Cod. *N. O. Gadide. Trituration of first cervical vertebra of the fish.
Clinical
Asthma. Bladder, affections of. Bone affections. Cough. Hands hot. Phthisis.
Characteristics
Petroz is our authority for this medicine. Like *Ol. *Jec. *asel., *Gadus has a powerful action on the respiratory apparatus. It is like *Lycopodium. in producing flapping of the alae nasi. It also affects the bones and causes troublesome heat of the *hands. Hopelessness and desire for death are prominent.
Relations
*Compare: Ol. Jec. Asel., Calc-c., Calcarea phos., Conchiol.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Deep melancholy, paroxysms of helplessness, for forty eight hours, during which the desire for death is hardly controlled. Intellectual faculties torpid, absence of ideas.
Head
Headache in the night accompanied by fever.
Eyes and Ear
Marked diminution of strength of hearing and sight. A noise (tic-tac) is felt in right ear, and pain if a noise from exterior becomes predominant.
Nose
Oscillation of wings of nose, accompanying very frequent breathing as after exercise, at the time of waking and during the whole day.
Face
Altered countenance.
Mouth
Teeth sensitive and set on edge. Dry mouth.
Throat
Waking in night on account of severe contraction in the throat. Constriction of fauces, wheezing cough, with white frothy expectoration.
Stomach
Loss of appetite.
Abdomen
Abdomen much distended. Sensation of burning heat in whole hypogastrium. While pains are felt in the chest, sharp pains in right side of abdomen, in the groin, and in the kidneys.
Stool
Soft stools, diarrhoea.
Urinary Organs
Sensation of swelling and fullness in bladder, stitches in bladder, almost impossible to urinate.
Respiratory Organs
Voice weak, exertion required to articulate distinctly, words do not come when wanted. Light cough with expectoration of foamy sputa. Fits of wheezing cough with pain deep in chest. Very frequent breathing, with oscillation of wings of nose, as after exercise, at time of waking and during the whole day. Breath short, laborious, as if air passages were closed. Rush of blood to chest, without palpitation. Violent pains in chest with orgasm. Lumps seem adherent to parieties. Sharp pains, burning shootings, 2 p.m. Sharp pains running though chest, not worse by walking, though renewed on first movement. Very sharp pains in both lungs, especially left, evening. Contused pain in chest walls, brought on by coughing, deep inspiration, or motion. A few fits of coughing caused a sensation of painful ruffling of the lungs, which seemed to change place and be contused.
Back
Sharp, lancinating pain in dorsal vertebrae. Constrictive pains in sides of trunk. Pains in lower back and sacrum.
Upper Limbs
Nails become soft.
Lower Limbs
Pain above left hip. Slight lancinating pain in left knee, which bends involuntarily when standing. Tearing pain in right buttock and thigh. Bruised sensation in femur from head of bone to patella.
Fever
Very severe coldness from hip down to feet. Hands excessively hot and dry. Dry heat in palms, intolerable in evening. Fever without chill.
