Cuprum Metallicum cupr.

NERVES: Cerebro-spinal axis. Digestive tract. Epigastrium. Abdomen. Muscles. Blood.

Emotions: Anger. Suppressions. Overtax. Motion. Hot weather. Vomiting. Loss of sleep. Touch. Raising arm.

Cold drinks. Pressure over heart.

Sub-oxidation, affecting the centers of the medulla. Violent effects; in recurring symptom groups. CRAMPS AND SPASMS; of all kinds; radiating from or of single parts; extort cries; tonic, knotting the muscles; twisting the head awry; with trismus or hiccough; then deathly exhaustion, chills, spasmodic laughter, etc.; in chest; behind sternum; of fingers; calves > stretching leg out, or soles, etc.; nocturnal; < at menses; epileptic. Jerkings; during sleep. Pains; pressive, < touch; as from blows, being broken, etc.; in racking darts, through whole body. Continued weakness. Poor reaction. Easy relapses. Latency. Blueness.

Hypersensitive: every drug overacts, without curing. Uneasy. Nervous. Sense of losing consciousness. Impulsive. Piercing shrieks. Delirium; loquacious; then cold sweat. Confusion. Melancholy; with spells of fear of death. Sullen; tricky; alternately yielding and headstrong. Vertigo; with internal tremor, > stool. Can't hold head erect or bores it into pillow. Crawling on vertex. Pulls her hair. Meningitis. Eyeballs oscillate behind closed lids. Face livid, pale or distorted. Closed mouth. Grinds teeth. Metallic taste. Puts tongue out like a snake. Loss of speech. Noisy swallowing. Nausea. Vomiting; violent; tormenting; > drinking; with agonizing colic, diarrhœa and shrieks or convulsions. Painful transfixion cramp. Hard pressure in epigastrium. Lies on stomach and jerks buttocks up. Tense abdomen. Frightful colic, > pressure, < raising arms. Spurting stools; of green water. Cholera. Suppressed urine. Cramps prevent coition. After-pains. Spasm of glottis. Dyspnœa; can't bear anything near mouth; < coughing or laughing. Asthma. Cough; in violent paroxysms; coughs herself out of breath; > cold drinks (Caus.), < deep breathing or bending back; with cramps, spasms (Zin.) or lachrymation. Whooping cough. Chest; loud rattle in; painful, constriction of (lower). Jerking hands and feet. Clenches thumbs into palms. Heavy ankles. Repressed or undeveloped eruptions, discharges, etc. (Zin.). Yellow, scaly eruptions. Slow pulse. Icy cold; afebrile. Chilly. Cold, clammy sweat; at night. Collapse.

Complementary: Calc-c. Related: Ver-a.

Spasms and cramps : symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups. Mental and physical exhaustion from over-exertion of mind and loss of sleep (Coc., Nux); attacks of unconquerable anxiety. A strong, sweetish, metallic, copper taste in the mouth with flow of saliva (Rhus). Constant prostration and retraction of the tongue, like a snake (Lach.). When drinking, the fluid descends with a gurgling sound (Ars., Thuja). Cholera morbus or Asiatic cholera, with cramps in abdomen and calves of legs. Bad effects of re-percussed eruptions (of non-developed, Zinc.), resulting in brain affections, spasms, convulsions, vomiting; of suppressed foot-sweat (Sil., Zinc.). Convulsions, with blue face and clenched thumbs. Cramps in the extremeties; pains, soles, calves with great weariness of limbs. Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes, and spreading over entire body; during pregnancy; puerperal convulsions; after fright or vexation; from metastasis from other organs to brain (Zinc.). Paralysis of tongue; imperfect stammering speech. Epilepsy: aura begins in knees and ascends; < at night during sleep (Bufo); about new moon, at regular intervals (menses); from a fall or blow upon the head; from getting wet. Cough has a gurgling sound, as if water was being poured from a bottle. Cough, > by drinking cold water (Caust. - < by drinking cold water, Spong.). Whooping cough: long-lasting, suffocating, spasmodic cough; unable to speak; breathless, blue face, rigid, stiff; three attacks successively (Stan.); vomiting of solid food after regaining consciousness (Can.); cataleptic spasm with each paroxysm. After pains; sever, distressing, in calves and soles.

Complementary: Calcarea. Compare: Ars. and Ver. in cholera and cholera morbus; Ipecac, the vegetable analogue. Ver. follows well in whooping cough and cholera. Apis and Zinc. in convulsions from suppressed exanthems.

Cold air; cold wind; at night; suppressed foot sweat or exanthema.

Nausea, vomiting and cough, by a swallow of cold water.

Cupr. acet. and Cupr. met. are generally conceded to have the same set of symptoms. One of the strongest indications for the use of this remedy is a strong metallic taste in the mouth. Rhus is the only other remedy that has this symptom in a marked form.

Spasmodic affections generally; whooping cough where the attacks run into catalepsy; movements of the head; epilepsy; spasms, particularly which begin in the fingers and toes, then spreading all over the body; spasms clonic.

Female: Menstruation too late; protracted complaints before.

Respiration oppressed; quick; with mucous rattle; unequal; complaints attending.

Changed in general; imperceptible; small; soft.

Outward appearance of the face bluish; bluish-red. Vomiting in general, which is very severe. Affections of soles of the feet; attacks of sick feeling; blackness of outer parts; cyanosis or morbus cæruleus; motions convulsive; bloated skin.

Before menstruation; from vomiting.

From being mesmerized; during perspiration.

Where eruptions strike in, as in scarlet fever, etc., complaints may result such as excessive vomiting, great stupor, convulsions, etc., Cuprum takes high rank to cause the rash to re-appear, etc.

Convulsions during pregnancy, and puerperal convulsions which begin in the fingers or toes and spread all over the body; or where there is great restlessness between the attacks, either filling up the entire interval or only a part of the time.

Bellad., Hyosc., Pulsat., Stramon., Veratr.

Camphor., Hepar.

Audible gurgling of the drink passing from the esophagus. Epileptiform convulsions; trembling, tottering, and falling unconscious without a scream; frothing from the mouth; followed by a headache. Brain affections, convulsions, etc., from suppressed eruptions, or during dentition.

Copper

Spasmodic affections, cramps, convulsions, beginning in fingers and toes, violent, contractive, and intermittent pain, are some of the more marked expressions of the action of Cuprum; and its curative range therefore includes tonic and clonic spasms, convulsions, and epileptic attacks. Chorea brought on by fright. Nausea greater than in any other remedy. In epilepsy, aura begins at knees, ascends to hypogastrium; then unconsciousness, foaming, and falling. Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups. Complaints begin in left side (Laches). Tape worm (colloidal Cuprum 3x).

