Tartar Emetic.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Broncho-pneumonia with weakened state of the respiratory and cardiac muscles. The bronchi are loaded with mucus that is raised with great difficulty. Wheezing and rattling in the chest. Weak, rapid pulse, great prostration, sinking temperature Diarrhoea with anxious nausea, straining top vomit, prostration and sweet on the forehead. The stools are watery, mucous, bilious or bloody.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Feeling of great prostration. Fainting. Face pale or livid, coldness of the hands and feet, cold perspiration. Rapid and feeble pulse. Pronounced tendency toward failure of the cardiac and respiratory functions. Muscular system much relaxed with occasional cramp in the chest, abdomen and legs. Sense of great exhaustion.1 Respiration rapid, or slow and very irregular, with sense of oppression in the chest. Bronchial catarrh. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes with free exudation of mucus. Pulmonary apoplexy.2 Tongue coated with mucus. Nausea and vomiting. Violent and prolonged retching. Inflammation of the throat, oesophagus and stomach, with burning sensation and exudation of mucus. Enteritis and proctitis with increased secretions.3. Increased flow of salvia and buccal mucus, an abundant secretion from the gastric and intestinal glandular apparatus, and also from the pancreas and liver.4 Ulcers in mouth and throat, and inflamed pustular eruption on the skin.5.
DOSE
Antimonii et Potassii tartars.1/12-1/6 gr. By far the best therapeutic effects of this drug are obtained when given in doses not greater than the first decimal trituration. The second and third decimal triturations may be administered at more frequent intervals, and usually give even superior service. Vomiting is produced by one-half or one grain- doses in water every fifteen minutes, but its action is too severe for general use.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Acute bronchitis from slight exposure to cold. Wheezing, difficulty of breathing, compelled to sit all night propped with pillows. Expectoration quite abundant. 1-2.
Large collection of mucus in the bronchial tubes, expectorated with difficulty.1-2.
Broncho-pneumonia where the bronchi are loaded with mucus.2.
Pneumonia, reabsorption slow. Bronchial tubes filled with exudate. Difficult, irregular respiration. Weak, rapid pulse, sinking temperature, cool skin.1-2
Edema of the lungs.2
Cough, hoarse and weak. Respiration irregular, wheezing and asthmatic. Great prostration, feeble pulse, cold face and hands.1-2.
Catarrhal croup; face blue, skin cold and clammy, large quantities of mucus in the bronchi that can not be expectorated.1-2
Acute catarrh of children accompanied by vomiting and diarrhoea.2-3-4.
Vomiting of large quantities of mucus and bilious matter 3-4
Nausea causing great anxiety, in diarrhoea. Continuous anxious nausea straining to vomit, with sweat on the forehead.2- 3-4-.
Watery, mucous, bilious, or bloody diarrhoea, with prostration and cold perspiration.1-3-4. Mastitis. 4.
Orchitis.4.
Tonsilitis.4.
Mumps.4.
Mercurial Salvation.4.
Renal dropsy produced by cold.
Pustular, erythematous and eczematous eruptions on an inflamed base.5.
Smallpox.5.
