CUPRUM ACETICUM.
ABDOMEN.
► Hypochondria.
► Pains in the right hypochondrium, extending to the
right shoulder, on the fifth day, [22]. [270.] ► Left hypochondrium
tender to pressure, [31]; (after half an hour), [42]. ► Umbilical.
► Dull pain in the umbilical region (after one hour), [23]. ► Violent pain in
the umbilical region, [25]. ►
Very violent pain in the umbilical region, less noticed in the epigastric region, not
aggravated by pressure, [23]. ►
General Abdomen. ► Distension of abdomen
(soon), [41]. ►
Distension abdomen (second day), [13]. ► Abdomen distended, painful to touch, [25]. ► Abdomen distended,
somewhat hard and painful to touch, [14]. ► Abdomen greatly distended, [10].
► Rapid swelling of the abdomen, [4]. [280.] ►
Abdomen tympanitic and painful on least pressure (second day), [41]. ► Tympanites; in one case
very distressing; her abdomen becoming tense as a drum, which, however, was not very long in
subsiding, [35]. ►
Abdomen meteoric, painful to pressure, [30]. ► Abdomen flattened, but sensitive (second day), [41]. ► Abdomen contracted
slightly painful to pressure, [26]. ► Belly contracted, hard, and very sensitive all over to the
slightest pressure (second day), [44]. ► Retracted abdomen, [4].
► Hardness of the abdomen, with great painfulness when
touched, [4]. ►
Abdomen hard, retracted (in a boy of ten years), drawn backward, almost to the spine, not
sensitive to pressure, [22]. ►
Violent spasmodic motions in the intestines and in the stomach, [3]. [290.] ►
Chronic gastro-enteritis, [33]. ► Pains in the abdomen, [1],
[3], [8], etc. ► Pains in the abdomen during digestion, [30]. ► Pains in the abdomen, with
internal sensation of burning heat, [22]. ► Abdomen painful and distended (second day), [41]. ► Abdomen painful, hard, and
distended, [28]. ►
Pains in the intestines, [13]. ►
Internal heat in abdomen, [51]. ►
A feeling of tension, although the abdomen was neither distended nor retracted, [31]. ► Feeling as though
all the intestines were constricted, [29]. [300.] ► Griping, [33]. ► Occasional
griping pains in abdomen, [34]. ►
Violent gripes (soon), [41]. ►
Continuous dull pain, like a cramp, in the middle of the abdomen, and in one or the other
side, most frequently the left (third day), [49]. ► Occasional cramp in the bowels, for several days, [50]. ► Violent spasmodic
pains in the abdomen, which is distended, [29]. ► Bellyache and internal heat in abdomen, [51]. ► Drawing sensation in the
left side of the abdomen, from below the false ribs to the bend of the thigh (second day), [49]. ► From time to time
very transient drawing pains in the abdomen, [22]. ► A feeling as if the intestines were draw into knots, in most
cases continuous, in some paroxysmal, with inclination to draw the knees up, and press hard
upon the bowels, [50]. [310.]
► Acute pains and swelling of abdomen (soon after), [41]. ► Pressure made
with the palm of the hand over the different parts of the abdomen, in the epigastric region,
and over the transit of the arch of the colon, in general caused a pungent pain, [43]. ► Tearing-cutting
pain in the abdomen, [19]. ►
Corroding stitches and internal ulcers in the intestines, [6].
► Colicky pains, with feeling of distension of abdomen
(after half an hour), [42]. ►
The symptoms began with coliclike pains extending transversely across the abdomen, remitting
at times, but not intermitting, and not remarkably increased by pressure, with a hard and
retracted abdomen, [22]. ►►
Colic, [10], [13],
[17], etc. ► Colic,
with violent vomiting, [11]. ►
Colic, with almost constant urging to stool (third day), [49].
► Colic, with diarrhœa, every ten minutes, together with
retching, [29]. [320.]
► Pretty severe colic (two cases), [45]. ► Violent colic, [14], [21], etc. ► Violent colic, with vomiting, [19].
► Very violent colic, [27].
► Extremely violent, colicky, cutting pains, constricting
the abdomen, [22]. ►
Terrible colic (two cases), [45]. ► Cutting, constrictive colic, [22].