Where eruptions trike in, as in scarlet fever, complaints may result, such as excessive vomiting, stupor, convulsions, which come within the sphere of this remedy. The pains are increased by movement and touch.

Fixed ideas, malicious and morose. Uses words not intended. Fearful. Empty feeling. Purple, red swelling of head, with convulsions. Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them. Meningitis. Sensation as if water were poured over head. Giddiness accompanies many ailments, head falls forward on chest.

Aching over eyes. Fixed, stary, sunken, glistening, turned upward. Crossed. Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed eyes.

Distorted, pale bluish, with blue lips. Contraction of jaws, with foam at mouth.

Sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose (Melilot).

Strong metallic, slimy taste, with flow of saliva. Constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue, like a snake (Lach). Paralysis of tongue. Stammering speech.

Hiccough preceding the spasms. Nausea. Vomiting, relieved by drinking cold water; with colic, diarrhœa, spasms. Strong metallic taste (Rhus). When drinking, the fluid descends with gurgling sound (Laur). Craves cool drink.

Tense, hot and tender to touch; contracted. Neuralgia of abdominal viscera. Colic, violent and intermittent. Intussusception.

Black, painful, bloody, with tenesmus and weakness. Cholera; with cramps in abdomen and calves.

Menses too late, protracted. Cramps, extending into chest, before, during, or after suppression of menses. Also, from suppressed foot sweats (Sil). Ebullition of blood; palpitation. Chlorosis. After-pains.

Angina pectoris. Slow pulse; or hard, full and quick. Palpitation, præcordial anxiety and pain. Fatty degeneration (Phytol).

Cough as a gurgling sound, better by drinking cold water. Suffocative attacks, worse 3 am (Am c). Spasm and constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, alternating with spasmodic vomiting. Whooping-cough, better, swallow water, with vomiting and spasms and purple face. Spasm of the glottis. Dyspnœa with epigastric uneasiness. Spasmodic dyspnœa before menstruation. Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps (Clarke).

Jerking, twitching of muscles. Coldness of hands. Cramps in palms. Great weariness of limbs. Cramps in calves and soles. Epilepsy; auro begins in knees. Clenched thumbs. Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes.

Bluish, marbled. Ulcers, itching spots, and pimples at the folds of joints. Chronic psoriasis and lepra (Hughes).

Profound, with shocks in body. During sleep constant rumbling in abdomen.

Worse, before menses; from vomiting, contact. Better, during perspiration, drinking cold water.

Antidotes: Bell; Hepar; Camph. Copper is found in Dulcam, Staphisag, Conium and some other plants. Also in King-crab (Limulus).

Complementary: Calc.

Compare: Cupr sulph (burning at vertex; incessant, spasmodic cough; worse at night; tongue and lips bluish; locally, Cupr sulph in 1-3 per cent sol in inoperable sarcoma). Cupr cyan (meningitis basilaris); Cholas terrapina (cramps in calves and feet; rheumatism, with cramp-like pains); Plumb; Nux; Veratr. Cuprum oxydatum nigrum 1x (all kinds of worms, including tapeworms and trichinosis according to Zopfy's 60 years' experience).

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

SPASM is the one word characterizing this remedy. Cramps or convulsions, in meningitis, cholera, cholera morbus, whooping cough, scarlatina, etc.

Spasms begin in fingers and toes and spreading from there become general.

Mental or bodily exhaustion from over-exertion of mind or loss of sleep.

Affections arising from suppressed skin troubles, especially from acute exanthemata.

The grand central characteristic symptom is expressed in one word -spasms. If in brain affections, congestions, meningitis or apoplexy Cuprum is to do any good, spasm will be present in some degree, at least, from a simple twitching of the fingers and toes to general convulsions. If in cardialgia, there is violent spasmodic griping and pressure, followed by vomiting. In cholera, cholera morbus, or cholera infantum the cramping pains are sometimes terrible. Dunham said: "In Camphor collapse is most prominent; in Veratrum album, the evacuation and vomiting; in Cuprum, the cramps." In whooping cough "children get stiff, breathing ceases, spasmodic twitchings; after a while consciousness returns, they vomit and recover but slowly;" or the child coughs itself into a complete "cataleptic spasm with each paroxysm of cough." In all kinds of repercussed exanthematic spasms, Cuprum is the first remedy to be thought of (see comparison with Zincum).

These spasms may also be found in dysmenorrhœa, in child bed, or in after pains. Then, aside from any and all kinds of local affections, Cuprum may be found indicated in epilepsia, chorea, and other purely nervous spasmodic affections of a general nature. There is one thing peculiar in the spasms of Cuprum that I have often observed, and it is a strong indication for the remedy, viz.: The spasm begins by twitching in the fingers and toes, and, spreading from there, becomes general.

There is another symptom which Farrington thought very valuable, viz.: "Mental and bodily exhaustion from overexertion of mind, or loss of sleep." This is similar to Cocculus and. Nux vomica. The other symptoms must decide between them. I have always used the metal instead of the acetate, because I used the potencies, and it acted promptly.

Craziness ; attacks with savage malice, with proud bearing, and at times interrupted by clonic spasms. Great anguish, like fear of death ; restlessness, groaning, and desire to escape. Attacks of rage (wants to bite the bystanders). Convulsive laughter. Incoherent, delirious talk.

Vertigo while looking upwards, when reading ; the head inclines to bend forward ; worse during motion, better when lying down. Painful hollow sensation in the head. Tingling in the vertex. Convulsions of the head ; the head is moved from one side to the other ; is drawn to one side or falls forward ; aggravated or renewed by each contact (hydrocephalus). Headache after an epileptic attack. The head is twisted to one side ; falls forward. Purplish-red swelling of the head ; face purple-red and blue lips ; convulsion and twitches in the limbs ; worse when touched, which causes the swelling to pain.

Eyes fixed (staring), sunken. Protruded, glistening eyes. Eyes are turned upward. Greater immobility of the pupils. Violent itching in the eyes (evening). Dim eyes ; they feel so weak that they close.

Boring pain in and behind the ear. Itching in the ear.

Distorted muscles of the face ; sad, dejected expression. Paleness of the face ; changed features, full of anguish. Bluish face with bluish lips.

Spasmodic contraction of the jaws. Difficult dentition in children, with convulsions. Inability to talk, on account of spasms in the throat. Foam at the mouth. Hoarse crying, like a child. Coldness of the tip of the tongue. Burning in the throat ; dryness of the throat, with thirst. Singultus and spasm of the œsophagus. When drinking, the beverage descends in the gullet with a gurgling noise. Excessive thirst, with great dryness of the throat. Sweet taste in the mouth. Desire for warm food ; cats hastily.

