Materia Medica
Stannum
Tin
Debility is very marked when Stannum is the remedy, especially the debility of chronic bronchial and pul- monary conditions, characterized by profuse muco- purulent discharges. Talking causes a very weak feel- ing in the throat and chest. Pains that come and go graduully. call unmistakably For Stannum. Paralytic weakness ; spasms ; paralysis.
Mind
Sad and anxious. Discouraged. Dread of seeing people.
Head
Aching in temples and forehead. Pain worse motion; gradually increasing and dccreasing as if constricted by a band; forehead feels pressed in- wards. Jarring of walking resounds painfully in head. Drawing pains in malar bones and orbits. Ulceration of ringhole in lobe of ear.
Throat
Much adhesive mucus, difficult to de- ach; efforts to detach cause nausea. Throat dry and stings.
Stomach
Hunger. Smell of cooking causes vomit- ing. Bitter taste. Pain better pressure, but sore to touch. Sensation of emptiness in stcnach.
Abdomen
Cramp-like colic around navel, with a feeling of emptiness. Colic relicv'ed by hard pressure.
Female
Bearing-down sensation. Prolapsus, with ecak, sinking feeling in stonuch. [Sep.] Menses early and profuse. Pain in vagina, upward and back to spine. Leucorrhoea, with great debility.
Respiratory
Hoai se, mucus expelled hy forcible cough. Violent, dry cough in evening until midnight. Cough excited by laughinig. singing, talking. During day, witi1 copious green, szveetish, expectoration. Chest feels sore. Chest feels weak; can hardly talk. [Cocc.] 699 Respiration short, oppressive; stitches in left side when breathing and lying on same side. Phthisis mucos. Hectic fever.
Extremities
Paralytic weakness; drops things. Ankles swollen. Limbs suddenly give out when at- tempting to sit down. Dizziness and weakness when descrnding. Spasmodic twitching of muscles of fore- arm and hand. Fingers jerk when holding pen. Neu- ritis. Typewriters' paralysis.
Sleep
Sleeps with one leg drawn up, the other stretched out.
Fever
Heat in evening: exhausting night-sweats, especially towards morning. Hectic. Perspiration, prin- cipally on forehead and nape of neck; debilitating; smeliing musty, or offensive.
Modalities
W'orse, using voice (i. r., laughing, talk- ing, singing), lying on right side, warm drinks. Better, coughing or expectorating, hard pressure.
Relationships
Complementary : Puls. Compare: Stann. iod. (pulmonary symptoms; cough, with tickling at root of tongue; state of purulent in- filtration) ; Caust.; Calc.; Sil.: Tuberc.: Bacil.; Helon. Compare: Myrtus chcran (chronic bronchitis, cough of phthisis, emphysema, with gastric catarrh! complica- tions and thick, yellow difficult sputum. Old persons with weakened power of expectoration).
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.