusiastic love and ecstatic longing for an ideal woman, which quite filled his phantasy; more while walking in the pure, open air than in the room; disappeared after several days with a seeming diminution of the sexual impulse. [C.]

Confused feeling in the head, as after continuous work in a cold room (4th d. j. [C.]

20. Drunkenness. [C.]

Vertigo. [C.]

Headache, followed by some epistaxis (aft. yj^ h.). [Lgh.]

Light, dull headache in the sinciput and crown, increased by going up stairs. [C.]

Violent headache. [Garden, Gazette de Saute, 1793.]

25. \"violent headache, after bathing in a river, wdth weakness in the limbs, and aversion to food. [C.]

Dull, stupefying pain in the whole head, with qualmishness in the fauces, during the (customary) smoking of tobacco. [Lgh.]

Stupefying, dull pains in the head, more externally in the forehead, so that an anxious sweat broke out, while walking in the open air (aft. 6 h.). [Lgh.]

Headache as if the forehead would burst open; at the same time she was as if intoxicated, sat alone and would not speak. [Camerarius, ibid.*]

Pain in the arch of the right e^'ebrow, within the skull, as if it would press everything asunder. [C.]

30. Pressure from without inwards, with intermittent drawing, in the left side of the forehead. [C.]

Momentary drawing pain over the left temporal bone, passed off bv pressure, but returned immediately much more violently.

Tearing pain in the whole head, forward and backward, from, morning to evening. [C.]

Violent tearing in the whole head, with heat therein, toward noon (6th d.). [C.]

The tearing in the head is diminished in walking and in the open air. [C.]

35. Constant pain in the forehead and the two temples, unchanged by touching, boring from within outward (aft. 5 h.). \LghP[

Rush of blood to the head diminished (curative action). [C.]

On the left parietal bone a small spot, which, on external pressure, causes pain on the bone, as if the periosteum was swollen. [C.]

Externally on the left temple, slow throbbing, wdth fine stitching several times in succession, in front toward the eyebrows, most severe when it is not particularly attended to. [C.]

Single, sharp stitches on the hairy scalp for one minute. [C.]

40. Red, hard pimple on the left temple, painful to the pressure as if sore, close to the beginning of the cartilage of the ear. [C.]

Little, flat nodules, as large as lentils, here and there on the hairy scalp, painful on pressure, and with formication all around. [C.]

Red spot, a little harder and raised, on each side of the forehead, itching like nettles, passing away and returning! [C.]

Close above the eyebrows, a white nodule, not itching, but painful to the touch.

Itching in the external canthus of the eye, compelling to scratch (aft. 2 h.). iLo-fi.^

45. Quivering in the left eyelid. [C.]

Fine stitches, often in close succession, and without pain, in the anterior part of the eyeball, in the forenoon (9th d.). [C.]

Sharp, pressive stitches below the arch of the left eyebrow.

Reddened eyelids, with fine stitches in the eyeball. [C.]

Redness of the left eye, with photophobia in the morning, on rising, and secretion of mucus in the inner canthus. [C.]

50. Red, inflamed eyes, with itching and nightly closing by suppuration.

Inflammation of the eyes. [Garden, Gazette de Sa7ite, 1773.]

Little, humid spot on the outer canthus, which pains severely when perspiration comes in contact with it. [C.]

Much mucus in the right canthus, in the morning, with dry eyegum in both eyelids. [C.]

Eyegum in the canthi, in the forenoon (aft. 2>% ^•)- [^.^"'^^•]

55. Enlargement of the eyes. [P1.INIUS; Dioscorides.]

Incurable blindness. [Lindestoipe, de veneris.]

In the ears, stitches. [C.]

Drawing pain in the eustachian tube almost reaching into the mouth, after dinner (16 d.). [C.]

Digging and crawling in the ears, especially while Iving still (5th d.). [C.]

60. Crawling in the right meatus auditorius (2d d.). [6.]

Itching stitches on the border of the right concha above the helix of the ear, ceasing on being touched (aft. i}^, h.). [6".]

Redness, burning and swelling of the left ear, as from the sting of a fly [C.]

Swelling and redness of the whole internal concha with periodic itching. [C.]

Swashing in the ear, as of some drops of water, on moving the jaws.

65. Ringing before the ears (2d d.). [C.]

Constant buzzing of the ears, especially when there is quiet (2dd.). [C.]

Buzzing in the ears, most in the afternoon. [///^.]

Painful buzzing in the ears. [Ca3IERARIUS, ibid.]

An inveterate buzzing of the ear disappeared (curative effect).

70. Severe din in the ears, as if someone was knocking at the door of the house.

A sort of deafness of the right ear, as if a leaf were placed before the tympanum, not to be removed by digging in it with the finger (aft. 14 h.). [Lgh.]

In the evening something obstructed the right ear.

Loss of hearing. [Camerarius, ibid.]

The nose pained in respiring, as from breathing cold air, or from inspiring acrid vapor. [C.]

75. Sensation of soreness in the nostrils on drawing in the air, especial' in the right nostril, which is somewhat stopped. [C.]

