Platinum Metallicum plat.

FEMALE ORGANS. Nerves: Vagus. Sensory. Trifacial.

EMOTIONS: Sexual. Coition. Chagrin. TOUCH. Nerve exhaustion.

Walking in cool air. Sunshine.

A remedy of pains. For prim old maids. Oversensitive mind and nerves. Violent cramping, squeezing, thrusting or numbing pains, and then spasms. Neuralgia. Many and various ovarian or uterine reflexes. Irregular spasm, congestion of blood or coldness of single parts, eyes, ears, etc. Tremor. Alternate mental and physical or sexual symptoms. Numbness; scalp, face, coccyx, calves, etc. Bandaged feeling. Sticky; tears, stool, menses, etc.

Laughs at wrong time. Unkind, abrupt and quarrelsome. Disordered sense of proportion; objects seem smaller, strange, frightful, etc. Hysteria. Horrors; fears death. CONTEMPT. Hauteur. Proud and erotic (Aur.). Alone, deserted feeling. Mentally < in twilight. Bad humor, yet weeps. Gradually increasing, then slowly lessening headache. Clavus. Tense scalp. Cramp at root of nose. Grimaces. Boring in jaws. Congestion to abdomen. Colic. Hard, black, scant or soft, difficult stools; of tourists; of pregnancy. Crawling itching anus in evening. Painfully sensitive genitals, with itching, tickling or crawling. Dark, thick, profuse menses, with dragging. Heat in ovaries. Ovarian irritation. Vaginismus. Dysmenorrhœa, with shrieks and jerks. Eroticism. Onanism. Spasmodic yawning. Bruised backache, < pressure or bending backward. Knees drawn up and spread apart. Cramp in calves. In sleep wants to uncover entirely.

Related: Cup. Ign. Plb. Stan.

Adapted to women, dark hair, rigid fibre; thin, of a sanguine temperament; who suffer from too early and too profuse menses. Sexual organs exceedingly sensitive; cannot bear the napkin to touch her; will go into spasms from an examination; vulva painfully sensitve during coitus: will faint during or cannot endure, coitus (compare, Mur., Orig.). The pains increase gradually and as gradually decrease (Stan.); are attended with numbness of parts (Cham.). For hysterical patients; alternately gay and sad, who cry easily (Croc., Ign., Puls.); pale, easily fatigued. Arrogant, proud, contemptuous and haughty; pitiful "looking down" upon people usully venerated; a kind of "casting them off" unwillingly. Mental delusions, as if everything about her were small; all persons physically and mentally inferior, but she physically large and superior. Sensation of growing larger in every direction. Trifling things produce profound vexation (Ign., Staph.); remains a long time in the sulks. Satiety of life, with taciturnity and fear of death (Acon., Ars.). Mental symptoms appear as physical symptoms disappear and vice versa. Headache: numb, heavy pain in brain or on vertex; from anger or chagrin; hysterical, from uterine disease; pains gradually increase and decrease. Nymphomania: < in lying-in women; excessive sexual development, especially in virgins (Kali p.); vaginismus, spasms and constriction. Menses too early, too profuse, too long-lasting; dark-clotted, offensive, with bearing down spasms; pains in uterus with twitching; genitals sensitive. Excessive itching in uterus; pruritis vulvae. Constipation; while traveling (at sea, Bry.); after lead poisoning; from inertia of bowels; frequent, unsuccessful urging; stools adhere to rectum and anus like soft clay (Alum.); of emigrants; of pregnancy; obstinate cases after Nux has failed. Metrorrhagia: flow in black clots and fluid; thick black, tarry or in grumous mass (Croc.).

Compare: Aur., Croc., Ign., Kali p., Puls., Sep., Stan.; Val. the vegetable analogue.

Mental symptoms in general; amativeness; state of madness; hysteria. The patient is very haughty, looks with disdain upon everyone and everything. Sensation of dread and horror.

Female: Nymphomania, which may occur even during the lying-in period. Menstruation, when the discharge is very abundant, thick and black like tar, and is very exhausting; spasms and screaming at every menstrual period; menses too early and profuse; blood dark and coagulated; affections of the uterus.

The stool is discharged with difficulty, seeming to stick to the anus and rectum like putty.

Pains like labor pains; cramping pains in inner parts, muscles, joints, etc., gnawing in outer parts; sensation as of a hoop around parts; violent shocks as if from pain; sensation of prickling in the outer parts. Itching, with gnawing with soreness; tingling. Sensation of coldness in outer parts.

Dark-haired females. General affections of the right eye; right ear; toes. Epistaxis with dark coagulated blood; changing color of the face frequently; rising in the throat. Tape-worm, other symptoms agreeing; chlorosis; contortions of the limbs; contraction of inner parts. Catalepsy; epilepsy with rigor; tonic spasms. Very great paleness of the skin; spasmodic yawning.

In the evening; from anger; more in females than males; when lying down; after lying down and rising again; when sitting; after rising.

Bellad., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Veratr.

Pulsat.

Arrogant, proud and haughty in her manner, overestimating herself, and looking down with pitiful contempt upon those around her. Objects appear smaller than they really are. Nymphomania; genitals painfully sensitive with voluptuous tingling extending into the abdomen. Hysteria, and other spasmodic affections in hysterical women.

The Metal (PLATINA)

Is pre-eminently a woman's remedy. Strong tendency to paralysis, anæsthesia, localized numbness and coldness are shown. Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually (Stannum). Tremulousness.

Irresistible impulse to kill. Self-exaltation; contempt for others. Arrogant, proud. Weary of everything. Everything seems changed. Mental trouble pressed menses. Physical symptoms disappear as mental symptoms develop.

Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot. Cramplike, squeezing pain. Constriction about forehead and right temples. Numbness, with headache.

Objects look smaller than they are. Twitching of lids (Agar). Eyes feel cold. Cramp-like pain in orbits.

Feels numb. Cramp-like twinges. Roaring and rumbling.

Prosopalgia, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws. Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed in a vise. Coldness, creeping, and numbness, in whole right side of face. Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stann).

Fermentation, much flatulence; constriction; ravenous hunger; persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.

Painter's colic. Pain in umbilical region; extending through to back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen; extending into pelvis.

Retarded; feces scanty; evacuated with difficulty. Adheres to rectum, like soft clay. Sticky stool. Constipation of travelers, who are constantly changing food and water. Stool as if burnt.

Parts hypersensitive. Tingling internally and externally (Kali brom; Orig). Ovaries sensitive and burn. Menses too early, too profuse, dark-clotted, with spasms and painful bearing-down, chilliness, and sensitiveness of parts. Vaginismus. Nymphomania. Excessive sexual development; vaginismus. Pruritus vulvæ. Ovaritis with sterility. Abnormal sexual appetite and melancholia.

Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped. Numb and weary sensation. Feel paralyzed.

Sleeps with legs far apart (Chamom).

Worse, sitting and standing; evening. Better, walking.

Compare: Rhodium; Stann; Valer; Sep. Compare, also: Platinum muriaticum (this remedy has achieved beneficial results after Iodide of Potash failed to cure in syphilitic affection; violent occipital headaches, dysphagia, and syphilitic throat and bone affections; caries of bones of feet); Plat mur nat (polyuria and salivation); Sedum acre (sexual irritability, relieves irritation of nerve centers and gives rest).

Antidote: Puls. Platina antidotes the bad effects of lead.

Sixth trituration to thirtieth potency.

Pride and over-estimation of one's self; looking down on others; things look small to her.

Genitals exceedingly sensitive, but excessive sexual desire; nymphomania, with ovarian. troubles; prolapsus or profuse menses.

Pains increase gradually and as gradually decrease (Stann.); sometimes attended with numbness (Cham.).

