URANIUM NITRICUM.

Uranium Nitrate.

Preparation , dilutions of a saturated aqueous solution.

Authority. (E. T. Blake. M. B; Hahnemann Mat. Med; part 2, 1871).

1 , a young man, æt. twenty-five years, with weak skin action, feeble secondary digestion, tendency to intestinal blennorrhœa, with ascarides, inward piles, slight emphysema, occasional œdema of lower lids, took 1 drop 2d dec. dil. (first day), 2 drops (second day), 5 (sixth day), increasing by 1 drop each day till he took 19 drops on the twenty-fourth day, 20 drops (twenty-sixth day), 21 (twenty-eighth day), 22 (thirtieth day) 24 (thirty-seventh day), 30 (forty-first day), 40 (forty-second day), 50 (forty-third day), 60 (forty-fourth day), 70 (forty-fifth day), 80 (forty-sixth day), 90 (forty-seventh day), 100 (forty-eighth day), 110 (forty-ninth day), 5 drops of sat. sol. (fiftieth day), 30 of same at 11.45 A.M. (fifty-first day), 60 at 11 P.M. (fifty-second day), solution containing 1/4 ounce injected into rectum at 10.30 P.M. (fifty-ninth day); 2 , G. C; a man, æt. thirty-one years, health good during the past four years, before that time subject to neuralgia with occipital pains (from mental overwork), took 30x gtt. v every morning on rising for a fortnight, except on the ninth day; 2 a , same, subsequently took 6x gtt. v for fourteen days, omitted till twenty-third day, then took daily till thirty-first day. [D.] affixed to a symptom signifies that there is good ground for doubting whether it be the result of the drug.

MIND

• Ill-temper; he is cross with everybody (eleventh day), 1.
• Ill-humor (sixteenth day), 1.
• Cross and disagreeable, not feeling well all day (twenty-seventh day), 2a.

HEAD

• Vertigo twice, in the evening (tenth day), 1.
• Head heavy on waking (seventh day), 1.
• (Taken a violent cold from exposure to wet, etc.; headache; sore throat, which lasted four days, leaving me feeling well on the fifteenth day, with the exception of a slight cough, in the morning on rising, accompanied by expectoration, which affords relief), (after eleven days), 2a.
• Frontal headache (sixteenth [D.], twentieth, and twenty-first days), 1.
• Slight frontal headache (called up previous night), (fourth day), 2.
• Dull aching in right temple (immediately, forty-ninth day), 1. [10.]
• Headache, left temple (fifth day), 2a.
• Some slight pain in head again, similar to my old neuralgia; the pain always used to be on the right side, at the posterior edge of temporal bone; now, this day, it lasted from 2 to 4 P.M.; in the same spot, but on the left [The Keynote of this drug appears to be "left clavus." Witness its recurrence in Proving I.] side, followed by a dull aching (twenty-fifth day); awoke about 1 A.M. with pain in head again, similar to former attack, lasting one hour and preventing sleep; ill from pain during the day (twenty-sixth day), 2a.
• Headache in old place (right side), severe, till after dinner; came on gradually; soon relieved by food (twenty-eighth day), 2a.
• Aching at occipital protuberance (seventh day), 1.
• Occipital and frontal headache, in the evening (seventh day), 1.
• Woke with occipital headache (tenth day), 1.

EYE

• In evening, pain shooting from right orbit to the occipital protuberance (nineteenth day), 1.
• Slight pain over left eye (after five minutes, fifty-first day); pain (after one hour, fifty-second day), 1.
• (Œdema of lover lids worse than usual), (eleventh day), 1.
• Stye in left upper lid (seventh day), 1. [20.]
• Lids much swollen, in morning (forty-first day), [D.], 1.

NOSE

• Small scab in right nostril, with soreness (fortieth day), [D.], 1.
• Dry coryza (seventh day), 1.
• Left nostril stuffed (seventh day), 1.
• Itching in nose (seventh day), 1.
• Nostrils sore (thirty-ninth day), [D.], 1.

