FLUORICUM ACIDUM.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► While
sitting, pleasurable movements of the whole body, unawares, [8]. ►
Hands, fingers, toes, feet, jaws, lips, eyebrows and lids, muscles of
the face, etc., all are in motion (in ten hours), [8]. ►
Writhing about in indescribable agony, [19].
► Increased ability to exercise his
muscles without fatigue, regardless of the most excessive
heat. [The prover resides in Norfolk, Va., situate 36° 50′ of N.
latitude.] ► In summer, or in the
cold of winter, he is able to perform with the greatest facility, his
usual daily walk of several miles, which every day previously he thought
very fatiguing and annoying; indeed he takes the same walk once again
afterwards, and is still inclined to take exercise which is not at all
required; he can use the same or other groups of muscles, as it may
happen, without being at all fatigued, and without noticing it, [8]. ►
(He can bear the summer heat much better, and feels less lassitude than
usual; for several weeks), [1a]. ► Is less tired than usual after a walk in
the evening (eighth and eleventh days), [19].
► Lassitude (part of S. 257), [16]. [540.]
► Excessively languid, in the
forenoon (after second dose), [3].
► Weariness while walking at night, [1]. ►
Weariness, nausea, and eructations the whole day, [16]. ► An
unusual very great weariness, in the evening suddenly, [10]. ►
Weakness, nausea, and eructations, the whole day, [16]. ►
Singular indescribable weakness, like a numbness, as if she had received
an electric shock, particularly in the head and hands, with nausea in
stomach, without desire to vomit; she never experienced a similar
sensation; a few days previously she had taken Acid. nitr., after that
Fluor. ac., [1c]. ► Lameness of the whole body, [5]. ►
A higher grade of wellbeing; he is more decided in his movements (fourth
and following days), [1c]. ► In the morning he feels better than
usual, though he had internal fever during the night (first week), [1a]. ►
The left side feels stronger than usual (third day), (F. G.), (Hering). [550.] ► A
sensation almost like rush of blood, though rather as if caused by the
nerves, somewhat resembling numbness and confusion or burning, first in
the right side of the forehead, afterwards in the upper and lower jaws
of the same side, and appearing in the lower part of the occiput and in
the bladder, and so on in various places (first evening and second
morning), [1a]; also, [1b] and [1c],
but not so decidedly and not in the head, [1].
► Slight erratic pain in the left
half of the body, in the arm, chest, thigh, etc., with a sensation of
slight itching (after half an hour), [10].
► Violent but transient jerking,
burning, almost boring pains, confined to a small space, [1a]. ►
Pressure and sensation of lameness, particularly in the hand, arm to the
elbow, and in the foot, [9]. ► Pressing pain in different parts of short
duration, in the evening; on the chin, neck, in the right forearm, in
the left knee, right foot, also in the right shoulder, and left arm,
sometimes below, sometimes above the elbow, in the evening, [9]. ►
Jerking pains in different parts of the body, behind the left ear, on
the left middle finger and in os sacrum (during first hour), [5]. ►
Whilst sitting, a frequent sensation of a general shaking, with a dull
pressure and compression in the occiput, particularly towards the right,
with the continual sensation of numbness in the left forearm, and a
severe pricking in it whilst stretching it (first forenoon), [1a]. ►
Even a very small, hardly visible quantity would produce the same
effects, although only after several hours, [17]. ► Most
of the symptoms are on the right side (F. G.), (Hering). ► Almost all symptoms appear in the room,
while reading or writing, [10]. [560.] ►
Many symptoms are worse when standing, though
better when standing than when sitting, [8].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► Reddish spots
above the eyebrows, [3]. ► Desquamation on the eyebrows, [9]. ►
(On the second toe of the left foot, a painful excoriation, which
apparently bleeds), (after three hours), [5].
