Medorrhinum – Medicine



Emissions during sleep: watery, causing no stiffness of linen; transparent, consistence of gum arabic mucilage, too thick to pour, and voided with difficulty; thick, with threads of white, opaque substance.

Impotence.

Gonorrheal flow thin, transparent, mixed with opaque, whitish mucus, stains linen yellow.

Intense and frequent erections day and night.

Pains along urethra while urinating, drawing burning.

Gonorrhea for ten months, during eight months mostly suppressed by drugs and injections; for past two months flow persists, watery, transparent, but acrid and abundant, mixed with creamy liquid, stains linen yellow brown; pain at end of penis during urination; since third month of infection had heavy, drawing, wandering pains in right arm, right hip and left calf, agg. damp weather.

Gleety, gonorrheal discharge for twenty years; urine stains clothes a dirty brown, discharges extremely slow, sometimes it takes half an hour to empty bladder, leaving him in a weak condition; during urination, painful rectal tenesmus; chilliness when bladder is too full, amel. by urination; if he urinates after getting warm in bed, has to urinate every hour rest of night; faint, indefinite sense of chilliness, followed by frequent calls to urinate, urine being hot, copious and followed by spinal chill and incontinence of urine on getting cold.

Burning in meatus during urination, and a feeling of soreness through whole urethra, also after urinating, a feeling as if something more remained in urethra.

Scanty, yellowish, gleety discharge, of many months standing, showing most plainly in morning, gumming up orifice. Profuse, yellow, purulent discharge from urethra, most copious in morning.

Cannot retain urine more than an hour, after 5 or 6 P.M.

Cannot retain urine through night.

Chancre like ulcer on prepuce (never had syphilis or gonorrhea); six months later there came for several months successive crops of vesicles on prepuce, very sore to touch, which soon opened at the tip, and left a little ulcer like sore lasting a few days; a round, clean cut, sharp edged elevation with depression, however not filled with pus as in genuine chancre. Soreness, swelling and dragging of testes.

Female Sexual Organs

      Great sexual desire after menses, in a single woman.

A great deal of pain in left ovary, with a sensation as if a sac was distended and if pressed would burst; sensation as if something was pulling it down, causing it to be sore; pain when walking passed to left groin, as if leg pushed something, with a great amount of heat.

Left ovary seemed enlarged, with intense heat and severe aching pain; could not bear pressure, though it seemed as if she must press it; with a burning heat.

Tense pains passing diagonally in right ovary, followed by a bubbling sensation.

Intense, excruciating, neuralgic pains in whole pelvic region, extending downwards through ovarian region to uterus; cutting like knives, forcing tears and groans.

Ulceration of neck of uterus, which looked ragged and torn, inflamed and covered with stringy pus; had gonorrhea.

Distinct soreness and nervous pain in one spot in lower part of uterus on left side agg. walking or moving left leg.

Pulling and pain in sacrum and pubic region, as if menses were coming on.

Profuse menses; dark clotted, also bright blood, with faintness some pain.

Menses very dark; stains difficult to wash out.

Intense menstrual colic, causing drawing up to knees, with terrible, bearing down, labor like pains, with pressing of feet against support, as in labor.

A burning pain in lower part of back and hips during menses.

After very profuse menses, neuralgia in paroxysms in head, with twitching and drawing in limbs and cords of neck, which were like wires; pain in lower abdomen, with profuse, yellowish leucorrhea.

Itching of vagina and labia, thinking of it makes it worse.

Small chancres on edge of right labia (had no sexual intercourse for three years, never had venereal disease).

Short, shooting pains, passing outwards, chiefly in breasts.

Breasts cold as ice to touch, especially nipples (during menses), rest of body warm.

Large but not painful swelling of left breast.

Nipples sore, sensitive and inflamed.

Breasts and nipples very tender to touch, also inflamed.

Soreness of nipples, a gummy secretion drying on orifice; when picked off nipple bleeds freely.

Soreness of breasts, very sensitive to touch, at nonmenstrual periods.

Peculiar tenderness of breasts.

A patient had convulsions at every menstrual period; coming on in the early morning.

Ulceration and inflammation of os uteri, and chronic intrauterine inflammation.

Leucorrhea: albuminous, white-of-egg-like consistency.

