NATRUM ARSENICATUM.
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Kidneys and Bladder. ►
Dull aching in kidneys (thirteenth day), [3].
► Dull aching in region of kidneys,
with profuse flow of natural-colored urine, and of natural reaction
(thirteenth day), [3]. ► Sore feeling in region of bladder,
relieved by urinating (twelfth day), [6].
► Urethra. ► Burning when urine begins to flow
(thirty-ninth day), [6]. ► Micturition. ►
More disposed to urinate than was his habit (sixth day), [8]. ► Quite
an increased flow of urine through the day (thirteenth day), [8a]. ►
Have been urinating much more freely and copiously since taking the
remedy (fortieth day), [5]. [360.] ►
Frequent copious discharges of clear, watery-looking urine, without any
disagreeable feeling (fourth day); less urine passed, but, still more
than a normal quantity, and still clear (fifth day); urine clear as
water and in natural quantity (fifteenth day), [10a]. ►
Compelled to get up to urinate; the quantity in excess of what is usual,
but of natural color (second day); roused from sleep with urgent desire
to urinate (third day); urine passed in greater quantities, and with
urgent desire (thirty-sixth day), [7].
► Got up at 6.30 A.M., and passed
more than the ordinary quantity of urine, but was cool last night
(thirteenth day), [6]. ► Had to rise twice through the night to
urinate, passing a large quantity of pale urine (eighth day), [4]. ►
Urinated but twice in the past twenty-four hours (twelfth day), [9]. ►
Urine. ► Urine of a little
darker color than usual (twenty-sixth and thirty-sixth days), [7]. ►
Urine light-yellow, cloudy, and a precipitate seen after standing two
hours; reaction acid; sp. gr. 1029. Heat precipitates a dense, white
granular, which dissolves when mixed with or when nitric acid is used,
leaving the urine clear and of a reddish-brown color. A few epithelial
scales, a cast, some fat-globules, and some phosphates seen under
microscope. Urine at 9.40 P.M., opaque, but of natural and strong odor,
acid reaction, and sp. gr. 1030. No albumen, but large quantity of
phosphates (second day); urine a dark straw color, of mild odor,
reaction acid, sp. gr. 1030, phosphates in abundance, at 5.10 P.M.
(fourth day); urine has an acid reaction, and sp. gr. 1029; deposits of
phosphates on standing, at 7.50 P.M. (twenty-first day), [5].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
A dull cutting pain, lasting about five minutes at a time, and coming
about once in each half hour, was felt along and about the length of
Poupart’s ligament, occurring on both sides at the same time. After the
subsidence of each pain, a sickening sensation in left testicle, as if
caused by a blow, and lasting about ten minutes. During the time this
sensation lasted, the testicle was extremely sensitive to the touch,
even of the clothing, but this sensitiveness passed away each time the
pain subsided (had same symptoms on taking the drug the first time),
(eighteenth day), [10a]. ► Emission during sleep last night (tenth
day), [6].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx and Bronchia. ► Dryness of larynx; it feels as if
inflamed. Great difficulty in detaching the mucus, which is very small
in quantity, and of a dark slate color (forty-ninth day), [6]. [370.] ► Very sensible constriction and burning in
lower part of larynx, more markedly felt on right side (one hour after
ten drops, second day), [7]. ► For two evenings, a roughness in larynx,
causing a disposition to hem, with a spasmodic dry cough (eleventh day),
[6]. ►
During morning, more or less constant feeling of irritation through
bronchial region, accompanied by a slight dry cough (eleventh day), [10a]. ►
Voice. ► Voice a little
husky (fourth, eleventh, and thirteenth days), [8a]. ► Cough.
