Antimonium Tartaricum ant-t.

MUCOUS MEMBRANES. Pneumogastric nerve: Bronchi. Lungs. Heart. CIRCULATION. Respiration. Stomach. Bowels. Sleep. Lumbar region. Skin.

WARM: Room. Wraps. Weather. Anger. Lying. Morning. Overeating. Cold. Dampness.

Expectoration. Sitting erect. Motion. Vomiting.

Depression. LACKS REACTION. INCREASINGLY WEAK. DROWSY, SWEATY AND RELAXED. MUCH SECRETION OF MUCUS. Old people and children. Complaints arising in digestive sphere.

Icy finger-tips. Whines before attack, cough, etc. Crushing weight on chest. Won't be touched or looked at. Prostrated in mind and body. Stupid on awaking. Unwilling to be looked at or touched. Wants to be carried up-right. Mucus in tarsi. One eye closed. Upper lip drawn up. Tongue: thick white pasty coat; very red or red streaks; dry down middle. Flow of saliva. Craves apples. Vomits or expectorates with great effort. Abdomen feels full of stones. Expectoration: gluey; suppressed. Feet go to sleep on sitting down. Shocks on dropping to sleep. Asphyxia neonatorum. Apathy or easily annoyed; wants to be let alone. Peevish, whining and moaning. Clings to attendants. Consciousness wanes on closing eyes (Cann-i.). As of a lump in forehead. Sooty or flapping nostrils. Sickly, sunken , pale, bluish or twitching face; covered with cool sweat. Papillæ show through white coat on tongue. Tongue flabby, red in streaks. Craves acids, which disagree. Belchings, like bad eggs. NAUSEA; in waves; with weakness and cold sweat (Lob. Ver-a.), loathing or anxiety. Forcible vomiting; then exhaustion and sleep (Æth.). Violent retching. Sinking at stomach. Mucus or grass, green stools. Diarrhœa; of eruptive diseases. Unequal breathing. SUFFOCATIVE SHORTNESS OF BREATH; before cough or alternating with cough; a leaflet seems over trachea. LOOSE, COARSE, RATTLING COUGH; CHEST SEEMS FULL, YET LESS AND LESS IS RAISED; then vomiting or sleep (Æth.); < anger. Must sit up to breathe or cough. Coughs and yawns alternately. Thick expectoration. Capillary bronchitis or bronchitis. Pleuro-pneumonia. Paralytic depression of heart and lungs (Bar-c.). Violent (lumbar) backache; < lifting; motion excites retching and cold sweat. Restless arms. Dropsy of legs. Yawning; with many complaints. SOMNOLENCY; with all complaints, or from warmth. Torpid, cool, SWEATY SKIN. Delayed or receding, blue or pustular eruptions. Sycosis barbæ. Smallpox. Impetigo. Weak, quick pulse. Heat coming from heart. Burning sensation. Sticky sweat.

Complementary: Bar-c. Related: Am-c. Asclp. Ip. Lob. Op.

Adapted to torpid, phelgmatic persons; the hydrogenoid constitution (of Grauvogl). Diseases originating from exposure in damp basements or cellars (Ars., Aran., Tereb.). Through the pneumogastric nerve it depresses the respiration and circulation, thus producing the keynote of the remedy, viz., when the patient coughs there appears to be a large collection of mucus in the bronchi; it seems as if much would be expectorated, but nothing comes up. Child clings to those around; wants to be carried; cries and whines if any one touches it; will not let you feel the pulse (Ant. c., Sanic.). Face cold, blue, pale, covered with cold sweat (Tab.). Tongue coated pasty, thick, white, with reddened papillae and red edges; red in streaks; very red, dry in the middle; extraordinary craving for apples (Aloe- for acids, pickles, Ant. c.). Vomiting: in any position except lying on right side; until he faints; followed by drowsiness and prostration; of cholera morbus with diarrhoea and cold sweat, a dose after each attack (Ver.). Asphyxia: mechanical, as apparent death from drowning; from mucus in bronchi; from impeding paralysis of lungs; from foreign bodies in larynx or trachea; with drowsiness and coma. Great sleepiness or irresistible inclination to sleep, with nearly all complaints (Nux m., Op.). Child at birth pale, breathless, gasping; asphyxia neonatorum. Relieves the "death rattle" (Taran.). Icterus with pneumonia, especially of right lung.

Similar: to Lycopodium; but spasmodic motion of the alae is replaced by dilated nostrils; to Veratrum, both have diarrhoea, colic, vomiting, coldness and craving for acids; to Ipecac, but more drowsiness from defective respiration; nausea, but > after vomiting. When lungs seem to fail, patient becomes sleepy, cough declines or ceases, it supplants Ipec. For bad effects of vaccination when Thuja fails and Silicea is not indicated. Before Silicea in dyspnoea from foreign bodies in the larynx or trachea; Puls. in suppressed gonorrhoea; Tereb. from damp basements. Children not easily impressed when Ant. tart. seems indicated in coughs, require Hepar. In spring and autumn, when damp weather commences, coughs of children get worse.

In damp, cold weather; lying down at night; warmth of room; change of weather in spring (Kali s., Nat. s.).

Cold open air; sitting upright; expectorating; lying of right side (Tab.).

Prominent symptoms of this remedy are found in the respiratory apparatus: the larynx, trachea, bronchial tubes and lungs.

Pitiful whining and crying before and during the attacks, or paroxysms whatever they may be. Bad humor; melancholic, complains of his numerous sufferings; despairs of recovery.

Roaring, sharp shooting, tearing deep in the brain. Pressing headache, as if a band embraced the part. Throbbing, worse in the warmth, better in the cold. Head hot and sweaty; tinea; plica polonica. Lifting head from pillow, dizziness becomes so great is obliged to replace it. Painful drawing in right temple, extending down to upper jaw.

Dim, swimming, often prominent and glaring: sunken, surrounded by dark circles. In pneumonia when the edges of the lids are covered with mucus; also, when the eyes are inflamed, staring, dull, half open, or one closed. Rheumatic ophthalmia or from gonorrhœa. Flickering before the eyes, coming and going frequently, can see only as through a thick veil.

Sneezing, with fluent coryza, with loss of taste and smell. Painful tension across over the root of the nose, as if from a band. The nostrils are seen to dilate and contract, a sort of flapping, wing-like motion at every act of respiration, particularly in pneumonia or bronchial catarrh.

The face is a perfect picture of anxiety and despair. Tearing pain in the whole side of, even the head and neck of that side; may be red and puffed, or pale and sunken; circumredness of the cheeks with paleness of. Cold, and distorted, pale, with bluish spots; bathed in a cold sweat; of livid color. Pustules on. Convulsive twitching in almost every muscle of.

Tongue covered with a thick, white, pasty coat; open, parched, upper lip drawn up. Aphthæ around the mouth. Rheumatic toothache of intermittent type. Tongue very red; in streaks, or dry down the middle; brown, dry. Bitter taste, nausea and vomiting.

