Ferrum Phosphoricum ferr-p.

Vaso-motors. Venous circulation: LUNGS. Ears. Nose (root). Eustachian tube.

Night (4-6 A.M.). Motion. Noise. Jar. Cold air. Checked sweat.

Cold. Bleedings. Lying down.

Anæmic blondes. FULL, SOFT, FLOWING PULSE. Hyperæmia. Acute exacerbations, phthisis, rheumatism, etc. Passive congestion and weakness. Bloody (streaked or meat water) discharges. Bruised soreness; chest, shoulder, muscles. Inflamed soft parts. Burning rawness.

Keeps quiet. Anger. Excited and talkative. Cerebral irritation. Throbbing headaches, with sensitive scalp. Headache; shooting pains, aching from vertex down over sides of head; with earache (Pul.), > nosebleed. Suffused eyes. Violent earache. Acute otitis; media. Colds cause deafness. Tinnitus, < lying. Face pales and reddens alternately. Vomits ingesta. Frequent stools of bloody water. Diarrhœa. Impending hydrocephalus. Nephritis. Enuresis. Urinates after every drink (Sarsa.). Menses early, with heavy pain on vertex. Laryngitis; of singers (Aru-t.). Cough; hacking; < morning and evening. Cough, tormenting, spasmodic. Chest heavy, sore or congested. Omodynia. Jerking limbs. Drowsiness. Chill, with desire to stretch. Heat with sweaty hands. Sweatiness. Fevers; continued; infectious; pneumonia; intercurrent. Measles; hæmorrhagic.

Complementary: Kali-m. Related: Gel.

Phosphate of Iron

In the early stages of febrile conditions, it stands midway between sthenic activity of Aconite and Bell, and the asthenic sluggishness and torpidity of Gels. The typical Ferr phos subject is not full blooded and robust, but nervous, sensitive, anæmic with the false plethora and easy flushing of Ferrum. Prostration marked; face more active than Gels. The superficial redness never assumes the dusky hue of Gels. Pulse soft and flowing; no anxious restlessness of Acon. Susceptibility to chest troubles. Bronchitis of young children. In acute exacerbation of tuberculosis, a fine palliative of wonderful power. Corresponds to Grauvogl's Oxygenoid Constitution, the inflammatory, febrile, emaciating, wasting consumptive.

The remedy for first stage of all febrile disturbances and inflammations before exudation sets in; especially for catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract. Ferr phos. 3x increases hemoglobin. In pale, anæmic subjects, with violent local congestions. Hæmorrhages, bright from any orifice.

Soreness to touch, cold, noise jar. Rush of blood to head. Ill effects of sun-heat. Throbbing sensation. Vertigo. Headache better cold applications.

Red, inflamed, with burning sensation. Feeling as of sand under lids. Hyperæmia of optic disc and retina, with blurred vision.

Noises. Throbbing. First stage of otitis. Membrana tympani red and bulging. Acute otitis; when Bellad fails, prevents suppuration.

First stage of colds in the head. Predisposition to colds. Epistaxis; bright red blood.

Flushed; cheeks sore and hot. Florid complexion. Facial neuralgia; worse, shaking head and stooping.

Mouth hot; fauces red, inflamed. Ulcerated sore throat. Tonsils red and swollen. Eustachian tubes inflamed. Sore throat of singers. Subacute laryngitis with fauces inflamed and red (2x). After operations on throat and nose to control bleeding and relieve soreness. First stage of diphtheria. Ranula in vascular, sanguine constitutions.

Aversion to meat and milk. Desire for stimulants. Vomiting of undigested food. Vomiting of bright red blood. Sour eructations.

First stage of peritonitis. Hæmorrhoids. Stools watery, bloody, undigested. First stage of dysentery, with much blood in discharges.

Urine spurts with every cough. Incontinence. Irritation at neck of bladder. Polyuria. Diurnal enuresis.

Menses every three weeks, with bearing-down sensation and pain on top of head. Vaginismus. Vagina dry and hot.

First stage of all inflammatory affections. Congestions of lungs. Hæmoptysis. Short, painful tickling cough. Croup. Hard, dry cough, with sore chest. Hoarseness. Expectoration of pure blood in pneumonia (Millefol). Cough better at night.

