Anthracinum

(Anthracinum)

II Anxiety, particularly in precordia.

II Delirium.

II Depression, with debility, and chill.

II Excitement.

II Loss of consciousness.

II Thinks she feels death approaching.

I Disinclined to work.

(Anthracinum)

III Headache, as if a smoke with a heating pain was passing through the head (fumée de douleur chaude) ; two shepherds who caught it from their flock.

II Confusion.

II Dizziness with pain in head.

II Headache with chill.

II Here and there in all parts of brain small and large hemorrhages of embolic origin ; after death from anthrax.

II If fully conscious they complain of great pain in head.

II Membranes of brain exhibit circumscribed or symmetrically extended bloody infiltrations.

II Pain in head, dizziness ; inner anthrax.

II Uncomfortable feeling in head, slight chills, mild fever.

I Dizziness.

I Flying gangrene, head swollen (in swine).

I Head is affected in an indescribable manner.

I Swelling of the head (sheep).

Eyes And Sight.- (Anthracinum)

II A pale yellowish or greenish swelling, if in the eyelids, of a half-translucent aspect.

II Great dilatation of pupils ; inner anthrax.

I A pale redness above the brows along the forehead.

Ears And Hearing.- (Anthracinum)

II Ringing in the ears ; inner anthrax.

I Swelling extending backward over the angle of the r. lower jaw, which could not be felt and up to near the ear.

Nose And Smell.- (Anthracinum)

II Bloody suffusions on mucous membrane of nose.

I Intense redness of the r. half of nose, extending to the cheek.

(Anthracinum)

I A large stony, hard, pale swelling around the r. lower jaw, nearly painless, disfiguring the face.

I A stony swelling around the r. lower maxilla, the inner space of the mandibula filling up to half, reaches to nearly half the cheek, and disfiguring the face, extending backwards over the angle of the lower jaw ; very little pain, not red, but sharply defined edges.

I Beginning of swelling was in the region of the r. submaxillary gland.

I Could not move the lower jaw as usual.

I Could open the mouth only so far as to put the point of the tongue out.

I Erysipelatous, dark brown redness and swelling over the whole right side of face, the nose and part of l. cheek ; swelling very hard, redness does not disappear under the pressure of finger.

I Extending to cheek, redness from nose.

I Gland under the chin painfully swollen.

I Impossible to open the jaws in the least.

I Swelling extending from the inner edge of the left lower jaw across the whole throat, in front and over the edge of the r. lower jaw, and au niveau with the upper surface of the r. lower molars.

I Tearing in the right lower jaw.

Teeth And Gums.- (Anthracinum)

I On making an incision near second molar a mass of stinking, brown ichor is discharged.

Taste, Tongue.- (Anthracinum)

II Tongue often furred, with a thick brown coat ; dry.

I Flabby taste.

(Anthracinum)

II Bloody suffusions and hemorrhagic collections on the mucous membranes of canthi of mouth and nose ; inner anthrax.

II Continued bleeding from the mouth ; the blood shows a lack of power to coagulate ; with inner anthrax.

II Dark red, bloody ecchymoses of mouth.

II Superficially escharred pustules in mouth after death.

I Fundus of mouth is elevated by the swelling, as hard as a callus, extending back to the parotids, and reaching up to the external surface of the lower jaw.

I Offensive odor from mouth. Mouth could not be opened.

I Saliva increased.

(Anthracinum)

II Slight difficulty in swallowing ; inner anthrax.

II The submucous tissue, especially in fauces and around the larynx, is thickened and oedematous.

I Could not swallow, with great thirst.

I Cynanche cellularis ; a sharply-marked margin about the swellings.

I Region of the throat above the larynx to the mouth swollen.

I Right tonsil hurts.

I Swallowing exceedingly difficult.

(Anthracinum)

III Loss of appetite, prominent in every patient.

II Loss of appetite and gastralgia ; inner anthrax.

II Loss of appetite, with chills.

I Excessive thirst, but can hardly swallow.

I Symptoms from putrid water.

(Anthracinum)

II Gastralgia.

II Mucous membrane of stomach and intestines reddish, swollen, with isolated or numerous oedematous, hemorrhagic prominent infiltrations, from size of a lentil to that of a coffee bean, showing a grayish or greenish-yellow discolored surface, with a positively sloughing centre.

II Nausea and vomiting with chill.

II Numerous peculiar hemorrhagic and superficially eschared infiltrations of stomach and intestines ; intestinal anthrax.

II Vomiting followed by diarrhoea.

II Walls of stomach and intestine oedematous, discolored, a cloudy red.

I Pressure and burning in the region of the stomach.

(Anthracinum)

II Bellyache with chill.

II Colicky pains ; inner anthrax.

II Enlargement of spleen.

II Epidemic spleen disease of cattle or horses.

II In the intestines a thinly fluid material, slightly colored with blood.

II Mesenteric and retro-peritoneal glands enlarged to the size of a walnut ; form blackish-red masses, held together by a jelly-like congestive tissue, infiltrated with serum.

