Osmium
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General EN
Osmium.
OSMIUM. The Element. Os. (A. W. 190.3). Trituration of the precipitated metal.
OSMICUM ACIDUM. Osmium tetroxide. OsO4. Dilutions with absolutely pure water.
Clinical EN
Asthma. Bronchitis. Cold, liability to. Coryza. Cough, spasmodic. Eczema. Erections. Glaucoma.
Headache EN
Hernia.
Herpes iris.
Larynx, pain in.
Penis, sores on.
Pollutions.
Post-nasal bleeding.
Post-nasal growths.
Spermatic cords, pains in.
Sternum, pain in.
Syphilis.
Syphilitic eruptions.
Testicles, pains in.
Tongue, sore.
Trachea, pain in.
Characteristics EN
Osmium is a metal of the Platinum group, in association with which it is always found. It is the heaviest of them all and the most refractory, having never been fused. It derives its name (όσμή odour) from the pungent odour of the fumes of Osmic acid, which are evolved in the process of separating Platinum from its ore, and the effects of which have supplied a number of valuable symptoms in cases recorded by J. G.
Blackley (C. D. P.). In the arts it is used in the alloy with iridium (Iridosmium or Osmiridium) for making the tips of gold pens.
Triturations of the pure metal have been proved. The symptoms of the metal and of the acid are taken together. The odour of Osm. closely resembles that of Chlorine, as also do its irritating effect on the respiratory mucous membrane. The odour imparted to the secretions is various it makes the urine smell like violets; the eructations like radishes the axillary sweat like garlic.
The respiratory tract is irritated from beginning to end, and not only irritated but pained. The nostrils and larynx are sensitive to cold air. There is pain in larynx, trachea, and in and under sternum on coughing. Even talking causes pain in larynx.
Cough convulsive in paroxysms; hollow sounding as if one coughed into an empty tube; caused by irritation in larynx or low down in chest. As with so many remedies causing cough and asthmatic symptoms, Osm. is no less irritating to the skin, producing all degrees of irritating eruptions, eczematous and herpetic. In one of Blackley's cases a child born during the time that his father was under the influence of Osm. ac. developed eczema, though none of the previously born children were eczematous.
In one of the provers the eruption proceeded from above downwards, the eruption disappearing from the upper part of the body and becoming worse on the lower. The downward direction of the symptoms also appeared in the male generative sphere, which was profoundly influenced: "Weakness in both groins towards cords." C. M. Boger (Med.
Couns., xvi. 264) cured a case in which there was pain in both directions: "Stitching pain upward in left spermatic cord. Creeping sensation downwards in left spermatic cord. Weakness in calves; they give out while walking." [Shootings in the sternum are "up and down."] In another case (man, 44, syphilitic) he cured: "Dull, steady pain in hypogastrium, sore to pressure. Steady aching in glans penis." In the provings the erections were severe almost to priapism, and the ejaculations were longer-lasting and more copious than normal.
The kidneys were affected in one of Blackley's cases, incipient nephritis being set up. The headaches of the provings were of a violent description, many of them affecting the base of the brain. A woman, 62, to whom I once gave Osm. 2x for a spasmodic cough with pain in the head had a severe aggravation, the headache taking this form: "Sharp pain in centre of forehead going through to back; > by hard pressure on forehead." She discontinued Osm. and in two or three days that pain went away, leaving only an ordinary headache.
The cough was not relieved. G. S. Norton (H.
W., xviii. 263) suggests that Osm. may be a remedy in many cases of glaucoma. Among the peculiar sensations are: As of a band round head. As if he had swallowed broken stones. Cough as if caused by resonance of contiguous parts.
As if insects crawling on back and shoulders. Legs and feet as if too full. The symptoms are < by touch (tongue, sternum). < Riding (hoarseness).
< Coughing; talking (pain in larynx). Most symptoms are < evening (cough, skin, restlessness). Cough < till midnight. Open air < (coryza, cough).
