The elements of a new materia medica and therapeutics : based upon an entirely new collection of drug-provings and clinical experience / by E.E. Marcy, J.C. Peters & Otto Füllgraff.
- E. E. Marcy
- Date:
- [1859-1861]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The elements of a new materia medica and therapeutics : based upon an entirely new collection of drug-provings and clinical experience / by E.E. Marcy, J.C. Peters & Otto Füllgraff. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Several small light carmine red, elevated, round blood vesicles, resembling little flesh warts; they are very soft and compressible, and by a strong and steady pressure the blood disappears, but im- mediately returns again. They are very perceptible as light red en- largements of the capillaries raising up the cuticle. (Hering.) [30.] Clinical.—Numerous varicose veins of twenty years' standing on the left leg of an old man, were diminished one-half, after repeated doses of Fluor.-acid. (12th, Neidhard.) Heat.—Increased heat of the body. (Hering.) General feeling of heat, heaviness and lameness of the whole body. (Neidhard.) [30.] Clinical Remarks.—The moderate use of this remedy is supposed to render one more capable of bearing the summer heat, and to prevent liability to sun stroke. Perspiration.—Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration in the afternoon. (Williamson.) For several evenings an unusual profuse and glutinous perspiration, with itching. (Hering.) (30.) Sleep.—Sleeplessness. (Campos.) Day and night without his usual sleep; he feels as if he had already slept. Drowsiness in the forenoon. (Hering, Campos, Pehrson.) Sudden sleepiness in the evening. Profound sleep until late in the morning. (Hering.) Vivid dreams. (Hering, Husman, Pehrson.) (30.) Clinical Remarks.—It promises to prove useful against sleepless- ness from fulness of the head, or from the activity of the brain, with frequent awaking and vivid dreams. General Symptoms.—Jerking pains in different parts of the body (Hering, Neidhard, Campos.) Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue. (Campos ) regardless of the most excessive heat of summer, or cold in winter. Hands, fingers, toes, feet, jaws, lips, eyebrows and eyelids, muscles of the face, &c. are all in motion, as in Chorea. ACIDUM GALLICUM. GALLIC ACID. Authorities.—Waring's Therapeutics. (44.) Wood and Bache. (7.) The astringency of Nut-galls depends upon the presence of Tannic- and Gallic-acids ; of the former they contain 26, of the latter 6 per- cent. Gallic-acid in its properties is very similar to those of Tannin but it is much weaker; still in all cases of haemorrhage in which the bleeding vessels must be reached through the route of the circulation it is believed to be more efficient even than Tannic-acid, as its chemical affinities do not offer the same impediments to its absorption as those of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21139039_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
