ARGENTUM NITRICUM.
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
►
When lying down, after dinner, he perceives a whizzing and whistling in the larynx (in the
throat and the bronchial tubes), occurring regularly as the pulse; the noise did not seem to
be occasioned by accumulation of mucus, but by the movement of the blood; it was heard only
when lying on the left ear (30th potency, second day), [4].
► Balls of soaplike mucus accumulate in the larynx,
occasioning slight turns of cough, by means of which they are expelled (6th potency), [4]. ► *Internal soreness of
the larynx and pit of the throat; worse in the morning, [52]. ► 2 P.M., much tickling in
the larynx, without cough (second day), [53]. ► Scratchy sensation in larynx provokes hawking and cough, [56]. ► Irritation and
titillation in the larynx, followed by accumulation of mucus in the larynx, occasioning a
slight rattling and whizzing breathing, until the mucus is thrown off in small lumps (30th
potency, fourth day), [7]. [540.]
► Dry tickling in the larynx, occasioning a cough, in the
daytime (1st potency), [8]. ►
3 P.M., continued tickling in larynx, rather lessened on inspiration, followed by short,
dry, shaking cough, almost wholly ceasing on sitting (first day), [53]. ► Hoarseness, with roughness
in the throat (2d potency), [4]. ►
Nightly hoarseness, with turns of dry cough, after which she throws off blood-tinged mucus
mixed with saliva (30th potency, seventh day), [6]. ► Suddenly, while lying quietly in bed, at night, sense of
pressure in throat, and violent, short, dry cough, without tickling in larynx (second day), [53]. ► Night-cough,
occasioned by a titillation in the larynx (2d potency), [4].
► Cough, occasioned by a titillation in the throat (2d
potency), [4]. ►
Violent titillation in the throat, obliging him to cough, before dinner, recurring at the
same hour for several days (2d potency), [4]. ► Dry, fatiguing cough, occasioned by a violent, almost
burning, titillation in the throat, before retiring in the evening (2d potency), [4]. ► Dry and hacking
cough, several times a day (1st potency), [8]. [550.] ► Occasional cough in
bed, at night (30th potency, third day), [5]. ► Paroxysms of dry cough at night, sometimes so violent as to
induce vomiting (1st potency), [8]. ► Nightly cough and sweat (1st potency), [8]. ► *Evening, cough, which makes
the accustomed tobacco-smoke intolerable to him (2d potency, fifth day), [4]. ► Cough after
dinner, impeding speech, [4]. ►
Suffocative cough, for several days, at noon, [4].
► Catarrh, which is at first slight and dry, and
afterwards loose, changing in a few days to a rattling cough, with yellow expectoration,
profuse sweat breaking out readily, bad look, hollow eyes, and disturbed nightly sleep; as
the cough improved, the boy blew from his nose purulent mucus mixed with blood (30th
potency, second to fourth day). ► Dyspnœa, [58]. ► Difficulty of
breathing, [13]. ►
Excessive suffocative oppression of breathing, [12].
CHEST.
[560.] ► Accumulation of mucus in the chest (1st potency), [8]. ► Nightly pain in
the chest (2d potency, first day), [8]. ► Burning in the chest, [18].
► Sensation of warmth between the scapulæ and the
sternum, which, after awhile, changed to a pressure in the epigastric region (1/2 grain), [55]. ► Warmth between
shoulder-blades and sternum, afterward changing to a slight pressure in epigastric region,
with frequent tasteless eructations, [56]. ► A violent pain in the middle of the upper part of the chest,
as if it would burst, after going upstairs; she must hold the chest with both hands, [52]. ► Aching tensive pain
in the chest, in various places of the chest, of the size of half a dollar (2d
potency), [4]. ►
Sense of pressure on the chest, without palpitation of the heart, with need of deep
inspiration, lasting half an hour; disappears on walking; returns in an hour, also when
walking, but lasts only a short time (after six and a half hours), [53]. ► Sighing, owing to
oppression of the chest (30th potency, first day), [4].
► Fulness and anxiousness in the chest, with disposition
to sigh (1st potency, first day), [4]. [570.] ► Heaviness in the
cavity of the chest, with desire to sigh, [11]. ► Oppression of the chest, accompanied with a clawing sensation
moving through the chest (6th potency), [4]. ► Stitches in the chest (2d potency), [4]. ► Stitches in the breasts
(1st potency, fifth day), [5]. ►
The outer chest is painful to the touch (1st potency), [8].
