The Encyclopedia of pure materia medica v. 9, 1879, Volume 9Boericke & Tafel, 1879 |
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abdomen aching afternoon aggravated anus bone breath burning chest cold colic cough diarrhoea dinner disappeared dose dreams drops dryness dull eighth day eleventh eructations especially evacuation expectoration extending eyes fauces feeling fifth day fingers flatus forearm forehead forenoon fourth day frequent frontal eminence glans penis hands head headache heat hundred hypochondrium increased itching jerking Journ knee larynx lasting left side legs limbs morning mouth mucus muscles nape nausea neck night ninth day noon nose occiput open air perspiration pharynx pimples pressive pain pressure pulse rectum region right side scapula second day sensation shooting sitting sixteenth sixth day skin sleep slight sore spasms sternum sticking stitches stomach stool swallowing swelling swollen symptoms taste tearing tenesmus tenth thigh third day thirst thirteenth throat tongue took twelfth twenty-fifth twenty-fourth upper urethra urine vertex vertigo violent vomiting waking walking weakness whole body worse
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Page 189 - 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 great fury ; another, stark naked, was sitting up in a corner, like a monkey, grinning and making mouths at them ; a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his
Page 197 - insensible ; in two hours the pupils were fixed and dilated; all the muscles of the body convulsed, the countenance flushed and the pulse full and slow, two hours after,™.—He remained perfectly unconscious and could not be roused, paid no heed to the loudest shouting, did not feel the smartest pinching; while the arms and legs, when lifted, fell flaccid and lifeless
Page 470 - in the chest on both sides, as if from a knife (twenty-fourth day), 4 .—Darting pains in the chest under lower sternum (sixteenth day), 4 .—[360.] Paroxysms of dull pressure under the sternum, 1 .—Oppression in left chest, clogged sensation, as if it were difficult to force the blood through that lung, worse on stooping
Page 275 - somewhat less than three hours and a half after the poison had entered the stomach,".—Seized with a violent tetanic spasm, affecting the legs and muscles of respiration, and had only time to call out for assistance before the sensation amounted to that of absolute suffocation
Page 607 - such a queer sensation in her whole head that she cannot describe it.—Pains in all the bones, as if every part would fall asunder; feels as if broken from head to foot ; thereupon violent coldness so that nothing would warm her ; without thirst (after the bite).—If violent symptoms sprang up suddenly, Aconite relieved.—Later symptoms, and those remaining long
Page 518 - respiration, 10 .—Respiration 14 to the minute, with some labor of the respiratory muscles (after two hours) ; 12 to the minute (after six hours), 14 .—Respiration hurried, labored, stertorous, and obstructed by an abundance of frothy mucus, which filled the air-passages, and was blown from between the lips in expiration ; the breath had a strong odor of Tansy,
Page 633 - .—Heat in the right ear (seventy-second day),".—In the morning, feeling of fulness, with stoppage in the right ear and frequent sneezing, which returned in the evening; soon after which quite violent itching in both nostrils towards the point of the nose, after a short continuance of which, a secretion of thin mucus followed
Page 509 - .—Great nervous excitement, accompanied by irregular action of the muscles, more particularly of the eyelids, mouth, and upper extremities, which lasted for about two hours after each occasion of using this substance. These sensations were succeeded by a pleasant feeling of ease and contentment, which lasted about two hours,
Page 231 - Incarceration of flatus in the lower abdomen, followed by a very soft stool (second day), 1 .—Tension in the lower abdomen, 1 .—Tensive pain in the lower abdomen and a bruised sensation in the small of the back, as if the menses would come on,
Page 149 - than the headache*.—Sticking headache all day (after seventeen days), 1 .—Pain in the head, as if everything would come out at the forehead, on stooping (after five hours),".—Tearing and pulling from the head down through the cheeks into the teeth (after thirty-six