Argentum Metallicum arg-m.

NERVES. Cartilages, mucous membranes: LARYNX. Bones. Condyles. Joints. Genito-urinary. Left side; ovary. Testis (R).

USING VOICE. Mental strain. Noon. Cold damp. 3 to 5 A.M.

Motion. Coffee. Wrapping up.

Slow, deep, low grade processes. THICKENED SECRETIONS, cartilages, tarsi, etc. Gray or tenacious mucus. Sore rawness. Increasingly violent pains, suddenly cease; < touch; with polyuria. Arthralgia. Loss of power; mental, over limbs, etc. Epilepsy, then rage.

Hasty; deceitful. Talkative and forgetful. Whirling vertigo. Emptiness or crawling in head. Itching canthi, eyelids or earlobes. Exhaustingly profuse coryza. Pale, sallow and weak. Sticky teeth (Lach.). Croaking in abdomen (l). Emissions. Chronic urethritis. Foul leucorrhœa. Easily raises gray, gelatinous or starchy mucus; < laughing. Hoarseness or aphonia, < using voice. Weakness in chest (l). Heart stops, then trembles and throbs; > inspiration. Swelled ankles. Diabetes. Nervous itching. Shocks on dropping to sleep.

Related: Sele. Stan. Zin.

Tall, thin, irritable persons. Ailments from abuse of Mercury. Constitutional effects of onanism. Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears, nose, Eustachian; the structures entering into joints. Seminal emissions: after onanism; almost every night; without erection; with atrophy of penis. Crushed pain in the testicles (Rhod.). Prolapsus; with pain in left ovary and back, extending forward and downward (right ovary, Pal.); climacteric haemorrhage. Exhausting, fluent coryza with sneezing. Hoarseness; of professional singers, public speakers (Alum., Arum. t.). Total loss of voice of professional singers. Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing or coughing. Laughing excites cough (Dros., Phos., Stan.) and produces profuse mucus in larynx. When reading aloud has to hem and hawk; cough with easy expectoration of gelatinous, viscid mucus, looking like boiled starch. Great weakness of the chest (Stan.); worse left side. Alternation in timbre of voice with singers and public speakers (Arum t.). Raw spot over bifurcation of the trachea. worse when using voice, talking or singing.

Follows well: after, Alum. Similar: to, Stan. in cough excited by laughing.

Riding in a carriage (Coc.); when touched or pressed upon; talking, singing, reading aloud.

The head seems to sympathize with all the symptoms of this remedy. Also much urine.

Increased cheerfulness and disposition to talk.

The different pains in the head are shooting, drawing, boring, pressive, tearing, twitching, pinching; pressure, tearing in the region of the right and left temporal bone, worse from contact. Right or left one-sided headaches; inner temples. Dulness of; sensation of emptiness in. Attacks of vertigo. Effects of sunstroke.

The upper and lower eyelids are red and thick. The left internal canthus has sticking and stitches, and some itching. Amaurosis of left eye. Violent itching of lids and corners of eyes. Purulent ophthalmia of infants. Inflammation of the eyes, intolerance of light, running of the nose. Shooting, itching, aching pains. Stricture of lachrymal duct.

Corrosive itching of the lobules of both ears, early in the morning, after rising. Much itching and stitches in the ears, externally and internally.

Excessive fluent coryza, often with sneezing, tickling and crawling sensation in the nose, followed by bleeding.

Drawing tearing in the right zygoma, sometimes in the left; a violent pain in the bone of the right lower jaw. Pale and earthy face.

Dryness of the mouth, and frequently of the tongue. Much saliva in the mouth, which is sometimes sticky; sometimes the teeth seem coated with it, may be sticking them together, the lower with the upper, making talking difficult.

The region of the submaxillary gland is swollen; this makes the neck stiff, and produces a tension in the parts when moved, deglutition at the same time is difficult, as if there were internal swelling of the throat; is obliged to force every mouthful of food down the throat. Viscid, gray, jelly-like mucus in the throat, which can be easily hawked up, early in the morning. Raw, sore throat when coughing or swallowing. Yawning gives pain in the fauces. Thick, viscous saliva sticks to the hard palate. Hoarseness, or complete aphonia in singers, speakers, etc. raw and sore feeling in upper part of larynx; consumption of throat. Much dry cough; or with thick white expectoration, like starch. Great weakness in chest, with stitches; sore to touch; sweaty.

Excessive appetite, sometimes continuing when the stomach seems quite full; gnawing hunger; hunger with nausea. No appetite for breakfast; entire indifference to all food. Continual nausea all day.

A bruised, sore sensation all over the left pelvic region of the abdomen. Loud rumbling in the left side of the abdomen, like the croaking of frogs. A good deal of pain and tenderness about the posterior portion of the left pelvis. Painful soreness over the entire abdomen, worse when riding in a carriage. A good deal of rumbling in bowels and some sharp pains.

Frequent and always successful desire for stool. Dry stool, like sand.

Profuse; frequent; diabetic.

Female: Prolapsus uteri, with pains in left ovary, much backache.

Arthritic and bruised pains; darting pains from within outward; drawing pains; with sensation of pressure; tearing and drawing pains; legs weak and trembling on rising in the morning.

From abuse of Mercury; onanism; at rest or sitting; on being touched or pressed.

Viscid gray, jelly-like mucous in pharynx, easily hawked up; only in the morning. Throat feels sore during expiration and coughing' not on swallowing.

Silver

Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnœa, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic. The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligament's. Here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result. They come on insidiously, lingering, but progress. The larynx is also a special center for this drug.

Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.

Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very tender to touch. Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water. Head feels empty, hollow. Eyelids red and thick. Exhausting coryza, with sneezing. Pain in facial bones. Pain between left eye and frontal eminence.

Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throat sore on coughing. Profuse and easy morning expectoration.

Hoarseness Aphonia. Raw, sore feeling when coughing. Total loss of voice of professional singers. Larynx feels sore and raw. Easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch. Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa. Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing. Hectic fever at noon. On reading aloud, must hem and hawk. Great weakness of chest; worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice. Pain in left lower ribs.

Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of chest.

Diuresis. Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor. Frequent urination. Polyuria.

Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee. Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs. Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer's cramp. Swelling of ankles.

Crushed pain in testicles. Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement. Frequent micturation with burning.

Ovaries feel too large. Bearing-down pain. Prolapse of womb. Eroded spongy cervix. Leucorrhœa foul, excoriating. Palliative in scirrhus of uterus. Pain in left ovary. Climateric hæmorrhage. Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by jarring. Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs.

Worse from touch, toward noon. Better in open air; cough at night when lying down (opposite Hyoscy).

Antidotes: Mercur; Puls.

Compare: Selen; Alum; Platina; Stannum; Ampelopsis (Chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients).

Sixth trituration and higher. Not too frequent repetition.

Restlessness, anxiety, which directs him from place to place. Ill-humor, with disinclination to talk.

Pressing, tearing pain in the skull, principally in the temporal bones, renewed every day at noon, with soreness of the external head, aggravated by pressure and contact, ameliorated in the open air. Painful sensation of emptiness in the head.

Violent itching in the corners of the eyes. Redness and swelling of the edges of the eyelids.

Itching of the ears, he scratches them until they bleed. Itching of the lobes of the ears.

Violent fluent coryza, with much sneezing.

Redness of the face. Swelling of the upper lip.

The throat feels as if internally swollen. The throat feels more sore from coughing than when swallowing, although the food passes with difficulty. Accumulation of much gray, jelly-like mucus in the throat, which is easily hawked up.

Appetite much increased, he is hungry after eating a full meal. Desire for wine. Heartburn. Burning in the stomach, ascending to the chest.

Painful swelling of the abdomen. Tension in the abdominal muscles.

Frequent pressure in the lower part of the rectum, with discharge of small quantities of soft stool. Dry stool, like sand, after dinner.

Frequent desire to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine.

Men. The testicles feel as if bruised. Women. Prolapsus uteri, with pain in the left ovary.

When stooping, or ascending steps, mucus comes up into the larynx, which is easily expectorated by one cough. Sensation of rawness or soreness of the larynx. Laughing causes mucus in the trachea, and cough. Cough, caused by stinging, cutting in the with mucus in the chest, and expectoration of transparent mucus, like boiled starch. Rattling cough, only during the day in the room. Stitches in the (right side) of the chest, when inhaling and exhaling.

Tearing in the bones of the arms, especially of the and fingers.

Tearing in the bones of the feet and toes.

Sensation of numbness in the limbs, as if asleep. Sensation of soreness and rawness in internal organs. Boring pain in the joints. Sensation of soreness in the joints. Strong effects on the secretions of the mucous membranes.

Heat of the body, but none on the head, without thirst. Perspiration only on the abdomen or chest.

Bad effects from the use of mercury. Bad effects from onanism. The symptoms are renewed at noon.

Silver Leaf and Precipitated Silver. Ag (A. W. 107.66). Trituration.

Blepharitis. Brain-fag. Caries. Chlorosis. Cough. Diabetes. Enuresis nocturna. Epilepsy. Epithelial tissue, affections of. Exostosis. Heart, affections of. Hit-joint, disease of. Hysterical joint. Joints, affections of . Laryngitis. Ovaries, affections of. Phthisis. Pollutions. Rheumatism. Uterus, cancer of; prolapse of. Voice, loss of.

Argentum affects all the cartilages, and hence all joints and bones, with tearing and bruised pains, tenderness and weakness; painful, so-called "hysterical" joint, articular rheumatism without swelling; pain in rib cartilages and especially the left. Exostosis on skull. The muscular system is also affected with cramps in limbs; calves feel too short on going downstairs; stiffness; numbness; electric-like shocks in joints and limbs; painless twitchings. The heart is specially affected; frequent, spasmodic, though painless twitchings in whole heart muscle, < lying on back; fears apoplexy. Sensation as if heart stood still followed by trembling, then irregular violent throbbing. Palpitation, at night; during pregnancy. Systemic convulsions. Epileptic attacks followed by delirious rage, jumping about, striking those near. In society disinclined to talk; discouraged. (Reaction from this: great inclination to talk, mind very clear.) Vertigo on entering a room after a walk. Vertigo on looking at running water. As if drunk. Frontal headache of business men. Headache increasing gradually and ceasing suddenly, at acme as if a nerve being torn, usually l. side. Viscidity of saliva and mucous expectoration, which is easy. From the mucous membranes generally there is secretion like boiled starch; or there may be thin and at the same time a thick yellow or greenish discharge. Great hunger even after a full meal. Extreme dryness of mouth, tongue sticks to palate. (This symptom with the polyuria points to diabetes, in which Arg . is particularly indicated if there is swelling of the ankles.) Spasmodic enuresis nocturna. Effects of onanism: impotence; atrophy of penis; bruised pains in testicles. Pains in left ovary; feels enormously swollen; with this, prolapse of uterus (scirrhus). Metrorrhagia, large lumps with violent pains, < by every motion. Arg. met . acts more on the left side than the right; left ovary is affected: "Prolapsus uteri with pains in left ovary." It corresponds to deep-seated insidious disease. In the mental sphere it affects the intellect more than the affections. Headache of business men. Left-sided headache as if in brain substance. Headache and dyspepsia induced by mental agitation, nursing the sick, mental exertion. Suited to thin patients with hollow eyes, pale skin, tendency to tubercle, caries, cancer, deep ulcers, imbecility. The more deeply seated the troubles are the more likely are they to be painless. Tenderness is prominent in Arg. met . Tearing pressure and pains in the bones. Articular rheumatism without swelling. Parts feel bruised when pressed on. Hoarseness of singers and speakers, < speaking or singing. Laughing causes cough. Restless sleep; electric shock through body wakens her. Symptoms < in sleep; nausea in dreams; seminal emissions. On waking, limbs powerless. Paralytic weakness. < By touch; pressure riding in carriage; lying on back; sitting; stooping. At noon at night (profuse urine). Uncovering (chills before midnight). Entering warm room. Sun.

