KALI NITRICUM.
Potassium nitrate. (Saltpetre), KNO3
(Nitrum, or Nitre).
Preparation for use
, Triturations.
Authorities.
(1
to 11,
from Jorg’s “Materielen”).
1, Engler, took repeated doses of 1
to 15 grains (the first dose without any effect); 2, Hecker, took doses of 1 grain to 1/2
drachm (the last dose without any effect); 3,
Heisterbergkh, doses of 1 grain to 2 scruples; 4,
Kneschke, doses of 1 to 15 grains; 5,
Kummer, doses of 1 to 10 grains; 6,
Richter, doses of 1 grain to 1 scruple; 7,
Siebenhaar, doses of 3 to 14 grains; 8,
Jorg, doses of 4 to 14 grains; 9,
Assmann, doses of 1 and 2 drachms; 10,
Alexander (quoted by Jorg from “Experimental Essays,” London,
1768) took 6 drachms within twenty-four hours, afterwards 1 ounce, and
then 1 1/2 ounces; 11, case quoted
by Alexander, a woman swallowed a handful of saltpetre mixed with warm
water; (12 to
21, from
Hahnemann, article Nitrum Chron. Krank., Bd. IV); 12, Hahnemann; 13,
Neuning; 14, Schreter; 15, Tietze; 16,
Geiseler, Hufel. Journ., lvii, 1, 124, “effects of 1 ounce
dose;” 17, Richter,
Arzneimittellehre, iv; 18, Falconer,
Mem. of Med. Soc. of Lond., iii, 527, “effects of 2 ounce
dose;” 19, omitted; 20, Alston, Lectures on Mat. Med., Lond.,
1770, 1, 180 (“from a drachm daily,” Hahnemann); 21, Soville, Journ. de Méd., lxxiii, 1,
19-21, from 1 ounce, in a woman of 36; (22
to 31,
from provings of the “Verein zu Schœningen,”
Archiv. f. Hom., 17, 2, 123); 22,
Rummel, took 6 grains 1st cent. trit. first day, 10 grains second day; 23, Dr. Schrœder, repeated doses of 1st
trit.; 24, C. Lier, doses of 5 to 15
grains; 25, Dr. Finzelberger, took
first day 6 grains (on third day took Ipecac at intervals of four hours
to stop the cough, also a dose of Ipecac on the fifth and seventh days),
seventh day 4 grains of 1st trit. of Kali nit.; 26,
Dr. Nicol, took daily 1 grain for a week; symptoms began to appear on
night of eighth day; 26a, same, took 4 grains daily for four
days; 26b,
same, took 10 grains of 1st dec. trit. every evening for a week; 26c,
same, daily doses of 30 grains of 1st dil.; 26d, same, daily doses of 3 grains of crude
drug for twelve days; 26e, same daily doses of 6 grains of crude
drug; 27, Traub, took daily doses of
8 grains of 1st trit.; 28,
Muhlenbein (Note: Suffering
frequently for the last three months from soreness and scurfiness of the
margins of the nostrils, scratching of which was followed by bleeding.
When he began the proving he was not well, had drawing in the limbs, was
ill-humored and easily inclined to weep), took 6 grains 1st trit. (first
day), repeated after four days, also the next year another proving with
repeated doses of 1st trit., 5 to 15 grains; 29,
Dr. Franke, took 5 grains of crude drug for seven successive days, 9
grains tenth and twelfth days; 29a, same took 10 grains pure drug (first
and third days), 12 grains twice (fourth and fifth days); 30, Muhlenbein, took 6 grains of 1st trit.; 31, Dr. Kratzenstein, took 10 grains of pure
nitre three times in twenty-four hours; 32,
Comparetti, from Wibmer, effects of about 1 1/2 ounce; 33, Laflize, Journ. de Méd., 1788, from
Wibmer, a woman took about an ounce; 34,
All. Zeit., 1788, from Wibmer, effects of 1 1/2 ounce; 35, Kiebel, from Wibmer, effects of 3 drachms
in a woman; 36, Oberstadt, Caspar’s
Woch., 1841 (Frank’s Mag., 1, 258), a man, 50 years old, took 2 ounces
at one dose; 37, Butter, a pregnant
woman, took a solution of 2 ounces, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ., Jan.
1818; 38, Meyer, St. Petersb.
