NITRICUM ACIDUM.
THROAT.
►
*Heat and dryness in the throat, [1]. ► *Much mucus
in the throat posteriorly, [7].
► *Swelling of the throat internally,
with stinging pains, [1]. [480.] ► *Violent pains in the throat and dysphagia,
[32]. ►
Great pain all about the throat, from the front of which leech bites
were bleeding; on lateral compressure of the larynx, additional pain was
felt, [31]. ►
Violent pain in a spot behind the suprasternal notch, greatly aggravated
by drinking water, [43]. ► Pain in the throat and larynx (after half
an hour), [34]. ► *Sore throat on swallowing, as from a swelling
in the throat, and as if raw and ulcerated, [1]. ► Feeling
of soreness in the throat, [1]. ► Throat sore for a week, and he could
swallow nothing but milk, [45]. ► Sore throat, with pressive pain, [1]. ►
*Throat scraped, as if something prevented speech and
swallowing, [1]. ► Scraping in the throat and cough, [1]. [490.]
► Scraping in the throat, [1]. ►
Scraping in the throat, and inclination to cough on reading aloud, [1]. ►
Throat rough like a file, noticed not on swallowing but on breathing,
with oppression of the chest and fluent coryza, [1]. ► Throat
very rough, scraped, and dry, [7].
► Bitterness in the throat, [1]. ►
*Pressure in the throat as if swollen and thick, during the
day and evening, with sore pain, [1].
► Pressure in the throat posteriorly
on swallowing food, seeming to extend down along the inner surface of
the back, [1]. ► Burning heat in the throat and
epigastrium, immediately; this pain augmented rapidly, [30]. ►
Burning in the throat after supper, lasting half an hour, [1]. ► *Sticking
in the throat, in the evening in bed, as if in the root of the tongue, when not swallowing,
[1]. [500.] ►
Feeling of a lump in the throat on empty swallowing, [1]. ►►
*Sticking painful sore throat, [1].
► Tickling cough, with soreness in
the throat, [1]. ► Stitches in the throat, after talking a
long time, [1]. ► *Stitches in the throat when coughing,
[1]. ►
*Stitches in the throat (larynx?) on
talking a long time, [1].
► *Stitches in the tonsils and burning in
the fauces, behind the uvula, [1].
► Tickling in the throat, [1]. ►
Acidity in the throat, [1]. ► Great acidity in the throat after eating
fat, [1]. [510.]
► Region of the hyoid bone and of the
pit of the throat very painful (third day), [39]. ►►
*Cracking in the maxillary articulation when chewing and eating,
[1]. ►
*Swelling of the submaxillary glands, [2]. ► The
swollen submaxillary glands are painful on moving and touching the neck,
[2]. ►
The right submaxillary gland is painful for a long time, [1]. ► *The
submaxillary glands are painful, [7]. ► A
persistent stitch in the region of the maxillary articulation, [1]. ►
Dull pressure in the submaxillary glands and in the neck, [2]. ► Itching
of the swollen parotid glands (after three days), [1]. ► Uvula and
Tonsils. ► [Corroding
ulcers on the side of the uvula], [13].
[In a case of secondary syphilis, while the acid was being taken for
ulceration of the tonsils. -Hughes.] [520.]
► *Uvula and tonsils enlarged, as if
œdematous, [31]. ► Tonsils œdematous (after half an hour), [34]. ►
Swelling of the tonsils, [10].
[With salivation. -Hughes.] ►►
*White patches appeared, first on the tonsils, then on the back part of
the throat, and finally inside the mouth and lips (within an
hour); the deposit afterwards became thicker
and changed to a yellowish hue; the tongue was also coated with the
same, with red tip and margins, [42]. ► *Arch of
the palate and tonsils swollen, painful, with injected vessels,
[36]. ►
Pain in the tonsils, with soreness of the uvula, [1]. ► Fauces,
Pharynx, and Œsophagus. ►
*Fauces red, with a yellow membrane and with some excoriations
(third day), [39]. ► *Fauces and posterior pharynx red, swallowing
difficult, [43]. ► *Sore pain in the pharynx (after ten
days), [2]. ►► *A morsel sticks in the pharynx while
eating, as if the pharynx were constricted, [1]. [530.] ► Violent pains in the œsophagus, [43]. ►
Pain along the œsophagus, excessively aggravated by swallowing, [32]. ►
Feeling of a knot rising up in the œsophagus, [1]. ► Swallowing.
