KALI BICHROMICUM.
FACE.
►
Objective. ► Expression of
uneasiness (0.12 grains), [57]. [460.] ►
Countenance anxious, [52]. ► General appearance anæmic, [22]. ►
Yellow color of the face (tenth day), [26].
► Face yellow and earthy, [26]. ►
Ashy gray color of the face (fourth day), [30].
► *Face pale, [52]; (after half an hour), [46]; (0.12 grains), [57]. ►
Complexion before ruddy and fresh, now pale and yellowish, [22]. ►
Color of the face pale, sickly, with sunken eyes (fifth day), [26]. ►
Great paleness of the face (third day), [29b].
► Face very pale and cadaverous, and
covered with cold sweat, [52]. [470.] ►
Swelling of the face (in some cases), [43].
► Peculiar tension of the muscles of
the face, which makes the features rigid, a very sickly expression (one
hundred and twenty-first day), [35].
► Face drawn, pale, and covered with
cold clammy sweat (after one hour and a half), [51]. ►
Subjective. ► Indefinite
painful sensation in the right side of the face, especially in the
zygoma and towards the ear (after one hour, second day); returned, but
in the left side (tenth day), [35].
► Tension in the facial muscles
(thirty-third day), [35]. ► Aching like a bruised pain in the bones
of the face, especially on the facial surface of both superior maxillary
bones (ninety-ninth day), [35]. ► (Felt and heard in left face and left
neck a twanging like wires; this lasted forty-five minutes (after about
an hour); then burning (subjective and objective) in entire left head
and face, which relieved the twanging; the burning lasted fifteen
minutes, and then all the symptoms went away), [39]. ►
Drawing pain in the bones of the face and of the right hand, in the
morning (thirty-sixth day), [35]. ► Dull pressure in the bones of the face,
especially in the infraorbital region and in the nasal bones
(fifty-seventh day), [35]. ► Tearing in the bones of the face, at
times during the day (eighty-fourth day), [35].
[480.] ►
Tearing in the left side of the face (fifteenth day), [35]. ►
*Sensitiveness in the bones of the face (twenty-seventh day),
[35]. ►
Cheeks. ► Cheeks flushed, [52]. ►
Swelling of the right cheek, especially over the malar bone (zygoma?), [25]. ►
Pain in cheek-bone, in the evening (20 drops, second day), [5]. ►
Sore burning in the fossa, between the right wing of the nose and the
cheek, lasting half an hour (fifty-second day), [35]. ►
Tension and drawing in the masseter muscles, and great accumulation of
saliva in the mouth (seventy-first day), [35].
► Drawing in the zygoma and in the
bones of the extremities (ninety-fifth day), [35]. ►
Feeling of pressure in the bones of the upper jaw, just below the
orbits, after breakfast (twenty-third day), [35]. ► Acute
pain in the infraorbital portion of the malar bones (twenty-seventh
day), [35]. [490.] ►
Violent sticking, extending through the right zygoma towards the
forehead (sixty-fifth day), [35]. ► *Sensitiveness of the bones of the upper jaw,
especially beneath the orbit (thirtieth day), [35]. ► Lips.
