OXALICUM ACIDUM.
EXTREMITIES.
►
Contractions of the arms and legs, [60].
► Trembling of the limbs, [27]. ►
Lividity of extremities, [52]. ► Hands, arms, legs, and feet were of a
livid color and cold, and she could hardly move the legs at all (after
nine hours), [30]. ► Uneasiness in limbs and feet, which he is
hardly able to keep quiet for a few minutes at a time, [6]. [640.] ► *Strange sensation of numbness about his limbs,
[41]. ►
Numbness and tingling in the extremities, and the legs drawn up toward
the abdomen, [54]. ► Oxalic acid has a decided action on the
joints, ankle, knee, hip, wrist, shoulder, [5].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► *Numbness from the shoulders to the tips of the
fingers, [61]. ► Numbness in right arm (second day), [17]. ►
Sensation of numbness in the left arm (after a quarter of an hour), [11]. ►
Shoulder. ► Sharp shooting
pain in the right shoulder-joints, coming on suddenly, and lasting about
fifteen minutes (one hour after 3 grains 1/10th), [6]. ► After
lying down in bed, a twitch in the left deltoid muscle, and in a few
minutes one in the right, [10]. ► Upper Arm. ►
Violent pressive pain in the middle of the upper arm, as if in the bone,
frequently a jerking, so that he was obliged to stretch and move the
arm, the whole evening, [11]. ► The muscles of the upper arm are painful,
as if beaten (fourth day), [2]. ► Wrist. ►
Pain, as if sprained, in the right wrist, which he had had for some
time, became much worse, in the forenoon; in the afternoon he was
frequently obliged to crack it (first day); it returned on the second
day; he was obliged to stretch and bend it until it cracked; on both
days, while writing, a violent jerking stitch in the ulnar region near
the wrist; on the third day it was very distinct and very frequent in
the articulation of the ulna; the right wrist
was constantly painful, as if it had been sprained or dislocated;
if he attempted to lift anything, he was obliged to let it fall;
repeated sticking pain in it, especially when writing (after six, eight,
and twelve hours, third day); the right wrist remained painful; after
some weeks it suddenly became so much worse that the slightest motion
was intolerable; he was obliged to sit and hold the hand straight up,
resting upon the elbow day and night; the pain was frightful; could
neither eat nor sleep for several days; at first Causticum speedily
relieved; afterwards the hand became better than formerly, and the
inclination to stretch and crack the wrist disappeared, [11]. ► Hand.
[650.] ►
Frequently his hands were involuntarily clenched when awake, [41]. ►
Heaviness of the left hand; motion of the fingers follows the will
slowly and with difficulty (fourth day), [3].
► Sensation as if the hand were dead,
[50]. ►
Fingers. ► Fingers
contracted, and finger-nails dark, [41].
► Finger-nails were dark, and
remained so for several days, [41].
► Fingers semiflexed, rigid, the
thumbs bent into the palm of the hand (after four hours), [36]. ►
Fingers livid (after two hours), [35].
► A sudden jerking in the metacarpal
bone of the left index finger, soon afterwards in the ulnar side of the
hand externally, then in the right side of the head, etc.; from time to
time, peculiar jerking pains, like short pulsations, in small spots, of
only short duration (third day), [11].
► A piercing burning-sticking pain
deep internal in the right middle finger, especially in the last
phalanx, but also in the other fingers, though less severe, similar to
gouty pains, the whole third day, [1].
