ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
("Stibium"). Sesquisulphide of antimony, Sb2S3 . (Native gray antimony ore).
Authorities. [Dioscorides (in Hahnemann) only mentions the beneficial effect of its external application to ulcers of the eye; Plinius, ibid.; as Ant. was not used internally in his time, this must be as with Dioscorides.]
1 , Hahnemann, Chr. Krankheiten, 2, 190; 2 , Caspari, ibid; 3 , Hartlaub, ibid; 4 , Langhammer, ibid; 5 , Gmelin, Allgem. Gesch. d. Mineral Gifte (general statement from authors of effects of Ant.), ibid.; 6 , Hildanus, Obs. Cent., V. O., 12 (same case as that given in full by Camerarius, S. 17), ibid.; 7 , Lindestolpe, de Venenis (general statement of the noxious effects of Ant.; one only of the eight symptoms referred to him appears), ibid.; 8 , Gardane, Gazette de Santé, 1773, ibid.; 9 , Camerarius, Sylloge Memorabil. (effects of overdosing in adults), ibid.; 10 , Wepfer, de Cicuta et Ant. (several cases of poisoning in men and animals), ibid.; 11 , Ephemer. Nat. Cur. (should be Misc. Nat. Cur.), dec. 1 (effects of overdosing in an adult), ibid.; 12 , James, in Simon's Beob., 1790, ibid.; 13 , Stahl, Mat. Med., 1744, ibid.; 14 , Morgenstern, de Usu Ant. Cr., 1756 (general statement from authors), ibid.; 15 , Hoffmann, Med. Rat. et System., pts. 1 and 2, fol. ed., Geneva, 1761 (statement of ill effects of antimonial emetics), ibid.; 16 , Bonetus, Polyalthea (statement of occasional effects), ibid.; 17 , Matthiolus (Goetze, in Act. Vratislav.), (no reference given to Matthiolus; not in his Comm.; Goetze, effects of Ant. in a patient with syphilitic ulceration), ibid.; 18 , Saunders, Observ. de Ant., etc., London, 1773 (general statement from observation), ibid.; 19 , Joubert, Lib. de Peste, ibid.; 20 , Schulz, in Tract. de Nat. Tinct. Bezoard., ibid.; 21 , Lotichius, Observationes, lib. iv, cap. 3 (case of overdosing in an adult), ibid.; 22 , Kunckel v. Löwenstein, Labarator. Chem. (effects of continued use), ibid.; 23 , Nicolai, Progr. ad Dissert.; also Reindel, de Oleo, etc., ibid.; 24 , Pitet, Bib. Hom., Paris, 1872, p. 91 (effects of the 30th, given for blepharitis).
MIND
- (Delirium and death, in consequence of an emetic of
Croc. metal ), 7 . [Not found, -Hughes.]
- Decided disposition to shoot himself in the night, not to any other kind of suicide; this forced him to leave his bed, otherwise he was unable to get rid of it, 3.
- Continual condition of ideal love and ecstatic longing for some ideal female being, which wholly filled his fancy; more when walking in the open pure air than in the room; this symptom disappeared after a few days, the sexual desire apparently diminished at the same time, 2.
- Dejection of spirit during the day, 4.
- He felt discouraged; this made his head feel warm in front, 4.
- Attacks of anxiety, 5.
- Anxious reflections about himself, his present and future fate, during the day, 4.
- Anxiety in bed, at night, from 3 to 5 o'clock, 1.
- Uneasy (second day), 2. [10.]
- Irritated state of mind, feeling of grief, the whole forenoon; the sound of the bells, as well as the sight of that which surrounds him, moves him to tears; his breathing is short and heavy, 1.
- Peevish; vexed without any cause (second day), 2.
- Out of humor ; sad in the evening, 1.
- Ill-humor the whole day, 4.
- He is sulky; does not wish to speak with any one, 4.
- He does not speak (second day), 2.
- Dementia, 6 , (same case as S. 17).
- Dementia, idiocy; she did not leave her bed, spoke nothing without being asked, desired neither to ear nor to drink, nevertheless ate with pleasure if anything was offered to her and she felt hungry; she declined eating when she did not feel hungry; at the same time she was all the time pulling her neck cloth, or she folded a handkerchief and then unfolded it again, or she pulled little feathers out of the bed and then gathered them together; so obtuse was her sensibility that when, from the acrimony of the evacuations and her position on the back, a large and foul ulcer formed over the sacrum and coccyx, she complained of no pain from it, 9.
HEAD
- Vertigo, 2.
- Weakness of the head, 2. [20.]
- Violent headache, 8.
- Violent headache after bathing in the river, with weakness in the limbs and repugnance to food, 2.
- Headache, and subsequently a little bleeding at the nose (after seven and a half hours), 4.
- Feeling of emptiness in the head, as after continual working in a cold room (fourth day), 2.
- The rush of the blood to the head becomes less (curative effects), 2.
