Iodium iod.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

GLANDS: THYROID. Testes. Mesenteric. Mammæ. MUCOUS MEMBRANES: LARYNX. Lungs (R. Apex or base). HEART. Blood-vessels. Skin. Nerves. Connective tissue.

Worse

HEAT: ROOM. Air. Wraps. Exertion: Ascending. Talking. Fasting. Night. Rest.

Better

COLD: AIR. Bathing. Motion. Eating.

General

Intensely rapid action. ALWAYS TOO HOT. Hot, acrid or watery discharges. Persistent or salty secretions. Infiltration. GLANDS, SWELLED, HARD or heavy; later dwindling. Lean, hungry and hot. Weak and rapidly losing flesh; can't talk. Vascular degeneration. Scrofula. Acute exacerbations (Fer-p.). Local torpidity; little pus. Internal tickling. General pulsation or local throbbings. Burnings.

Particulars

Dejected or intolerably CROSS and RESTLESS. Excited. Sudden dreadful impulses, > if busy, but motion < and exhausts. Thinks he is well. Reverberations in head. Prominent eyes. Pain at root of nose. Subject to head colds, < open air. Catarrh. Nose red and swelled; much sneezing; it drips hot water. Miserable, withered, brownish, sallow or dusky look. Increased saliva; soapy; foul. Metallic taste. Always hungry, yet emaciates, or variable appetite. Frothy, wheyey, fatty, cheesy or lienteric stools. Sediment in urine like red pepper. Sarcocele. Atrophied testes. Impotency. Menses brown; with weakness; after every stool. Leucorrhœa erodes thighs and linen. Painful, choking hoarseness; grasps the larynx. Laryngitis. Diphtheria; expectorates cast of larynx (Kali-bi.). Rough voice. Dry, tickling, croupy cough. Short breath. Raw bronchiæ. Violent pulmonary congestion. Pneumonia; rapid extension. Heart feels squeezed. Palpitation. Heavy mammæ. Hard goitre. Foot-sweat on backs of feet. Skin, dry, rough, dirty; brown spots on. Restlessness in blood prevents sleep. Hyperpyrexia, or external coldness with anxiety or stupor. Hectic. Heat waves to head. Sweats easily. Early morning sweats, with >.

Related

Complementary: Lyc. Sil. Related: Ars. Flu - ac. Pho. Spo. Antidotes: Ars. Bell. Hep. Op. Pho.

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

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Keynote

Persons of scrofulous diathesis, with dark or black hair and eyes; a low cachetic condition, with profound debility and great emaciation (Abrot.). Great weakness and loss of breath on going upstairs (Calc.); during menses (Alum, Carbo an., Coc.). Ravenous hunger; eats freely and well, yet loses flesh all the time (Abrot., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.). Empty eructations from morning to nigh, as if every particle of food was turned into air (Kali c.). Suffers from hunger, must eat every few hours; anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina, Sulph.); feels > while eating or after eating, when stomach is full. Itching: low down in the lungs, behind the sternum, causing cough; extends through bronchi to nasal cavity (Coc. c., Con., Phos.). Hypertrophy and induration of glandular tissue - thyroid, mammae, ovaries, testes, uterus, prostate or other glands - breasts may dwindle and become flabby. Hard goitre, in dark haired persons (light haired, Brom.); feels > after eating. Palpitation, worse from least exertion (compare, Dig.- from least mental exertion, Cal. ars.). Sensation as if the heart was squeezed together; as if grasped with an iron hand (Cac., Sulph.). Leucorrhoea: acrid, corrosive, staining and corroding the linen; most abundant at time of menses. Cancerous degeneration of the cervix; cutting pains in abdomen and haemorrhage at every stool. Constipation, with ineffectual urging > by drinking cold milk. Croup: membranous, hoarse, dry cough, worse in warm, wet weather; with wheezing and sawing respiration (Spong.). Child grasps at larynx (Cepa); face pale and cold, especially in fleshy children.

Relations

Complementary: to, Lycopodium. Compare: Acet. ac., Brom., Con., Kali bi., Spong. in membranous croup and croupy affections; especially in overgrown boys with scrofulous diathesis. Follows well: after, Hep., Mer.; is followed by Kali bi. in croup. Acts best in goitre when give after full moon, or when moon is waning - Lippe. Should not be given during lying-in period, except in high potencies- Hering.

Aggravation

Warmth; wrapping up the head (reverse of, Hep., Psor.).

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Glands

For glandular affections; thyroid gland.

Generalities

Affections of right ear and the right chest; of the larynx, especially in croup where a great deal of phlegm is expectorated, which sometimes is streaked with blood. Palpitation of the heart. Consumption. Emaciation, even of single parts, as e.g., the mammary glands may shrivel up, etc.; itching or tickling, or sense of trembling in the inner parts; subsultus tendium. Goitre. Extreme hunger, the patient may still feel very hungry after eating a great deal.

Worse

In the night; before eating; fasting before breakfast; from wrapping up the head--can't bear even a hat on; lying in bed; lying on the painful side; from food difficult of digestion; from outward pressure, as pressure of the clothes, etc.; in a warm room; when walking quickly; from warmth in general; in warm air; when getting warm in the open air.

Better

After breakfast; in a cold place; in the cold air; after eating (especially after eating bountifully); from uncovering the head; after rising from the bed.

Remedies following

Acon., Lycop., Merc. sol., Phosphor., Pulsat.

Antidotes

Arsen., Bellad., Hepar., Phosphor.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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Red line symptom

Vertigo; throbbing in the head and all over the body; tremor of the heart; fainting; worse immediately after rising from a seat, or bed; or by sitting or lying down after slight exercise. Teeth yellow and easily blunted by vegetable acids. The mammae dwindle away and become flabby. Membranous, croup, with wheezing and sawing respiration, dry, barking cough; child grasps the throat with the hand. Constant heavy oppressive pain in the region of the heart, with sharp, quick, piercing movable pains, and great precordial anxiety. Emaciation, skin dirty yellow; great debility and prostration.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Iodine (IODUM)

General

Rapid metabolism: Loss of flesh great appetite. Hungry with much thirst. Better after eating. Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration. Iod individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin. Tubercular type.

All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are especially affected; they atrophy. Iodine arouses the defensive apparatus of the system by assembling the mononuclear leucocytes whose phagocytic action is marked, at a given point. Lead poisoning. Tremor. Iodine craves cold air.

Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation. Arthritis deformans. Acts prominently on connective tissue. The plague. Goitre. Abnormal vaso-constriction, capillary congestion followed by œdema, ecchymosis, hæmorrhages, and nutritive disturbances are the pathological conditions at the basis of its symptomatology. Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects. Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes, rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite, and glandular atrophy call for this remedy, in numerous wasting diseases and in scrofulous patients. Acute affections of the respiratory organs. Pneumonia, rapid extension. Iodine is warm, and wants cool surroundings. Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs. Adenoid vegetations. Tincture internally and locally to swollen glands and rattlesnake bites.

Mind

Anxiety when quiet. Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the future. Sudden impulse to run and do violence. Forgetful. Must be busy. Fear of people, shuns every one. Melancholy. Suicidal tendency.

Head

Throbbing; rush of blood, and feeling of a tight band. Vertigo; worse from stooping, worse in warm room. Chronic, congestive headache of old people (Phos).

Eyes

Violent lachrymation. Pain in eyes. Pupil dilated. Constant motion of eyeballs. Acute dacryocystitis.

Nose

Sneezing. Sudden violent influenza. Dry coryza becomes fluent in open air, also a fluent hot coryza with general heat of skin. Pain at root of nose and frontal sinus. Nose stopped up. Tendency to ulceration. Loss of smell. Acute nasal engorgement associated with high blood pressure.

Mouth

Gums loose and bleed easily. Foul ulcers and salivation. Profuse, fetid ptyalism. Tongue thickly coated. Offensive odor from mouth.

Throat

Larynx feels constricted. Eustachian deafness. Thyroid enlarged. Goitre, with sensation of constriction. Swollen submaxillary glands. Uvula swollen.

Stomach

Throbbing at pit of stomach. Ravenous hunger and much thirst. Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas. Anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina; Sulph). Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well (Abrot).

Abdomen

Liver and spleen sore and enlarged. Jaundice. Mesenteric glands enlarged. Pancreatic disease. Cutting pain in abdomen.

Stool

Hæmorrhage at every stool. Diarrhœa, whitish, frothy, fatty. Constipation, with ineffectual urging; better by drinking cold milk. Constipation alternating with diarrhœa (Ant cr).

Urine

Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green (Bovista), thick, acrid with cuticle on surface.

Male

Testicles swollen and indurated. Hydrocele. Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes.

Female

Great weakness during menses (Alum; Carbo an; Coccul; Hæmatox). Menstruation irregular. Uterine hæmorrhage. Ovaritis (Apis; bell; Lach). Wedge-like pain from ovary to uterus. Dwindling of mammary glands. Nodosities in skin of mammæ. Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the linen. Wedge-like pain in the right ovarian region.

Respiratory

Hoarse. Raw and tickling feeling provoking a dry cough. Pain in larynx. Laryngitis, with painful roughness; worse during cough. Child grasps throat when coughing. Right-sided pneumonia with high temperature. Difficult expansion of chest, blood-streaked sputum; internal dry heat, external coldness. Violent heart action. Pneumonia. Hepatization spreads rapidly with persistent high temperature; absence of pain in spite of great involvement, worse warmth; craves cool air. Croup in scrofulous children with dark hair and eyes (Brom opposite). Inspiration difficult. Dry, morning cough, from tickling in larynx. Croupy cough, with difficult respiration; wheezy. Cold extends downwards from head to throat and bronchi. Great weakness about chest. Palpitation from least exertion. Pleuritic effusion. Tickling all over chest. Iod cough is worse indoors, in warm, wet weather, and when lying on back.

Heart

Heart feels squeezed. Myocarditis, painful compression around heart. Feels as if squeezed by an iron hand (Cactus) followed by great weakness and faintness. Palpitation from least exertion. Tachycardia.

Extremities

Joints inflamed and painful. Pain in bones at night. White swelling. Gonorrhœal rheumatism. Rheumatism of nape and upper extremities. Cold hands and feet. Acrid sweat of feet. Pulsation in large arterial trunks. Rheumatic pains, nightly pains in joints; constrictive sensations.

Skin

Hot, dry, yellow and withered. Glands enlarged. Nodosities. Anasarca of cardiac disease.

Fever

Flushes of heat all over body. Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic. Profuse sweat.

Modalities

Worse, when quiet, in warm room, right side. Better, walking about, in open air.

Relationship

Yatren. Iod pathogenesis is similar to that of Carbol acid. Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph; Gratiola.

Complementary: Lycopod; Badiaga.

Compare: Brom; Hepar; Mercur; Phosph; Abrot; Nat mur; Sanic; Tuber.

Dose

The crude drug in saturated solution may be required. Third to thirtieth potency. Ioduretted solution of Potass iod (35 grains Potassa and 4 grains Iodine to 1 oz of water, 10 drops three times a day) expels tapeworms dead.

Locally the most powerful, least harmful and easily managed microbicide. Ideal agent to keep wounds clean and disinfected. Bites of insects, reptiles, etc. Gunshot wounds and compound fractures, excellent. Great skin disinfectant.

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Leaders

Always hungry; eat or wants to all the time, yet emaciates; > while eating.

Hypertrophy of all glands except mammary, which dwindle; while body withers glands enlarge.

Mentally anxious, anguish, wants to move, do something, hurry, kill somebody, etc. (Arsen.)

Warm blooded notwithstanding emaciation; wants a cool place to move, think, or work in.

Pulsations all over, stomach, back, even arms, fingers and toes (Bell.)

Especially suitable to dark haired, dark eyed, dark skinned persons of scrofulous habit.

Great weakness and loss of breath on going up stairs.

Hard goître in dark haired persons; also tumors in the breast.

Sensation as if the heart was squeezed together; as if grasped with an iron band. (Sulph.).

Croup; membranous; in scrofulous children; child grasps the larynx; face pale and cold; in fleshy children.

This is another so-called anti-scrofulous remedy. Here are a few characteristic indications:

First: "Scrofulous diathesis; low cachectic condition, with profound debility and great emaciation."

Second: "There is a remarkable and unaccountable sense of weakness and loss of breath on going up stairs."

Third: "Ravenous hunger; eats often and much, but loses flesh all of the time."

Fourth: "Feels relieved after eating or while eating."

Fifth: "Dwindling of the mammæ and soreness."

Sixth: "Profuse uterine hæmorrhages; cancer of uterus."

Seventh: "Chronic leucorrhœa, which is abundant and so corrosive as to eat holes in the linen."

Eighth. "Swelling of glands, especially mesenteric and thyroid."

Ninth: "Membranous croup, wheezing, sawing respiration, dry, barking cough, especially in children with dark eyes and hair; child grasps the throat with the hand when coughing."

Tenth: "Aggravations in general from warm room."

Here is Iodine in a nutshell. The remarkable hunger relieved by eating, with progressive emaciation, is the first in importance. This relief by eating is not only of the sensation of hunger, but his sufferings in general; he only feels well while eating, or always feels best while eating. It makes no difference whether it is phthisis pulmonalis, mesenteric, or general, that this symptoms well developed rules out everything but Iodine in almost every case and it has made many remarkable cures. I have cured many cases of goître with Iodine c. m., when indicated, giving a powder every night for four nights, after the moon fulled and was waning.

I have only failed in one case either to check the further development or cure. Some will sneer at this, but the cured ones do not. The local application for glandular enlargement is foolish and dangerous.

Modalities

Modalities: < fasting, in warm air or room; > while eating; moving, and cold air.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Excessive excitability ; irritability and sensitiveness. Restlessness, with inclination to move about, not permitting one to sit or to sleep. Despondency, with disposition to weep. Fixed, immovable thoughts.

Head

Congestions to and pulsations in the head. Headache, as if tape or a band were tightly drawn around the head. Pressure on a small spot, above the root of the nose. Throbbing in the head at every motion. The headache is aggravated in the warm air, or when riding a long time in a carriage or walking fast.

Eyes

Smarting in the eyes. The white of the eye is of a dirty-yellow color. Watery white-swelling of the eyelids. Obscuration of sight. Twitching of the eyes ; the lower eyelids. Double vision.

Ears

Sensitiveness to noise. Hardness of hearing ; buzzing in the ears.

Nose

Small scab in the right nostril. Dry coryza, becoming fluent in the open air.

