Pathogenetic outlines of hompathic drugs / by Dr. Med. Carl Heinigke ... Tr. from the German by Emil Tietze.

  • Heinigke, Carl, -1889.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Pathogenetic outlines of hompathic drugs / by Dr. Med. Carl Heinigke ... Tr. from the German by Emil Tietze. 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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    Organ of Smell.—Delusions of smell. Spinal Nerves.—Painful affections of the sensitive nerves in the upper and lower extremities; tearing, drawing and stitches in the shoulder, arms hands, and fingers with a feeling of lameness, tearing in the ischiatic nerve, knee-joint, soles of the feet with sensation of heaviness and weariness. ORGANS OF CIRCULATION. Action of the heart not increased, pulse small, sensation of alternating chill and heat with cold hands; chill with tremor, flushes of heat. ORGANS OF RESPIRATION. Coryza with sneezing, slight catarrhal affections of the tra- cheal mucosa; decreased sonorousness of the voice on account of decreased tension of the vocal cords. ORGANS OF DIGESTION. Mucosa of the oral cavity dry, covered with, viscid, sticky saliva; metallic taste and aversion to drinks of any kind, with absence of thirst. Increased appetite and hunger. Unpleasant sensation in the stomach, eructations, hiccough, painful sensa- tion of pressure in the region of the liver, pinching and rum- bling in the abdomen. Soft, diarrhceic stool, sometimes with difficult evacuation. Hard, retarded stool. URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS. Increased desire to urinate, increased secretion of urine; after the discharge, unpleasant sensation in the posterior por- tion of the urethra. Genitals, Male.—Relaxation of the parts wdth great de- pression of the nisus sexualis; uncommon excitement of the sexual desire with long continuing erections, tendency to dis- charge of the secretion of Cowpers glands and prostata. Dis- charge of a yellowish fluid from the urethra. Drawing and pressing in the spermatic cord and testicles. Genitals, Female.—Suppression of the menstrual flow with painful drawing in the lower part of the abdomen. Decreased lacteal secretion in nursing women. EMPLOYMENT AMONG THE SICK. Agnus comes under consideration: in melancholia and hy- pochondria of men with weakness of virile power, or, in sexual desire abnormally excited. In suppressed gonorrhoea, or slight