ARSENICUM ALBUM.
Arsenious oxide, As2O3.
(Arsenious acid; white oxide of arsenic; white arsenic). Preparation
for use, Triturations with sugar of milk.
Authorities.
[Symptoms from authorities 11, 16, 18, 20, 21,
30, 31, 34, 36, 40, 44, 49, 53, 55, 56, 57, 59, 65, 73, 74, 75, 83, and 84, are bracketed.]
(1 to 89, from
Hahnemann, Chr. Krank., 5). 1, Hahnemann; 2, Baehr; 3, Fr. Hahn’n; 4, Hartlb. and Trinks; 5,
Hering; 6, Hornburg; 7,
Langhammer; 8, Meyer; 9,
Stapf; 10, Whl.; 11,
Ebers (effects of Ars. of Pot. in ague patients); 12,
Friedrich (poisoning of a woman); 13, Morgagni (1,
poisoning of a woman of 60; 2, of a male adult; 3, of female adult; 4, same case as Wolff’s;
5, poisoning of a man); 14, Guldenklee (effects of
vapor); 15, Richard (poisoning and adult); 16, Marcus (after Ars. of Pot. in a fever patient); 17, Myrrhen (from drawing sol. of A. into nostrils for a coryza);
18, Quelmalz (poisoning of a girl by black oxide); 19, Kaiser (poisoning of whole family by A.); 20, Forestus (from orpiment in a woman); 21,
Henning (application of A. to a diseased breast); 22,
Verzasch; 23, Alberti (cases of poisoning in healthy
adults); 24, Büttner (poisonings); 25, La Motte (woman took A. for suicide); 26, Guilbert (poisoning of an adult); 27,
Pyl (do.); 28, Misc. Nat. Cur. (same as Myrrhen, No. 17); 29, Lusitanus (poisoning
of a youth); 30, Pearson (effects of Ars. of Pot. in an
epileptic); 31, Buchholz (poisoning of several adults by
black oxide); 32, Thomson (poisoning of a woman); 33, Tennert; 34, Grimm (from
the black oxide, in an adult); 35, Wedel; 36, Jacobi (from suppression of ague by A., in a young man); 37, Knape (effects of powdering hair with A.); 38, Baylies (general statement from authors); 39, Heimreich (1, effects of A. sprinkled on the air; 2, effects
of large doses of Ars. of Pot.); 40, Siebold (effect of
dressing pustular scalp with mixture of A. and cinnabar); 41,
Vicat (from powdering hair with A.); 42, Schlegel; 43, Neue Med. Chir. Wahrn.; 44,
Heun (from application of A. to cancerous ulcer of cheek); 45,
Müller (general statement); 46, Eph. Nat. Cur.
(poisoning of a man by twelve grains of A.); 47, Majault
(1, poisoning of a man with realgar; 2, of a woman with orpiment; 3 and 4, of a youths with
A.); 48, Jenner; 49,
Fowler (effects of Ars. of Pot. in ague patients); 50,
Isenflamm-Steining (general statement); 51, Van Eggern; 52, Kopp (poisoning of a man of 56); 53,
Feldmann (from a plaster of A. applied for a quartan); 54,
Preussius (poisoning of a boy); 55, Thilenius (effects
in a patient with scirrhus of breast); 56, Grimm (from
the black oxide, in an adult); [Is a repetition of No. 34.
-Hughes.] 57, Salzb. M. Chir. Zeit. (effects of A.
