FTRN 102
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2001 11:41 pm
FTRN 102
KALIUM ARSENICUM
Synthesis 7
MIND:
Anxiety pg 14
Anxiety,on waking pg 14
Anxiety,evening pg 15
Anxiety,bed in pg 15
Anxiety,night pg 15
Anxiety,night,waking on pg 15
Anxiety,fear with pg 18
Anxiety,health about pg 19
Anxiety,hypochonddriacal pg 19
Anxiety,waking on pg 22
Bed,aversion to shuns bed pg 25
Capriciousness pg 28
Censorious pg 29
Company,desire for pg 35
Concentration,difficult pg 36
Confusion pg 37
Confusion,morning pg 37
Confusion,evening pg 38
Death,presentiment of pg 45
Death,thoughts of pg 45
Delirium pg 46
Delirium,night pg 46
Fear, pg 106
Fear,evening pg 106
Fear,night pg 106
Fear,along of being pg 107
Fear,cancer of pg 108
Fear,crowd, in a pg 108
Fear,death of pg 109
Fear,death,alone,when pg 109
Fear.evil,fear of pg 110
Fear,happen,something will pg 112
Fear,people of pg 114
Frightened pg 121
Frightened,trifles at pg 121
Impatience pg 132
Indifference pg 134
Indifference,everything to pg 135
Irresolute pg 141
Irritability pg 141
Irritability,morning pg l42
Irritability,onwaking pg 142
Jealousy pg 145
Lamenting pg 148
Laziness pg 151
Weakness of memory pg 158
Mental exertion agg pg 161
Morose, pg 167
Quarrelsome pg 176
Extremities:
Coldness Lower Limbs,leg pg 1168
Coldness Lower limbs, foot pg 1168
Coldness Lower limbs, foot,bed in pg 1170
Coldness Lower limbs, foot,icy cold pg 1170
Fever:
Chill,with pg 1499
Chilliness pg 1500
Intermittent pg 1503
Internal heat pg 1503
Internal heat,external chill with pg 1503
Perspiration,absent pg 1504
SKIN;
Coldness, pg 1523
Decubitus pg 1524
Discoloration,brown,liver spots pg 1524
Discoloration,pale pg 1525
Discoloration,spots pg 1525
Discoloration,yellow pg 1526
Discoloration,yellow,spots 1526
Dry pg 1526
Dry,burning pg 1526
Dry,perspire,inability to 1527
Eruptions pg 1527
Eruptions,bleeding pg 1527
Eruptions,blisters pg 1527
Eruptions,blotches pg 1527
Eruptions,burning pg 1528
Eruptions, crusty pg 1529
Eruptions,crusty,scratching after pg 1529
Eruptions,desquamating pg 1529
Eruptions,discharging pg 1529
Eruptions,dry pg 1530
Eruptions,eczema pg 1530
Eruptions, herpetic pg 1530
Eruptions, herpetic,itching pg 1531
Eruptions, herpetic,scaly pg 1531
Eruptions,herpetic,zoster pg 1531
Eruptions, itching pg 1532
Eruptions, itching,undressing when pg 1532
Eruptions,measles pg 1532
Eruptions,painful pg 1533
Eruptions, phagedenic pg 1533
Eruptions,pimples pg 1533
Eruptions,psoriasis pg 1534
Eruptions,psoriasis,inveterata pg 1534
Eruptions,pustules pg 1534
Eruptions,rash 1535
Eruptions,scaly pg 1536
Eruptions,scaly,bran-like pg 1536
Eruptions,stinging pg 1537
Eruptions, tubercles pg 1537
Eruptions,urticaria pg 1538
Eruptions,urticaria,nodular pg 1539
Eruptions, vesicular pg 1539
Eruptions, vesicular,scratching after pg 1540
Erysipelas pg 1540
Excoriation pg 1541
Itching pg 1544
Itching,night pg 1544
Itching,burning pg 1544
Itching,crawling pg 1545
Itching,scratching agg pg 1545
Itching,scratching amel pg 1546
Itching,stinging pg 1546
Itching,undressing agg pg 1546
Itching,warm,on becoming pg 1546
Itching,warm,bed;onbecoming warm in pg 1546
Lupus pg 1547
Moisture pg 1547
Pain,ulcerative pg 1548
Prickling pg 1548
Sensitiveness pg 1548
Sticking pg 1549
Sticking,scratching pg 1549
Swelling pg 1549
Swelling,burning pg 1549
Swelling,dropsical pg 1549
Ulcers pg 1550
Ulcers,bleeding pg 1550
Ulcers,burning pg 1550
Ulcers,cancerous pg 1551
Ulcers,discharges,bloody pg 1551
Ulcers,discharges,ichorous pg 1551
Ulcers,discharges, indolent pg 1552
Ulcers,phagedenic pg 1553
Ulcers,suppurating pg 1554
Warts pg 1555
Wrinkled,shriveled pg 1556
Generalities:
Cold,air agg pg 1576
Cold,becoming cold pg 1576
Cold,becoming cold,after agg pg 1576
Cold,room,goint to a cold room pg 1577
Cold,take cold;tendency to pg 1577
PHATAK REPERATORY
Air,Clear,Dry or Cold Weather Agg pg 10
Phatak:
KALI ARSENICUM
GENERALITIES: It is a valuable remedy for inveterate skin diseases and when
patient's condition tend tD@ wards malignancy. All the sufferings are by loud belching.-From pit of stomach to spine an
anxious feeling accompanied by palpitation, not perceptible
objectively.-Empty feeling in stomach.-Sin king at epigastrium with
faintness.
