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Materia Medica by Cyrus Maxwell Boger

Materia Medica by
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.-- Exalted fancy, with slow flow of ideas. Full of projects. Scheming Great anxiety and despondency. Aversion to work. Quiet peevishness with sighing and weeping. Extreme irritability with pusillanimity and intolerance of noise. Contempt of everything about him. Disposition quarrelsome and inclined to anger. over - excitability. Apathy and indifference.

Sensorium.-- Fainting with great nervous exhaustion, after loss of blood or vital fluids.

Head.-- Bursting ache. Pressive pains in forehead and occiput, going to temples on bending backward. Sense of looseness and bruised soreness of brain, it swashes and strikes against the skull, with necessity to move head up and down. Twitching in, extending down ward to upper jaw and throat. Cutting pains from occiput into temples and eyes. Outward stitches in frontal eminences and sides, gradually increasing to great violence. It sinks backward when sitting upright. Throbbing in temples which can be felt with hands. Worse: Light touch, drafts, motion shaking head, moving eyes, steeping herd, walking in open air, night, stooping, talking, mental exertion, reflection. Better: Head pressure, opening eyes, resting, lying, in room, rising.

External Head.-- Painfully sensitive to slight touch, especially at roots of hair. Laming twitching tearing on, especially in temples and occiput. Contractive pain as if skin were drawn together on occiput and vertex. Profuse, exhausting, fatty, often cold sweat on, and on forehead, or on side lain on especially when walking in open air, with violent thirst, increases progressively during the sweat.

Eyes.-- Inflammation of, with red conjunctive and pain as of sand therein, on moving them, worse in evening. Yellow sclerotic. Sensitive to strong sunlight. Paralysis of optic nerve.

Nose.-- Nosebleed from relaxed blood vessels. Suppressed coryza, with headache. Dry coryza, with much sneezing.

Face.-- Pale, sunken, hippocratic. Yellow, earth - colored. Fothergill's prosopalgia, excited by slight touch. Dry, blackish coated, cracked lips.

Teeth.-- Twitching tearing in upper molars, after taking cold in a strong wind. Painful numbness in hollow t. Throbbing ache after eating and at night better clenching teeth tightly but worse gentle touch.

Mouth.-- Offensive odor from, in early morning. Much mucus in. Tongue coated dirty white or yellow.

Taste: Bitter: Food and drink.

Stomach.-- Great pressure in, after eating or drinking. Spasms of, from weakness, after loss of vital fluids. Food eaten late at night is not digested at all. Milk easily disorders it. Throbbing or stitches in pit. Retching.

Hypochondria: Painful hepatic region, especially when touched lightly. Swelling and induration of liver. Stitches in spleen.

Appetite: No desire for either food or drink. Appetite for various, things, but knows not what. Desire for sour fruit. Intense thirst, drinks often, but only a little each time.

Eructations: Persistent, tasting of ingesta.

Abdomen.-- Great distension of, like tympanitis, better walking. Flatulent colic with tension and anxiety in upper, and with sensation as though' lowest intestines were constricted. Fullness in. Ascites.

Flatulence: Discharge of much excessively offensive, inability to discharge, f. either upward or downward.

Stool.-- Involuntary. Difficult, although soft. Diarrhoea: Painless, but very exhausting, after fruit, nightly, of undigested feces, yellow watery.

Urine.-- Scanty, dark, turbid. Burning pain in meatus.

Sexual Organs.-- Full of unnatural voluptuous thoughts, with excited sexual desire. Great weakness following too easy and frequent seminal emissions. Congestion to uterus, with painful heaviness therein. Bearing down pains from excessive sexual indulgence. Painful induration of vagina alternating with purulent substance. Hemorrhage from atony of uterus.

Female.-- Menses: Increased, passed in back cloths. Bloody, serous, discharge from vagina.

Respiration.-- Wheezing, whistling, crowing and snoring, right Difficult in - and rapid expirations. Suffocative attacks in evening and night, with whistling and panting breathing, as from mucus in larynx. Oppression of chest, as from fullness stomach, excited by prolonged talking.

Cough.-- Hoarse, excited by tickling as of sulphur fumes in trachea, dry at night and in morning, by day and in evening, expectoration of pus mixed with dark coagulated blood, or of tenacious mucus of a flat, salty or sour taste, rarely repulsively sweet. Suffocative, at night with stitches in chest. Haemoptysis.

Larynx.-- Soreness in, and in trachea. Hoarseness. Husky, deep voice when talking and singing. Weak voice.

Chest.-- Stitches in, also in diaphragm and sternum. Pressure in. Threatening paralysis of lungs. Suppuration of lungs following hemorrhage, (and profuse blood letting), with stitches with in, increased by pressure. Congestion of blood to, and violent palpitation.

Back.-- Sweat on. Pressure, as of a stone, between scapulae. Shattering pains in scapulae. Nightly lumbar pains when lying thereon.

Neck: Tension in muscles of, and of throat.

Lower Extremities.-- Weariness in legs especially thighs. Weakness in knees. Hot swelling of knee, painful to touch. Swollen feet.

Generalities.-- Paralytic, twitching tearing in body, especially in extremities. Painful attacks which are only excited by lightly touching the part, but then they gradually increase to a fearful height, but are better by hard pressure. Numbness of parts lain on. Weakness from loss of vital fluids, with over sensitive senses and nerves, and great tendency to sweat. Great weakness with trembling. Extraordinary emaciation. The slightest dart excites the symptoms. Conditions are worse at night.

Skin.-- Yellow. Relaxed, dry. Moist gangrene of external parts.

Sleep.-- Unconquerable day sleepiness when sitting, and after eating. Restless night s., with anxious dreams. Late falling to, on account of excitement and rush of thoughts. Reveries, as soon as he falls to, snoring or blowing expirations during. Unrefreshing.

Fever.-- Pulse: Small, but hard and quick, more quiet after eating. Irregular and sometimes intermittent. Extraordinary swelling of blood vessels. Chill: Over whole body, increased by drinking and yet compelled to drink constantly, with thirst before and after, not during c. severe internal, with icy - cold hands and feet, and rush of blood to head. Alternating with heat, in afternoon. Inability to get warm in bed in evening. Cold body, with heat of face. Heat: Over whole body, with distended blood vessels. During heat (as well as during chill) thirstlessness or thirst for cold drinks only. Violent thirst reappears after the hour. Long - continued, often appears long after the chill, with delirium. Inclination to uncover, during. Intermittent fever, but mostly those without especially thirst during chill and heat. Ordinarily the thirst is more pronounced before and after the chill and during the sweat. Sweat: Profuse, debilitating. Easy during, sleep and motion in open air. Very debilitating, night or early morning sweat. Often fatty or cold. Increased thirst during. Recession for, hence absent. On side lain on.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Am-c., Ant-t., Ap., ARN., ARS., ASAF., BELL., Bry., Calc-c., Caps., CARB-V., Cham., Cina. Cupr., Cycl., Dig., FERR., Flu-ac., Hell., Iod., IP., LACH., MANG., MERC., Millef., Nat-m., Nux-v., Phos., Phos-ac., Plb., PULS., Samb., Sep., Stann, Sul., Sul-ac., VERAT-A.