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PRESENTED BY MRS. GUY L. KIEFER
November, 1931
IN MiEMORY OF
DR. HERMANN KIEFER,
REGENT 1889-1902
AND
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D.P.H. (Honorary) 1911



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DOMESTIC HOMCEOPATHY:.
OR
RUL ES
FOR THE
DOMESTIC TREATMENT OF THE MALADIES
OF
SINFANTS, CHILDREN, AND ADULTS,
AND FOR
THE CONDUCT AND THE TREATMENT
DURING
1regnanQrtn   Qontnelmenut, anf Sucktnug.
By JOHN EPPS, M. D.
GRADUATE -rEF THE UNI-VER ITY OF EDINBURGH, DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL
JENNERIAN AND L ONDON VACCINE INSTITUTION, -AND CONSULTING
PHYSICIAN TO THE.MANCHESTER HOM(EOPATHIC
DISPENSARY.
THIRP AMERICAN FROM THIE FOURTH LONDON EDITION.
EDITED AND ENLARGED
"By GEO. W. -COOK, M. D.
--BOSTON:
- OTIS CLAPP, 12, SCHOOL STREET:
ý5 EW cYORK, WILLlAM RADIDE: J. T. S., SMITH: -
CINCINNATI J. F. DESILVER. -
1848.



1MEDICINE CHESTS,
Containing the medicines, prepared with the greatest care,
referred to in this Treatise, are made and sold -by OTIs
CLAPP, 12, School street, Boston.
BOST ON:
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GIFT
MJRS, cUY L. KQEFU ER
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
IN presenting a second edition of this Domestic
Homceopathy to the public, it is agreeable to the
writer to be able to state, that the first edition, conZsisting of one thousand copies, has been sold in less
-'than one year and a half; ' fact, strikingly illustra"-tive of the progress of Homceopathy.:   Parties, who have used the first edition, have
kindly suggested the necessity of some points being
'^rendered more clear, and of some others being more
>fully dwelt upon. To meet such suggestions, and at
Kthe same time, to render the work more complete,
many particulars, not in the first edition have been
introduced into this. Such are the modes of treatment, before, during PREGNANCY, at and after CHILDBIRTH: These are detailed in the Second Part.
I have perfected as much as possible the tabular
views, in which the effects of medicines, appropriate
to any individual disease, are recorded, introducing
in italics the points of distinction and of specificity;
an arrangement, namely, the columnar, adopted,
though attended with considerable trouble and double expense, to aid the reader.
I have added, in the Third Part, two chapters on
the indications as to the appropriate remedy, as dependent upon the agency of the Cause, more immediately producing the disease. To these chapters.attention is particularly directed; also to the Fourth



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Part, on DIET. To this succeeds another Part, in
which some of the terms used in this work are explained, to which, if the reader has any difficulty he
should refer.
It may be proper here to remark that I have still
adhered to the classification of the diseases adopted
in the first edition; a classification, founded upon
the different organs affected: such being more particularly useful in enabling the reader to find out,
both the remedies best suited to the diseases, and the
diseases themselves; an arrangement, which with
pleasure I have seen adopted in a late work on
Homceopathic Domestic Medicine.
It will be seen, that, among the diseases, the
remedies for which are recorded, are many, technically called acute: diseases, which require the attendance of the physician; still, the means of cure
are detailed, because till the arrival of or the communication with, the physician, danger may thus be
warded off, or the progress of the disease may be
stayed. This detail of acute diseases and their remedies has been of the greatest service: I have patients in Manchester and other places, who have successfully treated croup by the means detailed. Croup,
it is well known, is an acute and highly dangerous
disease, and one, which under the injurious treatment, designated, par excellence, "ACTIVE," is often
fatal; and the successful treatment of this disease,
even under domestic direction, (I do not recommend
persons to trust to such direction wholly,) shows the
utter fallacy of the ignorant but pompously promulgated notion, that Homceopathic remedies are efficacious only in chronic and not in acute diseases.



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The reader will find much fuller directions in this
edition respecting the REPETITION of the doses of the
medicines: directions afforded by experience on a
very extended scale, the writer having prescribed,
he finds from his patients' names-book, upwards of
five thousand recipes since the 1st of April, 1841,
and these for almost every form of disease, from
catarrh, simple sore throat, to diseased bone, discharges from the hip and the thigh bones, abscesses
in the back, deep-seated ulcers, derangement, diseased womb, tendency to miscarriage, typhus and
other fevers, with inflammations of the eyes, the
larynx, the bronchia, the lungs, the pleura.
In reference to the cases referred to, the writer
can add that he has cured, by homceopathic means,
many diseases, which, as a practitioner under the old
system he could not, as an honest man, have ventured to touch. He can further add that many families, who have used homoeopathic medicines under
the instructions contained in the Domestic Homceopathy, have with joy confessed, that they have been
astonished at the successful treatment, thence obtained, of many complaints, which, from   their
severity, they could never have supposed would
have given way, except to the miscalled " active "
remedies, more appropriately designated active enemies.
In fact Homceopathy, with its sneered-at infinitesimal doses, is making its silent, but steady and certain
way: a way, marked with cures, and unattended
with the injurious effects, consequent upon the recoveries under the other systems of treatment.
The reason for this success is to be found in the



PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION BY THE
AMERICAN EDITOR.
---
A DAILY devotion of near a quarter of a century to the
study and practice of medicine; over one third of the time
being engaged in the homoeopathic practice, ought to enable
one to speak with some confidence of the comparative
merits of all the means of cure heretofore discovered. The
fact that I now practise homceopathy in preference to any
other system, of course is an endorsement of the former;
and after disapproving of domestic practice with any other
medicine, as I always did during my allopathic practice, to
recommend so far as to edit a domestic homoeopathic guide,
is proof conclusive that I regard the two systems of medicipe as so widely differing as to require an entirely opposite
course for their advancement or promulgation.
Allopathy palliates, while homceopathy cures radically;
the'former disturbs healthy organs to divert disease from
those which are deranged, while the latter cures by a direct action of the medicine to the part affected; a portion of
the profession have been driven to admit that the homceopathic practice is more successful than the old school practice,
and attempt its imitation by leaving all to nature's efforts,
but they are not as successful as homeopathic practitioners,
by a large percentage, as the statistics from various sources
abundantly show. They may endorse Dr. Forbes's assertion, " that the old school practice is worse than nothing,"
and consequently " that homceopathy is nothing," but time
will compel them to admit that the latter is efficient, and
the only true rule of practice.
There are no poisonous influences to be feared from true
homceopathy, while a curative effect is sure to follow the
administration of a remedy which is truly indicated in a
given case; the dose being graduated with a full knowledge of its power, when applied upon the well known and



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long-tried law, "similia similibus curantur," will not do
injury if a mistake occur in diagnosing the location of the
disease; the only evil being then in delay, may be corrected
in another and more careful selection of a remedy.
From the foregoing remarks it may be comprehended
why domestic allopathy is dangerous, while domestic homceopathy is not only safe, but often useful, in the absence
of better advice than that of lay practitioners. I have,
therefore, with due regard to the importance of preserving
the high standing and respectability of a profession of my
choice, and with a proper sense of the importance of elevating the standard of medical education, consented to edit a
domestic Homoeopathic Guide, for the use of the nursery,
in the management of those little departures from health,
which do not appear of sufficient importance to call a physician to treat; and also for the use of those who are so
unfortunate as to be entirely beyond the reach of a physician, who has been honest enough to make homceopathy a
part of his studies. I can conscientiously say, that I would
sooner trust an intelligent layman who has a domestic practice of this kind, with a suitable case of medicine at hand,
than trust an ultra allopathic physician, whose prejudices
have prevented him from making himself acquainted with
a system which is founded upon the principles of true induction, as we know homceopathy to be.
There is no profession so compli.ated and loaded with
responsibilities,-no science so profound and which draws
so largely from other collateral sciences as that of medicine; and in order to be able to meet all emergencies, extensive preparation must be made. In the absence of the
ability to make this extensive preparation, we may throw
out a few useful lessons of instruction to help the novice in
his treatment of disease, when a homoeopathic physician
cannot be obtained.
It is generally considered very difficult to diagnose the
diseases of infants, and to the inexperienced it is so, but to
the physician of experience and observation, it is more easy
to decide accurately as to the nature and seat of their diseases, than it is in those who are more advanced. All the



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cus, and a cathartic, by removing this, leaves the delicate
mucous tissue a sure prey to the succeeding doses of medicine which often follow. As the second epoch approaches,
the gums begin to look red, and swell slightly, the child
bites and discharges saliva, is restless, and the eyes are
slightly inflamed, or at least the inner surface of the lids,
and the vessels of the conjunctiva are fuller and more numerous than has been before noticed.
The great disproportion between the size of the brain
and other organs, during the first and second epoch, renders diseases of the brain very frequent. All opiates increase this tendency and should be studiously avoided.
Through the whole course of my practice, allopathic as
well as homceopathic, I have unhesitatingly condemned the
introduction of opium into the nursery, in any form,
whether elixor paregoric, cordials, dovers powder or
any other, as directly tending to produce not only many of
the diseases and sufferings of this stage of life, but as being intimately connected with the causes which lay the
foundation for an enfeebled constitution and many of the
ills of future life.
The clothing should be carefully attended to, while
every precaution should be taken to avoid cold and damp
air; free exposure to the air when it is of a mild and
healthy character should always be practised, the head
should always be kept cool. The practice of dressing the
tender scalp with a stiff-starched cap cannot be too highly
reprobated, for although it may not add materially to the
warmth of the head, will not only make the child uncomfortable by the irritation constantly kept up, but they are
much more liable to the diseases of the ears and scalp,
usually called scalled-head. Washing first with warm,
then tepid water, during the first month, and as the infant
gains strength, gradually passing on to cold water, with
gentle friction, is conducive to the health and strength of
the infant. When cold bathing is practised, it should consist in rapid immersion, when a beneficial reaction will
ensue, and a fine glow will pass over the surface, whereas
continuing the child in the water, even for a minute, would



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greatly depress the vital energies and prevent the development of the healthy secretion of the surface which cold
ablution tends to induce.
Towards the close of these epochs teething has advanced,
and other physical changes in function and structure continue, when voluntary motions, creeping and walking, are
attempted in succession, and there is seldom much fear of
disease if there has been no improper medication, or there
is no hereditary predisposition to disease, and the infant
has been accustomed to healthy out-door exercise and comfortable dress.
The most suitable time for weaning is from the tenth to
the fourteenth month, and then there ought to be at least
six or eight teeth quite through the gums. The child
should be gradually accustomed to food other than that
drawn from the breasts of the mother, from the fifth month
upward, but at first it should be of the Inildest and blandest
kind.' Animal food is seldom required, or indeed proper,
during the firstyear; nature has pointed out the period for
this, in the preparation of teeth to masticate it. During
these epochs the infant is less liable to all infections and
exanthematous diseases; we often find it most difficult to
make an impression with the vaccine virus during nursing.
The period of childhood extends from the second year
to the seventh or eighth year, when the second dentition is
being completed. Catarrhal fevers, and the various diseases
from indigestion of improper food, are common towards the
latter part of this period. The shedding of teeth requires
special attention; while the parent should not be slow in
having the decayed teeth extracted, they should be careful
not to be too precipitate in this matter.
The early extraction of the milk teeth, long before the
second and permanent teeth are advancing, allows the alveolar process to be absorbed, and the jaw settling away prevents the uniformity and regularity which not only preserves the symmetry but the comfort of the owner; on the
other hand leaving them too long is equally objectionable.
The best course is always to consult a skilful dentist fre



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four beats of the pulse; but this is subject to even greater
variations, according to age, sex, temperament, &c., than
that of the pulse. Posture, sleep, and all causes which
vary the pulses, have a like effect upon the respiration, the
number of the respiration may be varied by the will, however, and the pulse cannot be.
At birth the number is about 46 respirations.
At 5 years   "        "  32    "
From 15 to 50 years  c"  20     "
The respirations of the female on an average is a trifle
more frequent, except when the free expansion of their
chests are prevented by improper dress, when the respirations are very short and mainly confined to the upper part
of the lungs; the bosom heaves, while the waist, diaphragm and abdomen, remain stationary. This is a fruitful
source of pulmonary disease, and cannot be too strongly
reprobated. The time occupied in emptying the lungs of
air after an inspiration, is not longer than that occupied by
a patient far advanced in the consumption, which is not
more than ten seconds, whereas healthy adult lungs can occupy from thirty to forty seconds in emptying them after a
full inspiration. Mr. Abernethy's method of measuring the
capacity of the lungs, consisted in causing the patient to
take as deep an inspiration as possible, and then expire,
through a bent tube under an inverted jar containing water, the quantity of water displaced being the measure of
the capacity of the lungs. If the lungs were healthy,
from six to eight pints would be displaced, a less quantity
than this being evidence of disease or pressure from without in proportion to the decrease. Physicians have better
means than this, but these will do for laymen, who would
only be confused by multiplying directions for diagnosing
those diseases which none but the experienced can well
understand.
The temperaments have some influence on the pulse.
The sanguine and nervous have a more frequent pulse than
the lymphatic and bilious. Having almost unconciously
touched upon the temperaments, I shall have to give a brief
description of them in order to satisfy the reader. There
are four temperaments recognized: the sanguine, the phleg



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matic, the bilious, and the nervous. A melancholic temperament is also considered independently by some.
1st. The sanguine temperament is characterized by moderate plumpness of person and firmness of flesh. The
hair is red or bright chestnut, the eyes blue, the complexion fair and florid, and the skin soft and thin. The bloodvessels are large, the circulation active, and the pulse full
and frequent. The countenance is animated, the movements quick, the passions excitable, the mind volatile and
unsteady.
2d. The phlegmatic temperament is distinguished by
roundness of form, softness of the muscles, and repletion
of the cellular tissue. The hair is fair, the eyes light blue
or gray, the skin pale, and the lips fleshy. The bloodvessels are small, the circulation languid, and the pulse
slow. It takes a great deal to arouse one of this temperament.
3d. The bilious temperament is recognized by moderate
plumpness and much firmness of flesh, with harshly expressed outlines of person, strongly-marked features, and
decided expression of countenance. The hair is black, the
eyes and the complexion dark. The pulse is full, firm, and
of moderate frequency. There is much energy of character, with great power of endurance and permanence of impression, physical and mental.
4th. The nervous temperament is distinguished by a
small, spare form, delicate features, with thin upper lip,
slender muscles, quick movements, pallor of countenance,
and feeble health. The pulse is feeble, and quick, and
easily excited by mental emotions or nervous impressions.
The whole nervous system, including the brain, is active,
the senses are acute, the thoughts quick, and the imagination lively.
5th. The melancholic temperament is nearly allied to the
bilious, and is marked by peculiar calmness and seriousness
of mind, with a great tenacity of impressions, and a tendency to indulge in gloomy thoughts.
It is rare that we meet with pure specimens of these
temperaments. They are often so combined that it is difficult to say which predominates.



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While I have endeavored to avoid all interference with
the author's text, I have found it necessary, in order to
meet the wants of this country, to enlarge upon it, and add
several i.rportant articles to it. In doing this, brevity and
accuracy have been more constantly aimed at than elegance
of style.
The entire class of fevers are added to this addition,
also Tic Doulouroux, Rickets, Leucorrhea, and several other
diseases, and several remedies which have lately been introduced into our materia medica, Protiodide Mercury, Kalmia
latifolia, Bichromate of Potash, &c., all valuable remedies,
are added, and will be found in their appropriate places.
The author's directions are confined to the use of pellets.
My plan is to have a duplicate of a few of the leading remedies for a family case, and then acute diseases which appear to resist the high attenuations, may be subdued by the
low dilutions or tinctures; for I know, by repeated observation, that colic, inflammation of the lungs, cholera morbus,
fevers, and other severe diseases, are promptly and safely
cured by drops of the tinctures of the appropriate remedies,
without any alarming aggravations.
I will remark, as a general rule when not otherwise directed in the treatment of the disease, that whenever the
drops are selected for use, drop two drops in a tumbler half
full of water, and administer one tablespoonful if the patient be an adult, or one teaspoonful if it be a child, every
quarter, half, one, two, or four hours in acute diseases,
once a day or less frequently in chronic diseases. If the
medicine be in powder, put as much as will lay on a sixpenny piece on the tongue, unless it is otherwise directed
in the text. Antimony tart. should always be dissolved in
water, and given as above directed. If the symptoms are
relieved, discontinue the medicine altogether, or allow the
intervals between the doses to be linger; if no relief is
manifest after the second or third dose, you may be very
certain that the medicine is not properly indicated, and it
will be your duty to select another more appropriate one.
GEORGE W. COOK, M.D.
New York, Nov. 24, 1847.



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INDEX TO THE DISEASES, FOR WHICH THE TREATMENT
IS DETAILED IN THIS BOOK.

PAGE
Abortion..      193- 196
After Pains...    200
Animation, suspended    172- 183
Antidotes to Scarlet Fever   49
Antidotes to Measles.     49
Aphtha, or Thrush,    116
Arnica, over dose of.     32
Asthma of. Millar..    109
Bad Mouth..       118
Biliousness... 65, 154
Bites of Reptiles, &c..   270
Bleeding from nose.     84
Blight.     71
'Boil..38
Bloody Flux..    148
Bruise..     60
Burns...     55,Cardialgia...     133
Catarrh or Cold.. 86, 234
Catarrhal Fever.    47, 89- 92
Catarrhal Ophthalmia.     72
Case of Scarlet Fever prevented 49
Case of Wound treated.     58
Case of Swelled Head.) 231
-Case of swallowing a Farthing 273
Cephalgia or Headache.     64
Cheek Swelling..     80
Chicken Pox..    43
Chilblain...     39
Childbirth..    197
Chlorosis..    236
Cholera.      143, 144
Cold in the Head.. 86, 234
Colic.                 144, 145
-     Windy.      144, 145
Coma                         171
Constipation    137-139, 191, 202
Convulsions..    218.Corns...    41

PAGE
Cough... 95- 101
Cramp of the Stomach.    136
Croup...    107
Crusta Lactea, or Milk Crust  33
Crying of Infants.    228
Delivery, Directions after.  199
Dentition..      119, 215
Desire to return home.    245
Diarrhoea..  141-142,203
Diet, after delivery.    200
Digestive Organs, Affections of 115
Dog, Mad, bite of..    270
Drowning...    175
Dysentery...    148
Dyspepsia.. 129-132,248
Ear affections..     76
Earache...     76
Enteritis, or Inflammation of
the Bowels.       e   146
Epistaxis, or bleeding from the
Nose...     84
Erysipelas...     53
Excoriation..     34
Eyes and Eyelids, Affections of 70
Fainting...    169
Fever and General Febrile Action...     19
Febres or Fevers..    159
Fever, Simple..    159
'   Inflammatory,     159
STyphus..     160
"   Ship..     161
SRemittent.       -     164
"   Yellow..     165
"   Intermittent.    165
Flatulence...    134
Foul Air...    178
Fright...    241



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PAGE
Frozen                      176
Furunculus or Boil           38
General Affections          169
Gout                        157
Green Sickness..     36
Grief, Silent               244
Gripes or Colic             144
Hanging                     174
Henmatemesis, or Vomiting of
Blood.                 135
Hamnoptysis  or Spitting of
Blood.     -.     112
Hasmorihage, violent        194
Halinorrhoids               147
Head Affections              61
Headache                     64
Heartburn                   133
Hepatitis, or Inflammation of
the Liver                153
Hernia, or Rupture          233
Hiccough...    229
Hoarseness                   93
Hooping-cough        87, 101-107
Hordeolum, or Stye           74
Hydrocephalus                63
Icterus, or Jaundice         153
Indigestion      64, 121, 129, 146
Inlfants, treatment of      209
Inflammation of the Bowels  146
_-_         -     Breasts   205
Eyes       71
Liver     153
---               Lungs 110
Head       61
Ear        78
Influenza...     93
rritability...     36
Itchings...     35
Jaundice...     153
King's Evil                 224
Labor-Pains                  198
Lethargy                    171
Liver Complaints             153
Lochial Discharge           204
Lumbago                     158
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PAGE
Measles...     46
Mlegrim.                  68
Menstruation, continuance of  190
Miliaria.                  54
_- Fever                      54
Milk Crust.                  33
-    Fever                   206
Millar's Asthma              109
Miscarriage                  193
Morninig Sickness.          189
Mumps                         80
Muscular System, Affections
of the                   155
Nettle Rash.           54
Nostalgia, or desire to return
home                     245
Nose, the                     83
Ophthalmia, Catarrhal         72
Otalgia, or Earache           76
Otorrhea...      79
Painter's Colic              144
Paronychia, or Whitlow        36
Piles                        147
Pimples                       46
Pertussis, or Hooping Cough  101
Pleurisy                     112
Poisoning                    261
Porrigo, or Ringworm          40
I'regnancy.            184, 189
Puerperal Fever.          207
Purgatives, destructive Effects
of                        65
Purpura, or Plurples          52
Pustules                      44
Quinsy, or sore throat       126
Respiratory Organs, Affections
of                        83
Retention of Urine           234
Retuin of the Milk.    229
Rheumatism               155 - 157
Ringworm                      40
Rubeola, or Measles           46
Running from the Ear          79
---   Nose. 86, 234
Saint Anthony's Fire          53
Scald Head, or Ring Worm      40

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PAGE
Scarlatina..     48
Scarlet Fever..     48
Scrofula..     24
Secretion of Milk..    207
Skin Affections, Evils from
External Remedies.     42
Sleeplessness..    227
Sleep....    213
Small Pox...     44
Somnolency..    171
Sore Nipples                204
Sore Throat.   39,126- 128
Spitting of Blood..    112
Sprain                       60
Stomacace, or Bad Mouth.   118
Stifling...    174
Stings of Insects.    222
Strangling.    174
Suppuration..     37
Swelling of the Head.    231
Teething... 119,215

PAGE
Tic Douloureux..     124
Throat, the..     125
Toothache.. 120 -123, 191
Thrush...    116
Urticaria, or Nettle Rash.  54
Vaccination.          214
Varicella, or Chicken Pox    43
Varicose Veins..     192
Variola, or Small Pox.     44
Varioloid.                 46
Vomiting                     135
---     of Blood.. 135, 136

Wart
Water in the Head
Weaning
Whites, The
Whitlow
Worms
Wound

S 41
S 63
213
2ý7
36
149-152
S 57



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INDEX TO THE REMEDIES USED AND THE DISEASES
IN WHICH EMPLOYED.
Aconite: p.18, 33, Milk Crust; 37,Whitlow; 38, Boil; 43, Chickenpox; 44, Smallpox; 47, Measles; 49, 51, Scarlet Fever; 53,
Purpura; 53, Erysipelas; 54, Miliary Fever; 55, Nettle-rash;
57, Burns and Scalds; 59, Wounds; 62, Inflammation of the
Brain; 66, 67, 68, Headache; 70, 71, Inflammation of the Eye;
71, Blight; 72, 73, Catarrhal Opthalmia; 71, Inflammation of
the Eyelids; 74, Stye; 78, Inflammation of the Ear; 84,Bleeding from the Nose; 72, Catarrhal Fever; 94, Influenza; 96, 97,
98, 99, 100, Cough; 101, Hooping Cough; 107, 108, Croup; 111,
Inflammation of the Lungs; 112, Pleurisy; 113, Spitting of
Blood; 119, Teething; 121,122, Toothache; 124, Tic Douloureux;
136; Vomiting; 146, Inflammation of the Bowels; 14S, Dysentery; 150, Worms; 154, Liver Complaint; 156, Rheumatism;
157, Gout; 158, Lumbago; 159, Fevers; 170, Fainting; 173,
Suspended Animation at Birth; 177, Suspended Animation from
being Frozen; 195, Abortion; 198, Labor Pains; 206, Milk Fever; 208, Puerperal Fever; 217, Teething; 225, Scrofula.
Ammonia Carb.: 163, Fevers.
Antimonium Crudum: p. 42, Corns; 121, 122, Toothache: 135,
Vomiting of Food; 249, Diseases increased by Derangement of
Stomach.
Arnica: p. 33, Boil; 39, Chilblain; 41, 42, Corns; 45, Smallpox;
48, Measles; 58, Wound; 60, Sprain; 60, Bruise; 71, Inflammation of the Eye; 77, Earache; 80, Swelling of the Cheek;
85, Bleeding from the Nose; 106, Hooping Cough; 114, Spitting
of Blood; 121, 122, Toothache; 136, Vomiting of Blood; 158,
Lumbago; 174, Suspended Animation from a Fall; 199, After
Labor; 205, Sore Nipples; 206, Milk.Fever; 221, 232, Swelling of the Head; 246, 247, 248, Misearriages, Inflammations;
Bleeding from the Nose, Spitting of Blood, Erysipelas, Inflammation of the Eye, Convulsions, produced by blows or injuries.
Arsenicum.: p. 34, 36, Itchings; 39, Chilblains; 41, Ring Worm; 52,
Scarlet Fever; 64, Water in the Head; 73, Inflammation of the
Eyelids; 87, 88,. Cold in the Head; 94, Influenza; 96 to 100,
Cough; 121, 122, Toothache; 136, Vomiting of Blood; 146, Inflammation; 143, Cholera; 147, Piles; 148, Dysentery; 164,
167, Fevers; 177, Suspended Animation from being Frozen; 193,
Varicose Veins; 203, Diarrhoea.
Assafaetida: p. 226, Rickets.
Belladonna: p. 38, Boil; 39, Chilblain; 43, Chickenpox; 44,
Smallpox; 46, Varioloid; 47, Measles; 48, Scarlet Fever; 53,
Erysipelas; 164, 165, 54, Miliary Fever; 55, Nettle-rash; 62,



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Inflammation of the Brain; 66, 67, 68, Headache; 70, 71, Inflammation of the Eye; 71, 72, Inflammation of the Eyelids; 72,
73, Catarrhal Opthalmia; 77, Earache; 80, Swelling of the
Cheeks; 81, Mumps; 85, Bleeding from the Nose; 90, 91, 92,
Catarrhal Fever; 93, Hoarseness; 94, Influenza; 96-100,
Cough; 119, Teething; 121, 122, Toothache; 168, Fevers; 126,
127, 123, Sore Throat, or Quinsy; 146, Inflammation of the
Bowels; 147, Piles; 181, Suspended Animation from Coal Fire;
194, 196, Abortion; 204, Lochial Discharge; 205, Inflammation
of the Breasts; 206, Milk Fever; 217, 218, Delayed Teething;
222, 223, Convulsions; 227, Sleeplessness; 228, Crying.
Bichromate of Potass, or Kali Bichromicum: p. 109, Croup.
Bleeding: p. 171, Coma, Lethargy.
Bora.: p. 116, Thrush.
Bryonia: p. 40, Ring Worm: 48, Measles; 53, Erysipelas; 55,
Nettle-rash; 60, Sprain; 66, 67, 68, Headache; 84, Bleeding
from the Nose; 101, Cough; 111, Inflammation of the Lungs;
112, Pleurisy; 121,122, Toothache; 124, Tic Douloureux; 131,132,
Derangement of Stomach; 135, Vomiting of Food; 140, Constipation; 146, Inflammation of the Bowels; 153, Jaundice; 154,
Liver Complaint; 156, 157, Rheumatism;. 158, Lumbago; 160,
Fevers; 191, Constipation of Pregnant Women; 196, Uterine
Hemorrhage; 202, 204, Lochial Discharge; 205, Inflammation
of the Breasts; 206, Milk Fever; 168, Fever; 244, Vexation
or Passion; 249, Diseases increased by Derangement of the
Stomach; 154, Biliousness.
Calcarea Carbonica: p. 36, Irritability; 39, Chilblain; 41, Wart;
70, Inflammation of the Eye; 74, Stye; 120, Teething; 121,
122, Toothache; 204, Lochial Discharge; 205, Sore Nipples;
208, Profuse Secretion of the Milk; 219, Delayed Teething; 225,
Scrofula; 226, Rickets; 236, Chlorosis. -
Camphor: 144, Cholera; 170, Fainting; 221, Convulsions; 177,
Frozen; 234, Retention of Urine.
Canlharides: p. 158, Lumbago; 234, Retention of Urine; 237, the
Whites.
Cannabis: p. 52.
Capsicum: p. 148, Piles; 245, Desire to return Home, or Nostalgia.
Carbo Vegetabilis: p. 36, Itchings; 102, 106, Hooping Cough;
118, Bad Mouth; 121, 122, Toothache; 134, Flatulence; 133,
Heartburn; 168, Fever; 177, Suspended Animation from being
Frozen; 238, the Whites.
Causticum: p. 124.
Chamomilla: p. 35, Excoriation; 40, Chilblain; 43, Chickenpox; 54, Miliary Fever; 66, 67, 68, Headache; 77, Earach6,
87, 88, Cold in the Head; 90, 91,92, Catarrhal Fever; 164, Feer,
96-100, Cough; 119, Teething; 121, 122, Toothache; 126, 127,



