Chlorum

Fear of becoming crazy. Marked loss of memory, especially for names.

Apprehension.—Irritability, inclined to anger —Forgets names and persons.—Effects of

excitement.—Coma, fainting with cold, viscous sweats.

Painful aching in vertex and down 1. side, with inclination to lie down.—Warm sweat

breaks out on forehead while coughing.

Running of tears < in open air—Suddenly numerous fantastic images appeared before

the eyes, disappearing with lightning-like rapidity.

• ▸Coryza with headache.
• ▸—Sneezing, violent; in morning.
• ▸—Dryness in nose.
• ▸—Nose

smoky or sooty.—Corrosive feeling in corners of nose.—Sudden running in drops of sharp

corroding fluid, with tears in eyes, dry tongue, palate, and fauces——Thin coryza, soon changing

to yellow, copious mucus.—Loss of smell.

Face swollen, with protruding eyes.—Face pale, often greenish.—Heightened colour.

• ▸Tongue black.
• ▸—Tongue as if burnt.
• ▸—Mouth dry.
• ▸—Very acid saliva —Aphthe.
• ▸—Putrid

odour from mouth.

Acid stomach and other gastric troubles (in workmen exposed to fumes of

chlorine, and who eat chalk for it).—Desire to vomit when coughing, without nausea.

Diarrhcea: in the morning; with dry mouth, after the eruption appears in

typhus.—Stools of bright blood——Hzmorrhage in typhus, blood black, coagulated, or thin,

smelling like carrion.

• ▸Sooty, smoky nostrils.
• ▸Coryza with sudden gushes of sharp, corroding fluid, making nose sore inside and about the alae.
• ▸Constriction, with suffocation. Spasm of the glottis.
• ▸Irritation of epiglottis, larynx, and bronchi.
• ▸Loss of voice from damp air.
• ▸Sudden dyspnoea from spasm of the vocal cords, with staring protruding eyes, blue face, cold sweat, pulse small.
• ▸Inspiration free, with obstructed expiration. (Mephit).
• ▸Livid face.
• ▸Prolonged, loud, whistling rales.
• ▸Extreme dryness of tongue.

Aphonia from damp air.—Great difficulty in articulating or

breathing.—Spasms of glottis; air enters easily, but cannot be expelled.—Feeling as if rima

glottidis were stiff, as if composed of an iron ring.—Sudden tightness of chest.—Expiration easy,

inspiration a little difficult and accompanied by rales (this is less characteristic than the

opposite).—Any attempt to cough = spasm of the glottis —Desire to cough from tickling and

sensation of rawness behind thyroid cartilage, but the cough is abortive, as he cannot expel the

air from the chest.—A continuous little dry cough.—At each cough a spot in chest (region of r.

bronchus) feels sore, as if the cough jarred and hurt it—Phlegm raised with difficulty; soon

collects again—Cough with spitting of blood; with pleuritic pains.—Sensation of warmth in

respiratory organs.—Sensation in lower and inner third of r. lung as if it were ruptured and as if

air escaped from lung into pleural cavity at each inspiration.

• ▸Chilliness and crawls; 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸to 2 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Burning, dry heat, with anxiety and

• ▸raving.
• ▸—Genial glow all over, with night-sweat.
• ▸—Cold sweat—Viscous sweat.
• ▸—Typhus.

• ▸Aphthee.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Chlorosis.
• ▸Cold.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Croup.
• ▸Dentition.

• ▸Diphtheria.
• ▸Gastritis.
• ▸Hemoptysis.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Laryngismus.
• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Pleurisy.
• ▸Sore-throat.

Typhus. Ulcers.

Characteristics——Ch/orum has been proved in the form of "Chlorine water, and has been tested

clinically. It produces spasms and convulsions, coryza and catarrh. Laryngeal spasm is especially

pronounced; the chief difficulty is in exhaling, can draw in the air well enough. Convulsive

• ▸attacks on cutting eye-teeth.
• ▸Mouth inflamed; ulcerated.
• ▸Rapid emaciation.
• ▸Acute rheumatic

• ▸pains.
• ▸Excessive sensitiveness of skin.
• ▸Nettlerash, with fever.
• ▸Cutis anserina.
• ▸Skin dry, yellow,

• ▸shrivelled.
• ▸Malignant pustule and carbuncle.
• ▸Typhoid state.
• ▸The mental state is noteworthy.
• ▸Fears

he will go crazy; that he won't be able to make a living. Cannot remember names of people he

• ▸sees, or if he sees the names cannot remember the person.
• ▸E.
• ▸Z.
• ▸Bacon has recorded (Med.

Visitor, Dec., 1893) two cases of chlorine poisoning. The first was in a boy of five, who, after

passing through diphtheria to apparent complete recovery, was suddenly seized with symptoms

of croup: loss of voice, crowing inspiration, prolonged expiration; incessant dry cough; great

restlessness, high fever, profuse perspiration. The symptoms were < lying on a lounge by the

fire; > when lying in his mother's lap, and still more relieved by being carried about. During the

previous illness Platt's chlorides had been placed in the room as a disinfectant, and it occurred to

the doctor that chlorine vapour is much heavier than air. He himself lay down on the lounge, and

in a few minutes felt the irritating vapour, and began to cough and hack. This soon passed away

on sitting up. The removal of the chlorides had a remarkable effect on the child; cough and

respiration were greatly relieved. But the relief came too late, as the cause was not discovered for

several days, during which time the patient had become steadily weaker, and he died the same

afternoon. The other case was that of an old lady who suffered from chronic bronchitis, and on

January 2, 1892, developed an attack of laryngitis. In three days she was well; but the two

subsequent weeks, on exactly the same day, a fresh attack occurred. The fact was, as the doctor

discovered, his patient went to the back room, where chlorides were kept, every Monday to wash

a few things she did not care to send to the laundry. The chlorides were banished, and though the

washing was continued there were no more attacks of laryngitis. Dr. Bacon adds, that since

giving up the use of disinfectants, other than plenty of fresh air, he has never had laryngeal

complications in scarlatina or diphtheria, though his neighbours have had plenty. Whitman

recommends chlorine water as an efficient palliative in a fit of asthma. He begins with 10 drops,

then in five minutes 20 more, and then in another five minutes, half-a-teaspoonful, always in a

little water. It greatly facilitates expectoration. In typhus fever Goullon, senior, recommends

chlorine water, five drops every two or three hours until the tongue is dry. I have had excellent

results from the 12th and 30th in nasal catarrh, and in breathlessness remaining after acute

• ▸bronchitis.
• ▸The symptoms are < from midnight to 7 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸(spasm of glottis).
• ▸Lying down < nasal

• ▸complaints.
• ▸Inclination to lie down, with headache.
• ▸Restless; < walking up and down.
• ▸Sitting

with sun shining on back = shuddering. Open air > chest affections; = running of tears. Damp air

= loss of voice.

Compare: Mephitis (inability to exhale); closely resembles Bromine, and, less

• ▸closely, Iodine.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸mur.
• ▸(sore-mouth); and other chlorides.
• ▸It is an antidote to: Hydrocyanic

acid and Sulphuretted hydrogen. /t is antidoted by: Sulphuretted hydrogen, Albumen, Lycopod.

(impotence); Plumb acet. (blood-spitting and pleurisy). it follows well: Phos.

Chlorine water, when required of full strength, must be freshly prepared. Fourth to sixth potency.