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.

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    llScarlatina maligna, advanced stages, typhoid states, threatening gangrene; destructive decomposition of both fluids and solids. I Boy, set. 9, had scarlet fever under allopathic treatment, survived swelling on 1. side of neck followed, which sup- purated, abscess opened with lancet, afterwards boy declined in flesh, strength and appetite; much ex- hausted; face pale, dirty, dingy; puffy, no appetite; rest- less, hot, dry skin; peevish and whining; abscess dis- charging foul and copious pus; very sensitive to all motions of head; a large cavity, no appearance of healthy granulations; pulse 140 and small; motions of jaw in masticating solid food could not be borne. BAlternate deUrium and stupor; irrational, slow mutter- ing dehrium; pulse soft, wavy, quick; calor mordax; respiration attended by moaning; rapid, whistling; oc- casional single cough; grasping at throat, as if to tear away clothing from it; pupils widely dilated; urine scanty, constipation; countenance cadaverous; breath putrescent. ^Repercussion of measles. I Girl, set. 9, had, during previous winter, scarlatina very severely; it left her delicate and deaf; was ex- posed to measles; six days after, rash appeared with a copious discharge from ears; two days later, discharge suddenly ceased and rash disappeared; immediately be- came feeble and prostrate; wild, muttering delirium; great thirst, drinking little at a time; singularly biting heat of skin next day; pulse soft, wavy; hardly to be counted; calor mordax; moaning respiration, rapid, whistling; occasionally a single cough with a moan after each cough, and a grasping at throat, as if to tear away clothing from it; pupils widely dilated; no stool for two days; urine scanty and seldom passed; countenance ca- daverous; breath putrescent. I Livid eruption; countenance almost black; tongue coated dark brown, sordes on teeth, inability to protrude tongue. ^Measles. II Black measles. I Itching on whole body, hands and feet; after burning pains there appeared vesicles, with much itching, throb- bing, heat, there formed a diffuse, red swelling, some vesicles as large as a nut, at first filled with water, but afterwards containing pus; a good deal of inflammation about parts; some pustules dark blue, with burning, throbbing pain in swelling, as if flesh was being torn from bones; pains attack head, teeth, breast, back; severe, burning pain in head, causing sense of sickness and nausea; throbbing in head at every movement; stu- VOL. VI.—41.