- Violent tearing in the whole head, with heat in it, towards noon (sixth day), 2.
- Tearing pain in the whole head, here and there, from morning till night, 2.
- The tearing in the head becomes less when walking in the open air, 2.
- Dull, stupefying pain in the whole head, with nausea in the pharynx, when smoking, to which he is accustomed, 4.
- Heaviness in the forehead, 24.* [30.]
- Headache, as if her forehead would burst; at the same time, she felt intoxicated, sat alone, and would not speaks, 9 . [Not found.]
- Continual pain in the forehead and the temples, boring from within outwards, unchanged by touching the parts (after five hours), 4.
- Slight dull headache in the forehead, and vertigo, increased by ascending stairs, 2.*
- Stupefying, dull headache, rather externally, in the forehead, so violent that sweat broke out from anxiety, when walking in the open air (after six hours), 4.
- Pressure inwards, at times drawing, in the left side of the forehead, 2.
- Momentary drawing pain over the left temporal bone; went off by pressure, and then returned much more violent, immediately after, 2.
- Slow pulsation externally, at the left temple, with fine prickings, several times in succession, extending towards the eye-brows; this symptom is most severe when it is not especially noticed, 2.
- Upon the left parietal bone there is a small spot which, when touched, causes pain in the bone, as if the periosteum were swollen, 2.
- Small, flat tubercles here and there upon the scalp, on the size of small peas, painful to pressure, and with a feeling of crawling all around, .
EYES. [40.]
- Red, inflamed eyes, with itching, and nightly agglutination, 1.
- Redness of the left eye, with dread of light on rising early in the morning, and a secretion of mucus in the inner canthus, 2.
- Inflammation of the eyes, 8.
- Pain at the right eyebrow, within the skull, as if the parts were pressed asunder, 2.
- Sharp pressive stitches below the left eyebrow, 4.
- Reddened eyelids, with fine stitches in the eyeball, 2.
- Twitching in the left eyelids, 2.
- Gum in the canthi of the eyes , in the forenoon (after three hours and a half), 4.
- Much mucus in the right canthus, early in the morning, with dry gum in both lids, 2.
- Small moist place at the outer canthus very painful upon sweat coming in contact with it, 2. [50.]
- Itching in the external canthus of the eye, which obliges one to rug (after two hours), 4.
- Fine stitches in frequent succession, without pain, in the forepart of the eye-ball, in the forenoon (ninth day), 2.
- Incurable blindness, 7 . [Not found.]
EARS
- Redness, burning, and swelling of the left ear, as from the bite of a mosquito, 2.
- Swelling and redness of the whole of the internal concha with periodical itching, 2.
- Itching stitches at the border of the right concha, above the helix, going off being touched (after one hour an a half), 2.
- In the evening something seemed to block up the right ear, 1.
- Drawing pain through the right ear into the Eustachian tube, almost reaching the mouth, after dinner (sixteenth day), 2.
- Stitches in the ears, 2.
- Crawling in the right meatus auditorius (second day), 2. [60.]
- Sensation of burrowing or swarming (of animals) in the ears, especially when lying still (fifth day), 2.
- Violent din in the ears, as if some one were beating against the door of the house, 1.
- Smashing in the ear, as of a few drops of water, when moving the jaws, 1.
- Ringing before the ears (second day), 2.
- Continual roaring in the ears, especially during stillness (second day), 2.
- Roaring in the ears, most in the afternoon, 3.
- An old roaring in the ears disappeared (curative effect), 2.
- (Painful roaring in the ears), 9 , (preceding S. 68).
- (Loss of hearing), 9 . [After violent vomiting, left ear soon recovered, but right remained permanently deaf; reporter ascribes it to rupture of membrana tympani.]
- A kind of deafness of the right ear, as if a leaflet were placed before the tympanum; this symptom cannot be removed by boring with the finger in the ear (after fourteen hours), 4.
NOSE. [70.]
- Both nostrils become chapped and covered with crusts, 2.*
- The left nostril becomes chapped and painful, 2.
- Obstruction of the nose in the evening, as in coryza, for several days, 2.
- Coryza, 2.
- Coryza, with sore, crusty nostrils, 2.
- Fluent coryza early in the morning, for some hours, with sneezing, 4.
- Dry coryza, 1.
- Fluent coryza, 2.
- Blowing out blood, 1.
- Bleeding at the nose, several days in succession, 1. [80.]
- Bleeding at the nose every evening, 1.
- Dryness of the nose when walking in the open air, so that he can hardly speak, 1.
- The nose is painful when breathing, as if from inspiring cold air, or from inhaling acrid vapors, 2.*
- *Sore nostrils, with drawing pain, 1.
- Feeling of soreness in the nostrils when inspiring air, especially in the right nostril, which is a little obstructed, 2.
- Soreness of the right nostril in the anterior angle, with pain as in cold, 2.