12. Abdomen.-Burning pain in bowels; unquenchable thirst; belly tense and
painful; involuntary watery stools with sense as if a red-hot iron were in
anus.-Frequent griping pains in bowels, and almost constant desire for
stool; considerable tenderness in whole abdomen, which is distended.
13. Stool and Anus.-Violent diarrhœa.-Stools white, watery,
frothy.-Sensation as of a red-hot iron in anus.
14. Urinary Organs.-Urine scanty with pellicle.
16. Female Sexual Organs.-Cauliflower excrescence of os uteri, with flying
pains, pressure below os pubis, and stinking discharge.-Menses absent.-Milk
entirely arrested (afterwards restored by treatment).
17. Respiratory Organs.-Some gastric cough, and frequent raking of throat
and fauces of a muco-purulent secretion mixed with specks of blood.-Complete
aphonia, following skin affection.
19. Pulse.-Pulse weak and contracted.-Pulse small, scarcely perceptible,
rapid.
20. Back.-Much pain and tenderness down spine.
21. Limbs.-Palms and soles spreckled over with corns.
22. Upper Limbs.-Aching pain in r. shoulder and elbow, followed by herpetic
eruption.
23. Lower Limbs.-Knees bent up so he could not move his feet.-Varicose veins
of legs.-Crampy feeling of lower extremities, with partial loss of motion
and sensation, livid in places, tending to slough.
24. Generalities.-Such weakness she cannot sit up in bed; a loud noise or
sudden, unexpected motion throws her whole body into a
tremor.-Emaciation.-Tremor.-Faintness.-Phagedenic ulcers, deep base and
turned-up edges.-Rheumatic, gouty, and syphilitic pains.-Gouty nodosities.
25. Skin.-Dry, wilted skin; emaciated to a skeleton.-On three different
occasions, swelling of face and eyelids, then erysipelas invading whole face
ending in desquamation in a week.-Acne, appearance like that in early stage
of variola.-Miliary eruption.-Herpes zoster behind r. ear, r. side of neck,
r. shoulder, r. upper arm, r. chest, a few isolated vesicles l. side of
neck.-Severe attack of shingles r. side of chest.-Eruption covering entire
body except scalp, comes out in red papulæ, varying in diameter from size of
pin's head to that of a three cent. piece; vesicles form on summit,
suppurate, crusts form and fall off, leaving a sore which heals; the places
occupied by these sores are marked by a dark-coloured cicatrix, and the skin
generally has a dusky look; intolerable itching, stinging, and burning, esp.
on undressing at night; it is < on trunk, leg., and forearms; mind much
depressed.-Lichen confluens over whole body except face, palms, and soles,
and part of chest; the rest studded with papulæ, particularly distinct about
outer sides of thighs, arms, and back; they are covered with very minute,
flimsy, whitish scabs, causing a powdery appearance of skin; head very
scurfy; hair crisp and dry; often irritation in skin, which becomes reddened
and cracked, particularly about bend of arms and knees.-One of the earlier
signs is a minute papular rash, which by and by assumes the form of
delicate, brownish scales giving the skin an unwashed appearance; esp.
