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DOM ESTIC
HOMCIEOPATHY.
B-y P. F. CURIE, M. D.
rORMERLY SURGEON IN THE MILITARY HOSPITAL OF PARIS;
MEMBER OP THE PARISIAN HOMCEOPATHIC AND GALLICAN SOCIETIES; PHYSICIAN -TO THE LONDON HOMCROPATHIG DISPENSARY;
AUTHOR OF "THE PRINCIPLES OP HON(EOPATHY,"
"THE PRACTICE OF HOSIIEOPATHY, &C.")
WITH
ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS,
1W GIDEON HUM-PHREY, M,. D. 4kc.
PHILADELPHIA:
FTINTY)1 BY JESPER HARDING.
1839






PREFACE
TO THR
AMERICAN EDITION.
The deep, and as we trust, abiding influence, which the introduction of the
Homceopathic practice of medicine into
this country has had upon the minds of a
large and intelligent portion of our community, cannot but be hailed as a most
auspicious sign of its future destiny. Like
every other new discovery, however, in the
arts or in science, which leads to innovations upon the settled order of things,
Homoeopathy has encountered its full share
of persecuting opposition. So prone are
mankind to undervalue and oppose what is
new, br not well understood, that a revelation directly from the Deity scarcelymeets



VIII

PREFACE.

with more favour from man, than the
puerile discoveries of mortals. Even the
divine, founder of christianity, who was invested with a commission from Heaven of
momentous importance to the human race,
was received with distrust, treated with
obloquy and contempt, and finally yielded
up his life to satisfy the infuriated zeal of
a false and hypocritical priesthood. With
such a signal instance of ungrateful persecutions and many similar ones before him,
could the illustrious founder of Homceopathy, whose beneficent object tended to an
amelioration of our bodily sufferings only,
expect his doctrines to be embraced more
cordially, than were those spiritual messages announced by the Messiah? What
the one attempted to do for the body, the
other actually accomplished for the soul.
There, indeed, never has been a master
mind, that has outstripped his contemporaries in the march of improvement, whose
course has not been obstructed by those
who should have been the first to have lent
him their aid and support. For his sublime discoveries in astronomy, Galileo was
rewarded by a residence in a dungeon and
loaded with chains. Harvey, whose dis



PREFACE.             IX
covery of the circulation of the blood, overthrew the prevailing theories relating to
Physiology, suffered so much on account of
the ridicule and persecution lavished upon
him by his medical brethren, that he was
reduced from affluence to beggary: the
history of Jenner, who is richly entitled to
the warmest gratitude of posterity, for his
invaluable discovery of Vaccination, affords
another instance of similar treatment from
his contemporaries; and in later times,
even within the recollection of many now
living, who has not heard that the inventive energies of Fulton, whose sagacious
mind, it is true, but faintly shadowed forth
the extent and value of his own discoveries
respecting the powers of steam, were regarded as the day-dreams of a disordered
imagination; yet such is their importance,
that it is no exaggeration to assert, that
they have affected a revolution in most of
our social relations.
With a mind ardently devoted to the
investigation of truth, 1-ahnemann, after
a series of laborious, painful and protracted
experiments, satisfied himself that he had
discovered a process of curing diseases, far



PREFACE.

more simple, safe and certain, than any
previously known.
Immense, however, as were the advantages of his discoveries, they were no sooner
promulgated than he became the object of
every species of obloquy, and afterwards
the victim of persecution so severe that he
was obliged to relinquish the practice of
his profession, or seek an asylum elsewhere
beyond the reach of the shafts of malevolence. The latter course he preferred,
and removed to another part of Germany;
he subsequently took up his residence in
Paris, where he now lives and enjoys the
proud satisfaction of seeing his doctrines
extensively embraced by eminent physicians in almost every country of the old
world, and more recently also in the United
States. Such illustrious men, benefactors
as they have all been to the human race,
must and will live forever on the page of
history; while their detractors shall have
passed down the stream of oblivion unnoticed and unknown.
Notwithstanding the attempts to strangle
Homceopathy at its birth, were unsuccessful,
its opponents now are as implacable as ever;
nay, their animosity seems to be increased



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PREFACE.

to alleviate the condition of suffering humanity: otherwise, medicine, after being
cultivated for more than two thousand
years, would have approached in its character the nature of the certain sciences,
and not be now, as it is in the hands of its
most skilful practitioners, a conjectural art,
a system of guessing.
But that I may not be charged with
partiality and accused of drawing a caricature of medicine, instead of its portrait,
I shall avail myself of the opinions of several learned and celebrated physicians, who,
being thoroughly initiated in all the mysteries of their profession, have candidly
acknowledged the great uncertainty of their
art; and if their confessions give offence, it
must be recollected that they are the
opinions of practitioners of the very system
which they so much deprecate; that they
are the admissions of the opponents, not of
the friends of Hoemeopathy.
Girtanner* says, "1As the art of healing
has no fixedprinciple, as nothing in it is
positive, as we have but little sure experience, every physician has a right to act
* Darstellung des Brownschen systems II. 608.



PREFACE.

XIII

upon his own opinions. Where there is
nothing but conjecture, one conjecture is
as good as another. In the gloom of ignorance in which physicians grope along,
there is no ray of light to guide them.
When two of them meet at the bedside of
the patient, they can scarcely refrain from
laughing, if they look at each other."
" We feel daily," says Kriigen Hansen,*
" that we are far from possessing a fixed
and sure method of cure. The works on
Therapeutics furnish the most eminent
proofs what confusion exists even among
those physicians who stand the highest in
their art. Its state, which has long and
deservedly been the object of the lowest'
jokes, demands, for the benefit of mankind,
extensive improvements."
" Whoever," says Schweickert,t " attends to the progress of medical science,
must observe, that its practice has not
advanced one step since the time of Hippocrates and Galen; but that on the contrary, we are much behind them, for fifty
years ago the greatest number of sick per
* Brillenlose reflexionen and p. 9.
t Schweickerts' Journal IV. 120.



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PREFACE.

sons were killed, according to the prescriptions of their physicians, by bleedings; forty
years ago, by purgatives; thirty years
ago, by clysters, and more recently by the
Brunonian system, which a celebrated physician asserts, has made victims of a greater
number of human beings than the whole
revolutionary war from 1793 to 1815."
" The routine practice," says Luther,*
" does not merit the name of a system.,
because it does not satisfy the postulata
of a system; it wants order, coherence of
parts and scientific unity; it is only a mass
of incongruous matters thrown promiscuously together."
The utter want of a general principle
in the Materia Medica of the old school,
of every thing in fact that can direct the
physician to a correct knowledge of the
virtues of medicines, results from what has
just been stated.
Girtannert calls it " a mere collection
of fallacious observations. There are
in it some correct ones founded upon experience; but who would waste time in seek
* Alloeopathy and Homoeopathy, p. 70.
t Darstellung 11. 600.



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XV

ng for a few particles of gold, in that imnense dunghill, which physicians have,een collecting for these two thousand,ears?
Hoffman says, " that few are the remelies whose virtues and operations are cerain; but many are those which are
loubtful, suspicious, fallacious, and
'alse."
Dr, Joerg,* a celebrated professor in
Iermany, and an adversary of Homoeopahy, convinced of the uncertainty of the
isual Materia Medica, resolved to make a
Pegular series of experiments on the effects
)f medicines; and he owns that he was
istonished to observe that no use of the
ubstances tried, produced such effects as
ire taught by the doctrine of the Materia
Iedica. He accordingly calls that doc-;rine a medical Romance.
In allusion to the great number of medi-:ines, which are frequently combined to)ether and ordered for the sick, Luther
significantly inquires, " whether they, who
prescribed thus, consider the stomach
ro be a sort of general post-ofice, where

SAllccopathy and Homceopathy, p. 26.
13



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PREFACE,

all the drugs that arrive at once, are to be
despatched, each to its proper destination
--one to the nerves, another to the circulation, another to the lungs, and another
to the brain, &c."
An air of profound mysticism too has
been long thrown around the system, originating in the practice of writing medical
prescriptions in Latin, which, says Dr.
Buchan, is not only ridiculous, but it is
likewise dangerous, for however capable
physicians may be of writing Latin, few
apothecaries can read it, and dangerous
mistakes often arise from this circumstance.
But suppose the apothecary himself is ever
so capable of reading such prescriptions,
lie is often otherwise employed, and the
business of making up prescriptions is left
entirely to the apprentice. By this means
the life of the most distinguished and useful
individual, however skilful may be the
physician that he employs, is really entrusted to the charge of an idle boy, who
is probably also very ignorant, as well as
giddy and careless. While upon this subject, we cannot let the present opportunity
pass without severely reprobating the practice of many apothecaries, who prepare



PREFACE.             XIXthe Heidelberg Clinical Annals, a journal
of the old school, it is admitted as an indisputable truth, "that many more die from
the intermeddling of physicians than are
saved by them."
To the late Sir Gilbert Blane,* one of
the highest authorities of the medical
I profession, the following observation is attributed, that, "in many cases, patients get
well in spite of the means employed; and
sometimes, when the practitioner fancies
he has made a great cure, we may fairly
assume the patient to have had a happy
escape."
With such facts admitted by such authorities, need we doubt the truth of the
proverb, "that the remedy is worse than
the disease, and the doctor more dangerous
than the disorder?"  The whole history of
medicine confirms it.
"I know very well," says an old practitioner,t "that perhaps more than seventenths of mankind die, not from disease,
but from the unsuitableness and excess of
medicine."
* Lectures on Pharmacology, Med. Gaz. 24, Oct.
1835.
t Allgem; Anzeiger d. Deutschen, 1833, 235.



XX

PREFACE.

Krugen-Hansen says,* "Medicine, as it
has hitherto been practised, is a pestilence
to mankind; it has carried off a greater
number of victims than all that murderous
wars have ever done; and it appears to be
rather a means of preventing an overpopulation than the art of saving lives."
"It has always appeared to me most unaccountable," says Dr. Forth,' "how mankind can continue to have the slightest confidence in medicine and its prescribers. It
can be explained only by the carelessness
with which they look at this destroying
art: otherwise they could not fail to see
that medicine is only a subtile imposture,
and physicians imposters or ignorant. And
the monarch, who should interdict the practice of medicine and the vending of nostrums, and expel such pestilent persons
from his dominions, would be hailed as a
benefactor to his species. There is scarcely, the doctor concludes, a more dishonest
trade imaginable than the art of medicine
in its present state.
Bacon long since observed ' that quacks

* Brillenlose reflexionen, &c., p. 18.
t Rhapsodien iiber Medizin, p. 87.



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XXI

apd old women do often succeed much better in the cure of diseases than learned
physicians."
And if the knowledge of a physician be
more entitled to belief in this matter, than
the opinion of a philosopher, listen to the
words of Sydenham: Quae medicina appellatur, revera confabulandi garriendique potius est ars quam medendi."
That which is called medicine is the art
of prating and telling stories, rather than
the art of healing.
As bearing upon this subject, I will add
one extract more. " Very few of the
valuable discoveries in medicine," says Dr.
Buchan, "have been made by physicians:
they have, in general, been either the effect
of chance or of necessity, and have always
been opposed by the faculty, till every one
else was convinced of their importance.
An implicit faith in the opinions of teachers,
an attachment to systems and established
forms, and the dread of reflection will always operate upon those who follow medicine as a trade. "Few improvements are
to be expected from a man, who dreads
that he might ruin his character by even



XXII

PREFACE.

the smallest deviation from the established rule."
The whole mass of testimony thus adduced, is in no'way directed against Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology-the great
bases of medical science, but solely against
the mode of practice pursued by the mere
routine practitioners.
Thus does it appear, from the testimony
of some of the most distinguished physicians of the times in which they respectively lived, from the days of Hippocrates
down to the present hour, that the art of
medicine has been conducted without having any fixed principle to direct the practitioner in the choice and application of
his remedies.
Having, as I conceive, fully redeemed
the pledge to prove that medicine, as it
has hitherto been practised, has had no
abiding foundation in nature, but that the
attempted cure of diseases at all times has
been subject to the caprice or fancy of
physicians, does it not justly deserve to be
considered as the grossest empyricism?
With claims so slender to the appellation of a science, is the old system of medicine entitled to the boasted prerogatives,



PREFACE.

XXIII

that its professors demand for it? And are
their opinions respecting the merits of a
kindred, science-another branch of the
healing art, which they do not understand,
and which differs essentially from their own,
in having a fixed and immutable principle
of nature to rest upon-to be regarded as
infallible?
The solution of these questions, I leave
to every candid and intelligent reader.
Believing that the foundation of Homceopathy rests on a natural and immutable
law, I will endeavotr in as brief a manner
as is consistent with a clear explanation of
its principles, to unfold this law.
As we have seen, in all past time, medicine has been considered a purely conjectural art; hence multitudes of doctrines
have succeeded and destroyed each other
--the inevitable consequence of their hypothetical origin.
It must not however be inferred, that
fixed principles for curing disease do not
exist, merely because they have remained
undiscovered for two or three thousand
years.
A great many years have not rolled away,
since Newton gave to Astronomy the laws



XXIV

PREFACE.

which govern the motions of the heavenly
bodies in their revolutions. And we see
no reason why medicine should not follow
the march of the other sciences, and it will
be found that Hahnemann,has already
achieved that for it which Newton did for
Astronomy, to wit, the discovery of a' law
which regulates the application of medicines in the cure of disease.
The basis upon which Homoeopathy is
founded and upon which rests the whole
fabric of practical medicine, is the principle of similarities; expressed in the Latin
phrase, " similia similibas curantur," like
cures like: and the name ex)ressin r this
idea is compared to two Greek words ouoioc
like and,reoc, affection or disease.
According to this law, diseases are cured
by such remedies as are capable, when
given to "healthy persons, of producing
symptoms, as similar as possible to those
of the disease to be cured. For example,
in the case of Rheumatism, such a remedy
must be selected as is capable of producing
the peculiar phenomena of that disease.
In Hooping Cough,-one which will excite
attacks of coughing and the other symptoms characteristic of that disease.  In



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XXV

Pleurisy,--one which has the power of
producing pains in the chest, oppression in
breathing, cough, fever, spitting of blood,
&c. It must not however be inferred, that
the remedy seletted, although capable of
producing symptoms similar to the disease
itself, is given in doses large enough to increase the symptoms and render them dangerous. It is enough that it has the power
of producing a similarity of symptoms in a
healthy person, and it is in the regulation
of the quantity to be given and the repetition of the doses, that the knowledge and
skill of the physician are most requisite.
Illustrations of this principle are met with
in ancient medical science-Hippocrates
announced it in his aphorism " vomitus
vomitu curatur.""*  Yet until the time of
Hahnemann, the cures obtained by the
application of this law had never been ascribed to it, nor wasi it ever recognized as a
leading principle in the science. By long
continued and laborious researches, Hahnemann incontrovertibly established upon
the sure basis of induction, the truth of the
important principles that he had discovered.
*Vomiting may be cured by an emetic.



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PREFACE.

He subjected himself, his family and his
friends to numerous and long continued
experiments; and when to his own satisfaction he had confirmed the truth of this
grand therapeutical law beyond a doubt,
he commenced new experiments upon other
substances, in order to secure additional
means of combating the many and varied
diseases to which we are subject. This
mode of ascertaining the virtues of medicines is no less novel, than the law of their
application in the cure of disease. That
it is the only true one cannot be doubted
by any person, who reflects for a moment,
that the disturbances produced in a healthy person's system after the use of medicine, must be the pure effects of such medicines; whereas, when they are administered to the sick, how is it possible to individualize the subsequent phenomena, and say
with precision, that this symptom is produced by the medicine, and that one by
the disease?
Experience, it is alleged, can easily resolve this difficulty; in part it may, but it
must be purchased at the cost of thousands
of victims. Here the Homceopathic physician has infinitely the advantage over his



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XXVII5

medical brethren of the old school, because:
he knows, beforehand, when he has selected his medicine, what are its effects upon
the human organism, and hence deduces
its fitness to cure disorders similar to them.
For more than thirty years of his life Hahnemann has been engaged in trying the
effects of many medicines upon himself and
his nearest connexions, and the results of
all their researches, which tend to establish more firmly the truth of his great
therapeutical law, "similia similibus curantur," constitute the basis of Homceopathic
Materia Medica.
The establishment of this law, as a supreme principle to direct the Homoeopathic
practitioner in the cure of disease, places
Homceopathy far above all the previous
unsystematized and inconsistent schemes of
medical art; and now for the first time,
medicine becomes a system, a positive
science. And whoever attempts to overthrow this system, must first attack this
law, which Hahnemann has discovered
and proposed as a guide to the physician,
and which in its nature is unalterable, and
in its application universal. Every real
cure that is effected, is made by virtue of
c*



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PREFACE.

this law, just as in the material system of
the universe, every motion is under the
influence of the law of gravitation. The
latter is no more certain than the former,
though it may be better understood, both
of them being equally entitled to the appellation of "principles," founded in nature,
and immutable.   The more this law is
explained, the more will its correctness
be established in the mind of all, whose object is the discovery of truth.
Convinced that the cause we defend is
a sacred one, we fearlessly maintain our
position; and hesitate not to lay ourselves
open to every species of attack, in declaring that if the Homceopathic principle be
an eternal law of nature, discovered, not
invented by Hahnemann, it is therefore
"not Jor an age, but for all times," and
hence we shall be able to trace its operations in every thing that is daily passing
before our eyes, as well as in the history of
past ages.
In conclusion, I will add, that, as a system, it professes to cure all diseases, which
in their nature are curable, some surgical
ones excepted, in a certain, easy, safe and
expeditious manner,



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XXT3.z

It imposes no uncommonly rigid rulesof
diet, but requires of those under treatment
a compliance with temperance and moderation in the enjoyment of all things, such
only being excepted as the peculiarity of
each case may, in the opinion of the physician require. It dispenses in its treatment
of disease with all Alcoholic Tinctures, and
exciting stimulants; thus recommending
itself powerfully to the friends of temperance.
It produces no dangerous or violent revolutions in the human economy; it effects
every change in a manner so gentle as to
be almost imperceptible, but not the less
positive and certain. It offers to the sick
and afflicted no noxious draughts, no bitter
or disgusting potions, as all its medicinal
preparations are agreeable to the taste,
and hence admirably adapted to the treatment of children; it requires few medicinal agents, and in such minute quantities,
that the patient is subjected to no expensive apothecaries' bill; neither is he required to undergo the pain and inconvenience. of Cupping, Leeching or Bleeding.
In fine, it is a system possessing all and



XXX           PREFACE.
more than all the advantages of the prevalent modes of curing diseases, without their
defects.*
"fFamiliar Exposition of Homoeopathy.



INTRODUCTION.
IT is a received axiom, that the practice
of medicine should rest with a class of men
devoted to the arduous investigation of a
science so difficult and important.
Among the non-medical public it is at
all times a desideratum to diffuse wholesome views connected with the profession.
By this means we are enabled to counteract prevailing errors, together with the
innumerable prejudices which exist in
every quarter. At the same time it places
those who may be remote from medical aid
in a position to administer means which
may be suited to the emergency of the
momeht; and this too without participating
in those fearful errors which result from



XXXII

INTRODUCTION.

an ignorance of the acting properties of
medicine.
The aim of this little volume is to place
the public in possession of enlightened hygeinic rules, applicable to the various
periods of life, and referrible as well to a
state of health as to that of suffering.
From the limited number of homoeopathic
practitioners, such a book is especially important in the present state of the science.
We shall point out the earliest attentions
to be enforced in cases of severe acute disease, whilst awaiting the aid of the practitioner, and shall rapidly, but as lucidly
as possible, indicate the treatment of acute
affections which may be less serious and of
more frequent occurrence.
This will enable parties, who may be
resident beyond the ready access of medical assistance, either to treat themselves,
or confidently submit to the direction of
some intelligent friend, who may be otherwise unconnected with the profession of
medicine.
This is not the place in which to insist
upon the value of sound hygeinic regulations. Every individual is fully impressed
with their importance, and the chapter de



INTRODUCTION.

XXXIII

voted to the subject will abundantly prove
that the homoeopathic hygeine is based
upon firm and healthful principles.
The attentions to be observed previously
to the arrival of a practitioner, and applicable to patients labouring under acute
symptoms, are similarly important.  In
embracing the allopathic routine of medicine, we are in danger either of counteracting the efforts of nature, or of inducing
vast disturbance in the animal economy.
The consequences of such interference are
too frequently irreparable.
With reference to the less important ailments, there is no mother of a family who
can fail in appreciating the worth of a
wholesome treatise respecting them; for
scarcely a day passes in which she is not
called upon to remedy a derangement in
one or other of her children: and how is
she to act without an intelligent guide?
Habit will doubtlessly impel her to tread
in the accustomed track: she will have recourse to purgatives; and by this means
will, probably for a series of years, entail
suffering upon the children she is called
upon to nurture and rear.
In the following pages, meriting the at



XXXIV       INTRODUCTION.
tention of every mother desirous of improvement, and solicitous that her children
should profit by the advances effected in
science, will be found the means of preserving and restoring their health, without
subjecting them to unnecessary suffering,
or to a discipline violent in its character,
and frequently entailing consequences more
formidable than the disease itself.
The dawn of reason, however, is at
hand; and the period is not remote, when
every mother will appreciate and revere
the invaluable science which has been
given to the world by Hahnemann.



DOMESTIC HOM(EOPATHY.

