CHROMICUM ACIDUM.
Chromium trioxide, CrO3,H2O.
Preparation
, Solution of seven
grains in 100 drops of water for the θ (Duffield’s provings).
Authorities.
1, Henry
Duffield’s provings, Inaug. Thesis at Phil. Hom. Med. Coll., 1852, proving with the 5th dil.
(first, second, and third days), three doses daily; 2,
Ibid., proving with 6th dil., three doses daily for four days; 3,
Ibid., proving with 30th dil., two doses daily for four days; 4,
Ibid. (a second prover), proving with 7th dil., two doses daily for four days; 5, Ibid., proving with 30th dil., two or three doses daily for
four or five days; 6, Dr. G. Oehme, provings on self
with low dilutions (symptoms appeared only after long continued and repeated dosing), N. Y.
J. of Hom., 1, 367.
MIND.
► Great confusion of
mind, [3]. ► Memory
affected to such a degree that he was at a loss, when writing, to make several of the
letters of the alphabet, [3].
HEAD.
► Sensation of
vertigo, which inclined him constantly to the right side, while walking, at 10 A.M., [3]. ► Sensation of
lightness of the head, like vertigo, with heat in face, at 10 P.M., [1]. ► Pain from ball of right eye
up into the interior of the brain, with soreness of the orb to the touch, at 12 M. (fourth
day), [3]. ►
Feeling of fulness in head (fourth day), [2]. ► Fulness of head, at night, with peculiar sensation of
lightness at the heart, and vertigo when descending stairs (fourth day), [2]. ► Throbbing and sensation of
fulness in forepart of head, and of emptiness in chest, with soreness on pressure, and cold
feet (fifth day), [2]. ►
Awoke, at 5 A.M., with sensation of fulness in vertex and frontal region, [3]. [10.] ►
Heavy pain along coronal suture, extending backward, occupying all the parietal portion of
the head, at 10 A.M., lasting six hours; the same pain, lasting the same time, on two
succeeding days, [5].
EYE.
► Dull pain over left
eye, as if headache would set in, [1]. ► Eyes sore, and feel heavy as if inflamed (fifth day), [2]. ► Throbbing,
pulsative sensation from region of heart to left eye and left side of head, with general
feeling of fulness in frontal region, at 10 A.M., [1].
► Diminished vision, [6].
EAR.
► Occasional sensation
in right ear as if water was in it; it appears and disappears suddenly, [6].
NOSE.
► Sensation during
the eating of the food, which tastes well and natural, as if the exhaled air smelt putrid,
almost causing nausea. He smells several times of the food, thinking that the stench might
proceed from that, [6].
FACE.
► Lips dry and
disposed to chap, [3].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► Sudden violent pain in the night, in several undecayed teeth
on left side, especially in the lower jaw; while the pain lasts the corresponding arteries
beat more violently, [6]. ►
Toothache in the left lower jaw, for a short time, in the morning, after the usual rinsing
of the mouth with cold water, [6]. [20.] ► Repeated toothache of
short duration, especially in the lower jaw, on the right side. During the attacks, the
corresponding artery beats more violently than on the other side, [6]. ► Soon after going to bed (10
o’clock P.M.), two attacks of very violent toothache on right side; each attack lasted about
ten or fifteen minutes, with a free interval of several minutes. During the second attack,
the painful teeth seemed too long; the pain extended into the forehead; a pain between the
head, left shoulder-blade, and shoulder, grew much better. During the pain, he was
frequently obliged to change his position. After the second attack, such uneasiness in limbs
that he was obliged to get up and walk about. The teeth of the right side felt too long,
even the next morning, and cold water produced pain, [6].
► Taste. ► A
swallow of diluted Madeira tastes singularly disagreeable, [6].
THROAT.
► Accumulation of
tough mucus in throat, with constant inclination to swallow it, as it could not be easily
hawked up, [2]. ►
White phlegm in throat, causing hawking, especially in morning, [6].
STOMACH.
► No appetite for
breakfast, [3]. ►
Qualmishness of the stomach, at 2 P.M., after dinner, lasting two hours, [5]. ► Nausea, transient, at
different times, especially when the stomach is empty, [6].
► Nausea, gradually increasing, with sensation as if a
stool would follow, half an hour after a simple supper, [6].
► Vomiting of food several times, and afterwards, three
times, of bile, with much retching, at intervals of five or ten minutes, accompanied by warm
perspiration and natural heat. Quick walking about relieves the nausea which precedes each
vomiting. Between the attacks of vomiting, a kind of pressure and fulness in stomach, so
that he is obliged to loosen his clothes. Soon after the last vomiting, sleep for half an
hour, after which slight pressure or heaviness in stomach (after a few drops of 1st dec.
dil., shortly before supper), [6].
ABDOMEN.
