Tuberculinum – Medicine



Fretful, snappish, morose, depressed and melancholic, even to insanity.

ILL-mannered, quarrelsome; lies in bed and complains; lachrymose, weeps without any provocation, cannot help it.

IRRITABLE ON WALKING; NOTHING CAN PLEASE HIM; NOTHING SATISFIES.

Melancholy with marked hypochondriacal delirium.

Everything in the room seems strange, as though in a strange place.

Intense restlessness, and inward restlessness.

With every little ailment whines and complains; easily frightened, particularly by dogs; screams in terror when approached by a dog.

Anxiety, gloomy, melancholic humor.

Very restless in the evening when aroused.

Periodical anxiety and terror.

She is very sad, dejected, and complains continually.

Nervous irritation; averse to physical or mental labor.

Indifferent; forgetful; averse to all labor, especially mental work.

Extremely sensitive to music.

Sensibilities dulled; with chill and aching in the head, back and limbs.

Somnolence; loss of vital power; great physical weakness.

Does not like to be disturbed; trembling of hands and feet.

Soporous, dazed condition; unable to find the right way; is confused; surrounding appear strange.

Memory weak or lost; unable to think or comprehend.

Comprehension difficult; must read a paragraph several times before he can understand it.

Sopor; somnolence; with dyspnoea.

Coma: profound, lasting three days, with temperature 106.

Delirium and serious meningeal symptoms, following an injection of Tuberculinum.

Complete unconsciousness; stupor and stertorous breathing.

Insanity; acute or chronic, with a family history of tubercular affections.

When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently cure in a marked tubercular diathesis, with a tubercular family history.

Despondent, discouraged, feel as if I would rather die than live.

Although naturally of a sweat disposition, became taciturn, sulky, snappish, fretful, irritable, morose, depressed and melancholic, even to insanity.-Burnett.

Head

      Vertigo, esp. in morning; heavy with obstruction of eyes; is obliged to lean on something; by bending down, esp. by rising after bending down; with palpitation; with nausea; with backache in morning; after dinner.

Great heat in head; flushes of heat after dinner; sensation of heat in head in evening.

Headache: deep in forehead; deep in temples; on vertex, with sensation of heat; from neck to forehead; in morning, passing away in afternoon.

Sensation of heaviness on vertex.

Headache with obstruction of sight.

Headache with vertigo.

Piercing headache.

Piercing pain in forehead from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M.

Headache in evening; in afternoon.

Frontal headache in morning.

Headache with rushing in ears.

Headache in morning with bleeding of nose.

Headache from neck to forehead; burning, piercing.

Colossal hyperemia of pia matter and brain substance; extreme engorgement of vessels on the surface, internally dusky red; tubercles presented no retrogressive changes (arachnitis). (Sensation as if brain were squeezed with iron band.-Bac.) Headache agg. by motion.

Sick-headache commencing about 8 A.M., increasing in severity through the day; very changeable, leaning the head to one side would increase the pain on that side.

Brain seems loose and rolling around from side to side.

Darting pain in occiput, extending down the spine.

Headache commencing about 10 A.M., increasing until 3 or 4 P.M.

Pains erratic, changing place rapidly; first in one place then in another, not amel. in any position.

Headache in evening 8 P.M. neurotic, first in one place then in another, over one eye then the other, then the occiput and down the spine.

Headache in the afternoon, worse from going up stairs, better in open air.

Severe headache and vertigo in afternoon, a dizzy, sick at stomach sensation, like sea sickness.

Dull headache on waking.

A strange sensation in head on first lying down as if some light substance was rolling from above eyes to vertex.

Severe headache beginning upon mastoid process on left side and extending over head to opposite side.

Complete physical exhaustion without any apparent cause.

Chilly all day, although room was warm; muscles of the whole body sore to touch or pressure.

In the morning so weary and muscles ache so severely it is difficult to arise.

Great heaviness in head and pain in occiput and neck.

Severe headache, agg. on second day, lasting until the third, recurring from time to time for many weeks and compelling quiet fixedness. – Burnett.

Headache, with frequent sharp, cutting pains passing from above right eye through head to back of left ear. – Rose.

Headache of great intensity preceded by a shuddering chill passing from brain down spine, with attack a feeling as if head above eyes were swollen; became unconscious with screaming, tearing her hair, beating her head with her fists or trying to dash it against wall or floor. – Swan.

