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Ustilago. (Ustilago Maydis.) – 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.

Ust. * Full text (45 Ko) * Red
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LOWER LIMBS. [33] [Ust.]

Rheumatic pains in legs.

Flying rheumatic pains in metatarsal bones of right foot.

   

LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] [Ust.]

Rheumatic pain in legs, arms and fingers.

   

REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] [Ust.]

Rising : menorrhagia <.

Motion : menorrhagia <.

Walking : frontal headache < ; pain in left inguinal region ; pain in lumbar region <.

   

SLEEP. [37] [Ust.]

Sleep : troubled, tosses about, troublesome dreams ; heat over body.

   

TIME. [38] [Ust.]

From 12 to 4 P. M. : pain from left ovary to uterus and right ovary.

All afternoon : grumbling in abdomen.

Evening : sudden pallor.

All night : rheumatism in right shoulder ; general heat.

Night : itching urticaria.

   

TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] [Ust.]

In a warm room : felt oppressed, faint.

Open air : aching in eyes and lachrymation.

   

FEVER. [40] [Ust.]

Internal heat through body, but < in eyes, which are sensitive to light and sore to touch ; pulse normal.

General heat at night during sleep.

Relapsing agues ; very profuse sweat ; slight nausea ; oppression of chest ; cerebral disturbance, and great irritability.

   

ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] [Ust.]

Lasting three minutes : neuralgic pains in sternum and stomach.

Every few minutes : colicky pains.

Every ten or fifteen minutes : neuralgic pains in sternum and stomach.

Every night : emissions.

For two days : constant flooding.

Every week : one to four emissions.

Every three weeks : menses.

Third month : abortion.

For eight months : suppression of menses.

For fourteen months : suppression of menses.

For twelve years : menorrhagia, lasting ten days.

Climacteric period : vertigo ; frequent flushing ; pain on top and side of head ; menorrhagia ; metrorrhagia.

   

LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] [Ust.]

Left : dull pain in ear ; tonsil inflamed ; pain in inguinal region ; pain in ovary ; neuralgia of ovary ; ovary enlarged ; ovarian irritation ; pain from ovary down hip ; suffering under breast ; pain in chest with
cough ; stitches in chest ; aching distress under mamma ; tearing from top of chest to sixth or seventh rib.

Right : aching in eyeball ; lancinating in tonsil ; pain in region of liver ; dull pains in hypochondrium ; dull pain in groin and back ; neuralgia of ovary ; rheumatism in shoulder, elbow joint and second joint of forefinger cutting pains along
metacarpal bones ; rheumatic pains in metatarsal bones.

   

SENSATIONS. [43] [Ust.]

As if forehead would burst open ; as if something were under root of tongue, pressing upward ; as of a lump behind larynx ; as if head were being lifted off ; excessively tired feeling ; as if everything would come from her, bearing down ; uterus
as if drawn into a knot.

Pain : on top and side of head ; in region of liver and bowels ; in region of liver ; in left inguinal region ; in right ovary.

Acute pain : in left ovary.

Lancinating : in right tonsil.

Cutting : in epigastrium ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in left ovary ; along metacarpal bones of right hand.

Sharp pain : across abdomen from hip to hip ; in ovaries, uterus and back.

Stitches : in chest, < left side.

Shooting : down legs.

Sticking : along metacarpal bone of right forefinger.

Pricking : in tongue.

Tearing : in left chest.

Drawing : in finger joints.

Pressure : in frontal region ; in head.

Aching : in eyeballs ; dull, in right eyeball ; dull, in decayed molars ; in mouth of womb ; under left mamma ; in small of back ; in shoulder joints.

Burning : of scalp ; of face ; in stomach ; in œsophagus ; in sternum ; in ovaries ; in cardiac region.

Smarting : in eyeballs.

Flying pains : in forehead ; from heart to stomach.

Neuralgic pains : in sternum and stomach ; in testicles ; in left ovary.

