THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS
OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA
BY CONSTANTINE HERING, M. D.
Presented by Médi-T
 Inner head.
 Outer head.
 Sight and eyes.
 Hearing and ears.
 Smell and nose.
 Upper face.
 Lower face.
 Teeth and gums.
 Taste, speech, tongue.
 Inner mouth.
 Palate and throat.
 Appetite, thirst. Desires..
 Eating and drinking.
 Hiccough, belching, nausea..
 Scrobiculum and stomach.
| Lower limbs.
 Limbs in general.
 Rest. Position. Motion.
 Temperature and weather.
 Attacks, periodicity.
 Locality and direction.
 Touch. Injuries..
 Stage of life, constitution.
Cupr. * Full text (95 Ko) * Red and blue only (65 Ko) * Red only
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE.  [Cupr.]Taste : sweet, or sweetish metallic, coppery ; bitter.
Sudden metallic-sour taste in mouth, with flow of saliva, before outbreak. θ Spasms.
All food tastes like clear water.
Tongue darting forth and back with great rapidity.
Paralysis of tongue, stuttering, imperfect speech.
Tongue : red ; dry and rough, papillæ enlarged ; coated white, yellowish or brown ; trembling. θ Chorea.
Tip of tongue cold.
INNER MOUTH.  [Cupr.]Dry mouth. θ Brain affections.
Induration of salivary gland, with or without fistula.
Profuse salivation ; mercurial.
Saliva : sweet, stringy ; frothy, with cough.
PALATE AND THROAT.  [Cupr.]Palate red, fauces and tonsils inflamed.
Dull, piercing pain in left tonsil, < by external touch.
Feeling of constriction, and acute pain in throat.
Sensation as if constricted on swallowing.
Spasms of throat, preventing speech.
Burning in throat and dryness, with thirst.
Singultus and spasm of sophagus.
Gurgling noise of drink passing down sophagus.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS.  [Cupr.]Loss of appetite.
Great thirst for cooling drink ; a swallow of cold water > cough and vomiting.
Desire for warm food and drinks ; eats hastily.
EATING AND DRINKING.  [Cupr.]Gurgling noise of drink passing down sophagus.
A swallow of cold water > cough, or vomiting.
Milk brings on water-brash.
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