ARGENTUM METALLICUM.
STOOL AND ANUS.
► A
sensation in the rectum as though a living worm were boring through the anus, and by its
windings rubbed around the rectum; lasted ten minutes; returned while sitting and standing
after a meal (4th dil.), [10]. ► *Frequent and always successful desire for stool in the lower part
of the rectum, with expulsion of a small quantity of soft stool, continuing for several days
(after two and a half hours), [1]. ► Sensation as though a small worm forced its way through the
sphincter ani (3d trit.), [10]. ►
A feeling as if many small, living threadworms hung out of the anus, which on stooping
caused an itching, but no need to scratch (4th dil.), [10].
► Feeling in the anus as though small, longish bubbles of
air were escaping, [10]. ►
A severe itching in the anus and along the fossa between the nates, causing scratching, at 8
P.M., while walking; lasts five minutes (4th dil.), [10].
► *Stool after dinner very dry, and like sand, but passed
without trouble (after eight hours), [3]. ► A brownish-yellow, pasty, almost diarrhœic evacuation, with
ineffectual pressure at the end of the stool (2d trit.), [10].
[180.] ► Pasty stool
(one-quarter of an hour), (4th dil.), [10]. ► Three pasty stools during the day, the last one almost,
diarrhœic, preceded by pinching and urging (4th dil.), [10].
► Straining in the hypogastrium during a rather soft
evacuation, and even afterwards (after seventy-two hours), [7].
► More force than usual required to evacuate the bowels
(6th dil.), [10]. ►
It occasioned effort to finish a stool or passage of urine, so that the back part of the
pelvis, especially the left side, sometimes pained as if sprained (5th dil.), [10]. ► Stool hard, insufficient,
which straining (3d. trit.), [10].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Slight
burning when urinating, as though the urine were acrid (though it was normal), (3d trit.), [10]. ► A transient
stitch in the urethra from behind forwards (4th dil.), [10].
► *Frequent desire to urinate, and copious emission of urine,
for several hours (after two hours), [8]. ► Frequent micturition (after six hours), [2].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
[190.] ► A painful, transient drawing through the right inguinal ring
down to the testicles, at 4 P.M. during rest, with a pasty stool (4th dil.), [10]. ► Repeated tearing pains
along the course of the spermatic cord, extending into the testicles, during rest at 4 P.M.
after a short walk (2d trit.), [10]. ► *Crushed pain in the testicles, evenings in bed (2d
trit.), [10]. ►►
*Crushed pain in the right testicle, even the pressure
of the clothes increases the pain, on walking (2d trit.), [10]. ► A repeated, grabbing pain
deep in the substance of the right testicle, when at rest, with a certain fear and anxiety
(3d trit.), [10]. ►
Pain in the left testicle, as after a contusion (after forty-nine hours), [8]. ► Sexual desire
somewhat diminished (6th dil.), [10]. ► Emission of semen almost every night, [1]. ► Emission at night (3d
trit.), [10]. ►
Pollutions at night, without lewd dreams, [8]. [200.] ► An incomplete
emission during sleep (4th dil.), [10], (See S. 148).
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
►
*Laughing produces mucus in larynx, and excites cough, [3]. ► *When going upstairs, or
stooping, mucus gets into the air-passages, which is expelled by a single fit of coughing,
[3]. ► On quietly
inspiring, two tones (as from a bassoon, a low and a high) sounded at the same time from low
down in the throat (just before going to sleep evening), (4th dil.), [10]. ► When eating fruit, it
seemed to him repeatedly as if a little piece stuck in the larynx;
it feels as if in the upper part and in front something lay in a
little spot almost as if chilling, and
somewhat pressing, which sensation constantly irritates him to cough, without being removed
by doing so (1st trit.), [9]. ►
In the throat (larynx), a remarkable shattering kind of a crack or crash, with almost a
metallic reverberation (like that heard from the ice breaking up in the spring), (3d trit.),
[10]. ►► *Rawness
and soreness in the upper part of the larynx, when coughing, not when swallowing,
[1]. ► *A dull cutting,
which becomes a stitch, in the air-passages, from below upwards, occasioning two or three
fits of cough; it continues even after the cough; the cough produces a kind of
watery expectoration, which, however, does not relieve the irritation to cough (after
twenty-four hours), [3]. ►
It seems like a raw spot in the windpipe, in the region of the suprasternal fossa; worse
when speaking, talking, or singing, [9]. ► Pain in the cricoid cartilage, caused by a draught of air,
with a feeling of a stopper in the throat, and on pressing on it a bruised pain, [10]. [210.] ► *Cough from laughing, [9].
