Homarus gammarus

 Lobster. N. O. сrustaceae. Triturations of sugar of milk saturated with the digesting fluid of the lobster, a thick, reddish, offensive liquid contained in a sac situated at the back of the mouth.

 Back, pains in. вones, pains in. сoryza. Diaphragm, pain in. Dyspepsia. Eye, affections of. Flatulence. Granular throat. Headache. Liver, pains in. Oedema. Paralysis, nervous. Pruritus. Sleep, disordered. Spleen, pains in. Throat, sore. Wrist, pain in.

 The effects of lobster on some persons and under some conditions are well known. In order to thoroughly study the effect A. M. сushing adopted the happy idea of proving the specific lobster poison, and the result has been a very valuable addition to our armamentarium (H. R., iii. 98). Homarus is an agent of great activity, as the subjoined symptom list will show. Persons have been known to die after eating lobster and thereafter drinking milk. сushing put a little of the poison into warm milk, and in ten minutes it was a hard mass. Papoid soon dissolved it, but pepsin took much longer. сushing found that milk aggravated his symptoms during the proving. From motion; from passing wind; after eating; from inhaling cold air. L. H. Hallock relates (Med. Adv., xxii. 311) a personal experience. An hour after eating a small amount of lobster salad, general pruritus commenced, worse in lower extremities, especially the calves. The itching was of a biting, burning character, not by rubbing or scratching, almost unendurable. It lasted two hours in spite of bathing with hot and cold water, fresh and salt. No sooner had the itching abated than lips, nose, eyes began to swell, till the eyes were closed and lips almost completely inverted. Throat swollen and oedematous so that it was almost impossible to breathe; profuse salivation. Eight hours after the meal he had the appearance of a severe and protracted debauch. In twenty-four hours was as well as ever. Once subsequently he had a like experience after eating lobster.

 Compare: Sepia, Murex, Aster. right Ast. fl.; in cold damp feet, сalc. c. Lach.

 Milk, effects of.

 Frightened feeling. Dull. Nervous but with dread of moving.

 Headache, in morning; sharp at times, mostly in temporal region,.
 Aching in eyes. Aching in right eye and above left angle of right-Aching in left eye with soreness to touch. Aching from left side of right eye to occiput. Aching in left eye when rising, later in right, as if something had been blown in the eye suddenly. Smarting in eyes. Aching pain in left ball, not much affected by the light. Lids stuck together in the morning. Oedema of lids. Profuse lachrymation.
 Frequent stabbing through lower lobe of left ear, had to pinch it.
 Stinging in nasal passages. - вurning in nasal passages extending to throat after rising. Sensation of mucus in left nostril. Nose stopped in morning. Discharge from the nose; watery, from left nostril. Sneezed often.

 Profuse salivation.
 Pain near left ear; sharp, sudden, transient, in left side of throat, occasionally extending to ear. Smarting and redness of throat; by cold air. Smarting and inclination to cough opening mouth wide and inhaling very cold air. Pain in left side of throat, ear, and neck, it seems to be in the muscles rather than the mucous membrane, holding side of head with the hand. Tingling; and inclination to cough, raised white mucus. - вurning in throat, right side, and in oesophagus, stomach and bowels. Oedema of throat so great he could hardly breathe.

 Belching forth of tasteless wind in the morning. Pain all the forenoon, with occasional hot flashes. Sharp pain after a light breakfast. Distress in stomach; on waking in the night, in morning, returned in evening; before and after a light breakfast; after a plain dinner, followed by a little ice-cream; through to back,.
 Pain: in diaphragm; in hypochondria; lower part of liver; liver and spleen; in liver and spleen during the day; in liver,.
 Frequent transient inclination to stool during the day. Alternate diarrhoea and constipation, changing every three or four days. After a few minutes sleep awoke with hurried desire to pass stool, by passing large amount of wind. After much effort passed large, long tenacious stool (in night).

 Long-continued excitement every morning; and in night.
 17, 18. Respiratory Organs and сhest. Difficult breathing after retiring. Sharp pain in back side of left lung. Pain: through chest; in sides, in right lung; through centre of right lung. Pain in centre of left lung after retiring, and around body at diaphragm; in centre of right lung and through to scapula. - вurning distress at right of lower end of sternum; in both sides with difficult breathing. Intense oedema of throat rendering breathing almost impossible.

 Pulse full, rolling.

 Aching: just below diaphragm; in centre of right scapula in morning; inside of scapula,.
 Grinding pain just above elbows. Pains: in arms and legs; in left arm in afternoon; just above elbows,.
 Pain in right thigh and leg. Pain: in legs.

 Pain somewhere all day; in eyes and various parts of body and limbs after retiring. Strange feeling all over, was not dizzy, but when trying to take hold of door-knob could not do it readily, but put my hand all around it and was frightened. Felt sick, unable to move, moving. Dull feeling. Nervous feeling; but dread of moving. Restlessness. Weakness; After eating; after dinner.

 Sore pimple on left thigh, outside. Itching: in various parts frequently day and night; of various parts before and after retiring, scratching, but appearing in another place. Itching sudden, by rubbing or scratching, lasted two hours in spite of hot and cold bathing; followed immediately on its subsidence with oedema of lips and throat.

 Slept in a chair (unusual) after dinner. Restless at night. Sleepy after retiring, so that eyes ached, but could not sleep for a long time. Sleepless for nearly two hours after retiring; restless, had headache, pain in back, stomach and bowels. Woke at midnight, after a few minutes sleep, with hurried desire for stool, passing much wind, and after much effort passed a large, long, tenacious stool. Every night go to sleep on retiring, and in five or ten minutes wake and lie awake one or two hours. Wakefulness in the morning, but later in the proving it was both in the first and last part of the night. Woke early and could not go to sleep on account of pains all over,.

 Chilliness all over so that I trembled. Feet cold; and damp; afterwards burning.

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