ARSENICUM ALBUM



SLEEP.

Laziness, dread of movement; great weariness; violent, unconquerable drowsiness, alternating with restlessness. *Coma vigil, interrupted by sighing and grinding of the teeth. *Sleeplessness, *with uneasiness and tossing about; with fainting fits; with moaning. Restless sleep; *early waking; *frequent waking, and difficulty to fall asleep again. *Starting of the limbs when on the point of falling asleep, particularly of the affected arts. Symptoms at night when in bed; prickling, lacerating, *restlessness and tossing about; inability to get warm; anxious heat and uneasiness with *burning as if hot water were coursing through the veins, or with throbbing in the head; *suffocative fits; *great anguish; dryness in the throat, with thirst. Symptoms during sleep; *staring as in affright; loud moaning; talking and quarrelling; grinding of the teeth; sick feeling all over; *grasping at flocks. Symptoms in the morning when walking: great irritation of temper, vomiting of white mucus, with bitterness of mouth, preceded by qualmishness and nausea, extending up into the chest.- Dreams; full of threats, repentance, or apprehension; frightful dreams; dreams about thunder-storms, fires, black water, and darkness vivid, vexatious dreams; dreams full of fatiguing reflecting; fanciful dreams; raving the fancy at night.

FEVER.

*Coldness of the limbs; *general coldness, with parchment-like dryness of the skin, or with profuse sweat, or alternation of dryness and sweat; in the evening; on the hands, feet, and abdomen *coldness, a i cold water were poured over him; in the evening and morning, with copious emission of urine, scanty stool, and stretching of the limbs; at night, followed by heat; external coldness with internal heat; coldness in the knees, with heat of the head and ears. *Chill: *particularly after drinking, with chilliness; *after a meal; sometimes the chill passes off after a meal; shuddering when out of bed; *when walking in the open air; *at the commencement of the fever, before the chilly stage sets in; with not forehead, hot cheeks, and cold hands; in the morning in sometimes alternates with heat. *Chilliness, violent, with shaking; every afternoon at three o’clock, with hunger, the chilliness increasing after a meal; internal chilliness in the afternoon, with heat of the skin and red cheeks, *in the evening, all over, with coldness, or only from the calves to the feet, with inability to get warm, particularly in the evening when in bed, as if occasioned by a cold; *chilliness down the back, and afterwards all over. Internal coldness, without any coldness of the skin, or warmth without any warmth being perceptible externally. *Heat, generally dry and burning, internally and externally, with desire for beer; internal heat, sometimes with diarrhoea; *anxious heat, *at night, dry, sometimes without thirst. *Violent fever; *from abuse of Cinchona; intermittent; particularly quotidian, quartan, tertian, and double tertian; *typhoid, putrid fevers, fevers with petechiae and miliaria-alba; *gastric, bilious, mucous fevers; *lentescent, hectic fevers. *Fever commencing with coldness; coldness at night, followed by heat; at first shuddering, then chilliness, and lastly dry heat in the evening sometimes with cold hands and feet; chilliness after a walk in the open air, followed by sweat, preceded and succeeded by hiccough; *Chilliness, generally in the afternoon or evening; followed by dry heat, generally in the evening, and sweat at the termination of the fever, mostly at night; *alternative or mingling of chilliness and heat; *heat without any previous chilliness, followed by sweat; heat at night, with sweat of the face and feet; burning heat (every fort night), followed by sweat in the nape of the neck. *Fever characterized by: *absence of thirst during the chilly stage, and sometimes the hot, or else great thirst, particularly in the hot stage; *great languor, weakness, trembling of the limbs, and sometimes partial paralysis; *oedematous swelling of the feet and other dropsical partial paralysis; *oedematous swelling of the feet and other dropsical complaints; *uneasiness ang great anguish at heart; *violent lacerating pains in the bones and limbs, particularly in the back; *stretching of the limbs; *delirium; *vertigo, humming in the ears, and fainting fits, particularly when raising from a recumbent posture; *muddled condition of the head, with laceration and oppression in the forehead and temples; *bloatedness of the head and face; *yellow, livid countenance; *tongue coated white, or dry and red; the tips are swollen, dry, and parched; *eruption and scurf around the mouth; *slow speech, tardy answers; *bitter taste in the mouth, or insipid and flat taste; *nausea and aversion to food; *violent pains, oppression, and burning in the region of the stomach and pit of the stomach; particularly after a meal; pain and swelling of the spleen and liver; distended abdomen; *hard and intermittent stool; *difficulty of breathing, oppression and pains of the chest.- Symptoms preceding the fever (the chilly or cold stage): *feeling of illness in the whole body; *stretching of the limbs and drawing through the whole body; *yawning; *weakness, desire to lie down, sometimes even *fainting; *headache, vertigo, and stupefaction; muddled condition of the head, and inability to collect one’s senses; humming in the ears.- During the chilly stage; goose-flesh *chattering of the teeth; *coldness, particularly in the abdomen; *prostration; *chattering of the teeth; *coldness, particularly in the abdomen; *prostration; yawning; *stretching of the limbs; drowsiness; *feeling of illness in the whole body; *drawing through the whole body; *pains in the limbs; *tearing or sticking, sometimes it the bones or in the head; heat while talking or moving about, with redness of the face; ill-humor; *anxiety; inability to collect one’s senses; *headache, *bitterness of mouth; nausea, with disposition to vomit; *pains in the stomach and pit of the stomach, oppressive or gnawing; cutting colic and diarrhoea; *difficulty of breathing, oppression, spasms in the chest; *cough until vomiting set in; the thighs are weary and bruised; pains in the small of the back and back. After the chills and previous to the hot stage: *lassitude and sleep; vertigo, *thirst; hiccough; *anxiety; *nausea and sometimes vomiting of bile; *diminution of the pains. During the hot stage; *restlessness; *delirium; *inability to collect one’s senses; *muddled condition and heaviness of the head, vertigo, headache, *anxiety, *bitterness of mouth; *tongue coated white and dry; *nausea; *pains in the liver and spleen; tension and fullness in the abdomen; *pressure and burning in the spit of the stomach; *pleuritic stitches; *redness of the skin; *oppression of the chest; *dryness of the nose and mouth; *dry cough; sweat of the face and feet; colicky, anxious tightness in the hypochondria and epigastrium.- After the hot stage: *sleep, from which he wakes with anguish and sweat; nausea, with inclination to vomit. After the fever (the sweating stage): hiccough; *pressure in the forehead and temples, with frightful dreams; *feeling in the limbs as if bruised.- *The sweat sets in at the close of the fever, generally at night; *in the evening, when in bed, at the commencement of sleep, sometimes seen only on the hands and thighs; *debilitating sweats, the debility sometimes increases to syncope; *cold, clammy sweats; fetid sweats; sweats tinging the skin and eyes yellow; *nightly, particularly about the thighs and knees, or in the back, with itching. During the sweat; excessive thirst, with constant desire to drink; a diminution of all the pains accompanying the fever; *anguish; humming in the ears; excessive seething of the blood, as if the blood were too hot, and coursing through the vessels too rapidly, with small, quick pulse; the pulse is irritated, frequent, not full; quick, small, rather hard; rapid; feeble, intermittent; small, feeble, frequent; *intermittent, small, unequal; suppressed, even while the beats of the heat are frequent and irritated.