Singultus preceding the spasms. Nausea, ascending from the stomach into the throat. Vomiting of water containing flakes, offensive smelling ; of bile, of blood. Excessive vomiting accompanied by colic, diarrhœa, spasms. Vomiting is prevented by drinking cold water. Pressure in the pit of the stomach ; worse from pressure. Gnawing and corroding sensation in the stomach. Violent colic, with great anxiety. Pressure in the abdomen, as from a stone ; worse from contact. Violent spasms in the abdomen, with convulsions. Ulcers ; (corroding, stinging) in the intestines.

Suppressed stool, with general heat. Violent watery diarrhœa (with flakes ; bloody diarrhœa).

Suppressed secretion of urine (and stool). Urine dark-red, turbid, with yellowish sediment ; viscous, offensive. Frequent nocturnal urination.

Suffocative arrest of breathing. Asthma increases (at 3 A.M.) when bending the body backwards, when coughing, when laughing. Painful contraction of the chest, especially after drinking. Hurried breathing, with rattling in the bronchial tubes. Spasmodic constriction of the chest, obstructing breathing and preventing speech (after fright and anger). Hooping-cough in long continuing attacks, causing suffocative fits ; one swallow of cold water relieves. Violent palpitation of the heart (before the menses).

Upper. Jerking in the arms and hands. The arms and hands are bluish marbled. Twitches of the muscles of the forearms and hands (morning). The fingers twitch. Herpes in the bends of the elbows, forming yellow scales, itching, especially in the evening. Inflammation of lymphatic vessels from the hand to the shoulder, with violent swelling of the hand. Coldness of the hands. Weakness and lameness of the hand. Lower. In the knee-joint weakness, pain, as if broken. Twitching of the muscles in the lower extremities. Painful cramp in the calves. Twitching of the toes. Burning of the soles of the feet. Suppressed perspiration of the feet.

Deep sleep, with jerking in the limbs. Lethargic sleep. During sleep constant grumbling in the abdomen.

Convulsions, with piercing cries. Clonic spasms. Epileptic attacks (at night), followed by headache.

Pulse small, weak and slow. Chilliness over the whole body, mostly in the extremities. Chilliness after every attack of indisposition (epileptic attacks). Debilitating, hectic, internal heat. Flushes of heat. Cold perspiration at night. Many attacks (epileptic attacks, attacks of mania) end with (cold) perspiration.

Herpes, with yellow scales. Dry itch. Old ulcers ; caries.

Contact renews and aggravates many complaints. Aggravation from vomiting. Amelioration after drinking (a swallow of water relieves the cough).

Copper. Cu. (A. W. 63). Trituration.

After-pains. Angina pectoris. Asthma . Asthma millari. Cardialgia. Catarrh. Chlorosis. Cholera. Chorea. Convulsions . Cough. Cramps. Croup . Cyanosis. Dentition. Dyspnœa. Emissions . Epilepsy. Eruptions. Erysipelas. Fainting. Gastric disturbance. Gout . Hæmatemesis. Herpes. Hysteria. Inflammations. Larynx, spasm of. Mania. Measles. Meningitis. Neuralgia. Palpitation. Paralysis . Pneumonia. Psoriasis. Ringworm. Sleeplessness. Spasms. Spinal irritation. Ulcers. Whooping-cough. Yellow fever.

Metallic copper is an antipsoric remedy, working from within outwards. It ranks with the most important of those which relieve states arising from the "striking inward" of diseases or the failure of eruptions or discharges to appear. It is this power to relieve internal spasm which renders it appropriate to the collapse stage of cholera, of which it is also, like Sulphur , a prophylactic either when worn next the skin, or when taken internally. Cuprum produces many skin eruptions, and also foot-sweat, and it corresponds to these, and also to the effects of suppression of eruptions, exanthems, and foot-sweat; whether these effects be internal pains or spasms or oppression of the brain and mental disturbance. Mackechnie made a brilliant cure of psoriasis in a young girl with Cuprum . The leading features of its symptomatology are: Cramps, convulsions, spasms of the most violent form, coming on from disappearance of pains, discharges, eruptions, mental derangement. With suppression of menses, patient screams. Tonic spasms of thumbs. Eyeballs turn up. Opisthotonos. Tonic and clonic spasms. "Convulsions during pregnancy and puerperal convulsions which begin in the fingers or toes, and spread all over the body; or where there is great restlessness between the attacks, either filling up the entire interval, or only a part of the time." Thus Guernsey. He also says that "a slimy metallic taste in the mouth" is one of the strongest indications for Cupr . Rhus is the only other remedy which has this symptom so marked. "Cramps or spasms beginning in hands and feet, extending to belly," is confirmed by J. C. McLaren. Mossa regards Cupr . as one of the remedies for the effects of fright, and relates the case of a girl who, after a fright, was affected by involuntary motions of left arm and leg developing into pronounced general chorea. Cupr . brought about slow but decided recovery. Another girl, 12, who had recovered from whooping-cough got a kind of chorea from repeated frights on seeing an epileptic. To the muscular movements was added silly behaviour: tongue heavy, speech slow, gait unwieldy. Frightened at night. Greediness in eating and drinking. Ign., Stram., Sul ., did little good. She became ill-natured. Cupr . every four days cured completely in three months. Mackechnie reports the case of a boy who became epileptic after being locked up in school. Very great improvement followed the administration of Cupr . Schwencke cured a case of epilepsy of forty years' standing with Cupr . 6 after Bell . and Hyo . had done some little good. The patient was a man aged 45. The fits began suddenly towards morning with chewing motion of lower jaw; gnashing of teeth; becomes upright and rigid in bed; shrieks; limbs convulsed. After giving way to violent anger, attacks become more severe; arms and legs were thrown outwards and trunk arched upwards. Cupr . was now given. For a time the attacks continued severe, but gradually improvement set in, and in less than three months they ceased altogether. The "anger" in this case and the "ill-humour" in Mossa's are noteworthy. Maliciousness is an indication for Cupr . In a second case cured by Schwencke, that of a man, 38, epileptic seven years, a pressive headache preceded the attacks, ascending from nape to forehead; then there was profuse salivation, head turned to left, eyes closed, tongue in active motion in open mouth, trunk arched upward, slight spasms of right arm outward. After attack, dulness of head, and feeling in body as if beaten. Cupr . first removed the fits and then the dulness of the head. Cupr . has pains like knife-thrusts, < on least motion; take away the breath, thinks he must die if they last. Speaks in a whisper. The thrusts go through to back from ensiform cartilage, from umbilicus. Restless tossing all night. Perfect stupor, with jerking of muscles. Paralysis of isolated muscles. Many unusual symptoms are produced, including maliciousness and desire to injure. Screaming, with cerebral or mental symptoms. Loquacious. Violent head pains < over left eye. Brain seems paralysed. Chlorosis from abuse of iron. Vomiting, hiccoughs, and spasms > by drink of cold water. Over-sensitiveness of skin, especially in region of stomach and fourth and fifth dorsal vertebræ. Touch and pressure < . < Before menses; from vomiting. Symptoms are < evening and night. Cold air and cold wind < ; cold drinks > (colic, cough &c.). Wrapping head > headache. < At new moon. Periodicity every 15, 30, or 60 minutes; every fortnight. Getting wet = epileptic attacks. > From being mesmerised; during perspiration. Suited to fair-haired people; and the carbo-nitrogenoid constitution. Women who have borne many children (after-pains).

