ANTIMONIUM OXIGENATUM (or OXIGENISATUM).

By Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Sesquioxide of antimony, Sb2O3 . (Fumes from antimony works.)

Authorities.

A. H. Z., 20, 122; Rev. d. l. Med. Hom., 2, 194.

HEAD

  • Pain in head.
  • Violent headache.
  • Slight headache increases to an intolerable degree.
  • Violent headache, with tearing in the limbs.
  • Stitches through the head from time to time.
  • Lightning-like stitches through the head backward, which suddenly disappear, while the headache in the forehead remains.
  • Violent stitches and burning at the occiput and nape of the neck.
  • Pain in the occiput, especially evenings, violent, stupefying, and so exhausting that he soon falls into an unrefreshing sleep.
  • Continuous fatiguing pain in the forepart of the head, immediately behind the glabella.

MOUTH. [10.]

  • Tongue coated white.

STOMACH

  • Loss of appetite.
  • Diminished appetite.
  • Anorexia.

ABDOMEN

  • Abdomen distended by incarcerated gases.
  • Abdominal pains.
  • Gripings.
  • Colic, without diarrhœa.

STOOL AND ANUS

  • Diarrhœa.
  • Diarrhœa, with griping pains in abdomen, troublesome, frequent, consisting of food evacuated soon after eating.

URINARY ORGANS. [20.]

  • Indescribable lameness in the urinary apparatus.
  • Pains and urging at neck of bladder, and burning in the urethra during urination.
  • Discharge of a few drops of mucus from the urethra.
  • Gonorrhœa-like discharge from the urethra.
  • Painful discharge of urine guttatim.
  • Dysuria, with a mucous discharge, causing sensation of burning in the urethra.
  • Strangury.
  • Urine of a deep orange-yellow color, almost red.
  • Deep-red and bloody urine, causing burning in the urethra, from which exuded a whitish mucus, after cessation of the bloody urine.

SEXUAL ORGANS

  • Dwindling of the penis and testicles. [30.]
  • Penis flaccid.
  • Burning at the glans penis.
  • Want of vigor in the genitals, which approached impotence.
  • Absence of erections.
  • Complete impotence.
  • Complete impotence; no ejaculation of semen, and even no erections.
  • Atrophy of the testicles.
  • Testicles grew smaller.
  • Atrophy of testicles and penis.
  • Pain in testicle. [40.]
  • Pains in the testicles.
  • Decrease of sexual feeling.
  • Absence of sexual feeling.
  • Loss of sexual appetite.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

  • Cough violent, shattering, dry, with stitches in chest.
  • Cough dry, painful, finally ends in a difficult expectoration.
  • Difficult expectoration of tenacious mucus.
  • Respiration audible, from rattling and whistling.
  • Sense of suffocation.
  • Respiration difficult, with mucous and sibilant râles over the chest.

CHEST. [50.]

  • Pain in the chest.
  • Very great constriction of the chest, with stitches.
  • Continued oppression of chest, constriction and irritation to cough.
  • Oppression of chest.
  • Lancinating pain along edge of ribs, and in back.
  • Sharp stitches through the chest, towards the shoulders and back.
  • Violent stitches in chest, with dry cough.

NECK AND BACK

  • Swelling of the cervical glands.
  • Sensitive pains in the loins.
  • Sharp pains in the sacro-lumbar region.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. [60.]

  • Spasms of the limbs.
  • Pain all the limbs.

GENERALITIES

  • Great relaxation of the whole organism.
  • General relaxation and depression.
  • Great weakness.
  • Excessive general irritability.
  • Great sensitiveness.

SKIN

  • Pustular eruption, thick on the lower abdomen.
  • Pustular eruption on neck.
  • Pustular eruption on neck and body. [70.]
  • Pustular eruption thickest on the genitals.
  • Pustular eruption on arms, nates, genitals; prevents walking.
  • Pustular eruption in the bends of the limbs.
  • Pustular eruption of nates.
  • Pustular eruption, especially on thighs and scrotum.
  • Pustular elevations, like pocks, on the scrotum.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

  • Troublesome restlessness at night.
  • Distressing restlessness prevents sleep.
  • Sleeplessness.
  • Fatiguing dreams. [80.]
  • Anxious dreams, and frequent startings.

FEVER

  • Fever.
  • Complaints assume the form of intermittent fever.
  • Profuse perspiration and general weakness.
  • Very profuse and debilitating sweats during sleep.
  • Very tormenting, pouring sweat, every time after sleeping, followed by great exhaustion.
  • Excessive night-sweats.

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