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128, Quinsy, or Sore Throat; 130, 131, 132, Derangement of the
Stomach; 133, Heartburn; 135, Vomiting of Food; 137, Cramp
of Stomach; 141, 142, Diarrhoea; 143, Cholera; 145, Colic;
153, Jaundice; 156, 157, Rheumatism; 158, Lumbago; 161, Typhus Fever; 170, Fainting; 196, Uterine Hemorrhage; 206,
Milk Fever; 217, Teething; 219, 221, Convulsions; 227, Sleeplesness; 228, Crying of Infants; 233, Rupture or Hernia of Infants; 235, Cold in the Head of Infants; 244, Vexation, Passion; 249, Diseases increased by taking Cold.
China: p. 52, Scarlet Fever; 59, Wounds; 86, Bleeding from the
Nose; 113, Spitting of Blood; 121, 122, Toothache; 130, Derangement of Stomach; 134, Flatulence; 141, 142, Diarrhea;
153, Jaundice; 167, Fevers; 170, Fainting; 173, Suspended Animation at Birth; 174, Suspended Animation from a Fall; 228,
Sleeplessness.
Cinnamon, Tincture of: p. 198, Labor Pains suddenly ceasing.
Chloride of Lime: p. 178, Suspended Animation from Foul Air.
Cicidta: p. 221, Convulsions.
Cina: p. 103 to 106, Hooping Cough; 168, Fever; 152, Worms;
221, Convulsions
Cocculus: p. 134, Flatulence; 137, Cramp of Stomach.
Coffca: p. 43, Chickenpox; 53, Purpura; 54, Miliary Fever; 59,
Wounds; 119, Teething; 121, 122, Toothache; 170, Fainting;
200, 197, Labor Pains; 206, Milk Fever; 217, Teething; 224,
Convulsions; 227, Sleeplessness; 249, Diseases increased by
taking Cold.
Colocynth: p. 145, Colic; 124, Tic Douloureux; 149, Dysentery.
Coniium: p. 124, 236, Chlorosis.
Creosote Water: p. 57, 123, Toothache.
Crocus: p. 85, Bleeding from the nose; 196, Uterine Hemorrhage;
204, Lochial Discharge.
Cuprum: p. 104, 105, 106, Hooping Cough.
Drosera: p. 103 to 106, Hooping Cough.
Dulcamara: p. 52, Scarlet Fever; 55, Nettle-rash; 81, Mumps;
90, Catarrhal Fever; 103, 106, Hooping Cough; 141, 142, Diarrhea; 156, 157, Rheumatism; 203, Diarrhbea of Lying-inWomen; 206, Milk Fever; 249, Diseases increased by taking
Cold.
Euphrasia: p. 72, Catarrhal Opthalmia.
Felix Max: p. 152, Worms.
Graphites: p. 234, Retention of Urine.
Hepar Sulphuris: p. 19, 34, 37, Whitlow; 38, Boil; 40, Ring
Worm; 53, Erysipelas; 59, Wounds; 81, Mumps   106, Hooping Cough; 107, 108, Croup; 121, 122, Toothache; 170,
Fainting.
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96 to 100, Cough; 121, 122, Toothache; 160, Typhus Fever;. 196, Uterine Hemorrhage; 203, Diarrhoea of Lying-in-Women.
Helleborus: p. 52, 63, Water in the Head.
Ignatia: p. 35, Excoriation; 36, Itchings; 90, Catarrhal Fever;
96 to 100, Cough; 119, Teething; 121, 122, Toothache; 126,
127, 128, Quinsy, or Sore Throat; 130, 137, Derangement of
Stomach; 138, 140, Constipation; 150, Worms; 153, Jaundice;
167, Fevers; 170, Fainting; 222-3, Convulsions; 244, Silent
Grief.
Ipecacuanha: p. 96 to 100, Cough; 102, Hooping Cough; 130,
Indigestion; 135, Vomiting of Food; 136, Vomiting of Blood;
137, Cramp of Stomach; 143, Cholera; 161, 167, Fevers; 190,
Morning Sickness; 196, Uterine Hemorrhage; 229, Return of
Milk; 249, Diseases produced by taking Cold.
Jalapa: p. 229, Crying of Infants.
Kalmia Latifolia: p. 125, Tic Douloureux.
Lachesis: p. 107, Croup; 171, Coma; 176, Suspended Animation
from Drowning.
Mercurius: p. 35, Excoriation; 37, Whitlow; 38, Boil; 44, Chickpox; 48, 51, Scarlet Fever; 59, Wounds; 64,77, Earache; 72, Catarrhal Opthalmia; 72, Inflammation of the Eyelids; 79, Running from the Ear; 80, Swelling of the Cheek; 81, Mumps;
85, Bleeding from the Nose; 87, 88, Cold in the Head; 94, Influenza; 118, Stomacace; 119. Teething; 121, 122, Toothache;
126, 127, 128, Quinsy, or Sore Throat; 141, 142, Diarrhoea; 152,
Worms; 154, Liver Complaint; 158, Lumbago; 207, Milk Fever; 222, Convulsions.
Mercurius Corrosivus: p. 148, Dysentery.
lA1ercury Vivus: p. 36, Itching; 116, Thrush.
Mezerelum: p. 124.
Millefolium: p. 114.
A/Moschus: p. 170, Fainting.
Muriatic Acid: p. 52, Scarlet Fever; 161, 165.
Natrum Muriaticum: p. 168, Fevers.
Nitric Acid: p. 133.
Nux Vomica: p. 36, Itching; 39, Chilblain; 55, Nettle-rash; 66,
67, 68, Headache; 72, Catarrhal Optbalmia; 85, Bleeding from
the Nose; 87, 88, Cold in the Head; 90, 91, 92, Fever; 96 to
100, Cough; 102, Hooping Cough: 118, Stomacace, or Bad
Mouth; 119, Teething; 121, 122, Toothache; 126, 127, 128,
Quinsy, or Sore Throat; 130, 131,132. Derangement of Stomach;
133, Heartburn; 134, Flatulence; 137, Cramp in the Stomach;
138, 140, Constipation; 145, Colic; 147, Piles; 152, Worms;
153, Jaundice; 154, Liver Complaint; 154, Biliousness; 156,
157, Rheumatism; 158, Lumbago; 170, Fainting; 178, Suspended Animation from Lightning; 190, Morning Sickness; 191,
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Labor Pains; 218, Teething; 222-3, Convulsions; 233, Rupture, or Hernia of Infants; 235, Cold in the Head of Infants;
249, Diseases increased by taking Cold.
Opium: p. 44, 51, Smallpox; 59, Wound; 63, Inflammation
of the Brain; 140, Constipation; 146, Inflammation; 146,
Colic; 161, 165, 167, 168, Fever; 170, Fainting; 173, Suspended Animation at Birth - 176, Suspended Animation from
Strangling, &c.; 173, Suspended Animation from Drowning a
181, Suspended Animation from Coal Fire; 191, Constipation of
Pregnant Women; 198, Labor Pains suddenly ceasing; 206,
Milk Fever; 222, Convulsions; 141-3, Fright.
Phosphorus: p. 111, 121, 122, Toothache; 125, Tic Douloureux;
170, 203, Fainting; 207, Milk Fever.
Phosphori Addum: p. 161, 203.
Platina: p. 125.
Protiodide of Mercury,: p. 51, Scarlet Fever; 81, Mumps; 92,
Fever; 94, Influenza; 109, Croupý; 118, Bad Mouth; 129, Sore
Throat; 149, Dysentery; 153, Jaundice: 164, Fever; 225,
Scrofula.
Prussic Acid-: p. 107, Hooping Cough.
Pulsatilla: p. 35, Excoriation,; 35, Itching; 36, 39, Chilblain;
47, Measles; 52, Scarlet Fever; 53, Erysipelas; 55, Nettle-rash:
59, Wound; 66, 67, 68, Headache; 74, Stye; 77, Earache; 78,
Inflammation of the Ear; 85, Bleeding from the nose; 87, 88,
Cold in the Head; 90, 91, 92, Catarrhal Fever; 96 to 100, Cough;
102, Hooping Cough; 113, Spitting of Blood; 121, 122i Toothache; 126,127, 123, Quinsy, or Sore Throat; 130, 131, 132, Derangement of Stomach- Heartburn; 134, Flatulence; 135, 136,
Vomiting of Food; 137, Cramp; 138, Constipation; 141, 142,
Diarrhaea; 145, Colic; 153, Jaundice; 154, Liver Complaint,
156, 157, Rheumatism; 158, Lumbago; 167, Fever; 192, Varicose Veins; 198, Labor Pains; 204, Lochial Discharge; 207,
Puerperal Fever; 222, Convulsions; 228, Sleeplessness; 234,
Retention of Urine; 236, Chlorosis; 249, Diseases increased by
Derangement of Stomach: 249, Diseases. increased by taking
Cold.
Rheum: p. 229, Crying of Infants.
Rhus Toxicodendron: p. 34, 41, Wart; 42, Corn; 52, Scarlet Fever; 54, Erysipelas; 60, Sprain; 86, Bleeding from the Nose;
11.1, Inflammation of the Lungs; 121, 122, Toothache; 156, 157,
Rheumatism; 158, Lumbago; 233, Swelling of the Head; 246,
Miscarriages, Inflammations, &c. produced by physical injuries.
Sabina: p. 194, 196, Abortion.
Sambucus: p. 110, Asthma of Millar; 235, Cold in the Head of
Infants; 242, 243, Fright.
Secale. p. 193, Abortion; 198, Labor Pains; 204, Diarrhoea.
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Sepia: p. 236, Chlorosis.
Silica: p. 37, Whitlow; 40, Scaldhead; 42, Corn; 121, 122, Toothache; 204, Lochial Discharge; 207, Milk Fever: 233, Swelling
on Head of Infants; 225, Scrofula; 226, Rickets.
Soap: p. 56, Burns.
Spigelia: p. 125, Tic Douloureux.
Spirits of Wine: p. 56, Burns.
uporia: p. 107, 109, Croup.
Squilla: p. 111, Inflammation of the Lungs.
Staphysag-ria: p. 41, Ringworm; 74, Stye; 121, 122, Toothache;
125, 158, Lumblgo; 244, Passion.
Stibium: p. 44, Small Pox; 163, Fever.
Stramonium: p. 63, Inflanimation of the Brain.
Sulphur: p. 34, Milk Crust; 36, Itchings; 37, Whitlow; 38,
Boil; 39, Chilblain; 42, Corn; 53, Purpura; 70, 71, Inflammation of the Eye; 46, Varioloid; 79, Running from the Ear; 86,
Bleeding from the Nose; 116, Thrush; 121, 122, Toothache;
130, Derangement of Stomach; 141, 142, Diarrhoea; 147, Piles;
150, Worms; 192, Varicose Veins; 205, Sore Nipples;216,
Teething; 215, After Vaccination; 233, Rupture, or Hernia in
Infants; 226, Rickets; 236, Chlorosis; 238, The Whites.
Tartar Emetic: or Antimony Tart. p. 144, Cholera; 92, Fever;
94, Influenza; 109, Croup; 112, Lungs; 146, Inflammation of
bowels; 160, Typhus Fever; 164, Remittent do.; 165, 167, Yellow do.; 171, Coma; 171, Suspended Animation at Birth.
Thuja: p. 112, Pleurisy.
Vaccinin: p. 45.
Valeriana: p. 135, Vomiting of Food.
Veratrum: p. 103 to 106, Hooping cough; 143, Cholera; 170,
Fainting; 168, 165, 164, 163, 161, Fevers; 233, Rupture, or Hernia of Infants; 229, Crying of Infants.
Vinegar; p. 179, Suspended Animation from Foul Air; 195, Abortion.
Violo Tricolor: p. 34.
Zinc: p. 35, Excoriation.
This enumeration of the medicines used, (and these are not
more than a third of those employed in homceopathic practice,)
will afford the best answer to the ignorance-founded assertion, that
hommeopathists use but ONE medicine. This is urged by some, it is
believed, because the medicines are colorless: a circumstance dependent upon the muedicines being prepared by trituration with
sugar of milk.
The examination of this Index will show, that the medicines to
be studied most are Aconite, Arnica, Arsenicum, Belladonna, Bryonia, Chamomilla, China, Ignatia, Nux Vomica, Opium, Pulsatilla, Rhus 'loxicodendron, and Sulphur.



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neither rain water nor distilled water can be obtained,
common water, boiled two hours, and poured out while
boiling, and allowed to stand in an earthenware
vessel till cold, can be used. The solution should
always be made in a new bottle, with a new well-fitting cork; or if the bottle has been used before for
homoeopathic medicines, it should be washed with
water, renewed four times, well drained, and then
heated to dryness in an oven or before the fire. All
bottles, which have been used for the medicines, as
prescribed under the old system, must not, on any
account, be used. The medicines should be kept in
the dark. The cork should be inserted directly the
medicine has been removed from the bottle.
Rules for administration in acute diseases.
In acute diseases, the plan I generally adopt is to
dissolve three to four globules* of the medicine indicated, in four spoonsful (either tablespoonful or teaspoonful, according to the age of the person,) of
water; give two spoonsful at once, and repeat generally every eight hours, sometimes every four hours,
Generally in acute diseases there is more or less
of febrile heat. ACONITUM is the medicine most
peculiarly appropriate to such a condition, and hence,
in perhaps seven cases out of ten of acute diseases,
aconitum will be the remedy best suited to give at
first, dissolved as directed.
* The globules are impregnated with the medicinal agent. I
generally use the globules impregnated with the medicinal solution
at its highest dilution; usually marked 30. To adults, sometimes,
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convulsions, the dose may be repeated every quarter
of an hour, or half an hour, or hour.
Rules for administering in chronic and less acute
diseases.
Generally speaking, in chronic diseases, three to
four globules dissolved in eight or ten spoonsful of
water, and one spoonfql taken in the morning at
eleven, and one at seven in the evening, or two
spoonsful taken the first thing in the morning, or
two at night, will be enough.
Additional experience has led me to adopt the following method in a majority of cases. After the
second day of taking the medicine, the patient desists
from medicine, then repeats, then desists for a day.
I have found this decidedly effective: the power of
the medicine, developing itself from the accumulating
influence of the first doses, does not require so frequent a repetition to keep up the effect. In fact,
too frequent repetition is injurious.
As general rules, Nux Vomica should be taken at
night; Pulsatilla in the afternoon.
Rhus generally in the morning.
Rules as to the medicines generally.
The medicine should be taken before or between
meals, so that an hour and a half or two hours may
have intervened between the time after food has been
taken, or before food is again taken, and the time of
taking the medicine.
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from mental occupation, should be chosen, unless
when otherwise indicated.
In acute diseases, the appropriate remedy can be
taken at once.
All mental excitements* should, so far as possible,
be avoided while under the operation of the medicines.
All vices should be avoided; because, as disease
is so often the fruit of vice, it is quite clear, the vice,
persevered in, must keep up the febrile and morbid
irritation, and thereby effectually resist the operation
of the remedy.
Rules for the selection of the remedy.
As to the selection of the remedy, the principal
points, are, first, to ascertain the exact symptoms or
features of the complaint of the patient, and the second, to look to the description of the disease, and
find out the remedy recorded in connection therewith, which corresponds most exactly in its symptoms
to those of the disease.
It does not require that the similarity should be
perfect: better if it is: but if the prominent, the
majority of the symptoms agree, then give the medicine.
In ascertaining the exact features of the complaint,
* Many persons have judged, from this statement, that it is of
no use to take the medicines when their position subjects them, of
necessity, to much mental excitement. This is quite a mistake.
It is the more necessary that they should take the medicine, homceopathic to the disease, because thus they may be able to sustain
the mental excitement, and may have some of the injurious effects
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*the patient should always, if relating his symptoms
to another, describe what he feels in his own language, for it is certain he will describe most influentially those symptoms troubling him most. He should
never be questioned whether he has this or that
symptom.
If, after his description, there seem some deficiencies in the statement, then questions, but not leading questions, may be put.*
Rules as to judging respecting the efficiency of the
medicine.
It may be here with benefit remarked that, though,
often the remedy, although STRICTLY homoeopathic,
and therefore CERTAINLY curative of the disease, at
first causes an aggravation of the symptoms, amelioration will soon follow; and as long as a marked
amelioration proceeds, so long no repetition of dose,
or at least a smaller dose, is needed: when the amelioration ceases to progress, then either the medicine, previously administered, must be repeated, or
some other medicine selected, best suited to the remaining symptoms.
If these remarks hold good with the use of remedies in acute diseases, it is decidedly the case with
-remedies used in chronic cases: as long as a marked
* In cases of consultation, where the physician is at a distance,
and the patient is not able to see him, great minuteness is required; and the queries in Part Fifth will show the points, to
which attention is to be directed, and also will demonstrate the immense care the homceopathic practice requires; quite different from
the usual, where the tongue, the pulse, and the secretions, and
these only in general points, are the matters usually brought under
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amelioration progresses, we should not repeat the
remedy, or at least we must increase the interval between the doses.
But it may be inquired, how is the homceopathic
remedial aggravation to be distinguished from the aggravation produced by the destructive progress of the
disease. Hahnemann gives the rules:

The remedial aggravation occurs almost immediately after the administration of the remedy, and
with intensity, so that it is
seen to arise from some
new agent operating.
The remedial aggravavation presents an   increase of the same symptoms, which, after three
to four hours, present a
lessened strength.

The progress of disease aggravation proceeds
on regularly: and bears
the same ratio of progress
after as before the exhibition of the remedy.
The progress of disease aggravation presents
an addition often of new
symptoms.

These are the chief distinctions: there is another,
which powerfully helps to distinguish the aggravation
as remedial, and this is, that some of the symptoms of
the remedial agent, distinct from those, in which it
is homceopathic to the disease, become manifest in
the patient.
This additional evidence is principally available to
the homceopathic physician, because it cannot be
supposed that non-medical individuals are likely to
be acquainted with these symptoms.
If, however, in four hours after administration, no
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aggravating decidedly the symptoms, or diminishing
decidedly the symptoms, it is certain that the remedy,
homeopathic to the disease, has not been selected,
or that some circumstances, such as diet, (see chapter on Diet,) have interfered with the operation. It
will be necessary then to go over the symptoms of
the patient again, and to compare these symptoms
with some other remedy or remedies, so as to find the
one most homceopathic to the symptoms.
If, still, after the most careful examination, the
symptoms are most correspondent with those of the
homanopathic remedy first chosen, it may be that the
Swant of effect depends upon the diminished susceptibility to impression, dependent upon the exhaustion
of the life power; it will then be well to give a drop
of the dilution itself, instead of the globules impregnated with the given dilution. But, in such a case,
a physician's aid is sure to be sought.
In regard to diet, the particulars, to be attended to,
will be found in the Fourth Part.
It is necessary always to select articles of diet in
which the nutritive property, unattended by strong
flavors, preponderates.
Cocoa is the best of all flavored drinks. It is
highly nutritive. It contains an oil and a fecula,
compounded in such suitable proportions, that the
most delicate stomach will, after a time, bear them
thus joined. At first, sometimes, the stomach does
not seem to agree with the cocoa; a little perseverance, and the stomach will submit. The author of
this work takes cocoa three times each day, no tea,
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CHAPTER         I.
THE SKIN     AND ITS DISEASES.
VARIOUS are the diseases of the membrane, investing the body.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Milk Crust, or Milk 12. Small Pox.
Scab.            13. Varioloid.
Excoriation.        14. Measles.
Itchings.           15. Scarlet Fever.
Irritability.       16. Purples.
Whitlow.            17. St. Anthony's Fire, or
Boil.                     Erysipelas.
Chilblain.          18. Miliary Fever.
Scald Head or Ring -19. Nettle Rash.
Worm.            20. Burn and Scald.
Warts.              21. Wound.
Corns.              22. Sprain.
Chicken Pox.        23. Bruise.

Of these, one appearing the earliest in life, is
THE JMILK CRUST, (CRUSTA LACTEA.)
Little vesicles, containing a clear lymph, in clusters, appearing generally, first on the face, and thence
extending sometimes over the whole body, soon becoming yellow, then break, forming hard crusts,
constitute this disease.
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*When the surrounding parts swell, are red and
tender, and the little sufferer scratches and is restless, Aconite* can be administered, followed on the
second day, when the restlessness and the inflammatory symptoms are subdued, by the Viola Tricolor.
The viola tricolor not affording relief, Sulphur will
be useful.
[If it is brought on by variations of temperature,
accompanied with symptoms of cold, give Dulcamara
in the usual way. If there is much itching, with
watery discharge, Rhus. Tox. Hep. Sulp., if hoarseness attends the cold, Graph. Arsenicum may also be
required. - Ed.]
No external application but a little hair powder or
weak soap water should be used.
When depending upon constitutional tendency,
and relief not being attained by these means, the
physician must be consulted.
Another malady of the skin in children is
EXCORIATION.
This takes place at the folds of the skin, particularly in infancy.
Cleanliness, by the use of lukewarm water, and in
drying the parts, not by rubbing, but the free use of
the common drying t powder, are often sufficient;
* For the general conditions under which Aconite is useful, see
Introduction.
t This powder should be made of the flower of wheat, and not of
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Sulphur is the chief remedy; if not wholly curing,
VCarbo Vegetabilis will succeed.
Should the little knotty bodies appear as flea bites,
and the itching be diffused, pricking and burning,
and if, on scratching, it leaves one part to proceed to
another, and if it annoys particularly after getting
warm in bed, then Ignatia is to be used.
If these means, aided by cleanliness, are inefficient,
the physician's aid must be sought.
If the itching occurs after getting warm in bed,
Pulsatilla can be taken; if the itching always occurs
when undressing, then Nux Vomica or Arsenicum;
if this fail, take Mercurius Vivus, [if there is itching
with oozing of water from the surface like drops of
sweat.- Ed.]
A fourth malady of the skin may be designated
IRRITABILITY.
In some skins the least circumstance produces
irritation, attended with inflammation and suppuration: a condition indicating a peculiar constitutional state, which, being removed, this irritable
state will cease. Calcarea Carbonica is often useful;
but generally, the selection of the remedy should be
left to the physician.
A fifth malady of the skin is
THE WHITLOW, (PARONYCHIA.)
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ends of the fingers at the nail; being attended often
with severe pain, and ending very frequently in suppuration.
Mercurius is the best remedy in suppuration.
If in the course of eight hours after taking the
mercurius, two globules as a dose, no improvement
be apparent, use Aconite and Hepar Sulphuris, as
recommended for acute diseases, in the Introduction;
this will often prevent suppuration and the loss of the
nail, and even, if not preventing suppuration, the
process of suppuration will be rendered less troublesome and painful.
A poultice should be employed: Dr. Hering recommends, if the pains are acute, to let a fresh egg be
opened at the thick end and to thrust the finger into
it, and let it remain there till the pain abate.
[Although this disease is sometimes superficial;
confined to the skin and cellular texture and glands
about the nail, it is improperly classed with skin
diseases. More frequently the worst forms are deep
seated next the bone, and an incision down to the
seat of the disease is the only sure means of arresting
a very painful malady.   Aconite and Mercury,
internally, and a soothing poultice externally, steadily
and patiently persevered in, are the only sure mean:
of relief.- Ed.]
When suppuration is taking place, Hepar Sulphuris aids nature most effectually.
Should the whitlow again threaten, then Silica
may be employed, alternating this with Sulphur.
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* A sixth malady of the skin is
THE BOIL, (FURUNCULUS.)
A red spot in the skin, hard and painful, appears:
it rises and swells, and becomes a painful, well-defined, pointed tumor, being highest in the centre, of
a deep red color, ending, for the most part, in suppuration; a head forming in the centre, which being
removed, pus, mixed with blood, is discharged.
Arnica will promote the healing, and prevent the
return. Arnica being unsuccessful, and if, with the
boil, there is an enlargement of the glands in the
neighborhood of the boil, Belladonna will, in most
cases, cure.
If the inflammation still persist, and the boil is
very large, and there is feverish heat, then aconite
an( hepar sulphuris, as directed for the whitlow, will
be serviceable.
Often Mercurius, after arnica or belladonna has,
or arnica and belladonna have, exercised the full extent of its or their beneficial agency, without perfectly curing, will complete the curative process.
Sulphur is useful after the Arnica.
It should be remembered that boils indicate a constitutional state, which should be eradicated, because,
while remaining, there is always a liability to attack
from other diseases: for this the physician must be
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A seventh malady of the skin is
THE CHILBLAIN.
This inflammatory affection attacks the toes and
the fingers, and seems to be constitutional.       If children liable to chilblains are treated constitutionally,
the, return of them will be prevented.
I have just been informed of the children of a patient of mine in Sussex, who every winter severely
suffered from chilblains for three months. I prescribed the alternate use of Calcarea and Sulphur,
and they have not been troubled this winter with the
chilblains.
The following table will guide in the selection of
the remedies:.Ornica. Belladonna. Chamomilla. Nuz Vomica. Pulsatilla. Sulphur*
swelling                       swelling.
hard:    much                            much
inflam-  inflamminna-         in,amma- inflammna-   very
mation     tion,                 tillon,   tion,   violent.
shining. bluish red           bright red  livid hue.
and very               color.
severe.
painful.           ezcessively
painflil;
itching.  creeping  itchingwith itchingin- itch, burn, itching
tingling  a burning  crea.ed by break up and  very
sensation. sensation.  Warmthl,  bleed, heat- severe.
ing or throbshow a ten-  bing,
dency to   suffering
burst.  increased in
evening and
night.
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acute, as the table will show, Chamomilla; which, if
"not producing relief, may be followed with Arsenicum.
Sulphur is particularly indicated where the other
remedies have failed, or where the chilblain has, before homcepathic means have been used, been of long
duration.
Sometimes the following plan is useful: lay some
strong glue warm on the part: put over it some
strong paper covered with glue. When the pains
are gone, wash the part cautiously with warm water.
[In this country this is most frequently a local disease, and the best means of overcoming it is to use
a foot bath, composed of one ounce of muriatic acid
to one gallon of warm water; keep the feet in this
for half an hour every evening. - Ed.]
An eighth malady, in which the eruption takes
place in the hair of the head, and which, under common treatment, is very tedious, is that well-known
complaint called
RING WORM, OR SCALD HEAD, (PORRIGO.)
In this disease diet is of the greatest importance,
and, in the most obstinate cases, Silica has a most
powerful effect.  All caustic applications are destructive.
[If the eruption extends from the head to the face,
give Rep. S., and if the glands of the throat are inflamed, give Bryonia. If the surface has a corrosive discharge oozing from it, give Rhus. T. If



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offensive, Arsenicum, and then Staph.   A  little
sweet cream or simple cerate, is the only external applications that are admissible or safe. - Ed.]
A ninth disease of the skin is the
WART.
This is generally indicative of a constitutional
diseased condition; and the use of Calcarea Carbonica, one of the most powerful means of acting
upon such constitutional condition, is generally successful.
When the wart assumes more of the cauliflower
growth; when running into each other, and difficult
to keep clean, then the Rhus Toxicodendron is
useful
But in case of warts, the constitutional condition
should be inquired into by the physician before
adopting any particular medicine.
A tenth disease of the skin is the
CORN.
The best plan for the treatment of corns, which
have originated in the use of badly-made shoes, is to
bathe the feet every other night in warm water, for
about ten minutes; then rub one drop of the Tincture of Arnica mixed with five drops of water on the



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corn, having previously pared it as close, layer after
layer, as is prudent, namely, till a slight pain is produced, and in the morning apply a piece of arnica
plaster.
If the corns resist these means, pursued for a fortnight or three weeks, the inference- is, that they depend upon constitutional disease, and, as such, must
be treated by Sulphur and Silica; Silica being especially indicated if the corns are painful at the change
of weather. Rhus also is useful in pains from change
of weather, and is more immediate.
Should the corns disappear under the use of those
means and grow again, Antimonium Crudum will
be useful: rub a few drops of the first dilution on
the part.
Should the corns at any time, even during the alternate use of Sulphur and Silica, become inflamed
or cause severe pain, especially after exercise, the
use of Arnica will be an excellent auxiliary; a footbath, to which 40 drops of the tincture have been
added, is the best form.
When the skin becomes hardened on the sole of
the foot, then Antimonium Crudum is very useful.
Corns, it should be remembered, depend often on
constitutional causes.
Many other affections of the skin might be noticed;
but these will serve as affording general rules: for
other common cutaneous affections will be seen to be
similar, in most respects, to one or the other of these,
and the treatment can thence be deduced.
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never to seek to get rid of cutaneous affections merely
by external remedies.
Besides these more particularly local affections of
the skin, this membrane is affected by several eruptive maladies, attended with fever, and with an affection of the general constitution.
Of these, the first is
THE CHICKEN-POX, (VARICELLA.)
This occurs in children, resident in neighborhoods
wherein small-pox abounds. Hence pretenders to
medical science call it small-pox, and thus they, impudent from ignorance, bring disrepute upon vaccination.
The little elevations, containing matter or pus,
hence called pustules, in chicken-pox are more
pointed and irregular in their appearance than are
those of small-pox: the disease, too, is milder in its
progress, and shorter in its duration, terminating
generally in a week. It is attended generally with
cold in the head, and slight fever.
Aconite at the commencement will subdue the fever: and Cofeca will remove any agitation, exhibited
in restlessness and anxiety.
Should spasm supervene, especially if the child be
teething, Chamomilla is to be preferred.
If the child raises the head with difficulty, and the
head and the hands are hot, much headache, and
there is agitation with griping pains, Belladonna is
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When suppuration is taking place, Mercurius aids
the cure.
Another eruptive pustular disease is
THE SMALL-POX, (VARIOLA.)
This disease still exists, its continued existence
being a fruit of the ignorance and the prejudice of
mankind.
It presents itself in four stages: the febrile, the
eruptive, the pustule-maturative, and the desiccating
stage.
Each stage is attended with its peculiar symptoms
and its peculiar dangers.
In the febrile stage numerous spots appear; this
stage being attended with lassitude, headache, oftentimes bleeding at the nose, vomiting, tenderness on
pressure at the pit of the stomach, and excessive pain
in the loins.
In this stage, Aconite moderates the fever and the
congestion of the internal organs.
When the nervous system is excessively irritable,
the eyes particularly sensitive of light, the glands of
the neck much swollen, then Belladonna; if the
sleepiness is overpowering, then Opium.
In the eruptive stage, the red spots become elevated and filled with a semitransparent fluid; and
on the third to the fourth day, the pustules are completely formed on the face, and the patient complains
of itching.
[During the eruptive stage, Stibium 1 trit. a pow



