KALI IODATUM.
EAR.
►
Otorrhœa of yellow matter often mixed with blood, [2]. ► A
feeling as though something had fallen in front of the ears, or as if a
leaf were lying in front of them; still she heard well, [1]. ► It
seems as though something had fallen in front of the ear, with tearing
in the ears, [1]. [140.] ►
Distensive pain and digging in the ears, as if an insect had got into
them, [2]. ►
Painful boring in the right ear, [1].
► A violent pain in the left ear, as
if one were boring about in it (after sixteen days), [1]. ► Cutting
pains in the internal ear, [2]. ► Lancinating and tickling pains in the
ears, with desire to cough, [2]. ► Transient sticking extending into the
left ear, making her start (second day), [1].
► Violent sticking in the right ear,
frequently during the day (after five days), [1]. ► An
extremely violent stitch in the left ear extending into the head, in the
evening in bed (third day), [1]. ► Tearing, now in the right, now in the
left ear, for a long time, [1]. ► Frequently repeated tearings in the right
ear, which becomes very sensitive on account of them, in the evening
(after four days), [1]. [150.] ►
Painful tearing deep in the right ear, in the forenoon (second day), [1]. ►
Violent tearing in front of the right ear, extending into the temple, so
that the whole side becomes painful on account of it (second day), [1]. ►
Some violent tearings in front of the left ear, extending into the
temple, in the bones (second day), [1].
► A painful gnawing within and behind
the left ear, [1]. ► Itching in the left ear, [1]. ► Hearing.
► Hardness of hearing, [2]. ► Hearing
almost gone (fourth day), [15]. ► Ringing in the ears, [24]. ►
Buzzing and ringing in head, [49];
(three hours after third dose), [26].
► Vibration and roaring in the ears, [2].
NOSE.
►
Objective. [160.] ► Ineffectual efforts to sneeze, [1]. ►
Sneezing (first day), [35]. ► Frequent sneezing with running of clear
water from the nose (third day), [1].
► Frequent sneezing with
lachrymation, [2]. ► Running from the nose, [24]. ► Coryza
(fourth day), [34]. ► Symptoms of severe coryza, and of
bronchitis, with the exception of fever and muco-purulent expectoration,
[16]. ►
*Acute coryza; great redness of the mucous membrane of the eyes, nose,
throat and palate, with profuse lachrymation, violent sneezing, and
running of water from the nose, frequent irritation to cough
and swelling of the upper lids; this coryza lasted for a long time, [25]. ►
Fluent coryza, the head being badly stuffed up, [2]. ► He can
get scarcely any air through the nose on account of catarrh, in the
morning after waking (after twenty-three days), [1]. [170.] ► (The catarrh previously existing
disappeared), (after eight days), [1].
► Found him in bed with his head
wrapped up in a flannel nightcap; he had got a desperate cold, somehow,
the day before, with which he woke up, but was getting better (second
morning); he took no more Iodide, and was free from his desperate cold
the next day, [38]. ►► *Accumulation of very tenacious mucus in
the nostrils, [2]. ► Profuse discharge of thick yellow mucus
from the nose, [1]. ►► *Discharge from the nose of
greenish-black or yellow matter, of a foul and sickening smell,
[2]. ►
Burning water runs profusely from the nose and makes the skin sore, [1]. ►
Nosebleed, whereby she lost more than half a pound of blood in two hours
(second day), [1]. ► Violent nosebleed, which could not be
stopped by anything (after eleven days), [1].
►► *Discharge from the nose of
decomposed greenish-red blood, [2].
► Subjective. ► Feeling in the upper part of the nose as
though a leaf were lying in front of it, with burning (sixteenth day), [1]. [180.]
► Stoppage of the nose, from which
only clear water runs, [1]. ► Burning in the nose and throat (after one
hour), [25]. ►
Burning in the nostrils with running of water from the nose, and at the
same time stoppage of them (after eleven days), [1]. ►►
*Sensation of fulness in the nose, with beating pains in the nasal bones,
[2]. ►
Fine tearing in the upper part of the left nostril (after twelve days), [1]. ►
*Gnawing sensation in the nasal bones, with lancinating and boring pains
extending to the forehead, [2].
