The homoeopathic domestic medicine / by Joseph Laurie.

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
1851
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Credit: The homoeopathic domestic medicine / by Joseph Laurie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ears and Eyes.—Inflamed and ulcerated eyes; specks on the anterior transparent' portion of the eyes ; obstruction of the ears ; cracking in the ears in using the jaws. Mouth, Tongue, Gums, Teeth, Throat, &c.—Soreness, or even rawness of the whole surface inside the mouth, and of the tongue, palate, and gums; dryness, or some- times profuse flow of saliva in the mouth ; soreness, raw^ness, and burning in the throat, with heat, redness, and swelling, which implicates the tonsils ; or even ulcers in the mouth and throat, or ulceration of the tonsils; very ofl'ensive odour from the mouth; looseness of the teeth. Nose.—The nose emits an offensive smell, which is distinguishable by the patient when breathing: the nostrils are sore, dry, stuffed up, raw and characterised by the formation of scabs; discharges of black blood from the nose, more especially in the morning; oozing vesicles, forming scabs on the tip of the nose, which is red and sometimes swollen; accumulation of very offensive yellow humour in the nose; partial, interrupted sneezing. Menstruation, &c.—Menstrual discharge suppressed; very offensive slimy discharge of whites during the intervals, with soreness and rawness of the thighs and adjacent parts, and even ulceration of the passage, with gnawing itching; or pressive, heavy sensations and spasmodic affections during the menstrual flow; brownish or reddish and offensive discharge between the periods. ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM (Phosphoric Acid). Derangements of the System in which it is especially useful. Bone diseases; the after-effects of very severe and exhausting acute diseases upon previously vigorous constitutions ; debilitating and exhausting depletions, either from severe medicinal treatment, or from very acute disease, attended with rapid impairment of the constitution ; slow nervous fevers, resulting from continued depressing emotions ; consumptive tendency, resulting from acute diseases, &c.; very inveterate gouty affections; mischievous effects of growing too fast; bowel complaints, especially such as are dependent on atmospheric causes; dysentery, chronic looseness of the bowels, and cholerine; pro- tracted affections of the bowels, resulting from bilious fevers, especially in hot climates; continued irritation of the bowels after bilious remittent fevers ; some varieties of typhus, with predominant affection of the bowels; mischievous effects incidental to the check of the eruption of scarlet fever, &c., &c. SYMPTOMS ELICITED, ETC., AS REGAEDS DIEFERENT ORGANS, ETC. Stomach, Bowels and Evacuations.—Sensation of weight, or undulation in the stomach after eating, (attended with faintness, sinking, and depression, or with drowsi- ness, uneasiness, and muddled feeling in the head); aversion to bread; bitterish taste of bread; the taste of the food remains long in the mouth; scalding, sour, and partial risings; sensation of weight at the stomach after the least food, on the shghtest touch, or with an empty stomach; sickness at the stomach to such a degree that the patient is obliged to lie down; thirst, which cannot be allayed, with a general feeling of being parched; feeling of coldness in the stomach, or, on the other hand, burning sensation in the stomach ; vomiting of sour matters, or of food ; tight distended belly ; noisy gurgling of wind in the intestines very frequently; heavy, pressive sensation in the liver; sour things induce the development of much flatulency in the bowels, and bitter risings from the stomach; evacuation of the bowels at very short intervals; small, hard, detached stools ejected with difficulty, or relaxation of the bowels with discharge of the contents of the bowels, or of whitish, slimy matters, or of watery and undigested matters, followed by severe straining, and attended with the forcing downward of the pile-sweUings; whitish looking urine depositing a bloodstained or jelly-hke sediment; or discharge of watery urine at short intervals, and in large quantities, and which quickly precipitates a white cloudv-looking sediment; scalding during and after (and cutting pains during) the discharge of urine; unbearable urging to pass water with insufficient discharge, orpredO' minant discharge at night. Nervous System, Brain, Senses, &c.—Great disinclination to physical exertion, with general debility; feebleness and insensibility of the limbs; nervous debility; weight and weariness of tlie hmbs; complete stupor and apathy (attendant upon malignant typhoid fever); very heavy sleep; jerking and snatching movements of the hands, with low muttering, convulsed and half-opened eyes, whining, and sometimes singing; dreams,