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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.-- Lively fancies and actively changing ideas. Acuteness of intellect. Active memory. Great nervous excitement. Hypererethism. Hurried. Beside himself with anxiety. Excessive howling and screaming over trifles. Hypersensitiveness, with tearful disposition. Great anguish, of conscience, also about heart. Anxious despair, with fever. Restlessness. Fainting.

Head.-- Violent congestion to, especially after sudden joy. Unilateral headache, as from an inward pressing nail. Unilateral crackling after each impact of the pulse. Feeling as if brain were being torn, or shattered. Worse: Walking in open air, morning, after sleep. Better: In room, sitting quietly.

Eyes.-- Sparkling, somewhat reddened, with increased visual power.

Ears.-- Hearing more acute. Music sounds entirely too loud.

Nose.-- Nosebleed. Sensitive small.

Face.-- Dry heat of, with red cheeks.

Teeth.-- Twitching, tearing ache, with restlessness, anxiety and tearfulness.

Mouth.-- Swollen, and painful soft palate, worse from swallowing.

Taste: Acute, Proper taste of food is too pronounced. Sweetish, as of nuts or almonds in mouth.

Stomach.-- Spasm, as from overloading, can't bear tight clothing about pit

Appetite: Great hunger, with hasty, greedy eating. Thirst increased, especially at night.

Abdomen.-- Spasmodic bellyache, which seems quite insufferable.

Stool.-- Frequent, soft, during day. Diarrhoea: In children during dentition, tendency to.

Bladder.-- Urination increased, especially at night.

Sexual Organs.-- Greatly excited sexual impulse, without emission of semen, and with dry heat of body. Insufferably painful labor or after pains.

Female.-- Menses: Uterine hemorrhage.

Cough.-- Short, dry, hacking, as from constriction of larynx, with restless anxiety. Irritating, at night. During measles.

Back.-- Neck: Sweat on.

Back: Chilliness along. Paralytic pain in lumbar region.

Generalities.-- Twitching limbs. Great mobility of entire muscular system. Trembling. Increased sensitiveness to pain driving to despair, with tearfulness. Excessively active vital forces. Extraordinarily increased sense of well being. Aversion to open air which also intensifies the sufferings. After effects of a wine debauch, taking cold or excessive joy with exaltation. Mental and physical erethism.

Skin.-- Eruptions, with extreme excitability and tearfulness.

Sleep.-- Sleeplessness, on account of excessive mental and bodily activity.

Fever.-- Pulse: Almost entirely unaffected, only very slightly accelerated. Chill: Increased by every (beginning) motion. Internal, frequently recurring shivering, with external heat of face or entire body. Sensation of, with internal and external warmth. Runs down back. Great sensitiveness to external cold. Heat: External, dry, in evening after lying down, with shuddering on back Nightly, dry, with delirium. Great, of face. Hot breath. Sweat: Occasionally after the heat. Slight, in early morning. On face, with internal cold shuddering.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Aco., Agar., Anac., Ars., Aur., Bell., Bor., Bro., Caps., Cham., COLOC., Con., Ign., Mag-c., Mar., Merc., Mos., Nux-v., Op., Puls. sul., Valer. Verat-a.