IODUM.
The element, Iodine.
Preparation
, Tincture (or triturations,
-Hahnemann).
Authorities.
[None of Hahnemann’s quoted
authorities are admitted, in accordance both with the strong advice of
Dr. Hering, and the character of the references as pointed out by Dr.
Hughes; a few of those referred to by Hahnemann have been obtained from
Frank’s Magazine, or from original sources.] 1,
Hahnemann, from Chr. Kr., 3, 378; 2,
v. Gersdorff, ibid.; 3, Gross,
ibid.; 4, Schreter, ibid.; (5 to 10, Jorg’s provings
with tincture, consisting of 38 grains to the ounce); 5, Heisterberg took 5 to 9-drop doses; 6, Kneschke, took 1 to 6-drop doses; 7, Otto, took 1 to 15-drop doses; 8, Seyfert took 4 to 18-drop doses; 9, Siebenhaar took 3 to 10-drop doses; 10, Joerg took 4 to 8-drop doses; 11, Hering, effect of 5 drops (1/4 grain) and
10 drops (1/2 grain), Archiv. f. Hom. Heilk., 13, 2, 182; 12, Macfarlan, Raue’s Record, Hom. Lit.,
1871, p. 7, effects of the 17m dil. (Fincke), given in water for two or
three days, produced in all provers; 13,
Robinson, a man took 1/3 drop, three times a day, Br. J. of Hom., 25, p.
324; 14, C. Mohr, Jr., M.D., proving
with 50th dil., Thesis Hahn. Med. Col. of Phil., 1875 (Am. J. of Hom. M.
M., 8, p. 378); [No 14, proving of Dr. C. Mohr,
Jr., belongs to Indium; all symptoms having this number must be erased
from Iodum.] 15,
Gairdner, Essay on Iodine (from Hahnemann, revised by Hughes); 16, Formey, Hufeland’s Journ., 1822, a young
man took tincture a long time for goitre, which it cured, but caused as
follows; 17, same, effects of 30
drops of tincture daily; 18,
Muhrbeck, Hufeland’s Journ., 1822, effects of 10 to 18 drops of
tincture, three or four times a day, in a girl of thirteen, with hard
swollen glands in left side of neck; 19,
Rœchling, Rust’s Mag., 1823, effects of long-continued use of Iodine; 20, Vogel, Rust’s Mag., 1823, effects of
tincture, 4 drops, morning and evening, for eight days, afterwards
8-drop doses, in a woman, aged twenty-eight, suffering from goitre,
which Iod. did not cure; 21,
Schmidt, Hufeland’s Journ., 1824, effects of tincture in a girl of
twenty-four, with goitre; also in a girl of twenty-eight, with goitre; 22, Suttinger, Rust’s Mag., 1824, effects of
tincture, used constantly for several months, in a girl of twenty, with
goitre; 23, Naumann, Hufeland’s
Journ., 1823 (vol. 55), effects of tincture in a woman of thirty-four,
with goitre; 24, Schmidt, Hufeland’s
Journ., 52, effects of large doses of tincture; 25,
Montcourier, Journ. de Chim. Méd., May, 1828 (Rev. d. l. M. M. Hom., 5,
13), poisoning of a lady by 2 1/2 drs. of tincture; 26, Chevallier, Rec. Period., 1828, effects
of the vapor on workers in a factory; 27,
Jahn, Horn’s Archiv, 1829, effects of tincture in men suffering from
goitre; 27a,
same, general effects, Archiv. de Méd., 1830; 28,
Boston Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. 2, p. 69, effects of tincture applied
to a chronic rheumatic swelling of elbow; 29,
Bardsley, general effects, Boston Med. and Surg. J., 4, 341; 30, Rivers, Am. J. Med. Sc., 1831, p. 546,
effects in women using tincture for goitre; 31,
Am. J. Med. Sc., 5, p. 500 (La Clinique), effects of 6 to 10 drops of
tincture daily in a young man aged eighteen; 32,
Hubbard, Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 12, 266, effects of 25 to 40 drops
of tincture, three or four times a day; 33,
Reichman, Hempel’s Mat. Med., 1, 548, effects on a woman of twenty-six,
of tincture used for six months; 34,
Wallace, ibid., effects of continued use; 35,
Hempel’s Mat. Med., 1, 548, a woman took tincture to remove obesity (6
drops three times a day, afterward 30 drops daily for eight weeks; in
all 2 ounces); 36, Zinck, N. Eng.