Zinc (itching in canthi — Zn. more in inner canthi and acts more on muscular system and skin). Pallad. (ovaries; Pall., r., Arg., l.). Stan. (cough excited by laughing). Follows well: Alum., Plat. Is followed well by: Calc., Puls., Sep. Antidoted by: Merc., Puls. (an occasional dose of Puls. favours action of Arg. nit. in ophthalmia). Teste classes Arg. met. with Merc., and with Arsen.

Onanism. Sunstroke.

Restlessness, which forces one to walk quickly. — Ill-humour and aversion to talking. — When pleased, excessively merry, but cries a long time about a trifle. — Delirious rage (mania; after epilepsy).

Dulness, and sensation of emptiness in the head. — Confusion, as if caused by smoke, and sensation of intoxication, with tingling in the head. — Dizziness, with obscurity of vision, or with drowsiness, and falling of the eyelids. — Pressing, tearing pain in the skull, principally in the temporal bones, renewed every day at noon, with soreness of the external head, aggravated by pressure and contact, ameliorated in the open air. — Migraine (l.) as if in brain substance, coming gradually to a great height; ceasing suddenly. — Drawing and pressive pain in the occiput, as if caused by a foreign substance, with a sensation of stiffness in the nape of the neck. — Numbing pressure in the sinciput. — Compression in the brain, with nausea and burning in the epigastrium, on reading and stooping for any time. — Cramp-like pains and shootings in the head. — Pain, as of excoriation in the scalp, on the slightest pressure. — Cramp-like and pressive pains in the bones of the head. — Painful dartings in the temporal muscles, and in the forehead. — Pimples on the temples, with pain, as of ulceration.

Itching in the eyes, and principally in the angles. — Swelling and redness of the edge of the eyelids. — Stricture of lachrymal duct.

Shootings in the ears, with incisive pain, which extends to the base of the brain. — Gnawing itching in the external ear, causing the part to be scratched till it bleeds. — Itching of the lobes of the ears. — Sensation of stoppage of the ears.

Epistaxis, after blowing the nose, or preceded by itching and tickling in the nose. — Stoppage of the nose, with itching in the nostrils. — Violent fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing. — Flowing of purulent matter, mixed with clots of blood, from the nose.

Redness of the face. — Pale and earthy face. — Gnawing, cramp-like, and pressive pains in the bones of the face (in the r. zygoma, sometimes in the L; a violent pain in the bone of the r. lower jaw). — Swelling of the upper lip, immediately under the nose.

Pain in the teeth, as if the gums had receded. — Painful sensibility of the gums on being touched. — Gums loosened, and readily bleeding.

Dryness of the mouth. — Sensation of dryness on the tongue, though it be moist. — Accumulation of a viscid saliva in the mouth, with shuddering (sometimes the teeth seem coated with it, maybe sticking them together, the lower with the upper, making talking difficult). — Vesicles on the tongue, with burning pain of excoriation.

Soreness in the throat, as if there were a tumour in the gullet, with difficulty of swallowing. — Hoarseness (or complete aphonia in singers, speakers, &c.) and scraping in the throat. — Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of excoriation on swallowing and on breathing. — The throat feels more sore from coughing than when swallowing, although the food passes with difficulty. — Yawning gives pain in the fauces. — Pricking and tingling in the throat. — Accumulation of greyish and viscid mucus in the throat, with easy expectoration.

Repugnance to all food, even to the thought of it, with prompt satiety. — Appetite much increased, he is hungry after eating a full meal. — Desire for wine. — Gnawing hunger, which cannot be appeased by food.

Pyrosis. — Hiccough on smoking tobacco. — Constant nausea and uneasiness. — Burning in the stomach, ascending to the chest. — Inclination to vomit, and vomiting of acrid matter, of a disagreeable taste, and which leaves in the throat a sensation of scraping and of burning. — Pressure in the epigastrium.

Violent pressure on the entire abdomen, extending to the pubis, appearing as soon as one begins to eat; aggravated by breathing, and mitigated by rising up. — Pressive and painful inflation of the abdomen. — Cutting pains. — Tension in the abdominal muscles. — Contraction of the muscles of the abdomen on walking. — Loud borborygmi.

Frequent inclination to go to stool, with scanty evacuation of soft matter. — Dry, sandy stool after dinner. — Vomitings during the stool. — Pain of contraction in the abdomen, after a stool in the morning.

Frequent inclination to make water, with abundant emission (diabetes).

Pain, as from a bruise, in the testes. — Pollutions.

