IPECACUANHA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Cephaëlis Ipecacuanha, A. Richard.
Natural order , Rubiaceæ.
Common names (German), Brech-wurzel; Ipecac.
Preparation , Trituration and tincture of the root.
Authorities. (Nos.
1 to 15 , from Hahnemann).
1 , Hahnemann, Mat. Med. Pura; 2 , Langhammer, ibid.; 3 , Lehmann, ibid.; 4 , Stapf, ibid.; 5 , Clark, in Murray, Appar. Med., I, p. 814 (effects when given in dysentery, without relief); 6 , Cleghorn, Diseases of Minorca, p. 249 (when given in dysentery); 7 , Fothergill, Med. Obs. and Inq., Art. XVIII, when given in chronic diarrhœa; 8 , Geoffroy, Traité de la Mat. Méd., II, p. 92, accidents liable to happen to those who powder the drug; 9 , Gmelin, Untersuch., etc., 1793 (no obs. about Ipecacuanha in ed. of 1787); 10 , Hillary, Air and Diseases of Barbadoes (page 215, as Cleghorn); 11 , Heller (D. Nat. A.), in Hufel. Journ., XXVII, 1, p. 51 (effects when given in chronic agues; subjects of nearly all the symptoms had had six paroxysms already; his face was yellow, and the præcordia tender); 12 , Lemery, Traité Univ. des Drog. Simpl., p. 438, from the powder drawn into the nose, Hahnemann; (from taking Ipecacuanha in large doses of powder), local irritations obviated by moistening it; 13 , Murray, Med. Pr. Biblioth., III, p. 237 (not accessible); 14 , Pye, Hughes, Med. Obs. and Inquir., Art. XXII, p. 266 (after ineffectual attempts at vomiting); 15 , Scott, in Edin. Med. Com., IV, p. 74 (effect of powdering Ipecacuanha at a distance in one idiosyncratically susceptible to its influence); 16 , Bock, Inaug. Diss., Dieppe, 1830 (A. H. Z., 32, p. 63), took repeated doses of 1/2 to 15 grains; 17 , Lembke, A. H. Z., 37, p. 125, proving with 1/2 grain, repeated after half an hour; 18 , Robinson, Br. Journ. of Hom., 24, p. 515, a man took 3d dilution three times a day; 19 , Preger, Rust's Mag., 1830, vol. 32, effects of powdering Ipecacuanha in a man who had suffered from habitual cough and catarrh; 20 , Bullock, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1836, p. 701, a man affected on entering a room where Ipecacuanha was being prepared; has been affected the same way a dozen times; 21 , Patterson, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1843, p. 411, effects of using Ipecacuanha in his practice (he had catarrh five years before asthma commenced); 22 , Turner, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1843, p. 229, effects of dust while preparing Ipecacuanha; 22 a , same, took 1/2 drachm of powdered Ipecacuanha in tepid water; 22 b , effects of a single pill of about 1 grain, twice; 22 c , two attacks from exposure to Ipecacuanha; 23 , Hannay, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1843, p. 322, effects of liniment of Ipecacuanha; 24 , Payne, Western Journ. of Med. (Bost. M. and S. Journ., 1844, p. 84), effects of inhalation while filling a jar; 25 , Robertson, Am. J. Med. Sc., 1844, p. 252, from West. J. of Med., effects of inhalation while preparing a powder of Ipecacuanha; 25 a , effect of wine of Ipecacuanha for deranged stomach; 25 b , same, another inhalation; 25 c , same, touched tongue to wine of Ipecacuanha; 25 d , same, sequela to attacks; 26 , Roberts, from Pereira, effects of remaining in a room while preparing Ipecacuanha; 27 , Tamhayn, Journ. of Pharm. and Therap., I, 397, effects in an apothecary of powdering Ipecacuanha; 28 , Stillmann, Am. J. of Hom. Mat. Med., 1875, p. 367, effect of syrup of Ipecacuanha in a child eighteen months old, teaspoonful doses repeated every 1/2 hour till it vomited.
MIND
- Emotional.
- *The child cries and screams violently and incessantly; sticks its fist into its mouth; its face is pale and the body rather cool (after one hour), 1.
- His mind is full of wishes and longings, but he does not know for what, 1.