► Dry cough, with feeling of
tightness and oppression in middle and upper third of chest (eighth,
ninth, and tenth days), [8]. ► Slight dry cough, with feeling of
oppression upon chest (sixth day); dry cough (seventh day); cough
looser, but no expectoration (eighth and ninth days), [10a]. ►
Coughed a little; deep inspirations are followed by a cough (fourth
day); more or less continuous dry hacking cough, worse in heat of room;
came on about 4 P.M. (eleventh day); dry hacking cough all day (twelfth
day), [8a]. ►
Slight dry cough (eleventh and twelfth days); coughs moderately, but
does not expectorate any; has coughed more, but has not expectorated
(fifteenth day); short, dry, hacking cough (sixteenth day); cough still
dry, and more severe than at any previous time (seventeenth and
eighteenth days); cough a little loose for first time while up during
part of the night, but has been a great deal more severe and paroxysmal,
lasting longer at a time, and again tight during the day (twentieth
day); some turns of same dry cough (twenty-fifth day); cough now only
noticed after walking or making some exertion requiring an increase of
the volume of respiration; the cough is dry (twenty-ninth day), [10a]. ►
Last night and to-day, a disposition to hack and cough, with a little
irritation in throat (tenth day); hacking cough without expectoration,
most persistent in the forenoon (eleventh day); dry cough, causing him
to gag, continuing all day, but worse during forenoon (fourteenth day);
same disposition to cough and gag, but not to same degree (fifteenth and
sixteenth days); dry cough (seventeenth day); cough worse in forenoon
(eighteenth day); cough dry, and feeling of dryness down the trachea and
into the bronchia (nineteenth and twentieth days); commenced coughing on
waking; cough worse in heat of room (twenty-second day); cough dry, but
not so continuous (twenty-third day); cough a little loose, but
otherwise about as for the past four weeks. Once or twice per day a
little starchy looking substance is dislodged from a spot about under
the fourth rib, a little to right of sternum, at which point there is a
little soreness on pressure (thirty-sixth day), [9]. ► Slight
cough, with grayish or bluish-black expectoration (thirteenth day); some
cough and expectoration of a slate color; matter expectorated tough, and
hard to disengage from larynx, requiring forcible hemming and hawking
(fourteenth day); after supper, a dry hacking cough (forty-third day), [6]. [380.]
► Spasmodic cough, expectorating a
grayish phlegm, in little lumps, in morning (second day), [7]. ► No
cough at night during the proving, [9].
► Respiration. ► Respiration 16 (thirty-ninth day), [7]; (fortieth day), [6], [16];
(second and third days), [20];
(thirty-sixth day), [7]. ► Respiratory sounds not clear (tenth day);
respiratory sounds clear, except in lower lobe of right lung (twelfth
day); respiratory sounds very indistinct, except at the upper part of
the lungs (fifteenth day); respiratory sounds indistinct in lower lobes
of lungs on both sides of chest (seventeenth day), [10a]. ►
Respiratory sounds not clear (tenth day); respiratory sounds in upper
half of chest are heard moderately clear, but those of the lower half
are quite dull; there is, however, the usual resonance on percussion all
over the chest (twelfth day); respiratory sounds becoming natural
(twenty-second day), [9]. ► Frequent sighing respiration (ninth day),
[10a]. ►
Oppressive shortness of breath; compelled to take long breaths
frequently, with occasional pains in right side of chest, at 9 A.M.
(seventh day), [7].
CHEST.
►
Feeling in chest as if smoke had been inhaled, causing a cough (eleventh
day), [8]. ►
Pain for greater part of day through anterior part of upper lobe of left
lung, but no soreness on pressing the walls of chest over seat of pain
(fourth day), [8a]. ► Feeling of fulness and oppression in
chest (third day), [10]. [390.] ►
Feeling of fulness and oppression through entire chest, accompanied by a
sense of soreness, worse on inspiration, and continuing through the
balance of the day and evening, with a short dry cough, which seems to
arise from some irritation behind the upper half of the sternum
(fourteenth day), [10a]. ► A constricted sensation about chest, and
feels at times like taking a deep breath, but has no cough (twelfth
day), [6]. ►
Feeling of oppression in the chest (fifteenth day), [10a]. ►
Feeling of oppression in centre of chest, in afternoon (ninth and tenth
days), [8]. ►
Lungs feel oppressed, as if by a heavy weight (fourth day); heavy
oppressed feeling in the chest, requiring an effort to draw a long, full
breath (fifth day); feeling of oppression in chest, with slight dry
cough (sixth day); feeling of oppression upon the chest (eighth and
ninth days), [10]. ► Feels no oppression of chest since
urinary secretion became free (thirteenth day), [8a]. ► Sharp
shooting pain between sixth and seventh ribs, at about the junction of
the ribs with the cartilages, lasting but a few seconds, recurring again
after an interval of half an hour, at 9.30 P.M. (thirty-seventh day), [7]. ►
Pleuritic pain in right side, over liver, in afternoon (fifth day), [7]. ►
Some soreness of chest, in morning (second day), [7]. ► Feeling
of soreness and oppression through chest during motion or exertion.
Taking a full inspiration increases the soreness (eighth, ninth, and
tenth days); chest feels sorer (fifteenth day); entire chest feels sore
on taking an inspiration of any depth whatever (seventeenth day); has
felt sore through the entire chest all day (twentieth day); soreness of
lungs, as for some days past (twenty-first, twenty-third, and
twenty-fourth days), [10a]. [400.] ► Pain over region of lower ribs; they feel
sore on pressure (second day), [7].
► Region between sixth and seventh
ribs sore to pressure, in morning (thirty-eighth day), [7]. ►
Tenderness on pressure in supraclavicular region, continuing all day
(eleventh day), [10a]. ► Distress in chest, relieved somewhat by
taking Pulsatilla in repeated doses (fourteenth day), [8]. ► Front.
