Bacillinum – Medicine


Bacillinum – Medicine.

Generalities

      Great wea…


Generalities

      Great weakness, did not want to be disturbed.

Mind

      Taciturn, sulky, snappish, fretty, irritable, morose, depressed and melancholic even to insanity.

Fretful ailing, whines and complains; mind given to be frightened, particularly by dogs.

Head

      Severe headache, deep in, recurring from time to time, compelling quiet fixedness; agg. shaking head.

Terrible pain in head as if he had a tight hoop of iron around it; trembling of hands; sensation of damp clothes on spine; absolute sleeplessness.

Meningitis.

Ringworm.

Alopecia areata.

Eyes

      Eczematous conditions of eyelids.

Face

      Indolent, angry pimple on left cheek, breathing out from time to time and persisting for many weeks.

Teeth

      Aching in teeth, especially lower incisors [all sound], felt at the roots, especially on raising or projecting lower lip; very sensitive to air.

Grinds teeth in sleep.

Imperfectly developed teeth.

Throat

      Tickling in fauces, compelling cough.

Stomach

      Windy dyspepsia, with pinching pains under ribs of right side in mammary line.

Abdomen

      Fever, emaciation, abdominal pains and discomfort, restless at night, glands of both groins enlarged and indurated; cries out in sleep; strawberry tongue.

Tabes mesenterica; talks in sleep; grinds teeth; appetite poor; hands blue; indurated and palpable glands everywhere; drum belly; spleen region bulging out.

Inguinal glands indurated and visible; excessive sweats; chronic diarrhoea.

Stool

      Sudden diarrhoea before breakfast, with nausea.

Severe hemorrhages from bowels, cough.

Obstinate constipation.

Passes much ill-smelling flatus.

Stitch like pain through piles.

Urinary organs

      Increased quantity of urine, pale, with white sediment.

Has to rise several times in night to urinate.

Respiratory organs

      Slight, tedious, hacking cough.

Hard cough, shaking patient, more during sleep, but it did not waken him.

Pricking in larynx with sudden cough.

Single cough on rising from bed in morning.

Cough waking him in night, easy expectoration.

Expectoration of non-viscid easily detached, thick phlegm from air passages, followed after a day or two by a very clear ring of voice.

Sharp pain in precordial region arresting breathing.

Very sharp pain in left scapula, agg. lying down in bed at night, amel. by warmth.

Back and neck

      Glands of neck enlarged and tender.

Lower Limbs

      Pain in left knee while walking; passed off after perseverance in walking for a short distance.

Tubercular inflammation of knee.

Sleep

      Drowsy during day; restless at night; many dreams.

Fever

      Flush of heat [soon after the dose.], some perspiration, severe headache deep in.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.