Practical observations on some of the chief homoeopathic remedies / by Franz Hartmann ; translated from the German, with notes, by A. Howard Okie.

  • Franz Hartmann
Date:
1841
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Credit: Practical observations on some of the chief homoeopathic remedies / by Franz Hartmann ; translated from the German, with notes, by A. Howard Okie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The dose must be repeated if the improvement is not permanent. I must here mention a peculiar complaint in which I found bryonia 12 beneficial. It is a sensation when stepping, as if the knee was too short, and would not reach the ground, and yet externally there is not the slightest perceptible change; neither is there pain when feeling or moving the part. It is likewise beneficial in pale, tense, hot swellings, unaccompanied by fever or other symptoms, or at most with slight stinging pains. Rheumattsmus uteri. I have frequently ob- served this form of disease during gestation, towards its latter period particularly, and have often found bryonia 18 beneficial, when it depended upon wet feet, producing congestion of blood to the uterus, and exciting that state which is well known by the name of false labour pains (falsche vvehen). This last ex- pression is not properly adapted to this complaint, for although the pain is more violent periodically, the painfulness of the whole abdomen is never entirely lost, on the contrary, it is aggravated by every mo- tion, and by the touch. The pain in the small of the back united therewith, is often insupportable, parti- cularly on turning in the slightest degree. The lon- ger this state continues, the colder the extremities become, and the head more manifestly sympathises. Constipation is a never-failing symptom. There is no remedy better adapted to inflammation of the ovaries than bryonia 12, which appears to rank as a specific in this affection; this idea I can
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