Hydrocyanicum Acidum hydr-ac.

Brain. Heart: Circulation. Respiration. Epigastrium.

Full moon. Suppressions. Storms.

Sudden effects; collapse; spasms; apoplexy. Lacks reaction. Cramps every where. Evacuations cease. Lightning-like jerks from head to feet.

Fear of death. Loud, involuntary cries. Sinks down unconscious. Intense cerebral congestion. Prolonged faints. Pale or bluish face. Cramps in masseters; in nape. Mouth dry. Taste pussy; metallic; astringent. Noisy swallowing. Gasping, irregular, slow breathing. Asphyxia. Cholera. Dry, tickling, night cough. Heart: failure; compression at. Contracted dorsal muscles. Blue exanthema. Pulse, failing; unequal; with occasional strong beats. Distended blood-vessels; writhing in them. Icy coldness; < hands.

Related: Agar. Cup. Laur.

Prussic Acid (HYDROCYANIC ACID)

One of the most toxic agents known. Convulsions and paralysis express the action of this remedy. Spasmodic constriction in larynx, feeling of suffocation, pain and tightness in chest, palpitation; pulse weak, irregular. Singing sensation at the epigastrium. Hysterical and epileptic convulsions. Cyanosis. Collapse, due to some pulmonary condition not a cardiac collapse. Catalepsy. Cholera. Stage of collapse (Ars; Verat). Coldness. Tetanus narcolepsy.

Unconscious. Wild delirium. Fear of imaginary troubles. Fears everything-horses, wagons, houses falling, etc.

Violent stupefying headache. Brain feels on fire. Pupils motionless or dilated. Supra-orbital neuralgia, with flushing on same side of face.

Jaws clenched in rigid spasm. Froths at mouth. Pale, bluish lips.

Tongue cold. Drink rumbles through throat and stomach. Gastralgia; worse when stomach is empty. Great sinking at pit of stomach. Pulsative pain in præcordial region.

Noisy and agitated breathing. Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough. Asthma, with contraction of throat. Whooping-cough. Paralysis of lungs (Aspidos). Marked cyanosis; venously congested lung.

Violent palpitation. Pulse, weak irregular. Cold extremities. Torturing pain in chest. Angina pectoris (Spigel; Oxal ac).

Yawning with shivering. Irresistible drowsiness. Vivid, incoherent dreams.

Antidotes: Ammon; Camph; Opium.

Compare: Cicuta; Oenanthe; Camph; Lauroc.

Sixth and higher potencies.

Despondency ; oppression. Anguish in the pit of the stomach. Inability to think.

Dizziness with feeling of intoxication. Vertigo with reeling. Headache with giddiness. Stupefying headache. Pricking in various ; parts of the head.

Protruded eyes. Distorted, half open eyes. Pupils dilated immovable insensible to the light. The lids immovable they seem paralyzed. Dimness of sight ; gauze before the eyes.

Roaring and buzzing in the ears. Hardness of hearing.

Enlarged, bluish wings of the nose. Dryness of tine nose.

Face bloated. Pale-bluish face, looks old. Sallow and gray complexion. Distortion of the corners of the mouth. Distortion of the facial muscles. Lock-jaw.

Increased secretion of saliva. Tongue coated white. Cod feeling of the tongue. Burning on the tip of the tongue. Lameness and stiffness of the tongue ; tongue protruded. Loss ; of speech. Spasm in the pharynx and œsophagus. Heat and inflammation of the throat.

Taste acrid, sweet or fetid. Absence of thirst, with heat of the whole body, or violent thirst. Vomiting of a black fluid. Cold feeling in the abdomen with stitches. Spasmodic contraction of the stomach. Inflammation of the stomach and bowels. Coldness in the abdomen alternating with burning.

Retention of urine. Copious emission of watery urine.

Involuntary stools.

Sensation as if the larynx were swollen. Scraping and burning in the larynx. Short, backing cough, caused by a pricking in the larynx and trachea. Rattling, moaning, slow breathing. Arrest of breathing caused by stitches in the larynx. Tightness in the chest, sensation of suffocation. The heart beats irregular, feeble.

Irresistible, constant drowsiness. Sleeplessness.

Languor and weakness of the limbs. Paralysis first of the lower then of the upper limbs. Nervous weakness. Irregular pulsation of the heart.

Coldness within and without. Heat in the head with coldness of the extremities. Heat and perspiration over the whole body.