Palpitation; pulse rapid. First stage of cardiac diseases. Short, quick, soft pulse.

Stiff neck. Articular rheumatism. Crick in back. Rheumatic pain in shoulder; pains extend to chest and wrist. Whitlow. Palms hot. Hands swollen and painful.

Restless and sleepless. Anxious dreams. Night sweats of anæmia.

Chill daily at 1 pm. All catarrhal and inflammatory fevers; first stage.

Worse, at night and 4 to 6 pm; touch, jar, motion, right side. Better, cold applications.

Compare: (Oxygenoid Constitution. Acon; China; Arsenic; Graphit; Petrol). Ferrum pyrophosph (congestion of brain and headache following great loss of blood; tarsal cysts); Acon; Gelsem; China.

Third to twelfth potency.

This one of Schuessler's tissue remedies has proven a valuable remedy in some inflammatory diseases. In keeping with its element of Iron, it presents the local congestion tendencies of that remedy; and in its Phosphorus element its affinity for the lungs and stomach; and in its combination proves a great hæmorrhage remedy. The hæmorrhages are of bright blood, and may come from any outlet of the body. Further proving and clinical use will enable us to use it more scientifically then we now do. So far as I have observed, it is not adapted to the full-blooded, sanguine, arterial subjects, with an overplus of red blood that Aconite cures, but rather to pale, anæmic subjects, who with all their weaknesses are nevertheless subject to sudden and violent local congestions and inflammations, like pneumonia, or sudden congestions to head, bowels, or any other part, or to inflammatory affections of a rheumatic character. It is only useful in the first stage of such attacks, before the stage of exudation appears. It has been found useful also in the above-described weakened or anæmic subjects who have sour eructations occurring in stomach troubles, usually termed dyspeptic. In dysentery, in the first stage with a good deal of blood in the discharges, it is very valuable, and often cures in a very short time.

Again, it is often efficacious in the night sweats of the weak and anæmic. I am sorry not to be able to give characteristic indications for the use of this remedy, but I am fully persuaded that is a very valuable one and ought to receive a thoroughly Hahnemannian proving.

Ferrum Phosphoricum Album. Ferric Phosphate. Ferroso-ferric Phosphate. White Phosphate of Iron (Schüssler's). This is said to be a true ferric phosphate, Fe 2 (PO 4 ) 2 as contrasted with the ordinary phosphate of iron, which is a ferrous-hydric phosphate, Fe HPO.

Anus, prolapse of. Bladder, paralysis of . Bronchitis. Colic. Cough. Croup. Cystitis. Debility . Delirium tremens. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Dysentery. Ear, affections of. Erysipelas . Fever. Frost-bite . Gastritis. Gonorrhœa. Hæmatemesis. Hæmoptysis. Hæmorrhages. Hands, swelling of . Heart, palpitation of. Inflammation. Injuries. Intermittent fever. Kidneys, Bright's disease of . Measles. Mumps. Nævus. Neuralgia. Nose, bleeding of . Phthisis hæmorrhagica. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Raynaud's disease. Rheumatism. Sprains. Styes. Tarsal cysts. Urine, incontinence of. Veins, varicose . Vomiting. Whooping-cough.

The preparation of Ferrum Phos ., which plays such an important part in the therapy of Schüssler, has so far overshadowed the ordinary "Phosphate of Iron" in homœopathic practice, that I have retained the simple designation, "Ferrum Phosphoricum," for this preparation as less likely to create confusion. The ordinary phosphate, which has been proved separately, I shall describe next as Ferrum Phosphoricum Hydricum . Our chief knowledge of Fer. Phos . is from Schüssler's work and the clinical experience of those who have used it on his indications. But it has also been proved under Dr. John L. Moffat ( C. D. P. ).

