INTRODUCTION
CUPR. ACET. Acetate of Copper. Verdigris. Noack and Trinks.
ANTIDOTES.
See Cuprum-met.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Rheumatic pains. Bruised and lame feeling in the small of the back and lower limbs, accompanied with lacerating pains. General muscular weakness and great languor. Great restlessness. Fainting turns. Slight convulsions. Spasms and convulsions. Convulsions accompanying the constant vomiting and the violent colic, gradually passing into paralysis. Rigidity of the limbs and trunk. Insensibility and lying in a corner as if in a state of imbecility. Increased secretion of bile. Jaundice. Consumption.
SKIN.
Leprous eruption, without itching, over the whole body, at first dark red and lastly brown.
SLEEP.
Staring during sleep. Dreams occasioning anxiety. Raving of the fancy while dreaming.
FEVER.
Icy coldness of the body, particularly of the hands and feet. Feverish heat. Heat, hard pulse, headache, and difficult deglutition. Cold sweat. Pulse frequent, small, hard, contracted, at times regular, at others irregular.
MORAL SYMPTOMS.
Delirium. Great absence of mind. Tendency to start. Great anguish.
HEAD.
Giddiness on raising the head. Violent congestion of the head. Feeling of heaviness in the head. Hammering pains in the whole head. Painful throbbing of the temporal arteries. Violent headache, with extreme weakness, particularly of the lower extremities, or with thirst and violent colic.
EYES.
Singing and buzzing in the ears. Slight deafness.
NOSE.
Feeling of obscuration in the nose.
FACE.
Expression of sadness, despondency, excessive anguish, and intense pain in the face (without sinking of the features). Cool face. Puffed, red, hot face. Spasmodic distortion of the face. Tetanic closing of the jaws.
MOUTH.
Grayish tongue. Dryness, roughness, and parched condition of the tongue, dryness of the mouth.
THROAT.
Aching pain in the throat. Feeling of constriction in the throat. Singultus and spasms of the oesophagus. Difficult deglutition.
APPETITE.
Sweetish taste, or also acrid, pungent, astringent, copper taste. Burning, very troublesome thirst, with dryness of the tongue. Loss of appetite. Loathing.
STOMACH.
Eructations tasting of Copper. Frequent, bitter or sour eructations like heartburn, sensation of pressure in the throat from below upwards with spasmodic constriction of the throat impeding deglutition, followed by hiccough, and generally attended with rising of a sour-bitter water. Constant nausea. Great inclination to vomit; inclination to vomit, with violent gagging and pressure in the stomach. Violent gagging and ineffectual effort to vomit. Frequent, violent vomiting, attended with nausea, frightful colic, diarrhoea, and convulsions. Frequent alternation of vomiting and diarrhoea. Vomiting with aggravation of the pains in the stomach and intestines. Distention of the region of the stomach, which is exceedingly painful to the touch. Occasional contraction of the stomach. Lacerating and frequently very violent pain in the stomach. Horrid pains in the stomach and bowels. Crampy pressure in the stomach, at times extending to the oesophagus, at times to the bowels. Inflammation of the stomach.
ABDOMEN.
Distended, not very hard abdomen, painful to the touch, or violent spasmodic pains in the abdomen. Retraction of the abdomen, which is not very sensitive to pressure. Feeling of emptiness in the abdomen. Anxiety in the pit of the stomach. Intense lacerating pain in the epigastric region. Pains in the abdomen, causing anguish. Violent colic in the abdomen, with frequent tenesmus, or frequent diarrhoeic stools and violent gagging. Sensation as if all the bowels were contracted. Pressure makes the pains in the abdomen intolerate. Corrosive stitches (and ulcers) in the bowels.
Enteritis.
STOOL.
Constipation. Diarrhoea. Copious, painful, blackish evacuations, sometimes mixed with blood, attended with tenesmus and weakness. Scanty grayish or green evacuations, jelly-like and slimy, first brownish, then greenish, streaked with blood. Discharge of greenish, jelly-like, slimy substances with tenesmus, at every evacuation, preceded by violent pinching in the bowels, which is somewhat relieved after the evacuation, but does not disappear entirely.
URINE.
Scanty urine. Frequent emission of a small quantity of urine, attended with soreness in the urethra. Turbid, dark red urine with yellow sediment.
LARYNX AND TRACHEA.
Violent, dry, nightly cough, with lacerating pains in the head, and stitches in the chest, followed by palpitation of the heart for a few minutes. Convulsive cough and constant inclination to vomit.
CHEST.
Hurried breathing. Difficulty of breathing and spasmodic contraction of the chest. Suffocative arrest of breathing. Oppression of the heart; anxiety about the heart.
LIMBS.
Trembling of the limbs. Lame feeling in the arms and lower limbs. Spasmodic, painful contraction of the fingers and toes. Painful jerking in the hands and feet, extending into the upper arms and passing into a cramp of the calves when reaching the legs. Coldness of the limbs. Cool hands. Weakness of the lower limbs. Pains in the thighs. The Knees give away.
PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. IN MEN.
Rigidity of the body. Tightly closed mouth. Yellow color of the skin. Blue nails. The diaphragm in the region of the oesophagus is somewhat inflamed. The stomach (particularly the pylorus) is green and highly inflamed, gangrenous in some parts; one part near the orifice, of the size of a dollar, is contracted into a cartilaginous consistence; inflammation of the stomach, thickening of its substance, particularly toward the pylorus, to such an extent that the orifice is almost suppressed. The upper edge of the liver is slightly inflamed. The omentum is softened and somewhat inflamed. The bowels are green, distended with air, inflamed, gangrenous as far as the rectum; the lesser intestines are inflamed throughout, gangrenous, and even perforated in some parts. The large intestines are distended in some parts, in other parts they are contracted. The rectum is ulcerated, perforated in several places. The lungs are inflamed superiorly and posteriorly, filled with blood. The heart and vessels are turgid with blood, which is not fluid.