► That portion of the upper lip under
the nose is swollen and sensitive, but not red, in the forenoon (one
hundred and twelfth day), [35]. ► The upper lip beneath the right nostril
was swollen, red, and covered with small blisters (seventy-ninth day), [35]. ►
Ulcerations, with indurated edges, and smarting pain on the mucous
surface of both lips, [22]. ► Burning in the lips (one hundred and
fourteenth day), [35]. ► Burning in the upper lip beneath the
nostrils (seventieth day), [35]. ► Burning on the inner surface of the upper
lip (thirty-sixth day), [35]. ► Smoking burns the lips, which are dry and
tense (eighty-fourth day), [35]. ► Chin. ►
Swelling of the left ramus of the jaw, a tense circumscribed elevation
beneath the periosteum as large as a small walnut (second day), [29b]. [500.] ►
Boring pain in the left side of the lower jaw, in the evening, [25]. ►
Constant boring pain in the left side of the lower jaw, with some
remissions, [25]. ► Burrowing in the rami of the lower jaw
(first day), [29b]. ► Drawing in the lower jaw starting from
the ear, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth (ninety-ninth day), [25]. ►
Stitches in left submaxillary bones towards the ear, [7].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► A carious tooth
that had been filled, and upon which I accidentally bit at dinner, and
which pained for a few minutes afterwards as usual, began to pain
violently about 3 P.M.; the pain gradually increased, so that I was
obliged to leave off work; at 6 P.M. it was drawn, after which it bled
through the night and till the next noon, with very great swelling of
the gum, so that no medicine was taken for the next three days (tenth
day), [32]. ►
Toothache, with profuse accumulation of saliva, [32]. ► Boring
pain in the right upper molars, towards evening, [25]. ► Dull
burrowing pain in all the teeth of the left side, after midnight
(eighteenth day), [25]. ► Gnawing in the roots of all the teeth, at
noon (ninety-first day), [35]. [510.] ►
Transient drawing and tearing pains in the left teeth and in various
joints of the extremities, wandering and suddenly changing their
location (nineteenth day), [26]. ► Transient stitches in various hollow and
sound teeth of the left side (third day), [26].
► Transient stitches in several back
teeth of the left side, also in an anterior upper incisor (thirty-second
day), [26]. ►
Dull tearing toothache in the back teeth of the left lower jaw, with
stitches extending into the ears and corresponding temple (eighteenth
day), [26]. ►
Sudden drawing-tearing pain in all the teeth of the left side, starting
from no particular tooth, relieved by neither cold nor warmth, but only
for a moment by pressure upon the lower jaw; lasting till towards
midnight (seventh day); the next morning there was no pain in the teeth,
but a decided swelling of the gum, which was painful in the vicinity of
a last left lower hollow back tooth; at noon there was dull
drawing-tearing toothache on the same side, with extremely acute
stitches in the upper and lower jaws, extending to the ear, temple, and
neck of the same side, lasting the whole day; the portion of the neck
involved was sensitive to touch, the cervical glands swollen; wandering
tearing pains in various parts of the upper and lower extremities;
tongue coated yellow; in the evening there set in intolerable
tearing-sticking headache through the whole head, at times cutting, as
though it were cut to pieces with knives; chilliness and flushes of heat
in the left side of the head and face, pulse accelerated (80 instead 70
as usual); on the next day the gum was less swollen, but towards noon
there was a transient tearing pain in the teeth of the left lower jaw,
accompanied by extremely acute, transient, sticking-tearing pain in the
left ear, temple, and side of the neck, lasting, with intervals of
freedom from pain, till evening; sleep that night was disturbed by pain
in the teeth and head; after this the trouble in the teeth entirely
disappeared, [26]. (I had been
subject twice a year, but especially in the spring and fall, to a
similar rheumatic toothache, which seemed to be caused by taking cold,
or a draft of air, characterized by violent tearing-digging pain
involving now the right, now the left side of the lower jaw, relieved by
neither cold nor warmth, especially violent at night, completely
preventing sleep, and afterwards becoming worse for three or four days,
suddenly ending with swelling of the gum, but this attack was quite
different from the former ones.] ►
Sensitiveness of the teeth (eighth day), [35].
► Sensitiveness of the teeth,
especially of the upper incisors (twenty-ninth day), [35]. ► Gums.
► Livid color of the gum, which,
however, neither bleeds nor is painful (twenty-fourth day), [23]. ►
Very livid appearance of the gum (even after a month), [23]. ► The
gum bleeds on sucking it (twenty-fourth day), [35]. [520.] ► Uneasy sensation in gums, in evening (20
drops, second day), [5]. ► Sensitiveness of the gum (one hundred and
thirteenth day), [35]. ► Slight irritation of the gum of the left
upper jaw; the pain in the gum extended through the upper lip to the
wings of the nose (upon examination the gum was found to be inflamed);
on the next day the inflammation had increased so that the whole upper
lip and both wings of the nose were involved and very painful; there
appeared between the upper lip and gum, above the eye tooth, an oblong
and very painful abscess, which opened after three days, and gradually
disappeared, [24c]. ► Tongue. ►►
*Tongue smooth, red, and cracked (during dysenteric attacks),
[22]. ►
Tongue loaded (after nine months), [49].
