Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Iodoformum iodof.
General
For internal use it is triturated with sugar of milk.
Compare Iodum.
Generalities
Trembling. ▶ Constant convulsive movements. ▶ Neuralgic pains in various parts; N. pains flying all over him at times. ▶ Sharp pains all over body; in nerves of left arm and back; pains sharply define the course of nerves. ▶ Pains agg. thinking of them; agg. touch; renewed when riding in cars; renewed in bed, in right side of head, right shoulder, right arm, hands, fingers, thigh, leg, foot, toes. ▶ Strange feeling. ▶ Thinks he has taken a bad cold. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Sensations of impending death. ▶ Loss of power came on so imperceptibly that general paralysis was feared, a dreamy state, in a few days complete stupor and loss of power over sphincters, they could be aroused by great effort to take a little nourishment, but soon lapsed into unconsciousness. ▶ Paralysis of sphincters. ▶ Amelioration after sleep.
Mind
Elated. ▶ Excitement interrupted by broken sleep; E., melancholia, hallucinations of sight and hearing. ▶ Apathetic, amnesia for recent events, nightly restlessness, did not recognize persons, weak-minded. ▶ Forgetful.
Head
Stitching. ▶ Aching; on waking. ▶ Heaviness on attempting to rise; H., with aching in vertex; H. at night as if he could not raise it from the pillow, H. next morning after waking, with intermittent pain in skull and agg. left side. ▶ Confuse, with nausea. ▶ Feeling as if he had been intoxicated the previous day. ▶ Sudden giddiness. ▶ Frontal pain; agg. descending stairs, with shooting in right ear; neuralgic, agg. stooping. ▶ Stitching in temples. ▶ Neuralgic pains in nerves of temples, agg. right, extending to behind ears. ▶ Pain in temples as from a weight. ▶ Sticking in right side of head. ▶ Itching of occiput.
Eyes
Bloodshot and painful. ▶ Smarting and burning; S. and stinging. ▶ Bruised feeling in right in morning. ▶ Sensitive to light. ▶ Objects appear tessellated and red, amel. rising. ▶ Vision double.
Ears
Sticking in right; S., then fulness. ▶ Feeling dry and feverish; and full. ▶ Neuralgic pain in left. ▶ Dull hearing.
Nose
Dryness, and he complains that he cannot get any discharge from it; with fulness of membrane and constant snuffing. ▶ Constant sensation as if smelling fumes of iodine. ▶ Smell as of decaying leaves in a swamp.
Face
Pain in malar-bones; in zygomatic muscles, agg. motion and bending forward. ▶ Drawing in malar bones, with pressing. ▶ Stiffness of zygomatic muscles. ▶ Aching in right lower jaw, increasing to pain as from a weight. ▶ Lips and throat dry; lips dry and stinging.
Mouth and Throat
Sharp pain in upper teeth. ▶ Aching in sound teeth; in decayed, agg. upper and right, coming and going quickly; toothache in afternoon quickly changing to temples. ▶ Teeth feel sore and too long. ▶ Metallic taste. ▶ Stitching in right side of throat. ▶ Dryness of throat, with bitter taste; D., with rawness on swallowing.
Stomach and Abdomen
▶ Nausea; at times. ▶ Rumbling in A. ▶ Scaphoid A. ▶ Flatulent colic. ▶ Cutting in A. ▶ Warmth in A. and rectum, with nausea and desire for stool. ▶ Right inguinal region, sharp pain; cutting, with desire for stool; sore pain.
Stool and Urine
Desire for a liquid stool. ▶ Stool delayed; with feeling as if anus were drawn up into rectum. ▶ Urine very yellow; and smelling like saffron.
Respiratory Organs
Aphonic disturbance of voice. ▶ Cough from dryness of throat; C. on going to bed, with wheezing from mucus in throat. ▶ Smothering sensation. ▶ Respiration irregular.
Chest
Sticking in right, extending to lower angle of scapula. ▶ Pain in left ; sharp, in right; ulcerative, in left breast, to right of nipple at night, then grasping at base of heart, next day aching in left breast. ▶ Soreness on taking a long breath; S. in lungs; sore pain in apex of right lung, on breathing sensation as if two ulcerated surfaces were in contact. ▶ Feeling in lungs as from a heavy cold. ▶ Feeling as if a weight rested on C., preventing free expansion.
Heart and Pulse
Sticking through heart. ▶ Pulse rapid.
Neck and Back
Contraction of muscles of neck. ▶ Bruised sensation in nape. ▶ Spine sore, does not wish it touched. ▶ Pain along spine; along right side of dorsal vertebræ; in lumbar region, with weakness and straining. ▶ Sharp pain in angle of scapula.
Extremities
Pain in left arm and left leg, agg. lower half of tibia and fibula, then extending into foot. ▶ Bruised feeling in left arm and leg, as the pain increases the muscles feel ulcerated. ▶ Sticking in left shoulder and arm. ▶ Pain in median nerve of left arm; P. in left humerus, with bruised pain in muscles around the bone. ▶ Rheumatic pain in right arm; agg. using it. ▶ Bruised pain in left arm in morning on touch. ▶ Pain in left elbow; in nerves of left hand; sharp, in nerves of left hand.
Lower Extremities
Pain along left crural nerve; P. in inside of knees; neuralgic, in left knee. ▶ Weakness of knees on ascending stairs; W. agg. standing, with pain. ▶ Rheumatic pain in gastrocnemii rheumatism of flexor muscles of legs. ▶ Legs weak. ▶ Cutting in left ankle on walking in open air. ▶ Sticking in right instep. ▶ Pain in left foot, agg. walking.
Sleep
Sleepiness; intermittent, ending in coma. ▶ Wakefulness. ▶ Jerks and shocks in nerves when trying to sleep. ▶ Restless sleep, full of dreams; R., agg. after 2 A.M. ▶ Sound sleep till 1.30, then sudden waking, restlessness and sleeplessness till 4.30, then partially conscious sleep for an hour and a half, then heavy sleep and difficult arousing. ▶ Confused dreams, of accidents, etc.
Fever
Susceptible to hot weather. ▶ Heat at night, keeps laying off covers. ▶ Sweats easily from motion. ▶ Sweat on head.