Soreness of the right nostril in the front angle with painful ness, as from a cold. [C.]

Chapping and painfulness of the left nostril. [C.]

Chapping of both nostrils with formation of crusts. [C.]

Sore nostril with drawing pain.

80. Blowing out blood from the nose.

Bleeding at the nose, several days in succession.

Bleeding from the nose every evening.

Slight twitches in the facial muscles of the left side ( aft. 9 h. ).

Red pimple v/ith pus in the tip, on both sides of the nose, with sensitiveness on pressure (12th d.). [C.]

85. Vesicular pimples in the face and on the nose, like varioloid pustules, with shooting pain on pressure. [C.]

Flat pimples, itching on touching, not red, with yellow scurf on both cheeks. [C.]

Nettle-rash in the face, especially on the cheeks.

Several pimples in the face, paining like stings of flies. [C.]

A bump on the right cheek as from the sting of a y. [C.]

90. Red, burning, suppurating eruptions on the face. [Wepfer, de cicuta et antimonio r.]

An eruption with 3'ellow crust, painful to the touch and easily knocked off, on the left side of the cheek toward the chin. [C.]

On the chin and under it, when touching it a sensation as if many little sore spots were touched, and on the skin here and there small hone3^-3'ellow granules. [C.]

Burning shooting as from a spark of fire on the chin and the upper lip [7th and 9th d.). [C.]

Formication on the upper lip as from the crawling of an insect (19th and 24th d.). [C.]

'95. In the corners of the mouth, muscular twitches.

The lips are dry.

Furuncles in the corners of the mouth, with sore pains,, returning after five, eight, twelve weeks. [C.]

Red pustules on the upper lip and on the right corner of the mouth, with dull pain on pressure and of itself (20th d.). [C.]

Many red little points, with a white little tip in the middle below the left corner of the mouth. [C.]

100. Toothache in a hollow tooth, worse at night than in daytime, a stinging, twitching and digging as if it were in the nerve, drawing up and down in the head; he dare not touch it with the tongue, else it aches, as if the nerve was scratched.

The toothache is renewed immediately after eating even soft foods, aggravated by being touched with cold water, and improved in the open air.

During the nocturnal toothache, great warmth as if proceeding from the chest.

Twitching toothache, in the evening in bed and after eating.

Stitches in the tooth, when drawing in air.

105. Severe bleeding of the teeth.

The gums are detached from the teeth, and bleed easily.

Dryness of the mouth, at night (6th d.). [C.]

Much salty saliva in the mouth. [Wepfer, idid.]

Collection of water in the mouth. [C.]

110. Gathering of water on the tongue. [C.]

Odor from the mouth as in mercurial salivation.

Violent salivation from the nose and mouth. [Ephemer. n. c. dec. I. a. 3, obs. 270.]

Salivation, without odor, from the mouth, and without looseness of teeth. \_lKM^s/WL^WL [.on' Beobachtimg, 1790.]

On the tongue, anteriorly on the left margin, in close succession, some fine, sharp stitches, after dinner (aft. 33 h. ). [C.]

115. Feeling of soreness and redness, on a small spot of the right margin of the tongue, for several days, frequently ceasing and suddenly returning (6th d. ). [C.]

Blisters on the tongue.

Tongue coated white, in the forenoon (aft. 2 h. ). [Lgh.]

On the palate, the whole night, a fine pinching, especially painful on deglutition and only passing away in the morning after the expectoration of mucus, which had collected through the night on the palate; only a sense of rawness remained. [C.]

Scraping sensation on the velum palate, as if much mucus was lying upon it, which can only be ejected after much hawking and often not at all, for several days (7th d. ) [C.]

120. Scraping in the palate, with much expectoration of mucus by hawking (aft. 5 weeks). [C.]

In the throat much viscid mucus collects during the whole day. [C] . .. .

Sore throat, as from a swelling or a lump on the lett side of the throat.

Impeded swallowing. [Garden, ibid.]

Violent thirst, with dryness of the lips.

125. Intense thirst. [Wepfer, ibid.]

In the evening, thirst, and inclination to drink.

Drinks much only at night.

Much thirst, at night Taft 6 d. ). [C.]

Appetite extremely little.

130. Lack of appetite. [Stahl, Mater. Med., Dresden, 1744.]

Strong feeling of hunger in the region of the stomach, in the morning on awaking, without appetite, not removed by eating; at the same time a disagreeable feeling of emptiness in the scrobiculus cordis, and lack of heat in the bodv; for two days (aft. 4W. ).

During a moderate dinner a sensation as if the abdomen was very full, and a quantity of flatus arises and moves about the abdomen. [C.]

After a meal, indolence and an inclination to lie down. [C.]

The fullness and tension after a meal often alternates wdth lightness, cheerfulness and activity of spirit and bodv after a meal. [C.]

135. After dinner, lassitude, tremulous weariness and heaviness in all the limbs, as if coming from the abdomen, with trembling of the hands in writing, and subsequent passage of much fetid flatus, with distention of abdomen. [C.]

During supper, dyspnoea.

Eructation, with a raw taste. [Lgh.]