observed on parts protected from light by clothing.-After taking it for
three weeks, suddenly, after feeling ill for a few hours, a copious rash
made its appearance on face, hands, and chest, like measles; accompanied by
catarrhal symptoms swelling of face, lips, eyelids, yellow-furred tongue,
gastro-intestinal irritation, intense lameness of feet, standing giving
great pain; complete aphonia followed in a few days, desquamation commenced
in tenth day; redness lasted some weeks.-Epithelial cancer supervened after
prolonged medication with Kali ars. for psoriasis.-A clerk had taken arsenic
for a long time for psoriasis, palms and soles became spreckled over with
corns, finally epithelial cancer of scrotum appeared (Hutchinson).-Dry
chronic eczema; skin of arms thicker and rougher than natural, covered with
flimsy exfoliations of epidermis; very irritable, itching and tingling when
she gets warm; intensely fissured about bends of elbows and wrists;
occasional exacerbation, with eruption of distinct vesicles; languor and
lassitude; pale, sallow complexion; catamenia irregular.-Patches of
psoriasis on back, arms, and spreading from elbows, and anteriorly on legs,
size of a crown piece, and indolent.-Psoriasis: scaly itchings, causing him
to scratch till an ichorous fluid discharges, forming a hard
cake.-Discolouration of skin after psoriasis and lepra.-Psoriasis in
numerous patches, with great itching; the patches becoming more active,
scale off, and are replaced by smaller they leave behind them a red
skin.-Jaundice.
27. Fever.-Temperature of surface diminished.-Skin cool, dry.-Increase of
heat and dryness of skin.-Temperature, which before had been normal rose to
101, with malaise and anorexia.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA
By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.
KALI ARSENICOSUM.
Potassium arsenite, As2O3K2O.
Preparation, Solution in water.
Authorities. 1, Berndt, from Wibmer, a man took a few drops; 2, Prov. Med.
and Surg. J., 1848, p. 459, a boy, aged 16, took three drops three times a
day for scaly eruption on arms and legs; 3, Cattell, additional effects from
Med. Times, old series, 12, p. 390, etc.
MIND. ? Dementia, [3].
EYE. ? Inflammation of tarsi, [3]. ? The eyes are suffused with tears, [2].
? Conjunctiva injected; or glassy, [1]. ? The conjunctiva is slightly
inflamed, [2]. ? Conjunctivitis, [3]. ? Sight dim, [3].
THROAT. ? Constriction of the throat, [3]. ? Submaxillary glands swollen and
tender, [3].
STOMACH. [10.] ? Nausea, vomiting, and purging; the vomiting was repeated
more than two hundred times (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ? Vomiting,
severe colic, and general prostration of the strength, [3]. ? Gastritis,
[3]. ? Slight pain at epigastrium, [2]. ? Mucous irritation of the stomach,
[3].
ABDOMEN. ? Severe colic, vomiting, and general prostration of the strength,
[3].
STOOL. ? Violent diarrhœa, [3].
URINE. ? Urine not very plentiful, and covered with a pellicle, [2].
HEART. ? Palpitation, [1].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. ? Limbs swollen, [3]. [20.] ? Trembling of the
limbs, [3]. ? Great weakness and partial paralysis of upper and lower
extremities, with burning pains in the feet, [2].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. ? The hands become quite stiff, insensible; the right
hand was flexed, with a sticking sensation in the palms, [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES. ? The knees were bent up so that he could not move the
feet, [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS. ? Lassitude with febrile heat, [3]. ? Weariness, [3]. ?
Agitation and alarm, [3]. ? Neuralgic pains, [3]. ? Aggravation from a
slight cold, [3].
SKIN. ? Desquamation of cuticle, [3]. [30.] ? Nettlerash (ninth day), [1]. ?
Faint pityriasis all over covered parts, which are dirty-brown, or dingy,
and have an unwashed appearance, [1]. ? Pustular eruption, [3]. ? Ecthyma,
[3]. ? Pruritus, and with papulæ on scrotum, [3].
SLEEP. ? Want of sleep at night, [2]. ? Restless nights, [3].
FEVER. ? Hands and feet icy cold, insensible, [1]. ? Flushes of heat, [3]. ?
Febrile heat with lassitude, [3].
SUPPLEMENT: KALI ARSENICOSUM.
Authorities. (Berridge's Collection in Appendix to Brit. Journ. of Hom.); 4,
Mr. R. Jones, Prov. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. vii, 1844, p. 127, Miss B.
took it for chronic psoriasis, which was relieved for a time, but returned
in an aggravated form; she then took it three times a day for a month,
beginning with doses of 5 drops, and gradually increasing to 15; 5, Dr.
