Condensed Materia Medica

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Mind

Lively, talkative, good-natured.
Destructive mood.
Anxiety, low-spiritedness, etc., retard the action of remedy.

Sensorium

Dizzy: when reading; when rising from a chair.

Inner Head

Shooting pains in the temples.
Dull headache over the eyes, with pain at the root of nose.
Throbbing pain in the forehead or temples.
Dull heavy aching at the base of the brain; with 11: 48.

Eyes

Generally, excessive photophobia.
Black motes before the eyes; opacities of the vitreous.
Throbbing, aching, nightly pains.
Keratitis, with ulceration commencing at the corneal margin; with 11.

Ears

Sudden, sharp pains in the ear.
Throbbing, boring, from within outward, deep in left ear.

Nose

Septum nares sore; sharp pains.
Much mucus descends into the throat, causing hawking; spots in nose feel sore; constant inclination to swallow.

Face

Dull aching and soreness in bones of the face; also in jaws.

Teeth

Molar teeth feel too long; worse bringing them together.
Grinding and drawing pains in teeth; wants to press them together.
Stiffness of the jaws.

Tongue, etc

Tongue coated: thick yellow at the base; bright yellow at the back part, tips and edges red (with many affections).

Mouth

Mouth, lips and tongue dry and sticky.

Throat

Throat dry, with frequent, empty swallowing.
Easily detached patches on the inflamed pharynx and fauces; worse in the right tonsil; salivary glands much swollen; fetid discharge; with 11.
Much tenacious mucus in throat; hawking causes gagging.
Sensation of a lump in the throat.

Desires and Aversions

Appetite variable; disgust at seeing food.
Excessive thirst, occasionally for acid drinks.

Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea, faintness, with dizziness and suffocation about the heart.

Stomach

Weak, empty feeling at the stomach, nausea.
Bruised, burning pain at the stomach.
Cutting pains, with nausea and inclination to vomit.

Hypochondria

Stitches in region of liver, better by pressure with hand; pains about liver, right side of chest and back; soreness under right scapula, worse motion and at night.

Abdomen

Hardness of the abdomen, as from flatulence.
Burning at the umbilicus, as from a hot coal.
Faint, sick feeling in the hypogastrium before stool.
Indolent bubo.

Stool, etc

Cutting, colicky pains, followed by diarrhœa, or discharge of fetid flatus; stools thin, light brown, frothy.
Frequent urging to stool.
Black discharges, with or without blood.
Stools tough, like putty, with much straining.

Urine

Copious, dark red; scanty.

Male Sexual Organs

Copious seminal emissions, preceded by lewd dreams.
Hard chancre (given at once it prevents secondary symptoms).
Painless chancres, with great swelling of inguinal glands, not disposed to suppurate.

Female Sexual Organs

Yellow leucorrhœa, especially with children.

Pregnancy

Morning sickness.

Larynx

Loss of voice, hoarseness.

Cough

Loose, rattling cough, bronchi loaded with mucus; sputum copious and yellow.

Lungs

Stitches through the right side of the chest.

Heart and Pulse

Sharp pains at the heart.
Sudden spasmodic action of the heart.
Pulse weak, irregular and labored.

Neck and Back

Neck stiff; soreness in occiput, worse when lying.
Sharp pains in the back.

Upper Limbs

Arms stiff and sore, worse when moved.
Arms and hands numb.

Lower limbs

Weariness in the legs, tingling.
Dull, boring pains in the legs, worse at night.
Heavy, laming pains in the calves, with pain in left knee-joint.
Lame feeling in the feet.

Position, etc

Exercise generally relieves.
Motion: 32. Rising: 2. Lying: 31.

Nerves

Very tired feeling; especially of the limbs.
Faint feeling, worse in church.

Sleep

Sleeplessness until 1 A.M.
Dreams are frightful.

Time

Night: 5, 33, 37, 46.

Temperature and Weather

Sensitive to the cold air.
The open air relieves unpleasant sensation.
Worse: in cold, damp weather; in Spring.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chills, with trembling all over.

Sides

Right: 13, 18, 28. Left: 6, 16, 33. Within outward: 6.

Tissues

Glands swollen, indurated.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Pressure: 10, 18.

Skin

Hard papulæ over the body.
Itching, pricking all over, worse at night.
Bright red, fine eruption on chest and abdomen.
Milk crust in children of syphilitic taint.