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Cuprum aceticum

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Mental
  3. Head, face, and ears
  4. Nervous system
  5. Mouth and throat
  6. Gastrointestinal tract
  7. Appetite and food preferences
  8. Urogenital system
  9. Analogs by action
  10. Included in the composition
  11. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen

Additional facts

 Neutral Acetate of сopper, с2H3CuO2 Plus Aq. The symptoms here included, from various kinds of food cooked in copper vessels, belong to the acetate, sub acetate, and some organic salts of copper, the action of all of which is nearly or quite identical.
 Preparation: Triturations.

Mental

 Emotional. Attacks of rage frequently returning; she tried to bite the bystanders. Attacks of mania; he fancies that he is a military officer; a fancy that he is selling green vegetables; a fancy that he is repairing old chairs. Merry singing. He spits in the faces of the attendants, and laughs heartily at it.
 Attacks of mania, with full, rapid, hard pulse, inflamed eyes, wild look, and disconnected talking, ending with sweat. Attacks of surly, ill-natured mania. Delirium. Delirium furious during the first day (in only one boy). Delirium (appeared in seven of the worst cases) of a quiet kind, consisting of unintelligible murmurings, at times interrupted by lamentations. Delirium or constant sopor, in some amounting to complete coma, in others, on the contrary, to complete sleeplessness. Slight delirium.
 Disconnected, delirious talking. Raving during sleep (second day). Talks all the time (third day). Taciturnity (second day).
 Crying like a child. Frequent crying out. Their look is confused, but they are in full possession of their mental faculties, and their speech is easy and perfectly rational.
 Nevertheless they are still liable to these paroxysms of howling, which always come unexpectedly. Anxiety, etc. Great anxiety (soon after), (third day). Great anxiety, with unusual tossing about the bed. That anxiety peculiar to pain in the stomach.
 Apprehensiveness. Loss of sensitiveness, and moping in a corner.
 Intellectual. Loud speaking aroused them from their fancies; they were obliged, however, to think a long time before they could answer. Loss of consciousness. He fell down unconscious, with sudden convulsions. Found stretched without sense upon the floor (after two hours and a half). In thirty to sixty minutes, they sank into a semi-conscious state, voice very faint, eyes half open, fixed, glassy, insensible to light, pulse very weak, in some quick, in others slow, difficult to arouse, and when aroused, complaining of a cold, and of violent pain in the abdomen. Lethargic stupefaction.