Face

Complexion pale, yellow, or soon changing to brown. Convulsive twitching of the facial muscles. Suppurating ulcer on the (left) cheek, with swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Mouth and Throat

The teeth are colored yellow and are covered with mucus in the morning. Gums puffed up, red, inflamed, painful to the touch and bleed easy. Ulcers in the mouth, with putrid smell from the mouth. Aphthæ in the mouth, with ptyalism. Thickly-coated tongue. Dryness of the tongue. Swelling and elongation of the uvula. Inflammation of the throat, with burning pain ; burning in the fauces. Constriction of the throat, with impeded deglutition. Increased secretion of watery saliva.

Stomach and Abdomen

Taste salt, sourish or sweet on the tip of the tongue. Unusual a petite ; feels much better after having eaten a good deal. Eats too often and too much ; rapid digestion, but losing flesh all the time. Alternate canine hunger and want of appetite. Thirst increased, day and night. Heartburn, after heavy food. Sourish eructations, with burning. Hiccough. Qualmishness, nausea (with spasmodic pain in the stomach). Violent vomiting ; renewed by eating. Vomiting of bile, with violent colic. Gastric derangement, with constipation. Spasmodic pains in the stomach renewed by eating. Swelling and distention of the abdomen ; when assuming a wrong position he is threatened with suffocation (has to lie on the back). Pulsations in the pit of the stomach. Swelling of the mesenteric glands. Labor-like spasms in the abdomen. Pulsations in the abdomen. Incarceration of flatulence (left side of the abdomen). Scirrhous swelling of the inguinal glands.

Stool and Anus

Stools hard, knotty, dark-colored. Constipation alternating with diarrhœa (whitish). Dysenteric mucous stools without feces. Copious papescent stools. Itching and burning of the anus (in the evening).

Urinary Organs

Retention of urine. Urine yellowish-green, or acrid ; dark ; turbid ; milky ; with a variegated cuticle on its surface.

Sexual Organs

Men. Increased sexual desire. Swelling and induration of the testicles and of the prostate gland. Women. Menstruation irregular, sometimes too early, at other times too late. Menses premature, violent and copious (Metrorrhagia). Leucorrhœa, corroding the linen ; acrid ; profuse. Induration and swelling of the uterus and ovaries. The mammæ dwindle away, become flabby.

Respiratory Organs

Inflammation of the larynx and trachea. Pain in the larynx, with discharge of hardened mucus. Contraction and heat in the larynx. Increased secretion of mucus in the trachea. Hoarseness in the morning and insupportable tickling and tingling in the larynx. The voice becomes deeper. Dry morning cough, from tickling in the larynx. Dry cough, with stitches and burning in the chest. Cough with expectoration of large quantities of mucus, which is frequently bloody. Rattling of mucus in the chest, with roughness under the sternum and oppression of the chest. Burning-stinging tension in the integuments of the chest. Difficulty of expanding the chest on taking an inspiration. Sensation of weakness in the chest (and heart). Violent palpitation of the heart ; increased from the least exertion (from walking or going down stairs). Sensation as if the heart were squeezed together.

Back and Neck

Swelling of the neck. The neck swells up when talking. Struma ; enlargement and painful induration of the goitre. Sensation of constriction in the goitre. Swelling of the glands of the neck. Swelling of the thyroid gland.

Extremities

Upper. Pain in the bones of the arm on which he lies at night. Trembling of the arms and hands. Subsultus tendinum in the hands. Coldness of the hands. The fingers go to sleep. Lower. White swelling of the knee. Hot, bright-red swelling of the knee, with inflammation, pricking and burning ; aggravated by touch and pressure. Subsultus tendinum, in the feet. Œdematous swelling of the feet. Acrid sweat of the feet, corroding the skin. Pain in the corns.

Sleep

Restless sleep with vivid or anxious dreams.

Generalities

Great irritability of the whole nervous system. Great emaciation (with good appetite). Great debility, even talking causes perspiration. Twitching of the muscles ; subsultus tendinum. Trembling of the limbs. Chronic rheumatism in the joints, with violent pains at night, without swelling.

Fever

Pulse large, hard, quick, or accelerated, weak, thread-like. The pulse becomes much quicker as soon as one moves about. Chill alternating with heat. Cold feet all night. Chill, with shaking even in the warm room. Flushes of heat over the whole body ; ebullitions and pulsations over the whole body. Internal dry heat, with external coldness. Profuse night-sweat. Very debilitating, perspiration in the morning hours, smelling sour, with much thirst.

Skin

Swelling and induration of the glands (after bruises). Pain in the bones at night. Dirty, yellow, clammy, moist skin. Rough, dry skin. Itching and itching pimples on an old cicatrix.

Conditions

Aggravation at night, in the evening ; before eating ; from fasting ; when lying on the painful side ; from pressure ; from warmth ; in a warm room ; from wrapping the head up warm ; on walking quickly. Amelioration from cold ; in a cold room ; on getting cold ; from uncovering the head ; after eating ; after rising from bed.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Iodium. Iodine. An element. l. (AM. 126.53). Tincture.

Clinical

Appetite, disordered. Atrophy . Brain, atrophy of. Breasts, affections of. Cancer . Chilblains. Chyluria. Constipation. Consumption . Coryza. Cough. Croup. Debility . Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria . Emaciation. Enteric fever. Galactorrhœa. Goître Hæmorrhoids. Headaches. Heart, hypertrophy of; affections of. Hiccough. Hydrocephalus. Iritis. Jaundice. Joints, affections of . Lactation, disordered. Laryngitis Leucorrhœa. Liver, affections of. Lymphatic swellings. Melancholia . Mollities ossium. Ovaries, affections of ; dropsy of. Ozæna. Prostate gland, enlarged. Rheumatic gout. Rheumatism. Salivation . Scars. Seborrhœa. Sterility . Syphilis. Tabes mesenterica. Throat, affections of. Uterus, affections of. Voice, affections of. Vomiting . Worms.

Characteristics

The most prominent feature of the action of Iodium is its power of causing absorption. It is this power which has made the drug such a favourite among old-school practitioners as a paint in all kinds of swellings. Given internally its power is much greater: the absorbents are stimulated to fresh activity; muscles, fat, tissues, and glands waste away, and general emaciation is the result. When new growths and hyperplasias are present, these come under the action of Iod . before the normal tissues. I have seen it given with excellent effect in the lower attenuations, when swollen and deformed joints have been left behind after an attack of acute rheumatism. Scrofulous and syphilitic indurations, effusions and tumours, and especially goître, are equally amenable to its resolvent action. Emaciation of single parts. In this connection must be mentioned its power to set up a ravenous appetite. "Eats ravenously, yet emaciates," is a keynote. It seems as if the waste of tissue set up the desire for absorbing great quantities of food. Absence of appetite is also among the effects of Iod ., and either condition may indicate it. I once used it with excellent effect in the case of a young woman who had had a nervous shock, and had lost all appetite and desire to live. She was much emaciated, and had quietly made up her mind to starve herself to death. I gave five drops of Iod . 3x in a wineglass of water half an hour before meal-times, and her appetite returned with such vigour she could not choose but eat, and was soon restored to a normal mental and bodily state. I have recorded another similar case of nervous shock producing rapid emaciation and vomiting cured by Iod . in my book on Indigestion . Both these patients were somewhat dark, and Iod. is specially suited to persons of dark hair and complexion; dark, yellow, tawny skin. Herein it is the antipodes of Bromium and Spongia . Its mental symptoms are more marked than those of Brom . There is increased erethism, patient very excitable and restless, moving about from place to place. Fears every little occurrence will end seriously. In his anxiety shuns every one, even his doctor. Fixed ideas are among the Iod . effects; also sudden impulses. A patient of mine had once been given Iodine for goître by an allopath. She was compelled to discontinue it because it produced this inconvenient symptom: impulse to run; she felt she must fall if she walked. Iod . produces atrophy of nerve and brain tissue, as well as of other tissues (Allen mentions that it is valuable in persistent headaches with vertigo in old people); and it also has a place in acute hydrocephalus; and in pleuritic effusions. In tubercular disease of all kinds it may be called for: tabes mesenterica; pulmonary phthisis. In rheumatism and heart affections it has a large sphere. It is indicated by indurations or atrophy of testes, ovaries, and uterus. The salivary glands and pancreas are especially affected by Iod ., and a diarrhœa of milky, whey-like stools, often indicative of pancreatic disease, is especially amenable to its action. In pneumonia and phthisical affections with lung consolidation it is of great service. The chief indications are: Dyspnœa; cough with blood-streaked expectoration; tickling all over chest; weakness and emaciation; < of symptoms in a warm room. This last, " < by warmth," is a leading modality of Iod . In defects of growth, curvature of bones, and in children's ailments, it follows well upon Calc . In phthisis of rapidly-growing young people, thin and dark, it is especially indicated. There are many marked symptoms in the heart sphere: palpitation from slightest cause; sensation as if being squeezed; hypertrophy. With the heart symptoms there is a "gone," exhausted feeling, and the patient is scarcely able to breathe or walk. C. S. McKay noticed lumbrici passed by an infant who had tasted Iodine accidentally, and used the experience in another case, giving a dilute solution (one part of the Ø to three of water; of this three drops every three hours), and produced the expulsion of lumbrici when Santonin had completely failed. An Ioduretted solution of Kali iod . ( Kali iod . gr. xxxv., Iod . gr. iv., Aqua one ounce; ten drops for a dose) has been used with success as a tænicide, expelling the tapeworm, dead. Erethism is marked in Iod .: nervousness; restlessness; twitching; subsultus tendinum and trembling; also sense of trembling in inner parts. Facial paralysis and epilepsy have followed suppression of goître by large doses of Iod . Weakness is excessive. Fainting on going upstairs. (General weakness and loss of appetite and pain in temples, and pain in left chest as if something were being torn away: heart large. ─ Cooper). Motion and exertion of all kinds < . Sitting up > , and lying down < dyspnœa and heart affections. < By warmth; by wrapping up; in warm room. < In wet weather. Drinking cold milk > constipation. > By eating, of hunger and other symptoms, is another marked character of Iod. Iod . is a sensitive remedy, and many symptoms are < by touch and pressure. Nash thinks Iod . one of the remedies affected by the moon's changes. In cases of goître where it is indicated he gives a powder of Iod . c.m. every night for four nights after the moon has passed the full.

Relations

Iod. must be compared with Iodoform and Kali iod. The febrile, inflammatory, and skin symptoms of Iodf. are more violent and pronounced than those of the other two. K. iod. has less erethism than Iod., has > from external warmth (though both have > in open air); and K. iod. has not the excessive appetite of Iod. or the general > from eating. Iod. is antidoted by: Starch or wheat flour mixed with water (to large doses). Antidotes to small doses: Ant. t., Apis, Ars., Bell., Camph., Chi., Chi. sul., Coff., Hep., Op., Pho., Spo., Sul. It antidotes: Merc. Follows well: Merc.; Hep. (croup); Ars. Followed well by: Aco., Arg. n., Calc., Merc. sol., Pho., Pul. Complementary: Lyc. Compare: Brom. (Brom. has light hair and complexion; Iod. dark; Bro. carrion-like odour of ulcers); Chlorum; Nat. m. (ravenous appetite yet gets thin ─ Nat. m. especially about the neck); Kali iod. (talkative as if from alcohol); Bar. c. (tabes mesenterica, extreme hunger, emaciates, talkative, averse to strangers; Bar. c. suited to dwarfish persons; has not the intolerable crossness of Iod., which is < than that of Ant. c.); Alumina (apprehensive, fears); Apis (joint effusions, sensitiveness, hydrocephalus); Cact. and Spig. (heart); Hydrast. (uterine affections); Ars., Calc., Cin., Sil. and Staph. (ravenous hunger); Hyo. (loss of voice; Iod. antidotes this); Sul.

Causation

Nervous shock. Disappointed love.

Mind

Lachrymose disposition and mental dejection. ─ Melancholy hypochondriasis, sadness, heart-ache, and anxiety. ─ Fear: shuns persons. ─ Anxious apprehensions. ─ Restless agitation (with inclination to move about), which will neither permit the patient to remain seated, nor to sleep. ─ Irresistible impulse to run; feels she will fall if she walks. ─ Cross, irascible, peevish. ─ Heart palpitates "like lightning" when thinking of real or imaginary wrongs. ─ Sudden maniacal impulses; to murder. ─ Excessive mental excitement, with great susceptibility. ─ Illusions of moral feeling. ─ Loquacity and immoderate gaiety. ─ Hesitation and irresolution. ─ Indolence of mind, with great repugnance to all intellectual labour. ─ Fixedness, immovableness of thought. ─ Delirium. ─ Effects of amorousness; of disappointed love.

Head

Confusion of the head (with aversion to earnest work). ─ In the morning, dizziness. ─ Vertigo; throbbing in the head and all over the body. ─ Vertigo with red face, palpitation, hysteria, nervousness. ─ Headache, in hot air, as well as from the prolonged movement of a carriage, or from a long walk, and < by noise and speech. ─ Pain, as from a bruise, in the brain, with want of strength in the body, as from paralysis. ─ Acute pressive pains in the forehead. ─ Headache, as if a tape or band were tightly drawn around the head. ─ Pressure on a small spot, above the root of the nose. ─ Congestion in the head, with beating in the brain. ─ Throbbing in the head at every motion. ─ Hair falls out.

Eyes

Pains in orbits. ─ Feeling of depression above the eyes, as if they were deeply sunken, in the evening. ─ Pain, as from excoriation, in the eyes. ─ Inflammation of the eyes, sometimes after taking cold. ─ Watery white swelling of the eyelids. ─ Dirty yellowish colour of the sclerotica. ─ Protrusion of the balls. ─ Lachrymation. ─ Convulsive movements, and quivering of the eyes; of the (lower) eyelids. ─ Weak sight. ─ Dimness of vision following upon application of Iodine to any part of body. ─ Choroido-iritis. ─ Diplopia. ─ Sparks and scintillations before the eyes.

Ears

Buzzing in the ears. ─ Hardness of hearing. ─ Sensibility to noise. ─ (Chronic deafness with adhesions in middle ear. ─ Deafness from Eustachian catarrh, inflamed tonsils, roaring in the ears, &c.).

Nose

Small scab in the r. nostril. ─ Epistaxis. ─ Red, burning spot on the nose, below the eyes. ─ Stoppage of the nose, or secretion of mucus more abundant than usual. ─ Dry coryza, becoming fluent in the open air ( < evening). ─ Fluent coryza with much sneezing. ─ Violent coryza with lachrymation and frontal headache; discharge hot, nose sore, fever. ─ Blowing of much yellow mucus from the nose.