J., 1825 (Lond. Med. Repository), effects of incautious use of Iod.; 37, Med. Zeit. v. Ver. f. Heilk., 1834
(Frank’s Mag., 1, 65), poisoning of an hysterical woman aged thirty-two,
suffering from goitre; 38,
Schneider, Hufeland’s Journ., 1840, effects of 6 to 10-drop doses of
tincture, in a man aged twenty-five; (39
and 40, omitted); 41, Cullerier, Mem. de la Soc. de Chir. de
Paris, 1847, a young man took moderate doses for obstinate gonorrhœa; 42, same, effects in a case of slight
urethral discharge; 43, omitted; 44, Bucknell, Lancet, 1843, p. 791, effects
of application of dilute tincture to a raw surface (raw from nitrate of
silver); 45, Nelaton, Journ. de
Chim.-Med., 1854, effects of injecting tincture, with Iodide of
Potassium, into the hip of a boy with Pott’s disease; 46, Black, Lancet, 1859, p. 262, effect of
injecting 12 ounces of tincture into an ovarian cyst (fluid retained 20
min.); (47, omitted); 48, Stevens, Boston M. and S. Journ., 49, p.
254, Miss —, inhaled vapor of tincture (in hot water), for loss of
voice; 49, Ricard, effects of 3
drachms of tincture in a young man, from Rilliet, Memoir Sur. l’Iod.,
1860; 50, Rilliet, Memoir sur
l’Iodisme, Paris, 1860, general effects; 51,
Mannoir, from last work, poisoning of a lady by tincture, 10 drops,
first day, rather less the three following days; 52, Coindet, ibid., general effects; 53, Baup, ibid.; symptoms developed in a
patient; 54, Coindet fils, ibid.,
general effects; 55, D’Espine,
ibid., general effects; 56, Rilliet,
ibid., poisoning of a man, aged forty-five, by sea air (Chatin asserts
that at the seaside from 1/5 to 1/10 milligramme of Iod. is inhaled
daily); 57, same, a lady aged sixty,
poisoned by sea air; 58, same
poisoning of a lady, aged forty, by the waters of Saxon, taken for a
month; 59, same, poisoning of a
lady, aged thirty-two, by sea air; 60,
Fox, Lancet, 1867, p. 454, general effects; 61,
Gillespie, Med. Times and Gaz., 1864, effect of saturated tincture
applied to enlarged parotid glands; 62,
Bainbridge, Med. Times and Gaz., 1861, a lady, having taken a blue pill
at night, took in the morning by mistake, 1/2 ounce of tincture; large
draughts of warm water immediately given till ejecta were no longer
tinged by Iod.; 63, Perussel,
effects in a young lady, of tincture, for slight goitre, several drops
daily for three months, Rev. de la M. M. Hom., 5, 14; 64, Hermann, Petersb. Med. Zeit., 1869
(Hirschel’s Kl., 1870, p. 183), effects of 2 ounces of tincture,
containing 96 grains, in a man; 65,
Hawk’s, Trans. N. Y. St. Hom. Med. Soc., 1868, p. 331; a lady took, for
a goitre, tincture for two months, beginning with 3 drops three times a
day, increasing to 8 drops, and suspending medicine every two weeks; 66, Foussagrieves, effects of injecting
dilute tincture into a traumatic hydrocele (L’Union Méd., 1860), Syd.