Head, face, and ears

 Vertigo. Vertigo, even to falling down if she arose from bed; this was especially distressing when she was obliged to rise on account of her bowels. Vertigo, a very marked and persistent symptom, mostly violent; it usually outlasted all the other symptoms, though it was generally relieved by the evacuations of the bowels; it was always combined with a certain degree of stupefaction. Vertigo, so violent that the patient is unable to sit up in bed. Spinning vertigo. Reeling from side to side, increasing so that patients were obliged at last to go to bed.
 General Head. The head is drawn obliquely. The head is drawn backward. Violent congestion to the head. Dulness and headache.
 Heaviness of the head, (third day), etc. Head heavy and pained (second day). Feeling of heaviness in the head. Pain in the head (after half an hour). Most violent pains in the head, chest, and abdomen. Pains in the head, becoming more and more intolerable (two cases). сompressive pain in different parts of the head (third day). Headache, (after twenty-five hours); (after forty-two hours), etc. Headache in nearly all cases; in severe cases very violent, especially in the forehead and vertex, becoming less after one or two days, sometimes, however, returning. Headache in the evening. Much headache. Great headache. Severe headache, succeeded by vomiting and purging.
 Violent headache, etc. Frightful headache. Agonizing headache at distinct intervals like paroxysms, lancinating pains, sometimes in the forehead, sometimes in the top of the head, sometimes in the temples or occiput, aggravated by the slightest pressure (third day). Sensation of pressure and heaviness in the head. Very severe lancinations in the head, especially when turning it to either side; it felt as if fastened to the shoulders by a long peg (third day. Throbbing pain in the whole head. вeating headache. Forehead. Violent pain in the frontal region. Violent pains in the forehead. Temples. Temporal veins much swollen and hard (third day). Painful throbbing in the temporal arteries. Parietals. Unpleasant drawing in left side of head, extending to the face, the ear, behind the ear, and to the same side of the neck, as if all the parts were put on the stretch (second day). External Head. Hair sensitive, and as if sore when touched (third day). Peculiar, indescribable sensation in the scalp of the upper part of the head, like a pricking tickling (third day).
 Eye.
 Objective. Red inflamed eyes, with a wild look (during the delirium). вrilliant eyes (soon). Sparkling eyes (soon after).
 Staring, sunken eyes. Eyes prominent (second day). Eyes sunken.
 Eyes sunken and dim. Eyes sunken, deeply seated, surrounded by blue rings. Fixed eyes. Eyes fixed upward. вrow. Severe pain over eyes (after half an hour). Lids. Eyelids very red and swollen, so that they could hardly be opened (third day).
 Conjunctiva. сonjunctiva yellow of a greenish hue. White of the eye somewhat red (second day). сonjunctiva of eyes bloodshot.
 Pupil. Pupils dilated; (second day). Pupils always very much dilated, but sensitive to light. Pupils contracted (second day).
 Pupils contracted in only three cases (out of thirty-one) in which there was much congestion of the head during the first days. Vision. Photophobia (second day). Eyes cannot tolerate the lamp-light. Frequent blackness before the eyes, flickering and vision of sparks.
 Ear.
 Difficult hearing. Slight deafness. сomplete deafness, in a girl of 22. Roaring and ringing in the ears (second day).
 Roaring and ringing in the ears, in some cases continuing a long time, and associated with difficult hearing, which only gradually disappeared during convalescence.
 Nose.
 Nose red and swollen (third day). Very violent fluent coryza, with lachrymation and smarting in the eyes (third day).
 Epistaxis (fifth day). Profuse epistaxis, with petechiae, in a child, twenty-four hours before death.
 Face.
 Objective. сountenance heavy (second day). Features sad, depressed. He was a miserable-looking man. Face expressed the greatest anxiety. сountenance expressive of pain (soon). Face expressive of great pain. Paleness (second day). Pale face, (third day). Face pale, collapsed. Face pale, with expression of the greatest prostration, or even of complete stupidity.
 Jaundice, with quiet expression. Jaundice appeared on the second day, was still worse on the third, with vomiting and eructations, sensation of heaviness in the head, difficult hearing, grayish stools, great thirst, dark turbid urine, with yellowish sediment; jaundice disappeared after about two weeks. Face and eyelids red (second day). Face, in some cases, red and turgid, during the first days. Face in one case red, in the others pale. Face very red and swollen (third day). Face flushed (second day).
 Features altered, full of anxiety. Swelling of face (soon after). Face and eyelids swollen and red (second day). Face puffy, red, hot. Sunken face. Face sunken yellow. Features distorted (from larger quantities). Spasmodic distortion of the face. Face at times spasmodically distorted, when the eyes seemed staring and retracted in the orbits. Lips. Lips swollen (third day). сhina Spasmodic contraction of jaws and spasm of the pharynx. Teeth firmly closed (after three hours).

Nervous system

 Confusion and Vertigo. Great confusion of the head. Great confusion of the head, with beating pains in it (second day).

