Stannum Metallicum stann.

NERVES. MUCOUS MEMBRANES. CHEST. FEMALE ORGANS.

Using voice. Cold. 10 A.M. MOTION: After. Gentle. Lying on right side. Ascending steps.

Rapid motion. Hard pressure; over an edge. Expectoration.

Repeated short attacks. EXTREME WEAKNESS; < IN CHEST; in throat, stomach, upper arms and thighs; drops into a chair; can't even talk; trembles on moving. Paralytic heaviness. Profuse, muco -purulent secretions. Emaciation. PAINS INCREASE GRADUALLY, THEN SLOWLY SUBSIDE. Pressive drawing. Neuralgias. Cramps. Spasms. Hysteria.

Anxious, nervous and sad; < before menses. Weak and miserable, and discouraged. Pressive, stupefying headache. Pale face, with sunken eyes. Malar neuralgia. Faceache. Tickling at root of tongue. Vomiting; violent; early morning, with odor of ingesta. Burning in liver. Painful, pinching colic, > hard pressure and stool, which exhausts. Child wants to be carried over shoulder. Worms. Atony of bladder. Easy sexual orgasms. Pollutions. Before menses, mania erotica. During menses, strong odor of body. Gushes of debilitating leucorrhœa. Prolapse, of vagina or uterus, < stool. Much mucus in trachea. Deep, hollow voice. Short breath, from every effort; must loosen clothes. Cough; easily expectorates quantities of sweet or bright yellow pus or balls of mucus. Catarrhal phthisis. Chest feels raw or hollow. Tremulous knees. Swelled hands and ankles. Chill at 10 A.M.; with numb fingertips. Burning palms and soles. Hectic. Debilitating, musty sweat at 4 A.M. Night-sweats.

Antidotes: Hep. Pul. Related: Lach. Nat-m.

Extreme exhaustion of mind and body. Sinking, empty, all-gone sensation in stomach (Chel., Phos., Sep.). Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her worse (Nat. m., Puls., Sep.); faint and weak, especially when going down stairs; can go up well enough (Bor., - rev. of Calc.). Headache or neuralgia; pains begin lightly and increase gradually to the highest point and then gradually decline (Plat.). Colic: > by hard pressure, or by laying abdomen across knee or on shoulder (Col.); lumbrici; passes worms. Menses; too early, too profuse; sadness before; pain in malar bones, during. Leucorrhoea; great debility; weakness seems to proceed from chest (from abdomen, pelvis, Phos., Sep.). Prolapsus, worse during stool (with diarrhoea, Pod.); so weak she drops into a chair instead of sitting down. While dressing in the morning has to sit down several times to rest. Nausea and vomiting; in the morning; from the odor of cooking food (Ars., Colch.). When singing or using the voice, aching and weakness in deltoid and arms. Great weakness in chest; < from talking, laughing, reading aloud, singing; so weak, unable to talk. Cough: deep, hollow, shattering, strangling; concussive, in paroxysms of three coughs (of two, Merc.); dry, while in bed, in evening; empty sensation in chest. Expectoration: profuse like the white of an egg; sweetish, salty (Kali i., sep.); sour, putrid, musty; yellow, green pus (heavy, green, salty, Kali i.); during the day. Hoarseness; deep, husky hollow voice; relieved for the time by coughing or expectorating mucus. Sweat: mouldy, musty odor; after 4 a. m. every morning; on neck and forehead; very debilitating.

Complementary: Pulsatilla. Stannum follows well; after, Caust., and is followed by Cal., Phos., Sil., Sulph., Tub.

Laughing and singing, talking, using the voice; lying on right side; drinking anything warm (from cold drinks, Spong.).

Coughing or expectorating relieves hoarseness; hard pressure (Col.).

In chest affections, when talking, reading aloud, singing, etc., causes a very weak feeling in the throat and chest--causes an exhausted, "given out" sensation, and produces hoarseness; using the voice produces weakness in the arms between the elbow and shoulder, then the weakness extends all over the body. The above symptoms are very often found in operatic singers, in play actors, auctioneers--all who use the voice a great deal. Nausea in the throat. Expectoration yellow, green, offensive; after coughing and expectorating the patient feels very hollow and empty.

Headache, usually neuralgic, which comes on gradually and grows steadily worse till it reaches its height or severest point, when it begins to grow easier and goes away just as gradually as it came on--e.g., if it was twelve hours in coming on, it will be twelve hours in going off: Severe pain causing the patient to lay over the sharp corner of a table or sofa, or something hard, and to press the abdomen firmly against it, as in this way relief is afforded. Sensation of hollowness; griping as of something being torn away.

Affections in general of the left chest; left side; trachea and inner chest; upper part of the chest; inner surface of the thighs. Consumption.

After moving; lying on the side; using the voice.

Calc. carb., Phosphor., Pulsat., Rhus. tox., Sulphur, Nux vom.

Pulsat.

Neuralgic headache. begins lightly and increases gradually to its highest point, and then gradually declines. Hoarseness and roughness in the larynx, with great weakness in the chest. Great accumulation of mucus in the trachea, easily detached by a slight cough. Respiratory diseases characterized by Profuse mucus or muco-purulent expectoration, sometimes expectoration of balls of sweetish mucus. Reading aloud or talking produces great exhaustion.

Tin (STANNUM)

Chief action is centered upon the nervous system and respiratory organs. Debility is very marked when Stannum is the remedy, especially the debility of chronic bronchial and pulmonary conditions, characterized by profuse muco-purulent discharges upon tuberculosis basis. Talking causes a very weak feeling in the throat and chest. Pains that come and go gradually, call unmistakably for Stannum. Paralytic weakness; spasms; paralysis.

Sad, anxious. Discouraged. Dread of seeing people.

Aching in temples and forehead. Obstinate acute coryza and influenza with cough. Pain worse motion; gradually increasing and decreasing as if constricted by a band; forehead feels pressed inwards. Jarring of walking resounds painfully in head. Drawing pains in malar bones and orbits. Ulceration of ringhole in lobe of ear.

Much adhesive mucus, difficult to detach; efforts to detach cause nausea. Throat dry and stings.

Hunger. Smell of cooking causes vomiting. Bitter taste. Pain better pressure, but sore to touch. Sensation of emptiness in stomach.

Cramp-like colic around navel, with a feeling of emptiness. Colic relieved by hard pressure.

Bearing-down sensation. Prolapsus, with weak, sinking feeling in stomach (Sep). Menses early and profuse. Pain in vagina, upward and back to spine. Leucorrhœa, with great debility.

Hoarse; mucus expelled by forcible cough. Violent, dry cough in evening until midnight. Cough excited by laughing, singing, talking; worse lying on right side. During day, with copious green, sweetish, expectoration. Chest feels sore. Chest feels weak; can hardly talk. Influenzal cough from noon to midnight with scanty expectoration. Respiration short, oppressive; stitches in left side when breathing and lying on same side. Phthisis mucosa. Hectic fever.

Sleeps with one leg drawn up, the other stretched out.

Paralytic weakness; drops things. Ankles swollen. Limbs suddenly give out when attempting to sit down. Dizziness and weakness when descending. Spasmodic twitching of muscles of forearm and hand. Fingers jerk when holding pen. Neuritis. Typewriters' paralysis.

Heat in evening; exhausting night-sweats, especially towards morning. Hectic. Perspiration, principally on forehead and nape of neck; debilitating; smelling musty, or offensive.

Worse, using voice (i.e, laughing, talking, singing), lying on right side, warm drinks. Better, coughing or expectorating, hard pressure.

