Materia Medica Pura Volume 2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...of three children, one of whom recovered. Spasmodic contortions of the limbs, jerking him to the distance of two feet. General convulsions. Excessive convulsions.--180. Epilepsy. Horrible epilepsy, returning first at short, afterwards at longer intervals; the limbs, head and upper part of the body are moved in a strange manner; accompanied by lock-jaw. Epileptic fit with wonderful con tortions of the limbs, the upper part of the body and head, with a bluish face and the breathing being interrupted for a few moments, with foam at the mouth; after the convulsions, when the breathing had become free, he had lost his senses, he lay like one dead, remaining insensible even when called to, pinched, etc. (The body of a young man who died two hours after the poisoning, remained warm for a whole day, without blueness or swelling; the limbs were stiff, the lungs were full of blue and yellow spots, the blood was red and fluid, the heart empty, the oesophagus bluish and dry.) She lies like one dead, with lock-jaw. Immobility.--185. They were all lying in a state of weakness and insensibility, like dead persons. Sleep: Frequent yawning, as if he had not slept enough. (a. If h.) Drowsiness, his eyes closed. Vivid dreams, which he was unable to recollect.--190. Confused dreams, full of uneasiness. Sleeplessness, the whole night (immediately). Sleeplessness, he woke every quarter of an hour, with a painful feeling of heaviness in the head. He feels every morning as if he had not slept enough. Frequent waking, with sweat all over, the sweating making him feel stronger. 195. Fever: They want to sit near the stove. Thrills of coldness over the lower limbs; afterwards coldness in the arms; the coldness appearing to come out of the chest, followed by an...