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BOVISTA. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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BOVISTA.


THROAT.

► Sensations.
► Dryness in the throat, on waking, sticking on
swallowing, and numbness in the mouth, disappearing after rising and eating, [2]. ► Great dryness in the
throat, in the morning, on waking, so that the tongue seemed almost like wood, [3]. ► Frequent pain in
the throat, [1]. ►
Burning in the throat, [3]. ►
Sore throat in the evening; painful when swallowing the saliva, as if something were
sticking in the throat; he was unable to swallow food easily, [3].
[250.] ► Scraping in
the throat, with irritation to cough (first day), [1].
► Every morning, scraping in the throat, with mucus, [1]. ► The sleep was
frequently interrupted by scraping in the throat; she was obliged to hawk up mucus, [3]. ► Scraping and
burning in the throat, as if he had eaten something too hot, [3].
► Scraping and burning in the throat, causing a dry
cough, [3]. ►
Rawness of the throat, in the morning, after rising, and in the evening, for several days, [2]. ► Tickling in the
throat, which obliges her to cough frequently, in the afternoon, at five (third day), [2]. ► Slight irritation
of the pharynx, [4]. ►
Swelling of the cervical glands, [1]. ► Swollen cervical glands, with tension and drawing pains, for
six days, [3].

STOMACH.

► Appetite.
[260.] ► Constant
excessive hunger; he was unable to eat enough, and was soon hungry again, [1]. ► (Hunger in the afternoon,
contrary to custom), [3]. ►
Hunger towards evening, [3]. ►
She relished the food, although afterwards she had a pressure in the stomach as if she had
overloaded it, [3]. ►
Appetite without real hunger, [3]. ► No appetite; she was obliged to force herself to eat, [3]. ► No appetite for
cooked food, only for bread (eleventh and twelfth days), [2].
► A child loses its appetite; the whole body becomes hot,
with puffy, scarlet face; it lies and vomits mucus and food; followed by excessive sweat
through the night, mostly on the head, with nose-bleed twice during sleep (after
twenty-seven days), [1]. ►
Thirst.
► Great longing for water and wine, [3]. ► Thirst the whole
day (after twenty-one days), [2]. [270.] ► Thirst, the whole
afternoon and evening, contrary to his usual habit (fourth day), [2]. ► Thirst, especially in the
evening, [3]. ►
Thirst, during the chill, [2]. ►
Thirst for cold water, [3]. ►
Thirst for milk, in the morning (after four days), [2].
► Much thirst, towards evening, as if she had eaten much
salt food, [3]. ►
Unquenchable thirst (after three hours), [1]. ► Loss of thirst, [1].
► He had an unnatural thirst; previously he almost never
needed to drink, [1]. ►
Eructations and Hiccough.
► Empty eructations,
several mornings, fasting, [2]. [280.] ► Frequent empty
eructations
, even before breakfast, [2]. ► Eructations, tasting of the breakfast, the whole forenoon, [3]. ► Eructations of
gas, [3]. ►
Inclination to hiccough; it only, however, amounts to half a hiccough, in the forenoon, [2]. ► Severe,
long-lasting hiccough at 1 P.M., [2]. ► Frequent hiccough, an hour after dinner, [2]. ► Nausea. ► Qualmishness in the stomach, as if one had not eaten for a
long time, [3]. ►
Great qualmishness in the stomach, with inclination to vomit, in the morning; though only
water was vomited; with nausea; this ceased after breakfast, [3].
► Nausea, [1], [5]. ► Nausea in the
stomach, as if she would vomit, in the forenoon, [2]. [290.] ► Nausea and
palpitation, worse on motion; with chilliness, [3]. ► Nausea and coldness, in the forenoon, [3]. ► Nausea, with chilliness in
the morning, with sticking-tearing toothache, especially on the left side; the pains were
relieved by cold water, [3]. ►
Excessive nausea and shuddering, in the morning, so that she could not get warm; followed by
vertigo, which relieved the headache, [3]. ► Stomach. ► Distension
and fine twinges in the epigastric region; relieved by passage of offensive flatus at 8 A.M.
(seventeenth day), [2]. ►
Gurgling in the stomach, in the morning, relieved after eating (eleventh day), [2]. ► Gurgling on the
left side, near the pit of the stomach, in the evening, [2].
► A feeling in the stomach, as if one had fasted, even
after eating (twentieth day), [2]. ► Every morning on rising, it seems as though the stomach was
foul, with a nauseous taste in the mouth; after some time this disappears and he has an
appetite; for fourteen days in succession, [3]. ► A cold feeling in the stomach, as if a lump of ice lay in it,
[2]. [300.] ► Burning, externally, in the pit of the stomach, together with
frequent fine stitches in it, after dinner, [2].

