ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.
(“Stibium”). Sesquisulphide of antimony, Sb2S3. (Native gray antimony ore).
Authorities.
[Dioscorides (in Hahnemann) only mentions the
beneficial effect of its external application to ulcers of the eye; Plinius, ibid.; as Ant.
was not used internally in his time, this must be as with Dioscorides.] 1, Hahnemann, Chr. Krankheiten, 2, 190; 2,
Caspari, ibid; 3, Hartlaub, ibid; 4, Langhammer, ibid; 5,
Gmelin, Allgem. Gesch. d. Mineral Gifte (general statement from authors of effects of Ant.),
ibid.; 6, Hildanus, Obs. Cent., V. O., 12 (same case as
that given in full by Camerarius, S. 17), ibid.; 7,
Lindestolpe, de Venenis (general statement of the noxious effects of Ant.; one only of the
eight symptoms referred to him appears), ibid.; 8,
Gardane, Gazette de Santé, 1773, ibid.; 9, Camerarius,
Sylloge Memorabil. (effects of overdosing in adults), ibid.; 10,
Wepfer, de Cicuta et Ant. (several cases of poisoning in men and animals), ibid.; 11, Ephemer. Nat. Cur. (should be Misc. Nat. Cur.), dec. 1
(effects of overdosing in an adult), ibid.; 12, James,
in Simon’s Beob., 1790, ibid.; 13, Stahl, Mat. Med.,
1744, ibid.; 14, Morgenstern, de Usu Ant. Cr., 1756
(general statement from authors), ibid.; 15, Hoffmann,
Med. Rat. et System., pts. 1 and 2, fol. ed., Geneva, 1761 (statement of ill effects of
antimonial emetics), ibid.; 16, Bonetus, Polyalthea
(statement of occasional effects), ibid.; 17, Matthiolus
(Goetze, in Act. Vratislav.), (no reference given to Matthiolus; not in his Comm.; Goetze,
effects of Ant. in a patient with syphilitic ulceration), ibid.; 18,
Saunders, Observ. de Ant., etc., London, 1773 (general statement from observation), ibid.; 19, Joubert, Lib. de Peste, ibid.; 20,
Schulz, in Tract. de Nat. Tinct. Bezoard., ibid.; 21,
Lotichius, Observationes, lib. iv, cap. 3 (case of overdosing in an adult), ibid.; 22, Kunckel v. Löwenstein, Labarator. Chem. (effects of
continued use), ibid.; 23, Nicolai, Progr. ad Dissert.;
also Reindel, de Oleo, etc., ibid.; 24, Pitet, Bib.
Hom., Paris, 1872, p. 91 (effects of the 30th, given for blepharitis).
MIND.
► (Delirium and
death, in consequence of an emetic of Croc. metal), [7]. [Not found, -Hughes.] ►
Decided disposition to shoot himself in the night, not to any other kind of suicide; this
forced him to leave his bed, otherwise he was unable to get rid of it, [3]. ► Continual condition of
ideal love and ecstatic longing for some ideal female being, which wholly filled his fancy;
more when walking in the open pure air than in the room; this symptom disappeared after a
few days, the sexual desire apparently diminished at the same time, [2]. ► Dejection of spirit during
the day, [4]. ► He
felt discouraged; this made his head feel warm in front, [4].
► Attacks of anxiety, [5].
► Anxious reflections about himself, his present and
future fate, during the day, [4]. ► Anxiety in bed, at night, from 3 to 5 o’clock, [1]. ► Uneasy (second day), [2]. [10.] ► Irritated state of mind, feeling of grief, the whole
forenoon; the sound of the bells, as well as the sight of that which surrounds him, moves
him to tears; his breathing is short and heavy, [1]. ►► Peevish; vexed without
any cause (second day), [2]. ► Out of humor; sad in the evening, [1]. ► Ill-humor the whole day, [4]. ►► He is sulky;
does not wish to speak with any one, [4]. ► He does not speak (second
day), [2]. ►
Dementia, [6], (same case as S. 17). ► Dementia, idiocy; she did not leave her bed, spoke nothing
without being asked, desired neither to ear nor to drink, nevertheless ate with pleasure if
anything was offered to her and she felt hungry; she declined eating when she did not feel
hungry; at the same time she was all the time pulling her neck cloth, or she folded a
handkerchief and then unfolded it again, or she pulled little feathers out of the bed and
then gathered them together; so obtuse was her sensibility that when, from the acrimony of
the evacuations and her position on the back, a large and foul ulcer formed over the sacrum
and coccyx, she complained of no pain from it, [9].
