A treatise on headaches : including acute, chronic, nervous, gastric, dyspeptic, or sick-headaches : also congestive, rheumatic, and periodical headaches : based on Th. J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy, with introduction, appendix, synopsis, notes, directions for doses, and fifty additional cases / by John C. Peters.

  • Peters, John C. (John Charles), 1819-1893.
Date:
1853
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Credit: A treatise on headaches : including acute, chronic, nervous, gastric, dyspeptic, or sick-headaches : also congestive, rheumatic, and periodical headaches : based on Th. J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy, with introduction, appendix, synopsis, notes, directions for doses, and fifty additional cases / by John C. Peters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treatment.—Nux vom. 9 lessened the attacks, and two doses of Bryonia then cured her entirely.—Archly., vol. 6, part 3, p. 100.—Dr. Schuler. CASE 23.—Mrs. P., aged 34, suffered frequently and periodically with one-sided headaches. After taking cold she was attacked, June 2d, with violent headache in the left tem- ple, the pain being pressing and outward-pressing. Treatment.—Nux 6, two doses, was given without benefit; then Merc. 3, two doses ; in the afternoon a violent aggrava- tion set in, the pain shifted from the left to the right side, became piercing and drawing, and so severe that the patient cried out from the slightest touch or motion of the head. At 2 o'clock Bryon. 200 was given, and at eight o'clock the patient was almost beside herself with suffering; then Bryon. 6, four drops in solution, was given every two hours; at 12 o'clock she was relieved, and the next day was perfectly well. —Genl. Horn. Jour., vol. 33, p. 101.—Dr. Kallenbach. CASE 24.—A tailor, aged 44, slenderly built, with the signs of abdominal disease, had suffered from his youth, after a severe fall, with periodical attacks of pain on the right side of his head. The paroxysms were generally excited by changes in the weather, and often were so violent that he fainted away. Symptoms.—Violent, piercing headache fixed in a small spot on the vertex, with the feeling as if the coronal suture were forced apart and a cool air passed through the brain; vertigo ; illusions of visions ; lachrymation ; sensitiveness to light; loss of appetite; white coated tongue ; feeling of heavi- ness in abdomen ; constipation ; turbid urine; drawing pains in the joints, without swelling or redness ; emaciation ; pale- ness ; dejection; loss of hope ; his pulse was generally slow and soft, but became frequent and hard during the attacks. Treatment.—He had taken every conceivable remedy, in the old way, for six weeks, he then received four grains of Bad. Bryon., divided into six powders with sugar, one dose to be taken morning and evening; after the second dose the pain became so violent that he became unconscious, but the next