STANNUM.
The element, Tin.
Preparation
, Trituration of the pure
metal.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 12,
from Hahnemann, Chr. Kn.) 1,
Hahnemann; 2, Franz; 3, Gross; 4,
Guttmann; 5, Hartmann; 6, Haynel; 7,
Herrmann; 8, Langhammer; 9, Wislicenus; 10,
Alston, Mat. Med., 1, 152 (statement of a case reported to him,
-Hughes); 11, Gusschlæger, in
Hufel. Journ. (effect of swallowing granulated Tin, -Hughes); 12, Meyer, Abr. Diss. Cantel. de Anthelmint,
Gött., 1782 (observation, -Hughes); 13,
Stahl, Mat. Med., cap. vi (not accessible, -Hughes); 14, Dr. Pitet, Jour. de la Soc. Gall., vol.
iv, proving of Bichloride of tin (fuming), 3d dil. in watery solution,
repeated doses, and in progressive order, during ten days in January and
February; 15, a young woman took a
few doses of fuming Bichloride of tin for pruritus of vulva; 16, another woman took a few doses of the
same; 17, effects on a third woman
immediately after a dose; 18, G. W.
Hazeltine, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xxxi, 1844, p. 38, T. A.
E., æt. fourteen years, swallowed a draught of Bichloride of tin; 19, Meinel, Deutsche Klin., 1851 (S. J. 74,
167), effects of Muriate of tin and salt; 20,
E. P. Angell, M.D., Ohio Med. and Surg. Rep., vol. ii, 1868, p. 152, a
family ate a cold chicken-pie baked the previous day in a new tin pan; 21, Dr. Angell ate a similar dish, very
heartily, as a test; all the other members of the family had similar
attacks, varying in degree with the quantity eaten; 22, a family ate a custard cooked in a new
tin pan the day previous.
MIND.
►
Excited and inclined to storms of anger (fourth day), [3]. ►
Violent, very transient anger, [3].
► Remarkably joyful, [4]. ►
Talkative; sociable, [8]. ► Quiet good-humor (after fourteen hours), [8]. ►
Quiet, absorbed in himself, with great discomfort of the body, [4]. ►
Quiet, absorbed in himself, solicitous for the future, [8]. ► Sad,
hypochondriac mood, [1]. ► Discontented, [1]. [10.] ► Great anxiety and depression a week
before the menses, ceasing on the appearance of the flow, [1]. ►
Indescribable anxiety and despondency for several days, [1]. ►
Discouraged, [1]. ► Contented with nothing without being
fretful, [1]. ► Fretfulness disappearing, in the open
air, the whole day, [2]. ► Quiet fretfulness; he answers unwillingly and
abruptly; easily vexed, and easily gets into a temper, [7]. ►
Peevishness and transient sensitiveness (first three days), [3]. ►
Vexatious; nothing goes to suit him, [8].
► Aversion and dread of people, [1]. ►
Restless and distracted; no persistence in work, immediately, [1]. [20.]
► Fruitlessly busy, as if a rush of
ideas prevented him from completing his work at a certain time; all
sorts of things occur to him to be done, [3].
► Indolent and irritable, with heat
in the face; would do everything, but really does nothing, [1]. ►
Is inclined to do no work, and inability to think, [7]. ► Dulness
of mind, indifference to external objects, indisposition, with paleness
and darkness about the eyes, [4]. ► Disinclination to talk, [1]. ► Want of
memory, in the morning on waking, [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion and dulness of the head, as before coryza, which, however, did
not occur, with sneezing, [1]. ► Vertigo, as if the brain were whirling
around; all thought vanished, and he could not continue to read, and sat
as if without his senses, [7]. ► Sudden attacks of vertigo, while sitting
down, [9]. ►
Vertigo, as if all objects were at too great a distance, [9]. [30.] ► Stupefying vertigo, only when walking, in
the open air; he reels as if he would fall, [8]. ► Dizziness
in the whole head, [7].
► Dizziness, while sitting, as if he
would fall, [4]. ► Dizziness, in the morning on waking from
a long sleep, as if he had not slept enough, [4]. ► General
Head. ► Heaviness and
dulness of the head, worse in the evening, [1]. ► Heaviness
of the head during rest and motion, in the evening, lasting two hours
(after nine hours), [1]. ► Heaviness and tearings throughout the
head (twenty-fifth day), [14]. ► Almost constant heaviness throughout the
head, sometimes only at the top (thirtieth day), [14]. ►
Painful heaviness throughout the whole head, sometimes in the forehead
only, or in the temples (tenth day), [14].