HEAD.
► Vertigo, [2]. ► Weakness of the
head, [2]. [20.] ► Violent headache, [8]. ► Violent headache after bathing in the river, with weakness in
the limbs and repugnance to food, [2]. ► Headache, and subsequently a little bleeding at the nose
(after seven and a half hours), [4]. ► Feeling of emptiness in the head, as after continual working
in a cold room (fourth day), [2]. ► The rush of the blood to the head becomes less (curative
effects), [2]. ►
Violent tearing in the whole head, with heat in it, towards noon (sixth day), [2]. ► Tearing pain in the whole
head, here and there, from morning till night, [2]. ► The tearing in the head becomes less when walking in the open
air, [2]. ► Dull,
stupefying pain in the whole head, with nausea in the pharynx, when smoking, to which he is
accustomed, [4]. ►
*Heaviness in the forehead, [24]. [30.] ► Headache, as if her
forehead would burst; at the same time, she felt intoxicated, sat alone, and would not
speaks, [9]. [Not found.] ►
Continual pain in the forehead and the temples, boring from within outwards, unchanged by
touching the parts (after five hours), [4]. ► *Slight dull headache in the forehead, and vertigo, increased by
ascending stairs, [2]. ► Stupefying, dull headache, rather externally, in the
forehead, so violent that sweat broke out from anxiety, when walking in the open air (after
six hours), [4]. ►
Pressure inwards, at times drawing, in the left side of the forehead, [2]. ► Momentary drawing pain over
the left temporal bone; went off by pressure, and then returned much more violent,
immediately after, [2]. ►
Slow pulsation externally, at the left temple, with fine prickings, several times in
succession, extending towards the eye-brows; this symptom is most severe when it is not
especially noticed, [2]. ►
Upon the left parietal bone there is a small spot which, when touched, causes pain in the
bone, as if the periosteum were swollen, [2]. ► Small, flat tubercles here and there upon the scalp, on the
size of small peas, painful to pressure, and with a feeling of crawling all around, [2]. ► Single sharp
stitches on the scalp (for one minute), [2].
EYES.
[40.] ► Red, inflamed eyes, with itching, and nightly agglutination, [1]. ► Redness of the
left eye, with dread of light on rising early in the morning, and a secretion of mucus in
the inner canthus, [2]. ►
Inflammation of the eyes, [8]. ►
Pain at the right eyebrow, within the skull, as if the parts were pressed asunder, [2]. ► Sharp pressive
stitches below the left eyebrow, [4]. ► Reddened eyelids, with fine stitches in the eyeball, [2]. ► Twitching in the
left eyelids, [2]. ►
Gum in the canthi of the eyes, in the forenoon (after three hours and a half), [4]. ► Much mucus in the
right canthus, early in the morning, with dry gum in both lids, [2]. ► Small moist place at the
outer canthus very painful upon sweat coming in contact with it, [2]. [50.] ►
Itching in the external canthus of the eye, which obliges one to rug (after two hours), [4]. ► Fine stitches in
frequent succession, without pain, in the forepart of the eye-ball, in the forenoon (ninth
day), [2]. ►
Incurable blindness, [7]. [Not found.]
EARS.
► Redness, burning,
and swelling of the left ear, as from the bite of a mosquito, [2].
► Swelling and redness of the whole of the internal
concha with periodical itching, [2]. ► Itching stitches at the border of the right concha, above the
helix, going off being touched (after one hour an a half), [2].
► In the evening something seemed to block up the right
ear, [1]. ► Drawing
pain through the right ear into the Eustachian tube, almost reaching the mouth, after dinner
(sixteenth day), [2]. ►
Stitches in the ears, [2]. ►
Crawling in the right meatus auditorius (second day), [2].
