- Thallium is a rare metal discovered by Crookes in 1861.
- He found it in the residue left from the distillation of selenium and named it thallium (a green shoot) from the green it give s in the spectrum.
- Thallium and its derivatives are toxic.
- Thallium has been experimented with by Lamy and Marme.
- The symptoms picture of Thallium were established in 1965-66 by Panos, Rogers and Stephenson, on seven male and nine female provers.
- Combermale of Lille, used Thal, with success in the night -sweats of tuberculosis, but this treatment had the effect of causing profuse falling of the hair, so serious as to contraindicate its use.
- Huchard had patients become quite bald in several days.
- Hansen said Thal, relieves the violent pains of tabes dorsalis.
- Horrible, neuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves., spasmodic shooting pains like electric shocks.
- Muscular atrophy.
- Tremors.
- Trembling.
- Chorea-like movements.
- Locomotor ataxiaLoss of full control of bodily movementsA neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality. with pain.
- ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of lower limbs.
- ParaplegiaParalysis of the lower half of the bodyParalysis that affects all or part of the trunk, legs, and pelvic organs, usually due to spinal cord injury..
- Poly- neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area..
- Trigeminal neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves..
- Spinal neurastheniaNervous exhaustion and chronic fatigueAn ill-defined medical condition characterized by chronic physical and mental fatigue, headaches, and irritability..
- Pseudo-bulbar paralysis.
- Intermittent paralysis.
- Muscular pains.
- Numb ness or formication starting in the fingers and toes, extending up to lower limbs and down to feet and involving lower abdomen and perineum.
- General emaciation with a lack o f strength.
- Hyperemia, swelling and excessive secretion.
- Night -sweats of tuberculosis.
- Dermatrophic lesions.
- AlopeciaHair loss or baldnessPartial or complete loss of hair from areas where it normally grows, especially the scalp., hair loss following acute, exhausting diseases.
- Loss of body hair and hair of the head.
- Influences the endocrine glands, especially the thyroid and adrenalin.
- Hyperthyroidism symptoms.
- Emaciation, hypotonia, chilliness.
- Pains in the legs, aggravated when lying on the affected side.
- Unable to find a position in the bed which eases the pain in the right knee on bending or stretching it.
- Pain in the sciatic nerve.
- Discomforts are of a periodic nature, recurring in strength, at the same hour and then disappearing again.
- Permanent state of jangled nerves.
- Trophic conditions of the nails