Indium Metallicum

[Wholly prepared for this work by Dr. Bell.]

Metallic indium.

Preparation , Trituration of the pure metal.

Authorities.

Bell's collection of provings in MS., as follows: 1 , J. U. W., took 30th dil., 2 drops at one dose; 2 , J. S. H., took 30th dil., 10 drops at one dose; 3 , D. C. P., took 30th dil., 8, 10, 15, and 20 drops in five days, later 3d trituration; 4 , W. K. K., took 50th dil., 1000 Fincke; 5 , C. H. B., two doses 30th dil.; 6 , T. L. B., 3d trit.; 7 , T. C. F., 2d and 3d trit.; [This prover had many headaches during the proving, but as he was subject to them he did not consider them genuine, and they have been omitted. -B.]

8 , C. H. E., 3d trit.; 9 , J. B. B., 30th and 50th dil.; 10 , Lady, 30th dil.; 11 , M., 30th dil.; 12 , R. G. W., 3d trit.; 13 , Arthur de Noe Walker, M.D., 100,000 Fincke, one dose; 14 , "A healthy farmer," 1000 Fincke, one dose.

MIND

• Depression of spirits without cause, 5.
• Depression of spirits, 8.
• Restless, cannot sit still, must walk about, 8.
• Feel almost crazed when attempting to study (with dull, heavy nervous headache), 6.
• Cannot fix the thoughts on anything, 6.
• While reading, mental dullness with full feeling in front of the head, 7.

HEAD

• Dizzy disagreeable sensation in the head on rising from a seat, 3.
• After retiring, nausea and dizziness, and pain in region of liver, 3.
• When sitting, and stooping slightly, sensation of vertigo and fulness in the front part of the head, 4.
• Awoke between 3 and 4 A.M., with vertigo, worse on turning the head on the pillow, much worse on rising, and then attended with faintness and nausea; forced to lie down several times while dressing; at half past eight, being unable to sit up, took a dose of Bryonia 200 and was soon relieved, 12. [10.]
• Head felt crammed full, 1.
• Headache as though it would crack off, from temple to temple, and passing backwards as low as the bottom of the ears, 1.
• Every motion jars the head and increases the pain, 1.
• Headache all night with fever, restlessness, and desire to stretch, 1.
• Headache relieved by pressure, 1.
• Headache at night, 4.
• Headache night and morning, 4.
• Dull headache in the forehead on waking, passing away during the forenoon; never had a headache like it before, 4.
• Dull headache in the evening; high up in the border of the hair a pressing-aching pain, and on stooping feeling of fulness and expansion of the aching part, as though it grew larger, 4.
• Dull headache every afternoon, 4. [20.]
• Dull headache in the temples and forehead, with sleepiness and nausea, 1.*
• Thirst followed by great headache in the frontal region, low down, with pressing over the eyes, hot palms of the hands and dry mouth and lips, 8.
• Headache over the whole forehead, extending to the external angles of the eyes, with dull stupid feeling, 8.
• Headache with slight nausea, 8.
• Headache in the evening, 8.
• Headache extended to the eyes, with sharp pain in the eyeballs, from before backwards, worse from turning or raising them, 1.
• Pain in the head over the left eye, and in the right upper molar teeth, with nausea, dizziness, and pain in the region of the liver, 3.
• Slight feeling of heat and fulness in the forehead, continuing through the day, .

EYE. [50.]

• Sharp pain in eyeball from before backward, worse on turning or moving the eyes, 1.
• Eyeballs feel hot and pressed, 1.
• People and things looked ghastly and pale, or saffron-colored, followed by headache, fever, and sore throat, 1.
• In the evening, a peculiar dry mist passed over the eyes; after looking at an object for a little time could see it more distinctly, while other objects remained indistinct, 4.
• Sleepy irritation in the eyes, in the evening, 7.
• All day, a sense of irritation in the left eye, as when the eyes are heavy with sleep, coming and going, not affected by daylight, worse from artificial light, and from closing the eye, with a desire to close it, 7.
• In the evening, the right eye began to be affected in the same way as the left, 7.
• After using the microscope, considerable irritation in the eyes; feeling as of an eyelash in left eye, 7.
• Irritation in the eyes lasting three days, 7.
• Slight tendency to lachrymation, 7. [60.]
• Lachrymation with headache, 11.
• Smarting and dryness of the eyes, on waking in the morning, 12.
• Smarting in the eyes through the day when looking steadily, 12.
• While reading fine print, burning in the eyes, 7.
• Eyes dull and glassy during fever, 1.
• Spasmodic twitching at the outer angle of the left eye, 6.
• Place over left eye, about an inch long, fiery red, without sensation, 1.