Complementary: Puls.

Compare: Stann iod. 3x (Valuable in chronic chest diseases characterized by plastic tissue changes). Persistent inclination to cough, excited by tickling dry spot in the throat, apparently at root of tongue. Dryness of throat. Trachial and bronchial irritation of smokers. Pulmonary symptoms; cough, loud, hollow, ending with expectoration (Phellandrium). State of purulent infiltration. Advanced phthisis sometimes when Stann jod has not taken effect, an additional dose of Iodine in milk caused the drug to have its usual beneficial effect (Stonham). Compare: Caust; Calc; Sil; Tuberc; Bacil; Helon. Myrtus chekan (chronic bronchitis, cough of phthisis, emphysema, with gastric catarrhal complications and thick, yellow difficult sputum. Old persons with weakened power of expectoration).

Third to thirtieth potency.

Sinking, empty, all-gone sensation in stomach (Chel., Phos., Sep.).

Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her worse; faint and weak, especially when going downstairs; can go up well enough.

Colic > by hard pressure, or by laying abdomen across knee or on shoulder (Col.); lumbrici; passes worms.

Leucorrhœa; great debility; weakness seems to proceed from chest.

Prolapsus, worse during stool, so weak she drops into a chair instead of sitting down. While dressing in the morning has to sit down several times to rest.

Great weakness in chest, can hardly talk, with general debility, which centers in the chest.

Loose cough; with heavy, green, sweet expectoration.

Pains gradually increase to a great height, and as gradually subside.

Another metallic remedy. The leading characteristic is great weakness in the chest (Argentum met.); so weak cannot talk. No remedy has this symptom so strongly as tin. It is present, not only in the laryngeal and lung troubles for which Stannum is such a great remedy, but in great debility. So weak she drops into a chair, < going down stairs (Borax; Calc. ost. up stairs). It is found in connection with uterine displacements and leucorrhœas of thin, debilitated subjects and has made brilliant cures in such cases. Of course in the lung, bronchial, and laryngeal affections, this symptom is very prominent. In these troubles there is generally very profuse expectoration with the cough, and the matter raised tastes very sweet, or it may be exceptionally salty. For the salty expectoration I would sooner think of Kali iod. or Sepia. In all three of these remedies the expectoration may be thick, heavy, and green or yellow in color. Both Stannum and Kali iod. have profuse night sweats, but the Stannum has greater sense of weakness in the chest (cannot talk) than any of the others. Another very characteristic symptom of Stannum is that the pains gradually increase to a great degree of intensity and then as gradually decrease. (See Platinum.) This pain is of course neuralgic, may be located anywhere in the tract of a nerve, but has been often verified in prosopalgia, gastralgia and abdominal colic.

These pains are ameliorated by pressure, like Colocynth and Bryonia; so if Colocynth fails, which is generally first thought of in abdominal pains relieved by pressure, Stannum may relieve, and especially if the attacks have been of long standing or the patient seems to have a chronic tendency thereto. If in children, the patient is relieved by carrying it over the point of the shoulder, the shoulder pressing into the abdomen. The Stannum patient is generally very sad and despondent, feels like crying all the time. (Nat. m., Puls., Sepia.) I have often verified the above symptoms and have seen equally good effects from the 12th, 30th, 200th and 500th (Boericke & Tafel) potencies.

Great anxiety and restlessness. Irritable sadness, with aversion to men, and disinclination to talk ; hopelessness.

Vertigo, it seems as if all the objects were too far distant. Painful jerk through the (left) temple, forehead and cerebellum, leaving a dull pressure, worse during rest, better from motion. Burning in the forehead with nausea, better in the open air. Pulsation in the temples.

Dull, sunken eyes without lustre. Nightly agglutination of the eyes. Burning stitches in the eyelids. Styes. Fistula lachrymalis.

Ulceration of the ring-hole in the lobule. Screaming in the ears when blowing the nose.

Dry coryza on one side, with soreness, swelling, and redness of the nostril. The nose is stuffed up, high up.

Pale, sunken face, with deep, sunken eyes. Drawing pain in the face, in the malar bone and orbits.

Fetid smell from the mouth. Sensation of stinging dryness in the throat. Hawking of mucus with soreness of the throat. After hawking mucus the voice for singing is higher. Difficult and weak voice from debility.

Increased appetite, he cannot cat sufficiently to satisfy his hunger. All the food tastes bitter. After eating, nausea followed by bitter vomiting. Violent retching, followed by vomiting of undigested food. Vomiting of blood. Heavy pressure in the stomach, with soreness of it to the touch. Colic with bitter eructations, sensation of hunger in the stomach, and diarrhœa. Spasmodic colic above and below the navel. Hysterical spasms in the abdomen. Sensitiveness of the abdomen to the touch. Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen.

Constipation ; stool hard, dry, knotty, or insufficient and green. Diarrhœa consisting of mucus.

Scanty secretion of urine. The urging to urinate is wanting, as if there were no sensation in the bladder ; only a sensation of fulness indicates the necessity to urinate.

Men. Increased sexual desire ; violent voluptuous irritation to discharge the semen. Women. Menstruation more profuse. Leucorrhœa, of transparent mucus or yellow with great debility.

Hoarseness and roughness of the larynx. Accumulation of great quantities of mucus in the trachea, easily thrown up by coughing. Bronchitis. Great dyspnœa with anxiety in the evening, compelling one to loosen the clothing. Oppressed breathing and want of breath from every movement, also when lying down ; or in the evening. Drawing a long breath causes a pleasant sensation of lightness, for a short time. Stitches in the left side of the chest when breathing or when lying on that side. Sensation of emptiness and weakness in the chest. Sensation of great soreness in the chest. Itching-tickling in the chest. Tension in the chest. (Hydrothorax). Dry cough in the evening in bed, till midnight. Cough during the day, with copious, greenish, salty expectoration ; in the morning the expectoration is most profuse. Cough with expectoration of mucus, tasting putrid, sweet, or salty. After expectoration great soreness (or stitches) in the chest. Cough caused from talking, singing, or laughing, from lying on the (right) side, from drinking any thing warm. Phthisis pituitosa.

The pains in the limbs increase gradually and decrease, in the same manner. Upper. Swelling of the hands and feet in the evening. Weakness and trembling of the hands. Paralytic heaviness in the arms. Burning in the hands. Chilblains on the hands. Lower. Paralytic heaviness and weakness in the legs. Stiffness and tension in the bends of the knee. Swelling of the ankles in the evening. Burning of the feet.

Pain as if paralyzed in the extremities. Paralysis of the arms and legs. Emaciation ; weakness ; trembling, which is more felt when slowly exercising, or when talking. Hysterics, spasms, with pain in the abdomen and in the diaphragm. Epileptic attacks ; in the evening, in children during dentition. Sleepiness during the day ; goes to sleep late at night. Nightly restlessness, with lamentations, weeping, and timid supplications while asleep.

Pulse small and quick. Chill in the evening, especially over the back, preceded by heat with perspiration. Chill every forenoon, (10 A.M.). Chill only on the head. Slight chilliness with violent chattering of the teeth. During the morning chill, numbness in the tips of the fingers. Heat in the afternoon (4 to 5 P.M.) every afternoon, with perspiration at the same time. Burning heat in the limbs, moody in the hands, every evening. Anxious sensation of heat from the least movement. Predominating sensation of internal heat. Very debilitating night-sweats, in the morning, principally on the neck. Debilitating perspiration from the least exertion. The perspiration smells mouldy.

Chilblains. Painful hang-nails.

