Sources 4 entries across 4 books: Boericke, Clarke, T. F. Allen, Hale
Dose Boericke
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Tincture, and lower potencies
Reason for useT. F. Allen
Authorities. 1 , T. R. N. Morson, Pharm. Journ., 1844, p. 478, effects of a strong infusion; 2 and 3 , Cuzent, Pharm. Journ., 1861, from Journ. de Pharm., effects of a drink, prepared by chewing the fresh roots and mixing the result with water; 4 , same, effects in old drinkers; 5 , Dr. C. F. Nichols, New Eng. Med. Gaz., 8, 101, copied from Brigham's translation of Remy, effects of the drink, as in Nos. 2 and 3 ; 6 , W. N. Griswold, M.D., Hahn. Month., 1877, p. 547, proving with increasing doses (10 to 20 drops) of 3d dil.; 6 a , same, 2d dil., 10 drops, first day, to two teaspoonfuls eighth day (took a dose of Puls. 2d on ninth, and Nux vom. on eleventh night); 7 , F. Hiller, Jr., M.D., repeated doses of watery solution, first day, afterward of tincture, 25 to 30-drop doses, second, third, sixth, and seventh days, Hahn. Month., 1877, p. 617; 8 , M. A. A. Wolff, M.D., Cal. Med. Times, 1, p. 43, took tincture, three times a day, for about a month, doses 6 drops to three and four teaspoonfuls; 8 a , same, in let. to Editor, Feb. 1878, four weeks after last dose took two doses of 5 drops of strong tincture; on the day after the last dose a series of symptoms appeared.
▼ Better ( Open air ), The symptoms. ( Closing eyes ), Dizziness. ( Eructations ), Feeling at throat pit. ( Mental effort ), Headache. ( Motion ), Pain in head; colic; pain in right instep …
By regionT. F. Allen
Mind When concentrated, drunkenness is almost instantaneous; with the ordinary dose, it occurs about twenty minutes after ingestion. …
Head Dizziness and frontal pressure, even when lying in bed, in the morning (seventh day), [6a] . …
Stomach During some of the proving, noticeably a day or two previous and succeeding to the ninth day, took in food with a sort of ravenous haste ; no taste of food, but a nervous ravenousness would have impelled me to swallow anything with an abnormal avidity, [6a] . [70.] At noon meal, appetite unusually good, but food had not the usual relish or taste (third day), [6a] . …
Chest Heaviness in upper part of chest, behind the sternum, as if filled with wind which cannot be eructated (fourth day), [8] .
Back Pain in back, felt only on pressure, at 11.45 P.M. (tenth day), [8] . Soreness in the back, about second dorsal vertebra, at 5 P.M. (tenth day), [8] .
Extremities The most excruciating pains in the right arm, as if the marrow would be affected ; the location of the pain changes in the whole length of the arm , from the shoulder down to the finger-ends ; the hands , several times (paroxysmal), feel almost paralyzed ; I am then hardly able to keep hold of a pen; at the same time pain was felt in the big toe of right foot ; intermissions only after Bry. and Calc.; took medicine only when the pain became so distressing as to make me almost frantic . …
Skin The skin is covered as in leprosy, with large scales, which fall off and leave lasting white spots which often become ulcers , [5] . …
Sleep Feel somewhat drowsy and stupid, with a dull frontal headache during the whole afternoon and evening (seventh day), [7] . [180.] An irresistible sleep seizes you, and lasts twelve, twenty-four hours, or even longer, according to the temperament of the individual; often, when the dose is too great or too small, sleep does not follow, but in its place an intoxication, [5] . 10 P.M., feel unusually sleepy (second day), [7] . …
Fever 8 P.M., for last few hours feel chilly (thirty-fourth day), [8] . Flush of heat all over the body (soon, first day), [7] . Feverish heat, at 9 A.M. …
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