Nitricum Acidum (Nit-ac.) — Allen TF Materia Medica
Nitricum Acidum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Nitric acid; hydrogen nitrate; HNO3.
Preparation , Dilutions with distilled water.
Authorities. (Nos.
1 to 19 , from Hahnemann.)
1 , Hahnemann, Chron. Krank-n; 2 , Bethmann; 3 , Foissac; 4 , Hartmann; 5 , Hering; 6 , Th. Mo.; 7 , Rummel; 8 , Stapf; 9 , Andrey, vom Magnete, p. 164 (not obtainable, -Hughes); 10 , Alyon, in Mem. d. l. Soc. d'Émulation, 1, 618 (observation, -Hughes); 11 , Blair (Essays on Ven. Diseases, etc., Lond., 1797, observations of patients, mostly syphilitic, -Hughes); 12 , Dürr, Hufel. Journ. (xxv, 2, 31, observation, -Hughes); 13 , Ferriar (Med. Hist. and Refl., ii, 299, as Blair, -Hughes); 14 , Kellie (Duncan's Annals, 1797, ii, 254, observations, -Hughes); 15 , Lescher, in Rœmer's and Kuehn's Annal. d. Arzn., 1, ii, 1 (not obtainable, -Hughes); 16 , Ritter, in Hufel. Journ. (x, 3, 191, observations, -Hughes); 17 , Samml. f. prakt. Aerzte, xv, 1 (not found, -Hughes); 18 , Scott, in Hufel. Journ., iv, p. 353 (Duncan's Annals, 1796, i, 375, experiments on self, -Hughes); 19 , Walters, in Phys. Med. Journ., 1810 (not found, -Hughes); 20 , omitted; 21 , Robinson, Br. J. of Hom., 25, 235, a young "female" (woman?) took of a solution of 1 globule of the 200th dil. in 8 ounces of water, a tablespoonful every third morning; 22 , same, a middle-aged "female" took of same solution night and morning; 23 , same, another "female" took same; 24 , same, another proving, as No.
21; 25 , same, a young "female" took of a solution of 1 globule of the 1000th dil. in 8 ounces of water, a tablespoonful each morning; 26 , Berridge, N. Am. J. of Hom., N. S., vol. 3, p. 101, Mrs. --- took a few drops of the dilute (officinal) acid; 27 , Berridge, Am. J. Hom. M. M., 8, 128, Dr. Lillie took the 200th dil. (Lehrmann); 28 , Lederer, Br. J. of Hom., 15, 249, symptoms in healthy persons; 29 , Daniel D. Walters, Med. and Phys. Journ., 2, 181, 1799 (from Med. Repos., 2, p. 137), drank freely of dilute "aqua fortis;" 29a , his brother drank of same; [Compare 29 and 29a with 19 ; they are probably identical though these latter (from the English original) differ somewhat in phraseology. -T. F. A.]
30 , Dr. Levret, Am. J. Med. Sc., 1828 (Journ. des Progrès, vol. 6), a young man took about 2 ounces of the acid, after having eaten heartly of bread and cheese and drank some brandy; 31 , Arnott, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1833, vol. 12, p. 219, a young man drank about a dessertspoonful; 32 , Bouillard, Journ. Univers. et H., vol. 13, p. 434, 1833 (Frank's Mag., 4, p. 382), a man took "a glassful;" 33 , Rehfeld, Med. Zeit. f. Heilk. Preuss. 1833 (Frank's Mag., 1, 166), a girl, aged eighteen, took an indefinite quantity; 34 , Wilson, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1834 (S. J., 6, 272), a boy drank some from a bottle; 35 , Schreber, Summarium, 1840 (S. J., 25, 156), a girl, aged twenty-three, took an indefinite amount; 36 , Basse, Inaug. Diss., 1845, a man took about 2 ounces of dilute acid; 37 , Dr. Warren, Am. J. Med. Sc., 1850, a woman, aged thirty-four, took a quantity into her mouth, most of which was ejected; 38 , Sansom, Lancet, November, 1860, a man took more than 1 ounce; 39 , Wunderlich, Archiv. der Heilk., 1863 (A. H. Z., Mon. Bl., 7, 27), a girl, aged seventeen, took a teaspoonful; 40 , Br. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1863, p. 541, effects of fumes from a broken jar in a man, fatal; 41 , same, second case, also fatal; 42 , Palmer, Trans. N. Y. St. Hom. Med. Soc., 1864, p. 225, effects of "a small quantity;" 43 , Erichsen, Petersb. Med. Zeit., 1867 (A. H. Z., Mon. Bl., 16, 62), effects of a wineglassful in a man; 44 , Hendrichs, Am. J. Hom. Mat. Med., 3, 120, effects of fumes in a lady; 45 , Budd, Lancet, 1860, chronic poisoning of a man, aged thirty-six, by about 1 ounce; , Adams, Lancet, 1870, poisoning of a man by at least half an ounce of strong acid.
Faintlike weakness every other morning, with anxiety, 1.
She became lost in thought about a long-past anxious event, from which she could not free herself, almost like a waking dream; from time to time she aroused herself from it with fright, but always became again deeply buried in the same train of thought; she was able to think of anything else only with the greatest difficulty, 1.
At once she is taken with a peculiar anguish, runs to her physician, but he is not at home, hires a carriage to drive to the house where she expects to find him; during her ride all the anguish is gone; arrived at home she feels as bad as ever, and feels herself thus forced to drive about the whole day, till all the effects of the Nitric acid have passed off, 44.
Anxiety, as if he were engaged in a lawsuit or dispute, causing uneasiness, 1.*
Anxiety, like palpitation, with nausea, without efforts to vomit, as if she had committed a crime, at night in bed; she could not remain in bed; no palpitation was perceptible to the hand; it lasted two hours, .
HEAD
Confusion.
Confusion of the head, like a loss of consciousness, at times, worse in the open air, 1.
Confusion and weakness of the head (after four days), 1.
Redness, suppuration, and violent itching behind the left ear, 1.
