Polyporus Officinalis

Larch Agaric. Fungi.

A fungus growing on the larch tree ; formerly called Boletus laricis. Provings by Burt, Am. Hom. Obs., 1868, p. 116; Lord, Am. Hom. Obs., 1868, p. 60 ; Smedley, Wood, Cooley and Miller, Allen's Encyclop., vol. 8, p. 142.

Clinicai. Authorities. — Sick-headache, periodical headache, Shepherd, Smedley, Burt's Monograph ; Facial neuralgia, Burt's Monograph ; Jaundice, Burt's Mono- graph ; Diarrhoea, chronic diarrhoea, lienteria, dysentery, Holcombe, Wood, Burt's Monograph ; Ague (26 cases). Lord, Franklin, Shepherd, Wakeman, Eice, Scott, Burt's Monograph ; Cooley, A. H. O., vol. 5, p. 481 ; Continued fever, Lord, Burt's Monograph ; Remittent and bilious fever, Franklin, Burt's Monograph.

' Mind. Low-spirited, gloomy, desponding, irritable.

Absence of mind and loss of memory. - Sensorium. Head feels light and hollow, with deep frontal headache and much faintness ; in malarial intermittents.

Congestion of blood to head with vertigo. ^ Inner Head, l i Headache, dull, frontal, with fever.

I I Dull aching pain in head.

I I Headache with qualmishness.

I I Sick-headache: from organic lesion of liver; every month, with chilliness along spine.

■ Headache in intermittent, remittent or bilious fevers.

I Periodical headache, coming on at regular hour each day. ^ Upper Face. ' i Facial neuralgia, of a periodical character ; from torpid liver.

I I Weak and languid ; poor appetite; every day for the last week, at 12 m., burning pain in upper teeth, 1. side of jaw, also in 1. temple; pain intense, lasts until mid- night, when it gradually passes off; feels it slightly through forenoon. ^Intermittent neuralgia.

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I Intermittent neuralgia 1. side of head and temple. " Taste and Tongue, i Taste : bitter, coppery, nauseous.

I Tongue: coated; white; yellow; thickly yellow. ^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. Perfect loss of appetite; pale, ansemic ; chronic malaria. Sometimes has ravenous appetite ; but more often none. Desire for sour things, which relieve. '" Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea and

vomiting. '^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Great faintness or all gone feeling in epigastric region. Burning distress in stomach, with dragging pains in liver. '^Hypochondria. ■ Severe aching pains in region of liver, extending over whole dorsal region ; portal congestion. I Pain in liver, with jaundice of skin and great lassitude. I Hepatic complaints, especially jaundice. ^^ Abdomen. Loud rumbling in bowels.

Constant distress in region of umbilicus, with a feeling as if small intestines were being tied in knots; summer diarrhoea. Pain in abdomen between stomach and navel. ^^ Stool and Rectum, i Loose stool.

Sudden distress in hypogastric region, with great desire for stool; light-colored, papescent stool, _ followed by dragging pains in liver and sinking in epigastrium. ^ I Stools of pure mucus, or mucus, blood and bile, with

great faintness and distress in solar plexus after stool. I I Stools run from bowels with great force, composed of bile, mucus and black fecal matter, preceded by great burning pain and distress in epigastrium, r. lobe of liver, and umbilicus and followed by symptoms of portal congestion. iLienteria; stools undigested ; chronic anaemia. I I Dysentery, with intermittent fever, in a young lady; passages of pure blood and a little mucus every half hour, with severe tenesmus and colicky pains in hypogastrium. • Intermittent diarrhoea and dysentery. ■ Chronic diarrhoea and dysentery. I I Constipation, dull headache and great languor. ^' Urinary Organs, i Urine very high colored and scanty,

bilious. ''Inner Chest and Lungs. Phthisis, with copious night

sweats and watery diarrhoea. ^' Neck and Back. ' i Severe headache.

I I Dull aching pain in back and hips. " Lower Limbs. Pain in knees and ankles. VOL. VIII. — 34.

