FLUORICUM ACIDUM.
Hydrofluoric acid, HF.
Preparation
, Dilute with water and
potentize in silver vials to the fifth centesimal (Hering),
(gutta-percha vials are now generally used).
Authorities.
(1
to 17, from Hering’s résumé, Neues
Archiv. f. Hom., 2, 1, 100, and Trans. of Am. Inst. of Hom., 1846), 1, C. Hg, from a man aged 40, effects of
fumes of the acid or inhalations of the potencies; 1a, from
a teaspoonful of the 3d dil. (from silver); 1b, from the 6th; 1c, from the 30th; 2,
Dr. J. Jeanes, provings with 1st to 5th dils.; 3,
Dr. W. Williamson, provings with 1st to 5th dils.; 4, same, from another prover; 5, Dr. Neidhard, provings, as last; 6, same from another prover; 7, Behlert, a girl, effects of 30th; 8, Campos, 30th dil. on self and four healthy
men (repeated doses); 9, Freitag,
30th dil., repeated on third, seventh, ninth, and seventeenth days; on
thirty-second day took 6th dil., repeated on forty-third and
fifty-seventh days; 10, Geist, 30th
dil., repeated doses; 11, Gosewitch,
30th dil. a; 12, same, b;
13, Husemann, 30th dil.; 14, Lippe, 30th dil.; 15, Pehrson, 30th, daily for five days every
morning; 16, Kreiner, effects of
diluted acid (1/48th, 1/16th, 1/8th); 17,
Thenard, general statement of effects; 18,
Gruber, Austrian Med. Year-book, 1832 (Frank’s Mag., 1, 653), a workman
exposed his naked hand to the fumes for a minute; 19, King, suicide of a plumer by half an
ounce of the acid, Trans. Path. Soc., vol. 24, p. 98, 1873; 20, Berridge, Med. Invest. N. S., 3, p. 284,
took one dose of 2000th (Jen).
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Great
disposition, when alone, to repulsive fantastic imaginations,
particularly in regard to persons with whom he stands in near relations,
or with whom he is connected; it seems, for example, as though he must
get rid of all the servants, children must go out of the house, a
betrothal must be broken off, a marriage should be dissolved, etc, [1b]. ►
Aversion to his business, [11]. ► He is more cheerful and vigorous (after
eight and following days), [1a]. ► Uncommonly gay disposition of the mind, the next
morning, [8]. ► Feeling of perfect happiness within and
without (after eight hours), [8]. ► Feeling of an interior happy state never
experienced before, next morning after the remedy, [8]. ► Feeling of
highly enjoying everything (after twelve hours), [8]. ►
All nature seems to smile, in the morning (after sixteen hours), [8]. ►
Satisfaction, he desires no better state of things; all is right (after ten hours), [8]. [10.]
► Disposition to anxious ideas,
frequently to such a degree that a perspiration breaks out (second day),
[1a]. ►
He does not become anxious so easily as formerly, [1c]. ► During
the tottering sensation he has a decided though not anxious expectation,
as if there was to happen something awful, but he feels no anxiety, [1a]. ►
Sensation as if dangers did menace him, but without being
afraid; particularly during the pressure in the occiput, during the
staggering, the pain in the bladder, etc., [1a]. ►
Ill-humor, lasting about twelve hours (after eighteen hours), [8]. ►
During the fourth week very irritable towards people, even to the
greatest hatred, which he does not hesitate to give vent to in words,
but as soon as he sees them everything is forgotten, and he has an
entirely different opinion of them. This does not arise either from
hypocrisy or cowardice, but it is a suddenly altered view; mentally the
same feeling which occurred to him physically during coryza (see S.
139), [1a]. ►
Whilst considering what might happen he gets into a most ungovernable
anger, but only in his thoughts; several times during the first days, [1a]. ►
Easily displeased for half a day (after fourteen hours), [8]. ► In the
evening he is very discontented; he looks at everything in the worst
light; in the morning after a restless night, his temper is very
cheerful and joyous, [1b]. ► He remembers his experimentation only
with horror and aversion, particularly the sensitiveness of the region
of the stomach to pressure (after several weeks), in one who has made
numerous provings, [3]. [20.] ►
The least trifle is with him sufficient to show a bad temper in his
features and motions, in ten hours; disappears during the next twelve
hours, [8]. ►
Indifferent, taking no interest in a very sick patient, [1a]. ►
Intellectual. ► He has
great difficulty in fixing his attention upon anything, [11]. ► A more
difficult comprehension of philosophical works; on the other hand all
facts appear cleared to him, [1c].