FACE
- Slight twitches in the muscles of the left side of the face (after nine hours), 2.
- Cracks in the corners of the mouth, painful like sores , returning after five, eight, and twelve weeks, 2.*
- Twitches of the muscles at the corners of the mouth, 1.
- The lips are dry, 1. [90.]
- Formication upon the upper lip (nineteenth and twenty-fourth days), 2.
- Burning, stinging, as from a red-hot little spark on the chin and the upper lip (seventh and ninth day), 2.
- Sensation at, and below the chin, when touching it, as if the hand were moved over many small sore places, and small, honey-colored granules upon the skin here and there, 2.
MOUTH
- Waking from the siesta with and by dull grinding of the teeth (second day), 2.
- Severe bleeding of the teeth, 1.*
- Twinging toothache, in the evening when in bed, and after dinner, 1.
- Stitches in the tooth when inspiring air, 1.*
- Toothache in a hollow tooth, worse at night than in daytime ; a fine stinging, pulling, and grinding, as if in the nerve, which moves downwards and then upwards into the head; if he touches the tooth with the tongue, he feels pain, as if the nerve were torn, 1.*
- The nightly toothache is accompanied by great warmth, which seems to come from the chest, 1.
- The toothache is renewed immediately after eating even soft things, is worse by applying cold water, and is relieved in the open air, 1. [100.]
- The gums stand off from the teeth, and bleed easily, 1.
- Dryness of the mouth , at night (sixth day), 2.*
- Rawness of the palate, with expectoration of much mucus, when clearing the throat (after fifth week), 2.*
- Blisters upon the tongue, 1.
- *Tongue coated white in the forenoon (after two hours), 4.
- Accumulation of water upon the tongue, 2.
- After dinner some fine, sharp stitches in the tongue, in front on the left border, following in succession (after thirty-three hours), 2.
- Feeling of soreness, and redness at a small place on the right border of the tongue for several days, frequently going off and suddenly returning (sixth day), 2.
- Accumulation of water in the mouth, 2.
- Much saltish saliva in the mouth, 10.* [110.]
- Profuse ptyalism from nose and mouth, 11 , (same as S. 383).
- Ptyalism, without any fetid odor, and without looseness of the teeth, 12 . [Not mentioned by James in his treatise on the fever powders.]
- The mouth smells as in ptyalism from mercury, .
THROAT
- Much viscid phlegm collects in the throat the whole day, 2.
- He is obliged the whole day to draw a quantity of thick yellowish mucus from the posterior nares into the throat, and expectorate it (ninth day), 2.
- Clearing the throat and hawking when walking in the open air, 1.
- A foreign body seems to hang in the throat; he tries in vain to swallow or expel it, 10.
- Early in the morning, roughness and dryness in the throat (sixth day), 2.
- Sore throat on the left side, as from a swelling or a plug, 1. [120.]
- Sensation as of scraping on the velum palati, as if much phlegm were upon it, which could only be expelled after clearing the throat for a long time; often it was not expelled at all, for several days (seventh day), 2.
- Impeded deglutition, 8.
STOMACH
- Strong sense of hunger in the region of the stomach, early on waking, without appetite; eating does not remove the symptom; at the same time disagreeable sense of emptiness in the pit of the stomach, and want of animal heat, for two days (after fourth week), 2.
- Want of appetite, 13.
- Complete loss of appetite, 24.
- Appetite extremely little, 1.
- Immense thirst, 10.
- Thirst in the evening , and desire to drink, 1.
- Much thirst at night (after sixth day), 2.
- Drinks much only at night, 1. [130.]
- Violent thirst, with dryness of the lips, 1.*
- Goat's milk refreshes him agreeably, 10.
- Loud eructations (after one-quarter of an hour and one hour and a half), 2.
- Eructations having a raw taste, 4.
- Bitter eructations like bile (after three hours), 1.
- *Gulping up of fluid, tasting of the ingesta , in the afternoon (second and third days), 2.
- Hiccough (after one hour), 4.
- Frequent hiccough when smoking tobacco (after ten hours and a half), 4.
- Violent nausea, 14.
- Nausea after drinking a glass of wine, 2. [140.]
- Nausea, with vertigo, 2.
- Nausea and vomiting, 8.
- Terrible vomiting, which nothing can stop, 7.
- Vomiting of mucus and bile, 17.*
- Violent vomiting, with attacks of anxiety, 15.
- Fearful vomiting, with convulsions, 10.
- Violent vomiting and diarrhœa, 14.
- Violent vomiting and diarrhœa, with excessive anguish, 16.
ABDOMEN
- Slight tension in the hypochondria, 10.
- Pinching pain on the left side of the navel, 2.
- Distended, big abdomen, 3.
- Abdomen very much distended ; this causes a pain as from internal pressure, 2.
- Great inflation of the abdomen, especially after a meal, 2.