EARS

• Throbbing in the ears, in the evening, 2.

NOSE

• Increase of catarrh from the nose, 1.
• Discharge of green and bloody matter from the nose, 1. [70.]
• Sudden and violent attack of sneezing, several times in succession, 4.
• Very disagreeable tingling irritation high up in the nasal passages, like an urgent desire to sneeze, but without sneezing, 4.
• When sneezing, seems as though he would tear himself in pieces, wrenching the abdomen, followed by pain and soreness there, 4.
• Obstruction of nose, with thin watery discharge, 4.
• Feeling of slight cold in the head, with some obstruction of the nose, 12.
• Sensation of weight across the nose and cheeks while lying on the back, relieved by turning the head to one side, 12.
• Obstruction of the nose, 12.
• Stoppage of left nostril, frequent sneezing; running of the nose, discharge thin and yellowish, 6.
• Nose obstructed in the morning, 1.
• Watery discharge from the nose, with weakness and thirst, 6.

FACE

• Place over left eye, about an inch long, fiery red, without sensation, 1. [80.]
• Pressure across the nose and cheeks when lying on the back, relieved by turning the head to one side, 12.
• Cervical glands below the angle of the jaw very sensitive to pressure, 7.
• Skin sallow, 8.
• Lips dry and parched, 12.
• Lips dry, 1.
• Dryness of the lips, with headache, 8.

MOUTH

• Pain in right upper molar teeth, 3.
• When firmly pressing the teeth together a sharp pressing pain was felt in the right temple, 5.
• Smell from the mouth very offensive, as from fever, 1.
• Tongue pale, coated yellowish-white on back part, moist, pale, and clean on the edges; papillæ on the tip elevated and reddened, 8.
• Soreness of small spot on tip of tongue, 4. [90.]
• Tongue moist, with fever and sore throat, 1.
• Tongue coated white, 1.
• Tongue red, papillæ raised and blood-red, 1.
• Small pimple inside, on right side of tongue, sore to touch or motion; all gone the next day, 9.
• Dryness of the mouth with headache and hot palms, 8.
• Mouth full of water, with dry sore throat, 1.
• Bad taste in mouth on waking, 12.
• Mouth tastes flat and nasty (with fever), 1.

THROAT

• Uvula became swollen to the size of a chestnut, 1. [100.]
• Throat reddened, uvula enlarged, and back part of pharynx covered with thick yellow mucus; a band half an inch wide, thicker at the upper part, extends up and down as far as can be seen; the mucus is very though, can be moved but not removed by the probe, 1.
• The mucus became thicker and could be picked away with forceps the next day, 1.
• Mucus could neither be hawked up nor swallowed, 1.
• Destructive ulceration of the uvula, soft palate, and tonsils, with thick yellow secretion in the ulcers, [°].
• On waking, hoarseness, inflammation, and redness of the fauces, worse on first rising, better after eating, 6.
• Hoarseness and difficulty of swallowing, 6.
• Throat sore on the right side, 1.
• Sore throat, felt when swallowing saliva, and slight raw full feeling, 7.
• Throat more sore in the evening, 7.
• Throat sore many days, 1. [110.]
• Dry throbbing stinging soreness of the throat, 1.
• Swallowing painful on account of dryness, although mouth was full of water, 1.
• Throat relieved by eating, or by drinking cold water, 1.
• Dryness of throat on inspiring, 1.

