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

Main * Meph.

[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.

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

MIND. [1] [Meph.]

Disinclination to work, with inclination to stretch.
   

INNER HEAD. [3] [Meph.]

Pain above eyes ; violent pain in head, as if a fulness was pressing upwards.
   

SIGHT AND EYES. [5] [Meph.]

Letters become blurred, he is unable to discern them, they run together.
Stitches in eyes as from needles.
Redness of conjunctivæ.
   

TEETH AND GUMS. [10] [Meph.]

Pains in hollow back teeth.
   

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Meph.]

No appetite in morning.
   

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

Nausea, with emptiness in stomach and sensation as if head was distended.
   

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Meph.]

Pressure in stomach, with colic.
   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Meph.]

Stool infrequent but thin.
   

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Meph.]

Dwindling of testicles from masturbation.
   

RESPIRATION. [26] [Meph.]

Suffocative feeling, with inability to exhale ; bloated face and convulsions. θ Spasm of glottis.
When drinking or talking, liability to get foreign substance into throat. θ Asthma thymicum.
Asthmatic paroxysm at night on lying down, also sometimes waking him in morning ; at 10 P. M. had to sit up in bed, got to sleep at 12 P. M., but was wakened by paroxysm exactly at daybreak ; had to get up and walk about, whereby a slight cough was excited, the more he coughed the worse the breathing became, but each cough brought up a little transparent phlegm, like white of egg, with sourish taste ; urine turbid on standing a few minutes, of fetid smell and depositing brick-dust sediment ; sensation during paroxysm as from inhaling fumes of sulphur, and a general oppression of front part of chest, especially behind upper part of sternum ; < from ice water, wine, horseback riding. θ Asthma.
   

COUGH. [27] [Meph.]

Whooping or any kind of cough which is very violent, coming on spasmodically, and seeming as though each spell would terminate life.
Spells day and night ; child must be raised, gets blue in face and cannot exhale ; convulsions ; fetid diarrhœa.
Eight or more paroxysms of cough every night ; rattling of phlegm during cough, with vomiting after eating.
After slight catarrh, whooping cough ; during day cough slight, but in night paroxysm every ten minutes, with frequent vomiting and fever.
Spasmodic cough of phthisical girls (where Dros. failed).
   

LOWER LIMBS. [33] [Meph.]

Rush of blood to legs on getting awake at night.
Rheumatic pains from hips to feet ; arthritic pain in heel.
Legs restless as if becoming insensible ; knees feel bruised.
Burning and pains in corns.
   

NERVES. [36] [Meph.]

Very fine nervous vibrations, causing great uneasiness.
Lameness, especially with the pains.
   

SLEEP. [37] [Meph.]

Extremely sleepy in morning, during day, even in company.
Sleeplessness from “fidgets” in left side, both legs and arms.
Nightmare.
Awakens in night with congestion to legs.
   

FEVER. [40] [Meph.]

Increased warmth, especially in morning.

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