FERRUM.
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Bladder. ► Pains in
bladder, [12]. ► Extremely distressing tenesmus vesicæ,
commencing with tickling in the fossa navicularis, obliging him to
urinate very frequently (sixteen times a day, on the previous day only
ten times, passing from 1 to 2 ounces at a time); this became very
severe, and from 7 to 10 P.M. was associated with a tormenting tenesmus
recti in the evening (third day), [14a].
► Urethra. ► (Gonorrhœa) mucous discharges from the
urethra after a chill, [1]. ► (When urinating, burning pain in urethra,
as if the urine was hot), [1]. [420.] ►
Slight soreness in urethra when urinating, [12]. ►
Tickling in the urethra, especially in the fossa navicularis, in the
afternoon; this is associated with urging to urinate (fifth day), [13]. ►
Sensation of tickling in the urethra, gradually extending along the
whole urethra, on commencing to urinate, continuing for several seconds
afterwards; this increased during the subsequent days, and during the
whole proving was associated with persistent and unusually frequent
desire to urinate, with no noticeable increase of the quantity of urine
passed daily, [15]. ► *Continual desire to urinate, with pain in
liver, chest, and kidneys, [12].
► *Urging to urinate, with tickling in
the urethra extending to the neck of the bladder (sixth day),
[13]. ►
Urging to urinate continues from the fifth day, during the proving, [13]. ►
Urging to urinate seldom, with unusually frequent micturition, [17]. ►
Urging to urinate entirely absent during the night, but
occurring regularly during the day, about 8 A.M. and towards 5 P.M.,
lasting two or three hours very severely, relieved while sitting and
lying, but when walking becoming intolerably aggravated, reaching its
greatest severity on the seventh day (sometimes occurring every five or
ten minutes), continuing during the eighth and ninth days (when omitting
the medicine), and after the total suspension of the medicine it quite
speedily disappeared, although it could still be felt after fourteen
days; the character of the trouble varied somewhat, since it became more
and more plainly a neuralgic affection; usually there appeared twice in
the day, between 8 and 9 A.M. and 6 and 7 P.M., a sensation of tickling
and warmth in the glans penis, which was associated with an irresistible
desire to urinate, and, on urinating, as soon as the urine reached the
glans, there was felt in it an exceedingly distressing pulsation, even
continuing several minutes after micturition, together with constantly
increasing tenesmus vesicæ; the distress was relieved by rapidly
drinking a large quantity of water, but especially by strong compression
of the glans penis with the finger, the longer it lasted the more easily
relieved; this appeared for the last times one month after commencing
the last proving, after a copious dinner, and then disappeared entirely,
[14a]. ►
Micturition. ► Throughout
the proving an increased activity of the kidneys was manifested; the
amount of urine passed daily was larger than the fluid drink, which
might be explained by the temperature of the season; the color of the
urine changed during the last six days of the proving from a deep
wine-yellow to reddish; its sp. gr. rose, with some variations, from
1005 to 1025, the reaction always acid, but towards the end of the
proving only slightly so, [13]. ► On several different days perceived urine
in quantity, more colorless that usual, accompanied by a sensation of
prostration and relaxation, rendering him extremely nervous, [12]. [430.]
► *Involuntary urination, especially by
day, [1]. ► Occasional slight, involuntary discharge
of urine when standing, [12]. ► Involuntary wetting the bed, at night
(two provers), [12]. ► On the might of the seventh day,
involuntary wetting the bed, quite copious, which never occurred before,
[12]. ►
Urine. ► Urine
light-colored and depositing a whitish sediment, [22]. ► Urine
dark yellow (second and third days), [19].
► It makes the urine blood-red
plentifully charged with blood-corpuscles, [24]. ► Sp.
gr. of the urine rose from 1005 or 1010 to 1025, and the straw-yellow
color gradually changed during the first proving to a wine-yellow and
reddish, [14a]. ► A sediment in the urine appeared on the
third day, [17]. ► Increased mucous secretion in the urinary
passages, as shown by the turbidity of the urine, [14]. [440.] ► Profuse mucous sediment in the urine
(eighteenth day), [13].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Erections of
penis, [1]. ►
Erections of penis by day, almost without cause, [1]. ► Nocturnal
emissions, [1]. ► A seminal emission, [12]. ► A
pollution, not followed by weakness, [12].