(One prover was less liable to taking cold in November than usual.) Open air > (smarting in eyes).
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Sulphuretted hydrogen, Phos. ac.; Sil. (swollen gums); Hep. and Spo. (pain in larynx); Bell. and Merc. (laryngeal catarrh). Compare: Iridium, Selen., Tellur., Thall., Plat., Pallad. In eyes and lungs, Chlor., Bro. Skin of nails, Flu. ac. Itch, Sul. Coryza, cough with pain in larynx, Cep. (but Cep. has > in open air). Eruptions, Ars., Rhus.
Mind EN
Morose, irritable, impatient
Weeping mood, screaming with cough
Weak, gives up
Consciousness of mental weakness; misplaces words
Thoughts of accidents having happened to others, these thoughts grow upon him as if he were to do the same injuries to others
Disinclination for work.
Head EN
Dull, heavy headache
Violent headache above and under the eyes, one-sided, extending to the ears;
< below the eyebrows; the eye waters
Headache in r. upper forehead, a tearing to and fro deep in; at same time similar pains in bones of limbs, deep in, evening
Sharp bewildering pain centre of forehead going through to back, > by pressing on it
Aching: in base of brain and jaws at night; extending from base of brain into jaws;
< temples, with pain in larynx and hoarseness; nearly preventing sleep; like a band around head above ears
Pain in vertex and occiput all the afternoon, < throwing head backward, with fulness
Falling off of the hair.
Eyes EN
Sharp pain in orbit (as if in bones); lids spasmodically closed
Burning pain in eyes, with profuse lachrymation
Weakness of sight (< r. eye)
Dimness of sight; letters run together as from a fog
Smarting, > open air, but leaving eyes weak, so as to prevent reading, all objects surrounded by a coloured halo, eyes red and swollen
Flame of candle surrounded by a bluish-green or yellow circle; or a rainbow ring; the flame looks larger or less distinct; at a distance it seems enveloped by dust or smoke
Veins at fundus large and tortuous.—(Glaucoma.)
Ears EN
Ringing in r. ear
Tingling and pain in r. ear
Earache evenings; first r. then l. ear
Severe pains in l. petrosum.—[Perforations with irritation of meatus (both sides), sneezing, catarrh, sore throat, pasty posterior nares
Itching in the ears; profuse nasal catarrh
Meatus and membrane look red, and latter is perforated; thin but stringy discharge from nose
Deafness; ears pain when nose is blown; mouth open; sleep noisy
Girl of 14 with post-nasal growths improved rapidly under Osmic acid, 3x, but was seized with exhaustion; then under Hydroc. ac.; got quite well.—(Cures by Cooper)].
Nose EN
Sensation as if blood rushed into nose from head
Coryza with sneezing
Sneezing and fluent coryza, with tickling in larynx, with difficult respiration
Discharge from posterior nares of loose mucus
Burning irritation in nose
Nostrils sensitive to cold air
Sense of smell diminished.—(Post-nasal growths: adenoids
R.
T.
C.)
Teeth EN
Jerking pain in a r. upper hollow molar, often preventing, speech, afterwards the pain returned but was drawing, > sucking it with tongue
Sudden swelling of gum above root of an upper l. incisor after eating pears, with pain and numbness;
> by Silic.
Mouth EN
Aching in jaws; pain in muscles of mastication
Tongue: coated; and bad taste to coffee; fissured and one spot denuded; edges rough (and covered with pimples); red stripe in middle (paining as if sore)
Tongue sensitive to touch when eating and drinking
Mouth sticky and pasty
Copious salivation
Taste of blood; metallic; unusual to tobacco, it causes scraping in throat, cigars cannot be smoked because they provoke cough and < the rawness in larynx; taste blunted.
