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Aurum Metallicum. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6]
Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10]
Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15]
Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30]
Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45]
Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

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HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] [Aur.]

Sour belching.

Eructations of gas relieve attacks of palpitation.

Nausea from mental labor.

   

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Aur.]

Burning sensation at stomach, with hot risings.

Pressure in region of stomach at noon.

Pressure to left of scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs ; < during expiration.

Swelling of pit of stomach and hypochondrium, with stinging pain when touching parts.

   

HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] [Aur.]

Swelling of liver consecutive to cardiac hypertrophy.

Burning heat and cutting in right hypochondrium.

Jaundice, with pain in liver and pit of stomach ; greenish-brown urine ; bad breath and putrid taste.

Chronic hepatitis, with aversion to life ; suicidal mood ; averse to exercise, feels stupid.

Painful accumulation of gas below left ribs, causing stitching pains.

Pressure in hypochondria, as from flatulence ; < after food or drink, and motion.

   

ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Aur.]

Distended abdomen.

Nightly flatulent colic.

Ascites : from disturbances of abdominal organs ; with albuminuria ; with melancholy.

Abdomen puffed up. θ Hysteria.

Colic, frequent discharge of wind.

Tabes mesenterica.

Spasmodic contraction of abdomen, with great anguish ; inclined to suicide. See 29.

Inguinal hernia ; also with children.

Heaviness in abdomen, with icy cold hands and feet.

Intolerable itching in right groin in its inner third, could not resist scratching ; later inspection showed a wheal, tender from violent rubbing ; even after wheal is gone, part remains tender.

   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Aur.]

Proctostasis.

Copious stool.

Passes fetid flatus.

Stools : offensive, painful ; greyish, ashy ; offensive in pregnancy.

Nightly diarrhœa, with burning in rectum.

Hard, knotty or large stools ; constipation, < during menses, with prolapsus uteri.

Piles with rectal catarrh ; costive ; external piles bleed during stool.

Constipation ; stool very large in size and very hard or knotty.

Obstinate constipation. θ Jaundice.

Looseness and costiveness in alternation. θ Melancholy.

   

URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Aur.]

For many days great morbid activity of uropoetic system.

Urination frequent with painful retention. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Albuminuria consecutive to heart disease.

Kidneys hyperemic, with pressure around waist and increase of urine ; consecutive to cardiac hypertrophy.

Passes more urine than corresponds to quantity of water drunk.

Constant urging to urinate.

Urine scanty, greenish-brown. θ Jaundice.

Urine clear, gold-colored. θ Dropsy.

Turbid, like buttermilk ; much mucous sediment.

Urine ammoniacal, decomposes rapidly, smells like the otorrhœa.

Ischuria and constipation, worse during menses. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Suppression of urine.

Painful retention of urine with pressure in bladder.

Frequent painful retention of urine

Urethritis.

Renal secretion much less in quantity.

Hæmaturia.

   

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Aur.]

Testes mere pendent shreds. θ Pining boys.

Chronic induration of testicles.

Testes indurated ; also after abuse of mercury.

Testes a little swelled and hard.

Frequent nightly emissions. θ Melancholy. θ Neuralgia of face.

Onanism. θ Faceache. θ Melancholy.

Nightly erections without emission ; or nightly erections and pollutions, without subsequent weakness.

Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis ; settled melancholy, with suicidal mania.

Sensation as if a knife was drawn through swollen testicle.

Right testicle swollen ; pressive pains when touched or rubbed ; pressure and tension as from a bruise.

Itching of scrotum.

Ulcers on scrotum, after gonorrhœa.

Cutting and stinging in perineum.

Inguinal glands suppurate. θ Mercurio-syphilis.

Hydrocele. θ Child, æt. 6 months.

Chancres.

Hunterian chancres.

Secondary syphilis ; also infantile ; especially after abuse of mercury (and probably of potash).

Affections of prepuce.

Balanitis.

Condylomata around anus ; around corona glandis.

Sarcocele ; epididymitis ; orchitis.

Syphilis.

   

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Aur.]

Sterility after depression of spirits.

Ovarian affections connected with syphilis.

Induration of uterus. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Menses delayed, especially the first. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Menses too late and scanty. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Amenorrhœa with great melancholy ; her mind constantly inclines to suicide. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Bruised, shooting or drawing pain in uterus. θ Prolapsus.

Drawing pain at pubes. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Right inguinal region sore to touch ; uterus affected.

Os uteri swollen, hardened.

Prolapsus and induration of uterus.

Uterus prolapsed and indurated ; bruised pain, with shooting or drawing ; heaviness in abdomen ; after lifting a heavy load ; worse at menstrual period.

Menses regular, but with headache and burning on vertex ; uterus indurated.

Menses too late, scanty ; preceded by swelling of axillary glands ; accompanied by colic, prolapse of rectum.

Constant oozing from vulva.

Thick white leucorrhœa ; burning smarting of vulva ; labia majora red, swollen.

Leucorrhœa profuse and corroding, yellow. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Leucorrhœa thick white. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Prolapsus :
with backache, < during menses ; with heat of vagina ; from reaching high ; from straining ; with induration of uterus and bruised, shooting or drawing pains.

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