Swelling of the glands behind and beneath the left ear, with sticking and tearing in them extending along through the ear, at 6 P.M., lasting till she became warm in bed, 1.*
The face, jaws, and lips become much swollen , not red or inflamed, but simply; puffed; the entire face , in fact, was much disfigured (after several days), 23. [340.]
Sensation of softness (Weichheit) in the teeth, disappearing during a meal, 3.
The upper front teeth and a lower hollow back tooth are painful as if loose and blunted, or as if they had been bent forward and were loosened, in the evening, disappearing after eating warm food, 1.
Sensation as if the teeth were soft and spongy; did not dare to bite them together for fear they would fall out; on the slightest sucking of the teeth blood exuded from the gum, and the whole mouth felt comfortable (eleventh day), 1.*
Sticking toothache, with swelling of the cheek, for two days (after three days), 1. [380.]
Toothache in the upper row, though not preventing chewing; with swelling of the cheek and tightness in it, 1.
Painful throbbing toothache, worse in the evening in bed, preventing sleep for several hours, at times in one tooth, at other times in all the teeth (after twelve hours), 2.
Jerking toothache, mostly in hollow teeth, and in the evening (first day), 2.
Drawing and sticking toothache, with some swelling of the gum, about midnight, 1.
The pains in the teeth immediately became worse on leaning the head against the pillow, 1.
Severe stitches in the upper back teeth, extending down to their crowns (after three hours), 1.
A stitch shoots into the teeth on taking anything cold or warm into the mouth, 1.*
Great pain all about the throat, from the front of which leech bites were bleeding; on lateral compressure of the larynx, additional pain was felt, 31.
Violent pain in a spot behind the suprasternal notch, greatly aggravated by drinking water, 43.
Pain in the throat and larynx (after half an hour), 34.
Sore throat on swallowing, as from a swelling in the throat, and as if raw and ulcerated, 1.*
A persistent stitch in the region of the maxillary articulation, 1.
Dull pressure in the submaxillary glands and in the neck, 2.
Itching of the swollen parotid glands (after three days), 1.
Uvula and Tonsils.
[Corroding ulcers on the side of the uvula], 13 . [In a case of secondary syphilis, while the acid was being taken for ulceration of the tonsils. -Hughes.] [520.]
Swelling of the tonsils, 10 . [With salivation. -Hughes.]
*White patches appeared, first on the tonsils, then on the back part of the throat, and finally inside the mouth and lips (within an hour); the deposit afterwards became thicker and changed to a yellowish hue; the tongue was also coated with the same, with red tip and margins, 42.
Arch of the palate and tonsils swollen, painful, with injected vessels, 36.*
Pain in the tonsils, with soreness of the uvula, 1.
(Could lie for a length of time on my left side, which, from some disease in my liver, had not been the case for many months before), (second night), 20.
Crawling in the scrotum, extending through the groin, 1.
Red spots on the glans penis become covered with a scab, 1.
A denuded spot on the penis becomes ulcerated , and will not heal, 7.*
*Superficial ulcers in the corona glandis, looking clean, but exuding an offensive moisture, 2.
A deep ulcer on the glans penis, with elevated, lead-colored, extremely sensitive edges, 2.
Ten or twelve flesh-colored excrescences on the corona glandis, that after a few days become smaller, exuding an offensive moisture andbleeding when touched, 2.* [890.]
Itching tickling as from fleabites on the whole penis, 1.
Sore pain in the tip of the glans penis while urinating, 1.
Itching over the whole penis, especially on the glans, beneath the prepuce, 1.
Great swelling of the prepuce and phimosis, without much redness, and suppurating ulcers with flat edges, with inflammation of its inner surface and on its margins, and also of the orifice of the urethra, looking like chancres, with violent sticking tearing that is especially worse towards evening, lasting through the night and preventing sleep , and still more aggravated by violent erections, towards morning, 4.
Superficial yellow ulcerating spots like flat chancres, moist but painless, on the inner surface of the prepuce on both sides of the frænum, 1. [900.]
Violent cough at night, just after midnight, lasting an hour, 1.
Much more cough at night than during the day; he is able to sleep only towards morning ; even during the day there is much more cough when lying down and falling asleep, 1.*
On being inhaled, it causes a constant and violent cough, with whistling inspiration, redness, and sweat of the face and body; the paroxysm of cough increases so much by continued inhalation of the gas that it causes a taste of blood, nausea, and actual vomiting of mucus and food; longer exposure to the gas apparatus causes oppression of breathing and anxiety, so that it becomes necessary to leave the room and breathe freely, in order to ease the cough; there remains behind, for from half an hour to two hours, great rawness, soreness, and weariness of the chest, 28.
Frequent hacking cough, with irritation and crawling in the larynx, after eating, 1.
Cough, especially at night, so that there is not five minutes' rest, with shattering of the whole body, that frequently takes away the breath, as in hooping-cough; stitches in the chest, sore throat, and fever, 1.
*Dry cough during sleep, before midnight, .
CHEST
Violent stitch through the lungs in the forenoon, 1.
Spasmodic pains in the chest and opposite in the back, aggravated by inspiration, after midnight, 1.
Itching spots, like freckles, on the chest externally, 1.
Whistling and râles in the chest on inspiration, 1.*
Throbbing in the chest, above the stomach, like palpitation, especially after walking rapidly; relieved for some hours by drinking wine, but afterwards returning, 1.
Oppression of the chest so great that she could not get her breath (after twenty-two days), 1.
Oppression of the chest ; short, anxious, difficult respiration, 1.*
Violent pressure in the chest, extending from the pit of the stomach to the pit of the throat, early in the morning, 1.
A violent persistent stitch in the vertebræ while standing, 1.
Pinching in the flesh of the back during rest and motion, 1.
Dorsal.
Spasmodic jerking in the dorsal muscles during manual labor (after twelve days), 1.
Drawing in the cervical muscles, as if something heavy were hanging upon them, 1.
Pain in the left scapula and region of the kidney while walking in the open air, 1.
Tearing stitches in the scapula while walking in the open air; at night could not lie upon it, 1.