In Schüssler's therapy Fer. Phos . takes the place filled by Acon., Bell., Gels., Verat. viride, Arnica , and other remedies which correspond to disturbed states of circulation, irritation, and relaxation of tissue. "Painless irritability of fibre" is Cooper's keynote as exemplified in diurnal enuresis. It also retains the leading features of the other Iron preparations: anæmia, hæmorrhages, and disorders of the veins. Inflammation, induration and enlargement of blood-vessels; great physical and mental lassitude; indisposed to physical exertion; nervousness, prostration, rheumatic paralysis. Acute inflammatory rheumatisms. The right shoulder is affected as in Fer. mur . The right-sideness of Fe. p . is as marked as that of the other Ferrum preparations. Nimier and Parenteau have cured several cases of right-supraorbital neuralgia with morning aggravation with Fe. p . 6x. The morning aggravation appears to be the distinctive indication. Nash says the hæmorrhages are bright red, but occur, not in the plethoric subjects of Acon ., but rather in pale, anæmic subjects liable to sudden local congestions. Cooper cured with Fe. p . a case of phthisis in a patient "of the transparent-skin type, the hæmoglobin shining through." Schüssler's own account of Fer. phos ., taken from the final edition of his work, translated by L. H. Tafel, is as follows: "Iron and its salts possess the property of attracting Oxygen. The iron contained in the blood corpuscles takes up the inhaled oxygen, thereby supplying with it all the tissues of the organism. The sulphur contained in the blood corpuscles and in other cells, in the form of sulphate of potassa, assists in transferring oxygen to all the cells containing iron and the sulphate of potassa. [ 1 ] When the molecules of iron contained in the muscle-cells have suffered a disturbance in their motion through some foreign irritation, then the cells affected grow flaccid. If this affection takes place in the annular fibres of the blood-vessels, these are dilated; and as a consequence the blood contained in them is augmented. Such a state is called hyperæmia from irritation; such a hyperæmia forms the first stage of inflammation. But when the cells affected have been brought back to the normal state by the therapeutic effect of iron ( Phosphate of Iron ) then the cells are enabled to cast off the causative agents of this hyperæmia, which are then received by the lymphatics in order that they may be eliminated from the organism. [ 2 ] When the muscular cells of the intestinal villi have lost molecules of iron, then these villi become unable to perform their functions: diarrhœa ensues. [ 3 ] When the muscular cells of the intestinal walls have lost molecules of iron, then the peristaltic motion of the intestinal canal is retarded, resulting in an inertia with respect to the evacuation of the fæces."

From the above Schüssler deduces the following indications for Iron: "When the muscular cells which have grown flaccid through loss of iron receive a compensation for their loss, the normal tensional relation is restored; the annular fibres of the blood-vessels are shortened to their proper measure, the capacity of these vessels again becomes normal, and the hyperæmia disappears, and in consequence the inflammatory fever ceases. Iron will cure:

1. The first stage of all inflammations.

2. Pains caused by hyperæmia.

3. Hæmorrhages caused by hyperæmia.

4. Fresh wounds, contusions, sprains, &c., as it removes the hyperæmia.

The pains which correspond to iron are increased by motion, but relieved by cold. In the muscle-cells iron is found in the form of a phosphate; we should therefore in therapeutics use Ferrum phosphoricum ." Schüssler generally used the 12x trituration. As an instance of hyperæmia of a low order may be mentioned a case of Raynaud's disease of the fingers and toes, in which amputation seemed inevitable. Halbert effected a complete cure with Fe. p . 6x trit. Fe. p . is suited to the leuco-phlegmatic temperament; to young persons with varicose veins. Pains go from below upward. Great emaciation. Takes cold easily. Results of checked perspiration on a warm summer day (peritonitis): Open air < cough; and there is sensitiveness to cold air. Warm drinks < , cold and cold drinks > toothache. Aversion to meat and milk. While eating at table, chill. < By eating. < From meat, herring, coffee, cake. < From tea. Rest > , motion < ; gentle motion > pain in upper arms and shoulders. < At night, and 4 to 6 a.m. Sensitive to touch and every jar.

Compare: Acon. (more bounding pulse than Fe. p.); Gels. (more flowing pulse); Caustic. and Puls. (cough with spurting of urine). Compatible: Kali mur. (croup, pneumonia, palpitation, typhus) Kali p. (colic, threatened gangrene); Calc. sul. (hip-joint disease) Calc. p. (chlorosis, hæmorrhoids); Calc. fl. (hæmorrhoids); Nat. sul. (diabetes); Ant. t. (capillary bronchitis). According to Cooper Fe. phos. antidoted "violent disuria, night and day," caused by Stront. bro.

