MANUAL
OF
HOMOEOPATHIC
THEORY AND PRACTICEO
DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF
puiimann  aw      amriicis.
l~sirians anh lamlie^
BY ARTHUR LUTZE, M. D.
Man cau what he wills,
But he must have faith and trust!
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMANA, WITHI ADDITIONS,
BY CHARLES J. HEMPEL, M. D.
FROM THE SIXTIETII THOUSAND OF THE G.RMAN EDITION.
NEW YORK:
WILLIAAM RAT)DE,?,00 BROADWAY.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
WILLIAM  RADDE, JR.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
KTIN  & BATIRD, PRTINTERS SANSOM STREET, PITLADELPHIA.






TABLE OF CONTENTSo
Page.
Publisher's Announcement...................................................                       7 7
Author's Preface..................................................................    17
Introduction.......o...............................................................   21
Explanation of the efficacy of Homceopathic Potencies by Animal
Magnetism.....................................................................   34
A few hints to Physicians at a distance, regarding the manner of
taking  down the totality  of the  symptoms of a disease...........   44
Diet mixed to Homceopathic treatment.................................   48
Duty  of a Physician....................................................                       63
Characteristic symptoms of the Drugs used in this work............   67
Special directions for the treatment of all leading diseases.......... 127
Appendix;  the  human body........................................                         521
List of all the Remedies, their Antidotes, English and German
n am  es............................................................................    545
Repertory...............3..........O.............e.OO*O.... *................... 55
Alphabetical list of the Diseases and Physiological Conditions
treated  of in this work              o.. o..........................................  729
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THE P113 SI lIRS AiNOUGENECW TNI
DR. LuTZE's  work on the Theory and Practice of
Homceopathy is the most popular treatise on this
science which has yet been published in Europe.  No
less than sixty thousand copies of this work have been
sold at the present moment. No physician in Europe can
boast of a larger and more lucrative practice, or of a
larger number of patients of the highest social standing
and education than Dr. Lutze.  He adheres with the
utmost rigidity to Hahnemann's original doctrines, and
his practice is crowned with undeniable and, in many
respects, unparalleled success.  In one particular Dr.
Lutze deviates in the treatment of inveterate chronic
diseases from the established rule of homoeopathic practitioners; we allude to a combination of remedies. This
proceeding is, however, applied only to a few remedies,
and then only in chronic maladies.
The section where the use of combined drugs is
explained, does not form an inte'gral part of this work
but, in order not to omit any thing of the original text,
the publisher has deemed it advisable to insert this
section of Lutze's work in this Announcement, together
with the letters to and from Hahlnemann where the discovery of a combination of drugs is sanctioned by the
author of Homceopathy   as a legitimate development of
the homceopathic healing art. This innovation, however,
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need not shock the orthodox reader; it is never alluded
to in the body of the work; all that need be said in
reference to this matter is that in chronic cases, Dr.
Lutze, instead of alternating drugs, frequently gives the
two remedies, each of which is supposed to be hom.oeopathic to the case, in combination. The reasons which
have prompted  him  to innovate thus far upon the
general practice of holnmopathic physicians, are fully
stated in Section VII. of his work, which is here transcribed for the benefit of the American reader.
SECTION VII.
"An important subject is the combination of remedies.
As in acute cases we often have to give two remedies
in alternation, because the symptoms of the case are
not always covered by one, so in chronic cases two
remedies may be given not in alternation, buz in co0mbiniatioz, three to four globules of each remedy being
dissolved in the same tumbler of water, and a spoonful
of this solution being taken morning and night for
several days in succession.  In a case of tetter, for
instance, or debility from  loss of blood, Sulphz' and
Chcina may be given in combination.  Sulphur for the
psora, China for the debility, and the result shows that
this combination  cures much  more effectually than
either of these drugs, if given singly.  In cardialgia
the symptoms of which are covered by Nux, I give
Nux and Sulphur in combination, if an eruption had
existed previously. In tetter which breaks out after
suppressed itch or syphilis, I give Merercurius and Sulpmur
in combination.
In making such a combinlation I have to warn against
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existing case,   This, however, is a matter of course, for
no cure can be expected of a remedy which is not
homoeopathic to the case.
Any two remedies may be combined, if highly potentized, even antidotes.  Experience shows that, if two
antidotes are indicated in a case, they produce striking
effects, if given in cornbinzation. The explanation of this
phenomenon is not difficult.  I suppose that the process of mixing does not apply to higher potencies, but
that the two may assist each other in their mutual
effects; but even this fact does not extend to antidotes
which repel each other, and each of which pursues its
own action to the end of the cure.
This important discovery of the combination of drugs
was first announced twenty-four years ago, by Doctor
Julius Aegidi, at that time physician to the Princess
Frederica of Prussia, and now medical counsellor. This
discovery was communicated to Ilahnemann in the year
1833, corroborated by two hundred and thirty-three
cures with combined remedies, and was joyfully received by Hahnemann, but kept secret from the public
by the imbecility of the foes of truth, whereas the
worthy discoverer was insulted and derided by those
who were unworthy of unloosening his shoe-strings.
Read Hahnemann's reply to Aegidi's letter where he
announces his discovery, and relates the history of two
hundred and thirty-three cures with remedies acdministered in combination.  The letter bears date May 15th,
1833.
"' DEAR FRIEND ANTD COLLEAGUE:
"Do not suppose that I reject any thing good from
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tions in my doctrine. All I desire is the truth, and I
know that this is all you care for. I am  rejoiced that
you should have had such a happy thought, at the same
time confining its execution to proper limits.  Two
remedies should only be given in combination, in a
highly potentized form, provided each is, in its own
way, homceopathic to the case. In such a case, this
proceeding is an advantage to our art which should not
be repudiated.  I shall take the first opportunity of
making a trial, and I doubt not that it will be successful.  I am  likewise glad to hear that Bcenning'hasen
approves of this plan. I believe that two remedies may
be given in combination, which we do even now when
Sulphur and Ccdlcarec are given in combination in the
form  of ffipar sz2ulph7 s; or 3Sulphur and Jlllercurius,
rwhen Cinnabaris is administered. Permit me to cornmunicate your discovery to the world, in the fifth
edition of the Organon which is soon to appear. Until
then please keep this discovery to yourself; and request
Dr. Jahr, whom I esteem  very highly, to do the same.
At the same time I shall protest and earnestly warn
against the arbitrary combination of any two drugs
indiscriminately.
"Truly yours,
S. HA IItTEMAIN  NN.
In another letter to Dr. Aegidi, Hahnemann writes,
under date of June 19th, 1833:
j "    ---  I have devoted a special paragraph to your
discovery of a combination of drugs, in the fifth edition
of my Organon, the manuscript copy of which was sent
last night to Arnold, with a request that the work
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should be placed in front of the title-page.  The rivalry
for priority is a most anxious chase.  Thirty years ago
I, too, had the weakness of wooing it.  But for a long
time past I have not felt any other desire than that the
world should know  the best and most useful truth,
whether through me or any body else."
These are the words of the master, and we now ask,
What has become of this paragraph?  We search the
Organon from the first page to the last, zuithout finding
it!
Here is the explanation.  Halhnemann laid the new
discovery which he had kept secret heretofore, before
the meeting of homeopathic physicians on the 10th of
August, 1833.  Their number was as yet small, but
instead of meeting with open hearts, he found stubborn
minds that were incrusted with old prejudices, and,
instead of accepting the blissful truth, assailed it with
all sorts of persecutions, comparing it to the mixtures
of alloeopathic practitioners, and persuading Hahnemann to abandon the publication of this discovery and
even to allow one of his friends, while passing through
Dresden, to suppress the paragraph which had already
been printed.
Thus it is that the world has been robbed of a most
important discovery these twenty-one years; for Aegidi's
publication of his discovery in the 14th volume of the
Archive, 1834, was assailed in such a shameless manner
by a number of enemies, that it was soon forgotten by
those who only heed the cry of the multitude, and that
the worthy discoverer preferred remaining silent to
exposing himself to abuse and to the assaults of an
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I do not know the persons who have perpetrated this
robbery against humanity, nor do I care to hear their
names mentioned; most of them may be in their graves,
and the balance are already judged; therefore we will
not condemn them  any further, but pray for them:
Father, forgive them, for they knew not what they were
doing.
The time of requital has come; the hitherto suppressed discovery rises' like a phenix from  its ashes,
and the name of its author, Julius Aegici, shall be
snatched from oblivion. I am thankful for the privilege
I enjoy of wresting the new truth from its slumber, not
like a feeble infant, but grown up to manhood and
armed with the sword of intelligence and power, which
will enable it to resist the persecutions of darkness.
In comparing the use of conbined remedies to the mixtures of alloeopaths, the opponents of this discovery
showed most conclusively that they have neither apprehended the essence of homoeopathy nor the meaning of potentization. If a medicine is selected homceopathicaclZy, or in conformity with the law of similarity,
every arbitrary proceeding which prevails in allceopathic practice, ceases; an arbitrary compounding  of
drugs cannot be compared vvith a combination of remedies based upon law.  In  the next place, the term
mixture only applies to coarse materials, but not to
high dynamisations which are deprived of their material
constituents, and have been converted into purely spiritual powers by means of which the most astonishing
effects can be produced, such as the instantaneous cure
of a violent toothache, by simply smelling of the appropriately-selected agent; thousands of cases illustrate
these marvellous effects.  Spiritual forces can be mixed



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no more than mental productions received into the
storehouse of the mind; a proof of this is our memory
in which thousands of objects, whether acquired or invented, are ranged side by side without being mixed;
if this should take place, it shows mental disease, derangement, insanity.
Mesmerism exhibits a form of comnbinecdmedicines  If a
person has a headache in both sides of the forehead or
in both temples, and I first make a pass over the right
side of the forehead, the pain disappears in this region;
if, then, I make a similar pass over the left side, the
pain there disappears likewise; we know  this from
experience. In making simultaneous passes with both
hands down both sides of the forehead, the pain disappears in both sides at the same time. aWho will assert
that this is not in strict accord with the requirements
of art?  On the contrary, any one who is acquainted
with mesmerism, will proceed in this very manner and
will obtain striking results. This is the case with combinecd remecies.
I do not mention this by way of an explanation, but
my intention has only been to illustrate my position by
analogous facts; for no fundamental or elementary
phenomenon can be explained.
Hahnemann commits a slight mistake by ranging
Hepar sulphuris and Cinnabaris with combined remedies; the difference is, that the former are mixed in
their crude elements, and then potentized and proved
as identical units; whereas combined remedies consist
of two high dynamizations acting side by side with each
other, each in its specfic manner.
Three or four years ago the discoverer first acquainted
me with the combination of remedies; having had thou



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sands of opportunities of tryTing them in my clinic, it is
useless to deny their efficacy. But I must request my
colleagues who are anxious to institute similar experiments, to do so with carefully prepared potencies. Our
excellent Bcenninghausen has informed me orally, that
he has obtained equally fortunate results with the high
potencies, and every honest experimenter will be able
to achieve a similar success.
I made my first experiments in Berlin, on the very day
when the discovery of a combination of remedies was
first made known to me. It was in the case of a lady
who had been operated on for cataract by JuLngken
nine months ago, and who had been suffering since then
with such a violent ophthalmia and such intense pains
in the eyes that she prayed for death, since Julngken
was unable to order any thing for her relief except
leeches to the temples, a stupid remedy which had the
effect of determining the blood to the head more and
more. As soon as she heard my steps, she exclaimed:
Oh, relieve me of my boundless misery, else I shall
prefer death!  I at once mixed 3 globules of Aconite
and 3 of Beccldonnac in a small tumblerful of water, and
ordered a dessertspoonful every hour. Half an hour after
the first close she felt relieved; in two hours the pains had
left her, and in twenty-four hours pains and inflammation had disappeared.  Now she was for the first time
able to enjoy the benefit of the operation which had
otherwise been performed with perfect success. Homceopathy has converted ophthalmic surgery into a true
blessing; I can show numbers of cases where I have
operated without the least inflammation supervening;
for immediately after the operation I give Aconite 30 in
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pains in or over the eyes, I give Belladonna 30 in alternation or combination with Aconite.
I will now relate a few cases which I have treated in
my clinic:
2, Antonia D., aged 25 months, was thrown down by
a cat jumping against her, with such violence that her
head was knocked against a chair, and she trembled
with fright. Half an hour after she commenced to
stutter, which grew worse from  day to day.  I gave a
solution of Arnica 30, and Opium  30 in combination, a
dessertspoonful everymorning and night, for four days in
succession (Arnica for the concussion, and Opium for
the effects of the fright). After a trifling aggravation
the child improved, and, in a fortnight, talked with her
usual ease.
3. Mrs K. had pulmonary phthisis for some time
past.  Cough with expectoration of yellow  mucus,
having a saltish and sometimes a bitter taste. Hoarseness, faint sound of the voice.  Slight fever without
thirst, oppression of the chest, palpitation of the heart,
whining mood. Complete suppression of the menses
for the last three months, they had been scanty and
watery for a long time previous. Great debility, constant night-sweats.  Every other day all the symptoms
were worse. Gave Pulsatillc 30 and Ch/inac 30 in water,
in combination, for four days as above. Eight days
after commencing the treatment the menses became
regular and a general improvement set in. Cough and 
expectoration likewise disappeared. She was cured in
four months.
4. Mrs. K., 40 years old, had been affected for many
years with violent pains in the abdomen, especially
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place very irregularly in consequence of severe confinements. The menses had been suppressed for six months.
The pain in the abdomen set in with so much chilliness
that the limbs trembled, and the pain affected the whole
body. In the right side of the abdomen a hardness was
sometimes perceived, which disappeared again.  Stool
generally hard, attended with great pain. In consequence of great weakness the patient had almost always
to keep her bed; when she attempted to rise, the pain
grew worse. It lasted from  three in the morning until
evening.  When a child, she had. the itch which was
removed by means of an ointment.  I gave Nzux and
SulpAtr 30 in combination.  Six weeks after, I received
the following report: "After the first dose the pains
ceased, the menses returned in a fortnight, and I feel
quite well except a little weak."
5. Augusta F., 12 years old, had been afflicted with
vomiting of the ingesta since her birth, except bread.
She could not even retain her mother's milk, so that
she had to be broucght up on bread; afterwards she was
unable to keep any thing on her stomach except dry
bread.  After having  employed  several physicians,
among whom some homoeopaths, she applied to me.  I
ascertained that she was occasionally troubled with an
eruption in the face, and that her fingers were covered
with small warts.  I gave Sulphur and Ipecac. 30 in
combination, dissolved in water, morning and evening,
for four days, Sulphur for psora, Ipecac. for the vomiting.  Three days after taking this medicine she was
seized with such violent vomiting for three days, that
even the dry bread was rejected; after this she was able
to keep every thing on her stomach, even water, and
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tirely, the warts diminished in size from week to week,
disappeared first on the left hand, in eight weeks after
likewise on the riglht (because Sulphur first acts upon the
left side), so that a single dose of this combined remedy
effected a cure.
6. Mr. NV., 29 years old, after every slight cold was
attacked with chilliness, followed by pains in the head,
chest and back which continued for some time. The
pain then extended throughout the whole head and was
most violent on the top. During the attack the bowels
remained costive for three or four days, he had no appetite,
his sleep was restless and disturbed by anxious dreams.
In his 17th year he had spitting of blood and pains in
the chest; he had occasional attacks of congestion of
blood to the chest, so that le had to tear his clothes
open.  In his youth he had a tetter on the legs which
was removed by an ointment.  This was followed by
swelling of the knee-joints, sour, nauseous taste in the
mouth on waking in the morning, frequent itching of
the hands. Gave Nux and Sulphur in combination.  A
fortnight after, he had another attack, and another in four
weeks which only lasted one day, after which the attacks
ceased entirely, even when he took a violent cold.
7. Mr. F., 32 years old, had a fall six years ago, which
caused a contusion of the testicles, in consequence of
which hydrocele developed itself which increased continually.  He complained of constant pain in the testes,
especially in stormy weather. I gave Alrnica and  hocd.
30 in combination (Arnica for the contusion, Rhod. on
account of the influence of stormy weather).  The pains
abated after the first dose, and disappeared entirely in
four clays, without ever returning. The hydrocele was
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8: irs. L., 35 years old, was afflicted with spasmodic
attacks which recurred several times a day.  They were
attended with distortion of the mouth, trembling of the
hahds and feet, paralysis of the tongue, flow of mucus
from  the mouth, sweat on the whole body.  The
paroxysms lasted half an hour, and were worse in the
evening than in the morning.   Delirium  after  the
paroxysms.  Suppression of the menses for the last
three months, pains in the small of the back, stinging in
the rectum. Gave Bellad. and Pulsct. 30 in combination.
On the second day after taking the medicine, the menses
reappeared normally, but the spasms grew worse, especially on the third day; they were much less on the
fourth and fifth day, ceased on the sixth, and on the
seventeenth the patient only complained of a feeling of
dullness in the head, which disappeared very speedily.
9. Miss S., 19 years old, took a violent cold, in consequence of which she had almost lost her voice for
eight days past. She felt a dryness and heat in the
throat, sensation as of a foreign body having lodged in
the throat, which cannot be raised.  Painful feeling
when moving the throat.  Menses scanty, but occurring
every three rweeks.  Gave Cnamzom. and Sepia 30 in
combination (Chamomilla for the hoarseness, Sepia for
the scanty menses).  The patient took her first dose in
the evening, slept well, and was able, after taking her
second dose in the morning, to answer a question with
a clear and ringing voice; every painful feeling in the
throat had disappeared, and she was cured. Afterwards
the menses appeared every four weeks and a little later.
10. Frederick, aged 18 years, had been troubled with
ulcers for two years past, one of which at least broke
out on the arms, legs or back, and caused violent pain.
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The patient was so feeble that he  sometimes was
scarcely able to stand.  This weakness was the result
of masturbation which he had practiced for four years.
I gave Ilepar and lChina 30 in combination.  Eight days
after taking the medicine a large ulcer broke out on the
thigh; this was the last that ever troubled him; the
weakness likewise disappeared, and hL  soon felt better
than he had ever done.
11. Julius, aged three years, had had several attacks
of tertian fever, for which nothing had been taken. The
child had not much chilliness or sweat, but a good deal
of dry heat, and some breaking out around the mouth.
HIe took Aconite and SLl2pur 30 in combination. Hie
had another violent attack, which was the last.
12. Mrs. H., 24 years old, was attacked with violent
stitches in both breasts after weaning her infant, dry
heat and vertigo so that she had to hold on to something to prevent her falling. I gave Aeon. and Beel. in
combination.  A few minutes after the first dose, pain,
stitches, etc,, disappeared completely.
13. Mr. S., 75 years old, had been hard of hearing of
the right ear since his infancy.  The ear discharged a
yellow, fetid pus, as is sometimes the case after scarletfever.  For four weeks past he did not hear well of the
left ear where I observed a good deal of indurated, darkbrown cerumen.  The itch had been suppressed on. him
in his youth.  I gave Bel. and Sulp2hur 30, in combination. Ony the twelfth day, on waking, he heard the ticking
of the watch: he had recovered the hearing of both ears.
14. Mr. W., aged 23 years, had been affected with
figwarts for some years past; they were cauterised, cut,
tied, but they invariably broke out again. Three weeks
ago, syphilis had supervened.  He took ILAJac and



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)jfercurius 30, in combination; in a fortnight the figwarts fell off, and the syphilitic symptoms disappeared
in a month; several years after, he assured me that he
never enjoyed such good health as after my treatment.
15. The most remarkable case is that of the stocking-manufacturer HIarnisch, of Hoheneck  in Saxony.
This case is so remarkable that the prime-minister von
Gossler, examined the patient, and Drs. Moldenlawer
and Loewenstein, who attend my clinic, were instructed
to relate the case officially. The patient sent me the
following report: Is 44 years old, has had caries of the
left leg for thirteen years and a-half, which had six suppurating sores. The leg was one and a-half inches shorte:
than the other, so that he had been limping for fourteen
years. The many physicians whom he had consulted, had
never been able to heal the sores which had discharged
four pieces of bone. Owing to his exertions in walking,
the right thigh had likewise become afiected, so that he
frequently complained of tearing pains and stiffness in
the hip-joint. Every year he had been bled two or three
times for a rush of blood to the head; he hadbeen practising this for twenty-five years past, and had been much
weakened by it.  I gave him  Sulpt7ur and China 30, in
combination, the former for the psora, the latter for the
weakness from loss of blood. Six weeks after the treatment he sent me the following report: " After the first
dose I had ease in my leg, so that I was able to sleep
for three nights, which I had not been able to do for
the four weeks past in consequence of the tearing pain,
and the anxiety.  After that, I was again attacked with
burning, especially in the right hip, and colicky pains,
with distention of the abdomen.  On the twelfth day I
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made me feel stronger, so that I desired to stretch all
the time. In the night from the 13th to the 14th, this
desire was very strong, and when I arose, behold! both
leys halcl the same length.  Those who didc not see me,
would not believe it, nor could the physicians account
for this change, for they had seen me limp on a stick for
fourteen years, whereas I was now able to walk erect like
a soldier.  The weakness in the hip-joint has likewise
left me, so that I am now able to walk for ten hours on
a stretch, whereas, formerly, I was hardly able to walk
a mile."
This case created quite a sensation in Saxony, and
brought daily from  fifty to sixty people to my clinic
who expected to be cured in the same striking manner.
Harnisch who visited me every few weeks, brought me
some thirty or forty reports of' cases at each visit, and
this case has converted many persons to homncopathy
who did not believe in it previously.  It is interesting
to every friend of homecopathy that a single dose of
a combined remedy effected this cure in a fortnight.
Every physician will want to know how it happened
that the shortened limb acquired its natural length
back again.  Upon examination I found that the bones
of the left leg were not shortened, and that only single
splinters had been detached by the ulcerative process;
the pus had become healthy, and the pain had disappeared.   The inequality  could  not, therefore, be
owing to any defect in the left leg, but must depend
upon the right leg being abnormally elongated.  The
patient indeed recollected that, fourteen years ago, previous to the breaking out of the sores, he experienced a
violent pain in the right hip. I infer from this that he
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disease,) which was arrested in the first stage of elongation of the limb, in consequence of the morbid process
developing itself in the left limb, and ter-minating in
ulceration.  Aly deeply-penetrating combined remedy
re-excited the former ailment and cured it.  I have
several cases of inveterate coxarthrocace, where a cure
was effected and where both limbs were restored to tlhe
normal size and length.  The difference is that in some
cases it takes years to effect a cure, whereas twelve
days were sufficient in llarnisch's case.
These cases point out the method I pursue, with sufficient clearness to any one who chooses to understand it.
To him  who does not choose, a thousand additional
cases would afford no light.
The following  is my formula for prescribing two
remedies in combination.  I unite them  by means of
this sign &, and moreover by the sign +- placed underneath the former, and a - thus: Acon.  Bell."
The reader will see at a glance that this work is an
eminently practical treatise, and that both laymren and
beginning practitioners may derive great benefit from
its use.  Dr. Lutze uses throughout the 30th potency
of Hahnemann.  The publisher has deemed it sufficient
to make this general statement in his Announcement,
instead of repeating it on every page.  The translation
has been carefully prepared by competent hands, and
all that now remains for the publisher to do is to plead
in justification of his undertaking his firm  conviction
that Lutze's work will prove a most useful and interesting addition to the popular literature of our School.
\WM. RADDE, JR.
1861, Philaclfphica.



PRE FACE.
THERE are still many who have not the remotest idea of
-lHahnemann's true greatness and of his doctrine.  Some
only know him as a great physiciain and discoverer of a
new system of cure, others as a medical reformer whom
they range side by side with other reformers of the
sciences and believe to have sufficiently honored by
comparing him to Newton, Galilli, Copernicus, etc. But
what have all these discoverers accomplished in comparison with Hahnemann?
They have indeed discovered new laws, conquered old
prejudices, removed abuses, and announced unknown
truths; but they were enabled to continue that which
had been begun by their predecessors, and to improve
existing knowledge.
Hahnemann, on the contrary, had to overthrow the
present and was not even able to make use of the ruins
of the past; he had to create every thing anew, and, like
a phcenix above the ashes, his new doctrine hovers over
the ancient chaos of errors, prejudices and fatal abuses
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^18       MANUAL OF HOMCEOPATHYo
which  have tortured poor humanity  for nearly two
thousand years, and have prepared premature graves
for thousands of victims.
Finally IHahnemann's doctrine affects the very life of
the whole human race. It not only blesses a few, a certain
class, the learned, but call men; learned and unlearned,
rich and poor, kings and beggars, even animals, enjoy
the fruits of Hahnemrnn's  discovery.   IIahnemann
nurses and promotes the belief in God, and in his inscrutable Providence by showing that even the smallest
and almost imperceptible quantity of a medicine may
produce great and astonishing results.
Samuel Hahlnemann has discovered the irrefutable
law, which proves true without exception, in every
science and in all our relations of life.  Likie can only
act upon and promote like, in speech, act or medicine,
This law pervades all nature like a shining meteor.
We see how only animals and plants that are alike,
support and fecondate each other, how only like forces
and passions combat each other: a teacher can only
teach with effect, if he accommodates his instruction to
the capacities of his pupils; a preacher can only exercise a powerful effect upon the minds of his hearers, if
his discourse is adapted  to the nature and comprehension of his hearers.; even the mechanician and the
naturalist can only act with forces that are alike; only
similar poles can attract each other, only like hearts
can realize a happy union.



PREFACE.                     19
That which is entirely dissimilar, opposite, like the
same poles of a magnet, repels its contrary, and may
even produce disaster and ruin like the alloeopathic
practice of medicine which ignores or denies the universal law of homoeopathy.
But what would avail all theory in medicine; of
what use would it be to the world and to the human
race, if the theory were not confirmed by the brilliant
achievements of experience.
Our practice and theory go hand in hand, and it is
because our accumulated and brilliant cures furnish the
most indubitable evidence of the truth of Hahnemann's
discovery: that it becomes our sacred duty not to be
idle spectators of this new order of things, but to institute active inquiries until we too are favored with a
knowledge of the truth which remains hidden from no
one who earnestly seeks it.
To many minds it is both a problem and a stumblingblock that the infinitesimal, imponderable and imperceptible, but highly refined doses should act more
pow-erltlly, more intensely and more penecalting7y than
the crude material of these same drugs; but let us consider that the nervous system  likewise is refined and
enfeebled; that a sound, a blow, even the ticking of a
clock may cause one to start, and may excite a feeling
of fright and anxiety; how much more powerful are
the most refined homoeopathic doses than these vibrations of the air, true nothings to the health7y organism, but



20            MANUAL OF HOMCEOPATHI{Y
t7ze causes of considerable caggp'avacions, andc even of cdeacth
in severe diseases.
By curing a number of otherwise incurable sufferings, homeopathy furnishes the proof that every disease has its main  seat and  origin in the nervous
system; a medicine is to act upon the nerves, this
exceedingly subtile fluid vwhich has never yet been
perceived by the senses.  Should we not, then, operate
with the most refined medicinal preparations which are
most adapted to the nerves, and has not the discoverer
of homoeopathy realized these preparations?
It is only such exceedingly minute doses that are
assimilable to the affected nerves; a cure can only
take place where such an assimilation exists; in the
same way nutrition can only take place by the food
being assimilated to the digestive organs.  The cligestive process is to food what potentization is to drugs.
ARTHUR LUTZE.



INTRO ODUCTION-,
THE  law  of IHomoeopathy,' sirlZia similibus,' or
" lie iy TikZe," has been verified since its discovery by
Samuel Iiahnemann in the year 1790, in all the departments of life, as an irrefutable law of nature, one of
those laws which enable us to look into the internal
economy of nature, and to observe the connection
between cause and effect. It is a sad thing that this
great law which should not only govern the treatment
of diseases but social life, and more particularly the
education of children, is still comprehended and acknowledged by such a small number.  But since the
homoeopathic healing art is spreading so rapidly, it
may be supposed that the law  of homceopathy will
likewise become more and more deeply-rooted in life,
although the progress of the law has so far been comparatively slow  and is still retarded by imbecility,
indolence and arrogance until, like the sun piercing
the mist, it shall conquer all obstacles and illumine the
horizon like a shining star. Lichtenberg says: "When
Pythagoras had discovered his theorem, a hundred
oxen were sacrificed to the gods; since then all oxen
tremble at every new discovery."
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22                  INTRODUCTION.
SECT'ION Ii.
Any one who is still unacquainted   with the meaning
of homceopathy, may read my "]ca.hnemncinz's Tocltenfeie-," (IHahnemann's funeral solemnities,) where the
homoeopathic doctrine is explained in a popular manner. After that, Hfcthnzencm n's Orgcamon may be studied,
which is instructive to  physicians and  teaches the
science of homocopathy.
SECTION III.
After having mastered the principle of homeopathy
and comprehending the truth that a disease can only
be cured by a remedy which is capable of producing a
similar disease in healthy organisms, it then becomes a
matter of importance to learn the symptoms of the
different remedies,
The first provings of our drugs are found in llahnemann's "Materia Medica Pura," and in his " Chronic
Diseases." But inasmuch as the student of homoeopathy
is fairly inundated with symptoms in these works, and
the symptoms of the various drugs are so frequently
alike, that it is almost impossible to find out the characteristic action of each drug, it has frequently happened that these difficulties have caused physicians to
abandon the study of homoeopathy which they had
commenced.
For this reason I have extracted the characteristic
symptoms of every drug, so that they can be studied
and remembered without difficulty. Any one who has
mastered this knowledge, will find it easy to study
further; but it is only in this way that these studies
can be continued with success and advantage.



ARlANGEMENT.                      23
SECTION IV.
If I have not arrang'ed the symptoms of the most
approved remedies according to the parts of the body,
it is because it was my design to premise the most
important particulars in the case of each drug; in the
case of ACONITE, for instance; "vascular erethism, dry
heat, alternate chilliness and heat (fever), rest essness,
ainxiety, pcalpitactio  of the heart, irritcabe rmood."  If these
few symptoms were all that we know of Aconite, they
would be of the utmost importance, since no remedy
has been found more adapted to vascular erethism  and
inflammation than Aconite.  Nux VOMICA commences
with " cavrialgica, oppreession of the stomach wit/ sour eructatiois, sour vomitiny, water in the mouth, distension of
the abdoeomen, baccachce, costiveness, " etc.  For among
one hundred cases of cardialgia, eighty are cured with
Nux, because this agent acts  principally  upon the
nerves of the stomach, back and abdomen, and this
simple knowledge is suficient to cure numbers with
Nux.  In  the case of PULSATILLA  we read  first:
"M1enses retarded and scanty; s2uppression of the menses,
especially in consequence of tahking cold; chlorosis; irregular menstruation, pains and  cramps in the abdomen,
previous to or during the appearance of the menses;"
for most uterine derangements are cured with Pulsatilla, and these few symptoms make it one of our most
important remedies.  SULPI-UR commences with these
words: "Priincijpal remedy for psora; /hepes anc eruptions
of every kind; itch1; these few statements contain the gist
of the remaining 1079 symptoms; for Sulphur is required
in all diseases depending upon or connected with psora,
and it alone secures tlheir radical and comprehensive cure.
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24                   I TRlODUCTION.
These are the reasons of my arrangement, and which
could not operate in the case of new  drugs, such as
mancinella, pyrocarbon, etc., with which I myself am
but imperfectly acquainted.
The "Characteristlic Sym/9toms"' owe their existence to
the fact that a physician  who studied homceopathy
under my direction, requested me to make him  acquainted with the most thoroughly tested effects of
drugs, and which I dictated to him in my leisure hours
from memory. The polychrests have been marked with
an *
SECTION V.
If the beginner has mastered these particulars, and
should desire to have a more detailed knowledge of
each drug, he may obtain it by studying Bcenninghausen's "Affinities of Homoeopathic Medicines," and
the more comprehensive treatise: Possart's " Characteristics of Homceopathic Medicines." After this work has
been studied, "Jahr's Symptomen-cocex"t may then be
consulted, and "Boenninghausen's Therapeutic Manual;
these works will enable one to get along in the most
complicated eases.
For the treatment of acute cdiseases the beginner is in
need of a treatise like the present one; where the course
of every disease is described and the appropriate relme
dies are fully indicated, previous to using which the
whole image of the disease has to be fully considered.
and the most strictly corresponding drug to be chosen
with great care.
tf Both works may be had in English, with considerable additions,
of W. Radde, 635 Arch St., Philadelphia.



