Condensed Materia Medica

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Mind

Great dullness of the intellect.
Low-spirited about domestic affairs.
Great indifference.
Bad, morose humor, with disinclination to talk.
Very sensitive and inclined to scold.

Sensorium

Vertigo when walking.
Heaviness of the head when raising it, which disappears by stopping.

Inner Head

Pressing headache, chiefly in forehead and temples.

Outer Head

Scurfs on head, unbearable burning, most at night.
Tinea capitis, with frequent involuntary urination.
Burning stitches in scalp, especially in forehead and temples.
Impetigo of the hairy scalp and face.
Crusta lactea: with violent cough and excessive oppression; in children recently weaned.
Thick incrustations, pouring out a large quantity of thick yellow fluid, which agglutinates the hair.

Eyes

Smarting in the eyes.
The eyelids sink down as from sleepiness.

Face

Heat of side of face not lain on, evening in bed.
Induration of the skin of the face.
Milk-crust, burning, itching, especially at night, with discharge of viscid yellow pus.
Impetigenous exanthem on the forehead.
Tension in the integuments of the face and forehead.

Lower Face

Pustular eruption on whole upper lip and chin; a thick, yellow, friable, semi-transparent incrustation; acne rosacea on the chin.

Tongue, etc

Taste bitter, tongue coated with white mucus.

Mouth

Sensation of dryness, yet with much saliva in the mouth.

Throat

Much phlegm in the throat, causes hawking, at 11 A.M.

Eating and Drinking

While eating, hot sweat.
Immediately after eating: dyspnœa, anxious heat.

Hypochondria

Pressing-stinging in the diaphragm.

Abdomen

Cutting pains in the abdomen, with urging to stool, crying and lamentations, followed by profuse discharge of flatus, with large lumps of mucus.

Stool, etc

Stool: soft as if minced; of mucus, with much flatus.

Urine

Urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine.
Urine: offensive, smelling like cat's urine; very turbid.
Stitches in the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Involuntary seminal discharges, with vivid lewd dreams.
Suppression of gonorrhœa.
Venereal ulcers.
Swelling of the prepuce, with itching.
Stitches in penis or pressing in glans; burning in glans.
Itching stitches in the scrotum.
Induration of the testicle, after gonorrhœa.

Lungs

Stitches in chest, on ribs, sternum and intercostal muscles.

Heart and Pulse

Oppression and stitches in the heart, on bending forward when sitting.
Anxiety about heart while lying, with beating like waves.

Neck and Back

Tension between the shoulder-blades, with cutting and tingling in the skin.
Swelling and induration of the cervical glands.

Upper Limbs

Stitches in the shoulder-joints, elbows, forearms and fingers.

Lower limbs

Stitches in the patella, tibia and feet.
Pustulous and ichorous exanthema on the feet.

Position, etc

Walking: 2. Raising head: 2. Stooping: 2. Side not lain on: 8.

Nerves

Nervous paroxysms after suppressed crusta lactea.

Sleep

Yawning.
Goes to sleep late on account of ideas crowding, his mind.
The child twitches with his hands in his sleep, with clenched thumbs, generally dry heat and red face.
Dreams: pleasant or amorous.

Time

Forenoon: 40. 11 A.M.: 13. Evening: 8. Night: 4, 8, 40, 46.

Temperature and Weather

Aversion to the open air.
Open air: 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill or chilliness in the forenoon, and in the open air.
Dry, anxious heat at night in bed, with red face.
Night-sweat.

Tissues

Rheumatism or gout.
Articular rheumatism, with itch-like eruption around the joints.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Worse from pressure on the side opposite to the unpainful one.
Worse lying on the painful side.
Scratching: 46.

Skin

Cutting or stinging in the skin.
Eruption: burning, dry, stinging; violent itching, worse at night; crusty; scurfy.
Squamous spots on the skin.
Dry scabs over body, exude yellow water when scratched.
Large boils all over the body.
Ichorous ulcers with violent itching.
Burrowing ulcers.
Consequences of suppressed eruptions.
Skin difficult to heal.

Stages and States

Scrofulous children.