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ALUMEN--Alum · Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 2,744 chars
General
I have been led to use Alumen quite extensively in a variety of ailments characterized by a most obstinate constipation, which had been existing for a long time. Some years ago a lady came to me suffering from very violent attacks of gastralgia, attended with nausea, vomiting, retching, etc., and unable to bear the least nourishment for ten days together. She also had most obstinate constipation, bowels moved once in ten days; feces dry, hard, black, sometimes large, sometimes small, like sheep dung, and voided with the greatest difficulty.
Alumen 45m in a few days made her bowels regular and natural, and for several years she has had no return of her gastralgia. She still keeps the Alumen by her and at the first sign of the constipation she takes a few pellets, one dose, and it is all-sufficient. From a thin, spare, weakly woman, she has become plump and hearty.
Eyes
Various affections of the eye and sight.
Ears
Purulent otorrhoea.
Nose
Polypus of the nose, left side, with rough skin over the face and body, and neuralgic headache.
Teeth
Affections of the teeth and gums, rather scorbutic. Fearful bleeding after extracting a tooth.
Mouth
Ulcerated mouth, profuse salivation, scirrhous tongue.
Uvula elongated, tonsils inflamed, sore throat.
Dry, black tongue.
Stomach
Vomits large quantities of glairy mucus, or tough colorless slime, and often everything he eats. The pain is better by pressing on it.
Abdomen
Lead and other colics. Abdomen retracted, better from pressure.
Stool
Stools at long intervals, feces being dry, hard, black; sometimes large, sometimes small, like sheep dung, and voided with great difficulty.
Diarrhoea ichorous, mixed with blood of an offensive odor, great exhaustion.
Very exhausting diarrhoea.
Masses of coagulated blood in typhus.
Putrid dysentery.
Scarcely endurable pains in the rectum, with scirrhous indurations, and in other conditions, after stool.
Urinary Organs
Frequent urination, with distinct lumps of blood; slimy sediment, catarrh of the bladder. Urine red and scanty.
Sexual.-- Male : Gonorrhoea.
Frequent emissions.
Female : Affections of left ovary, with constipation, weight and pressing down of the uterus, granulations of vagina.
Leucorrhoea and emaciation, with yellow complexion.
Indurations, ulcerations and scirrhus of the uterus.
Flooding after childbirth, sore, inflamed nipples, cancer of the breasts.
Larynx
Complete aphonia, croup and bronchitis.
Can't talk from tickling in larynx.
Cough, from tickling in the throat, particularly in the morning; in the evening after lying down.
Skin
Proud flesh, chilblains, indolent ulcers. This remedy is particularly applicable to old people.
Fever
Slow pulse. Furious delirium.