Stitches between the scapulæ and in the forepart of the chest, taking away the breath, more when stooping than on sitting quietly, 1. [1110.]
A stitch between the scapulæ from time to time, always followed by eructations, 1.
Pain between the scapulæ (after two and three days), 1.
Pinching, as with pincers, between the scapulæ, 1.
Lumbar.
Burning pain in the right lumbar region (hepatic region?), in a spot as large as the hand, that made him extremely ill-humored, sad, and unable to think or work, .
Excessive weakness, prostration; all the limbs are affected, especially the knees and elbows, they seem relaxed; after dinner, 1.
Great sensitiveness of the joints, without distinct pain, in the morning, 1.
All the joints feel weak and bruised, as after great exertion, 1. [1130.]
The hands and limbs seem weak and paralyzed on pressure, or when lying in an uncomfortable position, as if the circulation were arrested by a band (twelfth day), 7.
Pressive drawing in both lower extremities, from above downward, in the evening, 1.
Paralytic pain in the whole leg, with such heaviness and lassitude that he does not know where to put it, only during rest, not while walking, 1.
Paralytic pain in the left thigh and leg, at intervals of two hours, 7. [1220.]
Bruised pain in the lower extremities, as from excessive fatigue, 1.*
Bruised pain and heaviness in the lower extremities, 1.
Pressive-drawing pain about the knees, ankles, and other joints, 7.
Woke in the night with deepseated, bitter coldness in the feet and legs up to the hips, and deepseated feeling as if dogs were gnawing the flesh and bones, and as if the sinews were being pulled up ; all these three sensations were worse in the feet and thighs; kept her awake all night; not relieved by position or movement; relieved for the time by hard rubbing (first night); after breakfast they suddenly disappeared, leaving the parts tender to touch, and as if the clothes were too heavy for them (first night), 26.
Sensation of heat with lassitude, in the joints of the lower extremities, 1.
The lower extremities are heavy, especially painful while sitting, 1.
*Tearing in the lower extremities, especially at night, 1.
Tearing in the bones of the lower extremities, so that she cried aloud, 1.*
Jerking in the left lower extremity, at night in bed, 1.
GENERALITIES
Epileptic attack after midnight; it came on like a mouse moving up and down his left side, then the sensation disappeared; the arms jerked; the head and mouth were drawn back and forth, so that he bit his tongue, then he became quite stiff, and snored, 1.
Epileptic attack, first a drawing in the left side of the chest, then convulsive drawings in the arms back and forth, lasting a minute, while sitting, with tolerable consciousness (after twelve days), 1.
Attacks twice daily, at first drawing in the back like a grasping in the dorsal sides, below the ribs, extending around into the stomach, where it turns about and disappears, with an eructation, 1.
Spasmodic stiffness in the back and whole body, 1. [1320.]
Anxiety, with stitches above the heart, and a fantasy as though she were speaking irrationally, with coldness of the body, and inclination to fall down, 1.
Paroxysm of headache, in the morning on waking, with nausea, and a sensation as if all parts of the mouth were numb and asleep, 1.
Emaciation of the whole body, especially of the upper arms and thighs, 1.*
Profuse bleeding of an ulcer on dressing it (after six days), 1. [1400.]
Bloody ichor from an ulcer corrodes the skin wherever it flows, with biting pain, 1.
Eruptions, Dry.
Many small pimples on the forehead, just below the hair, 1.
Several pimples on the chin, with red, hard areola, at first painful to touch, that disappear as soon as pus forms at the tips; they become indurated, with a red areola, lasting several days (after thirty-three days), 2.
Pimples at the margin of the hair on the temple (fifth day), 7.
Pimples as large as peas on the posterior surface of the lobule of the ear, with pain when touched, 1.
Some pimples on the lips, with corrosive itching, 1.
Coldness of the skin of the whole body, at night, 1.
Chilliness, with a pale look and coated tongue, after dinner, 1.
Takes cold easily, and as a consequence has pains in the back, 1.
Very sensitive to a cold wind, and very chilly for a long time, 1.
Constant internal chill, in the evening, with external warmth that he does not feel (he gets by the stove), and headache as if the head were tightly bound up, 1.
Frequent shivering, especially in the forenoon, 1.
Chilliness of the whole body, with warm feet (after two days), 1.
Chill and shivering, as from gooseflesh, with bristling of the hair, 1. [1530.]
Chilliness, even in the morning, in bed, and the whole day; only in the afternoon heat in the face, 1.
Chilliness in the afternoon, without subsequent heat; he was stupid all day, 1.
Febrile chill, in the afternoon, in the open air, lasting an hour and a half; afterwards in bed dry heat, with half-waking fantasies, without sleep; only towards morning perspiration and sleep, 1.
Febrile chill, in the afternoon, lasting an hour, followed by heat all over, lasting a quarter of an hour; afterwards general perspiration for two hours; thirst during neither the chill nor heat (four days), 1.
Chilliness and shivering, in the evening, followed by flushes of heat, with dryness of the throat, 1.
Chilliness in the evening, before going to bed and on lying down , over the whole body, lasting a quarter of an hour, 1.*
Chilliness in the evening, on moving in bed, 1. [1540.]
CONDITIONS
Aggravation.
( Morning ), On waking, throbbing headache in right temple, with nausea; pressure in forehead; stitches over the eyes; swelling of fingers; distension of abdomen; face hot; in bed, dry heat; violent chill; hacking cough; bloody expectoration; thirst for water; rattling in trachea; sick feeling; chilliness; erections; pain in urethra; tearing in right foot; pressure in chest; hands asleep; on rising, vertigo; weakness and nausea; vertigo, with obscuration; ill-humored; fretful; perspiration; exhaustion; gnawing in stomach; on waking, mouth stiff and sore; on waking, pressure in stomach and back; pressure in forehead; nosebleed; blowing of blood from nose; burning in eyelids; tension in skin of face; stoppage of nose; heaviness of limbs and joints; stitches in left chest, with difficult respiration; cramp in calves; pressive pain in right chest; paroxysms of headache; tightness of breath; emission of flatus; in bed, cutting colic; after rising, violent flatulent colic; yellow, sickly look below eye; after stool, griping in abdomen; bloody saliva; mouth dry; tongue dry, coated; difficulty in opening eyes; puffiness about eyes; loss of appetite; sweetish taste; sour taste.