► *Tongue coated whitish-yellow
(tenth day), [26]. ► Tongue covered with a thick loose fur
(thirtieth day), [8]. ► Tongue thickly furred and of a
light-brown color on the dorsum, on waking in the morning (thirty-first
day), [8]. ►
Tongue thickly coated white over its entire surface; the taste was not
disagreeable, and there was no loss of appetite (ninety-third day), [35]. ►
Tongue at root thickly coated with yellowish-white fur, [22]. [530.] ► Tongue thickly coated a yellowish-white,
with nauseous taste and qualmishness, in the morning (second day), [34]. ►
*Tongue coated with thick yellow mucus, [26]. ► Tongue
thickly coated with yellow mucus, only clear at the edges (seventh day),
[26]. ►
A partial eruptive swelling of the tongue, which after two days became
depressed, and out of its hollow blood oozed for three days; no pain,
but his speech was obscured, [19],
[36]. ►
*The papillæ of the tongue very long on the dorsum, with a
brown-colored patch (thirtieth day), [8]. ► Painful
ulcer on tongue, lasting for weeks, [22].
► Tongue dry and thickly coated in
morning, [22]. ► *Tongue rather dry and red, [54]. ►
Sensation of pain at the back of the tongue and on the velum, lasting a
considerable time, and not relieved by eating or drinking (twenty-fourth
day), [8]. ►
Burning in the tip of the tongue (first day), [31a]. [540.]
► Stinging in the tongue
(twenty-first day), [8]. ► Frequently, on different days, short
stinging and pricking pains in the tongue, [1]. ► General
Mouth. ► Burning vesicle
on the mucous membrane of the inside of the left corner of the mouth;
next day this vesicle had become a small painful ulcer surrounded by
hard swelling; in the afternoon there was burning of the mouth,
especially of the inner surface of the lips; on the third day the ulcer
diminished in size, and on the fourth healed (one hundred and
thirty-seventh to one hundred and fortieth day), [35]. ►
Ulceration of the inner surface of the lips, [22]. ►
Excavated cicatrix on roof of mouth, from which a slough separated seven
months ago; no pain until separation of slough; sore took six months to
heal, [22]. ►
Aphthæ (for the first time since proving Bryonia),
(twenty-second and twenty-third days), [23].
► The velum presents a rough,
papular, elevated appearance, [22].
►► *Dryness in the mouth
(seventy-seventh day), [35]. ► *Dryness in mouth and throat, [22]. ►
Dryness of the mouth, especially of the lids, which become so dry in the
air that he is constantly obliged to moisten them with saliva if he
desires to speak, in the forenoon (twenty-seventh day), [35]. [550.] ► Dryness of the mouth, with bitter
astringent taste, in the forenoon (eighty-ninth day), [35]. ►
Excessive dryness of the mouth, especially of the lips, without thirst
(fifty-seventh day), [35]. ► Burning in the mouth caused by smoking
(fifty-seventh day), [35]. ► Saliva. ►
Increased secretion of saliva, soon after a dose (seventeenth day), [26]. ►
Increased secretion of saliva, compelling frequent spitting; the saliva
was colored slightly yellow, [25].
► Increased secretion of saliva,
aggravated by smoking; the saliva was salty bitter, tenacious, full of
large bubbles of air, hawking always loosened large quantities,
associated with eructations of air (after half an hour), [33]. ►
Greatly increased secretion of saliva, which at first was watery but
afterwards became frothy (twenty-second day), [31]. ►
Increased salivation, and a cooling, salty, astringent, metallic, and
afterwards bitter taste, with salty eructations, soon, [33]. ►
Profuse salivation, [33], [44]. ►
Flow of saliva into mouth (soon after fourth dose), [2]. [560.] ► Copious flow of saliva into mouth (two
hours after fourth dose), [2]. ► Constant flowing of saliva from the
mouth, which was not relieved even by breakfast, lasting till noon, [24a]. ►
Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, [31].
