Hydrophobinum

• ▸Hyos.
• ▸sul.
• ▸is a very powerful poison obtained from Hyos.
• ▸nig.
• ▸It is sometimes

used by occulists in place of Atropine to dilate the pupils for the purposes of ophthalmoscopic

examination, and like Atropine it has the property of causing dryness of the mouth and fauces in

some cases. Two cases have been recorded in which, whilst dilating the pupil, it caused intense

• ▸boring pain in the eyes from cramp of the ciliary muscle.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸H.
• ▸A.
• ▸Hutchinson, who took gr.
• ▸1/4

of Hyos. sul., became flushed, arteries throbbing, lost power of co-ordination, fell into a

comatose sleep, pulse 138, respiration 36, temperature 106° F., entire relaxation of voluntary

muscles, except occasional spasmodic movement of arms and legs. The hydrobromate of

Hyoscine, gr. 1/43, in solution, caused in a tall, robust lady, of 33: Numbness of body and limbs,

dry throat, dim vision, flushed face, rambling talk, dilated pupils—No specific differences

between the two alkaloids have been observed. The majority of the symptoms of the Schema are

• ▸the effect of the Sulphate, which was extensively proved by Harley.
• ▸Hyos.
• ▸hydrobro.
• ▸3x trit.
• ▸has

been reported curative in a case resembling paralysis agitans after excessive use of alcohol and

tobacco; and in highly excitable, nervous children who have been frightened. The hydrobromate

of Hyoscyamine is credited with relieving the tremors (right side) in a case of paralysis agitans,

the curative effect having followed instillation of the alkaloid into the eye for another purpose.

With the 4x attenuation of Merk's, Hyos. hydrobro., Delameter relieves the tremors of

disseminated sclerosis.

Delirium violent, failed to recognise his family, saw animals about him, next day

remembered nothing that had passed except the dreams of animals.—Wakeful, quiet, and usually

pleasing delirium, with illusions of sight; or great sleepiness, and when aroused lapsing into

dreamy sleep, broken by occasional mutterings and jerking of limbs.—Clear when engaged in

conversation, but dreamy when undisturbed, eyes wide open, he reached to an object on the table

and looked about on the floor, when questioned said that he thought something had dropped from

the table, and that the walls appeared to move; afterwards quiet, but meddlesome when not

engaged in conversation, grasping at objects, attempting to remove them before the hand reached

them; when left alone he lapsed into forgetfulness and dreamy, meddlesome delirium, picking at

objects; having reached them after unsuccessful efforts he fumbled with them till he dropped

them, then on attempting to pick them up lost his balance; when aroused he rubbed his hand,

gaped, answered readily, a remark excited a risibility which he could not restrain, and

occasionally the suppressed chuckle burst into a hearty laugh —Dulness, heaviness.—Difficulty in

concentrating thoughts—Coma, with relaxation of voluntary muscles, except occasional

spasmodic movements of arms and legs.

Drawing from neck to forehead, immediately followed by sparks before eyes

and vanishing of sight; red face; involuntary grinding of teeth; second attack; the first was felt in

head after washing in morning; seven days after bite of mad dog (Bellad., three doses, Hyos.

interpolated once a day).—Acute ascending paralysis (Landry's disease) diagnosed in early stage

(P.).—Bitten by a mad dog in sixth year in several places; became somnambulistic ten years

after.—Severe nervous twitches in whole body all day.—Twitching of muscles throughout entire

• ▸body (R.
• ▸).
• ▸—Twitching of tendons with tendency to general convulsions (R.
• ▸).
• ▸—Prostration beyond

description (P.).—T witching every few minutes; sometimes more violently than others; most

• ▸marked in abdominal walls (P.
• ▸).
• ▸—Makes a peculiar noise like a waggoner driving horses (P.
• ▸).

• ▸Lyssophobia; fear of becoming mad.
• ▸Emotion and bad news aggravate; also, thinking of fluids.
• ▸Hypersensitiveness of all senses.
• ▸Chronic headache.
• ▸Boring pain in forehead.

Headache; congestion of head and face, violent throbbing of carotids with every

impulse of heart—Drunkenness, nausea, and vomiting. —Giddiness: with staggering on rising

from a seat; with staggering on walking; weight across forehead.

