FERRUM.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Lower extremities weak, [12]. ► A kind
of paralysis; a tearing with violent stitches from the hip-joint down to
the tibia and sole of the foot (the ball is always painful when touched,
as if bruised); by day he cannot step on account of pains, which,
however, diminish when he walks; in the evening after lying down they
are worse; he must get up and walk about in order to relieve the pains
until midnight, [1]. ► Hip. ►
*Shooting and tearing in the hip-joint, which pains as if bruised when
touched, down along the tibia; worse in the evening, in bed; he must get
up and walk about, [1].
► Thigh. ►
Numbness in thigh, [1]. [630.] ►
Paralytic pains in thigh, also when sitting; after sitting some time in
a crouching position, she has to relieve herself by stretching out the
feet: when she rises from her seat the paralytic pain is worse; it goes
off, however, on walking, [1]. ► Tonic cramp of thigh and legs, [9]. [From iron applied to the soles of
the feet. -Hahnemann. “In case of chorea.” -Hughes.] ► Aching pains, extending from right heel
into thigh, [12]. ► Knee. ►
Swelling of knees and ankles and pain therein, especially on extending
the knee in bed, [1]. ► On rising from a seat relaxation and
weariness in the hollows of the knees, especially when walking; [On
commencing to walk. -Hahnemann.] after standing still, [1]. ►
Weakness of knees, so that he sinks down (immediately), [1]. ► On
account of pains in the knees, as if over-fatigued, he must sometimes
flex, and sometimes extend them, he cannot keep them still, [1]. ►
A contractive pain in knee and ankle-joints, [1]. ► Leg.
► The varicose vein in the left leg
continued to extend itself downward, more painful to the touch, [12]. ►
The legs tremble, and pain on walking, as if bruised, [1]. [640.] ► Calves very weak, as if bruised, [12]. ►
Legs feel as if gone to sleep, [1].
► A very disagreeable sensation
between the knee and ankle of the left leg, as of a swollen vein, very
painful to touch, and occasionally inconvenient when walking, [12]. ►
When walking in the evening [When beginning to walk. -Hahnemann.] ► When standing, cramp in the calves, going
off when walking (after twenty-eight hours), [1]. ► On
rising from bed in the morning, painful cramp in the calf (after sixteen
hours), [1]. ►
A painful drawing in legs, [1]. ► Acute pain, like moving a screw through
the right leg, on walking, [12]. ► Bruised pain in legs in the morning, in
bed, that goes off soon after rising, [1].
► Foot. ►
Feet swollen to the ankles, [1]. [650.] ►
Has to takes off boots, [12]. ► Varicose veins in the feet, [1]. ►
After resting from walking stiffness in the feet, on attempting to move
them again, [1]. ► After eating, weariness in feet, [1]. ►
Her feet will not support her, [1].
► Cramps in right foot, [12]. ►
Cramps in the feet, in the evening, first in the left, drawing up the
limbs, [12]. ►
Cramps in the feet, relieved by pressing them against the foot board, [12]. ►
Feet sore and stiff, [12]. ► Shooting-pricking pain in right instep, [12]. [660.]
► *Cramp in the soles of the feet,
[12]. ►
Painful cramp in soles, [1]. ► Heel pains, [12]. ► Toes.
► *Frequent cramp in toes and soles,
[1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► *Considerable
emaciation, [22]. ► The blood before the proving bright red,
colorless corpuscles few, unusually large, coagulated in seven minutes
and fifty seconds, serum yellowish, clear, alkaline, coagulum moderately
firm; after the proving the blood still unusually bright, corpuscles
very deeply colored, colorless corpuscles few and small, coagulated in
eight minutes and twenty seconds, coagulum firm and elastic, [16]. ►
Blood before taking was bright red, with numerous colored corpuscles,
and few colorless, coagulated in five minutes and thirty-eight seconds;
serum yellowish, clear, alkaline; coagulum rather soft; after the
proving blood dark red, very deeply colored corpuscles, very numerous
colorless corpuscles; coagulated in five minutes and thirty seconds;
serum clear, yellow; coagulum soft, [15].