STOMACH

• After eating lobster, at noon, taste of iodide of potash all the afternoon, in the open air; all through the proving; never before or since, 9.
• No appetite, can eat, but no relish for food, 8.
• Much thirst, but too weak to go and get water, 1.
• Thirst, with coryza and weakness, 6.
• Faint feeling before meals, and unusual appetite, 2.
• Nausea, with headache, and fever after eating; all better out of doors, 6. [120.]
• After retiring at night, nausea, with dizziness, and pains in the liver, 3.
• During breakfast, sudden nausea and loss of appetite; obliged to leave the table; later, in forenoon, hungry, 4.
• Nausea, with headaches, [°].
• Nausea and faintness at 11 A.M., 4.
• Eructations, with stitches in the liver, 3.
• Fulness and pressure at the stomach, with soreness, 3.
• Eructations, with dizzy, disagreeable sensation on rising from a seat, 3.
• Nausea and faintness on rising, 12.

ABDOMEN

• Stitches in the liver, 3.
• Stitches through the lower portion of the liver, 3. [130.]
• Colic disappeared, [°], 6.
• Abdomen sensitive when laughing, 4.
• Sneezing causes pain in the abdomen, 4.
• Slight pain in the bowels, 4.
• Nausea and faintness at 11 A.M., felt mostly in umbilical region, 4.
• Moderate pain in left side of limbs, relieved by lying on the stomach, 7.
• Transient, rather sharp griping pain in left lower part of abdomen, 7.
• Colic in the lower part of the abdomen from the umbilicus downward, 8.
• Feeling as if diarrhœa would set in, with sore, sharp, continued pain around and below the umbilicus, 8.
• Pain in lower part of the abdomen, 8. [140.]
• Sensation of impending looseness of the bowels, 7.
• Uneasy feeling in the bowels before pappy stool, 7.
• Pressing as far as the navel, with diarrhœa, 14.

STOOL

• Sensation of impending looseness, 7.
• Pasty stool, brownish-yellow, very fetid, with particles of undigested food, preceded by colic below the umbilicus, 8.
• Involuntary slight stool when urinating, after the colic, 8.
• Pain in bowels, followed by dark pappy stool, 7.
• Small hard stool, followed later by uneasy feeling in bowels and pappy stool, 7.
• Diarrhœa, 14.
• Diarrhœa, with pressing as far as the navel, 14. [150.]
• Diarrhœa, with headache on the right side, 14.
• Hard stool, with blood, and violent pain in the head when straining, 1.
• Burning in the anus and rectum after stool, 5.
• After stool, burning, tenesmus, and pain in the anus, 5.

URINARY ORGANS

• When urinating, loss of power over sphincter ani, and a small portion of fæces escaped, 8.
• Urine flows away without any effort, 8.
• Woke at midnight with urgent desire to urinate, 3.
• Urine which had stood over night had a reddish pellicle on it, with a reddish deposit in the bottom of the vessel, 8.
• Urine hot and high-colored, with fever, 1.
• No appreciable change in the urine, as shown by an observation of every evacuation, time of day, amount, reaction, specific gravity, and microscopical appearance, for some time before and during the proving, 7. [160.]
• Urine at 4 P.M. of light straw-color and very thick, 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Increase of sexual desire, 4.
• Two emissions first night, one second right, 4.
• Lascivious dreams three nights, 4.
• For several months under the influence of repeated doses, the sexual desire and power was diminished; emission during coition too soon, and thrill deficient, 9.
• Itching of glans penis, 4.
• Female.
• Slight pains, as though preceding menstruation, 10.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Habitual expectoration from the bronchia in the morning is freer, and a little blood appeared in the mucus, 13.
• Hoarseness on rising, 6.
• Hoarseness, with sore throat, 6. [170.]
• When lying down, frequent desire to take a deep breath; worse when lying on left side, so that could not sleep on that side, 9.
• Craving for air, for a deep inspiration, without any oppression of the chest; worse when lying down; much worse when lying on the left side; better when lying on the back; yielding to the desire for deep breathing increases it; breathing gently and regularly relieves it, 9.