ACUTE AND CHIRONIC DISEASES,               25
My first resource was Hering's Domestic Physician,
first edition, and I am thankful to Providence that such
a genuine homceopath has been my first teacher, for to
him  I am indebted for my first reputation as physician.
What I thea missed so keenly, I have endeavored to
add in the present work, I mean the size and repetition
of doses, concerning which I offer the following general
remarks:
SECTION VI.
We have to distinguish acute and chronic diseases.
1. Acute diseases, violent, breaking out suddenly, and
frequently endangering life, running a rapid  course,
such as inflammations, croup, cholera, acute fevers, etc.
In all such cases I give the medicine in water, which
has been  found advantageous even at Hahne1manan's
time.  I fill a clean tumbler with one or two cupfuls
of well-water, into which I drop from  three to five pellets of the appropriate remedy. I stir the mixture with
a horny spatula or a silver spoon which should be carefully wiped after being used; the tumbler is covered
with a clean saucer or plate.  The solution should be
kept in a cool place.
The repetition of the dose is regulated by the violence
of the disease.  In acute fevers I give a teaspoonful or
a swallow every hour or two hours; in croup every ten
or fifteen minutes; in cholera every five minutes; in
erysipelas every two to four hours; if an improvement
takes place, the repetition is less frequent.  In feverand ague I give the remedy morning  and evening,
during the apyrexia, for four or five days, after which I
discontinue the medicine, for, if the remedy is properly



26                   TNTtODUCTIONo
chosen, the disease will either be arrested at once, or
will disappear in the course of eight or twelve days.
I may mention that violent pains are sometimes very
speedily relieved by simply smelling at a vial containing
a few pellets of the appropriate remedy. In this way
toothache for instance, is cured in a very speedy manner, also headache, or violent pains caused by contusions
or wounds. If smelling should only produce temporary
relief, the samle medicine may then be given in water.
If it should be inconvenient to take the medicine in
water, when traveling, for instance, the pellets may be
taken dry on the tongue, placing no more than one
pellet on the tongue and allowing it to dissolve.
In all diseases beginningi with cidy heat, glowing chee/ks,
hurriecd resj2ircttionb, full pulslse, restlessness and anxiety,
we first give ACONITE in water, as stated above, one
teaspoonful every hour or even more fiequently.  If
another remedy is indicated whose symptoms are not
covered by Aconite, the two may be given in alternation.
This alternation of drugs in acute diseases is very
convenient, provided both drugs are indicated at the
same time; in typhus, for instance, Byronia and Rhus;
in pneunmonia, Aconite and Bryouia; in meningitis,
Aeon. and Belladonna, or Aeon. and  lyoscyamus; in
cholera, Cuprum   and  Veratrum, or Veratrum  and
Arsen.;  in  croup, Acon. and  Hepar, Hlepar and
Spongia, Brom. and  Iodine, or Acon., I-epar and
Bromine; as the stages of a disease can never be
sharply circumscribed, but lap over into each other, so
the remedies which are administered in alternation,
form the transition fiom  one stage into another, even
to a cure.



ACUTE AND ClHRONIC DISEASESEo                  27
2. It is different in the cases of c/hronic  xdiseases, or
diseases which  run a long  course, have  existed  for
years, and  deeply taint the organism; for instance:
deafness, blindness, gout, paralysis, old eruptions, open
sores and old ulcers, fistule, herpes, curvatures of the
back and bones, caries of bones.
In such chronic cffections the mecdicine should  never be
frequently repected, nor should the scatne medicine be given
twice in succession.  Each dose should be allowed sufficient time to develop its full cfiect, since it is the subsequent action of the drug that achieves a cure.
Formerly I gave a pellet of the indicated remedy
and in two or five months thereafter a pellet of some
other remedy; but it seemed that also in chronic cases
the medicine acted more penetratingly, if given in water.
which may be accounted for by the fact that the medicinal water presents a more extensive surface of contact
to  the absorbent mucous membranes, and the torpid
nerves are more frequently  alnd  hence more permanently touched by the repeated administration of the
drug.
On this account I have adopted ihe practice of dissolving
three to five pellets of the thirlieth potenicy in a cupf'u  of
fresh water, of which I give a sVwcZlo70z  momrnizng acnd evening for four or five days, Ccfte'r whiehl I calow the medicine
to act for three or four months, sometbimies cveln for five or
six.months, or even longer, if the imprp1ovement continues;
if it should cease, and three months should have elapsed,
I then give another remedy.
The reason why I do not give another remedy under
three months (except in  case acute symptoms supervene,) is because I have noticed that the priliary action
of the drug is sometimes not developed under two or



28                  INTRODUCTION.
three months, after which a cure takes place, which
could not have been accomplished, if I had not waited
a sufficient length of time to allow  the medicine to
manifest its full action, or if I had interfered with it by
the untimely repetition of the dose.
The curative process should not be viewed as materially as it is very frequently done. The proplerly selected
remedy starts the cure, the naturcal curative power finishes it.
If the pendulum  of a clock is once set in motion, it
keeps moving as long as the clock is wound up; if we
kept starting the pendulum  every now  and then, its
vibrations would soon become disordered, and would
finally be arrested.  If I hide an apple-seed in the
ground, it will germinate and sprout in due time, will
penetrate to the light of day, and slowly but surely will
grow up to the tree, according to Nature's behest.  If
man, becoming impatient, should undertake to lay one
seed above the other, the former would become choked,
no tree would grow, because Nature had been interfered with by short-sighted man.
This remark applies to chronic diseases which gene.
rally arise from  some acrid matter, from  some hereditary or externally inoculated dysccrasi'c.  In order to
expel this, the natural curative power of the organism
only requires to be stcrlecd, after which  this  power
achieves the cure as certainly as earth and sun accomplish the unfolding of the tree from  the seed.  If we
unwisely interfere with  these mysterious rulings of
Nature, a cure can no more take place than a tree can
be developed from the seed.
Although Hahnemann has taught these truths most
satisfactorily, yet we only become fully conscious of
them, if we have experienced them in our own practice.



'ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES,               29Years ago I had adopted the practice of not giving
another  dose  in  chronic  affections  under  several
months; but the following case taught me a different
lesson.
Louise B]., of II., 161 years old, of a scrofulous
habit, became so distorted after a fall which she had in
her seventh year, that the cervical vertebre stood out
in an almost horizontal direction, and the sternum had
assumed a similar direction in front, the head was
twisted backwards. She had continual pain in the
spine, sternum, and in both thighs.  The latter had
become weaker and weaker ever since her eighth year.
At first she was only able to drag her lower extremities, but gradually she lost the use of her limbs entirely
and had to be carried like a child.  In this condition
she was brought to my clinique where the treatment
was commenced with a pellet of Sl2ph1r 30.  The
mother returned in two months and a-half, stating that
the pains had considerably increased. I gave a pellet
of Silica 80.  In three montlhs and a-half I was infoirmed that the sufferings of the patient had gone on
increasingly.  On Dec. 30th, 1847, I gave a pellet of
Ccalcceca   30.  No  change having occurred in three
months, I began to suspect that I had given my remedies too soon one after another, thus destroying the
primary effect of each.  I now gave powders of sugar
of milk, and a favorable change took place, and continued from month to month.  The pains abated more
and more, the spine became straighter, the limbs more
vigorous, so that, six months after taking the Cale., she
was able to be led a few steps.  Eight months after the
cure, the father wrote:  Last Friday my daughter
Louise walked a few steps alone, without being sup



30                  INTRODUCTIONI
ported."  A  few  months afterwards a tumor formed
under the right scapula which telrniniatecd in an abscess
and discharged after Ilepfxr 30. The pus being thin
and fetid, I gave Ascafeticca 30, after which it soon
became yellow and thick. The suppuration weakened
the patient so much that she again lost the use of her
limbs; but the psoric poison having been removed
from  her organism, she was enabled to go to church
with her parents in the spring of the same year, and to
take short walks.  At the end of May she took a pellet
of Lycopodiuzm 30, after which she improved so rapidly
that she was able to walk for miles in the summer, and
to do the housework; she considered herself cured.  A
cure would probably have been effected more rapidly,
if I had allowed the former remedies to act more fully.
I trust that this case will prove a warning to my colleagues, and that every one who only gives low doses,
will ask himself whether he has ever perfbrmed such a
cure by means of them,
Another case.  Mr. H., from Holstein, had been suffering for years.  He sought my advice in writing.
Age 40 years. Almost constant pains in the left side
of the chest; frecluent yawning, sneezing and eructations.  Occasional pain and swelling in the pit of the
stomach, empty eructations when pressing upon this
region. Deaf of the left ear from his infancy. Swelling
at times of the left cheek, at other times of the mouth,
nose and eye.  Stiffness in the nape of the neck.
Drawing pains in the left thigh.  Weakness of the
stomach and nerves. In former years, inflammation of
the glands and lungs.  lie had the itch when young,
which had been removed with an ointment. I sent him
four powders, to be taken in eight weeks, No. 1 contain



ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES.              81
ing four pellets of Sulphur 30, which were to be dissolved
in a cupful of water, a swallow to be taken morning and
night for four days. After eight weeks the following report was sent to me: A few weeks after taking the medicine, all the symptoms grew worse, but in three weeks
a general improvement set in. The left ear began to
discharge again, which had not been the case for years,
and the flatulence and pains in the chest have abated,
so that the patient feels much better. I sent four powders of sugar of milk, for the effect of Sulphur now
first began to show itself.  The next report being still
more favorable, I continued the non-medicinal powders.
Twelve months after the commencement of the treatment I received the following report: The hearing of
the left ear which had been deaf these thirty-two years,
is restored, and I am cured except a small swelling near
the left eye, and some stiffness of the nape of the neck.
Another non-medicinal dose completed the cure.  One
dose of Sulphur 30, did all this in the space of four
months.
Another case is Lady H., 67 years old. For forty years
this patient had attacks of hemicrania which deprived
her of her senses for three and more days every two or
three weeks. She felt as if her brain were torn and
sore.  She constantly complained of nausea, rush of
blood to the head, throbbing and shooting pain in the
temples, towards the ear, worse on one side. Roaring
and whizzing in the head and ears, so that she was not
able to hear during the attack, and was unable to open
her eyes in consequence of the extreme sensitiveness of
her eyes.  She was, moreover, affected with backache,
and pains in the limbs, hiemorrhoidal tumours and such
an obstinate constipation that very frequently she had



32                  INTRODUCTION.
only a hard and painful stool every fortnight in spite
of all injections.
After a careful examination I considered Salphur 30
the best remedy, and gave her one pellet, informing
her at the same time that the medicine would probably
excite former ailments, the first of which was an obstinate constipation which lasted a fortnight, and was
followed by regular stool.  This, however, may have
been promoted by the magnetized water which is very
apt to remove such difficulties.  In the fourth week she
had an attack of hemicrania, wvhere every symptom was
most intense, but I gave no medicine, confident that I
must allow the Sulphur full time to act.  Every two or
three weeks some former ailment made its appearance.
Ten years ago the patient had had violent pains in the
left side; these set in for two days, after which they
disappeared. Four weeks later the patient was troubled
with asthmatic complaints which she had had fifteen
years ago; these, too, disappeared again in a few days.
Now an inflammation of the liver showed itself which had
troubled the patient twenty years ago for eight weeks,
and had brought her to the brink of the grave.  The
inflammation increased to such an extent that I had to
give her two pellets of Aconite in water, after which the
inflammation disappeared in two days. Two months
after this time she was attacked for two clays with coxagra, an-attack of which she had twenty years ago.
Soon after she had a pain at the left elbow which had
preceded the former complaint during the first attack.
In the mean while the attacks of hemicrania became
less frequent and violent, until during the sixthmonth,
she had an eruption about the head and on other parts
of the body, after the removal of which, she was per



ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES.             38
fectly cured seven months after the beginning of the
cure.
What is interesting to know in this case is that this
patient had had nothing but homoeopathic treatment
for twenty years past; but her physicians had not
cured her because they did not allow the medicine to
develop its full effect. At a consultation of homoeopathic physicians it had been agreed that Sulphur was
the right remedy, and Dr. Rau had ordered her to take
one pellet every fourth evening.  This had no effect for
the simple reason that one dose destroyed the other,
and the frequent repetition of the same medicine prevented the natural remedial power of the organism
from improving the start imparted by the appropriate
remedy for the purpose of achieving the cure.
This precaution being duly observed, Sulphur not
only developed its full curative power, but likewise
excited all her previous ailments which had only been
suppressed heretofore, and gradually effected a perfect
cure in the space of seven months.
It seems as though every physician of intelligence
and  good-will should  feel disposed  to follow  this
example.
These cases show that no second dose of a remedy
should be given as long as the first dose has not exhausted its action, and in cases where no effect is
observed, as in the case of deaf and dumb patients, to
allow a dose to act at least for three to five months,
since it is impossible to know what is going on in the
interior of the organism, and it is so easy to injure the
salutary action of a drug by the untimely exhibition of
another remedy, of which we have had repeated  instances in the case of externally perceptible ailments.
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34                 IINTRODUCTION.
SECTION VIII.
In answer to the question, how such a small dose can
prodace such wonderful effects, I repeat what I wrote
in 1849, for I have nothing better or clearer to offer:
EXPLANATION
Of the efficacy of homoeopathic potencies by means of
animal magnetism.
Nobody has known heretofore how it happens that
homoeopathic potencies act so powerfully, and the most
diversified theories have been offered in explanation.
Some years ago I made the discovery, and have since
verified it by repeated observations, that animal magnetism is the vivifying, efficient power of our potencies.
Every one who frequents my clinic, has seen that the
most violent pains often yield to a pass with my hand,
to a breath, to a mere word, hence to the power of the
will; that even ailments which had lasted for years,
frequently cease suddenly and even permanently.
This is a gift of God which cannot be acquired by
study or comprehended by the reason, but which has a
real existence although depending upon faith and the
will.  We have to believe that man is capable of such
a power, and that it is bestowed upon him by God's
omnipotence.  If this faith is accompanied by the firm
will of relieving an alflicted brother, I may then either
impose my hand or make a pass, or simply extend the
hand, or breathe upon him, or only speak a word, and
the pain will cease.
If relief is not procured, it must be because the
magnetiser was deficient in faith or will-power, or he
_~ -~~~"ll-pl"" —-— ~~ _ ~ —--— __~~~. —~~



SMALL DOSES.                    30
must have felt that he ought not to have afforded any
help in this case; powerfully-magnetic individuals are
conscious of this, as though it were whispered to therm
by an invisible power.
The zoo-magnetic power may likewise be transmitted
to natural objects, pure water, pulverised sugar, wood,
etc. I have the most striking proofs showing that a
powder of sugar upon which I had breathed, or a glass
of water which I had touched purposely, has produced
the most marvelous effects.
A most striking example is afforded by Mr. Moses
Philipps, of Dessau, aged 72 years. For the last six
months he had vomited whatever food he swallowed,
first after the lapse of twenty-four, then after twelve,
and finally after six hours, and for the last eight days
immediately after swallowing food, so that he was
unable to walk in consequence of his debility, and the
most distinguished physicians gave up the tthought of
saving his life.  tie was brought to me in this condition, and said: "I am a dead man unless you help me;
I know you can help me!"
I took a glass of water in my left hand, magnetised it
with my right by placing it upon the tumbler, and told
him to drink it. To his astonishment he kept the water
on his stomach, whereas he had rejected even fluids
heretofore; soon after he experienced hunger, and I
had him eat a plate of soup with some wheat bread;
this, too, was retained, and he was able to eat more
solid food and never vomited after this.  The violent
cardialgia with which he had been constantly afflicted,
had likewise disappeared; and in a fortnight he returned to Dessau quite well. A  few  years after his
return he wrote me that he continued in excellent



~36            mTOINTnODUCTION.
health, that he was able to digest the heaviest aliments
and that he had grown quite stout.
This and many other similar cures induced me to
draw the following inference: If mere water, by a mere
imposition of hands, is rendered so medicinal that it
will cure at once a severe affection of years' standing,
how much more must this medicinal power be imparted
to a properly attenuated agent whose peculiar effects
we have become acquainted with by experience and
provings upon the healthy, by continued shaking with
the hand I
This inference seems quite plain, but it would have
remained problematical, if daily experience had not
demonstrated its correctness.
The thing happens in this wise:
The noxious constituents of the drug, for instance of
poisons, is removed by attenuation; but the peculiarly
specific principle which constitutes, so to say, the soul
of the drug, remains, and is wonderfully excited during
the shaking by the magnetic influence, and by it is rendered capable of curatively affecting the disordered
nerves, which would have been overwhelmed by the
coarse material.
The selection of the appropriate remedy in a given
case depends upon the law that the drug must be capable
of producing in its coarser form, on healthy individuals,
the very symptoms which the potentized agent is expected to cure. This is the law  of similarity which
Hahnemann has discovered, and which has given rise
to the name homceopathy. Even Paracelsus makes
mention of this law, and Hippocrates alludes to it in
this proposition: Fevers are sometimes most readily
cured by remedies which induce fever.



SMALL DOSES.                        37
This affords an  explanation  why  the improperlyselected remedy has no injurious effect upon the body.
By virtue of the law of similarity the remedy can only
act upon a condition of the nervous system  analogous
to the drug; where this analogy is wanting, the highly
potentized remedy can hurt no more than  a magnetic
pass hurts a person in health, which will sometimes cure
a diseased individual in an instant.
Many persons may have rejected homceopathy because
they were unable to comprehend its law.  We have
furnished an explanation and support it with undeniable
facts.
Although the phenomena of animal magnetism  cannot be accounted for, yet its effects are seen, and are
only denied by a small number.
Every body possesses it more or less;* for what else
is it but the vital power which is extinguished only by
death.  It is undermined by irregular and licentious
living, by excesses of the body or mind.  It is preserved
and fortified by a careful observance of the laws of
health, by self-control, and by an increasing consciousness that the body is only the envelope of an immortal
spirit.
* Hence any body may prepare homiceopathic niedicines; but their
power will depend upon the degree of magnletic power which ihe possesses. This is probably the reason why some who use my preparations, assert that the medicines prepared by me, act more powerfully
than those prepared by other persons. This seems to have been verified by a number of experiments. The experiments which I have
instituted with Jenichen's high potencies in chronic affections, have
satisfied me that they act less intensely than my own preparations,
without accomplishing any more; and that in the case of all potencies the main point is to alloco ecch close to act to thie end. I use
throughout the 30th potency which I prepare with 60 stroles of the
arm.



It                  INTTiODU(TION.
It is in us that the divine spark slumbers which
enables us to attain by faith and will to whatever is not
beyond the boundaries of Nature.
He who believes and wills this, and steps to his sick
brother's bedside with a loving heart, will behold, not
without amazement, the wonder of fulfilnent.
SECTION IX.
I have shown that in acute diseases the dose may be
repeated quite frequently, and in chronic diseases much
less frequently; and that a change in the symptoms, in
the case of acute diseases, necessitates a change of remedy, or the alternate use of two remedies.  In acute
cases it is generally more expedient to alternate than to
combine remedies, because one may be withdrawn and
another substituted in its stead. In meningitis, for instance, with dry and burning heat, I give Aeon. and
Bell. 30 in alternation, every hour or half hour; but as
soon as the heat is over, and sweat sets in, I discontinue
the Aeon., and give Bell. alone, or alternate this remedy
with Bryon., in case the patient should move the jaws
as when chewing; if the sweat should cease, and the
burning heat should return, I have again recourse to
Aeon. In this way the dangerous symptoms of a violent
disease may be controlled speedily and safely; but care
must be had not to give too much of a remedy, and not
to continue it after it has removed the symptoms for
which it was selected.
I have likewise shown that an entirely cifferent
method has to be pursued in chronic cases; that the
trifling incidental symptoms of an acute character need
not be considered, and that the totality of all the symp



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consequences of a blow, shock or concussion generally:
Arnica or Rhus tox.; for loss of animal fluids, China.
If the physician knows the exciting cause, which
should always be inquired into, the remedy which is in
relation with this cause, should always be given first; or
else, if it does not cover the totality of the symptoms,
the remedy which is indicated next, or the two in
alternation.
In the third place, in selecting a remedy the physician
should have regard to the patient's constitution. lHe
has to observe whether the patient is scrofulous, distorted, in which case Sulphur should never be omitted;
likewise, whether the patient is now or has been afflicted
with eruptions, tetter, ulcers, itch, caries, in which case
Sulphur has always to be given alone, or in alternation
with some other remedy.  If the patient is bloated, inquiry has to be made whether the bloat is the result of
dropsy (OhinaC, Arsen.,) or of an excessive deposit of fat
(CIcc. carb.)  In a case of emaciation Ars. and China
have to be given; heat in the head requires Bell.; pregnancy points to Sepiact, Ipecac., Bell., China.
In the fourth place the patient's age has to be considered, and in the case of infants the experienced physician will first think of Acon. and Chazn.; in the case
young girls between the ages of 13 and 17, Puts. and
Ch/ina are very frequently required; in the critical age,
between the years of 46 and 52, Sepiac and Lachesis are
required; old age is benefited by Bar. carb. and 02ium.
Of course, age is no criterium for the selection of a remedy; in comparing remedies, these remedies should
not be overlooked, if they are otherwise indicated by
the symptoms.
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cause a symptom is made worse or better; aggravation,
for instance: in the evening (Puls.) or in the morning
(Nux), at night (Sulph., Merc.), or in the clay-time after
a meal (Nux vom.), in the open air (Nux vom.), or in a
warm  room (Puls.), during rest (Rhus tox.), or during
motion (Bry.), in the warmth of the bed (Sulph., Rhus
tox., Merc., Lyc.), by dampness and wet (Calc. carb.,
Rhus tox., Chin.); im7provemer, in the warmth of the
bed (Caust., Nux vom., Bry.), in the open air (Puls.),
etc.; again, improvement or aggravation by certain
kinds of food, work, exertions, mental exertions, (Nux
vom.), or bodily (An., lhus tox.), and other similar
indications which are of the utmost importance to the
genuine homoeopath.
Next to the history of the disease and all the accessory
symptoms, the ordinary bodily functions have to be
considered, such as stool and urine, appetite and thirst,
sleep, respiration, cutaneous exhalations, catamenia; the
absence or presence of one of these functions frequently
determines the selection of the remedy. The catamenia
constitute in most cases the characteristic symptom.
Deafness or hardness of hearing, for instance, if no other
accessory symptoms are known, or the exciting cause
cannot be ascertained, can only be cured in the case of
females by ascertaining all irregularities in the sexual
sphere and selecting the remedies which are indicated
by them.  In general, this point should never be overlooked in selecting a remedy, otherwise we might be
unable to effect any satisfactory result.
In order to facilitate the examination of a case, I have
established the following seven points which I send to
all patients at a distance who have sent me an imperfect
report, and who are desirous of obtaining my advice.



441                  INTRODUCTION.
A FEW  HINTS TO PHYSICIANS AT A DISTANCE IEGARDING THE MIANTNER OF TAKING DOWN  THE  TOTALITY
OF THE SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASE.
1. NaCTme, age, condition, residence, street, number of the
house; if the patient resides in a village, the mail-station
has to be indicated from which letters are sent to the
village.
2. Correct cdescription of the disease, duration and probable exciting cause of the same.  If pains exist, the
seat of the pains should be correctly indicated, indication of the period when the pains are either less or
worse, whether in the day-time or at night, in the morning or evening, by cold or warmth, during rest or motion, etc.
3. Temperament and disposition, whether cheerful or
gloomy, gentle or vehement, disposed to weep, etc., whether this has always been the case, or has set in with
the disease.
4. Fracme of body, whether tall or small, stout or thin,
robust or delicate, with red cheeks or pale and sickly.
5. Bodily defects: hernia, prolapsus, defects of hearing
or sight, whether distorted, lame, etc.  Causes thereof.
6. Stool and Urine, appetite and thirst, sleep, respiration, cutaneous secretions; chilliness, heat, sweat
(fever); in a case of fever and ague, whether and when
thirst is present; whether the menses appear regularly;
duration of the same, color, consistence (pale, red or
dark); coagulated, tenacious; profuse or scanty, with
or without pain; leucorrhcea, its character
7. Whether can eruption has ever existed, even in
infancy, glandular swellings, herpes, ulcers, itch or alny
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METHOD OF RECORDING SYMPTOMS.              45
other acrid humors; whether the patient has been
guilty of self-abuse or other excesses.
It should be ascertained whether the patient. had been
bled frequently, had taken much calomel or china, etc.,
or had indulged in coffee, wine, brandy, etc.
In examining a patient, this order of questions should
never be departed from.
The patient should first be allowed to relate his case
without interruption; cross-questions are very apt to
cause patients who have not much power of concentration, to forget various points which may be of great
importance to a physician, and which would have to be
ascertained at the next visit.  Let the patient speak
slowly so that every thing can be noted down. After
he has said every thing, he may then be questioned
more  specifically, but in  such a manner that the
answers are not suggested to him; for instance: he
should never be asked, have you headache? but, have
you any other painful sensations? If he should say:
Yes, I suffer with headache, we should not ask: in the
temples or forehead, stinging or boring? but we should
say: describe the headache more minutely. After this,
we do not ask: is it worse in the evening or morning?
but: at what time of the day or night is it worse?
Again, we do not ask: is it made worse by cold or
heat, by sitting or moving about, by loud talking, etc.,
but: by what influences or changes in the temperature
is the headache made better or worse?
We should never omit inquiring into the condition
of the sexual sphere; this can be done without any
difficulty by a physician who knows how to win his
patient's confidence by an earnest and sympathising
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46                     INTRODUCTION
whlether the patient had been  guilty of masturbation.
Every apparently trifling symptom  is important to the
proper selection of a drug; the statements of hypochondriac and hysteric patients, however, should be subjected to a careful criticism.
Every thing bearing upon the case is to be carefully
noted in this manner, and to be transferred to the clinical journal which every physician should  keep with
conscientious care.  Any one who applies for it, can
obtain  such a paper from  me, containing seven divisions: 1. The number of the journal; 2. Date; 3. Name,
condition, residence, age; 4. Symptoms of the disease;
5. Remedy, potency  and  prescription; 6. Result;  7.
Particular remarks.  I have kept such a journal for six
to eight years; but my practice increasing so much that
I had to employ several assistant physicians and secretaries for my foreign correspondence, I arranged  a socalled flying journal.  I had sheets, of the size of a
third part of a common sheet of letter paper, printed as
follows:
To be avoided during h7z  th reatmzent.
Coffee, tea, strong beer, wine, gin, rum, acids, spices, herbs and
roots, fat pork, fat meat and vapors of sulphur. All other ordinary
aliments are permitted.
Dissolve a pow-                              5  In  dissolving
der in a cupful of)  Take every day, morning and the powder, stir
fresh water, and.  evening, a dessertspoonful, so f the mixture with
keep it well cov- as to finish the whole in four a horny spatula,
eied.           days; then wait seven days.: or a goose-quill,
First. No. 1.   but no  metalspoon.
This paper has to be preserved, and brought or senlt to me at every
consultation.
Ccethen.                              DR. ARTHUR LUTZE.
My clinic is open every day, except Sunday, from 8 to 1 o'clock
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METHOD OF RECORDING SYMPTOMS.               47
In the middle space I write the date, name, condition
and residence of the patient.  On the reverse blank
page are found the symptoms of the patient, his age,
the duration of the malady, a general description of the
same, and finally the most particular symptoms. The
symptoms of the disease of which, if sent in writing, the
assistant physicians make an extract, are followed by
my prescription, which is inclosed in the paper, after
which the whole is sent off by mail, or handed to the
patient if present.
Example: Mrs. F., 31 years.  Cardialgia for seven
years past, caused by a cold.  A spasmodic pain cornmences in the stomach, extends to the small of the back,
and upwards between the shoulder-blades. These symptoms are accompanied by sour eructations, gulping-up
of sour water, sometimes vomiting. Worse in the morning and after eating.  Violent temperament, irascible;
slender and looking well.  Stool hard, every two or
three days.  Little appetite, restless sleep.  Menses
regular, profuse and dark.  Had never any eruption.
Nesx vonz. 30., 4 P.
This last expression signifies that only the first powder contains five pellets, and that the other powders are
non-medicinal. If the two first powders  contained
medicine, I should express it thus: Nux vom. 4 P.
When sending off medicine, I wrap these four powders in the printed envelop, so that they fill exactly the
middle space, and in six weeks the report and the envelop are sent back to me; the case is continued in the
same paper; as soon as this paper is filled, a second
paper is attached to it, and the flying journal is composed of these papers, which every patient takes good
care of, for he knows that they are important.
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48                   INTRODUCTION.
This arrangement has enabled me to make in the year
1853 eighty thousand prescriptions by mail, and twenty
thousand to thirty thousand in my clinic. This fact has
been doubted, until physicians came to my clinic and
convinced themselves by ocular demonstration of the
truth.
Let no beginner neglect to read HIahnemann's Organon, ~~ 84-99, where the investigation and description
of the symptoms of a case are more particularly explained.
SECTION X.
One of the most important chapters is that of diet;
for a cure may not only be promoted, but also prevented
by it.
As a general rule, the followiing articles should be
absolutely forbidden, both during and some time after a
homceopathic cure: coffee, vinegar, lemon-juice, pungent and aromatic condiments in food or drink, wvinle,
spirituous beverages, strong and stupefying perfumes
or odors, such as the smell of sulphur and phosphorus
in lighting matches.
As regards coffee, it is generally known that it excites
the nerves, but few are acquainted with the fact that
coffee is the cause of most of the ruling ailments, especially among females.  All sorts of cardialgia and abdominal complaints, hesmorrhages, headache and toothache, sur-excitation of the senses and nerves, owe their
existence to the abuse of coffee.  This beverage should
never be used by children and women, more particularly
if they are affected with rush of blood to the head and
chest.
Every homoeopathic physician should prohibit coffee



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from  the following three reasons  [ First, because it is
more or less hurtful in every case; second, because it
antidotes most of our homceopathic preparations; third,
because the patient who is anxious to recover his health
should be willing to suffer a trifling privation, in order
to be placed in possession of this precious gift of God.
Such a privation will induce him  to be very particular
in following the directions of his physician; he ought
to be carefully reminded of the fact that he is sick, for
an ever-present consciousness of this fact will keep the
desire of recovering his health keenly alive in his heart,
and will facilitate the operations of the medical adviser.
These are the moral reasons, imposed by common sense
and duty, why coffee should be avoided.
As regards tea, I do not prohibit the absolute use of
it, but I allow the so-called black tea, which is not injurious to homoopathic preparations, except C/ina and
Pulsatillca.
But even black tea should be strictly forbidden, if
patients are not accustomed to its use; for it excites the
nerves, especially those of females; whence it may be
inferred that the use of tea has a deleterious effect upon
the nerves of those who experience the least stimulating influence from it; such persons should abstain from
the use of tea altogether.
Instead of coffee and tea, fresh milk should be used,
immediately after it is drawn; this is a most whole.
some and natural beverage, more particularly for child.ren.
A beverage prepared from roast corn and sweet carrots may likewise prove a good substitute for coffee.
Pure chocolate or ground cocoa may likewise be resorted to, but not the so called prepared chocolate with4



50                  INTRODUCTION.
out the oil, which is recommenced by ignorant traders,
but is of difficult digestion. Cocoa-shells likewise afford
a wholesome and pleasant beverage, or a plain soup,
such as our ancestors were in the habit of eating at
breakfast or supper, and is still used in many parts of
Germany and France.
Vinegar and lemnon-juice are forbidden because they
interfere with the action of most homceopathic preparations. If not under treatment, mild acids may now and
then be used with the food by persons in health; such
acids should be used very sparingly by children, but
should be rigorously avoided by chlorotic girls, or by
girls of a chlorotic habit of body, who have frequently
a strong desire for acids, which should not be gratified,
inasmuch as such gratifications may be followed by disastrous results.
Sourkrout, without vinegar, may be eaten by chronic
patients whose digestive organs are in good condition;
curd may likewise be eaten by those who are not incomnmoded by it.
S7iamrp and aromatic spices heat the blood, on which
account both healthy and sick persons should abstain
from them, but especially the latter. The custom  of
spicing the food so as to cause the mouth to burn for
hours has been very generally abandoned; it is a most
unwholesome practice.
Cinnamon causes a tendency to hemorrhage, and
should be prohibited; parsley excites the urinary organs, and celery the sexual organs; for this reason these
two articles should be avoided in affections of these
organs respectively; on the other hand, in chronic af.
fections of other organs, a cure is not interfered with if
patients should now and then eat a little parsley or cel