Loud eructation (aft. }{ and ij4 h..). [C.]

Bitter eructation, like bile (aft. 5 h. ).

140. Regurgitation of fluid, with a taste of the ingesta, in the afternoon (2d and 3d d. ). [C.]

Hiccup (aft. I h.). [Lgh.]

Hiccup, frequently, while smoking tobacco (aft. io}4 h. ).

Nausea, with vertigo. [C.]

Nausea after drinking a glass of wine. [C.]

145. Inclination to vomit. [Garden, ibid.]

Violent loathing. [Morgenstern, de usu Antim. cr., 1756.]

Fearful vomiting, not to be stopped by anything. [Line- STOLPE, ibid.]

Violent vomiting, with anxiety. [Friedr. Hoffmann, med. rat. et system.]

Vomiting of mucus and bile. [Matthiolus; Gotze, in Act. Vratislaviensibus . *]

150. Dreadful vomiting, with convulsions. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Violent vomiting and diarrhoea. [Morgenstern, ibid.]

Violent vomiting and diarrhoea, attended with the greatest anguish. [Boletus, Polyalthea.]

In the stomach, painful sensation on external pressure upon it. [C] 1 Not accessible. — Hughes. -General statement (from authors).— //M^/it-^. 3 Add Part I., § 2, Chapt. 3, of folio ed. Geneva, 1761. Statement of ill effects of antimonial

e emetics . — Hugh es . 4 Effects of Ant. cr. in a patient with syphilitic ulceration.— /f«P■/^^.y

•Statement of occasional effects of Ant QV.~H2ishes. i

Pressure in the stomach, which resembles more a dull cutting, especial on drawing in the abdomen. [C.]

155. Pressure in the stomach, in the morning, with thirst (20th d.). [C.]

Pain in the stomach as from excessive fullness, but without fullness and with appetite. [C.]

Pain in the stomach, as after eating too much, with distended abdomen without hardness (aft. 3 d.). [C.]

Sensation of tightness in the stomach with empty eructations.

Spasmodic pains in the stomach [Fr. Hoffmann, ibid.]

160. Cramp of the stomach. [Stahl, ibid.]

Cramp of the stomach all their life, with several persons. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Burning, cramp-like pains in the scrobiculus cordis, in paroxysms of half an hour, driving him to despair and to the determination to drown himself.

Burning in the scrobiculus cordis, like heartburn, with good appetite. [C.]

Pinching pain on the right side above and beside the scrobiculus cordis. [C.]

165. In the hypochondria, a slight tension. [Wepfer, ibid.]

In the bowels a transient, fatiguing sensation, as after violent diarrhoea. [C.]

Violent distention of the abdomen, especially after a meal. [C.]

Distended, big abdomen. l//fd.~\

Very much distended abdomen, and pain arising thence as from an internal pressure. [C.]

170. The most intolerable pains in all parts of the abdomen. [Gmklin, ibid.]

Pinching pain to the left of the umbilicus. [C.]

Transient colic in the region of the stomach. [C.]

Pinching, as if rhythmically with the pulse in a small spot on the left side of the abdomen, quite low down, in the afternoon (3d d.), [C.]

Pinching in the abdomen, especially on the right side toward the back, beginning suddenly in the evening and aggravated by motion (aft. 3 w. ). [C.]

175. Cutting in the abdomen, very violent (2 2d d. ). [C.]

Cutting in the abdomen with qualmishness there, and collection of water on the tongue. [C.]

Sudden compressive colic with regurgitation of water in the mouth. [C.]

Cutting in the abdomen the whole day, with sensation of oppressive anxiety from the stomach, distaste for work, dry humor and pain in the stomach, during eructations. [C.]

Several fits of colic in the region of the stomach. [C.]

180. Sensation of emptiness in the bowels, ceasing after eating.

All the abdominal troubles continence again alter two and oneself weeks, [r.]

In the inguinal region, pains as from a swelling, when pressing upon it; the place feels hard, like swollen glands. [C.]

Hard gland in the left groin, painful on pressure; it seems to lie above Poupart's ligament, and to run parallel with it. [C.]

Hernia. [Camerarius, ibid.]

185. Gurgling in the abdomen, as when air bubbles rise in water.

Loud grumbling in the hypogastrium (aft. 1^2 h.). [Lgh.]

Loud grumbling in the abdomen as from emptiness, in the forenoon (aft. 3 h.). [Lgh.]

Flatus very frequent' forms immediate' after a meal, and moves about audibly, especially}* on the right side of the abdomen, \ith discharge of a portion (aft. 6 h. ). [C.]

A quantity of rumbling and explosive flatus immediately after the meal, of which some is discharged with ill odor, the remainder rolls about in great quantities, especially on the right side of the abdomen, before it is discharged (9th d.). [C.]

190. With a sensation of distention, as if a copious stool were coming, a quite insignificant quantity of flatus was discharged (aft.

Constipation for three da^'s.

Severe, sudden urging to stool after dinner, and quick discharge of an ordinary stool, with straining (4th d. ). [C.]

Hard stool in the morning (aft. i h. ). [Lgh.]

Very difficult hard stool.

