URANIUM NITRICUM.
Uranium Nitrate.
Preparation
, dilutions of a saturated
aqueous solution.
Authority.
(E. T. Blake. M. B; Hahnemann
Mat. Med; part 2, 1871). 1, a young
man, æt. twenty-five years, with weak skin action, feeble secondary
digestion, tendency to intestinal blennorrhœa, with ascarides, inward
piles, slight emphysema, occasional œdema of lower lids, took 1 drop 2d
dec. dil. (first day), 2 drops (second day), 5 (sixth day), increasing
by 1 drop each day till he took 19 drops on the twenty-fourth day, 20
drops (twenty-sixth day), 21 (twenty-eighth day), 22 (thirtieth day) 24
(thirty-seventh day), 30 (forty-first day), 40 (forty-second day), 50
(forty-third day), 60 (forty-fourth day), 70 (forty-fifth day), 80
(forty-sixth day), 90 (forty-seventh day), 100 (forty-eighth day), 110
(forty-ninth day), 5 drops of sat. sol. (fiftieth day), 30 of same at
11.45 A.M. (fifty-first day), 60 at 11 P.M. (fifty-second day), solution
containing 1/4 ounce injected into rectum at 10.30 P.M. (fifty-ninth
day); 2, G. C; a man, æt.
thirty-one years, health good during the past four years, before that
time subject to neuralgia with occipital pains (from mental overwork),
took 30x gtt. v every morning on rising for a fortnight, except on the
ninth day; 2a,
same, subsequently took 6x gtt. v for fourteen days, omitted till
twenty-third day, then took daily till thirty-first day. [D.] affixed to
a symptom signifies that there is good ground for doubting whether it be
the result of the drug.
MIND.
►
Ill-temper; he is cross with everybody (eleventh day), [1]. ►
Ill-humor (sixteenth day), [1]. ► Cross and disagreeable, not feeling well
all day (twenty-seventh day), [2a].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo twice, in the evening (tenth day), [1]. ► Head
heavy on waking (seventh day), [1].
► (Taken a violent cold from exposure
to wet, etc.; headache; sore throat, which lasted four days, leaving me
feeling well on the fifteenth day, with the exception of a slight cough,
in the morning on rising, accompanied by expectoration, which affords
relief), (after eleven days), [2a].
► Frontal headache (sixteenth [D.],
twentieth, and twenty-first days), [1].
► Slight frontal headache (called up
previous night), (fourth day), [2].
► Dull aching in right temple
(immediately, forty-ninth day), [1].
[10.] ►
Headache, left temple (fifth day), [2a].
► Some slight pain in head again,
similar to my old neuralgia; the pain always used to be on the right side, at the posterior edge of temporal
bone; now, this day, it lasted from 2 to 4 P.M.; in the same spot, but
on the left [The Keynote of this
drug appears to be “left clavus.” Witness its recurrence in
Proving I.] side, followed by a dull aching (twenty-fifth day); awoke
about 1 A.M. with pain in head again, similar to former attack, lasting
one hour and preventing sleep; ill from pain during the day
(twenty-sixth day), [2a]. ► Headache in old place (right side),
severe, till after dinner; came on gradually; soon relieved by food
(twenty-eighth day), [2a]. ► Aching at occipital protuberance (seventh
day), [1]. ►
Occipital and frontal headache, in the evening (seventh day), [1]. ►
Woke with occipital headache (tenth day), [1].
EYE.
►
In evening, pain shooting from right orbit to the occipital protuberance
(nineteenth day), [1]. ► Slight pain over left eye (after five
minutes, fifty-first day); pain (after one hour, fifty-second day), [1]. ►
(Œdema of lover lids worse than usual), (eleventh day), [1]. ► Stye in
left upper lid (seventh day), [1].
[20.] ►
Lids much swollen, in morning (forty-first day), [D.], [1].
NOSE.
►
Small scab in right nostril, with soreness (fortieth day), [D.], [1]. ►
Dry coryza (seventh day), [1]. ► Left nostril stuffed (seventh day), [1]. ►
Itching in nose (seventh day), [1].
► Nostrils sore (thirty-ninth day),
[D.], [1].
MOUTH.
►
Small painless ulcer, with one elevated side in buccal aspect of left
cheek, opposite left anterior upper molar (thirteenth day); ulcer more
tender, worse in evening (fourteenth day); inside of cheek very sore
(fifteenth day); cheek better (sixteenth day), [1]. ► Saliva
highly acid (twenty-fifth day), [1].
