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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![AGARICUS AND ARNICA. head over the eyes, drawing pain in the forehead extending to the root of the nose, rending pain in the forehead above the root of the nose as if the brain were lacerated, with burning pain in the nose and eyes, great dryness of nose, profuse bleeding of the nose, and abundant discharge of thick, viscid nasal mucus, followed by frequent dropping of water from nose.—Peters.] [CASE 3.—D. (J., aged twenty-five, had been subject to headache every six weeks for seven years. The attacks com- menced with acute pain over the eyes and sense of fulness, gradually extending through the head, but most severe in the forehead, soon becoming oppressive and violent, when the eyelids drooped, pub- ice flushed, tongue became dry and brown, the skin thy and hot. The attacks lasted from two to four days, and after the first or second day copious vomiting, principally of a bitter, bilious fluid, took place ; urine was scanty and high colored. Alter a day or two the pain extended from the head down the spine, the neck often became stiff, he felt bruised all over, and his joints painful; the whole being followed by great exhaustion, wakeful nights, and tendency to delirium. Treatment.—Lach. 6 and Ars. 0 effected some improve- ment during the whole of six months; then a severe attack was promptly relieved by Agaricus 6, and a continued use of Agar. 3 kept the paroxysms off entirely for five months. Finally Agar., aided by Sulph. and Stramon., cured him effect- ually at last accounts, three years after. Dr. Ker says the symptoms which led him to select Agari- cus were the violent oppressive pains, principally in the fore- head, often attended with delirium, ie of languor, feel- ing as if the body were bruised and the joints dislocated, and the sense of uneasiness and weakness all down the spine. These he thought so characteristic of Agaricus, that he select- ed and gave it with the most happy results.—Dr. Ker, Brit. Jour. Horn., vol. 5, p. 436.—Peters.] Dose*—Same as directed for Aconite.—P.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21147140_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
