An illustrated reportory of pains in chest, sides and back : their direction and character, confirmed by clinical cases.

  • Gregg, Rollin R.
Date:
1879
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Credit: An illustrated reportory of pains in chest, sides and back : their direction and character, confirmed by clinical cases. 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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    named, so we carry the arrows to both shoulders in order to ensure future observation, and correct the error if it is one. KALI NITRICUM. Stitches in the middle of the chest, extending to both sides and toward the axilla, when walking (during menses); represented by two arrows upon each side, starting from the same point, and terminating, one in the axilla, the other at the lower part of the chest. Since placing the arrows and writing the above, we have confirmed this symptom in a man, aged thirty-five years, an old and bad syphilitic subject, in whom the disease was sup- pressed, years ago, by Allopathic treatment. Dec. 13, 1869, he called upon us and said he had been suffering some weeks from severe acute pains in the chest, like the cutting of a knife. Upon inquiry for the exact locality of the pain, he placed the palm of his hand upon the centre of the sternum, and spreading the fingers said, It shoots like that from the centre to the arm-pits and sides of the chest below, being about alike,'' he said, upon both sides. With this he had considerable cough and expectoration, and said he was feel- ing badly throughout his whole system. For these symp- toms we prescribed Kali nitricum 3000, and he reported, the eighth day following, that by the fourth day after taking the medicine the pain was entirely relieved, and he was feeling much better in every way. Here, then, in this pain, is one of the great characteristics for this drug, independently of concomitants, for it will be borne in mind that this result was obtained upon the male organism, and, of course, was uninfluenced in any way by the menstrual function named in the epioted symptom above. And the symptom should he remembered as corresponding to several arrows upon each side, all starting from behind the centre of the sternum and radiating from thence, the upper one to the axilla, and the others from this along down to the lower ribs upon each side. This completes all the remedies represented in plate 1, and we now pass to plate 2.