New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers
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New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers
Homeopathy -- Materia medica and therapeutics
Mushy stool at 10:30 P.M. (Usually have passage at 10 A.M.; to-day no
desire.)
February 13th.--Passed restless night, waking at 3 or 4 o'clock, then
dozing and dreaming until 7:30; rose with throbbing deep in brain, as if
it would push through top of head; "big" head, > after moving
about and washing face. 7:45. 120 drops. 7:55. Breakfast. 8:20. Aching
in eyeballs. No further symptoms all day.
9:30 P.M. 5 drops. 9:35. 5 drops.
Same tenderness at sockets of upper incisors when biting.
9:40. 5 drops. Sudden darting pains in right, then in left frontal
eminence, with dull heaviness in forehead, gradually increasing.
9:45. 5 drops. Sudden return of pain in frontal eminence. Fulness and
aching in ears, coming suddenly. Upper teeth all ache, and feel too
long.
9:50. 5 drops. Beating ache in middle of forehead. Bursting pain in
right malar bone. Tingling in tip of tongue. Sudden motion increases
frontal pain.
9:55. 5 drops. Slight colicky pain at navel. Eructations of drug.
10:00. 5 drops. Same frontal pain, and brief feeling as if blood would
burst through face; this returns in a few minutes, especially about nose
and root of nose.
10:05. 5 drops. Same frontal pain, and head feels swelled. Pulse, 72.
10:10. 5 drops. Heart-beat all over head, < motion, and over
eyes.
10:15. 5 drops. Splitting pain over both ears in spots the size of
silver dollar.
10:20. Must look intently to see the words; as I write, letters look
pale and eyes ache.
10:25. 5 drops. Eructations tasting of drug. Colicky pains about navel.
10:30. 5 drops. Aching in left lower molars.
10:35. 5 drops. Stabbing pain in left ear. Teeth "on edge."
10:50. All the upper jaw aches, especially at sockets of teeth and on
biting. Fulness and pressure in ears. Temples feel as if in a vise. All
symptoms < after going up stairs.
February 14th.--Again awoke early, 3 or 4 A.M., and rose at 7:30, after
a dreamful sleep, with headache. Felt better after going about. No
symptoms during day.
February 15th.--Passed restless night. Fell asleep late, with headache
at vertex--a pushing out. Awoke at 4 or 5 A.M. heavy and stupid; then
again slept.
February 17th.--5:00 A.M. Took 2-1/2 drachms.
5:02. Eructations taste of drug. Goneness in epigastrium. Pulse, 72.
Some rumbling about navel.
5:10. Head heavy; pressure at right frontal eminence, which increases to
sharp, penetrating pain, going to root of nose, then to end of nose,
where it is most severe. At root of nose, stuffed feeling, as with dry
coryza. Pain in nose gets more and more severe; restlessness succeeds;
never had such a pain; seems now all in bones of nose and worse on left
side. Forehead has ceased to ache. Pain seems to start from
supra-orbital foramen now.
5:15. Upper incisors commence to ache. Aching and bursting pain in nose
remains; nose feels swollen. Teeth "on edge." Epigastric goneness.
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