Soc. Y. B., 1861; 67, Simon, La
France Méd., May, 1876 (Lond. Med. Rec., June., 1876), effects of
applying tincture to tinea favosa in children.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Excitement,
together with unusual heaviness, indolence, and ill-humor, [11]. ►
Excitement in the afternoon; more sleepy than usual, in the evening, [11]. ►
Delirium (before death), [58]. ► Troublesome and unreasonable mental
impressions, easily developed into fixed ideas, [56]. ►
Illusions of sensation, [15]. ► Remarkably lively and talkative, no one
else is able to get in a word, [3].
► Sat all day with her head leaning
on her hand and hardly answering when spoken to, [57]. ►
Disposition mild, scrupulous, and timid, with blunted sensibilities, [63]. ►
*Sadness, [50], [56]. [10.]
► Low spirits, [27a]. ►
Entire dejection of spirits, able to read a little, to write very
little, with much effort, but taking no interest in anything in life and
though accustomed to the labor of authorship, was quite unable to fix
her thoughts on any subject, for many days, [62]. ►
*Greatest depression of spirits, [41].
► Gloomy mood, [4]. ►
Hypochondriac mood, [15]. ► Anxiety, [38],
[50]. ►
Anxiety and prostration; the patients busy themselves for the most part
with the present rather than with the future, [15]. ► Great
anxiety, [27]. ► Great anxiety and depression, [15]. ►
Disposed to fright and vexation, [27a].
[20.] ►
Mental disquietude; fright; feelings easily disturbed, [50]. ► He
fears that from every trifle some misfortune would arise, [1]. ►
Apprehensiveness after some manual labor, which disappears while
sitting, [15]. ► *Irritability, [58]. ►
Unusually great irritability, amounting to anger, [1]. ►
Ill-humor, [8]. ► Very ill-humored, and sensitive through
the whole period of digestion, from noon till evening, with an oppressed
sensation in the throat and chest as if about to weep, [2].►, [14]. ►
Is cross and irascible; feels stupid
Peevish, fretful; nothing is done right, [4].
► Morbid sensitiveness; he is easily
and frequently moved to tears, [56].
[30.] ►
Extreme sensitiveness, [27a]. ► Intellectual.► Mind feels tired, and does not care to, [14]. ► Sluggishness of mind; he is inclined to
work
mechanical labor, [11]. ► Aversion to work, [1]. ► Fixed
immovable thoughts (twenty-first day), [1].
► It constantly seems as though he
ought to think about something, but he does not know what; he falls in
with nothing, [11]. ► It is difficult to collect his senses,
and he is irresolute, [21].► Feels stupid; is cross and irascible,
[14].► Feels stupid and careless, [14]. ►
Feels unfitted for everything, [1].
[40.] ►
Stupefaction (after four hours), [45].
► Stupor, [50].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head, making thought difficult, [2]. ► Confusion
of the head, with great aversion, to earnest work, [2]. ►
Confusion of the head, which seems to come from the back through the
nape of the neck into the head, [10].
► Confusion of the head becoming a
pressing pain, especially in the temples; this headache recurred from
time to time, till late in the evening (first day), [10]. ► Slight
confusion of the head, with some pressure in the right half of the
forehead (after 4 drops), [6]. ► Vertigo, [21].
► Vertigo, tending forward, [4]. ►
Vertigo, with weakness, in the morning, [4].
[50.] ►
Dizziness, [63]. ► General Head. ►
Congestion of the head, followed by headache for half an hour, [7]. ►
Before menstruation, flushing heat in the head, with palpitation and
tension in the throat, which became thick, [4]. ►
Heaviness in the head, [63];
(after three hours), [64]. ► Headache, [38], [59],
[50].► Headache, in the morning, on rising,, [14].
relieved by eating; an hour afterwards, headache returns, and lasts till
noon► Headache, beginning at night, and, [14]. ►
continuing all next day; pain mostly on right side of occiput;
occasional pains over left eye, with a tired, sick feeling
Headache in the warm air, when driving a long time or walking rapidly, [1].►, [14].
