Medorrhinum – Medicine



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Hectic fever; every afternoon.

Great tendency to perspire on exertion; sensitive to cold.

Profuse sweat about neck.

Night sweats.

Chills for four months every day, commencing from 3 to 4 P.M.; chill with headache, thirst, nausea, sometimes vomiting; fever with headache, thirst, nausea, principally on head and neck; pains from waist downwards; frequent urination, dark color; frequent, tasteless eructations; constipation; bad taste in mouth in morning.

Chill came first at night, afterwards at various hours; for instance, on two consecutive days at 2 P.M., then two days at 3, 4, 5 and 6 each, then at 7 P.M., where it remained for two weeks; chill commenced in small of back, running up and down, lasted about an hour, and as it ceased, profuse and frequent urination appeared and continued during fever; congestion of chest simulating pneumonia during fever, causing great alarm; great renal distress during paroxysm; thirst during fever for hot drinks; fever continued for six or eight hours; profuse sweat after fever; great nervousness during paroxysm, was sure he would die; intolerance of noise; irritable.

Attacks and Periodicity

      In close succession: pains in ear. Alternately: flashes of heat and chills.

Several times during day: sudden attacks of vertigo; chill up and down back.

Takes half hour to empty bladder.

Every day for four months: chills commencing from 3 to 4 P.M.

Every afternoon: hectic fever; about 5 P.M. oppression of breathing.

Nightly: passes enormous quantity of urine in bed.

Chill came first at night, afterwards at various hours; on two consecutive days at 2 P.M., then two days at 3, 4, 5, 6 each, then 7 P.M. where it remained for two weeks.

For six or eight hours: fever.

For forty-eight hours: violent retching and vomiting.

For three nights: cannot sleep, pain in carbuncular boils.

For several days: entire loss of smell.

For three days: intense headache, inflammation of eyes.

For six days: child hard of hearing.

For a whole week: heat in medulla and spine.

Six months after chancre like ulcer on prepuce there came for several months successive crops of vesicles on prepuce.

For ten months: gonorrhea.

For seven years: Agg. during winter, old standing foot sweats.

For twenty years: gleety gonorrheal discharge.

Locality & Direction

      Right: neuralgia in temple; in eye; headache in temple; as of a worm crawling in ear; soreness of concha; quick, darting pains in ear; fever-blisters near corner of upper lip; neuralgia of upper and lower jaw; hard swelling in upper jaw; as of a tumor inside of abdomen; tensive pain in side of abdomen; darting pain from center of ovarian region to lower edge of liver; cutting in lower abdomen, running into spermatic cord; testes very tender, distinct bubbling sensation in kidney; sensation of three bubbles in renal region; heavy, drawing, wandering pains in arms and hip; tense pain passing diagonally in ovary; small chancres on edges of labia; pain in upper part of lung; pain in right shoulder as though it came from left; darting pain from center of lung to lower edge of liver; cold pain in lung; sharp stitching pain in bottom of lung; lung cold; sharp pain along edge of sternum; mild heat spreading over right side; pain in bottom of lung; sensation of enlarged gland in side of neck; pain under scapula; throbbing and thumping in region of suprarenal capsule, seeming to come from just below fifth rib; creeping chills in region of kidney; rheumatic pain in shoulder and arm; severe pain from abscess of liver, extending to shoulder and down elbow; crampy pain in first and second fingers of hand; dropping of leg; cramp in leg; between knee and thigh; soreness of great toe; pain, swelling and inflammation of great toe; pain like rheumatism along nape, whole side, hip, upper leg.

