Condensed materia medica / by C. Hering. Comp. with the assistance of Drs. A. Korndoerfer and E. A. Farrington.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Condensed materia medica / by C. Hering. Comp. with the assistance of Drs. A. Korndoerfer and E. A. Farrington. 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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    38 Times. Diarrhoea more in the morning. Day and night: 24. Night: 22, 40. 40 Chill. Fever. Sweat. Skin cold. Flushes of heat more in outer parts, increasing the sweat. Febrile heat, with a dry skin; in bilious, putrid and typhoid fevers. Profuse sweating; night-sweats. Typhus, with delirium. Hectic fevers, with cough, dyspnoea, night-sweats, diarrhoea, oedema and emaciation. 42 Sides. Left: 8,9. 43 Sensations. Burning on inner and outer parts. Diminished sensibility on the whole surface of body. 44 Tissues. Hemorrhages from nose, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus. Wasting away, great emaciation. General anasarca and dropsical affections. 45 Contact, Injuries, etc. After bruising and spraining, if dry heat follows. Burns and scalds. Sting of wasps. After the bite of a mad cat, lacerated wound, swollen upper and lewer leg (externally and internally). Touch: 11. Pressure: 9. 46 Skin. Diseased cuticle separates in flakes. Skin pale and waxen. Broad, flat condylomata, dry or moist. Naevi, warts, corns. 48 Other Drugs. Antidotes to Acet. ac.: Large doses are best counteracted by Magnesia or Calcarea, according to the constitution of the sick; fluid magnesia or lime-water, a teaspoonful in a cup of water taken in sips. Higher pre- parations: for the depressing, agonizing feeling: Tabac.; if insufficient: Aeon.; for the gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms: Natr. mur. high; may be followed by Sepia. Acet. ae. is an antidote to all anaesthetic vapors; further, to Aeon., Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Hepar, Ignat., Opium, Stramon., Tabac. and Alcohol. The sick have an aversion to it in poisonings with Agar. emet. Unpleasant symptoms of Bellad. are aggravated by it. It aggravates also the symptoms of Mercur., Laches. It follows well after Oinchon. in hemorrhages. Disagrees when given after Borax, Caustic, Nux vom., Ran. bulb., Sarsap.