Ustilago – Medicine



Menses that had just ceased returned, bright colored, soreness and bearing down in left side preceding the flow and partially ceasing with it.

Menses copious, bright red, not coagulating easily (in a woman who thought she had passed the climacteric, as there had been no discharge for over a year), it stopped as suddenly as it began, no pain, only faintness and confused feeling in head.

Menorrhagia at climaxis; active and constant flowing with frequent clots.

Bland leucorrhea.

Abortion.

Deficient labor pains; os soft, pliable, dilatable.

Constant flooding.

Puerperal peritonitis.

Lochia too profuse, partly fluid, partly clotted; prolonged bearing down pains; uterus feels drawn into a knot.

Hemorrhage: mixed character, slow, protracted. A tonic condition of pelvic organs; deficient labor pains, with dilatable

os.

Hypertrophy and subinvolution of uterus with great atony.

Metrorrhagia, with vertigo during climacteric.

Menorrhagia, with displaced uterus.

The ligaments of the uterus are relaxed; prolapsus, with bearing down sensation, as if all the pelvic organs would be expelled.

Flabby, relaxed condition of pelvic organs, a tonic condition of uterus; a state of weakness, relaxation and atony.

Flushes of heat, and disturbances of circulation similar to those occurring at the climaxis, or from premature suppression of the menses; ovaries inflamed, irritable, sensitive, and swollen; burning distress in both ovaries.

Sharp pains commence in ovaries and run down the legs.

Aching distress referred to the uterus.

Metrorrhagia after miscarriage, confinement or at the climaxis.

Discharge of blood on the slightest provocation; after digital or mechanical examination; cervix swollen, bleeding easily when touched.

Uterus remains large after miscarriage or confinement; subinvolution delayed.

Hemorrhage bright red, but more frequently dark, clotted and stringy; postpartum oozing from flabby atonic uterus.

Uterus hypertrophied, heavy, feels soft, spongy or boggy.

Complaints of the lying-in woman; profuse debilitating lochia.

Milk deficient or superabundant; nursing increase the lochial discharge.

Acute pain agg. in left ovary, with swelling; pains intermittent; shoot rapidly down legs. Ovaritis, constant pains in ovary, sharp pains passing down legs rapidly; ovary much swollen and tender, with scanty menstruation.

Ovaritis; took cold after menstruation; constant dull pain in right groin and back, three or four times an hour; sharp neuralgic pains in ovary; walking painful; bowels torpid, very languid.

Ovarian irritation, constant pain in left ovary passing down hip, has to limp when walking; pains sharp and at times pass down leg with great rapidity; every few days has quite a swelling in left groin; cannot bear pressure over ovary.

Every day from 12 M. to about 4 P.M., constant pain from left ovary to uterus; every few minutes, pain in ovary is intensely severe, cutting like a knife; pain in right ovary and hypogastric region, but all starting from left ovary; ovary can be distinctly felt in groin about as large as a hen’s egg and very hard; when pressed upon gives intense pain; every day thinks she has fever with paroxysm of pain, but no chill; slight leucorrhea; loss of appetite; constipated.

Displaced uterus with menorrhagia; cervix tumefied; bleeds when touched.

Uterus hypertrophied, sensitive, blood bright, fresh, without coagula.

Subserous or interstitial fibroid of uterus (two cases), fibroid much diminished.

Cervix tumefied, bleeds when touched.

For days oozing of dark blood with small coagula; uterus enlarged, cervix tumefied or dilated.

Chronic uterine hemorrhage, and passive congestion.

Blood dark, but so thin as to scarcely color fingers.

Profuse menstruation, flow lasting from ten days to two weeks, at first very abundant, gradually wearing off; always agg. from motion; discharge dark and quite painless. Menses every three weeks, with dark coagulum; profuse, with gushes of bright- red blood when rising from a seat, or after having been startled or frightened; two days before menses, a heavy backache with sharp pain across abdomen from hip to hip, followed by expulsive pains; pain diminish after flow commences and stop with it; between menstrual periods heavy dragging backache on exertion; pain shooting up back from hips to shoulder; abdomen tender to touch; excessive bearing down, pressure in head; sensation of contraction in vertex, and feeling as if head were lifting off; vertigo; excoriating, albuminous leucorrhea, agg. before menses; ravenous appetite; excessive tired feeling; pulse 80 and weak; mental depression.