- Lively mood; he is inclined to talk, and even to joke, 2 . [Curative reaction from the previous opposite condition of mind. -Hahnemann.]
- Whining mood; must be carried about, 28.
- He does not speak a word, 1.
- Takes no delight in anything; nothing pleases him, 1.
- His courage sinks, and he is extremely inclined to be peevish and ill-humored, 1.
- He is thoughtful, fearful, and thinks trifles are very important (after six hours), 1.
- Ill-humored; he thinks that he is very unhappy, 1. [10.]
- Ill-humored the whole day; had no desire to talk, and was inclined to weep, 2.
- Ill-humored and vexed that his business does not proceed fast enough, 1.
- Ill-humored, quiet, retired in himself, scorning everything, 1.
- Morose mood that scorns everything, and desires also that others shall not appreciate or value anything, 1.
- He is averse to everything, 1.
- Extremely inclined to be obstinate and fretful, 1.
- Extremely impatient, 1.
- He becomes exasperated at the slightest noise, 1.
- He frequently becomes angry at the merest trifles; and again just as easily and speedily can be quieted (after five hours), 1.
- Intellectual.
- Disinclination to work, 3. [20.]
- Aversion to literary work; ideas fail him (after twenty-nine hours), 3.
- His flow of ideas is very slow, 1.
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo.
- Confusion of the head, 17.
- Vertigo (after a quarter of an hour), 16.
- Vertigo, while walking, 1.
- Vertigo, as if the head were reeling hither and thither, with momentary disappearance of thought, only when walking, and especially on turning around (after two hours), 4.
- General Head.
- Heaviness and diminished power of thought (quarter of an hour after 2 grains), 26.
- Heaviness of the head, with sleepiness, 3.
- Painful heaviness of the head (after two hours), 4.
- Feeling of heaviness and pressure in the head (after a quarter of an hour), 16. [30.]
- Violent headache, 24.
- Tensive headache, 1.
- A dull drawing back and forth in the head (immediately), 3.
- Pressure in the head and forehead, as if the brain were compressed by two tables (after quarter of an hour), 16.
- Pressive headache, 1.
- Headache; sticking and heaviness, 1.
- Acute and severely sticking headache, in short paroxysms, which after an hour changes to a pressure (after eight hours), 1.
- Tearing headache in the morning after rising from bed, lasting till noon, less in the afternoon (after thirty-one hours), 3.
- Headache as from a bruise of the brain and skull, which pierces through all the cranial bones into the roots of the teeth, with nausea, 1.
- Forehead.
- Headache extending from the forehead to the vertex (after 1 grain), 16. [40.]
- Burning pain in the forehead, aggravated by touch (after 8 grains), 16.
- Boring pain in the forehead (after half an hour), 17.
- Acutely sticking pain in the forehead, caused and aggravated by touching the part, 1.
- Tearing pain in the forehead, caused and aggravated by touching the part, 1.
- Violent tearing headache in the forehead, aggravated on stooping (after two hours), .
EYE
- Objective.
- Inflammation of the eyes, 8 . [Local effect. -Hughes.]
- Eyes a little inflamed, 15 . [Original revised by Hughes.]
- Subjective.
- Pain in the eyes like that in the head, the eyeballs seemed forced out of their orbits and objects seemed befogged, 16.
- Awakened at 3 A.M., by raging pain, more severe in the right, less in the left eye, with excessive lachrymation, which soaked the pillow, and loss of vision (first night), 27.
- Intense tearing pains, especially in the right eye, extending but a little way towards the temple; on opening the right lids, which were swollen, a copious gush of tears; the conjunctiva of the bulb was injected and infiltrated; the tunica vaginalis swollen, the cornea dim as if infiltrated; on close examination there were noticed a number of small depressions; the iris seemed congested and had a dull look, the pupils contracted, reacting but little or not at all in the light; vision completely lost; after eight weeks these symptoms appeared in the left eye after again pounding Ipecac., but this time associated with nausea and inclination to vomit; a third time, after several months, after pounding Ipecac, he was awakened in the night by tensive pains in the eyes, lachrymation, loss of vision, etc.; a fourth time after pounding Ipecac, he experienced a slight biting and pressing pain in the eye, light blinded him and increased the pain, the conjunctiva became red and chemosed, and again there was copious lachrymation; this time the right eye was most affected, vision was lost; with the left eye the patient saw fiery rings with rainbow colors, 27.