MORAL SYMPTOMS.

*Melancholy sadness, particularly after inner, with headache; melancholy mood; *religious melancholy and retirement from the world; loud weeping; with few incoherent words; piercing lamentations, interrupted by swoons.- *Fits of anguish of the most violent kind; with lamentations about the pain in the abdomen, which arrests the breathing; *with uneasiness in the whole body; with tremor, an fear that he will be obliged to murder somebody; *with heat, which does not allow him to sleep before midnight, also at the o’clock at night, with nausea and an inclination to vomit, with tossing about in the bed; *driving him out of his bed at night, or in the evening after lying down; with oppression of the chest and labored breathing; *anguish, as if from remorse of conscience; as if he should die, anguish of death; anguish about the heart, with fainting fits; with tremor and cold sweat in the face, or tearing in the abdomen. Restlessness: with sadness and violent thirst; with pain in the abdomen and knees; with moaning and ill-humor (in a child). *Fear; *with great anguish and sweat; *dread of solitude, fear of some absent person, whom he imagines to be lying dead before him; *dread of ghosts, which appear to his fancy day and night; dread of vermin which are crawling about his bed; *of thieves, whom he sees everywhere, and hunts up in his house in the night; *springs up from his bed and hides himself. Irresoluteness. Great earnestness; when alone, ideas about illness crowd upon his mind; he despairs of his life; *great fear of death, *which the frequently deems quite near, with weeping, coldness, chilliness, and subsequent languor. Excessive sensitiveness; *anxiety of conscience, as if she had offended everybody; tendency to start. He talks little, complains of anguish; weakness of body and soul, without talking. No inclination for anything; impatience and anxiety; out of humor. *Vexed mood; about trifles, with disposition to censure everything, or to talk about the weakness of their people; with excessive sensitiveness to noise, talk, or light.-*Great indifference even to life; *aversion to life, disposition to suicide. *Melancholia, arising from the abuse of wine or brandy. *Melancholia arising from the retrocession of rash, and in consequence of taking a cold drink.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.