James Begbie, Edinb. Med. Journ., vol. iii, 1858, p. 961, effects in eight
or ten days of moderate doses, say 5 drops, largely diluted, two or three
times daily; 6, Dr. John Elliotson, Med. Times and Gaz., 1858, New Ser., 16,
p. 524, a lady took 2 minims three times a day for rheumatism; 7, Dr. Thomas
Skinner, Brit. Med. Journ., 1858, p. 778, a woman nursing her first child,
took two doses of 30 drops for eczema of scalp and face; 8, Dr. Arthur
Leared, Med. Times and Gaz., 1863 (1), 63, effects in two cases of phthisis;
9, Dr. Robert McNab, ibid., p. 297, a woman, æt. twenty-eight years, took 3
minims three times a day for lupus of face; 10, Dr. Duffin, Lancet, 1869
(2), p. 508, a woman, with chronic psoriasis, took 3 minims three times a
day from September 3d to 19th.
MIND. ? Nervous depression, [5]. ? Great nervousness (after five days), [6].
EYE. ? Redness of eyes (after five days), [6]. [40.] ? Sense of heat and
itchiness of eyelids, to which succeed swelling and tenderness; the
conjunctiva becomes inflamed, the eye sensitive to light, and the orbit
surrounded by a dark discoloration, [5]. ? Itching of conjunctiva, [10].
FACE. ? Face pale (after five days), [6].
MOUTH. ? Gums swollen and tender, [5]. ? Tongue clean and red, like raw
beef, [4]. ? Whitish tongue, [10]. ? The tongue is coated with a white
silvery film, like that produced by touching its surface with a weak
solution of lunar caustic, [5]. ? It the remedy is persisted in salivation
ensues, [5].
THROAT. ? Throat dry and sore, [5]. ? Sense of constriction of throat, and
copious flow of saliva, [4].
STOMACH. [50.] ? Appetite lost (fifth day), [6]. ? Intense thirst, [4]. ?
Nausea (after five days), [6]. ? Constant pain and nausea after food, and
frequent vomiting of all ingesta, [4]. ? In one it caused a sinking
sensation at epigastrium, accompanied with faintness, [8]. ? Sense of weight
after eating (after five days), [6].
ABDOMEN. ? In one it caused pain in bowels, [8].
STOOL. ? Diarrhœa, [8]. ? Unable to sleep, owing in some measure to frequent
stools, which are white, watery, and frothy, [4]. ? For last six weeks
subject to obstinate diarrhœa, and has now the following symptoms: frequent
griping pains in bowels, with almost constant desire for stool; considerable
tenderness over whole abdomen, which is distended, [4].
URINARY ORGANS. [60.] ? Marked increase of the quantity of urine occurs, not
infrequently with a free deposit of lithates, [5]. ? Urine scanty,
high-colored, and passed with effort, [4].
SEXUAL ORGANS. ? Menses absent, [4].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS. ? Some gastric cough, and frequent raking of throat
and fauces, of a muco-purulent secretion, mixed with specks of blood, [4].
CHEST. ? It stopped the milk entirely, but it was afterwards restored by
treatment, [7].
PULSE. ? Acceleration of pulse, [5]. ? Pulse 100, small and feeble, [4].
BACK. ? Much pain and tenderness down spine, [4].
EXTREMITIES. ? Aching pain in right shoulder and elbow, which on the
following day was associated with a copious and well-marked eruption of
herpetic vesicles over the integuments of arm and forearm, [10]. ? Crampy
feeling of lower extremities, with partial loss of motion and sensation;
they are much swollen, livid in places, and showing a tendency to slough,
[4].
GENERALITIES. [70.] ? Great emaciation, [4]. ? Tremor, [5]. ? Frequent
muscular tremors, [4]. ? Strength lost (fifth day), [6]. ? Faintness, [5].
SKIN. ? One of the earlier signs is a minute papular rash, which by-and-by
assumes the form of delicate brownish scales, giving the skin an unwashed
appearance; this has been most observed over those parts of the skin which
are protected from light by clothing, [5]. ? After taking it for three
weeks, suddenly, after feeling ill for a few hours, a copious rash made its
appearance on face, hands, and chest, resembling that of measles, the maculæ
being slightly elevated, with intervening space of skin little affected, and
showing papules in some places, vesicles in others. It was accompanied by
general catarrhal symptoms, swelling of face, lips, and eyelids, burning
heat of skin, yellow-furred tongue, gastro-intestinal irritation, and
intense tenderness of feet, so much so that standing gave great pain. These
symptoms were followed in a few days by complete aphonia. Desquamation
commenced about the tenth day of this eruption, but the redness of the skin
did not entirely disappear for some weeks, [9].
FEVER. ? Skin cool and dry, [4]. ? Increase of heat and dryness of skin,
[5].