195. Difficult evacuation of a hard stool, with previous straining in the rectum for about two minutes (aft. 12 h.). [Lgh.]

Difficult discharge of a hard stool, without previous straining (aft. 11 h.;. [Lgh.]

Firm stool in the evening, with violent straining in the rectum and cutting in the abdomen. [C.]

Stool first normal, then several small, soft stools, followed by just as small, but hard, stools with violent straining in the rectum and anus until all is over. [C.]

Pappy, frequent stools (aft. ij4 h. ). [Lgh.]

200. Very thin stools. [C.]

The stool, which previously had been pretty firm, now becomes vers' thin. [C.]

After taking vinegar, very thin stool, with pain in the rectum at the evacuation. [C.]

Ineffectual urging to diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea, at night and in the morning, but each time only one discharge.

205. Mucus flows from the anus, on discharge of flatus.

Continuous passage of blood and solid faeces through the rectum. [Lixdestoepe , ibid.]

Discharge of black blood through the rectum. [Matthioeus, ibid.]

During stool, pain in the rectum like soreness, or as if an ulcer had been torn open. 1 " Hernia ventriculi," after violent vomiting.— Hitg/ies . -isrot found. — Hughes. i

Protrusion of the rectum during stool, for some time. [C.]

210. Drawing pain in the anus. [C.]

Itching in the anus. [C.]

Sharp itching in the rectum (7th d.). [C.]

Burning itching and chaps in the anus, at night (aft. 3d.).

The varices in the anus protrude more than usual Taft. 11 d.).

215. Formication and burning in the varix of the anus, in the evening, in bed, until going to sleep (aft. 11 d. and 5 w.). [C.]

On the perinseum a furuncle, which pained and burned far around. [C.]

Urging to urinate, frequent and violent, with much emission of urine every time (aft. i, 2, 2^/^ h.). [Lgh.]

Frequent micturition, with discharge of little, watery urine (4th d.). [C.]

Much urging to micturition, but little is discharged (aft. 5 d.). [C.]

220. Long continued, frequent micturition, with little discharge and quick urging (i8th d. ). [C.]

It urges to urination. [Saundkrs, observant. de anfimo7i., etc., London, 1773.]

Frequent urination. [Lgh.]

Very copious micturition, even three times a night (loth d. ).

Copious, frequent micturition. [Wepfer, ibid."]

225. Involuntary copious micturition, with a convulsive cough (by Sulph. aiij\). [C.]

Golden yellow, thin urine, with a scarcely perceptible cloud. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Brownish-red urine. [C.]

Dark-colored, frequent urine (aft. 7 h.). [Lgh.]

Little red bodies in the urine, after standing twenty-four hours. [Wkpfkr, ibid.]

230. In the spermatic cords, constant drawing, while a furuncle is on the perinseum; the pain was most violent in standing, and was diminished by stooping. [C.]

On the penis, fine itching (aft. 14 h. ). [C.]

Violent itching of the extremity of the glans. [C.]

Smarting itching as from salt, on the left side of the scrotum, frequently, for 14 days (aft. 14 d.), [C.]

Violently excited sexual impulse, with restlessness of. the whole body, so that he can not remain sitting anv time (aft. b h.).

235. Later on, the sexual instinct seems to be diminishctl tor several days. [C.]

Erections (aft. 6 h.). [6.]

Inclination to pollutions, even on leaning the back against anything.

Pollutions at night, without voluptuous dreams. [A'"]

Pollution, with many dreams at night (nth d. ). [C.]

240. In the womb, pressure as if something would come out.

Discharge of acrid water from the vagina, which causes smarting down the thighs.

Stoppage of the nose, in the evening, as from catarrh, for several days. [C.]

Dr^-ness of the nose on walking in the open air, so that he can hardly speak.

245. Coryza. Stuffed coryza. [C.]

Coryza with sore, encrusted nostrils. [C.]

Fluent coryza. [C.]

Fluent coryza, in the morning, for several hours, without sneezing. [Z/z.]

Much thick, yellowish mucus has to be drawn from the posterior nares into the fauces and ejected, all the day (9th d.). [C.]

250. Hoarseness.

Extreme weakness of the voice; he can only speak quite low. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Speaking and singing are unsteady and weak. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Loss of voice, as often as he became heated; it returns through rest. [Wepfer, ibid.]

In the throat, in the morning, he is very hoarse and dry (6th d.). [C.]

255. In his throat a foreign body seems to be suspended, which he seeks in vain to swallow or to eject. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Violent spasm in the bronchia and in the fauces, as if a plug, which at times seems to become thicker then again thinner, was filling the throat, with a sensation of soreness.

Clearing the throat and hawking while walking in the open air.

Cough in the morning after rising, in parox5'sms, as if coming from the abdomen; the first fit of cough is always the most violent, the following ones become continually weaker, so that the last is only like tussiculation.

Frequent dry cough. [Wepfer, ibid.]

260. Dr\', shaking cough, with involuntary copious discharge of urine (in a woman who had taken S^dph. aur. for a cough with copious expectoration ) . [C.]