Abhandl., 1823 (Frank’s Mag., 2, 814), a man took 2 drachms in a
clyster; 39, Deutsch, Pr. Ver.
Zeitg., 1855 (Schmidt’s Jahrb., 89, 290), a man took 1 1/2 ounce; 40, Orfila, Toxicologie, a man took 2 ounces;
41, same, a woman took 32 grammes; 42, Taylor’s Med. Jurisp., 1, 237, a lady
took 1 ounce; 43, Geoghegan, from
Taylor, a man took 1 1/2 ounce; 44,
from Taylor, two men took 1 ounce each; 45,
G. Wilson, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1848, a man aged 63, took 2 ounces; 46, Janikowski, from Trinks, A. H. Z., 14,
380 (no dose given); 47, Cardan,
Lond. J. of Med., 1849 (from Acad. of Sc., Paris), effects of 3 ounces; 48, Dr. Davies, Med. Times and Gaz., 1857, p.
484, effects of 1 ounce for ascarides; 49,
Dr. Snowden, Pharm. J., 1856, from New Jersey Med. Reporter, a German
took 3 1/2 ounces at a dose; 50, Dr.
Letheby, Pharm. J., 1846, p. 357, a girl, aged 28, took of a solution of
2 ounces, one-third at night and one-third next morning, for rheumatism
in head and face.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Excitement
after a glass of wine, as though he had taken too much (first day), [29]. ►
Delirium, [35]. ► Depression of spirits (eighth day), [29a]. ►
Depressed; she thinks she must die, [13].
► Ennui, lachrymose mood, sad
expression, [13]. ► Anxiety, frequently in the afternoon
(after twenty days), [14]. ► Anxiety, with perspiration over the whole
body, [13]. ►
Anxious, weak, with perspiration on the pit of the stomach, in the
afternoon till evening (after thirty days), [13]. ►
Unusual feeling of anxiety, [36]. [10.] ►
Very great anxiety, [32]. ► Frightful anxiety, with internal
coldness, followed by faintness and death, [40]. ►
Uneasy, apprehensive, fearful, sensitive, peevish, [14]. ►
Inclined to vexation, [30]. ► Fretfulness, [9]. ►
Fretful, ill-humored, [14]. ► Extremely fretful mood (ninth day), [28]. ►
Fretful, peevish mood, in the evening (ninth day), [28]. ►
Irascible, [37]. ► Perverse, hypochondriac mood,
discontented with himself and the world, peevish irritable, and
completely disinclined to mental labor (fifth day), [23]. ►
Intellectual. [20.] ► Meditative and solicitous, [12]. ►
Disinclined to think and exhausted, in the morning, with a feeling of
warmth in the face and hot forehead, [15].
► Disinclination for work (first
day), [25]. ►
Unless roused lay in a state of half stupor, but was quite rational, and
capable of answering questions and giving an account of his case (after
four hours), [45]. ► Partly stupefied, as in intoxication, [38]. ►
Loss of consciousness, [39].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head, nearly the whole day (eighth day), [29a]; in morning (second day); on waking (eighth
day), [28]. ►
Confusion of the head, with drawing in the side of the head and
forehead, toward evening (fourth day), [22].
► Confusion of the head, in the
evening, with some oppression of the chest (eleventh day), [28]. ►
Confusion of the head, almost like intoxication after a glass of Madeira
(tenth day), [29]. [30.] ►
Confusion in the forepart of the head, in the forehead (tenth day), [29b]. ►
Confusion and throbbing in the forehead (ninth day), [13]. ►
Gloominess, confusion of the head, difficult thought; everything is
immediately forgotten, [15]. ► Tendency to vertigo, on stooping, as if
he would fall forward (first day), [28].
► Vertigo, [39]. ►
Frequent attacks of vertigo, as if he would fall to the right side and
backwards while walking in the evening (previous to this he had taken a
glass of strong beer), [29b]. ► Dizziness of the head, in the morning, as
after intoxication, [13]. ► Head dizzy and weak, [11]. ► General
Head. ► Dulness in the
head and sleepiness (ninth day), [13].