Dryness of the skin. Paleness with a blue tinge.

Prussic Acid. HCN. One measure of the dilute acid of B. P. to two measures of rectified spirit makes the 1st centesimal dilution; rectified spirit for all above.

Angina pectoris. Asthma . Cholera Asiatica. Colic (horses). Convulsions. Dyspepsia. Epilepsy. Hemiplegia. Hiccough. Labour, convulsions in. Stings . Stomach, catarrh of. Sunstroke. Tetanus . Uræmic convulsions. Whooping-cough.

The pathogenesis of Hcyan. ac . is mainly composed of symptoms observed in poisoning cases and clinically verified, but it has also been proved by Joerg and his pupils. Hcn . is one of the deadliest and most rapidly acting of poisons. Hence its applicability in cases of critical intensity, such as the collapse stage of cholera, when it supervenes on sudden cessation of all discharges; convulsion during severe attacks of illness. It acts powerfully on the cœliac ganglia, causing intestinal cramps and colics. Convulsions and paralysis are the leading notes of the medicine's action. In the convulsions the body is stiffened and thrown back; cramp in nape of neck is very characteristic; breathing comes in paroxysms; jaws set; foaming at mouth; face flushed, bluish tint. A. H. Croucher cured a boy, 3 1/2, of convulsions. First attack occurred six months previously. His father's sister had died of epilepsy. Before the fits came on he could walk well, but could not afterwards. The fits occurred at intervals of about three weeks when a succession of them occurred, each lasting about five minutes, during two or three days. During the intervals between the fits he would generally scream. In the morning on awaking, patient cried out, then convulsions occurred; body and limbs convulsed, eyelids twitched but remained open, eyeballs turned up and to right. Seemed quite unconscious. Hcn . 2x, one drop three times a day, increased afterwards to two drops and continued for a fortnight. No more convulsions, but three months later a rash developed all over him. — The characteristic blue tint of Hcn . is apparent after death in some poisoning cases: livid spots on limbs; nails violet. In one case there was a brilliant violent hue all over. The tetanic spasm of Hcn . is persistent and tonic, and has none of the reflex excitability of the Nux state. Hcn . acts most powerfully on the muscles of face, jaws, and back; the risus sardonicus is pronounced; lividity; frothing. It acts on the medulla and through the vagus nerve on heart and respiration. The breathing is irregular and gasping. The heart is greatly disturbed; blueness and coldness of surface; pulse feeble, imperceptible. The patient clutches at the heart as if in distress. The prostration of Hcn . is profound: drinks roll audibly into the stomach. It cured a boy of four of fever who had this symptom: "when swallowing a teaspoonful of liquid it sounds like water rolling into an empty barrel." Paralysis attacks first the lower, then the upper limbs. A dry tearing cough < at night is among the symptoms of Hcn .; and it relieves a similar cough often met with in consumptives. For it must not be imagined that the remedy is only of use in desperate cases of acute illness; it answers to its minute individual symptoms just as truly as does Camph ., but it is only those who know the drug in the higher as well as the lower attenuations who will be able to profit by a knowledge of these. "Feels as if a cloud were going over his brain," is a symptom Cash removed with Hcn . in a case of sunstroke. There is much disturbance of the digestion, which is < after eating. The headache is < at night and the vertigo < in the open air. Coldness is a great feature with the remedy, marble coldness within and without. Blue tinge of the skin is also characteristic.

The closest analogues are Camph., Lauro., and Amygd. It is antidoted by: Camph., Coff., Ipec., Nux, Op., Ver Compare; Camph. (cholera, coldness); Helod. (coldness); Cicut. (spinal cord; cramp in nape); Con. (paralysis spreading from below upward); Œnanth. (epilepsy); Lauro. (dry tickling cough; Lauro. has also a cough with jelly-like sputa dotted with bloody points); Lach.; Tabac. (asphyxia); Hell., Solania (paralysis of lungs and heart); Nux (tetanus, but of different type).

Depression; discouragement. — Anguish and oppression; anguish in the pit of the stomach; fear of imaginary ills. — Very great irritability; sadness; peevish temper: incapacity for labour. — Inability to think; memory enfeebled; aversion to all mental fatigue. — Could not remain in middle of road when a vehicle approached even at a considerable distance; was forced, as it were, against his will, to stand aside without waiting for it to come nearer (after recovery from poisoning).