► Air, on full inspiration, causes a
disagreeable feeling behind sternum (fourth day), [8a]. ►
Quickly passing pain in anterior part of chest, below seventh rib, about
two inches from sternum, on each side, but not in both sides at the same
time; felt three times on left side and twice on right (fifth day);
pains in chest felt at least twenty times in past twenty-four hours, but
not at night while asleep (sixth day); pains in chest not so sharp and
do not come so frequently. A feeling of oppression and soreness remains
in localities where the pains have been felt (seventh day), [10a]. ►
Considerable pain in chest between nipples, with an indescribably hollow
feeling there, accompanied by a choking sensation in throat, materially
aggravated by inhaling carburetted hydrogen gas (twenty-seventh day), [7]. ►
Severe pain under ensiform cartilage, at 12.05 P.M. (third day), [5]. ►
Oppressed or stuffed sensation, from larynx to bottom of sternum, all
day (fourth day); stuffed sensation through chest generally, and more
markedly felt behind sternum, and from larynx to epigastrium, felt all
day (eleventh day), [8a]. ► Sore, bruised feeling under and to left
of sternum, at the junction of the upper and middle third of the bone,
felt on throwing shoulders up and back; this pain at times extends back
to the inferior angle of the scapula and to the shoulder-joint, where
there has been, for five days, a weary aching on raising the arm
(thirty-sixth day), [7]. [410.] ►
Moderate percussion all over anterior portion of chest produces pain
(twelfth and nineteenth days), [9].
► Continual irritation behind the
sternum, about the lower part of the upper third (twelfth day), [9]. ►
Sides. ► Several times
to-day, sharp stitching pains, moderately severe, in both sides of
chest, in space between fourth and seventh ribs (twelfth day); one turn
of stitching pain through right side of chest, about fifth rib, near the
cartilage, reaching back to scapula, and lasting but for a minute
(nineteenth day), [9]. ► Pain and soreness in right side of chest
(eleventh day); since middle of afternoon not so great; soreness on
inspiration, and on making a full, deep inspiration, severe pain is
felt, at times cutting short the inspiration (twelfth day), [10a]. ►
Intercostals of left side, between the sixth, seventh, and eighth ribs,
are sore to touch (thirty-sixth day), [7].
► Mammæ. ► Shooting pain under right mamma
(twenty-seventh day), [7]. ► Soreness under right mamma on pressure
(third day), [7].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
On putting ear to chest, sounds of heart heard distinctly through nearly
every part of chest (fifteenth day); sounds so loud and distinct as to
prevent hearing clearly the respiratory sounds (seventeenth day); can
himself feel beats of heart through chest distinctly (eighteenth day);
beats of heart violent on making any unusual exertion or continuing a
usual exertion for any considerable time (twenty-ninth day), [10a]. ►
Pulse 98 (second day), [10]. ► Pulse 80 (second day); 86 (third day); 80
(thirty-sixth day); 80, at 3.30 P.M. (thirty-eighth day); 84
(thirty-ninth day); 96 (fortieth day), [7].
[420.] ►
Pulse 76 (tenth day); 80, and intermittent (not usual with him), (tenth
day); pulse 88 (fourteenth day); pulse 90 (fifteenth day), [9]. ►
Pulse 90, [8]. ► Pulse 72, and full (second day); 90, at
7.50 P.M. (twenty-first day); 84 (twenty-second day); 90 and full, at
2.30 P.M. (twenty-sixth day); 85, full and regular (forty-first day);
84, full and regular, at 9.30 A.M. (forty-third day); 86, at 9.35 A.M.
(forty-sixth day), [5]. ► Pulse 88 (fiftieth day), [6]. ► Pulse
86, and a little variable in volume, but regular in beat (seventh day), [8a]. ►
Pulse 72 (usually 80 to 85), a little irregular, variable in volume
(eighth day); 72, and quite irregular in its beats (ninth day), 74, and
but slightly irregular (tenth day); 76, and rather slender, but regular
(twelfth day); 56, full and regular, at 6.30 P.M. (fourteenth day); 75,
regular and full (fifteenth day); 78, variable in volume, but regular in
beat (seventeenth day); 86, slender and irregular (eighteenth day); 78,
at times slender, and at times full, and readily caused to fluctuate by
change of position or effort of body (twentieth day); 82, full and
regular (twenty-fifth day); 72, and rather irregular in volume and beat
(twenty-ninth day), [10a]. ► Pulse 66 to 69, and irregular, with from
five to seven interruptions per minute (has been a little intermittent
before, but is more so than usual now); at noon (fourth day); 76, soft
and rather regular (tenth day); 96, slender at times, and at times full
and very irregular (twelfth day); 95 to 96 all day (fourteenth day);
about 100, slender and intermittent during early part of day, 80, in
afternoon (fifteenth day); 80, and irregular (sixteenth day); 75, and
slightly irregular (seventeenth day); 76, and a little irregular
(nineteenth day); 80, and irregular, both in volume and beat
(twenty-second day); 96, slender and rather irregular (thirty-sixth
day), [9a].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Neck feels stiff
(forty-eighth day), [6]. ► Left side of neck feels stiff and sore
(sixth and seventh days), [9]. ► Began to feel a soreness commencing at
the lower cervical vertebra, and extending as far down as the joints of
and under both scapulæ; the sensation was first felt on moving the arms
and shoulders, on getting out of bed at night (nineteenth day), [10a]. ►
Back. [430.] ► Feel sore about back and abdomen (twelfth
day), [6]. ►
A little soreness in back (twelfth day), [6].
