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consumption (phthisis, tuberculosis)
Calvin B. Knerr · Repertory of Hering's Guiding Symptoms · Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1896 (Library of Congress copy, archive.org repertoryofherin00heri; public domain) · p. 808 · 89 remedies
Lungs, consumption (phthisis, tuberculosis) ☞ Chap. 25, Larynx phthisis); asthma, worse 2 A.M., ▌Rumex; with chilliness in back, ▌Spong.; in beginning, when there is discharge of masses resembling pus, Kali c.; repeated bronchorrhagia, ▌Millef.; neglected catarrh threatens to pass into, with mucous expectoration, ▌Stann.; small space in upper right, affected by catarrh, with crackling respiration, audible to herself at night, and dulness on percussion, ▌Kali m.; small cavity in left, ||Sul.; cavity in right, at second intercostal space, three inches to right of sternum, ||Sil.; with flying pains in chest and hectic fever, ▌Ferr.; of children, ▌Ars.; in consequence of erethic chlorosis, ▌Ferr.; chronic, ▌▌Sil.; disposition to take cold, ▌Dulc.; constitution sycotic or hydrogenoid, ▌Natr. s.; cough, with thick white mucus and white coated tongue, Kali m.; cough deep (phthisis florida), ||Merc. cor.; after whooping cough, purulent with inflammatory affections of lungs and larynx, ▌Kreo.; diarrhœa, Acet. ac., Act. rac., Amm. m., ▌Ars., Calc. p., ▌Carbo v., ▌Caust., ▌Cetrar., ▌Crot. t., ▌Dulc., Elaps, ▌Ferr., ▌Gamb., ||Guaræa, ▌Iod., ▌Lyc. v., ||Myr. cer., ▌Oleand., ▌Phos., ▌Ver.; chronic diarrhœa, ▌▌Nitr. ac.; colliquative diarrhœa, ▌▌Phos.; diarrhœa, in phthisis florida, after pneumonia, ▌Ferr.; diarrhœa, with prolapsus of rectum, ▌Calc.; diarrhœa, with tympanitis, ▌Carbo v.; diarrhœa, black liquid stools, Elaps; greenish, sour-smelling diarrhœa, contains mucus, with colic and tenesmus, ||Rheum; tendency to diarrhœa, in incipient tubercular disease, ||Tuberc.; of drunkards, ▌Cinch.; emaciation and hectic, ||Merc. cor.; severe, evening, exacerbation, ▌Kreo.; purulent expectoration, foul, puslike taste, ▌Dros.; in subjects of relaxed fibre, especially third stage, ▌Ferr. iod.; florida (galloping), ▌Ferr., ▌Ferr. ph., ▌Merc. cor., ||Sang., ▌Therid.; florida, after pneumonia, ▌Ferr.; florida, suppurative stage, chlorotic girls, ▌Puls.; florida, in young subjects, ||Natr. p.; from loss of fluids and vitality, ▌Cinch.; with glycosuria, ▌Phos.; with hæmoptysis, ▌Hyper.; with hæmoptysis and cough, ||Sep.; hemorrhagic, ▌Ars. i.; with hemorrhoids, ▌Phos.; hoarseness, ▌Ol. jec., ▌▌Phos.; incipient, ▌▌Act. rac., ▌Agar., ▌Bry., ▌Carbo v., ▌Ferr., ▌Lyc., ▌▌Med., ▌Natr. s., ▌▌Phos., ▌Puls., ||Rumex, ▌Sang., ▌Sep., ▌▌Tuberc.; incipient, following amenorrhœa, ||Sang.; incipient, in anæmic patients, ▌Calc. p.; incipient, with dry, exhausting cough, short respiration, ▌Kali c.; incipient, with fatiguing cough, caused by obstructed menses, ▌Senecio; incipient, with bloody expectoration, ||Erig.; ▌▌Millef., after Acon. and Arn., ▌Sang., ▌Trill.; incipient, after pneumonia, Ferr., ▌Lach., ▌Lyc.; incipient, in strumous subjects, ▌Stilling.; incipient, deposit of tuberculous matter in apex of left, ▌Lyc. v.; after mechanical injuries to chest, ▌Ruta; begins in apex of left, ▌Spong.; can lie only on one side, ▌Kreo.; pains in lower lobes, ||Med.; menstrual irregularities, ▌Senecio; chronic