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A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homoeopathy
A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homoeopathy Author:Timothy Field Allen 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: Urine: Deep orange colored, offensive, even albuminous. Heart: Irregular, tremulous, action violent, felt through the chest. Sleeplessness. ACETIC ACID.... more » This acid, more positively than other organic acid, produces a profound amemia followed by general malnutrition, emaciation, cough, night sweats, etc. It seems also to produce an immediate inflammation of some mucous membranes characterized by a membranous (or plastic) exudation (larynx, bronchi, uterus). Mouth and Stomach: Salivation; tongue pale and flabby. Vomiting of food. In the stomach gnawing and burning. General aggravation by cold drinks. Epigastrium sore. Stools: Watery, with colic, sore alxlomcn.e-.c. Bloody. Respiratory Organs: Croup, membranous, with prostration, coldness, etc. (later stages). Membranous, bronchitis. Respiration difftcult, hurried. Fever: Coldness. Hectic fever with emaciation, night sweats. ACONITUM In poisonous doses paralyzes the heart and respiration; its profound collapse may be associated with profuse alvine evacuations, cold sweat, feeble pulse and labored breathing, but altrags with terrible anguish. It causes peripheral anaesthesia and excites most intense neuralgia, particularly in the nerves of the face; pains are sharp, sticking; general hypera-sthesia, dry- ness of mucous membranes, bright luemorrhages. It produces and cures febrile conditions only with extreme anguish, restlessness and thirst, never with apathy; a high temperature is not by itself an indication for Aconite. Rarely useful in any form of malarial fever. In the earliest stage of inflammatory conditions, even during the chill, it is invaluable, provided the characteristic deathly anxiety be pronounced. It is found valuable for the remote as well as recent effects of fright and other ...« less