ARGENTUM NITRICUM.
Silver nitrate, Ag.NO3. Preparation,
Solution of the crystals in distilled water, for lower dilutions.
Authorities.
1, Hahnemann,
R. A. M. L., 4, 340; 2, “J.”, 22 years old
man, Œst. Zeitschrift, 2, 1; 3, “H.”, man, 23
years old, ibid.; 4, “M.”, man, 36 years old,
ibid.; 5, “P.”, woman, 30 years old, ibid.; 6, “N.”, girl, 18 years old, ibid.; 7, “E.”, man, 20 years old, ibid.; 8, “K. M.”, boy, 7 years old, ibid.; 9, Graves, ibid. (quoted from Hygea, 9, 135); 10, Th. Hall, ibid. (Med. and Phys. Journ., 1800), given to a
woman for convulsions; 11, Moll, ibid. (Handbuch d.
Pharmak.); 12, Stuppe, ibid. (Inaug. Dissert.); 13, Oesterlen, ibid. (Handbuch d. Hidmittellehre); 14, (Bull. de Thérap.), ibid.; 15,
(Gazette d. Santé), ibid.; 16, Étienne St. Marie,
ibid.; 17, (Med. Chir. Zeit.), ibid.; 18, Moodie, ibid. (Med. and Phys. Journ.), general statement; 19, Gesnerius (De Secretis remed.), ibid.; 20, Westphal., ibid. (Miscell. Nat. Curios.); 21, Blancard, ibid. (Die neue Scheidek.); 22, Boyle, ibid.; 23, Nasse,
ibid.; 24, Boerhaave, ibid.; 25,
Hildegardis, ibid.; 26, Kinglake, ibid. (Lond. Med. and
Phys. Journ.), given to a man for epilepsy; 27,
Schneider, ibid. (Hufelands, J.); 28, Balardini, ibid.; 29, Hoffmann, ibid.; 30,
Barn, ibid.; 31, Michaelis, ibid.; 32, Ebers, ibid.; 33, Cappe,
ibid.; 34, Burdach, ibid.; 35,
Richter, ibid.; 36, Wedemeyer, ibid.; 37, Badley, ibid.; 38, De
Lens, ibid.; 39, Fodéré, ibid.; 40, Currie, ibid.; 41,
Tanchon, ibid.; 42, Glauber, ibid.; 43, Venat, ibid.; 44,
Gutceit, ibid.; 45, Brown (Lond. Med. Gaz., 1834),
ibid.; 46, Hudson, ibid.; 47,
Smith (Lond. Med. Gaz., 1837), ibid.; 48, Meyer, ibid.; 49, Roget, ibid.; 50, Kopp,
ibid.; 51, Frank, ibid.; 52,
Hering, Hom. v. Jahrschrift, 10, 343; [A correction, not a proving. -Hering.] 53, Lembke, N. Z. f. H. K., 11, 130 (20 drops of a solution of 1
grain to 1 ounce of water); 54, J. O. Muller, Z. f. Hom.
Aezte. Œst., 1, 45 (10 drops of 6 dil.); 55, Krahmer
(Monograph), Review in A. H. Z., 29, 62, took small doses, and once 1/4 grain; 56, Schachert, Dissertation d. Arg. nit. (Review, A. H. Z., 29,
74), took 1/8 grain; 57, Gaz. Med., 1832 (Rust’s Mag.,
40, and A. H. Z, 5, 133); 58, Gamberini, Med.
Neuigkeiten (A. H. Z., Mon. Bl., 3, 29); 59, Poumarede,
Journ. d. Chim. Méd., 1839; 60, Barbier, Trait. d. Mat.
Méd.; 61, Lombard, Gaz. Méd. d. Paris, 1832; 62, Köchlin, Wirkung. d. Metall.; 63,
Debeney, Recueil d. Mem. d. Méd., 1843, injection of 12 grains in a healthy urethra; 64, Dawosky, Journ. d. Méd., etc., 1856; 65, Balardini, Omodei Annali d. Med., 1826; 66, Scattergood, Brit. Med. J., 1871, fatal poisoning of a boy.[Notes: “J.” took, three evenings, a little of 1st dec. trit.
in some water; “K.” took same, five doses; “P.” took same;
“M.” took same, afterwards took in evening, 10 drops of 2d trit., three doses;
“K.M.” took 2d trit. twice; “M.” afterward took 6th dil.; “N.”
took 30th dil.; “M.” also took 30th, two doses, longer proving; “E.”
took 30th dil., two doses; “P.” took 30th. dil.]