II Moderate serous or sero-hemorrhagic effusion and sub peritoneal suggilations.

II Mycosis intestinalis ; intestinal anthrax.

II Peculiar pustular and carbuncular foci in the intestinal tract.

II Serous and sero-hemorrhagic infiltrations of the peritoneal and mesenteric connective tissue, walls of stomach and intestine, and of the mucous membranes.

II Simple hemorrhages, infarctions and foci on different parts of intestines.

II Swelling of the abdomen ; inner anthrax.

II The retro-peritoneal and mesenteric connective tissue infiltrated, jelly-like, and of a yellowish-reddish color.

II The same disease in sheep. Anthracinum suum is better than Anthracinum ovium in the acute form, but in the chronic form Anthracinum ovium is better.

I Sensation as if the diaphragm was pushed forward.

I Sensation of anxiety and constriction, most in the praecordia, liver engorged, slight hemorrhage here and there, spleen moderately enlarged, soft, full of blood, dark color.

Rectum And Stool.- (Anthracinum)

II Diarrhoea.

II Vomiting followed by a painless, moderate, more or less intense, often bloody diarrhoea ; inner anthrax.

II With the diarrhoea sometimes a cholera-like collapse ; inner anthrax.

(Anthracinum)

II Kidneys swollen, with oedema, sprinkled with small hemorrhages, engorged ; suggilations in mucous membranes of the pelvis.

Respiration.- (Anthracinum)

II Breathing frequent, laborious ; quick, spasmodic ; inner anthrax.

(Anthracinum)

II Oedema of the mediastinal lymphatic glands.

II Slight serous effusions into pleural cavities.

II Sub-pleural ecchymoses with vascular engorgement, and a dark coloring of the parenchyma.

Heart, Pulse And Circulation.- (Anthracinum)

II Blood not coagulating.

II Blood of a dark cherry red, generally fluid or with some loose clots.

II Cyanosis ; inner anthrax.

II Discolored lines over the veins, or red lines and stripes in the course of the lymphatics.

II The beating of the heart stronger, more decided and more perceptible.

Neck And Back.- (Anthracinum)

II Carbuncle on the back, nine inches in length and five inches in its greatest width ; with sloughing, abundant discharge of ichorous, terrible smelling pus, and blood-poisoning by absorption of pus.

Upper Limbs.- (Anthracinum)

II Felon, the worst cases, with sloughing ; severe torturing pain and great prostration.

I Arms and hands covered with a crusty eruption, full of cracks, discharging pus and an acrid fluid, with painful, unbearable itching ; checked for a while by the Old School, it had burst out again with terrible fury.

I On the middle of the palm of the hand a large blister, which, when opened, discharged a yellow watery fluid.

I The whole left hand (not the fingers) swollen, highly reddened, very painful ; the redness extended over the whole hand and even the wrist, and a red streak ran up the forearm.

I Whitlow.

Lower Limbs.- (Anthracinum)

II Severe pains in limbs and joints with the fever ; intestinal anthrax.

I Above the knee, redness, swelling and pain, and later a large black blister on inside of thigh, extending four inches upward and inward ; after being lanced bloody water ran out.

I Bluish-brown spots which break open.

I Foot oedematous.

I From the openings on lower leg, caused by the fracture, a copious stinking pus (like carious bones).

I On outside of knee a large fluctuating swelling, by pressure discharging a horribly smelling gangrenous ichor.

I The whole thigh was swollen, most above the knee, and also the foot.

I Thighs livid to the nates, hard and painful ; lower legs dark blue, feet oedematous ; when the blisters break they discharge an offensive ichor.

(Anthracinum)

II Cholera-like collapse after diarrhoea.

II Clonic spasms, trismus or opisthotonos ; sometimes in serious cases.

II Debility and depression, with pains in limbs and general sense of malaise, followed by disturbance of intestinal canal ; inner anthrax.

II Debility with chill.

II Epileptiform convulsions ; inner anthrax.

II Great restlessness.

II Great weakness with the fever.

II Marked rigor mortis after death.

II Opisthotonos ; inner anthrax.

II Sudden fatal issue, preceded by extreme collapse.

II Tetanic spasms in upper limbs.

II With cyanosis, asphyxia and the most extreme collapse, followed by death in all cases of bleeding.

I Completely exhausted, she thinks she feels death.

(Anthracinum)

II Restless sleep, with chill.

II Somnolence ; inner anthrax.

I Restless, irritated at night.

I Sleeplessness.

(Anthracinum)

II Chilly, with debility, headache, followed by a general malaise, loss of appetite, restless sleep, great debility and depression, and in eight or ten days carbuncles, most on the arm, forearm, head.

II Cold sweats in serious cases.

II Decided chill, followed by bellyache, nausea, vomiting and in two or three days with the supervention of collapse and cyanosis ; death.

