Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkeDescription
Picrate of Zinc. Zn[C6H2(NO2)3O]2. Trituration.
Nosology
Bright s disease; headaches of. Exhaustion. Facial paralysis. Headaches. Nymphomania. Paralysis agitans. Priapism. Satyriasis. Seminal emissions. Spinal weakness.
Typical features
Hale gives this indication of Zn. pi. сerebro-spinal troubles of the erethistic character. Hugh Pitcairn (quoted H. W., xix. 366) gives these indications: (1) вrain-fag. (2) Nervous exhaustion from over-worked brain or sexual excess. (3) сhronic occipital headaches, periodic. (4) Headache occurring in вright s disease. (5) Threatened cerebral paralysis, especially in children. (6) Profound neurasthenia, when nervous exhaustion has passed beyond stage of erethism. (7) Seminal emissions. (8) Erotomania. He gives this case: Mr. M., 36, merchant. Above ordinary intelligence. Single; correct in his habits, but subject to seminal emissions since early manhood, occurring about 3 p.m every third night, leaving him very weak and debilitated;
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Fag, Pic. ac., Fe. pic., and picrates generally.
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