Relations
*Compare: Septicaemin (B. Sanderson says bacteria and pus cells produce the same chemical result, Pyrogenium and Sept. may therefore be identical, but I thick it best to keep them distinct), Malar. (the *vegetable Pyrogen), Lachesis In typhoid with soreness, bed feels hard, Baptisia, Arnica, Rhus. better Motion and stretching limbs, Rhus. Cough worse by motion and in warm room, Bryonia Uterine hemorrhage, Ipecac. (“if Ipecac. fails when indicated give Pyrogenium,” Yingling). Offensive diarrhoea, Pso. Black stools, Lept. Constipation, Opium, Sanicula, Pb. Lochia thin, fetid, nitricum acidum Vomits water as soon as warm in stomach, Phi. Throbbing headache, Belladonna Varicose, offensive ulcers of old persons, Pso. Skin ashy, Secale Suppuration, Hepar
Causation
Blood poisoning. Ptomaine poisoning. Sewer-gas poisoning. Typhoid fever (remote effects of). Dissecting wounds.
Mind
Loquacious, can think and talk faster than ever before (S). Irritable (S). Delirious on closing eyes, sees a man at foot of bed. Whispers, in sleep. Sensation as if she covered the whole bed, knew her head was on pillow, but did not know where the rest of her body was. Feels when lying on one side that she is one person, and another person when turning on the other side. Sensation as though crowded with arms and legs. Hallucination that he is very wealthy, remaining after the fever.
Head
Staggers as if drunk on rising in morning (S.) Dizziness on
rising up in bed. Pains in both mastoids, worse right., dull throbbing in mastoid region (S). Great throbbing of arteries of temples and head, every pulsation felt in brain and in ears, the throbbings meet on top of brain (S). Painless throbbing all though front of head, sounds like escaping steam (S). Frightful throbbing headache better from tight band. Excruciating, bursting, throbbing headache with intense restlessness (often accompanied with profuse nosebleed, nausea, and vomiting). Sensation as if a cap were on. Rolling of head from side to side. Forehead bathed in cold sweat.
Eyes
L. eyeball sore, worse looking up and turning eye outward (S). Projecting eyes.
Ears
Loud ringing, like a bell, left ear (also r.) (S). Ears cold. Ears red, as if blood would burst out of them.
Nose
Nose-bleed, awakened by dreaming it and found it was so. Sneezing: every time he puts hands from under covers, at night. Nostrils closing alternately (S). Cold nose. Fan-like motion of alae nasi.
Face
Face: burning, yellow, very red, pale, sunken, and bathed in cold sweat, pale, greenish, or chlorotic. Circumscribed redness of cheeks.
Mouth
Tongue: coated white in front, brown at back, yellowish brown, bad taste in morning (S). tongue: coated yellowish grey, edged and tip very red, large, flabby, yellow brown streak down center. Tongue clean, smooth, and dry, first fiery red, then dark red and intensely dry, smooth and dry, glossy, shiny, dry, cracked, articulation difficult. Taste: terribly fetid, as if mouth and throat full of pus (produced by dose of Pyrogenium Cm, Swan), sweetish. Breath horrible, like carrion.
Throat
Diphtheria with extreme fetor.
Appetite
No appetite (S), or thirst. Great thirst for small quantities, but the least liquid was instantly rejected. Better by Drinking very hot water. Thirst and vomiting (dog).
Stomach
Belching of sour water after breakfast (S). Nausea and vomiting. Vomiting: persistent, brownish, coffee-ground, offensive, stercoraceous, with impacted or obstructed bowels. Vomiting and purging. Vomits water when it becomes warm in stomach. Better by By vomiting. Urging to vomit, with cold feet. Stomach feels too full (S).
Abdomen
Full feeling and bloating of abdomen (S). When lying on left side bubbling or gurgling sensation in hypochondria, extending back to left of spine (S). Pain in umbilical region with passage of sticky, yellow stool. While riding in a buggy aching in left of umbilicus, worse drinking water, better passing flatus downward. Soreness of abdomen so severe she can hardly breathe, or bear any pressure over right side. Very severe cutting pains right side going through back, worse by every motion, talking, coughing, breathing deep, better lying on right (affected) side, groaning with every breath.
