Pleura – Inner Chest and Lungs – Chapter 28 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

CHAPTER 28.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS.

Clavicles
* Inner Chest * Lungs
* Pleura
* Sternum

Pleura.

Pleura :-

Adhesions :-

(See
Exudation, Inflammation.)

Pleuritis, after, acute
thoracic pains, suggestive of adhesions :-

Ran-b.

Ecchymoses,
subpleural :-

Anthraci.,
Hippoz.

Exudation

(See Inner
Chest, Dropsy.) :-
BRY.,
Canth., Œna.,
Sulph.

Abundant, pleuritic,
displacing heart, could not sit up :-

Sulph.

Brown, 2 pints of
reddish, odorless fluid in cavities :-

Ars-h.

4 fingers in height,
with no tendency to decrease :-

Ferr-m.

Left overfilled, not a
trace of respiratory murmur, fluctuation and formation of abscess,
which broke :-

Sulph.

Plastic :-

Alumn.,
Bry., Hep., SULPH.

Plastic, intercostal
spaces prominent, motionless during respiration :-

Hep.

Pleuro-pneumonia,
in :-

Camph.

Purulent :-

Ars-i.,
Calc., Hep., Phos., Sil., Sulph.

Right side, on :-

Kali-c.

Serous :-

Anthraci.,
Apis, Ars.,
BRY.,
Dig., Hell.,
Iod., ¤ Jab.,
Nat-m., Ter.

Serous, in
ascites :-

Ars.

Serous, with hectic,
worse in evening :-

Carb-v.

Serous, in pneumonia,
Bright’s disease :-

Kali-i.

Soap like deposit, a,
as in cholera :-

Lyss.

Subacute,
chronic :-

Seneg.

Sweat and diarrhœa,
with

(induration
of liver) :- Rat.

Inflammation

(pleurisy) :-
Abrot., ACON.,
Act-sp.,
Apis,
Arn., Ars., Asc-s., Asc-t., Bor., BRY.,
Cact., Calc-p.,
Cann-s.,
Canth., Carb-an.,
Carb-v., Card-m.,
Colch., Dig.,
Ferr-m.,
Hep., Iod., Kali-c., Kali-i., Kali-m., Merc., Mur-ac., Nit-ac., Nux-v.,
Ran-b., Rhus-t.,
Sabad., Sang.,
Seneg.,
Sep., Sin-a., Sin-n., SQUIL.,
Stann.,
Sul-ac., Sulph.,
Ziz.

Abscess, with
pulmonary :-

Hippoz.

Aconite, after, when
stitching pains and difficult respiration continue or return :-

Kali-c.

Acute, with typhoid
symptoms :-

Rhus-t.

Afternoon, in :-

Am-br.

Anæmia, resulting in

(diaphragmitis) :-
Dig.

Arthritic :-

Colch.

Beginning, at :-

Coch.

Beginning, at, if small
bronchi are irritated :-

Laur.

Blood, in persons who
have lost much :-

Chin.

Bloodletting,
especially after :-

Squil.

Brightii, particularly
in morbus :-

Canth.

Bryonia, similar
to :-

Asc-t.

Dry cough, worse 3
A.M., or suppressed cough :-

Kali-c.

Drunkards and
melancholic persons, in :-

Laur.

Fever and hoarseness,
with :-

Aur-m.

Fever, with
remittent :-

Crot-h.

Gout, in course of
articular :-

Sulph.

Headache, after
chronic, had suddenly vanished :-

Sep.

Injuries, after
mechanical, must change position, bed feels so hard :-

ARN.

Latent :-

Seneg.

Left side, particularly
affected :-

Kali-c.

Lingering :-

Carb-an.

Neglected :-

Ars.,
Ars-i.,
Calc., Camph.,
Canth., Carb-v.,
Chin.,
Ferr., Hep.,
Iod., Lach.,
Lyc., Seneg., Sep.,
Sil., Sulph.

Old men, in :-

Sep.

Old and cachectic
people, of, protracted cases :-

Nit-ac.

Pains, worse cough

(tuberculosis) :-
Lach.

Phos, where, though
apparently indicated, failed :-

Sep.

Plastic form, acute

(after
Acon.) :- Sulph.

Pneumonia, with
left-sided :-

Ran-b.

Pressing remains,
impeding breathing :-

Abrot.

Rattling respiration,
must sit up :-

Squil.

Rheumatic :-

Ant-t.,
Dulc.

Rheumatism, in course
of acute articular :-

Sulph.

Right side,
particularly :-

Chel.

Right side arched like
a barrel from axilla downward

(with
plastic exudation) :-
Hep.

Serous form, especially
rheumatic cases with Bright’s disease, from hyperæmia of
kidneys :-

Dig.

Stabbing in chest,
acute :-

Ran-b.

Stage, 1st :-

Ferr-p.

Stage, 2nd, plastic
exudation :-

Kali-m.

Stage, last :-

Phos.,
SULPH.

Stitches with
chill :-

Lach.

Stitches in left chest
with violent palpitation :-

Kali-c.

Stitches in pneumonia

(Bright’s
disease) :- Kali-i.

Stitches in lower right
lung :-

Kali-c.

Subacute :-

Arg-n.

Subacute, and effusion
into chest, left side being nearly 2/3 filled with fluid :-

Kali-i.

Subacute, left side, or
in phthisical subjects :-

Arg-n.

Tuberculous patients,
of :-

Kali-c.

Vocal fremitus, absence
of, with plastic exudation :-

Hep.