The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism, Volume 8Boericke & Tafel, 1878 - Homeopathy |
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Page 368 - ... parts of the wrists. The skin of the (upper) arms was natural. The face, though less affected than the forearms, and not vesicated, was swollen and erythematous, the eyelids being puffy and partially closed. The trunk of the body was untouched, but the skin of the penis and scrotum was red, oedematous and painful, and there were scattered spots of inflamed and slightly elevated skin on the inner surface of both thighs. The inflamed portions of the skin were the seat of pain, sometimes of a numbing...
Page 569 - Switzerland in 1715 and 1716. After excessive lassitude, more or less protracted, and unaccompanied with fever, the extremities become painful, cold, and rigid. Benumbed, and almost insensible, the limbs were yet capable of movement, though with difficulty. The patients were afflicted with grievous internal pain, which was greatly increased by heat, whether of the bed or atmosphere, but abated somewhat when they were exposed to a cooler temperature, though even then it was scarcely tolerable.
Page 475 - to the physicians who were present. All treatment was futile, and he died in forty hours after taking the first powder. No post-mortem examination was permitted. The course of the case was too rapid to be explained on the theory of a complicating cerebral inflammation ; all the symptoms seem to point to poisoning (10-grain doses).
Page 364 - The face was universally sprinkled with them. But these were extremely small, the fluid which they contained, was always very limpid, and without any application, except that of cold water every morning, they entirely disappeared in two or three days. ABOUT the seventh or eighth day, the itching, the inflammation, and the spread of the vesicles appeared to be nearly at their height. At this period, and for some days afterwards, the greater part of the fore-arm, and about...
Page 326 - Paroxvsm of fever, at 6 o"'clock in the evening ; great heat about the head, with cold feet and absence of thirst ; intolerable headache, with pressure from within outward, burning in the eyes, dryness in the nose, and a burning-hot sensation in the nose, when taking an inspiration ; feeling of debility and a bruised pain in all the limbs, and weariness of...
Page 364 - E ( 34 ) was, in consequence of this supposed absorption of the poison, any increase of the number of vesicles upon the surface of the body. IN fifteen days from the time that the poison was first applied to my arm, all the disagreeable symptoms had ceased ; the vesicles had almost entirely disappeared ; a desquamation of the affected parts had taken place, and a new epidermis had been formed.
Page 362 - ... from head to foot with a fine red vesicular rash, itching and burning terribly, especially in the joints; worse at night, causing constant scratching, with little or no relief, and which felt very hard upon pressure with the finger; skin burning hot...
Page 285 - Sudden arrest of breathing in the throat, as takes place when walking against the wind. Oppressed breathing, with warm rising from the pit of the stomach to the pit of the throat; she has to take deep breath; accompanied with a hoarse voice, going off again with the oppression. Impeded respiration from weakness of the chest; deep breathing, as if a load were oppressing the chest; frequent deep breathing without oppression of the chest ; asthma, as if laced too tightly, with...
Page 424 - ... o'clock. This paroxysm lasted ten or fifteen minutes; after this he slept all night. A less severe paroxysm occurred in bed, in the morning, after waking, and at various times through the day. This state continued about two weeks, when there was a commencement of expectoration of adhesive mucus in small quantities, detached with difficulty. The whole duration was about a month. Some medicines were taken in the latter stages, but without obvious effects,1*. — * Hacking cough (after twelve minutes),".
Page 266 - ... changed,*. — On applying a piece of the bulb between the fingers, a burning was experienced after the lapse of two minutes, which soon ceased after the removal of the bulb; after the lapse of two hours the place became red, and in ten hours a blister was formed, emitting a large quantity of thin, yellowish, burning fluid,*.