Kali Permanganicum
Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. VI, p. 463
Permanganate of Potash. 2 Kino^.
Proved by H. C. Allen. See Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 5, p. 351.
Clinical Authorities. — Ulcerated throat, Woodyatt, Horn. Kev., vol. 12, pp. 151, 152; Diphtheria (2 cases), Plague, A. H. O., vol. 4, p. 360; Allen, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 352 ; Nichol, GEhme's Therap., p. 45 ; B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 386.
Throat
▌ Sanious discharge from nares.
▌ Tonsils and soft palate swollen and inflamed; patches of whitish ulceration on tonsils; pain in swallowing; glands of neck tender. θ Ulcerated throat.
▌ Tonsils swollen, and on each patches of ulceration of yellowish color; much pain internally and externally.
▌ Diphtheria, with ulceration, and gangrenous suppuration with fetid odor.
▌ Violent headache; throat swollen and painful, profuse salivation; cervical glands swollen and painful; fauces covered with peculiar wash leather, greyish membrane; breath offensive from beginning, and thin, watery, sanious fluid escaping from nares excoriating upper lip; dark colored offensive diarrhoea; vomiting; fluids taken by mouth return through nose; general prostration. θ Diphtheria.
▌ Comatose state; prostration extreme; nares completely plugged, fetor intolerable ; pulse intermitting. θ Diphtheria.
▌ Pharynx swollen very much and covered with a yellowish membrane; high fever; unable to speak or swallow; pulse 135; furred tongue; fetid breath. θ Diphtheria.
▌ Pharynx covered with yellowish pseudo-membrane, not very firmly attached ; extreme fetor of breath ; inability to swallow; pulse 140 and feeble; great prostration. θ Diphtheria.
▌ Underneath a fetid, scablike membrane considerable erosion of mucous membrane. θ Diphtheria.
▌ Odor of breath unbearable; fluids taken by mouth returned by nose ; general and excessive prostration ; great dyspnoea; foul diphtheritic exudations all over fauces.
Cough
││ Expectoration very fetid.
Stages of Life, Constitution
Girl, set 3; diphtheria.
Girl, set. 6, suffering one week ; diphtheria.
Girl, set. 7; diphtheria.
Girl, set. 9, stout build; diphtheria.
Girl, set. 16; ulcerated throat.
Woman, set. 25, cook ; ulcerated throat.