► *On making his notes he mistakes
right and left, a circumstance that does not easily happen to him
(second day), [1b]. ► Every morning a peculiar rush of memory,
so that a number of symptoms come to him which he had had the day before
during the whirl of practice, [1a].
► Though his memory (for symptoms,
etc.) is good, yet he daily writes December instead of August (second
week), [1a]. ►
Forgetful; he does not recollect sometimes the most common things, [11]. ►
He forgets every evening to wind up his watch (second week), [1a]. ►
If his ideas are interrupted by other thoughts he is unable to recall
the former, or at least only slowly and stupidly, [1c].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. [30.]
► Confusion and pain through the head
(after five minutes), [2]. ► Vertigo and headache (part of S. 251), [5]. ►
When rising from lying, vertigo, which lasted also when walking or
sitting; afterwards eructations and slight nausea; in the morning, [20]. ►
General Head. ►
Determination of blood to the head, with heat in the forehead, gradually
increasing to a headache in os frontis (after a few minutes), [5]. ►
It appeared to him to proceed from the throat to the head; he felt as if
he would be struck by apoplexy; a kind of determination of blood to the
head and loss of consciousness; he could not recollect where he was
(after smelling the acid), [1]. ► A stunning sensation in the head, mostly
in front, immediately, [3]. ► Dulness in the head, in the morning until
breakfast (from third to eleventh days), [15].
► Dulness of the head in the morning,
with slight drawings in the right side of the head (fifth and seventh
days), [15]. ►
Dulness of the head, immediately; sensation as if the brain was pressed
upward (after four weeks), [10]. ► Dulness and painful tension in the head
towards the right (after several hours), [1b].
[40.] ►
Heaviness of the head, with a dull pain deep in the middle of the
forehead (after two hours), [8]. ► Pain in the head, a sensation as if the
head was too heavy and would drop from one side to the other, a pressing
outward from within (part of S. 191), [6].
► The feeling of heaviness in the
head continues in diminished degree until going to bed; he awakes with
it in the morning, and it only leaves him at 9 A.M., [6]. ►
Contractive pain, first in the head, then beneath the right scapula, [13]. ►
Headache, with nausea and vertigo, [1],
[5], [6]. ►
Pressure in the head from within outward, [6],
[9], [10]. ►
Pressure in the brain, extending from below upward, [10]. ►
Headache from the nape of the neck upwards, a dull pressure; it appears
to proceed from the nape of the neck through the centre of the head
towards the forehead; it concentrates gradually more towards the left,
as if a throbbing would arise there (two hours after fifth dose), [10]. ►
A kind of shaking in the head, particularly in the back part of it, and
more towards the right; at first whilst sitting, then particularly on
every quick, short movement, on rising, turning, during walking, in the
forenoon after 10 o’clock (first week), [1a].
► After breakfast the pains cease,
except in the head, on quickly moving it from one position to the other,
which continues the whole day (second day), [6]. ► Forehead.
[50.] ►
Painful determination of blood to the forehead, like a quick jerk, at
the beginning of walking after standing, not after sitting; in the
evening (after three or four hours), [1a].
► Pain in the forehead and eye
towards the right, after lying down in the evening (second day), [13]. ►
Pain in the right frontal protuberance, in the evening (fourth day), [3]. ►
He awakes in the morning with a slight pain in the forehead, which soon
passes away (after taking, in the evening), [6]. ► Pain of
short duration in the right side of the forehead, the next forenoon, [13]. ►
Dull heavy pain in the forehead, [4].
► A dull heavy pain in the upper part
of the forehead, passing sometimes to the upper part of both temples,
but more particularly to the left; this pain is increased on stooping;
in the evening (after one hour and a half), [6]. ► Heat in
the forehead, increasing to a headache, [5].
► Compressing pain in the right
frontal protuberance (after fifteen minutes), [3]. ►
Headache in forehead and temples, [9].