This remedy may be studied in three relations: in its relation to the mental, nervous and sexual systems. It has curious mental symptoms. Here are three of them: "Pride and over-estimation of one's self; looking down with haughtiness on others." "Illusion of fancy, on entering the house after walking an hour, as if everything about her were very small, and all persons mentally and physically inferior, but she herself physically and mentally superior." "Changing moods, gay and sad alternately." This last symptom is like Ignatia, Crocus, Nux moschata and Aconite, and Platina has another symptom like Aconite -"fear of death." Now the first two symptoms above mentioned might appear to some as of no practical value in the treatment of the sick. There is no pathological explanation for them beyond the fact of a generally disordered mind, which might take any other form of hallucination -But this is a valuable indication and found under no other remedy. I was led by it to prescribe the remedy in a very obstinate case of insanity which had resisted the skill of several allopathic physicians of note, and they had finally decided that the case must be sent to the insane asylum. The parents however, who were quite wealthy, could not consent to that, and were induced to try Homœopathy. I gave her Platina on the strength of this mental indication, which was very prominent, coupled with another prominent symptom, which also appears under this remedy, viz, "physical symptoms disappear and mental symptoms appear" and vice versa. The physical symptoms was a pain the whole length of the spine. This was the symptom alternating with the mental one. It was one of the most brilliant cures I ever saw. Improvement began the first day and never flagged, and she remained well now 15 years with never a sign of return.

The nervous symptoms outside the brain symptoms calling for Platina are: 1st "The pains increase gradually and as gradually decrease." 2nd. "This pains are attended with numbness of the parts" This first symptom you will remember is like Stannum but the Platinum patient is not characteristically so weak as the Stannum one. The second one is like Chamomilla, but the Platina patient is not so unvaryingly ugly as the Chamomilla one. Both are great mental remedies, however, and if any question arises (as there may) a close study of them in their entirety may be necessary.

In regard to the gradual outset of the pains of Platina and Stannum, Belladonna has exactly the opposite: but Belladonna more resembles the Platina in its brain symptoms.

Sexual organs. "Nymphomania aggravated in the lying-in; tingling or tittilation up into the abdomen." "Excessive sexual desire, especially in virgins; premature or excessive development of sexual instinct." "Genitals excessively sensitive; cannot bear to be touched; will almost go into a spasm from an examination, and almost faint during intercourse." "Metrorrhagia or profuse menses; blood black and clotted."

Ovarian trouble and prolapsus with the profuse menses and excessive sensitiveness of the genitals to touch or coition. All these are very strong indications for this remedy. All these symptoms, mental, nervous, spasmodic, sexual, etc., would indicate that Platina ought to be a good remedy for that protean malady, hysteria, and so abundant experience has proven it to be. Here again I have, as in the case of Zincum and Stannum, found the higher preparation of the drug most potent for good, though in, a case of insanity I used the 6th, not having it high at that time.

Platina has a form of constipation similar to Alumina, i. e., the stools adhere to the anus like soft clay.

Pride and over-estimation of oneself ; looking down with haughtiness on others. Illusion ; every thing around her is very small and everybody inferior to her in body and mind. Low-spirited, inclined to shed tears, worse in the evening. Anxiety, horrified by the thought that he would die soon. Great indifference. After anger alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death. Delirium, with fear of men, often changing, with over-estimation of oneself. Mania ; with great pride ; with fault-finding ; with unchaste talk ; trembling and clonic spasms, caused by fright or from anger. Pressing headache from without to within the forehead and temples, gradually increasing and decreasing, aggravated in the evening, from stooping, while at rest, in the room ; ameliorated from exercise and in the open air. Constrictive headache, as if a tape were tightly drawn around it, with sensation of numbness in the brain, flushes of heat and ill-humor, worse from stooping and exercise. Formication in one temple, extending to the lower jaw, with sensation of coldness on that spot ; worse in the evening and when at rest, better from rubbing. Sensation of numbness in the head and externally on the vertex, preceded by a sensation of contraction of the brain and the scalp ; worse in the evening and while sitting, better from motion and in the open air.

Sensation of coldness in the eyes. Spasmodic trembling and twitching of the eyelids. The objects appear smaller than they really are.

Otalgia, with cramp pain. Sensation of coldness in the ears, with sensation of numbness extending to the cheeks and lips.

Numbness and cramp pain in the nose.

Redness and burning heat of the face, with violent thirst, especially towards evening. Sensation of coldness, tingling and numbness in (one side of) the face. Cramp pain and sensation of numbness in the (left) malar bone. Benumbing, dull pressure in the malar bone. Lock-jaw. Pale, sunken countenance. Sensation of coldness, especially in the mouth. Purple, net-like appearance on the chin.

Rhagades in the gums. Cramp-like drawing in the throat, as if it were constricted. Hawking of mucus, with scraping in the throat. Sensation as if the tongue were scalded. Sensation as if the palate were elongated.

Aversion to food on account of feeling low-spirited. Thirstlessness. Sweet taste on the tip of the tongue. Ravenous appetite and hasty eating, with the inclination to detest every thing around himself. Unsuccessful efforts to eructate. Continuous nausea, with trembling weakness and anguish. Pressure on the stomach, especially after eating. Sensation of constriction in the pit of the stomach and in the abdomen. Burning in the pit of the stomach, extending into the abdomen. Pinching in the region of the navel. Pressing and bearing down in the abdomen, extending into the pelvis. Lead-colic.

Constipation ; after lead poisoning or while travelling ; frequent urging, with expulsion of only small portions of feces, with great straining. After an evacuation sensation of great weakness in the abdomen or chilliness. Itching-tingling and tenesmus at the anus, especially in the evening.

Frequent micturition, with slow flow of urine. Urine red, with white clouds or turbid with red sediment.

Men. Unnaturally increased sexual desire, with violent erections, especially at night. Women. Painful sensitiveness of the genitals internally and externally. Bearing down to the genitals and pressing down in the abdomen. Nymphomania ; unnatural excitement of the sexual desire, especially in lying-in-women, with voluptuous tingling in the external and internal sexual organs. Induration of the uterus. Menstruation too early and too profuse (lasting but a short time), with clotted, dark blood. Metrorrhagia, with great excitability of the sexual system. Spasms on the appearance of the menstruation. Pressing down in the genitals during menstruation.

Difficult, anxious respiration. Shortness of breath, as if the chest were constricted, with anxious warm rising. Inclination to draw a long breath, prevented by a sensation of weakness in the chest. Loss of voice (aphony). Sensation of cramp-pain externally on the thorax, gradually increasing and decreasing. Palpitation of the heart with anxiety.

Pains in the back, and small of the back, as if bruised, especially when pressing on it, or when bending backward. Sensation of numbness in the os sacrum. Stiffness of the neck. Weakness, tension and numbness in the neck.

Upper. Cramp-like pains in the arms and hands. Paralytic drawing and weakness in the arms. Ulcers on the fingers. Lower. Cramp-like pains in the legs. Sensation of stiffness in the lower legs. Ulcers on the toes.

Cramp-like pains, especially in the extremities and joints. Dull, pushing or inward, pressing pains, as from the pressure of a plug. Tension in the limbs as if they were wrapped up tightly. Paralytic sensation, numbness and stiffness in the limbs, generally accompanied by coldness. Paralytic weakness in the limbs, especially when at rest. Hysterical spasms, with full consciousness (at the dawn of day, morning).

Spasmodic yawning, especially in the afternoon. Wakens (after midnight) with frightful dreams, want of consciousness. At night and daring sleep he lies with his arms thrown over his head, the thighs drawn up, and inclined to have his legs uncovered.