Eyes suffused; sclerotic and conjunctiva injected.—Eyeballs restless —A most intense

boring pain in eyes (an hour after instillation, probably due to cramp of ciliary muscle).—Pupils

dilated; and insensible.—Vision misty; letters run together, can read fine print only at distance of

a yard; double vision.—Y ellow vision.—Vision perverted as to colour and size; she thought some

pills in a box were larger than others; inability to read unless the print was within two or three

inches of the nose.

Conversation in vicinity of patient may throw him into a most violent agitation

(R.).—Hearing water poured out in next room makes him very irritable and

nervous.—Clairaudient.

Strong odours may start spasms.—The greatest sensibility to smell of tobacco; tastes

snuff while box is one foot distant.—Frequent sneezing, mostly early in morning or late in

evening, as if a coryza would begin; also when looking at something bright, and from every little

dust.

Constant spitting; saliva tough, viscid. Sore throat; constant desire to swallow, which is difficult; gagging when swallowing water. Froths at mouth.

Tongue: dry and brown; at centre; also with clamminess of rest of mouth; hard; and

rough, except margins.—Hard and soft palates dry and glazed, afterwards tongue and palates

covered with a sticky, acid, offensive secretion, as after Belladonna.—Tongue and throat so dry

that articulation was indistinct.—Forepart and margins of tongue wet with acid

secretion.—Dryness of mouth; except gums.—Mouth: clammy and moist, exhaling an offensive

odour; suddenly moist; sensation of mastic in it.

Grinding of teeth.—Toothache and other complaints during pregnancy, with internal

ebullition of blood from chest to head; head feels as if filled with air to bursting.

Dryness of throat: with moisture of mouth; of pharynx; with difficult swallowing.

Voracious appetite; swallowed wheat without chewing.—Excessive desire for

salt—Abnormal cravings during pregnancy.—Aversion to fat food and drink; there remains a

long greasy aftertaste, < after mutton.—Warm drinks, such as milk, soups and wine, are more

easily taken than water.—Inability to take solid food, or else it is consumed with greatest

difficulty.

A pressing pain: in r. side, near last ribs, with breathing; in hypochondria, after

quick walking.—Painful throbbing as if an abscess was forming in region of spleen, but very

deep in, exact locality is half-way between median line and outline of I. side; it lasted eight days;

with it departed remnant of a similar affection in this locality, against which eleven years of

allopathic treatment had proved of no avail.—Tearing from |. hypochondriac region to r—General

soreness in whole of lower abdomen.—Rigidity of muscles of abdomen.—Pain in both groins; in

r., two small kernels under skin, very painful.—Inguinal glands very much swollen, they pain for

two hours.

Desire for stool on hearing or seeing running water. Profuse, watery stools, with pain in bowels; worse, evening. Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water.

Tenesmus during and after stool—Dysenteric stools with tenesmus;

renewed as soon as he hears or sees water run.—When in the morning some water was poured out

from pitcher into basin, pain and desire to stool returned.—Diarrhcea: with much pain, most

during day, eighteen hours after dose, lasting twenty-four hours, with pain in lower part of

bowels; < in morning; followed by nausea as if she would have to vomit; attended with violent

pains early in morning; after stitches in side —Stools of bloody mucus.—Involuntary stools.

Urging, dysuria, and discharge in a feeble dribbling stream, partial

retention (urine contained Hyoscyaminum).—Urine changed from high-coloured to glaucous

green; from acid to alkaline and opalescent on boiling; and on standing a deposit of triple

phosphates, the specific gravity increased.—Urine pale, specific gravity decreased.

• ▸Uterine sensitiveness; conscious of womb (Helon).
• ▸Feels prolapsed.
• ▸Vagina sensitive, rendering coition painful (Berberis).
• ▸Uterine displacements.

Pain in 1. ovarian region, uneasiness there.—Increase of uterine

sensitiveness, conscious of having a womb.—With a painful sensitiveness of womb, slight degree

of prolapsus, so that after any considerable physical effort there would be a strong conviction

that it was prolapsed.—Any change of position that would tilt or rotate os uteri would cause much

pain.—Prolapsus uteri of seven years' standing.—Severe leucorrhoea, with pains in back and lower

part of bowels, sore vagina.—Sensitiveness of vagina rendering coition quite painful—Weakness

in back, with copious catamenia.—During pregnancy: strange notions, desires or cravings; rush

of blood from chest upward; toothache, backache and other complaints; great sense of bearing

down; intense pain from inflammation of os and cervix (formerly treated with caustic); great

soreness in lower part of back and bowels.—Spasms excited whenever she attempts to drink

water, or if she hears it poured from one vessel into another; sight or sound of water affects

unpleasantly, even though desiring water (puerperal convulsions).—Since cessation of lochia a

severe leucorrhoea; pain in back and lower part of bowels; soreness of vagina.—Both breasts

swollen when waking in morning, she can hardly get up; three mornings in succession; same

swelling of breasts at night when opening her dress.

