Oxygenium.
Oxygen (including Ozone, which is Nascent Oxygen.). O. (A. W. 16).
Dilutions of distilled water charged with the gas. Dilutions of the preparation called
Oxydol.Clinical.─
Anćmia. Cancer. Coryza. Cough.
Diabetes. Influenza. Morphia poisoning. Mouth, canker sores in. Strychnine poisoning.
Whooping-cough.
Characteristics.─
As we learn more and more how to
handle gases they will take a more definite part in the materia medica. I have incorporated
in the present Schema a proving by Swan of Oxy. 200 (Organon, iii. 280), and a proving of Ozonum
by Dewar, McKendrick and two others, recorded by Allen. Their symptoms I have marked
“Oz.” With another preparation called Oxydol,
or Eau Maiche (from its inventor), I have had some
experiences. It is not chemically distinguishable from Peroxide of Hydrogen, but it has none
of the disagreeable features of that substance. It does not bleach articles it may touch, or
cause effervescence. It is said to liberate oxygen in nascent state in the tissues when it
is taken internally diluted with five or six parts of water. Undiluted its taste is
disagreeably metallic, though it can be used undiluted as a gargle without inconvenience.
Diluted it has no taste at all. When taken as directed in doses of a tablespoonful with six
of water it sometimes causes relaxation of the bowels followed by constipation. In myself it
set up all the symptoms of a common cold. As an antiseptic lotion and application I have
found it of great value, and as a gargle in cases of sore throat, or rather rawness of the
throat when ushering in a cold, I have often known it stop the irritation from going further
either up or down. In cases of gonorrhśa it has a useful function in rendering the urine
antiseptic, supplying an antiseptic lotion from within, without interfering with the action
of the specific homśopathic remedy. I have found it more useful than Salol or Urethane in such
cases. But the disease for which it is chiefly commended by its inventor is cancer. I have
given it in a number of cases and have obtained favourable temporary results in some. In one
case seen with a colleague in an elderly woman of the working class who had a large
fungating cancer of the left breast, Oxyd. was given internally and applied also externally.
It caused excessive discharge with corresponding reduction of the tumour, and we hoped for a
cure. But after several weeks the patient’s legs suddenly swelled; the swelling rapidly
increased and she sank, the tumour having at least three-quarters disappeared. The effect of
the Oxydol was probably to liberate the disease elements
too rapidly for the organism to eliminate them, as Dr. Cooper suggests in his account of Ornithogal. Swan’s symptoms have been verified in some instances
(H. P., x. 400), the following cures being recorded: (1) Cough from dryness in upper larynx and constant tickling in
throat-pit. Hard, shaking cough causing soreness in epigastric region. Expectoration with
every cough, thick, lumpy, tasteless; Oxy. 1m.─(2) Passing quantities of uric acid like ruby sand; Oxy. cm.─(3)
Cough excited by tickling in throat and causing soreness of chest; 2 to 3 a.m.; > lying on back. Oxy. cm
cured this case. As a mouth wash in canker sores dilute Oxydol
is a useful preparation. Now that Oxygen inhalation has become so popular, we may expect
some symptoms from those who become addicted to it. With inhalation of Oxygen kept up for
ten hours, D. T. Playfair (Lancet, quoted N. A. J. H., xiv. 139) cured a desperate case of morphia
poisoning (30 grains Morph. acet. had been taken) in a
young woman of 37. All the usual antidotes had been given before without avail. The patient
was entirely well In twenty-four hours. Osterwald of Berlin (Med.
Press, Jan. 9, 1901) has also shown by experiments on guinea-pigs that Oxygen gas is a most efficient antidote to poisoning by Strychnine in these animals. After injecting the strychnine in
two animals, he placed one in an atmosphere of Oxygen, and no convulsions occurred in this
one, whilst they were fully developed in the other. Other experiments fully confirmed these.