The symptoms, with exception of the debility, are better while walking and cease entirely, but return at once during rest. The (pressing, drawing) pains increase and decrease slowly and very gradually. Aggravation when lying on the (painless) side ; after moving ; from talking. Amelioration when lying on the back ; from loosening the garments.

Stannum. Tin. Sn. (A. W., 118.8) Trituration of the pure metal.

Anæmia. Asthma. Bronchitis. Chilblains. Colic. Consumption . Convulsions. Cramps. Debility. Dentition. Diaphragm, pains in . Dyspepsia. Ears, ring-holes, ulceration of. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Gastralgia. Hæmatemesis. Hæmoptysis. Headache. Hectic fever. Hemiplegia. Hypochondriasis . Hysteria. Lachrymal fistula. Lachrymal sac, suppuration of. Milk, altered. Nails, splitting. Neuralgia . Neurasthenia. Opisthotonos. Paralysis. Phthisis pituitosa. Ptosis. Sleeplessness. Styes. Tapeworm. Trachea, affections of. Uterus, prolapse of. Vagina, prolapse of. Worms.

Stannum is the Jupiter of the alchymists. "The ancients have recorded wonderful cures of the most serious diseases with Tin," says Hahnemann, but in his day, until he proved it, its only use was as a vermifuge. Alston obtained indirectly from "a woman of Leith in Scotland" this prescription, of which he has witnessed the efficacy in a case of tapeworm: "Take an ounce and a half of Tin (pewter metal) and grind it small to powder, mix it with sugar syrup, and take, on a Friday before the change of the moon, one-half of it, the following day the half of the remainder, and the Sunday following the rest, but on the Monday a purgative." Alston also says, in his Materia Medica , that he has seen hæmatemesis cured by this as if by magic. Hahnemann's proving appears both in his Materia Medica Pura and in his Chronic Diseases . A number of worm symptoms appear in the pathogenesis: Sinking, empty, all-gone feeling, diaphragmatic and abdominal pains; tendency to excessive mucous secretions; pale, sunken, sickly countenance, with dark rings round eyes; convulsions. Many of these symptoms occur in conditions not due to helminthiasis, and Stan . will be the remedy. Pains in the hypochondria, associated with the hypochondriac or hysterical mental state. Diaphragmatic neuralgia. Colic > by hard pressure, as by laying the child with its abdomen across the knee or on the point of the shoulder. This is one of the keynotes of Stan .; but the most important one is in the type of the Stan . pains: they begin lightly, increase gradually to the highest point and then as gradually decline. Other remedies have pains of this type but not to the same characteristic degree. This feature applies to the headaches, facial and dental neuralgias, abdominal and other pains. Another cardinal feature of Stan . is weakness : exhaustion of mind and body. The chest is so weak as to make talking impossible. The patient is so weak, she drops into a chair instead of sitting down. While dressing in the morning has to sit down several times to rest. There is weakness and aching of the deltoid and arm, and this has the curious modality that it is felt when singing or otherwise using the voice. Stan . is an important remedy for singers and public speakers. The weakness of Stan . makes it an appropriate remedy for many states of neurasthenia, nervous exhaustion. A peculiarity of the weakness is that it is felt much more on going down stairs than on going up. The relaxation of tissue is probably responsible for the weak, empty, sinking sensation felt at the epigastrium; and also for the uterine prolapse. In the dyspepsias of Stan . there is nausea and vomiting from the smell of cooking; and the gastralgia compels the patient to walk about for relief, yet the weakness is so great that he is soon compelled to rest. The weak, empty feeling in the chest is one of the notes of Stan . in phthisical conditions, and the stitches are another; hectic fever; deep, hollow, shattering cough; expectoration, profuse like white of egg, sweetish, salty; sour, putrid, musty; yellow-green pus; deep, husky, hollow voice, > for the time by hawking or expectorating mucus make up the rest of the picture. Stan . is a low-spirited remedy, and when phthisical patients are despondent and without hope (they are usually the reverse) Stan . will most likely be needed. (The yellowness of the Stan . secretions is worth noting: The tongue is yellow; sputa and leucorrhœa are also yellow.) Palpitation and anxiety occur from ever so slight exertion, as giving directions about the household. Trembling of arms and legs; limbs as heavy as lead. The pains of Stan . are frequently compressive and cramp-like; and cramps and spasms are a marked feature of the Stan . effects. The convulsions are opisthotonic; the thumbs are drawn in. They are such as are met within teething children; or in children who masturbate; or who have worms. A typical case of Stan . neuralgia is quoted in Clinique (xxi. 62): Man, 30, suffered for eight years off and on, and for some months continuously, with neuralgic headache. Pain centres over one or other eye (usually right) and extends over whole or part of head and is at times unbearable. It begins in early morning 4 to 5 a.m.), increases gradually to noon, when it gradually declines to sunset, reappearing again the following morning. Two doses of Stan . cured in a fortnight. There is sexual excitement in both sexes. Emissions with excessive prostration. In the female the menses are early and profuse. Orgasm is easily produced Scratching arm produces an intolerable sensation of pleasure in genital organs which extends to uterus and produces orgasm." The uterine and vaginal prolapse of Stan . has this distinguishing feature: it is < during stool; especially during pressure. Labour pains are spasmodic and put the patient out of breath. The milk of nursing woman is changed, and the child rejects it. Hering gives as cured by Stan . "Monday constipation" — that is, constipation occurring on days following rest-days. Stan . has marked periodicity. T. H. Urquhart (quoted H. R ., iv. 147) cured in two months an affection of the nails characterised by breaking and splitting, a sequel of scurvy, by applying to them Stannum oleate on a narrow flannel bandage. Peculiar Sensations are: As if all objects were too far off. As if forehead were shattered. As if forehead would be pressed inward. Pain as if from an ulcer in hypogastrium. As if there were a hole in his side. As if there were no sensation in bladder. Chest, as if eviscerated; as if internally constricted. Epigastric region as if beaten. Tickling as from soreness in trachea. Inclination to hawk as if mucus were in chest. As if she would faint. As if limbs beaten. As of a heavy load in affected arm and side of chest. As if sweat would break out. The "girdle" sensation of Stan . accompanies yawning. The secretions of Stan . are bland. The symptoms are < by touch. > By pressure. > Lying across something hard. < Rest. < Lying; (but must lie down from weakness of chest). < Lying on r. side. Sitting bent over > (cough). Bending double > . Walking > pains, but must soon rest. Motion > pains in head, but < other symptoms. < Using voice (laughing, talking, singing). < Going down stairs (faintness). Blowing nose = shrieking noise in ear. Warm drink cough. Open air > ; ( < vertigo). < During stool.

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Sadness, with aversion to men and disinclination to talk.
Continued restlessness and anxiety.
Uneasy, does not know what to do with himself, pains > by walking, yet so weak he soon must rest. θ Anemia.
Sullen, answers unwillingly and shortly.
Her distress of mind ceases as soon as menses begin to flow.
A woman, æt. 39, pregnant in fourth month ; continued anxiety and restlessness ; must keep in bed not only on account of bodily weakness, but also on account of her inability to do anything, as she cannot muster sufficient courage, and is forgetful and
absent-minded ; feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her feel worse ; great palpitation of heart and anxiety, especially if she has to give directions in her domestic affairs ; thinking makes her feel wretched, and she cannot get rid of what once gets fixed in her
mind ; oversensitive smell ; vertigo on moving head ; visions in morning and through day of all kinds of fancied things ; drawing pains in different places ; difficult evacuation even of soft stool ; urging to stool ; urine profuse and pale and then scanty
and brown, sometimes white like milk ; flatus ; dry, tiresome cough ; lies always upon her back with one leg stretched and the other drawn up. θ Pregnancy.