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der about the size of a pea dissolved in a wine-glass
full of water, and this given in doses of one teaspoonful every hour or two, I have found to be the
most effectual in aiding the salutary efforts of nature. - Ed.]
It is proper to keep the patient from the light as
much as possible, as soon as the pustules are formed.
Thus marks will be prevented.
In this and in the third stage medical aid is necessary: particularly if any symptoms, indicating
affection of internal organs, are apparent.
In this stage, symptoms of cold, affecting the nose,
eyes, throat, show themselves.
In the third stage, the pustule-maturative, the pustules become perfectly developed, have an indentation
in the centre, and the cellular tissue around, particularly about the face and the eyes, becomes swollen;
and the nose and the throat are inflamed: Arnica I
have found useful.
Should the eruption be very severe, a second fever
supervenes, called secondary fever: the urine becomes clouded, and the odor exhaled from the patient
is peculiarly unpleasant. Here the greatest skill is
required to regulate the progress of the disease.
In the fourth stage, the desiccating, wherein scabs
form, cleanliness, by frequently cleansing the skin
with warm water, is absolutely necessary: and thus
disfigurement can, in many cases, be prevented.
VACCINATION IS A PERFECT PREVENTIVE AGAINST
SMALL-POX.
In America, vaccinin, i. e. the vaccine virus,
taken internally, is used. " The true small-pox,"
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In this disease,* other complications appear, requiring the physician; remembering        always, that
where febrile excitement or inflammatory action distresses, Aconite is to be used.
[I prefer writing an entire article on this disease,
rather than enlarge the author's, which is too brief to
be of any value, as a guide to discern the disease or
select the remedy.     The great diversity of shades
which scarlet fever presents, forbids the propriety of
attempting a description of them      all, which would
only confuse the lay practitioner.    Yet enough must
be said to enable him   to select understandingly the
suitable remedy, where a homceopathic physician is
not to be had.   The mildest form, or simple scarlet
rash, when properly treated, passes off in a few days,
without any untoward symptoms.          There is some
restlessness, a slight fever, a red rash appears more
or less upon the entire surface, continues a day or
two and declines, leaving slight roughness or a scaly
appearance of the skin.    A few doses of Belladonna
once in four hours, will be all the medical treatment
required.
In the more severe form, in from eight to twelve
* For the poison (if such language may be used,) of this disease
and of the preceding, the skill and the research of Hahnemann
discovered antidotes or preventives; so that these diseases, existing
in any family, can be stayed in their diffusion. To measles, the
preventives are aconite and pulsatilla, used alternately, a globule
every other day; to scarlet fever, belladonna,'a globule every day,
or every other day. Many evidences could be brought forward in
proof of the power of these medicines as prophylactics; one may
be related. I had, two years since, a little child who had the
scarlet fever; his sister three years older than himself, I caused
to sleep in the same bed, and to keep in the same room with himd
throughout his illness, she taking belladonna, a globule every other
day, and she did not have the disease.
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days from the time of the exposure to the contagion
of scarlet fever, the patient will become restless and
feverish, and if very severe, sickness and vomiting
will show itself. Very soon, generally within twenty-four hours, the rash will appear; first upon the
storach and bowels; then upon the neck, face, and
finally upon the extremities and entire surface.
The color is a bright red, resembling the shell of
a boiled lobster; not perfectly uniform over the body,
but slightly variegated, and there are no elevations
like the measles or small-pox, except a very fine grater-like, pimply surface, which, on close inspection,
is found to contain lymph. The redness disappears
on pressure being applied, and returns very quickly
when it is removed. The eyes are much less affected
than in measles, and there is very little or no cough
in this disease; whereas in measles it is a very prominent symptom. In the more malignant scarlet fever,
the throat is inflamed and swollen from the commencement, and has a rapid tendency to mortification.
There is great accumulation of mucus in the throat,
which produces great difficulty of swallowing and
breathing. The patient is extremely restless and
sleepless; slight delirium attends: nausea or even
vomiting is common, and is indicative of cerebral
(brain) disturbance, and when it ushers in the disease it is the precursor of a violent attack.
The tongue is often coated, of a deep ash color
through the centre, with the edges bright red, with
red projecting points called papille. The coating
clears off early, leaving the whole surface in this condition, becoming dry and hard during sleep.
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all fevers is, to see that the patient's room is as freely
ventilated as the circumstances of the place or nursery will admit.
Belladonna is the chief remedy during the development of the rash, and may be the only medicine
necessary, if the disease is uncomplicated, and the
rash is of a bright red, disappearing under pressure.
If the heat is very great, and the patient is disposed
to be flighty and very restless, alternate the belladonna with Aconite; say one drop of each in separate wineglasses of water, and give one teaspoonful,
first from one and then -from the other every quarter,
half, one, or four hours, according to the urgency of
the symptoms. If the pellets are used, give three,
and repeat in the same manner.
If the burning heat still continues, the entire surface should be sponged over with cold water, or vinegar and water, in the proportion of one tablespoonfull of the former to a tumbler full of water; and this
should be repeated every two or three hours, while
the intensity of the heat continues.
If the throat should be clogged with thick mucus,
and the tongue heavily coated, grayish with occasional ulcers, a few powders of Mercury should be
given every two hours; if pellets, three, and if powder, about the size of half a pea at once. If accompanied with external swelling of the glands, and ulceration, or sloughing of the throat and mouth, the
Protiodide of Mercury will be the best, given as
other powders.
If coma or stupor should come on, Opium, one
drop to a wineglass of water, and a teaspoonful every
half hour, must be given. If pellets, three repeated



as above. If there should be restlessness, startings,
Hyos. administered as above; Muriatic Acid, or
" Oxy. Muriatic Acid," if it can be obtained, (it
cannot be kept pure in a family case,) would be better, when there is a strong tendency to gangrene,
and the odor is very offensive, and there is great
prostration, one drop in a wineglass of water, and a
teaspoonful given in alternation with the opium.
Arsenicum, in pellets or powder, if there is great
prostration together with the above symptoms. As
the fever subsides, the cuticle will be gradually separated and cast off, and the patient suffers very much
from itching of the surface. This will be relieved
by a few doses of Rhus Tox. prepared and used in
the usual manner of the other remedies, and washing the skin frequently with weak Castile soap water.
Finally, a few doses of sulphur pellets will perfect
the cure. If the patient remains feeble, add one drop
of China to three spoonsful of water, and give one
spoonful half an hour before each meal.
The greatest care must be observed during convalescence, for at least a fortnight. Dropsy often
follows, and when it does appear, Dulcamara, Helleborus Niger, Pulsatilla and Cannabis, are the chief
remedies; one drop of either of these in a wineglass
of water, and one teaspoonful given every hour, will
soon effect a cure.- Ed.]
THE PURPURA, OR PURPLES.
This has been confounded with scarlet fever. It
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wine: and the spots, when pressed upon by the
finger, do not turn white, as is the case in scarlet
fever. At the spots within the skin are numerous
little granules, which do not exist in scarlet fever.
Aconite is serviceable in this affection, and it should
be given alternately with Cofcea.
If, however, by the alternate use of aconite and
coffmea, the symptoms do not diminish, Sulphur should
be given, waiting some hours, and then aconite.
Another affection, in which the skin is of a deep
red, sometimes yellow, glistening, swollen, hot, with
burning pains, tightness and itching, attended with
fever, is called
ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE, OR ERYSIPELAS.
Women at the change of life, and elderly persons
of a bilious temperament, are most subject to this
disease, which, very frequently, is produced by mental
excitement.
If the fever is intense, Aconite can be used: if
not, Belladonna: and, if aconite has been used, then
belladonna, this latter being particularly indicated
when " the erysipelas is radiated, and the streaks
are produced in different parts." Dr. Hering.
In erysipelas affecting the joints, motion augmenting the pain, Bryonia is indicated, and afterwards
Hepar Sulphuris.
If the erysipelas moves from one part to the other,
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It is particularly troublesome towards evening and
night.
As this eruptive affection is attended with fever,
when the symptoms indicated by Aconite occur in a
strong degree, Aconite can be given first, followed
by Dulcamara or by Nux Vomica; Dulcamara being
indicated, according to Dr. Jeanes, under the following circumstances: the eruption preceded by a
sensation of sticking as with needles; attended with
fever; with a bitter taste in the mouth, a slimy,
coated tongue; nausea; vomiting; pressing pains at
the pit of the stomach; diarrhoea; dark, cloudy urine;
pains in the limbs; extreme itching; and after
scratching, burning.
When, however, there is headache, constipation,
thirst, hoarseness, and when the eruption has appeared from taking stimulating or indigestible substances,
then Nux Vomica or Pulsatilla is to be taken after
the Aconite.
Should the eruption have suddenly disappeared,
and symptoms indidating affection of the chest make
their appearance, Bryonia will be highly serviceable.
If with headache there is a red face, then Belladonna.
EXTERNAL INJURIES produce affection of the skin
and parts beneath, which require domestic attention.
The first affection embraces
THE BURN AND THE SCALD.
The treatment of the burn and the scald differs
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Whiere the skin is destroyed, and the parts below
injured, the physician's aid must be sought.
Where the affection is slight, the old practice of
holding the part burned or scalded to the fire is quite
hommeopathic; the common practice of applying cold
water,'or cold potatoes sliced, cold carrots, or anything cooling, is injurious.  Goulard's lotion has
often caused death by the lead, contained therein,
poisoning the individual.
Where the affection is more extensive, the use of
heated*l spirits of wine, brandy, hot rum, or oil of
turpentine, applied by soaking and keeping constantly
moist old soft clean rags or lint, is also homoeopathic.
Cotton is very excellent: it should be applied immediately, pulled fine, and if cotton wadding is used, be
slit open and applied in thin layers, previously cutting open all blisters and rinsing them with warm
water.
[Cotton batting with Olive Oil is the best and most
effectual applications to recent burns, indeed nothing
else is required, if this is applied at once and kept on,
without meddling with it in any other way than to
moisten the cotton with the oil. It is too simple for
many meddling practitioners, but it is the best application, and   the  most uniformly successful and
soothing of any that I ever tried. - Ed.]
The best remedy in most cases, is soap: take white
or Castile soap, (not brown soap,) shave it fine, and
convert it by lukewarm water into a thick salve:
* Spirits of wine, &c., may be heated by putting some in a dish
on or near the stove; but for immediate use, the best plan is to set
fire to the spirit, and let it burn till it is heated, then extinguish
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spread this as thick as the back.of a knife on strips
of linen, and cover the burns with it, being careful to
touch every spot: tie it well up, so as to keep the
soaped linen close to the skin: let it remain 18 to
26 hours, and remove with care, doing nothing but
apply fresh soaped linen. It will increase the burning at first, but the burning will soon be better.
When the burning recurs, apply fresh soaped linen.
This is a most speedy method, and if care be taken
in applying equally and completely the soaped linens,
no scar will be left.
Creosote water is useful where the application of
soap produces an offensive smell. The blisters being
cut and rinsed, and loose skin cut away, apply the
water to the wound with a hair pencil; put on
linen rags dipped in it, and a tight bandage to exclude
the air.  Renew the water each time the wound
pains, or about twice a-day.
When febrile action is induced, Aconite must be
employed: when diarrhoea supervenes it is curative,
and ought not to be arrested unless excessive: in all
cases of burns, water should be taken plentifully and
exercise in the air.
Another affection, requiring immediate treatment is
THE WOUND.
The parts should be washed with warm water to
remove any dirt or foreign substance: the edges of
the wound, whether cut or torn, should be brought
as nearly as possible together, and then strap with
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pressed. If he faints, do nothing; use no smelling
bottles; it is always beneficial. If the patient turns
pale and blue, and his limbs and face are convulsed,
put two globules of China on his tongue. If he gets
worse, let him have some pure old wine, when he
desires it, (not when the people around desire him
to take it,) and follow with China.
If the wound be severe, arnica should be taken
internally; one to three globules to be administered
during the twenty-four hours, succeeding the infliction
of the wound.
When the wound becomes very painful, Coffea
will do much service; and any tendency to suppuration will be checked by Mercury.
If the margins of the wound are swollen, and
surrounded by a red areola, Pulsatdlla will be very
useful.
If the laceration is extensive, it will be well to
cover the bandages used by a soft compress of lint,
covered with cerate, taking arnica internally.
Should suppuration take place, then the treatment
with aconite and hepar sulphuris, as directed for the
Whitlow, will be serviceable and curative.
Where much blood has been lost, the internal use
of the arnica may be preceded by China, two globules
in a wine-glass of water, and eight hours after proceed with the arnica.
Should a severe fright attend the infliction of the
injury, it will be well to administer Opium before the
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duced, when, after a fall or any other violence, a limb
pains severely, so that it cannot be moved without
pain, swells, and turns red, called
*?           A SPRAIN,
may be noticed.
The parts, which bind the bony joints together, are
called ligaments.  They are extremely strong; but
when a joint is subjected to any violent shock, or
extension, the ligaments become morbidly affected,
and pain, weakness, and swelling, occur in them and
the adjacent parts.
In these cases, Arnica is to be used, both internally in solution, and externally by friction.
Should not the arnica remove the pain, the swelling, and redness, Rhus Tozicodendron must be employed. Sometimes Bryonia is needed.
Another very common affection is
A BRUISE.
Any injury by a rounded or blunted substance to
a soft part of the body, is attended with swelling,
and often an extravasation of blood, giving a mottled
appearance to the part.
Here again, Arnica, externally and internally used,
is the best remedy.
Instead of using friction, as in a strain, an application by rags soaked in solution of arnica, should
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CHAPTER        II.
AFFECTIONS OF THE HEAD.
1. Inflammation of the Brain. 3. Headache.
2. Water in the Head.       4. Megrim.
THE head contains the brain, the part through
which the mind performs its various operations, and
with which all the various parts of the nervous systom are intimately connected. Affections of this
organ must, therefore, be highly dangerous, and require much care.
The brain is invested with coverings~within the
skull, which are called the meninges. These meninges serve for the protection of the brain, and are
closely connected with it.
INFLAMMATION
is a diseased state, to which both the brain and its
coverings are subject: which inflammation, once established, is most difficult to subdue.
It is important, therefore, to anticipate its attack:
and the symptoms which precede an attack, are frequently the following: head hot and heavy: face red
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When the patient is in a sleepy state, the sleepiness is attended by snoring: the eyes half open:
the patient uttering no complaint, and in need of
nothing, and has frequent vomiting, then Opium is
to be used.
When the patient slumbers naturally, but has
startings in his limbs, snorings, his movements irregular, and when waking, appears without cognizance:
sometimes fixing his attention, sometimes withdrawing himself slowly and with apprehension: sometimes
retreating with exclamations of dread: and when
these are associated with ardent fever, red face, and
moist skin, then Stramonium is applicable.
WATER IN THE HEAD, (HYDROCEPHALUS.)
This affection is generally preceded by the symptoms described in conjunction with inflammation of
the brain.
It is, however, often very insidious in its approach.  Two indications of such approach are,
first, the unwillingness of the child to play; and
second, fractious peevishness, whenever raised from
the horizontal position.
[" Helleborus Niger," should be given in the usual
manner, in this disease, and persevered in. It is far
more effectual with the occasional aid of the other
remedies above named, than all the harsh treatment
of the old school practice; indeed, this disease is
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however, headache is associated with INDIGESTION,
it will be well to examine the symptoms connected
with the remedies for indigestion, before deciding on
the remedy to be used; more particularly if the headache is attended with indigestion.
It may be beneficial to remark, that headache, uncomplicated with indigestion, or as people commonly
but erroneously express their meaning, with biliousness, claims more attention and more skill, being attended with more danger, than headache, associated
with indigestion.
The majority of headaches are connected with
irritation of the stomach, technically gastric irritation, and of the intestines; an irritation, induced in
numberless instances by the destructive method of
attempting to cure diseases, more particularly those
miscalled bilious by purgatives. Such headaches,
admitting a ready alleviation by homceopathic medicines, have opened up a wide field, in which the
skilful homceopathic physician may wander with benefit to the sufferer, and with pleasure, with reward,
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r  Aconite.
1. -Head heavy, weight
and fulness.
2. WVeight
and fulness
particularly
in fIrciead,
"and temple.
3. Pressing
thrchbing
pain.
4. Burning
heat in head,
especially in
forehead;
body and
limbs cold.
5. Pricking
sensaltion
in forelhcad.

Belladonna.  Bryonia.
1. Pain con- 1. The whole
centered     head.
in forehead.

2. A deepseated dull
pain, pressing and
drawing outooards to the
forehead.
4. Burning
spot in tlhe
bones of the
nose, with
pain.

2. Expansive a feeling as if the
brain would
force out of
the foiehead.
6. Contractioi,affecting
the whole
head, nearly
depriving
of senses.

Chamomilla. JVux Vomica.
1. Great hea- 1. Pain along
viness at the  the eyeroot of nose,  brows.
as if f-om a
cold coming,
and pain as if
skull would
burst.
2. A pressing  2. Deeply
and stunning  seated.
pain, when
sitting down
and reflecting.
3. Shootings 3. Shootings hotings
in temples; Iattop of head,
pulling and with tendcnthrobbing   cy to fall
chiefly at  forwards.
one side of  Shootingt
head.    and throbbing on left
side of the
forelead,
and often
over left eye.

Pulsatilla.
1. Iead
heavy.
2. A deepseated dull
pain on one
side of the
head.
3. Same as
Nux
Voiica.

7. 'earing
pains in
head.

8. Headache
as after excessoI wine;
and feeling
as if the
head were
fractured.
8a. As if a
nail were
driven into
the head.



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AJconite.  Belladonna.  Bryonia.   Chamomila. NVuz Vomica. Pulsatilla.
10. Move-   10. Becom-  10. Move-               10. Move- 10. Especialment.     ing insup-    ment.                   ment.     ly of the
portable                                         eyes.
from the
least motion
of the eyes,
and by every
motion.
11. Speaking.
12. Drinking.
13. Rising
from a recumbent
position.
14. Free air.
14a. Rendered insupportable by
the slightest
breath of air.                       15. Lying
down in a
room.
15a. After
a meal.
16. Walking.            16. Walking. 16. Sitting
17. During               down.
sleep.
18. Caused
by a cold.
19. Sitting
and reflecting.
19. By emo-              19. Intellec- 19, Intellections of              tual labor.  tual labor.
mind.                20. Stooping. 20. Stooping.
21. Rough
weather.
22. Hot
weather.
23. Noise.
24. In the
open air.
25 Holding
the heal
back.
26. Support-                                    26. By pre.ing the head.                                      sure.
27. Relieved 27. By rest 27. Compels            27. Compels
by lying     only.    to lie down.            to lie down.
down.



Aconite.   Belladonna.

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Bryonia.
c
d
31. Continuing from
morning till
night.

Chamomilla. JVuz Fomica.
28. Ceasing
r diminishing on sudlenly awaking, and
when risen.

Pulsatilla.
29. Walking
about.
30. Binding
the head
tight,
31. Evening.

Morning. 31.Increased
and

32. Increasing towards
the middle
of the day.

A third, very troublesome, affection of the head is
known under the name of
MEGRIM.
It is characterized by affecting one side of the
head, and of that only a portion, which the patient
states he can cover with his finger, and feels as if a
nail was being driven into the part. The part affected is generally very tender, so that not the slightest pressure can be borne.
This malady is generally connected with a constitutional condition, which requires removal; but, in
affording relief, the characteristics, already given of
headache, will be of utility.



[Pulsatilla Platina, Nitric Acid, Causticum Veratrum,and Belladonna may be advantageously given
for this disease.-Ed.]
The physician should, however, be consulted in
the choice of the remedy for this severe complaint.



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CHAPTER III.
AFFECTIONS OF THE EYES AND THE
EYELIDS.
1. Inflammation.
la. Inflammation of the Eyes of New-Born Children.
lb. Inflammation of the Eye from some body acting
on the Eye.
2. Catarrhal Ophthalmia.
3. Stye.
THE eyes are organs, which, by their use, delicacy,
and importance, well deserve the place they hold.
They are subject to disease, more particularly,
INFLAMMATION.
Children, just born, have often inflammation from
sudden exposure to too strong a light. Sensibility of
the eye to light is the first symptom: a slight redness
appears in the portion of the conjunctiva covering
the eyelid, especially at the internal angle of the eye,
and a viscid secretion is formed on the eyelids.
Aconite, with cleanliness, will remove this; when
the intolerance of light is excessive, and when the
white of the eyes is much reddened, Belladonna may
be administered after the aconite.
The remnants of the disease are removed by
Sulphur: or if not, Calcarca Carbonica will, in
general, cure.



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If the eye is inflamed from anything in it, common
sense dictates the removal of the body, the bathing
with warm water, and then Aconite will prevent the
inflammation: Sulphur may be used after Aconite.
When the eye has become inflamed from a bruise,
Arnica is very useful.
INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE FROM BODIES ENTERING
THE EYE.
Often a portion of lime or some other body gets
between the eye and the lids.
Much irritation is occasioned, the white of the eye
becomes affected, and a pain is felt in the whole of
the eye; a discharge of tears takes place, and the eye
becomes sensitive to light. An attempt should be
made to remove the foreign body, and, after its
removal, Aconite should be administered. Sometimes
the foreign body cannot be removed on account of
the excessive sensibility of the eye, then aconite being
administered will subdue the sensibility, and render
it possible to remove the body in the eye.
A modification of this is that produced by a small
insect of some kind entering the eye and stinging it.
It is called sometimes
BLIGHT.
Considerable redness and pain are present; Aconite
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There is an inflammation of the eye and the eyelids, connected with cold, called
CATARRHAL OPHTHALMIA.
The eyes and eyelids are red: there is a sense
of burning and pressure as from a grain of sand:
light is dreaded: tears flow, and often an abundant
mucous discharge: to these symptoms are added
catarrh, with or without fever, and a dry troublesome
cough.
Aconite will subdue the inflammation, and Nux
Vomica the other symptoms.
When the inflammation is intense, the redness is
intense, also the other symptoms; when there is a
severe cold in the head, producing excoriation of the
nostrils, the wings of the nose and the lips, attended
with small pustules, and cough at intervals, with a
suffocation and wheezing, Belladonna should be used
after the aconite; copious discharge is the characteristic of this ophthalmia.
When the redness extends over the whole of the
eyes, the secretion of tears is abundant, and there is
itching by day and adhering by night, margins of eyelids ulcerated, moist and purulent, with frequent
blinking of the eyes, shunning light, then Euphrasia
is best.
When with the symptoms detailed in the first
paragraph, there are itching, chiefly in the open air,
and a swollen state of the eyelids, then Mercurius can
be employed.
Some diseases affect only the eyelids. The choice
of remedies will be aided by the following tabular
statement:



73.Aconite.
1. Eyelids
red.
2. Swollen
3. Inflamed,
4. Hard
swellings.
5. Burning.
6. Dryness,

A.conite at first
followed by
Hepar Sulphuris.
1. Pale yellowish red.
2. Swollen,
shining as if
transparent.
5. Moist.
6. Moisture in
eyes and nose.
8. Eyelids sore.
9. Pressing pain.

Belladonna. A| rsenicum. I    ercurus
I               Fivus.

1. Red.

1. Inside
red.

2. Swollen.

3. Inflamed.
5. Burning
violently.

5. Burn.
7. Itch.

10. Adhere   10. Can
together,  scarcely be
opened.

2. Swollen.
7. Hot in
open air.
9. Pains
more acute.
10. Difficult
to open,
powerfully
drawn together.
15. Ulcers
on the edges.
16. Scurf
on the eyelids.

11. Bleed
when
opened.
13. Turned
the wrong
way.
14. Heavy
and powerless.



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The eyelids have at their margins, glands, which
separate an oily substance.
These glands become inflamed and form a
STYE, (HORDEOLUM.)
Pulsatilla is the remedy, taken internally, and applied as a lotion externally during the day. At night
a warm bread poultice, on which two or three drops
of the tincture, at the third dilution, have been
dropped, can be applied.
Should the stye return, or should a hard lump
remain and a viscous matter adhere, attended often
with a sticking together of the eyelids, Staphysagria can be taken.
If the lumps still remain, Calcarea Carbonica can
be used.
When the eye as well as the eyelid are affected, or
when the eye alone is affected, many are the remedies; among them Aconite stands pre-eminent, and
may be used, in general, at the outset. The choice
of the remedies to be used, subsequently to the aconite, must be left to the physician.
There are numerous other remedies suited to the
affections of the eyes, but the choice amongst these
requires the medical man's judgment.
In reference to affections of the eyes it should be
remembered that every kind of eyewater, all ointments and salves, unless homaeopatlic, injure the
eyes. It is true that diseases of the eyes and of the



eyelids may disappear under their use; but other diseased states supervene, and often internal diseases
are produced.
Pure water, either cold or warm, according to the
feelings of the patient, is the best eyewater.



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CHAPTER        IV.
-4--
AFFECTIONS OF THE EAR AND OF THE
CHEEKS.
THE EAR.
THE ear is an organ, the importance of which is
recognized by all.
It is subject to various affections.
1. Earache.
2. Inflammation of the Ear.
3. Discharge from the Ear.
4. Swelling of the Cheek.
5. Enlargement of the Parotid and Submaxillary
Glands.
One affection very common is
EARACHE, OR OTALGIA.
This affection is sometimes very troublesome and
difficult to cure. Various remedies are applicable.
The choice may be aided by the following table.



77.drnica.
1. Pressing,
stinging
pains, or
darting behind and
within the
ears.

Belladonna. Chamomilla.
1. Single violent stitches,
as if a knife
pierced in.

la. Perforating.
2. The stinging within,
extending to
the throat.
3. Pricking
and shooting
pains in parotid glands.
4. Tingling
and rumbling sound
in the ears.
6. Head and
eyes affected.

2. Passing.
from the ear
to the earflaps, and
even to the
lips.
3. Pains
intolerable.

MJIercurius.
3. Violent
twitches.
2. Pain in
interior of
ear tearing
and shooting, reaching to the
cheeks.
5. Burning
outwardly
with an inoward cold
feeling,
affecting thel
cheek also.
7. Ear damp
with sweat,
but without
relief.
7a.Discharge
of pus.
8. Ulceration
of the ear.

Pulsatilla.
1. Jerking tearing pain, as if
something would
be pressed or
plucked out.
2. Passing to the
whole side of
the face.
5. Externally
red.
5a. hot.
56. swollen.

Inner ear
dry and
without
cerumen.



78.Arnica.  Belladonna. Chamomilla. JMlercurius.  Pulsatilla.
9. Pains returning more
violently at
intervals.
9a. By
touching, or
9b. By           4
moving.
10. Heat and            ' 10. Pains             10. Persons of
irritability           making pa-             melancholy disat any loud             tient irri-             position, innoise, and                table.               dined to shed
general sen-            Ill-humor.                  tears.
sitiveness.                                     11. Persons
liable to rheumatic affections.
12. When
caused from?'a cold or
suppressed
perspiration.
INFLAMMATION OF THE EAR, (OTITIS.)
This disease is very distressing. The symptoms
presented    indicate    Aconite    and   Pulsatilla.      The
symptoms, generally indicative of pulsatilla, are the
following:
Ear red,
hot,
swollen;
painful,
so much so that the ear cannot be touched
Pains tearing,
boring.
throbbing,
piercing, and
burning.



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The pain causes to talk wildly; the patient begins
to rave.
I have found great benefit from the use of the
tincture of pulsatilla, of the third dilution, a few
drops being dropped on a poultice of bread, and applied to the ear.
Dr. Hering does not recommend sweet oil, or hot
steam. He recommends a sponge dipped in warm
water and bound upon the ear.
DISCHARGE, OR RUNNING FROM THE EAR, (OTORRIEA.)
If the discharge has resulted after symptoms, described under Pulsatilla, or after measles, pulsatilla
can be taken: if following the scarletfever, or if it
occurs in connexion With that fever, belladonna can
be taken: if decided benefit does not result, then
give Mercurius: and in a week's time repeat the belladonna. Mercurius Vivus is particularly serviceable, if the discharge occurs after small-pox.
When mercury under any form has been taken
previously to excess, give Sulphur: if Sulphur itself
has been taken to excess, then Pulsatilla, and after it
Mercurius Vivus.
Generally it is unwise to put oils or other substances into the ears. To prevent cold affecting the
system through the diseased condition of the ear, and
to prevent insects depositing their eggs, and to prevent the diffusion of the offensive smell arising from
the discharge, it would be well to use some cotton
or lint. The pledget should be wrapped round with
a piece of fine linen to prevent it sliding in and to



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facilitate its extraction, if it does, as sometimes happens, slide in.
SWELLING OF THE CHEEK.
Often swelling of the cheek takes place from toothache, and the toothache ceasing, it disappears.
Often the medicine, say belladonna, which cures
the toothache, produces swelling of the cheek.
If this swelling should not disappear, the antidote
to belladonna, or whatever may have been the medicine employed for the toothache, must be used.
If the swelling is obstinate, and rather solid,
Arnica will be useful: if there is much salivation,
Mercury.
If these remedies are used too late, and suppuration must take place, a fig poultice is a very good one.
'When the suppuration is established, let it alone,
except to wash the mouth frequently with warm water.
In connection with the ears, the affection indicated
by
MUMPS, OR THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE PAROTID AND
SUBMAXILLARY GLANDS,
may be noticed.
The parotid and submaxillary glands are situated,
the one below the ear, the other under the jaw.
They separate the saliva from the blood.



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These glands from cold, from atmospheric changes,
and as puberty approaches, become enlarged, and are
often very troublesome.
[Theparotid glands swell during scarlet fever, from
the above causes, and from contagion; when, from
the latter cause, it properly constitutes mumps, which
is characterized by the following symptoms: soreness, with slight fullness at the angle of the jaw, with
some general heat, and pain on moving the jaw.
The swelling extends upward to the space between
the ear and cheek, and downward under the jaw, to
the submaxillary gland. It lasts from four to six
days, and subsides without suppuration; no external
application should be made to disperse the swelling,
for fear of a transfer to important vital organs as
above described, or which is most common, to the
breast of females or the testicles of males. In addition to the remedies which are detailed in the text,
1 would recommend Protiodide of Mercury, if the
swelling should be obstinate, or if it is transferred to
other glandular structures. -Ed.]
Mercury is the remedy that most frequently relieves this affection: more particularly when suppuration is about taking place.
If erysipelas attends the swelling, Belladonna
should be used: and after the pain has been removed, Hepar Sulphuris is very serviceable.
If mercurius and hepar sulphuris have been used
without success, Dulcamara is often of the greatest
service, this being particularly serviceable if the
urine is rendered turbid by the effect of the cold.
It is especially necessary to avoid dispelling or
dispersing these swellings by friction with liniments
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or ointments. Friction, if exciting the absorbents to
act, does not ALTER the diseased state, which caused
the enlargement, and often this diseased state is thus,
as it were, forced to effect either glandular structures
in the lungs, and thus pulmonary consumption is induced: or glandular structures in the abdominal viscera, and thus mesenteric disease with its miserable
train of emaciation, effusion on the brain and death,
are developed.
Another point worthy of remark is, that these
swellings should NOT be cut open. Every surgeon
thinks he must be a surgeon and use his lancet.
He is sure to make a scar and not a cure: whereas
if the abscess is made to discharge itself, it leaves no
scar, and the cure is likely to be permanent. The
same remarks apply to opening the glandular swelling
by caustic.
Another evil resulting from the scars thus induced,
is that the structure thereby (i. e. by the process
which takes place in healing the wound made by the
lancet or by the caustic,) is so altered, that the part
becomes a source of pain, from changes of weather
affecting this structure of a texture different from
the natural.



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CHAPTER V.
AFFECTIONS OF THE RESPIRATORY
ORGANS.
THE, next organ in the face is the nose, and as
this organ is, as it were, the commencement of the
apparatuses by which breathing or respiration is carried on, it forms a proper commencement for the
enumeration of the diseases, connected with the organs engaged in respiration.  k
1. Bleeding from the nose. 7. Croup.
2. Cold in the Head.     S. Asthma of Millar.
3. Catarrhal Fever.      9. Inflammation of the
4. Hoarseness.                Lungs.
5. Cough.                10-. Pleurisy.
6. Hoopingr Cough.       11. Spitting of Blood.
The changes, which take place in the blood in
the process of breathing, being essential to the enjoyment of health, any disordered condition of the
organs connected with this process must, of necessity, claim attention.
Concerned in this process are the nose, the windpipe, the bronchial tubes, the substance'of the lungs,
the membrane, covering the lungs and lining the
ribs, called the pleura; and to these may be added
the heart.
THE NOSE.
The nose being, as well as a respiratory organ, the
organ of smell, is covered internally with a most del



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icate membrane or skin, through which the impressions are made upon the nerve of smell.
This membrane, called the Schneiderian, from its
discoverer, covers a large surface, the interior of the
nose being divided into cavities, formed by very thin
bony partitions. These cavities are called nasal
fossce.
Through this membrane an immense number of
blood-vessels are distributed. From these blood-vessels, in young people of full habit, particularly females before the natural change, and, in adult females, at the cessation of the natural discharge, a
discharge takes place, called
BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE, OR EPISTAXIS.
Bleeding from the nose is sometimes beneficial, it
appearing as the crisis of many diseases. When it
occurs frequently, and when the quantity of blood
discharged is considerable, then medicine is required.
In curing bleeding from the nose, two objects present themselves: first, to remove the bleeding; and
second, to prevent a recurrence, and relieve the
other consequences likely to result from the bleeding.
Several remedies can be employed. The choice
can be regulated by the symptoms.
Aconite is useful where the symptoms recorded,
(see Introduction,) are present; or if the person
looks much heated, or if-the bleeding occurs after
being overheated.
Bryonia is useful under similar circumstances as
belladonna, p. 85, more particularly when the bleeding from the nose takes place from sudden suppression of the menses.



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mrnica.   Belladonna.  Croct.s.  Mercurius..Nuz omica. Pulsatills.
From a    By stooping
i     blow.     or strongly
Sblowing the
l         I  nose.
Prickings,  Darting
or titillation pains in one
in the nose  side of the
or forehead,  head in
as from an  paroxysms.
insect.
0              Swelling of
the veins of
the head.
*               Sparks beforethe eyes.
Tingling in
the ears.
Nose hot.               Diffused
heat.
Thin and              Thick Black Coagulates Flow of veo   bright red.              blood.    in flowing, nous blood.
and remains
suspended.
Men.                 Irritable,  Children,              Adult fesensitive.  and persons          males, with
predisposed            insufficient
to inflamma-             menses.
tion..                                              Persons of
sweet and
placid
temper.,               Awakens
~k            'out of sleep                        Morning.   Afternoon,
Sat -night.                                                   evening,
Sand before
L,                                                       midnight.



