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General

Electricitas.

Electricity. The effects of atmospheric electricity and static electricity. Attenuations are made from sugar of milk saturated with the current.

Clinical

Chorea. Headache. Hysteria. Paralysis. Rheumatism.

Characteristics

Caspari is the authority for the symptoms caused by electricity, but every one knows the powerful effect exercised on some persons by the approach of a thunderstorm, and the influence of an electric current. Nervous tremors; anxiety; fear; restlessness, anxiety, and anguish; violent headaches; palpitation; swelling of parts, are among the most prominent symptoms. Dr. Seward (Med.

Adv., xxvi. 150) has related a number of cases in which the injudicious use of electric baths brought on phthisis. In another case the chest and arms became stiff and paralysed. A young married woman, who had general and local (uterine) electric treatment, complained after it of feeling very heavy, as if she weighed a ton. One patient, after a bath, said his chest and shoulders "felt like marble." He became phthisical and died.

The paralysis caused by electricity was in several cases quickly relieved by Morph. acet., both in the solution and in the potencies.

Relations

Antidoted by: Morph. acet. I have found Phosphorus the best antidote to the effects of storms. Electricity antidotes Mercury. Compare: Galvanismus and Magnetismus.

Mind

Tears, sometimes with timidity

Sighs, sometimes with tears; the patient cries aloud

Restlessness, anxiety, anguish, sometimes more particularly in the chest; internal anguish; violent agitation; timidity; fear on the approach of a storm

Ill-humour

Involuntary laughter

Furor

Loss of consciousness; insensibility; foolish actions; haggard eyes

Errors in the appreciation of time; loss of memory.

Head

Giddiness, esp. on stooping

Confusion of head

Dulness

Embarrassment in the head

Vertigo

Cephalalgia

Pains in the head, sometimes drawing

Bruise-like pain in occiput

Crushing pressure in forehead, as from a stone

Shootings in r. side of head, or from vertex to the temple, and r. side of forehead; tearings in the occiput, from the nape of the neck to the forehead

Painful cramps in the head

Disagreeable shaking, most frequently from behind

Violent pulsations (beatings), or else heat throughout the head

Murmuring throughout the top of the head

Dartings in the head, as from pins

Tingling in the teguments of the head

Ebullition under the scalp

Sensation of cold in the vertex

Sensation of torpor in a part of r. side of head

Darting itching on the head and legs

Scurf on the scalp

The growth of the hair much promoted.

Eyes

Aching in the eyes, as from dryness

Gnawing sensation in l. eye, or else violent drawing pains, extending to forehead

Sensation as if the eyes were much sunken

Sensation as if something were passing out of the eye

Redness of the vessels of the conjunctiva, as far as the cornea; of the edges of l. eyelid, at the exterior angle

Inflammation of the eyes

Swelling of edges of eyelids, at the external angle

Considerable lachrymation

Lachrymation, esp. of r. eye

Wandering and haggard looks

Contraction of pupils, which were abnormally dilated

Clouded vision

Everything appears pale

Blindness

Sight improved (curative symptom)

Little black spots before r. eye

Objects all appear yellow to the sight

A dark room appears to be illuminated.

Ears

Pains in the ear

Drawing pains from the jaws to the ears

Lancinations in r. ear, proceeding from the neck

Pulsations in the ear

Redness and heat of the ear

Swelling of the interior of the ear

Suppuration, and a small pustule in the auditory duct

Vesicles full of acrid serum behind the ear

Augmented secretion of wax

Murmuring, sometimes with a sensation as if a flock of wool were before the ears.

Nose

Tingling in the nose, or else with pressure outwardly

Epistaxis

Loss of smell

Sneezing

Augmented secretion of nasal mucus

Discharge, on blowing the nose, of a liquid like milk; aggravation of preexisting coryza.

Face

Colour, bright red

Expression of alarm on the face

Increase of sweat on the face

Violent drawing pain above l. eyebrow

Contraction of the muscles of the face, esp. of the mouth

Swelling of the face

Scabby eruption on the face, on the arms, and over the body

Large blisters on the cheeks

Lips cracked; the upper lip puffed out

Eruption about the mouth and on the chin.

