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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year z870
By C. S. HALSEY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Northern District of Illinois.



PREFACE TO THE LONDON EDITION.
IN issuing this edition of the manual, completing fifty
thousand copies, the author has endeavored to express his
gratification with the wide appreciation of his humble
efforts to extend Homceopathy, by embodying some of the
results of his enlarged experience during the ten years that
have elapsed since the first edition of this book was published, maintaining it on a level with the progressive character of Homceopathy and medical science in general, and
presenting a longer list of complaints, with ampler treatment, than is included, probably, in any similar work.
The present edition has been almost entirely rewritten,
several new but well-tried remedies prescribed, and additional sections introduced on subjects likely to increase the
general utility of the work; much additional and entirely
fresh matter, of a practical character, is inserted in nearly
every page, and the bulk of the volume considerably augmented: At the same time brevity of treatment has been
aimed at, not by meagreness of materials, but by their
compression, a point which has given the author more
trouble than writing in a diffuse style.
DOMESTIC HOM(EOPATHY.
The profession of medicine cannot in this age of progress
be treated as a mystery. The aim of the enlightened physician is to make its principles as extensively known as possible, conscious that thereby the greatest amount of good
will accrue both to the profession and the public. Still the
objection is often urged that domestic medical books trench
on the legitimate sphere of the profession, and are dangerous in their tendency. Neither objection is valid. Drugs



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are employed in nearly every household-antibilious pills,
Efsom salts, rhubarb, suljhkur, magnesia, quinine, etc. We
are not, therefore, responsible as originators of domestic
treatment; we have rather sought to reform it, by substituting remedies and measures, the virtue of which is that
they are not only more harmless, but very much more
efficacious than those ordinarily adopted. Departures from
health, of a simple and uncomplicated nature, may often
be arrested at their outset by carrying out instructions like
those contained in the following pages, but which, if neglected till the symptoms assumed forms which seemed to
justify the consultation of a medical man, might become
converted into serious and even fatal diseases.
JUSTIFICATION.
A fact which specially justifies the composition of this
manual is the necessity of meeting, as far as possible, the
requirements of persons residing in localities where professional Homceopathic treatment is inaccessible. An
extensive correspondence with persons in various and
remote parts of the country, convinces the Author of the
importance of making some provision for patients so circumstanced; at least, till professional men generally have
been led to the study and practice of the discoveries of the
illustrious Hahnemann.
ADVANTAGES OF PROFESSIONAL TREATMENT.
While making these statements, it is our duty to recommend that in every serious or doubtful case, or when the
treatment herein prescribed is insufficient to effect improvement in a reasonable time, a Homceopathic practitioner
should be consulted.  The vast and ever-accumulating
resources at the disposal of a professional Homceopath, of
which this little manual represents but an inconsiderable
fraction, places him on high vantage ground compared
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rence in which it is impossible to act in the best manner
without an acquaintance with anatomy, physiology, etc.
Apparently trifling symptoms which escape the non-professional observer, clever though he may be, immediately
attract the attention of the informed eye and ear of the
physician, and put him on the alert for further discovery.
Indeed, whenever it is practicable, every departure from
health should be watched and treated by a Homceopathic
physician.
PROGRESS AND OPPOSITION.
In this age of scientific progress it is gratifying to observe
that medicine, instead of being in the rear, is advancing to
the front ranks, and that Homoeopathy is in the vanguard
of medical advancement. This is proved by its rapid
spread, and by its powerful, though indirect influence on
medical and surgical practice generally, causing it to do
homage to the instincts of humanity, and banishing every
measure or drug that is harsh and destructive. It may be
satisfactory to the friends of this system to know that hostile resistance to Homoeopathy comes exclusively from persons ignorant of its principles, or inexperienced in its
actual results. Its bitterest calumniators, it is believed,
have never studied it or tried it fairly. It may be confidently stated that the great majority of medical men, if not
all out of the ranks of Homceopathy, are completely in the
dark as to its theory and practice, and are consequently
incompetent to give a reliable opinion on the subject; just
as the driver of a stage coach, or the commander of a sailing-vessel, lacks the knowledge and experience to pronounce on the merits of railways or steamers, although all
alike are for the transit of passengers and merchandise.
With a confidence, therefore, which a knowledge of, and
experience in, both the old and new modes of treatment,
can alone impart, the Author recommends a trial of Homceopathy. Let a dozen cases be taken, the symptoms carefully noted, and the treatment herein prescribed faithfully



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carried out, and the results will be so marked that conversion may be confidently predicted.
CORRESPONDENTS.
Since the publication of the five former editions of this
manual, the writer has received numerous letters from correspondents who have been won over to Homaeopathy by
its instrumentality, and are carrying out its various prescriptions with striking and gratifying success. He has
been much cheered by such unsolicited statements, and
takes this opportunity of offering his acknowledgments for
the kindness which dictated the communication referred to.
At the same time, he would suggest that, to meet the ignorance and prejudice which still oppose the spread of Homoeopathy, the friends of the system will kindly seek to enlarge
its usefulness by promoting in various ways the circulation
of this book among all classes of the community. Let the
manual be read, and its prescriptions fairly tried, and we
fear not the result.
IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH.
The design of this manual is to point out some of the
means by which much human suffering may be prevented,
bodily functions preserved unimpaired, and life prolonged
to the full period of man's existence. The importance of
the subject will be obvious when it is considered how
inconsistent physical incapacity and suffering are with
moral well-being. When the habits and circumstances of
min are inimical to good health, he sinks in all the capacities of his nature. The application, therefore, of means
for guarding or restoring the health of the body, provides
for the exercise of the intellectual and moral powers in
their highest state of perfection. There may be moral benefits and opportunities consequent on weakness and disease; but who can doubt that those attendant on health
and vigor are far greater! impaired health is a moral as



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well as a physical disadvantage. Reason asserts this, and
experience confirms it. Who has not learned that an important way of " keeping the body in subjection," is to
keep it free from the uneasy sensations and disabilities that
accompany ill health? If this be so, it places the highest
value upon the perfection of our bodily organs, and
stamps that profession, whose duty it is to promote " the
glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate," as
one of the very highest that can be exercised by man.
From such a stand-point, we see in every disease cured,
the removal of a blot which marred the image of God's
noblest work, and new power given to brighten and
lengthen man's earthly life. Thus, alleviating human,
suffering, and so allowing the fullest exercise of man's
higher nature, we are permitted to be humble followers of
HIM who " healed all manner of diseases," and whose
wonderful and beneficent life has been embodied in the
simple phrase, "He went about doing good."
E. H. RUDDOCK.
12, Victoria Square, Reading.
September, I868.
HINTS TO THE READER.
I. The novice in Homoeopathy should first make himself familiar with the introductory chapters.
II. When the work is consulted for the treatment of
any particular disease, the whole section devoted to it
should be read before deciding on the course to be taken;
and if difficulty is experienced in choosing from different
medicines, the Materia Medica should be referred to, and
an endeavor made to grasp the essential features peculiar
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III. Persons desirous of being able to act wisely and
promptly in any emergency, for the prevention or removal
of suffering, should read this manual through. The body
of the work, Part II., is devoted to diseases and their treatment; Part III., to Materia Medica.  Both should be
studied carefully.
IV. The utility of the work may be greatly increased
by having it interleaved for recording the results of cases
treated, and general observations. Whoever adopts this
hint will accumulate a valuable store of information, the
retrospect of which will be interesting and encouraging.
V. Readers desirous of a more ample work, are respectfully referred to " The Vade Mecum of Modern Medicine
and Surgery." An attentive study of that work will give
a tolerably broad knowledge of general disease, and a
measure of skill in the use of many valuable remedial
agents. The" /Vade Mecum " will thus form an useful, if
not an indispensable, companion to 1" The Stepitng-Stone."
VI. When medical terms are used, they are either
explained in the text, or the meaning is appended to the
words which seem to require explanation as they occur in
the index at the end of the manual. This index is very
copious, and every point of importance may be found by
it. Reference is further made easy by division of the work
into parts, chapters, and sections, and by a table of contents at the commencement.
VII. A " Clinical Directory " is inserted, which, it is
hoped, will be found of great use to those who have
attentively studied disease and Materia Medica. It contains prescriptions for about five hundred diseases and
symptoms, many of which, and of the remedies prescribed,
are not referred to in the body of the work. The " Clinical
Directory" has been carefully arranged, and its suggestions of remedies are the result of much experience.



CONTENTS.
PART I.
ON HOMCEOPATHY.
CHAPTER I.
PAGS
HISTORY OF HOMCEOPATHY,........                15
Introductory - Early History- Status of Professional Homceopaths - Indirect Influence of Homceopathy - Homoeopathy going down? - Appeals
to Facts - Small doses - Homceopathy not opposed to Experience - not Faith - Medicines in
Health- - Illustrations: - Light, Seed, and the
Magnet.
CHAPTER II.
ADVANTAGES OF HOMCEOPATHY,.......23
Success - Economy- Homceopathy in CholeraConstipation - Statistics - Gentle Measures -
Jerrold's Death-bed - The Single Remedy - Medicines Specific- Children - Experimental Practice -Preventive Medicine-Future of Homoeopathy - Magna est veritas, et prevalebit.
CHAPTER III.
OBSERVATIONS ON HEALTH,.........    32
General Hints - Bathing - The Wet-pack - Exercise - Clothing - Light- Fresh Air - Bed-rooms
- Water.



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CHAPTER IV.
PAGE
MEDICINES, DIET, ETC.,..........              42
Forms of Medicines: - Globules, Pilules, Tinctures,
Triturations - Medicine-Cases - List of Medicines:- Internal and External - Directions for
taking Medicines - Hours - Dose - Repetition of
Doses - Alternation of Medicines - Diet: - Milk
Diet, Ordinary Diet, Meat Diet, Extraordinary
Diet- Tobacco and Snuff- Drugs.
PART II.
DISEASES:
THEIR CAUSES, STMPTOMS, AND TREATMENT.
CHAPTER I.
FEVERS,.............5
Simple Fever - Typhoid and Typhus - Accessories
in Fevers - Preventives - Intermittent Fever,
Ague.
CHAPTER II.
THE ERUPTIVE FEVERS,.........      66
Scarlet Fever, Scarlatina - Measles - Small-poxChicken-pox - Erysipelas, St. Anthony's Fire.
CHAPTER III.
DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF BREATHING,... 8
Cold in the Head- Influenza - Hoarseness - Clergyman's Sore Throat - Cough - Hooping-Cough
- Croup: - Inflammatory and spasmodic - Inflammation of the Lungs and Pleurisy -Asthma
- Bronchitis - Chronic Bronchitis - Consumption.



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CHAPTER IV.
PAGE
DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF DIGESTION,..... IO6
Indigestion - Vomiting - Sea-sickness - Colic -
Biliousness- Heartburn, Flatulence, etc. -Jaundice-Inflammation of the Liver-Chronic Inflammation of the Liver, Liver Complaint-Diarrhoea
- Diarrhoea in Children - Dysentery, Bloody
Flux -Asiatic or Malignant Cholera - Constipation - Worms- Piles - Protrusion of the Bowel.
CHAPTER V.
AFFECTIONS OF THE HEAD,......... 137
Headache - Sick-Headache, Bilious Headache -
Epilepsy, Falling Sickness.
CHAPTER VI.
AFFECTIONS OF THE EYES AND EARS,..... 144
Inflammation of the Eyes - Bloodshot Eye - Stye
on the Eyelids - Foreign Bodies in the Eye - Inflammation of the Ears - Earache - Running
from the Ears -Deafness.
CHAPTER VII
AFFECTIONS OF THE MOUTH, NOSE, TEETH, AND
GLANDS,..............151
Offensive Breath - Thrush, Frog - Teething -
Convulsions - Toothache - Sore Throat, Quinsy
- Mumps - Derbyshire Neck, Goitre.
CHAPTER VIII.
AFFECTIONS OF THE SKIN,........ 165
Itching of the Skin - Nettle-rash -Ulcers, Sores
-Boils - Chilblains - Chapped-Hands - Warts
-Corns - Whitlow- Ringworm.
CHAPTER IX.
HAEMORRHAGES,.............    6
Spitting and Vomiting of Blood- Bleeding from
the Nose -Bleeding from the Urinary OrgansHemorrhage from the Womb and Vagina, Flooding - Haemorrhagic Diathesis.



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CHAPTER X.
PAGE
ACCIDENTS,                                       185.................I
Wounds - Bruises- Black-eye - Cuts - Sprains -
Fatigue and Over-exertion - Burns and Scalds -
Broken Bones - Strangulated Rupture - Poisons
- Drowning.
CHAPTER XI.
MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES,.... I........197
Rheumatic Fever - Chronic Rheumatism - Lumbago - Gout - Palpitation of the Heart - Incontinence of Urine - Wetting the Bed - Retention of Urine - Spermatorrhaea, Involuntary
Emissions.
PART III.
CONCISE MATERIA MEDICA.
CHAPTER I.
REMEDIES FOR INTERNAL USE,..........208
Aconitum - Antimonium   Crudum - Antimonium
Tartaricum-Apis Mellifica - Arnica Montana -
Arsenicum - Belladonna - Bryonia - Calcarea
Carbonica - Camphora - Cantharis - Carbo
Vegetabilis -Chamomilla -China - Cina - Coffea - Colocynthis - Cuprum Metallicum - Drosera - Dulcamara - Gelseminum - Hepar Sulphuris - Ignatia - Ipecacuanha - Kali Bichromicum - Lycopodium - Mercurius - Nux Vomica
- Opium - Phosphorus - Podophyllum - Pulsatilla - Rhus Toxicodendron - Silicea - Spongia - Sulphur - Veratrum.



Conlcnts.                  13,
CHAPTER II.
EXT'ERNA'L REMEDIES, ANTIDOTES, ETC.,.......223
Arnica Montana - Calendula Omfcinalis - Rhus
Toxicodendron - Antidotes - Genuine Medicines.






THE STEPPING-STONE


TO
HOMCEOPATHY AND HEALTH.
part I,
CHAPTER I.
HISTORr OF HOMCEOPA THT.
INTRODUCTORY.
This small volume is issued as a " Stepping-Stone
to Homoeopathy;" a few remarks, therefore, explanatory of this system of medicine, may appropriately
precede its more practical teachings.
Life is the noblest gift of God, and good health is
one of its greatest accompanying blessings. To proe
serve health in its integrity, or to recover it when lost,
are the objects contemplated in the publication of this
manual. The reader is requested to pause a few minutes, before entering on its practical details, in order
briefly to consider some of the more prominent features, and a few of the advantages that would arise
from the more general and extended adoption, of
Homoeopathy.



History of Romceopathy.


EARLY HISTORY.
Homceopathy is a system of medicine for the cure
of all curable diseases, first discovered and adopted
nearly eighty years ago (A. D. 1790), by that great
physician, HAHNEMANN. We do not, however, claim
for that distinguished man the invention of Homaeopathy; he only removed the obscurity which had
hitherto shrouded the subject, and unfolded to mankind a great law of nature, just as Newton discovered
the principle of gravitation.  Glimmerings of this
science had been caught, many centuries before, by
Hippocrates and others, but the illustrious Hahnemann was the first fully to grasp the principle, and to
enunciate it as the law of healing, and therefore of
universal applicability. At first, its professors were
few, and consisted of the immediate friends and disciples of Hahnemann; but ever since, they have been
steadily multiplying, so that now medical men, many
of them of great intelligence and high principle, are
to be found practicing Homceopathy in every civilized
portion of the globe. There are about three hundred
avowed legally qualified practitioners in Great Britain;
but if those who approve the system, and practice it
in secret, were added, the number would be more than
doubled.
STATUS OF PROFESSIONAL HOMCEOPATHS.
It is often represented that Homoeopathic medical
men occupy an inferior position to those of the old
school.  The Medical Register, issued under the
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liament, may be appealed to in proof that the three
hundred Homceopathic practitioners of Great Britain
hold the same degrees and diplomas, have the same
legal rank, and have passed through the same course
of study, under allopathic professors, as their brethren of the old school.  On the continent, and in
America, Homoeopathy is practiced almost co-extensively with Allopathy.
INDIRECT INFLUENCE.
Many there are who practice Ho nceopatlhi ally,
but have not the courage to avow it; and many
others, impelled by the influence which this system
is everywhere exerting, are greatly modifying their
practice. The good thus indirectly effected by the
discovery of Hahnemann is immeasurable. Not only
medical men, but tens of thousands of intelligent persons, in every civilized portion of the globe, confide
in Homceopathy as the best and truest system of cuie.
HOM(EOPATHY GOING DOWN?
It is true, the statement is often made by its oppo.
nents, that the new system is on the decline. " IIomaopathy is going down," remarked a medical man of
the Allopathic school, recently. It is going (lown.
Not, however, in the sense he wished. It is sinking
deep into the understandings and hearts of the public.
Almost everywhere the people are directing their attention to the subject. They try it, and in the hour
of sickness confide in it; and if not convers.int with
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in it a power to heal superior to that they have ever
experienced under the old plan of treatment.
HOMCEOPATHY APPEALS TO FACTS.
It is deserving of remark, that in the discovery of
Homceopathy, Hahnemann did not first conceive a
theory, and afterwards seek for facts with which to
uphold it. No! At the very starting point, and at
each successive step, he relied solely upon facts. What
he learned was from facts, based upon carefully conducted experiments. His assertions were grounded
upon facts, the result of patiently and oft-repeated
investigations. For several years he kept his discovery to himself; at the same time that he was arranging and accumulating evidence founded upon facts,
which were diligently collected and closely scrutinized.
Homceopathy is still upheld by facts. It is because
it has stood the trial of experience that it has been
preserved to the present time, and will be transmitted to the latest generations.
SMALL DOSES.
Homceopathy does not mean a small dose, as it is
often supposed to do. The grand principle - that
which forms the basis of the science - is, like curing
like, irrespective of the quantity of the dose. Hahnemann, after he had discovered the science, employed
doses of the usual quantity. Experience and further
investigation, however, taught him that smaller doses
were not only sufficient and more safe, but that when
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ones. Apart from this, it is a matter of perfect indifference to Hahnemann or his followers whether they
administer medicine in large or small doses. If they
found large doses more efficient in curing diseases
than small ones, they would assuredly administer the
former rather than the latter.
HOMCEOPATHY OPPOSED TO EXPERIENCE?
The results obtained by Homoeopathic practitioners
with small doses have been said to be opposed to all
previous experience. But the truth is, that prior to the
researches of Hahnemann and his followers, we had
no experience at all in these matters. It is, consequently, just as absurd for medical men to deny that
Homeopathic remedies can effect the cure of disease
because such cures are contrary to their experience,
who have never tried them, as for a certain king of
Siam to have treated as false the statement that in
some countries, and in some seasons, water, under the
influence of frost, becomes changed from a fluid to a
solid, permitting persons to walk upon it, because in
his country no such phenomenon had ever been witnessed! Siamese philosophers are not yet extinct.
FAITH NOT HOMCEOPATHY.
That Homoeopathy is not mere faith or imagination, is proved by its curing the diseases of infants
and of patients in delirium, as well as of the inferior
animals. The writer is personally acquainted with
many intelligent farmers who employ none other than
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animals. It must be admitted that the farmers of
this country are generally shrewd and calculating men,
not easily deceived in matters affecting -their interestsand as great numbers of them  declare that Homeo,
pathy cures diseases that were incurable by the old
method, that it cures more quickly, at a less cost, and
without damage to the constitutional powers of animals, we have the best evidence that the success of
Homceopathy is not the result of mere faith, but of
valuable medicines, properly administered.
The success of Homoeopathy is anything but the
result of faith in those who practice it. Persons are
generally slow to believe in it, and seldom have recourse to it, at first, without doubts and misgivings.
Benefits are derived, in spite df their unbelief. Faith
in Homceopathy comes and grows only as their cure
progresses and is complete. The very improbability
Sof a dose so small and so unlike what had been formerly given, acts, so far as the imagination has any
influence upon the cure, unfavorably, instead of the
reverse.
MEDICINES IN HEALTH.
A story is often told of a child swallowing the contents of a tube of globules, which created great alarm,
but took " no effect."  Supposing the circumstance
to have occurred, it does not at all affect the truth of
Homoeopathy. Hommopathic medicines, in the form
they are usually administered, are prepared with the
view of acting in disease, when the parts are far more
sensitive than in a state of health, and much more
easily affected. A healthy constitution has no sus



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ceptibility for attenuated drugrs; to ensure their action
they must be administered in a low or crude form, so
as to produce unnatural effects; in short, a kind of
poisoning.
ILLUSTRATIONS.-LIGHT.
A ray of light falling upon a diseased eye will cause
paih', or even become intolerable, although in health
the same eye is unaffected by the broad light of day.
The susceptibility of the eye is heightened by disease.
Millions of rays of light afforded pleasure in health;
now, one ray gives pain. just so in reference to the
tube of globules, that which will prodzce no disturbance in health will, in disease, with heightened sensi-.
bility, act P~owerfully.
SEED.
We borrow another illustration. Small doses may
be taken without producing effccts, just as seed may be
sown without yielding fruit. It were as reasonable
to expect a plentiful harvest from seeds scattered on
the sea shore, or on a beaten path, as to expcct
"e1 ffects " from infinitesimal doses when the natural
accessories are wanting.  As seed will not grow
unless the soil is congenial and prepared, so small
doses will not act if the symptoms calling for their
action are absent.
THE MAGNET.
The disease must have the same attraction for the
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not tell by touching the loadstone with a piece of copper that it had any power of attraction; neither could
you tell by taking an attenuation of Aconitum in a
state of health, that it had any power. But try the
magnet with a piece of iron and Aconitum with a
quick pulse, and then their energy will be demonstrated.
When it is said the globules took " no effect," what
is meant is, the effects which follow Allopathic doses,
viz.: vomiting, purging, extreme pain, etc.  And
here we have an illustration of the safety of Homoeopathic remedies, and how   favorably they contrast
with the strong drugs and severe measures often
employed under the old system of treatment. Well,
indeed, would it have been for thousands of Allopathic patients if bleeding, blisters, purgatives, mercury, etc., had also taken " no effect."



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been under both systems are best able to judge of
their comparative merits, and such alm6st universally
give the palm to Homceopathy.
IS THE PUBLIC A COMPETENT JUDGE?
It may be said, the public is incompetent to judge
of such matters; but it is not so; and although it
might for a time be deceived, the deception could not
last long. In matters affecting its personal interest,
the public is remarkably shrewd, and seldom fails to
arrive at a sound conclusion. Not only the general
public but also physicians the most highly educated
in the profession; after due investigation and experiment, have renounced the old for the new system of
practice; while some of the most profound scholars
and greatest nobles in the land are Homceopaths.
The clergy and ministers of all denominations are
rapidly embracing the system. That distinguished
sect, so often foremost in the field of philanthropy,
the Friends, is almost entirely Homceopathic. So,
we venture to affirm, will all be who have the moral
courage to inquire, investigate, and think for themselves.
HOMCEOPATHY AND CHOLERA.
The superiority of Homoeopathic over Allopathic
treatment applies both to acute and chronic diseases.
When cholera prevailed in this country, two out of
every three patients were lost by the old system; on
the other hand, Homceopathy saved two out of every
three. We cite the testimony of Dr. Macloughlin, a



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medical inspector appointed by the Board of Health,
to investigate cases of cholera, and who was always
strongly opposed to Homaeopathy. He thus writes
to one of the surgeons of the London Homoeopathic
Hospital: *
CONSTIPATION.
Take, as a further illustration of its success, Constipation of the bowels. Allopathy cannot cure this
complaint. It can only give aperients or purgatives;
and these, so far from removing the evil, in the long
run generally aggravate it; whereas, by a little perseverance in the use of her remedies, Homceopathy
cures it.
* British Journal of Homoeopathy, vol. I3,,page 681
"I need not tell you that I have taken some pains to
make myself acquainted with the rise, progress, and medical treatment of cholera; and that I claim for myself some
right to be able to recognize the disease, and to know something of what the treatment ought to be; and, that there
may be therefore no misapprehension about the cases I saw
in your hospital, I will add, that all I saw were true cases
of cholera, in the various stages of the disease; and that
I saw several cases which did well under your treatment,
which I have no hesitation in saying would have sunk
under any other.
" In conclusion, I must repeat to you what I have already
told you, and what I have told every one with whom I
have conversed, that, although an Allopath by principle,
education, and practice, yet, were it the will of Providence
to afflict me with cholera, and to deprive me of the power
of prescribing for myself, I would rather be in the hands
of a Homceopathic than an Allopathic adviser."
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STATISTICS.
We confidently refer, in proof of the success of
Homoeopathic treatment, to the statistics of the various
hospitals and dispensaries conducted on purely Homoeopathic principles in this country, on the continent,
and in America. We have not space here to record
even a selection from that accumulated evidence which
has now become so voluminous. Numerous volumes
of Homoeopathic clinical information, and the reports
of the results of the practice of our hospitals and dispensaries, are open to the inspection of all; for Homoeopathy, differing in this respect from every system of
quackery, courts investigation. Nothing is considered
so inimical to its interests as concealment. Facts so
bear out its inherent truth as to carry with them their
own irresistible credentials, and these we are confident
will eventually remove every impediment to its general
study and universal practice.
GENTLE MEASURES.
Contrast the chamber of the Allopathic, with that
of the Homoeopathic, patient. In the former, there
is the bleeding-basin, the repulsive leech, the blister
and its accompaniments-sores, salves, and dressings
-the emetic and its disagreeable results, purgatives,
and their disgusting and hurtful consequences. Think
of these invading the last and most sacred hours of
life, and being often inflicted on helpless infants and
terrified children, as not merely unnecessary, but pernicious beyond calculation; often destroying, by such
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Turn now to the chamber of the Homoeopathic patient.
He is very ill, but the law of self-preservation is respected, and the " life's blood is spared." No leeches
or blisters are used; the linen is clean, and the air is
sweet, for there has been no emetic, or purgative, or
salivation. Perhaps the only article indicative of sickness is a glass or bottle of medicine, inoffensive alike
to both taste and.smell, but potent to mitigate the
sufferings of the patient, and restore him to health.
JERROLD'S DEATH-BED.
" Why torture a dying creature, doctor?" were
the words and remonstrance of Douglas Jerrold to his
medical attendant within a few hours of his death.
The doctor insisted on administering medicine and
cupping, notwithstanding extreme exhaustion. His
son and biographer, Blanchard Jerrold, says," VWe
waved the fans about him, giving him air, and still,
at intervals, he talked faintly, but most collectedly.
The dawn grew into a most lovely summer morning.
At ten o'clock the patient was cupped. He could
hardly move in bed, and again said, ' Why torture a
dying creature, doctor?' But the cupping took no
effect."  This is a sad picture. Thank God, Homemopathy is putting an end to such inhuman means, by
substituting natural and gentle appliances, such as
shall conserve the life-powers, and diminish, not aggravate, existing sufferings.
THE SINGLE REMEDY.
Another manifest advantage is the giving of only
one remedy at a time, thus ascertaining the pure action



28        Advantages of Honmeopqath/y.


of each separate drug, and avoiding the confusion
resulting from mixing different substances in one prescription. Every remedy has an action peculiar to
itself; and it cannot but happen, when several drugs
are introduced into the system at the same time, that
they interfere with each other. If, under such circumstances, good is effected, it is often impossible to determine which one, or how many out of the number,
have contributed to the result. Or, if no good follows,
and it be necessary to alter the prescription, then it
must be also impossible to know what change to make,
what portions to omit, what new ones to add. Dr.
Paris, a distinguished Allopathic physician, says he
was once told by a practitioner in the country, that
the quantity and complexity of the medicines which
he gave his patients were always increased in the ratio
with the obscurity of their cases. " If," said he, " I
fuie a profusion of shot, it is very extraordinary if some
do not hit the mark." A patient in the hands of such
a practitioner, says Dr. Paris, has not a much better
chance than a Chinese Mandarin, who, upon being
attacked with any disease, calls in twelve or more physicians, and swallows in one mixture all the potions
which each separately prescribes. In Homoeopathy
we only give one medicine at a time; its action upon
the system is then simple and undisturbed; and we
are no longer in doubt as to what is doing good.
" HOM(EOPATI-IC MEDICINES ARE SPECIFIC.
An important advantage in our medicines is, that
they only act on diseased parts. Thus, in affections
of the brain, the bowels are not operated on by purga



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tives; or the liver, mouth, and bones by mercury; or
the skin by blisters; but such substances are administered as have been proved to operate directly on the
brain itself. So in diseases of the chest; the bowels,
liver, and skin are undisturbed, and that part only
acted upon in which disease exists. This is a great
advantage. Under such treatment disease cannot be
produced in healthy parts, and the disappearance of
the disease is a sign that it is absolutely cured.
HOM(EOPATHY AND CHILDREN.
Our -medicines are not disagreeable. This is an
advantage which every mother can appreciate who
knows that her children have a natural and proper
disgust of old physic.*  Adults swallow nauseous
draughts and pills in the hofpe of deriving benefit therefrom; in the case of children, however, the prospect
of benefit is often far more than counterbalanced by
the horror and disgust which the abominable compound excites. And further, the diseases of children
are influenced most strikingly and favorably by Homneopathic medicines; and every practitioner has often
received the warmest thanks of parents from whose
children most alarming diseases have been removed
as by a charm.
EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE.
" We do not try experiments with our drugs on the
sick. The practice of trying the effects of drugs on
* "Many a medicine given to children is so horrible that
a medical practitioner ought to be present to count the
pulse, and to watch the countenance during its administration, just as is properly the case at a military flogging."



30         Advantages of Honmosopathy.


persons suffering from disease is cruel and dangerous;
cruel, because it torments the patient already suffering
from disease; and dangerous, because it often undermines the constitution, and interposes 6bstacles to that
natural tendency to recovery which Infinite Goodness
has interwoven with life. Homceopathic drugs, on
the contrary, are always tried on medical men and
their friends when in health, in repeated doses and
sufficiently large to ascertain their properties, before
administering the smaller and attenuated doses of such
medicines to the suffering.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.
Homceopathy is preventive as well as curative. Its
medicines have the power of preventing, or arresting
at the very outset, m ny diseases, such as colds, influenza, various fevers, cholera, etc. In the practical
portions of this work, it will be found that we have
suggested preventive as well as curative measures.
FUTURE OF HOMCEOPATHY.
It may be asked, Will Homoeopathy ever become
universal? We reply, most great discoveries and improvements have been obstinately opposed at first, but,
having truth for their basis, have triumphed in the
end. So Homoeopathy, in spite of the bitterest and
most unprincipled opposition which it has received
from the very commencement, has continued to spread
in an ever-increasing ratio, so that now, wherever the
sun shines, and the light of European civilization has
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pathy is acknowledged and embraced as one of the
greatest and most humane of modern discoveries.
We have an impressive illustration in the case of
Hahnemann, the first expounder of Homoeopathy, who
was cruelly persecuted, and finally driven an exile from
his native Saxony. Yet now, in the very city of
Leipsic, from which he was banished, there adorns
a plot of ground a monumental statue, in bronze, of
that immortal physician!  If Homoeopathy, then,
could not, in its early infancy, be destroyed, there is
little to fear for it now that it has grown to the proportions of a giant. Nearly all its present adherents
have been converted from the old system, through
experiencing or witnessing the superior advantages
of the new, in the face of those deeply-rooted prejudices which it is difficult entirely to discard. Thousands of families, on the other hand, are now being
reared up under Homaeopathic influences who have
never espoused, and probably never will, any other
system. The tendencies of such will be in the right
direction, and they will become its consistent and
unwavering advocates. Judging, then, of the future
by the light of the past, and believing the saying,
" Magna est veritas, et prevalebit," we are led to the
inevitable conclusion that Homoeopathy, founded as it
is upon truth, upon an immutable natural law, will
ultimately become the exclusive and universal mode
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CHAPTER III.
OBSER VA TIONS ON HEAL TH
(Hygiene).
GENERAL HINTS.
ALL persons should, if possible, take moderate daily
exercise in the open air, or if the weather is unsuitable, in well lighted and properly ventilated rooms,
Undue indulgence in every passion, all excessive emotions, as grief, care, anger, must be guarded against.
The active requirements of business, as well as all its
cares and anxieties, should be strictly confined to ten
or twelve hours each day, and the remaining portion
of the twenty-four hours appropriated to rest, recreation, and the general improvement of the mind and
body. The regular habit should be formed of going
to bed early, and rising early. Even children, who
generally wake eirly, shoild never be compelled to lie
in bed, as nature seems to have intended every one to
rise early. A passing remark on these topics is all our
limited space permits, except on two or three points,
to which additional paragraphs are appropriated.
BATHING.
As an invaluable aid to health, and as a general
rule, once a day-certainly not less fiequently than
every second morning-every person in health should



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bathe or sponge the whole body with cold water,
immediately following it by friction and exercise to
promote the reaction. This tends to health, just as
opening a window lets fresh air into a room. Merely
washing the hands, face, and neck, is by no means
sufficient; the entire surface of the body requires the
application of water, not only for the purpose of cleanliness, but as a means of invigorating the capillary
circulation, and so fortifying the system as to enable
it to resist atmospheric vicissitudes. The secret of
attaining these ends consists in employing water in
such a manner and of such a temperature, and in the
body being in such a condition before and after the
application, that the reaction or glow shall be most
perfect. The best time for a cold bath is on rising
from bed, before the body has had time to get chilled.
Bathing should not, therefore, be practiced when the
body is cold or cooling, or when it is exhausted by
exertion or fatigue, or is naturally too weak. A -bath
should not be taken too soon after a meal; nor should
the time spent in the bath be too long; that may vary,
according to circumstances, from about one to four
minutes.
For information on various forms of baths, and the
conditions under which they are admissible, consult
the " Vade Mecum of Modern Medicine and Surgery."
"THE WET PACK.
As we have often recommended the wet pack in
this manual, we give here a description of this useful
process; Spread a mackintosh sheet or stout blanket
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or quilt on a mattress, and over it, leaving a margin
at the head, spread a thick linen sheet, wrung out of
cold water. The wringing is best effected by two
persons, one taking hold of either end, the sheet being
doubled, and twisting as long as any water can be got
out. In fevers, the colder the water is the better; for
very delicate persons with feeble reaction, water at 680
may be used. The patient is to be extended on his
back, naked, on the wet sheet, so that the upper edge
covers the back of the neck, but the lower one is to
project beyond the feet; holding up the arms, one
side of the sheet is to be thrown over the body and
tucked in; the arms are now placed by the sides, and
the other part of the wet sheet is thrown over all, and
tucked rather tightly in, turning in the projecting ends
under the feet. The mackintosh or blanket is then to
be brought over all the sheet, and well tucked in round
the neck, at the sides, and over the feet, so as completely to exclude the air. A stout quilt or extra
blanket is to be put over all. In a short time the
patient will become warm; the sensation is most
agreeable, especially in fevers. The patient may remain in the pack three quarters of an hour to an hour,
then be put into a shallow bath of water at 640, well
washed, dried, and put to bed. It may be repeated
once or twice a day, according to circumstances and
the violence of the attack. Perspiration may be encouraged by giving sips of cold water. If the head becomes congested, or the face flushed while in the pack,
a cold compress should be applied over the forehead.
A little practice will enable any one to apply it. It
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scarlatina, measles, and small-pox, it assists in bringing out the eruption.
EXERCISE.
This is essential to health and long life. No one
in health should neglect to walk a moderate distance
every day in the open air, if possible in the country,
where pure air can be freely inhaled. Other things
being equal, this will ensure the proper action of every
important function. The walk for health should be
diversified, including ascents and descents, and varying scenery; and be alternated, when circumstances
admit of it, with riding on horseback, with gardening,
or similar pursuits. Such modes of exei cise, practiced
moderately and regularly, and varied from day to day,
are much more advantageous than the exciting, immoderate, and irregular exertions of the ball-room,
the hunting field, the cricket-ground, or the rowing
match. For feeble and infirm persons, carriage-exercise, if it may be so called, and frictions over the surface of the body and extremities, by means of towels
and bath   gloves, may be substituted -for active
exertion.
The proper periods for exercise are when the system is not depressed by fasting or fatigue, or oppressed
by the process of digestion.' The robust may take
exercise before breakfast; but delicate persons, who
often become faint from exercise at this time, and languid during the early part of the day, had better defer
it till from one to three hours after breakfast. An
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Exercise prevents disease by giving vigor and energy
to the body and its various organs and members, and
thus enables them to ward off ox overcome influences
which tend to impair their 'integrity. It cures many
diseases by equalizing the circulation of the blood and
the distribution of nervous energy, thus invigorating
and strengthening weak organs, and removing local
torpor and congestion.
CLOTHING.
Clothing should be arranged with a view to cornfort, and according to the requirements of the season.
Summer clothes should not be put on too soon, or
winter ones too late. Thin-soled boots and shoes are
destructive to health. So are stays. The body is
strong enough to support itself; while stays often
bring on diseases of the lungs and other important
organs. The muscles of the body were intended to
sustain it erect, but when stays are applied, they soon
beconle indispensable, by superceding the action of
the muscles; and, in accordance with a well-known
law of the muscular system, when they cease to be
used they cease to grow.
The following passage on clothing suggests points
of great practical importance:
"The clothing may be either insufficient or improper;
and this insufficiency or impropriety may be either constant,
as in leaving uncovered the abdomen, thighs, and legs of
young children, and the neck, chest, and arms of children
and young girls, and in the neglect to put.on flannels in
winter; or it may be only occasional, as in the adoption of
muslin and low-bodied dresses by ladies, and thinner neck



Light.


