Iodoformum

Iodoform, CHI3.

Preparation , Triturations (pure crystals soluble, 1 part to 80 of alcohol).

Authorities.

1 , Dr. B. F. Underwood, effects of inhalation during the process of trituration, Trans. N. Y. State Hom. Med. Soc., 9, 237; 1 a , same, proving with 1 gr. of 2d cent. trit., repeated after two hours; 1 b , same, effect of one drop of 3d potency; 2 , Dr. J. W. Haines, Ohio M. and S. Rep. X, p. 175, proving with 2d and 3d dec. dils. in J. H., aged 24; 3 , same, proving by J. D. aged 65, with 1st, 2d, and 3d dec. trits. [Has suffered for twelve years with rheumatism in all his joints; complains very much of his right femur paining him severely, and feeling sore to the touch, just over the neck of the bone; had had a cough for ten months, which troubles him mainly in the morning, becoming harsh and dry towards evening; the sputa raised is a tough green substance and comes up rather easily; towards evening he raises a white frothy sputa when any is raised; is of a somewhat peevish disposition and quite uneasy and restless at times.]

MIND

• Feels quite happy and elated (second and third day), 3.

HEAD

• Confusion.
• Confusion in the head, with slight nausea, 1b.
• Head feels as if he had been intoxicated the day previous (after one hour, second day) and (third day), 3.
• General Head.
• Heavy feeling in the head, and a dull aching just in the top of the head (three hours after second dose, first day), 2.
• Head feels heavy when endeavoring to rise (second and third day), 3.
• Head felt very heavy, as if he could not lift it from the pillow (eight hours and a half after second dose, first night); still felt heavy, aching now and then, pain felt as if in the bones of the skull and mainly on the left side, after awakening (second morning), 2.
• Headache on awakening, 1a.
• Stitching pains in the head, 1a.
• Forehead.
• Dull pains in the forehead, 1. [10.]
• Dull pain in forehead, with shooting in the right ear; worse on coming down stairs, 1b.
• Sharp neuralgic pains in the forehead, worse when stooping, 1.
• Temples.
• Dull pressing pain in both temples, following the pain in the right maxillary bone; temples felt as if something heavy were pressing on them (two hours and twenty minutes after first dose, first day), 2.
• Sharp neuralgic pain in the temples, most on the right side, extending to the back of the head, behind the ears; (these pains seem to define the course of the nerves wherever they are felt), 1.
• Stitches in the temples, 1a.
• Parietals.
• Stitch-pain in the right side of head, 1a.
• Occiput.
• Violent itching of the occiput, 1a.

EYE

• Eyes bloodshot (with pain in eyes), 1a.
• Pain in the eyes; eyes bloodshot, 1a.
• Right eye felt sore and as if bruised (second morning), 2. [20.]
• Eyes smart and burn, but no appearance of any congestion (second and third day), 3.
• Eyes smarting and stinging (six hours after first dose, first day), 3.
• Vision.
• Eyes sensitive to light (second and third day), 3.
• Objects appear tessellated, red (disappeared after rising), 1a.
• The longest continued, and the last to disappear, were the eye symptoms and the peculiar odor, 3.

EAR

• Ears feel dry and feverish (after first dose, first day), 3.
• Ears feel full, dry, and feverish (after one hour, second and third day), 3.
• After stitches leave the ear, the ear feels too full (after first dose, first day), 3.
• Neuralgic pain in the left ear, 1a.
• Stitches in the right ear, 1 ; (six hours after first dose, first day), 3. [30.]
• Shooting in right ear (with dull pain in forehead), 1b.
• Hearing dull (six hours after first dose, first day); does not hear unless spoken to quite loudly (after one hour, second day), 3.

NOSE

• Nose dry, and he complains that he cannot get any discharge from it (second and third day), 3.
• Membrane of nose feels full and dry; keeps constantly snuffing, yet no discharge from the nose (after first dose, first day), 3.
• Smell.
• From the time of taking first dose (11 A.M.) till evening, he had a sensation as of smelling the fumes of Iodine, though none had been about him (first day), 2.
• A peculiar smell, like the odor arising from decaying leaves in a swamp, continuing for eight or nine days (after first dose), 3.
• The longest continued, and the last to disappear, were the peculiar odor and the eye symptoms, 3.