[660.] ►
The fingers of the left hand, especially the index finger, become drawn
inward (fourth day), [3]. ► Tingling sensation in the fingers (after
six hours), [17]. ► Sudden violent thrusts, as with a knife
or lancet, in the ball of the left thumb (during stool), (second day), [11]. ►
Violent stitches in the ball of the right thumb, in the evening, while
writing (fourth day), [11]. ► Tensive pain in the fleshy part of the
left thumb, with heat, numbness, and a sensation of swelling, lasting
about half an hour (after thirty minutes), [10].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► *Blueness, coldness, and almost complete
immobility of the lower extremities; had not entirely
disappeared after fifteen days, [5];
(from 2 drachms), [50]. ► *Slight lameness and stiffness in the lower
extremities, [6]. ► During the entire day he had frequent
cramps in the legs and feet, which were soon relieved by pressure, [41]. ►
Hip. ► Sticking pain in
the right hip-joint, [9]. ► Knee. ►
A very violent contracting pain in the external tendon of the left knee
(first day), [11]. [670.] ►
Great weakness in the knees, on going upstairs, lasting some time after
the cessation of other symptoms, [11].
► Jerking-sliding pain in the hollow
of the left knee, [11]. ► Leg and Ankle. ►
Tension in the left calf, while walking; in the afternoon, after diarrhœa
(third day), [1]. ► Aching pain in the right ankle-joint,
with a feeling of swelling of this part and the whole right foot (from 5
grains 1/10th), [6]. ► Foot and Toe. ►
Sharp shooting pain on the instep of the right foot, lasting for half an
hour, at intervals. The same pains the next day, lasting five minutes.
Sharp pain in right ankle-joints, several days after the first pains, [6]. ►
In the morning on rising, the toes of the right foot are spasmodically
flexed, without pain, repeated at noon, after sitting some time (third
day), [2].
GENERALITIES.
►
Lies upon his back, with his knees drawn up very high (third day), [21]. ►
Lay spine (after four hours), [36].
► She lay in bed exhausted, and in a
state of insensibility, for four hours, [36].
► General redness of the body (after
twelve days), [17]. [680.] ►
The symptoms from Oxalic acid usually intermit, for some hours or a day,
and then return in a diminished degree, [5].
► Some, who are generally much
affected by cold weather, appear better able to bear it, [5]. ►
Convulsions, [25], [40]. ►
Convulsions, with two or three deep inspirations, before death, [50]. ►
Convulsion, either at the time of death or before, [50]. ► Slight
convulsion and death (after twenty minutes), [18]. ►
Symptoms of collapse, with convulsions, followed by death (third day), [60]. ►
Violent spasms, [17]. ► Spasms, followed by death (after
three-quarters of an hour), [45]. ► Two persons had mimic spasms, when moving
a tablespoonful about in their mouths, and said they felt as if they
should never laugh again, [49a]. [690.] ►
The effect on the nerves was the production of mimic spasms, or the
pulling of the face, which acid fruit and vegetables, such as rhubarb,
produce, [49]. ► Spastic contraction of the muscles of the
jaws and extremities, [40]. ► Violent tremors, [28]. ► Slight
convulsive twitchings (second day), [60].
► Twitching, [48]. ► Sudden
jerking (a short but very distinct pain) in the metacarpal bone of the
left index finger, soon afterwards on the outer side of the ulnar margin
of the left hand, and at last in the right side of the head (first day),
[11]. ►
Restless during night (first day), [21].
► Very restless night (second day), [21]. ►
Very restless (eighth day), [21]. ► Increasing emaciation (after seven days),
[17]. ►
Debility and Prostration. [700.]
► Increasing debility (after twelve
days); death (fourteenth day), [17].
► General lassitude and feebleness,
particularly of the lower extremities (after a few hours), [19]. ►
Extreme lassitude of the body, [5].
► Lassitude, disinclined to work, [1]. ►
Weariness, in the morning (fourth day), [2].
► Excessive weariness, during and
after going upstairs (second day), [11].