► Great accumulation of saliva of a
sweetish sour taste (soon after 1st trit.), [31a]. ►
Accumulation of water in the mouth (seventh day); while smoking,
immediately (thirteenth day), [35];
and nausea, [25]. ► Accumulation of water in the mouth with
the commencing nausea; this nausea recurs at times after breakfast, [35]. ►
Accumulation of water in the mouth, with nausea, always disappearing
after a few minutes, and followed by a flat taste in the mouth, lasting
some time, [25]. ► Collection of water in the mouth (soon
after 15 drops), (thirtieth day), [23].
► *Sticky saliva in mouth and upper part
of throat about uvula, [37].
► Frequent spitting (one hundred and
twenty-first day), [35]. ► Taste. [570.]
► The taste of the solution was
metallic and nauseous; after some hours the taste reminded one of sugar
of lead; water had a disagreeable but food a natural taste, [23]. ►
Bad taste in the mouth (one hundred and fourteenth day), [35]; after nine months, [49]. ► Very
disagreeable taste in the mouth, on smoking (sixty-eighth day), [35]. ►
Very disagreeable taste, especially at the root of the tongue, after
breakfast (sixty-fourth day), [35].
► Nauseous taste in mouth, [22]. ►
Musty taste, in the morning, [22].
► Disagreeable, sweetish taste
(seventh day); while smoking (second day), [35]. ► The
sweetish taste returned after a bowl of soup, with pressure in the
stomach (ninth day), [35]. ► A cool sourish taste on the back of the
tongue and in the throat, with qualmish nausea for ten minutes, in the
morning on going out (eighth day), [32].
► Saltish sour taste in the mouth,
immediately (twenty-second day), [31].
[580.] ►
Bitter taste in morning, [22]. ► Very bitter, pasty taste (tenth day), [26]. ►
Bitter, very disagreeable taste, [44];
on smoking (fifty-seventh day), [35].
► Very disagreeable astringent taste
at the root of the tongue (ninety-fifth day), [35]. ► While
smoking after breakfast, an extremely disagreeable astringent taste
(sixty-ninth day), [35]. ► While smoking, a disagreeable, sharp,
astringent taste, extending into the fauces (sixty-fourth day), [35]. ►
Bitter astringent taste on the back of the tongue (after two hours,
twentieth day), [31]. ► Very sweetish astringent taste, with
profuse accumulation of very watery saliva (soon), [31b]. ►
Disagreeable, resinous, astringent taste in the mouth (fifteenth day), [35]. ►
Very disagreeable taste in the mouth, like commencing nausea, after
breakfast; the taste is sweetish-sour and astringent (forty-ninth day), [35]. [590.]
► Nauseous, sharp, scraping taste in
the mouth, while smoking after breakfast (thirty-eighth day), [35]. ►
Taste like salt in the mouth, during the afternoon (sixth day), [8]. ►
Metallic taste, [1]; (eleventh
day), [31]; (eighteenth day), [26]. ►
Very strong metallic taste, [24a].
► Very disagreeable metallic taste
and accumulation of saliva, followed by nausea and eructations (after
half an hour), [36]. ► Sudden excessively metallic taste at the
root of the tongue, in the forenoon and evening, [25]. ►
Metallic, astringent, nauseous taste, after dinner (twenty-seventh day),
[35]. ►
Sweetish metallic taste on the tongue, soon (first day), [31]. ►
Sweetish metallic taste in the mouth, especially on smoking cigars, [35]. ►
Disagreeable, sweetish, metallic taste in the mouth (immediately), [25]. [600.] ►
Very distressing, sweetish, metallic taste towards noon, which also
returned after soup at noon (eighth day), [35].
