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Galvanismus

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General

Galvanismus.

Galvanism. ("Z" signifies zinc, "s" silver, and "c" the copper pole.) Attenuations are made by triturating sugar of milk which has been subjected to the influence of either pole.

Clinical

Asthma. Brain-fag. Diarrhoea. Epilepsy.

Fever

Haemorrhoids.

Hydrocephalus.

Paralysis.

Rheumatism.

Salivation.

Tetanus.

Tongue, affections of.

Toothache.

Vision, illusions of.

Characteristics

Caspari is the authority for this medicine. The most prominent symptoms are muscular contractions; shuddering, shivering, cold-water sensations on skin or else burning. Disorders of sight and hearing with confusion of the head and headache. There is also putrid smell before nose. Many sensations appear in the tongue, and there is salivation. Catamenia copious. Farrington gives "benumbed feeling at the back of the head in brain-fag, the positive pole being applied to the cervical region, the negative to the vertex."

Relations

Compare: Kali bro., Gels., Electricitas, Magnet. p. arct., Magnet. p. aust.

Mind

Sobbing; peevishness

Inquietude; oppression

Anxiety

Anguish, with oppression of the chest, and rattling respiration

Ill-humour; vexation; obstinacy

Dulness of mind; incapacity for labour

Rambling thoughts

Zoomagnetic symptoms

Unusual vivacity and activity of mind, without force of will, with loss of command, almost entire, over the motions of the limbs.

Head

Head confused to an excessive and painful degree; perplexity and giddiness in the head

Vertigo: with confusion of the head, and lights before the eyes; with deafness; with alternation of heat and cold

Cephalalgia; violent pains in the direction of the ears

Sensation as in coryza, in the head and nose

Pressive headache

Congestion in the head

Noise in the head, like bellowing, or boiling

Chronic hydrocephalus.

Eyes

Sharp pains in the eyes

Aching of the eyes

Pulsation in the eyes

Jerking of the eyelids

Inflammation of the eyes

Redness of the eyes, esp. of the conjunctiva

Swelling of the eyes

Stye

Lachrymation

Difficulty in moving the eyelids (ameliorated)

Convulsions of the eyes

Pupils contracted

Weakness of sight

Amaurosis

Objects appear to be twisted

Objects seem enlarged

Objects appear: to quiver; more clear; brighter; bluish, or of a deep blue (z)

Blue colour seems to be greenish, yellow, or red

Red, to be green, blue, or slightly reddish, according to the pole which is used

The earth and air appear to be white as snow

Before the eyes, lightnings; a globe of light; scintillations; reddish light.

Ears

Violent pains in the ears

Pulsations

Sensation as if little balls circulated in them

Incisive pains, as if galvanic rays were passing through them (s)

Redness of the galvanised ear

Inflammation and suppuration of the exterior of the ear

Absence of ear wax; discharge, at first serous, afterwards like pus, by the ear which is deaf (s.)

Ulcers in the ears, sometimes with sanious discharge

Discharge of blood

Deafness; whistling in the ears, sometimes with tinkling; noise as in swallowing (s)

Sound of bells; sound of wind instruments; murmuring; uproar; detonation, like the report of a pistol.

Nose

Severe aching in the nose (s)

Incisive and darting pains

Tickling (s)

Sensation of coldness

Excoriation of the mucous membrane

Epistaxis

Putrid smell before the nose (s)

Great inclination to sneeze (s)

Coryza.

6, 7.

Face and Teeth

Redness of the face, as in erysipelas

Swelling of the face

Swelled cheek, with toothache

Convulsions of the lips and of the muscles of the face

Burning on the skin, under the eyes

Lancination in a rheumatic swelling of the cheek, as in a wound

Toothache, sometimes with swelling of the cheek

Pain in a hollow tooth, with salivation.

Mouth

Augmented secretion of saliva; salivation during the toothache; the saliva has an alkaline taste (c); abundant secretion of clear saliva, which leaves an acid taste in the mouth; saliva flows from the throat in a stream.—Caustic sensation on the tongue (c); coldness (s); heat (z); painful lancinations; pulsation; sensation as if coal were on the tongue, a tumour, or a boil, or else as though a hole had been pierced in it; blunted sensitiveness of the tongue; heaviness, with difficult speech; convulsive contractions.

Throat

Pains in the throat; heat; swelling of the amygdalae

Painful sensation in swallowing

Abundant expectoration of mucus

Cramp of the gullet.

Stomach

Acidulated taste in the mouth; acid (z); metallic (z)

Frequently, diminution of appetite, much thirst; sometimes with burning heat of the body

Risings, with cutting and pinching pains in the abdomen; nausea; vomiting, sometimes of a grass-green liquid (c); violent vomiting.

