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
in the whole body,—quiet breathing,—pulse full and frequent, skin
soft,—the bitten hand swells enormously.—In seven hours: somnolence
with moaning,—after waking the pains in the arms are less, but he
experiences violent pains in the chest,—sensation of a lump in his
throat,—copious emission of urine,—great difficulty of swallowing, white,
viscid saliva,—discharge of a bloody liquid from the nose,—inability to
swallow a drink composed of water, sugar and brandy.—In eight hours:
the sweating abates,—restlessness,—moaning,—emission of urine.—In nine
hours, ten minutes: the moaning ceases,—deep sleep.—In ten hours: takes
an infusion of guaco,—pulse 108,—the bloody discharge from the nose
ceases,—shrivelling of the tuberculous formations on the arms and in
the face, they exhibit an erysipelatous redness.—In ten hours, twenty
minutes: emits two ounces of a natural urine,—a few minutes’ quiet
sleep, without moaning.—In ten hours, forty minutes: the pains abate
a good deal, but he complains of pains in the thighs and feet, where
he had felt a considerable coldness until now,—pulse 108,—ordinary
thirst,—the patient sits up in order to drink, and swallows the drink
with ease.—In eleven hours: takes four spoonfuls of a strong infusion
of guaco.—In eleven hours, forty-five minutes: emits a deeply-colored
urine,—pulse 119,—the bitten hand and arm are very much inflamed and
intensely painful,—restlessness.—In twelve hours: quiet sleep, disturbed
by eructations,—pulse 112,—emission of urine.—In twelve hours, thirty
minutes: restlessness,—screams,—despair.—In twelve hours, forty minutes:
emission of urine,—pulse 116,—sensation of burning heat in the legs,
which he uncovers.—In thirteen hours: emission of urine,—quiet,—he takes
an infusion of guaco.—In fourteen hours: he sits up in bed, and drinks
water, during which he moves about violently and screams.—In fifteen
hours: emission of urine,—the swelling of the lower lips abates,—the
salivation ceases.—In fifteen hours, forty-five minutes: pulse
110,—involuntary motion of the right thumb and left foot.—In seventeen
hours: the patient feels very sick,—pulse 100,—frequent moaning.—In
nineteen hours: excessive debility,—involuntary motion of the lower
jaw, and lower extremities,—bloody urine.—In twenty hours: accelerated,
intermitting pulse,—increase of the convulsive motions,—the swelling of
the extremities, and the redness of the skin are less,—extreme difficulty
of swallowing,—anxious respiration.—In twenty hours, fifty minutes:
diminution of the convulsive motions.—In twenty hours, fifty-five
minutes: the convulsions cease.—In twenty-one hours: he takes an ounce
of lizard-oil, which he swallows with difficulty.—In twenty-one hours,
thirty minutes: death.—In a few minutes, the blue-colored body, swoll
considerably.—Twenty-three hours after death, the body had swollen
enormously, was covered with blue and red spots, and smelt so horridly
that no post-mortem examination could be made.—HEMPEL.
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