Very distressing headache in forenoon; the pains commenced on right side
of occiput, and extended over the head to left eye►, [14].
Dull headache in the forenoon
[60.] ►
Headache as if a band were tightly bound about the head, [1]. ►
Pressive, and at times, sticking headache, [10]. ►
Violent pressive headache, especially in the right temple, [10]. ►
Throbbing in the head, on every motion (after twenty-four hours), [1].►, [14].
Slight throbbing headache, lasting two hours, with hot head and cold,
clammy hands; afterwards, a bruised feeling of brain in vertex, relieved
by cold air► Beating, throbbing headache at 3 P.M.,, [14].
lasting till bedtime; head very hot; face red►, [14]. ► Forehead.
Beating, throbbing pain in head, with much heat, and a stupid, cross
feeling; washing in cold water relieved
► Pain in the whole frontal region
(after 5 drops), [6]. ► Pain in the frontal regions, with
confusion of the head, and half an hour after the headache had passed
away violent hunger set in, which also recurred soon after dinner (after
6 drops), [6]. ► Frontal headache, [63]. [70.] ► Headache in the forehead, externally, as
from suppuration, [1]. ► Headache in the forehead and top of the
head, aggravated by every noise or by talking, [1]. ►
Suborbital headache, [50]. ► Pressure in a small spot in the forehead,
just above the root of the nose, [2].
► Pressive headache above the eyes,
towards evening, [4]. ► Pressive headache, especially in the left
side of the head, extending towards forehead, frequently returning, [10]. ►
Sharp pressive again in the upper part of the left side of the forehead,
[2]. ►
Tearing headache above the left eye, and in the temple, [4]. ►
Headache in the forehead; the brain feels bruised and extremely
sensitive; the whole body, especially the arms, feels powerless and
paralyzed; he is obliged to lie down; with eructations and painful
sensitiveness of the external head to touch; even on the next day,
confusion of the head and painfulness of the brain on motion (after
twenty-six days), [1]. ► Throbbing in the forehead without pain, [1]. ►
Temples. [80.] ► Tearing first in the left, then in the
right temporal region, almost at the same time, [2]. ► Vertex.
► Pain on the left side of the
vertex, [11]. ► Slight pressure in the vertex, lasting
ten minutes (after a quarter of an hour, third day), [6]. ►
Stitches in the top of the head (third day), [1]. ► Parietals.
► Pain in the morning, at 8, [14].
A.M., extending over the right side of the head from the occiput,
leaving a bruised spot on vertex►, [14]. ►
Severe left-sided headache, in the evening
Drawing pain in the left side of the head, extending into the teeth, [4]. ►
Drawing pressure in the upper part of left side of the head, extending
into the temple, [2]. ► Pressive tearing in the right side, above
the forehead, [2]. ► Occiput. ►
Biting, sore pain in the right side of the occiput, above the ear,
extending backward in the skin, [2].
[90.]►, [14]. ► Transient pain in the occiput, [7]. ►
Pain in right occipital region, with occasional dull, aching pain in
forehead
Pressive headache in the occiput, relieved by rest, aggravated by
walking or other motion of the body, and after awhile changing to great
confusion of the head, which lasted till 7 P.M., [7]. ► Violent
pressive pain in the under surface of the occiput, [10]. ►
Stitches in the occiput, relieved by lying down, [1]. ► External
Head. ► The hair falls
out, [1]. ►
Great falling of the hair, [4].► Itching of scalp, toes, etc., [14].►, [14].
