Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Thallium thal.
General
The pure metal is triturated.
Emaciation. ▶ Hyperæmia, agg. application to conjunctiva, with swelling and excessive secretion. ▶ Trembling; and chorea-like movements. ▶ Pains agg. lower limbs, with lassitude. ▶ Conjunctivitis, with much mucus (and perhaps disturbance of vision). ▶ Ptyalism. ▶ Appetite lost. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Vomiting. ▶ Lancinations following each other with the rapidity of electric shocks, in stomach and bowels. ▶ Abdomen retracted. ▶ Pain in intestinal canal. ▶ Diarrhœa and even bloody stools. ▶ Constipating. ▶ Respiration slow and difficult. ▶ Pulse slow. ▶ Paralysis of lower limbs. ▶ (Compare Plumbum, to which it is closely allied physically.).
Clinical
It has relieved the violent pains of locomotor ataxia.