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ANTIMONIUM OXIGENATUM (or OXIGENISATUM). – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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ANTIMONIUM OXIGENATUM (or OXIGENISATUM).

Sesquioxide of antimony, Sb2O3.
(Fumes from antimony works.)


Authorities.

A. H. Z., 20, 122; Rev. d. l. Med. Hom., 2, 194.

HEAD.

► Pain in head. ► Violent headache. ► Slight
headache increases to an intolerable degree. ► Violent
headache, with tearing in the limbs. ► Stitches through
the head from time to time. ► Lightning-like stitches
through the head backward, which suddenly disappear, while the headache in the forehead
remains. ► Violent stitches and burning at the occiput
and nape of the neck. ► Pain in the occiput, especially
evenings, violent, stupefying, and so exhausting that he soon falls into an unrefreshing
sleep. ► Continuous fatiguing pain in the forepart of the
head, immediately behind the glabella.

MOUTH.

[10.] ► Tongue coated white.

STOMACH.

► Loss of
appetite. ► Diminished appetite. ►
Anorexia.

ABDOMEN.

► Abdomen
distended by incarcerated gases. ► Abdominal pains. ► Gripings. ► Colic, without
diarrhœa.

STOOL AND ANUS.

►
Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa, with griping pains in abdomen,
troublesome, frequent, consisting of food evacuated soon after eating.

URINARY ORGANS.

[20.] ► Indescribable lameness in the urinary apparatus. ► Pains and urging at neck of bladder, and burning in the
urethra during urination. ► Discharge of a few drops of
mucus from the urethra. ► Gonorrhœa-like discharge from
the urethra. ► Painful discharge of urine guttatim. ► Dysuria, with a
mucous discharge, causing sensation of burning in the urethra. ►
Strangury. ► Urine of a deep orange-yellow color, almost
red. ► Deep-red and bloody urine, causing burning in the
urethra, from which exuded a whitish mucus, after cessation of the bloody urine.

SEXUAL ORGANS.

► Dwindling
of the penis and testicles. [30.] ►
Penis flaccid. ► Burning at the glans penis. ► Want of vigor in the genitals, which approached impotence. ► Absence of erections. ►
Complete impotence. ► Complete impotence; no ejaculation
of semen, and even no erections. ► Atrophy of the
testicles. ► Testicles grew smaller. ► Atrophy of testicles and penis. ►
Pain in testicle. [40.] ►
Pains in the testicles. ► Decrease of sexual feeling. ► Absence of sexual feeling. ►
Loss of sexual appetite.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.

►
Cough violent, shattering, dry, with stitches in chest. ►
Cough dry, painful, finally ends in a difficult expectoration. ►
Difficult expectoration of tenacious mucus. ► Respiration
audible, from rattling and whistling. ► Sense of
suffocation. ► Respiration difficult, with mucous and
sibilant râles over the chest.

CHEST.

[50.] ► Pain in the chest. ► Very
great constriction of the chest, with stitches. ►
Continued oppression of chest, constriction and irritation to cough. ►
Oppression of chest. ► Lancinating pain along edge of
ribs, and in back. ► Sharp stitches through the chest,
towards the shoulders and back. ► Violent stitches in
chest, with dry cough.

NECK AND BACK.

► Swelling
of the cervical glands. ► Sensitive pains in the loins. ► Sharp pains in the sacro-lumbar region.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.

[60.]
► Spasms of the limbs. ►
Pain all the limbs.

GENERALITIES.

► Great
relaxation
of the whole organism. ► General
relaxation and depression. ► Great weakness. ► Excessive general irritability. ►
Great sensitiveness.

SKIN.

► Pustular eruption,
thick on the lower abdomen. ► Pustular eruption on neck. ► Pustular eruption on neck and body. [70.]
► Pustular eruption thickest on the genitals. ► Pustular eruption on arms, nates, genitals; prevents walking.
► Pustular eruption in the bends of the limbs. ► Pustular eruption of nates. ►
Pustular eruption, especially on thighs and scrotum. ►
Pustular elevations, like pocks, on the scrotum.

SLEEP AND DREAMS.

►
Troublesome restlessness at night. ► Distressing
restlessness prevents sleep. ► Sleeplessness. ► Fatiguing dreams. [80.] ► Anxious dreams, and frequent startings.

FEVER.

► Fever. ► Complaints assume the form of intermittent fever. ► Profuse perspiration and general weakness. ► Very profuse and debilitating sweats during sleep. ► Very tormenting, pouring sweat, every time after sleeping,
followed by great exhaustion. ► Night-sweats. ► Excessive night-sweats.

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