Vertigo : when reading, with loss of thought ; < walking in open air or raising head ; it seems as if all objects were too far off ; dizzy pressure through head ; head feels heavy, with sadness.

Sharp jerking pains in anterior lobe of brain above orbit.
Headache in frontal region.
Pain as if forehead were shattered.
Dull pressure from within outward, in forehead.
Pressive tearing : in forehead ; in right half of forehead, at intervals ; < by stooping.
Pressure in left temple beginning slight, then increasing and so again diminishing as if forehead would be pressed inward.
Crushing pain, like a pressing inward in temples, all day.
Painful jerks through left temple, forehead and cerebellum, leaving a dull pressure, < during rest, > from motion.
Throbbing headache in temples.
Stupefying, aching pain in brain.
Constriction and sudden pressure in whole upper part of head, slowly increasing and decreasing.
Heaviness in head, during rest and motion, evenings.
Headache every morning, over one or other eye, mostly l., gradually extending over whole forehead, increasing and decreasing gradually ; often with vomiting.
Soon after rising, dull, stupefying pain over eyes, sometimes more over left, increasing gradually in intensity and involving whole forehead, attaining its climax in about two hours, after which it as gradually subsided and in about two hours was quite
gone ; pain of a pressing in, cramping, crushing character.
Regularly at 5 A. M. awakened by headache, occupying forehead and both eyes ; severe pressive or grinding pains, < from motion ; great sensitiveness to noise and light ; pain not particularly severe at first, but it gradually increased, maintained its intensity when at
its height for some time (generally from 8 to 9), then gradually diminished, finally disappeared.
Violent, glowing, beating pain, extending from upper part of forehead to vertex ; felt as if head would burst from inward blows ; skin of forehead seems swollen, eyelids were forced together and could be but slightly opened ; least noise increased pain to an intolerable
degree, so that he crept to farthest corner of house ; daily paroxysm lasting from 10 A. M. to 4 P. M., attaining its greatest intensity about noon.
For a week past has had a slight cold, sneezing, some heated excoriating water running from nose and eyes ; after third day of this cold he had an aching pain over l. eye, in left temple, coming on about 4 A. M., very gradually increasing until 11 A. M., and from 3 P. M. as slowly
decreasing, until by 6 P. M. it was entirely gone, not to return until 4 A. M., at first, pain only aching, but after a few days it became sharp, cutting and boring, with a terrible sense of fulness ; by end of a week so excruciating at its acme that patient, whose ability to bear pain
was more than ordinary, would roll or toss over bed, exhibiting usual expressions of greatest agony ; lachrymation of eye on affected side, with slight excoriation of lower lid ; pain > for a time by pressure. θ Solar
neuralgia.
Neuralgia of head ; begins lightly and increases gradually to its highest point and then gradually declines.

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Stannum is especially suited to persons who have long been growing feeble.

This is so striking that it may be said that some deep seated constitutional state must be present. There is a history of increasing weakness, cachexia, catarrhal conditions, and neuralgia dating back over years. There is sensitiveness to pain and an increasing aversion to doing anything, aversion to business in a man, and in a woman, to going about her housework; always tired, all work becomes irksome.

The countenance becomes increasingly sallow, even to a waxy, cachectic aspect. Once who has been growing weaker and develops neuralgia of the face, eyes, stomach, and intestines; not the shooting, tearing pains often described, but a pain beginning gradually, increasing steadily and then diminishing gradually.

The pain sometimes begins with sunrise, increases until noon and gradually diminishes, and ceases with sunset. On the other hand, it may begin at any time, as often at 10 A.M. and increasing for ten or twenty minutes, then gradually diminishing, but especially worse at noon.

Cactus has a sun headaches, Kalmia has a similar headache, not so regularly increasing and diminishing, but especially worse at noon. Cactus has a sun headache. Natrum mur. has never been known to cause it, but has cured it especially when beginning at 10 A.M. and worse from 2 to 3 P- m. Sang. headache coming and going with the sun.

The phthisical tendency of Stannum is closely allied to the neuralgias. If these patients settle down into a neuralgic constitution, the deposit of tubercles is postponed, but most of them then seek palliation with the inevitable result of hastening the end. If the Stannum neuralgia is suppressed, we will see phthisis making its appearance, particularly phthisis pituitosa.

Nature seems to be able to throw off effects through mucous discharges. If the neuralgia is not permitted to, have sway the patient becomes oversensitive to cold, takes cold easily. When let alone every cold settled in the nerves and every draft caused neuralgias about the eyes, sensitive to every change in the weather, the hydrogenoid constitution of Grauvogl.

But when palliated in any way by Quinine and inappropriate homoeopathic remedies that have the tendency to, catch cold in the chest like Phos., he after a while does not get over his cold, but there is a continuous catarrh of the chest, and later he will die of miliary tuberculosis. Stannum is useful in warding off phthisis, and is a wonderful palliative in that disease.

The pain has been likened to the pulling of a string, gradually increasing and gradually letting up. The Puls. pain is somewhat similar in its first half; it gradually becomes intense, but suddenly lets up with a snap; comes gradually and stops suddenly.

Remember what is said about the Bell. pain. It comes suddenly and reaches its intensity at once, where it may remain for hours, but ceases suddenly.

The Stannum pain is at times so severe that there is a throbbing pulsating intermingled with it, and the mind seems stunned.

"Headache every morning, over one or the other eye, mostly the left, gradually extending over the whole forehead and increasing and decreasing gradually, often with vomiting."

"Violent, glowing, beating pain." It is sometimes attended with burning.

"Felt as if the head would burst with inward blows.

Neuralgia of the left eye gradually increasing from 10 A.M. to noon, then gradually decreasing, with lachrymation during pain.

Intermittent supra-orbital neuralgia from 10 A.M. to 3 or 4 P.M., gradually increasing and attaining its acme, and then again gradually decreasing, after the abuse of quinine."

This is when the body is weak, with sallow countenance and tendency to phthisis, full of pain, and the earlier history shows that instead of taking cold in the chest or nose, as others take cold, every cold settles in the nerves.

Finally he begins to take cold in the chest, with dyspnoea, violent, racking cough, gagging, retching, vomiting, and the most intense sufferings.

Copious, thick, yellow-green, bloody expectoration, which tastes sweetish ( Phos.). Retching when coughing is marked; thick, white, yellow or green tenacious mucus. Cannot walk, cannot do anything without cough.

Always tired; it is an effort to work. Wakens in the morning with the chest filled with mucus, and coughs and expectorates, and yet some remains; he gags, retches and vomits, and it strings out of the mouth tasting sweetish, sometimes salty or sour.

This great weakness is manifested in the voice; hoarseness, loss of voice; the vocal cords will not respond; a paralytic weakness. Talking makes him feel weak, especially in the chest.

"Hoarseness, weakness, emptiness in the chest on beginning to sing, so that she was constantly obliged to stop and take a deep breath; at times a few expulsive coughs removed the hoarseness for a few minutes.

Rawness in the larynx."

Rawness in the trachea and smarting all the way down when coughing. Irritation to cough, as from mucus in the trachea; or breathing, with cough either loose or dry, felt more while sitting bent over than when walking.

"Accumulation of great quantities of mucus in the trachea, easily thrown off by coughing.

Oppressed breathing from ascending, from the slightest movement when lying down, in the evening, from coughing."