► Itching of the chest and axillæ (30th potency, third
day), [4]. ► A
violent pain in the left external breast (in the evening, when drawing on the boots),
followed by a persistent severe sore pain in both pectoral muscles which are very sensitive
if the arms are stretched to draw on to the chest; worse near the left nipple, [52]. ► Sticking in the
left side of the chest (1st potency, fifth day), [5]. ► The mammary glands of the right side are painful, as if
ulcerated, towards the axilla, especially when touching the part; when stretching the arm
and turning the trunk speedily to one side, and oblong rounded protrusion is distinctly felt
(30th potency, fifth day), [5]. ►
Pressure and weight, as of a stone, in the middle of the sternum, in a spot of the size of a
hand (30th potency, fifth day), [6]. [580.] ► Anxiety in the
præcordia, after dinner (30th potency, second day), [4].
► Pain in the præcordia (30th potency, second day), [7]. ► Constant sensation
of fulness in the præcordial region, [55].
HEART AND PULSE.
► When
walking, sensation of pressure in the region of the heart, without palpitation or cough; was
not forced to stop walking, but only to breathe deeper; the feeling lasted some time after
keeping quiet in the room (after seven hours), [53]. ► *Heart’s action irregular, sometimes intermitting, with an
unpleasant sensation in the chest, [55]. ► *Action of heart irregular, sometimes intermits, with a plainly
unpleasant sensation in chest; on attention to it, the irregularity is more severe; almost
disappears on motion in open air, [56]. ► On walking, a sensation, several times, as if the heart were
beating once or twice stronger, but without impediment from walking, and without oppression
of breath, [53]. ►
*Palpitation, [58]. ►
Palpitation of the heart, and sensation of restlessness in it, several times (first day), [53]. ► Sensitive
palpitation, like a sudden falling from above toward the middle; goes away just as quickly,
with pain in the middle of the upper part of chest, as if it would burst (30), [52]. [590.] ► Palpitation of the heart, at night (1st potency), [2]. ► Violent palpitation of
the heart, accompanied with a faintish nausea, of which she had three paroxysms in one
afternoon (1st potency, third day), [5]. ► Throbbing of the heart, [11].
► Frequent palpitation of the heart on slight excitement,
and also from rapid movement (first day), [53]. ► *Palpitation, caused by any sudden muscular exertion or emotional excitement, [55].
► Toward evening, twice, palpitation of the heart on
motion of the body (first day), [53]. ► Palpitation caused by sudden violent exertion or mental excitement; and in horizontal position, especially
evenings, in bed, the unpleasant sensations in chest are worse, [56]. ► The irregular action of the
heart was worse when noticing it; better when moving freely about, [55]. ► Pulse 70; full and
natural, [59].
NECK AND BACK.
► Bounding
pulsations of the left carotid at regular intervals, distinctly seen by the naked eye (30th
potency, third day), [5]. [600.] ► Clawing in the right
anterior cervical muscle, resembling a cramp (6th potency), [4].
► Drawing, with pressure, in the top of the left
shoulder, as of a load (6th potency), [4]. ► Violent pressure between the shoulders, penetrating deeply,
especially at the angle of the right shoulder, early in the morning, on waking (6th
potency), [4]. ►
Tensive clawing pains in the back, [4]. ► Nightly pains in the back, [4].
► Weight in the small of the back, which prevents him
from sitting (1st potency, fourth day), [5]. ► Violent pain in the small of the back, as if sprained, early
in the morning, when sitting, the pain was so violent that he had to rise (1st potency,
second day), [4]. ►
Pain in the small of the back, relieved when standing or walking (1st potency,
fourth day), [5]. ►
Paralytic heaviness in the lumbar region, on the left side, extending into the hip-joint of
the same side (6th potency), [4]. ► The lumbar region feels rigid and as if put upon the stretch
(6th potency), [4]. [610.]
