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 +====== KALIUM BROMATUM ======
 +<span tc1>​{{anchor:​s1}}Kali Bromatum.</​span>​
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s2}}Potassium Bromide. K. Br.</​span>​
 +
 +{{anchor:​s3}}For general effects and experiments with the crude drug, see Allen'​s Encyclopaedia,​ vol. 5, p. 264.
 +
 +{{anchor:​s4}}We need provings, particularly with the higher potencies, to bring out the finer characteristics of the drug.
 +
 +====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s6}}- <span grade2>​Melancholy and loss of memory; Affection of mind at climacteric period</​span>,​ Wesselhoeft,​ N. E. M. G., vol. 8, p. 520; <span grade2>​Incipient basilar meningitis</​span>,​ Hale's Sympt. p. 117; <span grade2>​Diphtheria</​span>,​ Noack, Oehme'​s Therap., p. 44; <span grade2>​Diabetes mellitus</​span>​ (2 cases), Begbie, Hale's Therap., <span grade2>​Cholera infantum</​span>​ (157 cases reported cured), Caro., Hale's Therap.; <span grade2>​Polypus of rectum</​span>,​ Helmuth, B. J. H., vol. 29, p. 745; <span grade2>​Nymphomania</​span>,​ Hale, N. A. J. H., vol. 13, p. 212; <span grade2>​Ovarian enlargement</​span>,​ Hughes, B. J. H., vol. 28, p. 793; <span grade2>​Ovarian cyst</​span>,​ Black, Trans. {{anchor:​s7}}World'​s Hom. Con., 1876, p. 763; Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 244; <span grade2>​Menstrual disorders</​span>,​ Cowley, Trans. H. M. S. Pa., 1876, p. 439; <span grade2>​Puerperal eclampsia</​span>,​ Woodbury, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 193; <span grade2>​Capillary bronchitis</​span>,​ Blakelock, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 11; <span grade2>​Epilepsy,​ menstrual or hysterical</​span>​ (15 cases), Locock, N. A. J. H., vol. 13, p. 210; <span grade2>​Epilepsy</​span>,​ Cook, B. J. H., vol. 24, p. 330; (3 cases), Hubbell, N. E. M. G., vol. 3, p. 94; (3 cases), Neidhard, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1881, p. 354.
 +
 +====== MIND. [1] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s9}}Unconscious of what is occurring around them; cannot recognize, nor be comforted by their friends.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s10}}Loss of memory.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s11}}Memory absolutely destroyed; anemia; emaciation.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s12}}Loss of memory, despondency,​ inability to concentrate mind on any object; constant worry, fears to see people or to be spoken to; vertigo, with falling, agg. from stooping; failure of mental and bodily strength; pricking sensation all over body, palpitation;​ constantly busy, tying his shoes, fumbling in his pockets, picking threads, etc.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s13}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Mental derangement.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s14}}Loss of memory, forgets how to talk, absentmindedness.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s15}}Loss of memory; had to be told the word before he could speak it.</​span>​ <span sbitared>​{{anchor:​s16}}~</​span>​ <span grade4>​Amnesic aphasia.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s17}}Single words forgotten; syllables are dropped.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s18}}Inability to express oneself.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s19}}Mentally dull, torpid; perception slow, answers slowly.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s20}}Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath; extreme drowsiness.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s21}}Imagines she is a devil; cannot sleep; fears to be alone.\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s22}}Positive delusions of various kinds.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s23}}Delusions during and after delirium tremens.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s24}}In first stage with horrid illusions, flushed face, red eyes, and hard and quick pulse.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s25}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Delirium tremens.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s26}}Frightful imaginings at night (in pregnant women during latter months), they are under impression that they have committed, or about to commit, some great crime and cruelty, such as murdering their children or husbands.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s27}}Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania, precede brain and paralytic symptoms.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s28}}Delirium,​ with delusions; thinks he is pursued; will be poisoned; is selected for divine vengeance; that her child is dead, etc.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s29}}Delirium tremens, in first or irritative stage; face flushed; eyes red; delirium active; horrid illusions; hard, quick pulse.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s30}}Puerperal mania.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s31}}Acute mania, with fullness of bloodvessels of brain.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s32}}Insanity;​ manner excited, rambling.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s33}}Feels as if he would go out of his mind.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s34}}She is very fretful, crying at trifles, constantly brooding over loss of a daughter; almost crazy; from fretting, loss of rest and want of nourishment,​ is seized with nervous dysentery.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s35}}Hands constantly busy; all sorts of fearful delusions; walks the room groaning, bemoaning his fate; full of fear; unsteady.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s36}}Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s37}}Feeling of lightness and exhilaration in place of heaviness and depression.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s38}}Depressed;​ low-spirited;​ has nervous anxiety.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s39}}Remarkably depressed, well marked amnesic aphasia.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s40}}Deep depression, with painful delusions, with persistent sleeplessness,​ and dread of impending destruction of all near to her.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s41}}Great despondency;​ "feel as if they should go out of their minds"​.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s42}}Profound melancholic depression, with religious delusions and feeling of moral deficiency; frequent shedding of tears, low-spirited and childish, giving way to her feelings; profound indifference and almost disgust for life.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s43}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Melancholia.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s44}}Profound melancholy, from anemia.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s45}}Great despondency,​ with insanity, a feeling of moral deficiency, or a religious delusion, from anemia.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s46}}Melancholy,​ with delusions; often childish; fits of uncontrollable weeping.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s47}}Night terrors of children (not from indigestion),​ with screaming, unconsciousness of what is occurring around them; cannot recognize, nor be comforted by their friends; sometimes followed by squinting.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s48}}Apathetic,​ indifferent.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s49}}Timid,​ suspicious, full of fear.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s50}}Much concerned about health; complains without cause; restless and trembling in evening; low-spirited,​ with great and uncontrollable sensation of fear and anxiety; thinks she is becoming deranged; change of life.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s51}}So sensitive and irritable of mind she cannot give her music lessons; very thought of piano breaks her down, makes her shake all over, and then cry with fear and apprehension that she is losing her mind; cries easily; so easily confused that she cannot say what she wishes to; least thing worries her; makes her utterly miserable to be looked at or spoken to; fears to see people; always depressed and low-spirited;​ memory weak and unreliable.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s52}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Melancholia.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s53}}Overtaxed brain.</​span>​