DIET.                      51 
ery, or some other simple helrb, in the soup or vegetables.
TWine should be prohibited during homoeopathic treatment; it interferes with the operation of many drugs,
stimulates the circulation, and is more especially prejudicial to rheumratic and arthritic individuals.
Healthy persons should use wine in moderate quantities, if they do not wish to be injured by it.  This is
particularly advisable in the case of young persons.
The proper way would be to drink wine only on extraordinary occasions of rejoicing, when it may contribute
to promote hilarity; it should not be used as a common
beverage.
It may do good when drank after eating heavy or fat
food, on journeys, more particularly when the weather
is cold and damp; at such times a little wine is craved
by the natural instinct, which should always be obeyed
by persons in health.
Wine proves true medicine after debilitating diseases,
such as typhus. In such cases a teaspoonful of it should
be taken at a meal. Wine, taken at dinner, proves invigorating to old people.
On the other hand, wine will prove injurious to health
if used immoderately, without due regard to hygienic
laws.,Spirituous beverages, such as brandy, rum, grog, punch,
liquors, etc., should not only be rigorously abstained
from by patients, but likewise by persons in health, for
such things destroy life and peace.
It has been ascertained by recent investigations that
all fermented liquors contain alcohol, which does not
act as a sudden poison, but slowly and very gradually
undermines health and weakens the vital power. Most



52                  INTRODUCTION.
drunkards die of delirium tremens, and some are even
said to have perished by spontaneous combustion. This
termination of a drunkard's fate occurs so rarely that
its occurrence is doubted by many.  The Prince E.
Gagarin, of Odessa, has assured me that he has witnessed
several such casualties with his own eyes.
An examination of the stomachs of recently-deceased
drunkards has shown that the inner coat of these organs
has a reddish color, arising from the congested condition
of the capillaries.  The stomach of a drunkard who
gets intoxicated several times a week has a blueish appearance, and the blood-vessels are very much distended
with blood. The stomach of a drunkard is intensely
inflamed, and scarcely able to retain food; the stomach
of one who died of delirium tremens, or of schirrus of
the stomach induced by drinking, has an offensive look.
He who considers these things must be aware that even
the moderate use of brandy is not innocuous, as is supposed by many ignorant persons, who fancy that brandy
is necessary to those who are exhausted by hard labor.
All that brandy accomplishes is to excite the nervous
system, and inasmuch as these artificial stimulations
lead to excessive waste, every drop of brandy is de
structive to health and life. Instead of spending money
for the deleterious brandy, even poor people might procure for themselves strength and comfort, if they would
buy meat instead of liquor.
Sensible people should constantly endeavor to impress these teachings upon the minds of the uneducated
masses, who could easily be made to understand such a
simple and important matter.
Look at a drunkard: not only his physical strength
is ruined, but likewise his moral energies. All his finer



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feelings are blunted; the sense of honor and shame, the
love of that which is great and good, have disappeared 
the only desire that is not extinguished in his soul is
the desire for brandy. Hufeland says: "I do not know
anything that is more capable of begetting a character
of beastly brutality, and of destroying the divine features in man's nature, than the abuse of brandy. Other
vices still leave the hope of improvement, but the vice
of drunkenness ruins man throughout, for the reason
that it destroys his sensibility. It seems to me that
these considerations should engage the attention of the
public authorities, and should induce them  to devise
measures to diminish the consumption of brandy, instead of allowing gin-shops and brandy-distilleries to
be multiplied. A country where this vice becomes universal must perish, for industry, virtue, humanity, sobriety, moral sentiment, and all the other qualities without which no country can preserve its existence and
growth, are banished by this horrid vice. History
shows that the introduction of brandy among savage
tribes is the beginning of their physical weakness and
degradation, and that this disastrous gift by the white
man secures their subjugation much more readily than
gunpowder and artillery."
The best evidence of the correctness of these statements is furnished by the following words addressed
years ago by a delegate of many Indian tribes to the
President of the United States: " Ve pray thee to
grant us ploughs and other tools, and to send us blacksmiths who can teach us to mend them. But, my
father, whatever we undertake will prove without avail,
unless the assembled Congress of the sixteen States
forbids the sale of brandy and other spirituous bever



E5-1                INTRODUCTION.
ages to the red man. Father, the sale of this poison
has been forbidden in our fields, but not in our cities
where many of our hunters not only sell their furs for
this poison, but likewise their rifles and blankets, andc
return to their families in a state of nudity.  Father,
thy children are willing to labor, but the introduction
of this deleterious poison  keeps them  poor.  Thy
children have not yet learnt to govern themselves as
thy people have. When our white brethren first came
to  our country, our ancestors were  numerous and
happy; but since the arrival of the white man, and
since the introduction of this deleterious poison they
are less numerous, and less happy."
What a joyful message it must be to the unfortunate
victims of the vice of drunkenness, that the new healing
art offers means of salvation even to them, not by
secret remedies, but by enabling man to mend his ways
by his own free will; for man's feeble strength can
only be supported and his ruin can only be prevented,
if he is willing to accept help. I have frequently succeeded in saving a poor unfortunate from  the consectuences of drinking; even two years ago I rescued the
father of a family whom  the vice of drunkenness had
well nigh led to the brink of ruin; since then he has
not touched a drop of brandy, and the members of this
family now form a happy and comfortable group.
In regard to ale, I have been in the habit of forbidding it, because it is most generally mixed with a
little alcohol, especially when brought from a distance,
for a little alcohol is then added by the brewer in order
to secure its better preservation; but pure beer made
from malt and hop may be drank in moderate quantities without injuring the medicine.



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A  Bavarian brewer once informed me that he had
been in the habit of mixing his beer with quassia,
lolium temolentum, centaury, and even nunx vomica;
although these poisonous ingredients are only added
in small quantity, yet their continued use must necessarily have a deleterious influence upon the human
body. In more than one case of insanity, it has been
traced to the constant use of this adulterated ale.
The public authorities in every country should see to
it that such adulterations do not take place.
Although fresh water is undoubtedly the most wholesome beverage, yet a glass of pure beer need not be
interdicted; more particularly in the case of an industrious laborer who uses beer as a substitute for brandy.
Children, however, should abstain from beer, or should
drink it only exceptionally.
Cider had better be avoided by persons under treatment; if perfectly pure and not acid, it may be drank
occasionally by chronic patients whose digestive organs
are not affected by it.
All strong and stupefying odors should be carefully
avoided. Nevertheless it is unnecessary to follow this
rule with pedantic anxiety. Nobody, for instance, need
be afraid of the perfume of flowers in the open air;
fragrant flowers, however, should not be kept in a close
room, much less in a bed-room, because the exhalations
emitted by such flowers may cause death.  The perfuming of rooms and linen, which fashionable persons were
formerly in the habit of resorting to, is likewise injurious to the nerves which are weakened by such influences.   Fumigations in rooms for the purpose of
dispelling bad odors, are likewise condemnable; they
only tend to increase the bad air. The only proper
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56                  INTRODUCTION.
mode of purifying the air in rooms, is to ventilate them,
more especially sick-rooms the windows of which should
be opened several times a day, if such a thing is feasible,
and currents of air should be induced by large fans.
In lighting matches, care must be taken to avoid the
vapors of sulphur and phosphorus which are even injurious to persons in health. The best place to light
matches is in the stove or fire-place, where the vapors
can ascend  into the chimney without affecting the
atmosphere in the rooms. In public rooms, bar-rooms,
etc., a little flame should be kept burning with papermatches; the common phosphor-matches are especially
to be avoided when lighting cigars or pipes.
Tobscco injures the health on account of its narcotic
power.  Persons with weak nerves are even affected by
the smell of tobacco; they, as well as those who are
suffering with sore throat, pulmonary and ophthalmic
complaints, should avoid the use of tobacco as much as
possible.
Chewing tobacco is a bad practice which should
never be permitted.
Smoking not only induces a waste of saliva, but
spoils it, and deranges the natural process of digestion.
Hence tobacco will prove injurious to persons affected
with abdominal and nervous complaints.
Nicotine, the active principle of tobacco, when prepared from fresh leaves, destroys life almost as speedily
as prussic acid; yet the vapors of such a poison are
inhaled by the mouth and nose.
The action of homceopathic medicines is impaired by
smoking and taking snuff; hence tobacco should be
strictly avoided during treatment.
Patients whose physician permits them  to smoke,



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should not smoke cigars, which are always injurious,
but should use pipes with long stems, and smoke light
tobacco, but never immediately before or after a meal.
Smoking is very much abused now-a-days by young
persons. Even boys are seen walking about the streets
with cigars in their mouths. Parents and guardians
should put a stop to this reprehensible practice which
enfeebles the rising generation, and gives rise to the
diminutive stature, and to the many pulmonary affections of young people, that were never so frequent in
former times.
Hufeland who was as humane as he was experienced,
writes: "Smoking spoils the teeth, dries up and emaciates the body, causes paleness of the face, weakens
the sight and the memory, causes determinations of the
blood to the head and lungs, predisposes to head and
chest-affections, and may cause hmrnoptysis and pulmonary phthisis in those who have a hectic habit of body.
Moreover the habit of smoking is an additional want,
and the more wants a man has, the more his freedom
and happiness are limited. For this reason, I warn
every body of the vile practice of smoking, and shall
deem myself happy, if my remarks should contribute
ever so little to its decrease.
Taking snuff is not much better, and much worse in
point of uncleanliness. Moreover it irritates the nerves,
weakens them in the end, and gives rise to headache
and sore eyes.
What increases the injury caused by smoking and
taking snuff, are the acrid and often poisonous ingredients which are mixed up with the tobacco by the
venders of this weed, for the purpose of increasing the
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60                  INTRODUCTION.
ates the fluids. In the war against Spain, after the
vegetables, bread, etc., had all been eaten, and the army
had to live on meat alone, the first consequence was
that the soldiers were attacked with diarrhcea, after
which a most devastating putrid fever set in, which
continued until vegetables and bread were procured.
Full-grown chickens, and all kinds of flying fowl, if
not too old and tough, or too young, are comparatively
of easy digestion; young pigeons, for instance, are not
advisable.
Rabbit and deer-meat, if tender, is very digestible and
nourishing.
Likewise tender and young beef.
Mutton is not quite as digestible, but wholesome, and
is especially useful when a disposition to diarrhoea prevails.
V/eal should only be used if the calves are large and
not too young; but it is neither as digestible nor as
nourishing as mutton; if too young, it frequently causes
diarrhcea and cardialgia.
Pork is more difficult to digest than any other kind
of meat; if eaten in too large a quantity, it causes impurities; hence it should be strictly avoided by all
those who are affected with phlegm, acridities, eruptions,
ulcers, etc.  Persons of a nervous temperament, and
those who take much active exercise in the open air,
such as day-laborers, digest it more readily than others.
These remarks likewise apply to goose-flesh, whereas
duck is rather more digestible.
Eggs contain the nutriment matter in a concentrated
form. A fresh and soft-boiled egg is equivalent to onethird of a pound of common boiled beef. Hard-boiled
eggs are hard to digest, constipating, and less nourishing;



DIET.                      61
baked in butter, they are the most indigestible.  Bad
eggs may cause a good deal of mischief
Milk, especially when fresh from  the cow, is a most
wholesome beverage, and exceedingly nourishing and
easily digested.  It may be said to occupy a mean
rank between meat and vegetables. It is particularly
useful to children, enfeebled persons, consumptive individuals, and persons who are inclined to cough and
other chest affections. It is less suitable to hypochondriacs and to persons with acid stomachs, unless such
individuals take much exercise in the open air.  Trifling ailments which may be caused by the use of milk,
may be removed by homoeopathic medicines.
Cheese is nourishing when fresh, but old cheese is indigestible, and irritates rather than nourishes. If eaten
in quantity, it causes much phlegm, constipation, acrid
humors, diseases of the skin and kidneys.  Old cheese
has often caused symptoms of poisoning; in overload
ing the stomach, it may act as a medicine; hence it may
prove useful after a copious dinner.
Fresh butter is the mildest of all kinds of fat, but is
easily digested only if a thin layer of it is spread on
bread.  Old or fried butter is hard to digest, acrid, and
should be avoided by all persons under homceopathic
treatment.
Cold-blooded canimals, such as fish and conchylia, are
less nourishing and generally harder to digest than the
meat of warm-blooded animals.  The most wholesome
kind of fish is that which lives in flowing water, with
a bottom  of sand or gravel; fish from  stagnant water
is less wholesome. Sea-fish is more nourishing than
fresh-water fish.
The more easily the flesh of fish is crumbled between



62                  INTRODUCTIONE
the fingers the more easily it is digested; the fatter and
more tallowy the flesh, the harder it is to digest.  The
most wholesome kinds of fish are trout, young pike,
cod-fish, haddock, perch, shad, black-fish, white-fish
from Lake Michigan, carp, flounders, etc. Halibut and
salmon are not adapted to delicate stomachs.
The flesh of fish being easily decomposed, it should
always be eaten fresh, and sufficiently salted, especially
by persons under homoeopathic treatment.  Boiled fish
should be eaten with fresh butter and potatoes. Otherwise it might prove very indigestible, and cause fever
and ague, especially in those whose stomachs are turned
by eating this kind of food. For this reason it is not
well to make a meal exclusively of fish.
Fresh oysters are easily digested and nourishing, and
may be eaten by patients, but without lemon-juice.
Fried or baked oysters are hard to digest.
Vegetables, being less nourishing and heating than
meat, they should be recommended to all robust, plethoric individuals of sanguine temperament and irascible disposition.
Vegetable-diet favors a mild disposition, meat-diet a
vehement and irascible temper.
Vegetable-diet is less favorable to putridity, and
should be chiefly resorted to by all who are inclined to
scurvy, carcinoma, etc. On the other hand, vegetables
are more flatulent, and give rise to acidity more readily
than meat and eggs; for this reason vegetable diet has
to be used cautiously by hypochondriacs and by persons who are disposed to acidity.
In summer, and in hot climates, people should live
chiefly on vegetables and fruit, whereas the people of



DUTY OF A PHYSICIAN.                  63
the North require meat, especially during winter. These
facts are even taught by an unsophisticated instinct.
SECTION XI.
The duty of a physician not only consists in prescribing the necessary medicines, but likewise in regulating
the diet adapted to each case.  This includes not only
the diet, but the whole mode of life, clothing,* distribution of the day's work, rest, etc.
But even this does not limit the functions of a true
physician; on the contrary, after all this has been
attended to, the most important matter still remains to
be done-watching the state of the mind.  If all these
various duties are properly attended to, the physician
will be able to fulfill the highest object of his calling,
which is to prevent diseases.
All truly humane physicians seek to accomplish this
noble task.  In this respect physicians should go hand
in hand with teachers and  ministers.  Among the
ancients the priests were likewise physicians; it was
only at a later period when  medicine ceased to be
limited to a knowledge of a few popular remedies, and
became a vast reservoir of nauseous decoctions and
health-perverting poisons, that physicians became a
distinct class.   Homoeopathy, which  is destined to
upset the whole  allceopathic plunder, will likewise
restore the union between medicine and theology, for
a physician should attend to the welfare of the soul as
well as the body, both of which are inseparable.
* How often has too tight lacing laid the foundation of incurable
diseases, affections of the heart, etc I



64                  INTRODUCTION.
Even if physicians and ministers still constitute two
distinct classes, yet every true physician is anxious to
ascertain whether the soul is in any manner involved
in the production of the bodily disease; this knowledge
may be the first indispensable stepping-stone to a cure.
How  often do both mental and physical derangements arise from a want of faith and love!*
It is the duty of the physician as well as of the minister to kindle these living fires in the patient's soul, the
extinction of which may cause diseases and death.
To be a true physician, one must understand and do
these things.
As love is the alpha and omega of Christianity, which
induces the apostle Paul to say: "If I had faith, and
could remove mountains, and had not love, I should be
nothing;" so love should be the main motive of a physician's doings. It is only when the patient knows and
feels this that he will follow his physician's instructions
with perfect confidence; he will even listen to kindlymeant censure, and the physician will become both the
helper and the friend of his patient.
Physicians whose hearts are full of love, are honored
with a confidence which is alone capable of restoring
health.
I must not omit to mention an instance which has frequently incited me, at a time when I was not yet accustomed to physical fatigue, to make renewed efforts in
behalf of poor sufferers; for the poor are more in
need of advice than those who are more fortunately
endowed.
* Insanity, for instance, is very frequently caused by anxious care,
grief, religious scruples, pride, greediness, etc.



DUTY OF A PHYSICIAN.                 65
One evening when old Dr. TI-eim  had retired to rest
before his accustomed hour, the bell rang; his wife who
was anxious not to disturb the doctor's rest, sought
to send the inquiring invalid away; but the old doctor
who had heard the sound of the bell, called out: " Who
is there?"  His wife replied:  "Never mind, the old
watchman is sick, and his wife may call in some other
physician."  " No," said Heim, "nobody will visit this
poor man at night, he is an old patient of mine, I must
get up and see him." He rose from his bed, and visited
his poor patient.  In return for his many acts of kindness Heaven has blessed him  with a long life and a
happy age.
This example should be an admonition to every
physician to go and do likewise.
If this truly Christian feeling which is not manifested
by turning up the eyes, by praying and fasting, but by
deeds of love, and by a firm and unshakeable faith that
nothing can happen to us which is not ordained by the
Providence of God, shall have penetrated the hearts of
men; then these two important offices of the ministry
and medicine, will be again filled by the same person,
for every pastor should be a physician, canc every physicicay
a pastor.
5






CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
*Aconitum  Napellus. (Monk's-hood, wolf's-bane.)
A  remedy for the blood.  Vascular excitement, dry
and burning heat, alternate chills and beat (fever).
Restlessness, anxiety, palpitation of the heart, excitement; consequences of sudden chagrin and fright, such
as: trembling, inflammations of every organ, where the
treatment is always commenced with Aconite, such as:
pneumonia, pleurisy, etc.; croup; measles, purple-rash,
jaundice, stye; violent rheumatic pains in the limbs,
with sensations in the whole body as if bruised, after
taking cold, with heat and chilliness, or only heat (stiffness of the limbs); gout, with feverish symptoms.
Arthritic, rheumatic and nervous toothache, with restlessness and anxiety, vertigo and fainting fits. Short and
hurried breathing. Paroxysms of anxiety and suffocation.  Asthma; apoplexy; pulmonary hremorrhacge, with
frequent pulse, anxiety, expectoration of fluid blood
when hawking, the blood comes up with a sensation of
scraping or burning in the chest.  Short and dry, or
hollow  and hoarse cough, especially in  the case of
children after taking cold, also with fever.  Vomiting,
especially of drinks, cardialgia, constipation, colorless
stools. Anxious urging to urinate. Suppression of the
urinary secretions. Brown, dark, burning, scanty urine.
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68            CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOIMSo
Uterine hxmorrhaage, miscarriage with fever; typhoid
fever, with dry skin and burning heat (together with
Bell., Bry. and Rhus.); burning swelling of injured
parts; unquenchable thirst; intermittent fever with
heat and thirst prevailing (in the case of scrofulous
individuals give Silicea); sleepl7essness, owing to mental
anxiety, also with wandering of the mind. Anxiety
and restlessness, even until the patient is beside himself.
Apprehensive mood.
I fever is present, Aconite should be given in every case,
and should invariably initiate the treatment.
Agaricus mnuscarius. (Bug-agaric.)
Rheumatic tearing pains in the limbs, worse during
rest, less during motion (in conjunction with Rhus);
ailments which break out cross-wise, for example; in
the right arm  and left leg;  epilepsy; aversion  to
work; feeling of icy-coldness on top  of the head
(together with Cale. carb. and Sepia); contraction of
the eye-lids which seem  less widely apart; twitching
of the eyelids; short-sightedness, also with dimness of
both eyes, as through a gauze; muscee volitantes; cold
urine; many symptoms are worse after singing.
Agnus castus. (Chaste-tree.)
Deficiency of milk, in the case of lying-in women (in
conjunction with Pulsat.); chronic distortions of the
joints (after Am. and Rhus); arthritic nodes; sadness,
apprehension of near death; swelling and induration
of the spleen; chronic gonorrhoea, with suppression of
the sexual instinct and deficient erections; swelling



ALUMINA.-AMBRA.                     69
and induration of the testes, also after suppression of
gonorrhoea; sterility.
Alumina. (Argilla, oxide of alumen.)
Trembling of the extremities; involuntary motions
and twitching of the limbs; humid scurfs and spreading herpes; inability to think coherently; falling and
dryness of the hair; cold feeling in the eyes; squinting of the eyes; vibrations and sparkling before the
eyes; purulent discharge from the right ear; swelling
and redness of the nose; sore and scurfy nostrils, with
discharge of a thick, yellowish mucus; ulceration of
the Schneiderian membrane; tubercular blotches  in
the face; swelling and cracking of the lips, also with
blisters and crusts on the same; painfulness of the
teeth when chewing, the teeth feel loose and elongated;
swelling and bleeding of the gums; sore throat when
swallowing, and pressure  under the  sternum  when
swallowing, as if'the cesophagus were contracted; potatoes cause unpleasant symptoms; protrusion and incarceration of existing hernia; constipation of pregnant
females and infants; fluent piles; premature, scanty
and  short-lasting  menses; acrid leucorrhoea during
and after the menses.  The skin on the hands is rough,
chapped, bleeds readily.  Whitlow. At night the legs
go to sleep.
Ambra grisea.
Ailments of old people (in conjunction with Baryta
and Opium); tearing or crampy pains in the muscles,
also in the joints, often on one side of the body only.
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70           CCHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
In the evening, when lying clown, or in the warmth
the pains are worse; they  abate during a walk in
the open air or by lying on the affected part; talking fatigues.  The skin  feels numb  all over; itching
and burzning of the skin, as from  the itch; breings the
sup2pressed itch acnd tetter out again; burning  herpes;
disconsolate loathing of life; aversion to talking and
laughing; embarrassed manners in company; rush of
blood to the head when listening to music; the hair
feels sore when touched, it falls out; roaring, whizzing
in the ears; drawing pains in the teeth, especially in
hollow teeth, worse by eating warm  food, abating when
touched by cold things, disappearing after eating; fetid
breath; sore throat; sour mouth  after eating milk,
hiccough after smoking; sour or suppressed eructations; tasting of the ingesta; nausea and vomiting;
burning pressure and spasm in the stomach; pressure
in the region of the liver; pressure, crampy or cutting
pains, cold feeling in the bowels; urging to urinate,
inability to retain  the urine, secretes three times as
much urine as the quantity of liquid taken followed by
dull pains in the region of the kidneys; sour odor of
the  urine; premature  menses;  discharge of blood
between the catamenia; lucorrhoea; spasmodic cough,
especially in the case of thin persons; nightly trembling
in the chest; stiffness of the small of the back, after
sitting; the arms incline to go to sleep, especially
when lying upon them; tearing and drawing in the
arms, trembling of the arms; continual coldness of the
hands; tearing in the legs: unpleasant coldness of the
legs; cramp in the legs, almost every night; swelling
or coldness of the feet  burning of the soles,



AMMONIUM CARBONICUoM                  7? 
Ammonium carbonicur. (Carbonate of Ammonia.)
Stinging and tearing, abating in bed (with Causticum); pains in the joints as if sprained; glandular
swellings; chronic rash; the skin is scarlet-red; scarletfever (after Bell.); warts; nightmare when about to fall
asleep; dreams of death and dead bodies; anxiety
every afternoon as if one had committed a crime;
loathing  of life; fearful disposition;  forgetfulness,
inability to collect one's ideas; throbbing headache;
falling off of the hair; ophthalmia, nightly agglutination of the lids; diplopia at a distance, shortsightedness, catarrh; hardness of hearing; nosebleed, especially when washing in the morning; chronic dryness
of the nose; itching eruption in the face; ulcerated
corners of the mouth; chapped lips; dullness or longlasting looseness of the teeth; even sound teeth fall
out; blisters on the tongue; swelling of the tonsils,
rendering deglutition difficult; aversion to milk; excessive desire for sugar; cardialgia; burning, boring
stitches, pressure and soreness in the region of the
liver; when stepping, pain in the abdomen as from
shaking; excoriating and sore hsemorrhoidal tumors;
discharge of blood from  the anus during and between
stool; flowing piles; wetting the bed at night, especially  when  occurring  towards  morning;  frequent
emissions, almost every night; menses premature and
profuse, the discharge taking place principally at night,
in lumps; toothache during the menses; acrid leucorrhcea; dry cough, excited by titillation in the windpipe; cough with expectoration of mucus, especially in
the morning in bed; shortness of breath, especially
when  going up stairs; numbness of the arms and
finger; the legs go to sleep; swelling of the feet.



72            CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
Anacardium. (Malacca-bean.)
Pressure in various parts of the body, as from a plug;
sensitive to cold and to currents of air; the skin is
insensible to external stimuli; deep and long sleep,
finds it hard to wake in the morning; dreams of fire;
apprehensive for the future, dread of men; the moral
sense seems blunted; sensation as if mind and body
were disconnected; pain in the back part of the head,
when making a wrong step; dimness of sight, as from
cobwebs and spots before the eyes; hardness of hearing, roaring in the ears; discharge of brown pus from
the ears; pale complexion, sickly look; fetid breath;
excited sexual instinct; cough, with vomiting of the
ingesta; hemoptysis; trembling of the hands; burning
of the soles.
Antimonium crudum. (Crude antimony.)
Lienteria; eructations tasting of the ingesta; nausea,
vomiting of bile and mucus (together with Ipec and
Puls.,) cardialgia, derangements caused by overloading
the stomach; mucous hemorrhoids; fungus articularis;
intermittent fever with mucous diarrhcea and gastric
ailments, especially in the morning; twitching pain in
decayed teeth; indurated, horny skin; adiposis (after
Cale.); spongy swelling of the knee.
Apis mellifica. (Honey-bee.)
Consequences of suppressed, repelled or imperfectly
developed acute eruptions, such as measles, scarlatina,
urticaria, etc. Consequences of stings of insects espe



APIS MELLIFICA.                     73
cially of bees; ophthalmia; obscuration acnd cicatrices of
the cornea; staphyloma; styes; fistula lachrymalis;
oedematous swelling of the face; erysipelas of the face,
especially  of a pale, livid color;  inflammation  and
swelling of the tongue; ulcers on the tongue; carcinoma of the tongue; inflammation of the palate, mouth,
-fauces; inflammation of the abdominal organs; diabetes;
gonorrIhea; affections of the ovaries and uterus, especially dropsy of these organs, without thirst; menstrual
difficulties, swellings of the labia; miscarriage; metrorrhagia;  induration  of the  mammo; hydrothorax;
pericardia; rheumatism, nodous gout; cedema of the
extremities; swelling of the knees; furuncles, etc.
Vertigo when standing, sitting, lying, closing one's
eyes, with obscuration of sight, nausea, headache, sneezing; fullness, heaviness; pressure in the head, especially
when rising from a sitting or lying position, worse in a
warm  room, less when compressing the head; sharp,
stinging pains in the temples; headache, with sensitiveness to the light or redness of the eyes; weakness of
the eyes, with dread of straining them; twitching of the
eye-ball, especially at night; heaviness, fullness and
pressure in the eyes and lids; cutting, burning and
redness of the eyes.  Weeping of the eyes, and sensation as if they were full of mucus; agglutination and
swelling of the lids; dropsical, erysipelatous swelling
around the eyes; itching, redness and swelling of the
nose; burning stinging in the face, with sensation of
fullness, heat and redness, desire for cold water; livid,
blueish-red color of the face; swelling of the lips;
tongue as if scalded, especially along the edges, where it
is blistered; the blisters burn and sting; dryness, fiery
redness, burning stinging and swellingc of the tongue;



ARGENTUM.                        75
redness,  heat and  swelling; itching, burning  and,
chapping of the hands; the nails seem  loose; falling
off of the finger and toe nails; lupus; pains in the
knee, or swelling of the knee, with burning and stinging; burning of the feet and toes; swelling of the feet;
itching blotches in the joints; excessive sensitiveness
of the flesh to pressure; the symptoms are made worse
by warmth; cold water diminishes the pains in the
inflamed parts; this agent chiefly affects the left side.
Argentum  foliatum. (Silver-foil.)
Tearing and drawing in the bones, with pressure;
profuse nose-bleed, especially after blowing the nose,
or preceded by tickling and creeping in the nose; mercurial sore throat; nocturnal emissions; affections of
the larynx, in the case of preachers, teachers, actors,
singers; the pains are worse every day at noon.
Argentuim nitricun. (Nitrate of silver.)
Aching or stinging, semi-lateral pains; epilepsy with
dullness of mind; semi-lateral paralysis; dropsy depending upon affections of the liver; itch-like eruptions;
catarrhal and syphilitic ophthalmia; fiery bodies and
flashes before the eyes; black, carious teeth; the sound
teeth are exceedingly sensitive to cold water; loose,
readily bleeding gums; colicky pains in the case of
hypochondriac or hysteric persons; thin brown stools
having a foul smell; bloody and mucous diarrhoea;
inflammation and stricture of the urethra; haematuria;
deficient sexual desire, with shrinking of the parts;
chancrous ulcers on the prepuce; cough induced by



76            CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
violent titillation in the larynx; nightly palpitation of
the heart.
*Armca montana. (Leopard's bane.)
Hemorrhage and injuries of internal and external
organs, by blows, a fall, strain, sprain, contusion;
ecchymosis, boils, varices, (in alternation with Puls.,)
arnica may be used externally as a lotion; bed-sores,
(externally and  internally;) nose-bleed; cough  after
every exertion, after crying; paroxysms of whoopingcough, commencing with crying; violent coughing fit
ceasing after eating; sensation of tenesmus in the rectum, after stool; anasarca and ascites (after Aeon.;) cardialgia, pleuritis after a strain or an effort; intermittent
fever after abuse of cinchona, with rheumatic pains in
the limbs, aggravation by motion, talking or noise;
aggravation or supervention of the pains when exposed
to the vapor of coalo
*Arsenicurn album. (Arsenious acid.)
Burning pains in internal and external parts; sucddcen
prostration of strength'; watery diarrhoea, painless or else
with burning in the bowels and anus; fetid diarrhoea,
with. constant coldness; white diarrhceic stools, bloody,
also with tenesmus, brown and black; violent vomiting
of the ingesta and of liquids, also of brown and black
substances; aversion to farinaceous food; Burning painss
in the stomach, relieved for a short time by warm drinks;
gastritis, carcinoma of the stomach; Asiatic cholera, last
stage, with cold breath or pains in the region of the
spleen (after Cuprum  or Veratrum;) anasarca, ascites,



ARSENIUM. —ASAFMTIDA.                77
hydrothorax, especially after abuse of cinchona; constriction of the chest during motion, with dyspnoea;
dry titillating cough during a walk in the open air, as
if caused by the vapors of sulphur; spasmodic asthma;
nocturnal palpitation of the heart, with great anguish;
Ichorous ulcers, with burning pains, or with everted
margins, having a foul smell, (carcinoma;) warts, surrounded by an ulcerated circle with hard, everted
border; anthrax; gray tetter; greenish complexion;
spontaneous limping; intermittent fever, with absence
of thirst during the chill, great prostration, trembling or
also paralysis of the extremities, or dropsical bloat of the
body, especially after abuse of cinchona; with intense
thirst and burning heat, frequent vdri/ing, though little
at a time; typhus; extreme emaciation; atrophy of childdren with large abdomens and glandular swellings;
affections of the spleen and liver, after abuse of cinchona; phthisis laryngea (in connection with Carbo
veg., Hep., Phosph., Spong;) mucous phthisis (in connection with Stannum;) illusions of smell, as if one
smelled pitch; the pains are made worse by smoking,
relieved by eating a copious meal; consequences of
animal poisons that have been introduced  into the
stomach or have become absorbed into the blood.
*Asafctida.
Ulcers and caries, with thin, fetid ichor; hysteric
complaints; intermittent, pulsative, stinging, tearing
pains, they are felt from  within  outwards and are
changed to other pains by contact; bone-pains after
suppression of syphilis, aggravated by the warmth of
the bed; cough with expectoration tasting of onion.



