Galvanismus
Galvanic / electric current · Imponderable
Galvanismus suits individuals with marked neurological disturbances, including muscular spasms, epilepsy, and brain-fag, particularly where the condition has an electrical or galvanic etiology. The patient experiences bizarre sensory disturbances, confusion, and alternating states of excitement and prostration. Benumbed feeling at the back of the head in brain-fag is a characteristic indication.
Key symptoms
- Muscular contractions and shuddering with shivering
- Cold-water sensations on skin alternating with burning
- Head confusion, vertigo, and deafness with alternation of heat and cold
- Putrid smell before the nose
- Many sensations in the tongue with excessive salivation
- Unusual vivacity of mind with loss of control over limb motions
- Epilepsy, tetanus, and paralysis
Galvanism. ("Z" signifies zinc, "s" silver, and "c" the copper pole.) Attenuations are made by triturating sugar of milk which has been subjected to the influence of either pole.
Clinical
Asthma. Brain-fag. Diarrhœa. Epilepsy. Fever. Hæmorrhoids. Hydrocephalus. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Salivation. Tetanus. Tongue, affections of. Toothache. Vision, illusions of.
Characteristics
Caspari is the authority for this medicine. The most prominent symptoms are muscular contractions; shuddering, shivering, cold-water sensations on skin or else burning. Disorders of sight and hearing with confusion of the head and headache. There is also putrid smell before nose. Many sensations appear in the tongue, and there is salivation. Catamenia copious. Farrington gives "benumbed feeling at the back of the head in brain-fag, the positive pole being applied to the cervical region, the negative to the vertex."
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