FERRUM IODATUM.
Ferrous iodide; Iodide of Iron; FeI2.
Preparation
, Trituration of freshly prepared crystals.
Authorities.
[Symptoms from Cattell, B.
J., 11 are excluded, the originals (authorities 4 and 5), being
consulted, the following symptoms given by Cattell were not found,
“uneasiness about epigastrium; copious black stools; increased
secretion of urine; debility.”] 1,
Dr. Muller, A. H. Z., 50, p. 97, effects of preparing the 1st trit.; 2, same, took 2 grains of crude drug at 10
A.M., first day, 5 grains of 1st trit. at 8.30 A.M., and 10 P.M., second
day, also morning and evening third day, evening of fourth, fifth,
sixth, and seventh days, and morning and evening eighth days; 3, same, took 3d trit. every evening for six
days; 4, Boissière, experiment on
self with 20 drops, Gaz. Méd. de Paris, Dec. 24th, 1842; 5, same, effects on twenty-seven consumptive
patients. (The translation of this in the Lancet states that these
effects are also observed in healthy persons, but this does not appear
in the original).
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confused and heavy feeling in the head, especially in the forehead;
smoking brings back the headache and aggravates it, but wine does not
(third day), [2]. ► Headache, but more especially a confused
feeling, principally in the forehead, [1].
► Transient dizziness, [5]. ► General
Head. ► *Cephalalgia,
[4], [5]. ►
Headache, a confused sensation, with feeling of heaviness and pressure,
especially in the forehead, more on the right side, aggravated by
putting on the hat, reading, writing, etc., better in the open air,
sitting down or standing in a draft of air (second day), [2]. ► Slight
headache or rather confused sensation, especially in the forehead
(second day), [3]. ► The headache returns, especially in the
forehead, soon after the evening dose (second day), [2]. ► The
headache returned after smoking (sixth day), [2]. ► The
headache continued the whole day without intermission, worse in the warm
room, on stooping, shaking the head, walking rapidly, reading, writing,
etc., better in the open air, a draft, and in the cold air, and was only
relieved towards evening (second day), [2].
► Forehead. [10.] ►
Sensation like a headache, in the forehead, above and between the eyes,
continuous and aggravated on going to bed (after ten minutes, first
day), [2]. ►
Slight headache in the forehead (third day), [3]. ► Dull
headache in the forehead (eighth day), [2].
► Slight drawing-tearing through the
forehead, above the eyes (second day), [3].
EYES.
►
Painful lancinations in eyes and ears, [5].
EARS.
►
*Roaring in ears, [5].
NOSE.
►
All the symptoms of coryza, profuse discharge of mucus from the nose,
and frequent expectoration of mucus from the larynx and trachea (after
one hour), [1]. ► Feeling throughout the whole night as
though I had taken cold and had a coryza; the stoppage of the nose was
so great that I could not breathe through it, but was obliged to sleep
with open mouth; this symptom, however, suddenly disappeared between 5
and 6 A.M. (fourth night), [3]. ► The nose became again stopped (on the two
preceding days it had been freer), (fourth day), [2]. ► Nose
dry, stopped as in coryza, freer towards noon (second day), [2].
FACE.
[20.]
► Slight uniform injection of the
face, [5].
MOUTH.
►
Tongue. ► Tongue coated
thickly yellow (eighth day), [2]. ► Burning on the forepart of the tongue,
where the drug had lain, lasting the whole night (first night), [2]. ►
Sensitive burning on the tongue; immediately and continuing a long time
(first day), [2]. ► General Mouth. ►
Mucous membrane of mouth and throat of a uniform bright-red color, or
more frequently dotted with red, and presenting a fine, dense,
bright-red, papular eruption (four cases), [5]. ► Burning
pain in mucous membrane of mouth and pharynx, with sensation of pricking
and swelling on the internal surface of the cheeks, at the root of the
tongue, on the isthmus faucium, in the pharynx, and sometimes all along
the œsophagus; sometimes the contact of food is so painful as to
prevent mastication (four cases), [5].
► Unpleasant dryness of mouth and
throat (immediately), [4]. ► Marked alteration in the sense of taste
(four cases), [5]. ► Taste. ►
Insipid taste in the mouth (third day), [3].
► Taste insipid, bitter in the back
of the mouth (fourth day), [3]. [30.] ►
Flat, insipid taste even after rinsing the mouth, and only disappearing
after breakfast (second morning), [2].
► Taste bad, pasty (fourth day), [2]. ►
Very bad taste in the mouth, in the morning (eighth day), [2]. ►
Offensive taste in the mouth, immediately after the evening dose (second
day), [2]. ►
An offensive, sharp, biting taste in the mouth, immediately after the
dose (first day), [2]. ► Taste of peppermint (after a quarter of
an hour), [4]. ► Slight inky taste, which increased, and
in three minutes became sour, like that of sulphate of iron; most
perceptible at the isthmus faucium (immediately), [4].