Head confused and weighty; giddiness with sinking of the body; giddiness, sometimes with a feeling as of intoxication. — Dulness of the senses, sometimes with apparent wavering of objects, and of a veil before the eyes, with difficulty to stand on rising from a stooping or sitting posture; symptoms < in the open air. — Vertigo, sometimes with staggering, the patient feels as though something moved in the air and drew him along with it, or else as if everything revolved about him. — Feels as if a cloud were going over his brain (cured in a case of sunstroke). — Cephalalgia with vertigo; stunning cephalalgia, dull pain in the forehead, beginning at the temples. — Head heavy and stupid. — Headache, only at night. — Pressive cephalalgia in the forehead, or else at the occiput to the l. towards the forehead. — Violent headache in sinciput and occiput, from vertex to forehead and orbits of the eyes; in the side of the head (r. or l.) esp. in vertex and forehead; at different parts of the head. — Tension in frontal region. — Shootings in the head, sometimes in one place, sometimes in another.

Eyes half open; reversed; protruding from the head; immoveable; difficulty to move the eyeballs. — Pupils dilated and immoveable; insensible to light. — Eyelids wide open, immoveable, as if paralysed; spasmodic quivering in the upper eyelids. — Dimness of sight; cloudiness and mist (gauze) before the eyes; amaurotic blindness.

Aching in the interior of both ears; sometimes with roaring (buzzing) and ringing. — Hardness of hearing.

Smarting in the upper part of nostrils. — Dilation of the alæ nasi, which have a bluish tint. — Dryness of the nose.

Puffing of the face; oval visage; visage wears a look of age; pale and bluish; complexion earthy and grey. — Expression of beatitude in the countenance. — Contortion of corners of mouth; trismus; frightful contraction of the facial muscles.

Dryness of mouth. — Augmented secretion of saliva. — Tongue coated, sometimes white, afterwards dark and dingy; contraction at the root; sensation of coldness on the tongue; burning at the tip of the tongue paralysis and stiffness of the tongue, which often protrudes from the mouth loss of speech. — Pains in the palate; inflammation of the palate.

Spasms in the back part of the throat, and the œsophagus. — Scraping in the throat, and in the gullet painful scraping in the throat; heat in the throat and in the œsophagus burning in palate, throat, and œsophagus; inflammation of the throat, and of the œsophagus.

Taste: sweetish; fetid, acrid, and irritating; much gas in the mouth, with taste of prussic acid. — Anorexia, repugnance to food. — Adypsia, with heat throughout the body; ardent thirst. — Loathing, inclination to vomit; vomiting of a black liquid. — Pains in stomach; sensation of coldness in stomach, sometimes with lancinations; pressure and squeezing in pit of stomach, with great oppression. — Fluids enter stomach with gurgling noise. — Great sinking at pit of stomach. — Spasmodic contractions in the stomach. — Heat and burning in stomach. — Inflammation of the stomach and intestines. — Pulsative pain in the precordial region.

Coldness of the whole abdomen (with stitches), sometimes alternated with burning. — Rumbling and borborygmi in the abdomen; flabby inflation of the abdomen.

Involuntary stools. — Involuntary stools, hiccough, and great prostration. — Sudden cessation of all discharges. — Cholera sicca.

Retention of urine; frequent emission of urine; copious emission of an aqueous urine, pale or a pale yellow, depositing a turbid cloud. — Urine with sediment thick and reddish. — Involuntary emission of urine. — Burning in the urethra.

Painful scraping and burning in the larynx; inflammation of the larynx; sensation of swelling of the larynx; constriction of the throat; tickling in the larynx, sometimes lancinations and draggings; roughness and hoarseness of the voice. — Loud voice. — Frequent coughing, caused by smarting (pricking) in the larynx and trachea. — Hæmoptysis. — Respiration rattling, groaning, slow, very difficult, with mucous rale. — Difficulty of respiration by reason of the lancinations in the larynx. — Want to breathe deeply. — Respiration profound, frequent, and stertorous. — Anxious respiration. — Paralysis of the lungs.

Oppression of the chest, asthma, sometimes painful. — Feeling of suffocation, with severe pains in the chest. — Great oppression and constriction of the chest. — Sharp pains in the chest. — Aching in r. side of chest. — Lancinations in the l. side, below inferior cartilage of sternum or thereabout, in the chest, on breathing deeply.