ABDOMEN.

► Hypochondria.
► Frequent sharp stitches in the right hypochondrium,
near the back, [2]. ►
Stitches, with a peculiar indescribable pain, in the right hypochondrium (twelfth day), [2]. ► Some stitches in
the left hypochondrium, and, at the same time, in the left elbow, [2]. ► Burning stitches in the
left hypochondrium, on sitting bent, which disappear on becoming erect, [2]. ► Umbilical. ► Very transient burning internally about the navel, at 11
A.M., [2]. ►
Sticking colic about the navel, [3]. ► Stitches about the navel (after one hour), [3]. ► Frightful colic in the
umbilical region after eating, as if knives were cutting the abdomen, for several minutes
(third day), [1]. ►
Twinges about the navel, with griping, in the morning on waking, as if he should go to
stool, [3]. ► General
Abdomen.
► Distended abdomen, with pain in it
(eighth day), [1]. [310.]
► Distension of the abdomen, with rumbling in it, which
disappeared after passing flatus in the morning (fifth day), [2].
► Great distension of the abdomen, which constantly
increases till midnight, and at last disappears after the passage of flatus (eleventh day), [2]. ► Severe rumbling
and noises in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would ensue, though a diarrhœa-like stool
occurred only after several hours, [3]. ► Much rumbling in the bowels, as from a purge, always relieved
by passage of flatus, [2]. ►
Very severe rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, with constipation, [3]. ► Frequent passage of flatus,
[3]. ► Very
frequent passage of loud flatus, followed by distension of the abdomen and colic, at 5 A.M.,
[2]. ► Much passage
of flatus, after lying down in bed, [3]. ► Offensive flatus, especially in the morning and evening
(first day), [1]. ►
Offensive flatus, and rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening, [2]. [320.] ►
Very violent pain in the abdomen, as if everything were dried up, in the evening in bed
(eighth day), [1]. ►
Cold feelings creep about the abdomen, [2]. ► Pain almost like burning, in both sides of the abdomen, after
dinner, [2]. ►
Tension and sticking in the upper part of the abdomen, [3].
► Spasmodic pain in the abdomen, especially on
inspiration and on drawing in the abdomen (after fourteen days), [1]. ► Colic, night and morning,
with diarrhœa, [3]. ►
(Colic, and some chilliness, always after dinner), [1].
► Frightful colic, so that he was obliged to bend quite
double, and could not stand erect, with high-colored urine and much thirst (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
Sensations of colic in the intestines, in the afternoon, with an inclination to an
evacuation, [1]. ►
Colic-pain in the abdomen, with trembling and gnashing of the teeth, on account of coldness,
especially after the stool; the pain is very violent, especially in the morning on waking,
with distension of the left side of the abdomen and urging to stool; on turning about, or
pressing on the abdomen, the side was relieved; it was more severe during rest; stool
followed after one hour, was first hard, then fluid, with immediate relief of the pain, [3]. [330.] ► Twisting pain in the abdomen, [3].
► Cutting pain in the forepart of the abdomen, in the
morning; was relieved after eating, [1]. ► Cutting in the abdomen, which extends towards the stomach,
and frequently intermitting in the evening; the pains are renewed the next morning and last
till noon; only passage of flatus relieves them, [2]. ► Stitches in the abdomen, as with needles, [3]. ► Stitches in the abdomen on
stooping, [3]. ►
Stitches in the abdomen, with a feeling of discomfort, [3].
► Violent twinges in the right side of the upper abdomen,
after dinner, [2]. ►
The abdomen is sensitive, internally and externally, so that she could not bear it touched
and was obliged to walk bent (eleventh day), [2]. ► Pains, as from suppuration and tearing, in the abdomen, with
diarrhœa and great exhaustion, on the last day of menstruation, [3]. ► Violent motions in the
abdomen, relieved by passage of flatus; with urging to stool, in the evening (fifth day), [2]. [340.] ► Trembling and cutting in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would
ensue, for a quarter of an hour; relieved after the passage of flatus at 10 A.M., [2]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac
Regions.
► Pain in the lower abdomen,
extending from the left side to the right, as if the bowels were suppurating, [3]. ► Violent pain as from
constriction in the right groin, relieved by stretching out the body, [2]. ► Pinching as with two
fingers in the right groin, [2]. ►
Frequent sharp stitches in the right groin (fifth day), [2].