 +
 +====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s55}}Congestive paralysis approaching apoplexy; lay unconscious for twenty-four hours; flushed face; feeble pulse, contracted and non-reacting pupils; followed by vertigo and mental weakness.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s56}}Heaviness,​ confusion; slow speech, staggers a if drunk.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s57}}Dizziness,​ noises in ear; nervous excitement; sleepless.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s58}}Vertigo:​ palpitation,​ nausea, even unconsciousness;​ memory growing weak; as if ground gave away; staggering gait; confusion and heat of head, drowsiness, stupor; fainting and nausea followed by sound sleep.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s59}}Confusion of head.</​span>​
 +
 +====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s61}}Migraine,​ with flushed face, throbbing temples, injected conjunctiva,​ photophobia and much congestion of brain.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s62}}Constrictive sensation in brain as if too tight, with a feeling of anesthesia of brain.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s63}}Headache in right frontal protuberance;​ sleepy.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s64}}Severe,​ throbbing aching pains in occipital region, extending down as far as dorsal region; cannot sit up or walk or shake head without feeling agg.; great weakness and depression of mind.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s65}}Violent headache, particularly in occiput.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s66}}Brain irritated, face flushed, pupils dilated, eyes sunken; rolls head; awakes now and then screaming; extremities cold.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s67}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Cholera infantum.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s68}}Reflex cerebral irritation, with active congestion in children during teething, cholera infantum, or scarlet fever; first stage of hydrocephaloid from cholera infantum.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s69}}Flushed face, throbbing of carotids and temporals, suffusion of eyes; feeling of fullness of head.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s70}}Headache,​ with dizziness; staggering as if intoxicated,​ stupefaction;​ sopor; muscular weakness; anesthesia of pharynx and velum palati and external skin; sight weakened and hearing impaired; gastralgia; vomiting; colic; constipation.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s71}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Alcoholism.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s72}}Active congestion, or first stage of inflammation,​ before effusion has occurred.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s73}}Acute congestions or inflammatory diseases of brain.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s74}}Incipient basilar meningitis; severe headache, nearly all the time; agg. at night; would play a few minutes, then lay head down on chair or other support and cry with headache; weak, emaciated, dull, heavy eyed; no appetite; sleep disturbed by groans, grinding of teeth, starting up frightened; terrible headache; tongue clean; pulse 90 to 100, quick and wiry; constipation;​ scanty urine; too much heat about head.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s75}}Anemia of brain from loss of fluids; constant drowsiness; coma; pupils dilated, eyes sunken, eyeballs moving in every direction without taking any notice; feet and hands blue and cold; pulse imperceptible.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s76}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Hydrocephalus.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s77}}Bad results from overtaxing brain; especially with grief or anxiety; nervousness.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s78}}Violent headache, from concussion of brain.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s79}}Mercurial headache.</​span>​
 +
 +====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s81}}Drooping of head; cannot hold it erect.\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s82}}Scalp feels tight, brain numb, confused; difficult walking.</​span>​
 +
 +====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s84}}Vision dim, pupils dilated; with heavy lids and invincible drowsiness.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s85}}Eyes sunken, lustreless; gaze fixed.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s86}}Eyeballs moving in every direction.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s87}}Dilated pupils and sunken eyes.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s88}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Cholera infantum.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s89}}Pupils dilated, contract sluggishly, vertigo and confusion of head; pupils contracted.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s90}}Vessels of fundus enlarged; conjunctivae congested.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s91}}Eyes suffused.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s92}}Squinting;​ after night terrors of children.</​span>​
 +
 +====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s94}}Ringing in ears.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s95}}Roaring in ears at night synchronous with pulse.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s96}}Sounds echo in ears; headache.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s97}}Hardness of hearing.</​span>​
 +
 +====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s99}}Smell impaired.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s100}}Thick mucus and yellow scabs in nostrils.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s101}}Erythematous swelling of nose.</​span>​
 +
 +====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s103}}Expression:​ pale, but otherwise appeared as one drunk, with hallucinations,​ etc.; wearied, anxious; dull, stupefied; imbecile.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s104}}Expressionless face; incipient softening of brain.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s105}}Complexion yellow, cachectic.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s106}}Face flushed.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s107}}Acne on face in young fleshy people of gross habits.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s108}}Papular rash.</​span>​
 +
 +====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s110}}Odontitis in children.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s111}}Difficult dentition of children.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s112}}Vomiting and diarrhea of teething children.</​span>​
 +
 +====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s114}}Taste:​ foul; salty; lost.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s115}}Difficult speech; action of tongue; disordered; slow and difficult after waking; stammering.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s116}}Tongue:​ red, dry, enlarged; red, later dry and brown; white, with languor and sleepiness; pale and cold.\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s117}}White tongue.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s118}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Dyspepsia.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s119}}Tongue red and tender; gums spongy.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s120}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Diabetes.</​span>​
