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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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PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] [Aur.]

During pregnancy : suicidal melancholia ; jaundice.

Suppressed milk.

Palpitation following metrorrhagia after a mole or in childbed, after overexertion.

Labor pains make her desperate, she would like to jump from the window or dash herself down ; often with congestion to head and chest and palpitation.

   

VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] [Aur.]

Voice : nasal ; husky, as if he had a cold.

Phlegm deep in larynx, not easily hawked up.

   

RESPIRATION. [26] [Aur.]

Morning asthma ; face cyanotic ; light-haired persons ; < after mercury, in wet weather and in warm air.

Marked dyspnœa, anxiety at heart ; stenocardia.

Excessive dyspnœa, with difficult breathing at night.

Cardiac difficulty of breathing. θ Old age

Dyspnœa : with dull stitches in chest when inspiring ; cannot be relieved in any position ; takes deep breaths from ‘besoin de respirer’. θ Heart disease.

Asthma from congestion to chest ; great oppression at night and when walking in open air ; suffocative fits, with spasmodic constriction of chest ; face bluish-red ; palpitation ; falls down unconscious.

Want of breath. θ Valvular disease of heart.

Difficult breathing. θ Jaundice.

Loses her breath, > from belching or walking. θ Hysteria.

Suffocative fits and constriction of chest.

When laughing difficulty in breathing.

Propped up in bed and breathing very hurriedly. θ Endocarditis.

   

COUGH. [27] [Aur.]

Cough for want of breath at night.

Cough with tough yellow sputum on awaking in morning.

Dry, spasmodic, nervous cough, peculiar to females ; periodically, every night from sunset to sunrise.

Expectoration infrequent, morning and evening.

Moist rales all over chest with cough. θ Endocarditis.

   

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Aur.]

Great tightness of chest.

Violent rush of blood to chest.

Hyperemia of lungs.

Shooting through back when breathing. θ Facial neuralgia.

Shooting pains in chest after attacks of palpitation.

Dull stitches in both sides of chest, with heat in chest and dyspnœa ; increased by inspiration.

Persistent dry catarrh on chest, early in morning, on waking ; with great difficulty he raises a little phlegm, and this only after rising from bed.

Oppression of chest with faceache.

Extreme tightness of chest with difficult breathing.

Great weight on chest, especially a heavy weight on sternum. θ Angina pectoris.

   

HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] [Aur.]

Frequent attacks of anguish about heart, with tremulous fearfulness ; great anguish increasing to self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of abdomen ; uneasiness and hurried desire for bodily and mental activity ; he cannot do anything fast enough, and does
not succeed in satisfying himself ; is constantly impelled to be in motion, and is sorry for his inactivity ; he imagines he is neglecting something and deserves reproaches in consequence.

Violent heart-stroke not synchronous with pulse.

Sensation as if heart was turning around.

Constriction of chest with a painful spasmodic sensation of heart ; pulse remits.

Pains wander from joint to joint, and finally become fixed in heart ; must sit upright ; feels as though heart ceased and then suddenly gave one hard thump.

Pain in region of heart, extending down left arm to fingers.

Pain in heart and palpitation ; jumping feeling of heart and violent palpitation by motion.

Angina pectoris.

Action of heart floundering. θ Endocarditis.

Violent palpitation, anxiety and congestion of blood to head and chest. θ After uterine hemorrhage.

Palpitation, with great agony.

When riding or walking, palpitation compels him to stop.

Violent beating of heart after exertion.

Between attacks of palpitation, feeling as of a bladder hanging in left chest ; must often take a deep breath.

Attacks of oppression at heart at night, with palpitation and great debility. θ Old age.

Loud endocardial bruits. θ Endocarditis.

Fatty degeneration of heart.

Violent orgasm of blood as if it was boiling.

Congestions to head and chest, with anxious palpitation.

Visible beating of carotids and of temporal arteries. θ Heart affections in old age.

Palpitation, with irregular, intermittent pulse ; short breathing.

Pulse small, but accelerated ; small, feeble, rapid ; irregular.

Pulse quick, full, corresponding to beat of heart, and omitting before single strong beat. θ Heart disease.

Pulse rapid, compressible and intermittent. θ Endocarditis.

Weak pulse. θ Old age.

Weak heart.

Sensation as if heart stood still.

   

OUTER CHEST. [30] [Aur.]

A wart, size of a split horse-bean since proving Cundurango, several years since, is beginning to lap over and to catch things and seems flatter ; in sixth week flatter and much smaller ; on 80th day, nearly gone ; in twelfth week increases again.

   

NECK AND BACK. [31] [Aur.]

Enormous goitre disappeared long after.

Swollen cervical glands. θ Scrofulous ophthalmia.

Tension in neck, as if muscles were too short, even at rest ; mostly when stooping.

Spine disease, with gressus gallinaceus.

Pain in small of back as from fatigue.

Tendons of muscles so painfully stiff that thigh cannot be raised ; thigh feels paralyzed.

Stinging pains in small of back. θ Jaundice.

Pain at lower part of spine.

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