►► *Throbbing and burning pains in
the nasal and frontal bones, with swelling, [2]. ► Loss of
smell (after twelve days), [1].
FACE.
►
Objective. ► Look
characteristically quick and anxious, [52].
► Remarkably earnest, wild, uncertain
look, [51]. [190.] ►
Remarkably sad and dejected expression of countenance, [51]. ► Looks
sometimes excited, sometimes depressed, [54].
► *Paleness of face (after one
hour), [4]. ►
(Great paleness of the face, with the spasmodic attacks), [1]. ► *Face
colorless and transparent-looking, like a porcelain mask, [2]. ►
Discolored complexion, [51]. ► Earthy-looking complexion, [52]. ►
Bistre-colored complexion, [56]. ► Complexion rather yellow, [55]. ►
Yellow, bilious complexion, with black circles around the eyes, [2]. [200.] ►
Complexion more yellowish-green than dead white, [54]. ► Face
yellow, greenish, dark, and much emaciated, [2]. ► Red,
puffy, inflamed face; with a phlyctenoid eruption, [2]. ► Face
very red (after three hours), [25].
► Swelling of face, [49]. ►
Swelling of the face, particularly of the eyelids, and of the
submaxillary region (three hours after third dose), [26]. ►
Inflammation and swelling of the facial bones, [2]. ►
Emaciation of face and neck, [52].
► Lengthened visage, [54]. ►
Subjective. ► Face very
sensitive to air, which also aggravates all the symptoms of that part, [2]. [210.]
► An indescribable pain extending out
from the left ear, and if she only moves the hand towards the ear
without even touching it, it creeps over the whole side of the face, as
though it were mesmerized; in the evening, [1]. ► Cheeks.
► Wrinkled, flabby cheeks, [51]. ►
Swelling of the left cheek for three days (after fourteen days), [1]. ►
Such an uncomfortable sense of distension and stiffness about the cheeks
and submaxillary spaces that it had to be discontinued, [36]. ► Fine,
but painful sticking and like a jerking in the left cheek, lasting a
long time; afterwards the spot remained sensitive to touch for a long
time, [1]. ►
Tearing and sticking in the left zygoma, in the morning in bed, when
lying upon it (after four days), [1].
► Lips. ►
The lips are full of glutinous mucus in the morning after waking
(sixteenth day), [1]. ► The upper lip and nostrils are very
sensitive, even when not touched (fourth day), [1]. ► The
lips are dry and cracked (after fifteen days), [1]. ► Painful
drawing in the right side of the upper lip and in the gum (second day), [1]. ►
Chin. [220.] ► Some uneasiness and stiffness in the jaws
(second day); difficulty increased (second day); jaws immovable (third
day), [18]. ►
Sticking in the left lower jaw, in the tibia, in the left thigh and left
forearm, in the bones, in the forenoon (after twelve days), [1]. ►
Tearing in the left lower jaw and corresponding teeth (twelfth day), [1]. ►
Violent tearing in both sides of the lower jaw, as if it would be torn
out (after fifteen days), [1]. ► Gnawing in both sides of the lower jaw, [1].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► A feeling as if
the teeth were too long, with painfulness of them, in the evening, [1]. ►
Grumbling in a left lower hollow back tooth (after thirteen days), [1]. ►
Grumbling in a hollow tooth, when walking in the open air (sixth day), [1]. ►
Toothache, with swelling of the cheek, [2].
► Painful griping in a left lower
hollow back tooth, in the evening (first day), [1]. [230.] ► Painful drawing in a left lower back
tooth, [1]. ►
Tearing in the left upper row of teeth (fourth day), [1]. ► Painful
tearing in the right upper back teeth and in the margin of the right
orbit (twelfth day), [1]. ► Feeling of tearing in both lower rows of
teeth, and a feeling as if a weight hung from the lower jaw, in the
evening (first day), [1]. ► Violent ulcerative pain in the teeth,
beginning in the evening and continuing the whole night, and even the
next morning (after five days), [1].