Pulse small, feeble, frequently tremulous. Chill in the evening, with trembling and tremulous sensation over the whole body. Shaking chill when going from the room into the open, even warm, air. Chilliness predominates, with low spirits, which ceases during the heat. Heat, with sensation of burning in the face, without any visible change in the color of the face. Flushes of heat, interrupted by chilliness. Gradually increasing, and in the same manner gradually decreasing heat. Perspiration only during the sleep, ceasing as soon one wakens.

Sensation of soreness, tingling smarting and itching, or pricking, stinging burning, with inclination to scratch on different parts of the body. Ulcers on the fingers and toes.

Is especially suitable for women. Alternate appearance of the symptoms of the body and mind ; as soon as the one group predominates the other ceases. Aggravation of such symptoms in the evening and in the room as are ameliorated in the open air. Most ailments are worse when at rest, and better during motion. The pains begin slightly increase gradually, and decrease in the same slow, gradual manner.

Platinum. An Element. (Also called Platina.) Pt. (A. W. 194.3.) Trituration.

Amenorrhœa. Chlorosis. Constipation. Convulsions. Delusions . Dentition. Depression of spirits . Dysmenia. Erotomania. Fear . Gout. Hæmorrhage. Hæmorrhoids. Hysteria . Lead poisoning. Masturbation. Melancholia , Menorrhagia. Menses, suppressed. Mind, affections of. Neuralgia. Neurasthenia. Numbness . Nymphomania. Ovaries, affections of . Pruritus vulvæ. Rheumatism. Sexual perversion. Spasms. Tapeworm. Uterus, induration of. Vaginismus. Yawning, spasmodic.

The original name of Platinum was "Platina," being a Spanish word meaning "like silver" ( Plata being Spanish for silver). The metal was introduced into Europe from South America in the middle of the eighteenth century. It is always found in association with other metals, chiefly Rhodium, Osmium, Iridium, Palladium. Hahnemann was the first to think of it as a medicine, and his proving in the Chronic Diseases is the basis of our knowledge of its action. One characteristic symptom, either when found alone or in association with other conditions, has led to many cures with Plat . — Lost sense of proportion in both ocular and mental vision. Objects look small or the patient thinks them small. This becomes pride and hauteur in the mental sphere; the patient (generally a woman) looks down on everything and everybody. This is a keynote of Plat . Another is the occurrence of cramps, cramping pains and spasms, developing into convulsions. The cramping pains = numbness and tingling in the parts affected. Pains as if nipped, squeezed in a vice, and these pains increase gradually to an acme and then as gradually decline. In the rectum this becomes tenesmus; in vagina, vaginismus. Another general keynote is the alternation of mental and physical symptoms: as physical symptoms disappear mental symptoms appear, and vice versâ . Nash cured a case of insanity of some duration with Plat ., being led to the remedy by an alternation of the mental symptoms with a pain the whole length of the spine. This alternating feature is also seen between one mental state and another: Changing moods; sad and gay alternately; laughs and cries by turns. There is also a perverse state: Laughs immoderately, but in the wrong place; laughs at serious things. The mental disorder at times takes a homicidal form. Jahr cured with Plat . a woman who had an inspiration to kill her child, and Jules Gaudy recorded ( Jour. Belge d'H ., quoted Amer. H ., xxii. 314) the case of a woman who was tormented with an almost irresistible impulse to kill her husband, whom she loved passionately, and with whom she was perfectly happy. The sight of a knife had an irresistible fascination for her, and she was often obliged to leave the table to free herself from the impulse. A few months before, she had lost a child a short time after confinement, which had been followed by profuse and desperately persistent hæmorrhage. Recovering from this she became restless, irritable, and her whole existence was ruled by this terrible impulse. Plat . 6x and 30x relieved and finally cured her. Kent ( Med. Adv ., xxv. 184) records the case of a middle-aged lady, mother of several grown-up daughters, who complained of a peculiar mental symptom: A fear, in the absence of her husband, that he would never return, that he would die, or be run over. She wept all the time he was away. Kent discovered that she had been treated for uterine displacement, and was then wearing a pessary. This was removed. Menstrual flow was copious, black, clotted. The external genitals were so sensitive that the usual napkin was intolerable. Plat . cured the whole case, including the displacement. Almost every symptom in this case was a characteristic. The sensitiveness of the external genitals is often so great as to make coition impossible. Digital examining of such a patient causes great pain. The action of Plat . to a large extent centres in and radiates from the sexual organs, male and female. It corresponds to masturbation before puberty, and also to the effects of masturbation. It was one of Gallavardin's remedies for the impulse to pederasty and sodomy. Tendency to uncover completely in sleep is a leading note of it. Excessive desire, especially in virgins. Premature and excessive development of sexual instinct and organs. Nymphomania < in puerperal state. During menses uterine spasms, convulsions. Convulsions of puerperal state. Catalepsy during menstruation. Spasms alternate between convulsive actions and opisthotonos; full consciousness. Spasms alternate with dyspnœa. Excessive itching in uterus; pruritus vulvæ. Plat . has some characteristic symptoms in relation to the bowels. Its cramping tendency makes it an antidote to lead poisoning; and it has constipation scarcely less marked than that of Pb ., though differing from it. The stools of Plat . are tenacious and sticky, adhere to the rectum and anus like putty; or they may be hard as if burnt; the constipation comes on whilst travelling; in emigrants; during pregnancy. Peculiar Sensations and Symptoms are: As if her senses would vanish. As if parts of malar bones were between screws. As if everything about her were very small. As if she were constantly growing longer and longer. As if she did not belong to her own family. Vertigo as if torn and pulled with threads. Forehead as if constricted; screwed on; as if a board pressed against it. As if temples too tightly bound. Scalp as if contracted; as if a heavy weight on it. As if head were enlarged. As if throat constricted; palate elongated; tongue scalded. As if abdomen, chest, nape, limbs, thigh, great toe, tightly wrapped or constricted. Back and small of back as if broken. Crawling, tingling, numb sensations. Spasmodic yawning. Pains go from right to left. The right side is somewhat more pronouncedly affected than the left. Severe stitches in right ovary. The symptoms are periodic and paroxysmal, as well as alternating. Plat . is suited to women with dark hair; thin, sanguine, bilious; with too frequent and too profuse menses; sexual organs exceedingly sensitive. Hysterical and hæmorrhoidal patients. The symptoms are: < By touch and pressure. < Fasting. < During menses. < Rest; sitting; standing; bending backward. > By motion. Walking and going upstairs < pressure in genitals; > hysteric rheumatism. Walking against wind = sudden arrest of breathing. < Evening and night. Headache commences on waking. < In warm room; > in open air (but open air = fluent coryza and shaking chill on going from room; heat > cramp pain in legs and irritability and chilliness. Obliged to stretch, which > .

