====== URANIUM NITRICUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Uranium Nitricum.</span>

====== Uranium nitrate. UO22NO36H2O. ======

{{anchor:s4}}A salt prepared from pitch blende. {{anchor:s5}}The minerals which contain Uranium are found in the lead and silver mines of Bohemia and Saxony, Bavaria, and in France near Limoges.

{{anchor:s6}}The triturations are made from the pure nitrate.

{{anchor:s7}}Provings by Blake, Hah. Mat. Med., Part 2, 1871.

{{anchor:s8}}Toxicological experiments, Carniet, Glycoluries toxiques, Paris, 1891.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s10}}- <span grade2>Ophthalmia</span>, Berridge, Org., vol. 2, p. 175; <span grade2>Diabetes</span>, Koeck, H. M., vol. 12, p. 493; Koeck, Times Ret., 1877, p. 102; Hale, N. A. J. H., vol. 10, pp. 274, 384; Hale, B. J. H., vol. 20, p. 166; Hallock, N. A. J. H., May, 1882; Dudley, Hah. Mo., vol. 11, p. 270; Magdeburg, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 67; Hughes, Bradford, B. J. H., vol. 24, pp. 253-269; McLean, H. W., vol. 7, p. 132; Cornell, N. A. J. H., vol. 16, p. 594; Jousset, Hom. Cl., vol. 1, p. 270; <span grade2>Albuminuria</span>, Walker, Hah. Mo., vol. 11, p. 337; <span grade2>Diuresis</span>, Bradford, N. A. J. H., vol. 8, p. 502; <span grade2>Nocturnal enuresis</span>, Blake, A. H. O., vol. 9, p. 413; <span grade2>Incontinence of urine</span>, Cook, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 29.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s12}}Great despondency; ill-temper; cross; disagreeable.</span>

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s14}}Vertigo; heaviness of head; restless at night, with shivering.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s16}}Head heavy on waking; general languor; aching at occipital protuberance.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Pain shooting from right orbit to occipital protuberance in evening.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Frontal headache.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Dull aching in right temple.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s20}}Slight pain over left eye, with contracted feeling in throat, and eructations, followed by diuresis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s21}}Heavy, burning pain in right side of vertex; fullness of head and sensation of blood flowing to that part, before eating.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Giddy, faint; flushing of upper body during menses.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Headache in left temple, with feeling as if he had taken cold.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Severe pain at posterior edge of right and left temporal bones.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Headache; dull, heavy pains in forehead, right temple and occiput.</span>

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Pain over left eye.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Eyelids inflamed and agglutinated; glands enlarged.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s29}}Child 12 days old, had from birth yellow discharge from left eye, causing adhesion of lids, left eye red and watery; afterward same kind of discharge from right eye, but less; discharge chiefly in inner canthus.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}Nostrils sore with purulent, acrid discharge; chronic catarrh.</span>\\ {{anchor:s32}}Dry coryza; left nostril stuffed.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Itching in nose, small scab in right nostril, purulent discharge from left nostril.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s34}}Scabbing of inner nostril, chronic.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s36}}Ulcers in buccal cavity, with copious salivation; nausea and great thirst.</span>

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Loss of appetite.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s40}}~</span> <span grade3>During menses.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s41}}Craves raw ham and tea; amenorrhea.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s42}}~</span> <span grade2>Diabetes.</span>

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Excessive thirst, emaciation.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s45}}~</span> <span grade3>Diabetes.</span>