Stomach EN
Aversion to cocoa
Eructations; nausea; vomiting
Qualmishness and extreme discomfort, with dull pain and heaviness in pit of stomach
Aversion to coffee and tobacco, disgust at their odour
Eructations of odour of radishes
Nausea: in morning, with discomfort in pit of stomach; on coughing; after eating, with pain and heaviness in pit of stomach when riding in open air;
> empty eructations
Vomiting of watery mucus of the odour and taste of the acid, with blackish-grey flakes of mucus
Paroxysmal vomiting of water, afterwards of yellowish and tenacious substances
Distension of stomach and abdomen in evening, with difficult passage of flatus
Constriction in forenoon; in epigastrium before dinner (which I take at 12.30), with weight and often a feeling in stomach as if I had swallowed stones
Chronic vomiting, with pressure in stomach.
Abdomen EN
Abdomen distended and sensitive; much rumbling
Pain in groins, that on coughing extended into testicles
Pressure on inguinal rings
Weakness in groins towards spermatic cords.
Stool And Anus EN
Diarrhoea: nine or ten times daily, preceded or followed by colic, nearly always with black blood (no haemorrhoids);
(diarrhoea after coffee)
Stools mushy, frequent
Bilious stools, partly fluid, delayed, hasty, with burning at anus
Constipated stools; small, delayed
Stool: hard, then soft, orange-coloured; dry, full of air, delayed, next day scanty and small; only a small lump like a marble, difficult
Tendency to piles
Urging but passage of only flatus; urging, then stool, first part hard, then soft, with burning in anus preventing sleep, urging with desire for stool, but evacuation of only a little mucus
Constipation
Burning in anus during and after stool.
Urinary Organs EN
Diminution or suppression of the urinary secretions
Urine albuminous; strong-scented (high-coloured, smelling of violets, apparently full of bile); dark brown (porter-coloured) and scanty; deposits bright-red sediment
Bright's disease.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Violent pain on the point of penis and prepuce
Glans red on l. side, during coition a long-lasting emission of semen
Throbbing, stinging, pinching in l. side of glans
Hard erections; often after midnight, always on waking in morning, later they last longer, even after rising, desire moderate
Erections every morning, earlier and harder
Pain: in r. testicle; in testicles, preventing sleep all night; in spermatic cords, < l.; in spermatic cords extending into testicles, with inflammatory swelling of r. inguinal glands
Appetite suppressed, the conjugal act done by volition, and the usual thrill in ejaculation absent.
Respiratory Organs EN
Larynx, tickling; sore pain; burning
Mucous secretion increased; profuse secretion of mucus in air passages; it hangs in larynx like a string, causing hawking and coughing with straining to vomit; has to swallow it; when sneezing the mucus becomes loose easily
Dryness of the throat when coughing
Hoarseness and pain in larynx; with cough and coryza
Hoarseness, < from singing, and < on entering the house
Burning irritation in trachea
Spasmodic coughs in attacks (with twitching of fingers, dryness of throat and crying)
Cough sounds as if one coughed into an empty tube; or as if caused by resonance of contiguous parts
Cough with sneezing
Cough: only in morning; from scraping in larynx; with pain in larynx; with constriction of trachea; convulsive; in short bursts on rising, without expectoration, in short bursts (after coryza), returned during day, disturbing sleep till midnight, from tickling in larynx, after sneezing a lump is loosened, which he must swallow; dry, spasmodic; dry, rattling, difficult to loosen; short, dry, paroxysmal, as if mucous membrane would be torn off, with and followed by raw, sore pain in larynx and trachea, extending to middle of sternum
Hacking cough;
> deep inspiration;
< motion in open air, with irritation in larynx
Cough, with secretion of colourless mucus
Bronchitis
Chronic dyspnoea.—(Heaves in horses.)
