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

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OXALICUM ACIDUM.


THROAT.

►
Occupied herself in pulling from her throat strings of ropy mucus, [61]. ►
Increased secretion of mucus in the throat, during the first hours, [5]. [230.]
► Augments in the first hour the
secretion of mucus from the throat, [5].
► A natural secretion of mucus from
the throat is diminished, [8]. ► Great heat and sense of burning about
throat and fauces, [22]. ► Burning sensation and pain on pressure in
throat, [40]. ► Burning sensation in the throat, [31]; (in evening, first day), [37]. ►
“Horrible feeling of burning at the throat and stomach,” soon,
[41]. ►
Intense burning pain in throat and stomach, [42]. ►
Burning pain in throat and epigastrium, directly, [56]. ► Burned
her throat and mouth very much, [30].
► Violent pain in throat, [28]; (after one hour), [56]. [240.] ► Violent pain in the throat on swallowing,
in the morning, after rising; better at noon (sixth day); on the next
day swallowing is almost painless, but there begins a scraping in the
upper part of the throat, that continues to the eighth day, [2]. ►
Dryness and pain of throat on swallowing, [62].
► Scraping sensation in the throat,
with difficulty of swallowing; the tonsils and arches of the palate seem
slightly red, and are covered with adherent mucus, that can be
expectorated only after hawking a long time (nineteenth day), [12]. ►
Throat raw, with scraping in it, in the morning, on rising (fourth day),
[3]. ►
Throat very rough, scraped, on rising; can speak only with effort (fifth
day), [3]. ►
Great constriction of the throat (after one hour), [30]. ►
Uneasiness and constriction in the throat (after nine hours), [30]. ►
(The chronic sore throat, to which he is subject, feels much better), [11]. ►
Had had, for several days past, sore throat, resembling cancrum oris,
attended by ptyalism, but no fetor of breath (after three weeks), [32]. ►
Tonsils.
► Scraping and
biting sensation in the tonsils, as if the uvula were swollen, always
most severe after a dose (eleventh day), [12].
► Fauces and Pharynx. [250.] ► A
sensation in the fauces as if there was acidity in the stomach (second
day), [11]. ►
Constant scraping sensation, as from mucus, in the fauces though nothing
could be seen (seventh day), [12].
► Great irritation in fauces, [17]. ►
Soreness of the fauces on swallowing, for two hours, in the morning, [6]. ►
Pharynx inflamed (after fourteen hours), [34].
► Dryness in the pharynx, in the
forenoon, after diarrhœa (third day), [1].
► Burning in pharynx and œsophagus
(after fourteen hours), [34]. ► Œsophagus. ►
Sense of constriction about the œsophagus (after twelve months), [34]. ►
Swallowing.
► Swallowing
difficult, on account of burning pain in mouth and fauces (after one
hour and a quarter), [26]. ► Difficulty of swallowing, [54]; for several days, [35]. [260.] ► Pain in swallowing and burning in
œsophagus, [28]. ► Empty swallowing is painful, in the
evening (third day); swallowing of food, in the evening (fourth day), [2]. ►
Complaints on swallowing anything that was not perfectly bland (after
twelve days), [17]. ► External Throat. ► In the evening, after walking, during
sitting, a violent itching in a small spot on the neck, the right side
of the hairy scalp, and on the left side of the trunk, [11].

STOMACH.

►
Appetite.
► Great increase
of appetite, [11]. ► Sensation of hunger, about 11 P.M.,
though he had eaten three times during the afternoon, at 12, 2, and 7
(first day), [11]. ► Little appetite at noon, with thirst; no
appetite, in the evening (third day); no appetite at noon (fourth and
fifth days), [2]. ► Loss of appetite, [11]. ►
Aversion to tobacco-smoking, in the morning, with longing for it in the
evening (first day), [11]. ► (Coffee is not relished at noon), (first
day), [11]. ► Thirst. [270.]
