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The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica Author:Constantine Hering Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 30 Outer Chest. Drawing pains in chest-muscles, especially from motion. 31 Back. Weak back, with ovarian pains. I Pains in sacrum. Hemorrhoidal colic. w... more » Upper Limbs. Fugitive pains in shoulders all night, preventing sleep. Aching from shoulder joints to elbow. Arms very weak. Numb sensation in fingers. Dull aching in first finger of r. hand, followed by similar pain in other fingers of r. and 1. hand. Pricking and coldness of finger tips. 33 Lower Limbs. I Emaciation, mostly of legs. Marasmus. Drawing sensation in ankle joint. Deadness and coldness of feet. Sticking, tearing and itching sensations in old foot-sores. " Limbs in General. I Inability to move arms; legs only with difficulty. Rheumatism. Frost-bitten limbs. 35 Rest. Position. Motion. Lies prone; cannot hold head up. Motion: pains in muscles of chest; averse to exercise; rheumatic pains . Inability to move arms; legs with difficulty. 36 Nerves. Remains very much relaxed and incapacitated. Disposed to lie prone. A weak, sickly feeling continued many days, with internal trembling when excited. I Very lame and sore all over. Rheumatism. IIGreat weakness and prostration, and a kind of hectic fever with children, after influenza. Head so weak, cannot hold it up. I Hysteria. 37 Sleep. Sleepless and restless. Hemorrhoidal colic. 3s Time. Night: cutting, gnawing, stinging in stomach ; fugitive pains in shoulders. 39 Temperature and Weather. Cold air produces raw feeling in chest. Hitching chilblains. 40 Fever. IHigh fever. Rheumatism. I Hectic fever, very weakening. Marasmus. 41 Attacks. Suddenly: hoarseness. Piles as rheumatism gets . Alternating: diarrhoea and constipation. 42 Locality and Direction. Left: brain seems weak; sc...« less