CONIUM.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
► Septic
dissolution of the fluids, [29]. ►
In the bones, especially in the middle of the long bones, concealed caries, with
burning-gnawing pain, [32]. ►
Consumption, [14], [29].
[In Collins’s case the end of mesenteric disease in which Conium was given. -Hughes.] ► [Dropsy], [33]. [The
end of a case of mammary cancer.] [1080.] ► He walks about as if half asleep, [1]. ► Throbbing motion and
trembling of te whole body, especially severe in the arms (fifth day), [1]. ► Trembling, [40], [15], [17], etc. ► Constant
trembling, [9]. ►
He starts at every sound, [1]. ►
Jerklike startings up as in fright, [37]. ► Subsultus tendinum, [17].
► The whole upper portion of the body was seized with
violent spasms, while the lower extremities were paralyzed, [47].
► Convulsions, [9],
[14], [35]. ► Convulsions of affected parts, and of the whole body, with
danger of stupefaction, [24]. [1090.]
► Most violent convulsions, with constant uneasiness and
wild fancies, [55]. ►
Hysterical attack, with chilliness and a kind of spasmodic motions, [20]. [For Gelding read Greeding; not found. -Hughes.] ► Relaxation of muscles and limbs, followed by difficulty of
walking and want of power to control movements; forced to lie down (half an hour), [63]. ► Very easily
overstrained, [1]. ►
There was a distinct impairment of motor power. I felt, so to speak, that “the go”
was taken out of me. It was not that I felt fatigued just then, but is seemed as if a drag
was suddenly put upon me, and that it would be impossible to walk fast, if urged to do so
(after three-quarters of an hour). After walking about a mile uphill, this sensation was
very decided; and on putting a foot on the scraper at the door of the hospital, the other
leg was shaky, and felt almost too weak to support me. My movements appeared clumsy to
myself, and it seemed necessary that I should make an effort to control them, [42]. ► Languor, muscular
weakness, with strong desire to assume a recumbent posture, [40].
► If a strong, active individual take 5 or 6 drachms of
the succus on getting up in the morning, and start off for a long walk, he will be overtaken
in the course of half or three-quarters of an hour with a feeling of general tiredness, and
a special weakness of the knees, as if he had been regularly tired out by walking all day to
the full extent of his powers. If he be unusually active and strong, he will not, perhaps,
yield to the inclination to rest, but will proceed slowly on his way, feeling a strange
lightness, powerlessness of the legs, with a tendency to drop forward on his knees. This
will be associated with some giddiness, and a feeling of heaviness over the eyes. At first
the feeling of languor will be most oppressive, but it will soon become more tolerable; and,
if he should continue his journey for an hour, he will find that the feeling of fatigue has
by this time nearly passed off. In the course of another hour he will be as active as ever, [42]. ► Loss of power on
waking from the midday nap; the arms and legs feel prostrated, [1]. ► Loss of her strength even
to death, [24]. [1100.] ► The most powerful
and active subjects lose their strength and are obliged to keep their beds, [24]. ► [Sinking of all the
forces], [32]. [In case of note to S. 784. This and
1283 supervened on a free purulent discharge setting in, and were removed by bark. -Hughes.]
► Weakness, [52]. ► Weakness of the whole body, [36].
► Weakness, in the morning, after waking, as after a
fever, [1]. ►
Weakness in the morning on waking, which disappears after rising, [1]. ► Weakness of the whole body
in the morning fasting, as after severe illness, with loss of appetite as from satiety, and
aversion to food, [1]. ►
Was obliged to keep his bed on account of weakness and chilliness with palpitation and
headache, [1]. ►
Attack of weakness and chilliness, so that he was obliged to lie down, followed the next day
by headache and palpitation most violent; it seemed on every beat of the pulse as if the
occiput were being pierced by a knife, and the heart seemed at times to throb violently, at
times to make great haste, and at times to waver, [1].
[1110.] ► Great
weakness and exhaustion after eating, [1]. ► Remarkable weakness of the whole body, in the morning and
evening, [1]. ►►
*Tremulous weakness after every stool, disappearing in
the open air, [1]. ►
Muscular weakness, causing slight tottering, [42]. ► Weak and sick in the morning, in bed, with ill-humor,
sleepiness, and pains in the stomach (second day), [1].
