IODUM.
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Objective. ► Itching,
painful hæmorrhoids, [11]. ► Subjective. ►
Pain in the hæmorrhoids appearing before the stool and remaining
afterwards, [11]. ► Burning pain within the rectum, [11]. ►
Pressure in the rectum, in the evening in bed (after thirty-six hours), [1]. ►
Smarting in the rectum after a natural stool, [1]. ► Burning in
the anus, in the evening, [1].
[450.] ►
Slight burning in the anus after every evacuation, [10]. ►
Violent itching in the anus, [1]. ► Violent itching in the anus, as from
threadworms, [4]. ► Frequent smarting, itching, and burning
in the anus, [1]. ► Desire for stool without and evacuation,
which only occurs easily and without exertion after drinking cold milk, [4]. ►
Frequent urging and pressure to evacuate the bowels, apparently in
consequence of increased peristaltic action of the intestines; with
frequent evacuation of liquid fæces, [7].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Increased
discharge from the bowels, [9]. ► Evacuations from the bowels increased in
number and quantity, [7]. ► *Diarrhœa, [82], [50],
[53], etc.► Diarrhœa, aggravated by drinking beer,
[14]. [460.]
► Profuse diarrhœa of watery,
frothy, whitish mucus, with griping about the umbilicus and pressure on
the vertex, [4]. ► Profuse, even bloody diarrhœa, [27]. ►
Excessive diarrhœa, [36]. ► Most violent attacks of diarrhœa, with
violent colic, for ten days, [15].
► Diarrhœa-like evacuation from the
rectum about 6 P.M.; repeated the next morning (eighth day), [5]. ►
Evacuation of the bowels in the evening (the second time, contrary to
habit), diarrhœa-like (third day), [6].
► Stool mucous, bloody, scanty,
diarrhœa-like, [15]. ► Purging (second day), [61]. ► Stool
mucous, bloody, scanty, diarrhœa-like, [15].
► Purging (second morning), [61]. ►
Catharsis, [32]. ► Frequent evacuation of soft fæces
followed by burning in the anus, [10].
[470.] ►
*Several whitish stools during the day, softer than usual, [4]. ►
Stool soft and easy, [11]. ► Pasty evacuations from the bowels, [10]. ►
Passage of much thin fæces towards evening (tenth day), [5]. ► Stool
thin, liquid, reddish-brown, with colic and urging, [64]. ► Stool
contains much clear blood (second day), [64].
► Stool of a peculiar odor, earlier
than usual, in the morning, [11]. ► Constipation. ►
Constipation, [50], [56]. ►
Constipation the whole day, [7].
[Reaction after several doses of the drug. -T. F. A.] ► Constipation; evacuation of hard fæces
accomplished only with great pressure, [7].
[Reaction after repeated doses. -T. F. A.] [480.]
► Constipation of long duration, [15]. ►
Obstinate constipation, [59]. ► Bowels constipated (after eight hours), [44]. ►
Costive, [28]. ► Stool difficult to evacuate, [1]. ►
Stools infrequent and difficult, [63].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► Acute cutting
in the orifice of the urethra when not urinating, [2]. ►
Stitches as with needles in the orifice of the urethra (after sixteen
days), [1]. ►
Itching smarting in the orifice of the urethra, [1]. ►
Micturition. ► Frequent
desire to urinate; with frequent micturition; at times, however, there
was not much passed, [10]. [490.] ►
Incessant desire to urinate, [21].
► Frequent micturition; with urging
thereto, [4]. ► *Copious and frequent micturition, [8]. ►
*Involuntary micturition (after three days), [1]. ► Urine
constantly dribbling away, attended with a constant desire of voiding it
(after eight hours); can be retained an hour or more (after twenty-four
hours), [44]. ► She passed almost no urine, and the
little passed was red (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ►
Scarcely three spoonfuls of urine in twenty-four hours, and of a dark
reddish-brown color (with a strong odor of Iodine), (second day), [64].►, [14]. ► Biting corroding urine during
Painful urination
micturition, [1]. ► Urine. ►
Increased urine, [9]. [500.] ►
Increased secretion of urine, [27a].
