Tetradymite

Tetradymite.

Rare crystals from North Carolina and Georgia, containing about 60 parts of Bismuth, 33 of Tellurium, 6 of Sulphur, and traces of Selenium and Iron." Trituration.

Coccygodynia. Nails, ulceration of; ingrowing. Tendo Achillis, pain in. Urticaria.

Hering proved Tetradymite, taking about five grains of the 1st trituration. The most prominent symptoms were pains occurring in small spots; ulcerative pains about the nails, and a sharp attack of urticaria from eating shell-fish. Pains in ankles, heels, and tendines Achillis were also severe, and these were < rising from a seat.

After waking in morning, made anxious by street noise.

Pains in r. temple; in occiput.

Pains in l. ear, afterwards in r., as if bones sore.

Repeated sneezing on going out; with discharge of thin mucus.

Great hunger in morning.

Pasty, scanty, lumpy stool, light yellow, with biting burning in anus.—No stool second day; third day, in morning, scanty, soft stool with much pressure and discharge of blood; in evening another soft stool with much black blood.

Violent erections in morning.

Griping as with pincers, followed by violent sticking in upper chest, beneath l. shoulder, repeated at intervals; afterwards in l. elbow.

Pain in l. leg, and l. elbow.—Frequent pains in margins of nails as if an ulcer would develop, painful on pressure, as if burning and sore in small spots, esp. r. middle finger.

Stiffness in l. arm as if lame < about elbow-joint, at part where ulnar nerve is exposed, constant inclination to stretch, twist, or turn arm.—Violent pain in hands as if in bones or nerves.

Pains in small spots.

Very sleepy, weary and ill-humoured while riding in carriage.—Awoke 3 a.m. from a dream that a steer was following him, and as though he had often had the dream before, which was not so.

Sweat, esp. on occiput and on nape; at night, though the night was cool and windows open.