THROAT.
►
Frequent rattling of mucus in the throat and expectoration of mucus
(third day), [2]. ► Hawking of mucus, and cough, with
expectoration (sixth day), [2]. ► Violent tickling and scraping in the
throat and nose, with a sensation as though he would suffocate; he was
obliged to hawk in order to raise mucus from the throat, [1]. [40.] ► Indescribable sensation, not painful,
along the œsophagus (after five minutes), [4].
STOMACH.
►
Anorexia (four cases), [5]. ► Appetite. ►
Appetite less than usual (third day), [3].
► No relish for food (eighth day), [2]. ►
Did not relish smoking (sixth day), [2].
► Thirst. ► Thirst (four cases), [5]. ► Eructation.
► A continuous inclination to
eructate, with frequent eructations (immediately), (first day), [2]. ►
Increased eructations, after eating (second day), [2]. ► Violent
eructations, some nausea and a qualmish sensation, after supper (seventh
day), [2]. ► Nausea. ►
Nausea, [4]. [50.] ►
Nausea and vomiting (first and second days), [5]. ►
Nauseated and qualmish at times (eighth day), [2]. ►
Qualmish sensation in the stomach (second day), [3]. ► Stomach.
► Burning in the stomach and
intestines, or rather a feeling of heat and fever; after the evening
dose (seventh day), [2].
ABDOMEN.
►
Rumbling in the intestines (second day), [2].
► Rumbling in the abdomen, with
slight colicky pains, before the stool (fourth day), [2]. ►
Rumbling and gurgling in the intestines towards morning, previous to the
stool (second day), [2]. ► Much rumbling in the abdomen before the
stool, in the evening (fourth day), [3].
► Much rumbling in the bowels, with
increase of the pains after eating, in the evening (eighth day), [2]. ►
Frequent emission of flatus smelling of Iodine (eighth day), [2]. [60.]
► Emission of much flatus smelling of
the Iodine (fourth day), [3];
(eighth day), [2]. ► Some pain before the stool (third day), [2]. ►
Pain in the abdomen before the stool; stool small, of a lighter color
than usual (third day), [15]. ► Great pain in the abdomen, especially
about the middle, together with much flatulence and great urging to
stool (seventh day), [2]. ► The pain in the abdomen was relieved
after a natural yellowish-brown stool, mixed with black portions
(seventh day), [2]. ► Renewed pain in the abdomen, with urging
to stool, followed by a stool somewhat darker than on the preceding day,
at 10 P.M. (twelfth day), [2]. ► Colicky pain usually beginning about the
umbilicus, and extending downward about the right side (ninth day), [2]. ►
Some soreness and rumbling in the abdomen (third day), [2]. ► Feeling
of soreness in the abdomen, the whole day (fourth day), [2]. ►
Sensation of great soreness, with much colicky pain in the abdomen,
especially after eating (sixth day), [2].
[70.] ►
Pulsation in the abdomen, with a feeling of great soreness; in the
evening (seventh day), [2].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Feeling in the rectum and especially in the anus as if it were
compressed, a constriction as if worms were in it, while the stool was
easy and without pain (seventh day), [2].
► A peculiar feeling in the rectum
and anus, as if something twisted and turned about in a circle, and
something like drops of water flowed down, and as if a screw were boring
upward and downward; the whole of the third day, [2]. ► Urging
to stool, with much pain in the abdomen (drawings from above the
umbilicus down the right side), followed by a small stool of a
yellowish-brown color and somewhat hard, in the morning (fifth day), [3]. ►
Ineffectual urging to stool in the morning (fourth day), [3]; in the evening (eleventh day), [2]. ►
Frequent ineffectual urging to stool, in the evening (second and third
days), [2].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Two
diarrhœic light-yellow stools, preceded by pain (tenth day), [2]. ►
Stool in the morning and evening, preceded by much pain, thin,
diarrhœa-like, light yellow (ninth day), [2].