► Gnawing in the right upper teeth,
afterwards in the left ear, and at last in the tendons of the hollow of
the left knee, in the forenoon (second day), [1]. ► Violent
jerking or shooting in the right eyetooth, scarcely to be endured,
frequently lasting for an hour but worse in the evening after lying down
till midnight, and from 4 to 5 A.M.; aggravated by cold, relieved by
warmth; at times the pain is so great that it seems as though the tooth
would break off, or as if a worm were digging in it (after twenty-five
days), [1]. ► Gums. ►
Tumefaction of the gums, [16]. ► The gums is swollen and painful (after
twenty-five days), [1]. ► Swelling of the gum about a hollow tooth
(after fifteen days), [1]. [240.] ►
Painful stitches in the gum, frequently during the day (after eighteen
days), [1]. ►
Slight though strongly marked, soreness of the gums,
with headache and nausea, [12]. ► Ulcerative pain in the gum of the right
lower row of teeth (after eighteen days), [1].
► The gum of the right side is
painful as if ulcerated and swollen, for several days (after eight
days), [1]. ► Tongue. ►
Tongue swollen, [17]. ► Hypertrophy of the tongue, which was
tender and covered with lobes or nodes and fissured by deep cracks, [20]. ►
Tongue in some places hard and lobulated, in others fissured by deep
cracks, [21]. ► *A blister on the tip of the tongue, with
burning pain (after sixteen days), [1]. ► Burning
in a small spot in the left margin of the tongue (after seven days), [1]. ►
*Burning on the tip of the tongue as from a vesicle (after
seventeen days), [1]. [250.] ►
At night, after retiring, but before going to sleep, had a terrible
spasmodic pain at root of the tongue, extending to both sides of the
throat; for about fifteen or twenty minutes the pain was excruciating
causing a fear that death was impending; there was a sensation as if a
spasm would close the pharynx, [58].
► General Mouth. ► *Very offensive odor from the mouth,
which makes even herself nauseated (after fifteen days), [1]. ►
Horrible odor from the mouth, almost as after onions, in the morning
after rising (sixteenth day), [1].
► Aphthæ in the mouth, [2]. ►
*Dryness of the mouth, [6].
► Dryness in the mouth with thirst,
during the chill in the evening (fourth day), [1]. ► Mouth
dry and slightly fuliginous, [56].
► Dry and bitter mouth and throat, [1]. ►
Mucous lining of the mouth dry, on waking in the morning, [11]. ►
Numbness of the mouth, in the morning after waking (after two and
fifteen days), [1]. [260.] ►
Burning heat in the mouth, as if she had eaten something hot (fourth
day), [1]. ►
Scraping all over the mouth, with sensation as after chewing tobacco, [2]. ►
Saliva. ► *Increase of saliva,
[50]. ►
Increased secretion from the salivary and pituitary mucous membranes, [24]. ►
Increased flow of saliva, [16]. ► Saliva dribbled from the mouth (in two
cases), [23]. ► *Copious salivation, [24]. ► Abundant
salivation and desire to vomit, with drawing in the stomach,
and headache as if a nail was sticking in each temple, [2]. ► The
patient was profusely salivated, [17],
[17a]. ►
The salivation very much resembles that of pregnant women; the saliva
has very little viscidity; it seems to come not only from the cavity of
the mouth, but to be also the product of a kind of regurgitation; the
mucous membrane of the mouth may be rather irritated and œdematous, but
there are not any signs of inflammation, as in mercurial stomatitis, nor
is there observed any tendency to the ulceration peculiar to the latter;
in the majority of cases it is impossible even to discover any
appreciable alteration of tissue; the salivary glands are not the seat
of any tumefaction, nor is there any peculiar odor from the breath;
patient complains that the saliva has a saltish taste, resembling that
of the Ioduret of Potass., [10]. [270.] ►
Bloody saliva, with disgusting taste in the mouth (after three days), [1]. ►
Flow of mucus and saliva from the mouth, without alteration of the gums
or mucous membrane (third hour, after third dose), [26]. ►
Collection of water in the mouth, with nausea in the stomach, [1]. ►
Salivation rare in women (only one case), [14].