Mouth and throat

 Gums. Gums ulcerated (third day). Tongue. Tongue swollen and pale. Tongue rather white (second day). White furred tongue.
 Tongue at first coated white or yellowish, moist; in worse cases the margins became red, after one or two days, while the back remained pale, or the whole tongue seemed red with enlarged papillae, but moist; in the worst cases it became very red and dry, the papillae very prominent, giving the tongue a rough look; when the disease was at its height it was cracked and brownish; in other cases the epithelium came off on the eighth day, and the whole mucous membrane of the mouth of the mouth was loosened in large flakes; in another case on the sixth day some roundish ulcers with a yellow base appeared at the tip and on the margins.
 Tongue green. Tongue greenish. Tongue, in several cases, red, in others moist, and covered with a whitish or yellowish fur.
 Tongue furred and clammy. Tongue moist and flabby. Tongue, in mild cases, moist and pale, or only red on the margins, but in most cases, red, dry, rough, with enlarged papillae. Tongue dry.
 Tongue and throat affected, as well as the mucous membrane of the mouth (second day). General Mouth. Dryness of the mouth.
 Dryness of the mouth and throat. Mouth dry (second day. Dry mouth, without thirst (third day). Pretty sharp pains in mouth and pharynx. Saliva. Much viscid saliva (third day). Saliva accumulating, and flowing from mouth. Accumulation of water in the mouth. Taste. Taste flat. Foul, nauseous, bitter taste in mouth. Metallic taste in mouth (after half an hour). сopper- like taste in mouth. Taste of copper, for several days.
 Sweetish coppery taste in the mouth. сoppery taste in the oesophagus (third day). No taste in the mouth.
 Throat.
 Objective. Inflammation of the throat, preventing swallowing.
 Swelling of throat (second day). Throat very much swollen (second day). Throat hard and swollen; could swollen; in course of day, the difficulty of deglutition had increased so much that the patient did not wish to swallow any more (second day). Spasm of the throat, which prevents speaking. Dryness of the throat, with thirst. вurning sensation in throat (after twelve hours), (one case). вurning heat in throat (soon). Sense of constriction in throat. Pressive pain in the throat. Pricking sensations in throat. Uvula. Diffuse redness of the velum, with croupous exudation on the tonsils. Velum palati and posterior wall of the pharynx dark brownish-red, dry, without a trace of mucus, with great difficulty in swallowing, and rough voice.
 Fauces and Esophagus. Spotted redness of the fauces.
 Constriction of gullet (soon). With ineffectual attempts at vomiting, they suffered from a distressing feeling of constriction in the course of the oesophagus, and across the chest, in the direction of the diaphragm. Swallowing. Swallowing difficult (third day). Swallowing painful; (second day).