MOUTH

• Small painless ulcer, with one elevated side in buccal aspect of left cheek, opposite left anterior upper molar (thirteenth day); ulcer more tender, worse in evening (fourteenth day); inside of cheek very sore (fifteenth day); cheek better (sixteenth day), 1.
• Saliva highly acid (twenty-fifth day), 1.

THROAT

• Hawking of very tenacious mucus (twenty-eighth day), 1.
• Contracted feeling in throat (fifty-third day), 1. [30.]
• Cutting feeling at back of fauces (eighteenth day), [D.], 1.

STOMACH

• No appetite (eighth day), 1 ; (fifth day), 2a.
• Tasteless eructations (fifty-first day), 1.
• Eructations (fifty-third day), 1.
• Putrid eructation about 11 and 3 (twenty-eighth day), 2a.
• Excessive flatulency in stomach and bowels (twenty-fifth day), [D.], 1.
• Fit of dyspepsia, flatus after food, acidity, pain from cardiac extremity of stomach to suprarenal region, relieved by movement, lasted all day, then gradually disappeared; bowels slightly moved; paler claylike fæces. (Query. -If from medicinal action, as I have had such attacks to a slight degree before), 2.
• Return of epigastric pain as above, with occasional twisting-screwing feeling rather lower down, relieved by food (ninth day), 2a.
• A return of indigestion in the afternoon, about a quarter of an hour before dinner, with gnawing sinking at cardiac end of stomach; not hungry nor faint (twenty-fourth day), 2a.

ABDOMEN

• Flatus (fifth day), 2a. [40.]
• Borborygmi (twelfth day), 1.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Anal pruritus (sixteenth and twentieth days), [D.], 1.
• Woke at 2 A.M. with urgent desire to evacuate rectum and bladder; borborygmi small; soft stool (twelfth day), 1.
• Solution forcibly returned in twenty minutes, causing sharp colic and tenesmus, with raw feeling in rectum, followed during sleep by an unconscious seminal emission (fifty-ninth day), 1.

STOOL

• Bowels moved twice (twelfth day), 2.
• Slight constipation; fæces natural in color (fifth day); no action of bowels (sixth day); moved slightly (seventh day), 2a.
• Constipation (seventh day), 1.

