KALI NITRICUM.
CHEST.
►
Inflammation of the chest, [46]. ► Rush of blood to the chest, [12]. ►
Feeling of anxiety in the chest, instead of the headache, towards
evening (first day), [28]. ► Heaviness and tightness of the whole
chest (first day), [13]. ► While coughing, a feeling as though
something were loose in the chest (thirtieth day), [14]. ►
Burning and sticking in the chest, in the evening (ninth day), [15]. [700.] ►
Violent burning in the chest, extending up into the throat, until
expectoration is loosened, in the morning (twenty-sixth day), [14]. ►
Tensive pain, across the chest, with stitches in the left side, under
the ribs, [9]. ► Tightness of the chest from coughing, at
night, [12]. ►
Constriction in the chest, with anxious shortness of breath, in the
forenoon, while standing (twenty-second day), [13]. ►
Cramplike constriction of the chest, with anxiety and dread of
suffocation, alternating with cramplike drawing in the occiput and nape
of the neck, of the left side, so that she had to hold the head
backward, and at times so violent that she cried out (twenty-fifth day),
[14]. ►
Constriction, as if the lungs were constricted, preventing deep
breathing, in the morning while lying, extending from the back into the
chest; if she attempts to take a deep breath she is obliged to gasp for
air, and it is followed by coughing (fourth day), [14]. ►
Pressure and tightness of the chest, (thirteenth day), [14]. ►
Pressive pain in the chest, in the afternoon (twenty-third day), [15]. ►
Pressive pain in the chest, lasting a short time, [15]. ►
Oppression of the chest (third day), [22].
[710.] ►
Oppression of the chest, perceptible especially in the morning (fourth
day), [22]. ►
Sticking pain in the right lower ribs, caused by coughing and laughing,
for two days (after twenty days), [13].
► Stitches in the right chest, when
coughing and breathing deeply, [12].
► Stitches in the right half of the
chest, that return three times at intervals of half an hour; six hours
afterwards there was a feeling of fulness beneath the sternum, which was
aggravated by deep inspiration and cough, a short, dry, hollow-sounding
cough (first day), [25]. ► Stitches in the upper part of the right
chest, especially when lying on the right side, and with the head low, [12]. ►
Stitches in the middle of the chest, extending to both sides and towards
the axillæ, while walking (during menstruation), [13]. ►
Stitches in the middle of the upper part of the chest, after dinner
(twenty-eighth day), [13]. ► Stitches in the left costal region at
rhythmical intervals, after lifting a weight, [13]. ► Need
to take a deep breath, in the evening, while sitting still, and on every
inspiration a stitch in the left chest, taking away the breath, five
times in succession (fifth day), [27].
► Painful stitch in the left chest,
on inspiration (seventeenth day), [13].
► Front. [720.] ►
Burning sensation in the forepart of the chest (third day), [13]. ►
Pressure in the chest, beneath the sternum, the whole forenoon (sixth
day), [24]. ►
Pressure and sticking pain in the right side of the chest, at 8 P.M.
(third day), [24]. ► Pressive pain behind the sternum, the
whole day (seventh day), [25]. ► Pressive pain under the sternum when
coughing with a feeling of warmth and rattling in the same place; the
expectoration seemed to be raised from low down in the chest (third
day), [25]. ►
Pressive pain at the lowest end of the sternum (after thirty-eight
hours), [15]. ► Violent stitches in the upper part of the
sternum, in the left side (eighteenth day), [13]. ► Sides.
► Pressive pain in the right side of
the chest, in the region of the false ribs; this pain afterwards
extended farther towards the pit of the stomach, where it remained for a
long time like a pressure, with increased loud eructations and loud
emission of flatus; the pressure in the stomach afterwards changed to a
simple sensation of hunger (second day), [22].
