SULPHUR.
GENERALITIES.
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*Emaciation, [34], [45c]. [3260.]
► The venous blood, instead of
becoming red in the air as usual, seemed to be partly melanotic, changed
less in the air, and in part did not become red at all; the arterial was
redder and turbid, dependent on the dissolved coloring matter of the
blood. The blood was unable to take up as much oxygen and to give out as
much carbonic acid as before the use of Sulphur. The coagulum formed
slowly; even after twenty-four hours it had only partly separated from
the serum. The blood-clot, after the use of Sulphur, was 3 per cent.
larger than before, [46]. ► The blood of patients who take large
doses of Sulphur for a long time, becomes darker in color and richer in
white corpuscles, [46]. ► The solid constituents of the blood
generally, both of the serum and of the albumen, were diminished after
the use of Sulphur, [46]. ► Experiments on both healthy people and
patients showed, that after the use of Sulphur, the solid constituents
of the blood constantly diminished, the blood-corpuscles became less
numerous, apparently gave out more carbonic acid and took up more
oxygen, [46]. ► The general action on the blood was a
diminution of the solid constituents, of the serum, albumen, fat,
fibrin, blood-corpuscles, and of the clot. In only two observations was
there an increase of the fibrin, in a third an increase of fat and clot,
in a fourth of serum and albumen, in a fifth of serum and clot. In
general it can be said there is scarcely any secretion or excretion
which is not increased by the action of Sulphur, [46]. ►
Extraordinarily large doses cause the death of the blood-corpuscles in
such quantities that they cannot all be eliminated; if continued,
smaller doses are taken, the blood is freed from the blood-corpuscles, which are dissolved, [46]. ► *Universal
tremors (after one hour), [51].
► The next morning slight twitchings
of the muscles of the face and extremities were noticed, which soon
developed into a general convulsion; this subsided in a few minutes,
consciousness returning slowly. As soon as reaction was fully
established after a chill the spasm returned, this time in a tonic form,
affecting first the right side, then the front of the body, afterwards
the back, and finally the jaws; the latter were so firmly set that
nothing could be administered by the mouth. Subsidence of the spasms
soon followed, the muscles immediately, relaxed, and the child died
instantly, [67]. ► The body was tossed high up, as by a
violent jerking, [2]. ► *In the afternoon, while fully awake, he started
high up, and at the same time a shivering ran through his whole body,
[1]. [3270.]
► Epileptic paroxysm after starting
up, or after running violently, [1].
► Epileptic paroxysm, starting from
the back or arm, as a running like a mouse, drawing the mouth to the
left and right, and moving about painfully in the abdomen, then twisting
the left arm with retracted thumb, followed by trembling of the right
arm; then the whole body was shaken up and down, with very short breath,
which, after the paroxysm, was still shorter; she screamed during the
paroxysm, but could not speak (after twelve days), [1]. ► A
genuine hysterical paroxysm, which lasted several hours, and associated
with a species of choreic jerkings, [69].
►► *Constant weakness and weariness,
[1]. ►
*Weakness, so that they were unable to do anything, [76]. ►
Weakness and sleepiness, every afternoon from 2 to 3, [1]. ►►
*Weak and prostrated, in the afternoon, [1]. ► *Very weak,
in the afternoon; he was constantly obliged to sit down and had no
strength to walk, [1]. ► So weak from riding in a carriage that he
could not recover himself; afterwards sleepy all day, [1]. ► *Great
weakness, prostration, and dread of work; he was averse to everything,
even to talking, [3]. [3280.] ►
*Very weak and tremulous, when walking (after smoking a
cigar), [1]. ► *He became very weak from a short walk,
[1]. ►
*Great weakness after a stool, [1].
►► *Weariness (fourth
day), [20]; (eleventh day), [34a]; (fourth day), [43c]. ► *Great
weariness (sixteenth day), [34a].
►► *Great weariness and sleepiness,
all day, [1]. ► *Continued weariness; the weariness
goes off on walking about for some time, in the open air (twenty-fifth
day), [34]. ► *In the morning, great weariness
(sixth day), [33a]. ► *General weariness and discomfort of the whole
body (thirteenth day), [29].
► *After dinner, weariness
(third day), [20a]. [3290.] ►
*Weariness, as after an illness, [1]. ►
Weariness, making him faint, on lying down, [1]. ► Feeling
of weariness, while walking (fourteenth day), [22]; (second day), [22c]. ► In
the evening, great weariness and prostration, so that he has to go to
bed earlier than usual (seventh day), [45b].
► *Feels tired and knocked up
(ninetieth day), [45a]. ► *In the morning he was tired and unrested
(second day), [25b]. ► *Walking was irksome; the feet would not carry
her; it seemed as if a weight were upon them, with tension across the
chest, [1]. ►► *Weariness disappears, on walking,
[1]. ►
*Lassitude all day, [1].