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Marked lessening of memory. θ Scarlatina.
Weakness of memory, as well as cerebral functions in general ; in speaking he frequently has to think for the right word.
Delirium, even paralysis of brain, with symptoms of collapse.
Incoherent delirious talk.
Delirium : afraid of every one who approached him, shrinking away from them ; tries to escape ; in evening and in the dark.
Craziness ; attacks with savage malice, with proud bearing, at times interrupted by clonic spasms.
Attacks of rage, wants to bite the bystanders.
Mania characterized by a wild look and fear ; tries to escape.
Attacked suddenly with convulsions, with biting ; after attack, malicious disposition towards nurse, biting, and striking and doing everything to annoy her, passed her excrements on floor.
Mania with biting, beating, and tearing things to pieces ; insane foolish gestures of imitation and mimicry ; full of insane spiteful tricks, illusions of imagination, does not recognize his own family ; unhappy, apprehensive, anxious, and despairing ; precordial
anguish, pale, miserable look, general chilliness, not > by heat ; attacks en in sweat.
Bellows like a calf during delirium ; periodical uttering of shrill screams.
Whining, tremulous voice and manner.
Convulsive laughter.
Laughing ; grimaces ; exaltation and ecstasies ; melancholy and dread of society. θ Periodical chorea.
Violent weeping, anxiety, ludicrous gesticulations, and desire to hide one's self. θ Chorea.
Shuns everyone ; cannot be induced to go among people in evening ; very restless at night. θ Asthma.
Alternation of gaiety and depression, before attack. θ Whooping cough.
Unconquerable sadness, constant restlessness, as if some misfortune were approaching ; fears he will lose his reason.
Sadness while walking in open air, must stand still or sit down.
The child is afraid of strangers, while teething.
Afraid of and shrinking away from everyone who approaches him ; afraid of falling ; clinging tightly to nurse ; won't stay in bed, but in lap ; conscious, knows people ; tongue darting forth and back with great rapidity, like a snake's. θ Catarrhal
or exanthematic fevers ; scarlet fever without eruption ; during dentition.
Unusual quickness and briskness in erroneous ideas, one following the other quickly, all of an anxious character ; a staring look fixed on objects ; pulse quick, unequal ; profuse weakening sweat ; timid, bashful woman, eighth day
after confinement.
Paroxysms of anxiety ; full of fears.
Attacks preceded by great anxiety. θ Whooping cough.
Attacks of deathly anxiety without heat.
Loss of spirits ; anxiety ; fits of anguish and fear of death.
Restless tossing about and constant restlessness.
Irritable and changeable, at times gentle and sensitive, at others very contrary. θ Chorea.
Changeable mood ; children cross and irritable, or indifferent and dull, in brain affections.
Mental and bodily exhaustion, from overexertion of mind or loss of sleep ; pulse feeble, somewhat frequent, unequal ; skin moist, feet generally cold ; attacks of unconquerable anxiety ; head giddy and internally painful, feels as if he
would lose his senses ; sleep full of dreams, restless, unrefreshing.
Restless tossing about.

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Cuprum is pre-eminently a convulsive medicine. The convulsive tendency associates itself with almost every complaint that, Cuprum creates and cures.

It has convulsions in every degree of violence, from the mere twitching of little muscles and of single muscles to convulsions of all the muscles of the body. When these are coming on the earliest threatenings are drawings in the fingers, clenching of the thumbs or twitching of the muscles. It has twitching, quivering, trembling, and it has also tonic contractions, so that the hands are closed violently.

In this condition the thumbs are first affected; they are drawn into the palms and then the fingers close down over them with great violence. In the fingers and toes and in the extremities the spasmodic condition increases and extends until the limbs are in a state of great exhaustion. Tonic contractions, the limbs being drawn up with great violence and it seems as if the frame would be torn to pieces by the violent contractions of the muscles everywhere.

Often the contractions assume a clonic form, with jerking and twitching Cuprum has many mental symptoms. It has a great variety in its delirium, incoherent prattling, talking of all sorts of subjects incoherently. It has produced a variety of mental symptoms; delirium, incoherency of speech, loss of memory.

During its different complaints, such as cholera, some forms of fever, the puerperal state, dysmenorrhoea, congestion of the brain, etc., there is delirium, unconsciousness and jerking and twitching of the muscles.

The eyes roll in various directions, but commonly upwards and outwards or upwards and inwards. There is bleeding from the nose and the vision is disturbed. Between the convulsive attacks there is incoherent talk, delirium, during which the patient is spiteful, violent, weeping or shrieking. They go into convulsions with a shriek. In one place it is spoken of as bellowing like a calf.

This drug has the ability to produce a group of spasms followed by the appearance as if the patient were dead, or in a state of ecstacy. Convulsive conditions sometimes terminate in a state of stasis during which the mind ceases to act and the muscles remain quiet or only quiver.

This is often one of the leading features in whooping-cough when Cuprum is indicated. To bring it down to the language of the mother, the description which she gives of the little one, which will probably make you remember it better than if I use the text, she says that when the child is seized with a spell of this violent whooping cough, the face, becomes livid or blue, the finger nails become discolored, the eyes are turned up, the child coughs until it loses its breath, and then lies in a state of insensibility for a long time until she fears the child will never breathe again, but with violent spasmodic action in its breathing, the child from shortest breaths comes to itself again just as if brought back to life.

You have here all the violent features of a convulsive whooping-cough. In addition to what the mother says you may also observe a few things, but the whole make up of such a case, its whole nature, shows that it is a Cuprum whooping cough.

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Saying words not intended, forerunner of apoplexy.
Full of erroneous, anxious ideas, one following the other quickly; thickly; thinks he is a great military commander.
Weeps often.
Mania: with biting and beating; tearing things to pieces; with anxiety.
Delirium: afraid of every one who approaches him, shrinking from them; tries to escape.
Unconquerable sadness, constant-restlessness, as if some misfortune were approaching; fears he will lose his reason.
Paroxysms of anxiety; full of fears.
Changeable mood; children cross and irritable, or indifferent and dull, in brain affections.
Senses less acute. θ Cholera.
Acuteness of senses; oversensitive. θ Whooping-cough.
Restless tossing about.
Mental and bodily exhaustion, from over-exertion of mind or loss of sleep.

