HOMOEOPATHIC ALL MEDICINE

According to Wöhler and Liebig, the hydrocyanic acid, formerly supposed to be contained in the almond, is the result of the reaction of water on amygdalin, the characteristic constituent of bitter almonds.

The bitter almond is used for flavoring, and peach kernels and cherry seeds, which have similar properties, are often substituted.

The observations of Jörg, made in 1822, hardly deserving to be called a proving, were published in 1825. Regarding his

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trustworthiness, see British Quart., XVI, 693. These were added to a collection of symptoms from the Laurocerasus, the Aqua laurocerasi, and Hydrocyanic acid, and printed in Hartlaub’s Mat. Med., in 1828. In 1844 they were printed separately in Noak and Trinks’ Handbuch, with the addition of some toxic symptoms. Allen’s Encyclopedia contains all, and a carefully made, almost complete collection of poisonings. We only miss Gazin, Traité Pratique, 1853. The experiments of Douglas Maclacan are with a different preparation.

MIND.

Loss of consciousness.
Stupor.
Delirium, he mutters to himself and converses with persons not present ; speaks incoherently.
Delirium with face lit up with an expression of excessive joy, eyes shine brilliantly, with quiet intermittent pulse.
Delirium with slight convulsions.
She commences to cry , (toxic).
She suddenly raves and looks wildly around her, with dilated pupils and indistinct vision.
  
SENSORIUM.

Dulness of left half of head.
Insensibility ; drunkenness.
Excitement as after drinking champagne, succeeded by sudden insensibility.
Syncope, face deathly pale, nauseated ; pulse imperceptible ; on reviving vomits some undigested food and bile.
Vertigo with nausea and dimness of sight.
Faintness and pallid look.
Stupor.
  
INNER HEAD.

Heaviness in forehead.
Pressure over eyes.
Sense of weight and oppression on top of head.
Congestion or turgescence of vessels of brain , (toxic).
General effusion on both hemispheres , (toxic).
Dura mater gorged.
  
OUTER HEAD.

Head drawn backward.

SIGHT AND EYES.

Dimness of sight with vertigo.
Sight confused.
Pupils very much contracted, size of a pinhead.
Pupils dilated and fixed.
Eyes rolling from side to side ; half open, with dilated pupils.
Eyeballs directed upward, especially left.
Pupils dilated to their fullest extent, she cannot see distinctly.
Iris immovable.
Eyes almost protruding from their sockets.
Excessive brilliancy of eyes, even after death.
The eye had a brilliant and glassy appearance throughout ; mere physical brilliancy without mental expression.
Lid does not move when eye is touched.
Eyelids closed, both eyes drawn to left side.
Eyes half shut and glassy.
Upper lids convulsed for hours.\
FACE.

Face wears a natural expression, even with serious symptoms.
Face placid and deathly pale.
Mouth tightly closed.
Face very livid, lips separated, teeth clenched, eyes fixed and open, pupils dilated, features distorted, eyes turned upward, starting from their sockets.
Face lights up with an expression of excessive joy.
  
LOWER FACE.

Jaws firmly clenched in rigid spasm.
Lips pale and bluish.
Lips separated, teeth clenched, much froth about mouth.
  
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE.

Bitter taste in roof of mouth, palate and fauces.
Cannot speak a loud word.
PALATE AND THROAT.

Bitter taste in fauces.
Swallowing impeded, or impossible.
Rattling in throat.
Excessive burning heat in laryngo-pharyngeal region.
  
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING.

Hiccough.
Nausea with pallor.
Vomiting of undigested food and bile.
  
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH.

A disagreeable sensation seems to come from epigastric region.
Pain and heat in epigastrium without tenderness.
Gastric mucous membrane red, congested, especially at cardiac end , (toxic).
Gastric mucous membrane pale with some red petechial patches along greater curvature , (toxic).
Mucous coat of stomach softened , (toxic).
  
ABDOMEN AND LOINS.

Colicky pains, abdomen distended like a balloon ; convulsive movements of jaws, loss of consciousness, frothing at mouth.
  
STOOLS AND RECTUM.

Involuntary stools and micturition.
  
URINARY ORGANS.

Scanty and painful urination.
Involuntary micturition and stools.
  
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS.

** Gonorrhoea.
Gangrene of penis ; scrotum bluish and greenish-yellow.
  
VOICE AND LARYNX, TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA.

Cannot speak a loud word.
Scratching in larynx, followed by copious phlegm all evening and next day.
Hoarseness.
Talking distresses her.
  
RESPIRATION.

Difficult breathing.
Snoring breathing getting slower and slower.
Panting.
Chest heaved spasmodically ; its movements were hurried.
Respiration slow and gentle.
Regular respiration had ceased ; chest expanded at intervals by convulsive action.
Rolling and panting for breath.
Hurried and convulsive heaving of chest.
Chest expands convulsively at short intervals.
Respiration 12, regular, slow and prolonged, with rattling in throat.
Convulsive and at intervals very short respiration, with fear of suffocation.
  
COUGH.

Cough, with soreness of chest extending down to stomach.

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS.

Inner Chest and Lungs
Great soreness of chest extending to stomach.
Stitches under left nipple, going deep in, making exhalation more difficult.
Lungs congested.

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HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION.

Slow, full, hard pulse.
Pulse almost imperceptible.
Absence of radial pulse on either side.
Heart beats feebly.
Carotids beat full and quick.
Heart’s palpitation extremely feeble, scarcely perceptible, absence of radial pulse.
Pulse : slow and vibrating ; strong or frequent and wiry ; rapid and feeble ; quick and intermittent ; 30, very feeble in carotid and radial arteries ; 100, 130, 140, very small, thready.
Right side of heart gorged with dark fluid blood.

NECK AND BACK.

Considerable swelling and undulatory motion of jugular veins.
Carotids beat free and quick.