[30.] ► Slightly acute pains in left hypochondria, [1]. ► Uneasiness in bowels before
rising in morning, similar to the premonitory symptoms of diarrhœa, which passed away on
rising, [5]. ► Pain
in colon on waking in the morning, accompanied with rumbling of wind, which passed off on
rising (second day), [5]. ►
Awakened at 4 A.M. by a feeling of uneasiness in the lower part of the abdomen, which was
very sore to the touch, especially along the course of the colon, accompanied with nausea
and frequent eructations and retchings, throwing off white mucus, [3]. ► Severe sharp pain in the
hypogastric region and along the ascending colon, at 6 A.M., which became very severe and
cutting and lasted half an hour, when he was relieved by a profuse diarrhœa which lasted
three hours; then the symptoms all ceased, and headache, the same at the day before, set in,
followed by the same sickness of the stomach, both of which lasted until 4 P.M., as before, [5].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► Piles,
internal and bleeding (third day), [2]. ► Very painful external piles on left side of anus (second
day), [2]. ► Hæmorrhoidal
discharge from the anus during stool, at 8 A.M., [2]. ► Copious hæmorrhoidal discharge during stool, at 8 A.M., [3]. ► Pretty copious
hæmorrhoidal discharge from the anus during stool, with weakness in the small of the back,
at 8 A.M., [2].
STOOL.
[40.] ► Watery diarrhœa, with nausea and dizziness (in a girl of 14
years), [6]. ►
Diarrhœic discharge from bowels at 8 A.M., after which pulse rose to 75, [3]. ► Small stool of mucus and
knotty fæces at 8.30 P.M., [3].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Attack of
strangury on waking in morning, after dreaming of it at night, and from which he did not get
relief for nearly two hours (fifth day), [2].
CHEST.
► Weakness in chest,
[3]. ► Stricture in
chest in region of the heart at 10 A.M. (fourth day), [3].
► Sensation of rawness or soreness in chest, with slight,
dry, hacking cough (fourth day), [2]. ► Throbbing pulsation through chest at 12 M. (fourth day), [3]. ► Slight pain and
throbbing pulsation in left lung (fifth day), [2].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Sudden
violent stitch in region of heart; the pain disappeared only gradually, after several
minutes, [6]. [50.]
► Pulse full and a little accelerated, [1]. ► Pulse 84 at 4 P.M. (fifth
day), [2]. ► Pulse
82 at 10 A.M. (fourth day), [3]. ►
Pulse 80 at 7.30 A.M., 76 at 3 P.M. (second day), [3].
► Pulse 75 at 4 P.M., [3].
► Pulse 72 at 8 A.M. (fifth day), [2]. ► Pulse 70 at 8 A.M., [3]. ► Pulse 70 all day, [3]. ► Pulse 68 at 3 P.M.
(fourth day), [3]. ►
Pulse 64 at 7 A.M., [2]. [60.]
► Pulse 64 at 9 P.M., [2].
► Pulse 62 at 10 A.M. (normal pulse 55), [2]. ► Pulse 58 at 12 M. (fourth
day), [3]. ► Pulse
slower, [3]. ►
Pulse below standard, [4]. ►
Pulse 58 (normal pulse 64), [5]. ►
Pulse 56 at 10 A.M., [2]. ►
Pulse 56 at 12 M., [2]. ►
Pulse 52 at 4 A.M., [3]. ►
Pulse 48 at 7 A.M., [2]. [70.]
► Very remarkable irregularity of pulse; on some days, in
a single hour, the variation would be from 60 to 84, the pulsations scarcely ever being the
same in two successive hours, [3]. ► Pulse 48 at 7 A.M.; 64 at 3 P.M. (second day), [2].
NECK AND BACK.
► Stiffness
of the muscles on left side of back of neck at 10 A.M. (fourth day), [3]. ► An apparently deepseated
pain for almost three weeks, with stiffness, at times more severe, at times less, in left
shoulder-blade and left part of back of neck, up to occiput; for several days it was so
violent that the slightest motion of the affected part was very painful; at night even sleep
was impaired, as only certain positions were endurable; the rising from a lying position
caused much pain, and turning the head to the left or backward was impossible; the pains
were least felt when standing and walking; at times the pain extended into the left
olecranon, to the muscles on the chest below left shoulder and spina; all muscles connected
with the shoulder-blade were more or less affected and painful to touch; the least draft of
air increased the pain; the use of the left arm was impeded; in drawing a long breath, a
stitch in the upper left part of chest, near the shoulder; coughing caused very violent pain
over the whole upper left part of chest, and deep coughing was impossible; pressure on the
chest; the pain moved from the left shoulder-blade down to the pelvis, and the lumbar region
was sensitive, [6]. ►
Pain in the lumbar region at 9 P.M., [2]. ► A sharp shooting pain from the lumbar vertebræ to the crest
of the ilium of right side, while sitting, at 6 P.M., [3].
