Gadus Morrhua

Gadus morrhua, Linn.; (Morrhua vulgaris, Cloq.).

Family of fishes , Gadoïdes.

Common names , Cod; (Fr.), Morue.

Preparation , "Trituration of first cervical vertebra." [Cod Liver Oil will appear as

Oleum Morrhuæ .]

Authority.

Dr. Antoine Petroz, translated by Dr. A. Dupaquier, West. Hom. Obs., vol. 3, p. 187, 1866.

MIND

• Deep melancholy, paroxysms of hopelessness, for forty-eight hours, during which the desire for death is hardly controlled (twelfth day).
• The intellectual faculties are torpid (twelfth day).
• Absence of ideas (twelfth day).

HEAD

• Headache in the night, accompanied by fever (sixth day).

EYE AND EAR

• Marked diminution of strength of hearing and sight since the fifth day (twelfth day).
• A noise (ticktack) is felt in the right ear, and pain if a noise from the exterior becomes predominant (second day).

FACE

• Altered countenance (eleventh day).

MOUTH

• Teeth sensitive and set on edge (twelfth day).
• Dry mouth (seventh day).

THROAT. [10.]

• Waking in the night on account of severe contraction in the throat (second night).
• Constriction of the fauces, wheezing cough, with white foamy expectoration (seventh day).

STOMACH

• Loss of appetite for four days (after nine days).
• Dull pain in the epigastrium and in the hypochondria (second day).

ABDOMEN

• Abdomen is much distended (tenth day).
• Sensation of burning heat in the whole hypogastrium (eleventh day).
• While pains are felt in the chest, sharp pains in the right side of the abdomen, in the groin and in the kidneys (ninth day).

STOOL

• Soft stools; diarrhœa (third day).

URINARY ORGANS

• Bladder.
• The bladder is swollen and always full (tenth day).
• The sensation of swelling and fulness of the bladder increased (seventh day). [20.]
• Stitches in the bladder, almost an impossibility to urinate (eleventh day).
• Micturition.
• The emission of urine is difficult (seventh day).
• Urine passed with difficulty (sixth day); for a few days the swelling of the bladder and the difficulty of micturition seem to increase.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Voice.

• Voice weak, and it requires some exertion to articulate distinctly, the words do not come when wanted (twelfth day).
• Cough and Expectoration.
• A few fits of coughing, slight (sixth and tenth days).
• Light cough, with expectoration of foamy sputa (eighteenth day).
• Fit of wheezing cough, with pain deep in the chest (eleventh day).
• Very frequent breathing, with oscillation of the wings of the nose, as after exercise, at the time of waking and during the whole day (fifth day).
• The breath is short, laborious (eleventh day).
• Laborious breath, as if the air passages were closed (seventh day). [30.]
• Short, difficult breathing (fourth day); more difficult (sixth day).
• Breathing is so difficult that the mind directs not to inspire too much air at a time (ninth day).
• Painful and short breathing (eighth day).

CHEST

• Rush of blood to the chest, near the right shoulder-blade, accompanied with a few strong palpitation (ninth day).
• Rush of blood towards the chest, without palpitation (sixth day).
• Pains in the first left ribs (twelfth day).
• Violent pains in the chest, with orgasm of blood, lasting half an hour, at 7 P.M. (eighth day).
• Sensation of painful burning in the right lung, from 4 to 5 P.M. (fourth day).
• The lungs seem to be closed, in the evening (ninth day).
• The lungs seem adherent to the parietes of the chest (eleventh day). [40.]
• Sharp pain in the chest, burning shootings, at two o'clock (ninth day).
• Sharp pains which run through the chest; these pains are not increased by walking, although they are renewed on the first movement (twelfth day).
• Very sharp pain in both lungs, especially in the left, in the evening (eleventh day).
• Acute and pressing pain in the right lung (seventh day).
• A few stitches in the right lung, with sensation of a smarting wound of the size of a two franc piece (a little larger than a silver quarter of a dollar), (fifth day); the smarting extends to the left lung (sixth day).
• Smarting pain in the chest, with sensation of burning (seventh day).
• Contusing pain in the parietes of the chest, these pains are brought on by coughing, by deep inspiration, or by motion (third day).
• A few fits of coughing caused a sensation of painful ruffling of the lungs, which seemed to change place and be contused (tenth day).

HEART AND PULSE

• Quick pulse (seventh day).

BACK

• Sharp, lancinating pain in the dorsal vertebræ (twelfth day). [50.]
• Constrictive pains in the sides of the trunk (third day).
• Tearing pain in the back (ninth day).
• Pains in the lower part of the back, in the sacrum (second day).

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Nails are getting soft (twelfth day).

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Pain above the left hip (second day).
• Slight lancinating pain in the left knee, which bends involuntarily when the person is standing (second day).
• Tearing pain in the right buttock and in the thigh (second day).
• Sensation of contusion in the femur, from the head of the bone to the patella (second day).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Fatigue, weakness (eleventh day).
• Weakness, extreme malaise, febrile heat (eighth day). [60.]
• Great weakness about 4 P.M. (second day).
• Malaise, during the day and night (fifth day and night).
• Malaise, despondency, lasting all day (eighth day).

SLEEP

• Sleeplessness (ninth day).
• Bad night (ninth night).

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Very severe coldness from the hip down to the feet (second day).
• Heat.
• Heat in the hands (fifth day).
• Hands are hot and dry (ninth day).
• Hands very hot (eleventh day).
• Excessive heat of the hands (seventh day). [70.]
• Slight sensation of dry heat in the palms of the hands (fourth day).
• The heat in the palms of the hands is intolerable in the evening (sixth day).
• Fever, without chill (seventh day).