► Coppery taste, [22]. ► Sudden
metallic (coppery) taste at the root of the tongue and soft palate, with
nausea and eructations, [25]. ► Disagreeable, sweetish, resinous taste,
especially in the middle of the tongue, particularly if it comes in
contact with the hard palate, while smoking (thirteenth day), [35]. ►
Disagreeable, bitter, resinous taste (thirty-fourth day), [35]. ► A
disagreeable, sharp, sweetish, metallic, resinous taste, especially at
the entrance of the fauces, so that I was almost obliged to vomit, after
breakfast; after a glass of water it was still worse, and I could not
bear smoking a cigar, disappearing after an hour (soon after a dose,
fifty-third day), [35]. ► Taste of rancid bacon (with eructations
and imaginary putrid smells), (after fourth dose), [2]. ► Taste
of blood in mouth, on rising in the morning (after second dose); in
evening (after fourth dose); all day (seventh day), [2]. ► Bloody
putrid taste in the mouth (third day), [2].
► Sweetish nauseous taste of blood
coming from the chest (sixth day), [29b].
[610.] ►
The cigar put into the mouth always caused a nauseous taste, even
through the taste before had been perfectly good (eighth day), [35]. ►
The usual cigar had a very disagreeable bitter taste (nineteenth day), [35].
THROAT.
►
Objective. ► Throat looks
red and inflamed, on waking in the morning (thirty-first day), [8]. ►
*Much tenacious mucus in the throat, in the morning (second
day), [26]. ►
Hawking of thick mucus in the morning (one hundred and twenty-sixth
day), [35]. ►► *Hawking of thick gelatinous mucus, in
the morning (one hundred and thirty-second day), [35]. ►►
*Hawking of a considerable quantity of tenacious mucus, in the morning
(thirty-ninth day), [35]. ► Hawking of mucus and copious
expectoration of thick bluish mucus (eighteenth day), [26]. ►
Frequent hawking and expectoration of white frothy saliva (twentieth
day), [11]. ►
Frequent hawking of mucus in the afternoon (twenty-second day), [26]. ►
Subjective. [620.] ► Dryness, scraping, and burning in the
throat, especially in the upper portion of the larynx, as far as the
hyoid bone, after midnight, (first night), [29b]. ►
Dryness in the throat, obliging her to swallow saliva; on swallowing
there is burning, though the throat is not red internally (second day), [29b]. ►
Dryness in the throat, with pain on empty swallowing; immediately after
washing this dryness alternated with the usual secretion of mucus and
the saliva had a very salty taste, [33].
► Sense of dryness and heat in the
throat, with excessive thirst, [52].
► Throat dry, with pain in swallowing
on waking in morning (thirty-first day), [8].
► Feeling as of adherent mucus in the
throat, in the morning (sixth day), [26].
► Pain in the throat in swallowing,
especially on moving the jaw sideways (ninth day), [26]. ► Great
heat in throat and stomach (after a few minutes), [22]. ►
Burning in the throat (eleventh day), [31].
► Slight burning in the throat
compelling dry hacking (twenty-second day), [31]. [630.] ► Feeling of burning or soreness extending
from the stomach up into the mouth, on waking (fourth day), [28]. ►
Feeling of rush of blood to the throat (eighteenth day), [34]. ► Slight
drawing pain here and there in the throat, at first in front, between
the lower jaw and the hyoid bone, then in the ethmoid bone, extending to
behind the ears (fifth day), [35].
► Pressive pain in the throat, in the
morning on waking (fourth day), [26].
