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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![3. ARNICA MONTANA. CASE 4.—A man, aged thirty-five, after receiving blows upon the head, was attacked with the following sufferings, which daily increased in severity. Symptoms.—Pressing pain in the forehead; painful but dull aching upon the edge of the right orbit; heat in the head, with coolness of the rest of the body; pain in the head, in- creased after eating; heat in the face, noises in the ears, con- tracted pupils, nausea every morning; disgust for tobacco smoking; tenesmus, with constipation ; anxious dreams ; evi- dent fever every evening; irritable and complaining dispo- sition. Treatment.—After taking Arnica 6, all the above disorders disappeared in the course of two days.—Archiv., vol. 5, part 1, p. 68.—Dr. Baudis. [Note.—According to A. T. Thomson the flowers of Arnica contain Igasaures Stryclmion, and some of the full effects of Arnica are similar to those of Nux vomica; thus it not unfre- quently causes a sensation of formication, and a prickling, piercing, spasmodic feeling, which may be compared with that produced by slight electric shocks. It is homoeopathic to disorder of the chest marked by anxiety, oppression, palpitation, dry irritating cough, with symptomatic headache and vertigo. Also in the headaches, flushings and perspirations which attend the change of life in women. It deserves attention in the headaches, which precede or follow attacks of apoplexy. Schneider did wonders with it in such cases.—Peters.] Dose.—Comparatively larger doses of Arnica may be given than of most other remedies, except Camphor; to adults one or two drops of tincture of Arnica may be given in a teaspoonful of water, or on a bit of sugar, every one, two, four, or more hours, in acute cases; or two or three times a day in chronic cases. For children, or very sensitive and delicate adults, from three to six globules may be put in a wineglassful of water and given, a teaspoonful as above directed.—Peters.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21147140_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