applied to fungus on the head); 58, Kellner (poisoning
of a girl of 20); 59, Gerbitz (from orpiment); 60, Wolff (poisoning of two women); 61,
Goritz; 62, Löw; 63,
Cruger (poisoning of an adult); 64, Tachenius (from
inhaling sublimed A.); 65, Degner (effects of applying
sol. of A. for itch, in two men); 66, Stahl (poisoning
of two adults); 67, Greiselius (S. 1759 from vapor in
self, rest in miners); 68, Klinge (observation of miners
in A.); 69, Borellus (from carrying A. in pocket); 70, Montanus (poisoning of a woman); 71,
Cardanus (general statement from authors); 72, Gabezius;
73, Fernelius (from sprinkling A. on cancerous ulcer of
breast); 74, Justamond (from A. given to a young woman
with cancer of the tongue); 75, Pet. de Appono (effects
of realgar); 76, Hammer (poisoning of a girl of 20); 77, Bernhardi; 78, Huber
(states that he knows a woman so affected by A.); 79,
Hartmann; 80, Degrange (from rubbing A. into head); 81, Pfann; 82, Heinze; 83, Hargens (from application of A. to a cancerous ulcer); 84, Storck (effects of Ars. of Pot. in ague patients); 85, Borges (poisoning of an adult); 86,
Hall, Allg. Lit. Zeit. (inhalation by a man of Arsenetted Hyd.); 87,
Bonetus (from cases of poisoning); 88, M. N. Zeit, 1798;
89, Rau (from application of A. to scalp); numbers 90 to 94, inclusive are taken from Imbert-gourbeyre’s provings with 4th trit., l’Art
Médicale, 17, 433 et seq.; 90, Damour; 91, M’lle E.; 92,
Imbert-Gourbeyre; 93, Bonjean; 94,
Souleyre; 95, Robinson’s provings on females with the
12th, B. J. of Hom.; 96, (ibid.), with the 30th; 97, (ibid.), with 200th; 98,
(ibid.), with 1000th; 99, Mad. Buchmann’s proving (a
grain of A. in some water, taken by mistake), Hom. V. J. S., 10, 119; 100, Borri, from Hartl. and Trinks (effects of fumes of wax
candles containing A.); 101, Trevasso, from H. and T.
(internal administration of A.); Nos. 102 to 165, inclusive
are taken from Roth’s collection of poison cases, Hom. V. J. S., 12, 25; 102, James; 103, 104, and 105, Rummel; 106, Jaquernin; 107, Orfila; 108, Heifelder; 109, Puchelt;
110, Hohnbaum; 111,
Schreyer; 112, Kortum; 113,
Stachow; 114, Rothhamel; 115,
Klose; 116, Spengler; 117,
Sonderland; 118, Canetta; 119,
Schapper; 120, Van den Dale; 121,
Tonnellier; 122, Kraft; 123,
Opler; 124, Scheulen; 125,
Koch; 126, Hausbutner; 127,
(ibid.); 128, Kellermann; 129,
Hornung; 130, Brenner; 131,
Neumann; 132, Bodenmuller; 133,
Watson; 134, Franque; 135,
Reuter; 136, Zöllner; 137,
Beauchesne; 138, Leroy; 139,
Dehenne; 140, Odier; 141,
Barrier; 142, Orfila; 143,
J. de Chim. Méd., 1846; 144, Wepfer; 145, De Haen; 146, Falconer; 147, Pinel; 148, Missa; 149, Gerard; 150, Devergie; 151, Leuret; 152, Fielitz; 153, Hafter; 154, Alquie; 155, Flechner; 156, Huss
Bush; 157, Nissen; 158,
Pfaff; 159, Bruckner; 160,
Coqueret; 161, Edwards; 162,
Skillman; 163, Angouard; 164,
Schäfer; 165, Husemann; 166,
Johann Schellhammer (effects of large doses, N. A. J. of Hom., 2, 317); 167, Dailand, tox., N. A. J., 7, 389; 168,
Tox., N. A. J. of Hom., 2, 473 (from Med. Repos., 5, 43); 169,
Dr. Rhees, Am. H. Rev., 2, 510 (effects of Arsenic applied to kill the nerve of a tooth); 170, Tox., Dr. Hill (N. Y. St. Trans. (Hom.), 9, 232); 171, Taylor, on Poisons; 172,
Wetmore, N. A. J. of Hom., 6, 369 (tox., 127 grains of Arsenic); 173,
Isidore, Rec. de Mem. de Méd., etc.; 174, Smoler, Oest.