► (Cough in the morning), [1].
► Irritation, hacking cough, without expectoration; early
in the morning after rising (after forty-eight hours), [8].
► *Several attacks of a short, rattling cough by day, not in
the night, nor in the open air, with white, thickish, easy
expectoration, looking like boiled starch, but not transparent, without taste or
smell, [1].
CHEST.
► Mucus in the
chest, and cough, with expectoration (after twenty-six hours), [8]. ► Spasmodic aching and
tension in some of the ribs, [1]. ► Drawing, stinging pain, as if an ulcer, in the lowest rib
near the spine (2d trit.), [10]. ►
Violent cutting in both sides, in the region of the lowest ribs, from within outwards; the
pain is severe only during a deep inspiration; when moving the trunk without taking an
inspiration, he feels no aggravation of the pain, but feels it as soon as he inspires (after
ten hours), [7]. ►
A pinching, pressive pain in a place, as large as a half dollar, in the right side of the
chest below the axilla; at noon, while at rest, on pressing on it a bruised pain remains
(4th dil.), [10]. ►
On the right side of the chest, a place affected with a pain, as if something hard were
pressing upon the ribs, [3]. [220.]
► A painful drawing in the right side of the thorax,
about one and one-half inches below the axilla, paining, on strong pressure, as if bruised;
while at rest after a meal (6th dil.), [10]. ► During a deep inspiration, under the second or third rib of
the right side, in a place of the size of half a dollar, a pain pressing from within
outwards, [5]. ►
Sharp stitches on the right side, near the handle of the sternum (after eight hours), [6]. ► Sharp stitches on
the right side, near the nipple, [6]. ► *In the right side of the chest, for a minute, such a violent
stitch from within outwards that he can neither expire nor inspire (when sitting), (after
twenty-eight hours), [8]. ►
Cramplike pain in the left side of the chest; after the pain has subsided the place is still
painful to the touch (after nine hours), [7]. ► Gnawing irritation on the left side of the chest, when at
rest, [7]. ►
Sensation of oppression in the left side of the chest, over the heart (after seventy-eight
hours), [7]. ►
Cutting, as with a fine knife, across the cartilages of the false ribs on the left side;
mornings in bed after waking, the spot pains on pressure as if bruised (4th dil.), [10]. ► A horizontal
cutting, as with a knife, on the left side near the pit of the stomach, in the cartilage of
the false ribs, after breakfast when quiet (5th dil.), [10].
[230.] ► Pain, as if
sprained, in the cartilage of the left false ribs, horizontally across the rib near the pit
of the stomach, [10]. ►
Mornings, in bed after waking, transient cutting, as with a fine knife, on the left side
near the pit of the stomach, in the cartilages of the false ribs; returns several times, and
after awhile alternates with a pain in the same place on the right side, which last is more
like a circumscribed pressure (5th dil.), [10]. ► Dull stitches on the left side under the last false ribs, [6]. ► Dull stitches
under the third true rib of the left side, remaining the same during both expiration and
inspiration, [6]. ►
Slowly intermittent, dull stitches under the cartilages of the last true ribs on the left
side, over the pit of the stomach (in the evening in bed), (after thirty-one hours), [2]. ► Sharp stitches
between the sixth and seventh true ribs of the right side, increased during an inspiration, [6]. ► Pressing stitches
on the right side of the chest and in the sternum, increased only by deep inspirations
(after a few minutes), [7]. ►
Cutting stitch transversely across below the last rib of the left side, when stooping
sideways and leaning on the arm, [1]. ► Pressive pain in the sternum externally, [6]. ► Prickings under the xiphoid
cartilage of the sternum, [6]. [240.] ► Violent pressure on
the sternum internally, increased by every motion, especially by stooping and then rising
again, [5]. ► A
sticking-pinching pain in the left side of the sternum; most violent when sitting bent, and
is uninfluenced either by expiration or inspiration (after eight hours), [7]. ► Fine stitches inside of the
upper part of the sternum, from within outwards (after forty-eight hours), [7]. ► A momentary but frightful
stitch in the left side of the chest (præcordial region), as if in the diaphragm (2d
trit.), [10].
