Argentum Nitricum arg-n.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

MIND. NERVES: Cerebro-spinal. ABDOMINAL. MUCOUS MEMBRANE: STOMACH. Bowels. Eyes. Throat. Urethra. Periosteum. Skin. Left side.

Worse

EMOTIONS: ANXIETY. Suspense. In room. Sugar. Shut in places. Lying on R side. Looking down. Drinking. Crowds.

Better

COOL: AIR; open. Bath. Hard pressure. Motion.

General

Old, dried up, tremulous and weak. Progressive emaciation. Paralysis, ascending. Parts seem ENLARGED or bound up (Glo.). VIOLENT PAINS; LIKE DEEPLY STICKING SPLINTERS; sharp shooting, like lightning; < down back or legs; cause starting; grinding or radiating. Sinking downward from head. Ulceration, with much yellow, bloody pus (Hep.).

Particulars

Conjoined mental and digestive symptoms. Tormented by strange ideas or emotions. Nervous, impulsive and hurried, yet timid and anxious (Ars.). Fearsome. Dreads ordeals, impending evil, passing a certain point, dark (Stram.), etc. Incoherence. Faltering speech, gait, erections, etc. Nervous headache and nervous diarrhœa. Brain-fag. Head as if in a vise; > tight bandage. Vertigo; epileptic, < night. Compressive or deep head pains; loses his senses (Laur.). Boring in l. frontal eminence, 11-12 A.M. Migraine. Scaly tarsi. Eyeballs feel big (Guai.). Swelled carunculæ; chemosis. Photophobia. Violent purulent ophthalmia. Dilated pupils. Sickly, grayish, muddy color. Painful, red tip of tongue, or (dry) aphthæ on edge. Food lodges in pharynx. Throat sensitive; as of a rough stick (Phyt.) or splinter in, > cool drinks. Dark red fauces and uvula. Craves sugar, which <. Astringent sour or bitter-sour taste and vomitus. Alcoholic gastritis. Gastralgia; in a spot. Eructates ingesta. FLATULENCE; bursting (Lyc.); loud explosive belching (Coca.), discharged upward and downward; noisy diarrhœa. Emotional diarrhœa. Shreddy, mucus stools, turning green; < drinking. Violent pains from kidneys to bladder. Cutting in urethra, with painful priapism. Yellow, bloody gonorrhœa. Painful coition. Cough from laughing. Dyspnœa, nervous or flatulent; < gastric pains. Palpitation, < lying on r. side. Craves fresh air. Laryngitis. Throbbing or weak spine. Trembling limbs. Peripheral neuralgias. Ischias antica. Weakness, rigidity or twisting in calves. Ulcers, angry, deep; hard edges; warty granulations. Adherent crusts. Chill if uncovered, yet smothers when wrapped up. Shivers through bowels; up back.

Related

Complementary: Nat-m. Antidotes: Cina. Nat-m. Related: Lyc. Pul.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Acute or chronic diseases fro unusual or long-continued mental exertion . Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, dried-up, old-looking patients (thin, scrawny, Sec.). Emaciation, progressing every year; most marked in lower extremeties (Am. m.); marasmus. Apprehension when ready for church or opera, diarrhoea sets in (Gels.). Time passes slowly (Can. I.); impulsive, wants to do things in a hurry; must walk fast; is always hurried; anxious, irritable, nervous (Aur. Lit.). Headache: congestive, with fullness and heaviness; with sense of expansion; habitual gastric, of literary men; from dancing; hemicrania, pressive, screwing in frontal eminence or temple; ending in bilious vomiting; < from any exhaustive mental labor; > by pressure or tight bandaging (Apis, Puls.). Acute granular conjunctivitis; scarlet-red, like raw beef; discharge profuse, muco-purulent. Ophthalmia neonatorum: profuse, purulent discharge; cornea opaque, ulceration; lids sore, thick, swollen; agglutinated in morning (Apis, Mer. s., Rhus). Eye strain from sewing, < in warm room > in open air (Nat. m., Ruta); diseases due to defective accommodation. Craves sugar; child is fond of it, but diarrhoea results from eating (craves salt or smoked meat, Cal. p.). Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Flatulent dyspepsia: belching after every meal; stomach, as it it would burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence. Diarrhoea: green mucus, like chopped spinach in flakes; turning green after remaining on diaper; after drinking; after eating candy or sugar; masses of muco-lymph in shreddy strips or lumps (Asar.); with much noisy flatus (Aloe.). Diarrhoea as soon as he drinks (Ars., Crot. t., Throm.). Urine passes unconsciously day and night (Caust.). Impotence: erection fails when coition is attempted (Agnus, Calad., Selen.). Coition: painful in both sexes; followed by bleeding from vagina (Nit. ac.). Netrorrhagia: in young widows; in sterility; with nervous erethism at change of life (Lach.). Great longing for fresh air (Amyl., Puls., Sulph.). Chronic laryngitis of singers; the high notes cause cough (Alum., Arg. m., Arum.). Great weakness of lower extremities, with trembling; cannot walk with the eyes closed (Alum.). Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when he thinks himself unobserved. Convulsions preceded by great restlessness. Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing (Dolch., Hep., Nit. ac., Sil.); in or about uterus when walking or riding. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up; craves fresh air.

Relations

Natrum mur, for the bad effects of cauterizing with nitrate of silver. Coffee increases nervous headache. Boys' complaints after using tabacco (Ars., Ver.). Similar: to, Nat. m., Nit. ac., Lach., Aur., Cup. After Ver.; Lyc. follows well in flatulent dyspepsia.

Aggravation

Cold food; cold air; eating sugar; ice cream; unusual mental exertion.

Amelioration

Open air; craves the wind blowing in his face; bathing with cold water. The 200 or 1000th potency in watery solution as a topical application in ophthalmia neonatorum has relieved when the crude Silver nitrate failed.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

Think of this remedy on seeing a withered and dried-up person.

Mental

Apathy; taciturn and gloomy; time passes slowly; it seems as if others were hours in doing what is really accomplished in a short time; this worries the patient, because it seems such a long time. Memory weak, or lost; disturbed intellect; impulsive, time seems too short, wants to do things in a hurry, must walk fast, etc.--is always hurried; easily excited, nervous, irritable, anxious.

Head

Vertigo; as if turning in a circle, accompanied by headache, head symptoms are very prominent, cannot walk, talk or think, the head gets so giddy. Headache better from being tightly bound up; head feels painfully full and as if too large; boring pain in forehead, left side. Excessive. congestion to the head, with throbbing carotids, obliging one to loosen the cravat. Scalp, extreme itching of; creeping and crawling, with sensation as though roots of the hair were being pulled upward. Strange feeling in the head as if skull bones were separated. Face looks old, sunken, dirty.

Eyes

Great photophobia, worse in warm room, eyes bloodshot, much lachrymation; purulent ophthalmia; eye troubles in general, pupils dilated. Sight and eyes seem to suffer as abdominal sufferings increase.

Ears

Ringing in, with deafness.

Nose

Violent itching, obliging to rub until it looks raw. Much sneezing.

Stomach

No appetite; longing for sugar; pain after eating. Wind dyspepsia, violent belching, bowels usually regular; great relief from belching; violent, noisy belching; much flatulence. Gastrodynia.

Teeth

Much pain in the sound teeth, made worse by chewing; eating things; or from cold things in the mouth.

Stool

Diarrhœa after sugar or candy; after drinking any fluids--they go right through; stools green fetid mucus, like chopped spinach; with sand or gravel; expelled forcibly, with much fuss; turning green on diaper; stools epithelial, with much lymph, looking red or green, shreddy, with tenesmus, advanced dysentery, suspected ulceration. Itching of the anus, causing the sufferer to rub it, until it becomes sore.

Throat

Sensation as of a splinter when swallowing, eructating, breathing, moving the neck.

Abdomen

Stitching, ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs, worse from deep inspiration and touching the part.

Sexual

Male: Want of sexual desire, the organs seem much shrivelled. Female, uterine hæmorrhage two weeks before menses.

Urine

Incontinence of; too copious; suppression of; emission of a few more drops after one is done urinating.

Chest

Aching pains in, size of half a dollar. Palpitation of heart with nausea and faintness. Suffocative cough at noon.

Extremities

Lower: Paralytic affections, almost losing use of lower extremities from rigidity of CALVES of the legs.

Fever

Chills, shifting or constant are most lasting, with nausea.

Generalities

Drowsy stupor. Emaciation; trembling weakness; debility mostly declared in legs, especially calves. Chronic hoarseness; chronic laryngitis of those who use their voices much, singers, lecturers, etc. Neuralgias, seldom acute, but spread over a large surface and are deeply seated. Convulsions (sometimes puerperal) preceded by great restlessness; hysteria; epilepsy. Nervous affections, particularly chorea, occurring at night, in morning or about noon, typical; paraplegia; from debilitating causes.

Skin

Peculiar discoloration, from blue-gray, violet, or bronze, to real black.

Worse

At night; in morning; cold food; sugar.

Remedies following

Calc. carb., Pulsat., Sepia. Next best: Lycop., Silic., Kali carb., Mercur.

Antidote

Mercur., Natrum mur.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Sensation of expansion of the body, especially of the face and head, with feeling as if bones of skull separated. Purulent ophthalmia, with intense pains which are better in the open air. Intensely pink or scarlet red, profuse mucopurulent discharge. Canthi red as blood, the caruncula swollen standing out like a lump of red flesh, clusters of intensely red vessels extend from inner canthus to cornea. Bloody, mucous stools, with masses of epithelium connected by muco-lymph, severe bearing down in the hypogastrium, advanced dysentery with suspected ulceration. Prolapsus uteri, with ulceration of the os or cervix.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Nitrate of Silver

General

In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting; themselves which give certain indications for its homeopathic employment. Symptoms of inco-ordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically; trembling in affected parts. Is an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation of the throat, and a marked gastro-enteritis. Very characteristic is the great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free muco-purulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes. Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic. Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion. Head symptoms often determine the choice of this remedy. Pains increase and decrease gradually. Flatulent state and prematurely aged look. Explosive belching especially in neurotics. Upper abdominal affections brought on by undue mental exertion. Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord. Intolerance of heat. Sensation of a sudden pinch (Dudgeon). Destroys red blood corpuscles, producing anæmia.

Mind

Thinks his understanding will and must fail. Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and tremulous. Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease. Time passes slowly (Cann ind). Memory weak. Errors of perception. Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry (Lilium). Peculiar mental impulses. Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions.

Head

Headache with coldness and trembling. Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental exertion, from dancing. Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections. Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemi-crania; bones of head feel as if separated.

Eyes

Inner canthi swollen and red. Spots before the vision. Blurred vision. Photophobia in warm room. Purulent ophthalmia. Great swelling of conjunctiva; discharge abundant and purulent. Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen. Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily. Eye-strain from sewing; worse in warm room. Aching, tired feeling in eyes, better closing or pressing upon them. Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles. Paretic condition of ciliary muscle. Acute granular conjunctivitis. Cornea opaque. Ulcer in cornea.

Nose

Loss of smell. Itching. Ulcers in septum. Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, and headache.

Face

Sunken, old, pale, and bluish. Old man's look; tight drawing of skin over bones.

Mouth

Gums tender and bleed easily. Tongue has prominent papillæ; tip is red and painful. Pain in sound teeth. Taste coppery, like ink. Canker sores.

Throat

Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking. Raw, rough and sore. Sensation of a splinter in throat on swallowing. Dark redness of throat. Catarrh of smokers, with tickling as of hair in throat. Strangulated feeling.

Stomach

Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus. Flatulence; painful swelling of pit. Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all parts of the abdomen. Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and constriction. Ineffectual effort at eructation. Great craving for sweets. Gastritis of drunkards. Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs. Trembling and throbbing in stomach. Enormous distention. Ulceration of stomach, with radiating pain. Desire for cheese and salt.

Abdomen

Colic, with much flatulent distention. Stitchy ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs.

Stool

Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very offensive. Diarrhœa immediately after eating or drinking. Fluids go right through him; after sweets. After any emotion with flatulence. Itching of anus.

Urine

Urine passes unconsciously, day and night. Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter. Urine scanty and dark. Emission of a few drops after having finished. Divided stream. Early stage of gonorrhœa; profuse discharge and terrible cutting pains; bloody urine.

Male

Impotence. Erection fails when coition is attempted. Cancer-like ulcers. Desire wanting. Genitals shrivel. Coition painful.

Female

Gastralgia at beginning of menses. Intense spasm of chest muscles. Organs at night. Nervous erethism at change of life. Leucorrhœa profuse, with erosion of cervix bleeding easily. Uterine hæmorrhage, two weeks after menses; Painful affections of left ovary.

Respiratory

High notes cause cough. Chronic hoarseness. Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in throat. Dyspnœa. Chest feels as if a bar were around it. Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on right side; (Alumen). Painful spots in chest. Angina pectoris, nightly aggravation. Many people in a room seem to take away his breath.

Back

Much pain. Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, (Oxal acid) paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis.

Extremities

Cannot walk with eyes closed. Trembling, with general debility. Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms. Rigidity of calves. Debility in calves especially. Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved. Numbness of arms. Post-diphtheritic paralysis (after Gelsem).

Skin

Brown, tense, and hard. Drawing in skin, as from a spider-web, or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried up. Irregular blotches.

Sleep

Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification. Drowsy stupor.

Fever

Chills with nausea. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.

Modalities

Worse, warmth in any form; at night; from cold food; sweets; after eating; at menstrual period; from emotions, left side. Better, from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure.

Relationship

Antidote: Nat mur.

Compare: Ars; Merc; Phos; Pulsat. Argent cyanatum (angina pectoris, asthma, spasm of œsophagus) Argent iodat (throat disorders, hoarseness, gland affected). Protargol (gonorrhœa after acute stage 2 per cent solution; syphilitic mucous patches, chancres and chancroids, 10 per cent solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 drops of 10 per cent solution).

Argent phosph (An excellent diuretic in dropsy).

Argent oxyd (Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhœa).

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses. This solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxide.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Impulsive: time goes too slow; must walk fast.

Apprehension, on getting ready for church, opera, etc., has an attack of diarrhœa.

Vertigo, with buzzing in the ears and weakness and trembling.

Canthi, as red as blood; swollen, standing out like a lump of red flesh.

Irresistible desire for sugar; gastric ailments, with violent loud belchings.

Stool; green, mucous, like chopped spinach in flakes; turns green on remaining on diaper; expelled with much spluttering.

Profuse, sometimes purulent, discharges from mucous membranes, generally.

Dried-up, withered patients, made so by disease.

Craves fresh air.

Guernsey says: "We think of this remedy on seeing a withered and dried up person, made so by disease." This especially in children. "He looks like a little withered old man." (Fluoric acid, young people look old.) Argentum like Gold profoundly affects the mind. Like Gold it is one of the best remedies for hypochondriasis. The symptoms are so many in this trouble that we can only call attention to them as found in Guiding Symptoms. I will only mention a few more prominent and peculiar symptoms that have been frequently verified. "The sight of high houses makes him dizzy and causes him to stagger. It seemed as if the houses on both sides of the street would approach and crush him."

"When walking in the street he dreads to pass a street corner, because the corner of the house seems to project and he is afraid he will run against it." Impulsive, must walk very fast, always hurried. (Lilium tigrinum.) "Apprehension when ready to go to church or opera; brings on diarrhea." (Gelsemium).

The hurried feeling of both Argentum nitricum and Lilium tigrinum have occurred mostly in uterine troubles; while the diarrhœa on excitement seems to depend upon a general nervous condition. Unless the indications pointed strongly to one in preference to the other remedy it might be well to try the vegetable first. The minerals are generally longer and deeper in their action, and would perhaps be preferable the more chronic the case.

