Zincum Metallicum zinc.

BRAIN AND NERVES: Occiput. Spine. Orbital region. Root of nose. Blood. Inner canthi.

EXHAUSTION; mental. Suppressions. Noise. Touch. Wine. After being heated.

Motion. Hard pressure. Warm open air. FREE DISCHARGES.

Fagged, enervated or depressed; can't throw things off; develop exanthema or discharges, etc. Increasing weakness; < eating; with restlessness. Isolated effects; one part numb, another sensitive; formication; pain in spots; between skin and flesh, etc. Transverse pains. Automatic acts. Tremor. Jerkings; nightly. Spasm. Shootings. Descending paralysis. Disabling bone pains. Bloody discharges.

Fretful and sensitive; cries if vexed. Easily startled, excited or intoxicated. Muddled. Forgetful; repeats the question, then answers. Brain-fag. Screams; if moved; during sleep; with pain, etc. Violent vertigo; with stupor. Headache of varying intensity; pressive on vertex or root of nose; into eyes; with weak vision; < warmth, > hard pressure. Temples; heavy ache in; pain, < biting. Occiput; dragging, down back; as of a blow on, then weak legs; heat in. Crashing in head on falling to sleep. Rolls head and grinds teeth. Brain paralysis. Hair painful; on vertex; bristles. Eyes feel drawn together. Squint. Lachrymation on eating. Pterygium. Swelled nose. Pale, bluish, miserable face. Sticky lips. Bitter mouth. Voracity. As of a lump in liver region or at navel. Hypogastric flatulence. Itching at anus during stool. Piles draw down, > heat < walking; ulcerate. Violent urging but urinates only in certain positions, bending backward, crossing limbs, etc.; blood follows urine. Pressive cutting about kidneys. Grasps genitals; with each cough, etc. Sexual excitement. Onanism; during menses. Profuse, lumpy menses. Pain (boring) in l. ovary. Spasmodic dyspnœa, < flatulency > expectoration. Bursting, one hard throb or as of a cap over heart. Hard heart beat. Constricted chest. Nape tired; < mental exertion; lame, then stupor. Spine aching, burning along, < sitting; sensitive; inter-scapular cutting, > eructations; weak lumbar, < standing. Spasms, from spinal injuries. Pains in limbs on becoming heated. Hands tremble; eczema on. CAN'T KEEP FEET AND LEGS STILL; cramp when cold. Toes feel swelled; sore; ache in tips. Sensitive soles. Bones of feet feel broken. Sweaty feet, with sore toes. Stumbling. Spastic gait. Varicoses; painful; chronic; on genitals. Broken, unrefreshing sleep.

Antidote: Tab. Complementary: Pul. Related: Ign. Kali-p. Lach. Pic-ac.

Persons suffering from cerebral and nervous exhaustion; defective vitality; brain or nerve power wanting; too weak to develop exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to comprehend, to memorize. Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower extremeties; must move them constantly. Always feels better every way as soon as the menses begin to flow; it relieves all her sufferings; but they return again soon after the flow ceases. In the cerebral affections: in impending paralysis of brain; where the vis medicatrix naturae is too weak to develop exanthemata (Cup., Sulph., Tub.); symptoms of effusion into ventricles. Child repeats everything said to it. Child cries out during sleep; whole body jerks during sleep; wakes frightened, starts, rolls the head from side to side; face alternately pale and red. Convulsions: during dentition, with pale face, no heat, except perhaps in occiput, no increase in temperature (rev. of Bell.); rolling the eyes; gnashing the teeth. Automatic motion of hands and head, or one hand and head (Apoc., Bry., Hell.). Chorea: from suppresse eruption; from fright. Hunger: ravenous, about 11 or 12 a. m. (Sulph.); great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough (incipient brain disease in children). Excessive nervous moving of feet, in bed for hours after retiring, even when asleep. Feet sweaty and more about toes; fetid, suppressed foot-sweat; very nervous. Chillblains, painful, < from rubbing. Spinal affections; burning whole length of spine; backache much < from sitting > by walking about (Cobalt., Puls., Rhus). Spinal irritation; great prostration of strength. Cannot bear back touched (Chin. s., Taren., Ther.). Can only void urine while sitting bent backwards. Twitching and jerking of single muscles (Agar., Ign.). Weakness and trembling of extremities; of hands while writing; during menses. During sweat, cannot tolerate any covering. Inimical - Cham., and Nux; should not be used before or after.

Compare: Hell., Tuber., in incipient brain diseases from suppressed eruptions.

Of many symptoms from drinking wine, even a small quantity (Alum., Con.).

Symptoms: of chest, by expectoration; of bladder, by urinating; of back, by emissions (< by Cobalt.); general, by menstrual flow. Is followed well by, Ign., but not by Nux, which disagrees.

Affections in general appearing in the left inguinal ring; left side of the back; upper jaw, and troubles of the teeth in the lower jaw; loins; posterior surface of the thigh; tendo Achillis; big toe; joints of the toes.

Female: Complaints coming on while the menses are absent, but feels perfectly well during the flow: suffers much pain, particularly in ovaries, will lie so as to press on the affected side, and dangling the limb will swing it about--patient can't keep still. Menses flow more at night.

Patient can't keep still, must be in motion all the time. Catarrh of the hand, much swollen, very painful. In fevers or nervous complaints one keeps the feet in continual motion. Variable mood; clay-like sediment in the urine; biting pungent pain; lancinating pains; exanthema of long standing, especially with a biting sensation.

In the evening, sometimes lasting all night; after swallowing food.

While eating.

Sepia, Sulphur, best; Pulsat., Ignat.

Ignat., sometimes Camphor., Hepar.

Relief comes from the appearance of discharges or eruptions. Valuable in various neuroses arising from profound disturbances of the nerve centres of the brain and spinal cord, especially cerebral exhaustion. Nervous, fidgety moving of the feet, especially after retiring and during sleep. Headaches from drinking even small quantities of wine.

Zinc (ZINC)

The provings picture cerebral depression. The word "fag" covers a large part of zinc action. Tissues are worn out faster than they are repaired. Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges. The nervous symptoms of most importance. Defective vitality. Impending brain paralysis. Period of depression in disease. Spinal affections. Twitchings. Pain, as if between skin and flesh. Great relief from discharges. Chorea, from fright or suppressed eruption. Convulsions, with pale face and no heat. Marked anæmia with profound prostration. It causes a decrease in the number, and destruction of red blood corpuscles. Repercussed eruptive diseases. In chronic diseases with brain and spinal symptoms, trembling, convulsive twitching and fidgety feet are guiding symptoms.

Weak memory. Very sensitive to noise. Averse to work, to talk. Child repeats everything said to it. Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime. Melancholia. Lethargic, stupid. Paresis.

Feels as if he would fall to left side. Headache from the smallest quantity of wine. Hydrocephalus. Rolls head from side to side. Bores head into pillow. Occipital pain, with weight on vertex. Automatic motion of head and hands. Brain-fag; headaches of overtaxed school children. Forehead cool; base of brain hot. Roaring in head. Starting in fright.

Pterygium; smarting, lachrymation, itching. Pressure as if pressed into head. Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles. Ptosis. Rolling of eyes. Blurring of one-half of vision; worse, stimulants. Squinting. Amaurosis, with severe headache. Red and inflamed conjunctiva; worse, inner canthus.

Tearing, stitches, and external swelling. Discharge of fetid pus.

Sore feeling high up; pressure upon root.

Pale lips, and corners of mouth cracked. Redness and itching eruption on chin. Tearing in facial bones.

Teeth loose. Gums bleed. Gnashing of teeth. Bloody taste. Blisters on tongue. Difficult dentition; child weak; cold and restless feet.

Dry; constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus. Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx. Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing.

Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus. Burning in stomach, heartburn from sweet things. Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine. Ravenous hunger about 11 am (Sulph). Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough. Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed.

Pain after a light meal, with tympanitis. Pain in spot beneath navel. Gurgling and griping; distended. Flatulent colic, with retraction of abdomen (Plumb). Enlarged, indurated sore liver. Reflex symptoms from floating kidney. Griping after eating.

Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards. Hysterical retention. Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing.

Hard, small, constipated stool. Cholera infantum, with tenesmus; green mucous discharges. Sudden cessation of diarrhœa, followed by cerebral symptoms.

Testicles swelled, drawn up. Erections violent. Emissions with hypochondriasis. Falling off of hair (pubic). Drawing in testicles up to spermatic cord.

Ovarian pain, especially left; can't keep still (Viburn). Nymphomania of lying-in women. Menses too late, suppressed; lochia suppressed (Puls). Breasts painful. Nipples sore. Menses flow more at night (Bov). Complaints all better during menstrual flow. (Eupion; Lach). All the female symptoms are associated with restlessness, depression, coldness spinal tenderness and restless feet. Dry cough before and during menses.

Burning pressure beneath sternum. Constriction and cutting in chest. Hoarseness. Debilitating, spasmodic cough; worse, eating sweet things. Child grasps genitals during cough. Asthmatic bronchitis, with constriction, of chest. Dyspnœa better as soon as expectoration appears.

Pain in small of back. Cannot bear back touched (Sul; Therid; Cinch). Tension and stinging between shoulders. Spinal irritation. Dull aching about the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebræ; worse sitting. Burning along spine. Nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion. Tearing in shoulder-blades.

Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of various muscles. Chilblains (Agar). Feet in continued motion; cannot keep still. Large varicose veins on legs. Sweaty. Convulsions, with pale face. Transverse pains, especially in upper extremity. Soles of feet sensitive. Steps with entire sole of foot on floor.

Cries out during sleep; body jerks; wakes frightened, stared. Nervous motion of feet when asleep. Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it. Somnambulism (Kali phos).

Varicose veins, especially of lower extremities (Puls). Formication of feet and legs as from bugs crawling over the skin, preventing sleep. Eczema, especially in the anæmic and neurotic. Itching of thighs and hollow of knees. Retrocession of eruptions.

Frequent, febrile shiverings down back. Cold extremities. Night-sweat. Profuse sweat on feet.

Worse, at menstrual period, from touch, between 5 to 7 pm; after dinner, from wine. Better, while eating, discharges, and appearance of eruptions.

Compare: Agaric; Ign; Plumb; Argent; Puls; Helleb; Tuberc. Inimical: Nux; Cham. Compare in amelioration by secretions: Lach; Stan; Mosch.

