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+ | ====== ABROTANUM ====== | ||
+ | <span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Abrotanum.</span> | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Southernwood. {{anchor:s3}}Compositae.</span> | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s4}}Artemisia abrotanum, or <span grade2>southernwood</span>, growing on sunny hills in Southern Europe, and cultivated in gardens. {{anchor:s5}}Celebrated as an old popular medicine. {{anchor:s6}}Introduced into our practice by Deventer. {{anchor:s7}}Proved by Gatchell on two women. | ||
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+ | ====== MIND. [1] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s9}}Feebleness and dullness of mind.\\ {{anchor:s10}}No capacity for thinking, as if all bodily and mental power were gone.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Thinks her brain is softening.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Excited, loquacious, feels like shouting.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Taciturnity.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Indolence, aversion to physical exercise.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Good humored, happy.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Gloomy, desponding.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s17}}Great anxiety and depression.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s18}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}The child is cross and depressed.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s20}}~</span> <span grade3>Marasmus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s21}}Ill-natured, irritable, violent.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Exceedingly peevish, feels as if she would like to do something cruel; no humanity.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Easily fatigued by conversation or mental effort. | ||
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+ | ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s25}}The left brain seemed especially weak; easily fatigued by conversation or mental effort.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Sensation as of creeping chills along convolutions of brain, accompanied by prickling. | ||
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+ | ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s28}}Head weak, could not hold it up.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Scalp sore, especially side.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Itching of scalp. | ||
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+ | ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Blue rings around dull looking eyes.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s33}}~</span> <span grade3>Chlorosis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s34}}Inflamed eyes. | ||
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+ | ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s36}}Dryness of inner nose.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s37}}Nosebleed with boys.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Face wrinkled, old, pale.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s40}}~</span> <span grade3>Marasmus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s41}}Comedones with emaciation.</span>\\ {{anchor:s42}}Face feels cold.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Drawing pains in upper maxilla. | ||
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+ | ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s45}}Drawing and tearing pains in carious teeth. | ||
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+ | ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Slimy taste.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s48}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s49}}Acid taste. | ||
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+ | ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s51}}Scraping in throat. | ||
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+ | ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s54}}Gnawing hunger; craves bread boiled in milk.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}Appetite great; ravenous while emaciating; marasmus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s56}}Loss of appetite.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s57}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s59}}Burning in stomach as from acidity.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Fullness and bloating in region of stomach.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s61}}Sensation as if stomach was hanging or swimming in water, with a peculiar feeling of coldness and a dullness to all irritants.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Pains cutting, gnawing, burning, sometimes contracting and stinging, mostly agg. at night; never entirely free from pain, even in intervals.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s64}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s65}}Disturbed digestion.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}~</span> <span grade3>Chlorosis.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s68}}Weak, sinking feeling in bowels.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Frequent colicky pain.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}~</span> <span grade3>Marasmus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Distended abdomen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s72}}~</span> <span grade3>Chlorosis; marasmus; colic.</span>\\ {{anchor:s73}}Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen. | ||
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+ | ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s75}}After sudden checking of diarrhea, rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Piles appear and become agg. as rheumatic pains abate; frequent inclination to stool; hardly anything but blood passes.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s77}}Constipation.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s78}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s79}}(OBS:) Worms, especially ascarides. <span sbita>{{anchor:s80}}~</span> Marasmus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Alternate diarrhea and constipation; food passes undigested.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}~</span> <span grade3>Marasmus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s83}}Protruding hemorrhoidal tumors, burning when touched and when pressing.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s85}}Bladder full, urging to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Urine scanty. | ||
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+ | ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s88}}Hydrocele of children.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s90}}Darting pain in region of left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Twitching in ovarian regions, seems to extend to back.\\ {{anchor:s92}}(OBS:) Ulcers on os tincae.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Dysmenorrhea; suppressed menses. | ||
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+ | ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s97}}Difficult parturition.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s98}}Blood and moisture oozing from navel of newborn children.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s101}}Sudden hoarseness; weak voice. | ||
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+ | ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s103}}Impeded breathing.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== COUGH. [27] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s105}}Troublesome cough.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s106}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s108}}Raw feeling in respiratory tract from cold air.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}In pleurisy (after Acon. and Bryon.), when a pressing sensation remains in affected side, impeding free breathing.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s111}}Pain across chest, sharp and severe in region of heart.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s112}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}Pulse weak and small.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s114}}~</span> <span grade3>Chlorosis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s115}}Ebullitions, with general heat and distended veins on forehead and hands.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s116}}~</span> <span grade3>Hemorrhoidal colic.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s118}}Drawing pains in chest-muscles, especially from motion. | ||