OF HYGEINE.
HYGEINE is a division of the healing art
which prescribes the means of preserving
health. This branch of medical science
will becomne more and more important, and
will still further extend its happy influence,
in proportion as intelligence and morality
shall pervade the various classes of society.
Not only will the judicious observance of
ordinary regimen, of pursuit, of exercise,
and of cleanliness, contribute to the preservation of the general health, and render
epidemic diseases less frequent and intense,
but still more will hygeine, as a preventive,
neutralise atmospheric influence, and ob1



HYGEINE.

viate the mischiefs resulting from humidity,
or from any external causes producing
disease. Again, it must perceptibly conduce to the extirpation of hereditary taints
-those poisons which, by reason of any
exciting cause, such as a cold, or excess of
any kind, give birth to chronic affections,
multiform in character, and lamentably
destructive to human life.
Homceopathy will effect rapid strides towards hygeine, since by its aid we learn
that the greater portion of humanity is
more or less deeply impregnated with one
or other of three grand miasmata, productive of chronic disease. These miasmata
are Psora, Syphilis, and Sycosis. They are
handed down from generation to generation; or they may, under certain circumstances, be communicated by one individual
to another.
Conversant, in this manner, with the elementary cause of disease, and possessing a
law which promises a specific for every
form of malady, we may indulge a hope,
in succeeding generations, to exonerate the
human species from the baleful effects resulting from hereditary virus.
Children, deriving their existence from



CHILDREN.

parents affected with chronic ailments, bear
with them the germ of disease, which will
develop itself sooner or later beneath the
influence of exciting causes, such as irregularities of regimen, atmospheric changes,
moral delinquency, &c.
The hygeinic attentions to children, inheriting such predisposition, should be directed with a view to combat this virus,
the first grand cause of disease.
Upon, this important question, we need
say but little in a volume which is altogether elementary. We shall endeavour
to prove, however, that the medical man
ought not to be considered as competent
merely to check a formidable disease, but
that his counsels should serve as a guide in
the physical education of children, and, by
their hygeinic and medical attentions,
should give them an unrestrained and full
development of healthful life.
AJttentions to be paid to Children.
From the period of birth, man cannot be
regarded with too much anxiety: nothing
should be omitted which may favour his
physical development, prepare him for a



HYGEINE.

career devoid of infirmity, and enable him
to become serviceable to his family, and to
his fellow-creatures, and thus endow him
with one of the primary essentials to happiness.
It is remarked, however, that man is
from his cradle the butt of ignorance and
of prejudice, and the victim of the most
baneful practices. Scarcely has the infant
been launched into life, when too frequently he receives impressions which destroy or
disorder his economy for a long series of
years. Recourse is had to various descriptions of purgatives, according to the climate
and the custom of the nurses, to facilitate
the discharge of the meconium. This practice is particularly obnoxious, from the delicate organization of the infant: it is mischievous to attempt to aid, or rather to
force nature, particulaily where she requires no assistance.
The secretions comprised within the intestinal canal, have at this period nothing
abnormal in their character; and will discharge themselves without the aid of purgatives. Medicines should be reserved in
case of need.
The temperature to which the newly



CHILDREN.             5
born infant is introduced, should approach
as nearly as possible to that which it has
just quitted: to a frame so delicate, every
excess of heat or cold must he prejudicial.
The movements communicated to the
child should at all times be very guarded.
The practice, therefore, of forcibly rocking
him is highly objectionable, since by this
process he is not unfrequently rendered
giddy, and exposed to cerebral congestion.
In case of wakefulness have recourse
neither to the cradle nor to the exhibition
of narcotics; by such practices the infant
will become disordered, pine, and require
medical aid.
Every circumstance should be avoided
which may too sensibly affect the child;
sound and light must be regulated with
great caution; and it is by degrees only that
exposure may be made to the noise and full
glare of day.
We will offer a few hints with reference
to the diet of early infancy. Most persons
are conversant with what is most suitable;
the milk of the mother, or, in default, that
of a healthy nurse, If the latter cannot
be obtained, the milk of a cow, sheep, ass,
or goat, diluted with water, and rendered
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ITYGEINE.

lukewarm, may be substituted. The milk
should be prepared each separate time it
may be desirable to feed the infant, and
the periods should be regulated with every
'possible care.
During the first three or four months, the
milk of the mother, or that of the cow, will
in most instances suffice. Up to this period
we should offer no additional nutriment.
White bread, stale and grated, or biscuitpowder, boiled in milk, is now more appropriate. It is at a subsequent period only
that pap, made from flour or oatmeal, the
fecula of the potato, meal, &c., and prepared with milk, is admissible.
When the earlier teeth have protruded,
we may in some measure vary the diet, but
it should be exclusively of a vegetable
character, alternated with the preparations
adverted to above. In the earlier stage
we must studiously avoid everything of a
greasy nature. Milk and water should be
the only beverage.
Sweatmeats and bon-bons are at all
times objectionable, and should consequently be given with very great caution.
Animal food should not enter into the
diet until after the accession of the canine



CHILDREN.             7
teeth, and even until the period of puberty
it should constitute but a small proportion
of the regimen. Lean meat is alone suitable to the digestive powers of the infant;
pork, duck, &c. being wholly inadmissible.
Children digest readily, but excess of
food is prejudicial: their repasts should be
at short intervals, and consist rather of
what is nutritious than of what is caculated to excite the appetite.
The principal repast of children should
be taken about mid-day: they should not
eat at too late a' period, nor in too large a
quantitv' lests'their rest be disturbed by indigestioni'.
Strict observance of cleanliness will contribute much to the improvement of the
child: ablutions and frequent change of
linen are essential; a bath, lukewarm, for
five or ten minutes every day, will conduce
in a striking manner to health and full development, and may be continued with advantage until the second or third year.
At a later period we may have recourse to
river-bathing, during the summer season:
a repetition several times in the week will
prove beneficial.



8

HYGEINE.

Air and exercise are essential to the
health and full development of infancy.
As regards attire, it should be sufficiently loose to prevent compression of the body,
or restraint of motion; and we should take
particular care that it be neither too heating nor too scanty.
With young girls the practice of wearing corsets is very objectionable, and should
be prohibited. They are generally fashioned so as to protrude the bosom after its
development, and to retain it constantly in
a forced position, and in one at variance
with nature. It is an error to suppose them
of utility in supporting the mamma, and in
preserving the upper portion of the body in a
vertical position. Instead of attaining these
objects, they prevent the natural formation
of the breasts, which becomes flaccid by
their adoption. In like manner they destroy the power of the muscles of the back,
and induce a species of atrophy, which
renders the wearer incapable of supporting the body in an erect position. Hence
result those malformations so frequently observable in young females.
The neglect of appropriate gymnastic
exercise, especially with a sickly constitu



REGIMEN.

tion, contributes much to induce malformations; and it is no less true that the
adoption of corsets, more particularly as
favoring existing predispositions, is intimately connected with spinal curvature.
On Regimen.,
The object of the regimen to which we
subject an invalid is to dispose his system
to the favorable reception of salutary medicaments. To attain this end, we must
keep in observance the two following rules:
1. To prohibit the use of any substance
possessed of medicinal properties, and which
might thereby modify or interfere with the
action of the medicines.
2. To regulate.the quantity of nourishment, so that the daily loss may besupplied without surcharging the digestive
organs.
These two rules form the basis upon
which all hygeinic prescriptions should be
founded, and they should serve equally as
a guide to the regimen of persons in good
health. We do not positively maintain
that persons in health should avoid everything proscribed to the sick: we merely



10

HYGEINE.

wish to observe that every substance which
may produce pathological effects becomes
noxious in course of time, and should be
adopted with caution in a judiciously chosen
regimen, and one calculated to preserve
the mind and body in a state of vigour and
serenity.
The basis of the prescribed diet we shall
examine according to this principle. It
will indicate the various aliments derived
from the vegetable and animal kingdoms,
with those which may be admissible for
the patient, and those which must be prohibited during the homceopathic treatment..11imrents allowed- Vegetables.
Man's principal nourishment is evidently derived from the vegetable kingdom, the
family of graniferous plants alone supplying a large portion of his aliment. Wheaten bread is the most nutritious and the most
wholesome of our food, and readily assimilates with our system.
The potato, as an article of food, is
equally salutary, and the simple manner
in which it is prepared is usually the best,



REGIMEN.

11

taking care to deprive it as much as possible of its moisture.
Macaroni, vermicelli, semolino, sago,
salep, arrow-root, the fecula of the potato,
rice, French beans, peas, lentils, &c. as
articles of food, and prepared in a suitable
manner, furnish healthful nutrition, and
frequently of themselves are serviceable in
convalescence from serious maladies, where
the invalid should be gradually introduced
to a more substantial diet.
The melon, fully ripe, and in small quantities, may be permitted where the digestion is good. 1
Strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries,
perfectly ripe, and prepared with sugar,
or in the form of jelly-apricots, peaches,
grapes, pears, and other fruits, not acid,
and well ripened, may frequently enter into a well-regulated diet..
Jlliment derived from the.nimal Kingdom.
'Beef is one of the meats best suited to
our digestive powers, and should form the
basis of our animal nutriment.
Mutton may be ranked in nearly the
same class as beef.



12

HYGEINE.

Ham, from its mode of preparation, is
generally more wholesome than pork; its
adoption, however, during homoeopathic
treatment, must be very guarded.
The flesh of the hare, the roe-buck, and
game in general, is in most cases very
proper.
Poultry, such as pullets, capons, turkeys, &c., is admissible; but, unless thoroughly dressed, the flesh is too mucilaginous, and must be taken sparingly.
Grouse, pheasant, woodcock, wild duck,
&c. are far more wholesome than the poultry from the farm-yard, provided they are
not kept too long after being killed.
Salt and fresh-water fish are generally
wholesome, and of easy digestion.
New-laid eggs, in their various modes of
dressing, may be recommended with advantage.
Liquids.
There is no beverage so suitable, during
homoeopathic treatment, as pure water; nor
is any beverage so conducive to the digestion of those who live abstemiously. In
acute diseases we accordingly prescribe



LIQUIDS.

13

pure water, or eau sucree, or toast-water,
milk-and-water, barley-water, water-gruel,
or gum-arabic-water.
In chronic diseases, similar diluents are
appropriate. Individuals, however, who
have accustomed themselves to malt-liquor,
may continue its use in moderation, provided it cause no inconvenience and be of
perfectly good quality. They, too, who
for a series of years have been in the habit
of drinking wine, might occasionally suffer
much from its total interdiction: although
such instances are rare, it is advisable to
guard against them: in these cases we may
permit wine in moderate quantity and diluted with water.
Tea is, in most cases, particularly objectionable as a beverage during homoeopathic
treatment, inasmuch as it possesses medicinal properties by no means equivocal. We
should, therefore, for this reason, be very
cautious in its use. Even by those most
accustomed to it, it should be taken weak,
and in moderation.
Similar objections are referrible to coffee, which is even more pernicious than
tea; it should therefore be still more rigorously abstained from.



4NIMAL FOOD.

15

Chamomile, the elder-flower, and all
ptisans should be prohibited.
Seasonings are referable chiefly to aromatic substances, and are classed among
the medicaments: they should therefore be
excluded as much as possible from the regimen of the, sick. Salt, butter, cream,
and sugar, are generally sufficient to render food agreeable to the palate; it is habit
alone which has created a desire for highlyseasoned dishes..nimal Food.
Veal, as an aliment difficult of digestion,
should be carefully guarded against by persons whose stomach is delicate, and whose
organs of digestion are weak.
Pork should be abstained from as much
as possible during homceopathic treatment.
Ducks and geese are indigestible, and
must therefore be prohibited.
If we do not altogether exclude white
and mucilaginous meats, such as lamb,
chicken, &c., we must at least insist upon
their very moderate use.



16

HYGEINE.

Drinks.
All drinks too exciting in their character, or possessing medicinal properties,
should be expunged from the homceopathic
regimen. These stimulants comprise strong
wines, spirits, tea, coffee, &c.
The regimen should at all times be appropriate to the age and temperament of
the patient; and from the rules already
laid down, we may easily determine upon
the regimen adapted to each individual..9ir and Bodily Exercise.
It will be superfluous to dwell upon the
importance of pure air, all persons being
fully alive to its beneficial effects upon
those who are ill: the patient should enjoy
it upon all possible occasions. We are
fully aware, too, how essential is bodily
exercise to the regulation of our natural
functions. It preserves the equilibrium of
the system, and corrects, in a striking degree, the mischief produced by a too liberal table, the result of our social habits.



HABITS.

17

'Most persons eat and drink more than suffices for the support of life; it is fortunate,
therefore, that exercise has the power of
correcting the inconveniences arising from
improprieties of regimen.
In chronic affections, exercise in the
open air is indispensable; it induces an important and salutary action in the muscu-,
lar system, and obviates visceral congestion.
Walking in the open air is most beneficial for the invalid; he should regulate his
walks according to' his ability, and never
prolong them so as to induce exhaustion.
Since walking and dancing generally call
into action the lower extremities only, it is
important, especially for the young, to have
recourse to those gymnastics in which the
upper extremities may participate.
Riding on horseback, or in an open carriage, is advisable where the patient may
be incapable of walking; but the latter
exercise, in connection with gymnastics, is,
greatly to be preferred.
Habits.
Habits, such as late hours, the attendance
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18

HYGEINE.

at balls, concerts, theatres, the gamingtable, &c., from their exercising an important influence upon the successful or
unsuccessful issue of disease, must not be
passed over in silence. Chronic cases, by
such indulgence are frequently rendered
incurable. The patient stands in need of
regular repose and serenity of mind, to obviate any interference with the favorable
reaction to be brought about by medicine.
He must sedulously avoid all the indulgences
we have just denounced.
It is important that the invalid should
accustom himself to light clothing, lest an
undue warmth should render him susceptible of colds, excite perspiration, and debilitate the system. The invalid, however,
should be careful in protecting himself
against the influence of cold, and more
especially against changes of temperature:
our remarks refer merely to excess in the
use or in the neglect of clothing.
- He should avoid perfumes, both on the
person and in his apartments, and should
abjure an excess of sweet-smelling flowers:
they exercise a deleterious influence upon
homoeopathic remedies.
The use of cosmetics is similarly objec



ACUTE DISEASES.

19

tionable. Tobacco should be prohibited,
unless the patient have acquired a confirmed habait of taking it, and where the sudden
and total interruption of its use might be
prejudicial to his health. In all habits of
this class, such as drinking of wine, tea,
coffee, &c., we must gradually diminish
the quantity, and not abstain entirely, and
on the instant.
The indiscriminate use of warm baths is
pernicious, and must be strictly prohibited;
cold or tepid ablutions are preferable during medical treatment.
Observances to be enjoined on Persons suffer- -
ingfrom./cute Diseases.
The hygeinic observances in acute affections are rest, bodily and mental tranquillity, mild and equable temperature, and
the avoidance, so far as practicable, of
such causes as may have given origin to
the disease.
It is generally observable, in acute cases,
that the greater part of the functional
economy is deranged. In most instances
the appetite is impaired, or entirely sus



20

HYGEINE.

pended.  The failure commences with
aversion for food: and nature thus, of her
own accord, indicates the observance of
the first hygeinic rule. To an invalid entirely devoid of appetite, no nourishment
whatever should be offered; instinct should
serve as a guide, and be implicitly followed. In adopting this plan, we need be under no apprehension of debilitating the
patient, for the malady is brief in duration,
and the functions are speedily restored.
The appetite and digestive powers resume
their natural course, and the affected organs are quickly re-established.  More
particularly we must bear in mind that
the invalid take nothing which may be
considered strengthening; he should receive
only what he may have the power of digesting.  In cases where the digestive
functions do not act, or act imperfectly,
the superfluous food stimulates, to a painful degree, an organ which should remain
quiescent; and, far from strengthening the
patient, throws him into a state of great
debility.
Regimen, or positive abstinence, is not
in all cases, or for a long period, essential
in homoeopathic treatment; in the more



MEDICINE.

21

serious ailments, we may prescribe, after a
brief interval, light nourishing food, gradually proportioned to the restoration of
the economy. In a very short time the
patient may have recourse to his ordinary
regimen.
In less important affections, where the
appetite is not suspended, we should carefully regulate the diet, and recommend the
moderate use of such aliments as may be
suitable.
As regards the medical attentions applicable to acute diseases, we shall point them
out in the chapters dedicated to the respective maladies. 'We shall dwell upon
the more frequent and less serious affections, giving a glance merely at those of
greater magnitude, and which should rest
as much as possible in the hands of the
physician..Jdministration and Repetition of Medicines.
The homoeopathic remedies are administered in globules, in tincture, by olfaction,
and externally by means of friction.
The globules are placed upon the tongue,
or, being bruised, are taken in a little sugar



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HYGEINE.

of milk; or again, they may be dissolved
(each) in one or more spoonfuls of pure
water.
If it be advisable to administer only a
portion of a globule, it may be dissolved in
as many spoonfuls of water as may correspond with the required divisions of the
globule; and, pursuing this plan, we may
exhibit several spoonfuls, or fractions of a
globule, in the course of the day.
The tinctures are exhibited in solution
with water. The prescription of an entire
drop, in the course of the day, is seldom
required; consequently, when we have recourse to tinctures, their administration is
virtually the same as that of the globules
dissolved in water.
When olfaction is advisable, one or two
globules of the selected remedy should be
placed in a small phial, and its aperture
he applied to the nose of the patient either
for a few seconds or for a minute or two,
as the case may require.
The use of medicaments externally,
whether as lotions or as frictions, has been
hitherto but rarely practised. Experience,
however, will doubtlessly point out many
cases where this mode may be preferable.



MEDICINE.

23 "

At present we derive much valuable assistance from arnica, as an external application in contusion, from heated oil of turpentine, or frdm alcohol, in cases of burns.
In most instances the medicine should be
administered in very minute doses, one,
two, or three globules, or even the fraction
of a globule, according to the susceptibility
of the patient.
With reference to the most eligible dilution, the highest should in most instances
be selected; nevertheless, as regards this
great practical means, it is the choice of a
suitable remedy which chiefly avails. A
judicious election once made, we may succeed perfectly well with dilution, 12, 18,
24, or 30. generally selecting the higher
number for the more suisceptible patients.
As the more suitable method of exhibiting the remedy, it appears to me that the
globules or tinctures, diluted with water,
are preferable; but it is evident that perfect cures have been effected by other
modes.
These signs will assist us in designating
the dilution of the doses:.0 signifies a
globule of the 30th attenuation; - has a
similar signification. The superior figure



24

HYGEINE.

or sign points out the number of globules;
and the figure, whether Roman or Arabic,
placed at the right or inferior part, indicates the degree of attenuation.
6 corresponds to  II. or a billionth.
9               IIL or a trillionth.
12              IV. or a quadrillionth.
18              VI. or a sextillionth.
24             VIII. or an octillionth.
30                X. or a decillionth.
As regards the repetition of the dose, it
is evident that each case, and each separate constitution, must present variations as
numerous as the circumstances indicating
the dose itself. In slight affections, however, one, two, or three doses will generally suffice; and we find that one or two
doses in the course of the day, will, in
most instances, meet the case. In the
more serious cases, we must have recourse
to practitioners of acknowledged repute.
Upon this important subject, which is not
within the province of an elementary volume, we must refer the reader to the
author's " Practice of Homoeopathy."
It is to be remarked, that in all instances



PRESERVATIVES.

25

where improverient is visible, we should
never interfere with the favorable reaction; on the other hand, where the medicine produces no effect, it may be repeated; and where it has been injudiciously
selected, we must substitute one more appropriate.
In cases where it itg'evident that the
medicine acts too powerfully, and causes
suffering to the patient, we must exercise
due caution in repeating the dose. We
must carefully note the result, and if the
patient suffer much, we should administer
a suitable antidote. As regards the exhibition of antidotes, we are guided by precisely the same rules as in the administration of other remedies.
Of Preservatives.
No one, in the present day, can for a
moment doubt the importance of Vaccination as a preservative against Small-pox.
Notwithstanding the early prejudice against
its introduction, it has gained the full confidence of an enlightened public; and the
value of the discovery is every day more
fully appreciated.



26

HYGEINE.

The preventive agency of the vaccine
virus enters perfectly into the spirit of
homceopathic medicine. The virus acts as
a preventive, by causing an eruption similar
to that of the small-pox. The advantage
we have gained in variola, we may yet
hope to obtain in other diseases; and homceopathy has already put us in possession of
certain preservatives, which I shall immediately proceed to point out.
A child may be protected against SCARLET FEVER, the Scarlatina Milis of Sydenham, by causing him to take Belladonna during the period of the epidemic.
One or two globules may be administered every four or five days, and from five
to eight doses will usually suffice for the
protection of the child, In cases where the
disease is already apparent, the exhibition
of belladonna will render it mild and trivial
in effect.
Against the MEASLES, Pulsatilla, alternated with Aconite, will act as a preventive. We commence with the administration of one or two globules of pulsatilla,
and, on the following day, we may give one
or two globules of aconite: this treatment
should be repeated three or fouc times.



PRESERVATIVES.        27
The same medicaments will serve to modify the disease, if it have already presented
itself.
In MIuIARY FEVER we may exhibit
Belladonna and.1conite, alternately, as
a preventive, during the period of its prevalence. We begin the treatment by giving
one or two globules of aconite, and after a
couple of days we give belladonna in a
similar dose, repeating the medicines three
or four times.
Camphor has been administered as a
successful preservative against CHOLERAone drop of the tincture being taken each
time on approaching the sick, or upon entering an infected place. The administration should be alternated with Veratrum,
and Cupruti, in the proportion of one or
two globules, every four or five days.



APHTHNE OR THRUSH.

29

The viscid mucus discharging from these
pustules very rapidly forms little scabs,
which fall off either immediately, or after
a few days, and are very quickly renewed.
These aphtha are of a trivial moment
when they are white, of pearly grey or
yellowish aspect, transparent, moist, diminutive, easily crushed, isolated, and disposed
to fall off readily and quickly, and affect
merely the mouth. Frequently, however,
they become dangerous, and are then of a
larger size, dull, blue, grey, brown, livid,
gangrenous, red, fetid, numerous, compact,
confluent, covered with thick and very adhesive scabs, or entirely dry and hard; are
frequently renewed, and readily affect the
pharynx, intestinal canal, and even the
windpipe. The aphthae usually affecting
infants at the breast are very rarely malignant. It is of these last mentioned that
we especially treat, since the form adverted to above is in most instances symptomatic
of more important affections.
The most frequent sources of aphthae in
young children are, want of cleanliness;
food, prejudicial in quality, or ill suited to
their age. In many instances, too, they
originate in improper things which they
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30

DISEASES.

are permitted to suck; or from the sucking-bottle not being properly cleansed after
each period of use.
Treatment. Borax is one of the most
suitable remedies in aphthm of infants at
the breast,-dissolving a globule in ten
teaspoonfuls of pure water, and giving
three, four, or five spoonfuls a day, according to the result: the child usually recovers
in a very few days.
Mercury is at times indispensable; it is
especially indicated for children of a gross
habit, and where the following symptoms
are remarked: viz.
Aphthae, after slight febrile excitement,
extending themselves over different portions of the lining membrane ofthe mouth;
where the whitish aphthae are converted
into slight ulcerations with red edges; are
white or yellow, with burning pain, frequent bleeding, and difficulty in swallowing; pallor of countenance, puffiness of the
cheeks; swelling of the lips, with enlargement of the submaxillary glands; salavation, fetor of the mouth, resembling the
mercurial odour; whitish tongue; bowels
irregular, alternately confined and relaxed;



APHTHJE OR THRUSH.