Prolapsus uteri, with pain in the l. ovary.

Pain of excoriation in the larynx, esp. on coughing. — Accumulation of mucus in the trachea, which detaches itself on stooping, laughing, or going upstairs, and which is easily expelled by expectoration. — Abundant accumulation of mucus in the chest. — Cough excited by incisive pain in the trachea, with expectoration of serous matter. — Sensation of rawness or soreness of the larynx. — Cough, caused by stinging, cutting in the trachea, with mucus in the chest, and expectoration of transparent mucus, like boiled starch. — Paroxysms of coughing, short and rattling, during the day, with easy expectoration of thick and whitish matter.

Stitches in the (r.) side of the chest, when inhaling and exhaling. — Pressure in the chest. — Pressure and shooting in the sternum and in the sides of the chest. — Pain in the lower (l.) rib cartilages. — Incisive pain in the sides of the chest, on breathing and on stooping forward. — Cramp-like pain in the muscles of the chest and in the sides.

Painless twitching in cardiac muscle, < lying on back; with feeling that he would have apoplexy. — Sensation as if heart stood still, followed by trembling, then irregular, violent throbbing. — Palpitation: at night; during pregnancy. — In evening, in bed, quick pulse with thirst.

Cramp-like pains in the shoulders and in the shoulder-blade. — Pains, as of bruising or of drawing in the loins.

Tension and acute pullings, cramp-like and pressive pains in the arms and hands. — Cramp-like pressive pains in the bones, and in the joints of the hands and fingers. — Contraction of the fingers.

Shooting, pressive, and, as it were, paralytic pain, in the coxo-femoral joint, when walking. — Jerking in the muscles of the thighs. — Cramp-like, acute, and incisive pains in the knees and in the ankle-bones. — Cramp in the calves of the legs, with sensation of contraction of the muscles, on going downstairs. — Pain, as of bruising and throbbing, in the joints of the feet. — Cramp-like pain in the bones and in the joints of the feet and toes. — Tearing in the bones of the feet and toes. — Sensation of numbness in the heel and in the tendo Achillis. — Feet œdematous (diabetes).

Pressure, cramp-like, pulling, principally in the limbs and in the bones. — Bruising pain, chiefly in the sacrum and the joints of the lower limbs. — Boring pain in the joints. — Sensation of soreness in the joints. — Strong effects on the secretions of the mucous membranes. — Sensation of excoriation in the skin and internal organs. — Sensation of numbness arid stiffness in the limbs; as if asleep. — Epileptic attacks. — Aggravation of the symptoms every day, in the afternoon. — Burning itching in different parts of the skin. — Eruption of pimples, with burning pain, as of excoriation. — Anxious dreams. — Shuddering and cold, esp. in the afternoon and at night. — Nocturnal sweat.

All the time as if drunken.
Without anxiety, again and again the idea comes as if he might have an apoplectic stroke, and could not finish this proving ; with spasmodic contraction of heart.
Cannot occupy his mind regularly, as imagination reproduces former exciting events ; all afternoon.
Imagines things about the military which he never liked ; long-forgotten old songs come into his mind.
Mania.
Delirious rage, after epileptic attacks.
Great inclination to talk ; his mind is very clear, and he argues with great facility.
Inclined to laughter and joking.
Inclined to play tenpins, which he never liked.
In society indisposed to talk ; he complains of rush of blood to head and cheeks, singing in ears ; itching in reddened eyes.
Increased cheerfulness and disposition to talk.
When contented, very merry ; but any trifle sets her to cry a long while.
Great serenity, a heavenly sensation of peace.
He feels unpleasant and is lazy.
Depressed and very sleepy.
Anxious about her health ; full of care. θ Laryngitis.
In forenoon inclined to melancholy, in afternoon to great merriment.
Anxious, as if his clothing got too tight, with feverish heat and languor, when walking out doors.
Fear of concussion, as if he might run against something, with pain in testicles.
Displeased, aversion to talk. θ Exostosis of skull.
Mental agitation induces headache and indigestion.

Dizziness on entering a room after a walk ; before midnight, while slumbering in bed, it seemed as if head was falling out of bed ; followed by a violent convulsive starting of body.
Felt suddenly giddy, and as if a mist was before eyes.
Attacks of vertigo ; he cannot think rightly.
When looking at running water, giddy.
A crawling and whirling in head, as if drunken.
Vertigo when reading.
Complete dizziness on entering room after a walk.

Frontal headache of business men.
Congestion to head, followed by redness of cheeks.
Cutting stitches from left ear into brain.
Pressing pain, with dulness in forehead, and drawing pressure in occiput.
Dull pain in right temple and right side of head, lasting one hour.
Painful sensation of emptiness in head, feeling as if it was hollow, with aching of whole brain. θ Exostosis of skull.
Left-sided headache, as if in brain substance ; at first only slight drawing, but gradually becoming more violent ; at its culmination raging as though a nerve was being torn, ceasing suddenly.
Dull, pressive, persistent headache, encircles the calvarium like a wreath.
Bad effects of sunstroke.
Headache and dyspepsias induced by mental agitation, nursing sick, etc.

Tenderness on top of head, painful to touch.
Pressing, tearing pain in skull, principally in temporal bones, renewed every day at noon, < by pressure and touch, > in open air.
Aching of external parts of head.
Pityriasis.