"Cough in fatiguing paroxysms; epigastric region painful as if beaten; violent, shattering, deep, short, from time to time, as from weakened chest, with a hoarse.

Weak sound.

Cough caused by talking, singing, laughing, lying on the side and from drinking anything warm."

"Sputa like white of egg; yellow, green pus; sweetish, putrid, sour or saltish during day.

Chest so weak that he cannot talk; empty feeling in the chest,"

This remedy is frequently indicated in cases where the routinist would prescribe Bry., etc., in low potencies to loosen the cough. Stannum is not dangerous in phthisis, and will palliate the case if it is incurable.

It will not rouse up the whole economy like Silica, but there may be an aggravation of the nervous symptoms; if there is anything to build on it will cause the patient to rally. If it brings back his old neuralgic pains, and you know he has not a long time to live, and seems to suffer much, Puls. is the natural antidote.

When a loose, easy cough is turned into one that is violent, dry and racking under Stannum, and seems to be inclined to be prolonged, Puls. will restore the loose cough. This is not a good action of the remedy; in incurable cases you can get the best results by not going too high.

Another feature is seen in women.

If you ever meet with a case who has suffered with violent neuralgia and she says since the obliteration of these pains she has had a copious, thick yellow, green leucorrhoea, think of Stannum. There is great weakness, which seems to proceed from the chest. The leucorrhoea has saved her from consumption.

Menses too early and too profuse; bearing down in the uterine region; prolapsus uteri and vaginae.

Paralytic symptoms; writers' cramp; women cannot let go of the broom ( Dros. cures most cases).

"Constipation; stools hard, dry, knotty, or insufficient and green."

Inactive rectum, i. e., a paralytic state; even though there is much urging there is inability to pass the stool, which at times is soft. Colic better from pressure, lying on the stomach (Coloc., Cupr .); worse from motion; better from bending double.

"Very much exhausted from talking or reading aloud.

Great lassitude from walking; weariness of the whole body, especially when ascending stairs great sense of weakness in larynx and chest, thence all over the body trembling worse from slow exercise."

Extreme exhaustion of mind and body.

Sinking, empty, all-gone sensation in stomach (Chel., Phos., Sep.).

Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her worse (Nat., Puls., Sep.); faint and weak, especially when going down stairs; can go up well enough (Bor.—rev. of Cal.).

Headache or neuralgia; pains begin lightly and increase gradually to the highest point and then gradually decline (Plat.).

Colic: > by hard pressure, or by laying abdomen across knee or on shoulder (Col.); lumbrici; passes worms.

Menses; too early, too profuse; sadness before; pain in malar bones, during.

Leucorrhœa; great debility; weakness seems to proceed from chest (from abdomen and pelvis, Phos., Sep.).

Prolapsus, worse during stool (worse with diarrhœa, Pod.); so weak she drops into a chair instead of sitting down.

While dressing in the morning has to sit down several times to rest.

Nausea and vomiting; in the morning; from the odor of cooking food (Ars., Colch., Sep.).

When singing or using the voice, aching and weakness in deltoid and arms.

Great weakness in chest; < from talking, laughing, reading aloud, singing; so weak, unable to talk.

Cough: deep, hollow, shattering, strangling; concussive, in paroxysms of three coughs (of two, Mer.); dry, while in bed, in evening; empty sensation in chest.

Expectoration: profuse, like the white of an egg; sweetish, salty (Kali i., Sep.); sour, putrid, musty; yellow-green pus (heavy, green, salty, Kali i.); during day.

Hoarseness: deep, husky, hollow voice; relieved for the time by coughing or expectorating mucus.

Sweat: mouldy, musty odor; after 4 A. M. every morning; on neck and forehead; very debilitating.

Complementary: Pulsatilla.

Laughing and singing, talking, using the voice; lying on right side; drinking anything warm (from cold drinks, Spong.).

Coughing or expectoration relieves hoarseness; hard pressure (Col.).

Suppressed by quinine or some anti-periodic; low fever, with bronchial or pulmonary complications.

10 A. M.; 4-5 P. M.

Over whole body at 10 A. M.; with coldness of the hands, deadness of the fingers, and numbness of the finger tips (Paris, Sep.); in the evening over the back; slight, but with chattering of the teeth, as from convulsion of the masseter muscles; only in left arm, or left leg (Carbo v.—right arm, Mercurialis); knees and feet very cold (Carbo v.).

From 4-5 P. M., with sweat; of single parts, of back, chest, abdomen, limbs.

Anxious heat, as if sweat would break out.

Burning heat in limbs. Hectic fever.

Profuse after 4 A. M. every morning.

Morning sweat, chiefly on the neck, nape of the neck and forehead; mouldy, musty odor; debilitating from the least movement.

Red; yellow; coated with yellow mucus.

Taste; sour; sweetish; offensive; everything bitter but water.

Fetid odor from mouth.

Forgetful and absent-minded.
She cannot get rid of an idea once fixed in her head.
Visions by day of fancied things.
Feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her worse.
Sadness, with aversion to men and disinclination to talk.
Continued restlessness and anxiety.
Cannot muster sufficient courage to do anything.
Sullen, answers unwillingly and shortly.
Thinking makes her feel wretched.
From giving directions in her domestic affairs, great palpitation of the heart, and anxiety.

Vertigo: when reading, with loss of thought; worse walking in open air or raising head.

Headache every morning, over one or the other eye, mostly left, gradually extending over whole forehead, increasing and decreasing gradually; often with vomiting.
Migraine, cerebral in origin, rather than gastric; atrocious pains with congestion, severe, painful constriction in forehead and temples; coldness of trunk and limbs; vomiting followed by marked relief.
Painful jerks through left temple, forehead and cerebellum, leaving a dull pressure; worse during rest, better from motion.
Throbbing headache in temples.
Heaviness in head, during rest and motion, evenings.

Burning in forehead, with nausea, better in the open air.

Weak, lusterless eyes.
Pupils contracted.
Pustular swelling at inner canthus of left eye, like a lachrymal fistula.
Pressive pain in inner canthus, as from a stye.
Biting in eyes, as from rubbing with a woolen cloth.
Agglutination of lids at night.

Ringing in left ear.
Shrieking noise in ear when blowing the nose.
Ulceration of ear-ring hole.

Oversensitive to smell.
Stuffed feeling and heaviness, high up in nostrils.
Dry coryza on one side, with soreness, swelling and redness of the nostril.

Flushes of heat in face from any movement, better in open air; one cheek hot and red.
Face pale, sunken eyes, mind dull.
Prosopalgia: pains increase and decrease gradually; after suppressed chills by quinine.

Feel loose, elongated, with painful jerking shortly after eating.

Taste: sour; sweet; offensive; everything bitter but water.
Difficult, weak speech, occasioned by weakness.
Tongue: red; with yellow mucous coating.

Fetid smell from mouth.

Cutting in throats as from knives, when swallowing.
Hawks mucus, with soreness in throat; voice then becomes clearer and higher for singing.

Hunger, except in evening; cannot eat enough.
Appetite irregular, with hypochondriasis.
Aversion to beer; it tastes flat or bitter.

After eating: 10, 16, 19. Warm drinks: 27.

Eructations bitter, after eating.
Nausea after eating, followed by vomiting of bile; or undigested food.
Vomiting: of blood; of bile and mucus on awaking in morning: of water when smelling cooking.

