Arsenious Iodide, AsI3, Iodide of Arsenic.

Preparation for use , Trituration.

Authorities.

1 , E. W. Beebe (U. S. M. and S. J., 1, 339), took repeated doses of one grain of the 1st dec.; 2 , W. Jas. Blakely (H. Month., 3, 265), took six doses of the 2d dec. in three days.

HEAD

Headache all over the head (after twenty-five hours), 2.
Bad feeling in head, like a bad cold (third evening), 1.
Woke in the morning with a bad headache, which lasted all day; dull, heavy, with pressing from within outwards, worse on motion, stooping or studying (fourth day), 1.
Head seemed enormously large and heavy, with pain, 1.
Dulness of the head, with dull pain in the left malar bone, and occasional slight frontal headache, the entire morning, 2.
Pain in head prevented sleep (fourth day), 1.
Severe frontal headache, with dulness of the entire head during the forenoon, with stiffness of the left side of the neck, worse when moving the head, 2.
An exceedingly sharp pain in the forehead and in both ears, especially the left ear, when riding, in a sharp cold wind (after three hours), 2.
Several times had a pain in the right temple, 2.

EYES. [10.]

Weakness of the eyes with burning pain; feeling as if lachrymation would set in (after two hours), 2.

NOSE

Nose quite dry (fourth day), 1.

MOUTH

Intermittent pain in the first right upper molar tooth, 2.

THROAT

After moving about a short time (morning of fourth day), began to hawk up quantities of thick mucus and clotted blood mixed; this continued a half hour; it seemed to come from the head, and relieved the pain very materially, 1.

STOMACH

No appetite, ate nothing all day (third day), 1.
Pains in stomach aggravated on rising after sitting (third day), 1.
Pain and pyrosis became unbearable (somewhat relieved by a dose of Bry. 6th), 1.
Considerable pain in the stomach, in the afternoon, with raising of wind and a greasy fluid similar to that after eating pork (third day), 1.

ABDOMEN

The abdomen is hard and distended with flatus , which is constantly discharged, 2.*
Sharp, cutting pains in the abdomen, which warned him to go to stool; the pains became excruciating, embracing the entire abdomen, and obliging him to bend almost double; after a great deal of straining, he passed a large, soft stool, which afforded some relief (after eleven hours), 2. [20.]
Severe cutting pains in the abdomen, as if he would have a stool; he had no stool, but large quantities of wind escaped; these pains are partially relieved by an escape of flatus, and by the application of warmth to the abdomen (after eight and a half hours), 2.

STOOL AND ANUS

Continual aching in the anus, with a seeming inability to keep the sphincter closed; this would amount to a real dysenteric straining at stool (third day), 1.
On rising in the morning great urging to stool, but stool was scanty and small in size, as though the anus was contracted; the stool was mushy, with occasional scybalæ, also small in size, of a peculiar black color, resembling fæces of an ox; attended with straining as in dysentery (third day), 1.
Diarrhœa , for six or seven days, five to ten stools each day, color the same till near the last, when it began to assume a natural color; the diarrhœa not at all at night, but the urging commenced on beginning to move about in the morning, 1.*
Stool in the evening soft and mushy, with considerable straining, very dark, almost black, (second day), 1.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

*Slight hacking cough , with dryness and stoppage of the nostrils, 1.

HEART AND PULSE

Pulse irregular , 96; in health, about 75 (after ten minutes), 2.*

NECK AND BACK

Burning heat in the back (lumbar region), as if the clothes were on fire (after quarter of an hour), 2.
Soreness of the back, especially of the back of the neck, as if he had been beaten, 2.
Itching over the back (after two and a quarter hours), 2.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. [30.]

Heaviness of the limbs, with weariness of the whole body, 2.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

Sharp pain in upper third of right humerus, while writing (two hours), lasted ten minutes, and suddenly shifted to the metacarpal bones, remained some time, and was then felt in the left femur; pain rheumatic, as if in the shaft of the bone, 1.
Itching of the back of the left hand, followed by stinging itching of the back of the right hand (after two and a quarter hours), 2.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

Peculiar chilliness of left thigh, followed by formication and weight in the left foot; the latter afterwards extended up the left leg; the clothes when touching the limb feel cold; the formication and weight afterwards extended to the right foot, and are partially relieved by walking; the chilliness disappeared on the application of warmth; the chilliness began on the posterior surface of the thigh, and was noticed more particularly there (after quarter of an hour), 2.
A very severe, laming pain in the calf of the left leg, afterwards embracing the entire leg, disappearing during active motion, returning when at rest, 2.
Tired, weary feeling in the calves of both legs, while kneeling (after two hours), 2.
Dull, heavy soreness of the calf of the left leg (after one hour), 2.
Formicating prickings on the extreme left ankle, followed by the same on the inner right ankle (after one hour), 2.
*An unpleasant, slightly painful formication on the external border of the left foot, followed by a burning pain on the left instep (after three-quarters of an hour), 2.

GENERALITIES

Felt as though he had taken cold; the next morning, 1.

SKIN. [40.]

Itching on various parts of the body (after two and a quarter hours), 2.
Persistent itching on various parts of the body, especially of the back, 2.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Constant yawning; he becomes sleepy much earlier than usual (after two hours), 2.
Night restless , slept little (third day), 1.

FEVER

Some fever, pulse 80, strong (third day), 1.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), On waking, headache; on rising, dulness of head; urging to stool, etc.; on beginning to move about, diarrhœa; feeling as though he had taken cold.
( Forenoon ), Frontal headache, etc.
( Evening ), Stool, etc.
( While kneeling ), Tired feeling in calves.
( Motion ), Headache; frontal headache; hawking of thick mucus, etc.
( Rest ), Pain in calf of leg.
( Riding in cold wind ), Pain in forehead, etc.
( Stooping ), Headache.
( Studying ), Headache.
Amelioration.
( Escape of flatus ), Pains in abdomen.
( Active motion ), Pain in calf of leg.
( Stool ), Pains in abdomen.
( Walking ), Formication, etc, in foot.
( Warm applications ), Pains in abdomen; chilliness of left thigh.

SUPPLEMENT: ARSENICUM IODATUM. Authority.

3 , Dr. A. T. Thomson, Lancet, 1838-9 (1), p. 176, experiments.

At the first appetite is increased, but after taking it for ten or twelve days pain is felt at epigastrium, with thirst, dry state of throat, slight fever, and sometimes diarrhœa and tenesmus; the skin also becomes dry, and the urine is increased in quantity. If it is continued the nervous system becomes extremely irritable, and wakefulness supervenes, 3.

Arsenicum Iodatum