Calcarea hypophosphorosa

Volume IV — Appendix

CALCAREA HYPOPHOi

Hypophosphitc of lime, Ca

I. Provingi. — i. Dr. A. R. Barrett, friend, each took I gr. of the 2x trit. Th« in both provers, within i h. and lasting i dull heavy pain, pressive, on top of head acre, frontal and occipital bones ; the pain grad grew correspondingly more depressed in fe^ fulness and sensation of oppression around hi

out whole thorax and head, the veins of hands, arms, neck, and head standing out like cords; no flushing, no perceptible increase in pulse; dyspnoea, must have windows open ; profuse sweat all over ; limbs iwrfectly powerless ; unable to rise from chair or move either arms or Kp in the least, gradually unable to speak except in a low monotone, evidently ft-om muscular inability. Total loss of all desire and inability to move or make any muscular exertion. Symptoms were about \ h. "Oching this point, lasted about | h., and then began gradually to pass off. At they did so, pain left vertex and passed to forehead, pain extending from r. to 1. temple throughout whole frontal bone, a dull pressive pain the muscles gradually recovered power ; cardiac sensations passed >^y, leaving only sense of mental depression. No pains except above. Subjects both between 35 and 40, weigh 120^125 lbs. ; light com- I^zioD, nervo-sanguine temperament ; both in good health. When . the symptoms had passed off, lips were dry and cracked as from fever, considerable thirst ; pulse normal (75 — 80) or slightly weak ; temp, normal. {Hahn. Monthly y Sept., 1879, P* 539*)