Zeit. f. Heilk., 1863 (three cases of Ars. paralysis); 175,
Keber, V. J. S. f. Ger. Med.; 176, Dr. P. in U. (Henke’s
Zeit., 1862); 177, Barnes (Lancet, 1847); 178, Wagner (Med. Annals); 179,
Platner (Omodei Am. Univ., Hah. M. M.); 180, Lachese
(Ann. de Hygiène, H. Mat. Méd.); 181, M. Diville
(Lancet, 1838); 182, Rayner (Lancet, 1838); 183, Murray (Lancet, 1838); 184,
St. Thos. Hosp. Rep. (Lancet, 12, 509); 185, Greening
(Lancet, 1834); 186, Lancet, 1829; 187, Lancet, 1839; 188, Burns
(Lancet, 1839); 189, Thompson (Lancet, 1840); 190, Foster (Lancet, 1840); 191,
Hedley (Lancet, 1842); 192, Gaz. des Hôp. (Lancet,
1842); 193, Bird (Lancet, 1843, poisoning by the vapor
of Arsenic); 194, Shipman (Am. J. of Med. Sc., 1838); 195, Argent (Lancet, 1844); 196,
Kelso (Lancet, 1844); 197, Farget (Lancet, 1851); 198, Waite (Lancet, 1858), Arsenic applied to pulp of tooth; 199, Dermott (Lancet, 1851); 200,
Ryan (Lancet, 1851); 201, A. McLeod (Ed. M. and S. J.,
15, 553); 202, Ward (Ed. M. and S. J., 33, 61); 203, Dymock (Ed. M. and S. J., 59, 350); 204,
Gairdner (Ed. M. and S. J., 32, 305); 205, Jeesche (Hom.
V. J. Schrift, 8, 467); 206, N. Z. f. H. Kl., 12, 56; 207, Brämer (A. H. Z., 19, 223), Horst (A. H. Z., 19, 241), and
Buchner (A. H. Z., 46, 64); 208, Hoppe (A. H. Z., 32,
379); 209, Kurtz (A. H. Z., 32, 379); 210, Bartlett (Chicago Pharmacist, 1872); 211, Scales (N. E. Med. Gaz., 2, 226, effects taken for the
complexion); 212, Benham (Am. Observer, 1864); 213, Malmstein, Hygeia, 1873 (Schmidt’s Jahrb., chron. Ars.
poison); 214, Levin (effect of Arsenic applied
externally; Hirch’s Zeit., 19, 112); 215, Bouvier (L’Art
Méd., 6, 31); 216, Colton (Med. Investigator, 9, 241); 217, Wibmer (effects of the fumes); 218,
Zeit. f. Hom. Kl., 3, 137 (effects of Arsen. paper); 219,
Goullon (on Arsen. paper, A. H. Z., 64, 81); 220, Brit.
Med. J., 1873 (poisoning by paper and pigments); 221,
Oppenheim (Verhandlung, 1859, Arsen. paper); 222,
Lorinzer (Wien Med. Wach., 1857, Arsen. paper); 223,
Dudgeon (B. J. of Hom., 20, 200, Arsen. paper); 224,
Bayer (M. Hom. Rev., 1870, p. 597, Arsenical paperhangings); 225,
M. Hom. Rev., 1870, p. 413 (Arsen. paper, symptoms observed in four children); 226, Dr. H. Reynolds, Hahn. Month., 10, 53 (tox.).
MIND. ►
Cerebral excitability, [167]. ►
Rage; he had to be bound; he endeavored to escape, [29].