Severe dry cough, scratching in the bronchia, in a sudden short paroxysm. [C.]

Cough with ejection of viscid, thin mucus: deep from the chest, in the morning. [Wepfer, ibid.]

With every cough, burning in the chest, as from a fire, with glowing hot breath from the mouth. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Deep, sighing respiration, as from fullness of the chest, for several days, in the afternoon and after a meal. [C.]

265. D3'apnoea after supper.

Difficulty of breathing. [Garden, ibid.]

Asthma. [Stahl, ibid.]

Very troublesome asthma. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Suffocating asthma with four youths. [ Joxtbert, lib. de Peste, Cop. I9.T

270. Suffocating rheum. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Pressure on the chest, in the morning on awaking. [C.]

Pressive pain in the right breast, in the evening, while lying down. [C.]

Severe, pressive pain, now in the chest, now in the back, now in both at the same time. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Pressure on the chest. [C.]

275. Partly pressive, partly lancinating pain under the left clavicle, as if in the bronchia, while respiring. [C.]

Dull stitches in the chest, on taking a deep breath, first on the right side under the first two ribs, then under the upper part of the sternum. [C.]

Stitches in the left side of the chest, while respiring, with some cough and headache. [C.]

Sharp stitches in the left breast while expiring when standing (aft. 5I1.); iLgh.-]

Pinching stitches in the middle of the chest (3d d. ). [C.]

280. Burning in the chest, with dry cough and tightness, as if about to choke. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Violent palpitation of the heart. [Godofr. Schulz i?i tract, de natura ti?ict. bezoard., Cop. 5.*]

In the pectoralis major muscle, in the morning on rising and for a few hours afterward, while stretching and lifting the arm, and in pressing upon it, a pain as if crushed, or as after too great exertion (8th d.). [C.]

Itching on the chest, as if a vesicatory was healing. [C.]

Severe, continual itching on the chest the whole day.

285. Itching on the chest and the back. [Htb.]

Violent itching on the chest wakes him at night, and he feels pimples in various places. [C.]

When he rubs the skin on his chest on account of the itching, it feels sore; the skin is sensitive as after a vesicatory. [C.]

The chest feels as if sprinkled over with fine red points, with a violent itching, not removed by scratching. [C.]

In the small of the back, on rising from sitting, violent pains which vanish on walking.

290. Sudden pains in the small of the back, in the morning and the whole day, not at night. [C.]

Pain as from swelling in the cartilage or the periosteum of the upper part of the ilium. [C.]

In the back, tearing, the whole dav, from morning till evening. [C.]

spasmodic stitches in the right scapula when sitting. [Lo-h,]

Violent itching upon the back, for fourteen days. [C.]

295. Little red pimples, quite on top of the right shoulder, without any sensation, passing away for a short time on pressure (7th d.). [C.]

Rash behind the ears extending to the nape of the neck and the scapulae.

Red prickly heat with yellow tips over the whole right shoulder; later on they look like goose skin and scale off. [C.]

Brown liver colored spots on both shoulders. [C.]

In the nape of the neck and between the scapulae, a straining while stooping.

300. Cramp-like drawing pains in the muscles of the neck, down into the scapulae in the evening, after lying down, and in the

, morning; aroused and aggravated by stooping, exerting the arm and turning the head to the left (12th d. ). [C.]

A hard pea-shaped body on the left side of the neck, under the skin; it can only be felt by stretching the skin in bending the head. [C.]

On the neck, a drawing, pressing inward, on the left side, below (19th d.). [C.]

Cramp-like drawing from above downward in one of the muscles of the posterior cervical region on the right side, in the evening when sitting (8th d.). [C.]

Single stitches in the skin of the neck, now here, now there. (2d and 3d d.). [C.]

305. Itching on the neck. [C.]

Sensitiveness of the skin of the neck; when he rubs hard on account of the itching, there is a feeling of soreness. [C.]

Small pimples on the neck and under the chin, painful to the touch (13th d.). [C.]

Hard, long continuing pustules under the throat, like little smallpox pustules, which fill up with pus not only in the tips, but all over. [C.]

Many red points with a little white tip in the center, with stinging pains on stroking over the hairs of the beard, on the anterior side of the throat. [C.]

310. Under both arms, a stitch, on walking in the open air.

Sharp itching of the inside of the left arm. [C.]

Itching of the arms with appearance of reddish blisters, like stings of flies, on rubbing. [C.]

Many light-brown little spots, Hke little hepatic spots on the arms. [C.]

On the middle of the upper arms, pimples like rash, without itching (14th d.). [C.]

315. Paralytic pain in the muscles of the upper arm, in bending the arms, as if they were too much contracted, or weakened by this exertion. [C.]

Twitching drawing in the muscles of the upper arms, which passed away not by motion but by warmth, and returned in a draught.

Sudden drawing jerking, transversely through the right upper arm (aft. lo, 20, 120 min,). [C.]

Light muscular twitching in the right upper arm, in the deltoid muscle (5th d,). [C.]

On the bend of the elbow, corrosively itching pimples.

