ANTIMONIUM OXIGENATUM (or OXIGENISATUM)

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.