IODOFORMUM.
Iodoform, CHI3.
Preparation
, Triturations (pure crystals
soluble, 1 part to 80 of alcohol).
Authorities.
1,
Dr. B. F. Underwood, effects of inhalation during the process of
trituration, Trans. N. Y. State Hom. Med. Soc., 9, 237; 1a, same,
proving with 1 gr. of 2d cent. trit., repeated after two hours; 1b, same,
effect of one drop of 3d potency; 2,
Dr. J. W. Haines, Ohio M. and S. Rep. X, p. 175, proving with 2d and 3d
dec. dils. in J. H., aged 24; 3,
same, proving by J. D. aged 65, with 1st, 2d, and 3d dec. trits. [Has
suffered for twelve years with rheumatism in all his joints; complains
very much of his right femur paining him severely, and feeling sore to
the touch, just over the neck of the bone; had had a cough for ten
months, which troubles him mainly in the morning, becoming harsh and dry
towards evening; the sputa raised is a tough green substance and comes
up rather easily; towards evening he raises a white frothy sputa when
any is raised; is of a somewhat peevish disposition and quite uneasy and
restless at times.]
MIND.
►
Feels quite happy and elated (second and third day), [3].
HEAD.
►
Confusion. ► Confusion in
the head, with slight nausea, [1b].
► Head feels as if he had been
intoxicated the day previous (after one hour, second day) and (third
day), [3]. ► General Head. ►
Heavy feeling in the head, and a dull aching just in the top of the head
(three hours after second dose, first day), [2]. ► Head
feels heavy when endeavoring to rise (second and third day), [3]. ►
Head felt very heavy, as if he could not lift it from the pillow (eight
hours and a half after second dose, first night); still felt heavy,
aching now and then, pain felt as if in the bones of the skull and
mainly on the left side, after awakening (second morning), [2]. ►
Headache on awakening, [1a]. ► Stitching pains in the head, [1a]. ►
Forehead. ► Dull pains in
the forehead, [1]. [10.] ►
Dull pain in forehead, with shooting in the right ear; worse on coming
down stairs, [1b]. ► Sharp neuralgic pains in the forehead,
worse when stooping, [1]. ► Temples. ►
Dull pressing pain in both temples, following the pain in the right
maxillary bone; temples felt as if something heavy were pressing on them
(two hours and twenty minutes after first dose, first day), [2]. ►
Sharp neuralgic pain in the temples, most on the right side, extending
to the back of the head, behind the ears; (these pains seem to define
the course of the nerves wherever they are felt), [1]. ►
Stitches in the temples, [1a]. ► Parietals. ►
Stitch-pain in the right side of head, [1a].
► Occiput. ► Violent itching of the occiput, [1a].
EYE.
►
Eyes bloodshot (with pain in eyes), [1a].
► Pain in the eyes; eyes bloodshot, [1a]. ►
Right eye felt sore and as if bruised (second morning), [2]. [20.] ► Eyes smart and burn, but no appearance of
any congestion (second and third day), [3].
► Eyes smarting and stinging (six
hours after first dose, first day), [3].
► Vision. ► Eyes sensitive to light (second and third
day), [3]. ►
Objects appear tessellated, red (disappeared after rising), [1a]. ►
The longest continued, and the last to disappear, were the eye symptoms
and the peculiar odor, [3].
EAR.
►
Ears feel dry and feverish (after first dose, first day), [3]. ► Ears
feel full, dry, and feverish (after one hour, second and third day), [3]. ►
After stitches leave the ear, the ear feels too full (after first dose,
first day), [3]. ► Neuralgic pain in the left ear, [1a]. ►
Stitches in the right ear, [1];
(six hours after first dose, first day), [3].
[30.] ►
Shooting in right ear (with dull pain in forehead), [1b]. ►
Hearing dull (six hours after first dose, first day); does not hear
unless spoken to quite loudly (after one hour, second day), [3].
NOSE.
►
Nose dry, and he complains that he cannot get any discharge from it
(second and third day), [3]. ► Membrane of nose feels full and dry;
keeps constantly snuffing, yet no discharge from the nose (after first
dose, first day), [3]. ► Smell. ►
From the time of taking first dose (11 A.M.) till evening, he had a
sensation as of smelling the fumes of Iodine, though none had been about
him (first day), [2]. ► A peculiar smell, like the odor arising
from decaying leaves in a swamp, continuing for eight or nine days
(after first dose), [3]. ► The longest continued, and the last to
disappear, were the peculiar odor and the eye symptoms, [3].