[60.] ► Sensation of
burrowing or swarming (of animals) in the ears, especially when lying still (fifth day), [2]. ► Violent din in the
ears, as if some one were beating against the door of the house, [1]. ► Smashing in the ear, as of
a few drops of water, when moving the jaws, [1]. ► Ringing before the ears (second day), [2]. ► Continual roaring in the
ears, especially during stillness (second day), [2]. ► Roaring in the ears, most in the afternoon, [3]. ► An old roaring in
the ears disappeared (curative effect), [2]. ► (Painful roaring in the ears), [9],
(preceding S. 68). ► (Loss of hearing), [9]. [After violent vomiting, left ear soon recovered, but right
remained permanently deaf; reporter ascribes it to rupture of membrana tympani.] ► A kind of deafness of the right ear, as if a leaflet were
placed before the tympanum; this symptom cannot be removed by boring with the finger in the
ear (after fourteen hours), [4].
NOSE.
[70.] ► *Both nostrils become chapped and covered with crusts, [2]. ► The left nostril
becomes chapped and painful, [2]. ► Obstruction of the nose in the evening, as in coryza, for
several days, [2]. ►
Coryza, [2]. ►
Coryza, with sore, crusty nostrils, [2]. ► Fluent coryza early in the
morning, for some hours, with sneezing, [4]. ► Dry coryza, [1]. ► Fluent coryza, [2]. ► Blowing out blood, [1].
► Bleeding at the nose, several days in succession, [1]. [80.] ► Bleeding at the nose every evening, [1]. ► Dryness of the nose when
walking in the open air, so that he can hardly speak, [1].
► *The nose is painful when breathing, as if from inspiring
cold air, or from inhaling acrid vapors, [2].
► *Sore nostrils, with drawing pain, [1]. ► Feeling of soreness in the
nostrils when inspiring air, especially in the right nostril, which is a little obstructed, [2]. ► Soreness of the
right nostril in the anterior angle, with pain as in cold, [2].
FACE.
► Slight twitches in
the muscles of the left side of the face (after nine hours), [2].
► *Cracks in the corners of the mouth, painful like sores,
returning after five, eight, and twelve weeks, [2]. ► Twitches of the muscles at the corners of the mouth, [1]. ► The lips are dry,
[1]. [90.] ► Formication upon the upper lip (nineteenth and twenty-fourth
days), [2]. ►
Burning, stinging, as from a red-hot little spark on the chin and the upper lip (seventh and
ninth day), [2]. ►
Sensation at, and below the chin, when touching it, as if the hand were moved over many
small sore places, and small, honey-colored granules upon the skin here and there, [2].
MOUTH.
► Waking from the
siesta with and by dull grinding of the teeth (second day), [2].
► *Severe bleeding of the teeth, [1]. ► Twinging toothache, in the
evening when in bed, and after dinner, [1]. ► *Stitches in the tooth when inspiring air, [1]. ► *Toothache in a hollow tooth,
worse at night than in daytime; a fine stinging, pulling, and grinding, as if in
the nerve, which moves downwards and then upwards into the head; if
he touches the tooth with the tongue, he feels pain, as if the nerve were torn, [1]. ► The nightly
toothache is accompanied by great warmth, which seems to come from the chest, [1]. ► The toothache is renewed
immediately after eating even soft things, is worse by applying cold water, and is relieved
in the open air, [1]. [100.]
► The gums stand off from the teeth, and bleed easily, [1]. ► *Dryness of the mouth,
at night (sixth day), [2]. ►
*Rawness of the palate, with expectoration of much mucus, when clearing the throat
(after fifth week), [2]. ►
Blisters upon the tongue, [1]. ►► *Tongue coated white in the forenoon (after two
hours), [4]. ►
Accumulation of water upon the tongue, [2]. ► After dinner some fine, sharp stitches in the tongue, in
front on the left border, following in succession (after thirty-three hours), [2]. ► Feeling of soreness, and
redness at a small place on the right border of the tongue for several days, frequently
going off and suddenly returning (sixth day), [2]. ► Accumulation of water in the mouth, [2]. ► *Much saltish saliva in the
mouth, [10]. [110.]