 +
 +====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s122}}Fetid breath; a peculiar sickening odor; tongue white.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s123}}Saliva profuse, with fetid breath.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s124}}Suppressed salivation in teething children.</​span>​
 +
 +====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s126}}Anesthesia of mouth, throat and pharynx; chronic alcoholism.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s127}}Dysphagia of liquids (in infants); can swallow only solids.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s128}}Uvula and fauces congested, then edematous.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s129}}Dryness of throat.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s130}}Face very red, throat swollen; pulse 150; impossible to move head; submaxillary glands swollen and painful, especially on right side; tonsils swollen and purple; very thick exudate, covering tonsils and uvula; distinct, crooked line of demarcation between healthy and affected part; mouth dry, hot; anxiety; excitement alternating with comatose somnolence.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s131}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Diphtheria.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s132}}Diphtheritis with quick pulse; fever; dry tongue; offensive breath; highly injected and dusky red fauces; patches of wash leather exudation on tonsils or pharynx.</​span>​
 +
 +====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s135}}Loss of appetite; tongue white; languor.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s136}}Thirst intense with dry mouth.</​span>​
 +
 +====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s138}}Children,​ from time of birth, can swallow solids with ease, yet choke every time they try to drink.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s139}}Troublesome pressure at stomach after dinner; lassitude.</​span>​
 +
 +====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s141}}Repeated retching and emesis; sick and giddy.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s142}}Hysterical women who vomit their food after each meal, especially if subjected to exciting emotions.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s143}}Vomiting:​ with intense thirst; when ganglionic system is affected; of drunkards after a debauch; in whooping cough; of meconium.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s144}}Chronic morning vomiting of drunkards.</​span>​
 +
 +====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s146}}Weakness of stomach; dyspepsia.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s147}}Anorexia,​ foul breath, white tongue, involving edges as well as dorsum, and not necessarily furred; great languor; violent headache; loathing; vomiturition or vomiting of mucus; saltish taste in mouth; vomiting of drunkards after debauch; troublesome pressure at stomach after dinner.</​span>​
 +
 +====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s149}}Enlargement of liver and spleen.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s150}}Small tumor in region of spleen.</​span>​
 +
 +====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s152}}Sensation as if bowels were falling out.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s153}}Internal coldness of abdomen.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s154}}Abdomen sunken, almost stuck to vertebral column.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s155}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Cholera infantum.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s156}}Abdominal spasms, walls retracted, convulsive motions of eyes and limbs; frequent, green, watery stools.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s157}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Summer complaint.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s158}}Colic in young children; walls of belly are retracted and hard, while intestines can be seen at one spot contracted into a hard lump, of size of a small orange, and contraction can be seen through abdominal wall to travel from one part of intestines to another; attacks frequent and excruciating,​ unconnected with diarrhea or constipation,​ but often associated with an aphthous condition of mouth.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s159}}Periodic colic in infants, occurring about 5 P. M.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s160}}Flatulent colic in children and hysterical women.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s161}}Ascites of hepatic or splenic origin.</​span>​
 +
 +====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s163}}Painless diarrhea, with great chilliness, even in a hot room; fifteen or twenty passages in twenty-four hours; burning in chest; internal coldness of abdomen; pulse frequent and weak; urine scanty, dribbling of a few drops in beginning; at every stool, sensation as if bowels were falling out; restless and shaky as if from palsy.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s164}}Stools:​ watery (like rice water); painless.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s165}}Frequent,​ green, watery discharges, with violent abdominal spasms, during which abdomen gets hard; thrush in mouth; convulsive motions of eyes and limbs.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s166}}Bloody muco-purulent diarrhea, with intense thirst, vomiting, eyes sunken, pupils dilated, skin corrugated and spotted blue, body cold, tongue red and dry, pulse imperceptible,​ urine suppressed.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s167}}Cerebral irritation during cholera infantum; pupils dilated, eyes sunken, eyeballs moving in every direction without taking any notice; feet and hands blue and cold; pulse imperceptible.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s168}}Cholera infantum, with reflex cerebral irritation of brain, before effusion.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s169}}Cholera infantum, sudden in onset, attended by great prostration,​ cold hands and feet, hot head, dilated pupils, rolling of eyes and head, starts, jactitation,​ spasms, watery, very offensive stools, vomiting of all drinks and intense thirst; nervous and vascular excitement.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s170}}Great prostration,​ coldness of surface and symptoms of hydrocephaloid.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s171}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Cholera infantum.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s172}}Asiatic cholera, first stage, vomiting, cramps, rice water discharges; restores secretion of urine.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s173}}Constipation;​ stools very dry, hard and infrequent.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s174}}Retention of meconium, with vomiting of all food and obstinate constipation.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s175}}During stool: sensation as if bowels were falling out; dribbling of urine.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s176}}Spasmodic stricture of sphincter ani.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s177}}Constant diarrhea and more or less tenesmus, and passage of much blood; on making efforts to expel, protrusion of several elongated bodies, resembling earthworms in shape, but of much more brilliant red color; they presented a soft, vascular, shreddy appearance, bearing some resemblance to sarcomatous growths; with this expulsion there was always a yellow, very fetid discharge; feces flattened; flatulent distension of bowels; patient pale and sickly looking.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s178}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Polypus of rectum.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s179}}Blind,​ intensely painful varices with black stools.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s180}}Pain in hemorrhoids,​ fissure of rectum, and painful growths.