► Stool soft, very thin, like
diarrhœa, light yellow, followed by relief of the pains in the abdomen
(eighth day), [2]. ► Stool black, [4]. ►
Constipation. ►
Constipation, [5]. [80.] ►
Stool smaller than usual, light brown, passed only after much urging and
pressing, although it was rather soft (fourth day), [2]. ► Stool
very small, less than usual (second morning), [3]. ► Small
hard stool, with sticking and pain as from constriction in the anus on
the passage of fæces through it (seventh day), [3].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► A feeling as
though the water remained in the fossa navicularis, and could not be
forced out any farther, in the morning (seventh day), [2]. ► Slight
pain in the whole of the urethra, then in the whole of the penis, on
urinating (seventh day), [2]. ► Some pain in the urethra on urinating,
which I was frequently obliged to do, although in small quantities, in
the evening (third day), [3]. ► Awakened once by an erection, with very
violent pain and burning in the whole of the urethra, was not, however,
able to urinate, as it seemed, in consequence of the tenesmus of the
neck of the bladder, although there was a most violent and excessive
urging thereto; I cannot say how long this symptom continued, since, in
spite of the violent pain, I fell asleep (sixth night), [3]. ► A
peculiar crawling tickling in the urethra, and especially in the rectum,
the whole day (fourth day), [3]. ► Rather severe prickling itching in the
urethra, especially in the forepart, with frequent urging to urinate,
but very little urine at a time (seventh day), [2]. ►
Frequent desire to urinate, with some pains and a sensation of soreness
in the urethra during micturition (fourth day), [3]. ►
Micturition. [90.] ► Frequent and profuse emission of urine,
which is light yellow, and has a sweetish smell (fourth day), [3]. ►
Frequent and profuse micturition, with slight pain in the whole of the
urethra (fifth day), [3]. ► Urine. ►
Urine light yellow, with sweetish odor (ninth day), [2]. ► Urine
bright yellow, smelling sweetish, with a slight white milky sediment; in
the evening (sixth day), [2]. ► *Urine dark-colored (eighth day), [2]. ►
*Urine darker than usual, depositing a thick white sediment, about
one-eighth part of the whole (twelfth day), [2].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Frequent erections, the whole night (tenth night), [2].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx. ►
Irritation to cough and expectorate in the afternoon, with great
accumulation of mucus in the throat (second day), [2]. ► Cough and
Expectoration. ► More
frequent cough, [5]. ► Cough, with expectoration of
grayish-white, rather tenacious mucus drawn out in threads (third day), [2]. [100.]
► (A short hacking cough, with
white-yellowish, rather thick expectoration, and at times with pains in
the chest, which had troubled me more or less during the previous
winter, ceased on the ninth or tenth day entirely, and did not recur
during the whole of the next winter), [2].
► Cough worse than ever, with more
hawking in the throat and expectoration of mucus (sixth day), [2]. ►
Slight hæmoptysis, [5]. ► Respiration. ►
Shortness of breath; was obliged to take a deep breath, with sensation
of oppression of the chest, and a pressure beneath the sternum (fourth
day), [3]. ►
Increased dyspnœa, [5].
CHEST.
►
Congestion of the lungs, [4], [5]. ►
Oppression of the chest, as if a great weight lay upon it (sixth day), [2]. ►
Oppression of the chest, more in the upper portion of the lungs (second
day), [2]. ►
Great oppression of the chest the whole day; was obliged to take a deep
breath, which caused a feeling of soreness in the chest, together with a
feeling of oppression, as though expansion of the thorax were prevented;
there was, however, no really acute pain on inspiration (seventh day), [2]. ►
The oppression of the chest which had been less, returned very violently
after the evening dose (seventh day), [2].
[110.] ►
There are still some oppression of the chest and some expectoration of
mucus, which is thick and yellow (tenth day), [2]. ► Slight
oppression of the chest, especially on breathing (fourth day), [3]. ►
Sharp pains in the chest, at times, as yesterday, more oppression, and a
pressive sensation in the left side as yesterday, but to-day also in the
right side (fifth day), [3]. ► Sudden sharp sticking pain, extending
from the left nipple outward to the arm, at 11 A.M.; this pain was
aggravated by pressure, and frequently returned during the afternoon and
evening (fourth day), [3]. ► Some pain in both sides of the chest,
deep in the abdomen, and in the region of the spleen (where it was more
like a stitch), on respiration in the evening (fifth day), [3].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Increased pulse, [5]. ► Pulse in the morning 80, at noon 84, at
3.30 P.M. 102, 10 P.M., 84 to 88 (seventh day), [2]. ► Pulse
80 in the morning, 100 at 4 P.M., 80 in the evening (sixth day), [3]. ►
Pulse 90 in the morning, 88 in the afternoon (fourth day), [3]. ►
Pulse in the morning 80, at noon 88, in the evening 80 (fifth day), [3]. [120.]
► Pulse in the morning 76, in the
afternoon 84 to 88, somewhat feverish, in the evening 80 (eighth day), [2]. ►
Pulse in the morning 80, at noon 72, at 3 P.M. 84 to 88 (not so feverish
as yesterday), in the evening 72 (fourth day), [2]. ► Pulse
increased from 75 to 85 (after a quarter of an hour), [4]. ► Pulse
in the morning 80, in the afternoon 84, in the evening 80 (sixth day), [2].
BACK.
►
Painful sensation in the back and kidneys and lower portion of the
spine, starting from the lumbar vertebræ (fourth day), [3]. ► Pains
in the back and kidneys, which become worse in the evening and extend
farther downward (seventh day), [2].
