Arsenicum Hydrogenisatum ars-h.

Arseniuretted Hydrogen

The general action of Arsenic more accentuated. Anæmia. Anxiety; despair. Hœmaturia, with general blood disorganization. Hæmorrhages from mucous membranes. Urine suppressed, followed by vomiting. Prepuce and glans covered with pustules and round superficial ulcers. Collapse. Coldness; prostration. Sudden weakness and nausea. Skin becomes dark brown.

Violent vertigo on going upstairs. Eyes sunken; broad, blue circles around. Violent sneezing. Nose cold. Must be wrapped up with warm cloths.

Tongue enlarged; deep, irregular ulcer; nodular swelling. Mouth hot and dry; little thirst.

Third potency.

Arseniuretted Hydrogen. As H 3 . Solution in distilled water.

Collapse of cholera. Hiccough. Suppressed menses. Yellow fever.

Arsen. hydro . was used by Drysdale as a substitute for Arsenic in the collapse stage of cholera. The symptoms set in suddenly but develop slowly. In poisoning cases death often took place in the second week, and one person, who recovered, suffered seven weeks. Though like Ars. alb . in general symptoms, the gas has symptoms of its own. A striking case of sudden suppression of menses was cured with it after failure of Ars. a .

Compare: Arsen. alb. antidoted by: Am. acet. (breathing); Sinapisms (breathing); Nux v. (fever); drinks containing sulphuretted hydrogen.

Stupefying feeling in the head as if a load were there.

Face looks old and has an expression of pain.

Loss of appetite. — Tormenting hiccough with oversensitive epigastrium.

Abdomen burning outside; cold feet. — Constipation, with a feeling of heaviness and stiffness like a weight in the abdomen.

Frequent flying pains in perineum to anus or upwards in anterior wall of rectum.

Pressure in kidneys extending to shoulder-blades. — Discharge at times of large quantities of pale urine. — Hæmaturia.

Foreskin and glans covered with numerous pustules leaving round superficial ulcers.

Sudden suppression of menses with internal chills for three days, followed by tearing pains in hands and feet, confused head, ringing in ears; red diarrhœa; dry, red, cracked tongue; night cough, causing retching (Ars. h. cured immediately after failure of Ars. a.).

Ammoniacal breath. — Constriction of chest.

Pain as if something sticking behind r. shoulder-blade.

Coldness of limbs. — Great prostration and malaise. — < From cold and damp; general chilliness on slight exposure in change of temperature.

Dark-brown, sallow look of skin. — Deadness from hands up to middle of forearm, and feet to knees, then nose and region of eyebrows, with cessation of pulse. — Hair becomes white over the "deadened" parts.

Much heat and burning in different parts of the body, particularly over renal region.

Almost unconscious. --R. Sch.
He lost his memory on evening of 6th day. --Br.
He afterwards can hardly remember transient pains ; first day. --C. Hg.
His mental powers are unimpaired from the first. --Br.
Great exaltation of mind ; it made him talk incessantly. --R. Sch.
Excited ; wants to talk constantly. θ Yellow fever.
Loud complaining about unbearable pains in spine. Impeded in talking, he answers very slow. Disinclined to work. --Eisenmenger.
His occupation is disgusting to him. --F. K.
Lazy and shirks his work. --C. Hg.
Full of care and fear about his complaint when he gets awake at night. --F. K.
Afraid of being alone, he thinks he will die. --F. K.
The fear of dying is gone on 3d day, notwithstanding all around him have doubts of his recovery. --R. Sch.
Anxiety, he believes his death is near, and despairs of being better (during vomiting), more courage afterwards, till next vomiting turn (six hours). --R. Sch.
Anxiety, with constriction of chest. --Chemists.
Anxiety, restlessness and great prostration of strength. Robeson.
Anxious feeling before chill. Indifferent on hearing most important news ; discouraged, changeable, his mental activity much impaired all week. --C. Hg.
Soporous and apathic ; conjunctiva injected ; urine red and scanty ; 3d. --O'Reilly.
He is vexed, impatient, anxious about his complaint and full of fears. --F. K.
When thinking about his headache he feels it least ; first day. --C. Hg.
Thinking of water irritates him, as if he would have to vomit ; it nauseates him. --

