Arsenicum Album ars.

MUCOUS MEMBRANES. MIND. RESPIRATION. Lungs; R apex. Blood. Heart. Nerves. SPLEEN. Lymphatics. Muscles. SKIN. Serous cavities. Organs.

COLD: ICES, DRINKS. FOODS. Air. PERIODICALLY: MIDNIGHT; after. AFTER 2 A.M. 14 days. Yearly. VEGETABLES. DRINKING. TIPPLING. Infections. Bad meat. Eruptions: Undeveloped. Suppressed. Quinine. Lying on part. Tobacco. EXERTION.

HOT: APPLICATIONS (dry). FOOD. Drinks. Wraps. Motion. Walking about. ELEVATING HEAD. Sitting erect. Company. Sweating.

Sudden, intense effects. Restless, anxious and very weak. Maddening pains; BURNING LIKE FIRE, hot neddles or wires, > heat, felt, even during sleep; exciting shortness of breath (Nat-s.) or chilliness. Inveterate neuralgias. Multiple neuritis. VERY RESTLESS, < affected part. Increasingly irritable (Cimi.) or SUDDEN GREAT WEAKNESS, from trivial causes. Rapid emaciation. ACRID, SCANTY, THIN SECRETIONS; coryza, saliva, sweat, etc. PUTRID, CADAVERIC ODORS. Destructive processes. Malignancy. Sepsis. Low vitality. Pale, puffy, baggy SWELLING. Dropsy. Anæmia.

Anxious. Oversensitive. Fastidious. EXACTING. Fault-finding. ANGUISH; despairs of recovery (Aco.). AGONIZING FEAR OF DEATH; nightly; yet tired of living. VIOLENCE; self-torture; pulls her hair; bites her nails. Suicidal impulses. Restless and suspicious. Congestion to head, > cold, but neuralgia, > heat. Pain alternates between head and stomach or body. Pain over l. eye. Restless head. Early grayness. Falling hair. Spasm of eyelids. Burning tears. Scrophulous ophthalmia. Takes colds. Nose colds descend to chest. Cold sores; in nose. Sneezing, with biting, watery coryza; but stopped nose. Hay fever. Sensitive smell; loathes odor, sight or thought of food. PALE, anxious, sunken, haggard or distorted countenance; with cold sweat. Black lips. Bluish white tongue. Nightly toothache. INSATIABLE BURNING THIRST; CRAVES ICE COLD WATER, BUT IT DISTRESSES STOMACH (Nux-v.) AND IS VOMITED AT ONCE; with anorexia; during heat. DRINKS LITTLE AND OFTEN. Gastritis. Swelled spleen. Vomiting, with purging, from ptomaine poisoning. Foul, rice water or small, acrid, burning, black, mucous or lienteric stools; < cold drinks. Scanty urine. Uræmia (Pip-m.). Profuse acrid leucorrhœa. As of a vapor in larynx. SHORT BREATH; felt in nose; must sit up; < odors, receding eruptions or ascending. Whistling inspiration. Wheezing breathing. Cough alternately dry and loose; must sit up. Frothy expectoration. Acute pain through upper third of r. lung. Asthma. Pulmonary œdema. Cough; dry, nightly; < drinking. Heart; weak; trembles; palpitates; < slight causes. Stiffness, ascends from coccyx to nape. Alternate internal and skin symptoms. SKIN; LOOKS SEARED; dry, rough, dirty or shrivelled (Op.). Free desquamation. Eczema. Acuminate eruptions. Hives after eating fish. Ulcerative tendency; chronic; with burning. Phagedena. Gangrene. Shocks on dropping to sleep. Restless sleep. Dreams of death. COLD, externally, with internal, burning heat; in spots; sensitive to, yet > in open air (Aur.). Chills; irregular; shaking; craves hot drinks; and can't get his breath. Heat, as of hot water in veins or they burn like lines of fire; burning or coldness in chest (Bry. Lach. Nat-m. Sul.). Hectic. Sweat; with insatiable thirst, dyspnœa or exhaustion; cold. Atypical or larval malaria. Old case of malarias. Waves of icy coldness in blood-vessels or intense boiling heat. Yellow fever (prophylactic).

Complementary: Nat-s. Pul. Thu. Related: Sul-ac. Ver-a.

Great prostration , with rapid sinking of the vital forces; fainting: The disposition is: a - Depressing, melancholic, disparing, indifferent. b - Anxious, fearful, restless, full of anguish. c - Irritable, sensitive, peevish, easily vexed. The greater the suffering, the greater the anguish, restlessness and fear of death. Mentally restless, but physically too weak to move; cannot rest in any place: changing places continually; wants to be moved from one bed to another, and lies now here now there. Anxious fear of death; thinks it useless to take medicine, is incurable, is surely going to die; dread of death, when alone, or, going to bed. Attacks of anxiety at night driving out of bed, < after midnight. Burning pains; the affected parts burn like fire, as if hot coals were applied to parts (Antr.), > by heat, hot drinks, hot applications. Burning thirst without special desire to drink; the stomach does not seem to tolerate, because it cannot assimilate cold water; lies like a stone in the stomach. It is wanted, but he cannot or dare not drink it. Cannot bear the smell or sight of food (Colch., Sep.). Great thirst for cold water; drinks often, but little at a time; eats seldom, but much. Gastric derangements; after cold fruits; ice cream; ice water; sour beer; bad sausage; alcoholic drinks; strong cheese. Teething children are pale, weak, fretful, and want to be carried rapidly. Diarrhoea, after eating or drinking; stool scanty, dark-colored, offensive, and whether small or large, followed by great prostration. Haemorrhoids: with stitching pain when walking or sitting, not at stool; preventing sitting or sleep; burning pain < by heat; fissures make voiding urine difficult. Breathing: asthmatic; must sit or bend forward; springs out of bed at night, especially after twelve o'clock; unable to lie down for fear of suffocation; attacks like croup instead of the usual urticaria. Rapid emaciation: with cold sweat and great debility (Tub., Ver.); of affected parts; marasmus. Anasarca, skin pale, waxy, earth-colored (Acet. ac.). Excessive exhaustion from least exertion. Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying still; when he moves he is surprised to find himself so weak. Symptoms generally worse 1-2 p. m., 12-2 a. m. Skin: dry and scaly; cold, blue and wrinkled; with cold, clammy perspiration; like parchment; white and pasty; black vesicles and burning pain. Bad effects from decayed food or animal matter, whether by inoculation, olfaction or ingestion. Complaints return annually (Carbo. v., Lach., Sulph., Thuja).

Complementary: Allium s., Carbo. v., Phos., Pyr. Ars. should be thought of in ailments from: chewing tabacco; alcoholism; sea bathing; sausage poisoning; dissecting woulds and anthrax poison; stings of venomous insects.

After midnight (1 to 2 a. m. or p. m.); from cold; cold drinks or food; when lying on affected side or with the head low.

From heat in general (reverse of Sec.) except headache, which is temporarily > by cold bathing (Spig.); burning pain > by heat.

We find a great amount of anguish in the patient, and the greater the suffering the greater the anguish. Very great restlessness, which is exhibited in an anxious tossing and jerking about, every movement being followed by exhaustion. Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying still, but as soon as he moves he is surprised to find himself so weak. Intense burning sensation, as if from coals or fire--usually found in the abdominal cavity. Fear of death. This is not the Aconite fear, but it is an anxiety, and a feeling that it is useless to take medicine, as they are surely going to die. Deficiency of blood; dropsy of outer and inner parts; inflammation of mucous membranes; strong disposition to lie down, sensations of pressing in the inner parts; burning in the glands, ulcers in the glands.

Delirium; raving; sad; melancholy fits of anguish, compelling tossing, uneasiness, sleeplessness; despairs of life; fear of death, thinks it very near. (Acon., inconsolable anguish, fearful and apprehensive that something will happen; predicts day of death.)

Acts prominently on the scalp; destitute of hair; rough and dirty looking spots. Neuralgia in left temple. Scalp is painful to touch; swelling of head and face; tinea capitis; swelling of cervical glands posterior. Ears, roaring in during paroxysms of pain.

Internal surface of the eyelids. Aversion to light in ophthalmia. Blue color around the eyes.

Fluent catarrhal discharges, often acrid; scabs in; sneezing; cancer of.

Blue color around the eyes; sunken, pale, death-like; puffed; red; bluish. Forehead. Exanthema around the mouth. Puffiness of the face.

Eruption on margin of lips, burning; cancerous eruption with thick crust, and base with appearance of lard on lower lip. Pain in teeth relieved by hot applications. Tongue bluish, brown, or blackish; dry; desires a little water often. Burning in throat; gangrenous; everything seems to stop (lodge) in the throat. Taste saltish; bitter after eating and drinking; desire for cold water or brandy.

Qualmishness. Vomiting of black water; of what has been drunk, it comes up immediately; at night; after eating or drinking; of green mucus; of bile; of blood; with diarrhœa. Violent pains in the stomach during vomiting. Excessive pains in stomach; weight in, as from a stone; sensation of pressure in cardiac orifice as though parts were filled with food up to the mouth. Burning in stomach; cancer in; acute and chronic gastritis. Deranged by ice, fruit, acid things, etc. Hiccough with eructations. Sea-sickness.

Intense burning sensation like coals of fire; right side. Pains in; excessive; at night; after eating or drinking; with vomiting and diarrhœa; causing great anguish and despair of life. Cutting in the abdomen; coldness in; excessive swelling in.

Constipation; tenesmus. Diarrhœa after eating or drinking; with vomiting; prostration; thirst; evacuations burning, dark green, slimy, black, putrid; white; undigested; painless; stool acrid, stinking, undigested; vomiting, and purging from the bowels at the same time--a strong indication for Arsen. Inflamed varices with burning.

Burning urine. Involuntary micturition. Paralysis of the bladder.

Oppressed respiration; cough, with expectoration, only during the day; taste salty. Burning in the larynx; hoarseness, worse in cold air. Dyspnœa; slow and wheezing; worse, ascending; when moving rapidly; accompanied by debility. Burning in chest. Heart very irregular; palpitation of.

Male: Inflammation and swelling of the parts; gangrenous. Female: Menses too profuse; too soon; amenorrhœa. Leucorrhœa acrid, corroding.

Affections of the back often appear.

Right side. Affections of the shin-bones and calves of the legs; cramps in, at night. Tendency to paralysis of lower. Swelling of feet; hot, shiny. Blisters on fingers and toes.

Yawning with stretching of the limbs (chills and fever often come on in this way). Complaints preventing sleep; concomitant to waking; waking too early; suffocating fits; sleep anxious and restless; sleeplessness in general, particularly after midnight. Anxious dreams about dead persons; with feeling of embarrassment; fatiguing, full of cares.

General coldness; chilliness without thirst (if there be thirst during the chill, except for hot drinks, do not give Ars.) Chilly after drinking cold water; after eating; chill and heat together. Wants to be warm, and to be surrounded by warmth; wants to be near a warm stove; complaints concomitant to chilliness. External and internal beat at the same time; heat of single parts; fever with thirst, little and often, followed by great prostration; heat with anxiousness; burning heat, wishing to be covered; dry cough during the fever; complaints concomitant to heat. Shuddering in general. Complaints concomitant to perspiration. Debilitating sweats, sometimes cold and clammy. Pulse small, frequent, intermittent; very feeble imperceptible. Compound fevers in general; heat and shuddering alternately; concomitant complaints during, before, and after fever.

