The Chronic
Diseases, their Peculiar Nature and their Homœopathic Cure.
by Dr Samuel Hahnemann
Presented By Médi-T
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Suffocations
from Asthma, Joh. Phil. Brendel, Consilia
med., Frft., 1615, Cons.,
73. Ephem. Nat. Cur., Ann. II.,
obs. 313. Wilh. Fabr. V. Hilden, Obs.
Cent. III., Obs. 39. [10]
Ph. R. Vicat. Obs.
Pract., obs. 35, Vitoduri,
1780. [11] J.
J. Waldschmid, Opera,
p. 244. [12]Asthma
with General Swelling. Waldschmid, ibid. Hoechstetter,
Obs. Dec. III., obs.
7 Frft. et Lips, 1674, p. 248. Pelargus,
Obs. Clin. Jahrg., 1723, p. 504. [13]
Riedlin, the father, Obs.
Cent. II. obs. 91. [14]Asthma
with Dropsy of the Chest. Storch in
Act. Nat. Cur. Tom. V., obs.
147. Morgagni, de
sed. et causis morb. XVI., Art. 34. [15]
Richard, Recueil
d’observ. de Méd. Tom. III., p. 308, à Paris, 1772. Hagendorn,
as above, Cent. II., hist. 15. [16]Pleurisy
and Inflammation in the Chest, Pelargus, as above, p.10. [17]
Hagendorn, as above, Cent.
III., hist. 58. Giseke,
Hamb. Abhandl., p. 310. Richard,
as above. Pelargus, as above. Jahrg.,
1721, p. 23 and 114, [18]
and Jahrg., 1723, p. 29, [19]
also in Jahrg., 1722, p. 459. [20]
Sennert praxis
med. lib. II., P. III.,
Cap. 6, p. 380. Jerzembsky,
Diss. Scabies salubris in hydrope,
Halae, 1777. [21] Karl
Wenzel, Die Nachkrankheiten von
zuruckgetretener Krätze, Bamb., 1826, p. 49. [22]—–
[10]
The dyspnœa of a youth, 20 years, caused by the driving away
of itch was so great that he could not get any breath, and his pulse
was hardly perceptible, in consequence of which he suffocated.[11]
A moist herpes on the left upper arm of a youth of 19 years was
finally locally removed by many external applications. But soon
after, there ensued a periodical asthma which was suddenly increased
by a lengthy foot-tour in the heat of summer, even to suffocation,
with a puffed up bluish-red face and quick, weak, uneven pulse.[12]
The dyspnœa from the driven out itch came on very suddenly, and the
patient was suffocated.[13]
A 5-year-old girl had had for some time large itch vesicles on the
hands, which dried up of themselves. Shortly after, she became
sleepy and tired and was seized with dyspnœa. The following day the
asthma continued and her abdomen became distended.[14]
A 50 year old farmer, who had been long tortured with the itch,
while he was driving it out by external applications, was seized
with a dyspnœa, a loss of appetite and a swelling of the whole
body.[15]
A girl in Bologna drove away the itch with an ointment and was
seized with the most severe asthma without fever. After two
blood-lettings her strength decreased so much and the asthma was so
much augmented that she died on the following day. The whole chest
was filled with bluish water, also the pericardium.[16]
A girl of 9 years with the tinea
capitis had it driven away, when she was seized with a
lingering fever, a general swelling and dyspnœa; when the lines
broke out again she recovered.[17]
A man of 46 drove out his itch with a sulphur ointment. Thereupon he
was seized with inflammation in the chest with bloody expectoration,
dyspnœa and great anguish. The following day the heat and the
anguish became almost unbearable and the pains in the chest
increased on the third day. Then sweat broke out. After fourteen
days the itch broke out again and he felt better. But be had a
relapse, the itch dried up again and he died on the 13th day after
the relapse.[18]
A thin man died of inflammation in the chest and other ailments
twenty days after driving out the itch.[19]
A boy of 7 years whose tinea capitis
and itch dried up, died after four days from an acute fever and
asthma accompanied with expectoration.[20]
A youth who removed his itch with a lead ointment, died four days
afterward of a disease of the chest.[21]
A general dropsy was quickly cured by a return of the itch, but when
this was suppressed by a severe cold, pleurisy supervened and death
ensued in three days.[22]
A young peasant was attacked with acute fever with pleurisy and
dyspnœa, six days after driving out an eruption of itch with
sulphur ointment.Pleurisy
and Cough, Pelargus, as above, Jahrg., 1722, p. 79. [23]Severe
Cough, Richard, as above. Juncker,
Conspect. med. theor. et pract. tab.,
76. Hundertmark, as above, p. 23. [23*]Hemoptysis,
Phil. Georg. Schroeder, Opusc.