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^* Limbs in General. Great aching distress in all the large joints.

Severe pains in arms and legs. ^* Best. Position. Motion. Can hardly stand up, knees are

so weak. ^® Nerves. ■ Great languor with severe aching pains in back, large joints and bones of legs ; yawns and stretches.

Feels weak and depressed and indisposed to any exertion, physical or mental.

Great debility at times; can hardly stand up, knees are so weak. ^^ Sleep. Disposition to yawn and stretch, with chilliness.

Restless night; sleep disturbed by dreams, very restless and uneasy all night. ^^ Time. Forenoon : neuralgia slight.

Night : sweat ; restless ; uneasy ; fever and distress.

After midnight : profuse sweat. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Cannot bear open air : chilliness.

Damp change: causes cold. *'' Fever. Cannot bear the open air; it makes him so chilly; takes cold from least damp change.

Chilliness, with disposition to yawn and stretch.

Frequent creeping chills along spine, between shoulder- blades up back to nape of neck.

■ Chills commencing in back, between shoulder blades.

Coldness of nose, hands and feet.

I 1 Chills creeping along spine, intermingled with hot flashes.

I I Chill alternates with fever several times a day.

I I Skin hot and dry; especially palms of hands; face hot and flushed.

1 I Very restless all night, with fever and aching distress in large joints.

Sweat profuse after midnight.

I I Extremities cold, bluish; feeble pulse; face bluish ; chills every other day, every succeeding attack being more severe ; gloomy and despondent, irritated at least trifle ; thick yellow coating on tongue ; no appetite ; constant nausea ; slight headache ; slight pain in lum- bar vertebrae. ^Ague.

I I Ague of two years duration, contracted while in army ; had been drugged with quinine, opium and mercurials ; chills, fever and sweat every other day ; great thirst be- tween paroxysms ; very sick at stomach ; vomiting ; no appetite; pain in back; pain in bones; pulse 115; rest- less and nervous.

Chill light and short ; fever long and followed by per- spiration ; in some cases perspiration is copious.

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■ Obstinate intermittent fevers < by exposure and neglect

or abuse of quinine. Intermission very short ; almost continued fever.

■ During apyrexia : headache; bitter taste in mouth;

tongue coated white or yellow ; loss of appetite ; more

or less pains in abdominal viscera, especially liver, with

great lassitude. I I Intermittent, remittent and bilious fevers. Hectic chills and fever in phthisis, with copious night

sweats. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Periodical: headache, coming on at

regular hour each day ; facial neuralgia. Alternate : fever and chill several times a day. Every half hour: passages of pure blood and a little

mucus. Every day : at 12 m., burning pain in teeth ; lasts till

midnight. Every other day : chills. Every month : sick-headache. ^^ Locality and Direction. Right : distress in lobe of liver. Left : pain in side of jaw ; pain in teeth and temples ; in- termittent neuralgia side of head. *^ Sensations. Pain: in liver; in abdomen, between stomach

and navel ; in knees and ankles ; in lumbar vertebrae :

in back ; in bones ; in abdominal viscera. Severe pains : in arms and legs ; in back, large joints and

bones of legs. Severe aching pains : in region of liver. Dragging pains : in liver. Colicky pains : in hypogastrium. Burning pain : in teeth ; in 1. temple. Burning distress: in stomach; in epigastrium; in

umbilicus. Neuralgia : 1. side of head and temple. Dull aching pain : in head ; in back and hips. Dull pain : in frontal region. Distress: in region of umbilicus; in hypogastric region;

in all large joints. Light, hollow feeling : in head. Coldness : of nose, hands and feet. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Mrs. R., set. 35, bilious

temperament ; facial neuralgia. Man, aet. 35, contracted disease two years ago while in the

army ; ague. Lady, set. 47, just passed change of life ; sick-headache. *^ Relations. Compare: Agaric, Bryon., Cinchon., Cornus, Gel-

sem., Ipec, Leptand., Nux vom., Fodophyl.

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