Acute or chronic burns; burning of the skin; dry skin with sensation of heat; skin like parchment. Exanthema in general, around the mouth, especially the upper lip; blackish, burning, gangrenous, pustulous, whitish, jet black, white miliary, petechiæ, fungus hæmatodes; external swelling in general, swelling blue-black (Arsen. will change this to a greenish hue, then it will clean up nicely), burning swelling, dropsical, spongy. Skin jaundiced; general anasarca; black blisters. Tetters in general, burning, furfuraceous, prickling. Ulcers in general; indolent; mortifying; turning black; black at the bottom; bleeding, bleeding at edges, with fire-like burning, with sensation as if burnt, destitute of feeling, gangrenous, hard, on the edges, with red halo around, painful edges, spongy; spongy edges, high hard ulcers, with proud flesh in them, with bloody pus, corroding pus, inflamed.

Rapid sinking of strength; great emaciation; least effort is exhausting. Marasmus. Convulsions. Stiffness of the limbs. Sufferings often induce shuddering, coldness, anguish, excessive failing of strength, inability to remain up.

In the night; after midnight; from anger with anxiety; before falling asleep; on awakening; on entering a cold place; in cold air, or getting cold; after drinking; from exertion of the body; during, before, and after the fever; while lying down with the head low; on ascending; after moving (movement followed by exhaustion); from cold food; from fruits, milk, wine; during perspiration; from running or walking fast; from a scald or burn; during sleep; during the first hours of sleep; Arsen. always wants to be wrapped up warm, also wants warm things, drinks, etc., etc.; during stool (as vomiting may come on, pains, etc.); from change of temperature; after undressing; in vaulted places, as milk house, cellar, etc.; from vomiting.

On going down; lying with the head high; on rising; from warm or hot things; warmth in general; near a warm stove.

Apis, Chamom., China, Ferrum, Hepar, Iodium, Ipec., Lycop., Mercur., Nux vom., Sulphur.

Ipec., Hepar, Nux vom.

Dread of death when alone, or on going to bed; great restlessness and utter prostration. Unquenchable, burning thirst, drinks often, but little at a time; water disagrees. Disordered stomach after eating fruit or ice cream. Violent burning pains in stomach and abdomen with intolerable anguish. Black stools, thin and watery, with great prostration. Oppression of breathing, prostration and other ailments from walking fast, or ascending a height. Burning pains, especially in inner organs, skin and ulcers, relieved by heat. Bran-like, dry, scaly eruptions, with itching and burning, the latter increased by scratching, followed by bleeding. Suffering worse after midnight. Poisoning from decayed or morbid animal matter, by innoculation, inhalation or swallowing.

Arsenious Acid-Arsenic Trioxide

A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application. Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important. Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the peculiar irritability of fiber, gives the characteristic irritable weakness. Burning pains. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat. Seaside complaints (Nat mur; Aqua Marina). Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones. Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency. Fear fright and worry. Green discharges. Infantile Kala-azar (Dr. Neatby).

Ars should be thought of in ailments from alcoholism, ptomaine poisoning, stings, dissecting wounds, chewing tobacco; ill effects from decayed food or animal matter; odor of discharges is putrid; in complaints that return annually. Anæmia and chlorosis. Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition. Reduces the refractive index of blood serum (also China and Ferr phos). Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location. Malarial cachexia. Septic infections and low vitality.

Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone. Great fear, with cold sweat. Thinks it useless to take medicine. Suicidal. Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him from place to place. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage. General sensibility increased (Hep). Sensitive to disorder and confusion.

Headaches relieves by cold, other symptoms worse. Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold skin. Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness. Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Head is in constant motion. Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair.

Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation. Lids red, ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated. Œdema around eyes. External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; burning, hot, and excoriating lachrymation. Corneal ulceration. Intense photophobia; better external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain.

Skin within, raw and burning. Thin, excoriating, offensive otorrhœa. Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain.

Thin, watery, excoriating discharge. Nose feels stopped up. Sneezing without relief. Hay-fever and coryza; worse in open air; better indoors. Burning and bleeding. Acne of nose. Lupus.

Swollen, pale, yellow, cachectic, sunken, cold, and covered with sweat (Acetic acid). Expression of agony. Tearing needle-like pains; burning. Lips black, livid. Angry, circumscribed flush of cheeks.

Unhealthy, easily-bleeding gums. Ulceration of mouth with dryness and burning heat. Epithelioma of lips. Tongue dry, clean, and red; stitching and burning pain in tongue, ulcerated with blue color. Bloody saliva. Neuralgia of teeth; feel long and very sore; worse after midnight; better warmth. Metallic taste. Gulping up of burning water.

Swollen, œdematous, constricted, burning, unable to swallow. Diphtheritic membrane, looks dry and wrinkled.

Cannot bear the sight or smell of food. Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time. Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking. Anxiety in pit of stomach. Burning pain. Craves acids and coffee. Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat. Long-lasting eructations. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia from slightest food or drink. Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco. Terrible fear and dyspnœa, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion. Malignant symptoms. Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the œsophagus, which seems as if closed and nothing would pass. Ill effects of vegetable diet, melons, and watery fruits generally. Craves milk.

Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire; relieved by heat. Liver and spleen enlarged and painful. Ascites and anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful. Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing.

Painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum. Tenesmus. Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus.

Small, offensive, dark, with much prostration. Worse at night, and after eating and drinking; from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive. Cholera, with intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst. Body cold as ice (Verat). Hæmorrhoids burn like fire; relieved by heat. Skin excoriated about anus.

Scanty, burning, involuntary. Bladder as if paralyzed. Albuminous. Epithelial cells; cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and blood. After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen. Bright's disease. Diabetes.

Menses too profuse and too soon. Burning in ovarian region. Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin. Pain as from red-hot wires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue; better in warm room. Menorrhagia. Stitching pain in pelvis extending down the thigh.

Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. Air-passages constricted. Asthma worse midnight. Burning in chest. Suffocative catarrh. Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back. Expectoration scanty, frothy. Darting pain through upper third of right lung. Wheezing respiration. Hæmoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry, as from sulphur fumes; after drinking.

Palpitation, pain, dyspnœa, faintness. Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers. Pulse more rapid in morning (Sulph). Dilatation. Cyanosis. Fatty degeneration. Angina pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput.

Weakness in small of back. Drawing in of shoulders. Pain and burning in back (Oxal ac).

Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet. Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene. Ulcers on heel (Cepa; Lamium). Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy.

Itching, burning, swellings; œdema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. Psoriasis. Scirrhus. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma of the skin. Gangrenous inflammations.

Disturbed, anxious, restless. Must have head raised by pillows. Suffocative fits during sleep. Sleeps with hands over head. Dreams are full of care and fear. Drowsy, sleeping sickness.

High temperature. Periodicity marked with adynamia. Septic fevers. Intermittent. Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion. Hay-fever. Cold sweats. Typhoid, not too early; often after Rhus. Complete exhaustion. Delirium; worse after midnight. Great restlessness. Great heat about 3 am.

Worse, wet weather, after midnight; from cold, cold drinks, or food. Seashore. Right side. Better from heat; from head elevated; warm drinks.

Complementary: Rhus; Carbo; Phos. Thuja; Secale. Antidotal to lead poison.

Antidotes: Opium; Carbo; China; Hepar; Nux. Chemical Antidotes: Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxide of Iron; Lime Water.

Compare: Arsenic stibatum 3x (Chest inflammations of children, restlessness with thirst and prostration, loose mucous cough, oppression, hurried respiration, crepitant rales). Cenchris contortrix; Iod; Phosph; China; Verat alb; Carbo; Kali phos. Epilobium (intractable diarrhœa of typhoid). Hoang Nan. Atoxyl. Sodium arseniate 3x, sleeping sickness; commencing optic atrophy. Levico Water--(containing Ars, Iron and Copper of South Tyrol). Chronic and dyscratic skin diseases, chorea minor and spasms in scrofulous and anæmic children. Favors assimilation and increases nutrition. Debility and skin diseases, especially after the use of higher potencies where progress seems suspended. Dose. Ten drops in wine glass of warm water 3 times a day after meals (Burnett). Sarcolatic acid (influenza with violent vomiting).

Third to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies often yield brilliant results.

Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin. But if only surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies, 2x to 3x trit. Repeated doses advisable.

Great anguish and restlessness, driving from place to place.

Great and sudden prostration, sinking of vital force.

Intense burning pains.

Intense thirst; drinks often, but little, as cold water disagrees.

Dyspnœa < on motion, especially ascending.

Vomiting and stool simultaneous; < after eating or drinking.

> by warm air or room and hot applications, relieved by sweat.

No remedy is more restless than this one. The Aconite restlessness comes in the earlier stages of inflammatory diseases, with fever of a high grade. Arsenicum in the later stages, after the patient has become greatly reduced in strength, or in low grades of fever like typhoids. The Aconite patient tosses to and fro in agony and fear. The Arsenic patient is too wealth to toss as the anguish and restlessness would incline him to. He cannot move himself around as he desires, but wants to be moved from place to place, or bed to bed, while the least exertion on his own part exhausts terribly. He has fear of death, but not like the Aconite fear, but rather an anxiety and a feeling that it is useless to take medicine for he is going to die; he is incurable.

The mental restlessness is as great as the bodily. He has attacks of anxiety that drive him out of bed at night. Even when there is no pain at all he wants to be continually changing place, walking about if strong enough, without any other reason than that he can't keep still. Often the first beneficial effect to be observed in cases calling for this remedy is that the anxiety grows less, the patient lies still, his pain is not so much less, but it does not make him so restless; he can bear it better. This is a good sign and is generally followed by amelioration of all the symptoms. It makes little difference what the disease, if this persistent restlessness and especially if great weakness is also present, don't forget Arsenic.

Arsenicum leads all the remedies for burning sensation, especially in acute diseases. It is not by any means confined to acute diseases, but is often found in chronic affections, especially of a malignant character or tending to malignancy. I think perhaps Sulphur outranks it generally for burnings in chronic affections. There is hardly an organ or tissue in the human system where these burnings of Arsenic are not found. This burning, strange as it may seem, is greatly ameliorated by heat. Hot applications if they can be gotten in contact with the part, also heat of a warm stove or warm room. This is the exact opposite of Secale cornutum, for while the part is objectively cold, it still burns, but hot applications are intolerable; they cannot even bear to have it covered; with Arsenicum, in throat complaints, in connection with acute catarrh, the burnings in throat and from the excoriating nasal discharge ameliorated by hot application. The burning in throat is better from eating or drinking hot things. This is the chief modality which enables us to choose between this remedy and Cepa and Mercurius, for all the three have fluent coryza. I once had a case of very severe gastralgia caused by suppression of eczema on the hands. I knew nothing of the suppression, but prescribed Arsenicum because the pains came on at midnight, lasting until 3 A. M., during which time the patient had to walk the floor in agony and there was great burning in the stomach. She had but one slight attack after taking Arsenicum, but, said she, when I visited her, "Doctor, would that remedy send out salt rheum?" Then I found out about the suppression which had been caused by the application of an ointment, and told her that she could have back the pain in the stomach any time she wanted it, by suppressing the eruption again. She did not want it.