[Not found. -Hughes.] ► Attacks of madness and sorrow, [140]. ► *(Mania; headache;
excessive anguish; noise before the ears, as of many large bells, and when
opening his eyes he constantly saw a man who had hung himself in the garret, and who
requested the other by signs to cut him down; the former ran up to the latter with a knife,
but not being able to cut him down, he became desperate, and
attempted to hang himself; this attempt being foiled, he became so restless that he could
scarcely be kept quiet; he lost his speech, though he had his full understanding;
and when attempting to express himself in writing, could only write down unintelligible
signs, trembling and weeping all the while, the forehead covered with the sweat of anguish, kneeling down and raising his hands as if praying), [11]. ► Disposition to
suicide, [99]. ► *After
midnight, a frequent desire to kill himself, by stabbing his heart through and
through, [166]. ►
When alone, he thinks about disease and similar things, from which he finds it difficult to
force his mind, [1]. ►►
Delirium, [106], [121], etc., etc. ► High delirium
unmanageable, [201]. [10.]
► Delirium; he arose to visit his daughter (absent, as he
knew), and could with difficulty be quieted, but spoke rationally, [113]. ► Loss of reason, returning
from time to time, [26]. ►►
*Very violent delirium, especially at night, with great restlessness, [160]. ► Violent delirium
during the last three or four days, [113]. ► Delirium a few hours before death, [175]. ► Violent delirium, with
tetanic convulsions, [190]. ►
He often raved during the course of the disease, [113].
► He raves, making motions with his hands, as if
measuring with a rule, so that his ravings mostly related to his business, [113]. ► Raving and carphology, [113]. ► Delirious
thoughts with the eyes open, without being in delirium either before or after, [1]. [20.] ► Delusions alternating with half-confused sleep, [116]. ► Alternating
lively phantasies, [104]. ►
In the night he talked sensibly at times, [135]. ► He likes to converse with others, [7]. ► Foolish answers, [201]. ► *Her desire exceeds her need; she eats
and drinks more than is good for her; she walks further than she needs to do, [1]. ► Indisposition to
reply to questions, [196]. ►
Rather cheerful and disposed to busy himself, [7]. ► Mind energetic and fresh, inclined to gayety, [218]. ► *Loud wailing, [99]. ► Moaned
grievously, [224]. ►
She lies crouched in bed, groaning and moaning, [134].
[30.] ► *She spends the
night in moaning and groaning, [111]. ► *Frequent screaming from pain, [102], [113]. ► He cried and howled, and spoke little and abruptly, [9]. ► (Piercing
lamentations, interrupted by attacks of weakness), [11].
► Piteous complainings, that an extremely unpleasant
sensation in the abdomen and excessive anguish took away his breath, and forced him to bend
double in this or that direction, or to rise and walk about, [13].
[The anguish was not the bodily pain. -Hughes.] ►
Præcordial anxiety for a long time, [14]. ► *Anxiety and restlessness in the whole body (after nine
hours), [15]. ►
Continued sobbing, with childish spells of crying, [166].
► *Very low-spirited, and crying at the slightest provocation,
[225]. ► *Exceedingly
sensitive, despondent, sad, and weeping; the least trifle fills her with care and solicitude,
[1]. [40.] ► Sad mood, [217]. ► Great seriousness, [1].
► Spirits depressed, [224].
► Much depressed, [183].
► She is despondent about her condition, [121]. ► Grief, [99]. ► Sad and depressed, [1]. ► Melancholic, sad,
after eating, with headache (after eighty hours), [1].
► (Religious melancholy and reserve), [11]. [“Not found,” in reference.] ►
Excessive melancholy, [117]. [50.]
► He despairs of his life, [15].
[“Not found.”] ►► *He despairs and weeps, and
imagines no one can help him, that he must die; he is cold and chilly, and afterwards
generally weak, [1]. ► *Anguish, [17], [18]. ► *Excessive anguish,
with oppression of the chest, and difficult breathing, [19]. ► *Internal anguish,
[19]. ► (Deathly
anguish with vomiting), [21]. ►►
*Anguish despair driving from one place to another for relief, [226]. ► Anguish from the heart,
interrupted by attacks of weakness, [12]. ► Anguish, so that he several times fainted, [22]. ►► *With great anguish he
turns and tosses to and fro in his bed, [14],
[24]. [60.] ► Talks but little, only complains of anguish, [23]. ► *Great anguish, trembling, and
tremor, with violent tearing in the abdomen, [23].