► Stupefaction and heaviness of the
head, in the morning, as after intoxication, [14]. [40.] ► Heaviness of the head, and pain extending
over the whole head, [9]. ► Feeling of heaviness in the head (after
two hours), [15]. ► Feeling of looseness and sticking in the
brain, [13]. ►
Pain in the head and neck lasting from evening through the night and the
next day, especially affecting the left side, [14]. ►
Headache, [9]; (eighth and twelfth
days), [28]; in afternoon, [26c]; on entering a warm room, [26b]; on turning the head, [26d]. ►
Headache, rather a confusion, [30].
► Headache, with heat, increasing
towards evening lasting till 10 o’clock (first day), [28]. ►
Headache in the morning, as after a night’s a debauch, [15]. ►
Headache on waking, fulness of the abdomen, diarrhœa, with chilliness, [13]. ►
Headache that prevents sleep the whole night still continues in the
morning (after forty days), [13]. [50.] ►
Headache, after dinner (twenty-first day), [13]. ►
Headache, so that she was unable to eat (twenty-seventh day), [14]. ►
The headache became almost intolerable on stooping, [14]. ►
Tensive pain deep in the head, after dinner, [13]. ►
Bursting pain in the head, with stitches in the left ear and clavicles,
whence the pain extends into the elbows (twenty-second day), [14]. ►
Drawing in the middle of the head, extending towards the right temple,
lasting till evening, in the morning (fifteenth day), [28]. ►
Headache, a pressure towards the middle of the head and towards the left
temple, in the morning (second day), [28].
► Pressive headache, especially in
the frontal region (first day), [25].
► Pressive headache in the morning;
it afterwards extending to the occiput; in the evening there was
increase of the heat in the head (third day), [28]. ►
Pressive headache, especially in the afternoon (twelfth day), [15]. [60.]
► Pressive headache, mingled with
stitches in the forehead (fourteenth day), [28]. ►
Pressive headache, more on the right side of the forehead, mingled with
suddenly piercing stitches, towards evening (fourth day), [28]. ►
Violent pressive headache (sixth day), [28].
► Violent pressive headache, more on
the right side, towards noon, and especially from 1 to 4 P.M.,
disappearing after a half hour’s nap (eleventh day), [28]. ►
Pressive headache, in the evening (fourteenth day), [15]. ►
Hacking and sticking in the head, with pressure about the eyes and
sleepiness, together with increase of the pains, [14]. ► Forehead.
► Feeling of heaviness and confusion
in the forehead, lasting two hours, [13].
► Feeling of heaviness and headache
in the forehead (first day), [13].
► Pain in the right side of the
forehead, suddenly while walking, which soon extended towards the top of
the head and thence into the occiput and both temples; the pain seemed
to be seated in the scalp; first felt only on shaking the head, as when
coughing, walking, etc., and the pain was indefinite in character;
afterwards it gradually became more violent, and was felt on turning the
head and even during rest; when most violent the skin of the forehead
was painful as if bruised; together with painful pulsation in the
occiput and temples; on firm pressure the headache was relieved so that
it was scarcely felt; in the evening it had entirely disappeared, [26b]. ►
Pain in the right frontal sinus, with stopped catarrh (fourth day), [25]. [70.]
► Contractive pains in the forehead
and eyes that unite at the tip of the nose, where there is a
digging-pinching, [14]. ► Dull pain in the forehead and top of the
head, rather to the left side, quite violent and continuous till 10 in
the morning, when it disappeared, but returned after dinner and lasted
till evening, [26d]. ► Drawing through the forehead, in the
evening (fifth day), [29a]. ► Headache in the region of the
superciliary arch, after dinner, [9].
► Pressure in the whole of the
forehead, at times only dull piercing sticking, in the morning (fourth
day), [28]. ►
Pressure in the forehead above the root of the nose, and a feeling of
tension in the skin of the forehead (third day), [23]. ►
Pressure in the forehead the whole day, as if the eyes would spring out
of the head, and as if little stones were lying about them, [14]. ►
Slight pressure in the forehead (ninth day), [28]. ►
Violent pressure in the forehead that extends to the eyes (thirteenth
day), [28]. ►
Violent pressure in the forehead, with great congestion to the head, at
noon (first day), [28]. [80.] ►
Tearing pressure in the right side of the forehead behind the eye,
extending towards the occiput, worse after coffee, and also when
walking, a rhythmical sticking, relieved while riding in a wagon (in the
open air), [15]. ► Pressive pain in the frontal sinuses
(seventh day), [25]. ► Violent pressive pain in the forehead
(first day), [28]. ► Pressive headache in the forehead (after
four hours), [28]. ► Violent pressive pain deep in the head
behind the left eye (after ten hours), [15].
