Volume 1

Jahr's New manual of homoeopathic practice / [Translated by C.J. Hempel] Edited with annotations, by A. Gerald Hull.

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1850-1851
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Credit: Jahr's New manual of homoeopathic practice / [Translated by C.J. Hempel] Edited with annotations, by A. Gerald Hull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Loud, unintelligible talking when asleep. ’^Involuntary expul- sion of faces while asleep. Ilis sleep is full of dreams and does not refresh him, he feels as if he had not slept at all. Sleepiness during the day. Sopor, starting as in affright, when falling asleep.—Dreams about frightful objects, of the lightning having struck, graves, &:e. Sleeplessness, with an- guish, as if occasioned by heat, until 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning. Fever.—Great internal heat, hands and feet being cold, with chills over the whole body. Dry heat in bed, with vio- lent thirst. Violent shivering when gaping. Dry heat over the whole body, after waking, early in the morning. Occasion- al flushes of heat in the back. Nightly thirst. Thirst without any external heat, the pupils being scarcely capable of dilata- tion. Feeling of cold all over the body, although the skin feels warm. Chilliness mostly in the evening. Fevers: °ter- tian, quartan ; °in the afternoon, *or evening.—“Typhus.— Fever early in the morning ; *first chilliness, then heat.— Extremely disagreeable painfxdness of the periosteum of all the bones, resembling almost a drawing in all the limbs, stfch as oc- curs in an attack of fever and ague, “accompanied and suc- ceeded by headache, yellowness of the face, want of appetite, aversion to meat, and bitterness of mouth. Shivering over the whole body and the head, with heat in the head and red- ness and heat in the face, accompanied by coldness of the hands and a feeling as if the hips, the back and the anterior surface of the arms were bruised. *A good deal of thirst and drinking during the yawning stage previous to fever;—after- wards thirst, but little drinking during the hot stage. Shak- ing chills without any tliirst. External and internal chilli- ness an hour after the headache, and constant anguish.— Seething of the blood in the evening, accompanied by dizzi- ness of the head ; he feels pulsations in the whole body, (and coughs for hours until he vomits; this wakes him at night.) Moral Symptoms.—Violent attacks of anguish. Irritable, sensitive mood. Depression of spirits and absence of mind. * Hypochondriac anxiety, peevishness. Uneasiness of body and mind (without anxiety.) Indifference to everything. Excessive sensitiveness of the mind. Quarrelsomeness and pee- vishness. *Obstinate and headstrong resistance to other people’s opinions. Sullen insolence and imperiousness. Weeping. Apprehension of future evils. Hopelessness, Tendency to start.—“Frivolous, wanton, ill-behaved; absurd talk. Sensorium.—Vertigo; *in the forehead, especially when walking, everything turning with her, and threatening to fall 5’^