MIND.
► Imbecile
appearance; he looks at people with a foolish expression of countenance, even while
conversing with them on some serious subject; he behaves shyly and sillily, and talks in a
childish manner. On lying down for the purpose of relieving his head, visions and distorted
faces hover before his imagination, although his eyes are closed, even in daylight (30th
potency, second day), [7]. ►
Apathy, with great debility, and tremulous weakness (1st potency), [2]. ► Hypochondriac and gloomy
mood; drawing pain in the forehead; yellowish complexion; sweetish-bitter taste in the
mouth; dry, viscid lips; feebleness and febrile sensation; debility and weariness of the
lower limbs (in the forenoon, at 11 o’clock, for one hour), (30th potency, third day), [4]. ► Hypochondriac
taciturnity, accompanied with dulness of the head, and beating in the whole day (30th
potency), [4]. ►
Anxiety, which makes him walk rapidly, [1]. ► *He feels very much affected bodily and mentally; he does not
undertake anything lest he should not succeed (6th potency), [4]. ► Irritated and anxious mood,
in the morning after rising, accompanied with great nervousness, feeling of weakness and
tremulousness (6th potency), [4]. ► Alternation of clear consciousness, lightness of sense, and
indifference (6th potency), [4]. ►
Dulness of sense, absence of thought, inability to think; he is unable to find suitable
words for his ideas; hence he falters in his speech (2d potency, second day), [4]. [10.] ►
Difficulty to collect his senses; he found it extremely difficult to conceive and idea, with
heat and fulness in the head (2d potency, third day), [4].
► He feels dull, as if he would do nothing, [52]. ► Stupid feeling in
the head when writing (30th potency, first day), [4]. ► Weakness of memory; he is unable to think connectedly, and
falters in his speech (30th potency, second day), [4].
► Stupefaction, with suffering look (30th potency, second
day), [5]. ► Total
loss of consciousness, [59]. ►
Coma, [14]. ► Coma,
difficult to describe, [59].
HEAD.
► Confusion of the
head (2d potency, first day), [4]. ► The whole day his head feels confused, especially the
occiput, the left region of the vertex, and the forehead (2d potency, second day), [4]. [20.] ► On waking in the morning from a sleep full of dreams, his
head aches and feels confused (2d potency, first day), [4].
► The head feels confused, accompanied with whizzing in
the ears, and hard hearing (30th potency, sixth day), [6].
► Confusion of the head, with feeling of stupidity, over
night; in the morning, when waking, it is changed to fulness in the forehead, with stinging,
digging in the same, increasing after rising (1st potency, fifth day), [4]. ► Dull and confused state of
the head, with beating in the whole body, and hypochondriac taciturnity, after dinner (30th
potency, second day), [4]. ►
The head feels confused after drinking coffee. ► Vertigo,
[60]. ► Vertigo in
the morning (30th potency, fourth day), [7]. ► Vertigo with headache, [9].
► In the morning she was attacked with vertigo, as if she
were turning in a circle, inducing her to squat down; lest she should fall; accompanied with
headache (30th potency, second day), [6]. ► Vertigo, more before the eyes (1st potency, first day), [4]. [30.] ► Vertigo, with complete though transient blindness, [10]. ► *Vertigo, and buzzing
in the ears, and general debility of the limbs and
trembling, [11]. ►
Vertigo and staggering gait, [12]. ► Attack of fleeting vertigo, as if intoxicated (1st potency,
first day), [4]. ►
*Giddiness, as if intoxicated, accompanied with lassitude and debility of the lower limbs
(30th potency, first day), [4]. ►
Vertigo, with nausea and confusion of the senses (30th potency, second day), [7]. ► Giddiness in the head, as
if he would faint, the body feeling tired, but not disagreeably so (30th potency, first
day), [4]. ► Giddy,
dulness of sense, and as if he had lost all sensations; accompanied with drowsiness (30th
potency, first day), [4]. ►
Dizziness before falling asleep (1st potency, first day), [2].
