C. Hering's Domestic physician : revised, with additions from the author's manuscript of the seventh German edition ; containing also a tabular index of the medicines and the diseases in which they are used.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880.
Date:
1851, ©1850
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    or fire at intervals, with fearfulness and a wish to escape, give Belladonna, or alternate with Aconite, giving one each hour, and Calcarea carbonica the following morning. If Belladonna should afford no relief, if the throat is affected, the attacks appearing more in the afternoon, or after sleeping, the patient talks much, flying from one subject to another, is unwilling to bear his shirt or neckhandkerchief, but striving to have them removed, Lachcsis will be serviceable. If premonitory symptoms of apoplexy appear in drunkards, Belladonna is often of great use. Bad effects of Coffee. A person who is not accustomed to coffee, who drinks too much, or who drinks it too strong, may feel unpleasant symp- toms in consequence, which he might wish to remove as speedily as possible. For sleeplessness, palpitation of the heart, great irritability of the nervous system, violent spasms in the stomach, Nux vomica almost always suffices. For violent headache, as if a nail were driven into the head, or heaviness, rending pain in the head, give Ignatia or Nux vomica. If it is better when stooping, or if there is a throbbing in the whole head, if the patient is of an undecided, inconstant disposition, give Ignatia; if it is worse when stooping, or walk- ing, attended with much giddiness, confusion and heaviness in the head, and the patient is of a choleric temperament, give Nux vomica. Violent, one-sided headache yields usually to Nux vomica ; or if accompanied by much weeping, and screaming, and great sensitiveness, to Chamomilla. Tedious effects of the too frequent use of coffee may be removed by the same medicines. Nux vomica is one of the principal medicines in these complaints; if it does not suffice, Coffea may sometimes be given, and then Nux vomica again. Frequent toothache following immediately upon drinking cof- fee, generally yields to Chamomilla. If very violent, when the