37


ties, vests, and boots by gentlemen for evening parties;
and in the neglecting to add more clothing during sleep.
The frequency with which disease results in children from
the inhuman practice of leaving their digestive, respiratory
and other organs, and their extremities exposed to the
chilling blasts and varying temperature of our atmosphere,
is unfortunately too well known to need that I should enter
into any proof; nor need I more than p'otest against the
cruelty of leaving those parts naked in children, that we
find it absolutely necessary to clothe the most warmly in
adult life; and more especially when we reflect that in
childhood the body is small and the stock of animal heat
insufficient, and the bodily growth in progress, and that
growth is retarded and checked by cold and favored by
warmth; that there is absence of reason and experience to
teach how to keep up the warmth of the. parts exposed;
while in adult life the body is large and the stock of animal
heat more adequate, the growth complete, and reason and
experience possessed. I am convinced that many of the
cases of infantile diarrhoea, cholera, constipation, remittent
fever, dropsy after scarlatina, marasmus, phthisis, bronchitis, pneumonia, quinsy, hoarseness, and ophthalmia,
result from this exposure."*
LIGHT.
The importance of sun-light, for physical development and preservation, is much undervalued. Women
and children, as well as men, in order to be healthy
and well-developed, should spend a large portion of
each day where the solar rays can reach them directly.
In very hot weather, during the excessive heat of the
day. the shade of a tree, grove, or even an airy house,
may be sought, but never our dark parlors and rooms,
* "Taking Cold," by J. W. Hayward, M.D.



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for the cold "damp of death" is within them. Even
at night, houses are only fit to be occupied that have
been purified by the solar rays in the day time.
The value of sun-light, with its afccompanying influences, for animal development, may be illustrated by
such facts as the following: In decaying organic solutions, animalcules do not appear if light is excluded,
but are readily organized when light is admitted. The
tadpole, kept in the dark, does not pass on to development as a frog, but lives and dies a tadpole, and is
incapable of propagating his species. In the deep
and narrow valleys among the Alps, where the direct
rays of the sun are but little felt, cretinism, or a state
of idiocy, more or less complete, commonly accompanied by an enormous goitre, prevails as an epidemic,
and is often hereditary. Rickets, or deformities, crookedness, and swelling of the bones, are very common
among children who are kept in dark alleys, cellars,
factories and mines. It has been found that, during
the prevalence of certain epidemic diseases, the inhabitants who occupy the side of the street and houses
upon which the sun shines directly, are less subject to
the prevailing disease than those who live on the
shaded side.  In all cities visited by the cholera, it
was invariably found that the greatest number of
deaths took place in narrow thoroughfares, and on
those sides of streets having a northern exposure, fiom
which the salutary beams of the sun were excluded.
It is said that the number of patients cured in the
hospitals of St. Petersburg were four times greater in
rooms well lighted than in those confined in dark
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from the ceiling. We may be permitted to add, we
always sleep with a portion of the top sash of the
window down, except in very bad weather; even then
the door of communication with the adjoining room
or landing, remains open.
WATER.
Water is the natural drink of man, and may always
be taken in moderation when thirst is present. It
performs important purposes in the animal economy,
and is absolutely indispensable for life and health.
Water enters largely into combination with all our
food, and acts as a solvent of everything we take. It
also acts as a vehicle to convey the more dense and
less fluid substances from the digestive tract to their
destination in the body. It gives fluidity to the blood,
holding in suspension, or solution, the red globules,
albumen, fibrine, and other constituents which enter
into the different structures of the body, the whole of
which are formed from the blood. Not only the soft
parts of the body, but even the very bones,.or the
materials of which they are composed, have at one
time flowed in the current of the blood. To prove
how essential water is for the development and maintenance of the animal body, we may state that a calculation has been made which shows that a human body
weighing 154 lbs. contains. In lbs. of water. Such
a fact should suggest the necessity for obtaining water
pure, and taking it unpolluted by animal and mineral
ingredients. Water may be obtained tolerably pure
in rain or snow collected in suitable vessels in the open



Water.                         4


41


country, away from crowded dwellings and manufac--
tories. Spring, river, sea, surface, well, and mineral
water, all contain various substances dissolved in them,
which render them, without distillation or filtration,
unsuitable for drinking, or even for the preparation
of articles of diet. The purest water is obtained fi-om
deep wells, bored through the earth and clay down to
the chalk (Artesian Wells). For cooking purposes
and even bathing, the purest water that can be obtained
is the best.
One- important object contemplated by the writer
of this work is, the removal of a foolish prejudice,
which unhappily exists in the minds of many, against
pure water, an element which God has provided for
His creatures with the most lavish abundance; and
of promoting, both for internal and external purposes,
a more regular use of this invaluable boon and blessing. Pure water has justly been regarded as an emblem
of innocence, truth, and beauty. In a community in
which this element shall be used as the chief beverage, and more abundantly for purposes of purification,
we may hope to find in the morals of the people
reflections of virtue of which water is so vivid a type.
And, in a sense which more immediately bears on the
subject of this manual, suffering will be more easily
controlled by our remedies, and the development of
those latent tendencies to disease most effectually prevented, which the habits and fashions of the present
age seem to favor.



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CHAPTER IV.
MEDICINES, DIET, ETC.
FORMS OF MEDICINES.
THE following brief description of the different
forms of medicines used in the practice will afford the
beginner the necessary information on the subject.
The preparations are of three kinds-Globules, Tinctures,'and Trilurations.
Globules, or Pellets, are made of pure sugar, and
When prepared for use are saturated with a solution
of the medicine desired. They are often more convenient for use than the liquids or powders, especially
for administration to infants. They vary in size, but
the size prescribed in this book is about like a coriander seed, and is called by the new measure of the
American Pharmaceutical Association, No. 30.
Tinctzires contain the more active principles of the
vegetable medicines, in a greater or less concentrated
form, and are supposed to be more decided and rapid
in their action, in acute diseases, than globules. It is
therefore advisable for those who reside at a distance
from medical aid, to be furnished with a selection of
the tinctures adapted to sudden and acute diseases, in
addition to a complete case or chest of the globules or
pilules, especially those numbered i, 7, 8, 2z, 27, 29,
31 and 36, in the list ou a succeeding page.



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Triturations are in the powder-form, and contain
a portion of the original crude substance triturated
with a given quantity of sugar-of-milk; they are necessary to the administration of the lower attenuations
of insoluble medicines, such as Calcarea carbonica,
Hepar sulpiuris, Mercurius, Silicea, etc.
MEDICINE CASES.
A medicine-case should be constructed expressly
for the medicines, and used for no other purpose; it
should be kept locked, under the charge of a responsible person, and be protected from light and heat; it
should also be kept quite apart from substances which
emit a strong odor. Immediately after using a vial, it
should be corked again, and the corks or medicines
never changed from one vial to another.
LIST OF MEDICINES.
The following is a list of medicines prescribed in
this manual, and the dilutions recommended for domestic use.*
LATIN NAMES.     DIL.   ENGLISH NAMES.
I Aconitum napellus    3 Monk's-hood
2 Antimonium crudum    6 Crude antimony
3 Antimonium tartaricum 6 Tartar emetic
4 Apis mellifica        3 Poi-on of- bee
5 Arnica montana       3 Leopard's-bane
6 Arsenicum album       3 White ar-enic
7 Belladonna           3 Ieadly-nightshade
8 Bryonia alba         3 White bryony
9 Calcarea carbonica   6 Carbonate of lime
* For information respecting the properties and uses of
the medicines in the above list, consult the Matcria Medica,
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and a teaspoonful given at a dose. If Tinctures are
used, the required quantity should be dropped into the
bottom of a glass, by holding the bottle in an oblique
manner, with the lip resting against the cork; the
bottle should then be carefully tilted (see the illustration), when the tincture will descend and drop from
the lower edge of the cork. A little practice will
enable a person to drop with great exactness. Water
should then be poured upon the medicine in the proportion of a table-spoonful to a drop. The vessel
should be clean, and the mixture kept covered;, the
spoon used should not be left in the mixture, but
wiped after each dose. Fine glazed earthenware
spoons are the best for this purpose. If the medicine
has to be kept several days, a new bottle may be used,
taking care also that the cork is new and sound. The
Triturations should be placed dry on the tongue, and
gradually swallowed, the mouth.having first been
rinsed with water.
HOURS.
The most appropriate times for taking the medicines, as a rule, are, on rising in the morning, at bed



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time, and, if oftener prescribed, about an hour before,
or two or three hours after a meal.
THE DOSE.
In determining the quantity and strength of doses,
several circumstances should be considered, such as
age, sex, habits, nature of the disease, etc. As a general rule, without reference to individual peculiarities,
the following may be stated as the proper dose in domestic practice: FOR AN ADULT, ONE DROP OF TINCTURE, FOUR GLOBULES, OR ONE GRAIN OF TRITURATION" FOR A CHILD, ABOUT ONE-HALF THE QUANTITY;
FOR AN INFANT, ABOUT ONE-THIRD. A drop is easily
divided into two doses, by mixing it with two spoonfuls of water, and giving one spoonful for a dose.
REPETITION OF DOSES.
The repetition of doses must be guided by the acute
or chronic character of the malady, the urgency and
danger of the symptoms, and the effects produced by
the medicines. In violent and acute diseases, such as
cholera, croup, pleuritis, convulsions, etc., the remedies may be repeated every ten, fifteen, or twenty
minutes. In less urgent cases of acute disease, the
remedy may be repeated every two, three, or four hours.
In chronic maladies, the medicine may be adnlinistered every six, twelve, or twenty-four hours. In all
cases when improvement takes place, the medicines
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ALTERNATION OF MEDICINES.
To avoid the confusion resulting from mixing different drugs in one prescription, and to ascertain the
pure action of each, Homceopaths never mix several
together; but in acute diseases, where the symptoms
of the malady are not covered by a single remedy, and
a second one is indicated, the two are sometimes given
in alternation; that is, one medicine is followed by
another at certain intervals of time, and in a regular
order of succession. But the alternate use of medicines should, as much as possible, be avoided. Except
in violent and rapid diseases, the author rarely prescribes medicines alternately, and strongly recommends the general discontinuance of that method, as
one little calculated to yield exact and definite clinical
experience.
HINTS ON DIET.-HOMCEOPATHY AND DIET.
Homceopathy is not, as is often stated, a mere system of diet. The grand rule to be observed is, that
patients should partake of easily digestible and nourishing food, sufficient to satisfy hunger; and of such
drink as nature requires to allay thirst. Nearly all the
general remarks that it seems necessary to make in
this place are, that the diet should be regulated by the
patient's observations, intelligently made, as to what
kinds of food and drink best agree with him, these
being modified by the nature, stage, and progress of
the disease under which he may be suffering.



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MILK DIET.
When this diet is prescribed, it includes all kinds
of light puddings, made with milk. Arrowroot, gruel,
tapioca, or sago, boiled in milk, rice, etc. Also tea or
cocoa, and bread-and-butter.
ORDINARY DIET.
Meat, prepared for the table so as to retain all its
gravy, and vegetables, varied from time to time, and
properly cooked, for dinner. Bread, with butter or
fruit, and cocoa or tea, with milk and sugar, for the
morning and evening meal. Cheese may be used if
it agrees, and the digestive organs are healthy. In
many hospitals the daily allowance of meat is three
fourths of a pound, including bone. Bread as required.
MEAT DIET.
When this is ordered, meat should be taken twice
daily; but for breakfast, eggs may sometimes be substituted. In other respects, the same as for ordinary
diet.
EXTRAORDINARY DIET.
In hospitals, this includes meat, fish, poultry, etc.;
also wine, brandy, or porter, specially ordered by the
doctor. The quantity of spirits, wine, or beer, to be
taken by a patient should be regulated by the special
order of a medical man, and none taken unless so
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Different diseases and different constitutions, however, require varied kinds of foods. Thus, in cases of
diarrhoea, fruits and vegetables should be avoided,
while a confined state of the bowels requires a free use
of these articles; also, when febrile symptoms are
present, meat, eggs, butter, and other stimulating food,
should be excluded fiom the bill of fare, and the diet
restricted more particulary to fruits and farinaceous
articles, or to water and mucilaginous drinks alone.
In acute and dangerous diseases, no food whatever
may be proper, the only admissible article being that
for which nature craves, viz., pure cold water, given
in 'small quantities, at short intervals.
TOBACCO.
Tobacco and Snufg in every form, are highly prejudicial. Tobacco-smoking often induces thirst and vital
depression, and as it is generally accompanied by
spitting, wastes the saliva, and leads to the worst and
most obstinate forms of indigestion. The secretions
of the mouth should never be expectorated, unless they
are the products of disease, as in catarrh. Tobaccosmoking, especially where the habit is acquired in
early life, gives an unhealthy character to the blood,
produces a sallow hue of the skin, general physical
weakness, and stunted growth. And these injurious
consequences do not end with the smoker, but are transmitted from parent to child, resulting often in a puny,
weak, and unhealthy offspring. Smoking tends to
destroy the nervous forces, depriving the individual of
that vigorous energy which should distinguish both
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part 12.
DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT.
CHAPTER I.
FE VER S.
I.-SIMPLE FEVER (Pyrexia).
Simple fever is the mildest form in which a feverish
attack occurs, and as it generally disappears in from
twelve to thirty-six hours, it is termed an ephemeral
disease.
SYMPTOMS.-A feverish attack usually commences
in the afternoon or evening, with alternate chills and
flushes, followed by heat and dryness of the skin;
hard, full, quick pulse; dry, coated tongue; thirst;
hurried, anxious breathing, and highly colored and,scanty urine. Also, often, pain in the loins, headache, deranged bowels, and loss of appetite. As these
symptoms may be precursors of serious diseases, they
require prompt attention.
CAUSES.- Suppressed perspiration, exposure to
damp or cold, sudden changes of temperature, wearing



52.Fevers.


damp clothes; poor or insufficient diet; injuries, inter.
nal or external; fatigue, etc.; or it may be a modified
variety of one of the forms of fever described in the
next section.
TREATMENT.- Aconitum7 is found to be the chief
remedy for all such symptoms as those above indicated; and it will most effectually calm  the arterial
excitement. Aconitum has been termed the Homceopathic Lancet; and in all febrile attacks, whether
slight or serious, it is the first remedy to be administered.   Perspiration following its administration is
often a welcome indication of its beneficial action.
A dose every two or three hours, or, in urgent cases,
every half-hour or hour, till perspiration breaks out,
when this remedy may be discontinued.
[Dr. J. S. Douglas, of Milwaukee, U. S. A., in his excellent domestic manual, " Practical Homoeopathy," speaks
highly of Gelseminum in the treatment of fevers generally
-and we give place to his instructions the more readily
because he has had more experience in the use of Gelseminum than most other well-informed medical men.- AMER.
ED.]
Dr. Douglas says: In the early or chilly stage, put
a few drops of Gelseminum in a tumbler of water,
and add an equal number of spoonfuls of water, and
give a spoonful every half-hour till the chill ceases,
and perspiration is procured, or the pain and fever
subside. Then stop it as long as the improvement
continues. As soon as the symptoms begin to return,
renew it. In a majority of cases, the first dose stops
the chill within fifteen or twenty minutes.. If the first
dose produces no effect, increase it to two, three, or
five drops, for there is a great difference in the quantity required by different persons. In many cases
one-half or one-quarter drop is sufficient. After a free



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53


perspiration is thus produced, the pains subside, and
the patient goes to sleep, and when he wakes, is conscious that his " fever is broken up."
It is important that this treatment should be adopted
in the early stage of the attack.   I have cured
innumerable cases by this remedy alone. This is
applicable to all fevers that come on with chills and
pains, as above described, whether catarrhal (from a
cold), bilious, typhoid, or rheumatic. When these
symptoms are present, Gelseminum is the remedy. If
the treatment is not commenced till a later period, it
will often succeed, and should be tried as the first
remedy, but there is much less certainty of success.
But it need not be continued over one day, if it is not
obviously doing good. If this fails, and the fever puts
on the forms and symptoms hereafter described, then
corresponding remedies must be used.
Gelseminum   is the best remedy known for simple fever. Aconite is the indispensable remedy for
local inflammations, which often exist in fever. This
distinction is of great importance, and should not be
forgotten.
Camphor.- For a sudden seizure of chilliness;
shivering, with lassitude, and general indisposition
which has come on rapidly. Two drops of the strong
tincture of Camphor on a small piece of loaf sugar,
or two or three globules of strong Camphor repeated
three times, at intervals of fifteen or twenty minutes,.
may precede Acoitum, or it may be alone sufficient.
If the fever is more severe and persistent, other
medicines may be required, the indications for which
are stated in the next section.
ACCESSORY MEANS.- The patient should be kept
cool and quiet, no stimulating food or drink taken,
and all causes likely to occasion mental or bodily



Fevers.


excitement carefully avoided.   See Accessory measures in fevers, page 57 -II.-TYPHOID AND TYPHUS FEVER.
Common continued fever has been divided by Dr.
W. Jenner into (i) Typhoid, which, except in certain
seasons, is the most frequent, and proposed to be
called Typhia, by the Registrar-General; (2) Typkus,
often very prevalent; (3) Relapsing fever, a rare form,
followed by a prolonged convalescence, in which the
pulse is remarkably low; and (4) Febricula, or slight
cases, or modifications of one of the other forms.
SYMPTOMS.- The most characteristic are debility
and emaciation; weariness and restless anxiety; ringing noises in the ears, and often deafness; black spots
before the eyes; low muttering delirium; stupor; and
an eruption. The latter, however, may be imperfect,
or even absent.*
TABULAR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TYPHOID AND
TYPHUS FEVER.
TYPHOID.                   TYPHUS.
(i.) Typhoid seldom at-    (i.) Typhus occurs at any
tacks persons after forty, and  age, but* more frequently in
is most common in youth, middle life.
including children.
(2.) Is more common a-     (2.) Is rare among the
mong the rich than the poor. wealthy, excepting doctors,
students, and visiting clergymen.
* For more detailed symptoms and treatment, see the
" Homoeopathic Vade Mecum."



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55


TYPHOID.
(3.) Arises from decomposing animal matter, foul
drinking-water, as when a
drain leaks into a well, etc.
(4 ) Comes on insidiously,
the premonitory stages lasting a'week or more.
(5.) The bowels are much
affected with diarrhoea, congestion, or even ulceration.
(6.) The eruption of the
skin consists of ROSE COL
ORED SPOTS, something like
measles, appears in successive crops, and fades under
pressure.
(7.) Continues at least
three weeks, and often five
or six, or even more.
(8.) The tendency to death
is by ASTHENIA (exhaustion.)
(9.) Is commonly called
GASTRIC FEVER.


TYPHUS.
(3.) Arises from  overcrowding, bad ventilation,
and destitution; it spreads
by contagion.
(4.) Comes on quickly.
(5.) The head is chiefly
affected, and the bowels are
but little so.
(6.) The eruption is of a
MULBERRY COLOR, comes out
only once, and does not disappear under pressure.
(7) Runs its course in
about a fortnight.
(8.) Tends to death by
COMA (morbid drowsiness.)
(9.) Is sometimes called
BRAIN FEVER.


TREATMENT.- Inflammatory Symptoms.- Acon.
and Bry.
Great Prostration.- Ars., Verat., or Rhus tox.
The lungs much involved.- Phos. and Bry.
The Brain.- Bell., Camph., Opi., or Rhus.
The Bowels.- Ars., Bry., Carbo veg., Ipec., Mere.,
Nux vom., or Puls.
Nervous debility following fever.- Fer. Sulph.,
China, Ign.
Aconitum.- A dose every two or three hours when
inflammatory symptoms predominate.
Bryonia.- Bitter taste, brown-coated and rough
tongue, bilious derangement and nausea, confined
bowels, stupefying headache, cough, stitches in the



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Fevers.


chest, and irritable disposition. During the inflammatory stage, in alternation with Acon.; in low forms
of the disease, with furred tongue, rheumatic pains
and restlessness, in alternation with Rhus. every third
hour.
Belladonna.- Violent headache, redness and congestion of the face; a wild, red and fiery appearance
of the eyes; throbbing and distension of the bloodvessels of the temples; wakefulness and nocturnal
delirium, and other cerebral symptoms. Often after,
or alternately with, Aconitum.
Ipecacuanha.- Simple gastric fever, with loss of
appetite, yellowish, thickly-coated tongue, nausea and
vomiting, relaxed bowels, etc.
MAercurius.- Copious, debilitating perspirations;
diarrhoetic evacuations, greenish or yellowish; thicklycoated tongue; tenderness at the pit of the stomach.
Opium.- Stupor; slow, stertorous (snoring) breathing; hard, full, slow, or oppressed pulse; low
delirium; deafness or blindness.
Arsenicum.-Great debility, prostration, and rapid
sinking, with very small and thready pulse; burning
thirst; diarrhoea, with dark, offensive discharges; cold,
perspirations; symptoms worse at night.
Rhus tox.-Foul discharges from the bowels; livid
color of the skin; fading away, or unhealthy character
of the eruption; paralytic symptoms; extreme weakness and prostration; low muttering delirium; picking of the bed-clothes; offensive, putrid, or bloody
diarrhoea; dry, cracked tongue; great thirst, and scanty
urine.
Carbo veg.- Offensive smells from    the patient;



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57


involuntary evacuations of a putrid odor; deep-red
urine; pinched, sunken countenance; burning in the
abdomen and pit of the stomach; cold extremities;
rapidly sinking powers, and scarcely perceptible pulse.
ACCESSORY MEASURES IN FEVERS AND THE
SICK-RooM GENERALLY.-The following points in
the nursing of fever patients should receive special
attention.
(I). The apartment.-If practicable, the patient
should be placed in a spacious, well ventilated room,
which allows an uninterrupted admission of fresh air,
and the free escape of tainted air. Fresh air can only
be ensured by an open window or door, or both. It
is generally desirable to have a blazing fire in a grate
or open fire-place, kept burning night and day, both
in summer and winter; this also assists ventilation;
but the paitent's head should be protected from its
direct effects. The poison of the disease being thus
diluted with atmospheric air, loses its power and so
becomes inoperative. The room should be divested
of all superfluous furniture-carpets, bed-hangings,
etc. The light from the windows should be subdued,
noise shut out, and unnecessary talking forbidden.
(2.) Cleanliness. - The personal and bed linen
should be frequently changed, and all matters discharged from  the body immediately removed..The
mouth should be frequently wiped out with a soft wet
towel, to remove the sordes which gather there in
severe forms of fever. The patient's body should be
sponged over as completely as possible at suitable intervals with tepid or cold water, as may be most agreeable to his feelings, and quickly dried with a soft towel.
3*



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Vinegar and water may now and then be substituted
for simple water. Vinegar is often very grateful to
fever patients. Sponging the whole surface of the
body should never be omitted in fever; it reduces the
excessive heat, soothes the uneasy sensations of the
patient, and is indispensable in maintaining that cleanliness which is so desirable in the sick-room. Frequent washing with soap and water also tends to prevent the occurrence of bed-sores, by keeping the skin
in a healthy condition.
(3.) Watching patients. - Fever patients should
never be left alone, but attended and watched day and
night. Their urgent and incessant wants require this,
and their safety demands it. Instances have occurred
of patients, in the delirium which so frequently attends
fever, getting out of bed, and even out of the window,
during the absence of the nurse, and losing their lives
from injury.
(4.) Beverages.-As a beverage, especially in mild
cases, and at the commencement of all fevers, pure
water, toast-and-water, gum-water sweetened with a
little sugar,* or barley-water, is nearly all that is necessary. In acute fever, cold water is like the " Balm
of Gilead." Both internally and externally it is an
agent of supreme importance, and acts favorably by
loweriog the excessive temperature, and also as a tonic,
giving vigor and tone to the relaxed capillaries, in
* Gum-water is prepared by adding one ounce of gumarabic, and about half an ounce of loaf sugar to one pint
of hot water. Gum is a mild nutritive substance, admirably adapted to inflammation of the mucous membranes, as'
in catarrh, bronchitis, inflammation of the bladder etc.



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59


which the morbid action probably chieflygoes on.
The use of water will prove a valuable adjunct to the
medicinal treatment prescribed, and will accelerate
those favorable changes which are hoped for.
(5.) Strong support.-If the fever is attended by
decided symptoms of prostration-feeble pulse, a confused and dusky countenance, etc.-Liebig's extract
of meat should be given early; if the prostration is
very marked, and beef-tea, or Liebig's extract is insufficient, wine may be added, and even brandy; also the
brandy-and-egg mixture is often of great utility. If
the patient enjoys these stimulants, and desires their
continuance, they may be regarded as proofs of their
utility. Should, however, the wine or brandy aggravate the existing symptoms, their employment should
be discontinued. A point of great importance is, that
nourishment should be administered with strict regularity; in very extreme cases of prostration, every halfhour or hour, both day and night. Frequently, the
functions of digestion and assimilation are so greatly
impaired, that a large quantity of nourishment must
be given to sustain the patient till the disease has
passed through its stages. Dr. Graves was so strongly
impressed with the importance of nourishment, as to
have said that he desired no other epitaph than that
he fed fevers.
(6.) Food not to be kept in the sick-room.- Miss
Nightingale's suggestion on this point is so important,
but, we regret to observe, so often disregarded, that
we venture to repeat it here. It is this--do not keep
the food, drink, or delicacies intended for the patient,
in the sick-room or within his sight. The air of the



6o


Fevers.


apartment is liable to deteriorate them, and the continuous sight of them to excite disgust. Rather take
up for him, at the fitting time, and by way of surprise,
two or three teaspoonfuls of jelly, or as many fresh
grapes as he may consume at once, or the segment of
an orange. Or, if it is appropriate to his condition,
a small cup of beef-tea, covered, with one or two narrow slips of toasted bread, as very much preferable to
attempting to swallow even a less quantity from a
basinful that has been kept for many hours within the
reach of the patient's hand and eye.
(7.) Moderalion in convalescence.- Relapses are
very liable to occur from indulging the appetite too
freely during convalescence; and, therefore, toast and
black tea, light bread-puddings, white fish, muttonbroth, a small quantity of tender chicken, broiled
mutton, etc., may only be allowed in great moderation; but never to the capacity of the appetite, till the
tongue is quite clean and moist, and the pulse and
skin have become natural. Even then moderation
should be exercised, as the appetite is often excessively
craving.
(8.) Unnecessary approaches. -These should be
guarded against by persons in health, especially by the
young, in whom susceptibility to disease is strongest.
The greatest danger arises firom the breath, and on
turning down the bed-clothes. Another precaution
is, not to visit the sick-chamber after long fasting.
The great protective influence, however, isfresh air;
this neutralizes fever-poison, and should be uninterruptedly passing  through the patient's apartment.
With open door and windows, and by avoiding the



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II.-INTERMITTENT FEVER-AGUE.
Intermittent fever is so named because the febrile
symptoms return in paroxysms, between which they
entirely pass off.
S SYMPTOMS.-A paroxysm of ague has three stages--
the cold, the hot, and the perspiring. The frst stage
commences with chilliness and rigors, chattering of
the teeth, aching of the back and limbs, oppression
of the chest, yawning and sighing. The face is pale,
the features and skin contracted, the pulse frequent
and small, the tongue white, and the urine scanty and
frequently passed. In the second stage, flushings come
on, until the entire body becomes hot, with thirst,
bounding pulse, throbbing headache, and restlessness,
the urine being still scanty, but high-colored. At
length, the third or perspiring stage succeeds; and
the patient feels much relieved. Thirst diminishes,
the pulse declines in frequency, and the appetite returns; at the same time there is a red deposit of urates
in the urine. A  paroxysm usually lasts about six
hours, allowing two hours for each stage. The period
between the paroxysms, as already explained, is called
the intermission; but by an interval is meant the
whole period'or cycle between the beginning of one
paroxysm, and the beginning of the next.
PATHOLOGY.-It is supposed that in the cold stage
the blood leaves the surface and the capillaries, and
accumulates about the right side of the heart, the large
veins and great venous organs of the interior, such as
the liver, spleen, and the bases of the lungs; in the
hot stage, the heart re-acts and throws out the blood



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63


again to the surface, but with too great force; in the
sweating stage the secretions are re-established, and
the proper balance between the large and small blood,
vessels is restored.
TYPES.- There are three chief types of ague;
ist. The 9uotidian, has a paroxysm daily, coming
on in the morning from 7 to 9 A. M., and an interval
of twenty-four hours.   2nd. The Tertian, has a
paroxysm every other day, coming on from 10 to 12
o'clock at noon, and an interval of forty-eight hours.
3rd. The Quartan, has a paroxysm every third day,
coming on from 2 to four P. M., and an interval of
seventy-two hours. The tertian is the most frequent,
and has the most marked hot stage; but the quartan
is the most obstinate, and chiefly occurs in the autumn.
There is still another type in which, though there. is
an attack every day, those only resemble each other
which occur on alternate days.
CAUSES.-The exciting cause of ague is M1arsh
3fiasma, which is probably the effluvia from decomposing vegetable matter, and is most rife when the
land is drying, after having been previously soaked
with water. It is, therefore, most frequent in the
spring, and when the rains fall upon the decaying
leaves in autumn.
LAws.-Malaria obeys the following laws, which,
on account of their practical value, are worth noting.
Ist. It spreads in the course of prevailing winds.
2nd. Its progress is arrested by rivers and running
streams, and by rows of trees. 3rd. It does not rise
above the low level.  4th. It is most dangerous at
night.



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Fevers.