► So weak that she was obliged to lie down, [1]. ► Exhaustion of mind
and body (fourth day), [1]. ►
Great exhaustion, [1]. ►
Very much exhausted, weak and as if paralyzed, after a short walk, with fretful
hypochondriac mood, [2]. [1120.]
► Walking in the open air is exhausting and the air
affects one, [1]. ►
Nervous prostration, [31]. [After taking Conium for
seven months. -Hughes.] ► Paralysis, [8], [9]. ►
General paralysis of all the voluntary, and ultimately of all the involuntary muscles; those
of deglutition being the first, and of respiration the last to fail, [60]. ► The paresis, which had
hitherto been mainly confined to the ocular muscles, became general, and then I found that,
even with the eyes shut, any movement involving the balance of the body was attended with a
singular uncertainty and falling short of the desired effect, and this was again invariably
accompanied by a fresh rush of seasick feeling. I accordingly now settled back in my
arm-chair, shut my eyes, and for some then minutes kept absolutely still, with every muscle
completely relaxed. The seasickness then speedily disappeared, and I became wholly
unconscious of any influence of the poison whatsoever. Indeed I had to open my eyes at last
and experimentally look about, in order to know whether the enemy was still with me at all
or not, [45]. [Following symptom.] ► *Faintness, [24], [28]. ► Attacks of
faintness, in each of which she remained about five minutes without consciousness, [49]. ► Constant
uneasiness, [57]. ►
Hastiness and uneasiness in all his actions, [37]. ► Hurried mood, [1]. ► Constant tossing about, with violent screaming, [55]. ► Subjective.
[1130.] ► General
increased liability to take cold, [1]. ► Great liability to take cold, even in the room, while
sitting after a walk, during which he had perspired, [1].
► Dulness of all the senses, [27]. ► Disinclined to work, [1]. ► During the action
of hemlock, a sensation of muscular weariness, almost amounting to aching, is not uncommon,
particularly if bodily exertion be continued the while, [42].
► It sat down to nose these observations; but, being
afraid to maintain this posture lest the rapidly decreasing muscular energy should get the
better of me, I rose up again and tried to shake it off. An hour and a quarter after taking
the dose, I first felt decided weakness in my legs. The giddiness and diminution of motor
power continued to increase for te next fifteen minutes. An hour and a half after taking the
dose, these effects attained their maximum; and at this time I was cold, pale, and
tottering. The pulse which had been emotionally excited by the sudden accession of the
foregoing symptoms, was now 68, quite regular and of undiminished force and volume. The legs
felt as if they would soon be too weak to support me. There was a positive diminution of
voluntary power in every part of the muscular system, and this nearly amounted to complete
paralysis as far as the hamstring and levator palpebræ muscles were concerned. At one time,
the greatest exertion was required to elevate the eyelids. The mind remained perfectly clear
and calm, and the brain active throughout; but the body seemed heavy, and well-nigh asleep.
After continuing for about half an hour at their maximum, the symptoms began rapidly to
decline and within three hours and a half after taking the dose they had totally
disappeared, [42]. ►
He cannot get rested in any position, [1]. ► Heaviness and unsteadiness of the whole body, in the
afternoon, [1]. ► A
kind of stiffness of the body; movement of the limbs, neck, etc., causes an unpleasant
sensation, [1]. ►
Feeling in the morning, as though he had not slept enough, [1].
[1140.] ► Standing is
very irksome, [1]. ►
On returning from a walk every step was excessively irksome, and he could scarcely wait a
moment on account of ill-humor and impatience for the time when he could rest in solitude, [1]. ► He feels the blood
very uneasy in the whole body, [1]. ► Feeling as though the whole body inclined towards the right
side, [37]. ► A
place injured several years previously frequently begins to pain, [1]. ► Contractive sensation in
the inner parts, wherewith saliva accumulates in the mouth, [1].
