FERRUM MURIATICUM.
Ferrum Chloratum; Ferrous chloride or dichloride,
FeCl24OH2 (crystals). Preparations, Tincture, consisting of 25
parts of crystals to 225 parts of Alcohol.
Authorities.
1,
Rabuteau, experiment with 50 centigrammes in 60 grammes of water and 40
grammes of alcohol, L’Union Méd., 1872; 2,
Drummond; a boy aged 13, growing rapidly, complaining of weariness, took
cod-liver oil and five min. doses of Ferrum muriaticum three times a
day, Am. Observer, 1865, p. 22; 3,
Venot, fatal poisoning by concentrated solution injected into the
urethra for gleet, L’Art Méd., 1857, p. 53 (from Journ. de Méd. de
Bordeaux, 1857); 4, Markwich,
effects of 5 drops of tinct. three times a day, in a lady, B. J. of
Hom., 19, 310; 5, Sir James Murray,
poisoning by three ounces of undiluted tinct., Ranking’s Abstract, 13,
342; 6, Warburton, poisoning of a
woman by one ounce (“undoubtedly caused by free hydrochloric
acid”), Lancet, 1869, Jan.
MIND.
►
Loquacity, [3]. ► Much depressed in spirits, [4].
HEAD.
►
*Headache, [4]. ► He improved for six weeks and then
complained of severe pain in the right temple
and right side of the face, stopped the medicine and the pain
quickly subsided; he resumed the steel drops, and in two days he was a
bad or even worse than before; again they were discontinued and no other
medicine was given, and the pain disappeared the next day; after being
free from the neuralgia for four days, he again took the steel, and the
day but one after the neuralgia returned with increased severity, and
continued to return in irregular paroxysms for the next three days, when
it again disappeared, [2].
EYE.
►
Eyes injected, [6]. ► Bright redness of the margin of the lids,
[3].
FACE.
►
Face somewhat flushed, [6]. ► Face swollen and livid, [6]. ► Flushed
cheeks, [3].
MOUTH.
[10.]
► Tongue very coated, [4]. ► Tongue
swollen and protruded, with ropy mucus from the mouth, [5]. ► Dryness
of the tongue, [3]. ► Palate and interior of mouth burnt, and
presented a parboiled appearance, [5].
► Unable to speak, and apparently
unconscious, [6].
THROAT.
►
Extremely severe sense of burning and constriction in the throat, [5].
STOMACH.
►
No appetite, [4]. ► Rather thirsty, [4]. ► Hand
riveted to region of stomach, as the principal seat of pain, [5].
ABDOMEN.
►
Complaining of great pain along the whole length of the colon; much
increased by pressure and any movement of the body, [4]. [20.] ► Hypogastrium swollen and very sensitive,
especially above the pubis, [3]. ► Piercing pains in the hypogastrium
(immediately), [3].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Half an hour
after the sickness, had an attack of diarrhœa, with black stools, which
soon ceased, [6]. ► She had had diarrhœa for the two
previous days, which last night assumed a decidedly dysenteric
character, the bowels having been repeatedly moved, with considerable
pain and tenesmus, the evacuations consisting entirely of blood and
membranous shreds, [4]. ► Stools darker than usual (first day), [1]. ►
Stools sometimes rather darker than usual, [1]. ► Nearly
two quarts of inky evacuation passed off at stool, [5]. ►
Constipation. ► Obstinate
constipation, [3].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Micturition. ► Urine
rather scanty, [4]. ► Almost complete retention of urine, [3]. ►
Urine. [30.] ► Amount of urine 1225 grammes during first
twenty-four hours; next day, 1075 grammes, [1]. ► Urine
acid, depositing neither uric acid nor urates, and containing only 1 or
2 centigrammes of iron; i. e., three
or four times the normal amount, [1].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Respiration noisy and stertorous, and suffocation impending, [5]. ►
Noise of breathing resembled that of a bad case of croup, [5]. ►
Breathing, especially inspirations, became oppressed, [5].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Pulse small and accelerated, [6]. ► Small, frequent, and concentrated pulse, [3]. ►
A quick, small pulse, 120, [4]. ► Pulse very feeble, [5].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Blood, on venesection, remarkably black, and so thick and viscid, that
it would not flow until he cut a much larger orifice in another vein, [5]. [40.]
► Violent convulsions affecting the
whole body, which was much contorted; the muscles of the extremities
contracted violently, and the teeth were clenched and ground together.
Required to be restrained upon the couch, and her hold upon those near
her could not be unloosed until the spasm suddenly ceased; duration of
attacks about two minutes, that of the intervals three, [6]. ►
Exceedingly weak, with an anxious, feverish countenance, [4]. ►
Restlessness, [3].
FEVER.
►
Skin cold and clammy, [5]. ► Skin hot and disposed to be clammy, [4].® 2000
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