ARGENTUM METALLICUM.
LOWER EXTREMITIES.
►
Powerlessness of the lower extremities after waking; the knees knock together when walking
(3d trit.), [10]. ►
After rising from bed, great weariness of the lower extremities, most marked in the region
of the trochanters; it seemed as though the ligaments and muscles had given way, with
painful tension in the muscles about the trochanter and buttocks, as
if sprained; especially sensitive on walking; on hard pressure, they pain as if bruised (6th dil.), [10].
► Stiffness of the lower extremities, evening (6th dil.),
[10]. ►
Shivering-like creepings through the whole outer side of the left lower extremity on
standing in a room (1st trit.), [10]. [350.] ► Paralytic weakness in
the hip and thigh, [1]. ►
Paralytic weakness in the right hip-joint when walking, especially when moving the leg
forward, and stitches when setting down the foot; this caused him to limp, but soon went
off, [5]. ► Painful
stiffness in the muscles about the hip-joint on dressing (6th dil.), [10]. ► Paralytic drawing in the
bones of the right hip (3d trit.), [10]. ► On running, when he steps on the left foot, which is
stretched forward, a painful pricking pressure in the right hip-joint, [2]. ► Violent pain at a place
behind the left hip, as if he had had a violent fall upon it; only felt during motion; not
excited by standing (after thirty-two hours), [8]. ► Pain, as if sprained, in the right hip-joint (1st trit.), [10]. ► A pain, as if
sprained, in the left hip, caused by sneezing (4th dil.), [10].
► A pain, as if sprained, in the hip-joint on every step,
so severe that it caused him to limp (2d trit.), [10].
► A violent electric shock, starting first from the left;
then from the right hip-joint, and disturbing his after-dinner nap (3d trit.), [10]. [360.] ► Burning sore feeling between the nates after a short walk
(1st trit.), [10]. ►
The glutei muscles pain as if bruised on walking, stooping, adduction of the thigh, or by
lying on the parts (6th dil.), [10]. ► Throbbing stitches, synchronous with the pulse, from the left
trochanter, along the neck of the femur, to the socket; lasts ten minutes; the end of each
throb was always accompanied with a fine stitch; mornings, after waking, in bed (4th dil.), [10]. ► Loss of power in
the thighs on walking in the street (3d trit.), [10]. ► Sense of a tingling humming (vibration) in the left thigh,
and drawing in the anterior muscles, [3]. ► Bruised pain in the anterior surface of the left thigh and
knee (1st trit.), [10]. ►
The knees often knock together when walking, [5]. ► A transient drawing from the right popliteal space through
the knee to the outer margin of the patella, at 10 P.M., in bed (6th dil.), [10]. ► The knees knock together
when ascending stairs (1st trit.), [10]. ► Pressive pain in the knee-joint, and from within outwards, in
the muscles of the left extremity, when sitting, [6]. [370.] ► Muscle twitchings
above the left patella (1st trit.), [10]. ► Tearing dull stitches over the left patella, in any position,
[5]. ► Bruised pain
on the left side of the right patella; this increased so much when walking that he limped,
and could step with difficulty; disappeared in twenty-five seconds, while sitting, with
weakness and loss of power in the extremities (3d trit.), [10].
► Bruised pain in the left patella and around the back of
the left side of the pelvis; on motion, it pains as if sprained (3d trit.), [10]. ► The knee is painful, as if
bruised; worse when sitting than when walking (after one and a quarter hours), [7]. ► A bruised and
dislocated pain in the right knee, on motion (5th dil.),
[10]. ► Bruised
pain on the inside of the right knee, followed by biting itching on the inside of the left
knee (5th dil.), [10]. ►
Pain, as if sprained, on the inner side of the right knee; disappears during rest (3d
trit.), [10]. ►
Pain, as if sprained, in the right knee, and cramp in the calf on walking; mornings, after
rising (2d trit.), [10]. ►
A throbbing bruised pain on the anterior and inner surface of the right knee, on standing
(4th dil.), [10]. [380.]
► Electric shocks through the right knee-joint, followed
by two similar shocks through the upper part of the body, which seemed to explode close to
the foramen magnum; prevented falling asleep in the forenoon (3d trit.), [10]. ► Slight twitchings in the
external side of the left knee, with a sensation of clucking, when sitting (immediately), [7]. ► Tearing in the
left knee-joint when sitting (after seventy-two hours), [2].