► Intense thirst, [27], [41];
(after one hour), [30]; (after six
hours), [38], etc. ► Unusual thirst, at 3 P.M. (second day), [5]. ►
Thirst, for several days, [35]. ► Thirst, with white-coated tongue and
nausea (fourth day), [4]. ► Thirst, in the morning, with weariness
and vertigo (fourth day), [2]. ► No thirst, and rather a repugnance to
water, [6]. ► Eructation. ►
Eructations (after three-quarters of an hour), [40]. ► Very
sour eructations, an hour after coffee, at breakfast (fifteen hours
after 1/2 grain), [1]. ► Many eructations of air and emission of
flatus, with rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, at noon (fourth day),
[1]. ►
Many eructations of gas (fourteenth day), [12].
[280.] ►
Many tasteless eructations, especially after a dose (fifteenth day), [12]. ►
Painful eructation (eighth day), [17].
► Acrid eructations, for several
days, [35]. ►
Sour eructations, with pains and loss of appetite, [14]. ►
Eructations of gas, in the afternoon (second day), [1]. ►
Eructations of wind, tasting of the food he has eaten, [6]. ►
*Eructations of tasteless wind after each meal
, [6]. ►
Eructations and passage of flatus downwards, [7]. ►
Eructations and discharge of flatus per anum, [8]. ► Hiccough.
► Hiccough, at 11 A.M., lasting some
time, though he had eaten nothing solid; as soon as he thinks of it the
hiccough returns (first day), [11].
[290.] ►
Singultus (after second day); frequent during the day, with painful
hawking (third day), [17]. ► Nausea. ►
Qualmishness of the stomach, with sickness (after six hours), [5]. ►
Slight sickness of the stomach, [5].
► Qualmish sensation of emptiness and
nausea in the stomach (after the solution), [6]. ► Nausea,
after eating (second day after 1/2 grain), [1]. ► Nausea,
at 10 A.M., succeeding diarrhœa (third day); the same in the morning
after diarrhœa (fourth day), [1].
► Nausea, with cutting in the
abdomen, in the morning (fifth day), [4].
► Nausea, qualmishness, thirst
(fourth day), [4]. ► Nausea (after three-quarters of an hour),
[40]; (after one hour), [66]; (after a dose, eighth day), [12]. ►
*Nausea and frequent vomiting
, [44].
[300.] ►
Nausea, during dinner; he thought he would be obliged to vomit, though
he did not (third day), [3]. ► Nausea and occasional vomiting (after
nine hours), [31]. ► Very sick (after fifteen minutes);
vomited blood (after one hour), [58].
► Sense of sickness at scrobiculus
cordis, [22]. ► Immediate repugnance, strong desire to
avoid deglutition and to spit the fluid out, [49]. ► Vomiting.
► Vomiting, [27], [33],
[63]; several times (second day), [21]; (soon), [18], etc. ►
Violent vomiting (after seven minutes), [25].
► Violent vomiting, like beer, only
much redder (after ten minutes), [30].
► Violent vomiting follows the
accession of pain, either immediately or in a few minutes, [50]. ►
Vomiting and irritability of stomach, for several days, [35]. [310.] ► Vomiting soon; later the matter vomited
became tinged with blood, [17]. ► Slight vomiting of food (second day), [56]. ►
Vomiting and purging incessantly till death, which occurred in
twenty-five minutes after the poison was taken, [53]. ►
Repeated violent vomiting, with frequent desire for stool, [45]. ►
Immediate burning pain and bloody vomiting, [68]. ►
Vomiting “drops of blood,” [31].
► Frequent vomiting, and bloody
(first day), [21]. ► Vomited blood, mixed with mucus, every
half hour for five hours, [38]. ► Frequent bloody vomiting and diarrhœa, [60]. ►
Vomited bloody matters, as well as some white fluid, which did not
contain any crystals, [47]. [320.] ►
Vomited copiously a fluid of a dark bloody color (after ten minutes), [36]. ►
Matters vomited were tinged with blood, and very soon they consisted, to
all appearance, of pure blood, of a bright arterial color, and fluid;
two hours and a half later it began to take, and gradually took the form
of coagulation, and ceased towards night, [41].
► Vomited a pint of mucus tinged with
blood (after fifteen minutes), [20].
► Vomited matter having the
appearance of bile with clots of dark blood, [26]. ►
Vomiting of a fluid of a dark bloody color (after ten minutes), [39]. ►
Vomited a dark-colored fluid (after half an hour), [16a]. ►
Vomiting of bloody frothy mucus, [22].