FACE.
►
Dull pain in right malar bone, [1a].
► Dull pain in left malar bone, [1b]. ►
Drawing and pressing in the malar bone, [1b].
[40.] ►
Feeling of stiffness in zygomatic muscles, [1a]. ► Slight
pain in zygomatic muscles, increased by motion and bending forward, [1a]. ►
Dryness and stinging of the lips, [1].
► Dull aching, increasing to a heavy
pain like something pressing heavily in the right lower maxillary bone,
lasting twenty minutes (two hours after first dose, first day), [2].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Toothache in
sound teeth, [1]. ► Toothache; pain leaving the teeth and
going quickly to the temples, during the afternoon (first day), [3]. ►
Toothache in decayed teeth, most in the upper jaw, and on the
right side (these pains come and go quickly), [1]. ► Sharp
pain in the upper teeth, both sides, [1a].
► Taste. ►
Metallic taste in the mouth (second and third day), [3]; continuing most of the day (second day), [2].
THROAT.
►
Dryness of throat and lips (first and second days), [3]. [50.] ► Dryness of the throat, with rawness on
swallowing, [1]. ► Dryness of the throat, with bitter taste,
[1]. ►
Stitch-pain in the right side of the throat, [1].
STOMACH.
►
Nausea, [1]. ► Slight nausea at times (second and third
day), [3]; (with confusion in the
head), [1b].
ABDOMEN.
►
Rumbling in the bowels, [1];
(second and third days), [3]. ► Feeling of warmth in the bowels and
rectum, with slight nausea and desire for stool; (this has been repeated
on four different occasions), [1].
► Cutting pain in the bowels, [1a]. ►
Flatulent colic, [1], [1a]. ►
Iliac Region. ► Sharp pain
in the right inguinal region, [1a].
[60.] ►
Sharp cutting in right inguinal region, with desire for stool, [1b]. ►
Teeth feel sore and as if too long (second day), [2]. ► Sore
pain in right inguinal region, [1].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Desire for stool (with cutting in right inguinal region, [1b]. ► Desire
as for a liquid stool, [1a].
STOOL.
►
Bowels have not been moved for thirty-six hours (second day), [3]. ►
Bowels not moved as usual; anus felt as if drawn up into the rectum
(first day), [2].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urine very yellow, [1a]. ► Urine very yellow and smelling like
saffron tea (second and third days), [3].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Cough and Expectoration. ► Cough from dryness of the throat, [1]. [70.]
► Cough and wheezing from mucus in
the throat, on going to bed, [1a].
► (Coughs less and raises easily),
(after one hour, second day), [2].
► (Sputa less in amount), (after one
hour, second day), [3]. ► Respiration. ►
Felt as though he were smothering; room felt too close although freely
ventilated (eight hours and a half after second dose, first night), [2].
CHEST.
►
Felt as if something heavy were resting on the chest, preventing a free
expansion of the chest; this sensation lasted half an hour, gradually
becoming less intense, and as it did so appeared to diffuse itself in
the extremities again (nine hours after second dose, first night), [2]. ►
Pain in the left chest, [1]. ► Sharp pain in the right chest, [1a]. ►
Stitch in right chest, running through to lower angle of shoulder-blade,
[1a]. ►
Chest feels sore when taking a long breath (second and third day), [3]. ►
Dull sore pain in apex of right lung; on breathing the lung felt as
though two ulcerated surfaces were in contact (four hours and a half
after first dose, first day), [2].
[80.] ►
Both lungs feel as if a heavy cold had been taken and had settled there
(after nine hours, second day); the soreness in the lungs lasted two day
after this, [2]. ► Pain concentrated in left breast, very
severe; it was estimated a little to the right of the nipple; at first
felt as if a deep ulcer had formed there, then became like a hand
grasping the base of the heart (nine hours after second dose, first
night); aching in left breast at times, but not severe as during the
night (second day), [2].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Occasional stitches through the heart (second and third day), [3]. ►
Pulse 88 (nine hours after second dose, first night), [2].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Back of the neck sore as if bruised (second and third day), [3]. ►
Pain in the back along the spine, [1].