► There is no region in the head which was not painfully
affected by the drug. [40.] ► Headache all the time (2d potency, second day), [4]. ► Sensation in the
head, as if the epileptic fit were approaching, [1]. ► When waking in the morning, he has a terrible headache,
obliging him to gnash his teeth (1st potency, third day), [8].
► Strong and agreeable odors appear to increase the
headache remarkably (second day), [53]. ► *The headache is worse in the open air. ► Headache and toothache (30th potency, third day), [6]. ►► *The headache
is relieved by binding something tightly around the head. (Aust. provings). ► Headache, with eructations and chilliness. ► Generally the headache is accompanied by chilliness, and sometimes
by a general increase of the temperature of the body. (Aust. provings). ► The whole night his head feels heavy and dull, with heat in
the head, inducing him to lay his head on cool places, in order to obtain relief (30th
potency, second day), [4]. [50.]
► Painful fulness in the brain (30th potency, first day),
[4]. ► *Painful fulness
and heaviness in the head, with inability to recollect, and glowing heat of the
head and cheeks, in the afternoon (2d potency, third day), [4].
► He wakes with a headache in the morning; the head feels
full, heavy, and stupid; the headache becomes intolerable when making the least movement,
and continues the whole day (2d potency, second day), [4].
► Fulness and heaviness of the head (2d potency, second
day), [4]. ►
Fulness and heat in the head, at night, with great excitement (30th potency, fourth day), [6]. ► Fulness, pushing,
and heat in the head, relieved by pressing upon the head
(30th potency, third day), [4]. ► *Excessive congestion of blood to the head, with throbbing of the
carotid arteries, obliging him to loosen his cravat, accompanied with heaviness, stupefying
dulness of the head, great melancholy, weakness of mind, inability to express himself
suitably and coherently (30th potency, second day), [7]. ► *Pain in the head; the head
seems enlarged (30th potency, third day), [5].
► *If the pain is felt all over the head, it appears to him
enlarged; if the pain is felt only on one side of the head, the eye of the affected side
appears enlarged (30th potency, second day), [4].
► Pain in the head, as if it would burst, occasioned by
mental labor (2d potency, second day), [4]. [60.] ► Slight digging-up
moving about in the parenchyma of the brain (6th potency, fourth day), [4]. ► Drawing, in streaks or
bands, over the surface of the brain, apparently in the membranes or the sinuses (6th
potency, fourth day), [4]. ►
Headache dull, tormenting, especially in the forehead, with dejection and restlessness (1
grain), [56]. ►
Since waking, his forehead feels painful and dull, which abates after dinner (1st trit.,
second day), [2]. ► She
wakes with a headache, pressure deep in the brain, accompanied with chilliness,
the whole forenoon (30th potency, first day), [5]. ► Pressing, digging headache, with chilliness, and great
bruised feeling in the limbs, [54]. ► Nocturnal pressing, stupefying pain about in the head,
especially extending to the temples and forehead, with heaviness in the whole body, restless
dreams and nausea (in a woman of thirty), [54]. ► *Pressing pains in the whole head, occasioned by mental
exertion (30th potency, second day), [4]. ► Sensation as if a cool current were blowing from the right
frontal eminence into the right eye (30th potency, first day), [4]. ► Pain in the forehead and
vertex, as if grasped together (30th potency, first day), [5].
[70.] ► Aching pain
in the forehead, in the daytime, increasing considerably in the evening (30th potency,
fourth day), [7]. ►
Aching pain, extending to the eyes, with sneezing (30th potency, third day), [5]. ► Violent boring in the left
forehead, when walking (after six and a half hours), [3]. ►► *Boring in the left
frontal eminence (immediately), [53]. ► Drawing in the forehead, [53].
► Drawing over the whole forehead, lasting only a short
time (after two and a half hours), [53]. ► *Constant drawing and digging in the left frontal eminence,
afterwards accompanied with a drawing tearing, extending along the whole left arm (6th
potency), [4]. ►
Almost all day, pressure and heaviness in the forehead, [53].