► Pain and vomiting of thick slimy
mucus, [68a]. ► Vomiting of dark grumous bloody matter
(after fourteen hours), [34]. ► Vomiting immediately; ejected matter
consisting of a frothy watery fluid; after standing a short time, a
brownish precipitate fell to the bottom of the vial, leaving above a
clear transparent fluid of a brownish tinge, [63]. [330.] ► Vomited a greenish-black matter, [46]. ►
Vomiting of a dark liquid, followed by death, [43]. ►
Vomiting of a bilious liquid with black clotted blood, [29]. ►
Vomited a fluid of a yellowish color (fourth day), [36]. ► She
vomited instantaneously almost all the poisoning material; the vomited
matter was like milk when seen on the floor, and when she vomited into
the bucket, it appeared to turn the water into milk; death in ten
minutes, or very shortly after, [59].
► Had vomited twice; at first only
the solution she had taken, and subsequently a dark-colored,
bloody-looking fluid, in which were numerous white membranous patches
(in twenty minutes), [42]. ► After thrusting a leather strap into the
fauces and drinking warm water, vomiting took place, and the acid was so
strong as to change the black color of his vest to a red-brown where it
flowed upon it; great jactitation and distress, with incessant vomiting;
the matter evacuated by vomiting was of a thick grumous and jelly-like
fluid, of a yellow-green, mixed with white flocculi. I learned that the
first spontaneous vomiting, and that produced by the action of the
Ipecac., brought up a quantity of dark-brown matter like chocolate
(first day); he vomited through the night (first night), a yellow thick
fluid (after twenty-five hours and a half); a grass-green fluid with
mucous sediment and white flocculi (after thirty-nine hours); still
vomiting a little yellow fluid (fifth day); matter thrown up was
grass-green, with grumous sediment (seventh day); desires to vomit, but
does not (tenth day), [31]. ► Efforts to vomit, [48]. ►
Retching (after one hour), [58]. ► General Stomach. ► In the evening, after tea, pyrosis, with
much emission of flatus, and pressing downwards, [5]. [340.] ► Every evening, pyrosis, [5]. ►
Burning heat in the stomach (immediately), [18]. ►
Soreness of stomach (second day), [17].
► Feeling of emptiness in the
stomach, so that he was obliged to eat something between meals (eleventh
day), [12]. ►
Emptiness and qualmishness in the stomach (fourteenth day), [12]. ►
Griping and twisting pains in the stomach, (fifteenth day), [12]. ►
Violent pains in the stomach and abdomen, obliging him to sit bent over;
these pains seem to be aggravated by the sugar in the coffee and tea
(nineteenth day), [12]. ► Gnawing sensation in the stomach, like
hunger; it was scarcely possible to eat a morsel at dinner; even the
first spoonfuls of soup caused urgent desire for stool, which was
diarrhœa-like, yellow, slimy, serous, and associated with tenesmus
(nineteenth day), [12]. ► Slight gnawing burning in the stomach,
and eructations (after one hour and a half), [5]. ► Gnawing
pain in the region of the stomach, [23].
[350.] ►
Burning pain in stomach, and generally also in throat (immediately), [50]. ►
Terrible burning pains in the stomach, [43].
► Intense burning pain in the stomach
and throat, [42]. ► Intense pain in the stomach, [48]; (from 7 drachms), [50]; (immediately), [52]; (after one hour), [56], [67],
etc. ► Excessive pain, heat, and
oppression in epigastric region (after twenty minutes), [20]. ► Great
pain in stomach, after use of stomach-pump (first day), [21]. ► Great
pain in stomach and tenderness on pressure (second day), [21]. ► Severe
pain in region of stomach (after seven minutes), [25]. ►
Terrible pain in the stomach, so that the patient cried aloud, [27]. ►
Pain in stomach (instantly), [52].
[360.] ►
Pain in the stomach, eructations, acidity, and loss of appetite, [14]. ►
Pain in the stomach and belly, [19].
► Pain after food (second day), [56]. ►
Pain and oppression at stomach, with continual efforts to vomit, [38]. ►
Slight pain in the stomach (first night), [42].
