AEthusa-cyn [Aeth]
Disease supervenes upon long-continued indigestion, milk disagrees; the child vomits soon after nursing, falls asleep from exhaustion, and after waking wants to nurse again; great irritability or child lies stretched out in a semi-comatose condition, pupils dilated and insensible to light; features expressive of great anguish; pulse feeble; mouth very dry or very moist; great weakness, child cannot hold up his head.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Sequela of exhaustive diarrhoea or summer complaint, anterior fontanelle very large and sunken in; heat in head, rest of body cold; child wakes up with a scream; stools thin, watery yellow, (<) morning; AT EVERY MOTION OF BODY BOWELS MOVE AS IF THE ANUS HAD NO POWER, OFFENSIVE OR NOT; ghastly paleness; sickness of stomach and vomiting when child is raised up; great emaciation and prostration; pulse filiform while the heart beats violently against chest; faint flushes upon one or the other cheek; absence of thirst, with dry tongue and dry, hot skin; apathy; slight reaction to light and sound.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Suppression of urine; stools every four hours, of creamy consistency, not offensive and not painful; vomiting of greenish water in small quantity, or of milk about an hour after taking it; stupor; pupils dilated.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Hot skin, pale and hot face; child lies in a stupor, suddenly twists its mouth and a jerk goes through the body; child lies as if dead, with half-open eyes, gum on the conjunctivae and no response to touch of eyelids.
Cadmium-sulph [Cadm-s]
After severe cholera infantum child lies with its eyes open and apparently unconscious, stupor as from sleep, hates being moved or spoken to; great exhaustion; cold sweat on head; cold extremities.
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
FONTANELLES, ESPECIALLY POSTERIOR ONE, WIDE OPEN; child cannot hold the head up, moves it from side to side or totters; takes no interest in anything; always worse at the wane of day; face pale, sallow, yellowish; body cold; peevish and fretful; great longing for bacon, salt meat.
Camphora [Camph]
GREAT COLDNESS OF SKIN AND YET CHILD CANNOT BEAR TO BE COVERED; throbbing pain in cerebellum; features distorted; eyes sunken; face, head and feet icy-cold; great anguish, semi-stupor; cramps; touching the stomach causes him to cry out; great faintness and prostration.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Stage of collapse; suppression of urine; indifference; stupor; hippocratic face; tongue cold and contracted; breath cold, feeble, pallid, white skin.
Carbolic-acid [Carb-ac]
Constantly agitated moans continually, occasionally a piercing cry; recognizes nobody; cold clammy moisture on head; alternate contraction and dilatation of pupils; ABDOMEN RETRACTED; stools very hard and dry; pulse irregular; stiffening of limbs; partial convulsive movements.
China [Chin]
After tedious cholera infantum the child becomes drowsy, pupils dilate, very rapid and superficial breathing, surface of body rather cool, especially face, ears nose and chin; involuntary movements of bowels, or diarrhoea ceased.
Cina [Cina]
Night terrors; pitiful weeping when awake; turning head from one side to another; child leans its head sideways all the time; frequent hiccough, even during sleep; rattling cough in spells, (<) evening; child never sleeps long at a time; screams and kicks off bedclothes; pale face, looks sickly about eyes.
Croton-tigl [Croto-t]
Hydrocephaloid, boring head in pillow, fontanelles sunken; body and extremities cool; convulsions.
Ferrum-phos [Ferr-p]
Blood vessels of abdomen greatly distended; watery diarrhoea, containing mucus and blood; little urging to stool, but no tenesmus; child drowsy and heavy, eyes suffused with blood; full, soft pulse.
Helleborus [Hell]
Lethargic condition, with outcries and startings; SPASMS BEGIN AND END IN SLEEP; forehead wrinkled, with cold, viscid sweat; rolling of head which is bored back in the pillow or upon the arm of the nurse; hands cold, with a paralytic condition or automatic motion of one arm and one leg, usually right arm and left leg (Apis); pulse almost imperceptible.
Ignatia [Ign]
Sudden metastasis from bowels to the brains of children affected with cholera infantum during dentition; sudden paleness of face, with rolling, tossing motion of head; difficulty of swallowing; delirium, with convulsive motion of eyes and lips.
Kali-brom [Kali-br]
Anaemia of brain from loss of fluids; constant drowsiness, coma; pupils dilated, sunken eyes and eyeballs moving in every direction without taking any notice; feet and hands blue and cold; pulse imperceptible.
Mercurius [Merc]
Heaviness of head, vertigo when raising the head, with nausea and vomiting; child wants to lie quietly in a horizontal position; somnolence, indifference, a mournful expression of face; diminution of all intellectual faculties; amblyopia, weakness and paralysis of extremities; convulsions.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Violent pains in head, with inability to think; diarrhoea (<) in wet weather; retarded digestion and difficult expulsion of even a soft stool from paretic state of bowels; prostration and exhaustion.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
LISTLESS AND APATHETIC, does not want to do anything; does not want to talk, hardly answers; sinking back in apathy; involuntary; undigested, diarrhoeic, painless stools; copious urination, especially at night; child weak, pale, cold; emaciation.
Sulphur [Sulph]
CHILD LIES NEARLY IN A STUPOR; face pale and bathed in a cold sweat; particularly forehead; eyes half open and pupils acting very sluggish; urine suppressed; occasional twitching or jerking of one or the other limb or starting up from sleep with a cry.
Veratrum [Verat]
Sinking of the fontanelles, vision obscure, pulse filiform, complete extinction of vital power; cold collapsed face; nausea and vomiting from least motion; tongue cold, and unquenchable thirst for very cold water or ice.
Zincum [Zinc]
Rolling of head; child awakes from sleep as if frightened and looks around the room terrified; OCCIPUT HOT AND FOREHEAD COOL; grinding of teeth; eyes sensitive to light, fixed and staring; face sunken and pale or alternately red or pale; jerking of muscles during sleep; constant fidgety motion of feet.