suppression of menses, ▌Lyc.; in nursing mothers, ▌Kali c.; in old people, ▌Natr. s.; lung parenchyma destroyed, sputa bloody, ▌Merc.; pituitous (phthisis mucosa), ▌Æsc. h., ▌▌Ant. c., ▌▌Ant. t., Caust., Cetrar., ▌Cochl., ▌Dulc., ▌Lyc., ||Millef., ▌Natr. s., ▌Seneg., ▌▌Stann.; pituitous, with characteristic cough, weakness and sputa, ▌▌Stann.; pituitous, with purulent or green sputa, ▌▌Kali iod.; pleuritis, ▌Bry., ▌Kali c.; pleuritic stitches, ||Ham.; pleuritic stitches, especially in region of third or fourth rib, left side, ▌Guaiac.; joined to or dependent upon a psoric state, Sarrac.; purulent, Cetrar.; large quantities of thick, heavy muco-pus, largely purulent, ||Sil.; especially where right lung is seat of lesion, Phell.; worse in right, ||Elaps; scrofulous, ▌Bar. m., ▌▌Calc., ▌Lapis, ▌Ol. jec.; scrofulous, with great emaciation, ▌Jugl.; septicæmia, symptoms of, from absorption of pus from cavities (consumption), ||Sil.; early stages of (pleurodynia), ▌Rumex; first stage, ▌Cact., ||Tuberc.; first stage, with mucous expectoration, ▌Stann.; first stages, especially tuberculous variety, ▌▌Petrol.; second stage, ▌Kali c.; advanced stage, ▌Trill.; in all stages, especially acute, exacerbations, with much cough, dull headache, severe pain in chest, ▌Kali n.; last stage, ▌Lobel. i., Pix; last stages, spasmodic cough, Chloral.; last stages, expectoration terribly offensive, ▌Phell.; particularly if caused by maltreated syphilis, ||Myrtus; with colliquative night sweats, ▌Nitr. ac.; with copious night sweats, Polyp., ▌Psor.; with copious night sweats and watery diarrhœa, Polyp. (; Chap. 40, Sweat at night); threatened, has lost fourteen pounds in six weeks, ||Tuberc.; phthisis, is said to make less rapid progress among tobacco workers, Tabac.; tubercles, arthritic, ||Sars.; lungs begin to fill with tubercles, Acet. ac.; tubercles develop, with hectic fever, Phos.; infiltrated with gray tubercles, Uran. n.; infiltration of tubercle of left causes reflex aphonia, ||Rumex; tubercles size of a millet seed to a pea, firm texture, gray, yellowish or reddish, Hippoz.; tubercles have not yet softened or in first stage of softening, ▌Ol. jec.; tubercles, disorganizing stage, Kali c.; tubercular deposit, persons that exhibit laryngeal catarrh, ▌Mang.; tuberculous deposits in apices, ▌Lac def.; appearance similar to chronic tuberculosis, with hectic fever, Hippoz.; tuberculous diathesis, dry hacking cough, ▌Plumb.; tubercles in herpetic patients, especially after suppression of exanthems in scrofulous and hemorrhoidal subjects, ▌Hep.; with inveterate cases of itch or after suppressed itch, ▌▌Psor.; tuberculous condition of central third of right, ▌Sep.; in tall, slender, weak-chested persons growing rapidly, ▌Phos.; especially in young florid subjects, with erethism of vascular system, ▌Ferr.; in fast-growing youths, ▌Phos. ac.; uneasiness, just below centre of right lung, ||Sep.; cannot bear a warm room, ▌Iod; catarrh, cavity, hemorrhage, inflammation, suppuration; Chap. 25, Larynx phthisis; Chap. 27, Cough phthisis; Chap. Chap. 40, Sweat night
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Grade 1 of 5
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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. 808 — INNER CHEST AND LUNGS; LUNGS; consumption (phthisis, tuberculosis)