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Medorrhinum. – 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] [Med.]

Hiccough.

Nausea : with frontal headache ; after drinking water ; after dinner ; always after eating ; before eating.

Vomiting of thick mucus and bile, without nausea.

Violent retching and vomiting for forty-eight hours ; first glairy mucus, then frothy and watery, and lastly coffee grounds ; accompanied by intense headache, with great despondency and sensation of impending death ; during paroxysm was continually
praying.

Vomiting black bile without nausea, tasting bitter and sour, with considerable mucus.

   

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Med.]

Sensation in pit of stomach as of a paper of pins that seemed to force themselves through flesh, causing her to rise and double up and scream ; pins seem to come from each side. θ Abscess
of liver.

A sick or gnawing feeling, not > by eating or drinking.

Trembling at pit of stomach.

Sometimes a burning (like a flame) in pit of stomach, as if heart palpitated there.

Dull pain in epigastric region, deep in.

Feeling of a lump in stomach after eating.

Throbbing in sides of stomach.

Clawing in stomach, < drawing up knees.

Cramps in stomach as from wind.

Intense pain in stomach and upper abdomen, with a sensation of tightness.

Sensation of sinking and agonizing sickness at stomach, with a desire to tear something away.

   

HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] [Med.]

Terrible pains in liver, thought she would die, they were so acute.

Bilious colic with frequent vomiting and nausea ; diarrheic stools, chilliness and perspiration on face and neck.

Congestion of liver.

Grasping pain in liver and spleen.

Burning heat around to back, like a coal of fire. θ Abscess of liver.

Severe pain from abscess extending to right shoulder and down elbow. θ Abscess of liver.

Throbbing and thumping in region of suprarenal capsule, seeming to come from abscess or sore spot just below fifth rib, right side ; creeping chills in region of right kidney, throbbing, contracting, drawing and relaxing as if caused by icy cold insects with claws. θ Abscess
of liver.

   

ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Med.]

Intense agonizing pain in solar plexus ; surface cold ; eructations tasting of sulphuretted hydrogen and, after eating, of ingesta ; applied right hand to pit of stomach and left to lumbar region.

Pressure in lower abdomen as of a heavy weight.

A feeling as of a tumor in right side of abdomen.

Tensive pain in right side of abdomen, as of a hard biconvex body ; with heat and gnawing aching pain, continued a short time ; it was between spine of ilium and recti muscles.

Darting pain from centre of right ovarian region to lower edge of liver.

Ascites ; abdomen greatly distended ; palpation showed water ; urine very scanty and high colored.

Beating as of a pulse in abdomen vertically.

Left inguinal glands sensitive and slightly swollen.

Cutting in right lower abdomen running into right spermatic cord ; right testis very tender.

   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Med.]

Bilious diarrhœa, verging on dysentery, with mucous stools.

Pains of most intense kind (threatening cramps) in upper abdomen (darting and tearing pains) coming on at stool ; stool diarrheic, thin and hot, but not copious ; after stool, profound weakness and mild cramp in left calf.

Profuse bloody discharges from rectum, sometimes in large clotted masses, followed by shivering.

Black stool.

White diarrhœa.

Stools tenacious, clay-like, sluggish, cannot be forced, from a sensation of prolapsus of rectum.

Can only pass stool by leaning very far back ; very painful, as if there was a lump on posterior surface of sphincter ; so painful as to cause tears.

Constriction and inertia of bowels with ball-like stools.

Child, æt. 15 months, brought on a pillow to clinic, apparently dead ; eyes glassy, set ; could not find pulse, but felt heart beat ; running from anus greenish yellow, thin, horribly offensive stool.

Baby, æt. 7 months, after summer complaint, great emaciation, diarrhœa green, watery, slimy, yellow, curdled, like boiled potatoes chopped up with greens, thin, cream colored, watery, smelling like rotten eggs ; stools pass involuntarily ; apparently lifeless, except that it
rotates head on pillow.

Cholera infantum with opisthotonos, vomiting and watery diarrhœa ; profuse discharge of blood and pus.

Sharp, needle-like pains in rectum.

Painful attack of piles, not bleeding, hot swelling on left side of anus ; pin worms.

Oozing of moisture from anus, fetid like fish brine.

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