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NITRICUM ACIDUM. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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NITRICUM ACIDUM.


ABDOMEN.

►
Hypochondria.
► *Stitches in
the hepatic region
, causing loud cries on the slightest
motion, [1]. ►
Violent pressure in the hepatic region during the menses, [1]. ►
Pressure in the left hypochondrium, more towards the front (fourth day),
[1]. ►
Sticking in the region of the spleen on every motion (fourth day), [1]. [680.]
► Pain in the hypochondria on
coughing, [1]. ► (Could lie for a length of time on my
left side, which, from some disease in my liver, had not been the case
for many months before), (second night), [20].
► Sensation of swelling of the
spleen, [1]. ►
Pressure and tension in the hepatic region, [1]. ►
Pinching-pressive pain in the right side, during the afternoon nap, [1]. ►
Pressure in the left side of the abdomen
, [1]. ► The
place of a hernia is very much distended, [1].
► Umbilical and Sides. ► Pressure in the umbilical region, with a
sensation as if it would cease, after a stool, [1]. ► The
umbilical region became the seat of violent pain (after three hours), [30]. ►
Constrictive pain in the umbilical region, [1]. [690.] ► Sensation of distension in the umbilical
region, [1]. ►
Cutting and tension in the right side of the lower abdomen, [1]. ►
Drawing and griping in the umbilical region, especially on moving and
bending the body, [1]. ► Burrowing colic below the navel, [1]. ►
General Abdomen.
► A
congenital growth on the abdomen like a wart becomes sensitive, sore,
and scabby, [7]. ► Distension of the abdomen during the
menses, [1]. ►
Distension of the abdomen, in the morning, on waking, [1]. ►
Distension in the abdomen from flatulence, with rumbling from morning
till evening, for many days, [1]. ► The abdomen became distended (fifth day),
[39]. ►
Great tension in the abdomen (after twenty-four hours), [1]. [700.]
► Abdomen constantly tense, [1]. ►
Spasmodic constriction in the abdomen, [1].
► Abdominal muscles contracted, [36]. ►
Threw himself on his belly, writhing in paroxysms of agony, pressing his
belly with both hands, groaning, and beseeching to be stabbed, [46]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen
, [1].
► Loud rumbling in the abdomen, after
eating, [1]. ►
Gurgling in the abdomen, without hunger, often after eating, [1]. ►
Uneasiness in the abdomen, with much rumbling and thin stool, for more
than a week (after twenty hours), [1].
► Cutting colic, in the morning in bed
and after rising, followed by soft stools (third day), [7]. ► Colic
before the emission of flatus, [7].
[710.] ►
Colic before the stool
, also drawing, [1]. ► Colic,
as from taking cold, [1]. ► Cutting colic, with diarrhœa-like stools
and cold feet, that cannot be warmed, [1].
► Violent flatulent colic, in the
morning, after rising, [1]. ► Griping colic at night, with restless
sleep, [1]. ►
Sticking colic, especially on pressing upon the abdomen, [1]. ► Drawing
colic in the lower abdomen, with shivering, [1]. ► Colicky
uneasiness and distension of the abdomen, in the morning; flatus moves
about the abdomen, with pain and rumbling, not relieved even by a soft
stool (after sixteen days), [1]. ► Griping colic before a good stool (after
fourteen days), [1]. ► Colic, after frequent and in part
ineffectual urging to stool, [1]. [720.] ►
Generation of a large quantity of flatus
; it moves about the
abdomen with an unpleasant sensation, without finding vent, [1]. ►
Great desire to pass flatus, with pain in the abdomen; very little or
none at all is passed even when stool follows (from an enema of water), [1]. ►
Much flatus is passed
(immediately, and also second day), [1]. ►
Excessive emission of flatus (after a few hours), [1]. ► Much
emission of flatus, in the morning, with griping in the abdomen, [7]. ►
Drawing pain in the abdomen, extending into the thighs, [1]. ►
Pressure in the abdomen and pain in the small of the back, during the
menses, [1]. ►
Violent pressure in the lower abdomen, as if everything would press out
at the genitals, with pain in the small of the back; it extended into
the hips and down the legs, during the menses, [1]. ►
Pressure in the middle of the abdomen, as from a lump, [1]. ►
Qualmishness in the abdomen, some hours after a meal, several days in
succession, [7]. [730.] ►
Pressive pain in the abdomen, [1].
► Frequent griping in the abdomen,
without diarrhœa, [1]. ► Frequent griping in the abdomen while
drinking water during a meal, [1].
► Frequent griping in the abdomen, in
the morning, after a good stool, [1].
► Cramp in the abdomen, at night, [1]. ►
Cramps in the abdomen, [1]. ► Pain in a small spot in the abdomen, as
if something would come out there, [1].
► Constriction in the abdomen, with
itching, [1]. ► Twisting-drawing pain in the abdomen,
before the emission of flatus, [7].
► Uneasiness in the abdomen, and
frequent waking at night, [1]. [740.] ►
Uneasiness and anxiety in the abdomen at night, with heat in the head
and hands, [1]. ► The abdomen is extremely sensitive (after
three days), [1]. ► Tenderness of the abdomen, walking with
difficulty and bent much forward; but this was perhaps owing to her
having been thrown down and stamped upon in an affray on the day on
which she took the acid (first four or five days), [37]. ►
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
►
*Suppurating swelling in the inguinal glands, that are very painful on
walking; the whole extremity seems paralyzed, and the muscles seem tense
,
[1]. ►
Swelling of the inguinal glands, without pain, [1]. ► *Swelling
of the inguinal glands
, [15].
► *Slight sticking in a boil in the
groin, when touched and when not, sticking itching in the indurated
portion of it
, [1]. ► Violent cramplike pain in the lower
abdomen, as if the abdomen would burst, with constant eructations; she
could not remain quiet in any place, during the menses, [1]. ►
Burrowing and griping in the lower abdomen, without diarrhœa, [1]. ►
Pressive pain, and at times a stitch in the lower abdomen, when touching
it, [1]. [750.]
► Constrictive pain in the inguinal
glands, [1]. ►
Pain, as if broken or as from a rupture, in the left inguinal region,
relieved by walking, [1]. ► Stitches in the lower abdomen, just above
the pubis, while urinating, [1]. ► Sticking in a left hernial spot, [1].
   

