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Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkeDescription
Bear s foot. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of the root.
Nosology
Cholera. Hair, failing off. Nails, falling off. Scarlatina. Skin, peeling. Stiff-neck.
Typical features
The effects of Hel. f. have been observed on several persons. It is a violent narcotico-acrid poison, and in fatal poisoning cases death has taken place in convulsions. The vision is disordered; choleraic symptoms occur; skin, hair, and nails exfoliate. The anxiety is after vomiting.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Verat. alb. (copious liquid stools); Hell. n., Hell. v., сolch.
Mental
Dreadful anxiety; after vomiting.
Head, face, and ears
Great difficulty in reading, in evening, by candle-light; the sensation is as when the light flickers from a draught of air; cannot follow the lines.
Thumping pain below and behind left ear.
Thumping pain below and behind left ear.
Mouth and throat
Smarting at tip of tongue. Painful sensation like aphthae in mouth (inhaling fumes of triturated plant). Taste of manure; tongue yellow in middle. Excoriation of mouth and throat.
11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen. Nausea and vomiting of food (taken an hour before with relish). - сonstant inclination to vomit. When pounding the plant it seems that the epigastrium with difficulty keeps time with the inflation of the chest on inspiration. Frightful pain in pit of stomach. - сolic.
11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen. Nausea and vomiting of food (taken an hour before with relish). - сonstant inclination to vomit. When pounding the plant it seems that the epigastrium with difficulty keeps time with the inflation of the chest on inspiration. Frightful pain in pit of stomach. - сolic.
Gastrointestinal tract
Violent purging and vomiting with pain in stomach. Abundant liquid stool during night; next day two liquid, whitish stools; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours later.
Chest organs
Tightness of chest, can scarcely half draw his breath.
Appetite poor.
Numbness in muscles of neck; sensibility to touch blunted it becomes stiff eighteen hours later.
Appetite poor.
Numbness in muscles of neck; sensibility to touch blunted it becomes stiff eighteen hours later.
Common symptoms
Fatal convulsions. Swooning.
Skin
Skin of whole body peels, hair falls out, all the nails fall off. Profuse discharge from ulcerated surface (from application).
Sleep
Stirs a good deal in his sleep.
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