( Afternoon ), Throbbing headache in left of head; sticking pain in upper part of head; compressive headache in forehead; face hot; chilliness; weakness; hollow of knee tense; impatient; sleepiness; bitter taste.
( Toward evening ), Flushes of heat; itching in pudenda; drawing pains in hands and small of back.
( Evening ), Face hot, tremulous; pressure in eyelids; sensitiveness of scalp; stitches in right side of occiput; boring stitches in vertex; sticking headache in left frontal eminence; stitches in left temple; jerking in head; jerking toothache; throbbing toothache; pressure in eyelids; weakness of lower jaw; disagreeable odor from nose; in bed, sticking in throat; sour taste; dry, hacking cough; after lying down, stitches in right breast; stitches in rectum; flushes of heat and nausea; flushes of heat in cheek, with thirst; weakness of lower extremities; in bed, appearance of images, chilliness and shivering; sleepiness; in bed, palpitation; internal chills; external warmth; pressive drawing in lower extremities; feet hot; in bed, burning beneath nail of great toe; drawing in thighs; in bed, hacking cough; smarting in anus; after lying down, erections; vertigo; anxiety; tremulous; weary; depression.
Anxious oppression, like nightmare, as if some one were lying under him and holding him fast with the arms about his abdomen, so that he could not free himself, immediately after falling asleep, 1.
Discontentment with himself, that induces violent weeping , which makes him feel better, 1.*
Depressed and very anxious in the evening (the day before the menses), 1.
Depressed , as if despondent as if in deep thought, 1.*
Changeable mood, at one time lively, at another sad (after sixteen hours), 1.
Intellectual.
Paroxysms of anxious thoughts without cause; in the evening he became quite anxious, could not sit still, was obliged to walk about, 1.
If she exerts herself to reflect upon important things her thoughts vanish, 1.*
She has no thoughts at all, and cannot comprehend anything; cannot even understand what is said to her, just as if she did not hear well, which, however, is not the case (after five days), 1.
Diminished power of thought, disinclined to any scientific work, 1.
Head affected, not clear, especially after a meal (second day), 6.
Headache in the morning on waking, disappearing after rising, 1.*
Attack of headache at first in the morning in bed, a dull pain; after rising, violent pressure in the right temple, chilliness, qualmishness in the umbilical region; at last, very distressing pain in the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus and frequent eructations (eighth day), 7. [100.]
Headache, with tension in the eyes on moving them, 1.
Headache, more sticking than pressing, above the eyes, always after eating (after sixteen days), 1.
Headache, as from intoxication the previous day, very much aggravated by stopping with pain in the eyes as from smoke, 1.
*Headache, as if the head were tightly bound up, 1.
Painful heaviness of the head, as from coal gas, woke him in the morning, 1.
Pressure in the head and heaviness in the lower extremities (first days), 1.*
Feeling as if the head were in a vice from ear to ear over vertex , arising and departing gradually, for about an hour after breakfast; afterwards felt as if she had no head; it felt light on her shoulders; it felt numb, or as if made of putty (second morning), 26.*
Feeling as if some one were forcibly pressing the head, 1.*
The head is heavy and oppressed while sleeping and while dozing at night, 1.
Excessive pressing downward in the head, with very violent coryza, 1. [120.]
Stitches in the left temple , in the evening, not in the night, 1.*
Violent stitches in the right temple (after sixteen days), 1.
Throbbing headache in the right temple, with nausea, in the morning on waking, for several days (after twenty-nine days), 1.
Sticking, at times throbbing, headache in the left frontal eminence, with a feeling as if it closed the eyes, from 4 P.M., worse in the evening, lasting into the night, when it even woke him, 1.
Sticking-beating headache in the left temple the whole afternoon (after sixteen days), 1. [150.]
Pressure in the top of the head, in the temples and eyes, as from pressure with the thumbs (after nine days), 1.
Sticking pain in the upper part of the head every day, more in the afternoon, as if it would tear the head asunder; she was obliged to lie down, and could not sleep at night on account of it, 1.
Pain in the roots of the hair when touched on the vertex, in a spot as large as the hand, 1.
Parietals.
A jerk in the lower portion of left hemisphere of the brain, from before backward, 1.
Throbbing headache in the left side of the head all the afternoon (after eight days), 1.
Terrific pain in left side of head (after several days), 23.
Bruised pain in the whole right side of the head, 1.
Shaking in the left hemisphere of the brain, extending to the temples, 1. [160.]
Pressive and drawing bone-pains in the whole left side of the head, even in the teeth and meatus auditorius, 1.
Violent painlike throbbing or hammering on left side of head, coming on gradually; it began near vertex, descending to region of left ear, then went gradually over vertex to right side of head, but still worse on the left not relieved by warmth of flannel; she felt as if she could beat the head to pieces, towards morning (first night); it gradually diminished, and about breakfast left her entirely, 26.
Drawing at one time in the right side of the head above the orbit, at another time in the left side, in the region of the ear, 1.
Crawling on the right side of the head, about the ear, 2.
Occiput.
Violent sticking pain on the right side of the head and in the occiput , that was even sore to touch (after three days), 1.
Transient headache in the occiput after slight exertion, especially in thinking, 1.
Pain in the back of my head, resembling what I have commonly felt when taking Mercury (third and fourth days), 20.
Stitches in both occipital protuberances, extending to the lower jaw, 1.
Violent stitches in the left side of the occiput, during breakfast, so that the head was drawn backwards and respiration was impeded, 1. [170.]
Violent stitches suddenly in the right side of the occiput, in the evening, and afterwards another kind of violent headache in the occiput, both disappearing on going to sleep, 1.
A stitch near the left eyeball, extending to the inner canthus, externally (after eleven hours), 1.
