The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Myosotis myos.
General
Forget-me-not. Boraginaceæ.
No provings.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Cough , Fisher, Times Retros., 1875, p. 25 ; Chronic bronchitis , Frank, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 116 ; Affection of lungs , Funk, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 116.
Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia
Chronic bronchitis ; patient nearly in a dying condition.
Bronchorrhœa.
Cough
Obstinate old coughs with profuse muco-purulent expectoration ; gagging or vomiting during cough, < while or immediately after eating ; expectoration most profuse in morning ; pain in left side (lower lung) not < by lying in any position, but painful while coughing and sensitive to percussion.
After typhus, progressive emaciation with severe cough, sometimes dry and again with scanty expectoration ; profuse sweats day and night ; eyes and cheeks sunken ; nose pointed and whitish.
Inner chest and lungs
Copious sputa, emaciation, night sweat.
Time
Morning : expectoration most profuse.
Day and night : profuse sweats.
Locality and direction
Left : pain in side (lower lung).
Sensations
Pain in left side (lower lung).
Stage of life, constitution
D., æt. 26 ; chronic bronchitis.
K., æt. 15, after typhus ; affection of lungs.
Relations
Compare : Stannum in lung disease.