Compare: Zincum aceticum (effects of night-watching and erysipelas; brain feels sore; Rademacher's solution, five-drop doses three times a day in water, for those who are compelled to work, on an insufficient amount of sleep); Zinc, bromatum (dentition, chorea, hydrocephalus); Zinc oxydatum (Nausea and sour taste). Sudden vomiting in children. Vomiting of bile and diarrhœa. Flatulent abdomen. Watery stools with tenesmus. Debility after grip. Fiery red face, great drowsiness with dreamlike unrefreshing sleep. Similar to effect of night watching. Mental and physical exertion (Rademacher). Zinc. Sulph, not repeated frequently (high potency) will clear up opacities of the cornea (McFarland). Corneitis; granular lids; tongue paralyzed; cramps in arms and legs; trembling and convulsions. Hypochondriasis due to masturbation; nervous headaches; Zinc cyanatum (as a remedy for meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis, paralysis agitans, chorea, and hysteria, it has received some attention); Zinc ars (chorea, anæmia, profound exhaustion on slight exertion. Depression and marked involvement of lower extremities); Zinc carb (post-gonorrhœal throat affections, tonsils swollen, bluish superficial spots); Zinc phos (herpes zoster 1x); Zinc muriat (disposition to pick the bedclothes; sense of smell and taste perverted; bluish-green tint of skin; cold and sweaty); Zinc phos (neuralgia of head and face; lightning-like pains in locomotor ataxia, brain-fag, nervousness, and vertigo; sexual excitement and sleeplessness); Ammon valerian (violent neuralgia, with great nervous agitation); Zinc picricum (facial paralysis; brain-fag, headache in Bright's disease; seminal emissions; loss of memory and energy). Oxide of zinc is used locally as an astringent and stimulant application to unhealthy ulcers, fissures, intertrigo, burns, etc.

Second to sixth potency.

Inability to develop or hold out the rash in eruptive diseases, can't expectorate or menstruate, is > if can.

Cannot take stimulants, as they aggravate in general.

Fidgety feet, must move them constantly.

Twitching of single muscles all over the body.

Violent trembling all over, so as to shake the bed; lost nerve control.

Weakness and weariness in nape of the neck; < holding head long in one position; backache < sitting.

Defective vitality, brain and nerve power wanting; to comprehend, to memorize.

Child cries out during sleep; rolls the head from side to side; face alternately pale and red.

This metal seems to act principally upon the nervous system. I think it is Burt who says: "What Iron is to the blood, Zinc is to the nerves." If we examine the provings and clinical records of Zinc, we find that it seems to have the power to arouse or strengthen the nervous system in its inability to supply force to carry on functions necessary to health or the elimination of disease products from the system. This is speculation. What are the facts? 1st. If scarlatina or other eruptive diseases do not properly develop the eruption, on account of too great weakness of the patient, as evidenced by general depression of pulse, temperature, etc. Zinc is very useful.

Other remedies have such or similar trouble, Cuprum, for instance; but in Cuprum the eruption has been suppressed by some outward cause. Zinc, it has never come to the surface, or it has been out, and has receded from lack of vitality or strength to hold it there. Sulphur may be the remedy, but the cause is then more often apt to be traceable to psora.

This weakness shows in other ways, as, for instance, in asthma. The patient can't expectorate, but as soon as he can he is relieved; or again she cannot menstruate, and is relieved of her suffering while menstruating. (Lachesis).

There is another peculiarity connected with this characteristic. The nervous weakness of the Zincum patient is that he can take no wine or stimulants. You would think that a little wine would at least temporarily relieve; on the contrary, it aggravates all the sufferings, even though taken in small quantities. Of course other remedies have this aggravation from wines or stimulants, like Glonoine, Ledum, Fluoric acid, Antimonium crudum, etc., but I think Zinc stands first.

The nervous debility of Zinc shows in other ways also. There is sometimes aching and weariness in the nape of the neck, as it had been held in one position too long, < by writing or other long continued labor. The backaches are worse while sitting and better when moving about. This would call to mind Rhus toxicodendron, but with Zincum you would not get the general aching relieved by continued motion, as in the case with Rhus. Pulsatilla has it also, but generally in connection with menstrual irregularities. The remedy most resembling Zinc in this particular is Cobalt. Both these remedies have this symptom in consequence of sexual excesses or weaknesses, but in Zinc an emission temporarily relieves the pain and in Cobalt it does not. The most characteristic of all the symptoms of Zinc in connection with its general nervous weakness, is: "An incessant, violent fidgety feeling in the feet or lower limbs; must move them constantly." This is present in many, if not almost all, of the affections for which Zinc is par excellence the remedy.

There is also sometimes present "burning along the whole length of the spine." This burning is purely subjective, for there is no actual local increase of temperature. Another characteristic of this remedy is, "twitching and jerking of various muscles." I spoke of this symptom when writing upon Ignatia. I would place Zincum, Ignatia and Agaricus in the van of all remedies for causing and curing these general twitchings.

Another symptom for which this is one of our best remedies is, general trembling. This is also from prostration.

The patient loses control over his motions, although he is not yet paralyzed. Paralysis may come later if this condition is not remedied.

A word or two about the importance of this remedy in brain troubles. It makes little difference whether the affection of the brain arises from suppressed eruptive diseases, dentition, typhus fever or disease of any other name or nature, if the symptoms indicating the remedy are present. Allow me to relate a case from my own practice illustrating its curative value in typhoid A young lady about 20 years of age complained, a week before I was called, of weakness, or feeling of general prostration; headache, and loss of appetite, but the greatest complaint was of prostration. She was a student and her mother, who was an excellent nurse, attributed all her sickness to overwork at school, and tried to rest and "nurse her up." But she continued to grow worse. I prescribed for her Gelsemium and followed it with Bryonia according to indications, and she ran through a mild course of two weeks longer, and seemed convalescing quite satisfactorily.

Being left in a room alone, while sleeping and perspiring, she threw off her clothes, caught cold and relapsed. Of course the "last state of that patient was worse than the first." The bowels became enormously distended profuse hæmorrhage occurred, which was finally controlled by Alumen, a low form of delirium came on, the prostration became extreme notwithstanding the hæmorrhage was checked, until the following picture obtained -staring eyes rolled upward into the head, head retracted; complete unconsciousness, lying on back and sliding down in bed, twitching, or rather intense, violent trembling all over, so that she shook the bed. I had nurses hold her hands night and day, she shook and trembled so; hippocratic face, extremities deathly cold to knees and elbows, pulse so weak and quick I could not count it, and intermittent; in short, all signs of impending paralysis of the brain. The case seemed hopeless, but I put ten drops of Zincum metallicum in two drams of cold water, and worked one-half of it between her set teeth, a little at a time, and an hour after the other half. In about one hour after the last dose she turned her eyes down and faintly said, milk. Through a bent tube she swallowed a half glass of milk, the first nourishment she had received in 24 hours. She got no more medicine for four days, and improved steadily all the time. She afterward received a dose of Nux vomica and progressed rapidly to a perfect recovery. So Zincum 200th can, like other metals, perform miracles when indicated.

Modalities: < from wine; > by restoration or development of eruptions, during menses, restored expectoration, seminal emission, discharges generally.

Very variable mood : at noon, low-spirited ; and in the evening, hilarity, or vice versa. Morose and indisposed to converse (especially in the evening). Great sensitiveness to the talking of others and to all noise. Aversion to work and to walk. Weakness of the memory. Thoughtlessness and dulness of the intellect.

Vertigo in the cerebellum (when he walks, he feels as if he should fall to the left side). Sharp pressure on a small spot in the forehead (evening). Tearing and stinging pains in the sides of the head ; worse after dinner. Pressure on the root of the nose, as if it would be pressed into the head. Sensation of soreness in the head. Stupefying headache ; every thing gets black before the eyes ; worse in the morning in the warm room and after eating ; better in the open air. Sensitiveness of the vertex, as from soreness or ulceration, without regard to touch ; worse in the evening in bed and after eating ; better after scratching. The hair falls off from the vertex, causing complete baldness, with sensation of soreness of the scalp. Hydrocephalus. Headache from drinking even small quantities of wine. The headaches are worse in the room, better in the open air.

Pressure on the eyes ; they feel as if they were pressed into the head. Itching, biting, pricking, and sensation of soreness of the eyes, lids and inner angle of the eyes. (Pterygium). The upper eyelids fall down, as if paralyzed. When lifting up the eyes he sees luminous flakes.

Otalgia, with tearing stitches and external swelling (especially with children). Discharge of fetid pus from the ear.

The nose feels sore internally. Swelling (of one side) of the nose, with loss of smell. Coryza, with hoarseness and burning in the chest.

Paleness of the face. Tearing and sore pain in the facial bones. Lips and corners of the mouth cracked, with ulceration of the inside of them. Thick, viscid, tasteless humor on the lips. Redness and itching eruption on the chin.

Sensation of soreness of the teeth. Looseness of the teeth. The teeth and gums bleed. The gums are swollen, white, sore and ulcerated. Small yellow ulcers on the inside of the cheek (and in the throat). Tingling on the inside of the cheek, with ptyalism of metallic taste. Blisters on the tongue. Sensation of soreness in the throat. Sensation of constriction and spasm in the œsophagus. Accumulation of mucus in the throat, which frequently enters the mouth through the posterior nares. Bluish herpes in the throat after suppressed gonorrhœa.

Saltish taste in the mouth. Taste in the mouth as from blood. Voracious appetite and insatiable hunger. Aversion to meat, fish, and cooked or warm food and sweet things. Sour eructations, especially after drinking milk. Heartburn after eating sweet things. Nausea, with retching and vomiting of bitter mucus ; renewed by the least motion. Hiccough, especially after breakfast. Vomiting of blood. Burning in the stomach. Disagreeable sensation (of heat) in the upper orifice of the stomach, extending to the œsophagus. Pain in the hypochondria, like a spasm, alternating with dyspnœa. Pressure under the short ribs, after eating with depression of spirits. Stitches in the spleen. Pressure and tension in the abdomen. Flatulent colic, especially in the evening. Expulsion of hot, fetid flatus. Inguinal hernia.

Constipation ; stool hard and dry ; insufficient ; frequently only expelled by hard pressing. Soft, papescent, or thin diarrhœic stools, frequently with discharge of pale blood. Involuntary stools. Sensation of soreness, and violent itching at the anus. Tingling at the anus, as from ascarides.

Pressing, stinging and soreness in the kidneys. Violent pressure of urine on the bladder. Retention of urine when beginning to urinate. Can only pass urine (which she must do every hour) while in a sitting posture. Excessive desire to urinate, also at night. Urine turbid, loam colored in the morning. Frequent micturition of pale-yellow urine, which later deposits a white flaky sediment. Discharge of blood from the urethra after painful micturition. Burning during and after micturition. Cutting pain in the orifice of the urethra. Involuntary discharge of urine when walking, coughing and sneezing. Stones (Gravel) of the kidneys and bladder.

Men. Painfully swelled (sore) testicles. One or the other testicle is drawn up. Drawing in the testicles, extending up the spermatic cord. Violent and long-lasting erections. Great falling off of the hair of the genital organs. Women. Nymphomania of lying-in women, with great sensitiveness of the genitals. Menstruation too late. Suppressed menstruation, with painfulness of the breasts and genitals. Lochia and the secretion of milk are suppressed. Sore nipples.

