The guiding symptoms of our materia medica / by C. Hering, M.D.

  • Constantine Hering
Date:
1879-1891
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Credit: The guiding symptoms of our materia medica / by C. Hering, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    skin around diseased parts were too tight; pain < in recumbent posture. I I Four years ago was thrown from a wagon and much injured about hips and small of back; was very lame and unable to move much or sit up any length of time; has been in feeble health ever since; it has affected her very much to stand or walk since the injury; thinks she has not been able to bear her weight on her limb since, without more or less suffering through the hips; cannot endure walking, even for a short distance, with- out suffering for a week or more, and at times is con- fined to bed in consequence; riding or any jarring affects her in much the same way; much tenderness to pressure about heads of both femora and edges of ace- tabulum, joint of coccyx and sacrum; pressing head of femur against acetabulum produces much pain and ach- ing, and she feels it so constantly while bearing any weight upon limbs; sleep restless and unquiet, espe- cially first part of night. 1 I Man of sanguine temperament, had been injured by the caving in of a gravel bank, injuring his r. hip; no sleep for three nights; unable to move or have the leg stirred; groaning under severe pain and suffering; whole hip and thigh quite hot and inflamed. I Aching pain in both hip joints at every step, and a para- lytic feeling in anterior muscles of thighs. Right rectus cruris muscle very sensitive on pressure, as if bruised. Tension on posterior surface of thigh while riding one leg over the other. Tension in 1. thigh, extending downward from hip-joint. Jerking and tearing in r. thigh, somewhat above knee. Tearing pain in middle of outer portion of thigh, while sitting, > on motion. Tearing, dragging pains in muscles of 1. thigh. iThe pain runs in streaks down limbs with every evac- uation. 1 I From a severe wetting all over, was seized with terrible pains in lower extremities, paroxysmal in character, driving him to desperation ; could remain in no position, but resembled a dancing monkey. ]^^ Lameness and stiffness and pain on first moving after rest, or on getting up in the morning, > by continued motion. I I After becoming thoroughly chilled a year and a half ago during a long railroad journey, legs had gradually become stiff and weak; numbness of feet with tingling; every now and then attacks of painful stiffness in back,