The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism, Volume 1

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Boericke & Tafel, 1874 - Homeopathy
 

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Page 609 - At times, while it seemed to him that he was fully conscious, saw persons at the bedside and slowly reached out to grasp them, but his hand would pass through the object and no sense of touch tell him that there was any material in the apparition ; saw books and newspapers and tried to grasp them, but they would either recede or the hand would come in contact with them and feel nothing,1. — [10.] Mind has been wandering considerable of the time through the afternoon ; often thinks he is spoken...
Page 609 - There was incessant rambling delirium, great restlessness, a grasping at imaginary objects, and occasional screaming from fright. The character of the delirium varied ; sometimes the child saw objects which frightened him, and the utmost terror was depicted on his countenance, and he clung to his nurse's neck, or threw himself violently in different directions, as if to escape them...
Page 137 - ... at the same time very restless; great anxiety; two hours after the first attack, the drowsiness had become insensibility, with constant muttering delirium; did not recognize the members of her family; she was now covered in patches with an eruption of miliary rash, with efflorescence between the points of the rash, all of a dark, almost...
Page 551 - Severe chill (on the third day), at 3 PM, at the time when the headache was usually worse ; beginning with yawning, discomfort, anxiety, and chilliness, accompanied by oppression of the chest, pain in the neck, and drawing in the upper extremities ; increased frontal headache. After a two-hour's chill, came a moderate heat, which lasted till 8 PM, with a hot, dry mouth, thirst only little. After the heat, a very slight sweat, during which the patient fell asleep; at first frequent startings, during...
Page 129 - The mouth is very dry ; saliva so tough that it can be drawn out in threads; the velum pendulum palati and the uvula are red ; he experiences a scratching in the throat, which obliges him to cough ; while coughing, the phlegm which he wants to cough up feels to him very viscid, as if a piece of cloth were hanging in his throat, . Throat.
Page 130 - Agnus castus, by which the sexual parts were weakened to such an extent that not only did the erections become deficient, but he lost his semen as he intended, and never begat children.
Page 263 - After having had a sound nap in the forenoon, she wakes up at 1 o'clock with a sense of anxiety, as if she were choking; this was on account of the nose being quite obstructed, and her not being able to take breath, except with an open mouth, so that the chest was painful in consequence of the difficult breathing (after twelve days),1. — Cold, with rattling in the nose, accompanied by obstruction of the nose, and roughness of voice,'.
Page 457 - Pressure in the eyes, as if too full ; heat and pain in the ball of the eye when moving or touching it ; mucous flocks impeding the sight, and obliging him to wipe the eyes, in the daytime; a scarlet redness, which had appeared...
Page 197 - ... induced by small quantities in persons endowed with unusual or morbid sensibility of the stomach and bowels...
Page 173 - Throbbing, boring, sticking, in the umbilical region,". — *A twisting and griping pain in the upper abdomen, and around the umbilicus, compelling to sit bent up, which relieves; therewith, repeated urging to stool, but only flatus passes off, which is very offensive, and produces burning in the anus, with short relief from the pain (second day),1. — Pinching and twisting pains around the umbilicus,". — Digging around the navel,27. — Pinching iu the umbilical region,2*. — It gripes sometimes...

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