INTRODUCTION
CHIN. SULPH. Sulphate of Quinine. See Hartmann and Noack, c. Duration of Action: days and many weeks.
COMPARE WITH
Ammonium mur., Ang., Ant-tart., Aranea, Arnica, Arsenicum, Belladonna, Bism., Cast., Chamomilla, Coffea, Digitalis, Ignatia, Ip., Mercurius, Mosch., Nux., nux- v., Opium, Phosph., Pulsatilla, Sulphur, Vin. Compare especially China
ANTIDOTES
Of large doses: Ferrum, decoction of Salep., liquids containing Tannin new Red Wine, decoction of Cortex-alcornoco. Of small does: Nux-v Opium, Coffea Compare China
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
The Sulphate of Quinine acts principally upon the reproductive system, after which it affects the nutritive, and then the sensitive sphere. The intestinal canal, the brain, the urinary and genital organs, the extremities, and lastly the skin are principally affected by it. Characteristic sensations are: pressure, lancinations, or cuttings, throbbing, tension, burning, pressing asunder; lacerating, lacerating drawing, and darting lacerating,.,. Cracking in the joints, particularly in the articulations of the jaw and shoulders. Lacerating, particularly in the legs, darting lacerating in the limbs, drawing lacerating in the hands, feet, and forehead. Acute rheumatism. Arthritic pains and complaints. Neuralgia, particularly periodical and intermittent. Liability to take cold. Scrofulous complaints. Haemorrhage. Distinct aggravation of the symptoms every other day, or every day at the same hour. Every third day: drawing pain from the temples to the forehead, with loss of appetite and papescent stools or pain in the forehead towards evening, or in the afternoon with flushes of heat, thirst and sweat. Intermittent and periodical diseases, particularly neuralgia and rheumatism. Nervous symptoms, such as: constant nervous irritation, with anxiety, languor, and even hysteric symptoms. Spasms in the limbs, liability to convulsions of the right half of the body, with bilious vomiting, diarrhoea, congestion of the head, and furious pains in the head. Periodical spasms of the head, face, and arms. Eclampsia. Epilepsy. Paralysis, first on one side, then all over. Languor, with constant desire to yawn. Languor, with lassitude in the legs. Languor, with dullness and want of disposition to work, sometimes going off during a walk in the open air. Languor, with trembling of the limbs, particularly of the knees, when making the least effort. Weakness of the hands and arms. Great weakness and prostration. Weakness and emaciation of old people. Emaciation, the skin hanging loose around the bones. General emaciation, with hectic fever, loss of appetite, constipation, distention of the abdomen, pressure in the umbilical region, attacks of nausea, gagging, and mania. Emaciation and dropsy. Trembling of the limbs, particularly of the lower limbs, and more especially the feet, with pain in the malleoli and general coldness. Tremulous weakness.
SKIN
Inflammation of the skin. Erysipelas, Gangrenous erysipelas. Dropsical affections. Jaundice. Suppurations, fetid. An ichorous ulcer is changed to one which secretes mucus. Gangrenous mortifications. Deadness and livid redness of the skin, with formation of a jelly-like pseudo-membrane, or of a thin, superficial scurf. Formation of a thick livid, humid crust, which becomes black and dry, with red, humid, then yellowish and dilating margins. Straining a part by a wrong position. Cancerous ulcers.
SLEEP
Drowsiness in the daytime. Deep and unrefreshing sleep. Restless sleep, with exhausting night-sweats, or with tossing about and strange dreams. At night, in bed: great heat on waking with violent thirst, headache, and tingling in the ears; sleeplessness, with profuse sweat, or with dry heat of the whole body, intolerable pricking in the skin, and sweat in the face.