- Severe stitches above the eye on stooping, with a sensation as if it were swollen (after twenty hours), 1.
- Lids.
- Lids, especially the right, swollen, 27.
- Hardened mucus in the external canthi (after seven and a half and twelve hours), 2.
- Dryness of the lids, with sleepiness (after eight hours), 1.
- Lachrymal Apparatus. [60.]
- Eyes suffused, 20.
- Effusion of tears, 24.
- Pupil.
- Dilatation of the pupils (after two hours and a half), 2.
EAR
- Pressive pain extending from the concha into the drum, then to the occipital protuberance (after twenty-eight hours), 3.
- Dulness of hearing in the right ear, with pressure in it, 3.
NOSE
- Objective.
- Sneezing, 20.
- Much sneezing, with thin nasal mucus (after half an hour), 17.
- Violent repeated sneezing, 3.
- Paroxysms of sneezing, almost sufficient to throw me from my saddle, lasting about two hours and gradually subsiding, with cough and expectoration (after ten or fifteen minutes), 21. [70.]
- Catarrh, with drawing pains in all the limbs, 1.
- Nosebleed, 8, 12, 13 . [As S. 51. -Hughes.]
- Subjective.
- Feeling of dryness in the nose and frontal sinuses (after three hours), 1.
- Feeling of dry catarrh in the nose, as if the nostrils were too dry (after three hours), 1.
- Attacks of asthma seemed to commence generally with a feeling of irritation of the nasal membrane, which rapidly extended to the bronchi and all their ramifications, 25b.
- Most harassing titillation of the nostrils, 21.
FACE
- Objective.
- Countenance anxious and livid, 20.
- Face pale and puffed, 28.*
- Pale, sunken face (after half an hour), 17.*
- Pale face, with blue rings around the eyes , and great weakness, as after a prolonged severe illness, 1.*
- His appearance became quite yellow (after seven or eight days), 18.
- Lips. [80.]
- Biting sensation on the lips, 1.
- Sensation in the corners of the mouth as if they were sore, when touched, and on moving the lips, 1.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Pain in the teeth as if they would be torn out, paroxysmal (after eight hours), 1.
- Extremely violent pain in a hollow tooth when biting anything, as if it would be torn out, even to crying out and screaming, followed by constant tearing in it (after one hour), 1.
- Tongue.
- Burning in the tongue and upper lip (after a quarter of an hour), 16.
- A biting sensation on the margin of the tongue, 1.
- Biting on the margins of the lips, tip, and sides of the tongue, with accumulation of watery saliva in the mouth, and some pain in the abdomen (after half an hour), 14.
- A sensation on the back part of the tongue and on the palate, like that caused by chewing liverwort or Artemisia dracunculus, which profusely increases the saliva, 1.
- General Mouth.
- Dryness and rawness in the mouth, especially in the pharynx (after half an hour), 3.
- In an instant that peculiar, burning, indescribable sensation was felt in the mouth, which rapidly extended itself to the fauces and down the throat and bronchia, and for two hours I suffered greatly, and had considerable dyspnœa, all of which gradually disappeared, 25c. [90.]
- All parts of the mouth much too sensitive and almost painfully so, 1.
- Saliva.
- Increased flow of saliva, 17.*
- Increased accumulation of saliva (after a quarter of an hour), 16.*
- Profuse accumulation of saliva in the mouth (after two hours and a half), 1.*
- Profuse accumulation of saliva , for some hours, 1.*
- Profuse accumulation of saliva , with much nausea and a sensation as if it would amount to vomiting, 17.
- Saliva runs from the mouth on lying down, 1.
- *Is constantly obliged to swallow saliva (after one hour), 1.
THROAT
- Dryness of the throat (one quarter of an hour after 2 grains), 16.
- Immediately in the throat and stomach a totally indescribable sensation, but as intolerable to be borne (if life could have been sustained under it), as if I had taken a drink of melted lead; it was so overpowering that I was unable to think of any method of relief, but in the most distressing agony leaped out of bed and rolled over the floor, from side to side of the room; at length I was urged to drink copiously of warm water, which produced some vomiting and some mitigation of my intense suffering; the distress slowly subsided, and settled into one of my worst attacks of asthma, 25a.