Much mucus in the throat, with short breathing. Great dysphagia, deglutition almost impossible.

After dinner, which he relishes, spells of nausea come and go. Craves apples, fruits, acids, cold drinks, and other cool and refreshing substances. Aversion to milk, and often to all kinds of nourishment. Loss of appetite, even disgust of food, sometimes nausea relieved by vomiting. Thirstlessness, or intense thirst, often satisfied with frequent sips of water, like Arsen. Great relief from eructations. Some food or tart wine often causes attack of asthma. Continuous anxious nausea with great effort to vomit, and sweat on the forehead. The smallest quantity of drink is vomited with eager desire for more; vomiting large quantities of mucus, sometimes tinged with blood, or clear blood; often followed by great prostration. Nausea with great faintness; with pressure in the stomach, followed by headache. Frequent eructations, like spoiled eggs. Violent pains, like cramps in the epigastrium.

Great præcordial anxiety, with vomiting of mucus and bile. Sharp, cutting colic before or during stool. Violent pain in abdomen, sacral, coccygeal region, and loins; seems stuffed full of stones, but it does not feel hard; this is felt particularly after long sitting at work; cuttings in, when in the lower abdomen, it feels like a stone, all this causes trembling and bending together with retching, vomiting, and tendency to diarrhœa. Pain in groins, and cold creeps before the menses.

Tenesmus during and after stool, frequent burning at the anus. Before stool, rumbling in the abdomen, sharp, cutting colic, and frequently nausea, relief after stool. The stools may be small or profuse, mucous, very offensive, watery, bloody, light brownish-yellow, or green as grass. Diarrhœa in pneumonia, smallpox, and other eruptive diseases, especially if the eruption has been suppressed. Diarrhœa and vomiting.

Violent burning in the urethra during or after urinating, either or both. As the urging and burning in the urethra increase, the quantity of urine lessens and becomes bloody, accompanied by violent pain in the bladder. Urine brownish-red, turbid, and of a strong odor.

Male: After checked gonorrhœa, pain in testes. Warts on the glans penis with pustules on the genitals and thighs. Female: Severe bearing down in the vagina. Sensation of a heavy weight at the coccyx. Violent itching of the pudenda. In pregnancy, gastric derangements as above recorded. Child at birth, pale, breathless, gasping, although the cord feebly pulsates. Often to be thought of in puerperal convulsions after the child is born.

Rapid, short, difficult and anxious respiration; seems as if he would suffocate, without sitting erect the whole night; sometimes the spell comes at 3 A.M., and has to sit up. Voice is very weak or quite inaudible, or short and interrupted. Larynx becomes painful to the touch, sawing respiration. Great rattling of mucus in the bronchia, particularly just below the larynx, like a little cupful about to run over, but very little is expectorated, all with a cough like croup. Very drowsy, great shortness of breath, bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus. Respiration very unequal, now shorter, now longer, worse lying down, lessened when carried about in an upright position; panting, as if the breathing were carried on by means of the abdominal muscles; gasping for breath at the beginning of every coughing spell. Noisy, whistling, purring, bellowing, or sawing; with great rattling of mucus as if the child would suffocate, always relieved by spitting or vomiting the mucus. In the difficulty of breathing, the face may be pale, dark red, blue lips, hot and sweaty head, muscular twitching. Cough, with or without rattling, often excited by eating; compels one to sit up, it seems loose and rattling, but no expectoration; with great pain in the chest or larynx, cries for help and grasps at the larynx; coughing and gasping alternately. Sometimes one expectorates with great ease and in large quantities. Violent pains from the chest to the shoulder. Sputa blood-streaked, rust-colored, adhering like glue to the vessel. Œdema of the lungs. Impending paralysis of lungs. Emphysema.

Much palpitation of the heart and an uncomfortable warm and hot feeling proceeding therefrom. Pulse rapid, weak, trembling, full and hard; small, tight, hardly perceptible, or thread-like, sometimes a sort of trembling pulse, sometimes unequal.

In croup, we often find the neck stretched out and the head bent back. Violent pain in the sacro-lumbar region, the slightest effort to move causes retching and cold clammy sweat. Sensation as of a heavy weight at the end of the coccyx, dragging downwards.

Upper: Much pain in the left arm from the axilla to the fingers. Pains in the wrists, knees and ankles. Trembling of the hands. Cold and moist hands and icy tips of the fingers. Lower: Dropsy of the left knee-joint. Tension in the hamstrings on walking. The feet go to sleep very quickly after sitting down. Jerking up of the limbs during sleep.

In variola, when the eruption does not appear, backache, headache, crushing weight on the chest and often diarrhœa, sometimes convulsions. Pustular eruption on different portions of the body, leaving a bluish-red mark. A chief characteristic of this remedy on the skin is to produce pustular eruptions on any part, or over the entire surface of the body, sometimes as large as peas, and sometimes very painful.

Coldness of the skin, trembling and chilliness over the whole body, usually without thirst. Fever with intense heat of the skin and body, at times so hot as to drive one from bed. Copious perspiration follows the fever; cold clammy sweat breaks out, with great faintness.

Unrefreshing by dreams. Great sleepiness, with nearly all affections. In rheumatic complaints there is usually sleeplessness. Often on falling to sleep, electric-like shocks and jerks set in.

Great weakness and lassitude, feels best when sitting still doing nothing. Long-continued trembling of the head and hands after every exertion or motion. In some forms of asthma one bas to sit in a chair and lean his head on a table. In many cases great restlessness and tossing; throws his arms about all the time. In some forms of pneumonia so great is the prostration that the patient is constantly slipping down in bed. In some forms of summer complaint there is prostration and collapse. Collection of synovial water in joints.

Evenings; at night, with sleeplessness from warmth; after taking cold; every change of weather: fall and spring; in damp weather.

From sitting erect; from eructation.

Bar. carb., Ipec., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

China, Ipec.

Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash

Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but also many peculiar to itself. Clinically, its therapeutic application has been confined largely to the treatment of respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with little expectoration has been a guiding symptom. There is much drowsiness, debility and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group should always be more or less present, when the drug is prescribed. Gastric affections of drunkards and gouty subjects. Cholera morbus. Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels. Bilharziasis. Antimonium tart is homeopathic to dysuria, strangury, hæmaturia, albuminuria, catarrh of bladder and urethra, burning in rectum, bloody mucous stools, etc. Antimon tart acts indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing action of the protective substance. By-effects following injection for Bilharziasis. Chills and contractures and pain in muscles.

Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness. Lumbago. Chills, contractures and muscular pains. Warts on glans penis.

Vertigo alternates with drowsiness. Great despondency. Fear of being alone. Muttering, delirium, and stupor. Vertigo, with dullness and confusion. Band-like feeling over forehead. Face pale and sunken. Child will not be touched without whining. Headache as from a band compressing (Nit ac).

Coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges. Red and dry, especially in the center. Brown.

Cold, blue, pale; covered with cold sweat. Incessant quivering of chin and lower jaw (Gelsem).

