The Characteristics of the New Remedies

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Lodge's homœopathic pharmacy, 1873 - Chemotherapy - 544 pages
 

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Page 336 - For two days intermittent attacks of pain, radiating from the left side of the ensiform cartilage; aggravated by fasting; slight constipation, with occasional twisting, gnawing feeling, rather lower down, relieved by food. * Dyspeptic feelings a quarter of an hour before dinner, with gnawing, sinking at cardiac end of stomach; but without hunger or faintness. Pathological...
Page 53 - ... skin, feeble pulse, and a feeling as if some sharp instrument was thrust through from one temple to the other.
Page 166 - Gelteminum, etc. [When given to cause sleep or allay suffering, in material doses, it is best prescribed in Syrup of Tolu, 10 grs. to the dram. It should be administered largely diluted. 20 grs. is the average soporific dose for an adult] Mental Sphere. Insanity. — The following results have been gained by giving to insane persons a daily average quantity from twenty to thirty grains: When patients are destructive and violent, the Chloral acts as an excellent hypnotic by night, and soothing agent...
Page 112 - Pediculi, and vermin of all kinds on the body. General Symptoms. Complains of being very tired. Cannot walk straight. The pains seem to affect the right side first, and afterwards the same parts of the left. Itching of various parts of the body. Feels as if he had taken a violent cold. General soreness, worse in back, abdomen and chest Soreness as if I had taken much cold — think I have not. 0 Body much swollen a short time before death. All the muscles prominently used are sore and stiff. 0 Cancerous...
Page 439 - Spigelia, Sepia, Solanum. Mental Sphere. Despair; want of self-confidence. Very joyous; he sings, although the head is internally hot. Aversion to professional labor. Thinking is hard for him when it is of a comparative nature, but not when it is creative; he can easily write out a case or problem, but finds it difficult to select remedies; writes a treatise with facility, but finds it hard to classify and determine places in systems. Head. Much vertigo on every occasion, particularly on stooping....
Page 84 - Abnormal irritability of the urinary passages. (/£.) 0 Nocturnal involuntary emissions of urine. (Hewson.") ° Suppression of urine in cholera infantum. (Caro.) "Diabetes millitus. (Two cases.) Symptoms: emaciation; paleness; skin cold and dry; pulse rapid and feeble; tongue red and tender; gums spongy and bleeding; thirst excessive; appetite voracious; bowels constipated; urine pale, frequent, large quantity, of high density, and loaded with sugar; liver tumid and tender.
Page 76 - He imagined that he had been specially singled out for Divine vengeance, and he spent the greater part of the evening in loudly deploring his sad fate, — falling suddenly asleep at intervals of a few minutes.
Page 144 - Sensation as if a heavy black cloud had settled all over her and enveloped her head, so that all was darkness and confusion, while at the same time it weighed like lead upon her heart.
Page 437 - Aching pain across lumbar region of the back. Pains in left lumbar region of back, and pricking in right side under the ribs. Frequent chills through the back, with debility. Frequent feeling as if hot water passed through the lumbar vertebrae. Tensive pains and pulsations in swelling, extending down left side of spinal column, not tender to touch or pressure. EXTREMITIES. Aching, beating sensation in muscles, chiefly triceps of left arm. Rheumatic pain from right knee to ankle, when walking. Tensive...
Page 436 - ... felt sore, and the arm felt bruised. The left arm and hand is easily chilled and numbed in the cold, despite gloves and friction; the fingers, especially the third and fourth, are then bluishwhite; the nails blue, with a sensation as if they were being rooted up; when brought into the warmth, this hand is slow in recovering itself, and held near a fire, or in a heated room, its vessels become distended much more than those of the right, and in a cool temperature this is some time in disappearing....

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