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Rhus is useful in cases similar to those suited to
belladonna and bryonia, these not curing: or if the
bleeding arises from stooping, lifting, or using any
great exertion. Rhus is useful also in cases, where
the bleeding disturbs the sleep at night.
When the discharge produces weakness, or is so
profuse as to occasion paleness of face, coldness of
limbs, and even convulsions, China is useful.
China is useful if the putting the fingers into the
nose, caused by the irritation of worms, causes the
hemorrhage.
The common practice of drawing cold water into
the nostrils is not good: and plugging the nose is to
be avoided, except under peculiar circumstances: a
cold wet cloth laid upon the abdomen will often be
effectual.
To prevent a recurrence of the' bleeding, the general constitutional state must be investigated and
treated: Sulphur will be useful in most cases.
To prevent both the return of this discharge of
blood, and any bad consequences from the discharge
already having occurred, China is the best remedy.
When the membrane, lining the nasalfossce, becomes affected with inflammation, it is called
COLD IN THE HEAD, OR CATARRH.
This affection is characterized by a peculiar feeling of dryness in the nose, and also by swelling.



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There is frequent sneezing; there is loss of smell:
and the patient speaks, as it is called, through the
nose. The discharge is, at first, watery, drop by
drop; it excoriates, and produces crusts on the nostrils and the lips, and pain oftentimes is felt at the
root of the nose.
The symptoms vary, and so do the remedies. The
following table will aid in the selection:
SChamomilla..Mercury..Vuzx Vomica. Pulsatilla.  Arsenicum.
1. Nostrils   1. Nose    1. Painful  1. Nostrils 1. Swelling
inflamed,   excoriated. sensibility of painful and of the nose.
chapped and  within and  the interior ulcerated.
ulcerated.   without.   of the nose.
2. Discharge 2. Excessive 2. Secretion  2. Thick  2. Profuse
of acrid    discharge.  from nose   often fetid  discharge of
mucus.                 during the    mucus.      watery,
day.                acrid, exco4             riating fluid.
I                             3. Violent   3. Violent  3. Violent
sneezings.  sneezings,  sneezings.
and
S3Sa.Discharge
of blood
from blowing the nose.
4. Loss of
smell.
5. Obstruc- 5. Obstruc- 5. Obstruction of the  tion worse  tion of the
nose during  towards     nose with
the night.   evening.     No. 2.



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'ChIamomilla. I Mercury.

7. One cheek
red, the
other pale.
8. Pain and
scaling,
chapped lips.
9. Intense
thirst.
10. Confusion in the
head, and
giddiness.
12. Shivering.
14. Children.

AVux Vomica.
6. Itching in
the nose
7. Heat in
face increased towards evenin g.
9. Dryness
of the mouth
and fauces.
10. Confusion, and
10a. Heat in
the head.
14. Vexation
and irritability.
15. Grief.
16. General
languor.

Palsatilla.  Arsenicum.
6. Tickling 6. Burning
as from   sensation in
snuff.   the nostrils.

a
a
ic

13. Rheumatic pains in
limbs.

11. Sensibility of the
eyes to light.
12. Shivering.
14 Melancholy.
15. Inclination to weep.
17. Broken
sleep.
18. Symptoms worse
in a warm
room.

11. Inflammation of the
eyes, with
sensibility
to light.
12. Shiverings and
shudderings.
13. Severe
pains in the
limbs.
14. Anxiety.
16. Great
prostration
of strength.
17. Restless.
ness.



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limbs: symptoms increase towards night: pulse soft,
and rather frequent: oppression, increasing towards
night: wakefulness, or disturbed slumber.
Aconite must be taken at the commencement of
the attack, its suitability being apparent from the
perusal of the symptoms and the comparison of its
effects, (see Introduction,) afterwards Belladonna,
Chamomilla, Ignatia, Nux Vomica, Pulsatilla, according to the symptoms.
With catarrhal fever, cough and an immense secretion of mucus are generally connected: and as the
symptoms, now to be recorded, will have relation to
the general symptoms, the particulars in connection
with the coughs, associated with the catarrhal fevers,
will be found recorded under the title of coUGHs,
(pp. 96 - 100.)
Previous to noticing the individual remedies, it is
proper to notice, that, when the catarrh has been
brought on by exposure to wet, Dulcamara is, when
administered early, a most valuable preventive against
the consequences of such exposure: Dulcamara being
furthermore particularly indicated when, with taking
cold, as the expression is, the urine becomes turbid.
Aconite when indicated may be judged of fromthe
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Belladonna.
1. Hoarseness.
2. Sore throat.
3. Rattling of
mucus in chest.
4. Redness of
face.
12. Sleepiness
in the day.
13. Sleeplessness
at night.
14. Sleep with
sudden starts.
15. Sleep with
sudden' fits of
screaming.

Chamomilla.
1. Hoarseness.
4. Redness of
the face.
4a. Redness of
one cheek, but
paleness of the
other.
6. Thirst..JNVt Fomica.
1. Hoarseness.
2. Scraping in
the throat.
4. Shivering on
the slightest
motion, followed
by flushes of
heat.
5. Coldness and
shiverine: affecting the back and
the limbs, relieved by being
near the fire.
6. Thirst.
7. Tongue furred.
8. Appetite
failing.
9. Nausea.
10. Vomiting.
11. Constipation.

Pulsatilla.
1. Hoarseness.
2. Sore throat.
2a. particularly
in swallowing
the saliva.

6. Thirst not
noticeable.
8. Loss of
appetite.
9. Nausea.
10. Vomiting



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Belladonna.
16. Delirium,
patient screams
as if frightened.
17. Sadness.
18. Excessively
irritable.
18a. Sanguine
and lymphatic.
19. Great prostration of strength.
20. Cough chiefly
at night.

Chamomilla.
18. Ill humor.
18a. Impatience.
18b. Children.
5C.Nuz Vomica.       Pulsatilla.

18. Irritable.
18a. Choleric.
temperament.
18b. Men.
19. Feeling of;reat weakness.
O.Cough severe,
particularly in
the morning.

18. Mild disposition, disposed
to tears and
melancholy.
18a. Lymphatic
temperament.
18b. Women.
19. Languor.

Ignatia suits in many cases where the symptoms
of Pulsatilla and of Nux Vomica occur, but it is particularly indicated in persons of a gentle, vivacious
disposition, but rapidly changing from joy to grief,
and who concentrate their sorrows in themselves.
[Tart. Emetic if there should be much chilliness,
with occasional cold perspiration, alternating with
heat and sense of burning over the whole body: oppression of the chest: difficult respiration: cough,
with nausea or disposition to vomit, with pain in the
bowels.
Protiodide of Mercury, if there should be much
cough, with rattling in the throat and chest from
much mucus. - Ed.]



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Another very common affection, in which the
fauces and the windpipe are affected, is
HOARSENESS.
The hoarseness is most perceptible in expiration.
Various are the features attendant upon hoarseness, and, according to these, must be the choice of
the remedy.
Cough, and that dry, is generally associated with
each kind of hoarseness: and, in the narration of the
symptoms, indicating the choice of remedies for the
various coughs, the remedies for the various hoarsenesses will appear.
As a general rule, when hoarseness or soreness of
throat makes its first appearance, two globules of
Belladonna will often prevent any further progress of
the diseased condition.
It may be remarked, that bathing the feet for from
five to ten minutes in hot water, on going to bed, is
very useful.
INFLUENZA.
Certain conditions of the atmosphere induce peculiar modifications of the symptoms, connected with
catarrhal fever, which are designated under title of
INFLUENZA.
Influenza is a catarrhal fever with peculiar symptoms, induced by the peculiar atmospherical conditions. As produced by atmospherical conditions,
and as affecting many individuals, (for who can avoid
the atmosphere?), influenza may be defined an epidemic catarrh.
*%T



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The most characteristic symptom of the influenza,
in addition to the usual symptoms of catarrhal fever,
is extreme prostration of all the powers, mental and
bodily: the person is unmanned.
ARSENICUM is the remedy, when with this prostration there are the symptoms, described as pertaining
to arsenicum, (pp. 87, 88,) under the title of COLD
IN HEAD, and, those under the title of COUGH, (pp.
96-100.)
The influenza that prevails now (February, 1844,)
and has prevailed this last month, is attended with
afections of the throat, the glands swelling, &c. I
have treated, with uniform and rapid success, these
cases with Aconite, followed by Belladonna, and
then by Mercurius.
[Also, Protiodide of Mer. and Tart. Emetic, if the
indications for their use should be present, as laid
down under " catarrhalfever." - Ed.]
Each influenza requires,- according to its peculiar
modifications, its own homceopathic remedies.
There is one point which all should remember;
viz., that the influenza is more dangerous in its efects
than in its first symptoms. Every medical man's experience will demonstrate, that serious affections of
the lungs very often develop themselves after the influenza.* Great care should be taken in eradicating
by appropriate remedies all remaining symptoms.
* The old system practitioners maintain that their miscalled active treatment is necessary to eradicate the maladies. That this
result is not obtained is evidenced most fully by the numerous
cases, that come under treatment at the present period, of which
the patient considers the influenza, for which he or she had the
old system of treatment, as the origin.



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The next affection of the respiratory organs is
general in its character, and is described under the
title of
COUGH.
Cough may be regarded as a spasmodic affection.
It presents various forms, and its characters are so
delicate in their shades, that it is very difficult for
any but the physician to select the right remedy.
[Coughs are most generally symptomatic of other
diseases, and are as necessary in most diseases of the
air passages, as blowing the nose is necessary to relieve that organ from catarrh, and therefore attention
should be paid to the cause in treating all coughs.Ed.]
To aid the non-medical person the following tables have been compiled:



Aconite.   Belladonna. Chamomilla. Hyoscyamus.  Ignatia.  Ipecacuanka. NJuz Vomica. Pulsatilla..Arsenicunm.
1. Dry      1. Dry.    1. Dry.      1. Dry.    1. Dry.     1. Dry.                 1..mkoist,  1. Dry.
cough.                                                                              loose.
2. Expecto- 2. Much te- 2. Exzpecto-  2. Thick
ration of   nacious   ration, after  mucus in
unpleasant   mucus in  long cough- throat, diffitasting   chest, or a ing, of mat-  cult to
mucus, with cough- with ter yellow,   detach.
nausea, and    a cold.  salt or bitter,
vomiting.                producing
nausea, occasionally
tinged with
blood.
3. Lasting  3. Spasmo-              3. Convul-              3. Spasmofits of    dic; with                 sive.                dic shaking
coughing.   asthmatic,                                       with sussuffocating,                                     pended
stertoronus breathing.
breathing.
4. Strong.
5. Frequent                         5. Frequent.                        5. Constant.
paroxysms.
3. Exhaust-             6. Exhausting.                    ing.



.Aconite.  Belladonna. Chamomilla. Hyoscyamus.   Ignatia.  Ipecacuanha..NJVI   Vomica. Pulsatilla..drsenicum.
7. Jfter                                                                  7. A sen-              7. Sensation
coughing, a                                                                sation of a              of burning.
sense of                                                                 hbated subburning in                                                               stance pressthe chest;                                                                ing on the
chest.
8. and a                                                    8. Feeling of            8. Pain in
sense of la-                                                  a wound in              throat and
ceration in                                                   the chest.               chest as if
the chest, or                                                                             raw.
a feeling as
if torn.
9. Constric-                         9. Tightness            9. Tightness
tion in the                         across chest,            across chest.
chest.
10. Pain be-    10. In
neath the  coughing, as
breast bone   though
at night, or something
after a meal, rose in the
with difficult throat, as if
breathing.   it would
take away
the breath.
11. Pain in                                       11. Painful  11. After  11. Pain at
the hypo-                                        jerking in  coughing a   both sides.
chondria.                                        stomach.   pain as from
a blow beneath the
ribs.



Aeonlit.   Belladonna. Chamomilla Hyosciamus,.  Ignatia.  Ipecacuanha., ANz Vomica. Pulsatilla.  AArsenieum.
12. Pain in                        12. Pain at             12. Cough,
the loins,                          the lower             when less
with feeling                           belly.               viorent, a
of alarm.                                                pain as of a
blow or
bruise, in
the lower
belly,.
also a hruise
and pain at
pit of the
stomach.
13. Painful 13. Cough,
jerking in causing pain
head.     in head, as
if it would
burst, or
split.
14. Cough                                                                          14. Water
attended                                                                          14. Water
with fever-                                                                        discharging
ish heat, in-                                                                       from the
flammation,                                                                       mouth, with
see note,                                                                        inclination
Introduc-                                                                          to vomit.
tion.   15. Chiefly at 15. Worse at 15. Cough, 15. Day and           15. Cough 15. Distress- 15. Worse in
night, some- night, con-  especially night, equal-          worse to-  ing by day  the evening
times occur-  Linuing    during the  ly severe.            wards5a. m. and night. and at night.
ring in sleep even during night, prealter a cold.  sleep.     venting
sleep.



Aconite.

SBelladonna. Chamomilla JHyoscyamws.

Ignatia. 1Ipecacuanha. J.N'u Vomica.

17. Excited
by an insupportable
tickling in
throat.
18. Excited
by the
slightest
movement.
19. Swelling
of the belly.

17. Excited
by a constant tickling in the
trachea behind the
hollow of the
throat.

17. Tickling
irritation in
the trachea
with a convulsive
cough.

17. Cough,
proceeding'
from the
windpipe.

17. Ticklinj
in throat as
if contracted.

17 Excited
by a rough
dryness and
a scraping
in the throat,
and a tickling in the
palate.
18. Excited
by motion.
20. Excited
by speaking.

Pulsatilla
16. Cough
in morning
with general
tremor.
17. Excited
by a rough
dryness in
the throat,
and tickling
in the palate.

Jlrsenicum.

20. Aggravated by
speaking.
21. Excited
by a fit of
passion;
especially in
children.



toni.it.  Belladonna.

I Camomilla.

Hyoscyamus.u   Ignatia.

23. Excited
constantly
by lying
lown, ceasing when
sitting up in
bed; obliged
to sit up at
intervals.

Ipecacuanha.
22. Increased by cold
air.
24. Cough,
with suspension of
breathing.
25. Constant
obstruction
of nose with
loss of smell.
26. Diffused
perspiration.

~au  Vomica. Pulsatilla. 11.rsenicum.

24. Breathing impeded
in the night.
27. Irritable.
quick.

0
0

27.Sangiine, 27. Children.
lymphatic.

27. Gentle
passing rapidly from
joy to grief,
from grief
to joy.

26. Profuse
night sweats
27. Mild placid tempers.
28. Emaciation.
29. Loss of
appetite.
30. Small frequent pulse.



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Bryonia has many symptoms, which render it
very valuable in coughs: indeed it will be noticed in
inflammation of the lungs: its symptoms approach
much to Nux Vomica, but its peculiarities are, that
generally chilliness preponderates, and that the temper is extremely irritable. The pains produced by it
are sticking, stitch-like pains, and the pains are felt
deep in the chest.
HOOPING OR WHOOPING COUGH, (PERTUSSIS.)
This spasmodic cough, without physic, will often
wear itself out in four or five months; with physic,
under the old system, will continue much longer;
and this, on these grounds, that the physic complicates the disease, and produces a weakness of the
general constitution.
Under homceopathic treatment it is often cured in
three to four weeks; sometimes in two weeks, sometimes in a few days.
When hooping-cough is prevalent and children
begin to cough, give one or other of the remedies already detailed (pp. 96 to 100) as suitable to cough,
selecting the one most nearly allied to the symptoms
of the existing cough.
Aconite will be serviceable principally at the commencement, but also at any period where the symptoms hereafter detailed with fever are present:
namely,'when the cough is dry (1. p. 96,) whistling,
attended with burning (7. p. 97) in the windpipe, the
child putting his hand to the throat at the situation
of the windpipe; and when there is fever (14. p. 98)
the aconite should be given immediately, and repeated
as the symptoms may indicate.



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If the cough at the commencement is moist, easily
loosened, and begins after a violent cold, and is attended with hoarseness, Dulcamara will be most useful.
Nux Vomica will be serviceable, if the cough is
dry, and attended with vomiting and anxiety, so
severe as almost to induce sufocation: also, if the
sufferer from the beginning turns almost blue in the
face, and if the cough occurs after midnight, continuing till the morning (15. p. 98.) If, after the nux
vomica, the cough becomes loose and moist, Pulsatilla (1. p. 96) will become appropriate: and if there
is bleeding from the nose and the mouth. Pulsatilla
also is to be preferred to Nux Vomica, if, besides the
cough being loose and moist, vomiting of mucus and
of the contents of the stomach, and a mucous diarrhcea
present themselves.
Should the VOMITING cease, but the ANXIETY, approaching to suffocation continue, Ipecacuanha (24.
p. 100,) will then be useful.
Should these means be ineffectual, and the cough
occurs as a spasm in single attacks, most during the
day, the evening, and the frst part of the night, attended with a redness of, and pains in, the throat
when swallowing; also with watering of the eyes,
Carbo Vegetabilis can be given, and repeated in
twenty-four hours. This medicine is particularly
serviceable when children " complain of a pricking
in the head, pains about the chest and in the neck,
and, at the same time, have eruptions on the head
and the body. It is a sovereign remedy when the
hooping-cough is on the decline." (Dr. HERING, of
America.)
When, however, the hooping-cough is fully developed, other medicines are required.



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The following description, by Dr. Hering, of the
attack of hooping-cough, is so graphically correct,
that I have adopted it:
" In real hoopirig-cough, the children have frequent
single paroxysms, before which they run after their
mother, become anxious, grasp at and hold something: then cough violently with a sounding hollow
tone, in such quick succession, that they can scarcely
draw breath again, or only with a long, sobbing,
whistling tone: this is succeeded by great anxiety,
as if they would suffocate, and they become red and
blue in the face. They stretch out the neck far,
everything is strained and cramped, and they can
bear nothing to touch them. These paroxysms end
with struggling and vomiting of mucus, frequently
mixed with blood, which also is often discharged
from the nose. Afterwards the children are again
lively: but, owing to their throwing up everything
they eat or drink, they become, as the attacks are
frequent, weaker and much debilitated."
Dr. Hering recommends to try Veratrum first, as
its operation is speedy: to give one globule, and
wait till the next attack: then give a second globule,
and wait twenty-four to thirty hours: if the cough
improves, not to repeat the dose till the cough is
worse again.
This course of administration applies to the other
remedies for hooping-cough.
Among these remedies, Drosera is a most valuable
remedy, especially when the whoop is well defined. I
have cured many with it.
To direct in the choice of the appropriate remedy,
the following tables will be useful: particularly noticing, that, when one remedy ceases to improve the
symptoms, another is to be carefully sought.



Drosera.
1. Without fever,
or, if present,
slight.
2. Cough loose,
or dry with
hoarseness.
2a. If phlegm not
easily discharged,
vomiting, first of
food, and then of
phlegm and
water.
3. Fits of coughing in rapid succession.
3a. The whoop
quite marked.
4. Expectoration
bitter, offensive,
purulent.
4a. Breath has a
burnt odor.
7. No thirst
when chilly.
8. Shivering, or
fits of shivering
alternating with
heat.

1(
Veratrum.
1. With fever.
more or less constant.
2. Hollow, deep,
and as if from
the belly.
2a. Dry, with
continual feeling
of vomiting, and
copious discharge of mucus.
5. Cold sweats,
particularly on
forehead.
6. Pulse small,
weak, rapid.
7. Much thirst.
7a. Voracious appetite and dislike
for hot food.
8. Much chilliness or rigors.

Cina.
2. Dry spasmodic
cough, or cough
with sudden
startings and loss
of consciousness.
5. Anxious pale
countenance,
face puffed up
and purple.
7. Much thirst.
7a. Voracious
appetite.

Cuprum.



1A5

Drosera.
9., Pain as of a
[bruise in breast
and under ribs,
obliging to hold
the parts with
the hands.
10. Cough produces inclination
to vomit.
13. Gripes in
bowels.
15. Ill-tempered.

VeratrIum.
9. Pains in chest.
11. Much reduced; niape of
neck so weak,
cannot hold the
head up.
12. During tle
cough, discharges
the urine involuntarily.
13, Complains of
pains in abdomen, and in
14. the kidneys
Between attacks.
15. Not lively.
16. Dislikes to
move.
17. Unwilling to
speak.

Cina.
9. Tearing or
heavy pain in
head, pupils dilated and sight
impaired.
13.Frequent griping or pinching,
has diarrhoea and
discharges water.

Cuprum.

19. Oppression
when coughing
as if something
held the breath
back in the chest,
so as to be able
scarcely to cough
or speak.

19. Pifficult re- 19. Respiration is
spiration.       suspended.

20. Dry small
eruption on the
body, the face,
and the hands.

20, Paleness of
countenance.



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Drosera.
21. Patient worse
when atrest.than
when moving
about.

Veratrum.

Cina.
22. During cough
becomes stiff.
23.Recovers with
much difficulty
after vomiting.
24. After cough
a clucking noise,
passing down the
throat into the
bowels; groaning
after the fit.
25. Boreswith fingers in the nose.
26. Frequent
itching at anus.
27. Have had, before, fits from
worms, or have
voided large
worms.

Cuprum.
22. During cough
becomes stif.
24. Audible rattling of phlegm
in the throat.

As the cough improves, avoid attempting much:
should the sufferer's state remain stationary, select
some medicine suited to the remaining symptoms.
Pulsatilla will often be found serviceable.
When there are relapses, or when the vomiting
continues, Carbo Vegetabilis does good: if still there
is abundant expectoration, Dulcamara: if much
crying after the cough, Arnica: if the cough, when
decreasing, is still hollow and shrill, or dry and
hoarse with retching afterwards and crying, Iepar
Sulphuris.



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[Prussic Acid, (Scheele's strength) five drops to
one hundred drops of distilled water, and administered in the dose of from one to three drops of this
to a child, and repeat every four, six or eight hours
if the cough should be suffocating and spasmodic. -
Ed.]
An affection of the windpipe and bronchial tubes,
most dangerous to the sufferer, is now to be noticed:
it is
CROUP.
The first symptoms are often those of common
cold, hoarseness predominant. The real symptoms
soon appear, and so clearly are they marked that no
mistake can exist.
The cough is sonorous, whistling: it is croup:
the voice is hoarse, rough, or wheezing. The cough
excites pain, the patient carries his hand to his
throat: the face is red at first, or mottled: as the
disease advances, blue: a clammy sweat suffuses the
body, the breathing is difficult, and the head is thrown
back to aid respiration.
Aconite is the first resource to subdue the inflammatory action.
About two to four hours after the aconite, Spongia
must be used: and if this does not succeed, Hepar
Sulphuris.
If the spongia relieves but does not cure, then hepar sulphuris will be peculiarly serviceable, more
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with an evident accumulation of mucus in the respiratory tubes.
Lachesis, Dr. Hering has shown, can be employed
with benefit in the worst cases of this disease, but no
patient in such a disease can be trusted to mere domestic treatment.
This disease is too severe to be intrusted to any
one except a physician.
[The author's concluding remarks are very true,
but the friends of Homoeopathy have, very properly,
a very great dread of allopathic practice. With a
few brief directions, and homceopathic remedies, a
layman of cool judgment, will be more successful
than the most skilful allopathic physician. Symptoms- A slight cough of a peculiar barking sound:
soon increases to a shrill crowing, and the respiration becomes more and more difficult, producing a
peculiar drawing in of the pit of the stomach at every
inspiration, accompanied with a whistling noise.
There is an acute pain in the throat, and a frequent
cough, which brings off tough mucus, or shreds of
membrane. The pulse is frequent, heat considerable, and restlessness great. The face is bathed in
perspiration, pale and livid, and the expression of the
countenance shows the greatest distress. In the first
stage, remedies as directed in the text, will generally
quickly relieve. They should be administered in more
rapid succession, however, in the same form of the disease. My practice has been (and the success has been
uniform,) to administer Aconite, first dilution, one dose;
in ten minutes if the breathing remained difficult,
with wheezing, I give Hep. Sulp. three pellets of
the fifth attenuation; if the heaving of the chest still



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continues at the expiration of ten minutes more, I
give three pellets of Spongia of the fifth attenuation,
and thus continue to alternate these two last remedies until the sufferings are past. If the case resists
these means, there is great fear that the disease has
passed from the spasmodic to the membraneous form.
In this last, there is a rapid exudation of lymph into
the air tubes, and the passage becoming less and
less, the distress is very great, and the danger imminent. Here Tartar Emetic, in slightly nauseating
doses, will generally check this disease, and Mlerc.
Sol. or Protiodide will change the tendency to exudation to a healthy character. The Bichromate of
Potass. is also a valuable remedy at this stage of
croup. The size of a pea of the second trituration
in a wineglass of water, and one teaspoonful given
every ten minutes. Warm water, by means of a
sponge applied to the throat, is a good auxiliary. -
Ed.]
There is one disease, approaching in many of its
characters, to croup: it is
THE ASTHMA OF MILLAR.
Croup is often, as was stated, preceded by symptoms of a cold. This is sudden in its attack, and is
preceded by no warning symptoms; and it occurs
several times, and the parties are said to be subject
to sudden attacks of croup. It is not croup.
The patient is seized with choking, great anxiety,
and diflicult breathing: the voice has a deep harsh



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tone: the cough is hoarse, broken, and devoid of
mucus.
The first attack is often fatal.
If not, the attack ends in a few hours in sneezing,
belching and vomiting: the little patient sleeps tranquilly, but awakes languid and weak, with symptoms
like a common cold. Perspiration generally attends
at the close of the attack. A fresh attack, worse
than the former, comes on in twenty-four hours.
Sambucus is the best remedy for this affection, when
the patient becomes sleepy with the eyes and the
mouth half opened, especially if, being obliged to sit
down, the air enters the lungs with a whistling sound,
and with a sense of suffocation; if he strikes his
hands behind him: and if his hands and face are
swollen and purple: and when the attack comes on in
the middle of the night.
There are other remedies; but the severity of the
affection will be sure to cause the parent to send for
the physician, who will decide.
THE LUNGS.
The lungs themselves, so important in the process
of respiration, are subject to attacks of inflammation,
which require medical aid, but which may be partially met till such aid is obtained.
INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS,
is indicated by difficult and short respiration: great
oppression: by darting pains in the chest, aggra



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vated when inspiring: great anxiety: cough, attended with much pain, dry at first, afterwards moist,
and the sputa tinged with blood. The pulse is full,
strong, and frequent, often palpitation of the heart:
the face is red and livid: thirst excessive: generally
constipation: urine high color, red: skin hot, dry
and burning.
A comparison of these symptoms with those detailed, in the Introduction, in connexion with aconite,
will demonstrate that Aconite should be at once administered, in successive doses, during the first twenty-four hours.
After the inflammatory and febrile symptoms have
given way partially, (often they will be entirely removed by the aconite,) Bryonia* can be given, especially if the sputa, tinged with blood, have a rusty
appearance: and where there are pains, considered
rheumatic, in the back.
Rhus and Squilla are useful under circumstances,
which will require the physician to decide.
Phosphorus, sulphur, and other medicines, are
useful in this disease, but the phenomena indicating
these need not be detailed, as the physician's aid is
sure to be sought.
[Phosphorus is the most important remedy for in* From the symptoms recorded in connexion with Aconite, it
will be seen that, where fever exists in connexion with inflammation it is peculiarly suitable. But Bryonia is suited also to inflammatory fevers. Aconite is suited where there is dry heat,
constant burning over the whole body. Bryonia is suited where
the internal heat is more developed than the external. Aconite is
suited where there is much thirst: Bryonia also where there is
violent thirst, and this for cold liquids. Aconite is suited where
the heat is constant. Bryonia is suited where there are alternations of chill and heat, or when both exist simultaneously, the latter internally, the other perceptible externally.



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flammation of the substance of the lungs, characterized by deep pain and difficult respiration.
Tartar Emetic, if the above does not relieve, and
an expectoration of bloody mucus commences, with
great oppression, pain and rattling in the chest.--
Ed.]
The lungs are covered by a membrane, which covers
also the inner surface of the ribs.
This membrane, called the pleura, is subject to
inflammation, known by the name of
PLEURISY.
The peculiar catching in the side, or violent
stitching pains, on taking a full breath, and the intense pain, with an anxious state, are strikingly
characteristic of this affection.
Here again Aconite and Bryonia are employed
with success: and if followed up by the use of
Thuja, much benefit will result, more particularly if
there exists a feeling of something adhering within
at the place where the pain was.
The last disease to be noticed, in connexion with
the respiratory system, is
SPITTING OF BLOOD (HAEMOPTYSIS.)
Generally, before a discharge of blood from the
lungs, occur heaviness and tightness in the chest,



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difficult breathing, palpitation of the heart, anxiety,
saltish or sweetish taste in the mouth, tickling in the
fauces, and cough, bringing up blood.
Aconite is the best remedy: it subdues the general
increased action very effectually.
China and Pulsatilla are the remedies most frequently useful after the hemorrhage. The selection
may be deduced from the following table:

China.
Patient shivers.

Patient has transitory
heats.
Short sweats.
Inclined to lie down.
Limbs tremulous.
Sanguineous excitement
lessened.
Expectorates blood, more
or less, every day.

Pulsatilla.
Shiverings with general
debility.
Blood expectorated, deeply colored and in clots.
Shootings in the chest,
and an uneasiness in the
lower part of the chest.
Difficult breathing.
Feet cold.
Oppressed with grief.
Inclined to tears.
Women, whose menses
are suppressed.

I have very great confidence in the use of Aconite



and. Arnica, having seen such decided benefits from
their alternate use. I could relate upwards of a hundred cases of the' successful use of these two remedies. Where the haemoptysis results from a' llow,
they are specific.
When China is given, it should' be given' in the intervals' between the hemorrhages.
Persons are so agitated when hemorrhage from the
lungs takes place, that they, in their agitation, use
means which often have a most decided injurious
tendency.
The best thing is to give two globules of Aconite
in a desert spoonful of water until the physician is
called: and repeat these each time there is a sensation of warm bubbling in the chest.
[Millefolium is the most important remedy for
bleeding from the lungs. -Ed.]



