NATRUM HYPOCHLOROSUM.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. Robert T. Cooper, Brit. Journ. of Hom., vol. xxxv, 1877, p. 337,
Labarraque’s solution (hypochlorite of soda), half a drop of the
solution per diem, given well diluted in three doses before meals; any
important alteration from this dose is stated; 2,
A. Jacobi, M.D., Med. Record, vol. xv, 1879, p. 243, a man was told to
use internally 10 drachms of the chlorate of soda within six days, but
he took the whole within six hours.
MIND.
►
Much distressed, laughs, cries, and talks in her sleep; keeps her
husband awake, [1]. ► (Lowness of spirits increased), [1]. ►
Very low-spirited and depressed, could cry all day, [1].
HEAD.
►
*Vertigo caduca; a very constant and a very characteristic symptom along
with an aching across the forehead, [1]. ►
Swimming feeling, as though the top of the cranium were about to float
off, worse when looking upward, [1].
► Momentary indescribable sensation
all over her head, [1]. ► Paralyzed feeling of her brain, with a
similar sensation in all her limbs, and numbness of the tips of her
fingers, and recurrent fainting, [1].
► Caused in a woman, æt. fifty-one
years; great depression, and a feeling in the head as though the cranial
bones were being crossed one over the other, and as if she must fall
forward, a sort of silly feeling, with a nasty taste, just as she used
to have after taking Iodide of potassium, but without the iodine coryza,
[1]. ►
(The headache across her eyes and over the vertex is increased), [1]. [10.]
► Pain across forehead, extending
down the nose, and up over entire head, with great tenderness of the
scalp, and a thumping noise in the ears, which is aggravated by lying on
either side; has to place the back of her head against the pillow in
order to gain sleep, [1]. ► Pain darting from one temple to the
other, coming and going with equal suddenness, [1]. ► Throbbing
headache in the left temple, coming on immediately after her midday
meal, and going off after tea, [1].
► Pain in the right side of her head
going from behind the mastoid process to the upper part of the orbit,
“across the eye,” causes the eye to feel stiff and weak,
aggravated by having slept, but continuing by day as well as by night, [1]. ►
Pain under the right ear when swallowing, with much pain, tenderness,
and swelling up the side of the head, followed by a most painful
gathering, which burst and discharged strongly, [1].
NOSE.
►
Influenza, with much nasal discharge, and sore places on the inside of
her cheeks, which began on the left side, [1].
► Epistaxis; the blood comes away
both by night and day in clots, and is dark-colored. (Produced in a
pregnant woman), [1].
FACE.
►
Pain in the left side of her face, shooting up from a decayed tooth; the
pain is worse the first thing in the morning, and the last in the
evening, with the formation of gum-boils one after another, and sick
feeling after taking food. (Produced?), [1].
► Pain, neuralgic, in the left side
of the face, from the lower jaw, extending to the upper, and across the
eyes and nose to the forehead, coming on irregularly, and lasting from
an hour to an hour and a half. (After taking the Soda chlorata for four
days), [1]. ►
A tugging pain in the left side of the face, aggravated by warmth,
coming on every half hour, and flying up the side of the head to the
ear. (Produced? In am unable to refer, while writing, to the source from
which I took this symptom), [1]. [20.] ►
Swelling affecting the upper and lower jaw of the left side, with
swelling on the inside of the jaw, between the gum and tongue, with
throbbing in the part, and shooting pain extending up to the temples and
down the left side of the neck; relief from cold applications, increased
by worry, not interfering with appetite, [1].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth become loose, and a swelling forms along the right lower jaw, the
gums are sore and the tongue swollen; there is much pain and tenderness
along the jaw, which prevents his being able to masticate his food, but
though this pain is worse at night, it does not hinder sleep in the
early part of the night, but at midnight he awakes and does not fall
asleep again till 5 or 6 A.M. This swelling suppurated in about two
weeks. (Came on very soon after taking the Soda chlorata, in a
phthisical patient), [1]. ► His teeth become brittle, [1]. ► The
tongue is white and shrivelled at the sides, and there is a taste as if
she had been sucking alum; appetite for meat fell off, [1]. ► The
tongue is furred in the morning, and there is a constant putrid taste
throughout the day, [1]. ► Swelling upon the right upper jaw, close
upon the gum (gum-boil), very painful to the touch, [1]. ►
Aphthous ulcerations in the mouth are a frequent result of using the
Soda chlorata as a gargle, [1]. ► Sores on the inside of her cheeks, which
began on the left side, and gradually spread over the mouth, with nasal
discharge and influenza, [1]. ► Sore pimples come on the inside of the
under lip at the commencement of the cold, [1].
THROAT.