Pains and pressure in the region of the heart. — Palpitations of the heart. — Irregular movements of the heart; feeble action of the heart. — (Angina pectoris; sudden outcry; long fainting spells; suffocation with torturing pains in chest; irregular, feeble heart-movements.)

Speedy failing and weakness of the limbs, esp. of the thighs; extreme weakness and weariness; nervous weakness. — Spasms; spasms at the back; spasms of face and jaws; convulsions. — Paralysis of inferior extremities, afterwards of the upper ones; loss of sensation, then stiffness of the parts; trembling and staggering, immobility, insensibility; stiffness of the body. — Cataleptic attacks; great flexibility of the limbs; pulsations of the heart become slower, weaker, less appreciable, until lethargy supervenes; diminution of vital heat. — Muscles of back and face principally affected. — Activity of the senses stimulated; internal feeling of ease; gentle languor with sensation of agreeable weariness. — Dulness of the senses, and insensibility to external influences; disappearance of all pain; insensibility; loss of consciousness; wandering of the senses; shivering and lassitude.

Itching in various places, esp. between the chin and lips. — Small red pustules on hip; burning itching vesicles on upper extremities, and neck. — Dryness of the skin. — General pallor with a bluish tint. — Varicose ulcers on legs.

Frequent yawning, sometimes with shuddering and spasm of the skin. — Drowsiness, sometimes uncontrollable, or else after a meal; heavy sleep in the morning; continued inclination to sleep; coma vigil; somnolency. — Wakefulness; to sleep is difficult, almost impossible; frequent awakening. — Lively dreams, without connection; anxious, disquieting dreams, dreams of death.

Chilliness; frequent shudderings, esp. after midnight or in the morning; shivering, with yawning or with thirst. — Coldness of the limbs; sensation of cold internally and externally. — Coldness within and without. — Fever, shivering, afterwards burning heat; heat in the head, with coldness of the extremities, heat and sweat over the whole body, in the afternoon; general febrile agitation, with intense excitement; heat, at intervals, and irregular motion of the heart. — During the shivering, giddiness and vertigo; during the shudderings, mist before the sight.

Inability to think.
Vexed mood, despondency, oppression.
Could not remain in middle of road when he saw a vehicle approaching him even at a considerable distance, but was forced, as it were against his will, to stand aside without waiting for it to come nearer. (After recovering from poisoning).
(OBS :) Insanity, when there is much excitement present, as shown in gesture or speech.
Hysteria. See Chap. 36 .

Loss of consciousness.
Dizziness with feeling of intoxication.
Sudden feeling as though everything about him moved slowly ; dizzy without reeling ; slight pressure left side of occiput over left half of head to frontal region.
Vertigo with reeling ; with headache.
Insufficiency of arterial contraction, with frequent headaches, stupefaction and falling down ; cloudiness of senses, objects seem to move ; he sees through a gauze ; is scarcely able to keep on his feet after raising head when stooping, or rising from one's seat, < in
open air.

Pressure from vertex towards forehead on both sides and to orbits where it became fixed, while from occiput it extended down nape of neck ; it caused confusion of head.
Violent pressure in occiput and forehead, < right side ; pressure soon leaves, but confusion lasts.
Headache with giddiness.
Stupefying headache.
Pricking in various parts of head.
Sudden and desperate cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis ; insensibility, with protruded, half open eyes ; dilated, immovable pupils, with blindness ; roaring and deafness in ears ; distorted, bloated and bluish face ; tongue paralyzed and
protruded ; loss of speech ; retention of or involuntary urine and stool ; rattling, slow respiration ; irregular, feeble beating of heart ; general coldness with heat in head.
Sudden cerebral congestion, with profound coma ; preceded by vertigo, weight and great pain in back of head.

Open eyes, with fixed eyeballs.
Distorted, half open eyes.
Dimness of sight ; gauze before eyes.
Pupils dilated, immovable, insensible to light ; paralysis of lids ; protrusion of eyes.

Roaring and buzzing in ears ; hardness of hearing.

Dryness of nose.
Stinging high up in nose, discharge of disorganized, greenish brown looking fetid pieces of hardened mucus.
Enlarged, bluish wings of nose.

Sallow and gray complexion.
Pale, bluish face, looks old.
Face bloated ; distorted.
Sudden supraorbital neuralgia, with much flushing of same side of face.

Pale, bluish lips.
Distortion of corners of mouth.
Jaws firmly clenched in rigid spasm.
Froth at mouth.

