Vaccininum – Medicine


Vaccininum – Medicine.

Generalities

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Generalities

      Restlessness.

General malaise.

Languor, lassitude.

Tired all over, with stretching, gaping feeling; unnatural fatigue.

Child wants to be carried.

Many persons faint when being vaccinated.

Weakness.

Mind

      Crying.

Ill-humor, with restless sleep.

Nervous depression, impatient, irritable; disposition to be troubled by things.

Morbid fear of taking small-pox.

Confusion, she does not remember things at the time she wants them.

Head

      Frontal headache.

Forehead felt as if it would split in two in median line from root of nose to top of head.

Stitches in right temple.

Eruption like crusta lactea.

Aching and heat in whole head, especially forehead.

Stinging in both temples.

Aching in forehead the whole forenoon.

In middle of night, waked up by pain in forehead and eyes like split, and stinging in both temples.

Severe headache all over head.

Prickling in left temple, as if going to sleep.

Eyes

      Tinea tarsi and conjunctivitis in a woman, age 28, remaining as result of variola in infancy, conjunctiva painfully sensitive.

Weak eyes; falling out in forehead as if it were split.

Inflamed eyelids.

Redness of eyes and face, with small pimples on face and hands.

Keratitis after vaccination.

Pain in forehead and eyes as if split.

Gauzy sensation before eyes in morning, cannot see well.

Puffed red face and red eyes, with small pimples on face and hands.

Soreness in inner corner of left eye.

Peculiar dull sensation at left lower lid.

Nose

      Full feeling of head, with running of nose.

Bleeding at nose preceded by a feeling of contraction above and between eye-brows, soon after eating meat; menses rather profuse and too frequent; cured by revaccination.

Face

      Redness and distension of face, chill running down back, till afternoon.

Puffed red face and red eyes, with small pimples on face and hands.

Mouth

      Tongue coated, dry yellow, with papilla showing through coat.

Dry mouth and tongue.

Stomach

      Aching in pit of stomach, with short breath.

Bellyache.

Appetite

      Appetite gone, disgust to taste, smell, and appearance of food.

Coffee tastes sour.

Good appetite.

Abdomen

      A stitch in hepatic region, at margin of last lower rib, axillary line.

Stitch in splenic region.

Blown up with flatulence.

Urinary Organs

      Nephritis with albuminuria, hematuria, and dropsy, developed eleven days after vaccination; child recovered.

Respiratory organs

      Short breath with aching in pit of stomach, and pressure in region of heart.

Whooping-cough.

Chest

      Stitch in left side of chest, anteriorly, under short ribs.

Stitches in right side under short ribs in front from right to left then at corresponding place in left side, but from left to right lasting five minutes, felt in liver and spleen.

Drawing down left side of chest and back.

Heart

      Febrile action of heart and arteries.

Aching at heart.

Back and neck

      Swelling of the neck under right ear (parotid gland), with sensation like being cut.

Coolness at throat, anteriorly down the breastbone, in and outwardly.

Backache.

Aching pain in back, agg. in lumbar region, extending around waist.

Twisting pains in lower back.

Weakness in small of back coming on suddenly amel. by lying down.

Upper limbs

      Severe pains in left upper arm at vaccination mark, could not raise it in the morning.

Rheumatic pains in wrists and hands.

Sensation of heat passing from dorsum of hand, as of steam.

Cheloids on re-vaccination marks.

Left upper arm feels stiff, somewhat tremulous.

Redness on left upper arm.

Slight tearing from left wrist into forepart of radius anteriorly.

Prickling in left fourth finger, as if going to sleep, also in left middle finger.

Aching of left fourth finger.

Drawing at left elbow up arm.

Left hand feels hot.

Left fourth finger burns; a warmth streams through left arm.

Lower limbs

      Tearing in left thigh downward.

Soreness of lower extremities, as if heated or over-exerted.

Legs ached immoderately, hardly able to get about, a break- bone sensation, and a feeling as if bones were undergoing process of comminution.

Twisting pains in both knees.

Sleep

      Waked in middle of night by pain in forehead and eyes as if split, and stinging in temples.

Restless sleep.

Fever

      Fever, with heat, thirst, tossing about, crying, aversion to food.

Chill with shaking. The following night she could hardly get warm.

After lying down profuse perspiration broke out, after which chill, redness, and pimples disappeared.

Skin

      Skin hot and dry.

A general eruption similar to cow-pox.

Small pimples develop at point of vaccination with fourth dilution.

Red pimples or blotches in various parts, most evident when warm.

Eruption of pustules with a dark-red base and a roundish or oblong elevation, filled with pus of a greenish-yellow color, at left side of trunk, between shoulders, on left shoulder, behind right ear, resembling varioloid, some as large as a pea, some less, without depression in the center, coming with a round, hard feel in the skin (like a shot), very itchy.

Tingling burning in skin over whole body, most intense in skin of forehead and in lower and anterior portion of hairy scalp, which parts are tinged with a scarlet blush, or efflorescence, similar to the immediate precursor of variolous eruption.

Vaccininum 6, in water, for one day with strict diet, repeated for eight days, acted as preventive in six hundred cases.

Treated a great many cases of variola and varioloid during last eighteen years, some of them of the most desperate character, and yet never lost a case when employing vaccine virus as a remedy; moreover, none of the cases so treated were ever troubled with hemorrhage, or with delirium, or secondary fevers, or were ever disfigured with pitting.

Vaccininum 200th quickly amel. severer symptoms of variola occurring in a child, age six months; two days before appearance of eruption had been re-vaccinated (after an interval of eight days) on navus near right nipple; deglutition difficult through implication of tongue and fauces; pustules, many of large size, scattered over scalp, face, body, and limbs.

Eruption of small, red vesicles on left upper arm and chest, dying off after a few days.

Pustule filled with matter, with a depression in center and red halo on left shoulder.

Pustules suddenly much depressed.

Eruption all over body of small pustules, some with a central depression, some brown.

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.