Abdomen

Tension in the pit of the stomach

Colic (bellyache)

Dull colic

Pinching and cutting pains in the abdomen, as from flatus, with risings, emission of wind, and diarrhoea

Borborygmi in the abdomen.

Stool And Anus

Urgent inclination to evacuate, with sensation of increased peristaltic movement, and evacuation of abnormal stools (z, on the tongue; s, in the anus)

Stool promoted, in constipation

Copious evacuation, at an unusual time

Two evacuations during the night; diarrhoea, sometimes with violent vomiting

After the diarrhoea, lassitude like that caused by bodily fatigue, and profound sleep

In the rectum, pulsation and movement (z)

In the anus, contractions

Haemorrhoidal symptoms; increase of haemorrhoidal flux.

Urinary Organs

Great heat in the bladder (z)

Violent pains in the neck of the bladder

Augmented secretion of urine

Turbid urine, with thick and reddish sediment; increased emission in gonorrhoea.

Male Sexual Organs

Erections, sometimes very strong, and without lascivious ideas.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia copious; the menses appear each time the patient is galvanised.—Suppressed catamenia quickly reappear, but nevertheless fail to appear at the following period.

Respiratory Organs

Spasmodic movements in the larynx, which ascend and descend

Painful irritation in the throat

Cough, dry; humid; with patients who have tubercles the nodosites speedily soften and break, and the fatiguing cough disappears

Difficult respiration; asthma (c) respiration deep, slow, rattling

Respiration impeded by each shock.

Chest

Great oppression of the chest, with great anguish, and palpitation of the heart

Pulse accelerated, intermittent, or rather full

Accumulation of saliva

Tightness in the pit of the stomach, and abundant secretion of a red and hot urine

Violent pains in the chest

Pressure in the chest

Palpitations of the heart.

20, 21.

Neck, Back, and Limbs

Nape and neck stiff, as from rheumatism

In the shoulder, stiffness and difficulty of movement

Burning and pulsation, with dragging pains extending to the fingers

In the arm, draggings and tension (c); heat (z); coldness (c); tetanic stiffness, with difficulty of movement and lassitude

In the hand, itching, sometimes in a swelling on the hand, which soon becomes painful and suppurates

Burning, as from hot coals

Fingers, almost always benumbed

Heat in the fingers (z); coldness (s); incisive and piercing pains (s)

Sensation as though the finger were wrapped up, as when inflamed and swollen; itching eruption in the articulations

On the legs, re-appearance of an itch-like re-percussed eruption

Trembling of the muscles in the thighs, and the calves of the legs, during sleep (c)

Painful sensation commencing in the toes, and extending into the abdomen.

Generalities

Painful tension throughout the body; many electric shocks in the body during the night; slight shocks like shivering Tetanus; recurrence of epilepsy cured a long time previously The epileptic attacks, which occurred at night, now take place in the daytime Contraction of the flexor muscles (z), of the extensor muscles (c), starting of the tendons

Disposition to tremble Valetudinary condition; lassitude, sometimes with drowsiness, or else following diarrhoea; fainting; asphyxia Great sensibility of the galvanised part Congestion of the parts touched.

Skin

Scarlet redness of the legs, of the arms, of the chest, and of the neck, with miliary eruption (c)

Inflammation and swelling of the galvanised part

Miliary scarlatina, over the whole body, except the face; the margins of the ulcers become more inflamed; the parts (galvanised) where have been blisters, become painful, brown, swelled, or else discharge much corrosive serum.

Sleep

Drowsiness

Sleeplessness, sometimes complete; disturbed sleep

During sleep frequent smiling

Uneasy awakening

Dreams of chewing something which seems to have an agreeable flavour; vivid dreams; dreams in which the sleeper appears to fly.

Fever

Sensation of coldness in the body (c); coldness of the arm (c); sudden sensation as of being sprinkled with cold water

Shuddering, with febrile shivering, in hysterical patients; quaking shivering

Febrile movements; alternation of heat and shivering; sometimes with shivering, headache, burning in the throat, and difficult respiration (c)

Heat augmented: in the arm; along the nerve of a paralysed part; throughout the body; flying heat, or else as intense and burning throughout the body (c)

Burning on the skin (under the eyes, or else in the shoulder and the hand) as if from contact with live coals (c)

Pulse: full, hard, and strong (z); rapid, and full; rapid, small, contracted (c); irregular (c)

General perspiration

Copious sweat, which is acidulated (c).