THROAT.
►
Hawking of very tenacious mucus (twenty-eighth day), [1]. ►
Contracted feeling in throat (fifty-third day), [1]. [30.] ► Cutting feeling at back of fauces
(eighteenth day), [D.], [1].
STOMACH.
►
No appetite (eighth day), [1];
(fifth day), [2a]. ► Tasteless eructations (fifty-first day), [1]. ►
Eructations (fifty-third day), [1].
► Putrid eructation about 11 and 3
(twenty-eighth day), [2a]. ► Excessive flatulency in stomach and
bowels (twenty-fifth day), [D.], [1].
► Fit of dyspepsia, flatus after
food, acidity, pain from cardiac extremity of stomach to suprarenal
region, relieved by movement, lasted all day, then gradually
disappeared; bowels slightly moved; paler claylike fæces. (Query. -If
from medicinal action, as I have had such attacks to a slight degree
before), [2]. ► Return of epigastric pain as above, with
occasional twisting-screwing feeling rather lower down, relieved by food
(ninth day), [2a]. ► A return of indigestion in the afternoon,
about a quarter of an hour before dinner, with gnawing sinking at
cardiac end of stomach; not hungry nor faint (twenty-fourth day), [2a].
ABDOMEN.
►
Flatus (fifth day), [2a]. [40.] ►
Borborygmi (twelfth day), [1].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Anal pruritus (sixteenth and twentieth days), [D.], [1]. ► Woke at
2 A.M. with urgent desire to evacuate rectum and bladder; borborygmi
small; soft stool (twelfth day), [1].
► Solution forcibly returned in
twenty minutes, causing sharp colic and tenesmus, with raw feeling in
rectum, followed during sleep by an unconscious seminal emission
(fifty-ninth day), [1].
STOOL.
►
Bowels moved twice (twelfth day), [2].
► Slight constipation; fæces natural
in color (fifth day); no action of bowels (sixth day); moved slightly
(seventh day), [2a]. ► Constipation (seventh day), [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Sore pain in vesical region, in evening (twenty-fifth day), [1]. ►
Slight burning in urethra (nineteenth day), [D.], [1]. ► Burning
in urethra (twenty-fifth day), [1].
[50.] ►
Urine healthy, sp. gr. 32 (first day); sp. gr. 20 (second day); trace of
albumen, acid (eighth day); amber color, flocculent, very slightly acid,
sp. gr. 25 (ninth day); sp. gr. 32 (tenth day); no albumen, no
phosphates, nor lithates, sp. gr. 25 (eleventh day); woke at 2 A.M. with
urgent desire to evacuate bladder and rectum (twelfth day); sp. gr. 35
(thirteenth day); 24 (fourteenth day); 40 (stale), (fifteenth day); 30
(sixteenth day); 22 (seventeenth day); ten micturitions in twenty-four
hours, sp. gr. 25 (eighteenth day); 30 (nineteenth day); nine
micturitions in twenty-four hours, sp. gr. 31 (twentieth day); small
quantity of phosphates, sp. gr. 25 (twenty-second day); 27 (twenty-third
day); no sugar (either by Moore or Fehling), sp. gr. 27 (twenty-fourth
day); highly acid, 33 ounces in twenty-four hours, sp. gr. 34
(twenty-fifth day); desire to urinate again immediately after voiding
the bladder, sp. gr. 30 (twenty-sixth day); fishy odor of urine, 24
ounces, sp. gr. 34 (twenty-seventh day); 33 ounces, sp. gr. 27
(twenty-eighth day); highly acid; sugar, albumen, phosphates, and
lithates all absent; sp. gr. 24 (twenty-ninth day); 4 ounces, sp. gr. 25
(thirtieth day); very cloudy, deep amber color, slightly acid, no sugar,
no salts, 30 ounces, sp. gr. 30 (thirty-first day); slightly acid. 31
ounces, sp. gr. 28 (thirty-second day); no albumen, much mucus, 24
ounces, sp. gr. 35 (thirty-third day); sp. gr. 38 (thirty-fourth day);
28 ounces, sp. gr, 31 (thirty-fifth day); 31 ounces, sp. gr. 30
(thirty-sixth day); 29 ounces, sp. gr. 25 (thirty-seventh day); acid, 22
ounces, sp. gr. 24 (thirty-eighth day); 24 ounces, sp. gr. 25
(thirty-ninth day); sp. gr. 32 (fortieth day); sp. gr. 27 (forty-first
day); 43 ounces, sp. gr. 27 (forty-second day); 50 ounces, sp. gr. 25
(forty-third day); copious deposit of phosphates (having read all
night), 42.5 ounces, sp. gr. 23 (forty-fourth day); phosphates less, 25
ounces, sp. gr. 26 (forty-fifth day); 33 ounces, sp. gr. 28 (forty-sixth
day); 39 ounces, sp. gr. 27 (forty-seventh day); 26 ounces, sp. gr. 30
(forty-eighth day); 26 ounces, sp. gr. 27 (forty-ninth day); acid, 36
ounces, sp. gr. 22 (fiftieth day); high-colored and turbid, more than
usual chlorides, no lithates, 40 ounces, sp. gr. 32 (fifty-first day);
31 ounces, sp. gr. 25 (fifty-second day); 1.45 A.M., micturated for the
second time since 11 P.M. yesterday; 2.30 A.M. micturated for the third
time; 8.30 A.M., micturated for the fourth time; 22 ounces since 11 P.M.
