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Plumbum. (Plumbum Metallicum.) – 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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RESPIRATION. [26] [Plb.]

Respiration anxious and sighing with lamentations and moaning.

Want of breath ; oppression from motion ; short breath on going up stairs.

Heavy difficult breathing.

Spasmodic dyspnœa ; sudden paroxysms force him up at night to the open window, with paralytic symptoms of laryngeal muscles.

   

COUGH. [27] [Plb.]

Cough : short, dry, nervous, fatiguing ; dry, spasmodic ; < during inspiration ; with purulent expectoration ; frequent, with bloody expectoration ; after hemorrhage from lungs, < lying on back and after getting out of bed
in morning ; dry, hacking, with tuberculous diathesis ; in chlorosis.

Expectoration : copious, muco-purulent or purulent ; tasting sweetish ; bloody.

   

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

Pressure upon chest, with difficulty in breathing and short, dry, nervous cough.

Stitches in chest and sides.

Great emaciation : fever with evening exacerbation ; night sweats ; diarrhœa ; good appetite ; hectic flush ; constant cough, day and night, with profuse greenish, purulent, lumpy, blood-streaked expectoration ; dulness on
percussion in apex of right lung, with rales. θ Phthisis.

Hæmoptysis : phthisical disposition, when bloody or purulent sputa alternate.

Hæmoptysis, with pus and blood and stitch pains in chest.

Phthisis ; suppuration of lungs ; large vomica in lungs ; chronic cough, with bloody expectoration ; palpitation.

Suppuration of lungs.

Circumscribed pulmonary mortification ; also cheesy pneumonia.

   

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

Palpitation : violent ; spasmodic, with anxiety about heart.

Beats of heart very tumultuous, rapid and resonant.

Stitch in region of heart during an inspiration, with anxiety, heat and redness of face ; rushing of blood in region of heart, during a rapid walk ; anguish about heart, cold sweat ; violent palpitation and a sort of angina pectoris.

Hypertrophy and dilatation of heart.

Change in muscular structure of heart without coincident disease of valves and with or without atheromatous degeneration of vessels ; usually hypertrophy and dilatation of left ventricle ; ten cases out of twenty-five were associated with parenchymatous nephritis in stage of
atrophy.

Bruit de souffle at base of heart ; cat’s fremitus at apex.

Pulse : rapid ; weak and slow, about 40 ; variable, generally small and slow, contracted ; at times hard and slow ; at others small and accelerated ; dicrotic or undulating.

   

OUTER CHEST. [30] [Plb.]

Chronic myalgia.

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