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CHAPTER VI.
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AFFECTIONS OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS.
THE organs, which are engaged in the preparation
of the articles taken for food; so as to produce the
changes necessary in order to render them nutritive,
are numerous, and are liable to diseased states.
These organs are the mouth, the teeth, the throat,
the gullet,- the stomach, the duodenum, the small
intestines and the large intestines, the caecum, the
colon, and the rectum.
The diseases, may be classed1. Aphtha
2. Stomacace
2. Teeomaace                     of the Mouth.
4. Toothache and Tic Douloureux
5. Quinsy, affecting the throat.
6. Derangement of the Stomach, or Dyspepsia7. Cardialgia, or Heartburn             of the
8. Flatulence                            Sto9. Vomiting. 9a. Vomiting of blood.     mach.
10. Cramp



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11. Constipation
12. Diarrhcea
13. Cholera
14. Colic.            of the Intestines.
15. Inflammation
16. Haemorrhoids
17. Dysentery
18. Worms
19. Jaundice.
20. Liver Complaint.
21. Inflammation of liver.
Diseases of the Mouth.
The lips, the entrance to the mouth, and the mouth
itself, are lined by a membrane.
This membrane becomes diseased; small pale,
grayish spots appear, and gradually eilarging, form
round pustules, like millet seeds, filled with a sanious
fluid: this being discharged, little scabs form and
fall off, and are renewed and again fall off.
These appearances constitute the disease, called
APHTHA, OR THRUSH.
The formation of these bodies is often attended
with uneasiness, watchfulness, difficult breathing,
breath fetid, voice hoarse and feeble, tongue dry
and swollen, mouth and throat dry, hot, and red, exhaustion, and dulness of sense.
The white aphtha, affecting infants, are, in general,
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lution of Borax in water can be applied by a brush
to the interior of the mouth.
Sometimes they become, in very bad constitutions,
malignant: the choice of the remedy must be left to
the physician. -
In children of gross habits, Mercurius Vivus is
often useful.
SSulphur is useful when the whole interior of the
mouth is covered with thick scabs, when the evacuations are frequent, greenish, with tenesmus, the body
covered with a rash, and the thighs excoriated, with
a vesicular eruption on the back.
To prevent this disease, and to aid its removal,
cleanliness, good and simple food, cleansing the milkbottle (if using one) before each suckling, and not
allowing the infant to suck improper things, such as
rags filled with pap, are essential.
In reference to cleanliness, washing the whole
body is far more effectual than mere and frequent
washing of the mouth.
A second affection of the mouth; attacking adults
more frequently, consists in the formation of ulcers
on the gums, these becoming spongy and swollen,
and often hot, and red. These ulcers discharge a
bloody sanious matter, having an intolerable stench.
[A disease somewhat analogous to this has come
under my observation. Among children, whole families, one after another, have suffered with it. The
gums, inside of the cheeks, and tongue are swollen
Sand ulcerated, while the edge of the tongue presents
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edges of the gums have the same spongy aspect, as
after the effects of mercury. Sometimes these ulcers
extend to the throat and epiglottis, and thus very
much increase the suffering and danger. The odor
from the mouth has the same peculiar offensive smell
as that which arises from salivation.- Ed.]
The patient feels extremely weak and is feverish.
This disease is
STOMACACE, OR BAD MOUTH.
In this affection, Mercury is the remedy, unless; as
is often the case, the disease has been caused by
Mercury. In such case, and also where the mouth
bleeds much and smells very bad, Carbo Vegetabilis
is very useful. When swelling and inflammation preponderate over the ulceration, then Nux Vomica can
be employed, particularly with irritable, emaciated
persons, who sit much in the house, and where
affections of the digestive system manifest themselves prominently.
[In addition to the above remedies I would recommend the Protiodide of Mercury, where the,ordinary
preparations of mercury do not succeed; and in the
advanced stages, when the smell is very bad, Nitric
or Sulphuric Acid, the first dilution of either, in drop
doses. - Ed.]
THE TEETH.
The teeth are thirty-two in number, sixteen in
each jaw. They make their way in infancy through
the gums, and the process, constituting this exit, is
named



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DENTITION, OR TEETHING.
This ought to be unattended with fever or with
pain. Frequently, however, fever and severe pain
attend this process, and sometimes serious diseases
are developed during the irritation of teething.
The progress of teething requires to be watched
with care.
Should the gums be much swollen, be hot, red,
and painful -should the child constantly drivel;
put his fingers in his month; forcibly bite the nipple;
or suddenly let go his hold, and be restless, Aconite
will relieve.
Should the child be violent as if delirious, not to
be pacified, and sleepless, Coffea; but if the mother
use coffee, Chamomilla.
Should dry cough, with panting and hurried respiration, be present, then Belladonna.  Belladonna
will be serviceable, whenever symptoms present
themselves, indicating cerebral congestion.
Belladonna and chamomilla, as well as coffaea, are
serviceable when convulsions occur.
Chamomilla is eligible, when the symptoms indicate affections of the abdominal organs, such as
gripings, diarrhoea, and greenish evacuations.
When the diarrhoea is watery, Mercurius is useful.
Constipation, when attendant, is relieved by Nux
Vomica.
When convulsions occur, and have resisted the
action of belladonna and chamomilla, Ignatia may
be administered, one dose every quarter or half hour.
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constitutional condition, opposed to health, is indicated: and for this the best remedies, as experience
has convinced me, are Calcarea and Belladonna,
used alternately.
TOOTHACHE.
Hollow teeth are peculiarly subject to this affection. Taking cold is generally stated as the cause.
The symptoms of toothache vary much: the following tabular view will serve to help in the selection of the appropriate remedy.
These tables will show that Mercurius and Sulphur are the two medicines, most extensively curative of toothache. Mercury, it should be remembered, being so injuriously prescribed by so many
practitioners, is the cause of numerous toothaches.
It should therefore be always ascertained whether
the patient has or has not been mercurialized previously to prescribing Mercurius.
Next to sulphur stands Nux Vomica: and next to
nux vomica, Pulsatilla: next to it, Staphysagria.:
then Belladonna, Bryonia, Chanmomilla, and Rhus
Toxicodendron.
Persons, liable to toothache, should abstain from
cofee: toothache being one of the effects of cofee.



The phrase "1do" in the adjoined tabular view,
implies that the characteristic in the first column
belongs to the medicine in the column in which
the  do" is under the name..
--   b
Pains passing into the jawbones and face................. do.. do do *... do..
the cheeks.........................do........ do.
the ears.................... do.. do     do.do        dodo     do do
the eyes................................ do..
the head.................... do..do........ do....do..do do.... do..do do.
Pains in holeow teeth particularly...... do.           do do.. do do.     do do do dp.. do do do
the wtaole roew of teeth............do...... do..                    do...... do.. do..
with swollen cheeks......................      do           do           do do d..do....  do do
the teeth feel loose..........................do.. do.......... do.. do do *... do.. do
too long................... do do  do                           &       do
gums swollen..................do.         do.....,..do......d dodo..do..dododo
Pains worse when eating.................. do do.. do...    do.. do do.... do do do
after eating......................do....o....do.              do.. doo..... do do..
when rubbed............................ do do dodo.      do     dodo do do.. do
with tongue......................do.. do.... do do.....
WoRsE in the open air.........................        do.do......  do..do..do do..
the wind................................................ do.
from a draught of air...........__................ do..... o.......do
BMrTra in the open air............................  do....... do               do do.do
Woasa from warmth.................................ddo...... do do  do  do  do         do
warm liquids........................o.....  do...do..     do..........do
warm food.............................do...  do...    do do.. do..
in a warm room.....................o....................           do do......do
by warmth of bed...................................... oo.... do.... do... do



"S         ii              4
BPETTEn by w   ar     m   th.....***. do......        dodo...do...dc
Wozasi  from  coldness.......................  do. do.... do....... de
cold air............................ do...... d ýo'.. d*o.. dod'od  d'o.. d'o dc
cold water......................... do.. do do...  do do.. do...... dc
cold drink.............................do....d  do.. do... do dc
washing in cold water...............   d.....do.......... dc od
drawing cold air into the mouth......  do do..do do.. do do..do d(
BETTER by applying a cold hand........................           do.
cold water in an instant........  o....
by dipping the fingers in cold water.........   do.......
WoRsEC inf he morning............. 0..... *............... do do do do do do. do d-c
in the forenoon.,..................... do...do...... dc
at night.................................  do do..do.do.. do do dodo dodo dc
in the afternoon..............................     do.... do  dc~...
towards evening........................do............ e. dodo do..
in the evening........................ d.... do....... do  d o.. do. do do... dc
Pains when caused by a cold................do dod....do.. -o o.(to do...do d6o.
Toothache with children.................  do.. do  do. do. do do do......
men.......................-...........................
women.................ddo      o....d.. do.....o
before, during) and after menstruation... do..do do do.. do..........
during pregnancy...o.d.........d.........do.I.....oI..... do do.. do



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The insertion of a globule of the selected remedy
on the tongue is a most effectual method of cure:
sometimes smelling the medicine will be enough.
Often the pain is increased at first, a homceopathic
aggravation: the patient should wait patiently, and,
in a short time, the desired relief will be obtained.
If the pain should return then use the same remedy,
but if new symptoms rise, then employ a new remedy.
The best means to prevent toothache is to take
care of the teeth by cleaning them with water and a
brush after each meal. As a general rule, the use
of toothpowders is unnecessary, when the teeth have
been preserved by the means just stated. But if
a toothpowder be used, no medicated or scented
toothpowder should be used while taking homoeopathic medicine.
The use of a toothpick is to be avoided. The
teeth are injured by this practice.
Opium should never be taken. The pains are always increased. Creosote, another common remedy,
should never be used unless under medical superintendence.
Sometimes toothache assumes a chronic character:
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[TIC DOULOUREUX.
The nerves of the face in this disease are very sensitive, and the pain, is more excruciating than any
other to which we are liable. The paroxysms are
sudden and often repeated, with intervals of perfect
ease. The patient often feels as if a red hot needle
was piercing through the part, which distinguishes
it from toothache. There is no swelling.
T r e a t m e n t.-Aconite sometimes is necessary at
first, if there should be heat.
Belladonna, if the pain is excited by touching the
part, twitches in the eye-lids, convulsive jerks of the
muscles of the face, with occasional flush.
Causticum, if the jaws should be stiff and noise
in the ears.
Mezereum, when the pains extend into the eye,
temple, ear, neck, and teeth, when coming into the air.
Lycopodium, when the right side of the face is
principally the seat of pain, and there is a sensation
of coldness, and the symptoms are worse at night.
M1Iercurius, if the entire one side of the head from
the temples to the teeth are affected, more particularly at night after getting warm in bed, particularly
if there is a predisposition to a flow of tears and saliva.
Conium, if the pains come on at night, and are
of a shooting character.
Colocynth, if the pains are of a shooting character, and occupy the left side of the face, and are
aggravated by the touch.
Nuz Vomica, if the pains are tearing and drawing
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Phosphorus, if moving the muscles of the face aggravates the pain; if the pain is on the left side; if
there is humming in the ears; and a bloated appearance of the countenance.
Platina, if there is coldness and torpor, with atendency to flow of tears,and renewal of pain during repose.
Spigelia, if there is violent pain in the cheek bones,
which will not bear the slightest pressure, or with
sense of anguish of heart.
Staphysagria if the pain extends from the teeth into
the eye, with coldness of the hands and oold perspiration on the face.
Kalmia Latifolia has been very successful in
some forms of Tic Douloureux, more especially
where the right side of the face is chiefly or entirely affected by pain between the eye and nose in
the afternoon; "stinging in the bones of the jaws,
stitches in the eyes." - Ed.]
THE THROAT.
The throat may be regarded as a continuation of
the mouth.
There is a division, called the hanging veil of the
palate (velum pendulum palati,) between the mouth
and the part behind, called the fauces.  From the
centre of this hanging veil a little fleshy body hangs,
called the Uvula; and between the fleshy pillars,
forming the side of this fleshy veil, are glandular
bodies, called the tonsils.
Opening into the fauces is the gullet, the fleshy
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Belladonna.
13. External
swelling of
the throat,
of the muscles, and of
the glands
of the neck.
14. Pain in
speaking.
15. Sometimes inability to drink,
liquids returning
through the
nose.
16. Fever,
sometimes
with delirium.
17. Hoarseness.

Chamomilla.
13. Glands
of lower jaw
swollen,
with throbbing pains.
16. Fever,
with alternations of heat
and cold.
16a. Fever
worse towards evening.
18. Caused
by a cold.
19. or a cold
draught of
air when
perspiring.
20. Children.

Ignatia.
15. Liquids
more difficult to swallow than
solids.
16. Fever,
with alternations of heat
and cold.

JMercurius.
15. Throbbings in
tonsils in
swallowing.
16. Fever,
with alternations of heat
and cold.
17.

NJux Vomica
17.
18. Caused
by a cold;
19. Cnld air
produces
pain.

Pulsatilla.
13. Glands of
neck swollen, and tender to the
touch.
15. Pain in
swallowing
the saliva.
16. Sense
of diffused
coldness, increased towards night,
succeeded by
heat.
16a. In the
evening.
17.



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[When the lining membrane is inflamed, rough,
and discharges a thick mucus, give Protiodide
of Mercury.* - Ed.]
The Stomach.
The stomach, performing very important duties in
the process of digestion, its affections become of
very considerable moment.
It should be remembered that the stomach is situated under the ribs on the left side of the body, in
the upper part of the abdominal cavity, extending
across to the right side, passing behind the triangular part, formed below the end of the breastbone
and the margin of the ribs, called the pit of the
stomach.t
The first affection to be noticed is
DERANGEMENT OF STOMACH,
sometimes called
DYSPEPSIA, OR INDIGESTION.
The ternm Dyspepsia covers a multitude of disordered states: hides a multitude of professional sins:
forms a most successful opportunity and means for
medical pillaging; and, when the sufferer is tired of
* See Editor's chemical remarks on "Mercurius lodatus," in
2d Vol. " Symptom Codex," p. 233.
t For a full description of the stomach and its uses, and also of
the other organs of digestion, see "Constipation Curable." Second edition. By John Epps, M. D.
9



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NVauz Vomica.
BYXMPTOMI.
3. 8. 8a. 15a. 19.
24. 43. (See
" Headache.")
1.Face yellowish.
la. Especially
about the mouth
and the wings
of the nose.
2. Face red.
3. Eyes ayellow
tint of the
opaque cornea.
4. Mist before
the eyes, or spots.
5. Sparkles before the eyes.
6. Giddiness.
7. Tongue foul.
7a. Tongue dry
and white,
7b. or yellowish.
8. Thirst.
9. Bitter taste.
10. Heartburn.
11. Acidity.
12. Flatulence.
13. Water brash.
14. Hiccough.

Pulsatilla.
a,
o
B
'^
I ~S,i?

Bryonia.
Symptom 2.
(See other symptoms of headache.)
6. Giddiness.
7. Tongue dry.
7a.   "  white.
7b.  "  yellow.
8. Great thirst.
11. Acidity.
12. Flatulence.
13. Water brash.
14. Hiccough.

Chamomilla.
3.7.17. (See
" Headache.")
2. One cheek red,
the other pale.
3. Ditto.
4. Eyesightobscured.
7a. Tongue dry
and cracked.
7b. Thick yellow
coating.
8. Ezcessive
thirst,
8a. Desihe for
cold drink.
11. Acidity.
12. Flatulence.
13. Regurgitation
of food.

8. A want of
thirst.
9. Bitter or sour
taste.
10.!Ditto,an.hour
after eating.
11. Acidity.
12. Flatulence.
13. Water;brash.
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SVomica.       Pulsatilla.
14a. Nausea in 14a. Aversion
the open air.      fat foods.

15 Fulness at
the pit of the
stomach,
15a. and at the
sides of the
stomach.
16. Tenderness
of the pit of the
stomach to touch.
17. Clothes feel
tight.
18. Cramps in
the stomach.
19. Constipation.
20. Irritable.
21. Passionate
temper.
22. Men.

15. Pain at pit of
stomach.

Bryonia.
14a. Aversion to
food so strong,
cannot bear the
smell.
15. Ditto.
16. Ditto.
17. Pressure as if
from a stone.
18. A burning at
the pit of the
stomach, especially when
moving.
19. Constipation.
21. Passionate,
obstinate.
23. Complaints
worse by motion
24. In summer.
25. In damp
weather.
26. Chilliness a
common attendant.

Chamomilla.
14a. Nausea.
146. Vomiting of
food.
15. Ditto, chiefly
after eating.
15a. Oppressive
pain at the region
of the heart.
15b. Feeling of
sinking at pit of
stomach.
18. Ditto, especially when from
coffee.
19. Relaxation as
a more general
feature.

19. Diarrhcea, or
if not, slow evacuations.
20. Timid,
phlegmatic.
22. Women and
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A  second affection of the stomach and of the
bowels, very common, is
FLATULENCE.
Flatulence is dependent in numerous cases upon
general causes; such as food of bad quality or excessive quantity; unsuitable drinks; and then immediate relief can be afforded.
When, from the wind, the lower intestines are
affected with pains and a sense of tightness, the tightness being felt also under the false ribs, the wind not
effecting its escape, China is very serviceable.
When constipation exists, as will be seen from the
table, and the sufferer is of a lively temperament,
Nux Vomica is useful.
When flatulence follows the use of rich food, and
when it occurs in women of a mild and gentle
disposition, Pulsatilla is an appropriate remedy.
A more active remedy is Cocculus: it is useful
when, in addition to the sense of tightness and contraction in the lower belly, similar feelings exist in
the genital organs: also when there is a swelling at
the pit of the stomach; uneasiness at the stomach:
gripings, twitchings, anxiety, and pressure under the
cartilages of the ribs, not diminished by the discharge
of wind, but relieved by the expulsion of the offending matters.
[Carbo Veget. if indicated as in the preceding
article. - Ed.]
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VOMITING.
This, when from excess of food, should be aided
by warm water, drank plentifully.
Should aversion to food, nausea, and heavings of
the stomach continue after full vomiting, the tongue
being furred, then Antimonium Crudum is useful;
but if the tongue is clean, Ipecacuanha.
When vomiting is caused by food that is fat, Pulsatilla is the remedy.
When vomiting has been preceded by a fit of passion, and is attended with a bitter taste, bilious, and
bitter risings, the matter ejected being green, bilious,
and producing a grating sensation in the throat: with
fulness, and a pressing pain at the pit of the stomach:
general languor: total loss of the appetite: anxiety:
thirst: giddiness, and semilateral pains in the head,
then Chamomilla must be used.
Add to these symptoms, the continuance of the
passion and a sensation of coldness, then Bryonia is
to be employed.
When children, who have pains in the belly, frequent nausea, excess of saliva, with a vapid taste,
pale complexion, discolored lips, with general coldness and debility, then Valeriana is the best temporary remedy; permanent relief being obtained by
the use of those means which expel the worms, the
cause of these symptoms.
VOMITING OF BLOOD. (HIMATEMESIS.)
This disease is often dangerous, not so much from
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that it is a result of long continued disease of the
stomach or of the liver: sometimes of one, sometimes
of the other, sometimes of both.
The severity* of the malady will cause the advice
of the physician to be obtained; but it may be advisable, if there is great exhaustion, the countenance
pale, the nausea excessive, to give at once and after
each recurrence of vomiting two globules of Arsenicum: if relief does not follow the second dose, the
same dose of Ipecacuanha, but if with the discharge
of blood the patient complains of a BRUISED FEELING
IN HIS LIMBS, then Arnica is to be preferred.
[Aconite and Pulsatilla are effectual remedies.Ed.]
A fourth affection of the stomach, with which the
bowels sympathize is that designated
CRAMP OF THE STOMACH.
This cramp of the stomach presents itself in very
numerous forms, being attended with constriction,
pressure, pinching tearing pains at the pit of the stomach; with a feeling as though the clothes compressed
the body at the pit of the stomach; a feeling as of
accumulated wind in left side: under the ribs: pain
extending to the back and the left side: strong pressure at the back as from a hard substance: hot,
cramp-like feeling, extending to gullet, with a sense
* A case of this disease and its attendant difficulties I published
in the Lancet, 1844, this case being treated homoeopathically.



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of suffocation: increased saliva, fainting, and oftentimes vomiting.
When these symptoms are present, and where
coffee has been much used, then Nux Vomica is the
remedy.
Where, in addition, the lower belly is swelled with
wind, where constipation exists, semilateral headaches, pressive pains in the forehead, Nux Vomica is
useful.
As a proof that coffee often causes this cramp, the
fact is interesting, that coffee taken augments all
these symptoms.
When nux vomica does not relieve, Cocculus often will, especially where constipation, pain at the
lower belly, relieved by a discharge of wind, and a
fretful, self-absorbed, sombre disposition, attend.
When the cramps are connected with nausea and
vomiting, and severe darting pains at the pit of the
stomach, then Ipecacuanha will cure.
When the nervous system is very excitable, so that
the slightest circumstance annoys the patient, then
Chamomilla is useful.
[Pulsatilla and Ignatia are also useful, if it occurs in females. - Ed.]
The Bowels.
The first affection of the bowels is that, in which
the bowels do not perform their duty; but require
longer intervals than usual to expel their contents.
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When persons are not relieved of their constipation by the use of homoeopathic medicine, in the first
few days after exhibition, such inactivity indicates,
that the EFFECTS of the medicines, previously taken
to force the bowels, have not been overcome: it does
not prove, that the hormeopathic medicines are inefficacious. If relief is not obtained by the fourth
day, I generally recommend the use of three quarters of a pint of warm water by injection.
In constipation generally the following remedies
are useful. (See next page.)



Bryonia.
1. Disposition much
influenced by the constipation.
2. Flow of blood to
head.
3. Giddiness.
4 Headache.
5. Pressure from without
inwards at temples.
5a. On stooping, the
brain feels as if forcing
through the temples.

140.Viz Vomica.
1. Ardent, hasty, and
inclined to anger.
2. Face full of blood.
3. Giddiness.
4. Headache in walking, in lowering the
head.
4a. Pain in the forehead.
5. Pressure in the temples, not relieved by sitting up or lying down.
6. Loss of appetite,
thirst.
7. Tongue loaded with
mucus.
8. Lancinating, pressing
pains in the lower belly.
9. A feeling of constriction at the anus.
9a. Haemorrhoids.

Opium.
1. Persons devoid of
energy, and torpid,
weak, nervous system
6. Loss of appetite,
thirst.
7. Dryness in the
mouth.
8. Throbbings in the
lower belly.
8a. Pressure at the
stomach.
9. Desire to go to the
closet, with a feeling as
though the passage
were closed.

10. Persons easily  10. Disturbed sleep.
chilled.
11. Occurring in warm
weather.
Nux vomica is useful in constipation from excess
of food; nux vomica, bryonia, ignatia, and opium
are useful in the constipation of pregnant women,
alternating, beginning with nux vomica.
Constipation, not giving way to these means, requires the advice of the physician.
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An intestinal affection, regarded as the opposite of
constipation, is that called
DIARRHCEA.
When the bowels act more frequently than natural,
and when the evacuations have a less solid character
than natural, this is named diarrhcea, or looseness.
The nature of the evacuated matter differs very
much; and so do the attendant symptoms.
Ch momilla.   China.   Dulcamara..Mercury.    Pulsatilla.  Sulphur.
1. Produced 1. Produced 1. Produced 1. Cold from 1. From er- 1. Eruptive
by cold orby  by cold    by cold,   night air. rors in diet. habits of
passion.  liquids, and especially by                       body.
by cold.   becoming
wet. a
2. Motions 2. Clear, and 2. Watery. 2. Watery, 2. Frequent. 2. Acrid.
watery.  without any              profuse.
admixture of
flecal matter.
2a. Motions 2a. Contain- 2a. Slimy  2a. Green,            2a. Excoriamucous. ing portions land yellow. sometimes             ting the anus
of undigest-            tinged with             and sured food.                blood                 rounding
parts, and
causing an
eruption.
b. Odor of  26. Sour.                                     eruption.
rotten eggs.
3. Sour                          3. Risings
risings,                        in the mouth
as of rotten
eggs, colic.
4. Pain vio- 4. Preceded 4. No pain 4. Tearing,
lent tearing, by violent in the belly, cutting pain
and inces- colic, and             in the lower
sant, obli-  pressive             belly, which
ging him to pains in the           feels cold.
writhe, turn  bowels.
over, and
un about.
4a. Pain in 4a. A pinchthe region of ing pain in
the navel. the hollow of
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Chamomilla.   China.
5. Feeling as 5. Weakness
if the belly in the belly.
is hollow.

Dulcamara..Mercury.
4b. Painful
straining
called tenesmus, before,
during, and
after an
evacuation.
5. Feeling of
relaxation,
as though a
motion
would take
place.
6. Rumblings.

Pulsatilla.
4b. Urgent
desire and
frequent
evacuations.
5. Fullness
of the lower
belly.
6. Rumblings.
7. Nausea,
hiccough.
7a. Vomitings.

6. Constant
movement
as of a ball
rolling from
side to side.
7. Nausea.
7a. Vomiting.
8. Eyes encircled with
bluish ring.

6. Much
noise.
9. Occurring
immediately
after partaking of
food.

7. Nausea. 7. Nausea.

7a. Vomiting
occurring at
night.

9. Shivering
and weakness, and
tendency to
faintings.

9. Gradual
emaciation,
and consumption at
its last stage.

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Another disease of the intestines, approaching in
some features to diarrhcea, is
CHOLERA.
This disease occurs most frequently in the summer: is referred, generally, to the fruits eatenr, but
is more justly referrible to the heat of the atmosphere deranging the liver, and thereby modifying the
secretion of the bile.
Before an attack of cholera, many symptoms,
called bilious, generally appear: inactivity: heaviness: jaundiced complexion: tongue covered with a
yellow mucus: bitter taste: dislike to food: bitter
risings: fulness at the pit of the stomach, with pressure and cramps: urine deposits a reddish sediment,
and smells offensively, and is passed with pain.
Chamomilla will remove these symptoms.
If these symptoms are neglected, the patient vomits
first his food, and then a watery bilious fluid; violent diarrhoea takes place, the secretions being at first
fetid, afterwards watery and bilious. These symptoms neglected, or improperly treated, the pulse
sinks: spasms in different parts of the body appear:
tenesmus, cold perspirations, and even syncope.
Ipecacuanha is to be used when the vomitings and
the diarrhcea are established.
If cold sweats appear, and the vomitings and the
purgings do not abate under the use of ipecacuanha,
Veratrum must be employed.,
If there is insatiable thirst: pulse scarcely perceptible: excessive prostration of strength: almost
constant purging, the matter tinged with blood, then
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are bent upon the body: and by an inability to suck
during the attack.
When, in addition to these general symptoms, and
those mentioned under diarrhoea in connection with
chamomilla, the eyes are distorted, the saliva is accumulated in the mouth, and there is diarrhoea, with
green, watery, mixed with mucous, evacuations, then
Chamomilla is the remedy: in very mild dispositions,
Pulsatilla.
When, in addition to the general symptoms, the
following symptoms occur, Nux Vomica is indicated,
namely, hardened faeces, constipation: weight in the
lower part of the belly.
Pain, as if the intestines are squeezed in different
directions: pain, as in the belly upon pressure: and
coldness of the extremities at the time when the
affection is most violent.
Nux Vomica is the best remedy for windy colic,
which is attended by a feeling, when the wind is
about to escape of a sharp cutting instrument making
its way to the bladder, rectum, and the parts of the
lower part of the belly, attended with a desire but
want of power to make water: this being felt more
particularly in an erect posture, and being lessened
by lying down or sitting in a curved position.
When, however, the colic assumes the following
characters, then Colocynth is useful.
Violent pains in the belly, constant.
If not constant, returning with augmented intensity.
The pains having departed, a bruised feeling as
though the intestines were suspended by threads
easily broken, obliging the patient to walk slowly and
with extreme caution, remains behind.
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The pain limited to one particular point at the
upper part of the belly.
So severe as to make the patient scream: and even
to bite anything.
Twists about like a worm:
Causes profise sweating.
I have cured many most urgent cases by three
globules of the decillionth dilution, dissolved in four
spoonsfull of water; two spoonsfull immediately, and
one every hour till relief was obtained.
[Painter's Colic, which is brought on by the poison
of lead, is most successfully treated by Nux Vomica
first, and afterward Opium. - Ed.]
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS, (ENTERITIS.)
This disease is attended with so much danger that
the physician's aid must be had.
It is characterized from colic by the existence of
excessive sensibility to touch, so much so that the
weight of the clothes is quite unbearable. In colic
pressure generally relieves.
Aconite is always useful. Belladonna is oftentimes
the next remedy.
[Bryonia or Opium if there is constipation; Ant.
Tart. if there is vomiting; Arsenicum, in the advanced stage, if there is sinking, coldness of the surface with internal burning sensation.-Ed.]
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PILES, OR HAEMORRHOIDS.
When this malady occurs in persons of middle age,
they should consult a physician, as the occurrence of
this affection is dependent generally upon constitutional causes.
At the termination of the intestines these piles are
found. The pain is severe there and at the loins:
itching is experienced at the anus, and around it
there are excrescences, painful, often livid: blood
and mucus frequently escape after the action of the
bowels.  Sometimes no discharge of blood takes
place, and then the piles are called dry.
The sufferer may obtain relief by the use of arsenic,
belladonna, nux vomica, and sulphur.
Arsenic is indicated, when, in the rectum, in the
hmmorrhoidal tumors, and the parts adjacent, a violent burning is felt:: when there are watery evacuations attended with great prostration of the bodily
powers.
Belladonna relieves moist piles, attended with a
pain in the loins as if broken asunder, almost unendurable.
Nux Vomica is suited to piles brought on by
sedentary habits, irregularity in living, late hours,
intense mental exertion: by constipation: with a
feeling of contraction of the rectum, with catching
pains in the loins upon the slightest movement, preventing the sufferer holding himself erect, and the
flow of clear fluid blood after the action of the bowels,
or if without an action with a desire to relieve the
bowels.
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this being particularly adapted when the stools are
excessively offensive, and where the skin is burning
hot and dry as parchment: and where the prostration
is excessive.
[Colocynth, if there is much pressing down, and
the watery predominate over the bloody mucous discharges.
Protiodide Mercury, if the patient is of a scrofulous habit, and does not get ready relief from the
other preparations of mercury. - Ed.]
Another affection of the intestines is that connected
with
WORMS.
An accumulation of mucous in the intestinal caial
seems particularly favorable to the multiplication of
worms.
The intestinal worms are three, the Ascaris, the
Lumbricus, and the Tenia.
The Ascaris or the thread worm is a short worm
about an inch long. It produces an itching, and a
frequent inclination to relieve the bowels.
The Lumbricus is like.an earth worm, only white,
the head being studded with slight eminences. It
fastens itself to the intestines, and by its motion and
sucking, produces painful griping about the navel.
The 1Tcnia, or tape-worm, is flat, white, and
jointed. It is very difficult to recognize its existence by symptoms: the only positive proof of its
existence is the discharge of portions.
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They form a most powerful means by which quackery
is enabled to pillage the pockets of parents, and to
destroy the health of children. Almost every affection of childhood is referred to worms, whereas diet,
want of fresh air, too warm clothing, perpetual rocking, and in-lap-sitting, are the most frequent causes
of the symptoms which children have.
Worms are not so injurious as are the medicines
taken for their removal. But, say these nostrumvendors and these drastic purges-administrators, the
worms are killed by the medicine: and so oftentimes
are the children: or if destruction does not take
place, the bowels are so injured that years are passed
before the injury is removed. Worms, too, are the
scavangers of the intestines: they remove many obnoxious bodies; and the mere removal of worms
without removing the intestinal condition, favoring
their production, is no benefit..The common idea
that, if the worm is killed, the victory is gained, has
been the justification for the destructive practice of
giving large doses of oleum terebinthinae (oil of turpentine) under the old system: a practice fraught
with danger, and often quite ineffectual.
When worms become decidedly numerous and
troublesome, then remedies should be employed.
The choice will be aided by the tables.
It may be rerparked that very generally febrile
symptoms attend the injurious agency of worms.
Hence Aconite is generally useful to begin with.
Where small worms exist Ignatia is beneficially used
after aconite. Where the tape-worm exists, sulphur
is peculiarly efficacious generally. In all obstinate
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efficacious. The symptoms recorded in the tabular
view (p. 152) are those presented by worms: the
symptoms more particularly belonging to each medicine are indicated by " do" placed in a parallej line
with the symptom.  The perfect removal of worms
can be effected often only by a well directed and long
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Paleness of the countenance.......... do..
Swollen condition of the face.........do.."0
Livid hue round the eyes........... do..
Brown hue round the eyes.......... do.  m
Dilation of the pupils............ ".
Frequent boring of the nose.......... do.. W C
-        picking of the nose......... do..
Much saliva in the mouth.............do
Fetid  breath.................... do   a
Foul tongue....................doCDo
A desire for things, but when obtained rejected do..
Irregular appetite, generally craving even after
a  meal.................. do..
Grinding  of teeth............... do..
Nausea......................
Abdomen swollen...................
Hardness at the navel.............. do C
Lower part of the belly hard and tender to the
touch.....................do:
Coldness at lower part of the belly.........
Gnawing in the intestines...........
Burning in the intestines..............1.
Severe colic pains...............do.
Wakeful at night...............           do.
Screaming when waking............
Diarrhaea sometimes.................do
Constipation.....................
Emaciation.....................
Peevishness..................        do.
Fits of crying when touched......... do.
Low spirits.....................
Uneasiness..................do.
Restlessness.................. do.
Convulsions in children............ do.
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JAUNDICE. (ICTERUS.)
This is produced by an affection of the liver.
It seems as if the bile passed into the circulation,
for the eyes become yellow, also the countenance;
and the evacuations become white and slimy: the
mouth has a bitter taste: the urine is brown and
thick; and the belly contracted.
Chamomilla is the best remedy, to be followed up
by Nux Vomica, and, if chilliness and great irritability of temper attend, Bryonia.
If chamomilla has been taken to excess, then Pulsatilla and Ignatia are to be employed, which are
followed beneficially by China. [Protiodide Mercury
has been very effectual in this disease under my
observation. - Ed.]
Jaundice, it should be remembered, is often caused
by purgative medicine, especially among infants.
Jaundice is a manifestation of disturbed liver.
LIVER COMPLAINT.
The term liver complaint is very common, and
very erroneously applied.  In almost all cases of
indigestion the liver is disturbed: when, however, its
diseased state is attended with pain, sense of weight,
and sometimes enlargement, in the region of the
liver, with pain at the collar bone, and at the top of
the right shoulder, with a dry cough, and inability to
lie on the left side, the liver is considered to be in a
state of inflammation, called hepatitis; this is chronic.
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then it is acute inflammation, for which medical aid
must be sought.
Aconite is the first remedy: and this must be followed by Byronia or Nux Vomica, or Pulsatilla, or
Mercurius, according to the symptoms.
It is worthy of remark, that tight stays, tight trowser bands, often bring on and keep up diseases of the
liver.
No young persons should wear stays. The handsomest, the best formed women, are those who have
not worn stays.
For
BILIOUSNESS,
commonly so called, if attended with headache, and
vomiting, and chills, and ill temper, Byronia, two
globules in a wineglass of water, is the best remedy:
repeat one globule after each vomiting.
Nux Vomica is next in value; but the use of this,
and of Pulsatilla and other remedies, may be judged
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CHAPTER VII.
DISEASES OF THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM.
BESIDES the affections already enumerated, there
are a few, belonging to the
MUSCULAR SYSTEM.
These are
1. Rheumatism. 2. Gout. 3. Lumbago.
RHEUMATISM
is an affection very extensive in its range, embracing
the muscles, their coverings, the tendons, the ligaments, and in some cases, affecting the membrane
investing the bones.
Sometimes the affection is limited to a few muscles,
and then the sufferer finds relief from the non-use of
those muscles.
Sometimes the affection is so extensive, that the
patient cannot move himself in any direction without
excruciating pain.
Pain on motion is the most striking feature; diminution or cessation of pain on rest, a weakness remaining, are other features.
The heat of the bed generally increases rheumatic
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Homceopathy presents several means of relief, and
the following tabular view of the symptoms will direct the choice.
Aconite will be seen, from a reference to the symptoms, (see Introduction) to be suited to almost all
cases of rheumatism at the commencement, especially
where the parts are red and swollen.

