CALCAREA CAUSTICA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Aqua Calcis (in part).
Preparation , To one part by weight of quicklime (CaO), add five parts of distilled water (to be securely corked in a warm bottle); when quite cool, add five parts of alcohol, shake frequently for several days, after which, decant the clear liquid.
Authorities.
1 , Dr. A. W. Koch, prize essay, Hygea, 5, 270, a man thirty-one years old, took 3 to 6 drops of the tincture; 2 , Ibid., took the 1st and 2d dilutions; 3 , A married woman, twenty-six years old, ibid., took 2 to 6 drops of the tincture; 4 , Ibid., took the 1st and 2d dilutions; 5 , A maid, seventeen years old, proved the tincture, ibid.; 6 , Ibid., proved the 1st and 2d dils.; 7 , A man, forty years old, proved the tincture, ibid.; 8 , Ibid., proved the 1st and 3d dils.; 9 , Wife of last, forty years old, proved the tincture; 10 , A maid, seventeen years old, proved the tincture; 11 , Ibid., proved the 1st dil.; 12 , A man, twenty-five years old, proved the tincture; 13 , Ibid., proved the 1st and 2d dils.; 14 , A maid, sixteen years old, proved the tincture; 15 , A maid, twenty-five years old, proved the tincture; 16 , A woman, thirty-two years old, proved the tincture; 17 , A maid, twenty years old, proved the tincture; 18 , Dr. Keil, Zeit. f. H. Kl., 3, 149, a woman took a spoonful of Aqua Calcis, night and morning, for several days (as a tonic!); 19 , Liedbeck, A. H. Z., 42, 26, proving of Aq-calcis.
MIND
- Thought very difficult (second day), 7.
HEAD
- Confusion.
- Confusion of the head (first day), 2, 7, 14.
- Confusion of the head (second day), 13.
- Confusion of the whole head (first day), 9.
- Head very much confused (after two hours), 12.
- Head very much confused, especially on the left side (first day), 2.
- Confusion in the head (in the evening, first day), 7.
- Head much confused (in the evening, when drinking beer), (first day), 1.
- In the evening, after drinking his usual beer, the head became so confused that he could scarcely hold it up (second day), 1. [10.]
- Head much confused, evenings, in bed, especially on the left side (after drinking beer), (first day), 1.
- Head confused, the whole afternoon, as after intoxication (second day), 2.
- Confused head, in the forenoon, especially on the left side, with periodic stitches; the headache is pressive, so that mental labor is very difficult (third day), 1.
- Head very much confused; dull pressive pain in the forehead, extending to the occiput, so that he could scarcely attend to his business (second day), 1.
- Confusion in the head, with pressure in the forehead, and transient stitches in the temples (second day), 2.
- Feeling in the head as if she were foolish (fourth day), 15.
- Headache, so that (as she expresses it), she cannot think any more (third day), 14.
- Vertigo.
- Vertigo (first day), 12, 15, 16.
- Vertigo, as if the room were turning in a circle; she thinks she will fall from the chair (first day), 5.
- Vertigo (in the evening, first day), 13.
- Sensations. [20.]
- Severe pain in the head (first day), 17.
- Heat in the head (first day), 10.
- Stitches in the head, from before backward (second day), .
EYE
- A pain in the right eye, as if a foreign body were under the upper lid; stitches extend thence to the forehead, and the conjunctiva of the lids is red (sixth day), 2.
- Feeling in the left eye, on rising in the morning, as if a thorn were in it, so that she must rub it; she was unable to open it (second day), 6.
- Burning in the eyes, in the evening, by candlelight (second day), 3.
- While reading in the evening, at 10, burning of the eyes (second day), 1.
- Tearing in the eyes (in the afternoon, first day), 13.
- Orbit.
- Paroxysmal boring pain on the upper orbital border of the right eye (first day), 3.
- Stitches along the course of the supraorbital and supratrochlear nerves (immediately after taking), 2.
- Transient tearing pain from the supraorbital border of the left orbit to the inner canthus, and down to the wing of the nose, at 6 P.M. (first day), 3.
- Lids.
- Violent pains in the upper lids, so that every motion is painful (first day), 3. [60.]
- Severe pressure and heaviness in the lids (first day), 9.
- Tearing pain in the inner canthus of the right eye, extending down to the upper lid, with a feeling as if the eyeballs would become swollen (first day), 9.
- Lachrymal Apparatus.
- Lachrymation of the right eye (fifth day), 2.
- Lachrymation in the open air (third day), 2.
- Conjunctiva.
- Redness of the conjunctiva of the lids (first day), 3.
- Ball.