KALIUM ARSENICUM
Synthesis 7
MIND:
Anxiety pg 14
Anxiety,on waking pg 14
Anxiety,evening pg 15
Anxiety,bed in pg 15
Anxiety,night pg 15
Anxiety,night,waking on pg 15
Anxiety,fear with pg 18
Anxiety,health about pg 19
Anxiety,hypochonddriacal pg 19
Anxiety,waking on pg 22
Bed,aversion to shuns bed pg 25
Capriciousness pg 28
Censorious pg 29
Company,desire for pg 35
Concentration,difficult pg 36
Confusion pg 37
Confusion,morning pg 37
Confusion,evening pg 38
Death,presentiment of pg 45
Death,thoughts of pg 45
Delirium pg 46
Delirium,night pg 46
Fear, pg 106
Fear,evening pg 106
Fear,night pg 106
Fear,along of being pg 107
Fear,cancer of pg 108
Fear,crowd, in a pg 108
Fear,death of pg 109
Fear,death,alone,when pg 109
Fear.evil,fear of pg 110
Fear,happen,something will pg 112
Fear,people of pg 114
Frightened pg 121
Frightened,trifles at pg 121
Impatience pg 132
Indifference pg 134
Indifference,everything to pg 135
Irresolute pg 141
Irritability pg 141
Irritability,morning pg l42
Irritability,onwaking pg 142
Jealousy pg 145
Lamenting pg 148
Laziness pg 151
Weakness of memory pg 158
Mental exertion agg pg 161
Morose, pg 167
Quarrelsome pg 176
Extremities:
Coldness Lower Limbs,leg pg 1168
Coldness Lower limbs, foot pg 1168
Coldness Lower limbs, foot,bed in pg 1170
Coldness Lower limbs, foot,icy cold pg 1170
Fever:
Chill,with pg 1499
Chilliness pg 1500
Intermittent pg 1503
Internal heat pg 1503
Internal heat,external chill with pg 1503
Perspiration,absent pg 1504
SKIN;
Coldness, pg 1523
Decubitus pg 1524
Discoloration,brown,liver spots pg 1524
Discoloration,pale pg 1525
Discoloration,spots pg 1525
Discoloration,yellow pg 1526
Discoloration,yellow,spots 1526
Dry pg 1526
Dry,burning pg 1526
Dry,perspire,inability to 1527
Eruptions pg 1527
Eruptions,bleeding pg 1527
Eruptions,blisters pg 1527
Eruptions,blotches pg 1527
Eruptions,burning pg 1528
Eruptions, crusty pg 1529
Eruptions,crusty,scratching after pg 1529
Eruptions,desquamating pg 1529
Eruptions,discharging pg 1529
Eruptions,dry pg 1530
Eruptions,eczema pg 1530
Eruptions, herpetic pg 1530
Eruptions, herpetic,itching pg 1531
Eruptions, herpetic,scaly pg 1531
Eruptions,herpetic,zoster pg 1531
Eruptions, itching pg 1532
Eruptions, itching,undressing when pg 1532
Eruptions,measles pg 1532
Eruptions,painful pg 1533
Eruptions, phagedenic pg 1533
Eruptions,pimples pg 1533
Eruptions,psoriasis pg 1534
Eruptions,psoriasis,inveterata pg 1534
Eruptions,pustules pg 1534
Eruptions,rash 1535
Eruptions,scaly pg 1536
Eruptions,scaly,bran-like pg 1536
Eruptions,stinging pg 1537
Eruptions, tubercles pg 1537
Eruptions,urticaria pg 1538
Eruptions,urticaria,nodular pg 1539
Eruptions, vesicular pg 1539
Eruptions, vesicular,scratching after pg 1540
Erysipelas pg 1540
Excoriation pg 1541
Itching pg 1544
Itching,night pg 1544
Itching,burning pg 1544
Itching,crawling pg 1545
Itching,scratching agg pg 1545
Itching,scratching amel pg 1546
Itching,stinging pg 1546
Itching,undressing agg pg 1546
Itching,warm,on becoming pg 1546
Itching,warm,bed;onbecoming warm in pg 1546
Lupus pg 1547
Moisture pg 1547
Pain,ulcerative pg 1548
Prickling pg 1548
Sensitiveness pg 1548
Sticking pg 1549
Sticking,scratching pg 1549
Swelling pg 1549
Swelling,burning pg 1549
Swelling,dropsical pg 1549
Ulcers pg 1550
Ulcers,bleeding pg 1550
Ulcers,burning pg 1550
Ulcers,cancerous pg 1551
Ulcers,discharges,bloody pg 1551
Ulcers,discharges,ichorous pg 1551
Ulcers,discharges, indolent pg 1552
Ulcers,phagedenic pg 1553
Ulcers,suppurating pg 1554
Warts pg 1555
Wrinkled,shriveled pg 1556
Generalities:
Cold,air agg pg 1576
Cold,becoming cold pg 1576
Cold,becoming cold,after agg pg 1576
Cold,room,goint to a cold room pg 1577
Cold,take cold;tendency to pg 1577
PHATAK REPERATORY
Air,Clear,Dry or Cold Weather Agg pg 10
Phatak:
KALI ARSENICUM
GENERALITIES: It is a valuable remedy for inveterate skin diseases and when
patient's condition tend tD@ wards malignancy. All the sufferings are by loud belching.-From pit of stomach to spine an
anxious feeling accompanied by palpitation, not perceptible
objectively.-Empty feeling in stomach.-Sin king at epigastrium with
faintness.