31

urine thick and clouded; dry cough, great
uneasiness, debility, and vigilance.
One or two globules of mercury in four
ounces of water,-two tablespoonfuls every
day will speedily relieve this trainof symptoms. Should no change be perceptible,
the dose may be increased.
Sulphur will be found of great value in
cases of complication, and is especially indicated where we remark a psoric tendency; where the mouth, lips, and tongue are
incrusted with thick scabs; where the
evacuations are green, frequent, and attended with tenesmus; where the body is
covered with a rash; where the thighs are
excoriated; and where the back is affected
with a vesicular eruption.
A.rsenic is especially indicated where
the aphthae have assumed a malignant
character.
The medicines which I have pointed out
are not the only ones which are valuable,
but they are the remedies which',e most
frequently had recourse to. Some particular circumstances,however, may indicate
the propriety of other agents. Of these
we shall subjoin a list, which the practitioner may consult in case of the inadequa



32

DITSEASES.

cy of the preceding, or in consequence of
any special indications:
AcidumMuriaticum; Acidum Nitricum;
Acidum Sillphuricum; Agaricus; Ambra;
Ammrniron  Carbonas; Arnmonim Murias;
Anacardilrn; Argentum; Baryta; Iryonia;
Calcarea; Cantharides; Capsicum; Carbo
Aninmalis; Causticum; Chlamomilla; China;
Daphne Mezereon; Dulcamara; Graphites;
Helleborus; Io4ium-k K~ali Carbonlas; Kali
Hydriodas; Kali Nitras; Lycopo~dium; Magnesia; Magnesiae Murias; Manganese; Natrum; Natrum  Muriaticum; Nux Vomica;
Phellandrium; Phosphorus; Plumburn; Pulsat~il!u; 1ododendron; Sepia; Spigelia;Spongia; Staphysagria; Strontium; Theermae
Tceplitzens; Thuya.
4Jsthma of MIillar.
This is an infantile disease, analogous ill
symptoms to those of croup: hence it is
that these two diseases have frequently
been confounded, both by parents and by
practitioners of slender experience. This
affection. is sudden"in its attack, and is preceded by no premonitory symptoms; it exhibits itself more particularly in children,



ASTHMA OF MILLAR.

33

between the ages of two and seven years,
and in the winter season, after having contracted a cold. The first indication is a
sense of choking, great anxiety, with difficult respiration; the voice becomes harsh,
and acquires a deep tone; should there be
cough, it is hoarse, broken, slight, infrequent, dry, and generally devoid of mucus.
When the affection is very severe, it is
accompanied by heat of skin and frequency
of pulse, and perspirations supervene- upon
the close of the attack. Unless the first
attaclk prove fatal, it usually terminates in
the course of a few hours in sneezing,
eructation, and vomiting; the child sleeps
tranquilly, but on awaking is weak and
languid, and his symptoms very closely resemble those of catarrh. A fresh paroxysm,
more serious than its predecessor, comes on
within twelve or twenty-four hours.
The most general remedy is Sambucus,
particularly where the patient falls into a
state of somnolency, with the eyes and
mouth half opened; is unable to inspire
freely; is compelled to sit down; and where,
even in that position, the air enters the
lungs with a whistling sound, accompanied
be a sense of suffocation; he strikes his



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DISEASES.

hands together behind him; the hands and
face become swollen and purple; there is
heat of skin, without thirst; the child weeps
at the access of the paroxysm; where there
is cough; and where the attack comes on
about the middle of the night.
We exhibit, then, one or two globules of
Sambucus, to the little sufferer, and carefully wait the result: if no effect be apparent, the medicine may be repeated in one
or two hours' time. Several doses may, in
this manner, be required to arrest the progress of this formidable disease.
1Moschus is serviceable in this affection,
when the patient feels as though he had
inhaled the vapour of sulphur.
Ignatia, Nux Vomica, and Pulsatilla,
should, under particular circumstances,
come under the consideration of the practitioner. In consulting the Materia Zledica
Pura, he will ascertain from the symptoms
which of these medicines should follow the
exhibition of the Sambucus or lMosc/hus,
should the latter remedies fail in the removal of the disease.



MISCARRIAGE.

35
n(irU

Miscarrzage.
By miscarriage we understand an accouchement taking place during the earlier
months of pregnancy. The causes of this
accident are the psoric condition of the
patient; the weakness of the mother; a
peculiar irritability of the womb; predisposition, resulting from prior miscarriages;
mechanical lesions, such as disturbance of
the lower parts of the abdomen, from a
blow, a fall, or violent fit of passion, grief,
vexation, anger, or other moral affection.
Sometimes a miscarriage takes place suddenly, and without intimation; in other instances, it may be announced by previous
indisposition. The earlier symptoms are
violent pains in the uterus, drawing and
cutting pains extending from the kidneys
towards the interior of the pelvis; shiverings; great desire to pass water; with viscid
and sanguineous discharge frotn the vagina.
Should this discharge increase, and the
pains be not readily checked, miscarriage
will be almost inevitable.
Treatment. The patient must strive to



DISEASES.

maintain the greatest tranquillity both of
mind and body, and must assume the recumbent position.
Chamomilla, of the 12th dilution, should
be administered where the symptoms, as
detailed above, shall present themselves.
Belladonna, at the 30th attenuation, is
indicated where the pains are violent, tensive, and pressing throughout the entire lower portion of the abdomen,and more especially towards the pubic region; where there
is depression of the reproductive organs,
and violent pain in the region occupied by\
the kidneys.
Hyoscyamus is beneficial in cases where
we meet with convulsions, and diffused
cramp-like pain, succeeded by stiffness of
the joints, and accompanied by the loss of
sense.
Ipecacuanha is the most appropriate
remedy,,where the patient is seized with
tonic cramp, stiffening the entire body, and
conjoined with loss of sense.
Crocus, of the 3d attenuation is serviceable where the sanguineous discharge is
black and clotted; where the pains appear
to pass through from the umbilicus to the



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womb; and where there is pain in the
vertebral column.
Sabina, administered in the early stage
of pregnancy, will act as a preventive in
those who may have a disposition to miscarry.
Nux lVomica is valuable in cases where
the predisposition results from a varicose
state of the reproductive organs, originating either in the abuse of coffee, or in obstinate constipation, which, from inordinate
pressure, induces premature contraction of
the uterus.
Carbo Vegetabilis and Lycopodium are
serviceable in similar cases where the psoric tendency is more or less developed.
In cases where there may be a disposition to psora, but without a varicose tendencyp Sepia and Silicea should receive the
preference.
wArnica is prescribed with success where
aborlion is to be apprehended from a fall,
or from external violence: we may use it
also as a lotion to the injured or contused
surface.*
Asarum, Cannabia, Cantharides, China,
* The lotion is made by adding from 10 to 20 drops
of Tr. Arnica, to an ounce of water.
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Nux Moschata, Platinum, Plumbum, Rhatania, Calcarea, Ferrum, Secale Cornutum, Zincum, and Sulphur, may in like
manner be employed in the prevention of
miscarriage.
In declaring the principal remedial agents
in this affection, we invite the patient to
treat herself in a case of such vital import,
and where she may be distant from a homoeopathic practitioner. We specify the
disease from the prompt assistance required
for its successful treatment.
Nettle Rash. Prickly Heat.
When arising from a cold, Dulcamara is
the most suitable remedy. Likewise Rhus
12 or Nux V. and Pulsatilla or more frequently, when caused by indigestion or
acrid ingesta, Jlntimonium Crud.; Ignatia 12 when there is a burning, lancinating itching over the whole surface of the
body without any appearance of the rash.
In chronic cases of this disease, recourse
must be had to the following medicines,
viz: Sulphur, Calcarea, Carb. V, Lycopodium, and Natrum Mur.



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by a dose of China, which will complete
the cure.
If the wound be circumscribed by an extensive red areola, and if the surface he
swollen and inflamed, Pulsatilla will generally produce beneficial results. We administer one, two, or three globules, according to the excitability of the patient, and in
most instances select it from the 12th up
the 30th attenuation.
Mlercury will very speedily check any
disposition which the wound may haveto
suppurate.
In the treatment of wounds we sould
scrupulously avoid the use of all medicinal
ointments which are generally in so much
request. To prevent any portion of the
apparel attaching itself to the skin, it would
be well to shave the hair, and apply small
bandages spread with some greasy substance: simple cerate, or cocoa-nut oil, is
very suitable.
If the wounds are very extensive, and
attended with loss of substance, in addition
to the bandages which cover the edges of
the wound, we may apply an open compress slightly spread with cerate: we may
afterwards impose a fold of lint. In these
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cases we must guard against the exhibition
of arnica in too concentrated a form, since
it may counteract the desired effect: 5 or
6 drops to an ounce of water will be sufficient. The wound must not be exposed
more than once during the day, and where
there is no suppuration, there will be no
need of disturbance until the cure is complete.
Burns.
Burns, as all persons are aware, present
various degrees of importance, and exhibit
themselves in three distinct stages. In the
earliest stage the part affected-is inflamed,
the skin is puffed up, and blisters are formed; in the second a portion of the skin is
more or less deeply destroyed; in the third
stage, not only is the skin destroyed, but
also the subjacent structure.
It is principally the two former stages
which will be considered here; the last requiring the especial regard of an experienced practitioner.
Should the pain be limited in extent, and
trivial in its nature, we may derive much
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the fire. This greatly increases the pain
for the first few moments, but with courage to persist, the pain very quickly ceases,
and the vesications do not present themselves. When the pain is more extensive,
we may moisten the parts with heated spirits of wine, or brandy, and we must be
careful to keep the compresses constantly
wet. Turpentine may be used instead of
alcohol or brandy; and to prevent the too
rapid evaporation, the, moistened cloths
should be covered over with cotton. Serious
burns require the unremitting attentions of
a nurse, who should never allow the injured surface to become dry.
At night we should withhold the candle
from the patient, or place it within a lantern, lest the alcoholic vapours should ignite.
When the burn induces febrile action,
we administer one or more doses of aconite,
from the 18th to the 30th attenuation.
S'apo pura, administered internally,
quickly removes the pain, and induces a
rapid cure, without having recourse to any
other remedy.



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DISEASES.

Cardialgia or Heartburn.
The disease which has received this appellation is one having its seat in the stomach, or in the diaphragm, and frequently
extending itself over a large portion of the
abdominal viscera.
This affection presents itself in different
degrees and forms, and necessarily requires
the assistance of the medical man. In this
place we shall consider the disease merely
in its simplest character; the result frequently of cold, and attacking irritable and
sensitive subjects, women, and children.
The. region of the stomach, and frequently also the lower part of the abdomen,
are swollen, sensitive, and painful; the patient experiences palpitation of the heart,
anxiety, constriction across the chest, difficulty of respiration, pains in the head, a
disposition to faint, frequent rising of the
food, sometimes acid and always disagreeable; very rarely flatulence.
Children affected with cardialgia, are
agitated and restless, have shortness of
breath, are fretful, and flex the legs upon
the body. It is generally induced by cold,
vexation, acid wine and food, beer, fat
meat, &c.



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One of the most certain remedies is Charomilla of the 12th attenuation. We administer one, two, or three globules, according to circumstances; and the remedy is
repeated after a few hours' interval, or after twenty-four hours, if required. The
physician, however, may vary the medicines according to the shades of variety in
the disease, and he will generally select
them from among the following:
Nux, Chamomilla, Belladonna, Cocculus,
Ipecacuanha, Stannum, Staphysagria, Bryonia, Pulsatilla, Ignatia, China, Bismuthium, Arsenicum, Plumbum, Argilla, Carbo,
Vegetabilis, Calcarea Carbonica, Baryta
Carbonica.
Headach.
Cephalalgia, or headach, is an affection
very rarely idiopathic: it is generally
symptomatic of-a more complicated malady, which may be either acute, or classed
among the chronic diseases.  We shall
nevertheless enumerate a few instances
where the disease is sufficiently simple to
render the attentions of the physician unnecessary..dconite is especially indicated in pains of



46

DISEASES.

the head, excited by determination of blood
to the part, and where the following symptoms present themselves:
Aching pains in the head, vertigo, giddiness, and pricking sensation in the forehead; burning heat in the brain, whilst the
body and limbs are rather cold than otherwise; pressive pain with throbbing in the
head, which subside on lying down, and are
aggravated on rising; the cheeks flushed
and tumid, great nervous excitement, irritability of temper, incapacity for exertion,
vigilance, relief on going into the air.
Belladonna is suitable when there exist
great sensibility of the scalp, and even of
the hair, swelling of the veins of the forehead and of the hands, buzzing in the ears,
a mist before the eyes, hypochondriacal
disposition, absence of thirst.
It is also valuable where there are shiverings in the back and shoulders, in the
morning, followed by a sense of uneasiness
all over the body, succeeded by nausea,
with inclination to vomit; pain in the head,
pressure and drawing towards the forehead,
and becoming insupportable upon the
slightest movement of the eyes; aggravation from the slightest breath of air, and



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from every motion, rest alone assuaging
the pain; where the pain appears 'concentrated in the forehead; where there is
a burning spot, with pain, in the bones of
the nose; aggravation from light, excessive
irritability; palpitation of the heart resounding through the head; unnatural
craving for food; oppression at the stomach, especially after eating.
Bryonia may be exhibited in pains of
the head produced by rough weather, and
by painful emotions of the mind, and when
the following symptoms are apparent:
Cephalalgia continuing from morning till
the evening, contraction affecting the whole
of the head, when the sufferer is compelled
to lie down, and is nearly deprived of his
senses; the eyes glassy, dull, and contracted, the face pale; incapability of enduring
either light or noise; disposition irritable
and querulous; in the afternoon, palpitation of the heart, tension across the chest,
uneasiness, inclination to vomit, retchings,
constipation, deafening pain in the head
the next day, or even a state of fever.
Pulsatilla is applicable to pains in the
head, characterized by vertigo, as from inebriety, with paleness of the face, anxietyý



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'DISEASES.

inclination to shed tears, palpitation of the
heart, bleeding at the nose, sensibility to
light, failure of appetite, &c. The same
remedy is suitable when the affection of
the head is semilateral, diminishes on walking about, and increases on sitting down.
Cephalalgia with shooting and throbbing
in the left side of the forehead, in the
morning and evening, relieved by pressure
and the open air; aggravation in a room,
on lying down, in lowering or raising the
eyes; acid or bilious vomitings, after violent pain in the stomach; abdominal pains,
as from gripings, colic, contraction, &c.
Cephalalgia, with shooting pain at the
top of the head, burning in the eyes, inclination to fall forwards, pains in the stomach, face flushed, &c. At the slightest
movement, the patient feels as though his
head would detach itself from his shoulders; melioration on compressing the head,
debility after the paroxysm.
Cephalalgia, the consequence of keeping late hours, debauchery, and the abuse
of wine and spirituous liquors, has for its
characteristic symptoms, a pain resembling
that of a fracture, heaviness, disposition to
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ness of the limbs, ill humour, irritability.
Nux Vomica is particularly suited to this
train of symptoms.
In cephalalgia produced by the use of
coffee, Nux Vomica is very efficient, particularly when the following symptoms are
remarked:
Cephalalgia in the morning compelling
a recumbent position, and increasing towards the middle of the day; much confusion in the head on awaking; repugnance to food; darting pain over the left
eye, with pressure, and affecting the organ
itself; increase of pain from the pressure;
contraction of the eyelids, dread of light,
dimness of vision, discharge of hot tears,
heat around the eyes.
Obstruction in the left division of the
nose, sweats through the violence of the
pain, occasional vomitings, derangement of
the reflective faculties during the pain, incapacity of thought after the pain, forgetfulness, great irritability, reluctance to
walk, noise and conversation an annoyance.
Nua Vomnica is again serviceable in
cephalalgia produced by constipation of the
bowels.



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Moschus is applicable to the cephalalgia
of hysterical and hypocondiiacal subjects,
more particularly when the under-written
symptoms are observable
Compression above the root of the nose,
with confusion of idea; vertigo upon the
slightest movement of the head, compression in the head, giddiness with threatened
loss of sense, pain throughout the head
with twitchings at the nape of the neck,
when the pain becomes tensive; determination of blood to the head, disposition to
sleep, anxiety, and ill humour.
In cases/where Mloschus has failed of
success, we must employ Nux Vomica,
which will then relieve the pain.
Chamomilla is a suitable remedy when
the headach results from the abuse of coffee, and having frequent recourse to Nux
Vomica.   It is of value in cephalalgia,
characterized by the following symptoms:
Pain, pressive and stunning when sitting
down and reflecting; weight and sense of
cracking; pain even during sleep; cephalalgia in the morning, the eyes being still
closed, and in a staterof semi-sleep, the
pain in the head ceasing on being suddenly



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wakened, and when the patient has risen;
pain from laughter, twitchings, &c.
- Chamomilla is again admissible in cephalalgia resulting from a cold, and characterized by tearing pains in the head and
shootings in the temples, great heaviness
over the root of the nose, as though threatening a cold in the head-; yellowness of the
forehead; puffiness of the face and of the
eyes; dimness of the visual organs.
Colic.
Colic, or Gripes, is a disease attended
with grinding, tearing, and tensive pains,
without any inflammatory symptoms, having neither fixedness nor continuity, and affecting the interior of the abdomen, but
more especially the umbilical region. This
pain generally directs itself from above
downwards, and is frequently accompanied
with swelling of the lower part of the abdomen. Sometimes we observe a kind of
sinking and constriction in the region of the
umbilicus, and occasionally the superior
portion of the abdomen becomes swollen,
more hot, and painful. The stomach is
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rarely vomits; if sick he throws up his
food, together with a small quantity of bile.
Sometimes the complaint is attended with
constipation, but more frequently with
slight diarrhoea, and there is very rarely
fever.
In children, after the discharge of urine
more copious than ordinary, we may occasionally remark considerable agitation and
impatience, continued  crying, sudden
screams, contorsions during sleep, vigilance,
and cramps; they flex the legs upon the
belly, appear as though they were bent
double, and are unable to suck, being either
stretched out or lying down.
The treatment will vary according to
the circumstances producing the disease.
Among children it frequently originates in a
cold, or in worms; in adults, it may proceed from cold, excess in eating or drinking, and not unfrequently from a disposition to flatulence, and from hemorrhoids.
Chamomilla or Pulsalilla is the remedy most suitable in cases of colic presenting the following symptoms, and where theorigin has been a cold:
Violent cutting and tearing pains in the
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sensation as though the abdomen were entirely empty, with constant rumbling in the
intestines, eyes appearing discoloured, accumulation of saliva in the mouth, contusive pain in the kidneys, nausea, disposition
to vomit, diarrhoea, evacuations green, watery and mixed with mucus.
Nux Vomica is indicated where the following characteristic symptoms are observable:
Hardened faeces or constipation, sensation of a heavy weight in the lower part of
the abdomen, with borborygmus; unusual
heat, considerable tension of the belly, with
respiration anxious, short and labored; fulness of the abdomen; sense of fulness beneath the ribs; pain drawing, pinching, and
compressed, as though the intestines were
squeezed in different directions by suffering; pressure at the pit of the stomach;
diffused headach, with confusion of idea';
the abdomen painful to the touch; loss of
recollection; coldness of the extremities at
the time when the affection is most violent.
Windy colic, having its seat in the inferior portion of the abdomen, yields to the
same remedy; when the flatulence, in seeking to escape, produces pressure, as from a
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sharp or cutting instrument, to the bladder,
rectum, or organs of generation; pressure,.
causing the patient to pause after each
step, when in an erect posture, or which is
quickly removed when lying down or sitting
in a curved position.
Mlercury and China are successfully employed in colics produced by worms. We
generally observe the following symptoms:
Great inclination to vomit; risings of the
food; increased secretion from the salivary
glands; torsion of the abdomen; a sensation
of hardness around the navel; convulsion
in the abdominal muscles; pricking in the
throat; frequent hiccough; occasional bulimia; aversion to sweet food;, frequent
desire to relieve, the bowels; the lower abdomen hard and swollen; tensive and burning pain round the navel; diarrhoea; slimy
evacuations; general debility; bad complexion; discoloration of the eyes; itching
of the nose; dilatation of the pupils; itchings at the rectum.
China is chiefly applicable to children,
more particularly where they pick the
nose, when the eyes are dark beneath,
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scream out, or exhibit any of the symptoms
enumerated above.
Excess of feeding, or unwholesome articles of food, frequently give rise to colic;
we thin remark the following symptoms:
Nausea; weight; sensations of stretching, and painful tension in the lower part
of the abdomen; severe pinching; cutting
pains in the abdomen, increased by pressure; salivary secretion, white and frothy;
sharp tearing pains above the navel; diarrhoea, the evacuations green or of a yellowish citron colour attended with violent
pain in the stomach; complexion pallid;
eyes dark beneath; slight convulsion of the
limbs; curvature of the whole body; pressure and tensive pain in the head.
A cup of coffee without milk will disperse
these symptoms in persons who have not
accustomed themselves to its abuse. Frequently after its exhibition we shall obtain
an operation from the bowels, or vomiting
of the indigestible food. One, two, or three
globules of Pulsatilla, administered at this
juncture, will remove all trace of the indisposition.
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to pass water; where there exists spasmodic stricture of the urethra, and where
the belly becomes very sensitive.
In such cases, then, we administer Nux
Vomica in the same manner as Pulsatilla,
taking care to exhibit it in the evening in
preference, provided there be no necessity
for immediate treatment.
Colocynth, of the 30th attenuation, is
very efficacious in different varieties of
Colic, and more particularly where the
following symptoms are presented:
Violent pains in the abdomen, unremitting or returning at short intervals, and
with renewed intensity. After their complete disappearance, these pains present
the peculiarity of leaving, throughout the
lower abdominal region, a sensation of
bruising, as though the intestines were suspended by threads easily broken, and
obliging the patient to walk slowly, and
with extreme caution. The suffering experienced in the superior portion of the
abdomen occupies chiefly one single point,
of slight compass, and returning only at
intervals or five or ten minutes, or at all
events very rarely. It commences most
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One or two globules of Nux, of the 24th
or 30th attenuation, in six ounces of water,
and a spoonful taken every hour, will
readily assuage the pain.
Coffea, of the 3d attenuation, is suitable
in the following symptoms:
Pains in the abdomen, extremely violent,
spasmodic in their character, and extending even to the breast; pain as though all
the intestines were divided with a knife,
and which deprives the patient of her
senses;. dreadful curvature of the body,
with convulsions of the limbs; grinding of
the teeth; frightful cries; general coldness;
cramp-like sufferings; loss of breath; repeated sighs; feeling as though the abdomen would burst; fulness of the lower region of the abdomen; pressure.
Pulsatilla may be exhibited when the
menses are accompanied by violent and
pressive pain in the inferior portion of the
abdomen, and in the kidneysi painful drawing sensations from the trunk to the thighs,
relieved when sitting down, and which are
conjoied with a painful pressure in the
rectum, pains in the bones, and numbness
of the thighs.
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exists a sensation of pressure in the genital
organs, from within to without, as though
these organs were striving to escape outwards.
In addition to the medicaments indicated
above, as tending to check the colic, we
may exhibit the following:
Alum, Asarum, Arsenicum, Calcarea,
Carbo Vegetabilis, Cocculus, Hyoscyamus,
Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Secale Cornutum, Sulphur, Veratrum, Conium, Capsicum, Crocus, Cuprum, Euphorbium, Ferrum, Iodine, Kali, Lauro-Cerasus, Mezereon, Acid. Muriatic., Natrum, Nux Moschata, Plumbum, Psoricum, Ranunculus,
Sarsaparilla, Senega, Senna, Silicea, Spigelia, Valerian.
A practitioner, however, must necessarily be consulted where colic is purely symptomatic, in which case it would be highly
imprudent for the patient to rely upon his
own resources.
Congestion of Blood in the Lower Part of the
Abdomen.
This disease is distinguished by a painful sensation of weight, hardness, tension,