FACE

• Dull pain in right malar bone, 1a.
• Dull pain in left malar bone, 1b.
• Drawing and pressing in the malar bone, 1b. [40.]
• Feeling of stiffness in zygomatic muscles, 1a.
• Slight pain in zygomatic muscles, increased by motion and bending forward, 1a.
• Dryness and stinging of the lips, 1.
• Dull aching, increasing to a heavy pain like something pressing heavily in the right lower maxillary bone, lasting twenty minutes (two hours after first dose, first day), 2.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Toothache in sound teeth, 1.
• Toothache; pain leaving the teeth and going quickly to the temples, during the afternoon (first day), 3.
• Toothache in decayed teeth , most in the upper jaw, and on the right side (these pains come and go quickly), 1.
• Sharp pain in the upper teeth, both sides, 1a.
• Taste.
• Metallic taste in the mouth (second and third day), 3 ; continuing most of the day (second day), 2.

THROAT

• Dryness of throat and lips (first and second days), 3. [50.]
• Dryness of the throat, with rawness on swallowing, 1.
• Dryness of the throat, with bitter taste, 1.
• Stitch-pain in the right side of the throat, 1.

STOMACH

• Nausea, 1.
• Slight nausea at times (second and third day), 3 ; (with confusion in the head), 1b.

ABDOMEN

• Rumbling in the bowels, 1 ; (second and third days), 3.
• Feeling of warmth in the bowels and rectum, with slight nausea and desire for stool; (this has been repeated on four different occasions), 1.
• Cutting pain in the bowels, 1a.
• Flatulent colic, 1, 1a.
• Iliac Region.
• Sharp pain in the right inguinal region, 1a. [60.]
• Sharp cutting in right inguinal region, with desire for stool, 1b.
• Teeth feel sore and as if too long (second day), 2.
• Sore pain in right inguinal region, 1.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Desire for stool (with cutting in right inguinal region, 1b.
• Desire as for a liquid stool, 1a.

STOOL

• Bowels have not been moved for thirty-six hours (second day), 3.
• Bowels not moved as usual; anus felt as if drawn up into the rectum (first day), 2.

URINARY ORGANS

• Urine very yellow, 1a.
• Urine very yellow and smelling like saffron tea (second and third days), 3.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Cough and Expectoration.
• Cough from dryness of the throat, 1. [70.]
• Cough and wheezing from mucus in the throat, on going to bed, 1a.
• (Coughs less and raises easily), (after one hour, second day), 2.
• (Sputa less in amount), (after one hour, second day), 3.
• Respiration.
• Felt as though he were smothering; room felt too close although freely ventilated (eight hours and a half after second dose, first night), 2.

CHEST

• Felt as if something heavy were resting on the chest, preventing a free expansion of the chest; this sensation lasted half an hour, gradually becoming less intense, and as it did so appeared to diffuse itself in the extremities again (nine hours after second dose, first night), 2.
• Pain in the left chest, 1.
• Sharp pain in the right chest, 1a.
• Stitch in right chest, running through to lower angle of shoulder-blade, 1a.
• Chest feels sore when taking a long breath (second and third day), 3.
• Dull sore pain in apex of right lung; on breathing the lung felt as though two ulcerated surfaces were in contact (four hours and a half after first dose, first day), 2. [80.]
• Both lungs feel as if a heavy cold had been taken and had settled there (after nine hours, second day); the soreness in the lungs lasted two day after this, 2.
• Pain concentrated in left breast, very severe; it was estimated a little to the right of the nipple; at first felt as if a deep ulcer had formed there, then became like a hand grasping the base of the heart (nine hours after second dose, first night); aching in left breast at times, but not severe as during the night (second day), 2.

HEART AND PULSE

• Occasional stitches through the heart (second and third day), 3.
• Pulse 88 (nine hours after second dose, first night), 2.