 +
 +====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s182}}Pain in region of kidneys extending in direction of ascending colon; afterwards copious urine.\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s183}}Spasmodic affection of neck of bladder.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s184}}Neuralgia of neck of bladder.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s185}}Abnormal irritability of urinary passages.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s186}}Diminution of sensibility of urethra.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s187}}Urine:​ profuse with thirst; with abundance of phosphates; copious, pale; scanty, even suppressed in collapse; scanty, dribbling a few drops at beginning of every stool.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s188}}Incontinence of urine.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s189}}Nocturnal involuntary emissions of urine.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s190}}Suppression of urine.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s191}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Cholera infantum.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s192}}Emaciation;​ paleness; skin cold and dry; pulse rapid and feeble; tongue red and tender; gums spongy and bleeding; thirst excessive; appetite voracious; bowels constipated;​ urine pale, frequent, large quantity, of high density, and loaded with sugar; liver tumid and tender.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s193}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Diabetes mellitus.</​span>​
 +
 +====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s195}}Sensual and lascivious fancies and dreams.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s196}}Excessive sexual desire, with constant erections at night.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s197}}Satyriasis.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s198}}Diminution of sexual desire; lessened even to impotence.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s199}}Erections at night; backache; uncontrollable fidgettiness.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s200}}Impotence with melancholy, loss of memory; nervous prostration;​ epilepsy.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s201}}Effects of sexual excesses, such as impotency, paralysis and spasms from exhaustion of spinal cord.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s202}}Frequent pollutions from ardent imagination.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s203}}Seminal emissions, with depressed spirits, dull thought, backache, staggering gait and great weakness.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s204}}Nocturnal emissions, with amorous dreams and erections.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s205}}Spermatorrhea,​ before paralytic symptoms have set in; erections normal but teasing and persistent, with nocturnal emissions and nervous disturbances growing out of unsatisfied sexual desire.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s206}}Chordee,​ during gonorrhea.</​span>​
 +
 +====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s208}}Nymphomania.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s209}}Sterility from excessive sexual indulgence.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s210}}Abolition of all sexual feeling during coition.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s211}}Aversion to coition; menses scanty.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s212}}Enlargement of uterus after parturition,​ with abnormal discharges.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s213}}Subinvolution of uterus.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s214}}Induration of uterus; enlargement of uterus (after parturition),​ with abnormal discharges.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s215}}Uterine fibroids.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s216}}Ovarian neuralgia from ungratified sexual desire; nervous unrest.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s217}}Neuralgia of ovaries; pain, swelling, tenderness of left ovary; diminution of sexual desire.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s218}}Epilepsy from ovarian irritation.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s219}}Large tumor, smooth and tense in hypogastric and right iliac region; tumor slightly tender when pressed, and there is indistinct fluctuation;​ measurement of abdomen taken in a line with crests of ilium shows an increase in size of ten inches; urine scanty and frequent calls to pass it.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s220}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Ovarian cystic tumor.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s221}}Abdomen large but not tense; on palpation, well defined, elastic tumor, yielding indistinct fluctuation,​ in left iliac region, here also movements are felt as in quickening.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s222}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Ovarian enlargement.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s223}}Ovarian cystic tumor, after tapping.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s224}}Metrorrhagia from reflex irritation, or of nervous origin.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s225}}Menorrhagia,​ metrorrhagia,​ nymphomania and menstrual epilepsy; nervous symptoms led to its use.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s226}}Menorrhagia from ovarian irritation caused by strong sexual desire.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s227}}Flooding,​ especially in young women.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s228}}Erotomania,​ a few days after menses.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s229}}Before menses: headache.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s230}}During menses: epileptic spasms, nymphomania,​ itching burning and excitement in vulva, pudenda and clitoris, After menses: headache, insomnia and heat in genitals.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s231}}Epileptic attacks at or near menstrual periods.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s232}}Scanty menses, in fleshy women.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s233}}Change of life: restless, must be on the move; sleepless; trembling; flushings of face and much congestion of blood to head; palpitation of heart; menorrhagia.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s234}}Vaginismus.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s235}}Voluptuous itching, tingling and irritation in external genital organs.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s236}}Pruritus of genitals, arising from irritation of uterus, or ovaries, or any hyperesthesia of veins of that location; sexual excitement intense, often actual nymphomania.</​span>​
 +
 +====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s240}}Nymphomania during puerperal state.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s241}}Puerperal mania, attended by ferocious or erotic delirium.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s242}}Frightful imaginings in pregnant women, usually caused by engorged condition of brain.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s243}}Frightful imaginings at night, labors under impression that she has committed, or is about to commit, some great crime or cruelty, as the murder of her children or husband. <span sbita>​{{anchor:​s244}}~</​span>​ Pregnancy.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s245}}Morning sickness and vomiting during pregnancy.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s246}}Constant hacking cough during pregnancy; irresistible desire to urinate, but no flow except with urging and difficulty.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s247}}Nervous cough during pregnancy, threatening abortion; the cough dry, hard and almost incessant.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s248}}Convulsions during labor.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s249}}Enlarged uterus.</​span>​