- (Hernia), 9 . ["Hernia ventriculi, after violent vomiting."]
- Loud rumblings in the abdomen (after one hour and a half), 4. [170.]
- Slight rumbling in the abdomen, as when bubbles of air arise in the water, 2.
- Loud rumbling in the abdomen, as from emptiness, in the forenoon (after three hours), 4.
- Much rumbling flatus, bursting forth immediately after a meal; some smells badly; some before it passes moves downwards and meets other flatus, especially in the right side (ninth day), 2.
- Inconsiderable flatus passed off, with a sensation as of pressing asunder, as if a copious expulsion of fæces would take place (after five hours and a half), 2.
- Much flatus immediately after dinner; it moves about audibly, especially in the right side of the abdomen, some being expelled (after six hours), 2.
- Sensation of emptiness in the intestines, going off after a meal, 2.
- Sensation in the intestines as after a violent diarrhœa; the symptom is transitory but exhausting, 2.
- The most intolerable pain in every part of the abdomen, 5.
- Pinching at a small place on the left side of the abdomen, low down, like the beat of the pulse, in the afternoon (third day), 2.
- Pinching in the abdomen, especially on the right side, towards the back, beginning suddenly in the evening, and increased by motion (after three weeks), 2. [180.]
- Violent cutting in the abdomen (twenty-second day), 2.
- Cutting in the abdomen, with a feeling of nausea there, and accumulation on the tongue, 2.
- Cutting in the abdomen the whole day, with a feeling of oppression coming from the stomach, indisposition to work, dry humor, and pain at the stomach on eructations, 2.
- Sudden, compressive colic, with gulping up of water, 2.
STOOL AND ANUS
- The varices of the rectum protruded more than usual (eleventh day), 2.
- Protrusion of the rectum during stool, for some time, 2. [190.]
- Discharge of mucus from the rectum , with emission of flatulence, 1.
- Expulsion of black blood by the rectum, 17.
- Continual discharge of blood and solid portions of the intestines by the rectum, 7 . [Not found.]
- Pain in the rectum during stool; feeling of soreness; as if an ulcer had been torn open, 1.*
- Frequent tenesmus, although little urine is passed (after five days), 2.
- Sharp itching in the rectum (seventh day), 2.
- Burning, itching, and smarting in the anus at right (after three days), 2.
- Drawing pain in the anus, 2.
- Crawling and burning of the hæmorrhoids, in the evening when in bed till falling asleep (after eleven days and after five weeks), 2.
- Itching of the anus, 2.* [200.]
- Severe, urgent desire for stool after dinner, and quick expulsion of ordinary fæces, with straining (four days), 2.
- Disposition to diarrhœa, which, however, does not take place, 1.
- Diarrhœa at night and early in the morning; every time, however, only one evacuation, 1.
- Pappy, frequent stool (after one hour and a half), 4.
- Very difficult, hard stool, 1.*
- Difficult expulsion of hard stool, without previous straining (after eleven hours), 4.
- Difficult evacuation of hard stools, with previous pressing in the rectum, two minutes (after twelve hours), 4.
- The stools, which had previously been very consistent, now become very thin, 2.
- Very thin stools after taking vinegar, with pain in the rectum during stool, 2.
- Very liquid stools, 2. [210.]
- Hard stool early in the morning, 4.
- Hard stool in the evening, with violent pressing in the rectum, and cutting in the abdomen, .
URINARY ORGANS
- Tenesmus of the bladder rouses him from sleep at night, 1.
- Sensation of painful contraction at the bottom of the canal (neck of the bladder), 24.
- Burning in the urethra, 24.
- Constant urging to urinate, with extreme dysuria, 24.
- *Desire to urinate, frequent and violent; expelling much urine every time (after one, two, and two hours and a half), 4.
- Expels the urine, [but rarely. -Hughes.], 18. [220.]
- Frequent micturition, 4.
- Long-continuing, frequent micturition, little urine being expelled in great haste (eighteenth day), 2.
- Frequent urination, with intense burning in urethra during emission, 24.
- Frequent micturition, with discharge of a small quantity of water urine (fourth day), 2.
- Copious micturition at night, three times, 2.
- Copious and frequent micturition (in a dog), 10.
- At night he passes a small quantity of urine, in an intermitting stream, with painful erections, 1.
- Gold-yellow, thin urine, with a scarcely perceptible cloud, 10.
- Brown-red urine, 2.
- Dark-colored, frequent urine (after seven hours), 4. [230.]
- Small, red corpuscles in the urine after having stood twenty-four hours, 10.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Erections (after six hours), 2.
- Burning at the glans penis, 24.
- Fine itchings of the penis (after fourteen hours), 2.
- Violent itching of the extremity of the glans, 2.
- Biting-itching, as from salt, of the left side of the scrotum, frequent, lasting fourteen days (after fourteen days), 2.
