Boenninghausen's characteristics and repertory / translated, compiled, and augmented by C. M. Boger ; with a historical sketch of Boenninghausen's life by T. L. Bradford.

  • Bönninghausen, Clemens Maria Franz von, 1785-1864.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Boenninghausen's characteristics and repertory / translated, compiled, and augmented by C. M. Boger ; with a historical sketch of Boenninghausen's life by T. L. Bradford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CANNABIS. to parts distant from heart. Chill: Chilli- ness and sensitiveness to cold air. With shuddering and shaking. General icy- coldness of entire body, with a death- ly pale face, and congestion of blood to head and chest. Heat: With distended bloodvessels, increased by every move- ment. Sweat: Cold often clammy, al- ways debilitating. Allied Remedies.—Brom., Canth., Glo., OP., Sec-c^, Verat-a. CANNABIS. Mind.—Ideas seem to stand still. Too great rush of ideas. Sad, dejected mood. Takes everything in bad part. Cheerful, alternating with grave mania. Vertigo.—Causing him to fall sidewise. Dizziness in head. Head.—violent congestion, with throbbing and agreeable warmth therein. Head- ache as of a stone lying on skull. Sen- sation of cold water dropping on scalp. Eyes.—Inflamed, with diminished visual power. Weak, with indistinct vision. Opacity of cornea. Cataract. Ears.—Throbbing and forcing in. Nose.—Nosebleed follows a sense of warmth within the dry nose. Swelling and cop- pery redness of. Dryness and heat of. Mouth. — Dry, without thirst. Difficult speech. Taste.—Clay-like, in, mouth. Eructation.—Gulping up of a bitter, §our, scratchy fluid. Vomiting.^—Of green bile. Stomach.—Ulcerative pain in, from touch, disappearing after eating. Spasm of, with a pale, sweaty face. Hypochondriae.—Inflammation, and ulcera- tive pain in region of kidneys. Abdomen. — Bruised pain in. Throbbing from within outward in upper. Ascites. Stool.—Constipation and hard stool. Diar- rhoea with colic. Urine.—Retained, as from paralysis of blad- der. Discharge scant, bloody, burn- ing, passed drop by drop. Turbid. Sexual Organs.—Urethral gonorrhoea. Painless discharge of mucus from urethra. Sticking, burning and biting in urethra during and after urination. Inflammatory swelling with dark red- ness of prepuce. Painful erections. In- tensified sexual desire. Impotency with cold genitals. Respiration.—Suffocative, asthmatic at- tacks, wherein he can breathe when sit- ting in an upright position only. Short- ness of, and tightness as of a load on chest, with whistling or rattling breath- ing. Cough.—Without, or with a tenacious, green expectoration. Trachea, etc.—Catarrh of. Doss of voice. Chest.—Inflammation of lungs, with stitches low down in the left side of. Heart beat is felt too low down. Thrusts and blows in cardiac region. Cardiac inflamma- tions. Anxious palpitation. Back. Backache which impedes talking and obstructs breathing. Upper Extremities.—Bruised pain in arms during motion. Lower Extrenities.—Pain in legs, as from great exhaustion. Weariness with clumsiness and staggering when walk- ing, and with a dull pain in knees like that from very great exhaustion. Slip- ping of patella when ascending steps. Generalities.—Great weakness after meals and after motion. Exhaustion after physical exertion. Debility after talk- ing and writing. Tonic spasms, espe- cially of trunk and upper limbs. Bones.—Rheumatic drawing during motion, as if in periosteum. Sleep.—Unconquerable day sleepiness. Un- refreshing night sleep. Sleepless at night because of anxiety and heat as though dashed with hot water. Fever.—Pulse : Very weak, slow, often al- most imperceptible. Chill; Predomi- nant, with thirst and shaking. Shaking c. over entire body. External coldness of whole body except face. Heat: In face only and very slight. Nightly burning. Sweat: Entirely absent. Allied Remedies.— Ap., Arg-n., Am., Bell., Calc-c, Canih., Coloc, Euphor., Men., Merc-c, Nat-ni., Nit-ac, Puls., Thuj.