Spasmodic oppression of breathing. Constrictive sensation around the chest, with pain in the chest, as if cut to pieces. Shortness of breath from flatulence after eating. Accumulation of mucus in the chest. Burning in the chest. Coldness in the chest. Stitches in the chest (left side) and heart. Palpitation of the heart ; irregular beats of the heart ; occasionally one violent thrust of the heart. Tension in the sternum. Burning and soreness in the pharynx. Hoarseness. Roughness and dryness in the chest. Sensation of emptiness in the chest. Debilitating spasmodic cough from tickling in the larynx, extending to the middle of the chest, with expectoration of yellow, purulent, blood-streaked, tenacious mucus, tasting disagreeably, sweetish-putrid, metallic ; or of pure blood in the morning or during the day. The cough is worse after eating, during rest, sitting, standing, from milk, sweets, spirituous liquors, during menstruation.

Pain in the small of the back on walking or sitting. Stiffness and tension of the neck. Itching herpes on the back. Tension and stinging between the shoulder-blades.

Upper. Rheumatic pains and stinging in the shoulders, arms, elbows, wrists, hands and fingers. Lameness and deadness of the hands. Weakness and trembling of the hands when writing. Dryness and cracked skin of the hands. Cracks between the fingers. Dry herpes on the hands and fingers ; they are rough and, itch. Lower. Rheumatic pains in the legs, knees, ankles and feet. Varicose veins on the upper and lower legs. Tension in the knee. Formication in the calves. Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the tendo Achilles. Stiffness of the ankles after sitting. Weakness and trembling of the feet. Paralysis of the feet. Coldness of the feet at night. Pulsating stitches in the toes. Painful chilblains on the feet.

Continuous desire to sleep, especially after meals, with yawning. Unrefreshing sleep, disturbed by unpleasant dreams, with talking and loud crying out.

Violent trembling twitching of the whole body. Pulsations through the whole body. Sensation of soreness in internal and external parts. Twitching of children. St. Vitus' dance. Convulsions after a fright. Rheumatic pains in the extremities, aggravated from becoming heated and from exertions of the body. The pains seem to be between the skin and flesh. Tearing in the middle of the bones ; the limbs lose their hold, from the pain.

Pulse small and rapid in the evening, slower in the morning and during the day. Pulse at times intermitting. Violent pulsations in the veins during the heat. Chill begins generally after eating and continues till late in the evening and during the night. Chilliness in the open air and when touching a cold object. Chills run down the back. Chilliness on the approach of stormy weather. Internal heat, with sensation of coldness in the abdomen and on the feet. Flushes of heat, with trembling and short, hot breath. Profuse perspiration during the whole night, with inclination to uncover oneself. Perspires easily during the day, on exercising. Badly-smelling perspirations.

Itching in the bends of the joints. Violent itching at night in bed, disappearing as soon as one touches himself. Formication between the skin and flesh. Sensation of coldness in the bones. Rhagades. Suppurating herpes. Varicose veins.

Most ailments appear after dinner and towards evening. Aggravation after having eaten, from small quantities of wine, in the warm room. Amelioration s, in the open air, while eating. Chamomilla and Nux vomica cause restlessness at night and constipation ; and if they do so, Zincum will remove them, frequently.

Zincum metallicum. Zinc. An Element. Zn. A. W. 64.9. Trituration of the metal.

Alcoholism . Amblyopia. Asthma. Brain-fag. Brain, paralysis of. Breasts, affections of. Cataract. Chilblains. Chin, eruption on. Chlorosis. Cholera. Chorea. Constipation . Cracks. Dentition. Diarrhœa, nervous; with stupor. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Dysuria. Earache. Eczema. Enuresis. Eruptions; suppressed. Eyes, affections of ; granular lids. Fag. Foot-sweat; suppressed. Gastralgia. Headache; nervous; chlorotic. Heels, pains in. Hernia, inguinal. Hiccough. Hydrocephalus. Hyperpyrexia, nervous. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Inframammary pain. Joints, creaking in . Ups, affections of. Lochia; suppressed. Malar bones, neuralgia in. Masturbation. Memory, weak. Meningitis. Mental weakness . Milk, defective; suppressed. Neuralgia; intercostal; subcostal. Neurasthenia. Nipples, sore. Nose, redness of. Nymphomania. Œsophagus, spasm of. Otorrhœa. Photopsia. Prostatorrhœa. Ptosis. Reaction, defective. Rheumatism. Screaming . Sleepiness. Somnambulism. Spermatorrhœa. Spinal irritation. Spine, affections of. Spleen, neuralgia of. Strabismus. Suppressions. Tarsal tumours. Throat, sore. Tibia, burning in. Typhoid fever. Ulcers. Urine, hysterical retention of. Varicosis; during pregnancy; of external genitals. Whooping-cough. Worms.

