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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    It will also probably prove useful against gonorrheeal-rheumalism. It had an ancient reputation against bruises and wounds. (11.) Lower Extremities.—Lameness, jerking, drawing, sticking pain in various parts of the lower extremities. Heaviness of the right foot; Sensation as if a heavy load were attached to the tarsal bones, drawing the foot down, in any position of the foot. Tearing in the anterior joints of the left toes, more violent when walking. Clinical Remark?.—It is homoeopathic to piercing, aching,rending, and luxation-pain in the hip-joints; piercing, drawing and dislocation- pain in the knee-joints ; weakness of the ankles, with predisposition to sprain them. (11.) ALCOHOL AUTHORITIES. Christison. (9.) Garms.(33.) Brit, and For. Med. Chir. Rev. (18.) Ranking's Abstract. (18.) Peters. (11.) Huss. (34.) Marcy. (10.) ACUTE EFFECTS. According to Christison, authors who have treated of the actions of alcoholic and spirituous liquors on man, have distinguished three decrees in its immediate eifects. 1) When the dose is small, much excitement and little subsequent depression are produced. •J) In the second degree the symptoms are more violent,excitement, flushed face, confusion of thought, delirium and various mental affec- tions, varying with individual character. The majority of intoxicated persons become jovial, sympathetic and even indiscreet; many things which otherwise would remain a profound secret, are allowed to escape (in vino vet'iters); others become sentimental and affectionate; some speak with incomprehensible suavity about learned subjects, politics, country; in some cases the coward becomes a hero in his own ima- gination ; others are always ready to quarrel or fight, and either com- port themselves as pugilists, or become almost murderous in their ferocity, but fortunately there are generally others not less drunk who are not only peaceable, but anxious to preserve the peace. Another class of drunkards always become depressed in spirits, sit quietly in a corner, are much absorbed in themselves and burst into tears and complaints over the most trivial occurrences. The perceptions are disturbed and often confused; the harmony between the intellect and will is broken up; the higher intellectual functions and even the com- mon processes of the understanding become more and more difficult, while the imagination and the lower impulses predominate. (9.) These symptoms are followed by dozing and gradually increasing somnolency, which may at length become so deep as not easily to be