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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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Mind.-- Imbecility. Insanity. Ecstatic love and sentimental reveries in the moonlight. Apprehension and solicitude concerning his fate. Restlessness. Inclination to suicide by shooting.

Head.-- Stupefying ache with nausea in throat. Congestion to. Distensive pressing ache. Bone pains in cranium, the periosteum is painful and swelled and the bone itself feels swollen. Takes cold in, from getting wet or bathing in cold water. Worse: Evening, warmth, becoming heated, after bathing, after eating, after his accustomed smoke. Better: Walking in cool, open air, at rest.

Eyes.-- Inflammatory redness of, and of lids. Sticking in. Eye gum in canthi. Aversion to daylight.

Ears.-- Deafness as if a leaflet were lying before tympanum.

Nose.-- Sore, cracked, crusty nostrils. Sensation of coldness in, on inspiration.

Face.-- Sad expression. Vesicular, suppurating eruptions on, which form a yellow crust. Angles of mouth are sore and cracked. Swelled submaxillary glands.

Teeth.-- Bleeding from about, and from gums. Jerking pain in hollow teeth worse cold water. Gnashing.

Mouth.-- Salty saliva. Salivation Dirty, white - coated tongue. Hot breath.

Taste, - Flat, disagreeably insipid. Bitterness in mouth.

Stomach.-- Pains as from overloading. Deranged by gluttony. Spasm in, with sensitive pit and thirst. Weak.

Appetite, Long continued loss of, Loathes all food. Desires sour things. Intense thirst particularly at night.

Eructations: Tasting of ingesta.

Nausea, etc. - Loathing, qualmishness and nausea after derangement of stomach. Qualmishness after drinking only.

Abdomen.-- Distended and full after eating. Violent cutting in upper. Ascites.

Flatulence: Much, with grumbling and rattling in abdomen.

Stool.-- Hard, difficult. Faces too large. Diarrhoea: Alternating with constipation (in the aged), papescent or water, with cutting bellyache.

Anus.-- Hemorrhoids in. Continuous flow of mucus from.

Urine.-- Profuse discharge, containing mucus, with burning in urethra and lumbar pains. Dark. Involuntary urination when coughing. Kidney calculi.

Sexual Organs.-- Lustfulness and great sexual excitement. Uterine hemorrhage.

Respiration.-- Deep sighing. Suffocative oppression of chest.

Cough.-- Seeming to come from deep in abdomen, the coughs gradually grow weaker as if from increasing closure of throat by a plug. Dry in evening, in morning expectoration of a flat - tasting tenacious mucus mixed with dark blood.

Larynx.-- Heat in, during exercise in open air. Very weak voice. Aphonia from becoming heated.

Back.-- Neck: Rheumatic pain in.

Chest.-- Burning and sticking pain in.

Upper Extremities.-- Rheumatic pain in arms. Swelling, sticking and tension in deltoid. Inflammatory swelling of forearm. Slowly growing finger - nails.

Lower Extremities.-- Rheumatic pain in legs. White swelling (hydrarthrosis) of knee. Soles sensitive when stepping. Large callous corns on ball of foot. Inflammatory redness of heel.

Generalities.-- Excessive, corpulency (or emaciation). Dropsical swelling of entire body. Shattering of whole body. When they recur, complaints alternate from side to side of body. (Lac-c.). Gastric symptoms return most violent in afternoon, the others are worse from motion and warmth. Effects of wine, especially if sour. Results of auto - intoxication, intestinal.

Skin.-- Fatty itch. Popular and vesicular eruption like insect stings. Nettlerash. Chicken - pox. Arthritic nodes. White swelling. Fistulous ulcers. Liver spots and freckles.

Sleep.-- Great day sleepiness. Somnolency particularly in forenoon.

Fever.-- Pulse: Exceedingly irregular, now accelerated, now slow, alternating every few beats. Chill: Predominates by day, even in a warm room. Toward noon violent shaking chill with thirst (for beer). Exquisitely cold sensation in nose during inspiration. Heat: Predominating at night, but with cold feet until midnight. Great, from slightest motion, especially in sunshine, Sweat: In morning when awaking, wrinkles the finger - tips. Returning at the same hour usually on alternate mornings. Intermittent fever with loathing, qualmishness, vomiting, bitter taste in mouth and diminished (or excessive) thirst.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Ars., Bism., Bro., HEP., Ip., MERC., Pul., Sep., SUL.