► Taste. ►
Dreadful taste in the mouth (ninth and tenth days), [1]. ► Rancid
taste in the mouth always after eating and drinking (after four days), [1]. ►
Astringent metallic taste, excessively disagreeable, for some days; this
can usually be got rid of by cleaning the teeth and gargling the mouth
with fresh water, [11]. ► Bitter taste, [11]. ► Bitter
or sour taste in mouth, [2]. ► Great bitterness in the mouth, and still
more in the throat, disappearing after breakfast (second day), [1]. [280.]
► Sweetish bitter taste in the mouth
after waking (second day), [1]. ► Saline taste in the mouth, subsequently
giving place to that of Iodine, [16].
► Taste of tobacco in the mouth, [2]. ►
Food has no taste, or a taste like straw (after thirteen days), [1].
THROAT.
►
Objective. ► Inflammation
and swelling of the whole throat and even of the neck, [2]. ►
Yellowish-gray spots and ulcers in the throat, [2]. ► Subjective.
► Dryness and frequent cramp in the
throat, with apprehensiveness, [3].
► *A feeling of dryness and itching was
experienced in the throat, with burning at the epigastrium, copious
salivation, running from the nose, intense injection of the conjunctivæ,
and lachrymation, [24].
► Disagreeable dryness and irritation
in his throat (third day), [7]. ► Burning and rawness in the throat, as
from heartburn (thirteenth day), [1].
[290.] ►
Feeling of constriction in the throat, [6].
► Choking in the throat, as if
something were sticking in it; on hawking, a piece of thick mucus was
raised, and the choking ceased (after six days), [1]. ► Dull
stitches and ulcerative pain in the left side of the throat, only when
swallowing, worse in the evening, [1].
► Sore throat; sticking and a feeling
of pressure in it on swallowing; even on reading she experiences pain
(twenty-first and twenty-second days), [1].
► Scraping sensation in the throat,
with sanguineous congestion, [2]. ► Rawness and scraping in the throat, [1]. ►
Rawness and dryness in the throat, with frequent hacking cough, in the
morning in bed (third day), [1]. ► Sense of occlusion of the posterior nares
(fourth day), [34]. ► Burning and uneasy sensation in the
œsophagus and stomach, [18]. ► The act of swallowing was painful and
difficult, and there were redness and swelling of the soft palate and
tonsils (particularly the right), [24].
► External Throat. [300.] ► *The glands in the neck enlarged, [31]. ►
The glands in the neck suddenly enlarged, and to a degree highly
disfiguring; at least two months elapsed before the swellings showed the
slightest symptom of subsidence (after three weeks), [32]. ► *Swelling
of the whole thyroid gland, increasing very rapidly, with some
sensitiveness to touch, and pressure (after eight days), [27]. ►
A small swelling became after three years a large bronchocele, a
ponderous tumor, [33]. ► *Swelling on the neck like goitre, [2]. ►
(Sensitiveness of the goitre to touch), [1].
► The goitre seems smaller and softer
for a short time, [1]. ► Swelling of the cervical and maxillary
glands, [2]. ►
Swelling of submaxillary region, [49].
► Swelling of the parotids, with
lancinating, crampy, distensive pains in the entire jaw, [2]. [310.] ► Bellows-mumur in the carotids, [54]. ►
Muscular pain, extending over the whole region of the neck (fourth day),
[34].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Improvement of
the appetite, [24]. ► Appetite usually increased; it is
remarkable how soon after taking Iodine the desire for food arises
(first day); diminishing or disappearing (second day), [14]. ► Great
hunger, but he can scarcely eat on account of bad digestion, nausea, and
vomiting, [2]. ► Bulimy, [52].