► Dorsal. ► Pain between scapulæ quite severe,
causing an inclination of shoulder forward for relief; it is felt at
every inspiration, the deeper the inspiration the severer the pain,
lasting form 8 till 9 A.M., and gradually passing around below the point
of right scapula to a position on right side of chest below ninth and
across tenth rib. The part named is very sore on taking a full breath
(eleventh day), [10a]. ► On taking more than the usual volume of
air into lungs, a stitching pain is felt in space between scapulæ,
which continues until 10 P.M. (nineteenth day), [10a]. ► Lumbar.
► Pains in loins, extending all over
back, especially felt between the shoulders, and even affecting the
arms, in evening (sixth day); the same pains returned (half an hour
after first dose); pains became so violent that I could not go out all
the evening (after second dose, seventh day), [1]. ► Dull
pain in lumbar region (fiftieth day), [6].
► Pain in region of right kidney,
worse on walking (third day), [7].
► Slight tenderness in renal region
(twelfth day), [9]. ► Sacral. ►
Aching low down in back, across sacrum. This symptom has been more or
less constant during proving (fourteenth day), [9]. ► Feeling
of weakness in sacral region (sixth day), [8].
[440.] ►
Soreness on walking or stooping, first felt on getting out of bed in
morning; very severe on pressure on each side of sacrum on a line with
acetabulum, and worst on left side. When walking for some time the pain
was easier (twentieth day), [9a].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Joints feel stiff (fiftieth day), [6]. ►
Aching in all the limbs (eleventh day), [9].
► Rheumatic pains in the limbs,
especially the lower, running from hip to toes, and worse when at rest,
and better when moving; these pains remain a few moments in muscles
supplied by the sciatic nerve; pains most severe in flexor muscles of
thighs and legs (twenty-second day), [5].
► The pains in the extremities wander
about, showing a preference for the joints and for the left side, but
not restricted to that side (forty-sixth day), [5].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Neuralgic pains from axilla to small
finger, along inner part of arm, forearm, and hand, at 9. A.M.
(thirty-eighth day), [5]. ► For the past five days a weary aching on
raising the arm; an aching is felt through the whole left arm; the
aching is worse from pressure and motion (thirty-sixth day), [7]. ►
Rheumatic aching in right arm, principally in shoulder and wrist (second
day), [7]. ► Shoulder. ►
Shoulder-joint cracks when elevating or depressing the arm. The pain
felt in shoulder passes down the course of the median nerve to the
finger end (thirty-sixth day), [7].
► Forearm. ► The flexor muscles of the left forearm on
holding anything in the hand with the arm flexed became stiff
(thirty-sixth day), [7]. [450.] ►
Occasional little flying pains in the fingers, palms of the hands, and
forearm (fifteenth day), [3]. ► During morning had an aching pain in the
flexor muscles of the left forearm near their insertion at the elbow,
while riding (thirty-eighth day), [7].
► Pain from the tips of the fourth
and fifth fingers to elbow of left arm (forty-sixth day), [5]. ► Hands.
► Frequently recurring sharp stitches
along the palmar surface of the fourth metacarpal bone, between the
carpal and phalangeal bones, articulating with that bone. Same in both
hands, but not in both hands at same time (eighteenth day), [10a]. ►
The metacarpo-phalangeal bone of the right index finger is sore on
pressure, so much so as to make it painful to hold the pencil for any
time; was never troubled in this way before taking the medicine
(thirty-sixth day), [7]. ► Fingers. ►
Nervous twitching in middle and index fingers of left hand (forty-first
day), [6]. ►
Pain in second phalangeal joints of fingers (twenty-second day), [5]. ►
Rheumatic pain in right forefinger (twenty-seventh day), [7]. ► Sharp
pains in right little finger, at 9.45 A.M. (ninth day), [5].® 2000
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