Hæmatemesis, worse when lying, better from pressure on stomach: slight touch causes a feeling of subcutaneous ulceration.
Cardialgia, pains gradually come and go, extend to navel, and are better from hard pressure; sickly expression.
Uneasy, knows not what to do with himself; pains relieved by walking, yet so weak he must soon rest.
Sinking, "gone" feeling in epigastrium.

Occasionally through day, great epigastric weakness and hunger, but cannot eat.
Burning in hepatic region; stinging.
Boring stitches in left hypochondrium.
Hysteric spasms in region of diaphragm.

Empty feeling after eating.
Cutting about navel, with bitter eructations, hunger and diarrhœa; better from hard pressure.
Hernia, better from pressure on abdomen.
Abdomen sore as from subcutaneous ulceration.

Stools; green, curdy, with much colic; with bitter eructations; hard, dry, knotty or insufficient, with renewed desire afterwards.
Rectum inactive; much urging even with soft stool.
Passes worms; colic; sickly face.

Profuse and pale, then scanty, brown and sometimes white, like milk.
After urination continued urging.
Deficient urging, as from insensibility of bladder, which feels dull, yet the secretion is scanty.

Voluptuous feeling in genitals, ending in an emission.
Emissions without dreams.

Menses too early and too profuse; preceded by melancholy; pain in malar bones, which continues during menses.
Bearing down in uterine region; prolapsus uteri.
Displacement of vagina; worse during stool; feels so weak she must drop down suddenly, but can get up quite readily.
Leucorrhœa: with great debility; of yellow, white or transparent mucus.

Spasmodic labor-pains; they exhaust her, she is out of breath.
Child refuses the mother's milk.

Voice deep, hoarse; hollow, higher, after hawking up mucus.
Roughness and hoarseness, the latter momentarily better by coughing.
Laryngeal phthisis, with constant, short, irritating, hacking cough and aphonia; empty feeling in chest.

Attacks of asthma, preceded by symptoms of ordinary cold, 4 to 5 A.M.; attacks increase and decrease gradually.
Disposition to take a deep breath; causing a feeling of lightness.
Evening dyspnœa; must loosen the clothing.
Crowing, snorting respiration.
Oppressed breathing, from every movement, when lying down and in the evenings.

Dry, evening in bed; concussive, in paroxysms of three coughs; caused by mucus in chest, and by stitches and dryness in trachea; sputa like the white of an egg or yellow-green pus, sweetish, putrid, sour or saltish; during the day, with copious, green, salty sputa; most profuse in morning.
Accumulation of much mucus in trachea, easily thrown off by coughing; afterward soreness or stitches in chest.
Cough caused by talking, singing, laughing, lying on (right) side and from drinking anything warm.

Tension across upper part of chest, with emptiness in lower.
Chest so weak he cannot talk; empty feeling in chest.
Hæmoptysis, with tendency to copious expectoration.
Phthisis mucosa, with the characteristic cough, weakness and sputa; profuse sweats.
Stitches in left side of chest, when breathing or lying on that side; knife-like below left axilla.
Great sore feeling in chest.

Pulse frequent and small.

Weakness of nape of neck.
Stitches in back; in small of back and into limbs.

Jerking in muscles of arm when resting it; fingers jerk when holding the pen.
Weakness and heaviness of arms, especially the right; worse from motion.
Swelling of the hands, evening.
Painful hang-nails.

Weakness and heaviness, especially of thigh and knee-joint, must sit down.
Swelling of ankles, evenings.

Paralytic heaviness of limbs; worse using the arm or walking, particularly descending.
Insupportable restlessness of all the limbs.

Motion: 3, 8, 26, 32, 34, 40. Exercise: 36. Holding pen: 32. Exertion of dressing: 37. Walking: 2, 17, 34. Descending: 34, 36. Raising head: 2. Must drop down suddenly: 23. Must sit down: 33. Rest: 3, 32. Must rest: 17. Lying down: 26; on right side: 37; on left side: 28.
Always lies on her back with one leg stretched out and the other drawn up. θ Pregnancy.
Must lie on right side, with pleuritic effusion.

Feels as if she would faint.
Paralysis mostly left-sided; feeling of a load in affected arm and corresponding side of chest; from emotions, spasms, or onanism.
Faint sensation after going down stairs, can go up well enough.
Trembling, worse from slow exercise.
Hysterical spasms, with pain in abdomen and in diaphragm.
Epilepsy: with tossing of limbs, clenching thumbs, opisthotonos; unconsciousness; with sexual complications; during dentition, with symptoms of worms.

Sleepy during day; goes to sleep late at night.
Restless, the child moans during sleep, or supplicates in a timid manner.
So weak on awaking, it puts her out of breath to dress.

Morning: 3, 16, 27. 4 to 5 A.M.: 26. 10 A.M.: 40. 4 to 5 P.M.: 40. Evening: 14, 26, 27, 32, 33, 40. Night: 5, 37. Night and morning: 40. Day: 1, 18, 27, 37.

Open air: 2, 4, 8.

Chill: 10 A.M., finger-tips numb, or in the evening over the back; only on head, with thirst; slight, but with chattering teeth, as from convulsion of masseter muscles.
Heat from 4 to 5 P.M., with sweat.
Burning heat in limbs, mostly in hands, every evening.
Anxious heat, as if sweat would break out.
Thirst after the heat.
Sweat: smells mouldy, musty; debilitating, night and morning, most profuse on neck; debilitating, from least movement.
Hectic fever.

Every morning: 3. Every evening: 40. Gradual increase and decrease: 3, 8, 17, 26.

Right: 18, 32. Left: 3, 6, 28, 36. Above downward: 31.

Touch: 17. Pressure: 17, 19.

Stannum follows well after Caustic.
Similar to: Silphium (later has profuse thin, stringy, sputa), Myosotis (in phthisis mucosa, sweat, emaciation, etc.) Silic., Phosphor., etc.
Complementary to Pulsat.
Antidoted by Pulsat.

Precipitated metallic tin is triturated for use.

Its sphere of actin is not well know; it however, seems to produce derangements of the nervous system (convulsions and paralysis) in a way somewhat similar to its ally, Zinc. ▶ Its curative power in bronchial and pulmonary diseases is well established. ▶ It was formerly supposed to be a vermifuge.

Caust., Phos., Cina.

▶ Emaciation and consumption. ▶ Trembling of whole body, hand trembles more when resting it lightly upon anything than when grasping anything tightly. ▶ (Epilepsy in a boy who often had convulsive attacks, agg. morning fast in. ▶ Tin was given to destroy the worms which were supposed to be present, thereupon the fits increased to epilepsy.). ▶ Sticking griping alternately in different parts. ▶ Many pains, especially the drawing, begin slight, increase slowly, become severe and slowly disappear. ▶ Uneasiness; at 1 A.M. after waking from deep sleep, with burrowing on tibiæ.

Weakness; during the day, with necessity to lie down, but inability to sleep, and when he slumbered vertigo, vanishing of senses and dullness of mind; when walking, especially in the sun, with giving way of knees and sweat of weakness on face; agg. ascending steps; agg. walking slowly, so that he must walk fast; amel. walking fast, but felt all the more afterwards; and when about to sit down he falls upon the chair because he has not the power to sit down slowly; and sleepiness; as if limbs were beaten; of mind and body, with irresistible sleepiness; but frequent waking with indifferent dreams; sudden, so that she could scarcely breathe, when dressing after rising; so that he could scarcely breathe, after descending steps.

Heaviness now in one, now in another bone. ▶ Sensation of agreeable lightness on deep breathing. ▶ All symptoms except weakness amel. walking, but returning during rest, the weakness agg. walking.

