Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Adenoids
- Amaurosis
- Angina pectoris
- Ciliary neuralgia
- Cold
- Constipation
- Depression of spirits
- Diaphragm, stitches in
- Exophthalmic gotre
- Eyes, pains in
- Gastric catarrh
- Glaucoma
- Headache
- Heart, affections of
- Hernia, inguinal
- Iritis
- Jaw-joint, pain in
- Neuralgia
- Otalgia
- Post-nasal catarrh
- Prostatorrha
- Pterygium
- Rectum, cancer of
- Rheumatism
- Scarlatina
- Sigmoid flexure, cancer of
- Stammering
- Strabismus
- Tinnitus
- Tobacco habit
- Toothache
- Worms
- Sadness and discouragement
- Agitation and anxiety, with restless care concerning the future
- Timidity
- Afraid of pointed things, pins, &c
- Sits as if lost in thought, stares at a single point
- Moroseness, to the extent of suicidal mania
- Great dejection in evening
- Weakness of memory
- Absence of ideas
- Difficulty of thinking
- Unfitness for intellectual labour
- Head confused, as from intoxication or dizziness
- Giddiness when looking downwards
- Vertigo, to such an extent as to fall down when walking, standing, or looking down
- Vertigo, with nausea
- Headache, on shaking head, with vertigo, and sensation of heaviness
- Neuralgic pains flying from one part to another
- Headache beginning in cerebellum, morning, spreading over l. side of head, causing violent and pulsating pain in t. temple and over l. eye, with stitches in left eye
- Painfulness of cerebellum with stiffness of neck
- Stitches in l. side of head and out of l. eye
- Headache like a heaviness
- Fine burrowing-tearing pains in brain, esp. violent in l. parietal bone
- Sharp shaking just behind and above r. frontal eminence
- Pressive pain in r. side of head involving r. eye, morning in bed
- Stitches like electric sparks in head
- Pains in head < by slightest movement, by least noise, and by opening mouth
- Painful tenderness of the occiput, with sensation of numbness and stiffness in nape of neck
- Periodical headaches
- Pressing asunder in head, esp. in r. temple
- Pressure in head, compressive or expansive
- Sensation of a tight band around head
- Pain, as if head about to burst, when coughing and speaking loud
- Tearing, digging, or boring headache from within to without, in forehead, vertex, or cerebellum
- Sensation of soreness in forehead and vertex
- Tearing in forehead in paroxysms, with fixed eyes
- Pulsative lancinations in forehead, with noise as of hammering before the ears
- Commotions and blows in head, while walking in open air
- Shaking in brain at every step, and at every movement of head
- Burning pain in exterior of forehead and temples as far as eyes
- Tension in scalp
- Painful tenderness of scalp when touched
- Head feels too large
- Neuralgia of eyes, esp. where there is great soreness, and can scarcely bear a touch
- Affections of the eyeball
- Affections of eyelids
- Affections of optic nerve
- Dilated pupils
- Ocular illusions
- On shutting eyes a sea of fire appears
- Illusion as if hairs or feathers on lashes
- Impending amaurosis
- Pains in eyes, deeply seated in sockets
- Aching (pressure) in the eyeballs, esp. when turning them
- Pains in the eyes during movement, as if eyeballs were too large
- Digging, boring, and shootings in eyes, penetrating into head
- Pains as if needles thrust into r. eyeball
- Tingling in eyes
- Itching in r. eyeball, returning after rubbing
- Dry heat and burning sensation in eyes, which forces them to close
- Redness of sclerotica, with injection of blood-vessels
- Inflammation of eyes and of cornea
- Inflammation and ulceration of lids, with smarting pain as from excoriation
- Eyes confused and dull
- Profuse lachrymation
- Acrid, smarting tears
- Great sensitiveness of eyes to light
- Hanging down of lids as from paralysis
- Sensation as of a hard substance under r. upper lid
- Violent burrowing stitch in middle of eye and in inner canthus that does not prevent vision, but presses upper lid down
- Upper lids feel hard and immovable
- Pain as if l. orbit were pressed from above downward
- Tendency to wink
- Weakness of eyes
