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Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke

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John Henry Clarke
Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke
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Carboneum Oxygenisatum.

Carbonous Oxide. CO. Solution in water.

Clinical.-Cramps. Headache. Herpes zoster. Paralysis. Pemphigus. Sciatica. Trismus.

Characteristics.-The effects of Carb. ox. have been noted in persons poisoned by the gas. It produces a state like intoxication. The person is confused, stupid. There is loss of consciousness. Anaesthesia, but the slightest touch with a hot iron recalls sensibility. Convulsions and cramps. Great sleepiness lasting for several days; interrupted by cramps in cheeks and toes. Great coldness of surface, hands icy cold. Marked > of symptoms, especially of chest, in open air.

Relations.-Compare: Carb. hydro.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.-Depressed: stupid; apathetic.-Anxiety, with desire for air but too paralysed to seek it.

2. Head.-Vertigo; inclination to turn in a circle.-Headache, violent, persistent, with throbbing in temporal arteries.-Frontal headache which extends over the whole head, but chiefly felt in forehead, which seems pushed out.-Weight; throbbing; compression; sticking headache.

3. Eyes.-Eyes protrude; sight dim with vertigo, and fluttering and flickering before sight.

4. Ears.-Roaring in ears.

6. Face.-Trismus; jaws firmly clenched.

8. Mouth.-Paralysis of tongue.

11. Stomach.-Stomach so irritable that everything eaten was immediately vomited.

13. Stool.-Involuntary evacuations.

14. Urinary Organs.-Paralysis of bladder.-Urine contains sugar.

17. Respiratory Organs.-Rattling of mucus in air-passages.-Bloody mucus raised.-Expired air feels cool to back of observer's hand.-Breathing stertorous, slow.-Sense of suffocation.

19. Heart.-Intolerable pain in region of heart.-Violent palpitation.

20. Back.-Burning pain at right scapula.

23. Lower Limbs.-Shooting pains in r. natis and down sciatic nerve to foot, not < by pressure or movement.

25. Skin.-Whole skin covered with large and small vesicles of pemphigus.-Purple maculation of skin.-Herpes zoster l. side of face along branches of trigeminus.

26. Sleep.-Great sleepiness for several days.-Never slept so long before.-Sleep deep, prolonged, interrupted by cramps in cheeks and toes.