Some of the very curious symptoms found under this and other remedies are not found in everyday practice, but when found are all the more valuable because the cases presenting them are rare and not easily understood or cured by the ordinary remedies. Some of our most brilliant cures have been made in just such cases, and they are very gratifying to both physician and patient.

Argentum nitricum is sometimes the best remedy for hemicrania; this kind of headache is often very distressing and hard to cure. One peculiar symptom belonging to Argentum nitricum in headache is a feeling of expansion, feels as though head were enormously enlarged, and like Pulsatilla and Apis, feels better when tied up tight. This feeling of expansion is also a general symptom, feels as though the whole body or part of it were expanding, some express it as a feeling of fullness. (Æsculus hipocastanum). It is found under other remedies also, but very prominently under this.

Argentum nitricum has a great deal of vertigo, which is often accompanied with buzzing in the ears, general debility and trembling. Cannot walk with the eyes closed; the sight of high houses makes him dizzy. These symptoms call to remembrance Gelsemium. Both remedies have much vertigo; great tremulous weakness, accompanied with general debility, actual trembling and tremulous sensation, and both have been found useful in locomotor ataxia. I should, other things being equal, give the preference to Gelsemium in recent cases, or in the beginning, and Argentum nitricum further along. But there are generally diagnostic indications which enable us to choose between them. In eye affections Argentum is one of our most valuable remedies, and like all remedies which are very valuable for anything has been woefully abused by the old school. It is a pity that they do not know enough to get the good and to avoid the bad effects of such valuable agents, for many times the disastrous results of their misuse brings the remedies into such disrepute that others are afraid to use them at all. It was for this reason that the old botanics rejected all mineral remedies. Mercury had so scared them. It falls to the Homœopath to teach how to use all such a way as to get the good, while avoiding the bad effects. In eye troubles Allen & Norton write as follows: "The greatest service that Argentum nitricum performs is in purulent ophthalmia. With large experience, in both hospital and private practice, we have not lost a single eye from this disease, and every one has been treated with internal remedies, most of them with Argentum nitricum of a high potency, 30th or 200th. We have witnessed the most intense chemosis, with strangulated vessels, most profuse purulent discharge, even the cornea beginning to get hazy and looking as though it would slough, subside rapidly under Argentum nitricum internally. The subjective symptoms are almost none. Their very absence, with the profuse purulent discharge, and the swollen lids from a collection of pus in the eye, or swelling of the sub-conjunctival tissue of the lids themselves, indicates the drug. (Apis; Rhus.)", Later Norton writes: "I do believe that there is no need of cauterization with it except in the gonorrhœal form of purulent conjunctivitis." Such testimony from such sources ought to shame the abuse of this agent in the hands of old school physicians, and sometimes bogus Homœopaths. In ophthalmia neonatorum in my own practice as a general practitioner I have had very often better success with Mercurius solubilis, especially where there was much purulent matter pouring out on opening the eyes. In blepharitis Graphites and Staphisagria have served me oftener than Argentum nitricum, but this may not be the experience of others, for in eye troubles, as in all others, the indications are to be studied and carefully recognized in their entirety. (Borax must not be forgotten in blepharitis.) Specialists are apt to lose sight of this and be led to local treatment when constitutional would be infinitely better. The symptom, "red, painful tip of the tongue, papillæ erect, prominent," has guided to the cure of many different kinds of cases. There are also some valuable symptoms in the digestive organs; for instance, "Irresistible desire for sugar; fluids go right through him; most gastric ailments are accompanied by belching; belching after every meal, stomach as if it would burst with wind, belching difficult; finally air rushes out with great noise and violence." All of these are characteristic, and there is no doubt that this remedy is sometimes indicated when Carbo veg., China or Lycopodium are given because they are generally so much better understood. Dyspepsia, gastralgia and even gastric ulcer have sometimes found a powerful remedy in Argentum, and it has also done great good in very obstinate cases of diarrhœa of various kinds.

"Green mucus like chopped spinach in flakes."

"Stool turning green after remaining in diaper."

"Stool expelled with much spluttering."

"Stool shreddy, red, green muco-lymph, epithelial substance."

"During stool emission of much noisy flatus."

Now there are other remedies which have some of these symptoms in a marked degree, notably: Calcarea phos., which has the spluttering stool with much noisy flatus, and it is also a fact that both remedies are very valuable ones in hydrocephaloid consequent on the long-continued drain from intractable cases of entero-colitis. If the bone development should be slow with open fontanelles and sweaty head of course Calcarea phos., would win. Then in Calcarea phos. the child wishes smoked meats, bacon, etc., in Argentum nitricum sugar or sweets. Yet both have great emaciation, the child looking old and wrinkled, and it will sometimes be close individualizing to choose between them. Argentum nitricum has its place in the treatment of throat affections. There is thick, tenacious mucus in the throat obliging him to hawk and causing slight hoarseness. Rawness, soreness, scraping in throat, causing hawking and cough. Sensation as of a splinter lodged in the throat (Nitric ac., Hepar sulph., Dolichos). and wartlike excrescences, which feel like pointed bodies when swallowing. This kind of throat may extend downward until it involves the larynx, especially in singers, clergymen, or lawyers who are using their voice very much. Then it is doubly indicated. When we come to the back and extremities we again find our remedy in the field for a share of the honors. "Pain in the back (small of) relieve when standing or walking, but severe when rising from a seat," is a condition often found in practice. I have often relieved it with Sulphur or Causticum, but remember also Argentum nitricum. If in back troubles we find great lassitude (Kali carbonicum), with weariness, especially in forearms and lower legs, especially calves, or if in addition to this we find vertigo and trembling of the extremities, we may be sure Argentum nitricum will do us good. In paraplegia from debilitating causes or paralysis after diphtheria we may find this remedy indicated. Also in epilepsy or convulsions; in the former (epilepsy) one characteristic symptom is that for hours or days before the attack the pupils are dilated; in the latter the convulsions are preceded for a short time by great restlessness.

Cuprum metallicum has great restlessness between the attacks. Finally Natrum muriaticum is the best antidote for the abuse of Argentum nit., especially upon mucous surfaces.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

Mind and Disposition

Very impulsive ; in continual motion ; he walks fast. Apathy.

Head

Vertigo, with headache. Morning headache, (when he awakens). Excessive congestion of blood to the head. Stitches in the left frontal eminence. Digging up, incisive motion, through the left hemisphere of the brain. Headache, with chilliness. Headache relieved by tying a handkerchief tightly around the head. Headache worse in the open air. Itching, creeping, crawling of the hairy scalp. Sensation, as if the bones of the skull separated, with increase of temperature.

Eyes

Mucus in the eyes drying up, and forming scurfs. Vanishing of light ; to is constantly obliged to wipe off the mucus, which obstructs the axis of vision. Opacity of the cornea. Ophthalmia, with intense pain ; worse in the warm room, better in the open air.

Ears

Ringing in the ears, and deafness, (left ear).

Nose

Violent itching of the nose. Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, sneezing, and stupefying, headache. Discharge of pus, with clots of blood.

Face

Sunken, pale, bluish countenance. Hard blotches in the vermilion border of the upper lip, paler than the lip, and sore to the touch. The lips are dry and viscid, without thirst. The gums are swollen, inflamed, bleed easily, and are painful when touched. Sensitiveness of the teeth to cold water.

Mouth

Dryness of the tongue with thirst. Papillæ prominent, erect, feeling sore. Painful red tip of the tongue. Fetid actor from the mouth. Ptyalism.

Throat

Dark redness of the uvula and fences. Sensation, as if a splinter were lodged in the throat when swallowing. Thick, tenacious mucus in the throat.

Appetite and Taste

Irresistible desire for sugar in the evening. Sweetish-bitter taste.

Stomach

Violent belching. Violent vomiting, with anxiety in the præcordial region. Black vomit. Vomiting and diarrhœa with violent colicky pains. Gnawing pain in the left side of the stomach. Pressure, with heaviness and nausea in the stomach.

Abdomen

Stitches through the abdomen, like electric shocks, (left side).

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa of green, fetid mucus, with very noisy emission of flatulence at night. Bloody stools. Constipation, fæces dry. Itching at the anus.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and copious emission of pale urine. Inflammation, and violent burning or shooting pains in the urethra, with increased gonorrhœa. Priapism, bleeding of the urethra. Stricture of the urethra.

Sexual Organs

Men. Chancre-like ulcer on the prepuce. Sexual desire wanting, the genital organs having become shrivelled.

Chest

Palpitation of the heart in paroxysm, with nausea.

Back

Pain in the small of the back relieved when standing or walking.

Lower Extremities

Heaviness and debility of the legs. Great debility and weariness in the calf of the leg, as after a long journey.

Generalities

Staggering gait. Great debility and weariness, (lower limbs). Convulsions. Epileptic attacks caused by fright, or during menstruation, (at night, or in the morning when rising). Sensation of expansion, (face and head).

Sleep

Soporous condition. Nightly nervousness, with heat in the head. Restless sleep, with stupefaction and headache.

Fever

Chilliness, with nausea. Morning perspiration.

Skin

Wart-shaped excrescences on the skin. Discoloration of the skin -blue-gray, violet or bronze- colored tinges, to real black.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Nitrate of Silver. Lunar Caustic. Ag NO 3 . Trituration and solution.

Clinical

Acidity. Addison's disease. Anæmia . Chancre. Dyspepsia . Epilepsy. Eructations . Erysipelas. Eyes, affections of. Flatulence. Gastric ulcer . Gonorrhœa. Hands, swelling of . Headache. Heartburn . Impetigo. Locomotor ataxy. Neuralgia . Ophthalmia neonatorum. Paralysis. Prostate, enlargement of . Scarlatina. Small-pox. Spinal irritation . Syphilis. Taste, altered. Throat, affections of. Tongue ulcerated . Warts. Zona.

Characteristics

It was the use of Argentum nit . in olden times in the treatment of epilepsy which led to the production of the lamentable cases of lead-coloured pigmentation of the skin called Argyria. Homœopathic experience has proved the applicability of the drug to many cases of epilepsy and the needlessness of employing a dosage that entails any risk whatever. The cases of epilepsy calling for this drug are those caused by fright, or occurring at the menstrual period. For days or hours before the attack the pupils are dilated, and after the attack the patient is very restless and has trembling of the hands.

Among the leading symptoms of Arg. n . are: Great tremor. Nervous feeling; sensation as if being squeezed in a vice. Feeling of constriction in various parts as of a band of iron round chest or waist. A feeling as if the body or some part of the body were expanding. Migraine, with feeling as if head were enormously enlarged; > tightly bound. Defective co-ordination. Paralyses of motion and sensation; a peculiar numbness accompanied with hyperæsthesia. Sensation of a splinter sticking in various parts. Burning sensations. Gowers has recorded a case in which the use of Arg. n . for stomach trouble caused (like lead), drop-wrist, gout, and albuminuria. In allopathic practice the dyspepsia for which it is given is < before food, when the stomach is empty. The opposite condition is the leading indication in homœopathic practice. E. P. Brewer ( Hahn. Monthly , July, 1883) has recorded a proving, (the prover, a young man, taking on three consecutive days one grain a day of Arg. n . triturated with sugar of milk), in which a number of motor and sensory symptoms were elicited, reminding Dr. Brewer of locomotor ataxy, in which it has been used with success by old-school practitioners. This use also has led to many cases of argyria. Among the symptoms of this proving were. "Mental operations sluggish; continued thought required special effort, but exertion of mind did not aggravate the heaviness and fulness of head. Lower extremities (loins, sacrum, and particularly gastrocnemii) fatigued; as if they would suddenly fail him. Loss of ambition. Building air castles by day: monstrous dreams by night." Another peculiar symptom was: chilly down the back beginning close to occiput extending to extreme tip of coccyx at noon every day; > by warmth; at 5 p.m. chills subsided, no sweat, but profound sleepiness, without sleep but enchanted with vivid imagination: burning heat followed. There was burning in one spot in front of rectum, probably in prostate gland. Micturition more frequent, burning in urethra. The headache was > by Act. r . In a proving by myself one of the most marked symptoms was a kind of numb sensitiveness of the skin of the arms ─ a hyperæsthetic-anæsthetic state, increased sensitiveness to contact, but diminished power of distinguishing sensations. Other symptoms were sore throat with white patches, rheumatic pains in (left) wrist (which I have since confirmed), and finger joints, with external tenderness of bony prominences, pain on rising in right sacro-iliac notch. Soreness of muscles of neck and back. Urticarious spots in various parts. In poisoning cases complete loss of consciousness, insensibility, and convulsions have occurred. Some of the notable digestive symptoms are: "Irresistible desire for sugar." "Fluids go right through him." Belching accompanies most gastric affections. Green stools are remarkable. "Green mucus like chopped spinach in flakes." "Stool turning green after remaining on diaper." "Stool expelled with much spluttering." "Stool shreddy, red, green muco-lymph or epithelial substance." There is a pain in the small of the back, > on standing or walking, but severe when rising from a seat. ( Sul., Caust .) Arg. n . has irresistible desire for sugar, which at the same time < Kent relates a case illustrating this. A nursing infant had a grass-green diarrhœa which failed to yield to Merc., Ars ., and Cham . At last Kent discovered that the mother ate a pound of candy a day. Arg. n . was given and the candy stopped and the child soon got well. Intestinal catarrh with shreddy membranous discharges is often cured by Arg. n .

A mental peculiarity is one of apprehension and fear: when ready to go to church, &c., diarrhœa sets in. Fears projecting corners of buildings and high buildings. The sight of high buildings makes him giddy and causes him to stagger; it seems as if houses on both sides of street would approach and crush him. Imagines he cannot pass a certain point ( Kali bro .). When crossing a bridge has an almost irresistible desire to jump over. Impulsion to walk very fast ( Lil. t .). Mucous membranes affected, purulent and bloody discharges; membranous diarrhœa with agonising pains. Epithelium affected (cancers). Most symptoms are < night; very nervous at night. < At night or in morning on rising (epileptic attacks). Day half more cough, night half more diarrhœa. < On awaking. At 11 a.m. nervous attacks > by stimulants. Chill down back every day at noon. < In warm room; over a fire; in summer; warmth of bed; > by warm drinks. > In cool open air, > washing with cold water; < from cold food; < ice creams. Motion generally < ; but walking in open air > back pains, which are < sitting. Lying on right side = pains in abdomen; palpitation. Heat < ; but there 19 also < from uncovering; aversion to uncovering. < Rising from sitting. < Inspiration. < Touching the parts. > Bending double. < Thinking intently. < Riding. > Tight bandage (headache). ─ Suited to: Hysteric nervous persons; headaches from mental causes characterised by dulness of head. Women with menstrual disturbances. Cachetic state. Scrawny, feeble, dried-up-looking women. Guernsey puts it, "withered and dried up by disease. A child looks like a withered old man." It corresponds in lower potencies to Grauvogl's carbo-nitrogenoid constitution ( Sul., Cupr .); in higher to the hydrogenoid or sycotic constitution. A large number of symptoms appear on the left side.

Relations

Antidoted by: Nat. m. (chemical and dynamic), Arsen., Milk. Antidotes to Nit. ac. and Arg. nit.: Puls., Calc., Sep.; next in importance, Lyc., Sil., Rhus, Phos., Sul. It antidotes: Am. caust., effects of tobacco. Inimical: Coff. c. (it increases the nervous headache). Follows well: Bry., Spig. (dyspepsia); Caust. (urethral affections); Spongia (goître); Verat. (flatus). Is followed well by: Lyc. (flatus). Similar to: Arg. met. (A. met. acts on cartilages, Arg. nit. more on mucous membranes, skin, bone, and periosteum, and is suited to herpetic patients); to Aur., Cup., K. bich., Lach., Merc., Merc. cor., Merc. iod., Nat. m., Nit. ac., Thuj. In complaints from pressure of clothes, like Calc., Bry., Caust., Lyc., Sarsap., Stan. In congestive headaches, like Glon. and other Nit. ac. compounds. In fish-bone sensation in throat, Nit. ac., Hep. (Hep. < by cold; Arg. n. < in warm room). Puls. is its nearest analogue.