78             CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMSo
Asarum  europieum. (Common asarabacca.)
Headache with  nausea, even unto  vomiting, made
worse by thinking; hemicrania on the left side, every
afternoon at five o'clock; burning in the eyes, in the
evening, with continual lachrymation; inflamed, weeping eyes; constant nausea; unsuccessful efforts to vomit,
causing all the pains to be worse; vomiting, with great
anxiety, or accompanied by diarrhcea, or vomiting of
mere water; soreness in the region of the spleen; lienteria, potatoes are passed  undigested; discharge of
thick, black blood at stool; protrusion of the rectum;
]M!enses premature and long lasting, with black blood;
stitches in the lungs, especially when drawing breath;
some symptoms abate while washing one's face.
*Aurum foliatum. (Leaf-gold.)
Hernia, prolapsus of the uterus (after Nux v., in connection with Bell., Kreas., Lye., Plat., Sep., Sil.;) nightly
bone-lains; caries; syphilitic and mercurial affections of
bones; ulcerated nose, with fetid discharge; swelling
and suppuration of the inguinal glands; induration or
swelling of the testes; melancholy, longing for death,
oppressive anxiety, especially in the proecordia, as if
one should die; mania of suicide; jumping of the heart,
palpitation during motion; feels better in the open air.
Baryta carbonima. (Carbonate of baryta.)
Affections of old people (in connection with Ambra
and Opium;) scrofulous ailments; atrophy of children,
with large bowels and glandular swellings; paralysis



BARYTA.-BELLADONNA.                   79
after apoplexy; nocturnal twitching of the muscles;
swelling and induration of glands; warts; steatoma,
sarcoma; tearing, stinging, twitching, throbbing in the
head, especially in the forehead, over the eyes (in connection with Bell.;) falling off of the hair; baldness
(with Graph. and Lye.;) humid and dry scaldhead;
inflammation of the eyes and lids, especially in the case
of scrofulous persons, with photophobia; muscae volitantes; eruption on and behind the ears; scurfs under
the nose; eruption in the face; inflamed throat, with
suppuration  of tonsils, especially  when  frequently
recurring after the use of the other remedies; weak
digestion; violent singultus; pressure in the stomach
as from a stone, even after eating the least quantity of
food; weakness of the male orgycns; aversion to sexual
intercourse (in females, with Caust.;) painful stiffness of
the back and nape of the neck; rheumatic tearing in
the limbs; ulcers on the legs; fetid sweat on the feet;
the pains are chiefly felt in the left side of the body,
when sitting, they pass off during exercise in the
open air.
*Belladonna. (Deadly night-shade.)
A  medicine acting chiefly on the brain   Vertigo,
meningitis, hydrocephalus  (after Aeon.;) delirium;
screaming of children, without any apparent cause, all
the time, when carried or lying; headache, over the
eyes, stitches in the temples; headache, with sensation
as if the brain were balancing to and fro; hemicrania,
especially on the right side; prosopalgia, toothache,
with heat and swelling  of the check, or gums, the pains
are lancinating or tearing, affecting the whole side,



80            CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
sometimes it is impossible to point out the affected
tooth, the pains extend to the temples, cold air, contact,
chewing or hot drinks aggravate the pains, the teeth
feel elongated; hot, recl, shining  swelling, erysipelas,
especially of fleshy parts; scarlatina and sequelae, such
as hardness of hearing, otorrhoea, difficulty of speech,
stuttering; glanduclar swelling, especially with heat and
stinging, also stiffness of the neck and nape of neck,
glandular indurations; chilblains, with bright-red, erysipelatous appearance; ophthalmia (after Aeon.;) swelling of the eyelids, aversion or bleeding of the lids,
thickening of the conjunctiva, spots, obscuration of the
cornea; weal sight; dilated pupils; dqIplopia; hemeralopia; amaurosis; rush of blood to the head and chest;
apoplexy; paralysis; pazitction of the heart; oppression
of the chest, angina peetoris; convulsions, spasms,
epilepsy with screams, delirium, laughter, worse by the
least contact; tetanus; chorea; mental derangement after
a fright or chagrin, illusions of the fancy, insanity;
spasmodic cough as if the head would burst; paralysis
of single parts; stitches and lameness of the hip-joint
(with Caust.;) wetting the bed; intermittent fever, with
delirium, headache over the eyes, or setting in in the
afternoon, with violent chilliness and thirst, aversion
to drink; discharge of blood between the menses; fetid
metrorrhagia; prolapsus and induration of the uterus;
the pains improve while the patient is lying on a hard
couch, or when looking out in a straight line; this
remedy is particularly adapted to stout, plethoric individuals.
Borax.
Ailments in consequence of taking cold during damp



BORAX.-BROMIINE.                   81
and chilly weather; unhealthy skil; tetter; twisting
of the hair as in plica polonica; inflammation of the
eyes, and especially of the lids, with inversion of the
lids; the eyes are sensitive to the light of lamps or candles; otorrhcea; tearing pains in decayed teeth, in cold
and damp weather; the gums are swollen and bleed
readily; aphthe, as in stomatitis; hiccough, especially
of infants; vomiting of sour phlegm; menses premature
and profuse; chronic, corrosive leucorrhoea; sterility;
galactirrhoea; cough, with musty expectoration; the
pains are worse during a dance or when swinging.
Bovista. (Puff-ball)
I-umid, scurfy tetter; objects seen nearer than they
are; chronic fetid diarrhcea; scurfy nostrils; eruption
in the corners of the mouth; scrofulous swelling of the
lips; drawing, digging, boring pains in decayed teeth;
chronic backache, with stiffness after stooping; the
pains are made worse by the vapors of coal.
Bromine.
Very drowsy in the day-time; starting during sleep;
violent chill, with stretching of the arms, as during an
attack of fever and ague; sensation of burning in the
whole body, as if surrounded by hot vapor; small,
accelerated pulse; cool and damp hands; sweaty palms;
small, moveable glandular swellings on the neck and
nape of the neck; goitre; vertigo when crossing a
stream; hemicrania on the left side; headache after
drinking milk; lachrymation, also with sensitiveness
of the eyes to the light; photophobia, with pressure in
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82             CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS,
the eyes when moving them; stitches in the ears, with
heat in the same; soreness and scurfs in the nose; pains
in decayed  teeth, they are sensitive to  cold water;
inflammation of the fauces and uvula; sore throat, with
swelling of the tonsils, difficult deglutition, pains when
swallowing a drink; pains in the stomach, made worse
by pressing upon the part; pains in the region of the
liver, especially when  pressing upon the same, also
when riding in a carriage; slimy or papescent, diarrhceic stool; menses premature and too copious, preceded by frontal headache and accompanied by pain in
the small of the back; stitching constriction in the larynx;
infclamnation of the lcrynx and trachea; hocarseness, feele
low voice; roughz hollow, cdry cough, withb weariness, or with
paroxysms of sufocation, or with/ whteezing socund and rattling breeathingz; or zwithl crouliy sound; cr'oup, even in the
last stage; swelling of the mamme; stitches in the
chest, especially on the right side, during a rapid walk,
worse during an inspiration; violent palpitation of the
heart, especially in the evening, not permitting one to
lie on the left side; the pains are worse in the evening until midnight, they abate during a walk in the
open air.
*Bryonia alba. (White bryony.)
Acts chiefly upon the joints. Erysipelas of joints; rheumatic and arthritic pains in the joints, especially with
redness of the affected parts, aggravated by motion,
relieved by rest; stitches and rigidity of joints; rash,
especially of lying-in females and infants, also miliaria
alba (with Arsen.;) purpura hcmorrhagica; intermittent
fever, especially quotidian and tertian, with chilliness



BYRONIA.-CALCAREA.                     83
prevailing, thirst during the chilly and hot stage, and
dry cough with stitches in the chest; typhus with burning
heat and thirst, dryness of the skin (after Acon.;) delirium, especially on waking; throbbing headache, worse
during motion; meningitis (after Aeon. and Bell.; cough,
with pleuritic stitches, worse when entering a warm room
and drawing a long breath; pneunonia, 2plcurisy (after
Acon., Ar., Nux. vom.;) cardialgia when walking;
ascites (after Aeon.;) difficulty of breathing when walk
ing fast, with  continual disposition  to  draw  a long
breath; obstinate constipation (after Nux vom.;) nosebleed in the place of the menses; toothache, aggravated
by warm  food, relieved by lying on the affected side,
momentarily relieved by cold water, the teeth feel as if
loose, worse in a warm  room, in the evening and at
night, or when walking; the pains are less in gloomy
weather.
*Calcarea earbonica. (Carbonate of lime.)
Acts chiefly Tpon the bones (with Silicea;) tearing and
stitching in the limbs, the limbs incline to go to sleep,
liability to feeling strained, the pains are worse during
a change of weather, by working in the water, washing;
caries, curvature of bones; rickets; scrofulous ailments;
epilepsy, especially at night, with cries (with Caust.;)
carcinomatous indurations in the maumme  (after Con;
humid and dry tetter; dry warts; polypus; fistul,;
ulcers; sarcoma; ganglia; goitre; swelling and hardness
of the cervical glands; adiposis; emaciation, with large
bowels and  good  appetite; intermittent fever, after
abuse of Cinchona, also of those who work in water;
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84           CGHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
the head, on and behind the ears, in the face (mouth,
nose, cheeks, after Sulph.;) slow closing of the fontanelles; hard hearing, with buzzing in the ears, cardialgia,
vomiting of the ingesta, or sour eructations, nausea,
yawning; obstinate constipation: sour-smelling diarrhoea of children; ascarides; menses too early and too
copious (with Nux vom.;) milky leucorrhcea, previous
to the menses; discharge of blood and mucus, when
urinating; cough with copious expectoration, yellow,
purulent; phthisis pulmonalis; palpitation of the heart,
with feeling of coldness; delirium tremens (after Opium
and Nux vom.;) sensitive to cold and damp air; toothache of pregnant females, with rush of blood to the
head, from a cold, worse at night, even aggravated by
cold and warm  applications or food; fistula dentalis;
difficulty of first dentition; morbid sensation as if the
body were shrinking; softening of the internal organs.
Calcarea causticaO
Skin.  Small vesicles filled with  lymph  and surrounded by a red areola, also smarting and itching,
like scabies.
Sleep. Sleepless, tossing about, or restless sleep with
dreams.
Fever.  Violent chills, followed by great heat in the
head.
Dkisposition.  Peevish, slowness of thought, giddiness.
HTead.  Stitches from the forehead to the occiput; dciu
headache in the vertex; the headache is worse when
stooping.
-Eyes.  Pressing weight in the eyelids; tearing and
stitches in eyes; burning of the eyes when reading at
candlelight; lachrymation in the open air; photophobia.



CALCAREA.                       85
Ears.  Stitching, tearing pains in the ears; ringing
in the ears.
Nose.  Dry nose; coryza, discharge of thick, tenacious mucous.
Face.  Tearing in the malar bones; violent pains in
the articulation of the jaws, with swelling of the cheeks.
Teeth.  Dull, tearing, stitching pain in the decayed
teeth, they feel elongated.
Mouth. Tongue thickly coated, greenish-yellow.
Throat.  Stinging in the throat; difficult deglutition;
phlegm in the throat, which it is difficult to hawk up;
obstinate sore throat, with swelling of the tonsils; discharge of tenacious saliva; thickly-coated tongue; dull
headache; small and hurried pulse.
Appetite, taste.  Loss of appetite  or  else violent
hunger; bitter taste in the mouth.
Gastric symptoms. Empty rising of air; regurgitation of food, with sourish-bitter taste; nausea, vomiting
of sour fluid.
Stomach.  Spasmodic contraction of the stomach.
Ilypochondcria.  Stinging, tearing pain in both hypochondria.
Abdomen. Violent stitches in the small bowels, when
stooping forward; pinching, contracting pains in the
bowels.
Stool, Anus.  Diarrhoeic, slimy stools  discharge of
tamnia; creeping or stinging tearing in the rectum  and
anus.
Trac7hea. Hoarseness, with pain in the throat; violent
cough, with stitches in the chest, or expectoration of
mucus and blood.
Chest.  Stinging, tearing, pressing or pressing-tearing
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86            CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
pain in the chest or sides of the chest, worse when
drawing breath; irnfuenza.
Back.  Tension in the back; stiffness of the nape of
the neck; tearing in the posterior cervical muscles, in
the back, small of the back, os coccygis.
UP2perr extremities.  Stitching-tearing  pains in  the
upper extremities.
Lower extremities.  Stitching pains in the hip-joint
when stepping; tearing and stitching in the knee.
Calcarea phosphorica. (Phosphate of lime.)
Arlthritis, with swelling of the joints, curvature of
joints, very painful.
Calendula officinalis. (Marsh AMarygold.)
Applied externally and internally, this agent heals
large, deep2, shcaggy, profnseiy —b1eeding woundcs, and favors
the process of cicatrization, even if whole pieces of flesh
should be wanting.  This agent is also indicated if the
wounds are painful, with raw feeling and stitches in the
wounds, as if suppuration were to  take place, with
smarting around the wounds.  Wound-fever in alternation with Aeon.  Inflammation of the eyes, after an
operation, also in alternation with Aeon.
*Camphora
Antidotes most homoeopathic medicines, especially from
the vegetable kingdom.
Sudden prostration of strength; excessive weakness,
convulsions, tetanic spasms.  Choleract especially with



CAMPIHORA.-CANTHARIDES.                 87
violent cramps in the calves, coldness of the body,
great anxiety, burning in the fauces and stomach, the
pit of the stomach is very painful when touched;
ascites, with complete suppression of urine, which may
be caused by Cantharides; suppression of sexual desire,
complete impotence, (after Nux V.,) sensitive to cold
air; liability  to taking cold, followed by chilliness, or
colic with diarrhea, discharge of brown and blackish
stool.
Cancer fluviatilis. (Sweet-water Crab.)
Red, stitching eruption like measles, over the whole
body; fever, with redness and heat in the face, internal
chilliness, creeping chills when uncovering the body.
Cannabis sativa. (Hemp.)
Ailments arising from  bodily fatigue;  spots and
obscuration of the cornea, cataract, epistaxis even unto
fainting; long suppression of urine; painful emission
of a few drops of bloody urine; inflammation of the
bladder and kidneys; gravel, burning  in the urethra
when urinating; urethritis gonorrhceica; sterility; miscarriage in the third month of pregnancy (with Sabina);
stitches in the lungs when drawing  breath, talking,
moving about; pnteumonia, also with delirium, vomiting
of green bile; shocks in the region of the heart;
carditiso
*Cantharides. (Spanish fly),
Acts chiefly u2pon the blZccdcler; detention of urine, with
spasmodic pains in the bladder; ineffectual urging to



CARBO.                         89
Carbo anlimalis. (Animal charcoal.)
Arthritic stiffness of the joints; hard painful glandular
swellings; burning chilblains; feeling as if abandoned
by every body; vertigo with nausea, when rising from
a stooping position; scald-head; otorrhcea; discharge
of bright-red blood from the nose; burning swelling of
the lips; bleeding of the gums; toothache, the teeth
feel loose and elongated; weak digestion, nothing agrees
with  one; cardialgia, burning  in the stomach; stool
either hard or soft, like albumen; burning hemorrhoidal tumors; premature  menses  with  dark  blood;
burning-smarting leucorrhcea, tinging the linen yellow;
painful nodes in the maminse; cough  with  greenish
expectoration; stitches in the right side; suzppurcttion o
the right lung; tetter or hard glands in the axilleO
*Carbo vegetabilis. (Vegetable charcoal.)
Burning pains in the limbs, bones, ulcers, also in
internal organs; eruption and humid tetter in the face;
hard hearing, with dryness of the inner ear, especially
after measles; cough, with soreness in the larynx and
chest; phthisis larynxea; cough, with expectoration of
whitish or greenish mucus; mucous phthisis; cardialgia,
with sensation of burning pressure, flatulence and sensitiveness in the pit of the stomach  (sometimes after
Nux.;) ailments caused by fat food, after the unsuccessful use of Puls.; chronic ailments after the use of
Mercury, looseness of the teeth, bleeding of the gums,
etc.; stomatitis; piles; burning, bleeding tumors after
stool; chronic hoarseness or aphonia; spasmodic cough
with retching and vomiting of mucus; cold breath and
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90            CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
collapse of pulse during cholera; swinging makes the
pains worse. This remedy sometimes favors the reaction when not sufficiently excited by other remedies,
(also Opium.)
Causticum.
Arthritic and rheumatic tearing in the limbs, less in
bed and warmth; contraction  and  paralysis  of the
limbs; paralysis after apoplexy, especially on the right
side, also with stuttering; hysteric spasms, epilepsy,
chorea; bleeding, inflamed warts, especially on the
nose; fistula rect.; aversion  to sexual intercourse, in
the case of females (with Baryt.;) racking cough, with
spirting out of the urine; raging toothache; fistula
dentalis, with painfulness and bleeding of the gums;
chronic hoarseness.
Cepao (Common Onion.)
Colic after eating salad, especially cucumbers; ailments induced by getting the feet wet, or by exposure
to dampness or impure air; contusions and burns;
ailments of children, such as, running of the nose, sore
eyes, cough, rattling in the bronchia, colic, flatulence?
worms, urinary difficulties; ailments of old people,
dyspnoea, accompanied by or alternating with affections
of the bladder and kidneys; toothache, relieved by
cold, worse in the warmth; coryza, lachrymation, sensitiveness of the eyes, alternate heat and chills; the
pains in the upper part of the body first appear on the
right, then on the left side; in the lower part the
reverse, are worse in the evening, less in the open air,
worse again when re-entering the warm room.



CEPAo.-CINA.                      91
*Chamomilla vulgaris.  (Common chamomile.)
Excessive sensitiveness of the senses, especially when
caused by coffee and other narcotics; ailments induced
by fits of chagrin; watery, greenish diarrhcea, or like
stirred  eggs, having a foul smell, during  dentition;
restlessness and spasms during the diarrhoea, the child
draws up its legs; crying of infants without any  apparent cause, abating  when  they  are carried; dry
cough from taking cold, hacking cough of children in
the winter, with titillation in the throat-pit, worse at
night; headache, after sudden suppression of sweat;
toothache, by exposure to a draught of air, with otalgia,
and as if the teeth were loose and elongated; hoarseness
from taking cold; sore throat with sensation as if something had lodged in the throat which had to be hawked
up; heat in the throat, with thirst; asthma millari;
anginza pectoris with suffocative symptoms, after a fit of
chagrin; cardialgia, with pressure in the stomach as
from a stone, relieved by drinking coffee, caused by a
fit of chagrin; labor-like pains previous to or during
the menses; uterine haemorrhage, with discharge of
fetid coagula; fever, with redness of one, and paleness
of the other cheek.
*China. (Peruvian bark.)
General cdebiity, especially when  caused by loss of
fluids, onanism, depletions, nursing, suppurations, etc.;
impotence; debilitating emissions; emaciation, especially
of the limbs, atrophy of children; exhausting sweats,
night or morning; pains in the limbs, aggravated by
the least contact, with disposition to perspire; intermittent



92             CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS,
fever, especially in marshy regions, with  absence of
thirst during the chill and heat. The thirst generally
sets in between the chill and hot stage, and increases
during the sweat; chlorosis, frequently with swelling of
the feet; anasarca; haemorrhages, metrorrhagia;  deficient or  suppressed  labor-pains; flatulence, fetid;
constipation from  debility; diarrhcca with feeling of
weakness, discharge of undigested food, also after eating
fresh fruit; cardialgia from  debility; toothache, headache of nursing females or pregnant women; nocturnal
enuresis of feeble children; involuntary stool and urine
from debility; cough with granular expectoration; some
pains are eased by shaking the head, (chief remedies
for the china-cachexia, are* Ars., Ipecac., Ferr., Verat.)
Chlorum. (Water impregnated with Chlorine.)
Herpes; evening-fever; hurried pulse; difficulty of
remembering the names of persons; impeded deglu
tition; malignant sore-throat; foul ulcers in the throat;
nausea, vomiting; weakness  of the  bowels;  colic,
diarrhoea; sudden impotence with aversion to sexual
intercourse, in the case of persons who had a passion
for it; violent cough, hoemoptysis; ulcerative phthisis;
nightsweats of phthisicky persons.
Cicuta virosa. (Water-hemlock.)
Soreness as if bruised; tetanic spasms; convulsions;
epilepsy of children; suppurating eruptions in the face;
going to sleep while sitting, the head bent forward,
during the period of digestion or while listening to a
dull sermon; vertigo  when  sitting  up  in bed, with



CICUTA.-CLEMATIS.                   93
obscuration of sight; weak sight, with dilatation of the
pupils; photophobia; diplogia; hamorrhage from  the
ears; vomiting while making an effort to raise the
head when lying; worms; colic, with convulsions, in
the case of children; involuntary discharge of urine, as
from paralysis of the bladder,
Cina. (Worm-seed.)
Ascarides, lumbrici; pinching colic and irritating
pain in the umbilical region, from worms; spasms of
children, from worms, during which they dose with their
eyes half-closed, and rub at the nose. Epilepsy, especially at night; whooping-cough, with worms; intermittent fever, with vomiting and canine; hunger; bluish
color around the mouth.
Cistus canadensiso (Rock-rose.)
Tearing and drawing in the joints, especially in the
toes and fingers; swelling and suppuration of the glands;
scrofulous ailments, fetid otorrhoea; vesicular erysipelas in the face.  Ccaries of the lower jaw. Swelling and
looseness of the gums, they have an unpleasant appearance; the pains are worse towards morning, and after
an unpleasant emotion.
Clematis erecta. (Virgin's-bower.)
Mercurial ailments; articular rheumatism  in conse
quence of mismanaged gonorrhcea; pustules over the
whole body; chronic, red and humid herpes, itching in
the warmth of the bed and after washing; scrofulous



94             CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOM[S.
sore eyes; swelling  and induration of the inguinal
glands; stricture of the urethra; purulent gonorrhoea;
swelling and induration of the testes; induration in the
mamma, under the nipple.  Arthritic  nodes in the
finger-joints.
Cocculus indicus. (Seeds of cocculus.)
Nausea when riding in a carriage, sea-sickness; cardialgia during  and  shortly  after a meal; vomiting,
worse when raising the head. Paraplegia, with numbness of the limbs, also proceeding from the small of the
back; intermittent fever, with cardialgia or lameness of
the small of the back; epilepsy, with involuntary discharge of urine during  the paroxysms;  menstrual
abdominal spasms, also with cessation of the menses
(after Puls.); angina pectoris of hysteric individuals.
The pains are made worse by eating, drinking, sleeping,
talking, driving, smoking,
Coccus cacti. (Cochineal.)
Dull, stinging, spasmodic pressing pain in the kidneys, increased by pressure and motion.  Cutting pains
in the region of the bladder; paroxysms of titillating,
barking cough, especially night and morning. After a
few turns of cough, the patient raises a large quantity
of albuminous, tenacious, ropy mucus, white or yellowish-white, having a saltish taste, sometimes with gagging,
or vomiting of the ingesta; whooping cough.
*Coffea cruda. (Raw coffee.)
The senses and nerves are very much excited, in the



COFFEA.-COLOCYNTHIS.                95
case of lying-in females, especially when this state is
caused by abuse of Chamomile-tea. Consequences of a
paroxysm of sudden joy; anxious and weeping mood
of hysteric females, crowding of ideas, acute thinking,
arranging plans for the future, etc.  Excessive laborpains; protracted after-pains. Excessive excitability
of the sexual parts.  Spasms and diarrhcea during dentition, or from the abuse of Chamomile-tea.
Colchicum autumnale. (Meadow-saffron.)
Arthritic and rheumatic  complaints, with tearing
pains il warm weather, and stitching pains when the
weather is cold; cedema and anasarca; nocturnal heat
of the body, thirst; pulse 100; vomiting of bitter mucus
or of food, excited or aggravated by motion; the abdomen is very much distended; fall-dysentery, with discharges of white mucus, tenesmus; bloody stools with
discharges of patches of mucus.  Scanty dark red
urine, with burning and tenesmus in the urethra; cough
at night, during which the urine spirts out involuntarily; hydrothorax; the pains are worse at night,
when they are intense and last until day-time.
*Colocynthis. (Wild bitter cucumber.)
Heemicrania, with crampy pain, nausea and vomiting,
every afternoon; colic, with violent pain in the umbilical region, causing the patient to cry out and bend
double, the pain comes every few minutes and leaves
the abdominal walls so sensitive that the pain is felt at
every step; cardialgia with sensation of hunger which
cannot be relieved by eating; yellow diarrhoea, excited
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96            CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMSo
by eating or drinking  ever so little; vomiting and
diarrhoea after a fit of chagrin; spontaneous limping.
*Conium  maculatum. (Spotted hemlock.)
Indurated mammae, with violent pain; swelling and
induration of glandular organs; caries of the sternum;
cataract caused by injuries; impotence; chronic obstruction of the nose; tetter and spreading ulcers in the
face; cancer of the lip, caused by a blow, contusion;
swelling of the testicles, caused by a contusion; cough,
only at night, especially shortly after lying down at
night.
*Crocus. (Saffron.)
Good for metrorrhagia, with tenacious, coagulated,
fetid blood; the movements of the fetus are too violent.
*Crotalus horridus. (Rattle-snake poison.)
Paralysis after apoplexy, especially of the right side;
spasms and convulsions, also with violent cries and
delirium; cedema of the whole body; oozing of blood
from all the pores; black spots on the skin; blisters
surrounded by a red areola.  Ulcers arising from  blisters; inflammatory fever, with pulse up to 130, first
full and strong, afterwards feeble and scarcely perceptible; frequent attacks of erysipelas of the face; trismus.
*Cuprum. (Copper.)
Dry cough, taking away the breath, like whoopingcough; whooping-cough, the children turn blue in the
face, as if suffocating. Spasms preceded by weeping.



UPRUMI.-DROSE IA.                    97
Asialic cholera, especially if vomiting and diarrhoea
are accompanied by convulsions of the extremities and
pressure in the pit of the stomach, or preceded by spasmodic constriction of the chest, the liquids roll down
in the cesophagus as if by their own weight (in alternation with Veratrunm); o2isthotonos, with discharges of
urine; cramps in the calves; the convulsions begin at
the toes and fingers; asthma, with difficulty of breathing even unto suffocation, and spasmodic vomiting at
the end of the attack.
Daphne indica.
Rheumatic and  arthritic pains in the muscles and
bones; bone-2pains, especially at night (in  connection
with Mere. and Aur.); palpitation, with inability to lie
on the left side.
Digitalis purpurea. (Fox-glove.)
Blueness of the lids, lips, tongue, nails (cyanosis);
slow pulse, down to 35; cilataction and diminished sensibility of the pupils; amaurosis; vomiting of bile or
mucus; ash-colored stools: hydrocele; cough with expectoration  resembling  boiled  starch; haemoptysis;
palpitation with slow  pulse; hydrothorax and ascites,
from organic disease of the heart.
Drosera. (Sun-dew.)
TWhooling-cough  with  vomiting, the  child  feeling
better during motion than during rest.  The sweat is
not cool, but rather warm  (the opposite of Verat.);
7



98    ~     ICHARACTERISTIC SYPYPTOMSo
whooping-cough  with  hemorrhage  from  nose  and
mouth, pains in the hypochondria; nose-bleed, especially morning and evening, or when stooping; laryngeal
phthisis, with rapid emaciation. The cough is made
worse by singing, laughing, crying, smoking, drinking.
*Dulcamarao (Bitter-sweet.)
Diarrhoea, with colic, after taking cold; swelling and
induration of the  glands; catarrhal ailments (after
Aeon.); small, hard, dry warts (with Cale.); urticaria;
humid  and suppurating herpes, or dry, scaly tetter;
ascites, hydrothorax; cough, with expectoration of tenacious mucus, and stitches in the sides of the chest.
wEuphorbiium officinale. (Spurgeo)
Burning pains, especially in internal organs; rheumatic pains in the limbs, worse during rest; laming
weakness in the joints; chronic eruptions; gangrene;
erysipelatous inflammation  of the head; chronic sore
eyes, with suppuration; dimness of sight, objects seem
too large, inducing one to raise the leg much more than
the size of the object requires, in order to step over it;
vesicular erysipelas of the face; oesophagitis; spasmodic
cardialgia, burning in the stomach; papescent stools;
urging to urinate, the urine passes off in drops; rigidity
and burning pain in the extremities.
Euphrasia officinalis. (Eye-bright.)
Inflammation of the eyes, especially when caused by
injuries (with Conium.)  Inflammation and ulceration



100           CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMSo
weakness in the left arm  and legs.  Vertigo when
walking.
*Graphites. (Black-lead.)
Humid  tetter;  scanty  or  delaying  menses, with
cutaneous eruptions. Chronic, costiveness, Falling out
of the hair (with Baryta and Lycop.)
Helleborus niger. (Christmas-rose.)
Anasarca, especially after suppression of an exanthem
(scarlatina, measles, purple-rash); apathy to emotions;
acute and chronic hydrocephalus.  Aphthse  in  the
mouth. Swelling of the posterior cervical glands.
*Hepar sulphuris calcareum.  (Sulphuret of lime.)
Arthritic and rheumatic pains, also with inflammation  and swelling  of the affected parts.  Mercurial
cachexia. Ulcerations and suppurations (in alternation
with M/erc.); panaritia (in  alternation with  Merc. or
Sil.); Ulceration of the mamma; open chilblains; vesicular erysipelatous inflammations with  swelling (with
Rhus tox.); rhagades.  Humid tinea; scrofulous ophthalmia with pimples on the lids; phlyctaene of the
cornea; fetid otorrhcea.  Soreness in the groin. Group
(after Aconite, in alternation with Spongia); chronic
hoarseness; chronic laryngitis; laryngeal phthisis; sore
throat as if a pointed body were sticking in it; dyspepsia,
with pressure in the stomach; sour, green diarrhoea of
children; opalescent urine; leucorrhcea with smarting;
sensation as if hot water were coursing through the
swelling around the chest; ankles.



HIYDROCYANI.-HYPERICUM.                 101
Hydrocyani acidumo (Prussic acid.)
In the last stage of cholera:  1. If the  patient
continues to spit continually without expectorating
much  saliva.  2. Heat in the head, with  coldness
of the limbs, vomiting of a black fluid, involuntary
stools. 3. For cholera sicca (dry cholera) without diarrhoea or vomiting, with general cramps, at times in the
calves, at other times in the arms and hands or in the
masseter muscles, preventing the mouth being opened,
with occasional involuntary shrieks, followed by prostration or fainting,  4. After the apparent cessation of
all vital functions, with entire collapse of pulse (with
Carbo. veg.) in the last stage (paralytic stage;) tetanus.
*Heyoscyamus niger. (Black henbane.)
Toothache, with flashes of heat towards the head;
epileptic paroxysms, terminating in deep sleep; chorea;
encephalitis (Bellad. being  ineffectual;) grasping  at
flocks in typhus; consequences of unhapyy love, with
jealousy; rage, with  shameless manners, the patient
goes about naked; spasmodic closing of the eyelids,
squinting, diplopia, hemeralopia (in  alternation with
Bell.)
Hypericun  perforatum. (St. John's-wort.)
Used externally and internally, this agent cures punctured wounds, cuts, bruises, lacerations of the fibre, if
the pains are very violent, like toothache, proceeding
from  the injury along the limb.  It is also useful, if
children are affiected with  spasms after every slight
injury.
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102            CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMISo
*Iatropha cureas. (Barbadoes-nut.)
General prostration; coldness of the extremities, with
blueness of the nails; vomiting of albuminous substances, with diarrhcea; Asiatic cholera, with frightful
vomiting, constrictive or burning pains in the stomach,
watery stools, violent cramps in the calves, coldness of
the body (in connection with Cupr, and Verat.)
Ignatia amara. (St. Ignatius' bean.)
Spasmodic laughter and weeping, consequences of
yrief su2jpressecd mortfication, unha2ppy love; convulsions
after grief, fright, insults.  Hysteric  spasms, epilepsy
(from  similar causes;) menses premature and profuse,
black  and  coagulated  blood, (after Nux vom.;) cardialgia relieved by eating; uterine spasms, with  contractive pressing pains; disposition to prolapsus of the
rectum; hemicrania (clavus.)
Iodine.
Scrofulous  ailments; swelling  and  induration  of
glands; oedema, anasarca; fever, alternate chills and
flashes of heat, with delirium  and subsultus tendinmm,
grasping at flocks; hectic fever; aphthae, with ptyalism;
continual vomiting; induration of the spleen; swelling
of the inguinal glands; ovarian dropsy; metrorrhagia
at stool; chronic, corrosive leucorrhoea; inflammation
of the lacrynx and trachea; ceroup (in alternation with
Aeon.;) chronic  hoarseness; cough, with  white  or
bloody expectoration;  laryng/yeal and trachfeal phthisis;
gore e; white-swielliing of the kniee also inflammatory
swelling, with violent pains and suppuration,.



