Carboneum sulphuratum

Volume I — Special Symptomatology

(Carburetum Sulphuris.) Officinal Preparations. — Tincture and dilutions.

Mental Sphere. Loss of memory, and mental alienation.

Great absence of mind, with difficult comprehension of what is read.

They forgot what they had to do; sought for things which were lying before them; could not find the right words when speaking.

Cheerfulness, with inclination to sing.

Exhilaration bordering on intoxication.

Vehement and irascible. Dejection of spirits.

Head.

Frequent attacks of vertigo when sitting. Dullness and vertigo in the forehead.

° Intoxication, to entire loss of consciousness, from drinking whisky.

0 Asphyxia, from alcohol and from coal gas. Great dullness of the head.

Pressing headache in the forehead, aggravated by reading and stooping.

Pressing frontal headache, with occasional flying, tearing pains in the temples.

Drawing, tearing pain from the forehead toward the temples; better in the open air than in the room, when at rest.

Frontal headache, more of a tearing nature, which goes toward the temporal bones.

Frequent, transitory, jerking stitches in the forehead ; heat in the head and face.

Violent, pulsating pains in the temples (megrim), on awakening in the morning.

Head very painful when brushing the hair, particularly on the vertex

° Violent pain in the head; headache increasing until it causes confusion of mind; feverish attacks; cold extremities, and spasmodic pulse.

Pain in the head is connected with the discharge of blood with the stool.

Eyes.

Weakness of the sight; objects seem as if fading away, on

account of a mistiness, which spreads out before them. Pupils enlarged.

Sensation of pressure in the sockets of the eyes.

Jerking stitches in the muscles of the right eye; intermitting

and alternating. Burning in the eyes, with pain in the forehead. Heaviness of the eyelids, and dimness of the eyes. A small pustule on the upper eyelid, with itching-burning. Eye sunken, with strongly marked gray rings. Quivering of the eyelids.

Ears.

Violent stitches and contractive pain in the left ear, at night. Pressing, boring pains in the right ear. Ringing in the ears, lasting several days.

Nose.

Everything smells like the drug. Frequent sneezing.

End of the nose burns, and is quite red; eruption on the nose.

Face.

Face bloated up and red; convulsive jerking of the corners of the mouth.

In the mornings, after shaving, a red eruption on the cheeks and nose similar to the eruptions on the noses of hard drinkers, looking like tetter, and lasting till night.

Eruption makes its appearance after drinking a glass of beer.

Mouth.

Saltish taste of the phlegm hawked up from the fauces. Constant accumulation of sweetish tasting water in the mouth. Increased flow of saliva, with increased appetite. Toothache, with a gradually formed swelling around the pain ful tooth.

Drawing, tearing toothache, from evening until midnight,

more endurable in the greatest cold. Toothache in the molars of lower jaw, right side. 0 Toothache brought on by warm food. 0 Neuralgic odontalgia.

Sensation of coldness, first on the tongue, then in the mouth, which quickly rises to a stitching burning.

Burning, pungent pain on the tongue, as from peppermint, with peculiar onion or garlic taste.

Throat.

Immediately after lying down, tickling in the posterior portion of the palate, causing a violent dry cough.

° Rough, scraping pain in the left side of the throat when swallowing.

° Burning and scraping in the whole of the oesophagus, with

difficult swallowing. Severe stitching, contracting pain in the upper part of the

oesophagus, as if a piece of bone had lodged there. ° Chronic pharyngitis.

Scraping, scratching feeling, with fine stitches in the throat.

Appetite— Thirst. Increased appetite, with a pleasant warmth spreading through

the stomach. Great thirst; beer relished unusually.

After breakfast, headache, pressure in the stomach, diarrhoea. After dinner, diarrhoea; tickling in urethra; pain in thigh; pain in feet.

After eating, and in the cold, all the symptoms disappear, or

are ameliorated. Aggravation of the symptoms from wine.

Stomach.

Rising of flatulence, tasting and smelling of the medicine;

also disagreeable, putrid-tasting, nauseous fluid. Acrid, burning eructations. Heartburn 60 severe that it causes cough. Extraordinary amount of loud eructations, and very stinking

flatus in the evening; better from belching; inclination

to vomit; pain in scrobiculum; pressure of stomach, impeded respiration.

Vomiting of greenish, bilious masses, accompanied with nausea, cold sweat, and dejection of spirits.

