Plumbum

► Wild delirium, with distorted countenance. ► Much depression of spirits, especially with the colic. ► Quiet and melancholic mood. ► Anxiety, with restlessness and yawning.

► Stupefaction of head, he falls down unconscious. ► Vertigo, especially on stooping, or when looking upward.

► Heaviness of head, especially in cerebellum. ► Congestion of blood to head, with heat and beating in it. ► Headache as if a ball was rising from throat into brain. ► Paralysis occurring early ; cerebro-spinal meningitis. ► Meningitis, chronic, when the paralyzed parts soon fall away in flesh, the limbs become painfully contracted ; frequent spells of colic with retraction of the abdomen.

► Great dryness of hair, it falls off even in beard.

► Cloudiness before the eyes, inducing one to rest them. ► Ophthalmia, lachrymation, photophobia, redness of the whole ball. ► Yellowness of whites of eyes. ► Pupils contracted. ► Hypopyon after iritis ; nightly tearing pains in eye and forehead. ► Eyeball feels too large. ► Lids spasmodically contracted. ► Paralysis of the upper lids.

► Stitches and tearing in ears. ► Hardness of hearing ; often sudden deafness.

► Erysipelatous inflammation of nose ; vesicles on alae. ► Fetid odor before nose. ► Much tough mucus in nose, which can only be discharged through posterior nares. ► Cold nose.

► Face pale, yellowish, like a corpse. ► Bloated face. ► Swelling of one side of face. ► The skin of the face is greasy, shining. ► Painless peeling off of the lips.

► Lock-jaw. ► Tearing in jaws, relieved by rubbing them.

► Grinding of the teeth. ► The teeth become black. ► Yellow mucus on teeth. ► Teeth hollow, decayed, crumbling off, and smelling offensively. ► Gums : swollen ; show a lead-colored line ; painful, with hard tubercles.

► Taste sweetish. ► Tongue : dry, brown, cracked ; coated yellow or green ; inflamed, swollen ; heavy, paralyzed ; hurts as if bitten.

► Accumulation of sweetish saliva in mouth. ► Froth in mouth. ► Dryness of mouth. ► Aphthae, dirty-looking ulcers, and purple blotches in mouth and on tip of tongue.

► Constriction in throat when trying to swallow, with great urging to do so. ► Sensation of a plug in throat. ► Globus hystericus. ► Tonsils inflamed, covered with small, painful abscesses. ► Diphtheria, with tendency to sloughing. ► Tough mucus in fauces and posterior nares. ► Angina granulosa, going from left to right. ► Fluids can be swallowed, but solids come back into mouth ; burning in oesophagus and stomach some hours after eating ; stricture from spasm.

► Great hunger. ► No appetite, but violent thirst.

► After eating : 13.

► Eructations : empty ; sweetish. ► Gulping up of sweetish water. ► Vomiting : of food and of discolored substances, with violent colic ; of food in morning, with great weakness ; of greenish and blackish substances ; or of a thick white substance, like white of egg in chronic gastritis. ► Vomit has a fecal odor.

► Violent pressure in stomach, and pain in back ; at times better bending backward, at others bending forward ; better from hard pressure.

► Violent colic, abdomen drawn in, as if by a string, to the spine. ► Cutting, contractive pains, with restless tossing ; better from rubbing, or hard pressure. ► Constriction of intestines, naval violently retracted. ► Abdomen hard as a stone ; knots in recti muscles ; anxious, with cold sweat and deathly faintness. ► Large, hard swelling in ileo-coecal region, painful to touch and motion. θ Typhlitis. ► Inflammation and gangrene of bowels. ► Incarcerated hernia. ► Intussusception, with colic and fecal vomiting.

► Stool : fetid, yellow and fecal ; watery with vomiting and violent colic ; bloody masses ; watery dark offensive. ► Constipation, stools hard, lumpy, like sheep's dung ; with urging and terrible pain from constriction or spasms of anus. ► Light-colored stools θ Jaundice. ► Fissures of the anus. ► Anus feels as if drawn upward.