► Abdomen so sensitive she could not bear any covering
(second day), [41]. ►
Pains in the intestines were terribly aggravated by pressure of the hand, [29].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► Rectum
so inflamed and sensitive that an enema could not be administered (second day), [41]. [330.] ► Sensation of heaviness and uneasiness at the rectum, after
stool (third day), [49]. ►
Smarting at the anus, after stool (third day), [49]. ► Frequent urging to stool, [24].
► Tenesmus, after stool (third day), [49]. ► Constant tenesmus, [27]. ► Severe tenesmus,
and burning sensation felt within the rectum, and close to the sphincter ani (in all cases),
[43]. ► Violent,
painful tenesmus (third day), [49].
STOOL.
► Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa, [3], [12]; (after twelve hours), [48],
etc. ► Constant diarrhœa, [17].
► Profuse diarrhœa; the stools continued for a long time
with tenesmus and prostration, only relieved after eight days, [10]. [340.] ► Violent diarrhœa, [3].
► Diarrhœa, slimy, mucous, brown, afterwards greenish,
mixed with streaks of blood, [29]. ► Purging, [33]. ► Purging; stools copious, watery, and dark, [37]. ► Purging, with tenesmus, [47]. ► Stools very
frequent (at first), [22]. ►
Very frequent liquid stools, with a great deal of bright-red blood, and shreds of membrane,
sometimes very scanty, sometimes more abundant, sometimes containing fragments of solid fæcal
matter (third day), [49]. ►
Frequent evacuations (one case), [45]. ► Frequent small bilious stools, with burning and tenesmus, [30]. ► Frequent calls to
evacuate the bowels. Every half hour, or even less, sometimes in the course of twenty
minutes, they were forced to go to the ship’s chains; but seldom, in the attempt to relieve
the bowels, was feculent matter discharged. Blood in small quantities, and slimy mucus
stools tinged with blood, were passed from the rectum. Shreds of lymph and frothy
ashen-colored secretions were forced from the bowels by dint of straining. Without affording
relief in a single case, these discharges from the bowels aggravated the sufferings of the
patient, [43]. [350.]
► Stools involuntary, liquid, not very copious, coming
either at the commencement of the disease, or after two or three days, [22]. ► Profuse involuntary,
liquid, green, and offensive stools (after three hours), [23].
► In two cases (children) the stools were involuntary
during the collapse; one bloody, the other not, [50]. ► Copious stools (third day), [41].
► Copious stool, containing a pretty large quantity of
acetate of copper (third day), [41]. ► Liquid stools, [25], [49]. ► Thin liquid
stools, [15]. ►
Awakened at 2 A.M., while lying on abdomen (an unusual position with him), by a copious
liquid stool, so hurried that it escaped over a portion of the bed, with colic and headache
(third day), [49]. ►
Grayish stools, [26]. ►
Stools small, greenish, of slimy mucus; one or two minutes before a stool there was always
violent griping in the intestines, which continued after the stool, but only a short time;
the stool was always followed by great urging, like the tenesmus of dysentery, [29]. [360.] ► Bloody discharges from the bowels, [16]. ► Stools at times streaked
with blood, [29]. ►
Stool consisting of almost clear bright-red blood (in a boy 6 years old), (third day), [22]. ► Stools usually
preceded by increase of the colic, [22]. ► Stool always followed by relief of the general symptoms, [22]. ► Constipation.
► Constipation (later action), [22], (second day), [13], etc. ► Constipation for several days, [5]. ► Constipation for four days,
[31]. ►
[Constipation, with great heat of the body], [1].
[“No unwonted thing with her,” says the reporter. -Hughes.] ►
Prolonged constipation, with slight drawing pains about the umbilicus and flanks from time
to time, seldom lasting over one hour, [22]. [370.] ► Obstinate
constipation, with persistent tenesmus, [25]. ► Stools for the most part constipated, [22]. ► Stools scanty, mucous, at
first brownish, afterwards greenish, and on the next day; streaked with blood, [29]. ► No movement of
the bowels (in any) for six or seven days, [50].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Micturition.