Causation

Apprehension, fear or fright. Eating ices. Intemperate habits. Mental strain and worry. Onanism and venery. Sugar. Tobacco (boys).

Mind

Mental anxiety. ─ Very impulsive; always in a hurry but accomplishes nothing; in continual motion; he walks fast. ─ Hurries restlessly to fulfil engagements, fears to be late when there is plenty of time. ─ Melancholic; does not undertake anything lest he should not succeed. ─ Impulse to throw herself from the window. ─ Frequent errors of perception; mistakes distances; fears house-corners. ─ Time seems to pass very slowly. ─ Apprehension when ready to go to church or opera, bringing on diarrhœa. ─ Easily angered or excited, anger brings on symptoms, cough, pain, &c. ─ Profound melancholy; imagines if left alone will die; apprehends incurable disease of brain. ─ Nightly nervousness, with heat and fulness in the head. ─ Nervous, faintish, and tremulous sensation. ─ Awful faces appear on shutting eyes. ─ Apathy. ─ Mental operations sluggish; thought requires effort. ─ Complete loss of consciousness. ─ Memory impaired, cannot find the right word. ─ Building castles in the air by day: monstrous visions by night.

Head

Vertigo, with headache. ─ Morning headache (when he awakens). ─ Excessive congestion of blood to the head. ─ Stitches in l. frontal eminence. ─ Cannot walk, talk, or think, the head gets so giddy. ─ Dulness, mental confusion, dizziness, tendency to fall sideways. ─ Staggers on stooping; on shutting eyes. ─ Dizzy at sight of high houses, feels as if they would close or fall in upon him. ─ Momentarily blind with mental confusion; buzzing in ears, nausea, trembling. ─ Digging up, incisive motion, through the l. hemisphere of the brain. ─ Pressing boring pains, in small spots; in bones; in l. temple. ─ Hemicrania; epileptiform; periodic; boring pain < l. frontal eminence, > tight band; from mental emotion or strain, loss of friends, loss of sleep; sometimes pain so severe he loses senses; paroxysms frequently culminate in vomiting of bile or sour fluid. ─ Occipital headache. ─ Occipital headache decreases, frontal headache increasing. ─ Congestive headache with throbbing carotids, must loosen cravat; head feels much enlarged; as if bones of skull separated, with increased temperature. ─ Sensation of constriction of scalp; as if something tightly drawn over skull. ─ Drawing in bands over surface of brain, apparently in membranes or sinuses. ─ Headache, with chilliness. ─ Headache relieved by tying a handkerchief tightly around the head. ─ Headache worse in the open air. ─ Aching in one side of the head, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. ─ Itching, creeping, crawling of the hairy scalp (as from vermin); roots of hair feel as if pulled upward.

Eyes

Photophobia. ─ Asthenopia from want of accommodation; even coarser kinds of work strain. ─ Suddenly becomes far-sighted. ─ Cloud over l. eye; grey spots and serpent-like bodies before sight; black motes (esp. r.). ─ Opacity, of the cornea; ulceration of cornea in infants. ─ Acute granular conjunctivitis, conjunctiva intensely pink, or scarlet red; discharge profuse, inclined to be muco-purulent. ─ Purulent ophthalmia; pus thick yellow and bland, < in warm room or from fire, > open air. ─ Ophthalmia neonatorum, pus thick, yellow, profuse and bland (internally; and locally in 2 gr. to ounce solution); after failure of Puls . and Merc . ─ Blepharitis, thick crusts on lids; canthi red as blood; swollen red caruncula (standing out like a lump of red flesh); clusters of intensely red vessels extend from inner canthus to cornea; granular conjunctivitis; < by warmth. ─ Iritis. ─ Sight and eyes seem to suffer as abdominal sufferings increase.

Ears

Deafness; ringing; buzzing noises; feeling of distraction (l.); earache. ─ Whizzing in l. ear with feeling of obstruction and hard hearing.

Nose

Violent itching, obliged to rub until it looks raw. ─ Coryza with chilliness, lachrymation, sickly look, sneezing and stupefying headache (over the eyes); has to lie down. ─ Discharge of (whitish) pus with clots of blood. ─ Discharge like boiled starch. ─ Ulceration of nostrils. ─ Bruised pains in bones.

Face

Sunken, pale, bluish countenance; yellow, dirty-looking. ─ Sickly appearance. ─ Dried-up look. ─ Prematurely old look. ─ Hard blotches on vermilion border of upper lip, paler than lip and sore to touch. ─ Lips dry and viscid without thirst.

Teeth

Gums swollen, inflamed, bleed easily, painful when touched. ─ Gums tender and bleed easily; but neither painful nor swollen. ─ Prosopalgia, esp. in infra-orbital branch of fifth nerve and nerves going to teeth; pain intense, at its height accompanied by unpleasant sour taste in the mouth. ─ Face convulsed; jaws clenched. ─ Teeth sensitive to cold water. ─ Toothache when chewing; eating cold or sour things.

Mouth

Dry tongue with thirst. ─ Papillæ prominent, erect, feeling sore; tip of tongue red and painful. ─ Tongue white and moist. ─ Red streak down middle of tongue. ─ Fetid odour from mouth. ─ Ptyalism. ─ Thick phlegm in mouth. ─ Mouth coated inside whitish grey.

Throat

Dark red appearance of uvula and fauces. ─ Sensation as if a splinter were stuck in when swallowing, breathing, or moving the neck. ─ Thick, tenacious mucus in the throat, obliging him to hawk. ─ Rawness, soreness, and scraping in the throat. ─ Burning and dryness in fauces and pharynx. ─ White patches in throat. ─ Paroxysms of cramp in the œsophagus. ─ Ulcers: mercurial, syphilitic, and scrofulous.

Appetite

Irresistible desire for sugar (but it < ; in the evening. ─ Desire for cheese. ─ Sweetish-bitter taste. ─ Eating relieves nausea, but < stomach pains. ─ Warm drinks > ; cold drinks or ices < stomach pains. ─ Eating or a swallow of wine > head: coffee < -The least food < pain of gastralgia; flatulence. ─ Fluids go right through him (in cholera infantum). ─ Warm fluids > , cold < pains in stomach. ─ After heavy meal, epileptic fit. ─ Nausea after each meal, esp. after dinner.

Stomach

Gastralgia, esp. in delicate, nervous women; brought on by any emotion, loss of sleep, or at menstrual period. ─ Inflammation of the stomach; gastro-enteritis. ─ Gnawing pain in the l. side of the stomach. ─ Pressure with heaviness (sensation of lump) and nausea. ─ Trembling and throbbing in stomach. ─ Most gastric complaints are accompanied by violent belching. ─ Eructations of air accompanied by a mouthful of undigested food ( Pho., Fer .). ─ After yawning, feeling as if stomach would burst; wind presses upwards, but the œsophagus feels spasmodically closed; hence an ineffectual effort to eructate, with excessive strangulation, pressing pain in stomach, faintish nausea, confluence of water in the mouth and inability to stir; the paroxysm ceased after a quarter of an hour, amidst frequent and violent out-rush of wind. ─ Vomiting of some fluid, of bile, black vomit; with anxiety in precordia. ─ The vomited substance tinged the bedding black. ─ Awakens at midnight with oppression at stomach, as from a heavy lump, inducing vomiting; in the morning throws up glairy mucus, which can be drawn into strings. ─ Warmth at epigastrium. ─ Gnawing ulcerative pain in epigastrium. ─ Stinging, ulcerative pain in l. side of stomach, worse from touch and deep inspiration. ─ Pain increases and decreases slowly. ─ Small spot between xiphoid and navel sensitive to slightest pressure; pains radiate in all directions. ─ Pain in l. side of stomach below true ribs, < during inspiration and on touching the parts. ─ Stomach pains are accompanied by intense spasm of chest muscles and dyspnœa; excessive accumulation of wind; nervous feeling or sensation as if squeezed in a vice.

Abdomen

Sensation as of a ball ascending from abdomen to throat. ─ Stitches through the abdomen (l. side) like electric shocks, esp. when changing from rest to motion. ─ Pain in abdomen as if sore; with great hunger; > after eating, but a trembling sets in its place. ─ Violent attacks of pain at irregular intervals; patient rolls on floor; descending colon tender to touch; tapeworm-like stool passes. ─ Fulness, heaviness, and distension with anxiety. ─ Flatulence. ─ Griping. ─ Cutting pains. ─ Constriction as if tightly tied with a band. ─ Pain in hypochondria. ─ Intolerance of lacing round hypochondria.

Stool and Anus

Cholera infantum in dried-up, mummy-like children, stools green, slimy, noisy, flatulent, < at night. ─ Like spinach in flakes. ─ Green, slimy, shreddy stools, with severe bearing-down in hypogastrium; membranous stool like unsegmented tapeworm; blood, slime, and epithelium; of ten with much flatus; after eating sugar; after drinking; "as soon as the least drink is taken it goes through"; from any excitement. ─ Advanced dysentery, with suspected ulceration. ─ Constipation and dry fæces. ─ Tænia or ascarides with itching at anus. ─ Piles with burning or tenesmus; bleeding. ─ Burning in one spot in anterior wall of rectum (probably in prostrate gland).

Urinary Organs

Nephralgia; pain by touching region. ─ Urine dark red; contains deposit of renal epithelium and uric acid crystals (esp. after Caust.). ─ Quick urging to urinate; frequent and copious emission of pale urine. ─ Incontinence night and day. ─ Urethra from meatus to bladder hot and burning; < at meatus and behind scrotum. ─ Urine burning while passing, urethra feels as if swollen. ─ Inability to pass urine in a projecting stream. ─ Oozing of mucus from urethra: thick, white at night. ─ Stitches in extremity of urethra; cutting from posterior part of urethra to anus, when emitting last drop of urine. ─ Inflammation, and violent burning or shooting pains in the urethra, with increased gonorrhœa. ─ Priapism, bleeding of the urethra. ─ Stricture of the urethra. ─ Dysuria, bloody urine and fever. ─ Ulcerative pain in middle of urethra, as from a splinter. ─ Stream of urine spreads asunder.

Male Sexual Organs

Chancre-like ulcer on prepuce. ─ Ulcers on the prepuce; small, covered with pus; later, spreading, bowl-shaped, with a tallow-like coating. ─ Impotence; erections, but they fail when coition is attempted. ─ Want of desire, organs shrivelled. ─ Coition painful, urethra as if put oil stretch or sensitive at orifice. ─ Painful tension during erection, chordee, bleeding from urethra, and shooting in urethra from behind forward. ─ Urethra swollen, hard, knotty, painful. ─ Spasmodic contraction of cremaster muscle, testicle drawn high up. ─ Pain in testes and scrotum as from pins and needles, < r. ─ Orchitis. ─ Burning in spot in anterior of rectum (prostate gland).

Female Sexual Organs

Ovarian pains, feels as if an enormous swelling in side affected. ─ Prolapsus with ulceration of os or cervix; with copious yellow, corroding leucorrhœa and frequent bleeding from points of ulceration. ─ Menses irregular; scanty (with asthma). ─ Menses too copious or too scanty, too soon or too late. ─ All symptoms < before and during menses. ─ Coition painful, followed by bleeding from the vagina. ─ Orgasms at night. ─ Metrorrhagia. ─ Metrorrhagia, with nervous erethism at change of life; also in young widows and those who have borne no children; returning in attacks, region of ovaries painful, with pains radiating to sacrum and thighs. ─ During pregnancy, stomach as if it would burst with wind; head feels expanded. ─ Puerperal convulsions; just after attack lies quiet, but becomes very restless before another.

Respiratory Organs

Pure nervous asthma; spasm of respiratory muscles; great dyspnœa, < in crowded room. ─ Muco-purulent sputa seeming to come from wall of larynx. ─ Expectoration purulent, mixed with light blood. ─ Internal soreness of the larynx and pit of the throat, worse mornings. ─ Chronic laryngitis of singers; raising the voice causes cough. ─ Marked hoarseness, sometimes loss of voice; feeling as if something clogging vocal cords. ─ Cough with sense of soreness in l. side preventing lying on it. ─ Evening cough worse from tobacco smoke. ─ Cough < evening and night. ─ Suffocative cough at noon. ─ Cough in paroxysms induced by: phlegm in larynx; irritation under sternum; fit of passion; laughing; stooping; smoking; ascending stairs; lying down; on awaking. ─ Hæmoptysis.

Chest

Aching, tensive pain in various parts of chest in small spots. ─ Weight as of a stone in middle of sternum. ─ Burning in chest; sensation of warmth between scapulæ and sternum. ─ Violent cramps and pain in muscles of chest.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart in paroxysms, with nausea. ─ Violent palpitation of the heart; in afternoon with faintish nausea; caused by any emotional excitement or any sudden muscular exertion; from lying on r. side. ─ Angina pectoris, intense pain in chest and about heart, can hardly breathe. ─ Irregular (intermittent) action of heart (with an unpleasant sensation of fulness), < when noticing it, > when moving about in open air.

Neck and Back

Muscles of r. side of neck sore and stiff. ─ Soreness in lumbo-sacral region. ─ Heaviness in os sacrum, extending along pelvis with painful drawing. ─ Heaviness, with paralytic sensation, preventing long sitting, and obliging him, when walking, to stretch the dorsal spine. ─ Pain in small of back, < rising from sitting; > standing or walking. ─ Pain in sacro-iliac symphyses, feeling as if bones were loose there. ─ Fatigue in back. ─ Pressure in back at night.

Limbs

Trembling. ─ Lassitude. ─ Weariness of forearms and legs.

Upper Limbs

Drawing in shoulders. ─ Pain in l. shoulder and arm. ─ Rheumatic pain in l. wrist. ─ Left arm heavy. ─ Nightly boring pain in ulna. ─ Hyperæsthetic numbness of arms and shoulders. ─ Pain in wrist, and finger joints. ─ Hands tremble. ─ Numbness of finger tips.

Lower Limbs

Staggering gait. ─ Lassitude of lower limbs with dizziness as if intoxicated. ─ Pain in calves all night; weary as after a long journey. (Paralytic heaviness and debility, so that he did not know where to put them.). ─ Heaviness and debility of the legs. ─ Limbs, esp. knees, start up at night. ─ Weariness with rigidity. ─ Œdema of feet.

Generalities

Insensibility; face and upper limbs convulsed; trismus; pupils dilated. ─ Epileptic attacks caused by fright, or during menstruation (at night, or in the morning when rising). ─ Chorea-like convulsive motion of all the limbs. ─ Fatigue. ─ Tremulous weakness, accompanied with general debility. ─ Expanding sensation, esp. in face, in head, with feeling as if bones of skull separated; with increase of temperature. ─ Anæsthetic-hyperæsthetic condition of surface. ─ Sticking sensations in various parts. ─ Emaciation. ─ Dropsy; œdema of legs and ascites. ─ Loss of voluntary motion. ─ Paraplegia from debilitating causes. ─ Sensation of splinters in various parts, esp. in mucous membranes.

Skin

Wart-shaped excrescences. ─ Skin blue-grey, violet, or bronze to real black. ─ Bluish-black eruption; (in scarlet fever). ─ Itching. ─ Itching pimple. ─ Impetigo. ─ Zona. ─ Small-pox. ─ Erysipelas. ─ Urticaria. ─ Skin brown, tense, and hard. ─ Warts.

Sleep

Restless at night; when he does sleep has all sorts of troubled dreams. ─ Restless, stupefied sleep, with horrid dreams of serpents, &c. ─ Prevented falling asleep by fancies and images. ─ Wakes in the morning, dreams he is hungry and wakes with flatulence and spasms and twinges. ─ Soporous condition. ─ Nightly nervousness with heat of head. ─ Restless sleep with stupefaction and headache.