Face

Complexion pale, yellowish, or easily tanned; or greenish. ─ Acneous eruption on r. side of face, with burning, and itching, twitching of r. upper eyelid, and twitchings in other parts. ─ Sallow, distressed countenance. ─ Bluish lips, with swelling of the superficial veins. ─ Frequent and sudden redness of the face, with sensation of burning in the ears. ─ Face sunken with eyes cast down. ─ Starting of the muscles of the face. ─ Suppurating ulcer on the l. cheek, with swelling of the contiguous glands. ─ Swelling of submaxillary glands.

Teeth

Pressive pains in the molars. ─ Teeth yellow, and covered with mucus, in the morning; easily blunted by vegetable acids. ─ Inflammatory swelling and bleeding of the gums, with swelling of the cheek; the gums are painful to the touch. ─ Teeth loose. ─ Softening of the gums.

Mouth

Aphthæ in the mouth. ─ Ulcers in the mouth. ─ Pain and swelling of the glands of the interior of the mouth. ─ Exhalation of putrid odour from the mouth; after Mercury. ─ Salivation. ─ Tongue loaded with a thick coating. ─ Dryness of the tongue.

Throat

Swelling and elongation of the uvula. ─ Sore throat, with pressive pain, when not swallowing. ─ Permanent constriction of the gullet and impeded deglutition. ─ Increased secretion of watery saliva. ─ Inflammation of the gullet, with sensation of burning and scraping; burning in the fauces. ─ Ulcers in throat, with swelling of glands of neck.

Appetite

Disagreeable, saponaceous, sourish, or bitter salt taste. ─ Increased thirst day and night. ─ Appetite variable; at one time bulimy, at another, absence of appetite. ─ Unusual hunger, with amelioration after a meal (after having eaten a good deal). ─ Great weakness of digestion. ─ Eats too often and too much; rapid digestion, but losing flesh all the time.

Stomach

Risings, generally acid, with burning sensation. ─ Heartburn, after heavy food. ─ Hiccough. ─ Pyrosis, esp. after indigestible food. ─ Qualmishness, nausea (with spasmodic pain in the stomach). ─ Frequent nausea. ─ Violent vomitings renewed by eating. ─ Vomiting of bilious matter, or of yellowish mucus. ─ Excessive pains in the stomach, with bilious evacuations. ─ Aching in the stomach after every meal. ─ Cramp-like, gnawing, or burning pains in the stomach. ─ Inflammation in the stomach. ─ Pulsations in the epigastrium. ─ Gastric derangement with constipation.

Abdomen

Abdominal pains, which return after every meal. ─ Inflation of the abdomen. ─ Incarceration of flatulence (l. side of abdomen). ─ Enlargement of the abdomen, which renders it impossible to lie down without danger of suffocation. ─ Region of liver sore to pressure; swelling and hypertrophy of liver; jaundice. ─ Hard, painful swelling of the spleen. ─ Cramp-like pains in the abdomen. ─ Violent colic. ─ Pains in the abdomen, like those of parturition. ─ Swelling and inflammation of the mesenteric glands. ─ Pancreas enlarged; whitish, whey-like diarrhœa. ─ Abdominal pulsations; throbbing of abdominal aorta. ─ Trembling in the abdomen, from the pit of the stomach to the periphery, with increased heat. ─ Hard swelling of the inguinal glands.

Stool and Anus

Hard, knotty, dark-coloured fæces. ─ Constipation. ─ Loose, soft evacuations, sometimes whitish, alternately with constipation. ─ Evacuations copious of the consistence of pap. ─ Violent, frothy diarrhœa, or composed of sanguineous mucus. ─ Dysenteric evacuations of thick mucus, or sometimes purulent, with retention of fæcal matter. ─ In the evening, sensation of itching and burning in the anus. ─ Piles protrude and burn; < from heat.

Urinary Organs

Suppressed secretion of urine. ─ Copious and frequent flow of urine. ─ Involuntary emission of urine at night. ─ Urine of a deep colour, turbid, or yellowish green; or milky; or acrid and corrosive. ─ Parti-coloured cuticle on the urine. ─ (Incontinence in old people with prostatic enlargement.). ─ (Diabetes.)

Male Sexual Organs

Complete loss of sexual power, testicles atrophied. ─ Violent and constant erections. ─ Sexual desire increased. ─ Painful pullings in the anterior part of the penis. ─ Aching, pressing, twisting, or forcing pain in spermatic cords; after sexual dalliance. ─ Swelling and hardness of the testes. ─ Hardness of the prostate gland. ─ After stool, milk-like fluid runs from urethra. ─ Hydrocele. ─ Offensive sweat of genitals.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia at one time too late, at another too early. ─ Menses premature, violent and copious. ─ Metrorrhagia. ─ Weakness, palpitation of the heart, and many sufferings, before, during, and after the catamenia. ─ Atrophy of ovaries and breasts, with sterility. ─ Pain (dull, pressing, wedge-like) commencing in r. ovary passing down broad ligament to uterus. ─ Great sensitiveness of r. ovarian region during or after menses. ─ Inflammation of r. ovary with an itching eruption on head and hands following application of Iodine to os uteri. ─ Chronic oöphoritis (l.) with thick, yellow, burning leucorrhœa, > after eating (H. N. Martin.). ─ Pain in lower abdomen; < l. ovarian region; > by motion and by eating. ─ Induration and swelling (cancer?) of the uterus. ─ Uterine hæmorrhage renewed after every stool. ─ Leucorrhœa, corroding the limbs and the linen; acrid; profuse; worse at time of menses. ─ Flaccidity and atrophy of the breasts. ─ Mammary hyperæsthesia. ─ Heaviness of breasts as if they would fall off. ─ Acute pain and soreness in breasts with metritis. ─ Bluish red nodosities size of hazel nut; in both breasts; dry, black points at tips. ─ Galactorrhœa; thin, watery milk; weakness; emaciation. ─ Milk suppressed; breasts atrophied and relaxed.

Respiratory Organs

Insupportable hoarseness and tingling in the throat, esp. in morning. ─ The voice becomes deeper. ─ Membranous croup, with wheezing and sawing respiration; dry, barking cough, esp. in children with dark eyes and hair; child grasps throat with hand. ─ Croup, with much mucous expectoration, sometimes streaked with blood. ─ Inflammation of the throat, of the larynx and trachea, with contractive pain of excoriation. ─ Pain in the larynx, with discharge of hardened mucus. ─ Contraction and heat in the larynx. ─ Increased secretion of mucus in the trachea, with frequent hawking. ─ Dry cough, with pressure, shooting, and sensation of burning in the chest. ─ Cough in the morning. ─ Cough, with expectoration of abundant, and sometimes sanguineous mucus, pains in the chest, and fever. ─ Rattling of mucus in the chest, with roughness under the sternum and oppression of the chest. ─ Cough, resembling whooping-cough, excited by an insupportable tickling in the chest, with anguish before the paroxysm, and excessive emaciation. ─ Hepatization; worse upper part of r. lung.

Chest

Difficulty of respiration, and dyspnœa. ─ Difficulty of expanding the chest on taking an inspiration. ─ Suffocation. ─ Shooting in the l. side, on breathing. ─ Loss of power to breathe, esp. on going upstairs. ─ Weakness of the chest. ─ Congestion in the chest. ─ Burning, shooting tension in the integuments of the chest.

Heart

Sensation of weakness in the chest (and heart). ─ Violent palpitation of the heart; increased by the least exertion (from walking or going downstairs). ─ Sensation as if the heart were squeezed together. ─ Constant, heavy, oppressive pain in region of heart, with sharp, piercing, movable pain. ─ Great precordial anxiety, obliging him to constantly change his position. ─ (Hypertrophy of heart, very like that of Arn ., and like that often met with in housemaids and others from over-exertion. ─ Fatty degeneration of heart. ─ Cooper.). ─ Pulse rapid, small, weak, with tumultuous, irregular, at times intermittent action of heart.

Neck and Back

Tension in the neck. ─ Swelling of the exterior of the neck. ─ Swelling of the neck when speaking. ─ Swelling of the glands of the neck, of the nape of the neck, and of the armpits. ─ Hard and large goîtres. ─ Constant sensation of constriction in the goîtres. ─ Yellowish spots on the neck, and redness, as from ecchymosis. ─ Cramps in the back. ─ Pain in sacrum and coccyx. ─ Spinal complaints, with gressus vaccinus.

Limbs

Chronic arthritic affections; with violent nightly pains. ─ Stiff and enlarged joints after acute rheumatism. ─ Subsultus tendinum. ─ Cold hands and feet.

Upper Limbs

Pains in the bones of the arms, < when lying down, and disturbing the sleep. ─ Lassitude in the arms in the morning, in bed. ─ Convulsive movements and trembling of the arms, of the hands, and of the fingers. ─ Numbness of the fingers. ─ Tearing pains in the fingers. ─ Startings of the tendons of the fingers. ─ Panaris. ─ Constant coldness of the hands, which are covered with a cold sweat during labour. ─ Carphologia.

Lower Limbs

Cramp-like pains in the legs when seated. ─ Heaviness, swelling, trembling and paralysis of the legs. ─ Rheumatic pullings in the thighs and knees. ─ Inflammatory swelling of the knee, with tearing pains, and suppuration. ─ Hot, bright-red swelling of the knee, with inflammation, pricking and burning; < by touch and pressure. ─ Dropsical swelling of the knee. ─ White swelling of the knee. ─ Cramps in the feet, esp. at night. ─ Startings of the tendons of the feet. ─ Œdematous swelling of the feet. ─ Chilblains. ─ Acrid and corrosive sweat on the feet. ─ Pain in the corns.

Generalities

Erratic pains in the joints. ─ Chronic rheumatism in the joints, with violent pains at night; without swelling. ─ Sensation of torpor in the limbs. ─ Convulsive starting and twitching of the tendons. ─ Distortion of the bones. ─ Pains in the bones at night. ─ Swelling and induration of the glands. ─ Hæmorrhage from different organs. ─ Powerful over-excitement of all the nervous system. ─ Ebullition of blood, and pulsation over the whole body, increased by the slightest exertion. ─ Trembling of the limbs. ─ Tottering walk. ─ Great weakness; even speaking excites perspiration. ─ Plastic exudations. ─ Atrophy and emaciation till reduced to the state of a skeleton (with good appetite). ─ Emaciation; ending in marasmus; of glandular tissues (mammæ, testicles, thyroid gland, &c.). ─ Œdematous swelling, even of the whole body.

Skin

Skin rough, dry, or clammy, moist, and of a dirty yellow. ─ Tetters. ─ Furfur. ─ Panaris. ─ Itching and itching pimples on an old cicatrix. ─ Papulous eruptions tending to pustulation.

Sleep

Agitated dreams. ─ Restless sleep with vivid or anxious dreams. ─ Nocturnal sweat.

Fever

Shivering, even in a warm room. ─ Chill alternating with heat. ─ Cold feet all night. ─ Internal dry heat, with external coldness. ─ Profuse night-sweat. ─ Increase of bodily heat. ─ Fugitive heat. ─ Acid perspiration in the morning. ─ Pulse quick, small, and hard; weak, threadlike. ─ The pulse becomes much quicker as soon as one moves about. ─ Fever, with consumption. ─ (West Indian and African fevers; ague.)

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Feeling as of having forgotten something and does not know what.
Fixed, immovable thoughts.
Must keep in motion day and night, brain felt as if it was stirred up, felt as if going crazy.
Restless, inclined to move about, not permitting to sit or sleep ; thought she could tear everything to pieces.
Melancholy mood, low spirited.
Despondency, with disposition to weep.
Apprehends an accident from every trifle.
Fear of evil, with over-carefulness.
Fear and anxiety, shuns even the doctor.
Mind very sensitive during digestion, felt like crying.
Irritability and sensitiveness.
Cross, with excessive nervous excitability.
Excessive kind of impatience, she is running about all the time and never sits down or sleeps at night.
Consequences of amorousness.
At night, especially when thinking of real or imaginary wrongs, heart palpitates "like lightning," pulsations being felt also at pit of stomach and in petrous portion of temporal bone, being especially violent in latter locality ; the violent palpitation and accompanying
arterial excitement drives him out of bed ; by use of cold baths and friction obtains temporary relief ; at times most terrible thoughts take possession of him, and he hardly dares go home for fear of doing some dreadful deed ; on one occasion was seized with an almost
irresistible impulse to murder a woman who was acting as a guide for him, he having lost his way ; these attacks of mania come on at most unexpected times ; troubles all < by quiet and meditation ; must be constantly in action, in some laborious occupation. θ Mania.

Sensorium

Confusion of head, with great aversion to earnest work.
Vertigo : only on left side, < from stooping ; weakness in morning ; with throbbing headache ; very weak and tremulous ; rising aggravates it, and produces faintness ; with throbbing all over body ; tremor at heart
and fainting, < after just rising from a seat or bed, or on sitting or lying down after slight exercise ; very sickly look of patient.
Goitre ; hypertrophy of left ventricle, with great congestions to head and face ; hysteria and nervousness. θ Vertigo.

Inner head

Sharp pressive pain in upper part of left side of forehead.
Headache : left side and top ; as if a tape or band was tightly drawn around head ; so violent it almost makes him crazy ; with paralytic feeling of arms.
Pressure on a small spot above root of nose.
Pressive pains in vertex.
Congestions to and pulsations in head.
Throbbing in head at every motion ; < in warm air.
Brain feels as if stirred around with a spoon ; must keep in motion day and night.
Violent aching at base of occiput, in afternoon.
Persistent, annoying, but not very violent headache ; head feels heavy, as though a foreign substance was inside of brain, < by fatigue ; oppressive, dull feeling, inclining head to seek a support.
Chronic headache ; dizziness on active exertion ; carelessly loquacious ; languid, uneasy, and of fitful humor.
Chronic congestive headache, in old people with dark hair and eyes.
Headache < : in warm air ; when riding a long time in a carriage ; from walking fast.
During course of acute articular rheumatism inflammation in hands subsided and brain symptoms developed ; became delirious and very restless, sat up in bed and then threw himself upon it.
Cholera encephalitica.
Acute hydrocephalus of scrofulous children.
Atrophy of brain ; apoplexy.

Outer head

Falling off of hair.
Scald head.