HEART AND PULSE.
► *Frequent
spasmodic, though painless twitchings of the whole cardiac muscle, especially on lying on
the back, with a constantly recurring, though not anxious thought, that he would
have apoplexy and never complete the proving (2d trit.), [10].
► (Oppressive burning in the region of the heart), [5]. ► In the evening, in
bed, quick pulse, with thirst (after eleven hours), [4].
NECK AND BACK.
► The nape
of the neck feels stiff; there seems to be something foreign in the occiput, a kind of
drawing and pressing on it, [1]. ►
Painful tension on both sides of the foramen magnum, especially on motion, after waking in
the morning (third day), (6th dil.), [10]. ► Violent drawing pain in the right neck, close to the foramen
magnum (3d trit.), [10]. [250.]
► A drawing pain from the mastoid process, extending for
an inch downward, disappears on pressure (3d trit.), [10].
► Pressure on the outer left side of the neck, when
walking in the open air, [3]. ►
A tensive, bruised pain on each side of the neck, along the course of the
sterno-cleido-mastoid muscles, only noticed when the head is turned to the opposite side,
and the muscle put upon the stretch, on sitting in the open air (3d trit.), [10]. ► Tickling-itching stitches
between the scapulæ, resembling violent flea or mosquito bites; he could not scratch
enough, [1]. ►
Sharp pressure under the scapulæ, [7]. ► Excessive tearing in the upper portion of the left scapula;
the pain is felt when sitting, and abates when rising from the seat, [2]. ► Tearing in the glenoid
cavity of the scapula, extends as far as the clavicle, [6].
► Tingling of the left scapula, as if the parts hand gone
to sleep, [3]. ► A
transient itching between the scapulæ, causes scratching (5th dil.), [10]. ► Cutting stitches at the
termination of the ribs, on the right side, near the vertebral column, especially when
curving the back, [5]. [260.]
► Pressure in the side of the back, opposite the bowels;
afterwards, fearfully violent, as though he would die, oppressive stitches occurring on the
least motion, or when breathing, so that he had to walk bent; when lying still, a griping
there, as in a malignant ulcer; oppression of the chest, as if a heavy load had been lying
on it, which prevented breathing, [1]. ► Bruised pain in the back and loins, after waking, in the
morning (third day), (6th dil.), [10]. ► Drawing tensive pain in the left lumbar region, and in the
groin, below the inguinal ring, extending to the thigh; at 7 P.M., while at rest, after a
moderate walk (4th dil.), [10]. ►
Dull stitches in the second lumbar vertebra, [6]. ► Sensation as if the small of the back had been knocked away
(after twenty-four hours), [2]. ►
The small of the back pains very much, as if beaten, [2].
► Bruised pain in the small of the back, in the loins and
neck, especially painful on motion, mornings after waking (3d trit.), [10]. ► Burning stitches on the
right side of the small of the back, when sitting; when rising, or when pressing upon the
part, the pain is simply burning, without stitches; drawing on the right side of the
posterior brim of the pelvis, and in the small of the back (after quarter of an hour), [2]. ► A sensation of
coldness, as though the skin and underlying muscles were touched with a point of ice on the
right side of the pelvis near the sacrum, when sitting; lasts thirty seconds, and returns
after eating (3d trit.), [10]. ►
A very violent pain as if sprained, deep in the left lumbo-sacral region, unendurable on
adductions of the left thigh, compelling one to limp; lasts several minutes, followed by
bruised pain on the outer side of the left knee (3d trit.), [10].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
[270.]
► Loss of power in the limbs (1st trit.), [10]. ► Great loss of power of the
limbs, especially of the upper arm, about the shoulder, mornings, after waking (4th dil.), [10]. ► Mornings, in bed,
after waking, unusual fatigue of the limbs, especially of the upper arms, as far as the
shoulder, as after a long walk; with slight chilliness under the whole skin, and feeling of
hunger, which disappeared after a short attack of nausea (6th dil.), [10]. ► Discomfort, heaviness, in
all the limbs, [2]. ►
A sort of pressive tearing in the extremities of the long bones, just above or below their
joints, in different parts of the body (after forty-eight hours), [2]. ► Cramplike drawing in the
back of the right hand and foot, [3]. ► Pressive, drawing and tensive pain in the bends of both
elbows and knees (in every position); when pressing upon the parts, the pain disappears for
a moment, but returns immediately, [1]. ► Tearing and pressive pain in the metacarpal bone of the
thumb, and in the two posterior joints of the big toes; worse by contact, [6]. ► Pain, as if sprained, in
the right shoulder and left inner malleolus of the ankle, on walking (1st trit.), [10].
