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).

Gadus Morrhua