Stool and Anus
Feculent and thin mucous, and finally bloody diarrhoea and tenesmus (dog). Two soft, sticky stools, 8 to 9 a.m. Involuntary escape of stool when passing flatus (S). Profuse watery, painless stools, with vomiting. Stool horribly offensive, carrion-like. Stool very much constipated, large, difficult, requires much effort, first part balls, last part natural, with streaks of blood, anus sore after (S). Constipation: hard, dry accumulated faeces, stool large, black, carrion-like, small black balls like olives. Congestion and capillary stasis of gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, shedding of epithelium, bloody fluid distending intestines (dog). (Sweat about anus removed, fistula relieved.).
Urinary Organs
Urine scanty, only passed twice in twenty-four hours (S). Urine: yellow, after standing, cloudy with substance looking like orange peel, red deposit on vessel hard to remove, deposits sediment like red pepper (S). Got up three times in night to urinate (S). (Bright’s disease of kidneys.) Urine albuminous, containing casts, horribly offensive, carrion-like. Frequent calls to urinate as fever comes on. Intolerable tenesmus of bladder, spasmodic contractions, involving rectum, ovaries, and broad ligaments, (cured in a case of Vingling’s with Pyrogenium Cm Swan (and higher), patient’s next period came on naturally and painlessly, whereas before menses had been painful and extremely offensive.
Male Sexual Organs
Testes hang down relaxed, scrotum looks and feels thin.
Female Sexual Organs
Puerperal peritonitis with extreme fetor, a rotten odour. Parts seriously swollen (Bright’s disease). Menses horribly offensive, carrion-like. Menses last but one day, then a bloody leucorrhoea, horribly offensive. Haemorrhage of bright red blood with dark clots. Septicaemia following abortion, foetus or secundines retained, decomposed. (Has cured prolapsus uteri, with bearing down, better by holding the head and straining, as in the act of labour.) Abscess of left ovary, acute throbbing pain, great distress, with fever and rigors (*Pyrogenium Cm, Swan, produced an enormous flow of white creamy pus with general amelioration). Lochia: thin, acrid, brown, or foetid, suppressed, followed by chills, fever, and profuse fetid perspiration.
Respiratory Organs
Wheezing when expiring (S). Cough: with large masses of phlegm from larynx, worse by motion, worse in warm room, cough causes burning in larynx and bronchi, causes pain in occiput, causes stitching in small of back, only noticed in the chair, coughs up yellow sputa through night (S). Cough better sitting up, worse lying down. Expectoration: rusty mucus, horribly offensive.
Chest
Pain in right lung and shoulder, worse talking or coughing. Neglected pneumonia: Cough, night-sweats, frequent pulse, abscess had burst discharging much pus of mattery taste (rapid recovery under *Pyrogenium cm. three doses). Chest sore, purple spots on it. Severe contracting pain within lower sternum, sometimes extending to rib-joints and up to throat, as if oesophagus being cramped. Ecchymoses on pleura (dog).
Heart
Pain in region of left nipple, as if in heart, increased action, pulse 120 (S). Heart tired as after a long run, increased action worse least motion (S). Every pulsation felt (painlessly) in head and ears (S). Sensation as if heart enlarged, distinct consciousness of heart (S). Sensation as if heart too full of blood. Feels as if the heart were pumping cold water (Yingling). Violent, tiresome heart action. Palpitation or increased action without corresponding increase of temperature. Palpitation worse by motion. Loud heart-beats, audible to herself and others. Could not sleep for whizzing and purring of heart, when she did sleep was delirious. Cardiac asthenia from septic conditions. Ecchymoses on heart and pericardium (dog).
Back and Neck
Throbbing of vessels of neck running up in waves from clavicles. Weak feeling in back, stitching pain on coughing (S).
Limbs
Aching: in bones, all over body as from a severe cold, with soreness of flesh, head feels hard, better motion (S). Cold extremities. Numbness of hands, arms, and feet, extending over whole body. Automatic movement of right arm and right leg, turned the child round from right to left till feet reached the pillow: repeated as often as she was put right (cerebrospinal meningitis).
Upper Limbs
Pain in shoulder-joint, in front, passing three inches down arm (S). Hands and arms numb. Hands cold and clammy. Dry eczema of hands.
Lower Limbs
Aching above knees, deep in bones, while sitting by a hot fire, better by walking (S). On going to bed aching in patella, better flexing leg (S). Aching above left knee as though bone broken (S). Aching above knees in bones, better stretching out limbs
(S). Tingling in right little toe as if frost-bitten. Feet and legs swollen (Bright’s disease). Numbness of feet.