RECTUM AND ANUS.

► Very
violent pressing pain deep in the rectum, extending forward, after the diarrhœa, [2]. ► Severe itching in
the rectum, as from small worms, on riding, [3]. ► Burning in the anus, continuing a long time, after a watery
stool, [2]. ►
Transient stitches through the perineum towards the rectum and genitals, [1]. ► Urging to stool without
effect, with passage of flatus, at 6 A.M., [2]. ► Urging to stool, when only a little thin stool of a yellowish
color passed, followed by burning in the anus (fifth day), [2].
[350.] ► Painful
urging to stool, followed by three attacks of diarrhœa, and afterwards tenesmus and burning
in the anus, with prostration of the whole body (twenty-first day), [2]. ► After an ordinary stool, a
feeling as though diarrhœa would still come on, [2].

STOOL.

► Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa six times during the day, with cutting pains in the
abdomen (eleventh day), [2]. ►
Diarrhœa, with pain, in the morning, with which the abdomen felt as if suppurating, [3]. ► Diarrhœa, with
colic, in the evening, [3]. ►
Diarrhœa, with tearing in the abdomen, and tenesmus in the rectum, at night, [3]. ►► *Diarrhœa, frequently
before and during menstruation
(nineteenth day), [2].
► Quite watery diarrhœa, four times in succession, with
tenesmus and burning in the anus (sixth day), [2]. ► Frequent fœcal diarrhœa in the morning (fourth, fifth
days), [2]. [360.]
► Profuse diarrhœa, morning and evening, [3]. ► A stool three or four times
a day; he was obliged to make great exertion when the stool, at first hard, then soft,
passed, [2]. ► A
soft stool followed soon after the customary evacuation, [3].
► An ordinary stool, although he had had the usual stool
in the morning, before taking it, [2]. ► Two liquid stools a day until the thirty-first day, mostly in
the forenoon, [2]. ►
Stool, soft in the morning, hard in the evening (second day), [2].
► Stool normal in the morning, liquid in the afternoon
(eleventh day), [2]. ►
Irregular stool; it occurs at an unusual time of the day and is too hard, [1]. ► Stool more copious than
usual, [3]. ► Stool
soft (sixth day), hard (seventh day), [2]. [370.] ► Stool softer and more
regular than usual, [2], [3]. ► It seems to make a hard
stool soft, as a secondary action, [1]. ► Constipation. ►
Constipation for three days, [3]. ► No stool the second day, [2].
► No stool on the third day of the menstruation, [2]. ► Stool only every
second or third day and rather hard, [3]. ► The evacuation follows with difficulty and great exertion, [3].

URINARY ORGANS.

