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Calvin B. Knerr · Repertory of Hering's Guiding Symptoms · Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1896 (Library of Congress copy, archive.org repertoryofherin00heri; public domain) · p. 1186 · 29 remedies
Age, old people ☞ Chap. 29 Blood-vessels, atheromatous; atony, Millef.; atony of bladder, ▌Ars.; atrophic conditions, Kali p.; chronic belching, Alum.; disease of bladder, Alum.; women, irritation of neck of bladder and urethra, Cop.; blennorrhœa vesicæ, ▌Carbo v.; women, quantities of blood discharged at once, with constipation and hypochondriasis (hemorrhage from rectum), ||Psor.; full-blooded, strong (bedsores), Arn.; disease caused by blow or fall, cancerous and scrofulous people, rigid fibre, ▌Con.; nonunion of fractured bones, ▌▌Calc. p.; tendency to atrophy of brain, ||Phos.; losing breath, ▌▌Coca; bronchial affections in cold weather, accumulation of mucus and much difficulty in raising it, Ammoniac.; bronchitis, ▌Amm. c., ▌Carbo v., ▌Dros., ||Eucal., Hippoz., ▌Hydras., ▌Lyc., ▌Nux v., ▌Seneg., ▌Ver.; catarrh, Ictod., ▌Kreo.; bronchial catarrh, with muco-purulent sputa, :Tereb.; chronic bronchial catarrh, with more or less profuse expectoration, also asthma of like character, especially when these always return or increase during the cold season and only abate on return of warm weather, ||Phell.; diseases with chilliness (men), ▌Aurant.; during cholera season, women (cholerine), Æthus.; indolent circulation, ||Agar.; after climacteric period (hemorrhages), ▌Merc.; colic and diarrhœa, ▌▌Aloe; constipation, ▌Op., ▌Phyt.; alternate constipation and diarrhœa, ▌Phos.; coryza, ▌Amm. c.; dry cough, of a hard, racking, spasmodic character, worse at night, Sal. ac.; fatiguing cough, ▌Kreo., ▌Seneg.; violent winter cough, with spasmodic turns at night, and copious light-colored mucous sputa, ▌Kreo.; must cough long time to expel phlegm, ▌▌Dulc.; cramps in legs, ▌Cup. ac.; deafness, ▌Cic.; paralytic deafness, ▌Petrol.; decrepit, Sec.; depression, ▌Aur. met.; diarrhœa, ▌Ant. c., ▌▌Gamb.; alternate diarrhœa and constipation, ▌▌Ant. c.; diarrhœa, after cholera, ▌Coff.; diarrhœa, chronic, men, Con.; diarrhœa, in morning, ▌▌Ars.; diarrhœa, painful, ▌Carbo v.; diarrhœa, with great weakness, ▌▌Nitr. ac.; diarrhœa, in hot weather, ▌Gamb.; dysuria, ▌Benz. ac.; feeble digestive powers, Dios.; dropsies, paralyses, ▌▌Kali c.; dysentery, Bapt.; dyspepsia, ▌Nux m.; dyspepsia, in those inclined to obesity or after great loss of vitality, ▌▌Kali c.; cardiac dyspnœa, at night, ▌Aur. met.; emaciated, mania-a-potu, ▌▌Op.; emphysema, ▌Ipec.; enuresis, ▌Sec.; eruption, sero-purulent, ▌Con.; erysipelas, Amm. c., ▌Lach.; men, fear a long spell of sickness before dying, Cic.; intermittent fever, ▌Op.; flabby, chronic incontinence of urine, from paralysis of sphincter vesicæ, ▌Thuya; flatulence, ▌Phos.; flatulency in dyspepsia, ▌Carbol. ac.; fleshy, ▌Kali c.; fleshy, dyspeptic, ▌All. sat.; gangrene, Crotal., Euphor.; gangrene, dry, ▌▌Sec.; gangrene, after bruise, ▌Sul. ac.; swelling of cervical glands, ▌▌Astac.; gouty complaints, ▌Bar. c.; gout and chronic rheumatism, with