Zincum belongs to the Magnesium group of metals, comprising also Cadmium and Glucinum . It has long been known in the arts, especially in its combination with Cuprum in the manufacture of Brass. Zn . was proved by Hahnemann and his associates, and it appears among the remedies of his Chronic Diseases. Zn . poisons the brain and nerve, and it corresponds to nerve-poisoning of various kinds. The word "fag" covers a large part of Zn . action; it may be nerve- or brain-fag; or it may be muscle-fag. Fag means that tissues are worn out faster than they can be repaired. This leaves them poisoned by waste products. Zn . meets the effects of brain-fag from over-study; from night-watching; fatigue. But there is another kind of nerve-poisoning met by Zn .: the poisoning of suppressed eruptions or discharges. The common old-school use of Zinc ointment to suppress eruptions, and Zinc injections to suppress discharges, is based on fact: Zn . does suppress them, and it transfers the morbid action to the nervous system, setting up a poisoning there; and, conversely, in homœopathic attenuations Zn . can reverse the process. It can restore suppressed eruptions, can cure the consequences of suppressions, and can set free the reactive power in conditions of undeveloped disease. Some of the keynotes of Zn . will be present to give the clue. The most important of these is: "Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower limbs; must move them constantly; cannot keep them quiet." These movements may continue even during sleep. Another is: "Too weak to develop exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to understand, to remember." Corresponding to these is: "Relief to all suffering as soon as menses begin to flow," or as soon as other excretory functions are restored. In asthma" the patient cannot expectorate, but as soon as he can he is relieved" (Nash). General twitchings and general trembling are, according to Nash, equally characteristic of Zn . He records this case: Miss X., 20, had been ill for a week with headache, loss of appetite, and especially prostration. Over-study was the cause. Under Gels ., and later Bry ., she was improving, when she threw off the bedclothes whilst sleeping and perspiring, and took a chill. [ Zn . has "cannot bear any covering during the sweat." — J. H. C.] The bowels became enormously distended; profuse hæmorrhage occurred (finally controlled by Alumen ), a low form of delirium came on, and prostration increased in spite of the cessation of hæmorrhage. This was the condition: Staring eyes rolled upward, head retracted; complete unconsciousness, lying on back and sliding down in bed; twitching, "or rather intense, violent trembling all over so that she shook the bed ," her hands had to be held constantly night and day by nurses; hippocratic face, extremities deathly cold to knees and elbows; pulse intermittent, uncountable; all signs, in short, of impending paralysis of the brain." Two drops of Zn . 200 were mixed in two teaspoonfuls of water. One teaspoonful was worked, a little at a time, between the set teeth; and the rest half an hour later. About an hour after the latter dose the patient turned down her eyes and said "Milk." Through a bent tube she swallowed half a glass of milk, the first nourishment she had taken for twenty-four hours. From that time she improved steadily, and received no more medicine for four days. Afterwards she had a dose of Nux . Recovery was perfect. A. W. Holcombe ( Hahn. Ad ., xxxviii. 27) reports this case: Man, 40, had gonorrhœa suppressed by local treatment three months previously. A week before Holcombe saw him first he was unable to pass water, and had to resort to the catheter. Since then could pass urine, but passed almost pure blood with it. Could only urinate when sitting down with knees spread apart. Great soreness of perinæum; on sitting down had to sit sideways on chair. Zn . cm one dose. Five days later perinæal soreness gone, could urinate freely in any position, and had a profuse whitish discharge from the urethra. Suppression of foot-sweat; of lochia; of milk, are all caused and cured by Zn. Weyner ( H. R ., x. 152) relates the poisoning of cows pasturing near a cadmium mine, near which Zinc-smelting was carried on. These were some of the effects: General emaciation, skin clinging tightly to the body; eyes pale bluish, drawn back into the orbits ; horns and ears unequally warm, mouth hot and shiny and hanging down, at times dry; appetite undisturbed; rumination slower; dung grass-green, thin-flowing and fetid; at times cough. As the disease progressed emaciation increased, the horns became rough, milk dried up , and diarrhœa increased till the animals could no longer rise, and died of total prostration. Zn . meets these suppression-effects: paralysis and vertigo from brain softening following suppressed foot-sweat; chorea from eruptions suppressed by gout; puerperal convulsions from suppressed eruption; nymphomania from suppressed lochia. Zn . has a strong action on the generative sphere, it excites both sexes and causes seminal losses and prostatorrhœa of the male, and nymphomania and masturbation in the female. This may be associated with varicosis or pruritus of the external genitals. A notable symptom of Zn ., and one which may indicate it in children and in delirious cases, as well as in affections of the genitals themselves, is that the patient is continually pressing on the pubes or applying the hand to the genitals. With the emission there is backache, which is temporarily > by the emission; and with the female sexual disorders there is also backache and spinal irritation. Dull aching in spine, < when sitting. Burning pains all along the spine. The burning pains of Zn . appear in many parts. Pricking, pressive, cramp-like pains, tension and constriction are also present. Neuralgia in malar bones with pressive pains. Pressure at root of nose as if it would be pressed in. The constriction is especially felt in the chest, and is connected both with respiration and the heart. "Sudden, spasmodic, bursting sensation about heart; it appears to be beating regularly, when it suddenly seems as if it would burst through the chest." Zn . affects the blood-vessels and corresponds to varicosis: varices of the labia; of the thighs, running into the labia; of the legs, with fidgety feet. Numbness, tingling, formication, and fainting spells are other nervous effects of Zn . It has an insatiable craving hunger and goneness, notably at 11 a.m.; thirst quite as great; and "hasty eating" and "hasty drinking" are among the keynote symptoms. Another of the first importance is intolerance of wine : wine aggravates all symptoms. This is noteworthy in states of nervous exhaustion, which usually crave stimulants. There is the aversion to wine. Other characteristic aversions are: Meat (especially veal); sweets; cooked or warm food. Eating as well as wine-drinking < the pain. There is a tearing headache, most in side of head, < from wine, < after dinner. In meningitis there are sharp, lancinating pains in the head, < from the least stimulant. Pain may account for the anxious scream which accompanies the convulsions of Zn . The child springs up in bed, gnashing teeth, eyes rolled up. A characteristic of brain affections of children is "crossness in the evening." On waking there is delirium as if frightened, knows no one. "Child repeats everything said to it" is another leading symptom. "Grits teeth" occurs in these conditions, and will often give Zn . a place in worm cases. Among the symptoms indicating lack of power is "teeth fail to develop." The "fidgety feet" of Zn . are not the only automatic movements of the remedy, though the most characteristic. There are automatic movements of mouth, arms, and hands, and general restlessness. Among other features of Zn . is blueness of surface. Related to this is the tendency to chilblains, which are swollen and painful, and easily made worse by rubbing. There is sensitiveness to frost-bite; the tip of the nose is easily frost-bitten, and the nose remains red long after it has been frost-bitten. The hands and feet are affected with inflammation, painful eruptions, cracks. There is also a "frost-bitten feeling" in the toes. All these point to a lowered state of vitality. Peculiar Sensations are: As if she had a large goître which she could not see over. As if hair bristled. Uneasy, as if he had committed a crime. As if he would have apoplexy. As if scalp were drawn together. Pains as if between the skin and the flesh. As if head were moving up and down, with a similar floating of images of his fancy. As if he saw through a mist. As if he would fall over to other side. As if head were swaying back and forth. Nauseating weakness as after smoking too strong tobacco. As if eyes were drawn together by a cord. Stupefying headache as from coal gas. As if root of nose would be pressed into head. As if head would be drawn backward. As if air forced itself into frontal sinuses. As if head would burst. As if strained in occiput. As if scalp wrinkled up and kept tightening. As if insects were crawling from occiput to forehead. Feeling in eyes as if she had wept much. As if sand in eyes. As if upper lids paralysed. As if teeth would be pulled out with neuralgia. As if teeth long and loose. As if a web drawn across throat. As if a hard body were opposing pressure from pharynx into abdomen. As if food remained sticking in pharynx after dinner. As if stomach compressed or empty. As of a heavy weight in hypochondria. As if abdominal walls were retracted against spine. As if flatus pressing against coccyx. As from worms crawling in anus. As if testicles tightly compressed and drawn up. As if pudenda swollen. Cough with stitches in chest and feeling as if chest would burst. Chest: as if hollow and cold; constricted; cut to pieces. As if a foreign substance rising up throat. Emptiness behind sternum. As if a cap on heart. Pain in cervical muscles as if head had been in uncomfortable position. As if cold water were poured down her back. As if muscles of wrist too short. As if kidney would be twisted off. Wrist and foot as if sprained. As if soles swollen. As if tendons of right sole too short. As if ball of great toe frozen. — The headache and eye symptoms of Zn . are well marked, and "Headache with sympathetic amblyopia" may be regarded as a keynote: Kafka ( H. R ., x. 153) relates the case of a "pale yet vigorous lady of forty" who for two years had had a headache recurring periodically every ten to fourteen days without warning. Simultaneously with the headache was a weakness of vision , she seemed looking through a fog, and could not distinguish even large objects. The pain, which lasted two or three days, now increasing, now diminishing, was a pressure on vertex and forehead from without inward. Face pale, appetite deficient, head muddled, mood cross and peevish. In forenoon the pain was bearable, in afternoon < , and still < evening, when reflex nausea, and even vomiting, occurred. The amblyopia went pari passu with the severity of the pain, and disappeared as the pain left off. Pupils rather contracted, eyes otherwise normal. Zn . 3 was given morning and evening. The pains diminished immediately and were gone in twenty-four hours. The remedy was taken in the evening daily for a week. There was no relapse. F. W. Payne ( N. A. J. H ., xiv. 131, quoting A. M .) reports this case of cataract: Right eye partially affected, and left practically useless for vision, with bruised, sore, smarting, burning, itching, and stinging sensation; at intervals, suddenly, sensation as if pepper had been thrown into it, causing scalding lachrymation and spasm of the lids. These spells were < in evening. Burning dryness as if a stick under lid scratching eyeball. Flickering before left eye; blue and green rings; green halo round gas-jet at times. Slight irritation of conjunctiva and tendency of lids to adhere. < By warmth, on warm days, by artificial light. Patient nervous, tremulous, impatient, < by mental emotion. Choreic jerkings of individual muscles. Zn . 200, given occasionally, steadily improved the case. In six months right eye was quite clear, and the left steadily gaining. Eleven years later vision was practically perfect, though some small streaks could still be found in the left lens. Gerstel ( H. R ., x. 97) calls attention to the action of Zn . in fevers with inflammation of the brain. In these cases the seat of inflammation was the meninges. He refers to a case of a child suffering from scarlatina who was in this condition: Entirely motionless; extremities icy cold, body cold, skin all over body bluish red, except the parts about the eyes, forehead and chin, which were white . Zn . was given, and the child gradually recovered. In a case of typhoid (16th day) in a man, in whom mental symptoms had set in: "Muddled feeling in the head, an incapacity to relate anything connectedly, and a sort of half-smiling loquacity ;" and later: Staring look, almost hippocratic appearance, pale as wax ; carphologia, subsultus tendinum, constant trembling of the hands — Zn . 2 saved the patient. — The symptoms of Zn . are: < By touch. Pressure < ; ( > conjunctivitis; toothache; left ovarian pain). Rubbing and scratching > . Jarring, riding < . Rest < . Sitting < . Lying < ; ( > vertigo). < By motion, active or passive: "Child screams out whenever it is moved." Walking; lifting; exertion < . Looking up = vision of falling luminous objects, and dizziness. < Evening and night. 11 a.m. to 12 sinking < . Rheumatism < from over-heating. Wails and moans during sweat. < . By chill when heated. Warm room < . Warm water > conjunctivitis. Open air < ; ( > headache and drowsiness). Very sensitive to draught. < By cold touch ( i.e ., when patient touches anything cold). Sea bathing = herpes in mouth. Approach of storm = chills. > While eating; < after. Eating < . Drinking < (as soon as liquid reaches stomach he vomits). < From: Sugar; wine; milk. Emissions > (temporarily). Sensitive to others talking and to noise.

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Unconscious ; signs of effusion into brain ; feet constantly moving ; often from undeveloped eruptions.
Weak memory, with stinging pains in head.
Great forgetfulness ; forgetful of what has been accomplished during day.
Mental operations very difficult ; difficult to grasp ideas and to co-ordinate thoughts.
Repeats all questions before answering them.
Loss of thought and a soporous condition of mind.
Stares as if frightened on waking, head rolls from side to side.
Imaginative power lively and excited ; attacks of great loquacity.
Fanciful illusions when holding head down, as if she had a large goitre which she could not see over.
Anxiety on account of thieves or horrible apparitions, while awake, like a feverish fancy.
Apprehensive and lachrymose mood, which disappears in evening.
Apprehension and ennui, she seeks society.
Anxious mood as from a misfortune.
Very uneasy mood as if he had committed a crime.
Anxiety : makes her restless in morning ; during menses.
Thincks of death calmly ; hypochondriacal, with gastric symptoms ; pressure in spine and fear of death.
Low-spirited at noon ; lively in evening, or vice versa.
Sensitive to others talking and to noise.
Talking or listening is distressing ; much talking of other people, even of those of whom he is fond, affects his nerves and makes him morose and impatient.
Mood uneasy, unsteady.
Irritable, startled.
At noon irritable, peevish, terrified ; > in evening.
Fretful, morose ; for several days inclined to have a secret grudge, and to vexation ; quiet ; it frets him to be obliged to speak a word.
Fretful, despondent mood, especially in evening.
Child cross toward evening ; brain affected.
Very impatient, but not bad-humored.
Easily angered and very much affected thereby.
He wishes that he might get hold of some one on whom he might vent his anger.
Iracible, impatient ; sad, weeps frequently ; despairs of her recovery ; is querulous ; objects to noise, or talking of others ; dislikes work, cannot or will not walk.
Morose in morning, afternoon and evening.
Answers were slow, and he spoke as if in a bad temper.
Sobbing on account of vexation, without obvious reason, with pressive pain in top of head.
Ill-humored and sad.
She looks very morose, gloomy and disturbed, even in morning.
Peevish and lachrymose during menses.
Indifferent ; despondent ; disinclination to work.
Overpowering sadness.
Quiet thoughts of death in afternoon, with weakness.
Hypochondriacal mood three hours after dinner, with pressure under short ribs, especially of right side, with aversion to work and discomfort over whole body.
Extremely variable mood ; alternately fretful, irritable, quarrelsome, despondent and depressed.
He is frequently able to laugh excessively over a trifle, but is just as easily vexed.
Delirium, with attempts to get out of bed ; staring eyes ; constant trembling of hands and coldness of extremities.
Great fear, as if persecuted by men or the devil, on account of crimes which he has never done ; is afraid of becoming imprisoned, or poisoned, or shot, or buried alive, with great excitation, pappy taste, whitish-coated tongue, eructations, loss
of appetite, retarded stool, vertigo and heat in head and face. θ Delirium tremens.
After an attack of typhoid fever, repeated over and over again, in a singing tone, any question put to him, until interrupted by a second question, which he repeated as the first and so on.
A teacher of leuco-phlegmatic habit, frequently vertigo, for several mouths an involuntary, periodically appearing fit of laughing, which he cannot suppress ; fits appear several times a day and cause severe convulsions of chest and abdomen, rush of blood to head and brain ; a
tendency to constipation and apoplexy.
A woman in her climacteric years suffered from delusions caused by grief and anger ; believed herself to be called before court on account of her wicked actions ; at night she could not sleep, and during day sleep was light and not refreshing ; believes the devil is after
her ; face and head feel hot, features sunken, moderate heat alternates with chill all over body ; vertigo, gait tottering, loss of appetite, constipation ; muddy urine, with brickdust sediment ; after waking up feels languid and cannot rouse herself ; is very
sensitive, weeps easily ; pulse not frequent, but irregular in strength of beats.
A gracile, delicate, but healthy girl of 23, who made her living by embroidery, nursed her old father during a long and tedious sickness, and then felt mentally and bodily exhausted ; after recovery of her parent she returned to her usual labors, but a sleepiness, without any other
morbid symptom, set in, with loss of appetite, though her tongue was perfectly clean ; when sitting at her embroidery or at her sewing table she heaved a deep sigh, needle fell from her hand, she fell back in her chair, and slept with eyelids spasmodically closed and eye whirled around
in circle ; after sleeping from five to fifteen minutes, she began to weep, or to sing, or to speak incoherently, waked up then, after a few moments to fall again asleep, in a quarter of an hour to awake again in a similar manner.

