CHROMIUM OXIDATUM.
Chromium sesquioxide (Chromic oxide); Cr2O3.
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authorities.
Drysdale’s provings, Hahn. Mat. Med., Part I,
effects of 1 st dec. trit. thrice daily for twenty days, afterwards the 1st cent. trit. four
times daily.
HEAD.
► Dull confusion in
head, in forenoon. ► Shooting pains in the left temple.
EYE.
► Feeling of dryness
and uneasiness in right eye and right nostril. ► Brow.
► Pain, dull, pressive, over right eye. ► Lid. ► Smarting in the
eyelids, in the evening. ► Smarting and heaviness in the
eyelids, in the evening. ► Ball. ► Sort of sudden jerk of both eyeballs for a second. ► Cutting pain across left eyeball, with flow of tears, in
morning, in bed. ► Several sharp cutting pains across the
left eyeball, at night, in bed.
EAR.
[10.] ► Sudden jerking pains in left ear.
NOSE.
► Fetid, musty smell
in the posterior nares, after breakfast and dinner, chiefly perceived in expiration.
FACE.
► Quivering of lower
lip.
MOUTH.
► Tongue. ► Pricking in the tongue. ►
Almost daily, pricking in the tongue at various times. ►
Taste. ► Bad taste in morning. ► Metallic taste in mouth before dinner.
STOMACH.
► Appetite.
► Unusual hunger in middle of day. ► Nausea. ► Sudden
inclination to vomit in morning, while dressing, with flow of water in mouth and dull
pressure in stomach. ► Stomach. ► Pinching pain in epigastrium. [20.]
► Frequent aching and shooting pains at the epigastrium.
ABDOMEN.
► Objective.
► Flatulence. ►
Flatulence and rumbling in abdomen. ► Frequent passing of
flatus for several days. ► Subjective. ► Violent disagreeable pain, like flatulence, in the right side
from lumbar region round to cæcum, in the evening, brought on by any movement of the trunk
or by deep inspiration, not felt in sitting or lying still; next morning, in bed, the same
pain still felt very troublesome, rather better on getting up; next day but one it seems to
arise in a spot which is tender to pressure, about an inch to the right of the middle lumbar
spine.
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► Fulness
about rectum, and difficult evacuation of a soft scanty stool. ►
Fulness and slight shooting pains about the anus in morning and forenoon. ► Sudden and pressing desire to stool, with scanty, thin, lumpy
evacuations, after tea.
CHEST.
► Deepseated pain in
the back of the left side of chest and in the corresponding place in front, with a feeling
on deep inspiration as if the root of the lung could not expand and was painful. ► A severe boring pain, in the night, in left side of chest,
below axilla, about the fourth rib, not increased by motion or respiration, going off on
turning to the right side. [30.] ►
A sort of clucking, painful sensation on deep inspiration, when lying on the heart.
HEART AND PULSE.
► Pain in
region of heart, in evening, in bed, a fine, drawing, nervous pain, at times reaching
through the chest to the shoulder and neck. ► Fixed
pressive pain at apex of heart.
NECK AND BACK.
► Neck.
► Two successive mornings, heavy muscular pains in neck
and shoulders and various parts of the trunk; soon went off, and only slightly felt in the
back during the day. ► Back. ►
Pains in the back. ► Dorsal. ►
Pains in left scapula. ► Dull pain at inner angle of left
scapula, in the evening. ► Drawing pains in left scapula
occasionally throughout the day, but most in morning. ►
Superficial burning pains about the middle dorsal spines. ►
Lumbar. ► Lumbar pain most felt in morning in
bed.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
[40.]
► Rheumatic pains about the right shoulder and various
parts of the back. ► Transitory undefined pains in the
elbows, in the morning. ► Frequent dull deepseated pains
in the hands and fingers.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Dull, bruised, fatigued feeling in the legs for several days, especially above the knees,
with some pain on firm pressure. ► Thigh. ► A severe quivering-boring deepseated pain in the inner side
of the thighs, chiefly the left, in bed. ► Knee. ► Pains in the knee. ► Foot.
► Sharp drawing pain in the bones and ligaments of the
right foot. ► Occasional indistinct pains, like a strain,
about the feet and ankles. ► Shooting-drawing pains about
the balls of the feet. ► Itching and drawing pains in the
balls of the feet, at the roots of the toes, painful on treading on the ground. ► Toes. [50.] ► Burning and itching in the toes, like chilblains (to which he
is not subject).
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Transitory pain in various parts. ► Awoke early, with
pains suddenly shifting to various parts of the trunk; dull pain at one time at the inferior
edges of the scapulæ, then pressive in the right hypochondrium, at the edge of the false
ribs, then in the region of the bladder. ► Uneasiness,
stiffness, and dull pain in the muscles in the morning, chiefly in shoulder-blades and back
of neck, also between shoulders and in hips, coming occasionally during the day till
evening.
SKIN.
► Pricking in the
skin in various parts in the evening. ► Pricking-itching
in various parts. ► Itching and smarting round the eyes,
especially the inner canthi. ► Itching and irritation of
skin around eyes and cheek-bones in evening. ► Itching in
armpits at night. ► Itching in palm of right hand in
morning. [60.] ►
Itching in feet, toes, and various parts in the evening.
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Had a
dream, in morning, with pain under apex of heart, and awoke with that pain. ► Vivid dreams.
FEVER.
► Cold feeling in a
small spot in the meatus of the left ear.
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), Symptoms
generally; in bed, pain across eyeball, etc., bad taste; while dressing, inclination to
vomit, etc.; pain in neck, etc.; pain in scapula; in bed, lumbar pains; pains in elbows;
early, shifting pain; uneasiness, etc.; itching in palm. ►
(Forenoon), Confusion in head. ►
(Evening), Smarting, etc., eyelids; pain in side; in
bed, pain in region of heart; pain at angle of scapula; pricking in skin; itching, etc.,
around eyes; itching in feet, etc. ► (Night), In bed, pains across eyeball; pain in side; itching in
arm. ► (In bed),
Feeling in legs. ► (After
breakfast and dinner), Chiefly perceived in expiration, small in posterior nares.
► (Before dinner),
Taste in mouth. ► (On deep
inspiration), When lying on heart, clucking sensation. ►
Amelioration. ► (Getting
up), Pain in side. ► (On
turning to right side), Pain in left side goes off.® 2000
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