► Rather violent pain in the back and
kidneys (eighth day), [2]. ► The pains in the back and kidneys and the
headache were worse in the evening (eighth day), [2].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Weakness and a bruised sensation in all
the limbs, with great aversion to moving about (sixth day), [2]. ►
Paralyzed and bruised feeling in all the limbs, especially in the legs
(eighth day), [2]. [130.] ►
Painful drawing in the tendons on the back of the right hand and left
foot (eighth day), [2].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► In the evening, the right arm was so weak
that he was obliged to stop writing, because the arm was so weary and
felt as if paralyzed (seventh day), [2].
► A rheumatic paralyzed feeling in
the right upper arm and right shoulder (sixth day), [2]. ►
Rheumatic bruised sensation in the upper arm, especially in the right
(seventh day), [2].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Rheumatic pain, extending upward from the
back of the left foot to the pelvis, in the evening (eighth day), [2]. ►
Bruised, paralytic sensation in the thighs, extending down to the knees,
which are very heavy; the legs, however, feel much lighter in
proportion; during the afternoon this paralytic sensation extends down
into the calves, even the right tibia is very painful (seventh day), [2].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► General
turgescence of the peripheric capillary system, [5]. ► Very
indolent and sleepy, with bruised feeling in all the limbs, especially
the calves, in the evening (fifth day), [3].
► Great weakness (seventh
day), [2]. ►
Great weakness the whole day, with weary bruised sensation of all the
limbs, especially of the lower extremities and calves (fourth day), [3]. [140.]
► General exhaustion and sleepiness
(seventh day), [2]. ► Subjective. ►
Symptoms of plethora, [15]. ► Sensation of weakness of the body and as
if bruised, the whole night (seventh night), [2]. ► Some
dull pain in and beneath the shoulders, in the nape of the neck, and in
the joints of the lower extremities (seventh day), [3].
SKIN.
►
Short-lasting cutaneous eruptions, like urticaria, eczema, and lichen, [5].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Sleepiness
in the morning, though after a long sleep at night; had no desire to
rise in the morning (fourth day), [3].
► Sleeplessness. ► Sleeplessness, [5]. ► Night
restless, with frequent waking, many dreams, with easy erections (sixth
day), [2]. ►
Sleep rather restless during the night; dreams of long-past events at
night, as in the preceding proving, [3].
► Frequent waking, with excessive
urging to stool, and pain on micturition (sixth night), [3]. [150.] ► Sleep bad, night restless, frequent
waking, and dreams of long-past events; in my sleep it seemed as if I
had grown exceedingly large and was thirty to fifty feet high;
everything about me seemed small and insignificant; the bedstead was too
small and short; frequent starting in sleep, and waking with a feeling
as though paralyzed, and the hands and feet could not rest (seventh
night), [2]. ► Dreams. ►
Dreams (first night), [1]. ► Awakened from sleep by dreams of thieves
and of fighting with them (third day), [3].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Some
symptoms of coldness about noon; pulse 68 (normal 70); after 3 P.M. some
fever, pulse 84 at 3.30, 80 at 4 P.M. (second day), [2]. ► The
coldness returns between 12 and 1, with chilliness and sleepiness, so
that the eyes close; at 3.30 P.M. the pulse becomes feverish, 96, with
heat and fever; an hour later the pulse was 80, and the headache began
to disappear (third day), [2]. ► Feeling of coldness in a warm room near
the stove, about 10 A.M.; after 12 the pulse was 84, and I was very
sleepy, with dull sore feeling in the back and kidneys, without fever in
the afternoon (third day), [3]. ► Cold and chilly from 9 to 10 A.M.,
although the room was warm, without, however, fever in the afternoon,
but the feeling of chilliness and coldness returned in the afternoon
(fourth day), [3]. ► Heat. ►
Some fever in the afternoon (sixth day), [3].
► The fever returned in the
afternoon, commencing about noon, becoming quite severe at 3 P.M.; the
skin was not very dry, but warm and hot; at 4 P.M. the fever disappeared
and the pulse decreased, the skin began to be moist, but there was no
very profuse perspiration excepting on the forehead (seventh day), [2]. ►
Very hot and feverish, but without perspiration, either during or after
the fever (seventh night), [2].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Bad taste. ►
(Evening), Pain in back, etc. ► (Going to bed),
Sensation in forehead. ► (Breathing), Oppression of chest. ► (After eating),
Eructations; pain in bowels; soreness in abdomen. ►
(Wearing hat), Headache. ► (Pressure),
Pain from left nipple to arm. ► (Reading), Headache. ►
(Shaking head), Headache. ► (Smoking),
Feeling in head. (Stooping),
Headache. ► (Walking
fast), Headache. ► (Warm room), Headache. ►
(Writing), Headache. ► Amelioration. ►
(Open air), Headache. ► (Cold air),
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