► The lumbar region feels bruised (1st potency), [8]. ► The small of the
back feels weary (1st potency, fourth day), [5]. ► Violent pain in small of back (girl of 8), [54]. ► Digging-up in the small of
the back, not permitting her to bend (1st potency, fourth day), [5]. ► Cutting in the small of the
back and in the abdomen (1st potency), [8]. ► Cutting in the small of the back and abdomen, even when
touching the parts (1st potency), [3]. ► Violent pain in the small of the back, as if sprained, in the
morning, scarcely permitting him to rise, and not permitting him to walk about, except
crooked; recurring in the same manner for four days in succession (1st potency, third day), [4]. ► Pains in the
kidneys, [41]. ►
Frequent complaints about pain in the small of the back and in the loins (1st potency,
fourth day), [5]. ►
Heaviness and drawing in the loins, accompanied with great debility and weariness, trembling
in the lower limbs, as after a fatiguing journey (1st potency, first day), [4]. [620.] ►
Stiffness, heaviness, and paralytic pain, commencing at the sacrum, and going down along the
pelvis and the hips (6th potency), [4]. ► Heaviness and paralytic sensation in the region of the
sacrum, not permitting him to sit for a long while, and obliging him, when walking, to
stretch the dorsal spine as much as possible (6th potency), [4].
► He experiences such an intense pain in the sacral
region that blowing and sneezing cause him to start (6th potency), [4]. ► Extremely painful drawing
and heaviness in the os sacrum, along the pelvis, as if the menses were going to make their
appearance (1st potency, third day), [5].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
*Chorea-like convulsive motion of the upper and lower extremities, [54]. ► *Lassitude and heaviness
of all the limbs (third day), [53]. ► *Paralysis of the extremities, [13].
► Sensation in all the limbs as if they would go to sleep
or become rigid, [1]. ►
5.30 A.M., in bed, violent boring in the left outer malleolus and in the left shoulder
(fourth day), [53]. ►
After rising, internal drawing in centre of right upper arm, then in the flesh of the right
thigh, below and internally (fourth day), [53]. [630.] ► 10 P.M., while
sitting, violent pressure in the soft part above the bend of the right knee, in the left
little finger, and on the back of the left foot (first day), [53].
► Stitching in the bone of the right third finger, and on
the dorsum of the foot (first day), [53].
UPPER EXTREMITIES.
►
Paralytic drawing pain in the whole of the upper right extremities (2d potency), [4]. ► Drawing, pressing
pain through the whole right arm, at times more violent on the back of the hand, or in the
upper arm (after one and a half hours), [53]. ► 6 P.M., while walking, violent pain in the muscles of the
left side of the arm, toward the lower part of the thorax, into the muscles of the loins,
increased by each inspiration, also by walking; lasts five minutes (first day), [53]. ► 4 P.M., violent
boring in the right shoulder (first day), [53]. ► Pressing in the left shoulder-joint (after seven hours), [53]. ► Violent pressure
on the top of the left shoulder, while resting the arm, [53].
► Tension in the right axillary glands (1st potency), [8]. ► Pain in the right
axilla, as if strained or torn; upon raising the shoulder, the pain extended along the arm
as far as the hand, where a prickling sensation was experienced (2d potency), [4]. [640.] ►
Tearing internally on the right elbow (second day), [53].
► Stitching about the right olecranon, rather violent and
long-lasting; unaffected by motion of the elbow-joint, but somewhat aggravated while resting
the joint, [53]. ►
Paralytic drawing in the bones of the forearm (6th potency), [4].
► Nightly bone pain of the ulna (30th potency, second
day), [4]. ► He
wakes in the night owing to an acute pain in the left wrist-joint, as if sprained,
accompanied with heat of the whole hand, and uneasiness in the hand, obliging him to change
the position of the hand all the time; in the morning, a pimple is seen not far from the
joint, the tip of which is filled with pus, and in which a stinging pain is experienced, as
of a splinter which had been stuck in; the tip is raised upon a red, hard base of
considerable extent (1st potency, first day), [4]. ► Tension and stiffness in the left wrist on bending it, with a
deepseated pain; disappeared toward evening (first day), [53].
► Violent pressure in the left wrist (after one hour), [53]. ► Pressing in the
left wrist (always at 10.30 P.M.), [53]. ► Drawing in left hand (after one hour), [53]. ► Spasmodic contraction of
the adductors of the fingers; she can scarcely separate the closely compressed finger, [54]. [650.] ► Spasmodic contraction of the fingers, so that she cannot open
the hand, which is kept half clenched (in a matron of sixty), [54].