URINARY ORGANS

• Sore pain in vesical region, in evening (twenty-fifth day), 1.
• Slight burning in urethra (nineteenth day), [D.], 1.
• Burning in urethra (twenty-fifth day), 1. [50.]
• Urine healthy, sp. gr. 32 (first day); sp. gr. 20 (second day); trace of albumen, acid (eighth day); amber color, flocculent, very slightly acid, sp. gr. 25 (ninth day); sp. gr. 32 (tenth day); no albumen, no phosphates, nor lithates, sp. gr. 25 (eleventh day); woke at 2 A.M. with urgent desire to evacuate bladder and rectum (twelfth day); sp. gr. 35 (thirteenth day); 24 (fourteenth day); 40 (stale), (fifteenth day); 30 (sixteenth day); 22 (seventeenth day); ten micturitions in twenty-four hours, sp. gr. 25 (eighteenth day); 30 (nineteenth day); nine micturitions in twenty-four hours, sp. gr. 31 (twentieth day); small quantity of phosphates, sp. gr. 25 (twenty-second day); 27 (twenty-third day); no sugar (either by Moore or Fehling), sp. gr. 27 (twenty-fourth day); highly acid, 33 ounces in twenty-four hours, sp. gr. 34 (twenty-fifth day); desire to urinate again immediately after voiding the bladder, sp. gr. 30 (twenty-sixth day); fishy odor of urine, 24 ounces, sp. gr. 34 (twenty-seventh day); 33 ounces, sp. gr. 27 (twenty-eighth day); highly acid; sugar, albumen, phosphates, and lithates all absent; sp. gr. 24 (twenty-ninth day); 4 ounces, sp. gr. 25 (thirtieth day); very cloudy, deep amber color, slightly acid, no sugar, no salts, 30 ounces, sp. gr. 30 (thirty-first day); slightly acid. 31 ounces, sp. gr. 28 (thirty-second day); no albumen, much mucus, 24 ounces, sp. gr. 35 (thirty-third day); sp. gr. 38 (thirty-fourth day); 28 ounces, sp. gr, 31 (thirty-fifth day); 31 ounces, sp. gr. 30 (thirty-sixth day); 29 ounces, sp. gr. 25 (thirty-seventh day); acid, 22 ounces, sp. gr. 24 (thirty-eighth day); 24 ounces, sp. gr. 25 (thirty-ninth day); sp. gr. 32 (fortieth day); sp. gr. 27 (forty-first day); 43 ounces, sp. gr. 27 (forty-second day); 50 ounces, sp. gr. 25 (forty-third day); copious deposit of phosphates (having read all night), 42.5 ounces, sp. gr. 23 (forty-fourth day); phosphates less, 25 ounces, sp. gr. 26 (forty-fifth day); 33 ounces, sp. gr. 28 (forty-sixth day); 39 ounces, sp. gr. 27 (forty-seventh day); 26 ounces, sp. gr. 30 (forty-eighth day); 26 ounces, sp. gr. 27 (forty-ninth day); acid, 36 ounces, sp. gr. 22 (fiftieth day); high-colored and turbid, more than usual chlorides, no lithates, 40 ounces, sp. gr. 32 (fifty-first day); 31 ounces, sp. gr. 25 (fifty-second day); 1.45 A.M., micturated for the second time since 11 P.M. yesterday; 2.30 A.M. micturated for the third time; 8.30 A.M., micturated for the fourth time; 22 ounces since 11 P.M. yesterday; 10.30 A.M., micturated for the tenth time; 6.30 P.M., micturated for the eleventh time; 8.30 P.M., micturated for the twelfth time in twenty-one hours and a half; 31 ounces, sp. gr. 14 (fifty-third day); sp. gr. 32 (fifty-fourth day); 30 (fifty-fifth day); 27 (fifty-sixth day); chlorides and phosphates plentiful, no lithates, sp. gr. 27 (fifty-ninth day); 6 A.M. 20 ounces have been passed since 10.30 last night; copious chlorides, less phosphates, sp. gr. 1015, 5 P.M. and 9.30 P.M. sp. gr. 30 (sixtieth day). Normal average of sp. gr. 1026, whilst taking drug 1028; normal maximum 1032, whilst taking drug 1038. Normal average of quantity 29 ounces, whilst taking drug 32 ounces; normal maximum 37 ounces, whilst taking drug 50 ounces; normal minimum 24 ounces, whilst taking drug 24 ounces, .

Urina chyli , very slightly alkaline (day before proving); morning urine, sp. gr. 1025, higher color, 36 ounces in all; common sp. gr. 1023; no trace of sugar by two tests; no change with acids nor with liq. potass.; no abnormal mucus nor epithelium, etc. (one day before proving); pale, natural, as on the previous day; amount in twenty-four hours 38 ounces sp. gr. 1024 (first day); 32 ounces, sp. gr. 1026 (second day); 30 ounces, sp. gr. 1028 (third day); high-colored, rather more acid, 30 ounces, sp. gr. 1028 (fourth day); 34 ounces, sp. gr. 1025 (fifth day); 32 ounces, sp. gr. 1028 (sixth day); sp. gr. 1027 (seventh day); paler; no sugar, mucus, nor pus; 39 ounces, sp. gr. 1023 (eighth day); 37 ounces, sp. gr. 1024 (ninth day); having ridden fourteen miles before dinner, slightly more mucus; 37 ounces sp. gr. 1026 (tenth day); 37 ounces, sp. gr. 1025 (eleventh day); higher colored, 37 ounces, sp. gr. 1025 (twelfth day); higher, 30 ounces (warmer day, more perspiration), sp. gr. 1020 (thirteenth day); paler, 36 ounces, sp. gr. 1022 (fourteenth day); examined urine of yesterday: healthy in color; very slight cloud near the bottom of the glass; a few scattered urate of soda crystals under 1/4 inch lens; here and there a dumb-bell, but very indistinct, and this in only two specimens out of five (fifteenth day); at end of three days examined urine of previous days, sp. gr. 1028 some bile in it, very unusual (nineteenth day); urine natural (twentieth and twenty-first days), 2.

