Arsenicum iodatum

Iodide of Arsenic. Asl^.

In 1872, H. Nankivell, residing at the seashore where patients came to be improved by the air, gave the report of cures of phthisical cases. In most all cases cod liver oil was given daily.

Introduced by friends of the lower, it has been given most in the third decimal and always repeated.

Mind

Studying occasions headache.

Sensorium

Dullness of the head, with dull pain in left malar bone and occasional slight frontal headache, the entire morning-

Inner Head

Severe frontal headache, with dullness of entire head during forenoon, with stiffness and soreness of left side of neck, worse when moving head.

Pain in the right temple, several times.

Headache all over the head, 11.30 a.m.

Unpleasant feeling in head, like a bad cold ; 3d day. — B.

Woke in morning with a bad headache, lasting all day ; dull, heavy, with pressing from within outwards, worse on motion, stooping or studying ; 24th day. — B.

Outer Head

Head seemed enormously large and heavy, with pain. — B.

▌ Head covered with an inflammatory scaly eruption, θ Psoriasis of child.

Sight and Eyes

Weakness of eyes, with burning pain ; a feeling as if lachrymation would set in ; in two hours. — B.

▌ Smarting about eyes; secretion of meibomian glands. θ Ooryza.

Hearing and Ears

An exceedingly sharp pain in forehead and in both ears, especially the left, when riding in a sharp cold wind, at 1 p.m.; after three hours.

Smell and Nose

Nose quite dry ; 4th day. — B.

▌ Frequent sneezing, θ Phthisis,

▌ Severe coryza with catarrhal tendency; pungent irritation about nose and eyes, and an irritating, watery secretion.

▌▌ Chronic nasal catarrh.

^ Face. I Complexion sallow. θ Phthisis.

▌ Peaked cadaverous face, with a purple, livid hue of skin. θ Cholera infantum.

Teeth and Gums

Intermittent pain in first right upper molar tooth. — Bl.

Taste and Tongue

Tongue slightly furred, θ Phthisis.

Palate and Throat p. 122

Enlargement and inflammation of tonsils and posterior part of uvula, θ Coryza.

Has been of use in diphtheria.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 122

No appetite, ate nothing all day ; 3d day. — B.

▌ Great thirst.

▌ Intense thirst, with uncontrollable desire for cold water, Avhich would be almost immediately ejected. θ Cholera infantum.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 122

Distressing nausea and vomiting, θ Cholera infantum.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 122

Considerable pain in stomach, ^afternoons, with raising of wind and a greasy fluid similar to that after eating pork ; 3d day. — B.

Pain and pyrosis became unbearable. — B.

Pains in stomach < on rising after sitting ; od day. — B.

▌ Subacute gastritis.

Hypochondria p. 122

▌ Spleen enlarged, fills about one- fourth of the abdominal cavity ; for two years, after intermittent and quinine. — Kitchen.

Abdomen, Loins and Groins p. 122

Severe cutting pains in abdomen as if he would have a stool ; he had no stool, but large quantities of wind escaped ; these pains are partially relieved by an escape of flatus and by the application of warmth to the abdomen ; after 8J hours

Sharp, cutting pain in abdomen which warned him to go to stool ; the pains became excruciating, embracing the entire abdomen and obliging him to bend almost double ; after a great deal of straining he passed a large, soft stool which afforded some relief, at 9 p.m.; after eleven hours.

││ The abdomen is hard and distended with flatus, which is constantly discharged.

▌ Tabes mesenterica.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 122

Escape of flatus relieves ; pains in abdomen.

Bellyache better after stools.

Stool in the evening soft and mushy, with considerable straining, very dark, almost black ; 2d day. — B.

On rising in the morning great urging to stool, but stool was scanty, small in size, as though anus was contracted ; stool mushy, occasional scybala, small-sized, peculiar black, attended with straining as in dysentery ; 3d day. — B.

Diarrhoea not at all at night, but the urging commenced on beginning to move about in the morning.

▌ Diarrhoea in dysentery.

▌ Almost constant watery discharges, distressing nausea and vomiting.

▌ Almost constant copious watery diarrhoea, θ Cholera infantum.

▌ Cholera infantum, even in articular mortis.

Continual aching in anus, with a seeming inability to keep the sphincter closed ; amounts to real dysenteric straining at stool ; 3d day. — B.