Taste acrid, sweet or fetid.
Tongue coated white.
Lameness and stiffness of tongue.
Cold feeling of tongue.
Burning on tip of tongue.

Increased secretion of saliva.

Scraping sensation in throat, followed by secretion of mucus in bronchia.
Heat and inflammation of throat.
Drink which is swallowed rolls audibly down throat, as though it were poured into an empty barrel.
Spasm in pharynx and œsophagus.
Paralysis of œsophagus.

Absence of thirst, with heat of whole body, or violent thirst.

Gurgling noise on drinking, like fluid running into a barrel.

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The officinal acid is diluted with an equal part of distilled water to make the first centesimal solution.

A deadly poison, one grain of the pure acid being sufficient to cause death. ▶ It slows the heart, causes extreme dyspnœa, blurred vision, vertigo, frothing at the mouth, tetanic and epileptiform convulsions.

Appeared like a man suffering from excess of drink. ▶ Increased secretions from skin, glands, agg. salivary glands, kidneys and serous membrane. ▶ Bloodvessels injected, whole face bloated. ▶ Relaxation. ▶ Rigidity of muscles. ▶ Agitation, with trembling of whole body. ▶ Arose slowly and unsteadily. ▶ Staggered; and fell; with groaning, rapid breathing, foaming at mouth, hands clenched. ▶ Leaned forward on a table, then became insensible, fell backward and was violently convulsed. ▶ Fell insensible; and breathed deeply, slowly and forcibly. ▶ Fell suddenly; and was stretched out lifeless, without trace of pulse or respiration, limbs cold, all muscles paralyzed, but eyes glistening and full of life. ▶ Threw her hands over her head and fell. ▶ Started up, threw her hands over her head, gasped, stood for a second, then ran forward and fell with her head first to the ground, then was motionless and moaned. ▶ Throwing herself about in a violent manner. ▶ Jerkings. ▶ Spasms; with unconsciousness; then paralysis; of limbs, agg. upper, and of chest; face distorted, limbs spasmodically extended, head drawn down on shoulders; so that head seemed buried between shoulders and arms nearly turned around by action of pronator muscles; beginning in toes, hen distortion of eyes towards the right and upward, then general spasm, distortion of limbs, face, etc., with rigidity of body, twisting around of arms, and distention, especially of region of stomach; he drew himself up in his seat, supported behind by right arm, contracted lower limbs and with a fierce look and fixed eye uttered three hideous groans, then twisted the body towards the left, with the face to the floor. ▶ Tetanus. ▶ Trunk spasmodically bent forward. ▶ Trembling.

Neuralgic pain in right hip and thigh, afterwards in region of heart. ▶ Malaise. ▶ Activity of senses. ▶ Dullness of senses. ▶ Discomfort. ▶ Sensation as of impediment to touch. ▶ Standing upon feet very difficult. ▶ Movements difficult, as from loss of power of limbs. ▶ Restlessness; with dyspeptic fulness of stomach. ▶ Aversion to mental or physical exertion; with difficulty in moving and depression of spirits. ▶ Weakness; in afternoon; in afternoon, agg. feet; in evening; in evening, agg. lower limbs; with sleepiness; with general bruised sensation; nervous. ▶ Faintness; with sweat. ▶ Insensibility; with coldness; with coldness and pallor; and head leaning on table, right hand hanging down, left hand in her lap; and thighs drawn up on abdomen and rigid, upper limbs rigid, and on drawing them from the side they forcibly reverted to their former position, eyes shut, teeth clenched, face convulsed. ▶ Paralysis. ▶ Coffee removed most quickly the narcotic effects.

Hysteria or epileptiform convulsions, frequent, violent attacks, with feeble, irregular beating of the heart. ▶ Tetanic convulsions, with complete loss of consciousness. ▶ Tetanus, cyanosis, coldness; action of heart irregular, feeble. ▶ Hysterical attacks, when drinking the water seems to gurgle down the throat. ▶ Epileptic attack preceded by nausea, vomiting or waterbrash. ▶ Uræmic convulsions. ▶ Attacks of faintness, cyanosis, cold skin, gurgling on drinking. ▶ It has been used for the collapse of Camphor, with sudden cessation of all discharges, cyanosis and gurgling on drinking.

Chronic dyspepsia, with vomiting of food in evening and night (Ferr.).

Threatening paralysis of lungs and heart (Compare Mur. ac.).