Vertigo, with oppression of chest. --Gmelin.
Vertigo, violent, on going up-stairs, so that he staggered against sides of stairs ; was not noticed on going downstairs, or on a level floor ; three hours. --R. Sch.
Vertigo and general weakness. --O'Reilly.
Immediately after second inhalation, vertigo with faintness, followed by shuddering and a passage from bowels and a painless discharge of two ounces of blood from urethra. --Br.
Vertigo with nausea and vomiting. A swimming sensation in head and whole body. --F. K.
Vertigo with headache. A giddy oscillation with pressure in frontal sinuses. Head dull and benumbed, with pressure in forehead. Heaviness of head. --F. K.
During night a pressing, stupefying sensation in head, like from a load, with a tearing sensation ; sleeplessness all night ; applied cold bandages without effect ; pain lessened towards morning. --R. Sch.
Stupefying feeling in head, as of a load there. --F. W. Payne.
Above forehead to right, a giddy sensation, with an inner twitching, like a painful quivering of muscles ; soon after, same feeling in upper and lower jaw, going down in a straight line ; later, same in right shoulder. --C. Hg.

Pressure in right frontal sinus, like with point of a little finger ; later, same on left.
Pressure above eyebrows, with numbness, in afternoon. F. K.
Violent pressive frontal headache, < at night, and with such excessive weakness, that he was obliged to lie in bed for several hours after eating ; first and second days. --Eisenmenger.
Violent headache in forehead. --Ollivier.
Pressure in right temple, with flabbiness in stomach ; after two or three minutes same sensation in left temple. Now and then a headache in two streaks, from behind to front, would be unbearable if continuing ; > when thinking about it. --C. Hg.
Transient pains in head. Head and toothache, < in warmth. --C. Hg.
Pain in right forehead and head. --C. Hg.
Pain in occiput, < on right and when coughing. Headache in upper and back part of head when coughing. Towards evening headache on right side, extending into throat near larynx. --F. K.
Pain in forehead with chill. Headache increased during chill. --Eisenmenger.
Violent pain in forehead and in sacrum. --Ollivier.
Pain in head and epigastrium, followed by vomiting of food. --Ollivier.
After 10 P. M. headache increasing, face more red ; conjunctiva injected ; pulse strong ; speech impeded, answers slow. --Ollivier.
Dura mater unchanged, arachnoidea a little injected, and below it air bubbles ; in substance of brain bloodless spots ; no water in cavities. --Br.

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The gas may be passed into distilled water and kept in a cold dark place; it rapidly decomposes.

Like Arsenic, but much more violent.

Compare Ars., Phos ., Carb. ac., Kali clc.

Pale blood exuded from the mucous membrane and from the prepuce. ▶ Anæmia, with systolic bruit de souffle at apex, in consequence of retention of poison in the body, from lack of urinary secretion, as well as fatty degeneration of heart and paralysis of that organ, finally anguish, pain in region of liver, cold limbs and nettle-rash. ▶ Epilepsy, has become nearly imbecile. ▶ Twitching of muscles of forearms, then contractions of facial muscles, amel. warm bath. ▶ Malaise; indefinable. ▶ Difficulty of motion. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Syncope. ▶ Weakness; on waking; sudden, indescribable W., with nausea. ▶ Hands as far as middle of forearm, feet as far as near knees, nose, eyebrows, became dead, pulse ceased, and every sign of life left these parts, though they could be moved. ▶ All hair on "deadened parts" became snowy white, and the white brows formed a strange contrast to the dark-brown face. ▶ Crawling in the deadened limbs (as they became restored), especially in nose.

Delirium, with desire to escape from bed; slight D., but he answers all questions clearly after some hesitation. ▶ Anxiety; while vomiting, with belief that death is near and despair of being better. ▶ Disinclination to work. ▶ Sopor.

Aching agg. during chill; with dullness of head; sudden, then pain in epigastric region, with renewed vomiting, pale tongue, great thirst, features again altered, sclerotic yellow, prostration. ▶ Vertigo; on ascending stairs, so that he staggered against the sides of the stairs; with cephalalgia, nausea and vomiting; with pain in stomach, prostration, cerebral congestion, fever, dim sight, indigestion, nausea and griping; with weakness; sudden, with fainting and vomiting. ▶ Aching in forehead after eating, agg. at night, with weakness.

Eyes sunken, lustreless, conjunctiva bulbi red; E. yellow, sunken, with blue circles about them; sclerotic injected with blood of a yellow color; E. watery. ▶ Violent sneezing, with coldness of nose. ▶ Nose and lips excoriated. ▶ Face yellowish; pale bronzed; features drawn; expression as in cholera; hippocratic. ▶ Lips colorless.

Gums pale, discolored, blooding easily. ▶ Fuligo on tongue and gums. ▶ Tongue yellow; red and foul; dry and coated; dry, whitish. ▶ Mouth dry and sticky. ▶ Blood oozed from mucous membrane of mouth and accumulated on anterior pillars of palate, exhaling a nauseous odor. ▶ Taste sweetish; bitter. ▶ Constriction of throat; with burning. ▶ Dysphagia.