Difficult deglutition of liquids. Vomiting in any position, excepting lying on right side. Nausea, retching, and vomiting, especially after food, with deathly faintness and prostration. Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally. Nausea produces fear; with pressure in præcordial region, followed by headache with yawning and lachrymation and vomiting.

Spasmodic colic, much flatus. Pressure in abdomen, especially on stooping forward. Cholera morbus. Diarrhœa in eruptive diseases.

Burning in urethra during and after urinating. Last drops bloody with pain in bladder. Urging increased. Catarrh of bladder and urethra. Stricture. Orchitis.

Hoarseness. Great rattling of mucus, but very little is expectorated. Velvety feeling in chest. Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to throat. Rapid, short, difficult breathing; seems as if he would suffocate; must sit up. Emphysema of the aged. Coughing and gaping consecutively. Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus. Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and larynx. Œdema and impending paralysis of lungs. Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling. Pulse rapid, weak, trembling. Dizziness, with cough. Dyspnœa relieved by eructation. Cough and dyspnœa better lying on right side--(opposite Badiaga).

Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region. Slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat. Sensation of heavy weight at the coccyx, dragging downward all the time. Twitching of muscles; limbs tremulous.

Pustular eruption, leaving a bluish-red mark. Small-pox. Warts.

Coldness, trembling, and chilliness. Intense heat. Copious perspiration. Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness. Intermittent fever with lethargic condition.

Great drowsiness. On falling asleep electric-like shocks. Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints.

Worse, in evening; from lying down at night; from warmth; in damp cold weather; from all sour things and milk. Better, from sitting erect; from eructation and expectoration.

Antidotes: Puls; Sepia.

Compare: Kali sulph; Ipecac.

Second and sixth trituration. The lower potencies sometimes aggravate.

Great accumulation of mucus in the air passages, with coarse rattling with inability to expectorate; impending paralysis of lungs.

Face very pale or cyanotic from unoxidized blood.

Great coma or sleepiness in most complaints.

Vomiting, intense nausea, with prostration; general coldness, cold sweat and sleepiness.

Trembling; internal, head and hands.

Thick eruptions like pocks, often pustular; as large as a pea.

Both ends of life, childhood and old age; clings to those around; wants to be carried; cries and whines if any one touches it; will not let you feel the pulse.

Antimonium tartaricum is another powerful emetic. I can remember the time when the old allopaths used it almost as generally as the botanics did Lobelia inflata, to "clean out the stomach." Now-a-days, washing out the stomach by lavage, and the rectum and colon by enemas, according to "Hall's method," is quite fashionable, and is withal much more sensible, inasmuch as they are so lame in their therapeutics.

Notwithstanding these improvements, there is still a great deal of "gut scraping" going on in the name of "cleaning out the system," as though the alimentary canal was not a self-cleaning institution, if kept, or put into a healthy condition, but must be regularly "gone through" once in about so often, on the "house cleaning" principle. To be sure it is folly, but they do the best they know. Neither Antimonium tart. nor any other emetic is used by us for emetic purposes from a therapeutic standpoint.

Our therapeutic uses of it are the same as those of any other remedy, on the principle of similia similibus curantur. The nausea of this remedy is as intense as that of Ipecacuanha, but not so persistent, and there is relief after vomiting. I have found it nearest a specific (of course we know there is no absolute specific for any disease) for cholera morbus of any remedy. For more than twenty-five years, I have seldom found it necessary to use any other, and then only when there were severe cramps in the stomach and bowels, when Cuprum metallicum relieved.

It has the nausea, vomiting, loose stools, prostration, cold sweat, and stupor or drowsiness found in almost all bad cases of this disease, and I have seldom been obliged to give more than two or three doses, one after each vomiting, before the case was relieved. It is not generally recommended in the text-books for this ailment, but is a gem, as I know from abundant experience and observation.

If Antimonium tart. possessed only the one power of curing, that it does upon the respiratory organs, it would be indispensable. No matter what the name of the trouble, whether it be bronchitis, pneumonia, whooping cough or asthma, if there is great accumulation of mucus with coarse rattling, or filling up with it, but, at the same time, there seems to be inability to raise it, Tartar emetic is the first remedy to be thought of. This is true in all ages and constitutions, but particularly so in children and old people.

There is one symptom that is very apt to be present in these cases, and that is, great drowsiness or sleepiness, sometimes amounting to coma. This is found, not only in diseases of the respiratory organs, but in cholera infantum, cholera morbus and intermittent fever. In pneumonia, both Tartar emetic and Opium may have great sleepiness but there is no need for any confusion here as to choice, for in Opium; the face is dark red or purple, and there may be sighing or stertorous respiration. With Tartar emetic the face is always pale, or cyanotic, with no redness, and the breathing is not stertorous.

Three remedies are remarkable for sleepiness, viz.: Opium; Tartar emetic and Nux moschata, but aside from this one symptom they are not alike. Antimonium tart. is also one of our best remedies for hepatization of lungs remaining after pneumonia. There is dullness on percussion, and lack or absence of respiratory murmur, and shortness of breath, and patient continues pale, weak and sleepy.

If Sulphur should not promote absorption in such a case, Tartar emetic will often do it. I have used it from the 200th to the c. m. potencies with equally good results.

Modalities: > from expectoration.

During the day hilarity, in the evening anxious and timid. Despair and hopelessness, with lethargy.

Numbness of the head, with stupefaction and somnolency. Pressing headache, as if the brain were compressed, with stupefaction and lethargy ; worse in the evening, at night, and while at rest ; better when exercising and washing the head. Pulsation in the right side of the forehead ; worse in the evening, when sitting stooped, and from heat ; better from sitting erect, and in the cold air. Stitches in the head. Trembling with the head, especially when coughing, with an internal sensation of trembling, chattering of the teeth, and an irresistible somnolency ; worse in the evening and from heat. Trembling with the head and hands, with great debility ; worse when lying and getting warm in bed, better when sitting up erect and in the cold.

Desire to close the eyes, as from sleepiness. Obscuration of sight, with flickering of light before the eyes.

Face pale and sunken. Twitching in the muscles of the face. Lips dry and scaly or cracked.

Longing for acids and fruits ; for cold drinks, or thirstlessness. Aversion to milk. Fatty taste in the mouth. Empty eructations ; at night eructations as from rotten eggs. Continuous anxious nausea. Violent straining to vomit, with perspiration on the forehead. Continuous nausea, vomiting, and diarrhœa. Vomiting of food with great effort, followed by debility, chilliness, and sleepiness. Vomiting of mucus and mucous diarrhœa. Pain in the stomach, as from overloading the stomach. Pulsation in the pit of the stomach. Beating and pulsation in the abdomen. When sitting bent forward, a sensation as if stones were pressing in the abdomen. Cutting flatulent colic ; worse when sitting bent forward.

Watery diarrhœa, preceded by colic. Stools papescent, slimy or bloody. Violent tension in the perinæum.

