GADUS MORRHUA.
Gadus morrhua, Linn.; (Morrhua vulgaris, Cloq.).
Family of fishes
, Gadoïdes.
Common names
, Cod; (Fr.), Morue.
Preparation
, “Trituration of first
cervical vertebra.” [Cod Liver Oil will appear as Oleum Morrhuæ.]
Authority.
Dr. Antoine Petroz, translated
by Dr. A. Dupaquier, West. Hom. Obs., vol. 3, p. 187, 1866.
MIND.
►
Deep melancholy, paroxysms of hopelessness, for forty-eight hours,
during which the desire for death is hardly controlled (twelfth day). ► The intellectual faculties are torpid
(twelfth day). ► Absence of ideas
(twelfth day).
HEAD.
►
Headache in the night, accompanied by fever (sixth day).
EYE AND EAR.
►
Marked diminution of strength of hearing and sight since the fifth day
(twelfth day). ► A noise (ticktack)
is felt in the right ear, and pain if a noise from the exterior becomes
predominant (second day).
FACE.
►
Altered countenance (eleventh day).
MOUTH.
►
Teeth sensitive and set on edge (twelfth day). ►
Dry mouth (seventh day).
THROAT.
[10.]
► Waking in the night on account of
severe contraction in the throat (second night). ►
Constriction of the fauces, wheezing cough, with white foamy
expectoration (seventh day).
STOMACH.
►
Loss of appetite for four days (after nine days). ►
Dull pain in the epigastrium and in the hypochondria (second day).
ABDOMEN.
►
Abdomen is much distended (tenth day). ►
Sensation of burning heat in the whole hypogastrium (eleventh day). ► While pains are felt in the chest, sharp
pains in the right side of the abdomen, in the groin and in the kidneys
(ninth day).
STOOL.
►
Soft stools; diarrhœa (third day).
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Bladder. ► The bladder is
swollen and always full (tenth day). ►
The sensation of swelling and fulness of the bladder increased (seventh
day). [20.] ►
Stitches in the bladder, almost an impossibility to urinate (eleventh
day). ► Micturition. ► The emission of urine is difficult
(seventh day). ► Urine passed with
difficulty (sixth day); for a few days the swelling of the bladder and
the difficulty of micturition seem to increase.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
Voice. ► Voice weak, and it requires some exertion
to articulate distinctly, the words do not come when wanted (twelfth
day). ► Cough and Expectoration.
► A few fits of coughing, slight
(sixth and tenth days). ► Light
cough, with expectoration of foamy sputa (eighteenth day). ► Fit of wheezing cough, with pain deep in
the chest (eleventh day). ► Very
frequent breathing, with oscillation of the wings of the nose, as after
exercise, at the time of waking and during the whole day (fifth day). ► The breath is short, laborious (eleventh
day). ► Laborious breath, as if the
air passages were closed (seventh day). [30.]
► Short, difficult breathing (fourth
day); more difficult (sixth day). ►
Breathing is so difficult that the mind directs not to inspire too much
air at a time (ninth day). ► Painful
and short breathing (eighth day).
CHEST.
►
Rush of blood to the chest, near the right shoulder-blade, accompanied
with a few strong palpitation (ninth day). ►
Rush of blood towards the chest, without palpitation (sixth day). ► Pains in the first left ribs (twelfth
day). ► Violent pains in the chest,
with orgasm of blood, lasting half an hour, at 7 P.M. (eighth day). ► Sensation of painful burning in the right
lung, from 4 to 5 P.M. (fourth day). ►
The lungs seem to be closed, in the evening (ninth day). ► The lungs seem adherent to the parietes
of the chest (eleventh day). [40.] ► Sharp pain in the chest, burning
shootings, at two o’clock (ninth day). ►
Sharp pains which run through the chest; these pains are not increased
by walking, although they are renewed on the first movement (twelfth
day). ► Very sharp pain in both
lungs, especially in the left, in the evening (eleventh day). ► Acute and pressing pain in the right lung
(seventh day). ► A few stitches in
the right lung, with sensation of a smarting wound of the size of a two
franc piece (a little larger than a silver quarter of a dollar), (fifth
day); the smarting extends to the left lung (sixth day). ► Smarting pain in the chest, with
sensation of burning (seventh day). ►
Contusing pain in the parietes of the chest, these pains are brought on
by coughing, by deep inspiration, or by motion (third day). ► A few fits of coughing caused a sensation
of painful ruffling of the lungs, which seemed to change place and be
contused (tenth day).
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Quick pulse (seventh day).
BACK.
►
Sharp, lancinating pain in the dorsal vertebræ (twelfth day). [50.] ►
Constrictive pains in the sides of the trunk (third day). ► Tearing pain in the back (ninth day). ► Pains in the lower part of the back, in
the sacrum (second day).
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Nails are getting soft (twelfth day).
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Pain above the left hip (second day). ► Slight lancinating pain in the left knee,
which bends involuntarily when the person is standing (second day). ► Tearing pain in the right buttock and in
the thigh (second day). ► Sensation
of contusion in the femur, from the head of the bone to the patella
(second day).
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Fatigue, weakness (eleventh day). ►
Weakness, extreme malaise, febrile heat (eighth day). [60.] ►
Great weakness about 4 P.M. (second day). ►
Malaise, during the day and night (fifth day and night). ► Malaise, despondency, lasting all day
(eighth day).
SLEEP.
►
Sleeplessness (ninth day). ► Bad
night (ninth night).
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Very severe
coldness from the hip down to the feet (second day). ► Heat. ►
Heat in the hands (fifth day). ►
Hands are hot and dry (ninth day). ►
Hands very hot (eleventh day). ►
Excessive heat of the hands (seventh day). [70.]
► Slight sensation of dry heat in the
palms of the hands (fourth day). ►
The heat in the palms of the hands is intolerable in the evening (sixth
day). ► Fever, without chill (seventh
day).® 2000
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