yesterday; 10.30 A.M., micturated for the tenth time; 6.30 P.M.,
micturated for the eleventh time; 8.30 P.M., micturated for the twelfth
time in twenty-one hours and a half; 31 ounces, sp. gr. 14 (fifty-third
day); sp. gr. 32 (fifty-fourth day); 30 (fifty-fifth day); 27
(fifty-sixth day); chlorides and phosphates plentiful, no lithates, sp.
gr. 27 (fifty-ninth day); 6 A.M. 20 ounces have been passed since 10.30
last night; copious chlorides, less phosphates, sp. gr. 1015, 5 P.M. and
9.30 P.M. sp. gr. 30 (sixtieth day). Normal average of sp. gr. 1026,
whilst taking drug 1028; normal maximum 1032, whilst taking drug 1038.
Normal average of quantity 29 ounces, whilst taking drug 32 ounces;
normal maximum 37 ounces, whilst taking drug 50 ounces; normal minimum
24 ounces, whilst taking drug 24 ounces, [1].
► Urine passed on rising, clear amber
tint, quantity about half a pint; on standing till night, it deposits no
sediment; acid to test-paper in the morning, less so at night; no
abnormal amount of lithates nor of any other deposit; not the slightest
trace of sugar, either with Fehling’s or with Trommer’s test; 5 P.M. one
hour after dinner, sp. gr. 1032; a slight sediment, in the evening, of
bladder epithelium (had been riding on horseback for an hour and a half
before dinner); 10 P.M., sp. gr. 1026; pale yellow, about 14 ounces; no
deposit the next night (fifteen days before the proving); urina sanguinis, sp. gr. 1019; higher color;
slight microscopic deposit of urate of ammonia (twelve days before
proving); taken cold slightly; headache, with nasal catarrh, dry skin,
rigors (Ars. 3d taken); urine increased in quantity but seldom passing
more than 30 to 35 ounces a day, and, as a rule, only at the following
periods: on rising, at stool, about 11 A.M., and at bedtime; this rule
is disturbed by ingestion of wine or spirits, which, however, are rarely
taken; passed 45 ounces, higher in color; morning urine, sp. gr. 1018,
more acid; uric acid crystals and urate of ammonia increased at night;
after dinner slightly acid (unusual); sp. gr. 1026, paler; three times
after till 11.30 P.M.; lighter color; sp. gr. 1016; acid; a little more
mucus and lithic acid than usual; no sugar nor pus (eight days before
proving); cold nearly gone; urine more natural in every way (five days
before); Urina sanguinis sp. gr.
1021, healthy color; no abnormal deposit Urina
chyli, very slightly alkaline (day before proving); morning
urine, sp. gr. 1025, higher color, 36 ounces in all; common sp. gr.
