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
35. Disposed to laugh and jest, first day. Sad, desires to weep; shortly
after, involuntary weeping, sixth day, morning. Long, deep sleep, the
first three days. Sleeps all day, with frequent gaping, but no desire to
lie down. Dreams about quarrelling, she does not recollect her dreams
on waking. 40. First day, sleeps longer than usual in the morning.
Headache on waking. Somnolence after breakfast, with gaping, first day.
Drowsy after dinner, second day. Sad dreams about sick persons in her
family, fifth day. 45. Profuse, cold sweat, and chilliness all over,
with shuddering after the first sleep, sixth day. Shuddering throughout
her body, when lying down. Febrile heat, pale face, cold hands, on the
evening of the sixth day. Two small dark-yellow spots on the neck.
Headache, with a small and feeble pulse; heat in the face, especially
on the right cheek, which is felt very intensely, though the skin feels
cool, first day. 50. Painful stitch in the forehead, worse when opening
the eyes, with external heat of the head on the first day, at 2 in the
afternoon. Stabbing sensation in the right temple, first day, at 3 in the
afternoon. Dull pain, with beating in the left temple, third day. Aching
pain in the temples. Pain in the forehead, with compressive sensation
in the brain, aggravated by walking. 55. Eyes half closed, swollen
externally, surrounded by blue margins, especially near the nose, for
three days. Weight on the eyelids constraining her to close her eyes; in
this state she sees a variety of figures, sixth day. The veins of the
nose are swollen and bluish. Redness and heat of the left ear, for some
minutes, third day. Stomach-ache with sensation of coldness internally.
60. Acute and seated pain in the whole stomach, when rising from a chair,
suffocation, with cold feet, which obliges her to remain in bed, on the
evening of the sixth day. Pains in the muscles of the superior and inner
side of the elbow, like stings of ants. Contusive pain in the arms and
legs. Heaviness and weariness of the limbs, sixth day, morning. 65.
Numbness of the lower limbs, with aversion to exercise. Contusive pain in
the arms and legs, sixth day. Cold feet, in bed, morning.
Third prover: _Mlle. Silvia_, 20 years old, sanguine temperament, good
constitution, gay disposition.
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