Increased amount of saliva in the mouth and stomach, producing nausea; accumulation of water in the mouth; eructations; fullness in the stomach and abdomen; rumbling and cutting in the abdomen, from wind; also cutting, tearing belly-ache; a bubbling in bowels, relieved by copious diarrhoeic stools; also producing dullness of the head; attacks of vertigo; pressing frontal headache; surly mood; sleepiness during the day, and sleeplessness at night; confused dreams.

Inclination to vomit on entering a room, or when going out from the room to the open air.

° A single attack; vomiting a small quantity of bitter water.

Fullness of the stomach, with belching, yawning, and inclination to vomit.

Pressing, tearing pain in the chest, stomach and abdomen, •Pressure in the region of the stomach, and under the ster

num, with hepatic depression. Pressing, stitching pains, of short duration, in the pit of the

stomach, beginning at one point and radiating to the

cardiac region, like neuralgic colic, followed by loud

belching, which gives relief. Very severe stabbing pains in the stomach. Burning in the stomach and region of the liver, aggravated

by pressure.

Pressure on stomach and abdomen increases nausea.

Hypochondrium.

Diseased condition of the liver, with swelling of the feet.

Unpleasant, undefined, painful feeling in the region of the left lobe of the liver, coming on in attacks; this pain changes to a pressing (distending), stitching feeling.

Under short ribs, stitches.

Abdomen.

Pressing, crampy pain in the abdomen; passing much flatus, both up and down.

Pains in the bowels, with twisting, rolling, and rumbling, as

if diarrhoea would set in. c Colicky pains, cutting, with diarrhoea.

Griping pains in the bowels, followed by stool; after the stool the pains cease.

On awaking at 4 a. m., cutting in the abdomen, with a moving swelling as if from flatus or incarcerated wind; on taking a deep inspiration, and from pressure, this pain changed into a stitch pain, and settled in the region of the coecum for about one hour; small passages of wind has no influence on this condition; turning in bed or bending increased the pain or brought it on anew after it had nearly passed off.

0 Pufliness of the abdomen, with bruised, sore feeling of the abdominal walls.

c Fullness and distension of the abdomen.

° Flatulent complaints; sour smelling flatus.

Single, fine, jerking stitches, extending from the right side of the umbilical region toward the bladder.

In coecal region, on taking a deep inspiration or from pressure, a cutting in abdomen changed into a stitching pain, settling in coecum, often repeating.

0 Strangulated hernia.

Stool.

Papescent stool, with urging; during the passage, and particularly afterwards, a feeling of weakness and trembling.

Stool always papescent and small; papescent stool with discharge of blood.

Papescent stools, preceded by the peculiar stitching, distending pains in the abdomen, and followed by griping, stitching pains in the coecum.

During rumbling in the bowels, violent diarrhoea of soursmelling stools, with tenesmus.

Awakes at 5£ a. m., with urging to stool; profuse, thin, yellowish evacuations, followed by burning at the anus, as from an acid.

0 A chronic diarrhoea, which set in every four or six weeks, and lasted for one or two days; yellowish, frothy, soursmelling fluid evacuations, with tenesmus and colicky belly-ache, particularly in the umbilical region, in the night.

Difficult, small stools, even when the passage is small and soft,

as if from want of power in the rectum. 0 Constipation, with belching after eating, with herpes. No desire for stool for three days, when he had a soft passage,

with discharge of bright red blood. 0 Griping; urging before; pains before; tenesmus with the

stool; with diarrhoea. Anus and rectum, stitch-like, cramping pain; likewise in the

bladder and urethra. Burning and itching at the anus, with flying stitches in the

rectum.

Urinary Organs.

After drinking a glass of wine, on urinating at midnight, violent, stitch-like, cramping pain in the bladder and neck of bladder, extending through the urethra; at the same time a similar pain in the anus and rectum.

Burning in the urethra when urinating; slight irritability of the mucous lining of the urethra; urine smells like sulphur; increase of sulphates and carbonates in the urine.

Strong urging to urinate.

Sexual Organs.

Entire want of sexual desire, and of erections; inability to have sexual intercourse (constant); increased sexual desire was observed in only one case.

Complete impotence, with atrophied testicles.

Erection at night, with emission of semen.

Stitching, burning pains in the left seminal cord, up to the abdominal ring.

Jerking, stitching pains in the left testicle and left seminal cord.

Left testicle and epididymis swollen and indurated. Scrotum and penis shriveled and drawn up during the entire proving.

The previously regular menses appeared three days too soon. 5 Labor-pains too weak.

Larynx.

Hoarseness.

