Stannum



Chest

Obstructed respiration at night, especially when lying down, or by day, on least movement. Dyspnoea, especially in evening, with sensation of emptiness in scrobiculus, and anguish, which causes the patient (to loosen or) tear his clothes. Oppression at chest when walking or ascending. Asthma when attacks gradually come on, culminate, and gradually decline. Rattling of mucus and wheezing in chest. Agreeable sensation of lightness on taking a full inspiration. Contusive pain in chest. Heavy pressure in chest as by a weight. Tension in chest (hydrothorax). Constriction of chest, sometimes in evening, with anguish. Lancinations in the left side of the chest, during inspiration, or when lying on the right side. Sharp, cutting stitches in side of chest, worse from stooping. Burning stitches on left chest, worse on expectoration. Suddenly, a long stitch in left side of chest beneath axillae, causing fright. Pain, as from excoriation, in chest. Sensation of weakness in chest, as if it were empty, especially after speaking or expectorating. Itching-tickling in chest.

Heart

Pain in praecordial region and hiccough. Pulse: frequent, small, indistinct, fluttering.

Back and neck

Lancinations in the shoulder-blades, and nape of the neck. Weakness of the muscles of the nape of the neck, and cracking of the vertebrae of the neck when shaking the head. Opisthotonos. Stitches in back, in small of back, and into limbs. Violent tearing in lumbar vertebrae, from both sides into region of kidneys, worse on every motion of trunk. Dull thrusts in lumbar region with a sensation of external coldness against him.

Extremities

Great heaviness and paralytic weakness in arms and legs. Swelling of hands and feet in evening. The pains in limbs worse gradually and better in the same manner. Insupportable restlessness in all the limbs.

Upper Limbs

Paralytic pain in the shoulder-joint. Paralytic heaviness in the arms, if he holds a light weight even a short time. Pressive tearings in muscles of joints of the arms, hands, and fingers. Weakness and trembling of hands. Swelling of hands, especially in evening. Jerking of hands. Violent burning sensation in hands. Small red spots on backs of hands. Chilblains on hands. Contraction of fingers. Retraction of thumbs. Shootings in joints of fingers. Stitches in finger-tips. Painful flaws in nails.

Lower Limbs

Drawing and pressive tearings in hips, extending to sacrum, and also to legs and knees. Paralytic lassitude and heaviness of legs. Bending of knees when walking. Stiffness and tension in ham. Sensation of heat, and burning sensation in feet. Swelling of ankles in evening. Swollen ankles in delicate girls (R.T.C.). Tearing shocks in ankles extending as far as toes. Swelling of feet, especially in evening. Red swelling of feet.

Generalities

Pressive and drawing pains, especially in limbs, gradually becoming very violent, and decreasing in the same way. Affections in general of left chest, left side, trachea and inner chest, upper part of chest, inner surface of thighs. Consumption. Worse after moving, lying on side, using the voice, from motion, when descending. Better when lying on back, from loosening garments, from walking (except weakness). Attacks of epilepsy (in children during dentition), with retraction of thumbs, and tossing about of body, or else with throwing back of head, paleness of face, convulsive movements of hands and eyes, and loss of consciousness, the attacks come on sometimes in evening. Excessive emaciation. Pain as if paralysed in extremities. Paralysis (of arms and legs). Great heaviness and indolence. Excessive dejection (weakness), and physical and moral depression, with trembling, especially during gentle exercise (or when talking), and with disposition to perspire easily. Profuse debilitating sweat, night and morning, hot, even on slight movement, with mouldy, putrid smell. Nervous excitement. Hysterical spasms, with pain in abdomen and in diaphragm. Insupportable uneasiness in body. Excessive fatigue after conversation. The sufferings seem to disappear during a walk, with the exception of the depression, which is then excessive, they reappear as soon as the patient is at rest. Extreme prostration, must sit or lie down continually. Faintness in going down stairs, can go up without difficult. Pains commence lightly, increase gradually to a very high degree, and decrease again as slowly.

Skin

Itching (burning) shootings over skin of whole body (or left side). Itching pimples, on face, sore to touch or on washing. Chilblains. Flaws in nails. Painful hang-nails.

Sleep

Tendency to sleep during day. Frequent yawning, with oppression of chest, as if it were encircled by a belt. Sleep retarded. Feeling, in morning, as after insufficient sleep. Deep sleep. Nocturnal agitation and many vivid dreams, anxious or lascivious. Moaning, weeping (timid supplications), and plaintive lamentations, while sleeping.

Fever

Shivering and shuddering in morning, with coldness in hands, and numbness of points of fingers. Chill every forenoon (10 A.M.). Slight chilliness with violent chattering of teeth. Shivering in evening, which runs over back (preceded by heat with perspiration), or only in head, with thirst. Burning heat in limbs, especially in hands. Sensation of anxious heat, on least movement. Heat every afternoon (4 to 5), with perspiration at the same time. Perspiration smells mouldy. Small, quick pulse. Debilitating perspiration from least exertion. Very debilitating perspiration at night. Profuse perspiration in morning.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica