Mineral

Phosphorus

Repertory abbreviation: Phos.

Phosphorus irritates, inflames and degenerates mucous membranes, irritates and inflames serous membranes, inflames spinal cord and nerves, causing paralysis, de- stroys bone, especially the lower jaw und tibia; disor- ganizes the blood, causing fatty degeneration of blood vessels and every tissue and organ of the body and thus gives rise to haemorrhages, and hamatogenous jaundice. Produces a picture of destructive metabolism. Causes yellow atrophy of the liver and snb-acute hepatitis. Tall, slender persons, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous debility, emaciation, amative ten

Head

Vertigo of the aged, after rising. [Bry.] Heat comes from spine. Neuralgia; parts must be kept warnl. Burning pains. Chronic C congestion of Brain-fag, with coldness of occiput. Vertigo, with faintness. Skin of forehead feels too tight. Itch- ing of scalp, dandruff. falling out of hair in large bunches.

Eyes

Cataract. Sensation as if everything were covered with a mist or veil, or dust, or something pulled tightly over eyes.] Black points seem to foat before the eyes. Patient sees better by shading eyes with hand. Fatigue of eyes and head even without much use Of eyes. Green halo about the candlelight. [Osmium.] Letters appear red. Atrophy of optic nerve. Edema of lids and about eyes. Partial loss of vision from abuse of tobacco. [Nu.r.! Pain in orbital bones. Pare- sis of extrinsic muscles. Diplopia, due to deviation of the visual axis. Amaurosis from sexual excess. Glau- coma. Thrombosis of retinal vessels and degenerative changes in retinal cells. Degenerative changes where soreness and curved limes are seen in old people. Retinal trouble with lights and hallucination of vision. Hippocratic countenance. Tearing pain in facial bones; circumscribed redness. Swelling and necrosis of lower jaw.[ [Amphisbana.]

Ears

Heuring difficult, especially to human voice. Re-echoing of sounds. [Caust.] Dullness of hearing after typhoid.

Nose

Fan-like motion of nostrils. [Lyc.] Bleed- ing; epistaxis instcad of menses. Over-sensitive smell. [Carbol. ac.; Nu.r.] Periostitis of nasal bones. Foul imaginary odors. [Aur.] Chronic catarrh, with small hemorrhages; handkerchief is always bloody. Polypi; bleeding easily. [Calc.; Sang.]

Face

Pale, sickly compiexion; blue rings under

Mouth

Swelled and easily bleeding gums, ulcer- ated. Toothache after washing clothes. Tongue dry, white, not thickly coated. Nursing sore mouth. Burn- ing in cesophagus. Dryness in pharynx and fauces. Thirst for very cold water.

Stomach

Hunger soon after eating. Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal. Belching large quantities of wind, after eating. Throws up ingesta by the mouthfuls. Vomiting; water is thirown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach. Post-operative vomit. ing.( Cardiac opening seems contracted, too narrow; the food scarcely I swallowed, comes up again. [Bry., Alum.] Pain in stomach; relieved by cold food, ices. Region of stomach painful to touch, or on walking. In- fammation of stomach, with burning extending to throat and bowels. Bad effects of eating too much salt.

Abdomen

Feels s cold. [Cups.] Sharp, cutting pains. A very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity. Liver congested. Acute hepatitis. Fatty degeneration. Jaundice. Pancreatic disease. Large, yellow spots on abdomen.

Stool

Very fetid stools and futus. Long, narrow, hard, like a.dog's. Difficult to expel. Desire foi too! on lying on left side Poinless, copious debilitating diarrhcea.( Green mucus, with grains like sago. In- voluntary ; seems as if anus remained open. Great weak- nss after stool. Discharge of biuod from rectum, dur- ing' stool. 585 Urine. --- Hematuria, especially in acute Bright's dis- ease. [Canth.] Turbid, brown, with red sediment.

Male

Lack of power. Irresistible desire; involun- tary emissions, with lascivious dreams.

