Thyreoidinum
thyreThyreoidinum (A Sarcode)
Trituration of the fresh thyroid gland of sheep or calf. Attenuation of a liquid extract of the gland. Faintness, with great flushing of upper part of body and pains in back. Swelling of face and legs. Burning sensation of lips with free desquamation. Frequent fainting fits. Sensation of faintness and nausea. Malaise > by lying in bed. Rest in recumbent position > extreme breathlessness with lividity, felt as if dying. Myxedematous patients are always chilly; the effect of the treatment is to ma
Thyreoidinum — Materia Medica
Thyreoidinum — mind · H.C. Allen
Depression. Fretfulness and moroseness gave way to cheerfulness and animation. Delirium of persecution (three cases observed, one fatal, the result of taking Thyr. in tablets to reduce obesity). Sudden acute mania occurring in myxedema, perfectly restored mentally and bodily under Thyr. Mental aberration dating three years before onset of myxedema subject to attacks of great violence, with intervals of depression and moroseness. State of idiocy; fearful nightmares. Very excited; excited state followed by considerable depression. Irritable and ill-tempered. Became a tumbler. Angry. Had frights.
Thyreoidinum — head · H.C. Allen
Vertigo. Feeling of lightness in the brain, scarcely amounting to giddiness. Much giddiness and headache for twenty-four hours. Awake about 4 a.m. with sharp headache and intense aching in back and limbs, which continued for three days and compelled him to keep his bed. Constant headache, pains in occiput and vertex. Headache in case of acromegaly. Headache. In one case of scleroderma and one case of myxedema the hair fell off permanently. In case of myxedema the patient lost all the hair of his head and face and had a thick growth over his arms and thorax; under Thyr. The hair of the head and face grew again and that of the arms and chest fell off.
Thyreoidinum — face · H.C. Allen
Flushing.
Thyreoidinum — eyes · H.C. Allen
Prominence of eyeballs—exophthalmic goitre. Optic neuritis (in five persons, four of them women, under treatment for obesity; no other symptoms of thyroidism). Accommodative asthenopia.
Thyreoidinum — ears · H.C. Allen
Moist patches behind ears heal up (case of psoriasis). Hyperplastic media otitis with sclerosis and loss of mobility of the ossicles (rapid amelioration—several cases).
Thyreoidinum — mouth · H.C. Allen
Tongue became thickly coated. Feverish and thirsty. Great thirst. Ulcerated patch on buccal aspect on left cheek near angle of mouth.
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