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
_Sixth day._—At half past 6, pain in the gluteus maximus, for one hour.
_Seventh day._—At 3, palpitation of the heart. At night, while lying,
suffocative fit. Foul eructations all day. 245. Nightly pain in the whole
abdomen. At 5, buzzing in the right ear, for two minutes.
FIFTH PROVING.
_First day._—Violent lancinations in the right side of the chest for a
few minutes, below the third rib, every few moments. Acute pain at the
inner side of the right tibia.
_Second day._—Heaviness of the body. 250. Drowsy all day. Bad night,
nervous restlessness. Pains in the left brain, spreading from above the
left eye (which experiences a contractive sensation) to the vertex, the
back part of the head, and lastly to the nape of the neck where they
remain seated for a time. The pains seem to be seated in the cerebral
membranes, and succeed each other, never appear simultaneously. Sharp
stitching pain, in the region of the heart, with lancinations under
the false ribs. Violent headache, as if a hammer were beating inside
and as if the brain were bounding in an empty space, for half an hour.
255. Sharp pain in the right lower jaw-bone, all the teeth being sound.
Palpitation of the heart.
_Third day._—Night less restless. Sleeps all the time. Heaviness of the
head, with an undefined feeling of malaise in the brain, especially on
the left side. 260. Painful sensation at the right zygoma, for a short
time.
_Fourth day._—On waking, acute pains in the head and posterior cervical
muscles. Intense lancinating pains in the muscles of the right hand, and
its phalangeal articulations. Two hours, similar sensations in the right
shoulder-blade, accompanied by pains in the right wrist, all these pains
are well marked, but short.
_Fifth day._—Restless night, without any apparent cause; no sleep.
_Sixth day._—265. Prickling in the eyes, in the evening, as from some
astringent body. Eyeball and lids congested. Lancinations in the right
shoulder-blade.
_Seventh day._—Continual redness and pain in the eyes. Lancinating pains
above the eyes and in the temples.
_Eighth day._—270. Eyes still red, but less; no prickling.
_Ninth day._—Eyes well.
_Thirteenth day._—Acute and repeated pains in the cervical muscles, and
those of the left shoulder-blade. Violent headache in the morning, which
lasts until 2 o’clock.
_Fourteenth day._—Heavy and drowsy.
_Fifteenth day._—275. Recurrence of the pains in the neck and
shoulder-blade, in the morning. Heavy and drowsy; unable to apply himself
to a serious work; at 3, continued his work with ease.
_Sixteenth day._—Acute pains in the muscles of the neck and
shoulder-blade. Violent headache, in the evening, with sense of
compression in the forehead; from temple to temple. Dry mouth and throat.
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