► When coughing, cutting beneath the
sternum, [14]. ► Sticking and pain in the left side of the
chest, for two hours, relieved while walking in the open air, but
recurring more violently towards evening, like a cutting and tearing in
the lungs, aggravated by deep inspiration; then after half an hour
chilliness and tearing in both limbs, from the knees to the toes, so
that she was obliged to go to bed, where she became warm and fell asleep
(seventh day), [14]. [730.] ►
Sticking sensation in the left side of the chest, near the sternum, on
deep inspiration, [15]. ► Painful sticking in the left side of the
chest, that makes the breathing short (seventh day), [13]. ►
Stitches in right side, between fifth and sixth ribs, in the afternoon
(fourth day), [23]. ► Stitches in the left side of the chest,
more towards the back (twenty-seventh day), [13]. ►
Transient stitches in the middle of the right side of the chest, in the
morning (eighth day), [28]. ► Frequent transient stitches in the left
side of the chest (sixth day), [24].
► Violent stitches in the upper part
of the sternum, in the left side (eighteenth day), [13]. ► Fine
stitches in the right side of the chest (soon), [13]. ► Stitch
in the left side of the chest, when carrying a weight (twenty-first
day), [13]. ►
Tearing in the right side of the chest (intercostal muscles), (eighth
day), [29a]. [740.] ►
Throbbing and pressive heaviness in the forepart of the chest, with
inclination to faintness, while sitting (ninth day), [13]. ►
Frequent sticking beneath the left female breast (thirty-second day), [13]. ►
Stitches beneath the left breast, more when walking than during rest, [13].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Violent
stitch in the præcordial region (after five hours), [15]. ► Heart’s
Action. ► Violent beating
of the heart, in the evening in bed, on account of which he awoke, [13]. ►
Violent beating of the heart while lying upon the back, so that she
awoke at midnight, and sat up full of anxiety (thirteenth day); violent
palpitation at midnight, while lying on right side (fourteenth day), [13]. ►
Palpitation on sudden motion and on standing up, with heat of the face
and oppression of the chest, [15].
► Momentary palpitation, at times
(after fifteen days), [14]. ► Pulse. ►
Pulse somewhat accelerated (after 11 and 13 grains), [7]. [750.] ► Pulse frequent, hardish (third day), [23]. ►
Pulse hard and rather frequent, towards evening (seventh day), [25]. ►
Pulse small and rapid, with warm hands, [13].
► Very weak, rapid pulse, [41]. ►
Pulse full, hard, and rapid, and a condition very like an inflammatory
irritability of the whole body, but especially in the abdominal organs
(second day), [9]. ► Pulse very rapid, for an hour, in the
afternoon, while at rest, [15]. ► Pulse very rapid, at 4 P.M., with heat in
the head for an hour (twenty-eighth day), [15].
► Pulse increased in frequency by ten
beats (first day), [28]. ► Pulse 70 (usually 65), (first day), [28]. ►
Pulse 80 (usually 65), with some palpitation (first day), [28]. [760.] ► Pulse 90 in the evening (usually 65),
(ninth day), [28]. ► Pulse slow, small, and weak, [39]. ►
Pulse sunk in strength and frequency, [37].
► Pulse diminished by 3 beats for a
short time (after 9 grains), [8]. ► Immediately after taking the drug,
especially in large doses, the pulse was from 3 to 4 beats slower than
usual, partly on account of the cooling effect of the saltpetre, and
partly from the cold water; this condition lasted a very short, time,
three or four minutes, and the circulation returned to its usual course,
[8]. ►
Pulse reduced from 65 to 62 (after a few minutes); normal (after half an
hour), [9]. ►
Pulse very weak, small, and thready, at 60 (after four hours), [45]. ►
Pulse hard, with symptoms of enteric inflammation (second day), [36]. ►
Pulse somewhat smaller and softer than usual (two hours after two
scruples), [3]. ► Pulse small and weak, [38]. [770.] ► Weak pulse, [33]; (after a quarter of an hour), [42].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Stiffness of the
nape of the neck, [14]. ► Pain, like a stiffness in the nape of the
neck, as if sprained, on nodding or turning the head, lasting three days
(after thirty-three days), [11]. ► Tensive pain in the right
sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle on turning the head, [26d]. ►
Tearing in the cervical muscles of the right side, extending from the
shoulder to the head, [15]. ► Painful throbbing in a cervical vertebra,
after raising the head from stooping, [13].