 +
 +====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s252}}After parturition voice changed, whispering.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s253}}Hoarseness,​ extremely painful and disagreeable.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s254}}Aphasia,​ from embolism of middle cerebral artery.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s255}}Hyperesthesia of laryngeal nerves.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s256}}Loss of sensibility.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s257}}Chronic catarrh with purulent slate colored sputa.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s258}}Follicular and catarrhal laryngitis.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s259}}Laryngismus stridulus, uncomplicated,​ from neurosis or reflex irritation.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s260}}Spasmodic,​ dry croup, occurring suddenly in night; from reflex irritation, teething, worms, not catarrhal.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s261}}Spasmodic croup; in earlier stages when child appears well in daytime; at night is agitated, face flushed, suffused and bloodshot eyes; after several hours he sleeps, breathing easily and naturally, but soon awakens in a paroxysm; hyperesthesia of laryngeal nerves followed at later stage by natural reaction; loss of sensibility in larynx; exudation of whitish, firm texture, affecting trachea and bronchi; harsh, painful voice, with hoarseness; hacking cough with dullness and confusion of head; wakes suddenly from sound sleep with sensation of suffocation,​ with peculiar ringing, dry, brassy cough and hurried breathing.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s262}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Croup.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s263}}Membranous croup, with whitish exudation.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s264}}Torpid cases with copious purulent expectoration.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s265}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Bronchitis.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s266}}Infantile capillary bronchitis with severe dyspnea, throwing arms wildly about; spasmodic action of muscles, opisthotonos.</​span>​
 +
 +====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s268}}Breath hot and hurried.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s269}}Breathlessness,​ nervous headache and want of sleep.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s270}}Asthma of nervous origin.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s271}}Spasmodic asthma, with dry, nervous, spasmodic cough, great tightness of breathing.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s272}}Spasmodic asthma of children; great dyspnea, lividity of face; no sleep, urine suppressed, general edema.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s273}}Severe dyspnea, tossing arms about wildly; spasmodic action of muscles, throwing child into a state of opisthotonos.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s274}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Capillary bronchitis.</​span>​
 +
 +====== COUGH. [27] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s276}}Paroxysmal,​ dry cough.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s277}}Dry,​ fatiguing cough at intervals of two or three hours, with difficult respiration,​ followed by vomiting of mucus and food, agg. at night and when lying down; tightness of chest when breathing.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s278}}Weak,​ nervous children, arouse with a dry, spasmodic cough, which greatly frightens them, causing them to cry out in terror.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s279}}Hacking cough with dullness and confusion of head.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s280}}Dry cough, due to reflex action from stomach, intestines, or uterus.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s281}}Nervous,​ dry, hysterical cough of women, especially if pregnant.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s282}}Whooping cough, with spasmodic, dry cough; spasm of glottis; with convulsions.</​span>​
 +
 +====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s284}}Burning in chest.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s285}}Pneumonia in drunkards.</​span>​
 +
 +====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s287}}Feeble,​ intermitting action of heart; so nervous she must be busy and walk; slow and small pulse; heart'​s beats wanting in energy, and its sounds distant and feeble; action of heart slow and fluttering.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s288}}Cardiac neuroses from spinal or uterine irritation.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s289}}Pulse:​ accelerated,​ later slower; slow, small, weak; rapid and weak; 100, weak; 50, small and feeble; 40 skin cold, clammy; imperceptible with coldness and collapse.\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s290}}Vascular bruit de souffle.</​span>​
 +
 +====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s292}}Tabes dorsalis from sexual excesses.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s293}}Backache;​ tired lameness of legs.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s294}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Seminal emissions.</​span>​
 +
 +====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s296}}Trembling of hands during voluntary motion; or, as in delirium tremens.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s297}}Hands and fingers in constant action; busy twitching of fingers.</​span>​
 +
 +====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s299}}Cannot stand erect; legs weak.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s300}}Unsteady gait; frequently taken for a drunken man.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s301}}Gait staggering, uncertain; looks to see if legs are really moving; feels as if his legs were all over sidewalk.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s302}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Locomotor ataxia.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s303}}Loss of sensibility;​ pinching or burning causes no pain.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s304}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Locomotor ataxia.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s305}}Legs and feet cold and blue; on being touched leave white impress of fingers for more than twenty-five seconds.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s306}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Cholera infantum.</​span>​
 +
 +====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s310}}Difficulty of holding head erect.\\ {{anchor:​s311}}Stooping:​ vertigo agg.\\ {{anchor:​s312}}Lying down: cough agg.\\ {{anchor:​s313}}Cannot sit, or walk, or shake head without feeling agg. of headache.\\ {{anchor:​s314}}Cannot stand erect.\\ {{anchor:​s315}}Straightening out in bed during spasm.\\ {{anchor:​s316}}Restless,​ must be on the move.\\ {{anchor:​s317}}Impossible to move head on account of swollen throat.\\ {{anchor:​s318}}Difficult walking.