▶ Disconnected talking. ▶ Answered quickly, but he soon became heavy. ▶ Exclaimed "bread, bread," and sprang convulsively from his seat. ▶ Wild delirium, with tossing from side to side, biting at bystanders, eyes anxious and protruding, pupils small, heart's action and pulse rapid. ▶ Anxiety. ▶ Fear of imaginary troubles. ▶ Loss of courage. ▶ Could not remain in middle of road when he saw a vehicle approaching, even at a distance, but he was forced to stand aside without waiting for it to come nearer. ▶ Fretful. ▶ Gloomy in afternoon, amel. open air, and ill-humored. ▶ Thought difficult; impossible. ▶ Memory weak. ▶ Stupefaction. ▶ Coma; interrupted by sudden convulsive movements. ▶ Unconsciousness; with weakness; sudden, with loss of sensation.

Inclines forward and unable to hold it up. ▶ Aching; only at night; amel. in open air, with confusion with feeling of distention; with weight and heat in it and gastric disturbance; violent, stupefying, on bending head the brain seemed to beat against it; intermittent; in afternoon, now in this, now in that place; intermittent, in various parts, always extending to forehead. ▶ Confusion; then pressure, then pain; with acute pain in forehead and occiput, agg. region of right brow; uneasy, then falling down. ▶ Disturbance as if brain were on fire, then falling down and debility. ▶ Feeling as if exhausted by mental exertion. ▶ Heaviness in evening, with pressure. ▶ A sort of concussion. ▶ Congestion. ▶ Apoplexy. ▶ Condition like intoxication. ▶ Vertigo; agg. motion, with obscuration of senses; with staggering and indistinct vision; and objects seemed to move; feeling as if everything about him moved slowly, with pressure in left side of occiput extending over left half of head to forehead, agg. forehead.

(Pain above left eye.). ▶ Pressure; on right side; on right side, extending to occiput; outward, and in orbits, gradually becoming sticking and boring. ▶ Heaviness and pressive sensation. ▶ Tension. ▶ Confusion; with pain.

Pressure on vertex, not real pain, causing confusion, and extending towards forehead and orbits, where it became fixed, and pressure extending from occiput down nape. ▶ Pain in right side of head; in region of crown and forehead; agg. frontal region, changing to region of left mastoid process, then to left temple, then to right; intermittent P. in left half, especially in region of forehead and vertex, at times changing to right. ▶ Confusion of right side, with pressure in right side of occiput and sinciput.

▶ Pain in open air; P. in O. and forehead, agg. right side; P. extending to anterior surface of head; extending to frontal sinuses, where it becomes seated; beneath scalp. ▶ Confusion, and in forehead; C. and right side extending forward and causing pressure in forehead.

▶ Distorted. ▶ Fixed; and prominent. ▶ Brilliant. ▶ Glassy; and prominent. ▶ Prominent and glistening, but half closed, pupils dilated and insensible. ▶ Pain deep in right and temples, then in occiput. ▶ Balls tense and prominent. ▶ Pupils motionless; and dilated; and contracted. ▶ Pupils dilated; then contracted. ▶ Varicose veins in lids. ▶ Lids open and balls fixed; open and balls turned upward; wide open and balls fixed; open and balls turned upward; wide open, eyes staring, injected and watery; wide open and balls difficult to move; half open; partly closed, eyes appearing as if pushed forward between them, pupils dilated and insensible; closed; closed and both eyes drawn to left. ▶ Pressure over right inner canthus. ▶ Vision dim; with intoxicated feeling; V. of floating clouds in afternoon; V. of sparks. ▶ Blindness; with pain in forehead, pupils dilated, less sensitive to light, eyeballs tense and prominent, with injection of capillaries of lids.

Ringing in E. ▶ Roaring in E. ▶ Buzzing in E. ▶ Difficult hearing. ▶ Pricking as if mephitic air passed over Schneiderian membrane. ▶ Sneezing.

Flushed; F. and neck red and puffy; bluish red and swollen. ▶ Almost purple. ▶ Dusky. ▶ Blue. ▶ Gray and earthy. ▶ Almost black, then ghastly pale, swollen and covered with large drops of sweat. ▶ Pale; and sunken. ▶ Sunken. ▶ Swollen; and purple. ▶ Lines very distinct. ▶ Wild-looking and bloated. ▶ Ecstasy of features. ▶ Congested, and veins enlarged; F. and head congested and hot. ▶ Jaw fallen. ▶ Jaws clenched in rigid spasm; C., with corner of the sheet between teeth, along sides of sheet much thick white foam issued at each expiration; C., and lower teeth retracted within upper; C., but other muscles relaxed. ▶ Slight movement of jaw the only symptom of life. ▶ Lips pale, bluish. ▶ Lips distorted. ▶ Lips and tongue purplish. ▶ Lips closed.