320. Cracking in the elbow joint, on turning it hither and thither. [C.]

In the forearm drawing, in rest and in motion. [C

Drawing down the right forearm (aft. i h.). [C.]

Paralytic drawing in the right forearm (aft. 2 h.). [Htb.]

Inward pressing drawing on the inside of the lower forearm (19th d.). [C.]

325. On the wrist of the left arm there appears at night a large pimple. [C.]

Itching heat vesicles on the left hand. [C.]

A blister on the styloid process of the ulna of the right arm. [C.]

A blister on the external border of the left hand. [C.]

Corrosively itching, eruptive pimples in the ball of the hand, on the muscle of the thumb.

330. Cracking in the joint of the metacarpal bone of the thumb, on motion (gali d. ). [C.]

Drawing pain in the fingers and their joints. [C.]

Gouty pains in the joints of the third finger of the right hand. [C.]

Fine itching in the tip of the left thumb (aft. 14 h.). [C.]

The nails of the fingers did not grow as quickly as usual, and the skin under them was painfully sensitive [C.]

335. Red, pimple-like itch, stingingly painful to the touch, with brown scurf on the posterior joint of the right thumb (24th d.). [C.]

Pain in the right hip-joint. [C.]

Dra^?ving pain in the left hip-joint, when walking, especially when bending the leg backwards; also in the evening. [C.]

Drawing pain in the left hip. [Htb.]

Painful drawing from the hip-joint toward the sacrum. [C.]

340. -In the nates, drawing through the hip-joint, around into the thigh (7th d.). [C.]

Light twitching of the muscles in the left nates, in the evening, when sitting (5th d. ). [C.]

Urging, for a few minutes, in the lower part of the right nates, when standing (aft. 4 w.). [C.]

Large, hard pustule on the left nates, with itching and tensive pain. [C.]

A little protuberance on the right nates of a child. [L .]

345. On the leg, white, hard tubercles, as large as lentils, arising from itching, and surrounded by a small, red areola. [( .]

Bluish spots on the thighs. [LindestolpE. ibid.]

On the thigh of the right leg, quite high up. repeated tension, like a small spasm (7th d. ). [C.]

Drawing pain in the posterior muscles of the left thigh. [C.]

Drawing pain in the anterior and inner side of the thigh. [C.]

350. Cramp-like sensation on the external border of the left thigh, as if the muscle contracted quite slowly, and then again extended itself, in the afternoon (aft. 10 h.). [C.]

Sharply stinging itching on the inside and the interior surface of the left thigh (aft. ^V-z h. ). [C.]

Fine' stinging itching on the right thigh, not passing off by scratching; afterward a small, fiat, yellowish pimple on the same place. [C.]

The stinging itching on the thighs returns every evening.

In the knee a pain, so that he cannot stretch the foot, but has to limp.

355. Stiffness of the knee, for eight days.

Painful stiffness of the knee; she could not stretch it for pain, and had to limp.

Pain immediately below the knee, as if tied too tight, the whole evening (aft. 13 d. ). [C.]

A stitch in the left knee, so that he was startled and had to jerk up his leg (loth d.). [C.]

Sudden, violent stitch on the outside of the knee. [C.]

360. Drawing pain in the right knee. [C.]

Itching in the right knee, on the inner side, and after rubbing it, a large blister, which pains only for a short time. [C.]

Red pimples, like blisters, on the knee, like varioloid pustules, with a stinging pain on pressure. [C.]

A lump on the right knee, as from the sting of a fly. [C.]

In the leg, a drawing pain, reaching into the knee.

365. Drawing pain on the lower part of the left tibia. [C.]

Drawing pain on the inside of the left calf. [C.]

Painless drawing, in the evening when sitting, in the right leg, from the knee, and also from the ischium down the thigh and the tibia, even into the foot, so that he has to lift it up and bring it into another position; several times in succession ( loth d. ). [C.]

Pinching, painless and intermitting, quite low down in the right calf. [C.]

Sharp stitch in the shaft of the shin-bone, from within outward, in sitting (aft. 5 h. ). [Lgh.]

370. Stitches which run low down on the tibia. [Lgh,]

Clucking in the posterior side of the right leg, and immediately afterward stitches in the ankle-joint (3d d.). [C.]

Formication down the left calf, without itching (aft. i4h. ). [C.]

Fine itching on the left tibia (aft. 4^^ h. ). [C] - A spot which pains to the touch as if bruised, on the outside of the left calf, for several days (aft. 24 h.). [C.]

375. Bluish spots on the shin-bone. [Lindestolpe, ibid.]

The foot is so heavy that she cannot lift it.

Going to sleep and numbness of the right foot when walking.

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Pain, as if sprained, in the right external malleolus, in turning the foot outward, with frequent cracking of the joint in bending and stretching it (5th d.). [C.]

Drawing pain in the left heel (aft. 3 h. ). [C.]

380. Cramp-like drawing on the outer side of the left heel ( aft. i>^ h.). [C.]

Intolerable burning, lancinating and tearing pains in a gangrenous foot, with insensibility of the same to touch and to pricks of a needle into it. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Sharp and fine prickly stitches in the sole of the foot f loth d.). [C.]