[60.] ►
Headache in the upper part of the forehead and vertex, towards the right
(after five minutes), [1a]. ► Headache in the left side of the
forehead, in the evening, [5]. ► Pressing pains in the forehead, as if it
were in the bone, at the same times also in the parietal bones; on lying
down she feels it all over, but it soon passes away; at noon, [7]. ►
Pressing pain in the forehead, on stooping, also pressing on the right
eye (third day), [13]. ► Shooting pain in the left side of the
forehead, [4]. ► Temples. ►
Pain in the left temple, proceeding from within, [9]. ► Severe,
pressure in the left temple (after two hours), [10]. ► On
benign the head, as in the act of stooping, a dull quick throbbing pain
in the right temple, lasting only for a short time, at 8.30 P.M., soon, [6]. ►
Pressure in both temples (a quarter of an hour after fifth dose), [10]. ►
In both temples, pressure from within outward (after one hour), [10]. [70.]
► Pressive pain in the left temple, [13]. ►
Headache, pressive, in both temples (after four hours), [5]. ► Immediately
in both temples a severe pressing from within outward, for
half an hour; after that a pinching pain in the left deltoid muscle, [10]. ►
Sudden very transient, pressing pain in the left temple (part of S.
506), [13]. ► Vertex. ►
Pain, at first like a contraction on top of the head towards the right,
and afterwards under the right shoulder-blade (next forenoon), [13]. ►
Parietals. ► Pain
extending from the parietal bone to the right mastoid process, [8]. ►
In the forenoon, in the room and open air, a headache, a partial
fulness, as if something were lying on the left parietal bone on a spot
which he cannot designate very clearly (eighth and ninth days), [1a]. ►
Painful tension in the right side of the head, [1b]. ► Slight
drawing in the right side of the head, [15].
► A violent pressive pain in the left
half of the head in the course of the coronal suture (next morning), [3]. ►
Sharp darting pain from near the posterior superior angle of the right
parietal bone to the mastoid process of the right temporal bone; the
pain was different from any other; much worse than a prolonged
electrical shock or compression of the ulnar nerve (after three days), [8]. [80.]
► Sharp, shooting, undulating pain;
it arises on the left side, about the middle and near the sutura
interparietalis, and proceeds with the quickness of lightning to the
left temple near the exterior part of the orbital cavity; this pain
shoots about for two seconds, but the undulation lasts a little longer,
and it is only when the undulation is nearly over that the mind takes
cognizance of the whole of it; the shooting and painful undulation and
the quickness, are of such a nature as to produce immediately in the
mind a very disagreeable idea of some impending danger; the undulation
may be best compared to that of the streak left on the wall, in
darkness, by the friction of a phosphoric match, [8]. ► Occiput.
► From the nape of the neck to the
occiput, a feeling like a warm breath, [13].
► Dulness of the occiput only,
immediately after repeated doses, [10].
► Dulness towards the right in the
occiput (after one hour), [1a].
► In the morning, shortly after
awakening, a cramplike pain in the very lowest part of the occiput
towards the left, [13]. ► F. G., aged 25, after taking it thirty
evenings, had the next morning cramp deep in the left side of the
occiput and in the right arm (it was the new moon), (Hering). ► Pressure on both sides of the occiput
beneath the protuberances (after one hour), [10]. ►
Suddenly a severely pressing pain on the left side of the occiput;
disappears as quickly, but soon returns again (after one hour), [10]. ►
Dull pressure in the right side of the occiput, [1a]. ► Dull
pressure and compression in the occiput, particularly towards the right
(part of S. 556), [1a]. ► External Head. [90.] ►
She is frequently obliged to comb her hair, otherwise it becomes tangled
and difficult to comb (third and following days), [1a]. ► (The
hair ceases to fall out), [3]. ► Desires to scratch the head, without,
however, any feeling of itching, for the first time (ninth day), and a
very great falling off of the hair, the next morning, [1a]. ►
Itching on the head, which causes him to scratch (after one hour), [10].
EYE.