► Polyuria, [50]. ►
Copious secretion of bright yellow, thin, watery urine; was obliged to
urinate at least six times from noon till evening, and every time passed
rather a large quantity, [7]. ► Suppression of urine (second morning), [61]. ►
Urine red and turbid, usual quantity, [65].
► Urine darker than usual, turbid, at
times also milky, [2]. ► Urine light-colored and scanty, [63]. ►
Urine somewhat thicker than usual and depositing a very dark sediment, [9].►,
Horribly offensive smell of urine after standing but a short time
[14]. ►
Iodine found in the urine, [66]. [510.] ►
On examining the urine, the presence of both Iodine and albumen was
discovered; the urine of eleven children treated in the same way was
examined, and in all found to contain Iodine, and, in four out of the
eleven, albumen. The albumen disappeared when the Iodine treatment was
stopped, and reappeared when it was recommenced, [67].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Irritability of
the genitals, [10]. ► Violent and continual erections, [36]. ►
Erections, without lasciviousness, [11].
► Priapism, [32]. ►
Erections occur slowly (fifth day), [1].
► Power of erection much enfeebled, [42]. ►
The genitals become as it were atrophic, and erections and pollutions,
to which he had been subject, were never observed, [31]. ►
Frequent acute drawings in the forepart of the penis, not definite
whether in the urethra or the glans penis, [2]. ► Cutting
drawing in the corona glandis, [1].
[520.] ►
Frequent tickling of the glans penis, [10].
► Violent tickling on and beneath the
glans penis, [2]. ► Violent itching on the glans penis, [1].►
*Testicles tumefied and very tender to touch;, [14]. ► Testicle double its former size (after
drawing pain along spermatic cords from testicles upwards; left testicle
much worse
two hours), [66]. ► Testes diminished in size and
consistency, while the patient no longer possessed venereal power, [41]. ►
Great diminution in size and power of the testicles, [43]. ► One
testicle is retracted to the abdomen, [1].
► Vigorous activity of the testicles,
[11]. ►
Increased secretion of semen, [27a].
[530.]►, [14].
Severe pain in right testicle
► Burning pain in a spot on the right
side of the scrotum, [11]. ► Frequent dragging and pressure towards
the testicles, lasting from 10 A.M. till evening, [10]. ►
Remarkably increased sexual desire (in men), [17].►, [14].
Emission several nights in succession, without dreams►, [14].
Emissions four nights in succession►, [14]. ►
Emissions at night without knowledge
Emissions, with dreams after falling asleep again, after which he is
very weak, [11].► Seminal emissions twice the same night,
[14].► Emission, with amorous dream; very stupid, [14]. ► Female. [540.]
on waking
► It excites the activity of the
uterus and causes slight hæmorrhage from it, [17]. ► A case
is said to have occurred in which the female became barren soon after
commencing the use of Iodine, [30].
► Before the administration of Iodine
she gave birth to a child annually, but from the time of commencing its
use to the present, a period of eight years she has never become
pregnant, [30]. ► Menstrual discharge commenced, though not
profusely (after twenty-four hours); patient had been unwell eight days
previously, [44]. ► Menstruation eight days too late, with
vertigo and palpitation, [4].► Menses two weeks too soon; bearing-down, [14]. ►
pains, with cross temper and weeping mood; face very red
Very irregular menstruation, [22].
► Several young females who took it
liberally were affected with retention of the catamenia, [29]. ►
Menstruation that was present ceased, [3].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi. ► Increased secretion of mucus in the
air-passages, [9]. [550.] ►
Rawness and dryness of the air-passages on rising in the morning, [10]. ►
Œdema of glottis (second day), [66].