► Before taking, the blood was bright
red with few small, colorless corpuscles, and a remarkable number of
elementary corpuscles; coagulates in five minutes and fifty-four
seconds; serum clear yellow, alkaline; clot firm and elastic; after
taking the Iron fifteen days, blood dark red, corpuscles intensely
colored and very sharply margined; numerous large colorless corpuscles,
almost no elementary corpuscles; coagulated in eight minutes and
fifty-four seconds; serum remarkably dark yellow, alkaline; clot compact
and elastic, [13]. ► Blood before the proving rather bright
red, with faintly colored corpuscles, and few colorless ones; coagulated
in six minutes and fifty-seven seconds; after the proving a deep dark
red; corpuscles intensely colored; very numerous colorless corpuscles, [17].
[670.]
►
Trembling and chilly all over, with stiff arm, [12]. ►
Frequent attacks of trembling throughout the body, [1]. ► General
imperceptible trembling, alternating with spells of weakness,
accompanied by remarkable anxiety, [22].
► Great trembling throughout the
body, lasting weeks, [5]. ► General increase of vigor (sixth day), [13]. ►
Physically and mentally stronger while taking the Iron, [14]. ►
Diminished desire for physical or mental exertion (thirty-eighth day), [14]. ►
Inclination to lie down, [1]. ► Irresistible inclination to lie down
(after one hour), [1]. ► Very languid, drowsy, disinclined to
talk, or work, [12]. [680.] ►
Lassitude in the afternoon, [12]. ► Great lassitude, increasing towards
evening, [12]. ► *Easily fatigued by walking, [1]. ►
Constant weariness and sleepiness by day (sleep affords but slight
relief), [1]. ► Weak and sleepy all day, [12]. ► *General
weakness, caused by merely speaking, [1]. ► Loss of
strength, so that she could hardly walk, [22].
► *He is very weak and thin, [1]. ►
Very weak and sleepy (after two hours), [1],
[12]. ►
Very weak and sleepy all day, [12].
[690.] ►►
*Great weakness, [5]. ► Very great weakness, lie weariness
(immediately), [1]. ► Weakness of fatigue, alternating with
anxious trembling, [1]. ► Debility; falls asleep, [12]. ► Great
debility in the afternoon, [12]. ► Exhaustion gradually increasing during
the course of the day (tenth day), [13].
► *General exhaustion
(eighteenth day), [13]. ► Prostration of strength, with menses, [12]. ►
Prostration and lethargic dulness, with vertigo, [12]. ► *General
prostration, [22]. [700.] ►
Relaxed and prostrated, with increased urination, [12]. ►
Physical and mental energy increased during the first days of the
proving, but after the fourth day a sensation of weakness and heaviness
in the limbs, [17]. ► During the first fourteen days the
physical and mental energy seemed to be increased, during the last half
of the proving there was at first a periodical, but afterwards a
persistent feeling of weakness, relaxation and disinclination for
physical and mental exertion; weariness on the slightest exertion,
especially on walking, [16]. ► Attacks of syncope, [8]. ► Attacks
of syncope, which leave behind them weakness, lasting all day, [8]. ►
Great restlessness, cannot study or go through the daily duties, [12]. ►
Anxious tossing about in bed after midnight, [1]. ► Subjective.
► Unpleasant and uneasy feeling
through the entire body, [12]. ► Wretched feeling with menses, [12]. ►
On awaking, sensation as if magnetized; wished to resist inclination to
sleep, but did not succeed, [12]. [710.] ►
Feeling of fatigue, [12]. ► Feeling of extreme fatigue, aching in all
the limbs, [12]. ► When walking, faint feeling; darkness
before eyes, felt as if she would have an attack of apoplexy; at every
step roaring in ears and head, [1].
► All night wandering about on
account of pain, [12]. ► A kind of tired ache, like that
consequent upon lying in one position a very long time, [12]. ►
Nervous excitability after menses, [12].
