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Homœopathic Therapeutics.
By T. F. Allen.
Presented by Médi-T.

Ferrum Iodatum.
Fresh, pure Iodide of Iron is triturated for use.
Generalities :- º Pain in and between shoulders, in nape and in joints of
lower limbs. º Weakness ; all day, with weary, bruised sensation in all limbs,
agg. legs and calves ; all night, with bruised sensation ; with sleepiness. º
Indolence in evening, with sleepiness and bruised feeling in limbs, agg.
calves.
Head :- º º Aching ; agg. evening ; agg. a warm room, on stooping, shaking
head, walking rapidly, reading writing, etc., amel. open air, a draught, cold
air and towards evening ; confused, agg. forehead, agg. right side, agg.
putting on hat, reading, writing, etc., amel. open air, sitting down or standing
in a draught. º Confusion, agg. forehead ; with heaviness the aching, agg.
smoking. º Drawing tearing through forehead above eyes. º Pain in
forehead ; above and between eyes, agg. going to bed.
Nose :- º Stopped coryza ; at night, so that he must sleep with open mouth,
suddenly amel. between 5 and 6 A.M. ; amel. towards noon. º All symptoms
of coryza, profuse discharge of mucus from nose and frequent expectoration
of mucus from larynx and trachea.
Mouth and Throat :- º Tongue coated yellow. º Tongue burns. º Dryness. º
Taste insipid ; amel. after breakfast ; and bitter at back of mouth pasty T. ;
T. of peppermint ; bad in morning. º Hawking of mucus, with cough and
expectoration. º Frequent rattling of mucus in throat and expectoration of
mucus. º Tickling and scraping in throat and nose, with sensation as if he
would suffocate and necessity to hawk in order to raise mucus from throat. º
Indescribable sensation, not painful, along œsophagus.
Stomach :- º Appetite diminished. º Did not relish smoking. º Eructations
after eating ; violent, after supper, with nausea ; frequent E., with constant
inclination to eructate. º Nausea. º Heat, and in intestines.
Abdomen :- º Rumbling ; towards morning, before stool, with gurgling ;
before stool ; before stool, with pain. º Emission of flatus smelling of iodine.
º Pain in evening, agg. after eating ; P. before a small light stool, amel. by
light yellow diarrhœa ; amel. after a natural yellowish-brown stool mixed
with black portions ; with urging to stool, then a dark stool agg. about
middle, with flatulence and urging ; usually beginning about umbilicus and

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extending downward about right side. º Sore pain before stool, with
rumbling. º Soreness ; in evening, with pulsation ; agg. after eating, with
pain.
Rectum :- º And in anus, sensation all day as if something turned in a circle,
and something like drops of water flowed down, and as if a screw bored
upward and downward. º Constriction as if worms were in it, agg. in anus,
while stool was easy and painless. º Peculiar crawling and tickling all day,
and agg. in anus. º Urging, with drawing pain from above umbilicus down
right side, then a small, hard, yellowish-brown stool ; ineffectual U.
Stool :- º Light yellow diarrhœa morning and evening, preceded by pain. º
Soft, small light brown, with much urging and pressing. º Hard and small,
with sticking and constriction in anus during its passage. º Black. º Scanty.
Urinary Organs :- º Frequent and profuse micturition, urine light, of
sweetish smell ; F. and P. micturition, with pain in whole urethra. º Pain in
urethra in evening during frequent but scanty micturition ; P. in urethra, on
urinating, then in the whole penis ; in urethra during micturition, with
soreness and with frequent desire. º Prickling itching in urethra, agg.
forepart with frequent urging, but little urine at a time. º Peculiar crawling
tickling all day in urethra and especially in rectum. º Sensation in morning
as if urine remained in fossa naviculars and could not be forced any farther. º
Urine dark ; with a thick white sediment. º Urine bright yellow in evening,
smelling sweetish, with milky sediment.
Clinical :- º It has proved wonderfully efficient in acute nephritis
following the exanthemata.

Sexual Organs :- º Frequent erections all night ; erection waking him, with
pain and burning in the whole urethra but inability to urinate from tenesmus
of neck of bladder, though there was a violent urging.
Clinical :- º Uterine congestion, with great bearing down, with feeling
as if something sore were being pushed up when sitting down. º Uterine
displacements, retroversion and prolapsus, with atony, difficulty in
retaining urine. º Suppression of menses.

Respiratory Organs :- º Cough, with expectoration of grayish-white,

tenacious mucus drawn out in threads ; irritation in afternoon to cough and
to expectorate, with much mucus in throat. º Short breath, necessity to take a
deep breath, oppression of chest and pressure beneath sternum.
Chest :- º Sudden sharp sticking, extending outward from left nipple to arm
at 11 A.M., agg. pressure, returning frequently in afternoon and evening. º
Intermittent sharp pain. º Pain in sides ; in evening on respiration, and deep
in abdomen and in region of spleen (where it was more like a stitch). º
Oppression, agg. inspiration ; O. ; more in upper part of lungs ; O., with
expectoration of thick yellow mucus ; with necessity to breathe deeply,
which caused soreness ; as from a weight. º Congestion of lungs.
Pulse :- º Rapid.

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Back :- º Pain in small of, and in kidneys ; agg. evening ; agg. evening and
extending farther downward ; in lumbar vertebræ extending to lower part of
spine, small of back and kidneys.
Extremities :- º Painful drawing in tendons on back of right hand and left
foot. º Weakness, with bruised sensation and great aversion to moving. º
Paralyzed and bruised sensation, agg. legs ; in right arm in evening with
weariness, so that he must stoop writing. º Rheumatic bruised sensation in
upper arms, agg. right. º Rheumatic paralyzed feeling in right upper arm and
right shoulder. º Bruised, paralytic feeling in thighs, extending to knees,
which are heavy, the legs feel much lighter in proportion, in the afternoon
this paralytic sensation extends into calves, even right tibia is painful. º
Rheumatic pain in back of left foot in evening, extending to pelvis.
Sleep :- º Sleepiness in morning after a long sleep at night, with no desire to
rise. º Frequent waking with urging to urinate and pain on micturition. º
Restless night, with frequent waking many dreams and easy erections ; R.
sleep with dreams of long-past events. º Dream that I had grown very large
and was from thirty to fifty feet high, everything about me seemed small and
insignificant, the bedstead was too small and short, and waking with a
paralyzed sensation, and hands and feet could not rest. º Dreams of thieves
and of fighting with them, waking him. º D. towards morning that he met
many, acquaintances, each of whom complained of a different indisposition.
Fever :- º Coldness from 9 to 10 A.M. and again in afternoon ; C. at 10 A.M.,
after 12 the pulse was 84, with sleepiness and soreness in small of back and
kidneys ; about noon, some fever at 3 P.M., then rapid pulse, next day C.
between 12 and 1 with sleepiness, at 3.30 P.M., rapid pulse with heat. º Heat
beginning at noon, agg. 3 P.M., with hot skin, amel. 4 P.M. and pulse
decreased. º Skin moist and profuse, sweat only on forehead ; H. in
afternoon ; H. without sweat.

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