II., p. 322. Richard, as above, Binninger,
Obs. Cent. V., obs. 88.Hæmoptysis
and Consumption. Chn. Max Spener, Diss.
de egro febri maligni, phthisi complicata laborante, Giess,
1699. [24] Baglio,
Opera, p. 215. Sicelius
Praxis casual. Exerc. III., Cas.
I., Frft et Lips, I743. [25]
Morgagni, as above, XXI., Art.
32. [26] Unzers
Arzt C C C., p. 508. [27]
Karl Wenzel, as above, p. 32.—–
[23]
A school boy of 13 years was seized with cough and stitches in the
chest, when his itch dried up. These ailments disappeared when the
itch broke out again.[23*]
A man of 36 years had the itch removed sixteen months ago by an
ointment of lead and mercury; he suffered since from a whooping
cough accompanied with great anguish.[24]
A youth of 19 years had the itch, which he finally drove away with a
black looking lotion. A few days after, he was seized with chills
and heat, lassitude, oppression of the heart, headache, nausea,
violent thirst, cough and difficulty in breathing; he expectorated
blood, commenced to speak deliriously, his face was deadly pale and
sunken, the urine was deep red without sediment.[25]
An eruption of itch in a youth of 18 years driven out by a mercurial
plaster.[26]
Itch which disappeared from the skin of itself, was followed by a
lingering fever and fatal expectoration of pus; at the autopsy the
left lung was found full of pus.[27]
A robust looking candidate for the ministry who was about to preach
in a few days and therefore wished to free himself from his old
itch, rubbed himself one day with itch ointment, and in a few hours,
soon after noon he passed away with anxiety, dyspnœa and tenesmus;
the autopsy showed that the whole of the lungs was filled with
liquid pus.Collection
of Pus in the Chest. F. A. Waitz, Medic.
Chirurg. Aufsätze Th. I., p. 114, 115. [28]
Preval, in the Journal
de Médec., LXI., p. 491.Cysts
of Pus in the Intestines, Krause. Schubert, Diss.
de scabie humana. Lips, 1779, p. 23. [29]Great
Degeneration of a Great Part of the Intestines. J. H. Schulze,
in Act. Nat. Cur. Tom., I obs.,
231. [30]Degeneration
of the Brain. Dimenbrock, Obs. et
Curat. med., obs. 60. Bonet,
Sepulchretum anal., Sect. IV., obs.
I, §1 [31] and §2. [32]
J. H. Schulze, as above.Hydrocephalus,
Acta helvet., V., p. 190.Ulcers
in the Stomach. L. Chn. Juncker, Diss.
de scabie repulsa, Halle, 1750, p. 16. [33]Sphacelus
of the Stomach and Duodenum. Hundertmark, as above, p. 29. [34]General
Dropsical Swelling. [35]Dropsy
of the Chest. Hessler in Karl Wenzel, as above, p. 100 and
102.—–
[28]
Empyema followed the driving away, through external means, of an
eruption of itch which had come out a few years before, and appeared
especially in March and April.[29]
A young man who had been warned by (the good physician and) Prof.
Krause against the use of sulphur ointment for the re-appearing itch
did not follow his advice, but rubbed himself with it, when he died
of constipation in his body, at the autopsy, were found sacs of pus
in his abdominal viscera.[30]
Also the diaphragm and the liver were diseased.[31]
A little prince of two years had his tinea
capitis driven away; in consequence, after his death,
much bloody water was found under his skull.[32]
In a woman who had driven out the tinea
by a lotion, one-half of the brain was found putrefied and filled
with yellow humor.[33]
A man of rank, of a cholerico-sanguine temperament, was afflicted
with gouty pains of the abdomen and pains as from gravel. After the
removal of the gout through various remedies the itch broke out,
which he drove out through a desiccating bath of tan-bark; an ulcer
formed on his stomach, which, as the autopsy showed, hastened his
death.[34]A
boy of 7 weeks and a youth of 18 years died very suddenly from an
itch driven out through a sulphur ointment. At the autopsy in the
case of the infant the upper part of the stomach immediately below
the orifice was found destroyed by gangrene, and in the second case
that part of the duodenum into which the biliary duct and the
pancreatic duct empty was found similarly diseased. A similar fatal
inflammation of the stomach from driven out itch, in Morgagni,
as above, LV., art. II.[35]
Of this, innumerable cases are found in a number of writers of which
I only desire to mention the one reported in J.