Vertigo: with weariness, the head has a tendency to sink forward; worse from motion, better lying down.

Pain in the head, as if follow.
Strange tingling pain in the vertex; menses omitting.
Violent continuous headache, increased periodically.
Violent dull headache over the glabella.
Stitches in the temples, with redness of the eyes.
Congestion to brain, with convulsive motions of extremities.
Affections of the brain, in children with catarrhal fever, difficult dentition, or exanthematic diseases.
Exacerbation in brain affections, evenings.
Headache after epileptic attacks.

Tossing about of the head.
Children cannot hold the head up. θ Brain affections.

Sight obscured.
Eyes: dim; lustreless; sunken, with blue rings around.
Great itching in the eyes toward evening.
Pressing pain in the eyes.
Bruised pain in the orbits when moving the eyes.
Eyes red, inflamed.
Eyeballs red, move like a pendulum from side to side.
Quick rotation of the balls, with lids closed.

Difficult hearing.
Boring in and behind ears, pressing pain in front of ears.
Swelling of the meatus externus.

Sensation of great congestion of blood to the nose.
Nosebleed: on right side only.
Copious fluent coryza.
Stoppage of the nose.

Expression: said, depressed; of suffering; prostration.
Face: very red, eyelids closed and balls constantly rotating; blue; pale; greyish; dirty; sunken features, pinched; icy-cold.

Mouth firmly closed.
Lips blue.
Froth from the mouth.

Rending pain from teeth to temples.
Gums ulcerated.

Taste: sweet or sweetish; metallic; coppery.
Tongue: red; dry and rough, papillæ enlarged; coated white, yellowish or brown.
Chronic glossitis.

Frothy saliva, with cough.
Dry mouth. θ In brain affections.
Induration of the salivary gland; with or without fistula.

Palate red, fauces inflamed.
Tonsils inflamed.
Dull, piercing pain in left tonsil, increased by external touch.
Gurgling noise of the drink passing down the œsophagus.

Loss of appetite, great thirst for cooling drink.

A swallow of cold water relieves the cough, or vomiting.
Milk brings on water-brash.

Hiccough: precedes vomiting; begins attack of asthma.
Constant eructations.
Nausea and vomiting after taking cold.
Nausea, vomiting and cramps during catamenia.
Frequent nausea and fearful vomiting, catamenia omitting.
Nausea, vomiting and torpid stool, with brain affections.
Vomiting: in gushes of whey-like fluid; frothy mucus; bilious; bloody.

Deathly feeling, with pain behind ensiform cartilage.
Pressure in pit of stomach.
Pressure at the stomach, with nausea.
Eructations, rumbling in stomach.
Sensation as of a round ball going to and fro under ribs, with different sounds worse from fluid food; better from tight clothing or bandage around abdomen, and when lying quiet.
Burning in epigastric region, which is sore to touch.
Sensation as though something bitter were in the stomach.
Sensation as though the clothing were lying too hard on pit of stomach.

Drawing pain from left hypochondrium to him.

Cramps in the abdomen.
Violent colicky, cutting, drawing pains in abdomen; abdomen drawn in; colic not increased by pressure.
Violent spasms in abdomen and upper and lower limbs, with penetrating, distressing screams.
Intussusception of the bowels, with singultus, violent colic stercoraceous (fecal) vomiting and great agony.
Big belly, of children.
Inguinal gland swollen.
Spasmodic movements of the abdominal muscles.

Constipation, alternating with diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa: profuse, squirting out; much wind passing.
Stools: gray, with flocculent matter in cholera, also masses of whey-like fluid.
Summer complaints of children, with brain affections.
Thread-worms.
Rounds worms.

Must urinate during the night.
Scantiness or entire suppression of urine.
Urine: acid; straw-colored, after standing turbid, and a reddish, thin sediment adheres to the vessels.

Gonorrhœa, with a changeable discharge, now more, again less; orifice or urethra sticking together.

Menses not appearing after the suppression of foot-sweat.
Before menses spasmodic dyspnœa.
Before or during menses, or after suppression, violent, unbearable cramps in abdomen, extending up into chest; causing nausea, vomiting, and sometimes convulsion of limbs and piercing shrieks.
Vaginismus.

Spasms during parturition, with violent vomiting; or with every paroxysm, opisthotonos, spreading out the limbs and opening the mouth.
Clonic spasms during pregnancy, when attack commences in one part, as in fingers, or a limb, and gradually spreads.
Most distressing after-pains, particularly of women who have borne many children.
Cramping after-pains, which often produce cramp in the extremities.
After confinement rash and convulsions.
Swelling and induration of the mammæ.

Hoarseness as soon as he breathes dry cold air.
Talking is difficult, voice powerless.
Contraction of the larynx with the cough.

Breathing: whistling; quick, rattling; short, panting; seems to be interrupted, in the throat.
Dyspnœa; short, superficial, quick respirations, aggravated by coughing, laughing, bending upper part of body backwards, walking quickly, or inhaling acrid vapors.
Violent asthmatic attacks came on suddenly, lasting from one to three hours, and cease suddenly.
Beginning paralysis of the lungs; indicated by sudden difficulty of breathing, followed by great prostration.

Cough: dry; dry, suffocative, worse nights; evening dry, morning slight expectoration of phlegm, with dark blood of putrid taste and smell; uninterrupted, cannot speak a word, discharge of bloody mucus from the nose; after sea wind; worse inhaling cold air; taking deep breath; laughing; after eating solid food; when bending backwards; better by drinking cold water; with whooping, children get stiff, breathing ceases, spasmodic twitchings, after a while consciousness returns, they vomit and recover, but slowly.

Shooting pains in sides of chest, must cry out.

Anxious feeling about the heart.
Stitches below the heart.
Boring pain in region of heart.
Palpitation of the heart.
Fatty degeneration, slow pulse, feeble cardiac action; even angina.
Pulse: very changeable; thready, tense; small, hard and moderately frequent.

Glands of the neck indurated.
Paralysis of all muscles of back up to neck; also of limbs; lower limbs œdematous, but retain their sensibility.

Anchylosis of the shoulder-joint.
Numbness and lameness of arms.
Twitching in the hands and fingers.
Stitching, rending or drawing pains.
Stiffened and inflamed hands and fingers.
In the bend of the elbow, better, with yellow scabs; itching violently, particularly in the evening.
Little vesicles on tips of fingers, oozing watery fluid.

Paralysis of lower limbs from psoas abscess.
Twitching in the lower limbs; drawing them backwards.
Lameness of lower limbs, with contraction of the muscles.
Great weakness of the legs, the knees give away.
Spasms and cramps in the calves.
Drawing and digging pain in the calf.
Burning in the soles.
Suppressed foot-sweat.
Icy-coldness of the feet.