► *Great lassitude, [32], [34],
[34a], [42a]. [3300.]
► Increased lassitude (eleventh to
eighteenth days), [32]. ► Great lassitude, in the evening (ninth
day), [44f]. ► *In the morning after getting up, great
lassitude (fifth day), [42a].
► *Great lassitude, after walking
(second day); very great lassitude (fourth day); uncommon lassitude
(sixth day), [34]. ► *Great lassitude and sleepiness, so
that he could not help falling asleep (twentieth day), [34]. ► *In the
evening, such great lassitude that he had to go to bed
(eighteenth day), [32]. ► *Great lassitude and drowsiness, by day
(second day), [34a]. ► Very troublesome lassitude (ninth day), [34a]. ►
*General lassitude (second day), [33]; (one hundred and first day), [43a]. ► In
the evening, great lassitude (fourth day); in the evening, general
lassitude (sixth day); at night, disagreeable feeling of lassitude, as
if he had ridden or swam a great deal (eighth day), [33]. [3310.]
► *A feeling of lassitude, in the morning
after waking (one hundred and third day), [43a]. ► Feels
very weary, prostrated, and ill (fourth day); feels quite prostrated and
ill (fifth day), [31]. ► Excessive prostration, almost amounting
to trembling of the limbs (eighth day), [31a].
► *Great prostration (tenth
day), [34]; (two hundred and
fifty-sixth day), [43b]. ► *At noon, great prostration, lassitude
(one hundred and seventh day), [45a].
► *Languor and prostration
(fourth day), [45c]. ► *Exhaustion of the whole body (fifth
day), [39b]. ►
Sometimes so exhausted in the evening that he fell asleep, sitting on a
chair, though people were talking loudly around him (eleventh to
eighteenth days), [32]. ► *Extreme faintness (after one hour), [51]. ►
Faintness, lasting a quarter of an hour, [1].
► Faintness, like a disappearance of
power from the upper and lower extremities; he began to lose
consciousness (seventh day), [1]. [3320.] ►
Faintness and vertigo, in the afternoon, with much vomiting and
perspiration, [1]. ► Slight uneasiness, in the morning (fifth
day), [43c]. ►► *Uneasiness (eighty-first
day), [43a]. ►► *Uneasiness and apprehension the day
before the menses, [1].
► *At noon, a peculiar uneasiness and
excitation of the nervous system (two hundred and sixth day),
[43b]. ►►
*Great uneasiness, so that he could not sit long; even while lying he
was constantly moving the feet, [1]. ►►
*Great uneasiness and orgasm of blood, [10]. ►
Restlessness, in the evening (sixteenth day), [43]. ► Great
restlessness and pain in forehead, with febrile heat (thirty-eighth
day), [32]. ►
Tossed about uneasily in bed, and could not help thinking he was going
to be seriously ill (thirty-second day), [33].
[3330.] ►
Feeling of nervousness (eighty-fifth day), [43a]. ► Great
excitement after drinking tea, though he is in the habit of doing so, [17b]. ►
Nervous excitement, at night on going to bed (third day), [18]. ►
*Uneasiness in the blood, with swollen veins on the hands, [1]. ►
Great sensitiveness to the open air, [33],
[34], [43a], [43b].
► *The child is excessively sensitive to
the open air, and will not go out (first day), [1]. ► Dread
of catching cold (nineteenth day), [34a].
► *Very much inclined to take cold,
[1]. ►
After a glass of beer, immediately ebullition of blood, and great
sleepiness (fifth day), [34]. ► General feeling of illness (fifth day), [33]. [3340.]
► Discomfort, in the evening
(sixteenth day), [45]. ► Uncomfortable feeling of general
derangement, in the evening (seventeenth day); feeling of illness;
general discomfort, at noon (eighteenth day); uncomfortable feeling in
the whole body, in the evening (sixty-ninth day); general ill feeling,
in the morning (seventy-eighth day); peculiar feeling of general
derangement, with prostration (ninety-fifth day), [43a]. ►
Feeling of general derangement (two hundred and sixty-sixth day), [43b]. ►
Indescribable discomfort accompanied anxious state (fourth day), [30]. ►
Uncomfortable feeling, as if the whole body were dislocated, [1]. ►
Feeling of fulness in the body (in three hours, thirtieth day), [29]. ►
*Pains throughout the body, [51].
► Want of life, like an internal
coldness; heat almost constantly, alternating with chilliness; pale
look, with blue rings around the eyes, with dread of heat in the cold,
and dread of cold in the heat, [1].
