Kali Arsenicosum
Potassium arsenite, As2O3K2
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
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Preparation , Solution in water.
Authorities.
1 , Berndt, from Wibmer, a man took a few drops; 2 , Prov. Med. and Surg. J., 1848, p. 459, a boy, aged 16, took three drops three times a day for scaly eruption on arms and legs; 3 , Cattell, additional effects from Med. Times, old series, 12, p. 390, etc.
MIND
- Dementia, 3.
EYE
- Inflammation of tarsi, 3.
- The eyes are suffused with tears, 2.
- Conjunctiva injected; or glassy, 1.
- The conjunctiva is slightly inflamed, 2.
- Conjunctivitis, 3.
- Sight dim, 3.
THROAT
STOMACH. [10.]
- Nausea, vomiting, and purging; the vomiting was repeated more than two hundred times (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
- Vomiting, severe colic, and general prostration of the strength, 3.
- Gastritis, 3.
- Slight pain at epigastrium, 2.
- Mucous irritation of the stomach, 3.
ABDOMEN
- Severe colic, vomiting, and general prostration of the strength, 3.
STOOL
- Violent diarrhœa, 3.
URINE
- Urine not very plentiful, and covered with a pellicle, 2.
HEART
- Palpitation, 1.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Limbs swollen, 3. [20.]
- Trembling of the limbs, 3.
- Great weakness and partial paralysis of upper and lower extremities, with burning pains in the feet, 2.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- The hands become quite stiff, insensible; the right hand was flexed, with a sticking sensation in the palms, 1.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- The knees were bent up so that he could not move the feet, 1.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Lassitude with febrile heat, 3.
- Weariness, 3.
- Agitation and alarm, 3.
- Neuralgic pains, 3.
- Aggravation from a slight cold, 3.
SKIN
- Desquamation of cuticle, 3. [30.]
- Nettlerash (ninth day), 1.
- Faint pityriasis all over covered parts, which are dirty-brown, or dingy, and have an unwashed appearance, 1.
- Pustular eruption, 3.
- Ecthyma, 3.
- Pruritus , and with papulæ on scrotum, 3.
SLEEP
FEVER
SUPPLEMENT: KALI ARSENICOSUM. Authorities. (Berridge's Collection in Appendix to Brit. Journ. of Hom.); 4 , Mr. R. Jones, Prov. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. vii, 1844, p. 127, Miss B. took it for chronic psoriasis, which was relieved for a time, but returned in an aggravated form; she then took it three times a day for a month, beginning with doses of 5 drops, and gradually increasing to 15; 5 , Dr. James Begbie, Edinb. Med. Journ., vol. iii, 1858, p. 961, effects in eight or ten days of moderate doses, say 5 drops, largely diluted, two or three times daily; 6 , Dr. John Elliotson, Med. Times and Gaz., 1858, New Ser., 16, p. 524, a lady took 2 minims three times a day for rheumatism; 7 , Dr. Thomas Skinner, Brit. Med. Journ., 1858, p. 778, a woman nursing her first child, took two doses of 30 drops for eczema of scalp and face; 8 , Dr. Arthur Leared, Med. Times and Gaz., 1863 (1), 63, effects in two cases of phthisis; 9 , Dr. Robert McNab, ibid., p. 297, a woman, æt. twenty-eight years, took 3 minims three times a day for lupus of face; 10 , Dr. Duffin, Lancet, 1869 (2), p. 508, a woman, with chronic psoriasis, took 3 minims three times a day from September 3d to 19th.
MIND
EYE
- Redness of eyes (after five days), 6. [40.]
- Sense of heat and itchiness of eyelids, to which succeed swelling and tenderness; the conjunctiva becomes inflamed, the eye sensitive to light, and the orbit surrounded by a dark discoloration, 5.
- Itching of conjunctiva, 10.
FACE
- Face pale (after five days), 6.
MOUTH
- Gums swollen and tender, 5.
- Tongue clean and red, like raw beef, 4.
- Whitish tongue, 10.
- The tongue is coated with a white silvery film, like that produced by touching its surface with a weak solution of lunar caustic, 5.
- It the remedy is persisted in salivation ensues, 5.
THROAT
STOMACH. [50.]
- Appetite lost (fifth day), 6.
- Intense thirst, 4.
- Nausea (after five days), 6.
- Constant pain and nausea after food, and frequent vomiting of all ingesta, 4.
- In one it caused a sinking sensation at epigastrium, accompanied with faintness, 8.
- Sense of weight after eating (after five days), 6.
ABDOMEN
- In one it caused pain in bowels, 8.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa, 8.
- Unable to sleep, owing in some measure to frequent stools, which are white, watery, and frothy, 4.
- For last six weeks subject to obstinate diarrhœa, and has now the following symptoms: frequent griping pains in bowels, with almost constant desire for stool; considerable tenderness over whole abdomen, which is distended, 4.
URINARY ORGANS. [60.]
- Marked increase of the quantity of urine occurs, not infrequently with a free deposit of lithates, 5.
- Urine scanty, high-colored, and passed with effort, 4.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Menses absent, 4.
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS
- Some gastric cough, and frequent raking of throat and fauces, of a muco-purulent secretion, mixed with specks of blood, 4.
CHEST
- It stopped the milk entirely, but it was afterwards restored by treatment, 7.
PULSE
BACK
- Much pain and tenderness down spine, 4.
EXTREMITIES
- Aching pain in right shoulder and elbow, which on the following day was associated with a copious and well-marked eruption of herpetic vesicles over the integuments of arm and forearm, 10.
- Crampy feeling of lower extremities, with partial loss of motion and sensation; they are much swollen, livid in places, and showing a tendency to slough, 4.
GENERALITIES. [70.]
- Great emaciation, 4.
- Tremor, 5.
- Frequent muscular tremors, 4.
- Strength lost (fifth day), 6.
- Faintness, 5.
SKIN
- One of the earlier signs is a minute papular rash, which by-and-by assumes the form of delicate brownish scales, giving the skin an unwashed appearance; this has been most observed over those parts of the skin which are protected from light by clothing, 5.
- After taking it for three weeks, suddenly, after feeling ill for a few hours, a copious rash made its appearance on face, hands, and chest, resembling that of measles, the maculæ being slightly elevated, with intervening space of skin little affected, and showing papules in some places, vesicles in others. It was accompanied by general catarrhal symptoms, swelling of face, lips, and eyelids, burning heat of skin, yellow-furred tongue, gastro-intestinal irritation, and intense tenderness of feet, so much so that standing gave great pain. These symptoms were followed in a few days by complete aphonia. Desquamation commenced about the tenth day of this eruption, but the redness of the skin did not entirely disappear for some weeks, 9.