Bryonia. I Chamomilla. I Dulcamara.

1. Aching
pains in the
joints of the
arm, the
back,.the
nape of the
neck, the
breast.
la. principally during
motion and
insp ir ation
2. Drawing,
tearing pains
in the ten.
dons where
uniting with
the bones,
on rising in
the morning.

I I

1. Tearing
pains in the
joints.

1. From a
cold damp
atmosphere.
Shooting,
drawing,and
plucking.

la. Aggravated at
night, diminished by
sitting up
in bed.

NJux Vomica.
1. Tension
and pressure
in the external parts of
the chest,
shootings in
muscles of
the chest
during
respiration;
between the
shoulders;
tearing pain
in the nape
of the neck.
2. Pain in
the cervical
vertebrae
during motion and
respiration.
2a. Pain like
cracking at
shoulder
joint and
shoulder
blade.

Pulsatilla. Rhus Toxico.
dendron.
1. Drawing 1. Tension,
pains in the drawing and
muscles near tearing in
the joints.  the limbs.

2. Pains in
the joints of
the feet.
2a. Pains
frequently
changing
their position. Ex.
acerbated
towards
evening.

la. Patients
suffer most
at night and
at rest, and
are relieved
by motion
2. Pains of
bruising, as
if the flesh
was torn
from the
bones.
2a. Pressing
drawing
pain, as if
the periosteum was
scrapedfrom
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[CHAPTER        VIII.
FEBRES OR FEVERS.
FoR the purpose of brevity we will divide fever
into three general characters. First,
CONTINUED FEVERS,
Which may be subdivided into four varieties, viz.:
Simple, Inflammatory, Typhus (nervous or putrid)
and Mixed Fever.
Definition.-All the above are distinguished by
their degrees of severity. Loss of appetite; languor;
shiverings\; prostration; increased heat; frequent
pulse; disturbance of all the functions, without any
very decided primary local derangement of them.
There is no marked remission or entire cessation
of fever, although towards evening some sweating
often comes on.
SIMPLE FEVER.
Aconite, repeated a few times, will be all that this
form of fever will require.
INFLAMMATORY FEVER.
This fever comes on suddenly, the chill is severe,
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bounding, urine high colored, and deposites a red
sediment, the strength is very little impaired, the eyes
are red, tongue covered with a white fur, and the
bowels are costive.
Aconite and Bryonia, in succession, will soon remove all difficulties. If the skin is very hot and dry,
sponging with cold water will be soothing and salutary. At the same time cold water or even ice-water
must be freely allowed. If there should be local
complications they must be combatted by the remedies laid down under their appropriate heads.
TYPHUS FEVER.
This fever has been known by a variety of appellations, viz.: Nervous; Putrid; Jail; Hospital;
Camp; and Adynamic or weak fever.
A variety of grades may be observed from a gradual
prostration of strength, from slow fever and slight
alienation of mind, to a malignant and rapid sinking
of all the powers of life, with the entire surface covered with little spots of a bluish color, called petechia,
and the gums bleeding; teeth and lips black, pulse
intermittent, extremities cold, and clammy while the
head and trunk is hot, and the countenance bloated
and red. The patient is stupid (comatose) or wild
and delirious; and inclined to spring from bed.
Aconite, in the commencement of all the varieties, is the best remedy.
Belladonna. if there is much heat of the head and
the face is flushed, eyes red; and delirium.
Hyoscyamus if there is delirium and starting from
bed.
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and other symptoms of indigestion and occasional
diarrhoea.
Ipecacuanha. Nausea or vomiting, dry lips, &c.
Chamomilla, when it occurs with gripings in the
abdomen, or when indicated, Veratrum, Pulsatilla,
Nux Vomica, &c.
In the most malignant variety, when there is a
putrid tendency, give Phos. Acid. and Muriatic
Acid, and if the patient is dull, lies upon his back,
inclined to slide down in the bed, Opium alone or
in alternation with Muriatic Acid.
Rhus Toxicodendron, when there is jerking of the
tendons or limbs, (subsultus tendinem.)
Arsenicum, when the prostration is great and the
abdomen is bloated and a watery diarrhcea supervenes,
with alternate chills and heat and burning.
Stimulants must be administered, in small quantities and at short intervals when the skin becomes
cold and clammy, pulse intermits, and the respiration
is quick and oppressed. Brandy may be given freely,
even from an early stage of the more malignant form
of the disease. Wine whey or Carbonate of Ammonia, may also be given.
SHIP FEVER.
This fever is nothing more or less than " Typhus
petechialis" or Malignant typhus, changed undoubtedly by a train of circumstances which are easily
traced. The thousands and tens of thousands of
emigrants who are now flocking to this country to
escape starvation at home, embark half famished;
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half clad; and without changes of linen.  They
receive their scanty pittance of bread during a tedious
voyage, and in many instances land on our shores
with the accumulated filth of the entire passage.  It
is well known that while some vessels have arrived
with hundreds on board, all of whom were on the
sick list, other vessels, embarking at the same time,
and arriving simultaneously, were all in perfect health.
On inquiring into the cause it was ascertained, that
the captains of the latter vessels compelled every soul
on board, to undergo a complete washing once a day
before they would give them their rations: whilst the
former had scarcely applied water to the surface
during the entire voyage. This is cause sufficient,
in all conscience to account for the great prevalence
and mortality of the recent ship fever.
The premonition of ship fever is gradual, but sufficiently marked to be noticed by attentive observers.
In some instances, and those of the most malignant
forms, it is only a short period of time before the
most malignant symptoms set in. In most cases, the
progress from health to active symptoms is gradual
and occupies some days. The appetite has been
gradually failing for even weeks; there has been occasional alternation of chills and heat, with irregular
bowels; the tongue is coated, at first moist or occasionally dry in the centre; the patient is lethargic
at first, and gradually becomes stupid; from the
tottering, ihtoxicated gait and indifference or disinclination to society, he becomes insensible or delirious, and when addressed pays no attention until
spoken to in a commanding tone. The countenance
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the patient is undecided, and careless at first; he
hesitates to express himself, and stops short where a sentence or word is half uttered. A feeling of weariness in
the back, and if the patient is still walking about, he
stops, hesitates, and feels uncertain what to do. The
eyes look dull; pupils are dilated, and not as sensible to light as usual; the pulse is generally slow at
first, then rapid and irregular; the respiration, which
at first is slow with an occasional deep sigh, becomes
rapid, short and weak. He often complains of a
great load in the chest, or about the heart. As the
disease advances, and the delirium increases, he picks
the bed-clothes, and lies upon his back; with a tendency to slide towards the foot of the bed. When
the disease is very malignant, small ulcers or sores,
at first resembling flea-bites, are scattered over the
surface of the body; these become purple, and
spread into sloughing ulcers, called petechie.
When petechiae does not appear, the skin, particularly over the abdomen, becomes brownish and
mottled.
T r e a t men t. - Where the disease is light, and
evidently superinduced by scanty or improper food,
generous diet, rest, and if there is much prostration,
brandy and water will quickly restore the patient.
Carbonate of Ammonia, one grain, a powder the
size of a pea, every hour, will answer as a substitute
for the brandy, or may be alternated with it. If
there should be nausea, some diarrhoea, and great prostration, Veratrum, one drop in water every half
hour, will be necessary. If this should not relieve,
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REMITTENT FEVER.
This fever differs from the continued by having a
partial cessation or discontinuance of the fever. This
generally occurs during the forepart of the day. The
fever does not leave the patient entirely as it does in
intermittent; there are alternate chills and flushes,
but very little or no perspiration, while the bilious
symptoms are generally very prominent.
Nux Vomica, in addition to the remedies above
directed for the other forms of fever, will be necessary, in this fever, at the commencement, followed by
Antimony Tart., which is a very important remedy
where there is nausea; vomiting, diarrhcea, and other
symptoms, similar to cholera.
Veratrum, also, for the same purpose as the last,
and when headache and griping in the bowels attend.
Arsenicum, as soon as there is a distinct intermission of the fever, one or two doses must be given
during that period.
When this disease occurs in infants it is called
"Infantile remittent fever," and then, under the following complications, requires Protiodide of Mercury:
If the abdomen should be distended; tympanitic; or
have a hard and knotty feel; and the alvine evacuations should look green-blackish; tarlike; or mucous and bloody, and attended with straining and
frequent disposition to stool; also if there should be acough during exacerbation of fever, with rattling in
the chest, or any evidence of the development of
tubercles in the lungs.
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The same remedies also, as laid down for remittent
fever generally under the same circumstances, as the
same train of symptoms may occur at any age, from
infancy up to puberty.
YELLOW FEVER.
This fever is classed with remittents; although
its general characteristics are similar, it differs widely
in degree of severity. At one time it shows a very
mild aspect, at others the most alarming malignancy.
It travels through all the grades of fever, from the
simple continued to the lowest congestive typhus,
where there are no reactive energies, vomiting of a
dark coffee-ground substance, and the deep yellowness of the eyes and skin distinguishes this fever.
Antimony Tart. is the leading remedy in this disease, one grain in a tumbler half full of water: give
one teaspoonfull of this every ten to fifteen or thirty
minutes.
Veratrum, as in remittents.
Opium, if the patient is comatose.
Muriatic Acid, if there is great prostration.
Stinmlants. Brandy and Wine, if there is great
congestion, with no power of reaction.
INTERMITTENT FEVER.
This form of fever usually occurs in marshy districts or new lands, just exposed to the rays of the
sun after clearing them of trees, or turning up the
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C h a r a c t e r.  First, there is great coldness and
shivering, often until the teeth chatter, and the whole
body is convulsed with the shaking. After a period
of from a few minutes to several hours, the warmth
gradually returns, which rises much above the natural standard,, becoming finally very intense, and the
pulse is high; the head, limbs, back, and indeed
every muscle and joint in the body is racked with
acute pains. This stage usually lasts from two to
eight hours, and terminates in a most profuse and
drenching perspiration. After the sweating subsides,
feels as well as could be expected after such a siege,
gets up and walks about or returns to his usual employment even, as if nothing had happened. The
next two days after, or the third day after, he has to
go through another course of chill, fever, and sweating.  When the fever returns every twenty-four
hours, it is called a Quotidian, when it returns every forty-eight hours, a Tertian, when it returns
every seventy-two hours, a Quartan. These also
have their varieties and changes, but they are of little or no importance in a practical point of view.
In d i c a t i on.-The greatest importance is to
ascertain how long the intermission will contiupe from
the time the sweat subsides until the next chill appears. During this period the medicines given must
be of that class which will prevent the return of
the paroxysm. When the chill comes on, external
warmth must be applied, internal stimulants, cold
water, and medicines which will bring up a reaction
must be given. During the hot stage those medicines, which are known to reduce heat and bring
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first indication will be accomplished by giving the
medicine as soon as the sweating subsides, and repeating it every two or three hours, up to the commencement of the chill.
China, if the cause can be traced to marshy miasmata, and there is headache, nausea, palpitation, and
great hunger, with yellow complexion.
Chamomilla, if the patient has taken quinine or
barks in large doses before.
Arsenicum, if there is external burning heat with
shiverings, or alternate chills and heat with bloated
bowels, with dry brown cracked lips, and constipation
or watery diarrhoea.
Ignatia, if there is great thirst during the cold
stage, pain in the pit of the stomach and headache.
Ipecacuanha, if there is much nausea and vomiting, and other sufferings from indigestion.
Nux Vornica, if there is pain across the forehead,
eyeballs feel as if bruised when moving them, pain
in the right side, acid eructations, constipation, or diarrhoea of a pressing dysenteric character, gastric and
bilious affections.
Pulsatilla, if there have been many relapses, or
if thpatient has taken much bark or quinine, and
there is yellowness attended with gastric and bilious
affection.
Rhus Toxicodendron, if there is much jerking of
the tendons (subsultus tendum,) and great pain in
the limbs.
During the hot stage, Aconite, where the heat is
great, violent pain in the head, stitches in the side,
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bilious sufferings, or vomiting and diarrhoea comes on
and prostrates the patient very much.
Belladonna, when violent headache, with redness
of the face, and red and weeping eyes attend.
Bryonia,,if the tongue is thickly coated, and
aversion to food with nausea and vomiting of bile and
sweating supervene.
Natrum Muriaticum, Carbo Veget., Cina, Opium,
Veratrum, and Cofea may be resorted to under certain conditions, when the above fail, but the full indications would lengthen this article too much.
During the cold stage apply covering, bottles of
warm water, or warm bricks to the feet, and cold
water or ice water for drink. If the reaction is very
slow, and the shivering great, internal stimulants
must be given, until the hot stage comes on.]

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CHAPTER IX.
GENERAL AFFECTIONS.
1. Faintings.          3c. From a fall;
2. Coma, lethargy, or 3d. From drowning;
somnolency.   3e. From strangling, 4'c.
3. Suspended animation; 3f. From beingfrozen;
3a. At birth;          3g. From lightning;
3b. From starvation;   3h. From foul air.
FAINTING.
The first advice is, be not in a hurry. This produces confusion, and often injury. Let all tight garments be-loosened; let the patient lie horizontally;
let the crowd be dismissed; and let one or two persons, and those, if possible, known to the patient, be
in the room. Many persons have been seriously injured by discovering themselves, on recovery, unexpectedly, in the presence of numerous strangers.
Having loosened the garments, sprinkle with a
feather a little clear water lightly on the face, sprinkle some on the nape of the neck and the back of
the head, and, if not successful, then on the pit of
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in diseased states have followed fainting, from the
influence the fainting exerts on the constitution.
COMA, LETHARGY, SOMNOLENCY.*
Persons lose their consciousness, lie in a deep sleep,
snore, and cannot be awakened.
The eyes should be opened; if the pupils are very
small, or one very small, the other very large, bleeding must not be practised. But if the pupils are
large, or the one very large and the other as usual,
bleeding may be resorted to, if a skilful homceopathist, able to select a remedy suitable to the case is
not present.
If the pulse be full and slow, the face red or pale,
give opium to smell, and lay a few globules on the
tongue; and if relief is not obtained, inject a pint of
water, in which some globules have been dissolved:
if the pulse is very weak, give Lachesis likewise.
Tartar Emetic is useful, when a nausea or inclination to vomit has preceded the attack, or a choking
has appeared, then, when the patient is waking, give
some teaspoonsfull of a weak solution of tartar emetic,
one grain dissolved in half a glass of water; if requisite give an injection of the same.
* For the remarks on this Section and the succeeding Sections of
this Chapter, I am indebted to Dr. Hering; and to the statements
in reference to the recovery of drowned, strangled, and frozen persons, the attention of the benevolent is particularly directed.



