A treatise on headaches : including acute, chronic, nervous, gastric, dyspeptic, or sick-headaches : also congestive, rheumatic, and periodical headaches : based on Th. J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy, with introduction, appendix, synopsis, notes, directions for doses, and fifty additional cases / by John C. Peters.

  • Peters, John C. (John Charles), 1819-1893.
Date:
1853
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Credit: A treatise on headaches : including acute, chronic, nervous, gastric, dyspeptic, or sick-headaches : also congestive, rheumatic, and periodical headaches : based on Th. J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy, with introduction, appendix, synopsis, notes, directions for doses, and fifty additional cases / by John C. Peters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NATURE AND CAUSES HEADACHES. In order to render this treatise rather more complete, it has been regarded as imperatively necessary to make introductory remarks upon the different varieties of Headache, of which cases of cure have been reported in the following pages. Of the cases reported by Ruckert, he has assumed that: (a). Six cases, had a nervous character; viz.: cases 9 and 16, cured by Bell.; 72 and 76, cured by Kux; and 96, by Pulsatilla. (b). That twenty-seven, were cases oiHemicrania, Migraine or One-sided headache, viz.: cases 9 and 10, cured by Bell.; 29, by Calc.; 46, by China; 57, by Ignat.; 67, 69 and 70, by JSatrum; 74, 76, 77, 78, 79 and 81, by tfux v.; 87, by Opium; 92 and 96, by Puis.; 101 and 102, by Sang.; 103, 104, 107, 108, 109 and 110, by Sepia; 112 and 118, by Spigelia. (c). Eleven cases had a congestive character, viz.: cases 14, 15 and 16, cured by Bell.; 30, 34, 35 and 36, cured by Calc. c.; 37, by Camph.; 68, by Natrum; 94, by Puis.; and 104, by Sepia. (d). Nine cases had a rheumatic character; viz.: cases 23, 24 and 25, cured by Bryon.; 44, by Causticum; 54, by Dulc.; 61, by Merc.; 101, by Sang.; 108, by Sepia. (e). Five cases, were of a gastric nature, or attended with derangement of the stomach, viz.: case 14, cured by Bellad.; 33, cured by Calc.; 43, cured by Causticum; 95, by Puis. ; 119, by Sulph.