Fever

Chilliness and nausea. ─ Chills, shifting or constant, are more lasting than the heat and return quickly on uncovering; both stages without thirst. ─ Chilliness. ─ Chilly down back, at noon, extending from occiput to tip of coccyx up back and over shoulder. ─ Night sweat. ─ Morning sweat. ─ Scarlet fever.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Loss of consciousness ; faint feeling.
Loss of memory. θ Headache from dancing.
Loss of memory ; lies with closed eyes, shunning light and conversation. θ Melancholia.
Weakness of memory, which frequently did not allow him to find the right word, hence falters in speech. θ Melancholia.
In conversation, forgetting what he wanted to say, he looked around as if expecting some one to help him out. θ Hypochondriasis.
Time seems to pass very slowly.
Dulness of head, mental confusion ; dizziness ; tendency to fall sideways.
To fix his thoughts on anything, or to give his business any consideration, was impossible for him ; on attempting it, it immediately got dark before his eyes and headache increased. θ Malarial
ataxy.
Great weakness of mind. θ Headache.
General appearance imbecile ; talk very childish ; does not work because he thinks it will do him harm, or that he is not able to stand it. θ Hypochondriasis.
Awful faces appear on shutting eyes.
The sight of high houses always made him dizzy and caused him to stagger ; it seemed as if houses on both sides would approach and crush him.
Frequently settled upon time he should die. θ Hypochondriasis.
Thinks he has softening of brain, or some other incurable affection, which almost drives him to despair. θ Hypochondriasis.
When walking gets nervous, thinks he will have a fit or die suddenly, which makes him walk faster, but soon has to stop, because he gets tired. θ Hypochondriasis.
Possessed of distressing idea that all his undertakings will and must fail. θ Melancholia.
Refused food, saying one who does not work should not eat ; but driven by hunger he tried to secretly procure it. θ Melancholia.
Feels as if everything at home had changed and that his mind is weak. θ Hypochondriasis.
He wept and assured every one that he was lost beyond hope for this world ; that no one could delude him in that respect, and no one could reason him out of it. θ Melancholia.
Thoughts about suicide.
Thinks about killing himself. θ Cholera.
On crossing a bridge, almost irresistible desire to jump into river ; meeting some one prevented it. θ Hypochondriasis.
Often awakes his wife or child to have some one to talk to. θ Hypochondriasis.
Constantly talking about his sufferings. θ Hypochondriasis.
Impulsive, must walk very fast ; frequent turns of anxiety.
Always hurried. θ Prolapsus uteri.
If a time is set, becomes uneasy the day before ; is worried and ready long before the time. θ Chronic diarrhœa. θ Epilepsy.
Reserved, sad, taciturn, with dulness of head and throbbing in whole body.
Frequently remains in bed on slightest pretext of being "indisposed". θ Hypochondriasis.
No real inclination to work. θ Asthma.
Does not work, thinking it will do him harm or that he is not able to stand it. θ Hypochondriasis.
Easily wearied. θ Headache from dancing.
Great weariness and depression. θ Melancholia.
Gloomy, dull ; wishes to do nothing.
Sad ; fear of apoplexy (no apoplexy).
Sad and taciturn, with dulness of head and throbbing in whole body.
Weeping mood.
Melancholic, constantly complains of vertigo.
Great melancholy and weakness of mind with congestion to head.
Melancholy since an undeserved slight ; fixed idea that he was neglected and despised by his family ; his calling became indifferent to him.
Despaired of help from himself or others. θ Melancholia.
Fits of despondency and all kinds of fanciful notions ; for example, that whilst walking along street he could not pass a given point without falling ; frequently settled on the time he was to die. θ Hypochondriasis.
Alarmed by vertigo and weakness of left side.
Apprehension of some serious disease. θ Hypochondriasis.
Apprehension when ready to go to church or to opera ; diarrhœa sets in.
Easily frightened ; fears disease may result seriously ; weeping mood.
Fear or thinking brings on diarrhœa.
Great nervousness and prostration ; fears to be alone, because he thinks he will die ; is apprehensive of some serious disease, which almost drives him to despair. θ Hypochondriasis.
Fears if passing a certain corner or building that he will drop down and create a sensation ; is relieved by going in another direction. θ Hypochondriasis.
Incessant mental distress, respiration 28, pulsations 88. θ Melancholia.
Tormented with anxiety. θ Asthma.
Frequent attacks of anxiety with weakness in legs, coming on about 11 A. M. ; > after drinking a little whiskey. θ Hypochondriasis.
When walking, becomes faint with anxiety, which makes him walk faster. θ Hypochondriasis.
Became insensible to all social pleasures and lost all desire for labor. θ Melancholia.
Apathy.
Was utterly bereft of all power of will. θ Melancholia.
Very irritable when nervous.
So much unstrung and irritated that, without the knowledge of his physician, he sprang up to get into the open air. θ Malarial ataxy.
Against whatever was proposed he had the queerest objections. θ Melancholia.
She became angry very easily, whereupon she always had to endure for many days stitching pains in chest and cough.
At night very much excited and murmured constantly. θ Typhus.
Sometimes nerves go so unstrung that he was in a frenzy of excitement ; when seized with these attacks did not desire to move or talk, but always sought a chair and stubbornly stuck to it.
Thinking intently increases headache and causes dimness of vision.

Sensorium

Dulness of head, mental confusion, dizziness, with tendency to fall sideways.
Confusion of head during indigestion. θ Gastralgia.
Confusion of head and constipation.
Perversion of senses. θ Iritis.
Vertigo, with cerebral congestion.
The sight of high houses makes him dizzy, he feels as if they would fall on him.
Vertigo when walking with eyes closed, which alarms him ; staggers when walking in dark, has to seize hold of things.
On stooping while walking he staggers.
Buzzing in ears ; general debility of limbs and trembling.
Vertigo in morning, as if turning in a circle, has to sit or would fall. θ With headache.
Vertigo, dim sight, ringing in ears ; stomach feels relaxed ; > after dinner and from wine ; < from coffee.
Vertigo in morning with headache. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Once during attack of vertigo, left arm became paralyzed, remaining so for several days. θ Hypochondriasis.
Alarmed by vertigo and weakness of whole left side. θ Asthma.
In morning, pain in left side of head, followed by vertigo and on several occasions by momentary blindness. θ Hypochondriasis.
Cerebral complication. θ Iritis.
Loss of consciousness, faint feeling.
Heaviness, especially in occiput. θ Asthma.
Giddiness as if drunk, with lassitude and weakness of lower limbs.

Inner head

Painful fulness and heaviness in head, with inability to recollect, glowing red cheeks.
Excessive congestion of blood to head, with throbbing of carotids, obliging him to loosen his cravat ; heaviness, stupefying dulness of head, great melancholy and weakness of mind.
Spells of rush of blood to head, since which objects are misty or seem double.
Pulsations in left side of forehead.
Congestion to head and face, head feels much enlarged.
Pain in head, it seems enlarged.
Woke up with dull headache over eyes. θ Hypochondriasis.
Boring in left frontal eminence, < at night in warm bed.
Constant clawing digging in left frontal eminence, with drawing tearing along left arm.
Frontal headache during indigestion. θ Gastralgia.
Complains of a constrictive pain in forehead, as if a small spot, size of a dime, was daily contracting and getting smaller, and thinks as soon as it is drawn together he will be crazy. θ Hypochondriasis.
At 12 o'clock, violent boring in left temple.
Has left-sided headache in morning for several hours. θ Hypochondriasis.
Constantly complains of headache, chiefly confined to right side, although it is left eye that is most dim ; girl, æt. 10. θ Myopia.
Digging pains in right hemisphere of brain.
Digging, cutting motion through left hemisphere, from occiput to frontal protuberance, recurs frequently, increases and decreases rapidly.
Dull, pressive, persistent headache encircles calvarium like a wreath.
Stitches from right to left ear, as from a knife.
Constant pains in all parts of head, especially in occiput, which deprived him of sleep. θ Malarial ataxy.
Pressing pains in whole head, from mental exertion or from dancing ; better from firm pressure.
Tendency to headache, especially bad whenever she rose early in morning. θ Myopia.
Headache < in open air, in warmth, at night, from light, mental labor, and > from bandaging head tightly.
Congestive hysterical headache.
Headaches of hysterical young women.
Headaches, particularly habitual gastric headaches, to which delicate or literary men are subject.
Head symptoms are concomitants of all other diseases.
Violent pressure in forehead commencing over eyes, spreading upward to coronal suture ; in morning ; reeling.
In morning pain in left side of head, followed by vertigo, on several occasions by momentary blindness. θ Hypochondriasis.
Headache from dancing, with attacks of vertigo.
Pains in head, finally extended to eyes and lower jaw.
Hemicrania ; pressive, screwing, throbbing pain in one frontal protuberance, temple or into bones of face ; at its height, trembling of whole body, intense nausea, which ends in watery, bilious vomit ; lies senseless, eyes closed, shuns light and conversation. θ Jaundice
before attack.
Sick headache followed by debility ; profuse menses.
Headache, with chilliness and trembling of body.
Awakes with headache, pressure deep in brain, with chilliness whole forenoon.
Headache mostly with chilliness, sometimes with increased temperature.
Cerebral dyspepsia.

Outer head

Head feels much enlarged, or eye on affected side.
Feels as if bones of skull separated, with increase of temperature.
Almost constant boring cutting in bones of forehead, vertex, temples and face.
Pressing pains sometimes on vertex, sometimes left frontal bone, > by pressure or tight bandaging ; < from any exhaustive mental labor ; letters then run together.
Frequent sensation of constriction of scalp, as if something were tightly drawn down over skull. θ Hypochondriasis.
Itching, creeping, crawling, as from vermin ; roots of hairs feel as if pulled upward ; she had to scratch all the time.
Herpetic eruption on occiput.
Burning in scalp, which feels as if drawn tight ; cold feeling in eyes.

Sight and eyes

Intolerance of light. θ Want of accommodation.
Photophobia, eyes filled with mucus. θ Typhus.
Sight worse by candlelight than by daylight. θ Myopia.
Cannot walk in dark without reeling. θ Locomotor ataxia.
If objects come closer than 12 or 14, they are indistinct. θ Want of accommodation.
Far-sighted ; has to push book away to see letters.
Unable to see to thread a needle, unless she holds it up within an inch or two of her eye. θ Myopia.
A cloud continually over left eye in twilight and cloudy weather.
Grey spots and serpent-like bodies moved before him.
Dull expression of eyes ; black motes before eyes, especially before right one. θ Hypochondriasis.
Sight failed for near objects, everything appeared blurred or indistinct. θ Paralysis of accommodation.
Letters become blurred.
Photophobia and weak sight, preventing his writing.
Right pupil dilated, both acting feebly ; sight of left eye diminished. θ Locomotor ataxy.
Vanishing of sight, he must constantly wipe away the mucus.
An attempt to use eyes, even on coarse work, produced pain in eyes and head. θ Want of accommodation.
Such as have been constantly engaged in near work, and obliged to increase power of their glasses from to time to overcome symptoms of asthenopia. θ Hypermetropia.
Eyes red, shuns light, after straining them while sewing ; < in warm room, > in open air.
Pain from brain to eyes. θ Iritis.
Shooting, itching, biting pain in right eye, sometimes very violent ; excessive, photophobia > towards night.
Sensation of fulness, dryness and heat, especially on moving eyeball. θ Iritis.
(Case of paralysis of accommodation is reported in which Arg. nit. 6, four times daily, worked a brilliant cure ; also a case of retino-choroiditis successfully treated by this remedy.)
Dilated pupils. θ Want of accommodation.
Right pupil somewhat contracted, both sensitive to light. θ Locomotor ataxy.
Dull expression of eyes. θ Hypochondriasis.
Coldness in eye, with boring pain in head, scalp as if drawn tightly.
Heat and pain in ball on motion and touch.
Eyeball sensitive to touch. θ Iritis.
Fundus of eye injected, large bloodvessels indistinct.
Ophthalmia, often with intense pain, abating in cool and open air, but intolerable in a warm room.
Purulent ophthalmia.
Syphilitic form of iritis.
Chemosis with strangulated vessels, most profuse purulent discharge, even cornea beginning to get hazy and looking as though it would slough.
Cornea opaque ; ulceration of cornea in newborn infants ; profuse purulent discharge from lids.
Destruction of tissue, as ulcer of cornea, in one case with pains like darts through eye mornings, > evenings ; kerato-iritis with violent congestion of conjunctiva ; a vascular eroded cornea, with terrific pains from vertex into eye and with
burning heat in eyes.
From local application of drug, most violent inflammation of conjunctiva of lids and ball ensues, with profuse muco-purulent discharge which is not excoriating to lids.
Acute granular conjunctivitis, conjunctiva intensely pink or scarlet, discharge profuse, inclined to be mucopurulent.
Conjunctiva both ocular and palpebral, becomes congested, swollen and infiltrated, with scarlet redness.
Chemosis of conjunctiva. θ Iritis.
Ciliary blepharitis from being over a fire ; > from cold air and cold applications. θ Ectropion.
Ciliary blepharitis after measles in a hyperopic person. θ Blepharitis.
Non-excoriating lachrymation. θ Iritis.
Canthi as red as blood, caruncula swollen, standing out like a lump of red flesh ; clusters of intensely red vessels, extend from inner canthus to cornea.
The margins of lids are thick and red ; canthi red and sore.
Conjunctiva towards inner canthus is red and swollen, like pterygium.
Burning, biting and itching in eyes, especially in canthi.
With pannus. θ Blepharitis.
Pterygium of a pink color.
Profuse mucous discharge in morning on waking, with dulness of head, especially in forehead and root of nose.
Blepharitis if lids are very red, thick and swollen, especially if complicated with granulations, conjunctivitis or some deeper inflammation of eye.
Discharge causing firm agglutination of lids in morning. θ Blepharitis.
Conjunctiva of ball and lids intensely congested ; bright red granulations on lids ; lids swollen, thick pus discharges.
Lids crusty, swollen, very sore and thick. θ Pannus.
Œdema of lids and sensation of fulness, dryness and heat, especially on moving ball, which is sensitive to touch ; chemosis ; non-excoriating lachrymation.
Œdema of lids. θ Iritis.
Boring above left eye.
Infraorbital neuralgia.
Left upper eyelid fell further over ball than right.

Hearing and ears

Dull hearing ; complete deafness . θ Typhus.
Ringing in ears ; whizzing and feeling of obstruction, with hard hearing in left ear.
Stitches from right into left ear, with congestion to head.
Fulness and ringing in ears. θ Meningitis.
Tearing pain in ears. θ Earache.
Otalgia.

Smell and nose

Sense of smell blunted. θ Typhus.
Smell as of pus before nose ; small ulcers in nares.
Great pain in nose. θ Dyspepsia.
(OBS :) Stenosis of nasal parts, external ear or inferior part of rectum.
Discharge of whitish pus, with clots of blood.
Coryza with stupefying headache over eyes, had to lie down ; sneezing, chilliness, lachrymation, sickly look.
Violent itching of nose, must rub it constantly.
Nasal bones painful as if bruised.
Nasal catarrh, constantly hawking thick tenacious mucus.
Nasal discharge like boiled starch.
Acute coryza.

Upper face

Stupid weary look. θ Hypochondriasis.
Complexion sallow. θ Hypochondriasis.
Face blue, heavy breathing, pulseless.
Looks prematurely old ; also in cholera infantum.
Face : sunken, pale bluish ; leaden colored, with nausea ; yellow, dirty looking.
Circumscribed red cheeks.
Left side swollen, with great heat and burning ; lips much swollen and burning.
Prosopalgia.
Neuralgia of head and face, which almost takes away her eyesight. θ Dyspepsia.
During attack of prosopalgia, sour taste.
Infraorbital neuralgia, left side.
Sweat stood in drops on his face. θ Typhus.
Lupus.

