Ferrum Sulphuricum

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Sensorium

▌ Severe vertigo. θ Diarrhoea.

Inner Head

Confusion of head and dull pain through head.

Heaviness and dull pain in upper part of forehead.

Severe burning and pain in head, with thirst.

8 Pressing, throbbing headache, < in forehead, with ringing in ears, and sensation as if all the blood were rushing into head and face; face scarlet red, glowing; > in fresh, open air; < in warm room ; toothache. 6'Menorrhagia.

Hearing and Ears

Pain apparently in walls of meatus auditorius externus.

Teeth and Gums

Violent, tearing toothache; teeth all sound; > from cold air, or application of ice upon cheek; headache. θ Menorrhagia.

Inner Mouth

Very troublesome soreness of soft palate.

Throat

Taste of salt with smarting in throat.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions

▌ Bulimia, cannot be satisfied, thirst not marked. θ Diarrhoea.

▌ Loss of appetite; aversion to meat. θ Menorrhagia.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting

Eructation of flatus and food with acidity.

Sickness, with vomiting.

Scrobiculum and Stomach

Sensation of fermentation or of a noise or movement like purring of a cat in region of stomach.

Cardialgia.

Gastritis with pain after eating and regurgitation of food by mouthfuls.

Inflammatory condition of membranes of stomach.

Hypochondria

' ' Pain in region of gall-bladder.

Abdomen

Colicky pains in abdomen.

Abdominal pains with flatulence and diarrhoea.

Stool and Rectum

Watery, reddish-brown, odorless, painless diarrhoea, with great paleness of skin, emaciation, vertigo, oedema of scrotum and lower limbs, bulimia without thirst, venous murmurs.

Diarrhoea, with pains in abdomen.

▌ Constipation. θ Menorrhagia.

││ Hehninthiasis ; tapeworm ; ascarides.

Urinary Organs p. 324

Great weakness accompanying Bright's disease.

││ Bloody urine with albuminuria.

Male Sexual Organs p. 324

▌ CEdema of scrotum and lower limbs.

││ Secondary gonorrhoea.

^Female Sexual Organs, i Menstruation copious, of five to six days' duration, with colic before and during time; headache frequently between menstrual periods ; headache pressing, throbbing, especially in forehead, with ringing in ears, and sensation as if all the blood was rushing into head and face; face scarlet red, glowing; > in fresh, open air; < in warm room; often accompanied by violent, tearing toothache, teeth all sound ; > in cold air, or from ice upon cheek ; < in warmth ; loss of appetite; aversion to meat; constipation. θ Menorrhagia.

▌ Metrorrhagia; leucorrhoea.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 324

Marked venous murmurs. θ Chlorosis. θ Diarrhoea.

Neck and Back p. 324

Sensation on skin of back as if he wore a stout woolen flannel shirt.

Pain shooting down r. side of back.

Upper Limbs p. 324

Arms bent at elbows, and fingers drawn towards forearm by flexure of wrist.

Hands yield to forcible extension, but immediately return to same condition.

Lower Limbs p. 324

• Paralysis of lower extremities.

Knees slightly flexed; toes drawn upwards rigidly.

Pain in sole of 1. foot in middle of thick, fleshy, anterior part and at same time an aching pain through lower part of leg.

Limbs in General p. 324

Limbs very painful, especially feet and calves, where the pain is distracting.

Contractions in arms, hands and feet.

Nerves p. 324

││ Chorea.

Temperature and Weather p. 324

Warmth : toothache <.

Warm room : face red and glowing.

Cold air: toothache >.

Ice: toothache >.

Fresh open air : face red and glowing, > .

Fever p. 324

Feeling of general heat and disposition to sweat with a sensation on skin of back as if he wore a stout woolen flannel shirt.

Locality and Direction p. 324

Right ; pain shooting down side of back.

Left: pain in sole of foot.

Sensations p. 325

As if all the blood were rushing into head and face; sensation of fermentation, or of a noise or movement like purring of a cat in region of stomach ; sensation on skin of back as if he wore a stout woolen shirt.

Pain: in head; in walls of meatus auditorius externus: after eating; in region of gall-bladder; in abdomen; shooting down r. side of back; in sole of foot; in middle of thick, fleshy part ; in lower limbs.

Distracting pain : in feet and calves.

Tearing pain : in tooth.

Colicky pains : in abdomen.

Throbbing: forehead.

Aching pain : through lower part of leg.

Smarting : in throat.

Burning : in head.

Soreness : of soft palate.

Feeling of general heat.

Dull pain : through head ; in upper part of forehead.

Contractions : in arms ; hands ; in feet.

Pressing: forehead.

Confusion : of head.

Ringing : in ears.

Heaviness : in upper part of forehead.

Tissues p. 325

Emaciation. θ Diarrhoea.

•Local atony; disposition to congestions, nettle-rash, aphthae.

: Relaxed condition of ligaments; joints easily dislocated; hernia.

Passive bloody or mucous flux, from genitals or alimentary canal.

Hydrops; scrofula.

Skin p. 325

▌ Great paleness of skin. θ Diarrhoea.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 325

Boy, eet thirteen months ; diarrhoea.

Relations p. 325

Compare : Phosphor, (regurgitation of food in particles); Caustic, (fermentation in abdomen); Cina (worms).