OPIUM.
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Pain in
the hypochondria, especially in the right, [38]. ►
Pressive pain in the left hypochondrium, [116].
► Painful sensations in the region of
the spleen and the back; also affecting the thorax (after 1 drop), [108]. ►
Umbilicus and Sides. ►
Colic in the region of the umbilicus, followed after a few hours by a
diarrhœa-like stool (after 8 drops), [100].
► Acute cutting pain in the region of
the umbilicus, soon followed by desire for stool, with an evacuation
that was not hard (after 3 drops), [106].
► Dull pressive pain in the umbilical
region (seventh day), [235]. ► Pain in the umbilical region caused by
slight pressure (fifth day), [235].
[1020.] ►
Sensation as of a weight in the abdomen, in the umbilical region, with
anxiety; sensation of flushes of internal heat, and stupefaction of the
head (after one hour), [1]. ► Stitches in the left side of the abdomen,
even when not breathing (after three hours), [1]. ► Stitch
in the left flank (fifth day), [235].
► General Abdomen. ► The abdomen became distended, especially
in the umbilical region, [31]. ► *Abdomen distended, [31], [90],
[190]; (after 2 drops), [108]; (after forty-eight hours), [167]. ►
*Abdomen distended, tympanitic (fifth day), [235]. ► *Abdomen
tense, distended, [151].
► Abdomen very hard and tense, [199]. ►
Abdomen hard, [155]. ► *Abdomen hard swollen and sensitive to touch,
[280]. [1030.]
► *Rumbling in the abdomen
(fifth day), [235]. ► Rumbling and moving about in the
intestines (second day), [235]. ► *Rumbling in the abdomen and griping in the
intestines (first day), [235].
► Rumbling in the abdomen, with
emission of flatus, [111]. ► Rumbling, gurgling, and griping in the
bowels, without emission of flatus, [116].
► Rumbling and moving about in the
abdomen (after ten minutes), [112].
► Rumbling and gurgling in the
transverse colon, followed by urgent desire for stool, which could be
restrained only with extreme difficulty; this was followed by a copious
watery evacuation, accompanied by much flatus, that passed suddenly and
with much noise, and was followed by burning in the rectum, which lasted
several minutes, at midnight (fourth day), [110]. ►
Grumbling motions within the bowels (within an hour), [133]. ►
Grumbling and contraction of the bowels (after one hour), (one case), [134]. ►
*Grumbling and slight pain in the abdomen (one case), [134]. [1040.]
► Flatulence in the abdomen,
increasing from noon till evening, without the evacuation of either gas
or fæces, though late in the evening there was an evacuation that was
scanty and not hard, and accomplished with great effort (after 3 drops),
[106]. ►
Flatulence (after twenty-five minutes), [329].
► Emission of flatus difficult (tenth
day), [235]. ►
Emission of much very offensive flatus at night (after 3 drops), [106]. ►
Emission of much flatus after eating, [119].
► Emission of flatus (seventh day), [118]. ►
Emission of very offensive flatus, [117].
► Frequent emission of flatus (after
twenty-four hours), [3]; (fifth
day), [110]. ►
Causes constant accumulation of flatus, [75],
[90]. ►►
Colic (after 1 drop), [107].
[1050.] ►
*Transient, very violent colic (fifth day), [235]. ►
Colic, lasting half an hour, with desire for stool, relieved by a soft
evacuation, followed by weariness, with yawning (after 4 drops), [103]. ►
Some colic, followed by diarrhœa-like stool in the morning (after 6
drops the previous night), [100]. ► Drawing colic, [62]. ► Colic
as from taking cold, [1]. ► Colic consisting of simple pain, as if
bruised (after two hours), [1]. ► Colic, as after a purge (after half an
hour), [1]. ►
Colic before and after a stool, [1].
► Slight colic (second day), [235]. ►
Slight, persistent colic (first day), [235].
[1060.] ►►
*Violent griping in the abdomen (ninth day), [235]. ► *Griping
in the upper abdomen, [112].
►► *Griping in the abdomen, with
constipation, [116]. ► Griping in the abdomen the whole
afternoon, [112]. ► *Griping in the abdomen (third day), [235]. ►
Sometimes gripings and a strong contraction of the intestines (after 2
or 3 grains), [130]. ► Gripings, lasting the remainder of the
day (after two hours), (in two cases), [132].