► Roughness on the forehead, like a
rough line with its convexity upward (fourth and fifth days, and seventh
week), [1a]. ► Eruptions, Dry. ►
Elevated red blotches over the eyebrows, most abundant on the left side,
but of longer continuance on the right (third and following days), [3]. ►
Elevated red blotches (above the eyebrows, most abundant on the left
side, but longer-lasting on the right) still continue, whilst the other
symptoms disappear, in the evening (fourth day), [3]. ► Scaly
eruptions, with pricking sensation in the eyebrows (third day), [3]. ►
Pimples on the nose, [1]. ► Pimples on the abdomen, but principally
on the thighs and legs, the points of while formed a crust the next day
after taking Fluoricum acidum, and which scaled off the seventeenth day
after first dose, and the eighth day after fourth dose, [9]. [570.] ► In the morning, there appears a pimple of
the size of a hempseed towards the right, between the root of the nose
and the eye (sixteenth day); several similar pimples in the right side
of the face (after five weeks), [1a].
► In the afternoon, violent itching
on the left shoulder; in the evening, on the back, where small pimples
arise; worse late at night until he falls asleep (fourth and fifth
days), [1a]. ►
Violent itching and small pimples on both shoulders and on the back,
more towards the left (eleventh and following days), [1a]. ►
Violent itching, worse on warm days, and small pimples here and there
(twelfth day), [1a]. ► A group of small red pimples on the left
hip, in the back, and lower portion of the region of the joint, and
below on a spot half as large as the palm of the hand; which have opened
during the night after scratching (fourth and following days), [1a]. ►
Itching pimples on the back (part of S. 375), [1a]. ► Eruptions,
Moist. ► The parts around
the spot touched by it become white and painful, forming a dense vesicle
filled with matter, [17]. ► There yet arise larger and smaller
vesicles, in groups, with very sensitive itching on the ulnar side of
the right thumb and the radial side of the index finger, leaving behind
them dry scurfy spots (during sixth week), [1a]. ► All his
cicatrices, dating from thirty-two to two years, are red around the edges, and covered here and
there with itching vesicles (fourth morning); those of more ancient date
have larger vesicles; those of recent date are filled with very small
pimples, but only on the tissue of the cicatrix, and not the surrounding
skin, [1a]. ►
Several small light carmine-red, round, elevated, blood-vesicles,
resembling little flesh-warts; they are very soft and compressible, and
by a strong and steady pressure the blood disappears, but immediately
returns again; the largest is the size of a hempseed, the smaller one
like millet-seeds; some are still, the smaller, but they are very
perceptible as light red enlargements of the capillaries, raising up the
cuticle; the largest is an inch below the right nipple, and the same
distance towards the right of it, a smaller one, one inch below the same
nipple; two on the right side of the median line of the abdomen above
the navel; a still smaller one on the right side of the chest; five very
small ones of light color on the inside of the right upper and lower
arm; he noticed them for the first time about the thirteenth day; three
weeks later, some of the smaller one had disappeared; the larger had
become darker, somewhat resembling nævi materni; those above the navel
are also larger; after three months they are paler; they made their
appearance and remained without any itching, [1a]. [580.] ► On the right index finger, violent
itching and small vesicles, in the evening (fifth day), [1a]. ► Eruptions,
Pustular. ► The smallest
quantity applied to the hand excites violent itching, and pustules
filled with matter are formed (Liebig). ►
The itching on the chest, which causes scratching till it is sore, with
small, soft pustules and pimples, which he had had every summer, was
much increased on the fourth day; during the fourth week there was
suddenly a sensation as if the skin were exceedingly smooth, wherewith
all inclination to scratch disappeared, lasting one day, then the
itching returned, but was diminished and gradually disappeared earlier
in the season than usual, [1a]. ► Subjective. ►
Some pain, redness, and heat; the epidermis came off in scales after a
few days, [16]. ► It acts most powerfully on the animal
tissues; on coming in contact with the skin, there ensues a violent
pain, [17]. ►
Itching all over in different places, but for the most part only in the
posterior portions; for five weeks, [1a].
► Itching the whole day in different
spots, particularly on the back (fourth day), [1a]. ► Slight
itching (part of S. 551), [10]. ► The itching of the skin is a fine
crawling on a small spot, and so penetrating and sticking that he is
obliged to scratch several times, when he is relieved; it was somewhat
pricking, acute, very circumscribed, and scratching was quite
irresistible; usually there were several of these itching points in one
group, though they could not always be recognized, [1a]. ► (The
itching of the skin habitual to him in the month of March disappears), [1b]. [590.]