► Now and then, violent heaviness in
the head, sometimes general, sometimes partial; sometimes at one point,
sometimes at another (twelfth day), [14].
[40.] ►
General heaviness throughout the head, especially in the occiput
(twentieth day), [14]. ► Feeling of weakness in the head, and
sleepiness, [1]. ► Pain and heat in the head, in the morning
on waking, [1]. ► Headache mostly every morning, with loss
of appetite; nausea and fretfulness, [1].
► The action of raising or of bowing
the head causes pain in the muscles which are involved in these
movements (twentieth day), [14]. ► Painful sensation on shaking the head, as
if the brain were loose and beat against the skull, [2]. ► Boring,
pressive, stupefying pain in the left half of the brain, on the surface,
[5]. ►
Dizzy pressure through the whole head, [7].
► *Constriction and sudden pressure in
the whole upper part of the head, slowly
increasing and decreasing, [3].
► Painful pressing in the brain
towards the vertex and occipital bones, in the evening, also after lying
down, [6]. [50.] ►
Frequent sensation, as if screwed inward in the head, with slow jerks or
drawing pressure here and there at times, [3].
► Pain, as if the brain were forced
asunder, and were tense, [1]. ► Cramplike pain, as if the head were
externally constricted by a band, [1].
► *Sharp jerking pains in the right
anterior lobe of the brain, above the orbit (twenty-fourth
day), [14]. ►
Pressive tearings from each side of the brain to the top of the skull
(twenty-fifth day), [14]. ► Sharp and deepseated stitches in the
lower part of the left anterior lobe of the brain (above the arch of the
orbit), (tenth day), [14]. ► Tingling in the head; noise resounds in
it, [1]. ►
Forehead. ► *Headache in the
frontal region, [20]. ► *Pain, as from a crashing, in the forehead,
[1]. ►
Pressure in the forehead, [1]. [60.] ►
Pressure in the forehead; aggravated by bending backward, relieved by
pressure, [3]. ► Pressive stupefying pain in the brain,
just above the eyebrows, during rest and motion, [8]. ►
Pressing outward at the frontal eminence, [1].
► Pressure outward at the forehead,
with sleepiness, relieved by pressure, [3].
► *Dull pressure from within outward, in
the forehead, [7]. ► Pressure in the middle of the forehead,
extending deep into the brain, [4].
► Pressure in the forehead, temples,
and vertex, relieved by external pressure, [3]. ► A
sudden pressive jerk in the left forehead and temple, so that he cried
aloud, [3]. ►
Violent jerks in the forehead, alternating with dull pressure, [5]. ►
Drawing through the forehead and vertex, with a pressive sensation, [3]. [70.]
► Burning pain, like fire, in
one-half of the forehead, as also in the nose and eyes, with external
heat in the parts all alike, during rest and motion; was obliged to lie
down, with nausea and retching as to vomiting, from morning till
evening, [1]. ► *Pressive tearing in the forehead, [7]. ►
*Pressive tearing in the right half of the forehead at intervals,
aggravated by stooping, [5].
► Tearing pain, but transient, in the
forehead, the top of the head, and the occiput; afterwards shifting now
to one point, then to another, and sometimes affecting the whole head;
generally more violent in the forehead (twenty-fourth day), [14]. ►
Frequently during the day, cutting, penetrating pains in the left
anterior portion of the brain; they last some moments, and cease, to be
renewed subsequently (fortieth day), [14].
► Shootings from the anterior portion
of the brain to the right side (twenty-third day), [14]. ► Dull
shootings in the left anterior side of the head (thirty-fifth day), [14]. ►
Stitchlike headache, especially in the left side of the forehead, with
fluent coryza, [8]. ► Sticking headache in the forehead, even
during rest, for several days, on stooping, everything presses outward
at the forehead, [1]. ► A long, dull stitch in the left frontal
eminence, [3]. [80.] ►
Fine stitches in the middle of the forehead, [2]. ► Temple.
► Boring pain in the left temple all
day, [1]. ►
Boring pressive pain in the right temple, relieved by external pressure,
[5]. ►
Compression in the temples and occiput, [1].
►► *Pressure in the left temple
beginning slight, then increasing and so again diminishing as if the
forehead would be pressed inward, [3]. ►
Pressive pain outward in the right temple, almost as if external, [4]. ►
*Pain, like a pressing inward in the temples all day, [1]. ►
Pressure in the right temple when lying upon it, disappearing on rising
up, [4]. ►
Pressive drawing in one temple and half of the forehead, causing
confusion, [3]. ► Often-recurring, sharp, but transient
pains in the right temple (twenty-second day), [14]. [90.] ► Sharp pains in the left temple; less
severe in the right temple (seventh day), [14].
