Kali Sulfuricum

SO4

Common names , Sal catharticum.

Preparation , Triturations or solutions in water.

Authorities.

1 , Bayard, Ann. d'Hyg., 27, p. 397 (from Am. J. Med. Sc., 1844), effects of forty grammes taken in six doses at intervals of one-quarter of an hour; 2 , Merat and Delens (same reference), effects, of one ounce in a woman; 3 , Greusellius, Mem. Acad. Nat. Cur., 1672 (Frank's Mag.), effects of half a drachm; 4 , Sobaux, Journ. de Med., 62, effects of two drachms in a woman after parturition; 5 , Marchand, Journ. Univ. Med. Sc., 1824, poisoning of a child by a small quantity.

FACE

• Face red, 5.
• Features and eyes distorted, 5.
• Lower lip swollen, 3.

MOUTH

• Lips, gum, and tongue white, 5.
• Burning heat in the mouth, stomach, and abdomen, 1.

STOMACH

• Burning thirst, 5.
• Nausea and vomiting, 1.
• Vomiting, 2.
• Repeated vomiting of a whitish substance (after two minutes), 5. [10.]
• Violent pain in the stomach and bowels, 2.

ABDOMEN

• Tympanitic abdomen, cramp and every indication of approaching peritonitis, 4.
• Abdomen very tense, 5.
• Severe colic, 4.

STOOL

• Purging; the nurse declared that much of the medicine passed undissolved, and was found at the bottom of the night stool, 1.
• Violent purging, 3.

PULSE

• Pulse scarcely perceptible, 5.

EXTREMITIES

• Cramps of upper and lower extremities, 1.

FEVER

• Heat, 2.
• Cold sweat (after two minutes), 5.

SUPPLEMENT: KALI SULFURICUM. Authority.

6 , Dr. Bonnassies, Gaz. des Hôp., Dec. 1843 (Pharm. Journ., vol. iii, p. 259), a woman took 600 grains in three doses.

• The first dose was rejected by the stomach; the second dose brought on sickness, vomiting, purging, and cramps; on taking the third dose all the symptoms of cholera were manifested, and the patient died.