► Desire for milk, wine, and spirits,
[2]. ►
Loss of appetite, [27]. ► Total want of appetite; or rather she was
convinced she could not eat, [56].
► Anorexia, [24], [53].
[320.] ►
Aversion to all food, [2]; (after
seventeen days), [1]. ► Aversion to broth, [1]. ► Thirst.
► *Thirst, [24]; several evenings in succession (after five
days), [1]. ►
Constant thirst (after fourth dose), [9].
► Great thirst; the whole day and
even at night (after three and fifteen days), [1]. ► Eructation
and Hiccough. ►
Eructations with taste of food long after eating, [2]. ►
Frequent gulping eructations of a large quantity of air, [1]. ►
Frequent regurgitations of bitter matter, with desire to vomit, [2]. ►
Raising of phlegm morning and evening, and often after meals, [2]. ►
Hiccough, in the evening (after four days), [1]. [330.] ► Very frequent, empty, hiccough-like
eructations, [1]. ► Constant inclination to waterbrash,
without its really occurring, [1].
► Nausea and Vomiting. ► *Nausea (immediately), [4]. ► Nausea
in the stomach, even vomiting, [1].
► Nausea, with pressure in the
stomach, [1]. ► Nausea, with great straining, and tearing
sensation in the chest, [2]. ► Frequent nausea, [2]. ►
Constant nausea, accompanied with frequent vomiting and smart fever
(fourth day), [34]. ► Slight nausea, [12]. ►
Retching (three hours after third dose), [26].
[340.] ►
Inclination to vomit after an embrace, [2].
► *Vomiting, [27]. ►
Vomiting and purging at the same time (after fourth dose), [9]. ►
Copious and painful vomiting, frequently after meals, with drawing in
the stomach extending to the back, and colic, [2]. ► *Violent
vomiting, with accumulation of saliva (after one hour), [25]. ►
Spontaneous vomiting of a yellow fluid, tasting strongly of Iodine
(after one hour), [4]. ► Vomiting of food and bile mixed with
blood, [2]. ►
Frequent and painful vomiting of food, bile, and blood, [2]. ►
Vomiting of blood, preceded by heat and burning in the stomach, [2]. ►
Stomach. ► Indigestion, [5]. [350.]
► Digestion constantly deranged, [2]. ►
The stomach feels empty and hungry, being unable either to retain or
digest anything, [2]. ► Pain in the stomach like an emptiness and
coldness, not relieved by warm soup, in the evening (sixteenth day), [1]. ►
Feeling of great emptiness and qualmishness in the stomach, not relieved
after eating (after twenty-one days), [1].
► Sensation as if the stomach were
full of bile, [2]. ► Constant “cracking and crying”
in the stomach (seventeenth and eighteenth days), [1]. ►
Discomfort in the stomach, [1]. ► After the pains in the abdomen have
lasted for some time, the stomach also begins to pain, and both then
together disappear, [1]. ► Pain in the cardiac portion of the
stomach (after large doses), [16].
► Slight pain and heaviness in the
stomach (first day); the pain, however, is not always present;
diminishing or disappearing (second day), [14].
[360.] ►
Sudden attack of severe gastralgia, lasting several months, [50]. ►
Burning at the epigastrium, [24]. ► Burning sensation and very acute pain at
the epigastrium (immediately), [4].
► Burning in stomach during
digestion, [52]. ► Burning in the stomach, as if there was a
charcoal furnace in it, [2]. ► Burning and pressure in the stomach,
relieved by eructations, but immediately returning, [1]. ► Burning
pains in the stomach, with throbbing and contraction, [2]. ►
Terrible burning externally in the pit of the stomach, as if the place
were inflamed, [1]. ► Pains, as if the stomach was perforated, [2]. ►
Sensation as if from corrosive ulcers in the stomach, [2]. [370.] ► Painful beating in the left side of the
epigastric region, in the evening, [1].® 2000
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