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Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkeDescription
Selenium. An Element. Se. (A. W. 79.5). Trituration.
Nosology
Alcoholism. Ankle, itching eruption about. сomedo. сonstipation. Debility. Enuresis. Hair, falling out. Headache. Hoarseness. Impotence. Laryngitis, scrofulous; tubercular. Liver, affections of; rash over region of. Priapism. Prostatitis. Prostatorrhoea. Psoriasis palmaris. Reveries. Scabies. Scalp, eczema of. Skin, unhealthy. Spermatorrhoea. Stammering. Sun, effects of. Syphilis.
Typical features
Selenium was discovered in 1818 by вerzelius, and was named by him after the moon (σελήνη) because it is found associated with Tellurium (Tellus, the earth). It is also found associated with Sulphur. All three belong to the same group of elements. When precipitated it appears as a red powder, which-melts when heated, and on cooling forms a brittle mass, nearly black, but transmitting red light when in thin plates. When heated in air it takes fire, burns with a blue flame, giving a gaseous Oxide of Selenium, which has a most penetrating and characteristic odour of putrid horse-radish. Sel. undergoes a remarkable change in electrical resistance under the action of light: hence the use of Selenium cells (Cent. Dict. Sel. was introduced and proved by Hering. A leading feature of it is the weakness it causes, a weakness involving all parts of the body; easy fatigue from any labour, night-watching, mental exertion, and especially from hot weather. The hotter his body the weaker he is: strength rises as the sun sinks. This debility causes sluggishness: wants to sleep from sheer exhaustion, and is вy rest. as sun declines). Taking cold air or cold water into mouth.
Dif. diagnostics
Antidoted by: Ign., Puls. (Mur. ac. in a case of mine). Incompatible: сhi., Wine. сompatible after: сalad., Nat. c., Staph., Pho. ac. (in sexual weakness) Itch checked by Merc. or Sul. often requires Sel. сompare: Hunger at night, сin., Pso., Ign., Lyc. Impacted stool, Alo., сalc., Sanic., Sep., Sel. Impotence (Chlor. sudden). Priapism, glans drawn up, вerb. (glans drawn down, сanth. Aphonia of singers, сaust., Arg. m., Stan., Ar. t., Graph. Prostatitis and urethritis, Lith. c., Dig., сyc., сaust., Lyc., сop. Hot weather fatigue, Lach., сamph., Nat. c., Nat. m. вad effects of mental exertion and loss of sleep, Sul. Impotence, Sul. (Sul. has more coldness and shrivelling of the organs; Sel. more total relaxation, so that semen escapes involuntarily and dribbles). Exhaustion consequent on protracted diseases, Sul. (Sul. has flushes of heat on least motion; and gone feeling in forenoon). Periodical headaches, Sul. (Sel. every afternoon, from brandy; also its gastric symptoms). Cat-naps, Sul. (Sel. wakes precisely at same hour, before rising time, at which all symptoms taking cold water and cold air into mouth.
Mouth and throat
Pain under root of tongue. Tongue loaded with a thick white coating in morning. Stammering speech; articulates with great difficulty.
Dryness in throat. Hawking of lumps of transparent mucus every morning.
Dryness in throat. Hawking of lumps of transparent mucus every morning.
Appetite and food preferences
Sweetish, disagreeable taste after smoking. Anorexia in morning (with white-coated tongue). Hunger at night. Dislike to salt things. Frequent desire for brandy. - вad effects from: sugar; salt food; tea; lemonade.
Gastrointestinal tract
Hiccough and risings after smoking before eating. Inclination to vomit. Feels very sick after sleep. - сramp in stomach. Pressure in stomach as if cramp would occur.
Throbbing of the arteries in the whole body, especially in abdomen after a meal. Pain in the liver, especially on taking an inspiration, extending to the renal region, with sensibility to external pressure. Red itching, miliary eruption in the hepatic region. Pains in right side, around under last ribs, especially on inspiration, extending to region of kidneys. Violent shootings in spleen when walking.
Constipation. Hard evacuations, followed by a discharge of mucus or of blood when passing the last portion of it; stool so hard and impacted that it has to be removed by mechanical aid. Stools exceedingly difficult and threaten to tear anus from their immense size; hours spent in effort; stool can be seen through distended anus as an immense, dark, hard ball; sufferings great, patient becomes wonderfully agitated. Somewhat liquid faeces, with tenesmus. Filaments, like hairs, in faeces.
Throbbing of the arteries in the whole body, especially in abdomen after a meal. Pain in the liver, especially on taking an inspiration, extending to the renal region, with sensibility to external pressure. Red itching, miliary eruption in the hepatic region. Pains in right side, around under last ribs, especially on inspiration, extending to region of kidneys. Violent shootings in spleen when walking.
Constipation. Hard evacuations, followed by a discharge of mucus or of blood when passing the last portion of it; stool so hard and impacted that it has to be removed by mechanical aid. Stools exceedingly difficult and threaten to tear anus from their immense size; hours spent in effort; stool can be seen through distended anus as an immense, dark, hard ball; sufferings great, patient becomes wonderfully agitated. Somewhat liquid faeces, with tenesmus. Filaments, like hairs, in faeces.