Tongue white and dry; T. coated; T. protruding; irritation at root, becoming a scraping as after eating dry walnuts; feeling at root as if drawn together at both sides; coldness; numbness. ▶ Loss of speech. ▶ Unintelligible speaking. ▶ Mouth dry; before and after dinner. ▶ Froth; bubbles of viscid; thick, salivary, tinged with blood (from her biting her tongue). ▶ Brown tenacious matter fell on to the blankets. ▶ Spitting. ▶ Salivation, with attacks of nausea. ▶ Taste sharp, irritating; T. bitter; sweetish; insipid.

Swelling and undulatory movements of jugular veins and quick an full beating of carotids. ▶ Gurgling. ▶ Drink rumbles through T. and intestines. ▶ Spasmodic constriction; with hawking. ▶ Pain, heat and cramp in fauces, œsophagus and stomach. ▶ Scraping; till 7 P.M.; in soft palate; pharynx; with sticking and increased mucus, which compels frequent expectoration of thin saliva; agg. larynx, with sticking, then feeling as if larynx were swollen and narrow and pressing against neighboring parts; with tickling extending from larynx low down air-passages and causing inclination to hacking cough, this condition of air passages was compared to that after taking cold when hoarse or that caused by eating hips of roses when the hairs stick in throat, in the evening this changed to dryness in mouth and larynx. ▶ Soreness hindering deglutition, flow of saliva from mouth in evening. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Heat; in œsophagus. ▶ Inability to swallow.

Hunger increased, with aversion to food. ▶ Appetite diminished; and digestion; A. lost; lost, then unusually increased; lost at breakfast, a few mouthfuls cause nausea, desire for stool. ▶ Oppression of chest and palpitation, at 12.30 sinking at stomach, but inability to eat. ▶ Aversion to eating. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations; of gas; sour. ▶ Violent hiccough, amel. a cup of black coffee. ▶ Nausea after eating, with discomfort; N. and vomiting, with relief of symptoms. ▶ Vomiting; frequent; of black liquid; of black mucus. ▶ Distention of region. ▶ Heartburn after eating, with waterbrash and salivation. ▶ Feeling of a lump; gradually changing to sticking, then pressure. ▶ Sensitiveness of epigastric region. ▶ Warmth. ▶ Disturbances. ▶ Unpleasant sensation in epigastrium, with such weakness of limbs an muscles that he thought he would fall.

Rumbling in A. ▶ Spleen feels enlarged. ▶ Involuntary stools. ▶ S. omitted; urgent, copious; mushy.

Burning in urethra during micturition. ▶ Frequent, urine not increased; involuntary M. ▶ Urine and sweat copious; U. copious and saturated; copious and watery. ▶ Urine retained four days. ▶ Emissions of semen. ▶ Sexual desire increased.

Scraping in larynx; with rawness; with tickling, causing dry cough; as from eating too many walnuts; S. in trachea. ▶ Larynx feels enlarged. ▶ Increased mucus in trachea; expectorated in evening; increased mucus in larynx in afternoon and evening. ▶ Hoarseness. ▶ Cough; in evening; violent; in paroxysms, with expectoration of black-yellowish mucus, relieving the rattling respiration.

Suffocation, then stupefaction, and congestion and pain in chest. ▶ Dyspnœa; with contraction of sides of chest; with pressure in region of heart; with stertor and rattling respiration. ▶ Respiration difficult; caused by exercise, with nausea and sweat on face and hands; and rattling; and deep. ▶ Convulsive breathing; then regular, with snoring inspiration and moaning expiration. ▶ Gasping. ▶ Groaning. ▶ Moans; low. ▶ Sighs, with occasional sobs. ▶ She made a noise (Oh! oh! oh!). ▶ Noisy and agitated breathing. ▶ Wheezing, rattling. ▶ Irregular breathing. ▶ Anxious B. ▶ Respiration slow; and convulsive; and labored; and labored, with hissing; and stertorous; and deep; with frequent need of deep breathing; and deep, whereby the ribs were drawn back to spine; with deep, prolonged inspirations and moaning; and weak; and faint, gasping, sometimes with slight stertor. ▶ Respiration imperceptible. ▶ Respiration forcible.