► Extremely nervous, [12]. ► The
most abiding symptom was nervous hysterical feeling, a proneness to
weep, or to laugh immoderately, accompanied by a choking sensation in
the throat, as if it were swelling outwardly, so that provers frequently
examined the throat, to ascertain whether goitre was not being
developed; this symptom continued in a greater or less degree for at
least three months, [12]. ► For three successive monthly periods the
excessive nervousness, the headache and the varicose vein in the left
ankle, all returned; but never after that time, [12]. ►
Periodical return of pains (many provers), [12]. [720.] ► Walking in the open air effects her, [1]. ►
Vinegar does not increase the symptoms, [12].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► *Great paleness
of skin, [23]. ► Icteric discoloration around eyes, lips,
and nails, [22]. ► Eruption. ►
On top of right shoulder a round, red, itching spot (size of a dollar),
which peels off like dust in the evening and night, [12]. ► Spot
peeling off on shoulder, [12]. ► Very fine dust on the left hand, like
flour; the skin peels off in this dustlike form till the next morning, [12]. ►
(Scarlatina during desquamation corresponds to the peeling off of skin),
[12]. ►
Dark hepatic spots (e. g., on the
dorsum of the hand) inflame and suppurate, [1]. ► Subjective.
► Parts of the skin (e. g., on the dorsum of thumb, of toes,
etc.), which are the seat of burning pains when not touched, smart
intensely on the slightest touch, [1].
[730.] ►
Eyebrows itch, [12]. ► Nose itches, [12]. ► Slight
itching, and sticking, stabbing feeling above right knee, [12].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Frequent
gaping all day, [12]. ► In the morning, attack of stretching and
yawning, during which the eyes are full of water (after eight hours), [1]. ►
After dinner (noon), sleepiness and dizziness, also some headache over
the root of the nose; he could not undertake any mental employment, [1]. ►
Sleepy, with thirst, in evening, [12].
► Disposed to sleep more than usual, [12]. ►
Great disposition to sleep, it being almost impossible to keep awake
while reading, [12]. ► Apt to fall asleep when seated at any
time of day, [1]. [740.] ►
Very apt to go to sleep, [12]. ► Almost irresistible inclination to sleep
during the last days of the proving, [16].
► Falls asleep while sewing, she must
lie down; sleeps one hour, and awakes with excessive thirst, and cramps
in right foot, [12]. ► Sat down to study, fell asleep; slept an
hour or more, still felt very sleepy, and again went to sleep till 11
P.M.; went to bed, fell asleep immediately, [12]. ► Must
retire early, [12]. ► Heavy morning sleep till 9 o’clock, from
which he can scarcely rouse himself, [1].
► Sleep in the afternoon, [12]. ►
He sleeps with half-opened eyes, [1].
► Sleeplessness. ► Almost entire sleeplessness both day and
night; whenever she go to sleep, she would wake up in a quarter of an
hour, bathed in sweat, and suffering from extreme prostration and
epigastric anxiety; she felt as if life was leaving her, and then
followed a state of nervous excitement, [22].
► She lies long before going to
sleep, [1]. [750.] ►
He lies for half and whole hours before falling asleep, [1]. ► She
must lie for two or three hours before she falls asleep, [1]. ► She
falls asleep tired and sleeps,
though restlessly, and lies awake for a long time before again going off to
sleep, and yet is not tired when she gets up in the morning, [1]. ►
Light, not sound slumber-like sleep, [1].
► *At night restless sleep, [1]. ►
Restless, dreamy sleep, with seminal emissions, [1]. ►
Repeated waking at night, with quiet sleep only after 2 A.M. (second
night), [19]. ► He wakes every hour during the night, and
only falls into a light slumber again, [1].
► At night she can lie only on her
back; she cannot sleep on either side, [1].
► Dreams. ► *At night disturbed by dreams; on rising in the
morning much weariness, [1].
[760.] ►
*At night vivid dreams, [1].
► Sleep disturbed by very vivid and
anxious dreams (sixth day), [13]. ► Sleep disturbed by many confused dreams, [12]. ►
Sleep sounder than usual, but with unpleasant dreams, [12]. ► Very
unpleasant dreams, [12]. ► Did not sleep well, as sleep was much
disturbed by dreams of old friends, [12].