1023; no trace of sugar by two tests; no change with acids nor with liq.
potass.; no abnormal mucus nor epithelium, etc. (one day before
proving); pale, natural, as on the previous day; amount in twenty-four
hours 38 ounces sp. gr. 1024 (first day); 32 ounces, sp. gr. 1026
(second day); 30 ounces, sp. gr. 1028 (third day); high-colored, rather
more acid, 30 ounces, sp. gr. 1028 (fourth day); 34 ounces, sp. gr. 1025
(fifth day); 32 ounces, sp. gr. 1028 (sixth day); sp. gr. 1027 (seventh
day); paler; no sugar, mucus, nor pus; 39 ounces, sp. gr. 1023 (eighth
day); 37 ounces, sp. gr. 1024 (ninth day); having ridden fourteen miles
before dinner, slightly more mucus; 37 ounces sp. gr. 1026 (tenth day);
37 ounces, sp. gr. 1025 (eleventh day); higher colored, 37 ounces, sp.
gr. 1025 (twelfth day); higher, 30 ounces (warmer day, more
perspiration), sp. gr. 1020 (thirteenth day); paler, 36 ounces, sp. gr.
1022 (fourteenth day); examined urine of yesterday: healthy in color;
very slight cloud near the bottom of the glass; a few scattered urate of
soda crystals under 1/4 inch lens; here and there a dumb-bell, but very
indistinct, and this in only two specimens out of five (fifteenth day);
at end of three days examined urine of previous days, sp. gr. 1028 some
bile in it, very unusual (nineteenth day); urine natural (twentieth and
twenty-first days), [2]. ► Urine high-colored; a few lithates on
standing; amount in twenty-four hours 36 ounces; sp. gr. 1026 (second
day); 32 ounces, sp. gr. 1024 (third day); evening, urine cloudy; more
mucus than usual; here and there a cast (1/4 inch glass); uric acid
crystals (uncertain pus or blood-cells in two specimens out of five); 35
ounces, sp. gr. 1026 (fifth day); high, 32 ounces, sp. gr. 1024 (sixth
day); paler, 36 ounces, sp. gr. 1024 (seventh day); high, 28 ounces, sp.
gr. 1020 (eighth day); normal, with exception of a slight increase of
mucus, perhaps from a cold, which seems to be hanging about me; 34
ounces, sp. gr. 1025 (ninth day); 38 ounces, sp. gr. 1026 (tenth day);
healthy; increase of lithates (sixteenth day); normal (twentieth and
twenty-second days); 30 ounces, sp. gr. 1021 (twenty-third day);
deposits a thick mucous sediment, acid in passing, soon becoming
alkaline and offensive, containing a large quantity of uric acid
crystals and lithate of ammonia with pavement epithelium; no sugar or
albumen; 30 ounces, sp. gr. 1018 (twenty-fourth day); high, much like
above, 34 ounces, sp. gr. 1020 (twenty-fifth day); high, 36 ounces, sp.
gr. 1024 (twenty-sixth day); high, 32 ounces, sp. gr. 1020
(twenty-seventh day); high; thick mucopurulent-looking sediment after
standing all night; deposit consists of urates and mucus; no
pus-corpuscles; phosphates more abundant than usual; no glycosuria; 34
ounces, sp. gr. 1021 (twenty-eighth day); paler 38 ounces, sp. gr. 1025
(twenty-ninth day); pale, 38 ounces, sp. gr. 1025 (thirtieth day);
mucopurulent appearance on standing; this material dissolves on boiling;
phosphates more abundant; no albumen nor sugar by either test
(thirty-second day), [2a]. ► Normal average of sp. gr. of urine 1023,
whilst taking drug 1028; normal maximum 1032, whilst taking drug 1028.
Normal average quantity in twenty-four hours 35 ounces, whilst taking
drug 35 ounces; normal maximum 45 ounces, whilst taking drug 39 ounces;
normal minimum 14 ounces, whilst taking drug 28 ounces, [2a].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Unconscious seminal emission during sleep (fifty-ninth day), [1].
CHEST.
►
Radiating pain from left side of ensiform cartilage, coming and going
for last two days, aggravated by fasting (fifth day), [2a].
PULSE.
►
Pulse, lying, 69; standing, 74 (forty-eighth day), [1].
BACK.
►
Pain at lower angle of left scapula, aggravated by taking a deep
inspiration (forty-second day), [D.], [1].
► Stiffness in loins (eleventh day), [1].
GENERALITIES.
►
General languor (seventh day), [1].
[60.] ►
Languid (twenty-third day), [1]. ► Extreme languor on rising from bed
(twenty-seventh day), [1]. ► Feeling as if taken cold (no exposure),
(fifth day), [2a]. ► Feeling of cold from exposure (eighth
day), [2a].
SLEEP.
►
Slight restlessness one or two nights (due probably to anticipation of
being called out), (fifteenth day), [2].
► Very restless at night, with
shivering and heat (twenty-fourth day), [2a].® 2000
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