IPECACUANHA.-KALI,                  103
*Ipecacuanha.
Prostration, with loathing of food or drink; vomiting;
intermittent fever, (especially after alloeopathic remedies
had been used;) cinc/h-on-cachexia, slight chills, a good
deal of heat, gastric symptoms, oppression on the chest;
gastric derangement after eating fat food (also Puls.;)
cholerine, vomiting  of mucus and  bile (with Puls.;)
rattling and vomiting of mucus, in the case of children; hemorrhage from  every  orifice of the body;
asthma millari, the pains are less in the open air.
Kali bichromicum. (Bichromate of Potash.)
Chronic rheumatism; pains shifting from one part to
another; violent itching  of the skin, followed by the
breaking out of small pustules on the arms and thighs
forming crusts; secondary syphilitic eruptions.
Apathy; irritable mood; vertigo on rising from a
seat; stinging pains in the temples; throbbing headache.
Inflammation and swelling of the lids; chronic conjunctivitis; ulcers and spots of the  cornea; optical
illusions; stinging  and ringing in the ears; ozsna;
sponginess, polypi of the nose; fetor from the nose; loss
of smell; plugs of indurated mucus in the nose.
Chapping of the lips; ulcers on the inner lips; painful
ulcer on the tongue; yellow  coating on the tongue;
sensation as of a hair on the velum; sensation as if the
food remained lodged in the cesophagus; small and
excavated ulcer at the root of the uvula, with reddish
arcola, and secreting  a yellowish matter; secondary
syphilitic ulceration of the throat.



104           CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMSo
Sour or bitter taste in the mouth; heartburn; vomiting of blood or mucus; pains in the stomach aggravated
by motion, relieved by eating, which leaves a feeling of
oppression; boring pains in the bowels, relieved by
pressure; habitual constipation, or occurring every
three months; dysentery, with boring  pain  at the
anus; scanty urine, with whitish pellicle and whitish
sediment; rawness, soreness, itching and pustules of
the pudendum; yellowish leucorrhoea, with weakness
in the small of the back.
Dryness in the bronchia; painfulness of the larynx,
with intolerable titillation, and dry cough day and
night; or cough with expectoration of tenacious phlegm,
or yellowish-gray phlegm; dyspnoea; tearing-lancinating pains in the whole left side of the chest; stitchingboring pains in the kidneys, with suppression of urine.
Tearing pains in the arms and  hands; rheumatic
pains in the hips, knees, also with trembling of the legs.
Kali carbonicum. (Carbonate of Potash.)
Bitter, sour, foul or sweetish taste; hoarseness, with
sensation as of a plug in the throat; cough, with suffocative anguish, or with vomiting, especially in the
morning; whooping cough with cedema of the upper
lids; cough with  purulent expectoration; dyspnoea,
especially when walking fast; goitre.
Kreasotume
Marasmus of children, with diarrhcea; swelling or induration of the neck of the uterus; incipient carcinoma.



LACHESIS.-LYCOPODIUn.y               105
Lachesis.
Paralysis, especially  on  the left side; epilepsy;
twitching of the arms and legs, froth at the mouth;
ulcers on the legs, secreting a fetid pus; inveterate
fever and ague, especially after abuse of cinchona; sore
throat; gangrenous ulceration.
Lairocerasus. (Cherry-laurelo
Tetanic and epileptic spasms; apoplexy, with loss of
speech; hepatitis and induration of the liver; constipation, retention of urine, complete paralysis of the
bladder; profuse menorrhagia during the critical period,
with dark  coagula;  cough with copious  gelatinous
expectoration, also streaked with blood; slow, panting
breathing; paralysis of the lungs; pains are less in the
open air and at night.
Ledum palustre. (Marsh-tea.)
Nodcous gout. Dry, itching herpes; swelling of the
knee, with tension and stinging; inflammatory or cedematous swelling of the feet and legs.
Lycopodium clavatum. (Club-moss.)
Nodous gout;  scrofulous and  rickety complaints;
curvature  and  softening of bones; mercurial bonepains; paralysis; humid  tetter; humid scald head;
fistulous ulcers; chronic conjunctivitis; photophobia;
ulceration of the Schneiderian membrane; freckles in
the face; chronic hepatitis; irmpotence; cough with
saltish  expectoration; inveterate ulcers on the legs,
with nocturnal tearing.



106           CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
Magnesia carbonica. (Carbonate of Magnesia.)
Obscuration of the cornea; toothache  of pregnant
females; contracting or oppressive pains in the stomach,
with sour eructations,
Magnesia muriatica. (Muriate of Magnesia.)
Schirrous indurations of the uterus; spasms of the
broad ligaments.
Manganum. (Manganese.)
Nocturnal bone pains; chronic hoarseness and roughness of the throat; cough, with expectoration of green
or yellowish mucus in little lumps; laryngeal phthisis.
Menyanthes trifoliata. (Buck-bean.)
Intermittent fever with  feeling  of coldness in the
abdomen; otorrhoea after measles or scarlatina.
Mephitis putorius. (Skunk.)
Spasmodic cough, whooping cough.
MYIercurius vivus and solubilis. (Quicksilver.)
Chancrous ulcers, especially when accompanied  by
drawing in the limbs; rickets, scrofulous and dropsical
complaints; swelling and caries of bones, or inflammatory bone-pains, especially at night, also curvature
and  excessive brittleness of the bones; rheumatic or
arthritic pains in the joints and limbs, becoming intolerable in the warmth of the bed, espQecially at night,
with 29ers2piration which does not afford any relief; scabies,



MECURIUS.                     107
or miliary itch, readily-bleeding small-pox (in alternation  with variolin;) sequele of small-pox; tetter,
especially syphiiUtic; spreading ulcers, spongy, blueish,
readily-bleeding; inflammatory swelling of glands, parotitis; suppurations  of various kinds; inflammatory
fevers, with greatly hurried pulse and excessive sweat
having a sour or foul smell; swelling of the head, erup
tion on the head; falling off of the hair; inflammation
of the eyes and lids; tearing and stitching pains in the
ears; purulent or bloody discharge from  the ears;
hardness of hearing, with roaring in the ears; inflammation and swelling of the nose, especially of the point;
nose-bleed, the blood coagulates very speedily; tearing,
stitching, jerking toothache, especially at night, in the
roots of the teeth, shooting to the inner ear, aggravated
by cold or warm drinks, or by inspiring cold air; also,
with ptyalism  and swelling of the cheeks; fetor from
the mouth; aphthse, ulcers in the mouth; inflammation
of the tongue, swelling of the tongue, with thick coating
of the same; excessive loathing of meat; desire for cold
drinks, especially water; sore throat, with swelling of
the tonsils and ptyalism; violent vomiting of bitter
mucus; hepatitis, swelling and hardness of the liver;
inflammation  of the bowels and peritoneum; green
diarrhoea, mucous, bloody, purulent, with cutting colic
and tenesmus, continuing even after a discharge; sour
or excoriating stool; protrusion of the rectum, it looks
black and blood is spirted out; urine with white flocks,
as if filled with pus and mucus; hwneorrhage from  the
urethra; greenish gonorrhcea, especally  at night, with
painful erections; balannorrhcea; hard swelling of the
testes; prolapsus of the vagina; purulent, corrosive
leucorrhoea; hard swelling or suppuration of the mam



108           CHARACTERISTIC SYMIPTOMSo
ma; catarrhal conditions of various kinds, especially
when attended with chilliness and aversion to the open
air; influenza; dry, racking cough, as if the head and
chest should fly to pieces; haemoptysis when lying
down; painful stiffiess of the neck; exfoliation of the
finger-nails; children refuse the breast; remedies against
the excessive action of Mercury, are: Bell., Carb. veg.,
Hep. sulph., Nitri ac., Sulph., Lach., Lye.
Mezereumo
Abuse of Mercury, chronic effects thereof, especially
caries of bones; swelling of the parotid glands; humid
scaldhead; excessive vomiting of green and bitter mucus, or bloody, chocolate-colored vomiting every day
burning pains in the stomach; heematuria; discharge of
a few  drops of blood after urinating; discharge of
mucus from  the urethra; balannorrhcea; albuminous
leucorrhcea.
Mfillefolium. (Yarrow.)
This remedy is chiefly recommended for haemorrhage
from the various orifices of the body.
Moschus. (Musk.)
1ysteria and 73hypochondria; convulsions of males or
females; tonic spasms; excessive vascular erethism;
headache, as from  a heavy weight on the head, with a
sensation as if cold compresses were applied to the
head; tearing in the right half of the head as if the
head should be cut through; report in the ears, fol



MOSCHUS.-NATRUM.                   109
lowed by discharge of a few drops of blood; vomiting
every forenoon; pressure in the stomach, increased by
drinking; throbbing in the region of the stomach; constipation relieved by coffee; violent sexual desire, with
titillation in the sexual organs; spasmodic jerking of
the hands and feet, followed by severe pains in these
parts.  Some of the pains abate in the open air.
iMuriatic acid.
Foul ulcers on the legs; typhus, the patient settles
down in the bed, fetid breath, aphthae in the mouth,
compressible and intermittent pulse.
Tatrum carbonicum. (Carbonate of soda.)
Glandular swellings on the neck and in the groin;
swelling of the feet, or coldness of the same.
Tatrum muriaticum. (Salt.)
Intermittent fever, especially after abuse of Cinchona,
quotidian or tertian, with bone-pains, great prostration,
bitter taste in the mouth, backache, sallow complexion,
ulceration of the corners of the mouth, loss of appetite,
pressure in the pit of the stomach, with painful sensitiveness when touched, the paroxysms generally set in
in the forenoon with thirst, even during the chill; falling off of the hair; lachrymation, especially in the open
air, twitching of the lids, dimness of sight, blurred appearance of the letters, muscge volantes, fiery points or
streaks; hardness of hearing, with buzzing in the ears,
ringing, otorrhoea.  Swelling of the lips and cervical



11O           CH-IARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS
glands, scurvy, gumboil; sensation as of a hair on the
tongue; vomiting of the ingesta, especially in the case
of pregnant females; spasmodic cardialgia, afternoon to
evening; chronic constipation or diarrhoea; prolapsus
of the rectum, with burning in the anus and discharge
of bloody ichor; tetter at the anus; painful haemorhoidal tumors; gleet; scanty and retarded menstruation; acrid leucorrhoea, with sallow complexion; cough,
caused by tickling in the throat or pit of the stomach;
cough with vomiting of the ingesta; stitch in the chest
when drawing a long breath or coughing; palpitation
of the heart after the least exercise; irregular, intermittent beats of the heart; trembling of the hands when
writing; dry and brittle skin on the hands; burning or
coldness of the feet; the sweat of the feet which had
been suppressed reappears.
*NTitric acid.
Chancre, gonorrhAcea, figwarts, especially when complicated with mercurial symptoms; mercurial ulceration
of the mouth; loose teeth and bleeding gums; inflammation and swelling of the testicles, the pain extending
upwards along the spermatic cords; swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands; affection of the kidneys, urinary complaints; flowing piles; chilblains;
hardness of hearing (followed by Petrol.;) ulcerative
phthisis (after Kali carb.); the pains are relieved by
riding in a carriage.
Nitrum. (Nitre.)
Itching blotches on the body, except on the hanzcs andi



NITRUM.-NUX VOM: CA.                111
feet; headache after eating veal; nocturnal throbbing
toothache, made worse by cold things; stitches in the
chest when drawing a long breath; pneumonia; cough
with purulent expectoration, after neglected pneumonia,
or with expectoration of bloody mucus. The pains
mostly appear in the afternoon and evening; those
which make their appearance in the day-time, disappear in the evening.
Nux muschata. (Nutmeg.)
Consequences of exposure to dampness and cold;
affections accompanied by drowsiness or disposition to
fainting; intermittent fever with  drowsiness, whitecoated tongue, rattling breathing, bloody expectoration
and but little thirst, even during the hot stage; cdirrhoea after the use of boied mil/k.
*lux vomica. (Vomic nut.)
Cardialgia, pressure at the stomach with sour eructations and sour vomiting, flow of water in the mouth,
b1oated bowels, baclccche; sensation as if a band round the
abdomen, as if it would fall off; bilious vomiting (with
Puls.;) vomiting of dark, coagulated blood; ailments
caused by the excessive use of coffee, wine, brandy,
mental labor, talking, watching at night; dullness of
the head as after intoxication; heaviness in the occiDut; delirium  tremens (with Opium;) nausea, foul taste
in the mouth, especially in the morning; the pains are
worse in the morning, after eating and during rest;
hernia, prolapsus of the vagina and uterus, weakness
of the uterine ligaments, pains in the bowels after con



112           CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMSo
finement; pressing towards the womb; obstinate constipation and loss of appetite; hemorrhoidal complaints,
painful tumors, inflammation  and induration of the
liver; premature and excessive menstruation; yellowish
leucorrhcea; desire to urinate; gravel, renal calculi;
weakness of the small of the back, lameness of the
lower extremities, bruising pain, formication, jerking
of the lower extremities, dorsal consumption; excited
sexual desire; tetanus after injuries, especially of the
spinal marrow; impotence; consequences of onanism
(with China.)
Cough, with soreness in the epigastrium, pain in the
head as if it would split, aggravated by reading, thinking, etc.; restless sleep; intermittent fever, with pains
in the stomach, blueness of the skin, excessive chilliness, backache, headache, nausea, constipation, desire
for beer.
Headache in front and in the back part of the head;
rush of blood to the chest; dryness and roughness of
the throat, with sensation as of a plug in the throat.
Irritable mood, consequences of continued chagrin;
disposed to find fault, to entertain thoughts of suicide;
hypochondcrica; restless  dreams; chiblains.  If taken
immediately after a cold, Nux may sometimes arrest
the symptoms which otherwise require Aconite or Belladonna.  This agent is especially  suitable to individuals of a vehement temper.
Oleander.
Painless paralysis, especially of the lower extremities; deficient vital heat; sadness and diffidence in one's
self; squamous or humid scaldhead; obscuration of



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sight when looking sideways; throbbing in the pit of
the stomach.
*Opium.
Sopor, also in typhus. Stupefying sleep, unrefreshing,
with the eyes half open, stertorous breathing. Dreamy,
stupid sleeplessness (in opposition to sleeplessness from
excessive wakefulness, which yields to Coffea); consequences of fright, trembling, jerking, convulsions beginning with rigidity of the whole body, loud cries;
epilepsy; tetanus; painter's paralysis; expectoration of
frothy blood when coughing. Dangerous pulmonary
haemorrhage; constipation from torpor of the bowels.
Vomiting of faeces in ileus (with Plumbum). Deli-rium
tremens. This agent is frequently suitable to drunkards
and old people, and to persons upon whom other medicines are slow to act (compare with Carbo. veg.); colic
of infants, with constipation; lead-colic.
Petroleum. (Rock-oil.)
Scrofulous ailments.  Glandular swellings and indurations.  Scaldhead, soft tumors on the head, painful
when touched. Fistula lachrymalis (in alternation with
Silic.); hardness of hearing, caused by paralysis of the
auditory nerve (especially after using Nitri. ac.); itching and dampness of the scrotum, tetter between the
scrotum and thigh (with Graph.); chapped hands; obstinate ulcers on the toes.
*Phosphorie acid.
Glandular ulcers (especially when burning); pain in
the periosteum as if scraped with a knife; affections of
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114           CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
bones; ulcers.  Diarrhcea, not weakening; mucus diarrhoea; diabetes; milky urine; typhus with taciturn
mood, optical illusions, confused fancies, even when
awake; consequences of silent grief (compare Ignatia),
also of loss of animal fluids, onanism (after China);
debility, emaciation.  Impotence.
*Phosphorus.
Last stage of croup (in alternation with Bromine);
nervous debility, emaciation (with impotence); mucous
phthisis.  Pneumonia, with stitches in the sides of the
chest, rusty sputa, stage of hepatization (after Acon.
and Bry.)  Loss of blood during pregnancy. Smarting
leucorrhcea.  Chronic hoarseness, aphonia. Constant
disposition to diarrhoea during cholera; glandular abscess and fistula, especially in the mammae; dry, scaly
tetter; affections of bones, with nocturnal pains; caries
of the lower jaw; glandular swellings; zoomagnetic
conditions; amaurosis, cataract, glaucoma; violet-odor
of the urine (with turpentine); irresistible desire for
sexual intercourse (in the male; aversion to it (in the
female).
Platinao
Painfulness of the pudendum.  Nymphomania, unnatural sexual excitement.  Profuse  and premature
menstruation (with Nux and Calc.); induration and prolapsus of the womb. Hysteria.
Plumbum. (Lead.)
Paralysis of the extremities. Constipation.  Hard,
lumpy stools. Violent pains in the umbilical region.



PLUMBUM.-PULSATILLAo                  115
Spasmodic retraction of the abdomen.  Colic, relieved
by pressure and bending double.  Vomiting of fseces,
in ileus (with Opium).  Sweaty feet, smelling like decayed cheese.
Pulsatilla. (Wind-flower.)
Scanty  and delayed  menstruation.   Amenorrhoea,
especially when caused by a cold. Chlorosis. Irregular menstruation.  Pains and cramps in the bowels,
before or during  the menses.   Leucorrhcea;  feeble
labor-pains (also in alternation with Secale); afterpains; hastens the detachment of the placenta.  Stoppage of the lochial discharge. Consequences of weaning,
such as distention of themammae; stinging in the breast
of young  girls, with  discharge of thin, acrid milk;
fainting  fits with  deathlike pallor; epileptic spasms
(especially when caused by menstrual suppression, or
returning at every appearance of the catamenia.
Consequences of measles, such as hardness of hearing,
otorrhoea, weak eyes, etc. A preventive against measles.
(The principal remedy during the measles is Acon.)
Fistula lachrryncalis, or fistula generally. (Sulph., I-ep.
or Sil. may have to be given for the psoric taint or the
affections of the bones); ophtcalmia, also when  of a
scrofulous character, with pressure, stinging, lachrymation especially in the open  air; dryness of the eyes.
Stye on the eyelid; cataract; dimness of sight, diplopia,
fiery circles; otalgia, jerking, stinging, tearing, humming, ringing in the ears; deafness caused by obstruction of the ears.  Otorrhoea, especially after measles;
nosebleed.   Headache  above the root of the nose.
Catarrh with loss of taste and smell.  Dr'y coryza, with



116           CHARACTERISTIC SYIMPTOMS.
ulcerated nostrils, discharge of foul, yellowish or green
m ucus.
Cough, with dryness of the throat, or cough with
expectoration of yellow, bitter, salt or sweetish, bloodstreaked mucus. Cough with desire to vomit.  Cough
with pain in the chest and stitches in the side; excessive accumulation of mucus.
Vomiting of mucus tand bile.  Pressure in the pit of
the stomach; papescent, slimy, bilious, blood-streaked
diarrhcea. Burning in the rectum. Fluent piles. Urging
to urinate, with involuntary dribbling of the urine, discharge of mucus from  the urethra; diabetes; wetting
the bed, especially in the case of little girls; derangement of the stomach  or other gastric  derangements
caused by eating fat, pastry (with Ipec. and Carb. veg.);
cardialgia made worse by rapid  walking.  Flatulent
colic and painfulness of the integuments when touched.
Inflammation  of  the  bowels  (in  alternation  with
Arsenic.); angina pectoris; suffocative paroxysms; constriction across the  chest, with  pain  in  the  chest,
especially  when  caused by  the vapors of Sulphur;
bitter taste; varices (in alternation with Arnica, which
may likewise be applied externally). Erysipelas, shifting
from  one part to the other. AVandering gout (with
Kali bichrom.); tearing in the limbs, relieved by uncovering the affected part).  Chilblains.  A characteristic symptom is the absence of thirst in all Pulsatillapains.  This agent is especially suitable to females with
gentle and timid dispositions, pale complexion, blue
eyes, blond hair; in the evening the pains are worse,
also during rest and in warmth, especially in the warm
room; they abate in the open air, or when the patient
is lying on the back or during moderate exercise.
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RANUNCULUS.-RHUS TOX.                  117
laanunculus bulbosus. (Crow-foot.)
Vesicular eruptions, as if scalded; flat, spreading
ulcers with sharp edges and stinging-burning itching;
ophthalmic affections, with immobility of the pupils;
the pains are excited by contact or a change of position.
R:anuCnultus seeleratus. (Malignant crowfoot.)
Periodically-recurring pains, especially arthritic and
rheumatic, without sweat; obstinate ulcers.
Rlhododendron chrysanthum. (Siberian rose.)
Arthritic and rheumatic pains in the limbs, excited
by rough weather, worse during rest and at night in
bed, sometimes with swelling and redness of the affected
parts (with  Rhus tox.); hydc'ocele.  Swelling of the
knee.
*lIhus toxicodendron. (Poison Sumach.)
Tearing and drawing, or stitching pains in the limbs
during rest,  nd at night, worse when entering a room
from  the open  air; rigidity of the limbs; numbness
and tingling  in  the extremities; paralysis; ailments
from  getting wet; pain in the joints as if sprained;
consequences of a strain or sprain (after Arnica;) sensation  as if the flesh were detached from  the bones;
vesicular erysipelas; vesicular eruptions.
Nocturnal cdiarrhca preceded  by colic; dysenteric
diarrhcea; diarrhoea  alternating  with   constipation;
panaritia with  swelling of the whole arm; (compare
IIep. and Sil.;) inguinal hernia; hydrocele (in alterna



SANGUINARIA-SILICEA.                  119
walking, etc.; inveterate  ichorous  ulcers;  spongy
excrescences.
Secale cornutum. (Ergot, spurred rye.)
Deficient labor-pains  (in alternationi  with  Puls.;)
detachnent of the placenta; fetid metrorrhagia; protracted bloody lochial discharge; miscarriage; exhausting  diarrhoeic stools in  rapid succession; colorless
diarrhoea (during the cholera;) paralysis of the lower
extremities, depending upon  weakness of the spinal
marrow; ergotism; sphacelus of the toes, in the case of
old people.
Senega. (Rattlesnake-root.)
Spots on the cornea, or dimness and sponginess of the
cornea; dry cough, or cough with difficult expectoration, wheezing breathing, racking  pain through the
whole chest.
*4Sepia. (Cuttle-fish.)
Is especially suitable to females (like Puls.;) scanty
menstruation.  Ailments incidental to the critical age;
smarting leucorrhoea, also after the critical cessation of
the menses; hysteria, flashes of heat, etc; ailments incidental to pregnancy, nausea  and vomiting; humid
herpes, with itching  and burning; hemicrania with
vomiting; boring pains somewhat relieved by rest and
external pressure; cough  with  saltish  expectoration
(with Lycop).
Silicea.
Caries of bones; swelling and curvature of bones,



120            CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
(rickets;) suppurating sores of various kinds, panaritia
(in alternation with Hep.;) proud flesh; spongy excrescence in ulcers; gangrenous sores; ganglia; suppuration of the mamma in the case of nursing females (in
alternation with Hep. and Mierc.;) inflammation of the
nipples; carcinoma of the mamma; phthisis pulmonalis,
especially of sculptors and stone-cutters, (with Cale.:)
hectic cough with purulent expectoration; pulmonary
fistula; fistula of various kinds, especially when bones
are involved; glandular swellings, hard, painful, suppurating; tetter and eruptions with abscesses; yellow,
brittle, distorted finger-nails (after Sulph.)
Ulceration of the big toes; suppression of sweat on
the feet; swelling  of the knee; deafness; otorrhoea;
cataract; inflammation  and  swelling  of the  eyes;
vomiting after drinking; intermittent fever, with pre
dominance of the hot stage, (after Aeon.)
Spigelia anthelmia. (Pink-root.)
Periodically-recurring headaches and face-ache of the
left side, aggravated  by motion  and noise; carditis
enlargement  of the heart;  hydrothorax  caused  by
organic disease of the heart; worms.
*Spongia marina tosta. (Burnt-sponge.)
Croup (in alternation with ilep.); goitre, with pressure
and tingling in the swelling (with Iodine, also when a
sensation  of constriction  is  felt); hoarseness  after
singing; laryngeal phthisis.
Squilla maritima. (Squills.)
Fever with  internal chilliness  and external heat;



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cough, with stitches in the side at every turn of cough,
also with bloody expectoration; pleurisy and pneumonia.
Stannum. (Tin.)
Spasms during dentition; epilepsy in the evening;
mucous phthisis.
Staphysagria. (Stave's acre.)
Chronic mercurial ailments; lupus; glandular swellings; cuts which refuse to heal; toothache in decayed
stumps, with swelling of the cheeks; excrescences on
the gums; small boils in the lids or along the edges.
*Stramonium. (Thorn-apple.)
Dementia, (especially of drunkards;) illusions of the
fancy; delirium; lascivious mania; proud mania; alternate ludicrous gesticulations and sad expression of the
countenance; rage, with great violence; kicking and
howling, crowing voice; catalepsy.
*Sulphur.
Chief remedy for psora; herpes and eruption  of
various kinds; itch; rough and chapped skin; warts;
sarcoma; acne; hepatic spots; ulcers; pancritia; spongy
excrescences in sores; boils, (especially on the nates,
with nitric acid;) intolerable itching; continually recurring erysipelas; anasarca; bone-pains, as if the flesh
were detached; inflammation and swelling of bones;
caries; rickets; arthritic tearing in the limbs, worse at
night; paralysis; glandular affections; goYtre; affections



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for fruit and for sour things; unquenchable thirst;
sudden prostration of strength.  Debility and trembling. Debility after abuse of China (also removed by
Ferrum).  Coldness, numbness and formication of the
extremities.
Tearing in the extremities, aggravated by damp and
cold weather and by the warmth of the bed. Pains in
the lower limbs, ascending to the abdomen, or else in
the opposite direction; tetanic spatms, the palms of the
hands and the soles of the feet becoming bent inwards.
OColera (in alternation with Cuprum).  Catalepsy, with
flexibility of the limbs; epilepsy; intermittent fever, the
coldness being only external, with internal heat, and
violent desire for cold water.
Delirium.  The  memory is almost entirely  gone.
Confusion of mind, dementia, especially religious or
amorous mania, with absurd acts; fancies himself a
hunter, prince, minister, is proud of it; she boasts of
being pregnant, etc.  Paroxysms of pain causing delirium and mania for a short period. Bad consequences
of fright.
Vinca minor. (Wintergreen.)
Tangling of the hair, with gnawing itching; plica
polonica.
Viola tricolor. (PansyO)
Crusta lactea with burning itching at night, and discharge of tenacious, yellow pus.  The urine smells like
cat's urine.



126          CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMSo
Zincum metallicum. (Zinc.)
Chronic eruptions of various kinds, especially tetter,
and ulcerated tetter; ganglia; discharge of blood from
the urethra, after urinating; pain in the chest when
riding in a carriage. Chorea.
REMEDIES ACTING MORE ESPECIALLY ON THE
RIGHT OR LEFT SIDE.
Left.                     Right.
Aconite,                   Agaricus,
Apis,                      Alumina,
Arnica,                    Belladonna,
Asarum,                    Cantharis,
Calcarea carb.             Causticum,
China,                     Crotalus,
Colchicum,                 Drosera,
Colocynthis,               Eepar sulph.,
Crocus,                    Ignatia,
Iodine,                    Moschus,
Lachesis,                 Plumbum
Mercurius,                Rhus tox.,
Nitric acid,              Ruta,
Nux vom.,                  Sabadilla,
Rhododendron,              Sabina,
Spigelia,                  Sanguinaria,
Sulphur,                  Staphysagria.
Sulphuric acido



SPECIAL DIRECTIONS
FOR THE
TREATMENT OF ALL LEADING DISEASES.
Cholera. (Asiatic cholera.)
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS,
THE homoeopathic treatment of cholera having produced such brilliant results, it seems very strange
indeed, that it should not have been universally adopted.
This is not owing to ill will, or to the jealousy of OldSchool physicians, we cannot believe such meanness on
the part of our professional opponents possible, when
the object of our endeavors is to save human life,-no,
it is simply owing to the old want of faith and to the
old pride. Physicians cannot comprehend, and therefore refuse to believe, that such small agencies should
produce such great effects. They imagine that their
own wisdom is superior to nature's laws, and the result
of their profound cogitations is the lamentable fact, as
corroborated by the published mortality-bills of our
city-authorities that fifty and even more of every hundred patients attacked with cholera, die.
(127)



128      TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
Under homoeopathic treatment one thousand four
hundred and sixty-four patients out of one thousand
five hundred and fifty-seven recovered in nineteen different cities, ninety-three only died, or six per cent.
(See Dr. Buchner's " Results of alloeopathic and homceopathic  treatment according to official statements.")
Where the spirits of Camphor and the higher potencies
of homceopathic preparations were employed, only one
in a hundred died as a general rule.
The official lists of cholera-patients in the district of
Tischnowitz from November 7th, 1831, to February 5th,
1832, show  that, under alloeopathic treatment three
hundred and  thirty-one patients two hundred  and
twenty-nine were cured and one hundred and two died;
under homeopathic treatment of two hundred and
seventy-eight patients, two hundred and fifty-one were
cured, twenty-seven died.
Dr. Baer of Prague lost under allceopathic treatment
of one hundred and nineteen patients forty-seven-and
cured seventy-two; under homceopathic treatment of
eighty patients, he did not lose any.
Of seventy-one patients who were treated with Camphor without any other medicine, sixty were cured,
eleven died.
Count Nadasdy of Daka in Hungary, in the absence
of professional aid, treated his subjects with the spirits
of Camphor.  Of one hundred and sixty-one who were
attacked, he only lost fifteen.
Dr. Schulz who had been my assistant in Coethen,
treated sixty-eight patients during the epidemic cholera
of 1848, in Potsdam, and only lost nine, among whom
were several scrofulous children and old men who had
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130       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
avoided; otherwise it is well to continue one's regular
mode of life, to eat and drink moderately, to avoid
violent emotions, to overcome disturbing passions, to
observe cleanliness and especially frequent washings
with  cold  water, which strengthen and fortify the
body.
An attack may be provoked by any violent and
sudden change of diet, by the use of spirits of patent
cholera-cordials, teas, etc. Travelers should endeavor
to be perfectly regular in their meals and to use nourishing and simple food in moderate quantities.
Every body should keep the spirits of Camphor on
hand (one part of Camphor to be dissolved in twelve
parts of alcohol); this will afford the best help at the
commencement of an attack, especially if tetanic spasms
should be present, as will be more fully shown hereafter; the vial should be kept carefully closed lest the
smell should injure the other homceopathic preparations.
During  cholera, children are  sometimes attacked
quite suddenly with vomiting and diarrhoea, but without spasms; such an attack is speedily arrested by
IpecacuaZnha, five  globules, in six tablespoonfuls  of
water, of which a dessertspoonful may be given every
fifteen minutes; the attack will cease in a few hours.
The medicine should be given less frequently as soon
as an improvement sets in, and should finally be discontinued. If Ipec. should be without effect, Ascarum
may be given; this  cures vomiting of water with
anxiety and diarrhcea without cramps.  But if these
symptoms should be complicated with cramps in the
calves or bowels, Cuprum should be given as stated
above; this will prevent the full development of cholera,



132      TREATMiENT OF LEADING DISEASESo
asked; burning in the stomach and oesophagus, and
cramp-pain in the calves and other muscles; he shrieks
when the pit of the stomach is touched; he has no
thirst, no nausea, vomiting or diarrhoea.
At this stage (camphor may still prove available provided it is employed at once by those present. The
patient is placed into a warm  bed, and takes a drop of
the spirits of Camphor every five minutes, on a lump
of sugar or in a small spoonful of water. The arms and
legs of the patient are at the same time rubbed with the
spirits of Camphor from above downwards, likewise the
pit of the stomach and the abdomen.  An injection of
Camphor may likewise be administered, mixing two
dessertspoonfuls of the spirits of Camphor in two
tablespoonfuls of tepid water. The spirits of Camphor
may likewise be evaporated from  time to time upon a
heated brasier, especially if the mouth is spasmodically
closed, in which case the inhaled vapors may take the
place of medicine taken by the mouth.
The more attentively these precautions are attended
to, the more quickly and certainly the patients will recover. Iis warmth, strength, consciousness, quiet and
sleep return: he is saved.
If this first favorable period should have been overlooked or neglected, the
Second Stage
Sets in, where Camphor generally proves unavailing.
This stage is characterised by frequent watery discharges mixed with whitish, yellowish  or reddish
flocks; violent vomiting of quantities of similarlylooking watery substances, unquenchable thirst, loud
rumbling in the bowels. increasing anguish, moaning