► Profuse ptyalism from nose and mouth, [11], (same as S. 383). ►
Ptyalism, without any fetid odor, and without looseness of the teeth, [12]. [Not mentioned by James in his treatise on the fever powders.] ► The mouth smells as in ptyalism from mercury, [1]. ► Fine pinching on the palate
the whole night, especially painful during deglutition; early in the morning the symptom
disappeared only after hawking up the phlegm, which had collected on the sides of the palate
during the night, except a feeling of roughness which remained, [2].
THROAT.
► Much viscid
phlegm collects in the throat the whole day, [2]. ► He is obliged the whole day to draw a quantity of thick
yellowish mucus from the posterior nares into the throat, and expectorate it (ninth day), [2]. ► Clearing the
throat and hawking when walking in the open air, [1]. ► A foreign body seems to hang in the throat; he tries in vain
to swallow or expel it, [10]. ►
Early in the morning, roughness and dryness in the throat (sixth day), [2]. ► Sore throat on the left
side, as from a swelling or a plug, [1]. [120.] ► Sensation as of
scraping on the velum palati, as if much phlegm were upon it, which could only be expelled
after clearing the throat for a long time; often it was not expelled at all, for several
days (seventh day), [2]. ►
Impeded deglutition, [8].
STOMACH.
► Strong sense of
hunger in the region of the stomach, early on waking, without appetite; eating does not
remove the symptom; at the same time disagreeable sense of emptiness in the pit of the
stomach, and want of animal heat, for two days (after fourth week), [2]. ► Want of appetite, [13]. ► Complete loss of
appetite, [24]. ►
Appetite extremely little, [1]. ►
Immense thirst, [10]. ►
Thirst in the evening, and desire to drink, [1].
► Much thirst at night (after sixth day), [2]. ► Drinks much only
at night, [1]. [130.]
► *Violent thirst, with dryness of the lips, [1]. ► Goat’s milk
refreshes him agreeably, [10]. ►
Loud eructations (after one-quarter of an hour and one hour and a half), [2]. ► Eructations having a raw
taste, [4]. ►
Bitter eructations like bile (after three hours), [1].
►► *Gulping up of fluid, tasting of the ingesta,
in the afternoon (second and third days), [2]. ► Hiccough (after one hour), [4].
► Frequent hiccough when smoking tobacco (after ten hours
and a half), [4]. ►
Violent nausea, [14]. ►
Nausea after drinking a glass of wine, [2].
[140.] ► Nausea, with
vertigo, [2]. ►
Nausea and vomiting, [8]. ►
Terrible vomiting, which nothing can stop, [7]. ► *Vomiting of mucus and bile, [17]. ► Violent vomiting, with
attacks of anxiety, [15]. ►
Fearful vomiting, with convulsions, [10]. ► Violent vomiting and diarrhœa, [14]. ► Violent vomiting and
diarrhœa, with excessive anguish, [16]. ► Fulness and inflation after dinner; often alternates with
lightness, cheerfulness, and activity of both mind and body, [2].
► Pain at the stomach, as from excessive fulness,
without, however, any fulness, and accompanied by appetite, [2].
[150.] ► *Pain at the
stomach, as after too much eating, with distended but not hard abdomen (after
three days), [2]. ►
Cramp of the stomach, [13]. ►
*Cramplike pains at the stomach, [15]. ► Cramp of the stomach, in several persons, during the whole of
their lives, [10]. ►
Transient pinching in the region of the stomach, [2]. ► Feeling of tightness below the stomach, with empty
eructations, [2]. ►
Pressure at the stomach, which is more like a dull cutting, especially when drawing in the
abdomen, [2]. ►
Pressure at the stomach early in the morning, with thirst (twentieth day), [2]. ► Several attacks of cutting
pain in the region of the stomach, [2]. ► Painful feeling in the stomach, when pressing upon it, [2]. [160.] ► *Burning at the pit of the stomach, like heartburn, with good
appetite, [2]. ►
Burning, spasmodic pain, at the pit of the stomach, in attacks of half an hour, which drove
him to despair and to the resolution of drowning himself, [1].
► Pinching pains on the right side, over and by the side
of the pit of the stomach, [2].