Lower face

Hard, pale blotches in vermilion border of upper lip, sore to touch.
Tetter on chin.
Could not separate his jaws, can only swallow liquids.
Food escapes from mouth during chewing.
Lips : trembled when he spoke ; and finger nails blue. θ Typhus.
Lips dry and viscid, without thirst.

Teeth and gums

Odontalgia.
Teeth pain, especially when chewing, eating sour things or putting anything cold into mouth ; grumbling, digging pains as if becoming carious.
Teeth sensitive to cold water.
Teeth black. θ Typhus.
Gums tender and bleed easily ; but neither painful nor swollen.
Gums inflamed and stand off from teeth in shape of indentations.
Chronic irritation of gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : sweetish bitter ; sour ; metallic, astringent ; inky ; lost.
Speech stammering. θ Typhus.
Cannot talk ; spasms of muscles of tongue and throat.
Tongue coated white ; yellow white.
Red, painful tip of tongue, papillæ erect, prominent.
Tongue dry, hard as a chip, and black like teeth. θ Typhus.
Red streak down middle of tongue.
Tongue dry, with thirst.
Glossitis.
Tongue white and moist (Pulsat. after Arg. nitr.)
Tongue furred with clean edges. θ Dyspepsia.

Inner mouth

Fetor from mouth ; morning.
Ptyalism.
Inner mouth covered with a whitish-grey coat.
Tough phlegm in mouth.

Palate and throat

Chronic angina.
Uvula and fauces dark red.
(OBS :) Chronic induration of tonsils.
Thick tenacious mucus in throat, obliging him to hawk ; causing slight hoarseness.
Rawness, soreness ; scraping in throat, causes hawking and cough.
Sensation as if a splinter was lodged in throat, when swallowing, eructating, breathing, stretching or moving neck.
Wart-like excrescences feel like pointed bodies when swallowing.
Felt as if he had a stick in throat when swallowing.
Sense as if throat was contracted, swallows with pain. θ Dyspepsia.
Swallowing difficult. θ Typhus.
Food feels as if lodged in throat. θ Dyspepsia.
Burning and dryness in fauces and pharynx.
Paroxysms of cramp in œsophagus.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Appetite fair. θ Hypochondriasis.
Appetite sometimes fair enough, is generally very bad. θ Myopia.
Appetite good, but nearly all kinds of food distressed, whether abstemious or eating heartily. θ Hypochondriasis.
Appetite dulled by pain. θ Gastric ulcer.
Loss of appetite ; much thirst, or no thirst.
Refuses drink unless it is sweetened, yet thirsty.
Diminished appetite, frequent eructations, nausea with humming in ears. θ Locomotor ataxia.
Want of appetite. θ Melancholia.
Most fond of plum sauce, though swallowing was difficult. θ Typhus.
Irresistible desire for sugar.
Desire for strong cheese.

Eating and drinking

Eating relieves squeamishness, but increases gastric pains.
Warm fluids relieve, cold aggravate, pains in stomach.
Eating, or a swallow of wine, relieves head ; coffee aggravates.
Sour things lessen nausea.
Pain immediately after eating. θ Dyspepsia.
Ten minutes after eating, flatulence. θ Dyspepsia.
Nausea after each meal, mostly after dinner.
Soon after taking food pain in stomach begins and continues so long as food remains down ; vomiting results about an hour after. θ Gastric ulcer.
Pains come on soon after eating, sometimes immediately on swallowing, as if œsophagus was irritated as much as stomach. θ Gastralgia.
Pain after every meal, half an hour after eating, epigastric, extending to left side. θ Dyspepsia.
Pain after eating, sometimes directly, sometimes an hour or more, with much belching and rumbling in bowels. θ Dyspepsia.
Pain after eating extends from pit of sternum to round along under heart, corresponding to situation of stomach. θ Gastric ulcer.
After a hearty meal, melancholia, especially after liquid food. θ Hypochondriasis.
By a very heavy meal, epileptiform convulsions are brought on.
After drinking, dyspnœa, drinks suffocate. θ Cholera.
Fluids go "right through him." θ Cholera infantum, etc.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough. θ Cholera.
Heartburn.
Wind presses upward, but œsophagus seems spasmodically closed, ineffectual effort to eructate.
Most gastric ailments are accompanied by belching.
Belching after every meal ; stomach as if it would burst with wind ; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence.
Tasteless, or sour eructations , with constriction of bowels.
Eructation relieves.
Flatulence passes upward in quantities , inducing faintness. θ Dyspepsia.
Suffers much from flatulency by mouth. θ Dyspnœa.
Frequent eructations and flatulency.
Great accumulation of gas in stomach, tasteless ; when gas was forming he was greatly distressed, melancholic, nervous ; relieved by belching. θ Hypochondriasis.
Loathing of food. θ Dyspepsia.
Deathly nausea with headache, not abating after vomiting.
Nausea after each meal, most after dinner.
Nausea with constant and troublesome efforts to vomit.
Awakens at midnight, with oppression at stomach as from a heavy lump, inducing vomiting ; in morning throws up glairy mucus which can be drawn into strings ; during afternoon desire to vomit, tremulous weakness.
Vomit streaked brown, flocculent, like coffee-grounds. θ Yellow fever.
The vomited substances tinge the bedding black.
Incessant vomiting of food, with a smooth, dry tongue, apparently destitute of papillæ.
Vomiting and diarrhœa, with violent colicky pains ; with anxiety in precordia.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Flatulent indigestion. θ After diphtheria.
Flatulent indigestion ; loud rumbling. θ Dyspepsia.
Flatulent dyspepsia.
Irritative flatulent gastralgia.
Sensation as if stomach and œsophagus were filled with food ; food oppresses, lies like a weight.
Pain under manubrium sterni. θ Pharyngitis.
Fulness of stomach ; painful swelling at pit, with great anxiety.
During pain in stomach it becomes swollen.
Periodic constrictive sensation in stomach.
Gnawing at stomach ; a sort of hunger with nausea.
Gnawing pain like something pulling and as a weight. θ Dyspepsia.
Constant drawing and gnawing, increasing daily to violent attacks, ending in vomiting of clear, saltish water.
Gastrodynia.
Gastralgia.
Throbbing and trembling ; weakness at pit of stomach, relaxed feeling.
(OBS :) Gastritis with acid vomiting.
Inflammation of stomach.
Ulcerative pain in stomach after dinner.
Perforating ulcer of stomach.
Small spot between xiphoid and navel, sensitive to slightest pressure ; pain radiates in all directions ; increases and decreases gradually.
Stomach feels relaxed ; < in wet weather, after warm drinks, sour things, or smoking ; > from alcohol ; at its height, nausea < smelling coffee. Sometimes a forerunner of gout.
Terrific spasms across lower part of chest and in stomach (due to ulceration in mucous membrane of stomach and duodenum) coming on at about 9 o'clock P. M., lasting all through night.
Pain in left side of stomach, below short ribs, more intense during inspiration and on touching parts. θ Dyspepsia.
Stitches in scrobiculum and short breathing. θ Cholera.
Stinging, ulcerative pain in left side of stomach, < from touch and deep inspiration.
Regularly towards midnight, attacks of pain preceded by vomiting of slimy and bilious fluid.
Gastralgia in women with irregular menses, too early and copious ; vomiting a sour, bitter, yellow, green, tough fluid.
Gastralgia, with pains through to sacrum, anxiety, cold sweat.
Gastric derangements are accompanied by belching.
Pain in stomach here and there, frequently for weeks at a time, with nausea and vomiting.
After ice-cream, gastralgia, pain radiating in all directions ; < after food.

Hypochondria

Well marked spasm of diaphragm. θ Cholera asiatica.
Cutting like knives in hypochondria, chiefly in left and at epigastrium. θ Gastralgia.
Great pain in epigastrium, extending around to cardiac region and left shoulder blade. θ Dyspepsia.
Pain at epigastrium and under left ribs immediately after eating, with flatulence, loud rumbling. θ Dyspepsia.
Region of liver sensitive to pressure ; periodical attacks of pain about liver and navel, with nausea, retching and vomiting of tough phlegm.
Tension as from a band around hypochondria. θ Asthma.

Abdomen and loins

Griping in bowels. θ Cholera.
Shooting pains through abdomen and stomach. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Pain in left side of abdomen. θ Dyspepsia.
Abdomen swollen and distended.
Fulness and heaviness of abdomen, with anxiety, impeding respiration ; after supper.
Rumbling, gurgling ; wind cannot pass.
Tension of abdomen, cannot bear to be touched.
Constriction in bowels, as if tightly tied with a band.
Stitches dart through abdomen like electric shocks, especially when suddenly changing from rest to motion ; left side.
Bearing down in hypogastrium.
Hemorrhoidal colic, mornings, during cold, misty weather ; > after stool.
Periodical abdominal pains. θ Asthma.
Loud rumbling with cutting pain. θ Dyspepsia.
Flatulence. θ Dyspepsia.
Distension of abdomen and stomach. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Swells and becomes tympanitic ; then it passes away suddenly. θ Dyspepsia.
(OBS :) Vermifuge.

Stools and rectum

Emission of much flatus ; passing wind or belching always >.
Bowels regular. θ Hypochondriasis. θ Myopia. θ Dyspepsia.
Bowels regular, stools occasionally black looking. θ Gastric ulcer.
Inclined to watery relaxations of bowels. θ Subacute pleuritis.
In diarrhœa of nursing children, with tormina and viscous sanguinolent stools and tenesmus ; after drinking, nausea and serous green and lienteric stools.
Diarrhœa of children after weaning ; stools bright yellow, thin, fetid ; also in chronic diarrhœa of children.
Diarrhœa and dysentery, especially during dentition.
(OBS :) Chronic diarrhœa of adults.
Looseness after exalted imagination.
Diarrhœa < at night. θ During pregnancy.
Diarrhœa repeating several times during day.
Diarrhœa after a rich meal.
Diarrhœa as soon as he drinks.
Child is very fond of sugar, but diarrhœa results from eating it. θ Cholera infantum.
Diarrhœa with very sensitive abdomen. θ Gastric fever.
Croup of rectum ; thin, unshapely strips pass in masses, with burning, constriction and sore pain in left side of abdomen.
Masses of epithelium connected by muco-lymph, looking red or green and shreddy, with severe bearing down in hypogastrium ; advanced dysentery, with suspected ulceration.
Voluntary defecation impossible ; but feces and urine pass involuntarily.
Stool and urine passed involuntarily and unconsciously. θ Typhus.
Constipation aggravates every complaint ; alternates with diarrhœa.
Constipation, feces dry.
When costive, he has more tremor, weariness, disgust for labor and sleeplessness. θ Asthma.
Awakened 6 A. M. with sudden urging to stool, which is bright yellow, copious, liquid ; no pain or straining.
Whitish stools. θ Cholera.
Stools of green, fetid mucus, with noisy flatus at night ; green, brown, bloody, < after midnight ; slimy, watery, greenish, bloody, with tenesmus ; green, watery, sour taste in mouth.
Green stools ; sopor, large pupils.
Green, watery, sour stools. θ Cholerine.
Stools like spinach flakes ; passed forcibly, with much flatus ; belching and stool relieve pain.
Painless lienteric stools.
Stool copious, fluid, followed by vomiting.
Tenia or thread-worms ; the latter, especially with much itching at anus ; pieces of tenia with stool.
Hemorrhoids with burning and tenesmus. θ Asthma.
Hemorrhoids ; blind, very annoying. θ Melancholia.
Bleeding from anus. θ Typhus abdominalis.

Urinary organs

Touching region of kidneys increases pain to highest degree.
Paralytic debility of lumbar region and kidneys.
Acute pain about kidneys, extending down ureters to bladder ; < from slightest touch or motion, even deep inspiration.
Ulcerative pain in middle of urethra, as from a splinter.
(OBS :) Chronic induration of urethra.
No triple phosphates but epithelium in urine. θ Albuminuria.
Urine highly colored and scanty, passes gravel. θ Subacute pleuritis.
Urine dark red, without albumen ; deposits red crystals of uric acid.
Urine passed unconsciously and uninterruptedly.
Incontinence of urine at night, also by day.
Urging to urinate ; urine passes less easily and freely.
Urine burns while passing, urethra feels as if swollen, with feeling as if last drops remained behind.
Stream of urine spreads asunder.
Bleeding of urethra ; painful erections. θ Gonorrhœa.
Urging to urinate, < from obstruction of bowels. θ Asthma.
Scanty and rare emission of a dark yellow urine.
When going to have a stool, urine passes first, then feces involuntarily.
Retention of urine ; bladder distended ; dribbling of urine. θ Locomotor ataxia.
Discharge of urine in drops. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Urine contained blood, was passed often and little at a time, in drops. θ Nephritic colic.
Quick urging to urinate ; flow copious and clear.
Sensitiveness near orifice of urethra.

Male sexual organs

Impotence ; erections, but they fail when coition is attempted.
Want of desire, organs shrivelled.
In connection with spermatorrhœa. θ Want of action of ciliary muscles.
Priapism ; dysuria ; bloody urine.
Coition painful ; urethra as if put on stretch, or sensitive at its orifice.
Ulcers on prepuce small, covered with pus ; later spreading, bowl-shaped, with a tallow-like coating.
Contusive pain, with enlargement and hardness of right testicle.
Orchitis.
Chancre in urethra.
Urethra swollen, hard, knotty and painful.

Female sexual organs

Cutting pain in right ovarian region and back.
Pain in ovarian region radiating to sacrum and thighs. θ Metrorrhagia.
Coition painful, followed by bleeding from vagina.
Pains like sticks or slivers in and about womb, excited whilst walking or riding and by evacuation of bowels. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Uterus softened ; metrorrhagia with horrible pains in abdomen and hips.
Granulations on cervix uteri.
Prolapsus with ulceration of os or cervix.
Ulcers of uterus, bleeding ; hemorrhage of short duration ; shooting pains through abdomen and stomach. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Uterine hemorrhage with much trouble in head.
Metrorrhagia returns in short attacks ; region of ovaries painful, with pains radiating to sacrum and thighs.
Metrorrhagia in young widows. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Metrorrhagia in sterility and in those who have borne no children. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Metrorrhagia with nervous erethism at change of life.
Climaxis : flushes ; congestive headache ; nosebleed ; congestion to the chest ; melancholy ; nervous erethism ; itching of skin.
Always coughs before periods. θ Dyspepsia.
Monthly period is regular, but attended with a great deal of pain, coming on a day before each period, makes her feel horribly faint. θ Gastric ulcer.
Menses : too early, profuse, long lasting ; with headache ; cutting in small of back and groin ; at night tormenting pressure in precordia ; internal trembling in epigastrium.
Menses irregular, too soon or too late, too copious or too scanty but always with thick coagulated blood.
Menses clotted. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Menses too early, too profuse and too long. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Menses now too soon and at other times too late ; irregular. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Menses scanty. θ Asthma. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Her monthly period lasts one day only, pain ceasing with a free discharge. θ Gastric ulcer.
Leucorrhœa mucous, bloody, corroding, yellow and profuse. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Disposed to abortion.
During pregnancy stomach feels as if it would burst with wind ; head feels expanded.
Puerperal convulsions ; spasms preceded by a sensation of general expansion, mostly of face and head.
Sometimes just after an attack she lies quiet, but before another she becomes very restless ; has a presentiment of an approaching attack.
Scirrhous mamma.
Nipples sore from nursing.
Suckling infants die early ; have marasmus.
From weaning, diarrhœa.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarse voice.
Chronic aphonia.
Internal soreness of larynx and pit of throat ; < in morning.
Phlegm in larynx causing a rattling, whistling breathing, until removed in small lumps by cough.
Rawness, soreness high up in trachea, when coughing.
Chronic laryngitis of singers ; raising voice causes cough.
Chronic catarrhs and laryngitis.
Small, round, greasy lumps of mucus in larynx, relieved by a slight cough.
When in bed, rattling in larynx or trachea synchronous with pulse. θ Aphonia.
Tickling, itchiness and sometimes burning in larynx. θ Aphonia.