► Griping and pinching in the
abdomen, followed by the emission of an enormous quantity of odorless
flatus through the night, and also eructations of gas (first day), [115a]. ►
A tumblerful of warm milk, drank directly after it came from the cow,
took the gripings away instantaneously, [130].
►► *Cutting in the abdomen
(after 2 drops), [108]. [1070.] ►
Throbbing in the abdomen, [1]. ► Abdomen heavy (second morning after 2
drops), [107]. ► Disagreeable feeling of fulness and
tension in the abdomen, without any emission of flatus (first day), [115]. ►
Feeling of tension and fulness in the whole abdomen, especially in the
upper portion (fifth day), [110]. ► Tension and a feeling of fulness in the
abdomen, as though the clothes were too tight, continuing for some three
weeks after the proving, [110a]. ► *Tension in the abdomen, [110a]. ►
*Abdomen tense and painful, [49].
► Sensation of distension of the
abdomen, and especially of the stomach, [1].
► *Tensive and pressive pain in the
abdomen (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
Pressure and heaviness in the abdomen, as from a stone, [23]. [1080.]
► Pressure and pressive distension of
the abdomen, even to bursting; better on moving about; on sitting the
pressure returns (after two hours), [3].
► Pressure in the abdomen (third
day), [235]. ►
Dull pressive pain in the abdomen (sixth day), [235]. ►
Pressive pain in the abdomen, [235a].
►► *Pressive pain in the abdomen,
as if the intestines would be cut to pieces, [52]. ► *Pain in
the abdomen (after one hour), [127].
► The intestines seemed paralyzed, [73]. [Original revised by Hughes.] ► *It renders the intestinal canal so exceedingly
sluggish that the most active purgatives lose their power, [186]. ►
*Tension in the hypogastric region, that is extremely painful to touch
(after twenty-four hours), [38].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Pressive pain in the rectum as from hæmorrhoidal congestion, aggravated
by touching the anus, [119]. [1090.] ►
Sensation as if the passage through the rectum were closed on making
exertion at stool, [1]. ► Sensation as though the anus were
suddenly and spasmodically constricted; not relieved by making an
effort, as in urging to stool; external touch caused the most acute
burning pain; this sensation lasted about ten minutes, disappeared
gradually, but was renewed upon every touch (first day), [113]. ►
Excessive pressing-distending pain in the rectum (after four, and six
hours), [1]. ► *Anus spasmodically closed during the colics,
with very difficult emission of flatus (ninth day), [236]. ►
Spasmodic closure of the anus (eighth and previous days), [235]. ►
Persistent tickling in the anus, ending with itching (second day), [113]. ►
Increased ineffectual efforts to evacuate the bowels (after 1 drop), [109]. ►
Dulness or difficulty of evacuation, [98].
[Ibid.] ► Two or three evacuations of
the bowels, with unusual desire following the first dose (1 drop); after
2 drops the bowel seemed indolent and as if it could not evacuate its
contents; in the evening there was an evacuation, not hard, [106].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► *Persistent
diarrhœa; the discharges are not frequent, four or five times in
twenty-four hours, whitish, pasty, and causing excessive burning in the
anus, that frequently lasts a quarter of an hour after the movement
(after twelve to twenty-four hours), [195].
[1100.] ► Diarrhœa comes on, relieved only by
fresh indulgence, and dysentery sometimes supervenes, [232]. ►
Bilious diarrhœa, attended with severe pain extending from the right
hypochondrium to the umbilicus (third day), [254]. ►
Diarrhœa for two days (after sixteen days), [155]. ►
Watery diarrhœa, [15]. [as soon
as she took Opium for toothache. -Hahnemann.] ►
Opium causes diarrhœa at times (secondary action), [41]. ►
Evacuations passed involuntarily, [286].
► *Involuntary evacuation of stool and
urine, [149], [341]. ►
Slight diarrhœa (third day), [278].
► Occasional diarrhœa, [278]. ►
Bowels slightly relaxed, [281]. [1110.] ►
The bowels, which are usually costive, became freer, continuing so for
many days, [330]. ► Diarrhœa-like stool, preceded by colic
(after eighteen hours), [100]. ► Diarrhœa-like stool in the afternoon
(after 6 drops taken in the morning), [100].