FEVER
Coldness of the limbs, also with trembling. Feeling of coldness through the whole body, with internal tremor, pale face, pressure on the bladder, with emission of pale urine, in the evening. Shaking chill, in the afternoon, with paleness of the face, and water-colored urine, which deposits crystals. Evening chill, with accelerated frequent pulse. Febrile motions, with flushes of heat. Feverish paroxysms, with vertigo. Pains in the forehead, nausea, colic, diarrhoea. Shaking chill, followed by heat, after which sweat, for several hours. Violent paroxysm, with shaking chill, profuse seat, nightly diarrhoea, occasional discharge of blood. Attacks of paleness, chilliness, and shuddering, with blue lips and nails, and a spasmodically contracted pulse, afterwards general heat and redness of the face and lips: large, full pulse and thirst; lastly, slight sweat. During the chilly stage: paleness of the face, headache in the forehead and temples, tingling in the ears, thirst, increased appetite, difficult painful stool, and great despondency. Quotidian, tertian, and quartan, double and simple disguised intermittent fevers. Quotidian fevers, with short apyrexia. Fevers of children and full-grown people. Fall fevers, with splenetic stitches. Intermittent fevers, with inflammatory affections, or with dropsy, affections of the liver,. Malignant, epidemic, and sporadic intermittent fevers. Alternation of chilliness and flushes of heat, particularly after dinner and toward evening. External heat, with dryness of the mouth and fauces, obstinate constipation, and frequent falling over in the street. Exanthematic fevers. Consumptive, hectic fevers. Yellow fever. Plague. Typhus, versatilis and torpid Petechial typhus, with predominant affection of the brain and nervous system. Lentescent typhus. The pulse is slow, particularly after dinner, or in periodical diseases. Full or small, but soft and slow pulse. Accelerated pulse. Exhausting sweat with sudden exhaustion after every exertion. Night-sweats of phthisical patients.
MORAL SYMPTOMS
Frequent attacks of anxiety. Paroxysms of anguish and apprehension. Great despondency. Silent melancholy. Ill-humor, with yawning, and indisposition to work. Great inertia and disposition to rest, with languor.
SENSORIUM
Inability to collect one’s senses, and to retain an idea. Emptiness of the head, also with stupid feeling, flushes of heat and thirst, or with tingling in the ears. Dullness of the head, with humming, o with intoxication, and passing into heaviness. Stupefaction with headache in the left frontal eminence. Confused and wild feeling in the head, almost preventing walking, with loss of control of the will over the limbs. Delirium. Delirium tremens. Coma. Vertigo when stooping. Delirium as from intoxication, with humming in the ears, strong heat over the whole skin, and accelerated pulse. Delirium, with headache and inability to collect one’s senses. Apoplexy.
HEAD
Headache in general, particularly in the evening, or when walking in the sun for a long time. Headache, with languor, debility, yawning, drowsiness in the daytime, ill humor. Dull headache, with debility, or with numbness, anguish, and general sweat, trembling in the limbs, and slow pulse. Violent headache, worse when stooping, with tingling in the ears. Violent headache, particularly on the left side with throbbing of the temporal arteries, great irritation of the whole body, paleness of face, violent thirst, nausea, weakness in the feet, with deafness when walking, and occasional sweat over the whole body. Headache, with vertigo, and inability to collect one’s senses. Evening -headache, first the forehead, then in the occiput. Pain in the temples and forehead, at noon, increasing gradually until the temporal arteries throb visibly. attended with heat in the head, tingling in the ears, a good deal of thirst, copious micturition, anxiety, and great debility. Pressure in the forehead heat in the forehead. Pressing asunder, particularly in the temporal region, worse during movement and in the open air, also at night when the pain prevents sleep. Stinging and digging in the forehead. Throbbing in the head’ throbbing and heat in the head. Rush of blood to the head, sometimes violent, with violent headache, which increases towards evening; throbbing of the arteries, as if the head would burst, heat in the face, vertigo, angling and roaring in the ears, hardness, of hearing, glare and sparks before the eyes, accelerated, frequent. strong pulse, restless sleep and full of dreams. Semilateral headache. Rheumatic, or nervous headache. Periodical or intermittent headache. Acute hydrocephalus.
SCALP
Sensitiveness of the outer head. Burning of the vertex, increased by contact.
EYES
Sensitiveness of the eyes, with lachrymation. Involuntary closing of the lids, from debility, with dullness of the head. Dim-sightedness, as if looking though gauze or mist, with dryness of the eyes. Intense light and sparks before the eyes. black motes, the objects being recognized only when looking at them from one side. Obscuration of slight, blackness before the eyes, particularly when staring at anything. Transitory amaurosis. Hemeralopia.
EARS
Tingling in the ears. Humming in the ears. Hardness of hearing, with violent headache.