Headache of forty-five years standing, pain passing from right frontal protuberance to right occipital region. – Swan.

Terrible pain in head, as if he had a tight hoop of iron around it; trembling of hands; distressing sensation of damp clothes on his spine; almost absolute sleeplessness; profound adynamia; was thought by his friends to be on verge of insanity; most of his brothers and sisters had died of water on brain; right lung solid, probably from healed-up cavities, as he at one time suffered from pulmonary phthisis. – Burnett.

Sullen, taciturn, irritable, screams in his sleep, is very restless at night, constipated; sister died of tubercular meningitis. – Burnett.

Fretful and ailing, whines and complains, indurated glands can be felt everywhere, child hot, drowsy, urine red and sandy, much given to be frightened, particularly by dogs; was vaccinated and had a very bad arm for four months thereafter; would not smile, whimpers when spoken to skin dingy, skull hydrocephalic. Burnett.

Boy, aged 20 months, ill for days with head, high fever, restlessness and constant screaming; finally no sleep for forty hours, followed by a condition of collapse; peculiar smell of body, family history of tuberculosis. – Burnett.

Tubercular meningitis, with effusion; head gradually enlarged; alternately wakeful and delirious at night, talked nonsense by day, at intervals; nocturnal hallucinations and fright, delirium; pyrexia; had eczema which almost disappeared after two unsuccessful vaccinations, and which were soon followed by above condition; after administration of remedy there occurred a severe pustular eruption, then patches of a lepra and eczema appeared.

Burnett.

Basilar meningitis. – Sinker.

Tubercular meningitis. – Sinker.

Acute cerebral meningitis, with intense strabismus. – Biegler. Plica polonica: several bad cases permanently cured with Tuberculinum. – Jackson.

Eyes

      Swollen lids; headache with swollen lids in morning.

Right eye much swollen, conjunctiva inflamed.

Dullness and heaviness of eyes; darkness before eyes.

Obstruction of vision with vertigo.

Opens right eye (which had been closed.) Breaking down of cicatrices of old corneal ulcers (Stoker).

Clearing of corneal opacity the result of old tuberculous corneitis (Stoker).

Tuberculosis of eyelids, small grey and yellow nodules, existing in conjunctiva of outer sections of lids, increased in size, ran together, then suddenly disappeared.

Phlyctenulae appeared where none existed before (Maschke).

Conjunctivitis; herpes on lids.

Amblyopia with irregularity and complete paralysis of pupils ( in an alcoholic).

Stye appeared on upper lid of right eye. Lid swollen, intensely painful; four days later opened discharging green pus.

Stye on lower lid of right eye, appeared suddenly, began to swell like a bee sting. Opened within 48 hours discharging green pus.

Ears

      Tinnitus.

Rushing in ears with heavy head.

Sticking pain from pharynx to ears.

Headache with rushing in ears and pressure on vertex.

Great aching in ears and teeth.

Discharge of yellowish matter from the ears.

Swelling of the glands around the ear and on the neck, worse below the ear and behind.

Slight discharge of yellowish matter from right ear.

No pain.

Earl, aged 2 years. Light complexion.

January 25, 1895. Consumption on the father’s side. Since last February has had a discharge from the ears of a yellowish matter without special indications. Was relieved by some medication until within the last two or three weeks.

Now there is considerable swelling of the glands around the ear and on the neck, worse below the ear and behind, with a slight discharge of yellowish matter from the right ear. No pain. No appetite; will only take milk when it has tea in it. Not in poor flesh, but thinner than usual. Desires fresh air and wants to be out of doors. Fretful at night; seems to be better during the day. Was very feverish a day or so before the ear commenced to run. Tuberculinum 50M., one dose.

February 7. The swelling about the ear increased till Sunday night (three days) and looked as though it would break on the outside. Since then it has been going down; his ear quit running yesterday. The discharge became thick and would not run; they kept it syringed out with warm water and soap; it gradually grew less. Hardly any odor about the discharge. Stool once or twice a day. Appetite better. A little more restless at night. Anxious to get out of doors, but cried to get back into the house again. Head seems to hurt when he cries. Disposition better; he is not so cross. The swelling about the glands almost gone. Seems to be gradually improving. Placebo.

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.