 +
 +====== NERVES. [36] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s320}}The thought of something to be done makes her shake all over.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s321}}Nervous,​ restless; cannot sit still, but must move about or otherwise occupy oneself; often suits nervous women.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s322}}Restlessness,​ fitfullness of motion, with giddiness.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s323}}Almost constant twitching of fingers and a busy occupation of them in matters of no importance.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s324}}Nervous irritability caused by severe illness or death of some dear friend, or loss of property or reputation; constant fretting; will not eat, cannot sleep, is very irritable; pulse quick, tongue coated; fetid breath.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s325}}Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and grief.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s326}}Nervous excitement, irritation and congestion of cerebral meninges, with mania.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s327}}Hysterical spinal irritation.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s328}}Reflex excitability.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s329}}Languor,​ disinclined to talk, or use mind or work, indifferent,​ sleepy; by strong effort of will can act as usual.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s330}}Trembling sensation through body.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s331}}Mercurial trembling.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s332}}Symptoms from affection of vasomotor nerves: occasional sudden paroxysmal feeling of numbness; pins and needles; deadness and weakness; indescribable feeling of something wrong; feeling of largeness, or as if limbs were swollen; aching, uneasiness or actual pain not very severe; feeling of coldness, occasionally obvious fact of coldness; sudden weakness; paralyzed feeling; unable to retain grasp of an object, hastily putting it down, or allowing it to fall; muscles do not respond readily to will; co-ordination of movement defective; writing or needlework have to be discontinued;​ rubs the limbs by, as it would seem, an almost instinctive impulse; sensations allied to cramp, or actual cramp, with varying amounts of pain.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s333}}General delirium, hallucination,​ fancies about being persecuted; ataxia; as in general paralysis.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s334}}Gait:​ unsteady, reeling, as if drunk; staggering; false steps frequent; with rolling and staggering; as one walks with locomotor ataxia; looks too see if legs are really moving.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s335}}Weakness of extensors of legs and feet.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s336}}Weakness of muscles of arms.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s337}}Incoordination of muscles; nervous weakness, even paralysis of motion and numbness.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s338}}Great difficulty in getting and keeping right word, although right idea is present to mind.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s339}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Anemia of frontal lobe of brain.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s340}}Amnesic aphasia.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s341}}Anesthesia,​ particularly of gums, pharynx and genitalia.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s342}}Spasms:​ from fright, anger and other emotional causes, occurring in plethoric, nervous persons, or in women at time of menses; during parturition;​ from sexual excitement or excessive venery; too great reflex excitability,​ sleeplessness;​ during teething, whooping cough, or laryngismus stridulus; from Bright'​s disease.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s343}}Neuroses involving brain, accompanied by convulsions.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s344}}At intervals of seven, ten and fifteen days, is attacked, usually at 4 A. M., with spasms; straightens out in bed and makes the noise peculiar to this disease; face almost immediately becomes livid, and unless temples and face are rubbed during fit, dark purple spots remain for two or three days; livid ring about eyes; after from one to three minutes, muscles relax and she goes into a comatose sleep, in which she remains several hours, feels languid on awaking; head aches, and has a severe pain always at pit of stomach, and sometimes nausea, eats nothing for twenty-four hours, and then feels nearly as well as usual.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s345}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Epilepsy.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s346}}Mental hebetude, slowness of expression, failure of memory; confusion and heat of head, great vertigo; dull, stupefied expression; languor in extremities,​ whole mind and body given up to lassitude.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s347}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Epilepsy.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s348}}At each menstrual period one severe convulsion; falling while at work; stupid and prostrated remainder of day.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s349}}Attacks at new moon, regularly at 2 A. M.; nausea, trembling in bowels; eyes staring and wide open; jerking of left foot and then of arms; then deep sleep; complete unconsciousness,​ but no foaming at mouth; urine involuntary.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s350}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Epilepsy.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s351}}No foaming at mouth; headache after attacks; menses deficient, with prolapsus uteri; undoubted heredity.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s352}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Epilepsy.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s353}}Fits as often as once a fortnight, and at times twice a week.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s354}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Epilepsy.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s355}}Fit each month, usually a day or two before menses.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s356}}Frequent and violent convulsive seizures; epileptiform attacks, dependent on presence of a tumor or other coarse organic lesion of brain, are usually suspended; attacks especially occurring during daytime; grand mal rather than petit mal.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s357}}Epilepsy when attacks are attended or caused by unmistakable congestion of brain; epilepsy of recent character, and not dependent on constitutional causes; congenital and syphilitic epilepsy greatly modified.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s358}}Epilepsy from cerebral congestion, with vascular fullness of retina.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s359}}Epilepsy from tuberculosis.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s360}}Acts like a crazy person; enfeebling of mental power; trembling of hands; gait unsteady, irregular, staggering, as if drunk; eruption on lower extremities,​ generally on calves of legs, spotted yellow, indurated base, thick, yellow scabs.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s361}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Chorea.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s362}}Tongue protruded with a jerk; muscles of face, right arm and legs in constant jactitation,​ quite violent.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s363}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Chorea.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s364}}Unable to dress herself or work, could hardly speak; face, arm and leg of right side affected.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s365}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Chorea.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s366}}Very violent chorea from fright.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s367}}Tetanus.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s368}}Paralysis agitans.</​span>​
 +
 +====== SLEEP. [37] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s370}}Sleepiness;​ deep sleep, often broken by a start, though waking is very difficult; confused dreams.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s371}}Sleepy;​ drops asleep in his chair; if aroused falls right asleep again; during day.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s372}}Sleepless;​ restless; can only calm herself by incessant occupation.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s373}}Sleeplessness:​ especially in anemic patients, or nervous persons who are exhausted but irritated; from overfullness of cerebral bloodvessels;​ during convalescence from acute diseases; in case of mercurial poisoning; accompanying mental anxiety, hysteria, pregnancy and general nervous irritability.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s374}}Deep,​ profound and quiet slumber.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s375}}Profound and yet disturbed sleep, always awakens with a mental struggle, not knowing at first where he was or what had become of him.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s376}}Grinding of teeth during sleep, with moans and cries.</​span>​\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s377}}Night terrors of children; grinding teeth in sleep, moans, cries; horrible dreams.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s378}}Somnambulism in children.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s379}}Awakes from a profound sleep, not knowing where he is.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s380}}Waking with severe headache in a child.</​span>​
 +
 +====== TIME. [38] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s382}}During day: sleepy.\\ {{anchor:​s383}}Evening:​ restless and trembling.\\ {{anchor:​s384}}Night:​ frightful imaginings; headache agg.; roaring in ears; involuntary emission of urine; suddenly at night, spasmodic croup; child with croup is agitated; face flushed; cough agg.; itching.