D. Fick, Exercitatio med. de
scabie retropulsa, Halle, 1710, §6, where an eruption of
itch driven out by application of mercury, left behind it general
dropsy, which was only mitigated by the re-appearance of the
eruption.Dropsy
of the Abdomen, Richard, as above, and with other
observers.Swelling
of the Scrotum (in boys). Fr.
Hoffmann, Med. rat. syst.,
III., p. 175.Red
Swelling of the Whole Body. Lentilius, Misc.
med. pract., Part I., p. 176.Jaundice.
Baldinger, Krankheiten ein. Armee,
p. 226. Joh. Rud. Camerarius, Memorab.
Cent., X., §65.Swelling
of the Parotid Glands. Barette, in the Journal
de Méd., XVIII., p. 169.Swelling
of the Cervical Glands, Pelargus, as above, Jahrg.,
1723, p. 593. [36] Unzer,
Arzt. Part VI., St.
301. [37]Obscuration
of the Eyes and Presbyopia, Fr. Hoffman, Consult.
med., I Cas. 50. [38]Inflammation
of the Eyes, G. W. Wedel. Snetter, Diss.
de Ophthalmia, Jen., 1710. Hallmann,
in Kœnigl. Vetenskaps Handl. f.
A. X., p. 210. [39] G.
Chph. Schiller, de Scabie humida,
p. 42, Erford. 1747.—–
The author of the
book Epidemion lib. 5, No.4, who
gives his name as Hippocrates,
first mentions the sad result of such a case, where an Athenian was
seized by a violently itching eruption, spread over the whole body
and especially over the genital organs; he expelled it by the use of
the warm baths on the island of Melos, but died of the resulting
dropsy.[36]
A boy of 8 or 9 years, who had been shortly before healed of tinea
showed many swellings of the glands of the neck by which his neck
was drawn crooked and stiff.[37]
A youth of 14 years had the itch in June, 1761. He rubbed with a
grey ointment and the itch passed away. Upon this the glands behind
both of his ears swelled up; the swelling on the left ear passed
away of itself, but the right one in five months became monstrously
enlarged and about August began to pain him. All the glands of the
neck were swollen. On the outside the large gland was full of hard
knots and without sensitiveness, but internally there was an obtuse
pain, especially at night; at the same time he suffered from
dyspnœa and obstructed deglutition. All means used to produce
suppuration were in vain; it became so large that the patient was
suffocated in the year 1762.[38]
A girl of 13 years was seized with the itch, especially on the
limbs, in the fare and on the pudenda; this was finally driven away
by ointments of zinc and sulphur, whereupon she gradually became
weak of sight. Little dark bodies floated before her eyes, and these
could also be seen from without floating in the aqueous humor of the
anterior chamber of the eye. At the same time she could not
recognize small bodies except with spectacles. The pupils were
dilated.[39]
A girl had a violent eruption of itch on the legs, with large ulcers
on the bend of the knee. Being attacked with smallpox the itch was
suppressed. This induced a humid inflammation of the white of the
eye and of the eyelids, with itching and suppuration of the same,
and the vision of dark bodies floating before her eyes; this lasted
for two years. Then for three days she put on the stockings of a
child afflicted with the itch. On the last day a fever broke out
with dry cough, tension in the chest, with inclination to vomit. On
the following day the fever and the tension of the chest diminished
and a sweat broke out, which increased until erysipelas broke out on
both legs, and on the following day these passed over into the real
itch. The eyes then improved.Cataract,
Chn. Gottlieb Ludwig, Advers. med.
II., p. 157. [40]Amaurosis,
Northof, Diss. de scabie,
Gotting., I792, p. 10. [41]
Chn. G. Ludwig, as above. [42]
Sennert, prax. lib. III., Sect. 2, Cap 44. Trecourt, chirurg.
Wahrnehmungen p. 173 Leipz I777. Fabricius ab Hilden. Cent. II., obs.
39. [43]Deafness.
Thore in Capelle, Journal de santé,
Tom. I. Daniel, Syst.
ægritud. II., p. 228. Ludwig,
as above.Inflammation
of the Bowels, Hundertmark, Diss.
de scabie artificiali, Lips. 1758, p. 29.Piles,
Hemorrhoids, Acta helvet.
V., p. 192. [44] Daniel,
Syst. ægritud. II., p. 245. [45]Abdominal
Complaints, Fr. Hoffmann, Med.
rat. syst. III., p. 177. [46]Diabetes
(Mellitaria), Comment. Lips. XIV.,
p. 365. Eph. Nat. Cur. Dec. II., ann.
10, p. 162. C. Weber, Obs. f. I.,
p. 26.Suppression
of Urine, Sennert, Prax. lib. 3, p. 8. Morgagni,
as above, XLI., art. 2. [47]Erysipelas,
Unzer Artz, Th. V., St.
301. [48]—–
[40]
A man whose itch had been driven off, but who was of robust
constitution, was seized with cataract.[41]
From itch expelled by external application there arose amaurosis,
which passed away when the eruption re-appeared on the skin.[42]
A vigorous man, when the itch had been expelled from the skin, was
seized with amaurosis and remained blind to an advanced age.[43]
Amaurosis from the same cause, with terrible headache.[44]
Bleeding piles returned every month.[45]
In consequence of itch driven off by external applications, loss of
blood up to eight pounds within a few hours, colic, fever, etc.[46]
After the expulsion of itch a most violent colic, pain in the region
of the left lower ribs, restlessness, lingering fever, anxiety and
obstinate constipation.[47]
A young peasant had driven off the itch with ointment, and shortly
after he suffered from suppression of urine, vomiting and at times
from a pain in the left loin. Still he, after awhile, passed urine a
few times, but only a little, of dark color and attended with pains.
In vain the attempt was made to empty it with a catheter. At last
the whole body swelled up, difficult and slow respiration ensued,
and he died on about the twenty-first day after the suppression of
the itch. The bladder contained two pounds of urine just as dark,
but the abdominal cavity, water, which being held for awhile over
the fire thickened into a sort of albumen.[48]
A man rubbed himself with mercurial ointment against the itch, when
there followed an erysipelatous inflammation in the neck, of which
he died after five weeks.Discharges
of acrid humors. Fr. Hoffman, Consult.
Tom. II., Cas. 125.Ulcers,
Unzer Arzt, Th. V., St.
301. [49] Pelargus,
as above, Jahrg., 1723, p. 673. [50]
Breslauer Samm., 1727, p. 107. [51]
Muzell, Wahrnehm.
II., Cas. 6. [52]
Riedlin, the son, Cent.
obs. 38. [53]
Alberti-Gorn, Diss.
de scabi., p. 24. Halle, 1718.Caries.
Richard, as above.Swelling
of the Bones of the Knee. Valsalva in Morgagni, de
sede et caus. morb. I. art. 13.Pain
in the bones, Hamburger Magaz.,
XVIII., p. 3, 253.Rachitis
and Marasmus in Children, Fr. Hoffman. Kinderkrankh.
Leipiz., 1741, p. 132.Fever,
B. V. Faventinus, Medicina empir.,
p. 260. Ramazzini, Constit.
epid, urbis. II. No. 32, 1691. [54]
J. C. Carl in Act.
Nat. Cur. VI., obs. 16.
[55]Fever,
Reil, Memorab. Fasc.
III., p. 169. [56] Pelargus,
as above; Jahrg., 1721, p. 276. [57]
and ibid. Jahrg., 1723. [58]
Amatus, Lusit.
Cent. II., Cor. 33. Schiller
Diss. de scabie humida, Erford,
1747, p. 44. [59] J.
J. Fick, Exercitatio med. de
scabie retropulsa. Halle, 1710, §2. [60]
Pelargus, as above, Jahrg,.
1722, p.122. [61] Also Jahrg.,
1723, p.10, p.14. [62]
and p. 291. C. G. Ludwig, Advers.
med. II., pp. 157-160. [63]
Morgagni, as ab. X., art.
9; [64] XXI., art. 31; [65]
XXXVIII., art. 22; [66]
LV., art. 3. [67]—–
[49]
A woman, after using a mercurial ointment against itch, had a
putrescent eruption all over her body, so that whole pieces of flesh
rotted away; she died in a few days with the greatest pains.[50]
A youth of 16 years had the itch for some time; when this passed
away ulcers broke out on the legs.[51]
After rubbing with an ointment against the itch there followed with
a man of 50 years tearing pains in the left shoulder for five weeks,
when several ulcers broke out in the arm-pit.[52]
A quack gave a student an ointment for the itch, from which it
disappeared indeed, but instead of it an incurable ulcer broke out
in the mouth.[53]
A student who had been for a long time afflicted with the itch drove
it off with an ointment, and instead of this there broke out ulcers
on his arms and legs, and glandular swellings in the arm-pits. These
ulcers were finally cured by external applications, when he was
seized with dyspnœa and then with dropsy, and from these he died.[54]
Many observations are found there respecting cases where the itch,
being driven off by ointments, there followed fever and blackish
urine, and where, when the itch was brought back to the skin, the
fever disappeared and the urine became like that of a healthy
person.[55]
A man and a woman had an eruption of itch on the hand, of many
years’ standing, and as often as it dried up fever always ensued,
and as soon as this came to an end the eruption of itch again
returned; and yet this itch extended but to a small part of the body
and was not driven off by external applications.[56]
Itch was suppressed by a fever that set in; when the fever was
removed it returned.[57]
A mother put ointment on the tinea
of a boy of 9 years; it, passed away, but there followed a violent
fever.[58]
A child, 1 year old, had had for some time tinea
capitis and an eruption in the face; both these had
shortly before dried up, when there followed heat, cough and
diarrhœa. A return of the eruption on the head gave alleviation.[59]
A woman of 43 years, long afflicted with dry itch, rubbed her joints
with an ointment of sulphur and mercury, and thus drove it off, this
was followed by pains under the right ribs, lassitude in all the
limbs, heat and feverish irritation. After using sudorific remedies
for six days, large vesicles of itch broke out all over the body.[60]
Two youths, brothers, drove off the itch by one and the same remedy,
but they lost all appetite, a dry cough and a lingering fever set
in, they became emaciated and fell into a slumberous stupor, so that
they would have died if the eruption had not luckily re-appeared on
the skin.[61]
With a three-year old child when tinea
capitis had disappeared of itself, there arose a violent
fever on the chest, cough and weariness, and it only recovered when
the eruption re-appeared on the head.[62]
A Journeyman purse-maker, who had to make some embroidery, drove of
his frequent itch with lead-ointment. Scarcely was the itch drying
off in consequence, when he was seized with chills, heat, dyspnœa
and a rattling cough, of which he suffocated on the fourth day.[63]
A vigorous, healthy man of 30 years was taken with the itch and
drove the eruption from the skin, but was then seized with a
catarrhal fever with an uncontrollable perspiration; he was slowly
recovering from it when he was seized without any further cause by
another fever. The attacks began with anxiety and headache, and
increased with heat, a quick pulse and morning sweats. There was
added an unusual sinking of the strength, and delirious speech,
anxious tossing about, a sobbing respiration with suffocation – a
disease which despite all medicines ended with death.[64]
With a boy the itch passed away of itself, this was followed by
fever. The itch now appeared more violent and the fever passed away,
but the child grew thin, and when the itch again dried up there
followed diarrhœa, convulsions and soon afterwards death.[65]
Itch disappeared from the skin of itself, on which lingering fever,
expectoration of pus and lastly death followed, and at the autopsy
the left lungs were found full of pus.[66]
A woman of 30 years had for a long time pain in the limbs and a
strong eruption of itch, which she drove off with ointment, when she
was attacked by fever with violent heat, thirst and raging headache,
which was accompanied with delirious speech, uncontrollable
dyspnœa, tumefaction of the body and great distension of the
abdomen. She died on the sixth day of the fever. The abdomen
contained much air, and especially the stomach was distended with
air, filling half of the abdomen.[67]
A man whose tinea capitis had
passed off from intense cold, was seized after eight days with a
malignant fever, with vomiting, accompanied at last with hiccough;
he died in consequence on the ninth day.Fever.
