Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
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Mind and Disposition.
Easily offended.
Disposition to shed tears.
Anxious and full of fears.
Alternate vivacity and thoughtfulness.
[5] Great weakness of memory and
inability to think coherently.
Head.
Reeling vertigo, as if he would fall over, with a faint feeling or
nausea early in the morning, disappearing after breakfast.
Vertigo, with white stars before the eyes.
Pressing headache in the forehead, over the eyes, with congestion of
blood to the eyes and nose, with a chill when walking in the open
air ; better after lying or eating.
Pulsations in the head (vertex) with congestions to the eyes and nose.
[10] Stitches in the brain, with
nausea.
The headache is worse in the evening and when walking in the open
air ; better after lying down and after eating.
Eyes.
Stitches in the eyes.
Sensation of coldness in the eyes and eyelids.
Swelling of the eyelids.
[15] Inclination to stare.
Squinting.
Spasmodic contraction of the eyelids at night, with violent pain on
opening the eyes.
Dim-sightedness, as from a mist, compelling him to rub the eyes.
The eyes water during the day, agglutination at night.
Ears.
[20] Stitches in the (left) ear
(evening).
One ear hot and red (in the evening).
Nose.
Soreness and scabs in the nose, with discharge of thick low mucus.
Swelling and redness.
Frequent attacks of coryza.
[25] Ozæna.
Face.
Tension on the face, as if the white of an egg had dried on the skin.
Bulbous swellings and blood-boils on the face and nose.
Mouth.
Sensation of soreness in the mouth when eating.
Throat.
Sensation of constriction in the œsophagus when swallowing.
[30] Sensation, as if the œsophagus
were contracted when swallowing a small morsel of food ; -it is
felt until it enters into the stomach.
Great dryness of the throat.
The pains in the throat are worse in the evening and at night, and are
relieved by warm food and drinks.
Stomach.
Sour eructations.
Nausea, with faintness.
[35] Constriction of the Stomach,
extending to the œsophagus.
Abdomen.
Painter’s colic.
Stool and Anus.
Difficult evacuations from want of peristaltic motion of the intestines ;
even the soft stool can only be passed by great pressing.
Constipation of pregnant women, children and painters.
Diarrhœa with tenesmus.
[40] Discharges of dark blood when
walking, or in typhus fever, or with a hard stool.
Humidity of hæmorrhoidal tumors.
Itching at the anus.
Urinary Organs.
Frequent ineffectual desire to urinate : the urine can only be
passed during a stool.
Increased secretion and frequent discharge of pale, water-colored urine.
Sexual Organs.
[45] Women.
Menstruation too early, too short and too scanty ; blood pale.
Before and during menstruation, pain in the abdomen.
Fluor albus acrid, excoriating, transparent mucus before and after
menstruation.
Larynx and trachea.
Dry, short cough, especially in the morning, with dyspnœa.
Cough, with expectoration, in the morning.
[50] Hoarseness, especially in the
afternoon and evening.
Chest.
Pressing pain in the chest, at night.
Constriction in the chest, when stooping.
Back.
Pain in the back, as if a hot iron were thrust through the lower vertebræ.
Stitches in the back.
Upper Extremities.
[55] Paralytic lameness of the arms.
Pain in the arm, down to the fingers, as if a hot iron were thrust
through it.
Rhagades on the hands.
Lower Extremities.
The legs feel numb, as if asleep, especially at night.
Generalities.
Great debility and weakness, especially when talking (a short walk
fatigues him much).
[60] Spasms, with attacks of laughing
and weeping.
Involuntary motions (jerks of the head and other parts).
Unpleasant want of animal heat.
Illusive sensations ; some parts of the body feel as if they had
become larger.
While sitting, frequent stretching of the limbs (as from drowsiness).
[65] Sensation constriction in internal
organs (œsophagus, stomach, rectum, bladder).
Great heaviness in the legs and arms.
Fever.
Pulse full and accelerated.
Chill, generally in the evening, in bed, or near the warm stove ;
often with heat of the face.
During the day, chill ; during the night, fever.
[70] Heat in the evening, which spreads
from the face ; at times only over the right side of the body.
Perspiration at night, or more towards morning, in bed ; mostly in
the face, or on one side of the face.
Inability to perspire.
Skin.
Tetters itching in the evening.
Humid scabs.
[75] Rhagades.
Brittle nails.
Chapped skin and bulbous eruptions.
Conditions.
Aggravation, on alternate days.
The skin symptoms at each full and new moon ; periodically ;
in the afternoon ; while sitting in a room ; while
urinating ; from eating potatoes.
[80] Amelioration,
daring moderate exercise ; in the open air ; on alternate
days.
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