Permanganate of Potash. 2KMnO4.
Proved by H. C. Allen. See Allen’s Encyclopedia, vol. 5, p. 351.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
– Ulcerated throat, Woodgate, Hom. Rev., vol. 12, pp. 151, 152 ; Diphtheria (2 cases), Sprague, A. H. O., vol. 4, p. 360 ; Allen, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 352 ; Nichol ; hme’s Therap., p. 45 ; B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 386.
PALATE AND THROAT.
Sanious discharge from nares.
Tonsils and soft palate swollen and inflamed ; patches of whitish ulceration on tonsils ; pain in swallowing ; glands of neck tender. θ Ulcerated throat.
Tonsils swollen, and on each patches of ulceration of yellowish color ; much pain internally and externally.
Diphtheria, with ulceration, and gangrenous suppuration with fetid odor.
Violent headache ; throat swollen and painful, profuse salivation ; cervical glands swollen and painful ; fauces covered with peculiar wash leather, greyish membrane ; breath offensive from beginning, and thin, watery, sanious fluid escaping from nares excoriating upper lip ; dark colored offensive diarrhoea ; vomiting ; fluids taken by mouth return through nose ; general prostration. θ Diphtheria.
Comatose state ; prostration extreme ; nares completely plugged, fetor intolerable ; pulse intermitting. θ Diphtheria.
Pharynx swollen very much and covered with a yellowish membrane ; high fever ; unable to speak or swallow ; pulse 135 ; furred tongue ; fetid breath. θ Diphtheria.
Pharynx covered with yellowish pseudo-membrane, not very firmly attached ; extreme fetor of breath ; inability to swallow ; pulse 140 and feeble ; great prostration. θ Diphtheria.
Underneath a fetid, scab-like membrane considerable erosion of mucous membrane. θ Diphtheria.
Odor of breath unbearable ; fluids taken by mouth returned by nose ; general and excessive prostration ; great dyspnoea ; foul diphtheritic exudations all over fauces.
COUGH.
Expectoration very fetid.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION.
Girl, at. 3 ; diphtheria.
Girl, at. 6, suffering one week ; diphtheria.
Girl, at. 7 ; diphtheria.
Girl, at. 9, stout build ; diphtheria.
Girl, at. 16 ; ulcerated throat.
Woman, at. 25, cook ; ulcerated throat.
“NOTE:
PLAIN TEXT : LOWEST & DESIGNATES AN OCCASIONALLY CONFIRMED SYMPTOMS;
Plain blue: MORE FREQUENTLY CONFIRMED;
BOLD BLUE : SYMPTOMS VERIFIED BY CURES;
BOLD RED : REPEATEDLY VERIFIED;
$BOLD ITALIC RED$ : AN APPROVED CHARACTERISTIC;
θ : STANDS BETWEEN CURED SYMPTOM & PATHOLOGICAL CONDITION;
** : OBSERVED FROM OLD SCHOOL OR NEW SCHOOL;
toxic : Toxicology;
r : Right;
l : Left;
< : Increased or aggravation;
> : Decrease or amelioration;
^^ : Symptoms observed only on the sick “