► Indolent, so that he could scarcely
sit up; he lay down, and felt well while lying; without sleepiness he
continued lying with the eyes closed, in the morning (second day), [11]. ►
Feeling of weakness over the whole body (twelfth day), [12]. ► Great
weakness (seventeenth day), [12]. ► Weakness of the extremities, with
increased transpiration over the whole body, especially sweat in the
axillæ; the weakness in the extremities extended over the whole body,
so that the work which was usually easy, was very fatiguing, and
followed by a sensation as after excessive muscular exertion (from the
solution), [1]. [710.] ►
Great weariness, obliging him to lie down, that seemed uncommonly
agreeable; a crawling weariness, with a feeling of fulness in the whole
body; at noon, after eating, and again in the evening (first day), [11]. ►
Weakness first noticed in the extremities, extending over the whole
body; was scarcely able to do any light work, [13a]. ►
Weakness, with perspiration, [14].
► Inclined to lie down and close the
eyes, without sleepiness, in the morning (second day), [11]. ►
Trembling of the whole body, with weakness (third day); so great that
she could scarcely walk (fourth day), [4].
► Loss of strength, [17]. ► Gait
slow and unsteady, [67]. ► Relaxed condition, [52], [63].
► Expression of countenance and the
other symptoms indicated great prostration strength (after half an
hour), [57]. ►
Great weakness and prostration during the diarrhœa, in the forenoon
(third day), [1]. [720.] ►
Great prostration, with a feeling as if the spine were too weak to
support the body (twentieth day), [12].
► Prostration, [38]. ►
Complete prostration of strength (after fourteen hours), [34]. ►
Prostration of all vital powers, [41].
► Great exhaustion, [41]. ► Feels
generally sick, with diarrhœa, in the forenoon (second day), [1]. ►
General sick feeling; sensation as though the hands and feet were
trembling (four hours after 1/2 grain), [1].
► Symptoms of slight collapse, [62]. ►
Faintness; her hands and feet felt dead; her senses seemed to be
“going,” and she so far lost her consciousness as not to have
a clear idea of what occurred subsequently (after one hour), [30]. ►
Faintness and rattling respiration, followed by death, [48]. [730.] ► Faintness, [14].
► Faintness, prostration of strength,
collapse and death, within three minutes after the poison was taken, [33]. ►
Sensibility. ► The pains
and other symptoms reappear as soon as he thinks of them, as, for
example, when writing them down; especially the pain in the hollow of
the left knee, in one arm, hip, etc., [11].
► The pains from Oxalic acid, as soon
as he thinks about them, return,
particularly that in the knee, the hiccough, etc., [11]. ►
Nervous symptoms appear mostly in those patients who have taken the
diluted acid, [50]. ► Ascending steps was especially
distressing (twentieth day), [12].
► Sensations. ► A sensation in the upper part of the
body, especially in the head, like a fine crawling and surging, but so
fine that it is only like a current, while lying down; it seems to be
rhythmical, but not with the pulse; it seems as though the blood were
streaming in this manner through the capillaries; he distinctly feels it
stream through the whole body from below upward and from within outward;
the sensation is more distinct while the attention is directed to it; in
the forenoon (second day), [11]. ► A feeling as after a debauch the previous
night, dull headache, with a gnawing-tensive pain, and soreness in the
eyes and superciliary regions, lassitude, disinclination to occupation,
reading, etc., and inclination to stretch, with occasional yawning;
relief by walking in the cool open air (next day after 2d trit.), [10]. ►
The pains seem to be excited and aggravated by movement, as the pains in
the bowels, testicles, back, etc., [5].
► Pain, but chiefly great lassitude
and weakness of the limbs, and next morning numbness and weakness there,
as well as in the back; this affection was at first so severe that she
could hardly walk upstairs; she recovered entirely in a few days (after
about 2 drachms), [50]. [740.] ►
Pains in the left side, [48]. ► Excruciating pain, [17]. ► All
the pains of Oxalic acid occupy a small place, one-half to one inch in
length, and of the thickness of a quill; at times they move through this
space, frequently they occupy the whole of it; this is the case not only
in the Eustachian tube, but also in the wrist, hypochondrium, hollow of
the knee, etc., [11]. ► After very sound sleep for eight hours he
felt as if bruised and stiff, in the morning; could scarcely get out of
bed until it was quite late (first day), [11].