► A cramplike incisive pain over the left knee, on both
sides, when he does not move (after eight hours), [7].
► Tearing in the left knee-joint when sitting (after
seventy-two hours), [2]. ►
A short drawing pain in the condyles of the left knee (a quarter of an hour), (3d trit.), [10]. ► In the evening,
when in bed, burning corrosive stitches in the left tibia, not far from the knee, which
caused an involuntary twitching of the foot (after seventeen hours), [5]. ► A short but repeated
drawing paralytic pain through the marrow of the right tibia on walking across the room, at
6 P.M. (3d trit.), [10]. ►
Repeated drawing-throbbing pain in the middle of the left tibia, when at rest (a quarter of
an hour), (3d trit.), [10]. ►
Pain, as if sprained, in the inner condyle of the right tibia, on walking in the open air
(3d trit.), [10]. ►
Throbbing tearing in the middle of the right tibia (1st trit.), [10]. [390.] ► An extremely violent, almost unendurable, pain through the
whole fibula, with loss of power, at 3 P.M., when walking (3d trit.), [10]. ► Paralytic drawing in the
middle of the left tibia, as if in the periosteum, at rest (3d trit.), [10]. ► Frequent tearing pains,
now in the left, now in the right head of the fibula, and below in the bone (3d trit.), [10]. ► A paralytic
aching in the periosteum (or bone) of the left fibula while at rest (3d trit.), [10]. ► Cutting pain in
the left fibula, as with a fine knife, on standing (1st trit.), [10]. ► When going downstairs, the
calf muscles are painful, as if too short, [5]. ► Cramp in the left calf; worse when at rest (after four
hours), [7]. ► A
frequent cramplike drawing in the lowest portion of the right calf at 11 1/2 A.M., both in
rest and on motion; lasts but a few seconds (6th dil.), [10].
► Sensation in the left ankle as if the foot had become
detached, and the cartilage of the joints did not touch when walking, [3]. ► A paralytic drawing pain in
the left ankle, near the external malleolus; lasts some minutes, when at rest (3d trit.), [10]. [400.] ► A transient tearing pain in the inner malleolus of the left
ankle, extending upward, in rest (5th dil.), [10]. ► Cutting stitches in the external malleoli, from within
outwards, when sitting, almost not at all when walking; worse when the foot rests upon a
small support (after some hours), [7]. ► A pain, as if sprained, in the external malleolus of the left
foot, when walking (4th dil.), [10]. ► Bruised pain on the left inner malleolus (4th dil.), [10]. ► Pain, as if
bruised, and throbbing, in the joints of the feet; worse when sitting (after three hours), [7]. ► In the joints of
the feet, and in the lower parts of the legs, a great turmoil and dull beating, as from
great fatigue, with tingling and stinging of the skin of the tibiæ; worse when at rest, but
less during motion (after fourteen hours), [7]. ► A drawing pressive, then throbbing, pain on the dorsum of the
right foot, in the metatarsal bones, while sitting (3d trit.), [10]. ► Drawing pain in the left
metatarsal bones and ankle, with burning in the corn of the left toe (2d trit.), [10]. ► *Tearing in the
feet, at times in the soles, at times in the dorsa, or in the heels, toes (especially in
their lowest joints), in the tarsal or metatarsal bones; the pain does not extend beyond the
malleoli; very seldom a shooting pain extended beyond the malleoli, [6]. ► Pain in the heel, when
stepping upon the foot, feeling as if it were pithy (continued), [1]. ► A somewhat burning
sensation in the right heel and tendo Achillis, as if they had gone to sleep, [3]. [410.] ►
Tearing on the back of the middle toes of the left foot at 6 P.M. (3d trit.), [10]. ► Pain in a corn makes it
difficult to go to sleep (1st trit.), [10]. ► Violent burning in the corn, in paroxysms, even without
external pressure, for twenty-four hours, [7].
GENERALITIES.
► Twitchings
and palpitation of several muscles, especially of the right thigh, [2]. ► Woke in the morning weak
and depressed (4th dil.), [10]. ►
Paralytic weakness on motion (1st trit.), [10]. ► Great weakness of the body, especially of the thighs, when
sitting or walking, with sleepiness (after four hours), [4].
