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
_Nineteenth day._—Prickling in the throat, inducing cough. Dry cough.
_Twenty-third day._—Heaviness of the head on waking.
_Twenty-fourth day._—Headache aggravated by the smell of alcohol and
disappearing at 3 in the evening.
_Twenty-fifth day._—75. Colic on waking. Frequent emission of flatulence.
Pains between the shoulders (at 10 in the evening).
_Twenty-sixth day._—He dreams that his hands are cut in pieces. Tickling
in the throat causing a cough.
Second prover: _Charles Dieudonné Jolly_, 24 years old, nervous-sanguine
temperament, robust constitution.
_First day._—80. Pressure at the root of the nose. Dreams about religious
things.
_Second day._—Heaviness of the head, in the morning. The head and
especially the forehead, feel dull as during a catarrh, all the
afternoon. Colic after eating. 85. Sexual dream, followed by a dream
about women that are changed to animals.
_Third day._—Frequent emission of flatulence, in the morning. Tongue
slightly coated white, in the morning. Colic and twisting in the stomach
after eating. Salt taste in the throat. 90. Pressure in the forehead and
above the orbits.
_Fifth day._—Slight yellowish-white coating on the tongue, in the
morning. Heat in the face, at half past 4 in the afternoon. Pain as if
sprained at the right coxo-femoral articulation, posteriorly. Flow of
ideas, at 5. 95. Beating at the middle portion of the triceps brachialis,
at 8.
_Seventh day._—Wakes very early since the third day. Itching at the ball
of the thumb, at 9 in the evening.
_Eighth day._—Wakes very early. Thin yellowish coating on the tongue, in
the morning. 100. Prickling in the lumbar muscles, at 6 in the afternoon.
_Ninth day._—Stitch in the left ring-finger, at 7 in the morning. Stitch
and sharp pinching in the right groin, near the inguinal ring; this pain
was felt shortly after an ordinary stool, while raising one leg as if one
would mount three steps at once, at 11 in the morning. Beating in the
left thigh at 4 in the afternoon, while sitting. Drowsy at half past 7,
waking very early.
_Tenth day._—105. Beating under the right shoulder, at 9 in the evening.
Drowsy at 8 o’clock in the evening.
_Eleventh day._—Weight in the left testicle, the whole day, also in the
evening while sitting.
_Twelfth day._—Violent pulsations at the lower part of the vastus
internus muscle, in a demi-circle, for an hour and a half, in the morning.
_Thirteenth day._—Beating in the lumbar muscles at 4 in the afternoon.
_Fourteenth day._—110. Headache. Repeated sneezing, at half past 8 in the
evening.
_Fifteenth day._—Sense of weariness in the muscles of the right thigh,
after walking. Involuntary crowding of heterogenous ideas on one’s mind
while listening to a discourse or attending to some work; frequently
during the proving.
_Sixteenth day._—Tongue coated white, in the morning. 115. Contraction
and beating at the left superior eyelid, at 7 in the evening. Slight
colic and copious flatulence all night.
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