INTRODUCTION
CALC. PHOSPH. The phosphate of Lime.
COMPARE WITH
Calcarea car.
CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS
Rheumatism. Rheumatic pains in the shoulder and arm, even with swelling of the arm, and febrile heat. Lameness of the arm. Pains in the joints of the hands and fingers, sometimes occasioned by a cold. Ulcers. Caries of the bones. Acne- rosacea; red vesicles filled with yellowish lymph, with lacerating pains when touching the parts. Exostosis of the cranium.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
Burning itching and formication over the whole body. Rheumatic affections of every kind. Pains in various parts of the body, extending from the muscles to the joints; the small of the back, knees, and thumb are principally affected. Carious ulcers. Falls asleep early in the evening, and wakes several times in the night; is sleepless until morning. Frequent dreams, about danger and fire. Frequent transitory chill. The warmth of the room is intolerable. Distention of the veins.
MORAL SYMPTOMS
Sensitive and easily excited; ill-humor and want of disposition to do anything.
HEAD
Vertigo, with nausea. Headache, with flatulence. Dullness, heaviness, and painfulness of the head, early in the morning on waking. Painful feeling of fullness in the head, sensation as if the brain were pressed against the skull, aggravated by movement. Aggravation of the headache in the open air, when stooping. Itching of the hairy scalp, every evening.
EYES AND NOSE
Pain in the eyes and nose, as from a foreign body. Frequent sneezing. Discharge of mucus from the nose, and ptyalism. He blows blood out of his nose. Acne-rosacea, red pimples, with yellowish pus, and stinging when touched.
MOUTH, PHARYNX, AND OESOPHAGUS
Accumulation of acid saliva in the mouth. Constrictive sensation in the gullet. Pain in the throat, early in the morning on waking, aggravated by deglutition.
STOMACH AND INTESTINAL CANAL
Nausea, with vertigo, dullness of the head, and confusion of thought. Violent pains in the stomach: with great debility, headache, and diarrhoea; the pains are excited by introducing the least morsel of food into the stomach. Violent colic, at times accompanied with violent distention of the abdomen and accumulation of flatulence, at times attended with headache. Difficult emission of flatulence, which does not afford him any relief Diarrhoeic stool, with discharge of purulent substances. Fetid diarrhoeic stools.
URINE
Frequent emission of large quantities of urine, with languor and debility of the body. Dark, sometimes burning urine.
GENITAL ORGANS
Feeling of weakness in the sexual organs after stool and urination.
CHEST
Deep, sighing breathing. Cracking in the sternum.
BACK
Violent pain in the small of the back, when performing the least bodily effort, sometimes obliging him to scream.
ARMS AND LEGS
Rheumatic pains in the shoulder and arm. The arm is painful, lame, and goes to sleep. Pains in the metacarpal and phalangeal articulations, particularly those of the thumb, also after a cold. Violent pain in the knees, hips, and small of the back, aggravated by movement, and particularly by walking.