- Pain in the eye, as if the ball would be pressed out (first day), 12.
- Stitches in the eyeball (first day), 12.
- Tearing stitches through the eyeballs (first day), 12.
- Vision.
- Photophobia (first day), 3.
EARS
- Tearing in the right mastoid process (first day), 8.
- Dull pain in both ears (second day), 2. [70.]
- Bursting pains within the left ear (at 9 P.M., first day), 1.
- Severe tension and pressure in the internal portions of the ear (first day), 12.
- Pinching-sticking pain in the left ear, extending to the opening of the Eustachian tube, in the throat, at 5 P.M. (second day), 2.
- Violent sticking-drawing pains within the left meatus auditorius, extending outward (immediately), 1.
- Violent sticking, pressing-out pain in the internal portion of the left ear; this continues, more or less severe, some time, 1.
- Sticking pains through the left and right ears (evening, second day), 1.
- Dull sticking in the left ear, as from a foreign body (first day), 2.
- Tearing through the inner portion of both ears (first day), 7.
- Hearing.
- Ringing and roaring in the ears (third day), 13.
NOSE
- Coryza, especially of the left nostril (second day), 2. [80.]
- The nose has been dry for two days; it discharges a thick tough mucus (third day), 1.
- Stitches from the left wing of the nose, at the angle extending to the internal canthus (first day), 4.
FACE
- Tearing in the right cheek-bone (first day), 8.
- The inner surface of the lips very red, with injected vessels, 18.
- Stiffness in the joints of the jaws (first day), 10.
- Very violent pain in the right articulation of the jaw, which was somewhat swollen, fourth day; the next day the joint was immovable, and the cheek swollen; the third day, violent pain on moving the jaw; the pain was relieved in the evening, and the night was quiet; the right cheek was still greatly swollen; disappeared after two days, 3.
- Rheumatic nervous pain in the right articulation of the jaw, on pressure (this might be attributed to the fact that the person had worn a neck cloth through the whole winter, and had left it off the last three days), 4.
- Tearing in the left half of the lower jaw (second day), 8.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Severe toothache, every night, at 2 o'clock, as it the tooth was fuzzy and too large, together with tensive pain in the left ear, as if something was sticking in it (fourth to sixth day), 2.
- Dull tearing toothache in a hollow tooth (first day), 2. [90.]
- Transient tearing pain in the left lower incisors (first day), 1.
- The back teeth feel fuzzy (first day), 9.
- Severe pain in the hollow back teeth; they seem too large (third day), 1.
- The back teeth seem too large, and are somewhat painful (first day), 10.
- Drawing pain in an upper hollow back tooth of the left side, and a feeling as if it were too large (first day), 2.
- Dull tearing-sticking pain in two hollow back teeth, which seemed enlarged (first day), 1.
- Tongue.
- Tongue greenish-yellow, and thickly coated (fifth day), 12.
- General Mouth.
- Offensive mouth (fourth day), 1.
- Mouth offensive, especially the posterior portion, on the arches of the palate, with mucus (fourth day), 2.
- Dryness of the mouth, 18. [100.]
- The palate feels as if mucus was upon it but none is expectorated (first day), 1.
- Taste.
- Mouth bitter (fifth day), 12.
THROAT
- Mucus in the throat, which is difficult to raise, almost causing vomiting; for two days (second day), 9.
- Hawking of granular glutinous material (like cooked rice), which collects in the larynx and trachea (for fourteen days), 4.
- Pain in the throat, on rising; swallowing is difficult (second day), 5.
- Burning in the fauces and œsophagus, caused by water, 18.
- A feeling in the pharynx as if a bone were sticking in it (first day), 1.
- Was scarcely able to swallow (first day), 17.
STOMACH
- Appetite.
- Severe hunger three hours after eating (first day), 1.
- Loss of appetite (third day), 12. [110.]
- Loss of appetite for beer (second day), 2.
- Eructations.
- Many eructations (first day), 1.
- Eructations tasting of the food, and also sour and bitter (first day), 1.
- Nausea.
- Nausea (second and fifth days), 12.
- Nausea, with eructations of frothy fluid, after eating some bread (after one hour), 4.
- Nausea, which is followed, after half an hour, by vomiting of sour fluid, half an hour after dinner (first day), 6.
- Stomach.
- Burning in the stomach, 18.
- Tensive feeling in the stomach (first day), 1.
- Spasmodic contraction of the stomach (second day), 12. [120.]
- Oppression above the epigastric region, and in the hypochondria (first day), 7.
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Sticking pain in both hypochondria, especially severe in the left (first day), 1.