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and heat, in the lower region of the abdomen. When it is of long standing, it requires the assistance of the physician, and
the antipsoric treatment is often necessary
to its removal.
When of recent occurrence, and not originating in chronic miasma, but arising
merely from errors of diet, it may be readily combated by regimen, by daily and
moderate exercise in the open air, and by
abstinence from spirits. The patient may,
at the same time, have recourse to Nux
Vomica, of the 24th'or 30th attenuation,
two globules of which dissolved in six spoonfuls of water, and a spoonful taken every
night on going to bed; such dose being repeated successively, or after some days' intermission, will speedily check the disease.
Should the remedy fail, the advice of the
physician will be indispensable.
Mercury is a valuable medicine in
venous congestion of the stomach and the
lower part of the abdomen.
Congestion of Blood in the Chest.
This disease attacks young persons of
plethoric constitution, and more especially
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DISEASES.

those who are liable to chest affections.
Weight and pressure at the chest, palpitations of the heart, asthma, sighings, anxiety,
&c. are the most usual symptoms. Such
are frequently the avant-couriers of haemoptysis, or of some other disease of the lungs,
or of the heart. Nux Vomica will frequently triumph over these symptoms.
Belladonna is suitable where the asthma
is severe, and is accompanied by a constant
hecking cough, depriving the patient of
rest.
Awrum is a very powerful remedy in
cases where the palpitations of the heart
are extremely violent.
China is successful in similar cases.
Bryonia is effective against violent and
periodical congestions of the chest, accompanied by determination of blood to the
head.
Pulsatilla is very powerful against congestion in the head and chest, in connection
with the following additional symptoms:
Inclination to shed tears; irritability;
disturbed repose; throbbing and beating,
especially in the left side of the head; black
spots before the left eye; mucous taste in
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dryness, without thirst; difficulty of deglutition; giddiness, especially in stooping;
expectoration of mucus in the evening;
palpitations of the heart; tearing pains in
the sacrum, on moving; pricking sensation
in the arms; empty risings; bad appetite;
transitory heats; great debility.
Congestion of Blood in the Head.
This disease more particularly affects
persons leading too sedentary a life. It
frequently results from natural predisposition, from mode of living, the use of spirituous liquors, the habit of wearing too warm
a head-dress. Infancy and old age are the
periods of life chiefly predisposed to this
affection. The symptoms are generally the
following:
Redness and turgid appearance of the
face  swelling of the veins of the head;
strong arterial pulsations; giddiness; pains
in the head, increased by stooping; sleep,
broken and disturbed by frightful dreams.
Aconite is, in the first instance, the most
appropriate remedy.
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65

been the exciting cause of cerebral congestion, aconite is the specific, par excellence..
Where cerebral congestion has been the
result of a heavy fall, or severe contusion,
we may relieve it by the exhibition of
AIrnicu, taken internally, and applied externally as a lotion to the head.
Concussion of the brain is recognizable
by the following symptoms:
Giddiness; vertigo; sense of cold in a
very circumscribed portion of the head;
pressure over the eyes, which have a tendency to close; disposition to be frightened;
vomitings.
In cases where the administration of arnica produces bleeding from the nose, we
should not interfere with it; the hemorrhage
will cure itself.
Dulcamara may be given when there
is continual buzzing in the ears, with hardness of hearing.
Coffea is very valuable in cases of congestion occasioned by joy of too lively a
character.
Chamomilla in cases of congestion induced by vexation.
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lgnatia in cases resulting from concentrated grief.
Nux Vomica in those presenting themselves after a fit of anger.
Opium against those originating in
fright.
Crocus in cerebral congestion either
previously or subsequently to the menstrual
period.
Constipation.
This disease is one of very frequent occurrence in England, and is oftentimes
symptomatic of a complicated affection of
the digestive organs. In these cases, therefore, the assistance of the medical man is
indispensable; and it would be useless to
apply one's self to the constipation merely,
since the treatment should embrace the
malady in all its bearings. The homoeopathic practitioner, who would direct his
attention to this symptom merely, would be
equally culpable with the allopathic physician who prescribes purgatives for every
variety of constipation with which he may
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67

connected with any other circumstance, it
is frequently the result of too scanty a secretion of the juices essential to digestion,
or from the weakness of the intestinal canal.
It affects, for the most part, persons leading too sedentary a life, women, and aged
men. Diet of too dry a character, astate
of pregnancy, the abuse of enemata and
of purgatives, are the chief predisposing
causes.
The treatment must have reference to
the cause of the ailment.  Opium is very
salutary in cases of simple constipation, not
following in the wake of a long-continued
illness, nor resulting from chronic miasma,
but which originates ip debility of the nervous system, and presents the following
symptoms:
Desire to go to the closet, with a feeling
asbthough the passage leading to the rectum
were closed; an impossibility of voiding the
faeces; throbbings in the lower part of the
abdomen; pressure at the stomach; loss of
appetite; thirst; dryness in the mouth.
Nux Vomica proves a valuable remedy
where constipation is the result of indigestible food, or food taken in too large a
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diarrhoea, checked by remedies ill chosen,
or ceasing spontaneously. Or, again, where
the following symptoms are observable:
Loss of appetite; disagreeable taste in
the mouth; tongue loaded with mucus; distaste; nausea; lancinating pains in different
parts of the lower abdominal region, with
tension and pressure; cutting pains in the
abdomen; heat; fulness of blood in the face;
headach in walking about, in lowering the
head; pressure in the temples, relieved
neither by sitting up nor lying down; pain
in the forehead; in the nape of the neck;
disturbed repose; oppression; peculiar heat
in the lower part of the abdomen.
The constipation, at times very painful,
to which pregnant women are liable, will
frequently yield to the exhibition of Nux
Vomica, alternated with ignatia, bryonia,
and opium. We must at the same time
enjoin walking exercise every day in the
open air.
In cases refusing to yield to these various
means, we must consult a practitioner, who
will find Sulphur, Sepia, and Lycopodium
very frequently indicated.
After an accouchement, where the
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pressure of the temples from without inwards; when, upon stooping, the brain
feels as though it, would force itself through
the forehead, and where there is a tendency to epistaxis.
Sulphur, Veratrum, Plumbum, Conium,
Cannabis, Sarsaparilla, Psoricum, Graphites, and Sepia, are very important
remedies in constipation. To render their
application effective, however, we must
carefully examine all the other symptoms
attendant upon constipation; and the study
of the Materia Medica can alone point out
that which will be most eligible.
Contusions.
Contusions very quickly occasion, as all
persons are aware, a swelling, more or less
extensive, of the injured parts. The tumour is painful, not limited in extent; is
more or less hard, and accompanied by extravasation of blood, communicating to the
part a peculiar hue, red, deep, mottled,
blueish, purple, afterwards yellow, and
which is more or less obstinate accord-,
ing to the case and the disposition of the
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ldrnica is a certain specific against this
accident. It is exhibited internally, and
had recourse to at the same time as an
outward application. In the latter, fine
linen rags must be dipped into a solution of
the tincture of arnica and water, in the
proportion of from ten to twenty drops
to the ounce. The injured parts must be
moistened with the lotion several times
during the day.
Generally, one or two doses internally
will suffice, provided the malady be treated at the onset; and it is seldom required
to apply it externally more than one or two
days. In serious cases, however, a continued application may be necessary: we must
then be guided in the repetition by general
rules laid down in the chapter devoted to
the subject.
Cramps- Convulsions.
In most instances, cramps are symptomatic of some serious malady, and in such
cases it is evident that the medical man
alone can direct the treatment. In this
place we shall merely consider those spasmodic affections which may be transitory.



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Young children are frequently attacked
with cramp, from trivial causes, and without any other appreciable derangement of
health. In such cases cramp usually supervenes during sleep, appears only in the
fingers, or displays itself by a slight twitching of the whole body. Here it has its
origin in a cold, in worms, or in colic.
Chamomilla will generally succeed in
restoring the equilibrium, taking care to
administer it in water, and repeating the
dose on every repeated attack. Chamomilla is efficient where the child exhibits uneasiness, when one cheek is flushed and the
other pallid, when the eyes are half closed,
when the patient appears without intelligence, is convulsively affected in the arms
and legs, roll his head uneasily on the pillow,
moans, and suffers from thirst.
Ignatia may be administered under the
following circumstances Frequent accession of heats over the body; waking by
starts from light slumber, and composing
himself again with difficulty uttering loud
cries, and feeling a general tremor; convulsive movements of the muscles, or of
the limbs.
Mercury is an appropriate remedy,
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when, in addition to the convulsive motion
of the limbs, we may observe swelling and
hardness of the lower belly; ejection of a
watery fluid; change in the intellectual
faculties; general debility; and where all
these symptoms are evidently referrible to
the presence of worms.
Women of delicate and irritable temperament are attacked previously to their
monthly periods, or after a cold, or from
some moral disturbance, with spasmodic
and constrictive pains in the lower part of
the abdomen; and even with convulsive
movements, more or less violent in the limbs,
the pains contracting and pressive, and
extending from the loins to the pelvis and
the thighs.
Coffea is an excellent remedy in such
cases, particularly where its use has not
been habitual. If the patient have been
accustomed to this beverage, and it fail in
its application, we must have recourse to
Pulsatilla; especially if there be shivering,
inclination to weep, anxiety, and when the
symptoms become exacerbated during the
night.  Chamomilla is better adapted to
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and extreme susceptibility of suffering, constitute their moral characteristics.
Ignatia is efficient in hysterical affections, and occasions the disappearance of
cramp when in connexion with such symptoms as the following:
Nausea; lipothymy; loss of sense; general
chilliness; pallor; increase of sensibility to
light or noise; painful tumefaction of the
lower abdominal region; twisting; digging
pain in the lower part of the abdomen;
increase of heat in the body; pulse sometimes rapid and full, at others weak and
small.
Opium will relieve spasmodic Affections
induced by fright, and which present, as
accessories, loss of intelligence, a gloomy
expression of countenance, general tremor,
diarrhoea, difficulty of respiration, weakness in all the limbs.
Men of delicate fibre occasionally expe6
rience cramp-like sensations, such as impeded respirations, yawnings, constriction,
oppression about the chest, general laxity,
and shiverings.
Camphor, applied from time to time to
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If these symptoms are evidenced by persons of violent and hasty temperament, and
who give way to tears, complaints, and
abuse, Nux Vomica will be the suitable
remedy,
Ipecacuanha is serviceable in convulsions, with great oppression at the chest,
with distaste for everything but water, with
nausea, vomitings, and diarrhoea.
Lemon-juice, Cicuta, Causticum, Cannabis, Aurum, Arnica, Veratrum, Stramonium, Spigelia, Moschus, Menyanthes,
Aconitum, Arsenic, Belladonia, Bryonia,
Cocculus, Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Angustura, Lachesis, may be employed in various
forms of convulsion.
Cramps of the Stomach.
This malady is one of frequent occurrence; appears to be sometimes hereditary,
to come on in paroxysms, and may continue for years.
At first, there is merely pressure, with
tightness and pinching more or less severe,
affecting the pit of the stomach, and the
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obstinate according to the circumstances to
which they are referrible, and frequently
resist for a long time the most judiciously
directed treatment. At times they disappear for several weeks, and return at fixed
or irregular periods.
The most usual causes of this malady,
are errors of diet, frequently and for a long
time repeated; irregularity in eating and
drinking; the inordinate use of spirituous
drinks and coffee; grief, vexation, frequent
colds, particularly in the feet, 4cc. All
these causes, however, are often merely
occasional and exciting; and cramps in the
stomach originate in some chronic miasma,
which develops itself under the influence
of the cause alluded to above. In such
cases we must institute an antipsoric treatment, methodical and prolonged, in order
to triumph over the disease.
When the affection is attributable to the
causes above mentioned, it is generally to
be cured by the following remedies: Nux,
ignatia, pulsatilla, coffea cruda, chamomilla, and cocculus.
Nux Vomica is especially applicable to
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spirituous liquors, more particularly when
we detect the following symptoms:
Constriction, pressure, pinching, and
tearing; cramps in the stomach, with a
feeling as though the clothes compressed
the body in the epigastric region; a sensation which may be compared to an accumulation of wind in the left side, beneath
the ribs; constriction of the chest, which
in many instances extends itself as far as
the shoulders and the loins; nausea, particularly during the fit; accumulation of
water in the mouth; rising in the mouth of
sour and bitter fluid, with or without a
sense of burning in the pharynx; palpitation of the heart, with anxiety; sour and
putrid taste in the mouth; constipation;
tumefaction of the lower part of the abdomen from flatus, at times semi-lateral headach; at other times, pressive pains in the
forehead.
When the nervous system is highly excitable, the sensibility increased, the disposition of the patient very irritable, and
every circumstance annoys him, we shall
derive much advantage from chamomilla;
more particularly where there is pressure
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ing at the pit of the stomach, and on the
left side; asthma, anxiety, and a pressive
pain at the.vertex of the head.
It may be remarked that a little coffee
generally assuages this species of cramp,
while it serves to aggravate that which
yields to the application of nux vomica.
When the disease has originated in the
abuse of chamomile tea, this remedy will
not meet the case: it is then that ignatia,
pulsatilla, and coffea will be appropriate.
Coffea is especially indicated in cramps
which appear insupportable to the patient,
by reason of an increase of sensibility.
Cramps in the stomach, excited by an abuse
of coffee, are remedied by the exhibition
of chamomilla.
When the cramps are connected in their
paroxysms with nausea and vomiting, with
severe darting pain in the pit of the stomach, they will yield to the administration
of Ipecacuanha.
Cocculus may be administered after the
exhibition of Nux, should the latter fail in,the entire removal of the disease; or, again,
when superadded to the symptoms which
characterize the employment of nux vomica, we have constipation and pain in the



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81

lower part of the abdomen, relieved by the
discharge of flatus; when there is an increased flow of saliva from the mouth; and when
the disposition of the patient is fretful and
sombre, and he seems as though he were
wrapped up within himself.
The following medicaments are valuable in certain descriptions of cramps in the
stomach:
Belladonna, Stannum, Staphysagria,
Bryonia, China, Magnesia, Bismuth, Arsenicum, Plumbum, Argilla, Carbo Vegeta;
bilis, Calcarea Carbonica, Barytes Carbonica, Lycopodium, Sepia, Petroleum, Atriplex Olida, Carbo Animalis, Phosphorus,
Spiritus Nitri Dulcis, Sulphur.
Cries of Young Infants.
The violent crying of very young children, continuing frequently during one or
many weeks, without apparent cause, and
almost without intermission, will frequently yield to the exhibition of an extremely
minute dose of balladonna, chamomilla, or'
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cum, Rhus, Sarsaparilla, and Sepia, are
medicines frequently of great service in the
more obstinate cases. It is for the physician to determine m hich may be preferable, and he will arrive at this choice by
a perfect knowledge of their respective
properties.
It chin gs.
This disease is frequently obstinate and
very distressing, and chiefly attacks persons
who are declining in years. It has its immediate origin in slight nodosities,colourless,
scarcely perceptible, soft, smooth, isolated,
without vesicles, desquamation, or eruption,
properly so called.
The scratching, however, produces a
slight redness, with discharge of lymph,
clear or sanious, visible at the top of the
nodosities. This assumes the appearance
of a number of small humid points, which
form, in the course of twelve or twenty
hours, as many minute crusts or scales,
about the size of a pin's head, white, yellowish, or dusky, according to the character of the fluid, and frequently rendering
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of the liver, gout, scurvy, and above all in
psora, the last of which may even be considered as the originating cause in a majority of cases, the others being regarded in
the light of excitants.
The remedy most certain and most
prompt is Sulphur, which may be administered in solution with water, in the proportion of from one to three globules every
week, and repeated according to circumstances. We must be careful not to exhibit a second dose whilst the action of the
first is in progress.
If the itching be diffused, pricking, and
burning, and assume the appearance of
flea-bites, is unaccompanied by any visible
mark, is felt chiefly in the evening on going
to bed, if it give way upon the slightest
scratching to reappear in another part, we
must order the Ignatia amara, in the
same doses as the sulphur.
When this treatment, united with habits
of cleanliness, may prove insufficient to
check the disease, and particularly when
connected with a complication of symptoms,
we must profit by the advice of a medical
practitioner.



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Dentition.
Dentition is rarely observable in young
children without bringing in its train symptoms more or less serious, and which the
physician is called upon to remedy.
The soft and gelatinous substance of
which, at a later period, the teeth are formed, is enveloped in a membranous sac, and
secreted within the bone of the jaw. This
substance gradually increases, and, from
its consistency, opens for itself a passage by
causing a dissolvent irritation in the bone.
The dissolved portion is removed by the
absorbents, and it only remains to pierce
the gum, which by degrees becomes inflamed and swollen. The gum being but
slightly sensitive, the pain is generally trifling at the point of perforation.
When dentition advances without unfavourable symptoms, it requires no assistance from art. If the swelling of the gums,
however, be considerable-if they are red,
hot, and painful-if the child be incessantly drivelling-if he frequently introduce his
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the nipple when at the breast, or suddenly
let go his hold-and if he be restless, we
must oppose this irritation by aconite; one
globule dissolved in four spoonfuls of water,
and a spoonful given every two hours.
4 When the child is as it were delirious, is
unwilling to be pacified, and unable to
sleep, we must have recourse to Coffea,
exhibiting one or two globules in the four
and twenty hours.
If the mother make habitual use of coffee, we must then apply to Chamomilla,
administered in the same manner.
When dentition is accompanied by a dry
cough, with panting, or hurried respiration,
chamomilla is very serviceable; should it
fail, however, Belladonna will succeed in
restoring the health of the patient.
These medicines may be employed under
other circumstances similar in character
to those mentioned above: they are especially efficacious where the child has for
several nights experienced restlessness,
burning heat, constant agitation, ardent
thirst, redness of the skin, tremor of the
limbs, anxiety, sobbing sighs; respiration
short, quick, and loud; evident oppression
at the chest, redness of the eyes; startings,



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isolated, and recurring at intervals,- and
even convulsions of the limbs. What should
influence our choice in favour of belladonna, would be evident and well-defined
symptoms of cerebral congestion.
Chamomilla is particularly suitable
where the general symptoms are the same;
and where the congestion appears to in-.
fluence the abdomen, accompanied by gripings, diarrhoea, and green evacuations.
In cases where the diarrhoea is watery,
and very proftse, we may oppose it with
Mercury, one globule of the twelfth attenuation being given in the course of
twenty-four hours. The diarrhoea, however, being favorable to dentition, we must
interfere with those cases only in which
the symptoms are violent. Constipation,
on the other hand, should be carefully obviated with Nux Vomica, which will, in
most instances, readily meet the case.
Ignatia is appropriate in cases of convulsions which have withstood the action
of Belladonna and Chamomilla. We
may repeat the ignatia according to the
severity of the attack; one dose every
quarter or every half hour.
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racterized by a sharp cutting pain in the
chest, difficult respiration, fever or chilliness, flushed face, occasional cough, sometimes severe, which produces agonizing
suffering in the part affected; headach
and nausea, no remedy is superior to.dconite. Where, however, there is less evidence of acute inflammatory disease, Bryonia may advantageously succeed the use
of Aconite. When the disease is complicated with a predominance of symptoms in
the head, Belladonna answers very well,
if /conite has failed to cure the case. In
addition to the above remedies, and in default of their salutary action, Cannabis
and Squilla may sometimes be required.
Derangement of the Stomach.
This indisposition originates in excess of
nutriment, or from the food and drinks
being heavy, indigestible, gross, acid, flatulent, tainted, &c. The symptoms of visceral derangement generally declare themselves very quickly after a repast, and are
as follows:
Risings in the mouth, of an acid character, or tasting of the food which has been



DERANGEMENT OF THE STOMACH.  93
eaten; disrelish, weight, pressure and pain
in the stomach; swelling and fulness of this
viscus; quivering of the lower lip; vertigo;
heaviness in the head; tickling or scraping
in the throat; expectoration; hemoptysis;
unpleasant taste in the mouth; loaded
tongue; inclination to vomit; heat in the
throat; sensation of weakness; anxiety;
face puffed up, pale, covered at times with
various coloured spots; discharge of fetid
wind; the urine sometimes admixed with
mucus, &c.
These symptoms, which usually supervene some hours after the repast, soon terminate in acid vomitings participating in
the nature of the food, and sometimes presenting a greenish appearance. There remains, however, for some days, loss of appetite, pains in the abdomen, or diarrhoea.
Persons of delicate constitution, and subject to cramps in the stomach, suffer much
from indigestion and its concomitant ills;
among which may be mentioned paroxysms
of fever. Occasionally the food undigested, or taken in too large a quantity, causes
violent symptoms, such as might result
from poisoning, &c.; but they are generally brief in duration.



