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.

Date:: [1859-1861]

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$months with small ill-conditioned ulcers, extendingoverthe whole body, except the face, accompanied with burning pain and intense itching, which caused her to scratch violently but without relief, and always feeling better in a warm temperature. When one crop of ulcers had apparently healed up, another crop would appear—the patient losing flesh very rapidly. Digestion very much disturbed, each mouthful of food or drink causing pressure in the oesophagus, as though it had lodged there Very great languor and prostration; very restless and interrupted sleep. The fever, which occurred every day, beginning with chills, caused an increased burning in the eruption, followed by heat, and finally sweat. Dr. Gross (Arch. f. horn. H., I., 105) ordered Ars., 30, in repeated doses, whieh effected a cure in three weeks. (26.) Case 3.—A case of scabies kcrpetica earn superveniente febri inter- tnittrnte in a man aged about twenty-three years. Patient said he had been troubled for six weeks past with a quartan intermittent fever. His lace is pale and edematous, his eyes sunken and surrounded with blue circles; the muscles of the face flabby, vacant expression of the eyes, and a dragging motion of the body on walking. The arms, thighs, and knees were covered with thick brown crusts, from under which thick, greenish, foul-smelling matter exuded; between the fingers, bend of the elbows, and popliteal spaces were scattered yel- low, broad pustules, some containing pus and others covered with brownish crusts, causing a painful itching and burning, especially towards evening, after exercise, and when the body became heated, from which he had been suffering for several years. Dr. Gross pre- scribed Ars., 30, one dose every evening, for about six weeks, at the expiration of which the patient reported himself as being cured. <21. 26.) Case 4.—Herpes, in the case of a student, reported by Dr. Kretsch- mar, (Arch. f. horn., H. viii., 1, 69,) of the size of a dollar piece, situated between the shoulder-blades, accompanied with intense burn- ing, especially at night, so as to prevent sleep; the integument very red, and covered with minute blisters, often scratched open in conse- quence of intolerable itching and burning. Not being well versed in the selection of drugs at that time, Dr. K. gave Sulphur for five days, without any benefit, while the patient noticed another spot making its appearance in the praecordial region, causing as much burning as if it had been touched with Oil of Vitriol. He now received fractional doses of Ars., 30, and, in the course of ten days, was completely cured. (26.) Case 6.—A male child, three weeks old, was afflicted with furun. culi all over the body, from the size of a pea to the size of a filbert, which, after'twelve or twenty-four hours, filled with blood and some matter', causing apparently much pain. Every day new pustules made their appearanee. Dr. Tietze ordered Ars., 30, to be taken in frac- tional doses for eight days, alt the expiration of which a cure was effected. £Allg. Horn. Z.f iii.f 1, 15.] (26.)$