► Burning pains on small spots of the
skin on the back of the right hand, angle of the index finger, and here
and there on the left hand, [1c]. ► Itching-burning on a small spot near the
right eye, externally (after several hours), [1b]. ►
Creeping and severe itching on the right shoulder in the evening (after
five or six hours), [1a]. ► Itching in the brows, [10]. ►
Itching in the right eyebrow, [10].
► Itching in the upper eyelids and
the inner canthi, [1]. ► Itching, inducing him to scratch on both
upper eyelids (first evening), [1a].
► Itching on the right of the face, [13]. ►
Itching on the left breast and right side of the nose (after smelling), [13]. ►
In the evening, itching on the right nipple and around it; the nipple is
the next morning much larger, more red, and the areola darker; a thin,
brownish crust is formed, as if caused by perspiration and dust, with
uncleanliness, on the areola; on the left side there is no trace of it,
and it must have formed very rapidly, because of daily washing (twelfth
and thirteenth days), [1a]. [600.] ►
Itching on the left side of the nape of the neck, on top and below the
shoulder, and on the back, every morning and evening (fourth and
following days), [1a]. ► Itching on the left shin, on the left
glutæi muscles, and forehead, which compels rubbing, [10]. ►
Itching in the small of the back, [5].
► Itching in the left heel (from
smelling), [13]. ► Itching of all cicatrices in the
evening; they are all on the left side; on the thigh, upper arm, and the
most recent on the left hand, cut by glass; this last itches most
severely (third day), [1a]. ► In the evening, changing from the top of
tone shoulder to the other, severe itching, with now and then a single
stitch in the skin (first day), [1a].
► A very severe itching on the throat
and chest, in the forepart, so that he was obliged to scratch it during
his walk in the evening (tenth day), [1a].
► Violent itching, which distresses
him particularly in the evening, on a small spot in the centre of the
perineum (from the second week, increasing until the sixth and seventh),
[1a]. ►
Violent itching on the cicatrice of an old abscess on the inside of the
left thigh (third day), [1a]. ► Violent itching in the scars on the ball
of the left thumb and joint of the index finger, in the afternoon,
(eighth day), [1a]. [610.] ►
Itching above the anus, suddenly and most violent, often returning
(thirteenth and following days), [1a].
► Irresistible violent itching in a
spot as large as a pea in the middle of the left scapula (sixth and
seventh weeks), [1a]. ► A really tormenting itching in the
forenoon, almost only on the back, though sometimes on the throat,
extending to the chest; he was obliged to undress and rub with a brush,
when it disappeared (twelfth and thirteenth days), [1a]. ►
Burning itching in the right eyebrow, disappears after scratching (one
hour after fifth dose), [10]. ► Pricking burning-itching near os coccygis
towards the right (fourth day), [1a].
► Sticking itching in the face, [10], [13].
► Sticking itching on the inner side
of the left little finger, [1c]. ► Slight itching like fine prickings, on
the right side of the face (after one hour), [10]. ►
Violent pricking itching on detached spots, mostly on the left side,
particularly on the side of the chest towards the back, and on the thigh
in the evening, about 10 to 11 o’clock (third and following days), [1a]. ►
The itching is most violent and lasts longest on the back, [1a]. [620.]
► The itching is always worse in the
evening, [1a]. ► Soreness of warts on the left hand, [4].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Drowsiness,
[8]. ►
Drowsiness, constant sleepiness, for the first five days after the acid,
[8]. ►
Periodical attacks of sleepiness, in the afternoon, [15]. ►
Sleepiness by paroxysms, in the afternoon (second day), [15]. ►
Unconquerable sleepiness in the morning soon after the acid; after a
short and refreshing sleep, it nevertheless returns every two hours
until evening, [15]. ► Sleepy earlier in the evening (during
the first two weeks), [1a]. ► He is sleepy unusually early in the
evening, with sound sleep and early waking (eighth day), [1a]. ► Sleepy
early in the evening; lies down on the bed undressed, and sleeps the
whole night; although the window and door were wide open, and the night
was very cold, yet he had taken no cold in the morning, but he had had a
very good sleep (seventh day), [1a].