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arnica may be administered where the
derangement of the stomach is referrible to
a diffused and continued excitement of the
nervous system occasioned by intensity of
thought, late hours, excess of venery, bodily fatigue, and when accompanied by the
following symptoms:
Vertigo; headach, especially above the
orbits; giddiness; heat of the head; dryness of the tongue; putrescent, sour, or bitter taste in the mouth; unpleasant odour
in the mouth; distaste for smoking of tobacco; want of appetite; desire for acid
food; tongue loaded with a yellowish mucus; risings in the mouth, and tasting of
the food; fulness in the pit of the stomach;
nausea; inclination to vomit; heaving of the
stomach; flatulence, colic, swelling of the
abdomen; uneasiness and debility; heaviness
in the limbs; disagreeable heat; cracking
of the knees; disturbed slumber; frequent
wakings; waking suddenly; anxious and
distressing dreams.
Chamomilla and Nux Vomica will
succeed in such cases, provided there be
no circumstance to contra-indicate their use.
Nux Vomica will check derangements
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DERANGEMENT OF THE STOMACH.  95
dauch, abuse of wine or coffee, or by a
cold, and when the patient displays the following symptoms:
Sensation of giddiness; obnubilation of
the head; sensible weight in the occiput;
drawing pains in the teeth, sometimes in
one of the superior, sometimes in one of the
inferior molars; tingling in the ears; heat
in the face; efflorescence in the forehead,
red and isolated; the same in the nose and
at the angles of the mouth; tongue white
and loaded; dryness of the mouth, without
thirst; collection of sordes in the mouth;
heat in the throat; failure of appetite; loss
of taste; nausea; accumulation of water
in the mouth; vomitings; colic; pressure
at the stomach; tension in the lower region
of the abdomen; evacuations scanty; constipation; disturbed sleep; disinclination
for intellectual pursuits; great relaxation;
twitchings in the limbs; discontent, querulousness, and inward agitation.
Derangement of the stomach, occasioned
by vexation preceding a repast, presents
the following symptoms:
Heat and redness of the face; painful
sensation in the head; redness of the eyes,
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pervading the nervous system; great sensibility; failure of appetite; continuous bitter taste in the mouth; bilious eructations;
vomitings of green and bilious substances;
colics; prostration; disturbed slumber; perpetual agitation; frequent wakings.
Chamomilla will generally succeed in
dispersing all these symptoms. Should uneasiness, however, in the epigastrium continue, the appetite still fail, the patient
feel great lassitude, with absence of thirst
and loaded tongue, Pulsatilla will be the
remedy to confirm the equilibrium of the
functions.
Nux Vomica, on the other hand, may
be prescribed with success, where we find
constipation, and the temperament of the
patient violent, with an inclination to quarrel.
Bryonia, again, may be employed under
similar circumstances, especially if the patient be costive, feel shiverings, and it is
perceived that his moral economy has undergone a signal change under the influence
of anger.
Pulsatilla is more especially applicable
where the derangement has resulted from
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when the under-written symptoms exhibit
themselves:
Bitter apd salacious taste in the mouth,
taste resembling that of putrescent fish or
tallow; mucus in the mouth; scraping in
the throat; bilious eructations; loss of appetite; aversion to warm food; fulness of
the stomach; swelling of the lower region
of the abdomen; tension beneath the false
ribs; borborygmus; costiveness, or heavy,
difficult, and scanty evacuation in the
morning; chilliness; prostration; twitchings in the limbs; ill humour, vexttion.
In the vernal and autumnal seasons,
among persons who reside in humid situations, in the vicinity of stagnant water, in
marshy districts, and in closely-confined or
densely populated apartments, we observe
a peculiar gastric derangement; presenting
the following characteristics:
Loss of appetite, without unpleasant
taste; constant satiety; heaviness and fulness of the abdomen; constriction, prostration, and debility; vertigo; deafening headach; flushes, occasionally alternated with
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to external impressions; disturbed repose;
ill-humour.
China, in one or more doses, speedily arrests this train of symptoms, the not unusual
precursors of Intermittent Fever.
Diarrheea.
Diarrhoea is an evacuation, more or less
frequent, resulting from disease of the intestinal canal. The voided substance is at
times copious, diversified in character, and
with or without admixture of fecal matter.
Occasionally this affection is very trivial,
and, in consequence, is attended with little
danger; at other times it assumes a graver
aspect, more especially when injudiciously
treated.
The most frequent causes of this malady
are colds, errors of regimen, &c. The concomitant symptoms are loss of appetite,
more or less defined; pain in the stomach;
swelling and tension in the lower part of
the abdomen; borborygmus; dryness and
coldness of the skin; thirst, diminution of
urine; prostration; intermittence and irregularity of the arterial pulsations; occasional pains in the abdomen. Then, again,



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we have cutting and tearing pains, sometimes in one part, sometimes in another,
with inclinations to vomit, subsiding for the
moment to return after a brief interval.
Severe and long continued diarrhoea occasions burning pain in the rectum, tenesmus,
debility, alteration of feature, and even
lipothymy.
Warmth, in conjunction with abstinence
and a little coffee, is sufficient to remedy
slight attacks. Those cases, however, which
have been produced by colds, must be
treated with china, provided the motions
are frequent, liquid, sour, clear, and without admixture of fecal matter; are preceded by violent colic, spasmodic and pressive pain in the bowels, and accompanied
by pains in the abdomen; eructation; borborygmus in the abdomen, with sense of
debility in the same organ.
Chamomilla is suitable when the pains
in the abdomen are violent and tearing, afford no relief to the patient, and oblige
him to writhe and run about here and
there; when there is a feeling as though
the. abdomen were entirely hollow, with
constant movement in the bowels, or as
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side; when the eyes are encircled by a
blueish ring; nausea; vomiting; and the
motions mucous and watery, having the
odour of rotten eggs.
Chamomilla, again, is successfully employed against diarrhoea originating in anger, and where there exists a bitter taste
in the mouth; risings; a sense of emptiness or repletion in the stomach; pressive
pain in the head; general debility; repeated evacuation of matters, which are
green, aqueous, hot, and very fetid.
Mercury is suitable where the cold has
been produced by exposure to, the night
air, and there exists a pinching pain in the
hollow of the stomach; borborygmus; a feel'ing of relaxation as though an evacuation
would take place; cutting pain in the lower
bowels, accompanied by pressure; tearing
pain in the lower part of the abdomen,
which feels very cold; nausea; aversion;
titubations; shiverings; sudden and frequent desire to relieve the bowels, in the
first instance without success, but succeeded by dejections, frequent, profuse, watery,
and green, with disposition to faintings.
Pulsatilla is of great service in cases of
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tion, occupying a greater or less extent of
surface; gradual emaciation, and consumption arriving at its last stage.
Dysentery.
Dysentery is a disease of frequent occurrence during warm weather, and is frequently attended with considerable fever;
for which Aconite is to be given every 6 or
8 hours.
Afterwards Mercury is the appropriate
remedy when there is much straining at
stool or tenesmus: the discharges being
small in quantity, and consisting mostly of
mucus mixed with blood.
Nux Vomica is also to be used when
there is much heat with redness of the
face, thirst, bearing down sensation with
bloody stools.
In dysenteric diarrhoea with belchings
and hardness of the abdomen, with numerous discharges, producing heat and burning at the fundament; the tongue being dry
and brown, the thirst great with much debility and sometimes oppression at the
breast, Arsenic may be administered with
much advantage.



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In cases of this disease arising from
Marsh Miasmata, China is the appropriate remedy.
When stools occur as often as once in
ten or fifteen minutes, consisting of bloody
mucus or clear blood, with much effort and
evident cutting pains, Muriate of Mercury
will often give relief. Besides the above
remedies, the practitioner may advert to
the following, according to their specific
virtues,viz: Capsicum, ~Acid. Sulph., Jcid.
Nit., Colchicum, Colocynth, Sulphur,
Rhus, Pulsatilla, Chamomilla.
Pains following Childbirth.
Notwithstanding these pains rarely constitute disease, properly so called, it may
be of service to point out the means of relief or dispersion. They may now and then
prove sufficiently intense to induce consequences more or less serious.
These pains are analogous to those preceding the labour; they extend from the
lumbar region to the pelvis or the sacrum,
are accompanied by irritation in the rectum and the bladder, and affect the pubic



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region and the posterior portion of the
lower part of the abdomen.
They succeed delivery even under the
most favorable auspices; come on in paroxysms day after day; are unconnected with
fever or abnormal discharge; and during
the intervals, howsoever brief, the patient
is in perfect health, and her appetite and
sleep return. These pain rarely occasion
any change in the lochia, the secretion of
milk, or the alvine evacuations, and they
are terminated occasionally by a discharge
of blood. Pressure does not increase them,
neither is the abdomen swollen nor tender.
These after-pains are at times more distressing than those oflabour; and it has been
remarked that they are generally more severe in women who have borne several
children. If trivial in character, they require but little interference, nature herself
restoring Ihe equilibrium.  Should they
become serious, we may oppose them with
Chamomilla, which if it fail in their entire
removal, will very greatly relieve. Should
the pain prove very severe, and cause the
patient to feel as though the intestines were
cut into pieces, we may derive beneficial
results from Coffea.



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Arnica has been employed most successfully, in the form of lotion to the organs of
generation; and the exhibition of a dose
or two, internally, will contribute in a singular degree to a favorable termination.
In allcases of contusion,the.rnica proves
invaluable; it must, therefore, of necessity,
do good when employed subsequently to an
accouchement. If this remedy do not altogether prevent the accession of afterpains, it will, in most instances, produce a
modification; while Chamomilla will accomplish the remainder.
Poisoning.
Accidents of this nature claim the unremitting energy of the most skilful practitioners. It is nevertheless important, that
the public should be put in possession of the
means by which to recognize such cases,
and afford the earlier means of relief, while
awaiting the arrival of competent assistance.
Where violent symptoms are suddenly
evidenced, and without.appreciable cause,
in persons of sound health or but slightly
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omena result from the exhibition of poison.
Poisons are either narcotic or corrosive.
The first division, belonging chiefly to the
vegetable kingdom, comprises Opium,
Belladonna, Datura, Stramonium, HLyoscyamus, Cicula, Secale Cornutum, certain species of mushroom, &c. The bitter
almond and the laurel leaf are poisonous;
and being introduced into the stomach in
too large a quantity, may become prejudicial to health; while the prussic acid,
extracted from the leaves is still more to
be dreaded. Under the same head, we
may class such atmospheres and gases as
are obnoxious to respiration; suffbcating
vapours, such as carbonic acid gas, the
emanations of sulphur and charcoal, air
pent up and vitiated by the breath of too
large a number of persons, the odour arising from an assemblage of flowers in a
room, &c.
These poisons immediately give rise to
the following phenomena:
Painful weight and pressure in the
stomach; anxiety; aversion; vomiting; somnolency; confusion in the head; disturbance of the intellectual faculties; vertigo;
dulness; coma, &c.   The patient feels



CHILBLAINS.

Ill

Hepar Sulphuris is of grrat service
when the pains have subsided, or have altered in character, and produce throbbing
in the place of larcinations and distention.
If notwithstanding the exhibition of suitable remedies, the glands attain considerable hardness, Dulcamara, taken at intervals, will afford much relief.
Chilblains.
Chilblains, as all persons are aware, are
specific inflammations of the skin, resulting
from cold. The hands and feet, and especially the great toes, are more frequently affected than any other part. This inflammatory affection usually displays itself at the
commencement of winter, and during variations of the temperature.  A single
rermedy will rarely suffice for its removal,
and we are frequently compelled to resort
to many.
Chamomilla and Arnica are generally
entitled to the preference. Considerable inflammation, throbbing pains, tumefaction,
and a reddish-blue appearance of the affected part, require the administration of



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Pulsatilla and of Belladonna. -If the
chilblain be of long standing, we may give
Sulphur, Nitric.dcid, or Petroleum.
Hoarseness.
This affection is distinguished by harshness of tone, indistinct enunciation, crying,
cough, 4'c., and produces, in itself, neither
pain, asthma, nor wheezing. It is the result, frequently, of cold, checked perspiration, &c., and is generally accompanied
by a dry cough, or by the expectoration of
a watery or saltish substance, soon becoming mucous, and more or less profiuse and
viscid. The hoarseness is scarcely perceptible during inspiration, but is more decidedly marked in expiration, the act of speaking, coughing, &c.
Chamomilla is applicable where the
hoarseness is associated with cold in the
head, dryness of the eyelids, collection of
mucus in the larynx, sense of burning in
the gullet, dryness in the mouth, thirst,, dry
cough, with prurient irritation in the trachea, febrile excitement in the evening,
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wards evening; external heat, sense of fatigue and prostration; internal heat during
the night, with skin perfectly dry; listurbed slumber, broken and agitated by dreams;
taciturnity, disposition to tears, sensibility,
indifference, irresolution, frequent desire
for change.
Mlercury is often of service after the
exhibition of the remedies already pointed
out, and will quickly effect a cure.
In this, as well as in all other affections,
the repetition of the dose must be regulated
by the result.
Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Carbo
Vegetabilis, Causticum, Drosera, Dulcamara, Hepar, Manganum, Petroleum,
Phosphorus, Sulphur, Sepia, and Spongia,
may be pointed out as serviceable in complicated or chronic cases; and the practitioner will readily select his agent by consulting the Materia Medica Pura.
Hooping Cough.
In the early stage of this disease, attended with fever and catarrhal symptoms,.1conile has proved decidedly useful, administered daily.



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When the patient is fretful and cries
much before coughing, dirnica may be
given.  If the disease is attended with
vomiting of what is eaten or drunk, Bryonia is beneficial, and when the cough is
worse in the night, Conium is to be selected.-Belladonna may be used when
the attacks of cough are preceded by
whining or pain in the stomach, or when
succeeded by sneezing-when the breathing is quick, short and anxious, with groaning; when congestions of blood to the
chest occur or when blood is discharged by
coughing or vomiting. The expirations are
violent, and the cough bellowing.
The remedy, however, which Homceopathy has discovered as a specific in most
forms of this disease, is Drose7a. In the
absence of inflammatory symptoms, it is to
be at once administered, and such is its
energy in arresting this troublesome complaint, that cures generally take place in
two or three weeks. When this fails and
the cough is short, violent, and, such as to
jar the whole system; the attacks following each other so rapidly, as to endanger
suffocation, Ipecacuanha in doses repeated
several times daily is recommended.



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Erysipelas will sometime assume a very
serious aspect, and consequently require
the most careful attention.
When the case is simply such as we
have described, we are certain to derive
very prompt relief from the administration
of one or two doses of dconite at the onset,
to check the febrile action. This medicine
must be followed up by Belladonna; or,
in the absence of fever, we may begin
immediately with the last-mentioned remedy.
Bryonia is of signal benefit where the
erysipelas more particularly affects the articulations,
Pulsatilla is applicable where the disease shifts rapidly, from one part of the
body to another.
In certain cases we perceive vesicles
filled with serosity, forming themselves upon
the inflamed surface: these are of greater
or less dimensions, and resemble small
blisters. When these phenomena present
themselves, the Rhus    Toxicodendron
should follow the exhibition of Aconite.
SUnder certain forms of erysipelas, and
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derive much valuable assistance from the
following remedies:
Ammonium, Antimonium, Arnica, Arsenicum, Borax, Calcarea, Camphor, Cantharides, Carbo Animalis, Graphites, Hepar, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Nitric Acid,
Phosphorus, Ruta, Sulphur.
Quinsy.
Quinsy is an inflammatory affection of
the lining membrane of the throat, of the
velum palati, and of the tonsils. This affection occasionally assumes a formidable
character, and consequently requires very
prompt attention. When the disease is imperfectly cured, there results very frequently a chronic enlargement of the tonsils, with
elongation of the uvula, which symptoms
are to be relieved only by a prolonged and
radical treatment. Since in such cases we
shall invariably find a psoric tendency,
either constitutional or acquired, it is
among the antipsoric remedies that the
practitioner will find the suitable means of
relief.
Qhamomilla is an efficient remedy in
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Two or three doses of mercury are generally required to check this affection.
Pulsatilla is in request where the throat
experiences a sense of soreness, and the gullet is dry; when there is cutting pain in the
throat, so as to prevent swallowing without great inconvenience; when the glands
of the neck are tumefied, tender to the
touch, and impede deglutition; and when,
in addition to these symptoms, we experience a sense of diffused coldness, increased towards night, and succeeded by heat.
Absence of thirst is another indication of
the propriety of administering Pulsatilla.
Belladonna is frequently in requisition
in quinsy, and the symptoms which proclaim
its use are the following:
Sensation as of a ligature round the
throat, with external swelling; enlargement
of the tonsils; bright redness of the entire
throat, of the velum palati, and of the tonsils, with greater or less difficulty of swallowing; constriction of the voice; general
and burning heat; much thirst.
In cases where the fever has been violent
from the onset, we may commence our
treatment by a dose or two of Aconite.
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will subdue this disease; and, where any
trace is left, Mercury will quickly succeed
in the restoration to perfect health.
The following medicines are, equally
with those mentioned abve, entitled to important consideration: Argentum, Barytes,
Dulcamara, Nux Vomica, Rhus, Sabadilla,
and Sepia.
Retention of Urine.
It not unfrequehtly happens that from
exposure to cold,'from partial paralysis of
the parts, &c., that the urine is retained,
the bladder having no power to contract
and expel its contents.
In such cases recourse must be had to
Pulsatilla, Nux, Arsenic, Belladonna, Arnica, Aurum,Stramonium, Sulphur,according
to their distinctive indications.
Croup.
This disease, with which most persons
are coversant, is very important, rapid in
its progress, and requires the most efficient
means to avert its danger.
At its commencement, this affection is
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frequently deceptive, and assumes a catarrhal form. The patient complains of
hoarsness, mental and bodily depression,
slight febrile excitement, particularly towards evening, united with dry, short, hollow cough, with a slight sense of burning
pain, and tickling in the windpipe. Soon,
however, the sound of the cough, voice, and
respiration assumes a special character,
presenting nothing analogous to catarrh.
It is veiled, sonorous, suspirious, whistling;
sometimes grave and resonant, at other
times shrill and squeaking; the respiration
is more or less wheezing, and the cough
excites pain, which the sufferer indicates
by carrying his hand to his throat. Occasionally, however, the disease is sudden in its
access, and not preceded by catarrhal symptoms. The cough is consequently hoarse,
barking, hollow; or, on the other hand,
acute, shrill, and clear; the voice is hoarse,
rough, or wheezing; the face is red, mottled, swollen, and at times blue; a clammy
sweat suffuses the body, the breathing is
difficult, and the head is thrown back to
facilitate respiration..Jconite is the first remedy to be admin



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istered in this affection, in order to subdue
inflammatory action.
After the exhibition of Aconite, one or
two doses according to circumstances, we
must administer Spongia Usta. Should
the symptoms refuse to yield to this remedy,
we must afterwards have recourse to
Hepar Siulphuris.
In ordinary cases, the sponge should be
exhibited two or four hours after the aconite, and the repetition of the sponge and
of the liver of sulphur should be alternated
every two, four, or six hours. It is evident,
however, that we' must be guided by the
progress of the disease.
Excoriation of the Kipples.
This affection attacks women recently
delivered, and frequently becomes so painful as to prevent their giving the breast to
the child.
The skin of the nipples is so delicate that
the most trifling sores, upon the slightest
contact, produce in many women almost
insupportable suffering; and, discontinuing
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is suppressed,and inflammation of the mamma supervenes.
Women may prevent this affection by
commencing, many weeks previously to
their delivery, to wash the nipples every
day with spirit distilled from corn.
They should continue a similar application after their accouchement, so long as
the nipples are without excoriation, taking
the precaution to wash them with tepid
water, every time the child is put to the
breast..drnica is a valuable remedy where the
excoriations are apparent. It is employed
externally, in the dose of two or four drops
of the tincture in fifty or eighty drops of
water, taking care to wash the nipple every
time the child is permitted to suck.
When the complaint is so severe as to
present a certain degree of inveteracy, and
especially Where there is an evident psoric
diathesis, we must have recourse to remedies administered internally. Of these Sulphur is one of the most important. Should
it not entirely succeed, however, we shall,
after its exhibition, derive most benefit
from Lycopodium, Calcarea Carbonica,
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causes much uneasiness to the patient, we
must persevere in ablutions, and administer
internally Chamomilla. In cases where
there may. have been an abuse of this
remedy, Pulsatilla, or Ignalia will be the
appropriate agent.
When the disease assumes a more serious
aspect, and the body of the child presents
the appearance of a wound, Mercury will
prove a specific.
Should the affection resist this means,
we must attack it with antipsorics, and
Graphiles, Sulphur, and Lycopodium will
then subdue the evil. The more serious
species of.excoriation have their ultimate
cause in a psoric tendency, and it is for this
reason that antipsoric remedies will especially avail.
Catarrhal Fever.
This disease is frequently the sequel of a
cold occasioned by a sudden change in the
temperature; or from humidity in the atmosphere; and it is on this account that we
so often find it prevailing in certain places
and at certain seasons as an epidemic. If
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trivial moment,and becomes important only
in consequence ofthe injudicious treatment
to which so many persons are subjected.
The symptoms which characterize this
condition are as follows:
Shiverings; transitory chills, shifting from
one part to another, and alternating with
a sensation of heat; pulse soft, and of mbderate frequency; sense of heaviness, twitching or cracking in the limbs; the back and
the sacrum feel as though they were
broken; the head becomes confused, and is
very weighty; pressive pain above the eyes;
oppressive wakefulness, or disturbed slumber; diminution of taste and smell; the patient complains of the pit of the stomach,
frequently feeling pressure coupled with
anxiety; taste in the mouth frequently bitter or mucous; appetite more or less deficient; the febrile symptoms especially augmented towards night;and the nose, throat,
chest, and heart being considerably affected.
What will aid us in our diagnosis are the
symptoms of catarrh: the nose, throat, and
lungs secrete a vast quantity of mucus, feel
very painful, and afterwards experience a
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mencement, is usually thin and white, but:
-it subsequently becomes thick, viscid, and
yellow, or even darker, and acquires a fetid
odour.
The remedies most appropriate to combat this train of symptoms are Aconite,
Nux Vomica, Chamomilla, Pulsatilla, Ignatia, and Belladonna. The constitution
of the patient, the change in his moral tendencies, and that in the symptoms enumerated above, will guide us in our election.
Aconite is of service only in the commencement of the attack, and where the
malady exhibits itself in an aggravated
form: it acts in subduing arterial action.
Nux Vomica is almost invariably suited
to patients whose temperament is quick
and choleric;where the affection is accompanied by thirst and constipation; where
the different parts of the body are under
the influence of cold shivers, which, especially oh moving about, appear to pass over
the bones, and alternate with heats. It is
similarly eligible in cases where the symptoms are relieved by proximity to the fire;
also where thd patient endures a sense of
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vere cough, more particularly in the morning.
leulsabilla is suitable, topersons of placid
temperament, disposed to melancholy and
to. tears; to individuals of lymphatic habit;
to women; and to patients who are but
slightly inconvenienced by thirst. Also in
cases where the secretreios are too abundant, and become thick; where there is
clamminess, as it were, of the mouth, loss
of appetite, languor; andwhere, in conjunction with these, the other symptoms exist
in a greater or less degree. This medicine,
in certain instances, is appropriate after
the exhibition of Nux Vomica, that isi
where indicated by the change in the disease.
Chamomilla should be prescribed where
there is impatience under suffering, irritability and extreme   sensitiveness to pain.
This remedy is very valuable for chill
dren.
gzatia. It is frequently the moral
symptoms which should guide the choice of
the practitioner, and induce him to adopt
Cinaiia. This medicine is eminently suited to persons of gentle temperament, who
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disposed to confine their griefs within their
own breasts.
When to these moral tendencies are
united symptoms of catarrhal fever, there
is no doubt but that this remedy should be
selected in preference to others.
Belladonna is suitable to children of
sanguine and lymphatic temperaments, and
affected with catarrhal fever; where the
cough is evidenced chiefly at night; where
theviscera are threatened with congestion;
excessive irritability; somnolency during
the day, with absence of sleep during the
night; where the sleep is interrupted by
sudden starts; delirium, more or less intense; prostration of strength; sadness;
and where the patient screams out as
though under the influence of fear.
Fatigue.
Although fatigue can scarcely be rIegarded as a disease, since rest, after a cold bath
or ablution with cold water, will usually
suffice to remedy this state, it is nevertheless desirable to point out the means which
will quickly remove it, and avert the symptoms which occasionally follow in its train.