► Heaviness and pressure in forehead, lasting the whole
day (after one hour), [53]. ►
Heaviness and pressure in the forehead, the whole day, worse on walking in the open air,
ceasing toward evening; not increased by eating (after one hour), [53]. [80.] ►
All day, pressure and heaviness in forehead, increased by stooping, [53]. ► Pressure in the forehead
(30th potency, first day), [7]. ►
*Pressing in the frontal bone, to the left, especially on the frontal eminence, at times more violent; it is constant, and appears at times like
a band over the forehead; worse on walking, [53]. ► Pressure in the upper right forehead; and outward from the
right nipple (immediately), [53]. ► Pressing and drawing over the forehead and below the left
eye, [53]. ►
Pressure in the right half of the forehead, especially in the eyebrows, in the morning, when
waking (30th potency, third day), [4]. ► Pushing in the right side of the forehead, as of a load (30th
potency, second day), [4]. ►
Tearing in the left side of the forehead (immediately), [53].
► Wandering tearing in the skin of the left upper
forehead (after one and a half hours), [53]. ► Sticking and afterwards digging pain in the left frontal and
vertex region, extending as far as the malar bone (2d potency), [4]. [90.] ► *Stitches and digging in the left frontal eminence, every
day, at different periods, but more frequently in the afternoon (6d potency), [1]. ► Undulating throbbing in the
whole forehead (6th potency, third day), [4]. ► *Pulsations in the left side of the forehead (30th
potency, first day), [4]. ►
At 12 o’clock, *violent boring in the left temple (first
day), [53]. ►
Pressure in right temple (second day), [53]. ► Tearing, extending down the right temple as far as the face
(30th potency, second day), [4]. ►
Cutting, as with knives, in the left temple (30th potency), [4].
► At 8 A.M., tearing on the top of the head, more violent
diagonally over the vertex (third day), [53]. ► Tearing on the right of the vertex (immediately), [53]. ► Pain in the right
side of the head, consisting in heaviness, fulness, and pressure, for several evenings (2d
potency), [4]. [100.]
► 8 A.M., boring on the upper right side of the head
(third day), [53]. ►
1 P.M., violent boring, increasing by jerks and shocks, on the upper right side of the head,
when walking; 10 P.M., the same in the left temple, on sitting; 10.30 P.M., in the right
temple (second day), [53]. ►
Digging headache, in the right side (2d potency), [4].
► *Digging and tumultuous raging in the right hemisphere of
the brain, until he lost his senses; if the pain abates in the forehead, it
increases in the side of the head and toward the occiput, where it extends down to the nape
of the neck; the pain increases during motion, when vertigo accompanies it, to such an
extent that he walks to the left, instead of walking straight (30th potency, second day), [4]. ► *Digging, cutting
motion through the left hemisphere of the brain, extending from the occiput to the frontal
protuberance, recurring frequently, and increasing and decreasing rapidly (30th
potency), [4]. ►
10.30 P.M., on sitting, suddenly, on the right parietal bone, a violent drawing, as if
upward; immediately after, pressing on the left side of the forehead; then deep in the right
wrist, [53]. ►
Drawing, with pressure and heaviness in the right side of the head, abating in rest, but
increasing by the least motion (2d potency), [4]. ► On waking in the night, tearing on one side of the head
(first day), [53]. ►
Dragging, beating pain in the right side of the head, accompanied with a general
uncomfortable feeling (30th potency, second day), [4].
► Troublesome stinging and digging pain, alternately
anteriorly and posteriorly in the left half of the brain (30th potency, third day), [4]. [110.] ► Violent boring in the right side of the occiput (first day), [53]. ► Narrow traction
extending from the occiput into the middle of the brain (6th potency, fourth day), [4]. ► Tumorlike, itching
elevations on the scalp and in the nape of the neck (2d potency, third day), [4]. ► On the border of the nape
of the neck and the scalp, irregularly shaped blotches make their appearance, itching
violently, and feeling sore when scratched; after scratching them for some time, they become
inflamed and moist (1st potency, sixth day), [4]. ► Creeping in the scalp, as of vermin, towards morning (30th
potency, third day), [5]. ►
Much itching of the scalp (2d potency, second day), [4],
[8]. ► Much itching
and biting near the nape of the neck (2d potency, fifth day), [4].
► Intolerable nightly itching of the boundary of the neck
and scalp (1st potency, fifth day), [4]. ► Extremely troublesome itching, creeping and crawling of the scalp,
as of vermin, with sensation as if the roots of the hairs were pulled upward; she had to
scratch all the time (30th potency, fourth day), [5].® 2000
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