BISMUTHUM SUBNITRICUM.
Formula, Bi2O3,N2O5,2OH2. (Magisterium
bismuthi). Preparation, Triturations.
Authorities.
1, Kerner,
Heidlbg. Kl. Annal., 1829 (from Wibmer), took 2 drops for heartburn; 2, Wernek, ibid., two girls, about 18 years old, took 6 grains in
the morning, fasting; 3, ibid., a boy, 6 years old, took
6 grains after supper; 4, ibid., some men took from 6 to
12 grains at a dose; 5, ibid., a man took 15 grains, and
the next day 20 grains; 6, ibid., a man took 15 grains; 7, a man took 40 grains at one dose; 8,
Wernek, ibid., took 20 grains immediately after a meal.
HEAD.
► Head somewhat
confused on rising, [8]. ►
Vertigo, [7]. ►
Vertigo (after two hours), [8]. ►
Vertigo on violent motion (after one hour), [2]. ► Slight, transient headache, [6].
► Headache, especially in the frontal region, [7]. ► Headache and
vertigo (after first dose), [4]. ►
Headache and vertigo (after one and a half hours), [5].
► Heat and confusion of the head (after one hour), [2]. [10.] ► Slight transient pain in the forehead (after half an hour), [8]. ► Pressure in the
frontal region, [5]. ► *Pressive pain in the frontal region (after one hour), [2].
EYES.
► Eyes red, sight
somewhat dim, [7]. ►
Conjunctiva red, [5]. ►
Redness of the conjunctiva.
EARS AND NOSE.
► Dry nose, [1]. ► Roaring in the
ears, [8].
MOUTH AND THROAT.
► Tongue
coated, [7]. ►
Tongue furred, [5]. ►
Tongue coated white, [8]. [20.]
► Offensive taste in the mouth, [1]. ► Taste bitter, [7]. ► The fauces and
uvula were inflamed, with burning in the throat, difficult swallowing, and thirst, [1].
STOMACH.
► Appetite
completely lost, [7]. ►
Thirst increased, [7]. ►
Much thirst and no appetite, [8]. ► Eructations of wind after drinking a glass of water, [8]. ►► Frequent empty
eructations and feeling of discomfort in the stomach, soon followed by a liquid
stool, but not bilious (after three hours), [2]. ► Violent eructations, gripings in the bowels, and sudden
slight bilious vomiting (after one and a half hours), [7].
[30.] ► Nausea and
slight bilious vomiting, [8]. ►
*Nausea, with pressure in the stomach (after one a half hours), [3]. ► Vomiting and diarrhœa,
with retching and burning in the throat (immediately), [1].
► Passage of much flatus from the stomach (after four
hours), [5]. ►
Passage of odorless flatus from the stomach, [3]. ► *Uncomfortable feeling in the stomach (after half an
hour), [8]. ► *The
pressure in the stomach changes to a burning (after one hour), [7]. ► *Pressure in the region of the
stomach (after half an hour), [7]. ► *Pressure in the stomach (after one hour), [6], [8]. ► *Distressing pressure and burning in the region of the stomach
(after three and a half hours), [5]. [40.] ► *Some pressure in the
region of the stomach, and empty eructations, [4].
ABDOMEN.
► Rumbling in the
intestines, and eructations (after one hour), [8]. ► Passage of much flatus, followed by a thin bilious
evacuation, [6]. ►
Colicky pains in the bowels, [6]. ► Gripings in the abdomen, followed by two liquid bilious
evacuations (second day), [2].
STOOL AND URINARY ORGANS.
►
A liquid bilious stool (after three hours), [7]. ► Two loose movements in the bowels, with gripings, at 6 P.M.
(second day), [8]. ►
Two liquid stools, with gripings, at 4 P.M. (third day), [8].
► During the poisoning he passed no urine, and the region
of the bladder was not distended, [1].
RESPIRATION APPARATUS AND PULSE.
►
Difficult breathing, [8]. [50.]
► Pulse spasmodic, [4].
► Pulse tense, spasmodic, [5].
► Pulse small, [1].
► Pulse small, tense, and spasmodic, [7]. ► Pulse accelerated,
contracted, [2]. ►
Pulse somewhat accelerated, small and tense, [2]. ► Pulse rapid, hard, small, 97, [8].
► Pulse, at midnight, 95 and spasmodic, [8].
EXTREMITIES AND SLEEP.
►
Cramps in the hands and feet, [1]. ► Night very restless, [8].
FEVER.
[60.] ► Extremities cold, [1]. ► Temperature somewhat increased, [8]. ► Heat over the whole body, [8]. ► Heat in the whole
body (after two hours), [2]. ►
A feeling of heat over the whole body, [5].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (After drinking water),
Eructations. ► (On violent
motion), Vertigo. ► (On
rising), Head confused.
SUPPLEMENT: BISMUTHUM SUBNITRICUM.
Authority.
9, Dr. Kerner
(Heidelberger Klin. Annal.), Lancet, 1829-30 (2), p. 349. A middle-aged man swallowed a
large quantity. ► Hiccough, violent vomiting of brownish
matter and profuse diarrhœa, the pulse was small and intermittent, the face pale and the
whole body cold; the voluntary muscles, especially those of the lower extremities, were
spasmodically contracted; the throat and pharynx were inflamed, he could not swallow, and
complained of much pain in the throat, a nauseous metallic taste, and intolerable thirst (in
eleven hours), [9].® 2000
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