Arsenicum is one of our best remedies for fevers of a typhoid character. So useful is it that Baehr says -"Since Arsenic is, more than any other remedy, adapted to the worst forms of infectious diseases it seems wrong to delay its administration until the symptoms indicating it are developed in their most malignant intensity," and further, "our advice, therefore, is that Arsenic should be given more frequently than has been customary from the very beginning of the attack, and that we should not wait until the disease has fully developed its pernicious character." I do not think this is sound reasoning or good advice, for I have never found any rule by which I could decide from the beginning that a case would later on develop into a case of the pernicious or malignant character which would ever call for the exhibition of Arsenic. While we need not wait for a case to develop to that "most malignant" intensity which calls for Arsenic, we would not on the other hand be justified in giving Arsenic or any other remedy in anticipation of a condition which might never come. Arsenicum is not the only remedy capable of curing these malignant cases, and how do we know after all that it may not be Muriatic acid or Carbo vegetabilis that will be the remedy after the case is developed. There is no safe or scientific rule but to treat the case with the indicated remedy at any and all stages of the disease, without trying to treat expected conditions or future possibilities. It would be out of place here to give all the indications for Arsenic in typhoids, as it would take too much space, and they can be found in Raue, Lilienthal or any good work on practice. Arsenic is also fine of our best remedies in intermittents, especially after the abuse of Quinine. Close individualization is necessary here as elsewhere.

Arsenic profoundly affects the alimentary canal from lips to anus. The lips are so dry and parched and cracked that the patient often licks them to moisten them. The tongue is affected in various ways. It may be dry and red, with raised papillæ; or red, with indented edges; or white as chalk or white paint; or lead colored, or dry, brown or black, especially in typhoids. The mouth is dry or aphthous, ulcerated or gangrenous. The throat the same. The thirst is indescribably intense and peculiar, in that notwithstanding its intensity the patient can take only a little water at a time. The stomach is so irritable that the least food or drink causes distress and pain, or immediately excites vomiting, or stool, or both together. Cold drinks, ice-water, or ice-cream particularly disagree and create distress. Vomits all kinds and grades of substances from water or mucus to bile, blood, and coffee ground substances.

The pains in stomach are terrible and aggravated by the least food or drink, especially, if cold. The abdominal pains also are intense, causing the patient to turn and twist in all possible shapes and directions. Diarrhœa of all kinds of stools, from simply watery to black, bloody and horribly offensive, and finally the end of the tract is reached and we have hæmorrhoids. Now in every one of these affections, ranging along the whole length of the canal, and from the lightest grade of irritation to the most intense inflammatory and malignant forms of disease, we will be apt to find everywhere present the characteristic burning of this remedy, in greater or lesser degree; and the not less characteristic amelioration from heat, and also, though not quite so invariably, the midnight aggravation.

Arsenicum also has its sphere of usefulness in diseases of the respiratory organs. First, for acute coryza it stands in the front rank, the choice often having to be made between this remedy, Cepa and Mercurius. Arsenicum has the fluent discharge which corrodes the lips and wings of the nose and more burning than the other two remedies. It often follows well after Mercurius if that remedy only partially relieves.

Arsenicum is particularly efficacious in many affections of the lungs, where the breathing is very much oppressed. Respiration is wheezing, with cough and frothy expectoration. Patient cannot lie down; must sit up to breathe, and is unable to move without being greatly put out of breath. The air passages seem constricted. It is especially useful in asthmatic affections caused or aggravated by suppressed eruptions, like pneumonia from retrocedent measles, or even chronic lung troubles from suppressed eczema. I remember a case of asthma of years' standing to which I was called at midnight, because they were afraid the patient would die before morning. Found that her attacks always came on at 1 A. M. Gave Arsenicum alb. 30th, and she was completely cured by it.

The symptom by Rollin R. Gregg, "Acute, sharp, fixed or darting pain in apex and through upper third of right lung," is a gem, and has enabled me to cure a number of cases of obstinate lung troubles. In the last stage off pneumonia of old people, with gangrenous expectoration, if the other symptoms correspond, this remedy has often saved life. The burning is often found here as elsewhere. Arsenicum is also one of our best remedies in pleuritic effusions.

Arsenicum also affects profoundly the nervous system. To the characteristic restlessness, of which we have said so much, is added great Prostration. This prostration is present in most diseases, both acute and chronic, where Arsenic is indicated. For instance, in typhoids there is no remedy that prostrates more. Carbo veg. and Muriatic acid equal it, the difference being that the Arsenic patient wants to move or be moved constantly, while with the other two remedies there is almost utter absence of any such show of life. Even if not confined to the bed, in acute or chronic diseases the patient is so weak that he is "exhausted from the slightest exertion," must lie down. Sometimes this extreme degree of prostration comes on very rapidly.

Here is a picture that shows a condition of things in chronic trouble calling for this remedy. "From climbing mountains, or other muscular exertions, want of breath, prostration, sleeplessness and other ailments." This shows how weak the patient is, and this weakness may be coupled with various forms of disease. You may say it is common for sick people to be weak. True, but the Arsenicum patient is weak out off proportion to the rest of his trouble, or apparently so; and it is a general prostration, not local like the sense of weakness in the chest of Phosphoric acid, Stannum and Sulphur; or in the abdomen like Phosphorus; or in the stomach like Ignatia, Hydrastis and Sepia. Now I do not see how I can make plainer the value of prostration as an Arsenic symptom.

When we come to the tissues we find our remedy almost universally present.

It attacks the blood, causing septic changes, exanthemata, ecchymoses, petechiæ, etc.

It attacks the veins; varices burn like fire, < at night.

It attacks the serous membranes, causing copious serous effusion.

It attacks the glands, which indurate or suppurate.

It attacks the periosteum.

It attacks the joints; causing pale swellings, burning pains, etc.

It causes inflammatory swellings with burning lancinating pains.

It causes general anasarca; skin pale, waxy or earth colored; great thirst (Apis none).

It causes rapid emaciation; atrophy of children.

It causes ulcerations, constantly extending in breadth. The ulcers burn like fire, pain even during sleep, discharge may be copious or scanty, the base blue, black or lardaceous.

Anthrax burning like fire; cold blue skin dry as parchment, peeling off in large scales.

"Sphacelus," parts look black or burn like fire.

"Gangrene," better from heat (worse, Secale).

"Parchment" like dryness, or dry scaly skin.

The skin troubles of this remedy are mostly dry and scaly, and almost always burning. It is one of our best remedies for affections caused by retrocedent or suppressed exanthemata, also for suppressed chronic eczema, etc.

But it is impossible and outside the scope of this work to mention by name all the affections of the tissues in which this remedy is useful.

Notwithstanding this, Arsenic is not a panacea. It must, like every other remedy, be indicated by its similar symptoms or failure is the outcome. Its great keynotes are Restlessness, Burning, Prostration, and Midnight Aggravation.

Modalities: < in cold air, from cold things, cold applications; and 1 to 3 A. M. Movement.

Anguish, driving one out of bed at night, and from one place to another in the day-time. Restlessness. Great fear of death, and of being left alone. Despair. He finds no rest, especially at night, with anguish. Anger with anxiety, restlessness and sensation of coldness. Madness ; loss of mind (from the abuse of alcoholic drinks). Delirium.

Tearing in the head, with vomiting, when raising up the head. Headache (after meals) relieved by applying cold water, or by walking in the open air. Periodical headaches. The scalp is tender to the touch. Eruptions, white, dry, like bran ; burning, itching on the forepart of the head ; when scratching it burns and bleeds violently. Burning biting boils on the scalp, with sensitiveness to touch and cold. Erysipelatous burning, swelling of the head (face and genitals) with great weakness and coldness ; worse at night.

Inflammation of the eyes and lids, with severe burning pains. Inflammation of the inner surface of the eyelids, preventing the opening of the eye. Excessive photophobia. Specks or ulcers on the cornea.

Hardness of hearing -he cannot hear the human voice. Roaring in the ears (accompanying every attack of pain).

Swelling of and burning in the nose. Ulcers in the nose (cancer of the nose). Profuse, fluent coryza of sharp, burning, excoriating water, with hoarseness and sleeplessness. Peeling off of the epidermis.

Puffiness of the face, especially around the eyes. Color pale, like earth, yellowish, (blue rings around the eyes). Distorted features ; death-like countenance. Drawing stitches here and there in the face. Burning face-ache. Crusta lactea. Cancer of the face and lips, with burning pain. Exanthema around the mouth. Lips black, dry, and cracked.

Toothache at night, extending to the ear and temple, worse when lying on the affected side, better from the heat of the stove. Grinding of the teeth. Gums bleeding.

The mouth is reddish-blue, inflamed, burning. Secretion of abundant tough, fetid, bloody saliva. Aphthæ, stomacace. Tongue dry, brown, black, cracked. Swelling, inflammation, or gangrene of the tongue. Ulceration of the tongue, with blue color. Painful, difficult deglutition (constriction) of the œsophagus. Burning in the throat. Angina gangrenosa, (with aphthæ).

Violent, unquenchable, burning thirst, with frequent drinking, with but little at a time. Longing for cold water, acids, or alcoholic drinks. Aversion to food, loathing the thought of eating. Bitter taste in the mouth after eating and drinking.

Vomiting of the ingesta, (after each meal), after drinking ; of a brown substance with violent pain in the stomach ; of a black substance ; of blood ; of a green substance ; with diarrhœa after drinking the least quantity. Great painfulness and anxiety in the pit of the stomach and stomach. Burning in the pit of the stomach and stomach. Inflammation or induration of the stomach. Cramp in the stomach, (2 A.M.).

Hard, bloated abdomen. Burning pains, with anguish. Sensation of coldness, (upper part). Induration of the mesenteric glands. Painful swelling and induration of the inguinal glands. Ulcers about the navel. Ascites.

Burning stools, with violent pains in the bowels, with tenesmus, thirst, worse after eating. Stools acrid, burning, consisting of mucus ; black, bloody, offensive, watery and painless, involuntary. In the rectum and anus, burning and soreness. Prolapsus ani. Hæmorrhoidal tumors, with burning pain.

Suppressed or difficult micturition. (Paralysis of the bladder). Urine bloody, burning. Involuntary discharge of burning urine.

Men. Painful swelling of the genitals, and gangrene. Blue-red swelling of the glans, with rhagades. Erysipelatous inflammation of the scrotum. Women. Catamenia too early, and too profuse. Leucorrhœa acrid, corroding. Scirrhus uteri.