- Spasmodic contractive sensation in the throat and chest, 15.
- Dull stitches transversely through the throat into the inner ear, 1.
- Sore throat, 8 . [As S. 51. -Hughes.]
- Fauces and Pharynx.
- Dry, burning sensation in the fauces, amounting almost to suffocation, 20. [110.]
- Fine sticking in the pharynx (after half an hour and one hour), 1.
- Pain in the pharynx as if it were much too dry, raw, and sore, which is always relieved, for only a short time by swallowing saliva or the usual drink (after one hour), 1.
- Swallowing.
- Swallowing difficult, as from paralysis of the tongue and pharynx (after eight hours), 1.
- Pain on swallowing, as if there were a swelling in the pharynx (after one hour), 1.
STOMACH
- Thirst.
- Loss of thirst, 1.
- Eructation.
- Eructations (after a quarter of an hour), 16.
- Eructations every eight to ten minutes, also the following day, with rumbling in the abdomen, 3.*
- Empty eructations, 17.
- Nausea and Vomiting.
- *Nausea (after a quarter of an hour), 16, 17.
- *Nausea, as from the stomach, with empty eructations and accumulation of much saliva (after half an hour), 2. [120.]
- Nausea rising from the stomach with hiccough, only at last disappearing after several pasty stools, immediately after smoking tobacco as usual (after fourteen hours), 2.
- Nausea, qualmishness, 4.*
- Nausea, qualmishness, and efforts to vomit (after one hour and a quarter), 3.*
- Nausea and vomiting, 1.
- (Nausea and heaviness in the abdomen), 1.
- At times nausea and convulsive but ineffectual efforts to vomit, 21.
- Slight degree of nausea, 22.
- *Distressing nausea, 5.
- Qualmishness in the abdomen, with incipient colic, 3.
- Inclination to vomit (1/2 grain), 17 ; (a quarter of an hour after 2 grains), 16.* [130.]
- Great inclination to vomit, several times, at momentary intervals, 17.
- Severe inclination to vomit (after 4 grains), 16.
- Vomiting, and a feeling as if he would fall down, on stooping, 3.
- Vomiting (after half an hour), followed by great inclination to sleep (after 15 grains), 16.
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Pinching pain in both hypochondria and in the region of the pit of the stomach (after three hours), 1.*
- Violent stitches in the left hypochondrium (after half an hour), 1.
- Umbilical and Sides.
- Cutting pain about the umbilicus, with shivering, 1.
- Cutting pain about the umbilicus, as if menstruation would appear, with chilliness and coldness of the body, while internally heat mounts into the head (after two hours), 1.
- Cutting pain in the side of the abdomen, in the umbilical region, aggravated by touch and external pressure, accompanied by white frothy saliva in the mouth and dilated pupils (after one-eighth of an hour), 1.
- (Sticking pains in the abdomen, and burning and sticking in the rectum with urging to stool), 1.
- General Abdomen. [160.]
- Abdomen distended, with constant pain, 17.
- Distension of the abdomen (4 grains; quarter of an hour after 2 grains), 16.
- Feeling of extreme distension and enlargement of the abdomen, 1.
- Uneasiness in the abdomen (after half an hour), 1.
- Griping in the abdomen (after quarter of an hour), 16.
- Clawing griping in the abdomen, as if grasped by a hand so that each outstretched finger pressed sharply upon the intestines, relieved by rest, extremely aggravated by the slightest motion, 1.*
- Pinching pain and distension in the abdomen (after 1 grain), 16.
- Pinching colic (after half an hour), 17.
- Colic (quarter of an hour after 2 grains), 16.
- Colic with rumbling in the intestines (after 8 grains), 16. [170.]
- Flatulent colic, 1.
- Hypogastrium.
- On coughing, pain in the abdomen as if obliged to urinate and the urine could not pass, as in retention of urine, 1.
ANUS
- Sticking, cutting, burning pain on the margin of the anus, as in obstinate hæmorrhoids (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
- Violent stitches in the anus, 1.
- Crawling in the anus, as if threadworms could extrude, 3.
STOOL
- Stools like diarrhœa, as if fermented (after one hour), 1.*
- Purging, 13.