ABDOMEN.
► Slight tension
in the hypochondria, [10]. ►
Pinching pain on the left side of the navel, [2]. ► Distended, big abdomen, [3].
► Abdomen very much distended; this causes a pain
as from internal pressure, [2]. ►
Great inflation of the abdomen, especially after a meal, [2].
► (Hernia), [9].
[“Hernia ventriculi, after violent vomiting.”] ►
Loud rumblings in the abdomen (after one hour and a half), [4].
[170.] ► Slight
rumbling in the abdomen, as when bubbles of air arise in the water, [2]. ► Loud rumbling in the
abdomen, as from emptiness, in the forenoon (after three hours), [4]. ► Much rumbling flatus,
bursting forth immediately after a meal; some smells badly; some before it passes moves
downwards and meets other flatus, especially in the right side (ninth day), [2]. ► Inconsiderable flatus
passed off, with a sensation as of pressing asunder, as if a copious expulsion of fæces
would take place (after five hours and a half), [2]. ► Much flatus immediately after dinner; it moves about audibly,
especially in the right side of the abdomen, some being expelled (after six hours), [2]. ► Sensation of
emptiness in the intestines, going off after a meal, [2].
► Sensation in the intestines as after a violent diarrhœa;
the symptom is transitory but exhausting, [2]. ► The most intolerable pain in every part of the abdomen, [5]. ► Pinching at a
small place on the left side of the abdomen, low down, like the beat of the pulse, in the
afternoon (third day), [2]. ►
Pinching in the abdomen, especially on the right side, towards the back, beginning suddenly
in the evening, and increased by motion (after three weeks), [2].
[180.] ► Violent
cutting in the abdomen (twenty-second day), [2]. ► Cutting in the abdomen, with a feeling of nausea there, and
accumulation on the tongue, [2]. ►
Cutting in the abdomen the whole day, with a feeling of oppression coming from the stomach,
indisposition to work, dry humor, and pain at the stomach on eructations, [2]. ► Sudden, compressive colic,
with gulping up of water, [2]. ►
The symptoms in the abdomen recommence again, all of them (after two weeks and a half), [2]. ► Hard gland in the
left groin painful to pressure; the gland appears to lie over Poupart’s ligament, and to run
parallel to it, [2]. ►
Pain as from swelling in the cartilage, or the periosteum, of the upper portion of the crest
of the ilium, [2]. ►
Pain in the groins, as from swelling, felt on pressure; the place felt hard, as from swollen
glands, [2].
STOOL AND ANUS.
► The
varices of the rectum protruded more than usual (eleventh day), [2]. ► Protrusion of the rectum
during stool, for some time, [2]. [190.] ► Discharge of mucus from
the rectum, with emission of flatulence, [1].
► Expulsion of black blood by the rectum, [17]. ► Continual discharge of
blood and solid portions of the intestines by the rectum, [7].
[Not found.] ► *Pain in the rectum during stool; feeling of
soreness; as if an ulcer had been torn open, [1].
► Frequent tenesmus, although little urine is passed
(after five days), [2]. ►
Sharp itching in the rectum (seventh day), [2]. ► Burning, itching, and smarting in the anus at right (after
three days), [2]. ►
Drawing pain in the anus, [2]. ►
Crawling and burning of the hæmorrhoids, in the evening when in bed till falling asleep
(after eleven days and after five weeks), [2]. ► *Itching of the anus, [2].
[200.] ► Severe,
urgent desire for stool after dinner, and quick expulsion of ordinary fæces, with straining
(four days), [2]. ►
Disposition to diarrhœa, which, however, does not take place, [1]. ► Diarrhœa at night and
early in the morning; every time, however, only one evacuation, [1]. ► Pappy, frequent stool
(after one hour and a half), [4]. ► *Very difficult, hard stool, [1]. ► Difficult expulsion of hard
stool, without previous straining (after eleven hours), [4].
► Difficult evacuation of hard stools, with previous
pressing in the rectum, two minutes (after twelve hours), [4].