Dryness, burning, and constriction in the larynx. Bronchitis, with difficult secretion of mucus. Respiration oppressed, anxious, short. Oppressed, labored breathing, especially when ascending a height ; in cold air ; when turning in bed. Suffocating spells in the evening, when lying down. Constriction of the chest, with anguish ; worse when moving. Chilliness or coldness in the chest. Heat, burning, itching in the chest. Stitches and pressing in the sternum. Cough, without expectoration, especially after drinking or eating ; when lying down ; during a walk in the cold air. Cough, with arrest of breathing ; with tough mucus in the chest ; with expectoration of frothy mucus in lumps, or tasting salty ; in day-time, without expectoration at night. Periodically returning cough, (hooping-cough), from burning-tickling in the pharynx. Hæmoptysis at night, with burning heat over the whole body. Palpitation of the heart, especially at night, with great anguish.

Burning in the back. Sensation of weakness, as if bruised in the small of the back.

Upper. Rheumatic pains from the elbow up to the shoulder, worse at night. Swelling of the arm, with putrid smelling, black blisters. Burning ulcers on the tips of the fingers. Sensation of swelling and fulness in the palms of the hands at night. Soreness between the fingers. Nails discolored. Lower. Tearing and stinging in the hips, legs, and loins. Tearing in the tibia. Old ulcers on lower limbs, with burning and lancinating pains. Ulcers on the soles of the feet and toes. Swelling of the feet, hard, burning, shining, with red spots, or blue-black blisters. Itching herpes in the bends of the knee. Varices.

Paralysis, especially of the lower extremities. Trembling of the limbs (in drunkards). Sudden sinking of strength. Fainting, from weakness, with scarcely perceptible pulse. Burning pains of inner or exterior parts (glands). Tearing pain in the arms and legs, which do not permit one to lie on the painful side, but which are relieved by moving the affected part. Dropsy of internal and external parts. Emaciation.

Starting of the limbs when on the point of filling asleep. Sleeplessness, from anguish and restlessness, with tossing about (after midnight). Sleep anxious, unquiet.

Pulse frequent in the morning, slower in the evening. Pulse small, contracted, frequent, weak, tremulous or intermittent. General coldness, with parchment-like dryness of the skin, or with profuse, cold, clammy perspiration. Chilliness, without thirst ; worse after drinking ; with stretching of the limbs and restlessness ; with external heat at the same time ; when walking in the open air. Internal heat, burning dry, with anxiousness at night. Intermittent fever, chill (in the afternoon) followed by dry, evening heat, and later sweat. Thirst only during the hot stage, drinks often, but little at a time. During the fever, great restlessness and anxiety, pain in the bones, small of the back, forehead ; nausea, difficulty of breathing. Perspiration at the beginning of sleep, or all night ; cold, clammy, smelling sour or offensive. During perspiration, unquenchable thirst ; after the fever, attack of headache. The concomitant complaints are more developed during the chill and fever.

Dry, burning heat -dryness- like parchment. Swelling -blue-black- dropsical. Petechiæ. White miliary eruptions. Urticaria. Red pustules, changing to ichorous, crusty, burning and spreading ulcers. Vesicular eruptions. Exanthema, black, pock-shaped, gangrenous. Carbuncles (burning). Herpes, with vesicles, and violently burning, especially a night, or with coverings like fish-scales. Ulcers, hard on the edges, stinging, burning, spongy ; with proud flesh ; turning black ; flat ; pus thin, ichorous (cancers). Sphacelus.

Cannot rest in any place ; changing his position continually ; wants to go from one bed to another, and lies now here, and now there. Attacks of pains, with chilliness. Periodical complaints. Attacks of pain, driving one to despair, and even to madness. The pains are felt during sleep. Bad effects from poisoning, with anthrax, and other noxious substances (dissecting wounds). Aggravation, at night, after midnight, (1 A.M.). From cold in general. After drinking (wine or alcoholic drinks). From cold food (ice-cream). From milk. While lying on the affected side, or with the head low. Amelioration. From heat in general. From lying with the head high.

The white oxide of Metallic Arsenic, As 2 O 3 . Solution and trituration.

Abscess . Acne rosacea. Alcoholism. Amenorrhœa. Anæmia. Aphthæ. Asthma. Atrophy. Bronchitis. Brown-ague. Cæcum, affections of. Cancer. Cancrum oris. Carbuncle. Cholera Asiatica. Cholera. Cold. Coldness . Commissures, soreness of. Cough . Coxalgia. Croup. Dandriff . Delirium tremens. Depression of spirits. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria. Dropsy. Duodenum. Dyspepsia. Ears, affections of. Eczema. Endometritis. Enteric fever . Epithelioma. Erysipelas. Eye, affections of. Face, eruption on. Fainting. Fever. Gangrene. Gastric ulcer . Gastritis. Gastrodynia. Glandular swellings . Gout. Hay-asthma. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hectic. Herpes zoster. Hodgkin's disease. Hydro-thorax. Hypochondriasis. Ichthyosis . Indigestion. Intermittent fever. Irritation . Jaundice. Kidney, diseases of . Leucorrhœa. Lichen. Lips, eruption round; epithelioma of. Locomotor ataxy. Lung affections. Lupus. Malignant pustule. Measles. Melancholia. Menstruation, disorders of . Miliary eruptions. Morphœa. Myelitis. Nails, diseased. Nettle-rash. Neuralgia . Neuritis. Nonta pudendi. Numbness. Peritonitis. Perityphlitis. Pityriasis. Plethora. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Pneumonia. Psoriasis. Purpura. Pyœmia. Pyelitis. Remittent fever. Rheumatic gout. Rheumatism. Rickets. Ringworm . Scaldhead. Scarlatina. Sciatica . Scrofulous affections. Sea-bathing, effects of. Sea-sickness. Shiverings. Stomach, affections of . Strains. Suppuration. Thirst. Throat, sore. Tobacco-habit. Tongue, affections of. Trachea, affections of. Traumatic fever. Typhus. Ulcers. Vomiting . Whooping-cough. Worms . Wounds. Yellow fever .

Arsenic is the horse's remedy; as Puls . is the sheep's, and Antim. crud . the pig's. The reprehensible fashion of "doctoring" horses with Arsenic is merely an abuse of a therapeutic fact. The horse is an animal on whose power of endurance and "wind" enormous demands are made, and Arsenic is the remedy for the effects of feats of prolonged endurance. The Arsenic habit of the Styrian mountaineers has arisen from the discovery of its power of strengthening the muscles both of the limbs and of the breathing apparatus. But in another way the horse typifies the Arsenic temperament. The mental symptoms of my drug, when pronounced, carry precedence of all others. The horse is an exceedingly nervous animal, constantly moving about, restless to a degree, and very prone to take fright — quite a picture of the Arsenic temperament. According to Teste Arsen . acts much more powerfully on vegetable-eating animals than on carnivora (opp. Nux v .); and it is suited to the effect's of excess of vegetable diet, melons, strawberries, and fruits in general, especially watery fruits.

The arsenic-eaters of the Tyrol can take as much as six grains of white arsenic, or the sulphide, every two days. They maintain that it imparts a sense of invigoration and enables them to carry enormous loads up perpendicular mountains. According to one account it is resorted to by populations who live on vegetable food almost exclusively. "It strengthens the muscles," an old indulger in the habit is reported to have said, "helps to digest our coarse bread and potatoes, and allows us to breathe freely and easily. Meat-eaters have no need for such a thing, but with us it is a necessity." It is difficult to say how far this is a directly "tonic," effect, and how far curative of the dyscrasia generated by the conditions of life. The fine skin and glossy hair of the young women among the arsenic-eating populations is remarkable, and is comparable to the fine coats of arsenic-fed horses. On the other hand, "staring coat" in animals, and "dry, rough, scaly, unhealthy-looking skin" in human beings are keynote indications for the remedy. In this connection may be mentioned the effects on the crew of the ship Zion , which carried arsenic as a portion of its cargo. This was exposed somewhat to the sun's rays, and the crew noticed a peculiar smell. Soon they all began to notice themselves growing stout, and on reaching Philadelphia from England they had all gained much, one to the extent of two stones in weight.

Restlessness is one of the grand characteristics of Arsenic . Even the stupor of Arsenic is interrupted by fits of restlessness with anxious moaning. Patients are anxious, full of the fear of death, restlessness compelling them to frequently change their position. Hence the applicability of the drug in many nervous affections, notably chorea. Jerks and starts on falling asleep. Irritability, desperately angry; almost furious. Despair, hopelessness, unutterable misery. The irritability and sadness of malarial cachexias; of the cachexias of quinine, mercury, and syphilis. Low types of disease; typhoid states. Inflammations of great intensity with tendency to destruction of tissue. Burning, lancinating pains. Burning is another of the leading characteristics of Arsenic. No other remedy has it in more pronounced degree. The peculiarity of the "burnings" of Ars . is that they are > by heat (herein comparing with Capsic .). The burning in the throat is > by eating or drinking hot things. On the other hand cold food and cold drinks < stomach irritations; hence Ars . is of signal use for effects of eating ices and drinking ice-water. Arsen . affects the entire alimentary tract. The lips are so dry and parched and cracked that the patient often licks them to moisten them. The mouth is aphthous, ulcerated, or gangrenous. The stomach is so irritable that the least food or drink causes distress or vomiting, or stool or both together. Abdominal pains are intense, causing the patient to turn and twist. Hæmorrhoids are exceedingly painful as if burning needles plunged in. States of lowered vitality. The Prostration of Arsen . is remarkable. With it there is the desire to move or be moved constantly. The patient is exhausted from the slightest exertion. Exhaustion is not felt while lying still, but as soon as he moves he is surprised to find himself so weak. The prostration seems out of proportion to the rest of his illness. Must lie down. Exhaustion from hill-climbing, breathless, sleepless. Thirst for little and often ( Ant. t., Lyc .), wants it very cold and immediately rejects it ( Phos . as soon as it becomes warm). Before and after the cough of Arsenic there is an attack of asthma ( Phos .) Arsen. has a great place in acute coryza and hay-fever. The fluent coryza is corrosive, reddening the upper lip, and has more burning than either Merc . or Cepa . Also it is < out of doors, and > in warmth, which distinguishes it from Cepa especially. Arsenic is predominantly right-sided. The neuralgias affect the right side most; the right lung ("acute, sharp, fixed or darting pain in apex and through upper third of right lung") is more affected than the left; also the right side of the abdomen, hence typhlitis. Many dropsical conditions are controlled by Arsen . Especially has it done brilliant work in cases of hydrothorax. It has been called the "liquid trochar," on account of the expeditions way in which it will remove a watery effusion. The patient cannot lie down; must sit up to breathe; anxious; restless; < about 1 a.m.

It is suited to the full plethoric habit. Puffiness in one of its characteristics; and from this to dropsy. All mucous membranes are irritated. The skin is cold and clammy. Scurfy eruptions. Bran-coloured scales on head coming down to forehead. Arsenic has cured epithelioma of the lips and closely corresponds to the cancerous diathesis. Many cures of cancer have been reported under its use, both in the crude and in potencies. When the subjective symptoms of Arsen . are present, it will cure in the potencies. When the homœopathicity is more crude the lower potencies will be required: in this case the Arsen . appears to act directly on the cancerous tissue and cancerous elements in the system.

Arsenic is a hæmorrhagic: it acts on both blood and blood-vessels. Varices burn like fire. Anæmia, chlorosis, pyæmia all come within the scope of Arsenic , which corresponds also to states resulting from losses of blood, as venesection, metrorrhagia, hæmoptysis.