► Great difficulty in swallowing,
which could only be performed in gulps, part of the fluid regurgitating
through both nostrils, owing to constriction of œsophagus (twenty-first
day); a small bougie was passed with difficulty into the œsophagus,
which presented a stricture at the depth of about two inches; from this
time a bougie was passed on alternate days (thirtieth day); discharged
with some constriction about œsophagus, but otherwise in fair health
(one hundred and tenth day), [46].
► *Swallowing very difficult, [46]. ►
Pain on swallowing; always referred to a line passing from top of
sternum downwards to left side (after three weeks), [45]. ► Food
seemed to be arrested in its progress to the stomach at point
corresponding to the upper edge of sternum (after four weeks), [45]. ►
*Violent pain on swallowing, [38].
►► *Swallowing very difficult,
possible for only liquids, [36]. ► Swallowing difficult (third day), [39]. [540.]
► *He was unable to swallow even a
teaspoonful of fluid, [31].
► He swallowed with pain, and spoke
of throbbing in the tonsils and stiffness in the muscles of the throat, [42]. ►
Sensation of swelling in the submaxillary glands, [1]. ► *Pressure
in the throat on swallowing food, as if it would not go down,
[1]. ►
While eating, small pieces of food are forced into the choanæ, and come
from behind forward out towards the nose, as if the pharynx could not
perfectly grasp the food and allowed it to slip back, so that it became
pressed up towards the choanæ, [1].
► *While eating, small pieces of food are
forced into the choanæ, with a disagreeable sensation; they are
afterwards only drawn downward with the mucus, [1].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Ravenous
hunger, [16]. ► *Great hunger, with weariness of life
(after two days), [1]. ► A craving for food existed, but
everything was rejected soon after being swallowed, [45]. ►
Constant appetite, though speedy satiety on eating, [1]. [550.] ► Good appetite, that immediately vanishes
when beginning to eat, [1]. ► Had a second breakfast, feeling hungry
and thirsty (second morning), [26].
► Longing for food, though it was
immediately vomited (after three weeks), [38].
► Desire for fat and herring, [1]. ►
She cannot take bread; she can eat only cooked food, [1]. ► *Loss of
appetite; the food is not relished; worse in the morning, [1]. ►
He has no appetite; he is averse to everything, [1]. ► Very
little appetite, without bad taste, [1].
► Food is not relished; he is
immediately satiated, with eructations after a little food, [1]. ►
Absolutely no hunger; however, she eats, but soon becomes qualmish, and
a distant nausea rises toward the throat, [1].
[560.] ►
Aversion to sweets, [1]. ► Aversion to cooked meat, [7]. ►
Aversion to animal food, [1]. ► Taste of the food lasting a long time
after eating, [1]. ► Thirst. ►
Excessive thirst (third day), [39].
► *Constant great thirst, [1]. ►
Much thirst at times at night, [1].
► Thirst at night (after thirteen
days), [1]. ►
Much longing for drink, [1]. ► Thirst for water, in the morning on
waking, [1]. [570.] ►
*Thirst (first four or five days), [37], [42].
► *Dryness low down posteriorly in the
throat, with heat at night, without sweat, [1]. ► *Great
dryness of the mouth, with great thirst, [1]. ► Was
obliged to drink while eating, [1].
► Eructation and Hiccough. ► *Many eructations before and after eating,
[1]. ►
Eructations tasting of the dinner eaten four hours previously, [1]. ►
Violent eructations and cramps in the stomach the first half of the
night, [1]. ►
Excessive eructations and flatulence after dinner, [1]. ► Many
eructations, with bitter and sour vomiting, after eating, [1]. ► Very
easy eructations, with heartburn, [1].
[580.] ►
Eructations followed by burning (heartburn), extending from the stomach
to the throat, after eating, [1]. ► Bilious eructations while eating,
especially in the evening, [1]. ► Eructations of partially digested food,
with an insipid taste in the mouth, [1].
► Sour eructations, [1]. ►
Empty eructations, even in the morning, fasting, [1]. ►
Empty eructations almost immediately, [7].
