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Materia Medica by Cyrus Maxwell Boger

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Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Materia Medica by Cyrus Maxwell Boger
The Materia Medica by Cyrus Maxwell Boger was written in 1915. You can read the full book here.
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Ammonium carb

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Mind.-- Difficult thinking. Easily makes mistakes in talking and writing. Forgetful and distracted. Sadness and weeping with fears and presentiments of impending evil. Very peevish and ill - humored during cloudy weather. Satiety of life. Disobedient.

Vertigo.-- With nausea, toward evening.

Head.-- Chronic headache with nausea. Feeling as if brain were loose. Beating and pressing in forehead, as if head would burst. Heaviness and fullness in forehead. Worse: Evening: after eating, after motion in open air, Better: Half - reclining position, external pressure, warmth.

Eyes.-- Burning in with photophobia. Dim vision with glimmering. Nearsighted. Catarrh.

Ears.-- Difficult hearing with suppuration and itching of. Hard swelling of parotid gland.

Nose.-- Congestion of blood to tip, when stooping. Nosebleed, Chronic coryza, can breathe through mouth only. Stopped coryza at night.

Face.-- Deathly pale, bloated. Itchy eruption with swollen cervical glands. Herpes about mouth. Many freckles. Dry, cracked lips, with burning pains.

Teeth.-- Jerking, tearing ache, by biting teeth together. Sticking ache. Loose. Swollen gums, which bleed easily.

Mouth.-- Swelling of inner surface of cheek, Blisters in, also on tongue. Throat, sore, as if a foreign body had lodged there.

Stomach.-- Pressure in with nausea and sensitiveness of pit after eating. Intolerant of pressure of clothes on.

Appetite: He cannot eat without also drinking. Great desire for sugar. Continual thirst.

Taste: Bitter, in morning.

Eructations: Scratchy heartburn after eating.

Nausea: And vomiting after every meal.

Abdomen.-- Spasm in, with contractive sensation, nausea and collection of water in mouth.

Stool.-- Constipated. Retarded, hard, knotty.

Anus.-- Hemorrhage from, during and independently of stool. Moist hemorrhoids. Itching of.

Urine.-- Nightly, also involuntary urination.

Sexual Organs.-- Pollutions follow a forcing and drawing in testes.

Female.-- Menses: Too scant and too short, of blackish acrid blood. Too early and too profuse. Many complaints during. Burning, acrid, watery leucorrhoea.

Respiration.-- Tightness of chest with palpitation, particularly during exercise and when ascending steps. Asthmatic symptoms of dropsical persons.

Cough.-- Dry, as from feather down in throat, with hoarseness. Night cough. With bloody expectoration after previous sweetish (blood) taste in throat, with violent respiratory symptoms.

Chest.-- Congestion to. Sticking in left side of, lying thereon. Hydrothorax Palpitation.

Back.-- Drawing through entire length of, from lumbar region to nape.

Upper Extremities.-- Distended blood vessels and blue hands after washing, with cold water or letting them hang down. Deadened sensation in arms and fingers. Pain in wrist which had been formerly sprained. Skin peels from palms.

Lower Extremities.-- Bruised pain in hip joints and thighs. Twitching in knees. Cramp in soles of feet. Painful redness and swelling of great toe, in evening.

Generalities.-- Wrenching, tearing in joints by warmth of bed. Restlessness of body in evening. Inclination to stretch limbs. Aversion and unusual sensitiveness to open or cold air. Emaciation. Aversion to motion. Symptoms are intensified in evening. Right side of body is mostly affected. Worse: Washing. Mucous membranes first then circulatory apparatus.

Skin.-- Violent itching and burning vesicles after scratching. Freckles. Ganglion chafed skin in children.

Sleep.-- Day sleepiness. Nightly nausea and ebullitions of blood.

Fever.-- Pulse: Hard, tense and rapid. Chill: Attacks of in evening, often alternating with heat, till toward midnight. In open air. Heat: Most in evening, especially on face, with cold feet. Sweet: In early morning, most on joints. Persistent, day or night sweats.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Bro., Calc - c, flu - ac., Hep., Phos., Sec-c.