The Conditions, especially of time and temperature, are all-important with Arsenic . Unless these correspond in the patient, failure will be more frequent than success. Arsenic is one of the greatest of periodics. I once treated some members of a family who all had attacks of fever of short duration, recurring regularly every six weeks, from living in rooms papered with arsenical papers. Its periods are: every day; every third or fourth day; every fortnight; every six weeks; every year. There is pronounced night aggravation, the pains are unsupportable with restlessness. < Midnight and after ( Acon . is rather before midnight); < 3 a.m. There is < from cold and damp; > warmth. Arsen . loves warmth like Nux v., Psor., Hepar, Silic., Mag. mur . and other hydrogenoids, and herein is differentiated from Sul., Ant. crud., Iod., Apis , and Puls . Arsen . hugs the fire and likes warm wraps. < Lying on affected side, or with head low. > Lying with head high.

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Loss of consciousness. θ Vertigo. θ Typhus. θ Heart
disease. θ Yellow fever.
Loss of consciousness, and falling before epileptic attack.
She lay upon bed in a state of unconsciousness, muttering, eyes fixed, cold sweat on forehead, trembling all over, pulse small, hard, and very rapid.
Stupor, broken by anxious moaning. θ Child with gastritis mucosa.
Loss of memory. θ Yellow fever.
Thoughts crowd upon him ; he is too weak to keep them off or to hold on to one idea.
When alone, he falls to thinking about disease and other things, which he can scarcely keep out of his mind.
Gloomy forebodings while lying in bed, in evening, fears something may have happened to his relatives.
Thoughts of death and the incurability of his complaint. θ Cancerous inoculation.
Fixed idea that he and his family will die of starvation.
Dulness and weakness in head, cannot think, and is irritable ; as if he had a bad cold, or had lost sleep.
Mental derangements with satiety of life in drunkards.
Imbecility.
Stupidity, with loss of hearing, and almost total blindness.
Thinks he must die. θ Megrim.
Tormenting hallucination, as if there was one by his side who did all that he was doing, eating, washing, etc. θ Diabetes mellitus.
He sees all kinds of vermin on his bed, throws handfuls of them away, and tries to escape from them.
He imagines that he sees burglars in his room, and listens under the bed ; he is bathed in cold sweat.
Periodically returning fancies.
Talks wildly, with open eyes, and is not conscious of being flighty.
Delirium. θ Yellow fever. θ Typhus.
In her delirium she thinks she is well ; girl, æt. 7.
Delirium, with great prostration.
Delirium during heat, unconsciousness, mania, wants to be held ; with a tearing headache. θ Intermittent.
Mania ; headache ; terrible anxiety, noise in his ears as of many bells ; sees a man who has hanged himself beckoning him to cut him loose, on failing to accomplish this, he attempts to hang himself ; being prevented he falls into despair, and becomes so
restless he can scarcely be kept in bed, loses speech, with full consciousness, tries to write, but can make only unintelligible characters ; he trembles, weeps, his forehead is covered with anxious sweat, finally kneels down and lifts his hands in supplication.
Rage ; had to be chained.
Her desires are greater than her need ; she eats and drinks more than is good for her, and walks farther than she ought to do.
Suicidal mania.
A barber felt an inclination to cut his customers' throats.
Talking and quarrelling in sleep.
Great loquacity while awake and asleep.
(In sick :) If people came to see him, he did all the talking. θ Cancerous inoculation.
He wept and whined, but spoke little.
Hysterical crying, instead of fear.
Whimpering and gnashing teeth.
Loud moaning, groaning, and weeping. θ During catamenia.
Pitiful complaining, great anxiety and restlessness, with disagreeable sensation in abdomen, and dyspnœa.
Piercing, pitiful moaning, interrupted by fainting spells.
Lamentations, despair of life. θ Colic.
Screaming with pains. θ Headache.
Loud screaming ; says it is something within him that screams.
Picking of bedclothes. θ Typhus.
Fear drives him out of bed ; he hides in a closet.
Runs about house at night looking for thieves.
Hasty in all its motions ; grasps tumbler or anything it wants eagerly. θ Eclampsia.
Says little, but complains of fear.
Aversion to all occupation.
Placid mood ; remained the same no matter what happened.
Averse to meeting acquaintances, because he imagines he has formerly offended them, though knows not how.
Tranquillity of soul. θ In a man afflicted with melancholy.
At first great tranquillity and cheerfulness, followed in half an hour by terrible restlessness and anxiety ; t.
Inclined to cheerfulness and activity.
Feels uncomfortable and takes pleasure in nothing.
Hypersensitive, delicate mood ; sad and given to weeping ; the least thing troubles her.
Her mind is depressed, sad. θ Relapse of intermittent.
Sad and gloomy, with restless tossing.
Melancholy, sadness after dinner. θ Headache.
Melancholy after mental overexertion.
Melancholy ; after financial losses ; cannot be consoled ; thinks he will have to die, with his family, from starvation ; sleepless nights ; walks about wringing his hands, with moaning and groaning.
Deep-seated melancholic affection ; ceased after tetter-like ulcers appeared on lower limbs.
Periodical attacks of melancholy only at twilight ; sometimes at night ; woman æt. 65.
Religious melancholy ; hopelessness, despair.
Fear of being left alone. θ After vexation. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Dread of death when alone, or on going to bed.
Fear of death. θ After vexation. θ Cholera Asiatica.
Anxiety and restlessness, < after midnight.
Hypochondriacal anxiety, which seems to originate in upper part of chest ; restlessness, no palpitation.
Anxiety and impatience.
Excessive anxiety. θ Headache. θ Hematemesis. θ Colic.
θ Intussusception. θ Œdema pulmonum. θ Hydrothorax.
θ Measles, etc.
Attacks of anxiety at night driving out of bed. θ Mania.
Great anxiety, must jump out of bed. θ Ascites.
Frequent attacks of anxiety, < at night ; fears death. θ Influenza. θ Diarrhœa.
Anxiety and restlessness. θ Chill of intermittent. θ Hepatitis.
Anxiety and restlessness with pains ; fainting from pain. θ Gastralgia.
Great anguish, tossing about. θ Colic. θ Pneumonia. θ Emphysema.
θ Intermittent.
Precordial anxiety, feels constricted.
Anxiety like that of one who has committed murder ; driven from place to place ; avoids meeting persons, thinking that he has offended them. θ Mania.
Terrible anxiety, flushing up ; restless glance, no rest by day or night ; inclination to commit suicide. θ Mania.
Great fear, restlessness, trembling, cold sweat, prostration.
Great anxiety, with constriction of chest and dyspnœa.
Great anguish and restlessness. θ Stricture of œsophagus. θ Gastralgia. θ Hematemesis.
θ Colicodynia.
Indescribable anguish, restlessness. θ Metritis. θ Pericarditis.
θ Cholera Asiatica.
Anxiety, with nausea and gnawing in scrobiculum. θ Chill.
Great despondency. θ Scurvy.
The pains seem intolerable, drive one to despair and frenzy. θ Headache.
Great indifference. θ Yellow fever. θ Typhus.
Apathy ; if roused by loud calling, they open eyes with difficulty and stare at you. θ Typhus.
Cheerfulness, alternating with ill humor.
Indecision ; the merest trifle alters his resolve.
Irritable, despondent and anxious ; cardiac anxiety, with insupportable pain. θ Intermittent.
Irritable mood, alternating with despondency. θ Icterus.
Touchiness.
Disposed to discuss the faults of others.
Disposed to quarrel. θ Hemorrhoids.
Very cross and despondent. θ Chronic intestinal catarrh.
Dissatisfied and angry with himself all day ; thinks he has not accomplished enough, and reproaches himself bitterly.
The child is irritable, whining and restless ; wants to be carried.
Irritability, with dull, confused feeling in head.
Irritability, with flushes of heat and chilliness when talking or moving.
Irritable, discouraged, restless ; vexed about trifles.
Vexed and dissatisfied with everything ; the least noise or light annoys her, she is so sensitive to external impressions.
The least thing offends him, and moves him to anger.
Vexation, with anxiety, restlessness and chilliness.
She became furious when something to eat was offered her while complaining of loss of appetite.
Obstinacy, avarice, inclined to malice and satire.
Restlessness, cannot rest anywhere, moves from place to place ; wants to go from one bed to another.
Inward restlessness, with dulness in head and stupor ; with aphasia ; with backache.
Restlessness and moaning, with sleeplessness ; anxious restlessness, with weak, irregular pulse, limbs cold on surface ; inward heat.
Great restlessness, alternating with drowsiness.
Anxious restlessness and nausea.
After a fit of passion. θ Nosebleed, asthma, cough.
After great care and grief. θ Colic in pregnancy.
The pains are aggravated by other peoples' talking.
As a consequence of fright, inclination to commit suicide.

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From the time of Hahnemann to the present day Arsenicum has been one of the most frequently indicated medicines, and one of the most extensively used. In the Old School it is most extensively abused, in the form of Fowler's solution.

Arsenic affects every part of man; it seems to exaggerate or depress almost all his faculties, to excite or disturb all his functions. When all our medicines have been as well proved we will effect wonderful cures. It is a substance easily proved because of its active nature, and from its very abuse we have learned much of its general nature.

While Arsenic impresses the whole economy and disturbs all the functions and tissues of man, there are certain prevailing and striking features in it.

Anxiety, restlessness, prostration, burning and cadaveric odors are prominent characteristics.

The surface of the body is pale, cold, clammy, and sweating, and the aspect is cadaveric. In chronic sickness with great debility, anaemia, from long exposure to malarial influence, in the poorly fed and from syphilis this remedy is of great service.

The anxiety that is found in Ars. is intermingled with fear, with impulses, with suicidal inclinations, with sudden freaks and with mania.

It has delusions and various kinds of insanity; in the more active form, delirium and excitement. Sadness prevails to a great extreme. So sad that he is weary of life; he loathes life, and wants to die, and the Arsenic patient does commit suicide. It is a remedy full of suicidal tendencies.

The anxiety takes form also in the restlessness, in which he constantly moves. If he is able to get up lie goes from chair to. chair; the child goes front nurse to mother, and from one person to another. When in bed, unable to sit up, the patient tosses and turns from side to side; if he is able, he climbs out of bed and sits in the chair, keeps moving from one place to another, and when thoroughly exhausted, he gets back into bed again.

The restlessness seems to be mostly in the mind; it is an anxious restlessness, or an anguish, with the idea that anguish is a deathly anxiety. That is an effort to express it in the extreme. It seems that he cannot live, and it is not pain that drives him to anguish, but it is an anxiety intermingled with restlessness and sadness.

This state prevails in all diseases intermingled with prostration. An uneasiness comes in the early stage of disease, and lasts but until the prostration becomes marked. While lying in bed, at first he moves his whole body, moves himself in bed and out of bed; but the prostration becomes so marked that he is able to move only his limbs until at last he becomes so weak that he is no longer able to move and he lies in perfect quiet in extreme prostration.

It seems that prostration takes the place of anxiety and restlessness, and he appears like a cadaver. So remember that these states of anxiety and restlessness go towards the cadaveric aspect, towards death. This is seen, for instance, in the typhoid, where Arsenicum is indicated. At first there is that anxious restlessness with fear, but the increasing weakness tends towards prostration.