Sight very weak.
Sight vanishes.
Amaurosis of left eye, contracted pupil, insensible to light.
Itching in outer canthi.
Violent itching of lids and corners of eyes. θ Blepharitis.
Lids greatly swollen and thickened ; margins thick and red.
Pustules along edges of lids after measles. θ Blepharitis.
Any effort to separate lids causes their edges to be drawn in ; lids raw, sore, red, slightly everted, without smarting or pain. θ Blepharitis.
Abundant purulent discharge.
Stricture of lachrymal duct.
Infant, æt. 4 weeks ; since third and fourth day, abundant purulent discharge, pus oozing in jets, lids could not be separated ; alarmingly swollen and thickened ; after Sulphur and Calc. carb., Arg. met. [2c] every four hours ; next day to the mother at lengthening
intervals.
Affections of tarsal cartilages.
Inflammation of left eye with lachrymation, great intolerance of daylight and running at nose ; after many medicines attacking right eye, pain was shooting, itching, aching ; sometimes very violent, also without corresponding amount of redness. θ After
measles.

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We will take up the study of Metallic silver.

No wonder that this remedy is a very deep acting remedy, for it has been used symbolically, and medically throughout all history.

It has been a valuable substance throughout all history. It is an anti psoric and from its symptoms. I believe it to be an anti-sycotic. It goes into the life. Especially affects the nerves, nerves sheaths. Has complaints along the nerves.

All cartilages in the body are affected by it. It produces a hypertrophy of cartilages, a thickening of the cartilaginous portions of joints, of the cartilage of the ears, and of the nose.

Produces cartilaginous growths and tumors; infiltrations. It affects the nerve substance, it is a deep organic remedy.

It is more than an ordinary remedy, for it affects all there is of man. In those nerve fibers especially that carry messages. It affects the brain in a very profound manner, bringing about changes and a gradual softening.

A strange feature about it in its general action upon man is that is singles out mostly the intellectual faculties.

It scarcely disturbs his affections; only makes slight and vague changes in his voluntary system.

But the memory, the intellectual part of man is disturbed increasingly to imbecility. In great sufferings and it is full of suffering - it affects his ability to reason.

In nearly all the headaches and pains in the back, and the rending , tearing pains that it produces over the body, it disturbs his memory and reasoning faculties.

Disturbs his ability to think. And it comes on in persons who are in the habit of laboring with the intellectual faculties.

Business men, students, readers, and thinkers. Reasoners come to a point when they can no longer reason and the slightest mental effort brings on vertigo.

He is fatigued. All symptoms are worse after sleep. Instead of being rested for the day, he wakes in the morning with mental fatigue and weakness, so that he can hardly move, and it is with great difficulty that he gets himself together for a mental or physical effort of another day.

If he undertakes to do any more mental work, he gets a headache. Headache mostly in the front of the head, but also in the occiput.

Another strange feature about it, it is full of rending, tearing pains along the nerves, predominantly of the lower extremities.

Tearing, as if the nerves would be torn in pieces (during rest).

Cold, damp weather, stormy weather will bring on rheumatism - not so much with swelling, although it has that, but pains apparently in the cartilages, and pains along the nerves.

And these pains are so severe that he cannot keep still. Hence, it has a rheumatic state, from cold, damp weather, from becoming chilled, in the joints and in the nerves, so that be walks and walks.

Many symptoms are better from especially walking. So tired and exhausted, but die pain is so severe that it drives him to walk. These pains are many times palliated by copious drafts of coffee, and this will suppress the sickness, and leave upon him all sorts of difficulties, under which he is threatening with break down, and in time be becomes almost useless.

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Fear of apoplexy, particularly with palpitation of heart.
Ill-humor, with disinclination to talk.
Out of humor in forenoon; in afternoon copious nosebleed.
Restlessness, anxiety, which drives him from place to place.

Dizziness on entering a room after a walk.
While slumbering in bed, before midnight, it seemed as if the head was failing out of bed; followed by a violent convulsive starting of body.
Felt suddenly giddy, and as if a mist were before the eyes.
Attacks of vertigo; he cannot think rightly.
When looking at running water, giddy.
A crawling and whirling in the head, as if drunken.

Congestion to the head followed by redness of cheeks.
Cutting stitches from left ear into brain.
Pressing pain with dullness in forehead, and drawing pressure in occiput.
Pressive, tearing pain at temporal bones worse by touch.
Painful sensation of emptiness in head, feeling as if it were hollow, with aching of the whole brain.
Left-sided headache, as if in the brain substance; at first only slight drawing gradually becoming more violent at its culmination raging as though a nerve was being torn, ceasing suddenly.

Tenderness on top of head, painful to touch.
Pressing, tearing pain in skull, principally in the temporal bones renewed every day at noon, worse by pressure and touch, better in open air.
Aching of external parts of head.

Sight vanishes.
Amaurosis of left eye, contracted pupil, insensible to light.
Violent itching of lids and in the corners of the eyes. θ Blepharitis.
Lids greatly swollen.
Pustules along edges of lids.
Any effort to separate lids causes edges to be drawn in.
Lids raw, sore, red, smarting.
Abundant purulent discharge.

Corrosive itching; scratching until bleeding ensues.

Tickling, crawling sensation in the nose, followed by nosebleed.
When blowing the nose, violent bleeding.
Violent fluent coryza with frequent sneezing, mornings.

Pressing and tearing of the facial bones; drawing, tearing in the right zygoma.
Face straw-colored, including lips. θ Scirrhus of os uteri.

Swelling of upper lip, close under the nose.

Severe aching in the decayed last molar, left side.
Teeth adhere together like from glue.

Sore, burning blisters on tongue, tongue dry.

Dryness in the mouth.
Fetid breath. θ Scirrhus uteri.