► Evacuations of the bladder and bowels on the fourth
day, with relief of the symptoms, [13]. ► Micturition every five or ten minutes; she was, however, able
to pass only a little urine; the passage was attended with smarting, as from soreness in the
urethra, [29]. ►
Involuntary passage of urine, [50]. ► Micturition, with burning, [31].
► Urine scanty, [37].
► Urine scanty and scalding (second day), [44]. [380.] ► Retention of urine, [25].
► Suppression of urine (third day), [49]. ► Suppression of urine and
fæces (fifth day), [41]. ►
Complete suppression of urine and fæces, [41]. ► Urine suppressed altogether (or retained in the bladder), [43]. ► Urine. ► Urine high-colored and tinged with blood, [43]. ► Urine dark-red, turbid,
with yellowish sediment, [4]. ►
Urine usually brownish turbid, depositing a sediment (in many cases normal), [22]. ► Urine turbid and
jumentous, [22]. ►
Urine turbid, dark-red, with yellowish sediment, [26].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Cough and
Expectoration. [390.] ► *Frequent, violent, dry cough, with tearing pain in the head; the
cough was followed by violent pulsation of the heart, lasting several minutes; at this time
the anxiety and pressure in the chest returned, especially while sitting; cough came on at
night between 11 and 1 (sixth day), [29]. ► Much expectoration (one case), [45].
► Respiration. ►
Respiration accelerated, [23], [24]. ► Respiration, though rapid,
was free, [52]. ►
Breathing short (after three hours), [44]. ►► *Difficult respiration, [45]. ► Dyspnœa (second
day), [44]. ►
*Suffocative loss of breath, [6].
CHEST.
► *The chest was
spasmodically constricted, whereby the respiration was impeded, increasing her already great
anxiety, [29]. ►
In one case the vomiting was followed immediately by a succession of sharp cramping spasm in
the chest, causing the young lady to scream out, [50].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Heart’s
Action. [400.] ►
Violent palpitation of the heart, [51]. ► Pulse. ► Pulse quick,
and at the same time so small and weak and thready as scarcely to be felt, [43]. ► Rapid spasmodic pulse, [15]. ► Pulse small,
rapid, spasmodic, [24]. ►
Pulse hard, full, and frequent (third day), [49]. ► Pulse moderately accelerated, soft, [22]. ► Pulse moderately
accelerated, small and soft, [22]. ► Pulse in many cases not altered in frequency; in other
especially towards the termination of the disease accelerated, seldom above 90, soft,
becoming small and weak, [22]. ►
Small regular pulse, about 90 a minute, [26]. ► Pulse from 120 to 140; small and wiry, [43]. [410.] ► Slow pulse, 24 to the minute, [4].
► Quick and irregular pulse, [45]. ► Pulse small and irregular,
[37]. ► Pulse
small, irregular, at times convulsive, [19]. ► Pulse large, slow, and intermitting (second day), [44]. ► Pulse, in four
cases small, contracted, and slow, in one case (a full-blooded boy) hard, full, and
frequent, with red face and dry skin, [25]. ► Pulse hard, small, and very slow (after three hours), [44]. ► Pulse full and
hard, [33]. ► Pulse
hard (third day), [13]. ►
Hard and contracted pulse (second day), [44]. [420.] ► Pulse contracted, [23]. ► Hard and
contracted, [18]. ►
Pulse small, contracted, but regular, [14]. ► Pulse small, weak, hard, contracted, [29]. ► Depressed pulse (soon), [41]; (second day), [44].
► Pulse oppressed (second day), [41]. ► Laboring pulse (soon
after), [41].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Lancinating pain at nape of neck, on bending head backwards (third day), [49]. ► Stitch in the left
shoulder-blade, on moving the head (third day), [49]. ► Pain between the shoulders, [28].
[430.] ► Pain in the
loins, [25]. ► In
the loins and sacrum, at the navel and in the iliac region acute lancinating pains were
complained of in each case, [43].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
Objective. ► Trembling of the limbs, [4], [19], etc. ► Convulsive movements of the limbs, [4], [45]. ► Slight convulsions in limbs (second day), [44]. ► Spasms of the limbs, [4]. ► Constant painful
jerkings in the hands and feet, extending upward into the upper arm and into the legs, with
cramps in the calves; this jerking very plainly alternated between the flexor and extensor
tendons, [29]. ►
*Periodic spasmodic contraction of the fingers and toes, frequently so severe that the
fingers could scarcely be extended by any force; these contractions were painful,
[29]. ► Unusual
loss of power of the arms and limbs (after several day), [20].