• Urine high-colored; a few lithates on standing; amount in twenty-four hours 36 ounces; sp. gr. 1026 (second day); 32 ounces, sp. gr. 1024 (third day); evening, urine cloudy; more mucus than usual; here and there a cast (1/4 inch glass); uric acid crystals (uncertain pus or blood-cells in two specimens out of five); 35 ounces, sp. gr. 1026 (fifth day); high, 32 ounces, sp. gr. 1024 (sixth day); paler, 36 ounces, sp. gr. 1024 (seventh day); high, 28 ounces, sp. gr. 1020 (eighth day); normal, with exception of a slight increase of mucus, perhaps from a cold, which seems to be hanging about me; 34 ounces, sp. gr. 1025 (ninth day); 38 ounces, sp. gr. 1026 (tenth day); healthy; increase of lithates (sixteenth day); normal (twentieth and twenty-second days); 30 ounces, sp. gr. 1021 (twenty-third day); deposits a thick mucous sediment, acid in passing, soon becoming alkaline and offensive, containing a large quantity of uric acid crystals and lithate of ammonia with pavement epithelium; no sugar or albumen; 30 ounces, sp. gr. 1018 (twenty-fourth day); high, much like above, 34 ounces, sp. gr. 1020 (twenty-fifth day); high, 36 ounces, sp. gr. 1024 (twenty-sixth day); high, 32 ounces, sp. gr. 1020 (twenty-seventh day); high; thick mucopurulent-looking sediment after standing all night; deposit consists of urates and mucus; no pus-corpuscles; phosphates more abundant than usual; no glycosuria; 34 ounces, sp. gr. 1021 (twenty-eighth day); paler 38 ounces, sp. gr. 1025 (twenty-ninth day); pale, 38 ounces, sp. gr. 1025 (thirtieth day); mucopurulent appearance on standing; this material dissolves on boiling; phosphates more abundant; no albumen nor sugar by either test (thirty-second day), 2a.
• Normal average of sp. gr. of urine 1023, whilst taking drug 1028; normal maximum 1032, whilst taking drug 1028. Normal average quantity in twenty-four hours 35 ounces, whilst taking drug 35 ounces; normal maximum 45 ounces, whilst taking drug 39 ounces; normal minimum 14 ounces, whilst taking drug 28 ounces, 2a.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Unconscious seminal emission during sleep (fifty-ninth day), 1.

CHEST

• Radiating pain from left side of ensiform cartilage, coming and going for last two days, aggravated by fasting (fifth day), 2a.

PULSE

• Pulse, lying, 69; standing, 74 (forty-eighth day), 1.

BACK

• Pain at lower angle of left scapula, aggravated by taking a deep inspiration (forty-second day), [D.], 1.
• Stiffness in loins (eleventh day), 1.

GENERALITIES

• General languor (seventh day), 1. [60.]
• Languid (twenty-third day), 1.
• Extreme languor on rising from bed (twenty-seventh day), 1.
• Feeling as if taken cold (no exposure), (fifth day), 2a.
• Feeling of cold from exposure (eighth day), 2a.

SLEEP

• Slight restlessness one or two nights (due probably to anticipation of being called out), (fifteenth day), 2.
• Very restless at night, with shivering and heat (twenty-fourth day), 2a.