Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Elaterium (Momordica elaterium).
Mind and Disposition.
Depression of spirits.
Irresistible propensity to wander from home.
Throat.
A feeling as if the posterior nares and upper part of the œsophagus
were enlarged.
Stool and Anus.
Discharges from the bowels of frothy water.
[5] Dull olive-green discharges.
Bleeding of hæmorrhoidal tumors.
Sleep.
Incessant gaping.
Fever.
Chilliness, with continued gaping, as if an attack of intermittent fever
were approaching.
Before the chill, gaping.
[10] During the chill, pain in the head
and limbs.
Fever, with violent tearing pains throughout the head ; increased
pains in the bowels and extremities ; pains shooting to the tips of
the fingers and toes, and then shooting back into the body.
Perspiration relieves all the symptoms.
If the intermittent fever is suppressed, urticaria break out all over
the body.
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