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131

vArnica, in the dose of one or more globules, internally, and./rnica with water,
as an external application to those parts of
the body suffering from fatigue, such as the
legs and feet, will speedily remove.all inconvenience.
A decoction of hemp seed, as a warm
bath to the feet, will readily counteract
any fatigue in those organs.
Milk Fever.
This fever exhibits itself in women two
or three days subsequently to delivery. It
is produced by a change effected in the organism secreting the milk. It supervenes
with slight shivering, heat more or less
ardent, anxiety, difficulty of breathing,
twitching pains in the back and extending
towards the breasts, headach, frequency of
pulse, perspiration profuse and sour to,the
smell. This disease does not affect all
women, although the majority are subject
to its influence. They who are subject to
febrile excitement are chiefly liable; also
they who may be exposed to any accidental
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tracted or severe labour, moral impressions, &c.
During the fever, the lochial discharge
is diminished, but, if there be no complication, the patient is devoid of uneasiness in
the lower part of the abdomen. As soon
as the secretion of milk is established, the
fever subsides, and the lochia resume their
full flow and primitive character.
*Arnica is the remedy applicable to all
cases where the labour has been protracted: where we find contusion or laceration,
we may administer it externally in the
form of lotion.
Aconite is indicated where the fever assumes an inflammatory character.
Bryonia is the remedy where the inflammatory action is less decisive, or where
it has been controlled by Aconite; and
where we find symptoms of rheumatic pain
in the breast, externally and internally.
Belladonna should be given where the
fever, more or less severe, is connected
with an erysipelatous affectionof the breast.
Emotions of the mind are frequently the
exciting cause of milk fever.
Coffea is. applicable in cases where the
patient experiences a lively joy.



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133

Chamomilla, preceded by Aconite when
the fever is high, is an appropriate remedy,
more especially where passion has been
the excitant.
Opium is efficacious where the affection
may be traced to fright or apprehension.
AJconile should be the remedial agent
where fright and passion have been the
exciting causes of the mischief.
Concentrated grief, giving place to the
disease, indicates the propriety of Ignatia.
We must be careful not to confound this
affection with puerperal fever. The latter
malady is of fearful importance, and demands the aid of a professional man. Thus,
in all instances, where milk-fever presents
alarming symptoms, and is conjoined with
pain in the pectoral organs, abdomen, or
head, we must instantly refer the case to a
medical man.
Flatulence.
We do not in this place allude to chronic
maladies which develop flatulence: our attention is directed merely to accidental
cases, resulting from the use of flatulent
vegetables; from having taken, in too large
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a quantity, cold liquids, or new and badly
fermented beer; or from having partaken
of indigestible food. Flatulence swells the
abdomen, excites pain, impedes respiration,
and causes general uneasiness.
China is often of great utility when
colicky pains affect the lower intestines,
and where the patient feels a sense of tightness; where the wind is unable to escape;
and where, beneath the false ribs, there is
tension and. anxiety.
Nux Vomica will principally succeed
among patients of lively temperament, and
suffering from constipation.
Pulsatilla is suitable to women whose
disposition is naturally mild and gentle;
and especially where flatulence follows the
use of rich food.
Cocculus is applicable in cases where
the patient experiences a sense of tightness
and contraction in the lower region of the
abdomen, and in the organs of reproduction;
uneasiness in the stomach; Where no relief
is derived from the expulsion of wind; partial swelling of the abdomen, with pressive,
tearing, and burning pain; also when the
epigastrium becomes swollen; when there
exist gripings, twitchings, anxiety, and



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135

pressure under the cartilages of the ribs;
and when these symptoms are relieved by
the removal of the offending matters.
Sprains.
By a sprain we understand a violent distention of the ligaments of a joint, originating in undue exertion, or in a fall, It
exhibits itself by pain in the organ affected,
and by weakness and swelling in the entire
joint.
The first injunction is perfect rest; we
may.afterwards exhibit drnica internally,
and at the same time have recourse to friction with tincture of arnica to the injured
part. This we may repeat three or four
times a day.
When the, arnica does not readily succeed, we may have recourse to Rhus,
which may be administered iri a similar
manner, both externally and inwardly.
SThe dose of arnica and rhus is from one
to three.globules, in proportion to the exigency of the case. Four, or six, or ten
drops of'the tincture, in one hundred drops
of water, may be employed for the friction.



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137

ings; inclination to lie down; cold and sudden perspirations; sensation as of a weight
in the lower part of the abdomen; anxiety; internal heat; stupor; sudden numbness
of the body, with' asthma; tremor of the
limbs, with oppression and isolated startings
of the body; convulsion in the limbs, with.
external coldness of the body; a species of
apathy, with snoring, &c.
If some hours or more have elapsed
since the accession of the fright, without
having administered any medicine, we may
give one drop of the tincture of Sambucus.
In cases where we find powerful action
in the sanguineous system, we must have
recourse to Aconite. subsequently to the
administrationof either Opium or Sambucus.
Boils.
A boil is a circumscribedy elevated, and
pointed tumour, slightly indurated, of a
deep red colour, and more or less paiiful,
situated beneath the skin in the cellular
tissue, and usually varying in size from
that of a hazel-nut to a pigeon's egg,or
even larger,
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This tumour almost invariably terminates in suppuration: a kind of head is
formed in the centre, after the removal of
which there is a discharge of pus mixed
with blood. The pains then subside, and
all trace of the tumour gradually disappears. We may occasionally observe this
affection healing without arriving at suppuration; but in such cases we almost in-,
variably perceive an induration of the skin,
and, notwithstanding there may be neither
redness nor pain, the skin iquickly swells
afresh, and there is a relapse of genuine
boil.
/.rnica, repeated at intervals in small
doses, will heal these furuncles, and frequently, prevent their return.
Belladonna may advantageously supersede the j.rnica, should the latter remedy
fail in its results.
In cases where the boils originate in a
psoric condition, /irnica will not suffice;
we must therefore enforce the antipsoric
treatment.



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139

Swelling of the Glands.
Swelling of the glands situated beneath
the chin, in the throat, or in the nape of
the neck, results, among children of scrofulous diathesis, from the most trivial circumstance; and along its entire course the
neck appears as though encircled with a
chaplet.
Subjects disposed to this disease are all
under the influence of the psoric virus, and
it is only a prolonged medical treatment,
suitable exercise, regimen, exercise in the
open air, and habits of perfect cleanliness,
which can remedy such constitutional tendency.
Dulcamara, Mercury and Belladonna,
almost invariably succeed in reducing the
glands to their natural size. An experienced practitioner should always be consulted
in pursuing a radical course of treatment.
Hemorrhage.
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quantity to threaten the life of the patient.
The discharge takes place most frequently from theý mouth, and, among women,
from the uterus. Under the former circumstances the blood may proceed from
the lungs or from the stomach.. When the
hMmorrhage is from the lungs, it is heralded by a sergse of heaviness and constriction in the chest, asthma, palpitation of the
heart, anxiety, ebullitioa of blood, cough,
and a sweetish taste in the mouth.
The spitting! of blood occurs after a
slight attack of, cough, and sornetimegs after
a tickling. sensation in the. upper portion
of the chest, or in, the throat, which inclines:the patient to cough..The most suitable- remedy, and one to.
be administered as quickly as possible, is.econite, which may be repeated every two
or three hors, should pircumstances threaten a relapse.
China is applicable after the exhibition
of /conite, wheh the sanguineous, excite,
ment is calmed; when the patient feels
shivering or transitory heats, fatigue, or
weakness; when he is inclined- to lie down;
when the limbs are:tremulous, brief sweats
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ues to expectorate blood, more or less,
every day:lit is in the intervals between
the hemorrhages that we should administer
this remedy.
Pulsatilla is appropriate where the patient feels worse at night than by day;
when he complains ofshiverings, with sense
of general debility; of uneasiness in the
lower portion of the chest, shootings in the
chest, and difficulty of respiration; when
the blood expectorated is deeply coloured,
and in clots-; when the feet are cold, and
the patient is overwhelmed with grief, and
inclined to tears.
Pulsatilla is very efficient among women presenting the above symptoms, and
who labour under suppression of the
menses.
A medical man should always be consulted in cases of hemoptysis, and we merely indicate the first steps to be taken previously to his arrival. The remedies next
in importance to those we have pointed
out are the following, while the study of
the Materia Medica and the diversity of
cases will lead the physician to the choice
to the most eligible remedy:
Acid. Sulph., Arnica, Belladonna, Cro



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cus, Digitalis, Drosera, Kali, Ledum, Lycopodium, Millefolium,.' Rhus, Arsenic,
Ferrumn, Carbo Veg., Phosphorus, Ammon.
Carb., Calcarea, Magnes. Carb., Plumbum,
Acid. Nitric.
When the blood proceeds from the stomach the premonitory symptoms are general uneasiness; heaviness in the limbs; confusion in the head; anxious sense of pressure
in the epigastrium.; swelling and fulness of
the abdomen; costiveness; disposition to
vomit,:with mawkish, and putrid taste in
the mouth. The blood which is discharged
by the vomiting is of a deep red or blackish
colour, and is frequently grumous.
Nux Vomnica should be given where the
above-mentioned symptompsare observable;
we must be careful to prescribe' a very
weak dose, so that we may repeatit every
threeor, four hours,,according to the progress of the disease, while awaiting the arrival of; the medical man,,
The. medicaments appropriate to this
disease, and which the practitioner should
enquire into,,areAconite, Arsenic, Hypscyarius, Jpecacuanha, Veratrum, China, Belladonna,
Stannum, Arnica, Millefolium, Cantharides,



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tient be weakened for the moment; be disposed to fall, and really do fall, into a state
of lipothymy; if the skin be cold, and she
have a pressing inclination to make water.
Hyooscyamus is eligible where the uterine discharge is connected with general
excitement of the nervous system; tremor
of the whole body; pains resembling those
of childbirth; giddiness; agitated slumber;
great inquietude; excessive vivacity; convulsive movements; general heat; swelling
of the veins; extreme violence of pulse;
alteration of feature, &c.
adrnica should be prescribed where the
symptoms are referrible to external violence, undue exertion, &c.
Crocus is applicable where the blood
which escapes in black, clotted, and viscid,
and where the patient feels cutting pains
in the lower part of the abdomen, which
extend through to the back.
Sabina is a specific where the blood is
of a bright red colour, and is expelled by
the contraction of the labour-pains.
SBelladonna is very salutary where the
hemorrhage is accompanied by pressure
from above downwards, and from behind
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appears at fixedor intermediate periods, and
usually terminates in a discharge of blood
or mucus more or less abundant. At times,
however, this excretion does not take
place; and the hemorrhoids or piles are
termed dry.
This disease is frequently rendered incurable from the injudicious treatment to
which the patient has had recourse, or from
persevering in a regimen altogether at variance with the malady.
The sufferer should consult a competent
medical authority with reference to an antipsoric plan of treatment to relieve, if not
too late, so painful and distressing a disease.
To re-establish his health, the patient
must submit to a very moderate dietary: he
must take plenty of exercise in the open air,
avoid colds, particularly in the feet; he
must abstain, as much as possible, from wine,
coffee, tea, strong malt-liquor, lively emotions, late hours, and too assiduous application.
SVNux Vomica is the most suitable application where the occasional causes of the
disease are the use of stimulating beverages, such as wine, brandy, &c.; late hours,
toils of the study, costiveness, worms, preg



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147

nancy, swelling of the abdominal viscera,
excrescences of considerable size,and which
are the seat of burning and shooting pains;
sense of strangulation in the rectum; contraction of this viscus, united with dull and
shooting pains felt in paroxysms in the loins
and in the bones of the ham; cracking pains
in the loins upon the slightest movement,
inducing the patient to utter cries, and preventing his holding himself erect, or walking in any but a bent position; flow of clear
fluid blood after the alvine evacuations, or
under other circumstances, but always
accompanied by a desire to relieve the
bowels..Arsenic is very efficacious where the hemorrhoids present, as a leading symptom, a
violent burning in the rectum, the hemorrhoidal tumours, and in the surrounding
parts. The evacuations nearly aqueous,
and a rapid loss of power, united with the
above symptoms, still indicate the same
remedy.
Capsicum frequently succeeds in the
removal of the distressing pruritus of the
hemorrhoidal tumours; when the patient
experiences a burning sensation, more or



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less violent, and where there is diarrhoeal
discharge.
Belladonna is valtable in moist piles,
accompanied by pain in the loins, which
are nearly insufferable, and with a sensation as though that part were broken asunder.
Sulphur is especially adapted to the following train of symptoms:
Continual desire to go to stool, even after
diarrhceal or sanguineous motions; darting
pain of excoriation in the rectum, and
neighbouring parts; itching; burning; moisture of the excrescences; occasionally a
pressive fulness in the rectum, and frequently even the prolapsus of the part;
violent shooting pains in the loins, with
sense of stiffness and tension, as though the
skin and the muscles were contracted.
We may again, according to the circumstances of the case, derive the best results
from the following remedies:
Carbo Vegetabilis, Causticum, Calcarea,
Graphites, Kali, Lycopodium, Pulsatilla,
Phosphorus, Acid. Nit., Colocynthis, Mur.
Acid.



INPLAMMATIONi OF THE BRAIN. i,  '
dryness of the throat; swelling of the
glands; shivering, increased towards night,
and succeeded by heat; absence of thirst.
Belladonna is suitable where, in drinking, there remains in the throat a cramplike feeling of strangulation, and where
the throat is swollen externally.
Coffea may be administered under the
following circumstances:
Continual pain extending from one side
of the palate to the pharynx, and which is
increased by deglutition; swelling of the
superior portion of the velum palati and
of the uvula, which is elongated; sense of
mucous accumulation in the affected part,
obliging the patient always to swallow;
sensation of dryness and heat in the throat;
inclination to cough; cold in the head; aggravation of symptoms in the open air;
sleeplessness heat; sensitiveness; melancholy temperament.
Inflammation of the Brain.
This disease is of frequent occurrence
among children, and at an early period of
life it is of fearful import; at all ages it is
highly dangerous.



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Having attained a certain height, this
affection yields with the greatest difficulty
even to the most skilful treatment; and,
for this reason, it is of the most signal importance to be intimately conversant with
the premonitory symptoms. These are
chiefly the effects of congestion in the head,
producing pain and heaviness in that organ; change of disposition; fits of passion;
anxiety; pains in the ears; intolerance of
light; disposition to costiveness; frequent
nausea, succeeded at times by vomiting;
S  coma; inability to fall asleep, or fright
during sleep.
The earlier symptoms are the following:
Heat and heaviness in the head; face
very red and swollen; eyes suffused and
brilliant; excess of irritability and sensitiveness; giddiness; state of coma; delirium;
divers indication of spasm; grinding of the
teeth; inclination to thrust the fingers into
the nostrils, and to bury the head in the
bolster; to seize with eagerness every surrounding object; visible throbbings in the
veins of the neck; absence of thirst with
great heat; forcing down of the lower part
of the abdomen; constipation; occasionally,
slight diarrhoea.



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153

This disease demands the most prompt
assistance../conite is appropriate at the onset of
the attack, in order to modify the sanguineous congestion in the head; we must not,
however, dwell too long upon the application of this remedy, which, in itself alone,
does not possess the power of arresting the
malady.
Belladonna is the remedy which renders
the most essential service after the exhibition of.iconite, provided the latter medicine have been deemed necessary: it is
eligible where the symptoms already enumerated present themselves.
Hyoscyamus is appropriate when the
patient lies in bed without cognizance, with
the eyes closed,; the mouth opening with
difficulty; the tongue loaded with white
and frothy mucus, raves upon his own pri-,
vate affairs; sinks down without cognizance; stutters inarticulately; smiles; or is
at times perfectly quiescent; moves his
hands as though to withdiaw the coverlid;
frequent subsultus; dilatation of the pupil;
fixedness of vision; redness of the face;
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anxious and weak; full pulse, and tension
of the abdomen.
Opium should be prescribed where the
patient is in a soporific state; where the
somnolency is accompanied by snoring; the
eyes half open; the patient utters no complaint; is in need of nothing; and has frequent vomiting.
Stramonium is applicable where the
patient, slumbering naturally, has starting
in the limbs; snorings; his movements irregular; and, upon waking, he appears without cognizance; sometimes fixing his attention; sometimes withdrawing himself slowly, and with apprehension; sometimes retreating with exclamations of dread; the
above symptoms associated with ardent
fever, redness of the face, and moisture of
the skin.
Arnica, Sulphur, Digitalis, China, and
Bryonia, may, under certain circumstances,
be prescribed with advantage: it is for the
practitioner to distinguish the peculiarities
which should indicate their employ.



INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES.  155
Inflammation of the Eyes.
In children recently born, a too lively.
impression of light occasions an inflammation of the eyes, characterized by a secretion, more or less abundant and viscid in
character, from the mucous membrane of
the eye.
Aconite, aided by the observance of
cleanliness, will quickly succeed in the removal of this malady. In cases where the
intolerance of light is excessive, where the
conjunctiva is highly inflamed and turgid,
Belladonna may be administered with
great advantage after the.aconite.
Sulphur, succeeding to Aconite and Belladonna, will complete the treatment,
should any trace of the disease remain.
Calcarea Carbonica may succeed to the
exhibition of Sulphur, should the disease
evince a tendency to the chronic state.
Inflammation of the eye, originating in
the introduction of a foreign body, requires
for its treatment the careful removal of the
substance, to bathe the eye with pure
water, and to administer Aconite, which



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DISEASES.

the redness of the lids,-produced by violent cold, with pain in the head, and exacerbation of fever towards night,-extends
itself over the whites of the eyes: this remedy is especially indicated where the secretion of tears is abundant.
Ophthalmia presents an infinite numbel
of variations which we cannot discuss in
this brief treatise: we confine ourselves
therefore to those of most frequent occurrence.
The following are the more important
remedies to be administered in affections
of the eye:
Acid. Nitric., Acid. Sulph., Arsenic, Belladonna, Calcarea, Causticum, Chamomilla, China, Colocynthis, Conium, Digitalis,
Clematis, Euphrasia, Graphites, Hepar.
Sulph., Mercury, Nux Vomica, Petroleum,
Psoricum, Pulsatilla, Rhus, Sepia, Spigelia,
Sulphur.
Catarrhal Inflammation of the Nostrils.
At the commencement of this disease,,
when the inflammation is acute without
much discharge, Nux is the appropriate&
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The stethoscope, or even the ear applied
to the chest, enables us to detect a peculiarity of sound which indicates perfectly
the part affected; and where the pneumonia has attained a high degree of intensity,
the lung ceases to be permeable to the air,
and the respiratory sound is no longer perceptible. The pulse is full, strong, and
frequent, oftentimes with palpitation of the
heart; the skin is hot, dry, and burning;
the face is red and swollen; the urine is
high coloured; excessive thirst, and, in most
instances, constipation more or less obstinate.
As soon as the above details are observable, we should administer Aconite, two or
three globules to the dose; and if there be
no favorable change in the general symptoms, or in the state of the circulation, we
may repeat the medicine. We need be
under no apprehension of exhibiting two,
three, or four doses of aconite, during the
first twenty-four hours.
This remedy alone will frequently avail
in arresting the progress of the mischief.
Bryonia, however, is oftentimes indispensable after the administration of Aconite;
and, according to circumstances, we may



INFLAMMATION OF THE BREAST.  163

frequently observe the establishment of renewed indurations, which terminate successively in a similar manner. This disease
may thus continue several weeks, or even.
months, and terminate at length in deeplyseated cicatrices, and even in indurated
tumours.
Belladonna should be administered immediately upon the skin becoming erysipelatous, and attended with gradual tumefaction of the mamma.
Bryonia is very suitable where the secretion of milk is suspended,--where there
is tumefaction of the lacteal vessels,--where
the bosom is obstructed,-and where the
skin can scarcely be considered as erysipelatous. The medicine may be repeated
according to the result.
If the inflammation be extensive and
erysipelatous, with considerable swelling,
and suppuration is commencing, we may
give phosphorus; and finally, in order to
facilitate the opening of the abscess, now
fully ripe, we may give one or more doses
of hepar sulphuris,
If the disease have already existed some
time, if it have been injudiciously treated,
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the inflammation of the breast, we must
have recourse to Silicea, which, in one or
more doses, will quickly restore the patient
to health.
Vigilance or Wakefulness.
Vigilance in adults, when unaccompanied
by any otheir indication of perverted health,
is in most instances the result of undue excitement of the nervous system, originating
in intensity of thought, powerful emotion,
the abuse of stimulating drinks, coffee, &c.
Our treatment must commence by causing the patient to abstain as much as possible from the exciting causes, and a dose of
Iux Vomica may be administered in the
course of the evening.
Pulsatilla is suitable where the wakefulness proceeds from overloading the stomach, giving rise to flatulence and constipation.
Wakefulness in young children frequently alarms their parents, and results, as a
matter of course, from some derangement
in their health. It frequently originates in
errors of diet, and in such cases,it is accompanied by swelling of the lower part of the



IRRITABILITY OF THE SKIN.