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Sensitive mood.
Inclination to embrace everybody.
Attacks of cheerfulness ; increased feeling of strength.
Very absent-minded and forgetful.
Great indifference.
Ill-humor in morning.
Morose and discontented.
Arrogant, reserved, absent-minded.
Pride and overestimation of one's self ; looking down with haughtiness on others.
Cold, haughty, too well satisfied with one's self, and not at all anxious about the future.
Contemptuous, pitiful, looking down upon people usually venerated, with a kind of casting them off, in paroxysms against her will.
Dislikes her children ; calls them too little. θ Induration of os tincæ.
Any serious thought is terrifying.
Anxiety with trembling of hands and flushes of heat over whole body.
Deathly anxiety, as if her senses would vanish, with trembling of all the limbs, oppression of breath and violent palpitation.
Very peevish and easily excited ; he could have beaten any one without provocation.
After anger alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death.
Trifling things produce profound vexation ; remains a long time in the sulks.
Anxiety, weeping and palpitation, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws.
Everything seems strange and horrible to her.
She thinks all persons are demons.
Past events trouble her.
Satiety of life, with taciturnity and fear of death.
Much anguish ; she feels as if she would lose her senses and die soon.
Out of sorts with the whole world ; everything seems too narrow ; weeping mood.
Silence, with involuntary weeping.
Sits alone, sad and morose, without talking ; followed by inconsolable weeping, especially when spoken to.
Thinks she is left entirely to herself and stands alone in the world.
Very restless disposition, so that she could not remain anywhere, with sadness ; the most joyful things distressed her ; thought she had no place in the world ; life was wearisome, but had great dread of death, which she believed near at hand.
Weeping mood and sadness ; < in house ; > in open air.
Low-spirited ; inclined to shed tears ; < in evening ; weeps with the pains.
Weeping mood and crying after being mildly reproached.
Mood changing ; cheerful or depressed.
Physical symptoms disappear and mental symptoms appear, and vice versa.
Precordial anguish with palpitation and fear of death and of imaginary forms, ghosts.
While suffering from a slight erysipelas faciei, took leave of her children, exhorted her husband to join church, wanted people to join her in prayer, felt happy to join her Redeemer.
Irritable, easily angered, sometimes quite violent, at same time great bodily activity ; at other times very melancholy and lachrymose, with indifference ; depressed condition of physical powers ; she would lie on sofa, would hardly speak, anxiousness and fear of
approaching death ; menses much too frequent, with copious leucorrhœa between periods, consisting of clear mucus ; menstrual flow intermingled with clots which were discharged with preceding pain in belly and a certain feeling of bearing down ; aversion to coition and yet
dreams of intense lasciviousness, terminating an emission of profuse sticky fluid ; bowels constipated or diarrheic. θ Melancholia.
Illusions of fantasy on entering the house after walking an hour, as if everything about her were very small and all persons mentally and physically inferior, but she herself physically large and superior ; the room seemed gloomy and unpleasant,
with apprehensive and fretful mood.
It seems to her as if she does not belong to her own family ; after a short absence everything seems entirely changed.
Disturbed state of mind ; religious, with taciturnity, haughtiness, voluptuousness and cruelty.
Delirium, with fear of men ; often changing, with overestimation of oneself.
Mania : with great pride ; fault-finding ; unchaste talk ; trembling and clonic spasms ; caused by fright and anger.
Involuntary disposition to whistle or sing ; canine hunger ; eats greedily.
Talks almost continually about fanciful things or such as have really occurred ; of faithless love ; of her teacher and school days ; laughs, sings, dances, weeps, makes grimaces, and gesticulates ; clings obstinately to her ideas,
without, however, growing angry about it ; face distorted ; eyes fixed ; no desire to eat or drink ; things offered her are hastily dispatched.
Forgetful, absent-minded ; listens often attentively to conversation, and at the end knows nothing about it ; melancholy with great fear of death ; imagines himself superior to his wife ; griping in umbilical region, particularly towards evening, as if he had drunk
unfermented beer ; although there are frequent urging and pressure in rectum, stool does not occur daily, is difficult and discharged in pieces, with much pressure of abdominal muscles.
Melancholia in a woman æt. 60 ; twelve years ago, after catamenia had been absent for months, there occurred a permanent leucorrhœa, of very fetid odor ; one morning did not quit her bedroom as usual and never left it for twelve years ; spent her time seated on bed, in
deep meditation or praying aloud ; complaining, weeping and howling ; rejected all cooked food and took no notice of anything about her ; only at night got out of bed and ran about room without apparent object ; suffers unspeakable pangs of conscience in consequence of a
faux pas when thirty-two years old ; says she has brought disgrace upon her family, and that she has incurred the penalty of damnation ; in order to do penance gave away whatever she could lay her hands upon, so that she had to be constantly watched ; after her confessor
asserted that she could not hope for pardon or heaven, she seemed in absolute despair ; bemoaned her misery throughout the night, wringing her hands and beseeching that she might be delivered from the hell of her conscience ; twice attempted self-destruction ; in spite of her
tendency to suicide, dreaded death and disliked any conversation pertaining thereto ; wished to live and do penance in order to mitigate her eternal punishment.
Mental disturbance after fright, grief or vexation.
Mental depression from onanism.
Affections from pride.
Puerperal mania of a violent type ; she would dance, sing, talk rapidly and continuously, when awake ; everything was removed from the room in which she was confined (except her piano, of which she was fond), because she would destroy everything she could lay hands
upon ; she would play for hours at a time upon her piano, sometimes beautifully, and at other times would bang and pound without any attempt at harmony ; assumed or seemed to feel herself a person of great superiority ; when her violent paroxysms were off, more moderate, she
complained of pain in back.

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The Platinum proving represents the woman's mind perverted.

It is especially suited to hysterical women such as have undergone fright, prolonged excitement, or from disappointment, shock, or prolonged hemorrhages. She becomes arrogant and haughty.

One of the most striking characteristics of this drug is pride and over-estimate of one’s self. She imagines that she is of a high born family and that her friends and relatives are of lowly origin and looks down upon them.

Her acquaintances are inferior to herself. A strange thing about this remedy is that this imagination extends to the body. She imagines that her body is large and that the bodies of other people are smaller in comparison with her own. She is in a contemptuous mood, anxious and serious over matters that. are not serious, irritable about trifling things, is moody and sulky over slight vexations, anxious, weeping. Palpitation, trembling in all limbs during every little excitement, fears death and loathes life.

Fear is a very prominent feature in this remedy. Fears that something will happen, fears that her absent husband will never return to her, though he comes back regularly. Restless disposition, excitable, walking, moving about, and weeping.

The mental symptoms alternate with the physical symptoms. Strange illusions of fancy. Imagines than she do, not belong to this race and becomes insane over religious matters, sits in the corner and broods and says nothing. Takes on insanity; becomes a sexual pervert, utters unchaste speech and trembles.

Spasms will come on from vexation or anger. Whistles, sings, and dances. Talks constantly about fanciful things. She may go into melancholy or into mania. Any disturbance of her pride will bring on her symptoms.

Sexual excitement will bring on her symptoms. The usual mental symptoms are intermingled with trembling of the limbs, sexual excitement, and numbness of various parts of the body and limbs. Compressing sensations, pressing pains, pressure of the limbs as if bandaged or constricted, tension of the skin of the limbs as if bandaged.

Head: These characteristic features prevail throughout the various regions of the body and modify many particulars.

Sensation of numbness of the scalp with, pressing pain in the head, boring, compression of the head. Tension of the scalp, cramplike constrictions of the scalp gradually increasing to violence, cramplike pains gradually increasing to violence.

Squeezing sensation in the head. These pains may be in the temple, in the top of the head, or in the forehead. Again, there is crawling, creeping, numbness of the scalp. Sudden shocks in the head. There is no symptom in the head more persistent than numbness of the scalp, it prevails throughout all sensations and pains.

All headaches gradually increase until they are severe. Violent neuralgia in the head with sensitiveness in hysterical persons. Sometimes numbness in the head is described as if the brain were numb. Headaches come on from chagrin, from fear, from vexation, from hemorrhages, and from sexual excitement.

Sparks before the eyes, spasms of the lids, and objects appear smaller than they really are.

Sensation of coldness in the eyes, spasms, spasmodic trembling and twitching of the muscles of the eyes.

Cramping pain in the ears, coldness in the ears, numbness of the external ears.

The numbness of the ears extends to the face, nose and scalp. Platinum is a hemorrhagic remedy. Bleeding from various parts of the body and mucous membranes. The hemorrhages wherever observed are black clots with fluid. On examining the symptoms of the nose hemorrhage is observed. Black, coagulated blood from the nose. Oversensitive to smell. Violent crampy pains at the root of the nose with redness of the face.