- Frequent thin stools, with a weak sensation in the abdomen, 3.
- *Stools frequent, of greenish mucus, 28.
- Soft stool (after two hours), 17 . [The second the same morning, contrary to his habit.] [180.]
- (Thin stool, with burning-sticking pain in the rectum and anus), 1.
- (Stools lemon-yellow), 1.
- (Porraceous stools), 1.
- (Grass-green stools), 11.
- Offensive stools, 1.
- Bloody stools, 15 . [This and S. 192, 213, represent the following: She coughed up at times some small quantities of blood, and had also some mixed with her stools and urine. -Hughes.]*
- Fecal discharge covered with red bloody mucus, 1.
URINARY ORGANS
- Urethra.
- (A purulent fluid flowed from the urethra of a child for several days, with biting pain), 1.
- Micturition.
- Inclination to urinate, although urine had been passed an hour and a half before, and nothing had been eaten or drunk since, 17.
- Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge (after two hours, and two hours and a quarter), 2. [190.]
- (Frequent micturition of straw-yellow urine, with great burning and urging before the discharge, without subsequent tenesmus), (after two hours), 4.
- Urine.
- *Urine red, scanty, 1 . [Compare S. 171. -Hahnemann.]
- Bloody urine, 15 . [See note to S. 185. -Hughes.]
- Urine became bloody (after seven or eight days), 18.
- [Urine turbid with a brickdust sediment], 11.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Voluptuous itching on the glans penis, while standing, which obliges scratching (after three hours and a half), 2.
- Twisting-drawing pain in the testicles (after eight or ten hours), 1.
- Sticking in the testicles, when resting one thigh over the other (after two hours), 2.
- Female.
- Pressing and dragging towards the uterus and anus, 1.
- A show of the menses fourteen days before their time, 15 . [Original revised by Hughes.] [200.]
- The bloody discharge at the close of menstruation was suppressed, 1 . [From the secondary or antagonistic reaction of the system: *For the primary action of Ipecac causes bloody discharges from all the orifices of the body, and especially brings on menstruation ; hence it homœopathically cures such conditions as these when the other symptoms of the patient correspond to those of Ipecac. Compare S. 154, 198, etc. -Hahnemann.]
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Larynx.
- *Rattling noises in the air-passages during respiration, 1.
- Dryness, burning, and scraping in the larynx (after 8 grains), 16.
- Cough and Expectoration.
- Cough caused by a constrictive tickling sensation extending from the upper portion of the larynx to the lowest extremity of the bronchi (after four, six, and seven hours), 1.*
- *Cough causing inclination to vomit without nausea (after one hour), 1.
- Cough incessant after walking in the cold air and after lying down in the morning and evening, caused by deep inspiration; accompanied by pain in the abdomen as if the umbilicus would be torn out, heat in the face (head) and sweat on the forehead, 1.
- Violent and convulsive cough, 29.
- Extremely violent convulsive cough between 6 and 7 P.M., 9.
- Suffocating cough, whereby the child becomes quite stiff and blue in the face (after ten hours), 1.
- Suffocative racking, very exhausting cough , lasting an hour, towards evening, 9.* [210.]
- Suffocative, extremely exhausting cough , lasting half an hour, with coldness of the extremities, about 7 P.M., 9.
- Dry cough caused by tickling in the upper part of the larynx (after two, three, and five hours), 1.*
- Cough with expectoration of thick disagreeable, metallic-tasting mucus, 15 . [As the asthmatic paroxysms of S. 236 passed off. -Hughes.]
- Cough, with expectoration of blood, 8, 13, 15 . [See note to S. 185. -Hughes.]*
- Throbbing pain in the head and pit of the stomach, after coughing, 1.
- When expectoration became free, and mucus was formed in great quantities by the mucous membrane of the bronchia, in the morning, after resting through the night from the cough, expectoration would commence freely on stirring about a little, and mouthfuls would be thrown up, which any person at first sight would have pronounced to be a mass of small, nearly transparent worms; on close examination I discovered it to be thickened mucus which had collected in the small ramifications of the bronchial tubes during sleep, and was actually discharged so as to be ; this would sometimes be thrown up in such quantities, in the morning, that it really surprised me that sufficient air could have passed through the lungs for the purposes of life while sleeping, .
