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.
Ambr. * Full text (50 Ko) * Red and blue only * Red only
MIND.  [Ambr.]Memory impaired.
Comprehension slow, has to read everything three or four times, and then does not understand it.
Is not able to reflect upon anything properly, feels stupid. θ Often indicated in old age.
Confusion of head ; of occiput.
Difficult thinking in morning. θ Old people.
Distorted images, grimaces ; diabolical faces crowd upon his fancy.
She is excited, loquacious ; talking fatigues her ; was unable to sleep at night, or averse to talking and laughing.
Melancholy, sits for days weeping ; with great weakness, loss of muscular power and pain in small of back with constipation.
Fear of becoming crazy.
Despair ; loathing of life.
Anguish and sweat all over at night.
Anxiety, oppression, nervous weakness, with irritability and impatience.
After business embarrassment cannot sleep, must get up.
Hurries too much while engaged in mental labor.
Embarrassed manner in company.
Cough < when many persons are present.
The presence of other people aggravates the symptoms.
SENSORIUM.  [Ambr.]Vertigo with feeling of weight on vertex ; < after sleep.
Had to lie down on account of vertigo and feeling of weakness in stomach.
Music causes blood to rush to head.
Great weakness in head with vertigo.
INNER HEAD.  [Ambr.]Pressure in forehead and vertex with fear of becoming crazy.
Tearing : in forehead ; in left temple up to vertex ; in r. frontal eminence and behind left ear.
Extremely painful tearing on top of head and apparently in whole upper half of brain, with paleness of face and coldness of left hand.
Pressive drawing, ascending from nape of neck, and extending through head towards forehead, considerable oppression remaining in lower part of occiput.
Dulness in occiput.
Tearing pains predominate in head.
Rush of blood to head caused by music.
Weakness in head with vertigo.
OUTER HEAD.  [Ambr.]Falling off of hair.
On right side of head, a spot, where hair when touched pains, as if sore.
Scalp feels sore in morning, when awaking ; this is followed by a sensation of numbness, extending over whole body.
SIGHT AND EYES.  [Ambr.]Dulness of vision, as if from looking through a mist.
Pressure and smarting in eyes, as from dust ; lachrymation.
Pressure on eyes, which are difficult to open, and pain in eyes as if they had been closed too firmly, particularly in morning.
Itching on eyelid as if a stye was forming.
HEARING AND EARS.  [Ambr.]Roaring and whistling in ears, in afternoon.
Deafness of one ear.
Crackling in left ear (like sound made when winding a watch).
Hearing decreases ; with cold sensation in abdomen.
Violent tearing pain in and behind right auricle.
Tearing : in right ear.
Crawling, itching and tickling in ears.
Music aggravates cough.
Listening to music brings on congestion to head.
SMELL AND NOSE.  [Ambr.]Dried blood gathered in nose.
Bleeding of nose early in morning.
Nosebleed with menses.
Copious nosebleed early in bed, several successive days. θ Old lady.
Nose stopped up and paining as if sore internally.
Long-continued dryness of nose, frequent irritation as from sneezing.
UPPER FACE.  [Ambr.]Paleness of face with headache.
Flushes of heat in face.
Heat in face with chill of other parts.
Tearing in upper part of face, particularly near right ala nasi.
Pimples, and itching in whiskers.
Painful swelling of cheek on upper jaw, with throbbing in gums.
Jaundiced color of face.
Spasmodic twitching of facial muscles.
LOWER FACE.  [Ambr.]Lips hot.
Lips numb and dry in morning on awaking.
Cramp of lower lip.
TEETH AND GUMS.  [Ambr.]Drawing pain now in one and again in another tooth ; < by warmth, momentarily removed by cold ; not < by chewing, and passes off after a meal ; at same time inner portion of gums was swollen.
Bleeding of gums.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE.  [Ambr.]Bitter taste in mouth in morning on awaking.
Sour taste after drinking milk.
Folds under tongue pain as if sore, like small growths.
INNER MOUTH.  [Ambr.]Fetor of mouth, worse mornings. θ Whooping cough.
Blisters in mouth pain as if burnt.
Smarting and cracked painful condition of mouth.
Accumulation of water in mouth with cough.
PALATE AND THROAT.  [Ambr.]Sensation of rawness in region of velum pendulum palati.
Rawness in throat with cough.
Tearing in palate, extending into left ear.
Dryness of throat in morning.
Sore feeling in throat during empty deglutition, and from outward pressure, not when swallowing food, with tension of glands of throat as if swollen.
Sore throat after exposure to a draught of air ; stitching from throat into right ear ; pains particularly from motion of tongue.
Tickling in throat, which induces coughing.
Tickling in throat and thyroid body, during act of coughing.
Accumulation of greyish phlegm in throat, which is difficult to hawk up, accompanied by rawness.
Hawking phlegm from fauces produces vomiting and choking.
Papular eruption in pharynx.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS.  [Ambr.]Thirstlessness.
EATING AND DRINKING.  [Ambr.]After breakfast, nausea.
After eating : cough and gagging ; anxiety ; pressure in pit of stomach, as if food stuck and would not go down.
Aggravation from warm drinks, especially from warm milk.
Better after eating : toothache ; oppression in chest ; chill.
After drinking milk : sour taste ; heartburn.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING.  [Ambr.]Belching with and after cough.
Eructations either empty, sour or bitter.
Eructations with cough, so as almost to cause choking.
Belching removes pressure under scrobiculum.
(OBS :) Hiccough.
Heartburn : with abortive eructations ; when walking in open air ; from drinking milk.
Every evening, sensation as of disordered stomach and acrid risings up to larynx.
Nausea after breakfast.
Vomiting and choking when hawking phlegm from fauces.
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