II Febrile movement, slight in the beginning, is often followed apace -by high fever ; great weakness, delirium, excitement, confusion.

II Slight chills with fever and strange sensation in head.

II Sweat all over with debility.

II Temperature very slightly elevated ; inner anthrax.

I Copious sweat.

I Disposed to sweat ; rather sticky.

I Fever with diarrhoea.

I Heat, thirst, less appetite, suffering and fatigued.

I Moderate heat, little thirst, general sweat.

I Very much fever.

(Anthracinum)

III Anthrax carbuncles cured by Anthracine, every day, also externally, in four days.

III Carbuncle with horrible burning pains ; or discharge of ichorous offensive pus.

II A little red speck, like a flea-bite, with a central black point, swells gradually and changes into an itching papule, capped with a small, clear, reddish or bluish vesicle, gradually enlarging.

II Anthrax pustules most on face, forearms, hands, fingers, neck, less often the ear, still less frequent the covered parts.

II Black blisters, fatal in twenty-four to forty-eight hours.

II Carbuncle darkish red, greasy, and is often more eroded than ulcerated.

II Carbuncle on arm, forearm, head. See chill.

II In case of more than one detritus, the whole is swollen like erysipelas, and when cut it looks like the Vespajas of the Italian dermatologists.

II Large cutaneous eschars.

II Little carbuncles ; inner anthrax.

II Papules and pustules, with extensive oedematous and phlegmonous infiltration of the neighboring skin and subcutaneous tissue.

II Small and large epidermal vesicles filled with serum.

II The anthrax pustule penetrates deeply into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

II The dense or doughy soft papules or pustules, around and beneath the eschar, vary in size from a pea to a nut.

II The excoriated spot dries up, becomes brown and livid and a local eschar forms.

II The papule promptly bursts and discloses a dark red base.

II The secondary vesicles contain a yellowish, reddish and blackish fluid.

II With an increase of the round thick eschar, one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch, the raised border also extends.

I After having taken homoeopathic medicine for malignant ulcers, suddenly the greatest malaise, and a black blister formed below the knee with swelling all around, and feverish shaking chill through the whole body.

I All openings run into one, discharge much pus.

I Black or blue blisters.

I Blister on palm of hand.

I Carbuncle.

I Chronic forms of anthrax with indurations like knots under the skin.

I Crusty eruption discharging acrid fluid.

I Crusty oozing eruption, with the most violent itching.

I Erysipelas gangrenosa.

I Erysipelatous form of chronic anthrax.

I Erysipelatous inflammation about the carbuncle.

I Itching with dry skin ; violent as if mad (horses).

I Large black blister on inside of thigh.

I Most malignant gangrenous ulcers (sheep).

I Seventh day after the remedy several larger and smaller openings, discharging watery, sometimes bloody matter, very little pus ; swelling less hard around the base.

I Skin dry, itching violently and burning.

I Small-pox of sheep.

I Ulcus excedens (sheep).

I Unbearable itching on arms and hands.

ELECTRICITY.

(Electricity)

II Involuntary hysterical laughter.

II Loss of memory.

II Weeping, timid, fearful ; sighing, crying out through nervous fear.

Sensorium.- (Electricity)

II Loss of sensibility.

II Stupefaction.

(Electricity)

II Headache ; pressure in the forehead, from above downwards, as from a stone.

I Tearing from the nape of the neck to the forehead.

(Electricity)

II Blindness.

II Everything looks yellow.

II Inflammation of the eyes ; profuse lachrymation.

I Black point before the right eye.

(Electricity)

II Blisters behind the ears full of an acrid fluid.

(Electricity)

I Loss of smell.

(Electricity)

I Large blisters on the cheeks.

Mouth and Pharynx.- (Electricity)

II Foam at the mouth.

II Increased secretion of saliva.

II Swelling of the tongue.

II The tongue is very sensitive, particularly at the tip.

Stomach, Nausea and Vomiting.- (Electricity)

II Heartburn.

(Electricity)

II Cutting in the abdomen at the approach of a thunder-storm.

(Electricity)

II Frequent micturition.

I Sensation as if the bladder would burst.

Female Sexual Organs.- (Electricity)

I Black and thick menstrual blood.

(Electricity)

I Boils in the back and nape of the neck.

Upper Limbs.- (Electricity)

II Feeling of numbness in the tips of the fingers.

II Frightful pains in the arms and lower limbs.

II Paralysis of the arms.

I Swelling of the hand, also red, or sudden.

I Trembling of the hands.

Lower Limbs.- (Electricity)

II Burning in the feet, up to the knees, particularly at night.

(Electricity)

II Ecchymoses.

II The skin becomes blackish.

General Symptoms.- (Electricity)

II Drawing through all the limbs, extending to the tips of the fingers and toes.

II Fainting.

II General languor after a meal.

II Pains in the limbs.

II Paralysis of single limbs, particularly the lower.

II Stiffness of the limbs.

II Trembling of the limbs, particularly of those which have received the shock.