► Drawing in the fingers of the right hand (first day), [53]. ► Rheumatic tearing
in the region where the phalanx of the thumb joints the metacarpus (6th potency), [4]. ► Cramp of the ring
finger, when seizing anything (30th potency, third day), [4].
► 9 P.M., pain through the joints of the left index
finger, increased on bending the finger, when a stiffness as from swelling is experienced in
the joints, and lasts till the following morning (first day), [53].
► Sticking in the tip of the left little finger (after
two hours), [53].
LOWER EXTREMITIES.
► Legs
drawn up to abdomen by muscular contraction, [56]. ► *In the night his lower limbs, especially his knees, start up; the
starting awoke him (1st potency), [8]. ► He vacillates when walking, feeling moreover extremely
uncomfortable in the whole body, and unsteady in his limbs (30th potency, second day), [4]. ► Staggering gait in
the open air (30th potency, second day), [4]. [660.] ► Weariness of the legs
(30th potency, second day), [7]. ► *Paralytic heaviness and debility of the lower limbs, so that she
did not know where to put them (1st potency, third day), [5]. ► *Lassitude and weariness of
the lower limbs, accompanied with dizziness, as from intoxication (30th potency, first day),
[4]. ► *Great debility
and weariness in the lower limbs, the whole afternoon, as after a long journey on foot,
accompanied with sick feeling, dread of labor, drowsiness, chilliness, and sickly appearance
(1st potency, second day), [2]. ►
When walking, compressive sensation in the whole left leg (after six hours), [53]. ► Drawing through the whole
right leg, on sitting (second day), [53]. ► Sticking-drawing pain in the hip down to the tarsal joint
(1st potency), [5]. ►
Paralytic weakness of the lower limbs, and emaciation of the same (2d potency, second day), [4]. ► When walking,
pressive pain below and in front of the left trochanter, which, on stepping, causes him to
bend over; very frequent, but not at every step (first day), [53].
► Periodical nervous (“cramplike”) drawing,
from the hip down to the knees, in paroxysms, sometimes so violent that it caused her to
exclaim; the drawing descended along the anterior surface of the thigh (ischias antica),
(30th potency, third day), [5]. [670.] ► Drawing in the left
knee (first day), [53]. ►
Pressure in the right knee (after one hour), [53]. ► Pressing in the right knee, when sitting and walking, and on
the dorsum of the left foot (immediately), [53]. ► Violent pressing in the right knee, also when walking,
lasting a quarter of an hour; then, stitching pain deep in the tongue, lasting nearly an
hour (second day), [53]. ►
When walking, pressure in the knee, worse on stepping (first day), [53]. ► Internal tearing in left
knee; afterward, in the right, [53]. ► Paralytic, painful drawing, as if bruised, one handbreadth
above the left patella, in the rectus cruris muscle (6th potency), [4]. ► Tumult in the knees, with
weariness (1st potency, first day), [4]. ► Violent tearing, raging, digging-up pain under the patellæ,
first the left, then the right (1st potency, second day), [4].
► Drawing tearing from the knees into the legs (1st
potency, second day), [4]. [680.]
► Drawing tearing on the left side of and near the
patella (6th potency), [4]. ►
Drawing, anteriorly, on the left leg, [53]. ► Drawing and scraping in the lower half of the tibia,
anteriorly (30th potency, fourth day), [4]. ► Tearing on right tibia (after half an hour), [53]. ► Rigidity in the calves, with
great debility and exhaustion, as from fatigue, scarcely permitting her to walk across the
room (1st potency, third day), [5]. ► *Excessive weariness of the calves, as from fatigue (1st
potency, first day), [4]. ►
*Great debility and weariness in the calves, as after a long journey (6th
potency), [4]. ►
When walking, on a small spot, to the outside, on the left calf, a violent pain, causing him
to bend over, also on standing, the same pain lasts several minutes, and then disappears
completely (first day), [53]. ►
For several nights, cramps in the calves, [53]. ► When walking, pain in the left calf, such as if usual in
cramp of the calves (first day), [53]. [690.] ► Violent drawing in
the calves when going upstairs, so that he was scarcely able to drag himself along (2d
potency), [4]. ►
When walking, peculiar sensation in left calf, like a stitching, or like hot fluid running
over the skin (second day), [53]. ► The tarsal joint bends easily of itself (30th potency, fourth
day), [4]. ►
Pressure in the left ankle (second day), [53]. ► Dull pressure in the right ankle, and above the right
patella, when sitting (after half an hour), [53]. ► Stinging in the outer ankle of the right foot (2d potency,
second day), [8]. ►
1 P.M., when sitting, violent stitching and tearing below the left internal malleolus,
forcing him to rise, and walk about rapidly, when the pain gradually disappeared (second
day), [53]. ►
Arthritic drawing in the right foot (30th potency, fourth day), [4]. ► 7 A.M., when sitting,
drawing in the left instep (third day), [53]. ► 11 P.M., drawing on the right toes, [53]. [700.] ► 11 P.M., drawing in the left toes, shifting about to other
parts, [53]. ►
Violent stitching and drawing in the right toes (fourth day), [53].