RECTUM AND ANUS.

►
Painful protrusion of the rectum, [1].
► Urging to stool in the rectum,
though a scanty evacuation, [1]. ► *Swelling of the hæmorrhoids, [1]. ►
*Constant pressing out of the hæmorrhoids in the rectum
, [1]. ►
Painful pimples in the perineum, [1].
► *Hæmorrhoids and prickling in the rectum, [1]. [760.] ► Hæmorrhoids succeeding violent pressure
downward in the back, while standing, [1].
► *Bleeding of the hæmorrhoids at stool,
[1]. ►
*Protruding but painless hæmorrhoids and discharge of some blood with
every stool
, [1]. ► *Burning in the hæmorrhoids, [1]. ►
*Pain in the hæmorrhoids
, [1].
► *The rectum seems inactive and unable
to evacuate the fæces
, [1].
► Heat in the rectum, [1]. ►►
*Burning sensation in the rectum
, [1]. ► *Acute
burning in the anus
(rectum) all
day, especially after urinating
, [1]. ► *Burning
and pinching in the rectum
, [1].
[770.] ►
*Burning in the rectum, extending to the perineum
, with
ineffectual desire for stool, [1].
► *Much burning in the rectum, on waking
at night, and in the morning
, [1].
► *Smarting, more in the rectum than in
the anus, immediately after a stool, lasting two hours
, [1]. ►
*Pressure in the rectum
(after seven and seventeen days), [1]. ►
Violent griping in the rectum, [1].
►► *Sticking in the rectum and
spasmodic constriction in the anus, during a stool, lasting many hours

(after two days), [1]. ► *Sticking and scraping in the rectum and anus
after a stool
, [1]. ► *During a stool, sticking cutting and dragging
in the rectum and anus
, [1].
►► *Itching in the rectum,
[1]. ►
Itching in the rectum, as from threadworms, [1]. [780.] ► Itching and burning in the rectum, with
discharge of threadworms, [1]. ► Stitches in the rectum while coughing, [1]. ►
Stitches in the rectum, in the evening, [1].
► Sharp drawing stitches in the
perineum, extending towards the anus, [1].
► Dragging towards the rectum,
followed by painful hæmorrhoids, [1].
► Constant desire for stool, without
result
, [1]. ► *Ineffectual urging returns after a
stool, [1]. ►
Sensation after a stool as though more should be passed (sixth day), [1]. ►
Long pressure to stool; cannot evacuate it, and yet it is not hard, [1]. ►►
*With the stool pain as if something in the rectum would be torn asunder
,
[1]. [790.]
► *Fetid discharges from the anus
(seventh day), [39]. ► *Soreness in the anus (after four
days), [1]. ► *Constriction in the anus, almost daily,
[1]. ►
*Moist soreness in the anus and between the nates, when walking
,
[1]. ►
Pressive pain
in the anus, as if hæmorrhoids would form, [1]. ►
*Burning in the anus
(second day), [1]. ► *Burning in
the anus, with a hard stool
, [1].
► *Burning in the anus, after a stool,
[1]. ►
Smarting in the anus, in the evening, [1].
► Itching in the anus, while
walking in the open air, and after a stool, [1]. [800.]
► Biting acridity with the stool, [1].
   