Teeth

Tearing pains in upper teeth, proceeding from the head

Pain as of subcutaneous ulceration in places once occupied by molar teeth

Quick dartings in a hollow molar tooth

Quick growth of the teeth in children

Drawings in the gums, proceeding from r. ear.

Mouth

Increase of excoriation already existing in the interior of the mouth

Pain of excoriation, and excoriation in the interior of r. cheek

Great dryness of the mouth

Augmented secretion of saliva

Foam at the mouth

Sensitiveness of the tongue, esp. at the point, which is also red

Papillae very prominent

Dry tongue, charged with a yellow coating

Swelling, thickness of the tongue

Vesicles on the tongue, with pain of excoriation

Dumbness, inability to utter a sound

On the palate, vesicles with desquamation of the epidermis.

Throat

Constant tickling in the throat

Pressure on swallowing

Difficult deglutition

Inflammation of the gullet.

Appetite

Sour taste

Increase of appetite

Great inclination to eat between meals

Thirst during febrile shivering

Pyrosis

Abundant accumulation of water in the mouth

Loathing

Nausea, sometimes after a meal, with a more abundant accumulation of saliva

Retching, with inflammation of throat, and cough

Vomiting, and inflammation of the throat

Vomiting of blood.

Stomach

Fulness of the stomach, after eating the least thing.

Abdomen

Spasmodic tension and contraction in the abdomen

Aching in the abdomen

Colic

Cutting pains on the approach of a storm, or else with diarrhoea

Dartings from l. to r. side

Shivering in the abdomen, or else burning, sometimes with tension

Inflation of the abdomen, borborygmi in the abdomen, sometimes with fermentation.

Stool And Anus

Fruitless inclination

The stools are at first facilitated, and afterwards restricted

Stools frequent and liquid, of a blackish yellow, and of a fetid smell

Diarrhoea, sometimes entirely liquid, hot

Tenesmus and cutting pains

Diarrhoea with colic, or else at the approach of a storm

During the diarrhoea, retraction of the testicles

After the diarrhoea, constriction in anus, with dry stools

Heat in the whole body

Violent pressure in the rectum (during the stools)

Burning in anus

Haemorrhoidal flux.

Urinary Organs

Sensation as though the bladder were going to burst

Augmented secretion of urine

Very frequent emission of urine

Involuntary emission of urine

Urine, in the morning, an orange-yellow; during the day, like water in which meat has been washed

Urine thick, deep-coloured

Red like blood, abundantly charged with mucus

Discharge of blood with the urine

White sediment.

Female Sexual Organs

Appearance of the catamenia (in the electric bath)

Copious menses, sometimes with pressure in the rectum

Blood of the catamenia, black and thick

Leucorrhoea, at first serous, afterwards thick, in pieces of the size of a hazel-nut.

Respiratory Organs

Roughness of the larynx

Cough, with much tickling in throat, or else with pressure in forehead from within outwards

Short irritable cough

Spitting of blood

Feeble and faint respiration

Respiration arrested

Dyspnoea

Respiration accelerated

Asthma, sometimes lasting for life, with palpitation of the heart, and disposition to syncope; oppression of the chest.

Chest

Constriction of the chest

Pains in the chest; sensation of coldness in the l. side

Chest and shoulders feel like marble.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart, sometimes esp. at the approach of a storm, or else with a disposition to fall in syncope

Palpitation of the heart with fever, or with headache, or else with restlessness and vivid redness of the face

Painful and rapid lancinating pain proceeding from the heart across the chest.

Neck And Back

Difficulty in moving the neck

Tingling in a muscle shortened by suppuration

Dartings in an enlarged gland of the neck

Tingling in the vertebral column

Furunculi on the back, and nape of the neck

Drawing pains across the shoulder-blades, as by a thread

Burning in the shoulder.