 +
 +====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s386}}Hot room: chilliness.\\ {{anchor:​s387}}High temperature:​ itching.
 +
 +====== FEVER. [40] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s389}}Body cold; skin corrugated and mottled.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s390}}Shivering with cold and cold skin, although child was covered with mustard plasters.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s391}}Chilliness and general feeling of coldness, more pronounced about extremities.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s392}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Ague.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s393}}Heat,​ like cold stage, not very strongly marked.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s394}}Heat in face and fugitive flushings here and there.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s395}}Head hot, feels as if in a furnace, with coldness and chills.</​span>​\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s396}}Sweat abundant and viscid, all over body; unusually long lasting and exhausting.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s397}}~</​span>​ <span grade2>​Ague.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s398}}Quotidian ague.</​span>​
 +
 +====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s400}}Symptoms recur pronounced 5 P. M.; periodic colic in infants.\\ {{anchor:​s401}}At intervals of two or three hours: dry, fatiguing cough.\\ {{anchor:​s402}}For several hours: comatose sleep.\\ {{anchor:​s403}}At every stool: sensation as if bowels would fall out.\\ {{anchor:​s404}}In 24 hours, fifteen or twenty passages.\\ {{anchor:​s405}}At times: fits twice a week.\\ {{anchor:​s406}}At intervals of seven, ten and fifteen days, is attacked, usually at 4 A. M., with spasms.\\ {{anchor:​s407}}Every fortnight: fits.\\ {{anchor:​s408}}Attacks at new moon: regularly at 2 A. M.\\ {{anchor:​s409}}Before menses: headache.\\ {{anchor:​s410}}During menses: epileptic spasms.\\ {{anchor:​s411}}After menses: headache; insomnia; heat in genitals.\\ {{anchor:​s412}}At each menstrual attack; one severe convulsion.\\ {{anchor:​s413}}In winter: slightly elevated, smooth, red patches like urticaria.
 +
 +====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s415}}Right:​ headache in frontal protuberance;​ submaxillary glands swollen and painful; large tumor in iliac region; muscles of arm in constant jactitation;​ chorea affecting arm and leg.\\ {{anchor:​s416}}Left:​ tenderness of ovary; jerking in foot.
 +
 +====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s418}}Paroxysms of numbness; feels as if needles were pricking him.\\ {{anchor:​s419}}Parts feel as if growing large, swollen.\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s420}}Loss of sensibility;​ body generally, also fauces, larynx, urethra, etc.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s421}}Feels as if he would go out of his mind; staggers as if drunk; as if ground gave way; brain, as if too tight; as if bowels were falling out; restless and shaky as if from palsy; feels as if legs were all over sidewalk, as if limbs were swollen; as if in a furnace.\\ {{anchor:​s422}}Pain:​ in right frontal protuberance;​ in hemorrhoids;​ in region of kidneys, extending in direction of descending colon; in left ovary.\\ {{anchor:​s423}}Excruciating colic.\\ {{anchor:​s424}}Violent pain: in head, particularly in occiput.\\ {{anchor:​s425}}Terrible headache.\\ {{anchor:​s426}}Intensely painful varices with black stools.\\ {{anchor:​s427}}Neuralgia:​ of neck of bladder.\\ {{anchor:​s428}}Severe,​ throbbing, aching pains; in occipital region.\\ {{anchor:​s429}}Throbbing:​ in temples; in carotids and temporals.\\ {{anchor:​s430}}Colic:​ in children.\\ {{anchor:​s431}}Pricking sensation: all over body.\\ {{anchor:​s432}}Hoarseness:​ extremely painful.\\ {{anchor:​s433}}Tingling:​ in external genital organs.\\ {{anchor:​s434}}Burning:​ in chest; in vulva.\\ {{anchor:​s435}}Heat:​ in genitals.\\ {{anchor:​s436}}Confusion:​ of head.\\ {{anchor:​s437}}Fullness:​ of head.\\ {{anchor:​s438}}Pressure:​ at stomach.\\ {{anchor:​s439}}Tight feeling: in scalp.\\ {{anchor:​s440}}Tightness:​ of chest when breathing.\\ {{anchor:​s441}}Constrictive sensation: in brain.\\ {{anchor:​s442}}Sensation of suffocation.\\ {{anchor:​s443}}Dryness:​ of throat.\\ {{anchor:​s444}}Lameness:​ of legs.\\ {{anchor:​s445}}Jerking:​ in left foot and then of arms.\\ {{anchor:​s446}}Trembling sensation: through body; in bowels.\\ {{anchor:​s447}}Itching:​ in external genital organs.\\ {{anchor:​s448}}Internal coldness: of abdomen.