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3. SUSPENDED ANIMATION.
Suspended animation, when produced suddenly,
should not be regarded as death. And therefore
all those, suffering from suspended animation, induced by the operation of some violent cause, should
not be regarded as dead, till means have been employed for restoration.
It may be useful to notice the circumstances under
which suspended animation presents itself.
3a. Suspended Animation at Birth.
New-born infants are sometimes apparently dead.
The mouth is to be cleansed with the finger, around
which some linen has been put, and the nose also
carefully cleaned. The infant is to be wrapped
round in warm clothes, and rubbed on the breast and
the hands with soft flannel. If the umbilical cord
does not soon begin to pulsate, it is then to be cut
asunder as usual, and the child put into a warm bath,
so as to cover the whole body, except the face, with
water. In this bath the breast and the limbs are
gently to be rubbed and moved about. Should no
sign of life appear after five or ten minutes, then take
as much emetic tartar as will lie on the end of a penknife, and put it in a large tumbler of water, and lay
a little drop of the solution on the infant's tongue.
Should no alteration take place in fifteen minutes,
repeat the drop. Again in fifteen minutes take a
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some teaspoonsfull of milk, and gradually more:
when the recovering person begins to express want,
give spoonsfull of sopped bread, afterwards of broth,
and after that some drops of wine. A sound sleep
ought then to occur: and for some days, he should
eat only a little at a time. Eating too quickly, or
too much, is often fatal.
3c. Suspended Animation from a FALL.
Convey the patient carefully on a bed, his head
raised, so that he can remain at ease, and put some
globules of Arnica in water on his tongue, and wait
till a medical examination of his body is made. If a
vein is opened, only a little blood should be drawn;
for whoever is brought to life in this way, would probably have otherwise recovered.
If the arnica fails, or if the bleeding does not appear proper, give the arnica in injections. If the
patient revive after the bleeding; then give China,
and, after it, Arnica, in order to hasten the cure.
If the patient, from the injuries, has lost much blood,
it is madness to bleed, but give China, a little wine,
a few drops, and, after all, Arnica.
3d. Suspended Animation from STRANGLING, THROTTLING, HANGING, STIFLING, through a WEIGHT or
PRESSURE.
Remove all tight clothes: place on a good bed, so
that the neck be quite free and not bent any way, as
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very gently but constantly, with warm cloths, giving
immediately an injection of opium, ten to twenty
globules dissolved in half a pint of water, well shaken,
and given at once, but injecting slowly. This is to
be repeated every quarter of an hour, while the limbs
are to be well rubbed up and down, especially on the
inside. From time to time a small mirror should be
held before the mouth and the nose, to see if breath
begins to escape, whether he opens his eyes, and
sees, or the pupils move at all. Lay warm cloths,
hot stones, wrapped in cloths, on the feet, between
the legs, on the back, the sides, and under the armpits. If no alteration appear in one or two hours,
take a bitter almond, pound it fine, and mix with a
pint of water, put some of it in the mouth, lay two
or three drops on the tongue, or in the nose, and
give the remainder in small injections. If the injection goes forward, then take a longer pipe and keep
to the anus: after withdrawing it, place the thumb
upon it for five to ten minutes, and see whether the
injection remains. In addition, a healthy person
may stroke with the palm of his right hand, keeping
the hand some inches from the body, very quickly,
from the top of the head to the toes: at each fresh
stroke turning himself about, and carrying the hand
in a wide circle again to the head.
3e. Suspended Animation from DROWNING.
Drowned persons are immediately to be undressed,
the mouth and the throat cleansed for half a minute
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forward, so that the water may run out; then put in
a warm bed, wrapped in warm clothes, or placed in
warm sand and ashes, covered therewith: if in summer, place the drowned person, in that season,
wrapped in a coverlet, in the warm sunshine, the face
turned against the sun; the head lightly covered.
Give the opium injection, and begin to rub the limbs
with warm cloths, and continue so for hours. The
passing of the hands down may be tried. k Bleeding
is madness. If no benefit is gained, lay on the tongue
several globules of Lachesis, and use them in an injection, and rub again for 'some hours.
3f. Suspended Animation from being FROZEN.
Persons frozen may, says Dr. Hering, even after
several days, be restored to life.. They must be
taken up and removed with the utmost care, as the
limbs may be broken: they must be brought into a
room not heated, or into a shed, but where there is
no draught of air. They are then to be covered
completely with snow, at least to the depth of the
hand, even over the face, leaving a space that the
nostrils and the mouth be free. They should be so
placed, that the melted snow may quickly run off,
and the snow melted must be replaced. If no snow
can be had, place in a cold bath, coldened by ice;
if the ice attaches to the body or the limbs, it must
be removed. The body is thus thawed, becoming
soft and pliant: then cover gradually and cut what
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soft parts with snow, and continue till redness is produced. This process should be gradually discontinued, undress, lay on a dry bed, and rub with cold
flannel, stockings, pieces of blanket, &c. If still no
signs of life appear, take a morsel of camphor, or
some spirit of camphor, shake it in some water, and
administer as an injection. Repeat this every fifteen
minutes. If during the rubbing or by the use of the
camphor, symptoms of life or recovery appear, give a
small injection of lukewarm black coffee, and as
soon as able to swallow, give some coffee, a teaspoonfull.
When the signs of life increase, let everything wet
be removed, rub every part till quite dry, but not
lukewarm. The sufferer must acquire warmth of
himself in bed and no other warmth should come
near.
"If we do not shun the labor, we can sometimes,
AFTER MANY HOURS, restore the apparently dead to
life.
Very often violent pains now arise. Give Carbo
Vegetabilis, and repeat as often as necessary. If it
fail to relieve, Arsenicum must be given. Should
stitching pains occur, or heat in the head, Aconite
will relieve.
3g. Suspended Animation from LIGHTNING.
Persons struck by lightning should be placed with
the face towards the sun, in pure fresh earth, and
covered with it, so as to be in a half-sitting and halflying posture, and nothing but the face exposed. As
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soon as the eyes move, the face should be shaded,
and several globules of Nux Vomica should be
placed on the tongue. Should no signs of life appear in half an hour, repeat the Nux Vomica: in
fifteen minutes after, put Nux Vomica in water, and
lay it on the nape of the neck: after another fifteen
minutes remove the soil from the lower part, and
give an injection of ten to twenty globules of Nux
Vomica, in half a pint of water. Put some cotton
wool in the anus, to prevent any evacuation; cover
every part again with earth, and let the person lie in this
position until he begins to breath, on which remove
the earth from the chest, and bring the person into a
clear sunny chamber.
For any complaint which may follow, Nux Vomica
and Sulphur are very efficient.
3h. Suspended Animation from FOUL AIR.
From various causes, such as gases disengaged
from deep cesspools, from limekilns, from charcoal
fires, persons have life suspended.
The sufferer should be brought immediately into
the fresh air, undressed, placed on his back, and the
breast elevated. Throw cold water on his face and
breast. If a solution of chloride of lime in water is at
hand, dip a sponge in, and hold it before the nose,
the solution to be weakened so as not to excite cough
in a sound person who happens to breathe it. Put a
teaspoonfull of the strong solution into a tumbler full
of water, and introduce half a teaspoonfull into the
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minutes, discontinuing gradually as the patient
improves.
If chloride of lime solution is not at hand, mix
some vinegar with an equal quantity of water, and
sprinkle the face with it: and hold a sponge, dipped
in vinegar, before the nose and the mouth.
During this time the patient should be rubbed
with hot flannel. If the face has been sprinkled,
wipe it dry after a little while: then rub it with hot
flannel, and repeat the sprinkling. The feet, the
stomach, the breast and arms particularly, ought to
be well rubbed. The soles of the feet, and the back
may be brushed a little with a stiff brush.
Be not too hasty, but proceed gently, and continue
patiently. Life sometimes will not return till after
three or four hours.
If the patient, apparently dead, does not breathe
at all, it is useless to hold a sponge before his nose;
only try from time to time, by holding a light feather
there, whether his breathing has recommenced.
Blow breath occasionally into his mouth, which is
best done by a person inhaling as much as he can,
and then placing his mouth on that of the apparently
dead (whose nose should be held shut), and blowing
in the breath gradually. If you perceive the breast
rising thereby, let the breath go out of itself, and repeat the operation. If the breath will not come out
again of itself, place a towel around the breast, and
after the breath has been blown in, pull it gently.
Thus by keeping up an artificial respiration, a person
apparently dead may often be restored again, but he
who undertakes the operation should himself be
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rinse his mouth occasionally, with vinegar. As soon
as the sufferer begins to breathe, or the exhalation of
the breath infused becomes more rapid, cease the
infusion, blow gently fresh air towards him, and only
when the breath becomes stronger, hold a sponge to
his mouth dipped in a very weak solution of chloride
of lime or vinegar. You ought to be very careful,
indeed, lest you extinguish the feeble life just returning. If the patient recovers, give him a few drops of
a weak solution of chloride of lime or vinegar. If he
complains of cold, inclination to go to stool, or nausea, and vinegar will not remove this feeling, or the
patient dislikes it, give him a little black coffee; if
he complains of heat and great weakness, give him
a little good, and, if possible, old wine. The smell
of camphor is also often beneficial. Consult in this
respect the wishes of the patient; whatever is most
agreeable to him, or affords him relief, deserves the
preference.
Another mephitic gas is developed in deep wells,
vaults, and lime furnaces, which is suffocating. It
has no.bad smell, but makes him who inhales it
sleepy, giddy, and at last senseless.
Persons affected by it will usually revive in a short
time, if they are speedily brought into the fresh air,
sprinkled with cold water, and with vinegar, and particularly by the infusion of black coffee. Do not act
with too much precipitation - delay is not dangerous
in such a case. If respiration does not return, it will
be necessary to blow in some breath.,
The vapor of charcoal is very dangerous, particularly to persons sleeping. Never sleep with lighted
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refers also to stonecoal. It.has also happened that
old wood work has been glimmering, and thus continued for days without smoke, and that the inhabitants of such a house, not minding the not very perceptible smell of something burning, were found on
the point of death, before the glimmering had even
been discovered. It is remarkable that persons,
exposed to this exhalation, become so feeble as to be
unable to go into the fresh air, to open doors and
windows, or to call for aid. They labor under the
greatest inconvenience, perceive their danger, yet
cannot resolve to remove from the spot, or save
themselves. A similar sensation seizes those who in
very cold weather sit down in the open air to rest
themselves; although they know the fate that hangs
over them, they cannot recover courage to resist it.
The signs of poisoning from the effect of coal-fire,
before apparent death prevails, are: - headache with
nausea, violent exertion to vomit, vomiting, even of
blood; a heavy load seems to oppress the breast; the
face becomes red, purple, and full of blood; the
patient is seized with an involuntary, convulsive
weeping, talks incoherently, falls down suddenly into
fits, becomes senseless and apoplectic.
Carry him into the fresh air, rub him with vinegar,
and let him inhale it. If the face is already purple,
and he talks incoherently, throw ice-cold water over
his head. In general, it is well to apply cold to the
head, warmth to the feet.  After the patient has
recovered, it will be well to give him Opium, removing the vinegar.- Should Opium help, but not long,
repeat it. After some hours, or sooner, Opium, and
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operate.  In case of,apoplexy only it will be useful
to bleed first.
The dry rot in old buildings has a similar yet
slower effect, than that from coal-fire upon the inhabitants. Such buildings ought to be pulled down;
however, if people have to live in them, endeavor to
kill the dry rot by stone-coal fire. Apply this, as
much as possible, above, below, and about the spot
where the dry rot breaks out. Brush the spot itself
with a strong solution of blue vitriol or sulphate of
copper. To guard against the effects of the dry rot,
put a few drops of sulphuric acid into a gallon of rain,water, and take occasionally a drink of it.
To obviate the bad consequences of exhalations
from chloride of lime, to which people are sometimes
exposed, smoke tobacco; or drop some strong brandy,
rum, or spirits of wine on a piece of loaf sugar, and
put it into your mouth.
In accidents from inhaling poisonous vapors, such
as prussic acid, or mineral acids, take spirits of
hartshorn, or spirits of sal amoniac, which will afford
relief; but do by no means apply the vial containing such spirits to the nose, you would only increase the evil thereby -pass the open vial at the
distance of about six or eight inches slowly before the
sufferer, so as to communicate the smell feebly to
him; continue this as often as may be necessary.
Or, put a drop on a bit of paper, insert this into an
empty bottle, and let him sometimes smell at the
bottle. But if the vapors were from alkali, this
would avail nothing; in that case let him inhale the
smell of vinegar. Whether the vapors are from acid
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make it turn red, alkali will make that which is
stained red from acids blue again. In cases of poisoning from acid vapors, you may put one drop of
spirits of sal ammoniac into a tumbler full of water,
and give of this mixture a teaspoonfull every ten
minutes; in poisoning from vapors of alkali, give
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PART II.
CHAPTER I.
THE CONDUCT DURING THE STATE OF
PREGNANCY
A PREGNANT woman occupies a position of the
highest interest. She bears about'with her a living
being, whose future physical, and, it may be added,
intellectual, moral, and animal condition is dependent,
in a great measure, upon the conduct and the state
of mind, which she pursues and cultivates during the
period of pregnancy.
The mental and moral influence of the pregnant
female on her offspring, is a subject too wide to come
within the limits of this work. The physical influence may be noticed.
To enable a mother to realize for her child that
excellence of constitution, a child has a right to expect to receive from its parent, she must pay attention during her pregnancy to her DIET, her EXERCISE,
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pains, from which many women in confinement suffer
so much, depend upon the inability of the womb,
unaided by the abdominal muscles, (these having
been weakened by the want of healthy action, from
the impediments of tight lacing,) to expel the child.
Stays, tight stays or tight abdominal supporters,
produce worse effects than this. They often occasion the child to occupy a position in the womb, not
according to its natural position, and thereby, if not
occasioning deformity, which often is the case, causes
trouble and oftentimes danger in the birth.  Dr.
Eberle remarks, " the custom of wearing tightlylaced corsets during gestation, cannot beptoo severely
censured. It must be evident to the plainest understanding, that serious injury to the health of both
mother and child, must often result from a continual
and forcible compression of the abdomen, whilst
nature is at work in gradually enlarging it, for the
accommodation hnd the development of the foetus.
By this unnatural practice, the circulation of the
blood throughout the abdomen is impeded, - a circumstance which, together with the mechanical compression of the abdominal organs, is peculiarly calculated to give rise to functional disorder of the stomach
and liver, as well as to hemorrhoids, uterine hemorrhage, and abortion. The regular nourishment of
the foetus, also, is generally impeded in this way - a
fact, which is frequently verified in the remarkable
delicate and emaciated condition of infants, born of
mothers who have practised this fashionable folly
during gestation. It may be observed, that since the
custom of wearing tightly-laced corsets has become
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are much more frequent than they were sixteen or
eighteen years ago."
To these valuable remarks may be appended the
following statements of Dr. Andrew Combe: "The
Romans were so well aware of the mischief caused
by compression of the waist during gestation, that
they enacted a positive law against it; and Lycurgus,
with the same view, is said to have ordained a law
compelling pregnant women to wear very wide and
loose clothing."
To conclude: the female should remember that
child-bearing is a process of health. The formation
of a child in the womb, when the exciting cause has
been applied, is as natural and as healthy an action
as the formation of chyme by the stomach when the
food has been introduced into it; and therefore, this
condition should not be regarded with a feeling of
anxiety, but rather should be looked upon as a means
of developing health; and that this is the case is
rendered evident by the fact, that a female, who has
brought a child into the world, presents a few days
after, in her countenance, a peculiar freshness and
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know no medicines, nervous, forgetting that a nervous affection'is a complaint, is a disease, and being a
deviation from the natural order, called health, consequently admits of cure.
Homoeopathy presents remedies, one in particular,
for this morning sickness. I have tried the one referred to, namely, Nux Vomica, in numerous cases
with success.
Three globules are to be dissolved in eight spoonsfull of water; and let the patient take two spoonsfull
at eight P. M., for two successive evenings, and then
every other evening. (Nux Vomica, given to a person in health produces morning sickness, nausea,
vomiting, and heartburn. Hence its efficacy.)
If, with the morning sickness, there is relaxation
of the bowels, Ipecacuanha, dissolved, and taken as
the Nux Vomica, will be successful.
No. 2. CONTINUANCE OF MENSTRUATION.
The discharge of the menstrual fluid is the
healthy action of the womb in the non-pregnant
state.*
The pregnant state is a new action. It suspends
the previously existing action, namely, that connected
with the formation of the menstrual fluid. If, therefore, this fluid continues to be formed, such continuance is a deviation from health, and must tend to
prevent the proper concentration of the powers of
* See Affections of Woman. The Monthly Period. By John
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life to the formation of the new being. Under such
circumstances the physician's aid should be sought,
and that early, as thus he will be able to devise
means by which miscarriage, often connected with
this continuance of the menstrual discharge, will, it
is likely, be prevented.
No. 3. CONSTIPATION.
In many pregnant females the bowels do not act
except with difficulty. If any inconveniences result
from this impeded action, Nux Vomica, Bryonia, and
Opium, are the principal remedies; and, in reference to their use, full particulars can be found in the
article on constipation.
No. 4. TOOTHACHE.
It is a curious fact that pregnant females are often
subject to toothache. Whether or not this arises
from the increased action in the system, dependent
upon the pregnant state, developing latent tendencies, would form an interesting inquiry; but the fact
is so, and the remedies for toothache, detailed under
that head, will be useful.
Olfaction or smelling of the selected medicines, is
quite enough in such cases; indeed, the internal use
of the medicines is sometimes too powerful; both
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lection of the appropriate remedy will be rendered
easy by reference to Toothache, (pp. 121, 122.)
Another affection, dependent in part on the impediment to the return of the blood to the heart, but, in
a greater degree, upon a diseased state of the constitution, appears, and occasions, sometimes, considerable trouble during pregnancy. It is an enlargement of the veins of the leg, assuming a corded appearance, and often attended with considerable pain.
This affection is named
VARICOSE,
and the vessels are named
No. 5. VARICOSE VEINS.
The veins on the surface of the body, particularly
of the legs and of the feet, become enlarged, sometimes reddish, more frequently blue or lead colored.
The enlargement increases in standing or hanging
down the limbs, and is relieved by lying: they
sometimes burst, and occasion a considerable loss of
blood.
Pulsatilla and Arnica are very useful: alternating them week by week.
Gentle friction, before going to bed at night, is
very useful: the use of the bandage well applied,
that is, applied so as to press equally on every part,
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The medicines that I have used with most success
are Sabina and Belladonna. Where, however, such
a hemorrhagic tendency exists, the advice of the
physician should, and no doubt will, be sought in the
selection of the appropriate remedy or remedies.
One thing should however be attended to, it is
total abstinence from all warm drinks. Milk is the
best drink, and that should be cooled.
The common remedies and the usual medical
treatment when hemorrhage does take place, often do
more harm than good. The dashing of cold water
has often produced inflammation and other serious
diseases; the injection of alum has frequently been
the originating cause of indurations; and the practice of stuffing cloths up the passage only conceals
the bleeding, but does not stop it.
The first thing is, that the sufferer should lie quite
-quiet, moving herself as little as possible, trying to
compose her mind by reflecting that blood is lost
-from the nose in large quantities, and that still larger
quantities are often taken by the allopathist's lancet.
The utmost stillness should be preserved, both in the
room and in the house: and the attendants should
cultivate the habit of self-command. Medical men
are obliged to appear cheerful when they are often
sad at beholding the condition of a patient; others
should try and imitate them.
With every violent hemorrhage Dr. Hering advises,
"the thighs may be firmly bound with a cloth, a
silken one being preferable: also the upper part
of the arms. A little cold water should be swallowed, and should paleness and fainting appear, some
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will be found very serviceable. Smelling vinegar,
rubbing the nose, the temples and other parts with
vinegar, is in many cases, very good, only the patient, as is often done, should not be inundated with
it; the utmost that need be, is a teaspoonful brought
in the'hand, or the finger may be dipped, so that the
smell of the vinegar may afterwards be easily removed," as such smell might interfere with the operation of a remedy that the physician may prescribe.
Other remedies may be seen under the heads of
Epistaxis and Haemoptysis.
Purgative medicines is one frequent cause of miscarriage; in fact, it is had recourse to for that effect.
No homceopathist uses such medicines; and the fact,
that miscarriage is often induced by such medicines,
shows strongly the value of homceopathy, which
affords remedies that regulate the bowels without
purging them. The following table will direct as to
the choice of the medicine in cases of hemorrhagic
discharge from the womb. Aconite is always useful
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Belladonna.  Bryonia.   Chamomilla.   Crocus.  c Hyoscyamus. Ipecacuanha.
1. Blood,   1. Blood    1. Blood    1. Blood. Blood
bright red.  dark red. dark colored   black,      bright red,
and coagu-    clotted,  E but flowing
lated, dis-  tough.    C most during
charged at             8 the spasms.
intervals.
2. Down-                2. Labor-  2. Cutting  g  2. Pains   2. Cuttin
ward press-            pains in the pains in the q like those of pains about
ure of inter-           lower part lower part   7 child-birth.  the navel.
nal genital            of abdomen, of abdomen, -
organs, as if            attending   extending  a
they were                 each
about to               discharge.
descend.
3. Violent  3. Severe              3. towards.             3. Pressure
pains in the  pressing              the sacrum. -               towards
lowest part pains in the                                      womb and
of backbone   sacrum..                                    anus.
or esacrum.
4. Pain in                        CD
head,
especially                         0
the temples.
5. Much t
thirst.
6. Coldness             2 6. General 6. Chill and
of the               9     heat.    coldness of
extremities.            C              body with
7.. Discharge internal heat
accompanied   rising to
2 by spasms of   head.
the whole
body, or sino gle limbs
e followed by
8. stiffness
of the joints.
9. Hard, full,                                    9 Pulseslow,
and frequent                                       weak, and
pulse,                                         intermittent.
9a. Swelling
of the veins.
10.Agitation.                                      10. Great
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CHAPTER III.
ON CHILD-BIRTH AND ITS SEQUELS.
SECTION 1.
THE BIRTH OF THE CHILD.
PAINS, in badly CIVILIZED society, that is, society
that has, in many most important respects, founded
its civilization on bases, quite opposed to nature's
precepts, attend the bringing a child into the world.
These pains are sometimes severe, and are felt with
strong intensity by women of peculiarly sensitive
constitutions; particularly at the birth of the first
child, and more particularly when the parent has her
first child at an advanced age.
To relieve the pains connected with labor, I have
found, in numerous cases during the last two years,
the following extremely useful; in fact, a written
copy of these directions, with the appropriate medicines, have been presented to many patients, who
have passed through their confinement, since they
have embraced homoeopathy, using no means but
homceopathic.
Should the labor-pains be inefectual, but intense,
take three globules of COFFAEA.
Should this fail in affording relief, or if affording
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of two hours, may take two globules of ACONITE, or
else two globules of Nux VoMICA: the choice between the two being, that if there is a constant urging
to stool, Nux Vomica is to be preferred.
Should the labor-pains be absent or weak, or at
long intervals, and the expulsive attempts inefectual,
then two globules of PULSATILLA can be taken.
Sometimes Pulsatilla is ineffectual, and the laborpains occur every quarter of an hour, and there are
very severe pains in the hips and at the thighs, then
two globules of SECALE can be given with benefit.
In some cases the labor-pains suddenly cease, and
tremor, stupefying sleep, with snoring occur, the eyes
1talf closed, and great difficulty exists in arousing the
patient, then two globules of OPIUM can be given
with advantage.
Dr. Hering, of America, whose works corroborate
the beneficial use of the above remedies, remarks,
that, when the pains suddenly disappear, and are
unattended with the above symptoms, two drops of
the mother tincture of cinnamon are very effectual.
[Tincture Secale, has been one of the most effectual remedies, for restoring the pains when they have
ceased, or strengthening them  when they were
ineffectual, in my practice, particularly when the patient complains of dizziness, and is rather confused,
or threatened with delirium. One or two drops every
five or ten minutes of the tincture in a spoonfull of
water. This is the most effectual remedy to control
flooding after delivery, when the womb does not
readily return to its natural condition. -Ed.]
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means, will be aided in its discharge by pulsatilla, or
secale, or some one of the remedies already detailed,
selecting according to the symptoms.
During the process of child-birth, all stimuli are
to be avoided.
SECTION 2.
DIRECTIONS AFTER DELIVERY.
To all homceopathists, ARNICA is known as a specific against bruises of soft parts. The process of
forcing the child through the passage from  the
womb to the air may be regarded as a process, in
which the soft parts are bruised; although here it is
worthy of remark, the Creator has so appropriately
constructed the parts, that form the walls of the genital apparatus in women, that these parts are capable
of dilatability, so that they expand during delivery,
and thereby give room by diminishing their mass
by diffusing that mass over a wide surface.
But still the process is a slightly bruising process.
This idea led me to use arnica; and the benefits resulting from its use are so great, that I know no
remedy so serviceable, and no use of a remedy more
delightful than this of arnica. I could give many
cases illustrative.
The arnica can be used both internally and externally: internally, two globules in a wine-glass of
water: externally, by means of a lotion, formed of
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The use of arnica is the most effectual preventive
of what, to many women, is more distressing than
the labor itself, namely, the
AFTER PAINS.
These after-pains are caused, in most cases, by
the medicines and the stimuli given during delivery,
by the too great officiousness of the medical attendant, and often by the too hasty removal of the afterbirth.
The use of arnica will, in general, prevent them:
and the medicines detailed, as suitable for pains before delivery will be useful.
SECTION 3.
DIET, &C. AFTER DELIVERY.
The patient should be kept quiet. No opiates
should be given to induce sleep. Slumber comes
"of nature's wont."  Should, however, there be
great nervous excitement, three globules of Coffmea
will subdue the restlessness and turning about in
bed: but, if, with these symptoms, there is fever, or
if coffaea does not relieve, or if feverish heat is the
prominent feature, then two globules of aconite,
every six or eight hours, can be given.
The mother should remain in bed from five to ten
days; after that she may rise daily, each day lengthening the period during which she sits up; keeping
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CHAPTER IV.
-4--
DISEASED      STATES    AFTER     DELIVERY.
CONSTIPATION, NO. 1.
Do not be troubled about the bowels not acting.
Nature is busy restoring the natural condition of the
womb and the genital organs: all her powers are
occupied in that direction and therefore she leaves
the intestines. When she has effected her purposes,
the intestines will act of themselves.
Remember this - that ACUTE diseases, injlammation of the bowels, puerperal fever, and the CHRONIC
diseases, the bearing down of the womb, the inability
of retaining water, which so much trouble women
who have borne children, are, in most cases, the
consequences of the purging system.
About the fifth or sixth day after confinement the
bowels rgenerally act.  If more than a week occur
without an action, take two globules of BRYONIA;
and, if no action take place in twelve hours, take
another globule of bryonia; and, if in twelve hours
after that there is no action, use a lavement of about
three quarters of a pint of warm water, if friction
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[A teaspoonfull of castor oil, in the juice of a
sweet orange may be administered after the fourth
day, if there should be any more feverish symptoms
than usually attend the appearance of milk in the
breast.  Any medicine which operates as a physic
previous or during this period is detrimental, but this
preparation of castor oil will move the bowels without
any cathartic action. - Ed.]
DIARRH EA OF LYING-IN-WOMEN.
If it be not desirable that the bowels should be
purged by medicine during the first few days after
confinement, it is quite apparent, that a looseness of
bowels, a DIARRH(EA, must be decidedly injurious,
and requires remedial treatment.
The symptoms recorded in connection with the
remedies for diarrhoea, will indicate the medicine to be chosen to subdue this state; but, generally speaking, Dulcamara is the best remedy; as
the diarrhoea, affecting lying-in-women, is peculiarly
likely to originate in a check to the natural perspiration, for which, i. e. thus produced, diarrhoea, Dulcamara is the specific.
Hyoscyamus seems to be particularly useful when
the diarrhoea is without pain, and when the evacuations are involuntary or almost so.
When much debility is induced by the continuance of the diarrhoea, when there is much perspiration with the diarrhoea, Phosphorus will be useful, or
Phosphori acidum, but under such circumstances,
medical aid ought to and will, it is likely, be sought.
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chills with flushes of heat, and great debility, with
watery evacuations and little pain.
Secale Cornutum, if there is pressing pain with the
evacuations. - Ed.]
THE LOCHIAL DISCHARGE.
/
A discharge takes place after delivery, continuing
for some days. This discharge is called the Lochia,
or the Lochial Discharge.
When it continues abundant beyond nine or ten
days, medical aid is required.
Crocus is the principal remedy. The characteristics indicating its use, will be seen in article
Epistaxis, and in article Hcemorrhage from  the
Womb, p. 196.
Bryonia will be useful when the discharge is of a
deep red, attended with burning pains in the uterine
region, but with chilliness in other parts.
Calcarea in indicated where there is itching in the
womb.
Belladonna is indicated when the discharge is
nauseous and offensive.
Sometimes pure blood flows each time that the child
is put to the breast; then Silicea is the remedy.
If the lochia should be suddenly suppressed, puerperal fever may be produced. Pulsatilla is the best
remedy under such suppression.
SORE NIPPLES.
To prevent the sore nipples, the best plan is, a few
weeks before confinement to wash the nipples with
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distillation of grain: to continue this after the confinement, adding five or six globules of arnica to the
water used to wash with.
If, notwithstanding these means, the nipples should
become sore, give sulphur for two days, and wash the
nipples with cold water, having five or six globules
of the sulphur dissolved therein. If after two or
three days there is no change for the better, use calcarea dissolved therein. If still the soreness is not
much improved, use alternately for three days the sulphur and the calcarea.
INFLAMMATION OF THE BREAST.
Fright, cold, sudden weaning and numerous other
causes, may induce this disease.
The milk coagulates in the milk vessels, swelling
takes place: the skin becomes tense, and inflammation, approaching to erysipelas, takes place; this, if
not stayed, proceeds to suppuration, cold sweats
break out over the body, the head becomes affected,
and, after almost intolerable agony, the matter discharges externally.
Belladonna, if administered when the erysipelatous appearance, and the swelling first appear, will
often stop the progress.
When the breast is hard and swollen and the milk
suppressed, then Bryonia can be used.
[Aconite at first, where the heat and throbbing is
very great.
Mercury, if there is evidence of the formation of
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In conjunction with these affections of the breast
there is a disease, called
MILK FEVER.
This fever is developed, when, from any cause, the
free formation of milk is interfered with.
The treatment depends greatly upon the exciting
cause.
If a blow, or a severe and protracted labor, be the
cause, then Arnica, internally administered and externally applied, is the best remedy; premising that,
should decided inflammatory symptoms present themselves, Aconite must be previously used.
When rheumatic pains exist in the breast, then
Bryonia, after aconite, if the fever be strong; without aconite, if the fever be slight.
When erysipelas threatens, then Belladonna:
When joy is the exciting cause, Cofea:
When passion is the exciting cause, and the fever
is high, Chamomilla, preceded by Aconite:
When fright has been the cause, Opium:
When fright and passion have been combined,
then Aconite:
When a chill, suppressing an existing perspiration,
has been the cause, Dulcamara:
When silent grief, then Ignatia:
When milk fever is attended with symptoms, indicating affection of head, chest, or abdomen, there is
reason to suspect puerperal fever, in which not a
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hardness still remains, Mercurius Solubilis can be
given with effect.
I have succeeded in several instances in preventing
abscesses in the breast by the means narrated.
When, however, suppuration, it is evident, must
take place, then aconite and hepar sulphuris, as directed in the Introduction, will be of the greatest service in bringing about a satisfactory termination of the
disease.
When suppuration has established itself before
homceopathic remedies are used, and there are illlooking sores, discharging a fetid discharge, Silicea
will cure in a short time, using sometimes Phosphorus alternately. I have succeeded, in cases where
fatal results were expected, by these homceopathic
means, in so completely restoring a healthy condition,
that the mothers, at their next confinement, have
experienced no inconvenience in the breasts previously affected.
If the inflammation has arisen from a blow, arnica
is, as might be inferred, a most efficient remedy.
MODIFICATIONS OF THE SECRETION OF MILK.
The action having ceased in the womb, an action
takes place in the breast. A fluid, fitted for the nourishment of the young being is formed, and upon its
continuance and proper condition, much of the comfort of the mother depends.
Sometimes, however, the milk is suppressed, and
a dangerous fever, called PUERPERAL, is produced.
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CHAPTER V.
TREATMENT OF THE INFANT AFTER
BIRTH.
BEFORE birth the child, lodged in the mother's
womb, was surrounded with a temperature equal to
that of the mother's body, namely, 960 to 98~ Fahrenheit. To expose it, when born, to a temperature
much lower, must be injurious: it should therefore
be enveloped in a soft flannel, heated to a temperature, similar to that in which it was previously. The
tenacious mucus, with which it is enveloped, should
be removed by a sponge and warm water, heated to
the temperature referred to. The Germans use " an
oval-shaped, shallow wooden bath, with a raised portion at one end for the head, the bath containing a
quantity of water just sufficient to cover or float the
child." After being immersed three or four minutes,
the sponge will remove easily all the mucus, no soap
or oil being needed.
In drying the child, the advice given in the work,
entitled "A Grandmother's Advice to Young Mothers," is excellent. It is, as the child from its weakness cannot be held in an erect posture, to have a
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ered over with two or three large soft napkins, on
which to lay and dry the child immediately on its being taken out of the water.
When dried, if the skin is ruffled, it should be
dusted with flour; but not if there is no ruffling.
After being dried, a flannel bandage, of five or six
inches in breadth, and of a length sufficient to go
round the body twice, is to be applied, but not to be
applied tight.
The child is then wrapped up in a flannel shawl
or blanket; or, if not exhibiting signs of fatigue, is
dressed. If exhibiting these signs, then the child is
allowed to sleep before being dressed.
The dress itself ought to be light, soft, warm, and
loose, and not long: the use of very long petticoats often
has induced deformity; moderate-lengthened clothes
keep the lower extremities warm. The clothes, as
Dr. Eberle suggests, should cover the neck, the
shoulders and the arms: for why should the legs be
kept warm, and the arms exposed to the cold? The
custom of exposing these parts, Dr. Eberle rightly
judges, is " one of the principal reasons why inflammatory affections of the respiratory organs are so
much more common during the period of childhood
than at a more advanced age." Of 379 fatal cases
of inflammation of the lungs, which occurred in the
British metropolis, 228 were children under three
years of age. (Registrar's Report, p. 74.)
Warm nightcaps are to be avoided; indeed all
caps, except when going into the air.
The child, as a general rule, should be washed
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Many persons think it necessary to give the infant
immediately after birth, laxatives, to expel the meconium. The milk of the mother is the best agent
to effect this. The child is put to the breast about
six to eight hours after its birth: the milk then is
very dilute, and produces the desired effect. If not,
a little sugar and water will produce the effect: if
not, a lavement of a quarter of a pint of warm
water can be used.
Should these means not succeed, then the means
for constipation can be used by the mother.
As absurd as giving the child physic directly it is
born, is that of giving the child food. It has just
come from a rich depository of nutriment: it needs
to wait a few hours, not exceeding twelve.
In regard to the diet of the infant, the fact that
the milk comes when the child is born, points out
that the mother's milk -is the proper nutriment of the
child, unless constitutional taint affects the parent.
If the child is suckled by a nurse, a nurse whose
child is of the same age as that of the one to be fostered, is to be selected: and this for-the reason that
the milk varies in strength according to the period
after birth: becoming more concentrated each month,
so that the milk of a woman, whose child is six
months old, is not suited to a child who is only a
month old.
If the mother cannot supply the proper amount of
nourishment, then cow's milk can be used, diluting
it to a degree in which its strength will be on a par
with that of the mother's milk; and as the mother's
milk is warm, it should be made lukewarm.
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from the breast, the sucking-bottle should be used;
because the exercise of the lungs in sucking is an
excellent means of developing the lungs, and thereby
promoting the child's health.            ~
A small quantity should be put each time into the
bottle: what is left, milk being so apt to turn sour,
should always be thrown away, and the false nipple
should be washed.
The child should be held in a reclining posture,
just like as if at the mother's breast: the practice
of placing infants fiat to feed them endangers them,
by rendering suffocation likely.
About the fifth month the diet can be changed:
arrowroot, sago, biscuit powder, and the other usual
articles, can be given in small quantities daily, milk
still being the principal food.
The infant's stomach rapidly converts the milk into
chyme: once every three hours it may suckle; as its
age advances lengthening the intervals. Regularity
ofttimes is as important to the infant as to the adult.
Many children's tempers have been spoiled as well
as their health injured, by not attending to this.
One point more is worthy of notice. THE CREATOR HAS GIVEN THE FEMALE TWO BREASTS. For
what? That she should use them; and, by so doing,
prevent disease in herself and deformity in her child:
for children, being suckled at one breast, often become deformed on that side: the same reason explains the cause of the impropriety of always carrying the child on one arm. The mother becomes deformed also: a young person was lately under my
care, in consequence of a double curvature of the
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The vaccination, when properly performed, is a
protection against smallpox as effectual as smallpox
itself. Persons have had smallpox a second time;
and some have died of the second attack.
At the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution, the board of managers have, for the last five
years, given to each child, after vaccination, a powder of sulphur, as a preventive against eruptions;
and when children are brought for vaccination, having at the time eruptions, a powder is given' to be
taken before the operation is performed; and the
benefits resulting in reference to long-standing cutaneous affections, from the use of this sulphur powder,
have been evidenced in numerous cases.
This plan, from the experience of the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution, where, as Medical Director, I have vaccinated nearly eighty thousand children, I can recommend as worthy of adoption by parents towards their children after vaccination.
TEETHING, OR DENTITION.
About the sixth month the teeth begin to appear.
This development of the teeth, being a natural process, ought to be unattended with pain. Oftentimes
it is attended with severe affections: a circumstance,
dependent generally on the improper diet of the
mother, or on the mismanagement of the child.
The teething seems to direct the life power to the
head, and hence, during teething, affections of the
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The use of a crust of bread is an excellent means
for diminishing the irritation; but what is still better, and what the child always endeavors to get, is a
finger to rub the gums with.
Lancing the gums, except in very sickly children,
is a bad plan, and never should be performed except
when the remedies, hereafter to be noticed, have been
used without success. If lancing is performed, the
incision should be only a nick, not on the edge but
on the side of the gum.
If the premonitory symptoms of teething continue
too long, and the teeth do not seem to progress, I have
found the alternate use of Calcarea and Belladonna
highly serviceable. I have succeeded in several cases
in families, where the previous children had cut their
teeth with fits, in preventing the children, born after
the families came under my homoeopathic care, having any fits with their teething, by the use of these
remedies.
The principal remedies in addition are Aconite,
Cofcea, and Chamomilla. When the symptoms, (see
Introduction) attend the teething, then Aconite will
be useful.
When the child is uneasy, will not sleep, starts, at
one time too peevish, at another too cheerful, is difficult to soothe, Coffiaa will be useful.
Give Coffmia generally first: if relief is not obtained
and there is fever, give Aconite: and, after it, Chamomilla.
Chamomilla is particularly indicated if the child,
in addition to the symptoms described as suited to
Coffmea, has a dry whooping kind of cough, throws
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Children, from the great excitability of their frames,
(an excitability dependent upon the great size of the
brain and the great preponderance of the nervous
system,) are peculiarly liable to be acted upon, so
to have induced in them these convulsive attacks.
This infantile nervous excitability is particularly
great at the time of teething, and hence at that time
more particularly these attacks present themselves.
The first thing to be attended to, is that the attendant be calm. Generally speaking there is not
much danger, unless the attack continues very long,
or unless attack succeeds attack, and each succeeding attack becomes more severe.
[Nothing shows the importance of close observation, with a view of ascertaining and removing the
cause, than the management of the disease. If it
be teething, the first thing to be done is to scarify
the gums freely. This may be done with a sharp
penknife, and all fear of future convulsions will often
cease. One dose of Chamomilla will aid in preventing its return.
If the stomach is overloaded with improper food,
unripe fruit, &c., of course wisdom at once dictates
its removal in the most speedy manner and with as
little suffering to the little patient as possible. This
will often be accomplished by spontaneous vomiting
as soon as the first convulsion ceases, particularly if
the throat be gently excited by a feather dipped in
sweet oil. If vomiting does not come on, however,
by these means, it must be excited, and the stomach
emptied, or another convulsion will quickly follow,
more terrific than the first, which, at every repetition,
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Thus a disease which has its origin in irritation or
surfeit of the stomach, and only produces diseased
action of the functions of the brain by sympathy,
becomes an absolute disease of the structure of the
brain, and a tedious illness, if not death, is the result.  Therefore, the means which are always at
hand should be immediately resorted to. If the child
can be induced to drink freely of warm water, either
with or without a little molasses, it will often bring
about vomiting, if aided by the oiled feather, as
above. If these means should not answer, Ipecacuanha julap, which is made by mixing about as much
of the pulv. Ipecac. as will lay upon a twenty-five
cent piece into a paste with a spoonful of molasses,
and to this add one wineglass full of warm water;
one teaspoonful of this must be given every five minutes until vomiting comes on. If you have reason
to believe that the food has passed into the bowels,
an injection will be the most appropriate remedy.
In the mean time, or as soon as this mechanical cause
is removed, the appropriate remedies for restoring the
disturbed vital action to its healthy condition must
be resorted to, as directed in the text. One more
precaution may be worthy of attention. Nurses or
parents are very apt to keep a child upright after they
have had a convulsion, or while their feet are in the
water; this is liable to bring on faintness, and consequently convulsions. From this cause, therefore,
the patient should be allowed to repose in a horizontal position, and perfect quiet observed; at the
same time some nourishment or stimulants may be
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my observation, when this condition was present,
viz., cold perspiration upon the forehead, and cold
limbs, with retching and alternate crying or screaming. One drop of the tincture in a wineglass of
water, and one teaspoonful of this should be given
every half hour until relief is obtained. This last
remedy may also be given for heat in the head, with
great restlessness, which symptoms are the common
precursors of convulsions.- Ed.]
If homoeopathic remedies are not at hand, the old
practice of immersing the feet and legs in hot water,
taking care to wipe them perfectly dry afterwards,
and to wrap them up warm, can be adopted: and, to
this can be added, if relief is not obtained, the pouring of cold water on the top of the head, and the
smelling of Camphor: this last often relieves the
violence of the fits.
But the best plan is to use homceopathic remedies,
many of which have a specific power over convulsions.
Among these Belladonna, Chamomilla, Cina, Cicuta, Viroso, Ignatia, Mercurius, stand preiminent.
Chamomilla is, generally speaking, the most suitable.
Cina and Cicuta are particularly useful where
worms are present: cina being particularly indicated
when the little sufferer habitually zoets the bed. Stiffness of the limbs and of the whole frame is another
characteristic.
In the more violent attacks, the medicine may be
given during the attacks; but, more generally, after
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Nux Vomica and Pulsatilla will be useful in cases
where derangements of the digestive organs are the
exciting cause.
Where convulsions occur from          fright, Opium     is
the remedy: especially when there are great vacancy
of expression and great difficulty of breathing.
Belladonna.   Chamomilla      Ignatia..1lercurius.
1. Body or limbs 1. Convulsed in 1. Trembling of
Srigid.      arms and legs. the whole frame,
with crying and
shrieks.
2. Clenching of  2. Thumbs    2. Muscles of  2. Limbs conhands, attended  clenched,     single limbs    vulsed.
with burnine in                convulsed.

forehead and
hands.
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5. Stares about
wildly.
6. Pupils much
dilated.
10. Starts suddenly when
asleep.

3. Twitches of
eyelids.
4. Twitches of
muscles of the
face. ~
5. Eyes half
closed.
5. Rolling of the
eyeballs.
7. Thirsty.
B. Appears without consciousness.
9. Rolls head on
pillow from side
to side.
10. Restlessness,
uneasiness.

10 When asleep,
suddenly flushed
with burning
heat, awakes
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start,



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Belladonna.

Chamomilla.
11. Moans.
12. Disposition to
drowriness when
awake.
13. One cheek
flushed, the
other pale.

Ignatia.
11. Loud cries,

JMercurius.

14. Involuntary
passing the water
on recovery.
15. Excessively
sensitive to
touch, so that a
slight touch will
often renew the
attack.
16. When the
attacks are preceded by smiles
and laughter.

16. Followed by 16. With a great
feverand perspi- weakness after
ration.         the fits.

17. Peevishness.
18. Fretfulness.

17. Peevish, with
alternations of
joy and sadness,
of laughter and
crying.
Pale, delicate
infants.
19. Fit returning
at a regular time.