Female

Metritis. Chiorosis. Phlebitis. Fistulous tracks after mammary abscess. Slight h2morrhage from uterus between periods. Menses too early and scanty —not profuse, but last too long. Weeps before menses. Stitching pain in mamma. Leucorrhoea pro- fuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses. Amenor- rhoea, with vicarious menstruation. [By.] Suppura- tion of mamme, burning, watery, offensive discharge. Nymphomania.

Respiratory

Hoarseness; worse evenings. Larynx very painful. Clergyman's sore throat; violent tickling in iarynx while speaking. Aphonia, worse evenings, with rawness. Cannot talk on account of pain in larynx. Cough from tickling in throat; worse, cold air, reading, laughing, talking. Sweetish taste while coughing. Hard, dry, tight, racking cough. ( Congestion of lungs. Burn- ing pains, heat and oppression of chest. Tightness across chest; great weight on chest. Sharp stitches in chest; respiration quickened, oppressed. Much heat in

Chest

Pneumonia, with oppression: worse, lying on left side. Whole body trembles, with cough. Sputa rusty, blood-colored, or purulent. Tuberculosis in tall, rapidly- growing young people. · Do not give it too low or too frequently here, it may but hasten the destructive de- generation of tubercular masses. Repeated haemoptysis. [Cal.] Pain in throat on coughing. Nervous coughs provoked by strong odors, entrance of a strange.

Heart

Violent palpitation with anxiety, while lying on left side. Pulse rapid, small, and soft. Heart di- ated, especially right. Feeling of warmth in heart.

Back

Burning in back; pain as if broken. Heat be- tween the shoulder-blades. Weak spine.

Extremities

Ascending sensory and motor paralysis from ends of fingers and toes. Stitches in elbow and shoulder joints. Burning of feet. Weakness and trembling, from every exertion. ( Can scarcely hold any- thing with his hands. Tibia inflamed and becomes ne- crosed. Arms and hands become numb. Can lie only on right side. Post-diphtheritic paralysis, with form- cation of hands and feet. Joints suddenly give way.

Skin

IVounds bleed very much, even if small; they heai and break out again. Jaundice. Little ulcer out- side of large ones. Petechiae. Ecchymosis. . Purpura hamorrhagia. Scurvy.

Sleep

Great drowsiness, especially after meals. Coma vigil. Sleeplessness in old people. .Vivid dreams of fire; of hamorrhage. Lascivious dreams. Goes to sleep late and awakens weak. Short naps and frequent wakings.

Fever

Chilly every evening. Cold knees at night. Adyuamic with lack of thirst, but unnatural hunger. Hectic, with small. quick pulse; viscid night-sweats. Stupid delirium. Profuse perspiration.

Modalities

W'orse, touch; physical or mental exer- tion; twilight; warm food or drink; change of weather, from getting wet in hot weather; evening; lying on left or painful side; during a thunder-storm; ascending stairs. Better, in dark, lying on right side, cold food; open air; washing with cold water.

Relationships

Complementary: Ars.; Cepa; Lyc. Sanguisuga 30-- Leech — (Persistent hemorrhages; effects of use of leeches.) Phosph. pentachloride (great soteness of mucous membrane of eyes and nose, throat and chest sore). Incompatible: Caust. Compare: Phosphorus hydrogcnatus (crumbling teeth; hyper2sthesia; locomotor ataxia) ; Amphisbena (right jaw swollen and painful). Thymol (Typical sexual neurasthenia; irritable stomach; aching through- out lumbar region; worse, mental and physical exer- tion): Calc.; Chin.; Antim.; Sep.; Lyc.: Sulph. In Pneumonia, Pneumococin 200 and Pneumotoxin (Cahis) taken from the Diplococcus lanceolatus of Fraenkel. Pneumonia and paralytic phenomena —also Pyrogen (Cartier). Antidote: Nux. Phos. antidotes the nausea and vom- iting of chloroforin and ether.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency. Should not be given too low or in too continuous doses.