Checked perspiration on a warm summer's day. Mechanical injuries.

Very talkative and hilarious; unnatural excitement. — Delirium tremens. — Physical and mental depression. — Unable to concentrate thoughts. — Memory impaired: for names, facts, &c.; irritated at his own mental sluggishness. — Drowsiness; with rush of thoughts, suddenly changing from pleasant to unpleasant. — (Sows eat up their young; a transient mania depending on hyperæmia of the brain.)

Dizziness; feeling as if head was being suddenly pushed forward. — Everything swims around him; his muscles seemed so weak he could hardly move about. — General dull headache < 5 p.m. — Hammering pain in forehead and temples, fears apoplexy; < r., formerly < l. — Supra-orbital neuralgia of r. side, with a morning aggravation. — Frontal headache, followed and relieved by nose-bleed. — Scarcely endurable, dull, heavy pain at vertex during menses, which are profuse. — Top of head sensitive to cold air, noise, and any jar; on stooping sharp pain through head, from back to front; at times a feeling as if head were being pushed forward, with danger of falling. Pinching in l. temporal region from within outwards. — Blind headache, with bearing-down in uterus, and ovarian pains. — Headache: with hot, red face and vomiting of food; with nervousness at night; with general soreness of scalp, cannot bear to have hair touched. — Rush of blood to head, with vertigo. — Violent throbbing up to occiput.

On stooping cannot see; seems as if all blood ran into eyes. — Blinding headache. — Hemianopsia (r.). — Conjunctivitis and photophobia. — Heaviness of lids, esp. r. — Traumatic conjunctivitis. — Dry and rough feeling of lining of lids, congestion of eye ( Alumina relieved). — Styes on lower lids (l.), then upper. — Tarsal cysts.

Hard of hearing; ringing and buzzing. — Painful red swelling of parotids.

Nose-bleed of bright blood, in children. — Nose-bleed relieving headache. — Erysipelas, with ulceration just inside tip (l.).

Face earthy, pale, sallow. — Heat, with redness. — Hot cheeks, with toothache. — Neuralgia in face (r.). — Acne in chin and forehead.

Toothache always appearing after eating food; < by warm drinks, > by cold. — Complaints during dentition, with fever.

On waking, throat feels swollen and stiff, swelling painful, < empty swallowing. — Feeling of lump (r.) on swallowing. — Inflammation of palate, tonsils, and pharynx, with dryness, redness, and pain. — Membrane on r. tonsil, spreading to l.

Poor appetite, with attacks of sickness. — Great thirst for much water. — Vomiting at irregular times, sometimes awaking her out of sleep. — Green vomit. — Hæmatemesis. — Vomiting with the pains. — Weight and fulness in stomach; with fulness in forehead. — Pain in stomach < after eating, and by pressure.

Distension in hypochondria and region of stomach. — Feeling of a layer of hard substance in abdomen; later of hardness in spots. — Intolerance of clothes touching abdomen and chest; throws them off at night. — Colic before stool. — Hernia: inflamed and incarcerated.

Chronic diarrhœa; yellow, watery (with pneumonia). — Lienteria from relaxation of intestinal muscles. — Dark green stools, odourless. — Hot flatus. — Dysentery with violent fever; fever continues < from pressure on stomach; no tenesmus. — Summer diarrhœa, stools green, watery, or hashed, mixed with mucus, scanty, straining at stool; also retching, child rolls its head and moans, eyes half open. — Stools pure blood; bloody mucus or slime; < midnight to morning. — Green and hard stools expelled with much effort. — Habitual constipation; piles; disposition to prolapse.

Frequent desire to urinate, urgent, with pain in neck of bladder and end of penis; must urinate immediately, which > the pain; < during the day; < standing. — Enuresis nocturna from weakness of sphincter. — Enuresis diurna from irritability of trigone, > lying down. — Urine spurts out with every cough. — Complaints before urinating. — Urine smells like café au lait . — Hæmorrhage from bladder or urethra.

Seminal emissions. — Sexual instinct completely in abeyance. — Dull aching in r. testicle. — Gonorrhœa, inflammatory stage.