General nervous weakness. ▶ Anæmia.

The mental symptoms may be compared with Puls, and Nat. mur., especially the hypochondriac and tearful mood.

Joyful. ▶ Talkative. ▶ Quiet, good humor. ▶ Quiet absorbed in himself solicitous for the future. ▶ Disinclined to talk. ▶ Fretful; all day, amel. open air; and he answers unwillingly and abruptly; and indolent, with heat in face, he would do everything but really does nothing. ▶ Anger; transient. ▶ Sad. ▶ Anxious for a weak before menses, amel. appearance of the flow, with apprehension. ▶ Discontented. ▶ Discouraged. ▶ Aversion and dread of people. ▶ Restless and distracted, not persistent in work. ▶ Fruitlessly busy as if a rush of ideas prevented him from completing his work at a certain time. ▶ Inclination to do no work and inability to think. ▶ Dullness of mind, with indifference to external object, pallor and darkness about eyes. ▶ Want of memory in morning on waking.

Pain in morning on waking, with heat in it; P. every morning with loss of appetite, nausea and fretfulness; suppurative, externally; cramplike, as if constricted by a band; as if screwed inward frequently, with jerks or drawing pressure here and there at times; as if brain were forced asunder and tense; as if brain were loose and beating against skull, on shaking head; dizzy. ▶ Heaviness; all day; in evening; now here, now there; sometimes only on top; sometimes only in forehead or temples; agg. evening, with dullness; with tearing. ▶ Sensitive stupefaction, with sudden jerks on upper margin of right orbit and in other parts. ▶ Dullness as before coryza, with sneezing. ▶ Discomfort. ▶ Tingling, with resounding of noise. ▶ Weakness, with sleepiness. ▶ Vertigo; when sitting; with vanishing of thought; in sudden attacks when sitting; as if objects were at too great a distance; as if he had not slept enough, in morning on waking from a long sleep; stupefying, when walking in open air.

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Paralytic heaviness of the extremities.
Aching and drawing in the limbs, often with burning heat.
Extreme weakness, both of body and of mind, with tremulousness, especially on moving about.
Emaciation.
Spasms like hysteria, with abdominal pains.
General aggravation during rest and relief during motion (except the weakness).
Pains usually increase and diminish slowly and gradually.

Very sad, anxious, discouraged mood.
Dread of seeing people and easily vexed.
Complete hopelessness.

Stupefying pain across the forehead, as if the head were constricted by a band, gradually increasing and diminishing.
Aching in the temples.
Constriction of the whole upper part of the head.
Headaches, always < motion, gradually increasing and diminishing.

Generally pale, with deep lines and sunken eyes.
Drawing pains in the malar bone and orbits, increasing and diminishing slowly.

Much hawking of mucus, with soreness; mucus greenish or gray, often bloody, seems to adhere tightly to the throat, and is very difficult to expel; tenacious, grayish mucus, expelled with sudden efforts, dryness and cutting in the pharynx; rawness; efforts to expectorate cause nausea.
Dryness and stinging in the throat, provokes cough.

Increased appetite and thirst, usually.
Food has a bitter taste, bitter vomiting after eating, of food, of blood.
Ulcerative pain in the stomach, with soreness to touch, but > hard pressure.

Painful.
Cramp-like colic, above and below the navel, often with a feeling of emptiness, > hard pressure, though < slightest motion.

Green mucus stools, followed by constipation, with hard dry feces.

Seminal emissions.
Bearing down in the uterine region, like prolapsus.

Clinical:
Prolapsus of the uterus, with weak, sinking feeling in the stomach; early and profuse menses, melancholia, neuralgia.
Leucorrhœa, with great debility; yellow, transparent, or thin and watery.

Hoarseness, with weakness and emptiness in the chest, must frequently breathe deeply, hoarseness > expulsive cough.
Violent dry cough in the evening till midnight; during the day with copious green or sweetish expectoration, at times, salty or sour smelling.
Mucus in the larynx and trachea expelled by a forcible cough, with weakness of the chest and of the whole body.
Cough fatiguing and paroxysmal, so that the epigastric region feels beaten.
Cough caused by scraping, low down in the trachea, with greenish expectoration, of a sweet taste, < evening until midnight.
Expectoration of hard globules of thick mucus or of thick, viscid mucus, either of food or salty.
Respiration short, oppressive, with a feeling of great weakness in the chest and emptiness in the stomach.
Stitches in the left side of the chest when breathing and lying on the same side.
Whole external chest is painfully sore.
Oppression of the chest when coughing, with emptiness in the pit of the stomach.

Great weariness at times, with swelling of the ankles.
Burning in the feet.
Paralytic weakness, even of the arms, so that things drop from the hands.

Heat in the evening, especially on the slightest effort; exhausting night sweats, especially after 4 A. M.

STANNUM. TIN.

Tin beaten out into extremely thin lamina by the gold-beaters, as tin-foil, is the purest tin, which may be dynamized for homœopathic use, like other dry drugs, according to the medicinal methods peculiar to Homœopathy. No physicians made any use of tin before this, as they did not suppose it to contain any medicinal virtues. Alston alone (in Mater. Med. I, p. 150.) first made known a Scotch domestic remedy against the tape-worm (fluxeworm), containing in syrup a powder of English tin, not in its pure state, however, but alloyed with 1-20 part of other metals ; it had to be taken in large quantities, and followed by a purgative. Later physicians took tin filings instead. The tapeworm, however, was never killed by the remedy, but perhaps stupefied for a time, so that the purgative could then carry it off. But even this seldom took place. After frequently repeating these doses of tin, the tape-worms seems only to extend further in the bowels, and to increase the trouble ; workmen in tin also not seldom suffer to a high degree from tape-worm (tænia Solium). Tin, therefore, seems rather to be a palliative to its unpleasant movements in the sensitive bowels ; seeming in its after-effects to work more to the detriment than the advantage of the patients. What manifold, far more useful employment there may be made of the great medicinal virtues of tin in Homœopathy, may appear from the following artificial symptoms of disease, observed through its effects on healthy persons : Pressive heaviness in the forehead ; pains in the abdomen during the menses ; pressure and shooting in the left hypochondrium ; burning pain in the hepatic region ; too great excitability of the nerves ; unbearable restlessness, so that persons know not how to contain themselves. The abbreviations of the names of the provers are as follows : Fr., Franz ; Gr., Gross ; Gtm., Gutmann ; Hrm., Hermann ; Htm., Hartmann ; Lgh., Langhammer ; Wsl., Wislicenus ; Hl., Haynel. [*].

[] Of the proving of Stannum appearing in the sixth volume of Mat. Med. Pura, the present article is but a reproduction, with the preface abridged and the notes omitted. The symptoms, both of Hahnemann and of his fellow observers, were presumably (in Gross' case certainly) obtained by provings on the healthy with a low trituration of the metal. -Hughes*.

Gloomy, hypochondriac mood.

Indescribable anguish and melancholy, for several days.

Aversion and distaste for human society.

Indisposition to talk.

[5] No pleasure in anything, without being peevish.

Discouraged mood.

Dawdling and irritated, with heat in the face ; she wanted to do a number of things, but accomplished nothing.

Restless and distracted, no perseverance in her work (at once.).

Restlessness, which does not allow him to stay long anywhere. [Hem.].

[10] He is ineffectually busieid, as if he was prevented by super-abundance of ideas from finishing his work at a certain time ; he thinks of a number of things which he ought yet to attend to. [Gr.].

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Stan. / The Tinner (Stanley) / (Tin-Stand.)