► Female. ► Sterility without abortion, [1]. ►
Abortion, [1]. ► Pain near mouth of uterus when lying
down, [12]. ►
Sticking, shooting pain in uterus, [12].
[450.] ►
Leucorrhœa like whey, which (at first) caused smarting and soreness, [1]. ►
A previously painless white discharge becomes painful as if the parts
were raw, [1]. ► Prolapsus of vagina only during
pregnancy, not at other times, [1].
► Less dryness in vagina on
commencing coitus, and more pleasure in it, [12]. ►
Painfulness of the vagina during coition, [1].
► Menstrual flow amounting to
menorrhagia, and lasting six days; considerable discharge of pale blood,
obliging her to keep perfectly still, as the least movement increased it
prodigiously, [22]. ► Metrorrhagia, [8]. ► The
catamenia, which were about due, came immediately after the iron bath,
and twice as copious as usual, [1].
[This is the primary action of Iron;
the following symptoms (458 to 462), are secondary effects, therefore it
is only in those cases of suppression of the menses wherein the other
symptoms correspond homœopathically to Iron
that this metal can be curative. -Hahnemann.] ►
Catamenia came on one day later; the discharge is scantier, consists of
watery blood, and is accompanied by violent cutting in abdomen (after
six days), [1]. ► Menses some days retarded, [1]. [460.] ► The catamenia leave off for two or three
days and then reappear, [1]. ► Menses cease for eight weeks, [1]. ►
Menses cease for three years, [1].
[From constant use of ferruginous water. -Hahnemann.] ► Before the occurrence of the catamenia,
discharge of long stringy bits of mucus from the uterus, during which
she had the sensations in the abdomen usually attending the catamenia, [1]. ►
Menses came on, with feeling of wretchedness, a prostration of physical
power and a mental depression united, which rendered it nearly
impossible to rise and go through the duties of the day; was compelled
to make the effort, and the exertion conquered the languor and
depression; the latter part of the day felt well, better than usual, and
the pain usually suffered at the commencement of the menses entirely
disappeared, [12]. ► During menses, felt not pain, nor any of
the distressing sensation in the limbs, extending from the back to the
knees, which heretofore were always present, [12].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx. ►
A hot vapor rises out of the windpipe, [8].
[With Ss. 502 and 485. -Hughes.] ►
Painful sensation in the larynx, provoking coughing and hawking,
aggravated by pressure upon it, on waking in the morning, but towards
noon giving place to a similar sensation behind the upper third of the
sternum; on hawking and coughing, expectoration of frothy, tenacious
mucus, mixed with black blood, frequently till 4 P.M. (fifteenth day), [13]. ►
In the evening, in bed, her glottis contracts, the blood rushes to the
head, she feels a burning externally in the throat and between the
shoulder-blades, and on the upper part of the body generally, whilst the
feet are cold; in the morning, perspiration, [1]. ► Voice.
► *Hoarseness, with sensation of
roughness in the larynx (after eight days), lasting two
weeks, [16]. [470.] ►
*Voice almost extinct, utterance difficult, and panting, [22]. ►
Cough and Expectoration. ►
Cough all day and also after lying down in the evening, [1]. ►
Night-cough, [12]. ► *Cough worse when moving, [1]. ►
(Increased dry cough), [8]. ► Dull cough without expectoration, and
when he coughs it seems as if he could not get air, [1]. ► Whilst
suckling the child, cough, with expectoration of blood, [1]. ► Cough
dry in the evening after lying down, but with expectoration on waking, [1]. ►
In the morning, he expectorates much pus (with putrid taste), [1]. ►
A large quantity of white purulent expectoration after slight coughing,
increased by smoking tobacco and drinking brandy, [1]. [480.] ► On waking in the morning, much greenish
purulent expectoration, with sickly taste, [1]. ► *Scanty,
thin, frothy expectoration, with
streaks of blood, [8]. ► By hacking he expectorates bloody mucus
(after five days), [1]. ► *Coughing up of blood in the morning on rising
from bed, [1]. ► Nocturnal coughing up of blood, followed
by increased dyspnœa, [1]. ► After a tickling in the throat, with a
slight dry cough, a spoonful of bright-red blood came up, [12]. ► *Hæmoptisis,
[8]. [With Ss. 502, 466, 517.
