FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM.
Authority.
J. C. Morgan, M.D., Amer.
Journ. of Hom. Mat. Med., New Ser., vol. v, 1876, p. 308, proving with
2x. took 1 grain at 11 P.M. (first day); 1/2 grain at 10 A.M., 4 and 10
P.M., after meals (second day), dose (third day); several doses after
meals and at midnight (fourth day); dose at 11 o’clock; doses still
taken regularly after meals (sixth day); doses at 4 P.M., and after
meals (eighth day); no more medicine till noon, and again at 3.45 and
8.30 P.M., after meals (tenth day): doses at 4 and 9.30 P.M. (eleventh
day); a dose at 10.30 P.M. (twelfth day): dose at 8.30, before
breakfast, and at 12.20 P.M. (fourteenth day): dose at 1 P.M. (fifteenth
day); a dose at 1 and 10 A.M. (sixteenth day): pellets of 30 cent. at 1
A.M.; another dose at 8.30 A.M., 2 P.M., and 10 P.M. (seventeenth day);
pellets of 30th at 10.30 A.M., pellets of 6th dec. (shortly after eating
an orange) at 11.45 P.M. (eighteenth day); another dose of 6x at 11.30
A.M. (nineteenth day).
MIND.
►
Early in the evening loss of courage and hope; better since sleeping
(second day). ► Feeling constantly as
though a stimulant were needed (none taken since the sixth day, relieves
when taken); a feeling of “letting down,” inertia,
indifference to ordinary matters, with inward craving for brandy, and
feeling as if energy would be renewed by it, yet no real muscular
debility, more a feeling of indolence as to ordinary matters only
(eighth day). ► Evening, impetuous
feeling, yet obstacles cause annoyance and hesitation, and trifles seem
like mountains, still intolerant of hindrance and annoyance (ninth day).
► All the morning under pressure of
influences of contradictory sort, no lack of firmness (tenth day). ► Afternoon, recurrence of the intolerant
feeling (fourteenth day); hasty, intolerant feeling in the afternoon
(fifteenth day). ► Indignation for
causes followed by oppression of left chest and stomach (fifteenth day).
► Walking in a quiet part of the city
after dark had a soothing, pleasant effect, ceasing on returning to the
bustle of the central streets. At one time this afternoon cross words of
another party about an absent stranger created a feeling of momentary
shrinking and timidity (fifteenth day). ►
Marked increase in resoluteness and precision of mind; less of
“exhausted” feeling from dealing with opposition and hindrance
than for awhile past; less “intolerance” at the same time
(seventeenth day). ► In street-car
conversation of fellow-passengers, especially when earnest or excited,
was unendurably annoying, was glad to change my seat. This intolerance
passed off during the afternoon, and the buoyancy and energy returned by
evening (nineteenth day).
HEAD.
[10.]
► Head feels as if sleep had been
insufficient, with desire for sleep; 4.30 P.M., fell asleep at my table
(not having lost sleep last night) (eighth day). ►
While reading, headache from right brow to right ear (second day). ► Top of head, aching dulness, extending
towards orbits and sides of head as a pressure; worse when holding the
head down in writing; not noticed when going about; but whilst walking
in the street, more in occiput; when rising and walking, etc., most in
top of head, just as the force of the circulation most impinges; always
dull and oppressive, without throbbing altogether, it seems in the
subcutaneous cavities of the head (tenth day). ►
(Old symptoms get worse, as of fatigue of brain from long study), (tenth
day). ► In the afternoon, twinges of
pain from right vertex to right supraorbital foramen (sixteenth day). ► Dull right-sided headache (third day). ► At 11 P.M., sharp twinge over the whole
left side of the head (thirteenth day). ►
All day a dull headache, slightly, mainly right side; most on first
thinking of it (fourteenth day). ►
(Less tired aching in the occipito-cervical region than usual, in the
morning), (second day). ► During this
afternoon every concussion (as of coughing, and even sudden and hard
smacking of the lips) is felt as a dull painful sensation in the
posterior part of base of skull (the cervico-occipital region),
(seventeenth day).
EYE.
[20.]
► Late in the evening, when riding,
neuralgic ache at inner left eyebrow, and down left side of nose (ninth
day). ► 7.30 P.M., sharp ache at
outer edge of left orbit, as if in the bone. At 8.30, similar, but
slight pain on right side, both transient (thirteenth day). ► Painful smarting in edges of right
eyelids (second day).
EAR.
►
In a few minutes aching sticking in right ear. ►
Sticking in right ear (second day). ►
Went to bed with sticking in right ear, as if a large pointed stick were
lodged deeply therein, extending as a dull headache over that side;
seemed to be subaponeurotic in location (as if above periosteum),
(fourth day); dull feeling on right side of head still observable
(fourth day).
NOSE.
►
Painful smarting in anterior right nasal passage (second day). ► After the last dose, painful smarting of
right posterior nasal passage, especially during inspiration, better by
expiration (had been asleep), (second day).
FACE.
►
After moderate tepid bathing, mostly with sponge, lips look blue
(seventh day). ► Grumbling in lower
jaw, near (filled) molar, left side (seventeenth day).
MOUTH.
[30.]