► Diarrhœa-like evacuation of the
bowels, preceded by colic (after 12 drops), [100]. ► The
first part of the stool hard and difficult, the last part diarrhœa-like
(after about a week); two days after he was awakened about 5 A.M. by
necessity to go to stool, followed by a copious, pasty, dark-colored,
almost odorless evacuation, without pain, [119].
► Stool in the morning, followed by a
second after eating, and again after an hour (third day); in the evening
(fifth day); followed by constipation, [118].
► Thin stool, [120]. ► Stool
thin, frothy, profuse, followed by great relief (second morning), [115a]. ►
Three thin stools, with some dragging and burning in the anus, in the
evening (fourth day), [115a]. ► Very thin stool in the evening (third
day), [115a]. [1120.] ►
A thin liquid stool (after 20 drops of the tincture, after taking the
drug for nearly two weeks); on the next day there were four
diarrhœa-like stools, which seemed to end the proving, [116a]. ► Two
liquid stools, one at 9 and another at 12 P.M., always associated with
some griping colic (subsequent to the proving), [120b]. ► Thin
liquid stool about midnight (after about two weeks); this was followed
by frequent thin stools, sometimes three daily, without pain and of a
whitish color, [120a]. ► Thin frothy stool, with itching burning
in the anus and violent tenesmus, [38].
► Pasty evacuation of the bowels
(immediately, or within a quarter of an hour), [1]. ► Stool
tenacious, gluey, yellowish-brown and of a mouldy odor, at 8 A.M.,
followed about 2.30 P.M. by a second pasty evacuation of a similar color
and odor, preceded by griping about the navel (fifth day), [110]. ►
Fæces softer than usual (after 3 drops), [100].
► Pasty evacuation (second day after
4 drops), [103]. ► Evacuation of a blackish substance with
the stool (after twenty-four hours), [58].
► Stool increased, [14]. [1130.]
► Stool excessively offensive, [38]. ►
Constipation. ►►
*Constipation, [116], [120b], [132],
[152]; (second day), [232], [290],
etc. ► Almost constant constipation, [90]. ►
*Constant retention of stool and constipation, [90]. ►►
*Almost unconquerable chronic constipation, [93]. ►►
*Constipation for six or eight weeks, with loss of appetite; evacuation
consisting of small, hard pieces, accomplished only by means of clysters,
[52]. ►
*Constipation, not more than one motion occurring in a week, [177]. ►
*Constipation for several months, [90]. ► *Complete
constipation for two days (after eleven days), [115]. ►
Constipation for ten days, ending with death, [73]. [1140.]
► Constipation for some days
afterwards, [155]. ► Complete constipation (second day after
18 drops), [100]. ► *Constipation during the afternoon; only about
10 P.M. was it possible to expel the hard evacuation (after 2
drops), [109]. ► No stool (first and second days), [110a]. ►
Has hardly one evacuation of the bowels in a week, [192]. ► No
evacuation of the bowels, contrary to habit (first day), [158]. ►
Evacuation of the bowels and micturition interrupted, [54]. ► Stool
infrequent, [67]. ► Stool retained (after forty-eight hours),
[167]. ►
*No stool in the morning (though he usually had two in the morning); in
the evening there occurred an unsatisfactory, rather hard stool (second
day), [115]. [1150.] ►
*Evacuation of the bowels retarded, [1]. ► Stool
more difficult than usual, [119a].
► Stool indolent through the proving,
[113]. ►
The evacuations became more indolent and scanty (from the first few
doses), [102]. ► Stool (usually regular) generally
occurring in the morning, but was delayed till 6 P.M., when it was
evacuated with great exertion, not hard, rather tenacious, dark-brown,
and having an offensive mouldy smell (second day), [110]. ►
Retention of stool (first and second days); sudden desire for a stool
that was, however, soft (third day); pasty, unsatisfactory stool (fourth
day), [114]. ►
The stool, that was usually regular, was omitted (first, second, third,
and fourth days); only accomplished with much pressure (sixth day), [113a]. ►
The evacuation of the bowels seemed rather harder than usual, [101]. ►
*Stool hard, preceded by griping in the abdomen and flatulence,
[3]. ►
*Stool hard, gray (second day), [235]. [1160.]