Sight and eyes

Small sparks before eyes while sewing.
Optical illusions in bright colors ; flimmering ; double vision ; obscuration of sight, like a veil before eyes.
Dilatation of pupils with constant motion of balls.
White of eye dirty yellow.
Constant tearing pain around right eye, passing backwards from inner canthus to articulation of jaw.
Smarting in eyes ; pain as from excoriation.
Inflamed eyes.
Scrofulous conjunctivitis, with induration of glands.
Protrusion of balls ; or feeling of protrusion.
Sarcoma conjunctivæ.
Staring with wide, open eyes ; lids seem to be retracted.
Twitching of eyes ; lower lids.
Œdematous swelling of lids ; dark rings.
Trembling of lids.

Hearing and ears

Sensitiveness to noise.
Hearing first sensitive, then dull.
Buzzing in ears.
Deafness, due to morbid condition of Eustachian mucous membrane ; catarrhal deafness ; scrofulous subjects.
Adhesions in middle ear.
Painful glandular enlargement in front of tragus, with indolent ulcers of membrana tympani and a pinched, dried up look of face.

Smell and nose

Loss of sense of smell.
Crowing in nares, like the vibrations of a string.
Loss of smell ; nose dry and stuffed up, cannot breathe through it ; or painful and swollen, with chronic fetid discharge.
Sensation as if alæ were spread wide open and nose dry ; loss of smell ; sneezing in evening.
Dry coryza, becoming fluent in the open air.
Nose running a clear, continuous stream.
Fluent coryza, hot water drops out ; general heat.
Irritation of mucous membrane and secretion of a great deal of glassy mucus ; same state of Eustachian tube, with dulness of hearing and noises in ears ; stoppage of nose by mucus, especially in evening ; loss of smell ; itching, stinging in front part of septum
narium ; watery, fluent coryza in night, and with much sneezing ; dulness of head, with great disinclination to serious labor ; thinking is difficult ; dull pressure in frontal sinuses.
Severe coryza, attended by fever, severe headache and excessive secretion with much sneezing.
Fever, fluent coryza and continual tickling in middle of chest.
Nose runs a clear stream, hot fever, no appetite, hot, dry skin all day long, creepy sensation, face fiery red, pain in occiput and temples, teeth sticky with yellow phlegm.
Nasal catarrh thin, excoriating.
Ulceration of Schneiderian membrane ; great fetor.
Small scab in right nostril.
Small yellow scurf at each nostril and concha.
Chronic fetid discharge from nose ; nose painful and swollen.
Large discharge of yellow mucus from nose.
Hard and red condition of mucous surfaces ; scrofulous subjects ; enlargement of cervical and subcutaneous glands. θ Nasal catarrh.
Nose bleeding.

Upper face

Face : pale or alternately red ; sallow, distressed ; yellowish, or greenish ; pale yellow or soon changing to brown.
Brown color of face, and copious and papescent stools ; seems to be > after eating.
Coldness of face in very fleshy children.
Convulsive twitchings of facial muscles.
Facial paralysis following reduction of goitre.
Red, burning spot on nose ; under eyes ; itching protuberance on nose.

Lower face

Bluish lips, swelling of superficial veins.
Lips peel off.
Suppurating ulcer on left cheek.
Swelling of submaxillary glands.
Pain from inner canthus to articulation of jaw.

Teeth and gums

Teeth yellow, covered with much mucus in morning, and more easily blunted than usual by vegetable acids.
Toothache, gums swollen and bleeding.
Little blisters form on gums.
Gums puffed, red, inflamed, painful to touch, bleed easily.
Softening and bleeding of gums.
Absorption of gums and alveolar processes.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : salty ; sourish ; sweetish ; on tip of tongue.
Soapy taste.
Tongue : dry ; brown and dry ; thickly coated ; brown in centre, white at edges.
Tongue hypertrophied, painful, nodular or fissured.

Inner mouth

Mouth filled with mucus on awaking in morning, with putrid taste, not > by washing mouth.
Increase of saliva ; mercurial salivation.
Offensive odor from mouth.
Aphthous ulcers in mouth with putrid smell ; profuse fetid ptyalism.
Gums red and swollen, receding from teeth, bleeding slightly ; small ash colored, painful ulcers ; abuse of mercury.
Croupous inflammation of pharynx, affecting also tonsils and softened gums ; thick, grayish white deposit ; difficult deglutition ; ptyalism ; very offensive odor from mouth.
Thick, brown, croup-like exudation in mouth and fauces.
Glands on inside of cheeks intensely painful as though he had sharp vinegar in the mouth.
Discharge of mucus from posterior nares.

Palate and throat

Swelling and elongation of uvula.
Deglutition : so difficult that a considerable pause is required between each act ; impeded from ulceration of œsophagus.
Ulcers in throat, with swelling of glands of neck.
Mercurial cachexia ; salivation and ulcers in the throat.
Follicular catarrh with ulceration.
Inflammation of throat, with burning pain.
Early stage of diphtheria ; much glandular irritation ; disease threatens to attack larynx ; formation of speck ; or patches of exudation, with sore throat ; enlargement of tonsils and of glands of neck ; disinclination for food ; difficulty of
breathing ; cough and alteration of voice.
Velum palatinum and tonsils covered with thick, grayish white exudate ; much pain in throat, painful swallowing ; salivation ; strong fetor oris. θ Diphtheritis.
Pain in œsophagus increased by pressure.
Inflammation and ulceration of œsophagus.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Remarkable and continued increase of appetite.
Suffers from hunger, must eat every few hours ; gets anxious and worried if he does not eat ; feels > after eating.
Eats too often and too much ; loses flesh all the while.
Great longing for food, about 11 A. M. ; can scarcely wait for his meals.
Ravenous hunger, cannot be satisfied.
Alternate canine hunger and want of appetite.
Appetite for meat.
Thirst ; desire for spirituous liquors.

Eating and drinking

Fasting causes pain in chest.
Most symptoms are better after eating.
Food distresses her.
Spasmodic pains in stomach > by eating.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Empty eructations from morning till evening, as if every particle of food was turned into air.
Sour eructations, with burning therefrom.
Heartburn, after heavy food.
Qualmishness, nausea, with spasmodic pain in stomach.
Vomiting : of bile, with violent colic ; of milk ; first water, then food ; of saltish tasting, oily or greasy substances.
Violent vomiting renewed by eating.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Tenderness of epigastrium ; pulsations in pit of stomach.
Spasmodic pains in stomach, renewed by eating.
Pains in stomach, gnawing or corroding, > after eating.
Dyspepsia with great weakness and loss of energy.
Gastric derangement, with constipation.

Hypochondria

Region of liver sore to pressure.
Jaundice with much pain in liver through to shoulderblade, no appetite, constant nausea ; sluggish, clay colored stools, porter colored urine, debility, emaciation ; skin brownish yellow ; tenderness about hepatic region.
Pain in hepatic region, loss of appetite, emaciation, excessive weakness, diarrhœa ; pressure and stitches in hepatic region, painful to touch. θ Cirrhotic liver.
Jaundice : dirty, yellowish skin ; great emaciation ; depressed, irritable mood ; yellow, almost dark brown color of face ; thickly coated tongue ; great thirst ; nausea ; constipation alternating with white diarrheic stools ; dark, greenish
yellow, corroding urine ; after abuse of mercury ; in organic lesions of liver ; dyscratic states of system accompanied by hectic fever.
Eyes, skin and nails completely jaundiced ; nausea and vomiting after eating almost any kind of food ; intense canine hunger ; every third day attacks of gastrodynia ; frequent eructations ; heartburn ; distension of stomach ; pain when pressing on
epigastrium ; pain in right hypochondrium ; constipation ; urine scanty, dark and turbid ; menses absent six months. θ Chronic jaundice.
Swelling and hypertrophy of liver.
Left hypochondriac region hard and acutely painful to pressure ; enlarged spleen after intermittent.
Pressure in region of stomach, with much empty belching, occasionally vomiting of small quantity of tough, sour mucus ; no actual pyrosis ; constipation ; ptyalism, constant expectoration ; tongue moist, with mucous streak at sides ;
great thirst ; appetite appeased by smallest quantity of food ; urine scanty, brown ; sallow face ; depressed, irritable ; constant profuse sweat ; from pit of stomach to navel and in a corresponding region in back, sensitiveness to pressure ; pancreas
enlarged ; abdominal pulsations. θ Chronic inflammation of pancreas.

Abdomen and loins

Swelling and distension, or emaciation and sinking in of abdomen.
Pulsations in abdomen ; throbbing of abdominal aorta.
Incarceration of flatus in left side of abdomen.
Rumbling in abdomen with gnawing hunger.
Swelling of mesenteric glands.
Marked irritability of mind ; exceedingly cross, screamed in anger when simply looked at, talked to, or touched ; large, tumid, doughy abdomen ; loss of appetite ; emaciation ; diarrhœa, with copious, slimy, fetid stools. θ Tabes
mesenterica.
Tabes mesenterica, with rapid emaciation, night sweats, slow fever, dry laryngeal cough and diarrhœa.
Inflammation and swelling of mesenteric glands, with bloating and distension of abdomen, which does not permit one to lie down ; painful pressure and tension in abdomen, with incarceration of gas in left side, < after eating ; stools in beginning hard, knotty and dark ;
then alternate constipation and diarrhœa and finally profuse, frothy, bloody, even purulent diarrhœa, with itching and burning in anus, especially at night ; ptyalism, constriction of throat, ulcers in mouth and putrid breath ; constant and tormenting thirst with canine hunger,
which cannot be satisfied ; child wants to eat all the time ; eats a large quantity and frequently without indigestion, yet becomes more and more emaciated ; occasionally canine hunger is alternated with anorexia ; burning heat after eating heavy food, with nausea or
vomiting, pressure and hiccough. θ Tuberculosis mesenterica.
Swelling of inguinal glands.

Stools and rectum

Brown color of face, with copious papescent stools.
Diarrhœa in morning ; stools watery, foaming, whitish ; pinching around navel and pressive pain in vertex.
Purulent stools, with cutting pains in intestines, nausea, vomiting and sour taste in mouth.
Stools : blackish, watery ; brownish ; frothy ; bloody ; whitish mucous ; thick, mucous ; purulent ; copious ; fetid ; of mucus and blood ; whey-like ; fatty.
Chronic diarrhœa of an exhausting character, with constant desire for change of place.
Morning : diarrhœa of scrofulous children.
Diarrhœa adiposa from pancreatic affections.
Summer complaint with swollen glands on neck.
Dysenteric mucous stools without feces.
Discharges of thick mucus, or purulent matter ; part of feces being retained.
Constipation, alternating with diarrhœa.
Stools hard, knotty, dark colored.
Constipation with ineffectual urging > by drinking cold milk.
During stool : cutting pain in bowels ; bearing down in genitals ; painful pressure on vertex.
After stool : burning in anus ; soreness in rectum ; pressing in hypogastrium.
Itching and burning of anus in evening.
Piles protrude and burn ; < from heat.

Urinary organs

Uræmia ; croupy exudation in mouth and fauces ; tongue covered with thick brown, leather-like coating. θ Senile hypertrophy and induration of
prostate, stricture of urethra and ammonemia.
Bright's disease, with albuminous urine ; much emaciation and debility.
Obstinate retention of urine.
Copious and frequent or involuntary micturition.
Continued desire to urinate ; nocturnal urination.
Incontinence of urine in the aged.
Urine : dark, thick, ammoniacal ; dark yellowish green ; acrid ; milky ; with a variegated cuticle on its surface ; red and turbid.

Male sexual organs

Complete loss of sexual power ; testicles atrophied.
Bearing down, or twisting sensation in seminal cord.
Aching, pressing or forcing pain in spermatic cords and testicles, after sexual dalliance.
Testicles hypertrophied, with sexual excitement.
Testicles swollen and hard, as large as hen's eggs, with pressure and tension extending into abdomen ; on scrotum several swollen and inflamed openings, from which escapes a constant turbid, watery discharge ; several of these openings penetrate through scrotum, others form
canals running in different directions through skin.
Painless swelling of testicles, with offensive sweat.
Swelling and induration of testicles and prostate gland.
After stool a milk-like fluid runs from urethra.
Chancre with torpid, watery discharge.
Hydrocele.
Offensive sweating of genitals.

Female sexual organs

Atrophy of ovaries and mammary glands, with sterility.
Induration and swelling of uterus and ovaries.
Pain commencing in right ovary, passing down broad ligament to uterus.
Great sensitiveness of right ovarian region during or after menses.
Pain in ovaries and back during menses.
Dull, pressing, wedge-like pain, as if a dull plug was driven from right ovary toward womb.
Pain in lower part of abdomen ; < left ovarian region ; comes on about 3 A. M. ; > by motion and eating ; likes acid things ; left ovary tender to pressure ; pains before, during and after stool ; leucorrhœa thick, yellow, burning ; vertigo,
staggering when walking ; faint on getting up in morning ; has to lie with head high on account of shortness of breath ; menses too early ; stoppage of urine, or it flows, stops, and flows again. θ Chronic
ovaritis.
Abdomen as large as in pregnancy at sixth month from accumulation of fluid ; rapid, irritable pulse ; thirst ; general prostration, able to sit up only part of day ; loss of appetite ; pain and tenderness in right ovarian region, and fluid rapidly accumulating. θ Ovarian
cyst.
Pressing, bearing down towards genitals ; constipation ; acrid leucorrhœa, corroding linen ; dwindling and falling away of mamma ; strumous constitution. θ Ovarian
dropsy.
Swelling and induration of uterus.
Uterine leucorrhœa with swelling of cervix, os uteri feeling hard and indurated ; uterus enlarged ; tendency to menorrhagia ; corroding leucorrhœa, rendering thighs sore.
During course of inflammatory disease affecting uterus and surrounding parts ; colliquative sweats ; great emaciation and weakness ; catarrh of chest, constantly growing more severe ; sudden appearance of menses, very profuse and accompanied by severe abdominal pains,
particularly in region of ovary.
Cancerous degeneration at neck of uterus.
Metrorrhagia : with acute pain in mamma, or mamma dwindle away and become flabby ; at every stool, with cutting in abdomen, pain in loins and small of back ; long lasting ; after abuse of mercury. θ Cancer
of womb.
Menses : sometimes too early, at others too late ; premature, violent and copious.
Chronic menorrhagia in thin, delicate women, subject to corrosive leucorrhœa, with other indications of congested uterus and ovaries.
Premature and too copious menses, with goitre ; dwindling away of breasts, and great weakness on going up stairs.
Violent dysmenorrhœa with very scanty discharge.
Irregular menses ; delaying eight days, with vertigo and palpitation of heart.
Chronic amenorrhœa of long standing.
Before menses : flashes of heat, with palpitation ; tension and swelling of neck ; abdominal pains.
During menses : pains in back and ovaries ; lassitude ; coughing up of blood ; great weakness and loss of breath.
After menses : palpitation.
Thin, yellow leucorrhœa in scrofulous women, with induration and swelling of os uteri, and engorgement of vagina.
Chronic leucorrhœa most abundant at time of menses, rendering thighs sore and corroding linen.
Mammary hyperesthesia.
Heaviness of mamma, as if they would fall off.
Acute pain and soreness in mamma, with metritis ; cachectic state of system, with feeble pulse.
Bluish red nodosities, size of a hazel nut ; in both mamma ; dry, black points at tips.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Abortion.
Excessive flow of very thin, watery milk ; great weakness and rapid emaciation. θ Galactorrhœa.
Suppression of milk ; atrophy and relaxation of mamma. (Iodium should not be given during lying-in period, except in high potencies. --C. Hg.)

