Argentum nitricum

Vertigo, with complete but transient blindness. [THOMAS HALL, in the Phys. Med. Journal, 1800, p.518, also in Duncan's Annals of Med., 1799. (.Effects of Arg.n. given to a woman, aet.35, for convulsive attacks. This occurred twice, three hours after taking the drug. The name of this author is wrongly given by Hahnemann as "HULL."

(It affected the head, as if the fit of epilepsy would come on.)

(Premonitory feeling of the impending fit.)

Dimness of vision with anxiety, heat of face, and weeping eyes.

Spongy, easily bleeding gums, which, however were not painful nor swollen. [MOODIE, in Med. and Phys. Journal, 1804. (General statement. Literally, “after a time, tenderness of the gums, with a disposition to bleed; they were, however, neither painful nor swollen.”)

Sensation as if the velum palati were swollen, not per se, but on moving the tongue and when swallowing.

Sickness, weight, and pressure in the stomach [HALL, l.c.] (On three occasions, three hours after ingestion).

Burning heat in the stomach. [KINGLAKE, in London Medical and Physical Journal,

(Effects of Arg.n. given to a man, aet.30 for epilepsy.)

Burning in the stomach and on the chest. [MOODIE, l.c.]

The urinary organs are at first greatly irritated. [l.c.] (Not found; the name of the authority being omitted, it is doubtful to which it rightly belongs)

Disagreeable stoppage in the upper part of the nose for three days. [HALL, l.c.]

Discharge from the nose like white pus mixed with blood-clots. [HALL, l.c.] (After the three days of S.11. The pus is said to have been like brain-substance)

Feeling in all the limbs as if they would go to sleep and stiffen.

Exhaustion, in the afternoon.

Profuse night sweat.

Anxiety that compels him to walk quickly.