► *Stool very hard (fourth
day), [235]. ► *Stool hard and crumbly, [235a]; (ninth day), [235]. ► Stool
hard, evacuated only with difficulty, for six days, [2]. ► Stool
consisting of small hard nodules, with labor-like pains, as in
childbirth, [90]. ►► *Stool hard, dark-brown (third
day), [110a]. ► Stool hard, scanty, evacuated with
effort, [115]. ► *Stool unsatisfactory and hard, [120b]. ►
*Stool very offensive (after twenty hours), [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Kidneys and Bladder. ►
Among affections of the kidneys Bright’s disease is not uncommon, [232]. ►
A kind of tenesmus in the bladder; when beginning to urinate he was
always obliged to wait a long time on account of twitching of the
sphincter vesicæ; this symptom always occurred on urinating, [119]. [1170.]
►► *The bladder became distended,
but not having power to expel its contents, a catheter was introduced
and gave great relief (second day); great pain and difficulty
in expelling urine, and also pain in the bladder when it becomes
distended (third day); passes a small quantity of urine at a time, with
difficulty and pain (fifth day); micturition still painful, and
accompanied by a sensation of bearing down (tenth day); pain and
difficulty in voiding urine are increased, and from straining in the
attempt has forced her womb down, which gives much additional pain
(fourteenth day); had received a kick in hypogastric region some time
ago, and had difficulty in passing urine at different times since, [153]. ►►
*It weakens the expulsive power of the bladder, [40a]. ►
Urethra. ► Some spasm on
urinating in the morning; on the two following days there was acute
constriction of the urethra as far as the bladder; after urinating the
pain gradually disappeared; on the third day blood was passed with the
urine; this continued three days, then gradually disappeared; the
spasmodic constriction of the urethra continued, after which it
gradually disappeared, [111].
[There was no visible alteration in the orifice of the urethra, except a
very slight redness or irritation. Had never experienced such urinary
symptoms before in my whole life. -BRESSLAUER.] ►
*The patient complained of pain as from need to urinate without being
able to accomplish it, [150].
► Sensation on evacuating urine as if
the passage through the urethra were closed, [1]. ►
Micturition. ► Frequent
involuntary micturition, [267]. ► Emission of urine violent (after second
day), [155]. ►
Desire to urinate, with difficult discharge (ninth day), [235]. ►
Micturition much more frequent than usual, always scanty, and evacuated
easily, [235a]. ► Micturition difficult, [232], [132];
(one case), [133]. [1180.] ►
Difficult micturition on waking from a nap (tenth day), [235]. ►
*Difficult evacuation of urine with a full bladder, on account of cramp
in the sphincter vesicæ; even after much urine began to pass the full
stream was at times interrupted; this continued all day, [119a]. ►
Dysuria, as if the urinary passages were closed (tenth day), [235]. ►
Dysuria, with frequent involuntary interruptions in the stream of urine
(after 4 to 6 grains), [130]. ► Strangury soon made its appearance with
the usual symptoms, viz., a frequent and urgent desire to micturate, but
without being able to gratify it; burning and cutting pains at the neck
of the bladder; cutting pains also along ureters and urethra, and
accompanied with some tenesmus. This condition compelled me to introduce
the catheter for four successive days, when, in consequence of the
system being under mercurial influence, I desisted from further
treatment. But a return of the disease being threatened, I resumed the
former treatment, which was again followed by the strangury. I suspended
each remedy in succession, but the strangury continued until the Opium
was at last suspended. After this the strangury ceased in twenty-four
hours, but again recurred on again exhibiting the Opium, [260]. ► It
was not till several hours elapsed that he was able to empty his
bladder, although he had made several attempts; urine very high-colored
(after fifteen hours), [207]. ► *Could evacuate urine only after long exertion,
[26]. ►
Involuntary interruption of the stream of urine, [26]. ► *Frequent
interruption of the stream of urine, which commences to flow after
waiting a long time, on account of a cramp in the sphincter vesicæ,
[119a]. ►
Retention of urine, with very dry mouth and increased thirst, [62]. [1190.]