Urinary Organs p. 123

Diseases of urine-genital organs, especially in the female, with scrofulous taint.

Male Sexual Organs p. 123

> Secondary syphilis.

Female Sexual Organs p. 123

▌ Catamenia regular. θ Phthisis.

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 123

▌ Lump in mamma, with retracted nipples, tumor sensitive to touch and painful.

Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia p. 123

> General wheezing on first lying down, θ Phthisis.

After moving about a short time in the morning he hawked up quantities of thick mucus mixed with clotted blood, seemed to come from the head, relieved the pain very much ; 4th day.— B.

Respiration p. 123

Breathing too rapid, even when at rest, increasing in rapidity on exertion, soon becoming an audible wheezing, θ Phthisis.

▌ General feeble respiration, θ Hæmorrhagic phthisis.

▌ Occasional asthmatic attacks. θ Phthisis.

▌ Asthmatic sensations at night, must sit up to breathe, θ Phthisis.

Forced inspiration induced crepitation, posteriorly, right lung. θ Phthisis.

Cough p. 123

Frequent, short, suppressed cough, often loose, with mucopurulent expectoration, θ Phthisis.

││ Slight hacking cough with stoppage of nostrils. — B.

▌ Frequent cough, with muco-purulent and occasionally stringy expectoration ; •< on exertion and at night, θ Phthisis.

▌ A violent cough for years, with inability to bring up the sputum, it excites- vomiting. — Pehrson.

▌ Expectoration heavy during night and morning. θ Phthisis.

▌ Cough and expectoration. θ Hæmorrhagic phthisis.

▌ Respiration harsh and jerky in left apex. θ Phthisis.

▌ Rales and crepitation before and after catamenia. θ Phthisis.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 123

▌ Lungs pale, rather flabby. θ Haemorrhagic phthisis.

▌ Feeble respiration, with plenty of dry rales over anterior surface of right lung and upper part of its posterior surface. θ Phthisis.

▌ Dull spot beneath left clavicle and coarse crepitation. θ Haemorrhagic phthisis.

▌ Flattening and decreased mobility beneath left clavicle, with dullness on percussion ; coarse crepitation on the same spot, while dry bronchi and prolonged expiration was obtained elsewhere, θ Phthisis.

▌ Left half of chest flattened and motionless and percussion as dull as a board from apex to below axillary border of pectoralis major in front and to middle of scapula behind, θ Phthisis.

▌ Below border of pectoralis major and around posteriorly to back of lung, dullness and coarse crepitation. θ Hæmorrhagic phthisis.

▌ Crepitation and bronchial noise in the right supra scapular region; after Sulphur for weeks increase of the dullness in the infra- clavicular region ; more intense and extending. θ Phthisis.

▌ Immobility of right chest, with dullness in front and behind upper portion of lung, increasing to absolute dullness posteriorly beneath the scapula, θ Phthisis.

▌ Coarse crepitations, posteriorly about centre of lung; at the base bronchial respiration, θ Phthisis.

▌ Marked dullness on right base posteriorly, shading off into normal resonance about middle of scapula; coarse crepitation audible over all the duller portion of lung, θ Phthisis.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 124

"Pulse weak, 84 to 92. θ Phthisis.

▌ Pulse hard, fallen from about 80 to 64, woman set. 40. θ Phthisis.

▌ Pulse very frequent. θ Mammary tumor.

Neck and Back p. 124

Soreness of the back, especially of the back of the neck, as if he had been beaten.

Burning heat in lumbar region, as if the clothes were on fire. — Blakely.

Upper Limbs p. 124

Itching of the back of the left hand, followed by stinging itching of the back of the right hand ; after 2\ hours.

Lower Limbs p. 124

Peculiar chilliness on posterior surface of left thigh, followed by formication and weight in left foot, the latter extending later up left leg; afterwards extended to right foot ; partially relieved by walking — Bl.

▌ Cold limbs.

Dull, heavy soreness of calf of left leg, 11 a.m.; after one hour.

Tired, weary feeling in calves of both legs while kneeling — Bl.

A very severe, laming pain in calf of left leg, afterwards embracing the entire leg, disappearing during active motion, returning when at rest.

Formicating pricking on extreme left ankle, followed by the same on inner side of right ankle. — Bl.

