Ferrum Arsenicosum

The Jodide of Iron has had an independent proving. It corresponds more

particularly to scrofulous affections, glandular enlargements, and tumours. A number of peculiar

symptoms were felt in rectum and anus: As if anus were compressed; as if worms were in anus;

as if something twisted round about in a circle; as if a cord were drawn connecting navel and

• ▸anus; as if a screw were boring in anus.
• ▸Fe.
• ▸7.
• ▸has a symptom somewhat like the Ferrum

• ▸symptom: "as if something rolled into throat and closed it like a valve.
• ▸" With Fe.
• ▸i.
• ▸it is, "food

seems to push up to throat as if it had not been swallowed." Lancinating or cutting pains are

• ▸noted in eyes, ears, and root of nose to occiput.
• ▸Sensation as if lying in a cramped position.
• ▸P.
• ▸C.

• ▸Majumdar (/nd.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸Rev.
• ▸, v.
• ▸104) has used Fe.
• ▸i.
• ▸with success in cases of enlarged liver and

• ▸spleen when unaccompanied by fever.
• ▸(When fever is present Fe.
• ▸ars.
• ▸is the better remedy.
• ▸) The

leading symptoms are: "Feels as if she had eaten too much, a sort of upward pressure. Stuffed

feeling in abdomen as if she could not lean forward; costiveness." These are very common

symptoms in cases of enlarged spleen. "Sweet-smelling urine" appears to be a leading symptom

of Fe. i. Berridge removed with it this train of symptoms: "Morning catarrh, hot and restless in

• ▸bed, sweet smell of urine" (17.
• ▸P.
• ▸, vi.
• ▸208).
• ▸Motion and walking <.
• ▸Most symptoms are < at night,

• ▸and in the morning.
• ▸Warmth <; open air >.
• ▸Touch <.
• ▸Suited to scrofulous or mercurial diathesis;

to subjects of relaxed fibre (phthisis in third stage; bronchorrhoea, pneumonia).

Woke at 2 a.m. with the feeling that I might die, which lasted for a few moments and

passed away. Recurred three different mornings at the same hour (9 o'clock).

Headache, a confused sensation with heaviness, < in warm room; by smoking;

wearing hat; reading; writing; motion; > in open air; sitting or standing in a draught.—Sharp pain

from below eye up through head to vertex.—Cutting from bridge of nose through the occiput.

Purulent inflammation and photophobia; glands swollen —Exophthalmos after

suppressed menses.—Trachoma.—Painful lancinations in eyes and ears.

Nose stopped; freer towards noon.—Thick nose of scrofula——Nose swollen with ulcers

and crusts inside.—Profuse discharge of mucus from nose and frequent expectoration of mucus

from larynx and trachea.—A chronic nasal catarrh becomes worse; discharge usually in mornings

now lasts all day; blowing gives no relief discharge thick, yellow or green.

Taste: metallic bitter; flat, insipid; inky; pasty sharp, biting; bad in morning; of

peppermint.—Tongue, thick yellow coat——Burning of tongue and mouth; mucous membrane of

mouth and throat uniform red, or dotted with fine dense bright red papular eruption.—Burning

pain and prickling and swelling of mucous membrane.—Dryness of mouth and throat.

Violent tickling and scraping in throat, with sensation as though he would suffocate;

hawking of mucus and cough.—Rattling of mucus.—Food seems to push up to throat as if it had

not been swallowed.

No appetite; no relish for smoking.—Great thirst —Sour and bitter rising from

stomach.—Rising up in throat of greasy, acrid, stinging taste——Eructations, nausea, and vomiting.

Tenderness at epigastrium; at same time pinching in back, over spine, directly

behind epigastrium.—Fulness even after a little food, as if she had eaten too much, a sort of

upward pressure; stuffed feeling as if she could not lean forward.—Stomach full of wind, every

breath gives pain as from a weight in epigastrium.—On rising, or at night, when turning in bed,

heart beats violently; with pains in epigastrium or lower end of sternum.—Dull pain under short

ribs.—Abdomen swollen; bloated after food or drink; pushed up; food soon satisfies —Rumbling

with slight colic before stool—Abdomen, when pressed, feels like a rubber ball.—Feeling as of a

cord drawn connecting anus and navel, with cutting pain on straightening up from bent

position —Abdominal walls numb; if pinched feel sore long after—Inguinal pain extending

across hypogastrium, sides feels stiff as after a strain—Feeling in sides, low down, as of needles

pricking her; < raising arms and walking; inguinal region sore on walking.—Stitches in r. groin

when walking.

Diarrhcea followed with a bloody mucus and tenesmus, with the sensation that the

lower bowel protruded.—After the diarrhceic stool, unconscious moaning, heard in the next room,

accompanied with a distressed noise in the head.—Stools excoriating and frequent.

Bowels not moved for a week, then stools loose; may have two

movements: first costive, second sudden and loose (thin, light yellow), preceded by

griping.—Small, hard stool, with sticking and pain as from constriction in anus on passage of

feeces through it; stool hard.—Feeling in rectum and esp. in anus as if compressed; constriction,

as if worms were in it; stool easy and painless.—Peculiar feeling in rectum and anus as if

something twisted and turned about in a circle, and something like drops of water flowed down,

and as if a screw were boring upward and downward.—Urging to stool with much pain in

abdomen (drawings from above navel down r. side), followed by small, yellowish-brown,

somewhat hard stool, in the morning.—Frequent ineffectual urging.