► *Pains in the larynx, with desire to
cough, [20]. ► Painful pressure in the region of the
larynx, even extending to the pharynx, causing a sensation as if the
parts (even including the tonsils) were swollen, [10]. ► *Painful
pressure mingled with stitches in the region of the larynx and
sublingual glands, returning several times during the day, [10]. ►
Intolerable crawling and tickling in the larynx, only relieved by
hawking and coughing, with accumulation of water in the mouth, in the
morning in bed, [2]. ► *Region of the trachea smarting, accompanied by
frequent lancinating pain (fifth day), [62]. ►
Excessive bronchial irritation (second day), [66]. ► Voice.
► Tremulous, jerky voice, [56]. ►
Broken voice, [50], [57]. [560.] ► Very deep voice, [1]. ►
Hoarseness in the morning, [4]. ►► *Voice hoarse (second day), [64]. ►
Voice hoarse (first day); descended into a fatiguing whisper (fifth
day); became more laborious (eleventh day); no better (eighteenth day), [62]. [With respect to the loss of voice
I would add that it is sixteen years since this lady lost it, previous
to which time I had frequently attended her for that unpleasant symptom,
and restored it by tonics and local astringents.] ►
Voice weak (after three hours), [64].
► Aphonia; want of vibration of
cough, [45]. ► Cough and Expectoration. ► Irritation to cough, caused by violent
tickling in the throat, [4]. ► Provocation to cough, with a deep dry
cough, [10]. ►
Cough, in the evening, [1]. ► *An effort to expand the chest produced cough
but no pain, [65]. [570.] ►►
Croupy cough, [45]. ► Dry hacking cough, increased by movement,
[65]. ►
Frequent dry cough, [52]. ► Much dry cough, [10]. ► Cough
with effort, so that she must vomit, ceasing after expectoration of
mucus, [4]. ►
Cough, with expectoration of mucus preceded by heaviness, extending from
the throat into the chest, which makes respiration difficult, [4]. ►
Short cough, from tickling in the throat, [2].
► Short cough, caused by tickling in
the throat, with thick yellow expectoration and good appetite, but
sickly expression, [1]. ► Spitting up of a white frothy mucus,
sometimes of a ropy fluid, [63]. ► Copious bloody expectoration, [48]. ►
Respiration. [580.] ► Respiration accelerated, [45]. ►
Respiration 23 in a minute, [46]. ► Respiration about 30, [65]. ►
Inarticulate sighing, [45]. ► Difficulty in breathing (after a few
days), [65]. ►
Difficult respiration, [27a]. ► *Respiration, especially inspiration, difficult,
[45]. ►
*Tightness of respiration (fifth day), [1]. ► The
slightest exertion causes oppression of breathing, palpitation, and
vertigo, [54]. ► Suffocative feeling, [59]. [590.] ► Feeling of suffocation at times, [58]. ►
Short of breath, especially on the slightest exertion, [56]. ► Loss
of breath, [15]. ► Dyspnœa, in the afternoon, [7]. ►
Sudden dyspnœa, with pain on deep inspiration; during the half an hour
which this lasted the heart beat more rapidly and violently than usual,
and the pulse was smaller and more rapid, [7].
CHEST.
►
Objective. ► Pleurisy (in
three cases), [34]. ► Rattling of mucus in the chest, with
rawness beneath the sternum and heaviness on the chest, [4]. ► Subjective.
► Heaviness in the chest, causing
difficult respiration, [10].► Burning pain on left side (of chest) near, [14]. ►
sternum, which feels as if drawn towards back
Burning-sticking tension in the parietes of the chest, [1]. [600.] ► Tightness, pressure, and burning in the
middle of the chest, sometimes in the left, sometimes in the right side,
[10]. ►
Constriction of the chest, [7],
[33]. ►
Much constriction in the chest, afterwards becoming a pressure, and
returning in the afternoon as a sticking, [10].
► Sharp sticking in the middle of the
right chest, only on expiration, [2].
