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Antimonium Muriaticum

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General

Antimonium Muriaticum.

Chloride of Antimony. Butter of Antimony. Sb. Cl3. Trituration.

Clinical

Cancer of lip.

Characteristics

This remedy is unproved. It has been used in cancer of lower lip. Poisoning symptoms show-stupor, insensibility, collapse and cold, clammy surface. Pupils inactive, eyes sunken, lustreless. Nausea, vomiting, burning pains in throat and stomach; frequent abortive efforts to defecate. Mucous membranes destroyed.

Relations

Compare: Other antimony salts; Acids; Arsen., Carb. v., Conium (cancer of lower lip and ineffectual urging to stool).