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Voice : nasal, hoarse ; has a deep, hoarse, rough sound, becoming continually deeper.
Hoarseness : in morning and insupportable tickling and tingling in larynx ; lasts all day, phlegm in small quantities and tough, constant hemming and hawking.
Sensation of constriction (fulness or pressure) in larynx, with impeded deglutition.
Tightness and constriction about larynx, with soreness and hoarseness.
Swelling and contraction of larynx.
Contraction and heat in larynx.
Spasm of glottis in rachitic children ; cannot bear warmth.
Enlargement and induration of cervical and mesenteric glands ; loss of appetite, utter indifference to food ; scanty, high colored urine ; clayey evacuations ; emaciation ; yellow skin ; action of heart feeble and much increased by motion. θ Spasm
of glottis.
Region of trachea smarting, accompanied by frequent lancinating pain.
Pains in larynx : with great hoarseness, or complete aphonia ; with desire to cough ; with discharge of hardened mucus.
Painful pressure mingled with stitches in region of larynx and sublingual glands, returning several times during day.
Roughness, painful pressure and stitches in larynx and pharynx, as if swollen ; increased secretion of mucus in trachea ; dry, short and hacking cough.
Soreness of throat and chest ; wheezing ; drawing pains in lungs ; child grasps throat and chest with its hands.
Chronic laryngitis in scrofulous subjects ; more or less hectic fever, especially serviceable when the trachea is implicated.
Intense membranous laryngitis ; head and face hot ; paroxysmal, dry, short, barking cough ; respiration irregular, short and quick ; active motion of alæ nasi.
Increased secretion of mucus in trachea ; long lasting laryngeal catarrh.
Paralysis of throat.
Membranous croup, with wheezing and sawing respiration, dry, barking cough, especially in children with dark eyes and dark hair ; child grasps throat with hand.
Violent attack of cough threatening suffocation, with whistling tone and great anguish. θ Membranous croup.
Tracheal and bronchial croup, with tendency to torpor ; extensive membrane ; jerking breathing.
Cough is peculiar in that it has lost the metallic, loud timbre, so characteristic of croup, and has become muffled and indistinct ; the more plastic the exudation, the more Iodium is indicated. θ Croup.
Suffocating cough, can hardly get her breath for it ; > by expectorating, sputa very scanty ; weight and tightness at stomach after food ; cough exhausts and chokes her, and causes retching and pain in forehead ; < in a warm room ; during day chilly, cold
chills run up back ; at night when in bed subjective dry heat, especially of head ; bitter taste of solid food, not of drinks ; burning pain below right hip from back to front. θ Bronchitis.
Delicate constitutions, with quick pulse, tendency to bronchial and pulmonary congestion and hemorrhage ; overgrown young people, with weak chest and dry cough, subject to spitting of blood and cardiac palpitation ; swelling of cervical and bronchial glands ; nocturnal
sweats and progressive emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite and regular function of bowels ; cough from every effort to expand chest ; much dry cough ; suffocative feeling ; shortness of breath at least exertion. θ Bronchitis.
Chronic bronchitis in a scrofulous subject ; dyspnœa at night, compelling him to sit up ; raw sensation in left bronchus, particularly in morning ; early in day cough dry, later transparent, occasionally grayish sputa ; exacerbation after every cold.

Respiration

An effort to expand chest produced cough but no pain.
Breath comes in wave-like expansions.
Shortness of breath, palpitation and feeling of weakness on going up stairs.
Tightness of respiration ; out of breath from least exercise.
Respiration, especially inspiration, difficult ; constriction of throat prevents swallowing.
Asthma, breathes heavily even when quiet.
Rachitic children, swelling of bronchial glands ; tightness and constriction about larynx, with soreness, hoarse voice ; enlarged glands may cause paralysis of laryngeal, tracheal and bronchial nerves ; mesenteric glands enlarged and indurated ; tendency to
marasmus ; excellent appetite and yet grows thin, or indifferent to food ; stools clayey ; urine high colored, scanty ; skin yellow ; heart's action feeble and increased by any position ; unbearably irritable ; well marked, painless goitre.
Swelling and distension of abdomen ; when assuming a wrong position he is threatened with suffocation (has to lie on back).

Cough

Dry morning cough, from tickling in larynx.
Constant tickling, in trachea and under sternum, with inclination to cough.
Unendurable tickling through whole chest, causing cough ; during attack undulating inspiration ; cough preceded by great anxiety and followed by depression ; emaciation.
Cough as from a feather in throat, especially in morning ; sneezing ; vomiting ; stitches in chest and side, dyspnœa and great weakness. θ Liver complaint.
Annoying, tickling cough in phthisical persons.
Expansion of chest produces cough but no pain.
Dry cough, with stitches and burning in chest.
Cough with copious collection of mucus in bronchi and inability to expectorate ; moderate amount of fever.
Dry, croupy cough, with titillation ; sensation of soreness in larynx ; barking, with gray or white salty, sweetish expectoration ; shrill whistling and rattling in chest ; sawing, hissing respiration ; oppression ; hoarseness, difficult speech ;
expectoration of tough mucus ; soreness and pain extending to upper third of sternum.
Cough moist but harsh as from tickling all over chest ; wheezing, metallic cough ; tough or slimy sputa ; constriction of larynx ; < in wet weather ; < in morning.
Cough often coming on in Fall, constant tickling in pit of throat ; < by expiration ; frequent paroxysms of severe, short, but continuous coughs, one rapidly following the other, can scarcely utter a word ; cough sounds as if mucus was deep down in chest ;
expectoration of yellow pieces, tasteless, or during day salty.
Cough caused and aggravated by tobacco ; often accompanied by retching ; could not lie down, sat bent forward.
Cough : after catching cold on damp day ; > by expectoration ; sputa very scanty ; cough suffocating, can hardly get breath ; weight and tightness at stomach after food ; cough exhausts and chokes her, and causes retching and pain in
forehead ; < in warm room ; during day chilly, cold chill runs up back ; at night in bed subjective, dry heat, especially of head ; bitter taste of solid food, not of drinks ; burning pain below right hip from back to front.
Chronic cough excited by pressure in throat, < at night, in a very nervous, tall, thin and careworn old lady.
Dry, croupy cough ; mucous membrane of larynx and trachea dry ; mucus hard and tough.
Croupy, hoarse cough, < in warm, wet weather.
Patients are weak, sallow, short of breath, emaciated and have enormous appetites. θ Tussis convulsiva.
Great weakness with the cough.
During cough : tickling and burning pain in throat ; oppression, pressing, burning and stitches in chest ; rattling ; anxiety ; nausea ; vomiting ; sneezing.
Cough, with expectoration of large quantities of mucus, frequently blood streaked.
Short, loose cough, with thick mucus and puriform expectoration, often bloody.
Cough < towards morning. θ Tuberculosis.
Dyspnœa, cough, palpitation and pains < by movement.
Expectoration : salty ; sweetish ; sourish ; putrid ; gray or white ; yellow ; blood streaked.

Inner chest and lungs

A feeling of great weakness in chest ; can hardly walk up stairs.
Constriction of chest.
Sharp, quick, piercing pains in chest.
Itching : low down in lungs, behind sternum ; causing cough ; extends through bronchi to nasal cavity.
Rattling in chest : yet nothing seems to loosen ; with roughness under sternum and oppression.
Tendency to bronchial and pulmonary congestion and hemorrhage.
Violent chills, followed by fever and pain in chest ; short, anxious breathing, violent cough ; lip and chin sore ; urine high colored and scanty ; creaking, leathery noise over middle and lower third of right lung. θ Pneumonia.
Violent chill, followed by violent dry heat, pain in back and right side, from cough and dyspnœa ; rust colored sputum and fresh blood, crepitant rales, pulse 120, skin hot and dry. θ Pneumonia.
Violent chill followed by great pressure on chest ; respiration impeded, interrupted, imperfect and rapid ; pulse 110 ; urine scanty and red ; frequent short cough, with expectoration of tenacious, yellowish matter, occasionally tinged with blood ; troublesome
"cold sore" on lips and nose ; lower lobes of right lung affected. θ Pneumonia.
Sensation of weakness in chest, with anxiety, oppression, and burning, tearing, stabbing pains ; sensation as if something resisted expansion ; cough, with dyspnœa and blood streaked expectoration ; also during third stage, where slow suppuration sets in without marked
febrile symptoms in tuberculous patients, and causes a slowly progressing hectic condition, entirely confined to lungs. θ Croupous pneumonia.
Continuous delirium ; great dyspnœa ; respiration 60 ; unquenchable thirst, tongue dry ; great prostration ; sputa gluey, rusty yellow, mingled with blood streaks, is dislodged with difficulty and sticks fast to handkerchief. θ Pneumonia.
Pneumonia, when the disease localizes.
Pleuritic effusions.
Neck long and thin ; clavicular region, particularly right side, sunken ; empty percussion sound in upper portion of chest, but especially on right side ; bronchial respiration on r. side ; chest flat, sunken ; respiration short and accomplished only by lower
portion of chest and diaphragm ; strong impulse of heart ; anemic murmurs ; voice hoarse, toneless, weak ; irritation in larynx ; constant pressure and burning in throat ; sensation of rawness in larynx and bronchial tubes extending into chest, causing hawking
and coughing ; disagreeable tickling in throat at night, causing severe and violent cough ; short, dry, irritating cough, < at night, followed in morning by sweat ; occasionally severe attacks of spasmodic cough, greatly prostrating patient, and causing loss of breath and
glowing heat in head and face ; scanty, tough, slimy expectoration, often streaked with blood ; pressure and heaviness on chest ; loss of breath after least exertion or talking. θ Consumption.
Face pale, anxious, earthy ; cheeks red, eyes languid, appetite greatly impaired ; pressure at stomach, particularly after eating ; abdomen sunken ; frequent colicky pains ; diarrhœa, or scanty and delayed stool ; menses scanty and delayed ; pulse
small, frequent, particularly in evening ; fever ; every afternoon dry heat, thirst, confusion of head ; restless and sleepless at night, sweat towards morning ; skin dry, hot, pale, dirty gray in color ; anemia ; great emaciation, lassitude and debility. θ Consumption.
Voice weak, rough, hoarse ; face pale ; respiration impeded ; pain in chest. θ Tuberculosis.
Tickling all over chest ; tough, stringy, blood streaked sputa ; hunger, yet emaciation ; cannot bear a warm room. θ Phthisis.
Phthisis pulmonalis, with constant tickling and inclination to cough, in trachea and under sternum ; expectoration of transparent mucus streaked with blood ; morning sweats ; emaciation ; wasting fever ; rapid pulse ; diarrhœa ; amenorrhœa.
Emaciated almost to a skeleton ; for several months has been compelled to stay in bed ; decubitus ; almost continual fever, remitting only for two or three hours in afternoon ; profuse night sweats ; continuous cough with copious expectoration. θ Consumption.
For several years obstinate leucorrhœa, alternating with a cough which greatly reduced her strength and threatened to develop into consumption.
Advanced stage of tuberculosis, when glands and lymphatics are affected ; much expectoration of blood, or even hemorrhages.
Swelling of cervical and bronchial glands.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Great precordial anxiety, obliging constant change of position.
Sensation of weakness in heart.
Constant, heavy, oppressive pain, in region of heart.
Sharp, quick, piercing, and movable, but heavy, oppressive pain in region of heart.
Sensation as if heart was squeezed together.
Feeling as if heart was grasped by an iron hand.
Palpitation of heart : < from least exertion ; with faintness.
Tumultuous, irregular or intermitting action of heart.
Cardiac action excessive. θ Exophthalmic goitre.
Pericarditis in complication with croupous pneumonia.
Mitral insufficiency and periodical attacks of pain about heart, following long fit of sickness with typhoid endocarditis ; ventral dilatation of heart, with marked projection of left second and third ribs ; loss of strength ; difficult breathing ; violent
palpitations.
Dilatation of heart, after scarlatina.
Darker color of skin, with sensation of heat ; skin turns brown, grows parchment-like, peels off, and shows underneath the loosened scales a fatty transpiration ; thickening of epidermis ; sudden turning of yellowish color into brown, as if smoked ; excessive weakness
and debility ; muscular weakness and trembling ; sadness and depression of spirits ; mental torpor ; dulness and pain in head ; vertigo ; nausea ; violent, continuous vomiting ; violent, excruciating pain in stomach ; constipation ; frequent
attacks of gastralgia ; drawing and pressing in region of kidneys ; twitchings, convulsions ; epilepsy ; paralysis ; the formerly yellow face turns brown ; red hair turns to chestnut brown. θ Addison's
disease.
Pulse : large, hard and accelerated, with orgasm of blood and beating in bloodvessels ; rapid, but weak and thread-like ; small, very quick, irregular ; weak, threadlike ; accelerated, by every slight exertion.
Extremely troublesome pulsations in larger arterial trunks.
Pulsation in arteries at every muscular effort.
Ebullition in chest and audible palpitation.

Outer chest

Burning stinging tension in integuments of chest.