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Zinc. has a full and substantial proving, including symptoms of every part of the body. It is an antipsoric, suitable in broken down constitutions, feeble constitutions; enfeeblement characterizes the whole proving.

The Zinc. patient is nervous and extremely sensitive, excitable, trembling, quivering, twitching of muscles, tearing pains along the course of the nerves, tingling, excited on the least provocation; oversensitiveness in one part and lack of feeling in another.

This extreme oversensitiveness is like Nux; which is inimical. The overworked and excitable persons belong to Nux and Zinc. Nux is sensitive to the higher potencies. Further, there is paralytic weakness, emaciation, prostration; full of brain and spinal symptoms.

All the functions are slow; eruptions appear slowly.

The whole economy seems to be tired and feeble, so that when a girl approaches puberty and it is time for the menses to be established, but the flow does not appear, she goes into a decline; she begins to manifest choreic symptoms, jerking and twitching, soreness in the back of the neck, burning of the whole spine, creeping and crawling of the extremities, hysterical manifestations of all sorts.

Sensitive to every little noise, to people talking in the room, to crumpling of paper.

"Talking or listening is distressing; much talking of other people, even of those of who he is fond, affects his nerves and makes him morose."

Feeble children, feeble girls, mind feeble, memory poor.

Tendency to be docile, but when aroused irascible. If the child comes down with scarlatina or measles, it goes into a stupor. The eruption does not come out. There is a tendency to convulsions, drawing in the extremities, suppression of urine, rolling of the head from one side to the other, and from stupor it goes into complete unconsciousness; inability to throw eruptions to the surface.

The stomach is slow in digesting; sour vomiting.

The intestines are sluggish. The rectum becomes impacted. Difficult expulsion of urine; paralysis of the bladder and tedious constipation associated with spinal symptoms; urine slow in starting; can pass it only when sitting and in some cases only when sitting leaning back against the seat with hard pressure.

Aching in the dorsal, lumbar, and sacral regions; better when walking and worse from rising from a seat. (In Rhus, the aching is in the sacral region, and better when walking and coming on while sitting. Calc., Rhus, Phos., Sulph. and Sepia have this in the highest degree. Zinc. occupies a lower grade in the aggravation when rising from a seat, as do Petr. and Ledum.)

Numbness of the soles of the feet, with cutting pain and soreness in the heel when stepping; fulgurating pains, stitching, stabbing, and tearing; tabes dorsalis.

Limbs paralyzed; paresis and finally paralysis of one or both sides jerking, trembling and prostration. Shocks and jerking during Sleep.

Trophic centers in a state of anaemia; emaciation throughout the body; the skin looks withered; the face pallid, wrinkled, unhealthy, sickly. Always chilly; sensitive to the cold. Full of neuralgic pains; tearing pains in all parts of the body when exposed to a draft; tension and drawing in various places.

Strange drawing about the eyes as if strabismus would come on; drawing in the muscles; neck drawn back; tension and drawing everywhere. When he comes to rest, the limbs want to draw up, hence, hysterical contractures; drawing the fingers all out of shape.

The mind is slow and the patient is weak and tired; weak memory; forgetful.

"Repeats all questions before answering them."

When an individual does this it is to make the mind comprehend. He must first realize what it means and then answers. Such a symptom is found in typhoid, when the patient does not convalesce; in a child after brain affections.

Nervous prostration; waits a moment, looking blank, then, the face lights up and he answers. if you look at the Zincum patient and do not address him, you would not realize that he was so weak, but put a question to him and he stares at you in perfect amazement, then says, "Oh," and answers.

Zinc. is not suitable in those who are naturally feeble-minded, when the child is in a state bordering upon idiocy. Baryta carb. feeds such a mind. He rouses out of a semi-slumber and stares a moment without answering.

Stupor; aroused by every little noise, startles, twitches all over; but soon he goes beyond this, becoming less and less excitable, and finally passes into unconsciousness and cannot be aroused. You will find some deep-seated brain troubles that will try your patience.

Some cases go slowly and gradually into unconsciousness; rolling of the head for day s; eyes lusterless ; body emaciated, involuntary discharges of faeces and urine in the bed; tongue dry and parched, so shriveled that it looks like leather, lips also; lice withered and each day looks older; paralysis of one hand or one foot, or it seems that the whole muscular system is paralyzed.

Screaming out in pain although not so shrilly as in Apis. A dose of Zinc. will sometimes bring this patient back to life. In a few days after the remedy there will be a jerking and quivering in the parts that were motionless, or its action will be shown in a copious sweat, much vomiting; sudden arousing that is alarming, for it looks like a threatened sinking, but this is the beginning of reaction.

Now, for days and nights while this little one is coming back to consciousness, the restoration of sensation in the parts is accompanied with the most tormenting formication, tingling, prickling, creeping, and crawling. The mother and the father and the neighbors will want something done for it, but if you antidote, the case will return to where it was before. This suffering is but the awakening to life.

It will go on in this way for a week or two and then will begin to show signs of falling back; it needs another dose of Zinc., which will again be followed by a sweat, vomiting, etc. You will see this in spinal meningitis. The early stage will be that of congestion, and Bell. may palliate, but with the onset of the symptoms enumerated above, Zinc. is the only remedy that will cure. The Bell. case will have flushed face, hot head, rolling of the head, flashing eyes, throbbing carotids. The Bry. case will be docile, stupid, purple, sleepy; ameliorated by quiet.

The Helleborus case will exhibit but little fever; cold extremities, tossing of the head, dilated pupils, unconsciousness, can hardly be aroused; rolling head from. side to side, but when the reflexes are abolished, Zinc. comes in.

After the relief from Gels., Bell., or Bry . give Zinc. Rugged little fellows who hang on for weeks in this state, emaciating and unconscious.

You must take the mother aside and inform her what will happen if the child returns to consciousness. If you do not, you may be turned out of the house. A person advanced in years cannot stand such an ordeal, but it is astonishing how the little ones can endure the prolonged congestion and inflammation.

After scarlet fever and badly treated meningitis; tubercular meningitis. I have carried these severe forms of brain disease through on Phosphorus, which has a picture somewhat like that of Zincum. There is no record of any recovery from tubercular meningitis, but a homoeopath can cure some of these cases, though it may take two or three months to go down and come up out of it, with two or three relapses.

Among the eye symptoms we have a peculiar thickening and opacity of the conjunctiva, which is infiltrated, leathery, has yellow spots on it and the corners are thickened like pterygium. Dunham made a remarkable cure of pterygium. The report of the case in the Guiding Symptoms is as follows:

"Pterygium in right eye just encroaching on cornea; in left eye extending to the pupil from the inner canthus."

"Itching and stinging plain in inner angles of eyes with cloudiness of sight.

Much burning of the eyes and lids in the morning and in the evening with feeling of dryness and pressure in them."

Zinc. has cured distressing thickening of the lids, ectropion and entropion; granular thickening of the lids. In a severe case of entropion where the lashes were playing up and down the ball with lachrymation, great inflammation and redness, Zinc. removed the whole trouble. Violent photophobia; it seems as if the light would blind him. Zinc. and Euphr. are closely related in eye troubles.

Strabismus after brain troubles. Ever since scarlet fever, he had strabismus. She has much trouble with the menses; dysmenorrhoea.

But here is a striking symptom; no matter what the violent symptoms are pains in the ovaries, in the uterus, hysterical excitement; as soon as the menstrual flow appears there is relief.

Violent pains in the ovaries relieved by the flow. This is a great contrast to Cimicifuga, which has nervous excitement and hysteria during the flow, and the, more copious it is, the more violent are the pains.

The Lach. and Zinc. symptoms are worse before, and better with the flow, but in the former the pains all return when the flow slacks up again. Cimicifuga has at times an intermittent flow, then pain ceasing with each intermission, returning when the flow again appears.

The great nervousness of Zinc. is manifested in the feet. You will notice a child or a woman keeping one foot going all the time, cannot keep it still. Many medicines have nervous feet and many have relief of symptoms by motion of the feet. But this is marked in Zinc. A girl about twelve years of age had no congruity of symptoms and I could not find the remedy.

The mother said the child mortified her by keeping one foot constantly going in church. On asking why she did this, she replied that if she stopped she would lose her urine. Zinc. cured the whole patient. In the text we find double-lined the two words,

"Fidgety feet."

Zinc. has some striking heart symptoms. Constriction of the whole chest in weakly subjects.

Persons suffering from cerebral and nerv- ous exhaustion; defective vitality, brain or nerve power wanting; too weak to develop exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to comprehend, to mem- orize.

Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower extremities; must move them constantly.

Always feels better every way as soon as the menses begin to flow; it relieves all her sufferings, but they return again soon after the flow ceases.

In cerebral affections: in impending paralysis of brain; where the vis medicatrix naturæ is too weak to develop ex- anthemata (Cup., Sulph., Tub.); symptoms of effusion into ventricles.

Child repeats everything said to it.

Child cries out during sleep; whole body jerks during sleep; wakes frightened, stares, rolls the head from side to side; face alternately pale and red.

Convulsions: during dentition, with pale face, no heat, except perhaps in occiput, no increase in temperature (rev. of, Bell.); rolling the eyes; gnashing the teeth.

Automatic motion of hands and head, or one hand and head (Apoc., Bry., Hell.).

Chorea: from suppressed eruptions; from fright.

Hunger: ravenous, about 11 or 12 A. M. (Sulph.); great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough (Tub.—incipient brain disease in children).

Excessive nervous moving of feet in bed for hours after retiring, even when asleep.

Feet sweaty and sore about toes; fetid, suppressed foot-sweat; very nervous.

Chilblains, painful, < from rubbing.

Spinal affections: burning whole length of spine; backache, much < from sitting > by walking about (Cobalt., Puls., Rhus).

Spinal irritation; great prostration of strength.

Cannot bear back touched (Chin. s., Tarant., Ther.).

Can only void urine while sitting bent backwards.

Twitching and jerking of single muscles (Agar., Ign.).

Weakness and trembling of extremities; of hands while writing; during menses.

Of many symptoms from drinking wine, even a small quantity (Alum, Con.).

Symptoms: of chest, by expectorating; of bladder, by urinating; of back, by emissions (< by Cobalt.); general, by menstrual flow.

Continued; typhoid; typhus.

4-8 P. M. (Ars., Lyc., Puls.); forenoon.

With cold nose, hands and feet. Begins; after eating dinner; in open air; on approach of a storm; runs down the back; alternate with heat; external with internal heat; from touching anything cold; followed by nausea and much sour saliva.

Shaking chill with pale sunken face, weak, rapid and irregular pulse, often with nausea and vomiting; at last pulse became large, full, with heat, red face, followed by restless sleep, exhaustion and copious sweats.

Chilliness: and coldness of whole body, followed by fever with chilly creeping through the back, with nausea, with constant yawning; over abdomen.