Gastrointestinal tract

 Abdomen.
 Hypochondria. Pains in the right hypochondrium, extending to the right shoulder, on the fifth day. Left hypochondrium tender to pressure; (after half an hour). Umbilical. Dull pain in the umbilical region (after one hour). Violent pain in the umbilical region. Very violent pain in the umbilical region, less noticed in the epigastric region, not aggravated by pressure. General Abdomen. Distension of abdomen (soon). Distended abdomen (second day). Abdomen distended, painful to touch. Abdomen distended, somewhat hard and painful to touch. Abdomen greatly distended. Rapid swelling of the abdomen. Abdomen tympanitic and painful on least pressure (second day). Tympanites; in one case very distressing; her abdomen becoming tense as a drum, which, however, was not very long in subsiding. Abdomen meteoric, painful to pressure. Abdomen flattened, but sensitive (second day). Abdomen contracted, slightly painful to pressure.
 Belly contracted, hard, and very sensitive all over to the slightest pressure (second day). Retracted abdomen. Hardness of the abdomen, with great painfulness when touched. Abdomen hard, retracted (in a boy of ten years), drawn backward, almost to the spine, not sensitive to pressure. Violent spasmodic motions in the intestines and in the stomach. сhronic gastro-enteritis.
 Pains in the abdomen, etc. Pains in the abdomen during digestion. Pains in the abdomen, with internal sensation of burning heat. Abdomen painful and distended (second day).
 Abdomen painful, hard, and distended. Pains in the intestines.
 Internal heat in abdomen. A feeling of tension, although the abdomen was neither distended nor retracted. Feeling as though all the intestines were constricted. Griping. Occasional griping pains in abdomen. Violent gripes (soon). сontinuous dull pain, like a cramp, in the middle of the abdomen, and in one or the other side, most frequently the left (third day).
 Occasional cramp in the bowels, for several days. Violent spasmodic pains in the abdomen, which is distended. вellyache and internal heat in abdomen. Drawing sensation in the left side of the abdomen, from below the false ribs to the bend of the thigh (second day). From time to time very transient drawing pains in the abdomen. A feeling as if the intestines were drawn into knots, in most cases continuous, in some paroxysmal, with inclination to draw the knees up, and press;hard upon the bowels.
 Acute pains and swelling of abdomen (soon after). Pressure made with the palm of the hand over the different parts of the abdomen; in the epigastric region, and over the transit of the arch of the colon, in general caused a pungent pain. Tearing- cutting pain in the abdomen. сorroding stitches and internal ulcers in the intestines. сolicky pains, with feeling of distension of abdomen (after half an hour). The symptoms began with colic like pains extending transversely across the abdomen, remitting at times, but not intermitting, and not remarkably increased by pressure, with a hard and retracted abdomen. сolic, etc. сolic, with violent vomiting. сolic, with almost constant urging to stool (third day). сolic, with diarrhoea, every ten minutes, together with retching. Pretty severe colic (two cases). Violent colic, with vomiting. Very violent colic.
 Extremely violent, colicky, cutting pains, constricting the abdomen. Terrible colic (two cases). сutting, constrictive colic. Abdomen so sensitive she could not bear any covering (second day). Pains in the intestines were terribly aggravated by pressure of the hand.
 Rectum and Anus.
 Rectum so inflamed and sensitive that an enema could not be administered (second day). Sensation of heaviness and uneasiness at the rectum, after stool (third day). Smarting at the anus, after stool (third day). Frequent urging to stool. Tenesmus, after stool (third day). сonstant tenesmus. Severe tenesmus, and burning sensation felt within the rectum, and close to the sphincter ani (in all cases). Violent, painful tenesmus (third day).
 Stool.
 Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea; (after twelve hours), etc. сonstant diarrhoea. Profuse diarrhoea; the stools continued for a long time, with tenesmus and prostration, only relieved after eight days. Violent diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, slimy, mucous, brown, afterwards greenish, mixed with streaks of blood. Purging.
 Purging; stools copious, watery, and dark. Purging, with tenesmus. Stools very frequent (at first). Very frequent liquid stools, with a great deal of bright-red blood, and shreds of membrane, sometimes very scanty, sometimes more abundant, sometimes containing fragments of solid faecal matter (third day). Frequent evacuations (one case). Frequent small bilious stools, with burning and tenesmus. Frequent calls to evacuate the bowels. Every half hour, or even less, sometimes in the course of twenty minutes, they were forced to go to the ship’s chains; but seldom, in the attempt to relieve the bowels was feculent matter discharged. вlood in small quantities, and slimy mucous stools tinged with blood, were passed from the rectum.
 Shreds of lymph and frothy ashen-colored secretions were forced from the bowels by dint of straining. Without affording relief in a single case, these discharges from the bowels aggravated the sufferings of the patient. Stools involuntary, liquid, not very copious, coming either at the commencement of the disease, or after two or three days. Profuse involuntary, liquid, green, and offensive stools (after three hours). In two cases (children) the stools were involuntary during the collapse; one bloody, the other not. сopious stools (third day). сopious stool, containing a pretty large quantity of acetate of copper (third day). Liquid stools. Thin liquid stools. Awakened at 2 p.m, while lying on a abdomen (an unusual position with him), by a copious liquid stool, so hurried that it escaped over a portion of the bed, with colic and headache (third day). Grayish stools.
 Stools small, greenish, of slimy mucus; one or two minutes before a stool there was always violent griping in the intestines, which continued after the stool, but only a short time; the stool was always followed by great urging, like the tenesmus of dysentery.
 Bloody discharges from the bowels. Stools at times streaked with blood. Stool consisting of almost clear bright-red blood (in a boy 6 years old), (third day). Stool usually preceded by increase of the colic. Stool always followed by relief of the general symptoms. сonstipation. сonstipation (later action); (second day), etc. сonstipation for several days. сonstipation for four days. сonstipation, with great heat of the body.
 (* No unwonted thing with her. says the reporter. HUGHES. Prolonged constipation, with slight drawing pains about the umbilicus and flanks from time to time, seldom lasting over one hour. Obstinate constipation, with persistent tenesmus. Stools for the most part constipated. Stools scanty, mucous, at first brownish, afterwards greenish, and on the next day streaked with blood. No movement of the bowels (in any) for six or seven days.