► Cramplike and spasmodic pain in various parts of the
body, chest, jaws, etc., [1]. ►
Fine cutting in the glands, [1]. ►
Paroxysm, usually after eating, commencing with yawning, sticking in the sternum, and
pressure in the pit of the stomach, even on touch, whence it extended to the back and became
sticking in the region of the kidneys, [1]. ► Sticking sensation in the whole body, [1]. [1150.] ► Smarting-sticking pains about the swollen, glands, [1]. ► Stitches in the
swollen glands, [1]. ►
Tearing stitches now here, now there, very piercing, as if to the bone, [1]. ► Tearings through various
parts of the body (fourth day), [1]. ► General bruised sensation, [1].
► Took three doses of 60 grains each. The effect was
greater in the evening than in the middle of the day, but less than in the morning. The
recumbent position might have had some influence in diminishing the appreciation of this
effect (nineteenth day), [39]. ► Symptoms are worse at night, and wake him from sleep, [1]. ► The pains appear
mostly during rest; on motion they appear only during the infrequent alternate action, [2]. ► 9 1/2 P.M., took
60 grains after eating apples. The action was less powerful than in the middle of the day
(eighteenth day), [39]. ►
In thirty-five minutes after the second dose of 60 grains, that day the action of the
medicine appeared to have reached its maximum, which it maintained about fifteen minutes,
with the sensations in the head, elbows, and knees already described, and to a greater
degree than after any dose previously taken. In one hour and a half from the time of taking
it, its apparent effects had entirely disappeared (eighteenth day), [39].
SKIN.
► Objective. [1160.] ► Blueness of the
whole body, [17]. ►
Skin blue, and covered with cold sweat, [54]. ► Yellow spots on the fingers (fifth day), [1]. ► Petechiæ, [27]. ► Inflammation of the skin
of the whole body, which is painful and burning, [10].
► Eruptions, Dry. ►
Fine, scarcely visible eruption on the face, back, and rest of the body; itching like a
creeping under the skin, [1]. ►
Papulous eruption on the forehead, with tensive-drawing pain (fourth day), [2]. ► Papulous eruption on the
chest, which is painful to touch, [1]. ► A large papulous eruption on the mons veneris, which was
painful to touch, [1]. ►
Pimples on the forehead, with tensive pain, which, during and after itching, becomes tearing
in their whole vicinity (second and third days), [2]. [1170.] ► Eruption of several
pimples above the forehead, one of which became as large as a hazelnut within fifteen days;
the tips were painful to touch (after twenty-four hours), [1].
► A pimple appeared in an old “liver spot” on
the cheek, [1]. ►
Breaking out on the lips, following slight fever, [32].
[Hahnemann’s S. 227, corrected by Dr Hughes.] ► Eruptions,
Moist. ► [Eruption of white, transparent
pimples, which become filled with an acrid moisture, and form scabs similar to scabies,
together with localized offensive, biting sweat], [32].
[Critical, with S. 1353, in a gouty patient. -Hughes.] ►
Vesicles on the upper lip, on the vermilion border, with smarting pain, [1]. ► An eruption of two vesicles
as large as the head of a pin, filled with colored fluid, surrounded by a bright-red areola,
[37]. ► Small
vesicles, with bright areola near the knuckle of the left little finger, [37]. ► Three small vesicles, with
a red areola and itching, which is worse after scratching, between the thumb and index
finger on the back of the right hand, [37]. ► Small itching vesicles on the back of the ball of the left
thumb, [37]. ►
Eruptions, Pustular. ► Pustules on the feet, [1]. [1180.] ► A pustule in the fold near the right wing of the nose, [1]. ► Ulcers. ► Ulcers, with inflammation around the finger-nails, and
throbbing, suppurating, burning pains, [1]. ► The margins of an ulcer became black, with discharge of
offensive ichor, [32]. ►
Offensive ichor from an ulcer, [32]. [See note to S.
1190. -Hughes.] ► Cold gangrene in a portion of an ulcer,
[20]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ►
Bleeding of an ulcer, [20]. [In mammary cancer.
-Hughes.] ► Subjective. ►
Slow itching-biting burning stitches here and there on the body, [1]. ► Itching stitches as from
fleas, in rapid succession, here and there over the whole body, always singly, never two at
a time, [1]. ►
Transient itching here and there in all parts of the body, [1].
