Limulus.
Limulus cyclops. L. polyphemus. Polyphemus occidentalis. King-crab.
Horse-foot. Sauce-pan. (Coast of North America). N. O. Merostomata, or Pścilopoda of the
Crustacea. Triturations of the dried blood.Clinical.─
Apoplexy. Cholera. Constipation.
Diarrhśa. Fever. Hćmorrhoids. Sea-bathing, effects of. Skin, affection of.
Characteristics.─
Limulus
was proved in the lower triturations by Hering, Lippe, and others. Among the symptoms
recorded the most notable was a rush of blood to the face, with heat of face and over whole
body, recalling a similar symptom of Ast. r., another
sea-animal. The remedy does not appear to have been much used, and Hering has omitted it
from his Guiding Symptoms. The only italicised symptoms
in Allen are these: “Frequent rush of blood to the face, and painful
fulness of the whole right half of the body, especially here and there, and in
the lower extremities” (a symptom of Hering’s from the first centesimal trituration);
and “heat, burning, and constriction in abdomen” (Blumenthal, a grain of 1st
trit). There was much gastro-intestinal disturbance, and in one prover a choleraic
condition. Headache caused by straining at stool. The flushing of the face was < in afternoon. There was dyspnśa <
by drinking. Coryza < drinking cold water. Heat in
face alternated with confusion in head.
Relations.─
Compare:
Homarus, Ast. r.; Fer. (flushing); Indium. (pains in head from straining at stool); Ars.
(ill-effects of sea-bathing).
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Very indifferent mind with constant
confusion of head.─The great disinclination to wash and inability to
accomplish much, which he had experienced since the sea-bath, disappeared completely during
the day and gave place to mental quiet, steadiness, with constancy and perseverance in
performing very irksome duties.─(Very difficult to recollect names.)
2. Head.─
Confusion of whole head attended with
dulness and heat of face; together with dull feeling over whole body, esp. in abdomen, where
it increases to a kind of burning in evening.─Stool followed by
headache.─Pressure in head >
after running from nose.─Feeling of warmth r. side of forehead.─Pressure
on r. side of head, deep internally, extending back and forth several times during the day.
3. Eyes.─
Feeling of warmth above eyes.─Pressure
about eyes deep in bones.─Violent pains drawing back and forth behind l.
eyeball.─Lachrymation; of r. eye.
4. Ears.─
Stopped sensation; bubbling deep in r.
ear; evening.
5. Nose.─
Sneezing and fluent coryza all day.─Running
from nose renewed after a glass of cold water; feeling of heat in face and over whole body
as in fever; after a while prickling as in perspiration with only moist skin.─Snuff
has a greater effect than usual in evening.
6. Face.─
Lines in face as in dying person (in a
kind of cholera).─Rush of blood to face.─Jerking
pain in l. side upper jaw, evening.
8. Mouth.─
Frequent gnawing pain in last upper
back teeth, now r., now l.─Mouth slimy, with small pasty, insufficient
stools, morning.─Taste: metallic, of the drug, and general sensation as
if he had taken medicine; sweetish, coming from both sides as if from the teeth; earthy,
extending back into palate.
9. Throat.─
Much hawking.
11. Stomach.─
Pressure in pit of stomach, and
decided heat of face.─Eructations of water tasting like bad eggs.─Nausea
with general sweat.─Deathly nausea; became as white and cold as marble;
constant vomiting and diarrhśa; lines of face as in a dying person.
12. Abdomen.─
Profuse emission of loud (very
offensive) flatus.─Pain here and there in all places in abdomen.─Warmth
and painful sensation in abdomen.─Heat, burning, and constriction in
abdomen.─Cramp-like pain.─Cutting colic, with
feeling of heat.─Sensation as though he had a dissolving acid in
intestines, and all the pains seemed to be caused thereby; as though a gangrene in stomach,
and then burning in intestines.
13. Stool and Anus.─
A painful swelling, thick as
a finger, and very hard nodes, like peas, l. side of anus; he was obliged to lie with limbs
spread apart.─Piles l. of anus, following a hard, nodular, lumpy stool,
evacuated with pressure, < riding in carriage, very
painful at night on going out.─Burning and constriction in anus.─A
cooling-burning in small spots in anus.─Two diarrhśa-like stools,
greenish grey, without pain (first morning).─Stool very watery towards
the end.─Desire for stool after dinner; only wind, and after much
pressing a few lumps; headache caused by the straining.─Constipation; he
feels the stool in the bowels long before the evacuation, as if he were unable to evacuate
it.─Hard stool.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Burning l. side of
scrotum.─Increased sexual desire and power; but more difficult emission
of semen.─Emission wanting during coition.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Voice husky; must
constantly hawk, though the voice remains weak and hoarse, with difficult respiration,
evening.─Cough during the afternoon sleep repeatedly waking him.─Sudden
violent cough.─Respiratory troubles after drinking water, in afternoon
and repeatedly afterwards.─Dyspnśa after drinking water.─Peculiar
difficulty of breathing in lower chest as if an impediment below diaphragm, cannot take deep
breath even when outstretched, as if it were too full there, in afternoon, < evening.
18. Chest.─
Oppression of chest, weakness and
yawning.─Suffocative swelling up in middle of chest behind sternum,
taking away breath, and, when violent, becoming painful, as from beating of waves in aorta.─Violent
pains below sternum, like transient cutting from above down, and from r. to l., < on stretching out r. arm; in forenoon; then at noon; then at
2 p.m.
20. Back.─
Pain in back; in small of back and
loins, bruised feeling on bending back.
21. Limbs.─
Weakness in limbs.─Cramp-like
sensation in limbs.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Violent pain in l. metacarpal
bone; then shivering and coldness with headache above eyes; again in hands.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Painful sensation of fulness in
lower limbs.─Pain in r. hip-joint, posteriorly, as if dislocated, < by certain motions.─Violent bruised pain
in both hip-joints, < l.─Right
heel feels benumbed on standing on it.─Remarkably sore pain in both
heels, when walking and stepping.
24. Generalities.─
Relaxation of mind and body.─Sudden
great weakness.─Heat of day at noon intolerable.─Inclination
to stretch.─Peculiar feeling as if poisoned.─Frequent
rush of blood to face, and painful fulness of whole r. half of body, esp. here and there and
in lower limbs.
25. Skin.─
Burning itching points here and there
immediately.─Small burning itching spots on face.─Small
brownish spots on backs of both hands as if warts would form.─Itching
and eruptions like small weals on l. shoulder and in hollow of both knees, lasting more than
a week, < r. side.─Eruptions on
hands, small itching vesicles, esp. on backs of fingers.
26. Sleep.─
Much yawning with weakness evening.─Sleep
and sleepiness all day.─Sleep at night bad.
27. Fever.─
Chilliness with constant trickling
from nose.─Cold and white like marble, in cholera.─Feeling
of heat in face and over whole body.─Reflexion causes heat of face in
evening.─Burning in palms.─General sweat with
nausea.® 2000
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