Cramps in the limbs.
Weariness of the limbs.
Contraction of the joints.
Limbs cyanotic.

Tossing about: 1, 4; Head tends to sink forward: 2. Motion: 2. Moving eyes: 5. Walking: 26. Lying: 2. Lying quiet: 17. Cannot hold head up: 4. Bending body backward: 26, 27. Body bent forward: 36.

Weariness of long duration.
Great weakness of the muscles.
Great prostration with nervous excitability, constant restlessness driving our of bed.
Nervous trembling with very great acuteness and sensitiveness of the senses.
Twitching, jerkings or startings during sleep.
Stiffness of the whole body; body bent forward.
Contraction of muscles and tendons.
Clonic spasms; accompanying brain affections; beginning in the fingers or toes.
Epileptic convulsions: trembling, tottering and falling unconscious, without a scream; preceded by drawing in left arm; aura epileptica; with froth at the mouth, opisthotonos, limbs abducted; followed by headache; during sleep at night; each new moon; after spasms, turns and twists until another comes.
Eclampsia of children, during dentition.
Child lies on belly and spasmodically thrusts breech up.

Sleep heavy, even to comatose state.
Sleepy, without being able to sleep.
Sleep full of dreams.

Morning: 27. Evening: 3, 5, 27, 32. Night: 21, 27, 36, 40.

Dry cold air: 25, 27.

Feverish sensation, as if a cold wind were blowing out from the skin.
Chill over the whole body, severe on the extremities.
Chill after every attack of indisposition.
Icy coldness of the whole body.
Skin: moist and cool, particularly extremities; dry, burning hot; warm, dry and withered.
Burning in the soles.
Flushes of heat.
Debilitating, exhausting internal heat.
Cold sweat at night.
Many attacks end in sweat.
Foot-sweat, also suppressed foot-sweat.

Periodically: 3. Coming suddenly, ceasing suddenly: 26. New moon: 36.

Right: 7. Left: 13, 19, 29, 35. Below upward: 10, 23, 31. Above downward: 13, 18.

Pain in the bones, as if they would break.
Promotes suppuration in swellings.
Inflammation of the cellular tissues.
Caries.

Touch: 13, 17. Pressure: 19.
Tight clothing or bandage: 17.

Skin: inelastic; dough-like.
Unbearable itching, without eruption.
Measle-eruption develops, and day cough ameliorated.
Repercussion of eruption, with convulsions, vomiting or gagging; pale face and twitching of limbs.
Tetters: spreading, oozing; in the bend of the elbow.
Old ulcers.

Antidotes to Cuprum: sugar or white of egg against massive doses.
Hepar s. c., or potash soap, after poisoning from food containing copper.
If Cuprum aggravates, smelling of alcoholic solution of Camphor relieves.
Dynamic antidotes: Bellad., Cinchon., Conium, Dulcam., Hepar, Ipec., Mercur., Nux vom.
Veratr. follows well after Cuprum in whooping-cough.
Cuprum is complementary to Calc. ostr. in the same forms of disease.
Cuprum ars. excellent in severe burning, cramping pains within the abdomen (many cases).

Pure precipitated metallic Copper is triturated with sugar of milk. Solutions of the salts of Copper are used.

Plumbum, Arsenic.

Stretched upon the floor without sense, lay constantly with legs drawn up; constant dorsal decubitus; on back, with head bent backward; the child lay upon its stomach with jerking upward of pelvic; lay still and pathetic, looking straight ahead, with dim eyes and stupid expression. ▶ Emaciation. ▶ Violent struggles. ▶ Writhing of whole frame under the pain. ▶ Trembling; agg. hands. ▶ Cramps.

Convulsions; from pressure on stomach; general; with stiffness of limbs and body, jaws clenched; in sleep, twitching of fingers, arms and hands backward and inward towards body, drawing back of feet, at one time opening and distorting eyes, at another closing them and distorting mouth; after pain in last dorsal vertebræ, the pain extending suddenly into left arm, to wrist, arm was spasmodically flexed and extended, then loss of power, these attacks returning the two next day; with constant vomiting and pain in abdomen, gradually passing into paralysis; C., agg. abdomen and limbs, when attacked they croaked like frogs or howled, were crazy, looked frightened, attempted to escape, eyes glistened and seemed to start from their sockets, if one was attacked the others on hearing his cries were likewise attacked. ▶ Epileptic fits; epileptiform convulsions, trembling, staggering, falling down unconscious, without crying; epileptiform attacks, with frothing at mouth, trunk bent outward, limbs forcibly thrust outward and mouth open.

Shooting through body; agg. right side, causing shuddering. ▶ Painful jerks or thrusts in various parts. ▶ Pains all over; in muscles; in bones in morning, with headache and nausea; in bones during remissions of delirium and convulsions, with headache; neuralgic P. in various parts stomach, intestines, hips and lower limbs; rheumatic. ▶ Jaundice, with vomiting, eructations, heaviness in head, difficult hearing, grayish stools, heaviness in head, difficult hearing, grayish stool, thirst, dark, turbid urine with yellowish sediment. ▶ Sensitiveness to changes of weather. ▶ Sensibility of paralyzed parts.

Agitation. ▶ Uneasiness; with tossing about (Ars.); with piercing cries; with anxiety (Ars.); with jerking of limbs. ▶ Weakness (Ars.); after walking, so that limbs trembled; with increase of corpulence. ▶ Faintness; on slightest motion. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Paralysis. ▶ Trunk and limbs stiff, jaws clenched. ▶ Aggravation from lying down. ▶ Amelioration after stool; and micturition; A. of pains and of hardness of abdomen after diarrhœa then nervous symptoms.

Spasmodic contractions of flexor muscles, especially of the fingers, toes and thumbs. ▶ Epilepsy characterized by the most violent spasms, with cold sweat, blue surface, etc. ▶ Chorea brought on by fright. ▶ Chorea of the most violent character, with spasmodic vomiting, cold sweat, etc. ▶ Chorea, with violent hysterical symptoms, laughing or violent weeping. ▶ Chorea during pregnancy. ▶ Uræmic convulsions following cholera. ▶ Convulsions preceding the outbreak of eruption in measles, scarlet fever or in repression of the eruption. ▶ Convulsions from worms. ▶ Neuritis, with lightning-like pains, agg. touch. ▶ Paralysis of flexor muscles. (Plumb., extensors).

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Convulsions, epileptiform.
Clonic contractions of muscles, stiffness and rigidity of limbs and body, clenched jaws, etc.
Generally characterized by cramps of muscles; a collapsed stage, with violent cramps, colic and vomiting.

Clinical:
Epilepsy, characterized by most violent spasms, cold sweat.
Chorea violent, spasmodic, vomiting, cold sweat, etc., caused by fright.
Uræmic convulsions.
General neuritis, with lightning-like pains, aggravated by touch.