Left: neuralgia in temple and eye; aching over eye; pain in parietal bone; tensive pains in side of head; ptosis of outer end of upper lid; pulling pain in lower lid; itching, aching or boring pain in ear; ring hole in ear sore; soreness of outer wing of nostril; crawling in nostril; fever sore on lower lip near commissure; swelling in region of submaxillary gland; mild cramp in calf; hot swelling on side of anus; heavy, drawing, wandering pains in calf; great deal of pain in ovary; ovary seemed enlarged; soreness and nervous pain in a spot on side of uterus; swelling of breast; oppression agg. on side; sharp pain in bottom of lung; aching in back of lung; an old sore spot in top of lung aroused; fatigue of lung; walking in sun, lung becomes excessively hot; pain in upper chest; aching in lung under scapula; sharp pain in edge of sternum and lung; lung very painful, feels drawn towards right side; side of chest from top of lung to waist hot as fire; bottom of lung sore to pressure; dull, heavy pain at top of lung; intense boring below scapula; sore spot size of silver dollar begins at top of lung, extends through to lower part of back; after having slept on side, soreness of heart; great pain in cardiac plexus, extending to arm; intense pain in side of chest; pain from sore spot below scapula to heart; dull pain in heart, with pain in arm; burning in arm; sensation of an abscess in chest; great soreness of muscles of lower chest; ribs sore to touch; occasional creeping sensation in region of kidney; pain in region of kidney darting over hip; rheumatic pain in top of shoulder; itching eruption on shoulder; pain commencing under scapula, running down arm to little finger; forearm and hand numb; pain in arm and sensation in hand as if swollen; numbness down arm, numb pain in arm, sensation of a boil coming on back of hand; pains across middle knuckles of hands; middle finger swollen; sharp pain over hip; numbness of leg, pain in knee when walking; trembling in leg, contraction of muscle under knee and in calf; knotting of muscle in calf; sudden intense pain in ankle, back of joint; sore swelling under foot; pains like rheumatism in lower leg; leg swollen near knee; numb sensation in arm, hand and leg; leg goes to sleep; itching sometimes confined to side.

From without inward: pain in right ear.

First right hand cold, then left.

From left to right: pain in shoulders; burning and itching of hands:.

Sensations

      Of falling; as if intoxicated; as if occiput was enlarged; head as if tightening; as of a tight band across forehead; as if front half of brain would come through forehead; as if skin was drawn tight; as if she would go crazy; as of three points of tension in head, as if large cords were drawn to each; as if tensive pains would break, as if head had been struck; as if occipital protuberances were enlarged; as if eyes were pulling out of head; as if she started at everything; as if eyes protruded; as of sand under lids; as of stick in eyes, lids and inner canthi; as of a cool wind blowing in eyes; as if upper lid had a cartilage in it; a if a tube went through head; as if parchment was drawn over ear; as of a worm crawling in right ear, as if it commenced boring in anterior wall of auditory canal; as if mucous membrane of nose was hypertrophied; as of a centipede crawling in left nostril, mouth as if burnt; throat as if scraped; as of a paper of pins in pit of stomach that seemed to force themselves through flesh; as if heart palpitated in pit of stomach; as if a lump in stomach; cramps in stomach as from wind; sensation in liver as if caused by icy cold insects with claws; as of a heavy weight in lower abdomen; as of a tumor in right side of abdomen; pressure as of a hard, biconvex body in abdomen; beating as of a pulse in abdomen; as if there was a large lump on posterior surface of sphincter ani; as of passage of calculus in ureter; after urinating, a feeling as if something more remained in urethra; as if a sac was distended in left ovary and if pressed would burst; pain in left groin as if leg pushed something; left ovary as if enlarged; as if she must press ovary; cutting as if with knives in pelvic region; pain as if menses were coming on; choking as if epiglottis was closed; as if lining of larynx and pharynx was torn off; larynx as if ulcerated; as of a lump in larynx, as if thorax was too full; as if larynx would be torn to pieces; as if bronchial tubes were enlarged; as if lining membrane was a loose fold of tissue; chest as if painfully contracted; lung as if beaten or bruised; as if her breath was fanning a blistered sore in lung; as if there was a cavity extending from side to side in chest, filled with burning air, which dilated in puffs in all directions; pain in right shoulder as though it came from left straight through; left lung as if collapsed or paralyzed; as if lung was drawn up in hand and let loose; left lung as if drawn toward right side as if something had grown to sore spot in front of chest and was drawing back; heart as if large; as of a cavity where heart ought to be; pain as if radiating in different parts of left side of chest, as if heart was swollen; as of an abscess on left chest, between pectoralis major and minor; as of an enlarged gland in right side of neck, under upper part of sternocleidomastoid; pains in shoulders as if bones would be crushed; as of water dropping out of a bottle in lumbar region; pricking in left little finger as if asleep; left hand as if swollen; as if a boil was coming on back of hand; left leg as if paralyzed; creeping chills in region of right kidney, as if caused by icy cold insects with claws; as if she would faint; as of creeping things throughout body; as if she would have nightmare; as if contents of lower part of chest and abdomen seemed to press upon each other, as of a foreign substance in right eye, then in l.; as if blood was boiling hot in veins, as if she had taken a severe cold; sore all over as if bruised; as if all bones were out of joint.

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.