► Spine feels sore, does not wish it
touched (second and third day), [3].
► Sharp pain in the angle of
shoulder-blade, [1a]. ► Pain along the right side of dorsal
vertebræ, [1a]. ► Continued pains in the lumbar region,
with weakness when straining, [1a].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
[90.] ►
Left arm pained severely, also left leg, particularly at the lower half
of tibia and fibula, then extending into foot, becoming less in half an
hour (eight hours and a half after second dose, first night), [2]. ►
Left arm and leg pain as if bruised; as pain increases the muscles feel
as if ulcerated (second day), [2].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Pain in the course of the median nerve of
left arm, [1]. ► Rheumatic pain in right arm, [1a]. ►
Rheumatic pain in the right arm, worse when using it, [1]. ►
Sharp pains in nerves of left arm and back, [1b]. ► Pain
in left arm as if bruised, worse when touched, in the morning, [1]. ►
Stitches in the left shoulder, [1].
► Severe aching in the left humerus;
muscles around the bone felt as if severely bruised (four hours after
first dose, first day), [2]. ► Stitching pain in left arm and shoulder
(after two hours, third day), [3].
[100.] ►
Pain in left elbow, [1]. ► Pain in the nerves of the left hand, [1]. ►
Sharp pain in the nerves of the left hand, [1a].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Rheumatism in the flexor muscles of the
legs, [1a]. ► Thigh. ►
Pain along the course of the left crural nerve, [1]. ► Knee.
► Weakness of the knees when going
upstairs, [1a]. ► Weakness and pain in the knees, worse
when standing, [1a]. ► Pain in the inside of knees, [1a]. ►
Neuralgic pain in left knee, [1]. ► Leg. ►
Rheumatic pain in both gastrocnemii, [1a].
► Ankle. [110.] ►
Cutting pain in left ankle, when walking in the open air, [1a]. ► Foot.
► Pain in left foot, worse when
walking, [1a]. ► Stitch-pain in right instep, [1a].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► Jerks and
shocks in the nerves when trying to sleep, [1b]. ► (Is
stronger than he has been for some days, yet will not get up out of
bed), (after one hour, second day), [3].
► Subjective. ► Susceptible to the heat of the weather, [1b]. ►
Will not take any more of the medicine, as he says it makes him feel so
strangely (third day), [3]. ► Feeling of faintness, [1b]. ► Thinks
he has taken a bad cold (first day), [3].
► Fine sharp pains all over, [1]. [120.]
► Pain seems to sharply define the
course of the nerves, [1a]. ► Neuralgic pains in various parts of the
body, [1a]. ►
Neuralgic pains flying all over him at times, for three days (after two
days), [2]. ►
Pains renewed in bed; right side of head, right shoulder, right arm,
hand, fingers, thigh, leg, foot, toes, [1a].
► Pains renewed when riding in the
cars, [1a].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Very drowsy, and remained so for two hours (after two hours, second
day), [2]. ►
Wakefulness, [1b]. ► Restless sleep, tossing, turning, full of
dreams, [1a]. ► Sleep restless, and the night spent in
turning from side to side; more restless after 2 A.M. (second night), [3]. ►
Slept soundly until 1.30 A.M., then awakened suddenly; restless and
unable to sleep any more till 4.30; then slept about an hour and a half
being partially conscious, and the followed a deep heavy sleep; on
awakening it seemed as though he could not get aroused (first night), [2]. [130.]
► Dreams, confused, of accident,
etc., [1a].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Shuddering
after urination, which had disappeared after use of remedies, returned, [1a]. ►
Heat. ► Complains of heat,
keeps laying the covers off of the bed (first night), [3]. ► Sweat.
► Perspire easily from motion, [1]. ►
Perspiration on head, [1b].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (When walking in open air), Pain in ankle. ► (Descending
stairs), Pain in forehead, etc. ►
(Motion), Pain in zygomatic muscles.
► (When
riding in cars), Pains renewed. ►
(Standing), Weakness, etc., in
knees. ► (Stooping),
Pains in forehead; pain in zygomatic muscles. ►
(Thinking of them), The pains. ► (Touching),
The pains. ► (Walking), Pain in foot. ► Amelioration. ►
(Sleep), The symptoms.® 2000
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