UPPER EXTREMITIES.
►
Twitching of muscles from the right anterior clavicular region toward the shoulder-joint (in
a fasciculus of the pectoralis major), during rest (4th dil.), [10]. [280.] ► Tearing on the top of the shoulder, and in the region of the
head of the humerus, [6]. ►
A momentary tearing on the articular eminence of the right shoulder, at 5 P.M., while at
rest (6th dil.), [10]. ►
Tearing pain from the articular eminence of the right shoulder to the neck, during rest (4th
dil.), [10]. ►
Pain, as if sprained, in the uppermost muscles of the right shoulder-blade, on exerting the
outstretched arm (4th dil.), [10]. ► Frequent painless, muscular twitchings around the right
shoulder-joint, at one time in the posterior margin of the axilla, at another in front of
the clavicle extending to the top of the shoulder (4th dil.), [10].
► Boring-scratching pain in right shoulder-joint,
mornings, when walking (3d trit.), [10]. ► A short, painful tearing in the right shoulder-joint, and
then in the right frontal region (6th dil.), [10]. ► Tearing drawing (afterward, beating, throbbing) pains in the
right shoulder-joint in rest, with marked paralytic weakness of the joint (5th dil.), [10]. ► Pressive, bruised
pain on the top of the left shoulder-joint, on walking (one hour), (2d trit.), [10]. ► Pain, as if
sprained, in the left shoulder-joint, at rest (4th dil.), [10].
at rest (4th dil.), [10]. [290.]
► Pressive tearing below the shoulder-joint, [2]. ► A sharp, painful
drawing in the right deltoid muscle (4th dil.), [10]. ► Drawing, digging pain under the right deltoid muscle, [10]. ► Drawing pains in
left deltoid muscle, which pains on pressure, as if beaten, at rest; lasts ten to fifteen
seconds (4th dil.), [10]. ►
Boring stitches in the right axilla, which did not cease when touched (after thirty hours), [3]. ► Pain, as if
sprained, in the posterior wall of the right axilla, on muscular exertion, disappears in
rest (3d trit.), [10]. ►
The arm is inclined to go to sleep, when lying on it, mornings, with increased flow of
saliva (2d trit.), [10]. ►
Paralytic feeling in the arms during motion, especially in the elbow-joint (after thirty-two
hours), [7]. ►
Tensive drawing in different places on the arms, like stitches, [1]. ► A transient drawing tearing
in the lower end of the left arm, near the condyles of the elbow, at 3 P.M., while at rest
(6th dil.), [10]. [300.]
► Violent electric shocks in the left arm, starting from
the shoulder; when lying with the hands under the head, during a nap (3d trit.), [10]. ► Fatigue and loss
of power, especially of the upper arm, after waking (3d trit.), [10]. ► Great fatigue and loss of
power, especially of the upper arms, with inclination to lie down and sleep, 11 A.M. (3d
trit.), [10]. ►
Powerlessness in the upper arm, as after very severe labor (3d trit.), [10]. ► Great weakness of the
upper arm, and stiffness of the neck, mornings, after waking, disappears after rising (5th
dil.), [10]. ►
Fatigue of the upper arm, and a drawing pain in the radius, beginning above the wrist,
followed by a similar pain in the right shoulder (3d trit.), [10].
► Cramp in the middle of the upper arm, when lifting it;
otherwise the cramp is scarcely felt (after ten hours), [7].
► Pressive pain in the flesh of the upper arm, which
increases by contact, [6]. ►
Burning, quickly passing stitch in front, in the middle of the left upper arm, [5]. ► Continued pinching
in the right upper arm (after one hour), [7]. [310.] ► Drawing pains in the
muscles of the right upper arm near the elbow, with paralytic weakness of them, during rest
(5th dil.), [10]. ►
A drawing pain with paralytic weakness in the anterior surface of the right upper arm, in rest, with inclination to stretch the arm; lasts several
minutes (5th dil.), [10]. ►
A short paralytic drawing on the outside of the left upper arm; on
pressure it pains as if beaten (3d trit.), [10].