Upper Limbs

Tearings in r. shoulder, which disappear in the heat of the bed

Excruciating pains in arms (and legs)

Intense pains at night

Startings, or else tearings, in articulations of arms and hands

Paralysis of the arms, one being much swollen

Scabby ulcer in the arms (and on the legs)

Violent starting in the upper part of the arms

Drawing pain in the radius of r. forearm

Violent tearing in hand

Trembling of the hands

Sensation of paralysis in the articulation, on the slightest movement

Prominence of the veins

Swelling of the hand, sometimes red, or itching

Red smooth spot on the hand

Whitish, itching place in the palm of r. hand

Tension or drawing pain in the fingers

Sensation of torpor at the ends of the fingers

Vesicles full of a greenish liquid, sanguineous at the articulation of the finger which has received the shock.

Lower Limbs

Heaviness of the legs

Lassitude of the thighs on going up an ascent

Sensation as though the flesh were detached from the bones

Red itching place on r. thigh

Sensation of heat over the whole thigh

Trembling of the knees

Tearings in the knees

Dartings, or tension, or else tingling, extending to the foot

Pain as of a wound in the knees and great toe

Red place, with pain of excoriation, or else, a red and itching protuberance in the knee

In the tibia, sensation of turning round, or else lassitude

Red spot on the skin

Burning in the feet, sometimes reaching to the knees, esp. at night; great internal heat, internal coldness, extended by a cool summer wind to the abdomen

Sensation of fatigue, with trembling in the feet

Sensation of swelling, of numbness, and torpor; rotative sensation in the soles of the feet

Sensation as if a large ring were round the malleoli

Itching of foot, or else red and itching vesicles on foot.

Generalities

Pains in the limbs; grievous pains; pains in old wounds, or in enfeebled bodies, from a change of temperature Draggings in all the limbs, as far as the ends of the fingers and toes; nocturnal shootings, in parts which are paralysed, or else in those which have been electrified; shaking of the whole body, commencing in the maxillary bones; tingling in the parts electrified; violent burning in those which touch the chain General depression and weariness, sometimes with giddiness or with drowsiness; lassitude and stiffness of the limbs; general depression after a meal; uneasiness during a storm

General relaxation of the powers, sometimes with moral depression and headache; relaxation of the nerves and muscles; diminution of the weight of the body; weakness of the parts shaken Syncope, and tendency to fall down Stiffness of the limbs; paralysis of some of the limbs, esp. of the inferior extremities Trembling of the limbs, chiefly of those which have been shaken; general trembling

Springing up of the tendons Convulsions of the limbs Painful spasms along the back St.

Vitus' dance Epileptic fits hastened and aggravated.

Skin

Itching, or else tingling over the whole body (violent pains and swelling of one of the feet which had been frozen twelve years before)

Eruption of small nodosities on the spots touched by the sparks; eruption like miliary or measles; white vesicles; itch-like eruption at the joints; of carbuncles, which proceed to suppuration

The skin becomes black; wheals on the skin.

Sleep

Yawning and stretching, sometimes with shuddering over the whole body

Great drowsiness

Profound sleep

Sleeplessness, sometimes with tossing

Sleeplessness for two months

Dreams confused and disquieting.

Fever

Shuddering over whole body, every morning, with yawning Coldness of l. side Fever: at first general shivering, afterwards heat, transient and dry; frequent alternations of shivering and heat, with inflammation of the throat; heat mingled with shivering; shivering, with much sweat; painful cramps in head and along back; fever in the evening Augmentation of natural heat; internal heat of the parts which have sustained the electric shock; blood much over-heated; heat, with cephalalgia, or else with anxiety (at night), or else with strong and quick pulse; heat of whole body, with shivering brought on by motion; heat of the parts struck by the electric spark; intermittent pulse, lively, quick and strong; circulation of the blood accelerated; prominence of the veins of the hands

Increased perspiration; excessive nocturnal sweat, in gouty persons, without mitigation; copious sweat during sleep, with anxiety during a storm.