SILICEA.
Silicic acid, Kieselerde.
Preparation
, Triturations of pure
precipitated Silica.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 7a, from Hahnemann). 1, Hahnemann; 2,
Foissac; 3, Goullon; 4, Gross; 5,
Hering; 6, Stapf; 7, Wahle; 7a, “Rl.;” 8 and 9,
from Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., 3, 218; 10,
omitted; 11, Knorre, A. H. Z., 6,
37, effects of 1/4 grain of crude S. (Nos. 12
to 26, from Ruoff’s provings, Hygea,
8, 1, 1838); [The higher dilutions were prepared after Hahnemann’s
method, except that 2 to 3 drops were used to each dilution; the 1st,
2d, and 3d liquid preparations were
made from the “Spiritus silicæ,” by digesting 9 grains of
Sil. With 6 drachms of Alcohol, and also by digesting 2 grains of Sil.
With 1 drachm of Alcohol.] 12,
“N. N.,” took 40 drops of 30th dil. first, third, and fifth
days, 21st dil. twelfth and fourteenth days, 100 drops of 17th dil.
sixteenth day, 5th dil. nineteenth and twentieth days; 13, O. R., took 30th dil. first, third, and
fifth days, 21st dil, twelfth and fourteenth days, 17th dil. sixteenth
day; 14, N., took 24th dil. first
day, 23d dil. third day, 18th dil. sixth, eleventh, thirteenth, and
fourteenth days, 6th dil. seventeenth day, 28th dil. eighteenth day, 4th
dil. twenty-first and twenty-fourth days; 15,
a girl, aged twenty, took 24th dil. for seven days, 18th dil. tenth,
eleventh, and twelfth days, 12th dil. fifteenth and sixteenth days, and
after two weeks took 12th, 9th, and 4th dils.; 15a, same, took 4th dil. two successive
days, then 1st trit. on sixth day; 15b, same, took repeated doses of 3d and 2d
trits. and 4th dil.; 15c, same, took 3 drops of “Spiritus
sil.;” 16, “C.,” took
24th dil. first day, 23d dil. second day, 18th dil. fifth day; 17, “A. Z.,” aged eight, took 30th
for three days, 21st dil. sixth, seventh, and eighth days; 18, “M.,” took 25th first day, 13th
fourth day, 6th dil. fifth day, 3d trit. sixth day, 2d trit. seventh
day, 3d trit. eighth day, 1st trit. tenth day; 18a, same, took 3d trit. two days, 2d trit.
seventh day, 3d trit. eighth day, 1st trit. tenth day; 19, “G. W.,” took 25th dil. first
day, 13th, 6th, and 5th dils. fourth day, 4th dil. fifth day, 3d and 2d
trits. sixth day, 2d trit. seventh day, 3d trit. eighth day, 2d trit.
tenth day, 1st trit. twelfth day; 19a, same, took 4th dil., 3d. and 2d trits.;
20, J. P. W., took 25th dil. two
days, 6th dil. third day, and afterward at various times 16th and 6th
dil.; 20a,
same, took tincture; 20b, same, 3d trit.; 21, Jacob W., took 4th dil.; 22, Barbara, aged twenty-two, took 30th dil.
three days, 21st dil. seventh day, 13th dil. eighth to twelfth day; 7th
dil. fourteenth to seventeenth day; 23,
P. F., took 30th dil. first, third, fifth, and seventh days, 20th dil.
tenth day, 16th dil. fifteenth day, 10th dil. twenty-first day, 6th dil.
thirty-third and thirty-ninth days, 4th dil. forty-second and
forty-fifth days, 3d trit. fiftieth and fifty-fourth days; 24, C. Z., a girl aged seventeen, took 21st
dil. first, third and fifth days, 12th dil. tenth day, 4th dil.
sixteenth and eighteenth days, 1st dil. twenty-first, twenty-eighth, and
thirty-fifth days, tincture forty-third day; 25,
F. X., took 5th dil. first day, 4th dil. second day, tincture fourth
day, 3d trit. sixth day, tincture eleventh, eighteenth, and
twenty-second days, 20 drops of tincture twenty-sixth day, 16 drops
tincture evening twenty-ninth day; 26,
L. S., took 16th dil. two days, 12th dil. seventh day, 3d trit. twelfth
and twentieth days, tincture twenty-sixth day, 40 drops tincture
thirty-third day, 36 drops of 1st dil. thirty-seventh day, 1st trit.
forty-second day, 100 drops tincture forty-fifth day; 27, Becker, Hygea, 22, 402, proving with Aqua
silicata (each ounce contained one-twentieth grain of Sil. in proportion
of 1 to 9300), took 10 drops and rubbed gums with water two days, 10
drops fourth, sixth, and seventh days, 20 drops eighth day, 10 drops
ninth day, 20 drops tenth day; [Prover has had attacks of violent
faceache, has many bad teeth, sleeps badly, can never sleep on left side
on account of suffocation and nightmare.] 28,
Hencke, A. H. Z., 55, 135, effects of inhaling dust while triturating
(Nos. 29 to 42,
from Robinson’s provings, Br. J. of Hom., 25, 333); 29, 200th dil. every third morning; 30, 30th dil. every third morning, in a young
woman; 31, 200th dil. as before, in
a young woman; 32, same, same doses
in young woman; 33, 1000th dil. same
doses, young woman; 34, 30th dil. as
before, young woman; 35, man, 200th
dil. night and morning; 36, young
woman, 1000th dil. every third morning; 37,
child, 30th dil. night and morning; 38,
man, 30th dil. every third morning; 39,
young woman, 200th dil. once a week; 40,
young woman, 200th dil. every third morning; 41,
young woman, 200th dil. every third morning; 42,
man, 200th dil. every second morning. [Cases of phthisis pulm.,
occurring in knife-grinders and metal-polishers, reported by Dr.