► The stools, which had previously been very consistent,
now become very thin, [2]. ►
Very thin stools after taking vinegar, with pain in the rectum during stool, [2]. ► Very liquid stools, [2]. [210.] ► Hard stool early in the morning, [4]. ► Hard stool in the evening,
with violent pressing in the rectum, and cutting in the abdomen, [2]. ► *Stool, first natural, then
several small, loose evacuations, then as small but hard evacuations, with violent straining
in the rectum and anus until all are passed, [2].
► Constipation for three days, [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Tenesmus
of the bladder rouses him from sleep at night, [1]. ► Sensation of painful contraction at the bottom of the canal
(neck of the bladder), [24]. ►
Burning in the urethra, [24]. ►
Constant urging to urinate, with extreme dysuria, [24].
► *Desire to urinate, frequent and violent; expelling
much urine every time (after one, two, and two hours and a half), [4]. ► Expels the urine, [but
rarely. -Hughes.], [18]. [220.]
► Frequent micturition, [4].
► Long-continuing, frequent micturition, little urine
being expelled in great haste (eighteenth day), [2]. ► Frequent urination, with intense burning in urethra during emission,
[24]. ► Frequent
micturition, with discharge of a small quantity of water urine (fourth day), [2]. ► Copious micturition at
night, three times, [2]. ►
Copious and frequent micturition (in a dog), [10].
► At night he passes a small quantity of urine, in an
intermitting stream, with painful erections, [1]. ► Gold-yellow, thin urine, with a scarcely perceptible cloud, [10]. ► Brown-red urine, [2]. ► Dark-colored,
frequent urine (after seven hours), [4]. [230.] ► Small, red corpuscles
in the urine after having stood twenty-four hours, [10].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Erections
(after six hours), [2]. ►
Burning at the glans penis, [24]. ► Fine itchings of the penis (after fourteen hours), [2]. ► Violent itching of
the extremity of the glans, [2]. ►
Biting-itching, as from salt, of the left side of the scrotum, frequent, lasting fourteen
days (after fourteen days), [2]. ►
Continual drawing in the spermatic cord, while there was a boil at the perineum; the pain
was most violent when standing, and became less when stooping, [2]. ► Excited sexual desire, with
uneasiness in the whole body, which prevents him from sitting long (after six hours), [2]. ► Afterwards the
sexual desire appears to be less for several days, [2].
► Even upon leaning the back against something, there is
an irritation, as if pollution would come on, [1]. [240.] ► Nightly pollutions,
without any voluptuous dreams, [4]. ► Pollution at night, with many dreams (eleventh day), [2]. ► Pressure in the
womb, as if something would come out, [1]. ► Discharge of an acrid water from the vagina, which caused a
sensation as of biting down along the thighs, [1].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
►
*Violent spasms in the larynx and the pharynx, as if the throat were filled with a plug,
which becomes alternately thicker and thinner, accompanied by a feeling of soreness,
[1]. ► Rough voice,
[1]. ► Speech and
stinging are not firm, but weak, [10]. ► *Extreme feebleness of voice; he can only speak in a low tone,
[10]. ►► *Loss of
voice as often as he became hot; the voice came back by resting himself, [10]. ► Cough, early in
the morning after rising, in paroxysms; it seems to come
out of the abdomen; the first attack is always the most violent;
the following become weaker and weaker, so that the last attack resembles a mere hacking
cough, [1]. [250.]
► Frequent, dry cough, [10].
► Severe, dry cough, with a sense as of scratching in the
larynx, in a sudden short attack, [2]. ► Cough, with discharge of viscid, thin phlegm, deep out of the
chest, early in the morning, [10]. ► Deep sighing, breathing, as from fulness of the chest, for
several days, in the afternoon and after eating, [2]. ► Dyspnœa, [8]. ► Difficulty of breathing during supper, [1]. ► Difficulty of breathing
after supper, [1]. ►
Asthma, [13]. ►
Very troublesome asthma, [10]. ►
Suffocating asthma in four young men, [19]. [260.] ► (Suffocative
catarrh), [10]. [Coming on fifteen days after
amputation of foot (S. 351, 352), and ending in death; see next symptom.] ► Death produced by suffocating catarrh in fifteen days,
occasioned by a few grains of antimony, [10].® 2000
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