Lanzonus, in Eph. Nat. Cur., Dec.
III., ann. 9 and 10, obs.
16 and 113. Hoechstetter, Obs.
med., Dec. VIII., Cas. 8. [68]
Triller. Wehle, Diss.
nullam medicinam interdum esse optimam, Witemb., 1754. [69]
Fick, as ab., §1. [70]
Waldschmidt, Opera.,
p. 241. Gerbizius, in Eph.
Nat. Cur., Dec. III., ann.
2, obs. 167. Amatus,
Lusit., Cent. II., Curat. 33. [71]
Fr. Hoffmann, Med.
rat. system, T. III., p. 175. [72][68]
A malignant fever with opisthotonus from driving off the itch.[69]
A young merchant had driven off the itch with ointment, when he was
suddenly seized with such hoarseness that he could not speak a loud
word; then followed dry asthma, loathing of food, severe cough,
troublesome especially at night and robbing him of sleep, violent
ill-smelling night-sweats, and, despite of all medical treatment,
death.[70]
A burgomaster, 6o years of age, was infected with the itch, and
suffered unspeakably from it through the nights; he used many
medicines in vain, and at last was taught by a beggar a so-called
infallible remedy, composed of oleum
laurinum, flowers of sulphur and lard. Having rubbed with
this several times he was, indeed, freed from the eruption, but soon
after he was seized with a violent chill, followed by an excessive
heat all over the body, vehement thirst, a gasping asthma,
sleeplessness, violent trembling all over the body and great
lassitude, so that on the fourth day he expired.[71]
From the same cause a fever combined with insanity, precipitating
death.[72]
After driving off itch, most frequently acute fevers with a great
sinking of the strength follow. In one such case the fever lasted
seven days, when the eruption of itch re-appeared and stopped the
fever.Tertian
Intermittent Fever. Pelargus, as ab., Jahrg. 1722, p. 103,
cfr. with p. 79. [73] Juncker,
as ab., tab. 79; Eph.
Nat. Cur., Dec. I., ann.
4. Welsch, Obs.
15. Sauvages, Spec.
II. De Hautesierk, Obs.,
Tom. II., p. 300; Comment.
Lipsienses XIX., p. 297.Quartan
Fever, Thom. Bartholinus, Cap.
4, hist. 35. Sennert,
Paralip., p. 116. Fr.
Hoffman, Med. rat. system
III., p. 175. [74]Vertigo
and a Total Sinking of the Strength, Gabelchofer, Obs.
Med. Cent. II., obs.
42.Vertigo
Like Epilepsy, Fr. Hoffmann, Consult.
Med. I., Cas. 12. [75]—–
In the same
article Morgagni mentions the
case of a man who, having scabs from itch on the arms and on other
parts, drove off nearly the whole eruption by a sulphurated shirt,
but was seized at once with drawing pains on the whole body combined
with fever, so that he could neither rest at night nor move about in
the daytime; also the tongue and the fauces were thus attacked. With
much trouble the eruption was brought out again on the skin, and
thus his health was restored.[73]
A boy of 15 years for a long time had tinea
capitis and had received from Pelargus
a strong purgative to cure it; he was seized with pain in the back,
cutting pains during micturition, followed by tertian fever.[74]
Old people have especially dry itch, and if this is driven off by
external applications usually quartan fever ensues, which vanishes
as soon as the itch re-appears on the skin.[75]
A count, 57 years old, had suffered for three years with dry itch.
It was driven off, and he enjoyed for two years an apparently good
health only he had during this time two attacks of vertigo, which
gradually so increased that once after finishing his meal he was
seized with such vertigo that he would have fallen to the floor if
he had not been supported. He was covered with an icy perspiration,
his limbs trembled, all the parts of his body were as dead, and he
repeatedly vomited up a sour substance. A similar attack followed
six weeks later, then once a month for three months. He indeed
retained consciousness, but there always followed heaviness of the
head and a drunken stupor. At last these attacks came daily, though
in a milder form. He could not read nor think nor turn around
quickly nor stoop down. This wis attended with sadness, sorrowful,
anxious thoughts and sighs.Epilepsy
Like Vertigo, Fr. Hoffmann, as ab., p. 30. [76]Convulsions,
Juncker, as ab. tab. 53. Hoechstetter,
Eph. Nat. Cur. Dec. 8, Cas.
