Thyroidinum – Medicine



Temperature never rose above 99 degrees but she felt feverish and thirsty.

Temperature rose to 100 degrees F., and remained there several days; pulse 112.

Rise of temperature; diaphoresis.

Profuse perspiration on least exertion.

Skin

      Flushing of skin.

Skin became so livid as to be almost blue-black.

Skin has desquamated freely, but there has been no perspiration or diuresis.

Psoriasis: eruption extended and increased. (Psoriasis: redness and itching reduced; eruption separating and being shed in great scales, angry, inflamed, appearance completely gone.

Moist patches behind ears heal up.

Arms less stiff and painful; swelling diminished.

Crusts separated, leaving faint red skin; eruption not nearly so painful. (Symmetrical serpiginous eruption; dark red; edges raised and thickened.) Lupus: tight feeling, heat, angry redness removed; suppuration increased.

Eczema: irritation of skin markedly allayed.

Scattered pustules of eczema mature quickly or abort. (Teething eczema.) (Syphilitic psoriasis.) (Rupia.) Scleroderma.

Peeling of skin beginning on legs and extending over whole surface; skin has since become comparatively soft and smooth.

Peeling of skin of lower limbs, with gradual clearing (eczema).

Skin of hands and feet desquamated.

Heart and Pulse

      Death, with all the symptoms of angina pectoris.

On trying to walk uphill died suddenly from cardiac failure.

While stooping to put on her shoes she “fainted” and died in half an hour.

On one occasion, after exerting herself more than she had done for a long time previously, ” suddenly became extremely breathless and livid, and felt as if she was dying, ” Agg. by rest in recumbent position and stimulants.

Two fainting attacks.

Frequent fainting fits.

Complained occasionally of a feeling of faintness, not occurring particularly after the injections.

One patient showed extraordinary symptoms after the injection; the skin became so livid as to be almost blue-black.

Degeneration of heart muscle in animals.

A systolic cardiac murmur was less loud after the treatment than before.

Sensation of faintness and nausea.

Palpitation on stooping.

Weakness of heart’s action.

Tachycardia and ready excitability of the heart persisting for several days after the feeding was stooped.

Pulse rose to 112.

Relaxation of arterioles. (Rapid pulsation, with inability to lie down in bed.). (Jumping sensation at heart.).

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.