CHEST

• Dull pain in left pectoral region disappeared, [°], 12.
• Severe pain behind the lower right portion of the sternum, 3.
• Dull pain in left axilla, 1.
• Sharp pains through upper part of chest, 1.

NECK AND BACK

• Continuous pressing pain for some minutes in upper scapular region; after sitting still for some time, considerable stiffness, and sharp pressing pain across the shoulders on beginning to move, 7.
• Drawing through side of head and neck to clavicle, first on the right side, next day on the left, 12.
• After sitting awhile, much stiffness under lower angles of both scapulæ on moving the body, 7.
• Rheumatic drawing sensation across the shoulders up to the head, afterwards more in left side; worse from any jerking motion in riding or in turning over in bed, from extreme flexure or rotation of the head, and mornings and evenings, 7.
• Dull pain under right shoulder-blade, 2. [180.]
• Pressure around point of left shoulder, as if firmly grasped, while sitting, relieved by motion of the arm, 7.
• Pain worse when standing, riding, or stretching the part, 2.
• Stiffness of neck and shoulders continued two months, 7.
• *Stiffness of neck and shoulders.
• Neck stiff, 1.
• Dull aching pain in the back and lumbar regions, 5.
• Aching lameness in the back, 5.
• Severe backache, 1.
• Aching of the back in the morning, as if it had lain unsupported, 7.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Hands and arms tremble, 13. [190.]
• Pains in the left arm, as if he had struck himself, from the elbow down into the fingers, for two days, 14.
• Drawing in the left arm from the elbow down into the fingers, 14.
• Painful pressure in left shoulder and arm, with twinges of pain, relieved by pressure, 7.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Tired feeling, especially in the lower extremities, 8.
• Less weariness of the limbs than usual, [°], 7.
• The aching in the back passed down the next morning into the legs and feet, 7.
• Suddenly, when sitting, a narrow streak of severe pressing pain in back of left thigh, 7.
• Severe pain and lameness in muscles of lower portion of right leg, 3.
• While walking, drawing, strained feeling of muscles of inside of right thigh, 2.
• Peculiar hot tingling in the legs, 2. [200.]
• Dull boring pain in left great toe-joint, almost unbearable, must move the foot to relieve it, for three evenings, from 8 to 9 P.M., 2.
• The legs from the knees downward, including the whole foot, feel quite heavy, as if loaded, 13.
• Decided feeling of weakness, and tremor of the thighs and knees, after a short walk, 14.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Felt as though he were twice his natural size, during fever, 1.
• Frequent pressing pains here and there all over the body, 7.
• Less fatigue and faintness than usual on being obliged to walk at an early hour in the morning, [°], 7.
• Tired feeling, 8.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Restlessness in the legs at 3.30 A.M. till morning, 12.
• Decided feeling of weakness and tremor of thighs after a short walk, 13.
• Felt very weak, especially on walking.
• Indium brought back symptoms in two cases which had long before been cured with Sulphur, 1, 4. [210.]
• Bryonia antidotes many symptoms of Indium, 1, 12.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Almost constant inclination to stretch, 1.
• Sleepy and irritable with the headache, 2.
• Sleepy in the evening, obliged to retire early, with headache and nausea, 2.
• Very sleepy from 4 to 6 P.M., 12.
• Drowsiness on sitting in a warm room; cannot keep awake, 6.
• Great sleepiness during the afternoon, 12.
• Great and unusual sleepiness mornings, 4.
• Sound sleep until long after usual hour, 4.
• Sleepiness, with headache and nausea.* [220.]
• Wakes at 3.30 A.M., with great restlessness, especially in the legs, preventing further sleep, 12.
• Awoke between 3 and 4 for four mornings in succession, the last time with vertigo, worse on turning the head on the pillow, much worse on rising, 12.
• Vivid dreams of that which had most occupied his mind during the day, 13.
• Troubled sleep and constant dreams of annoying accidents, of being in foreign countries, 3.
• Awoke quite early not refreshed, 3.
• Sleep constantly disturbed by dreams of foreign travel, chased by mad bulls, lost in mountains; when chased made desperate efforts to run, but could only walk at a slow pace, 3.
• On account of difficulty of breathing obliged to lie on the back, which caused severe nightmare, 9.
• Great and fruitless efforts to escape impending danger during sleep, 3.
• Lascivious dreams, 4.