Region of submaxillary glands swollen; the neck stiff; swallowing difficult as from internal swelling; has to force every mouthful down the œsophagus.
Scratching sensation in the soft palate, as from something rough sticking there; felt most during empty swallowing, forcing him to swallow saliva.
Painful tension in fauces as from swelling, when yawning.
Throat feels raw and sore during expiration, or when swallowing or coughing.
Viscid, fray, jelly-like mucus in pharynx, easily hawked up; early morning.
Anæsthesia of the fauces. θ Diphtheria.
Tension in fauces on right side, felt only when gaping. θ Aphonia.

Appetite increased; hungry after eating a full meal.
Desire for wine.
At times loss of appetite, with aversion to smoking.
Want to thirst, even during the hot stage of the fever.

During and after meals, sweating.
After dinner, nosebleed.

Squeamish nausea in region of sternum, with vertigo and burning in scrobiculum.
Nauseous sensations with hunger; nausea in his dreams.
Vomiting, with the stool in the afternoon.
Bitter, acrid fluid rises up into the throat; heartburn.

Burning in the stomach, ascending to the chest.
Anxiety and pressure in pit of stomach.

Cutting stitch under the last left ribs.

Tympanitic puffing of right side of abdomen.
Sore to hard pressure; slowly lessened after wind passes.
Expansion and sensation of fulness in epigastrium, with hunger.
Loud croaking in the abdomen, with hunger.
Wind colic.
Distention of hypogastrium, which was exceedingly sensitive to contact.
Contraction and tension of the abdominal muscles; has to walk bent forward.
Bruised pain over left hip, and on whole left side of pelvis.
Tension in the groins.
Painful soreness in the whole abdomen, worse when riding in a carriage.

Frequent urging in lower part of rectum, with discharge of small quantities of soft stool.
Dry, stool, like sand, after dinner.
Alvine evacuation irregular, often lienteric diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa with constant pain in left side of stomach.
Sore between the nates, around anus, and in groin, on moderate walking.

Turbid, sweetish, profuse at night. θ Diabetes.
Urine: profuse at night; pale fetid.

Seminal emissions almost every night, without erection, with atrophy of penis; after onanism.
Yellowish-greenish gonorrhœa, of an indolent character from beginning.
Very profuse gonorrhœa, with contusive pain in testicle.
Greyish ulcers, with shaggy borders, at the prepuce; at the same time in the throat.
Crushed pain in the testicles; clothing increases the pain on walking; also evening in bed.
Scrotum and feet œdematous. θ Diabetes mellitus.

Pains in the left ovary and loins.
Purulent, ichorous, sometimes bloody matter flows from uterine ulcers, filling room with an unbearable stench.
Neck of uterus looks spongy, deeply corroded.
Metrorrhagia, large lumps with violent pains, increased with every motion.
Hemorrhages at the approach of the climacteric period.
Prolapsus uteri; pain in left ovary; pain in small of back extending to the front and downwards.

Rawness and soreness in upper part of larynx, when coughing, not when swallowing.
Hoarseness; especially of professional singers, speakers, etc.
Cannot speak a loud word; constant tickling in the throat, provoking cough.
Laughing produces mucous in larynx and excites cough.
When stooping; or ascending stairs, mucus rises into the throat, easily brought up by a single cough.
A gray, gelatinous phlegm is easily raised from trachea.
Over the bifurcation of the trachea, a raw spot; hoarseness; worse when using the voice.

When reading aloud in the evening, he has to hem and hawk.
Stitches between the sixth and seventh ribs, worse when inhaling.
With a deep inhalation, pressing-out pain below the second and third ribs.
With every deep breath cutting on both sides on last ribs.
Violent stitches in chest impede inhalation and exhalation.
Want of breath, also in diabetes.

Dry, caused by irritation in the bronchia, with a sore pain; drawing stitches on lowest rib, near spine; in attacks, rattling by day and in room, not at night not in open air; with easy expectoration, white, thickish, looking like boiled starch; from laughing; from dull cutting, which becomes a stitch in the air passes from below upwards, with mucus in chest.

Stitches in right chest from within outwards he can neither inhale nor exhale without feeling it.
Great weakness of the chest, worse left side.

Beats sometimes omit.
Palpitation increased by sudden muscular exertion.
Full feeling in region of heart.
Frequent spasmodic, but painless twitching of whole cardiac muscle, especially on the back; fears apoplexy.
Pulse: often unchanged; more frequently in evening, in bed; slow in the morning.

Cutting left side, in cartilages of false ribs.
Chest feels sore to touch.
Boil near last rib.

The sterno-cleido mastoid muscles hurt when stretched by turning of head.
Itching between the shoulder-blades.
On right of pelvis, near sacrum, skin feels cold as if touched with ice; returns after eating.

Upper arms feel powerless, as after severe labor.
Tearing in bones of arms, especially of hands and fingers.
A short paralytic drawing on the outside of upper arm; on pressure it pains as if beaten; same in wrist-joint.

Stitches in the hip when walking.
From time to time crampy pains in the thighs.
Weariness about the hip-joints, worse walking; feel bruised on hard pressure after rising.
Stiffness in the hips in the morning.
Knee pains as if bruised, while sitting.
Knees knock together when walking.
Calves feel as if too short on going down stairs.
When stepping, feet feel sore, as if ulcerated.
Feet œdematous, swollen.
Tearing in the feet, at times in the soles, dorsa, heels or toes, in tarsal or metatarsal bones.

Numbness in limbs, as if asleep.
All the limbs feel stiff.
Loss of power; after walking, unusual fatigue.
Heaviness.
Joints of hands and feet feel sore; drawing in the joints.