► General numbness, [17]; (after six hours), [38]. ► A
peculiar general numbness, approaching to palsy, [50]. ► Sense
of numbness and tingling or pricking in the back and thighs (twenty-four
hours after 2 scruples), [50]. ► Numbness and weakness of the back and
lower extremities, so much so as to render it difficult for her to go
upstairs, gradually going off in the course of a few days (second day), [19]. ►
She was, for the greater part of the time, able to walk about the room
until towards the middle of the day, when she complained of numbness
from the shoulders to the tips of the fingers, [61].
SKIN.
►
Skin constantly dry (second day), [1].
[750.] ►
The fold of skin around the nails of the third, fourth, and fifth
fingers becomes cracked and inflamed (from external application to the
middle finger), (from Hering). ► Skin
of face, head, chest, and nates covered with red spots or petechiæ,
appearing as if bespattered with blood (sixth and seventh days), [31]. ►
Anomalous efflorescence on a great portion of the body (second day);
nearly disappeared (third day), [32].
► An eruption or mottled appearance
of the skin, in circular patches, not unlike the roundish red marks on
the arms of stout healthy children, but of a deeper tint, [51]. ►
Peculiar eruption over the whole surface; it was an exanthema, and the
dermatologist would call it roseola; as it subsided it left the skin
very dark, so much as to attract the notice of his visitors; the cuticle
afterwards desquamated, [41]. ► Eruption appeared over the whole body,
similar to the maculæ of typhus, but passed off next day (after nine
days), [39]. ►
Two days since, an eruption appeared over the body similar to the
maculæ of typhus, which has not completely disappeared (twelfth day), [36]. ►
Eruption over the whole body, papular and itchy (twelfth day), [17]. ►
On a spot on the right index finger, where a cut, from a penknife, had
healed four days ago, a very painful pustule appears (2d trit.), [5]. ►
During shaving the skin is more sensitive, [11]. [760.] ► Itching on the neck, [5].
SLEEP.
►
Sleepiness. ► Very violent
yawning, [8]. ► Constant yawning, followed by
accumulation of water in the mouth, in the evening (fourth day), [4]. ►
Inclined to stretch and yawn, [1].
► After dinner, sleepiness, and
profound sleep while in a sitting position, [5]. ► Long
undisturbed sleep (very unusual), with profuse nightsweat; the wet shirt
feels very cold on waking (third night), [1].
► Very profound and long sleep; on
rising from bed quite stupid; he lies down again and sleeps one hour
longer (second day), [11]. ► He is more inclined to sleep at night
than usual, [5]. ► Great sleepiness, in the morning (second
day), [11]. ►
Tendency to sopor, alternated with restlessness (second day), [17]. [770.]
► Drowsiness, for several days, [35]. ►
He raised himself up in bed in alarm, looking round the room, but on
recollecting where he was, he lay down again, repeating the same action
in an hour (first night, after 3 grains 1/10th trit.), [6]. ►
Conscious when aroused, but immediately lapses into a sleepy state
(after four hours), [36]. ► Frequent startings in sleep, [41]. ►
Sleeplessness. ► Slept
very little through the night, and when he did, had constant dreams,
with starting, and then waking up with fright; the dreams were of an
unpleasant character (first night), [6].
► Little sleep (first night), [30]. ►
Sleep very restless, but without dreams (second day), [5]. ► Being
awakened by a noise in the night, he could not go to sleep again for two
hours, [8]. ► Dreams. ►
Dreams of rapidly sliding walking; he glides on his way with every step
without difficulty; dreams also that water is poured upon him (second
day), [5]. ►
Continual and vivid dreams, always of a frightful nature; he wakes
often, and dreams constantly, [5].
[780.] ►
Dreams of an agreeable and lascivious nature, and of a character of
reality, [10]. ► Has had dreams which he cannot remember
(first night), [11].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Violent
shaking chill, with small contracted pulse, red face, and sensation of
heat, without actual warmth of the head, and icy-cold hands, as if dead,
in the evening (fourth day), [4]. ► Chilliness the whole day; with heat on
every, even slight, exertion (fifth day), [2].