►
Quivering externally in the right eye, and soon after a burning-shooting
pain at the bottom of the orbital cavity (after several hours), [1c]. ►
The vapor affects the eye very much (Liebig). ►
The eye remains affected for several days, so that he has to wink and
rub it, [1c]. ► Pain in the right eye, [13]. ► A pain
very deep in the posterior part of the right eye, and extending very far
into the upper jaw, the same which he had at one o’clock in the left
side; between 5 to 6 P.M. (ninth day), [1a].
► Burning in the eyes (after fifteen
minutes), [5]. [100.] ► A
pressure upon the right eye, while stooping, [13]. ► Has
often an itching in the eyes, which makes him scratch (first week), [1a]. ►
Painful itching in the left eye, as if from a grain of sand, [4]. ►
Brow and Orbit. ►
Heaviness above the eyes, with nausea; worse on motion (after two and
three hours), [5]. ► Pain over the right eyebrow, which
disappears, but a similar pain appears for a short time in the right
small toe (next forenoon), [12]. ► Pain behind the right eye, [13]. ►
Drawing around the right eye, in the evening (after fifteen minutes), [3]. ►
Behind the left eye, towards the temple, in the left nostril and
forehead, there is a pain, which seems to be in the bone, as if, very
deeply in the interior, something sharp-pointed was moving about (at 1
P.M., ninth day), [1a]. ► Violent jerking internally behind and
above the right eyebrow, in the bone (after one hour), [1a]. ► Deep
in the bones, superior and posterior to the left eye, a soreness
occasionally (evening, ninth day), [1a].
► Lids. [110.] ►
*Sensation as if the eyelids were opened by force and a fresh wind were
blowing on them; after that sensation like sand in the eyeball, which
had the same feeling as if the eyes were inflamed. [8]. ►
Pricking and burning in the internal canthus of eye (second evening), [13]. ►
Quivering above the external canthus of the left eye, in one who never
had the like (second day), [1c]. ► Itching in the right internal canthus of
the eye, in the evening, [5]. ► *Violent itching at the left inner
canthus of the eye, which causes him to scratch very quickly and
forcibly (twelfth day), [1a]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Increased lachrymation, [4]. ► Ball.
► Pressure as it were behind the
right eyeball (second hour), [10].
► Pupil. ►
Pupils contracted, [19]. ► Vision. ►
Pleasant sensation, as if the eyelids were wider opened, or the eyes
more prominent, whereby the circle of the vision becomes more enlarged,
the sight cleared, and he feels a kind of luxurious enjoyment while
looking at the same things he is used to see every day, [8]. ► During
the first hours of the morning inclination to go without glasses, though
his short-sightedness was no better; it was very irksome to bring
objects near the eyes (second week), [1a].
[120.] ►
In the evening, after retiring, a jerking light before the eyes,
crossing itself like lightning (third week), [1a]. ► In the
evening, after retiring, on closing the eyes, red sparklings cross each
other in all possible directions; this gradually ceases, and there
remains a red, flaming trembling for a few minutes, which disappears
after opening the eyes (second day), [13].
► On closing the eyes firmly he
observes a large bright ring, which quickly vanishes (in the evening of
fifth day), [1a].
EAR.
►
External. ► A pain,
extending from below upward, behind the right ear, [9]. ► Behind
the right ear a pain which moves upward in the head; at the same time in
the right heel, [9]. ► Internal. ►
Sensation in the right ear as if there would commence a ringing in the
ear, in the forenoon (second day), [1a].
► Pain in the right ear (fourth day),
[9]. ►
(A pain, to which he was frequently subject at the opening of the left
Eustachian tube, appears after one or two hours, and does recur again
afterwards), [1a]. ► Pressing pain in the right ear, [13]. ►
A peculiar pressing and itching deep in the left ear; disappears after
stirring with the finger in the ear (after one hour), [10]. [130.] ► Stitches in the right ear, [9]. ► Jerking
behind the left ear, [5]. ► Itching first in the right, afterwards in
the left ear, [10]. ► Hearing. ►
The sensitiveness of his hearing is very much increased in the morning
(sixth day), [1a].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Sneezing, in
the afternoon (after four hours), [5].
► Violent sneezing seven times, with
a discharge of a small quantity of thin mucus from the nose, and
collection of saliva in the mouth, with that sensation in the nose which
is sometimes caused by very cold weather; in the morning (second day), [1b]. ►
(In a case of chronic obstruction of the nose, with a dull heavy pain in
the forehead, where Silex 30th, had been of some service, Fluor. ac.