- Pain on the left side of the region of the spleen, as if a ball were turning on its axis (second day), 4.
- General Abdomen.
- Rumbling in the abdomen (first day), 5.
- Rumbling in the abdomen (fifth day), 12.
- Constrictive pain in the abdomen, extending towards the uterus (first day), 5.
- Griping in the abdomen (first day), 14, 15, 17.
- Griping in the abdomen (first day), 17.
- Griping in the abdomen (fifth day), 12.
- Griping in the abdomen, with flatulence, at noon (second day), 2. [130.]
- Violent stitches in the intestines, like fine knife-stitches (he often had this symptom when not proving), (second day), 1.
- Violent stitches in the small intestines when bending forward (second day), 2.
- Tearing in the abdomen (after half an hour), 12.
- Slight tearing pain in the abdomen (after one hour), 12.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- The usual hæmorrhoids seemed to be smaller (second day), 1.
- Hæmorrhoids trouble (first day), 13.
- Sticking-tearing motions in the rectum, extending towards the anus (first day), 12.
- Crawling in the rectum and anus (second day), 13.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa.
- Stool twice and painless (second day), 2.
- Three thin stools before breakfast, and one again after breakfast (second day), 5. [140.]
- Stool always very painful, as if a nail were scratching in the anus (since the beginning of the proving, until the last two days, when it was no longer painful, and the hæmorrhoids were very small), 2.
- Thin, pasty stool, with much mucus, immediately after breakfast (second day), 1.
- Passed many pieces of a tapeworm (first day), 15.
- Constipation.
- No stool (first day), 1, 2.
SEXUAL ORGANS
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Larynx.
- Stitches in the larynx (first day), 14.
- Dull stitches in the left half of the larynx (third day), 2.
- Voice.
- Hoarseness (first day), 14.
- Hoarseness with pain in the throat (first day), 17. [150.]
- Hoarseness; a feeling of rawness in the trachea; cough (first day), 15.
- Cough and Expectoration.
- Cough, with stitches in the chest (first day), 17.
- Cough, with expectoration of mucus and blood (third day), 13.
- Cough, with some expectoration of blood, hoarseness, and pain in the throat (first day), 16.
- Expectoration of mucus streaked with blood (fourth day), 13.
CHEST
- Pressure on the chest, which disappeared after half an hour; it felt as if all the blood had stagnated in the abdomen, as after nightmare (third day), 1.
- Pressive pain in the chest (third day), 13.
- Sticking pain in the region of the sixth and seventh ribs, increased by inspiration, without cough; it changes to a tearing, its seat being in the intercostal muscles and pleura costalis (first day), 1.
- Stitches in the chest (first day), 16.
- Stitches in the chest, on inspiration, with some cough at noon (second day), 14. [160.]
- Biting in the nipple, without eruption (first day), 4.
- Sternum.
- Oppression across the sternum (second day), 13.
- Pressive sticking pain beneath the sternum, above the præcordial region and the hypochondrium (fourth day), 1.
- Stitches across over the breast-bone (second day), 2.
- Sides.
- Sticking pain, in the left side of the region from the fifth to the seventh rib, after dinner (first day), 2.
- Stitches in the right side, in the lowest ribs (first day), 8.
- Stitches below the right short ribs (third day), 6.
- Stitches in the left side of the chest (second day), 2, 14.
- Stitches in the left side of the chest (second day), 14.
- Stitches in the left side of the chest, between the sixth and seventh ribs (first day), 1.
NECK AND BACK
- Neck. [170.]
- Stiffness of the neck (first day), 10.
- Stiffness of all the muscles of the neck (second day), 1.
- Neck stiff from noon till evening (first day), 9.
- Stiffness in the back of the neck (first day), 7.
- Tension in the muscles of the neck, on both sides (first day), 12.
- Aching and stiffness in the neck, half an hour after rising (third day), 6.
- Tension and stiffness in the nape of the neck and occiput (second day), 1.
- Tearing in the neck (third day), 8.
- Tearing in the muscles of the neck (first day), 1, 8.
- Sticking-tearing pain in the muscles of the neck; continues the whole day (third day), 2. [180.]
- Tearing in the nape of the neck, with stiffness (first day), 7.
- Back.
- Tearing in the back (first day), 7.
- Dorsal.
- Violent pains in the shoulder-blades, extending into the small of the back, when sitting (second day), 4.
- Peculiar pain like rheumatism in both shoulder-blades (first day), 3.
- Rheumatism in the right shoulder-blade, at 10 1/2 P.M. (third day), 2.
- Sensation in both shoulder-blades as if they were fuzzy, and had gone to sleep, at 8 P.M. (second day), 3.