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Much nausea; vomiting; intermittent vomiting, with great thirst.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s49}}Boring pain in pyloric region.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Dyspepsia, intermittent attacks of pain, with sinking at epigastrium and acid eructations, flatulency and copious urination.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}Dyspeptic feelings quarter of an hour before dinner, with gnawing sinking at cardiac end of stomach; but without hunger or faintness.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s52}}Gastric and duodenal ulcers.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s53}}Recurring hematemesis.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s54}}~</span> <span grade2>Gastric ulcer.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s56}}Abdomen bloated; slight diarrhea; sharp colic and tenesmus, with burning in rectum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Enteritis and peritonitis, with meteorism; great prostration.</span>\\ {{anchor:s58}}Peritonitis followed by copious effusion.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s60}}A corpulent, temperate old man had constantly increasing debility and emaciation; edema of legs; great pain and weariness of legs; crawling and formication of limbs; clammy state of mouth and tongue; tongue coated with white fur; sensation of dryness in mouth and fauces, with intense thirst; severe acid dyspepsia; burning, cramps and faintness in pit of stomach; bowels constipated, feces pale, odorless and dry; constant desire to urinate; enormous quantity of urine (sixteen pints in twenty-four hours); perspiration and breath have a sweet odor; skin dry and hard; night sweats; pulse 90, small (greatly relieved).</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s61}}~</span> <span grade2>Diabetes.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}Profuse nocturnal urination; since six months, in a man aet. 40, accompanied by burning and scalding; urine milky at times, often straw-colored, fetid, voids ten to twelve pints in twenty-four hours; dispirited, morose; constipation; mouth dry; saliva tenacious; tongue coated white; good appetite, but distress after eating; constant faintness at stomach, even after a hearty meal; debility; renal pain.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s63}}Urination profuse, painful, pale, milky, with ammoniacal odor; nocturnal urination frequent; great debility; night sweats; constant pain and soreness in lumbar region; legs ache and feel heavy and weary; agg. toward evening; almost complete loss of sexual power, organs cold, relaxed and sweaty; afternoon fever; great thirst; canine hunger; bloated abdomen and constipation.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s64}}~</span> <span grade2>Albuminuria.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s65}}A delicate, nervous woman had sudden attacks of diuresis, followed by scanty urine, dark-colored, with fever.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}Constipation; distressing thirst; canine hunger; tongue red; loss of sleep (improved).</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s67}}~</span> <span grade2>Diabetes mellitus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s68}}Diabetes: in two cases specific gravity decreased; in one from 1042 to 1030, in other from 1039 to 1031; thirst, hunger and quantity of urine decreased greatly.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Diabetes mellitus; five cases improved.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}Incontinence of urine at night and frequency during day.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s71}}A boy, aet. 3, pale, dark circles around eyes; color in cheeks changes to deep red; exceedingly restless at night with fever; urine profuse and very pale; appetite capricious.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s72}}~</span> <span grade2>Diabetes mellitus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s73}}A man, aet. 70, hale and hearty for his age; since three years has to urinate frequently and loses flesh; drinks a great deal to assuage his constant thirst.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s74}}~</span> <span grade2>Diabetes mellitus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s75}}A man, aet. 52, fat and full-blooded, intense thirst, had to get up several times at night to drink; good appetite, loses strength; passes large quantities of urine, giving a specific gravity of 1044, and containing 85 grs. glucose per litre.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s76}}Commenced to decline five years ago and has been gradually growing agg.; could not walk; was entirely colorless, not slightest appearance of blood in lips, tongue, ears or over entire surface; eyes sunken; cheek bones prominent; emaciation; acidity of stomach; constipation; hemorrhoids; palpitation; inordinate thirst; roaring in ears, with fainting spells; tenderness of spine near and extending to kidneys; eight to ten quarts of urine in twenty-four hours.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s77}}~</span> <span grade2>Diabetes.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s78}}For three months getting thinner every day; cannot eat enough to satisfy craving; excessive thirst, especially at night, drinking four to six quarts of water in twentyfour hours; abundant flow of urine; has to empty pot de chambre two or three times a night; urine contains sugar.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Acute and chronic diuresis of children and adults.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Incontinence of urine at night, from worms; urine often excoriating.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Burning in urethra, with very acid urine; urinary tenesmus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Nocturnal enuresis.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s83}}~</span> <span grade2>Albuminuria.</span>\\ {{anchor:s84}}Urine greenish and smelling fishy.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s85}}Weakness of bladder from infancy; unable to retain urine without extreme pain, amounting almost to spasms during day; at night passed it freely without waking, and in cold weather in very large quantities; on taking cold, bloating of bowels and extremities, also of face; some tenderness of bowels, with frequent pain in left side; appetite poor, and extremely dainty, craving sweets; always complaining of deranged stomach; very thin and pale.</span>

