Cadmium Sulphuratum

Cadmium Sulphuratum

Dr. Hardenstein, of Vicksburg, used the remedy successfully in one of the most murderous epidemics of yellow fever.

Cadmium is antipsoric of high rank.

Excessive irritability.

Horror of solitude and of work.

Cholera infantum: Mostly unconscious. Deadly nausea. Child can hardly move a limb. Can hardly sleep; sleep, if at all, with open eyes.

Vertigo, room and bed seem to spin around (Yellow fever).

Pain with cold sweat in face (Yellow fever).

Useful if any of the grave symptoms appear after being exposed to a draught of air, or when sweat is checked (Yellow fever).

Herpes on temples.

Inability to read small type.

Opacity of cornea connected with slow inflammation and blennorrhœa

Inability to close eyes (Paralysis of face).

Distortion of mouth to side (Paralysis of face).

Difficulty in talking and swallowing (Paralysis of face).

Burning, cutting pain in stomach, intense retching, gagging, bringing up tough mucus, intense nausea and vomiting (Yellow fever).

Black vomit. Tongue shows traces of black vomit, dirty brown or black (Yellow fever).Nausea; or black vomit, when other medicines fail (Yellow fever).

Salty, rancid belching (Yellow fever).

The least thing touching the lips will excite vomiting.

Pain in muscles of neck, as from efforts to vomit.

Pitchy taste; food tastes like salt.

Cadm. has desire to keep quiet of Bry., with the exhaustion and stomach irritability of Ars. (Kent).

Cadmium is a chilly medicine.

There is icy coldness, coldness even when near a fire.

Horripilation: after drinking; with hot hands.

Sweat in axillæ.

Exposure to sharp northeast wind caused a half-sided rheumatic paralysis of face, apparently suddenly, got well in eight days after two doses of 12th.

Palpitation of heart, with constriction of chest.

Boils on buttocks. Red spots on extremities.

Effect of a draught of cold air in checking sweat.

< From cold air; itching of skin when cold.

< Sunshine.

< In morning and after sleep.

< Walking

< ascending stairs.

< When swallowing.

< After grief.

< After intoxication.

> By eating.

Effects of: anxiety, or fit of passion; of cold winds (facial paralysis).

Acts well in drunkards.

It is a notable antipsoric.

There is much itching of skin; at night in bed; when touched; when cold; > scratching, which causes a voluptuous feeling.

Skin blue; yellow; scaly, cracking, damp, suppurating herpes; chilblains.

Cutting, lancinating pains are prominent; also a sense of constriction.

Ozæna and polypus.

I could give hundreds of cases of yellow fever where Cadmium relieved the most dangerous symptoms, but no case of that disease in its graver forms can he safely treated without Carbo vegetabilis. HARDENSTEIN.

Lobel. infl. after failure of Cadmium in yellow fever.

In Zn. the action is primarily on brain; in Cadm. primarily on stomach

K. chlo., constriction across chest with palpitation

Ars. Weakness, nausea, vomit and burning, black vomit, affections of drunkenness

Lach. Nausea and retching (Asar., Bry., Crot. t., Cup., Nux, Pod., Ant. t.)

Deathly nausea (Ip., Tab.)

Greenish gelatinous vomit (Æthusa, Ars., Bry., Ip., Ver.)

Gelatinous stools {Alo., Cubeb., Hell., K. bich., Pod., Rhus, Sep. (green)}

Loss of breath on going to sleep (Carb. an., Carb. v., Op., Grind., Lach.)

Followed well by: Bell. (Rolling of head with open eyes in cholera infantum);

Carb. v., Lob. inf. (in yellow fever);

Nit. ac.; Alet. (Nausea of pregnancy).

Follows well: Ip., Ars., Bell. Causation. Sun. Draught of air. Cold wind. Alcohol.

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