Rheumatic pain : in shoulders and back ; in lumbar region ; in muscles of right shoulder ; in right elbow joint ; in arms, hands and fingers ; in legs ; in metacarpal bones of right foot.

Bearing down : in abdomen.

Contraction : in vertex.

Dull pain : in left ear ; in tonsils ; in right hypochondrium ; in lumbar region ; in right groin and back.

Grumbling : in abdomen.

Fulness : in head ; in uterus.

Uneasiness : in region of stomach ; in lower extremities.

Goneness : in epigastrium.

Faintness : in epigastrium.

Heat : of scalp ; in eyes ; through body.

Dryness : of nostril ; of fauces.

Itching : urticaria.

   

TISSUES. [44] [Ust.]

Vascular system of ovaries is most powerfully affected, producing congestion, enlargement, and great irritation, with ovaralgia, dysmenorrhœa, and especially menorrhagia.

   

TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] [Ust.]

Touch : abdomen tender ; eyes sore.

Pressure : ovaries <.

Riding in a carriage : unable from backache.

   

SKIN. [46] [Ust.]

Whole skin is dry, hot, and congested.

Negro, urticaria of six years’ standing, troubled more or less all time ; every night itching, scratching parts produces large pale welts on body, arms and legs.

Copper-colored spots on skin ; secondary syphilis ; maculæ.

Pustular ulceration of skin, scald-head, and various forms of eczema.

Painful destructive diseases of nails.

Alopecia ; complete loss of hair from long-lasting congestion of scalp ; tendency to small boils ; skin dry and hot.

   

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

Very lymphatic women, with clear, white skin.

Tall, slim, fair complexion, “consumptive persons.”

Miss E., æt. 19, nervous temperament ; menorrhagia.

Miss M., æt. 19, nervous temperament ; dysmenorrhœa.

Miss O., æt. 20, light hair, very pale and anemic, slim, delicate from childhood, history of consumption on father’s side ; amenorrhœa, cough, etc.

Mrs. B., æt. 23, nervous temperament, two weeks after third labor ; metrorrhagia.

Mrs. W., æt. 26, nervo-bilious temperament ; suppression of menses.

Mrs. B., æt. 27, nervous temperament ; dysmenorrhœa.

Lady, æt. 27, nervous temperament ; scanty menses.

Man, æt. 28, nervo-sanguine temperament, suffering several years ; spermatorrhœa.

Mrs. F., æt. 28, blonde, scrofulous hemorrhagic diathesis, married five years, never pregnant ; menorrhagia.

Mrs. H., æt. 28, large, lymphatic, weight about 200, after third labor ; uterine hemorrhage.

Mrs. S., æt. 29, nervous temperament ; dysmenorrhœa.

Mrs. W., æt. 30, nervo-bilious ; ovarian irritation.

Irishman, æt. 30, bilious temperament ; spermatorrhœa.

Mrs. H., æt. 30, nervous temperament, two months ago miscarried between third and fourth month ; metrorrhagia Lady, æt. 30, tall, slim, nervous ; menorrhagia.

Mrs. D, æt. 31, nervo-bilious ; ovaritis.

Mrs. H., æt. 32, sanguine temperament, nursing a babe 14 months old, suffering six weeks ; metrorrhagia.

Mrs. B., æt. 34, two children, youngest æt. 10, subject to headaches since puberty ; suppression of menses.

Mrs. H., æt. 34, bilious temperament ; hemorrhage after abortion.

Lady, æt. 35, suffering six years ; tumor of uterus.

Mrs. H., æt. 38, two months ago miscarried when three months gone ; metrorrhagia.

Mrs. F., æt. 39, nervous temperament, married nine years, never pregnant ; metrorrhagia.

Mrs. B., æt. 40, large, fleshy, flabby, bloated-looking, no children ; metrorrhagia.

Mrs. F., æt. 50, nervo-bilious ; menorrhagia.

Mrs. N., æt. 54, nervous temperament ; ovarian irritation.

Lady, tall, slim, bilious ; suppression of menses.

   

RELATIONS. [48] [Ust.]

Compare : Secale and Sabina.

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