165

abdomen, flatulence, green,evacuations,
&c. Chamomilla will be attended with
perfect success in retrieving the mischief,
and restoring the patient to perfect health.
Should this remedy, however, have been
abused, we must have recourse to Coffea.
The vigilance which results from weaning will yield to Belladonna, if in the
course of a few days the evil do not cure
itself.
Wakefulness, in connexion with continued crying, during which the infant contracts the legs upon the abdomen, tosses
about incessantly, and suffers severe griping pains, with diarrhoea, has its remedy in
Cina.
Vigilance, resulting from a complicated
state of disease, requires the treatment of
the affection of which the wakefulness is
merely symptomatic, and such prescription
would be irrelevant here.
Irritability of the Skin.
There are individuals whose skin is so excessively irritable, as to become inflamed
and suppurate under the influence of the
most trivial causes. This diseased condi



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DISEASES.

tion depends upon some peculiar predisposition, and rarely gives way except to an
antipsoric treatment long persisted in. Chamomilla, Hepar Sulphuris, and Petroleum, may be successfully opposed to this
condition of the skin, and may be varied
according to the exigencies of the case.
Intoxication.
Vomiting, being an excellent means of
preventing the mischievous results of inebriety, may be facilitated by drinking
warm water, or a strong decoction of Coffea.   Very frequently, however, Nux
Vomica will succeed in dispersing the
symptoms indicating such a state of things,
and prevent the dependent consequences
which are more or less distressing.
Jaundice.
This affection results from innumerable
causes, and presents itself under many different aspects.
One of the causes, most frequent in occurrence, is passion: the skin assumes a yellowish appearance, as also the whites of



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167

the eyes, and the alae of the nose; the urne
becomes brown and thick; the abdomen
contracted; the evacuations white, grey,
and slimy; the appetite fails, and the mouth
acquires a bitter taste. We commence
our treatment by Chamomilla, and after
its use we administer Nux Vomica and
Bryonia.
In cases where we meet with fever, after the exhibition of Chamomilla, we shall
do well to administer one or two doses of
Aconite.
If the jaundice have originated in the
abuse of Chamomilla, the syrptoms must
be combated by Pulsatilla and Ignatia,
and the treatment concluded by China.
This disease among newly-born infants
very frequently originates in cold, to which
children, during the first few days after
birth, are particularly liable; it may also
proceed from the abuse of purgatives administered for the purpose of discharging
the meconium.
The treatment under such circumstances
is similar to that indicated above. Chanomilla and Nux readily mastering the disease. A warm bath every day, for a few



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minutes, will prove of admirable assistance
in promoting the health of the child.
The remaining remedies, which prove of
infinite service in jaundice, and which
should be scrupulously investigated by piofessional men, are:
Arsenic, Belladonna, Mercury, Sulphur,
Digitalis, Calcarea, Carbo Vegetabilis.
Fainting Fits.
We thus denominate a train of symptoms presenting numberless varieties, as
well in the symptoms themselves, as in the
importance of their results.
The following phenomena are observable.
Debility, giddiness, and confusion in the
head; twitching in the ears; dimness, obscurity of vision, or the sensation as of a veil before the eyes; the patient trembles, becomes
pale, and experiences anxiety; a cold sweat
displays itself upon the forehead and neck;
the eyes lose their lustre, and are surrounded by a blue circle; the animal powers diminish, and the patient at length looses all
cognizance and sense of feeling. On the
other hand, there may remain merely a



FAINTING FITS.

169

bewilderment of sense, confusion, and indistinct noise in the ears; the pulse weakens,
becomes slow, small, and at times nearly
imperceptible; and the respiration corresponds in all particulars with the pulse.
The more serious faintings, which very
nearly resemble dissolution, consist in the
complete suspension of the corporeal functions. Not only is there no cognizance,
sense of feeling, or voluntary motion, but
the pulse and the breathing, together with
the excretions and secretions,are altogether
suspended.
The irritability and sensitiveness, however, are not so far gone but that we may
have recourse to galvanism, applied immediately to the denuded nerves and muscles,
in order to re-establish the vital functions.
This state of things is to be distinguished
from death in reality, only by the repeated application of means the most energetic,
and by the absence of incipient decomposition.
The treatment of persons fallen into a
swoon consists in the application of external excitants, such as friction to the soles of
the feet, tickling the nose with a feather,
and sprinkling the face with cold water.
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DISEASES.

vided the effluvia be perceived immediately on rising: Carbo Animalis, Agaricus, and
lodium.,Ammonium is the remedy where the
patient himself remarks the fetor of the
breath.
Barytes, where the breath is very offensive; but the patient himself unconscious
of the annoyance.
Graphites, where the odour resembles
that of the urine, and proceeds from the
nose.
g       Sulphur, if the odour become more offensive after a repast.
The fetid effluvia from the mouth are
often the result of a species of putrid inflammation of its interior, in which the
gums, tongue, and palate are affected with
painful swelling, redness, burning heat, and
emanation of putrescent smell with which
the saliva is charged: the gums become
soft, recede from the teeth, and are covered with small ulcers, the source of the
fetor.
Mercury triumphs readily over this species of disease, by restoring to a healthy
condition the parieties of the mouth.
Aurum frequently removes fetor of



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Nux Vomica is especially applicable
where the symptoms have resulted from
the causes above detailed; and where we
find constipation with disposition to hemorrhoids. Where the disease is referrible to
some severe chronic affection, it requires
an antipsoric plan of treatment.
mrnica is an appropriate remedy where
the disease has presented itself after raising
a heavy weight, after a fall or contusion,
and where the patient feels the pain so
violent as scarcely to admit of his coughing,
sneezing or walking.
Should the.rnica prove insufficient,
tRhus will succeed in perfecting the cure..cute Inflammation of the Lumbar and Psoas
Muscles (Lumbago Inflammatoria.)
This may be distinguished by the following characteristics:
Pain, fixed, violent, drawing, tearing,
tensive, and inflammatory, in the lumbar
region, and extending itself at times to the
back and shoulders, and even to the bladder and the thighs, without following the
course of the nerves. It is frequently associated with colic; a sensation at the anus,



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175

as though inclined to go to the closet;
cramps in the bladder; dysuria, and stranguary;-afterwards a sensation of debility,
numbness, and torpor of the thigh on the
affected side; the patient cannot, except
with difficulty, extend or flex the limb;
and, the pain increasing, he can scarcely
lie upon his back in consequence of his suffering. Sometimes there is hardness, with
evident swelling; more or less febrile excitement accompanies the symptoms, which
commence in a severe fit of shivering, followed by violent heat; the skin is burning
to the touch; there is lively thirst; and
the pulse is hard, full, and incompressible.
The treatment should commence by mastering the general symptoms, and by exhibiting dconite, which may be repeated
several times according to the exigency of
the: case.
Bryonia and,.ux are serviceable where
the pains are more.especially experienced
during motion.
Rhls and Pulsatilla may be employed
where the patient suffers principally during" quiescence.
Cantharides, where we find spasmodic
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DISEASES.

difficulty in passing the water, or inability
to micturite.
Mercury and Chamomilla, where the
pains are almost insufferable during the
night.
Slaphysagria will prove efficient where
the pains are pulsative in their character,
and where there is a tendency to suppuration.
In such cases the following medicines
will frequently be of service, more particularly where the pains are drawing, tearing, and inflammatory in their character:
Arnica, Chamomilla, China, Mercurius,
Hepar Sulphuris, Aurum, Assaftetida,
Belladonna,
The above remedies, as well as Nux
and Rhus, are valuable both in acute and
chronic cases.
Digitalis, Colocynth, Argentum, and
Plumbum are more particularly appropriate to cases which are chronic in their
character..



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Intermittent Fever.
In the treatment of this disease, a very
important rule is to be observed, viz: that
the most efficacious period of administering
a remedy, is immediately after the termination of the paroxysm, thus affording to
the medicine, ample time to modify the
organism without producing any violent
impression; or if the interval between the
paroxysm is very short or disturbed by
consecutive symptoms of preceding paroxysms, the remedy should he given as soon
as the perspiration begins to decline.Another important rule requires the repetition of the medicine some time before the
ensuing paroxysms.  Intermittent fevers
of marshy regions, the diet being duly attended to, yields readily to a few doses of
China, when characterised by some of the
following symptoms:
Absence of thirst during the chill, yet
thirst afterwards before the fever; but if
there be thirst with the heat, China is
not a suitable remedy. If there is thirst
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181

ed by and unite with the fever. The drsenic is not less useful in those cases, where
soon after the chill, an inclination to vomit
or a bitter taste in the mouth is observed;
when the taste of aliments or drinks is extinguished without a constant continuance
of a bitter or disagreeable taste in the
mouth, though it may occur again while
eating or soon after it; where vertigo, nausea, trembling and sudden prostration of
strength are manifested to the highest degree; where the patient drinks very frequently, but little at a time; where the
perspiration does not occur for some time
after the heat, and also where it does not
appear at all; and where sensation and
motion are impaired, with insupportable
pains and the highest degree of anxiety.
Ignatia 12 is particularly suitable,
where the exterior heat causes a cessation
of the febrile chill, or where there is heat
in particular parts of the body, and cold or
shivering in others, and finally, when the
heat is simply exterior and unaccompanied by thirst. It can also be employed in
fevers with great advantage, where the
patient has thirst during the chill, without
experiencing it during heat.
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DISEASES.

A large number of Homoeopathic medicines, proved upon persons in health, have
produced conditions analogous to those of
intermittent fevers, and consequently suffice for the cure of all their parallel symptoms. Such are the following, whose application is to be directed by their peculiar
virtues,as they are found detailed inthe Materia Medica; Opium, Sabadilla, Carb.
fegetab., Tart. Emet., Arnica, Rhus. T.,
Chamomilla, Bryonia, Natrum Muriat.,
Lycopodium, Ammon. Muriat., Sepia,
and Sulphur.
Cholera.
Cholera in this climate is most firequently observed during the prevalence of the
summer heats, and assumes an epidemic
form; it sometimes offers a complication of
symptoms, and presents itself under a spasmodic or bilious type.
The predisposing and occasional causes
are, in most instances, an elevated grade
of temperature long continued; a sudden
decline in the thermometer during a very
hot day; peculiar irritability of constitution;
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DISEASES.

ease is sudden in its access, we remark the
under-written phenomena:
The patient vomits his food, the ejection
of which is succeeded by the more or less
abundant discharge of a mucous, watery,
and bilious fluid; the colour of the vomited
matter is yellow, green, brown, or blackish, and frequently very offensive. At the
same time violent diarrhoea is established:
at first the secretions are fecal, watery, and
bilious, frequently associated with violent
colicky pains, burning and acute in character, and occupying chiefly the region of
the umbilicus.
Should the malady continue its progress,
other symptoms present themselves: these
are, fulness in the epigastrium; quick and
anxious respiration; violent cramps in the
stomach, with a spasmodic pulse, at times
nearly imperceptible.
These symptoms frequently acquire extreme severity; the strength and the pulse
sink rapidly; spasmodic symptoms present
themselves in different organs; superadded
to which are painful cramps in the limbs;
spasms in the bladder; cold perspiration;
syncope, with hippocratic expression of
countenance.



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185

The preliminary symptoms of cholera
are speedily removed by the administration
of Chamomilla.
Ipecacuanha is appropriate where the
vomitings and diarrhoea are already established. When the first doses of this medicine do not effectively meliorate the disease,
or where it has acquired a high degree of
development, we must unhesitatingly have
recourse to Veratrum, which will act altogether as a specific.
Arsenic is required, when, to the characteristic symptoms of cholera are united a
rapid declension of animal power; much
anxiety; insatiable thirst; almost constant
discharge from the bowels; the matters
tinged with blood; vomiting; excruciating
pain in the bowels; pulse scarcely perceptible; hyppocratic expression.
Chamomilla is suitable to that form of
cholera which is excited by a fit of passion.
Pulsatilla may be employed, where the
evacuations are especially mucous, and will
succeed perfectly well in subduing the affection.
The repetition of the medicine is of the
utmost importance in this disease, since we
must bear in remembrance, that frequently
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MEASLES.

187

by the stomach. The drinks should be
iced, and administered in small quantities
at a time. If ice cannot be procured, the
drinks should be given as cool as possible.
The reaction of the skin may be promoted by dry friction of the limbs. The temperature of the apartment should be moderate, as also that of the bed; and it must be
remembered that all external applications
of a medical character are perfectly futile.
The internal exhibition of suitable remedies
will promptly remove the evil.
Measles.
Measles is an eruptive disease attacking
individuals of every age, but more especially those of tender years. It has its origin in some peculiar condition of the atmosphere, of the nature of which we are
totally ignorant, and reigns chiefly in an
epidemic form: cases purely isolated have
rarely come under observation.
This disease is in many instances slight,
and presents but little to excite apprehension; at other times it may be characterized
by symptoms of extreme danger, and it
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lence. We may rest satisfied, however,
that, under the influence of judicious homoeopathic treatment, this affection may be
promptly and radically cured. It is almost
unexampled to remark an unfavourable
termination, except where the patient is
found under circumstances altogether adverse, such as shattered in constitution, in
abject misery, in a state of complicated
psora; or where there is an utter deficiency
of hygeinic observance.
Measles is invariably preceded by a
catarrhal and febrile state, generally supervening three or four days previously to the
appearance of the malady. The patient
feels languid, complains of uneasiness, debility, of chills alternating with heats, and
frequency of pulse; there is slight cough,
with hoarseness and difficulty of respiration,
accompanied with coryza; the eyes are dejected, suffused with tears, sensitive to the
light, red and swollen.
After three or four days we observe an
incipient redness of the skin; the fever has
acquired much intensity; the cough is nearly incessant; is excited by an annoying
tickling in the larynx and trachea, often
with considerable hoarseness; the eyes are



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cough, which has become moist, gradually
declines.
Such is the usual progress of measles,
when not in complication with formidable
symptoms. The duration of the disease
when left to itself, without including the
period of convalescence, and when mild, is
usually from twelve to fourteen days.
Treated homoeopathically, all the stages
of the disease are equally defined; but they
are, in most instances, of briefer continuance, and the infection is invaribly of
milder type.
Pulsatilla is the medicine appropriate to
the first stage of the disease; this medicine
curtails, renders less painful, and singularly favours the eruption.
Aconite should be exhibited when the
disease is ushered in with intense fever,
and even during its progress, where the
fever is high and where the symptoms indicate an inflammatory condition of the organs of the economy.
Belladonna is applicable in cases where
the patient complains of continual thirst;
where the tonsils and velum palati are inflamed; where the cough is spasmodic, dry,
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serviceable in opposing the dry, harsh
cough, which continues after the cessation
of the disease.
Belladonna, Cina, Hyoscyamus, and
Con2ium are particularly indicated where
the cough is spasmodic in its character,
and resembles a paroxysm of the whoopingcough.
Practitioners who may have to treat this
affection should carefully study the following remedies:
Morbillin, Phosphorus, Nux Vomica,
Stramonium, Sulphur, Carbo Vegetabilis,
&c.
In an elementary work, similar to the
present, we cannot discuss the treatment
of the more serious forms of the disease, such
as are complicated with nervous fever and
cerebral 'inflammation: such cases must
rest in the hands of a practitioner competently versed in homceopathic science. The
treatment we have detailed will suffice for
ordinary attacks.
The mode of administering the various
remedies which have just passed in review
must vary according to circumstances. In
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will not only be desirable to repeat the
dose, but it will be essential to do so. We
must dissolve from one to three globules in
twelve) spoonfuls of water, and exhibit a
spoonful every hour, or even every half
hour, in cases where the remedies quickly
expend their action.
The temperature of the chamber should
be moderate.
The beverage should consist of pure
water, water-gruel, milk and water, gumwater sweetened with sugar, toast-water,
&c.
The nutriment should be very light in
the earlier stages of the disease: when the
fever runs high, the failure of appetite is
evidently an indication of the necessity
for still greater abstinence. Soon, however, the appetite will develop itself and
we may gradually revert to a more substantial diet.
The animal powers will be speedily reestablished, since the organism has suffered
no drawback from the various evacuations
prescribed in the allopathic school of medicine.

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DISEASES.

Scarlatina.
Scarlatina is an epidemic disease, principally incidental to childhood; but all ages
are liable to its attacks. Isolated cases of
scarlatina have rarely come under observance, and it usually affects the same individual only once in his lifetime.
The febrile symptoms do not set in several days previously to the attack, as in
measles: the patient may be apparently
in good health to-day, and on the morrow
be the victim of disease.
The skin is of a bright scarlet red, similar in colour to a boiled lobster, and the
pressure of the finger leaves a white imprint, whibh instantly afterwards becomes
red. This hue of the skin is gradually lost
in that of the healthy portion, and is not
defined in its margin as in measles. The
redness is of frequent variation, sometimes
appearing more vivid, at other times paler,
in order to reassume a greater intensity.
The skin in true scarlatina is smooth and
glossy; a characteristic which distinguishes
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The redness commences upon those parts
of the body which are uncovered, or but
lightly clothed; first the face, throat, breast,
hands, feet, &c.; and the redness occupies
from three to five days in attaining its full
development. When the eruption assumes
a  fferent course, it is usually much more
serious. Those parts which have been first
attacked are invariably the earliest to becomepale; and the fever, which is proportionate to the force of the eruption, subsides, and disappears when desquamation
supervenes. During the progress of the
disease, the skin has remained dry over the
parts affected, and it is only at its close that
the perspiration is re-established. The
desquamation is more decided than in
measles, and the epidermis is removed in
scales, at times of considerable magnitude.
A characteristic symptom of scarlatina
is an affection of the throat. We have observed, that measles is invariably accompanied by cough, and an affection of the
eyes; while scarlatina is ever associated
with sore throat, characterized by an intense redness very similar to that of the
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the pharynx, mouth, and tongue, more or
les~ participate.
Belladonna is the exclusive remedy for
the disease when pure or idiopathic in its
character, and free from complication.
From one to three globules of belladonna
should be dissolved in six spoonfuls of pure
water, and a spoonful of the mixture be
administered every hour, being guided by
the results. We may repeat or intermit
the doses at will, and in this manner obviate
any loss of time, or, on the other hand, any
serious aggravation of symptoms.
Opium is indicated where the disease is
complicated with burning heat, a stunning
sensation in the head, with somnolency,
agonizing disquietude, tossing about from
place to place, with vomitings, diarrhoea
or costiveriess, convulsions, &c. A few attenuated doses of opium will divert the disease into a more kindly and favorable channel.
SIpecacuanha will be of service when
the fever exacerbates towards evening;
where there is absence of sleep; failure of
appetite; and insupportable melancholy,
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where the angina accompanying scarlatina
is attended with considerable swelling;
where the throat appears clogged with viscid mucus, and the parts are really or appear to be ulcerated. In such cases we
must not implicitly rely upon the action of
Belladonna, but, without loss pf time, have
recourse to Mercury..Jrsenicum is a triumphant remedy in
certain cases of angina, especially where
the fever has assumed a malignant type.
In such instances the throat and mouth
are interspersed with numerous ulcerations, exhaling a putrid odour, the animal
power is prostrate, the mouth very dry,
and the thirst insatiable.
Nux Vomica may succeed to the exhibition of arsenic, where the symptoms have
not been entirely removed by the latter
agent..dconite is frequently of value where the
disease is attended either with violent febrile excitement, or high inflammatory
action.
Practitioners must consult the following
remedial agents where the affection is complicated in its character, viz.

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Phosphorus, Rhus, Sulphur, Phosphoric
Acid, Helleborus, Cahinca, Coffea.
We must in nowise remit our hygeinic
attentions to the patient, and the reader is
referred to what has been said upon this
subject generally, and to what has been
more especially observed under the head
of measles.
Small-Pox.
Small-Pox (Variola) is an eruptive and
contagious disease attacking the patient, in
most instances, but once in his lifetime.
The affection is regular in its progress, and
the stages, of which four are distinguishable, are well defined.
The first is the febrile stage, in which
are perceptible upon the skin numerous
red spots, proclaiming the disease. The
fever is attended with headach, melancholy, ill humour, lassitude, drowsiness,
congestion in the head, bleeding at the nose,
sleepiness, twitching in the limbs, pendiculation, swelling of the ganglions, and vomiting. The patient complains too of excessive pain in the lumbar region, and this
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The second is the eruptive stage. The
spots or stigmata attain a certain height,
and present small red elevations, which,
after about forty-eight hours, are converted
into pustules. They display themselves,
in the first instance, on the face; the following day upon the hands, and surface of
the body; and on the third day upon the
soles of the feet. By this time the pustules
are, in most instances, completely formed
upon the face, and the patient complains
merely of itching and heat of skin, with
pain occasionally in the eyes and in the
throat.
The third stage commences after the
perfect establishment of the eruption; that
is to say, from the fifth to the ninth day.
The pustules acquire considerable development, are circumscribed by a red lineation,
and are charged with lymph presenting a
dark point in the centre, slightly depressed.
This lymph, in the first instance limpid,
becomes yellow, acquires consistency, is
purulent, and the pustules are confluent.
When the pustules are numerous, there is
considerable swelling, especially about the
head and eyes, and the aspect is frequently
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particularly indicates an affection of the
throat, eyes, secretion of saliva, &c.
'The desiccating stage requires merely
hygeinic observance, and,especially cleanliness. In the first instance, ablution must
be enforced with warm water, gradually
decreasing the temperature, until Ihe water which is used be perfectly cold.
Practitioners will derive much benefit by
directing their attention to the following
remedies, viz:
China, Coffea, Solanum Mammosum,
Sulphur, Variolin, Vaccinin.
Megrim
Is a species ofcephalalgia affecting one side
of the head, and at times only a small portion, which might, as it were, be covered
with the top of the finger, and feeling as
though a nail were driven into the part.
Occasionally it is but slightly painful, but
in the majority of cases the violence is
exceSsive, and its intensity gradually increases., There is at first experienced in the affected part a slight pressure, with sense of
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or contracted by spasms. During a violent
paroxysm, we may observe slight convulsive movements in the neighbourhood of
the eye, or in the nape of the neck, with
diffused perspirations which yield no relief.
The paroxysms, which continue frequently for several hours, or even throughout half the day, return in the first instance
at irregular intervals; after a while they
supervene every day, or every three days,
at the same hour; or even every month,
with or without shivering succeeded by
heats.
This affection is heralded by vertigo,
serenity of mind, or unusual loquacity,
mental depression, failure of appetite, nausea, colic, acid risings, vomiting, costiveness or diarrhoea, with swelling of the lower abdomen,arid terminating either in sleep,
perspiration, vomiting or tears.
This disease is very obstinate, and frequently affects women, sometimes from
their infancy, but more usually from the
period of puberty, to the age of fifty or
sixty years. The accidental circumstances
which produce, aggravate, or modify other
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Pulsatilla and Ignatia are equally valuable to succeed Nux Vomica as an intermediate remedy, since they possess an
action very analogous to that of the latter
medicine.
When Megrim presents itself in an extremely&violent form, we must have recourse to Coffea, which, should it fail in
its complete removal, will at least render
the pain more tolerable.
When the megrim proceeds from an
abuse of coffee, Charmomilla, Nux Vomica, and Jgnalia will be the most appropriate remedies.
Belladonna is especially suitable where
the pain in the head is lateral; extends to
the orbit, and to the bones of the nose;
where the pain is characterized by pressure and darting, with a sense of boiling,
as ofa liquid, in the head; where the pain
is aggravated by the slightest motion of the
head, or of the eyes; and where these organs are extremely sensitive to the slightest ray of light; where every description
of noise is insupportable; and where we
find strong arterial pulsation; also where
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shooting, nearly depriving the patient of
his senses.
Colocynthis is appropriate where the
pain is compressive, twitching, or pinching;
and where the pains are increased either
by stooping or lying upon the back.
In an elementary work we must content
ourselves with directing attention to cases
most frequent in occurrence, and refer the
practitioner to the following remedies in
the more rare or complicated affections.
Sepia, Nitric. Acid., Zincum, Petroleum,
China, Bryonia, Veratrum, Capsicum, Ipecacuanha, Cicuta, Aurum, Arsenic, Mangan. Acetat., Causticum, Rhus, Guaiacum,
Arnica, Hyoscyamus, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Conium.      4
Menstruation.
The symptoms, which generally precede
or attend the first appearance of the courses, are a sensation of fulness with heaviness in the head; palpitation of the heart;
at times, tightness at the chest, great
lassitude; weight in the abdomen and
womb; pains in the loins and legs, with a
frequent desire to urinate; chills; stretching, yawning, and other febrile symp



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Those already mentioned will often be the
appropriate remedies; but Cocculus is to
be preferred, when the patient experiences
violent abdominal spasms, attended with
oppression at the breast, anxiety, sighing,
groaning and weakness,preventing her from
moving or speaking; convulsive motions of
the limbs, and almost imperceptible pulse.
Other symptoms may require the use of
different remedies, as Cuprum, Valerian,
Platina, Ignatia, Mezereum, Digitalis;
for the exhibition of which the practitioner should consult the Materia Medica.
Should none of these means restore the
menstrual flow, recourse is to be had to the
antipsorics, as Magnes. Carb., Magnes.
Man., Sulphur, Sepia, Zincum, Silicea,
Lycopodium,Graphites, and Acid. Nitric.
When on the other hand, there is too
abundant flow of the menses, Nux is one
of the principal means in arrestihg it, especially when mental excitement or moral
impressions have deranged the nervous
system, so that the slightest cause produces
a fit of passion, the least noise alarms, with
an inclination to lie in bed, and an indisposition to enjoy the open air. Inalternation
with Nux, Pulsatilla is sometimes useful.