► Back. ►
Paralysis of the spine, with tetanus, [16].
► Pain in the back (after
twenty-seven days), [15]. ► Pain in the back when coughing, [12]. ►
Pain in the back on stooping, [15].
[780.] ►
Constant pain in the back while fasting, [37].
► Pinching pain in the back, in the
evening (after thirty-eight hours), [15].
► Pressure and burning in the back,
relieved by walking, aggravated by sitting and by lying in bed, [15]. ►
Bruised pain in the whole of the back, preceded by sticking in the hips
(twentieth day), [13]. ► Bruised pain in the back in all
positions, in the evening (during menstruation), [13]. ► Dorsal.
► Tensive drawing between the
scapulæ, at 6 P.M. (second day), [27].
► Violent sticking, as with knives,
between the shoulders, waking her from sleep and causing shortness of
breath, appearing while lying on the back, and relieved by lying on the
right side (after twenty-six days), [13].
► Stitches beneath the right scapula,
at night, [12]. ► Transient stitches beneath the left
scapula, in the evening (third day), [27].
► Painful stitches in the region of
the lower angle of the left scapula, on deep inspiration, [15]. ► Lumbar.
[790.] ►
Paralyzed feeling in the small of the back, in the evening (third day), [27]. ►
Pain in the small of the back, in the morning, on waking, extending into
the left hypochondrium, lasting several hours (twelfth day); she was
obliged to stand up (twenty-ninth day), [14].
► Pain in the small of the back,
alternating with griping in the abdomen, in the afternoon, and followed
in the evening by a hard stool (ninth day), [13]. ►
Violent pain in the small of the back, at night, waking her, and not
allowing her to sleep again (after fifty-two days), [13]. ►
Violent pain in the small of the back, which did not permit lying on the
back, woke her at 2 A.M. (after twenty-seven days), [13]. ►
Drawing pains in the region of the kidneys (after 12 grains), [7]. ►
Pinching pressure in the small of the back, the whole day, [15]. ►
Violent pressive pain in the lumbar region, worse during rest, so that
she was obliged to walk about in order to obtain relief; the pain was
relieved after gentle rubbing, but was so much aggravated when coughing,
that she cried out, [14]. ► Stitches in the left side of the small of
the back, while sitting (second day), [23].
► Stitches in the region of both
kidneys, most violent in the right, and very acute when taking a deep
breath, in the evening, [15]. [800.] ► Bruised pain in the small of the back, at
3 A.M.; she was unable to turn over on account of it (after twenty-three
days), [13]. ►
Pain in the small of the back, as if it had been beaten, in the morning,
on waking, [14].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Objective. ►
Trembling of the limbs, [36], [44]. ►
Trembling of the hands and feet, [35].
► Painless jerkings in the arms and
legs in the evening in bed (fifth day), [13].
► Great weakness of the limbs (ninth
day), [28]. ►
Lameness of the limbs, with weariness (third day), [28]. ►
Paralysis of the limbs, [17]. ► Subjective. ►
Pains in the right hip and left shoulder and ankle-joints, especially on
walking, also tensive pains in the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle, [26d]. ►
Drawing in the upper and lower extremities, [28]. [810.] ► (Drawing in the limbs was worse), (four
hours after the dose), [28]. ► Cramplike drawing pain, now in the right,
now in the left arm, now in the legs, especially about the knees, mostly
during rest, [15]. ► Sticking pain in the right shoulder, and
afterwards in the knee-joint, repeated several times (seventh day), [25]. ►
Sticking pains lasting a few minutes in the knee, elbow, and
shoulder-joints; in the left elbow it lasts longer, and is increased by
motion; the pains are worse in the afternoon than in the forenoon (first
day), [25]. ►
Tearing and drawing in the limbs (seventh day), [28]. ►
Bruised feeling in the limbs (fifth day), [28].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Weakness of the arms, [12]. ►
Temporary paralysis of the arms (from a drachm daily), [20]. (The medicine was taken for an inveterate
headache, which improved when the arms lost power. They recovered a few
hours after discontinuing the drug, and the headache returned. -Hughes.)
