A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (1900) Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the beginning of the disease), preceded by shiverings, with trembling.?Heat, chiefly in the head and face, with redness of the cheeks, shuddering over the entire body, oppressive headache, temper lachrymose, disposed to complaining and to contradiction ; or, a sensation of heat in the whole body, with redness of the cheeks, pain in the head on turning the eyes, and levity of mind.? Shivering, if uncovered in the least while the heat exists.?Cold over the whole body with internal heat, forehead cold, and tips of the ears hot; or with redness of cheeks and pains in the limbs ; or with stiffness of the whole body, heat and redness of one cheek, and coldness and paleness of the other ; eyes open and fixed, pupils contracted, and dilating with difficulty.?Sensation of coldness in the blood vessels.?Cold and shivering in the fingers, followed by cramps in the calves of the legs and in the soles of the feet.?Heat of face, with mournful and despairing thoughts, and an inclination to vomit, preceded by cold and shiverings in the feet and hands.?Shuddering runs up from the feet to the chest.?Frequent shudderings, with burning heat and dryness of the skin. ? Inflammatory fevers and inflammations, with much heat, dry, burning skin, violent thirst, red face, or alternate red and pale face, nervous excitability, groaning and agonised tossing about, shortness of breath, and congestion to the head.?Continual sweat, esp. on parts that are covered.? Sour sweat.?Pulse hard, frequent, and accelerated ; full, sometimes intermitting ; when slow, almost imperceptible (threadlike). Actaea Racemosa. Cirnicifuga racemosa. Actaea monogynia. C. serpentaria. Macrotys racemosa. Botroflus serpentaria. Black snake root. Black Cohosh. (Canada, Georgia, Western States of America.) N. 0. Ranunculaceae. Tinctu...Read More