Respiration

Breath very offensive. θ Myopia.
Many people in room seem to take away his breath.
Motion, going up-stairs or bodily exertion cause asthmatic attacks ; face congested ; palpitation. θ Chronic asthma.
Short breathed, with deep sighs ; much oppression ; violent attacks of dry, spasmodic asthma, forcing him to rise and walk about.
Respiratio abdominalis (Abdominal respiration).
Upper abdominal walls are drawn in during inspiration ; expand during expiration ; effort to breathe deeply takes away breath at once. θ Paralysis of
diaphragm.
Spasms of respiratory muscles ; great constriction and stitches in epigastrium ; cannot talk ; drinking suffocates ; even a handkerchief before nose impedes breathing ; agony, thinks of killing himself. θ Cholera.
Respiration short. θ Typhus.
Respiration oppressed, sometimes interrupted by cough. θ Typhus.
Awakes with attacks of suffocation. θ Asthma.
Can breathe deeply, but cannot retain breath long. θ Headache from dancing.
Panting, quick, sibilant breathing.
The effort to breathe deeply at once took away his breath. θ Locomotor ataxia.

Cough

Very much cough for two months, with pain and sense of soreness in left side, preventing lying on it, thus interfering with sleep. θ Subacute pleuritis.
Evening cough, tobacco smoke becomes intolerable.
Irritating, tormenting cough, evening and night.
Suffocative cough at noon.
Paroxysms of cough are brought on by : phlegm in larynx ; irritation under sternum ; a fit of passion ; laughing ; stooping ; smoking ; ascending stairs ; when lying down, and on awaking.
(OBS :) Acute period of whooping cough, during convulsive stage.
Whooping cough.
Gets out of breath with cough.
Bloody sputa. θ Typhus.
Expectoration purulent, mixed with light blood.
Suddenly coughed up blood. θ During catamenia ; Catarrh at first dry, later loose, with rattling cough, profuse sweat, sickly look, hollow eyes, restless sleep ; expectoration
yellow.
Belching, or straining to vomit, during attack of cough.
Often during nights, fits of coughing with gagging and vomiting. θ Aphonia.
Nocturnal aggravation, with a dry cough and flow of saliva, with some expectoration of mucus striped with blood. θ Aphonia.
Cough with occasional bloody sputa. θ Dyspepsia.
Occasionally spat blood ; sputa are always more or less streaked with it. θ Subacute pleuritis.

Inner chest and lungs

Sensation of warmth between scapulæ and sternum, gradually changing into a pressure in epigastric region.
Pain in chest and between shoulders, half an hour after eating, lasting two to three hours. θ Dyspepsia.
Heavy feeling on chest, with belching.
Feels in morning as if ligated with cords around chest or waist. θ Dyspepsia.
Feels like a bar of iron around her chest. θ Dyspepsia.
Aching, tensive pain in chest, in various places, of size of a half dollar.
Dead pain in lower part of chest, left side, coming on after eating. θ Gastric ulcer.
Severe cramps or spasms of chest, once or twice a week, coming with a sudden, violent piercing in chest, pulse stopped, hands and face icy cold ; in a few moments pulse began to rise, face became red, she cried out violently several times, and had such a working and rumbling in her
chest as if something must give way ; at same time whole body shook and trembled as in fever and ague ; tumult gradually subsided, a profuse, warm sweat set in, she fell asleep, and nothing remained but great exhaustion.
Deep pains in chest not increased by coughing. θ Pneumonia.
Violent pain in left side. θ Dyspepsia.
Bursting pain after going up-stairs ; has to press with both hands.
Stitching pains in region of fifth rib, left side, with frequent blood-spitting.
Coarse, crepitant rales limited to a spot behind left fifth rib.
No cough ; respiratory murmur scarcely audible in several places ; only in upper part of lungs it was dry, vesicular and more acute. θ Asthma.
Lung capacity much diminished ; can attempt a deep breath without pain, but thorax is but slightly elevated thereby.
Subacute pleuritis on left side, indicated by feebleness of breathing opposite seat of pain, with catching breathing in other parts of lung.
Subacute pleuritis in phthisical subjects.
Chronic pleurodynia.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Constant anxious feeling in region of heart ; burning feeling.
Fearful pains about heart ; they thought she would die ; breathing almost impossible, choking.
Anxiety, with palpitation and throbbing through whole body, especially head and abdomen ; when sitting quietly he frequently thinks his heart stops beating ; suddenly he will feel two strong beats apparently arising from stomach and passing into head. θ Hypochondriasis.
Violent palpitation from slightest mental emotion or sudden muscular exertion ; in a horizontal position evenings, in bed, chest worse.
Palpitation : with faintish nausea ; with dyspepsia ; at night.
Attack of palpitation, with anxiety and trembling while riding, compelling him to get out of wagon and walk, and that really fast, too. θ Hypochondriasis.
Palpitation obliges her to press her hand hard against her side for relief. θ Gastric ulcer.
Heart beats like a sudden falling from above towards middle, with a bursting feeling in upper chest.
Heart's stroke somewhat more frequent and rather weak. θ Incontinence of urine.
Heart's action irregular, intermittent, with an unpleasant sensation of fulness ; exertion causes strong beating, < when noticing it ; > when moving about.
Heart's stroke feeble. θ Typhus.
Pulse when sitting quiet for a short time is 70, full and soft. θ Hypochondriasis.
Pulse dicrotic, finally small, could not be counted. θ Typhus.
Sudden violent piercing in chest, pulse stopped, hands and face icy cold ; then pulse rises, face reddens ; violent crying, whole body trembled, warm sweat broke out, and sleep ended paroxysm.

Outer chest

Violent pain in muscles of chest.
Chest hurts when lying on it.

Neck and back

Indurated glands on neck, with suspicion of former syphilis.
Acute pains in dorsal region after a fall.
Suffers much from pains across loins. θ Subacute pleuritis.
Lower lumbar region is slightly sensitive to pressure. θ Hypochondriasis.
Complains very much of pain in lower back, coming on after breakfast, sometimes remaining all day, sometimes going away soon after breakfast, but generally much increased during monthly. θ Gastric
ulcer.
Frequently pains in back and lower limbs of a cramping character, especially in left leg. θ Hypochondriasis.
Backache, especially at night, with great weakness of legs. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Tensive, squeezing pains in back.
Nightly pains in back.
Pains in back, cannot walk with eyes closed or in dark. θ Locomotor ataxia.
Lower lumbar region slightly sensitive to pressure.
Cutting in small of back and groin. θ Menorrhagia.
Pain in small of back, relieved when standing or walking ; but severe when rising from a seat.
Pain in back and lower ribs during pregnancy.
Weakness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if bones were loose.
Sense of weight in lower part of sacrum and os coccygis, > standing ; < sitting and with stool.
Small of back feels weary ; heaviness and drawing in loins, with debility and trembling of legs.
Crampy pains in back and legs. θ Hypochondriasis.
Stiffness, heaviness, paralytic pain from sacrum down along pelvis and hips.

Upper limbs

Drawing in shoulders. θ Melancholia.
Pain in left shoulder and arm. θ Dyspepsia.
Paralytic drawing pain in right arm.
Nightly boring pain in ulna.
Left arm heavy.
Pimple on hand near wrist, feels as if a splinter was in it.
Spasmodic contraction of adductors of fingers, can hardly separate them ; fingers half clenched.
Hands tremble. θ Typhus. θ Asthma.
Pain extending down into middle finger of left hand. θ Dyspepsia.
Left ring and little fingers insensible ; hand trembles.
Numbness of finger tips.
Nails blue. θ Typhus.

Lower limbs

Sciatica.
Lassitude of lower limbs, with dizziness as from intoxication.
Paralytic heaviness and weakness of legs, she does not know where to put them.
Staggering gait.
Debility and weakness of lower limbs the whole afternoon ; with sick feeling, dread of work, drowsiness, chilliness and sickly appearance.
Limbs, especially his knees, start up at night awaking him.
Legs, especially left, often stiff and rigid, as if "gone to sleep."
Legs feel as if made of wood, or padded, with insensibility to touch, diminished warmth, jerks in toes, tottering, irresolute gait ; cannot walk with eyes shut. θ Locomotor
ataxia.
Calves weary, as after a long journey.
Pains in calves torment him all night.
Emaciation, particularly of legs ; also with paralytic weakness.
Itching pustules on left shin bone, one of which developed into an ulcer.
Œdema of feet. θ Pneumonia.

Limbs in general

Lassitude, weariness of forearms and legs.
Trembling.
Paralysis of extremities.
Rheumatic tendency in right arm and thigh. θ Asthma.
During day, tormented with formication of arms and legs.
Chorea-like convulsive motion of limbs ; legs drawn up ; arms jerked outward and upward.
Says his legs are "shaky" and his hands tremble. θ Hypochondriasis.

Rest. position. motion

She felt much < in rest, than when walking in open air.
Is obliged to lean forward in order to get breath. θ Asthma.
Unable to walk or even stand. θ After a fall.
She was lying motionless on her back, since every motion of her body caused her inexpressible pain ; touching region of kidneys increased these pains at once to highest degree.
Unable to sleep on her right side from its bringing on palpitation of heart. θ Gastric ulcer.
Must lie down : coryza with frontal headache.
Lying down after dinner : noise in larynx.
Lying on abdomen : stitches in back.
Lying on right side : pain in stomach ; palpitation.
Uncomfortable lying on left side.
When sitting : heaviness in sacrum ; pain in small of back ; gets very sleepy.
Cannot sit on account of pain in sacrum.
While standing : drawing in side of abdomen ; pain in small of back better.
Stooping : causes pain ; cough ; digging in sacrum.
Chewing : < toothache.
Moving neck : < sore throat.
Lifting arms high : < stomachache.
Worse from opening or spreading out hands.
Rising from seat : backache.
Bending arms : chest muscles pain.
Putting boots on : < pain in chest.
Worse when moving part and lifting diseased limb.
Quick turning of upper part of body : hurts in mamma.
Changing quickly from rest to motion : stitches through abdomen.
Inclination for motion.
Worse from moving : headache ; eyeball, heat, fulness ; sensation of splinter in throat when moving neck ; pain about kidneys ; sudden muscular exertion causes palpitation ; confusion, dulness and pain, with hemorrhage.
The slightest motion after having been in rest increases headache.
Curious feeling makes him walk very quickly.
During walking : stitches from liver into chest ; pain in small of back ; tottering ; afraid to walk, giddy.
Must rise and walk about : short-breathed with deep sighs.
After a long walk : ebullitions at night.
After a short walk : dyspnœa.
Walking or standing : relieves pain in small of back.
Worse from walking fast. θ Asthma.
Goes to left side instead of straight forward.
Going up-stairs : dyspnœa ; cough ; bursting pain in chest ; palpitation ; pain in calves.
Ascending : < heart symptoms.
On exposure to any exhausting labor, he always had a pain which affected whole head, and which made the letters when reading run into one another.
Bodily exertion : dyspnœa ; strong beating of heart.
After bodily exertion during day, attacks of suffocation at night.

Nerves

Walks and stands unsteadily, after hard mental labor, especially when he thinks himself unobserved.
Restless, in continual motion. θ Headache.
Very restless. θ Dyspepsia.
Great nervousness and prostration. θ Hypochondriasis.
Nightly nervousness with heat and fulness in head.
Nerves so unstrung that he got into a frenzy of excitement. θ Hypochondriasis.
Hysteria.
Nervous, faintish, tremulous sensation, as if a severe disease was going to attack him.
Tremulous weakness, accompanied with general debility, as after great physical exertions and apathy.
Trembling and tremulous sensation.
Trembling of whole body, with headache. θ Eye diseases.
Periodical trembling of body.
Chorea, with tearing in legs.
Creeping and jerking in various parts, more in paralyzed parts.
Every succeeding spasm is announced by a very marked degree of restlessness. θ Meningitis. θ Hydrocephalus.
Convulsions preceded by great restlessness.
Convulsions with great restlessness and tossing about, preceding each convulsion. θ Scarlatina.
Epileptiform convulsions. θ Meningitis.
Epilepsy from fright, during menstruation ; at night ; pupils always dilated for a day or two before.
Very weak and feeble. θ Prolapsus uteri.
So weak, must lie down ; then becomes apathetic, with yawning ; cold shuddering.
She feels so debilitated she is scarcely able to walk across room, complaining a good deal about rigidity in calves.
Debility for several days after sick headache.
Prostrated state in yellow fever.
Paralysis generally one-sided.
After a severe illness, most after diphtheria. θ Want of accommodation of ciliary muscles.
Incipient paralysis.
Any voluntary motion of body was for a long time impossible for him. θ Typhus.
Voluntary motion impossible ; left side indescribably weak.
Paraplegia from debilitating causes.
Paralysis after diphtheria.
Completely apathetic. θ Headache.

Sleep

Such a weakness in all her limbs that she was obliged to go to bed, where she frequently fell into a soporous condition with yawning, and a cold shudder over whole body, and lost all her appetite.
Sleepless at night, during day drowsy. θ Hypochondriasis.
Is prevented from falling asleep by fancies and images before his imagination.
After long wearisome fatiguing night watching.
Much excited at night ; murmured constantly ; nothing but shaking would arouse him ; his eyes are scarcely open before he closes them again. θ Typhus.
Ebullitions at night after a long walk.
At night troubled with throbbing in head, must get out of bed ; when he does sleep he is annoyed with horrid dreams. θ Hypochondriasis.
Drowsy by day, sleepless all night.
Sleep is short ; awakened often by attacks of suffocation ; must rise and open window.
Restless sleep, awakes almost every hour, disturbed with many dreams.
Sleep much broken, especially forepart of night, with horrible dreams. θ Hypochondriasis.
Sees departed friends, the dead, ghosts at night ; dreams of putrid water, of serpents, which fill him with horror.
In the morning, dreams he is hungry ; this awakens him, and he finds he has a violent spasm of stomach, with hunger, nausea and flatulence.
Not refreshed by a night's rest. θ Subacute pleuritis.
On awaking : headache in morning, limbs feel bruised, aching in side of chest ; from a good sleep, dull headache over eyes ; spasms return.
Cannot sleep at night because he is "so nervous." θ Hypochondriasis.
Palpitation at night in bed ; must get up and go out of house to get relief. θ Hypochondriasis.

Time

Worse at night : heat in head, headache ; nose stopped up ; throat dry ; gastralgia ; colic ; diarrhœa ; much urine ; cough ;
hoarseness ; beating of heart ; epileptic attacks ; pains in chest, oppression ; spasms ; nervous ; itching of skin.
After midnight : chorea >, stools <.
Waking at 2 1/2 A. M. several mornings. θ Diarrhœa.
Morning : vertigo.
Worse in morning : eyes ; fetor from mouth ; gastralgia ; hunger ; colic ; nervousness ; sweat ; soreness in larynx.
Very languid, < early part of day. θ Myopia.
Forenoon : chill and fever.
Nervous attacks about 11 o'clock A. M., relieved by stimulating drinks. θ Hypochondriasis.
Noon : tickling, suffocative cough.
Afternoon : headache > ; stitches in left forehead ; exhausted, faint.
Feels faint towards evening. θ Gastric ulcer.
Evening : cough.
The day half is to the night half as 3 : 2.
Day half, more cough ; night, diarrhœa.