12. Abdomen.-Burning pain in bowels; unquenchable thirst; belly tense and
painful; involuntary watery stools with sense as if a red-hot iron were in
anus.-Frequent griping pains in bowels, and almost constant desire for
stool; considerable tenderness in whole abdomen, which is distended.
13. Stool and Anus.-Violent diarrhœa.-Stools white, watery,
frothy.-Sensation as of a red-hot iron in anus.
14. Urinary Organs.-Urine scanty with pellicle.
16. Female Sexual Organs.-Cauliflower excrescence of os uteri, with flying
pains, pressure below os pubis, and stinking discharge.-Menses absent.-Milk
entirely arrested (afterwards restored by treatment).
17. Respiratory Organs.-Some gastric cough, and frequent raking of throat
and fauces of a muco-purulent secretion mixed with specks of blood.-Complete
aphonia, following skin affection.
19. Pulse.-Pulse weak and contracted.-Pulse small, scarcely perceptible,
rapid.
20. Back.-Much pain and tenderness down spine.
21. Limbs.-Palms and soles spreckled over with corns.
22. Upper Limbs.-Aching pain in r. shoulder and elbow, followed by herpetic
eruption.
23. Lower Limbs.-Knees bent up so he could not move his feet.-Varicose veins
of legs.-Crampy feeling of lower extremities, with partial loss of motion
and sensation, livid in places, tending to slough.
24. Generalities.-Such weakness she cannot sit up in bed; a loud noise or
sudden, unexpected motion throws her whole body into a
tremor.-Emaciation.-Tremor.-Faintness.-Phagedenic ulcers, deep base and
turned-up edges.-Rheumatic, gouty, and syphilitic pains.-Gouty nodosities.
25. Skin.-Dry, wilted skin; emaciated to a skeleton.-On three different
occasions, swelling of face and eyelids, then erysipelas invading whole face
ending in desquamation in a week.-Acne, appearance like that in early stage
of variola.-Miliary eruption.-Herpes zoster behind r. ear, r. side of neck,
r. shoulder, r. upper arm, r. chest, a few isolated vesicles l. side of
neck.-Severe attack of shingles r. side of chest.-Eruption covering entire
body except scalp, comes out in red papulæ, varying in diameter from size of
pin's head to that of a three cent. piece; vesicles form on summit,
suppurate, crusts form and fall off, leaving a sore which heals; the places
occupied by these sores are marked by a dark-coloured cicatrix, and the skin
generally has a dusky look; intolerable itching, stinging, and burning, esp.
on undressing at night; it is < on trunk, leg., and forearms; mind much
depressed.-Lichen confluens over whole body except face, palms, and soles,
and part of chest; the rest studded with papulæ, particularly distinct about
outer sides of thighs, arms, and back; they are covered with very minute,
flimsy, whitish scabs, causing a powdery appearance of skin; head very
scurfy; hair crisp and dry; often irritation in skin, which becomes reddened
and cracked, particularly about bend of arms and knees.-One of the earlier
signs is a minute papular rash, which by and by assumes the form of
delicate, brownish scales giving the skin an unwashed appearance; esp.