Sensation of coldness of the face, numbness of the face, cramping, pressing pains in the face. Neuralgia of the face. Coldness, crawling, numbness of the face. Numbness of the malar bone. Tearing boring pain in the face.

Pulsating and digging through the lower jaw, especially the right side, together with numbness and coldness. The pains come gradually and go gradually. Sensation as if the tongue were scalded, crawling in the tongue.

Loss of appetite on account of the depressed mood or at other times a ravenous appetite; hasty eating, eats everything around her.

Much flatulence, fermentation in the stomach. Jerking of the muscles of the stomach and abdomen. Sensation as if the whole abdomen were tightly constricted or bandaged. Tension of the skin of the abdomen. Violent, cramping pains in the abdomen, drawing pains in the navel as if by a string, which causes a sensation of retraction of the abdomen. Pressing, bearing down pains in the abdomen.

These pains are much like Plumbum and Platinum, has been used as an antidote to Plumbum. Pressing, drawing pains from incarcerated flatus. The torpor of the intestinal canal is much like that which is found in Plumbum. Inveterate constipation, much flatus.

The stool is half digested and papescent or hard as if burnt, or may be scanty and very difficult, or may be glutinous and adherent to the anus like soft clay. Frequent urging to stool and inability to strain at stool, inveterate constipation and unsuccessful urging to stool.

Pain in the abdomen after lead poisoning and colic after lead poisoning. Constipation in travelers. Prolonged efforts to pass a stool. Aching pains, burning pains and protrusion of hemorrhoids during stool. Burning in the rectum during stool. Itching, tickling, and tenesmus of the anus, especially in the evening.

Extreme sexual erethism is found in both male and female.

In the male there is great sexual erethism driving to secret vice. It has cured epilepsy arising from onanism. Sexual erethism is one of the most prominent features of Platinum, in women. Unbearable sexual excitement and voluptuous crawling in the genitals.

Such extreme sensitiveness of the external genitals that it is impossible for the woman to wear a napkin during menstruation. Such extreme sensitiveness of the vagina that it is impossible for the physician to make an examination with the index finger. It is not an inflammation but a hyperesthesia.

Increased sexual excitement in young girls, in hysterical girls. Violent sexual desire in married women with itching, tingling, and voluptuous sensations. Pain in the ovarian region, especially the left. It has cured sterility of long standing, especially sterility that is supposed to come from excessive sexual excitement, Burning, stitching pains in the ovaries.

Inflammation of the ovaries coming with hemorrhage of the uterus, and during the menstrual period. It has cured ovarian tumors and cystic tumors. Inflammation of the uterus, bearing down, as in prolapsus. Prolapsed uterus and dragging in the pelvis.

Polypus of the uterus and uterine hemorrhages. Copious menstrual flow. The flow is dark, even black, and clotted with much fluid blood. These nervous women constantly feel as if the menstrual flow was going to appear.

The menstrual flow comes too early, is too profuse, and then generally of short duration. The hemorrhage is somewhat like the menstrual flow in old women. The menstrual periods sometimes return every fourteen days or the menstrual flow may be entirely absent. The vulva and vagina are extremely sensitive during coition, sometimes preventing the act.

The woman suffers from albuminous leucorrhoea, mostly in the daytime without much sensation. There are many complaints of pregnancy, threatened abortion, exhausting hemorrhages, discharges of black clotted blood.

During labor the contractions are interrupted by sensitiveness of the vagina and internal parts. It is impossible for the obstetrician to make the usual examination. Cramping in the limbs during parturition or profuse hemorrhage; hysterical convulsions, puerperal convulsions.

After every mental exertion palpitation, trembling, numbness, quivering, and excitement in the limbs. Tremulous restlessness in the legs with numbness. Cold feet. Pains in the great toe as if bandaged. This sensation prevails throughout.

The limbs feel as if bandaged about the thigh or leg. The nerves are in a great state of excitement most of the time. The patient is prostrated. Paralytic weakness, which is worse during rest. Numbness, stiffness and coldness. Painful tremulousness all over the body, with throbbing in the blood vessels. Numbness of the scalp, of the feet, of the bands, of the limbs. Shifting, neuralgic pains. Spasmodic affections of hysterical women. Spasms from sexual erethism. Coldness, crawling, and numbness of the skin, especially during fever.

Everything seems strange and horrible to her.
She thinks all persons are demons.
Illusion: everything around her is very small and every body inferior to her in mind and body.
Delirium with fear of men, often changing with overestimation of oneself.
Disturbed state of mind, also religious, with taciturnity, haughtiness, voluptuousness and cruelty.
Mania, with great pride; fault-finding; unchaste talk; trembling and clonic spasms; caused by fright or anger.
Mood changing; cheerful or depressed.
Low-spirited, inclined to shed tears, worse in the evening; weeps with the pains.
Past events trouble her.
Much anguish; she feels as if she would lose her senses and die soon.
Satiety of life, with (taciturnity and) fear of death.
Great indifference.
Pride and overestimation of oneself; looking down with haughtiness on others.
Physical symptoms disappear, and mental symptoms appear, and vice versa.
After anger, alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death.
Mental disturbance after fright, grief or vexation.

Sensation of numbness in head and externally on vertex, preceded by a sensation of contraction of the brain scalp; worse in evening and while sitting; better from motion and in open air.
Neuralgic headache in sensitive or hysterical persons; cramp-like pressing inwards, with hot and red face, and roaring in head; pains gradually increase and as gradually decrease.
Numb feeling in the brain.
Sensation of water in the forehead.

Formication in one temple, extending to lower jaw, with sensation of coldness on that spot; worse in evening and when at rest, better from rubbing.

Scintillations before the eyes; headache.
Sensation of coldness in the eyes.
Spasmodic trembling and twitching of the eyelids.
Objects appear smaller than they really are.

Ringing, rolling or rumbling sound in the ears.
Thundering jerks like distant cannonade, in right ear.
Otalgia with cramp-pain, often with rumbling in the ears.
Sensation of coldness in ears, with sensation of numbness extending to cheeks and lips.

Numbness and cramp-pain in nose.
Violent crampy pain at root of nose, with heat and red face.
Corrosive sensation on nose, as from something acrid.

Pale, sunken; red and burning hot, with violent thirst, worse toward evening.
Sensation of coldness, tingling and numbness in one (right) side of face.
Cramp-pain, steady compressing, numb feeling and boring in malar bones.

Purple, net-like appearance on chin.

Pulsating, digging through whole right jaw, worse toward evening and at rest; followed by numbness; pains come and go gradually.

Sensation as if the tongue were scalded.
Sweet taste on the tip of the tongue.

Rhagades in the gums.
Sensation of coldness, especially in the mouth.

Cramp-like drawing in the throat, as if it were constricted.
Hawking of mucus, with scraping in throat.
Sensation as if the palate was elongated.

Loss of appetite on account of depressed mood.
Ravenous appetite and hasty eating, detests everything around him.
Thirstlessness; or, thirst during heat.

Worse on an empty stomach.
After meals: 17.

Eructations empty, morning.
Continuous nausea, with great weakness, anxiety and trembling sensation, through the whole body.

Pressure in stomach, especially after meals.
Sensation of constriction in pit of the stomach and in abdomen.
Burning in pit of stomach, extending into abdomen.
Jactitation of muscles in region of stomach.

Painter's colic; pain in umbilical region, extending through into back; patient screams and tries to relieve the pain by turning into all possible positions.
Pressing and bearing down in abdomen, extending into pelvis.

Constipation; after lead poisoning; or while travelling; frequent urging, with expulsion of only small portions of feces, with great straining.
After an evacuation, sensation of great weakness in abdomen, or chilliness.
Itching-tingling and tenesmus at anus, especially in the evening.
Stools adhere to rectum and anus like soft clay.