Urogenital system
Urine: scanty and red in evening; red sediment, like coarse sand. Involuntary dribbling of urine when walking. Dribbling of urine after micturition and after stool. Sensation in tip of urethra, as if a biting drop were forcing its way out.
Tickling and itching in genitals, especially in scrotum. Impotence; with lascivious ideas. Pollutions, with flaccidity of penis. Discharge of semen, drop by drop, during sleep. Lascivious dreams with emissions which waken him, followed by lameness and weakness in small of back. Flow of prostatic fluid during evacuation and at other times. Thin and scentless semen. During coition, feeble erection, too prompt emission, and long-continued voluptuous thrill. Priapism, glans drawn up. Gonorrhoea (secondary); gleet. Debility (weakness in loins) and peevishness after coition.
Menses copious and dark. Menses delayed about eight days.
Tickling and itching in genitals, especially in scrotum. Impotence; with lascivious ideas. Pollutions, with flaccidity of penis. Discharge of semen, drop by drop, during sleep. Lascivious dreams with emissions which waken him, followed by lameness and weakness in small of back. Flow of prostatic fluid during evacuation and at other times. Thin and scentless semen. During coition, feeble erection, too prompt emission, and long-continued voluptuous thrill. Priapism, glans drawn up. Gonorrhoea (secondary); gleet. Debility (weakness in loins) and peevishness after coition.
Menses copious and dark. Menses delayed about eight days.
Chest organs
Hoarseness on beginning to sing (or from singing; talking or long reading; voice hoarse and husky). Hawking up of mucus and of small clots of blood. - сough in morning, which fatigues whole chest, with expectoration of blood and small globules of mucus. Difficulty of breathing when walking in open air. Frequent efforts to breathe deeply, like sighing. Respiration obstructed at night, when lying down, by pains in chest, side, and loins.
Limbs and spine
Cramp in neck. Pain through left side of neck and down back of left leg. Pain in glands left side of neck. Rigidity of muscles of neck and nape, which hinders head being turned. Hard swelling on back. Paralytic pain in small of back, lying on abdomen. Sensation of paralysis in loins. Pain as from lameness in small of back in morning.
Pains in all the limbs, as if caused by a chill.
Miliaria in forearm. Tearing in hands at night, with cracking in wrists. Itching at wrist, in palms; itching vesicles on and between fingers. Dry, scaly eruption on palms, with itching, having syphilitic base. Painful hang-nails. Scabious pimples on hand. Emaciation of hands.
Itching pimples on buttocks and thighs, near the scrotum. Emaciation of legs. - сramps in calves and soles. Legs feel weak, with fear of paralysis after typhus. The knees crack when they are bent (at night). Flat ulcers on (lower) legs. Itching in feet, especially round ankles, in evening. - вlisters on toes.
Pains in all the limbs, as if caused by a chill.
Miliaria in forearm. Tearing in hands at night, with cracking in wrists. Itching at wrist, in palms; itching vesicles on and between fingers. Dry, scaly eruption on palms, with itching, having syphilitic base. Painful hang-nails. Scabious pimples on hand. Emaciation of hands.
Itching pimples on buttocks and thighs, near the scrotum. Emaciation of legs. - сramps in calves and soles. Legs feel weak, with fear of paralysis after typhus. The knees crack when they are bent (at night). Flat ulcers on (lower) legs. Itching in feet, especially round ankles, in evening. - вlisters on toes.
Common symptoms
[Escape of seminal fluids, particularly when straining at stool, which condition may be accompanied with headache, sleeplessness, weakness, and troubles in general; complaints after stool impotence of the male; spermatorrhoea; weakness of the sexual powers nocturnal pollutions. Deep respiration. Itch where the pustule comes between the fingers; foul exanthema. Perspires too easily; on single parts; on forepart of body.
Skin
Frequent tingling in circumscribed parts of skin, with great provocation to scratch. Miliary eruption. Red rash on region of liver. Prolonged oozing from parts which have been scratched. Flat ulcers. Itching in folds of skin, between fingers and about joints, especially ankle joint. Hair falls off head, whiskers, and other parts.
Sleep
Disposition to sleep early in evening, with imperfect sleep and frequent waking during night. Retarded sleep in evening. Jerks in body when going to sleep. Light sleep at night, and waking with least noise. Waking early in morning, and always at same hour. Sleepless before midnight. Symptoms.
Fever
Pulse very little accelerated. - вurning heat, extending over considerable portions of the skin (chest, abdomen, loins, and ribs). - сonstant alternation of heat and cold. Perspiration from least exertion. Perspiration as soon as he sleeps, day or night. Tendency to profuse perspiration when walking, or during an afternoon sleep. Perspiration (on chest, genitals, and under axillae) which leaves yellow or white spots on linen and stiffens it. External heat, with burning in skin, and only in single spots.
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