- Continual drawing in the spermatic cord, while there was a boil at the perineum; the pain was most violent when standing, and became less when stooping, 2.
- Excited sexual desire, with uneasiness in the whole body, which prevents him from sitting long (after six hours), 2.
- Afterwards the sexual desire appears to be less for several days, 2.
- Even upon leaning the back against something, there is an irritation, as if pollution would come on, 1. [240.]
- Nightly pollutions, without any voluptuous dreams, 4.
- Pollution at night, with many dreams (eleventh day), 2.
- Pressure in the womb, as if something would come out, 1.
- Discharge of an acrid water from the vagina, which caused a sensation as of biting down along the thighs, 1.
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS
- Violent spasms in the larynx and the pharynx, as if the throat were filled with a plug, which becomes alternately thicker and thinner, accompanied by a feeling of soreness, 1.*
- Rough voice, 1.
- Speech and stinging are not firm, but weak, 10.
- Extreme feebleness of voice; he can only speak in a low tone, 10.*
- *Loss of voice as often as he became hot; the voice came back by resting himself, 10.
- Cough, early in the morning after rising, in paroxysms ; it seems to come out of the abdomen; the first attack is always the most violent; the following become weaker and weaker, so that the last attack resembles a mere hacking cough, 1. [250.]
- Frequent, dry cough, 10.
- Severe, dry cough, with a sense as of scratching in the larynx, in a sudden short attack, 2.
- Cough, with discharge of viscid, thin phlegm, deep out of the chest, early in the morning, 10.
- Deep sighing, breathing, as from fulness of the chest, for several days, in the afternoon and after eating, 2.
- Dyspnœa, 8.
- Difficulty of breathing during supper, 1.
- Difficulty of breathing after supper, 1.
- Asthma, 13.
- Very troublesome asthma, 10.
- Suffocating asthma in four young men, 19. [260.]
- (Suffocative catarrh), 10 . [Coming on fifteen days after amputation of foot (S. 351, 352), and ending in death; see next symptom.]
- Death produced by suffocating catarrh in fifteen days, occasioned by a few grains of antimony, 10.
CHEST
- Burning in the chest at every cough, as of fire, with a glowing, hot breath from the mouth, 10.
- Burning in the chest, with dry cough, and dyspnœa almost to suffocation, 10 . [Not found.]
- Oppression on the chest, 2.
- Oppression at the chest, early on waking, 2.
- Half pressive, half sticking pain under the left clavicle, apparently in the air-passages, when breathing, 2.
- Pain as from contusion, or as from too great an effort, in the pectoralis major muscle, early in the morning when rising, and a few hours after, when extending and lifting the arm, or when pressing upon it, 2.
- Dull stitches in the chest, when breathing deeply, first on the right side under the two first ribs, then under the upper part of the sternum, 2.
- Stitches, with constrictive pinching in the middle of the chest (third day), 2. [270.]
- Severe, continual itching upon the chest the whole day, 2.
- Itching upon the chest, as if a blister were healing, 2.
- He was frequently roused from sleep by an intolerable itching upon the chest, where he felt pimples, 2.
- Stitches in the left side of the chest when breathing, with a little cough and headache, 2.
- Sharp stitches in the left chest, when expiring in a standing position (after five hours), 4.
- Pressive pain in the interior of the right chest, in the evening when lying down, 2.
HEART AND PULSE
- Violent palpitation of the heart, 20.
- Pulse, sometimes a few quick, then three or four slow beats (immediately), 1.
NECK AND BACK
- Swelling of the cervical glands, 24.
- Spasmodic drawing from above downwards in one of the posterior cervical muscles on the right side, in the evening when sitting (eighth day), 2. [280.]
- Spasmodic drawing pain in the muscles of the nape of the neck, reaching as far as the scapulæ, in the evening after lying down, and early in the morning; worse on stooping, exerting the arm, and turning the head to the left side (twelfth day), 2.
- Inward pressing drawing in the neck, on the lower part of the left side (nineteenth day), 2.
- Straining in the nape of the neck and between the scapulæ, when stooping, 1.
- Single stitches in the skin of the neck, here and there (second and third day), 2.
- Sensitiveness of the skin of the neck; if he rub hard, on account of the itching, the place feels sore, 2.
- Itching of the neck, 2.
- Spasmodic stitches in the right scapula when sitting, 4.
- Tearing in the back the whole day, from morning to night, 2.
- Violent itching upon the back , a fortnight, 2.
- Pain in the small of the back, immediately on rising, and the whole day, not at night, 2. [290.]
- Violent pain in the small of the back, when rising from sitting; it disappeared in walking, 1.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Convulsions and trembling of the limbs, 15.
- Lassitude, tremulous fatigue, and heaviness in all the limbs after dinner, as if coming out of the abdomen, with trembling of the hands when writing, and subsequent expulsion of much stinking flatulence, the abdomen being distended, 2.
- Feeling as if the limbs were enlarged, 24.
