Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Tall, slim women with narrow pelvis and lax fibers and muscles
- Inability to feel natural love
- Lack of affection
- Estrangement from loved ones
- Coldness
- Stoical state of mind
- Excitability aggravated by noises, excitement, company
- Extreme irritability of tissue and mind
- Excitable suicidal patient
- Melancholy
- Taciturn
- Answers questions in monosyllables
- Absence of all joy
- Inability to realize that things are real
- No affection for the delightful things of life
- Worse in company yet dreads to be alone
- Spiteful
- Vents spite on those she loves best
- Peculiar sallowness
- Waxy, anaemic appearance
- Mottled with yellow
- Yellow saddle across the nose and cheeks
- Face covered with enormous freckles
- Great brown patches as in pregnancy
- Brown spots on the cheeks
- Brown warts
- Liver spots on the face, chest, and abdomen
- Sallow and doughy skin
- Muscles appear flabby
- Stupid and dull
- Thinks slowly
- Forgetful
- Puffed face
- Anaemic
- Pale lips and ears
- Pale, sallow face
- Fingers and hands become shriveled, sallow, waxy, bloodless
- Progressing emaciation
- Wrinkled skin
- Prematurely old appearance
- Constipation
- Slow, difficult stool
- Stool like sheep dung
- Feeling of a lump in the rectum
- Gnawing hunger, seldom satisfied
- Prolapsus
- Relaxation of internal parts
- Wants a bandage to hold the parts up
- Funneling sensation, better sitting down and crossing the limbs
- Catarrhal tendency
- Milky discharges from mucous membranes
- Nausea and sometimes vomiting long after digestion
- Vomits up food then a milky fluid
- Morning vomiting
- Whitish, milky discharges from the posterior nares
- Excoriating, milky leucorrhoea
- Thick, cheesy, offensive leucorrhoea
- Thick, green and yellow discharges
- Dry crusty formations on mucous membranes
- Prolonged inveterate catarrh of the nose
- Thick, green, and yellow crusts blown from the nose
- Loss of taste and smell
- Nausea from the smell of cooking food
- Catarrh of the chest with thick, tenacious, yellow expectoration
- Violent cough
- Retching, gagging, vomiting
- Dry cough and yet there is rattling
- Whooping cough
- Asthmatic cough with retching and loss of urine
- Spasmodic dry cough in the evening until midnight
- Tendency to produce herpetic eruptions about the genitals, lips and mouth
- Ring-worm upon the face and body
- Vesicular eruptions in the axilla, upon the tips of the elbows
- Eruptions that pile up in great crusts on the elbows
- Eruptions between the fingers
- Moist eruptions that pour out a watery fluid, or thick, yellow, purulent fluid
- Indurations will form on the lips and crack and bleed
- Scaly eruption that looks like epithelioma
- Lumps and lupoid formation on the skin, where there is infiltration
- Hardness and purple color of skin
- Hysterical diathesis
- Breaks out in spells of weeping
- Sad one minute, gentle, yielding
- Disagreeable, excitable, obstinate the next
- Says and does strange things, makes errors
- No mental endurance
- No affection for her family
- Whole mind weak and disordered
- Fear of ghosts
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to persons of dark hair, rigid fibre, but mild and easy disposition
- diseases of women: especially those occurring during pregnancy, child- bed and lactation; or diseases attended with sudden prostration and sinking faintness; \"the washerwoman's remedy\"
- complaints that are brought on by or aggravated after laundry work
- pains extend from other parts to the back; are attended with shuddering
- particularly sensitive to cold air, \"chills so easily;\" lack of vital heat, especially in chronic diseases
- sensation of a ball in inner parts; during menses, pregnancy, lactation; with constipation, diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, leucorrhoea and all uterine affections
- faints easily: after getting wet; from extremes of heat or cold; riding in a carriage; while kneeling at church
- coldness of the vertex with headache
- anxiety: with fear, flushes of heat over face and head; about real or imaginary friends; with uterine troubles
- great sadness and weeping
- dread of being alone; of men; of meeting friends; with uterine troubles
- indifferent: even to one's family; to one's occupation; to those whom she loves best
- greedy, miserly
- indolent: does not want to do anything, either work or play; even an exertion to think
- headache: in terrific shocks; at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow; in delicate, sensitive, hysterical women; pressing, bursting worse motion, stooping, mental labor, better by external pressure, continued hard motion
- great falling of the hair, after chronic headaches or at the climacteric
- yellowness: of the face; conjunctiva; yellow spots on the chest; a yellow saddle across the upper part of the cheeks and nose; a \"tell tale face\" of uterine ailments
- all the coverings of the neck felt too tight and were constantly loosened
- herpes circinatus in isolated spots on upper part of body
- pot-belliness of mothers
- painful sensation of emptiness, \"all-gone\" feeling in the epigastrium, relieved by eating
- tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual nisus, returns when flow ceases; swelling and cracking of lower lip
- constipation: during pregnancy; stool hard, knotty, in balls, insufficient, difficult; pain in rectum during and long after stool; sense of weight or ball in anus, not better by stool
- urine: deposits in a reddish clay-colored sediment which adheres to the vessel as if it has been burned on; fetid, so offensive must be removed from the room
- enuresis: bed is wet almost as soon as the child goes to sleep; always during the first sleep
- gleet: painless, yellowish, staining linen; meatus glued together in morning; obstinate, of long standing; sexual organs, weak and exhausted
- violent stitches upward in the vagina; lancinating pains from the uterus to the umbilicus
- prolapsus of uterus and vagina; pressure and bearing down as if everything would protrude from pelvis; must cross limbs tightly to \"sit close\" to prevent it; with oppression of breathing
- irregular menses of nearly every form - early, late, scanty, profuse, amenorrhoea or menorrhagia - when associated with the above named symptoms
- morning sickness of pregnancy: the sight or thought of food sickens; the smell of cooking food nauseates
- dyspnoea: worse sitting, after sleep, in room, better dancing or walking rapidly
- erythism; flushes of heat from least motion; with anxiety and faintness; followed by perspiration over whole body; climacteric; ascends, from pelvic organs
- itching of skin; of various parts; of external genitalia; is better scratching; and is apt to change to burning
- worse in afternoon or evening; from cold air or dry east wind; sexual excesses; at rest; sultry moist weather; before a thunderstorm
- better warmth of bed, hot applications; violent exercise
- many symptoms, especially those of head, heart and pelvis, are both worse and better by rest and exercise
- it antidotes mental effects of overuse of tabacco, in patients of sedentary habits who suffer from over-mental exertion
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