On intermittent fever and other malarious diseasesBoericke & Tafel, 1871 - 341 pages |
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abdomen ache Acon afternoon aggravated ague alternated appetite Bell bloated blue bowels breath Carb cerebro-spinal Cham chest chill to-day chill yesterday chills and heat Chin China Cina cold feet constipation Cont cured diarrhoea disease distinct chill dose drink drug dyspnoea excito-motor face feels fever followed by heat forenoon four hours given glob griping head headache heat and sweat hepatic plexus homœopathic hurts hyperesthesia hypochondrium hypogastrium Ignat Ipec July July 25 last night lips liver lungs malarious disorder malarious irritation medicine morning mouth mucous membrane Natr nausea Nux and Merc P.M. Better P.M. Chill pain papillæ paroxysm Phos plexus pneumogastric nerve posterior spinal column pressure Puls pulse Quinine reflex remedy rheumatic Rhus seems sensation Sept sick slight chill solar plexus sore spinal irritant spinal symptoms stomach stools Sulph sympathetic irritant sympathetic system taken taste teeth thirst three hours tongue red typhoid urine Veratr vomiting warm weeks yellow
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Page 9 - It reduces the great and most discouraging labor of selecting a remedy almost to zero, while nothing is left to accident. It is based on a fixed and unalterable physiology and pathology; and when once the physiological and pathological relations of a drug are determined, its classification is settled and the work is done.
Page 9 - Whether the chill or heat appears first depends mainly on which system is most powerfully impressed by the malaria; and if the two sensations alternate, it is because the disorder of the one system remits for a time, while that of the other takes its place, or is exacerbated. And if there is heat with chilliness at the same time, it only proves that the two systems are acting concurrently. If the sweat comes first, it only indicates that the glandular system is first disordered. If there is no chill,...
Page 53 - In these cases I should, from the very great efficacy of electricity, in the somewhat similar condition resulting from the administration of the narcotic poisons, be disposed to recommend slight shocks to be passed through the base of the brain and upper portion of the spinal cord, so as to stimulate the respiratory tracts. Asphyxia from the Respiration of...
Page 8 - The nerves from both these systems run side by side to every part of the organism, and generally in the same envelope, and yet ever remain practically separate in fact and in function.
Page 9 - ... depends mainly on which system is most powerfully impressed by the malaria; and if the two sensations alternate, it is because the disorder of the one system remits for a time, while that of the other takes its place, or is exacerbated. And if there is heat with chilliness at the same time, it only proves that the two systems are acting concurrently. If the sweat comes first, it only indicates that the glandular system is first disordered. If there is no chill, it implies that the spine is not...
Page 55 - Chamomilla disturbs all action generally and function specially ; acts generally on the cells .nuch like Phosphorus, but more especially on the secretory and excretory or vegetative system ; elsewhere its action is reflex.