► He wakes up at night with a most violent pressive pain, like a heavy weight in
the pit of the stomach; it comes and goes at intervals of fifteen
minutes, but diminishes in force at each renewal; it lasts altogether
about two hours; discharge of flatus relieves the pain (after 5 drops of
Oxalic ether, taken in the morning), [5].
► *A great deal of burning at the pit of
the stomach
, [61]. ► Pain, heat, and soreness at pit of
stomach (after ten minutes), [30].
► Griping sensation in the pit of the
stomach (sixth day), [12]. ► Held his hands without pressure, and with
a look of agony, to the pit of the stomach, [41]. [370.] ► Sensation of emptiness in the stomach,
similar to hunger, disappearing after eating, [13a]. ►
“Gathering at the stomach,” [31].
► Warmth in the stomach (after half
an hour), [1]. ► Great irritation in stomach, [17]. ►
Pressure in the stomach (after a few minutes), [5]. ► A
sensation of grasping in the stomach, very transient (after a few
seconds), [5]. ► The acid sensation extends to the
stomach, on taking the drug, [1]. ► (His natural weakness of the stomach is
much diminished), (second day), [5].
► Cardiac extremity of stomach and
epigastrium very tender (after fourteen hours), [34]. ►
Tenderness upon pressure of stomach and bowels (after six hours), [38]. ►
Epigastrium.
[380.] ► Considerable tenderness over the
epigastrium, which was resonant on percussion (second and third days), [52]. ►
Rolling about on the floor, complaining of agonizing and burning pain at
the epigastrium, extending to the œsophagus and pharynx, accompanied by
violent but ineffectual efforts to vomit (after half an hour), [57]. ►
Evidently suffering much pain, which was increased when pressure was
made in the epigastric region, [63].
► Every touch of the epigastric
region caused a most violent pain, [27].
► Severe pain at the epigastrium,
increased on the slightest pressure, [41].
► Excruciating pain in the
epigastrium, [54]. ► The slightest pressure on the epigastrium
occasioned pain, [41]. ► Burning sensation and pain on pressure in
epigastrium, [40]. ► Pain at epigastrium (first day), [37], [62],
[64]. ►
Burning pain in the epigastrium and right hypochondriac and iliac
regions, and tenderness on pressure in those situations, especially over
the cardiac end of the stomach; the abdomen generally felt hot to touch
(after nine hours), [30].

ABDOMEN.

►
Hypochondria.
[390.] ► Bruised pain in the left hypochondrium,
after lying down, lasting half an hour, [5].
► For half an hour after retiring, a
continued pain in the left hypochondrium, [5].
► A sticking pain in the left
hypochondrium (after three hours), [9].
► Pain between hypochondrium and
navel, on the left side, like a development of flatulency (after half an
hour), [5]. ► Umbilicus and Sides. ► Colic pain around the umbilicus, and in
the right iliac region, coming on by paroxysms, [6]. ►
Coliclike pains in and around the navel, every day, [6]. ► Colic
about the umbilicus, with difficult emission of flatus, [5]. ► Slight
sticking pain in the umbilical region, in the evening, [1]. ►
Distressed feeling around the navel, and through the whole abdomen, with
a sensation of great weakness in the latter (second day), [6]. ►
Coliclike pains in the umbilical region, with painful pressing downwards
towards the anus, and flatulent troubles, [5].
[400.] ►
Pain about the umbilicus and emission of flatus, at night, [5]. ►
Sensation of soreness on touching, all around the navel, [7]. ► Pain round
the navel, like colic
, repeatedly, but always after the
symptoms in the head, [5]. ► Pain in the region of the navel, with
emission of flatus, in the night, [5].
► Pain in region of navel, with
painful pressing down towards the anus and flatus, [5]. ► Dull
aching pain in the right side of the abdomen, the whole afternoon, on a
small spot, [5]. ► Pain like a cramp, a little to the left
of the umbilicus, and several minutes after, colic pain in the right
iliac region; eructation of tasteless wind, several times (5 P.M., first
day), [6]. ► General Abdomen. ► Much rumbling and rolling in the bowels,
as from water, without pain, in the evening (third day), [12]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen (fifth and sixth days), [12]; immediately after dinner (third day), [1]. ►
Constant rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, in the afternoon (second
day), [1]. [410.] ►
Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, especially in the left side,
followed by diarrhœa, and afterwards nausea, after taking coffee, at
breakfast (fourth day), [1]. ► The whole evening, rumbling in the
bowels, with pressing downwards, [5].