Severe itching of scalp on vertex, lasting several days; worse in the
morning
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Redness of
eyes (second day), [66]. [100.] ►
Eyes glistening, injected, protruding (after two hours), [64]. ► Eyes
sparkling and restless, [58]. ► Eyes dull and fixed, with large black
rings around them, [57]. ► Dim, dull-looking eyes, [63]. ► Inflamed
eyes, [1]. ► Inflammation of the eyes, caused by
taking cold, [1]. ► Ophthalmia, [50]. ► Whites
of the eyes dirty yellow, with injected vessels, [4]. ► Large
black rings around eyes, [50]. ► Peculiar brownish discoloration under the
eyes, [55]. [110.] ►
Eye sunken and wild-looking, [56].
► Eyes sometimes fixed, sometimes
wandering, [50]. ► Jerking in the eyes (after a few hours), [1]. ►
Subjective. ► Weak feeling
about the eyes, as if they lay deep in the orbits, especially in the
afternoon, [2]. ► Tension above the right eye, with
somewhat inflamed eyes, [4]. ► Pressure in the eyes, [2]. ►
Pressure in the eyes, as if sand were in them, [4]. ► Painful
pressure in the left eye and inner canthus, [1]. ► Cutting
stitches in the left eye, extending towards the external canthus, [1]. ►
Tearing pain about the right eye, especially beneath it, [1]. [120.] ► Constant tearing pain around the right
eye, passing backward from the inner canthus to the articulation of the
jaw (sixth to seventh day), [13]. ► Lids. ►
Redness and swelling of the eyelids, with nightly agglutination, [4]. ►
Enormous swelling and violet color of the upper eyelid, [45]. ►
Leucophlegmatic swelling of both eyelids, without marked redness of the
eyeball, [18]. ► Constant twitching of the lower lid back
and forth, [1]. ► Right eyelid affected by twitching, being
spasmodically looped up into festoons; spasms did not entirely cease
until after eighteen days, [62]. ► Itching of the eyelids, [4]. ► Itching
in the canthi, [1]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Lachrymation (after one hour), [25]. ►
Profuse lachrymation, [18]. [130.]►, [14]. ►
Profuse watering of the eyes, when in the open air
Ball. ► Stitches in the
upper part of the left eyeball, [1].
► Pupil. ►
Pupils moderately dilated (after two hours), [64]. ► Pupils
extremely dilated, [63]. ► Vision. ►
Obscuration of vision, [15]. ► Dimness of sight, [50]. ►
Dimness and weakness of vision, [63].
► Weakness of vision, [24]. ►
Eyesight weak for several days, and is still less strong than usual,
after eighteen days, [62]. ► Objects seem as though veiled, [4]. [140.]
► The light seems weak and
indistinct, [4]. ► He saw nothing but the white paper while
reading print; after he had got to the end of a phrase, the commencement
of it would become visible, [34]. ► Greatly increased sensibility of the
retina, a kind of photophobia, so that during the day objects seem
illuminated by a flaming fiery-red and almost blinding light, and the
artificial light of the evening was quite intolerable, [37]. [This symptom disappeared as soon as the
Iodine was omitted, when the goitre always began to increase.] ► Disturbance of vision, [45]. ► At
times, objects seem manifold, and she is unable to see distinctly, [4]. ►
She is unable to do fine sewing, because the stitches flicker, [4]. ►
Flickering before the eyes, [4], [27]. ►
Sparks before the eyes, [4]. ► Fiery curved rays shoot sideways from the
visual axis, frequently downward, and also around about the eyes, at a
short distance from the point of vision, though more upward (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Dark rings float down before the eyes, at
the sides and near the visual axis (after sixteen hours), [1].
EAR.
►
External. [150.]► Bright redness of whole right ear, with a, [14]. ►
row of very sore pimples on helix
Tearing pressure in the fossa beneath the right ear and in the
neighboring part of the neck, [2].
► Internal. ► Earache in the right ear, [2]. ► Earache
in the left ear, [2]. ► Hearing. ►
Sensitiveness to noise, [1]. ► *Difficult hearing, [15]. ► Hard
hearing, [63]. ► Ringing in the ears, [50]. ►
Roaring in the ears, [63]; (after
two hours), [64]. ► Frequent noises in the ear, as in a mill,
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