► *With inexpressible anguish and increasing pain, he seemed
to be at his last gasp, [13]. [The anguish
was not the bodily pains. -Hughes.] ► Mental anxiety, [117]. ► Indescribable
anxiety, [105], [116],
etc. ► Extreme anxiety, [19],
[167]. ► (Most
intolerable anxiety), [20]. [“Not found.”] ► *Real deathly anxiety, [207].
► Excited and anxious, [124].
► Impatient and anxious, [1]. [70.] ► The anxiety and restlessness are indescribable;
“Kill me,” he cried, “or relieve my pains!”, [102]. ► Great anxiety and
oppression, [100]. ►
Anxiety and breaking out of cold sweat, [144]. ► Anxiety, with sweat, [99].
► Continued anxiety, a mental anguish, as if he had not
done his duty, without however, knowing wherein, [1]. ► Anxiety and heat do not permit her to fall asleep before midnight,
for many days, [1]. ►
*Anxiety in the evening after lying down; at 3 o’clock
after midnight, after waking, [1]. ►► *Violent anxiety at 3 o’clock in the night; he now felt hot,
now as if he would vomit, [1]. ► Anxiety and fear; he sees an absent acquaintance lying dead
upon the sofa, and has great dread of him, [10]. ► Fear, [166]. [80.] ► Sense of deadly fear,
[99]. ► Apprehension,
[99]. ► Constant dread
of death, [99]. ►►
*Dread of death coming on suddenly when left alone, or
on going to bed, [224]. ►► *The greatest fear and anguish; she ghosts day and night, [1].
► (He is anxious and trembling and is afraid he shall not
be able to prevent himself from killing a person with a knife), [16]. ► He runs through the whole
house at night in search of thieves, [10]. ► He imagines that the whole house, and the space under the
bed, are full of thieves, which causes, from fright, anxious cold sweat to break out over
his body, [10]. ► He
has so much fear that he jumps out of his bed, and hides himself in the wardrobe,
which he can hardly be induced to leave, [10]. ► He sees thieves in his room, and therefore hides himself
under the bed, [10]. [90.]
► He sees vermin and bugs crawl about his bed, from which
he wants to escape, and constantly throws away whole handfuls of them, [10]. ► Her disposition has
changed very much since the poisoning (four months ago); *her
natural cheerfulness was quite banished, she was afraid of solitude and death; the slightest
cause was sufficient to put her into anger and rage, which especially occurred when one
spoke of her complete recovery, which she considered wholly impossible. At times also an
indescribable melancholy attacked her. ► Not
until after a year did her wonted cheerfulness return (Roth.). ►
Fretfulness, even amounting to anger, [219]. ► *Very fretful and sensitive; the least thing made him angry,
[7]. ► Very fretful,
indignant, capricious; every word offends her, and makes her very angry, when she should
answer, [1]. ►
Very fretful and contented with nothing; she finds fault with everything; every
conversation, noise, even the light, is disagreeable to her, [1]. ► Ill-humor, when waking in
the morning; she knew not what to do with herself from ill-humor; pushed the pillows and
bed-cover away, and would not look at or talk to anybody, [1].
► Inclines to jest in a malicious manner, [1]. ► Indignation in the morning
when in bed; pushes the pillows about indignantly, uncovers himself, sees no one, and does
not want to be spoken to, [1]. ►
She becomes furiously mad when offered something to eat, without having the least appetite, [1]. [100.]
► Crying at the slightest provocation. Excessive
irritability, and quarrelsome inclination. (This latter feature was very remarkable, for
during the two years we were free from arsenical paper, the boys were always happy together,
and remarked for their gentleness to each other), [225].
► Great sensitiveness, [165].