-Hughes.] ► Respiration. ► Panting respiration, [22]. ►
Wheezing under the sternum, with slight inclination to cough through the
night; disappeared after rising, [12].
► Some mucous râles behind the
manubrium sterni (fifteenth day), [13].
[490.] ►
Difficult breathing, from heaviness in left lung, [12]. ►►
*Difficult breathing and oppression of the chest, as if some one pressed
with the hand upon it, [1].
► *He cannot get any air; even when
seated his breathing is difficult, [1]. ► *Uneasy
breathing, from pain across chest, [12]. ►►
*Dyspnœa, [8], [22]. ►
Dyspnœa; difficult, slow respiration, relieved by walking
and talking, or by constant employment in reading or writing; it is
worse when he sits quiet and idle, and still worse when lying,
especially in the evening; he must take several breaths before he can
fill the lungs with air, [4]. ► Dyspnœa and weariness of the limbs,
generally worse in the forenoon; often better when he has walked a
little; only sometimes it becomes intolerably bad when walking in the
open air, [1]. ► Sometimes he must sit up in bed after
midnight on account of dyspnœa, [1].
► Suffocating sensation, from a
quivering and palpitation in stomach, [12].
► Asthma (among workmen in needle
manufactories), (Buchner), [12]. [500.] ► A
kind of asthma; anxiety in the pit of the stomach, preventing
respiration, [1].
CHEST.
►
Consumption of lungs, from iron filings given for a tapeworm (L. W.
Sachs), [12]. ► Rush of blood to the chest, [8]. ►
Sensation of dryness and mucus on the chest; the dryness is relieved for
a short time only by drinking, [1].
► Pain in chest and liver, [12]. ►
Pain in the chest and stitches and tension between the scapulæ; he
could not move, [1]. ► Pain in right chest, liver, and kidneys,
with constant desire to urinate, [12].
► Pain in left clavicle, as if it had
fallen asleep, [1]. ► An old pain in left lung revived, not
accompanied by a cough, and passed away in one or two days, [12]. ►
At slight dull heavy pain across upper part of chest, rendering
breathing uneasy, continuing many days, [12].
[510.] ►
Fulness and contraction of the chest, [1].
► Contractive cramp in the chest, [1]. ►
*Contractive cramp in the chest, and cough only when moving and walking,
[1]. ►
Tightness of the chest, as if it was constricted; anxious asthma,
aggravated by walking, [1]. ► Drawing pain in chest and heart, [12]. ►
Dull drawing pain across the chest, [12].
► Some oppression of the chest (sixth
day), [13]. ►
Oppression in the chest, as if it were constricted, [8]. ►
Oppression of the whole chest, with need of taking a deep breath
(seventh day), [13]. ► (The child is oppressed in the chest;
rattling), [1]. [520.] ►
Weight across the chest, [12]. ► A slight heaviness in upper part of left
lung, rendering breathing rather difficult, and feels sore below the
clavicle and left nipple, hindering him from taking a long breath, [12]. ►
Sticking-cutting pain in chest, [12].
► Stitches all over the chest, [12]. ►
Stitches in right chest, [12]. ► Slight stitches through the lungs
(seventh day), [13]. ► Pain in the chest, as if bruised, [1]. ►
Full inspiration increased pain in chest, [12].
► Front. ►
Pain below sternum, [12]. ► Burning at the upper part of the sternum,
after coughing, [1]. [530.] ► *A
pressure superiorly under the sternum, with catarrh and cough,
[1]. ►
At night, in bed, stitches in the sternum, [1]. ► Sides.
► A dull sticking pain in right side,
with sore feeling of neck, as if bruised, [12].
► During bodily exercise, stitches in
the side, [1]. ► A violent stitch in the side under the
rib (after twenty-four hours), [1].
► Mammæ. ► Wandering-sticking pains in breast, [12]. ►
Heavy sore pain below left nipple, [12].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Bruit de
souffle perceptible now and then at the heart, [22]. ►
Tension in the præcordial region (seventh day), [13]. ►
Drawing pain around heart and in chest, [12].
