Dr. B. Mure's materia medica : $b or, provings of the principal animal and vegetable poisons of the Brazilian Empire, and their application in the treatment of diseaseMure, Benoît
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Dr. B. Mure's materia medica : $b or, provings of the principal animal and vegetable poisons of the Brazilian Empire, and their application in the treatment of disease
Mure, Benoît
Homeopathy; Materia medica, Vegetable
_First day._—1. Loathing, tongue thick and doughy, in a few minutes. She
dreams about a leprous woman, which disgusts her.
_Second day._—Very chilly. Colic followed by a reddish diarrhœic stool
mixed with slime. 5. Headache as if the head were covered with a cap
of lead on which one strikes. Loathing of food. Desire for dainties.
Frequent and ineffectual desire to urinate. Pain of the soles in walking,
increased by pressure. 10. Lancinating pain in the heel.
_Third day._—Sensation in all the limbs as if bruised. Dizzy, her head
inclines forwards. The feet feel numb, after going up-stairs. The arms,
chest and head, except the ears, are very cold. 15. Desire to vomit. Her
tongue feels as if it were as thick as a finger. Burning when urinating.
She likes to remain quiet and shut up. Dreams about a leprous patient
whose sores bleed. 20. Her chest feels as if it would open, with a
cracking noise. Stitch under the right eye.
_Fourth day._—Shuddering on rising. Sharp pain during stool, as if a
penknife had been plunged into the abdomen. Prickling at the left eye,
which weeps and is very much inflamed. 25. Redness of the sclerotica.
Buzzing in the left ear for 15 minutes. Pain in the groin as if the
nerves were cut. Crampy pain in the left side of the hypogastrium.
Itching and tingling in the throat. 30. Pain at the eyebrows meeting from
opposite side at the root of the nose. Heat in the soles. Oppression and
burning in both sides of the chest. Pressure in the hypogastrium. Pain
as if a string had been strung round the hypochondria. 35. Intolerable
itching, with sense of burning in the chest. Beating in the temple
and above the left eye. Pain at the navel as from a penknife. Painful
sensation as from an iron bar, compelling the head to incline forwards.
Constant ennui. 40. Loathing at the sight of food. Desire for the taste
and smell of coffee. General lassitude.
_Fifth day._—Pain in the lower limbs, which become stiff by walking.
Cramp in the palm and fingers of the left hand, extending to the arm.
45. Violent pain in the side as if a stone were pressed in. Itching and
suppuration behind the head.
_Sixth day._—Hammering in the vertex, reverberating in the temples.
Restless sleep. She dreams that she wishes to open her chest in order to
look into it. 50. Pressure at the chest and sides, as if pressed upon by
iron sheeting, and then pierced with penknives, causing an acute pain.
Nausea. Lancinating pain in the left nipple, as if a penknife were thrust
in, at regular intervals. Sawing pain as if the cartilage of the left ear
were cut; this pain extends to the left side of the neck. Prickings as
from a thousand needles in the left thigh, high up, for several minutes.
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