Antimonium Chloridum ant-chl.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Antimonious Chloride. Sb Cl 3 .
The old and famous butter of antimony. Not proved. Poisoning symptoms collected by Cattell. Given in cancer. See 9 .

Mind

Stupor, but from which he could be aroused by questions.
Stupor and cold feet. See 8 .

Sensorium

Insensibility.

Sight and eyes

Pupils dilated and inactive.
Eyes sunken, lustreless.

Upper face

Features set, pale and collapsed.
Stupor, face pale, collapsed.

Lower face

Cancer of lower lip.

Taste, speech, tongue

Unable to speak for some minutes.
Tongue dry in centre.

Inner mouth

Mouth full of thick, tenacious, transparent mucus.

Palate and throat

Great pain in his throat.
Severe pain in throat and fauces.
Sense of burning in throat.
Fauces inflamed.
Heat and uneasiness in mouth and throat, with pain on swallowing.
Severe burning pain in throat, increased by deglutition.
Bright scarlet patches in throat, with difficulty in swallowing.
Numerous abrasions on mucous membranes of mouth and fauces, with slight fever.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea and vomiting.
Incessant vomiting.
Vomiting for two hours, followed by prostration.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Burning pain in epigastrium, and tumefaction of abdomen.
Severe burning pain in stomach.

Abdomen and loins

Tenderness of abdomen to touch, with sensation of burning.
Excruciating griping pains in abdomen.

Stools and rectum

Frequent abortive efforts to defecate, with cold skin.

Respiration

Seems choked.
Respiration very slightly apparent ; heavy.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pulse 80, small.
Pulse small, accelerated, very feeble or hard.
Pulse rises to 120, with sleepiness.

Nerves

Great or complete prostration of strength.
Restlessness.
Faintness, general weakness.

Fever

Cold skin. See abdomen .
Surface of body cold and clammy.
Slight feverishness.
Excruciating griping pains : in abdomen.
Great pain : in his throat.
Burning : in throat ; in epigastrium ; in stomach.

Tissues

From mouth to jejunum, black.
Mucous membranes destroyed, and submucous tissue and peritoneum covered with flocculent matter easily scraped off ; they are soft and readily torn.

Skin

Skin cold and mouth full of mucus.
Skin cold and clammy.

Relations

Similar to other salts of antimony, and to the acids (typhus), also to Arsen ., and Carbo veg . (in prostration, stomach and abdominal symptoms) ; Conium (cancer on lower lip and ineffectual urging for stool).