► The left arm falls asleep at night
while lying on the back it wakes her about 3 A.M. (after eleven days), [13]. ►
The feeling of numbness and crawling in the arm, with pain in the
shoulder that had existed previously, disappeared; instead of it there
was a pain in the right thumb-joint on moving it for several weeks
(after thirteen days), [13]. [820.] ►
Drawing pain in the arms if she lets them hang down for a long time, [12]. ►
Tearing in the right arm, especially in the shoulder, worse in the
afternoon and evening, [15]. ► Tearing in the arm intermitting, and
returning at night when lying upon the right side (during menstruation),
[13]. ►
Tearing extending from the right shoulder to the fingers, waking from
sleep at 11 P.M., lasting to 4 A.M., with a sensation as though the
shoulder were standing farther out than natural; she was unable to lie
upon either side, [13]. ► Extremely painful tearing in the right
arm, extending to the wrist on motion, with stiffness of the arm, which
was not relieved by rubbing, but by violent motion (twenty-seventh day),
[13]. ►
Drawing-tearing in the arm, extending from the shoulder to the fingers,
towards evening (fourth day), [14].
► Shoulder. ► Pain in the right shoulder on almost
every motion of the arm, except upward and backward, which afford
relief, [26d]. ► Pain in the left shoulder on raising the
arm, especially on moving it backward, [26d].
► Pain as from weariness in the left
shoulder (after four hours), [15].
► A paralytic pain in the right
shoulder-joint towards the forepart, as if in the head of the bone, but
only felt while the arm remained in one place; as soon as the arm was
moved, the pain disappeared; if the arm was turned on its axis, there
was a cracking in the forepart of the joint, which seemed to be caused
by the tendon of the biceps muscle; there was a similar pain in the
first joint of the right ring finger, only noticed on flexing and
extending it. On the next day these symptoms had entirely disappeared,
except that when lying down (and as it happened after a new dose of the
drug) there was noticed a similar pain in the left patella, which
disappeared after sleeping, and gave place to dull sticking pains in the
anterior and farther portion of the left side of the chest, [26a]. [830.]
► Rheumatic pain in the shoulders, [22b]. ►
Pressure on the left shoulder (after twenty-two days), [13]. ►
Tearing in the shoulders, at one time on uncovering them, at another
under the cover; wakes at midnight (twelfth and thirteenth days), [13]. ►
Tearing and heaviness in the right shoulder, with a feeling of numbness
in the arm, pain afterwards also extending to the wrist, and waking from
sleep about 2 A.M. (after four days), [13].
► Tearing in the right shoulder, with
falling asleep of the fingers, wakes her at 3 A.M. (after twenty-three
days), [13]. ►
Frequent tearing in the left shoulder, [19].
► Painful tearing in the left
shoulder, frequently renewed (after thirteen days), [13]. ►
Violent tearing in the right shoulder from 2 to 5 A.M., disappearing
after rising, [13]. ► Bruised pain on the shoulder in the
morning (after nineteen days), [13].
► Arm. ►
Jerking in the muscles of the right upper and forearm (third day), [23]. [840.]
► Paralytic weakness of the right
upper arm, [15]. ► Drawing-pinching pain in the upper arm
(after thirty-eight hours), [15]. ► Sticking and throbbing frequently in the
upper arm (seventeenth day), [13].
► Violent tearing in the bone of the
upper arm (twenty-sixth day), [13].
► Drawing-tearing in the deltoid
muscle of the left upper arm during rest and motion (fifth day), [15]. ►
Drawing in the right upper arm (sixth day), [29a]. ► Elbow.
► Drawing in the elbow-joint,
extending up the posterior surface of the right upper arm (second day), [13]. ►
On strongly flexing the forearm, pains, a kind of drawing, in the right
elbow-joint in the inner side, as if starting from the ulnar nerve
(recurring soon after a new dose, and lasting the whole afternoon),
(twelfth day), [29]. ► Drawing, tension, and burning in the bend
of the left elbow (after two hours), [15].