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+ | ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s120}}Weak back, with ovarian pains.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s121}}Pains in sacrum.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s122}}~</span> <span grade3>Hemorrhoidal colic.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s124}}Fugitive pains in shoulders all night, preventing sleep.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Aching from shoulder joints to elbow.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Arms very weak.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Numb sensation in fingers.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Dull aching in first finger of right hand, followed by similar pain in other fingers of right and left hand.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Pricking and coldness of finger tips. | ||
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+ | ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s131}}Emaciation, mostly of legs.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s132}}~</span> <span grade3>Marasmus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s133}}Drawing sensation in ankle joint.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Deadness and coldness of feet.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Sticking, tearing and itching sensations in old foot-sores. | ||
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+ | ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s137}}Inability to move arms; legs only with difficulty.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s138}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ {{anchor:s139}}Frost-bitten limbs. | ||
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+ | ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s143}}Lies prone; cannot hold head up.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Motion: pains in muscles of chest; averse to exercise; rheumatic pains agg.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Inability to move arms; legs with difficulty. | ||
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+ | ====== NERVES. [36] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s147}}Remains very much relaxed and incapacitated.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Disposed to lie prone.\\ {{anchor:s149}}A weak, sickly feeling continued many days, with internal trembling when excited.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s150}}Very lame and sore all over.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s151}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s152}}Great weakness and prostration, and a kind of hectic fever with children, after influenza.</span>\\ {{anchor:s153}}Head so weak, cannot hold it up.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s154}}Hysteria.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s156}}Sleepless and restless.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s157}}~</span> <span grade3>Hemorrhoidal colic.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== TIME. [38] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s159}}Night: cutting, gnawing, stinging in stomach agg.; fugitive pains in shoulders. | ||
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+ | ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s161}}Cold air produces raw feeling in chest.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s162}}Itching chilblains.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== FEVER. [40] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s164}}High fever.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s165}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Hectic fever, very weakening.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s167}}~</span> <span grade3>Marasmus.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s169}}Suddenly: hoarseness.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Piles agg. as rheumatism gets amel.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Alternating: diarrhea and constipation. | ||
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+ | ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s173}}Left: brain seems weak; scalp sore; darting in ovary; sharp pains in region of heart.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Right to left: dull aching in fingers.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Right and left: twitching in ovarian region; aching in fingers. | ||
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+ | ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s177}}As of creeping chills along convolutions of brain, with prickling; as if stomach was hanging or swimming in water; weak with internal trembling.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Aching: in shoulder joints and first finger of right hand.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Pain: across chest, sharp in region of heart; in sacrum.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Darting: in left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Cutting: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Sticking: in foot-sores.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Stinging: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Pricking: in brain; in stiff joints; finger tips.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Tearing: in teeth; in foot-sores.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Burning: in stomach and hemorrhoids.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Soreness: of scalp all over.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Aching: from shoulder joints to elbow; in fingers.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Contracting: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Gouty pains: in wrists and ankle joints.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Fugitive pains: in shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Gnawing: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Drawing: in upper maxilla, carious teeth, chest muscles; ankle joint.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Pressing: in pleurisy.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Scraping: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Rawness: in respiratory tract.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Twitching: in ovaries.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Numbness: in fingers.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Deadness: of feet.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Coldness: in face, stomach, finger tips; feet.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Weak sinking feeling: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Dryness: of inner nose.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Itching: of scalp, foot-sores, chilblains. | ||
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+ | ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade4>{{anchor:s205}}Gout: painful and inflamed wrists and ankle joints.</span>\\ {{anchor:s206}}Joints stiff, with pricking sensation.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s207}}Painful, inflammatory rheumatism before swelling.</span>\\ {{anchor:s208}}Chlorosis.\\ {{anchor:s209}}(OBS:) In phagedenic diseases.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s210}}Rheumatism from suddenly checked diarrhea, cannot move her head, arms or limbs, and suffers much pain, no swelling.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s211}}After suppressed gout.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s212}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s213}}Marasmus of children.</span>\\ {{anchor:s214}}Contractions of limbs from cramps or following colic. | ||
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+ | ====== SKIN. [46] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s216}}Furuncles, if Hepar sulph. is insufficient.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s217}}The skin is flabby and hangs loose.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s218}}~</span> <span grade3>Marasmus.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s219}}Itching chilblains.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s221}}Children: emaciation, especially of legs. <span sbita>{{anchor:s222}}~</span> Marasmus.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Boys: epistaxis; hydrocele. | ||
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+ | ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s225}}After <span grade2>Acon.</span> and <span grade2>Bryon.</span>, in pleurisy; after <span grade2>Hepar sulph.</span>, in furuncle.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Itching chilblains; compare <span grade2>Nux vom.</span> and <span grade2>Amanita.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== | ||
+ | ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 01, 1879 | | ||
+ | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r374|Abrotanum]] | | ||
+ | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r374|Abrotanum]] | | ||
+ | ^ Author: | Hering, C. | | ||
+ | ^ Year: | 1879 | | ||
+ | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | | ||
+ | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |} | ||