► Pressure on the chest, at times
changing to a pain, and frequently causing a deep dry cough, [10]. ►
Pressure somewhat deep in the right chest, [2]. ►
Pressure and sticking in the chest, with frequent provocation to cough
and frequent dry rough cough, entirely disappearing on going into the
open air, [10]. ► Sudden pressive pain in the right
thoracic cavity, always aggravated by inspiration (after 1 drop), [7]. ►
Sharp sticking in the lower portion of the right side of the chest near
the pit of the stomach, on inspiration, [2].
► Tearing in the parietes of the
right chest, [2]. [610.] ►
Sore pain in the chest continuing in both sides, when breathing and on
external touch, [1]. ► Mammæ. ►
Sometimes dwindling of the breasts, [52].
► Breasts visibly and remarkably
diminished in size, and long in recovering their normal proportions, [39]. ►
The breasts decreased so as to almost entirely disappear, [30]. ► She
lost her breasts entirely, [33]. ► Atrophy of the mammary glands, [24]. ►
Atrophy of the mammæ and testicles, without impairment of the general
health, [50]. ► Diminution of milk (after a week); went
on increasing as the medicine was continued four or five days longer,
its use being suspended the milk in another week was as abundant as
ever, but being resumed in a fortnight the same effects recurred at the
end of a week, [40].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Violent
rush of blood to the heart and head, [51].
► *Great præcordial anxiety, obliging
him to constantly change his position (after three hours), [64]. [620.]
► Squeezed sensation in the heart, [4]. ►
Pressure in the region of the heart, [10].
► *The pains were sharp, quick, piercing,
and movable, but a heavy oppressive pain constantly in the region of the
heart, [65]. ► Heart’s Action. ►► *Palpitation of the heart, [15], [21],
[50], etc. ►
Palpitation the whole day, lasting till he fell asleep, [4]. ►
Palpitation of the heart, after menstruation, [4]. ►
*Palpitation, increased by movement, [65]. ►
Violent palpitation and other nervous disorders, [32]. ►
Spasmodic palpitation that she feels as far down as the navel, but most
violent in the pit of the stomach, [4].
► Palpitation disappears entirely, [4]. [Curative action. -Hahnemann.] ► Pulse. [630.]
► Pulse excited, [27]. ►
Irritable pulse, [20]. ► Frequent pulse, [36]. ►
Accelerated pulse, [52]. ► Accelerated pulse, rather small than
full; much quicker at intervals, [50].
► Pulse accelerated and extremely
weak, [54]. ►
Pulse considerably accelerated, [55].
► Rapid, feeble pulse (second
morning), [61]. ► Pulse very rapid, [58]. ► Pulse
small, hard, and so rapid that it could scarcely be counted, [15]. [640.]
► Pulse quick and weak, [56]. ►
Galloping pulse, [59]. ► Acceleration of the pulse 7 or 8 beats to
the minute, [10]. ► Pulse over 130, [57]. ► Pulse
small, 132 (second day), [64]. ► Pulse 70, soft, regular, and equal
(before the operation); 95, small and feeble, but regular and equal
(immediately after the operation); 130, small, not wiry, in the evening,
[46]. ►
Pulse small, weak, and slow, immediately, [44].
► Small, very quick pulse, irregular,
[65]. ►
Pulse hard, thin; the carotid pulse small, weak, 120, in marked contrast
to the tumultuous, irregular, at times
intermitting action of the heart, [64]. ► Pulse
energetic, large, and full, in the afternoon, [7]. [650.] ► Pulse weak and tremulous (after eight
hours), [44]. ► Small pulse, [50]. ► Pulse
small and contracted (after one hour), [25].
