Gallicum Acidum

Gallic acid, C7H6O5.

Preparation , Triturations.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. D. S. Kimball's proving with 1 grain of the 1/20th trituration, Amer. Hom. Observer, 1872, p. 523; 2 , Same prover took (for "the relics of an old dyspepsia") 1st dec. trit., 3 grains twice, first day; 3 grains and 4 grains, third day; 10 grains and 20 grains, fourth day; 20 grains and 37 grains, fifth day; 1 b , "feeling some of the old symptoms," took 3 grains first and second days; 1 c , symptoms having returned, took 2 grains; 1 d , repeated last dose, ibid.; 3 , effects of 15 to 90 grains daily, in a case of aneurism, on Ward's Island; from report to N. Y. State Hom. Med. Soc., 1876.

MIND

• Wild delirium at night, talks strangely; is very restless, jumps out of bed, swears profusely; is afraid to be left alone, insists upon constantly being watched; is exceedingly rude and abuses every one, even his best friends; is jealous of his nurse and curses every one who speaks to hers, 3.

HEAD

• Complains of considerable pain in the head and neck, 3.
• Small pimple on the top of the head (fourth day), 1.

NOSE

• Discharge from nose thick and stringy, 3.
• Nosebleed, 3.

MOUTH

• Gums sore on the left side, around a decayed tooth (first day), 2.
• Dryness of the mouth, fauces, and throat, 2d.
• Taste less acute at dinner than at breakfast (after seven hours), 1.

THROAT

• Dryness of the throat and mouth, with bad taste in deep sleep and dreams, at night (second day), 2. [10.]
• Increased roughness and secretion of phlegm in the throat and posterior nares; had it before taking the acid, but worse now (second day), 1.

STOMACH

• Appetite diminished (after seven hours), 1.
• Appetite lessened, with an astringent taste in the mouth, at noon (first day), 2b.
• Slight nausea (after second dose, first day), 2.

ABDOMEN

• A passage from the bowels as usual, only a little later, about 12 M., leaving a smarting, aching, faint, sick, hungry, and gnawing sensation in the bowels, extending to the stomach, with nausea, lasting most of the afternoon (second day), 1.
• Gnawing, faint and sick sensation in the bowels, towards morning (second day), 1.
• Smarting in the lower part of the bowels, extending upward to the stomach, with an astringent sensation in the same (second day), 1.

ANUS

• Sensation of contraction of the anus, requiring a greater effort for expulsion at stool, which comes, at length, in bulk, as if accumulated there (next morning), 2d.

STOOL

• Stool, commonly between 10 and 11 A.M., delayed until 3 P.M. (first day), 2.

URINARY ORGANS

• Urine somewhat increased (after second dose, first day); of usual color and appearance but increased seven ounces (second morning), decreased three ounces (third morning), 2. [20.]
• Increased secretion of pale urine, with distension of the bladder, 1.
• Increased secretion of straw-colored urine before noon and during the day (first day), less so during the night, and high-colored in the morning (second day), 2d.
• Lay down to sleep in the afternoon, and awoke after sleeping one hour, with uneasy distension of the vesica and greatly increased flow of pale, tasteless, light-colored, limpid urine (second day), 1 . [It is proper to remark that I ate watermelon at dinner, and had been constantly eating them for ten or twelve days before, excepting when I first commencement taking the medicine, and do not think this increase of urine occasioned by the melon, because it commenced with the first taking of the medicine, and before eating the melon; besides this, I had been accustomed to the melon, so that its diuretic action had ceased.]
• Urine in the morning twenty ounces, with some red sediment (sixth day), 2.

CHEST

• Pain in right lung lessened on lying down, at 9 P.M. (third day); not so severe on rising in the morning; increased by coughing and full inspiration (fourth day). [I inhaled Aconite to relieve it, as I had suffered ten months previous from congestion and inflammation of the lungs, more especially the right one, which was subdued by the timely administration of appropriate remedies in the incipient stage, though the effects lasted some time.]
• The pain somewhat increased in the evening (fourth day), 1.
• Some aching in the middle and upper part of the lungs, more in the left, extending through the muscles of the neck and right shoulder, and down the upper portion of the spine, especially on moving and turning the head, in the morning (third and fifth days), 2.
• Before and after rising in the morning, felt soreness in the right lung on gaping and coughing, and after a full inspiration (fifth day), 1.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Jerking of limbs, 3.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Weak and excessively irritable, 3.

SKIN

• Itching of the skin, in various parts, 2, 2b, 2c.

SLEEP AND DREAMS. [30.]

• Amorous dreams in the night (first and second night), 1.

FEVER

• Easy perspiration in the afternoon and evening (first day), 2b.