Plumbum

Characteristic symptoms

Paleness, emaciation, languor, anaesthesia of the skin ; general paralysis of the upper limbs, with aphony and difficulty of speech ; hemiplegia ; epilepsy ; apoplexy ; encephalitis ; chronic myelitis ; jaundice; boils; skin rough, dry, scaly, yellowish; coma, with partial delirium; cold sweat over the whole body ; slow, small pulse ; loss of memory ; loss of all the senses, the convulsions returning with increased violence ; furious delirium ; bland delirium in day-time and furious at night ; headache, with vomiting and violent pains in the umbilical region ; amaurosis saturnina ; death-like, lead-colored face ; that portion of the gums which is nearest the teeth exhibits a violet-colored border ; teeth turn black; aphthae, salivation, constriction of the throat ; apepsia and dyspepsia ; excessive thirst, violent pains around the navel, with constipation; sunken abdomen ; lead colic ; pinching and lacerating colic ; passages involuntary, but not unconsciously, marking paralysis of the sphincter ani ; dysentery, with excessive colic; scanty, hard, black-brown faeces, resembling sheep's dung ; ischuria ; impotence and sterility ; fetid breath ; short, dry, fatiguing cough ; angina pectoris ; excessive dyspnoea; violent palpitations of the heart ; coldness of the extremities, with great languor ; complete paralysis of the limbs.