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.

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    I Curvature of bones; drawing, lacerating pains in bones of forearm ; pain in thigh bones as if bruised ; tibia painful when touched ; drawing in bones of legs. ■ Scraping or tingling in periosteum; jerking, boring in bones. ■ Anasarca. II Affections of mucous surfaces; discharges usually bland, yellowish-green, thick. 11 Glands swollen, painful, hot. • Abscesses: bleeding readily, stinging and cutting pains; bluish-red swelling [varices] in surrounding parts, with itching, stinging, burning pains ; after violent and long- continued inflammation; pus blood}^ or copious, green- ish or yellow. ■ Suppurations: pus very profuse; green, yellow, bloody or yellowish-green, unirritating. 11 Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration or festering. • Tension in inner parts or in joints. I Burning, stinging pains. iPains and other symptoms are often accompanied by chilliness, thirstlessness and oppression of chest. ■ Pulsation through whole body. ■ Frequent anxious trembling of limbs. ■ ■Hysterical complaints. *^ Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries. Touch: stitching headache <; soreness of eyeball; abdominal walls tender; region of bladder painful; r. testicle tender; abdomen sore; phlegmasia dolens intensely painful; last cervical vertebrae sore; swollen leg tender; ulcers on leg tender; sores on legs very sensitive; beating of arteries felt; on region supplied with pes anserinum, severe pain like tic douloureux; painful on tibia. Quick hard rubbing with dry hand: > pains. Wishes to throw off her clothes. Part lain on: tearing in temple. Clothes tight: cannot bear them on abdomen. Pressure: throbbing headache >; oppressive sensation in epigastrium; region of stomach very sensitive; > pain in region of bladder; hypogastric region sensitive ; pain over seat of placenta; fifth and sixth dorsal verte- brse painful; against 1. chest, soreness of chest; of hand > pain in cardiac region; of arm pain < ; upon leg felt in bone; left leg and foot tender; least upon heel intensely painful; hard > throbbing of arteries; on opposite limb ulcers <. Scratching: < itching of skin; ulcers <. Rubbing: > veiled feeling in eyes; pain in canthi; > itching of lids; ulcers <.