► Weakness of the limbs, [21].
[440.] ► A gradually
increasing weakness and prostration of the limbs, [22].
► Weakness and pain (aching) in the limbs for several
days, [50]. ►
Subjective. ► Extremities benumbed, [43]. ► Pains and cramp
in the extremities, [39]. ►
Pain in the limbs as from exhaustion (third day), [23].
► Pain at the elbow, in the bend of the knees, etc., with
a feeling of languor in all the limbs, [28]. ► Cramps in the extremities, [27].
► *Cramps in the extremities, and convulsive movements of the
limbs, [1]. ►
*Violent drawing and tension in the limbs, frequently associated with shuddering and
chilliness, though the skin was not cold, [22].
► Bruised sensation and feeling of paralysis in the
extremities and small of the back, so that it was difficult to use the limbs, associated
with tearing pains (fourth day), [29].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Objective. [450.] ►
No power to hold anything in the hand (fourth day), [29].
► Subjective. ►
Tearing pains in the upper extremities, [25]. ► Hands. ► Hands became
numbed (after twelve hours), (one case), [48]. ► Fingers. ► Nails white
(after twelve hours), (one case), [48].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Objective. ► Great weakness of the legs, [30]. ► Remarkable
weakness of the legs, [4]. (See S. 493.) ► Subjective. ►►
*Cramps in the lower extremities, especially in the calves, [25]. ► Thighs. ► Pains in the thighs, [21].
► Dull pain in the muscles of the thighs on the anterior
surface, [4]. ► Legs.
► Lies constantly with the legs drawn up, [30]. [460.] ► Cramps in the calves, [4],
[21]. ► Violent
cramps in the calves, [24]. ►
As the pulse rose and they became warm, violent cramping, paroxysmally, in the calves,
appeared in two cases, drawing one limbs sideways and backward, but always relieved by
rubbing, [50]. ► Toes.
► Both large toes were tetanically drawn downwards, with
most violent pains in the soles of the feet, [24].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
► Objective.
► Emaciation, [9]. ► Emaciation of a greater or less degree, in all cases, lasting
a long time, and only after several months did the natural weight and healthy color return, [22]. ► Great loss of
flesh, [34]. ► On
venesection, the blood showed an inflammatory crust (second day), [41]. ► Most of the patients lay
still and apathetic, looking straight ahead with dim, lustreless eyes and a stupid relaxed
expression, [22]. ►
Lying on the back, with the head bent backward, [14]. [470.] ► The limbs and trunk
were stiff, the jaws clenched, [4]. ► Great trembling, especially of the hands, which incapacitated
them from holding anything with safety, [35]. ► The whole frame seemed to writhe under the pain, [43]. ► Frequent
twitchings at nig (“during sleep”), [8]. ► Convulsions, [26];
(fifth day), [41]. ►
*Convulsions; his limbs and body were stiff, jaws clenched, [13]. ► Convulsions, with constant
vomiting and violent pains in the abdomen, which gradually passed into a paralysis, [7]. ► Convulsions (in
only one case out of thirty-one, a robust woman of 47) after violent pains in the last
dorsal vertebræ, which were not sensitive to pressure; the pains extended suddenly into the
left arm, as far as the wrist; the arm was spasmodically flexed and extended for several
minutes, followed by loss of power (with perfect sensibility), lasting several hours; these
attacks returned on the two following days, gradually becoming weaker; the paralytic
weakness of the arm and pain in the back disappeared on the following day, [22]. ► Convulsions that seemed to
involve more particularly the abdomen and the upper and lower extremities; when thus
attacked, they uttered a horrible cry, a sort of howl, or croaking resembling the croaking
of frogs. They rose in their beds with irresistible force, so that the strongest men were
unable to keep them down. They were quite crazy, looked frightened and attempted to escape;
their eyes glistened and seemed to start from their sockets. They stared and looked wild.