FEVER

• Sensitive to cold, 6. [230.]
• High fever with chilliness on moving, great weakness, sore throat, thirst, stretching, bad odor, violent backache and headache, 1.
• Hot tingling in the legs, 2.
• Easy perspiration, 1.
• After eating, fever and nausea, 6.
• Fever better out of doors, 6.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), On waking, headache in forehead; on waking, smarting, etc., in eyes; obscuration of nose; on waking, bad taste; on first rising, hoarseness; stiffness in angles of scapulæ; aching of back.
• ( Afternoon ), Headache.
• ( Evening ), Headache; throbbing in ears; sore throat; stiffness in angles of scapulæ.
• ( Night ), Headache.
• ( Closing eye ), Irritation in eye.
• ( When firmly closing teeth ), Pain in temple.
• ( After eating ), Fever, etc.; dull headache; nausea, etc.
• ( Artificial light ), Irritation in eye.
• ( Looking steadily ), Smarting in eyes.
• ( Lying down ), Especially on left side, craving for air.
• ( Motion ), Headache; pains through chest.
• ( Reading ), Mental dullness.
• ( Reading fine print ), Burning in eyes.
• ( Deep respiration ), Craving for air.
• ( Rising ), Nausea, etc.
• ( Rising from bed ), Vertigo.
• ( Rising from seat ), Sensation in head.
• ( Sitting ), Pressure around shoulder-joint.
• ( Stooping ), When sitting, sensation of vertigo, etc., in front part of head; feeling of fulness in head.
• ( Turning head on pillow ), Vertigo.
• ( Walking ), Frontal headache; feeling of weakness.
• Amelioration.
• ( Open air ), Nausea, etc.; fever.
• ( Drinking cold water ), Sore throat.
• ( Eating ), Headache; hoarseness, etc.; sore throat.

SUPPLEMENT: INDIUM METALLICUM. Authorities.

15 , E. W. Berridge, U. S. Med. Invest., vol. iv, 1876, p. 573, took 24 globules 100,000th (Fincke); 16 , same, A. de Noe Walker, took 15 globules of same at bedtime.

HEAD

• On waking, the contents of the cranium, not the parts covering it, felt bruised, 16.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• His habitual expectoration from the bronchia in the morning was freer, and on one occasion, a speck of blood appeared on the rather thick mucus, 16.

BACK

• When going downstairs, sudden pain in left sacral region (ninth day), 15.

EXTREMITIES

• Hands and arms tremble, 16.
• Decided feeling of weakness and tremor of the thighs and knees after a short walk, 16. [240.]
• Legs from knees downward, including the whole foot, feel heavy, as if loaded, 16.
• When walking in evening after sunset, frequent sudden pains in bend of left thigh anteriorly, making me stop walking (fifth day); the same, but less, in morning of sixth day), 15.

SLEEP

• The following night, vivid dreams of what had most preoccupied his mind during the day, i. e. , lectures and clinical studies, 16.

SUPPLEMENT: INDIUM METALLICUM.

Indium . Dr. C. Mohr, Jr., proving with 50th dilution.

See No. 14, Iodum.

MIND

• Feels stupid; is cross and irascible.
• Feels stupid and careless.
• Mind feels tired, and does not care to work.