Korndoerfer (H. R., iii. 189) relates this case
illustrating how Ozone inhalations may sometimes assist
homśopathy: Miss X, 18, tall, slender, intensely pale, chlorotic, had been two years ill,
and neither homśopathy nor allopathy had given any relief. She suffered from great
weakness, could scarcely walk a hundred yards. Prostration and loss of breath and
palpitation from least exertion. Frequent violent headache, <
after exertion, especially after going up stairs. Pains along spine, especially aching about
small of back. Rheumatic pains in lower limbs. Desires motion, but owing to exhaustion dares
not indulge the desire. Stooping gait. Poor appetite. Menses much delayed, and, when
appearing, scanty, watery, brownish. All symptoms <
in wet weather, and on change from clear to cloudy weather. Puls.
gave slight relief. Rhus caused severe aggravation. It
covered the case, but something prevented its acting properly. Korndoerfer thought the
action of Ozone on the red corpuscles might help.
Inhalations, of ten minutes each, three times a week, were given, and then Rhus acted well.
The improvement was prompt and continued, and was only interrupted when the experiment was
made of trying to do without either of the remedies. Neither was efficacious when given
without the other. A cure of diabetes with large doses of Oxy.
is on record (H. W., xxxii. 567); and many cases of
whooping-cough have been cured with inhalations of Ozone
(H. W., xxxii. 46).
Relations.─
Antidote to:
Morphia and Strychnine poisoning. Compare: Chr. ac., K.
bich., K. chl., K. perm., Osm. ac., and oxydising agents generally; Chlorum, Electricitas.
In antidotal relations, Camph.
Causation.─
Morphia. Strychnine.
SYMPTOMS.
2. Head.─
Headache in outer half r. eyebrow; pain
still in frontal region.─Dull frontal headache, <
in spot over l. eye.─Pain in l. temple, which feels cold to touch.─Continued
sweat on scalp.
3. Eyes.─
Lancinating, paroxysmal pain in r.
eyeball, a little to l. of pupil.─Occasional rush of pain, filling whole
r. eyeball and extending into r. temple, which then became hot.─Tingling
of conjunctivć and skin of face (Oz.).
5. Nose.─
Much indurated mucus in nose,
necessitating frequent picking; in morning blowing out of lumps, generally tough, opaque,
whitish yellow.─Sneezes with the cough (Oz.).
6. Face.─
Tingling of skin of face (Oz.).─Rawness
in throat (Oz.).
8. Mouth.─
Canker sores in mouth and cheeks.
9. Throat.─
Irritation of fauces and glottis.
12. Abdomen.─
Great flatulence, passing large
quantities at stool.; flatus seems to accumulate in rectum; causes desire for stool and
fears to pass flatus lest stool should also pass.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Fine stinging rash r.
side of scrotum, lasting one day.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Violent irritating cough
and sneezing, followed, by rawness in throat and air passages (Oz.).─Irritation
of respiratory tract as when recovering from attack of influenza (same irritation can be
produced by breathing electricity given off from a conductor) (Oz.).─Aphonia,
with difficulty of controlling voice.─Slight, hoarseness, dryness of
throat; towards evening dryness increased round rim of glottis; at midnight woke with
choking, burning dryness of glottis and upper larynx; no thirst.─Hoarseness,
and hard, shaking, tearing cough from tickling under sternum in night, < lying either side, >
lying on back, with profuse, lumpy, tasteless whitish sputa.─Sputa
occasionally yellow, purulent.─Dry, hacking cough; 2 to 5 a.m.─Cough
= hawking; blowing nose; bursting sensation in chest.
18. Chest.─
Tickling under sternum.─Tightness
under sternum < bringing shoulders forward.─Suffocating
feeling in chest; tendency to breathe slowly (Oz.).
20. Back.─
Pains excessive in whole sacral region,
apparently in articulations; esp. a sensation of tiredness all through pelvic viscera, even
in perineum (Oz.).
22. Upper Limbs.─
Itching of skin of metacarpal
end of first phalanx of l. index finger, no redness of eruption.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Thighs and legs as if
overworked; excessively fatigued (Oz.).─Eruption of pimples in the fold
of r. side of nates, near anus, becoming very sore and seemingly like blisters; as skin
rubbed off it was left very sore.
25. Skin.─
Tingling of skin of face and
conjunctivć.
27. Fever.─
Sweat all over and headache between
eyes.─Sweat on scalp and slight moisture over body.® 2000
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