Therapeutic guide : the most important results of more than forty years' practice, with personal observations regarding the truly-reliable and practically-verified curative indications in actual cases of disease / by G.H.G. Jahr ; translated, with notes and new remedies, by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Jahr, G. H. G. (Gottlieb Heinrich Georg), 1800-1875.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Therapeutic guide : the most important results of more than forty years' practice, with personal observations regarding the truly-reliable and practically-verified curative indications in actual cases of disease / by G.H.G. Jahr ; translated, with notes and new remedies, by Charles J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    tearing and burning in the riglit temple and side of tlie forcliead; tlie attack liad been excited by a violent fit of anger, began early in the morning and raged most fiercely at night; Cham, for a violent tearing in the left side of the head; Aeon, for crampy stinging pains over the root of the nose, with excessive nervous- ness, excessive sensitiveness to odors and a most distressing appre- hension of dying; Sulph., for severe digging and stitching pains over the left eye, setting in in the evening and reaching their high- est degree of intensity in the night. 3. Kervoiis Meadache.—This form of headache, which occurs most frequently among hysteric and hypochondriac individ- uals, and among persons who had become debilitated by excesses or losses of vital fluids from any other cause, is distinguished from megrim and neuralgia of the head principally by the circumstance that it is not governed by fixed periods or types, but breaks out at indefinite intervals and is excited by almost any special cause, such as emotions, mental exertions, the menses, after which the headache continues for a longer or shorter period. It is not always easy to find a suitable remedy for this form of headache, although the number of those that have proved the most efficient in m}' hands, is, upon the whole, quite limited. In the first rank I place Aco7i. for hysteric headache, which is exceedingly aggravated by hearing other people talk, with extreme sensitiveness to noise and motion; Aurum for a headache as if the brain had been bruised and increasing from the least mental effort or attempt to think until the ideas become utterly confused or jumbled up; Bellad. for the roaring and undulating sensations in the heads of hysteric females, with aggravation of the pain, by every noise and even hearing other people tread, together with extreme sensitiveness of the outer head; Chamomilla for a sensation of weight over the root of the nose, after partaking of coffee contrary to custom, or in the case of inveterate coffee-drinkers; China for a nightly headache of debilitated people, or for a sensation as if the brain felt bruised, worse whenever he moves about or even opens his eyes, with pain- fiilness of the scalp even if the hair is simply touched; Goccul. in the case of hysteric females or at the time of the menses, if the head feels hollow and empty; Coffea for pains as if a nail had been driven into the side of the head, or as if the brain had been smashed, sometimes the pain is maddening, with moaning, cries, lamentations;