Sensation of contraction of the larynx upon swallowing the drug, producing great irritation to cough, even to strangulation, and expectoration of mucus.

Scratching and scraping feeling in the throat; irritation to cough.

Violent dry cough, from tickling in palate after lying down.

Immediately after lying down, violent, asthmatic, dry cough, brought on by a continued and irritating tickling in the upper part of the pharynx, causing much straining of the chest, and producing pain.

Cough from irritation in larynx, even to strangulation, and expectoration of mucus.

Anxious breathing, with pressure on the sternum; aggravated by the close air of the room and from going up stairs.

Expiration hot; breathing difficult; flying stitches and burning in the chest, quickly passing over, but frequently repeated.

Difficult breathing, with nausea.

Chest.

Throughout the whole chest, agreeable warmth, ascending

from the pit of the stomach. Congestion of the lungs, which appears to affect the upper

lobes most.

Deposit of tubercles in the lungs, some ecchymosis and some

infiltration. (Rabbits.) Hepatisation of the lower or posterior lower surface of the

lungs. (Rabbits.) ° In the first stage of tuburculosis of the lungs, before any, or

yet only slight, fever has set in, flying, burning and

stitches in the chest; quickly passing heat of the face;

dry cough; difficult breathing when moving. 0 Constrictive, stitching, pressing pains in the chest. Jerking, stitching pain, first in the region of the right, and

then of the left, lower ribs, quickly coming and going. Periodical stitches in the left half of the chest, without cough. Several violent stitches under the centre of the sternum,

shooting upwards like a flash of lightning.

Heart.

° Palpitation of the heart, with anaemic patients in an advanced stage of the disease; nun's murmur in the vessels of the neck; fever symptoms not frequent, and mostly at night. In one case, diminution of the pulse to fifty-two beats in a minute.

Neck and Back.

Painful stiffness in the neck and throat; rheumatic-like pains. ° Goitre.

Feeling as if a heavy load was hanging on the back (from one scapula to the other), weighing him down so that the head sank forward.

Continual backache and pain %n the loins.

Violent pains in the back and loins, in the morning when awakening.

Upper Extremities.

Stitches from the shoulder joint to the elbow, or even to the wrist, especially violent after midnight, and during damp or cold weather.

0 Crackling in the right shoulder joint from strong motions of the arms, either forward, backward, or upward.

0 Crackling in the right shoulder joint from every motion, connected with more or less severe stitches from the shoulder joint to the elbow, on every change of the weather.

Violent rheumatic pain in the right arm, shoulder and neck. ° Pimples on the right forearm and hands. Jerking pains in the joints of the hand, coming and going. ° Gout of the hand.

Itching and smarting of the hands, particularly between the fingers, where he discovered small vesicles.

0 Vesicular, scurfy herpes on the dorsum of the hand.

Pricking, stitching sensation in the fingers, more or less through the whole day.

Lower Extremities.

Jerking, stitching pains at different places, particularly on the tuber ischii, and at the insertions of the gracilis and sartorious muscles at the knee.

"Rheumatism of the lower extremities; the slightest motion brings on violent pains, particularly in the hips and knees, with redness and swelling of the feet from a severe cold.

° Dropsical swelling of the feet, arising from diseased condition of the liver.

0 Inflammatory sciatica in left thigh, brought on by taking cold, with entire inability to walk.

° Chronic sciatica in right thigh, movements of the limbs impeded.

Tearing pains in the right knee and ankle joint.

0 Jerking, flying, stitching pains in the legs.

Violent pains in the ankle joints, as if broken, in the morning in bed; after getting up, the walking, at first, very difficult, but continuing to walk makes it easier.

c Audible crackling of the ankle when walking — ankle was sprained two years ago.

Sudden, violent, stabbing, piercing pain from the metatarsal bones through the toes, while walking.

Tearing pains in the left foot, particularly in the tarsal bones.

Feet, pains; underpart; hollow of the foot; soles of the feet.

Severe painful tenderness and bruised feeling in the soles of the feet; knee to the great toe stitches.

Painful cramp of the limbs; involuntary contractions and stiffness of the limbs; staggering gait, on account of general weakness of the muscles; paralysis; atrophy of the muscles.

° Chronic, rheumatic and arthritic affections without fever. J erkitig, stitching, tearing, flying pains, returning at regular

intervals, for a long time. ° Rheumatism, either without fever or with slight fever. ° Tearing in the limbs, with herpes of the face. 0 Tearing in all the limbs, coming and going, now in one and

again in another limb; sour belching, and passage of

much sour-smelling flatus; cold feet; stool not increased,

but accompanied with tenesmus. ° Rheumatism and gout; after the relief of the acute and

inflammatory conditions, to be applied externallv, with oil

of almonds, or, when the sufferings are great, to be taken internally.