EFFECTS.-From the recurrence of internal congestions in each cold stage, the function of the liver
and bowels becomes disordered, the patient is sallow,
his limbs waste, but his abdomen is distended, and
his bowels constipated. The spleen is especially liable
to be enlarged, sometimes to a great extent, so as to
he felt externally. This condition is popularly called
ague-cake.
TREATMENT.-This is divided into the palliative
and the curative. The palliative is adopted during
the paroxysms to mitigate the symptoms, and consists
chiefly in imparting warmth during the cold stage;
removing the patient's coverings, and giving cooling
drinks during the hot; and supplying him with warm
and dry linen when the perspiring stage has passed
by. The curative is adopted during the intermission,
and is of the greatest importance. The following are
the chief remedies in our short list:
China.-Ague in marshy districts, with its regular
stages, and when there are yellowish complexion,
drowsiness, tender or swollen liver or spleen, and
watery or bilious diarrhoea. A dose shortly before a
paroxysm is expected, and every four hours all through
the intermission.
Arsenicum.-Heat and shivering at the same time,
or in alternation, or internal shivering with external
heat; burning heat, thirst, pains in the stomach, debility, and tendency to dropsical swellings; also when
Quinine or Bark has been used in excess.
Ipecacuanha.-Nausea and vomiting, with other
gastric symptoms.
ACCESSORY MEASURES.-If practicable, residence



Intermittent Fever.            65
in a well-drained district, with a dry, bracing atmosphere. If compelled to remain in a malarious atmosphere, the laws of intermittents should be remembered,
and the patient not remain out of doors at night,
selecting the loftiest parts of the house to sleep in.
Air and light should be freely admitted during the
middle of the day into the house, but the night air
carefully excluded.  Light nourishing diet may be
taken, but the digestive organs must not be overtaxed.
Fatigue and cold draughts of air must be avoided, and
the clothing be sufficient to- be comfortable.
For ampler treatment, see "The Homceopathic
Vade Mecum of Modern Medicine and Surgery."



CHAPTER II


THE ERUPTIVE FEVERS.
(Exanthemata.)
THE Exanthemata or eruptive fevers arise from a
specific contagion, run a definite course, are accompanied by a specific inflammation of the skin, called
the eruption, affect some part of the mucous membrane as' well as the skin, and, as a general rule, only
attack an individual once.
The true Exanthemata, including all these characteristics, are, the small-Pox, measles, and scarlet fever;
but there are other less perfect forms, as chicken-pox,
nettle-rash, and rose-rash; even continuedfever itself
is classed with them. These diseases are called by
the Registrar-General Zymotic diseases, a term implying their origin in a poison which acts like a ferment
in the blood, and are regarded by sanitary reformers
as preventible diseases. They have all a latent period
intervening between the reception of the contagion
and accession of the fever, during which time the
patient is to all appearances in good health.
I.-SCARLET FEVER - SCARLATINA.
This is a contagious disease, chiefly affecting children. The second, third, fourth, and fifth years of
life are those in which it is most prevalent; after the



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67


tenth year its frequency rapidly declines. The opinion
that the disease does not attack children under two
years of age is very erroneous. The increasing prevalence of scarlatina during the present century leads
us to assign to it that pre-eminent rank among the
causes of the mortality   of childhood which was
formerly occupied by small-pox; indeed it is probable
that as small-pox has declined since the introduction
of vaccination, scarlatina has proportionately increased,
so that the mortality from it greatly exceeds that from
measles and small-pox combined. In 1863, the mortality from this disease in London alone was 4,982, a
year remarkable for the wide-spread character and
fatality of this epidemic. Nor were its ravages restricted to London, for scarcely a town or district of
England escaped. The mortality in towns is double
that in the country.
SYMPTOMS.- Scarlatina has a latent period of
about five days. The disease commences with the
ordinary precursors of fever--shivering, hot skin,
frequent pulse, thirst, and sore throat. On the second
or third day, after the occurrence of these symptoms,
the eruption appears, first on the neck and breast, and
then over the great joints and body generally, as a
scarlet efflorescence, minutely point-shaped, but not
raised above the surrounding skin so as to be felt;
and somewhat resembles a boiled lobster-shell. On
about the fifth day after its appearance, the eruption
generally begins to decline, and gradually goes off,
the outer skin desquamating in large flakes. The
distinctive characters of scarlatina are-r-(i.)  The
scarlet rash, just described.- (2.) The hikgh tempera



68               Eruptive Fevers.
ture of the skin and blood, which becomes higher
than in most other fevers, rising often to Io60, 98~
being the normal standard.- (3.) The papilla of the
tongue are red and prominent, and may be first seen
projecting through a white fur, or, as this fur clears
away, on a red ground, and has been termed " the
strawberry-tongue."- (4.) The sore throat.    The
throat is congested and swollen round the soft palate
and tonsils, and the mucous membrane of the mouth
and nostrils is generally affected.
To distinguish scarlatina from measles, see under
the latter disease, page 71.
VARIETIES.-There are three forms, viz., scarlatina
simplex, in which the skin only appears to be affected;
scarlatina anginosa, in which both skin and throat
are involved, and is the variety commonly meant by
" scarlet fever;" and scarlatina maligna, with extreme
depression of the vital strength, superadded to the
affection of the throat and skin, the fever assuming a
malignant character. The tongue is brown, there is
low delirium, the eruption is imperfect, darker than
usual, and alternately appearing and disappearing.
The throat is dark, livid, and even sloughy. Often
this form of the disease terminates fatally on the third
or fourth day, and is always one of such extreme
danger that none but patients of very vigorous constitutions, and when skilful treatment is commenced
early, survive it.
Scarlatina is more prone to assume a malignant
form than any other of the exanthemata, and sometimes prevails epidemically in low or ill-drained
districts.



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69


TREATMENT.- Belladonna.- Immediately scarlatina is suspected, and especially when the rash begins
to appear, the swallowing becomes difficult, and the
throat inflamed, give Belladonna every first, second or
third hour, according to the severity of the symptoms,
and as long as the eruption is bright red. This medicine exerts a direct power over scarlet fever, and the
disease, in its less malignant form, will frequently
yield to its action without the aid of other medicine.
Aconitum.- If the fever is very severe, a few doses
of this medicine may precede, or may be alternated
with, Bell..Mercurius.-If the throat is much inflamed, swollen, or becomes ulcerated, this remedy may follow, or
be alternated with, Bell. If there is a predominance
of the throat symptoms, especially malignant sore
throat, Aferc. is a valuable remedy.
Arsenicum.- Great prostration of strength; cold,
clammy sweats; frequent, weak pulse; threatened
dropsical affections.
Coffea.- A dose or two of this medicine may be
given for restlessness and wakefulness, which are
often present.
Sulphur.- When the disease is on the decline, to
prevent secondary complaints. A dose night and
morning for several clays.
MALIGNANT SCARLATINA requires such remedies
as Arsen., Carbo veg., Bry., Opi., Phos., VIral.,
and others not included in domestic lists. For the
symptoms indicating the above remedies, see under
Typlwid Fever and the Mlateria Mledica. This form
of the disease should be under the care of a I lomwo



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71


the ear), or some other mischief of the ear. The
remedies recommended are Bell., Jlerc., or Puls.
(3.) But the most frequent and dangerous sequel is
anasarca (dropsy), which takes place about the
twenty-second day from the commencement of the
fever. It is worth notice that dropsy is more frequent
after a mild than after a severe form  of scarlatina,
owing probably to the disease not having expended
all its force, some of the poison remaining in the system, or it may be due to the want of caution in such
cases during convalescence. Apis, Arsen., or Bry.,
are the chief remedies. Apis is generally a prime
remedy in post-scarlatinal dropsy.
II.- MEASLES (Rubeola, Ilforbilli).
Measles is a disease of childhood, usually unattended
with danger, unless improperly treated; in adults it is
a severe, or even dangerous malady.  Like scarlatina
and small-pox, it is highly contagious, often epidemic,
and generally attacks the same patient only once.
SYMPTOLy s.- About eight days after the reception
*of the infection, the disease is ushered in with the
symptoms of a common cold, such as sneezing, runmning from the nose, red, swollen, and watery eyes, a
hoarse, harsh, cough, and fever. On about the fourth
day, the eruption appears on the face and neck, and,soon after on the whole body. It is in the form of
minute pimples, which multiply and coalesce into
iblotches of a more or less crescentic form, slightly
raised above the surrounding skin, so as to be felt,
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In four or five days the fever abates, and the eruption
declines, a bran-like scurf being afterwards thrown off
the skin.
Measles difers from scarlatina in several respects.
The eruption is rough, so that on passing the hand
over the skin considerable inequalities may be detected,
and it is of a darkish scarlet color; in scarlet fever,
the roughness is absent, and the rash is of a bright
scarlet color. The sneezing, lachrymation, and other
catarrhal symptoms which characterize the primary
stage of measles, are usually absent in scarlet fever.
TREATMENT.- In      mild forms, Puls.; in severe
and complicated, A con., Bry., Bell., Sulph., Ipec.,
Merc., Rhus tox., Arsen., etc.
Aconitum.- Febrile symptoms, either at the outset,
or during the progress of the disease. A dose every
third or fourth hour, as long as may be necessary.
Pulsatilla.- Almost specific in measles; especially
when symptoms of cold, derangement of the stomach,
and much phlegm in the chest are present. It is most
useful after the fever has been modified by Aconite;
or in the absence of fever it may be given alone.
Belladonna.- Considerable affection of the throat,
dry, barking cough, restlessness, and tendency to
delirium. A few doses, at intervals of two or three
hours.
Byronia.-Imperfectly    developed  or suppressed
eruption; stitching pains in the chest, difficult breathing, cough, etc. In addition to this remedy, a sudden
recession of the eruption might necessitate a warm
bath.
Sulphur.-After the eruption has completed its



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natural course, and the other remedies are discontinued.
A dose night and morning for several days.
AFTER   CONSEQUENCEs     (Scquel).- Measles is
often succeeded by diseases of the lungs, eyes, ears, or
some affection of the skin. These are often far mnore
serious than the malady itself, and must be treated as
directed in other parts of this manual. They may
sometimes be pJrcz'cncd  by the adm(inistration of
Sulk/uzr as just directed. Sequceh  are infrequent
after I-Iomceopathic treatment.
MEASLES AND CONSUMPTION.- Tubercular disease of the lungs, or, more often, of the bowels, is by
no means an infrequent sequeke in delicate or strumous
children. Cases of this nature are often under our
bare, and from long observation we have reason to
elieve that such a connexion is far from uncommon.o
henever, therefore, a child makes but a- slow or
nperfect recovery after an attack of measles, more
articularly if there is tenderness, pain, or enlargement
the abdomen, diarrhcea or iirregular action of the
bwels, a grave constitutional disease may be suscted, and no time should be lost in obtaining prossional Homccopathic assistance.
DIET AND REGIMEN.- Tle same as dlirected under
evers, pages 58, 59. The wel pack, see pages 33, 31)
s useful at the comnmencement of the fever. It is
specially necessary to guard the patient from cold,
dcl, except during the very height of summer, a fire
ould be kept burning in his room. Exposure.may
us- the eruption to recede, andi bring on broncliitis
r pneu-monia. The patient s1(ould ihe kept iin bld.
PREVENTIVE MEASUnrES.- Measles. is Contagious,
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and may generally be prevented, or modified, by giving children who have not had the disease a dose of
Pulsatilla morning and night during the prevalence
of the disease.
III.-SMALL-POX (Variola).
This is a most contagious disease, and is distinguished as the distinct, in which the pustules are separate, and the confluent, in which they run into each
other, and form  large continuous suppurating surfaces.
SYMPTOMS.-The attack commences like most other
fevers, and about twelve or fourteen days after the
reception of the poison. There are chilliness, heat,
headache, a thickly-furred, white tongue, a deep flush
upon the face, a feeling of bruised fain all over the
body, but especially in the back and loins; more or
less pain or tenderness at the pit of the stomach, and
sometimes vomiting. When the pain of the back
and vomiting are violent, they may be regarded as the
precursors of a severe form of the disease. On the
third day the eruption appears in the form of red spots,
or small hard pimples, feeling like shot in the skin.
It first comes out on the forehead and front of the
wrists, is gradually extended over the body, and may
also be seen upon the palate. The eruption being
completed, the fever subsides, the pustules begin to
fill like boils, are depressed in the centre, and surrounded by a circular inflamed ring. The eyelids,
face, and hands are swollen, and the features obliterated. A peculiar, disagreeable odor now begins to
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be forgotten. In about eight days from the first appearance of the eruption, the pustules break and discharge their contents; scales then form, which dry up,
and, in a healthy state of constitution, fall off in the
course of four or five days, leaving purplish spots,
which do not fade away before the sixth or eighth
week.
DANGERS.-The greatest danger arises from the
secondary fever, about the ninth to the twelfth day,
when the pustules are ripening; for then the fever is
likely to return, the vital strength having already been
much exhausted.    In a confluent case, fatal chest
symptoms may arise, or there may be ulceration,
opacity and loss of sight.
TREATMENT.-A ntimonium tart. should be given
as soon as small-pox is suspected, and is a chief remedy in the disease. The spasmodic retching, nausea,
and hoarse cough, often very distressing, may be relieved by this medicine.
Aconitum, every third hour, for fever, headache, and
restlessness. If the head symptoms are very severe,
Acon. may be given alternately with Bell.
Belladonna.-Stupor or delirium, severe headache,
or ophthalmia. Bell. has a direct action upon the
brain; it also tends to retain the eruption upon the
surface.
A Apis -Considerable swelling of the face and eyelids, the latter often becoming closed. If the swelling
is attended with hoarseness and pain in swallowing,
Apis and Bell. should be alternated.
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" Rhus tox.-Valuable during the eruptive stage,
when there are severe pain in the loins and back, and
marked prostration.
Coffea.-Great restlessness and inability to sleep.
A few doses only will be required.
Carbo veg.-Low typhoid symptoms, with a tendency to putrescence. Also Arsenicum, etc.
ACCESSORY    MEANS.-As soon as the eruption
appears, the patient should be placed in a moderately
dark room, in which there is ample provision made
for the uninterrupted admission of fresh air, and the
free escape of tainted air. He should be kept cool,
and the sheets and linen be fiequently changed. As
soon as the eruption is well out, the whole surface
should be smeared over with bacon fat, the anointing
being repeated twice or thrice daily. A piece of boiled
bacon, with the skin on, cut horizontally, leaving about
one-fourth of an inch of fat adhering to the skin, may
be used to anoint the eruption. It completely prevents pitting, and allays irritation. As the pimples
begin to ripen into pustules, and before they break,
Dr. Belcher directs the skin to be sponged with glycerine and rose water, in equal parts, and directly afterwards, by the aid of a soft puff, to cover the skin with
a powder prepared by mixing one part of the first
trituration of Tart. emetic with eight of violet powder.
The glycerine-water causes the powder to adhere, and
pitting is effectually prevented. The process should
be repeated as often as necessary. If the patient is a
child, his hands should be muffled to keep him from
scratching, which might lead to ulceration. Whenever the skin becomes hot or irritable, great relief will



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be afforded by sponging it with water, and well drying it with a soft towel. When the pustules have
burst, powdered starch should be freely applied to
absorb the matter.
DIET.. As in Fevers. See pages 58, 59.
VACCINATION.-This is the great preventive means.
Its performance is now rendered compulsory durifig
the first three months. In vaccination there are three
precautions to be observed: (i.) The vaccine lymph
used should be taken from a child free from scrofula
and any constitutional taint. (2.) The matter should
be inserted in four places in each arm, it having been
found that the protective power of vaccination is in
proportion to the number of the resulting cicatrices
(scars), that being the most efficient which leaves the
most and the best cicatrices. (3.) It should be repeated
at the age of puberty, the great changes which take
place at this period of life rendering its repetition
necessary.
IV.-CHICKEN-POX (Varicella).
This is a pustular eruption, similar, in its appearance to small-pox, for which it is at first often mistaken. It generally requires little medical assistance,
but merely attention to diet, as in inflammatory fever.
It differs from small-pox in the slighter degree of fever
which attends it; in the pustules becoming filled with
a watery fluid about the second or third day, which
is never converted into yellow matter, as in small-pox;
and in its rapid course. Generally, on the third day
the pustules dry up, forming crusts or scabs.



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TREATMENT.-If the fever is considerable, Aconitun every four or six hours. As a rule, Rhus tox. is
the best remedy, under the action of which the disease
soon disappears. For headache and disturbance of
the brain, two or three doses of Belladonna.
V.-ERYSIPELAS (St. A nthonys Fire).
Idiopathic erysipelas arises from   constitutional
causes, and commonly affects the face and neck;
traumatic erysipelas follows injuries, and may occur
on any part.
SYMPTOMS.-Simple erysipelas, the variety treated
of here, is marked by a spreading, inflammatory redness of the skin, with puffy swelling, tenderness, burning, and a painful sensation of tingling and tension.
The color of the skin varies from a light-red to a
dark-red or purplish color, becoming white under
pressure, but assumes its former appearance on the
removal of that pressure. An attack is often ushered
in with shivering, languor, headache, and sometimesnausea, vomiting, or diarrhoea.
CAusEs.-Debility, and loss of resisting power from
disease; the habitual use of stimulants; exposure to
cold; impaired digestion; wounds; badly ventilated
or crowded apartments; and certain conditions of the
atmosphere. A   recent wound or bruise is a chief
exciting cause; neglect of cleanliness, intemperance,
unwholesome food, and bad air, are the predisposing
causes.
TREATMENT.-A conitum.-Considerable fever; inflammation and tenderness of the parts. It is mostly



CHAPTER III.


DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF BREA THING.
I.-COLD IN THE HEAD (Catarrh, Coryza).
THIS is a very common complaint, and often the
precursor of many serious and fatal diseases. It consists of inflammation of the mucous membrane of the
air passages of the nose, throat, etc.
SYMPTOMS.-It usually comes on with slight shiverings, pain and a feeling of weight in the head, red-ness of the eyes, obstruction of one or both nostrils,
accompanied with a discharge of thin, colorless fluid.
These symptoms are usually soon followed by sore,
throat, hoarseness, sneezing, dry cough, chilliness, general weakness, more or less fever, quick pulse, and
loss of appetite.
CAUSEs.-Exposure to wet, changes of tempera-,
ture, insufficient clothing, and especially deficient
warmth when the body is cooling after having been
heated.
TREATMENT.-Aconitum.- This is a remedy of
great power, and undoubtedly surpasses every other
in efficacy at the beginning of a cold, or in the precursory stages of all diseases resulting from a cold.
If appropriately and early administered it will generally remove al the morbid symptoms consequent on



8z    Diseases of the Organs of Breathing.
DIET.-As for fever, if there is much present; if
no fever, the usual diet.
THE HOT FooT-BATH.-The following will often
arrest colds and fevers in their incipient stages: On
retiring to bed, the feet should be put in hot water,
the water rising nearly to the knees; the patient should
be undressed, but abundantly and warmly covered;
the temperature of the water should be maintained
and increased by fresh additions of hot water for ten,
twenty, or thirty minutes, according to the strength
of the patient, and until perspiration breaks out about
the face.  The patient should then get into a warm
bed, be well covered with clothes, and the perspiration encouraged by drinking freely of cold water. On
rising in the morning the cold plunge-bath should be
taken, or cold sponging over the whole surface of the
body, followed by vigorous friction.
PREVENTION.-Persons liable to cold on slight exposures, should take a cold sponge, shower, or plungebath, daily, at all seasons of the year. Delicate persons may begin by using tepid water for a few days,
gradually lowering the temperature till it reaches the.
natural coldness. The writer strongly deprecates the
habit of washing in warm water. Proper clothing,
regulated by the season, is of great importance for all,
especially for children and young girls. Catarrhal
wheezing patients, going out on a cold day, or passing
from a warm to a cold room, may advantageously use
a Respirator, if of good construction.



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U.-INFLUENZA (Catarrhus Ejidemicus).
This is an epidemic catarrh, and is so called from
the Italian word which means " influence," because it
arises from some peculiar condition or contamination
of the atmosphere.
SYMPTOMs.-These differ but little from common
cold, except that the general debility is greater and
more persistent. There are chilliness, anxiety, heat,
headache, pain of the back and limbs, cough, nausea,
sufftsion of the eyes, sneezing, an acrid discharge from
the nostrils, with great depression of strength.
TREATMENT.-Camph'or or Aconitum, and, if afterwards necessary, Arsenicum, Afercurius, Bryonia,
etc., according to the indications; see under "Cold
in the head." Arsenicum is generally a prominent
remedy.
DIET AND REGIMEN.-Beef-tea and farinaceous
food, with repose in bed. If there is much fever with
loss of appetite, toast-and-water or barley-water will
be most suitable, adopting, as the fever abates, a generous diet.
IIL-HOARSENESS.
Hoarseness is a frequent accompaniment of a common cold.
TREATMENT. -Aconitum. - Dryness, roughness,
and sensation of fulness in the throat, with feverishness.
Belladonna.- Hoarseness with constriction and
soreness of the throat.
Dulcamara.-Hoarseness arising from exposure to
damp or wet.



84     Diseases of the Organs of Breathing.
Mercurius.-Hoarseness, with a thick discharge
from the nostrils, tickling, and burning in the throat,
shivering, and disposition to perspire. The symptoms
are aggravated in the evening, in the cool air, and by
speaking and eating.
-lepar sulpkur.-Weak and hoarse voice; wheezing breathing. It is indicated in old standing cases,
and in persons who have taken large doses of Alercury.
Phosphorus.-Hoarseness, with dryness and soreness of the throat and chest, especially in the chronic
form of the affection, and for patients having a consumptive tendency.
Carbo veg.-Obstinate chronic hoarseness, worse in
damp weather, after talking, and in the evening; and
for patients who have been dosed with Mercury.
IV.-CLERGYMEN'S SORE THROAT.
The following remedies are recommended for the
sore throat and hoarseness to which clergymen, public
speakers, and singers, are liable; in the incipient and
acute form, Acon., Bell., Spong., Dros.; in the chronic,
Hep. s., Carbo veg., Kali bich., Caust., Bary. c., Calc.,
Sulph.
For symptoms and general treatment, see "The
Vade Mecum of Modern Medicine and Surgery."
PREVENTION.-The morning bath; a uniform and
equable exercise of the voice; the wet compress, and
the cultivation of the beard. On the two latter we
subjoin a few remarks.
CULTIVATION OF THE BEARD.-The beard should
be permitted to grow, as it affords an excellent pro



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85


tection to the delicate organs of the voice, in the case
of persons subjected to their undue or irregular exercise. After a public address, the tissues in the vicinity
of the throat become relaxed, and on leaving the
place of assembly and entering the open air, the unbroken force of the atmosphere breaks upon these
parts, inducing chronic affections of the throat and
bronchial tubes, while the natural respirator--the fineflowing beard - which our Maker intended to be one
of the distinguishing features of the male sex, unshorn,
would have effectually protected these important parts.
Hair planted on the human face by the wisdom and
goodness of our Creator, has its uses, and we may -
add, its beauties..  Let the young man, therefore,
never become a slave to the false and pernicious
fashion which compels him to shave off the beard, as
it is found contributory to the health, if not to the
personal improvement, of those who wear it. See
also under Chronic Bronchitis.
WET COMPRESS FOR THE THROAT.-This is an
excellent domestic application in various affections of
the throat, and may be used preventively or remedially, in the following manner: Wring a piece of
linen or flannel, out of cold water, and wrap it, in two
or three thicknesses, round the throat; cover the
compress with oiled silk, or gutta-percha tissue, and
over this two or three thicknesses of flannel to maintain the warmth. When this is applied, the patient
&should retire to bed, and he will generally have the
satisfaction of finding  his throat difficulty much
relieved by the morning.    In obstinate cases, the
compress should be re-wetted once or twice during the



86      Diseases of the Organs of Breathing.
night, and also worn in the day-time, re-wetting it
every three or four hours. When the compress is
taken off, the throat and chest should be bathed with
cold water, followed by a good rubbing with a towel.
However often repeated, the wet compress never
relaxes the throat.
V.- COUGH (Tussis).
Cough, like hoarseness, is rather a symptom of
some more general disease, than a disease in itself. It
is often the forerunner or attendant of some of the
most fatal diseases of our climate, and should, therefore, never be neglected. There are many varieties
of cough, but our prescriptions are only intended for
such as are common and uncomplicated. Cases that
persist, in spite of one or more of the annexed remedies, should be regarded as too serious to be treated
merely by the aid of books.
TREATMENT.- Aconitum.- A dry hard, cough,
accompanied with inflammatory symptoms -flushed
face, headache, thirst, scanty urine, confined bowels,
restlessness, etc.
Ipecacunaha.- Irritating, nervous, and spasmodic
coughs, attended or followed by vomiting. The chest
is oppressed by the accumulation of mucus in the air
vessels, rendering breathing difficult, almost to suffocation.
Belladonna.-Short, dry, hollow, convulsive cough,,
generally worse at night, in bed, excited by a sensation
of tickling in the throat, and accompanied by a flushed
face and headache.



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Dulcamara.- Loose cough from getting wet, with
much phlegm and oppression at the chest.
Bryonia.- A haid, dry cough, attended with pain
in the side, chest, and head; cough aggravated by
passing from warm   air to cold, or vice versa; loose
cough, with white or yellow expectoration, sometimes
streaked with blood.
Hefar sulphur. - Irritating cough, with hoarseness and smarting in the throat, excited or aggravated
by cold to the surface of the body, or exposure to
atmospheric changes.
Phosphorus.- Dry cough, excited by tickling in the
throat; hoarseness, and pains or soreness in the chest,
with rusty-colored, bloody, or purulent expectoration.
Chamomilla.- Coughs of children during teething,
with wheezing breathing, fretfulness, etc.
Carbo vegetabilis.- Cough on taking the least cold;
obstinate hoarseness or loss of voice.
Kali bich.- Cough, with gray or yellow expectoration, preceeded by great wheezing, accompanied
with difficult breathing, and followed by dizziness.
Sulphur.-  Obstinate dry cough, with tightness in
the chest, and retching; loose cough, with expectoration of whitish or yellowish mucus during the day,
and dry cough at night, attended with headache, spitting of blood, etc.
Dose, etc.- See page 46.
BEVERAGES.- Gum-water, barley-water, and other
mucilaginous drinks, or if preferred, simple cold water,
in small quantities, at frequent intervals; these are
highly useful in almost every variety of cough.
PREVENTIVES.--Cold bathing, or sponging the



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whole surface of the body every morning as directed
under Bathing, pages 33, 34. Clothing adapted to the
varying, conditions of the atmosphere. See Clothing,
page 36. Exercise, if possible, every day in the
open air, beyond the boundaries of a town or city.
Familiarity with a free atmosphere affords a security
against excessive sensibility to variations of the weather. Morning air is the best; damp or confined air,
or the air of crowded assemblies, should be avoided.
VI.-HOOPING-COUGH (WHOOPING-COUGH) (Pertussis).
This is an epidemic and contagious disease, usually
of a mild character in children of healthy constitutions,
but a distressing and sometimes a fatal malady in the
delicate or scrofulous.  It is most fatal among the
poor.
SYMPTOMS.- It generally co.mmences as a common
cold, accompanied by a cough, which returns in fits
at intervals; but in about a week the cough recurs at
shorter intervals, in paroxysms of extreme severity,
the child turning red or almost black in the face, and
appears as if choking, during which the lungs are
emptied of air to the last degree, and then a long,
sonorous inspiration, taken to refil them, constitutes the " whoop." The attacks recur every two or
three hours, or, in severe cases, oftener, and sometimes
blood escapes from  the nose, mouth, and even from
the ears. The fits pass off with the expectoration of
glairy, ropy mucus, and sometimes sickness. If dentition is going on, convulsions are not infrequent.
Whooping-cough is sometimes complicated with mea



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sles, small-pox, bronchitis, etc., which add to the
difficulties of treatment.
CAUSE.- A specific poison communicated through
the atmosphere, the nature of which is at present
unknown, but which irritates the pneumogastric
nerve.
TREATMENT.- As this disease begins in a common
cold and cough, the early treatment will be found
under those diseases, the prompt adoption of which
will often prevent its development.  The general
history and symptoms of the patient must be fully
considered.
Ipecacuanha.--In the early stages of the disease,
especially after the use of Acon. or Bell., when there
is dry, hard cough, which threatens suffocation;
excessive vomiting of mucus; watery or bloody discharges from the eyes and nose. A dose every two
or three hours.
Drosera.- In the whooping stage, when the cough
is loud and hoarse, the paroxysms are frequent and
violent, causing perspiration and vomiting of food or
slimy mucus. Drosera is generally sufficient in uncomplicated whooping-cough; if there are scrofulous
or gastric symptoms, other remedies are required.
Veratrum.- Great exhaustion, cold persfiration,
involuntary escape of urine during the cough; pains
in the abdomen and groin; anxious expression.
Cuprum.- Paroxysms of whooping-cough, causing
convulsions, rigidity, and almost a suspension of the
breath, followed by vomiting and extreme prostration.
Opium.- Stupor, irregular breathing, constipation.



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SYMPTOMS.- It comes on suddenly, usually in the
night, with a spasm of the muscles of the throat, so
that the child struggles to get its breath, with a choking noise, and becomes livid in the lips. It generally
occurs during dentition, or irritation in the stomach
and bowvels.  Under proper treatment the attack
usually soon passes off, but sometimes it is premonitory of diseases of the brain.
INFLAMMATORY CROUP (Cynanche Trachealis) is
less frequent, and often occurs after the primary
dentition to near puberty.
SYMPTOMS.- It is a peculiar inflammation of the
mucous membrane of the trachea (wind-pipe), the
vessels of which exude a fibrinous or albuminous
material, which concretes and forms a false membrane.
It begins as a catarrh, with a peculiar barking cough,
and after a week, usually at night, the symptoms become aggravated, the child throwing its head back to
put the wind-pipe on the stretch. A metallic ringing
sound is heard in the inspiration and in the cough,
which has been compared to the crowing of a young
cock, or to the barking of a puppy. The pulse is
frequent and wiry, with thirst and great distress.
DANGERS.- The attack may prove fatal in two to
"four days, from exhaustion, suffocation, convulsions,
or the formation of a coagula in the heart.
CAUSES.- Damp and unhealthy situations; sudden
changes of temperature; wet feet; poor or scanty food
or clothing; previous illness, etc.
TREATMENT.-Spasmodic Croup.-A con., Spong.,
Bell., Cup., Ipec. Inflammatory Croup.-lod., Hep.
sulph., Sambucus, B'-omnine, etc., in addition to the



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applications to the throat, are highly advantageous.
In convalescence, milk-and-water, arrowroot, gruels,
and, gradually, more substantial food.
VIII.- INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS (Pneumonia),
AND PLEURISY (Pleuritis).
Pneumonia affects one or both lungs, or, in technical terms, is double or single. The right lung is more
liable to attacks than the left, and the lower lobes
suffer oftener than the upper.  In Pleuritis, the
inflammation affects the pleura or serous membrane
investing the lungs and lining the cavity of the thorax.
These diseases fiequently co-exist, require similar
medicines, and should be treated, if possible, by a
Homoeopathic practitioner.
SYMPTOMS.- Shivering; headache; hard, wiry
pulse, about 100 in a minute, and other symptoms of
fever; the breathing is hurried, the patient refuses to
take a full breath, and breathing is often interrupted
by a " stitch " or " catch," by a cough which is short
and painful, by lying on the affected side, and by
pressure. This is pleurisy. In pneumonia, the skin
is burning, especially about the ribs and arm-pits;
there is no moisture in the nostrils, and the eyes are
tearless; the breathing is much more hurried than in
pleurisy, but there is only pain of a dull aching character; the cough is frequent and short, and there is
spitting of rusty-colored phlegm.
CAUSES.- Atmospheric changes, sudden checking
of the perspiration, mechanical injuries, etc.



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TREATMENT.- Acon., Bry., Bell., Ant. tart.,
Phos., A r., etc.
Aconitum is pre-eminently suitable, either alone or
in turns with other remedies, whenever inflammatory
symptoms run high, and the secretory functions are
suspended.
Bryonia.- Labored, short, catching, and rapid
breathing; stinging, shooting, or burning pains in the
side, aggravated by inspiration; the cough is painful,
dry, or with expectoration of glairy sputa; the patient
is weary, disposed to retain the recumbent posture,
irritable, restless, etc.
Phosphorus.-Pains in the chest of a severe sticking
character, excited or increased by breathing or coughing; the breathing is short, the cough dry, or with
expectoration of a rusty color.
A ntimonium tart.- Greatly oppressed breathing;
cough attended with much rattling of mucus; nausea;
profuse expectoration; violent throbbings of the heart,
and a feeling of suffocation.
A rsenicum.-Tedious cases, with extreme prostration of strength, and painfully oppressed breathing.
Sulphur.- When the lancinating pains in the sides
have yielded to Bry. or other remedies.
GENERAL TREATMENT.- See " Accessory Measures in Fevers," pages 57-59. External applications
of heat,--hot flannels, linseed-meal poultices, etc.afford much relief. Bleeding in every form must be
avoided.