Eth. sulph .; on the other, where the interrupted breathing had continued fearfully long, and where swallowing was impossible, inhaling the fumes of burning paper previously saturated with
Nitras. potass . alleviated the symptoms almost instantaneously, 22c.
- In about the usual time for an emetic to operate, there seemed to be a simultaneous effort to breathe, cough, and vomit, while neither of these functions was performed in any degree of perfection, producing a state of suffering indescribable by words; the whole muscles of the chest and abdomen seemed in a state of violent irregular spasm, every effort to vomit being interrupted by an attempt to cough; and notwithstanding a cold March wind was blowing, it became necessary to open the windows and support me in an erect position for nearly an hour to prevent immediate suffocation; at the end of about an hour, without any previous mitigation of symptoms, I was almost instantaneously and completely relieved; on the appearance of the eruption, 22a.
- Sudden attack of troublesome shortness of breath with a wheezing noise, 15 . [Original revised by Hughes.]
- Attack of suffocation , lasting two to three days, 15. [220.]
- Most violent attack of suffocative constriction in the air-passages and pharynx, face deathly pale, with most frightful anxiety for want of air, 19.
- Cough impedes respiration, even to suffocation, 1.*
- *Dyspnœa, 1, 13.
- Dyspnœa, or suffocating sensation of stricture of the chest, and a most distressing oppression at the præcordia, 21.
- Dyspnœa for several hours, 1.
- Dyspnœa in the evening, 1.
- Dyspnœa renewed after twenty-four hours, from 10 P.M. till 10 A.M., for eight days, 15.
- Immediately seized with most urgent dyspnœa, with a sense of constriction across the chest, accompanied with violent and convulsive cough , which, together with the sneezing, continued for some time, until at length his countenance became anxious and livid, 20.*
- Dyspnœa comes on in a violent degree, attended with wheezing and great weight and anxiety about the præcordia (in a few seconds); the attack generally remains about an hour, but I obtain no relief until a copious expectoration takes place, which is invariably the case, 26.*
- A severe paroxysm of asthma , continuing several days (after eight or ten hours), 22b. [230.]
CHEST
- Peculiar uneasiness in the chest, which caused me to withdraw; this becoming somewhat less, I returned to the operation, but before I had emptied all of the article out of the paper, the sensation in the lungs grew so distressing that I was alarmed; great difficulty of breathing with a sense of suffocation; a dry, hacking cough, 24.
- Contractive sensation beneath the short ribs, 1.
- Constriction of the chest, with shortness of breath and wheezing respiration; she was obliged to open the window and gasp for air, with paleness of the face, scarcely perceptible pulse, and apparent danger of suffocation , from evening till 9 A.M., 15 . [Original revised by Hughes.]*
- (Griping (jerking-tearing?) pains in the right chest, beneath the shoulder, of short duration), 1.
- Pressure in the chest (a quarter of an hour after two grains), 16.
- Oppression of the chest, 19. [240.]
- Oppression of the chest in the forenoon, with shortness of breath, as if he were in a great dust, and could not breathe on account of it, 1.*
- Oppression of the chest after eating, 1.
HEART AND PULSE
- [Indescribable aching about the heart (pit of the stomach?)], 11.
- Palpitation, 1.
- Palpitation, almost without anxiety, 1.
- Quick pulse, 24.
- Pulse rapid, 20.
BACK
- (Pinching pain between the scapulæ on motion), 1.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Creaking and cracking in the joints, 1.
- Sleepiness and heaviness in all the limbs (after two hours), 3. [250.]
- Pains in the joints, as if usual when the limb goes to sleep (after three hours), 1.
- Drawing pain in the bones of the upper arm and thigh in the evening after lying down (after five hours), 1.
- Pressive and spasmodic pain in the hollow of the right knee and in the left arm, aggravated by touch (after four grains), 16.
- Pain, as if bruised in all the bones (after three hours), 1.
- When she wishes to sleep, she feels shocks through all the limbs, 1.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Sudden spasmodic contractions of the arms, 1.
- Pinching pains in the right arm (after three hours), 1.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Twitching of the lower limbs, 28.
- Weariness of the lower extremities (after four grains), 16.