► Pressive headache in the forehead
(first day), [28]. ► Pressive headache in the forehead,
especially severe over the right eye, in the morning immediately after
rising; and a dull headache through the whole day (seventh day), [28]. ►
Pressive headache in the forehead and occiput, towards noon, and
especially towards evening (tenth day), [28].
► Violent pressive headache in the
forehead, lasting the whole day, with a beating in the occiput and
temples (fifth day), [28]. ► Sticking and pressing-asunder in the left
side of the forehead, on stooping, [15].
[90.] ►
Sticking pain with rhythmical intermissions in the forehead behind the
eyes, worse while walking, during rest only a few stitches at long
intervals, the whole afternoon and evening, [15]. ► Temples.
► Headache in the left temple and
frontal region, with reeling, a feeling of vertigo, staggering, and
anxiety, with perspiration, [13]. ► Drawing in the left temple and on the
left eye (second day), [29a]. ► Pressive pain in the right temple, [15]. ►
Fine sticking in the left temple, immediately after dinner (fifteenth
day), [13]. ►
Transient drawing stitches, more in the left than in the right temple
(thirteenth day), [28]. ► Tearing in the left temple from time to
time (eighth day), [14]. ► Tearing in the right temple from evening
till morning, somewhat relieved by pressing upon it (after thirty days),
[13]. ►
Vertex. ► Pain in the
upper part of the head, gradually becoming more violent until I went
out, when it disappeared (three-quarters of an hour after a dose), [26c]. ►
Headache on the vertex, only in the morning on rising, for five days, [13]. [100.] ►
Constrictive pain in the vertex, lasting two hours, [13]. ►
Constrictive pain in the vertex, with heaviness of the head, in the
afternoon and following night (after six days), [13]. ►
Pressure on the vertex, aggravated by laying the hand upon it (third
day), [14]. ►
Pressure on the vertex as if a stone were lying upon it (seventh day), [14]. ►
(The feeling of a weight on the vertex was so increased by taking the
drug that the proving was abandoned), [27].
► Some stitches on the left side of
the vertex, [15]. ► Tearing and sticking in the vertex and
occiput, cutting in the intestines, and at last evacuation of fæces, at
first, soft, afterwards only mucus, at 9 and 10 P.M., [13]. ► Parietals.
► Pain on the right side of the head
near the crown, disappearing on laying the hand upon it; this painful
spot, as large as the hand, felt hot to touch, even after the pain had
disappeared, [26c]. ► Transient pains in the right side of the
head (soon after a new dose), [26c].
► Violent pain in the right side of
the head from a slight draft of air, [26c].
[110.] ►
Violent pain in the region of the left parietal bone, towards midnight,
which was somewhat relieved after taking off the nightcap (after eight
days), [26]. ►
Tearing-drawing in the parietal bones and in the forehead, frequently
returning, with confusion of the head (third day), [22]. ► Occiput.
► Violent compression in the occiput,
so that everything became stiff; afterwards pain in the nape of the neck
like a pulling on the hairs, extending to the shoulders, and with
tension and stitches over the face and neck, impairment of swallowing,
anxiety, and arrest of breathing, from 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. (third and
fourth days), [14]. ► Headache in the occiput, relieved by
binding up the hair, [14]. ► Drawing and tearing in the occiput, so
that she could not move the head, with stiffness in the nape of the neck
for an hour; followed after two hours by drawing and tearing in the
scapulæ, with great weakness; she could scarcely lift her feet;
together with coldness without thirst, heat at night without thirst or
subsequent sweat (sixth day), [14].
► Pressure and heaviness in the
occiput, frequently (thirteenth day), [13].
► Pressive pain towards the occiput,
which gradually changes into stitches, which are aggravated by touch,
even during rest, seeming like a rhythmical sticking, [15]. ►
Violent pressive pain mingled with beating in the occiput, in the
evening (ninth day), [28]. ► Sharp, almost tearing pain in the right
side of the occiput, [26c]. ► A violent stitch in the left side of the
occiput, during menstruation (after twenty-nine days), [13]. [120.] ► Burning-throbbing on the left side of the
occiput, in the evening in bed, [13].