Frequent micturition, with slow flow of urine.
Urine: pale, watery; red, with white clouds; turbid, depositing a red sediment.

Sexual desire excessive, with violent erections, especially at night.
Embrace with but little pleasurable excitement.
Morbid excitement inducing onanism, especially if prepubic.

Nymphomania, worse in the lying-in; tingling or titillation from genitals up into abdomen.
Painful sensitiveness and continual pressure in region of mons veneris and genital organs; body, except the face, feels cold. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Induration of the uterus; ulceration, with co-existing ovarian irritation.
Ovaries inflamed with burning pains in paroxysms, stitches in the forehead. Also chronic ovaritis.
Frequent sensation as if the menses would appear.
Menses too early, too profuse and too short-lasting; flow dark, clotted; preceded by spasms, much bearing down, desire for stool, or backache; during the flow, pinching in abdomen, excruciating pains in uterus, twitchings, with screams; melancholy.
Metrorrhagia, the body feels as if growing large; genitals very sensitive; nymphomania.
Hemorrhages in clots, with uterine cancer, fibroids, etc.; even the fibroid may be cured.
Leucorrhœa like white of egg, only by day, after urination and after rising from a seat.
Pruritis vulvæ; voluptuous tingling, with anxiety and palpitation of the heart.
Vulva painfully sensitive during coitus.

Contractions interrupted by sensitiveness of vagina and external parts; labor-pains; spasmodic, painful, but ineffectual.
After labor, so sensitive, she cannot bear touch of napkin.

Loss of voice.
Spasm of the glottis.

Difficult, anxious respiration.
Shortness of breath, as if the chest was constricted.
Deep breathing from sensation as of a weight on the chest.

Hysterical dry cough, from stifling beneath upper fourth of sternum.

Cramp-pain in left chest, gradually increasing and decreasing in intensity.

Great anxiety and palpitation; commencing endo or pericarditis.
Pulse regular, but small and weak, sometimes tremulous.

Nape of neck weak; head inclines forward.
Cramp in posterior muscles of neck; tensive, numb feeling close to occiput, as if tied together.
Pains in back and small of back, as if bruised or broken; worse from pressure or bending forward.
Pressing from small of back upon the pelvic organs.
Pain in small of back, going to groins and down limbs.
Numbness in sacrum and coccyx.

Weak, relaxed feeling in both arms, as after holding a heavy weight, better from motion of arms.
Sore burning at the elbow, as if scraped.

Weakness of thighs and knees, as if beaten.
Pain like after a severe blow, in left knee.
Tremulous restlessness in legs, with numb and torpid feeling when sitting; worse evenings.
Numb and tired feeling in feet, only while sitting.

Tension in limbs, as if wrapped tightly.
Cramp-like pains; numbness in limbs and joints.
Spasmodic, jerking and drawing pains in limbs and joints.
Ulcers on fingers and toes.

Motion: 3, 32. Assumes every position: 19. Rising from a seat: 23. Bending backward: 31. Rest: 4, 10, 36. Sitting: 3, 33.

Spasmodic affections of hysterical women and of children; tetanic-like spasms, with wild shrieks, alternating with catalepsy; spasms alternating with dyspnœa to suffocation; twitches of single muscles, trembling, shivering; worse at dawn.
Spasms from sexual erethism.
Tonic spasm, without loss of consciousness; face pale, sunken; child, after the spell, lies on its back, kicks off the clothes, and draws up its knees and spreads them apart.
Paralytic weakness, worse at rest; numbness, stiffness and coldness.

Great inclination to violent, almost spasmodic yawning.
Awakes, at night and has difficulty in collecting his senses.
During sleep, lies on back, arms over head, thighs drawn up, and with legs uncovered.
Intense nervous wakefulness.

Morning: 36. Afternoon: 37. Evening: 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 20, 33, 40. Night: 22, 37. Day: 23.

Open air: 3, 40. Uncovered: 37. Warm air: 40.

Chill in evening, with trembling and tremulous feeling through whole body.
Shaking chill when going from room into open, even warm, air.
Chilliness predominates, with irritability, which ceases during the heat.
Heat, with sensation of burning in face, without any visible change in color of face.
Flushes of heat, interrupted by chilliness.
Gradually increasing, and in like manner decreasing heat.
Sweat only during sleep, ceases on wakening.

Pains increase and decrease slowly and gradually.

Right: 10. Left: 28, 33. Front to back: 19. Above downward: 31.

Trembling through whole body: 16.
Dull pushing pains, as from a plug.

Rubbing: 4. Touch: 23, 24. Pressure: 31. Scratching: 46.

Sensation of soreness, tingling, smarting and itching, or pricking, stinging, burning with inclination to scratch on different parts of the body.

Dark hair; rigid fibre.
Especially suited to females.

Platin. antidotes: bad effects of lead.
Antidotes to Platin.: Pulsat., Spir. nitr. dulc.
The facial neuralgia of Verbasc. is like a crushing with tongs, and occurs often twice a day.

Pure precipitated Platinum is triturated with sugar of milk.

Rhus t., Lyc., Aur., Puls., Sep., Bell., Verat., Hyosc.

▶ Lies in morning on waking with legs spread out, right hand under head, left on pit of stomach, that is uncovered, or with legs drawn up and knees far apart, or with hands above head, also with erections, always on back, with inclination to uncover legs and body, though without heat (Hyosc.). ▶ Painful tremulousness of whole body, with throbbing in veins; tremulous sensation of times through whole body (Arg. nit., Gels.); T. sensation in hands and feet, then chilliness and trembling of whole body and chattering of teeth, with warm face and cold hands. ▶ Sticking through whole body. ▶ Bruised pain on pressure in the parts affected by cramplike pain; B. pain here and there, suddenly disappearing. ▶ Drawing in various parts in succession; cramplike, here and there, as from taking cold; jerklike, on right side of neck, then in a hollow tooth, at last in ear, where it was a jerklike sticking.

Necessity to stretch in afternoon, which made her feel better. ▶ Weakness; in morning in bed, with sexual desire, so that she covered her face and wept hard; in evening, with sleepiness; after dinner, with sleepiness; in open air, even to sleeping; agg. sitting, with tremulous restlessness, feet tired out (Rhus t.); with sensation as if cold sweat would break out on face; even to falling down; as if she had slept but little. ▶ Numbness; painful, as from a blow, in spots, agg. head. ▶ If the mind is joyous the body is suffering, and vice versa. ▶ Symptoms all left-sided. ▶ Aggravation in evening before sleep.

Hysterical spasms resulting from nervous excitement, especially with constriction of the œsophagus, globus hystericus. ▶ Spasms during labor. ▶ Alternations of anæsthesia and hyperæsthesia. ▶ General aggravation from rest, relief from motion. ▶ Pains generally increase and decrease gradually (Stann.).

▶ Arrogant, proud. ▶ Contemptuous, pitiful looking down upon people usually venerated, with a kind of casting them off, in paroxysms, against her will (Verat.). ▶ Illusion on entering the house after a walk, as if everything were too small, all persons physically and mentally inferior, but she herself physically large and superior, the room seemed gloomy, with apprehensive, sad and fretful mood, whirling vertigo and discontent with the surroundings, all amel. open air and sunshine.

▶ Lively, so that she could have danced, half an hour after weeping; lively for two days, everything seems joyous, could laugh at the saddest thing, then the third morning and evening sadness, with weeping even at joyous and laudable things and if she is spoken to (Ign.). ▶ Inclination to whistle and sing. ▶ Weeping mood after mild reproaches; W., agg. evening; amel. open air; and out of sorts with the whole world, everything seems too narrow (Puls.); with sticky tears; with aversion to eating; and laughing, yawning, again weeping, aversion to everything; so that she was vexed with herself, with silence. ▶ Feeling that he shall die soon; with shuddering at the thought. ▶ Thinks that she stands alone in the world. ▶ It seems as if she does not belong to her own family, everything seems changed after a short absence.

