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Tabacum. – 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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MIND. [1] [Tab.]

Forgetful ; slow perception.

Difficulty in concentrating his mind for any length of time on one subject.

Idiotic ; epileptic idiocy.

Cheerful, merry, loquacious ; sings all day ; talks nonsense.

Becomes quite stupid, loses his senses ; precordial anguish, with faintness.

Melancholy ; anxiety > from weeping.

Sudden anxiety, with angina pectoris ; also with oppression of chest, driving him from place to place.

Excessive depression of mind, with indigestion and palpitation ; intermittent pulse ; great despondency.

   

SENSORIUM. [2] [Tab.]

Vertigo : excessive heaviness in head ; with qualmishness in stomach ; deathlike paleness of face and sensation as if he could not support himself, increasing to loss of consciousness ; > in open air and by vomiting ; cannot rise
up ; face deathly pale ; vertigo < on rising and looking upward, brought on by immoderate smoking of cigars.

Apoplexy and paralysis.

   

INNER HEAD. [3] [Tab.]

Headache : with vertigo ; < indoors ; > in open air.

Sick-headache coming on early in morning, intolerable by noon ; deathly nausea, violent vomiting greatly < by noise and light.

When walking, indoors or outdoors, suddenly, as if struck by a hammer or club on right side of head, throws him to left. θ Ague.

Periodical sick-headache, lasting one or two days and generally brought on by fatigue or excitement ; intense, agonizing pain as if head would burst, and again as if brain were being bored out ; sought continually to hide her head in pillow, or to change it to a position that
might relieve ; faintness, nausea and vomiting of food, and painful retching to vomit small quantities of mucus and bile ; skin pale and cold with clammy sweat ; breathing oppressed and labored ; face sunken and anxious.

   

SIGHT AND EYES. [5] [Tab.]

Dimsightedness, sees as through a veil, evenings.

Heat and burning in eyes.

Contraction of lids.

Retinal images retained.

Strabismus, dependent upon brain troubles.

Amblyopia, vision twenty-one hundredths, refraction normal, divergence of one and a half lines behind a screen, diplopia in distance ; dimness and confusion of sight, as if black dots filled visual field ; < after stimulants.

Asthenopia ; strabismus ; white atrophy of retina with amaurosis.

   

HEARING AND EARS. [6] [Tab.]

Nervous deafness.

Sensation as if ears were closed.

Ears burning hot and red.

   

SMELL AND NOSE. [7] [Tab.]

Smell feeble.

   

UPPER FACE. [8] [Tab.]

Emaciation, deathlike pallor of face. θ Cholera infantum.

Face : blue, pinched ; sunken ; deathly ; pale ; pale and collapsed, covered with cold sweat ; pale, with drawn features and deeply-sunken eyes, surrounded by blue rings.

Glowing heat in face, with redness, frequently only on one side.

Violent tearing in bones of face and teeth, in evening.

   

TEETH AND GUMS. [10] [Tab.]

Drawing, rending toothache ; violent tearing pains in facial bones.

   

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Tab.]

Cannot speak. θ Angina pectoris.

While reading cannot articulate ; hoarse, reads very indistinctly, quite contrary to habit ; speech difficult, unintelligible.

   

INNER MOUTH. [12] [Tab.]

Burning in mouth and throat.

Frothing from mouth.

Mouth full of white tenacious mucus which must be frequently expectorated.

Increased secretion of thin, watery saliva ; spits much.

   

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Tab.]

Throat dry, can hardly swallow ; burning in throat and mouth.

Violent constriction of throat. θ Angina pectoris.

Much viscid phlegm in throat.

   

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Tab.]

Constant hunger ; nausea if stomach is not satisfied.

Complete loss of appetite.

Thirst : especially at night ; in cholera infantum.

Thirstlessness.

Does not eat, but drinks eagerly, < at night ; violent vomiting.

Dyspeptic ; uses tobacco ; knows chewing hurts him and has tried in vain to stop ; Tabacum 2c appeased craving for tobacco and stimulants.

   

EATING AND DRINKING. [15] [Tab.]

Sensitive to smell of wine ; fumes all but intoxicate her.

   

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

Hiccough.

Nausea : incessant, with frequent vomiting ; as if seasick, vertigo in paroxysms, cold sweat ; amounting to faintness, disappears in open air ; when moving in least ; with a sinking feeling in epigastrium.

Nausea and vomiting on least motion. θ Cholera.

Nausea and cold sweat remaining after Verat. and Secale checked stools. θ Cholera.

Violent efforts to vomit.

Vomiting : violent ; in morning, before breakfast ; of watery liquid, sometimes insipid, sometimes bitter ; as soon as he begins to move ; during pregnancy, deathly nausea ; of water ; of sour fluid, with mucus.

Seasickness, deathly nausea ; pallor ; coldness ; < from least bodily motion ; > on deck in fresh, cold air.

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