Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Argentum nitricum.
Mind and Disposition.
Very impulsive ; in continual motion ; he walks fast.
Apathy.
Head.
Vertigo, with headache.
Morning headache, (when he awakens).
[5] Excessive congestion of blood to
the head.
Stitches in the left frontal eminence.
Digging up, incisive motion, through the left hemisphere of the brain.
Headache, with chilliness.
Headache relieved by tying a handkerchief tightly around the head.
[10] Headache worse in the open air.
Itching, creeping, crawling of the hairy scalp.
Sensation, as if the bones of the skull separated, with increase of
temperature.
Eyes.
Mucus in the eyes drying up, and forming scurfs.
Vanishing of light ; to is constantly obliged to wipe off the
mucus, which obstructs the axis of vision.
[15] Opacity of the cornea.
Ophthalmia, with intense pain ; worse in the warm room, better in
the open air.
Ears.
Ringing in the ears, and deafness, (left ear).
Nose.
Violent itching of the nose.
Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, sneezing, and stupefying,
headache.
[20] Discharge of pus, with clots of
blood.
Face.
Sunken, pale, bluish countenance.
Hard blotches in the vermilion border of the upper lip, paler than the
lip, and sore to the touch.
The lips are dry and viscid, without thirst.
The gums are swollen, inflamed, bleed easily, and are painful when
touched.
[25] Sensitiveness of the teeth to cold
water.
Mouth.
Dryness of the tongue with thirst.
Papillæ prominent, erect, feeling sore.
Painful red tip of the tongue.
Fetid actor from the mouth.
[30] Ptyalism.
Throat.
Dark redness of the uvula and fences.
Sensation, as if a splinter were lodged in the throat when swallowing.
Thick, tenacious mucus in the throat.
Appetite and Taste.
Irresistible desire for sugar in the evening.
[35] Sweetish-bitter taste.
Stomach.
Violent belching.
Violent vomiting, with anxiety in the præcordial region.
Black vomit.
Vomiting and diarrhœa with violent colicky pains.
[40] Gnawing pain in the left side of
the stomach.
Pressure, with heaviness and nausea in the stomach.
Abdomen.
Stitches through the abdomen, like electric shocks, (left side).
Stool and Anus.
Diarrhœa of green, fetid mucus, with very noisy emission of flatulence
at night.
Bloody stools.
[45] Constipation, fæces dry.
Itching at the anus.
Urinary Organs.
Frequent and copious emission of pale urine.
Inflammation, and violent burning or shooting pains in the urethra, with
increased gonorrhœa.
Priapism, bleeding of the urethra.
[50] Stricture of the urethra.
Sexual Organs.
Men. Chancre-like ulcer on the prepuce.
Sexual desire wanting, the genital organs having become shrivelled.
Chest.
Palpitation of the heart in paroxysm, with nausea.
Back.
Pain in the small of the back relieved when standing or walking.
Lower Extremities.
[55] Heaviness and debility of the
legs.
Great debility and weariness in the calf of the leg, as after a long
journey.
Generalities.
Staggering gait.
Great debility and weariness, (lower limbs).
Convulsions.
[60] Epileptic attacks caused by
fright, or during menstruation, (at night, or in the morning when
rising).
Sensation of expansion, (face and head).
Sleep.
Soporous condition.
Nightly nervousness, with heat in the head.
Restless sleep, with stupefaction and headache.
Fever.
[65] Chilliness, with nausea.
Morning perspiration.
Skin.
Wart-shaped excrescences on the skin.
Discoloration of the skin -blue-gray, violet or bronze- colored tinges,
to real black.
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