Desayrre, Ann. d’Hyg. Pub, 1856, attributed to the absorption of large
amounts of Silica, are omitted. Examination of lungs demonstrated large
deposits of silica, iron, and lime phosphate. Dr. Jousset has pointed
out the remarkable similarity between the symptoms of the cases and
those in Hahnemann’s Pathogeneses (L’Art Méd, 5, 198).]
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Unsteady and
confused in his actions, [1]. ► Nervous excitement (eighth day), [16]. ►
The child becomes obstinate and headstrong, [1]. ►
Obstinate, [1]. ► Longing for home, [1]. ► *Very
easily startled, [1]. ►► *Sensitiveness to noise, and anxiety therefrom, [1]. ► *Very
sensitive, even weeping mood (fourth day), [15]. ►
Weeping mood for two hours without any particular thoughts, [1]. [10.]
► The slightest word brings tears, [1]. ►
Gloominess; she felt as if she would die, and for the time lost her
memory, [34]. ► Low-spirited, and weeps every morning, [32]. ►
*Gloomy mood (twentieth day), [12].
► Mind sad (seventeenth day), [13]. ►
Low-spirited and over-anxious about himself, [20]. ► *Great
depression and irritability (forty-second day), [15]. ►
*Depression of spirits (nineteenth day), [12]. ► *Dejected,
[1]. ►
*Dejected and melancholy, [3].
[20.] ►
Internal loathing of life, [1]. ► He woke with great anxiety about
midnight, could not move in spite of every effort, and imagined that
thieves were breaking in; on rising he became quiet, after lying down
the anxiety returned (after thirty-seven days), [1]. ►
Frequent attacks of anxiety, so that he could not remain sitting, [1]. ►
*Great anxiety from a start, [1].
► He woke with anxiety and
incarceration of flatus, both of which disappeared after moving about in
the house, without emission of flatus (after eight days), [1]. ► Awoke
with anxiety and stupefying vertigo, [3].
► On waking at night from an anxious
dream she remained very anxious and her heart beat audibly, [1]. ►
*Most excessive scruples of conscience about trifles frequently,
as though he had done a great wrong, [4].
► Discontentment, [1]. ► Great
irritability and painful sensitiveness to touch (after four days), [1]. [30.]
► *Irritable and depressed mood
(after eight days), [16]. ► *Very irritable and low spirited, [30]. ►
*Irritable and peevish mood (sixteenth day), [15]. ►
Peevish and quarrelsome, in the evening, [1].
► *Peevish (ninth day), [1]. ►
Very irritable though lively, [1].
► *Loud talking annoys him, [1]. ►
Whimsical and fault-finding, [1]. ► She is ill-humored and peevish, in the
forenoon (sixth day), [8]. ► Out of humor and despondent, [1]. [40.]
► She could and would do nothing on
account of ill-humor, [1]. ► He easily gets out of humor, though with
the best intentions, [1]. ► Is easily made angry, [1]. ►
Everything frets her and makes her peevish, [1]. ►
Fretful, [1]. ► Trifles frequently make him fretful, [1]. ►
*Restless and fidgety, starts at the least thing, [32]. ►
Frequent restlessness and impatience, so that he did not know what to
do, [1]. ►
Intellectual. ► Great
activity of mind (second day), [15].
► Great facility of thought and
fluent expression (seventh, eighth, and ninth days), (secondary action),
[2]. [50.]
► Great indolence for mental work;
nearly fell asleep while teaching, [1].
► Disinclination for mental work
(sixteenth day), [12]. ► Disinclination to mental effort (third
day), [20]. ► *Great difficulty in fixing the attention,
[29]. ►
*Thought difficult (first day), [2]. ► *Mental
labor is very difficult, [1].
► She gets confused and makes
mistakes, half knowing what she is about, and yet unable to control
herself; she had almost put a watch into the saucepan to boil instead of
an egg, [32]. ► Great distraction of mind, in the
forenoon, with uneasiness in the head and pit of the stomach, [1]. ►
Distraction of mind; he is almost always trying to think of two things
at the same time, [4]. ► Inability to read, write, or think
becoming worse from noon to 6 P.M., and disappearing in the evening
after eating (second day), [2]. [60.] ►
Easily makes mistakes in talking, [3].
► Memory weak (seventeenth and
twentieth days), [12]. ► Forgetful and dizzy, every morning, [1]. ►
Loss of memory, forgetfulness, [1].
► Constant vanishing of the senses
(second day), [16].® 2000
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