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s87}}Completely impotent, with nocturnal emissions.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}Almost complete loss of sexual powers, organs cold, relaxed and sweaty.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s89}}~</span> <span grade2>Albuminuria.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

{{anchor:s91}}During menses: vertigo; faint; flushing of upper part of body.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s92}}No menstrual flow during diabetic attack; pale, anemic; craving raw ham and tea.</span>

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s96}}Excessive lacteal secretion.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s99}}Bronchitis, with copious mucous expectoration and much emaciation; old chronic cases.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

{{anchor:s101}}Cough, with purulent discharge from left nostril; loss of appetite and great prostration; lung infiltrated with grey tubercle.

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s103}}Pain at lower angle of left scapula, agg. by taking a deep inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Hydrothorax and congestion of lungs.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s106}}Stiffness in loins.

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

{{anchor:s108}}White vesicles on hands and legs, with red areolae; burn and itch.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s112}}Walking: head heavy.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s114}}Extreme languor on rising from bed.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Great prostration and drowsiness during menses.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Debility and cold feeling, with vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Debility, prostration resulting from severe organic lesion.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s119}}Sleeplessness.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s120}}~</span> <span grade2>Diabetes.</span>

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s122}}During day: frequent urination; shivering.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Afternoon: fever.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Evening: shooting from right orbit to occiput.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Night: restless; shivering; incontinence of urine; thirst.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s127}}Shivering: alternately with heat; at night, and great restlessness.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Prostration, somnolence and shivering during day; restless at night during menstrual period.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s130}}Intermittent attacks: of pain with dyspepsia.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s132}}Left: pain over eye; headache in temple; adherence of eyelids; nostrils stuffed; purulent discharge from nose; pain at angle of scapula.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Right: aching in temple; burning in vertex; scab in nostril.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s135}}As if blood were flowing to head; as if he had taken cold with headache.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Pain: over left eye; in renal region; in left side; at lower angle of left scapula.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Severe pain: posterior edge of temporal bones.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Boring: in pyloric region.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Shooting: from right orbit to occiput.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Aching: at occipital protuberance; dull, in right temple; in legs.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Gnawing: at cardiac end of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Burning: in right side of vertex; in rectum; in pit of stomach; with urination; in urethra; in vesicles on hands and legs.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Dull pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Cramp: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Contraction: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Heaviness: of head; in legs.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Faintness: at stomach.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Sinking: at epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Stiffness: in loins.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Formication: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Dryness: in mouth and fauces.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Itching: in nose; in vesicles on hands and legs.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s154}}Torpor; somnolency; coma.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Gastric and duodenal inflammation and ulceration.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Great emaciation; diabetes; tendency to general dropsy; effusion of serum from all serous membranes, especially pleura and peritoneum.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Diabetes mellitus and insipidus; Bright's disease, and kindred renal maladies; contracted, gouty kidneys, with gastric disturbances; irritable condition of renal plexus, of sympathetic.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Muscular paralysis.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

{{anchor:s160}}Epithelioma; lupus exedens; ecchymosis.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s162}}Child, aet. 12 days; ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Boy, aet. 3; diabetes.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Girl, aet. 12, suffering from infancy; incontinence of urine.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Man, aet. 70, hale and hearty; diabetes.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s167}}Compare: <span grade2>Phos. ac.</span> (saccharine urine); <span grade2>Arsen.</span> and <span grade2>Kali bich.</span> (gastro-duodenal symptoms).

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 10, 1891 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r469|Uranium nitricum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r469|Uranium nitricum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ year: | 1891 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}