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
_Twelfth day._—Sense of spraining in the ileo-femoral articulation,
causing a pain in the womb; while making a trifling exertion. 170.
Flatulence; sometimes is unable to expel them. Headache. Contraction
of the sphincter ani. Lancinating pain at the forehead, until 9 in the
evening. Twisting colic. 175. Stool always hard and difficult. Heat
at the anus, after stool. Weeping of the right eye, for some minutes.
Frequent urging to stool. Shuddering all over, every moment, at 9 in the
evening. 180. Eructations in the evening. Flatulence in the evening.
Quarrelsome mood.
_Thirteenth day._—No sleep. Heat all over, with sweat. 185. Agitated
pulse. She dreams that she is floating in a river and cannot get out.
Flushes of heat in the face, now and then, especially while eating. These
flushes are followed by chilliness. (Is unable to close her hand). 190.
Irregular pulse, at times feeble, at others strong. Frontal headache with
dulness, and disposition to incline forwards. Lazy. Weary all over, she
has to lie down, at noon. Little appetite. 195. Pressure at the chest.
Thirst. Shivering while drinking cold water, or washing her face with it.
Headache ceasing for a while and then recommencing again. Lancinations
with sensation as if the brain would fly to pieces, in going up-stairs.
200. Vivid redness on the right malar eminence. Small red pimples on
the cheeks. Shuddering now and then. Congestion of the sclerotica. Red
face at three in the evening. 205. Flush of heat all over, at half past
3. Sensation, while stooping as if the brain would bound in the skull.
Heat at the vertex, which spreads all over, at 4. Sensation in the left
hypochondrium as if a spring were rolled out. Sense of fainting, she
has to stand still. 210. Acute pain in the right pectoralis major when
drawing breath. Borborygmi. Twisting of the bowels, at half past 10.
Colic and shuddering. Dry cough in the evening. 215. Headache decreases
in the evening. Flatulence. Red and hot face. The skin of the face peels
slightly.
_Fourteenth day._—Heat at night, disturbing the sleep. 220. Sense of
weariness in the limbs, on waking. Dulness of the forehead. Tongue
coated white. In the morning, taste of raw potatoes. Menstrual blood
rose-colored, at 9 in the morning. 225. Borborygmi, in the morning. At
the least movement she feels as if a hollow body were turning rapidly
round in the chest, with a rattling noise; she then fancies she will
faint, at 8 in the morning. Frontal headache all day. Smarting and
painful sensation at the fifth dorsal vertebra, when the clothes rub
against the part. Little appetite. 230. Stiffness of the posterior
cervical muscles. Dark redness and warmth of the cheeks. Heat all over
in cold and damp weather. The menstrual flow is interrupted. Repeated
sneezing, followed by a slight cough, every evening at 5, from the tenth
day. 235. Smell of blood, as if nosebleed would take place, at 7 in the
morning.
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