Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Benzoic acid (Benzoicum acidum).
Mind and Disposition.
Inclination to dwell on unpleasant subjects.
While writing, he often omits words.
Head.
Giddiness, especially in the afternoon, as if he would fall on his side.
Pressure on the vertex, extending to the spine, -without pain, but with
anxiety.
[5] Rheumatic pains in the head.
Headache from a draft of air ; from uncovering the head ; in
the morning, when awaking ; worse when at rest, returning
periodically, and accompanied by pain the stomach, nausea, and cold
hands.
Cold perspiration on the head.
Face.
Burning heat of one side of the face.
Circumscribed redness on the cheeks.
[10] Copper-colored spots on the face.
Cold perspiration of the face.
Tongue.
The tongue is spongy on the surface, with deep cracks, and with
spreading ulcers.
Throat.
Sensation, as of a lump in the pit of the throat, as if some food had
lodged there.
Sensation of swelling or constriction in the throat.
[15] The throat symptoms are relieved
by eating.
Stool and Anus.
Watery, light-colored, very offensive stools, (in children) with
unusually strong-smelling urine.
Urinary Organs.
Soreness, or hot, burning pain in the (left) kidney.
Frequent desire to urinate.
Urine contains mucus and pus, (with enlargement of prostate gland).
[20] Urine of dark color, with
unusually strong smell ; heavy, hot.
Chest.
Long-continued, dry cough, after suppressed gonorrhœa.
Pains in the region of the heart.
Awakens every morning at 2 o’clock, with violent internal heat, and
hard, beating pulse, compelling him to lie on the back, because the
beating of the temporal arteries causes a humming in the ears, and
prevents him from going to sleep.
Awakens after midnight with violent palpitation of the heart, and hard
beating of the temporal arteries.
Extremities.
[25] Tearing and stitches, especially
in the right big toe, (gout).
Generalities.
Great weakness, perspiration, and comatose condition.
Trembling, with palpitation of the heart.
Sleep.
Awakens with oppression of breathing, with palpitation of the heart,
(after midnight), with heat and hard pulse.
Fever.
Chilliness before the stool.
[30] Great internal heat when awaking.
Perspiration while eating.
Conditions.
The pains suddenly change their locality, but are mostly felt in the
region of the heart.
When moving, cracking of the joints.
Aggravation of the headache, when at
rest ; of the toothache, when lying ; of the eye and ear
symptoms in the open air ; of the head symptoms, when uncovering
one’s self, and when in a draft of air.
[35] Amelioration
of the face symptoms by heat.
The most of the symptoms appear first on the left, and then on the right
side.
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