NITRI DULCIS SPIRITUS.
Spiritus ætheris nitrosi. Sweet spirits of nitre.
This substance is essentially a solution of æthyl
nitrate (C2H5NO2).
Authorities.
1,
Lembke, Zeit. f. Hom. Kl., 4, p. 145, took repeated doses of 5 to 30
drops; 2, same, Neue Zeit. f. Hom.
Kl., 17, p. 36, took repeated doses of 10 to 40 drops; 3, same, subsequently repeated the proving; 4, same, subsequent proving with doses of 10
to 60 drops; 5, Brown, Pharm. J.,
16, p. 455, effects of inhalation of vapor of “nitrous ether;”
6, second case; 7, third case; 8,
effects in self.
MIND.
►
Slight confusion of ideas, [6]. ► Some anxiety, [6].
HEAD.
►
Confusion. ► Confusion of
the head (soon after a dose), [1].
► Head very much confused, heavy, and
hot, for three hours, [4]. ► Vertigo. ►
Vertigo, [1], [6]. ►
Sensation of impending vertigo several times, soon; also, while sitting,
a sensation as if the upper part of the body swayed to and fro, [1]. ►
Sensation in the head as if vertigo would occur, repeated several times
(soon); between these attacks, while sitting, a sensation as if the
upper part of the body swayed to and fro, [2].
► General Head. ► A dull annoying pain is felt in the head,
more acutely along the course of the temporal arteries, which continues
for five or six hours (after five or six hours), [5]. ► Violent
tearing in the head, [4]. [10.] ►
Tearing in the head, [4]. ► Tearing pains in various parts of the
head, [3]. ►
Drawing and tearing in the head, especially in the right side, [4]. ►
Drawing pressure in various parts of the head, [2], [3]. ► Frequent pressure in the head, [1]. ►
A slight degree of swimming in the head, scarcely perceptible even when
at the worst, [5]. ► Pressure and heaviness in the head, [4]. ►
Pressure and heaviness in the head, lasting a long time, [4]. ►
Heaviness in the head, with pressure in the forehead, [4]. ► Heat
and heaviness in the head, soon after a dose, [4]. [20.] ► Stitches on the head, [3]. ►
Headache, continued for seventeen hours (after half an hour), [6]. ►
Forehead. ► Confusion in
the forehead, [1]. ► Confusion in the forehead, on rising in
the morning, with persistent pressure and heaviness, lasting several
hours, [3]. ►
Violent boring in the forehead, [3].
► Violent persistent pain in the
frontal bones, [3]. ► Boring in the forehead, at night, [4]. ►
Boring in the left side of the forehead, at times very violent, [4]. ►
Violent boring here and there in the frontal bones, frequently repeated,
[3]. ►
Boring in various parts of the forehead, [3].
[30.] ►
Violent pressure and boring in the frontal bones, [3]. ► Drawing
pains in the forehead, [2]. ► Drawing in the forehead and bones of the
face, [3]. ►
Drawing and pressure in the forehead, [3].
► Heaviness in the forehead, [3]. ►
Pressive pains in the forehead, increasing in the evening, noticed while
both walking and sitting, [3]. ► Pressure in various parts of the forehead
(soon after a dose), [1]. ► Violent pressure and heaviness in the
forehead, [3]. ► Pressure in the forehead, especially
violent, [3]. ► Pressure and heaviness in the forehead, [2]. [40.]
► Frequent pressure and heaviness in
the forehead, [3]. ► Frequent pressure and fulness in the
forehead, [3]. ► Pressure in the forehead and sinciput,
with a feeling of heaviness and fulness in the head, [3]. ►
Pressure in various parts of the forehead, [1], [2]. ► Pressure in the forehead, [2], [3], [4]. ►
Pain in the forehead, with pressure and heaviness, worse towards
evening, [3]. ► Heat in the forehead and face, [2], [3].
► Temples. ► Boring in the temples, [3]. ► Boring
as with a dull instrument in the left temple, [3]. ►
Pressure in the temples, [2]. [50.] ►
Pressure in the right temple, [1].
► Pressure in the temples and frontal
bone, [1]. ►
Pressure in the left temple, [1]. ► Pressure in the temples, with a sensation
of heaviness in them, [2]. ► Pressure inward as with a dull instrument
in the right temple, [1]. ► Vertex. ►
Stitches on the vertex, [2]. ► Pressure and heaviness in the sinciput, [3]. ►
Drawing in the scalp, with pressure in various parts of the skull, [1]. ►
Horripilation on the scalp, [1]. ► Occiput. ►
Heat in the occiput (soon), [3]. [60.] ►
Pressure in the occiput, [1], [2]. ►
Heaviness in the occiput, with heat, [1],
[2].
EYE.
►
Dull appearance of the eyes, [5]. ► Stitches in the eyes, [3]. ► Lids.