Shivering, with shuddering, nausea, intense headache, followed by cold sweats; down the back, with trembling of the limbs.

With thirst; in flushes, with desire to be fanned. Violent throbbing through the whole body, with short hot breath.

Heat; internal, with cold sensation in abdomen; of face, with cool body; with redness of face and burning in eyes; heat in back with coldness in nape of neck; of soles and single parts.

Typhoid; delirium, attempts to get out of bed; complete unconsciousness; sliding down in bed; grasping at flocks; subsultus; decubitus; involuntary stool and urine.

Profuse all night, wants to uncover; easy, during day, from least exertion; offensive, sour smelling; sour, with fine, stitching itching, over body; on head, hands and feet; while walking in open air. Night sweat, with heat, cannot tolerate any covering.

Profuse, offensive foot sweat; walks feet sore.

Small and frequent evenings, slow mornings; tense, irregular, small and hard; feeble, easily compressed; wiry, irregular, slow, 40 and intermitting.

Unconscious; signs of effusion into the brain; feet constantly moving; often from undeveloped eruptions.
Weak memory, with stinging pains in the head.
Repeats all questions before answering them.
Stares as if frightened on waking and rolls from side to side.
Sensitive to others talking.
Low-spirited at noon; lively in the evening or vice versa.
Thinks of death calmly; or hypochondriacal, with gastric symptoms; pressure in spine and fear of death.
Children cross toward evening; brain affected.

Vertigo in occiput, with falling to left when walking; stupefaction and dulness of intellect, especially afternoon and evening.

Pressure on root of nose, as if it would be pressed into head.
Sharp pressure on a small spot in forehead, evenings.
Hemicrania, worse after dinner; tearing and stinging.
Cramp-like, tearing pain in right and left temple.
Pressure on top of head, worse after dinner; frequent dizziness, then nausea and vomiting of bile; face pale; costive; cerebral depression.
Sore pain in head.
Internal headaches, mostly semilateral, or in sinciput or occiput; worse from wine, in warm room, and after eating.
Headache from drinking even small quantities of wine.

Sensation of soreness of vertex, as from soreness or ulceration; worse in evening in bed and after eating; better after scratching.
Hair falls out on vertex causing complete baldness, with sensation of soreness of scalp.

Sensitive to light; brain affected.
Amaurosis; during severe headache; passing away with the headache with contracted pupils.
Eyes dim, watery. θ Brain affections.
Sees luminous bodies. θ After operations.
Iritis (syphilitic), worse at night, with hot, scalding tears.
Conjunctivitis, pains worse at night; inflammation more in inner canthus.
Pterygium.
Upper lids heavy, as if paralyzed.
Granular lids, after ophthalmia neonatorum.

Cracking and detonation in ear.
Frequent acute stitches in right ear near tympanum.
Earache of children especially boys.
Otorrhœa of fetid pus.

Dry; brain affected.
Coryza with hoarseness and burning in chest.
Nose feels sore internally.
Swelling of one side of nose with loss of smell.

Pale, alternately with redness brain affections; earthy, with wandering expression; waxy, white or yellow in typhus.
Burning jerking stitching in infra-orbital nerve, with bluish eyelids; worse from least touch and in evening.
Scirrhus on right cheek, size of a walnut.
Cold sweat on forehead.

Lids and corners of mouth cracked, with yellowish ulceration.
Thick viscid humor (fluid) on the lips.

Herpes (yellowish in mouth from sea-bathing).
Drawing or smarting and stinging or roots of (upper) front teeth and in hard palate.
Gums painful while eating, ulcerated, white bleed easily.
Teeth feel long and loose, with swelling of submaxillary glands.
Grits the teeth.

Taste: sweetish; metallic; like spoiled cheese; bloody; bitter in fauces.
Tongue: dry, don't want to talk; coated at root and dry (brain diseases) swollen on left side; hindering talking; covered with vesicles.

Increased flow of saliva, with crawling in inner surface of cheek.

Herpetic-like eruption on tonsils soft palate and root of tongue; whitish somewhat elevated, ulcerated spots in mouth. θ Sequelæ to gonorrhœa.
Pain in posterior part of hard palate and in velum palati, especially when yawning.
Dryness of throat evening; mucus collects from posterior nares; soreness in throat; tearing in posterior fauces, more between acts of empty deglutition or after eating.
Cramps-like, strangling pain externally in muscles, when swallowing.

Aversion to: meat fish and sweat things; to cooked or warm things.
Thirst with heat in palms.
Insatiable hunger but no appetite for breakfast with hurried deglutition.

After eating: 3, 4, 16, 19, 26, 31, 40.
Worse from; sugar (heart-burn); wine (nearly all symptoms); milk (sour eructations).

Sweetish rising into throat, with sweet taste in mouth, or taste of blood.
Eructations, with pressure in middle of spine.
Heart-burn; swollen feet and varicose veins during pregnancy.
Subdued nausea, with universal, tremulous feeling.
Nausea in stomach, with retching and vomiting of bitter mucus; renewed by least motion.
As soon as first spoonful reaches stomach; up it comes.
Vomiting of blood or of sanguineous mucus, with effort.

Spasms of stomach and hypochondria, and a constriction in œsophagus, with dyspnœa and increased heat of the body; worse during inspiration.
Burning in pit of stomach when pressing thereon; in evening.
Burning in pit of stomach, before breakfast extending into œsophagus.
Hæmatemesis.
Sensation like a worm creeping up from pit of stomach into throat, causing coughing.

Cramp-pains in region of liver, with dyspnœa and hypochondriasis after eating.
Liver enlarged, hard and sore to touch; feet swollen; vomits bloody phlegm.
Stitches in spleen, worse pressure.

Pressure and tension in abdomen.
Flatulent colic, worse from wine, toward evening or during the night, and at rest; loud rumbling and rolling; retraction of abdomen; hot, moist, fetid, flatus passing off without relief; lead colic.
Violent bearing down in abdomen after a difficulty, scanty stool; relieved by passing flatus.

Stool: frequent small, sometimes involuntary; pitch-like; or dry, brittle and granulous; soft, papescent, or thin, with pale blood; difficult; hard dry, insufficient, expelled with much pressure.
Diarrhœa involuntary, with stupor. θ Typhus.

Violent pressure of urine on bladder; sits with legs crossed, and though bladder feels as if full, none passes.
Can only pass water while sitting bent backward; much sand in urine.
Urine turbid, loam-colored, in morning.
Frequent micturition of pale, yellow urine, which, on standing, deposits a white, flaky sediment.
Involuntary urination while walking, cough in and sneezing.

Easily excited; the emission, during an embrace, is too rapid; or, difficult and almost impossible.
Long-lasting and violent erections.
Copious discharges of prostatic juice, without any cause.
Orchitis: from a bruise, with drawing and retraction of one or the other testicle, goes from right to left; after checked otorrhœa.
Atrophy of testicles.
Spermatorrhœa; emissions without dreams, face pale, sunken, blue rings around eyes.
Hair falls off from genitals.
Removes buboes, syphilitic or otherwise, in left inguinal region.

Irresistible sexual desire at night; desire for onanism.
Boring pain in left ovarian region, better from pressure, but entirely relieved only during menstrual flow.
Amenorrhœa, with alternately red and pale face.
Dysmenorrhœa when, during menses, limbs feel heavy, with violent drawing about knees, as if they would be twisted off; sudden oppression of stomach, she has to loosen her dress; chilliness.
Menses: too early and profuse, lumps of coagulated blood pass away, mostly when walking; flow most profuse at night.
Ulceration of uterus, discharge bloody, acrid, but ulcers and rather destitute of feeling.
Leucorrhœa: of bloody mucus after menses, causing itching of vulva; of thick mucus, three days before and after menses.
Cutting colic, succeeded by leucorrhœa.
Pruritus vulvæ causes masturbation.
Varicose veins of external genitals, with fidgety feet.

Tendency to miscarry.
Puerperal convulsions if an eruption (especially a long-standing one) has recently disappeared.
Mammæ swollen and sore to touch; catamenia suppressed.
Soreness of nipples.

Asthma, evening after eating, from flatus, with increase of dyspnœa, when expectoration stops, decreasing when it recommences.

All night, with dull pains in chest; spasmodic, child puts hands to genitals, with varicose veins on legs; with shooting in scrobiculum, leaving when sputum is raised; worse after eating sweets; wine; also during menses.
Sputa: yellow, purulent, blood-streaked; tenacious; sweetish, putrid, or metallic-tasting; pure blood, morning and during day.

Pain in chest, as if cut pieces, with constrictive sensation.
Burning in chest.
Coldness in chest.
Stitches in left chest and in heart, at every beat.
Sensation of emptiness behind sternum.

Severe pain in cardiac region; some swelling and great tenderness.
Feels as if a cap were over the heart; spine affected.
Irregular, spasmodic action of heart; occasionally one violent thump.
Violent pulsation in blood-vessels, during heat.
Pulse: irregular, or small and frequent, evenings, slow mornings; increased by wine; scarcely perceptible.

Nape of neck feels weary and tired, from writing or any exertion.
Stiffness and tension of neck. Tearing pains.
Burning in shoulder-blades; tension between shoulder blades.
Burning along whole spine, worse sitting.
Pain in small of back on turning over in bed at night.
Pain in small of back, when sitting or when in act of sitting down; diminished by continuous walking.
Pain in last dorsal vertebræ.

Lameness and deadness of hands; they look bluish.
Weakness, numbness and tremor of hands, when writing.
Cracked and dry skin of hands, even in mild weather.
Chilblains itch and swell.

Varices in legs, with fidgety feet.
Formication in calves.
Sensation of stagnation in blood of legs.
Inflammation of tendo-achilles, erysipelatous; worse from touching heel too ground and from wine.
Feet are sweaty and sore about toes; fetid.
Paralysis of feet, from suppressed foot-sweat, by getting wet; worse from wine.
Chilblains, worse from scratching and friction.
Coldness of feet at night.

Rheumatism, tearing, lameness and trembling; or crampy pains; of twisting in affected limbs and frequent jerking of whole body during sleep; worse from being overheated and from exertion.
Great weakness: of limbs; especially of lumbar region and bends of knees, when walking in open air.
Sudden sensation of weakness in limbs, with canine hunger.

While writing: 31, 32. Walking: 2, 21, 23, 31, 34. From overexertion: 31, 34. Motion: 16. Sitting: 31. At rest: 19. Must sit bent: 21.

Twitching in various muscles.
The whole body jerks during sleep.
Hands tremble; grasps at flocks; or slides down in bed.
Chorea, depressed spirits, health suffers; caused by fright; suppressed eruption; worse after wine.
Beginning of locomotor ataxia, when lightning-like pains are marked and intense.
Spasms: child cross before attack, body hot, restless at night, fidgety feet, right side twitching; pale children, during teething.
Neuralgia after zoster; better from touch.