► Pain in
the region of the kidneys, [3]. ► Urethra. ► The orifice
of the urethra is inflamed and agglutinated, [3]. ► Pain in the urethra on urinating, as if the urine passed over
a sore place (fourteenth day), [1]. [380.] ► Burning in the
urethra when not urinating, [3]. ►
Burning in the urethra on urinating, [3]. ► Burning in the urethra after every urination (second day), [2]. ► Stitches in the
urethra, [3]. ►
Itching in the urethra when not urinating, [3]. ► Frequent urging to urinate, but only a little urine passed, [3]. ► Frequent urging to
urinate; she was obliged to rise at night, to urinate, and considerable passed, [3]. ► Very frequent
urging to urinate, with a profuse discharge of urine, [3].
► After urinating, soon again frequent urging thereto;
she, however, passed only a few drops, [2]. ► Micturition. ►
(Frequent urinating with sudden urging), [1]. [390.] ► Increased passage of
urine in the afternoon, [1]. ►
She passed urine four times in the afternoon and much each time (after four days), [2]. ► Urine frequently
intermitting on urination, [2]. ► Urine. ► Urine
clear-yellow, with a slowly forming cloud, [2]. ► The urine was yellowish green, afterwards turbid, [2]. ► Urine turbid, like
gruel, with violent sediment, for several days in succession, [2].

SEXUAL ORGANS.

► Male.
► Burning in the genital organs, [3]. ► A red, hard, painful nodule
in the skin of the penis, which suppurates (fourteenth day), [1].
► Emissions two nights in succession, which was once
associated with a voluptuous dream (in one who had never had the like before), [1]. ► Female. ► A voluptuous sensation in the genital organs, [3]. [400.] ►
Soreness on the mons veneris during menstruation, [2].
► Some leucorrhœa for eight days, [3]. ► Leucorrhœa after
menstruation, [2]. ►
*Profuse leucorrhœa, of a yellowish-green color, so acrid that it almost corrodes the
pudenda and thighs, [3]. ►
*Very thick, mucous, tenacious leucorrhœa when walking
, [2]. ► *Discharge of thick
leucorrhœa, like the white of an egg, when walking
, [2]. ► (*Menstruation four days too
soon and more profuse than usual
, followed by some leucorrhœa), [3]. ► Menstruation eight days too
early, [3]. ►
Menstruation nine days too early and rather profuse (two days after taking it), [2]. ► Menstruation nine
days too early and more profuse than usual, [2]. [410.] ► Menstruation two days
too late, coming on in the evening, on lying down; after midnight
painful urging towards the genitals, with great heaviness in the small of the back, which
was somewhat relieved the next day with discharge of blood
, [2]. ► Menstruation five days too
late, [2]. ►
Menstruation was less than usual and did not continue so long, [2]. ► Menstruation did not last
as long as usual, and flowed mostly at night, [2]. ► *The menses flow most profusely in the morning, but scanty during
the day and night
, [2]. ► The menstrual blood was very watery, with weariness of the
thighs, [2]. ► *Traces
of menstruation between the menses
(ninth, tenth, thirteenth, eighteenth days), [2].

RESPIRATORY ORGANS.

► Larynx.
► Great scraping in the larynx as if sore, extending down
into the chest, with much tough mucus in the chest, which threatens to suffocate her; this
mucus is raised with difficulty and tastes salty, [3].
► Tickling in the larynx provoking cough, [3]. ► (Frequent irritation to
cough from tickling in the larynx; the mucus which she expectorates is very tough and only
loosened with great effort), [3]. ► Voice. [420.] ► Hoarseness every morning, [1].
► Catarrhal voice, with roughness in the throat, the
whole morning (sixth day), [2]. ► Cough. ► Cough,
excited by tickling in the trachea, in the evening and morning after rising for several days
in succession, [2]. ►
Cough caused by tickling in the chest, which she could not suppress in the morning on
entering into the room from the cold air (seventeenth day), [2].
► Spasmodic cough; difficulty of breathing; deep anxious
respiration; in feeble tones she called for help; when the window was raised the fresh air
revived her and was very agreeable, [5]. ► Dry cough in the evening and morning for an hour, [2]. ► Dry cough in the
morning after rising for half an hour (twentieth day), [2].
► Respiration. ►
Deep, noisy breathing, [5]. ►
Anxious breathing, [5]. ►
Oppressed breathing, [3]. [430.]
► Shortness of the breath on every exertion of the hands,
[3].

CHEST.