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IX.- SPASMODIC ASTHMA.
SYMPTOMS.- As designated, this is a spasmodic
disease, recurring in paroxysms, characterized by great
difficulty of breathing, a feeling of tightness across the
chest, wheezing cough, and discharge of phlegm.
The air-tubes of the lungs are encircled by minute
bands of muscular structure, which, like other muscular fibres, may be affected with spasms. These spasms
contract the air-tubes, and the difficulty of breathing,
and the wheezing respiration are caused by the air
being forced through the narrowed channels. An attack
often comes on suddenly at night or towards morning,
attended with a distressing sense of suffocation, the
patient springing up, or even flying to an opened
window, wheezing loudly, till after an uncertain time,
perhaps an hour, it passes off with expectoration of
mucus.
CAUSES.- Atmospheric changes; smoke, dust,
gases, metallic and other particles floating in the air;
certain odors, as of hay, ipecacuanha, or vapor of
sulphur; irregularities of diet, especially heavy suppers; and hereditary influence. It is not peculiar to
any age, children as well as adults being liable to it.
TREATMENT.- Ipecacuanha.- A feeling of tightness of the chest; panting and rattling as if the windpipe were full of phlegm; coldness, paleness, anxiety,
and sickness. During an attack, a dose every ten or
fifteen minutes; afterwards, every three or four hours.
A rsenicumn,- Short, anxious, and wheezing breathing, aggravated at night by lying down, and upon
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96     Diseases of the Organs of Breathing.
spasmodic constriction of the chest, and pale, sunken,
or bluish face. It is especially required in asthma
from suppressed eruptions, and in feeble and impoverished constitutions.
Veratruin.- Violent paroxysms, with cold persfirations, and extreme prostration,
Nux vomica.- Suitable for robust persons, and for
attacks occurring about three or four o'clock in the
morning, or after a heavy meal, or for patients of too
studious habits, or addicted to stimulants.
Aconi' u.-Often very useful during a paroxysm,
with tumultuous action of the heart, oppressive anxiety,
labored breathing, etc.
Sulphur.-Chronic Asthma, apparently connected
with some constitutional taint, and after the unsuccessful use of other remedies.
In obstinate cases other remedies are necessary.
At CESSORY MEANS.-The diet should be strictly
moderate, simple, and digestible, as disorders of the
stomach often occasion an attack. Suppers are especially to be avoided.  In many cases the food should
be weighed, the meal-hours fixed, and strictly adhered
to. Cold sponging in the morning, with frictions;
moderate and agreeable exercise in the open air; and
a strict avoidance of the usual exciting causes are here
to be observed. The atmosphere best suited to the
patient depends entirely upon idiosyncracy, as some
can only breathe a mountain air, and others only in
the fogs of London.



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X.- BRONCHITIS.
Bronchitis is inflammation of the mucous lining of
the bronchial tubes, and is a difused disease, extending more or less through both lungs, thus differing
from  cold or catarrh, which only affects the lining
membrane of the nose and throat. Patients often
describe it as "a cold in the chest."  It most frequently
occurs in old persons, although it sometimes affects
children.
SYMPTOMS.- The disease begins with febrile symptoms, headache, lassitude, and anxiety; these are soon
attended with a feeling of tightness or constriction in
the chest, especially the front portion; oppressed, hurried, anxious breathing, with wheezing or whistling
sounds; severe cough, at first dry, then with viscid
and frothy expectoration, and sometimes streaked with
blood, subsequently becoming thick, yellowish and
pfirulent.  The pulse is frequent, often weak; the
urine scanty and high-colored; the tongue foul; there
are throbbing pains in the forehead, and aching pains
in the eyes, aggravated by the cough, with other
symptoms of fever.   The usual cause of death in
bronchitis is the complete obstruction of the bronchial
tubes with adhesive mucus resembling that expectorated during life.  The unfavorable symptoms are
cold perspirations covering the skin; pale and livid
cheeks and lips; cold extremities; extreme prostration; rattling, and a sense of suffocation in the
throat; and complete insensibility, ending in death.
In favorable cases, however, the disease begins to
decline between the fourth and eighth day, and under



98     Diseases of the Organs of Breathing.
suitable treatment, soon disappears, or assumes the
chronic form.
CAUSES.- Exposure to cold draughts of air, to keen
and cutting winds,, sudden changes of temperature,
insufficient clothing, inhalations of dust, or other irritative substances.
TREATMENT.-A conitum.-A rapid and full pulse,
hot skin, frontal headache, palpitation of the heart,
dizziness, constipation, and other febrile symptoms.
A dose every one or two hours till improvement takes
place.
Kali bich.--This remedy has great power in
Bronchitis, especially chronic, with accumulations of
tenacious, stringy  mucus, difficult to expectorate;
cough, and dyspncea.
Ant. tart.- Valuable in the second stage, especially
in the aged, when there is a copious accumulation of
mucus, and the expulsive efforts are feeble, with paroxysms of cough, wheezing, dyspncea, palpitation, etc.
Bryonia.- Heat, soreness, and pain behind the
sternum (breast-bone), and an irritative cough, with
scanty, sometimes blood-streaked, expectoration. It is
most useful when the large air-tubes are involved, and
less so when the inflammation extends to the smaller;
but in diffused bronchitis, Bry. is inferior to Ant.
tart. Bryonia is very useful in the acute attacks of
children, with suffocative cough, rapid difficult breathing, great agitation, and anxiety.  Consider, also,
Phos.
ADDITIONAL REMEDIES.- Ipec., A rsen., Bell.,
Carbo. veg., Afercurius, Spong., and Sulph.
For dose, etc., see page 47



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DIET.--During an attack, gum water, barley gruel,
jelly, etc. Cold water, or toast-water, is the most
appropriate drink. In elderly or feeble patients exhaustion is liable to come on, requiring nutritious
support, and, perhaps, stimulants.
ACCESSORY MEASURES.- The patient should be
kept in a warm atmosphere (65 to 70 degrees), which
should be moistened by steam or evaporation of water.
Ventilation of the apartment, however, should not
be neglected. Hot linseed-meal poultices applied to
the chest are beneficial, as they relieve congestion.
XI.- CHRONIC BRONCHITIS.
This form. of bronchitis is common in advanced life.
The milder varieties are indicated only by habitual
cough, shortness of breath, and copious expectoration.
Many cases of winter cough in old people are examples of bronchial inflammation of a low, protracted
character.
TREATMENT.--Iali bich., Bry., A rsen., Phos.,
Hep.- sulph., Ipec., Lyc., Calc., and Sultp. See
"' Bronchitis," and the " Materia Medica."
PREVENTIVE MEANS.- The first and most important is cold bathing in the morning, that particular
formt of bath being adopted which is found most useful
or convenient. (See Bathing, page 32.)   Another
preventive is the Beard, which protects the respiratory
passages against the effect of sudden changes of temperature. We may regard the beard as a kind of
natural respirator, the shaving off of which is a
frequent cause of acute and chronic bronchitis. Can



zoo    Diseases of the Organs of Broathing.
we doubt the wisdom and beneficence of the Creator
in giving this ornament to the male sex, which is so
frequently exposed to atmospheric vicissitudes, and
withholding it from the female, who, as the keeper at
home, requires no such appendage? I-lair is an imperfect conductor of both heat and cold, and placed round
the entrance to the lungs, acts like a blanket, which is
used for warmth in cold weather, or to prevent the
dissolving of ice in hot weather. In many instances,
the beard would protect lawyers, clergymen, and other
public speakers, as also singers, from the injurious
effects of rapid variations of the atmosphere, from
which professional men so often suffer. It has been
observed that the Jews, and other people who wear
the beard, rarely suffer from bronchitis, or0 analogous
disorders; and so may be considered as examples of
the utility of the beard.
XII.- CONSUMPTION (Phthisis).
Phthisis (from thio to consume) is a disease of the
constitution, in which there are deposited in the lungs
certain morbid bodies called tubercles, and in which
the processes of suppuration and ulceration are set *up
for their discharge. Although no period of life is
exempt, phthisis is most frequent in the course of
youth, especially from the i8th to the 22nd year, and,
of all the diseases that claim our attention, is the one
that has proved most destructive of human life.
When once fully developed it is generally supposed to
be incurable; but in the early stages of the disease,
while the tubercles are yet small and but slightly irri



10o    Diseases of the Organs of Breathing.
merly prevailed on the subject; but as these signs can
only be appreciated and interpreted by a medical
man, they are not further referred to in a domestic
work. All doubtful cases should be early submitted
to professional Homoeopathic treatment.
CAusEs.-Tubercular phthisis is generally hereditary, but it may arise in early life from an enfeebled
condition of the system induced by a confined and
impure atmosphere, unhealthy or too prolonged occupations, innutritious food, anxiety, etc., to which an
hereditary predisposition and the scrofulous constitution powerfully contribute.
TREATMENT.-Where tubercles exist in the lungs,
either in a latent -or partially-developed state, we
strongly recommend the following measures:
Ist. Highly nutritious and easily-digestible food.
The diet should be nourishing, digestible, and sufficiently abundant, including animal food once or twice
daily, or occasionally fish, stale home-made bread, farinaceous puddings, green vegetables, mealy potatoes,
milk, lightly-boiled eggs, etc. Condiments, pastry,
and all articles of food that occasion nausea, eructations, or other symptoms of indigestion, are to be
avoided. The diet may include Cod-liver oil, in small
quantities, except during active febrile symptoms,
when it is inadmissible. The continued use of oil,
judiciously given, controls the expectoration and night
sweats, soothes the cough, and checks emaciation.
2nd. Daily exercise in the open air, employed in
such a manner as to bring all the muscles, especially
those of the chest and upper extremity, into moderate
and agreeable action, and with the body in an erect



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posture, as in walking. Riding on horseback is also
favorable, as affording a large amount of fi-esh air, the
exercise not exciting great difficulty of breathing. In
unfavorable weather, some of the well-contrived apparatus for arm and back exercise, especially that of the
cross-bar, should be used in the house with open
windows.
3rd. Bathing, followed by vigorous fi-iction, is an
important measure, and except in confirmed consumption, is generally beneficial. The water may be applied in the form of baths, sponging, or wet sheets,
and mnay even include sea-bathing. Weak children
or delicate patients may use tepid water, and gradually
reduce the temperature. When admissible, the best
plan is rapidly to plunge a child in water, which obviates the exposure consequent on sponging, and ensures
a quick and complete reaction. A healthy action of
the skin will thus be promoted, and the general circulation equalized. Cold bathing is injurious when the
surface is rendered cold and pale, and the patient is
left languid and dejected. In such a case warm saltbaths should be first used.
S4th. Residence in a moderately-warm    climate.
Warm air soothes the trachea and bronchial tubes,
and the external warmth tends to keep the blood to
the surface of the body, and so obviates congestion of
the lungs; and further, the warm air being rarified,
less oxygen is inspired, and less carbonic acid given
off, so that less vigorous breathing is required; and,
also, the liver in the warmer climates seems to take
on some of the offices of the lungs. The climate,
however, must be d~y, as damp is prejudicial. The



Io8    Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
Hepar sulphuris.-Chronic indigestion; nearly all
kinds of food disagree; also if Afercury has been
used in excess.
Sulpbhur.-As an intercurrent remedy, when only
partial relief has followed the use of other remedies;
also in chronic cases. It is more particularly required
in indigestion following or associated with eruptions,
piles, constipation, etc.
Dose and administration.-See page 46.
AccEssoRY MEASURES.*-Dyspeptic patients must
correct all improper habits, pay strict attention to the
quality and quantity of food, and the hours at which
it is taken. Directions for particular cases cannot be
given, as what agrees with one is often injurious to
another, the rule being to select such food as is found
easy of digestion. The following habits have been
pointed out as requiring correction: Eating too much
at one time; eating too seldom or too often; too great
a variety of food at the same meal; imperfectly chewing the food; the too hasty resuming of bodily or
mental occupations after a meal; sedentary habits;
neglect of personal cleanliness; habits of drinking;
smoking, or chewing tobacco, and opium-eating; the
excessive use of tea and coffee, and eating unripe fruits
and vegetables. It is especially necessary that the dyspeptic's stomach should never be overloaded.
If possible the meals should be taken regularly and
with cheerful companions, avoiding reading and
study, and dismissing business anxieties from  the
mind, which should then be free fiom all injurious
* The use of Galvanism is often of great benefit. See
Appendix.



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lo9


tension  Persons much occupied should not eat full
meals during the hours of toil; a light repast is best
in the middle of the day, making the principal meal
at six or seven in the evening, when the work of the
lay is finished. Heavy meals in the hours of physical
labor, without sufficient rest, is almost certain, eventually,.to lead to indigestion.*
In the list of articles to be avoided by the dyspeptic,
we particularly notice the following: hard, dried
meats; veal, pork, sausages, salmon, lobsters, crabs,
cheese, pastry, flavored soups, new-baked bread, too
much tea or coffee, or any liquid, and all substances
known to disagree. As a rule, which possibly may
admit of some exceptions, malt liquors, wines, and
spirits, are injurious.
Feather beds, and too much sleep should be avoided;
the patient should retire early and rise early; bathe or
sponge the body every morning with cold water, and
take moderate exercise daily in the open air. Further,
a general cheerful and tranquil state of mind is necessary.
In addition to Cocoa for the morning, and tea for
the afternoon meal, the moderate use of pure water is
almost the only fluid required in health. This liquid,
so often despised, and even considered by many as
prejudicial, is one of the best means for preventing or
curing indigestion. Too much cold water, however,
should not be taken at mealtimes.
* Some severe cases find their only relief in the use of
carbon crackers. -See Appendix.



IIo    Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
II.--VOMITING.
CAUSES.- Indigestion, of which vomiting is often
a prominent symptom; too much or improper food;
pregnancy*; disease of the brain or derangement of
the nervous system; cancer of the stomach; obstruction of the intestines; most of the eruptive fevers, etc.
PROGNOSIs.- Nausea and vomiting occurring in
diseases of the brain, or in epilepsy, are unfavorable
indications; in pregnancy, or hysteria, they are merely
symptomatic of irritation conveyed by the nervous
system to the stomach. If vomiting affords relief, it
is a favorable indication, but if the symptoms preceding sickness are not relieved by it, but increase, the
disease must be regarded as serious.
TREATMENT.-This must be regulated according to
the cause which produces it.
Pulsatilla.- Vomiting from fat food, or eating too
freely, with dizziness, looseness of the bowels, and
when the smallest quantity of food brings it on.
Ant. crud.--Nausea or vomiting, heaving of the
stomach, with fmotid flatulence, white furred tongue,
and dislike to food.
Nux vomica.-Vomiting with dryness of the
mouth, disturbed sleep, and constipation. It is especially indicated when vomiting follows the use of
strong drink, indulgence at table, or late or irregular
hours.
A rsenicum.-Vomiting, with burning in the stomach and throat, great weakness, purging, and coldness
* For the treatment of "Morning Sickness" in pregnancy, see "The Lady's Homoeopathic Manual."



Sea Sickness.


I II


of the hands and feet. It is indicated in organic or
malignant disease of the stomach.
Ipecacuanha.- Simple copious vomiting.
Arnica.-Vomiting from a fall or injury.
Dose and administration.- See page 46.
ACCESSORY MEANS.-In violent vomiting and longcontinued retching, small pieces of ice are grateful
and soothing. Liebig's extract of beef-tea, in small
quantities, till ordinary food can be taken.
III.- SEA SICKNESS (Nausea lfarina).
SYMPTOMS.- These need not be described, as they
are so well known to persons embarking for the first
time, especially during the early part of the voyage,
and when stormy weather prevails.
CAUSE.- The motion of the vessel. The seat of
the affection is in the brain, with which the stomach
is in close sympathy. Persons of delicate nervous
organization are subject to similar derangement from
the oscillations of a carriage, or the movements of a
swing.
TREATMENT.- Nux vomica.- The complaint may
be prevented or modified by taking this remedy thrice
daily, for several days previous to embarkation.
Arsenicum.- Severe and prolonged sea-sickness
with great weakness.
Cocculus, Veratrum, and Petroleum     are  also
recommended. Cocculus is perhaps the best curative
agent in this obstinate affection.
For convenience, and to prevent injury to the general stock of medicines, those likely to be required for
sea-sickness should be procured in a separate case.



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II3


contracting pains, ineffectual efforts to relieve the
bowels, or alternate constipation and relaxation.
Chamomilla.-Cutting, tearing, and pinching pains;
bilious or windy colic; watery, slimy, yellow or
greenish diarrhoea, particularly in children.
Bryonia.- Mild forms of colic, in which, in addition to fullness and distension of the bowels, there are
sharp, stitch-like pains in the sides or abdomen, and
irritability of temper.
Administration and dose.- See page 46.
ACCESSORY MEANS.-An injection of a pint of
tepid water often gives immediate relief. Applications of heat to the abdomen, or a warm bath, are also
useful measures. Persons subject to colic should avoid
Sfood of a flatulent character, wear flannel round the
abdomen, and keep the feet dry.
V.- BILIOUSNESS.
What are popularly called "Bilious attacks," and
supposed to be due to derangements of the liver, are
almost invariably symptoms arising from, and common
to, Indigestion, such as furred tongue, vomiting of
bile, giddiness, sick headache, etc. One of the following remedies, according to the particular symptoms,
with a restricted, simple diet for the following twentyfour hours, and cold water ad libitum, will usually
complete the cure: Nux vom., Pod., Puls., Kali bich.,
Ipec., Bry., lferc., Verat., or A rs. The whole section on " Indigestion" should be consulted.
["Biliousness" being much more common in America
and especially " at the West," we give more space to the



114    Diseases of the Organs of Digostion.
subject by adding the following from "Practical Homceopathy." by Dr. J. S. Douglas.-AMER. EDITOR.]
Biliousness.- This is not a scientific term, but one
which most persons understand. One feels languid,
dull, sleepy, especially after dinner; he gets easily
tired, his appetite is impaired; often there is dull
headache and tendency to constipation, and the complexion loses its freshness, and becomes of a dull or
dirty appearance. People generally understand that
these are bilious symptoms. They are not unfrequently the precursors of bilious fever, or jaundice.Podophyl. is generally the only necessary remedy; a
single dose will often remove all these.unpleasant
feelings in a few days. If not, continue it three times
a day. If there is a tendency to chilliness or an inactive state of the bowels after a day, take Nux at night
and Podophyl. in the morning. This course for ao
short time will save a fit of sickness and a doctor's bill.
VI.- HEARTBURN, FLATULENCE, ETC.
These are only different symptoms of Indigestion,
and their treatment may be gathered from the article
on that subject.
VII.-JAUNDICE (Icterus).
SYMPTOMS.- Yellow tinge of the skin and whites
of the eyes; high-colored urine, staining the linen
yellow; light or clay-like stools, constipation, but
sometimes, especially in children, diarrhoea; bitter
taste in the mouth; slow pulse; dejection of spirits;
and, often, febrile symptoms.
When there is an obstruction from a gall-stone, the
sufferings are most acute; the pains come on in
paroxysms, often with vomiting and hiccough.



*       Inflammation of the Liver.


"5


CAUSES.-Arrested secretion of bile, and its accumulation in the blood; or obstruction to its elimination,
so that it again enters the circulation. The condition
may be due to atmospheric changes, the impaction of
a gall-stone, unrestrained fits of passion, etc., or, most
frequently, to dietetic transgressions, dissipation, etc.
TREATMENT.- Ifercurius.- This is a valuable
remedy, especially after the inflammatory symptoms
have been modified by Acon. or Bell. A dose every
three hours.
China.- This remedy is chosen in preference to
the former if the patient has been mistreated with
large'doses of Mercury.
Chamomilla.-Jaundice in passionate or fretful
vpatients, especially children.
Nux vomica.-Jaundice attended with" costiveness,
sensitiveness in the region of the liver, and connected
with sedentary habits or indulgence in spirituous
liquors.
Other remedies are often necessary, but domestic
treatment should never be trusted to when professional
can be obtained.
ACCESSORY MEANS.-See under " Chronic Inflammation of the Liver."
VIII.- INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER (Hepatitis).
SYMrTOMS.- An acute attack sets in with rigors.,
followed by other symptoms of fever; as hot, dry skin,
thirst, headache, constipation, and often cough. There
are pain and tenderness of the right side, the pain
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116    Diseases of the Organs of Digestion."
times down the arm, and is aggravated by taking
breath; the breathing is short, thick, and thoracic;
and there is sickness, with some degree of jaundice.
CAUSES.- Acute inflammation of the liver is most
frequent in India, from the climate and diet not suiting European constitutions; in this country it arises
from cold, and is then seated in the serous peritoneal
covering, and resembles pleuritis.  Dram-drinking
often leads to a hard, contracted condition of the liver,
called Cirrhosis, which leads to dropsy.
TREATMENT.- Aconitum.- Feverish       symptoms,
distress, restlessness, inflamed, yellow-colored tongue,
and severe pains. A dose every two or three hours.
In severe cases, the strong tincture of the root may be
used.
Mercurius.- Yellow    tinge of the whites of the
eyes (conjunctivce); sallow skin; yellowish coating of
the tongue, and foul taste.
Bryonia.- Shooting or stinging pains, obstinate
constipation, especially after Acon.
Nux vomica.-Hepatitis from intoxicating drinks,
excessive or stimulating food, or too little out-of-door
exercise.
A rsenicum - Extreme cases, with great weakness,
intense pain, vomiting of bile, and exhausting diarrhoea.
GENERAL TREATMENT.- See " Accessory Measures in Fevers," page 57.



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IX.- CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF TIE LIVERLIVER COMPLAINT.
SYMPTOMS.- Languor, depression, and often a kind
of dread of some impending evil. The liver itself
may be enlarged or diminished in size, and there is
sallowness of complexion, and often emaciation.
CAUSES.- Intemperance; too little out-of-door exercise; misfortune; mercurial preparations, such as
calomel and the blue-pill.
TREATMENT.- Similar remedies to those prescribed
in the preceding section.
ACCESSORY MEANS.-Water will be found a valuable auxiliary.  Cold sponging  or bathing, with
vigorous friction immediately afterwards, is highly
recommended. The patient should shun stimulants,
live regularly, and avoid rich food, pastry, spices,
coffee, etc. Two hours at least out of every twentyfour, should be spent in out-of-door exercise, such as
walking, gardening, or on horseback. If these suggestions are early carried out, before the disease has
led to the disorganization of the gland, a cure may be
expected, and earthly existence rescued from the disabilities and sufferings inseparable from disease.
X.- DIARRH(EA - LOOSENESS OF THE      BOWELS -
PURGING.
Common diarrhea is a functional disorder, consisting of frequent liquid faecal evacuations, without
inflammation of the intestines.
CAUsEs.-Unusual, excessive, acrid, or indigestible
food, espeoially unripe or decaying raw fruits; pork,



S18     Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
veal, etc.; putrid or diseased animal food; atmospheric
influences; mental emotions, etc.
Diarrhoea is often a symptom of other diseases, as
hectic and phthisis, when it is called colliquative
diarrhoea, because it appears to melt down the substance of the body; the diarrhoea of typhoid fever;
bilious diarrhcea, from excessive flow of bile, as in hot
weather, or after passing a gall-stone; and serous
diarrhoea, with watery discharge. Looseness of the
bowels is also a very common precursor of cholera,
when that disease is epidemic.
When diarrhoea arises from indigestion or dissipation, it may be regarded as an effort of nature to expel
substances which might otherwise give rise to more
serious disturbance.
TREATMENT.-Camfph., Ant. crud., Puls., Chin.,
Chamn., Ipec., Verat., and Ars. are the chief remedies.
Camphor.- In sudden and recent cases, with chilliness, shivering, cold creeping of the skin, severe pain
in the stomach and bowels, cold face and hands, or
cramps in the legs or stomach. Two drops on a
small piece of loaf sugar, repeated every twenty or
thirty minutes, for three or four times.
A nt. crud.- Watery diarrhoea, with white furred
tongue, disordered stomach, nausea, and eructations.
Pulsatilla.- Mucous diarrhcea, occurring chiefly at
night, with little pain; the tongue is coated with a
whitish fur; the taste is diminished or altered, and
there are generally nausea, foul or acid eructations,
etc. Puls. is curative in diarrhcea from eating fat or
rich food.



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China.- In simple summer diarrhoea, Dr. Hughes
has used this remedy invarii:bly during the last four
years, and iound it well-nigh infallible.
I/Mercurius.-Diarrhoea with clay-colored or green
stools.
Dulcamara.-Catarrhal diarrhea, watery or yellowish, with little or no pain; traceable to damp, particularly in the summer and autumn.
Chamomilla.-Watery, bilious, or slimy stools of a
yellowish, whitish, or greenish color, or resembling
undigested food, particularly during teething. Pinching pains, sour breath, and fretfulness are additional
indications.
Veratrum.- Choleraic   diarrhoea, with  copious
watery discharges, occurring in gushes, and accompanied with severe vomiting, debility, etc.; involuntary diarrhoea.  Recourse may also be had to this
remedy if others fail to produce relief after a fair trial.
Arsenicum.-Diarrhcea accompanied or ushered in
by vomiting, with great heat of the stomach, ascending to the throat, resembling heartburn; a burning
sensation attending the discharge of the motions;
coldness of the body, pallid and sunken face, and
great prostration. It is chiefly suited to chronic diar.
rhcea, with symptoms indicating organic disease.
Administration.-A dose every one, two, or three
hours, according to the violence of the symptoms, oi
after every motion, until relieved.
AccEssoRY MEANS.-Rest in the recumbent posture; the extremities kept warm; sudden changes of
temperature avoided. Individuals subject to diarrhoea
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12o     Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
the body, should wear a flannel roller round the abdomen. Night air and late hours predispose to attacks.
Except in severe cases, moderate out-of-door exercise
should be taken daily. Mental excitement and animal
excesses of every kind should be avoided.
DIET.-Food should be given cool and sparingly,
consisting of light non-irritating substances - sago,
tapioca, milk, arrow-root, baked rice-puddings, white
fish, etc.; bland drinks; no coffee, spices, acids, eggs,
fruit, or stimulants should be allowed.
X.-DIARRHCEA IN CHILDREN.
Healthy infants have usually two or three movements of the bowels in twenty-four hours. If the discharges become much more frequent, unnatural in
color, watery, and accompanied with pain, treatment
is necessary.
TREATMENT. - Chamomilla. - Diarrhoea during
teething, or from cold, with colic, crossness, and restlessness; greenish, watery, bilious, frothy, and offensive
discharges.
Ipecacuanha.-Summer diarrheaa, (see China, page
213), with vomiting; diarrhoea from overloading the
stomach.
Pulsatilla.- Loose, greenish, bilious discharges,
with flatulence or griping, especially in fair and delicate children.
Podophyllum is highly recommended by Dr. Shipman, in his excellent manual, for diarrhoea of-teething
children, especially with falling of the bowel.
Merc., Calcarea carb., or Dulc., may be required.



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Administration.-A dose every two or three hours,
or after every movement of the bowels.
See the preceding section, and also those on " Teething," "W orms," and " Thrush."
XI.-DYSENTERY-BLOODY FLUX.
Dysentery - inflammation and ulceration of the
large.intestine - is most frequent and violent in India,
the Chinese seas, and other hot climates. In this
country it is generally only subacute; but in all cases
it is most likely to take the chronic form.
SYMPTOMS.-This intensely painful disease is generally attended with thirst, dry skin and tongue, headache, and other symptoms of fever. The most marked
symptom of dysentery is frequent, painful desire to
stool, with great straining - Tenesmus - without any
evacuation, except a little mucus and blood, shreds of
fibrine which the patient sometimes thinks to be the
coats of his own bowels, and lumps of hardened faeces
- Scybalce. In hot climates its attacks are acute and
violent, the pain being very severe around the navel
and at the bottom of the back-bone. The bladder
often sympathizes with the rectum, exciting frequent
efforts to pass water.
CAUSES.-Exposure to sudden and extreme changes
of temperature, as from the heat of day to the cold
and damp of night; insufficient protection from cold
and wet, as sleeping on the ground; intemperance; a
poor or irregular diet, etc. It is therefore often epidemic among people reduced by privation, particularly
soldiers in camps. In consequence of its being an
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122    Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
attendant on war - a practice both old and univer
sal - it is the most anciently described of all diseases
TREATMENT.-A conitum.-If febrile symptoms are
well marked, the early use of this remedy often arrests
the disease at its onset. It should be administered
several times, at short intervals.
Jlfercurius corrosivus.- Bloody evacuations, with
pain. and extremely severe straining.
Colocynth.- This is often required after Aferc.,
especially when the colicky pains occur periodically,
are very severe, and the discharges are mixed with
green matter or lumps. If Mferc. has not been previously administered, it may be alternated with Coloc.
Arsenicum.-Burning pain with the evacuations;
excessive weakness; coldness of the extremities; cold
breath; faeces and urine putrid and offensive, often
involuntary.
Ipecacuanha.-Autumnal dysentery, with nausea,
severe straining, and colic; the evacuations are first
slimy, afterwards bloody mucus. Often advantageously alternated with Bryonia.
Administration.-In severe cases, a dose every
twenty or thirty minutes; in mild, every two or three
hours.
ACCESSORY MEANS.-The patient should maintain
a reclining posture in bed, in a well ventilated apartment, and in severe cases use the bed-pan instead of
getting up. Local applications afford great relief, the
best of which is the cold compress, i. e., two folds of
linen, or a napkin, wrung out after immersion in cold
water, and applied over the bowels, covered with
oiled-silk, and secured by a flannel bandage round the



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whole abdomen. If the pains are very severe, flannels wrung out of hot water should be applied over
the abdomen, a second hot flannel being ready when
the first is removed. The. drink should consist of cold
water, gum-water, milk, etc.; the diet must be restricted to arrowroot, cocoa, broths, ripe grapes, etc.
Animal food and stimulants, and cold and sudden
changes of temperature should be avoided.
XII.- ASIATIC OR MALIGNANT CHOLERA.
In this disease, which resists the efforts of the old
system, Homoeopathy has won brilliant triumphs.
Its success in the prevention and cure of cholera,*
and other violent diseases, has contributed greatly to
its rapid spread in every part of the world.
TREATMENT.- This disease should, if possible, be
always treated by a Homoeopathic practitioner. We
shall only briefly indicate some of the remedies and
measures which have been found most useful.
Camfkpor is one of the first and most important
medicines to be administered, under whatever form
the disease presents itself. Its special indications are,
sudden prostration, the body generally becoming
cold; pains in the stomach and bowels; irregular
pulse, cold sweat on the forehead; giddiness; noise in
the ears; swelling of the abdomen from wind; and
severe purging:- Two to five drops of the strong
tincture on sugar, or in a spoonful of water, every five
or ten minutes; as soon as tle patient becomes warm,
the doses may be given less frequently, and discon* See Dr. Macloughlin's testimony, pages 25-26.



124    Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
tinued when full perspiration takes place. At the
same time the patient should be placed in a warm
bed, and have hot water-bottles applied to the feet.
A rsenicum.-Violent burtzing pains in the stomach;
excessive thirst; suppression of urine; clammy sweat;
weak, tremulous pulse; cramps, and entire prostration of strength. It is the great remedy when the
time for curing with Camphor has passed.
Veratrum.- The chief indications for this remedy
are violent and continuous vomiting and purging; a
shriveled appearance of the skin; cold tongue; cadaverous and pinched appearance of the face.
Cuprum.-Spasm or cramp, and convulsions.
PREVENTIVE MEASURES.- During the prevalence
of Cholera, there are usually premonitory symptoms,
such as general uneasiness, bitter taste in the mouth,
fullness and pressure at the pit of the stomach, cramps,
and rumbling in the bowels; these symptoms should
be promptly checked. Much time may be saved, and
life spared, by families providing themselves with a
small case of Homceopathic remedies, including a
small bottle of A rsenicum, and Veratrum; also a
bottle of Camzphor, which must be kept by itself.
The following advice is worth remembering: "In an
epidemic of Cholera, the means to avoid an attack are, to
maintain cheerfulness of spirit (remembering that the disease is not contagious); using a temperate but generous
diet; avoiding suppers; keeping early hours; sleeping in
the highest room in the house; and carrying a small bottle
of strong camphorated spirit in the pocket, for the use of
others as well as yourself; and if compelled to pass the
neighborhood of foetid drains, ditches, or other suspected
places, moistening the tongue with a drop of the camphor



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ated spirit before inhaling the stench, it being known to
Homoeopathis"s that Camhkor is the antidote to most of
their infinitesimal medicines, so it is an antidote to the
cholera poison suspended in the air, and inhaled into the
lungs in an infinitesimal quantity, provided the Camphor
is applied before the poison has begun to operate on the
blood."-H. Kelsall, M.D.
XIII.- CONSTIPATION-CONFINED BOWELS.
A tendency to costiveness is not so grave a symptom  as many persons suppose it to be; indeed,
individuals thus predisposed generally live long, unless
they injure themselves by purgatives; while those who
are subject to frequent attacks of diarrhcea are soon
debilitated, and seldom attain old age. The common
idea that aperients contribute to health, not only in
sickness, but also occasionally in health, and that
impurities are thereby expelled from the body, is very
erroneous.
The fallacy of this notion may be easily demonstrated. Let purgatives be taken for a week, and
however good may have been the state of health previously, at the termination of this period all sorts of
impurities will be discharged, especially after taking
jalap and calomel. As this is an invariable result,
even in the case of those who have never been ill, it
seems to prove that impurities are produced by those
drugs.
In sickness also, purgatives are most injurious. Disease
weakens the whole system; " the bowels, therefore," says
DR. YELDHAM, " in common with the legs, the arms, the
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126     Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
general debility, and become deprived of that power by
which, in a Etate of health, they are enabled to discharge
their proper functions. Why should they, more than the
other organs. be impelled to the performance of a duty to
which, at the time, they are totally unequal?
"Again, under the process of disease, the whole vital
power is devoted to the struggle which is going on in the
affected part. The attention of the system is, as it were,
drawn off as well from the bowels as from every other
organ not immediately engaged in the contest. On this
account, also, they remain quiescent; and any interference
with that quietude, by diverting the vital energy, weakens
that force which nature requires to be undivided, to enable
her to conduct her combat with disease to a successful
issue--an additional reason why purgatives should be
avoided.
"Constipation is an effect, not a disease: otherwise
there might be some show of reason in the use of aperients.
But, being merely a temporary loss of power, we can no
more restore that power byforcing the action of the bowels,
than we can impart strength to a weakened leg by
comnfelling it to walk. In the latter instance, we should
instinctively rest, the part, until, by the removal of the
disease, motion might be resumed. The same reasoning
applies with equal force to the removal of constipation.
The exercise of a little patience, and the employment of
judicious means for the eradication of that disordered condition on which the inaction depends, would as infallibly
restore the bowels to their duty, as in every other instance
the effect must cease when the cause is removed."
CAUSES.- Sedentary habits; dissipation; an improper quality or.quantityof food; the use of superfine
flour; mental anxiety; diseases of the liver; exposure
to the action of lead, as in painters; want of contractile power in the coats of the rectum; mechanical
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128    Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
Opium.- Constipation. from a paralytic condition
of the system, leading to inertia of the intestines;
obstinate constipation, with a feeling as if the anus
were closed; hard and lumpy stools; headache, dizziness, dry mouth, thirst, listlessness, and dusky face;
also in chronic cases, from too little out-of-door exercise.
Podophyllum.- Constipation, with flatulence and
headache, depression of spirits, and disposition to
"bilious" condition of the system.
Lycopodium. -   Constipation, with itching and
tightness of the anus; rumbling and flatulence in the
abdomen; waterbrash, heartburn; the bowels feel
too warm and dry, and are disposed to swell.
Sulphur.- Habitual costiveness, piles, burning and
itching of the anus, etc. It is also valuable as an
intercurrent remedy.
Dose and Repetition.- See page 46.
AccEssoRY MEASURES.-No medicine can be of
permanent benefit if the bad habits which led to the
constipation are persisted in. Moderate walking exercise is useful, particularly in the morning in the
country. Water* is an extremely valuable adjunct,
both for internal and external use. Cold bafhs, especially the shower and sitz, are strongly recommended
as being of easy application. The wet compress at
night is often an invaluable remedy; also injections,
as recommended further on. Regularity in attending
to the calls of nature is important; the best time to
solicit the bowels to act is in the morning, usually after
breakfast. By fixing the mind on this operation for a
* See the article on " Water," page 41.



