Materia Medica
Iodoformum
Iodoform
Should not be forgotten in the treatment of tuber- cular meningitis, both as a local application to the head and internally. [Bacil.] Tuberculous conditions.
Mind
Anxiety when quiet. Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the futurc. Sudden impulse to run and do violence. Forgetful. Must be busy. Fear of people, huns every one. Melanclioly. Suicidal ten- dency.
Head
Sharp, neuralgic pain. Head feels heavy, as if it could not be lifted from pillow. Itching of occiput. Meningitis. Sleep interrupted by sighing and .cries. Very drowsy. Throbbing; rush.oj blood, and feeling of a tight band. Vertigo; worse from stooping, worse in warm room. Chronic, congestive headache of old peopie. [Phos.]
Eyes
Pupils, dilated; contrac unequally, react poorly. Diplopia. Failing sight due to retro-bulbar neuritis, central scotoma —— partial atrophy of optic disc. Violent lachryniation. Pain inn eyes. Iup1 dilated. Constant motion of eyeballs. lcutc daryocys- titis.
Nose
Sneezing. Sudden violent influenza. Dry coryza becomes fluent m open air. also a fluent ho! corysa with general heat of skin. Pain at root of nose and frontal sinus. Nose stopped up. Tendency to ul- ceration. Loss of sme!l. Acute uosa' cugorgrmcut as- sociated with high blood pressure.
Mouth
Gums Joose and bleed easily. Foul ulcers and salivation. Profuse, fetid ptyalism. Tongue thickly coated. Offensive odor from mouth.
Throat
Larynx feels constricted. Eustachian dcuf- ness. Thyroid enlarged. Goitre, with sensation of constriction. Swoller submaxillary glands. Uvula swollen.
Stomach
Throbbing at pit of stomach. Raz'ous hunger and much thirst. Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas. Anxious and worried if he does not eat. [Cina; Sulph.] Loses flesh, yet hungry and eating well. [Abrot.]
Abdomen
Scaphoid abdomen. Chronic diarrhcea. with suspected tuberculosis. Abdomen distended; mes- enteric glands enlarged. Cliolera infantum. Chronic diarrhiaa; stools greenish, watery, undigested, with ir- ritablc temper. Liver and spleen sore and enlarged. Jaundice. Mesenteric glands enlarged. Pancreatic dis- ease. Cutting pain in abdomen. 403
Stool
Hxmorrhage at every stool. Diarrhoea, whit- ish, frothy, fatty. Constipation, with ineffectual urg- ing; better by drinking cold milk. Constipation alter- nating with diarrhcea. [Ant. cr.] Urine.—Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green (Boz'ista), thick, acrid with cuticle on surface.
Male
Testicles swollen and indurated. Hydrocele. Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes.
Female
Great weakness during menses. [lum.; Carbo an., Coccul.: Hαmatox.] Menstruation irreg- ular. Uterine hrmorrhage. Ovaritis. [Apis; Bell.; Lach.] Wcdgc-like pain from ovary to uterus. Drwin- ling cf mammary glands. Nodosities in skin of mam- ma. Acrid leucorrhcea, thick, slimy, corroding the linen. Edge-like pain in the riyht ovarian region.
Respiratory
Hoarse. Rarw and tickling feeling pro- voking a dry cough. Pain in lary.r. Laryngitis, with painful roughness; worse during cough. Child grasps throat when coughing. Right-sided pneumonia witli high temperature.Pneumonia. Difficult expansion of chest, blood-streaked sputum; internal dry heat, external coldness. . Violent heart action. l Hepatization spreads rapidly. Croup in scrofulous children with dark hair and eyes. [Brom. opposite.] Inspiration difficult. Dry, morning cough, from tickling in larynx. Croupy cough, with difficult respiration; wheezy. Cold extends down- zeards from head to throat and bronchi. Great weakness about chest. Palpitation from least exertion.' Pleuritic effusion. Tickling all over chest. Iod. cough is worse indoors, in warm, wet weather, and when lying on back.
Chest
Sore pain in apex of right lung. Feeling of a weight on chest, as if smothering. Cough and wheez- ing on going to bed. Pain in left breast, like a hand grasping at the base of the heart. Hxmoptysis. Asth- matic breathing. 401
Heart
Heart feels squeezed. Myocarditis, painful compression around heart. Feels as if squeezed by an iron hand [Cactus] followed by great weakness and faintness. Palpitation from least exertion.
Extremities
Legs weak; cannot stand and walk with eyes closed. Weakness of knees when going up- stairs. Joints inflamed and painful. Pain in : bones at night. White swelling. ( Gonorrhceal rheuma- tism. *Rheumatism of nape and upper extremities. Cold hands and feet. Acrid sweat of feet. Pulsation in large arterial trunks. Rheumatic pains, nightly pains in joints ; constrictive sensations.
Skin
Hot, dry, yellow and withered. Glands enl- larged. Nodosities. Anasarca of cardiac disease.
Fever
Flushes of heat all over body. Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic. Profuse sweat.
Modalities
Worse, when quiet, in warm room. right side. Better, walking about, in open air.
Relationships
Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph.; Gratiola. Complementary : Lycopod.: Badiaga. Compare: Bron.: Hepar; Mercur.; Phosph.; Abrot: Nat. mur.; Sanic.: Tuler.
Dose
Second trituration. Three grains on the back of the tongue will relieve attack of asthmatic breath- ing. 10DUM (Iodine) All glandular structures, respiratory organs, cir- culatory system are especially affected; they atrophy. Iodine arouses the defensive apparatus of the system ly assembling the mononuciear leucocytes whose pha- gocytic action is marked, at a given point. Lead poison- mg. Tremor. 1cute cxaccrbation of chronic inflammation. Arth- ritis deformans. Acts promincntly on connective fis- se. The plague. Abnormal vaso-constriction, capil- lary congestion followed by cedema, ecchymoses, haemor- rhages, and nutritive disturbances are the pathological conditions at the basis of its symptomatology. Slug- ish ‘vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects. Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes, rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite, and gland- ular atrophy call for this remedy, in numerous wasting diseases and in scrofulous patients. Acute affections of the respiratory organs. . Pneumonia, rapid extension. Iodine is warm, and wants cool surroundings. Weak- ness and loss of breath going upstairs. Adenoid vege- tations. Tincture internally and locally to swollen glands. The crude drug in saturated solution may be required. Third to thirtieth potency. Ioduretted solu- tion of Potass. iod. (35 grains Potassa and 4 grains Iodine to 1 oz. of water, 10 drops three times a day) expeis tapeworms dead. Locally the most powerful, least harmful and easily managed microbicide. Deal agent to keep wounds clean and disinfected. Bites of insects, reptiles, etc. Gun- shot wounds and compound fractures, excellent. Great skin disinfectant.