► Several slight rigors (sixth and
seventh days), [21]. ► Chilliness, in the afternoon, after the
diarrhœa (second day), [1]. ► Chilliness, alternating with heat, the
whole day (fourth day), [4]. ► Skin cold, [37].
► Surface cold and clammy, [50], [52];
(after half an hour), [57], [60]. ►
Face and hands livid, and cold as a stone, [67]. [790.] ► Hands, face, and feet cold, and covered
with perspiration, [27]. ► Face and extremities pale and cold, [18]. ►
Creeping of cold, particularly from the lower part of the spine upward, [5]. ►
Trunk and extremities become icy cold (after two hours), [35]. ►
*Extremities cold (after four hours), [36], [38],
[41]; (after one hour), [58]. ►
*Extremities cold, and the nails livid, [17]. ► Hands
icy cold, as if dead, in the evening, with shaking chill, [4]. ► *Feet and
legs icy cold, [60]. ► Feet quite cold, in the evening (third
day), [1]. ► Heat. ►
Very hot, [28]. [800.] ►
General sensation of heat, [5]. ► Heat in the face and hands (fourth day), [2]. ►
Some heat, at first in the face, and afterwards in the left leg, as from
external warmth (second day), [11].
► Flushes of heat and sweat, in the
morning, with sharp pains in the forehead and vertex (soon), [6]. ►
Flushes of heat and perspiration all over the body, [6]. ►
Exhausting fever, with dyspepsia and singultus (in a patient who seemed
at first to be doing well, but was carried off afterwards with the
above-mentioned fever in twenty-three days), [50]. ► Skin
hot (fourth day), [21], [41]. ►
Temperature in the axilla 97, [8],
[6]. ►
Sweat. ► Increased
perspiration, especially in the axillæ, [13a].
► Forehead bedewed with perspiration
(after twenty minutes), [20]. ► Cold perspirations, especially about the
forehead, [41]. ► Body covered with a cold clammy
perspiration (after four hours), [36].
► Skin partially bedewed with a cold
sweat, [18]. ►
Perspiration and weakness, [14]. ► Clammy moisture bedewed the whole frame, [17]. ►
Clammy perspiration, [25], [50]. ►
He perspires less than usual, [8].
► Cold clammy perspiration, [54].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Toward morning), Pain in left kidney. ► (Morning),
Vertigo, with anxiety, headache, weariness, and thirst; on waking, pain
in frontal region; headache in left frontal region; mucus in margin of
lids; sour taste in mouth; thirst; nausea, with cutting in abdomen; 6
A.M., distressed feeling in abdomen; cutting pain in abdomen; after
rising, colic with diarrhœa; on rising, tenesmus; diarrhœa; 7 A.M.,
diarrhœa; on lying down, desire for stool; 5 A.M., copious discharge of
urine; increase of sexual desire; dry cough; bruised sensation in back;
on rising, toes flexed; weariness; sleepiness; flushes of heart. ► (Morning and
evening), Acrid urine. ► (Forenoon), On rising, pressure in forehead;
eyes sunken and surrounded by blue rings; sensation of heat in face;
during nap, sour taste; 11 A.M., hiccough; 10 A.M., nausea; sick
feeling, with diarrhœa; 8 A.M., hiccough; 10 A.M., nausea; sick
feeling, with diarrhœa; 8 A.M., scanty stool; cutting in abdomen;
erections, and on going out, pain in testicles; after sleep, erections,
with pain in occiput; after diarrhœa, pain in pharynx; respiration
impeded; while lying down, pain in heart; pain in right wrist. ► (Noon),
Pale look and no appetite; pain in hollow tooth; eructations, with
rumbling and gurgling in abdomen; copious stool; pulse hard and rapid;
pressure upon chest; after eating, weariness. ►
(Afternoon), Vivacity and power of
concentration; ill-humored; 3 P.M., thirst; pain in right side of