20. BelChing, and
a watery saliva
from the mouth.
stomach swollen
and hard, before,
during, and after
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flatten, forming what is called in common parlance,
" Chicken breast;" the joints enlarge and become
spongy, and loose; the spine is incurvated and the
child is unable to support his head erect, from weakness; the urine is vitiated and loaded with a heavy
sediment of lime; finally, hectic fever and diarrhoea
supervene, quickly terminating the child's existence.
If suitable remedies are resorted to in the early
stages of this disease, and persevered in, perfect
health, is the almost certain reward.
T r e at m en t. - Cold bathing by immersion, or
sponging twice a day, free exercise in the open air,
nourishing diet, and the following remedies, more
especially, but aided by those named under Scrofula,
-from like circumstances, will steadily manifest a salutary effect.
Calc. C. and Sulphur, in alternation twice a day
will gradually restore strength and sprightliness.
Silicea, may be occasionally given if the improvement should not progress.
Assafcetida, may also be given after the above, if
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CHAPTER VI.
DISEASES OF INFANTS.
INFANTS are particularly liable to some affections,
which are worthy of notice.
SLEEPLESSNESS.
When this occurs in infants and young children,
disease is clearly indicated. Diet of an improper
nature, particularly if heat and restlessness be present, is often the cause, and the green stools, the flatulence, and swollen condition of the bowels testify to
this. In these cases Chamomilla will succeed, provided this has not been given to excess previously:
if so, then Coffaea.* Chamomilla will be useful if
the crying is caused by ear-ache.
* Coffee taken by the mother is often the cause of the sleeplessness of the child. Mothers, while suckling, should never take
Coffee. Mothers should suckle on cocoa, and I have the testimony of mothers who have so suckled, and they state that they
found with COCOA without BEER, they produced quite sufficient
milk, and the children suckled with such diet, were in better
health, than those suckled on previous occasions when beer and
coffee and tea formed the liquid part of their diet. Reference
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When the stomach has been overloaded, and flatulence and constipation attend the sleeplessness, then
Pulsatilla can be used.
If the infant cries constantly, and contracts the
legs upon the belly, tosses about incessantly, and has
severe griping pains, with purging, China will be
found useful.
When some children are weaned they are very
sleepless; the deprivation will in part explain the
watchfulness; but if the watchfulness continues,
Belladonna will afford relief.
A second affection is
THE CRYING OF INFANTS.
Some infants are incessantly screaming,* and apparently without cause; though this is more the case
in children under a year old.
A dose of Belladonna will often cause this to
cease.
If much agitation and restlessness are present,
Chamomilla.
If there is a frequent disposition to relieve the
bowels, the discharge sour, and the actions present
* It should ever be remembered, that any means but proper
means to induce a cessation of crying, only perils the child's future
health and happiness: all allow the troublesomeness of crying
children; but if the trouble is spared now by unwise means, it
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Another diseased state is
THE THRUSH OR APHTHA.
For the treatment of this, see pp. 116, 117.
Another disease of infants is
THE MILK CRUST.
For the treatment of this, see pp. 33, 34.
The diseased states connected with
DENTITION OR TEETHING
have been detailed p. 119.
The method of treatment for
CONVULSIONS,
another affection of children, has been fully detailed,
pp. 218, 219.
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der the head of " Treatment after Delivery," will in
most cases remove this. If not, arnica should be
applied externally.
two globules of Arnica. The patient used also the arnica lotion,
and with such benefit and refreshment as to cause her to express
her feelings in regard to the arnica, "It is worth a shilling a drop."
She passed the night tolerably well.
In the morning the arnica globules were repeated; also the lotion was again used.
The effects were marked: though delivered by instruments,
there were no after pains, or at least so trifling as not to be deemed
by herself worthy of notice. No symptoms of.fever or of inflammation presented themselves, and she recovered most rapidly.
In reference to the baby, the effects of the arnica were quite as
well marked. The following is the description by the father:
" The baby's head was bruised and crushed in a most pitiable
manner. Of what shape it is I can hardly describe. It is alive,
but unless you can do something for it, I think it cannot live. The
surgeon is of opinion it will go of in convulsions." This statement was in a letter to me from Manchester.
Mr. K. bathed the infant's head four hours after birth, with the
arnica lotion, and repeated the bathing the following morning. At
eleven at night, on Dec. 14, it was convulsed, the head and the
face becoming quite black. Mr. K. administered chamomilla, and
it recovered. The following morning it had a slight convulsion.
It cried much during the night. Excepting the head, it is a fine
child. It seems unable to swallow easily. The head is of all
shapes. The centre of the forehead, round Benevolence, is very
large or swelled, and the back part of the head is all forced to one
side. The mouth is distorted; the right side of the face is much
swollen; and the inside of the mouth is in a dreadful state.
" Can anything be done for it? "
I ordered aconite to be followed by arnica; and then, if there
was no decided improvement, to give Rhus Toxicodendron: if convulsions should recur, Chamomilla: and if this failed, Ignatia.
On Dec. 17, I heard that the baby was doing well; no convulsive symptoms; no fever. The arnica lotion has been used ever
since. The head is almost well: and the baby sucks and eats very
well.
Feb. 1842, I saw the little dear: it was hearty and joyful, and
observant. The head of a natural form, and no indications of any
of the inconveniences to which it had been subjected.
Nov. 31, 1843, I saw this child and he was hearty and well: his
head, which, as above detailed, was of all shapes, is of a natural
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Infants and children are troubled sometimes with
RETENTION OF URINE.
Smelling Camphor will often relieve this. If not,
Aconite can be given: and should not that succeed,
follow with Pulsatilla.
[Cantharides, if there is frequent straining and disposition to urinate without the ability to pass more than
a few drops at a time; repeat the medicine every two
hours until relief is obtained. Graphites when there
is great urging without the ability to discharge the
water, only by drops, repeat as above. - Ed.]
Another diseased state of infants is
INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES.
The cause of this and the means of avoiding it
have been already explained.
Another diseased state is a sort of catarrh, which
is very troublesome. It is called
A COLD IN THE HEAD.
This affection causes the trouble it does by the
obstruction of the nose, produced by it, impeding
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ling, always breathe through the nostrils, as all people ought.) From the remarks under catarrh it will
be seen that Nux Vomica is the remedy most likely
to be suited to it. It will be seen under catarrh,
that, with the obstruction there is dryness; there is
irritable disposition.
Chamomilla will suit in many cases.
In cases where, with the obstruction in the nose,
the matter obstructing is of a slimy nature, and
symptoms, similar to those presented in the Asthma
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of these may be given a few days, and then a few doses
of Sulph., and if there is a manifest improvement,
omit the medicine for some days, and resume if
necessary.
Menstrual colic is best relieved by Pulsatilla, Cocculus, Veratrum, or Secale; a dose of one or the
other must be given every hour or two, until the sufferings are removed.
When the menses do not appear at the usual age,
and the health is impaired thereby, give Pulsatilla and
Sulphur, the first every morning and the latter every
evening, for a few days. The same course must be
pursued when it is too slight, or of short duration, in
feeble constitutions. In both instances warm hip
baths and foot-bathing will be most important auxiliaries.
LEUCORRHCEA. (THE WHITES.)
By this term we originally meant a white mucous
discharge from the female organs of generation.
Now, however, all discharges arising from functional
causes only, whether greenish, yellow, brown, or
white, bear this appellation. The health suffers in
proportion to the amount discharged and the length
of time that it continues.
'Treatment. - If the discharge has been of
long standing, frequent washing with cold castile
soap water, and the administration of the following
remedies, will effect a cure.
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and frequent desire to urinate, without the ability to
pass much at a time; Cale. c., if ther& is an eruption of pimples and itching of the genitals. Bovista,
Carb. Mag., Carb. Vet. and Sulphur, may follow
the other remedies as circumstances may require. -
Ed.]



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than remove the cause; the effects they are obliged
to let alone; or to leave them (as they-observed) to
Time's all healing hand.
The homoeopathist, having means, which produce
symptoms similar to those induced by the causes, can,
by giving such means or remedies, take away, by a
homoeopathic operation, these effects; and, at the
acquaintance with these remedies, and at this, their
application, he could not possibly have arrived, except by the recognition of the doctrine, that diseases
are cured most quickly, safely, and efectually, by
medicines, which are capable of producing in a
healthy person symptoms, similar to those existing- in
the diseases.
The Causes may be arranged under two Divisions;
those acting upon the Mind, and those acting upon
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CHAPTER        I.
MENTAL CAUSES.
FRIGHT,
is a most common cause of diseased states.
I have been consulted, this day, among others, by
two patients: one, who has epileptic fits, which were
produced by the fright caused by suddenly discovering her mother dead; the other, who has become
partially paralyzed on one side from a sudden fright.
Fright produces, in the individual frightened,
symptoms, such as stupor, and sometimes an idiotic,
lost appearance; loss of power, fainting, trembling
of the limbs, startings, oppression, difficulty of
breathing, and cold sweat.
Opium, if taken by a person in health, produces
similar symptoms; and opium is thereby, namely, by
its hom'ceopathicity, constituted so useful an agent in
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OPATHIC FORMULA, IN INFINITESIMAL DOSES, immediately or soon after afright.
When some interval has elapsed after the fright,
Sambucus will be more serviceable than opium, particularly when, from the fright, the respiratory system is principally affected.
Whenever a person has been frightened, two
globules of opium or of sambucus should be taken.
Thus any bad effects will be prevented.
I have known irremedial disease of the heart, produced by an accident; a lady was standing in the
street with two other ladies, and. the two beside her
were killed on the spot by a horse that had run away
with a gig. Had she taken opium immediately, this
disease would not have taken place.
How often has miscarriage been produced by a
fright! Suppose a mother, who has miscarried several times, and that from slight causes: let her be
frightened: let her experience the same symptoms,
as those which preceded her miscarriages: give her
immediately afterwards opium, and she will not miscarry: though, under previous conditions, a far
less cause would have caused this lamentable condition.
A bad case of epilepsy* which I had cured in a
boy, and who had remained free from fits nearly two
years, was again induced, being attacked with fits.
He had been playing in a field: a brute, miscalled a
man, came up to the child, struck him with a heavy
* See " Epilepsy, and some Nervous Affections its Precursors;
being twenty-two cases, successively treated; by John Epps, M. D."
Sherwood & Company.



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stick on his arm, and broke the arm. The child
was dreadfully frightened: and, as was likely, a fit
was produced. Had that child taken Opium immediately, no fit would have taken place.
I am tbus positive in making this assertion by the
fact, that I have known children, who, by slight
frights, have been thrown into convulsions, and have,
subsequently by taking opium after a fright, had no
such effects produced.
Again: a child has been frightened. He awakes
in the night suddenly with a dreadful fright, exhibiting great anxiety,; difficulty of breathing, &c.: he
takes Sambucus, and sleeps quietly afterwards, and no
untoward symptoms present themselves.
I have cured the troublesome affection, wetting the
bed, when other homceopathic means have failed, by
using Opium, after having learned that the child began to be troubled thus after being frightened.
The cause here leads to the use of the remedy:
and the remedy chosen, and given with such beneficial effects, is pointed out for use by the fact, that it
produces effects upon a healthy person, similar to
those presented in the frightened person. What
beautiful scientific results, equal to these,,can the old
system of medicines present?
PASSION AND VEXATION
are other causes of diseased states.
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AN INTENSE DESIRE, when ABSENT from home to RETURN HOME, called NOSTALGIA,
is a frequent cause of bodily disease.
This & attended generally with redness of cheeks
and sleeplessness.
Capsicum is the best remedy.
UNHAPPY LOVE WITH JEALOUSY
is often the cause of bodily disease.
Note.- It is one of the peculiar features of homoeopathic practice, that the moral symptoms are so
highly important; in fact,, in some cases, deciding
the use of a remedy. Precision is therefore one essential in successful homceopathic practice; and if
precision is deemed a mark of a scientific mind,
surely homoeopathy, which requires such precision,
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tion of parts, is induced by injuries in many persons:
and when this is the case, Arnica is more specific
than belladonna. The homceopathicity of arnica in
such cases is founded, not only upon the cause,
namely the injury, but also upon the power which
arnica has, of producing an erysipelas.  I have
known several cases where arnica, applied to wounds,
has produced erysipelas. It should, when employed
for wounds, affecting persons liable to erysipelatous
attacks, be in the very highest dilutions.
Suppose an INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE is presented: that this inflammation is consequent upon a
blow: then Aconite and Arnica would be the two
remedies; although had symptoms of inflammation
of the eye occurred from other causes, then aconite
and some other remedy would have been more appropriate.
CONVULSIONS, especially in infants, result oftentimes from an injury. In these cases, arnica will be
the appropriate remedy, though in itself not a specific
for convulsions; the cause here operates; and, if
not curing the convulsions, it will render the operation of the medicine, afterwards to be employed,
certain.
A fall on the head has frequently caused an aggravation of a previously existing HEAD affection. In
such a case, arnica will prevent the aggravation, or
remove the induced symptoms, and thereby counteract any additional danger, which otherwise might, by
the superaddition, be caused.
In connection with the use of arnica, under such
circumstances, I may add, that the successful result
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the injury may have been inflicted months, yea,
years,* before, so as almost to be forgotten, yet when
the symptoms existing can be traced so as to be decidedly consequent upon such injury, even then
arnica is exceedingly useful, and is often the first
step towards cure.
DERANGEMENT OF THE STOMACH.
This condition has often been the forerunner of
many severe diseased states, which, if the derange* A patient of mine, the Baron -, was attacked with a severe
illness, in the year 1842. He was evidently in great danger. Among
his symptoms was one of a feeling of a bruised condition of the
chest, affecting his breathing, producing severe pain on taking a
full breath, and attended with excessive prostration. I inquired
anxiously whether he had received any wound, having been a general during the continental wars, and engaged in many battles.
He said no: but on reflecting, remembered the following circumstance. As he was sitting on horseback watching the movements
of the army engaged in battle, with his aid-de-camp at his side, a
cannon-ball passed between his horse's head and his breast, and
taking the aid-de-camp in its course, made, to use the Baron's
own expression, a complete rag-fair of him, cleaving his body
asunder. The Baron experienced a shock, and his horse was so
affected that he shivered, so to speak, as to go upon his knees.
The excitement of the battle banished all the rest, and he had not
thought of the circumstance until I had thus brought the event
back to his memory.
I forthwith ordered Arnica internally and an Arnica poultice externally, and the change was so rapid as to convert to Homoeopathy
a most intelligent friend of the Baron's, who had been watching
the case with intense anxiety: the more so, because having no
faith in Homceopathy, he had the greatest fears on behalf of his
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ment could have been arrested at the outset, would
not have appeared.
In these derangements, Antimonium    Crudum,
Bryonia, or Pulsatilla, will arrest the progress:
antimonium crudum, if there are risings, nausea,
and feeling as if the person must be sick; bryonia,
if there is gastric fever, with shivering and cold;
and pulsatilla, if the derangement has been brought
about by fat foods, and more particularly by eating
pork.
EXPOSURE TO COLD OR WET,
commonly called taking cold, is a frequent source
of inconvenience and of danger in the progress
of diseases, and a frequent cause of diseased states
themselves.
Nux Vomica (as will be seen from the treatment
of Catarrh, pp. 87, 88,) taken at once, will often
arrest the progress of the symptoms, usually occurring after such exposure.
If, however, the taking cold is attended with a
sense of sufocation and nausea, then Ipecacuanha:
if followed with pain and shedding of tears, Cofe a:
if followed by a copious discharge from the nose,
and by the loss of smell and of taste, Pulsatilla:
if followed by relaxation of the bowels and thickening of the water, then Dulcamara: if followed
by. relaxation of the bowels and griping, then
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sidered medicinal, must necessarily interfere with the
operations of the homceopathic medicines.
It is necessary therefore to select articles of diet,
in which the nutritive property, unaided by strong
flavors, preponderates.
The following articles of diet, either having medicinal or stimulating qualities, in addition to or not
possessing, nutritive qualities, are to be avoided..Animal.
VEAL: i. e. meat spoiled in
killing;
PonR: i. e. meat of an animal
loaded with scurf;
DUCKS: i. e. strong flavored
meat;
GEESE: i. e. strong flavored
meat;
SEASONED DISHES
ROTTEN OR DECAYED CHEESE;
BACON,;
HAM;
SHELL FISH.

Vegetable.
Unripe fruits;
Unsound fruits;
Sorrel;
Radishes;
Onions;
Celery
Garlic;
Asparagus;
Watercresses;
Pepper,
Mustard.

Liquids.
Coffee;
Tea;
Spirits;
Wine;
Ale;
Porter;
Soups flavored;
Soda-water;
Ginger-beer;
All mineral waters;
Vinegar.

SMOKING, SNUFF, and TOBACCO in all its forms,
are to be avoided: all perfumes and scents should be
avoided: all cosmetics are to be avoided: all scented
tooth powders.
The following articles can be taken:

A2nimal.               Vegetable.
BEEF;                 BREAD;
MUTTON;-             POTATOES, mealy;
FLAT FISH;           BROCOLI;
COD;                 PEAS;
and all Fish not oily;  BEANS, French and Broad;
FRESH GAME;          CARROTS
EGGs, newly laid, lightly RIE;
boiled.             SAGO;
ARROw ROOT.

Liquids.
CocoA;
CHOCOLATE;
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Some foods may be taken occasionally.
Animal.        Vegetable.         Liquid.
LAMB                Asparagus,     Tea, under medical
OYSTERS;           under medical      direction.
CHICKEN j            direction.
FOWLS.
Where'persons have been habituated to wine the
homceopathist does not forbid its use; but the wine
should be taken with water; generally speaking, its
use is contra-indicated in all forms of disease.
Cocoa,* is the best of all flavored drinks. It is
highly nutritive.
It may be asked, " Why object to cofee and tea?"
The reason is that both cofee and tea are medicines.
Coffca is frequently mentioned as a remedy, as will
be seen in the preceding pages; it cannot be good
to give medicines to interfere with medicines which
the patient is taking.
Coffee is more decidedly medicinal than tea; tea
produces that peculiar sinking at the pit of the stomach, so common to tea-drinkers.
EXERCISE is another part of the diet. There
can be no health without exercise. When parties,
from age or from loss of power, or from injury, are
unable to take exercise, they should use friction, be
shampooed.
Exercise should be taken every day: and it should
be taken in the fresh air; if the weather be very
* Homceopathic chemists generally )keep cocoa for sale, with
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and this being a bad conductor, it will keep the heat
of the poultice within for a considerable time.
I generally put on the poultice, before application,
a few drops of the tincture of the first dilution, or a
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CHAPTER        IV.
ON THE PROPER WAY OF FOMENTING.
THOUGH homoeopathic practitioners rarely use fo--
mentations, sometimes they are employed with benefit; more particularly where persons have taken injurious and unsuited agents to remore the diseased
state or states.
Hot water and flannels form the materials.
These require some judgment to prevent the use
being abuse.
In fomenting, there should be, if possible, a fire
in the room. There should be a vessel of boiling
water on the fire: there should be a large earthenware pan in the room: there should be at least two
large pieces of good flannel. The patient, if in bed,
should have a blanket doubled passed under him,
and then folded over him, so that the two edges of
the fold below and those of the fold above may hang
over the side of the bed; then the heated and wetted
flannel can be introduced without wetting the bed
and without pulling down the bed-clothes. (Many a
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he has been benefited by the fomenting.) The flannel, after being soaked in the hot water, should be
well rinsed out, and then applied to the part; and
before this flannel is removed, the other flannel,
soaked and rinsed in a similar way, should be ready
for application.
Often the fomentation increases the pain at first:
this, unless the augmentation continues, should not
be regarded  or least, not so far regarded as to cause
cessation of the fomenting process.
In colic the use of heated flannels is preferable to
flannels soaked in hot water and rinsed.
Fomentations should be regarded simply as auxiliary  the curative means must be the appropriately
selected homoeopathic remedy or remedies.



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swallow, or at least not sufficiently, or worries himself in vain, does not throw up as much as he drinks,
or should he absolutely refuse to drink and enough
cannot be introduced, chew some bread and mix with
a tablespoonful of snuff, and put it on his tongue
until it excites vomiting, and let him drink tepid water upon it. If this does not act, then some powdered mustard mixed with a teaspoonful of salt is to
be put into a tumbler of water and drank off at once,
and afterwards tepid water. Use no other vomits.
In case the sufferer can get nothing down, is quite
confused, cannot swallow, his jaws being tightly
closed, blow some tobacco-smoke into his bowels.
Take a pipe with tobacco, light it, grease the point
of its stem with oil or fat, insert it into the anus, not
deeper than about the depth of a finger nail, turning
it carefully, then place on the head of that pipe the
head of another empty one, and blow through this
into the other, propelling the smoke inward. After
blowing three or four times, stop and begin again.
These remarks, and those which follow, are
abridged from Dr. Hering's Homceopathist.
The remedy, in importance next to vomiting, is
white of eggs.
Have the whites of several eggs beat up, mixed
with cold water, and let them be drank. This will
never do harm, and will surely help, if the poison be
metallic, or if the-patient is suffering violent pains in
his stomach or bowels, feels as though he should
purge, as will happen in poisoning by corrosive sublimate, quicksilver, verdigris, compounds of tin or
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taken to be a principal one, which it is not. This
refers also to grease, butter, and similar things:also to buttered water. If to be used, you ought to
be careful of the kind of oil; -rancid oil, train-oil,
or sperm oil, ought not to be applied, slimy substances will answer far better to envelop the poison,
or sugar, which sooner assuages the stomach, or
other means to neutralize the poison. When you are
sure that the poison was alkaline, and you are applying vinegar successfully, you may alternate with oil,
particularly when the patient complains of burning
in his mouth, throat, or stomach. Oil, however,
may be applied to great advantage, when a strong
acid, aqua fortis, oil of vitriol, &c. has got into the
eye, the mouth, the throat, or the stomach. Sometimes
it is also serviceable against poisonous mushrooms.
Oil is hurtful in poisoning by arsenic; useless in most
poisonings from metallic substances; and very injurious when Spanish flies get into the eye, or stomach.
It is literally throwing oil into the fire. This is also the
case with insects and venomous bugs, which may have
got into the eye. Oil is of great service when live insects have crept into the ear.
Milk is not so good as other viscid substances;
but as it is more frequently at hand, it will be well
to let the sufferer drink of it, instead of waiting for
other things. Fat milk is good wherever oil is good,
injurious wherever that is injurious. Sour milk is
good wherever vinegar is so, injurious wherever that
is. When you have no good oil, fat milk is the best
thing; also when oil becomes disgusting to the patient. Sour milk is preferable to bad vinegar; it may
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let the patient smell it, or rub it on his skin. You
can make a salve of it with warm oil, or easily dissolve it in heated brandy.
It is the principal antidote in all accidents from
insects. Against Spanish flies, whether they have
been swallowed, or got into the eye, or when used
as a plaster, they have a poisonous effect, camphor is
always the best remedy. Also, when venomous insects or infected honey have been swallowed, in violent symptoms after meals, in which small bugs or
worms may have accidentally fallen, or when one has
swallowed small moths; likewise after the sting of
insects.
When, together with other symptoms, the patient
finds it difficult to urinate, or this is very painful to
him, and intermixed with blood, you may always presume that this originates from Spanish flies, or other
insects, and camphor is the best remedy.
Camphor is finally applicable, when accidents result from the medicine a sick person has taken;
when children sicken after the usual preposterous
worm medicines; in accidents from tobacco, bitter
almonds and medicines that liave the smell of these
things, or cherry-stones, peach-kernels, acorns, or
nuts.
It will mitigate after-pains from phosphorus, poisoning by minerals or acids, and particularly salty
things.  When, through vomiting, everything has
been ejected from the stomach, let the patient smell
camphor from time to time. This may also be done
in poisonings by mushrooms, or in accidents from
charcoal fire.



Burning, cauterizing, cutting, lacerating, suppurating, are all useless. These are done that something
may appear to be done.
Always continue the proper treatment till the scar
of the.wound attains the natural color of the skin.
If a blister forms under the tongue, cut the blister open, and let the patient rinse his mouth with salt
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CHAPTER III.
FOREIGN BODIES, IN DIFFERFNT PARTS
OF THE BODY.
THE treatment of the eye when foreign bodies
enter it, has been explained.
Sometimes insects get into the EAR: if so, drop
oil into the ear, until the insect becomes visible, and
with a piece of paper rolled up, pull it out. But if
the body be a pea, or anything that swells and which
cannot be removed thus, then take a hair pin, bend
it at the end to an obtuse angle, so that the upper
part of the pin may form a knee, like a spoon, and
push the pointed ends into a cork: place yourself
behind the ear, pull the ear with one hand upwards
and at the same time from the head; then dip the
instrument in oil, and holding the bend in the instrument close to the inside of the ear, push it in so as
to get it around and behind the object; then lift it a
little, and the body will fall into the bend of the pinSometimes pointed things get into the ear. A
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capable of producing in a healthy person symptoms,
similar to those ezisting in the diseases.
HOM(EOPATHIC. Of or belonging to Homceopathy.
GLOBULE.   A term applied to the round little
grain, made of sugar and fecula, which impregnated
with any remedy, is the form under which the remedy
is administered.
ABDOMEN. The part of the body situated between the chest and the pelvis; the cavity in which
the stomach, the liver, the spleen, and the intestines
are contained. This part fastidiousness miscalls the
stomach - whereas the stomach occupies but a part,
and that the upper part, of the abdomen.
PERIOSTEUM. The delicate membrane investing
the bones of the body.
PSORA. Hahnemann considers that the eruptive
state, designated by'the term psora, is the most
frequent cause of disease: or more correctly, that
psora exists in the majority of individuals in a dormant state; and that the constitutional condition,
thus induced, is one which is, so to speak, a peculiarly favorable soil for the production of diseases by
the influence of noxious agents.
SEMILATERAL. Affecting one half either of the
whole body, or of any part of the body.
SPECIFICITY.  The peculiar relationship established in nature between the properties of a remedy
and the symptoms of a disease, that they (when
brought to act on one another,) are mutually active,
so as to remove the disease.
MECONIUM. The name given to the feculent matter, contained in the bowels of the just born infant.



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or reserved and taciturn: anxious, apprehensive, or
timorous or irritable, &c.
The patient is next required to give an accurate
and particular description of the incidents or symptoms of his disease, such as pains and other morbid
sensations, and their exact character. He should
describe precisely the region or part, and on which
side of the body they are seated, and how large is
the space they occupy. Are the symptoms continued,
or do they remit or vary in intensity from time to
time? Do they recur at particular times of the day,
or at certain intervals of one or more days? Is their
recurrence, aggravation, diminution or cessation,
connected with the exercise of any bodily function?
Do they arise or disappear, are they increased or
diminished by exercise, or during rest, by lying
down, or sitting, by stretching out or bending up the
body, by walking, by standing, by warmth or cold,
in the open air or within doors, by light, by noises,
by talking, by eating, by drinking or swallowing,
soon after eating, by the motion of the affected part
or by touching or pressing it, by mental emotion--
fright, anger, during bodily or mental exercise, reading? &c. &c. Are the symptoms associated with
anxiety, greater or less? Do they impair the powers
of thought or recollection, or the due exercise of the
senses?
During the sufferings of individual parts or functions of the body, (even when these sufferings are
not the principal ones,) further information is to be
given respecting the state of the patient's mind;
whether he suffers patiently, or is inclined to weep,
to be morose, passionate, despairing, greatly anxious,



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Does the wind readily escape, or is it retained; and
what are the complaints which it seems to give rise
to? Are the evacuations from the bowels effected
with ease or difficulty? How frequent are they?
what is their consistence? are they fmecal, or slimy,
or bloody, &c.? What is their color? Are there
any complaints immediately preceding, during, or following a stool? Are any large or small worms discharged? Are there abraisionfs or sore places, warts,
or piles in the rectum or anus; and do the latter sometimes protrude or bleed? What complaints arise before, or during, or after the urinary discharge? and is
the discharge sparing or copious? What is the aspect
of the urine? Is it clear, high-colored, or turbid?
Does it soon change after evacuation, and deposit
mucus or sand, or a white or a red sediment? Does
it contain blood, pus, or gravel?
Is the breathing short, or otherwise oppressed?
Can the patient ascend a height? Is the breathing
asthmatic, wheezing, or rattling? Does the patient
make any complaint on drawing a deep breath? How
is the voice; rough, hoarse, hollow, &c.? Is there
a cough? is it slight and short, or hard and difficult?
does it seem to come deep from the breast? do the
paroxysms of coughing' last long, and are they attended by swelling of the face and loss of breath?
How does the cough sound? Is it dry or followed
by expectoration? Is expectoration easy or difficult,
sparing or copious, mucous, purulent, resembling
saliva, bloody, (interspersed, or tinged with blood,
and of bright, or dark color, or is it pure blood?)
white, yellow, green, ash-colored, &c.? Does it taste
salt, sweet, bitter, or what taste has it? Is there a
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or does it seem to lie deep in the breast? In what
part of the organs of respiration is seated the irritation to cough? and from whence proceeds the matter expectorated? Is there palpitation of the heart?
or throbbing in other parts of the body? Does the
patient suffer from transient flushes of heat? He
can, perhaps, describe the condition of the pulse.
Are the glands under the ear, under the jaw, in the
armpits, on the head, in the groins, swollen or suppurated? Is the patient afflicted with goitre, or an
enlargement of the gland over the windpipe?
Are there swellings of the bones or joints? are
there tubercles or swellings, or swollen or knotted
veins? Are there any parts red, swollen and painful? Are the hands or feet swollen? Is there lameness of one or more of the limbs? Are there cramps
or spasms, tremor, twitching or starting, stupor or
falling asleep, or other morbid sensations in any of
the limbs? Is the skin pallid, yellow, &c.? Is it
dry, or inclined to sweat, or otherwise in an unhealthy condition?
Is there itching of the skin (tickling, slight prickling, or a sensation of biting, burning, crawling,
sticking)? Is it relieved by scratching, or is the
sensation thereby only changed for another? The
presence in the skin of wheals, swellings, boils, chilblains, and corns is to be mentioned, and the attendant sensations described; also cutaneous eruptions.
Is there chilliness, or a feeling of heat? Chilliness,
heat, or sweat of particular parts? Sweating of the
feet, whether warm, cold, or fetid? When the patient has fever, does the paroxysm consist of a cold,
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IPA GE,
Drivelling at mouth...      216
Drying powder....    34
Dry rot...       150
Efficiency of medicine, how to be judged of 22, 24
Epps, Dr., constipation curable.      129, 138
Homceopathy and its Principles
Explained...     227, 228
Exercise....      253
Exposure to cold or wet...   249
Eye water....       74
Fauces..           125
Fomenting, proper method of               '  259
Friction, with ointments, the evils of in glandular enlargements of the neck..       81
Friction to back....  216
Goulard's lotion, injurious in burns.        56
Grief, silent....  244
Hartmann....        27
Hartshorn, spirits of.                  182
Hering, Dr.,.     79, 102-3, 194, 216
Honey.....  270
Ice..              176
Instructions to patients consulting a physician....        278-284
Jealousy     _....  245
Jennerian Royal and London Vaccine Institution, its great uses and plan, an appeal on its
behalf....      215
Lancing gums, generally a bad practice.  217
Muscles...      218
Opening glands by lancet bad..    82
Opium, its evils in toothache..       123



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Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, 5 vols.                 7 00
Transactions of the American Institute of Homcopathy,
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