Bearing-down in uterus, with constant dull pain in either ovarian region. — Vaginismus. — Pain in vagina during coition; cannot bear examination. — Dryness of vagina. — Dysmenia, with accelerated pulse and red face. — Menses pale first half of period. — Menses every three weeks, profuse, with pressure in abdomen and small of back. — During profuse menses, pain on top of head. — During pregnancy: cough with ejection of urine; headache during third month.

Laryngitis, with hoarseness from overstraining voice. — Hoarse; raises greenish mucus in biggish lumps. — Much mucus in throat and rattling in chest. — Pleuritic stitch with a deep inspiration, or cough. — Acute, short, spasmodic, and very painful cough. — Suddenly a loose cough, painless indoors, but painful in open air. — Tormenting cough when bending over or touching larynx. — Cough: causes spurting of urine; < in open air; < touching larynx; < at night. — Whooping-cough, with retching and vomiting. — Hæmoptysis; after concussion or fall.

Dull, aching pain at heart; sometimes extending to back, l. of spine. — Palpitation with full pulse (less bounding than Acon ., less flowing than Gels .).

Crick in neck or back.

Rheumatism attacking one joint after another; joints puffy, but little red; high fever; < slightest motion. — Rheumatism of wrist and knee.

Violent drawing, tearing pain r. shoulder and upper arm, < violent motion of arm, > gentle motion, so that patient hardly kept it still at all; somewhat sensitive; deadness in r. hand. — Acute rheumatism of r. deltoid; unable to wear cloak. — In r. shoulder-joint acute rheumatism; red, swollen; very sensitive. — Swelling of elbow from sprain. — Rheumatism in wrist. — Wrists ache with loss of power to grasp. — Palms of hands hot, with children. — Nodule on dorsum of l. little finger. — Contracted fingers from acute rheumatism.

Pain and soreness in hip. — Pains in knees spreading to other joints, finally to shoulders and upper thorax (after Ferr. Phos . it went downwards from joint to joint, to knees, and then passed off). — While walking constrictive pain in anterior aspect of shins, lower third, as if he had been walking very hard and fast (which was not so), < l. — Ankle, outer side, pale red; foot greatly swollen and sensitive; toe feels as if burning. — Steady, terrible pain all over foot and ankle, extorting cries, shooting pains around ankle and up inside of leg. — An acute, very painful sugillation on dorsum of foot.

Capillary congestion, with burning of skin, < from severe exercise or in a warm room. — Measles. — Erysipelas. — Acne.

Drowsiness, with rush of thoughts. — Eyes half open in sleep. — Restless at night. — Restless sleep with anxious dreams; great depression in morning. — Sleepless from severity of pains. — Dreams of quarelling; suddenly changes to happy conversation with another person.

Very talkative and hilarious ; unnatural excitement.
Delirium tremens.
Sows eat up their young ; a transient mania depending upon hyperemia of brain.

Dizziness with constant feeling as if head were being suddenly pushed forward, with danger of falling.
Great dizziness ; every thing swims around him ; his muscles seemed so weak he could hardly move about.
Vertigo caused by congestion to various parts of brain or head.
Relieved symptoms supposed to be due to cerebral venous congestions.

Hammering pain in forehead and temples, so severe that she fears an apoplectic stroke ; < in right side, formerly < on left θ Dyspepsia.
Frontal headache, followed and relieved by nosebleed.
Scarcely endurable, dull, heavy pain on top of head during menses which are very profuse.
Top of head sensitive to cold air, noise and any jar ; on stooping, sharp pain through head, from back to front ; at times, a feeling as if head were being pushed forward, with danger of falling.
Severe headache, soreness in vertex, general soreness of scalp, cannot bear to have hair touched, great nervousness at night.
On stooping a sharp pain through head, from back to front.
Headache or neuralgia of face with stinging, pressing or throbbing, < from shaking head, stooping and all motion.
"Blind headache," in a lady who had at the same time a bearing down sensation in uterus, with a constant dull pain in either ovarian region.
Headache with hot, red face and vomiting of food.
Rush of blood to head with vertigo.
Congestion of brain in children and grown persons ; meningitis.
Congestion to head with epilepsy.

