Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
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Mind and Disposition.
Sadness and bad humor ; taciturnity, melancholy, hypochondriasis.
Head.
Vertigo, from sanguineous congestions to the head.
Pulsating pain, with the sensation of weight in the right side of the
head.
Heavy pain, like a weight on the vertex ; worse from sounds even
talking.
Eyes.
[5] Dimness of sight ; cannot see
at a distance ; objects appear to be obscured.
Ears.
Hearing diminished by the buzzing in the ears.
Pulsations in the ears (otitis).
Nose.
Profuse bleeding of the nose.
Face.
Face bloated and red, with pulsation in the head.
Throat.
[10] Constriction of the œsophagus,
which prevents swallowing ; which excites the frequent swallowing
of saliva.
Stomach and Abdomen.
Nausea in the morning, lasting all day.
Acrid acid in the stomach, which rises in the throat and mouth.
Burning pulsation or heaviness in the stomach.
Constriction or pulsation in the scrobiculus.
[15] Pulsation in the cœliac artery
(after dinner).
Copious vomiting of blood.
Stool and Anus.
Constipation ; stool hard and black.
Diarrhœa, watery, mucous, bilious (in the forenoon).
Sensation of great weight in the anus.
[20] Swollen, painful varices at the
anus.
Copious hæmorrhage from the anus.
Itching in the anus.
Urinary Organs.
Constriction of the neck of the bladder.
Irritation in the urethra, as if he would pass water constantly.
[25] Urine passes by drops, with much
burning.
Profuse urine, of a straw color.
Urine, on cooling, deposits a red sand.
Hæmaturia.
Sexual Organs.
Women. Pulsating pain in the uterus and
ovaries.
[30] Sensation of constriction in the
uterine region.
Very painful menstruation.
Labor suppressed.
Chest.
Feeling of constriction in the chest, as if bound ; hindering
respiration.
Sensation of constriction in the heart, as if an iron band prevented its
normal movement.
[35] Acute pains and stitches in the
heart.
Difficulty of breathing ; attacks of suffocation, with fainting,
cold perspiration on the face, and loss of pulse.
Palpitation of the heart ; worse when walking, and at night when
lying on the left side.
Chronic bronchitis, with rattling of mucus.
Hæmoptysis, with convulsive cough.
[40] Spasmodic cough and copious mucous
expectoration.
Pricking pains in the chest, with oppressed respiration, intense cough,
sanguinolent sputa. (Pneumonia).
Extremities.
Formication and weight in the arms.
Œdema of the hands ; worse in the left.
Œdema of the feet, extending to the knee ; the skin is
shining ; pressure with the fingers leaves an indentation.
Generalities.
[45] General weakness and prostration
of strength.
Sensation of constriction in the throat ; chest ; heart ;
bladder ; rectum.
Hæmorrhages, nose ; lungs ; rectum ; stomach.
Sleep.
Sleeplessness without cause ; or from arterial pulsations in the
scrobiculus, and in the right ear.
Delirium at night, on waking up.
Fever.
[50] Slight chilliness towards 10 A.M.
Chilliness, with chattering of the teeth.
Burning heat, with shortness of breath.
Scorching heat at night, with headache, following a chill and
terminating in perspiration.
Intermittent fever (quotidian)
recurring every day at the same hour.
One o’clock in the afternoon slight chill, then burning heat, with dyspnœa,
pulsating pain in the uterine region, terminating in slight perspiration :
-(quotidian) 11 A.M., great coldness for two hours ; then burning
heat, with great dyspnœa, violent pain in the head, coma, stupefaction,
insensibility till midnight, then unquenchable thirst and perspiration.
Skin.
[55] Dry, scaly herpes on the outside
of the elbow, and on the right internal malleolus.
Conditions.
The intermittent fever attacks recur at the same hour.
Aggravation in the forenoon
(diarrhœa).
At night (palpitation of the heart ; headache).
When lying on the left side (palpitation of the heart).
[60] After eating (weight in the
stomach).
From noise and light (headache).
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