Pain in both kidneys, esp. l.—A feeling in fossa navicularis as if water

remained in it and could not be forced out any farther, in the morning.—Urine dark-coloured,

depositing thick white sediment; urine scalds.—Frequent and profuse emission of light-coloured

urine, having a sweetish smell, and slight milky sediment.—Albuminuria with cedema; in hard

drinkers.

Hysterical attacks; great debility; leucorrhoea, anorexia; finally

dropsy of r. ovary; menses scanty, preceded by pain in r. breast and followed by profuse

leucorrhoea; three weeks after beginning treatment, sudden loss of consciousness and discharge

of two quarts of yellowish fluid from vagina, after which swelling subsided and health was

entirely restored.—Constant bearing-down as if something was coming away; when sitting feels

as if pushing something up.—Retroversio uteri; sensation of pressure and protrusion of rectum on

standing.—Prolapse; inversion; antiversion—Amenorrhoea.—Itching, soreness, and swelling of

vulva and vagina.—Leucorrheea like boiled starch; when bowels move the discharge is stringy.

Erections at night, with violent pain and burning in urethra; unable to

urinate; tenesmus in neck of bladder.—Prickling itching in urethra, esp. fore part, with frequent

urging to urinate, but very little flow.—Crawling tickling in urethra and rectum.

Shortness of breath; obliged to take a deep breath, with sensation of

oppression of chest, and a pressure beneath sternum.—Short, hacking cough, with yellowish-

white, rather thick expectoration and at times pain in chest—Expectoration of greyish-white,

rather tenacious mucus drawn out in threads.—Hzemoptysis.

Sudden sharp sticking pain extending from |. nipple outward to arm; < by pressure;

frequently returned during afternoon and evening.—Scirrhous tumour near r. nipple, small and

painless at first, increasing with sharp, lancinating pains from breast to axilla, sensitive to touch

(cured).

Running up stairs causes violent palpitation and pain on top of head.—Heart-beat so

violent, it awoke her from sleep, throbbing all over—Heart beats quickly and seems to force the

blood violently through whole body.—Blood-vessels throb all over, even when quiet.

Sides of neck sore when touched or on moving.—Small of back as if

broken; felt only at night; as if lying in a cramped position.—Dull pain in back on each side about

six inches above kidneys, extending through chest.—Painful sensation in back and kidneys and

lower portion of spine, starting from lumbar vertebree.

• ▸Rheumatic, bruised, paralysed feeling in r.
• ▸upper arm and shoulder.
• ▸—R.
• ▸arm

weary and as if paralysed, has to stop writing in evening.

Rheumatic pain extending upward from back of |. foot to pelvis in

evening. —R. tibia painful.

Sleep restless; frequent waking; many dreams of long past events; easy

erections.—Frequent waking with excessive urging to stool and pain on micturition —Dreams of

thieves and fighting with them.—Dreams that he has grown very large, thirty feet high, and

everything about is small and insignificant; the bedstead was too small and short frequent

starting in sleep, and waking with a feeling as though paralysed.

• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Alcohol, effects of.
• ▸Amenorrhcea.
• ▸Breast, tumour of.
• ▸Bronchorrhcea.

• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Coryza.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Exophthalmic goitre.
• ▸Eyes, scrofulous

• ▸inflammation of.
• ▸Glands, enlargements of.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Kidneys, affections of.

• ▸Leucorrheea.
• ▸Liver, enlarged.
• ▸Nose, scrofulous inflammation of.
• ▸Ovarian dropsy.
• ▸Periostitis.

• ▸Plethora.
• ▸Pneumonia.
• ▸Scoliosis.
• ▸Scrofula.
• ▸Spleen, enlarged.
• ▸Tuberculosis.
• ▸Uterus, prolapse of.

Writer's cramp.

Compare: Alum. (anemia, leucorrhoea, prolapsus uteri); Alumen (swollen vagina,

prolapsus uteri); Cauloph. (prolapsus uteri and leucorrhoea from atony; fitful, crampy pains);

Helon. (pruritus, prolapse, leucorrhoea, albuminuria); Hydrast. (debility and atony; tenacious,

profuse leucorrheea; palpitation); Graph. (chlorosis, leucorrhcea profuse, hot, watery); Iod. (red

face, irritability; corroding leucorrhoea, marked): Kali bich. (stringy, albuminous leucorrhcea;

• ▸stringy expectoration).
• ▸Thyroidin (Palpitation; exophthalmic goitre).
• ▸Fe.
• ▸bro.
• ▸(leucorrheea,

• ▸prolapsus uteri).
• ▸Fe.
• ▸ars.
• ▸(enlarged liver and spleen).

Weakness and bruised sensation in all the limbs, with aversion to moving

• ▸about.
• ▸—Periostitis of fingers and toes.
• ▸—Painful drawing in tendons and back of r.
• ▸hand and 1.

foot.