► Feeling of
heaviness on the chest, as if something lay upon it, and she could only breathe deeply, [3]. ► Cutting-burning in
the middle of the chest, more externally, twice in succession, [2]. ► Oppression and heat in the
chest, which rises into the head, [3]. ► Oppression in the middle of the chest, with fine stitches, on
breathing, [2]. ►
Oppression of the chest; he was frequently obliged to sigh in order to get a full breath,
with which he could not bear anything on the chest, and his large waistband seemed too
small, [3]. ► A
severe pressure extends from the pit of the stomach up into the chest after eating; better
when walking, worse when sitting; sometimes with a drawing-tearing pain in the left side of
the head, [3]. ►
Stitches in the chest, extending from before backward, increased by deep breathing, during
dinner, [3]. ►
Stitches first in the middle of the chest, then in the right hypochondrium, and afterwards
in the left (tenth day), [2]. ►
Front.
► Burning on the sternum and visible
pulsation, especially in the pit of the stomach, [3]. [440.] ► Feeling of
constriction below the sternum, [3]. ► Pressure beneath the sternum and in the stomach, [3]. ► Spasmodic pressure
beneath the sternum, as if the stomach were overloaded, six days in succession, [3]. ► Painful stitches
in the middle of the sternum, [2]. ► Painful dull stitches, or boring, in the sternum, in the
evening (third day), [2]. ►
Stitches, frequently in succession, in the forepart of the lower portion of the chest, when
standing stooped and without influencing the respiration; after dinner, [2]. ► Sides. ► A visible pulsation above the right mamma, near the clavicle,
[3]. ► Stitches in
the left side of the chest, [3]. ►
Stitches in the right side of the chest, and at the same time in the right great toe, [2]. ► Stitches, as with
an awl, in the upper part of the left mamma, extending through to the back, [3]. [450.] ►
A burning stitch on the outer portion of the left ribs, [2].
► A slow, dull stitch in the lowest ribs of the right
side in the morning, [2]. ►
Fine stitches in the forepart of the left lowest ribs, which extend up into the chest, [2]. ► Sharp stitches in
the right side of the chest, with constant stretching, in the forenoon, [2]. ► Sharp stitches in the right
side of the chest beneath the axilla, so violent that she cried out, in the morning, third
day, [2]. ► Very
sensitive, sharp stitches in the lower portion of the left side of the chest, [2]. ► Severe sharp stitches below
the right ribs, alternating with stitches in the right groin, [2].

HEART.

► Fulness and
anxiety in the præcordial region (after one hour), [1].
► Pressure in the præcordial region, with tension in the
temples, with pressure on the sternum, [3]. ► Sharp pain in the præcordia (after a few moments), [4]. [460.] ► *Palpitation, [3]. ► Palpitation, with vertigo and headache, [3]. ► Palpitation in the heart,
with congestion to the head, heat and thirst, with itching in the right eye, [3]. ► Palpitation, with trembling
of the whole body and uneasiness, [3].

NECK AND BACK.

► Neck.
► Stiffness in the neck, in the morning, on rising
(fourth day), [1]. ►
Painful tension on the right side of the neck, on moving the head, with twitches in the left
ear, [2]. ► Tension
and pain on pressure, as from a blow in the neck, [3].
► Stitches in the nape of the neck, during rest and
motion, in the evening, [2]. ►
Sharp stitches on the left side of the neck, extending into the left ear, [2]. ► Tearing in the tendons of
the left side of the neck, [2]. ► Back. [470.] ► Sticking and tearing pain on the inner border of the right
shoulder-blade, with a feeling as though a piece of it would be torn off, on sitting bent,
disappearing on becoming erect, [2]. ► Several violent stitches, as with a knife, between the
shoulders, in the afternoon, [2]. ► (An old pain in the back, with stiffness after stooping,
disappeared), (after seventeen days), [°], [1]. ► Sticking pains in
the lumbar region, increased on turning the body, [3].

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.

►
*Great weariness in the hands and feet the whole day
, [3]. ► Suddenly, great weariness
in the hands and feet, in the afternoon, [2].

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