30th, immediately caused a running from the nose, without any other
improvement.) (The same in a case of ulceration), [13]. ► Early
in the morning, on rinsing the mouth with cold water, the nose appears
suddenly full of mucus, as if he had fluent coryza, but as quickly
passes over gain, [1c]. ► Frequent attacks of coryza, suddenly
appearing and disappearing; it seems as if excitement removed the
coryza, [1a]. ► Sudden attacks of coryza, suddenly
appearing and disappearing again; it seems as if excitement removed the
coryza (third to fifth week), [1a].
[140.] ►
Coryza (eighth day); on the right side and fluent, with crawling before
the sneezing (ninth day); remains semilateral and fluent (tenth and
eleventh days), [15]. ► If he drinks red wine in the evening he
has the next morning, or even the next night during sleep, a fluent
coryza, with constant dropping and stoppage of the nose, for several
weeks, but not from Rhein wine, [1a].
► After drinking ale in the evening,
a sudden fluent coryza the next day, from morning till evening, then
suddenly disappearing (fourth week), [1a].
► The next morning after drinking ale
in the evening a sudden tickling fluent coryza, which lasts the whole
day but disappears the next morning (third week), [1a]. ►
Feeling in the nose as from a severe cold, [1b]. ► The
nose, which for several months had been neither sore nor painful, began
again to painful, more on the left side (ninth day), [1a]. ► The
nose was without pain for several weeks, but suddenly after some
emissions it began again to pain in the left side (after five weeks), [1a]. ►
The nose, which for many months was free from excoriation or pain,
begins again to feel sore, more towards the left (ninth day), [1a]. ►
Crawling in the nose, [15]. ► Smell. ►
The odor of the acid is very acrid and penetrating, [17].
FACE.
[150.]
► It appears to him in the morning as
if his countenance had suddenly become old; he looks in the glass and
sees beneath the eyes superficial, whitish, puffy folds, extending
towards the nose, etc., without being in the slightest discontented
thereat (ninth day), [1a]. ► The facial muscles are constantly in
motion, [8]. ►
Heat of the face (part of S. 153), [1b].
► In the evening after an animated
conversation, heat in the face and headache, like a pressing and forcing
deep interiorly towards the left; appearing at times and subsiding
again; it then passes to the left upper jaw, as if the teeth ached, even
on those places where the roots of the teeth had been extracted a year
ago, so decided that he was obliged to feel with the finger; together
with an inclination to bite together teeth which no longer existed
(second day), [1b]. ► Longing to wash the face with cold water;
frequent and repeated washing with great satisfaction; for two weeks,
afterwards more seldom, [1a]. ► Painful sensation, as if the right upper
jaw were hot and painful; this is, as it were, reflected in the lower
jaw (after fifteen minutes), [1a].
► Compression in both zygomas,
drawing downward towards the larynx, where she is conscious of it during
deglutition and also at other, at 5 P.M., [7].
► Sensation of warmth and obtusion in
the bone of the right upper jaw (after ten minutes), [1a]. ►
Sensation of warmth on the lips, immediately, [1a]. ► Very
often a burning like a sore on the inside of the lower lip towards the
right, very near the edge (after one an two hours), [1a]. [160.] ► Slight numbness of the right joint of the
lower jaw, a continual sensation of warmth, and as if it would begin to
pain (after one and two hours), [1a].
► In both joints of the jaws (worse
in the left), a painful cramplike confusion; (had the same sensation
occasionally before), (eleventh day), [1a].
► In connection with a drawing in the
entire left limb, a peculiar sensation in the right lower jaw, not in
the bone, but very close to it, in the evening (after twenty-four
hours), [9]. ►
Burning pain on the outside of the right lower jaw on a small spot near
the first or second molar tooth (after one and two hours), [1a]. ►
In the right the articulation of the jaw sensation as if a spasm were to
take place (after several hours), [10].
► Drawing pain in the right lower
jaw-bone, towards the middle (one hour after fifth dose), [10]. ► Slight
gnawing pain in both sides of the lower jaw, in the bone near the angle
(soon after S. 33), [5].® 2000
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