HEAD

• Slight throbbing headache, lasting two hours, with hot head and cold, clammy hands; afterwards a bruised feeling of brain in vertex, relieved by cold air.
• Beating, throbbing headache, at 3 P.M., lasting till bedtime; head very hot; face red.
• A beating, throbbing pain in head, with much heat, and a stupid, cross feeling; washing in cold water relieved.
• Dull headache in the forenoon.
• Severe left-sided headache, in the evening.
• Headache in the morning, on rising, relieved by eating; an hour afterwards, headache returns, and lasts till noon. [10.]
• Severe itching of scalp on vertex, lasting several days; worse in the morning.
• Very distressing headache in forenoon; the pains commenced on right side of occiput, and extended over the head to left eye.
• Pain in the morning, at 8 A.M., extending over the right side of head from the occiput, leaving a bruised spot on vertex.
• Headache, beginning at night, and continuing all next day; pain mostly on right side of occiput; occasional pains over left eye, with a tired, sick feeling.
• Pain in right occipital region, with occasional dull, aching pain in forehead.

EYE

• Profuse watering of eyes when in the open air.

EAR

• Bright redness of whole of right ear, with a row of very sore pimples on helix.

NOSE

• Epistaxis.
• Nose bleeds whenever blown or touched.

FACE

Very painful, suppurating pimples on forehead; feel as though pierced with a needle; skin very red, far around each pustule. [20.]

• Face red and hot.
• Sore pustules all over.
• Face burning and stinging continually.

MOUTH AND THROAT

• Corners of mouth cracked and very sore.
• Sore spot in the mouth.
• Patch of small vesicles on mucous membrane of lower lip.
• Vesicles contain a colorless, limpid fluid.
• Tickling in throat inducing continual hawking.
• Left tonsil swollen; pain and difficulty in swallowing.

CHEST

• Burning pain on left side, near sternum, which feels as if drawn towards back.

STOMACH. [30.]

• Qualmishness.
• Sick feeling for two days; felt as if vomiting would relieve.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa, aggravated by drinking beer.

URINARY ORGANS

• Horribly offensive smell of urine, after standing but a short time.
• Painful urination.

GENITAL ORGANS

• Women.
• Menses two weeks too soon; bearing-down pains, with cross temper and weeping mood; face very red.
• Men.

Seminal emissions twice the same night.

• Emissions four nights in succession.
• Emission several nights in succession, without dreams.
• Emissions at night without knowledge. [40.]

• Emission, with amorous dream; very stupid on awaking.

• Dreams that he was about to have connection with a man, but for some unknown reason, the dream changed before the act was accomplished; no emission.
• Dreams of having unsuccessful intercourse with men; no emissions.
• Severe pain in right testicle.
• Testicles tumefied, and very tender to touch; drawing pain along spermatic cords, from testicles upwards; left testicle much worse.

TRUNK

• Soreness all over body; severe pain in left aide, making it difficult to move; better after continued motion.
• Soreness of whole of left side of body.
• Body feels sore all over; sickish feeling, and sensation as though he bones would cut through the flesh.

EXTREMITIES

• Upper.
• Constant pain in left shoulder, as if bruised.
• Pain in left shoulder, with soreness, extending down the whole arm. [50.]

• Slight pains in left arm.

• Left elbow feels sore.
• Muscles of left arm and shoulder feel flabby and soft; no power in the arm.
• Intermitting pains in left shoulder.
• Severe pain under scapula of left aide.
• Severe lancinating pain in biceps of left arm, extending into shoulder; pains worse when raising the arm; paralytic weakness.
• For some days, severe pain in left shoulder; pain runs down to elbow, at times so severe as to disable the arm; shooting pains in the fingers.
• Hands cold and clammy.
• Palms of hand sweat continually.
• Hands sweat very much at 3 o'clock, every afternoon. [60.]

• Itching in the palms.

• Lower.
• Sharp, shooting pains in the right leg.
• Burning and intense itching of all the toes during the whole day.
• Itching of the toes in the evening.
• Feet sweat easily and feel cold.
• Profuse foot-sweat (late symptom, after eruptions had disappeared).

SKIN

• Very painful and sore pimples on various parts of the body.
• Itching of scalp, toes, etc.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravations.
• Generally the symptoms seemed intensifed in the afternoon, about 3 o'clock.
• Left side of the body, right side of the head most affected.
• Amelioration.
• Headaches are relieved when washing in cold water, and on walking in the cold air.
• General symptoms relieved by sleep.