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Coffea 'is also indicated toTtranquilize the
nervous irritability. There are likewise
many cases where Chamomilla is useful,
especially when the blood is of a dark colour, almost black and clotted, with drawing pains from the loins forward, fainting
fits, cold extremities and great thirst.
The custom of giving Chamomile Tea
to patients, in order to favour the menstrualflow, cannot be too highly reprobated;
as it is not unfrequently the cause of much
distress, and sometimes of no little danger.
Its abuse is to be counteracted by Nux V.,
Ignatia, or China. If the different means
indicated above, do not arrest the excessive discharges, recourse should be had to
the anti-psorics, according to the nature
of the cases respectively-Sulphur, Calcarea, Lycopodium, Phosphorus,Kali. Carb.
Carb. VJeg. Mur Mag., Silicea, and Sepia.
Diminished Menstrual Discharge.In the treatment of this deviation from
the healthful condition of the function,
regard must be paid to other, indeed to
all other accessory symptoms-although
Pulsatilla, Nux, Ferrum, Rhus T., Dulcamara, and other remedies should always
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most cases; yet there may be circumstances
present, which may prevent their beneficial effects. In such cases, no doubt that
a psoric taint exists, which may be removed by Sulphur, after which Graphites,
Mfagnesia, Natrum  Muriaticum, Causticum, Sepia, Silicea, dmmon. Carb., or
Conium may be exhibited, according to
the analogy of their symptoms to the peculiarities of the case in hand.
Odonlalgia, or Tooth-ache.
This affection in most instances originates
in a cold, or access of blood to the head; and
among hysterical woman, in excitement of
the nervous sensibility. In cases which are
very obstinate and long existing, it is the result of a psoric tendency; and a treatment,
to be crowned with success, must be directed to the remote cause in which it takes
its rise.
Homceopathy is in possession of a variety
of efficient means which are applicable to
the different perculiarities exhibited by affections of the teeth.
Odontalgia, resulting from a cold,affecting
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in its character, and accompanied by occasional and isolated shooting pain, in which
the entire economy! participates; and
where we meet with at times a painful
swelling of the gums, will yield to the exhibition of Nux Vomica. This result will
more particularly take place where the
pain supervenes early in the morning while
in bed; where mastication is prevented;
and where aggravation is induced by contact with cold air. This remedy is particularly suitable to persons of lively temperament, and accustomed to the use of
coffee and spirituous liquors.
Mercury is applicable where the drawing or boring pain results from a cold; where
we find swelling of the gums and of the
cheek; shaking of the teeth; where the
pains increase after a repast, or after having drunk anything hot or cold; where the
salivary glands are affected, and secrete an
excess of saliva, causing the patient to spit
frequently; and where there is ulceration
of the gums.
Hyoscyamus is the most effective remedy against odontalgia exhibiting itself in
the morning, especially after a cold, or
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siderable flow of blood to the interior of
the head; throbbing and plucking pain from
the cheek to the forehead; and thrilling in
the tooth, which is loosened; tearing pain
in the gums.
Aconite will be found very useful in
throbbing odontalgia, originating in a cold,
and accompanied by determination of blood
to the head, and burning flushes of the
face.
The north-pole of the magnet is appropriate in rheumatic odontalgia, where all
the carious.teeth are affected, and where
we observe the following phenomena:
The gums swollen, sensitive, and painful
to the touch; isolated paroxysms, spasmodic
pressure; tearing, searching pains; burning
lancinations: pain in the jaws and the incisor teeth, induced by respiration.
The magnetic pole should be touched
during one or two minutes only, and the
process repeated one or more times according to the result.
Rhus effects the removal of tearing
odontalgia, of which the application oi
warmth will occasion a decrease; it is eligible, too, where the pain resembles that
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dic; and where we find twitchings and
tearings, aggravated towards night, or in
the open air, and alleviated by warmth.
Staphysagria is a suitable remedy where
the odontalgia, ceasing to affect the carious
tooth, communicates itself to the adjacent
ones, or to those on the opposite side, and
extends even to the ear, accompanied by
pressive pain in the temple on the same
side.  Also, when the suffering is experienced on the air entering the mouth;
gnawing pain in the inferior incisors, especially in the night; twitching pain in the
teeth after having eaten, and aggravated in
the open air.
Belladonna is suitable in odontalgia after a cold, especially among women; and
when the pain is rendered insufferable from
the touch, the air, and the action of eating.
This pain is of a drawing character, and
extends from the ear to the hollow teeth of
the upper jaw, where at times it becomes
thrilling; is aggravated in the night; when
the pain is not increased during a meal,
but becomes increased shortly after it.
OBryonia is available in cases where the
pain impels the patient to go to bed, or
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on lying down on the side not affected, or
relieved by lying on the side which suffers;
spasmodic twitchings, with a feeling as
though the teeth were too long, and, as it
were, loosened, more particularly during
and after a repast; boring and plucking
pain, decreasing in the open air, and by
cold water in the mouth; drawing pain, at
the time, in the cheek, and pinchings in the
ear, continuing from night till morning.
Chamomilla may be prescribed in odontalgic affections resulting from a cold, with
plucking pains in the jaws; after drinking
and eating; especially after hot things, coffee, &c.; pains in the teeth extremely violent in the night, with swelling of the cheek,
aggravated by cold drinks, and rendered
intolerable by the heat of the bed, swelling
of the gums, 4,c.
These pains in the teeth presenting a
vastly numerous variety, we have confined
ourselves to those of more frequent occurrence, referring the practitioner to the
MIateria Medica for those cases which are
not comprised among the remedies we have
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Otalgia or Ear-.dche.
We thus denominate a violent pain affecting one of the ears, or both of them at
the same time, and which frequently embraces the adjacent parts, where it is accompanied by pains in the teeth, or other
rheumatic affections, and of which the
most usual cause is a cold. We rarely observe either redness or external swelling;
the patient complains of darting, throbbing,
quivering pain, with tinkling and humming
in the ears. He experiences great agitation, anxiety, vigilance, pains in the head,
and fever. Frequently, after the lapse of
some days, there is established a watery or
purulent discharge, which diminishes the
suffering.
MIercury should be administered where
the pain experienced in the interior of the
ear is tearing or shooting, with sensation of
cold or of squeezing, and affecting also the
cheek; where there is perceptible inflammation in the auditory canal, and discharge
of pus, with ulceration of the conduit.
Arnica is eligible where there is general
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Nux   Vomica is especially indicated
where the exciting causes of the palpitations are stimulating drinks, coffee, &c.
Pulsatilla is a remedy suitable to women of very sensitive and delicate temperament, and characterized by sweetness of
disposition.
Whitlow (Paronychia.)
Is a local inflammation, having its seat in
most instances at the extremity of one of
the fingers. As its symptoms, we find swelling, violent pain, afterwards suppuration;
it frequently reappears among persons who
have once been affected. It sometimes displays itself in the absence of all external
cause; sometimes after a cold, a contusion,
burn, or any other lesion; after the removal of the epidermis at the roots of the
nails, from cutting the nails too near the
quick, or from having touched any corrosive liquid.
The pain is moderate when experienceed in the cellular tissue; more vivid when
affecting the periosteum; and intolerable
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It is not unusual to find this malady producing, among persons of irritable temperament, either convulsions or fainting fits.
Whitlows yield readily to Mercury; hut
if such means should not suffice, we may
subsequently have recourse to Sulphur.
The North Pole of the Magnet is equally powerful in these affections.
Hepar Sulphuris and R/us are also
valuable remedies in these cases; but when
they return frequently after the application
of the Magnet, and the exhibition of Alercury, it will be important to administer
Sulphur and Silicea.
Chicken pox.
This eruptive disease presents no danger
in itself, and frequently attacks children, in
districts infected with small-pox. In its
external aspect, it frequently bears much
resemblance to the last-mentioned disease.
It nay be distinguished, however, by the
more pointed form of the pustules; the irregularity of their appearance; the absence of smell peculiar to variola; by the
mild character and rapid progress of the
disease; and by its briefness of duration. It
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more especially affects the face; is accompanied by slight cold in the head, trifling
cough, and slight febrile excitement, and
terminates generally in about seven days.
We administer dconite at the moment
of fever; and if there be any agitation or
anxiety, we have recourse to Coffea.
Should spasmodic symptoms supervene
among children, and especially during dentition, we must have recourse to Chamomilla.
Belladonna must be prescribed if the
child raise the head with difficulty; if the
head and hands are hot; and if there be
agitation, and griping pains..Aconite, at the commencement of the
evil, will curtail its duration.
Mercury is applicable where the pustules secrete matter. This remedy, however, is more especially applicable in variola and chicken-pox at the period of supuration.
Rheumatism.
This affection has its seat in the membranous structure; in the tendons, ligaments, periosteum, and even in the bones;



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locality, but is diffused throughout the
whole affected region. The heat of the
bed increases acute rheumatism; the pain
subsides, quickly changes its situation; returns afresh; and in this manner is limited
neither in its seat nor in its duration. It
rarely affects the internal organs, and
evinces a great tendency to occupy its original locality.
Among the articulations in which rheumatism produces an effect analogous to that
of luxation, we may instance the shoulder,
the knee, and the arms; it less frequently
attacks the wrist, and still more rarely the
joints of the fingers and great toes. The
progress of the disease is slow, and generally presents no serious danger.
At times it is dispelled very readily; but
there remains a predisposition to its return
under the influence of cold, or of any other
adventitious cause.
It affects persons even of the most robust
habit; of both sexes; and of every age and
condition. In youthful persons it more particularly affects the superior parts of the
body, from the head to the hands; and
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ticularly at night, and are relieved by
motion.
Dulcamara is of much value in rheumatism arising from a cold, and particularly from a cold dampness in the atmosphere;
when the pains are characterized by shooting, drawing, and plucking, and have their
seat in the limbs; when the upper extremities are, as it were, paralyzed or cold; feel
as though they had received a severe contusion; and are more especially experienced in the night and during rest.
The practitioner may consult the following medicines with considerable advantage:
Belladonna, Ignatia, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Thuja, Veratrum, Arnica, Calcarea,
Mercurius, Cocculus, Silicea, China, Arsenic, Rhododendron, Tinctura Acris.
Cold in the Head
Displays itself after a cold by a particular
sensation in the nasal fosssm, commencing
with dryness and swelling in the part,
a little increased during inspiration; frequent sneezing, nasal intonation, and loss
of smell. The discharge is frequently
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very fine snuff; very violent sneezing; loss
of smell; discharge of blood from the nose
on using the handkerchief; secretion of
fetid mucus from the nose; painful ulcerations in the nostrils; sensibility of the eyes
to light; pressive headach; broken sleep;
melancholy; inclination to weep; shiverings; hoarseness.
Chamomilla is applicable to cold in the
head, presenting, as its characteristics, a
discharge of mucus from the nose; the nostrils ulcerated, chapped, and inflamed; pain
in the lips, which desquamate; somnolency;
confusion of the head; giddiness; one cheek
red, the other pallid; shiverings; and intense thirst. This medicine is particularly
appropriate to children.
Mercury renders effective service when
there is excessive discharge; the nose excoriated both within and without; and
where we find rheumatic pains in the limbs.
Under peculiar circumstances the preceding medicines may fail, the practitioner
will therefore refer to the following:
Arsenic, Bryonia, Belladonna, Aurum,
Mezereon, Ammonium, Lycopodium, Sulphur, Natrum, Antimonium Tartarizatum~



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and are less abundant; and particularly
when the moral temperament is sweet and
placid.
Crocus is suitable to women who are irritable and sensitive; whose blood is in a
state of ebullition; who feel a diffused heat,
and discharge thick and dark-coloured
blood from the nose.
Mercury is applicable to epistaxis when
the blood coagulates in its flow, and remains
suspended. This remedy is similarly appropriate for children, and for parties disposed to inflammatory affections.
China may be administered subsequently to the discharge, in order to prevent its
return; we may commence its exhibition
twenty-four hours after the hemorrhage;
and, according to the result, may repeat
the same medicine two or three times.
Belladonna is very useful where we
meet with discharge of blood firom the nose,
with determination to the head, evincing
itself by a swelling of the veins; darting
pain, returning in paroxysms, in one side
of the head, and aggravated by noise, light,
or motion; scintillations before the eyes;
dimness of vision; tingling in the ears; syncope; tendency to sleep.



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Under certain circumstances the following medicines will be similarly appropriate:
Aconite, Arsenic, Ignatia, Nux Vomica,
Chamomilla, Cina, Carbo Vegetabilis, Bryonia, Moschus, Rhus, Secale Cornutum,
Sulphur, Sepia, Graphites, Lycopodium.
Stomacace (Ulcerative Inflammation of the
Mouth.)
We thus denominate an affection which
commences with an attack on the front
part of the mouth, and afterwards extends
to the uvula and palate. The earlier
symptoms are stiffness and twitching in the
throat; a taste of copper, with burning;
heat, redness, swelling, and extreme sensitiveness of the gums, interior of the lips,
cheeks, tongue, and palate. To these phenomena, are subsequently united a cadaverous and nearly intolerable stench in the
mouth; painful enlargement of the glands
of the neck; profuse discharge of saliva or
viscid and fetid mucus from the mouth.
The gums are spongy, extremely swollen
or retracted; the teeth painful, foul, and
oftentimes loose; mastication, swallowing,
speech, and respiration, attended with
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234

DISEASES.

much suffering. At length upon the affected parts are formed small flat ulcerations,
very sensitive and obstinate. These ulcerations extend themselves; the inferior parts
are foul, resemble lard, and are fungous;
the edges are soft and slightly elevated,
inflamed, and uneven. In many cases we
observe fungoid excrescences, differing in
form, colour, consistency, and size. Very
frequently there flows from the parts which
are swollen and ulcerated, particularly the
gums, and especially when touched, a putrid sanies or blood of a deep-red colour.
At the same time there is much debility,
and very frequently much febrile excitement.
Mercury is a very efficient weapon with
which to oppose this malady; a few doses
will in most instances suffice for its ready
removal.
Nux Vomica, in certain cases, is very
useful; in derangements, for instance, in
the digestive functions; constipation, &c.;
and where the affection is characterized
rather by an inflammation and swelling
of the membranous parts than by an ulcerative inflammation  with  discharge of
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DISEASES.

the cough is distressing both by day and
night, with pain affecting both sides, and
expectoration after a long-continued fit
of coughing; profuse nocturnal sweats;
thirst; small and frequent pulse; emaciation; loss of appetite; cough in the morning, with tremor of the whole body; water
discharging from the mouth, with inclination to vomit; expectoration of mucus, yellow, and afterwards salt or bitter to the
taste, and producing nausea, sputa occasionally tinged with blobd.
In certain cases the following medicines
may be successfully administered:
Phosphoric Acid, Aconite, Arsenic, Bry-.onia, Drosera, Mercurius, Sepia, Spongia,
Stannum, China, Sulphur, Conium, Lactuca Viridis, Arnica, Calcarea, Lycopodium.
The study of the Materia Medica will
explain under what circumstances either
of the above remedies will be appropriate.
Swelling of the Parotid and Submaxillary
Glands.
This malady occasionally precedes affections of the teeth, with which it will disappear. More frequently it has its imme



SWELLING OF THE GLANDS.

239

diate origin in a cold, or in atmospheric
changes. It may attain considerable importance, attack both sides of the face, and
degenerate, at times, into a hard suppurative tumour. When the disease is violent
it is accompanied by an erysipelatous inflammation, together with febrile excitement.
Mercury is the most appropriate remedy,
even at all periods of the disease, as also
when the tumour enters upon its suppurative stage. The remedy may be repeated several times if desirable, at some days'
interval, or every day, in water. Belladonna may be administered where we find
an erysipelatous inflammation; when the
pain subsides we may have recourse to
Hepar Sulphuris, which will perfect the
cure.
Dulcamara will render powerful aid
against an induration of the glands, when
the disease has not been checked by the
exhibition of Mercury and Hepar Sulphuris.



WORMS.

241

themselves in clusters to different portions
of the intestines, beneath the parietes of
which they create, in moving about and
sucking, and especially after having eaten
sweet food, an irritation which gives rise to
painful griping, more particularly in the
umbilical region. The ordinary indications of their presence are the following:
Nausea; accumulation of watery saliva
in the mouth; fetid breath; face pale and
swollen; a blue or brownish hue beneath
the -yes; dilatation of the pupil; broken
sleep; urine thick and white; and the
lower part of the abdomen hard and tender
to the touch.
The solitary worm is flat and whitish,
frequently of considerable length, and comprising a vast number of articulations.
It is sufficiently difficult to recognize its
presence, since-if it occasion at times distressing symptoms, extraordinary sense of
pressure, coldness, undulatory motion in
the lower region of the abdomen, lively
pain, cramps, epileptic and convulsive
fits, &c.-it at other times gives rise to
none of these sensations. In this case, the
only positive indication is the discharge of
certain detached portions of the worm.
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VOMITING.

243

turn, resulting from a similar cause. Filix
3las, administered from time to time, will
in most instances relieve the phenomena,
frequently painful and distressing, induced
by the presence of the solitary or tape
worm,
Vomiting.
The treatment of vomiting must be regulated by the exciting cause, since the
latter serves perfectly well to decide its
character.
If the vomiting proceed from a superabundance of food, it will be unnecessary to
offer any opposition, since it is an effort of
nature to relieve the stomach from the
substances with which it is overcharged.When the sickness does not establish itself
voluntarily, we may assist the vital force,
aid promote vomiting by draughts of warm
water, coffee, &c.
If, after an abundant vomiting, there
remain aversion, nausea, and heaving of
the stomach, we may cheek such symptoms with one or two doses of Antimoniurn
crudum.



VOMITINGS.

245

in the abdomen, frequent nausea, excess
of saliva, with vapid and ropy taste; pallor
of complexion, discoloration of the lips, with
general coldness, and accession of debility.
These symptoms, however, being dispersed
by the medicine, it is essential that the
children be subjected to an antipsoric
course of treatment, which alone will have
the power of confirming the cure.
Pulsatilla is very serviceable in vomitings of viscid whitish mucus, to which many
persons of irritable temperament, and sub.
ject to spasmodic affections, are disposed.
These vomitings are usually preceded by
vertigo, pains in the abdomen, by faintings,
and in most instances are followed by diarrhoea.
Should Pulsatilla fail in its effect, we
may administer Cocculus. The latter remedy is especially appropriate where the
vomitings have resulted from carriage exercise.
The following medicines are frequently
of great value in vomitings; and the prac.
titioner cannot too sedulously study their
properties in the Materia Medica.
Arsenic, Digitalis, Ipecacuanha, Nux
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INDEX.
Page.
Aphthae or Thrush (sore mouth of children),.    28
Asthma of Millar,..         32
Bleeding from the Nose,..    231
Boils,...        137
Burns,...     42
Catarrhal Fever,.                126
Catarrhal Inflammation of the Throat,  149
C(      "      of the Eyes,    157
"       "      of the Nostrils,  158
Cerebral Inflammation,.        151
Chicken Pox,...    221
Chilblains,..        111
Cholera,...    182
Cold in the Head,..        228
Colic,...     51
Congestion of Blood in the Abdomen,  60
"6         &       Chest,       61
c           "       Head,       63
Constipation,..        66



248             INDEX.
Page.
Contusions,...    71
Cough,...       235
Cramps and Convulsions,..    72
"    of the Stomach,.       76
Cries of Young Infants,..    81
Croup,.,.        121
Dentition,...    87
Derangement of the Stomach,.       92
Diarrhoea,...    98
Dysentery,..        102
Ear-ache (otalgia)                 217
Enlargement of the Glands of the Neck
and of the Ears,.        110
Erysipelas,...    116
Excoriation of the Nipples,.     123
**   "   Children,.    125
Fainting Fits,.                 168
Falling down of the Fundament,.  171
Fatigue,...        130
Fetid Breath,...    171
Flatulence,...        133
Fright,...    136
Headach,...        45
Heartburn,...    44
Hemorrhage,..        139
Hemorrhoids,..    145
Hiccough,..        149
Hoarseness,..    112
Hooping Cough,..        114



250             INDEX.
Page.
Small Pox,                          198
Sprains,.135
Swelling of the Parotid.nd Suibmaxilr
lary Glands,..        238
Swelling of the Glands,             139
('   "     Cheeks,              109
Toothache,..             212
Ulcerative Inflpammation of the Mouth,  233
Vomiting,.,        243
Wakefulness or Vigilance,           164
Whitlow (Paronychia)                220
Worms,.   240
Wounds,.         39