Drowsiness: with frequent gaping; and yet cannot sleep, head feels so light.
During sleep; cries out, awakens with fear; limbs and body jerk.

Acts better when given in evening.
Morning: 21, 27, 29. Forenoon: 40. Noon: 1. Afternoon: 2. Evening: 1, 2, 4, 8, 13, 17, 19, 26, 29. Night: 5, 19, 23, 27, 36, 40, 46. During the day: 27, 40.

Complaints from overheating: 34. Warm room: 3. Open air: 34, 40. Getting wet: 33. Sea-bathing: 10.

Chills: begin after eating dinner; in open air; on approach of a storm; run down back; alternate with heat; external, with increased internal, warmth; from touching anything cold.
Heat: internal, with cold sensation in abdomen and on feet; anxious sensation of heat, without any external heat, during the night; of face, with cool body in forenoon; in flushes, with violent trembling and short, hot breath.
Sweat: profuse all night, wants to uncover; easy during day, from exercise; offensive.

Right: 6, 8, 18, 36. Left: 2, 11, 18, 22, 23, 28. Right to left: 22. Above downward: 40.

Especially, in the anæmic; brain exhausted; not able to develop exanthemata.
Dropsy, with uneasiness in renal region.

Scratching: 4, 33. Touch or pressure: 8, 17, 18, 23, 24, 33, 36, 46.

Itching in bends of joints.
Pains, seemingly between skin and flesh.
Rhagades, mostly between fingers, bad even in mild weather.
Sudden itching here and there, especially in evening in bed, goes off by contact.
Dry herpes over whole body.
Neuralgia, following herpes zoster.

Zincum is followed well by Ignat, but not by Nux vom. which disagrees.
Antidotes to Zincum: Hepar, Ignat.
Incompatible Chamom., Nux vom.
Zincum picricum (preferable, with dull, heavy, periodic, occipital headache; pains in small of back as if struck).
Zincum sulph. is useful in persistent dysenteric discharges; cutting pains in side of abdomen; also good when cannot sleep because of jerking of legs.

Pure metallic zinc is triturated for use.

Zinc produces a marked derangement of the whole cerebro-spinal system; delirium, spasms, violent neuralgias, tremblings, extreme hyperæsthesia and paralysis. ▶ There seem no doubt that it affects not only the meninges of the brain and cord, but also the nerve-structure itself. ▶ Its action on mucus membranes is particularly seen in the eye, gastro-intestinal canal and bronchi. ▶ Its action on the blood is well established; marked anæmia (deficiency of red corpuscles) with profound prostration results. ▶ Its action on the skin is shown in the eczematous eruptions which it produces.

Plumb., Puls., Argent., Stram., Bell.

Emaciation; with feeble appearance, face wrinkled and bluish. ▶ Paleness of mucous surfaces, with disappearance of subcutaneous cellular tissue and atrophy of muscular system, agg. right side. ▶ Twitching of various muscles (Hyosc., Bell.); of body and face. ▶ Trembling after every excitement (Arg. nit., Stram.). ▶ Stretching of body and limbs, with pale, sunken face.

Sticking here and there in evening; tearing S. above left eye and at the same time in umbilical region. ▶ Sticking cutting in right side. ▶ Pain between skin and flesh; P. in left groin, near left side of naval, in left chest and left side of head; in abdomen, head and eyes in evening on lying down; in whole body, amel. rest; cramplike, here and there in muscles; cramplike, off and on all day.

Next after lung and digestive disturbances, and the so-called night-blindness, there appears after ten to twelve years' work, in the smelters, a peculiar affection pain in back, sensitiveness of soles, formication of lower limbs, numbness and coldness in the same, sensation of a band around abdomen and occasionally pain in muscles of lower half of body from crampy twitchings in them, sense of touch diminished, reflex excitability increased, but muscular sensibility weakened, so that there is staggering on closing eyes, and in the dark control of muscular power ceases, muscles remain well nourished and strong for a long time, but a each intentional movement diffused muscular tremor (Arg. nit.), later the gait becomes stiff, spasmodic, trembling and uncertain, the step is made on the full sole, finally weakness of lower and sometimes of upper extremities.

Pressing asunder upon walls of trunk, without trace of flatulence, caused by the nerves, agg. right side. ▶ Swollen sensation. ▶ Sensation of trembling without trembling. ▶ Discomfort. ▶ Throbbing through whole body. ▶ Muscular soreness; towards evening, with malaise. ▶ Dullness like slight nausea two hours after dinner, with tremulous feeling in chest, pain in forehead and inability to understand what he was reading. ▶ Unfitted for work (after vomiting), feels best when lying with eyes closed. ▶ Increase of vigor at first when walking, with lightness, afterwards weakness.

▶ Weakness; all day, with sleepiness, aversion to noise, yet difficult hearing, a dreamy condition as after a sleepless night, with shivering and cold creeping; in morning on waking; in morning, agg. lower limbs, with indolence; in evening; agg. right side; agg. after dinner, at time with tremulousness and heaviness of head; with aching in lumbar region; with pains in limbs; with sensation as if beaten; sudden, faintlike, when standing; dizzy, nauseating, as after smoking too strong tobacco, on remaining up long in evening.

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Emetic. Spasms, tremblings, hyperæsthesia and paralysis. Delirium, with spasms of the muscles. Inflammation of the serous membranes of the brain and spinal cord. Conjunctivitis.

Twitchings of various muscles.
Pains as if between the skin and flesh.
Pains tearing; < after becoming heated.
Violent trembling and throbbing of the whole body.
Sore pains, internal and external.
All the symptoms are < wine, and also by Nux Vomica and Chamomilla.
General restlessness at night, like "fidgets".
General aggravation in the afternoon and towards evening.

Clinical:
Locomotor ataxia, with trembling, unsteadiness, lightning-like pains.
Epilepsy of children.
Meningitis (tubercular).
Varicose veins, without swelling or inflammation.
Chorea, with incessant movements, especially during sleep (during teething).
Epilepsy (of children).

Fretful, excitable, easily offended.
Very sensitive to noise.
Easily startled, with persistent trembling, lasting a long time.
Becomes stupid and thoughtless; forgetful, with general lethargy and stupidity, with tendency to spasms.

Headache, extending from without inward; < the customary glass of wine.
Vertigo; cannot stand, preceded by pain at the root of the nose, followed by nausea, faintness and trembling.
Heaviness and dull feeling in the occiput; > hard pressure.

Clinical:
Meningitis, especially following suppressed eruptions, with hyperæsthesia of all the senses, trembling, twitchings, squinting of the eyes, convulsions.

Pain as from sand, in the evening and night, with lachrymation.
Burning, with dryness.
Inflammation of the inner corners, extending across the eye to the outer.
Catarrhal inflammation; < inner corner.
Pterygium.
Sense of paralysis of the upper lids.

Tearing stitching pains, with external swelling (of children), offensive discharges.

Pale; sudden stitches from zygoma to orbit, as if in bone, involving the whole upper jaw.
Lips cracked and ulcerated, or covered with thick, sticky exudation.

Teeth elongated and loose, with soreness.
Ulcers on the inner surface of the cheek and in the throat.
Blisters on the tongue.

Difficult swallowing on account of sensation of a ball rising up from the stomach.
A feeling of cramp in the œsophagus by the pit of the throat.

Great appetite, but aversion to meat and to sweets, particularly to wine.
Sour eructations, particularly after milk.
Heartburn from sweets.
Nausea and vomiting, < wine.
Sense of burning and heat, extending from the stomach up the œsophagus.

Pains in the hypochondria, particularly in the region of the spleen.
Flatulent symptoms, with rumbling and distention.
Cramp-like pains in the hypochondria, alternating with oppression of the chest and difficult breathing.

Burning, itching, crawling in the anus during stool.
Stools with the stupor, at times involuntary, thin.
Constipation of hard, small, feces, with burning, soreness and itching in the anus.

Involuntary spurting of urine when walking and coughing.
Micturition painful, with discharge of blood from urethra.
Urine turbid.

Testicles swollen; painful.
Drawing pains in the testicles, extending along the spermatic cords.
Leucorrhœa; bloody, with burning and itching of the pudenda after menses.

Clinical:
Suppressed menstruation, with soreness of the breasts and genitals, with restlessness, spinal tenderness, ovarian neuralgia.

Dry, spasmodic cough, < before and during menses, with stitches in the chest and oppression.
Cough, with easy expectoration at night when lying down; must sit up, with asthmatic breathing.

Weariness in the nape and back in the evening when writing.
Bruised or burning pains in the spine, above the small of the back.
Numerous sharp pains in the region of the kidneys, < when quiet or on rising from a chair.

Lancinating pains, extending transversely across above joints.
General bruised, darting pains in the morning on waking, with weakness and stiffness.
Trembling of the hands when writing, with weakness, < during menses.
Extreme restlessness of the lower extremities, particularly of the feet at night, like "the fidgets".
Burning pains below the knee.
Ulcerative pain in the heel.
Pains are < at night and walking, often extending the whole length of the limb.

Jerking of the whole body at night in sleep.
Starts from sleep, with jerking of the legs.
Screams out suddenly from frightful dreams.

External chilliness.
Febrile shivers, with flushes of heat, trembling of the limbs, short breathing and pulsation throughout the whole body.
Heat at night, often with sweat.
Offensive perspiration, especially on the feet.
Febrile paroxysms, < from 4 to 8 P. M.

ZINCUM. ZINC.