► Tearing in the joints of the
elbows, wrists, and finger-joints, and beneath the nails (after seven
days), [14]. ► Forearm. [850.]
► Paralytic weakness in the right
forearm at night, [13]. ► Pain in the arms extending from the
elbows into the wrists, where it is a tearing and breaking, as if it
would twist the bones; thence into the knuckles, where it distends the
spaces between them, with swelling of the parts; thence it extends as a
crushing pain as far as under the nails; somewhat relieved by rubbing
the hands, with a feeling as if the hands were larger than usual,
wooden, heavy, and numb, and paralytic; loss of power in them, though
only at night, [14]. ► Drawing, throbbing, and violent pain from
the right wrist to the elbow during dinner, afterwards in both arms
(after twenty days), [13]. ► Tearing extending upward on the dorsal
surface of the left forearm (ninth day), [29a].
► Tearing in the right forearm, index
finger, and thumb, waking from sleep at night, [13]. ►
Tearing in the right forearm, from the elbow to the ring and middle
fingers, with heaviness and numbness of the parts, [13]. ►
Tearing in a tendon on the outer side of the left forearm, followed by
paralytic weakness of it (seventeenth day), [13]. ►
Paralytic tearing in the left forearm, extending to the wrist
(twenty-second day), [13]. ► Extremely painful gnawing in the left
ulna, a hand’s breadth above the wrist, at short intervals, followed by
a paralytic feeling, so that the arm must be allowed to hang down; in
the afternoon while sitting; it disappears on rubbing, whereupon there
is a pressure, which always reappears, often by itself (seventeenth
day), [13]. ► Wrist. ►
Pain on the inner surface of the right wrist, as if the parts would be
forcibly drawn inward; even externally a depression forms, [13]. [860.]
► The right wrist feels sprained
(while drawing a tooth); this sensation lasted ten minutes (third day), [27]. ►
Tearing in the wrist (fifth day), [23].
► Tearing in the right wrist, [15]. ►
Acute tearing in the evening in the external condyle of the right wrist,
even continuing during motion, [15].
► Hand. ►
Weakness of the hands and fingers; she could hold nothing tightly and
properly; on making an exertion, there is pain in the wrist, [14]. ►
Heaviness of the hands, like lead (after twenty-seven days), [14]. ►
Painful grabbing and gnawing in the ball of the right hand, just behind
the little finger (seventeenth day), [13].
► Breaking and tearing pain in the
right hand in the evening, [14]. ► Tearing stitches in the bones of the ball
of the left hand, just back of the little finger (second day), [13]. ►
Tearing in the hands, with shivering and thirst (eighth, ninth, and
tenth days), [14]. [870.] ►
Tearing in the back of the left hand, better after rubbing, [13]. ►
Tearing in the metacarpal bone of the right index finger in the morning
(fifth day), [23]. ► Fingers. ►
Stiffness of the fingers at times (after eighteen days), [14]. ►
Drawing in the right little finger (twenty-third day), [13]. ►
Transient tearing-drawing in the middle finger of the left hand (second
day), [22]. ►
Pain, as from a sprain, in the fingers on holding a large object; on
stretching them out, which at first he was unable to do, they seem too
long, and if he wishes to hold anything, he is first obliged to bend
them backwards, [13]. ► Pain, as from a sprain, in the right
thumb-joint on moving it backwards and a pain in a small spot in the
joints on pressing upon it, [13]. ► Pain in the right thumb-joint on bending
the thumb backwards, as if it had been sprained and swollen, with
cracking in it, [15]. ► Pain, as from a sprain, in the right
index finger, and cracking in the joints on every motion of the hand, [13]. ►
Sticking beneath the left thumb-nail, as with needles (twentieth day), [13]. [880.]
► Jerking-sticking in the right ring
and middle fingers, [13]. ► Violent tearing in the last phalanx of
the left thumb (nineteenth day), [13].
► Pinching-tearing in the left thumb,
[13]. ►
Cramplike tearing in the knuckles, alternating with the pains in the
head, [14].® 2000
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