► Violent hiccough (third day), [39]. ►
Hiccough from morning till evening (fourth day), [7]. ►
Hiccough (third day), [7]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Incessant nausea that amounts to
vomiting, [19]. [590.] ►
*Constant nausea and qualmishness the whole day, for several
days in succession, with heat from the pit of the stomach to the pit of
the throat; the nausea does not amount to retching; it is suppressed
while eating and drinking, for both of which she has appetite, [1]. ►
Nausea, general sick feeling, and movements of the whole body, as after
taking an emetic, [1]. ► Within a few minutes a deadly and
intolerable nausea came on, which, within a quarter of an hour, ended in
vomiting; after this he felt better for some time, when pain, griping,
and flatus succeeded, and about fifteen hours after taking the dose
tenesmus and bloody stools followed, [29].
► Qualmish nausea and sick feeling
like faintness and anxiety, as if she would eructate (especially on
moving about), alternating with ravenous hunger and pain as from
emptiness in the stomach, as if she ought to eat, with accumulation of
water in the mouth, like waterbrash, in frequent daily paroxysms,
lasting five to ten minutes, [1]. ► Great nausea in stomach as if going to
retch, but without retching or vomiting, after rising, but before
breakfast lasting till she fell asleep again (second morning), [26]. ►
Nausea, with anxiety, without inclination to vomit, under the short
ribs, frequently during the day, [1].
► Nausea about the stomach all day, [1]. ►
Nausea, with anxiety and trembling (after forty-one hours), [1]. ►
*Nausea and actual vomiting of mucus and food, caused by the cough;
anxiety caused by the cough, [28].
► *Nausea after eating, [1]. [600.] ►
Nausea after a soft stool, [1]. ► Nausea in the throat immediately after
eating, disappearing after moving about a short time, [1]. ► Nausea,
as from heat, not amounting to vomiting, for several hours, [1]. ►
Persistent vomiting, caused by drink (after half an hour), [34]. ►
Violent vomiting of thin black blood and of an offensive black fibrous
membrane, nearly a foot in diameter, containing large and small
bloodvessels (after sixteen days), [36].
► He vomited frequently a ropy white
and yellowish substance streaked with blood, [42]. ►
Vomiting of a serous brownish fluid mingled with blood and yellow mucus
(third day), [39]. ► Vomitings (after a quarter of an hour);
the first efforts to vomit were accompanied by excruciating pain and
anxiety, [30]. ► Vomiting of black offensive blood (after
twenty days), [36]. ► Bitter and sour vomiting, with many
eructations after eating, [1]. [610.] ►
*Constant vomiting of tenacious, purulent, and bloody mucus, [43]. ►
Vomiting of a bloody substance (first and following days), [39]. ►
Found dead, with a great quantity of blood in the bed about her, which
she had apparently vomited (fourteenth day), [37]. ►
Vomiting, with burning thirst, [32].
► The vomiting returned on the sixth
day, with restlessness and delirium, [39].
► Pyrosis to a marked degree, the
fluid vomited being neutral to test-paper (after three weeks), [45]. ►
Incessant vomiting of a dark, sanguineous, and gummous fluid, intensely
acid, [46]. ►
Vomiting (immediately), [45]. ► Vomited a pint of coagulated blood and
fluid (seventh day); threw up about a pint of bloody fluid, with a shred
of mucous membrane, two or three inches in diameter, smelling
offensively (eighth day), [46]. ► Swallowing always followed by vomiting of
food taken, together with a quantity of watery fluid (after three
weeks), [45]. [620.] ►
Violent retching, lasting nearly three hours (after nine weeks), [45]. ►
Retching and vomiting, [33], [43]. ►
Vomiting, [36]. ► Vomiting, and headache over the eyes and
in the parietal bones, as if the head would burst, immediately after
dinner, [1]. ►
Qualmishness; general sick feeling; chilliness after the usual coffee;
she was obliged to lie down, [1]. ► Black bread causes a sour taste and
vomiting, [1]. ► General Stomach. ► Violent spasmodic griping in the stomach,
[1]. ►
Spasmodic constrictive pain in the stomach, [1]. ► Stomach
and abdomen tense, and the clothes seem too tight, immediately after a
very moderate dinner, [1]. ► Spasmodic drawing pain in the pit of the
stomach, with tension, extending to the navel, and making the breathing
short, [1]. [630.] ►
Spasmodic pain in the pit of the stomach (after six days), [1]. ►
Pulsation in the pit of the stomach, [1].