►► *Retention of urine, [49], [62].
► *Retention of urine, so that he was
always obliged to use the catheter; the urine passed during
twenty-four hours amounted to 190 c.c., containing 31.317 grams of urea;
6.570 grams of phosphates; 8.979 grams of chlorides (third day), [27]. ►
He did not succeed in making water until after twelve hours, and not
before he had made several efforts in vain, and he then perceived a
burning in the urethra, and frequent interruptions in the stream of
urine, [134]. ► Evacuations of urine suppressed, [33], [54],
[67]. ►
Opium at times suppressed the urine; at times increases it, [37]. ►
*Opium restrains the evacuation of urine, [71]. ► No
urine had been passed (second day), [284],
[290], [292]. ► No
passage of urine or fæces, [252].
► There had been no urine since the
attack; the place of the bladder was occupied by a round, hard tumor,
which was supposed to depend upon urine; about half a pint of urine was
now passed (after seventeen hours), [247].
► Had not passed any urine since he
took the poison (after three hours), [280].
[1200.] ► The patient passed no urine throughout
the day, and at night only after long exertion, [155]. ► Has
not passed any water since yesterday afternoon (fifth day); much pain in
making water, which is scanty (seventh day), [201]. ► Urine.
► Great secretion of urine, [168]. ►
Increased secretion of urine (fourth day), [115a], [119],
[119a]. ►
Secretion of urine increased during the night (from fourth to fifth
day), [113a]. ► It stimulates the secretion of urine, [17], [98].
► Copious emission of urine in the
afternoon (first day), [110a]. ► Evacuation of a large quantity of urine
after midnight (first night); also on waking (second morning), [110a]. ►
Urine greatly increased in quantity, out of all proportion to the amount
of liquid taken; this continued for several days, [110a]. ►
Urine very copious, pale-yellow, in the evening (first day); very
copious at noon, 4.30 P.M., and about midnight (second day), [110a]. [1210.]
► Urine of normal color, but of
remarkable odor, that I could compare to nothing, in the evening (second
day), [110]. ►
Urine brown, covered with an iridescent film (after 4 drops), [103]. ►
A turbid, mucous urine is discharged with unusual frequency, the result
sometimes of vesical, sometimes of renal disease, [232]. ► Urine
turbid and dark-colored (after six days), [116].
► Urine very turbid and dark red,
frothy, depositing a yellow-red, slimy sediment (eleventh day), [115]. ►
Urine scanty, turbid, lemon-yellow, [150].
► Urine very dark, depositing a
sediment, [62]. ► Urine dark-colored, [77]. ► Urine
dark and tongue dry, [99]. ► The urine had a brickdust sediment, [26]. [1220.]
► He passed very little urine, and
that of a dark-red color, accompanied by cutting pains, [62]. ► Urine
lemon-yellow, with much sediment, [38].
► Intolerable odor to the urine
(after two days), [155]. ► *Urine very scanty, very red, with clouds,
[62]. ►
Bloody urine, [43]. ► The urine, after taking Opium, contained
more water than usual; the earthy phosphates, especially the phosphates
of lime, were diminished; the phosphates of magnesia were somewhat
diminished, but not so much so as the phosphates of lime: soon after
ceasing to take Opium the secretion of urine increased; and even on the
next day, after taking the solid constituents, the urea and inorganic
salts were decidedly increased, [234].
Urine [286].
Normal
While taking Opium
Amount,
Water,
Solid constituents,
Urea,
Uric acid,
Inorganic salts,
Phosphates,
Phosphate of lime,
Phosphate of mangnesia,
Volatile salts and extractives,1485.900
1435.887
50.513
11.693
0.091
23.906
1.113
0.726
0.387
14.8231637.500
1590.089
47.461
11.059
0.000
21.986
0.547
0.334
0.218
14.416
Urine, [235].
First five days.
Second five days.
Amount,
Water,
Solid constituents,
Urea,
Uric acid,
Inorganic salts,
Phosphates,
Phosphate of lime,
Phosphate of mangnesia,
Volatile salts and extractives,1691.600
1642.842
48.758
10.197
0.000
24.313
0.618
0.388
0.230
14.2481583.400
1537.287
46.168
11.921
0.000
19.658
0.476
0.280
0.196
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