► Morbus Brightii, contracted kidney. ► Diabetes. ► Necrotic cystitis from decomposed urea. ► Urine : passes in drops strangury ; will not pass, as from atony of the bladder ; dribbles, is high-colored and fetid.

► Increased desire and violent erections. ► Impotence. ► Testicles drawn up ; feel constricted. ► Genitals swollen and inflamed.

► Cessation of menses on invasion of colic may re-appear after paroxysm or not again till next period. ► Menorrhagia, with sensation of a string pulling from abdomen to back. ► Wants to stretch limbs during ovarian pains ; ovarian dropsy. ► Climacteric period ; dark clots alternately with fluid blood or bloody serum, with sensation of fulness in pelvis and slight bearing down pain in small of back.

► Feeling as if there was not room enough in abdomen at night in bed must stretch violently. ► Abortion from lead poisoning or the child lives but a year or two.

► Constriction of larynx. ► Aphonia from paralysis of the vocal cords.

► Want of breath ; oppression from motion ; short-breathed on going up stairs. ► Heavy difficult breathing. ► Spasmodic dyspnoea.

► With expectoration of blood or of pus after hemorrhage from the lungs ; dry, spasmodic ; worse lying on back and after getting out of bed in morning.

► Stitches in chest and sides. ► Copious muco-serous or purulent expectoration. ► Suppuration of lungs. ► Circumscribed pulmonary mortification ; also cheesy pneumonia.

► Rush of blood to heart, during a rapid walk ; anguish, cold sweat ; stitches during inspiration ; hypertrophy. ► Pulse : variable, generally small and slow ; contracted ; at times hard and slow ; at others small and accelerated ; sinks even to 40.

► Tension in neck, extending to ears, when moving head. ► Pains in back, better sometimes by bending forward, at others by bending backward. ► Stitches in back and small of back.

► Convulsive motion of arms and hands with pain in joints. ► Weakness and painful lameness of arms. ► Wens on the hands.

► Drawing, pressive pains in sciatic nerve down to knee with difficult walking and great exhaustion afterward ; tubercular diathesis, with dry, hacking cough. ► Sciatica, when there is marked consecutive muscular atrophy ; or earlier, when walking causes great exhaustion. ► Cramps in the calves. ► Swelling of the feet. ► Fetid foot-sweat.

► The pains in limbs are worse at night and are relieved by rubbing. ► Paralytic weakness in extremities especially on right side ; hands and feet cold ; total want of sweat.

► Paralysis : preceded by mental derangement, trembling, spasms, or by shooting, darting, intense, tearing pains in tracks of larger nerves ; the parts emaciate ; wrist-drop ; caused by apoplexy, sclerosis of the brain or progressive muscular atrophy ; alternating with colic. ► Epilepsy, chronic forms ; before the spell, legs heavy and numb, tongue swollen ; afterward, long-lasting, stupid feeling in the head.

► Somnolency. ► Great sleepiness during the day. ► Sleeplessness at night from colic.

► Open air : 40, 46. In bed : 40.

► Chill predominates increasing toward evening, with violent thirst and redness of face. ► Coldness in open air and when exercising. ► Internal chill with external heat, in evening. ► Chilliness in all the limbs. ► Heat with thirst, anxiety, redness of face, and sleepiness. ► Internal heat in evening and at night, with yellowness of the buccal cavity. ► Sweat anxious cold and clammy or want of sweat. ► Sweat comes and goes, as soon as he gets into bed.

► The ailments develop themselves slowly and intermit for a time ; intermission every third day.

► Right : 33. Left to right : 13.

► Sensation of constriction with pain and spasms in internal organs. ► Tearing sharp pains, with cramps.

► Emaciation. ► Dropsical swellings.

► Sensitive to the open air, dry, yellow, or pale bluish. ► Dark brown spots on skin. ► Decubitus. ► Burning in ulcers small wounds become easily inflamed and suppurate. ► Gangrene.

► Lead poisoning is antidoted by ; Alumen, Alum., Opium, Petrol., Nux vom., Platin., Ant. crud., Coccul., Zincum. ► Alcohol as a preventive.