Violent, painful urging to urinate, with scanty, frequently finally bloody discharge. Dark, brown-red urine. Stitches in the neck of the bladder and in the urethra. Burning in the urethra after micturition.

Dyspnœa, compelling one to sit up. Shortness of breathing from suppressed expectoration. Suffocating attacks, with the sensation of heat at the heart. Velvet feeling in the chest. Inflammation of the lungs ; paralysis of the lungs. Cough with suffocating attacks. Rattling, hollow cough. Cough, with vomiting of food and perspiration on the forehead. Nightly cough, with expectoration of mucus. Hooping-cough, preceded by the child crying, or after eating or drinking, or when getting warm in bed ; after the attack somnolency. Accumulation and rattling of mucus in the trachea and chest. Visible palpitation of the heart, without anxiety.

Upper. Twitches of the muscles on the arms and hands. Trembling of the hands. The tips of the fingers feel cold and as if dead. Lower. Tension in the bend of the knee and on the instep. The feet go to sleep, as soon as one sites down.

Great sleepiness in the day-time, with much yawning and stretching. Irresistible somnolency, with heavy, stupefied sleep. Lethargy. Shocks and twitches during sleep, which jerk up single limbs or the whole body.

Attacks of fainting. Internal trembling. Convulsive twitches. Convulsions. Great heaviness in all the limbs and great debility. Rheumatic pains (fever) with perspiration, which does not relieve. Inflammation of internal organs. Gastric and bilious complaints. The child wants to be carried, and cries if any one touches it. Pulsation in all the blood-vessels.

Pulse full, hard and accelerated ; at times trembling. The fever ceasing, the pulse becomes often slow and imperceptible. The least exertion accelerates the pulse. Chill with external coldness predominates at all times of the day, with sleepiness and often with trembling. Violent but not long-continuing heat, preceded by a long-lasting chill ; worm from every exertion ; or long-continued heat, with lethargy and forehead, following a short-lasting chill. Perspiration on the whole body ; also chill. Perspiration frequently cold and clammy. The affected parts perspire most. Intermittent levers, with lethargic condition.

Eruptions of pustules as large as peas, filled with pus, with a red areola, (like small-pox) forming a scab and leaving a cicatrix.

Aggravation in the evening and when sitting ; when sitting crooked (stooped) ; from warmth. Amelioration from eructation : in the open, cold air.

Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash 2 [K (Sb O) C 4 H 4 O 6 ] H 2 O. Trituration and solutions.

Alcoholism. Aphthæ . Asphyxia neonatorium. Asthma . Bilious affections. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Chicken-pox . Cholera. Cholera morbus. Coccygodynia. Cough. Group. Delirium-Tremens. Dyspepsia. Ecthyma. Eyes, inflamed. Impetigo . Intermittent fever. Laryngitis. Lumbago. Lungs, affections of. Myalgia . Paralysis agitans. Plica-polonica. Pneumonia. Psoriasis. Rheumatism . Ringworm. Screaming. Small-pox. Stiff-neck. Sycosis. Synovitis. Taste, altered. Thirst. Tongue, coated. Tremors . Varioloid. Vomiting. Whooping-cough .

Antim. tart . resembles closely Antim. crud . and the other Antimonies in its action, though the modalities differ. Antim. tart . was the favourite emetic of olden times, and consequently it is one of our best remedies in states of nausea. The nausea is as intense as that of Ipec ., but less persistent, and is > by vomiting. Nash has found it the nearest thing to a specific in cholera morbus, the indications being "nausea, vomiting, loose stools, prostration, cold sweat, stupor, or drowsiness." In chest affections of all kinds it is indicated where there is great accumulation of mucus with coarse rattling and inability to raise it. Drowsiness and even coma may accompany cases of all kinds in which Ant. t . is called for. The face is pale or cyanotic and the breathing stertorous. There is heat about heart and warmth rising up from it. A sensation of coldness in the blood-vessels. A correspondent of the Chemist and Druggist (May 21, 1892) related the case of an apprentice who had been employed for a week making up "cough-balls" and diuretic balls for horses, both containing powdered antimony. He had been cautioned not to inhale the powder, but his employer believes he did. At the end of the week he was seized with an illness, due, his employer thinks, and no doubt correctly, to the antimony. The symptoms are very characteristic. First, there was nausea, lassitude, and a desire for sleep. He was sent to bed, and during the night his fellow apprentice said he got up and struggled to relieve himself of an imaginary load on the chest. On being put to bed again, a profuse perspiration broke out, and also a peculiar rash on his face and chest; after that he vomited freely and felt better. Temperature 104, pulse 120. A fever-mixture of liq. ammon. acet. and Sp. æther. nit. was given. A doctor who was called in found undoubted symptoms of pneumonia of left lung, but confessed he had never seen the rash before and would not venture an opinion regarding it. For two days the temperature kept at 104, then both temperature and the pulse became normal, the rash disappeared, and with it the pneumonic cough; in six days the boy was perfectly well. "A child coughs when angry" is characteristic. Heath cured a case of whooping-cough in a child who was very fretful before the cough. The mother said that if the child got angry she immediately had a fit of coughing. "Cough at 4 a.m." is another indication which I have found true. Further leading indications for this remedy are: attacks of fainting, internal trembling. It causes relaxation of sphincters and muscles, with nausea or without. Os uteri dry, tender, undilatable, with distress, moaning, and restlessness with every pain ( Aco .), feeling of sickness. Convulsive twitching. Convulsions. Great heaviness in all the limbs and great debility. Rheumatic pains (fever), with perspiration, which does not relieve. Inflammation of internal organs. Gastric and bilious complaints. Constant nausea — nausea felt in chest ( Puls .). Sensation of weight or heaviness in many parts; head, occiput, coccyx, limbs. Pulsations in all the blood-vessels. The child wants to be carried and cries if any one touches it. Peevishness, whining, and crying. Inquietude, apprehension, agitation. Dulness and bewilderment of head as if benumbed. Chronic trembling of head; of head and hands (as in paralysis agitans). The tongue has a thick, white, pasty coat with red papillæ showing through. Intense nausea and vomiting with great effort; with perspiration on forehead. Fulness and sensation of stones in abdomen especially when sitting bent forward. The skin is notably affected. The typical eruption is like that of small-pox, the symptoms of which disease are so closely reproduced in the proving that it has been used instead of vaccine for inoculation purposes, and prophylactic power has been claimed for it. (Compare Variolinum .) The terrible backache of small-pox is paralleled by the back-pains of Ant. t. , which I have found to correspond to more cases of lumbago than any other remedy. Ant. t . is also a "sycotic," and I have verified a symptom given in Hering, "warts at the back of the glans penis." Antim. tart . has < by warmth, but not the excessive sensitiveness to heat and sun of Ant. c ., and some of the rheumatic symptoms are > by warmth. Warm drink < cough, also lying in bed, especially becoming warm there. There is also < from cold and damp, but not the ill effects of cold washing found in Ant. crud . Also cold washing > the rheumatic toothache of Ant. t . Both have < from touch and even from being looked at. Ant. t . has < on sitting down; when seated; and on rising from a seat; < sitting bent forward; > sitting erect. < Lying on side affected. < Motion, on every effort to move. A characteristic of Ant. t . in lung affections is "lies with head back." There is not the > from rest which is apparent in many symptoms of Ant. c . The Ant. t . headache is < by rest; also earache and respiration. < At night is more marked with Ant. t . than Ant. c . Cough is < 4 a.m. > from eructations.

