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Plumbum. (Plumbum Metallicum.) – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6]
Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10]
Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15] Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30]
Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45]
Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

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NERVES. [36] [Plb.]

Anesthesia or excessive hyperesthesia.

Diminished sensibility on whole right side of body.

Lassitude ; faintness ; faints on going into a room full of company.

General debility ; great prostration.

Restlessness and uneasiness.

Spasms : colic ; tonic ; convulsive movements of limbs ; from cerebral sclerosis or tumor ; epileptic ; epileptiform.

Immobility of affected part.

Epileptic fits, at first seldom and irregular, but soon regularly and coincident with menses ; attacks very severe, lasting for hours, followed by great drowsiness and lassitude, compelling her to pass following day in bed ; menstruation exceedingly
painful, so that its approach fills her with great fear ; severe frontal cephalalgia ; constant sleepiness ; for several years severe colic and obstinate constipation ; face dirty pale ; very poor memory ; low-spirited, frequently sits in abject despair ;
strabismus, jerking with head, dragging speech, with slight frothing at mouth while talking.

Epilepsy, chronic form ; before spell vertigo ; legs heavy and numb, tongue swollen ; afterwards long-lasting stupid feeling in head and prolonged snoring sleep ; no aura, but sighing may precede the attack.

Epilepsy ; after fit consciousness returns slowly and symptoms of paralysis remain ; chronic cases, with earthy color of face, stupor and debility after fit ; periodicity.

Epilepsy, proceeding from splanchnic system ; swelling of tongue, which hangs from mouth and gets bitten.

Chorea of three years’ standing ; left arm partially paralyzed.

Globus hystericus ; hysterical paralysis.

Hemi-and paraplegic anesthesia ; hemiplegia which is often accompanied by hyperesthesia of opposite side ; hysteria.

Arthralgic and neuralgic pains in trunk and limbs.

Tremor ; tremor followed by paralysis.

General paresis ; wrist-drop very prominent and pronounced ; wasting away of muscles ; humerus seems covered only by integument ; can walk only with assistance ; urine scanty and high-colored ; icteroid appearance ; no appetite ;
thirsty ; paroxysms of intense colic, with retraction of abdominal walls and often vomiting ; obstinate constipation ; has desire but not power to evacuate bowels ; injections sometimes enable him to pass small hard balls.
θ Paraplegia.

Paralysis : preceded by mental derangement, trembling, spasms or by shooting, darting, intense, tearing pains in tracks of larger nerves ; the parts emaciate ; wrist-drop, caused by apoplexy, sclerosis of brain or muscular atrophy,
alternating with colic ; after apoplexy rapid emaciation, atrophy and loss of sensation of affected part ; of arms, with pain, dryness, deathly paleness and coldness of hands.

Paralyzed parts soon fall away in flesh and the limbs are painfully contracted : complete palsy, with excessive waste of tissue ; lowness of spirits and indifference ; loss of memory ; sleeplessness, or sleep disturbed with dreams or
hallucinations ; ringing in ears ; weakness of sight ; diplopia ; vertigo ; sunken features ; weakness of sexual powers ; oppression of chest ; incomplete, difficult, noisy, moaning respiration ; constriction in precordial region ; paralysis
of upper and lower limbs ; pulse small, soft, easily compressible ; deep-seated anesthesia of limbs and trunk.

Progressive locomotor ataxia.

   

SLEEP. [37] [Plb.]

Drowsiness ; somnolency.

Great disposition to yawn and stretch, with restlessness.

Great sleepiness during day ; sleepless at night ; sleepless from colic.

Inclination to take strangest attitudes and positions in bed.

All symptoms < at night and by lying in bed.

   

TIME. [38] [Plb.]

Morning : several discharges ; mouth and lips dry and lips swollen ; cough < getting out of bed ; after walking about room numbness of leg.

Day : sopor ; great sleepiness.

Afternoon : pain in back.

Evening : weak and exhausted ; vomiting ; exacerbation ; pains in extremities < ; chill increases ; internal chill and external heat ; heat.

Night : delirium furious ; sleeplessness ; neuralgic pains in and around eye < ; vomiting especially early morning ; weak and exhausted ; sensation in abdomen causing her to stretch ; pain in abdomen < ; must get up several times to urinate ;
drinks on account of dry mouth ; difficulty of breathing when lying down, must stretch violently ; sweats ; numbness of leg ; intense pain in great toe ; pain in extremities < ; sleepless ; all symptoms < ; heat ; violent pains in bones.

   

TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] [Plb.]

Effects most marked in rough and foggy weather.

Open air : vertigo > ; coldness ; sensitive.

Damp weather : salivation profuse.

Cold water : violent thirst.

   

FEVER. [40] [Plb.]

Coldness : in open air and when exercising ; of hands and feet.

Chill predominates, increasing towards evening, with violent thirst and redness of face.

Internal chill and external heat, in evening.

Chilliness in all the limbs.

Heat : with thirst, anxiety, redness of face and sleepiness, in evening and at night, with yellowness of buccal cavity.

Sweat : anxious, cold, clammy, as soon as he gets into bed ; cold, viscid, with anxiety.

Absolute want of sweat.

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