A complete treatise on headaches and diseases of the head : based on T.J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy : with introductions, appendices, synopses, notes, directions for doses and many additional cases / by John C. Peters.
- John Charles Peters
- Date:
- 1859
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A complete treatise on headaches and diseases of the head : based on T.J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy : with introductions, appendices, synopses, notes, directions for doses and many additional cases / by John C. Peters. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ACONITE. 6 photophobia, heat of skin, quickness of pulse andg^aeral rest- lessness ; to nausea, severe and constant vomiting, with pain and tenderness of pit of stomach, numbness and prickling of the skin, dizziness, dimness of vision, noises in the cars, sensa- tions of weight and enlargement of various parts of the body, but especially of the face and ears, sinking feeling at pit of stomach, &c. It is also homoeopathic to g neral venous engorgement of the brain and cerebral membranes, and considerable sub-arach- noid effusion. It has been assumed that the more nearly the headache ap- proaches a neuralgic character, or rheumatic neuralgic, the more readily Aconite will relieve. Still Fleming used it in- ternally in fifteen cases of headache, with complete success in ten; of the successful cases three were nervous headaches, four were congestive or plethoric, and three were rheumatic. Of the unsuccessful cases three were nervous, and two dys- j)eptic. Relief was usually exj>erienced after the first dose, and a complete cure effected on the first or second day, or at least there was no relapse for several weeks or months. Drs. Burgess and Radly announced to Fleming that they had seen Aconite of incalculable service in relieving the agonizing pain of nervous headache. Professors Henderson and Miller, of Edinburgh, informed Fleming that they had employed it with marked benefit in headache. Storck and Yogel recommend it in rheumatic headache, while Copland found it useful in both nervous and rheumatic cases. In two cases in which the internal use of Aconite did not afford relief, the external was employed with much benefit; in fact, Fleming, as a general rule, found the external appli- cation of the tincture very effectual in the treatment of hemi- crania, both when the pain affected a circumscribed portion of the head, and when it extended along the course of a nerve. Dr. Patterson, of the Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh, corrobo- rates this assertion.—Peters.] CASE 2.—[E. W., aged 43, had suffered for three weeks with a more or less constant pain extending over the temporal](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21147140_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