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the whole alimentary tract with strong drugs, which
excite violent action only to settle back into a state of
greater debility and torpor than before.
XIV.-WORMS (Helminthia).
Intestinal worms being the products of certain morbid states, the treatment should be directed against the
disease itself, rather than against the product it engenders. The effect of most allopathic remedies is, at
the best, to excite a discharge of the worms from the
system, without correcting the morbid condition on
which their existence depends.
VARIETIES.-There are three chief species of worms
which infest the human body, viz., Ascaris, Lumbricus and Tcenia.
i.-The Ascaris vermicularis, or thread worm,
infests the rectum (lower bowel). It is small, about
a quarter to half an inch long, occurs chiefly in children, and occasions much local irritation. The chief
symptoln is intolerable itching about the anus in the
evening, aggravated by the warmth of bed; also picking of the nose, fcetid bieath, depraved appetite, and
disturbed sleep.
2.-Lumbrici, or round worms, also exist in children, their habitat being the small intestines, where
they feed on the chyle, and attain a length of six to
twelve inches. The symptoms, often obscure, arepains in the belly, fretfulness, grinding of the teeth,
disturbed sleep, or convulsive attacks; also itching of
the nose and anus.    The child becomes sallow, its
limbs waste, but its belly is enlarged, hot, and tense;



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the appetite is uncertain, often voracious; the breath
is offensive, and the stools contain much slimy mucus.
The   worms sometimes travel upward into the
stomach, and are vomited, or downward into the
colon, and are passed with the stools.
3.- Tcenia, or the tape worm, is nearly white,
flattened, and of a jointed structure; it attains a great
length, even many yards, by repetition of the joints;
and exists both in adults and children. The symptoms
-being niasked, its presence is unsuspected until portions are passed in the stools, the head still remaining.
There is seldom more than one worm present at a
time, yet each joint possesses an ovary, and its eggs
are millions, but they are discharged with feces, and
devoured by unclean animals-swine, ducks and rats;
in these creatures they become developed, but not
always into tape-worms, for they appear to go through
several generations before returning to the jointed
form. They are probably introduced into the human
body by eating unwholesome animal food, especially
tripe and sausage-skins imperfectly cooked.  It is
supposed that the ova sometimes reach the circulation,
and in the liver or other organs are developed into
encysted Entozoa, commonly called Hydatids.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS,- Sudden changes in the
color of the face; dark semi-circles under the eyes;
copious flow of saliva; nausea; insipid, acid, or foetid
odor of the breath; a voracious, alternating with a
poor, appetite; itching of the anus; talking, and
grinding the teeth during sleep; thick and whitish
urine; tightness and swelling of the lower part of the
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132     Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
convulsions, delirium, etc. Perhaps the only irrefragable sign is the presence of worms in the stools, or in
the matter vomited.
TREATMENT.*- Aconitum. - At bed-time, for
fever, restlesness, and burning and itching at the seat.
Cina.- A    valuable remedy for thread    worms
(ascarides), or round worms (lumbricz), with the following symptoms: boring at the nose, livid circles
round the eyes, tossing about, or calling out suddenly
during sleep, nausea and vomiting, griping, itching at
the anus, and white and thick urine, sometimes passed
involuntarily.
Belladonna.- Congestion to the head, starting during sleep, headache, fever, etc.  If there is much
fever, a few doses of Aconite should be first administered.
Nux vomica.- For both thread and round-worms,
hard stools, and after indigestible food.
Afercurius.- Diarrhoea, slimy stools, distention of
the abdomen, difficult teething, and augmented secretion of saliva.
Ignatia.- Intense itching at the seat, especially in
mild, sensitive persons.
Sulphur.- For worm-colic, and after the prominent
symptoms have disappeared, to complete the cure.
Calcarea.- After discontinuing the other remedies,
in patients having   an hereditary predisposition to
worms, and with scrofulous symptoms.
Dose and repetition.-See page 46.
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ACCESSORY MEANS.- The food should be simple,
easy of digestion, and taken only at regular hours;
pastry, sugar, sweetmeats, and sweet-made dishes
strictly avoided.  Salt, as a condiment, should be
taken with the food.   A  draught of spring-water
should be swallowed on rising, and the whole body,
the abdomen in particular, bathed with cold water in
the morning, and afterwards rubbed till the whole
skin is in a glow; daily exercise taken in the open
air; also injections as recommended in the next paragraph.
INJECTIONS.- These are most useful as means for
expelling the worms; half a pint of water, in which a
spoonful of common salt has been dissolved, once or
twice repeated, will often suffice to relieve a patient
thus troubled.  Afterwards, a simple cold or tepid
injection should be used regularly about three times a
week, for two or three months, to wash away the
slime in which the ova exists. But the general and
medicinal treatment can only be relied on for improving
the health and preventing their re-formation.
XV.- PILES (Haemorrhoids).
These consist of small tumors, sometimes outside
(external piles), and sometimes within (internal
piles) the opening of the lower bowel, either with or
without bleeding. They vary in number, from one
small intensely painful swelling, to numbers clhstering
together like a bunch of grapes. These swellings are
attended with pricking, shooting, burning, or pressive
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134    Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
dull pains in the loins. Blood is often passed with
the evacuations, sometimes only in drops, but at other
times in considerable and even alarming quantities.
CAUSES.-Obstinate constipation; drastic purgatives; heating or stimulating food or drink; a luxurious life; sedentary habits; pressure of the enlarged
womb upon the vessels of the pelvis during pregnancy; * sitting on cold stones, or on warm or soft
cushions; excessive horseback-exercise; and over-excitement of the sexual organs.
TREATMENT.-Acon., MAerc., Nux vome., Carbo
veg., Phos., and Sulph.
Nux vomica.-A valuable remedy in almost every
form of piles, especially in persons of sedentary habits,
confined bowels, or addicted to the use of intoxicating
drinks, strong coffee, etc.
Sulphur.-Chronic piles, from abdominal plethora,
or with itching and burning of the anus, and especially
when associated with constipation. The evacuations
are often mixed with blood; there is great pain, and
the tumors protrude considerably, and are pushed back
with difficulty; also, smarting pain in passing water.
Sulfh. is often alternated with Nux, the latter administered at night and the former in the morning; or
Sulph. following Nux to complete the cure.
Carbo veg.-A burning sensation at the anus, and
discharge of blood with the motions, which are constipated.
Arsenicum.-A     burning sensation as from hot
needles, and general prostration.
* For the treatment of piles during pregnancy, see " The
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136     Diseases of the Organs of Digestion.
ing, and laxity and delicacy of constitution. Although
not confined to them, it is most frequent in children.
TREATMENT. - Ignatia. - This remedy is often
specific, and is generally the first to be used.* A dose
thrice daily, for two or three days; afterwards, night
and morning.
Nux vomica.- Prolapsus, with costiveness and
straining at stool.
Afercurius.-Prolapsus, with itching, discharge
of a yellowish mucus, and diarrhoea; hard, swollen
abdomen.
Lycopodium.- Obstinate cases, and when other
remedies only partially cure.
Sulphur.-For similar conditions.
"AcCESSORY MEANS.-When the bowel protrudes,
it should be reduced by laying the child across the lap,
and making pressure on the protruded part with the
fingers, previously lubricated with oil or lard. Bathing the parts with cold water, night and morning, and
injections of water are very useful. The action of the
bowel in the evening, just before going to bed, should
be encouraged. The diet should be wholesome and
unstimulating.
* American physicians prescribe Podophyllum with great
success.



138


Ajfcctions of tIe Head.


tation of tne cerebral nerves. Chronic headache should
be treated by a Hornceopathic physician.
TREATMENT.- This must be regulated by the
cause.
b'elladonna.-Pains throbbing, tearing, or shooting
from one point to another; fullness, pressure, and heaviness above the eyes, aggravated by mental efforts,
noise, or light; congestion of blood to the head, with
redness of the face, glistening of the eyes, and excessive sensitiveness to external influences. A dose every
hour until relieved; afterwards less frequently. Bell.
is often useful after, or alternately with, Acon.
Aconiltum.-Heat in the head from excitement, and
aggravated by motion, with a sense of coldness in the
rest of the body; cold water to the head gives relief;
holiday movements to all departments of business, benefiting alike the employer and the employed, would also
grjeatly contribute to the diminution of diseases of the
heart. Having regard to the health as well as the happiness of the industrial classes, we strongly urge all employers to pay wages on Friday, and to give the weekly
half-holiday on Saturday, our plea being strengthened by
the experience of years, that work is better done when it is
not excessive or unrelieved by recreation. Rest and outof-door amusements are to the human frame what oil is to
the wheels of the iron machine. To the whole community,
then, we commend the rule, NEVER SHOP AFTER TVELVE
ON SATURDAY, and thus help to secure for the city clerk,
the busy shopman, and the toiling artisan, relief from his
duties at noon on Saturday, to enjoy amidst the scenes of
nature, or in the bosom of his family, the unbending of his
back, and the unwrinkling of his brow, and ensuring, from
lighter hearts and invigorated bodies, greater diligence and
better work.



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also in sick-headache, with sickness, vomiting of bile,
etc. In rheumatic, bilious, and apoplectic headaches,
the strong tincture of the root is recommended. A
dose every half-hour, hour, or two hours, until the
symptoms are modified; afterwards less frequently.
Nux vomica.-Headache from intoxicating drinks,
sedentary habits, too close attention to business; headache with nausea or vomiting of sour and bitter substances; stupifying headache with giddiness and
heaviness in the head, in the morning after unrefreshing sleep, or after meals, and connected with other
symptoms of indigestion. It is well indicated by a dark
or bilious complexion, an irritable disposition, and
irregular action of the bowels. Headache caused by
intoxicating beverages, may require the strong tincture.
Podophyllum.-If the patient is inclined to bilious
derangement, indicated by dull feeling in the head,
low spirits, constipation, or frequent urging, with
small stool.
Pulsatilla.-Headache from rich food, with acidity
of the stomach, heaviness of the head, pain on one
side of it, shooting into the ears, paleness of the face,
fretfulness, and shiverings. Also in women, from suppressed period.
Bryonia.-Headache fiom cold, most troublesome
in the morning, or after a meal; digging or tearing
pains, and a feeling as if the contents of the head
would protrude on stooping. Rheumatic Headache;
headache during hot weather; also with bleeding of
the nose, burning and watery eyes, or torpor of the
bowels.
Opium.-Headache with stupor, heaviness, a wan



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CAUsEs.-Errors in diet; indulgence in wine; sedentary habits; or it may occur in a person whose
digestion has been previously impaired without any
immediate dietetic infraction.
TREATMENT.--Acon., Ipec., Puls., Nux vom., or
Bell.-See the preceding section, and that on "Indigestion."
An attack of sick-headache may be broken up immediately in almost every instance by taking, as soon
as the first symptonts are perceived, five or six drops
of mother tincture of Ipecac in a half teacup of water.
Stir it well and drink all at once. If not entirely relieved in half an hour repeat the dose.
Patients subject to sick-headache will find the disposition to it overcome by taking the 30th potency of
Nux vomica and Calcarea, on alternate days, each day
a dose, for three or four weeks.
III.-EPILEPSY (Epilepsia)-FALLING SICKNESS.
SYMPTOMs.-Sudden and complete loss of consciousness, with foaming and convulsions, followed
by sleep. Epilepsy means literally a seizure; for often
in a moment the patient falls to the ground, struggling,
foaming, and insensible. Sometimes a fit is preceded
by depression of spirits, a gloomy mood, drowsiness,
or the aura epileptica, a peculiar sensation, compared
to a stream of warm or cold air, the trickling of water,
or the creeping of an insect.
CAUsEs.-Hereditary tendency; injuries, or malformation of the head; local irritation; derangement
of the nervous or sexual system; self-abuse; fright, or



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Affections of the Head.


fits of rage; the irritation of worms; the sight of
other epileptics, etc. The evidence of hereditary tendency exists in the fact that two or more cases of epilepsy frequently occur in the same -family, far more
frequently than it would do if it were a mere coincidence. Still, evidence of local irritation as a cause
should be sought after, so that it may, if possible, be
removed.
TREATMENT DURING A FIT.- Tight articles of
clothing must be loosened, particular care being taken
that there shall be no pressure on the vessels of the
neck; the patient should be placed in a cool, airy
place; the head and trunk slightly raised; a cork or
linen pad placed between the teeth to prevent the
tongue, which should be pushed back, from being
bitten, and the patient prevented as much as possible
from injuring himself, without restraining him beyond
what is absolutely necessary. After the fit, the patient
should be allowed to sleep.
TREATMENT BETWEEN FITS.-Belladonna.-Great
irritability of the nervous system, the patient starting
at the least noise; convulsive movement of the muscles of the mouth and face, and jerking in the limbs;
dilated pupils, or fixed or convulsed eyes, intolerance
of light; stammering; congestion of blood to the head;
and when an attack commences with a sensation of
crawling in the upper extremities.
Ignatia.-Nervous, sensitive patients; when anxiety or grief has been an exciting cause, and there are
deep sighs between or before an attack.
Nux vomica.-Indigestion; irregular action of the



CHAPTER VI.


AFFECTIONS OF THE EYES AND EARS.*
I.-INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES (Ofkthalmia.)
OPHTHALMIA is a general term for inflammation of
the mucous membrane which lines the eyelids and the
front part of the eye-ball. There are several varieties,
such as Catarrhal Ophthalmia, from cold; Strumous
Ophthalmia, from   a strumous (scrofulous) habit,
marked by extreme intolerance of light; Purulent
Ophthalmia, of several varieties, and from different
causes; Gonorrhceal Opithalmia, from direct contact
of gonorrhceal matter.
SYMPTOMSs.- Soreness in the ball of the eye,
attended with a pricking pain, and a feeling as if
there were sand or a little fly under the lids; great
heat and severe pain in the eyes, often extending into
the head; redness and swelling of the parts; extreme
sensitiveness to light; scalding tears, and a secretion
of mucus gluing the lids together.
CAUSES.- Injuries; foreign bodies under the eyelids; rapid changes of temperature, especially draughts
of cold air; sudden suppression of eruptions or dis"* For many important diseases affecting these organs,
not even mentioned in this small manual, the reader is
referred to " The Vade Mecuin of Modern Medicine and
Surgery."



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charges; crowding together, especially in filthy dwellings; severe exertion of the eyes. Chronic inflammation of the eyes points to a scrofulous constitution.
TREATMENT.-Belladonna.- Excessive sensibility
to light; redness of the eyes and margins; pressing
pains in the eyes, especially on moving them, penetrating deeply into the head; discharge of burning tears,
and violent headache.
A conitum.-Ophthalmia, with generalfebrile symptoms,-quick pulse, dry skin, thirst, etc. A dose every
two or three hours.
A'fercurius.-Ophthalmia, with a copious watery
discharge, afterwards changing to mucus and pus;
sensation as of sand under the lids, redness of the
eyes, with swelling of the vessels, itching and shooting pains, pustules and scales on the lids; the pains
increase in the evening, and on exposure to cold, and
there is agglutination in the morning.
Calcarea carbonica. - Chronic   ophthalmia, in
scrofulous, debilitated children; secretion of mucus,
causing the lids to stick together in the morning. A
dose twice daily.
Hefar Sulphur.-Chronic, scrofulous ophthalmia,
especially if much calomel has been administered. It
is generally most beneficial after the acute symptoms
have yielded to such remedies as A con. and Bell.
Sulfpur.-Frequent relapses in scrofulous persons;
or it may follow other remedies after the more urgent
symptoms have subsided.
Arnica.-Inflammation from external injuries. It
may be used both internally and externally.
ACCESSORY    MEASURES. - If inflammation has
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146     Affoeeions of the, Eyes and Ears.
been caused by sand, dust, lime, flies, or hairs of the
lids, the irritating body should be i mmredi ately removed;
and if the inflammation is considerable, a shade should
be worn. To prevent the eyelids from being cemented
together in the morning, they should be smeared with
a little olive oil by means of a camel's hair brush, or
with simple cerate, at bed-time.  The only further
local application admissible 'in domestic practice is a
piece of lint, wetted with tepid or cold water, except
the Arnica lotion in cases of injury.  Patients in
crowded and unhealthy towns should remove for a
time to the country, where they may take daily outof-door exercise in a pure and bracing air. The food
should be plain and nourishing, the habits early and
regular, and frequent bathing should be practised.
Persons predisposed to ophthalm-ia should guard
against unnecessary exposures during easterly and
north-easterly winds.
11.-BLOODSHOT EYE.
TREATMENT.-Two or three doses of Aconitum at
intervals of about three hours. At the same time the
eyes should be frequently bathed with cold or tepid
water. If from mechanical causes, the Armica lotion
(six drops of tincture to a wine-glassful of water)
may be used. Also Armica, internally, may be
administered.
[II.-STYE ON THE EYELIDS (Ifordeolurm).
The stye is a painful little boil projecting from the
margoin of the eyelids.



148     Affections of the Eyes and Ears.
SYMPTOMS.-Sudden pain, sometimes so acute as
to cause delirium; tenderness and soreness; unnatural
noises; deafness, or morbid sensibility to sound; more
or less redness and swelling of the ear passage, etc.
CAUSES.- Cold currents; imperfectly drying the
ear after washing; injudicious bathing; probing or
syringing in inflamed ear, etc.
TREATMENT. - Aconitum.-Recent inflammation
from cold.
Belladonna.-Tearing pains in the head, delirium,
vomiting, or other bad symptoms.
Pulsatilla.-Sticking or tearing pains in and behind
the ear, swelling, and a feeling as if the ear were
closed. It is specially suited to the earache of children, and after the inflammatory symptoms have been
controlled by the former remedies.
Chamomilla. -Earache from    cold or suppressed
perspiration; stabbing, tearing pains in the ears;
extreme sensitiveness, susceptibility, and irritability.
Mercurius.-Pains in the ear extending to the
cheeks and teeth; discharge; swelling of the glands,
etc.
Sulpfiur.-After the use of other remedies, as an
intermediate one, or to complete the cure.
Dose and A dministration.-See page 46.
AccEssoRY MEANS.-Hot fomentations, poultices,
or the steam of hot water, to mitigate the pain.
VI.-RUNNING FROM THE EARS (Otorrhkea).
Is commonly met with in scrofulous children, and
should be treated professionally.



Deafness.


149


TREATMENT.-Ifercurius.-Thick, bloody, or fetid
discharge; tearing pains in the side of the head and
face; swelling and tenderness of the glands about theear; also when the complaint follows Scarlatina,
Mleasles, Small-pox, etc. A dose thrice daily.
Hefar Sulphur is preferable if the patient has been
dosed with Mercury.
Pulsatilla.-Simple discharge from the ear with
deafness, in non-scrofulous children.
Arsenicum.-Excoriating discharge in feeble constitutions.
Calcarea.-Tedious cases, especially in strumous
children.
VII.-DEAFNESS (Dyseccea).
CAUsEs.-Deafness is generally a symptom of some
other disorder, such as inflammation of the ears, severe
colds, or chronic disease of the ear. It may also be
occasioned by loud noises, or by the accumulation
of ear-wax and other substances lodged in the earpassage.
Prognosis.-Deafness of recent date may generally
be quickly cured-by skillful Homceopathic treatment;
long-standing cases are often obstinate.
TREATMENT.-Pulsatilla.-Recent deafness from
cold, with noises in the ears.
MAercurius.- Catarrhal deafness with    swollen
glands of the neck and throat; suddenly suppressed
discharge from the nose or ears; roaring and buzzing
sounds in the head. Also deafiess after small-pox.
Nux vomica.- Buzzing, tingling, or whistling



150      Affections of the Eyes and Ears.
noises, particularly whilst eating, with  disordered
digestion.
Calcarea carbonica.-Sensations as of obstruction
in the ears; humming noise; throbbing; dryness of
the ear or discharge.
Phosphorus.-Deafness of nervous patients, or
following any nervous disorder.
Administration. - In recent cases, a dose every
four hours; in chronic, twice daily.
AccEssoRY MEANs.-Hard ear-wax, or any foreign
substance, causing deafness, should be early removed
by skillful hands, after first syringing the ear with
warm water. All nostrums, to be dropped into the
ear should be eschewed.



152     Affections of the M-outh, Nose, etc.
Nux vomica, or Pulsatilla, night and morning for
a week, may follow either of the former remedies.Sulphur, in the same manner, may complete the
course. After waiting a few days, the course may be
repeated.
ACCESSORY MEANS.-As inattention to the mouth
and teeth is sometimes a cause of fcetid breath, the
remedy in this case is obvious, viz., careful cleansing
of the teeth and mouth after meals, especially when
animal food has been eaten. Decayed and useless
stumps are generally best removed.  There should
also be careful attention to diet; the internal and external use of water; pure air; exercise, and such other
means as are indicated in the Observations on Health,
page 32. The sections on "Indigestion" and "Toothache" should also be consulted.
I.-THRUSH (Afhthce)-FROG
SYMPTOMS.-Small vesicles or white specks appear
upon the lining membrane of the mouth, and are
sometimes so connected as to form a continuous covering over the tongue, gums, palate, etc. The disorder
may also extend to the stomach and bowels, setting
up violent diarrhoea, and such general disturbance as
to require the greatest skill and care to prevent a fatal
issue.  In adults, the disease is the result of some
other malady, and is always serious.
CAUSES.- A delicate or strumous constitution;
insufficiency or unhealthy condition of the mother's
milk; or in infants who are fed with the bottle or
spoon, an unsuitable quantity or quality of food; want
of cleanliness: general disease.  As thrush chiefly



154     Affections of the Mouth, Nose, otc.
NEAVE'S FARINACIOUS FOOD.*-Considerable experience in its use justifies us in recommending this
as the best substitute, in the majority of cases, for the
mother's milk, as well as a valuable article of diet for
feeble constitutions generally. Competent themical.
analyses have found the preparation-. contain every
constituent necessary for the perfect nourishment of
the infantile body, and this has been abundantly confirmed by what we have frequently observed as the
result of its early and exclusive use. A great ad- antage in the adoption of this diet is, that any inteiference in the action of the bowelb is altogether unnecessary, as by varying the quantity of milk mixed with
the food, the most regular action is secured. In cases
in which farinaceous food cannot be tolerated. Sugarof-'lfilk may be substituted. In.most cases, however, this intolerance is due to improper methods of
preparation.
III.-TEETHING (Dentition).
Teething is an important process in the development of a child, and in delicate children is often
accompanied by various local and general symptoms
of disorder, some of which are referred to under the
following remedies. Other complaints, such as constipation, diarrhoea, convulsions, etc., may be treated
according to the instructions given in this book, under
those headings.
CAUSES OF DISORDERED DENTITION.- Excessive
quantities of food, or improper food; keeping the
* Comstock's Rational Food, sold in America, is a similar preparation.



156     Affect'ons of the Mouth, Nose, etc.
IV.-CONVULSIONS DURING TEETHING.
CAUsES.-Irritation of the brain from pressure of a
tooth upon an inflamed gum, or anything which overexcites the nervous system; disease of the brain; an
insufficient supply of blood to the brain, as in badlyfed children, or an impure supply of blood, as in the
eruptive fevers; the irritation of worms; fright;
powerful emotions of the mother; indigestion. The
remote causes are, hereditary predisposition, too early
or too late marriages, etc.
TREATMENT.- Loosen all clothing about the neck,
chest, and body; raise the head, sprinkle the face with
water, and admit plenty of fresh air. A warm bath,
however, is generally advisable.
WARM BATH.- Immerse the child in warm water
up to its neck, and directly afterwards apply a cold
wet towel to the head, or a large sponge after dipping
it in cold water; the cold towel or sponge may be
applied for about three minutes, but the child kept
in the bath for ten or fifteen minutes. The temperature of the bath should be about 980, or what is
agreeable to the back of the hand, and this temperature
should be fully maintained till the child is taken out,
by additions of hot water carefully poured down the
side of the bath. The bath should be given in front
of a good fire, and a warmed blanket be in readiness
to wrap the child in directly it leaves the bath. The
warm bath is of great service in convulsions; it draws
the blood from the over-loaded brain to the general
surface of the body.
Bedladonna.- Convulsions with determination to,



Convulsions During Teething.         157
or inflammation of, the brain, hot and flushed face;
dilated pupils, etc.; it is especially useful in stout
children. It should be given early, and repeated every
fifteen minutes for several times. A drop of the tincture in a teaspoonful of water, or one or two globules on
the tongue.
Chamomilla.- Spasmodic twitching of the eyelids
and muscles of the face, one cheek red, and the othet
pale; clenched thumbs. It is most suitable for irritable children, and in fits from disorders of the digestive
functions. True brain symptoms point to Bell. in
preference.
Ofium.- Convulsions from fright, followed by
stupor, labored breathing, confined bowels.
Cuprum.- Red, bloated face; shrieking before an
attack; convulsive movements, the paroxysm resembling an epileptic seizure, but the brain symptoms are
less active than those that indicate Bell.
Aconitum.- Fever - restlessness, flushed face--
and when convulsions are threatened.
Dose and repetition.- See page 46.
ACCESSORY TREATMENT.- Diarrhoea during dentition, unless excessive, should not be interfered with.
It may be regarded as an effort of nature to relieve
congestion of the brain. " Keeping the head cool,
and the feet warm," washing the child in cold water
daily, and allowing it to be much in the open air,
tend to prevent determination to the head. Purgatives are to be avoided, and the bowels regulated by
suitable diet, or by Homocopathic treatment. Costiveness in infancy is due.to errors in diet, and if obstinate,
or if worms are present, injections of water may be



158     Affections of the Mfouth, Nose, etc.
used. The mother or nurse should abstain from all
indigestible food. For children brought up by hand,
we strongly recommend Neave's Farinaceous Food,
referred to in the article on Thrush. If prepared according to the directions, it is the most valuable diet
for infants.*
V.- TOOTHACHE (Odontalgia)
CAUSES.-Decayed teeth, sudden changes of temperature, indigestion, pregnancy,t or general ill-health.
Neuralgic toothache occurs in paroxysms, and comes
and goes suddenly.
TREATMENT.- If Kreasote, or Laudanum, has
been used locally, the mouth should be thoroughly
cleansed before taking any of the medicines recommended further on.
LEADING SYMPTOMS IN TOOTHACHE.-In the following classification the remedies are named in the
order in which they are most frequently required:
i. Prom  Cold.--M Aferc., Bry., Duic. (from wet),
Cham. (from a draught), or Puls.
2. Rheumatic Toothache.- Bry., Merc., Arn.,
Bell., or Acon.
3. From Decayed Teeth.- M1erc.
4. Nervous Toothache.-Ign., Cham., or Cof.
* When there is faulty assimilation of food, and the child
has diarrhoea and grows thin and puny, the castillon powder- a combination of sago, tragacanth, and salep -
with the trituration of Calcarea, makes a diet of great
excellence, one which has saved the lives of many children,
and made them strong and well.
t See the " Lady's Manual," by the Author.



Toothache.


caries be recent and slight, the decayed portion may
sometimes be removed, and the cavity filled with a
suitable material, thus preserving a useful member
for years. A qualified dentist should be consulted.
PREVENTIVE MEANS.- The face, temples, ears,
and neck should be well bathed with cold water every
day, and afterwards rubbed with a dry towel; also the
mouth kept sweet and clean by rinsing it with cold
water.
VI.- SORE THROAT - Q0UINSY (Tonsilitis).
This consists of inflammation of the tonsils and of
the subjacent mucous membrane.
SYMPTOMS.- Heat, redness, and rapid swelling of
the tonsils, with hoarseness, severe throbbing pain,
difficult swallowing and expectoration, and general
fever. If prompt and skillful means be employed, the
pain, swelling, and other inflammatory symptoms
gradually subside; otherwise matter forms, indicated
by rigors, throbbing, and darting pains, extending to
the ears.
CAUSES.- The predisposing are, scrofulous constitution, abuse of mercury, and previous attacks of
quinsy; the exciting are, cold, atmospheric changes,
wet feet, etc.
TREATMENT.-Aconitum.- Sore throat, with general feverish symptoms - chills, thirst, headache,
dizziness and restlessness. Generally required at the
commencement.
Belladonna.-Acute, bright-red, sore throat, with
heat, dryness, and painful difficulty in swallowing,



162     A fctions of the Mfouth, Nose, etc.
flushed face and headache. A valuable remedy, either
after, or in alternation with, Aconitum.
Afercurius.- Swollen throat; copious accumulation of saliva in the" mouth; swelling of the gums and
of the tongue; shooting pain on swallowing; an
inclination to swallow the saliva, although painful; a
disagreeable taste in the mouth; fcetid odor of the
breath; ulcers on the sides of the mouth; pains extending from the throat to the ear.
Dose and administration.- In acute cases, a dose
every one or two hours, at first; in sub-acute, every
three or four hours; during convalescence, every six or
twelve hours. If swallowing be extremely difficult or
impossible, two drops of the tincture of the remedy
selected, on a small piece of sugar, placed on the
tongue.
ACCESSORY MEANS.- In severe cases, a hot poultice across the throat extending nearly to each ear; in
mild cases, the wet compress, described page io6, may
be applied. Frequent inhalation of the steam of hot
water, or a warm milk-and-water gargle, will be found
soothing and useful. The patient should remain indoors, and, in bad cases, in bed.
vn.- MUMPS (Parotitis).
This complaint consists of inflammatory swelling
of the salivary glands, especially those below the ears,
frequently with pain, soreness, and difficulty in moving
the jaws. A curious circumstance connected with
this disease is, that as the swelling of the neck and
throat subsides, there is liability to swelling and ten



Derbyshire Neck-Goitre.


163


derness of the testicles of the male, and the mammain the female, especially when the swelling subsides
suddenly, as on exposure to cold, or from cold applications.
TREATMENT.- Mercurius is the first and chief
remedy, and is generally sufficient to effect a cure. A
dose three times daily.
Belladonna.- Severe pain, with a tendency to delirium; mumps following measles, or with an erysipelatous inflammation.
ACCESSORY MEANS.- The parts may be fomented
two or three times a day with warm water, and in the
interval, covered with a flannel bandage. The patient
should be protected from cold, damp, or excitement.
VIII.- DERBYSHIRE NECK - GOITRE     (Bronchocele).
A chronic enlargement of the thyroid gland. The
swelling is painless, and attended with but little
danger, unless it so increases as to interfere with
swallowing and breathing. Women are more subject
to it than men, in the proportion of twelve to one. It
is commonly met with in chalky districts and mountainous countries, and in the latter is often associated
with cretinism.
CAUSE.- A specific action of water taken as a
beverage, from rocks of magnesian limestone. Difficult labors, uterine ailments, twists of the neck, etc.,
may be exciting causes.
TREATMENT.- Spongia is the principal remedy for
reducing the swelling; a dose night and morning for



CHAPTER VIII.


AFFECTIONS OF THE SKIN
(Cutaneous Diseases).
I.--ITCHING OF THE SKIN (Prurigo).
This condition consists of an eruption on various
parts of the body, sometimes nearly imperceptible,
which occasions the irritation.
"-CAUSEs. - Rich, indigestible food, stimulating
drinks, extreme heat or cold, a constitutional taint,
chronic disease, etc.
TREATMENT. - Sulfhur. - Severe itching, with
dryness-of the skin, worse in the evening, or in bed.
This is a prominent remedy. A dose twice or thrice
daily for a week.
Carbo veg.- Obstinate cases, and when Sultkhur
only partially cures.
Aconitum.- Itching, with heat, and redness of the
skin, and the symptoms are worse at night.
Rhus tox.- Itching, swelling, and redness.
A rsenicum.- Itching with burning, or an eruption
emitting a small drop of watery fluid like sweat;
chronic cases with constitutional feebleness.
Calc., Herc., Hepar., and Puls., are also remedies
in our list, sometimes required.