NECK AND BACK

• Back of the neck sore as if bruised (second and third day), 3.
• Pain in the back along the spine, 1.
• Spine feels sore, does not wish it touched (second and third day), 3.
• Sharp pain in the angle of shoulder-blade, 1a.
• Pain along the right side of dorsal vertebræ, 1a.
• Continued pains in the lumbar region, with weakness when straining, 1a.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. [90.]

• Left arm pained severely, also left leg, particularly at the lower half of tibia and fibula, then extending into foot, becoming less in half an hour (eight hours and a half after second dose, first night), 2.
• Left arm and leg pain as if bruised; as pain increases the muscles feel as if ulcerated (second day), 2.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Pain in the course of the median nerve of left arm, 1.
• Rheumatic pain in right arm, 1a.
• Rheumatic pain in the right arm, worse when using it, 1.
• Sharp pains in nerves of left arm and back, 1b.
• Pain in left arm as if bruised, worse when touched, in the morning, 1.
• Stitches in the left shoulder, 1.
• Severe aching in the left humerus; muscles around the bone felt as if severely bruised (four hours after first dose, first day), 2.
• Stitching pain in left arm and shoulder (after two hours, third day), 3. [100.]
• Pain in left elbow, 1.
• Pain in the nerves of the left hand, 1.
• Sharp pain in the nerves of the left hand, 1a.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Rheumatism in the flexor muscles of the legs, 1a.
• Thigh.
• Pain along the course of the left crural nerve, 1.
• Knee.
• Weakness of the knees when going upstairs, 1a.
• Weakness and pain in the knees, worse when standing, 1a.
• Pain in the inside of knees, 1a.
• Neuralgic pain in left knee, 1.
• Leg.
• Rheumatic pain in both gastrocnemii, 1a.
• Ankle. [110.]
• Cutting pain in left ankle, when walking in the open air, 1a.
• Foot.
• Pain in left foot, worse when walking, 1a.
• Stitch-pain in right instep, 1a.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Objective.
• Jerks and shocks in the nerves when trying to sleep, 1b.
• (Is stronger than he has been for some days, yet will not get up out of bed), (after one hour, second day), 3.
• Subjective.
• Susceptible to the heat of the weather, 1b.
• Will not take any more of the medicine, as he says it makes him feel so strangely (third day), 3.
• Feeling of faintness, 1b.
• Thinks he has taken a bad cold (first day), 3.
• Fine sharp pains all over, 1. [120.]
• Pain seems to sharply define the course of the nerves, 1a.
• Neuralgic pains in various parts of the body, 1a.
• Neuralgic pains flying all over him at times, for three days (after two days), 2.
• Pains renewed in bed; right side of head, right shoulder, right arm, hand, fingers, thigh, leg, foot, toes, 1a.
• Pains renewed when riding in the cars, 1a.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Very drowsy, and remained so for two hours (after two hours, second day), 2.
• Wakefulness, 1b.
• Restless sleep, tossing, turning, full of dreams, 1a.
• Sleep restless, and the night spent in turning from side to side; more restless after 2 A.M. (second night), 3.
• Slept soundly until 1.30 A.M., then awakened suddenly; restless and unable to sleep any more till 4.30; then slept about an hour and a half being partially conscious, and the followed a deep heavy sleep; on awakening it seemed as though he could not get aroused (first night), 2. [130.]
• Dreams, confused, of accident, etc., 1a.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Shuddering after urination, which had disappeared after use of remedies, returned, 1a.
• Heat.
• Complains of heat, keeps laying the covers off of the bed (first night), 3.
• Sweat.
• Perspire easily from motion, 1.
• Perspiration on head, 1b.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( When walking in open air ), Pain in ankle.
• ( Descending stairs ), Pain in forehead, etc.
• ( Motion ), Pain in zygomatic muscles.
• ( When riding in cars ), Pains renewed.
• ( Standing ), Weakness, etc., in knees.
• ( Stooping ), Pains in forehead; pain in zygomatic muscles.
• ( Thinking of them ), The pains.
• ( Touching ), The pains.
• ( Walking ), Pain in foot.
• Amelioration.
• ( Sleep ), The symptoms.