Soreness in vertex, general soreness of scalp, cannot bear to have the hair touched. θ Headache.
Top of head sensitive to cold and noise or any jar.

On stooping cannot see ; seems as if all blood ran into eyes.
Blinding headache.
Acute conjunctivitis without suppuration, or discharge of mucus.
Ophthalmia, first stage ; marked redness with great pain, and without mucus or pus.
Traumatic conjunctivitis from a bad wound, after case had been badly treated ; it lessened the burning, redness and trickling of tears.
Eyes inflamed during dentition.
Conjunctivitis and photophobia. θ Measles.
(In sick :) Stye on lower lid of right eye.

Sensitive to noise.
Roaring or buzzing from rush of blood to head.
Inflammatory pain in ear ; otitis.
Catarrhal affection of Eustachian tube and ear, often combined with catarrh in chest, or bowels, or both.
Painful red swelling of parotids, one side or both. θ Measles.

Nosebleed of bright blood. θ Summer complaint.
Nosebleed : with blood spitting ; following and relieving headache ; a concomitant of other complaints.
Bleeding of nose in children.
Coryza ; at the very beginning.

Face earthy, pale, sallow.
Red face, with dysmenorrhœa.
Pain with heat and redness of face.
Hot cheeks with toothache.
Neuralgia in face.

Toothache, with hot cheeks.
Congestive or inflammatory toothache or faceache.
Toothache always appearing after eating food ; > by cold.
(OBS :) Caries dentium.
Complaints during dentition, with fever.
Toothache < by warm, and > by cold drinks.

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Great weakness, and desire to lie down. Nervous at night. Rheumatic conditions.

While it has been used by Schuessler's followers for the first stage of inflammatory fevers, it is useful in the higher potencies in chronic diseases, and is a deep acting anti-psoric, It could not be less than the Ferrum and Phosphoric acid that form it.

For many years I followed the Schüessler indications, but by the aid of new provings, homeopathic aggravations, and clinical experience the present arrangement of symptoms furnishes my guide for this valuable homoeopathic remedy.

of some complaints is in the morning, some in afternoon; others come in the evening and night, and after midnight. The patient is sensitive to the open air, and many symptoms are aggravated in open air.

The most noticeable features are anaemia and chlorosis (like Ferrum). The general physical anxiety is more like Phos. acid. Lack of vital heat, and aggravation in cold air and from becoming cold. Always taking cold. Congestion of head and organs, with fever and red face.

The general weakness is like the low vitality of the phtisical inheritance. Dropsical conditions. Symptoms worse after eating, from physical exertion. Fainting spells. Cold drinks bring on symptoms. Sour food aggravates. Vascular fullness and distension of veins.

The haemorrhagic condition is a strong feature, as it is in Ferrum, Phos. acid and Phos . The nervousness of hysteria and hypochondriasis is found in this remedy. Soreness through the body, especially in congested parts; with aggravation from jar and walking. Complaints from lifting and straining muscles, and from sprains.

Many symptoms are worse lying in bed and from rest, and ameliorated by moving slowly about (like Ferrum), but the great lassitude compels him to lie down. Motion that is a real exertion aggravates, but slow. motion ameliorates. Numbness of parts and suffering parts. Surging of blood in body and head.

Stitching, tearing pains. Tearing downwards. False plethora. Strong pulsation over body, and in head. Strong, full, frequent pulse. Generally oversensitive, and sensitive to pain. Standing aggravates many complaints. Trembling limbs. All combine to give us a remedy broad and deep acting.

This remedy has marked anger, even to violence; producing weakness, headache, trembling, sweat, and other nervous manifestations. Anxiety at night, as if he had done a great wrong to somebody; after eating; with apprehensiveness; during fever; about the future; hypochondriacal. Cheerful, talkative and hilarious; unnatural excitement, mingled with sadness. This remedy has been used in delirium tremens.

Aversion to company and feels better when alone. He is unable to concentrate the mind, or reflect ordinary questions; can not study. Confusion of mind when trying to think, in the morning, in the evening, after eating; ameliorated by washing the face in cold water.

He is dissatisfied with everything he possesses, and with his surroundings. Very excitable in the evening. The fullness in his head makes him fear apoplexy. Fear of going into a crowd, or death, that some evil will come to him, of misfortune, of people. Forgetful. It is an excellent remedy for hysterical girls, when other symptoms agree.