These paroxysms came so frequently that they seemed to continue without any interruption. If
one was attacked, the other persons, upon hearing the cries of their companion, were
likewise attacked with rage. Thus they kept up a sort of reciprocal howling. Two of these
persons are even now in this sort of sympathetic state of suffering, although they occupy
entirely separate rooms; as soon as one feels the attack coming on, the other is likewise
affected, [28]. ►
Convulsions, followed by death in sixty hours, [11]. [480.] ► All the muscles
agitated with violent convulsions; the limbs remaining rigid in the intervals (after three
hours), [44]. ►
Convulsions so violent that six men had to hold him, [8].
► Convulsions so violent that two men scarcely hold the
children, [8]. ►
Pressure upon stomach produced violent convulsions (after three hours), [44]. ► Several spasmodic fits
(third day), [41]. ►
Several members of the same family were at different times attacked with severe epileptic
fits, [38]. ►
Paralysis, [7]. ►
General lowness (second day), [44]. ► Lassitude, [39]. [490.] ► Great loss of
strength, [34]. ►
General weakness, [26]. ►
Great weakness, [25]. ►
Remarkable weakness of the whole body, [4]. [See S.
455] ► Excessive weakness; the knees sink under her, [29]. ► Throughout the
whole attack, with the exception of the lady who had spasms of the chest, there was not the
least restlessness, they seeming too weak to move a finger, [50].
► Extreme debility of constitution (after partial
recovery), [43]. ►
Exhaustion, [17], [18],
[22]. ► Great
exhaustion, for several days, [50]. ► Great exhaustion, so that she was scarcely able to sit
upright in bed; in attempting to rise from bed, attacks of vertigo and faintness (second
day), [29]. [500.]
► Prostration, [22].
► Prostration of strength, [43].
► Great prostration of strength, [37]. ► Faintness, [17]. ► (Repeated fainting), [4]. [When fatigued with much vomiting.] ► Great restlessness, [14],
[30].; (third day), [49].
► He is very uneasy and utters a piercing cry from time
to time, [4]. ►
Extreme agitation (second day), [44]. ► Subjective. ► Great
sensitiveness to changes in the weather, for a long time, [22].
► General heaviness (two cases), [45]. [510.] ► A sensation of inner restlessness and anxiety, [22]. ► A sensation of absolute
prostration and exhaustion, and in some the slightest motion caused a kind of faintness, [22]. ► Unwell and drowsy
(after twenty-two hours), (one cases), [48]. ► General distress and uneasiness (soon), [39]. ► Pains shooting through the
whole body, especially on the right side, causing a shuddering, [5]. ► Pains in the bones, in the
morning, with headache and nausea, [8]. ► Pains in the bones, with headache, during the remissions of
delirium and convulsions, [8]. ►
All the symptoms of cholera morbus, [39]. ► Copper causes enormous vomitings, profuse discharges of bile
both upwards and downwards, inflammations and erosions of both stomach and bowels, delirium,
convulsions, syncope, and death, [38]. ► Spinning vertigo, nausea, vomiting of mucus, saliva running
together and flowing from mouth, coppery taste on tongue, cutting pain in abdomen,
constriction of chest, violent palpitation of the heart, sensation of coldness along the
sternum, coldness of the extremities, internal heat in the abdomen, and great thirst; after
Cupr. ac. accidentally taken in a large (homœopathic) dose, [51].
[520.] ► General
cramps (fifth day), [41]. ►
A girl about ten years old was not attacked till next day, [35].
► An old person was not affected till the third day, [35]. ► Aggravation from
lying down; almost as soon as he assumed the horizontal position, the symptoms, which had
subsided, returned (excepting retention of urine), (third day), [49]. ► After diarrhœa, relief of
the pains and of the hardness of the abdomen, followed usually by the nervous symptoms, [22].
SKIN.
► Objective. ► Skin, pale, earthy, yellowish, without a real jaundice, [22]. ► Skin of a
light-yellow color, especially on the face and conjunctiva (third day), [49]. ► Skin flabby and relaxed,
especially with a sunken face, [22]. ► Contraction of the skin of all the limbs, [4]. ► Eruptions. ► Eruptions on the skin, [2].