• ▸Lascivious; priapism, with frequent emissions.
• ▸No emission during coition.
• ▸Atrophy of testicles.
• ▸Complaints from abnormal sexual desire.

Lasciviousness: after eating, with feeling of weakness in parts; with

erections in afternoon.—Strong erections, without sexual excitement or thoughts, in evening,

while undressing in a cold room.—Sexual indifference with erections, even during act of coition,

which is perfectly performed.—Increased sexual desire (dropsy of spine with sheep; hydrophobia

of sheep).—Priapism, with frequent seminal emissions.—Satyriasis in a stallion; hot breath

streamed from nostrils.—Semen is discharged too late or not at all during coition.—No emission

during coition, but afterwards semen escaped unconsciously in sleep.—Glans is dry and sticks to

• ▸foreskin.
• ▸—Hydrocele.
• ▸—Atrophy of testicles; testicles diminish in size, first 1.
• ▸then r—Complaints

resulting from abnormal sexual desire.

Voice altered in tone. Breathing held for a time. Spasmodic contraction of respiratory muscles.

Chest and abdomen feel expanded; expanding chest seems to invigorate him, though

it usually fatigues.

Heart's action excited and rapid.—Pulse increased in rapidity, force, and

volume; then slow; then decreased in rapidity, force, and volume.—Pulse rapid; then slow and

soft.—Pulse slow; and at first increased in force and volume.

Pressing in neck and up back of head.—Backache and

headache.—Considerable pain in lower part of back, with soreness felt through to pubic region.

Cramp in arms.—The pain up arm was followed by cramps and drawing in

back and limbs of bitten side——Weakness in arms.—Right arm becomes so heavy and inactive

that writing is too great an exertion, and he allows arm to drop.—Hand trembles so much he can

scarcely write.—Hands numb, with headache.

Feeling as if hip bones would slip out of their sockets, > by resting hands on

• ▸hips.
• ▸—A pressive pain in r.
• ▸hip bone, goes from there to middle of sacral bones.
• ▸—L.
• ▸hip aches in

bone.—Along I. sciatic nerve a dull pain, returning periodically; < when rising from

sitting.—T witching in legs—Weakness in legs when going upstairs.—Each dose he had taken

made him feel as if he was getting corns on every toe, his real corns felt remarkably well and did

not rain him at all.

Quick tendency of the wound to heal (the same in leprosy).—Biting, itching in various

parts of body, < by scratching. —Bluish discoloration of bitten place (after Laches).—Pustules on

forehead; around inflamed eye; on finger (after bite)—Malignant ulcers from bite of a dog —Red

scar from bite of a dog.—Dark, livid-marks where inoculations were made; pricking sensation in

them, causing him to continually press his side, which relieved temporarily (P.).—Cancerous

sores.

Yawning; and sighing; and tired feeling —Sleepiness.—Either wakeful or excessively

somnolent; sleep broken by mutterings and slight jerking of the limbs.

Heat of skin with dryness.—Pulse 138, full and hard; respirations 34 to 40;

temperature 106 F.

• ▸Ciliary neuralgia; spasm.
• ▸Delirium.
• ▸Fevers.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Nervousness.
• ▸Paralysis agitans.

• ▸Sleeplessness.
• ▸Spinal sclerosis.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Typhus fever.
• ▸Vision, disordered.

Compare: Xanthium spinosum-Cockle--(said to be specific for hydrophobia and is recommended for chronic cystitis in women). Canth; Bell; Stram; Lach; Nat mur.

Thirtieth potency.

Lyssin-Saliva of Rabid Dog (HYDROPHOBINUM)

Affects principally the nervous system; aching in bones. Complaints from abnormal sexual desire. Convulsions brought on by dazzling light or sight of running water.

Limbs jerking occasionally, and fidgety.—Inability to walk.—Inability to rise from

his chair or walk without assistance, and as he sat, twitching now and then of the extensors of the

legs, so as to advance the foot with a little jerk —Weakness of legs; of feet, so that I could only

walk by fixing eyes on the ground.