►
The throat becomes red and sore, (Observed in a man of twenty-one, whose
health was quite good, except for a nasal polypus), [1]. [30.] ► Sore, irritable spots form in the throat
and along both sides of the tongue, [1].
► His throat invariably becomes sore
when taking it. (Observed in several cases), [1]. ► Sore
throat, with difficult deglutition; a flat ulcer forms on the tongue far
back towards the root, after taking the Soda chlorata for a week, and
goes away immediately it is discontinued, [1].
STOMACH.
►
Nausea and sick feeling; she becomes drowsy during the day, and wakeful
at night, [1]. ► When taken while the patient is recumbent
the Soda chlorata gave rise to a feeling of sickness, [1]. ► A
weight seems to fall from across the pit of her chest to the pit of the
abdomen, and an aching, dull sensation, indescribable, but different
from an ordinary headache, occurs on the top of her head after each
dose, and lasts for a quarter of an hour, [1].
ABDOMEN.
►
Swelling low down in the abdomen, going up to her chest, and causing
dyspnœa, worse after eating, with a great deal of flatus, [1]. ►
A Bloated, tight feeling comes after eating and drinking across the
upper part of the abdomen, and which is not lessened by loosening her
clothing, and is accompanied by a sick feeling. (This symptom came on in
a girl, æt. twenty-one years, four days after she had discontinued
taking Soda chlorata, which had disagreed with her), [1]. ► In a
girl of twenty-one years, an aching pain in her left side at her waist,
preventing her from sitting upright, [1].
► After taking the Soda chlorata for
a week she got a fearful pain in the lower abdomen, which settled in the
right hip-joint, and spread over the whole abdomen, as far as on a line
with the umbilicus; it lasted a week, leaving her free from a tenderness
of the abdomen that she had had for a year, and free also of pain in the
hip-joint (right), and of an inability to flex the hip upon the abdomen
from pain; and besides, she ceased to pass “white gravel,”
which she had been voiding for the last twelve months with great
suffering. (On referring to the notes of this previously trouble-some
case, I can, with present experience, come to no other conclusion than
that the primary cause was ovarian; the symptoms had followed upon the
cessation of a metrorrhagia. The woman’s age was thirty-four years, [1]. [40.]
► (There was an aggravation of the
following already existing symptoms; soreness in the lower abdomen, as
if bloated, with intense pain on placing her hand there; next day felt
the tenderness with distended feeling higher up round the hypochondria,
obliging her to unfasten her clothing; trembled all over; her knees felt
too weak to support her body; the lower part of her back became
excessively tender, and the burning in the vagina, an old symptom,
reached an unendurable pitch), [1].
ANUS.
►
In a woman, aged forty-two years, cutting pain like knives in the anus,
which comes on every evening between 6 and 7 o’clock, and goes away
during the night, but not at any stated hour, [1].
STOOL.
►
Confinement of the bowels for three days, and then passage of a large
hard offensive motion, [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Within twenty-four hours he suffered from diffuse nephritis. What little
urine he passed was smoke-colored, and afterwards black. It contained a
large percentage of albumen, blood, hyalin, and granular casts. Then
there was complete suppression. There were vomiting and diarrhœa,
headaches, and coma. He died on the fourth day, [2]. ► In a
little girl of three, years, scalding when urinating, with soreness,
itching, and smarting of the vagina, [1].
► In a female, aged thirty-two years,
it brought on excessive action of the kidneys after each dose, the
patient was at the time supposed by Priestley to be suffering from
cauliflower excrescence of the uterus, [1].
► In a woman with mitral valve lesion
a quantity of red sand was found in the urine for the first two days
after taking the Soda chlorata. She never remembers such a symptom
before. (The dose being one drop in a wineglassful of water), [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Almost unconquerable sexual desire after each dose, with priapism, [1]. ►
Great sexual excitement comes on after each dose, in a man, aged
twenty-five years, of impressionable temperament, [1]. ► She
cannot take the Soda chlorata, as it causes a feeling as of
“opening and shutting” in the womb. (In a healthy woman, aged
sixty-five years), [1]. [50.] ►
Uterine bearing down; severe backache, and headache affecting the
temples and back of the head, making her feel “light-headed”
and sickish, generally worse at night, [1].
► Violent metrorrhagia, [1]. ►
The monthly period comes on at once, a week before its time, in a
perfectly healthy woman, after a dose of two drops in water, [1]. ►
The monthly illness a week over time, and during the first day has more
than usual aching in the back. (In a fairly healthy girl, aged
twenty-one years), [1].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Cough, distressing, with a little phlegm, continual during the day. (In
a woman, æt. thirty-five years), [1].
CHEST.
