The Diseases of Childhood with Therapeutic Indications

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A.L. Chatterton, 1882 - Children - 216 pages
 

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Page 173 - AND SPASMODIC COUGH, worse in the evening and during the night, with oppression of the chest, and a feeling as if a hard mass were collecting in the lungs; feeling of fulness and heavy pressure at the root of the nose, with tingling; conjuctivitis, with profuse but mild discharge; sleeplessnes.
Page 140 - Beginning with slight symptoms after several days' incubation, the process gradually increases, at first in intensity, then in extent, and reaches its acme in both respects at the end of the second or beginning of the third week.
Page 75 - Sepia, with pain confined to the liver; yellow saddle across the bridge of the nose ; brown, yellowish color of the eyelids. Silic., hardness and swelling of the region of the liver ; throbbing, ulcerative pain in the right hypochondrium, increased by contact and walking. Sulphur, in psoric persons, with or without hardness and swelling of the liver ; vomiting of ingesta or blood ; pain in the pit of the stomach and right hypochondrium ; abdomen bloated ; stool constipated; sleeplessness; nightly...
Page 14 - ... the condition which Mercurius causes. In some varieties of chronic angina, we find the mucous membrane of the fauces studded with round, protuberant spots, of a red color, as if injected with blood, and the patient complains of an aggravation from the least exposure to cold.
Page 44 - Want of confidence in the sphincter ani; the rectum seems full of fluid which feels heavy, as if it would fall out.
Page 60 - ... thirst for very cold drinks ; vomiting of what has been drunk as soon as it becomes warm in the stomach ; painless diarrhoea, discharges watery, greenish or black, decomposed blood ; great sense of weakness and emptiness in the abdomen.
Page 121 - Forehead projecting. Sight of one eye totally lost, the other slightly sensible. Stupor. Constant involuntary motion of one leg and arm, [see Hell.] Urine suppressed.
Page 88 - Allium Cepa., profuse discharge of bland water from the eyes, and burning, excoriating water from the nose ; terrible laryngeal cough, which compels the patient to grasp the larynx with his hands, for it seems to him that the cough would tear it.
Page 38 - Hepar, sluggishness and inactivity of the bowels, in consequence of which the abdominal muscles must bear down iu order to effect an evacuation, which is hard or not, but insufficient; after mercurial dosing.
Page 30 - ... heat; vomiting, with severe, painful burning in the stomach, and intense thirst ; red tongue ; red and dry lips; hot and dry throat; tickling cough. Sepia, sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to touch; bloatedness of the abdomen ; congestion and heat of the head ; headache , tongue coated without lustre ; often sore and covered with little blisters on the edges and tip; sour smell from the mouth, and likewise of the urine, which is clear like water, or pale-yellowish ; constant drowsiness...

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