- Difficulty in raising the eyelids, with painful sensation of stiffness
- Contraction and involuntary movement of eyes
- Squint
- Convergent squint
- Strabismus
- Loss (momentary suspension) of sight
- Presbyopia
- Earache with an ichorous, scalding discharge
- Hearing very sensitive
- Noise in the ear as of something fluttering
- Pain in margin of l. concha
- Drawing in l. antitragus
- Itching in r. concha
- Pressive pains in r. ear
- Otalgia, with pressive, troublesome pain, as if there were a plug in ear
- Jerking tearing in ears
- Squeezing, itching, and burning sensation in external ear
- Itching in r. vesicle
- Stoppage of ears, with or without dysecoia
- Periodical deafness
- Sensation of distant ringing in ears, with sensation as if the ear were loosely stopped or a thick mist were in front of it
- Roaring, buzzing, and pulsation in ears
- Noise of hammering before ears
- Itching in nose, with tickling
- Tickling on back of nose, as if lightly touched by hairs, or as if a gentle wind were blowing across it
- Tingling, shooting, boring, smarting and itching in nose
- Herpetic eruption on nose with pain, as from excoriation
- Stoppage and dryness of anterior nose, with copious discharge of whitish and yellowish mucus from posterior nares
- Frequent sneezing
- Discharge of bloody mucus
- White or yellow mucus is discharged from nose
- Much mucus is discharged from mouth
- Fluent coryza, which recurs frequently
- Face pale and wan, with yellow circles round eyes
- Redness of face
- Perspiration on face
- Cheeks and lips at one time a deep red, at another time pale
- Burning in r. side of upper lip
- Bloatedness of face, esp. after sleeping
- Facial muscles seem distorted and swollen, morning on rising
- Prosopalgia (mostly l.─sided)
- Jerking tearings, burning sensation, and aching in region of Zygomatic process
- Periodical neuralgia
- Semilateral pains in face, with prcordial anxiety and great agitation
- Exostosis of the temporal part of the orbit
- Lips tense and burning
- Small blackish pimples on upper lip
- Pressive pain in angle of lower jaw, as if in the jaw or in the teeth, proceeding from the ear
- Tearing in lower jaw, radiating to ear and about it as far as nape
- Pain as if r. side of lower jaw would be torn out of its joint, only when chewing
- Toothache (in evening) after customary smoke in evening
- Toothache > by tobacco smoke
- Pain, like pressing asunder, in the teeth, immediately after a meal, or at night, which does not permit continued lying down
- Toothache so that he was unable to sleep at night
- Jerking toothache, or with pulsative tearings, esp. in carious teeth
- Toothache with prosopalgia, paleness and bloatedness of face, yellowish circles round eyes, palpitation of heart, shivering and agitation
- Offensive exhalation from the mouth, noticed only by others
- (Stinging) lancinating dryness in mouth on waking in morning
- Much white, frothy saliva in mouth
- White or yellow mucus in mouth and palate
- Tongue cracked
- Vesicles, with burning pain, on tongue and palate
- Sore throat, with lancinations and swelling in palate
- Discharge of mucus from fauces all day, most from posterior nares
- Cervical glands swollen
- Putrid, fetid taste
- Anorexia, with violent thirst
- Repugnance to tobacco-smoke and snuff
- Dislike to coffee
- Bulimy, sometimes with nausea and thirst
- Risings after every meal
- Sour risings
- Nausea (in the morning) when fasting, with a sensation as if something were ascending from stomach into throat
- Accumulation of mucus in the stomach
- Pressure in stomach and scrobiculus as from a heavy body (as from a hard lump)
- Lancinations in pit of stomach and diaphragm
- Dull stitches, in pit of stomach
- Inability to bear tight clothing round scrobiculus
- Griping in abdomen, as if intestines constricted, with anxiety and difficult breathing
- Abdomen hard, and painfully tight
- Stitches in region of diaphragm, l. side, arresting breathing
- Pressure in umbilical region, as by a hard body
- Colic, with pinching pains, cuttings (from worms) in the umbilical region, with shivering, diarrha, and copious secretion of urine
