Sulfonalum

Su/fonal was at first regarded as one of the safest of hypnotics, but many cases

of poisoning by medicinal doses have occurred, and my Schema is made up of reported effects

• ▸produced on patients.
• ▸The accounts will be found in recent numbers of H.
• ▸W.
• ▸Prominent

• ▸symptoms were: Stupor.
• ▸Headache, with noises in ears.
• ▸Vomiting and diarrhoea.
• ▸Urine retained,

or secretion arrested; claret-coloured; containing albumen; porphyrin. Ataxic gait and diminished

or abolished reflexes point to locomotor ataxy. Ascending paralysis has been observed. The heart

is weak; fainting occurs; and death takes place by heart failure. Rashes have been noticed on the

• ▸skin, purpuric, erythematous, &c.
• ▸One man (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxii.
• ▸174) observed uniform skin effects

• ▸every time he took S/o.
• ▸, more intense the larger the dose.
• ▸This occurred from gr.
• ▸v.
• ▸: Patches of

erythema appeared (/) first on inner side of first phalanx of right little finger; (2) next over

proximal ends of metacarpal bones of left thumb and index; (3) on posterior surface of left

forearm a little below elbow; (4) fourth on prepuce. The symptoms were > by cold douches.

Mental confusion, incoherency, illusions; apathetic. Alternation of happy, hopeful states with depression and weakness. Extreme irritability.

• ▸Dropsy, stupid; pain on attempting to raise head.
• ▸Double vision; heavy look about eyes; tinnitus, aphasia; tongue as if paralyzed. Eyes bloodshot and restless.
• ▸Vertigo, unable to rise.
• ▸Double vision; ptosis; tinnitus; dysphagia, difficult speech.

Vomiting, diarrhoea, and violent chills—Constant retching, vomiting, and

soreness over epigastri'um.—Great disturbance of digestion with scanty urine.

Dark brown urine.—Urine very scanty; albuminous; almost solid when

cooled.—Hzematoporphyrinuria and death; urine oscillated between deep claret and light claret

colour.—Retention of urine; had to be drawn off; dark-coloured.—Urine cherry-colour, later like

dark port wine.

• ▸Albuminuria, with casts.
• ▸Scanty.
• ▸Pink color.
• ▸Constant desire to urinate; scanty, brownish red.
• ▸Haemato-porphyrinuria.

Congestion of lungs; stertorous breathing. Sighing dyspnoea.

Death from heart failure and cedema of lungs.—Heart's action feeble, occasionally

intermittent.

Chronic leptomeningitis, circumscribed softening of dorsal portion of cord, with

hypostatic pneumonia of r. lung, and cyanosis of liver and kidneys (post mortem of poisoning

cases).

Gait ataxic; reeled about —Plantar reflex deficient.—Paralysis of lower

limbs.—(Cramps of legs and single muscles.)

• ▸24.
• ▸Generalities—The symptoms disappear slowly.
• ▸—Paralysis of body.
• ▸—> By cold water; cold

• ▸douches.
• ▸—Great prostration.
• ▸—Progressive paralysis affecting legs first then arms.
• ▸—Paralysis

sometimes progressive sometimes with hyperesthesia and abnormal sensation.—T witching of

muscles, esp. of face and flexors: < by voluntary movement, but always present in

sleep.—Reflexes abolished.—(Epilepsy, inveterate cases with over-excitability of the cortical

• ▸substance.
• ▸).
• ▸—Fainted and vomited.
• ▸—Livid, esp.
• ▸face —Cyanosis.
• ▸—Death by respiratory failure

preceded by unconsciousness.

• ▸Ataxic movements, staggering gait; cold, weak, trembling; legs seem too heavy.
• ▸Extreme restlessness; muscular twitchings.
• ▸Knee-jerks disappear.
• ▸Stiffness and paralysis of both legs.
• ▸Anaesthesia of legs.

Itching, bluish purpura. Erythema.

Discoloured patches like purpura on skin.—Patches of erythema, of intensity

proportionate to dose:—(/) On inner side of first phalanx ofr. little finger; (2) over proximal ends

of metacarpal bones of |. thumb and index; (3) on posterior surface of |. forearm, a little below

elbow; (4) on prepuce.—Erythematous measles-like eruption.

Fidgety, wakeful, drowsy. Insomnia.

• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Cramps.
• ▸Cyanosis.
• ▸Ears, noises in.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Headache, with tinnitus.

• ▸Heematoporphyrinuria.
• ▸Locomotor ataxy.
• ▸Paralysis, ascending.
• ▸Reflexes abolished.

Trional; insomnia associated with physical excitement; (vertigo, loss of equilibrium, ataxia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, stertorous breathing, cyanosis, tinnitus, hallucinations).

Third trituration.

Non-Homeopathic Uses.--As a hypnotic. Dose, ten to thirty grains in hot water. Takes about two hours to act.