3. Eph. nat. cur. dec. 2, ann. obs.
35, and ann. 5, obs.
224. D. W. Triller. Welle, Diss.
nullam medicinam interdum esse optimam, Viteb., 1754, §13,
14. [77] Sicelius,
Decas Casuum I., Cas.
5. [78] Pelargus,
as ab., Jahrg., 1723, p. 545. [79]—–
[76]
A woman of 36 years had the itch driven from the skin a few years
before with mercurial remedies. Her menses became irregular, and
were often interrupted for ten or even fifteen weeks; she was at the
same time constipated. Four years ago during pregnancy she was
seized with vertigo, and she would suddenly fall down while standing
or walking. While sitting she would retain her senses during the
vertigo and could speak, eat and drink. At her first attack she felt
in her left foot, as it were, a crawling sensation and formication,
which terminated in a violent jerking up and down of the feet. In
time these attacks took away consciousness, and afterwards in
travelling in a carriage there came an attack of real epilepsy which
returned thrice in the following winter. During these attacks she
could not speak; she did not indeed turn her thumbs inward, but yet
there was foam at her month. The sensation of formication in the
left foot announced the attack, and when this sensation reached the
pit of the stomach it suddenly brought on the fit. This epilepsy was
removed by a woman with five powders, but instead of it her vertigo
reappeared, but much more violently than before. It also commenced
with a crawling sensation in the left foot, which rose up to the
heart; this was attended with great anxiety and fear, as if she were
falling down from a height, and while supposing that she had fallen
she lost consciousness and speech; at the same time her limbs moved
convulsively. But also outside of these attacks the least touch of
her feet caused her the most intense pain as if from a boil. This
was attended with severe pains and heat in the head and with loss of
memory.[77]
After an itch driven away by ointment there followed with a girl a
most profound swoon and soon after the most terrible convulsions and
death.[78]
A girl of 17, in consequence of tinea
capitis which disappeared of itself, was seized with
continual heat in the head and attacks of headache. She sometimes
suddenly started up as if from fright, and while awake she was
seized with convulsive motions of the limbs, especially of the arms
and hands, as also with oppression in the pit of the stomach as if
her breast was laced together; with moaning; then her limbs would
jerk convulsively and she would start up.[79]
A full-grown man who had been for some time affected with tremor of
the hands had his tinea dry up.
He was thereupon seized with great lassitude and red patches without
heat broke out on his body. The tremor passed over into convulsive
shaking, bloody matter was discharged from his nose and his ears, he
also coughed up blood, and he died on the 23d day amidst
convulsions.Epileptic
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E. Hagendorn, as above, hist.
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44. Eph. Nat. Cur. Dec. III., ann.
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A man who had driven off a frequently occurring eruption of itch
with an ointment fell into epileptic convulsions, which disappeared
again when the eruption reappeared on the skin.[81]
A youth of 18 years drove off the itch with a mercurial ointment and
two months after he was unexpectedly seized with convulsions, which
attacked all the limbs of the body, now this, now that; with painful
constriction of the breast and the neck, coldness of the limbs and
great weakness. The fourth day he was seized with epilepsy, foaming
at the mouth, while the limbs were strangely contorted. The epilepsy
only yielded when the eruption returned.[82]
With a boy, with tinea had been driven off by rubbing it with almond
oil.[83]
With children, combined with suffocating catarrh.[84]
A servant girl after twice rubbing her itch with ointment had an
attack of epilepsy.[85]
A youth of 18, who had driven out itch with mercurial remedies, was
seized a few weeks later with epilepsy, which returned after four
weeks with the new moon.[86]
A boy of 7 months was seized with epilepsy, while the parents were
unwilling to acknowledge that he had had the itch. But when the
physician enquired more particularly, the mother confessed that the
little boy had some vesicles of itch on the sole of the foot, which
had soon yielded to lead ointment; the child, as she said, had no
other sign of the itch. The physician correctly recognized in this
the only cause of the epilepsy.[87]
Two children were freed from epilepsy by the breaking out of humid
tinea, but the epilepsy returned when the tinea was incautiously
driven off.[88]
Five-year-old itch passed away and this, after several years,
produced epilepsy.
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