Materia Medica
Cadmium Sulph.
Cadmic Sulphate
Its pathogenesis gives symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease, as in cholera, yellow fever, where, with exhaustion, vomiting, and extreme prostra- tion, the disease runs deathward. Important gastric symptoms. The attack is upon the stomach more especially. Pa- tients must keep quiet. Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire. Mind and Head.- Unconscious. Vertigo; room and bed seem to pin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head.
Eyes
Opacity of cornea. Blue circle around eyes. One pupil dilated. Night blindness.
Nose
Oscna. Tightness at root. Nose obstructed; polyrus. Caries of nasal bones. Boils on nose. Nos- trils ulcerated.
Face
Distortion of mouth. Trembling of jaw. Facial paralysis; more left side.
Mouth
Difficult swallowing. CEsophagus con- stricted. [Bapt.] Salty belching. Intense nausea, with pain and cold. Stringy, offensive exudation on mucous membrane. Salty taste.
Throat
Sore throat, constant tickling; gagging and nausea, worse deep breathing; chilliness and aching.
Stomach
Soreness in pit of stomach on pressure. Violent nausea; retching. Black vomit. Vomiting of mucus, green lime, blood, with great prostration, and fgtat tenderness over the stomach. Burning and cut- ting pains in stomach. Carcinomia, helps the persistent vomirting. Coffee ground vomiting.
Abdomen
Sore, tender, tympanitic. Region of liver sore. Coldness. Black, offensive clots of blood from bowels. Pain in abdomen, with vomiting. Tenderness and tympanites.
Stool
Gelatinous stools. Bloody, black, and of- fensive. Gelatinous, yellowish green; semi-fluid, with urinary suppression. Urine.--Rawness and soreness in urethra, urine mixed with pus and blood.
Heart
Palpitation, with constriction of chest.
Skin
Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking. Itch- ing; better scratching. Chloasma, yellowish stains on nose and cheeks; worse exposure to sun and wind. Chilblains.
Sleep
Stops breathing on going to sleep. Wakes up suffocating. Fears to go to sleep again. Protracted sleeplessness.
Fever
Icy coldness. [Camph.; Verat.; Heloderm.] Yellow fever. [Crotalus; Carbo.]
Modalities
W'orse, walking or carrying burdens; after sleep; from open air, stimulants. Better, eating and rest.
Relationships
Compare: Cadmium oxide; Cad. brom. (pain and burning in stomach, and vomiting); Cadmium jodat. (Itching of anus and rectum felt dur- ing the' day only; constipation, frequent desire, tenes- mus, abdomen bloated) ; Zinc., Ars.; Carbo; Verat.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.