Ferrum iodatum

Volume IV — Appendix

FERRUM lODATUM.

(See vol, ii, p. 573.)

II. 1 1. A lady, set. 23, was in good health, but had never menstnuted (from undeveloped sexual organs). She took Ferr. iod. 6 every 4— <)h. for seven weeks. It had no effect in establishing the catamenial flow, but the following symptoms appeared in the patient :

During ist week. — Feels as if she had eaten too much, — a sort of upward pressure ; circulation excited, heart oeats quickly, and stenu to force blood violently through whole body (continued into 2nd weti); headache^ felt as a cutting from bridge of nose through occiput ; small of back felt — only at n. — as if broken, as if lying in a cramped pojitiM (2nd week also) ; feeling in sides, low down, as of needles pricking? her, worse on raising arms and in walking j inguinal region sow <» walking ; dizziness, worse on movement, %nd week.- — Studied fieeling in abdomen, as if she could not lean forward ; costiveness for 2 orjd-j then griping and sudden inclination to stool, then costiveness agi*' yd week. — Stomach full of wind; every breath gives pain as froo* weight in epigastrium ; on rising, or turning in bed at n., heart be»a violently, with pain in epigastrium or lower end of sternum ; abdomo bloated after food or drink, it seems to push upwards, even a quantity of food caiu^cs w \ tcv^'j ot vc«jf ^w. fc«A. Kun^ry, but fooif

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ntisfies her ; sides of neck feel sore when touched or on movement. ydand^th weeks. — R. cheek itches, reddens when rubbed, and vesicles form, which, when rubbed, become raw; bowels not moved for a week, then stools loose, or she may have two movements — the first costive, the second sudden and loose, preceded by griping ; much thirst ; same distended feeling after fond, but appetite better ; when walking, stitches in inguinal region, worse r. 5/A week. — Circulation again excited, blood-vessels throb all over, even when she is quiet ; food seems to push up to the throat, as if it had not been swallowed ; abdomen, when pressed, feels like a rubber ball ; if she happens to pinch the abdominal '^walls, or to crease them, the part feels sore for a long time ; inguinal P»'ns have extended across hypogastrium ; sides feel stiff, as after a 'frain, tth and yth weeks. — Pain in sides worse, if she stoops it feels there as after pinching ; fulness in stomach and abdomen better ; running upstairs causes violent beating of heart and pain on top of head ; sharp pain from below eye up through eye and head to vertex ; feels ^gain, in bed at n., as if back would break, — it is stifFon getting up, ^ut better during d. j on rising abdomen feels sore; heart beat so '^violently, it woke her from sleep ; throbbing all over. %th week,— '^crvouSj hand shakes while sewing ; bad taste in mouth in m. ; abdo- ''cn feels again distended, but not after eating. 9th. — Pain from eye fo Vertex as in 6th and 7th weeks ; nervous ; heart beats violently, ^ch beat seeming to go into stomach, and causing trembling feeling ^^'"Os3 epigastrium ; weak trembling feeling on using hands and on ^^'^^ Icing; bad taste; constant bearing down in uterine region, as if ^^'[■^^thing was coming away ; while sitting feels as if pushing some- "^g up (says she could touch cervix uteri) ; urine scalds ; leucorrhoea, ^■^•te, like boiled starch, when bowels move discharge is stringy; -J^'^ing and soreness of vulva and vagina, parts much swollen.

URiNGTON, Trans, of Penns. Horn. Med. Soe.y ii, 25+.)