► Visible twitches in the right upper
lid, [3]. ►
Frequent twitching in the margin of the right upper lid, [1]. ►
Stitches and burning in the lids and their margins, [3]. ► Burning
in the margins of the lids, [3]. ► Stitch in the upper lid and above the
right eye, [3]. ► Lachrymation, [1]. [70.] ► Stitches in the eyeballs, [3]. ► Black
spots and rings float before the eyes, always after a dose, with heat in
the head and contracted pupils, [4].
EAR.
►
(The left ear is closed, without swelling or pain, lasting more than an
hour; it seemed to be the commencement of a violent coryza that
developed the same day), [1]. ► Pressure behind the ears, [2]. ►
Pressure in the left mastoid process, [1].
► Stitches in the left ear, [4].
FACE.
►
The first observed effect is a bluish-purple color which the lips take
on; this occurs even when the vapor is very dilute, and it may exist
quite unconsciously and without any bad effects whatever; after being
exposed for one or two hours to a rather diluted vapor, or after
exposure for only a few seconds to a very partially diluted vapor-after
it may be only three or four natural inspirations-the lips assume a
deeper purple tint, the eyes a dull appearance, and the whole
countenance has a ghastly, dirty-looking pallor about it, as if smoked
all over; the hands, more especially beneath the nails, partake of the
purple color; afterwards the hands are of a leaden blue or purple color,
[5]. ►
Visible twitching in the middle of the left part of the upper lip, along
the margin, [1]. ► Boring in various parts of the bones of
the face, [3]. ► Boring in the bones of the face, [2]. [80.]
► Pressure in the bones of the face, [3], [4].
► Stitches in the muscles of the
face, [3]. ►
Frequent stitches in the muscles of the face, [4]. ►
Pressure in the bones of the face, worse on the right side, [4]. ►
Sensation as of a cloud over the upper portion of the face, [1]. ►
Stitches in the masseter muscles, [2].
► Drawing stitches in the cheeks, [3]. ►
Drawing in the right upper jaw, [1].
► Violent boring in the lower jaw,
especially in the angles, [3]. ► Drawing in the upper jaw, [2].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. [90.] ► Tearing in the upper teeth, [2]. ►
Tearing in the lower teeth, [3]. ► Tearing in the upper canine and incisor
teeth of the right side, [1]. ► Tongue. ►
Cutting deep in the forepart of the tongue, [1]. ► Drawing
in the lower teeth, [3]. ► Burning in the tongue, [3]. ►
Sticking and burning in the tip of the tongue, [3]. ► Sharp
stitches in the tongue, [1]. ► Stitches deep in the mass of the tongue, [1]. ►
Violent stitches in the tip of the tongue, [3]. [100.] ► Stitches in the tip of the tongue, [1], [2].
► Fine stitches in the tip of the
tongue, [1]. ►
Stitches in the tongue, [1], [2], [4].
► Very flat odor in the mouth, [1]. ►
Saliva. ► Profuse clear
saliva collects in the mouth after a dose, [1]. ► Much
thin saliva in the mouth, [2]. ► Much thin saliva with a constant salty
taste on the tip of the tongue (soon after a dose), [1]. ► Profuse
mucus constantly in the mouth, with a taste of lye, [1]. ► Much
mucus in the mouth, [2]. ► Sensation like that preceding nausea,
together with increased mucus in the mouth, [1]. [110.] ► Salty taste on the tongue and salivation,
[1].
THROAT.
►
Constant dryness in the throat, [1].
► Cramp extending from below upward
in the œsophagus, [1]. ► Increased accumulation of mucus in the
throat, [1].
STOMACH.
►
Violent paroxysmal cutting pain deep in the pit of the stomach, together
with flushes of heat and general hot sweat, [1]. ►
Peculiar sensation of aching in the pit of the stomach, [1]. ►
Heaviness, fulness, and oppression in the pit of the stomach, [1]. ►
Pressure in the stomach, extending up the œsophagus, [2]. ►
Pressure in the stomach, [1]. ► Pressure in the stomach, as from a dull
instrument, aggravated by deep inspiration, pressure, and keeping the
body erect, relieved by bending inward the abdomen, which is not at all
soft; after half an hour the pain increased, became cutting, extended to
the umbilical region, and was aggravated by even slight inspiration; the
pain continued four hours; was very much increased by eating, when it
became cutting; there was much accumulation of gas in the abdomen, after
the evacuation of which the pain was relieved, [1]. ►
Eructations. [120.] ► Eructations of air tasting of the drug, [4]. ►
Eructations of air, [1]. ► Sensation of qualmishness in the pit of
the stomach rising into the mouth, with much mucus in the mouth, [1]. ►
Vomiting at an early stage, not either severe or persistent, [1]. ►
Nausea. ► Frequent nausea,
[1]. ►
Nausea, with some sensation of qualmishness in the stomach, accumulation
of saliva and hunger, [1].
ABDOMEN.
►
Many noises of gas in the abdomen, [1].
► Rumbling in the abdomen, [2]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen and pressure in the umbilical region, [2]. ►
Some pressure in the epigastric region, [2].