Unpleasant, slightly painful formication on external border of left foot, followed by a burning pain on left instep. — Bl.

Limbs in General p. 124

Sharp pain in upper third of right humerus, while writing, lasting ten minutes, suddenly shifting to the metacarpal bones remaining some time, then felt in left femur ; rheumatic, as if in the shaft of the bone. — B.

Heaviness of the limbs with weariness of the whole body.

▌ Cold limbs.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 124

Rest : pain in leg worse.

Lying down : wheezing. See 25.

Motion : headache < ; pain in leg > ; hawking of thick mucus.

Exertion : cough <C ; dyspnoea.

Walking : soon causes fatigue.

Stooping : headache worse.

Kneeling : tired feeling in calves.

Rising after sitting : pains in stomach.

Ascending : dyspnoea.

Must bend double : with pain in abdomen.

Must sit up : difficult breathing in phthisis pulmonalis,

Nerves p. 125

▌ Great vital prostration.

▌ Paralysis.

Sleep p. 125

Constant yawning ; he gets sleepy much earlier than usual.

Pain in head preventing sleep ; 4th day. — B.

││ Night restless, slept little; 3d day. — B.

Time p. 125

Morning : dullness and pain in head ; stool on rising ; expectoration heavy ; felt as if had taken cold.

▌▌ A.M. : soreness of left leg.

▌ P.M. : pains in forehead and ears.

Evening: soft, mushy stool.

9 P.M. : stool with relief.

Night : asthmatic ; cough < ; expectoration heavy ; restless ; sweat.

Temperature and Weather p. 125

Warmth : applied to abdomen relieves pains ; chilliness of left thigh better.

Sharp, cold wind : pains in forehead and ears.

▌ Unable to take exercise in any weather, θ Hemorrhagic phthisis.

Chill. Fever. Sweat p. 125

Some fever, pulse 80, strong ; 8d day.— B.

▌ Slight night-sweats. θ Phthisis.

Locality and Direction p. 125

Right : pain in temple ; pain in ear ; pain in upper molar tooth ; dry rales over lung ; pain in humerus.

Left: dull pain in malar bone; side of neck sore; pain in ear; apex of lung affected ; posterior part of thigh chilly ; weight in foot ; calf of leg sore.

Left to right : itching on hands ; formication and pains in legs.

Upper right, lower left : pain in limbs.

Within outward : pressing in head.

Sensations p. 125

As if head was enormously large.

As though he had taken cold.

Cutting : in abdomen.

Sharp pain : in forehead ; in both ears ; in upper right humerus. in metacarpal bones ; in left femur.

Burning : of eyes ; in lumbar region.

Smarting : about eyes.

Soreness : left side of neck.

Soreness : of back and neck, as if beaten ; of calf of left leg.

Aching : in anus.

Dull pain : in left malar.

Rheumatic pain : in humerus and left femur.

Laming pain : in calf of left leg.

Intermittent pain : in first right upper molar.

Undefined pain : in right temple ; in stomach ; in head, preventing sleep.

Formicating, pricking : on left ankle, and inner side of right ankle.

Formication : on left foot and instep.

Irritation : about nose and eyes.

Itching : of back of left hand, and stinging of back of right hand ; on various parts of body, most on back.

Heaviness : of limbs.

Tired, weary feeling : in calves of legs.

Stiffness : left side of neck.

Tissues p. 126

Morbid cellular irritation in lungs.

▌ Rapid emaciation.

▌ Great emaciation and prostration, θ Cholera infantum.

▌ Considerable emaciation and wasted mammae. θ Tumor in mamma.

Mind p. 126

Riding : pains in forehead and ears.

Skin p. 126

Persistent itching on various parts of body, most of back. — Bl.

▌ Chronic skin affections.

▌ Psoriasis, the inflamed, and scaly eruption almost covered the child.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 126

"Well fleshed man, set. 25, after haemoptysis. θ Phthisis.

▌▌ Strumous or psoric diathesis in conjunction with arsenic symptoms.

▌ Psoriasis of a child, set. 4 months.

▌ Woman, set. 40 ; pulse fell from about 80 to 64. θ Phthisis.

Relations p. 126

Bryon. relieved pain and pyrosis.

Useful after Sulphur in phthisis pulmonalis.

Useful after Conium in sensitive lump in mamma.