observed on parts protected from light by clothing.-After taking it for
three weeks, suddenly, after feeling ill for a few hours, a copious rash
made its appearance on face, hands, and chest, like measles; accompanied by
catarrhal symptoms swelling of face, lips, eyelids, yellow-furred tongue,
gastro-intestinal irritation, intense lameness of feet, standing giving
great pain; complete aphonia followed in a few days, desquamation commenced
in tenth day; redness lasted some weeks.-Epithelial cancer supervened after
prolonged medication with Kali ars. for psoriasis.-A clerk had taken arsenic
for a long time for psoriasis, palms and soles became spreckled over with
corns, finally epithelial cancer of scrotum appeared (Hutchinson).-Dry
chronic eczema; skin of arms thicker and rougher than natural, covered with
flimsy exfoliations of epidermis; very irritable, itching and tingling when
she gets warm; intensely fissured about bends of elbows and wrists;
occasional exacerbation, with eruption of distinct vesicles; languor and
lassitude; pale, sallow complexion; catamenia irregular.-Patches of
psoriasis on back, arms, and spreading from elbows, and anteriorly on legs,
size of a crown piece, and indolent.-Psoriasis: scaly itchings, causing him
to scratch till an ichorous fluid discharges, forming a hard
cake.-Discolouration of skin after psoriasis and lepra.-Psoriasis in
numerous patches, with great itching; the patches becoming more active,
scale off, and are replaced by smaller they leave behind them a red
skin.-Jaundice.
27. Fever.-Temperature of surface diminished.-Skin cool, dry.-Increase of
heat and dryness of skin.-Temperature, which before had been normal rose to
101, with malaise and anorexia.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA
By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.
KALI ARSENICOSUM.
Potassium arsenite, As2O3K2O.
Preparation, Solution in water.
Authorities. 1, Berndt, from Wibmer, a man took a few drops; 2, Prov. Med.
and Surg. J., 1848, p. 459, a boy, aged 16, took three drops three times a
day for scaly eruption on arms and legs; 3, Cattell, additional effects from
Med. Times, old series, 12, p. 390, etc.
MIND. ? Dementia, [3].
EYE. ? Inflammation of tarsi, [3]. ? The eyes are suffused with tears, [2].
? Conjunctiva injected; or glassy, [1]. ? The conjunctiva is slightly
inflamed, [2]. ? Conjunctivitis, [3]. ? Sight dim, [3].
THROAT. ? Constriction of the throat, [3]. ? Submaxillary glands swollen and
tender, [3].
STOMACH. [10.] ? Nausea, vomiting, and purging; the vomiting was repeated
more than two hundred times (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ? Vomiting,
severe colic, and general prostration of the strength, [3]. ? Gastritis,
[3]. ? Slight pain at epigastrium, [2]. ? Mucous irritation of the stomach,
[3].
ABDOMEN. ? Severe colic, vomiting, and general prostration of the strength,
[3].
STOOL. ? Violent diarrhœa, [3].
URINE. ? Urine not very plentiful, and covered with a pellicle, [2].
HEART. ? Palpitation, [1].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. ? Limbs swollen, [3]. [20.] ? Trembling of the
limbs, [3]. ? Great weakness and partial paralysis of upper and lower
extremities, with burning pains in the feet, [2].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. ? The hands become quite stiff, insensible; the right
hand was flexed, with a sticking sensation in the palms, [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES. ? The knees were bent up so that he could not move the
feet, [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS. ? Lassitude with febrile heat, [3]. ? Weariness, [3]. ?
Agitation and alarm, [3]. ? Neuralgic pains, [3]. ? Aggravation from a
slight cold, [3].
SKIN. ? Desquamation of cuticle, [3]. [30.] ? Nettlerash (ninth day), [1]. ?
Faint pityriasis all over covered parts, which are dirty-brown, or dingy,
and have an unwashed appearance, [1]. ? Pustular eruption, [3]. ? Ecthyma,
[3]. ? Pruritus, and with papulæ on scrotum, [3].
SLEEP. ? Want of sleep at night, [2]. ? Restless nights, [3].
FEVER. ? Hands and feet icy cold, insensible, [1]. ? Flushes of heat, [3]. ?
Febrile heat with lassitude, [3].
SUPPLEMENT: KALI ARSENICOSUM.
Authorities. (Berridge's Collection in Appendix to Brit. Journ. of Hom.); 4,
Mr. R. Jones, Prov. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. vii, 1844, p. 127, Miss B.
took it for chronic psoriasis, which was relieved for a time, but returned
in an aggravated form; she then took it three times a day for a month,
beginning with doses of 5 drops, and gradually increasing to 15; 5, Dr.
