Arsenicum Hydrogenisatum.

Arseniuretted Hydrogen. As H 3 . Solution in distilled water.

Clinical

Collapse of cholera / Hiccough / Suppressed menses / Yellow fever

Characteristics

Arsen. hydro. was used by Drysdale as a substitute for Arsenic in the collapse stage of cholera. The symptoms set in suddenly but develop slowly. In poisoning cases death often took place in the second week, and one person, who recovered, suffered seven weeks. Though like Ars. alb. in general symptoms, the gas has symptoms of its own. A striking case of sudden suppression of menses was cured with it after failure of Ars. a.

Relations

Compare: Arsen. alb. antidoted by: Am. acet. (breathing); Sinapisms (breathing); Nux v. (fever); drinks containing sulphuretted hydrogen.

2. Head

Stupefying feeling in the head as if a load were there.

6. Face

Face looks old and has an expression of pain.

11. Stomach

Loss of appetite. Tormenting hiccough with oversensitive epigastrium.

12. Abdomen

Abdomen burning outside; cold feet. Constipation, with a feeling of heaviness and stiffness like a weight in the abdomen.

13. Anus

Frequent flying pains in perineum to anus or upwards in anterior wall of rectum.

14. Urinary Organs

Pressure in kidneys extending to shoulder-blades. Discharge at times of large quantities of pale urine. Hæmaturia.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Foreskin and glans covered with numerous pustules leaving round superficial ulcers.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Sudden suppression of menses with internal chills for three days, followed by tearing pains in hands and feet, confused head, ringing in ears; red diarrhœa; dry, red, cracked tongue; night cough, causing retching (Ars. h. cured immediately after failure of Ars. a.).

17. Respiratory Organs

Ammoniacal breath. Constriction of chest.

20. Back

Pain as if something sticking behind r. shoulder-blade.

24. Generalities

Coldness of limbs. Great prostration and malaise. < From cold and damp; general chilliness on slight exposure in change of temperature.

25. Skin

Dark-brown, sallow look of skin. Deadness from hands up to middle of forearm, and feet to knees, then nose and region of eyebrows, with cessation of pulse. Hair becomes white over the "deadened" parts.

27. Fever

Much heat and burning in different parts of the body, particularly over renal region.