► The limbs, arms, cervical muscles,
scalp, nates, and feet fall asleep easily, especially when lying down, [1]. ►
In the morning after getting up, bruised feeling over the whole body
(sixteenth and nineteenth days), [32].
[3350.] ►
In the morning after awaking, bruised feeling of the whole body,
especially the arms (second day), [29a].
► Remarkable pressive sensation
through the whole body, [1]. ► Drawing in the left upper jaw and the
extremities, the upper as well as the lower, it was generally felt in
this way; the drawing pain in the right side was followed by a drawing
in the left, then again in the right and so on (eighth day), [44f]. ►
Drawing pains in almost every part of the body, alternately first in one
part, then in another. It was only in the right wrist and thumb that
these drawing pains were present almost all day; they were very
troublesome and accompanied by a feeling of weakness, so that a slight
exertion of the right hand, e. g.,
opening a door and the like, was difficult and increased the pains
(twenty-third day), [44f]. ► Drawing in the lower incisors, in both
thighs, in the fingers of the left hand, and in the back below the right
scapula (thirtieth day), [44f]. ► About 8 A.M., drawing in the left side of
the jaws, and afterwards in the right thigh, the metacarpal bones, and
the fingers of the right hand. These drawing pains lasted about half an
hour. In the evening the pain recurred, alternately in the right and
left thighs (ninth day); in the afternoon, drawing in the middle of the
left thigh, afterwards in the right forearm and right thumb, then in the
left zygoma towards the left parietal bone, lastly in the right molar
teeth and the right middle finger (tenth day); during the forenoon, the
drawing pain recurred, first in the left great toe, then in the right
upper molars and the metacarpal bone of the right thumb, afterwards in
the middle of the internal aspect of the left thigh, and lastly in the
first phalanx of the right forefinger (eleventh day), [44d]. ► In
the course of the forenoon, frequent recurrence of a dull, drawing,
penetrating pain, now in the right hip-joint, now in the left forehead,
and now in the left occiput (second day), [25a].
► In the afternoon (when at rest),
frequent painful drawing, now in the head of the fibula, now in the left
side of the forehead, now in the left elbow-joint, and now in the right
great toe (second day), [25g]. ► (On taking a step) shooting dislocation
pain in the left hip, which extended from the sacro-lumbar region across
the pelvis to the trochanter, lasted above a quarter of an hour and
caused him to limp (first day), [25g].
► After three weeks, a shooting pain,
here and there, in the abdominal parietes, especially in the inguinal
region, at one time in the left, at another time in the right side; this
pain sometimes lasted a short time, sometimes longer, but regularly went
off in the warmth of bed. As I did not believe that these wandering
pains were caused by Sulphur. I continued to take it. About a week after
the first appearance of the shooting pains, there occurred on the
slightest motion, a very troublesome feeling of fatigue. The shooting
pains now gradually declined, but in their stead occurred contractive
pains, especially in the muscles of the thighs, which often proved a
serious obstacle to my walking. In four days these contractive pains
were felt deeper, as if in the bones, especially in the femora and right
tibia. The head of the right tibia became very painful and could not
bear the slightest touch, and after the slightest movement I had to go
and lie down. Now almost convinced that these symptoms must be the
effect of Sulphur, I intended to leave it off, but as I had a few more
globules I took them all. The consequence of this was that the pains
attained such a degree of intensity as almost to render walking
impossible. The very next day when I took no more globules, the pains
became less intense, and in three days were all gone, [26b]. [3360.]
► Pinching, here and there, in the
muscles, [1]. ► Sudden tearing and jerking, here and
there, in the body, [3]. ► Frequent spasmodic jerking in the whole
body, after supper, with pain in the back, and then also in the right
side of the abdomen, [1]. ► Muscular jerking, here and there, as if
caused by electricity, [1]. ► Tremulous sensation through the whole
body, in the morning, though with warmth, [1].
► Sensation, as if everything on him
trembled and throbbed, at night while half awake, [1]. ► The
symptoms, especially of the head and stomach, occur when walking in the
open air, [1]. ►► *Most of the troubles occur only during
rest, and disappear on moving the affected part, or on walking,
[1]. ►
All the symptoms aggravated by drinking beer (twenty-ninth day), [18a]. ►
She feels worse, when standing, [3].
[3370.] ►
Always very much affected and exhausted, after eating, [1]. ►
External warmth relieves the pains, cold aggravates them, [3]. ► Nearly
a month passed before most of the symptoms to which Sulphur had given
rise had ceased, although I made free use of coffee, liquorice, etc.,
with the view of removing by their agency a condition which had become
one of disease. I say most of the symptoms, for of these there still
remained the oppression, the great intolerance of light, and a constant
itching, [15].® 2000
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