► [Pain shoots into an ulcer on coughing], [32]. [1190.] [See note to S.
766. -Hughes.] ► [Increased pain in an ulcer; tensive
pain in an ulcer], [32]. [Variations of an open cancer
of the face while the patient took Conium. -Hughes.] ►
Burning and sensitiveness of the skin on the side of the left little finger, with redness of
the part, [37]. ►
Burning, with great sensitiveness of the skin, above the left knee, [37]. ► Painful burning and
sensitiveness of the skin on the back of the left forearm, and even on slight touch, but
nothing was visible, [37]. ►
Severe burning in the skin on the right side of the forehead, [37].
► Violent burning in the skin of the right temple,
afterwards in the tip at the side of the nail of the left thumb, [37]. ► Painful tension of the
skin behind the ears and on the mastoid process, even without moving (after one hour and a
half), [6]. ►
Drawing pain in an old wart on the upper lip, [1]. ► Sticking in the skin on the left zygoma, [37]. ► Itching, needle-like
stitches on the posterior surface of the thigh, worse while sitting, [6]. ► Sensitiveness of the skin
on the back of the hands, [1]. [1200.] ►
Smarting in the skin of the face, as if it were sore, after washing and drying the face, [1]. ► Crawling in the
affected parts, [14]. ►
Crawling and agreeable itching in the glands, [32].
[Not found. -Hughes.] ► Crawling in the toes, [37]. ► Crawling under
the skin of the right cheek, extending to the corner of the mouth, [37]. ► Crawling on the back of
the nose (after one hour and a half), [6]. ► Itching crawling on the tip of the nose and in the nostrils, [6]. ► Itching crawling
in the forearm, only transiently relieved by rubbing (after one hour), [6]. ► Itching around the left
eye, [1]. ► Itching
of the upper lip (after half an hour), [6]. [1210.] ► Itching on the pit
of the stomach while walking, [1]. ► Itching in the abdomen, [1].
► Itching shivering from the nape of the neck to the head
(fourth day), [1]. ►
Itching of both breasts; on rubbing the skin becomes rough and red, with a burning
sensation, [1]. ►
Agreeable but violent itching in both nipples (after four hours), [4]. ► Itching on the small of the
back, [37]. ►
Itching of the limbs, [32]. ►
Severe itching in the ball of the left hand, [37]. ► Itching on the back of the fingers, [1]. ► Itching on the flexor
surface of the right wrist, [37]. [1220.] ► Itching on the back
of the balls of both thumbs; on the next day some small vesicles appear at this place, [37]. ► Itching on the
sides of the third and fourth fingers, transiently relieved by rubbing, [37]. ► Itching in the left thumb
and little finger, [37]. ►
Itching of the thighs and arms, [1]. ► Itching in the hollow of the right knee, [37]. ► Itching and sticking on
the legs and feet, and also in the palm of the left hand; with stitches, as from needles, [37]. ► Itching on the
right lower leg, followed by burning sore pain, lasting some time; the spot remained
slightly red; on the next day this burning had extended, and was much increased by touch of
the hand, but there was nothing visible externally; during the next day a small bright-red
spot appeared, which did not disappear on pressure, and in which the burning was most
severe; the spot, as also the skin about it, was very sensitive to the slightest touch, [37]. ► Itching on the
back of the toes and fingers, [37]. ► Frequent itching in various places on both wrists, [37]. ► Much itching on
the right half of the body, [37]. [1230.] ► Severe itching about
the chin, [1]. ►
Severe itching and itching pimples on the soles of the feet, [1].
► Intolerable itching in the fossa between the nates, [1]. ► Sticking itching
across the whole external chest, which only transiently disappears on scratching (after one
hour), [6]. ►
Continued sticking itching in the cheek and right side of the face, only relieved by
repeated scratching, [2]. ►
Corrosive itching, always commencing with sticking, in the evening, in bed, only on the
right half of the body, especially when lying upon it, with uneasiness in all the limbs,
easily relieved by scratching, but constantly reappearing in another place, [1]. ► Itching corroding on the
forehead, only transiently relieved by rubbing, [6].® 2000
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