STOOL.

►
Diarrhœa.
► Diarrhœa,
with nausea, after eating (after twenty days), [1]. ►
Diarrhœa every other day, [1]. ► Dysentery lasting two days, and gradually
going off (after fifteen hours), [29].
► Frequent stools, consisting only of
mucus, at times with cutting colic and excessive urging (first four
days), [1]. ► *Stool consisting of a large quantity of black
offensive blood
(after sixteen days), [36]. ► *Passage
of blood with the stool
(after sixteen days), [36]. ► *Bloody,
dysenteric stool, with tenesmus, fever, and headache
, [19]. ►
*Violent painful bloody stools, associated with tenesmus

(after two days), [39]. ► *Discharge of black offensive blood from the
bowels
(after twenty days), [36].
[810.] ►
*Passed per rectum a quantity of bright red blood
; had never
suffered such hæmorrhage before (after six weeks), [45]. ► *During
thirty-six hours there were sixteen exceedingly painful stools,
consisting of blood and pseudo-membranes
(after five days), [39]. ►
Thin stool two or three times daily (first ten days), [1]. ► Discharge
of prostatic fluid after a difficult stool
(after three
days), [1]. ►
Stool soft, preceded by griping in the abdomen, [1]. ► *Profuse
discharge of blood, with the stool
, [1]. ► Stool
thin, yellowish-white, [1]. ► Pasty stool, [1]. ► Two
soft stools daily, for several weeks, [1].
► Three or four stools a day, with
shivering and qualmishness under the short ribs (first thirteen days), [1]. [820.]
► Stool enveloped in mucus, [11]. ►
Sensation as though diarrhœa would occur, which was not the case (after
two to eight hours), [1]. ► Stool with an offensive odor, and with
offensive flatus, [1]. ► Constipation. ►► *Constipation (first day), [1]. ►►
*Painful constipation for several days
, [17]. ►
Passed, for the first time, a small dark evacuation (sixth day), [46]. ►
Constipation; distension of the abdomen; the flatus does not pass
(third, fourth, and fifth days), [1].
► Stool only every other day, hard,
enveloped in mucus, during the first days, afterwards again daily, [1]. ►
Undigested food passed with the stool, [1].
► *Hard, scanty stool, [1]. [830.]
►► *The stool is evacuated in hard
masses
, [1]. ► Stool like sheep dung, with much
pressure, and accompanied by mucus (second and third days), [1]. ►
Stool alternately hard and thin, [8].
   

URINARY ORGANS.