UPPER EXTREMITIES
- A stitch under both arms when walking in the open air, 1.
- Sharp itching of the inside of the left arm, 2.
- Light twitches in the right deltoid muscles (fifth day), 2.
- Quivering, drawing in the muscles of the upper arms, which did not pass off by motion, but by warmth, and returned in a draught of air, 1.
- Paralytic pain in the muscles of the upper arms, when bending the arms, as if they were contracted too much, or weakened by the contraction, 2.
- Sudden drawing jerk, transversely through the right upper arm (after ten, twenty, and one hundred and twenty minutes), 2. [300.]
- Cracking in the elbow-joint, on turning it to and fro, 2.
- Drawing in the forearm, when at rest and in motion, 2.
- Drawing down the right forearm (after one hour and a half), 2.
- Paralytic drawing in the right forearm (after two hours), 3.
- Drawing on the inside of the lower part of the forearm, with a sensation of pressure from without (nineteenth day), 2.
- Gouty pain in the joints of the right fourth finger, 2.
- Drawing pains in the fingers and their joints, 2.
- Cracking in the metacarpal joint of the thumb, when moving it (ninth day), 2.
- Fine itching in the tip of the left thumb (after fourteen days), 2.
- Discolored nails, 7 . [Not found.] [310.]
- The finger-nails did not grow as fast as formerly, and the skin beneath the nails was painfully sensitive, 2.*
LOWER EXTREMITIES
- Pain in the right hip-joint, 2.
- Drawing pain in the left hip, 3.
- Drawing pain in the left hip-joint , when walking, especially when bending the thigh backwards; also in the evening, 2.
- Painful drawing from the hip-joints towards the os sacrum, 2.
- Drawing in one of the nates, around the hip-joint, into the thigh (seventh day), 2.
- Slight twitches in the muscles of the left half of the nates, in the evening, when sitting (fifth day), 2.
- Bluish spots upon the thighs, 7 . [Not found.]
- Repeated tension of right thigh, high up, like a small spasm (seventh day), 2.
- Drawing pain in the posterior muscles of the left thigh, 2. [320.]
- Drawing pain at the anterior internal sides of the thigh, 2.
- Slight clucking for a few minutes, in the lower part of the right half of the nates, when standing (after four weeks), 2.
- Sharply stinging itching on the inside and anterior surfaces of the left thigh (after four and a half hours), 2.
- Sharply stinging itching of the right thigh, which does not go off by scratching; after the itching, a small, flat, yellowish pimple is formed at that place, 2.
- The stinging itching upon the thighs comes on every evening, 2.
- Sensation as of a spasm at the external border of the left thigh, as if the muscles become slowly contracted and again extended, in the afternoon (after ten hours), 2.
- Stiffness of the knee, for eight days, 1.
- Painful stiffness of the knee; the knee pained her so much, that she could not stretch it out, and was obliged to limp, 1.
- Pain in the knee, which prevented him from stretching the foot, and made him limp, 1.
- Pain just below the knee, as if it had been tied too tightly, the whole evening (after thirteen days), 2. [330.]
- Drawing pain in the right knee, 2.
- Sudden violent stitch on the outside of the knee, 2.
- A stitch in the left knee, which started him, and caused a jerk with the leg (tenth day), 2.
- Itching of the right knee, on the inside, and, after rubbing it, a large blister, which is painful only for a short while, .
GENERALITIES
- Immense swelling of the whole body, 7 . [Not found.]
- Dropsical swelling of the body, 21 . [Jaundice had preceded the emetic of Ant., which was followed by this ascites. It terminated in death.]
- Incurable dropsy, 10. [370.]
- Getting fat, 22.
- Emaciation and exhaustion, 10.
- Excessive hemorrhages, 15 . [Not found.]
- Disposition to start, even at slight noises, 2.
- Twitches of the muscles of many parts of the body, 1.
- (Convulsive movements, especially at the head), 10 . (In a puppy).
- Indolence and disposition to lie down after dinner, 2.
- Extreme lassitude, 24.
- Great lassitude, early in the morning, and disinclination to rise, 2.
- Weariness, especially of the feet, with great peevishness, at 7 o'clock in the evening, 1. [380.]
- General prostration, 24.
- Death after a few hours, consequent upon giving Antimony, for cramps of the stomach, 15.
- Intoxication, 2.
- Apoplexy, accompanied by such a profuse flow of saliva, that he expelled a large quantity of watery foam from the nose and mouth, 11.
- Sensation while taking a moderate dinner, as if the body were considerably filled with a quantity of flatus moving about, 2.
- Heavy, pressive pains, sometimes in the chest, sometimes in the back, sometimes in both parts at the same time, 10.
- Sensation of general vascular ebullition, 24.
- All the symptoms; come on again after the third week; however, after this period, they appeared more on the left side of the body, 2.
SKIN
- Eruptions like rash, 2.