CHOLERA.                       1  3
and yawning, icy-coldness of the whole body, even of
the tongue, mottled  blueness of the arms, decreased
action of all the senses, slow pulse, excessively-painful
cramps in the calves and arms, and in the bowels.
If these symptoms are present, Camphor is of no
avail, and it is best to remove the smell of Camphor,
in case it should have been used previously, as much
as possible by letting in fresh air, and thus preventing
the Camphor from interfering with the medicines which
will have to be prescribed at this stage.
Cuprunr and Veratr-un, six pellets of each, are now
to be dissolved in separate tumblers of water, each containing about eight tablespoonfuls, and a small spoonful is to be given alternately every five minutes, or, in
bad cases, even more frequently.  If the watery solution should be inconvenient, a pellet may be given dry
on the tongue, at a dose.  As soon as the patient begins
to feel better, the dose should be repeated less frequently, and if sweat and sleep should set ii, all medicine is to be discontinued.
In some cases, after the disappearance of the dangerous symptoms, the skin becomes hot and the pulse
full and bounding; in such a case Aconite should be
given, six  pellets in eight tablespoonfuls of water, a
small spoonful every ten minutes; very soon the skin
will be drenched with perspiration, sleep and recovery
take place.
In cases where the attack seemed more obstinate, and
the passages remain perfectly colorless, recovery has
been effected by means of Seccae alone, or in alternation
with COupru-m or Fertrum.
If burning pains in the epigastric region or in tlle
region of the spleen (on the left side below the ribs,)



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the attack is a de oction of oatmeal or fresh water,
which should only be given in spoonful doses.
Another characteristic sign of Asiatic cholera is the
loss of all tonicity of the skin which, if' pinched up,
remains without returning to its former condition.
Cases occur where, after the second stage has run its
course, and the patient is about to die, tetanic spasms
set in and the patient seems quite dead.  Here Hydrocyanic acid or the spirits of Camphor may be given; the
latter should be rubbed upon the skin with the palm of
the hand, from  above downward, and upon the pit of
the stomach.
Patients apparently dead have likewise been restored
to consciousness by means of an injection of tepid
water and Camphor in the rectum, or by bathing the
inner mouth with a mixture of oil and Camphor.
Sometimes cholera is transformed  into  a sort of
typhus with  delirium, especially  under the use of
violent and improper medicines. In such a case Biryonia and iR/us tox. should be dissolved in separate tum.blers, six pellets of each in eight tablespoonfuls of
water, a small spoonful to  be  given every thirty
minutes alternately, and less frequently if symptoms
of improvement should become apparent.
If typhoid symptoms should set in under homceopathic treatment, with stupid insensibility, optical illusions, confusion of the senses, Acidum  phoos2hor., six
pellets in water, a spoonful every fifteen or thirty
minutes, may be given.  For dry heat, full and bounding pulse, anxiety, give Aconite alone, or in alternation
with the former remedies.
Nobody should abandon himself to slavish fear, for
fear alone brings on sickness and destroys all mental



136       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASESo
energy,  No man should suffer the divine spark in him
to be quenched by fear; every body should rely in full
confidence upon the ruling Providence who governs the
destiny of each of us. The mind, until it is absolutely
prostrated by the disease, should sustain the body with
vigor and by a strong and living faith. Let the physician, animated by this hope and intense faith, step to
the bedside of the patient, and he will be able to effect
wonderful changes for the better.
Croup. (Angina membranacea.)
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
In an attack of croup, it is of the utmost importance
to afford help before the dangerous stage has set in.
The mother who has the best opportunity of watching
her child, may avert the danger by pursuing the treatment indicated in the following pages.
If a homoeopathic physician should be at hand, he
may be sent for, but the mother should at once administer the appropriate remedy, for by so doing she may
pave the way for the physician's management without
ever interfering with it.  If no physician should be
near, she may undertake the treatment in perfect confidence, being assured that thousands of children have
been saved by the means which we here propose.  It
may be a satisfaction to every mother to know that the
treatment which I recommend, has enabled me to save
the life of every patient I have had charge of, and that,
if, in accordance with the inscrutable designs of Providence, a little patient should die, he will not have been
sacrificed by violent -ind destructive agencies. Many
of our most experienccd physicians have sanctioned



138       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES~
fuls of water, a small spoonful every two or four hours
in alternation.  The child should be kept uniformly
covered so as to prevent exposure and stoppage of the
perspiration.
At such times children should never be left alone,
nor should they be permitted during the winter to sleep
in a very cold room, lest they should kick off the bedcover and be attacked with a croupy cough, in which
case the remedies which I have recommended, should
at once be given.
Persons who have once heard the croup-cough will
never forget it; those who have not heard it may know
it by the following signs:  It is very much like the
hoarse barking of a common cur, sometimes shrill,
crowing, sometimes deep and hollow, but rough.  It is
an anxious sound, and the cough occurs in paroxysms.
The inspirations are long and labored, the expirations
are interrupted and jerking.  The little patients frequently toss about the bed in great agony, stretch their
necks and bend their heads backwards. This should
not be prevented, especially during the last stage, when
the patients might suffocate in consequence of their
heads being raised too high. The pulse is feverish,
the urine deep-red.
These symptoms require Aconite, six pellets in a cupful of water, a small spoonful every ten or fifteen
minutes, until the patient feels easier, after which the
medicine may be repeated after every new paroxysm
of cough.  Warm  and gentle perspiration is a good
symptom.  If the child falls asleep, let it sleep until
morning, when a spoonful of a solution of six pellets
of lepar 8J7su7a. in a cupful of water may be given, to
be repeated at night.



140       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
foregoing remedies, Bromine, six  pellets in water, a
spoonful every ten or fifteen minutes, should at once
be administered. This is our chief remedy in the
Third Stage.
The pulse is small and accelerated. The breathing is
exceedingly anxious, frequently wheezing or rattling;
at every inspiration the abdominal walls are violently
raised and depressed. During a paroxysm  of cough,
which is almost without any resonnance, the gagging
frequently terminates in vomiting.  The children look
pale, the face is bloated and has a blueish look, the eyes
protrude  and are  expressive of anxiety, the  little
patients seek to grasp at every thing near them.
If the patient had been treated homceopathically
from the start, Bromine may then still save the child's
life.
If the child should be very weak, or if violent alloeopathic treatment should have prostrated the patient,
Phosphorus and Bromine may be given in alternation,
six pellets of each in separate cupfuls of water, a spoonful every ten or fifteen minutes, until an improvement
sets in, after which the medicines should be given less
frequently, until they can be discontinued.
SUBSEQUENT TREATMENT AND DIET.
After the cure, and more particularly, if the child
had been under alloeopathic treatment, a feeling of
weakness is very apt to remain behind. This will yield
to China, six pellets in water, a spoonful morning and
evening.
If hoarseness remains, Kep. su7ph. or Bromine should
be given in a similar manner.



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As a matter of course, all kinds of food or drink
which are opposed to homoeopathic medicines, should
be avoided during and even for a week after the treatment of croup, more especially coffee, tea, wine, acids,
spices, roots, etc.
These things should always be kept away from  children with strict uniformity; children will never grow
up to healthy and happy men, until the use of all unnatural compounds and spices is strictly and absolutely
forbidden.
Every intelligent mother knows or should know that
it is exceedingly improper to feed children on coffee or
chamomile-tea; these beverages predispose the nervous
system  to all sorts of ailments, such as spasms during
dentition, colic, etc. An excellent antidote to convulsions produced  by chamomile-tea is black coffee, of
which a few  drops may be administered every few
minutes until the spasms cease.
The best nourishment for clildren who are brought
up by hand, during the first six months is a beverage
composed of half milk and water, sweetened with a
little sugar.  Very weak children should have even less
than half the quantity of milk, for the emaciation of
children is very often owing to over-feeding or the use
of too rich food. Very robust children may have a
gradually-increased quantity of milk, and, if this should
not satiate them, they  may eat a little stale bread
soaked in hot water, and slightly sweetened with sugar,
and at times some very weak meat-broth without any
fat.  More solid food should not be given until the incisors are through.
Washing with warm water, which is still adhered to
by so many mothers, is very weakening to children



142       TREATMENT OF LEADING- DISEASES.
and should be abandoned.  Children should be washed
every day with fresh and cool water; this is truly invigorating.  A fortnight or three weeks after the birth
of the child, the use of warm  water should be discontinued little by little, so that cold water is exclusively
used at the age of five or six weeks.  In the morning
the back should be washed first by pressing water out
of the sponge and causing it to flow down the spine;
this may be repeated a dozen times, and the sponge
may be passed over the back at the same time.  After
this proceeding the back is carefully dried, and if a
mother wishes to strengthen her feeble infant, she may
breathe upon its back from  the head all the way down
the spine; this will prove a pleasant stimulation to the
tender nerves.  The rest of the body should be washed
in the same way by passing the sponge over it from
above downward, and afterwards drying it carefully;
after washing the back, the face, arms, chest and abdomen, and lastly the lower extremities should be washed
in the same way.  This mode of washing takes a little
more time than bathing, but it is much more invigorating; and should not a mother be willing to make every
effort to secure the health and vigor of her children?
This natural system of education not only serves as a
preventive against diseases, but, if the children should
be attacked by illness, it will be found.to be more manageable, because the nervous power had been adequately
prepared to resist the inroad of disease.
Mothers should likewise be watchful in preventing
their children from touching the private parts, or from
putting their hands under the cover at night; for this
might easily lead them to the dreadful practice of onanism which destroys both body and soul, and frequently



TOOTHACE.                    14
entails incurable maladies, spasms, paralysis, epilepsy,
consumption, upon its unhappy victims.
Let every mother keep the remedies which I have
recommended for cholera and croup, in her house. How
quietly may a mother retire to rest, if she knows that
help is near in case her little darling should be attacked
by these dangerous diseases! How many children are
sacrificed by the use of violent emetics and by venesections t How many chronic ailments are entailed upon
children by the use of large doses of Calomel!  If
croup is apparently cured by such remedies, the disposition to this disease is not removed, as may be inferred
from the frequent recurrence of attacks of croup undei
alloeopathic treatment.
A mother should undertake the treatment with perfect
confidence, otherwise  she might neglect something.
The result is undoubtedly in God's hand; if he has
decreed the end of human existence, all human art and
science must prove futile, and every true Christian will
cheerfully and trustingly submit to the inscrutable, but
wise counsels of Providence.  It will be a consolation
to a mother's heart to know that, if it should have been
impossible to avert a fatal result, such remedial agents
had been employed in her child's case as would have
saved the patient's life, if this had been possible.
Toothache.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
Those who are never afflicted with toothache, may
deem it a very small matter, that much should be said
on the subject; but persons liable to attacks of toothache will thank me for the trouble I have taken to



144/      TREATMENT OF LEADING DITEASES.
show them  the means of obtaining speedy relief fromn
their sufferings.
In my clinic at least twenty patients are treated
every day for toothache, and scarcely one in a hundred
is not immediately relieved by smelling of the specific
remedy.  This successful mode of treating toothache
requires a careful knowledge of the Materia Medica, for
an apparently trifling circumstance sometimes points to
the right remedy.
If a decayed tooth, for instance, is affected, and the
pain is a throbbing and digging pain, involving even
the eye, I hold the little vial containing Pulsatillac under
the nostril of the affected side, and cause the patient to
snuff up the emanations. from  the open vial with considerable force. In almost every case the pain yields at
at once. If the toothache should be inveterate, and a
second attack should set in, two or three pellets may
then be dissolved in eight tablespoonfuls of water, of
which a dessertspoonful may be taken every two or
four hours, and after a while every morning and evening for some days only, lest the curative reaction should
be interfered with.
If the pain should affect the whole left side as far
as the ear, the tooth feeling loose and elongated, and
exposure to a draught of air having caused the trouble,
Chact)omnilla will relieve it.
If the patient is unable to point out the affected
tooth; if the pain seems to affect the whole row of
teeth, if they feel sensitive and elongated, and the head
is hot, Belladonnac will afford relief, either by smelling
or in water.
The rule is, that if smelling should not be sufficient,
a few pellets are to be dissolved in half a turnblerful of



itJOOTHACHE.                    145
water, of which solution a small spoonful should be
taken every two to four hours, and, after a few doses,
every morning and evening for a few days only, avoiding all other remedies lest the proper reaction should
be disturbed. If more than one remedy seems indicated, the two  may be  given in alternLtion.  The
tumbler should be covered, and placed in a dark spot;
the spoon should be dried after being used.  If the
water becomes turbid, the solution should be renewed.
All kinds of food or drink which interfere with the
operation of homoeopathic agents, should be avoided;
meat, except fat pork, all ordinary vegetables, milk,
simple farinaceous dishes, eggs, sweet fruit, etc., are
permitted.
Coffee, tea, strong ale, spirits, acids and spices are
forbidden. Perfumes should be avoided. I know 1by
experience that the first spoonful of coffee may blrihng
back the toothache after it had been appeased by treatment.
Persons afflicted with frequent attacks of headache
or toothache, should never use coffee which is apt to
excite these sufferings. Mlilk, cocoa, simple soups are
far preferable.
Perfumed toothpovdcars or chemical tinctures for
cleaning teeth should never be used; they remove the
tartar, but they destroy at the same time the enamel.
The best substance to clean the teeth with, is sugar
of milk or pulverised charcoal which removes all the
impurities without affecting the teeth.
Morning and evening and after every meal the mouth
should be carefully rinsed with fresh water; this will
prevent the decay of animal matter between the teeth,
and the formation of tartar.
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146      TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
The abuse of Kreasote and Opium during an attack
of toothache should be guarded against; they may
blunt the pain, but they at the same time attack and
destroy the teeth.
It is very foolish to have a tooth pulled out for no
better reason than because it aches or begins to decay.
Proper homceopathic treatment may render this operation unnecessary.
I once treated a lady who had had all her teeth
pulled out and was afterwards affected with the most
intolerable pain in her jaws which yielded to treatment.
If the patient should not succeed in removing the
pain, a good homceopathic physician should be consulted. In opening a vial, it should be closed again
as soon as the patient has performed the operation of
smelling. The first four of the following remedies are
most frequently used:
Staphysagria.
a. If the pains proceed from decayed teeth or from
stumps, even the head and ears are involved, the cheek
is swollen but not hot, the pain is caused by inspiring
cold air or by cold drinks; worse during or after eating,
by touching the affected tooth, or only at night or after
midnight.
b. Sudden blackness or decay, exfoliation of the
teeth.
c. Tubercles or painful excrescences on the gums,
liability of the gums to bleed (Compare sulphur.)
Belladonna.
a. If several teeth on one side are affected, so that it
is impossible to point out the exact tooth; if the pain
shifts about (rheumatic pain,) the teeth feel elongated,
as if they would start out of their sockets.



PHTHISIS.                   151
in the larynx and trachea, in the lungs, stomach, liver,
bowels, mesenteric glands, kidneys, bladder and uterus.
Whatever organ may be affected, there is always a
waste of the tissues and a sinking of the bodily strength.
Emaciation may likewise take place in other maladies;
hence the necessity of ascertaining the true nature and
seat of the malady. This is rather difficult for the laypractitioner who is not acquainted with the structure of
the human body. The following hints will enable him
to see the danger to which the neglect of certain derangements may expose the sick.
1. Phthisis of the larynx and trachea. (Phthisis laryngea et
trachealis.)
Consumption  of the larynx and trachea generally
occurs together, scarcely ever separately, and then only
at the commencement of the disease, sometimes even
after a simple, but neglected catarrh, especially in consequence of neglected influenza, or of badly-managed
syphilis. The patient complains of a prickling, stinging
or burning feeling at one spot in the larynx, as from
the contact of a burning coal; sometimes the sensation
is a feeling of pressure and constriction. If an ulcer
has actually formed, deglutition becomes difficult, and
the patient experiences a feeling as if an obstacle were
in the way of the food. A continual irritation and inclination to cough sets in which is still increased by
talking. The voice loses its resonance, becomes husky,
and finally the patient loses his voice altogether and
is only able to barely utter a sound.  As the hoarseness increases, the cough increases likewise, the patient
raises puis mixed with much mucus and saliva, which



152       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
has a saltish or sweetish, bitter or foul taste. The inspirations become anxious and wheezing, with a peculiar rattling sound; the expirations are comparatively
easier. Little by little the deglutition becomes still
more painful, suffocative fits frequently set in, until
finally the food taken into the stomach is ejected again
with violent fits of cough.  The patient is generally
pale, and his looks are expressive of great agony. With
the increasing emaciation hectic fever sets in, with a
slight chill in the afternoon, violent heat towards
evening, night-sweats and great thirst.  The pulse is
generally accelerated and the sleep restless. Towards
the end the hair falls out, the feet swell, exhausting
diarrhoea sets in.
If the disease is properly treated at the onset, a single
dose of the appropriate remedy may frequently arrest it.
Phos7hor-us will be found adapted to the following
symptoms: Great painfulness and sensitiveness of the
larynx, hoarseness which is made worse by talking,
complete aphonia;  cough  excited by titillation and
scraping in the  throat and chest, most frequently
excited by drinking or laughing.  Cough with expectoration of a quantity of mucus, of a white or greenish
color, purulent in the more advanced  stage of the
disease, when it has a saltish or sweetish taste.
Hepar sulphuris cahc.  The larynx  is very  much
affected, the voice is hoarse and faint, feverish chilliness
down the back, flushed cheeks, sleeplessness, anguish,
nervousness and emaciation.  Cough caused by titillation in the throat, or by pain in the larynx, aggravated
by talking or stooping, increasing towards evening and
then ceasing all at once. There is a pricking sensation
in the throat as from a bone.



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In a case of syphilitic phthisis of the larynx, when
the original syphilis had first been treated with Mercury, this medicine may be given first, and allowed to
have its full effect, after which Nitric acid may be
given.
Car5bo vegetailis.  Toarseness morning or evening,
with inability to talk loud, the voice giving out when
making the attempt; scraping  and tingling in the
throat; dry cough with pain in the upper part of the
chest, or racking cough, with oppression and burning
in the chest; cough with expectoration  of purulent
mucus having a whitish-yellow  or greenish color.  It
may be given after the abusive treatment with Mercury.
Iodine.  Pressure in -the region of the larynx as from
some swelling; the larynx is painful to external pressure.   Hoarseness, especially in  the morning  after
rising.  Constant inclination to  hawk  up tenacious
mucus, with  creeping  and  tickling  in  the  larynx.
Cough caused by violent tickling in the throat and
chest, with anxiety previous to the attack and great
emaciation.  Mucous rattling in the chest.
This remedy will probably be chosen first, if the
disease springs from a scrofulous origin, especially if
glandular swellings and indurations are present.
Causticum.  Chronic hoarseness, also with complete
loss of voice; cough caused by tickling in the throat or
stooping, with soreness, rattling of mucus in the chest,
and inability to raise the apparently loose mucus. This
remedy may prove useful, if the disease owes it origin
to neglected influenza.
Calcarea  carbonica.  Roughness  of the  throat or
hoarseness, especially in the morning; accumulation of
mucus in the chest or larynx, dry cough at night, or



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ing is not always easy, and becomes panting and hurried
when such persons go up stairs or walk rapidly. They
find talking and singing difficult, and a dry cough is
frequently present which sometimes increases to violent
attacks racking the head and chest and causing great
prostration. After such paroxysms a feeling of fullness
and oppression on the chest remains; many patients
complain of drawing and stinging pains in the chest
which suddenly come and go. After eating a flush is
seen on the cheeks and ears, and the palms of the hands
become hot and red. These symptoms are evanescent,
but return frequently and become more and more obstinate. The oppression gradually becomes more perceptible and  finally remains permanently, so that the
patient complains of it all the time. The mouth and
throat are frequently very dry, especially in the afternoon, after which tenacious mucus is hawked up in the
morning. The cough is generally worse at night; in
the day-time the condition of the patient is more tolerable. The appetite generally continues good and the
digestion is undisturbed. Towards the end of this stage
the voice becomes husky, and even hoarse. The muscular debility increases.  The pulse becomes more
frequent. The second stage is ushered in with fever
which makes its appearance at noon or towards evening. The skin is dry and hot, the pulse hurried, a cooling
perspiration breaks out in the morning. Gradually the
cough becomes more violent, worse in a horizontal position of the body, and is frequently accompanied by pain
in the chest and vomiting. The expectoration accomnpanying the cough is tenacious, opaque, and gradually
assumes a greenish or yellowish tinge. The fever becomes more continuous, and during the paroxysm the



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of these discouraging symptoms the patients still continue to form  plans for the future.  Finally the feet
become dropsical, and gradually the whole body is
invaded by this change.  Bedsores render the conlition of the patients still more intolerable. Little by
little the extremities become cold, the pulse becomes
feebler and the patient passes away quietly in the fall
possession of his consciousness.
Like most other diseases, pulmonary phthisis is often
curable if attended to in season, more especially by
means of the following remedies:
Pulsatilll.  If the fever is not yet fully developed,
and the patient is not yet troubled with thirst.  This
remedy is likewise indicated, if the disease was caused
by menstrual suppression; the patient is of a quiet,
anxious, weeping mood, with pale complexion, oppression of the chest, shortness of breath, palpitation of the
heart, cough with expectoration of bitter, sweetish, saltish or foul mucus, worse in the evening, at night or in
the morning, less in day-time, sometines, accompanied
with an inclination to vomit or actual vomiting.  During the cough the patient complains of stitches in the
shoulder, side or back. Hoarseness or very faint voice.
China, if the disease arose after venesections, or in
consequence of excessive nursing or the loss of other
animal fluids.  Cough  with  expectoration  of bloodstreaked  mucus, or of whitish  mucus with  blackish
points; ha'moptysis; pulmonary hemorrhage.   This
remedy may arrest the diarrhoea in the last stage of the
disease when a cure is no longer possible, especially if
the food passes off undigested; it is likewise useful, if
the bedsores become gangrened.
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158       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
phthisis as well as when the disease is fully developed,
and patients still show a desire for sexual intercourse.
Cough with expectoration of saltish and greenish mucus; watery, exhausting diarrhoea; general emaciation.
Caicarecl carbonica.  Especially indicated if the left
lung is attacked, less adapted to the right lung, with
stitches in the left side during a deep inspiration or
when bending toward the right side; cough with expectoration of sweetish or saltish pus of a yellowish color,
foul, worse in the morning; frequent attacks of hsemoptysis.  Phthisis of stone-cutters, (see Silicea.)
Carbo animctalis.  Adapted t tthe right lung.  Cough
with expectoration of greenish or any other kind of
pus; worse when lying on the right side.
Kali carbonicum.  Suitable to women who have had
many miscarriages, or who have nursed many children.
(See China.) Racking cough, inducing vomiting, (especially after midnight.)  Cough with purulent expectoration. This remedy is well adapted after Nitric acid or
Silic. has been given, or in cases where the disease
can be traced to neglected pneumonia.
Lycopodium.  Likewise suitable if the disease can be
traced to neglected pneumonia, Cough with expectoration of saltish mucus or pus, having a gray or greenish
color, (suitable after Calc., Phosph., Silic.)
fillefoizum.  The disease commences with, or is accompanied by occasional haemorrhage from  the lungs.
Chlore may likewise prove adapted to this condition.
Silicca. The disease is caused by the inhalation of
stone-dust, stone-cutter phthisis, (with Cale.)
Stannum.  Mucous phthisis, with expectoration of
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160       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
surface of the liver, a soft tumor may be felt which
fluctuates on pressure.  The abscess may discharge in
various directions, and thus enlanger the patient's life,
If the ptis is discharged into the lungs, it is expelled by
cough.   The pus is qualitatively distinguished from
that of other organs.  It is friable like wine-dcregs, and
contains an admixture of bile.  General symptoms are:
Jaundiced color of the skin, rapidly-increasing emaciation of the whole body, and a fever peculiar to hepatic
phthisis, setting in every other day and sometimes twice
on the same day.  If the disease is curable, Sulphur is
the main remedy; this is to be followed by Silicea, next
by Mllercurius and lastly by Lacchesis.
Each medicine is dissolved in water, six pellets in
half a tumblerful, of which a small spoonful is taken
morning and night for six days in succession, after
which no medicine is taken for several months, unless
an acute attack should render some intermediate remedy
necessary.
5. Intestinal phthisis. (Consumption of the bowels.)
This disease is recognized by the following symptoms.
The patients complain  of periodical paroxysms of
colicky pains in  the bowels.  The pain is generally
burning and is mostly felt during the night.  The pain
is aggravated by pressure upon the abdomen. A characteristic symptom is nocturnal diarrhoea with copious
discharges.  Afterwards the diarrhoea likewise takes
place in the day-time, but the nocturnal attacks are
always more violent. The nature of the discharges is
characteristic.  If received in a tumbler, they deposit
flocks of blood-streaked or dark-red or brown-red pus,



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and have a very fetid smell.  The other symptoms
peculiar to phthisis develop themselves with great rapidity, but especially the emaciation becomes so great
that the patient is often reduced to a skeleton in one
fortnight.  The disease is likewise characterised by a
filiform and rapid pulse, and by night-sweats.
The main remedy in this disease is Arsenicum.  If 
this remedy has exhausted its action, China or a few
doses of Phosphorus may be given.  Miercurius, Pulsatilla, Antimzonium crudurn may likewise be given.
6. Mesenteric consumption.  (Phthisis meseraica.)
Scrofulous children are especially liable to this disease.
It is characterised by distention and hardness of the
abdomen, increasing  emaciation  of the whole body,
more particularly of the extremities. The skin of such
patients is strikingly pale, wrinkled, and scales off in
the shape of fine, shining scales. Upon examining the
abdomen, moveable tumors are distinctly felt, which
are somewhat painful to pressure. At first the patients
complain of costiveness, but afterwards diarrhoea sets
in, and is particularly troublesome at night. The dis
charges are frequently mixed with whitish flocks. The
fever is considerable, and the pulse frequently rises to
one hundred and twenty beats.
The main remedy in this disease is Arsenicum, which
removes the danger in most cases.  The disease being
rooted in a scrofulous disposition, it will be found impossible to effect a cure without the alternate use of
Sulphur and Calcarea, provided that each of these remedies is allowed to act for several months,
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164      TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
seems unconscious, in a state of torpor or bland delirium.
The symptoms of local paralysis are sometimes present,
as if the patient had been struck with apoplexy. These
symptoms often set in at the onset, or else follow the
first mentioned symptoms, or alternate with the latter.
Meningitis is frequently accompanied by severe gastric
symptoms, such as frequent and violent vomiting of
acrid mucus, or of green fluid bile, constipation and
retention of urine.
The last-mentioned symptoms may lead an inexperienced observer to overlook the inflammation of the
brain, and to mistake the disease for a severe gastric
disorder.
This disease may be induced by a variety of causes
which should be carefully considered in the treatment.
The determination of blood to the brain which is
so frequently present during dentition, is one of the
causes of meningitis. The symptoms are those above
mentioned; the children moreover thrust their fingers
into their mouths, or move the jaws as if they were
masticating. Aconite, six pellets in a cupful of water, a
dessertspoonful every hour, is frequently sufficient to
remove the danger in twelve hours. If no change for
the better takes place in six to eight hours, Aconite and
Belladonnc should be given in alternation every hour,
Bellad., to be prepared like Aconite.
Children who have worms, frequently manifest symptoms resembling meningitis, with dryness and heat of
the skin, hurried and soft pulse, sopor with the eyes
half open, spasmodic twitching of the arms and hands,
boring with the finger in the nose until it bleeds. China,
a few pellets in water, may be prescribed, to be preceded
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moist. But if the above symptoms are accompanied by
perspiration at the onset, Jllercurius should be given.
In hot weather, persons whose bare heads are exposed to the rays of the sun, are frequently attacked
with inflammation of the brain. This is termed sunstroke.  The disease often terminates fatally in less time
than it required to develop it. In such a case the spirits
of Camphor should be given, a few drops every five or
ten minutes until the danger is over.  Each dose is to
be given in a spoonful of water or on sugar.  After this,
Belladonna is often indicated by the modified symptoms.
An inflammation of the brain may likewise be caused
by the influence of intense cold.  In this case Aconite
and Bryonia may be given in alternation every fifteen
minutes, in water, according to the above described
rule.
If meningitis is caused by the sudden retrocession of
erysipelas, Bellacdonna has to be given in a case of the
common, smooth erysipelas, and Cantharides, if the erysipelas was of the vesicular variety.*
Meningitis induced by the sudden retrocession of
scarlatina, yields to Belcladonna; by the retrocession of
measles, to Pulsactilla; the last-mentioned remedy is
likewise required, if the disease arises from the suppression of otorrhcea.  The medicine should be repeated
every hour.
Meningitis induced by a blow  or fall on the head,
* In such a case Rhus tox. is recommended by most practitioners.
Cantharicles are far more homceopathic to such a form of meningitis,
as may be seen by any one who chooses to consult his Materia Medica.
I have not only cured vesicular erysipelas with Cantharides, but likewise with Eup/horbiou, especially if the patient felt rheumatic pains
which abated during imotion.



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discharge of urine, quick and feeble pulse. A characteristic indication for Bryonia is a movement of the
jaws simulating  mastication, a dangerous symptom
when occuring after the period of dentition.
Cantharidces. Meningitis after the sudden retroces
sion of vesicular erysipelas; violent aching, tearing,
pulling, lancinating pains in the head, with sensation as
if the head were pressed from behind forward, and if
the brain would press out at the forehead; rush of
blood to the head, with redness and puffiness of the
face; protruded and sparkling eyes, with fixed and
staring look; sleeplessness with tossing about, or starting up from sleep; delirium; spasm in the cesophagus
with impeded deglutition, especially when attempting to
swallow  liquids; aversion to  iquidcs; vomiting with
violent straining; constipation and retention of urine;
full and hard pulse.
Glonoine. Sunstroke, violent determination of blood
to the head, throbbing in the forehead, temples and vertex; soreness of the brain, especially when shaking the
head; redness of the face, sweat on the forehead, hurried pulse, eyes protruded, fierce look.
Hyoscyamus.  Constrictive or stupefying pain in the
forehead, or undulating-throbbing  sensation  in  the
brain; red eyes, dilated pupils, diplopia; delirium, at
times bland, at others violent, the patient talks about
his affairs; sopor, starting of the limbs, grasping at
flocks; spasmodic constriction of the throat, with inability to swallow; aversion to drinks; vomiting of bile,
retention of urine, with constipation; hurried, intermittent pulse.
Opiumo Weight in the head, especially in the occiput, causing the head to fall backward; tension in the



1(68     hTREAT'MENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
head, or pain as if the brain were torn; pressure in the
forehead from within outward; rush of blood to the
head, throbbing of the arteries; red, staring and glistening eyes; dark redness and bloating of the face;
sopor with the eyes 7hal open; frequent vomiting, retention of stool and urine, quick and hard pulse.
Stramonium. Violent throbbing headache, with rush
of blood to the head and sparkling eyes; restless sleep,
the patient wakes crying and moaning; delirium'z  With
frightful spectra; redness and puffiness of the face;
spasm of the oesophagus, impeding and even preventing
deglutition; aversion to liquids; vomiting of bile, with
starting of the limbs; constipation, retention of urine,
intense heat of the skin, small and quick pulse.
Sulphur may be given as an intercurrent remedy
every three or four hours, in the case of scrofulous
subjects, provided the symptoms justify its use.
Asthma, Dyspnoea.
This disease manifests itself in various forms, because
it may be induced by a variety of causes. It may be
caused by a defective structure of the thorax, by curvature of the spine, or it may be symptomatic of some
other disease, such as hydrothorax. In such a case the
asthma cannot be cured unless the cause is removed.
Sometimes the disease exists independently of any other
disorder, and its dangerous character is proportionate
to the peculiar form  or intensity of the paroxysms.
Without complicating my remarks by the names and
pathological distinctions of Old School physicians, I
will content myself with indicating the various symptomatic forms of this disease, and their appropriate
treatment.



