Cervus

by Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Cervus campestris, Cuv. (called by Mure, Cervus Brasilicus).

Brazilian name , Gouazoupita; the Brazilian deer.

Preparation , Triturations of the fresh hide, covered with hair.

Authority.

Mure, Pathogénésie Brésilienne.

MIND

  • Dejection during the day (third day).

HEAD

  • Dizziness and heaviness of the head (first day).
  • The dizziness continues (second day).
  • Dizzy-headed; slight weight on the forehead (third day).
  • At 5 in the morning, the head feels heavy and dull, especially the front part (first day).
  • At noon, the head feels compressed, as by a band tied at the nape of the neck (first day).
  • Weight in the forehead (second day).

EYE

  • Vision very sensitive to light; he cannot open his eyes in the sunlight (second day).

NOSE

  • Sensation like a neddle-prick on the right wing of the nose (first day).

FACE. [10.]

  • The face is mottled in various places (third day).

MOUTH

  • At 9.30 o'clock, the left side of the tongue feels hurt (first day).
  • Taste of doughy bread in the mouth (second and third days).
  • Coppery taste in the mouth, and a sensation of heat in the throat, when taking the drug (first day).

ABDOMEN

  • At 6 o'clock, slight pain around the navel, of short duration (first day).
  • Pricking pain in the navel when lying down (second day).
  • Intermitting pain in right groin after walking (second day).
  • At 8 o'clock, pain like a needle-prick in the right groin in the direction of the joint, lasting a quarter of an hour (second day).

STOOL

  • Slight diarrhœa (first day).

URINARY ORGANS

  • Urine of the color of very strong tea (first day).

SEXUAL ORGANS. [20.]

  • Erection in the evening, with desire to lie down (third day).

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Numbness of the arm on which he lies at night (third day).
  • Numbness of the hands and legs (fourth day).

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Frequent pain, now in the left buttock, now in the thigh (first day).
  • Induration of the left leg, with lancinating pain (third day).
  • Weakness of the left leg (first day).
  • Uneasiness in left leg (fourth day).
  • Sensation as if lashed with a whip on the inner side of the right leg, with red spots (second day).
  • Small callosity above the left internal malleolus (first day).
  • Bruised sensation in the left toes (first day).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS. [30.]

  • (Languid feeling; he wants to lie down), (first day).
  • Feeling as if tired and bruised all over (first day).
  • (Unable to work), (first day).
  • Uneasiness (first day).

SKIN

  • Appearance like incipient erysipelas (second day).
  • Dark-red spots, with inflammation of the right side of the face (first day).
  • Red and moist spots on the left leg (third day).
  • Feeling of gooseflesh, as if some one was cutting cork close to him (first day).

SLEEP

  • Yawning (second day).
  • Repeated yawning (first day). [40.]
  • Drowsiness from 2.30 to 3 o'clock (first day).
  • Quiet and short sleep; he wakes four times in the night (third day).
  • Restless sleep, as on the first night (second day).
  • Light or comatose sleep, with dreams of men dressed in black, pistol-shots, imprisonment (first day).
  • Awakes several times in the night, always preoccupied with the idea of quarrelling with some one who frightened him (second day).

FEVER

  • Chilliness.
  • Shivering, with twitching (second day).
  • Feels cold, although well wrapped up (first day).
  • Heat.
  • Constant heat in head (first day).
  • 4 o'clock, the heat in the forehead and face increases (first day).
  • Heat of the legs (first day). [50.]
  • Heat in the right leg, where the red, sore place is (third day).

CONDITIONS

  • Aggravation.
  • ( Evening ), Erection, etc.
  • ( When lying down ), Pain in navel.
  • ( After walking ), Pain in groin.

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