Stitches in the right eye and left ear, coming out of the head, whereupon inflammation of the eyes; the white of the eye becomes very red; in the open air he cannot see, 1.
His vision becomes dim and the eyes become dark for an hour, 1.
The vision becomes dim and objects become dark; he sees no more, and believes that there is an obscuration of the sun or that he is becoming blind (after two hours), 3.
*Double vision of horizontal objects at some distance, 1.
Shortsighted ; he could not clearly distinguish objects even at a short distance, 1.
Shortsighted; objects at a moderate distance were indistinct, 1.
He was obliged to stop reading in the twilight sooner than usual, 1.*
While reading he sees a green spot before every letter, 1.
The eyes become blinded by the daylight as usually in the evening by the candlelight, 1.
He becomes suddenly blind in the open air, with a confused feeling in the head; his thoughts go hither and thither, and he becomes faint for a few minutes (after thirty-nine days), 1.
Violent fluent and at the same time stopped coryza, with difficult breathing, even through the mouth, with stitches in the throat on empty swallowing and on swallowing food
*Stitches as from a splinter in the nose, on touch, 7.
Stitches in the root of the nose, that is distended, especially on sneezing and coughing, 5.*
Inflamed swelling (erysipelas) of the left cheek, stinging pain, with nausea and chilliness, followed by heat; on rising up in bed the shivering always returns (after ten days), 1.
Violent pain in the malar bones, as if they would be torn asunder (after ten days), 2.
Soreness of the tongue, palate, inside of the gum, with a sticking pain and ulceration of the corners of the mouth, lasting five days (after twenty-eight days), 1.*
Tongue thickly coated with the paroxysm of fever, 1.
*Small painful pimples on the sides of the tongue, 1.
Small blisters on the sublingual glands, that are painful, 1.
Tongue covered with a yellow coating in two stripes, with some red excoriations (third day), 39.
Tongue very dry, sticking to the palate, in the morning on waking, 1.
The tongue is very sensitive, even too soft food, which causes a sharp biting, 7.*
General Mouth.
[Ulcers in the mouth and fauces], 11 . [This symptom seems compounded of ulcers in the throat, which appeared in a man who was taking the acid for syphilitic disease there, and ulcerations and vesications on the lips and inside the mouth, from the local applications of the drug. Omit "Scott;" no such is found in him. -Hughes.]
The internal surface of the cheeks, uvula, palate, fauces, and the whole mucous surface as far as one could see, were covered with ulcers and with a thin yellowish-gray membrane, injected, red, swollen, painful, and offensive, 32.*
Mucous membrane of the mouth, fauces, and tongue covered by a white membrane that could easily be torn off, 36.* [430.]
The whole inside of the mouth and fauces, as far as could be seen, was of a deep yellow color, the tongue looking as if covered with Indian meal (second morning), 37.
Whole mouth, from the lips backward, covered with a whitish-yellow membrane, 35.
Mouth white but not painful (after twenty-five minutes), 30.
Horribly offensive odor from the mouth, 11 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Great difficulty in swallowing, which could only be performed in gulps, part of the fluid regurgitating through both nostrils, owing to constriction of œsophagus (twenty-first day); a small bougie was passed with difficulty into the œsophagus, which presented a stricture at the depth of about two inches; from this time a bougie was passed on alternate days (thirtieth day); discharged with some constriction about œsophagus, but otherwise in fair health (one hundred and tenth day), 46.
He was unable to swallow even a teaspoonful of fluid, 31.*
He swallowed with pain, and spoke of throbbing in the tonsils and stiffness in the muscles of the throat, 42.
Sensation of swelling in the submaxillary glands, 1.
Pressure in the throat on swallowing food, as if it would not go down, 1.*
While eating, small pieces of food are forced into the choanæ, and come from behind forward out towards the nose, as if the pharynx could not perfectly grasp the food and allowed it to slip back, so that it became pressed up towards the choanæ, 1.
While eating, small pieces of food are forced into the choanæ, with a disagreeable sensation; they are afterwards only drawn downward with the mucus, 1.*
Incessant nausea that amounts to vomiting, 19. [590.]
Constant nausea and qualmishness the whole day , for several days in succession, with heat from the pit of the stomach to the pit of the throat; the nausea does not amount to retching; it is suppressed while eating and drinking, for both of which she has appetite, 1.*
Nausea, general sick feeling, and movements of the whole body, as after taking an emetic, 1.
Within a few minutes a deadly and intolerable nausea came on, which, within a quarter of an hour, ended in vomiting; after this he felt better for some time, when pain, griping, and flatus succeeded, and about fifteen hours after taking the dose tenesmus and bloody stools followed, 29.
Qualmish nausea and sick feeling like faintness and anxiety, as if she would eructate (especially on moving about), alternating with ravenous hunger and pain as from emptiness in the stomach, as if she ought to eat, with accumulation of water in the mouth, like waterbrash, in frequent daily paroxysms, lasting five to ten minutes, 1.
Great nausea in stomach as if going to retch, but without retching or vomiting, after rising, but before breakfast lasting till she fell asleep again (second morning), 26.
Nausea, with anxiety, without inclination to vomit, under the short ribs, frequently during the day, 1.
Nausea in the throat immediately after eating, disappearing after moving about a short time, 1.
Nausea, as from heat, not amounting to vomiting, for several hours, 1.
Persistent vomiting, caused by drink (after half an hour), 34.
Violent vomiting of thin black blood and of an offensive black fibrous membrane, nearly a foot in diameter, containing large and small bloodvessels (after sixteen days), 36.
He vomited frequently a ropy white and yellowish substance streaked with blood, 42.
Vomiting of a serous brownish fluid mingled with blood and yellow mucus (third day), 39.
Vomitings (after a quarter of an hour); the first efforts to vomit were accompanied by excruciating pain and anxiety, 30.
Vomiting of black offensive blood (after twenty days), 36.
Bitter and sour vomiting, with many eructations after eating, 1. [610.]
Constant vomiting of tenacious, purulent, and bloody mucus, 43.*
Vomiting of a bloody substance (first and following days), 39.