Appetite lost. ▶ Great thirst. ▶ Eructations; spasmodic, of much gas, without relief of the pain in the abdomen that causes moaning. ▶ Nausea and vomiting. ▶ Incessant retching and vomiting. ▶ Vomiting; of food; of everything taken into stomach; greenish; of bitter green mucus, with the colic. ▶ Pain; in epigastrium, also on pressure of hand; in epigastric region during chill. ▶ Cutting in epigastric region and below it. ▶ Heat. ▶ Distress about heart and stomach, then profuse vomiting. ▶ Irritation, with acrid burning from pharynx to lower end of alimentary canal, vomiting of food, then of bile, ultimately of coffee-grounds-looking matter, consisting of broken-down blood corpuscles and epithelium of stomach and lower part of œsophagus, constipation, three or four pints of bloody urine, fever, full, hard, frequent pulse, dry, hot skin, burning pain in alimentary canal, deep-seated pain in lumbar region, restlessness, anxiety, pale anxious face and prostration.

Spleen and liver at first diminished in volume, later hypertrophied. ▶ Tympanitic A. ▶ Distention during chill. ▶ Colic. ▶ Heat in A., with cold extremities. ▶ Intestinal hæmorrhage. ▶ Desire for stool. ▶ Bloody stool; frequent blackish S.; bilious. ▶ Diarrhœa. ▶ Obstinate constipation.

Strangury. ▶ Ischuria and bloody urine. ▶ Dysuria and hæmaturia, with arsenic in urine, and disorganized cells of blood, abundant desquamation of epithelium from renal canaliculi, with small proportion of albumen and hæmoglobulin, uric acid during convalescence. ▶ Urine suppressed. ▶ Scanty and bloody; and black. ▶ Hæmaturia (Canth., Phos., Ter., Senec.). ▶ Almost black (Phos., Kali clc., Carb. ac.); reddish black, forming a thick clot of blood. ▶ Copious, black urine, with sensitiveness of renal region to pressure, enlargement of liver and spleen, hæmoglobinuria, jaundice, afterwards urine decreased from day to day and was lighter in color, at last total anuria. ▶ Foreskin and glans covered with pustules, leaving round superficial ulcers, sixty-five on outside of foreskin alone.

Sudden suppression of menses, with internal chills for three days, followed by tearing pains, in hands and feet, confused head, ringing in ears, loss of appetite, thirst, with vomiting of everything, rumbling in bowels, sleeplessness, diarrhœa of red mucus, tongue dry, red, cracked, expectoration of viscid dark mucus, cough at night caused retching and vomiting; Ars. failed, but Ars. hydrog. cured immediately.

Voice whispering. ▶ Respiration difficult; anxious, frequent moaning, rapid. ▶ Ronchi in lungs. ▶ Oppression of chest during chill; O., with weakness. ▶ Constriction at suprasternal notch; at base of lung with quick breathing.

Pulse rapid; and small; R. and weak. ▶ Tearing in neck during chill. ▶ Pain in kidney region; with urging to urinate. ▶ Unpleasant pressure feeling in kidney region, which rapidly increased and spread up back to between shoulders. ▶ Pain in lumbar region.

Trembling. ▶ Painful contractions. ▶ Pain. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Tearing in upper, during chill. ▶ A kind of stiffening of upper, which afterwards extended to lower and caused pricking. ▶ Pain in elbows and upper arms; in lower limbs, agg. right. ▶ Rheumatic tearing in knees. ▶ Walked with difficulty.

Yellow skin and sclerotic (Phos.); skin deep-yellow, pseudoicteric, then grayish-yellow, then cadaver-like, with excessive itching; dark-brown skin (Phos., Kali clc.). ▶ Violent eruption. ▶ Papules on abdomen, face and loins. ▶ Somnolence. ▶ Profound sleep. ▶ Sleeplessness.

▶ Chill; while walking; agg. 10 P.M. on undressing; from 3 to 5 P.M., when the headache was usually worse, C. beginning with yawning, discomfort, anxiety, oppression of chest, pain in neck, drawing in upper limbs, increased frontal headache, then heat till 8 P.M., with hot, dry mouth, only little thirst, then sweat and sleep, with at first frequent startings during the unrefreshing sleep, but after midnight he became quiet, next day slight paroxysm of fever, the following day a severe paroxysm, then fever every day; with pain in head and in renal region and vomiting. ▶ Cold body; extremities; skin. ▶ Heat; in evening. ▶ Burning in head. ▶ Sweat; profuse.