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RED AND BLUE ONLY – Calabar. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

Main * Calab.

[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.

Calab. * Full text * Red and blue only * Red only

SIGHT AND EYES. [5] [Calab.]

Eyes feel weak.
The internal rectus does not do its work rightly, and the axes of eyes do not correspond ; eyes feel weak ; lachrymation, especially of left eye.
In looking downward, the superior oblique muscle, which is governed by the n. trochlearis, alone acted, making a slight rotation around the visual axis, rather than a downward movement.
Complete paralysis of accommodation.
Let pupil sluggish, not much dilated ; myopia, and objects seem too large, with left eye ; after a blow on left eyeball.
Pupil permanently dilated, with loss of accommodation, of eight years’ standing, after traumatic injury to the cornea.
Shortsightedness.
Myopia.
Drawing-twisting sensation in eyes.
Eyes smart ; lids feel sore.
The whole affection came on suddenly ; about a month before she went to bed well, and on rising next morning found it impossible to open eye. θ Rheumatic attack of ocular muscles.
Considerable tenderness of skin around eye.
Intolerable pain over both orbits.
   

UPPER FACE. [8] [Calab.]

Sensation of contraction of whole left side of face, with slight numbness.
   

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Calab.]

Feeling as if a ball was rising in throat.
   

EATING AND DRINKING. [15] [Calab.]

After eating : relief of pain in head.
   

HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] [Calab.]

Nausea and vomiting.
   

RESPIRATION. [26] [Calab.]

Yawning and sighing respiration.
Laborious breathing.

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