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Great prostration,* with rapid sinking of the vital forces.* Fainting.

The disposition is: a. Depressed, melancholic, despairing, indifferent. b. Fearful, restless, anxious, full of anguish. c. Irritable, sensitive, peevish, easily vexed.—Dunham.

Mentally restless, but physically too weak to move; cannot rest in any place ; changing places continually ; wants to be moved from one bed to another, and lies now here, now there.

Anxious fear of death; thinks it useless to take medicine, is incurable, is surely going to die; dread of death, when alone, or, going to bed.

Burning pains > by heat, is very characteristic.

Burning pains, the affected parts burn like fire.

Excessive anxiety; great anguish; extreme restlessness; fear of death.

Burning thirst, without special desire to drink; the stomach does not seem to tolerate, because it cannot assimilate cold water; it is wanted but he cannot drink it.

Great thirst for cold water; drinks often but little at a time, simply to moisten the dry mouth and lips; eats seldom but much.

Teething children are pale, weak, fretful, and want to be carried rapidly.

Cannot bear the smell or sight of food (Colch., Sep.).

Desires: acids, beer, brandy, wine, coffee, warm food, milk, fruits and vegetables.

Aversions: sweets, meats, fatty things, farinaceous food; loathes even the thought of food.

Gastric derangements: after cold fruits; ice cream; ice water; sour beer; bad sausage; alcoholic drinks; strong cheese.

Bad effects from decayed food or animal matter, whether by inoculation, olfaction or ingestion.

Diarrhœa after eating or drinking; stool scanty, dark color, offensive odor, followed by great prostration.

Rapid emaciation: with cold sweat and great debility (Ver.—of affected parts, Tub.).

Excessive exhaustion from least exertion.

Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying still; when he moves he is surprised to find himself so weak.

Skin: dry and scaly; cold, blue and wrinkled; with cold, clammy perspiration; like parchment; white and pasty; black vesicles and burning pain.

Breathing: asthmatic; must sit or bend forward; springs out of bed at night, especially after twelve o'clock; unable to lie down for fear of suffocation; attacks like croup instead of the usual urticaria.

Complementary: All. s., Carbo v., Phos., Pyr.

After midnight (1-2 A. M.; 1-2 P. M); from cold; cold drinks or food; when lying on the affected side or with the head low.

From heat in general (rev. of Sec.) except headache, which is temporarily $>$ by cold bathing (Spig.).

Quotidian; tertian; quartan; double tertian and quartan. Anticipating (Bry., Cinch., Nux). Every fourteen days. Yearly (Lach., Nat.). Irregular, both in type and stage (Nux). Remitting and relapsing both tend to typhoid and typhus, especially after abuse of Quinine.

Septic, typhoid, typhus or yellow fever.

All periods—mostly afternoon paroxysms, 1 to 2 P. M.; 12 to 2 A. M.; 3 to 6 P. M.; 5 P. M.; 12 M. Every fourteen days (Cal., Cinch., Puls.).

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Weakness of memory.
Confusion of the head.
Aversion to meeting acquaintances because he imagines having formerly offended them, though he knows not how.
Sad, tearful anxious mood.
Fears to be left alone, lest he do himself bodily harm.
Determined to commit suicide he suffers so.
Fears he will have to murder some one.
Sees vermin; throws away bugs by the handful.
Tears his body injuries his own person; insanity.
Dread of death when alone, or on going to bad.
Anxious and depressed, fears permanent loss of health.
Intense anxiety and with restlessness, worse after midnight driving out of bed.
Great anxiety with constriction of chest and dyspnœa.
Great fear, restlessness, trembling, cold sweat, prostration.
Self-willed and tearful.
Vexation with anxiety, restlessness and chilliness.
Child captious wants to be carried.
Cannot find rest anywhere changes place continually, wants to go from one bed to another.

Sensation as if the brain moved and beat against skull during motion.
Vertigo as if he would fall.
Vertigo of malarial origin, with hyperæsthesia of hearing or during pregnancy; lips and face bluish; jugular veins undulate.
Vertigo with loss of consciousness during coughing fits, in asthmatics.
Heaviness in the head with humming in the ears; goes off in open air, but returns on entering the room.

Intense frontal headache with vertigo.
Drawing pressive pain in right side of forehead.
Pain as if bruised or sore, over the sore the nose and in the forehead rubbing relieves temporarily.
Throbbing frontal headache over root of nose. θ Ozæna.
Headache: beating; or pressure as from a load on brain; rising up in bed or motion aggravates; cold washing relieves temporarily, walking in open air permanently.
The pain in head and face is especially severe on left side; cannot lean or rest on that side.

Erysipelatous burning an swelling of the head with great weakness and coldness worse at night.
Cannot scarcely bear hair to be touched scalp so sensitive.
Falling out of the hair.
Great sensitiveness of head to open air; wraps up head warmly.
Chronic eruptions, with pustules and vesicles filled with pus.

Sensitive to light; photophobia.
Snow dazzles with lachrymation.
Flickering before the eyes.
Everything appears green; sees as through a white gauze.
Weakness of sight; dim sight.
Pupils contracted or dilated.
Eyes sunken or protruding.
Yellowness of the sclerotica.
Pain in right eyeball particularly during motion.
Pulsative throbbing in eyes (at midnight) at every pulsation a stitch.
Feeling of sand in eyes.
Violent burning in eyes.
Chronic trachoma, inner surface of lids rubs eyeballs; burning, etc.
Croupous conjunctivitis from ophthalmia neonatorum.
Conjunctiva looks like a piece of raw beef.
Trembling of upper eyelid, with lachrymation.
Eyelids œdematous and spasmodically closed; also for non-inflammatory œdema (like Apis).
Agglutination of lids.
Edges of lids painful during motion, as if dry and rubbing on the ball.
Extreme redness of inner surface of lids, with uneasy sensation rather than pain.
Burning in margins of eyelids.
Ophthalmia of children skin rough, dry and dirty looking photophobia and profuse, acrid lachrymation; relieved by hot applications.

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Arsenious acid is triturated with sugar of milk for the lower attenuations.

Arsenic is, above all, a tissue drug, ranking with Phosphorus and Antimony. ▶ An irritant poison, it produces most violent gastro-enteritis, with destructive action. ▶ It suspends and destroys the glycogenic function of the liver (Phos., Ant.), and causes acute and chronic inflammation of the kidneys (Phos., Merc., Plumb.). ▶ It irritates the air passages, increases, at first, the secretions and finally paralyzes the pneumogastric. ▶ It irritates the heart and finally produces vaso-motor paralysis. ▶ The skin is irritated, and violent itching and burning are followed by eruptions and finally ulceration. ▶ Glandular action is excited, then diminished. ▶ It produces intense irritation of the spine, affects chiefly the gray matter of the chord, and causes persistent hyperæmia and softening, with consequent paralysis. ▶ It has a special affinity for the blood-corpuscles, which may be destroyed. ▶ It causes general fatty degeneration (Phosphorus). ▶ It produces well-marked intermittent fever, with incomplete resolution.

The general key is irritability (skin intolerant of scratching, the stomach intolerant of water, though the patient is thirsty). ▶ Aggravation shortly after midnight. ▶ Profound exhaustion; excessive restlessness. ▶ General relief from warmth (Camph.).

Antimon., Phos., Merc., Plumb., (Zinc.), Rhus tox ., Secale c., Camph ., Thea, Colch., Verat., Tabac., Silicea.

Ferrum, China.

Body crouched. ▶ Lies crouched in bed, moaning and groaning. ▶ Gathers himself together in bed, can scarcely move his limbs and is with difficulty awakened from his delirious sopor. ▶ Lies on his back, touching the region of coccyx with his heel, while knees are raised and widely apart, suddenly he turns around and takes a different position. ▶ Lies on back during sleep with his left hand under occiput. ▶ Screaming frequently from pain. ▶ General swelling. ▶ Weight increased, with dyspepsia, foul breath and general malaise. ▶ Weight increased, then emaciation. ▶ Emaciation; with weakness; with excessive sweats; with clay-colored face, blue margins around eyes, weakness of limbs and inclination to rest; complexion pale bluish-gray, abdominal walls olive-green, back ecchymosed, mouth and nose covered with scabs, and nearly all the hair fell out; progressive, without loss of appetite. ▶ Consumption. ▶ Fatal marasmus. ▶ Jaundice.

▶ Convulsions; caused by pain in soles; with foam at mouth; with cramps in legs; with horrible distortions of limbs; with unconsciousness, vomiting and colic; then renewed violent vomiting; then dysenteric stools; the violent sweat, then sleep; seemingly from external causes, especially from vexation or other violent mental agitation, an hour before their appearance drawings in limbs, longing to lie down, without finding sleep, when the convulsions came on a sudden jerk through whole body, or coldness running from head down back like lightning, and at the same moment unconsciousness, stretching and writhing, then drawing together of limbs, especially of arms, at times also convulsive distortion of facial muscles and tetanus, with injury and bleeding of under lip of tongue, but more frequently the spasm rages in the abdomen, which rises and falls rapidly, with rumbling, the attack is generally repeated before return to consciousness, when she calls for water which renews the convulsions; felt a dart go through her, then became insensible, with lividity of face, foaming at mouth and moaning; on regaining consciousness did not recollect what had happened during her fit; found prone on the floor, body arched in that curve which evinces spasmodic contractions of muscular coat of stomach and intestines, or of diaphragm and anterior abdomen muscles, or of both, convulsions every fifteen or twenty minutes, lasting each time thirty to forty seconds, with wild, staring, bloodshot eyes, imprecations, fearful ravings, between the convulsions prostration, irregular, intermittent and accelerated pulse, during and between the convulsions intense suffering in stomach and abdomen, evinced by pressure on abdomen, forward inclination and anxiety of countenance; arms jerked outward, then unconsciousness, lying like one dead, pale but warm, clenched thumbs, twisted fists, drew up her arms slowly, then lowered then slowly, after ten minutes worked her jaws, breathing imperceptible, in a quarter of an hour the fit ended in a jerk through the whole body, a sort of starting forward of arms and lower limbs, consciousness returned at once, but there was great weakness.

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An irritant poison, affecting all organs and tissues; particularly destructive to the blood.

General irritability, with extreme weakness.
Emaciation.
Dropsical swellings.
Startings, tremblings, spasms.
Pains, mostly of a fine, burning sort; seem intolerable.
The pains return at regular intervals, aggravated soon after midnight; ameliorated by general warmth.
Great restlessness.
General aggravation during rest (especially following exercise), after eating, after lying down, after midnight; ameliorated by external warmth and moderate motion.
Extreme prostration of mind and body.

Anxiety permits no rest, especially at night; complains of the distress, dreads the future, afraid of ghosts or thieves.
Inclined to complain of those about her: Suicidal mania.

General confusion and heaviness in the house; amelioration in open air.
Pulsating in the forehead, with nausea.
Brain seems to be loose on moving the head.
Hair falls out.
White dandruff forms, with burning.
(Neuralgic headaches, recur periodically.)