Painful stitches in the skin of the sole of the right foot, passing off by rubbing; in the evening in bed, after a walk of three hours (8th d.). [C.]

Severe itching under the right external malleolus, not immediately passing off by scratching, and leaving behind a small red spot. " [C.]

385. Chilblains on the feet, with pain and redness in summer.

Great sensitiveness of the soles of the feet to walking, especially on stone pavements, for a long time (aft. 7 d.). [C.]

Large horny places on the skin of the sole of the foot, near the beginning of the toes, paining like corns, and always returning after being cut out. [C.]

Gangrene of the foot, which is quite black. [Wepfer, ibid.]

The big toe cracks with every motion requiring an effort. [C.]

390. Tearing, drawing through the right big toe. [C.]

Rhythmical cutting under the left big toe (6th d.). [C.]

Burning pain on the ball of the right big toe (6th d. ). [C.]

Fine itching on the left big toe (aft. 4^ h.). [C.]

A corn on the left little toe, it pains without cause, as if squeezed (7th d.). [C.]

395. Muscular twitching in many parts of the body.

Single, long continued, tickling, itching stitches here and there, especially on the upper arm, from within outwardly; also under the right nates, not urging to scratch.

Itching on the whole body, especially on the chest and the back. [C.]

Itching on many parts of the bodv, especially on the neck and the limbs. [C.]

Eruptive pimples coming on at night. [C.]

400. Eruptive pimples which itch on getting warm in bed at night, and thus take away the night's sleep.

Red pimples like blisters, like varioloid pustules, with stinging pain on pressure, on various parts of the skin. [C.]

Pustules with yellow or brown scurf here and there. [('.]

Eruption of red points wdth white tips in the middle, in various places. [C.]

Eruptions like rash. [C.]

405. Nettle rash; white bumps with red areolae, with violent burning and fine stitches, in the face and on the limbs, except the fingers, which were swollen, with severe thirst and nausea.

Bumps and blisters as from the stings of insects, in many parts of the body especially in the face and in the joints of the hmbs; they arise with itching and often disappear even after a few hours. [C.]

Brown spots and dots, like hepatic spots, here and there, especially on the arms. [C.]

Discolored nails. [lyiNDESTOLPE, ibid.]

He feels ill in the heat of the sun and the warm air, even with light motion and work. [Wepfer, ibid.]

410. Wine drinking especially aggravates his condition. [Wepfer, ibid.]

At rest and in cool air he feels better. [Wepfer, ibid.]

His symptoms all return again after the third week, but from then on they appeared more on the left side of the body. [C.]

Convulsive motions, especially of the head. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Twitchings and trembling of the limbs. [Fr. Hoffmann, ibid.]

415. Immense swelling of the whole body. [IvINDestoipe, ibid.]

Dropsical swelling of the body. [I^otichino, observationes}'\

Incurable dropsy. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Excessive hemorrhages. [Fr. Hoffmann, ibid.]

Emaciation and loss of strength. [Wepfer, ibid.]

420. Getting fat. [Kunkel von LowenstERN, laboratory. chemic.]

Apoplexy wdth such a violent flow of saliva that he discharged nearly a quart of water through his nose and mouth. [Ephemer, N. c. dec. I. a. 3.]

Death, after some hours, from antimony given for cramps of the stomach. [Fr. Hoffmann, ibid.]

Death from suffocating rheum, after fifteen days, from some grains of crude antimony. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Weariness, especially in the feet, with great peevishness, at 7 p. M.

425. Great weariness in the morning, and indisposition to rise, [C.]

Yawning, frequently three and four times in succession. [Wepfer, ibid.]

Great drowsiness during the day, and in the morning on awaking; he can not force himself out of his bed. [C.]

In the afternoon, sudden transient drowsiness, when sitting.

Sleepy and peevish at 6 p. m., and at 8 oclock he can not keep from going to sleep; at night sound sleep until morning, when he is so tired that he can scarcely open his eyes. [C.]

430. At 7 p. M. she is seized with almost irresistible sleep; she 319 sleeps all the night till morning, and then feels well, for six days in succession. [C.]

Somnolence in the forenoon. [/-^^/^]

Slumber with fantastic delusions.

Slumber with fantastic delusion, as if some one was knocking at the door, and that she was called by some one.

Late in going to sleep; he could not get any sleep before 12 oclock.

435. Wide awake in the evening in bed, so that he could not go to sleep for an hour; at the same time frequent cold shiverings, especially over the whole of the left side, on which he is not lying; or, when he gets warm, lasciviousness with erections which make him more wide awake than before; eight days in succession, and again after five weeks. [C.]

Little sleep ( ist night ) . [C.]

At night uneasy sleep, caused by itching stitches now and then, which pass away on rubbing.

Frequent awaking from intolerable itching on the chest, where he felt pimples. [C.]

Frequent awaking from itching here and there, with perceptible vesicles. [C.]

440. Awaking about 2 oclock at night with slight general warmth and burning itching and excoriation on the anus (3d d.). [C.]

Awaking from his siesta after dinner, by and with dull gnashing of the teeth (2d d. j. [C.]