► Pulsating stitches in the temples,
with heat in the head, chilliness of the body and weakness of the head,
so that he almost loses his reason, with slumbering and insensibility, [1]. ►
Throbbing headache, in the temples, [1]. ► Vertex and
Parietals. ► Painful
sensation of heaviness in the top of the head, almost at the forehead
(seventh day), [14]. ► Sometimes painful heaviness in the top of
the head; now and then shootings in the right parietal region
(seventeenth day), [14]. ► Sudden sharp pressure on the vertex, with
a sensation as if the hair moved, [3].
► Pressive tearing in the left side
of the vertex, [7]. ► Sudden dull stitches in the top of the
head, [3]. ►
Burning stitches on the vertex, [2].
► Pressive heaviness, with a feeling
of emptiness in the left half of the brain, [5]. [100.] ► Pressive pain outward, in the right side
of the head, [4]. ► Drawing pressure from the right parietal
bone to the orbit, [3]. ► Pressive tearing through the right side
of the head, [9]. ► Tearing pressure in the right half of the
head, [7]. ►
Tearing in the left parietal bone, and in the forehead, [7]. ► From
time to time, violent dartings in the left side of the head, or in its
posterior portion (twelfth day), [14].
► Occiput. ► Painful heaviness in the occiput
(twenty-first day), [14]. ► Painful and almost constant sense of
weight on the occiput, [14]. ► Headache in the occiput, [19]. ► Boring
in the occipital bones, with acute heaviness, [5]. [110.] ► Compression in the occiput, under the
skull, [2]. ►
Pressure outward, in the left side of the occiput, [6]. ►
Pressive tearing in the left occipital bone, [5]. ►
Pressive tearing in the left side of the occiput, [7]. ►
Shooting in the left posterior portion of the head (twentieth day), [14]. ►
Constrictive pain in the right side of the occiput, [4]. ► External
Head. ► Pain, as from
suppuration on the head, externally, [1].
► Burning tension on the forepart of
the scalp, just above the right side of the forehead, [4].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► The eyes are
prominent and painful, as after weeping, [1].
► Nightly agglutination of the eyes,
with weakness during the day, [1].
[120.] ►
Dim, weak, sunken eyes (after two days), [7].
► Eyes dim, [1]. ► Subjective.
► Pain in the eyes, as from rubbing
with a woollen cloth, removed by moving the lids, [1]. ►
Pressure in the eyes, [1]. ► Pressure in the left eye, as from a stye
on the lid, [2]. ► Jerking in the eyes, [1]. ►
Twitching in left eye, lasting a week, [1].
► Several sharp, dartings in the
globe of the right eye (twenty-first day), [14]. ►
Burning sticking in the right eye, toward the outer canthus, [4]. ►
Burning in the eyes, [1]. [130.] ►
Biting in the eyes, as after rubbing with a woollen cloth, [2]. ►
Brow and Orbit. ► A pimple
on the left eyebrow, with burning by itself and with pressive pain when
touched, [1]. ► Sudden sensitive dull thrusts in the
outer side of the upper margin of the left orbit, [3]. ►
Jerklike drawing tearing externally above the left eyebrow, [8]. ►
Drawing pressure in the upper margin of the left orbit, [3]. ► Sudden
jerks on the upper margin of the right orbit and in other parts, with
sensitive stupefaction of the head, [3].
► In the upper part of the right
orbit, shootings which penetrate from before backward into the substance
of the brain (forty-second day), [14].
► Lids. ►
Stye in the inner angle of the right eye, [15].
► *Pustular swelling of the left inner
canthus, like a lachrymal fistula, [1]. ►
Twitching in the right inner canthus, [6].
[140.] ►
Pressure in both upper lids, [4]. ► Pressive pain in the right inner canthus,
[7]. ►
*Pressure in the left inner canthus, as from a stye, with lachrymation,
[7]. ►
Constriction of the eyelids, with redness of the white of the eyes and a
burning sensation, [1]. ► Sensation as of a hard substance behind
the right eyelid, [4]. ► Burning pain in the left lower lid, [4]. ►
Small violent burning stitches in the lids of the right eye, more
towards the outer canthus, [5]. ► Fine sticking burning in the left
canthus, [4]. ► Itching in the upper eyelids on each
side, with slight swelling (thirty-third and thirty-fifth days), [14]. ►
Itching in the inner canthus, [1].