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Bruised or cramp-like pains, especially in the extremities.
Dull, shooting or pressing-inward pains.
A paralytic numbness or rigidity of various parts, usually with coldness.
General paralytic weakness and weariness, even tremulousness of the whole body, especially during rest.
The pains generally begin slight, increase gradually, and disappear slowly.
Symptoms < in the evening and during rest.

Clinical:
Useful for the effects of fright or anger.
Hysterical spasms from nervous excitement, with constriction of internal parts (globus hystericus).
Alternations of anæsthesia and hyperæsthesia.

Extreme anxiety, with dread of approaching death; with trembling of the extremities and flushes of heat; oppression of breath and palpitation; or with inconsolable weeping.
Morose and discontented mood; < being spoken to.
Quarrelsome and hasty.
Very lively, felt like dancing, with sudden change to weeping.
An arrogant, contemptuous mood; looks down upon people as beneath her.
Illusions; objects really look too small; even people seem physically and mentally inferior.
Sudden alternations of mental and emotional symptoms with physical.

Cramp-like or constrictive pains in the head, especially about the forehead, increasing and decreasing gradually.
Vertigo, < descending, even sitting down.
A feeling of numbness in the fore part of the head, < warm room or in the company of people, with fretful impatience.
A cramp-like tension in the temples as if they were screwed together, with numbness.
Formication on the temples, extending down to lower jaw, with coldness.
Numbness and a feeling of contraction on vertex as from a weight.
The scalp, especially of the fore part of the head, seems contracted.

Cramp-like pain in the orbits; twitchings and convulsive tremblings of the lids.
A feeling of coldness in the eyes.
Objects seem smaller than they really are.

Cramp-like twinges in the ears.
A feeling of numbness of the ears, which extends to the cheeks and lips.
Roaring and rumblings as of wagons, in the ears.

Painful, cramp-like numbness on the malar bones.
The sides of the head and face seem screwed together with tense numbness.
Coldness, especially about the mouth.

Toothache like a numbness, especially in the morning after rising.
Tongue feels burnt, with crawling.

Ravenous hunger, with hasty eating.
Empty eructations.
Persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.
Fermentation in the stomach, with numerous flatulent symptoms.
Constrictive pain as if the pit of the stomach were tightly laced.

Pressure in the lower abdomen, extending downward to the genitals, as during menstruation, with ill humor.
Drawing in both groins, coming from the small of the back.

Sensation of weakness in the abdominal muscles as if stool not be evacuated.
Constipation, feces hard and dry, as if burnt, with great effort.
A feeling of a heavy weight in rectum, which cannot be evacuated.

Sensitiveness of the sexual organs, with voluptuous crawling in the back and abdomen.
Dragging in female organs like prolapsus.
Painful sensitiveness of the external genitals alternating with anæsthesia.
Unnatural sexual desire, amounting to nymphomania.
Menstruation too early and profuse, flow clotted.

Clinical:
Satyriasis or nymphomania, associated with extreme sensitiveness or numbness of the external female organs.
Sexual melancholia.
Various uterine and ovarian diseases, with dragging to the genitals and external sensitiveness, with melancholia or hysterical symptoms, as above.

Cramp-like constriction or weight, causing deep breathing.
Weakness as if she could not breathe deeply enough.
A nervous, dry cough, with dyspnœa or palpitation.

A tense numbness in the nape, with weakness; head sinks forward.
Bruised pain in small of back, especially from pressure or bending backward.
Numbness of the coccyx when sitting down as if it had been injured.

Paralytic drawing; a feeling of weakness in the arms.
A feeling of rigidity in the forearms.
Trembling of the hands, with numbness.
A feeling of tightness of the thighs as if bound.
Tremulous numbness of the legs, with rigidity.
The feet and toes feel tightly bound.

Localized coldness, on the right side of the face and on other parts.
Sudden flushes of heat, particularly in the face.

PLATINA.

Chemically pure platina which is soft and can be cut with a knife, is dissolved in heated aqua-regia (nitric acid and hydrochloric acid), the golden yellow solution obtained, is properly diluted with distilled water, a smoothly-polished steel rod is suspended in it, on which the platina deposits as a crystalline crust. This is readily friable, is sweetened by repeated washing in distilled water and well-dried between blotting paper. One grain of this is used for the preparation of the homœopathic dynamizations as shown in the concluding part of the first volume of the Chronic Diseases. When Platina is properly homœopathically indicated in a case of disease, it relieves simultaneously the following ailments, if present : Lack of appetite ; eructation after eating ; constipation while traveling ; emission of prostatic juice ; induration of the uterus ; weariness of the lower limbs ; cold feet ; stuffed coryza. Too violent effects of Platina are relieved by Pulsatilla and by smelling of sweet of nitre. The symptoms marked Gr. are by Dr. Gross, of Jueterbock. [*].

[] To the above-named fellow-observer most of the symptoms of Platina are credited. They are taken from a proving instituted by him, chiefly on "a damsel both bodily and mentally healthy and blooming, though somewhat excitable," who took does of the 1st trituration equivalent in all to between two and three grains of the mental. The results of this proving were originally published in Vol. I of the Archiv. -Hughes*.

Dejected, taciturn, sad. [Gr.].

She imagines herself deserted and standing alone in the world. [Gr.].

Anxiety, with trembling of the hands and ebullition of heat. [Gr.].

Anxiety and palpitation, especially during a walk.

[5] Anxiety is frequently suddenly felt all through the body. [Gr.].

Great anxiety, with violent palpitation, when she wishes to talk in company ; so that speaking is hard for her. [Gr.].

Anguish as if about to die, as if unconsciousness would ensue, with trembling in all the limbs, arrested breathing and intense palpitation. [Gr.].

Anxious and oppressed about the heart, and peevish all day long. [Gr.].

Sensation as if he would have to die soon, with horror at the thought. [Gr.].

[10] Sensation as if she would have to die soon, with great inclination to weep and actual weeping. [Gr.].

Great restlessness of mind, so that she knows not where to stay, with gloominess which spoils even what should be most enjoyable ; she imagines she is not fit for this world, is tired of life, but has a great horror of the death she believes to be approaching. [Gr.].

Very much depressed and indolent, in the morning (aft. 48 h.). [Gr.].

Sullen and discontented. [Gr.].

Ill-humored for a long time, from a slight vexation ; he only talks when he is obliged to ; extremely unkind, abrupt and quarrelsome. [Gr.].

[15] At odds with all the world, everything is too close for her, with inclination to weep. [Gr.].

Sensitive mood.

Sad and sullen, she sits solitary, without speaking and she cannot ward off sleep ; then inconsolable weeping, especially when she is addressed. [Gr.].

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Plat. / Plato.

Platinum,-'Tis less of thee-
Sing we, than of Mrs. P.
As we check off this notation-
Numbness, tightness, formication.
Pains neuralgic, spasms, twitching,
Tender vulva, sore and itching.
Spells hysterical with choking,
Peevishness with snarls provoking.
Paralytic ills in process,
Syphilitic taint-sycosis.
Stools like muddy clay adhering,
Menses flush, too soon appearing.
Comfort finding some promotion
From the open air, and motion.

Plato,-Has Formication.

Plato Hyper, seeks for his urchin in the road near the Zoo.

This Plato,-Who is subject to tenderness of the vulva,-Is in the car cafe with an eye on her guests, Major Hyde and the creoles, Lily and Bertha Sabin.

