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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.-- He sits, as though' buried in deep thought, and takes no notice of his surroundings. Time passes too rapidly. Mild, indolent temperament. Sadness during the sufferings. Intense anxiety. Intolerance of noise. Timidity, easily startled. Bade effects of grief with anger. Dull confusion in head everything seems unreal.

Vertigo.-- With qualmishness when raising up in bed, or moving. As if intoxicated.

Head.-- Sense of emptiness or hollowness in. Inward pressing, or sticking ache in forehead. Throbbing in forehead. Convulsive trembling of, from weakness of cervical muscles and neck. Dull compression in either temple or half of forehead, as if brain were screwed in. Headache with nausea. Worse: During and after meals, drinking, evening, carriage riding, cold or open air, after sleep, coffee, tobacco. Better: In house, when quiet, warmth of bed.

Eyes.-- Pain as though' they would be torn out of head. Inability to open them at night. Contracted pupils. Dim vision, and black spots before. Progressive amaurosis.

Nose.-- Increased sensitiveness of smell.

Face.-- Burning heat of, with red cheeks. Distorted features. Swelling and induration of submaxillary glands.

Mouth.-- Dryness in, and in throat. Impeded swallowing, as from paralysis of throat. Bubbling foam from. Difficult speech, as from paralysis of tongue.

Appetite: Aversion to food, drink and tobacco. Great thirst, especially when eating. Aversion to all sour foods.

Taste: Sour, in mouth, after eating and coughing. Sulphurous, in mouth, Bitter to tobacco.

Eructations: With pain in epigastrium and nausea. Hiccup, at once after eating.

Nausea, etc. - Attacks of, ending in fainting. Nausea and vomiting. from driving (riding), and becoming cold.

Stomach.-- Spasm in, during and immediately after eating, with intense clutching and squeezing. Fullness and pinching in, and in abdomen with oppression of breathing.

Abdomen.-- Constrictive pain in upper and lower. Sense of emptiness in. Hysterical abdominal spasms in women. Painful soreness in. Protruded and incarcerated inguinal hernia.

Flatulence: Nightly, spasmodic, wind colic especially worse coughing. Pushing upward.

Stool.-- Hard, every other day. Retarded. ineffectual urging, from want of peristaltic action in upper intestines. Bright colored, pale stool by day only.

Rectum.-- Intense tenesmus of, after stool.

Urine.-- Watery. Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge.

Sexual Organs.-- Sensitiveness of, with greatly excited sexual desire. Bruised pain in testicles.

Female.-- Menses: Too early, with intense, spasmodic pain sin abdomen. Suppressed wit abdominal colic.

Respiration.-- Difficult, as from constriction of larynx

Cough.-- Racking, with oppression of chest which comes on during cough. Irritation to, as from narrowing of trachea

Chest.-- Sticking pain in. Spasmodic constriction of. Burning in, ascending into throat. Sense of emptiness in. Anxious palpitation. Trembling about heart.

Back.-- Paralysis of spine and lumbar region (tabes dorsalis).

Neck: Weakness of muscles of. Snapping of cervical vertebrae.

Upper Extremities.-- Bruised pain in bones of arms on raising them. Asleep feeling in arms. Hot swelling of hands.

Lower Extremities.-- Paralytic immobility, and paralysis below lumbar region. Bruised pain in thighs. Inflammation and swelling with stitches in knee. Burning in feet. Hot swelling of feet.

Generalities.-- Paralytic immobility of limbs with drawing bone pains. Unilateral paralysis with deadness of limbs. Hemiplegia. Sense of emptiness or constriction of internal parts. Hysterical spasms with sadness. inclination to tremble. Gouty pains without swelling of affected parts. Great fatigue, even to fainting, from slight exertion. Intolerance of open air, warm as well as cold. The Sufferings are intensified by driving, eating, drinking, sleeping, talking, and smoking. Twitchings, numbness and extremes sensitiveness to cold.

Tissues.-- Hard, cold, swollen glands, with sticking pains.

Bones.-- Bruised pain, or tearing and burrowing in.

Skin.-- Anaemic paleness of. Ulcers, very sensitiveness, on account of anxiety and bodily restlessness. Anxious dreams. Greatly refreshed by an undisturbed sleep. Feels much better at night than by day.

Fever.-- Pulse: Small and spasmodic, often imperceptible, seldom hard, and somewhat accelerated. Chill: Very frequently alternates with heat. Internal, with shuddering over whole body, most on back and legs, not relievable by external heat, in afternoon and evening. Constant chilliness, with hot skin. Heat, Dry, through the whole night. Over running, with burning heat of cheeks and cold feet. Intermittent fever with spasms of stomach and lameness of small of back. Sweat: The whole night, it is cold on face only. In early morning, most on chest. Exhausting, over whole body from least movement. On painful parts.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Agar., Ant-t., Bism., Calc-c., Caust., CHAM., Cupr., IGN., Ip., Kali-c., Mos., Nux-m., Nux-v., Oleand.

Complementary: Petr.