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Affections of the Skin.


ACCESSORY MEANS.- The skin must be strengthened by daily ablutions with cold or tepid water,
sponging, shower-baths, etc., and frequent exercise
taken in a bracing air. Stimulating food or drink,
pastry, fat or indigestible food, and irregular hours of
diet, must be avoided.   Without these measures,
medicines will be of little permanent use. The appli-.
cation of ointments may transfer the disease from the
skin to some internal organ, where it might become
serious. In severe cases, temporary relief may be
obtained by bathing the parts with alcohol and water,
in equal proportions, or sponging the skin with a
warm infusion made by pouring boiling water on
bran. If the irritation or eruption is limited, the use
of a wet compress over the parts will be beneficial,
although at first it may increase the irritation.
Iltcl (Scabies).- All is not itch which itches. The
itch is a vesicular eruption produced by the presence
of the acarus scabiei or itch mite: the insect is not
found in the vesicle, but a short distance from it. A
faint red line marks the course of the canal which he
has burrowed from the vesicle to his place of residence.
The eruption is found chiefly between the fingers,
about the joints, and in the bends of the elbows; seldom, if ever, on the face; the itching is much more
intense after getting warm in bed. Sulphur should
be given internally once or twice a day, and the parts
affected washed with a lotion of Ledum, or smeared
with lard. If lard alone does not answer, use lard and
Sulphur; as much flowers of sulphur as will cover
a five-cent piece (nickel) well mixed with a tea-cup of
hrd. This may be well rubbed into the surface
affected.-Dr. Shipmnan's Homncopathic Guide.



Prairie Itch.               167
PRAIRIE ITCH - SEVEN YEARS' ITCH.
This distressing ailment is very common on the
prairies of the Mississippi Valley, and is thought by
some to be caused by certain chemical substances
peculiar to the soil of that region. The eruption
appears much like that of the common itch - but
affects the hands less than other portions of the body.
The vesicles usually show themselves first upon the
under surface of the thigh and arms.   In bad or
neglected cases, the whole surface of the body becomes
more or less involved, covering the person with small
eruptions containing a watery, acrid fluid which, when
the intense itching leads to violent scratching, is discharged, and excoriates the surrounding surface, soon
causing a crop of scabby ulcers, filled with yellowish
matter.  The eruption sometimes affects the scalp,
and the hair is filled with these running sores, so that
the patient is rendered a great sufferer, and an object
of disgust to all around him. The disease can be
cured by proper treatment, but seems to affect the
system for several years, so that after intervals of many
weeks or even months, it will seem to be breaking out
afresh.
TREATMENT.- Hepar sulpfh. 6th/ three times daily,
using externally a lotion of the 3rd trituration of the
same medicine dissolved in glycerine, ten grains to
the ounce. After three days obtain the 30th attenuation of Hepar sulph., and give a dose morning and
night.  Cases which have been neglected until the
surface of the body oi of the head is much excoriated,
-. Nt, treated by abundant applications of Tar



168


AAfoctions of the Skin.


ointment, besides the internal remedy mentioned above.
At any fresh appearance of the eruption, give promptly
the 30th of iHear.
Dr. Rowsey has written a very interesting pamphlet on this subject.  It can be procured at the
pharmacies for 25 cents.
II.- NETTLE RASH - HIVES (Urticaria)
SYMPTOMS.- Similar to those produced by nettlestings. There are white elevations in irregular streaks
or wheals, especially well marked after scratching or
exposure to cold; much itching; the eruption often
disappears suddenly from one part and shows itself in
another, the spots contain no fluid, and end in scaling
of the skin. It is not contagious, and may trouble the
same patient again and again.
TREATMENT.- Ant. crud.- Urticaria from gastric
disturbances.
Dulcamara.- From cold, with much stinging.
Rhus tox.-From eating shell-fish, etc.
Aconitum.-With feverishness.
Calcarea.-Chronic nettle-rash, especially in scrofulous patients.
Dose and administration, see page 46.
GENERAL TREATMENT. - Smearing with bacon
fat gives great relief.
A dry, uniform, and moderate temperature, plain
food, exercise in the open air, and great cleanliness,
are most essential.



Ulcers.


I69


III.-ULCERS-SORES. *
Ulcers may exist as the result of burns, bruises, inflammation, varicose veins, or constitutional disturbance.
"The constitutions most liable to ulceration are those
which are debilitated by intemperance or privations, tainted with syphilis or scrofula, or broken dowl, by the excessive use of mercury, or in which the blood is impure from
inaction of the liver, skin and kidneys. The parts most
disposed to it are those in which circulation is most languid, such as the lower extremities. On this account, tall
persons are more frequently affected with ulcers than short
ones."
TREATMENT.-Ulcers require great care, and many
can only be successfully treated by a Homoeopathic
practitioner.
Kali bich.-Ulcers on the leg, deep, with hard bases
and overhanging edges.
Belladonna.-Inflamed and painful ulcers.
A rsenicum.--Ulcers with burning pain, easily discharging blood or thin matter, and presenting a livid
appearance.
it Carbo veg. may follow, or be alternated with, Ars.,
the ulcer have an offensive smell.
Silicea.-Simple ulcers.
Hep. sulph., or Sulph., may also be required.
GENERAL TREATMENT.-A little soft linen or lint,
wetted in cold water, placed on the sore, covered with
oiled-silk, and lightly bound up with a bandage. A
Calendula lotion may be occasionally substituted for
the simple water compress.   Ulcers on the legs re

* For details, etc., soe the "Vade Mecum."
8



Chilblains.


17i


vent a recurrence of boils, attention must be directed
to their causes.  If derangement of the digestive
organs be the cause, abstinence from seasoned dishes,
pastry, sweetmeats, etc., is necessary; at the same
time, a generous diet, including animal food once a
day, should be adopted. Correct diet, cold bathing,
and recreation in the open air, will go far towards
eradicating a predisposition to boils.
V.-CHILBLAINS (Perniones).
Chilblains consist of a low kind of inflammation of
the skin, generally of the hands or feet, and are attended
with itching, tingling, burning, swelling, and sometimes ulceration.
CHAPPED HANDS.-This affection consists of slight
inflammation of the skin of the back of the hands,
which becomes cracked or " chapped."  It occurs in
frosty weather, when it sometimes gives rise to much
inconvenience and pain. It requires similar external
treatment to Chilblains.*
CAUsEs.-Exposure to cold, damp, or to sudden
changes of temperature; constitutional tendency.
TREATMENT.-     Tamus communis, in nearly all
cases, either removes the disease, or affords material
relief. Unbroken chilblains should be painted morning and night with the strong Tincture of Tamus, or
it may be used as a lotion. Should the skin be broken
or ulcers exist, Calendula should be substituted for
Tamus, and applied as a lotion, or in the form of
*The Calendula and Glycerine Jelly is a most excellent
and elegant preparation for chapped hands and lips. It
can be had of any Homoeopathic Pharmaceutist.



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Affections of    the Skin.


cerate.* Internal treatment is generally required for
chilblains.
Arnica.-Hard, shining skin; pain and itching of
the parts. At the same time the strong tincture of
Arnica may be used externally for unbroken chilblains.
Belladonna.-Inflammation, pulsative pains, fiery
redness, and swelling.
Arsenicum.-Burning pain, accompanied by ulceration, especially in emaciated children.
Sulpbhur. - Chilblains of a blue-red color, with
itching, aggravated by warmth. Also to remove the
constitutional tendency.
ACCESSORY MEANS. - If ulceration takes place,
apply poultices to the parts, or other mild applications
until relieved. Pork, salted meats, and all irritating
or indigestible articles of food, should be excluded
from the dietary. Extremes of temperature are to be
avoided, such as a cold stone floor, and warming the
feet on a fender, or the hands close to the fire. After
washing them, the hands should be well dried. The
soreness of chapped hands may be much mitigated by
wrapping them in a water bandage and covering them
with oiled-silk on retiring to bed.
VI.-WARTS (Verruca).
TREATMENT. - Thuja.- The warts should be
painted once or twice daily with the matrix tincture;
at the same time a dilution of the same medicine may
be taken internally night and -morning. The internal
use of Thuja is especially necessary when the warts
* See mention of the QCuaker Liniment, under Burns,
page 190.



Corns.


i73


appear in crops. This course may be followed for a
week or ten days, and if improvement ensues, as it
almost invariably does, the treatment should be continued longer.  If Thuja does not succeed, Rkhus
tox. may be substituted, and used both internally and
externally in the same way.
Sulpzur, once a day for a week or two, is an excellent remedy for numerous and obstinate warts upon
the hands. It is also useful after other medicines, to
eradicate the predisposition.
vI.-CORNS (Calvi Pedis).
CAUSEs.-Long-continued pressure or friction, or
both combined.
TREATMENT.-If treatment is required in addition
to that pointed out under " accessory means," the following remedies may be considered:      Calcarea,
Sulph., Silicea. A dose of the selected remedy morning and night, for a week or ten days. After waiting
a few days, if necessary, the same or another remedy
may be administered.
AcCESSORY MEANS.-Corns can only be eradicated
by wearing easily-fitting boots and shoes, frequently
washing the feet, and change of stockings. As soon
as corns appear, the surrounding skin should be
softened by a warm foot-bath, the hard head of the
corn gently extracted with the finger-nail, or some convenient instrument, and the thickened skin pared off
with a sharp knife; the corn should then be dressed
with Arnica-lotion (thirty drops to a wine-glassful of
water), and next morning a piece of A rnica-plaster,



174


Affections of the Skin.


or an A rnicated corn-plaster, having a hole punched
out of its centre, applied.  The dressing may be
repeated until the inconvenience be removed.
VIII.-WHITLOW (Panaris).
This is an inflammatory swelling at the end of the
qnger, with a tendency to suppuration.
CAUsEs.-Cutting the nail to the quick; a bruise,
burn, or other mechanical injury; the introduction of
poisonous or acrid matter into scratches on the finger;
unhealthy constitution.
TREATMENT.-Silicea.-This is one of the first and
best remedies for whitlow, and if administered early
will often prevent its maturation. If necessary, at
the same time, a warm bread-and-milk poultice may
be applied, and the finger held in a raised position.
Aconitum and Belladonna, in alternation, every
three hours, if there is much pain, redness, throbbing,
thirst, restlessness, etc.
fHepar sulphur, every four hours, if suppuration is
going on.
IX.-RINGWORM (Herpes circinnatus).
SYMPTOMS.-Small round vesicles, filled with clear
or yellow fluid, mostly on the head, at the roots of
the hair, and on various parts of the skin. The rings
or patches vary in size from a shilling to that of a
crown-piece.  There is much itching, and in oldstanding cases the whole scalp may be implicated;
but the general health is rarely disturbed.
SHINGLES.-When ringworm encircles the waist,
it is called Shingles or Zona. It occurs in inflamed



Spitting or Vomiting of Blood.


177


the stomach, it is of a dark color, is vomited, and is
sometimes mixed with food. Calmness and judgment
are especially necessary, as the discharge of considerable quantities of blood is otherwise likely to cause
such alarm, both in the patient and his friends, as to
unfit them for carrying out those prudent measures
which are necessary for recovery.
TREATMENT.-A conitum.-Chiefly indicated when
flushed face, palpitation, and anguish accompany the
hemorrhage; or for the premonitory symptoms in
frequent attacks, such as shiverings, quick pulse, palpitation, etc. One drop of tincture, in a spoonful of
water, repeated in ten or fifteen minutes, or in one,
two, or three hours.
For the immediate treatment, see under " Accessory
Means."
A rnica.- Haemorrhage from a fall, blow, or severe
exertion.  If inflammatory symptoms predominate,
Arn. and Acon; may be administered alternately.
(Hamamelis is often a better remedy.)
Ipecacuanha.- Paleness of the face, frequent inclination to vomit, short cough, expectoration streaked
with blood. Often useful after A con., and before the
administration of China or Ars.
China.- Chiefly required after hemorrhage for
removing the consequent debility. Its chief indicacations are, frequent taste of blood, shivering, flushes,
dizziness, feeble pulse, cold hands or feet, fainting,
etc.
A rsenicum.- Difficult breathing, extreme palpitmtation of the heart, anguish, burning heat and thirst,
small and quick pulse.



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ACCESSORY MEANS.- The patient should immediately lie down on a sofa or mattrass, with the head
and shoulders elevated. All tight-fitting articles of
dress should be removed, and the patient kept cool
and quiet, and on no account be allowed to talk.
There must be no crowding round him, no noise or
confusion, and the room be kept cool and airy, at about
550 Fahr. No food is for some time admissible, and
the only drink that can be allowed is a little cold
water, or he may suck ice. Should faintness occur,
no alarm need be excited, as it is often nature's method
of arresting the bleeding. After the haemorrhage has
ceased, the patient must still be kept cool and quiet,
and the diet be light and unstimulating, while the
position of the body should be" such as to favor the
efflux of blood fiom  the bleeding organ.  These
measures are necessary to obviate a recurrence of the
symptoms. Sometimes haemorrhage is vicarious, as
in females, when bleeding from the nose or stomach
takes the place of the menstrual discharge. In such
cases the treatment should be directed to the establishment or restoration of the monthly period.
CAUTION.- As before suggested, the general and
medicinal hints here given are only intended for cases
of emergency; and the patient should be placed as
quickly as possible under the care of a Homceopathic
physician.
II.--BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE (Epistaxis).
Bleeding from the nose is of frequent occurrence in
children; a fit of sneezing or coughing, a slight blow,



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severe exercise, or even the heat of summer, often
serving as the exciting cause. Bleeding from the nose
also occurs in the course of many diseases, or at their
termination, and often affords considerable relief. It
should not be interfered with unless. it is excessive,
recurs too frequently, or takes place under a weak
state of the system. When it arises from injuries, or
in patients already reduced by disease, and is excessive,
remedies should be given.
CAUSE.- Undue fullness of the blood-vessels of the
head; local disease of the nostrils; or a constitutional
hasmorrhagic diathesis. In men it frequently succeeds
suppression of the haemorrhoidal discharge, and in
young women it may be vicarious of the menstrual
function. Under peculiar conditions of the constit'ution, epistaxis often occurs periodically in some adult
persons, and then its cessation, without judicious treatment, may become a source of danger.
TREATMENT.- Aconitum.n-Bleeding after being
over-heated, or in plethoric persons, with fever, strong
pulsations of the arteries of the temples and neck, and
full and hurried pulse. A dose every twenty to thirty
minutes, for several times.
A rnica.- Hemorrhage from     external violence, a
blow, fall, or excessive bodily exertion, preceded by
heat and itching of the nose.
Pulsatilla.- In females, from suppressed or scanty
monthly discharge, Pulsatilla or Bryonia, according
to the symptoms present.*
China.- If the loss of blood has been such as to


* See " The Lady's Manual," by the Author.



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iHmmorrhages.


weaken the patient, producing paleness, fainting, etc.
A dose three or four times daily for a week or ten
days. At the same time the food should be nourishing, and taken at regular hours, avoiding, of course,
over-repletion.
Tilaspi.-The "Distilled Extract" of Tklaspi has
proven a valuable remedy in severe cases of nosebleed. Dose: five drops in a teaspoonful of water,
repeated in five minutes if necessary. A little of theextract may also be poured into the hand and snuffed
up the nostril.
ACCESSORY MEASURES.- So long as the haemorrhage continues, the patient should be kept standing,
tliat position favoring fainting, which, as before
remarked, often arrests bleeding.  All stimulating
food and drink must be withheld, and every circumstance likely to quicken the circulation avoided.
Cold is a most successful means of arresting hmmorrhage; it may be applied.to the nose or forehead by a
handkerchief wetted in cold water, or by ice, or by the
sudden application of cold water to the neck or back,
or by placing a cold key or any other iron instrument
to the spine. In these latter instances, the influence
of cold is not restricted to the part to which it is
immediately applied; the bleeding is arrested by the
sympathetic constriction of blood-vessels which it
produces in remote parts. In most cases, however,
the simple plan of causing the patient to raise his
arms above his head, and holding them so for a little
time, promptly arrests haemorrhage.
Plethoric patients, predisposed to this complaint, or
to congestions, should lead a temperate life, avoid



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Cantharis.- Discharge of pure blood in drops, or
copiously blended with the urine, especially when
-associated with difficulty in passing water, scalding
urine, and spasmodic pains in the region of the
bowels.
Camphor.- If the disease has arisen from the use
of Spanish-fly (Cantharis), after the allopathic method
of administering that poison.
Arnica. - Hamorrhage from     external violence,
strains, or severe efforts. If the patieht is robust, and
inflammatory symptoms predominate, Aconitum may
be alternated with this remedy. A dose every hour
for several times; afterwards Arnica only, every four
or six hours.
ACCESSORY MEANS.- Demulcent drinks, such as
linseed-tea, gum-water, etc., may be taken in considerable quantities. The cold compress, covered with
oiled-silk, over the loins, if the hminorrhage proceeds
from the kidneys, or over the whole region of the
bladder, if the bleeding proceeds from that organ, will
mitigate the pain, and favor a more rapid cure.
IV.- H.1EMORRHAGE FROM THE WOMB AND VAGINA
- FLOODING (i3letrorrlagia).
This may occur under various conditions, many of
which are of such an intricate character as to be quite
unintelligible to non-professional readers; indeed, it
would require a considerable treatise to describe the
various functional and organic derangements of the
womb, of which hemorrhage is but a symptom. We
will, therefore, only suggest such remedies and n;ea



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cesses, and so are unable to resist the forces of the circulation, especially in congestion; and of loss of
coagulability of blood, from  a defective or altered
character of the fibrine, the chief agent in coagulation,
and of-some change in the red corpuscles. Hence
the most trivial wound bleeds almost uncontrollably,
and even life may be jeopardized by a slight injury or
surgical operation. The hcmorrhagic diathesis may
may not in all cases be hereditatry, but caused by diseases of internal organs, such as the liver and spleen,
which exert a deleterious influence upon the constituents of the blood. The knowledge of the existence of
such a diathesis is most important, as it would materially modify the medical and surgical treatment of
the patient.



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V.--FATIGUE AND OVER-EXERTION.
If the feet are swollen or blistered, or the ankles
ache after walking, a warm foot-bath may be used, to
which a teaspoonful of the strong tincture of Arnica
is added, the relief afforded being immediate and permanent. If the hands or wrists ache from excessive
or unaccustomed exertion, they may be bathed in about
a pint of water, to which twenty or thirty drops of
Arnica have been added.    If necessary, in one or
two hours, the application may be repeated. In muscular fatigue from long-continued, or short but severe,
exertion, affecting the hips, thighs, etc., a hip-bath, to
which a drachm of the strong tincture of Arnica has
been added, is an excellent remedy.  The patient
should remain in the bath about five minutes. Whatever kind of bath is used, and to whatever part
applied, it should be warm if used in the evening or
immediately after exertion, but cold in the morning.
VI.-BURNS AND SCALDS.
Severe injuries from burns or scalds, especially those
implicating large surfaces, are very dangerous, and
often fatal.  The subjoined treatment has reference
only to slight cases.
TREATMENT.-A       most important object to be
attained is to cover the injured parts with some suitable material that will exclude atmospheric air, which
should not be removed till the cure is complete. The
following are the local applications most frequently
used:
(i.) Colton- Wool.-This should be immediately



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the publisher of this book, has secured the sale of this
Liniment for the United States of America.
Having selected the local remedy, the points of
greatest importance are, its immediate afplication to
the burn, the complete exclusion of atmospheric air,
and the changing of the dressings as infrequently as
possible, not, indeed, until they have become loosened
or foetid from the discharges. A complete change of
dressing often causes pain, depression, and the detachment of portions of the new skin, and so retards the
cure.
If, after the removal of the first dressing, ulcers
exist, Calendula or Glycerine cerate will be a most
suitable application. If there is much discharge, it
should be carefully and frequently removed, and the
parts kept as cleanly as possible.
Internal treatment, except in slight cases, is always
necessary, and must be suited to the part injured, its
extent, and the constitutional symptoms present. As
a general rule, Aconitum, early, does good, by allaying
febrile symptoms, mitigating pain, and moderating
reaction.
VII.-BROKEN BONES (Fractures).
A few words on broken bones seem necessary in this
manual, as a surgeon is not always immediately accessible, and it is necessary to be prepared to act till surgical attendance can be had.
SYMPTOMS.-A fractured or broken bone may generally be detected by having felt it snap; there is also



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193


apposition, and in their natural form, and having done
so, maintain them in perfect contact, and at rest, till
firm union has taken place. To maintain the proper
shape and length of the limb, bandages, splints, and
various apparatus are required.  Beyond the mere
management of such accidents, however, till he
arrives, a surgeon only can treat such cases.
A BROKEN LEG should be fastened to the whole one
by handkerchiefs at the ankle, and above and below
the knee, before the patient is removed.
FRACTURE OF THE ARM requires the immediate
support of a sling, which may be made by a handkerchief and fastened round the neck.
BROKEN RIBS require aflannel bandage, about two
hands broad, round the chest, and have shoulder straps
to keep it up. A rather tight-fitting bandage lessens
the movement of the chest in breathing, and is a great
comfort.
VIII.-STRANGULATED RUPTURE (Hernia)
NATURE.-Rupture is a protrusion of some portion
of the intestines through the walls of the abdomen,
causing a swelling. If this becomes constricted in
any way, so that the contents of the bowel cannot pass
onwards, and the circulation of blood is impeded, it is
said to be strangulated.
SYMPTOMS.-A painful, tense, and incompressible
swelling; flatulence, and colicky pains; obstruction;
desire'to go to stool, and inability to pass anything,
unless there be any faical matter in the bowel below
the rupture. If relief is not obtained, inflammation
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Accidents.


sets in, with vomiting, extreme pain, small wiry pulse,
etc.; and, finally, mortification, with cessation of pain,
and death.
CAUSES.- Weakness of the abdominal walls from
disease, injury, or congenital deficiency; violent exertion, as in lifting; immoderate straining, as in passing urine through a stricture, or in relieving the
bowels.
TREATMENT.-Lose no time in trying to push the
tumor back into the abdomen, as the patient lies
doubled up, and the hips raised. If not quickly successful, lay the patient on a board, placed so as to form
a steep inclined flane, so that the patient's feet and
hips are very much higher than his head; he should
be firmly held in this posture by an assistant, when,
by pressure on the swelling, and often without any,
the bowels will fall towards the chest, drawing with
them the constricted portion. If the rupture resists
these measures, the best surgeon within reach shou-ld
be immediately sent for.
IX.-POISONS.
When it is known that a deleterious substance has
been swallowed, as arsenic and other mineral poisons,
opium, poisonous jish, alcohol, etc., vomiting should be
immediately excited, by tickling the back of the throat
with a feather or with a finger, and if this fails, by
the administration of an emetic. The following is a
convenient emetic: mix a teaspoonful of mustard in
a teacupful of warm water, for a child, or a dessert.
spoonful in a breakfast-cupful of water, for an adult.



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count, one, two. See figure i.*  This is inspiration,
or filling the chest with air.
Then turn down the patient's arms, and press them
gently and firmly against the sides of the chest while
you count, one, two. See figure 2. This empties
the chest of air.
FIG. 2- EXPIRATION.
Repeat these movements about fifteen times in a
minute, until natural breathing takes place.
Next try to promote circulation. Rub the limbs
upwards with firm pressure, to favor the return of
blood to the heart.
Promote warmnth by the application of hot flannels,
hot bottles wrapped round with flannel, heated bricks,
or by any means at hand, to the pit of the stomach,
the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of
the feet.
* Figs. I and 2.-To illustrate the position of the body
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Miscellaneous Diseases.


treatment, however, is nearly the same in the different
varieties.
CAUSES.- Exposure to cold and wet; sudden suppression of perspiration; and especially evaporation
from wet clothes, causing chill. It occurs most often in
young people, from twenty to thirty years of age, or
younger. Joints which have been sprained, long and
excessively exercised, or otherwise injured, are particularly prone to suffer.
TREATMENT. - Aconitum. - Acute rheumatism,
chiefly at the commencement; violent shooting or
tearing pains, aggravated by touch; swelling and redness of the affected parts; impaired appetite; highcolored and scanty urine, and other febrile symptoms.
A dose every second or third hour.
Bryonia.- Lancinating or stitching muscular pains,
"worse on movement or touch; rheumatism affecting
the muscles of the chest, causing difficult or painful
breathing (false pleurisy).
Rhus tox.- Pains worse during rest, or on first
moving the limb, but relieved by continued movement;
deep, tearing, or bruised pains; rheumatism   from
getting wet, aggravated by damp or cold weather.
lfercurius.- Puffy swelling of the affected parts;
the pains seem to be in the bones, and are worse with
warmth and at night; profuse perspiration without
relief.
Colocynth.- Lacerating, stitching pains, affecting
the nerves, as Sciatica and Tic-doloreux; rheumaticgout.
Pulsatilla.- Wandering rheumatism; rheumatism



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relieved by cold; sensation of torpor in the limbs;
pale face; diarrhoea, etc.
Sulphur.-Rheumatism in scrofulous patients; and
after other remedies, to complete the cure; also as an
intercurrent remedy in obstinate cases.
Dose and Repetition.-See page 46.
AccEssoRY MEANS.- During the fever, the patient
should remain in bed, and the diet be restricted to
water, milk-and-water, barley-water, gruel, etc. Warm
baths, or hot compresses, are both useful and comforting.   Wet-packing   of the whole body, or of the
affected parts, according to circumstances, is a most
useful adjunct.*
CHRONIC RH-EUMATISM.- Chronic rheumatism requires similar remedies to the acute form. Persons
liable to it should wear flannel and warm clothing
generally, and avoid damp and cold. Warm salt,
vapor, or hot-air baths are useful. After the use of
warm bathing, cold should be gradually tried, as it
tends to prevent subsequent attacks. Friction, with
Arnica or Rius Liniment, are beneficial, especially in
Lumbago, and other local and limited forms of rheumatism. Errors in diet should be guarded against,
as attacks are very likely to follow derangement of the
digestive organs.
* Where medical treatment does not give the desired
relief, the best resort is galvanism, either by the application
of the current from a suitable battery, or by wearing the
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Mfiscllaneous Diseases.


II. - LUMBAGO - PAINS IN THE LOINS.
See under " Rheumatism," page 199.
Rhus tox.- Chronic lumbago; pains worse during
repose, and at night; lumbago from getting wet.
Bryonlia.- Intense pains, causing the patient to
walk stooping, increased by movement or a draught
of air, with shivering or biliousness.
A mica.- From over-lifting, a sprain, or a blow on
the loins.
Liniments, medicated with the same remedy as
administered internally, rubbed into the affected parts
are very useful.
1II. - GOUT (Podagra).
The ancient name of this complaint, podagra - foot
pain - indicates the parts usually affected.
CAUSES.- Gout generally occurs in elderly gentlemen who live luxuriously, and suffer much from
heartburn, and other symptoms of acid dyspepsia.
The predisposing cause is often hereditary.
Distinctions between Gout and Rheumatism:
I. Gout rarely occurs till about or after the middle
period of life; rheumatism attacks the young.
2. Gout chiefly affects the small joints- the metatarsal joint of the great toe; rheumatism the large.
3. Gout is often associated with chalk-stones (urate
of soda); rheumatism is not.
4. Gout is decidedly hereditary; rheumatism is
less so.
5. Gout is not attended with profuse acid sweats;
rheumatism is.



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6. Gout is often the punishment of the luxurious and
indolent; rheumatism is the lot of the hard-working
and the exposed.
TREATMENT.- Aconitum.- Fever symptoms, especially at the commencement and in stout persons.
Nux vomica.- Attacks traceable to stimulants, luxurious living, with indigestion or irregular action of
the bowels.
Bryonia.-Gout implicating the chest, or with
bilious symptoms; pains increased by movement.
Ant. crud.- Nausea, white-coated tongue, with
increase of pains after food. Gouty nodes.
Dose, etc., see page 46.
ACCESSORY MEANS.- Flannels wrung out of hot
water, or spongio-piline after immersion in hot water,
often do good.
PREVENTIVE TREATMENT.- The patient should
-be well nourished, but the consumption of aninal
food diminished, and the tendency to acidity of the
stomach guarded against by avoiding pastry, greasy
food, twice-cooked meat, raw vegetables, and port
wine. Moderate and regular exercise in the open air,
and the sponge-bath every morning.
IV.-PALPITATION OF THE HEART
(Palpitatio cordis.).
In a normal condition we are scarcely sensible of
the heart's beat; when, however, its pulsations become
much increased in force or frequency, the unpleasant
sensation known as palpitation is experienced.
CAUsEs.-The predisposing are, nervous temperaQ*



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jeopardised. The treatment should, therefore, if possible, be confided to a Homoeopathic physician.
TREATMENT.- Aconilum.- Inflammatory symptoms, often in alternation with some other remedy.
Camphor.- Spasms at the neck of the bladder,
especially if caused by Cantharides (a drop on a piece
of loaf sugar every fifteen minutes for three or four
times).
Cantharis.- Urging to pass water, with cutting
and tearing pains.
Nux vomica.- Painful ineffectual efforts to urinate,
from the use of wine or spirits, and for spasmodic
stricture.
Sulphur.- Cases complicated with piles.
Arnica.-Retention from mechanical injury, or the
irritation of calculi.
Dose and repetition.- See page 46.
ACCESSORY    MEANS.    The introduction of the
catheter, so often resorted to under the old treatment,
is frequently superseded by the more efficient remedies
we employ; still it may be necessary in some cases;
but as this requires professional skill, it is useless to
refer to it further in a domestic work.    External
applications, such as warm baths, hot or cold cloths,
fomentations and injections, will greatly aid the
medicines in restoring the functions of the parts, if
there be not organic disease. Relief may often be
obtained by directing the patient to step suddenly,
with naked feet, on to the cold floor, or into cold
water. The diet must be sparing, and in severe cases
restricted to demulcent drinks, such as gum-water,
barley-water, and gruel.



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Miscellaneous Diseases.