► Light coat on tongue not unusual,
but increased, with a yellowish tint increasing towards the base
(eighteenth day).
THROAT.
►
Constant working down of phlegm behind velum palati; also loosing from
below (fifth day). ► Speedily, a
general liberation of pharyngeal and tracheal and nasal mucus (after
first dose, fourteenth day).
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ► On
sitting down to supper at 7.30 P.M., indifferent to food, but ate
fairly, food tasting good (tenth day). ►
1 P.M. had a desire for, and drank ale; at 3 P.M. no appetite for
dinner, but desire for brandy, of which took about a teaspoonful;
afterwards ate with good relish (the same yesterday; the same desire
before breakfast) (sixth day). ► Very
little or no desire for stimulants since yesterday, the last taken
(thirteenth day). ► Studying till 2
A.M., rose in the morning somewhat below par, desire for brandy, took a
teaspoonful with good effect (sixteenth day). ►
At 1 P.M., not having eaten since breakfast, somewhat exhausted, with
desire for brandy (not taken), (seventeenth day). ►
Thirst for cold water and for brandy, in the morning (eighteenth day). ► Eructation and Hiccough. ► Irritating rising, not sour, but somewhat
greasy in flavor (half an hour after second dose, fourteenth day). [40.] ►
Noon, hiccough after sitting bent towards the floor (eleventh day). ► Hiccough once when respiration compressed
the stomach, repeated some time after seventeenth day). ► At 9.30 P.M., sitting at table bent
forward reading, most intense heartburn, with rising so irritating it
made me cough and hem for some time; irritation in throat and behind
left of mid-sternum. The later risings of fluids have a slightly greasy
flavor, still provoking repeated cough; they come up with eructations of
gas (partook at supper of stewed oysters and very aromatic good tea),
(thirteenth day). ► Nausea. ► Rose this morning with a nauseated
feeling (eighteenth day). ► Stomach.
► Pinching in epigastrium (after a
few minutes).
ABDOMEN.
►
Leaning, standing over the table, repeated emission of fetid flatus,
continuing while undressing (first day). ►
At breakfast, bending forward, colicky in transverse colon; repeated
while standing, using the arms moderately towards the left. In a few
minutes after a dose again colicky in transverse colon (third day). ► 3 P.M., colicky feeling in transverse
colon (eighteenth day). ►
Threatenings of diarrhœa from colon to rectum (twentieth day).
STOOL.
►
Soft, but consistent, decidedly yellow, easy stool (fifth day).
URINARY ORGANS.
[50.]
► The urine which, before taking the
drug, was yellow, became limpid, abundant, and pale after taking, the
weather being warmer; the past two days the weather being cooler, the
urine is darker, less copious; when pale, a few drops crystallized on
glass examined by the microscope presented several crystalline forms the
principal being hexagonal plates answering to cystin, as figured in
Frey’s microscopical technology; also tablets answering to uric acid and
chloride of sodium, but not numerous (seventh day). ► Urine pale, the quantity being somewhat
copious, the weather cool (fifteenth day).
CHEST.
►
Pain in chest, in the morning (third day).
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Sitting writing, palpitation (third day). ►
Palpitation while sitting (soon after second dose, eleventh day). ► Accelerated pulse (eleventh day).
NECK AND BACK.
►
Pain in neck, in the morning (third day). ►
Aggravation of a habitual aching in the dorsal spine all day, especially
when standing or sitting, better by going about, and by leaning back
against the chair, supporting the spine; these symptoms are habitual,
but are more conspicuous and constant and annoying; also better by
change of position, even by brief bending forward (when standing),
(fifteenth day). ► Sitting in church,
in the evening, right lumbar region felt tired; needed support (seventh
day). ► Dull pain (when walking bent
forward) in left lower lumbar region (seventeenth day). [60.] ►
Walking in the street at 1 P.M., after standing, aching at sacro-iliac
symphysis; better by pressure (eighteenth day).
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► After writing, rheumatic feeling in right
wrist, extending downwards in the course of the dorsal tendons, most
when resting it; then the pain seems to ebb and flow at short intervals.
When writing, it occasionally extends up the forearm, mostly on dorsal
and ulnar aspects; on rising, felt in little finger to first phalanx;
better by external warmth and wrapping (after twenty minutes, sixteenth
day).
GENERALITIES.
►
(Old symptoms get worse, as frequent change of position in bed on waking
in the morning, and much of the times since, because of aching in neck,
throat, and occiput), (tenth day). ►
(Less tired feeling (than usual, in the morning), (second day). ► Malaise all the evening (eighth day). ► All the evening sensitive to cool air
(eighth day). ► Noon, very sensitive
to cool air, 65° F.; desire to be in a warm room (tenth day). ► Cool air disagreeable, but tolerable
(seventeenth day).
SLEEP.
►
4.30 P.M., drowsy; eyes feel it much; the feeling extends upward into
the head; soon after had to lie down and take a nap (eleventh day). ► Waked wearily (third morning).
FEVER.
[70.]
► Heat and dryness of face and palms
while sitting (soon after second dose, eleventh day). ► About 6 P.M. observed that face and hands
were again heated and dry whilst reading; also the throat and upper
chest (twelfth day). ► Dry heat of
palms (eleventh day).® 2000
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