====== CUPRUM SULPHURICUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Cuprum Sulphuricum. {{anchor:s2}}Sulphate of Copper. {{anchor:s3}}Cu SO45H2O. {{anchor:s4}}The pure sulphate of copper is prepared by trituration. {{anchor:s5}}Fragmentary proving by Berridge. {{anchor:s6}}Observation of a case of poisoning by Cup. sulph. made by Guerard, Allg. Hom. Ztg., v. 36, p. 14. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s8}}- Baldness, Kissel, Frank's Mag., v. 4, p. 137; Syphilis, 50 cases, Martin and Oberlin, Gaz. Md. de Paris, April 10, 1880; Inveterate itch, Bayes. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s10}}Anxiety, or great apathy.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Remarkable disturbance of mind; every utterance distorted. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s13}}All senses vanish.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Vertigo, with prostration of strength, and dim sight. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s16}}Violent pain in forehead, with severe tensive pain at root of nose.\\ {{anchor:s17}}After rising from bed, pain like a tight, narrow band all round head (on a level with upper part of forehead) and feeling as if top of head would come off; agg. laughing or stooping; amel. by cold wind; desire to be quiet.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Shooting inwards in temples at short intervals, the left being first affected, amel. by pressing temples with hands; irritability of temper.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Crawling, dull sensation in vertex, as if going to sleep, with a pressing-down sensation, and stupefaction.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Throbbing and roaring in head.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Severe headache, in morning. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s23}}Bald spot over right parietal bone, not depending upon any discoverable cause. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s25}}Eyes stiff and dim.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Eyes moving to and fro.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Icteric color of conjunctivae.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Twitching of closed lids.\\ {{anchor:s29}}(OBS:) Trachoma; granular lids; catarrhal and purulent conjunctivitis. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s31}}(OBS:) Face pale: emaciated, eyes sunken; puffy, red, covered with great drops of sweat. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s33}}Lips pale, bluish, at corners and internal edges. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s35}}Greenish tint along free borders of gums. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s37}}Taste: sweetish; bitter; coppery; metallic on waking.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Tongue: white furred; coated, bluish, cold; swollen, stiff, as if paralyzed.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Tongue small, white, rough. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s41}}Burning in mouth and esophagus in morning.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Sharp biting heat in mouth and throat.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Ulcer in the mouth, after fever. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s45}}Tensive pain in mouth, pharynx, root of nose, and stomach.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Choking and contracting sensation in pharynx.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Throat painful and as if burnt. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s50}}Loss of appetite.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Great thirst; want of thirst with sweat.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Thirst with sweat and oppression of chest. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Hiccough.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Excessive nausea; qualmish nausea.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Vomiting forcible, returning from time to time.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Vomiting: of greenish-brown mucus; of a bluish matter.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Nausea; vomiting agg. after 5 A. M. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s60}}Pressure in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Distension and fullness of stomach rather than pain.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Burning in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Violent pain in stomach followed by faintness. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Tearing pains in hypochondria, on inspiration, painful on touch as if bruised.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Liver enlarged. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s68}}Pain in epigastrium, sensitive to pressure.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Abdomen swollen, tender, and painful; flat and painful; drawn in.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Constant cutting, burning pain in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Enteritis. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s73}}Urging to stool.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Four pultaceous, greenish-yellow stools.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Vomiting, soon followed by paleness and cold sweat; severe efforts at stool, alternating with vomiting, frequent attacks of unconsciousness, copious stools.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Diarrhea of children.\\ {{anchor:s77}}(OBS:) Chronic diarrhea with ulceration. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s79}}No stool nor passage of urine for twelve hours.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Urine scanty and bloody. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s82}}(In sick:) Profuse menses with violent pains; induced three successive times by bathing frosted feet in the solution. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s85}}Voice husky or veiled. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s87}}Rapid sobbing respiration; breathing short and labored.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Respirations anxious and frequent; 48-50 per minute.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Anxious and interrupted breathing. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s91}}Hacking cough impeding respiration.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Croupy cough with very tenacious mucus. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s94}}Anxiety and oppression in chest.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Pressive pain in chest.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Painful contraction of chest, agg. after drinking.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Tearing pains behind sternum, extending over several parts of chest.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Haemoptysis. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s100}}Feeling as of a throbbing lump in heart internally, beating of heart seemed louder; lasted five minutes, and went away gradually.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Sounds of heart weak and limited; slight friction-sound at base.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Pulse: small, soft, or hard; quick and small; full and hard. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s104}}Uneasiness between shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Collection of wind pressing against back; stiffness and pain on moving. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s107}}Dull aching soreness in middle of tibia, when walking; amel. at rest; tenderness on pressure.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Formication in legs.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Great coldness of feet. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s111}}Extremities cold, nails cyanotic. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s115}}Rest: amel. pain in tibia.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Desire to be quiet: with headache.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Stooping: as if top of head would come off.\\ {{anchor:s118}}After rising from bed: pain as of tight band around head; as if top of head would come off.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Inspiration: tearing pain in hypochondria.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Laughing: as if top of head would come off.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Moving: pain in back.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Walking: dull aching pain in tibia. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s124}}Restless, throws himself about in bed.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Restlessness at night; twitchings; trembling in the limbs; copious stools.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Frequent subsultus tendinum.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Lassitude, debility. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s129}}Drowsiness, frequently interrupted by abdominal pains. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s131}}Morning: headache; burning in mouth and esophagus.\\ {{anchor:s132}}After 5 A. M., vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s133}}At 5 P. M.: pains agg. with restlessness.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Night: restlessness. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s136}}Fire: sat near to amel. shivering.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Cold wind: amel. head. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s139}}Coldness beginning in small of back, going all over body, then suddenly going into legs, first left, then left, with shivering so that she sat near fire for a few minutes.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Skin cold; shivering.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Internal, debilitating, exhausting heat.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Flashes of heat, with burning of soles.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Heat beginning on dorsa of feet, first left then right, then extending up anterior part of legs as far as knees; lasted thirty minutes, then went off, leaving a sensation as if needles were pricking the parts for five minutes.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Chilliness, shuddering, heat and sweat rapidly following each other.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Cold sweat on forehead and extremities.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Copious sweat, without thirst. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s148}}Lasting five minutes; palpitation; pricking in feet and legs.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Lasting thirty minutes: heat of feet and legs.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Three successive times: profuse menses, induced by bathing feet in solution.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Rapidly following each other: stages of fever.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Frequent: subsultus tendinum.\\ {{anchor:s153}}At short intervals: shooting in temples.\\ {{anchor:s154}}From time to time: vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Chronic: diarrhea. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s157}}Left: shooting in temple.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Left to right: coldness in legs; heat on feet and shins.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Right: bald spot on parietal bone.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Inward: shooting in temples. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s162}}As of a tight narrow band round head; as if top of head would come off; as of going to sleep in vertex; as if paralyzed, tongue; as if burnt, throat; as if bruised, hypochondria; as of a throbbing lump in heart; as if needles were pricking on feet and legs.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Pain: violent in forehead; violent in stomach; in epigastrium; in abdomen; in back.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Tearing: in hypochondria; behind sternum.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Shooting: in temples.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Cutting: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Pricking: as of needles on feet and legs.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Burning: in mouth and esophagus; in stomach; in bowels; of soles.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Dull aching: in tibia.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Pressure: in pit of stomach; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Pressing down: in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Soreness: in tibia.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Tensive pain: at root of nose; in mouth; in pharynx; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Contraction: in pharynx; of chest.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Choking: in pharynx.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Twitching: of closed lids.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Throbbing: in head.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Roaring: in head.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Dull sensation: in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Uneasiness: between shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Formication: in legs.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Crawling: in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Itching: nodules on shoulders; on skin.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Heat: sharp biting, mouth and throat; on dorsa of feet, up anterior part of legs to knees.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Coldness: of tongue; of feet; in small of back; in legs; of skin. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s187}}(OBS:) Destroys flabby granulations and exerts a powerful excitant influence; its solution acts more feebly, and is sometimes employed as a dressing for indolent ulcers.\\ {{anchor:s188}}(OBS:) Fifty patients, who showed various manifestations of syphilis, were cured by the copper sulphate; the copper salt proved more efficacious and required less time for its beneficial action than did the mercury salts; in a case of very grave syphilis, where mercury had proved useless, copper effected a rapid and complete cure. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s192}}Touch: hypochondria painful.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Pressure: epigastrium sensitive; tenderness in tibia.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Pressing temples: amel. shooting. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s196}}Skin pale; icteric.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Itching nodules on shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Considerable itchiness; a kind of dry itch. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s200}}Man, aet. 38, strong, healthy, had thick, shining, black hair; baldness. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s202}}Antidoted by: milk, eggs; pure yellow prussiate of potash.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Compare: Kali bich. in croupy cough, with tenacious mucous expectoration; Mercur. in syphilis. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r695|Cuprum Sulphuricum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r695|Cuprum Sulphuricum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1887 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}