° Gouty swellings when not of too long standing.

Sleep.

Great sleepiness the whole day, but at night restless sleep.

Restless sleep, with continual rolling about in bed; particularly with the head.

Sleeplessness, disturbed dreams, starting as from fright, followed during the day by lassitude, want of energy.

Good and long sleep during the night.

Fever.

Heat of the whole body, with slight headache, followed by

great debility, succeeded by sleep. Coldness, with succeeding burning pain.

Coldness of the legs, with general warmth of the upper part

of the body. Cold face; coldness in mouth; cold extremities. Pulse diminished to 52 beats; pulse, 90-93. Strong pulse; spasmodic pulse.

Skin.

° Itch and herpetic diseases.

"Herpes phlyctsenodes covering dorsal surface of the hand; vesicles appearing on a red, inflamed and swollen basis; partly close together, but mostly separated from each other. They contain an opaque, yellowish fluid, which is discharged, and forms thick, yellowish scabs; sometimes the discharge excoriates the surrounding parts and produces violent itching.

° Impetigo ; pimples which form scabs, in the popliteal space and on the dorsum of the foot and hand.

° A tetter-like eruption on the left cheek, for more than two years, produced through scratching with the finger nails; spreads, and is covered with yellowish-brown scabs, disfiguring the face; almost unbearable on acount of continued itching.

3 Herpes exedens ; together with constipation and alternating of cutting pains in abdomen and flatulency ; drawing and tearing in the limbs, and particularly in the head.

Itching on both thighs, right side of the back to the region of the kidneys, and on the right forearm, which necessitates scratching. On inspection, small, colorless pimples are seen, which, on scratching, are more irritated, and through the friction they redden, get points, and finally form an itch-like eruption.

Nodules on scalp, pustule on eyelid, eruption on nose and face.

° Slight burning of the left hand with boiling water; bright redness without much pain or swelling.

0 Wrist joint was scalded with boiling water, several days ago; wrist much swollen, blisters partially opened.

Volume II — Special Therapeutics

This drug was once used to some extent by the allopathic school, and was found quite useful in many diseases, but it has gradually fallen into disuse, more on account of its intolerably fetid odor, probably, than from any deficiency of curative power.

It was employed in obstinate rheumatic and arthritic affections, paralysis and cutaneous eruptions, and as a resolvent in indolent tumors. In the latter case a few drops were applied to the tumor several times a day. A Dr. Otto claims to have reduced a strangulated hernia by applying a few drops. The vapor was said to cause the disappearance of indurated lymphatic glands, also in deafness from want of nervous energy. It was recommended to be rubbed on the face in neuralgia, toothache, etc.

Workmen exposed to its fumes are affected with headache, vertigo, and overexcitement of the nervous system, as evinced by voluble talking, incoherent singing, immoderate laughter, or weeping.

A long continuance of exposure causes a kind of cachexia, characterized by general weakness, loss of sexual appetite, dulness of sight and hearing, and loss of memory.

It does not seem to cause any lesion of the brain (in rabbits killed by its fumes), but only congestion of the lungs.

From the symptoms caused by it in workmen I would suggest its use, by inhalation, in some cases of hysteria. Its odor, if nothing else, would help to dissipate the peculiar abnormal condition of the nervous system which occurs in some of the victims of hysteria.

I have had no personal experience with this agent. It is recommended in Hering’s pathogenesis for several ailments. He mentions among the clinical cases :

° Intoxication, to entire loss of consciousness, from drinking whiskey.

I cannot recommend this to you as a good report. People “dead drunk” generally recover after a time, and it is doubtful if the medicine had anything to do with the recovery.

Hering recommends it in “ asphyxia from alcohol or coal gas.” It is evident he thinks the victim would recover sooner with than without this remedy.

The head symptoms are quite prominent, and it is reported to have cured the following kinds of headache : °“ Violent pain in the head, increasing until it causes confusion of mind, with feverish attacks, cold extremities, and spasmodic (?) pulse.”

It is recommended for facial neuralgia, and “ toothache brought on by warm food.”

It causes quite severe intestinal irritation, and among the curative symptoms you will find ° “ chronic diarrhoea, every four or six weeks, lasting one or two days, stools yellowish, frothy, sour-