ASTHMA.                      169
1. Asthma from  determination of blood to the chest
is chiefly  observed among  plethoric young  people,
among girls whose catamenia have become arrested, or
among females in consequence of the suppression of the
lochia. The patients complain of difficulty of breathing
during exercise, of pressure, fullness and constriction of
the chest, of anxiety and palpitation of the heart, and
noctural aggravation of all the symptoms. Very fre
quently cough with dark-brown or bloody expectoration is present; the patients feel easier after raising
mucus.  The pulse is generally full, the face red and
puffed.  Headache is almost always present.
Aconite is here the chief remedy, if the attack is induced by the least emotion, characterised by the presence of heat and restlessness, inability to take a long
breath; the attack befals children who are suddenly
roused from sleep by a paroxysm of suffocative cough,
with a barking, hoarse sound of the voice, spasmodic
constriction  of the throat and  chest, and  labored
breathing.
Bellccdonna, suitable for the same symptoms as Aconite, or in case Aconite should not be sufficient, with
vertigo when rising from a recumbent position.
B2-yonia; the patient is disposed to draw  a long
breath, but is unable to do so, with stitches in the chest
when making the attempt.  The symptoms are worse
when the patient is lying down, talks or moves about;
momentary relief when rising from a recumbent posture.
Pulscatilla.  Suitable to females, when the asthma is
complicated with, or can be traced to, menstrual suppression or scanty and dcelaying menses.  This remedy
is generally useful, if the symptoms are better in the
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170      TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
Nuux vonica, suitable to persons who lead a sedentary
life, undergo much mental labor, use much wine, coffee,
spirits, or in whom the attack sets in after suppression
of the piles.  The menses are profuse and too frequent.
2. The spasmodic asthmna of adults is a paroxysmal
disease without fever. The paroxysms generally set in
at night, but they announce themselves even in the
afternoon by a feeling of fullness in the stomach, restlessness, anxiety, headache, and heaviness in the extremities.  Towards evening the pulse becomes more
frequent, the breathing more labored, and a violent and
dry cough frequently supervenes.  The anxiety increases until midnight, when it reaches the highest
degree.  The patient experiences a constrictive sensation across the chest, pants, gasps for air, and is unable
to remain in bed. The breathing becomes wheezing,
rattling.  The pulse becomes small, intermittent, the
hearts beats violently and irregularly.
The limbs become cold and perspire. Fainting fits,
vomiting, cough with frothy and bloody expectoration
frequently supervene.  At the commencement of the
disease, the paroxysms only last a few minutes, but
recur for several nights in succession, after which they
cease for three or six months; but if the disease continues, the paroxysms become more violent and continuous, until they finally take place every night.
They terminate with cough and mucous expectoration,
the pulse again becomes regular, the skin warm and
moist, and the watery again assumes its normal color.
Unless proper remedies are employed very speedily,
other disorders may supervene, until hectic fever,
apoplexy, suffocative catarrh terminate the patient's
sufferings.



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The following remedies are suitable for this affection:
Arseniculm; cough as from  the vapor of Sulphur,
with a feeling of suffocation in the bronchial tubes,
obliging the  patient to sit up.  Moreover labored
breathing, panting and wheezing, with great anxiety,
restlessness, violent palpitation of the heart and cold
perspiration, small and intermittent pulse, aggravation
in a warm  room, or by exercise, such as getting into
bed; the attacks are excited by rough weather.
Belcladonna; dry and  spasmodic  cough at night,
labored breathing, with stitches under the sternum,
constant gasping for air; constriction and painfulness
of the larynx when turning the neck, with suffocative
sensation, expression of anxiety in the face, and convulsive movements of the limbs.
Bryjonia; labored breathing, especially at night and
towards morning, with stitches in the chest and urging
to stool, frequent coughing and pain in the hypochondria.
Cocczulss; the paroxysms intermit for some days, and
then recur with renewed violence after midnight, with
constrictive sensation in the region  of the larynx;
anxiety, racking cough, moaning, disposition to start,
tremulous  weakness (especially suitable  to  hysteric
females.)
Cujrum; the paroxysms set in during the menstrual
period, with spasmodic constriction of the chest, mucous
rattling in the air-tubes; labored, hurried, wheezing
breathing, with suffocative paroxysms and short and
spasmodic cough; chiefly suitable to hysteric females.
Nux vomzica; the paroxysms set in every fortnight,
or at every change of moon, with anxiety, heat, palpitation of the heart, racking and dry cough which be
comes somewhat loose towards morning; spasmodic



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The patient is suddenly roused with a fearful cry and
an expression of anxiety in the altered features. The
voice is deep, barking, hollow-sounding, husky, very
rarely wheezing or crowing.  During the convulsive
movements of the chest, the labored inspirations are
suddenly followed by a noisy expulsion of the air. The
face becomes dark-colored, the eye becomes staring and
protruded, the veins of the neck and temples swell. If
the attack does not destroy life, it ends in a few hours
with sneezing, eructations and vomiting. The breathing becomes easier, the peculiar sound disappears, and
amid a general subsidence of the symptoms the children
fall into a quiet slumber, from which they wake exhausted and desponding. Generally a second attack
sets in in the following night, more violent than the
former, with increasing fever.  The danger of suffocation is greater, the face and lips become blue, mottled,
the shoulders are raised, and all the muscles of the
thorax are violently worked.  The face becomes more
and more distorted, the nostrils dilate, the pulse is very
rapid and intermits. The patient tosses about, is covered with cold or lukewarm  perspiration, feces and
urine are passed involuntarily, but the consciousness is
undisturbed; finally the patient dies of suffocation amid
convulsions.  Only a few children survive more than
one attack; death almost always sets in during the
third or fourth attack. The attacks never terminate
with expectoration.
Asthma  Millari cannot well be confounded with
croup, if we remember that in croup the larynx is
always sensitive to pressure, and that the patients bore
their heads into the pillow, whereas in this disease the
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174       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
larynx, but of spasmodic constriction of the chest.  In
croup the breathing is fine and crowing, in asthma Millari it is deep and hollow. If the disease is speedily
recognized, subsequent attacks may be averted, and
existing attacks may be alleviated by one of the following remedies:
I2ecacuanha; sudden paroxysms of suffocation at
night, with a sensation of violent constriction in the
chest; short and anxious inspirations, and sudden and
jerking expirations; pale, bloated face with blue margins around the eyes; peevish mood.
Sanmbucus ngrca; sudden starting up from  sleep with
a shriek, anxiety and trembling; sudden wheezing inspirations which  sometimes intermit; deep, hollow,
rough or else crowing voice; blueish puffiness of the
face and hands; protruded eyeballs with the mouth half
open; anxious tossing about, heat without thirst, hurried and tremulous pulse; torpor towards the end of the
attack, and copious, mostly cold sweat.
On comparing these indications with the symptoms of
the disease, it is readily seen that Ipecac. can only be
given at the commencement of an attack, and that, if
the disease attains to its full development, Sambucus has
to be given.  If the attack should set in again in the
night following, nothing can be expected of this agent,
and it will be advisable to give Arsenicum.  All these
remedies have to be given in the form of a watery solution, every five to ten minutes.
Other varieties of asthma can be most frequently
controlled by Arsenicum.
For asthma caused by the inhalation of the vapors of
Sulphur, we give Pulsatilla.
Asthma caused by a fit of anger or by a cold, yields



SCARLET FEVER.                   175
to Chamom. or Nux vom., the latter being more particularly indicated by a vehement disposition.
For asthma caused by the inhalation of stone-dust, in
the case of stone-cutters, sculptors, etc., we give Cctle.
carb., Silic. or Sulph.
calc. ccrb. is a main remedy for chronic asthmatic
complaints, with disposition to draw a long breath, and
sensation as if the breath were arrested between the
shoulder-blades.  The distress is relieved by raising
the shoulders. Mere stooping causes the breath to give
out; frequent paroxysms of dry cough, especially at
night.
In attacks of acute asthma, mesmerism  sometimes
proves exceedingly useful. A robust and healthy man
makes a pass with the extended hand over the chest
from above downwards, and likewise over the back of
the patient some ten or twelve times, after which the
effect should be watched.  See mnesmerismz  at the close
of the work.
The medicines should be administered in water, six
pellets in a cupful, of which a dessertspoonful is to be
taken morning and night for six days.
Scarlet-fever. (Scarlatina.)
This disease is more especially a disease of childhood.
Full-grown persons are only attacked by this disease if
they had remained free from it in their childhood. The
disease is somewhat similar to the smooth form of erysipelas, and may appear under various modifications
which expose the inexperienced  practitioner to the
danger of confounding scarlatina with some other disease.  In whatever form, the scarlet-exanthem  may
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SCARLET FEVER.                   177
Amid a progressive increase of the pains, an exanthem  makes its appearance on the third cay (seldom
sooner, and still less frequently later,) consisting of
bright-red, diffusive spots. These spots are somewhat
angular, rounding, not raised, they disappear under
pressure, but the redness reappears as soon as the pressure ceases, from the margin to the centre. These spots
first break out on the uncovered or slightly covered
parts of the body, the face, neck, chest, and thus down
to the feet; the skin is dry and hot, and this dryness
is characteristic. The peculiar smell is most fully perceived during this period; it lasts from three to six
days, during which the redness gradually disappears in
the order in which it broke out, from  above down.
wards.  The fever abates in the same proportion, and
finally ceases with the other symptoms.
As soon as the redness appears, we give Belladconna,
six pellets in a cupful of water, a teaspoonful every
hour or two hours, and if the fever is intense, we alternate this drug with Aconite.
The skin now begins to peel off, and this constitutes
the third period of the disease. Soon after the disappearance of the redness, and in some cases even a considerable length of time after this takes place, the skin
peels off in large flakes, sometimes several times in
succession. The patients seldom complain of any pain
during this period, except of a troublesome itching of
the skin.
The disease does not always run such a regular
course as we have described; its development is sometimes arrested by external influences, or the disease is
complicated with inflammation or dropsy of the brain,
croup, typhoid-fever, etc.  These diseases set in at the
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17S       TREATIMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
onset or in the second stage of the disease, and prevent
the regular appearance of the exanthem  which sometimes remains entirely  suppressed.  Even after the
regular termination of the disease the patient is still
in danger, until the desquamation is accomplished.
Until then, the patient should not be taken into the
open air, or be permitted to sit on the floor.
I will now mention the more prominent forms of
scarlatina, and their appropriate treatment.
1. Smooth scarlatinao (Scarlet-fever.)
The redness is smooth and shining, without any unevenness; arising from  small, red spots, which keep
increasing in size until they run together; the redness
is at first of a rose-color, gradually changes to that of
boiled lobster, and finally becomes of a dark scarlet.
The chief remedy in this form  is.Belcadonnazc, as stated
above, to be alternated with Aconite, if the fever is very
high.
2. Scarlet Rash.
The whole body, or the larger part of it, first becomes
red, and soon after rough and uneven. A careful examination shows a very fine vesicular rash, the vesicles
being sometimes closely grouped together. The vesicles may likewise spring up on parts of the skin which
are not red. In this form, Belladonna is not sufficient,
and has to be alternated with Aconite, both in water,
every hour or two hours.  Dulcamara may likewise
prove useful.



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Arsenicum  calbum; violent vomiting at the onset of
the attack, sudden prostration, burning heat and thirst,
or else absence of thirst and  cold  hands; anxiety,
altered  features; gang renous aogina; foul, burning
ulcers; desquamation of the skin in large flakes, with
burning itching; also in dropsy after scarlatina (also
Apis.)
This powerful medicine has sometimes to be given in
the first stage, but more frequently in the third, when
it will carry the patient through all danger.
Bryonia; this remedy is indicated, if only a few spots
make their appearance here and there, after which the
eruption becomes arrested, and is superseded by pneumonia (see this article;) Bryon. may also be given
after the retrocession of the eruption (with Apis).
Mercurius; violent angina, with  swelling  of the
glands, ptyalism, ulcers in the mouth; also with swelling of the inguinal glands which sometimes takes place
in scarlet-fever (in alternation with Arsei.)
Phosphorus; tongue and lips are dry and hard, covered with blackish crusts; loss of speech and hearing 
difficult deglutition; inability to retain his urine; falling off of the hair.
Rhus tox.; small vesicles spring up upon the scarlet
spots; they gradually increase in size, become filled.with a yellowish fluid.
Sulphur; this remedy may be given whenever a correctly selected remedy is not followed by an improvement, especially in the case of scrofulous persons (it
may be repeated every two, four or six hours, in alternation with Aeon., if the fever is high); it is also
indicated by obstruction of the nose, by a dry, cracked,
red tongue, or a tongue lined with brownish mucus.



182       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
After-diseases (sequelse) of Scarlet-fever.
Chief remedies for these ailments are: Bell., Hep.
sulph., Mere. and Apis.
One of the most common  after-diseases of scarletfever is dropsy, the main remedy for which is Arsen. in
water, a spoonful four times a day.   Sometimes the
disease seems to get worse under the use of this remedy
for the first few days, but after this period an improvement begins to  set in.   This agent is particularly
suitable in ascites depending upon enlargement of the
liver or spleen. It will also be found serviceable in
hydrothorax and anasarca.  If Arsen. does not effect a
cure, fEelleborus will be found suitable.  In dropsy of
the brain after scarlatina, Bellacdonma remains the chief
remedy; if it has no effect, ffelleb. may be given; some
recommend Apis.
Dropsical swellings of the scrotum and penis yield to
Rhus tox.
For otorrhcea and otitis, Bell. is the main remedy  if
insufficient, MJere. and  lepcar sulph. may be given.
Inflammation and swelling of the parotid glands require Merc. and Bell., in bad cases Sulph. and Barytla
carb.
For glandular abscess, Calc. carb. is suitable; for
open  abscesses, Kali carb. is recommended  by Dr.
Hering of Philadelphia.
Ulceration of the Schneiderian membrane and of the
nasal cartilages requires Aurumn.
Inflammation of the eyes yields to BelZad., in alterna
tion with Aeon.; if the cure is not complete, Apis and
Sulphur may be given.
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that the temperature of the room  should be regulated
by the intensity of the fever; if this is high, the room
should be kept cool, at a temperature of fifty degrees
F.; if the fever is moderate, the room  may be a little
warmer, say sixty degrees. Care must be taken to
prevent the patient from  uncovering himself.  During
the period of desquamation, every exposure and washing with cold water should be carefully avoided. For
the latter purpose bran-water should be used with great
precaution. Fresh linen should not be put on the patient
without having been previously aired by the fire.
Fresh water may be allowed at all times during the
disease, but in moderate quantities at each imbibition;
water and milk may likewise be used, or water and
strawberry-juice, water and sugar, thin oatmeal-gruel,
rice-water, cracker-soups, etc.  Sweet apple-sauce or
baked apples may be used, but nothing fat.
The sick-room should be kept comfortably dark from
the commencement of the disease.  The room  should
be ventilated several times a day. During this time the
patient's bed may either be carried into an adjoining
room having the same temperature, or else the patient
may be covered with a cloth as long as the windows
are open and even a few minutes after they are closed
again, until the former temperature of the room  is
restored. It is well to favor the movement of atmospheric currents in the room, by agitating the air with a
handkerchief.
All the natural wants of the patient should be gratified in the bed, by means of appropriate utensils.
Whooping-cough. (T-ssis convulsiva, pertussis.)
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bad treatment with quantities of medicine, still longer;
it may even pass into larygnitis, pneumonia, croup, etc.,
its course may be shortened or its intensity moderated
by proper homceopathic treatment.
The first or catarrhal stage, which is characterised
by peevishness, depression of spirits, irritable temper,
catarrhal cough, redness and weeping  of the eyes,
slight fever, etc., is often arrested by one of the following remedies:
Aconite; dry, shrill or wheezing cough, most violent
at night, sometimes attended with fever and dry heat,
burning pains in the wind-pipe.  Dose: three to five
pellets in a cupful of water, a spoonful every few hours.
Pulzsctilla; loose cough with  scanty expectoration,
hoarseness, vomiting of the ingesta or of a fluid white
mucus; worse towarccls evening; mucous diarrhoea. Dose
same as for Aeon., but only twice a day for five days,
then stop.
Nux voym.; dry, racking cough, worse after midnight
and in the morning, with vomiting, anxiety, suffocative
symptoms, bleeding from the nose and mouth.  (Same
close as Puls.)
J19ecacctiama; cough with great anxiety, suffocative
symptoms, blueish face, vomiting of mucus, the symptoms are the same at all periods of the day. (Same
dose).
Coccus cacti; cough excited by constant tickling in
the windpipe, coming in paroxysms, terminating in the
expectoration of quantities ofan albuminous, tenacious, ropy
Iucus, sometimes attended with gagging, and vomiting
of food after a meal.  Urinary  difficulties are often
present.
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with weeping or crying; this continues often during the
attack.
Crczbo veget.; suitable when the cough passes into the
second stage; frequent paroxysms of spasmodic cough
in the day-time, especially in the evening until midnight,
also with gagging and vomiting, painful stitches through
the head, redness and irritation in the throat, pain on
swallowing, soreness and burning in the chest.  (Same
close.)
If this remedy does not arrest the passage into the
second stage, and no other remedy is indicatedl, Kali
carb. may afford relief.
Second or spasmodic stage. (Whooping-cough in a more particular
sense.)
The cough breaks out in repeated paroxysms in
longer or shorter intervals.  The inspirations are long
and anxious, of a panting and spasmodic character, followed by five or six  shrill turns of cough, during
which  the  inspiration  of  air becomes  impossible.
Finally, while the rima glottidis is spasmodically contracted, the patient succeeds in performing  a long,
anxious and wheezing inspiration, after which a second
and even a third series of coughing fits may take place,
until the whole paroxysms, which sometimes lasts two
or three minutes, terminates in vomiting of mucus and
food, and blood is sometimes discharged from  the nose
and mouth. At the onset of the paroxysms the children rise in great anxiety, run to the mother, or hold
on to something  as if in great distress, in order to
support the upper part of the body.
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and after meals; hence it is necessary to treat such
patients with great kindness, and to overlook many of
their derelictions. They should eat light but nourishing food, such as boiled rice, stewed apples, gruel, sago,
stewed fruit sweetened with sugar, milk fresh from the
cow in any quantity, or milk diluted with tepid water.
If the weather is unfavorable, and the children have to
be kept in the house, the room  should be frequently
ventilated, or else they have to be frequently taken
from one room  into another. When in the open air,
they should take moderate exercise, not get heated by
running and jumping, lest the paroxysms should return.
The following remedies seem to be best adapted to
the spasmodic stage of whooping-cough:
V/eratrun album; the children are very much exhausted, do not recover entirely after an attack, have
to lean the head against something for support. Fever
with cool or cold perspiration, especially on the forehead, intense thirst, small and quick pulse; emission of
urine during the paroxysms; they return when rising
from bed, cease on lying down; vertigo, with pain in
the head, chest and abdomen, especially in the inguinal
region. Give three to five pellets in water, a small
spoonful morning and night for five days, then stop.
By this means I have cured children who were near
death, and had become reduced to skeletons.
J)roserca; after the most violent paroxysm the children recover perfectly, jump about as if nothing were
the matter; they feel better when moving about than
during rest; no thirst during, but after the chilliness.
The perspiration is warm or hot, and breaks out mostly
at night. The cough has a shrill sound, the children
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they are threatenee with suffocation; pain under the
ribs as if violently constricted, the children obtain relief by pressing upon these parts, generally the paroxysms terminate in vomiting of blood or nose-bleed.
One dose of this remedy, two pellets dry on the tongue,
is sufficient.
Cuprnum  metallicum; the paroxysms are quite frequent, the children become blue in the face, quite rigid,
lose their breath, until vomiting of mucus sets in, with
trembling of the limbs, and continued mucous rattling
in the air-passages.  The paroxysms frequently occur
at night quite suddenly, amid convulsions.  Give the
medicine in water, five pellets in a cupful, a spoonful
morning and night for five days.
Gina; the children become stiff during the paroxysms,
gasp for air, turn pale, a gurgling sensation is heard
from the throat to the stomach.  This remedy is especially indicated when worms are present, as may be
inferred from  the existence of great paleness, bloated
abdomen, frequent colic, itching of the anus and nose,
canine hunger, rising of water, vomiting of mucus,
flatulence.  To be taken like Cuprum.   Cina  and
Bellacc. are said to be efficient, when given in alternation.
In this stage the following remedies have sometimes
proved useful:
Coccus ccati; when a ropy mucus is coughed up.
lArnica, if the attacks begin with crying.
Conium, in the case of scrofulous children, the attacks are very violent, with flushed face and bloody
expectoration.
Compare also Hyoscyamz., Bell., Ignat. and Ipec.
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188       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
any thing is known in homceopathy, If much mucus
should be expectorated, and the cough should continue
an undue length of time in consequence of careless
management, we may have recourse to
Heacr suilph., if the larynx is very sensitive to cool
air; the cough is dry, has a hollow and rough sound,
with disposition to vomit after the attack; there is
oppressed breathing, chills along the back, hot cheeks
and hands, emaciation.  Dose: Same as for Verat.
Sulphur, when the larynx is sensitive to damp and
cold weather; racking cough, with gagging, vomiting,
pain in the larynx. The voice is husky, with wheezing
breathing and oppression on the chest. The children
look pale and haggard; it is especially suitable to
scrofulous and rickety children. (Same as Verat.)
Compare Sepia, Puls., Carbo veg., Dzlc.
Physicians will do well to institute frequent examinations of the chest, especially in obstinate cases, when
the cough will be frequently found complicated with
pneumonia, pleuritis, pericarditis, tuberculosis, etc.
A  change of air is particularly beneficial after the
cough has ceased; mountain or sea-air, or at least pure
country-air is of great use in removing the habitual
irritation of the nervous system, and completing the
restoration of health.
Affections of the Liverl
These affections manifest themselves either in an
acute form, or else in a chronic form which takes the
place of the former. We are most frequently called
upon to treat



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1. Inflammation of the Liver. (Hepatitis.)
This inflammation is recognized by a continuous,
seated, stitching pain in the right side under the short
ribs, sometimes ascending to the right shoulder, and
causing  both  in  the  right arm  and  right lower
extremity a sensation of numbness.  The more the
inflammation spreads, the more the lungs become involved, and the lancinating pain is not only aggravated
by motion, but likewise by deep breathing, sneezing
and coughing.  The pain is not always a stitching, but
sometimes a tensive, lancinating, burning or aching
pain. Intense fever is generally present, consisting of
dry heat, thirst, accelerated pulse, restlessness, anxiety.
When placing the hand upon the region of the liver, a
throbbing is perceived.  The patient feels somewhat
relieved when lying on the back.
As a general rule, acute hepatitis is speedily cured by
Aeon. in alternation withTux vom., or Sulph., or Mere.,
but other remedies are sometimes required, a list of
which will be found subjoined; six pellets of each
remedy may be dissolved in a cupful of water, a dessertspoonful to be given every hour, and, as soon as
the symptoms begin to abate, every two or four hours.
Aconite; violent heat with thirst, restless tossing
about, fear of death, stitches in the region of the liver.
Nux vomrica; stinging and throbbing pains in the
region of the liver, aggravated by motion and contact;
bitter and sour taste, nausea or vomiting, pressure in
the hypochondria and stomach, short breathing, thirst,
red urine, headache, vertigo, paroxysms of anxiety.
Mercurius; pain inr the region of the liver with sensitiveness to contact; stitches in the liver, impeded respi



192       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
Arnica; if the affection is caused by a fall or blow,
and the pains are hard and aching as if a stone were
pressing on the liver, the pains are particularly felt
when lying on the left side, both during an inspiration
and expiration.
Arsenicum; induration of the liver after the abuse of
cinchona; pressing in the liver when walking in the
open air.
CaZcarea carb.; swelling and induration of the liver
after abuse of cinchona; pressure in the liver when
making a step, or stitches in the liver when stooping.
China; swelling and induration of the liver after. treating hepatitis with venesections; pressure and stitches,
made worse by contact.
Nux vomrica; swelling and induration, the patient
complains of bitter taste and bitter eructations, oppression of the stomach, constipation, morning-aggravation
of the symptoms; also after abuse of cinchona. This
remedy is especially adapted to drunkards, and savants
who lead a sedentary life.
Mercurius; swelling and induration, with jaundice;
for these conditions Hifere. affords speedy relief; but if
it had been taken in large doses under alloeopathic
treatment, it must not be given, but Sulplhur will have
to be administered.
Sunphur; chronic hepatitis, swelling and induration
of the liver.  Jaundice; pressure, stitches and tension
in the region of the liver; also useful after abuse of cinchona; this medicine may also be given after other
remedies, to complete the cure.
In all chronic cases the medicine should be given in
water, a dessertspoonful morning and evening for five
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3. For abscess of the liver, the most important remedies are iepar -sulph., jierc., Lcach. and Sil., (Compare
Ulcers.)
4. For biliary calculi give Slph,., Calc., 11epar. sulph7.,
Sil., Lach.
Acute Dropsy of the Brain. (Hydrocephalus.)
This disease may befall persons of all ages and sexes,
but children are especially liable to it, It consists in an
effusion of serum  and coagulable lymph into the ventricles of the brain, consequent upon a previous determination of blood to the meningeal membranes and
blood-vessels, such as occurs in all acute inflammations.
Acute hydrocephalus may be induced by a variety of
causes, such as: Violent treatment of the head during
delivery; the abuse of Opium or Morphine in diseases;
too tight bandaging of children; dentition or worms;
concussion of the brain; suppression of cutaneous eruptions by external means; abuse of Opium, Hyoscyamus,
Belladonna and other narcotic  medicines, abuse of
spirits.
In the course of this disease we observe four stages:
1. The congestive stage.  2. The inflammiatory stage.
3. The stage of exudation; and 4. The stage of paralysis.
First stage. —-Children who are habitually cheerful,
become irritable, averse to company, even to objects
and persons of whom they used to be fond. The healthy
color of the face begins to fade, the eye becomes dim,
the muscles lose their tone, the body becomes more
angular and the motions become awkward and heavy;
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vene, such as pains in the limbs, tension in the nape of
the neck, and an internal anxiety which deprives the
patient of all rest.  The look becomes wandering, the
eyeball retreats into its socket, squints upwards, the eye
is half closed as if afraid of.the impinging rays of light;
it is entirely open only in the dark. The patient's head
is hotter than heretofore, especially on the forehead and
occiput; the carotids throb violently. The face now
looks pale, sunken, in few cases puffed; in either case
the features are characteristically altered. The nose
and the chapped lips are dry, the latter look pale or
pale-red.  The tongue has a dirty-whitish or brown
coating. The appetite is generally gone, but the thirst
is unquenchable in all violent cases.  In the course of
twenty-four hours the patients vomit four or six times;
the vomiting does not continue long, but may be increased by  motion and by raising  the head.  The
region of the liver and stomach exhibits signs of pain
when strongly pressed upon.  The abdomen which was
large and distended before the attack, now caves in,
which is likewise characteristic of acute hydrocephalus.
The bowels are obstinately constipated, and the scanty
passages are like glue, tenacious and brown. The urine
is voided only in small quantities, is dark-colored, and
deposits a whitish, slimy sediment.  The breathing is
frequently interrupted by moaning.  The ear is exceedingly sensitive. During a restless slumber the patients
grit their teeth, and cry out.  The pulse is slow and
intermittent, but sometimes quite regular in patients of
only a year oldo  The dry skin becomes quite relaxed,
and assumes a dingy-white color. As a rule the patients
now like to lie on their side, with the ]and of the side
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198       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
no longer wake as heretofore, with a cry, now increases
to complete stupor and loss of consciousness.
Fourth stage —At the close of the third stage the
consciousness returns for a moment, after which the
patient again relapses into the previous stupor, and the
following symptoms likewise supervene: general convulsions which are soon followed by paralysis (most
frequently of the right side), violent spasm which draws
the head backwards and causes a horrible distortion of
the face and limbs; violent fever with irregular, intermittent, but exceedingly hurried pulse.  The burning
head is drenched with sweat, while the rest of the body
is cool.  The visual power is extinct, the eyeball in
spasmodic motion, the pupil is exceedingly dilated (but
sometimes very much contracted), and cornea is generally covered with mucus; the eyeball is no longer as
deeply sunken as before.  Deglutition is more difficult;
the urine is voided involuntarily, and has a deep-yellow
color. The pulse becomes smaller and smaller, wiry, at
last imperceptible; the inspirations likewise become
shorter and more hurried, and the breath becomes cold.
The feet now begin to swell, and death puts an end to
all these sufferings.
Although all ages and sexes are liable to this disease,
yet it most frequently attacks children, but often remains unrecognized.  In many cases where children are
said to have died of convulsions from teething, hydrocephalus was the cause of their destruction, the timely
removal of which might perhaps have saved the child's
life.
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if not single symptoms but the totality thereof are constantly held in view.  It is very frecquently confounded
with worm-fever, the characteristic differences of which
two diseases I will now proceed to describe.
Acute hydrocephalus never terminates before the
thirteenth and very rarely after the twenty-first day,
generally attacks florid, and healthy children, never
shows a marked remission of the symptoms, is characterized by a striking alteration of the features, sets in
with violent frontal headache, loss of appetite, constipation, scanty discharge of a milky, turbid urine, and is
accompanied by sleeplessness or restless sleep. At first
the pulse continues regular, then slackens and becomes
intermittent, and lastly assumes a febrile type. The
patients are very restless, toss about, grasp at their heads.
At the commencement of the attack the eyes are sensitive to light, but afterwards lose this sensibility entirely.
Almost during the whole course of the disease the
hearing remains very acute, but becomes dull towards
the end of the disorder.  The nose remains dry, the
head hot. The patients become visibly thinner, a peculiar eruption makes its appearance around the mouth
and on other parts, and in every case the abdomen
becomes depressed.
The worm-fever, on the contrary, runs an irregular
course, sometimes continuing beyond thirty days; it
mostly attacks sluggish, over-fed children with large
bowels; the features remain unaltered; the pain is
strikingly limited to the bowels; the patients eat a good
deal, have copious stools; the sleep is sound; the pulse
is from the start irregular, feverish, never slower than
in healthy days; the children lie quiet; the eyes are not
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ing up from sleep with a shriek, or sopor; chilly creeping when touched by the least current of air; heat in
the head, with throbbing of the carotids and temporal
arteries; pulse full and slow, or small and slow; tendency to start, apathetic mood; vertigo when rising
from a couch, or when walking about, with tendency to
stagger as if drunk; frontal headache, over the eyes;
spasmodic bending of the head backwards; photophobia, the eyeballs are distorted or spasmodically rolled
about; diplopia; intolerance of noise; excessive dryness of the nose; paleness of the face, with distortion of
the features; dry and chapped lips, they look dark-red;
vomiting of mucus or bile; colicky pains; constipation,
suppressed or retarded secretion of urine; rheumatic
pains in the limbs and nape of the neck.
Bryonia:  Sleeplessness  or restless sleep, starting
when on the point of falling asleep; heat in the head;
frontal headache; vertigo when sitting up in bed, with
nausea as if the patient should faint; photophobia, dry
nose, pale and bloated face, dry and chapped lips,
bilious or watery vomiting, especially directly after
drinking; constipation; discharge of urine with colicky
pain; moaning breathing.
I have found this remedy useful in hydrocephalus
only if the face was pale and bloated, and the vomiting,
which is peculiar to this disease, set in directly after
drinking.
Helleborus: Sopor, with the eyes half open and turned
upwards; heat of the whole body, especially the head;
slow and small pulse; staring at one point; pale face,
forehead drawn into wrinkles; scanty discharge of stool
and urine.
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202       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
chills and flashes of heat, heat in the head, pressing
pain in the occiput and forehead; pulse feeble, slow and
tremulous; the eyes are sensitive to the light, pupils
dilated; twitching of the lids; pale face, altered features,
livid nose, perspiration on and around the nose and lips;
the tongue is thickly coated with white mucus; vomiting of bitter mucus; sensitiveness of the region of the
stomach and liver to pressure; constipation; white and
cloudy urine, as if flour had been stirred in it; rheumatic pressure in the nape of the neck, increased by
moving the neck; drawing pain in the thighs and legs;
emaciation, prostration.
This remedy may not only be indicated in the second
and third stage, but sometimes even in the first, especially during the period of dentition, when it may have
to be given in alternation with Aconite and Belladonna.
Op/iuzn: Stupor, sopor, depression of the lower jaw,
moaning, hurried breathing and feeble pulse; sunken
and altered features, distortion of the muscles of the
face; the eyes are partially closed, pupils dilated and
insensible to light, (may palliate the symptoms in the
fourth stage.)
Sulphur: Indicated if the disease is owing to sup
pression of an eruption, whether spontaneous or by
external applications; it should be given at once in
alternation with Aconite, both in water, giving Sulphur
every fourth dose, and a dose of Aconite every hour.
All these medicines have to be given internally; but
if the disease is caused by external injuries, a fall, blow,
etc., Arnica may be given internally and externally.
Six drops of the strong tincture may be mixed in a
cupful of water, and a cloth soaked with this solution
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internally the pellets should be given every two hours;
in water, in small spoonful doses.
Stool may be promoted by daily injections of tepid
water, and the urinary discharges may be facilitated by
frictions on the lower abdomen with the palm  of the
hand.
If the patient has to be moved, it should be done
gently, and the head should always be supported with
the hand; all noise must be avoided, and the room is to
be kept dark.
If these dietetic and therapeutic indications are properly and  seasonably attended  to, a cure  may be
expected in almost every case.
Dropsy. (Hydrops.)
By dropsy we understand an effusion of the water in
the tissue or in the interior of organs. Such an effusion
is most commonly the result of some other derangement, which has to be carefully ascertained, if a cure is
to be expected.  Diseases of the brain, lungs, liver,
spleen, ovaries, uterus, may terminate in dropsy; acute
eruptions may likewise change to this disease.  We
distinguish the following forms of dropsy:
1. Hydrocephalus. (Chronic Dropsy of the Brain.)
By hydrocephalus we understand any morbid accumulation of fluid under the scalp, or in the cavities of
the brain; the former is designated as external, and the
latter as internal hydrocephalus.
In the external form, the water is either in the cellular tissue of the scalp, or else between the pericranium
and the bones.
L.____..______.__.___~_.____~___~_._     __ ___      __



