Its pathogenesis gives symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease, as in cholera, yellow fever, where, with exhaustion, vomiting, and extreme prostration, the disease runs deathward. Important gastric symptoms. Carcinoma ventriculi; persistent vomiting. The attack is upon the stomach more especially. Patients must keep quiet. Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire. Mind and
Head
Unconscious. Vertigo; room and bed seem to spin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head.
Nose
Ozaena. Tightness at root. Nose obstructed; polypus. Caries of nasal bones. Boils on nose. Nostrils ulcerated.
Eyes
Opacity of cornea. Blue circle around eyes. One pupil dilated. Night blindness.
Face
Distortion of mouth. Trembling of jaw. Facial paralysis; more left side.
Mouth
Difficult swallowing. Å’sophagus constricted (Bapt). Salty belching. Intense nausea, with pain and cold. Stringy, offensive exudation on mucous membrane. Salty taste.
Throat
Sore throat, constant tickling; gagging and nausea, worse deep breathing; chilliness and aching.
Stomach
Soreness in pit of stomach on pressure. Violent nausea; retching. Black vomit. Vomiting of mucus, green slime, blood, with great prostration, and great tenderness over the stomach. Burning and cutting pains in stomach. Carcinoma, helps the persistent vomiting. Coffee ground vomiting.
Abdomen
Sore, tender, tympanitic. Region of liver sore. Coldness. Black, offensive clots of blood from bowels. Pain in abdomen, with vomiting. Tenderness and tympanites.
Stool
Bloody, black, and offensive. Gelatinous, yellowish green; semi-fluid, with urinary suppression.
Urine
Rawness and soreness in urethra, urine mixed with pus and blood.
Heart
Palpitation, with constriction of chest.
Fever
Icy coldness (Camph; Verat; Heloderm). Yellow fever (Crotalus; Carbo).
Skin
Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking. Itching; better scratching. Chloasma, yellowish stains on nose and cheeks; worse exposure to sun and wind. Chilblains.
Sleep
Stops breathing on going to sleep. Wakes up suffocating. Fears to go to sleep again. Protracted sleeplessness.
Modalities
Worse, walking or carrying burdens; after sleep; from open air, stimulants. Better, eating and rest. Compare Cadmium oxide; Compare Cadmium jodat (Itching of anus and rectum felt during the day only; constipation frequent desire, tenesmus, abdomen bloated Compare Zinc; Ars; Carbo; Verat Compare Cad brom (pain and burning in stomach, and vomiting