A treatise on apoplexy : with an appendix on softening of the brain, and paralysis. Based on Th. J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy.

  • Peters, John C. (John Charles), 1819-1893.
Date:
1853
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Credit: A treatise on apoplexy : with an appendix on softening of the brain, and paralysis. Based on Th. J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    scription of the despondency, pusillanimity, weakness of mind and irresolutenesa to which Baryta carb., is so homoeopathic. It should not be forgotten when the patient is troubled with forgetfulness, dulness, gloominess and heaviness of the head, with drowsiness; and with vertigo, headache and nausea. The specific action of Baryta upon the cerebellum, as con- jectured by Xeumanx, is fully borne out by a reference to the Materia Medica Pura. It is homoeopathic to pressure in the brain below the vertex, extending towards the back of the head, most severe on waking from sleep, and attended with stiffness of the nape of the neck, probably from pressure on the twelfth pair of nerves ; also to dull aching pain in the right side of the back of the head, extending from the bones of the neck obliquely to the side of the head, and recurring regularly at 4 o'clock, p.m., for several days in succession; sense of weight in the whole back of the head, close to the nape of the neck, with tension; sudden and intensely-painful drawing pain, extending from the back of the head across the right ear, as far as the lower jaw ; tearing pain in the left side of the occiput; rheumatic pains in the back bone of the head, with swelling of the glands of the nape, so as to compress the blood-vessels ; tearing pains, shooting deep into the brain behind the right ear. Dull stitches in the left side of the head from the occi- put to the forehead. Pain with feeling of fulness and disten- sion, commencing in the left side of the head, traversing the whole left side of the occiput, and terminating in the bones of the neck. Throbbing in the occiput, the impulse of which is felt as far as the forehead. Considerable rush of blood to the head, so that the blood seems to stagnate in it, and circulate slowly; whizzing in the head as if from boiling water ; heaviness and heat in the head. Slowness of the pulse is very common in Apoplexy, and Blake found Baryta homoeopathic to depressed arterial action ; two grains, injected into the veins, completely arrest- ed the heart's contractions in twelve seconds. In one case it was found homoeopathic to dimness of vision, followed by double vision, ringing in the ears, pain in the