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Unconsciousness, but rarely.
Stupefaction, with numbness of head.
Stupid and sleepy ; stupefying meningitis.
Confusion of head ; with feeling as if he ought to sleep.
Dulness of mind ; imbecility.
Apathy and indifference to everything, even death would have been welcome.
Delirium, with pleasant expression. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Contradiction between mind and will.
The child must be carried, it cries if touched.
Anxious face.
Moaning and groaning, with oppression on chest.
Crying with cough.
Pitiful whining before and during attacks. θ Infantile catarrh.
Continual crying and whining of a child for three days, gets only little sleeps of fifteen or thirty minutes. θ Summer complaint.
Child cries on attempting to take breast.
Child clings to those around, calls for help in a hoarse voice, with cough.
The child will not allow itself to be touched without whining and crying.
Fear and dread of being alone.
Uneasiness of mind, indisposed to work, apparently proceeding from abdomen.
Bad humor. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Dejection.
Despondent and apprehensive that he would not recover ; t.
Hopelessness, despondency.
Hopeless mood. θ Colic.
Hopeless and despairing when awake. θ Intermittent.
Despondent, hypochondriacal ; inclined to violence.
Melancholic. θ Chronic metritis.
Complains about his numerous symptoms. θ Pneumonia.
Despairs of his recovery. θ Pneumonia.
Depression of mind and fear that he will never get well.
Apprehensive and restless.
Great concern about future with beating in stomach.
Anxiety and restlessness.
Anxiety during paroxysm, often lasting two to three hours. θ Pregnancy.
Anxiety with nausea.
Indescribable anxiety and oppression of chest. θ Cholera.
Anxiety. θ Intermittent.
Despair and hopelessness, with lethargy, with cold sweat.
After attacks, in good humor, playing. θ Catarrhal croup.
Merry all day, in evening anxious and full of fear.
Gayety, wild mirthfullness, with subsequent ill humor and anxiety for future.
Boldness.
Desire to bite.
Excessively peevish and quarrelsome (a boy æt. 3).
Peevishness. θ Laryngo-tracheitis.
The children get angry, weep and cry. θ Whooping cough.
Mental excitement.
Frightened at every trifle.
Highest degree of mental restlessness.
Consequences of anger or vexation.
Worse after getting angry. θ Cough.
Strong emotion followed by amblyopia. θ During pregnancy.

Heaviness of head.
Stupefying dulness with unconquerable drowsiness.
Felt giddy and sick ; immediately.
Dizziness, with cough.
Vertigo with alternate drowsiness.
Vertigo : on closing eyes ; on walking ; when lifting head, must lie down, with nausea.
Pressing pain in forehead with vertigo, stupor and dulness of head, slightly delirious, drowsiness, but cannot sleep. θ Influenza.
Vertigo with flickering before eyes. θ Rheumatism.
Vertigo with dimness of vision and a pressing headache. θ Pneumonia.
Vertigo and violent chills running through body with a sudden shock.
Fainting, with sweat on forehead.
Child gets insensible, limbs cold, pulse weak, almost imperceptible ; recovery after brandy and water.
Fainting after a cold feeling in scrobiculum, followed by sleep.
Asphyxia ; t.
After vomiting once, a heavy asphyxia, and when coming to herself again, violent colic.
Asphyxia from drowning.

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About the first thing we see in the study of an Antimonium tart. patient is expressed in the face.

The face is pale and sickly; the nose is drawn and shrunken; the eyes are sunken and there are dark rings around the eyes.

The lips are pale and shriveled. The nostrils are dilated and flapping, and there is a dark, sooty appearance inside of the nostrils.

The face is covered with a cold sweat and is cold and pale. The expression is that of suffering. The atmosphere of the room is pungent, more pungent than foetid or putrid, and makes you feel that death is in it.

The family is disturbed; they are going hither and thither, and the nurse is in an excited and busy state, and you enter upon this scene to make a homoeopathic prescription.

It is one of excitement and one that you cannot act rapidly in, but one in which you must make a very quick prescription.

These things will interfere somewhat with your thinking at the time that you must do the best thinking and the most rapid thinking.

Now, in what kind of cases do we find this state and appearance, where all the features and symptoms conform to the nature of the remedy?

First, in catarrhal patients, in broken down constitutions, in feeble children, in old people.

Catarrhal conditions of the trachea and the bronchial tubes. Our ears being open we hear coarse rattling and bubblings in the chest.

If you have ever been in the room of the dying you have heard what is called the death rattle. It is coarse like that.

Now and then there is expectoration of a mouthful of light-colored, whitish mucus. The condition is one in which the chest is steadily filling up with mucus, and at first he may be able to throw it out; but finally he is suffocating from the filling up of mucus and the inability of the chest and lungs to throw it out.

It is a paralytic condition of the lungs. It may occur in cases of grippe. At first it may be a case that comes on quite rapidly, running a rapid course.

It may be a case that produces early prostration, that is, in three or four days or a week. The first few days of the sickness will not point to Antimonium tart.

So long as the reaction is good and his strength holds up you will not see this Hippocratic countenance, sinking, and coldness and cold sweat.

You will not hear this rattling in the chest, because these symptoms are symptoms, that indicate a passive condition.

Antimonium tart. has weakness and lack of reaction. Hence we see that it is suitable in those cases that present this state, or in such patients as are so feeble, when they are taken down, that they at once enter upon a passive or relaxed state.

In cases of bronchitis with pneumonia, inflammation of the trachea, inflammation of the air passages in general, the inflammation is likely to be attended with dryness or a scanty flow of mucus.

If this be violent in a few days it will reach a state of relaxation and weakness. But the first state does not indicate Antimonium tart.

Such medicines as Bryonia and Ipecac . come in for the first period, and your impression is, when administering those medicines, that they will be sufficient for the whole case, and they will be, except in those states wherein this weakness is present from the beginning, or where there is lack of ability to react sufficiently from your remedy to recover under it.

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Adapted to torpid, phlegmatic constitu- tions: the hydrogenoid (of Grauvogl).

Intermittents or other fevers from exposure in damp cel- lars or basements (Aran., Ars., Tereb.).

Child: clings to those around; wants to be carried; cries and whines if any one touches it; will not let you feel the pulse.

When patient coughs there appears to be a large collection of mucus in the bronchi, and it seems as if much would be ex- pectorated but nothing comes up.

Face cold, blue, pale, covered with cold sweat (Tab.).

Nausea, vomiting, want of appetite and constipation in in- termittents (Ant. c.).

