ARSENICUM METALLICUM.
Preparation
, The pure metal, triturated.
Authority.
Lippe (N. Am. J. of Hom., 1, 301). Published
provings of Dr. Stevenson, in Thesis, 1851.
MIND.
► Depression of
spirits. ► Despondency. ►
Indifference.
HEAD.
► A sensation as of
vertigo (second day), (1st potency). ► Sensation as if
the fumes of whisky had gone to the head (first day), (3d potency). ►
Heavy and dull feeling in the forehead (first day), (1st potency). ►
Pain in the left side of the head extending to the left ear and left eye, with nausea (third
day), (1st potency). ► Head feels as if swollen in the
morning when awaking (second day), (3d potency). ►
Sensation of fulness in the head while sleeping, and worse when awaking in the night (fourth
day), (1st potency). [10.] ►
Headache worse when laughing. ► Itching of forehead which
cannot be allayed but by pinching of the skin (twelfth day), (30th potency). ► Soreness of the scalp when even pulling but one hair (third
day), (1st potency).
EYES.
► Sensation of
heaviness in the eyes. ► Eyelids slightly inflamed and
swollen (first day), (1st potency). ► Eyes so painful
that he cannot read much.
NOSE.
► Fluent coryza. ► Scalding water runs from the nose, excoriating the nostrils
(fifth day), (30th potency). ► The coryza returns in
fifteen days with heat in the face and hoarseness, lasting three days, when it became
accompanied with angina faucium, for which Bell. 400,
one dose was successfully administered.
FACE.
► Itching and burning
in the lower part of the face, as if an eruption would break out (fourth day), (30th
potency). [20.] ►
Face feels as if bloated (third day), (1st potency). ►
Bloated face (third day), (1st potency). ► Itching all
over the face, which can only be relieved by pinching the skin (for some days). ► Burning, itching, stinging in the face, with swelling; skin
feels as if stiff, relieved by bathing the face with cold water; later, desquamation in
small scales. ► The itching is relieved by pressing, but
not by scratching.
MOUTH.
► Ulcer on the right
side of inner under lip (first day), (3d potency). ►
Ulcer sore when touched with the tongue (first to second day), (3d potency). ► Ulcer on the left inner side of the under lip (first day),
(3d potency). ► Dry mouth. ►
Tongue coated white, covered with mucus (twelfth day), (1st potency). [30.] ► Tongue coated white,
showing the imprint of the teeth on the edges (third day), (30th potency). ► Gums swollen and painful to the touch (first day), (1st
potency). ► Gums swollen and feeling as if scalded, with
accumulation of water in the mouth; aversion to wines and liquors.
STOMACH.
► Nausea (third
day), (1st potency). ► Hot eructations as of bile (third
day), (1st potency).
ABDOMEN.
► Bloated abdomen
(first to third day), (1st potency). ► Tension and
sensation of swelling in the abdomen (third day), (1st potency). ►
Pulsation in the umbilicus. ► Numbness and sensation of
paralysis in the right lumbar region, extending from the vertebræ to the crest of the ilium
(first day), (30th potency). ► Lumbago. [40.] ► Varices on the right
side of the anus, painful after stool (not bleeding), (twelfth day), (1st potency). ► Varices bleed a little (fourth day), (30th potency). ► Varices feel only sore, but neither pain after stool nor
bleed (sixteenth day), (30th potency). ► After awaking in
the morning at 6 o’clock, distressing, lancinating, griping pain in the bowels; afterwards,
one sharp, burning, watery stool, relieving the abdominal pain, but leaving much debility;
he falls asleep sitting on a chair, and has no appetite; pulse 60, much fuller than in
health (second day), (1st potency). ► Constipated
(sixteenth day), (30th potency). ► Itching in the right
groin extending down to the knee (twelfth day), (30th potency). ►
In the right groin a painful swelling, worse when extending the leg; pain goes up to the hip
and continues for a long time. In the same place where this painful swelling appears, a bubo
suppurated twenty-four years ago.
URINE.
► Red sandy sediment
in the urine (third day), (30th potency). ► Offensive
sweat on the genitals (for some weeks).
CHEST.