Found dead, with a great quantity of blood in the bed about her, which she had apparently vomited (fourteenth day), 37.
Vomited a pint of coagulated blood and fluid (seventh day); threw up about a pint of bloody fluid, with a shred of mucous membrane, two or three inches in diameter, smelling offensively (eighth day), 46.
Swallowing always followed by vomiting of food taken, together with a quantity of watery fluid (after three weeks), 45. [620.]
Violent retching, lasting nearly three hours (after nine weeks), 45.
Sensation of heat in the stomach, 18 . [Soon after ingestion. -Hughes.]
Feeling of coldness and pressure in the stomach after eating, 1.
Feeling of coldness in the stomach, 11 . [Ascribed to the acid being too little diluted. -Hughes.]
A sense of warmth in my stomach and chest, soon (first day), 20.
She woke at night with stomachache (after fifty hours), 1.
(Post-mortem showed scars in the region of the pyloric orifice, with great induration of the surrounding membrane, so that the orifice was very much contracted; the walls of the cardiac portion of the stomach were thin, with slight stricture of the cardiac orifice), 38.
After about ten days he began to have violent pains in the region of the œsophagus and stomach; nausea, vomiting, colic, and constipation returned; he became very much emaciated, offensive eructations, excessive distension of the epigastric region, tongue pale, moist, breath offensive, pulse 66 to 68. In spite of various remedies the abdomen became more and more distended, especially in the left hypogastrium, extending as far as the umbilical region; dulness on percussion, with evident fluctuations; pressure painful; the strength sank more and more each day; pulse very rapid and small, tongue, dry, features drawn, followed by sudden death, 32 . [Post-mortem showed enormous distension of the stomach, filling the whole left side of the abdomen as far as the iliac fossa, containing a large amount of thick chocolate-like, very offensive substance; the mucous membrane in the pyloric region softened, and in many places completely destroyed; near the pylorus there were ulcers with small hard edges; the walls of the pylorus and duodenum were indurated and hypertrophied under the knife like scirrhus, 32 .]
Sticking colic, especially on pressing upon the abdomen, 1.
Drawing colic in the lower abdomen, with shivering, 1.
Colicky uneasiness and distension of the abdomen, in the morning; flatus moves about the abdomen, with pain and rumbling, not relieved even by a soft stool (after sixteen days), 1.
Griping colic before a good stool (after fourteen days), 1.
Colic, after frequent and in part ineffectual urging to stool, 1. [720.]
Generation of a large quantity of flatus ; it moves about the abdomen with an unpleasant sensation, without finding vent, 1.
Great desire to pass flatus, with pain in the abdomen; very little or none at all is passed even when stool follows (from an enema of water), 1.
Much flatus is passed (immediately, and also second day), 1.
Excessive emission of flatus (after a few hours), 1.
Much emission of flatus, in the morning, with griping in the abdomen, 7.
Drawing pain in the abdomen, extending into the thighs, 1.
Pressure in the abdomen and pain in the small of the back, during the menses, 1.
Violent pressure in the lower abdomen, as if everything would press out at the genitals, with pain in the small of the back; it extended into the hips and down the legs, during the menses, 1.
Pressure in the middle of the abdomen, as from a lump, 1.
Qualmishness in the abdomen, some hours after a meal, several days in succession, 7. [730.]
Twisting-drawing pain in the abdomen, before the emission of flatus, 7.
Uneasiness in the abdomen, and frequent waking at night, 1. [740.]
Uneasiness and anxiety in the abdomen at night, with heat in the head and hands, 1.
The abdomen is extremely sensitive (after three days), 1.
Tenderness of the abdomen, walking with difficulty and bent much forward; but this was perhaps owing to her having been thrown down and stamped upon in an affray on the day on which she took the acid (first four or five days), 37.
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
Suppurating swelling in the inguinal glands, that are very painful on walking; the whole extremity seems paralyzed, and the muscles seem tense, 1.*
Slight sticking in a boil in the groin, when touched and when not, sticking itching in the indurated portion of it, 1.*
Violent cramplike pain in the lower abdomen, as if the abdomen would burst, with constant eructations; she could not remain quiet in any place, during the menses, 1.
Burrowing and griping in the lower abdomen, without diarrhœa, 1.
Pressive pain, and at times a stitch in the lower abdomen, when touching it, 1. [750.]
Urine clear on passing, but on standing it becomes first cloudy and thready, and deposits a bright sediment, adhering tightly to the vessel (after thirty-three days), 2.
Discharge of tenacious mucus, in the evening after urinating, 1. [870.]
Whitish sediment and a very ammoniacal odor to the urine, 1.
Brownish-red sand in the urine (after seven days), 1.
Inflammation and swelling of the prepuce, with burning pain; on the inner surface soreness and small ulcers, secreting a very offensive ichor, that stains the linen like bloody matter
A pimple with burning itching on the inner surface of the prepuce; after rubbing, a superficial ulcer even with the skin and of a yellow color , seeming to be covered with thick matter and without pain, only surrounded by some redness, 1.*
*Small itching vesicles on the prepuce, that open after a few days and become covered with small dry scabs, 1.
Mucus beneath the prepuce, behind the corona glandis, 7.
[The inside of the prepuce is a little excoriated, as if a chancre would appear], 11 . [Original revised by Hughes. In a man infected with syphilis three months before, and who had taken much Mercury.]
Diminished, at times great absence of sexual power, during the first eighteen days, with slow unsatisfactory erections, only excited by fondling, that at the next time are all the more satisfactory and complete (in a man aged fifty-one years), 1.
Female.
Itching on the pudenda while walking; it becomes sore, 1.*
Violent itching on the pudenda, towards evening, 1.
Itching on the pudenda ; the child rubs itself almost sore at night, 1.*
Constriction towards the genitals during the menses, 1. [940.]
Menses eleven days too early (after eleven days), 1.
Menses three days too late (after eleven days), 7.
Menses repeated three days too early (after four days), 1.
Menses three days too early (after nineteen days), 1.