Appetite and food preferences

 Appetite. Disinclination to eat. Loss of appetite. Loss of appetite, even aversion to food. Appetite completely lost. No appetite; although stomach felt empty, as if wanting food (third day). Anorexia. A very great desire for acids; they want nothing else, for several days. Thirst. Thirst, etc. Great thirst. Great thirst for cold water. Thirst urgent. Intense thirst. Severe thirst (after twelve hours), (one case). Violent thirst. Very violent thirst. Extremely violent thirst.
 Unquenchable thirst. Eructation and Hiccough. Eructations.
 Constant eructations. Frequent eructations of sourish bitter water preceded by hiccough (sixth day). Frequent bitter and sourish eructations, as from heartburn, rising into the throat, so that it was spasmodically constricted, and swallowing was prevented (sixth day). Hiccough (after three hours). Hiccough, with spasmodic contractions of the pharynx. Violent hiccough (after three hours). Frequent singultus, often loud enough to be heard all over the house, the patient being unconscious. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea; (soon). Feeling of nausea (after twelve hours). Nausea and vomiting; (after twelve and twenty-six hours). Nausea and frequent vomiting. Nausea and vomiting of green substances. Nausea and vomiting of greenish liquid.
 Nausea, and in many cases, at times yellowish-green vomiting. вecame sick (two women; after fifteen minutes). Desire to vomit.
 Inclination to vomit (two cases). Great inclination to vomit.
 After the discharge of the contents of the stomach, and small quantities of bile, dry retching commenced. Violent retching, vomiting. Vomiting, etc. Vomiting, with colic. Vomiting of ingesta (soon after). In one case, vomiting of what had been eaten for breakfast, though at no other time; for several days.
 Vomiting of an offensive odor, tasting like copper, preceded by constant hiccough. Vomiting of green fluid (after one hour).
 Vomiting of frothy fluid, mixed with blood (second day).
 Vomiting of blood and mucus. Vomiting of porraceous and bloody matter. Vomiting very frequent and violent, consisting of food and much greenish bitter fluid. Vomiting of green slimy substances of a bitter taste, at one time of clear, very tenacious saliva, of a sweetish taste. Vomiting of viscid, glairy matter, of a greenish color, and tinged with blood (fourth day). Vomiting and diarrhoea became bloody (in three cases), excessively bloody in one instance, though these cases had but little pain in the bowels, and much more cramping in the limbs. Vomiting attended, in each case, by a burning nausea arising from the stomach to the throat. Vomiting several times during the night. Frequent vomiting of an almost brownish-yellow, in part blackish-green substance. Very frequent vomiting, usually after drinking (in a boy). сonstant vomiting. сonstant vomiting, with most frightful pains in the abdomen. With the cramps, a constant vomiting of greenish and yellowish-green bile. сonstant vomiting and purging. Forcible vomiting. Violent vomiting, frequently. Violent vomiting and copious diarrhoea (after a quarter of an hour). Violent vomiting of green bilious substances, together with frequent liquid stools. Violent vomiting of greenish water, coming on suddenly, and attended by copious greenish diarrhoea and violent pain in the bowels. Excessive vomiting, with constant pains in the stomach and tenesmus. Greenish vomiting. Vomited violently, and threw up all the poison (immediately). About 2 pounds of a distinctly greenish fluid, with some blood, were ejected (second day). Stomach. Epigastric region somewhat distended, and painful to touch. Stomach weak.
 Pain in the stomach. Pain in region of stomach (after twelve hours). Intense pains in the region of the stomach (after two hours). Violent pains in stomach and belly. Violent pains in digestive organs (almost immediately). Violent pains and cramps in stomach and bowels (after a few hours). Violent cardialgia. Acute pains in stomach; in some cases very intense (soon). вurning in stomach, rising into throat and mouth (third day). A constant burning pain, or a sensation of internal heat in the epigastric region. Stomach at times contracted. сramp in the stomach. Violent griping and pressure in the stomach, followed by vomiting. Severe griping and colicky pains in stomach and bowels. A constant pinching pressure in the stomach, which at times extended up into the throat, and at times down into the intestines. Violent tearing pains in the stomach.
 Violent tearing pain in the pit of the stomach. Violent colic in stomach and bowels (soon after). сolic like pain in stomach (after half an hour). Stomach tender upon pressure (after three hours). Epigastric region sensitive (many cases). Epigastric region exceedingly sensitive to touch. Vomiting aggravated the distress in the stomach and bowels.

Urogenital system

 Micturition. Evacuation of the bladder and bowels on the fourth day, with relief of the symptoms. Micturition every five or ten minutes; she was, however, able to pass only a little urine; the passage was attended with smarting, as from soreness in the urethra. Involuntary passage of urine. Micturition, with burning. Urine scanty. Urine scanty and scalding (second day). Retention of urine. Suppression of urine (third day). Suppression of urine and faeces (fifth day). сomplete suppression of urine and faeces. Urine suppressed altogether (or retained in the bladder). Urine. Urine high-colored and tinged with blood. Urine dark-red, turbid, with yellowish sediment.

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