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The pure Phosphate of Iron is triturated for use.

Malaise all the evening. ▶ Weariness in morning on waking; at 1 P.M. (not having eaten since breakfast), with desire for brandy.

Hasty, intolerant feeling in afternoon. ▶ Impetuous feeling in evening, yet obstacles cause hindrance and annoyance and trifles seem like mountains, intolerant of hindrance and annoyance. ▶ Annoyed at the conversation of fellow-passengers in street-car, agg. when earnest or excited, amel. afternoon. ▶ Shrinking and timid at hearing cross words about an absent stranger. ▶ Soothing, pleasant effect from walking in a quiet part of the city after dark, ceasing on returning to the bustle of the central streets. ▶ Inertia, indifference to ordinary matters, craving for brandy without real muscular debility. ▶ Loss of courage and hope early in evening, amel. sleep.

Feeling as from insufficient sleep, fell asleep at my table at 4.30 P.M. ▶ Pain all day, agg. right side, agg. first thinking of it; P. from right brow to right ear when reading; in right side. ▶ Sharp twinges of pain over whole left side at 11 P.M.; from right vertex to right supraorbital foramen in afternoon. ▶ Aching dullness extending from vertex towards orbits and sides of head as a pressure, agg. holding head down when writing, amel. when walking, but when walking in the street more in occiput and when rising, walking, etc., most in vertex, as the force of the circulation most impinges, it always seems in subcutaneous cavities. ▶ Pain in posterior part of base of skull in afternoon at every concussion (as of coughing or even sudden and hard smacking of lips).

Symptoms of meningitis of the brain, suffused eyes, full, soft pulse, with drowsiness and heaviness. ▶ Violent headache, throbbing, followed and amel. and by nosebleed. ▶ Violent headaches during menstruation; the head is extremely sensitive to pain (Compare Fer. met.).

Encysted tumor of the eyelids. ▶ Inflammation of the external ear, with muco-purulent discharge, ear red and swollen, mastoid process swollen and sore.

Sore throat, catarrhal affections of the Eustachian tube and ears, especially in singers.

Dyspepsia, with loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting after eating, aggravation from acids, especially with pulsating headaches, profuse menses, restlessness, etc. ▶ Persistent vomiting of food, often before eating in the morning, in women.

Hæmorrhoids. ▶ Cholera infantum, with red face, full, soft pulse; stools watery or even bloody, after checked perspiration. ▶ Hæmorrhage from the bladder. ▶ Irritable or inflamed bladder, with frequent urging. ▶ Retention of urine, with fever, in children. ▶ Ovarian neuralgia. ▶ Dysmenorrhœa, with sacral pains, headache, frequent urging to urinate, pain in left ovary.

Its action upon the respiratory organs may be clearly foreshadowed by the provings of Fer. and Phos.; like Fer. is indicated in congestions of the respiratory organs, even when there is considerable fever, especially notice that the oppression and dyspnœa, both of which are extremely marked in Fer. and Phos., and duplicated in this chemical compound and afford good indications for its use; so, in a general way, symptoms of oppression like Phos., with the evident fever and congestion of Fer., should be treated by this drug; the cough may be short, dry and hacking or even paroxysmal; there may be expectoration of blood, either streaked or clear.

In articular rheumatism, especially of the shoulder, the pains extend to the upper part of the chest; and of the hands, which are swollen and painful, or of the knee, with severe pain, or of the ankle, with shooting pain.

There may be heat, with quick, soft pulse, thirst and sweat, which does not relieve the patient (Fer.).

Smarting in edges of right lids. ▶ Neuralgia at left inner brow and down left side of nose, in evening when riding. ▶ Sharp aching at outer edge of left orbit, as if in bone at 7.30 P.M., on right side at 8.30. ▶ Sticking in right ear; on going to bed, extending as a headache above periosteum of that side.

Lips blue after a tepid sponge bath. ▶ Grumbling in left lower jaw, near filled molar. ▶ Smarting in right anterior nasal passage; right posterior nasal passage agg. inspiration, amel. expiration.

