The elements of a new materia medica and therapeutics : based upon an entirely new collection of drug-provings and clinical experience / by E.E. Marcy, J.C. Peters & Otto Füllgraff.

  • Marcy, E. E. (Erastus Edgerton), 1815-1900.
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[1859-1861]
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    Roth says it has cured : Whiteness of the tongue, bitterness of the mouth, loss of appetite, sensitiveness of the abdomen to pressure, swelling of the abdomen after eating, occasional pains in the lower abdomen, and in the kidneys while urinating, great accumulation of wind in the bowels, hardness of the stools and redness and muddi- ness of the urine. Also when the menses last from ten to eighteen days, being pre- ceded by headache, vertigo, and dimness of sight, accompanied with pains in the pelvis and loins. Also oppression of the chest on going up-stairs, cough with raising of blood, followed by copious mucous expectoration, with paroxysmal attacks, especially in the morning, attended with palpitations and bleed- ing of the nose. When there is a deficient secretion of milk in child-bed women, when the legs are much fatigued and swollen towards evening, with sallowness of the skin and disturbed dreams. It has cured quartan fevers of six months' duration, marked by slight chilliness towards evening, followed by heat and headache, without thirst, but with slight delirium, the paroxysm terminating in profuse perspiration. According to the Homceopathists, the spirit of the action of this drug may be expressed by staling that it produces a condition which counterfeits marvellously that which obtains in old age, marked by dullness of the intellect, weakness of memory and hearing, blear- eyedness, trembling and feebleness of the limbs, decay of the sexual appetite and power, suppression of the menses and secretion of milk, and prevalence of urinary and arthritic complaints. It is also homoso- patluc to that premature old age which arises in young persons from abuse of the sexual powers, marked by melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self-contempt, general debility, frequent loss of prostatic fluid, &c. (11.) GENERAL EFFECTS. On the Nervous System.—Nerves of motion.—It seems to exert a more decided action upon the motor nerves and upon the muscles and joints than upon the nerves of sensation. Oil the VllSCUlar System.—Chilliness without thirst or subsequent heat. Constant trembling of the whole body from internal chilliness, the body feeling warm to the touch. Chilliness of the whole body, without thirst, although the hands are the only portions of the body which feel cold to the touch. Frequent alternations of chilliness and heat without thirst. Heat of the whole body, with coldness of the knees. Clinical Remarks.—Roth says it has cured quartan fevers of six months' duration, when characterized by slight chilliness towards evening, followed by heat and headache, without thirst, but with slight delirium, the paroxysms terminating with profuse perspirations. It