► Pulsation under
the sternum (first day), (30th potency). [50.] ► Slight pains in the left side of the chest in the region of
the heart (second day), (30th potency). ► Pain in the
muscle of the left chest (second day), (30th potency). ►
Hoarseness with coryza (twenty-first day), (30th potency).
UPPER EXTREMITIES.
►
Sensation of swelling of hands and fingers (third day), (1st potency). ►
Hands and fingers feel stiff; they feel as if they could not be closed (third to ninth day),
(1st potency). ► Cracking of all the finger-joints
(second to fourteenth day), (1st potency). ► Dry heat in
the palms of the hands. ► A scab which had been on the
first joint of the third finger of the left hand for twenty years, healed entirely; whereas,
formerly, when the scab had been torn off, it left a spot of a liver color, and a new scab
soon formed, [°].
LOWER EXTREMITIES.
►
Sensation of lameness in the right hip-joint (second day), (3d potency). ► Sensation as if he could not use the limb; but he can walk
well enough after he has been on his feet a short time (second day), (3d potency). [60.] ► Pulsation in the right
hip-joint, worse in the morning, better in the evenings (second day), (3d potency). ► Deepseated numbness in the right hip-joint (first day), (30th
potency). ► Sensation of paralysis in the right
hip-joint, extending to the pubic symphysis down inside of the thigh to the knee. ► Pulsation in the right anterior tibial artery at the superior
extremity of its inferior third (first day), (30th potency). ►
Sensation of dryness in the right knee-joint (fourth day), (3d potency). ► Feet burning hot, feel as if bloated (first day), (1st
potency). ► Feet burning hot, without the least moisture
(second day), (30th potency). ► Feet, usually icy cold,
have become warm and sweat much. ► Feet burning more at
night; he has to hold them out of bed; cannot have the least cover on them (first to
fourteenth day), (1st and 3d potency).
GENERALITIES.
► Debility;
weariness; general prostration of strength. [70.]
► Emaciation. ►
Pulsation all over the body. ► The symptoms appear first
on the right and then on the left side. ► Morning
exacerbations. ► The symptoms recur again after the
weeks. ► Aggravation after drinking a small quantity of
brandy, for which he had not the slightest desire.
SLEEP.
► Unusually sound
sleep at night (first day), (3d potency). ► Irresistible
inclination to sleep in the daytime and early in the evening (second day), (3d potency). ► Great drowsiness in the morning after rising, having had a
sound sleep (second day), (30th potency). ► Very
reluctant to rise in the morning after a good night’s sleep (third day), (3d potency). [80.] ► Feels as if he should
fall asleep while walking in the street in the afternoon (second day), (30d potency). ► Stupor in the morning, notwithstanding a good sleep all night
(third day), (30th potency). ► Very sleepy but cannot
fall asleep (second day), (30th potency). ► During sleep
a sensation as if he would have a headache when awaking in the morning. ► During sleep, dreams of danger, especially of danger on the
water (fifth day), (1st potency). ► On awaking in the
morning, sensation as if the head were swollen (first day), (1st potency). ► Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning
(first day), (1st potency). ► Normal pulse being 55, is
accelerated to 68 in the morning (second day), (1st potency). ►
Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning (first day), (30th potency). ► Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated in the morning and
falls down to 53 in the evening (second day), (3d potency). [90.]
► Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the
morning, and lowered to 43 in the evening (fourth day), (1st potency). ►
Normal pulse being 55, is now 72 in the morning, 64 in the evening (fifth day), (1st
potency). ► Normal pulse being 55, is now, in the
morning, 64, in the evening 48 (first day), (30th potency). ►
Pulse after midnight 48, in the morning, after rising, 68 (third day), (3 0th potency). ► Pulse 64 in the morning (fourth day), (30th potency). ► The pulse continues to rise in the morning, and to fall in
the evening for thirty days longer, without taking more medicine.
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), General
aggravation. ► Pulsation in right hip. On waking, head
feels swollen. ► (Brandy),
Aggravates. ► (Laughing),
Headache. ► Amelioration. ►
(Evening), Pulsation in right hip. ►
(Pinching or pressing the skin), Itching.® 2000
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