Vomiting: in any position except lying on right side; until he faints; followed by drowsiness and prostration; of cholera morbus with diarrhœa and cold sweat, a dose after each attack (Ver.). heat, with somnolency and profuse sweat on forehead. Chill with external coldness, coming on at all times of the day, with somnolency; mostly with trembling and shaking. Chill lasting 45 minutes followed by vomiting, headache, heat and thirst; after drinking, retching.

Violent short heat succeeding a long chill, aggravated by every motion (feels chilly if he moves, Nux, Apis). Thirst not constant during the hot stage, but marked between heat and sweat. Heat long and severe with much sweat, intense thirst and delirium, sometimes occurs in tertian type.

Profuse all over; may last all night; follows long after, in the afternoon during the sleep, or profuse sweat the following night, with increased secretion of urine. Affected parts sweat profusely (Amb.). Sweat often, cold, clammy, sticky; $<$ by sweating, but rather better after (Ipec.).

Characteristic, red edges, or red and white in alternate streaks; papillæ red and raised as in scarlatina; tongue bright red and dry in the centre, covered with a thick, white, pasty fur. Food tasteless; tobacco has no taste. Craving desire for apples; acids (desire for juicy fruits, Ver.).

Much accelerated by slightest motion; strong and full during chill; feeble, slow and very weak as the heat passes off.

The gastric, rheumatic, soporous character of the intermittents of Antimonium tart. will not fail to call our attention to this polychrest. In spring and autumn, especially with children, fevers are prone to take on a remitting type, attended with nausea, vomiting and drowsiness. Gastric symptoms are very pronounced, as in Antimonium crud. Nausea and vomiting may be present; if so, it is very prostrating. Weakness and exhaustion, with great depression of spirits. Weariness and lassitude with no appetite.

Working or living in basements or damp under-ground rooms (Ars., Aran.).

During paroxysm, cannot keep his eyes open; irresistible sleepiness and deep, stupefied sleep; when awake, hopelessness and despair.

Violent but not long lasting heat succeeding a long chill, aggravated by every motion.

Long-lasting heat, after a short chill, with somnolency and sweat on the forehead.

Affected parts sweat profusely.

In some epidemics occurring in winter and early spring it often amounts to the genus epidemicus; especially when gastric and typhoid fevers predominate, or when every fever is inclined to become remittent or typhoid.

Confusion of the head; with feeling as if he ought to sleep.
The child will not allow itself to be touched without whining and crying.
Bad humor. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Wild gaiety toward evening.
Apprehensive and restless.
Dreads being left alone, lest he should be very nervous.
Mental excitement.
Frightened at every trifle.

Vertigo: on closing the eyes; on walking; with flickering before the eyes; when lifting the head, must lie down.
Heaviness of head.

Headache, as from a band compressing the forehead.
Pressive pains in the forehead, stitching extending downwards into left eye.
Throbbing in right side of forehead.
Painful drawing in the right temple, extends down to the zygoma and upper jaw.
Tearing pains in the head.
Stitches in left parietal bone on stooping, extending forwards.
Trembling of the head, particularly when coughing.

Scalp very sensitive, with heaviness, of head.

Flickering before the eyes.
Sees only as through a thick veil.
Vanishing of sight.
Dim, swimming eyes. θ Diarrhœa.
Inflammation of conjunctiva, with much lachrymation.
Eyeballs pain, as if bruised.
Eyes feel tired, as if the lids would close.
Inclination to press the lids tightly together.
Ophthalmia rheumatica or arthritica.

Roaring in the ears.
Fluttering before the left ear, as from a large bird; at same time warmth of ear.
Twitching, tearing in right concha, evening, on lying down; disappears in bed.

Sneezing, fluent coryza and chilliness, with loss of taste and smell.
Stoppage of nose, alternating with fluent coryza.
Nosebleed, followed by fluent coryza with sneezing.
Stupefying tension over root of nose, as from a band.

Face: pale, sunken; pale, puffed, with coma; bluish.
Tearing pain in whole side of face, even head and neck of that side. θ Rheumatic toothache.
Burning heat of face.
Cold sweat on face.
Warm sweat on forehead and head from efforts to vomit.
Convulsive twitches in almost every muscle of the face.

Lips dry, scurfy.
Itching vesicles on lips.
Burning, as from hot coal, on right side of chin.

Violent toothache in the morning.
Rheumatic toothache of intermittent type.
Gums bleed.
During dentition catarrhal hyperæmia.

Taste: flat; salty; sour; bitter; as from rotten eggs.
Food seems tasteless.
Tobacco has no taste.
Tongue: red, in streaks; very red, and dry in centre; covered with thick, white, pasty coat; coated very thinly white, with reddened papillæ, red edges.
Difficult, even painful, to move the tongue.

Mouth so sore, can scarcely swallow, morning after rising.
Small circular patches like small-pox pustules, in and upon the mouth and tongue.

Sensation of soreness on posterior part of palate when not swallowing.
Much mucus in throat, with short breathing.
Roughness in throat, with sensation as if a small leaf obstructed the windpipe on hawking.
Swallowing painful or impossible.

Extraordinary appetite for apples, and thirst for cold water.
Desire for acids.
Much thirst, drinks little and often, or, absence of thirst.
Appetite diminished.
No desire for his tobacco.

Food relieves, somewhat, the pressure in the abdomen.

Violent hiccough.
Eructations: empty; acid; bitter; salty, nauseous fluid, taste of the food taken.
Qualmishness in stomach after dinner.
Nausea: causing anxiety; with slight pressure in pit of stomach, followed by headache in forehead; and incessant vomiting whole night, with diarrhœa; then yawning with profuse lachrymation, followed by vomiting.
Vomiting in any position, except lying on right side; with headache, trembling of hands; with great effort.
Vomit: green; tough, watery mucus, then pasty food, then fluid, mixed with bile.
Vomiting is followed with great languor, drowsiness, loathing, desire for cooling things. θ Diarrhœa.
Retching, then vomiting, followed by great prostration.

Sensation as if stomach had been "overloaded"; eructations frequent, like foul eggs; sleep restless.
Violent pains at the epigastrium, which was tense.
Cramps in the stomach.
Pressure in pit of stomach.
Beating and throbbing, particularly in pit of stomach or abdomen, with great concern about the future.

Region of liver sensitive to touch.
Icterus with pneumonia, especially of the right lung.

Abdomen feels as if stuffed full of stones, though he has eaten nothing, and it does not feel hard.
Pressure and aching in hypogastrium, with cold shivers.
Violent colic, as if the bowels would be cut to pieces.
Violent cutting and labor-like tearing, from above downwards across groins, through thighs down to knees.
Colic around the umbilicus.
Violent burning soreness in right groin.
Shifting of flatulence, with rumbling in bowels, diarrhœa.

Stitches in the rectum.
Copious alvine evacuation.
Stools; yellowish-brown; thin, bilious, mucous; liquid greenish, with heat at the anus; slimy, appear like yeast; of cadaverous smell.
Desire for stool ineffectual, through the bowels seem full and pressing.