[630.] ►
Sudden sleepiness, in the evening (fifth, seventh, eighth,
tenth, and twelfth days), [1a]. ► Sudden sleep in the evening; he sleeps
straight through till morning (tenth days), [1a]. ►
Suddenly sleepy after drinking wine in the evening; he lies down and
does not wish to rise; on going to bed he becomes wide awake, and the
face feels so warm that he is obliged to wash himself (fifth day), [1a]. ►
He becomes sleepy every forenoon, or is so prostrated and weary that he
is obliged to lie down, about 10, 11, and 12 A.M. (first week), [1a]. ►
The last hours before noon he is always sleepy, dizzy, and tired for
several weeks, [1a]. ► Suddenly falls asleep in the evening,
then sleeps the whole night, and also very long in the morning (twelfth
day), [1a]. ►
Much more sleep than usual (fourth evening), [1c]. ► Long
sound sleep, for several days (second week), [1a]. ► Profound
sleep until late in the morning (during last weeks for
several days), [1a]. ► He feels better than usual on waking in
the morning, till the fifth day, [1c].
[640.] ►
Snoring in his sleep and exclamations in the dream, [1b]. ►
Sleeplessness. ► No desire to
sleep, [8]. ► Sleeplessness, scarcely any inclination to sleep,
[8]. ►
Sleeplessness from the time he has gone to bed until near morning, when
a very short and light sleep will be sufficient to refresh him, as if he
had slept all night, [8].
► Day and night without his usual sleep;
he feels as if he had already slept, [8]. ► Goes to
bed sleepy, but is unable to fall asleep on account of his thoughts, [1b]. ►
He is unusually wakeful in the evening (eighth day), [1a]. ► After
a walk in the evening he was wide awake and excited, although he had
been sleepy very early the day previous (eighth day), [1a]. ► He is
easily awakened when called at night, but is unusually weary while
walking, indifferent, and relaxed (third day), [1a]. ►
Restless nights, with many dreams, which he cannot recollect, [5]. [650.]
► Frequent waking at night, yet in
the morning he had finished his sleep much earlier than usual (sixth to
tenth days), [1a]. ► Notwithstanding going to bed very late he
wakes frequently, and has many dreams; yet he wakes very early in the
morning and feels better than usual (during the first week), [1a], [1b].
► Dreams. ► Dreams towards morning (for the first
time, on ninth and tenth days), [1a].
► Dreams, particularly towards
morning, and generally of a frightful character, [9]. ► Many
dreams for fifteen nights, quite unusual, [15].
► Many dreams, but only after
midnight (seventh day), [15]. ► All his dreams were very lucid, as if
they really happened; although sometimes disagreeable, were never
vexatious, [15]. ► Very vivid and detailed dream at night,
which he thought he remembered, but which he forgot; it consisted of the
thoughts of the day, with a character of Chinese circumstantiality and
useless precision (after a few days), [1c].
► Restless nights, dreams easy to
remember, of the occurrences of the day; in a person who has not dreamed
for years, [11]. ► The whole night very vivid dreams, with
minuteness of detail; he forgets them soon after waking (after several
days), [1c]. [660.] ►
Dreams of distant acquaintances and things the whole night (second
night), [15]. ► Soon after falling asleep, anxious,
frightful dreams, with waking up at midnight; the rest of the night,
many dreams of distant acquaintances; in a person who almost never
dreams (first day), [15]. ► A very vivid dream; sees his nearest
relatives die (second day), [13]. ► He dreams of the sudden death of his
little son, and also of the son of one of his friends; thinks that in
both cases he has been to blame, because he has neglected physical
examination and mechanical remedies; reproaches himself very much and
weeps bitterly, and on waking is very happy that it is not true (first
day), [1a]. ►
Dreams that he was dead, and orders the rapid removal of the corpse out
of the house, [7].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Violent
febrile chill, toward evening (first day), [18]. ►
Chilliness in the left arm and in the whole body (after one hour), [18]. ►
General heat (after two hours), (part of S. 252), [5]. ► General
heat, after little exercise (first evening), [1a]. ► General
heat, with nausea, [5].