Stannum,-Thous of body lean,
Raising sputum salty-green.
And with lungs so gone and weak
As to weary thee to speak.
Ever rendered weaker still
By descending stair or hill.
Thou hath colic pains, that may
By firm pressure pass away.
Nerve pains, too, that gradually
Reach a very high degree,
Then as gradually decrease
Until they entirely cease.
Thine a mind of gloomy bent,
Brooding in a discontent

The Tinner,-Has a weakness of the chest.

The Tinner, Philip Car, sponges on his brother, Jo.

This Tinner,- Who is subject to cough with salty sputum,-Is up at Maggie S. Black's, with Lydia and Ida Car.

Weakness of the Lungs: Stan., Pho., Carb. v., Spo., Brom., Iod.

Cough with Salty Expectoration: Stan., Pho., Mag. c., Sul., Sep., Lyc., Iod., Carb. v. (Salty taste in the mouth, Carb. v., Chin., Cyc., Iod., Mer., Pho., Pul., Sep., ZN.)

Indicated in coughs, chiefly chronic, with abundant expectoration and feeling of great weakness in the throat and chest. In neuralgia (headache about the eyes, intestinal, intercostal); in troubles due to worms, and occasionally in nervous affections with twitching of muscles and paralytic weakness.

Hopelessly discouraged; extreme mental and bodily exhaustion.

Pain constrictive, as though from a tight band; gradually increases and decreases in the same manner; "twelve hours comming, twelve hours in going"; (headache, neuralgia).

All-gone feeling in the stomach.

Spasmodic twitching in forearm and hands, making him drop things; paralytic weakness.

Weakness of the legs; they give out.

Cough deep, hoarse, hollow, violent, concussive; excited by the use of the voice; with great weakness in throat and chest; oppressive breathing; pain in the pit of the stomach when coughing.

Copious expectoration, tasting salty or sweetish.

Colic better from hard pressure over chair or table; in children from being carried over the shoulder.

Stools papescent, thin, with creeping chills.

Urging, with passage of worm-like mucous threads.

Worse from using the voice; from lying on the right side; from moving.

Better from coughing and raising; from hard pressure.

Extraordinary restlessness and anxiety. Despondency. Quickly passing ebullitions of anger. Irritability, silent peevishness, anthropophobia and aversion to talk. Hopelessness.

Pressive, stupefying ache, moving about in forehead. Burning in forehead with qualmishness in pen air. Throbbing in temples,. Painful jerks through' forehead and occiput, leaving a dull pressure behind, from motion.

Weak, dim., sunken, Nightly purulent agglutination. Stickily and pressure in lids. Lachrymal fistula. Styes.

Ulcerated ringholes. Shrieking noise in, when blowing nose.

Stoppage in upper nasal cavity. Unilateral stuffed coryza with inflamed nasal cavities.

Pale, sunken, with deep seated eyes. Drawing facial pain in nasal bone and orbits. Swelling of upper jaw and cheek. Cramp in jaws. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Bad odor from. Sticking, dry sensation in throat. Hawking of mucus with painful soreness in. After hawking mucus, the voice for singing is much higher. Speech difficult and weak from debility.

Appetite: Great hunger and thirst except in evening. Loss of, in evening.

Taste: Bitter, of all food.

Nausea, etc. - Sweat risings in throat. Bitter vomiting after eating. Violent retching followed by vomiting of undigested food. Hematemesis.

Violent pressure in, with painful soreness thereof to touch. Cramps, with bitter eructations, sensation of hunger therein and diarrhoea. Bruised pain in pit. Empty sensation in.

Spasmodic colic about navel. Hysterical spasms in. Empty or full feeling in. Sensitive to touch.

Flatulence: Flatulent distension of abdomen. Obstructed flatus.

Frequent, ineffectual urging to. Hard, dry and knotty. Scanty greenish. Mucus diarrhoea.

Scanty discharge. The excitation to urinate fails, as from insensibility of bladder, only a fullness in lower abdomen indicates its necessity.

Increased sexual desire. Violent, voluptuous irritation to discharge semen.

Menses: Increased. Anxiety and low spirits before. Debilitating, mucous leucorrhoea.

Crawing, snoring. Great tightness of chest, with anxiety in evening, it necessitates loosening the clothes. Want of breath from every movement, but also when lying down. Taking a deep breath causes a transient sense of agreeable lightness. The voice becomes higher after each expectoration.

Tickling, deep, hollow cough, returning periodically in fits of three coughs. Excited by mucus in chest and stitches and dryness in tracheas. Violent, dry cough, in evening in bed, until midnight. During day, with copious, greenish, repulsively sweetish foul or sometimes salty or sour expectoration. Phthisis mucous.

Roughness and hoarseness in. Tickling and soreness in. Much mucus in trachea, which is easily expectorated. Soreness in trachea. Tracheal phthisis.

Tickling itching in. Piercing and soreness in. Stitches in I., when breathing or lying thereon. Sense of emptiness and weakness in. Ulcerative phthisis. Hydrothorax. Tension and painfulness throughout entire external c.

Swelling of hands in evening. Violent burning in hands frost bites. Hangnails.

Great weakness in thighs. Swellings of ankle in evening. Violent burning in feet.

Paralytic heaviness in extremities. Paralysis of arms and legs. Pressive drawing in limbs. Burning heat in limbs. Lassitude with trembling. Extraordinary weakness of body (and mind), with tremulousness felt more during slow motion. Greatly indisposed and affected after long continued speaking. Emaciation. Hysterical and hypochondriacal spasms, with pains in abdomen and region of diaphragm. Epileptic attacks in evening. Especially in teething children. Motion and rest the symptoms, the debility only is felt while walking. Pains which gradually increases, then gradually decline in the same way.

Day sleepiness. Late falling to sleep. Nightly restlessness with very many dreams.

Pulse: small and quick. Chill: In evening, especially over back. After previous heat with sweat, shuddering daily in forenoon (toward 10 o'clock). On head only. With the lightest shuddering chill the teeth chatter as from convulsions of masseter muscles. Marked numb feeling in finger tips during the shuddering chill in the morning. Heat: In afternoon (from 4 to 5 o' clock), recurring daily, with co - existent sweat. Burning heat, in limbs, strongest on hands, every evening. Anxious heat, in repeated attacks, as though' sweat would break out. Anxious feeling of heat, from the least motion. Predominating feeling of heat, internally. Sweat: Very exhausting at night and in the morning hours, most profuse on neck. Very exhausting general from the least motion. Musty or mouldy smelling.

Allied Remedies: Ars., Chin., Lach., PULS, Seneg., Sull., Valer.,

Complementary: Pul.

Weakness in the extremities.

Pressing, drawing and burning heat in the limbs.

Marked weakness with trembling which is felt more when moving slowly.

Continued use of the voice proves enervating.

Emaciation with a gone feeling at the epigastrium.

Hysterical and hypochondrical spasms with pain in the abdomen and in the region of the diaphragm.

Rest aggravates, whilst motion relieves, only the debility is felt more while walking.

The pains become slowly worse and diminish slowly.

Anxious sensation of heat from the least motion.

Fainty sensation because of goneness in the epigastric region.

A feeling of hunger, but cannot eat.

Distressing cough of a constant nature.

Colic with sensation of hunger, bitter eructations, and diarrhoea.

Diseases of the mucous membranes.

Diarrhoea consisting of mucus.

Worm fevers.

Bronchitis.

Want of desire to urinate.

Sexual desire increased.

Burning in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.

Sensation of gastric emptiness.