Carboneum Oxygenisatum carb-o.

Carbonous Oxide. CO. Solution in water.

Cramps. Headache. Herpes zoster. Paralysis. Pemphigus. Sciatica. Trismus.

The effects of Carb. ox . have been noted in persons poisoned by the gas. It produces a state like intoxication. The person is confused, stupid. There is loss of consciousness. Anæsthesia, but the slightest touch with a hot iron recalls sensibility. Convulsions and cramps. Great sleepiness lasting for several days; interrupted by cramps in cheeks and toes. Great coldness of surface, hands icy cold. Marked > of symptoms, especially of chest, in open air.

Compare: Carb. hydro.

Depressed: stupid; apathetic. — Anxiety, with desire for air but too paralysed to seek it.

Vertigo; inclination to turn in a circle. — Headache, violent, persistent, with throbbing in temporal arteries. — Frontal headache which extends over the whole head, but chiefly felt in forehead, which seems pushed out. — Weight; throbbing; compression; sticking headache.

Eyes protrude; sight dim with vertigo, and fluttering and flickering before sight.

Roaring in ears.

Trismus; jaws firmly clenched.

Paralysis of tongue.

Stomach so irritable that everything eaten was immediately vomited.

Involuntary evacuations.

Paralysis of bladder. — Urine contains sugar.

Rattling of mucus in air-passages. — Bloody mucus raised. — Expired air feels cool to back of observer's hand. — Breathing stertorous, slow. — Sense of suffocation.

Intolerable pain in region of heart. — Violent palpitation.

Burning pain at right scapula.

Shooting pains in r. natis and down sciatic nerve to foot, not < by pressure or movement.

Whole skin covered with large and small vesicles of pemphigus. — Purple maculation of skin. — Herpes zoster l. side of face along branches of trigeminus.

Great sleepiness for several days. — Never slept so long before. — Sleep deep, prolonged, interrupted by cramps in cheeks and toes.