Menses seven days too early (after eleven days), 1. [960.]
Menses seven days too late (at the full moon), and rather too profuse, with headache and colic, in a young person (after twenty-nine days), 1.
On the appearance of the menses violent pain in the small of the back (after forty-eight hours), 1.
On the appearance of the menses, violent cramplike pain in the lower abdomen, 1.
The menses reappeared a few days after the close of menstruation, and were pale red, 1.
The menses returned even after fourteen days, though not profusely, 1.
Violent pains, at first laborlike, afterwards rather dragging, in the lower abdomen, extending down into the vagina, during the menses, 1.
An attack of heat, palpitation, and anxiety, for half an hour; trembling of all the limbs, soon after the appearance of the menses (after eleven days), 1.
Weakness so great during the menses that she could not speak; it took away her breath, and she was obliged to lie down (after seventeen days), 1.
He coughs and hawks much black blood, and also blows the same from the nose, 1.
Extremely fluent profuse coryza, with great hoarseness and cough, with stitches in the throat, on every paroxysm (after twelve days), 1.
Expectoration of black clotted blood, caused by a hacking cough, 1.
Bloody expectoration from a hacking cough, in the morning, in bed, preceded by rattling in the trachea; followed by a sick feeling, chilliness, etc., 1.
Respiration slow and feeble, so that he could hold out a minute without breathing, 1.
Respiration rough and difficult, the quantity of air taken into the lungs appearing to the ear applied to the chest to be but small; afterwards the breathing became more labored, and each inspiration was attended with a distinct low whistle; later respiration was more croupy and hoarse, 31.
Tightness of breath, in the morning, so great that she could scarcely draw a breath (after thirty days), 1.
Sleep at night interrupted on account of the tightness of breath, 1.
Began to experience difficulty of breathing (after one or two hours), became rapidly worse, and died about ten hours after the accident, 40.
Respiration painful, labored, and stridulous (second morning), 37.
Loss of breath, palpitation, and anxiety on ascending steps, 1.*
Spasmodic pain in the chest anteriorly and in the back woke him from sleep, 1.
Spasmodic constrictive pain in the right upper pectoral muscles; was obliged to bend quite together on account of the pain for several minutes (after twenty-six hours), 1.
Pressive pain on the ribs anteriorly and a bruised sensation, noticed even on breathing, 1.
Pressing pain in the right chest in the morning, after which empty eructations, lasting half an hour (after sixteen days), 1. [1050.]
Constrictive pain in the left chest above the heart, taking away the breath (after twenty-seven days), 1.
Constrictive pain in the right chest, mostly while sitting, 1.
Crawling in the lower extremities, extending from the hips to the toes, frequently during the day and night, 1.
Slight aching in both feet and legs up to the hips; felt as if she had taken cold in them, in the afternoon (first day), 26.
Hip.
Pressive-tensive pain in the right hip-joint , on rising from a seat and beginning to walk, as if the head of the thigh-bone would be put out of joint, 1.
Drawing and tearing in the thigh, extending from the knee upward, on sitting down, relieved by sitting, 1.
Throbbing and beating in the thighs, as if they were internally ulcerated; they did not tolerate the slightest touch, and were at one time hot, at another cold, 1.
Pain in the left patella, so that he could scarcely step; could not walk at all (after eleven days), 1.
Pain as from a sprain, and as if beaten, in the patella, while walking, especially on descending steps; while walking upon a level the pain was gradually relieved, even ceasing for a time; also painful on bending it excessively, with cracking in the knee, 1.
Pain, as from a sprain, in the knees, especially on going downstairs, 1.
Sensation of swelling in the hollows of the knees, while walking in the open air, 1.
Tearing in the knee, extending to the hip, at night in bed, after much walking, 1.
Shooting into the knee when coughing, so that it cracks, with pain in the patella, on walking, 1.
Cracking in the knee, while walking, so that sometimes he could not move from the spot, 1.
Sticking pain on the outer side of the knee, while walking, 1.
Violent drawing in the knees, ending with a jerking, 1.
Momentary sharp pain in the leg, extending from the knee to the tips of the toes, day and night, 1. [1280.]
Persistent cramplike pain in the whole lower portion of the leg, in the muscles and tendons, also painful to touch, 1.
Pain as from a sprain, in the ankle, in the morning on rising, 1.
Drawing in the middle of the calf during rest and motion; sometimes changing to sudden spasmodic jerks, in frequent paroxysms for two hours, immediately, 1.
Internal weariness, especially in the arms, on waking in the morning, 1.
Most profound apathy, at times interrupted by murmuring, followed by death (eighth day), 39.
The patient became more and more apathetic and quiet, though with perfect consciousness, still at times he complained of headache (fifth day), 39.
On being questioned, he raised his eyelids, and spoke in a whisper; his replies were brief, quickly delivered, and apparently attended with increased suffering; for to other questions he answered by a look or a slight nod, 31.
Heavy, unrefreshing sleep at night, from which he woke with difficulty, and only with anxious effort, in the morning, 1.
He was unable to fall asleep for several nights, and the sleep was only a dozing, 1.
She sprang out of bed several times from the deepest sleep at night, quite awake, about a fancied frightful event, walked about, and then first became conscious that it was only an illusion, 1.
Fever with the dysentery (after fifteen hours), 29.
Fever for one day (from taking cold), after riding a long distance in a strong wind; chilliness lasting three hours, followed by heat for six hours, with excessive perspiration (after thirty-six days), 1.
Violent fever, with hot skin, full, hard, tense pulse, 43.
Violent fever, with chill, especially in the back ; he cannot get warm, and yet is externally hot, 2.
Constantly increasing warmth of the body, day and night, as after alcoholic drinks, with increased inclination to perspire, 1.
Flushes of heat all over, towards evening, and very transient perspiration, 1.
Flushes of heat in the cheeks, with thirst, afterwards in the evening very sleepy, 1. [1560.]
Paroxysms of flushes of heat, with moisture of he hands , frequently during the day, 1.*
Flushes of heat in the cheeks, without thirst (after thirty hours), 1.