► Lassitude and heat all over when walking in the open
air; he has no sweat, and feels a sort of anguish, as if his clothes were too tight, [1]. ► Great weakness in
the limbs, and tensive bruised pain in the neck, mornings, after waking; better after rising
(5th dil.), [10]. ►
Frequent drawing pains, now in one, now in another joint, now in the upper arm, in the calf,
forehead, always short and alternating, in rest (2d trit.), [10].
[420.] ► Drawing
pains, now in the left forehead, now in the occiput, now in the left elbow-joint, in rest
(1st trit.), [10]. ►
Painful pressive tension, alternating between the tendon of the right psoas and the triceps
humeris; on pressing on it, pain as if bruised (1st trit.), [10].
► Pain, as if sprained, on the external posterior rim of
the pelvis and on the right inner malleolus, on motion, after rising (3d trit.), [10]. ► Slight soreness
between the nates, around the anus, and in the groin, on moderate walking (2d trit.), [10]. ► Seems to be beset
with pressive, burrowing, tensive, stiff, bruised, and broken feelings (of the bones), (3d
trit.), [10].
SKIN.
► Burning itching,
here and there, on the skin; for instance, upon the skin of the face, the hands, etc., not,
however, making scratching necessary, [1]. ► Frequent sticking in the skin, as from fleas (6th dil.), [10]. ► Intolerable
itching, as from a flea creeping over the head and the whole body, [1]. ► Stitches here and there in
the skin, as from electric sparks, through the day (3d trit.), [10]. ► Itching biting, causing
scratching on the skin of the forehead (5th dil.), [10].
[430.] ► Pimple on
the left temple, painful when touched, [1]. ► A little blister on the tongue, sore and burning, [1]. ► A furuncle formed
on the lowest left rib, not painful, but sensitive to touch; it discharged after six days,
but the hardness under the skin remained fourteen days (6th dil.), [10]. ► Stinging and itching
burning under the skin, in the inner side of the wrist-joint (after thirty-two hours), [7]. ► (Several pimples
on the tibia, with a burning pain), [1].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Dizzy
drowsiness; his eyes closed, [1]. ► Inclined to sleep, forepart of night, but could not, on
account of heat and stinging, as of gnats, in the skin; when half asleep, was attacked with
vertigo, so that he thought the head would fall out of the bed, followed by violent
convulsive shaking of the body, as in epilepsy, with vertigo and sleeplessness, [10]. ► On beginning the
customary afternoon nap, a repeated sudden electric shock of the whole left lower limb,
starting from the left knee-joint, interrupting the nap (5th dil.), [10]. ► Wakes at 3.30, and cannot
sleep again (3d trit.), [10]. ►
Night extremely restless (6th dil.), [10]. [440.] ► Very restless night
on account of many anxious dreams (5th dil.), [10]. ► Sleep restless, with many dreams of care and fright (4th
dil.), [10]. ►
Extremely restless at night; dreamy; dreams of unpleasant things; not remembered
(5th dil.), [10]. ►
Sleep full of dreams (1st trit.), [10]. ► Sleep full of very active anxious dreams, which were not
recalled in the morning (very unusual), (6th dil.), [10].
► Dreams about the events of the day, [1]. ► Night full of dreams of the
day’s business (4th dil.), [10]. ►
Many anxious dreams, causing nausea (3d trit.), [10]. ► Frightful anxious dreams at night (2d trit.), [10]. ► Anxious dreams; on waking
up, he still felt so anxious that he imagined he had suffered the accident he had dreamed
about, [1]. [450.]
► A dream that he was followed by a raging, powerful
fiend; in the morning, he woke very early, and was very weak; the weakness seems to
concentrate itself in the hip (5th dil.), [10].
FEVER.
► Shivering through
the whole body (after one and a half hours), [8]. ► Slight chilliness under the whole skin, mornings, in bed,
after waking, etc. (6th dil.), [10]. ► In the afternoon, chilliness until he went to sleep; even in
bed, he could not get warm; sweat after midnight, [1].