- Pinching pain in the left hip, extending from the crest of the ilium to the great trochanter (after four grains), 16. [260.]
- Weariness of the thighs and lower limbs (after eight and nine hours), 1.
- Pains shooting, as it were, from the right kidney down the thigh of the same side to the knee-joint, like cramp (after seven or eight days), 18.
- Pain in the knee, as if the tendons and ligaments were wearied by a long walk, 1.
- Pain in the left knee, as if sprained, especially when walking; seldom and unnoticed while sitting (after one hour), 4.
- Some stitches in the right tibia (after four grains), 16.
- Twitching and crawling in the muscles of the calf, as if a limb were asleep, 1.
- The feet feel weary, 17.
- Pinching pain in the right foot (after four hours), 1.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Objective.
- A swaying to and fro of the body to either side, as in drunkenness, with stupefaction of the head, while walking in the open air in the evening (after ten hours), 2.
- Stiffness of the body, 28. [270.]
- *The body of the child is stretched out stiff, 1.
- The whole body is outstretched, stiff, whereupon a spasmodic contraction of the arm follows (after a quarter of an hour), 1.*
- Opisthotonos, 28.
- Symptoms of emprosthotonos and opisthotonos (after ten hours), 1.
- He is awkward, clumsy, and knocks against everything, 1.
- Very weak, indolent, depressed, and chilly (after half an hour), 17.
- Extreme weakness (after one hour), 22a.*
- Exhaustion, 15.
- Extreme restlessness; it continued three days, 23.
- Subjective.
- Excessive sensitiveness to cold and warmth, 1. [280.]
- Anxiety in the blood in the morning on waking, as if he had been in great heat, or had perspired profusely, or were awakened by anxious dreams, though he was neither hot nor sweaty, together with heaviness in the head, as if the brain were compressed, 1.
- On waking, a peculiar sensation of lightness, with good appetite (after one hour and a quarter), 17.
- (Sticking pains here and there in the body, caused by motion, ending in burning), 1.
SKIN
- Objective.
- Very numerous small papulæ and vesicles, seated on a deep-red base of irregular extent (after about thirty-six hours, or sooner); they become flattened in a short period, and assume the pustular character; many of them run together, are confluent, the part feels hot to the hand of another, and a tingling sensation, never amounting to pain, is experienced by the patient; the eruption endures pretty vividly for a few (three) days, during which the pustules become covered with a scablike scale and fall off, leaving no mark; they never ulcerate, 23.
- Burning heat over the whole surface of the body, which was found to proceed from a kind of erysipelatous eruption, covering every portion, similar to what is seen after exposing the naked skin to the burning sun; the patches were circular, and varied from the size of a six pence to that of the palm of the hand, considerably elevated, with thick rounded edges, and of a fiery color (after one hour), 22a.
- [Lips covered with eruption externally], 1.
- [Lips covered with aphthæ and scabs], 11.
- (Nettlerash on the forehead, extending into the hair and down on the cheeks), 1.
- (Tetterlike eruption on the wrist and about the arms, which itches most in the evening and after lying down, after scratching, red pimples appear on the skin, though the itching does not cease), 1.
- Subjective.
- Feeling of formication on the calf (after four grains), 16.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Sleepiness. [290.]
- Yawning and stretching after eating, 1.
- Frequent yawning (after a quarter of an hour), 16.
- Sleepiness, 1.
- Sleepiness (after one grain), 16.
- Sleepiness, weariness (after two hours), 4.
- Sleep, immediately, 1.
- Sleep, with half-opened eyes (after six hours), 1.
- Sleeplessness.
- Uneasy sleep, 15.
- Sleep full of restlessness and sobbing, 1.
- Sleep interrupted by frequent waking and frightful dreams (after ten hours), 1. [300.]
- He starts up in sleep, 1.
- Sobbing fearfulness during sleep, 1.
- Dreams.
- Vivid unremembered dreams, with frequent waking, as from wakefulness, at night, 2.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- He became cold over the body, 1.
- He has no warmth at all in his body, 1.
- Chilliness, 17.
- Chilliness; he is unable to endure the slightest cold, 1.
- Chilliness, followed by heat, and afterwards perspiration , coming on after the pain in the eye had lasted for some time, 27.*
- Frequent chilliness, 17.