- Sticking in the shoulder-blades (third day), 6.
- Tearing in both shoulder-blades, between the shoulders, then through the neck and occiput as far as the forehead (first day), 5.
- Tearing between the shoulders (first day), 8.
- Tearing between the shoulders (second day), 8. [190.]
- Tearing between the shoulders (third day), 8.
- Rheumatic pain between the shoulder-blades, with stitches, on breathing, and oppression, extending forward to the sternum (first day), 9.
- Tearing between the shoulder-blades (first day), 7.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Trembling in the limbs (first day), 12.
- Trembling in the extremities (first day), 1.
- Trembling in the extremities, and weariness, worse in bed (possibly the result of the day's exertion), (first day), 1. [210.]
- Trembling of the limbs, she could not continue her work; the symptom disappeared after eating a piece of bread (first day), 3.
- Great trembling in the arms and feet (second day), 6.
- Great weariness of the limbs (after one and a half hours), 3.
- Rheumatic pain, alternating in all the joints (third day), 2.
- Slight rheumatic pains in the left arm and in the feet (first day), 1.
- Wandering pains in the extremities (third day), 12.
- Pains in the hands and feet, after a foot-bath (third day), 3.
- Drawing-tearing pain in a joint, when exerting it, or in an unaccustomed position (seventh day), 2.
- Tearing in the right upper arm and right thigh (first day), 7.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Tearing in the left arm (third day), 8. [220.]
- Tearing under the left arm (first day), 8.
- Tearing in the right arm (third day), 7.
- Shoulder.
- Slight rheumatic pain in the right shoulder (third day), 2.
- Rheumatic pain in the left shoulder (first day), 1.
- Tearing in the right shoulder (first day), 5, 7, 8.
- Sticking-tearing pain in the right shoulder, 2.
- Slight rheumatic pain in the right shoulder-joint (second day), 1.
- Rheumatic pain in the left shoulder-joint, at 10 P.M. (second day), 2.
- Aching in the left shoulder-joint on hanging down the arm (second day), 6.
- Tearing-drawing pain in the left shoulder-joint, which extends over the whole upper arm and becomes so violent that it is difficult to raise the arm; it is chiefly seated in the deltoid muscle, in the fascia, and in the shoulder-joint, lasting three hours (immediately after taking), 1. [230.]
- Tearing in the right shoulder-joint (first day), 9.
- Slight tearing in the right shoulder-joint (twenty-first day), 7.
- Tearing in the left shoulder-joint (first day), 7.
- Tearing in the right axilla (first day), 8.
- Tearing in the left axilla (first day), 7.
- Arm.
- Rheumatic pain in the biceps, deltoid, and elbow-joint of the right arm (first day), 2.
- Stitches in the left upper arm (first day), 7.
- Tearing in the left upper-arm (first day), 7.
- Transient dull tearing pain in the left upper arm, from the shoulder to the elbow, after dinner (first day), 4.
- Elbow.
- Stitches in the right elbow (first day), 2. [240.]
- Stitches in the tip of the right elbow (second day), 6.
- Tearing in the elbows (first day), 8.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Severe tension in the lower extremities (third day), 12.
- Hip.
- Transient stitches in the right hip, without moving (second day), 1.
- Wrenching pain in the right hip-joint (second day), 8.
- Stitches from the right hip-joint down to the middle of the thigh (third day), 2.
- Severe stitches in the right hip-joint, on walking, 5 P.M. (first day), 5. [270.]
- Tearing in the right hip-joint (first day), 11.
- Sticking pain in the left hip-joint, when walking, and in the open air (first day), 2.
- Tearing in the left hip-joint (first day), 8.
- Thigh.
- Tearing in both thighs (second day), 8.
- Tearing in the right thigh (first day), 8.
- Tearing in the right thigh (second day), 7.
- Tearing in the right thigh (fourth day), 8.
- Tearing in the left thigh (second day), 8.
- Knee.
- Tearing in both knees, extending down through the feet (first day), 5.
- Stitches in the right knee (second day), 6. [280.]
- Tearing in the right knee (third day), 8.
- Tearing in the hollow of the right knee (first day), 7.
- Tearing in the left knee (second day), 8.
- Tearing in the left knee, at 6 P.M. (first day), 6.
- Tearing and sticking in the left knee (first day), 2.
- Tension in the right knee-joint (first day), 7.
- Violent sticking pain in the right knee-joint, on stepping, continuing in bed on moving it, at 10 P.M. (fourth day), 4.
- Tearing in the right knee-joint (first day), 7, 8.
- Tearing in the right knee-joint (third day), 8.