[530.] ► Eruption
seemingly of a leprous kind, consisting of spots of different sizes, the largest of which
were white and scaly, with moist base, appearing as if something acrimonious had been
secreted under the cuticle, with thickened, rose and separated from the cutis. It was more
or less all over the body, and very much amongst the hair of the head. There was no itching
and no particular pain. The quantity of eruption was in exact proportion to the amount of
soup eaten (after two days), [32]. ► Rash on the chest and hands, [5].
► Petechial spots on neck and arms (third day), [41]. ► Subjective.
► Sensation like pin-pricks from within outwards in the
skin of the face, and on the cheeks, forehead, head, and various other parts of the body
(third day), [49]. ►
Formication in the hands, especially the finger-tips (third day), [49].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Sleepiness.
► Yawns and is sleepy, yet cannot get to sleep, on
account of a crowd of ideas which he cannot drive off (third day), [49]. ► Great sleepiness (second
day), [41]. ► Great
inclination to slumber, which, however, was frequently interrupted by dreams, [22]. ► Lethargic sleep after
vomiting, [4]. ►
Soporous condition, especially in children, [22]. [540.] ► Inclination to coma
(third day), [41]. ►
Great disposition to coma, which existed in three cases, [25].
► Comatose state, [52].
► Sleeplessness. ►
Complete sleeplessness, frequently lasting three or four days, [22]. ► Sleep uneasy, not
refreshing, [22]. ►
Sleep, restless, interrupted by dreams, [22]. ► Dreams. ► Anxious
dreams, frightening her in sleep so that she awoke (second day), [29].
FEVER.
► Chilliness.
► Coldness (after forty-two hours), (after twelve hours),
[48]. ► Coldness of
surface (fifth day), [41]. ►
Surface cold, and bathed in perspiration, [37]. [550.] ► Coldness of the skin,
[22]. ► Skin became
cold, [43]. ► Icy
coldness of the whole body, [29]. ► Repeated shaking chill, so that the patient seemed to be
affected with an intermittent (in one case), [22]. ► Shivering, [41]. ► Shivering in body (after twenty-five hours), [48]. ► Sensation of coldness
along sternum, [51]. ►
*Coldness of the extremities, [45]. ► *Coldness and severe cramp in extremities (soon after), [41]. ► *Cold extremities,
[15]. [560.] ► Extremities icy cold, [25].
► Upper and lower extremities of icy coldness, and
covered with a cold sweat, [52]. ► *Coldness and cramps of limbs (soon), [41]. ► *Coldness of legs, hands, and
feet (after twelve hours), [48]. ► Hands and feet cold, [29].
► The legs continue cold for four days, [29]. ► Heat. ► Skin warm, frequently covered with profuse sweat, [22]. ► Skin warm and
dry, [22]. ►
Pungent heat of skin, [43]. ►
Fever (second day), [13], [18], [21]. [570.] ► Some fever, with a
full, hard, frequent pulse, which was very variable without sufficient cause, even in the
same case, in only four individuals out of thirty-one, [22].
► Symptoms of acute fever set in immediately after the
vomiting, etc., [43]. ►
Violent fever, [3]. ►
Sweat. ► Sweat (fourth day), [13]. ► Profuse sweat, [19]. ► Profuse
night-sweats, [34]. ►
Cold sweat, [25]. ►
During the collapse, the patients were covered with a cold clammy sweat, especially on the
forehead, but would lie quietly, only moaning, the cheeks and eyes sunken, a bluish hue to
the face, and the lower jaw hanging down, [50]. ► Skin dry and burning (third day), [49]. ► Skin at first day,
afterwards moist and frequently (especially in great prostration) covered with profuse
sweat, [22]. [580.]
► Profuse sweat on the forehead, [29]. ► Collection of light-green
perspiration (in which copper was found on analysis) between the toes, and underneath the
nails, [46].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), Pains in
bones. ► (Evening),
Headache. ► (Night),
Sweat. ► (After drinking),
Vomiting. ► (Lying down),
General symptoms, except retention of urine. ► (Pressure), Headache; pains in intestines. ►
(Sitting), Anxiety, etc., in chest. ► (Diarrhœic stools), The
sufferings. ► (Vomiting),
Distress in stomach, etc. ► Amelioration. ► (Rubbing), Cramps in
calves. ► (Diarrhœic stools),
Vertigo; general symptoms; pains, etc., of abdomen.® 2000
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