► Weakness and pain in small of back at 4 P.M., [3]. ► Shooting pain from
small of back into left hip-bone at 3 P.M. (fourth day), [3].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► The
arms fall asleep easily, [6]. ►
Dull aching pain on top of left shoulder, as if from great fatigue, which lasted two hours,
at 10 A.M., [2]. [80.]
► Several times, a short-lasting growing pain, with
lameness, in the middle of the left brachium, in front, as if from a severe blow, [6]. ► Short-lasting
slight pain in right elbow, [6]. ►
Transient pain in left elbow, [6].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► A
kind of hitching in left knee-joint when walking, [3].
► Weakness and knocking of left knee-joint when walking,
at 8 P.M., [3]. ►
Rheumatic feeling in right knee-joint, afternoon and evening (third day), [3]. ► Sensation of paralysis in
right leg, from knee down (at 10 A.M.), [2].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Tiredness and weakness, [6]. ►
Heavy, dull, stupid, [6]. ►
The pains are worse and last longer on the left side than on the right, [6].
SKIN.
[90.] ► Disagreeable prickling and itching here and there, mostly in
evening, with uneasiness in the limbs, so that he was obliged to get up from sitting or
lying and walk about, [6].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Sleepiness.
► Excessively sleepy an hour before usual bedtime, [5]. ► Notwithstanding
the good sleep at night, great sleepiness in daytime, but if he lies down for a nap, cannot
fall asleep, [6]. ►
Sleeplessness. ► Late going to sleep, with
restlessness during night and anxious dreams, [1]. ► Restless night, with sensation of swelling of the eyeballs,
which continued till after he awoke; they felt as if much enlarged (second day), [3]. ► Wakes up at early
dawn, and cannot fall asleep again, although still sleepy and not excited, [6]. ► Awoke at 5 A.M., very
restless; could not lie quiet five minutes at a time, [5].
► Dreams. ►
Unpleasant dreams at night, which cannot be remembered (second day), [3]. ► Distressing dreams at
night; about to be put to death by poison, and at the same time innocent of crime, [2]. ► Many dreams at
night; dreams of crossing a stream on horseback; the stream and the water on him freezes, [4]. [100.] ► Dreamed at night that he had an attack of strangury, which on
awaking in morning proved to be the case, and from which he did not get relief for nearly
two hours (fifth day), [2].
FEVER.
► General coldness
all over, [4]. ►
Could not get warm for nearly a week after finishing medicine, [5]. ► Sensation of coldness in
back of neck at 10 A.M. (third day), [3]. ► Feet cold (naturally, burning hot), (fourth day), [2]. ► Cold feet, even
when walking, at 12 M. (fourth day), [3].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), After
rinsing mouth with cold water, toothache; phlegm in throat; before rising, uneasiness in
bowels; on waking, pain in colon; uneasiness in lower abdomen; pain in hypogastric region;
on waking, attack of strangury. ► (Forenoon, at 10 o’clock), Pain along coronal suture; sensation
from heart to eye, etc.; stricture in chest; stiffness of muscles of neck; sensation in leg;
cold sensation in back of neck. ► (Noon), Pain into brain, etc.; pulsation through chest; cold feet.
► (Afternoon), At 2
o’clock, after dinner, qualmishness; at 6 o’clock, pain from lumbar region to crest of
ilium; weakness, etc., in small of back. ► (Evening), Prickling, etc. ► (Afternoon and evening), Feeling in knee-joint. ► (Night), Fulness of head,
etc.; pain in teeth; at 10 o’clock, toothache, etc. ► (Draft of air), Causes or increases the pains; pain in
shoulder-blade, etc. ► (Cold
water), Causes or increases the pains. ► (While walking), Sensation of vertigo; weakness, etc., of
knee-joint. ► Amelioration. ►
(Standing), Pains in shoulder-blade, etc. ► (Walking), Pains in
shoulder-blade, etc. ► (Quick
walking), Causes relief; nausea.
SUPPLEMENT: CHROMICUM ACIDUM.
Authority.
7, H. Wardner,
M.D., Phil. Med. and Surg. Rep., vol. xx, 1869, p. 362, a man, æt. thirty-six years, took a
solution containing about 15 grains.►
His features contracted, his countenance assumed a leaden
hue, and his eyes sank (within three minutes); countenance partially resumed color (after
two hours), [7]. ►
Vomited very profusely; first the contents of the stomach, then a large quantity of bile;
and lastly, considerable blood (within three minutes); stomach still irritable (after two
hours), [7]. ►
Great burning pain in stomach (after two hours), [7]. ► Two or three copious alvine dejections (in three minutes), [7].® 2000
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