Boericke's Materia Medica
- Muscular tissues affected
- Periosteum affected
- Synovial membranes of joints affected
- Gouty paroxysms
- Parts are red, hot, swollen
- Tearing pains
- Worse in the evening and at night and from touch
- Stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly
- Great prostration
- Internal coldness
- Tendency to collapse
- Effects of night watching and hard study
- Shocks as from electricity through one half of body
- Bad effects from suppressed sweat
- Dreams of mice
- Headache chiefly frontal and temporal, but also occipital and in nape of neck
- Worse afternoon and evening
- Pupils unequal
- Left pupil contracted
- Variations in visual acuity
- Lachrymation worse in open air
- Violent tearing pain in eyes
- Dim vision after reading
- Spots before eyes
- Itching in ears
- Sharp, shooting pains below right tragus
- Pain in facial muscles, moving about
- Tingling and edematous swelling
- Cheeks red, hot, sweaty
- Very irritable with the pains
- Pain behind angle of right lower jaw
- Dry mouth
- Tongue burns
- Gums and teeth pain
- Thirst
- Pain in stomach and flatulence
- The smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish
- Profuse salivary secretion
- Vomiting of mucus, bile and food
- Worse any motion
- Great coldness in stomach
- Craving for various things, but is averse to then when smelling them, seized them with nausea
- Gouty gastralgia
- Burning or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen
- Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages
- Pain in transverse colon
- Distention of abdomen, with gas, inability to stretch out legs
- Borborygmi
- Pain over liver
- Cecum and ascending colon much distended
- Fullness and continuous rumbling
- Ascites
- Painful, scanty, transparent, jelly-like mucus
- Pain, as if anus were torn open, with prolapse
- Autumnal dysentery
- Stools contain while shreddy particles in large quantities
- Ineffectual pressing
- Feels feces in rectum, but cannot expel them
- Pruritus of genitals
- Cold feeling in thigh after period
- Sensation of swelling in vulva and clitoris
- Dark, scanty or suppressed urine
- Bloody, brown, black, inky urine
- Urine contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar
- Anxiety in region of heart
- Impulse not felt
- Pericarditis, with severe pain, oppression and dyspnea, pulse threadlike
- Sound of heart become weaker, pulse of low tension
- Sharp pain down left arm
- Tearing in limbs during warm weather, stinging during cold
- Pins and needles in hands and wrists, fingertips numb
- Pain in front of thigh
- Right plantar reflex abolished
- Limbs, lame, weak, tingling
- Pain worse in evening and warm weather
- Joints stiff and feverish
- Shifting rheumatism
- Pains worse at night
- Inflammation of great toe, gout in heel, cannot bear to have it touched or moved
- Tingling in the finger nails
- Knees strike together, can hardly walk
- Edematous swelling and coldness of legs and feet
- Aching in lumbar and lumbo-sacral region
- Dull pain across loins
- Backache, better, rest and pressure
- Blotchy papular rash on face
- Pink spots on back, chest and abdomen
- Urticaria
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis; persons of robust vigorous constitution; diseases of old people
- external impressions, light, noise, strong odors, contact, bad manners, make him almost beside himself; his sufferings seem intolerable
- ailments: from grief or misdeeds of others
- pains are drawing, tearing, pressing; light or superficial during warm weather; affect the bones and deeper tissues, when air is cold; pains go from left to right
- smell painfully acute; nausea and faintness from the odor of cooking food, especially fish, eggs or fat meat; bad effects from night watching
- aversion to food; loathing even the sight of still more the smell of it
- the abdomen is immensely distended with gas, feeling as if it would burst
- burning, or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen
- autumnal dysentery, discharges from bowels contain white shreddy particles in large quantities; white mucus; \"scrapings of intestines\"
- urine: dark, scanty or suppressed; in drops, with white sediment; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar
- affected parts very sensitive to contact and motion
- arthiritic pains in joints; patient scremas with pain on touching a joint or stubbing a toe
- worse from mental emotion or exhaustion; effects of hard study; odor of cooking food
- if the patient lies perfectly still, the disposition to vomit is less urgent; every motion renew it
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