Neck and back

Redness on neck and chest as if ecchymosed.
Yellow spots on neck.
Neck swells up when talking.
Swelling and induration of cervical glands.
Hard and red condition of mucous surfaces, scrofulous subjects ; enlargement of cervical and subcutaneous glands.
Enlargement and induration of glands, cervical and mesenteric ; want of appetite ; utter indifference to food ; scanty, high colored urine ; clayey evacuations ; emaciation ; yellow skin ; action of heart feebler and much < by motion.
Gradual increase in size of neck, especially on right side, until it measured fourteen and a half inches over isthmus of thyroid body ; soft and without any fluctuation. θ Goitre.
Marked increase of thyroid gland, which had been already slightly enlarged ; acute pain in gland upon pressure or on slightest movement of head.
Non-lobulated tumor in anterior and median portion of neck as large as a child's head ; rosy red color heavy in weight and of soft consistency ; voice for past, two years slightly rough, and respiration difficult, especially when he lies on back. θ Goitre.
Hypertrophy of two lobes of thyroid gland ; tumor becoming more swollen and painful at each return of menses, which were irregular and painful. θ Goitre.
Sensation of constriction in goitre.
Goitre : recent and soft ; with marked hardness ; hard and nodulated.
Large boil between scapulæ, with gangrene of legs.
Stitches in small of back ; pains like rheumatism.
Pain in sacrum and coccyx.
Spinal complaints, with gressus vaccinus.

Upper limbs

Swelling of axillary glands.
Hot, dark red, lymphatic swelling in right axilla, size of a walnut, discharging a cheesy pus.
Weariness of arms, as if paralyzed, in morning, in bed.
Trembling of arms and hands.
Pain in bones of arm on which he lies at night.
Small boil on posterior surface of right upper arm.
Tearing in left elbow.
Pains in elbow.
Painful weakness in extensors.
Subsultus tendinum.
Back of left hand painful, as if swollen, painful to pressure and when turning hand, not when closing fingers.
Brown discoloration on back of hand.
Sweating in palms of hands.
Coldness of hands and feet.
Fingers "go to sleep".
Round spot between thumb and index finger covered with two whitish vesicles.

Lower limbs

Intermittent, sharp, tearing pains between l. hip and head of femur, < by moving joint ; ear swellings ; abuse of mercury.
Jerking pain in legs each time after taking cold, following pressure in pit of stomach. θ Jaundice.
Numb feeling in thighs and legs.
Violent itching nettlerash on thigh and inside of left knee.
Flat blister on knee looks as if full of bile.
After neglected injury, large, elastic and fluctuating swelling of knee ; pale redness of skin upon which there are several very red, hot and painful spots ; temperature at knee elevated ; dull pain deep in knee-joint when lying quietly with leg
stretched out, becoming very severe upon least motion or pressure ; foot must be kept very quiet ; febrile attacks ; finally small opening over patella through which oozed laudable pus, later followed by a profuse, clear, yellow, serous discharge, particularly early in
evening.
Knee greatly swollen, puffed and round on both sides ; sensation of fluctuation ; temperature elevated ; pain when stretching leg or when attempting to stand ; limps when attempting to walk and can only place tip of foot upon floor ; pressure upon patella causes
great pain ; no pain during rest.
Hot, bright red, shining swelling of knee, with shooting, stitches and burning ; in several places, small, highly inflamed openings through which oozes a watery, bloody pus ; least motion of body or foot, or least touch or pressure upon swelling cause very severe pain. θ Scrofulous
inflammation.
Hot, bright red swelling of knee, with inflammation, pricking and burning ; < by touch or pressure.
White swelling of knee ; dropsical swelling of knee joint.
Second and third stage ; fistulous openings, discharging a thin, watery ichor, and surrounded by pale ; spongy edges, which bleed easily ; feverish ; emaciation. θ Gonarthrocace.
Much swelling, with erratic tearing pains. θ Synovitis.
Chronic hydrarthrosis of knee joint.
Violent itching nettlerash, particularly around knee ; on outer side of left knee especially.
Subsultus tendinum of feet.
Œdematous swelling of feet.
Acrid, corrosive sweat of feet.
Painful corns.

Limbs in general

Great weariness of arms and legs from excessive debility.
Subsultus tendinum of both hands and feet.
Trembling of limbs.
Acute articular rheumatism, with violent pericarditis and pleuro-pneumonia.
Chronic arthritic affections, with violent nightly pains in joints, no swelling.
Subsultus tendinum of hands and feet ; great drowsiness and continual dreaming of eating, with great prostration on rising from bed ; picking of bedclothes and short, dry cough.
Much coldness of hands and feet.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : no pain in knee.
Lying down : < tremor at heart and fainting.
Lying quietly with leg stretched out : pain in knee.
Has to lie with head high on account of shortness of breath.
Pain in bones of arms on which he lies.
Has to lie on back : on account of swelling of abdomen.
When lying on back : respiration difficult.
Cannot lie down : on account of bloating and distension of abdomen ; on account of cough.
Sat up in bed, then threw himself upon it.
Able to sit up only part of day.
Is compelled to sit up : by dyspnœa.
Sitting : < tremor at heart and fainting ; anxiety after mental labor >.
Stooping : < vertigo.
Hardly able to stand : chill two years old.
Attempting to stand : pain in knee <.
Head inclined to seek support : caused by oppressive, dull feeling in head.
Desire to change position continually.
Precordial anxiety obliging constant change of position.
When assuming a wrong position he is threatened with suffocation.
Inclination to move about : not permitting one to eat or to sleep.
Grasps throat and chest with his hand.
Slightest movement of head : acute pain in thyroid gland.
Least motion : pain in knee <.
Least exertion : palpitation of heart < ; accelerates pulse.
At every muscular effort : pulsations in arteries.
After slight exercise when lying down : tremor at heart and fainting < ; out of breath.
Every motion : throbbing in head ; increases heart's action.
Rising : < headache ; produces faintness ; tremor at heart and fainting <.
Rising from bed : great prostration.
When moving hip joint : pain <.
Stretching leg : pain in knee <.
When turning left hand : painful.
Attempting to walk : knee causes limping ; can only place tip of foot on floor.
Walking : vertigo, staggering.
Can hardly walk up stairs : weakness of chest.
Walking fast : < headache.
Active exertion : causes dizziness.
Running about, never sits down or sleeps at night.
Motion : > pain in lower part of abdomen ; dyspnœa, cough, palpitation and pains < ; action of heart feeble, much <.
Must keep in motion day and night.
Restless, inclined to move, not permitting her to sit or sleep.
Violent palpitations drive him out of bed.

Nerves

Excessive excitability ; irritability and sensitiveness.
Restlessness, with inclination to move about, not permitting one to sit or to sleep.
Great weakness and loss of breath, on going up stairs.
Remarkable and unaccountable sense of weakness and loss of breath on going up stairs ; leucorrhœa corroding the linen ; food does not nourish or strengthen her.
Great debility ; sweats, even from talking.
Trembling of limbs or whole body.
Twitching of muscles.
Abdominal reflex chorea ; the stomach, liver, pancreas, abdominal glands, being at fault.
Facial paralysis or epilepsy, following suppression of goitre.

Sleep

Sleeplessness after midnight.
Restless sleep, with vivid or anxious dreams.

Time

Towards morning : cough <.
Morning : weakness ; teeth yellow, covered with much mucus ; much mucus in mouth ; diarrhœa ; faint on getting up ; hoarseness, and tickling and tingling in larynx ; raw sensation in left bronchus ; dry cough ; cough as from a feather ;
cough moist but harsh ; sweat following cough ; weariness of arms ; debilitating sweat.
From morning till evening : empty eructations.
At 3 A. M. : pain in lower part of abdomen.
At 11 A. M. : longs for food.
Early in day : dry cough.
During day : chilly ; salty expectoration.
All day : hot, dry skin ; hoarseness and tickling in larynx.
Afternoon : violent aching at base of occiput ; for several hours fever remits.
Evening : sneezing ; stoppage of nose ; itching and burning of anus ; pulse small and frequent ; discharge from knee <.
Night : heart palpitates "like lightning ;" pulsations felt at pit of stomach ; watery, fluent coryza ; burning and itching at anus ; subjective dry heat ; sweats ; dyspnœa ; chronic cough < ; disagreeable tickling in throat ;
cough < ; restless ; sleepless ; pain in bones of arms ; pains in joints ; cold feet ; very profuse sweats.
After midnight : sleeplessness.

Temperature and weather

Aggravation : warmth ; wrapping up head ; cannot bear hat on.
Amelioration : cold air ; washing in cold water.
Rachitic children cannot bear warmth.
Warm room : cough < ; shaking chill.
Warm air : < throbbing in head.
Warm weather : great tendency to take cold.
External warmth : relaxed mamma <.
Cannot bear warmth or a warm room.
Heat : < piles.
Inclination to uncover.
Open air : dry coryza becomes fluent.
Wet weather : cough <.
Damp day : caught cold, cough.
Drinking cold milk : constipation >.
Cold baths : < violent palpitations.

Fever

Shaking chill, or chilliness, in a warm room.
Hands, nose, feet icy cold ; cold feet the whole night.
Chill predominates, is cold most of the time.
Chill, frequently, alternating with heat.
Fever with dry skin, weak and rapid pulse, twitching of muscles, and more coldness than heat of skin.
Internal heat, with coldness of skin.
Flushes of heat ; ebullitions and pulsations.
Heat or sweat, with inclination to uncover.
Burning heat of hands.
Quartan fever, with diarrhœa on days free from fever.
Sallow, distressed countenance. θ Intermittent.
Left hypochondriac region hard and acutely painful to pressure. θ Intermittent fever.
Intense pain in ileo-cecal region ; bloody, watery diarrhœa ; great irritation of nervous system ; picking at flocks ; delirium. θ Typhoid.
Palms of hands sweat continually.
Cold feet sweat easily ; so acrid that it corrodes skin.
Debilitating, sour sweat in morning, with great weakness of limbs ; much thirst.
Sweat with thirst.
Very profuse night sweat ; profuse, cold, viscid sweat.
Profuse night sweats, with great emaciation and debility, and tendency to take cold, especially in warm weather.

Attacks, periodicity

Frequent paroxysms of severe short but continuous coughs, one rapidly following the other.
Periodical attacks of pain about heart.
Occasional severe attacks of spasmodic cough.
Every time after taking cold : jerking pains in legs.
Every few hours : must eat.
For several hours in afternoon : fever remits.
Every afternoon : dry heat ; thirst ; confusion of head.
Several times during day : pressure in region of larynx.
Every third day : attacks of gastrodynia.
Menses delayed eight days.
At each return of menses : thyroid gland painful.
For several months : has been compelled to stay in bed.
Six months : menses absent.
Often in Fall : cough.
For several years : leucorrhœa alternating with cough.

Locality and direction

Right : constant tearing pains around eye ; small scab in nostril ; pain in hypochondrium ; pain in ovary ; sensitiveness of ovarian region ; tenderness and pain in ovarian region ; burning pain below hip ; creaking, leathery noise, over
middle and lower third of lung ; pain in side ; lower lobes of lung affected ; clavical region sunken ; empty percussion sound on side of chest ; bronchial respiration ; increase of size of neck ; swelling of axilla ; small boil on posterior surface of
upper arm.
Left : vertigo on side ; hypertrophy of ventricle ; sharp, pressive pain in upper part of side of forehead ; headache on side ; suppurating ulcer on cheek ; hypochondriac region hard and acutely painful to pressure ; incarceration of flatus in side of
abdomen ; pain in ovarian region ; ovary tender to pressure ; raw sensation in bronchus ; marked projection of second and third ribs ; tearing in elbow ; back of hand painful ; sharp pain between hip and head of femur ; violent, itching nettlerash,
inside of knee ; outer side of knee nettlerash ; hypochondriac region painful to pressure and hard.
Hard boil on forearm near wrist.
From back to front : burning pain below right hip.

Sensations

Brain felt as if it was stirred up ; as if going crazy ; as if a tape or band was tightly drawn around head ; brain feels as if stirred around with a spoon ; as though a foreign substance was inside of brain ; like a veil before eyes ; pain in
eyes as from excoriation ; as if alæ nasi were spread wide open ; as though he had sharp vinegar in mouth ; as if every particle of food was turned into air ; as if a plug was driven from right ovary to womb ; as if mamma would fall off ; pharynx as if
swollen ; cough as from a feather in throat ; as if something resisted expansion in chest ; as if heart was squeezed together ; as if heart was grasped by an iron hand ; arm as if paralyzed ; left hand as if swollen ; blister on knee looks as if full of
bile.
Pain : in eyes ; in occiput and temples ; from inner canthus to articulation of jaw ; in throat ; in œsophagus ; in chest ; in liver through to shoulder blade ; in hepatic region ; in right hypochondrium ; in right ovary passing down
broad ligament to uterus ; in ovaries and back during menses ; in lower part of abdomen ; in left ovarian region ; in right ovarian region ; in loins and small of back ; in larynx ; in forehead ; extending to upper third of sternum ; in right
side, about heart ; in head ; in sacrum and coccyx ; in bones of arm on which he lies ; in elbows ; in bones.
Violent, excruciating pain in stomach.
Intense pain : in ileo-cecal region.
Acute pain : in mamma ; in thyroid gland.
Violent nightly pain : in joints.
Great anguish : with cough ; precordial.
Sharp, tearing pain : between left hip and head of femur.
Constant tearing pain : around right eye, passing backwards from inner canthus to articulation of jaw.
Tearing : in left elbow ; in chest.
Lancinating pain : in region of trachea.
Sharp, quick, piercing pains : in chest ; in region of heart.
Cutting pains : in intestines ; in abdomen.
Erratic tearing : in knee.
Stabbing : in chest.
Shooting stitches : in knee.
Stitches : in hepatic region ; in region of larynx ; in region of pharynx ; in chest and side ; in small of back.
Sharp, pressive pain : in upper part of side of forehead.
Throbbing pain : in head.
Burning pain : in throat ; in chest ; below right hip.
Burning, stinging tension : in integuments of chest.
Corroding pains : in stomach.
Severe abdominal pain : in region of ovary.
Violent colic and colicky pains.
Drawing pains : in lungs ; in region of kidneys.
Gnawing pains : in stomach.
Jerking pains : in legs.
Spasmodic pains : in stomach.
Forcing pain : in spermatic cord and testicles.
Pinching : around navel.
Pricking : in knee.
Dull, pressing, wedge-like pain : from ovary to womb.
Dull pain : deep in knee joint.
Pain like rheumatisms : in back.
Violent aching : at base of occiput.
Aching, pressing pain : in spermatic cords and testicles.
Pressive pains : in vertex.
Heavy, oppressive pain : in region of heart.
Painful pressure : in abdomen ; in vertex ; in region of larynx ; of pharynx.
Smarting : in eyes ; in region of trachea.
Soreness : in rectum ; of mamma ; about larynx ; of throat and chest ; in larynx ; extending to upper third of sternum ; of lip and chin.
Burning heat : of hands.
Glowing heat : in head and face.
Burning : in anus ; in piles ; in throat ; in chest ; in knee.
Heat : in larynx.
Bearing down : in genitals ; in seminal cord.
Painfulness : of tongue ; of ulcers on gums ; in corns.
Painful weakness : of extensors.
Intense painfulness : of glands on inside of cheek.
Sensitiveness : of right ovarian region.
Raw sensation : in left bronchus ; in larynx and bronchial tubes to chest.
Tenderness : of epigastrium ; about hepatic region.
Dull pressure in frontal sinuses.
Dulness : in head.
Pressure : on a small spot above root of nose ; in hepatic region ; in region of stomach ; in testicles extending to abdomen ; in throat ; on chest ; in region of kidneys ; in pit of stomach.
Oppressive, dull feeling : in head ; in chest ; under sternum.
Heaviness : of both mamma ; on chest.
Confusion : of head.
Twisting sensation : in seminal cord.
Tightness : about larynx ; at stomach.
Tension : in abdomen ; in testicles ; of neck.
Constriction : about larynx ; of throat ; of chest ; in goitre.
Contraction : of larynx.
Throbbing : all over body ; in head at every motion ; of abdominal aorta.
Palpitation : felt at pit of stomach.
Pulsations : in pit of stomach ; in abdomen.
Sensation of fluctuation : in knee.
Unendurable tickling : through whole chest.
Continual tickling : in middle of chest.
Tingling : in larynx.
Tickling : in larynx ; in throat ; in pit of throat.
Irritation : in larynx.
Roughness : under sternum.
Numb feeling : in thighs and legs.
Paralytic feeling : of arms.
Great weariness : of arms and legs.
Great weakness : in chest ; in heart.
Weight : at stomach.
Creepy sensation : in skin.
Violent itching nettlerash on thigh and inside of left knee.
Itching, stinging : in front part of septum narium ; in protuberance on nose ; of anus ; low down in lungs behind sternum, extending to bronchi and nasal cavity ; of scars.