Heat over the whole body frequently woke her at night , without perspiration, with excessive thirst , caused by dryness very low down in the throat; she was frequently obliged to toss about the bed; the thirst lasted twenty hours, 1.*
Constant sensation of heat over the whole body, without thirst; she could scarcely tolerate any covering, only in a cool room, day and night, 1.
At first dry heat, afterwards violent chill, in the morning, in bed, 1.
The blood seemed hot at night, especially in the hands ; she could not sleep on account of it, 1.* [1570.]
Much heat and pain in the head, with vertigo, on walking (after six days), 1.
( Night ), While sleeping, head heavy and oppressed, headache; on rising; vertigo; skin cold; drawing, grumbling, sticking, and burning in teeth; stopped coryza; violent coryza; acrid water from nose; nosebleed; rush of blood to chest and heart; stitches in heart; heat; thirst; during sleep, pain in stomach; pressure in stomach; eructations and cramp in stomach; griping colic; uneasiness in abdomen; cramp in abdomen; blood hot in hands; sticking in thigh; heat in thigh; tearing in knees; cramp in calves; feet and legs cold; tearing in lower extremities; dead feeling in left leg to knee; feet weary; violent erections; emissions; restlessness; frequent waking; anxious dreams; peevish dreams; fantasies; dry heat; anxiety; desire to urinate; on rising, vertigo.
( Midnight ), Toothache.
( After midnight ), Violent cough; epileptic attack.
( Cold air ), Deadness of fingers.
( Open air ), Confusion of the head; suddenly blinded; lachrymation of right eye.
( Falling asleep ), Paralytic drawing in first joint of thumb and in hand; oppression.
( Ascending steps ), Loss of breath; palpitation; anxiety.
( During breakfast ), Stitches in left side of occiput.
( Bending backward ), Tightness of chest.
( Chewing ), Cracking in ear; looseness and painfulness of teeth.
( After coition ), Drawing pain in small of back, spine, and thighs.
( Coughing ), Pressure in head; pain in chest, stomach, and hypochondria; nausea; vomiting; anxiety; stitches in rectum; stitches in throat and small of back.
( Covering in bed ), Nightsweat.
( After dinner ), Twitching in right eye; vomiting; headache; knee and elbow relaxed; chilliness; paleness; tongue coated.
( Drinking ), Acid, sense of heat; pain behind suprasternal notch; persistent vomiting; griping in abdomen.
( Eating ), Head perspires.
( After eating ), Heat and redness of face; headache; crawling in larynx; hacking cough; sore pain in chest; coldness and pressure in stomach; nausea; eructations; acidity in mouth, throat; vomiting; rumbling and gurgling in abdomen; anxiety; in evening, bilious eructations; cracking in maxillary articulation; sweat; salt, burning in chest.
( Grasping ), Cramp pain in hands; stiff pain in left hand.
( Inspiration ), Spasmodic pain in chest and back; whistling in chest.
( Lying down ), Weakness of lower extremities.
( Manual labor ), Spasmodic jerking in dorsal muscles.
( Appearance of menses ), Cramp pains in lower abdomen; pains in small of back.
( Before menses ), Bruised pain in limbs.
( During menses ), Burning in eye; swelling of gums; toothache; pressure in the hepatic region; pressure in abdomen; violent pain; dragging in lower abdomen; weakness; constriction toward genitals.
( Motion ), Externally bruised pain in forearm; tearing in arm; stitches in hepatic region; sticking in region of spleen; nausea; faintness; anxiety.
( Moving body ), drawing and griping in umbilical region.
( Pressing forehead ), Stitches in right ear.
( Reading ), Aloud, scraping in throat; green spots before every letter; obscuration of the eye; lachrymation.
( Rest ), Paralytic pain in one leg, with heaviness and lassitude; drawing in middle of calf.
( Warm room ), Shaking chills.
( Respiration ), Pain in chest; stitches in right side of chest.
( Riding in carriage ), Nates painful.
( Rising from stooping ), Vertigo.
( Rising from seat ), Tensive pain in hip-joint.
( Standing ), Stitches in vertebræ and knee.
( After smoking ), Dryness and scraping of mouth.
( Sitting ), Constrictive pain in right chest; weariness; indolence.
( Stooping ), Shooting in head; headache; pain in chest externally; vertigo.
( During stool ), Sticking and constriction in rectum.
( After stool ), Sticking and scraping in rectum; discharge of prostatic fluid; burning and itching in anus; smarting in rectum; nausea; exhaustion.
( Stretching foot ), Cramp in calves.
( Swallowing ), Pressure in throat; sore throat; pain in cardiac orifice.
( Talking ), Stitches in larynx and throat.
( Urinating ), Sore pain in glans penis; burning and smarting in urethra; stitches in lower abdomen.
( After urinating ), Burning in anus, in evening; discharges of tenacious mucus.
( Walking ), Heat and pain in head; vertigo; in open air, headache, nausea, perspiration; loss of breath; palpitation; in open air, itching on neck; itching on pudenda; throbbing in chest; in open air, loss of breath; feet heavy; in open air, pressure in stomach; in open air, sensation of swelling in hollow of knee; pain in hollow of knee; pain in left patella; itching in anus; in open air, pain in left scapula and kidneys; stitches in scapula; tearing in thigh; soreness between thighs; weakness of left thigh; cracking in knee; drawing pain in feet; sticking pain in heel; pain in little toe; cracking in ankle; oppression; anxiety.
( After walking ), Swelling of feet; weakness and weariness of lower leg; joints painful.
( Wetting feet ), Swelling inflammation, redness of one toe.
Amelioration.
( Eating ), Pressure in stomach; warm food, pain in teeth.
( Drinking ), Wine, throbbing in chest.
( Moving ), Nausea.
( Riding in carriage ), Symptoms disappear.
( Hard rubbing ), Gnawing sensation in thighs.
( Sitting ), Pain in thigh.
( Going to sleep ), Stitches in right side of occiput.
( Walking ), Pain in left inguinal region.
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