Urine: dark brownish-red, turbid, of strong odor; becomes cloudy and deposits a violent-colored earthy sediment; scanty, last drops bloody, violent pains in the bladder; albuminous.
Burning in the urethra during, also after urinating.

Menses too early, weak, and only for two days.
Before menses; pain in the groins and cold creepings.
Leucorrhœa of watery blood, worse when sitting; comes in paroxysms.
Pustules on external genitals.

Gastric derangements -vomiting of mucus; belching; disgust for food; salivation.
Child at birth pale breathless, gasping, although the cord still pulsates. θ Asphyxia neonatorum.

Voice weak and changed in the evening.
Hoarseness in the morning, worse on talking.
Rattling of mucus when coughing or breathing.
Much rattling of mucus in trachea; cannot get it up.
Rattling, originating in upper bronchia, can be heard at a great distance. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Catarrhal croup, croup of adults.
Bronchioectasis and senile catarrh.

Rapid; short; heavy and anxious.
Dyspnœa; must be supported in a sitting posture.
Suffocated and oppressed about 3 A.M., must sit up to get air; after cough and expectoration she became better.
Child breathless and pale when born.
Great difficulty in expiration.
Respiration with great rattling of mucus.

Coughing and gaping consecutively.
Cough, if children get angry, also after eating; child vomits food and mucus.
Short cough with a shrill sound. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Cough compels the patient to sit up, is moist and rattling, but no expectoration.
Catarrh provokes cough, though she had no power to cough.
Gasping for air, before every attack of cough.
Cough: with copious frothy expectoration or without expectoration.
Cough grows less frequent, patient shows signs of "carbonized blood".
Scraping cough, with pus-like expectoration.
Bloody, slimy expectoration after hæmoptysis.

Chest seems full of phlegm, without ability to expectorate it.
Anxious, with oppression of the chest and rising of warmth from the heart.
So warm about the heart that she must let the arms sink down with general weakness.
Full feeling of the chest.
Constriction of chest.
Œdema of the lungs.
Broncho-pneumonia.

Palpitation of the heart.
Great precordial anxiety, with vomiting of mucus and bile.
Pulse: hard and quick, in old people; rapid; weak and trembling; small, contracted.

Crawling as of insects above the left mamma.

Does not like anything to touch him; inclination to unbutton the collar of his shirt.
Cramp in the muscles of the neck.
Pain in the back as from fatigue, especially after eating and while sitting.
Sharp stitches in the region of kidneys on moving arms.
Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region; the slightest effort to move causes retching and cold, clammy sweat.

Tearing and stitching pains.
Pain as from dislocation, in the right shoulder.
Trembling of the hands.
Hands cold and moist.
Finger tips appear dead, dry and hard; without sensation.

Numbness and coldness in the legs.
Tension in the hamstrings on walking.
Rheumatic pains about the hips, thighs and calves.
Feet go "to sleep" immediately after sitting down.
Weariness in the feet.
Cold feet.

Weakness; insensibility and coldness; heaviness.
Constant inclination to touch.
Rheumatic and bruised sensation in limbs, on and shortly before rising.

On lying down: 6. Sitting: 23, 26, 31, 33. Lifting the head: 2. Rising: 34. Stooping: 3. Motion: 31, 36, 40. Moving the arms: 31. Inclined to stretch: 34. Walking: 2, 33.

Trembling: of whole body; internal; of head and paralytic trembling of hands on every motion.
Great restlessness. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Great weakness and lassitude.
Great prostration and sluggishness of the body.
Faintness.
Alternation of unsteadiness and syncope.

Yawning; great sleepiness; irresistible inclination to sleep.
Had scarcely fallen asleep when he was seized with shocks and jerks, all of the which came from the abdomen.

3 A.M.: 26. Morning: 10, 12, 25. Evening: 1, 6, 25. Night: 16, 40. During the day: 40.

Open air: 2.

Chill; with external coldness; coming on at all times of the day, with somnolency; mostly with trembling and shaking; frequently as if cold water was poured over one.
Chill and heat alternating during the day.
Violent but not long-lasting heat succeeding a long chill, aggravated by every motion.
Long-lasting heat, after a short chill, with somnolency and sweat on the forehead.
Profuse sweat all over, also at night.
Sweat is frequently cold and clammy.
The affected parts sweat most profusely.
Sticky sweat.

Wave-like increase and decrease of pain in forehead.

Rheumatic pains first in right hand then through both legs from above downwards, especially in knees.
Right: 4, 9, 16, 19, 32. Left: 3, 6, 30. Above downwards: 3, 19. Behind forwards: 3.

Mucous membranes; catarrhal inflammation; conjunctivitis; gastritis, enteritis; laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, extending even into the air cells; cystitis.
Pustular eruption: on the conjunctiva; face; mouth and fauces; œsophagus, stomach, jejunum; genitals. See 46.

The child wants to be carried, cries if any one touches it; will not let you feel the pulse.

Red itching rash over the body.
Vesicular eruption over the body.
Pustular eruption leaves bluish red marks on face, also similar eruption on genitals and thighs painful.
Thick eruption like pocks, often pustular, as large as a pea.
Itching pustules; which soon dry up.
Itching in the skin.
Eruption fails to appear and convulsions set in; varicella.

Similar to: Acon. (croup, spasm of larynx); Arsen. (asthma; heart symptoms; gastric catarrh, etc.); Baryt. carb.; Bromine (croup); Camphor; Hepar; Iodium; Kali hydr. (œdema pulmon., pneumonia); Laches. (dyspnœa on awakening, sensitive larynx, asthma, asphyxia, etc.); Lycop. (catarrh on the chest, but the spasmodic motion of alæ is replaced by dilated nostrils in Ant. tart.); Veratr. (both have diarrhœa, colic, vomiting, coldness, and craving for acids), Ant. tart. has more jerks, drowsiness and urging to urinate; Veratr. more cold sweat and fainting.
Similar to Ipec. (but has more drowsiness from defective respiration. It must supplant Ipec. when lungs seem to fail, patient becomes sleepy and the cough ceases or becomes less frequent).
Effects of vaccination when Thuja fails and Silic. is not indicated.
With Phosphor.; hydrocephaloid in worn out constitutions; also similar in laryngitis, pneumonia, etc.
Follow with Silic. for dyspnœa from foreign substances in the windpipe; Pulsat. in gonorrhœal suppression; Tereb. in symptoms from damp cellars.
Conium cures pustules on the genitals caused by Ant. tart.
Camphor., Ipec., Pulsat.; Sepia, Sulphur follow Ant. tart. well.
Ant. tart. follows well after Baryt. carb., Pulsat., Camphor. and Caustic.
Antidotes to Ant. tart.: Asaf., Cinchon., Coccul., Ipec., Lauroc., Opium, Pulsat. and Sepia, Ant. tart. antidotes: Sepia.

Tart. E. / (Tartary.) / Tartar.

