ARGENTUM METALLICUM



Weary, forced to lie down and sleep.

Paralytic weakness on motion; bruised feeling.

Lame, weakness with all pains.

Sleep

      Gaping, drowsy; depressed in mind.

Like electric shocks on going to sleep.

Restless sleep; anxious, frightful dreams, on awaking believes them true.

Nausea in dreams.

On awaking: fatigue; upper arm weak, legs powerless.

Time

      Day: Morning: Forenoon: Noon: Afternoon: Evening: Night: Before midnight: After midnight:.

Temperature and Weather

      Better in open air: Entering warm room: Uncovering:.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Coldness on small spots.

Chill: in the afternoon and evening, until asleep; before midnight, every time the bed clothes are raised.

Chilly, stupid; chill spreads from the back.

Heat in the forenoon without thirst, heat all over, but less on the head.

Hectic, 11 A.M. to 12 M., or 1 P.M.

Sweats easily; during and after eating; upper part of body, or only front of body.

Sweat after midnight.

Sweat on abdomen, chest.

Attacks

      Pains increase gradually, disappear suddenly.

Sudden momentary pains; belly, back, right shoulder, etc.

Cough in attacks.

Sides

      Right: Left: Below upwards: Above downwards: Within outwards:.

Sensations

      Soreness and rawness in internal organs.

Articular rheumatism, without swelling, with burning, lancinating pains, like from the sting of a wasp, severe at the knee, still more at the elbow.

Pains as if sprained; as if beaten.

Tissues

      Drawing pains in maxillary and parotid glands.

Acts on cartilages and joints.

Joints feel weak, sore; especially in lower limbs when descending.

Arthritic bruised pains in joints; boring.

Emaciation.

Tenderness, pressure or tearing in the bones; gnawing, especially in the long bones, and in those of the face.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Touch: Pressure: Scratching: Riding in carriage:.

Skin

      Itching, unchanged by scratching.

Sore exanthemata, cannot bear to have them touched, even the motion of the skin is almost unbearable.

A pimple on left temple sore to the touch.

Stinging as from fleas here and there.

Stages and States

      Tall, thin people of irritable temperament.

Affections from onanism.

Relationship

      Cured gonorrhoea, after [cannab]., [Copaiva] and [mercur].failed Cured scirrhus of os tincae, after [Conium, [Cicuta,] [Sepia] and [Lycop]. failed.

Uterine and ovarian similar to[Pallad]., the latter on the right side; [Argent. met]. on the left.

Ailments from abuse of mercury.

Antidotes to [Argent. met],[Mercur].,[Pulsat] After [Argent. met] follows well: [Calcarea ostr]., [Pulsat]., [Sepia]., [Argent. met]., follows after [Alum]., and [Platin] A return of trembling palpitation four months after delivery, after being cured in the third month of pregnancy by [Argent. met] was relieved by [Rhus. tox] Compare Stannum in cough excited by laughing.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.