Physiological Materia Medica: Containing All that is Known of the Physiological Action of Our Remedies; Together with Their Characteristic Indications and Pharmacology |
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abdomen acid acrid acute affected aggravated albuminuria anæmia arterial bile blood bowels brain burning catarrh causes centers of action chest chill chronic cold colic congestion constipation convulsions copious cord cough cured debility diarrhoea Digestive dilatation discharge diseases drug dyspnoea epigastrium eruption especially excessive excitement eyes feeling fetid fever flatulence frequent glands grains head headache heart heat hemorrhages increased inflammation intestinal irritation itching kidneys large doses leucorrhoea limbs liver lungs lymphatic mammæ menorrhagia menses Mercury mouth mucous membrane mucus muscles muscular nausea nerves nervous system neuralgia night pains paralysis paralyzed patient poison produces profuse prostration pulse Quinia remedy respiratory rheumatic secretion sensation serous serous membranes Sexual Organs skin sore spasmodic spasms special centers spinal stitches stomach stools Strychnia suppuration sweat swelling swollen symptoms syphilis tenesmus Therapeutic Individuality thirst throat Tincture tion tissue tongue Trituration ulcers Urinary urine uterine uterus vaso-motor Veratrum viride vertigo violent vomiting worse
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Page 875 - Bacon; and some of them eat plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very pleasant comedy; for they turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another stark naked was sitting up in a corner, like a monkey...
Page 342 - ... he said that he did not. And after this he pressed his •thighs ; and thus going higher he showed us that he was growing cold and stiff. Then Socrates touched himself, and said that when the poison reached his heart he should then depart.
Page 875 - ... dart straws at it with much fury ; and another stark naked was sitting up in a corner, like a monkey, grinning and making mows at them ; a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and snear in their faces, with a countenance more antic than any in a Dutch droll.
Page 803 - The cough occurs chiefly, or is much worse in the evening, after retiring, and at that time the membrane of the trachea is particularly sensitive to cold air and to any irregularity in the flow of air over its surface, so that the patient often covers the head with the bedclothes to avoid the cold air of the apartment, and refuses to speak or even to listen to conversation, lest his attention should be withdrawn from the supervision of his respiratory acts, which he performs with the most careful...
Page 537 - Profound and disturbed sleep, from which I woke with a mental struggle and effort, not knowing at first where I was, or what had become of me ; in fact, I seemed to have gone far down into the gulf of sleep,10.
Page 341 - ... so directed him. And at the same time he who gave him the poison, taking hold of him, after a short interval examined his feet and legs; and then having pressed his foot hard, he asked if he felt it; he said that he did not. And after this he pressed his thighs; and...
Page 803 - Rumex diminishes the secretions, and at the same time exalts in a very marked manner, the sensibility of the mucous membrane of the larynx and trachea, exceeding in the extent of this exaltation, any remedy known to us. The cough, therefore, is frequent and continuous, to an extent quite out of proportion to the degree of organic affection of the mucous membrane. It is dry, occurs in long paroxysms, or, under certain circumstances, is almost uninterrupted. It is induced or greatly aggravated by any...
Page 884 - Sulphur penetrates the entire organism, even in its finest and most recondite portions. It increases the activity of vegetative life generally, and the processes of secretion and absorption in particular; it accelerates the interchange of elements and makes it more pervading; in a word, it fulfills all the demands upon which the removal of an abnormal product is conditional.
Page 522 - A more correct way of judging of the resemblance is in the further development of the constitutional symptoms. We have in this remedy the rash on the skin ; then the sore throat, which has been mistaken for syphilitic; then the periostea! pains; then the rheumatism ; and lastly the diseases of the skin, chiefly of the pustular character, which have the hard dark scab, and leave the depressed cicatrix.
Page 414 - School for anaemia, as does Quinine for malaria. Each can and does cure its kind of both conditions, but can cure no other ; and each, when it is the true curative, is capable of doing its best work in the potentized form. Dr. Hughes writes: "The treatment of anaemia by Iron is one of the few satisfactory and certain things in modern medicine. From whatever cause this condition may arise, whether it be the chlorosis of defective menstruation, or the simple poverty of blood induced by haemorrhages,...