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Materia Medica by Cyrus Maxwell Boger

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Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Materia Medica by Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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Mind.-- Anxious depression with surliness and disinclination to talk. Anxiety and restlessness. Tearfulness. Inclination to concealed grief or vexation with indignation. Inclination to escape.

Head.

Pressive ache in forehead, worse stooping and lying on back. Attacks of gouty unilateral squeezing pain, with nausea and vomiting, daily about five PM

Eyes.-- Burning cutting in. Acrid tears.

Face.-- Pale and flaccid, with sunken eyes. Dark red. prosopalgia, tearing, crampy pain in one - half of.

Throat.-- Spasm in pharynx, with empty eructations and palpitation.

Stomach.-- Pressure, with feeling of hunger.

Appetite: Great craving for water, without thirst.

Taste: Flat, in mouth after every drink. Bitter, of all food.

Abdomen.-- Extraordinary, colicky, crampy pain in, necessitating bending double, with anxiety and restlessness. Constriction of intestines. Frequent, violent, squeezing or cutting as with knives in, with tearing extending into thighs and chill. Tympanites, with pain in belly, as though' intestines were squeezed between stones. Bruised feeling and great sensitiveness of. Violent motion, coffee and tobacco better the abdominal pains, but all other foods worse them.

Stool.-- Constipation, with retarded stool during pregnancy. Diarrhoea: Foamy, sourish, and offensive, dysenteric, of mucus, and blood with tenesmus of anus. Diarrhoea and vomiting after all food. Diarrhoea with bellyache.

Anus.-- Painfully swollen hemorrhoids, and in rectum. Paralysis of sphincter ani.

Urine.-- Diminished secretion. Intensely offensive, it quickly becomes thick, gelatinous and sticky. Ineffectual urging to urinate. During pain there is profuse, watery urination.

Sexual Organs.-- Complete impotency. Retraction of foreskin behind glands. (Priapism.)

Respiration.-- Nightly attacks of shortness of, r. as from compression of chest.

Cough.-- Dry hacking, from irritation in larynx. Smoking tobacco immediately excites a persistent cough.

Chest.-- Painful nodes in female mammae.

Back.-- Tensive pain in, and in scapulae, extending into throat.

Upper Extremities.-- Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands. Crampy pain in hands and fingers.

Lower Extremities.-- Sciatica, tensive pain in hips, extending from kidneys down into thighs, with a sensation as if hip joint were fastened in iron clamps. Pain in thighs, as if psoas muscles were too short, where walking. Stiff knee, which hinders crouching down.

Generalities.-- Tearing stitches lengthwise though' entire body. Crampy pain in contraction of internal and external parts. Stiff joints. Muscular twitchings. Shortened tendons. The limbs are drawn up so that he resembles a hedgehog. Fainting, with cold external parts. Stiff joints. Muscular twitchings. Shortened tendons. The limbs are drawn up so that he resembles a hedgehog. Fainting, with cold external parts. After effects of chagrin and indignation combined with silent internal grief. Worse:Night, in bed. Better: After rising, gentle motion in warm room.

Tissues.-- Painful swelling and suppuration of glands.

Skin.-- Itching over entire body, with great restlessness, especially in evening in bed, followed by sweat. Desquamation, over whole body.

Fever.-- Pulse: Generally full, hard and accelerated, seldom small and weak, Strong throbbing in all blood vessels. Chill, And coldness of entire body, often with heat of face. Either cold hands or soles of feet, with warmth of rest of body. Chill and shuddering with the pains. Heat: Dry external Sense of internal, with attacks of external overrunning heat. Sweat: At night, of a urinous odor, causing itching of skin. Especially on head and extremities.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Bell., Bry., Conn., Caust., Cham. COFF., Mag-c., Merc-c., Phyt., Rhe., Sec-c., STAPH.