Niccolum Sulphuricum

Nicotin. has had a very heroic proving by Falk, Wochenfeld, Wertheim,

Schroff, and Reil. Very violent tonic and clonic spasms were produced; indistinctness of senses;

loss of consciousness. Peculiar symptoms and sensations were: Great sensitiveness of eye to

light, along with indistinct vision. Aura in upper jaw. As though a sharp brush had been drawn

through cesophagus to stomach. Disagreeable sensation extending upwards and downwards from

stomach. Emptiness and faintness in stomach. Coldness extends from tips of fingers and toes

over trunk; and warmth streams into them from the stomach. Jerking respiration.

Delirium with frightful visions.—Inability to think or fix attention on any subject.

Peculiar clonic spasms that gradually increased for forty minutes; extremities

began to tremble; the trembling extended at last over whole body, which became violently

shaken; respiratory muscles most affected, breathing difficult and impeded, every respiratory

effort consisting of a series of short jerks in quick succession; expiration accomplished in same

• ▸manner as inspiration.
• ▸—Excitement.
• ▸—Uneasiness.
• ▸—So weak could scarcely hold up

head.—Paroxysms of faintness beginning with a vanishing of senses and ending with loss of

consciousness.

Nervous, uneasy, desire to recline, tired, cannot settle down to any occupation. Periodic headaches, occipital pain, extending down to spine, worse lying on back; sore pain in eyes.

Vertigo and headache.—Dulness of head, heaviness, dizziness, stupefaction.—Head

drawn back with rigidity of muscles of neck and back.

• ▸Eyelids feel too heavy.
• ▸—Lachrymation.
• ▸—Pupils dilated.
• ▸—Indistinct vision with

sensitiveness of eye to light.

Sharp burning sensation in tongue.—Increased saliva.—Scraping, burning taste, esp.

low down in throat, causing hiccough and hawking.

Swelling of gums.—Gnawing odontalgia, in evening.—Toothache, with tearing in ears;

toothache, with tearing in r. ear.—All teeth feel loose and elongated——When molar teeth

(decayed) are sucked a sour, fetid water is drawn from them.

Dryness; and scraping in throat.—Sensation as though a sharp brush drawn through

cesophagus to stomach.—Sensation of dysphagia.

Farinaceous taste in mouth on rising in morning. —Aversion to meat.—Risings,

with taste of roasted meat.—Want of appetite —Thirst in evening.—Violent thirst day and night.

Loss of appetite —Great aversion to tobacco and tobacco-smoking (one prover, a

smoker, was unable to smoke more than a few whiffs; the other, a non-smoker, could not

approach any one who was smoking).—Eructation with some vomiting which

>.—Hiccough.—Disagreeable sensation extending from stomach upwards and

downwards.—Persistent sensation of emptiness and faintness in stomach and intestines.

Dull aching in ovaries, with sensation as if menses appear. Hot flashes, followed by perspiration on parts touching each other, when separated become dry.

Catamenia, premature, scanty, and of too short duration.—During

menses, bloated abdomen, colic, pain in small of back, great debility, burning of

eyes.—Leucorrhcea; watery, esp. after micturition.

Erections (after dinner).—Itching on a small spot of scrotum,

scratching does not > it.

Oppression: compelling deep breathing; sensation of foreign body behind sternum.

Pulse increased in frequency in direct proportion to dose.—Pulse and respiration very

irregular, sometimes becoming very rapid, sometimes sinking. —Constant sinking of pulse.

Stiff, numb sensation, worse in neck. Spine sore. Awakened in morning with burning soles, Spinal pains, legs and arms heavy and weak, cannot lie on back.

Cracking and wrenching pain in neck (nape) when moving head (forward

or backward); on rising again after stooping.—Cracking in cervical vertebree on moving

• ▸head.
• ▸—Pain in neck, as from a sprain.
• ▸—Stitches in small of back (afternoon).
• ▸—Pain in the small of

back during a soft stool.

Formication, beginning in tips of fingers, extending to wrists and afterwards

to elbows.

Extremities icy cold.—Coldness beginning in tips of fingers and toes and extending

to trunk.—Shaking chill —Sensation of warmth commencing in stomach, rapidly extending over

chest and to head, and like a streaming into tips of fingers and toes; not followed by sweat.—Cold

sweat.

• ▸Aura of epilepsy.
• ▸Brain-fag.
• ▸Collapse.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Seasickness.
• ▸Spasms.
• ▸Tetanus.

Tobacco, effects of.

Second trituration.