►
Bladder and Kidneys.
► A
spasmodic constrictive pain extending from the kidneys to the bladder, [1]. ►
Pressure in the region of the kidneys, [1].
► Urethra. ► Orifice of the urethra greatly swollen,
bloated, dark red, [4]. ► Yellow matter flows from the urethra, [1]. ►
*Discharge of bloody matter from the urethra
, [1]. ► Mucus
drops from the urethra when not urinating, [1]. ► Some
drops of thin mucus, not stringy like prostatic fluid, are discharged
from the urethra after urinating, [1].
[840.] ►
The urethra is painful to touch, [1].
► *Smarting in the urethra while
urinating
, [1]. ► *Violent burning in the urethra while urinating,
[4]. ►
A burning sensation in the forepart of the urethra that compels
micturition, as if it would be relieved thereby, though it is only
aggravated, [1]. ► Burning in the urethra while urinating
(after seventeen days), [1]. ►► *Needle-like stitches in the orifice of
the urethra
, [1]. ► *Cutting in the urethra, [1]. ►
Sore pain in the whole urethra while urinating, [1]. ► Thin
stream of urine, as if caused by stricture of the urethra, [1]. ►
Micturition.
► *Frequently
obliged to rise at night to urinate
, [1]. [850.] ► *Much desire to urinate, [1]. ►
Great desire to urinate at night, with scanty discharge (after four
days), [1]. ► *Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty
discharge
, [1]. ► Urging to urinate, with cutting colic, at
night, [1]. ►
Urging to urinate, [1]. ► Polyuria, [18].
[Not found. -Hughes.] ► The child
passes urine involuntarily, [1]. ► Suppression of urine (after two days), [39]. ►
Suppression of urine, without pain, for several days, [17]. ► Urine
suppressed (bladder empty), (fifth day), [39].
[860.] ►
*Violent burning after urinating
(after seven days), [1]. ►
Urine.
► Very profuse easy
discharge of urine, [1]. ► Urine very copious, pale, [1]. ► At
night rose three times to urinate; passed much healthy urine each time, [27]. ►
Urine very offensive, sourish, like horse’s urine, [1]. ► Urine
very scanty, [1]. ► Urine very scanty, turbid, offensive, [1]. ►
*The urine is cold when passed
, [1]. ► Urine
clear on passing, but on standing it becomes first cloudy and thready,
and deposits a bright sediment, adhering tightly to the vessel (after
thirty-three days), [2]. ► Discharge of tenacious mucus, in the
evening after urinating, [1]. [870.] ►
Whitish sediment and a very ammoniacal odor to the urine, [1]. ►
Brownish-red sand in the urine (after seven days), [1]. ► Red
sediment in the urine, [1]. ► Urine very dark, but soon becomes white
and turbid; after urinating, increased dryness of the throat, [1]. ►
Urine quite brown, causing brown spots on the linen, like coffee-stains,
[1]. ►
Passed a pint of dark-colored urine, of pea-soup consistency (second
day), [46]. ►
The urine deposits sand, [1]. ► Urine very dark-colored, [1]. ►
Intolerably strong-smelling, biting, brownish urine, [1]. ► The
urine had a pungent odor like tobacco, [1].
   

SEXUAL ORGANS.