- Tearing in the left knee-joint (first day), 8.
- Leg. [290.]
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Weariness (first day), 15.
- Great weariness (first day), 12, 16.
- Great weariness (third day), 12.
- Extreme weariness, so that he must lie down, and was only free from the troubles in the throat and cough after eight days, 17.
- In the morning, on rising, weary and peevish (second day), 2.
- Great prostration and trembling of the body (first day), 1.
- On waking, felt as if he had been intoxicated (second day), 2. [310.]
- In the morning he felt unwell, as if he had been intoxicated the day before (he had drunk wine the evening previous), (second day), 1.
SKIN
- Very fine rashlike eruption on the forehead, without biting (second day), 4.
- Six brownish-red, isolated, or partly confluent spots like flea-bites, of the size of a penny, in the lower part of the tibia; the skin somewhat swollen; lasting fourteen days (second day), 2.
- Biting vesicles, filled with lymph, in various parts of the body (first day), 8.
- Biting-itching eruption, with a red areola filled with purulent lymph (fifth day), 2.
- Severe itching and sticking in the skin, especially in the neck and back; small vesicles appear filled with lymph, and surrounded by a red areola (sixth day); the next day the eruption extends to the chest, throat, and behind the ears and occiput, 3.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Sleepiness.
- Yawning (first day), 1.
- Much yawning (first day), 1.
- Great sleepiness in the evening (first day), 7.
- Night quiet, until morning, when a severe tension of the skin wakes him (first day), 12.
- Sleeplessness. [320.]
- Night restless, with many dreams (second day), 9.
- Night restless, with many dreams (third day), 2.
- Night very restless (second night), 1.
- Night restless with confused head (first day), 9.
- Night very restless, tossing hither and thither, loss of sleep, head much confused (first day), 1.
- Night restless, sleepless; continued toothache in a left upper hollow back tooth, also with earache (second day), 2.
- Night restless, sleepless, with many dreams, which could not be remembered the next morning (second day), 2.
- Restless sleep at night, with dreams (first day), 7.
- Restless sleep, with anxious dreams (first day), 7.
- Sleep restless, full of unpleasant dreams (first day), 2. [330.]
- Night quite sleepless, full of dreams, much tossing about in bed (third day), 2.
- Nightmare and restless dreams (third night), 1.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Shivering down the back (first day), 9.
- Severe chill (first day), 17.
- Violent chill, in the evening, on going to bed (first day), 4.
- Very violent chill at 7 P.M., lasting half an hour (first day), 3.
- Severe shaking chill, with chattering of the teeth, at 7 1/2 P.M. (first day), 6.
- Chilliness for several weeks, in summer, 19.
- A severe chilliness, on rising, 3.
- Great chilliness of the whole body in the evening, on going to sleep (first day), 3. [340.]
- Continued chilliness, followed by heat at noon (fifth day), 12.
- Severe shaking chill at 7 P.M., lasting an hour, followed by severe heat in the head, lasting half an hour (first day), 5.
- Heat.
- Severe burning of the skin, before going to sleep (in the evening,
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), On rising, feeling in eye; pain in small of back; on rising, weary, etc.
- ( Forenoon ), Confused head.
- ( Noon ), Griping in abdomen; stitches in chest, etc.; till evening, neck stiff.
- ( Afternoon ), 5 o'clock, pain in ear.
- ( Evening ), Confusion of head; when drinking beer, head confused; in bed, after drinking beer, head confused; vertigo; pain in occiput; sensations as if hairs were pulled up; by candlelight, burning in eyes; while reading, at 10 o'clock, burning of eyes; on going to bed, chilly; on going to sleep, chilliness; before going to sleep, burning of the skin.
- ( Night ), 2 o'clock, toothache.
- ( In open air ), Pain in hip-joint.
- ( In bed ), Trembling in the extremities, etc.
- ( When bending forward ), Stitches in the intestines.
- ( After eating bread ), Nausea.
- ( At dinner ), Pain from right eye.
- ( After dinner ), Nausea; pain in rib-region.
- ( On hanging down arm ), Aching in shoulder-joint.
- ( Inspiration ), Pain in rib-region; stitches in chest.
- ( Pressure ), Pain in jaws.
- ( On rising ), Pain in throat.
- ( After rising ), Aching, etc., in neck; chilly.
- ( When sitting ), Pains in shoulder-blades.
- ( On stepping ), Pain in knee-joints.
- ( On stooping ), Pain in head.
- ( On waking ), Pain in small of back.
- ( On walking ), Stitches in hip-joint; pain in hip-joint.
- Amelioration.
- ( ), Pain in articulation of jaws.