- Lancinations (stitches) in the abdomen
- Tensive pain in the groins when touched
- Grumbling and borborygmi in the abdomen
- Painful pressure in lower abdomen, as if it would burst
- Expulsion of fetid flatus
- Frequent, urgent, and ineffectual want to evacuate
- Soft, liquid fces
- White stools daily
- Nodular stool with violent pressure
- Faints during stool
- Hard, difficult evacuations, with much mucus
- Discharge (of large lumps) of mucus from anus, without evacuation
- Liquid diarrha of fcal matter and of mucus
- Diarrha, with pinchings in abdomen and coldness in body
- Discharge of fces with worms
- Ejection of lumbrici and ascarides from rectum
- Itching and sensation as if something were creeping in rectum and anus
- Boring stitches in perinum
- Urine, with whitish sediment
- Frequent want to urinate, with profuse emission, even at night
- Sudden and involuntary dribbling of urine, with burning sensation in anterior part of urethra
- Discharge of prostatic fluid from the urethra
- Tingling round glans penis
- Semilateral swelling of glans
- Erections, with lascivious ideas, without voluptuous excitement
- Itching stitch in r. testicle and penis, from behind forward
- Catarrh, with hoarseness, continual discharge of mucus from nose, dry heat without thirst, prominent eyes, distressing headache, and disposition to weep
- Nocturnal catarrh, with cough
- Cough in open air, with pain in chest as from excoriation
- Dry cough, violent and hollow, caused by irritation low down in trachea, with respiration obstructed, even to suffocation
- Short, dry cough causing soreness of chest
- Shortness of breath, esp. when talking, with anxiety and redness of cheeks and lips
- Dyspna when moving in bed
- Danger of suffocation on least movement, and esp. on raising arms
- Aching at the chest, with painful oppression
- Contraction of chest, with anguish and obstructed respiration
- Stitches in diaphragm with dyspna
- Noise in the chest like that made by a spinning-wheel, esp. in region of heart
- Pressure, burning or incisive sensation, pain, as from ulceration and tearing in chest, esp. on lifting arms
- Cutting tearing beneath l. nipple, extending to region of scapul and upper arm
- Sensation of trembling in thorax
- Spasmodic sensation in chest, proceeding from pit of stomach and causing choking
- Tensive lancinations in chest, esp. when drawing breath
- Violent palpitation of heart, perceptible to sight and hearing, often with anxious oppression of chest
- Sudden attack of suffocation, with palpitation of heart and anguish
- Heavy aching in region of apex, with feeling as if a dull-pointed knife were slowly driven through it
- Sensation in heart as if squeezed with hand; as if crushed
- Lancinations in region of heart
- Stitches in heart, sometimes synchronous with the pulse
- Sensation of trembling in heart
- The beatings of the heart do not correspond with those of the pulse
- Pulse weak, irregular, trembling
- Undulating movement of the heart
- Needle-like stitches in upper dorsal vertebr
- Needle-like stitches in r. scapula
- Sensation in l. scapula as though blood were dripping through a valve, a kind of bubbling
- Red pimples on neck, with pain as from excoriation when touched
- Hard and painful swelling of glands of the neck
- Pains in nape
- Intermittent drawing in posterior cervical muscles and up to occiput
- Sticking pain in r. side of neck
- Itching of anus and coccyx
- Pain in back as from a fracture, also during movement
- Bruised feeling in spine, even during rest
- Lancinations (stitches) in back, sometimes on drawing breath
- Fatigue
- Drawing, tearing, twitching pains in limbs and joints
- Heaviness and trembling of arms
- Easy numbing of arms and hands
- Jerking of muscles of arms and forearms
- Violent lancinations and shocks in bend of elbow and joints of hands and fingers
- Spasmodic drawings and tearings in bones of hands
- Hard nodosities in the palms, with burning itching
- Hands of a pale yellow colour
- Contraction of fingers
- Purulent pimples on fingers