[670.] ►
General feeling of heat, heaviness, and lameness of the whole body
(after one hour), [5]. ► He feels warmer than usual, so that the
March air is very agreeable (after a few hours), [1b]. ► The
first evening, and still more during the next morning, a sensation of
greater warmth, with inclination to uncover; cold bathing is more than
ordinarily agreeable, especially repeated washing behind the ears and on
the nape of the neck (first and the following day, but less), [1a]. ►
After becoming cold in the open air, he becomes warm much sooner than
usual (after a few days), [1c]. ► Sensation as if a burning vapor was
emitted from the pores of the whole body, [8].
► Heat of the face during an animated
conversation in the evening, [1b].
► Heat of the face, after drinking
wine, [1a]. ►
Heat in the palm of the right hand, the succeeding forenoon, [13]. ►
Slight fever heat under the eyes, soon after the second dose, [6]. ►
Strong heat, extending from the centre of the dorsal region to the loins
(after three hours), [8]. [680.] ► A
slight glow on the lower part of the right buttock, towards the outer
part, in a spot as large as two hands, in the evening, [1c]. ► Now
and then warm flushes, like a warm breath, from the nape of the neck to
the occiput, lasting eight days, [13].
► Burning, more externally, in
different places, but always on one spot; on the right thigh, left upper
arm, left thigh, etc., also on the fingers; at 9 P.M. (after fourth
dose), [10]. ►
Perspiration, particularly in the face (third and following days), [1a]. ►
Perspiration breaks out, with anxious imaginings, [1]. ► Profuse,
sour, offensive perspiration; in the afternoon, [3]. ►
For several evenings, a glutinous, annoying perspiration, with itching
here and there, [1a]. ► Unusually profuse, dripping, and
glutinous perspiration, with itching, for several evenings, in warm
weather, while walking, [1a]. ► Bathed in cold clammy perspiration, [19]. ►
(A perspiration in the palms of the hands, even in cold dry weather, and
with the backs of the hands dry and cool, the palms being constantly so
moist that every one who shook hands with him observed it, which
remained after Lobelia; disappeared
on the fourth day of the Fluoric acid proving), [10]. [690.] ► Perspiration and sensation of heat on the
upper part of the body towards the right, particularly along the right
of the nape of the neck almost to the shoulder, as if in warm streams;
from 7 to 8 P.M. (second day), [13].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Until breakfast, dullness in head;
shortly after waking, pain in occiput; sensitiveness of hearing;
sneezing, etc.; on waking, taste in mouth; on waking, heaviness in arm;
particularly on getting in and out of bed, soreness, etc., in left hip. ► (Forenoon),
After 10 o’clock, after quick, short movement, etc., shaking in head. ► (Afternoon),
Taste in mouth; chilly. ► (Evening), Discontented; after lying down,
pain in forehead, etc.; pain in fingers;
itching. ► (Night),
Thirst; itching on shoulder. ► (Ale), Coryza. ►
(Cold), Pain in teeth. ► (Exercise),
Heat in stomach, etc. ► (Passage of flatus), Pain in bowels. ► (Motion),
Pain in left chest. ► (Reclining), Oppression in chest, etc. ► (Rest),
Many symptoms. ► (On rising), All symptoms. ► (In room),
While reading or writing, almost all symptoms. ►
(Standing), Many symptoms. ► (Stooping),
Pain in upper forehead; pain in forehead, etc.; pressure upon eye. ► (Sitting and
writing), Painfulness of chest; pain in back. ► (Beginning
walking after standing), Determination of blood to forehead. ► (Warm weather),
Itching, etc. ► (Wine), Heat of face; determination of blood
to anus. ► (Red
wine), Fluent coryza, etc. ►
Amelioration. ► (Morning), Cheerful, etc. ► (Bandaging),
Sensation in abdomen. ► (After breakfast), Pains cease, except in
head. ► (Cold
water), Pain in upper jaw. ►
(Eating), Sensation in abdomen. ► (Excitement),
Coryza. ► (Exercise),
Contraction in muscles of neck. ► (Friction), Pain in knee. ► (Motion),
The symptoms. ► (Walking), All symptoms; pain in ankle-joint.® 2000
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