Increase of the usual light coat on tongue, with yellowish tint increasing towards the base. ▶ Liberation of pharyngeal, tracheal and nasal mucus. ▶ Working down of phlegm behind velum palati, also loosening from below.

Indifferent to food on sitting down to supper, but ate heartily. ▶ Thirst for cold water and for brandy in morning; for brandy on rising in morning after studying till 2 A.M., took a teaspoonful with good effect; for ale at 1 P.M., at 3 P.M. no desire for dinner but for brandy, if he took a teaspoonful, he then ate with relish, the same desire before breakfast. ▶ Irritating, greasy eructation. ▶ Hiccough at noon after sitting bent towards the floor; H. when respiration compress the stomach and afterwards. ▶ Nausea in morning on rising. ▶ Heartburn at 9.30 P.M. when sitting bent forward reading with eructations causing coughing and hemming, irritation in throat and behind left of mid-sternum, later eructations of gas and of greasy fluid provoking cough (had had stewed oysters and aromatic tea at supper). ▶ Pinching in epigastrium.

Emission of fetid flatus when standing leaning over the table, continuing when undressing. ▶ Pain in transverse colon; at 3 P.M.; at breakfast, when bending forward, repeated when standing, using arms moderately towards the left. ▶ Threatening of diarrhœa from colon to rectum.

Stool soft, yellow, easy. ▶ Urine pale, copious in cool weather; in warm weather, and limpid, less copious and darker in cooler weather; when pale there were several crystalline forms the principal being hexagonal plates answering to cystin, and tables answering to uric acid and chloride of sodium.

Pain in C. in morning. ▶ Oppression of left C. and stomach from indignation. ▶ Palpitation when sitting; when sitting writing. ▶ Pulse accelerated.

Pain in neck in morning. ▶ Pain in left lower lumbar region when walking bent forward; in sacro-iliac symphysis at 1 P.M. on walking in the street after standing, amel. pressure. ▶ The habitual aching in dorsal spine (agg. standing or sitting, amel. walking or leaning back against chair) is increased, also amel. change of position. ▶ Tired feeling in right lumbar region in evening when sitting in church.

Rheumatic feeling in right wrist after writing, extending downward in dorsal tendons, agg. rest, then the pain ebbs and flows, when writing it sometimes extends up forearm, agg. dorsal and ulnar aspects, on rising felt in little finger to first phalanx, amel. warmth and wrapping.

Drowsiness at 4.30 P.M., felt much in eyes, extending up into head, necessity to take a nap. ▶ Sensitiveness to cool air; at noon; all the evening. ▶ Dry heat of palms; when sitting, and of face; D. heat of face, hands, throat and upper chest at 6 P.M.

Clinical:
In general it has been indicated in congestions, sometimes in inflammations, with high fever and quick pulse; hot, dry skin: there is, however, a general feeling of weakness, soft pulse and drowsiness, but great thirst.
Violent headaches, ameliorated by nose-bleed, especially during menstruation; head very sensitive.
Inflammation of the internal ear, with muco-purulent discharge; ear red, swollen; mastoid process swollen and sore.
Catarrhal sore throat, especially of the Eustachian tube.
Dyspepsia symptoms like Ferrum.
Cholera infantum, with red face and soft pulse.
Dyspnœa.
Pains in the left ovary, sacrum, etc.
Congestion of respiratory organs like Ferrum.
Articular rheumatism.
With the fever there is generally a soft, quick pulse and thirst, but the sweat does not relieve.

Ferr. p. / The Fop.

Ferrum phos.-
Headache boss-
Is first in inflammation.
First in fever,
Prime reliever
In bleeding complication.
Whirling, Giddy,
Gait unsteady,
All pains by motion double.
Undigested
Stools-attest it,
In case of bowel trouble.

The Fop,-Has Congestive Headache.

The Fop, Jesse Mel, Is with the base juggler, Cato.

This Fop,-Who is subject to Vertigo, -Is at Camp Bovis, with the ugly and abusive Man, Coni.

Congestive Headache: Fer. p., Gel., Meli., Bell., Sul., Arg. n., Glo., Cact., etc.

Vertigo: Fer. p., Camp., Bovis, Gel., Lach., Bry., Sil., Mer., Nux v., Con., etc.