► Tearing in the left upper arm, [6]. ► Muscular twitchings in the
bend of the right elbow, and bruised pain on the top of the right shoulder, during rest (2d
trit.), [10]. ►
Painless twitching in the left elbow-joint, in rest, at 3 P.M. (2d trit.), [10]. ► A burning pain in a
circumscribed spot on the elbow, at 6 P.M. (3d trit.), [10].
► When bending the arm, a tension, externally, at the
point of the elbow (after six hours), [7]. ► A painful drawing through the radial joint of the right
elbow, at noon, lasting ten or fifteen seconds, followed by a similar pain in the left hip,
during rest (5th dil.), [10]. ►
A biting itching on the right elbow (5th dil.), [10]. [320.] ► Violent stitch in the
tip of each elbow (2d trit.), [10]. ► A very violent stitch in the tip of the left elbow, when at
rest (3d trit.), [10]. ►
Spasmodic, pressive drawing pain in the bend of the right elbow, as if the arm had been
sprained by violent motion; only felt during motion; more when extending than when bending
the arm, [1]. ►
Short, lasting, jerking tearings, apparently in the shaft of the radius, first of the right,
then of the left forearm, finally in the lowest joint of the right middle finger; returning
from time to time, [5]. ►
A very sensitive, paralytic drawing in the right radius, beginning above the anterior
condyle; lasts eight to ten seconds, evenings (4th dil.), [10].
► A sort of paralysis of the right arm and hand; it
drops, and with great effort he can scarcely write (after three hours), [6]. ► Violent, pressive tearing
in the posterior muscles between the bones of the elbow and the radius, as far as the wrist
(after thirty-one hours), [2]. ►
Spasmodic pressure and drawing pain in the internal side of the left forearm, [1]. ► A frightful stitch, as from
an angry wasp, in the skin, at the middle of the extensor side of the left forearm, followed
in a short time by a similar, but less severe stitch in the skin of the right side of the
chest, at 11 A.M. (3d trit.), [10]. ► Intermittent pointed stitches in the radius of the right
side, more in the muscles, [6]. [330.] ► Frequent paralytic
painful drawings from the middle of the flexor side of the radius of the left forearm up to
the elbow, at rest (4th dil.), [10]. ► Drawing-tearing pains above the wrist, at 2 P.M. (4th dil.), [10]. ► Painful paralytic
drawings above the wrist, from the condyles at the elbow down along the ulnar side of the
right forearm, afterward the same pain in the left forearm, evenings, in bed (4th dil.), [10]. ► Drawing pain in
the radial part of the left wrist-joint, while at rest, disappears on moving the hand, and
on pressure pains as if beaten (3d trit.), [10]. ► Sharp continued
stitch behind the wrist-joint, at the beginning of the radius (after six hours), [8]. ► Pressive tearing
in the bones of either wrist, [2]. ► Titillation in the palm of the right hand, forcing him to
scratch (after thirty-three hours), [8]. ► Paralytic pains in almost every joint of the right fingers,
lasting ten to fifteen seconds (4th dil.), [10]. ► Painless twitchings of the whole right thumb, afternoons, on
writing (ten to twelve times), so that it is abducted from the fingers (1st trit.), [10]. ► A short painful
drawing in the ball of the left thumb, alternating with a similar sensation in the left
occiput, at rest (5th dil.), [10]. [340.] ► A drawing pain in the
middle joint of the right index finger, with sudden paralytic loss of power of it, at 1
P.M., when at rest; lasts thirty seconds (4th dil.), [10].
► Drawing in the joints of the three left midmost
fingers, both when in motion and at rest, [6]. ► A drawing-tearing pain in the middle joint of the left index
finger, attacks him while in bed; it becomes, after a short duration, throbbing (3d trit.), [10]. ► A sensitive,
drawing, penetrating pain in the bone of the metacarpal joint of the ring finger, when at
rest at noon (second day), (4th dil.), [10]. ► Tearing in the lowest joint and the metacarpal bone of the
left fourth finger, with spasmodic clenching of the fingers, especially when seizing
something, [5]. ►
Violent tearing in the middle joint of the right little finger (3d trit.), [10].® 2000
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