► Cannot bear the slightest noise, [99]. ► Very easily made to cry or
laugh, [167]. ► The
mind was much affected by trifling things, [167]. ► Vexed about trifles, [1].
► He is vexed about every trifle, and constantly talks about
other people’s faults, [1]. ► Discontented; has no desire for anything, [1]. ► Dissatisfied the whole day,
and very fretful at himself for not having done enough, [7].
► Indignation, alternating with mildness; in her
indignation she looks at nobody, and does not want to hear anything; she also cries, [1]. [110.] ► Irresolution, by repeated moods; desires something, and when
everything is done to fulfil his wish, the least trifle is sufficient to change his mind,
and he will not have it, [1]. ►
Quiet, with haggard expression, without complainings, [179].
► In the first minutes, great tranquillity of soul and
cheerfulness; half an hour after, excessive anxiety and restlessness; he imagined that the
effects of the poison would be terrible, and desired that he might continue to live (in the
case of a man who had poisoned himself with Arsenic and despaired on that account), [9]. ► *Great indifference,
[1]. ► *Indifference to
life, [1], [19].
► *Calm indifference; without caring about their
approaching death, they neither expected nor desired to recover (secondary effect, in two
suicides who had taken Arsenic), [1]. ► Calmness of mind (in the case of a despairing melancholy
person), [25]. [“The calmness was rather mental
from her determination, than physical.”] ► Intellectual.
Calm and equable mood; no event disturbed his equanimity, [7].
► She retained her mental faculties, clear consciousness,
and an unshaken quiet disposition, [134]. ► Involuntary mental excitement, towards morning, hindering
sleep, although he feels very drowsy, [1]. [120.] ► *Ideas crowd upon him; he
is too weak to repel them in order to dwell upon one idea alone, [1]. ► Confusion, [99]. ► Confusion of mind, [110]. ► Stupid and
confused in his head, as in violent coryza, and when out of humor the head feels like a
lantern, [1]. ►
Feels as if she would lose her senses when thinking long about anything, [99]. ► Absence of mind, [225]. ► Answers slowly, [197]. ► He returns very
short answers when questioned, [106]. ► (Weakness of the understanding), [11]. [“Result of suppression of Ague by A.”] ► At last perfectly unable to perform any mental work, afraid
of his fellow-men, irritable and passionate; he got so downhearted from continued
sleeplessness (from October 6th, 1855, to November, 1856), that he committed suicide, [166]. [130.] ► Absence of the understanding and of the external and internal
senses; he saw nothing, said nothing for many days, heard nothing, and understood nothing;
when one shouted into his ears, he looked at those present like one waking from deep sleep, [17]. ► Want of memory, [225]. ► Diminished memory,
[1]. ►
Forgetfulness; thoughts leave him, [1]. ► Very imperfect memory for a long time, [17]. ► From having had a
remarkably good memory, she lost her memory completely, [225].
► Does not recognize objects, [15]. ► Did not seem fully
conscious of his condition, [113]. ► (Chronic weakness of sense), [11].
[“Doubtful how much is ague and how much A.”] ►
Self-consciousness disappears or becomes very indistinct, [15].
[140.] ►
Unconsciousness, [99]. ►
Loss of consciousness, [128], [129], etc. ► They lay
unconscious and insensible, [141]. ► *Loss of sensation and of consciousness, [27]. ► Lies unconscious, and is
aroused with difficulty, [99]. ► *Senseless, [113], [128]. ► (She lay on her
bed senseless, muttered unintelligible sounds, with staring eyes, and cold sweat on the
forehead; tremor of the whole body; small pulse, hard and very quick), [11]. ► Loss of consciousness and
speech, [28]. ►
Loss of consciousness and convulsions, [151]. ► Stupor and pervading sleepiness, [160]. [150.] ► Comatose stupefaction, [141].
► After vomiting and diarrhœa, condition of stupor from
which it was difficult to wake her, [150]. ► Stupor with staring eyes, [160].® 2000
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