Materia Medica and Therapeutics (Volume 2); Arranged Upon a Physiological and Pathological Basis (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1880 Excerpt: ... lof i 5 STANNUM. 809 ' $ j toms, where he informs us that these symptoms represent a certain SPASMS.--Hahnemann appends a note to the last thirteen symp class of hysteric and hypochondric spasms, and pains in the abdomen 115 and region of the diaphragm, to which stannnm is homoeopathic; the existence of these specific virtues was known even to Albrecht and Geischlaeger. HufdaiuVs Journal, vol. x., p. 165.) Soreness of the abdomen when touching it, or aggravated by pressure or respiration, is reported by several provers; likewise the presence of flatulence with various pains, such as pinching, cutting, rumbling, sensation as if flatulence had become incarcerated, etc. TENIA.--Many of these symptoms denote the presence of taenia, and their presence would probably induce us to exhibit stannum, more particularly if the head symptoms should likewise correspond with the phenomena indicating the presence of this parasite. These phenomena are chiefly paroxysms of vertigo, pain at the top of the head, occasional loss of memory. The alterations which stannum causes in the above secretions, likewise afford more or less important and characteristic indications for the employment of stannum in taenia, lumbrici, or in other affections of the bowels. The chief effect of small doses of stannum from one-half of a grain to several grains, seems to be to constipate the bowels, and to produce a burning sensation and a feeling of excoriation at the anus, which the prover experiences either during, or immediately after, the passage of the feces. COSTIVENESS--Dr. Gross reports this symptom: Sndden inclination to stool, the first part of the discharge being of a natural consistence, afterward it becomes papescent, and lastly thin; it is accompanied by a shnddering sensation...