INTRODUCTION
BAR. MUR. – Muriate of Baryta. – Hering’s “Jahr.”.
COMPARE WITH
Bar-carb., Ant., Chelidonium, Cicuta, Digitalis, Dulcamara, Ferrum mur., Hyoscyamus, Lact., Lauroc., Opium, Spongia
ANTIDOTES
See Bar- carb. – According to Lisfrane, the white of an egg is the best antidote of large doses.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
*Scrofulous complaints. Great weakness, obliging him to lie down; general muscular weakness, as if paralyzed. Fainting fits. Stiffness and immobility of the body, with periodical convulsions. General heaviness. Convulsions general, of single parts; in the face; periodical attacks of convulsions, with excessive jactitation of the limbs. Increase of the secretions and excretions, and disposition to decomposition of the animal fluids. haemorrhages. General insensibility. General emaciation and atrophy. Increased insensibility of the whole nervous system.
SKIN
Biting in the skin; urging and biting in excoriated parts. Itch-like pimples on the head, nape of the neck, abdomen, and thighs; yellowish scaly eruptions; tetters. Fetid, ichorous ulcers. Swelling and induration of the glands particularly those of the neck and abdomen; suppuration of glands. *General anasarca after scarlet fever.
FEVER
Heat all over, day and night; heat in the face, with redness. Pulse full and frequent. Tertian fever. Increased exhalation from the skin; cold sweats.
MORAL SYMPTOMS
Attacks of oppressive anxiety, with pain in the stomach, nausea, and gagging. Anxiety, with vertigo. Tendency to start. great internal anguish. Absence of mind. Acute mania. Sense of
oppressive anxiety. Imbecility.
HEAD
Vertigo, with sense as of turning before the eyes. Dulness and heaviness of the head. Headache, with vomiting. Tinea capitis, extending to the sides and the posterior part of the neck; violent itching eruption on the hairy scalp.
EYES, EARS, AND FACE
Swelling and inflammation of the eyelids; staring, immovable eyes; the pupils are dilated, insensible; the eyes are staring. Blennorrhoea of the eyes, ears, and nose. Deafness during the vomiting. Drawing pain in the facial muscles.
TEETH, MOUTH, PHARYNX
Beating and stinging in the teeth after midnight, on waking; looseness of the teeth. Swelling of the palate and salivary glands; coated tongue; dry mouth and tongue, mercurial odor from the mouth. Difficulty of swallowing.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS
Putrid taste in the mouth, and also of the food he takes; loss of appetite; thirst. Great weakness of digestion. Constant nausea; loathing; empty retching; vomiting, also early in the morning, with anguish; watery vomiting, with nausea.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN
Pressure at the stomach, also after a meal, particularly after eating heavy food; weakness, and excessive sensitiveness of the stomach; spasmodic pains; ascension of heat into the chest and head; burning at the stomach, with vomiting; inflammation of the stomach. Swelling of the liver. Violent colic; burning in the abdomen; pain as of worms; accumulation of mucus in the stomach and intestinal canal. Swelling and induration of the abdominal glands; fetid, ichorous ulcers in the inguinal region.
STOOL AND URINE
Obstinate constipation; slimy, yellowish diarrhoea; diarrhoea, either painless, or else accompanied with violent colic. Frequent urination, sometimes involuntary and painful; enuresis; whitish sediment; – Diabetes.
GENITAL ORGANS
Swelling of the scrotum; frequent nocturnal emissions. *Chronic gonorrhoea. The menses are too early; pain as if bruised in the pelvic cavity.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
Catarrh, with heat; cough; oppression of the chest; heat in the chest. *Humid asthma. Palpitation of the heart; accelerated beating of the heart.
EXTREMITIES
Pains in the back. Swelling of the hands and feet. Drawing pains in the thighs; cramps in the toes. Convulsive jerkings of the hands and feet. Paralysis of the upper and lower limbs.