► Lachrymal Apparatus. [150.] ►
Acute itching in the right lachrymal caruncula (thirty-second and
thirty-third days), [14]. ► Ball. ►
Shootings in the globe of the left eye, in the evening (thirty-sixth
day), [14]. ►
Tensive stitch in the left eyeball, most violent on moving it, [4]. ►
Itching in the left eyeball, somewhat relieved by rubbing, [4]. ►
Pupil. ► Pupils first
contracted, then dilated, [8]. ► Vision. ►
Sees a rainbow about the candlelight, [1].
EAR.
►
Ulceration in the hole for the earring in the lobule of the ear, [1]. ►
Shooting in the cartilages of the right ear (twentieth day), [14]. ►
A drawing stitch in the upper part of the left concha, [4]. ►
Pressure externally on the bones behind the ear, [1]. [160.] ► Griping tearing through the cartilage of
the lobule of the left ear, with at times a sensation as if a cold wind
were blowing in it (after four hours), [9].
► Earache; in the outer ear a drawing
pain, [3]. ►
Boring pain in the right ear, with cold feet, [1]. ►
Frequent drawing in the left ear, like an earache, [3]. ► Drawing
in the whole right ear externally and internally; painful on moving the
lower jaw, [1]. ► Cramplike pain in the whole right ear,
lasting eight hours, [4]. ► Tearing in the right meatus, like an
earache, [7]. ► Itching in the left ear, [1]. ► Stopped
sensation in the left ear, with deafness, which was relieved by blowing
the nose, in the morning after rising, lasting four days, [6]. ► Hearing.
► Screaming in the ear when blowing
the nose, [1]. [170.] ►
Rushing in the ears as from a stream of blood, [2]. ► Ringing
in the left ear, [8]. ► Creaking in front of and in the left ear,
as from a door, in the evening, [2].
► Rustling noise of a grasshopper in
the left ear (eighteenth day), [14].
► The jarring of his steps (on
walking) resounds painfully in the head (twentieth day), [14].
NOSE.
►
Frequent sneezing without coryza, [8].
► Violent sneezing, in the evening
(eighth day), [14]. ► Profuse coryza (after four days), [1]. ►
Intense coryza, alternating with stoppage of the nose, [16]. ► Coryza
of the left nostril (tenth day), [14].
[180.] ►
Violent coryza all day (eleventh day), [14].
► Diminished coryza (twelfth day), [14]. ►
Blood is blown from the nose, in the morning (seventeenth and eighteenth
days), [14]. ►
Nosebleed, in the morning, immediately on rising from bed, [6]. ►
Violent nosebleed, in the morning, immediately on waking, [1]. ►
Stoppage of the nose, in the morning (ninth day), [14]. ►
Violent stopped catarrh; can get air through only the right nostril, at
noon; on the fourth day the nose becomes free, [2]. ► Can get
no air through the left nostril, which is excessively swollen, red, and
painful to touch, [1]. ► Heaviness and a stopped sensation in the
upper part of the nostril, [7]. ► Respiration through the nostrils is
impeded in consequence of a permanently congestive condition of the
palato-nasal mucous membrane (twenty-third day), [14].
FACE.
[190.]
► *Face pale and sunken, sickly; features
elongated, [1]. ► Constrictive pain in the bones of the
face and teeth in the right side, as if they would be drawn up shorter, [3]. ►
Pressive gnawing in the left side of the face, especially in the malar
bone, [9]. ►
Stupefying pain in the face, especially in the forehead, [8]. ►
Cramplike pressure in the muscles on the left malar bone, [9]. ► Drawing
pressure in the bones of the right side of the face, especially in the
malar bone and orbits, paroxysmal, [3].
► Cheek. ►
Painful swelling of the left cheek, with an ulcer on the gum; the pain
causes sleeplessness, [1]. ► Burning cramplike pain in the left cheek,
in the evening, soon followed by swelling of the cheek, with cutting
pressive pain only on drawing up the face, as if a splinter of glass
were between the cheek and the teeth, [2].
► Pain in the malar bone, on touch,
before the menses; during the menses, pain, as from a blow, even on
moving the muscles of the face, [1].
► Tearing extending from the malar
bone down into the lower jaw, near the corner of the mouth, [3]. [200.]
► Constriction and pressure
internally beneath the right cheek, [2].
► Burning pain in the right cheek,
beneath the eye, [4]. ► Burning-itching sticking on the malar
bones, [1]. ►
Pain and swelling of the upper jaw; the cheeks are red, with sticking in
them, [1]. ► Lip. ►
A sticking-tearing pain in a small spot in the lower lip, [1]. ► Chin.
► Broad cutting stitches in the
forepart of the chin, [9].® 2000
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