► Prickling in the right sole, when sitting (after one
and a half hours), [53].
GENERALITIES.
► Cachexia,
emaciation, affection of the liver, dropsy, [50]. ► Great emaciation, [58].
► Weight of body decreased, [56]. ► Œdema of legs and
ascites, [58]. ►
*Convulsions and twitchings, [66]. ► Powerful excitation of the muscles and nerves, and consensual
excitation of the nerves of the stomach, [33]. ► Her nerves are so much affected, that she apprehends she will
lose her senses, accompanied with constant chilliness (30th potency, third day), [5]. [710.] ► Nightly nervousness (1st potency), [8]. ► *Nightly nervousness, with
heat and fulness in the head (30th potency, fourth day), [6].
► Convulsions, [33].
► Convulsive contraction of this or that portion of
muscles, [13]. ►
Presentiment of the approaching epileptic fit, [1]. ► Weakness, [58]. ► Peculiar debility, [27].
► *She feels so debilitated that she is scarcely able to walk
across the room, complaining a good deal about rigidity in the calves (1st
potency, third day), [5]. ►
In the afternoon, he felt so weak, that he had to lie down, accompanied with an increase of
warmth in the whole body, and heat in the palms of the hands (2d potency), [4]. ► In the morning, after
rising, he feels very much debilitated, tremulous, irritated, and apprehensive (6th
potency), [4]. [720.]
►► *Tremulous weakness, accompanied with general debility, as after great physical
exertions, and apathy (1st potency), [2]. ► Great debility and despondency, [13]. ► After breakfast, he feels
extremely debilitated, nervous, tremulous afraid to
undertake anything, lest he should not succeed (6th potency), [4].
► *Nervous, faintish, tremulous sensation, as if a
severe disease were going to attack him (30th potency, first day), [4]. ► Excessive debility,
wretched appearance, and emaciation, [49]. ► Debility in the afternoon, [1].
►► *Trembling and tremulous sensation, [4]. ► Feeble, weary, and
without appetite (1st potency), [2]. ► Lazy and debilitated (2d potency), [4]. ► He is almost exhausted,
having had sixteen diarrhœic stools in the night previous (1st potency), [8]. [730.] ► *Tremor of the limbs, general debility, as from a
physical exertion, [11]. ►
Very weary and sleepy (after two and a half hours), [53].
► He is unconscious, insensible, and convulsed; pulse 70;
(a druggist, after 8 grains of this salt), [64]. ► Complete insensibility of the body, [14]. ► Disagreeable sensation
moving about in the body, now in the limbs, now in the head (6th potency), [4]. ► Orgasms in the whole body,
with increased temperature (30th potency, first day), [4].
► Anxiety in the præcordial region, sighing, intense
feeling of disease, after dinner (30th potency, second day), [4].
► Eructations and a sensation as in catarrh of the fauces
and larynx (after drinking), (1/4 grain), [55]. ► Burning in the stomach, and on the chest, [18]. ► *Sensation as if the body, and
especially the face and head, expanded; he feels as if the bones of the skull separated,
with increase of temperature (30th potency, first day), [4]. [740.] ►
8 A.M., violent boring in the right side of the head, and left wrist (fourth day), [53]. ► Drawing in the
right lower jaw, and in the right knee, [53]. ► Pressure on the left lower orbital border, and also several
times in the right wrist (immediately), [53]. ► 6 A.M., in bed, tearing in the head, in the temples, and in
the first phalanx of the left index finger (third day), [53].® 2000
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