James Begbie, Edinb. Med. Journ., vol. iii, 1858, p. 961, effects in eight
or ten days of moderate doses, say 5 drops, largely diluted, two or three
times daily; 6, Dr. John Elliotson, Med. Times and Gaz., 1858, New Ser., 16,
p. 524, a lady took 2 minims three times a day for rheumatism; 7, Dr. Thomas
Skinner, Brit. Med. Journ., 1858, p. 778, a woman nursing her first child,
took two doses of 30 drops for eczema of scalp and face; 8, Dr. Arthur
Leared, Med. Times and Gaz., 1863 (1), 63, effects in two cases of phthisis;
9, Dr. Robert McNab, ibid., p. 297, a woman, æt. twenty-eight years, took 3
minims three times a day for lupus of face; 10, Dr. Duffin, Lancet, 1869
(2), p. 508, a woman, with chronic psoriasis, took 3 minims three times a
day from September 3d to 19th.
MIND. ? Nervous depression, [5]. ? Great nervousness (after five days), [6].
EYE. ? Redness of eyes (after five days), [6]. [40.] ? Sense of heat and
itchiness of eyelids, to which succeed swelling and tenderness; the
conjunctiva becomes inflamed, the eye sensitive to light, and the orbit
surrounded by a dark discoloration, [5]. ? Itching of conjunctiva, [10].
FACE. ? Face pale (after five days), [6].
MOUTH. ? Gums swollen and tender, [5]. ? Tongue clean and red, like raw
beef, [4]. ? Whitish tongue, [10]. ? The tongue is coated with a white
silvery film, like that produced by touching its surface with a weak
solution of lunar caustic, [5]. ? It the remedy is persisted in salivation
ensues, [5].
THROAT. ? Throat dry and sore, [5]. ? Sense of constriction of throat, and
copious flow of saliva, [4].
STOMACH. [50.] ? Appetite lost (fifth day), [6]. ? Intense thirst, [4]. ?
Nausea (after five days), [6]. ? Constant pain and nausea after food, and
frequent vomiting of all ingesta, [4]. ? In one it caused a sinking
sensation at epigastrium, accompanied with faintness, [8]. ? Sense of weight
after eating (after five days), [6].
ABDOMEN. ? In one it caused pain in bowels, [8].
STOOL. ? Diarrhœa, [8]. ? Unable to sleep, owing in some measure to frequent
stools, which are white, watery, and frothy, [4]. ? For last six weeks
subject to obstinate diarrhœa, and has now the following symptoms: frequent
griping pains in bowels, with almost constant desire for stool; considerable
tenderness over whole abdomen, which is distended, [4].
URINARY ORGANS. [60.] ? Marked increase of the quantity of urine occurs, not
infrequently with a free deposit of lithates, [5]. ? Urine scanty,
high-colored, and passed with effort, [4].
SEXUAL ORGANS. ? Menses absent, [4].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS. ? Some gastric cough, and frequent raking of throat
and fauces, of a muco-purulent secretion, mixed with specks of blood, [4].
CHEST. ? It stopped the milk entirely, but it was afterwards restored by
treatment, [7].
PULSE. ? Acceleration of pulse, [5]. ? Pulse 100, small and feeble, [4].
BACK. ? Much pain and tenderness down spine, [4].
EXTREMITIES. ? Aching pain in right shoulder and elbow, which on the
following day was associated with a copious and well-marked eruption of
herpetic vesicles over the integuments of arm and forearm, [10]. ? Crampy
feeling of lower extremities, with partial loss of motion and sensation;
they are much swollen, livid in places, and showing a tendency to slough,
[4].
GENERALITIES. [70.] ? Great emaciation, [4]. ? Tremor, [5]. ? Frequent
muscular tremors, [4]. ? Strength lost (fifth day), [6]. ? Faintness, [5].
SKIN. ? One of the earlier signs is a minute papular rash, which by-and-by
assumes the form of delicate brownish scales, giving the skin an unwashed
appearance; this has been most observed over those parts of the skin which
are protected from light by clothing, [5]. ? After taking it for three
weeks, suddenly, after feeling ill for a few hours, a copious rash made its
appearance on face, hands, and chest, resembling that of measles, the maculæ
being slightly elevated, with intervening space of skin little affected, and
showing papules in some places, vesicles in others. It was accompanied by
general catarrhal symptoms, swelling of face, lips, and eyelids, burning
heat of skin, yellow-furred tongue, gastro-intestinal irritation, and
intense tenderness of feet, so much so that standing gave great pain. These
symptoms were followed in a few days by complete aphonia. Desquamation
commenced about the tenth day of this eruption, but the redness of the skin
did not entirely disappear for some weeks, [9].
FEVER. ? Skin cool and dry, [4]. ? Increase of heat and dryness of skin,
[5].