Temperature and weather

Worse from cold diet, > from warm.
Worse from warmth of bed : pains ; sweat.
Warmth : headache <.
Warm drinks : stomach <.
Worse working over a fire : blepharitis.
Aggravation in a warm room : eyes.
Worse in Summer : asthma.
Chill from being uncovered ; wrapping up causes a smothered feeling.
Always kept himself covered, because he was easily chilled.
Heat, with aversion to uncover.
Utter insensibility of body, except a sensitiveness of lowered temperature, even from removing clothes when dressing bed-sores. θ Typhus.
Worse from cold : asthma in cold weather , from taking cold ; chill when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up ; after thorough exposure to cold, bones of skull pain ; teeth
sensitive to cold water.
After eating ice-cream : pain in stomach.
Worse in wet weather : stomach.
Open air : vertigo and headache < ; eyes >.
Indifference to moist and damp weather, longing for fresh air. θ Pneumonia.
Irresistible inclination to leave bed and sit by open window ; every time he sat by window he felt much refreshed. θ Pneumonia.
Asthma drives him to open window ; if windows are closed, he becomes restless ; at night he wakes up as if suffocating, runs to window to breathe.
They had to leave a window open, day and night, in March, for when it was shut patient became restless. θ Typhus.
Generally > in open air, < in-doors.
Amelioration in cool, open air.
Generally feeling > in open air, particularly catarrhs (eyes, stomach).
Ophthalmia less ; stomach relieved in open air.
In rest he feels much more unwell than when walking in open air.
Better from washing or bathing with cold water.

Fever

Chilliness, with nausea.
Chilly : with many complaints ; with cold hands and feet.
Constant chilliness up back and over shoulders ; < after meals ; < coming into room from open air.
General chill followed after a short interval by general heat ; the former lasting longer, and returning quickly on uncovering, even during heat ; the latter with perceptible pulsation of left temporal artery ; both stages without thirst.
Night sweats.
Morning sweat.
Evening chill followed by sweat. θ Typhus.
Skin dry, but not very hot.
Temperature sunken.
Intermittent fever, with pulmonary hemorrhage ; generally no thirst.
Malarial fever in a lady, æt. 75 ; constant retching, most intensely bitter taste, with a desire for fresh air (followed by Rhus tox.).
Profuse sweat : it stands out on face in beads ; stitches in side, cough during attack.
Sweat and chilliness, as soon as he gets warm in bed.
Gastric intermittent.
(OBS :) Typhus abdominalis.

Attacks, periodicity

Attacks increasing and decreasing quickly, or gradually increasing and decreasing.
Periodical pains in abdomen.
Pains in skull sometimes remit, and are followed by more violent hemicrania.
Asthmatic attacks at night, with rapid pulse.
Moral and nervous disturbances come on in quite regular paroxysms. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Locality and direction

Right : headache ; digging in hemisphere of brain ; pupil dilated ; shooting itching biting pains in eye ; pupil contracted ; contusive pain in testicle ; cutting in ovarian region ; paralytic pain in arm.
Left : headache ; arm paralyzed ; weakness of whole side ; pains side of head ; throbbing in forehead ; boring clawing digging in frontal eminence ; drawing tearing along arm ; boring in temple ; dimness of eye ; digging and cutting
through hemisphere of brain ; sight of eye diminished ; boring above eye ; upper lid fallen ; deafness ; face swollen ; neuralgia under eye ; pain in epigastrium extending to side ; cutting in hypochonder ; pains from epigastrium round to shoulder
blade ; pains in abdomen ; constriction in abdomen ; soreness in side ; in lower part of chest ; dead pain ; violent pain in chest ; stitching pain in region of fifth rib, and crepitant rales ; subacute pleuritis ; crampy pain in leg ; pain
in shoulder and arm ; in middle finger ; ring and little fingers insensible ; stiffness of leg ; on shin bone, itching pustules.
In various places, of the size of half a dollar, aching, tensive pains in chest.
From right to left ear : stitches.
From occiput to frontal protuberance : digging cutting.
Spreading upward : pressure in forehead, to coronal suture.
Encircling calvarium : dull pressive pain.
Radiating : to sacrum and thighs, pain in ovarian region ; in all directions, pain in stomach.
Through to sacrum : gastralgia.
Bearing down : in hypogastrium.
Following ureters : acute pain in kidneys.

Sensations

Head feels enlarged with congestion ; eye feels enlarged ; as if bones of skull separated ; as if a splinter was lodged in throat, or as if he had a stick in it ; or as if food had lodged there ; like sticks or slivers in and about womb ; as of a
splinter in pimple near wrist ; as if houses on both sides would approach and crush him ; as if everything at home had changed ; as if turning in circle ; as if drunk ; as if a small spot in forehead was contracting and getting smaller, thinks as soon as it has drawn
together he will be crazy ; as if something was tightly drawn over skull ; itching as from vermin on head ; roots of hair as if pulled upward ; nasal bones as if bruised ; as if teeth were becoming carious ; stomach as if it would burst with wind ;
oppression as from a heavy lump in stomach ; as if stomach and œsophagus were filled with food ; as of a band around hypochondria ; pain in urethra as from a splinter ; urethra as if swollen ; as if last drops remained in urethra ; urethra as if put on
stretch ; as if ligated with cords around chest ; as if sacral bones were loose ; legs as if made of wood.
Stitches : in chest, after anger ; from right to left ear like a knife ; in scrobiculum and stomach ; like electric shocks through abdomen ; in epigastrium ; in region of fifth rib, left side.
Darting pains : in eyes.
Piercing pains : in chest with cramp.
Cutting : like knives in hypochondria and epigastrium ; in abdomen ; in right ovarian region and back ; in small of back and groin.
Stinging : in left side of stomach.
Shooting, itching, biting in right eye ; through abdomen and stomach.
Boring : in left frontal eminence ; in left temple ; and cutting in bones of forehead, vertex, temples and face ; above left eye ; in ulna at night.
Digging : in right hemisphere of brain ; and cutting through l. hemisphere of brain ; in teeth.
Clawing digging : in left frontal eminence.
Grumbling digging : in teeth.
Griping : in bowels.
Gnawing : at stomach.
Bursting pain : in abdomen and chest.
Burning : in scalp ; heat in eyes ; in left side of face and lips ; in left side of abdomen ; in urethra ; in larynx ; in region of heart.
Rawness, soreness and scraping : in throat ; in trachea.
Soreness : of larynx and pit of throat ; in trachea ; in left side.
Tearing pains : in ears ; in legs.
Drawing tearing : along left arm.
Neuralgic pains : in head and face ; in stomach, gastralgia.
Spasms : in lower part of chest and in stomach.
Crampy pain : in back and lower limbs.
Cramp : in œsophagus.
Constriction : in bowels as if ligated ; in epigastrium ; around chest or waist.
Constrictive pains : in forehead ; in scalp ; in throat ; in stomach.
Feels like a bar of iron around her chest.
Squeezing pains : in back.
Bruised pain : in nasal bones ; in right testicle ; in limbs ; on awaking.
Paralytic pain : from sacrum down along pelvis and hips ; in right arm.
Drawing : in shoulders ; in right arm.
Pressing, screwing throbbing pain in frontal protuberance, temple, or into bones of face.
Pressure : in forehead ; pressive headache encircling calvarium ; pressing pains in whole head ; deep in brain ; in outer head ; in precordia ; in epigastric region.
Bearing down : in hypogastrium.
Ulcerative pain : in stomach ; in middle of urethra.
Dead pain : in lower left chest.
Undefined pain : in left side of head ; in head, which seems enlarged ; in all parts of head, especially in occiput, preventing sleep ; in head, extends to eyes and lower jaw ; in eyes and head from using eyes ; from brain to eyes ; terrific, from
vertex into eye ; in nose ; in stomach ; under manubrium sterni ; about liver ; in abdomen ; in region of kidneys ; horrible in abdomen and hips, with metrorrhagia ; in ovarian region, into sacrum and hips ; in chest and between shoulders ;
fearful pains about heart ; violent in muscles of chest ; in left shoulder and arm ; in calves ; middle finger of left hand.
Throbbing : in whole body ; of carotids ; in left side of forehead ; in head, at night.
Heat in head : and dryness of eyeballs and lids ; in left side of face and lips ; warmth, between scapulæ and sternum ; in eyeball.
Dulness : of head, forehead and root of nose.
Warmth : between scapulæ and sternum.
Heaviness : in occiput ; in head ; in abdomen ; on chest ; and drawing in loins ; from sacrum down along pelvis and hips ; of left arm ; of legs, paralytic.
Fulness : in head ; in eyeball ; in lids ; in ears ; in abdomen.
Sense of weight in lower part of sacrum and os coccygis.
Faintness when walking.
Weakness : in legs, with anxiety ; at pit of stomach ; in legs, with backache ; of legs, paralytic.
Tension : around hypochondria ; of abdomen ; tensive pains in back.
Jerks : in toes.
Chilliness : and trembling with headache ; with pressure in brain ; up the back and over shoulders.
Cold feeling : in eyes.
Tickling : in larynx.
Formication : of arms and legs.
Numbness : of finger tips ; of legs.
Itching : creeping, crawling on scalp ; in eyes ; of nose ; of skin during climaxis ; in larynx ; pustules on left shin bone ; of thighs and axillæ.

Tissues

Melena.
Acts on red corpuscles, causing their coloring matter to escape into plasma, causing ecchymosis and effusions, and later interference with oxidation and ultimate chlorosis.
Withered, dried up, look old. θ Children, etc.
Emaciation, most marked in legs ; progressive from year to year.
Œdema of legs ; ascites. θ Affection of liver.
Muscles rigid.
Septic forms of scarlet fever.
(OBS :) Impetigo (as a caustic).
Excrescence on skin. θ Iritis.
Prevents excessive granulations in ulcers.
Chronic syphilis, with papula and osteocopic pains.
Bone affections.
Getting gradually thinner for twelve months. θ Subacute pleuritis.
Infant loses flesh, get marasmus ; looks as if it would die early.
(OBS :) Dropsies.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Must press chest with hands.
Rubs nose until raw.
Touching region of kidneys, increased pain.
Worse from touch : globe of eye sensitive ; hard blotches on upper lip ; gums sore ; small spot below xiphoid, region of liver sensitive ; stinging left side of stomach ; abdomen tense, cannot bear touch ; sternal region sensitive ; pains about
kidneys.
Itching, < by scratching.
Complaints from pressure of clothing ; headache, however, is better from bandaging.
Erysipelatous bed-sore upon left shoulder, sacrum and both hip joints ; those on sacrum became black and hard. θ Typhus.
Cannot walk or stand erect. θ After a fall.
While riding : attack of palpitation, with anxiety and trembling, compelling him to get out of wagon and walk, and that "real fast, too".
After scalding with sulphuric acid, a solution applied on burnt place healed it, and even new hairs were formed.

Skin

Cyanosis. θ Cholera.
Skin from a blue grey, violet or bronze color, to real black.
Skin brown, tense, hard.
Itching, smarting, mostly of thighs and axillæ, when warm at night.
Bluish-black eruption. θ In scarlet fever.
Erysipelatous bed-sores, centre covered with dry, bloody incrustations ; black, hard, on sacrum.
Pustulous ecthyma.
Syphilitic papulæ. θ Iritis.
Wart-shaped excrescences.
(OBS :) Impetigo.
(OBS :) Zona.
(OBS :) Smallpox.

Stage of life, constitution

Most suitable to hysteric or nervous persons, and for headaches from mental causes, characterized by dulness of head.
Women with menstrual disturbances.
Cachectic states, with loss of strength.
Scrawny, feeble, dried-up looking women. θ Prolapsus uteri.
A stout, light-haired boy with enuresis.
Boys' complaints from using tobacco.
Girl, æt. 10, myopia, after taking drugs for goitre.
A youth, æt. 18, growing up rapidly, masturbating, imbecile. θ Hypochondriasis.
Man, æt. 27, intemperate for years, now abstaining. θ Hypochondriasis.
Girl, aged 28, inclined to anemia. θ Gastric ulcer.
Man, æt. 35, of intemperate habits, also given to venery. θ Hypochondriasis.
Woman, æt. 43, after a great deal of trial and anxiety, sight failed. θ Paralysis of accommodation.
Man, æt. 49, red face, nervous, depressed, anxious, ill for three years. θ Dyspepsia.
Woman, æt. 82 ; low, after aggravation, cured.
In low doses it corresponds to the carbo-nitrogenoids, like Sulphur and Cuprum ; in the higher it corresponds to the hydrogenoid constitutions (Grauvogl).

Relations

Antidotes to Arg. Nit . : Natr. mur . (chemical and dynamic), Arsen . and milk.
Arg. nit . antidotes : Amm. caust .
Boys' complaints after tobacco.
According to Bœnninghausen, as antidotes to Arg. nit ., and also Nitr. ac ., are prominent Pulsat., Calcar., Sepia , and next to these three, Lycop.,
Mercur., Silic., Rhus tox., Phosphor . and Sulphur .
Coffea cruda increases nervous headache.
After Arg. nitr. had failed in flatulent indigestion, Lycop . cured.
It has been given with success : after Bryon . and Spigel ., in dyspepsia ; after Spongia was given for goitre, and myopia followed ; after Veratr .
for wind passing upward in great quantities, inducing faintness.
Similar to : Aurum ; Cuprum ; Kali bi. ; Laches. ; Mercur. ; Merc. corr. ; Merc. iod. ; Natr. mur ; Nitr. ac .
The main difference between the metal and the nitrate is, that the latter acts more on mucous membrane, the skin, and especially on bones and periosteum, and must be beneficial to herpetic patients, and the former acts especially on cartilages.
Complaints from pressure of clothes ; also in Calcar., Bryon., Caustic., Lycop., Sarsap ., and Stannum .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Mind

We shall find by examining the symptoms of this remedy that the intellectual feature predominates, as in the metal; that the affections are disturbed only in a limited way. There is a predominance of mental symptoms.

First of all, disturbance in the memory, disturbance of reason, he becomes most irrational in his explanations of his actions.

He is irrational and does strange things and comes to strange conclusions; foolish things.

He has all sorts of imaginations, illusions, hallucinations. He is tormented in his mind by the inflowing of troublesome thoughts, and especially at night his thoughts torment him. to the extent that he is extremely anxious and this puts him in a hurry and in a fidget and he goes out and walks and walks, and the faster he walks the faster he thinks he must walk, and he walks till fatigued.

Strange notions and ideas and fears come into his mind. He has an impulse that lie is going to have a fit or that he is going to have a sickness.

A strange thought comes into his mind that if be goes past a certain corner of the street he will create a sensation, will fall down and have a fit, and to avoid that he will go around the block.

He avoids going past that corner for fear he will do something strange, He is so reduced in his mental state that he admits into the mind all sorts of impulses.

There is inflowing of strange thoughts into his mind, and when crossing a bridge or high place the thought that he might kill himself, or perhaps he might jump off, or what if he should jump off, and sometimes the actual impulse comes to jump off the bridge into the water.

When looking out of a window the thought comes to his mind what an awful thing it would be to jump out of the window, and sometimes the impulse comes to actually jump out of the window.

There is fear of death, the over-anxious state, that death is near, and often at times like Aconite he predicts the moment he is going to die.

Looking forward to times he is anxious. When looking forward to some thing that he is about to do, or in the expectation of things, he is anxious.

When about to meet an engagement he is anxious until the time comes.

If he is about to take a railroad journey he is anxious, full of fear and anxiety and tremulous nervousness until he is on the car going and then it passes away. If he is about to meet a certain person on the street corner he is anxious and breaks out often in a sweat from anxiety until it is over with.

Not only is this particular symptom present, but the symptoms come on as a result of his anxiety.

He is excitable, angers easily, and as a result of this pain comes. When he becomes angry he becomes vehement and pain in the head comes on; cough, pain in the chest and weakness follow this anger

The anxiety he has from these circumstances will bring on complaints.

When he is going anywhere, going to a wedding or to the opera, or any unusual event it is attended with anxiety, fear and diarrhea.