► Pulse small, thready, [45]. ►
Tremulous pulse (third day), [44].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Rheumatic pains in
the neck, arms, and back, [10]. ► Rheumatic pain in the nape of the neck
and upper arms, [7]. ► Rheumatic tension in the right side of
the neck, [2]. ► Constriction of the neck, [4]. ► Throat
very much constricted, [4]. [660.] ►
Rheumatic pinching on the lower portion of the neck near the left
shoulder, aggravated by touch, apparently relieved by some eructations,
though frequently repeated afterwards, [2].
► Tearing on the right side of the
neck, [2]. ► Dorsal.►, [14]. ►
Severe pain under scapula of left side
Burning in the right scapula, [2].
► Stitches in the scapulæ, on
lifting anything (after fourteen days), [1].
► Lumbar. ► During the menses (at the usual time)
pains in the small of the back, [4].
► Stitches in the small of the back
(fifteenth day), [1]. ► Drawing and pressure in the region of the
right kidney, [2]. ► Sacral. ►
A pressive pain now decreases, now increases, in the coccyx and sacrum, [2].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Objective. ►
Trembling of the limbs, [38], [56]. [670.]
► Trembling of the limbs, especially
of the hands, [15]. ► Tremor of the limbs, like that caused by
mercury, [27a]. ► Subjective. ►
Violent cramps and convulsive jerking of the arms, back, and legs which
scarcely cease for a moment, [15].
► Heaviness of the limbs, in the
morning (eighth day), [1]. ► Sensation of numbness in the upper and
lower extremities, [16].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Objective. ►
Slight swelling followed first application, more the second, and so much
more the third as to excite much alarm in the friends and to give the
limb a truly formidable appearance; the whole arm was swollen to the
hand, and part of this, [28]. ► The position of the upper limbs looked as
if convulsions would come on, [25].
► Involuntary twistings of the arms,
particularly the right, immediately, [44].
► Twitching and jerking of the arms,
hands, and fingers, [63]. ► Paralytic weakness of the arms in the
morning on waking in bed, [1]. ► Subjective. [680.]
► Tearing pains in both arms after
slight manual labor, [1]. ► Shoulder.► Pain in left shoulder, with soreness,, [14].
extending down the whole arm
► Constant pain in left, [14].
shoulder, as if bruised
► Intermitting pains in left, [14].
shoulder► For some days, severe pain in left, [14]. ►
shoulder; pain runs down to elbow, at times so severe as to disable the
arm; shooting pains in the fingers
Rheumatic pain in the left shoulder, [2].
► Violent stitches in the
shoulder-joints even during rest, [1].
► (Drawing, tearing pains in the
morbidly elevated shoulder), (second day), [1]. ► Arm.
► Muscles of left arm and, [14]. ►
shoulder feel flabby and soft; no power in the arm
Pain in the bone on the outer side of the arm, wakes from sleep and does
not permit one to fall asleep again, also aggravated when lying upon it,
[1]. [690.]
► Slight pains in left arm,
[14].► Severe lancinating pain in biceps of left, [14].
arm, extending into shoulder; pains worse when extending the arm;
paralytic weakness
► Elbow. ►
Pressure in the bend of the left elbow, [1].
► Tearing in the left elbow, [1].►, [14].
Left elbow feels sore
► Wrist. ►
Sticking pain in the right wrist when lifting or grasping anything, [1]. ►
Hand. ► Trembling of the
hands, [15], [16]. ►
Trembling of the hands, at first slight, afterwards more decided, [54]. ►
Tearing in the metacarpal bone of the right index finger, [1]. ► Pain as
after a blow on the metacarpal bone of the index finger, aggravated by
touch, [3]. ► Fingers. [700.]
► Tensive pain in the finger-joints
as if they would break on bending them, with some swelling and
painfulness on pressure when they are stretched out (after a few days), [1]. ►
Tearing in the first joint of the right thumb, [2]. ► Tearing
in the whole of the index and middle fingers of the left hand, [2]. ►
Tearing in the knuckle of the right little finger, [2]. ►
Ulceration of the nail of the left index finger, caused by a slight
prick near the nail, [1].® 2000
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