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Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 2,153 chars
General
Characterized by dropsical conditions; uterine haemorrhages.
Mental.-- Bewildered, low-spirited, stupid.
Head
Heaviness of the head, aching in small of back and limbs. Hydrocephalus; stupor, sight of one eye totally lost, the other nearly so; constant involuntary motion of one arm and leg.
Eyes
Sensation as if grains of sand were in one or both eyes, with heat, irritation and redness.
Nose
Catarrh of the; nostrils and throat are filled with thick, yellow mucus, on wakening in the morning. Snuffles.
Face
Face bloated; worse lying down, passes off on sitting up; color bluish or leaden.
Mouth
Increased secretion of mucus and saliva in mouth and fauces, amounting to salivation.
Stomach
Great thirst, but water disagrees, causing pain, or is immediately vomited.
Nausea, with vomiting, or efforts to vomit.
Sensation of sinking in the stomach.
Abdomen
Distension of the abdomen after a moderate dinner. Ascites, often with chronic diarrhoea.
Stool
Evacuations exceedingly scanty and very often bilious.
Urine
Very scanty; sometimes very profuse; is often very yellow and without sediment. Sometimes cures nocturnal enuresis.
Chest
Very great difficulty in breathing, even in a sitting posture; breath very short and unsatisfactory.
Short, dry, hacking cough, sometimes incessant.
Hydrothorax.
Heart and Pulse.-- Palpitation troublesome on walking; heart action scarcely perceptible. Pulse feeble, quick, irregular.
Extremities
Upper : Finger nails of bluish red color.
Lower : aching in both knees.
Oedema of feet, ankles and legs.
Sleep
Drowsiness, vomiting, weak, restlessness. After sleep; nausea; thirst; dry mouth and lips; sinking at the stomach; oppression of chest.
Fever
Body covered with large drops of cold sweat. Dropsy after scarlet fever; after abuse of quinine.
Sexual.-- Male : Penis and scrotum swollen, dropsical.
Female : Ovarian tumors.
Metrorrhagia continuous or paroxysmal fluid or clotted; nausea, vomiting, palpitation; pulse quick, feeble, when moved; fainting when raised from a pillow.
Cough during pregnancy.
Generalities
Sense of general but transient debility.