► Heart’s Action. [540.] ►
*Rapid action of the heart (fifteenth day), [13]. ► Slight
palpitation, especially on movement, [22].
► Pulse. ► *Small weak pulse, sometimes
intermittent, sometimes uneven, [22].
► Scarcely perceptible pulse, [8]. [See not to S. 187. -Hughes.] ► Pulse 61, tense (seventh day); 55, full
and tense (eleventh day); 54, small and tense (fifteenth day); 60,
rather fuller and still tense (sixteenth day); 67, still tense
(eighteenth day); 68, less tense (nineteenth day); 70, moderately large
and soft (twenty-first day); 75, normal, as before the proving
(twenty-second day), [13]. ► Pulse 68 to 72, soft, not full, [12]. ►
Pulse 72, with fever, [12]. ► Between 4 and 5 P.M., pulse 68 to 72, not
hard, pretty warm, and a slight headache, [12].
► Pulse 68 to 72, with fever, [12]. ►
Pulse 68 (first day) 60, natural (third day); natural (eighth day), [12]. [550.]
► Pulse usually 76, gradually feel to
70, but afterwards returned to the normal; the tension of the pulse
increased, [17]. ► Pulse before the proving 75; during the proving
it decreased two to four beats a day; on the last day it was only 54;
immediately after stopping the medicine it became more frequent, but
only reached its normal after eight days; coincident with the slowness
of the pulse there was diminution of fulness, with remarkable rise of
the tonus in the walls of the arteries; the character of the pulse
corresponded to the rapid action of the heart; this condition is the
more noteworthy since the summer temperature has exactly the opposite
effect upon healthy people, [13]. ► Pulse normally 76, becoming reduced during the
first eight days to 62, rapidly rising during the
intermission between the first and second provings to 73, but again
sinking on renewing the proving in three days to 63, after the fourth
day becoming much more frequent in spite of the continuance of the
medicine (probably dependent upon the distressing urinary troubles), [14a]. ►
Pulse, normally 70 to 74, gradually diminishing to 62; during
the first half of the proving there was a great variation, but it never
rose to 70, [16]. ► The pulse was decidedly harder during the
latter part of the proving, and retarded (60, the normal, 75 to 80), [13].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Neck and back of
head stiff and sore, [12]. ► At 8 A.M. neck feels stiff, hands and
feet cold, hands most so; feet quite cold all night, but not so much so
as night previous (fourteenth day), [12].
► Pain in neck, [12]. ► When
lying on the right side, neck and shoulder severely painful, [12]. ►
Soreness and stiffness of neck, [12].
[560.] ►
Neck sore, as if bruised, [12]. ► Back. ►
Pain in back, with menses, [12]. ► The distressing pain in back and limbs,
from which she suffered during her whole life, have never returned with
the menses, [12]. ► A kind of tearing in the back, even when
sitting and lying, [1]. ► Dorsal. ►
A kind of paralysis; inability to raise the arms on account of painful
tension between the scapulæ and in the sternum, [1]. ► When
she works with her arms she has stitches in the scapulæ, [1]. ► Between
the scapulæ a kind of tearing, even when sitting, which is aggravated
by walking, [1]. ► Lumbar. ►
Lumbago all night, goes off on rising, [12].
► Lumbago in left lumbar region, [12]. ►
Pain in small of back. [12]. [570.] ►
Pain in small of back and liver, [12].
► On rising, a slight soreness in the
small of the back, with rumbling in bowels, [12]. ► Pain
in region of the kidneys, [12]. ► Pains in kidneys, [12]. ► Sacral.
► Pains in sacrum, on rising from a
seat, [1]. ►
An aching pain on each side of the sacrum, at its junction with the ossa
innominata, [12]. ► Whilst walking, stitchlike jerks in the
sacrum, which extend more towards the hips than upwards; more painful
after sitting or standing, almost as if he had strained himself, [1]. ►
Bruised pain in sacrum, [1].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Objective. ►
*Swelling of the hands, and legs up to the knees, [1]. ►
The fingers and toes are drawn up with cramp with great pain, [1]. [580.]
