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
loss of breath when going up-stairs, disappears after the second day
of the proving. Violent fit of dry cough which finally ends in raising
black blood, with frightful tearing pains in every part of the lungs,
and especially in the right side, at the upper part of the chest. Taste
of blood in the mouth previous to the paroxysm of cough, succeeded by a
desire to vomit. Burning in the hands while preparing the drug. Prickling
in the back of the right hand. 60. Pulling in the right hand, which
extends to the ring-finger. Pains in the elbows. Crampy constriction
in the phalanxes of the fingers and under the nails. Lancinations and
prickling in the back of the hand. The blood remains congested in the
hand, which is of a violet color and as if paralysed; it has to be kept
erect in order to prevent the congestion. 65. A black blood spirts out
of the finger when pricking it ever so little. Vesicular eruption on the
feet. Pains in the knees. Pains in the knees as if bruised and contused,
especially in the left knee, which does not bear contact, and where the
pain is as keen as if the part had been sprained.
_Third to sixth day._—Sensitiveness _of the right side_. 70. Inability
to rise in the morning in consequence of the pain in the right side.
Slight phlyctænæ make their appearance here and there, especially on
the extremities; the epidermis surrounding them sometimes scales off.
Drowsy the whole day, but sleepless nights. Dreaming about the business
of the day. Pain in the forehead. 75. Red eyebrows. The eye is extremely
sensitive to cold water. Stoppage of the right nostril, improved by
resting on the same side. Bad smell from the nose. Pulling in the
œsophagus. 80. Violent headache, if the desire for food is not satisfied
on the instant. Suffocative oppression after eating. Bloating of the
stomach after eating. Pulling in the pit of the stomach. Violent hunger.
85. Pressure at the right hypochondrium. Pressure in the left side, which
extends to the vertebral column. Dull pain in the right lung, worse when
walking. Congestion of blood to the throat, which is caused by the pain
in the lung. Sense of spraining and stiffness in the knee joint.
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