Potassium ferrocyanide (Blut-laugen-salz).

Preparation , Triturations.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. James B. Bell, provings Hahnemann. Month., 2, 43, D. R., a man aged 27, took 1/2 grain of 1st trit., at 3 P.M.; 2 , Miss H. R., aged 28 (subject to dysmenia), took 2 grains of 3d trit. in some water, at 10 P.M.; 2 a , same prover took 4 grains of 3d trit., eight days later; 3 , Dr. Burleigh Smart, Amer. J. Med. Sc., 15, p. 365, effects of continued "full doses" in patients.

MIND

Feeling of sadness and some disposition to tears, caused by an impression that he was soon to die and leave his friends; disposition to take a sad view of the beauties of autumn; the apprehension of approaching sickness and death can be overcome by reason, but soon returns (in the afternoon, third day), 1.
Irritable and easily vexed (second day), 2.

HEAD

Vertigo, coldness, and numbness, with a sensation of gastric sinking, sometimes universal tremors, as in an ague fit, 3.

NOSE

Desire to sneeze, very soon, 1.
Much sneezing during the forenoon, and mucous discharge from the nose (second day), 1.

MOUTH

Ptyalism, with redness, swelling, and tenderness of the gums, and aphthæ of the mouth and fauces, 3.

THROAT

For three days the throat feels dry and sore on waking, but soon after expectoration came on with relief, 1.
Wakes early, with a sensation as though the pharynx was raw and the tonsils swollen; relieved after rising by expectoration of creamlike mucus (second day), 1.

STOMACH

Slight nausea for a few minutes, while dressing in the morning (second day), 2. [10.]
Sensation of gastric sinking, 3.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Almost involuntary coition in a half waking state, with imperfect erection; too early emission and little pleasure (first night), 1.
Emission of semen, with indistinct amorous dreams (second and third nights), 1.
Female.
Leucorrhœa, all day; is subject to it only just after menses (second day), 2.
Menses came on four days too late (after eleven days); the usual pain commenced at the proper date, but the flow did not begin as usual with the pain; bearing-down pains much less than usual (curative?), 2a.

HEART AND PULSE

Lessens the action of the heart, diminishes the number of its beats in a minute, and softening and lessening the volume of the pulse, 3.
A full dose of this substance will often reduce the number of pulsations in a well person ten beats in a minute, in a few minutes after being taken, 3.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Pain in the shoulder-joints on motion, in the morning, on rising (second day), 2.
Fingers slightly swollen about the joints, in the morning on rising (second day), 2.
Lameness of the fingers and wrist-joints of both hands, left rather worse, in the morning on rising (second day), 2.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Pain and lameness in right hip-joint, early in the morning, going off in the afternoon; only felt when walking (second day); felt for three or four days, at times worse in the forenoon, 1. [20.]
Pain through the hips, lower part of the back, and bowels, like the pain she feels during the menses; same bearing-down or dragging-down feeling; left hip more than the right; feels irritable and easily vexed (is subject to these feelings during the menses, but they are not now present); after a ride in a carriage in the afternoon (second day), 2.
Severe pain in the knees, on stooping, in the afternoon (second day), 2.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Sometimes universal tremors, as in an ague fit, 3.
Numbness, 3.
(Morning) pains all disappeared about 2 P.M. (second day), 2.

FEVER

Coldness, 3.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), On waking, throat dry, etc.; on waking, pharynx raw, etc.; while dressing, nausea; on rising pain when moving shoulder-joints; on rising, lameness of fingers, etc.
( Forenoon ), Only when walking, pain, etc., in hip-joint.
( Afternoon ), On stooping, pain in knees.

Kali Ferrocyanatum