Painful hypertrophy of uterus.

A burning, drawing sensation in uterus after driving, standing on feet or when weary.

Dull, aching pain in pelvis from leaning over or if back is not supported.

Membranous Dysmenorrhea: Menstruation was accompanied by terrible pains of a grinding character. Flow scanty, and on the second day there was a passage of a firmly organized membrane. The mental symptom was a constant feeling as if something was behind her. She could not get away from that sensation. It was of nothing definite, simply something terrible behind her, peering over her shoulder, causing her to look around anxiously. Under Medorrhinum I found many of her symptoms, including the peculiar mental symptom, and gave it to her. The next period was without pain and without membrane. Repeated the remedy and the third period was painless again. Close.

Sharp shooting pains like knives, much soreness and tenderness to pressure-the slightest pressure causes her to suffer pains for hours, bearing-down sensation, especially in the left ovary, relieved by pressing upon abdomen; pains run from left ovary to uterus.

Uterus: subinvoluted, sensitive to slightest pressure, a sensitive spot above and to the right of the cervix.

Leucorrhea: thin, acrid, producing severe pruritus, itching intolerable, worse by rubbing, also better by bathing frequently with tepid water, it has odor of decayed fish; sharp pains run from uterus to rectum.

Leucorrhea in a pure young girl, age 13; thick, yellow, profuse, running down the clothes to the feet, stiffening the linen. Sycotic.

Voice and Larynx.

     Trachea & Bronchia Hoarseness, especially while reading, with occasional loss of voice.

Slight hoarseness with hawking up of mucus.

Choking caused by a weakness or spasm of epiglottis, could not tell which; larynx stopped so that no air could enter, only amel. by lying on face and protruding tongue. (Acet-ac.) (Asthma: Dr., Miller, Glasgow.) At night dryness, soreness and choking very severe; thrusting tongue in cheek brought on coughing and choking as if epiglottis was closed, a tearing sensation as if lining of larynx and pharynx had been torn off.

Dryness of glottis, very annoying, with pain during deglutition; great hoarseness.

During day hoarseness, soreness and elongation of palate.

Soreness in larynx as if ulcerated.

Larynx feels sore when coughing.

Tenacious mucus in larynx.

Sensation of a lump in larynx, severe pain on deglutition.

Bronchial catarrh spreading into larynx, swelling of tonsils and glands of throat extended also into ears, causing transient deafness.

Constricted and frequent swallowing, painful deglutition with dyspnoea as if caused by something foreign in larynx.

Cough: harsh, whistling, barking, croupy.

Respiration

      Desire to breathe deep, wakes gasping for breath.

Difficulty in breathing, with momentary faintness; very marked stuffed feeling in chest made her gasp for breath.

Great oppression of breathing every afternoon about 5 P.M.; sense of constriction.

Has to fill lungs, but no power to eject air.

Faint suffocative sensation when sitting up in bed, as if thorax was full.

Spasm of glottis, with clucking in throat, air expelled with difficulty, but inhaled with ease.

Breath hot, feels so even when breathing through nose.

After a deep inspiration singular piping and croaking in bronchia.

Cough

      Cough from tickling under upper part of sternum.

Incessant dry cough, agg. at night; wakes just as she is falling asleep; agg. from sweet things.

Hacking cough, causing darting pains through scapulae.

Dry, hacking cough, with a weak, sinking sensation under sternum.

Severe dry cough, agg. at night, sensation of a lump; dryness and excoriated sensation in glottis; with great hoarseness (relieved by Ipecac.).

Terrible, painful cough, as if larynx would be torn to pieces, and as if mucous membrane was torn off, with profuse discharges of viscid, greyish mucus, mixed with blood.

Cough deep an hollow, like coughing in a barrel; bronchial tubes appear to be very much enlarged and cough spasm causes a flabby feeling, as if lining membrane was a loose fold of tissue.

Great rattling of mucus, which appears to be low down in chest, while cough does not seem to reach there, but only to throat pit, consequently hard cough does not reach phlegm unless he lies on his face, when cough brings up a greyish yellow, or a pale greenish yellow, gelatinous mucus without taste. When lying on back or either side when coughing, rattling, wheezing or whistling.

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.