Tissues

Gradual or rapid emaciation, almost to a skeleton.
Atrophy of children, with inordinate appetite ; restless ; desires to change position continually ; face yellow, or brownish and shrunken ; copious and papescent stools ; glands swollen and painless, especially mesenteric ones.
Marasmus with intolerable irritability, child will be approached by no one.
Scrofulosis with emaciation, in spite of necessity of eating every few hours ; swelling and induration of glands, the whole of lymphatic system being involved ; rachitic affections ; inflammation of eyes and eyelids ; otitis and otorrhœa ; swelling of
mesenteric glands ; frequent catarrhs ; bronchocele ; scrofulous women with dwindling of and falling away of mamma.
A colored child, two years old, with the face of an old man, dry skin, large head and stomach, very large genitals, thin arms and legs, is hardly able to stand, sits by preference out doors in the burning sun of the tropics ; is always hungry ; has a
blood boil on left forearm near the wrist ; Iodium was followed by a fine eruption, resembling itch when the child began to improve and got well.
Low cachectic state of the system, with feeble pulse.
In strumous habits, if expectoration or leucorrhœal discharge corrode the linen.
Syphilis : mercurial cachexia ; salivation ; ulcers in throat ; skin and muscles lax ; nightly bone pain ; very hard chronic buboes.
Arthritic affections.
Hypertrophy and induration of glands.
Inveterate cases of goitre ; the harder they feel, and the more other symptoms are wanting, the better indicated.
Felons.
Bleeding ulcers, destitute of feeling ; hard, spongy and sensitive ulcers, with feeling of tenseness and soreness ; pus copious, bloody, and corroding, or thin, watery, and yellow.
Very profuse suppuration ; enormous quantities of pus with hectic.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : gums painful ; hepatic region painful ; knee <.
Pressure : < pain in œsophagus ; region of liver sore ; epigastrium painful ; left hypochondriac region very painful ; from pit of stomach to navel and in corresponding region in back sensitiveness ; left ovary tender ; causes acute pain in thyroid
gland ; back of left hand painful ; pain in knee < ; on patella causes great pain ; l. hypochondriac region painful.
Friction : > violent palpitations.
When riding long time in open carriage.
After neglected injury : large swelling of knee.

Skin

Skin : rough ; dry ; dirty yellow ; clammy ; moist ; cool.
Eruption : furfuraceous ; humid ; like scarlet rash ; herpes ; ringworm ; acne ; urticaria ; inveterate impetigo scrofulosa.
High fever with great weakness ; for some days slight eruption, not distinctly characteristic ; frequent attacks of anxiety and oppression of breathing, with faintness, especially in night ; weakness always increasing, so that fatal paralysis of
heart was apprehended ; developed the eruption. θ Small-pox.
Scarlatina : ulcers in throat ; glands swollen, suppurating ; everything appears bright blue to him in the distance.
Small, dry, red pimples on arms, chest and back.
Scars itch, break open, or pimples break out on them.
Tendency to papula, small boils and abscesses.
Nodosities.
Morbus maculosus.
Fungus articularis after measles.
Tertiary syphilis, with ulceration of skin.

Stage of life, constitution

Dark hair and eyes.
Overgrown boys with weak chest ; aged persons.
Scrofulous diathesis.
Low cachectic condition with profound debility and great emaciation.
Boy, æt. 6 months, affection of eyes ; hydrocele.
Infant, æt. 10 months, early in life had marasmus ; spasms of glottis.
Boy, æt. 14 months, dark eyes, light hair, rickets ; laryngismus stridulus.
Colored boy, æt. 2, old face and wise look ; marasmus.
Girl, æt. 2 1/2, vigorous constitution ; membranous laryngitis.
Boy, æt. 4 ; diphtheria.
Boy, æt. 8, scrofulous ; inflammation of knee.
Girl, æt. 10, scrofulous, had swollen submaxillary glands for several months ; diphtheritis.
Girl, æt. 10, scrofulous ; croupous inflammation of pharynx.
Girl, æt. 11 ; inflammation of knee.
Girl, æt. 12, lymphatic temperament, fair complexion, delicate constitution, general health feeble, and menses not yet appeared, suffering one year ; goitre.
Girl, æt. 12, during attack of rheumatism ; threatened inflammation of brain.
Girl, æt. 16, bilious-lymphatic temperament, suffering one year, since date of first menstruation ; goitre.
Girl, æt. 18, slender form, after exposure on ice, while skating ; pneumonia.
Girl, æt. 18, brunette, features regular but pale, mild, peaceful disposition, almost phlegmatic, menses regular for some years and of general good health ; goitre.
Girl, æt. 20, after neglected injury ; inflammation of knee.
Girl, æt. 20, large, thin, phthisical habits ; threatened tuberculosis.
Woman, æt. 20, after a long illness ; heart disease.
Miss L., æt. 21 ; deafness.
Man, æt. 21, tailor, poor and ill nourished, lymphatic temperament and scrofulous, suffering several months ; goitre.
Woman, æt. 22, medium height, blue eyes, light auburn hair, sanguine-nervous temperament, predisposed to consumption ; galactorrhœa.
Young man, lymphatic temperament, full habit, suffering two years ; headache.
Young man, swollen nose, enlarged thyroid ; chronic bronchitis.
Girl, æt. 22, of phthisical family ; consumption.
Woman, æt. 25, married for three months, general health good, sudden attack ; goitre.
Man, æt. 27, after muscular exertion and subsequent exposure to cold ; pneumonia.
Man, slender, nervous-bilious temperament, of strong likes and dislikes ; mania.
Woman, æt. 28, after being delivered of a healthy child, was found to be as large as at full term, from dropsical effusion ; a month afterwards four and a half gallons of a thick, dark and highly albuminous fluid were removed by ordinary paracentesis ; about a year afterwards,
at seventh month of a second pregnancy, four and a half gallons of fluid were drawn off, and six weeks later a normal labor occurred, and again, in about three months, four gallons of fluid were removed by aspiration ; the effusion, however, continued, and ovariotomy was believed to be
the only remedy ; ovarian cyst.
Pregnant woman, æt. 30 ; small-pox.
Man, æt. 32, small and weak, dark hair, mild disposition, works much in cold water ; has suffered from cardiac and hemorrhoidal troubles ; affection of testicles.
Man, æt. 34 ; pneumonia.
Woman, suffering for one and a half years ; chronic jaundice.
Man, æt. 40, innkeeper ; affection of pancreas.
Colored woman, æt. 42, suffered for twenty years ; chronic ovaritis.
Woman, æt. 50, has suffered very much for several years ; leucorrhœa.
Man, æt. 58, general health good, could not remember when tumor first came ; goitre.
Man, æt. 58, suffering 15 years ; goitre.
Man, æt. 62, six years ago had itch ; inflammation of knee.
Man, æt. 64 ; jaundice.
Woman, æt. 70, two months ago caught cold on a damp day ; bronchitis.
Woman, æt. 70, after catching cold ; cough.

Relations

Antidoted by : starch or wheat flour mixed with water in case of large doses ; small doses by ; Ant. tart., Arsen., Bellad., Camphor., Cinch. sulph., Cinchona, Coffea, Hepar, Opium, Phosphor., Spongia, Sulphur .
It antidotes : Mercur .
Compatible : after Mercur ., after Hepar in croup, after Arsen. ; Acon., Argent. nitr., Calc. ostr., Merc. sol., Phosphor., Pulsat . frequently follow well.
Compare : Bromine, Cactus, Caustic., Conium, Digit., Kali bich., Phos. ac .
Complementary : Lycop .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Anxiety

This remedy in all of its complaints whether acute or chronic, has a peculiar kind anxiety that is felt both in mind and body.

It seems also that this state of anxiety is attended with a thrill that goes throughout his frame unless he removes it by motion or change of position. The anxiety comes on when trying to keep still, and the more he tries to keep still the more the anxious state increases. While attempting to keep still, he is overwhelmed with impulses, impulses to tear things, to kill himself, to commit murder, to do violence.

He cannot keep still and so he walks night and day. This remedy carries the same feature with it into the Iodide of Potassium, so that it makes the Iodide of Potassium patient walk. But there is this difference, the Kali iod . patient can walk long distances without fatigue, and the walking only seems to wear off his anxiety, whereas in Iodine there is great exhaustion; he becomes extremely exhausted from walking and sweats copiously even from slight exertion.

Iodine corresponds to those cases in which it seems that there is some dreadful thing coming on; the mind threatens to give out. Insanity threatens, Or the graver forms of disease are threatening, such as are present in the advanced stages of suppressed malaria, in old cases of chills, in threatened phtysie, especially abdominal.

Hypertrophy

runs through the remedy.

There is enlargement of the liver, spleen, ovaries, testes, lymphatic glands, cervical glands, of all the glands except the mammary glands. The mammoe dwindle while all other glands become enlarged, nodular and hard.

This enlargement of the glands is especially observed among the lymphatic glands of the abdomen, the mesenteric glands.

There is this peculiar circumstance also in Iodine, viz., that while the body withers the glands enlarge. That is peculiar and will enable you to think of Iodine, because the glands grow in proportion to the dwindling of the body and the emaciation of the limbs. We find this state in marasmus. There is withering throughout the body, the muscles shrink, the skin wrinkles and the face of the child looks like that of a little old person, but the glands under the arms, in the groin and in the belly are enlarged and hard.

The mesenteric glands can be felt as knots. We see the same tendency in old cases of malaria coming from the allopaths in which Quinine and Arsenic have been extensively used and the chills have kept on; the face and the upper part of the body are withered, the skin looks shriveled and yellow; a diarrhoea has come on, the liver and spleen are enlarged and the lymphatic glands of the belly can be felt. Even in the earlier stages, when these states are only threatening, we may look forward and see that the case is progressing toward an Iodine state.

Now take a patient that is suffering from intermittent fever brought on from malaria, or damp cellars. The patient grows increasingly hot; it is not always a febrile heat, but a sensation of heat; he wants to be bathed in cold water, wants the face and body cooled by cold sponging; he suffocates and coughs in a warm room, dreads heat, sweats easily and easily becomes exhausted. It is in this kind of a constitution that acute complaints will come on, such as acute inflammatory conditions of the mucous membranes and gastritis, inflammation of the liver, inflammation of the spleen, diarrhoea, croup, inflammation of the throat.

The throat even becomes covered with white spots and is tumid and red, and ibis extends down into the larynx; it may even have a deposit upon it like diphtheria. Iodine has cured diphtheria, when the exudation resembling the diphtheria exudations, was present in the stool. A constitution tending this way may bring on croup with an exudate, and we can see that it is going towards Iodine. In every region of the body peculiar little things come out. If we do not see to the full extent the constitution of the remedy, we will not recognize the tendency of the patient, when progressing unfavorably.

Mind

The mental state of this patient is that of excitement, anxiety, impulses, melancholy; he wants to do something, wants to hurry; he has impulses to kill. In this it is very closely related to Arsenicum and Hepar.

The Arsenicum and Hepar patients also have impulses to commit murder without being offended and without cause. The sensitiveness to heat will at once decide, for while Iodine is warm-blooded the Arsenicum and Hepar patients are always chilly.

The impulse to do violence is sudden. There are remedies that have peculiar impulses, impulses without any cause. These impulses are seen in cases of impulsive insanity; an insanity in which there is an impulse to do violence and strange things, and when the patient is asked why he does these things he says he does not know.

The patient may not be known to be insane in anything else; he may be a good business man. Remedies also have this. These things are forerunners. It is recorded under Hepar that a barber had an impulse w cut the throat of his patron with the razor while shaving him.

The Nux vomica patient has an impulse to throw her child into the fire, or to kill her husband whom she dearly loves. The thought comes into her mind and increases until she becomes actually insane and beyond control and the impulse is carried into action.

A Natrum sulph. patient will say,

"Doctor, you do not know how I have to resist killing myself.

An impulse to do it comes into my mind."

Iodine has the impulse to kill, not from anger, not from any sense of justice, but without any cause. An overwhelming anger is often a cause for violence but the impulses are not of that sort in Iodine.

While reading; or thinking placidly at times a patient may have an impulse to do himself violence, and this finally grows until the end is a form of impulsive insanity.