rigidity of muscles and tendons, ||Ol. jec.; gouty, in ophthalmia, ||Nux v.; trembling of hand when writing, Sabad.; heart disease, gouty diathesis, Aspar.; incarcerated hernia, constriction coming on gradually, ▌Sul. ac.; slow protrusion with squeezing pain in hernial region, ▌Nux v.; hydrothorax, ▌Crotal.; hydrothorax with œdema of feet, woman, ||Cain.; hypochondriacal or suffering from chronic diseases, especially catarrhs, Alum.; men, old sinners, with impotence and gleet, ▌▌Agnus; acute inflammatory conditions, ▌Bry.; influenza, ▌Eup. perf.; profuse secretion of mucus in lungs, with loose rattling cough, ▌▌Seneg.; men, Hyos.; menorrhagia, with melancholy, ▌Plat.; metrorrhagia, ▌Merc.; man, brittle finger nails, ▌Amb.; nosebleed, ▌Agar., ▌▌Sec., ▌Sul. ac.; obesity, Amm. c., ▌▌Aur. met., Fluor. ac., ▌▌Kali c., Op. Sec.; paralysis, ▌Kali c., ▌▌Op.; women, general paralysis of voluntary muscles, paralyzing first peripheral nerve and finally spinal cord, Con.; brown patches, ▌Aur. met.; petechiæ, ▌Con.; phthisis, ▌Natr. s.; pityriasis, Tereb.; plethoric, well nourished, painful cramp in calves or toes, worse at night, ▌Nux v.; especially venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, debility, etc., ▌Carbo a.; pleurisy and pneumonia, protracted cases, ▌Nitr. ac.; pleurisy, men, ||Sep.; pneumonia, with catarrhal irritation, ▌Nux v.; pneumonia, notha, with sinking of forces, ▌Camph.; premature old age, in consequence of syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia, ▌Fluor. ac.; premature old age, from abuse of sexual powers, ▌Agnus; woman, prosopalgia, ||Staph.; enlarged prostate, Aloe, ▌Calc., ▌Nux v.; chronic prostatitis, ▌Staph.; rheumatism, ▌▌Ars., Eup. pur.; scrofulous, ▌Bar. c.; sedentary habits, catarrh of bladder, Tereb.; loss of sexual feeling in men, ▌▌Lyc.; sleeplessness, ▌Acon., ▌▌Bar. c.; staggers when rising from seat, ▌Calc. p.; hard stools, causing vertigo and headache, ▌Calc. p.; sweating, from opium, Merc.; tendency to syncope, Crotal.; complaints in consequence of syphilitic-mercurial dyscrasia, ▌Fluor. ac.; bitter taste, with clean tongue, women, ▌Carbo v., ▌Natr. m.; varicose ulcers, ▌Sec.; tickling and itching in urethra, with constant desire for urinating, worse in morning in bed, better sitting or standing, ▌Petrosel.; difficulty in urinating in morning, men, Cornus; scanty urine, ▌▌Ars.; paralysis of sphincter, inability to retain urine, ||Kali ph.; dribbling or spurting of urine, ▌Caust., ▌Cepa; varicose veins, ▌Caust., ▌Fluor. ac.; vertigo, Bar. c., ▌Con., ▌Sinap.; with atheromata or earthy deposits on the cerebral or cardiac arteries, Alum.; vertigo with costiveness, ▌Calc. p.; vertigo, worse rising from lying, turning or stooping, ▌Rhus; vision weak, ▌▌Aur. met.; weakness, men, Con., ▌Curar., ▌Nux m.; weakened from bleeding (apoplexy), ▌Bar. c.; suffering during cold weather, ||Ammoniac.; women, ▌Guaiac., Kreo., ▌Lyc

Cite: Calvin B. Knerr, Repertory of Hering's Guiding Symptoms, Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1896 (Library of Congress copy, archive.org repertoryofherin00heri; public domain), p. 1186 — STAGES OF LIFE AND CONSTITUTION; AGE; old people