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
HEAD: Heat in the head, evening. Heaviness of the head; in the vertex;
on stooping and then raising the head again. Catarrhal dulness of the
head, especially the forehead. 10. Headache at noon; increased by the
smell of spirits. The head feels too heavy, she has to make an effort to
support it. Pressure above the eyes, on waking. In the forehead: violent
pain, all day; stitching pain; with dulness of the head, and disposition
to fall forwards. Slight beating in the temples. 15. Sensation as if the
hair would be torn out on the vertex.
EYES: Prickling about the lids, the surface of which is red. Spasmodic
contraction and twitching of the left upper lid. Burning in the lids.
Prickling and burning in the eyes. 20. Congestion of the conjunctiva.
Lachrymation on waking.
EARS: Ringing in the left ear.
NOSE: Repeated sneezing, followed by feeble cough. Nosebleed.
FACE: 25. Face hot and red. Mounting of heat to the face, now and then.
Upper lip bleeding, cracked.
TEETH: Swelling of the mucous membrane of the inner margin of the two
incisores. Teeth covered with white mucus.
MOUTH: 30. Dry mouth. Salt taste. Taste of raw potatoes. The mucous
membrane of the velum palati seems to become detached here and there.
Tongue swollen, cracked, early in the morning; coated white or
yellowish-white; or coated white, with red tip, or yellowish along the
median line. 35. Prickling in the right half of the tongue.
THROAT: Inflamed fauces, she is unable to swallow the saliva.
APPETITE: Canine hunger. Food tastes bitter as gall. Great desire for
liquor and oranges.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: 40. Eructations followed by rumbling in the stomach.
Sour eructations causing a cough. Acidity, bitterness, and gulping-up,
after eating. Cardialgia after breakfast, dinner, and supper.
STOMACH: Pain in the stomach, with red face, after breakfast. 45.
Spasmodic pains, griping-tearing at night.
ABDOMEN: Pains and working in the bowels, early in the morning.
Painfulness of the abdomen to contact along the median line. _In the
abdomen_: pain after eating; spasmodic pains, as though the bowels became
twisted together; dull pains in the hypogastric region, at night; pain
with chilliness; rumbling: the clothes cause a feeling of tightness.
Emission of flatulence, also with colic. 50. Pain, as if sprained, in the
right groin.
STOOL AND ANUS: Frequent urging to stool. Stool scanty, with straining,
passing off in small, black lumps; she has to strain until tears come;
hard, large, lumpy; with violent burning in the anus and rectum; hard and
large, followed by two liquid stools. Copious, greenish-yellow diarrhœic
stool. Constipation for five days. 55. Violent colic previous to stool.
Alternate protrusion and retraction of the rectum during stool, with
feeling of chilliness in the body.
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