For internal use it is triturated with sugar of milk. Compare Iodum.
Generalities
Trembling. Constant convulsive movements. Neuralgic pains in various parts; N. pains flying all over him at times. Sharp pains all over body; in nerves of l. arm and back; pains sharply define the course of nerves. Pains (<) thinking of them; (<) touch; renewed when riding in cars; renewed in bed, in r. side of head, r. shoulder, r. arm, hands, fingers, thigh, leg, foot, toes. Strange feeling. Thinks he has taken a bad cold. Faintness. Sensations of impending death. Loss of power came on so imperceptibly that general paralysis was feared, a dreamy state, in a few days complete stupor and loss of power over sphincters, they could be aroused by great effort to take a little nourishment, but soon lapsed into unconscious. Paralysis of sphincters. Amelioration after sleep.
Mind
Elated. Excitement interrupted by broken sleep; E., melancholia, hallucinations of sight and hearing. Apathetic, amnesia for recent events, nightly restlessness, did not recognize persons, weak-minded. Forgetful.
Head
Stitching. Aching; on waking. Heaviness on attempting to rise. H., with aching in vertex; H. at night as if he could not raise it from the pillow, H. next morning after waking, with intermittent pain in skull and (<) l. side. Confusion, with nausea. Feeling as if he had been intoxicated the previous day. Suddenly giddiness. Frontal pain; (<) descending stairs with shooting in r. ear; neuralgic, (<) stooping. Stitching in temples. Neuralgic pains in nerves of temples, (<) r., extending to behind ears. Pain in temples as from a weight. Sticking in r. side of head. Itching of occiput.
Eyes
Bloodshot and painful. Smarting and burning; S. and stinging. Bruised feeling in r. in morning. Sensitive to light. Objects appear tessellated and red, (>) rising. Vision double.
Ears
Sticking in r.; S., then fulness. Feeling dry and feverish; and full. Neuralgic pain in l. Dull hearing.
Nose
Dryness, and he complains that he cannot get any discharge from it; with fulness of membrane and constant snuffing. Constant sensation as if smelling fumes of iodine. Smell as of decaying leaves in a swamp.
Face
Pain in malar-bones;in zygomatic muscles, (<) motion and bending forward. Drawing in malarbones, with pressing. Stiffness of zygomatic muscles. Aching in r. lower jaw, increasing to pain as from a weight. Lips and throat dry; lips dry and stinging.
Mouth and Throat
Sharp pain in upper teeth. Aching in sound teeth; in decayed, (<) upper and r. coming and going quickly; toothache in afternoon quickly changing to temples. Teeth feel sore and too long. Metallic taste. Stitching in r. side of throat. Dryness of throat, with bitter taste; D., with rawness on swallowing.
Stomach and Abdomen
Nausea; at times, Rumbling in A. Scaphoid A. Flatulent colic. Cutting in A. Warmth in A. and rectum, with nausea and desire for stool. R. inguinal region, sharp pain; cutting, with desire for stool; sore pain.
Stool and Urine
Desire for a liquid stool. Stool delayed; with feeling as if anus were drawn up into rectum. Urine very yellow; and smelling like saffron.
Respiratory Organs
Aphonic disturbance of voice. Cough from dryness of throat; C. on going to bed, with wheezing from mucus in throat. Smothering sensation. Respiration irregular.
Chest
Sticking in r., extending to lower angle of scapula. Pain in l.; sharp, in r.; ulcerative, in l. breast, to r. of nipple at night, then grasping at base of heart, next day aching in l. breast. Soreness on taking a long breath; S. in lungs; sore pain in apex of r. lung, on breathing sensation as if two ulcerated surfaces were in contact. Feeling in lungs as from a heavy cold. Feeling as if a weight rested on C., preventing free expansion.
Heart and Pulse
Sticking through heart. Pulse rapid.
Neck and Back
Contraction of muscles of neck. Bruised sensation in nape. Spine sore, does not wish it touched. Pain along spine; along r. side of dorsal vertebrae; in lumbar region, with weakness and straining. Sharp pain in angle of scapula.
Extremities
Pain in l. arm and l. leg, (<) lower half of tibia and fibula, then extending into foot. Bruised feeling in l. arm and leg, as the pain increases the muscles feel ulcerated. Sticking in l. shoulder; and arm. Pain in median nerve of l. arm; P. in l. humerus, with bruised pain in muscles around the bone. Rheumatic pain in r. arm; (<) using it. Bruised pain in l. arm in morning on touch. Pain in l. elbow; in nerves of l. hand; sharp, in nerves of l. hand.
Lower Extremities
Pain along l. crural nerve; P. in inside of knees; neuralgic, in l. knee. Weakness of knees on ascending stairs; W. (<) standing, with pain. Rheumatic pain in gastrocnemii; rheumatism of flexor muscles of legs. Legs weak. Cutting in l. ankle on walking in open air. Sticking in r. instep. Pain in l. foot, (<) walking.
Sleep
Sleepiness; intermittent, ending in coma. Wakefulness. Jerks and shocks in nerves when trying to sleep. Restless sleep, full of dreams; R., (<) after 2 A.M. Sound sleep till 1.30 A.M., then sudden waking, restlessness and sleeplessness till 4.30, then partially conscious sleep for an hour and a half, then heavy sleep and difficult arousing. Confused dreams, of accidents, etc.
Fever
Susceptible to hot weather. Heat at night, keeps laying off overs. Sweats easily from motion. Sweat on head.