General inflammation, with burning; either with dryness or with corrosive lachrymation.
Œdema of the lids and adjacent parts, not inflammatory.
The inner surface of the lids dry and burning; seem to rub against the ball.
Pains beneath the left eye, stitching.
Photophobia.

Otalgia; sticking pains, from within outward; aggravated evening and night.
Hearing difficult (for the human voice only).

Swollen, externally and internally, with burning.
Ulceration.
Acute fluent coryza, with acrid, burning, watery discharge; ameliorated in open air.
Sneezing.
Smell very sensitive.

Swollen, especially about the eyes.
Face seems sunken, pinched (with the abdominal symptoms).
Unnatural redness.
Tearing, burning, fine pains.
Lips sore, cracked or ulcerated, with burning pains.
Formications on lips.

Grinding of the teeth, in sleep.
The teeth become loose and painful.
Toothache at night, ameliorated by external warmth.
Gums bleed and are swollen.
Whole mouth, aphthous.
Tongue brown and dry, cracked, tip red, edges red, sore, blistered.
Neuralgia of tongue, burning pain.
Taste bitter.

Inflamed.
Ulcerated (diphtheritic), with swollen sub-maxillary glands.
Sense of constriction.
Pharynx paralyzed; swallowing difficult or impossible.
Burning extending to the stomach.
Spasmodic stricture in œsophagus.

Craving for acids and brandy.
Constant desire to drink, but takes very little at a time.
Eructations.
Hiccough.
Nausea.
Vomiting of food and drink as soon as they reach the stomach.
The distress in the stomach is not relieved by vomiting, but the extreme irritability, burning and indescribable distress continue.
Inflammation and ulceration, with terrible distress.
In the pit of stomach, anxiety, soreness, burning or internal chilliness.

Inflammation of the abdominal viscera, enteritis, etc.
Swelling; soreness; burning pains.
The region of the liver is sore.
The spleen is enlarged.

Burning.
Tenesmus.
Protusion.
Hæmorrhage.
Piles, with burning pain like fire, ameliorated by heat.

Diarrhœa, thin, watery, generally scanty, acrid, burning, with vomiting, coldness, prostration.
Evacuations frequent, small, preceded by intestinal pains.
Stools may be blackish and putrid, often inodorous, rarely dysentery-like.
Stool rarely involuntary.

Burning when urinating, during micturition; micturition rarely involuntary.
Urine, as a rule, scanty and hot, sometimes copious.
Hæmaturia.
Glycosuria.
(Inflammation of the kidneys, with scanty urine, burning micturition, dropsy, and many associated symptoms of arsenic.)

Painful swelling of the sexual organs, erysipelatous.
Inflammation of the scrotum.

Menstruation too early and too profuse, rarely scanty and suppressed.
Dark hæmorrhages between the menses.
Leucorrhœa copious, yellowish, thick and corrosive.
(Neuralgia of the right ovary, with burning pains.)

Attacks of suffocation after lying down.
Oppressed breathing from going up stairs, and also in cold air.
Dyspnœa when walking, or even after turning over in bed.
In the larynx a feeling of dryness.
Voice tremulous, uneven; at times strong, at others weak.
Cough usually dry, < in evening after lying down; has to sit up, with contractive pain in the region of the stomach and perspiration.
Cough in the evening caused by sensation of smoke or sulphur fumes in the larynx, < at night, has to sit up.
Paroxysms of coughing in the night, with suffocation.
Cough on going into the open air, particularly tickling in the larynx, as of suffocative fumes, < by drinking.
Dry, short cough in the evening, especially worse soon after midnight.
Hæmoptysis.
Asthma soon after midnight.
Must spring up out of bed, with very short, difficult breathing, anguish, moaning.
Cough generally < by lying on back.

Palpitation worse at night, with great anguish, tremulous weakness.
Palpitation after a stool; must lie down.
Heart's action irregular, irritable; pulse rapid, irregular and weak.

Nape of the neck feels bruised or sprained.
The whole back is weak.
Burning in the back.
Tearing pains, worse at night.
Drawing pains from the nape of the neck to the sacrum.

Extreme weariness, or complete loss of power.
Twitching, convulsions of muscles, starting on falling asleep.
Contractions of muscles, both upper and lower extremities.
Tremblings.
The pains in the extremities are usually > by motion.
The weakness, by lying down.
Tingling and numbness of the hands and feet.

Unsteadiness when walking.
Uneasiness; cannot keep the legs still.
Must move all the time to get relief.
Tearing pains at night, especially towards morning.
Stiffness, numbness, paralysis.
Cramps in the calves, worse at night in bed.
Œdema of the feet, with general exhaustion.
The balls of the toes are painful when walking.
Swollen veins in lower extremities, with œdema.

Eruptions of arsenic are generally dry, white and scaly, painful with burning.
Itching < by scratching.
Ulcers, painful and burning; the scanty secretion is generally offensive.
A general tendency to pick at roughened places in the skin until they bleed.

Sleeplessness till 3 A. M., afterwards a disturbed sleep, with dreams and startings in fright.
When lying awake at night, great restlessness and tossing about.
When asleep, frequent jerking and starting up.
When waking out of sleep finds it difficult for a long time to fall asleep again.

The febrile paroxysm is generally characterized by a short chilly stage, prolonged fever, and very little or no perspiration.
Shivering without thirst.
Wants to hover over the fire.
Coldness of the surface, with cold, clammy sweat.
Shivering in the evening, with tearing pains in the limbs and great restlessness.
Fever at night, as if dashed with hot water, with burning through blood vessels.
With the fever, extreme restlessness.
Frequent drinking of small quantities of water.
Weakness.
Persistent internal heat, worse after midnight, with restlessness and anxiety; skin hot and dry.
Sweat, especially of the lower extremities, often cold.
Cold sweat on the face.
Sweat sometimes offensive.

ARSENICUM ALBUM. WHITE ARSENIC. (The semi-oxide of metallic arsenic in diluted and potentized solution.)

As I write down the word Arsenic, momentous memories seize upon my soul. When the All-merciful One created iron, the granted to mankind, indeed, to fashion from it either the murderous dagger or the mild ploughshare, and either to kill or to nourish their brethren therewith. How much happier, however, would they be, did they employ His gifts only to benefit one another ! This should be the aim of their life ; this was His will. So also it is not to Him, the All-loving One, we must impute the wickedness practiced by men, who have dared to misemploy the wonderfully powerful medicinal substances in diseases for which they were not suitable, and besides this in doses so enormous, guided only by frivolous ideas or some paltry authorities, without having subjected them to any careful trial, and without a well-grounded selection. If now careful prover of the effects of medicines arise, they inveigh against him as an enemy to their comfort, and do not refrain from the most dishonest calumnies. The ordinary medical art has hitherto employed in large and frequently repeated doses the most powerful medicines, such as arsenic, nitrate of silver, corrosive sublimate, aconitum napellus, belladonna, iodine, digitalis, opium, hyoscyamus, etc. Homœopathy cannot employ stronger substances, for there are none stronger. Now, when ordinary physicians employ them, they evidently vie with one another who shall prescribe the largest possible doses of these drugs, and even make a great boast of their mounting to such enormous doses. This practice they laud and approve in their fellow practitioners. But if the Homœopathic medical art employ the same drugs, not at random, like the ordinary method, but after careful investigation, only in suitable cases and in the smallest possible doses, it is denounced as a practice of poisoning. How partisan, how unjust, how calumnious is such a charge made by men who make pretensions to honesty and uprightness ! If Homœopathy now make a fuller explanation, if she condemn (as from conviction she must) the enormous doses of these drugs given in ordinary practice, and if she, relying on careful trials, insists that very much less of them should be given for a dose, that where ordinary physicians give a tenth, a half, a whole grain, and even several grains, often only a quadrillionth, a sextillionth, a decillionth of a grain is required and sufficient, then the adherents of the ordinary school, who denounce the Homœopathic healing art as a system of poisoning, laugh aloud, abuse it as childishness, and declare themselves convinced (convinced without trial ?) that such a small quantity can do nothing at all, and can have no effect whatever, is, indeed, just the same as nothing. They are not ashamed thus to blow hot and cold from the same mouth, and to pronounce the very same thing to be inert and ludicrously small, which they had just accused of being a system of poisoning, whilst they justify and praise their own enormous and murderous doses of the same remedies. Is not this the grossest and most wretched inconsistency that can be imagined, invented for the very purpose of being shamelessly unjust toward a doctrine which, they cannot deny, possesses truth, consistence and agreement with experience, and which practices the most delicate cautiousness and the most unwearied circumspection in the selection and administration of its remedies ? Not very long ago a highly celebrated physician [] spoke of pounds of opium being eaten every month in his hospital, where even the nurses were allowed to give it to the patients according to their fancy. Opium, mind ! a drug that has sent several thousands of men to their graves in ordinary practice ! Yet this man continued to be held in honor, for the belonged to the dominant clique to which everything is lawful even if it be of the most destructive and absurd character. And when, a few years since, in one of the most enlightened cities [] of Europe almost every practitioner, from the physician of lofty title down to the barber's apprentice, prescribed arsenic as a fashionable remedy in almost every disease, and that in such frequent and large doses in close succession, that the detriment to the health of the people must have been quite palpable, yet this was held to be an honorable practice, though not one of them was acquainted with the peculiar effects of the semi-oxide of this metal (and consequently knew not what cases of disease it was suited for). And yet all prescribed it in repeated doses, a single one of which, sufficiently attenuated and potentized, would have sufficed to cure all the diseases in the whole habitable world for which this drug is the suitable remedy*. Which of these two opposite modes of employing medicines best deserves the flattering appellation of a "system of poisoning" -the ordinary method just alluded to, which attacks with tenths of grains the poor patients (who often require some quite different remedy), or Homœopathy, which does not even give a little drop of tincture or rhubarb without having first ascertained whether rhubard is the most suitable, the only appropriate remedy for the case. Homœopathy which, by unwearied, multiplied experiments, discovered that it is only in rare cases that more than a decillionth of a grain of arsenic should be given, and that only in cases where careful proving shows this medicine to be the only one perfectly suitable ? To which of these two modes of practice does then the honorary title of "thoughtless, rash system of poisoning" properly apply ?

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Ars. / (1st W., Arabia) / Arab.

Arsenic-Burning
Anxious-Yearning
Stinking liquid fecal flow.
Often drinking-
Cold and sinking-
Face as while as waxy dough.
Bloat- Oedema-
Emphysema-
Burning, dry, and scaly skin.
Lupus-Noma-
Grave Sarcoma-
Burning ulcers, foul and green.
A Coryza,
That supplies a
Burning liquid nasal flow.
Every itis
When the plight is
In a type of fever low.
Pains Neurotic-
Periodic-
Burning like a flame of fire.
Pneumo-typhus
At the crisis
When the tides of life retire.
Asthma-Choking-
Chill invoking,
After meals a sanious spue.
Warmth relieving,
Yet deceiving,
Worse a. m. from 1 to 2.

The Arab,- Has Burning Pains.

The Arab, Pyro Taren, is paying the Spanish Captain, Secal Carbo, for making a raid on the Coast of Florida.