► Abdomen very tender (third day), [21]. ►
Abdomen distended by flatus (eighth and ninth days), [12]. ►
Frequent emission of flatus (fifteenth day), [12]. ► Much
offensive flatus (sixth day), [12].
► Much emission of flatus (fifth
day), [12]. ►
Much flatulent movement in the abdomen, day and night (seventh day), [12]. ►
Great flatulency the whole day, with expulsion of wind downwards;
swelling of the abdomen, with dull colic-like pains at intervals in and around the umbilicus, but
worse in the right iliac region; itching at the anus, with a crawling
sensation, as if from worms, and which was relieved by rubbing the parts
for several minutes; it returned several times during the night, [6]. ►
Emission of flatus and eructations, [8].
[420.] ►
Difficult emission of flatus, in the evening (first day); difficult
pressing out, in the morning (second day), [11]. ► Difficult
discharge of flatus
, [11].
► Flatulent colic, as if he had eaten
unripe fruit, on waking up at night, below the navel, which is increased
by movement after getting up; the pain diminishes during rest and
returns periodically (the night after taking it); in the morning, after
breakfast, on walking about, the same pain returns, gets better about 9
o’clock, and disappears entirely, at 12 o’clock, [7]. ► Colic
and diarrhœa, [48]. ► Very sick, with colic and urging to
stool, so that he drank a glass of wine; this was followed by painful
dulness of the head, in the evening (second day), [1]. ► Violent
colic, so that he cried aloud, immediately after rising, in the morning,
followed by very copious diarrhœa, that was afterwards repeated (third
day), [1]. ►
Very violent colic, as if diarrhœa would occur (seventeenth day), [12]. ►
Violent symptoms of irritation in the alimentary canal (after 2
drachms), [2]. ► Cutting in the abdomen woke her, at 5
A.M.; it returned periodically during the whole day; also chilliness,
alternating with heat (fourth day); the same cutting reappeared the next
morning, [4]. ► Cutting in the abdomen, in the forenoon,
after a thin stool in the morning, [1].
[430.] ►
Griping in the abdomen (after eight hours), [1]; (after six hours), [38]; (after one hour), [66]. ►
Griping pain in belly, which drew her up double, [28]. ► Pain
on pressure over the abdomen (third day), [36].
► Severe pain in the bowels, and
frequent inclination to stool (in a patient who lived thirteen hours
after swallowing the liquid), [50].
► Pain in the abdomen (six hours
after 1/2 ounce, diluted in water), [50].
► Violent pain over the whole
abdomen, [60]; (second day), [58]. ►
Dull aching pain in the abdomen, worse round the umbilicus, [6]. ►
Pains in the abdomen, at night, as if diarrhœa would occur (second
night), [1]. ► *Burning and pain in the abdomen, [44]. ►
Sensation of soreness in the abdomen, [5].
[440.] ►
Distressed feeling and great weakness in the whole abdomen, with
flatulent colic, [6]. ► Sensation as of diarrhœa in the abdomen,
[11]. ►
Unpleasant scraping in the abdomen about the umbilicus, with a sensation
as if a stool would occur, which did not (twelfth day), [12]. ►
Violent stitches in the whole abdomen, extending to the region of the
spleen, was then obliged to take a deep breath, whereupon it disappeared
(third day), [3]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ► Pain in the descending colon, followed by
a free evacuation of mushy stool, in the evening (after one hour); a
similar pain returned the second evening, [9].
► Constrictive pain in the descending
colon, in the evening, after supper, with violently cutting coliclike
pains in the abdomen, with constant desire for stool, and pains, lasting
the whole evening (second day), [1].
► Coarse rumbling in the right groin,
in the cæcum, and noises of flatus after a stool (second day), [11]. ►
Violent pain, in a small spot, very deep internally above the right
ilium, towards the side, when yawning, breathing, and also in different
postures (third day), [11]. ► Sharp and constant pain in the left iliac
region, [6]. ►
On sitting down after a walk, violent effort to discharge flatus (as
from a small spot on the left iliac region); sensation as if the part
would burst, [5].

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