Awaking from strangury, at night.

At night, discharge of little urine in an intermittent stream, with painful erections.

He lies on his back at night. [Lg/z.'l

445. At night frequent awaking, as from fright. [Lgh.]

Anxious in bed, from 3-5 oclock.

Frequent awaking at night, and when he fell asleep he dreamed of solemnities.

Anxious dreams, as if he would be wounded; he jumps up from sleep and struggles with hands and feet.

Horrible dreams of mutilations of men.

450. Dreams of his own family at home, with whom he quarreled, disturb his night's rest. [Lgh.]

Vexatious dreams, full of quarrels with relatives, rouse him at night from sleep. \Lgh7\^

Lascivious dreams for several nights in succession, also with pollutions (aft. 11 d. ). [C.]

Voluptuous images in his dreams at night, with pollution.

Dream about seeing an old schoolmate, at which he rejoiced (aft. 23 h.). iLgh:\

455. Much chill, no heat.

Unpleasant feeling of internal chilliness, so that he could never get really warm; returning after five weeks. [L .]

Chilly, even in the warm room. [C\]

Feet always cold as ice. [C.]

His feet do not get warm before i oclock at night. [C.]

460. Shivering over the whole back, without thirst (aft. 2 h.).

Shivering over the whole body, in the morning, with heat m the forehead, without thirst Taft. J2 h.). [Lgh.]

Severe shaking chill toward noon, with violent thirst for beer for an hour; then, after sleeping, heat and constant thirst.

By the least motion, especially in the sunshine, he is overheated', and complains of excessive heat in the throat. [Wepfer. ibid.]

Goat's milk gives him an agreeable refreshment. [Wepfer, ibid.]

465. At night, in bed, he gets very hot with profuse perspiration. [Wepfer, ibid.]

General perspiration, without smell, causing the finger-tips to soften and wrinkle ( 12th d.). [6]

Perspiration during sleep. [Lgh.]

In the morning, on awaking, a light perspiration over the whole body (aft. 21 h.). [Lgh.]

Every other morning, general warm perspiration in bed. [C.]

470. Perspiration, returning at the same hour for three days. [XicoLAi, progr. ad Dissert., Reindeer, de oleo V, et s. s.]

Pulse, now a few quick beats, then three or four slow beats (at once).

Notes

As this driigr appears here for the first time, the character of Hahnemann's— and probably of ianghammer's— contributions to its pathogenesis may be inferred. But more than four- fifths of It IS due to the other two physicians mentioned, who published their observations in Hartlaub and i:mk's Arz7iei}niiteUehre (Val. i.) in 1829, stating that they were made on healthy persons taking fractional doses of the crude substance triturated with milk-suo-ar —Hughes

1 General statement (from authors) of effects.— ////.cAt'J'"- - Observations. Cent. I'., D. 12. ']Mie case is that of sympt. m—Hui>,h,

1 Effects of over-dosing in adults. The last clause should read : " So obtuse was her sense- ability that when, from the acrimony of the evacuations and her position ou the back, a large and foul ulcer formed over ihe sacrum and coccyx; she complained of no pain from it.'"— Hug he i. - Genera' statement. This symptom is not found.— /^/r^/j«.

3 Not accessible. — Hughes.

* Not {owwdi. — Hughes. Dioscorides only mentions the beneficial effects of the local application of .•!«/. ulcers of the eyes; and the drug was only used topically i" Pliny's times. — ///<.c//.>. -Not found. — Hughes. 21

1 Preceding sympt. 75, where see uo'l^.— Hughes. -After violent vomiting. Left ear soon recovered, but right remained permanently deaf-, reporter ascribes it to rupture of membrana tympani. — Hughes. ■^ Cases of poisoning of men and animals. — Hughes.

1 Should be Misc. Nat. Cur. instead of Ephem. Same case as S. 421.— ffuj^/ifs.

2 Not accessible. (The symptom is not mentioned by James in hts treatise on tho Kever Powder.) — Hughes. ^ " But rarely," the author says.- -H//,!://rs. -In a dog.—Hi/s^/ii's. ^ Not accessible — Hughes. -" Suffocative catarrh " coming on fifteen days after amputation t^f loot ison sympt. 5j and note) and ending in death (see sympt. 423). — Hughes. •*Not found. — Hughes.

* Not accessible. — Hughrs.

1 Not {oxw6..—Hup;hes.

1 Not ^oxxvi^.—Hzighes.

1 See sympt 3S8.— Hughes. -This set in soon after violent voniitin"- had subsided (? einbolisni~i— ////.t:Af-.<

1 Not found. — VLiighes. ■-In a puppy. — Hughes. Not iowwd..- -Hughes.

*Case of over-dosing in an adult (lib. IV., Cop. 3, D. 5). Jaundice had preceded the emetic of Ant. cr., which was followed by this ascites. It terminated in death.— Hughes. •' Not found. — Hughes. •' Effects of continued use (p. d^is^.— Hughes. ' Read ''Misc. Nat. Cur." instead of "Ephemer."— Hughes. ^ see note to Sympt. 270. — Hughes.