Ferrum arsenicum
Iron(II) arsenate / ferrous arsenate · Mineral
Ferrum Arsenicum is suited to patients with anaemia, chlorosis, and malarial conditions featuring enlarged liver and spleen with continued fever. The type is emaciated, debilitated, and jaundiced, with fever appearing in the afternoon and copious sweat providing little relief.
Key symptoms
- Enlarged spleen with high continued fever and flushed sweaty face
- Pallid face during intermission of fever
- No thirst during any stage of fever
- Heat intense and prolonged with slight burning of whole body
- Emaciation and debility with disinclination to leave bed
- Obstinate constipation or colliquative diarrhoea with undigested matter and mucus
- Enlarged indurated liver and spleen slightly tender to pressure
Arseniate of Iron. Triferric diarsenate. Fe3 2As O4.
Clinical
Anæmia. Bright's disease. Chlorosis. Liver, enlargement of. Spleen, enlargement of.
Characteristics
Hale was the first to use Fe. ars., giving the 2x with promptly curative result to an anæmic girl who had been given Iron and Arsenic separately, under old-school treatment, in vain. P. C. Majumdar (Ind. Hom. Rev., v. 104) has put it to excellent use in cases of enlarged liver and spleen with fever. When there is no fever Fe. iod. is better. These are his indications for Fe. ars.: Enlarged spleen with high fever of a continued type; during fever the face is flushed and sweaty, but during the intermission the face is pallid. Disinclination to work, even to leave his bed; constipation, or, sometimes, colliquative diarrhœa, the stools consisting of undigested matter and mucus, no thirst during any stage of the fever; heat intense and prolonged with slight burning of the whole body, emaciation, and debility. Majumdar reports these two cases: …
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