► Jerking pain in the occiput, as if
in the bone, and after three-quarters of an hour also in the hip-bone,
where it only disappeared after a few hours, and at last alternated with
tension behind the right ear; it continued the whole night, [13]. ►
A certain coldness in the occiput was always associated with the pains
in the head, [28]. ► External Head. ►
Profuse falling out of the hair (after thirty days), [13]. ► Small
scurfy spots on the scalp, with itching (after twenty-eight days), [13]. ►
Pain in a spot on the right side of the vertex, like a contraction in
the scalp, in the morning after rising, [13].
► Headache on the vertex, like a
pulling of the hairs, [13]. ► Great sensitiveness of the scalp, which
is painful to pressure (after five days), [14].
► Great sensitiveness of the vertex
to touch, [13]. ► Bruised pain and great sensitiveness of
the vertex (second day), [13].
EYE.
[130.]
► Some catarrhal inflammation of the
eyes, especially of the left, on waking in the morning (third day), [22]. ►
Burning in the eyes and weakness as from sleepiness (sixth day), [13]. ►
Burning and lachrymation of the eyes, in the morning (twenty-second
day), [13]. ►
Burning in the eyes, which are intolerant of light (after seventeen
days), [13]. ►
Burning in the outer canthi (third day), [13].
► Violent burning of the eyes, in the
morning after rising, disappearing after washing (fourteenth day), [13]. ►
Violent burning in the eyes and lachrymation, in the morning after
washing with cold water, [13]. ► Violent burning in the eyes, with redness
of the canthi, for three days, [13].
► Pressure in the eyes (sixth day), [29a]. ►
Pressure in the eyes, and on pressing upon the ball, painfulness of the
orbits (fourteenth day), [28]. [140.] ►
Pressure in the right eye (second day), [29a].
► Momentary pressure in both eyes at
different times (fifth day), [29a].
► Pressure shooting through both
eyes, soon after supper (fifth day), [29a].
► Slight pressure in the left eye
(second day), [29a]. ► Painful pressure in the eyes, as if sand
or dust were in them, the whole day (after sixteen days), [13]. ►
Drawing pressure through the left eye and left side of the forehead,
following an oblique course (seventh day), [25a]. ►
Constant tearing in the inner canthi, [13].
► Burning biting as from salt water,
especially in the left eye (twenty-eighth day), [13]. ►
Itching of the right eye, and constant acrid lachrymation, which runs
over the cheek, [12]. ► Sticking itching on the inner angle of
the left and on the outer angle of the right eye; itching on the right
side of the neck, left upper arm, left side of the forehead, right side
of the chest, etc. (ninth day), [29a].
► Orbit. [150.] ►
Compressive pain in the orbits aggravated by pressing on the upper part
of the eyeball (ninth day), [28]. ► Lids. ►
Lids of the right eye still red with much itching (eleventh day), [28]. ►
Inflamed redness and swelling of the right eyelid, burning in the
external canthus of the same eye and pressive stitches (ninth day), [28]. ►
With the headache the eyelids close, [14].
► Agglutination of both eyes, in the
morning (nineteenth day), [13]. ► Agglutination of the right eye with
mucus, in the morning (fifteenth day), [13].
► Pressure beneath the upper lid of
the left eye, as from a hair, [14].
► Sticking and burning in the lid
constantly increased together with the headache, so that I was totally
unable to work, on account of which I took Aconite 6th by olfaction,
which somewhat relieved the pains (ninth day), [28]. ►
Burning biting of the lids of the right eye; is obliged to rub them, [15]. ►
Lachrymal Apparatus. ►
Much water constantly flows involuntarily from the right eye, [12]. ►
Ball. [160.] ► Pain in the left eyeball as if it were
grasped and compressed from both sides, so that its long axis was
increased, at 3 P.M., during dinner (second day), [29]. ►
Pressure in the right eyeball (seventh day), [29a]. ► Very
transient pressive pain in the right eyeball, [26c]. ►
Slight pressure, on the right eyeball at different times (ninth day), [29a]. ►
Vision. ► Loss of sight, [39]. ►
Transient blindness, [16]. ► After taking saltpetre, the odor of
camphor frequently makes it black before the eyes so that she can see
nothing, [14]. ► Rings of variegated colors before the
eyes, with good visual power, for two days, [14].® 2000
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