Delirium, with disconnected talk.
Anxiety, with tossing about.

Bruised pain in the brain and eyes on turning them.
Intermitting lancinating pains in various parts of the head.

Clinical:
Meningitis from suppressed eruptions, with convulsions, loud screams, etc.
Violent continued headache, with sensation as if water were poured over the head; vomiting of everything taken.

Eyes crossed on account of contraction of muscles.

Pale, bluish, with blue lips.
Pains, burning and stinging, < touch.

Constriction and spasm on attempting to swallow, with intense pain behind the sternum.
Audible gurgling of drink on swallowing.

Most violent ineffectual efforts to vomit, with constriction of the œsophagus and spasms in stomach.
Vomiting; > temporarily by cold water.
Violent cramps and pains in the stomach and bowels.
Terrible intermittent, contractive pains or cutting, extending to the back, < touch and motion.

Distention; tender; very tense.
Terrible cramps in the abdominal muscles and intestines, < touch.

Violent diarrhœa; liquid, involuntary; like cholera, with coldness and cramps.

Urine suppressed.
Painful efforts to evacuate the urine.

Hoarseness.
Cough, with interrupted, almost suppressed respiration.
Violent, spasmodic cough, like whooping cough.
Respiration difficult and suffocative; spasmodic dyspnœa, with constriction, blue face, retching and vomiting.

Clinical:
The spasmodic cough, with purple face and vomiting; sometimes temporarily ameliorated by drinking cold water.

Distress in the region of the heart and behind the sternum (chronic aortitis).

Violent paroxysmal sticking, cutting pains, with sensitiveness of the whole length of the spine.

General cramps and convulsive movements.
Painful contractions of the fingers and toes.
Cramps, especially in the calves.

Generally characterized by coldness, with cramps in the limbs.
Neither fever nor sweat usual, though numerous attacks end in sweat.

CUPRUM. COPPER.

A piece of pure metallic copper is rubbed upon a hard, fine whetstone under distilled water in a porcelain bowl. The fine powder that sinks to the bottom is dried, and then like other metallic powders, it is raised by three hours' trituration with sugar of milk to the millionth potency, then by the attenuation and potentizing succession of the solution of one grain of this powder, it is brought to the decillionth dynamical development. One or two fine pellets, moistened with the medicinal fluid of one of these degrees of potency, according to the circumstances of the invalid, are used as a dose. Physicians have always been deterred from the internal use of this medicine in diseases, owing to the not infrequent accidental cases of poisoning by means of this metal and its solutions, and the consequences, fearful, it not fatal, arising from its use. F. G. VOIGTEL in his Materia Medica adduces the following effects of copper : "Loathing, nausea, anxieties and vomiting, even after a few minutes, disagreeable burning in the mouth, ineffectual retching, violent pains in the stomach after several hours, obstruction to the intestinal evacuations, or excessively violent discharges, then also bloody diarrhœa, constant restlessness ; insomnia, exhaustion, weak and small pulse, cold sweat, paleness of the face, pains in the whole body or in particular parts, pain in the thyroid cartilage, pain in the hypochondria, formicating sensation in the vertex, palpitation of the heart, vertigo, painful constriction of the chest, cough with interrupted, almost suppressed respiration, excessively hurried breathing, spitting of blood, hiccup, unconsciousness, eyes with a wandering look-also at times convulsions, ravings, apoplexy, paralysis and death." Only Homœopathy, owing to her peculiar method of preparing medicines, and the greatly diminished size of her doses, is able to use in healing even those natural substances which have shown themselves as invincibly harmful, even in small quantities. Most of the violent symptoms with those poisoned with copper, are wont to appear in groups, lasting for a half or a whole hour, and they are apt to recur from time to time in renewed attacks with an almost identical composition of the symptoms, e. g. : Palpitation, vertigo, coughing, hemoptysis, painful constriction of the chest, suppressed respiration-or again : pressive pain on the chest, weariness, vacillation of sight, closing of the eyes, unconsciousness, rapid, moaning respiration, tossing about, cold feet, hiccough, tussiculation, checking the respiration, etc. Copper is, therefore, all the more homœopathically indicated in diseases that show themselves in such irregular attacks of similar groups of symptoms, as is the case with copper. The chief sphere of the appropriate application of copper seems, therefore, to lie in various kinds of partial or general clonic spasms, some kinds of St. Vitus' dance (Niemann), epilepsis, (Aretæus, Duncan, Kœchlin), whooping-cough, cutaneous eruptions, old ulcers, and especially also spasmodic affections, accompanied with too sensitive and acute senses ; it has also proved itself indispensable for the prevention of the murderous cholera, or for its cure where it had been already developed. The antidotes, where copper articles have been swallowed, are solutions of (potash-soaps and) hepar sulphuris calcareum, as well as the white of eggs, highly praised from his own experience by Orfila. Dynamic ailments, resulting from the excessive effects of copper-medicine, may be mostly removed by repeated smelling of camphor dissolved in alcohol ; but we also count among its antidotes, Bell., Chin., Cocc., Dulc., Hep., sulph., Ip., Merc., and Nux vomica. The action of the copper-medicine seems to extend over only a few days. - As an antipsoric remedy, copper has among others removed also the following symptoms : Discouragement ; headache after epileptic attacks ; pains in the head, as if it were hollow ; pressive pain in the eyes ; tearing, extending from the teeth into the temples ; water-brash, after drinking milk, nocturnal micturition ; stoppage of the nose ; some kinds of whooping-cough ; burning in the soles of the feet ; sweating of the feet ; suppressed sweat of the feet ; old ulcers ; long continued lassitude ; nervous disorders with too grat subtlety and acuteness of the senses ; some kinds of epilepsy ; jerking in sleep ; chills after epileptic attacks. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow-provers are as follows : Fr., Franz, Fr. H., Frederick Hahnemann ; Hrm., Herrmann ; Rkt., Rückert. [*].

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Cup. / (Cup.) / The Cooper.

Cuprum signs his name in cramp,
Cramp and spasm is his stamp-
Screaming spasms, rigid, blue,
Lockjaw and chorea, too,
Glottis spasm-spasms of
Scarlatina, whooping cough.
Cramp and vomiting combined,
As in cholera we find.
Chills are his that foremost set
On the back-and bloody sweat.
Ailments that in groups prevail,
Time of new moon, suiting well.

The Cooper,-Has Bloody sweat.

The Cooper, Crotal Kip, is eloping with the niece of Hama Tere, the Nun.

This Cooper,- Who is subject to cramps,- Is at Magnet Plat, on coon river, with Col. Dio Viburu.

Bloody Sweat - Purpura Haemorrhagica: Cup. a., Crotal., Kal. p., Lach., Pho., Nux v., Cal. c., Ham., Tereb., Nux m.