► Stiffness in fingers and toes, [12]. ►
Toes and fingers stiff, [12]. ► Subjective. ►
Feeling of exhaustion and heaviness of the limbs (thirteenth day), [13]. ►
Heaviness of limbs for forty-eight hours, [1].
► Heaviness of the limbs, with
general exhaustion (thirty-eighth day), [14].
► Heaviness, weariness, and
relaxation of limbs, [1]. ► Distressing sensations in limbs, from
back to knees, with menses, [12]. ► Pains in the joints, [12]. ► Limbs
sore and languid; quite restless, [12].
► Pain in limbs from touch, [12].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Objective. [590.]
► A lameness in right arm, with
disinclination to move it, involuntarily assisting it with the left
hand, [12]. ►
Arms nearly rigid, [12]. ► Arm entirely stiff, and severe pain, [12]. ►
Arm immovable, fixed in a straight position, with trembling and
chilliness all over; took a dose of Ran, bulb, [200], which aggravated all the symptoms in two
hours to an extreme height; soon after improvement gradually occurred
from the fingers upwards, being greatly relieve about 11 P.M.; much
better next day (but the pain continued for fifteen days, and was always
worse in the morning), [12]. ► Cannot keep his arms still, but must
sometimes flex and sometimes extend them, [1].
► Pains worse, arm more stiff; a
bending position of the arm towards the chest renders it more tolerate;
pain increases, motion and change of position aggravated it; the weight
of the bedcover makes it intolerable, [12].
► Subjective. ► An irresistible desire to bend the arm
was followed by such intense pain as to drive him out of bed at 2 A.M.;
after walking about for an hour and a half, went to bed again, and fell
asleep in a sitting position, [12].
► *Downward-shooting pains (in shoulders
and arms), more severe than the shooting upwards, [12]. ►
Drawing in the arm, whereby it feels heavy and as if paralyzed, [1]. ►
Shoulder. ► Creaking in
the shoulder-joint, which feels bruised on being touched, [1]. [600.] ► Shoulder and neck painful, [12]. ► Boring
pain in shoulder, passing down to finger ends, [12]. ► Boring
pain in right shoulder-joint, passing down the biceps to the
elbow-joint; motion aggravates the pain, heat relieves it; pain worse at
irregular intervals, [12]. ► Shoulder sore to the touch, [12]. ►
A continual soreness in front part of right shoulder, and also in right
arm, [12]. ►
Pain changes its location, at one time the shoulder, at another the
elbow-joint is most affected, [12].
► Arm. ►
*He cannot raise the right arm; has shooting and tearing in the
shoulder-joint, which pains as if bruised when touched, down through the
upper arm, and his shoulder-joint creaks, [1].
► *A slight pinching pain in deltoid
muscle of the right arm, [12].
► Shooting and tearing in the upper
arm from the shoulder-joint, so that he cannot raise his arm, [1]. ►
Pain, shooting and tearing, from the shoulder-joint into the upper arm
and farther downwards, which makes it impossible to raise it, [1]. [610.]
► Arms feel sore and stiff; weight
across chest, and back of head from ear to ear, [12]. ► Elbow.
► Sticking pain in elbow-joint of
left arm (tenth day), [12]. ► Sharp sticking pain in left elbow, [12]. ►
Wrist. ► Pain in left
wrist, as if sprained, [12]. ► Sharp shooting pain in the left wrist and
back of hand, thumb most painful when moving it, [12]. ► Hand.
► Swelling of the hands, afterwards
the skin desquamates, [1]. ► In the morning, on trying to work, she
has trembling in the hands, [1]. ► In the evening, the hands tremble so much
she cannot sew, [12]. ► While writing, no power over the pen, the
hand trembles; writes better when writing fast; when reading and writing
the letters run into each other, [12].
► Left hand nearly numb, right hand
cold, [12]. [620.] ►
Hands sore and stiff, [12]. ► Thumb of right hand very stiff, painful
on moving, [12]. ► Pain in fingers from the shoulder, [12]. ►
A rheumatic pain in the phalangeal joints of left hand, [12]. ► On
moving, pain in thumb, [12]. ► Cramp in fingers, which are numb and
insensible, [1].® 2000
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