Constitutional medicine with especial reference to the three con-stitutions of Dr. Von Grauvogl / by John H. Clarke.
- John Henry Clarke
- Date:
- [between 1930 and 1940]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Constitutional medicine with especial reference to the three con-stitutions of Dr. Von Grauvogl / by John H. Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF THE CARBO- NITROGENOID CONSTITUTION Case I. Dyspnoea, Palpitations, Asthma, etc. Arg. n. [Symptoms in italics are found in the provings of Argent, nit.'] J-. L-a police officer, 54, com¬ plained that for a year past he could no longer satisfy his desire for hunting because, when ascending a hill or on moderately rapid motion he loses his breath. He stated that he suffered from piles and had always taken many powders and pills which relieved him, at most, for a day or two, and that now his digestion is so much impaired by having taken them for years, that for many months he has suffered from loss of appetite. Previously corpulent, he was now emaciated and has to complain of a constant anxious feeling in the region of the heart, periodical pains in the abdomen, burning hsemorrhoidal tumours and urgency to urinate. He was most alarmed by the frequent vertigo and the iveakness of the. whole of the left side of his body. He has a prematurely old look, ashy pale colour of the skin, the tongue was coated white, the taste un¬ pleasant, the region of the liver sensitive to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29811296_0142.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