Subject to profuse menstruation; childless; large, fleshy flabby, bloated-looking, with a very sallow complexion, inclined to be (and formerly had been) dropsical from excessive loss of blood; profuse menstruation, which seems to her to be principally water and clots; says there is no outward flow when she lies still, but clots and water pass out of uterus when she gets up; feels so full in uterus that she must rise to get rid of clots; flowed fearfully during night; very low, scarcely able to speak aloud. Severe menorrhagia for past twelve years at every menstrual period, lasting a week or ten days, sometimes longer; pale, thin, weak, very nervous.

Profuse discharge of dark, clotted blood of fetid odor, with pain and tenderness in one or both ovaries.

Dysmenorrhea of a congestive character, with much ovarian irritation; severe pain in ovaries; uterus and back every few minutes; scanty, pale flow accompanied by false membranes; poor appetite, thickly-coated tongue.

Subject to headaches ever since menstruation appeared at age of fifteen; headache mostly on top of head; appetite poor, pain in left chest with some cough; total suppression of menses for last eight months; severe pain in back, is unable to ride in carriage; pain in uterine region, especially over ovarian region, agg. left side, vomiting of mucus and blood daily; no sleep; some leucorrhea; hysterical; no uterine displacement, but great congestion in pelvic region.

Suppression of menses without apparent cause; trouble-some cough; considerable expectoration; sometimes also dry cough; stitching pains in chest; especially left side; night sweats; loss of appetite; pain in ovaries, especially 1; general debility, headache; leucorrhea; chlorotic; anemic, as if in first stage of consumption.

Menses suppressed for last fourteen months; very irritable and depressed; uneasiness in region of stomach; pain in ovarian region, especially l.; skin hot and dry; constipation, stools dry and hard; no appetite; stitching pains in chest, agg. worse in left side; constant hacking cough; considerable expectoration; night sweats; general prostration; great uneasiness in lower extremities.

Mild leucorrhea.

Climaxis: vertigo; frequent flushing; metrorrhagia.

Pregnancy, Parturition and Lactation

      Abortion: bearing-down pains, as if everything would come from her; in flabby constitutions; from general atony of uterus: with or without hemorrhage.

Has aborted a number of times at third month; is now about three months pregnant; for last ten days has had more or less hemorrhage every day, some days quite bad; not so much at night; blood passes a number of times through day, in dark-colored clots.

Postpartum hemorrhages from a flabby, atonic condition of uterus.

Constant flooding; every minutes, expulsion of a large clot of bright red blood, with bearing-down pains.

Persistent hemorrhage of brownish blood, with want of uterine contraction.

One and a half hours after delivery commenced to flow violently.

Passive hemorrhage after miscarriage, blood in lumps, flooding for days and weeks.

Severe flooding two weeks after labor; large bright-red clots, no pain; very weak.

Very profuse lochial discharge, very dark in color, almost black.

Agalactia; chronic inflammation, and induration of mamma.

Galactorrhea.

Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from the uterus.

Puerperal peritonitis, with constant flooding; high fever; secretion putrid; abdomen excessively tender and tympanitic.

Puerperal peritonitis; aborted about two days since, at about three months: constant fever; pulse 120; cannot bear least pressure on any portion of bowels; about six times today has had sharp, cutting pains in left ovary; has flowed constantly for two days; blood dark, no copious, not attended with bearing down pains; cannot move in bed; is compelled to lie upon her back; constant, dull, frontal headache; loss of appetite, tongue furred.

For last year vertigo every day, some days so bad she has to go to bed; menses every three weeks for last year; last about ten days and profuse; flows as much again as she did when in health; constant aching distress under left mamma; rheumatic pains in shoulder and back; very weak, not able to work.

Fibroids and induration of os.

Discharge of blood from uterus, bright-red, partly fluid, partly clotted, passive congestion of uterus, so that there is a slight oozing of blood after each examination; tissues of uterus feel soft and spongy; os patulous.

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.