- Pain, as of a fracture, tension and shootings in thighs
- Stitches in the joints of the legs and feet and in the thigh
- Violent lancinations in knee on bending it
- Painful stiffness in knee-joint
- Lancinating shocks in joints of feet
- Excrescences, like warts, on toes
- Very violent neuralgia, followed by an extreme soreness
- Boring pains
- Pains as if parts were pushed or pressed asunder, or as if they would burst
- Sensation of extension in size
- Feeling as of a lump in the inner parts
- Darting pains in inner and outer parts
- Arthritic, shooting, or tearing pains in the limbs
- Stinging pain in the limbs and principally in the joints
- Tearing in the vicinity of the joints, as if the bone were scraped
- Heaviness and soreness in the body when rising from a seat
- Sensitiveness of body to touch, with chilliness of the parts touched
- Great weakness, esp. mornings
- Heaviness and sensation in limbs as if fractured
- Convulsions
- Lassitude, esp. after slight exercise, and in open air
- Syncope, esp. when making an effort to evacuate, or in a warm room
- Great sensitiveness to cold air
- Great liability to suffer from a chill
- Pale, wrinkled skin of body
- Painful sensibility of entire skin when touched
- Painful glandular swellings
- Red pimples, with pain, as from excoriation, when touched
- Strong disposition to sleep by day, and also in morning or evening
- Sleep at night, unrefreshing, agitated, with uneasiness in limbs
- Heavy, stupefying sleep
- Confused dreams, which cause him to awake wearied
- Pulse irregular, generally strong, but slow
- Trembling pulse
- Frequent shiverings, esp. in morning or during slight exercise
- Chill, frequently returning at the same hour in the morning
- Chill, alternating with heat or perspiration
- Chilliness on some part of the body, on others heat
- The chill extends from the chest
- Frequent heat, sometimes transient
- Heat, esp. in back
- Heat in face and on hands, with chill in back
- Thirst for beer during the heat (with flushes of heat at night)
- At night putrid perspiration with heat at same time
- Clammy perspiration
- Cold perspiration
Allen's Keynotes
- anaemic debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis
- scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici
- light hair; pale, thin, bloated, weak; wrinkled, yellow, earthy skin
- body painfully sensitive to touch; part touched feels chilly; touch sends shudder through the whole frame
- afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc
- rheumatic affections of heart; systolic blowing at apex
- aneurism
- nervous headache; periodical, beginning in morning at base of brain, spreading over the head and locating in eye, orbit and temple of left side; pain, pulsating, violent, throbbing
- headache; at sunrise, at its height at noon, declines till sunset
- intolerable, pressive pain in eyeballs; could not turn the eyes without turning the whole body; worse, especially on making a false step
- sensation: as if eyes were too large for the orbits; sensitive to touch; as if a band around head
- copious offensive mucus from posterior nares, drops into throat, causing choking at night
- sharp, stabbing, sticking pains through eyeballs back into the head; from cold, damp, rainy weather
- prosopalgia: periodical, left-sided, orbit, eyes, malar bone, teeth; from morning until sunset; pain tearing, burning, cheek dark red; during cold, rainy weather; from tea
- toothache from tobacco smoking; only on lying down and while eating; worse from cold air and water; returns from thinking about it
- scirrhus of sigmoid or rectum, atrocious unbearable pain
- dyspnoea: must lie on right side with head high; pains in chest are stitching, needle-like
- chest affections with stitching pains synchronous with pulse, from motion, cold, wet weather
- palpitation: violent, visible and audible; from least motion; when bending forward; systolic blowing at apex
- stammering, repeats first syllable three or four times; with abdominal ailments; with helminthiasis
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