► Chilliness on the back and on the feet, extending
beyond the malleoli; it continued for two hours, and was very painful; walking did him no
good (after six and a half hours), [5]. ► Chills over the upper portion of the body, at night, when
lifting the cover ever so little; when properly covered, he felt naturally warm (after four
hours), [1]. ►
Slight creeping chills in the skin, on uncovering the upper part of the body (4th dil.), [10]. ► In the forenoon,
heat and feeling of heat over the whole body, less, however, about the head, without any
thirst, with a little sweat on the abdomen and some on the chest, [1]. ► Hectic fever every day from
11 to 12 or 1 o’clock, [9]. ►
Sweats very easily, especially during and after eating (1st trit.), [10].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), Early,
stitching headache; early, after rising, itching of lobules of ears;
early, *mucus in throat; sensation of hunger; after waking hunger; early, no appetite;
burning in abdomen, etc.; cough; early, after rising, hacking cough; in bed, after waking,
cutting across cartilages of false ribs; in bed, after waking, cutting in the cartilages of
the false ribs; after waking pain in back and loins; after waking, loss of power of limbs;
when waking, muscular twitchings around right shoulder-joint; when walking, boring
scratching in right shoulder-joint; after waking, in bed, stitches from left trochanter to
socket; after waking, great weakness in the limbs, etc. ►
(Forenoon), Sensation of hunger, etc.; heat, etc., over
whole body. ► (Noon),
*The symptoms reappear; at rest, pain in right side of
chest. ► (Afternoon),
Stitch through skin, etc., of left upper lid; itching in the folds of the concha, etc.;
burning on tip of tongue; two vomitings; after long walk, pain as if sprained, on left side
of pelvis; on writing, twitches in right thumb; chilliness. ►
(Evening), After lying down, boring pain in left side of
forehead; in bed, drawing in right half of brain, etc.; *in bed
crushed pain in testicles; in bed, stitches under ribs; in bed, quick pulse,
etc.; paralytic drawing in right radius; in bed, drawing above the wrist, etc.; in bed,
burning stitches in left tibia. ► (Night), Distension of the abdomen; rumbling in the abdomen, etc.;
when lifting the cover, ever so little, chills over upper part of body. ► (After midnight), Sweat. ► (10 A.M.), Confusion of
head. ► (11 A.M.),
Stitching in the side of left forearm, etc.; great fatigue, etc. ►
(2 P.M.), Drawing pains above the wrist. ► (3 P.M.), At rest,
tearings in lower end of left arm. ► (6 P.M.), Burning pain on elbow; tearing in back of left middle
toes. ► (7 P.M.), At
rest, after moderate walk, pain in left lumbar region. ►
(Adduction of thigh), Pain in lumbo-sacral region. ► (Draught of air), Pain in
cricoid cartilage. ► (Walking in
open air), Pressure on side of neck; pain in condyle of tibia; lassitude, etc.,
all over. ► (Bending arm),
Tension at point of elbow. ► (Sitting
bent), Pain in left side of sternum. ► (Breathing), Pressive stitches in side of back. ► (On coming in from a walk),
Very dizzy, etc. ► (Contact),
Pain in region of temporal bones; pain in metacarpal bone of thumb, etc.; pain in flesh of
upper arm. ► (Coughing),
*Raw, etc., in throat; rawness, etc., in upper part of larynx. ►
(Curving the back), Stitches at the termination of the
ribs. ► (During deglutition),
Soreness, etc., in throat; (*empty), scraping in velum
pendulum. ► (After dinner),
Immediately, when blowing nose, violent bleeding. ► (After beginning to eat), Pressure from hypogastrium downwards. ► (After eating), Coldness
in right side of pelvis. ► (During
and after eating), Sweats very easily. ► (During expiration), Soreness, etc., in throat. ► (Extending arm), Pain in
bend of right elbow. ► (Muscular
exertion), Pain in right axilla. ► (Inspiration), Pressure from hypogastrium downwards; cutting in
region of lowest ribs; pain under second and third ribs; stitches between ribs; stitches in
chest, etc. ► (Laughing),
*Produces mucus in larynx; *excites cough. ► (Lifting the part), Cramp
in upper arm. ► (Lying on back),
*Twitching of the cardiac muscle. ►
(Masticating), Sense of cutting toward the parotid
gland. ► (Motion),
Pressure on the sternum; after waking, in the morning, tension on both sides of the foramen
magnum; stitches in the side of back; morning, after waking, paralytic feeling in arms; pain
in bend of right elbow; pain behind left hip; bruised, etc., pain
in right knee; paralytic weakness. ► (Motion after rising), Pain, as if sprained in rim of pelvis. ► (After a meal), While