Tartar,- Rattles on the chest-
Coughs and trembles, feels oppressed;
Sweats with sopor; gags; sustains
Pustule, scab and inflamed veins.
Pain with sweat-this fills the bill,
Worse by warmth is every ill.

The Tartar,-Has sweating pain.

The Tartar, Opi, is a vampere of woe.

This Tartar,-Who is subject to rattling respiration,-Is standing with his brother, Cato, on the shoal coast of Ipeca.

Pain with sweat: Tart. e., Op., Ver. a., Mer., Pul., Ars. (Cold sweat on the forehead, Ver. a. Hot sweat on the head, Cham.)

Rattling Respiration: Tart. e., Stan., Brom., Cact., Sul., Hep., Lyc., Caust., Ipe.

Indicated chiefly in affections of the respiratory tract; in small-pox.

Great lassitude and drowsiness.

Sawing respiration.

Child anxious; clings to others; wants to be carried about; is touchy, does not allow itself to be handled.

Face pale, expressive of distress; distorted, cold, livid; twitching of the face.

Skin cold; covered with clammy, sticky perspiration.

Tongue thinly coated white, with red papillae, red, in streaks or dyr in the median line.

Throat filled with mucus, making breathing difficult.

Cough with loud bubbling rales; rattling in throat and lungs.

Rattling of mucus; child seems choking to death; cannot relieve itself of the phlegm.

Cough excited by eating and by outbursts of temper. Often terminates in copious vomiting of mucus and prompt relief.

Pustules on the body, leaving a bluish-red mark; they develop slowly and are slow in passing through suppuration.

Worse in a warm room; from lying down at night, during damp cold; from change of weather.

Better from throwing up mucus; from expectorating; from sitting upright; from keeping still, in the cold, open air.

Stupefying confusion of head with sleepiness. Restlessness and solitude concerning the future. Despair and hopelessness, with somnolence. Weeping and crying. Cheerful by day, but fearful and anxious in evening.

Stupefaction. Fainting preceded by coldness in the epigastrium and followed by sleep, raising up.

Pressive ache in forehead, with inclination to close eyes. Tensive ache in forehead and one side, as if brain were rolled up into a ball (Arn., Chel., Coccl.). Throbbing in right side of forehead. Sticking headache. Heat and sweat of. Long - continued trembling of (and hands) Especially when coughing. Worse: Evening, night, at rest, sitting bent, warmth, getting warm in bed, lying, after eating. Better: Rising up, sitting upright, in the cold, lying with head high, motion, washing head.

Inclination to close, as if weary and sleepy. Are drawn shut. Pressure on. Glimmering before, with dim vision Chronic optic - nerve paralysis.

Fluent coryza, with loss of taste and smell, chilliness and somnolency.

Pale, sunken. Twitching of muscles. Dry, cracked lips.

Chattering of.

Pains in pit of.

Gastric pains, as from overloading it. Pressure in, and in pit, with great sensitiveness thereof. Throbbing in pit.

Appetite: Great, for fruit and sour things. Loathes milk. Thirstlessness. Desires cold drinks.

Taste: Salty in mouth. Food is tasteless.

Eructations: Empty. Nightly, as of rotten eggs.

Nausea, etc. - Constant, anxious qualmishness, and inclination to vomit. Violent retching, with sweat on forehead, Vomiting of food, with great exertion, followed by exhaustion, chill and sleepiness (Aeth.), of mucus with mucus diarrhoea. Alternate vomiting and purging.

Throbbing and pulsation in. Bellyache, with intense mental and physical restlessness. Pressure, as of stones lying in, when sitting bent forward.

Flatulence: Cutting, flatulent colic, worse sitting bent forward.

Papescent, mucus or bloody diarrhoeic. Watery diarrhoea follows bellyache. Diarrhoea with restlessness.

Perineum: Violent tension in.

Dark, brown, red. Violent, painful urging to urinate, with scanty (often at end bloody) discharge. Burning in urethra after micturition. Suppressed.

Difficult, necessitating an upright position. Short, from retained expectoration. Paralysis of lungs. Suffocative attacks, with sense of warmth about heart.

Short coughs following each other in quick succession, excited by tickling and creeping in throat and larynx, dry in evening, with expectoration of tenacious mucus, generally somewhat slat, often only flat or sour in morning. With vomiting of food and sweat on forehead. With Suffocative attacks. Rattling, hollow. Whooping cough after eating or anger (in children.) Nightly, with expectoration of mucus. After the paroxysms, dizziness, sweat on forehead, yawning and great sleepiness.

Much mucous rattling in.

Oppression of. Rattling in. Perceptible palpitation with (or without) fear.

Pains as from fatigue in, and in lumber region.

Neck: Weakness of muscles. Eruption on nape.

Twitching of muscles of arms and hands. Deadness and coldness of finger - tips.

Great weakness and feebleness. Fainting attacks. Sense of internal trembling. Beating and pulsating in all blood vessels. Convulsive twitches. Sensitiveness of body to touch. The symptoms are intensified toward evening and when sitting.

Pustules like those of smallpox or cowpox. Eruption of pocks as large as a pea containing pus

Jerks and shocks through body during. Intense and irresistible somnolency, with deep, stupefying sleep. Sleepiness, with involuntary closure of eyes. Much yawning.

Pulse: Full, hard and accelerated, sometimes intermittent. Strong throbbing in blood vessels. Often slow and imperceptible during decline of fever. Extraordinarily accelerated from the slightest motion. Chill: And external coldness predominate at all times of day, with somnolency, mostly with trembling and shaking, often as if water were poured over one. Alternating with heat during day. With a pale face. Heat: Violent, but of short duration after a long chill, increased by every movement. Long - continued, after a short chill, with somnolency and sweat on forehead. Sweat: All over, most profuse on face, also at night. Often cold and clammy. Most profuse on suffering parts. Intermittent fever, with thirstlessness and somnolency.

Allied Remedies: BELL., Chin., Coccl., Con., Ip. NIT-AC., Op., Pul., Sep.

Complementary: Ip., Bar-c.

Great debility and weakness.

Attacks of fainting and syncope.

Internal trembling.

The child wants to be carried and does not wish to be touched.

One-sided complaints (rheumatic pains in the left chest), pulsation in one side of the forehead and one-sided headache.

Nausea with frequent vomiting of bitter, sour substances a marked characteristic.

Inflammed lids with catarrhal conjunctivitis.

Soreness all over the chest.

Long lasting dyspeptic symptoms, with loss of appetite.

Constant and distressing cough, disposed to be loose with much expectoration.

A remedy of great utility in cases of pneumonia.

When of service there is rattling of mucus in the chest, catarrhal ophthalmia, and marked gastro-enteric disturbance.

In lycopodium there is greater and more distressing dyspnoea, many mucous rales present, stitching and stabbing pleuritic pain a tendency to abdominal distention.

In lycopodium there is a present marked weakness, but there is great struggling on the part of the patient to get his breath, with a flying of the alae nasae.