► A painless motion near the left
side of the pit of the stomach (eleventh day), [1]. ►
Frequently spat up mucus more or less bloodstained, [46]. ►
Violent pain in stomach, occurring at intervals of about ten minutes
(after three weeks), [45]. ► Constant pain referred to stomach (after
four weeks), [45]. ► Tenderness at pylorus (second day), [46]. ►
Pressure in the pit of the stomach and sudden burning, as if he would
vomit blood (second day), [1]. ► Orgasm in the region of the pit of the
stomach (fourth day), [1]. ► Violent pressure upon the stomach and pit
of the stomach, while walking in the open air, [1]. [640.] ► Violent pressure above the stomach and
pit of the stomach, while walking in the open air, [1]. ► Violent
pressure in the stomach, at night, [1].
► Pressure in the stomach,
aggravated by pressure of the hand, [1].
► Very painful pressure in the
stomach, fasting, [1]. ► Pressure in the stomach, especially
before eating, even if he had eaten nothing for an hour; it was relieved
by eating, with empty eructations, [1].
► Pressure in the stomach, as if it
were sore, in the morning and during the day, [1]. ►
Pressure in the stomach and back, on waking in the morning, [1]. ►
Burning extending down the œsophagus to the pit of the stomach, like
heartburn, [1]. ► Burning sensation in the stomach, [1]. ►
Clawing in the stomach in the morning after rising, extending into the
chest, followed by slight attacks of griping in the abdomen, [1]. [650.]
► Gnawing in the stomach, in the
morning, fasting, [1]. ► A constant stitching anteriorly beneath
the pit of the stomach, [1]. ► Tearing sore pain in the œsophagus,
chest, and stomach after drinking at the beginning of the meal, [1]. ►
Violent pain in the stomach, [33].
► Pain in the stomach during sleep at
night, disappearing on waking, [1].
► Pain above the stomach on account
of which he did not dare to stretch out straight, relieved by
eructations, [1]. ► Pain in the region of the cardiac orifice
of the stomach on swallowing food, [1].
► Pain below the stomach during and
caused by cough, [1]. ► Constrictive cramp in the stomach; very
distressing griping and pinching in paroxysms (after twenty-four and
forty-eight hours), [1]. ► Cramps in the stomach, and excessive pain
and tenderness, which was partially relieved by opiates (thirteenth
day), [37]. [660.] ►
Cramp in the stomach, as from taking cold, [1]. ►
Sensation of heat in the stomach, [18].
[Soon after ingestion. -Hughes.] ►
Feeling of coldness and pressure in the stomach after eating, [1]. ►
Feeling of coldness in the stomach, [11].
[Ascribed to the acid being too little diluted. -Hughes.] ► A sense of warmth in my stomach and
chest, soon (first day), [20]. ► She woke at night with stomachache (after
fifty hours), [1]. ► (Post-mortem showed scars in the region
of the pyloric orifice, with great induration of the surrounding
membrane, so that the orifice was very much contracted; the walls of the
cardiac portion of the stomach were thin, with slight stricture of the
cardiac orifice), [38]. ► Epigastric region somewhat painful to
touch, [36]. ►
Pains in the epigastric region (after sixteen days), [36]. ►
Pressure on epigastrium occasioned slight uneasiness (after three
hours), [30]. [670.] ►
Epigastrium and ileo-cæcal region, and region of the S. Romanum,
painful and very sensitive to pressure, [39].
► Burning heat in the epigastrium and
throat, immediately, and augmenting rapidly, [30]. ►
Epigastric region distended, sensitive to pressure (though the abdomen
was painless), [43]. ► Violent pain in the epigastric region, [38]. ►
Epigastrium very tender on pressure, [45].
► After about ten days he began to
have violent pains in the region of the œsophagus and stomach; nausea,
vomiting, colic, and constipation returned; he became very much
emaciated, offensive eructations, excessive distension of the epigastric
region, tongue pale, moist, breath offensive, pulse 66 to 68. In spite
of various remedies the abdomen became more and more distended,
especially in the left hypogastrium, extending as far as the umbilical
region; dulness on percussion, with evident fluctuations; pressure
painful; the strength sank more and more each day; pulse very rapid and
small, tongue, dry, features drawn, followed by sudden death, [32]. [Post-mortem showed enormous
distension of the stomach, filling the whole left side of the abdomen as
far as the iliac fossa, containing a large amount of thick
chocolate-like, very offensive substance; the mucous membrane in the
pyloric region softened, and in many places completely destroyed; near
the pylorus there were ulcers with small hard edges; the walls of the
pylorus and duodenum were indurated and hypertrophied under the knife
like scirrhus, [32].]® 2000
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