► Unpleasant dreams during the whole
night of friends and relative deceased twenty-five ears since, [12]. ►
Dreams he is in battle, that he has fallen into the water, etc., [1]. ►
Severe attack of nightmare (first day), [12].
► Rested well, but dreamed a great
deal of meeting with old schoolmates, of student life, etc., [12].
FEVER.
[770.]
► Chilliness. ► Chilliness, with headache, in the
morning, [12]. ► Chilliness and trembling all over, with
stiff arm, [12]. ► General chilliness the whole day, [12]. ►
More or less chilly all day, especially in the afternoon, then a little
feverish in the evening; quite chilly again, and did not get warm for a
long time, after going to bed, [12].
► Between 1 and 2 P.M. rather chilly
for a short time, [12]. ► At 5 P.M. a little chilly, then feverish
for a short time (fifteenth day), [12].
► Must go to bed in the afternoon
with a chill, [12]. ► In the afternoon violent chill for half
an hour, then thirst, must go to bed, followed by heat, with
perspiration (fourteenth day), [12].
► At 7.30 A.M. general coldness over
whole body, hands and feet very cold (second day), [12]. ► In the
evening in bed he became cold all over, instead of getting warmer, [1]. [780.]
► In the afternoon a little cold for
a short time, then a little feverish (fourteenth day), [12]. ► A
creeping feeling, slight chilliness all over, more in the back,
commencing at 7 A.M., [12]. ► At noon rather chilly, creeping sensation
all over, [12]. ► (Rigor, and during the chill his face go
glowing hot), [1]. ► In the evening, before going to sleep,
rigor, without external coldness; in bed he was chilly all night, [1]. ►
Back feels chilly, [12]. ► Coldness of hands and feet, [8]. ►
From thirteenth to twenty-third day hands and feet cold and numb, [12]. ►
Hands quite cold and stiff all day, [12].
► Hands cold and numb, [12]. [790.] ► Hands and feet cold and numb, chilly all
over, does not go off by walking, though had free perspiration, [12]. ►
Feet colder than usual the whole time, [12].
► Cold feet for ten days, [12]. ►
Cold feet for eighteen days, [12].
► On getting into bed, feet cold;
lies awake some time, [12]. ► Feet cold and numb, [12]. ► Feet
cold all night and numb, as after skating, [12]. ► Feet
cold and finger stiff, [12]. ► Feet very cold; lay awake, thinking feet
were bars of iron, [12]. ► Very cold feet, which she can scarcely
use on account of fatigue, [1]. [800.] ►
Toes cold as ice and painful, [12].
► Heat. ►
At 3 P.M. felt warm, [12]. ► At 3 P.M. rather warm, feverish, but not
thirsty, [12]. ► After a drink of beer, heat and anxiety, [1]. ►
After the siesta, heat, [1]. ► Heat in the body, with red cheeks, but
the head is free (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
Sensation of heat all over the body, which was cool to the touch, with
sensation in the face as if swollen and bloated, [12]. ► Heat,
with perspiration, after chills, at 3 P.M., [12]. ► Heat,
with perspiration, follows thirst, at 8 P.M., [12]. ► Heat,
without thirst, [12]. [810.] ►
Febrile heat, [12]. ► Flushes over the whole body, as if
perspiration would break out, [12].
► By day, ebullition in blood, and
heat in the evening, especially of hands, [1].
► Feverish at 3 P.M., [12]. ► Fever
less at 7 P.M., [12]. ► Heat of head, cold feet, [12]. ► (In
the morning, heat of face), [1]. ► Heat in the stomach, and an unpleasant
feeling throughout the entire body, being symptoms of a febrile
character; also a soreness and languidness of the limbs; the heat in the
stomach increased up to the third day, and was very intense, so that he
thought the stomach was partially inflamed, causing indigestion and
eructations; heat in stomach, worse before eating, better after eating, [12]. ►
Palms of the hands hot, [12]. ► Great heat in palms of hands and soles of
feet, [12]. [820.] ►
Soles of feet hot, [12]. ► Sweat. ►
General sweat, [22]. ► Sweating and anxiety during digestion of
the retained nourishment, [22]. ► Perspiration in the morning for a long
period, [1]. ►
In the morning, at daybreak, perspiration till towards noon on alternate
mornings, and each time preceded by headache, [1]. ►
Nocturnal sweat, with weariness, [1].
