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Apocynum Cannabinum. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6] Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10] Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15]
Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18] Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30] Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45] Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

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SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Apoc.]

Sense of oppression about epigastrium and chest, so that there was the greatest difficulty in getting breath enough to smoke a cigar, or to speak with any comfort, and this happened after lighter meals than ordinary.

Sinking at stomach on awaking.

Stomach so irritable, not even a draught of water can be retained. θ Dropsy.

Great irritability of stomach and vomiting. θ Menorrhagia.

Congestion of liver, of portal system ; followed by ascites.

   

ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Apoc.]

Abdomen very much distended and painful. θ Ascites.

Bloated abdomen and limbs. θ Amenorrhœa.

Ascites.

Ascites with chronic diarrhœa.

Decided distension of abdomen, especially after a moderate dinner ; all the sense of fulness seemed about stomach, liver and spleen, while lower bowels did not appear more flatulent than common.

   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Apoc.]

Evacuations very scanty.

Bilious stools ; loose, but not very copious.

Bowels sluggish, but feces not hard or costive.

   

URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Apoc.]

Dull aching pain in kidneys, with increased secretion of straw-colored urine, sinking at stomach, dry mouth, sighing.

Very peculiar torpid action of kidneys.

Decided scantiness of urine.

Scanty urine. θ Hydrothorax.

Urinary difficulties. θ Dysuria. θ Strangury.

Urine diminished to one-third of usual quantity.

Retention of urine, with paralysis of lower extremities.

Urine light, or sherry-colored, no sediment on cooling.

Very profuse light-colored urine, several gallons a day.

Urine high-colored and very scanty. θ After scarlet fever.

Urine high-colored, diminished in quantity, and voided with difficulty. θ Ascites.

Urine diminished to one-third the usual amount, without pain or uneasiness about kidneys or bladder ; on contrary, chest organs seemed remarkably comfortable ; they seemed simply torpid.

The little water that was passed flowed as easily as if it were oil.

Urine suppressed. θ Meningitis infantum.

A most inveterate case of wetting the bed at night, in a girl.

   

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Apoc.]

Penis and scrotum swollen. θ Heart disease.

   

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Apoc.]

Ovarian tumors.

Very profuse flow of blood, preceded for a day or two by a moderate discharge. θ Menorrhagia.

Discharge fluid and abundant. θ Menorrhagia.

Hemorrhage ceasing at intervals, always recurred when vital powers rallied. θ Menorrhagia.

Most exhausting menorrhagia for about six weeks.

Blood expelled in large clots, sometimes in fluid state. θ Menorrhagia.

The moderate flow of catamenia for a day or two suddenly sets in with such violence that she cannot be out of bed. θ Menorrhagia.

Shreds or pieces of membrane, with fluid blood. θ Menorrhagia.

Amenorrhœa in young girls ; abdomen and legs bloated.

Metrorrhagia continual or paroxysmal ; fluid or clotted ; nausea, vomiting, palpitation ; pulse quick, feeble, when moved ; fainting, when raising head from pillow.

   

PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] [Apoc.]

Cough during pregnancy, sometimes short and dry, sometimes deep and loose ; if very deep, it pains in stomach.

   

VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] [Apoc.]

Could not utter a syllable, although perfectly conscious ; answering by signs. θ Hydrothorax.

Unpleasant heat of larynx and fauces.

Hoarseness.

   

RESPIRATION. [26] [Apoc.]

Sighing.

Short respiration.

Could scarcely speak for want of breath. θ Heart disease.

Could only breathe in a sitting posture, with head thrown forward. θ Hydrothorax.

Panting for breath. θ Heart disease.

Oppression of chest on awaking.

Oppression about epigastrium and chest, difficulty in getting breath enough to speak ; after a light meal. θ Hydrothorax.

Irresistible disposition to sigh.

Agonizing difficulty of breathing. θ Dropsy.

Short and unsatisfactory respiration.

Gasping for breath. θ Hydrothorax.

Difficult breathing, entirely unable to remain in a recumbent position.

Dropsy.

Great dyspnœa, wheezing breathing and cough ; could walk with great difficulty. θ Dropsy of pericardium.

   

COUGH. [27] [Apoc.]

Dry cough, with scanty expectoration.

Short, dry cough.

Cough dry, hacking, suffocative, and incessant. θ Hydrothorax.

Cough < at night.

Violent attack of a hoarse cough at night, with vomiting.

Short cough, alternating with a deep cough.

Loose rattling, with oppression of chest.

Scanty expectoration of white mucus.

Hemorrhage from lungs.

   

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Apoc.]

Oppression on left chest.

Stitches in right chest.

Hydrothorax. θ After scarlet fever.

Hydrothorax and anasarca depending on organic disease of heart.

   

HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] [Apoc.]

Palpitation very troublesome whenever she attempted to move about house. θ Menorrhagia.

Dropsy of pericardium ; heart’s action scarcely perceptible ; face bloated and anxious looking.

Very feeble, with a quick pulse.

Small weak pulse. θ Hydrothorax.

Pulse 45 between attacks of vomiting ; feeble. θ Menorrhagia.

Pulse small and irregular. θ Ascites.

Pulse weak and irregular. θ After scarlet fever.

Almost pulseless and disposed to faint whenever she attempted to raise her head from pillow. θ Menorrhagia.

   

NECK AND BACK. [31] [Apoc.]

Slight soreness in region of kidneys when bringing muscles into action.

   

UPPER LIMBS. [32] [Apoc.]

Finger nails of bluish lead color. θ Heart disease.

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