► Pressive pain in the throat almost
daily, persistent for a long time after the proving, [26]. ►
Sticking in the throat on swallowing and speaking, remarkably increased
on moving the jaws sideways, extending into the ears, with some redness
of the anterior surface of the arch of the palate (fourth day), [26]. ►
The pain in the throat is more violent than yesterday; on the anterior
arch of the palate were noticed some circumscribed spots as large as
millet seeds and larger, bright red, looking as though ulcers would form
(fourth day), [26]. ► Frequent sensation while passing flatus
as though something were sticking in the throat, which lasted a long
time (sixteenth day), [31]. ► Some transient stitches inside the
throat, also caused by empty swallowing (thirty-second day), [26]. ►
Sore throat on waking, pain being at the palate; sore throat went away
in the air (thirtieth day), [8]. [640.] ►
Sore throat as though from a broad substance covered with prickles,
impeding swallowing (sixth day); better (ninth day), but returned on
waking in the morning (tenth day); entirely disappearing (eleventh day),
[23]. ►
Scraping in the throat, [31b], [42]. ►
Scraping and burning in the throat (immediately), [31]; (thirty-ninth day), [35]. ►
Complained of raw rasping sensation in the throat (after an hour and a
half), [51]. ►
Rawness in the throat (one hundred and fourteenth day); in evening
(thirty-seventh day), [35]. ► Rawness in the throat and frequent
hawking from larynx, in the morning (twenty-first day), [35]. ►
Rawness and burning in the throat, so that she began to have a hacking
cough (third night), [29b]. ► Roughness of the throat and hawking of
mucus, [35]. ► Uvula and Tonsils. ► *Uvula and tonsils became red, swelled, and
painful, and finally ulcerated (suspected by a surgeon to be
syphilitic), (after third day), [22].
► Relaxed uvula and injected fauces,
without uneasy feelings (several), [22].
[650.] ►►
*On the root of the uvula, on the right side, an excavated sore, half
the size of a split pea, with a reddish areola, containing a yellow
tenacious matter, [22].
► Tonsils and fauces generally have
an erythematous injected appearance, [22].
► *Several ulcers on the tonsils and
throat, the surface of which seemed covered with an ashy slough, and the
surrounding mucous membrane was dark, livid, and swollen, [54]. ►
Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus. ►
Sharp shooting pains in left tonsil towards ear, relieved by swallowing,
[1]. ►
Redness of the fauces and elongation of the uvula, with a sensation as
of a plug in the throat, not relieved by frequent swallowing, [33]. ►
Fauces and palate present an erythematous blush, [22]. ►
Long-continued erythematous blush of the fauces and soft palate, varying
in hue from a dark to a bright red; occasionally of a coppery color
(many), [22]. ► Dryness in the fauces (twentieth day), [31]. ►
*Sensation of a hair in the fauces (fourteenth day), [8]. ►
Constriction of the fauces soon (thirtieth day), [23]. [660.] ► Scraping in the isthmus faucium, causing
hawking (second day), [28]. ► Catarrhal scraping in the isthmus
faucium, lasting half an hour, and when most severe causing a cough on
every inspiration; worse in the open air (after half an hour), [28]. ►
The difficulty of swallowing was relieved in the evening, but gave place
to rawness and scraping in the fauces, which together with the secretion
of saliva persisted for several days, [33].
► Slight burning in the pharynx (one
hour after second dose), [2]. ► Feeling of coldness in the pharynx very
decided and accompanied by inability to swallow the saliva quickly, so
that he was obliged to make four or five efforts in order to accomplish
it (after 20 drops), [32]. ► Feeling of coolness in the posterior wall
of the pharynx; this gradually increased to a dry scraping that caused
repeated painful cough, which however passed off after a few minutes
(two or three minutes after 10 drops), [32].
► Rawness in the pharynx (fourth
day), [2]. ►
Sensation as if the food remained in the œsophagus, [1]. ►
Sensation of retching in the œsophagus, always followed by a stitch
through the lung, [27]. ► Burning, extending through the œsophagus
into the stomach (immediately after a dose, and lasting half an hour),
(sixth day), [35]. ► Swallowing. [670.]
► Difficulty of swallowing in
consequence of the state of the throat, [54].
► Slight difficulty in swallowing, [33]. ►
External Throat. ►
Cervical glands swollen and sore to touch (twenty-third day), [26].® 2000
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