- Constant chilliness beneath the skin, and more when sitting in a warm place, 1. [310.]
- Chilly, feverish, and thirsty (after seven or eight days), 18.
- Chilly the whole night in bed; was unable to sleep on account of chilliness, 1.
- External coldness with internal heat, 1.*
- Shivering, with yawning (after half an hour), 1.
- Shivering, with eructations, 1.
- Febrile paroxysm, first shivering, then chilliness, with coldness, without thirst , about 4 P.M. (after five hours), 1.*
- Shivering coldness in the limbs, immediately, as if one were startled by something, 3.
- Hands cold and moist, 17.
- One hand is cold, 1.
- The hands and feet are icy cold, and wet with cold sweat, with redness of one cheek and paleness of the other; he feels extremely sick and weak in mind and body, with dilated pupils (after ten hours), 1. [320.]
- Heat.
- Heat of the whole body in the evening, 1.
- Sudden general heat about 4 P.M., with perspiration on the arms and back (after sixteen hours), 1.
- A violently increasing, almost burning heat (sensation of heat) in the head and over the whole body, though with cold hands and feet; as the heat increases to its greatest severity, some perspiration breaks out on the trunk and head, with biting-itching, especially on the neck (after one hour), 3.
- External without internal heat (after several hours), 1.
- Feeling of warmth, extending from the abdomen up into the chest, and at times accompanied by sticking (after eight grains), .
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), After rising from bed, tearing headache; on waking, anxiety in blood.
- ( Afternoon ), Between 6 and 7 o'clock, convulsive cough; towards evening, suffocative cough; about 7 o'clock, suffocative cough; about 4 o'clock, general heat.
- ( Evening ), Dyspnœa; heat of body.
- ( Night ), From 10 P.M. till 10 A.M., dyspnœa; from evening till 9 A.M., constriction of chest, etc., in bed, chilly.
- ( Walking in cold air ), Cough.
- ( Coughing ), Pain in abdomen.
- ( After eating ), Oppression of chest.
- ( After lying down ), In morning and evening, cough, etc.
- ( Motion ), Griping in abdomen ; pain between scapulæ.
- ( Pressure ), Colic in umbilical region.
- ( Stooping ), Headache in forehead; stitches above eye; vomiting, eye.
- ( Touch ), Pain in forehead; pain in umbilical region; pain in hollow of knee, etc.
- ( Walking ), Vertigo; especially on turning around, reeling vertigo; pain in knee.
- ( Sitting in warm place ), Chilliness.
- Amelioration.
- ( Closing eyes ), Pain in temples, etc.
- ( Pressure ), Pain in temples, etc.
- ( Rest ), Griping in abdomen.
- ( Sitting ), Pain in knee.
SUPPLEMENT: IPECACUANHA. Authorities.
29 , T. W. Sheriff, M.D., Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xlii, 1852, p. 391, feeling unwell, I took a scruple in a wineglass of water; 30 , E. W. Berridge, U. S. Med. Invest. vol. iv, 1876, p. 574, S. Morrison triturated 30th dec.
- After working nearly two hours, uneasiness in right eye (which was nearest the drug), and found on inspection, that the palpebral and ocular conjunctiva were congested. There was also considerable sneezing. Went on with the work for another hour, then ceased for two hours, from 6 to 10 P.M.; but just before doing so noticed the left eye becoming affected. On resuming the work, the eyes got worse, and within an hour more were as follows: Conjunctiva highly inflamed, causing a painless feeling of obstruction, with nasal catarrh, but no lachrymation or impaired sight. Next morning the congestion had increased, still without pain; the catarrhal symptoms had disappeared. This congestion lasted three days. In thirty days the palpebræ commenced to swell, scalding lachrymation came on, and the appearance of the eyes became worse. Aconite lotion removed this, 30.
- In five minutes the mucous membrane of my nose, mouth, and throat became violently irritated. Urgent dyspnœa came on, my nostrils were impervious to air, and I had to sit erect and actually gasp for breath. Yellow-colored water began to run from my nostrils, which soon changed to bloody serum; my mouth and throat appeared much inflamed, and discharged much thick slime and mucus. In an hour I vomited freely with some relief, but for three weeks I had severe cough and great tenderness in my chest, 29.