This Arab,- Who is subject to Asthma, - Is a blatant Loafer at Squatter nook.

Burning Pains: Ars., Pyro., Taren., Phos., Apis, Canth., Caps., Sec., Carb. v., Mez., Kreo., Rhus, Dul., Caust., Flu. a. (Burning after scratching, Dul., Mez., Ole., Rhus, Sul.)

Asthma: Ars., Blatta, Lobi., Sul., Ipe., Tart. e., Nux v., Kal. c. (From flatulence, Asa., Cham., Nux v.)

Indicated chiefly in diseases of grave character with the mental symptoms peculiar to the remedy, thirst, restlessness, exhaustion after even slightest exertion, and aggravation after midnight.

It is a valuable remedy in fevers, coryza, asthma, gastric and intestinal affections, including cholera, and in inflammation in almost any part of the body. Frequently called for in gangrene, carbuncle, lupus, all malignant ulcerations or destructive processes; in dropsy, neuralgia, hay fever, poisoned wounds, ptomaine poisoning, ill effects of chewing tobacco, alcoholic excesses, and in all malarial affections.

Face pale, sunken, cachetic, cold, covered with cold sweat; eyes sunken; agonized expression.

Great anguish; despair; fear of death; suicidal tendency.

Great and rapidly progressing emaciation, with exhaustion of the vital forces (cachexia; malignancy).

Great restlessness; is constantly moving about in bed, though very weak; with dry and hot (or cold) skin and thread-like pulse.

Icy coldness of the body.

Sleeps with the hands over the head.

Adynamic fevers with pronounced periodicity.

Pulse small, rapid, intermittent.

Great thirst; drinks little at a time, but often; stomach symptoms are worse from drinking cold water; it either causes vomiting or lies heavily like a stone, upon the stomach.

Acrid coryza, with stoppage of the nose.

Excessive dyspnoea; thinks he must die; is forced to sit up so he can get a breath (asthma).

Great dyspnoea; scanty expectoration of transparent viscid, frothy mucus; worst at 1 a. m.; with violent palpitation of the heart and inability to lie on the back (asthma).

Eructation of bitter, sour substance, irritating the throat as though from an acid.

Nausea, retching, vomiting, with great prostration after eating or drinking. Vomiting of water, mucus, bile, blood; followed by great prostration and severe pain in the stomach.

Burning pain, as though from a live coal, in the affected part (carbuncles; stomach; abdomen).

Diarrhoea of dark-brown stools; of cadaverous carrion-like odor; worse from eating or drinking.

Cutting, colicky pain in the abdomen, with sense of coldness within.

Diarrhoea like chopped egg, horribly foul, preceded by restlessness and anguish, followed by great prostration and burning in the rectum.

Every effort is followed by exhaustion; when lying still he is less conscious of his weakness.

Vomiting and purging at the same time.

Burning pain in the rectum and anus (haemorrhoids).

Urine scanty, dark, albuminous.

Chilliness without thirst; wants to be near a stove.

Heat with thirst, great exhaustion and anxiety.

Dry, bran-like, scaly eruption, with itching and burning, worse from scratching.

Ulcerations, with burning pain; better from external warmth; chilliness with the pain.

Worse after midnight; from scratching eruption; from cold drink or food, especially from iced water or ice-cream; from alcohol; from eating fruit; from wine; from exertion.

Better from external warmth; from lying with the head high; near the warm stove.

Anxiety, restlessness and cold feeling from vexation (Bell.). Inclined to hang himself. Derangement, mental weakness and satiety of life in drunkards. Anxiety at night which allows him no rest. Anxiety and despair (Acon.) often mounting to madness during pain. Attacks of great fear of being alone, (of thieves, ghosts) or death. Mad brutal obstinacy. Takes everything in bad part. Inclination to talk about faults of others, love of scandal. Malice. Capricious disposition. Crying and whining of children.

Fainting from weakness with a scarcely perceptible pulse. Chaotic condition and heaviness of head, when in a room.

Burning and shocks in. Swelling of. Throbbing pain in forehead with nausea. Pressure as of a load bearing down on brain, with exhaustion and humming. Worse: Night, in morning when standing or sitting in room, motion, raising up. Better, Transiently, from cold bathing, permanently in open air and from warmth. Violent head pains interrupted by sopor, full of dreams. The veins of the temples are distended during the headache.

Burning, itching most on bregma but also on occiput, less on sides, scratching causes bleeding, more violent burning and some moisture, later foul festers among may dry, whitish, burning, itching bran - like scales appear. Burning itching gatherings on, with festering pain when touched and sensitiveness of head to touch and cold. Erysipelatous burning swelling of entire head, face (and genitals) with general coldness, chill, aversion to uncovering, great exhaustion and nightly aggravation.

Red, inflamed with burning pains. Inflammation on inner surface of lids, impedes opening them. Spots on cornea.

Difficult hearing for the human voice everything else is distinctly heard.

Swelling and burning of. Ulcers in. Cancer of. Violent, fluent coryza with discharge of acrid burning water.

Earthy, pale or yellow color. Distorted, deathly countenance. Blue and puffy, especially about eyes. Unnatural deep redness of. Milk crust. Drawing sticking here and there. Cancer of, and of lips with burning pains. Blackish, fissured lips. Crawling sensation on denuded lower lip, as of something alive there. Swollen submaxillary glands.

Nightly aching better external warmth. Bleeding gums.

Bad odor from. Thrust. Inflammation of oesophagus. Burning and roughness in fauces. Dry, black, fissured tongue. Gangrene of tongue.

Burning in, with bitter eructations, Great painfulness in pit. Pressure in. Cancer of. Stomachache with anxiety.

Hypochondria: Indurated liver. Stitches.

Appetite: Desire for sour things and brandy. Continual craving for fluids, drinks frequently but little at a time. Constant thirst for cold water.

Taste: Bitter: In mouth after eating and drinking, of bread.

Nausea, etc. - Retching. Qualmishness rising into throat. Vomiting: Chronic of food immediately after eating, after every drink, black, with anxiety in epigastrium.

Distended, hard. Burning in. Stitches in sides of. Nightly twitching pains in. Ascites. Buried pain in. Indurated mesenteric glands. Painful swelling of inguinal glands.

Burning evacuations with intense cutting in abdomen. Diarrhoea, Very offensive, with persistent coldness, dysenteric, white, involuntary, burning, chronic, watery and painful. Constipation.

Anus, etc. - Burning pain in rectum. Burning hemorrhoids.

Retention of, or difficult urination. Burning.

Painful swelling of. Erysipelatous inflammation of scrotum.

Menses: Too early and too profuse. Acrid, burning, excoriating leucorrhoea.

Tightness of chest during motion. Suffocative attacks in evening after lying down. Oppression of chest when ascending and when in cold air. Shortness of, when walking or turning over in bed.

Clear, ringing, crowing or whistling, excited by burning tickling as from sulphur vapor in trachea and throat pit, dry at night, by day expectoration of a scanty, mostly foamy, mucus, or in lumps of varying taste and color, sometimes mixed with bright red blood, returning periodically with increasing violence. Without expectoration, especially after drinking. Immediately on lying down. Nightly hemoptysis with heat.

Phthisis of, with scanty secretion of mucus. Constriction of larynx.

Burning (or chilliness) in, Constriction for, with want of breath, from every movement. Distension of. Itching in. Nightly anxious palpitation. Cancer of breast. Hydrothorax. Sticking and pressing in sternum.

Intense burning. Nightly tearing.

Nightly tearing in arms from elbows to shoulders. Black pimples on arms. Nightly sensation of fullness and swelling in palm of hand. Chafing between fingers. Discolored nails.

Twitching in hip. Tearing sticking in hip, lumbar region and thigh. Nightly tearing in legs. Bruised sensation in knee - joint. Old ulcers on legs, with burning and sticking especially at night. Itching herpes in popliteal spaces. Hard burning swelling of feet. Painfulness of balls of toes, as if rubbed sore when walking. Podagra. Varicose veins.

Burning pains in various parts. Tearing pains in limbs are most violent at night and during rest after previous overexertion, are only endurable when walking about and from external warmth, which he craves. Extraordinarily rapid sinking of strength. Great restlessness in limbs. Emaciation. Tremblings. Elastic swelling. Convulsions. Worse: During rest, especially after previous violent exercise, weak, restless, and cold, by addressing others, after eating and lying down, immediately after midnight. Better: By external warmth and exercise. It sometimes rescues when all appears lost, but only when given in the smallest doses and a high potency.

Dry, cold. General oedema. Flat ulcers, with burning pain and ichorous discharge. Gangrenous ulcers, vesicles. Cold swellings. Scanty burning secretions. The pains excite symptoms.

Frequent starting up and twitching in. Somnolency in evening. Sleeplessness with constant restlessness and tossing about. Inability to fall asleep after once awaking at night. Anxious dreams.

Pulse: Weak and small, but greatly accelerated, often imperceptible and entirely wanting to intermittent. Quick early in morning, slow in evening. Burning or cold sensation in blood vessels. Chill: (And heat) indistinct, either concomitant or alternating. In forenoon, which nothing relieves. Internal, with external heat. And shuddering after every drink. Without thirst. External coldness, with cold, clammy sweat. During the chill (and heat) many concomitants which before were only of slight importance now appear in severity. General coldness of body or of diseased parts. Shivering in evening, with tearing in limbs and anxious restlessness. Heat: Internal, burning, dry. Dry in evening at night, with thirst for frequent drinks. but only a little each time. Nightly, as if dashed with hot water. Sweat: At end of the fever, with disappearance of all symptoms, even the concomitants. When first falling to sleep, or thro' whole night. Cold, clammy. sour or offensive smelling. Unquenchable thirst during.

Allied Remedies: Aco., Am-m., Ant-c., Arn., APIS, Bar-c., Brom., Bry., Calc-c., Carb-v., CHAM., Chin., Coff., Colch., Dig., Dulc., Euphor., FERR., Graph., HEP., Ign., IOD., IP., Kali-bi., Kali-c., KRE., Lach., LYC., Mag-c., MERC., MERC-C., Mos., Mur-ac., Nat-m., NUX-V., Petr., Phos., Phos-ac. Plb., Ran-s., (RHUS-T.) Samb., Scill., Sec-c., Sep., Sil., Stram., Staph., SUL., Sul-ac., Verat-a.

Acute of Ars.: Puls.

Complementary: Kali-bi.

Anxiety and restlessness very highly marked.

Burning pains of an excruciating character.

Tearing pains in the limbs, worse during the night and while at rest, after previous powerful exertion, and only relieved by walking about and by external heat.

Periodical pains, with coldness, chills, debility and anxious despair.

(Fear, fright and worry more marked than in any remedy known. - D. M.)

Sudden sinking of strength highly prominent in the sphere of drug's curative usefulness.

Bloatedness or emaciation.

Twitching of single parts of the body when going to sleep.

Vomiting of what has been eaten or drunken or of black matter with it.

Watery and offensive diarrhoea.

Ulcers, turning black, burning, with high edges.

Gangrene.

Burns.

Aggravation, periodically at night, on entering a cold place, from cold food, from rapid walking, from the use of milk.

There is an amelioration from external heat and when moving about.