Sticking on deep breathing; S. under short ribs; S. internal to left nipple; beneath lower end of sternum; in region of right fifth and sixth ribs, near sternum. ▶ Acute pain, with anxiety. ▶ Pain; in right side; between right fifth and sixth ribs, near sternum; in region of heart, with dyspnœa; in sides, becoming a sticking. ▶ Constriction; transversely across; with sudden difficulty of breathing; obliging deep inspiration; if diaphragm, with sense of suffocation. ▶ Tightness; gradually extending into right side of chest and becoming a pain that extends over chest and makes breathing difficult. ▶ Tension transversely across, especially in region of seventh and eighth ribs, agg. inspiration. ▶ Oppression.

Sticking. ▶ Pressure. ▶ Præcordial anxiety; alternating with vertigo, pain in same locality. ▶ Palpitation; with soft, full pule. ▶ Irregular action, pulse hardly to be felt; irregular, with slow, depressed pulse; action and pulse variable, sometimes rapid, sometimes slow and intermittent, also weak. ▶ Action weak; an fluttering, pulse at wrist imperceptible.

Rapid; and weak; and weak, and action of heart could scarcely be felt when lying on back; and small; and small, feeble; and small, a weak impulse alternating with a strong one; and small, unequal; and now strong, now weak. ▶ Slow; in evening; and weak. ▶ Unequal in strength; and irritable, small; what tone of the different beats irregular. ▶ Small. ▶ Imperceptible; almost.

Neck bloated. ▶ Congestion of veins of neck and face. ▶ Cramp in back. ▶ Sudden pain in region of right kidney, extending to epigastric region, then spreading over abdomen, causing warmth in abdomen.

Seemed bloodless. ▶ Flaccid; and fell lifeless when lifted. ▶ Trembling; and useless. ▶ Contractions, but no tetanus. ▶ Weak, so that he thought he would fall. ▶ Immovable and cold. ▶ Paralyzed and lay wherever placed, not rigid; hands and feet P. ▶ Arm stiff from tonic spasms. ▶ Arms bent and hands clenched. ▶ Arms relaxed, fingers contracted. ▶ Forearms stiff and inflected on arms. ▶ Trembling of right hand. ▶ Hands partially contracted, fingers rigid and about nails of a dark lead color. ▶ Staggered. ▶ Legs dark when in a dependent position, from congestion of bloodvessels. ▶ Legs stiff; and straight.

Pallor and coldness; P. and cyanosis. ▶ Rubescence on arms, then on legs. ▶ Yellow and livid about neck and breast. ▶ Urticaria, agg. upper part of body. ▶ Prickling in various parts. ▶ Formication, agg. epigastric region; F. on thighs, legs; limbs. ▶ Itching on neck and arms.

Yawning; frequent, with overpowering sleepiness, on waking confusion of head and difficulty in keeping awake. ▶ Sleepiness; towards noon. ▶ Condition between sleeping and waking, paying no attention to surroundings, on waking sensation as if he had not slept at all. ▶ Sleep prolonged and deep. ▶ Sleeplessness.

Chill; intermittent, creeping, in afternoon; general, then general warmth; alternating with heat, with stupefaction and vertigo. ▶ Rigors, amel. coffee and brandy. ▶ Shivering like electric shocks; S. in paroxysms in afternoon when riding in a wagon over a rough road; creeping. ▶ Cold skin. ▶ Cold limbs. ▶ Forehead and face cold and dry. ▶ Heat; agg. feet. ▶ Sweat; general; general, clammy; clammy on forehead; cold, clammy; cold, covering face. ▶ Dry skin.

Clinical:
Hysteria, or epileptiform convulsions, frequent, violent attacks, with feeble, irregular beating of the heart.
Tetanic convulsions, with complete loss of consciousness.
Tetanus, cyanosis, coldness; action of heart irregular, feeble.
Hysterical attacks; when drinking the water seems to gurgle down the throat.
Epileptic attacks preceded by nausea, vomiting or waterbrash.
Uræmic convulsions.
Attacks of faintness, cyanosis, cold skin, gurgling on drinking.
It has been for the collapse of Camphor, with sudden cessation of all discharges, cyanosis and gurgling on drinking.