GADUS MORRHUA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Gadus morrhua, Linn.; (Morrhua vulgaris, Cloq.).
Family of fishes , Gadoïdes.
Common names , Cod; (Fr.), Morue.
Preparation , "Trituration of first cervical vertebra." [Cod Liver Oil will appear as
Oleum Morrhuæ .]
Authority.
Dr. Antoine Petroz, translated by Dr. A. Dupaquier, West. Hom. Obs., vol. 3, p. 187, 1866.
MIND
- Deep melancholy, paroxysms of hopelessness, for forty-eight hours, during which the desire for death is hardly controlled (twelfth day).
- The intellectual faculties are torpid (twelfth day).
- Absence of ideas (twelfth day).
HEAD
- Headache in the night, accompanied by fever (sixth day).
EYE AND EAR
- Marked diminution of strength of hearing and sight since the fifth day (twelfth day).
- A noise (ticktack) is felt in the right ear, and pain if a noise from the exterior becomes predominant (second day).
FACE
- Altered countenance (eleventh day).
MOUTH
- Teeth sensitive and set on edge (twelfth day).
- Dry mouth (seventh day).
THROAT. [10.]
- Waking in the night on account of severe contraction in the throat (second night).
- Constriction of the fauces, wheezing cough, with white foamy expectoration (seventh day).
STOMACH
- Loss of appetite for four days (after nine days).
- Dull pain in the epigastrium and in the hypochondria (second day).
ABDOMEN
- Abdomen is much distended (tenth day).
- Sensation of burning heat in the whole hypogastrium (eleventh day).
- While pains are felt in the chest, sharp pains in the right side of the abdomen, in the groin and in the kidneys (ninth day).
STOOL
- Soft stools; diarrhœa (third day).
URINARY ORGANS
- Bladder.
- The bladder is swollen and always full (tenth day).
- The sensation of swelling and fulness of the bladder increased (seventh day). [20.]
- Stitches in the bladder, almost an impossibility to urinate (eleventh day).
- Micturition.
- The emission of urine is difficult (seventh day).
- Urine passed with difficulty (sixth day); for a few days the swelling of the bladder and the difficulty of micturition seem to increase.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
Voice.
- Voice weak, and it requires some exertion to articulate distinctly, the words do not come when wanted (twelfth day).
- Cough and Expectoration.
- A few fits of coughing, slight (sixth and tenth days).
- Light cough, with expectoration of foamy sputa (eighteenth day).
- Fit of wheezing cough, with pain deep in the chest (eleventh day).
- Very frequent breathing, with oscillation of the wings of the nose, as after exercise, at the time of waking and during the whole day (fifth day).
- The breath is short, laborious (eleventh day).
- Laborious breath, as if the air passages were closed (seventh day). [30.]
- Short, difficult breathing (fourth day); more difficult (sixth day).
- Breathing is so difficult that the mind directs not to inspire too much air at a time (ninth day).
- Painful and short breathing (eighth day).
CHEST
- Rush of blood to the chest, near the right shoulder-blade, accompanied with a few strong palpitation (ninth day).
- Rush of blood towards the chest, without palpitation (sixth day).
- Pains in the first left ribs (twelfth day).
- Violent pains in the chest, with orgasm of blood, lasting half an hour, at 7 P.M. (eighth day).
- Sensation of painful burning in the right lung, from 4 to 5 P.M. (fourth day).
- The lungs seem to be closed, in the evening (ninth day).
- The lungs seem adherent to the parietes of the chest (eleventh day). [40.]
- Sharp pain in the chest, burning shootings, at two o'clock (ninth day).
- Sharp pains which run through the chest; these pains are not increased by walking, although they are renewed on the first movement (twelfth day).
- Very sharp pain in both lungs, especially in the left, in the evening (eleventh day).
- Acute and pressing pain in the right lung (seventh day).
- A few stitches in the right lung, with sensation of a smarting wound of the size of a two franc piece (a little larger than a silver quarter of a dollar), (fifth day); the smarting extends to the left lung (sixth day).
- Smarting pain in the chest, with sensation of burning (seventh day).
- Contusing pain in the parietes of the chest, these pains are brought on by coughing, by deep inspiration, or by motion (third day).
- A few fits of coughing caused a sensation of painful ruffling of the lungs, which seemed to change place and be contused (tenth day).
HEART AND PULSE
- Quick pulse (seventh day).
BACK
- Sharp, lancinating pain in the dorsal vertebræ (twelfth day). [50.]
- Constrictive pains in the sides of the trunk (third day).
- Tearing pain in the back (ninth day).
- Pains in the lower part of the back, in the sacrum (second day).
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Nails are getting soft (twelfth day).
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Pain above the left hip (second day).
- Slight lancinating pain in the left knee, which bends involuntarily when the person is standing (second day).
- Tearing pain in the right buttock and in the thigh (second day).
- Sensation of contusion in the femur, from the head of the bone to the patella (second day).
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Fatigue, weakness (eleventh day).
- Weakness, extreme malaise, febrile heat (eighth day). [60.]
- Great weakness about 4 P.M. (second day).
- Malaise, during the day and night (fifth day and night).
- Malaise, despondency, lasting all day (eighth day).
SLEEP
- Sleeplessness (ninth day).
- Bad night (ninth night).
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Very severe coldness from the hip down to the feet (second day).
- Heat.
- Heat in the hands (fifth day).
- Hands are hot and dry (ninth day).
- Hands very hot (eleventh day).
- Excessive heat of the hands (seventh day). [70.]
- Slight sensation of dry heat in the palms of the hands (fourth day).
- The heat in the palms of the hands is intolerable in the evening (sixth day).
- Fever, without chill (seventh day).