abdomen; rumbling in abdomen; eructations of gas; diarrhœa, with desire
for stool; stitches in left lung; after diarrhœa, chilliness. ► (Evening),
General excitement; ill-humored; when looking out of window, vertigo;
after wine, headache; sensation as if sand were in left eye; red face,
with shaking chill; stitches in left ear; sneezing, with chilliness;
nose painful; no appetite; pyrosis and emission of flatus; pain in
umbilical region; rumbling in bowels; pain in descending colon, with
pain in abdomen and desire for stool; pain in region of right kidney;
burning in urethra; profuse flow of urine; cough and tickling in throat;
ulcerated sensation in præcordial region; burning pain in scapulæ;
pain in upper arm; weariness; yawning; hands cold, with shaking chill;
chilliness; itching in a spot on neck. ►
(Night), 11 P.M., hunger; pressive
pain in pit of stomach; pain about umbilicus and emission of flatus;
pain in region of navel; on waking, flatulent colic; burning in rectum;
pains in anus; increase of sexual desire; after lying down, palpitation
of heart, voluptuous dreams. ► (Walking in open air), Tickling in larynx;
pain in heart. ► (Breathing), Pain above right ilium. ► (Deep breath),
Stitch in abdomen. ► (After taking coffee), Rumbling in bowels;
feeling of diarrhœa. ► (When coughing), Pains in chest. ► (During
diarrhœa), Weakness and prostration. ►
(After diarrhœa), Nausea. ► (During dinner),
Nausea. ► (After
dinner), Rumbling in bowels; sleepiness. ► (After eating),
Nausea. ► (Exertion),
Heat; dry cough. ► (After exerting mind), Pain in head. ► (During hiccough),
Pressure above right hip; stitches above hips. ►
(Inspiring through nose), Stitches
through right nostril. ► (Deep inspiration), Teeth painful. ► (Lying down),
Vertigo; crawling sensation in upper part of body. ►
(After lying down), Pain in right
hypochondrium; twitch in deltoid muscles. ►
(During micturition), Burning in
urethra. ► (Moving),
Pain in testicles, back, etc. ► (Violent motion), Pressure and tightness of
respiration. ► (Pressure), Pain in throat; tenderness in
stomach; pain in epigastric region; pain in abdomen. ► (Rising from bed),
Stupid feeling. ► (Rising from seat), Vertigo. ► (Rising from
bent posture), Pain in lumbar region. ►
(Rising from recumbent position),
Pain in region of right loin. ► (While sitting), After a walk, effort to
discharge flatus; pain beneath right scapula. ►
(During speaking), Hoarseness. ► (Ascending
stairs), Weakness in knees; weariness. ►
(Before stool), Dullness of head;
pressure behind ears. ► (During stool), Dullness of head; pressure
behinds ears; stitches in the left thumb. ►
(Sugar in tea or coffee), Pains in
stomach and abdomen. ► (Swallowing), Pain in throat; soreness of
fauces. ► (On
thinking of them), Reappearance of pains and other symptoms. ► (Touching part),
Stitches and pain in right nostril; pain in epigastric region. ► (While walking),
Lightness of head; pressure in upper part of eyes; in the morning, pain
in testicles; stitches in right breast; bruised sensation in back; after
diarrhœa, tension in left calf. ► (While writing), Stitches in ulnar region;
stitches in left thumb. ► (During yawning), Stitch above right hip. ► (After yawning),
Accumulation of water in mouth. ►
Amelioration. ► (Morning), Power of meditation. ► (During motion),
Pain in abdomen. ► (Pressure), Cramp in legs. ► (While reading),
Power of concentration. ► (During rest), Flatulent colic. ► (After stool),
Pain in frontal region. ► (Walking in open air), Symptoms relieved.® 2000
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