Motion: 13, 23, 36. Exertion: 29. Must go from place to place: 1. Walking: 20, 22, 23, 34. Ascending: 25. Descending: 33, 44. Sitting: 33. Bending forwards: 19. Stooping: 25. Turning head: 31. After rising: 33. Lying: 29, 36.

Painless twitching: around right shoulder and right thigh; of right thumb, abducting it while writing.
Spasmodic, painful twitching of muscles on temple, forehead, and throat, near thyroid cartilage.
Convulsive shocks of whole body; after previous vertigo; mostly when dropping off to sleep, preventing sleep.
Epileptic attacks, followed by delirious rage, jumping about, striking those nearer.
Weary, forced to lie down and sleep.
Paralytic weakness on motion; bruised feeling.
Lame, weakness with all pains.

Gaping, drowsy; depressed in mind.
Like electric shocks on going to sleep.
Restless sleep; anxious, frightful dreams, on awaking believes them true.
Nausea in dreams.
On awaking: fatigue; upper arm weak, legs powerless.

Day: 27. Morning: 7, 13, 29, 33. Forenoon: 1, 40. Noon: 4. Afternoon: 1, 16, 40. Evening: 22, 26, 27, 29, 40. Night: 21, 27. Before midnight: 2, 40. After midnight: 40.

Better in open air: 4, 27. Entering warm room: 2. Uncovering: 40.

Coldness on small spots.
Chill: in the afternoon and evening, until asleep; before midnight, every time the bed clothes are raised.
Chilly, stupid; chill spreads from the back.
Heat in the forenoon without thirst, heat all over, but less on the head.
Hectic, 11 A.M. to 12 M., or 1 P.M.
Sweats easily; during and after eating; upper part of body, or only front of body.
Sweat after midnight.
Sweat on abdomen, chest.

Pains increase gradually, disappear suddenly.
Sudden momentary pains; belly, back, right shoulder, etc.
Cough in attacks.

Right: 3, 8, 28, 31, 36. Left: 3, 5, 10, 18, 19, 23, 28, 30, 32, 46. Below upwards: 3, 17, 27. Above downwards: 23. Within outwards: 28.

Soreness and rawness in internal organs.
Articular rheumatism, without swelling, with burning, lancinating pains, like from the sting of a wasp, severe at the knee, still more at the elbow.
Pains as if sprained; as if beaten.

Drawing pains in maxillary and parotid glands.
Acts on cartilages and joints.
Joints feel weak, sore; especially in lower limbs when descending.
Arthritic bruised pains in joints; boring.
Emaciation.
Tenderness, pressure or tearing in the bones; gnawing, especially in the long bones, and in those of the face.

Touch: 3, 4, 19, 30, 46. Pressure: 4, 19, 32, 33. Scratching: 6, 46. Riding in carriage: 19.

Itching, unchanged by scratching.
Sore exanthemata, cannot bear to have them touched, even the motion of the skin is almost unbearable.
A pimple on left temple sore to the touch.
Stinging as from fleas here and there.

Tall, thin people of irritable temperament.
Affections from onanism.

Cured gonorrhœa, after Cannab., Copaiva and Mercur. failed.
Cured scirrhus of os tincæ, after Conium, Cicuta, Sepia and Lycop. failed.
Uterine and ovarian similar to Pallad., the latter on the right side; Argent. met. on the left.
Ailments from abuse of mercury.
Antidotes to Argent. met., Mercur., Pulsat.
After Argent. met. follows well: Calc. ostr., Pulsat., Sepia, Argent. met., follows after Alum., and Platin.
A return of trembling palpitation four months after delivery, after being cured in the third month of pregnancy by Argent. met. was relieved by Rhus tox.
Compare Stannum in cough excited by laughing.

Pure precipitated silver is prepared for use by trituration with sugar of milk.

Silver exerts a marked and general action on the mucous membranes from the pharynx through stomach and bowels, genito-urinary tract and respiratory apparatus. ▶ Independently also it seems to cause spinal irritability, with numerous pains in body and extremities, with tendency to spasmodic action of muscles.

Aluminium, Ferrum, Zincum , Lyc., Chin., Sulf., Gelsem., Hyperic., Agaric.

Electric shocks, through upper part of body, in forenoon, exploding close to foramen magnum (Compare Chin., Sulf.). ▶ Twitching and pulsation of several muscles, especially in right thigh; of right temporal, right frontal muscles, muscles of neck near thyroid cartilage and towards nape, it repelled the hand, with quivering pain.

Burrowing, tensive, stiff, bruised and broken feeling in bones. ▶ Drawing pain, now in left forehead, now in occiput, now in left elbow, when a rest; alternately in different joints, upper arm, calf and forehead, when at rest. ▶ Soreness between nates, around anus and in groin, when walking. ▶ Painful tension alternating between tendon of right psoas and triceps humeris, with bruised pain on pressure.

▶ Weakness in morning on waking (Chin., Alumin.), with depression; after waking, especially of upper arm; at 11 A.M., especially of upper arms, with sleepiness; when sitting or walking, especially of thighs, with sleepiness; when walking in open air, with heat and anguish as if the clothes were too tight; paralytic weakness on motion; in limbs in morning, amel. rising, with tensive bruised pain in nape. ▶ The attacks recur every day at noon (Gelsem.).

General tendency to emaciation, with sallow, pale complexion. ▶ General anæmia, with œdematous feet. ▶ Rheumatic pain in limbs and back, generally agg. lying down. ▶ General loss of power, threatening paralysis.