Formication: Plat., Hyper., Sec., Urti., Rhod., Nux v., Rhus, ZN.

Soreness-Tenderness of the Vulva: Plat., Carb. v., Coff., Apis, Graph., Sul., Thuj., Sil., Mer., Aco., Hyd., Kreo., Lil. t., Berb., Sabin. (Smarting, Hyd., Sep., Graph., Thuj., Mer.)

Indicated in affections, chiefly of women, resting upon a neurotic basis, as hysteria, melancholia, particularly religious and sexual, and mania, especially puerperal; in these, exaltation of self, fear of death and a remarkable degree of sexual excitement are nearly always present. Also of service in neuralgia (face, head, stomach, ovaries) with a sense of numbness in the parts; ovarian and uterine affections of women who have excessive menstrual flow of dark, clotted blood, albuminous leucorrhoea, and nervous symptoms of reflex origin. In constipation and colic dur to lead-poisoning.

Overpowering self-esteem; arrogance; haughtiness; she feels far superior to her associates.

Objects about her seem smaller that they are; her own stature seems to have increased.

Pain cramp-like, squeezing, crushing (head, root of the nose).

Pain increases and decreases gradually.

Numbness of different parts.

Stools like soft clay, passed with difficulty; they adhere to rectum and anus.

Pressing, cutting and bearing-down in the abdomen and throughout the pelvis, then passing to the sacrum.

Albuminous leucorrhoea.

Menorrhagia of dark, clotted blood.

Sexual passion increased to nymphomania.

Worse from rest; in the evening.

Better from motion.

Unconsciousness. Delirium. Mental disturbances from fright, or anger caused by vexation, i. e. alternate laughing and crying, etc. Hysteria. with excessive sexual desire, hauteur and involuntary weeping. Sadness and weeping in evening. Premonition and great fear of imminent death, with extraordinary anguish. Insanity, with fault - finding, pride, abscess talk, trembling and tonic spasms. Great peevishness. Pride and self - conceit, with contempt for everything else, even the most beloved and sacred things. Symptoms of mind and mood frequently alternate with those of body. Great indifference.

Crampy pain, like an inward pressure in temples and forehead. Compressive cramping as of a constricting hand Sensation of a plug in parietal bone. Pains increase gradually and leave in the same manner. Crawling, like ants, and cold feeling from temple down over lower jaw. Numbness within as well as on skull. Brain feels stiff. The scalp seems to gradually contract tightly over the skull then slowly relax again. Worse: Evening: Stooping: sitting or lying at rest, in room. Better: Gentle motion in open air, rubbing.

Cramp - like pain in edge of orbit. quivering or spasmodic trembling of lids. cold sensation in. Crawling in angles of. Smarting in. Objects appear smaller than they really are. ears. - Crampy pain like an earache. Numb sensation in, which extends to cheeks and lips. Reverberation and rolling like the noise of a wagon in.

Crampy pain, with numb sensation.

Redness and burning heat of, with violent thirst, especially toward evening. Pale, sunken and numb. Crampy pain, with numb feeling in malar bone. Benumbing, dull pressure in malar bone. Lock - jaw. Sense of coldness, mostly about mouth. Bluish - red varicosity on chin.

Crampy, jerky drawing in. Fissured gums.

Cramp - like drawing in throat, as though it were constricted. Hawking of mucus. Burnt feeling on tongue.

Appetite, etc, - Ravenous hunger and hasty eating, with contemptuous mood. Low spirits causing aversion to food. thirstless.

Taste: Sweetish on tip of tongue.

Eructations: Ineffectual desire to eructate. Rising of a disagreeable bitter sweet fluid, during which he early swallows the wrong way.

Nausea, etc. - Continued qualmishness, with anxious weakness and trembling.

Pressure, after eating. contractive pain in pit, as though' too tightly laced. Thrusts in pit.

Contractive pain in. Dull. thrusting pressure in. Burning extending from throat - pit down into a. Pressure, extending downward into inguinal region and sexual organs. Pinching is umbilical region. Drawing downward from lumbar region into both groins. Lead colic.

Sense of weakness in abdomen or shivering after stool. Constipation.

Itching, crawling and tenesmus at, every evening.

Frequent urination in a weak stream.

Painfully sensitive, internally and externally. Voluptuous crawling in, and in abdomen. Pressing and urging toward. Nymphomania and unnaturally excited sexual desire, especially in lying - in women.

Menses: Of dark, thick blood, too early and too profuse (of too short duration). spasms at appearance of. Uterine hemorrhage, with greatly excited sexual desire, after miscarriage.

Deep, anxious inspiration. shortness of breath, as though' chest were too tightly laced, with anxious, warm rising. Desire to take a deep breath, hindered by a weak feeling in chest.

Loss of voice.

Dull, thrusting pressure in. Tensive, crampy pains seemingly in external chest, increasing and decreasing gradually. Anxious palpitation.

Tensive, cramp - like, numb feeling in, and in lumbar region. bruised pain in, and in lumbar region, especially when pressed upon or bending backward.

Neck: Tensive, crampy feeling in. Stiffness of nape.

Paralytic drawing and sense of weakness in arms. Crawling pain in arms and hands. Stiff sensation in forearms. Ulcers on fingers and toes.

Lower Extremities.

Cramping pain in legs. Stiff feeling in legs. Swelling of balls of toes, with nightly tearing.

Cramp - like pains in many parts, especially in extremities and joints, dull, thrust - like or inward pressing pains like the deriving in of a plug. Benumbing cramps. Tension in limbs, as though' tightly bound. Paralytic, numb and stiff sensation in various parts, generally accompanied by a feeling of coldness. Paralytic weakness and weariness in limbs, especially during rest. Hysterical, tetanic spasms, with full consciousness. Bad effects of fright and mortification, or of anger excited by vexation. the pains begin feebly, increases gradually and again disappear just as slowly. Most complaints are intensified in the evening and during rest. Especially suited to the female sex.

Excoriative painful biting, or prickling burning here and there.

Spasmodic yawning, in afternoon. Lascivious dreams.

Pulse: Small, weak and often tremulous. Chill: In evening, with trembling and tremulous sensation thro' whole body. Shaking c., when passing from a room into open (even warm) air. and chilliness predominate with peevishness, which passes off later during the beat. Alternating with symptoms of the intellect and disposition. Heat: With a sense of burning redness of face, when it is neither noticeable nor present. Flying heat, inter - mingled with shivering. Gradually increasing and diminishing in a like manner. Sweat: Only during sleep, disappearing immediately on waking.

Allied Remedies: Ag-c., Asaf., Bell., Caust., Croc., Dig., Ign., LACH., Men Merc., PLB. PULS., Saba., Sobi., Stront.

Dull stinging pains which press inwardly, as from a plug.

Tension in the limbs, as if they were tightly bandaged.

Numbness and sensation of stiffness of many parts mostly accompanied by sensations of coldness.

Debility and tired feeling of the limbs, especially while at rest.

Pains like constrictions in character.

Bad effects from fright, insults or anger.

The pain begin slowly, increase gradually, and disappear just as slowly.

Pains, as from contusions.

Hysterical spasms with full consciousness.

Most symptoms are aggravated in the evening and whilst at rest, some are aggravated in the open air and disappear in the room.

Alternating symptoms of mind and body.

Lead poisonings (opium).

Objects appear smaller than they are.

Anxiety with fear of the approaching death.

Low-spiritedness with shedding of tears.

He thinks himself very great (grandoise ideas).

He also thinks little of anything outside of himself (profound conceit).

Pride with over-estimation of one's self.

Costive states benefited by the drug.

Nymphomania.

Catamenia too early and too profuse.

Metrorrhagia.