The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (Volume 7) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LACTUCA VIROSA. Poisonous Lcttuce. Composite. A plant native to Europe; has a strong, disagreeable smell, like that of opium, and a bitterish, acrid taste. I'rovings by German provers, collected by Seidel. See Jour. f. Horn. Arz- neien, vol. 2. Clinical Authorities.?Cough, Neidhard, Raue's Rec., l870, p. 373; Whooping cough, A. R., Ruck. Kl. Erf., voL 5, p. 723; Catarrh of chest, Meyer, Ruck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 686; Hydrothorajc, Neidhard, Raue's Rec., l870, p. 372. t Mind. Anguish and internal uneasiness. Sadness with exaggerated fancies. Difficulty of thinking. 2 Sensorium. Vertigo with heaviness of head and lower limbs, blackness before eyes and sensation as if head was too large and expanded. 3 Inner Head: Aching, pressing pain in forehead; sensation as if brain was loose. Painful spot near vertex, on touching it. Heaviness in occiput with pressure. Dull pain in whole head, early in morning. Trembling and pulsation in head during rest. Head is very painfully shattered by slight cough, so that a whirring and pressing remain a long time afterward. Headaches: with affections of respiratory organs; nervous. 6 Sight and Eyes. Muscse volitantes; dimsightedness, as through mist or gauze. I I Pupils very much dilated. Biting in eyes. Lids covered with mucus. 8 Upper Face. Heat of face, with trembling of lips, and sen sation as if they were swollen. 9 Lower Face. Twitching in lips. " Taste and Tongue. II Tongue coated white; tip of tongue feels burnt. t2 Inner Mouth. Increased flow of acrid saliva. t3 Throat. Bitter taste in throat, as from bile. Tenacious mucus in throat early in morning. t7 Scrobiculum and Stomach. I I Tightness in pit of stomach, followed by true proecordial anxiety. II Feeling of ...