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The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Unconsciousness. θ Puerperal eclampsia. θ Epilepsy.
(In sick :) Appears profoundly intoxicated.
(In sick :) Complete unconsciousness of all preceding events.
(In sick :) Mind confused, commenced a sentence and forgot what she wished to say.
(In sick :) Incoherent in observations, while thoroughly wakeful.
(In sick :) She insisted repeatedly that her blood did not circulate, and that her feet must be put into warm water or she should die.
Slight delirium ; picking and other motions of hands and fingers in air, as if they came in contact with real objects.
(In sick :) All day wakeful and partially delirious.
(In sick :) Delirium alternating with stupor.
Spectral illusions.
(In sick :) Hallucinations of hearing and vision.
(In sick :) Frenzied with excitement and frantic in her appeals.
(In sick :) Laughed in an idiotic manner.
Muttering and smiling.
Rambling speech.
Mirthful humor.
Sad and morose, prefering solitude and a dark room to society of friends. θ Epilepsy.
Great fear and anxiety. θ Diseased pancreas.
(In sick :) Began to quarrel incoherently with his supporters.
Exaltation of brain and spine, followed by prostration.
Violent stitches in base of brain, above eyes and in temples.
Languor of body and mind, rendering incapable of active bodily or mental exertion.

Sensorium

Giddiness, heaviness and drowsiness, or actual somnolency.
(In sick :) Sense of giddiness, figures on carpet would at times appear double.
(In sick :) Head dull and confused.

Inner head

Aching pain in forehead for two hours.
A slight feeling of pressure under parietal bones.
Headache and great weakness. θ Diseased pancreas.
Head attacked after puerperal epilepsy.
Meningitis, cerebritis of tuberculous cases ; diseases of cerebral membranes and hydrocephalus acutus.

Sight and eyes

(In sick :) Everything appears large and with a red halo.
(In sick :) During evening eyes of an attending lady seemed to her very large, and she could not avoid looking at them.
Motes before eyes.
(In sick :) Through night several times a vision of great numbers of white flies on door, which was white ; she requested that they would be brushed off ; the flies were not moving and rather smaller than the common house fly ; continued on closing eyes until noon of
the following day.
(In sick :) Annoyed by appearance of a large black bug, with veritable legs, a few inches below a black door-knob.
(In sick :) The next following morning, imagining she saw a worm, a "thousand-legged worm" on her carpet, she sprang out of bed, and was found trying to find it ; failing in this she would look in another place and see it again ; this illusion kept her busy
before fully satisfied of the fallacy ; the color of worm was brown, same as predominant color in carpet.
(In sick :) The large figures on the carpet appeared to her constantly and successively rising up to her face.
(In sick :) Perpendicular diplopia, the apparent object below the real one.
Dimness of vision remains, unable to thread a needle or even to read.
(In sick :) Vision was much impaired.(In sick :) She could scarcely see at all with left eye, very little with the right, which was intolerant of light, and seemed to throw out streams of light.
Pupils unchanged for two weeks.
(In sick :) Right pupil contracted, left five times increased in size (after dropping it in this eye) ; only a slight trace of iris visible.
(In sick :) Pupils on side of injection greatly enlarged.
Increasing dilatation of pupils ; pupils after two hours reach the maximum of dilatation.
(In sick :) Pupils enormously dilated, irides hardly visible, very refractory when any attempt was made to examine them closely.
Dilatation of pupil from paralysis of oculomotor nerve, or from any other cause, is often aggravated by it.
Pupils not unusually dilated, but perfectly immovable.
The usual very large doses are dangerous when there are any suspicions of glaucoma, such as dilated pupil, severe pain, sudden increase of presbyopia, etc.
Iritis, except with too great intensity of inflammation, after nitrate of silver or cold applied to eye ; as soon as there is any sign of exudation, or if pain becomes very severe, and has not been controlled by remedies, commence it immediately and increase
dose until it dilates pupil sufficiently.
Prolapsus of iris after hurts of cornea ; if horizontal position, shutting lids and sudden opening in bright light is not sufficient.
Left to himself he did not drop into coma, as those who have taken opium, but would occasionally open his eyes with a vacant, amaurotic expression, and turn his head from side to side.
Deep ulcers in centre of cornea, which may perforate ; to prevent iris from being drawn into opening.
Evil results of conjunctivitis, keratitis, chromopsia, amaurosis.
(In sick :) Looking into a mirror she observed a strange appearance of her eyes, as though they projected from their sockets.
Rolling eyes. θ Puerperal eclampsia.
(In sick :) Eyelids felt heavy and difficult to keep open, and yet no inclination to sleep.
Pain in and over eyes. θ Before epilepsy.
Supraorbital and orbital neuralgia.

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