► About midnight, frequent
perspiration during slumber, [1]. ► Perspiration by day when walking, [1]. ►
Perspiration, after rapid walking, not relieving the chilliness, [12]. ►
Much perspiration when walking and sitting during the day, [1]. [830.]
► Profuse perspiration in the morning
after rising, whereby the head was very much relieved (eighteenth day), [13]. ►
A peculiar odor to the perspiration (third day), [17].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), On waking, dullness in head;
heaviness in head; eyelids heavy; sour taste; after rising, colicky
pain; on rising from bed, cramp in calf; pain in leg; at 7.30 o’clock,
general coldness; beginning at 7 o’clock, creeping feeling; heat of
face; after rising perspiration. ► (Forenoon), Dyspnœa, etc. ► (Afternoon),
On suddenly rising, after sleeping, vertigo; putrid taste; towards
evening, lassitude; debility;
chilliness; at 3 o’clock, feverish. ►
(Evening), The symptoms; headache,
etc.; after walking in open air, pressing in head; in bed, pain in
hip-joint; when walking, pain in tibia, etc.; in bed, cold all over;
before going to bed, rigor. ► (Night), Nauseated; in bed, stitches in
sternum; lumbago. ► (Before midnight), When lying, especially on
side, vomiting. ► (Midnight), Perspiration. ► (Alternate
mornings), At daybreak, perspiration. ►
(Open air), Lachrymation. ► (Change of
position), Pain on vertex. ►
(Conversation), All symptoms. ► (Cool, open air),
Pressure on top of head. ► (Descending), Vertigo; sensation in frontal
eminences. ► (After dinner), Thirst. ►
(Drinking water), All symptoms. ► (Before eating),
Heat in stomach. ► (After eating), All symptoms; nausea; vomiting
of food; immediately, discomfort; heat in stomach; pressure in stomach;
colicky pain; weariness in feet. ► (Heat), The symptoms. ►
(Full inspiration), Pain in chest. ► (Lying),
Vertigo; in evening, dyspnœa. ► (Looking at running water), Dizzy, etc. ► (Meat),
Stomachache. ► (Movement), all symptoms; pains in head; cough; cramp in chest, etc.;
pain in arms; pain in shoulder-joints; pain in thumb. ► (Noise),
All symptoms. ► (Rising), Nausea. ►
(Rising from seat), Pain in thigh;
especially when walking after standing still, relaxation, etc., in
hollows of knees. ► (Sight of people), All the symptoms. ► (Sitting),
The symptoms. ► (Sitting quiet and idle), Dyspnœa. ► (Standing),
All symptoms. ► (Stooping), The symptoms; headache. ► (Tinking of Iron),
All symptoms. ► (Walking), Giddy, etc.; headache; nauseated,
etc., feeling of fulness; immediately after dose, sensation in abdomen;
urging to urinate; tightness of chest; tearing between scapulæ; jerks
in sacrum; pain through leg; weariness; faint feeling, etc. ► (Writing),
Headache. ► Amelioration. ► (Morning),
After rising, wheezing under sternum. ►
(Open air), Pressure in frontal
eminences. ► (After dinner), Discomfort in stomach. ► (After eating),
Heat in stomach; feeling of fulness. ►
(Constant employment in reading or writing),
dyspnœa. ► (After
evacuations), The symptoms. ►
(Heat), Pain in shoulder-joint. ► (Laying head on
table), Humming in ears. ►
(Lying), The symptoms; pressure in
temples; urging to urinate. ► (Movement), The symptoms; confusion of head. ► (Pressure),
Sensation in frontal eminences. ► (Rest), The symptoms. ►
(In room), Pressure in top of head. ► (Silence),
The symptoms. ► (Sitting), The symptoms; headache; urging to
urinate. ► (Sleep),
Head symptoms, except congestive fulness. ►
(Solitude), The symptoms. ► (Talking),
Dyspnœa. ► (Walking),
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