So it is we have in this a wonderful medicine. It says in the text that he gave all sorts of queer reasons for his strange conduct, endeavoring to cover up, as it were, his foolishness which he himself realizes.

Sadness, melancholy and confusion. Defective memory. The sight of high houses makes him dizzy, and his vertigo is increased or comes on from closing the eyes; with the vertigo there is buzzing in the ears, great weakness and trembling.

Constitutional headaches from brain fag, from exertion of the mind. In such mental exhaustion, headaches, nervous excitement and trembling, and organic troubles of the heart and liver in business men, in students, in brain workers, in those subject to long excitement; - in actors who have kept up a long time the excitement of appearing well in public.

This state of mind progress until there is a general state of weakness; with trembling, paralysis, numbness, disturbed functions, palpitation, throbbing all over the body, with the mental state.

The nervous state continues until there is disorder of all the organs of the body. The stomach refuses to digest, everything taken, seems to go into gas, and he becomes distended and suffers with pain.

The circulation seems to be greatly disturbed in addition to the palpitation. Fullness of the blood vessels and throbbing all over the body. The blood vessels become diseased.

Atheromatous degeneration and dilatation of the veins, varicose veins.

Upon the mucous membranes and skin ulceration, and this progresses and the heart becomes increasingly feeble, and the extremities become cold and blue and the lips are cold and blue, with aggravation of all these complaints from mental excitement, from going to the opera, from meeting a friend, from keeping an engagement.

The medicine is preeminently a nervous one, full of spinal symptoms, rending, tearing pains down the extremities; such pains are found in locomotor ataxia fulgurating shooting pains.

There is one grand feature running through this patient modifying most of his symptoms, with few exceptions, and that is that he is like a Pulsatilla patient; he wants cold air, cold drinks, cold things; wants ice, ice cream; wants the head in the cold air; suffocates in a warm room.

He suffocates from warm clothing, wants the door and windows open; cannot breathe in a stuffy room, suffocates if other people are in the room; cannot go to church or to the opera, cannot go to places of amusement or gatherings, must stay at home.

He dreads a crowd, dreads certain places.

Ulcerations

Everywhere we find ulceration, but particularly upon the mucous membrane. The throat has ulcers in it, the eyelids, and of the cornea; ulceration of the bladder.

Ulcers of the uterus, of the vagina and of the external soft parts. This tendency of ulcerate seems rather strange, peculiar that it should have in its pathogenesis such a tendency, when the old school has been using it to cauterize ulcers, and yet it heals them up.

We know that Phosphorus will burn and it intensifies the tendency to ulcerate, makes the ulcer go deeper, while Argentum nitricum sets it healing.

Upon mucous membranes we find red elevations, granulations, enlargement of vessels, purplish aspect. Sensitive ulcers.

Female

The complaints in women come on before and during the menstrual period. It is a favorable time for all her complaints to be aggravated; if she have Argentum nitricum symptoms they are likely to be at their worst at this time.

She suffers from most violent dysmenorrhoea, from nervous excitement, from hysterical manifestations, and an unusually increased flow.

A tendency to hemorrhages it belongs to this remedy.

The ulcers bleed; there is bleeding from the nose, bleeding from the chest, the urine is bloody; leucorrhoea copious, menstrual flow copious; menorrhagia; bleeding from the mucous membranes generally, from the uterus. Vomiting of blood. It has cured prolonged and most inveterate ulceration of the stomach, when there has been vomiting of blood.

The aggravation at the menstrual period is a strong feature and she is free from symptoms during the interim.

The palpitation, the trembling, the coldness of the surface, though desiring cold open air, blueness of the lips, coldness of the extremities, blueness and coldness of the lower extremities to the knees and of the hands and arms to the elbows, and yet the patient wants cool things, wants something cold.

This may not be seen at any other time. Here is striking feature:

"Patient cannot lie on the right -side because it brings on so much palpitations."

We have plenty of remedies with palpitation worse lying on the right side are rare (Alumen, Badiaga, Kalmia, Kali n., Lil. t., Platina, Spongia).

It is uncommon, strange, rare and peculiar.

It is such a strong feature in this remedy that to a great extent it becomes quite general, because it is a heart symptom and is intermingled with the general symptoms.

With this sensitiveness he is compelled to get into some other position; must get up and walk, because of lying on the right side.

The patient will say he throbs from head to foot while lying on the right side. Do not forget in this medicine all these general things when we come to apply them in their particulars and the particulars in the generals.

Do not forget that this medicine is one of the most flatulent medicines in the books. He is distended to bursting; gets scarcely any relief from passing flatus or eructations.

He is possessed with the distressing idea that all his undertakings must fail. When walking he becomes faint with anxiety which makes him walk faster. Everywhere you will find the intellectual symptoms predominant.

Headache

The headaches are of a congestive character; considerable throbbing, ameliorated by cold, and tight bandaging. Headache from mental exertion from excitement, with vertigo, nausea and vomiting.

Pains in the right side of the head, jagging, cutting, stitching pulsating. Head feels much enlarged.

Eyes

The eye symptoms are too numerous to mention. They are of a general character such as we find in catarrhal conditions with ulceration, relieved by cold.

All of the eye symptoms are worse in a warm room, worse from sitting by the fire. Wants cold applications, cold washing. Intense photophobia; aversion to light, and this is worse in a warm room; wants it cold, wants it dark.

There is much swelling and tumefaction of the blood vessels of the eye, and redness, and it has a raw denuded excoriated appearance.

"Chemosis with strangulated vessels."

"Cornea opaque."

"Ulceration of cornea in new-born infants; profuse purulent discharge from the lids,"

and this is what the "Regulars" in former days and almost tip to date have been using for the eyes, treating them with Argentum nitricum.

Photophobia

after long looking at fine sewing, fine print. In one who has suddenly taken on far sightedness, it has come on as a congestive condition; not of old age but something that should be cured.

All at once he cannot see print at the usual distance but must hold it away off; if it occurs in some one twenty-five years of age or in a child.

At close distance it is indistinguishable. Such a disturbance of accommodation producing far sightedness it has caused and cured.

"Oedema of lids," etc.

Oedema is a word which runs through the remedy. That is to say, it has a dropsical state wherever dropsy may occur.

Face

The face is the next place we find particulars worthy of note.

"Face: Sweat stood in drops on his face."

"Face sunken, pale, bluish."

"Looks prematurely old."

"Face blue, heavy breathing, pulseless."

Throat

Then come the throat symptoms. Another feature of this remedy is its general tendency to produce warts.

There is a tendency to favor the growth of warts and in the throat there are little wart-like growths polypoid growths in the throat and about the genitals and anus; hence its great use in sycotic constitutions.

It has all the discharge necessary to its use in the sycotic constitution.

Felt as if he had a stick in the throat when swallowing. At once you will see its close relation to Hepar. In inflammatory conditions of the throat with ulceration.

In Argentum nitricum he wants to be in a cold room, wants cold air, and to swallow cold things. In Hepar he wants warm things to drink, warm clothing, warm room, and cannot put even his hand out of bed or his throat will begin paining him.

Things, you see, just exactly opposite, but they both have "sticks" in the throat. In dry chronic catarrh Alumina and Natrum muriaticum have "sticks" in the throat; but in red throat with tumefaction and pain these two remedies give no relief, the former two are better. "Sticks" in the throat like fish-bones.

Nitric acid, Hepar, and Argentum nitricum, are the most striking remedies for the fish-bone sensation. Many remedies have sticking in the throat, but these are the most prominent.

We know how Argentum nitricum has been used for ulceration in the throat, and here it comes in as one of the most useful remedies in congestion of the throat of long standing. Catarrhs with loss of voice. Warty growths, condylomata, etc.

Loss of voice, tumefaction of the mucous membrane round about the vocal cords and paresis of the vocal cords. Condylomata on the vocal cords.

"Loss of appetite" and refuses drink.

Digestion

This is another feature. He feels that he must have it and it makes him sick; brings on eructations, increased flatulence, sour stomach.

He cannot digest it; it acts like a physic and brings on a diarrhea. So marked is the aggravation from sugar that the nursing infant will get a green diarrhea if the mother eats candy.

Then is it astonishing that the baby can get a dynamized dose from the mother, when the dynamized dose can travel like lightning, and sugar takes all day to be digested and dynamized and fed as poison to the baby? I remember a case that I figured and figured on.

The baby had Mercurial stools, sure enough, they were grass green. Well Chamomilla has grass green stools and Arsenicum and Mercurius and lots of remedies have grass green stools.

Routinist that I was in those days I could not get anything but Mercurius out of it, and although the baby had gotten Merc., Ars. and Cham . There was no relief, until I found that the mother had been eating candy.

When she was asked if she ate sweet things, sugar, etc., she said,

"Oh, no."

"Why, yes, you do," said the husband;

"I bring you home a pound of candy every day.

What do you do with it?"

"Oh, that was nothing," she replied.

But the baby did not get well until it got Argentum nitricum and the mother stopped eating sugar.

"Irresistible desire for sugar."

Quite a number of medicines have craving for sweets, but many of them can eat sweets with impunity. It is always a peculiar thing when one of the articles of diet, such as milk, sugar, salt, starch, etc., and the things of the table make sick.

When it is said that "I cannot eat a teaspoonful of anything with starch, egg or sugar in it without being sick," it is always strange and peculiar, because it is not something that comes in only as a craving and affecting the stomach, but it affects the whole patient.

The patient says:

"I become sick" and hence it becomes a general.

When the patient gets a diarrhea from eating sugar it is not merely a local and particular symptom, because the whole patient is sick before the diarrhea begins; the diarrhea is the outcome. Hence as it is a general it i necessary that it should be examined into.

"The vomited substances tinge the bedding black".

Incessant vomiting of food. He sometimes spits up food by the mouthful until the stomach is empty. Eructations of air accompanied by a mouthful of undigested food, like Phosphorus and Ferrum . Spitting it up; welling up in mouthfuls

"Eructations relieve ".

"Flatulence passes upwards, in quantities."

Frequent eructations. Eructations do not always relieve. It is more like China in its eructation.

The eructations of Carbo veg. relieve for some time and he feels better. This is the way with Carbo veg.; he is distended almost to bursting and he cannot get up any wind, but finally after much pain and distension it wells up in empty eructations and then he gets relief.

With China he is distended, and every little while getting up gas, but with no relief. It does not seem to help, and sometimes patients will say they seem to get worse after it.

So it is with Argentum nitricum at times. It evidently has both.

"Most gastric ailments arc accompanied by belching."

"Belching difficult; finally air rushes out with great violence."

"Nausea after every meal; nausea with troublesome efforts to vomit."

I have seen these Argentum nitricum patients vomiting and purging in the same moment, not vomiting one second and purging the next, but gushing out both ways with great exhaustion like cholera morbus, so relaxed, prostrated and weak.

"Vomit; streaked brown, flocculent, like coffee grounds."

The stomach, liver and abdomen are full of pain. The abdomen distended with all this troublesome flatulence. Inflammation of the stomach, ulceration of the stomach, most troublesome diarrhea. Diarrhea with copious flatus. Stool with copious flatus in nursing children, with tormina and viscous sanguinolent stools and tenesmus.

"Diarrhea of children after weaning."

Another feature in connection with the diarrhea and dysentery is that casts are passed with the stool, like diphtheritic membrane or deposit; casts like the rectum, strings of membrane, come with the stool. Stools of green, foetid mucus with noisy flatus at night.

Urinary

"Urine passed unconsciously and uninterruptedly."

"Urging to urinate; the urine passes less easily and freely."

"Bleeding of the urethra; painful erections; gonorrhoea."

It has most painful gonorrhoea with painful erections in the male. In the female the vagina is extremely sore, and the external soft parts are swollen; tumefaction.

Vagina feels sore on urinating; bloody discharge. In the male, orchitis from suppressed discharge. In the female, ovaritis, inflammation of all the pelvic organs. Great soreness all over the pelvis.

Bleeding from the vagina. Ulceration of the uterus. Coition is painful or impossible.

"Pains like sticks or slivers in and about the womb".

This sensation prevails wherever there are ulcers.

"Prolapsus with ulceration of the os or cervix".

Haemorrhage of short duration; shoot ing pains through abdomen and stomach. Metrorrhagia. Complaints of nervous women and at the menstrual period. Menses suppressed or scanty. Complaints during pregnancy.

Heart

Under the symptoms of the heart and pulse:

"Anxiety with palpitation and throbbing through the whole body."

"Violent palpitation from the slightest mental emotion or sudden muscular exertion. Palpitation obliges her to press hand hard against heart for relief. Heart’s action irregular, intermittent," etc.

Pain in the lumbar region comes on while sitting, but is better when standing a walking. Pain in the back from flatulence. Sore pain in the spine. Pain in back at night. Great weight in the lumbar region. It is a very useful remedy in locomotor ataxia.

Great restlessness. The nervous symptoms are very numerous. Periodical trembling of the body. Chorea, with tearing in the legs. Convulsions preceded by great restlessness. Nervous faintish, tremulous sensation, etc.

The sleep symptoms are quite general. Distressing nightmares. The dreams are horrible Wakens in excitement and with starting. All sorts of strange, horrible things in sleep. Dreams of vicious and violent things, and that everything is going to happen to him. Dreams of departed friends, etc.

On waking in the morning limbs feel bruised aching in the chest,

Cannot sleep at night because he is so nervous.

Erysipelatous bed sores. While riding, palpitation and anxiety compelling him to get out of the wagon and walk, and that real fast.

Purplish rash, such as appears in the most serious forms of scarlet and zymotic diseases.

Its most natural antidote is Natrum muriaticum. When you have the ulceration where the throat has been cauterized or the cervix uteri or eyelids have been cauterized by Nitrate of Silver, study Natrum mur. and see if the symptoms of the case would not justify its administration. It is the most common natural antidote for these vicious practices.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

General

Acute or chronic diseases from unusual or long-continued mental exertion.

Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, dried- up, old-looking patients (thin, scrawny, Sec.).

Emaciation, progressing every year; most marked in lower extremities (Am. m.); marasmus.

Apprehension when ready for church or opera; diarrhœa sets in (Gels.).

Time passes slowly (Can.); impulsive, wants to do things in a hurry; must walk fast; is always hurried; anxious, irritable, nervous (Aur., Lil.).

Great longing for fresh air (Amyl, Puls., Sulph.).

Headache: congestive, with fulness and heaviness; with sense of expansion; habitual, gastric, of literary men; from dancing; hemicrania, pressive, screwing in frontal eminence or temple; ending in bilious vomiting; < from any exhaustive mental labor; > by pressure or tight bandaging (Apis, Puls.).

Flatulent dyspepsia: belching after every meal; stomach, as if it would burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence.

Belching accompanies most gastric ailments.

Diarrhœa: green mucus, like chopped spinach in flakes; turning green after remaining on diaper; after drinking; after eating candy or sugar; masses of muco-lymph in shreddy strips or lumps (Asar.); with much noisy flatus (Aloe).

Diarrhœa as soon as he drinks (Ars., Crot. t., Throm.).

Urine passes

Type

Continued, remittent, typhus, yellow fever, especially the second stage.

Chill

Without thirst. Chilliness with nausea; constant, up the back and over the shoulders; < after meals (Nux); coming into the room from the open air; with cold extremities. General chill followed in a short time by general heat; chill returns on uncovering, even during heat; no thirst.

Evening chill followed by sweat.

Temperature, subnormal.

Chill from being uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.

Heat

Without thirst, with aversion to uncover (Arn., Nux).

Always kept covered because easily chilled.

General heat following general chill with perceptible pulsations in the left temporal artery.

Sweat

Sweat and chilliness, as soon as he gets warm in bed.

Profuse sweat, it stands out on the face in beads.

Night sweats.

Had to leave a window open day and night, for when it was shut patient became restless.

Septic fever following scarlatina.

Pulse

Dicrotic; finally feeble, small, could not be counted.