- Red points with white dots in the centre at several places, 2. [390.]
- Brown spots and dots, like small liver spots, here and there, especially upon the arms, 2.
- Red, hardened, slightly elevated place on each side of the forehead, itching like a nettle, going and coming, 2.
- Nettlerash; white pimples with red areolæ, with violent burning and fine stinging, in the face, on the limbs, as far as the fingers that were swollen; accompanied by violent thirst and nausea, 1.
- Pimples coming on at night, 2.
- Red, hard pimple, painful to the touch, on the left temple, close to where the cartilage of the ear begins, 2.
- Pimples and vesicles, as from stings of insects , at many places of the body, especially on the face and on the joints of the extremities; they come on with itching, and often disappear after a few hours, 2.
- Pimples, that itch when getting warm in bed, and prevent sleep, 1.
- Pustules with yellow or brown scurf, here and there, 2.
- Just above the eyebrows, a white tubercle, which does not itch; but is only painful to the touch, 1.
- Rash behind the ears, as far as the nape of the neck, and over the scapulæ, 1. [400.]
- Red pimple, with pus at the tip, on both sides of the nose, painful to pressure (twelfth day), 2.
- Vesicles in the face and upon the nose, like varioloid, with stinging pain on pressure, 2.
- Several pimples in the face, that pain like mosquito-bites, 2.
- Red, burning, suppurating eruption upon the face, 10.
- Red vesicular pimples like varioloid, with stinging pain when pressed, at several places on the skin, 2.
- Nettlerash in the face, especially upon the cheeks, 1.
- Pimple upon the right cheek, as from a mosquito-bite, 2.
- Flat pimples upon both cheeks, which are not red; itching when touched, with a yellowish scurf, 2.
- The chest is dotted with fine red points, with violent itching, which does not pass off by rubbing, 2.
- Eruption on the left side, upon the cheek, towards the chin, with a yellow crust, painful to the touch, and which may be easily knocked off, . [410.]
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Frequent yawning, three or four times in succession, 10.
- Great sleepiness during the day , and early in the morning, after waking; he cannot decide to leave his bed, 2.*
- Sleepiness in the forenoon, 4.*
- Transient sleepiness in the afternoon, when sitting, 4.
- At 7 o'clock in the evening, she feels overwhelmed with sleep ; she continues to sleep during the night; early in the morning she feels well; for six days in succession, 2.
- Sleepy and peevish at 6 o'clock in the evening; at 8 o'clock he cannot refrain from sleeping; sleeps soundly at night; early in the morning he feels so tired that he can scarcely open his eyes, 2.
- Slumber, with fanciful delusions, 1.
- Slumber, with delusions of fancy; she hears some one knocking outside, or is called by somebody, 1. [450.]
- He falls asleep late; he was unable to fall asleep before midnight, 1.
- He is wide awake in bed, in the evening, so that he cannot fall asleep under an hour; this symptom is accompanied by frequent shiverings, especially over the whole of the left side, upon which he does not lie; or by sexual desire, with erections, when getting warm; these make him yet more awake; for eight days in succession, and again after five weeks, 2.
- Uneasy sleep at night, on account of itching stitches here and there, going off by rubbing, 1.
- *At night, frequent waking, as from fright, 4.
- Frequent waking at night; on falling asleep, he immediately dreamed about solemnities, 1.
- Little sleep (the first night), 2.
- At night, he lies upon his back, 4.
- He dreamed of seeing an old school-mate; this gave him much pleasure (after twenty-three hours), 4.
- His night sleep is interrupted by dreams about members of his family at his native place, with whom he quarreled, 4.
- His night sleep is interrupted by disagreeable dreams about quarrels with his relatives, 4. [460.]
- Voluptuous dreams at night, with pollutions, 4.
- Lewd dreams, several nights in succession, also with pollutions (after eleven days), .
FEVER
- Much chilliness; no heat, 1.
- Chilliness, even in a warm room, 2.
- Shiverings over the whole body, without thirst (after two hours), 4.
- Shiverings over the whole body early in the morning, with heat in the forehead, without thirst (after half an hour), 4.
- Disagreeable feeling of internal chilliness, so that he cannot get warm; returning after the lapse of five weeks, 2.
- Towards noon, violent chills for an hour, with great thirst for beer; then sleep; succeeded by heat and constant thirst, 1. [470.]
- He feels quite hot in consequence of the slightest exercise, especially in the heat of the sun; he then complains of excessive heat in the throat, 10.
- Waking at 2 o'clock at night, with slight warmth all over, and burning itching and sensation of excoriation of the anus (third day), 2.
- At night, when in bed, he feels quite hot, and is drenched with sweat, 10.
- Sweat returning at the same hour for three days in succession, 23.
- General warm sweat in bed, every other morning, 2.
- Sweat during sleep, 4.
- Early in the morning, when waking, mild sweat over the whole body (after twenty-one hours), 4.
