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._—185. Very drowsy, shuddering in the legs as before an
attack of fever, very short. At 8, stitch in the left side, disappearing
of itself. At 11, tightness in the forehead as if pressed upon, for 15
minutes. Constant physical and moral torpor. Constant dull pain in the
head. 190. Frequent yawning. Desire to vomit before eating. Violent
headache at 4 in the afternoon. Dull pain in the abdomen, especially on
the right side, not aggravated by pressure. Headache with heat at the
forepart of the vertex. 195. Absence of ideas; inability to think, with
indifference for every thing. Comatose condition without being able to
sleep. Weight at the eyelids, with desire to close them. The outer air
feels very fresh. Pricking in the left side of the face. 200. Thirst.
Desire for coffee. Internal heat, and restlessness after lying down,
she has to get up again. Pulling at the forehead and at the root of the
nose. Heat in the stomach, with feeling of dryness and irritation. 205.
Throbbing in the back, which seems to proceed from the aorta. Aversion
to milk. Desire to walk about. Passing heat in the back, followed by a
general shuddering.
_Second day._—No sleep at night, general restlessness followed by
prickings all over, all night. 210. Eyelids weary, she raises them with
difficulty all night. At 4, pains in the abdomen, on the right side, the
same as the night previous.
_Third day._—The same restlessness, as the night before, followed by
sleeplessness. Pain in the left arm, she is scarcely able to raise it,
not long. Sickness at the stomach, followed by a desire to vomit, before
a meal. 215. Lancinations in the right eye, without redness, for three
hours.
_Fourth day._—Sickness at the stomach before eating. Weariness in the
legs for three hours. Heat in the back, not long, followed by shuddering.
FOURTH PROVING.
_Second day._—At 10 in the morning, pain all along the trunk, from above
downwards. 220. Pulling in the course of the left sartorius muscle. At
2, pain in the left gluteus maximus, as if contracted and twisted. At 6,
pain as if cut with a penknife, under the left axilla.
_Third day._—Laming pain at the left arm, when holding it still for a
time. Dreams about dead bodies, at night.
_Fourth day._—225. At 11, distress at the pit of the stomach, with desire
to vomit. Physical and moral prostration, loss of appetite, loathing
of food. At 2, heat in the head, with cold sweat and a little fever.
Constant desire to gape. At 6, heat in the head, no sweat. 230. Diarrhœa.
At 8 in the evening, violent colic, less when sitting, flatulence from
the bowels. Sour eructations.
_Fifth day._—At 7 in the morning, the abdomen feels sensitive as if sore.
Sensitiveness of the hairy scalp. 235. Short breathing. The abdomen feels
better. At 11, burning in the eyes. At 12, quick beating on the right
shoulder, as with a little hammer, for a minute. At 2, stitch in the
abdomen, on the left side. 240. From 4 to 7, faint feeling in the stomach.
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