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minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Rosemary C Hyde, Ph.D."
wrote:
Well great because I am interested in the cough of Osmium

I do not have so much original old books so I will use Concordant
Materia Medica from Vermeulen to write down the cough of Osmium,
Ferrum metallicum and Ferrum phosphoricum.
Osmium:
Spasmodic; feels as if membrane were torn from larynx. Noisy, dry,
hard, in violent short paroxysms, coming from low down, shaking whole
body. Spasmodic, & twitching of fingers. Spasmodic; sounds as if
coughing in an empty tub [or as if caused by resonance in contiguous
parts]. Short bursts of cough from irresistible tickling in larynx.
Ferrum metallicum:
Dry, spasmodic; tickling [in trachea], lying down; after
eating; must sit up to raise sputum. Apt to be dry in evening after
lying down. Dry, tickling, & bloodspitting. Worse: abuse of tea,
quinine, brandy, tobacco smoke; from loss of fluids; when moving;
violent exertion; after walking; at night. Only in daytime. Gastric,
Ferrum phosphoricum:
Short, painful, tickling. Hard, dry, & sore chest. Worse at night; &
much rattling of mucus in chest, wich is also most marked at night.
Short, painful, tickling, hacking, tormenting, spasmodic, < morning
and evening; < going into open air. Tormenting, when bending head
forward or touching larynx. Paroxysmal, most at night or during day
when asleep. Whooping cough & retching and vomiting.