►
Tightness on the chest, with dyspnœa, inability to move quickly; a
feeling of weight in front of her chest; these usual symptoms become
aggravated, and there appears as a new symptom pain under the heart,
with catching inspiration; these symptoms ceased on discontinuing the
Soda chlorata, [1]. ► (A feeling in front of the chest, as if
something were gnawing at the chest, was aggravated), [1]. ► Pain
across the upper part of her chest, off and on, and pain with fulness
across the hypochondria, with pains extending down from both sides of
her waist to the womb, causing a phlegmy discharge, [1]. ► Pain
under the felt axilla and left mamma, aggravated by lying down, with a
sickish giddy feeling. When walking about is obliged to keep sitting
down, [1].
BACK.
►
Much pain across the small of her back, worse on getting up in the
morning, existing along with a want of appetite for breakfast, but a
fair appetite for supper, [1].
EXTREMITIES.
[60.]
► An aching in all her limbs, and a
feeling as if bereft of all power, and as though she would faint upon
the slightest movement, [1].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Both hands are swollen every morning.
(Observed in about three cases), [1].
► Note-This morning swelling of the
hands appears to be a very characteristic symptom.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Pain in both hip-joints, and in the
calves of her legs, with tingling extending to her toes, [1]. ► Extreme
weakness in her ankles and knees, [1].
GENERALITIES.
►
Rapid emaciation (in a girl of twenty-one years), [1]. ► She
becomes quite overpowered (from 1/3 of a drop three times a day, in a
woman, æt. sixty-five years), [1].
► In a delicate, highly nervous
woman, suffering from uterine weakness that followed two months after
her confinement, the Soda chlorata, after removing most of the symptoms
within the first fortnight of treatment, began to tell on the patient.
She became very weak, with shooting pains all over the body, and in the
limbs, especially between her shoulders, and at the points of her
shoulders (the inferior angles of the scapulæ), worse in the morning
before getting up; these shooting pains are worst in the arms, and very
bad in different parts of her head; day and night, but principally by
day, she has much headache, worse, if anything, on the very top of her
forehead, an aching pain without throbbing, [1]. ► In a
delicate anæmic woman, suffering from uterine weakness, the Soda
chlorata caused a pain to appear in the left infra-mammary region, which
affected the left side of the chest, the shoulders, and top of the head;
the shoulders became stiff and painful, and the top of her head and side
felt tender to touch and ached, an unbearable pain; felt drowsiness
after meals, the left hand, and left alone, was swollen one morning
after waking, and next morning the right only was similarly affected.
The bowels became confined and less urine was voided, [1]. ► In a
decidedly consumptive girl, æt. sixteen years, it improved her cough,
and made her feel stronger; its continued use made her feel drowsy and
lazy, as if she could lie in her bed all day, and her skin became
covered with pimples, that smart after washing, and upon going into the
open air; the slightest drop of cold water as a irritates these pimples,
[1]. ►
In a delicate consumptive girl, subject to convulsive seizures and
bearing down in the lower abdomen, the first dose caused a strange
lifeless feeling, which made her apprehensive of fainting, followed in
about an hour by sickness; this was succeeded some three days afterwards
by vertigo caduca; the bearing down
temporarily improved, [1]. [70.] ►
Great exhaustion, as if about to die before the bowels act; sudden and
forcible expulsion, with consequent complete relief, [1]. ►
Aggravation of symptoms before each monthly period. (Observed in many
cases), [1]. ►
Pulsatilla is antidotal to many of the aggravations from Soda chlorata;
Guaiacum seems to lessen the rheumatic and myalgic pains. The Pulsatilla
influence I have several times observed, that of Guaiacum only twice.
Strychnine overcomes the powerless feeling produced by it, [1]. ►
Its nervous symptoms come on very irregularly, [1].
SKIN.
►
Pimples are thrown out on her skin, which smart when washed or when
going into the open air; the slightest drop of cold water as a drink
irritates these pimples, [1]. ► Pimply rash appears on her face and
irritates a great deal, especially at night, [1]. ► In a
woman of thirty-one years, from three-quarters of a drop, diluted: Red
smarting rash on the face and neck, worse after meals or after warm
drinks; a uniform redness, with tendency to blister, “as if from a
mustard-plaster,” [1]. ► Sores, angry-looking and moist, break out
about the mouth, [1]. ► Small gatherings form on the fingers of
both her hands, [1].
SLEEP.
►
Drowsiness after meals, [1].
[80.] ►
Drowsy during the daytime, wakeful at night, [1]. ► She is
unable to sit down without falling asleep; her appetite falls off, but
bowels are regular and tongue clean, [1].
► Heavy sleep, with much
disinclination to get out of bed, in the morning, [1]. ► The
child, when asleep, has a ghastly look, as if dead. His sleep is quiet, [1].® 2000
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