Kaolin. (Alumina Silicata.)
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Porcelain or China Clay. Alumina Silicata.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Croup , Searle, Elliott, A. H. O., vol. 8, p. 128 ; Lilienthal, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 80 ; Searle, Elliott, Parker, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 106 ; Landesmann, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 171 ; Boyce, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 29.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Nostrils feel sore ; scabs form in nose ; scanty and blood streaked secretion.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Membrane covering both sides of throat. θ Diphtheria.
Fever, headache in forehead, with flushed face and sore throat ; right tonsil and arch of velum covered with heavy, yellowish white membrane ; breath fetid ; great prostration. θ Diphtheria. (In alternation with Bellad.).
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
Husky voice, metallic, rasping breathing and suffocative cough.
Croupous inflammation in lower part of larynx or in upper part of trachea.
Awoke from sleep with croupy cough ; voice husky, later sunk to whisper ; sawing sound during both expiration and inspiration ; high fever. θ Croup.
Voice a little husky ; during night very feverish ; next day skin felt dry ; wanted to be carried about ; appetite diminished ; very little cough ; on auscultation, metallic, rasping sound increasing toward evening ; suffocating spells. θ Croup.
Croup, with labored, sawing respiration, after failure of Acon., Hepar, Spongia, Bromium, Phosphor, and Iodium.
Croup, after failure of Spongia.
TIME [38]
Towards evening : metallic, rasping sound increased.
Night : very feverish.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : tonsil and arch of velum covered with heavy, yellowish white membrane.
SENSATIONS [43]
Pain : in forehead.
Soreness : of nostrils ; of throat.
Dryness : of skin.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Boy, æt. 16 months, strong and healthy parentage ; croup.
Child, æt. 4 ; diphtheria.
Boy, æt. 4 ; croup.
Girl, æt. 4 ; croup.
Boy, æt. 5 ; croup.
Young woman, subject to repeated attacks ; diphtheria.