[130.] ►
Sudden stitches in the left side, below the navel, extending towards the
bladder, [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► Violent cutting
in the tip of the urethra, [3]. ► Stitches in the tip of the urethra, [1], [3],
[4]. ►
Violent stitches in the tip of the urethra, [3]. ►
Numerous stitches in the tip of the urethra, [3]. ► Violent
stitches in the tip of the urethra while urinating, [4]. ►
Frequent stitches in the tip of the urethra, [3]. ►
Micturition. ► Frequent
inclination to urinate, [1], [2]. ►
Much desire to urinate, [3]. ► Frequent micturition of profuse urine as
clear as water, [4]. [140.] ►
Frequent painless micturition, [4].
► Urine. ►
Frequent micturition of yellow urine, [2].
► Urine very clear in color, with
frequent desire, but not increased quantity, [1]. ► Urine
passes frequently, [2]. ► Urine yellow during the whole proving,
not increased in quantity, [2]. ► Urine scanty, [1]. ► The
diuretic action was not apparent until twelve or fourteen hours after
exposure to the vapor, [5]. ► Diuretic effects (within an hour or two),
[6].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Stitches in the glans penis, [1].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
*Breathing slow and regular; on walking a short
distance it becomes very hurried; if the attempt is persevered in it
becomes quick, difficult, and painful, and a most distressing sense of
painful constriction is felt underneath the sternum, [5]. [150.]
► Tickling in the larynx, with short
dry cough, [2]. ► Tickling in the larynx, with a dry cough,
in the evening, [2]. ► Tickling in the larynx, causing a dry
explosive cough, [1]. ► Much sticking and tickling in the larynx,
with thin saliva, [1]. ► Numerous stitches in the larynx, in the
evening, provoking cough, which was dry, [1].
► Stitches and constriction in the
larynx, [1]. ►
Short dry cough, [1]. ► Short dry cough, several mornings, [1].
CHEST.
►
Cramp rising up in the œsophagus, with intermitting pains extending to
the upper portion of the wall of the chest, [1]. ►
Pressure moving about in the upper portion of the wall of the chest, [1]. [160.]
► Pressure above the lower portion of
the wall of the chest, [1]. ► Sticking and pressure in the left wall of
the thorax, [3]. ► Pressure above the lower portion of the
thorax, [2]. ►
Pressure in the upper part of the thorax, [2].
► Stitches in various parts of the
thorax, [3]. ► Front. ►
Violent beating and pressure behind the sternum, while walking, [3]. ►
Dull pressive sensation low down in the sternum, as if in the
œsophagus, [1]. ► Pressure in the sternum, [1], [2]. ► Sides. ►
Sticking pain in the upper part of the left wall of the chest, without
affecting breathing, [1]. ► Intermitting sticking pains in the upper
part of the wall of the left chest, afterwards in the right, without
affecting respiration, [1]. [170.] ►
Pressure in the upper part of the left wall of the chest, disappearing
and returning without affecting respiration or motion, [1]. ►
Pressure in the left wall of the chest, coming and going several times
without being affected by respiration or motion, [2]. ►
Stitches in the right, then in the left wall of the chest, not
aggravated by inspiration, [2].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Heart. ► The sensation of
violent beating in the heart occurs frequently in the evening on lying
down in any position, lasting only a moment, [3]. ► If
walking is persevered in the heart makes itself felt by its rapid,
tremulous, tumultuous action, [5].
► Some violent beating of the heart, [4]. ►
Violent beating of the heart, at times with a feeling of pressure, [4]. ►
At times while walking a peculiar sensation in the heart, like violent
beating; this symptom occurred very frequently during the day, [3]. ►
Pulse. ► The pulse during
the first quarter of an hour after 25 drops was irregular, the beats
generally fuller and harder, [1]. ► The pulse remained unchanged for half an
hour, except that it was fuller and slower than usual, [2]. [180.] ► Pulse weak and quick; on walking a short
distance it becomes very quick, [5].
► Pulse frequent, for half an hour
(after 20 drops), [1]. ► Pulse rather fuller and somewhat slower
than usual (half an hour after 10 drops), [1].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Violent pressure in the nape of the neck and cervical vertebræ, [3]. ►
Stitches here and there in the thorax and back, [3]. ►
Sensation as if hot water were creeping through the back from below
upward, lasting a quarter of an hour, [1].
► Pressure and stitches in the region
of the spine, [2]. ► Drawing in various parts of the back, [2]. ►
Stitches in the final processes of the vertebræ, [3]. ►
Numerous violent stitches in the vertebræ, [3]. [190.] ► Drawing in various parts of the dorsal
muscles, [1]. ► Stitches in the spinous processes of the
middle dorsal vertebræ, [1]. ► Violent sticking in the spinous processes
of the last dorsal and upper lumbar vertebræ, [1]. ►
Pressure in the lumbar muscles and hip-joints, [4].® 2000
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