VIII.-SPERMATORRHCEA - INVOLUNTARY EMISSIONS.
In the preceding editions of this manual, the subject
of this section has been incidentally mentioned under
one or two medicines in the Materia Medica, and in the
ten years that have now elapsed since the first edition
was published, the author has been consulted by many
hundred persons, in various parts of the kingdom, suffering from seminal weakness, proving that the evils of
this affection are wide-spread as well as serious. The
author's correspondence with patients leads him to
conclude that the disease is much overlooked or underrated by medical men generally; although, probably,
in some cases his treatment has been adopted from an
indisposition to consult personally a medical man in
the patient's neighborhood on such a subject.
CAUSES. - The discharge alluded to generally
occurs as the result of a bad habit -self-abuse, either
accidentally acquired, or learned from associates, especially in schools, and continued under the influence of
a morbid imagination, and often in ignorance of the
consequences of the vicious practice. Other causes
may be morbid conditions of the urethra, or of the
rectum; sexual excesses; frequent excitation of the
sexual passion; irritation from worms, piles, horseback
exercise, etc.; disease of the brain or spinal marrow,
etc.
EFFECTS.- The effects of spermatorrhoea aredepression of spirits, often very marked; loss or weakness of memory and other senses; indigestion, with
oppression after food, flatulence, headache, etc.; sunken
eyes, and loss of the healthy tints of the lips and face,



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the patient looking older than his years. If indulgence in the habit has been long continued, the effects,
which need not be here particularised, are more serious
and general. Happily, a course of judicious treatment is sufficient in nearly every case to effect a cure.
TREATMENT.-The treatment, both medical and
hygienic, must be varied in almost every instance, and
include all available methods for establishing the constitutional strength, soothing local excitement and
irritability, and forming healthy habits both of the
mind and body.
The Medical treatment involves the administration
of Homoeopathic remedies (only two or three are
described in this work- China, Phosphorus, etc.),
the selection and the dose of which can only be
determined by the local and general symptoms of
individual cases. An important feature in the medical treatment should be the correction of any concurrent affection with which the patient may suffer.
The Hygienic treatment involves influences of wide
extent, and associated with the commercial, social, and
moral relationships of the patient, such as occupations,
recreations, books, meals, sleep, bathing, and mental
and moral discipline.  The management of these
several points must be regulated according to the
exigencies of each case, and involve details which
cannot be described here. Even were a plan sketched
out that would apply to many cases, still each case
possesses its own special peculiarities, and requires, in
certain respects, separate management.*
*Dr. Eldridge's valuable little work, " Self-Enervation,"
will be of use to those requiring further information. It
gives both medical and electrical treatment.



watt    HE.
CONCISE MATERIA MEDICA.
In this chapter we have only indicated a few of the
prominent uses of the thirty remedies named in the list,
page 43, most of which, in consequence of their frequent
and general use, are termed polycrests, or many-healing
remedies-medicines possessing curative power in many
diseases. For a wider sphere of the action of each of the
annexed remedies, the reader is referred to larger works.
In prescribing for so many complaints from such a limited list of remedies, it is necessary to remark that the
Homoeopathic Materia Medica includes several hundred
medicines; domestic practitioners, therefore, who restrict
themselves to these thirty or forty must not, in cases of
failure, conclude that they have exhausted the resources
of Homoeopathy, nor despair of hope when so wide a
range of appliances is available to the professional man.
CHAPTER I.
I.-REMEDIES FOR INTERNAL USE.
I. AcoNITUM NAPELLUS. -The English names of this
plant are Wolfsbane, because it proves exceedingly poisonous to wolves, and Monkshood, because its beautiful blue
flowers resemble the hood which monks used to wear.
"This medicine," says Hempel, "constitutes the backbone, as it were, of our Materia Medica;" there being
scarcely an acute disease in which it is not more or less
required



Materia Medica.                209
Prominent Uses of A conitum.-Chiefly at the commencement, and often in the course, of all feverish and inflammatory afections. Its especial indications are thirst, and
dry, hot skin; chills and shiverings, succeeded by burning
heat; strong, rapid pulse; restlessness, anxiety, flushing
of the face; pain; quick or labored breathing; dry cough,
with fever; deficient, hot, or high-colored urine; ophthalmia, etc. It probably surpasses all other known remedies
in its power of controlling the circulatory system, and triumphantly supersedes the lancet and the leech.  "To
enumerate," says Dudgeon, " the diseases for which it is
suitable would be to mention the acute inflammation of
every possible order and tissue of the body; and if it be
not for all of these the sole remedy, it is almost always useful either previous to, or in alternation with, another
which has perhaps a more specific relation to the part
affected." Had Hahnemann's labors extended no further
than the discovery and demonstration of the wide and
inclusive curative power of this great remedy it would
have entitled him to the gratitude of countless myriads of
his fellow-creatures in every succeeding generation. He
most appropriately ranks it as first and foremost in his
Materia Medica, not because its name begins with the first
letter of the alphabet, but because of its transcendant
power and extended sphere of action: he terms it a
" precious plant," whose " efficacy almost amounts to a
miracle."
2.-ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.-The beneficial action of this
remedy is chiefly restricted to affections of the mucous
membrane and the skin, and more especially when those
surfaces are concurrently diseased.
The mucous membrane both of the stomach and the alimentary canal is loaded with mucus, producing eructations,
foul, bitter, or tasting of the food; nausea, and sometimes
vomiting; fcetid flatulence; loss of appetite; constipation,
alternating with diarrhoea; mucous discharge from the
anus; secretion of tenacious mucus, with much hawking
for its removal; milky-white tongue; slow digestion, with
drowsiness, loss of strength, etc. It is an excellent remedy
in that morbid condition of the intestinal canal which
favors the production of worms. Chronic catarrh of the
bladder, with turbid, fetid urine, and sometimes painful
micturition.
Skin.-Pimples or blotches; rough irregular eruptions
on the nose or cheeks; tubercular eruptions about the roots
of the beard; scald-head, with unhealthy, coherent crusts;
sore eyelids or ears, parts easily becoming sore; ill-con



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bruises, falls, etc.; severe concussions, such as often occur
in railway accidents, or in the hunting field, without leaving external marks of violence; pains, supposed to be
rheumatic, from long, heavy, physical toil; concussion of
the brain; immediate treatment after operations and childbirth; rheumatic pains; stitch in the side; fatigue; chilblains, with hot swelling and tingling; swelling of the
breast, soreness of the nipple, etc. (For external uses see
page 227).
6. - ARSENICUM. - Prominent Uses. - Cold, inqfuenza,
asthma, bronchitis, with difficult expectoration, wheezing
breathing, etc.; fevers-intermittent typhoid, and putrid,
"with great thirst, debility, etc.; diseases marked by defresscd
and almost exhausted vitality; cholera, in the more violent
forms of the disease; diseases of the stomach and bowels,
especially when accompanied with great prostration or
burning -ains; severe vomiting, diarrhea with watery,
green or dark, burning motions, as in chronic dyspepsia;
skin diseases, particularly eruptions about the mouth,
attended with burning, and the discharge of a thin. watery
fluid; old or obstinate ulcers, with burning or itching, or
with a bloody, thin, or foetid discharge; scrofulous affections, and dropsical complaints.
7.-BELLADONNA.-This medicine almost ranks in importance with Aconite in inflammatory diseases characterised
by bright-redness of the parts, fain, intolerance of light
and sound, and other symptoms of the head. It is often
required after Aconite, or in alternation with it, in inflamnmation of the eyes, with dilated pupils, dread of light, etc.;
sore throat with redness and swelling; toothache; complaints marked by congestion in the head, or attended with
spasms, convulsions, neuralgia, and delirium. Affections
of the brain and nervous system; eruptive fevers, especially
scarlatina (for which it is often specific) and erysipelas
(not vesicular); violent headache, especially frontal. aggravated by movement; rheumatic inflammations with hot
swellings, swollen glands, etc. Its power in preventing
attacks of epidemic scarlatina, as well as of curing that
disease, has not only been asserted by Hahnemann and
Hufeland. but has been abundantly established by facts.
8.-BRYONIA. - Prominent Uses.- Pleurisy; pneumonia;
dry, severe cough, with a sensation of tickling under the
breastbone; stitches, and shooting ains in the chest, acutely
increased by coughing, a deep inspiration, or even movement; derangements of the liver and bowels; lumbago,
sciatica, rheumatism of the joints, and all rheumatic affections in which thep ain is aggravated by movement; bilious



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urine, which is bloody and sometimes albuminous; burning
and scalding pains on passing water; tenderness at the lower
part of the abdomen; strangury. Paralysis of the neck
of the bladder, especially in women and children. Suppression of urine from acute congestion. The sexual organs
are probably only affected by sympathy with the urinary
organs.
12.-CARBO VEGETABILIS.-Affections of the digestive
organs, with oppression after eating; flatulent distension
of the stomach, with acidity or heart-burn; burning and
contractive pain and erpission of fetid flatulence; a burning sensation in the lower bowel; tendency to diarrhoea;
piles; worms; toothache, with spongy or ulcerated gums;
hoarseness, loss of voice, sensitiveness to variations of
weather; chronic nettle rash; itching and burning of the
skin: unhealthy, burning, foetid ulcers. Carbo vegetabilis
counteracts the injurious consequences of Mercury and
uinine.
13.-CHAMOMILLA.-Chiefly in diseases of children and
women, affecting the biliary and uterine system. Convulsions, arising from teething, anger or pain in the bowels;
neuralgia, with tearing, dragging, and lancinating pains;
toothache, the pains being worse at night, tearing and
stitching, with swelling of the cheeks, and a feeling as if
the teeth were elongated; dificult dentition, when one of
the cheeks is red and hot, the gums swollen and sensitive,
the child irritable, and convulsions are indicated; diarrhaea
of children, from cold or teething, when the motions are
watery, slimy, green, or yellow, and preceded by cutting
pains; dentition-fever, with crossness, restlessness, and
irregular circulation, one cheek being hot, the other cold;
catarrhal cough of children, with hoarseness and rattling
of mucus in the throat. The action of this remedy upon
the sexual system of women is very marked, especially in
various derangements during pregnancy; after-pains.
Also for the consequences of passion, and when pains are
badly borne.
14.-CHINA-PERUVIAN BARK.-Weakness consequent
on exhaustive discharges-loss of blood, diarrhoea, prolonged nursing, sexual excesses, etc.; consequences of
intermittent and other miasmatic fevers, purgatives, mercury, broken rest, etc. It is homoeopathic to many forms
of fever of a periodical type; debility marked by disposition to sweat, especially exhausting night-sweats; diarrhoea, especially summer diarrhoea, when the discharges
are slimy, bilious, or mixed with undigested food. and
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jaundice; enlargement of the spleen, with a dirty-yellow
complexion; debilitating seminal emissions (spermatorrhcea) from sexual vices, with undue excitement of the sexual instinct, in patients weak, low-spirited, and dyspeptic.
15.-CINA.-Affections arising from  the presence of
worms in the ihtestinal canal, especially thread-worms,
indicated by picking the nose, grinding the teeth, convulsions and spasms, voracious appetite alternating with poor
appetite, itching at the seat, d'iarrhcetic motions, discharge
of worms, wetting the bed (enuresis), cutting pain in the
abdomen, hoarse, hollow cough in children, and other
symptoms from inverminous affections.
16.-COFFEA.-This remedy is chiefly used for morbid
sensitiveness and irritation of the nervous system, especiallywhen following tidings of a joyous character; fretfulness
and wakecf-lness of children; nervous toothache; almost
insupportable pains during or after labor; nervous sufferings of highly excitable children or hysterical women.
17.-COLOcYNTH.-This drug has not a wide range of
action, and is chiefly prescribed for Colic of a griping,
flatulent character, with diarrhcetic evacuations; neuralgia,
sciatica, etc.
iS.-Cuprum metallicum.-Derangement of the nervous
system characterized by cramps, convulsive movements, and
spasms. Chorea, especially of the upper extremities or of
one side of the body, with neuralgic pains previous to
or during the attack, and followed by paralysis of the
affected parts; epilepsy, which began and is characterized
by the violence of the convulsions, and usually paleness
of the face, vertigo and headache, and muscular tremors;
melancholy, debility, very slow pulse, languor, loathing
of food, sallow complexion, and emaciation from nervous
affections, hysteria, etc. Chronic vomiting and diarrhoea:
the cramps and vomiting of asiatic cholera; spasmodic
asthma, croup and hooping-cough.
19.--DRosERA.-Hooping-cough, with suffocative symptoms, vomiting, or bleeding from the nose, especially when
the " whoop" has become fully developed, and after the tse
of ZIecacuaunha and Belladonna: also in spasmodic cough
generally, with a tickling sensation in the throat, vomiting,
or wheezing breathing, and a feeling of suffocation.
20o.-DULC.M.\RA.-.Various affections, such as cold in
the head, nausea, catarrh of the bladder, mnucouti diarrhoea,
etc., resulting froin exposure to damp or a thorough wetting,
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sure to damp, Dulcamara will often entirely prevent the
ordinary consequences of a cold.
21.-GELSEMINUM..-Irritability, dull, stupid, intoxicated
feeling of the head. Dull, stupefying, pressive headache.
Dizziness. Heaviness of the eyelids; difficult keeping the
eyes open; dim, blurred vision. Double vision, dilated
Spupils. Cold in the head, with sneezing, and watery discharge from the nose. Influenza, measles. Chilliness, as
in the beginning of colds, fevers and many inflammatory
affections. Chills, with headache, and pains in the back
and limbs.   Scarlet fevers, bilious fever (early stage);
excessive and tedious labor pains; after pains; labor pains.
(Dr. J. S. Douglas.)
22.--IEPAR SULPI-URIS.--This is a compound of Sulphur
and Caicarea, and has points of resemblance to each,
influencing the skin like Sulphur, and the glands like Calcarea. It has also an action differing from either of these
remedies separately. It is chiefly prescribed in inflammatory affections of the wind-pilie and air-passages,-croup;
difficult, wheezing breathing; hoarseness; consumptive
coughs, etc.; also for scrofulous, cnlarged glands discharging matter; abscesses; scald-head; salivation, and other
consequences resulting from large doses of Mercury. Like
Silicea, but to a less extent, it favors the suppurative
process.
23.--IGNATIA.-This remedy is especially valuable for the
consequences of deep-seated emotions, especially grief, in
persons, females particularly, of a highly sensitive temperament, who often change from high spirits to a low
state of despondency; nervous headache; hysteric, convulsive, or spasmodic disorders, consequent on grief, disappointment, or ill-humor, with the sensation of a ball rising
in the throat (globus hystericus); premature menstruation;
nervous affections of girls at puberty, and of women at the
critical period; convulsive affections of infants; also some
of the symptoms of hypochondriasis in the male sex.
24.-IPECACUANHA.-Chiefly useful in affections of the
respiratory and digestive organs. Spasmodic, suffocative
cough, with tickling in the throat, soimetimes with nausea,
vomiting, bloody expectoration, or bleeding from the nose;
stasmodic-asthma, especially at night; hooping-cough,
during the spasmodic stage, with rattling breathing; hayfever, and some varieties of bronchitis. Derangements of
the digestive organs, characterised by nausea and vomiting, with diarrhoea, colic, with loose, fermented, or dysenteric stools, especially in children.  Ilcemorrhage from



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various organs, the blood being bright-red, with anxiety,
pale face, vomiting, etc.
25.-KALI BICH-ROMICUM.-As prescribed in this manual,
the prominent uses of this remedy are in afections of the
mucous membranes and the skin. On the respiratory mucous
lining it has great power, especially in chronic bronchitis
with much tough, stringy mucus, difficult to expectorate;
cough with wheezing, difficult breathing; chronically ulcerated throat; hoarseness; chronic catarrh; membranous
croup; polyvus ofthe nose. It is curative in catarrhal and
strumous ophthalmia, and in syphilitic affections of the
eye. In the digestive tract it is valuable in dyspepsia, with
heartburn, eructations, nausea, thickly-coated, yellowish
tongue, bitter taste, etc. All additional indication for its
use is a simultaneous affection of the respiratory and digestive mucous membrane. Affections of the skin, within the
sphere of the action of this remedy, are chiefly pustular
eruptions, ulcers of the legs, (see also Calendula as an
external remedy), especially of a syphilitic character, and
pimples on the face.
26.-LYcoPODIUM.-Chronic affections of the digestive
organs; pain, sensitiveness, or distended abdomen; waterbrash; chronic constipation; gravel and stone; moist
eruptions; scald-head; glandular swellings; rheumatic
complaints; scrofulous ulcers; loss of hair. It is adapted
to constitutions subject to mucous discharges, women in
particular.
27.-MERcURIUs.-There are various preparations of
Mercury used by Homceopathic practitioners, but in this
manual we have chiefly referred to two, as under:
ist.-MERCURKUS SOLUBILIS.-The following are a few
of the morbid conditions for which this remedy is prescribed:--Glandular afe'ctions, with swelling and sometimes suppuration; sore throat; especially scarlatinal sore
throat, with swelling, pain, difficulty in swallowing, and
ulceration; profuse flow of saliva from the mouth, with a
fcetid odor; thrush; cancrum oris; toothache from decay,
with darting, tearing pains, extending to the temples and
glands, the teeth feeling too long; gum-boils; jaundice,
ycllowness of the skin and of the whites of the eyes;
ophthalmia;n agglutination of the eyelids; ulcers on the
cornea; discharge from the ears, soreness, deafness; diarrhoea, frequent desire to relieve the bowels, preceded by
chilliness, with grceen-, clay-, or various-colored, slimy and
offensive evacuations, especially the diarrhea of infants
and children: "torpid liver," wi'h deficient secretion of
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pain in the right side, poor appetite, and dejection of
spirits; long round worms; syphilitic and scrofulous swellings of the glands in the groins; gonorrhwa; syphilitic
ulcers, etc. Two marked symptoms indicating this remedy
are, aggravation of the pains and general symptoms at
night, and profuse perspirations that afford no relief.
2nd.-MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS.-Dysenteric affections,
with tenesmus (straining), burning pains in the abdomen,
and discharge of blood and mucus; cirrhosis; scrofulous,
rheumatic, and syphilitic ophthalmia; gonorrhcea, in the
first stage, with sharp pain on urinating; syphilitic eruptions, etc.
28.-Nux VOMICA.-This remedy is suited to functional
gastric derangements from a depressed condition of the
nervous system, especially the following:-Constipation,
with ineffectual desire for stool; constipation alternating
"with relaxation, the action being " inharmonious and
spasmodic;" waterbrash, heartburn, flatulence, the symptoms being of a spasmodic character; headache, with giddiness, flushed face, constipation, and other symptoms
dependent on gastric conditions; acute indigestion, with
nausea and violent vomiting, headache, trembling hands,
and other affections following intoxication. A few less
prominent applications of Nux vomica are the following:
chronic congestion of the liver; spasmodic asthma; dry
coryza; irritable bladder, and spasmodic stricture, from
abuse of alcohol. The pains which point to Nux arise
from spasms, and not from inflammation. It is especially
valuable in affections resulting from sedentary habits, too
close brain labor, want of out-of-door recreation, anxiety
and business cares, night-watching, the use of tobacco,
indulgence at table, and from the use of alcohol. It is
chiefly adapted to persons of spare habit, firm fibre, and
of energetic, irritable, or hypochondriacal disposition, with
tendency to irregular action of the bowels, and piles. The
symptoms come on or are worse early in the morning, and
are increased by taking food, or by mental efforts.
29. - OPIUM. - Obstinate constipation, from paralytic
obstruction, or want of peristaltic action of the intestines;
lead colic; paralytic retention of urine; recent affections
from fright, or sudden violent emotions; aipoplectic conditions, with stertorous (snoring) breathing, and slow and
full pulse; typhus fever, with sleepiness, listlessness, and
partial retention of urine; general mental and physical
torpor. As may be inferred from the last indication,
Opium is often useful in that nervous insusceptibility in
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improvement; in such cases, Opium often restores the lost
nervous impressionability, and places the patient in a condition to be benefited by the appropriate remedy.
30.-PHOSPHORUS.-This remedy is chiefly valuable in
long-continued, exhausting diseases, of which the following is an epitome:-Pncumonia, especially in children;
chronic bronchitis, with considerable constitutional irritation; hoarseness; dry coiuJh, or cough with expectoration
of mucus, sometimes with blood; chronic cough; phthisis
(consumption), in which it is of signal use, moderating
the cough, diarrhoea, and congestion of the lungs; chronic
"wtastin'g,- diarrhcea, and hectic; chronic inflammation of the
stomach and bowels; atrophy of the liver, and other hepatic
affections; malignant jaundice; fatty degeneration, in any
part; typhus and other fevers, with atonic condition of the
brain, and want of vital reaction.
Phosphorus is also a remedy for physical and nervous
weakness from loss of animal fluids, especially from sexual
excesses and self-abuse.
31.-PODOPHYLLUM. -Adapted to diseases of children
while teething; worm diseases. Softncss of the flesh, with
debility, in children. Moistness of the skin, with preternatural warmth. Sallowness of the skin, in children.
Sleepiness in the day time, with rumbling in the bowels.
Too heavy sleep at night, restless sleep of children.
Fever, attended with constipation. Giddiness and dizziness, with a sensation of fullness over the eyes. Rolling
of the head during difficult dentition, in children. Perspiration of the head during sleep, with coldness of the
flesh while teething.
Grinding of the teeth at night during dentition.
Satiety from a small quantity of food, followed by nausea
and voniting.   Loss of appetite.  Gastric  affections
attended by depression of spirits, rumbling in the abdomen, sensation of heat in the bowels, accompanying the
inclination to go to stool,-cramp-like pain. Constipation,
with flatulence and headache.  Diarrhoea immediately
after eating or drinking. White slimy stools, cholera
infantum.  IFrequent chalk-like stools, which are very
offensive, with gagging and excessive thirst, in children.
Hot, watery stools. Copious evacuations, with blueness
under the eyes. Diarrhoea of children during dentition.
Falling of the bowel. (Dr. G. E. Shipman.)
32. -PUtLS.\TLL A.- fucous dIspepsia, with thicklycoated, rough tongue, nausea and vomiting of bile, mucus,
or of a bitter, soLr fluid, with diminished or altered taste;
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diarrhoea, with little pain, chiefly at night, from indigestible, fat food; heartburn. It assists in cleansing the tongue,
moderating the catarrh, and checking the diarrhoea in
measles, chicken-pox, remittent-fever, and other diseases of
children. In the respiratory mucous membrane it is chiefly
useful in catarrhal affections and sub-acute bronchitis, with
much mucous discharge. Pulsatilla is much used in profuse lachrymation, agglutination, twitching, styes, and
other affections of the eye-lids, especially of a sub-acute
character and in scrofulous persons. Deafness from catarrh,
or following measles, with noises in the ears; ear-ache of
children, with purulent discharge.  Varicose veins, and
embarrassed venous circulation, especially during pregnancy. In gout and rheumatism, it is chiefly indicated
when the attacks are sub-acute, and the pains shift from
one part to another. The most remarkable property, however, of this remedy is its action upon the female sexual
system, as in tardyor suppressed menstruation; leucorrhoea,
false, delayed, or deficient labor-pains; retained placenta
(after-birth); excessive after-pains; suppression of the
lochia, and a Oleficient secretion of milk. Administered
some time previous to labor, it facilitates that process. It
is also useful in swollen testicle, and other affections of the
male organs. Generally, however, Pulsatilla is more suited
to the female sex, or rather to persons of gentle dispositions,
of fair complexion, easily excited to laughter or weeping,
and with a tendency to relaxation rather than constipation.
33. -RHUS TOXICODENDRON. -This remedy is chiefly
used in Rheumatism, and in afections of the skin. Rheumatism, sub-acute and chronic, worse during rest, and on
first attempting to move, but relieved after a little movement; lumbago, especially after the use of Aconite; sciatica;
paralysis, partial or complete, especially from exposure of
the back to damp and cold; vesicular (with little bladders)
erysifelas; chicken-pox; ringworm; shingles; scald-head;
chronic diarrhoea, etc.
34.-SILICEA.-Scrofulous ulcers; glandular and lymphatic swellings; afections of bones (rickets); housemaid's
knee; ringworm; scabbed head; 'corns; whitlows; fetid
smell of the feet; leucorrhcea, etc. It is most suited to
chronic diseases, and to those which involve organic rather
than functional changes.
Silicca is remarkable for its power over the absorbent
and exhalant vessels, especially those of the joints, sheaths
of tendons, etc. It promotes the kindly suppuration of
abscesses of all kinds, with good or bad pus, and tends to
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35.-SPONGIA.-Dryness of the larynx, with dry, hard,
barking cough, worse at night, and excited by a tickling,
burning  sensation, hoarseness, with  dry cough  and
obstructed laryngitis; laryngeal phthisis; calarrhal croup
(in alternation with Acon.); painful, dry, hoarse, and
croupy cough, such as frequently precedes or follows croup;
goitre.
36.-SULPHUR.-This drug has a specific action upon the
skin, and less so upon the mucous membranes; in a minor
degree it affects all parts of the animal economy. In affections of the skin it is indicated by an irritation or itching,
which yields an agreeable sensation on scratching, and that
is aggravated by the warmth of bed; eruptions, chiefly
papular, but sometimes vesicular; boils, preventively and
curatively; chilblains; whitlows; scald-head, and in many
scrofulous affections. Sulph. is strictly homceopathic for
boils, and it is well known that they often result from the
excessive use of this drug, as in drinking sulphur waters.
"I know a lady," says Dr. Hughes, "who accompanied
her husband to Harrogate; and, although herself in good
health, joined him in drinking the waters. When she returned home, she came under treatment covered with boils."
In affections of the mucous tract, Sulph. is chiefly
required in those of the eyes, the urethra, and the rectum.
as in strumous and catarrhal ophtkalmia; incontinence of
urine; chronic gonorrhcea; prolapsus of the womb; burning and itching of the anus; piles, and chronic constipation.
Sulphur is often of service in arousing dormant nervous
energies, so as to render the system susceptible to the
-action of medicines indicated. On referring to our
remarks on that drug, it will be seen that Opium has a like
property.
37.-VERATRUM ALBUM.-It is very useful in autumnal
diarr-hwa, when vomiting is superadded to the purging.
English and Asiatic cholera; diarrhoea and painful gripings; violent vomiting and purging, short of that sudden
deadly collapse which indicates Arsenicum. Cramps in
the bowels or limbs; headache with vomiting; cold sweat,
and coldness of the whole body; black vomit; great weakness and convulsions; vomiting during pregnancy; hysterical symptoms during or after labor. It is often beneficial
in the third or convulsive stage of hooping-cough.
ANTIDOTES.
In the event of an over-dose of any of the above medicines having been administered, two drops of the strong
Tincture of Camplhar, or a strong infusion of coffee, will
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CHAPTER II
REMEDIES FOR EXTERNAL USE.
1.-TINCTURE OF ARNICA MONTANA.-The chief uses of
this agent are for the following conditions:-Bruises, concussions, incisions, fractures, sore nipcles, after extraction
of teeth, etc.-The discoloration, stiffness, swelling, and
soreness consequent on bruises by blows or falls, may be
almost entirely prevented by the prompt use of this remedy.
Its striking and rapid remedial effects, however, depend
greatly upon the promptitude with which it is applied after
the injury.
FORMUIA.-A lotion may be made by mixing twenty
drops of the strong tincture in about half a teaspoonful of
water; the bruised parts should be bathed with this lotion,
or linen cloths saturated with it applied and covered with
dry cloths or oiled-silk, to prevent its evaporation. Generally, the administration of Arnica, as prepared for internal
use, will hasten the cure.
CAUTION. -In. some constitutions the application of
Arnica Lotion has the property of producing a very troublesome eruption closely resembling erysipelas. For such
constitutions, Hamamelis virg* is generally a better and
safer remedy. Arnica should not be used for persons liable
to erysipelas.
2.-TINCTURE OF CALENDULA.-The common marigold
exerts a most favorable influence in promoting the union
of wounds with the least resulting scars, and with the
smallest amount of suppuration. Cuts, whether accidental,
or inflicted in operations, or injuries, in which the flesh is
muck torn, and which do not heal without the formation
of matter; wounds penetrating the joints, etc. In all such
cases it is preferable to Arnica. It controls haemorrhage
(but to a less extent than Hamamelis), and relieves the
severest pains attending various accidents. In the late
civil war, it was largely used by our American colleagues
in the treatment of injuries, and with the most beneficial
results. It is an invaluable remedy in ulcers of the lower
extremities-bad legs as they are called-such as often
occur in broken-down constitutions, especially in the decline
of life. See also Kali bich.
*The best form for external use is the "Distilled Extract of Hama.
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FORMULA.-A lotion may be made by adding a teaspoonful of the pure tincture to about a teacupful of water. If
the bleeding is considerable, the lotion may be made much
stronger.
3.-TINCTURE OF RHUS TOXICODENDRON.-It is eminently efficacious in sprains, wrenches, injuries to ligaments, tendons, joints, and the membranes investing the
joints; rheumatism, when the pain is worse during rest.
In old chilblains, with smarting, itching, and irritation of
the skin, it may be applied with great success.
FORMULA.-A lotion may be made by adding a teaspoonful of the tincture to half a tumbler of pure water.
Rhus Liniment is useful locally, for rubbing the parts
affected with rheumatism, lumbago, etc.
GENUINE MEDICINES.
To obtain a beneficial action from the remedies prescribed.
in this manual, it is essential to procure them absolutely
pure. As a safeguard, it is best to obtain them from an
educated, trustworthy person, exclusively engaged as a
Homceopathic Chemist. Although there are now many
respectable firms in whose ability and integrity the fullest
confidence may be placed, yet caution is necessary; many
persons offer for sale Homceopathic medicines who have had
b~it little pharmaceutical training, or who are chiefly occupied in preparing or selling strong-smelling drugs and
other articles likely to deteriorate delicate and carefully
prepared Homoeopathic medicines. When domestic treatment is likely to be much resorted to, as in districts distant
from a professional man, or in the case of clergymen, missionaries, or emigrants, a medical man should be consulted,
who will not only be able to direct to trustworthy persons,
of whom the medicines may be obtained in their pure and
most efficacious forms, but also to suggest hints as to the
most useful remedies, the different dilutions, the proportionate quantities of each, etc., most likely to meet special
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BREAST-PANG: See ANGINA PECTORIS.
BREATH: FETOR oF-Carbo v., Nit. ac., Spig., Merc., Aur.
BREATHING: DIFFICULT - See ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, CROUP, ETC.
BRIGMT'S DISEASE: Ars., Phos., Merc. cor.
BRONCHITIS: ACUTE-Acon., Kali bich.
IN CHILDREN-Phos.
IN THE AGED-Ant. tart.
CHRONIC-Kali bich., Hep. s.
BRUISES: Am. (externally). See also ECCHYMOSIS.
BUNIONS: Verat. Vir. (as a paint).
BURNS AND SCALDS: Canth., Rhus t., Kreas.
CANCER: Coni., Ars., Hydrast.
CANKER OF THE MOUTH: Merc., Carbo. veg., Nit.
ac., Ars.
CARBUNCLE: Bell., Sil., Ars., Canth.
CARIES (decay) OF BONEs--Sl., Merc., Phos. ac., Aur.,
Nit. ac.
OF TEETH-Kreas., Staph.
CATARACT: Coni., Phos., Cann. sat.
CATARRH: See COLD IN THE HEAD.
CHANCRE (a syphilitic sore): Merc., Nit. ac.
CHANGE OF LIFE: See MENSTRUATION.
CHAPPED     HANDS: Am.-, Calend.-, or Glycerinecerate. See also CHILBLAINS.
CHICKEN-POX: Rhus tox.
CHILBLAINS: Tamus Com., Calend., or Kreas. (ext.),
Phos., Puls.
CHILD-BED FEVER: See PUERPERAL.
CHLOROSIS (Green sickness): Ferr., Calc., Ferr. iod.,
Sepia.
CHOLERA: Camph., Ars., Cup., Verat.
CHORDEE: Acon. (externally and internally),
CHOREA (St. Vitus's Dance): Agar., Artem., Bell., Cup.,
Stram.
CIRRHOSIS (a diseased contracted liver): Phos., Mere.
cor.
COLD IN THE HEAD: Acon., Ars., Mere., Camph.
(invasive stage), Kali bich. (chronic).
COLD FEET: See FEET.
COLIC: Coloc. (with diarrhoea), Nux v., Plumb. (constipation).
LEAD-Opi., Alum.
MENSTRUAL-Cocc., Plat., Nux. vorn., Sec.
CONCUSSION: Arn.
CONGESTION OF THE BRAIN: Glon., Acon., Bell.,
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OF THE LIvER-Merc., Bell., Aloes., Bry.
OF THE LUNGS-ACOn., Phos.
CONSTIPATION: WITH FREQUENT INEFFECTUAL EFFORTS: Nux v., Pod.
From INERTIA OF THE INTESTINEs-Bry., Pod., Opi., Lyc.
CHRONIC-Sulph., Lyc.
CONSUMPTION: Phos., Ars., Ferr., Jod., Phos. acid,
Dros., Cale.
OF THE BOWELS-lod., Cale, Ferr.
CONVULSIONS: OF CHILDREN--Bell., Chamn., Cup. (with
Crarnp).
EPILEPTIC-Bell., Cup., Ign., Opi.
HYsTERICAL-Caliph., Moschus.
CORNS: Arn. (external use), Calc., Sulph.
CORPULENCY: See OBESITY.
COUGH: CATARRHAL-ACOn., Bell., Bry.
CHRONIc-Kali Bich., Sulph.
CROUPOUs-Cup., Spong.
IOOPING--Ipec., Dros., Coral., Nit. ac.
HYSTERICAL-Coral., Hyos.
COURSES: See MENSTRUATION.
CRACKS OF THE LIPS, ETC.: Arn.-, Calend.-, or Glyceri ne-Cerate.
CRAMPS: IN THE ABDOMEN-See COLIC.
IN THE CALVES-Verat., Nux vomn., Amrn. (fromfatigue).
IN THE STOMACH-NUX V.
CRICK IN THE NECK: Act. rac., Bry.
CRITICAL AGE: See MENSTRUATION.
CROUP: Acon., lod., Spong.
CYANOSIS (blue disease): Dig., Ars., Cup.
CYSTITIS (inflammation of the bladder): Canth., Tereb.,
Apis.
DANDRUFF (scurf on the head): Lyc., Graph., Sulph.
DEAFNESS: FROM COLD-Acon., Merc., Bell., Puls.
From ENLARGEMENT OF TONSILS-Merc., lod.
After MEASLES-PUIS., Sulph.
After SCARLATINA-Bell., Hep. s.
After SMALL Pox-Mere., Sulph.
From NERVOUS DISEASES-Phos., Phos. ac., Chin.
DEBILITY: FROM Loss OF ANIMAL FLUIDS-Chin., Ferr.,
Phos.
NERvouS-Phos. ac., Ign, Mosch.
DELIRIUM TREMENS: Opi., Nux. v., Bell., Stranm.
DENTITION (diJicult): Calc., Cham., Acon., Krea.
DEPRESSION OF SPIRITS: Ign., Plat., Aur., Chin.,
Nux vom.
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GASTRIC FEVER: See TYPHOID.
GATHERINGS: See WHITLOW, ABSCESS, BOILS,
ETC.
GIDDINESS: Bell., Nux v.
GLANDS: ENLARGED-Merc. iod., lod., Bell., Hep. s.,
Silic.
GLEET: Cinnabar, Canth., Puls., Nux v., Sulph.
GOITRE: See DERBYSHIRE NECK.
GONORRHCEA: Cann., Merc., Acon.
GOUT: Rhod., Colch., Act. rac., Bry.
GRAVEL: Lyc., Ant. crud., Nux v.
GREEN SICKNESS: Ferr., Puls., Coni., Sep.
GUM-BOILS: Merc., Silic.
GUMS: ScuRVY OF-Merc., Nit. ac., Carbo veg., Arsen,
Sulph.
HAEMOPTYSIS (sjitting of blood): See HAEMORRHAGE.
HAEMORRHAGE: From the BLADDER-Canth., Tereb.
From the BOWELs-See PILES.
From the LUNGs-Ipec., Ham., Phos.
From the NosE-Acon., Ipec., Ham.
From the STOMACH-Nit. ac., Ipec., Bry.
From the WOMB-Croc., Sec., Plat., Ipec
HAEMORRHOIDS: See PILES.
HANDS: MOISTURE OF-Fluor. ac.
HAIR: Loss oF-See ALOPECIA.
HEADACHE: CATARRHAL-Acon., Bell., Merc.
CONGESTIVE-Glon., Bell.
BILIOUS-Ipec., Ant. crud., Nux v., Pod, Puls.
NERVOUS (in one-half of the head)-Ign., Aur., Coff.,
Cham., Acon., Spig.
SICK-Ipec., Puls., Nux v., Bell.
RHEUMATIC-Acon, Bry., Nit. ac.
HEART: DISEASES OF-Cact. g., Dig., Naja., Acon.
PALPITATION OF-Mosch., Acon., Cact. g., Nux m.
RHEUMATISM OF-Spig., Bry., Cact. g., Act. rac.
HEARTBURN: Puls., Bry., Carbo veg.
HECTIC FEVER: Chin. Phos. ac., Ars., Sulph.
HICCOUGH: Ign., Nux v., Acon., Sulph. ac.
HIP-JOINT DISEASE: Phos., Silic., Calc. c., Ars.
HOARSENESS: Baryta c., Phyto. dec., Hep. s., Phos.,
Spong. See also APHONIA.
HOOPING-COUGH: Ipec., Dros., Coral., Cup., Verat.
HYPOCHONDRIASIS: Aur., Arg. m., Ign., Nux vom.,
Pod.
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IMPOTENCE: Phos., Agnus c., Ferr., Baryta c., Nux v.,
Chin.
INCONTINENCE OF URINE: Sce URINE: INCONTINENCE OF.
INDIGESTION: AcUTE-Acon., Ipec., Puls., Nux v., Bry.
CHRONIC-Kali bich., Hep. s., Carbo veg., Sulph.
In CHILDREN-Cham., Puls.
In the AGED-Ant. crud., Kali bich.
From CoLD-Acon., Ars., Mere.
From FAT OR RICH FOOD-'
t. crud., Puls.
From ANXIETY, GRIEF, etc.-Ign., Chin.
INFANTS: SCREAMS OF-Cham., Jal., Acon.
SORENESS OF-See EXCORIATIONS.
RESTLESSNESS OF-Chamn., Coff.
INFLAMMATION: of the BLADDER-See BLADDER.
Of the BRAIN-See BRAIN.
Of the BOWELs-Acon, Bell., Coloc., Ars.
Of the EAR-See EARS.
Of the EYES-See OPHTHALMIA.
Of the KIDNEYS-Canth., Tereb., Acon.
Of the KNEE-PUIS., Bry.
Of the LIVER--Acon., Bry., Mere. c.
Of the LUNGs-Phos., Acon., Bry., Chel. maj.
Of the PLEUlRA-Bry., lod.
Of the STOMACH-Acon., Ars., Bell., Phos.
INFLUENZA: Acon., Ars., Camph. (the chill stage).
ITCHING OF THE ANUS: See ANUS.
Of the SKIiN-Arg. nit., Mez., Sulph., Ars.
JAUNDICE: Acon., Mere., Chel. nmaj., Arsen., Phosph.
(malignant), Chin., Nux v.
JOINTS: PAIN IN-Acon., Arg. m.
SWELLING OF-lod., Puls., Calc. c., Silic.
KIDNEYS: INFLAMMATION oF-Canth., Tereb., Acon.
KNEE: See INFLAMMATION, and SWELLING.
LABOR-PAINS: Chamn., Puls., Coff.
FALSE--Acon., Puls., Bry., Nux v.
LEAD-COLIC: Opi., Alum., Bell., Sulph. ac.
LEGS: SWELLING OF-See CEDEMA.
LEPRA (circular scaly pfatches on the skin: Ars., Mere.,
Sulph.
LEUCORRHCEA: Sep., Cocc., Puls., Cale. c., Silic.,
Krea. (corrosive), Coni. (chronic).  Also frequent
ablutions, moderate exercise in the open air, sufficient
rest, and nutritious, digestible diet.
LIVER: ENLARGEMENT OF-Merc. iod.
INFLAMMATION OF-See INFLAMMATION.
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MISCARRIAGE: Sec., Croc., Ipec.
THREATENED-Acon., Bell., Sab., Arn., Sec. At the
same time the patient should lie down on a mattress,
in a cool, well-ventilated room, till all danger is past.
PREVENTION OF-Calc. carb,, Sec., Act. rac., Chin.
MOLES: Carbo. veg., Sulph., Calend. (ext. use).
MORNING SICKNESS: Krea,, Ipec., Nux v., Puls.
MOSQUITOS: STINGS OF-Ledum (external use of). If
a sting of a mosquito or wasp remains in the skin, the
open end of the tube of a small key should be pressed
firmly over the part
MOUTH: SORE-See APHTH2E; also CANKER.
MUMPS: Merc. Iod., Bell.
NrEVUS (a natural mark or blemish): Thuja.
NAUSEA: Cocc., Lob., Tabacum.
NECK: CRICK IN THE-Bry., Act. rac., Aconi.
STIFFNESS OF-Bell., Bry., Lyc.
NERVOUS DEBILITY: See DEBILITY.
NERVOUSNESS: See HYSTERIA; also, HYPOCHONDRIASIS.
NETTLE-RASH: Apis, Rhus tox., Ant. Crud.
NEURALGIA: In the FACE-Acon., Coloc., Nux v., Spig.,
Staph.
In the HEAD-Bell., Nux v.
In the BACK-Nux v., Oxal. ac.
In the LEG (sciatica)-Coloc., Ars.
NIGHT-MARE: Nux v., Puls. A light diet, out-of-door
exercise and a sponge bath daily, are recommended;
at the same time avoiding suppers, stimulants and
fatigue.
NJGHT-SWEATS: Chin., Ars., Phos. ac. See also
HECTIC.
NIPPLES: SORE-Arn. (externally), Sulph.
NOSE-BLEED: Acon., Ipec., Ham. v., Puls. (in women),
Chin. (in weak persons).
NOSE: SORE-Ars., Ant. crud., Sulph.
NUMBNESS AND TINGLING: Rhus., Acon., Nux v.,
Arg. nit.
OBESITY (excessive accumulation offat): Cal. c., Sulph.,
Ars.
(EDEMA (watery fluid under the skin): Chin., Ferr.,
Apis., Ars.
ONANISM: EVILS oF-See SPERMATORRH(EA.
OPHTHALMIA: CATARRIAL--Acon., Mere., Sulph.,
Euphr.
CHRONIc-Clematis erect., Calc. c., Sulph.
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OPHTHALMIA: After SCARLATINA-Bell., Hep. s.
After SMALL-Pox-Mere., Sulph.
SCROFULOUS-Calc. c., lod, Graph., Hep. s.
SYPIrILITic-Merc. cor., Nit. ac., Aur., Thuja, Euphr.
In INFANTS-Arg. Nit., Calc. c., Sulph.
ORCHITIS (inflamnmaory swelling of the testicles): Puls.,
Spong., Aur., Acon.
PAINS: See NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM, ETC.
PAINTER'S COLIC: See COLIC.
PALPITATION: Mosch. (nervous), Acon., Bell., Cact. g.,
Spig.
PERIOD: See MENSTRUATION.
PARALYSIS: BaFryta c., Arg. nit., Nux v., Rhus, Plumb.
PERSPIRE: TENDENCY To-Chin., Verat.,- Carbo veg.
See SWEAT.
PHOTOPHOBIA: (intolerance of light): Bell., Euphr.,
Calc., Ign.
PHTHISIS: See CONSUMPTION.
PILES: Sulph., Ham. v., Collinsonia, Aloes, Nux v.
PIMPLES: Kali bich., Ant. crud., Hep. s.
PLEURISY: Acon., Bry., lod.
PNEUMONIA (Inflammation of the Lungs): Phos., Chel.
maj., Acon., Bry.
POLYPUS: Merc. iod., Kali bich., Teucr.
PROLAPSUS: Of the RECTUM-Ign., Nux v., Podoph.
Of the WoMB-Stann., Bell., Sepia, Nux v., Sulph.
PROSTATITIS (Inflammation of the prostate gland):
Thuja, Puls.
PROSTRATION: See DEBILITY.
PROUD-FLESH: Silic., Fluor ac.
PUERPERAL (child-bed) FEVER: Bry., Bell., Acon.
PURPLE RASH: Bell., Chain., Calc. c.
PRURIGO (a fapular eruption, with intolerable itching)
OF THE ANus-Nit. ac., Sulph.
Of the PUDENDI-Acon., Sep., Lyc., Sulph.
Of the SCROTUM-Petro., Merc. cor., Nit. ac.. Also
frequent ablutions with tepid or cold water.
QUINS Y: Bell., Baryta carb., Merc. iod., Kali permang.
(as a gargle, gr. vi ad aq. dis. S viii.)
RASH: DURING TEETHING - Cham., Ant. crud. (with
diarrheaa), Ars. (with frostration).
RED-GUM (Infant Rash): Ant. crud., Bry., Cham.
RELAXED BOWELS: See DIARRHCEA.
RELAXED THROAT: Kali bich., Hep. s., Baryta carb.,
Phyto., Phos.
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RETENTION OF URINE: Canth., Nux v., Opi., Acon.
RESTLESSNESS OF CHILDREN: Coff., Cham., Acon.
RHEUMATIC FEVER: See FEVER.
RHEUMATISM: Of the BACK-See LUMBAGO.
Of the CHEST (intercostal muscles)-Rhod. chrys., Bry.,
Arn.
Of the HEART-Act. rac., Cact. g.
Of the JoINTs-Ruta., Bry., Rhus., Act. rac.
Of the NEcK-Rhod. chrys., Bry.
CHRONIC-Rhus tox., Amrn., Sulph., Rhod. chrys.
RICKETS: Silic., Calc. c., Sulph. Also out-door air,
cold salt-water baths, and a spoonful of pale cod-liver
oil twice a day.
RINGWORM: Rhus tox., Sep., Sulph., Lyc., Ant. c.,
Merc.
RUSH OF BLOOD: See CONGESTION.
SALIVATION: From MERCURY-Nit. ac., lod., Hep. s.
NoN-MERCURIAL-Merc.
SCABIES (the Itch): Sulph, (externally and internally).
SCALD-HEAD: Ant. crud., Lyc., Calc. phos., Ars.,
Sulph.
SCALDS: See BURNS.
SCARLATINA: SIMPLE-Bell., Sulph. (convalescence)
With THROAT AFFECTION (anginosa)-Merc., Apis.
MALIGNANT-Ars., Mur. ac., Carbo veg.
PREVENTIVE-Bell. (strong tincture).
SCIATICA: Coloc., Rhus tox.
SCORBUTUS (Scurvy): Merc., Nit. ac., Carbo veg., Ars.
SCREAMS OF INFANTS: Cham., Acon., Jal.
SCROFULOUS AFFECTIONS: lod., Calc. c., phos.,
Sulph.
SCURVY OF THE GUMS: See GUMS.
SEA-SICKNESS: Cocc., Petrol.
SHINGLES: Rhus tox., Sulph.
SICK-HEADACHE: Ipec., Puls., Nux v.
SICKNESS: Ipec. (sirnfmle), Puls. ( from rich food), 1ux
v. (fromnt alcohol). See also VOMITING.
MORNING-Krea., Ipec., Puls., Ars.
GREEN-Ferr., Chin., Puls., Sep.
SKIN: ITCHING OF Arg. nit., Sulph., Ars., Mez. See
also EXCORIATIONS, PRURIGO, SCABIES, ETC.
SLEEPINESS: Opi., Acon., Lyc.
SLEEPLESSNESS: Coff., Bell., Ign., Acon.
SMALL-POX: Ant. tart., Merc., Bell., Bry., Sulph.
SMELL: Loss OF-Puls., Merc., Acon., Calc. c.
SNEEZING: From a COLD -Merc., Ipec., Acon, Ars.
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SORE THROAT: Bell., Mere., Kali Permang. (as a
gargle).
SORENESS OF INFANTS: See EXCORIATIONS.
SPASMS AND CRAMPS: Camrnph., Verat., Coloc.
SPERMATORRHCEA: Argent. met., Phos., Chin., Ferr.,
Phos. ac., Staph.
SPITTING OF BLOOD: See HzEMORRHAGE.
SPRAINS: Rhus tox., Arn., Ruta.
SQUINTING: Bell., Hyos.
STAMMERING: Hyos, Bell.
ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE: See ERYSIPELAS.
STERILITY: Phos., Plat., Coni., Baryta c., Cann., Calc.
c., Sepia, Sulph., Borax.
STIFF-NECK; Bry., Act. rac.
STINGS: Led. (externally). See MUSQUJITOS; also,
BITES.
STITCHES IN THE CHEST: Bry, Acon., Phos.
STOMACH; ACIDITY OF-Lyc., Puls., Bry., Nux v.,
Carbo veg.
INFLAMMATION OF-Acon., Ars., Bell., Phos.
STONE AND GRAVEL: Lyc., Nux v., Calc. c.
STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA: Nuv v., Acon.,
Canth.
ST. VITUS' DANCE: Agaricus, Artemisia vul., Bell.,
Cup. m., Stram., Zinc.
STYE: Puls., Sulph.
SUMMER-COMPLAINT: Chin., Bry., Ant. crud
SUNSTROKE: Camph., Bell., Glon.
SUPPURATION: Silic., Hep. s.
SWEAT: Phos. ac., Phos., Samb., Verat., Calc. c., Sulph.
FCETID, UNDER THE ARMS-Petrol., Carbo veg.
TENDENCY TO-Chin., Verat., Carbo veg. See also
NIGHT-SWEATS.
SWEATY FEET AND HANDS; Petro., Silic., Nit. ac.,
SFluor ac
SWELLINGS: DROPSICAL-Apis, Ars.
GLANDULAR-MerC., Bell., Hep. s., Calc. c.
Of the FAcE-Merc. (from Gum-boil); Bell., or Cham.
(from Toothache); Apis (from Erysifelas).
Of the FEET ((Edema)-Ferr., Ars., Apis, Dig., Chin.
Of the JOINTS-lod., Bry., Puls.
WHITE-Bry., lod., Silic., Calc. c.
SYPHILIS: Mere., Thuja, Nit. ac., Arg. nit., Aur.
TAPE-WORM: Fil. mias., Kous., Sabad., Cin., Sulph
TASTE ALTERED: Puls., Mere.
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TESTICLES: ENLARGEMENT OF-PUIS., Spong., Aur.,
Amrn., Acon.
Also the use of a suspender.
WASTING OF-Coni., lod.
TETTERS: Calc., Graph., Sulph
THREAD-WORMS: Cina, Teucrium.
THROAT: SORE-Bell., Merc., Hep. s., Puls.
TI-IRUSH: Borax, Merc., Ars, Sulph.
TIC-DOULOUREUX: See NEURALGIA.
TONGUE: COATED-Ant. crud. (milky-white), Kali bich.
(yellowish). Puls. (rotughish white).
SWOLLEN-Mur. ac., Bell., Merc.
ULCERATED-MerC., Nit. ac.
TONSILS: ENLARGED-MerC. Biniod., Bell
INFLAMED-See QUINSY.
TOOTHACHE: Acon., Bell. (congestive), Puls.
From DECAYED TEETH-Krea., Merc., Staph.
NERVOUS-Coff., Chamn., Ign.
Of CHILDREN-Chain.
Of PREGNANCY-Bell., Nux V., Coff., Cham.
TREMORS: NERVOUs--Acon., Ign., Chin.
TUBERCULOSIS (the condition of the body in which
tubercles are deposited): lod., Phos.. Calc. c., Ferr.
iod.
TUMOURS: See SWELLINGS
TYPHOID AND TYPHUS FEVER: See FEVER.
ULCERS: Silic., Kali bich. (internal and-external use),
Lyc.
In the LEG-Bell., Ars., Merc. (syphilitic), Hyd. can.
(internal and external use).
URINE: BLooDY-Canth., Tereb.
BURNING OR SCALDING-Canth., Cann. sat.
PAINFUL PASSAGE OF-Apis., Canth., Lyc., Nux v.
INCONTINENCE OF -Lyc., Bell., Cin. (front worms),
Phos. ac., Gel. s. (in the aged).
RETENTION oF-Canth., Nux v., Opi.
VARICOSE VEINS: Ham. v., Puls., Fluor. ac.
VOICE: Loss OF-See APHONIA.
VOMITING: From     INDIGESTIBLE FOOD -Ant. crud.,
Puls., Ipec.
Of BLooD-Ipec., Nit. ac., Ham. v.
WALKING: DELAY OF THE POWER OF-Calc. c., Phos.
WAKEFULNESS: Coff., Bell.
WARTS: Thuja, Rhus tox., Nit. ac., Sulph.
WASTING: See ATROPI-IY.
WATER-BRASH: Lyc., Nux v., Carbo veg.
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WATER: In the HEAD-Hell., Bell., Apis.
WATERY BLOOD: Ferr., Chin., Phos., Sep. See also
ANzEM1A.
WEAKNESS: See DEBILITY.
WETTING THE BED: See URINE: INCONTINENCE OF.
WHITES: See LEUCORRHCEA.
WHITE-SWELLING: Of the KNEE-Bry., K. hydriod.
WHITLOW: Silic., Fluor ac. See also ABSCESS AND
BOILS.
WHOOPING-COUGH: See HOOPING-COUGH.
WIND: See FLATULENCE.
WORMS: THREAD-Cin., Teucrium.
LONG ROUND-Merc., Spig., Sulph.
TAPE -Fil. Mas., Cin., Sulph., Kous.
WOUNDS: Hainm. v., Calend., Amrn. (all extornal use).
WRY-NECK: Acon., Bell., Bry.
ZONA (Shingles): Rhus tox., Sulph., Lyc.
BLOTCHES: Ant. crud., Graph., Lyc.
BOILS: Bell., Sulph., Hep. s.
BONES: CARIES (decay) OF-Phos. ac., Sil.
CURVATURE OF-CaIC.
ExosTosis (abnormalgrowth of)-Aur., Merc. iod.
INFLAMMATION OF-Sil.
PAINS IN-Merc., Aur, Mez., Ars.
BOWELS: See CONSTIPATION, DIARRHCEA, ANUS,
ETc.
BRAIN: CONCUSSION OF-Arn.
CONGESTION OF - Glon., Bell., Acon.
INFLAMMATION OF-Acon., Bell, Hyos. Opi.
BREAST: See ABSCESS: MAMMARY.
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Index.