[880.]
► The hair on the genitals falls out
profusely, [2]. ► Itching on the genitals, [8]. ► Much
itching on the genitals, [1]. ► Violent itching on the scrotum, [1]. ►
Crawling in the scrotum, extending through the groin, [1]. ► Red
spots on the glans penis become covered with a scab, [1]. ► *A denuded
spot on the penis becomes ulcerated
, and will not heal, [7]. ►►
*Superficial ulcers in the corona glandis, looking clean, but exuding an
offensive moisture
, [2].
► A deep ulcer on the glans penis,
with elevated, lead-colored, extremely sensitive edges, [2]. ► *Ten or
twelve flesh-colored excrescences on the corona glandis, that after a
few days become smaller, exuding an offensive moisture and
bleeding when touched, [2]. [890.] ► Moisture on the glans penis, [1]. ►
Several brown painful spots as large as peas on the corona glandis, [2]. ►
Itching pimples on the glans penis, [1].
► Throbbing and pressure in the glans
penis (after two days), [1]. ► Frequent itching on the glans penis, [1]. ►
Itching tickling as from fleabites on the whole penis, [1]. ► Sore
pain in the tip of the glans penis while urinating, [1]. ► Itching
over the whole penis, especially on the glans, beneath the prepuce, [1]. ►
Great swelling of the prepuce and phimosis, without much redness, and
suppurating ulcers with flat edges, with inflammation of its inner
surface and on its margins, and also of the orifice of the urethra,
looking like chancres, with violent sticking
tearing that is especially worse towards evening, lasting through the
night and preventing sleep
, and still more aggravated by
violent erections, towards morning, [4].
► Superficial yellow ulcerating spots
like flat chancres, moist but painless, on the inner surface of the
prepuce on both sides of the frænum, [1].
[900.] ► *Inflammation and swelling of the prepuce, with
burning pain; on the inner surface soreness and small ulcers, secreting
a very offensive ichor, that stains the linen like bloody matter
,
[2]. ►
*A pimple with burning itching on the inner surface of the prepuce;
after rubbing, a superficial ulcer even with the skin and of a yellow
color
, seeming to be covered with thick matter and without
pain, only surrounded by some redness, [1].
►► *Small itching vesicles on the
prepuce, that open after a few days and become covered with small dry
scabs
, [1]. ► Mucus beneath the prepuce, behind the
corona glandis, [7]. ► [The inside of the prepuce is a little
excoriated, as if a chancre would appear], [11]. [Original revised by Hughes. In a man
infected with syphilis three months before, and who had taken much
Mercury.] ►► *Sharp stitches in the
prepuce
, [2]. ► *Itching on the prepuce, and moist
spots on its inner surface (after twenty-eight days), [1]. ►
Swelling of the right testicle, with pain when touched, [1]. ►
Swelling of the testicles, [15]. ► Twisting pain in the left testicle, [1]. [910.]
► Bruised pain in the left testicle, [1]. ►
Drawing pain in the testicles, [1].
► Burning pain in the left testicle, [1]. ►
Tearing in the spermatic cords, with painful sensitiveness of the
testicles to touch, [1]. ► Itching on the scrotum, with sore spots
(second day), [7]. ► Violent erections on waking, at night, [1]. ►
Violent erections at night, even after an emission (after sixteen days),
[1]. ►
*Violent erections at night
, and emission (after nine days), [1]. ►
Erections, with burning and sticking in the urethra (after four days), [1]. ►
Great inclination to erections (after five days), [1]. [920.] ► Erections in the morning in bed, with
pain in the urethra (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
Spasmodic disagreeable erections for several hours after midnight; was
obliged to toss about uneasily for several hours (after fifteen days), [2]. ►
Erections in the evening, after lying down, [1]. ► Want of
erections, [1]. ► Sexual desire and erections, without
lascivious fancies (first two days), [1].
► Frequent emissions, [1]. ► Drawing
pain in the small of the back, spine, and thighs, after coition, [1]. ►
Constantly excited sexual desire
(after ten days), [1]. ►
Frequent desire for coition (after several weeks), (secondary action), [1]. ►
Much inclination to coition (fifteenth day), [1]. [930.] ► Sexual excitement, during which there was
much discharge of prostatic fluid, [1].
► Coition, repeated in too short
intervals, though without sufficient sexual desire, caused general
weakness and the renewal of old complaints, [1]. ► Sexual
desire wanting
, [1]. ► Slight voluptuous sensation with the
ejaculation, during coition, [1]. ► Little voluptuous sensation during
coition, [1]. ► Diminished, at times great absence of
sexual power, during the first eighteen days, with slow unsatisfactory
erections, only excited by fondling, that at the next time are all the
more satisfactory and complete (in a man aged fifty-one years), [1]. ►
Female.
► *Itching on the
pudenda while walking; it becomes sore
, [1]. ► Violent
itching on the pudenda, towards evening, [1].
► *Itching on the pudenda; the
child rubs itself almost sore at night, [1].
► Constriction towards the genitals
during the menses, [1]. [940.] ►
Dry burning in the female genitals, [2].
► Stitches in the vagina, extending
from below upward, while walking in the open air, [1]. ► Violent
stitches in the vagina, [1]. ► Swelling of one side of the vagina and of
the labia minora, with burning itching, [1].
► *An ulcer in the vagina, even with the
surface, seeming to be covered with yellow pus, with burning-itching
pain
, [1]. ► Irritation and inflammation of the labia
majora and in the vagina (second day), [1].
► Stringy mucous leucorrhœa,
flesh-colored
(after twenty-four hours and fifteen days), [1]. ►
*Leucorrhœa of a bad odor
, [1].
► Profuse leucorrhœa (second day), [1]. ►
*Greenish mucous leucorrhœa, immediately after menstruation
,
[1]. [950.]
► *Discharge from the vagina of a cherry
color and of a foul odor
, [1].
► Menses too profuse (after
twenty-one days), [1]. ► For a day before the menses and during
the same, bruised pain in the limbs, [1].
► Menses eight days too early (after
nineteen days), [1]. ► Menses two days too early (after ten
days), [1]. ►
Menses eleven days too early (after eleven days), [1]. ► Menses
three days too late (after eleven days), [7].
► Menses repeated three days too
early (after four days), [1]. ► Menses three days too early (after
nineteen days), [1]. ► Menses seven days too early (after eleven
days), [1]. [960.] ►
Menses seven days too late (at the full moon), and rather too profuse,
with headache and colic, in a young person (after twenty-nine days), [1]. ►
On the appearance of the menses violent pain in the small of the back
(after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► On the appearance of the menses, violent
cramplike pain in the lower abdomen, [1].
► The menses reappeared a few days
after the close of menstruation, and were pale red, [1]. ► The
menses returned even after fourteen days, though not profusely, [1]. ►
Violent pains, at first laborlike, afterwards rather dragging, in the
lower abdomen, extending down into the vagina, during the menses, [1]. ►
An attack of heat, palpitation, and anxiety, for half an hour; trembling
of all the limbs, soon after the appearance of the menses (after eleven
days), [1]. ►
Weakness so great during the menses that she could not speak; it took
away her breath, and she was obliged to lie down (after seventeen days),
[1].

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