The guiding symptoms of our materia medica / by C. Hering, M.D.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880.
Date:
1879-1891
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Credit: The guiding symptoms of our materia medica / by C. Hering, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ilDisposed to take cold from uncovering head. I Burning itching on scalp, from forehead to occiput. ■ Nightly pain in skull bones. ■ Nodosities on head, sore to touch, > by covering head warmly and from sweat. ■ Painful tumors on head; sebaceous tumors inflamed and ready to discharge. ■ Boils on head and neck, very sore on contact. ■ Falling off of hair, with very sore, painful pimples, and large bald spots on scalp. ■ Loss of hair following mercurialization or chronic head- ache. ■ Cold, clammy perspiration, smelling sour, principally on head and face, with aversion to being uncovered; < from least exercise and during night; > from warmth and when at rest. ■ Fissured eruption behind and on both ears, exuding a thick, gluey secretion, which mats hair; resents with force an attempt to place finger on head; utter abhor- rence to be bathed, during which she would scream and fight. ■ i Humid eruptions: feel sore; of fetid odor; itching vio- lently on rising in morning; burning and feeling sore on scratching; scabs easily torn oli; leaving a raw, bleeding surface. ■ Favus, extending to nape of neck or face. Sight and Eyes. ■Photophobia. ■ Objects appear to be red. ■ Feeling of blindness before eyes on rising and standing up after sitting bent over. ■ Sight becomes dim when reading. ■ Eyes become dim, cannot see well in evening by candle light. ■ Anaesthesia of retina, the result of looking at an eclipse; sees a light spot in centre of field of vision, surrounded by a dark ring, and again by a lighter ring, all of which were constantly turning and changing into various colors, especially green; < coming into room from bright sunlight; feeling as if eyes were being pulled back into head, with photophobia; vision y^o; field of vision very much contracted. ■ Flickering before eyes; pupils dilated and insensible to light; after abuse of mercury. I I Inflammation of ciliary body. ■ Purulent capsulitis after extraction of cataract. ■ Prolapsus iridis. ■ Iritis with hypopyon or associated with small abscesses in iris (suppurative iritis).