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Gelsemium. (Gelsemium Sempervirens.) – 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.

Gels. * Full text (135 Ko) * Red
and blue only
(100 Ko) * Red only

SKIN. [46] [Gels.]

Erythema of face and neck.

Itching all over body, preventing sleep ; after scratching, a raw sore, surrounded by blisters. θ Neuralgic headache.

Itching on head, face, neck and shoulders.

Itching of skin, without eruption, < at night and from warmth.

Skin hot, dry ; gastric and nervous fevers.

Pimples on forehead and neck.

Vesico-pustules not itching ; pimples like small cutaneous indurations.

Papulous eruption like measles, especially on face.

Measles : catarrhal symptoms predominant ; watery ; excoriating discharge ; spasmodic sneezing ; dry, teasing cough ; fever with drowsiness, dulness ; clinging to crib.

Erysipelas, not vesicular or phlegmonous, but a milder variety, with erythema or papular eruption.

Measles, with torpor, sleepiness and dread of movement.

Rubeola ; it seems to prevent chronic catarrhal affections and bronchitis.

After Acon. ; great deal of coryza ; drowsy with fever heat, no thirst ; when the eruption turns livid, with cerebral symptoms. θ Measles.

In retrocedent measles, with livid spots ; dulness of brain or abdominal or thoracic congestion ; fever heat, with drowsiness.

Scarlet fever, with stupor and flushed red face.

Asthenic forms of scarlet fever ; intense fever, with nervous erethism during prodromal stage, followed by profound prostration of muscular power ; cerebral intoxication ; pulse frequent, soft, weak, sometimes filiform ; impaired vision ; heat, with languor and
drowsiness ; crimson flush of face in all positions ; heavy-looking, suffused eyes ; throat feels as if swelled or filled up, is diffusely red ; tonsils red and slightly swelled ; delirious mutterings when asleep or half awake ; spasms and paralysis ; when
eruption recedes, viscera are threatened

   

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] [Gels.]

Adapted to children ; young people ; women of a nervous, hysterical temperament ; irritable, sensitive, excitable ; people ; onanists, both sexes.

Girl, æt. 3, “has always had ague,” many times suppressed by quinine, only to re-appear ; intermittent fever.

Girl, æt. 12 ; sciatica.

Miss, æt. 16 ; acute mania.

Girl, æt. 16 ; affection of throat.

Mrs. — ; rigid os uteri.

Girl, æt. 18, after exposure ; miliary fever.

Boy, æt. 19 ; fever.

Miss —, æt. 19, had two years ago severe attack of congestive intermittent fever, quotidian type ; facial neuralgia.

Lady, æt. 19, red hair ; quotidian intermittent every afternoon at 1 o’clock.

Man, æt. 21 ; chest affection.

Man, æt. 21 ; nervous headache.

Man, æt. 21, sanguine temperament, ailing for some weeks ; febrile disturbance.

Girl, æt. 21, thin and spare, dark eyes, black hair, bilious temperament ; intermittent fever.

Man, æt. 22 ; irido-choroiditis.

Man, æt. 22, bilious temperament ; spermatorrhœa.

Man, æt. 24, lymphatic temperament, subject to epistaxis ; gonorrhœa.

Piano teacher, observed for two years tired sensation in arms when playing.

Man, bilious temperament ; febrile attack.

Man, nervous-bilious temperament ; fever.

Woman, æt. 30, spare, of dark complexion, in third month, after fright ; threatened abortion.

Miss S., æt. 30, was afflicted with neuralgia, for which massive doses of quinine and morphia were given ; aphonia and deafness.

Man, æt. 30 ; febrile attack.

Miss B., æt. 30 ; chronic diarrhœa.

Woman, æt. 32, seamstress ; irido-choroiditis.

Mrs. —, æt. 35 ; brain affection.

Primipara, æt. 35 ; rigidity of os uteri.

Mrs. H., æt. 36 ; menorrhagia.

Woman, æt. 40 ; dystocia.

Woman, æt. 45 ; after exposure on a cold, damp day ; tic douloureux.

Mrs. R., æt. 46, subject to quinsy ; affection of throat.

Mrs. E., æt. 50, after losing son ; bad effects of grief.

Man, æt. 52, light hair, blue eyes, had cerebro-spinal meningitis ; neuralgic headache.

Mrs. T., æt. 56, dark complexion, bilious temperament ; serous choroiditis.

Man, æt. 69 ; typhoid.

Mrs. M., at. 74 ; febrile disturbance.

   

RELATIONS. [48] [Gels.]

Antidoted by : Atrop., Cinchon., Coffea, Digit., Nux mosch., salt, stimulants, galvanism. In cases of poisoning, resort to artificial respiration, and faradism of muscles of respiration.

It antagonizes : Atrop. and Opium.

Compatible : Baptis. in typhoid fever ; Ipecac. in dumb ague.

Compare : Bellad. in labor ; Cauloph. and Caustic. in complaints of women ; Coccul. and Conium
in paralysis ; Ferr. phosph. in fever ; Quillaia in catarrhs ; Oleum an. and Veratr. in headaches.

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