- General sweat, without smell, which made the tips of the fingers soft and wrinkled, 2.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Mucus in right canthus; early, fluent coryza; early, roughness, etc., in throat; early, on waking sense of hunger; early, pressure at stomach; early, diarrhœa; early, hard stool; early, after rising, cough; early, cough, etc.; early, on waking, oppression of chest; early, when rising, pain in pectoralis major; early, pain in muscles of nape of neck; immediately on rising, pain in small of back; early, great lassitude; early, feels tired; shiverings over the whole body, etc.; early, when waking mild sweat over whole body.
- ( Every other morning ), General warm sweat, in bed.
- ( From morning till night ), Tearing pain in head; tearing in back.
- ( Forenoon ), Irritated state of mind, etc., gum in the canthi; stitches in eyeball; tongue coated white; rumbling in abdomen; somnolence.
- ( Towards noon ), Tearing in head; violent chills, etc.
- ( Afternoon ), Roaring in ears; gulping up of fluid; pinching in left side of abdomen; deep, etc., breathing; sensation of a spasm at border of left thigh; when sitting transient sleepiness.
- ( Evening ), Out of humor, etc.; something seemed to block up ear; obstruction of nose; bleeding at nose; in bed, toothache; thirst ; pinching in abdomen begins; in bed, crawling, etc., of the hæmorrhoids; hard stool, etc.; when lying down, pain in right chest; when sitting, spasmodic drawing in one of the cervical muscles; after lying down, drawing pain in muscles of nape of neck; pain in left hip-joint; when sitting, twitching of muscles of left half of nates; itching on thighs; pain below knee; when sitting, drawing in right leg; in bed, after a walk of three hours, stinging in skin of right sole.
- ( Night ), Disposition to shoot himself; in bed, anxious reflections; in bed, 3 to 5 o'clock, anxiety; toothache, etc.; dryness of the mouth; pinching on the palate; much thirst; drinks much; itching, etc., in knees; diarrhœa; tenesmus of bladder, passes small quantity of urine, etc.; pimples come on; pimples on left radius; violent itching, etc.; in bed, quite hot, etc.
- (2 A.M .), Wakes with slight warmth all over, etc.
- (
6 P.M .), Sleep, etc.
- (
7 P.M .), Weariness, etc.; overwhelmed with sleep.
- ( Walking in open air ), Condition of ideal love, etc.; dull headache; dryness of nose; clearing the throat, etc.; stitch under both arms.
- ( In draught of air ), Drawing in muscles of upper arms returns.
- ( After bathing in the river ), Violent headache.
- ( Bending arms ), Paralytic pain in muscles of upper arm.
- ( When breathing ), Nose painful; stitches in left chest.
- ( Breathing deeply ), Stitches in chest.
- ( Applying cold water ), Toothache.
- ( Coughing ), Burning in chest, etc.
- ( When drawing in abdomen ), Pressure at stomach.
- ( During deglutition ), Pinching on the palate.
- ( After dinner ), Pain through right ear, etc.; twinging toothache; stitches in tongue; fulness, etc., of the body; immediately, much flatus; desire for stool; lassitude, etc., in limbs; indolence, etc.
- ( Eating ), Toothache renewed; deep, sighing breathing; pain under left clavicle.
- ( Exerting arm ), Drawing pain in muscles of nape of neck.
- ( When expiring in a standing position ), Stitches in left chest.
- ( Extending arm ), Pain in pectoralis major.
- ( After slight exercise ), Feels quite hot.
- ( In heat of sun ), Even when he walks and works but little, feels indisposed.
- ( When inspiring air ), Sore feeling in nostrils; stitches in the tooth.
- ( Lifting arm ), Pain in pectoralis major.
- ( When lying still ), Sensation of animals moving in ear.
- ( After a meal ), Inflation of abdomen; bursting forth of flatus.
- ( Motion ), Pinching in abdomen.
- ( When not especially noticed ), Pulsations at left temple.
SUPPLEMENT: ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. Authorities.
25 , E. W. Berridge, M.D., North. Am. Journ. of Hom., 1873, p. 502, Mr. ---, took 200th; 26 , same, New York Journ. of Hom., vol. ii, p. 460, Mr. ---, took 1200th (Jen.), three times a day, for several days, for corns; 27 , same Am. Journ. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. ix, 1876, p. 250, Mrs. ---, took a dose of 1200th (Jen.), on two consecutive days for corns.
- In the morning ears feel stopped up, and when a note is sung he hears echoes of the note going higher and higher by octaves; after breakfast this passes off, 26.
- Feels ravenous for one hour and a half before food, but loses appetite when he begins to eat, as if he had had enough, 26.
- Palpitation both heard and felt when lying on left side. For three days every evening, at 6.30 P.M., pain at apex of heart, 25.
- On second to fourth day, reckoning from the first, at times involuntary escape of a little urine, 27.