Ferrum Muriaticum

Fer. pernit. has been used by old-school practitioners with good effect in the

diarrhceas of India; in lienteria the diarrhoea of phthisis; diarrhoea in feeble and nervous females

also in scrofulous children with enlarged glands and obstinate ophthalmia. Though there are no

provings of the remedy it is plain that these are specific effects. Cooper, who has given much

attention to the Iron preparations, give as a characteristic, "Cough, with florid complexion." In

• ▸cases presenting marked features of Ferrum and Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Fe.
• ▸Pernit.
• ▸should render good service.

Vertigo with enlargement of spleen—Severe neuralgic pains in r. temple and r. side of

face.—Headache, with ascarides.—Pain in back of head on coughing.

Insipid flat taste—Dry mouth.—Solid food tastes dry and insipid —Tongue very much

coated.—Tongue swollen and protruded, with ropy mucus from mouth.—Palate and interior of

mouth burnt and parboiled-looking.

Extremely severe sense of burning and constriction in the throat.—Angina tonsillaris.

Anorexia; in morning —Unquenchable thirst or thirstlessness.—Longing for

• ▸acids.
• ▸—Aversion to meat or anything sour.
• ▸—Sour belching, esp.
• ▸after solid food.
• ▸—Bilious

eructations after fat food —Vomiting after eating; after eating eggs Stomach somewhat

distended.—Hand riveted to region of stomach, as the principal seat of the pain.

Severe pain in |. hypochondrium; at times at night.—Spleen enlarged and

sensitive to pressure.—Spasmodic constriction of abdominal muscles, as if abdomen were

constricted, esp. when stooping, so that he can only straighten himself slowly.—Great pain along

whole length of colon, < by pressure and any movement of body.—Hypogastrium swollen and

very sensitive, esp. above pubes.—Piercing pains in hypogastrium.

Diarrheea, with pains in limbs.—Chronic diarrhoea, with loss of appetite

and rapid emaciation.—Diarrhcea, with intestinal catarrh in typhoid fevers, also fetid, debilitating

discharges.—Dysenteric diarrhoea, with considerable pain, tenesmus, stools of blood and

membraneous shreds.—Stools dark, inky, copious.—Obstinate constipation —Dry cough, ending

in retching; itching of nose and anus, enuresis, headache, neuralgia, nervousness;

ascarides.—Ascarides, coincident with bleeding piles.

Diabetes mellitus —Chronic affections of bladder—Hzmaturia,

haemorrhage from urethra or kidneys.—Habitual discharge of phosphates in urine.

• ▸Enuresis.
• ▸—Almost complete retention.
• ▸—Scanty urine.
• ▸—Deposit of bright red crystals.

During coition, soreness and cutting pain in vagina; want of

pleasurable sensation —Metrorrhagia; dysmenia; leucorrhcea.

Breathing stertorous; suffocation impending, inspiration esp.

difficult.—In morning, spasmodic cough with expectoration of transparent tough mucus, at once

> by eating small quantities of food.—Dry cough, ending in retching.—When coughing: pain in

occiput; bruised pain in chest; stitches in chest.—Pleuritic, stitching pains in chest, fever, severe

cough with scanty expectoration, exudation within pleura; great weakness and emaciation.

Heart affections with hectic; quick, superficial breathing cough; involuntary sighing;

dyspnoea from slight exertion; painful drawing and expansion about apex; tumultuous fluttering

heart-beat; small, threadlike pulse; at times double or intermitting.—Chlorosis; muscular debility;

weak circulation.

Paralytic tearing in shoulder-joint, arm, clavicle, and muscles, making it

impossible to lift arm; > by gentle motion.—Slight drawing pain in shoulder, followed by tearing,

stitching pains extending to elbows; paralytic lameness of upper arm; pain < from least motion; <

at night, driving him out of bed; slightly > by walking about; no swelling.—Acute inflammatory

rheumatism of r. shoulder-joint, pain deep in socket, preventing motion.—Mechanical injury to

shoulder-joint, with rheumatic lameness.

• ▸Cramp in calves, esp.
• ▸at night in bed.
• ▸—Large, deep ulcer in I.
• ▸calf, centre

black and hard —(CEdematous feet, drawing, tearing pains, esp. on beginning to walk; after

metrorrhagia.

Phagedenic ulcers.

Ferrum Pernitricum.

• ▸Pernitrate of Iron.
• ▸Fez 6NOs.
• ▸Dilutions of the Ferri Pernitratis Liquor of B.
• ▸P.

• ▸Compare: Chi.
• ▸; Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸; Sang.
• ▸(shoulders); Fe.
• ▸picric.
• ▸(prostate gland); other

preparations of Iron.