The Iodine patient becomes weak in mind as well as in body; he is forgetful, cannot remember the little things, they pass out of the mind. He forgets what he was about to say or do; goes off and leaves packages he has purchased.

The forgetfulness is extensive. But with all these states, do not forget one thing, that the patient is compelled to keep doing something in order to drive away his impulses and anxiety.

The anxiety is wearing and distressing unless be keeps busy. Though mentally prostrated, he is compelled to keep busy and to continue the work, which increases the prostration of mind. You tell a man who is threatened with softening of the brain, from overwork, from anxiety and labor in literary work,

"You must stop working, you must rest."

"Why," he will say,

"If I do I would die or go mad."

Such a state comes under Iodine and Arsenicum , but there is one grand distinction by which the two remedies are seen to part company at once.

The Iodine patient is warm-blooded, wants a cool place to move in, and to think in, and to work in, whereas the Arsenicum patient wants heat, wants a warm room, wants to be warmly clothed, and suffers from the cold.

Iodine suffers from the heat. So that while the restlessness and anxiety, which are both of body and mind in each remedy, loom up before the mind as one, if the patient is a hot-blooded patient we would never think of Arsenicum; if a cold-blooded and shivering patient we would never think of Iodine.

Among the generals we first mentioned was the tendency to enlarged glands. Iodine has often cured a group of symptoms coming in the constitution that I have named, viz.; enlargement of the heart, enlargement of the thyroid and protruding eyeballs.

Now, if you have one of these patients (suppose it has been sent to you by somebody who knows no better than to call it exophthalmic goitre), those things that are so essential to the name of the disease, as they call it, would not be an indication for the remedy, but the indications would be found among those circumstances that I have given you that are outside of the projection of the eyes, the enlargement of the thyroid, the hypertrophy of the heart and the cardiac disturbances.

If the patient is emaciated, is sallow, suffers from heat, has enlarged glands, and the other symptoms of this medicine, you may expect after its administration an ultimate cessation of the group of symptoms that are selected to name the disease by. Brain troubles, acute and chronic, sometimes call for Iodine.

Head

The head throbs, the body throbs, there are pulsations all over, and the throbbing extends to the finger ends and the toes; throbbing in the pit of the stomach, heavy pulsations felt in the arms, pulsations in the back, throbbing in the temporal bone. There are congestive head aches with violent pain.

The head pains are aggravated from motion, but the patient is relieved from motion. The patient moves because his anxiety is relieved by motion, but every motion increases the head pains and the pulsation. Such distinctions are necessary. To distinguish between what is predicated of the patient and what i s predicated of a part is an essential in the study of the Materia Medica.

Everything that is predicated of the patient is general, everything that is predicated of a part is particular. The two may be opposite, and hence the student of the Materia Medica will sometimes be worried because he will find aggravation from motion and relief from motion recorded under the same remedy. It is only from the source of the Materia Medica, i. e., the provings, and from the administration of the remedy that we may observe what is true of a part and what is true of the whole.

We find at times a patient wants to be in a hot room with the head out of the window for relief of the head. In that case the head is relived from cold and the body is relieved from heat. This is a typical symptom of Phosphorus, which has relief from cold as to the head and stomach symptoms, but aggravation from cold as to its chest and body symptoms.

Eo, if the Phosphorus patient has vomiting and head symptoms, he says:

"I want to go out in the open air and I want to take cold things into my stomach;" but if he has chest symptoms and pain in the extremities, he says:

"I want to go into the house and keep warm."

And just as we see this in patients it is so in the study of a remedy; we must discriminate.

Eyes

As you may except, all sorts of eye troubles are present in this debilitated constitution.

The so-called scrofulous affections of the eyes, with ulceration of the cornea, catarrhal troubles, discharge from the eyes, enlargement of the little glands of the lids, come along with the emaciation and yellow countenance in the constitution described. Optical illusions in bright colors. An oedematous state is in keeping with Iodine.

There is oedematous swelling of the lids and oedematous swelling of the face under the eyes. Iodine has also oedema of the hands and feet, and carries this tendency with it into the Iodide of Potassium, which has oedematous swellings like those we find in kidney affections. it is capable of putting a stop to cases of Bright’s disease in the early stages.

Hunger

Another grand feature that runs through the complaints of Iodine is hunger.

He is always hungry. The eating of the ordinary and regular meals is not sufficient. He eats between meals and yet is hungry. Moreover the complaints are better after eating.

All the fears, the anxiety and distress of Iodine increase when he is hungry. There is pain in the stomach when the stomach is empty, and he is driven to eat. While eating he forgets his complaints, because it is like doing something, it is like moving, his mind is upon something else. He is relieved while eating and he is relieved while in motion. In spite of the hunger and much eating he still emaciates.

"Living well yet growing thin," was one of Hering's key-notes of Iodine.

As in Natr. mur. and Abrotanum , he emaciates while he has at the same time an enormous appetite. The nutrition is so disturbed that there is no making of flesh, and hence the emaciation.

Nose

The catarrhal condition of the nose is worthy of notice.

The Iodine patient has loss of the sense of smell. The mucous membrane is thickened; he takes cold upon the slightest provocation; is always sneezing and has from the nose a copious watery discharge.

Ulceration in the nose with bloody crusts; he blows blood from the nose. The nose is stuffed up so that he cannot breathe through it.

This increases every time he takes cold, and he is continually taking cold hence he becomes a confirmed subject of catarrh. I have described the general state. The patient is the first to be thought of. His constitution is the first thing to know, i. e., what is true of the patient as a whole. After that we can find out what is true of each of his parts.

The mucous membrane of the nose is constantly in a state of ulceration, or has a tendency to ulceration. Sometimes these little ulcers are deep.

There are aphthous patches along the tongue and throughout the mouth. The whole buccal cavity is studded with aphthous patches.

I have mentioned already the tendency to exudation; white velvety, or white-grayish or pale ash-colored exudations come upon the sore throat, all over the mucous membrane of the nose and all over the pharynx.

The pharynx seems to be lined with the velvety, ash colored appearances. With these throat symptoms and the tendency to ulceration it has a wide range of usefulness in throat affections. It is useful in enlargement of the tonsils when the tonsils are studded with exudations and in the constitution described.

Enlarged tonsils in hungry, withered patients. We often see one who is subject to quinsy progressing toward the Iodine state. He is always suffering from the heat like a Pulsatilla patient; at times in the earlier stages, before any organic changes have taken place, you may mistake Iodine for Pulsatilla. But if you watch the patient you will observe the tendency to emaciation and see that the two remedies soon part company.

They are both hot, they are both irritable, they are both full of notions. The Pulsatilla patient is far more whimsical, more tearful, has greater sadness, and has constant loss of appetite, while the Iodine subject wants to eat much.

The Pulsatilla patient often increases in flesh, although growing increasingly nervous. The Iodine patient becomes thin, has a ravenous hunger, cannot be satisfied, suffers from his hunger; he must eat every few hours and feels better after eating; he has also great thirst. If he goes long without eating, no matter what the complaints are, the suffering will increase. Any of the complaints of iodine will likely be increased by fasting.

Iodine has also an indigestion that comes from overeating. The food sours, he is troubled with sour eructations, with much flatulence, with belching, with undigested stools, with diarrhoea, watery, cheesy stools, and he digests less and less. The digestion becomes more and more feeble until he digests almost nothing of what he eats, and yet the craving increases. He vomits and diarrhoea comes on and so he increasingly emaciates; because it is like burning the candle at both, ends. It is not surprising that he is extremely weak because lie is assimilating very little of what he takes.

The articles of food act as foreign substances to disorder his bowels and stomach. Now, with this trouble going on, the liver and spleen become hard and enlarged, and the patient becomes jaundiced. The stool is hard, lumpy and white, or colorless, or clay colored, sometimes soft and pappy; there seems to be little or no bile in it.

This stage gradually increases until hypertrophy of the liver comes on. Finally the abdomen sinks ill and reveals this enlargement of the liver and the enlarged lymphatic glands.

These are very knotty and as hard as in tabes mesenterica. Iodine is indicated in the tubercular condition of the mesenteric glands with diarrhoea, emaciation, great hunger, great thirst, withering of the mammary glands, a dried beef-like or shriveled appearance of the skin and sallow complexion. If the remedy is given early enough, before the structural changes have occurred, it will check the progress of the disease and cure.

Diarrhea

This is a very useful remedy in the chronic morning diarrhea of emaciated, scrofulous children.

When the constitutional state is present it is primary to the varying kinds of stools that it is possible for the patient to have.

So if you have a marked state of the constitution, a case in which there are a great number of general symptoms for you to associate the remedy with, the little symptoms of the diarrhoea cease to be important. The constitutional state in that patient is that which is "strange, rare and peculiar."

Almost any kind of diarrheic stool will be cured if the constitutional state is covered by the remedy.

When it is an acute diarrhoea and it occurs in a vigorous constitution, and there is nothing but the diarrhoea, then it is necessary to know all the finer details, and the characteristics of the diarrhoea become the rare,

"strange and peculiar" features.

Incontinence of urine in old people. In the male with all these constitutional symptoms iodine is especially suited when the testes have dwindled, when there is impotency, when there is flowing of semen with dreams, when there is loss of sexual instinct or power, or with an irritated state, an erethism of the sexual instinct; also when the testes are enlarged and hard, indurated and hypertrophied like the other glands, or when there is an orchitis, an inflammation and enlargement of the testicles.

Swelling and induration of the uterus and ovaries. Iodine has cured tumors of the ovaries in such a constitution as I have described. It has cured the dwindling of the mammary glands and caused them to grow plump with an increase of flesh upon dwindling patients.

Its nature to produce the catarrhal state is illustrated in the leucorrhea that it produces. Uterine leucorrhoea with swelling and induration of the cervix. Uterus enlarged, tendency to menorrhagia. Leucorrhea rendering the thighs sore.

The discharges of Iodine are acrid. The discharges from the nose excoriate the lip, the discharges from the eyes excoriate the cheek, the discharges from the vagina excoriate the thighs. The leucorrhoea is thick and slimy and sometimes bloody; "chronic leucorrhoea, most abundant at the time of the menses, rendering the thighs sore and corroding the linen."

This remedy has a cough that is violent; it has grave and severe difficulties of respiration, dyspnoea, with chest symptoms.

Croupy, suffocating cough in this delicate constitution. Again we say if you do not hold in mind the constitutional state while reading these very numerous respiratory symptoms, you will not be able to apply them because they are extensive and include a great many so-called complaints and would give you difficulty in individualizing them.

Now, there is one more complaint that I wish to call your attention to. In old gouty constitutions, with enlargement of the joints, the history is that the patients were once in a good state of flesh, but they have become lean, and although they are hungry, the food does not seem to do them good. The joints are enlarged and tender.

Many gouty constitutions want a warm room, but the Iodine patient wants a cool room. His joints pain and are aggravated from the warmth of bed. He cheers up in a cool place and likes to be in the open air.

He is growing increasingly weak; he is generally ameliorated on moving about and eating, he has the anxiety of body and mind.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

Characteristic

Persons of a scrofulous diathesis, with dark hair and eyes; a low cachectic condition with profound debility and great emaciation (Abrot.).

Great weakness and loss of breath on going up stairs (Cal.); during the menses (Alum., Carbo a., Coc.).

Empty eructations from morning till evening, as if every particle of food was turned into air (Kali c.).

Ravenous hunger; eats freely and well, yet loses flesh all the time (Abrot., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.).

Suffers from hunger, must eat every few hours, anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina, Sulph.); feels > while eating or after eating, when stomach is full.

Itching: low down in the lungs, behind the sternum; causing cough. Extends through bronchi to nasal cavity (Coc. c., Con., Phos.). Hypertrophy and induration of the glands—thyroid, mammæ, ovaries, testes, uterus, prostate or other glands—breasts may dwindle and become flabby.

Hard goitre, in dark-haired persons (light-haired, Brom.); feels > after eating.

Palpitation, worse from least exertion (from least motion, Dig.—from least mental emotion, Cal. ars., Lith. c.).

Sensation as if the heart was squeezed together; as if grasped with an iron hand (Cac., Sulph.).

Leucorrhœa: acrid, corrosive, staining and corroding the linen; most abundant at time of menses.

Cancerous degeneration of the cervix; cutting pains in abdomen and hemorrhage at every stool.

Constipation, with ineffectual urging > by drinking cold milk.

Croup: membranous, hoarse, dry cough, < in warm wet weather; with wheezing and sawing respiration (Spong.); especially in overgrown psoric boys.

Child grasps the larynx (Cepa); face pale and cold, especially in fleshy children.

Relations

Complementary to: Lycopodium.

Follows well: after Hep., Mer.; is followed by Kali bi. in croup.

Acts best in goitre when given after full moon, or when the moon is waning.—LIPPE.

Aggravation

Warmth; wrapping up the head; cannot bear hat on (rev. of Hep., Psor.).

Amelioration

Cold air; washing in cold water.

Type

Quartan; tertian. Sporadic La Grippe; tubercular.

Time

Any hour; often at night.

Chill

Shaking chill, or unusual chilliness, even when in a warm room. Hands, nose, feet icy cold; cold feet the whole night. Chill frequently alternating with heat.

Heat

Quartan fever, with a constant diarrhœa on the days free from fever (urticaria when fever has been suppressed, Elat.). Hot flushes of heat over the body (Fer., Sep.). Internal heat, with coldness of the surface. Burning heat of the hands (burning heat of palms of hands and soles of feet, with cold feet, Sul.). Fever with dry skin, weak and rapid pulse, twitching of the muscles, and more coldness than heat of skin.

Sweat

With thirst. Debilitating, sour sweat all over in the morning hours, with great weakness of the limbs. Profuse, cold, viscid sweat at night. Palms of hands sweat continually. Cold feet sweat easily; so acrid that it corrodes the skin (Graph.).

Tongue

Thickly coated, brown in centre, white at the edges. Salivation; salty or sour.

Pulse

Large, hard, with orgasm of blood and throbbing in vessels especially in larger arterial trunks; weak, rapid, thready, irregular; accelerated by every slight exertion.

Apyrexia

Countenance sallow; distressed look; ravenous hunger, must eat every few hours; left hypochondriac region hard and acutely sensitive to pressure. Emaciation, debility, restlessness Gets anxious and worried if he does not eat, yet loses flesh all the time while eating freely.

Analysis

The general characteristic symptoms are the only guides; symptoms of the paroxysm not marked. Fevers of

Iodine often occur in tubercular persons, and may be result of suppressed intermittent by quinine.