 +
 +====== TISSUES. [44] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s450}}Diminishes reflex excitability of nervous centres; the functions of organic life are not disturbed.\\ {{anchor:​s451}}Great weakness of muscles.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s452}}Muscles irritated, rendered incoordinate and then paralyzed.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s453}}It is supposed to cause contraction of capillaries.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s454}}Sedative effect upon action of heart.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s455}}Septicemia,​ lethargy, brain and spinal symptoms; multiple abscesses.\\ {{anchor:​s456}}Swelling of lymphatic glands.\\ {{anchor:​s457}}Sebaceous cysts.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s458}}Ascites.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s459}}Diseased organs are in hypertrophic condition.\\ {{anchor:​s460}}(OBS:​) It removes pathological deposits of fatty matter only, while the iodide removes normal adipose matter.\\ {{anchor:​s461}}Emaciation;​ decrease of temperature;​ pallor.\\ {{anchor:​s462}}Lowers temperature,​ with coldness of extremities,​ hands and wrists icy cold and wet, cerebral irritation, in cholera infantum.
 +
 +====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s466}}Touch:​ leaves white impress of fingers.\\ {{anchor:​s467}}Pressure:​ tumor slightly tender.\\ {{anchor:​s468}}Pinching:​ causes no pain.
 +
 +====== SKIN. [46] ======
 +
 +<span grade3>​{{anchor:​s470}}Skin cold, blue, spotted, corrugated.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s471}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Cholera infantum.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s472}}Moist eczema of legs with pityriasis of scalp.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s473}}Moist eruptions.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s474}}Slightly elevated, smooth, red patches, like urticaria, but with hardened bases, like erythema nodosum; itching at night in bed and in a high temperature;​ appear in winter.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s475}}Acne simplex and indurata; bluish red, pustular, agg. on face and chest; especially in lymphatic constitutions.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s476}}Acne on face and shoulders; centre becomes depressed; leave scars.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s477}}Rose colored mammilated eruption on lower extremities;​ sometimes pustules in centre of patches that become umbilicated,​ exuding a creamy moisture and forming thick, yellow scabs.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s478}}Eruption of small boils in successive crops, mostly on face and trunk, with troublesome itching.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s479}}Large,​ indolent, painful pustules; boils.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s480}}Long lasting scrofulous ulcerations.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s481}}Syphilitic psoriasis.</​span>​
 +
 +====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s483}}Acts more satisfactorily in children than in adults.\\ {{anchor:​s484}}Especially adapted to large persons inclined to obesity.\\ {{anchor:​s485}}Child,​ aet. 3; threatened inflammation of brain.\\ {{anchor:​s486}}Girl,​ aet. 5, delicate, thin, complaining for several weeks; incipient basilar meningitis.\\ {{anchor:​s487}}Child,​ aet. 8, lymphatic temperament,​ disposed to frequent sore throats; diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:​s488}}Girl,​ aet. 16, menses appeared at 13 without any influence upon the disease, animal magnetism and electricity benefited for a short time; epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:​s489}}Young lady, of robust habit and sanguine temperament,​ usually modest and retiring; nymphomania.\\ {{anchor:​s490}}Young woman, single, seamstress; epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:​s491}}Woman,​ aet. 19, stout, healthy looking, began to menstruate at 14 years of age; epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:​s492}}Woman,​ aet. 20, dwarfish appearance, suffering eight years; polypus of rectum.\\ {{anchor:​s493}}Woman,​ aet. 25, single, teacher of music; melancholia.\\ {{anchor:​s494}}Woman,​ aet. 30; threatened inflammation of brain.\\ {{anchor:​s495}}Lady,​ aet. 32, unmarried, dark hair, healthy appearance, subject to severe cutting pains in hypogastrium and headaches; ovarian cyst.\\ {{anchor:​s496}}Woman,​ aet. 38, married; ovarian enlargement.\\ {{anchor:​s497}}Woman,​ aet. 52, change of life; affection of mind.\\ {{anchor:​s498}}Man,​ aet. 65, weekly attacks for ten years; epilepsy.
 +
 +====== RELATIONS. [48] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s500}}Antidoted by vegetable acids, oleaginous remedies, <span grade2>​Camphora,​ Nux vom., Zincum.</​span>​ {{anchor:​s501}}It antidotes lead poisoning.\\ {{anchor:​s502}}Compatible:​ after <span grade2>​Acon.</​span>​ and <span grade2>​Spongia</​span>;​ after <span grade2>​Eugenia jambos</​span>​ in acne.\\ {{anchor:​s503}}Compare:​ <span grade2>​Ambra,​ Am. brom., Bellad.</​span>​ (but this drug is sthenic), <span grade2>​Camphora</​span>​ (cholera collapse), <span grade2>​Gelsem.,​ Hyosc., Natr. mur.</​span>​ (mind), <span grade2>​Stramon.,​ Zincum.</​span>​
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 +
 +====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
 +^ Source: | [[en:​mm:​hering:​start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 06, 1888 |
 +^ Description:​ | Clinical materia medica of [[en:​rem:​r163|Kalium bromatum]] |
 +^ Remedies: | [[en:​rem:​r163|Kalium bromatum]] |
 +^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
 +^ Year: | 1888 |
 +^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
 +^ Attribution:​ | Legatum Homeopathicum |}
  
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