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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![using from one to four grains of the extract moistened with a little water and rubbed upon the temples and lids. Piorry avers that he hardly ever fails to check the paroxysms if the Bellad. be applied at the moment of their commencement, or soon after. One drop of a solution of Atropine may also be applied, according to Piorry, to the eye itself, or a small quantity rubbed on the lids, brow and temples. I have wit- nessed several cases in which patients had found this mode of treatment of almost certain efficacy, the attacks subsiding in a few hours.—Peters.] 9. BRYONIA. G-enekal Remarks.—{a). The head-symptoms caused by Bryon., when viewed in connection with the physiological phenomena which it excites in other organs and systems of the human body, point to alterations and disturbances in the nerves of sensation, and in the operations of several cerebral nerves, viz.: of the frontal and temporal branches of the tri- facial ; in fact it causes an actual hemicrania. In this respect its action is nearly allied to that of Colocynth and Nux vom.; Colocynth, however, does not affect the motor nerves of the face, while Bryon. often attacks the temporal and maxillary twigs of the superior facial branch.—Austrian Horn. Jour., vol. 3, p. 118. {b). Bryon., according to Knorre, relieves headaches affecting the forehead, brows and temples, the pain being aching and pressing out as if the head would burst; attended with pene- trating stitches so violent as to force one to cry out; arising from congestion of blood to the head, and increased by stoop- ing, moving the head, coughing or sneezing.—Genl. Horn. Jour., vol. 5, p. 68. (<?). According to Black it is indicated when the pain is on one side of the forehead and extends to the neck, arms and face, and is more throbbing in its character the more severe it becomes. It may be given with advantage in alternation with Alumina.—Genl. Horn. Jour., vol. 36, p. 224. (d). Griesselich thought it was most useful in burning and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21147140_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
