Homoeopathic therapeutics / by S. Lilienthal.

  • Lilienthal, Samuel, 1815-1891.
Date:
1878
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    pain above the eye on looking down ; the eyes appear irritable, and after using they smart, itch, and burn ; patients wish to keep the eyes firmly closed, and something pressed liard against them. Phosphorus. Eyes ache on moving, and feel hot and painful after using; bright light aggravates the trouble, so that patient is better in the twilight. Rhododendron. Insufficiency of the internal recti-muscles, with darting pains through the eyes and head; always worse before a storm. Ruta. Aching in and over the eyes, with blurring of the vision, after using and straining the eyes at fine work ; the eyes feel hot like balls of fire ; appear irritable and run water, especially towards even- ing, after working all day. Spigelia. Sharp stabbing pain in the eye and around it, extend- ing back into the head.—The local application of calabar bean in solutionis highly recommended in muscular asthenopia by prominent oculists of tlie old school; its constant use must be continued for weeks to effect a cure. ASTHMA MILLARI ET WIGANDI. Laryngismus strid- ulus. The specific remedy for asthma millari is in most cases sam- bucus and chlorine. In other cases we give : 1, aeon., ars., ipec, lach., mosch.; 2, chin., ign.; 3, ol. anim. dippel., hydrocyanic acid, op., ign., verat., plumb. For the concealed asthma millari, the so-called asthma Wigandi; we have principally: 1, aeon., bell., ipec, samb.; 2, ars., baryt., cham., chin., coff., cupr., lach., n. vom., op.; 3, chlorine, gels., iod., plumb. Aconite. Suffocating cough comes on suddenl^^ at night, with hoarse voice and shrill outcry ; respiration short and anxious. Arsenicum. Chronic cases. The attack is preceded for several days by catarrhal symptoms. The little patient goes to sleep quietlj^, and the spasm develops itself gradually ; respiration short and hiss- ing, when the spasm sets in witli sudden suffocation ; great anguish; cold perspiration ; prostration of strength with aggravation between midniglit and daylight. Cuprum. Convulsions, with blue face and blue lips; short pant- ing, vvliistiing breathing; the attacks come on suddenly and cease suddenly, after fright of mother or child; cold perspiration at night; cough relieved by a swallow of cold water. Gelsemium. Inspiration long, with croupy sound; expiration sudden and forcible. lodium. Rachitic children, swelling of bronchial glands; tight- ness and constriction about the larynx, soreness, hoarse voice, etc.; enlarged glands may even cause paralysis of the laryngeal, tracheal, and bronchial nerves. Moschus. Constriction in the larynx, as if caused by the vapors of sulphur; difficult resi)iration ; severe spasms in the chest, with inclination to cough, after which the paroxysm becomes greatly aggravated. Sambucus. Suppressed perspiration ; the attack comes suddenly ; patient awakes from a kind of lethargy, with eyes and mouth open ; raises himself in bed with great anxiety and dyspnrjea; respiration oppressed, with wheezing in chest; head and hands puffed and bloated,