Cramps: Cup., Mag. p., Plat., Cal. c., Nux v., Rhus., Verat. a., Col., Dio., Vib. o. (At night in the legs, Vib. o., Col., Rhus, Sep., Sul.)

Indicated in spasmodic affections (chorea), convulsive seizures (puerperal, epilepsy, convulsions of children). Particularly useful when convulsions and other threatening symptoms appear after suppression or too early disappearance of the rash in eruptive fevers. Valuable in whooping cough; in all forms of diarrhoea (cholera) with violent cramps in abdomen and calves of legs; in gastric affections with violent vomiting cramping; in colics so severe that collapse seems imminent. Laryngismus stridulus, spasmodic asthma, cerebro-spinal affections culminating in paralysis. Intermittent fever, with scarcity or suppression of urine and collapse.

Vertigo on looking up, with vanishing of vision as from a veil before the eyes.

Bruised pain in the brain and in eye-balls on turning them.

Delirium with fear of everybody and everything.

Sense of constriction in the throat, chest (cough, dyspnoea), gastro-intestinal tract (colic), uterus (cramps), etc.

Child lies on abdomen and spasmodically thrusts breech up.

Spasms, clonic, spreading from one point; epilepsy; convulsions; preceded by drawing in left arm.

Severe cramps in calves of legs, soles of feet, abdomen, forcing him to utter piercing shrieks.

Cough, spasmodic, long-lasting, suffocating (whooping cough); can hardly speak or breathe; lies stiff and with livid, blue face, unconscious, spasmodic twitching.

Asthma; violent; coming and going suddenly.

When drinking, it sounds as though water were running out of a bottle.

Vomiting; severe; with violent cramps in chest and abdomen, forcing him to utter piercing shrieks.

Diarrhoea with much griping pain; stools green. Ineffectual attempts to vomit or forcible vomiting, better from drinking cold water.

Chilliness, with cold sweat on the forehead; irregular and spasmodically contracted pulse; palpitation.

Skin mottled; bluish; itching; cyanosis; Pimples in folds of joints.

Worse from vomiting; before menses;

Better from cold water (cough, gastric symptoms); while sweating.

Vanishing senses. Exaltation of. Spiteful, malicious insanity with hauteur, intermingled with clonic spasms. Extraordinary anxiety as if afraid of death. Restless tossing about. Groaning. Desire to escape. Fearfulness. Frightened easily. Attacks of raving madness. Oversensibility of all senses. The attacks of frenzy end in sweat.

With almost every complaint. With sinking forward of head (Gels.). With vanishing of all the senses.

Pressive ache worse touch. Crawling sensation in vertex. Meningitis.

Convulsions of, with to and fro motion, drawing in sharply away or sideways, drawing in sharply away or sideways, or sinking forward of, worse or renewed by every touch (in hydrocephalus). Bluish - red swelling of, with convulsive twitching of limbs, worse touch, which also causes pain in the swelling.

Distorted. Staring, sunken. Turned upward. Tightly closed. Insensible pupils.

Pale, sunken. Intensely red. Bluish, and blue lips. Spasms and distortion of facial muscles.

Difficult dentition in children, with convulsions.

Foaming at. Burning in throat. Cold tip of tongue. Hoarse crying, like a child. Drink gurgles audibly down the oesophagus.

Taste: Sweetish, coppery.

Pressure in pit, worse from touch Gnawing and corroding sensation in.

Appetite: Eats hastily. Inclination, for cold foods. unquenchable thirst with a dry throat.

Eructations: Hiccough precedes the spasmodic attacks.

Nausea: From abdomen up into throat. Intense retching. Vomiting: Offensive bilious, or bloody, of water containing floating flocks, with abdominal cramps, and convulsions, of solid food only.

Intense abdominal pains with agony. Pressure as of a stone in, worse touch. Atrocious cramps, also in, worse touch. Atrocious cramps, also in stomach, with convulsions. Eroding sticking ulcers in.

Retained, with general heat. Diarrheas: Violent, watery, mixed with flocks.

Suppressed. Tenacious and very offensive. Frequent nightly urination.

Menses: Continue too long. Suppressed, with abdominal cramps. Spasms of chest before.

Arrested. Whistling. Rattling. Rapid, with whimpering, and snoring in trachea. Difficult, with convulsive working of abdominal muscles.

Incessant, dry, not even allowing an intermission for breathing. Better a swallow of cold water. In long uninterrupted paroxysms, lasting until the breath is completely exhausted, excited by mucus in trachea or spasm in larynx, quite dry in evening, in the morning a scanty expectoration of mucus with dark blood, of a foul taste and smell.

Constriction. - Rattling of mucus in. Painful and spasmodic contraction of. After fright or anger and before menses, spasms of, which deprive him of speech and breath. Anxious palpitation.

Tearing twitching in arms and hand. s Bluish mottled arms and hands. Twitching of muscles of forearms and hands. Twitching fingers.

Weariness in knee joints. Twitching of muscle of lower leg. Painful cramp in calves. Twitches in toes.

Violent convulsions with piercing shrieks. Chronic spasms, (Cramps): Beginning in fingers and toes, preceded by weeping. Nightly twitchings. Epileptic attacks. Weariness and great relaxation of entire body. Great emaciation. Intolerance of the least touch, it renews and intensifies the symptoms. Stiffness and rigidity of whole body. Trembling. Spasmodic cramps. All remedies overact, aggravate without helping.

Pain as though' broken. Caries.

Dry itch. Chronic ulcers.

Somnolency. Deep, with twitchings.

Pulse: usually small, almost imperceptible, weak and very slow, more seldom full, hard and accelerated. Chill: Over entire body, most severe on extremities. Icy coldness of entire body. After every attack of illness (also after epilepsy). Heat: Overrunning, flying. Internal, exhausting, consuming heat. Sweat: Cold, at night. Many attacks (of epilepsy and mania) and with (cold) sweat.

Allied Remedies: Bell., Calc-c., Caust., Chin., Cic., Coccl., Con., Dulc., HEP., Hyos., Ign., Ip., Lyc., Merc., Nux-v., Op., Phos-ac., Phyt. PULS., Sep., Sil., SUL., VERAT-A.

Complementary: Calc-c.

Mania in attacks followed by perspiration.

Violent convulsions with piercing cries.

Twitching at night.

Icy coldness of the whole body.

Vomiting, which is flaky, with colic and spasms.

Flaky diarrhoea.

Cholera.

The pulse is slow and scarcely perceptible.

Painful, spasmodic contractions of the chest.

Severe spasmodic pain in the abdomen with convulsions.

What he drinks descends with a gurgling noise.

Giddiness accompanying almost all ailments, the head falling forward and on the chest.

Contact renews and aggravates the ailment.