Rub a piece of pure metallic zinc on a whetstone under distilled water, in a clean porcelain bowl ; the gray powder deposited on the bottom is dried on white blotting paper, and one grain of it is used to prepare the dynamized preparations of zinc, in the same manner as with other dry drugs, in the manner described at the conclusion of the first part of Chronic Diseases, but with a greater number of succussive strokes than is indicated there. Where the dynamized preparation of zinc was homœopathically suitable, it also removed, if given in proper doses, the following ailments, if present : Indisposition to work and to walk ; thoughts of death, as if she had to die ; weakness of memory ; constant muddled sensation of the head ; gloominess ; sore pain in the head ; humming in the head ; pain of the hairy scalp, as if festering underneath ; baldness ; dryness of the eyes ; amaurosis, with contracted pupils ; paralysis and closing of the eyelids ; buzzing in the ears ; looseness of the teeth ; painfulness of the teeth when chewing ; sore pains in the teeth ; salty taste in the mouth, after eating bread, pressure in the stomach with nausea ; tensive pain in the sides of the abdomen ; inguinal hernia ; constipation ; soft and liquid stool ; involuntary discharge of stool ; itching on the anus ; tenesmus of the bladder, when he wishes to urinate ; involuntary urination, while walking ; the urine cannot be retained when coughing, sneezing and walking ; continuous erections by night ; seminal emission during coitus is too rapid ; the menses come too soon ; painful menses ; during the menses, inflation of the abdomen ; leucorrhœa. Coryza ; cough ; tensive in the sternum ; palpitation ; palpitation with anxiety ; irregular, spasmodic movement of the heart ; shocks of the heart, arresting the breathing, intermission in the heart-beats, causing the breathing to be arrested ; pains in the sacrum ; pains in the back ; drawing pain in the arm, of long standing ; sensation of dryness in the hands, in the morning ; the fingers go to sleep in the morning, while rising ; stiffness of the ankle-joint after sitting ; painful chilblains on the feet ; insensibility of the body ; sensation of coldness in the bones ; exostosis ; in the morning, a feeling of not having slept enough, sleepiness ; desire to sleep after meals ; the sleep at night, full of ravings ; frightful dreams ; talking and screaming in sleep ; tendency to perspire by day ; nocturnal perspiration. Too violent an action is moderated, but only for a short time, by a solution of camphor ; (sometimes by smelling of a preparation of ignatia) ; but the greatest moderation is effected by smelling of a preparation of sulphur. To the observation as to the peculiar symptoms of zinc. given in no 2 of Vol. VI of the Archiv fuer homœopathische Heilkunst by the Doctors Franz, Frz. ; Hartmann, Htm. ; Haubold, Hbd. ; Rückert, Rkt. ; and Stapf, Stf. ; as well as by Councillor, Baron von Gersdorff, Gff., I have added my own observations as well as those of a young learned man from Switzerland, Lesquereur, Lqr., and those of the Doctors Schweikert, Sw., Rummel, Rl. ; Hartlaub, Htb., and also the later observations of the above mentioned Councillor, Dr. Baron von Gersdorff, who has done so much to further the homœopathic art of healing. The symptoms marked [Ng.] are from the well-known anonymous prover in the Reine Arzneimittellehre of Doctors Hartlaub and Trinks. [*].

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ZN. / (Zinc.) / Zeno

Zincum met.,-In thee we find
State of stupor of the mind.
Frontal pressure on the brain,
Headache from a sip of wine.
Twitching, screaming out in sleep,
Trembling hand, and restless feet,
Weary name and spinal track,
Bruise-like pain in limb and back,
Sufferings that are manifest
From some form of rash suppressed.
Knotted veins thy legs display,
Burning in thy tibiae.
Itching canthi, dry and red,
Grumous lids at night in bed.
Itching anus, flatus hot,
Stools a dry and crumbling lot.
Urine only finding vent,
Free, when sitting backward bent.
Wine and warm food disagree,
Sweets of all kind not for thee.

Zeno,-Has twitching of the muscles.

Zeno Taren, the Grecian saint, is a twin to Val-agar Knight, the snob.

This Zeno,- Who suffers from suppressed rash, Is at the Grecian camp, in view of the Mosque of Bacil, with an eye set on Bryon Cooper, the Imp.

Twitching: ZN., Taren., Cic., Ig., Hyo., Stram., Val., Agar., Arg. n., Sul., Nux v., Bell.

Ailments Resulting from Suppressed Rash: ZN., Cic., Camp., Ver. a., Ars., Moss., Bacil., Apis., Sul., Thuj., Bry., Cup., Ipe. (From suppressed hives, Ars., Apis., Pul. From suppressed tetter, Alo., Amb., Dul.)

Indicated principally in diseases of the brain and spine, especially when, in children, it depends upon the suppression of an exanthem or upon teething, and in adults when a neurasthenic state prevails, usually the result of anxious overwork. Thus it is employed in convulsions of children from irritation due to teething or eruptive fevers, in meningitis and in effusion within the brain, from the same cause or from tuberculosis; in the epilepsy of young children, in the headache of brain fag, including headache of overworked school children; in locomotor ataxia; in hysteria, especially when there is paralysis of the bladder; in spinal irritation and sciatica; in such functional disorders of the female generative organs as are accompanied by abnormal sexual desire, spinal irritation and restlessness, with inability to keep the feet still. Also used in varicose veins of the legs, lead colic, and other conditions associated with the nervous conditions belonging to the drug.

Patient cannot keep still; is in motion all the time.

Continual restless motion of the feet.

Forehead cool; base of the brain hot.

Intolerance of wine; cannot stand it.

Weakness, trembling and twitching of the muscles.

Convulsions, with pale face.

During sleep cries out aloud without knowing anything about it.

Vertigo, with tendency to fall toward the left side; feels as though he would fall headlong; as though he would have apoplexy.

Headache, with aching in the nape of the neck; from overwork; from anaemia.

Spinal irritation, with pain in the lower dorsal and upper lumbar region.

Urine scanty; turbid, as though mixed with clay.

Bladder seems full to bursting, but has difficulty in emptying it; has to sit down and bend backward; and even then only a little passes (hysteria).

Women feel best while menstruating; complaints come on while menses are absent.

Intense sexual excitement; in women accompanied by bearing-down in the uterus, vagina and rectum.

Worse from touch; from drinking wine; in the evening, from 5 to 7.

Better from appearance of eruption; from discharges; while eating.

Moroseness especially in evening. Very sensitive to noise. Easily frightened, and long continued trembling after every emotion. Inclination to vehemence which greatly affects him. Extraordinarily changeable mood, in the morning buoyant, in evening sad.

Especially in occiput.

Tearing and drawing worse in sides and occiput. Stupefying ache with blackness before vision. Pressive pain in forehead, temples, and occiput, with confused dulness. Sore pain in. Dull cramp - like inward pressure in temples. Worse: In early morning, after eating after dinner, becoming heated, indoors, after walking in open air, laughing, towards evening, lying down, after wine. Better: Walking in open air, from cold water.

Painful soreness of. Falling of hair from vertex, even to baldness Sore smarting in integuments of, strongest in vertex and sides not affected by touch or suddenly better thereby. Violent sticking tearing as if between skin and flesh in both sides of. Worse: Physical exertion. Better: Fasting, when eating, rubbing, scratching, often suddenly ceases when touched.

Inward pressure on. Fiery flakes before, on looking upward. Painful soreness on canthi Paralysis of upper lid.

Earache with tearing stitches and external swelling, especially in children. Purulent, stinking discharge.

Swollen, with loss of smell. Fluent coryza.

Earthy pale. Tearing in bones of. Lips and angles of mouth are cracked and ulcerated. Lips are coated with a thick clammy moisture.

Painful soreness of. Tearing in molars. Gums whitish, swollen and ulcerated.

Small yellow ulcers inside of cheeks and on fauces, much mucus in throat, which also extends through' choanae into mouth. Bloody saliva. Sensation of spasm of oesophagus in region of throat - pit. Painful soreness and dryness of throat. Hoarseness.

Burning and soreness in. Disagreeable warmth at cardiac orifice orifice and up oesophagus.

Hypochondria: Spasmodic pains, alternating with oppression in chest. Pressure under short ribs with hypochondriacal mood, after eating. Stitches in spleen.

Appetite: Excessive hunger. Aversion to meat, fish and eceked, warm or sweet foods.

Taste: Salty in mouth.

Eructations: Sour, especially after milk. Heartburn after sweet foods. Water brash.

Spasmodic colic about navel. Tension in distended abdomen, with rumbling. Inguinal hernia.

Soft, papescent, diarrhoeic. Hard, dry and unsatisfactory.

Itching, crawling and painful soreness in.

Presses heavily within bladder. Involuntary spurting or, when walking, coughing etc., Discharge of blood from urethra after painful micturition. Nephritic and vesical calculi.

Painfully swollen testes. Painful soreness of scrotum. Great incitation to coition with seminal discharge. Nymphomania in lying in women, with great sensitiveness of sexual organs. Grasping at the genitals.

Menses: Too late. Suppressed with painful mammae and genitals.

Spasmodic tightness of chest. Shortness of, from flatulence, after every meal. Oppressed from a sense of pressure on chest. Suffocative paroxysms.

Dry, spasmodic c., with chest pains in evening and night. Exhausting c., excited by tickling in larynx and trachea as far down as the middle of the chest. In morning and during day with expectoration of yellow, blood - streaked, tenacious mucus of a repulsive, sweetish, putrid of metallic taste. Hemoptysis.

Burning and soreness in. Spasm in throat pit.

Burning and soreness in Accumulation of mucus in. Stitches in left side of Spasm of. Roughness and dryness in. Feeling of coldness in. Emptiness in. Heaviness and bursting pain in. Suppressed secretion of milk in lying - in women. Palpitation.

Sticking, pressing, painful soreness in region of kidneys. Pain in sacrum.

Tearing in muscles of arm. Deadness of hands with paralysis thereof. Numbness and trembling of hands. Cracks on hands.

Tearing in. Large varicose veins on legs, which sometimes burst and bleed. Cold feet at night. Trembling of.

Tearing rheumatic pains in extremities. Worse from physical exertion or when becoming heated. Violent, tremulous jerking of entire body in evening. Violent throbbing throughout whole body. Painful soreness externally as well as internally. Spasms after fright. Chorea Twitchings, in children. The pains of Zincum often seem between the skin and flesh. Wine, Nux-v. and Cham. greatly intensify nearly all symptoms, especially the restlessness at night and constipation. Most symptoms appear after dinner and toward evening.

Violent, sticking itching, especially in evening in bed disappearing instantly from touch. Suppurating herpes. Cracked. Bony exostoses. Varicose veins.

Continuous desire to. Broken, at night, disturbed by fanciful dreams. Sleepiness with constant yawning.

Pulse: Small and quick in evening, slower in morning and during day. Sometimes intermittent. Great throbbing of blood vessels during day. Sometimes intermittent. Great throbbing of blood vessels during the heat. Chill: Mostly beginning after eating and continuing till late in the evening even in bed. Shuddering in open air and from touching a cold objects. Alternating with heat, frequently during day. Cold shivers which run down the back. Shuddering c., before the approach of stormy weather. Constant external chilliness with increased internal warmth. Febrile shivering with flying heat, violent trembling of limbs short, hot breath and throbbing through out on-line body. Heat: Internal, with cold feeling in abdomen and feet. Anxious sensation of heat, without external heat, throughout entire night. Of face, with cool body in forenoon. Over - running, flying heat with great trembling and short, hot breath. Sweat: Copious, throughout entire night, with inclination to uncover. He sweats very easily from any motion during the day. Offensive.

Allied Remedies: Arg-n., ARN., BAR-C., Carb-v., Gel., Euphor., HEP., IGN., Lach., Mgs., M-art., M-aust., MERC., Phos-ac.

Complementary: Pul., Sep., Sul.

Deathly sickness at the stomach with marked nausea.

Pallor of the body surface, with low fevers, inclining to coma.

Variableness of the symptoms.

Twitching of the members.