sitting and standing, sensation as of a living worm boring though the anus. ► (During afternoon nap),
Sensation of hunger, etc. ► (Pressure),
Tendon of psoas muscle painful as if bruised; drawing on outside of left upper arm; pains in left wrist. ► (Reading), Burning sensation at pit of stomach. ► (Reflecting), Attacks of
vertigo. ► (Rest),
Headache in right half of brain; drawing in fossa behind right lobule; drawing in pelvis;
pain on right side of pelvis; at 4 P.M., drawing through right inguinal ring; 4 P.M., after
short walk, pain along course of spermatic cord; pain deep in right testicle; irritation on
left side of chest; twitching of muscles from clavicular region towards shoulder-joint; pain
from shoulder to neck; pains in right shoulder-joint; pain in left shoulder-joint; pains in
left deltoid muscle; pains in muscles of right upper arm; pains, etc., in surface of right
upper arm; muscular twitchings in bend of right elbow, etc.; 3 P.M., twitching in left
elbow-joint; at noon, drawing through the radial joint of right elbow; stitch in tip of
elbow; drawing from radius up to elbow; pain in radial part of left wrist; drawing in ball
of left thumb, etc.; 1 P.M., pain in right index finger, etc.; at noon, pain in bone of ring
finger; cramp-like pain over left knee; repeated pain in left tibia; drawing in left tibia;
paralytic aching in periosteum of left fibula; cramp in left calf; drawing pain in left
ankle; tearing pain in inner malleolus of left ankle; great turmoil, etc., in joints of the
feet, etc., drawing pain in the joints, etc.; drawing pains in left forehead, etc. ► (Rising from seat),
Burning in the side of small of back. ► (Rising after stooping), Pressure on the sternum. ► (Resting foot on small support),
Stitches in the external malleolus. ► (Seizing something), Tearing in left fourth finger, etc. ► (Setting down the foot),
Stitches in hip-joint. ► (Singing),
Raw spot in windpipe. ► (Sitting),
Attacks of vertigo; drawing in right temple; pain in belly; *stitch in the side of chest;
tearing in left scapula; stitch in side of small of back; coldness on right side of pelvis;
pain in knee joint; knee painful; twitching in outer side of left knee; tearings in left
knee-joint; stitches in the external malleolus. ► (Sneezing), Pain, as if sprained in left hip. ► (Speaking), Raw spot in
windpipe. ► (Standing),
Burning at pit of stomach, etc.; pain on surface of right knee; cutting pain in left fibula.
► (Standing in a room),
Shivering through outer side of left lower limb. ► (Stepping), Pain in heel; pain, as if sprained in hip-joint. ► (Stepping on left foot, when running),
Pressure in right hip-joint. ► (During
stool), Two vomitings. ► (After morning stool), Pain in belly. ►
(Stooping), *Mucus gets into
air-passages. ► (Stooping
sideways and leaning on warm), Stitch below rib. ►
(Touch), Gums painful. ►
(Turning head to opposite side, and putting sterno-cleido mastoid
muscle on stretch), On sitting in open air, pain on each side of neck. ► (Uncovering upper part of body),
Slight creeping chills in the skin. ► (Urinating), Slight burning. ►
(After waking), Fatigue, etc.; weakness of upper arm,
etc.; powerlessness of lower extremities. ► (Walking), Contraction, etc., of the abdominal muscles; *crushing pain in right testicle; pain in right shoulder, etc.;
pain in top of left shoulder-joint; loss of power in thighs; knees knock together; pain in
patella; weakness in right hip-joint; morning, after rising, pain in right knee, etc.; 3
P.M., pain through whole fibula, etc.; pain in left malleolus; great weakness of body. ► (Walking across room),
*Leftsided headache; 6 P.M., paralytic pain through marrow of right tibia. ► (Walking upstairs),
*Mucus gets into the air-passages; knee knock together. ►
(After short walk), Sore feeling between nates. ► (Yawning), *Tension in
fauces. ► Amelioration. ►
(Night), Attacks of short cough. ►
(Open air), Attacks of short cough. ► (Exerting outstretched arm),
Pain in muscles of right shoulder-blade. ► (Moving hand), Pain in radial part of left wrist. ► (Passage of wind),
Distension of right side of abdomen. ► (Pressure), Drawing pain downward from mastoid process disappears;
pain in bends of elbows and knees. ► (Rest), Pain in right inguinal region; pain in right axilla; pain
in inner side of right knee. ► (After
rising), Weakness of upper arm, etc.; weakness in the limbs, etc. ► (Rising from seat),
Pressure from hypogastrium downwards, etc.; pain in left scapula. ►
(While sitting), Bruised pain in left side of right
patella. ► (Walking),
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