Chest EN
Moist râles on breathing and in larynx
Wandering pneumonia
Sticking near l. lower rib
Pain beneath sternum on coughing, extending to sides of chest, with burning soreness, after coughing long lumps of yellow, tenacious mucus were loosened
Sternum sore, painful to touch, independent of cough
Shooting up and down in sternum
Oppression;
> deep inspiration, with difficult respiration as if lungs were collapsed and could not get air enough
Tightness, dread of breathing, sore pain when air enters lungs
Dryness in chest.
Heart EN
Anxious palpitation.—Pulse rapid.
Back EN
Pressive pain in back and loins
Pain: in sacral region
Peculiar pain extending from scapula to sacral region, < motion and cough.
Limbs EN
Heaviness and weariness of limbs, < knees.
Upper Limbs EN
Perspiration in axillae smelling like garlic
Pulsating stinging on inner side of r. shoulder-joint
Pinching above l. elbow, inwardly and on inner posterior side
Pain: in middle of l. humerus, then in l. fingers; in bone of l. elbow
Paralytic pain deep in radius
Pinching in bones of r. forearm
Pain in bones of l. wrist in morning after stool
Pain in r. index, esp. in phalanx, stinging and twitching towards tip, in forenoon
Stabbing: in tips of l. fingers and thumb; in attacks, in finger tips, < l
Burning pain in l. ring finger
Fold remains attached to growing nail, < r. side and mostly middle finger.
Lower Limbs EN
Rash on thighs and on ankle
Fulness and restlessness in legs and feet, quite unbearable; has to lie down at 9 p.m
Legs almost insensible
Sudden pain in hip-joint as if it would be dislocated, preventing walking
Ulcerative pain in l. leg and gluteal muscles
Pain in r. ankle
Flying cutting in bones and joints of r. foot
Pinching in bones of l. heel, then r.
Generalities EN
Great weakness and prostration (all day, with muddled head and aching limbs and body; on rising; on rising after a restless night).—Cutting and pinching pains in limbs.—Tearing to and fro deep in r. upper side of forehead and in bones of limbs in evening.—General sick feeling.—Restless.
Skin EN
Red spots on dorsum of hands Copious exanthema on forearms, hands, and cheecks Red-brown papules, with desquamation, on forearm and hand Small, itching, pointed vesicles, surrounded by red areola on back of l. hand, between thumb and index (where six years before scabies had broken out), and on ulnar margin of l. hand, from metacarpal joint to phalanges of little finger, and on outer surface of wrist, on r. hand itching, but no vesicles
Itching as from crawling of insects Face red, tender, covered with pimples with watery heads, then pimples on knuckles, gradually spreading over hands and arms, later hands and forearms covered with red, slightly raised circular or elliptical patches, covered with concentric scabs, resembling later stages of herpes iris, most of patches deeply fissured, patches irritable, < morning on rising and at night on undressing, papules on neck Redness of hands and arms, with swelling and itching pimples, gradually becoming vesicular; on face, neck, and forearms patches of vesicles on an elevated base, the latter hard, brawny, and pitting on pressure, towards the edges the patches consist of one or two vesicles on the summit of a large pimple, contents of vesicles watery, occasional cracking of affected skin and constant oozing, the itching makes him irritable
Eruption on forearms, head, and side of face Eczematous rash on face and upper limbs Prickly heat disappears on upper half of body and increases on lower, first on thigh, then on leg, then on ankle Burning stitches in many places, < r. upper lid and at inner border of nail of l. fourth finger
Itching: on legs and ankles, in spots near l. hip, 3 to 4 a.m., when erections return; above crest of l. ilium, with redness and pointed spots as if tetter would appear; as from crawling insects, on shoulders and back in evening on going to bed, it scarcely permits sleep.
Sleep EN
Sleepiness; overpowering
Sleepless
Restless sleep; with painful dreams
Sleep heavy, interrupted by nightmare
Dreams: of fire, confused, but not frightful; unremembered of activity and of serious and important events.
Fever EN
Shivering, < back
Fever, with difficult respiration; fever, with hot and dry skin
Sweat in axilla, smelling of garlic, < evening and night.