The elements of a new materia medica and therapeutics : Based upon an entirely new collection of drug-provings and clinical experience / By E.E. Marcy, J.C. Peters & Otto Füllgraff.

  • Marcy, E. E. (Erastus Edgerton), 1815-1900.
Date:
[1850?]
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Credit: The elements of a new materia medica and therapeutics : Based upon an entirely new collection of drug-provings and clinical experience / By E.E. Marcy, J.C. Peters & Otto Füllgraff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lumn, as if these were pressed together by an elastic body, so that he bent himself involuntarily, and stretched forwards. This sensation without being painful, is productive of extraordinary anxiety (occur- ring two days in succession whilst sitting.) Itching on the scalp. (30.) Eyes.—Itching in the angles of the eyes. (30.) Nose.—Sensation of irritation in the left nostril, such as precedes sneezing, yet without being obliged to sneeze. Slight transitory hoarseness and repeated sneezing, in the morning, with a pleasant excitement and freedom of the head, which, together with its more rapid disappearance, sufficed to distinguish it from the ordinary symptoms of taking cold. (30.) Ears.—Itching in the left ear. Shooting pain in the right ear, intermitting. (30.) Teeth.—Slight cutting pain in the teeth. Darting pain in carious molars in both jaws. (30.) Clinical Remarks.—-Cotton, well moistened with Tinct.-Benzoin is a capital application to aching and carious teeth. (11.) Mouth.—Soreness of the back part of the tongue, felt most while swallowing. Sensation of soreness and rawness at the root of the tongue, and on the palate. Extensive ulcerations of the tongue with deeply chapped, or fungoid surfaces. An ulcerated tumor in the left side of the mouth upon the soft commissure of the jaws behind the last molar-teeth. (30.) Clinical Remarks.—Benzoin must prove as useful in ulcerations of the mouth, as it does in many more external ulcerations. (11.) j Throat.—Heat in the oesophagus, as from acid eructation. (30.) Clinical Remarks.—In two cases, in females, both for a long time subject to violent Angina, in neither of whom the allopathic treatment had ever succeeded in preventing suppuration, though early and ener- getically applied, and where, in the case of the daughter, homoeopathic treatment with Belladonna and other apparently indicated remedies had twice failed to prevent suppuration, although it diminished the suffering much more than any previous treatment, Benzoic-acid in alternation with Belladonna and Digitalis would speedily subdue the attacks, and finally seemed to effect such an alteration of the system that the tendency to this form of disease appeared to be almost ex- tinguished. (30.) Stomach.—Singultus. Sensation of heat throughout the abdomen. Pain in the left side of the abdomen immediately below the short ribs. (30.) Clinical Remarks.-—In Pyrosis, the late Dr. Baillie was in the habit of employing the compound tincture ; and generally found it effi- cacious ; Dr. Symonds also bears testimony to the value of this treatment. (44.) Bowels.—Bowels freely open with extraordinary pressure to stool;