▶ Cheerful and talkative (reaction). ▶ Merry when pleased, but crying long about a trifle. ▶ Ill-humored.

(Stitches in morning, with redness of one eye.). ▶ Shooting and tearing. ▶ Stinging burning pain in head. ▶ Intoxicated condition; dizzy sleepy intoxication. ▶ Creeping and crawling as if tipsy. ▶ Dizzy stupefaction. ▶ Confusion; at 10 A.M.; as from smoke in brain; as from vertigo. ▶ Hollow feeling, with aching in brain and chilliness. ▶ Soreness on pressure. ▶ Vertigo, with difficulty in controlling his senses; when sitting and reflecting; on coming in from a walk, with shivering; suddenly, with mist before eyes (Gelsem.).

Tearing in right; deep in right eminence, extending towards right temple; in left eminence; under left eminence, with compression in globe of eye. ▶ Aching, with drawing pressure in occiput and stupor; over brown; deep in right eminence extending obliquely to right temporal region; drawing, in eminences. ▶ Intermittent boring anteriorly in left side, agg. evening after lying down.

Cutting stitches in skull or on surface of brain, in front of left ear, forward. ▶ Tearing in left ; region of right and left bone, agg. tough; in left bone and over left mastoid process. ▶ Aching in left ; externally in bones; over right ear, extending backward, with drawing; drawing, in left temple, also at rest, also when sitting. ▶ Pinching in right, with intermittent stitches extending inward. ▶ Drawing downward from mastoid process for an inch, amel. on pressure when at rest.

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Arg. m. / (Silver.) / Silvester.

Argentum Met. employs his art,
On joint, and cartilage, gland and heart-
The joints are painful, tender, weak,
The neck glands swollen neath the cheek,
The Muscles twitch about the heart,
The Thorax pipes with rawness smart.
There may be chronic hoarseness, too,
And Cough with phelgm of pearly hue.
At night he has polluting drain,
His testes crushing pangs sustain.
At noon may come renewed attack,
By touch or lying on the back.

Silvester,- Has pain in the Testes.

Silvester Ham and his brother, Clem- the rich old sports, are on the road to pain.

This Silvester,- Who is subject to Tenderness of the Bones,- Is up at the Hotel, on Boneset Lead.

Orchitis- Pain in Testes: Arg. m., Ham., Brom., Clem., Aur., Con., Spong., Rhod., Pul., Nux v.

Tender Bones: Arg. m., Pho., Hep., Tell., Eup. pur., Led. (Bones and cartilages, Arg. m.)

Indicated in affections of the larynx, chiefly catarrhal inflammation, hoarseness, cough, and in affections of the joints.

Neuralgic headache, recurring daily, left sided, temporal; vertigo.

Hoarseness and aphonia, in professional singers.

Cough, excited by laughing.

Raw spot over the supra-sternal fossa.

Weakness of the (left) chest.

Rawness and soreness in the upper larynx when coughing; not felt when swallowing.

Viscid, jelly-like mucus in the larynx, coughed up in the morning.

Easy expectoration of substance looking like boiled starch.

Bruised, drawing pains in the joints.

Worse when sitting still; from abuse of mercury; from touch or pressure; from using the voice.

Anxiety driving him from place to place. Dejection. Taciturnity.

With dim vision.

Crawling and whirling in, as from intoxication. Hollow feeling in, with soreness of whole brain. Pressing, tearing in skull, especially in temporal bones. Smarting soreness on external. Pressure and tearing in skull bones. Worse: Pressure, touch. Better: open air.

Gnawing itching of external.

Nosebleed preceded by crawling in. Severe, fluent coryza with frequent sneezing.

Red. Pressing and tearing in bones of. Swelled upper lip.

Raw, and sore smarting pain in throat when coughing, less when swallowing. Inflammation and narrowing of throat (after abuse of mercury), so that food passes through with difficulty. Sore throat, as though' swollen internally. Sore, burning vesicles on tongue.

Appetite: Unusually good. Aversion to all food, even when thinking thereof.

Painful distension of. Flatulent colic.

Frequent, soft, but always scanty.

Frequent urging to urinate with copious discharge. Polyuria.

Pollutions almost every night.

By day, with easy expectoration.

Raw, sore pain in. Much gelatinous gray mucus in trachea, which is easily expectorated.

Tension and tearing in arms, especially in bones of hands and fingers.

Stitches in hip when walking. Pain in knee when sitting. Tearing in bones of feet and toes.

Bruised pain in joints. Asleep or stiff sensation in extremities. Pain in internal organs, as if raw or sore. Epileptic attacks. Effects of abuse of mercury (And of onanism). Symptoms recur each noon.

Tearing pains in.

Corrosive, burning itching here and there.

Pulse: Accelerated in evening after lying down. Chill: In afternoon evening until falling to sleep, also before midnight from slightest raising of covers. Spreads from the back. Heat: In forenoon, over the entire body, it is true yet less on head. Without thirst. Sweat: On abdomen and chest only.

Allied Remedies: Merc.

Sensation of soreness in the joints.

Tearing in the joints of the hands and feet, through the fingers and toes.

Boring in the joints.

Pricking from within outwards.

Sensation of numbness, and as if asleep in the limbs.

Pressing, tearing pain, mostly in the head.

Sensation of soreness and rawness in internal organs.

The effects from onanism.

Strong effects upon the secretions of the mucous membranes.

Discharge of urine too frequent and too copious.

Heat of the whole body except the head without thirst.

The symptoms are renewed towards noon.