For diseases not included in this index, consult the " Materia Medica;'
also the " Clinical Directory."


Drowning, 195
Dysentery (bloody-flux), n2I
Dyspepsia, 105
Early rising, 32
Ears, inflammation of, 147
Earache, 147
Economy ot Homceopathy, 23
Enteralgia (colic), 112
Epilepsy (falling sickness), 141)
Epistaxis, 178
Erysipelas, 78
Evacuation of bowels, 127
Exanthemata (eruptive fevers), 66
Exercise, 35, SS, 102
Experimental practice, 29
External remedies, 44
Extract of beef, 59
Eyes, inflammation of, 144
Eye, bloodshot, 146
Falling sickness, 141
Fatigue, 189
Febricula, 54
Fever, brain, 55
-     gastric, 55
-  simple, 5t
Styphoid and typhus, 54
- relapsing, 54
-     intermittent, 62
Flatulence, 114
Flooding, IS2
Forms of medicines, 42
Foreign bodies in the eye, 147
Food in the sick-room, 59
Foot-bath in colds and levers, 82
Fractured limbs, 191
Fresh air, 39, 57
Frog (thrush). i52
Furunculi (boils), 170
Future of H-omoeopathy, 30
Gelseminum, uses of, 52
Gentle measures of Homceopathy,
26
Goitre, 163
Gout, 200
Gum-water, 58
Hahnem:nn, 31
Half-holidays, 138
Ixlemorrhage, 176
H-Iemorrhagic diathesis, 183
H-emorrhoids (piles), 133
Headache, 137
Heart, palpitation of, 201
Heartburn, I114
Ilernia 193
Herpes circinnatus, 174


Hepatitis (inflammation  of  the
liver), 11
Hints on diet, 47
History of Homenopathy, 15
Hives, 16S
Hoarseness, 83
Homoeopathy, advantages of, 23
-  economy of, 23
-  success of, 23
Sand cholera, 24
-     -   children, 29
-  preventive, 30
--the future of, 30
--    history of, -1
grand principles of, 18
Homoeopathic medicines are specific, 28
Hooping-cough, SS
Hot foot-bath, 82
Hours for taking medicines, 45
Hygiene, observations on, 32
Icterus (Jaundice), 114
Incontinence of urine, 203
Indigestion, io5
Influenza, 83
Injections, 129
Intermittent lever, 62
Introductory, 15
Inflammation of the lungs, 93
--   -     -      liver, 115, 117
eyes, 144
ears, 147
Involuntary emissions, 2o6
Itching of the skin, 165
Itch, 166
- seven years, 167
Jaundice, 114
Jerrold's death-bed, 27
Light, 37, 65
List of medicines, 43
Liver complaint, 117
Looseness of the bowels, 17
Lumbago, 2oo
Lungs, inflammation of, 93
MacLaughlin, Dr., his testimony, 24
Malaria, laws of, 63
Malignant scarlatina, 69
Marsh miasma, 63
Meat diet, 48
Measles, 71
--    differ from scarlatina, 72
Medicines, alternation of, 47
----    directions for taking, 44
---     forms of, 43
-  -    list of, 43



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For diseases not included in this index, consult the " Materia Medica;"
also the "Clinical Directory."
Medicines, names of, 43          Sea-sickness, iIi
-     -  cases, care of, 43      Self-abuse, 20o6
Metrorrhagia, 182                Sequecle  (after consequences) of
Milk diet, 48                      scarlatina, 70
Morbilli (measles), 71           Seven years' itch, 167
Mumps, 162                       Sick-headache, 140
Simple fever, 51
Names of medicines, 43            Small dose of Hommeopathy, 18
Nett'e rash, i68                 Small-pox, 74
Nocturnal enuresis, 203           Sore throat, 161
Nursing the sick, 57             Sore throat, clergyman's, 84
Sores, 169
Observations on health, 32       Spermatorrhiea, 206
Odontalgia (toothache) 158       Spitting of blood, 176
Offensive breath, 151            Sprains, 188
Ophthalmia (inflammation of the Statistics on Homoeopathy, 26
eyes), 144                      Status of professional Hommoopaths,
Ordinary diet, 48                  16
Otalgia (earache), 147           Stimulating food and drinks in
Otitis (inflammation of the ears),  fevers, 59
147                             St. Anthony's fire (erysipelas), 78
Otorrhcea (discharge from the ears), Strangulated rupture, 193
148                             Strangury, 204
Stye on the eyelid, 146
Pains in the loins, 2oo          Success of Homoeopathy, 23
Palpitation of the heart, 2zo    Sunshine necessary to health, 38
Parotitis (mumps), 162
Phthisis (consumption), Ioo      Tape-worm, 131
Piles, 133                       Teething, 154
Pleurisy (pleuritis), 93         The single remedy, 27
Pneumonia (inflammation of the Thread-worms, 130
lungs), 93                      Thrush, i52
Poisons, 194                     Tobacco, bad effects of, 49
Prairie itch, 167                Tonsilitis, 1i6
Prevention of disease, 61        Toothache, 158
-    -     cholera, 124
Protrusion of the bowels, 135    Ulcers, &69
Prolapsus ani, 135               Urine, incontinence of, 2o3
Prurigo, 165                     Urticaria (hives), 168
Purgatives injurious, 125
Pyrexia (simple fever), 51       Varicella (chicken-pox), 77
Variola (small-pox), 74
Quinsy (sore throat) 161         Ventilation, importance of, 39
Vomiting, 110o
Recreation, 137                  Vomiting of blood, 176
Retention of urine, 204
Repetition of dose, 46           Warm bath, 1i6
Rheumatism, 197                  Watching patients, 58
Ringworm, 174                    Water, purity of, 40
Rheumatic fever, 197              Warts, 172
Round-worms, 130                 Wet compress for throat, 85
Rubeola (measles), 71            Wet pack, 33
Running from the ears, 148       Wetting the bed, 203
Rupture, 193                     Whitlow, 174
Whooping-cough, 88
Scarlet fever (scarlatina), 66   Worms, 130
Scalds, 189                      Wounds, 185
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COMPOUND CARBON CRACKERS,
FOR DYSPEPTICS.
Composed of recently Calcined Willow Charcoal, etc., combined
with Graham     Flour.
On account of the difficulty and unpleasantness of taking Charcoal, it
has not hitherto been employed, either by physician or patient, so much as
its Valuable Medicinal Properties demand. This objection is now
overcome, as these biscuits are not only free from disagreeable taste, but
are falatable and highly nutritious.
Recently calcined Willow Charcoal is a powerful Disinfectant and
Absorbent, and when administered internally, is a valuable remedy for
Heartburn, Waterbrash, Acidity of Stomach, Nausea, Eructations, Constipation, and other forms of Indigestion. It is employed
in these complaints with the most favorable results by eminent physicians,
both in Europe and America. Amongst others, M. BELLOC found it
especially efficacious in Gastralgia, etc., and his observations were confirmed by the French Academy of Medicine; other noted men recommend
its use, for whose opinion see United States Dispensatory, etc.
The Carbon Crackers are of great benefit in the Vomiting of Pregnancy.
The crackers should be taken three or four times a day, and may be used
at meals in place of ordinary bread.
For infants, soften one or two in milk or water, and give to prevent
Acidity of Stomach, Flatulence, etc.
N. B.-Persons suffering from Fetid Breath, arising from disordered
digestion or decayed teeth, will find these an effectual and pleasant remedy.
Price, 75 cents in boxes containg 3 dozen biscuits.
Manufactured by
C. S. HALSEY,
66 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO.
And sold at the Homaopathic Pharmacies.
Are you troubled with Chapped Hands or Lips?
THEN BUY A JAR OF THE
CALENDULA JELLY.
It is neat, inexpensive, elegant and effective. Superior in every
respect to any of the GREASY preparations, such as
Camphor Ice, Cold Cream, or Lip Salve,
now in use.
Prepared by C. S. HALSEY,
PRICE, 25 Cts.                         66 LAKE ST., CHICAGO.
Can be obtained of Homceopathic Physicians and Pharmaccutists   th
United States.                       t



THE FOUNTAIN SYRINGE.
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Eminent Physicians who have examined it agree that it is
constructed upon the only correct principle ever applied to the
construction of a Syringe, and the only one that can be used
with safety. Being " SELF-ACTING," it is much more easy in
its application. It has no valves to get out of order-" NO AIR
INJECTED."
It consists of a rubber bag, holding, in the medium size
apparatus (No. 2,) about a quart, attached to about six feet of
rubber.tube, which has near the end a brass stop cock. Suitable pipes fitting the end of the tube, are provided for the
rectum, vagina and urethra. There is also a spray tube for the
eye, or wounds, and a nasal tnbe, making the apparatus AN
EXCELLENT NASAL DOUCHE. All that is required in using it is
to fill the bag, hang it up above the patient's head and apply
the proper pipe where desired.
PRICE OF THE No. 2 SIZE, $3.00.
FOR SALE BY
C. S. HALSEY, 66 LAKE STREET, CHICACO,
And at all other Homoeopathic Pharmacies.



SELF ENERVATION,
ITS
Consequences and Treatment:
BY
C. S. ELDRIDGE, M. D.
Sent Free by Mail for One Dollar
This work, though written for professional reading, is also
calculated to be of use to intelligent laymen. Parents and
guardians, who peruse the work, will thank the author for his
valuable hints and suggestions.
The fearful prevalence of this vice alluded to, and the
terrible evils resulting from it, make it important that every
one who has the care of children, should be well informed for
its prevention, or for its detection antd treatment.
NOTE BY THE EDITOR.-We have adopted the title "SELF ENERVATION,
thinking it to be less inelegan;t than the terms usually employed, such as
masturbation, onanism, sell-plutlion, sell-abuse, etc. While it as clearly
conveys the same meaning, it aflrds, although new, a mild and precise
d-finition of the subject under cons-ideration.



THE NEW
VETERINARY MANUAL!
GIVING COMPLETE DIRECTIONS
For the Homoopathic Treatment of
Diseases of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs,
AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
FARMERS,
STOCK DEALERS,
and LIVERY KEEPERS,
Will find this little Book and a Case of the Remedies
PERFECTLY INVALUABLE
The expense is trifling, but the saving thereby is sometimes very great.
Published by
C. S. HALSEY, No. 66 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO.
And for Sale at the Homaeopathic Pharmacies.
-PRICES OF CASES OF MEDICINES FOR VETERINARY USE.
24 2 drm. and 4 Y oz. Vials, with Book,  -  - 6 oo
24 Y oz. and 5 1  "  "    "    -  -   - 10 0
242 "    "    "1    "    "   -  -   -  - 20 00



THE CELEBRATED VOLTAIC CURE FOR
Neuralgid, Rheumatism, and all Nervous Diseases.
DR. HALL'S
SOLT AIC A.RItM:C)
BAINTDS and SOLES.
A SCIENTIFIC AN) RATIONAL METHOD OF CURING
All diseases originating in a disturbed condition of the electrical or
VITALIZING forces of the body; such as
Cold Feet, Nervous Headache, Rheumatism, Neural.
gia, Dyspepsia, Paralysis, St. Vitus' Dance, Fits,
Cramps, Weak Joints, Sciatica, Contracted binevws, Sprains, Hip Complaints,
Spinal Affections, and all Nervous Disorders.
These Electrical appliances can be depended on as a remedial agent
of POSITIVE RELTABILITY in all such complaints, and will save thousands from complicating their afflictions by resorting to injurious
remedies and improper applications.
The Voltaic Armor, Soles and Bands
Are made on the principle of the VOLTAIC PILE, and being perfectly flexible, can be worn under the feet or on any part of the body
without the least inconvenience.
They Restore the Equilibrium of Electric Action in the System
And impart life and vigor to every organ of the body.  For restoring
exhausted vital energy, and in all diseases having their origin in the
loss of vital power, through excess, sedentary habits, or the use of
powerful and pernicious drugs, the Armor may be used with the fullest assurance of success.
Circulars giving more full description of the Apparatus, also numerous and
reliable c.stiinonials of the beneficial results of the use of the Armor are in
our possession, and will be forwarded to parties desiring them.
PRICE:
Bol.s, per pair------.-------...-1 00 Bands for the Knees, each.-.. $2 2.
Bands f-r the lead, each....----  0 | Bands for the Thighs, each... 2 50
Ba:,ds for thh Wrists, e.ch..... 1 00 I Bands for the Waint, each-.... 5 00
Bands for the Arm, each....... 2 00 i
"In ordering, state the size of the boot or shoe worn, also the width required, or, if bands, state the part of the body they are intended for.
Sent to all parts or '.he United States on receipt of the above prices.
Address                     C. S. HALSEY,
66 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO.
General Agent for the Northwest.



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Put up in large tin canisters, q $1.00 each; sample boxes, 250.
We have numerous testimonials from physicians who
daily prescribe it in their practice, and from well-known
citizens who MAKE USs OF IT in their families.
It consists of Malt and Wheaten Flour, mixed in certain
proportions, and heated to a degree which produces chemical changes, resulting in the formation of an exceedingly
nutritious compound.
The process is patented, and the preparation a strictly
scientific one, the substance possessing the same chemical
composition as HEALTHY HUMAN MILx.
COMSTOCK'S RATIONAL FOOD has a large sale East
and West, and is being employed with WONDERFUL SUCCESS
as a most nutritious, wholesome FOOD for INFANTS, INVALIDS, and DYSPEPTICS, and particularly as a
SUBSTITUTE:PORP BREAST IIEK
FOR CHILDREN BROUGHT UP BY HAND, and for WEANING CHILDREN. It can be fed from a bottle like milk.
It can be had of C. S. HALSEY, 66 Lake Street,
Chicago, and at any other Homaeopathic Pharmacy.



THE NORTH AMERICAN


UTERINE SUPPORTER
This improvement on the well-known     "Hockert
Supporter," meets with very ready sale and with excellent
success in all cases of
PR.OI-,APSUTS UTTERI,
which can be relieved by a mechanical support. It has
been practically tested, and found to give the most perfect
relief. It is light, durable, not liable to get out of repair,
can be perfectly fitted to any form or size; putting it on
and laying it off is the work of but lialf a minute; it is so
easy that one is hardly aware of its presence; and the relief is immediate and delightful.
Many who have scarcely been able to walk across the
-room for years, are enabled to walk with perfect comfort
and security the moment after it is adjusted.
The new pattern of this Supporter is very easily adjusted,
and can be considerably varied in size and shape, so as to
suit any form. In ordering, it is only necessary to give the
measure round the body just above the lhips.
The springs can be bent to any shape, and will retain the
shape given-and by a screw adjustment at each end can
be made longer or shorter at will.


Retail Price,   -    -   -     each, $12.00



IH ALSEY'S
OUSRT-              VOLTAI B&AIERL.
Patented January 26th, 1869.
This Battery produces a direct galvanic current of great
intensity, and of "force" sufficient to overcome the resistance of the human body, and influence all the tissues.
It is more constant in action, Inore simple and durable in
construction, and, though it '3quires only a table spoonful of
common vinegcar to excite the t urrent, produces a more powerful current than any other Pocket Voltaic apparatus now exhibited.
The case containing it is but one inch thick, three inches
wide and five inches long.
DIRECTIONS FOR OPERATING THE BATTERY.-Press the two sets of plates
together, sidewoise, being careful that the red ends of the two backs are
both uppermost: then saturate a small piece of sponge with strong vinegar,
and press It out over the edges of the plates until the spaces between them
are filled. Set the Battery, red end uppermost, upon the bottom of the
case, putting the copper slip through the loop in the case, as iu the engraving. The positive and negative poles where the cords are to be attached
are marked P and N.
The Yoltaic Battery does not "give a shock," but when wgrking properly the wire brush connected with the negative pole will produce a
sensation of pricking or burning when applied to the face or bare arm, the
other electrode being moistened and held in the hand.
After the apparatus Is used, separate the two sets of plates, rinse in clean
- water, and let dry a little before returning to the case.
If the action of the Battery is too powerful for the patient, slide the plates
partially out of position. By covering the flat electrodes with wet cloth or
paper the action is made more gentle.
Price of Battery, including a Book of Instructions for Voltaic treatment of Disease, $6.50.
FOR SAL BY DRUGGISTS AND PHARMACEUTISTS EVERYWHERE.
C. S. HALSEY, Proprietor,
66 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO















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