Zincum Muriaticum - General symptoms

GENERAL

General

The sense of smell underwent a very singular perversion. Every kind of roast meat, if ever so slightly burnt, roasted coffee, tea, etc., had to my patient an intolerable putrid odor.

roast mutton was especially offensive. Scents and perfumes with alcohol gave an odor resembling that of hemlock.

on the other hand, putrid and fecal matter had no apparent odor at all,.

The perversion of taste was not less remarkable than that of smell. Roast meats and crusts of bread were intolerable.

and most foods had a burnt taste, especially raw oysters, which resembled burnt flour, and felt quite dry, clinging to the mouth. Things naturally insipid, such as the crumb of bread and Solanum Tuberosum ^potato, gave a more natural flavor, and were better relished. Acids did not taste acid, nor alkalies alkaline, and to him quinine was not bitter,.

Severe but not agonizing pain at the pit of the stomach, with a sense of distension.

the epigastric pain extended into the right hypochondrium, and was somewhat increased by pressure (after one hour).

afterwards the pain increased and extended towards the umbilicus.

it became intolerable, and it was difficult to keep the patient in bed (after two hours and a half),.

Bowels moved only three times in one hundred and sixteen days.

a copious, black, pitchy stool followed the enema (twentieth day).

after an injection another copious dark pitchy stool (fifty-first day).

after an injection of warm olive oil, passed a copious motion, pultaceous in consistence, and of a greenish color.

the first action of the bowels for eight weeks (one hundred and eighth day),.

A gradual improvement was made for the first two months, but too early a return to business brought on an attack of illness of extreme severity. The patient was seized with symptoms resembling the onset of Influenzinum ^influenza.

there was excessive nervous prostration, hyperaesthesia, and great irritability, which passed into a condition resembling tetanus.

no noise could be borne.

the slightest shocks caused a start.

if the bedclothes touched the toes, tremors approaching convulsions ensued. For five nights there was no sleep. There was a terrible pain in the right side of the head, which lasted for hours.

when this subsided, nausea and retching ensued.

the pulse rose to 120 or 130. There was some febrile movement.

the skin was alternately very dry and moist. During this secondary attack the liver again evinced a sluggishness of action, and the urine, which had hitherto been normal in quantity, became excessive.

on one occasion, seven pints were passed in five hours. For fourteen days the patient was confined to his bed, when the intensity of the symptoms had subsided, he still complained of the gnawing pain in the stomach,.

The collapse had become extreme.

the face and extremities were purple, and the voice thick and husky, and subsiding into a hoarse whisper.

the heart's action quite imperceptible, both at the wrist and cardiac region, yet the state of things was more like that of a cholera patient than one in syncope.

the pupils were largely dilated, and he complained of being unable to see distinctly (after nearly seven hours).

he died without a spasm or struggle of any kind, retaining his consciousness to the last (after seven hours, and forty minutes),.

Vomited the contents of the stomach (immediately).

less vomiting, but still a little retching, with which she brought up a little mucus (third day).

vomiting began again, when she brought up a potful of black fluid, with much mucus, some threads of tissue, and much clotted milk (tenth day).

vomiting and pain both increased (fifty-eighth day).

continued vomiting. the vomited matter contained a considerable quantity of altered blood (sixty-fifth day).

vomited matters whity brown in color, with a dark sediment (seventy-fourth day).

retched and vomited at intervals, a brownish fluid, with a flocculent sediment (ninety-fifth day).

vomited fluid tinged with bile (one hundred and eighth day).

retched at intervals and vomited a greenish fluid (one hundred and sixteenth day),.

Spontaneous vomiting (after one hour).

after this time the mixture (eggs and milk) was thrown off instantly, after being taken by the most violent action.

it returned as a solid coagulated mass, one portion of which was so large and firm as almost to cause suffocation. This treatment was kept up through the night and until 2 P.M. of the following day, the patient vomiting continuously, and rejecting the milk and eggs in the same curdled state. In the evening blood appeared in the vomiting matter, a quantity of mucus, and a portion of mucous membrane, measuring an inch and a quarter square. Throughout the third day the vomited matter was still streaked with blood,.

Disposition to pick the bedclothes; sense of smell and taste perverted; bluish-green tint of skin; cold and sweaty

Chloride of Zincum Metallicum ^Zinc. Zincic Chloride. Zincum Metallicum ^ZnCl2. Solutions in water or alcohol.

The bulk of the symptoms of Zincum Metallicum ^<">Zincum Metallicum ^Zn. m. are derived from poisoning cases. Chloride of Zincum Metallicum ^Zinc is an active poison and a powerful disinfectant., and being readily accessible in the form of "Sir Wm. Burnett's Disinfectant Fluid," has occasioned many poisonings, both accidental and suicidal. Most of the symptoms are the usual effects of a corrosive poison, but some characteristic symptoms appear. One of them was the perversion of the senses of smell and taste Things had a putrid smell and taste which were not putrid.

and faeces had no odour at all. Quinine had no bitter taste, and acids and alkalies had no acid or alkaline taste. Insipid things were most relished. Other symptoms were "No natural appetite, but a morbid craving for something to allay the irritation at the stomach." "Vomiting of all food except boiled milk." "Occasional attacks of tetanic spasms of right forearm and hand." "Emaciation.

skin looked as if stretched tightly over bones of face and hands." "Bluish and blue-mottled skin." "Sleeps on right side with legs drawn up, grinds teeth." Spasmodic twitchings of face and hands, sprains and convulsions were prominent features. De Noë Walker used a dilution of Zincum Metallicum ^<">Zincum Metallicum ^Zn. m. as an application to fresh wounds, and found it very effectual in securing rapid healing.