204       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
In internal hydrocephalus the water is either in the
cerebral tissue or else in the cavities of the brain.
This disease either runs an acute or chronic course.
The acute internal form  has been described in the
preceding chapter, which may therefore be consulted;
acute external hydrocephalus is generally the result of
external injuries, and appears in the shape of an external swelling, involving the whole head, and sometimes
even the forehead and nape of the neck.  This form
requires Arnica internally and externally, as stated
under acute hydrocephalus.
Chronic hydrocephalus affects only children, between
the ages of one and seven years; it is a symptom  of
scrofulosis, and may be a congenital disease.  The disease is known by the following symptoms:  The children become peevish and dull; if they had commenced
using their legs, they lose their power, and their speech
likewise becomes inarticulate; if they had not yet acquired the faculty of walking and talking, they do not
acquire it at all. Such children are unable to hold
their heads erect, which fall forwards or sideways; if
the head is raised suddenly, vomiting is frequently the
result.  Striking changes are perceived about the head.
The fontanelles do not close, but present fluctuating
tumors.  Pressure  on  these  tumors  may  provoke
spasms.  Proceeding from  these localities the size of
the head increases uniformly in every direction, until
it protrudes beyond the line of the face, which assumes
an oldish, sunken appearance.  Symptoms of paralysis
gradually supervene, and are first noticed in the sensual
organs.  The eye is turned  downwards, the pupils
become dilated and vision becomes extinct.  Taste and
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longest.   The extremities likewise lose their motor
power.  The patients are unable to stand or walk; the
feet are turned inwards.  At a later period the rectum
and bladder become involved in the paralytic weakness.  Towards the last the patients are seized with
suffocative fits about dusk, during which the breathing
becomes short, panting, rattling, the face looks bluish,
until the patients are relieved by vomiting tenacious
mucus.
If this disease, which may last several months, or
even years, is not too far advanced, it is curable, provided the right dietetic  and therapeutic means are
strictly used against it. The first remedy to be given
is Sulphur, six pellets in a cupful of water, of which a
dessertspoonful is to be given morning and evening for
five cays, after which the medicine is discontinued until
a change in the symptoms indicates some other remedy.
This is generally Ccacarea ccrb., which is given in the
same way as Sulphur.  Children who are very much
emaciated, with afternoon or evening-fever, may take
&Si'cea after Calcarea.  This treatment will most generally arrest the further accumulation of fluid, and pave
the way for a cure.  But other medicines may have to
be given, in case the disease should assume a more
dangerous and acute form. In such a case we may have
to resort to
Arsenicmn, for excessive swelling of the head, pale
and old-looking face; general emaciation and prostration; vomiting is provoked by the least attempt to sit up in
bed; retention of stools and urine, or else involuntary
discharges.  Suffocative fits in the evening or night.
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tive paroxysms are characteristic indications for this
drug,  A spoonful of a watery solution of six pellets
may be given every six hours, until an improvement
takes place.
Belladonna; the disease manifests itself suddenly, and
the symptoms resemble those of acute hydrocephalus in
the second or third stage. In such a case, this medicine
will only afford temporary relief, and should be given
in water, every two hours.
le Ileborvs; at a later period of the disease, if the following symptoms make their appearance: sopor, with
the eyes half closed, pupils turned upwards; tossing
about in bed; loss of consciousness; complete suppression of stool and urine; spasmodic movements of the
limbs, paralysis; rash.
The medicine should be given in water, a dose every
two, four, six or twelve hours, according as the symptoms are more or less violent.
MercuLrius; the swelling of the head is considerable,
and the patients are troubled with profuse sweats which
afford them  no relief.  This remedy is given in the
same way as the former, morning and evening, unless
the acute character of the symptoms should require a
more frequent exhibition of the drug.
2. Hydrothorax. (Dropsy of the chest.)
This is an accumulation of water in the chest, either
in one part or in the whole chest; it is acute or chronic.
In the acute form, violent dyspnoea may set in quite
suddenly, sometimes in a few  hours.  This soon increases to such a degree that the patients can only
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necks forward.  The intercostal spaces very frequently
swell, and bulge out.  A  violent cough  supervenes
which is generally dry, or at most results in the expectoration of a small quantity  of albuminous mucus.
The lips and cheeks look bluish, and the features are
expressive of the great anguish which the patients
experience in consequence of the want of air. At first
the skin is burning-hot, the pulse full, hard and tense,
thirst very great; afterwards the skin of the extremities
becomes cold, the pulse small, feeble, compressible. The
skin now becomes dry, except on the forehead where it
is covered with cold, clammy sweat.  The dark-red,
fiery urine is secreted in small quantities.
Acute hydrothorax may prove fatal in twelve to
twenty-four hours, but may last four to seven days.  In
conducting the treatment we have first to moderate the
fever by means of Aconite, six pellets in a cupful of
water, of which a dessertspoonful may be given every
half hour, until the fever abates; if no such improvement should take place in a few hours, one of the following remedies should be selected at once, and should
either be given alone, or in alternation with some other
suitable remedy.
Arsenicum; excessive anguish, with dread of dying;
dullness and heaviness of the head  altered features,
expressive of anguish; bluish lips; thirst, the patient
drinking frequently, but little at a time; suppression
of the urinary secretions, or scanty urine; suffocative
dyspnoea, with superficial breathing which can only be
accomplished by bending the chest forward; palpitation of the heart;  small, feeble, intermittent pulse;
clammy sweat,
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reached its acme, and then only, if it can be traced to
the sudden and violent suppression of a cutaneous eruption; it is scarcely ever applicable at the onset of the
attack.  WVe give it in the same way as Aconite.
Bryonia; generally after Aconite, if the fever is not
modified by the latter, or if the disease depends upon
previous inflammation of the lungs, or is complicated
with it.  For the symptomatic indications we refer the
reader to "pneumonia."
Cahinca; hydrothorax setting in after scarlatina or
measles, with hot skin which feels dry and unyielding
like parchment, accelerated pulse, unquenchable thirst;
scanty urine; shortness of breath when lying down,
relieved by sitting up; quick beating of the heart, with
suffocative distress when lying down; drawing, pressing
and tension in the left breast.
This remedy is frequently suitable after Aconite, and
should be given in water.
Dig2italis; the ordinary symptoms of hydrothorax
are accompanied with increased action of the heart and
slowness of the pulse.  Dose: every hour, in water.
Helleeborus; dyspnoea, the patient gasping for air; it
may be repeated in water, every fifteen minutes, until
the patient feels easier.
Spligelict; hydrothorax after inflammation of the heart;
the least motion, raising the arm, brings on a suffocative fit. In water, every half hour.
Chronic hydrothorax comes on very gradually.  At
first the patients complain of dyspncea, but only after
fatiguing exertions, going upstairs, or talking continually.  Other patients are periodically troubled by a
severe dyspncea which increases towards evening and
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months, it may pass off again with expectoration and
profuse perspiration, but returns again worse than
before, and finally remains permanently.  The patients
find it impossible to lie down, have to sit up in bed, and
finally are compelled to sit on the edge of the bed with
their legs hanging out.  Cough supervenes, at first dry,
but afterwards with expectoration of large quantities of
tenacious, purulent mucus.  The patient's face has a
bluish cast, especially the cheeks and tongue, sometimes
also the hands.  These local symptoms finally become
complicated with the symptoms of general anasarca.
The feet swell, and the swelling speedily spreads to the
private parts. The skin remains dry, and is cold, especially on the  extremities.  The  urine is generally
secreted in small quantities, is dark-red and deposits a
thick sediment.
The treatment of hydrothorax is accompanied with
many difficulties.  The course of the disease cannot
always be correctly  ascertained, and the perceptible
symptoms are so little characteristic that it is very
difficult to select the right remedy   In all such cases
it is of great importance that the prescribing physician
should  gather all the  information  concerning the
disease which the patient's relatives or friends are able
to impart. It may even be necessary to trace the whole
history of the patient as far back as his earliest childhood, to find out what diseases he had been attacked
with, what impressions they had left upon his body and
mind, and to determine the share they may have had in
bringing about the present derangement.  After these
preliminary remarks I subjoin a list of the most appropriate remedies in hydrothorax; they may be given in
water six pellets in a cupful, a dessertspoonful morning
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brown. The tongue exhibits a whitish coating, the
thirst is intense.
This form of dropsy is frequently met with in connection with other forms of dropsy, and most frequently
occurs in consequence of the sudden suppression of
some cutaneous eruption.
In most cases we commence the treatment with
Aconite, or Aconite and Bryonfic alternately. They may
be given in water, an alternate dessertspoonful every
two hours. If no improvement takes place after a few
doses, we may have to resort to Belladonnc, especially
if an acute cerebral affection had preceded the disease,
and if the extremities become cold, Arsenicum should be
given in water, a dessertspoonful every two to four
hours.
The following medicines may likewise have to be
used in the treatment of acute ascites.
Arnica, if the disease is caused by a blow or fall upon
the abdomen, or by suppression of the cutaneous exhalation. Aconite and Arnica may be given in alternation.
I continue these medicines every two to four hours
alternately for eight days, then wait eight days, and
resume the  same  treatment unles.  another remedy
should be indicated; but if the improvement should
be very marked, I wait even longer.
Cahinca; hot, tense and dry skin, quick pulse, violent
thirst; nausea or vomiting with aching pain deep in
the right hypochondrium. Painful distention of the
region of the liver; drawing and pressing in the kidneys from within outwards; painful distention of the
abdomen, with pressure upwards, as if there were not
room enough; scanty secretion of urine.
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sphere of homoeopathy. Apfs may perhaps prove valuable in this disease. A patient who had been treated
by two alloeopathic physicians and was given up to die,
was cured by me by taking Apis, five pellets in a small
tumblerful of water, a dessertspoonful morning and
night for eight days; the improvement which set in progressed uninterruptedly without any further treatment,
and the patient has been perfectly well for more than
a year. The symptoms were: distinctly perceptible
swelling of the right ovary, with sensation of pain and
swelling when pressing upon the part; when the patient lies on her back, the right half of the abdomen is
perceptibly raised; nausea and frequent disposition to
vomit; frequent urging to urinate, scanty discharge of
slimy urine; hard stool only every six days; complete
dryness of the skin; small, hurried pulse; prostration;
menstrual suppression.
Dulcamara and Sabina have been recommended by
same physicians.
Dropsy of the Uterus.
This affection manifests itself with the following
symptoms:  The menses cease, after which the abdomen begins to swell. This swelling does not increase
progressively as during pregnancy, but much more
rapidly, so that in a few weeks the abdomen is as large
as in the seventh month of pregnancy. If the dropsy
proceeds more gradually, the increase is nevertheless
more irregular than in pregnancy.  An exploration
shows that the vagina is cold, the womb is pushed out
of its place, higher up into the larger, or lower down
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218       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
upon the lower side of the uterus, the fluid contained
in its cavity is distinctly felt.  Gradually the lower
extremities, and finally the lips of the vulva swell, the
extremities become cold, the skin is brittle, the urinary
secretion is diminished, the pulse small, feeble, filiform
and empty.
The disease most frequently befals women who have
had many children in quick succession, or who have
been debilitated by great uterine losses.  Hence Chinaf
is a main remedy for this disease, especially if the disease is caused  by severe uterine haemorrhages, and
assumes an acute form.  Scbina may be given, if the
patients complain of contractive pains in the uterus,
with pressing downwards from  the small of the back,
resulting in discharge of blood, or if the disease sets in
after a mi'scarriage.   Sepica may prove useful, if the
effusion sets in after menstrual suppression at the critical period, or in  cases where other medicines had
effected relief, but no perfect cure.  In one case of five
months' standing, where the disease set in after artifical delivery, Sepia effected a cure within six weeks.
4. Anasarca, or general Dropsy.
This is an accumulation of watery fluid in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.  In proportion as this accumulation increases, the cells become distended and increase
in size. The consequence is that the affected part becomes enlarged, having a soft and doughy feel.  The
skin loses its elasticity, so that it remains pitted on
pressure.  It becomes pale, transparent, and feels cold
and dry.  The water transuding into the interior of
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220      TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
formable to the general rules laid down for patients
under homceopathic treatment. Dropsical patients may
drink as much cold water as they please; it is cruel to
deprive them  of the beverage and liquids generally
which they so much crave.  Milk fresh from the cow is
very beneficial; meat-broth and all kinds of light but
nourishing food are perfectly proper and advisable.
Typhus.
By typhus we understand fevers of a continuous type
where the nervous system  is chiefly involved.  It is
sometimes impossible to point out the precise cause of
such fevers.  WVe distinguish various forms of these
fevers, each of which is characterised  by peculiar
symptoms.  A pathognomonic sign of all these fevers
is the frequent change and antagonism of the symptoms,
such as: dry mouth without thirst, full development of
the disease without any distinct consciousness of the
same. We distinguish
1. Acute typhus.
This form is characterised by symptoms which point
to the brain as the chief seat of the disorder.  It attacks
most frequently plethoric young subjects. After having
complained for some days of dullness of the head, vertigo, headache, restless sleep with uneasy dreams, the
patient is attacked with creeping chills followed by heat
over the whole body, which continues all the time and
is accompanied by dryness of the skin.  This heat
is generally attended with delirium, a disposition  to
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down; the patient is sad, seems apathetic or absorbed
in reverie.  Oppressive headache, especially in the
forehead, aggravated by thinking. Several paroxysms
of heat and chilliness every day. Blue margins around
the eyes. Loss of appetite, aversion to food and drink.
Eructations tasting of musty air.  Nausea, distention
of the abdomen.  Drawing and tearing in the bowels,
especially low down, from right to left. Frequent small
passages having a foul smell. Pains in the limbs as if
bruised.
As soon as these symptoms show themselves, Cocculus
should at once be given, to be accompanied with an
occasional dose of Aconite, if dry heat and a full and
hard pulse are present.
If typhus is epidemic, Cocculus may be taken as a
preventive; it should be taken only if the least indisposition is experienced.  The presence of the above
group of symptoms, under such circumstances, would
be an additional indication for Cocculus.
The disease commences with a chill which is first felt
in the spinal column, whence it spreads over the whole
body, alternating with hot flashes for six or twelve
hours, after which the heat becomes permanent. The
organs of the senses lose their power, the eyes become
dim, the pupils fixed and dilated, the voice husky and
hollow. The hearing is dull.  The features lose their
expression, the skin is hot, covered with a clammy, fetid
perspiration. The occiput feels heavy, the dizziness of
which the patient complains, proceeds from this part of
the brain.  Sopor and delirium set in, stool and urine
are passed involuntarily. Finally the patients begin to
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224       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
Warm  weather, humidity of the air and want of
cleanliness seem  to favor the development of typhus.
This is the reason why typhus so frequently breaks out
in crowded hospitals, in prisons, on ship-board and in
narrow and damp, dirty dwellings.  If typhus prevails,
the usual mode of life should not be departed from; but
no cathartics should be taken which only tend to weaken
the body; artificial tonics and stimulants should likewise be avoided, and persons should take a good deal of
exercise in the open air. If a violent and destructive
epidemic prevails, the rooms should be fumigated every
day with vinegar, and ventilated in order to secure an
abundance of fresh air.
All fear of contagion should be banished, and perfect
faith and confidence should be had in the ruling of an
all-wise Providence.
As regards the treatment of the different forms of
typhus, it is of importance to bear in mind that these
forms are mere modifications of the general type, and
that therefore the same remedies are applicable to all.
I shall indicate the chief remedies in the order of their
importance, and the others alphabetically.
If the cause of the disease is known, it should be
carefully considered.  If the disease is caused by the
continued abuse of spirits, by long watching, by excessive emotions, the most important remedy is perhaps
Nux vomica.  If care, grief, disappointed love are the
determining causes, we give Acidun phosphor.  Among
the medicines which may be required by the various
modifications of this disease, the following may be
found sufficient: Acid phosph., Cocc., Laches., Lycop., tNux
von. O., Op  e., et., Phosphor., Puls., Hyoscyamu., C/hina,
Ignat,, Canth., C(ribo veg.
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Although it may  be well to treat every case of
typhus agreeably to its own particular symptoms, yet
it will often be possible, in cases where the cause of the
disease cannot be fully ascertained, and where the symptoms are as yet indistinctly developed, to  arrest the
disease by the alternate use of Bryon. and Rhus, which
may be given in alternate doses every two to four hours,
in water, and less frequently if an improvement takes
place.*
Before proceeding to enumerate the remedies which
are used in this disease, I will allude to the management of bedsores which  so  frequently occur in  this
disease, and affect more especially the parts which support the weight of the body, viz.: the back and sacral
regions, sometimes also the heels.  We gain a good deal
by preventing the breaking out of this disorder as long
as possible, for we do not always succeed in preventing
it entirely.  To this end we place a basin of fresh water
under the patient's bed, which has to be renewed every
day; if it can be had, a deerskin may be laid under
him, with the tail downwards.  Care should be had to
spread  the bed-sheets very  evenly and to  avoid all
wrinkles.  If bedsores should  break  out in spite of
these precautions, linen compresses should be dipped in
a solution of five drops of the tincture of Arnica in a
* In prevailing epidemics, one medicine will sometimes be found to
contain among its effects the whole series of phenomena which characterise the various modifications of the disease; but it requires an
experienced eye in order to ascertain this specific curative agent. In
1853, I succeeded in curing every case of fever and ague which came
under my notice in the district of Coethen, by means of lhus tox,,
except two cases, one of which yielded to Bryonia, the other to Tartar
emetic.
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226       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
cupful of water, and should be applied to the sores,
taking care to prevent the dripping and to renew them
frequently in the course of the day.  If this does not
heal the sores, on the contrary, if they should become
suppurating and offensive, the linen compresses should
be moistened with a solution of five pellets of China in
a cupful of water. If the sores become gangrenous, a
weak decoction of Peruvian bark may be applied.  If
the patient has made himself unclean by the involuntary
passage of faces or urine, his sheets should at once be
changed, but no fresh sheets should be used unless they
are perfectly dry, well aired and soft. Let us now proceed to study the symptomatic indications of the medicines which may have to be used in this disease:
Aconite; at the commencement of the disease, if the
symptoms present an inflammatory type, with great
heat, burning dryness of the skin, violent thirst, red
face, or else alternate redness and paleness of the
cheeks, nervousness, restless tossing about, moaning,
anxiety, rush of blood to the head, vertigo and fainting
fits when sitting up in bed. Nocturnal delirium.  Tendency to start, apprehension of dying; obscured vision.
dilated pupils; photophobia; painful sensitiveness of
the abdominal integuments to pressure. If no improvement takes place in  twenty-four hours, or if new
symptoms supervene, one of the following remedies
will have to be chosen.
Beaclaonnc; alternate chills and heat, or else general
heat with flushed face.  Furious delirium, dread of
visionary figures which the patient fancies he sees near
him, disposition to escape; sleeplessness, tossing about,
or sopor with grasping at flocks; the pulse is either full
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230       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
nary symptoms of typhus are accompanied by spasmodic colic, diarrhoea.
China; the disease is caused by loss of animal fluids,
diarrhcea, onanism, sexual excesses, etc., with the following symptoms: Alternate chilliness and heat, weakness of the lower limbs; feeble and rather slow pulse;
apathy, intolerance of noise, vertigo; headache, humming in the ears, pale and sunken features; parched
lips, blackish tongue; loss of appetite; watery or yellowish diarrhoea mixed with blood; may be given in
alternation with Acid. lphosph.
Carbo vegecabilis; in the last stage of typhus, when
the bowels are bloated, and the patient passes foul
wind and cadaverous stool; coldness of the tongue, with
cold breath.
Lycopodium; constipation, peevish  mood, or nervousness, with hot head, flushed cheeks, prostration,
sweats which do not afford any relief.
Mercurius; sleeplessness, starting and moaning during
sleep; alternate chilliness and heat; hurried pulse, little
or no delirium; listlessness; frontal headache; dim
eyes without any lustre; buzzing in the ears; livid
complexion, altered features; dry lips, brown-coated
tongue; foul taste; aversion to solid food; desire for
cold drinks;  great sensitiveness of the pit of the
stomach, of the region  of the liver and abdomen;
pressure in the right side of the abdomen, inability to
lie on this side, the bowels feel as if pressed upon;
diarrhoea, consisting of bloody mucus, green, yellow,
also watery, spirting out; dark, red or brown urine;
burning  dryness of the  skin, or copious, clammy,
exhausting sweats.  Mercurius, if given at the right
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in the intestines; unfortunately this medicine is seldom
indicated at the onset of the disease.
Natrumz  mur.; prostration, loss of consciousness, unquenchable thirst, dry tongue.
Opium; muttering delirium; sopor annd sstupor with
stertorous breathing, the mouth being open and the eyes
distorted.
Phosphorus; restless sleep, from  which the patient
wakes with a shriek; constant heat, small and hurried
pulse; vertigo, stupor, headache; hard hearing, dimness of vision, pale face and sunken eyes, dry and
cracked lips and tongue, loss of appetite, copious urine
with whitish clouds, dyspnoea, stinging and rattling in
the chest, oppressive cough with discharge of blood.
Pulsatilca; loss of recollection, delirium, sopor, crying as if in great distress, small pulse.
St&ramoniuzm; the whole body feels hot; small, hurried, tremulous, intermittent pulse; violent delirium,
frightful spectre, disposition to escape; illusions of sight
and hearing; the patient sings and prays with a devout
mien, or talks in a foreign language; throbbing headache, especially on the top of the head, dilatation and
insensibility of the pupils; altered features, impeded
deglutition, dry and rough tongue, it trembles when put
out; inarticulate speech; suppression of stool and urine.
Sulphur; if previously administered and well chosen
remedies have no effect, which may be the case if the
disease originates in the suppression of some cutaneous
eruption, or is complicated with some other chronic
affection. It is indicated by the following symptoms:
Dry heat with thirst and hurried pulse, worse in the
evening. Sleeplessness; delirium, with the eyes wide
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blue margins around the eyes; dry and brownish
tongue; hard stool; scanty, dark-red urine, soon becoming turbid.
Veratrum aclbum.; last stage of lentescent typhus, with
coldness of the skin, and cold sweats covering the skin
of the whole body; pulse slow and almost extinct; cold,
cadaverous countenance, with pointed nose and sunken
cheeks; sopor; almost imperceptible breathing; delirium, the body being cold, the eyes open and the face
having a cheerful look; mental alienation, amorous or
religious mania, thinks himself a preacher, prince,
hunter; feins blindness, a cancerous disease, pregnancy,
etc.  This remedy is often suitable after or in alternation with Arsenic.
The patient's wants have to be attended to with great
care, especially during the time of convalescence, when
an indiscretion in diet may bring on a relapse.  The
patient should be restricted to light, readily-digested
food, and should avoid all stimulating drinks. If the
weakness of the patient should continue obstinate, he
may take for four days a dose of China, morning and
night.
The following cases show that typhus may be cured
with a few doses of the specific remedy.
Two persons in different parts of our city were taken
sick at the same time. I was informed by their friends
that they complained of a dry, glowing heat, flushed
and bloated face, and that they had had violent delirium over night, and had to be kept in bed by force.
They had humming in the ears, weariness, luminous
vibratory appearances before the eyes; lips and mouth
were dry, the tongue red and burning; they had violent
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and the abdominal integuments sensitive to contact.
Frequent diarrhoeic stools. I gave Aconite and Belladonna in alternation every hour. Towards evening I
visited the patients and found that the delirium  had
subsided and that a gentle perspiration had broken out.
I ascertained that one of these patients, on closing his
eyes, saw a confused collection of luminous circles and
points, and the other a multitude of forms which came
and went. Both took Phosphoric acid in water, a spoonful every two hours, and on the following morning both
felt well, and were able to rise and eat something, but
had to walk with canes; but after the lapse of three
days they paid me a visit and were able to attend to
their business.
Mrs. B., residing in an adjoining village, was taken
ill quite suddenly.  She had a violent cough, which
became worse at night, with expectoration of yellow,
blood-streaked mucus; watery diarrhoea preceded by
violent urging and spirting out with violence, dry and
glowing heat. I sent her Pulsat., ilier. and Acon., to
be taken in alternation.  Next morning the diarrhoea
had  ceased, the cough was much  less, not bloodstreaked, but violent delirium had set in; the patient
was constantly talking about her business; the tongue
cracked and blackish, likewise the lips and nostrils;
there was restless tossing  about; the eyes looked
glassy; the skin was dry as parchment; the lower jaw
depressed, the speech heavy and  inarticulate, with
picking at flocks; hard hearing; stitches in both sides
of the chest; the body keeps settling downwards in
bed, she lies on her back with her knees bent double
and pointed upwards; frequent starting. I gave Arsenicum, Bryonia and Auriatic acid in alternation, every
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Two days after, the following change was reported:
tongue moist and clean, the black color of the lips and
nostrils had left; the lips were moist, the eyes bright,
speech intelligible, the picking at flocks had ceased,
the hearing was better, the lower jaw was no longer
depressed, and the body did no longer settle down.
She feels stronger, is still slightly delirious morning
and evening, and when coughing she complains of
stitches in the side. These few symptoms yielded to
Bryonia.
Yellow Fevero
This disease is peculiar to tropical countries, and
manifests itself with the following symptoms: Chills,
nausea, headache, especially in the forehead, generally
precede the breaking out of the disease, the tongue
speedily becomes coated with a thick layer of mucus,
although it remains comparatively clean in some cases.
The bowels at first are constipated, after which the
stomach becomes so irritable that any thing the patients eat is expelled again by the mouth or rectum.
After these symptoms have lasted three or four days,
blood begins to ooze from  the gums, nose and other
orifices of the body, the face assumes an expression of
reverie, the sclerotica has a dingy-red look, the eyes
look glassy as in the case of drunkards; the breath is
foul, almost cadaverous, the blood becomes brownish
and viscid, sometimes almost black, and often has a bad
smell.
The unacclimated residents of tropical regions are
more especially liable to being attacked by this scourge.
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236       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
Veratrumz album, for coldness of the extremities and
the rest of the body (may be alternated with any of
the other medicines, if necessary, every five to ten
minutes.)
lfercur.ius may be serviceable, when the gums, nose,
etc., bleed.
Crotalus is recommended by some physicians.
A  friend has sent me the following notice of an
attack of yellow fever, which is very apt to be brought
about by exposure to wet, by excessive labor, etc.
The commencement of the attack varies: In some it
sets in with headache; in others with a feeling of
weariness, soreness and lameness in the extremities,
sometimes with creeping in the tips of the fingers,
blueness of the nails. Excessive prostration. Constipation in many cases, with disposition to vomit. Sopor,
delirium, congestion of blood to the brain; hurried
pulse (one hundred to one hundred and twenty beats).
If vomiting sets in, it is always mixed with bile.
After the fever is cured, foreign residents retain a sallow complexion and remain debilitated for a long time;
this weakness very frequently terminates in fever and
ague.
For the premonitory symptoms, such as: tingling in
the tips of the fingers, blueness of the nails, etc., JRhs
tox. is recommended by this writer, in water, a spoonful
every two hours.  If the fever breaks out, and the
pulse is hurried, with delirium, determination of blood
to the head, hard stool, Bryonic may be given every
hour.  For bilious vomiting Ipecac. or NuxS vomica may
prove serviceable, or Pulsat., if there is an absence of
thirst.  If great weakness remains, China may be administered in water, a spoonful morning and evening,
for five days.



SEA-SICKNESS,                  237
Sea-sickness.
This disease is caused by the balancing motion of the
ship, and is characterised by nausea, headache, heat in
the head, or paleness of the face, vertigo, vomiting or
diarrhcea; all these ailments disappear of themselves
as soon as the passenger lands on firm ground.
This disease may not only be moderated, but some.
times prevented by homoeopathic agents.
Similar symptoms are sometimes induced by riding in
a carriage. These symptoms can be controlled by CoccuiUs, five pellets in a cupful of water, of which a few
spoonfuls may be taken some hours previous to the
moment of departure, and likewise on the journey as
soon as the traveller begins to feel sick at the stomach.
A few pellets may be kept dissolved in a well corked
vial and a small swallow may be taken whenever the
least nausea is experienced.
If this should not be sufficient, and a watery diarrhoea should set in, Arsen. may be given in alternation
with Cocculus.
If nausea sets in without vomiting or diarrhcea, with
stinging pains in the occiput, buzzing in the ears, aversion to meat and boiled food, with a feeling of weakness,
Petroleum may be given in the place of Cocculus.
Sulphur has been recommended for similar symptoms,
with trembling of the hands and feet; and for vomiting of water and mucus, if the patient complains of
heat and pressing in the forehead, with cold hands and
feet, Kreasotum may prove most efficient.
Persons should not leave port with empty stomachs;
they should take their meals regularly, eat good and
nourishing food, remain on deck as much as possible,



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wise naturally incline by their own weight to press
towards the posterior wall of the thorax.
The more the cells of a portion of lung become filled
with blood instead of air, the more the ordinary respiratory murmur which  resembles the crepitation of
common gold-foil, will disappear, and will be replaced by
the so-called bronchial murmur, a sound which may be
aptly compared to the slow enunciation of the German
guttural "ch" and which seems to proceed from  a
greater depth in proportion as the disease increases in
intensity and extent.
If the presence of these physical signs is announced
by an increasing dyspnoea and an increasing desire to
draw a long breath, if the stitches become more and
more violent and the expectoration accompanying the
short and hacking cough, is more and more tinged with
blood, the second stage of pneumonia has set in, and
we now give Bryonia in alternation with Aconite, both
in water, an alternate dose every hour or two hours,
until the expectoration ceases to be bloody. Bryon.,
may already be given before this time, as soon as the
fever begins to abate under the use of Aconite.
If in the progress of the disease the expectoration
assumes the color of rust, we give Phosphorus in water,
a spoonful every half hour, and less frequently as the
symptoms improve.
In case there should be an excessive accumulation of
mucus on the chest, with much rattling, dyspncea, dan.
ger of suffocation, Tartar emetic may be substituted for
Phosphorus.
For pneumonia resulting from  the suppression of a
cutaneous eruption, we give Aconite and Sulphur in
alternation, in such a manner that Aeon., is given every



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fifteen  to thirty  minutes, and  Salphur every four
hours.
If the patient is able to resume his business, but still
complains of a feeling of weight and weakness on the
lungs, we may derive much benefits from  the use of
Sulphur, Lycopodiumfn  or Phosphorus, according to circumstances.
If the fever should not yield to Acon. and Bryon.,
and violent delirium  should set in, Bell. is very frequently of great use, and produces even an abatement
of the fever.  If typhoid symptoms should supervene,
Phus tox. must not be lost sight of.
If we should be called to a pneumonic patient who
had been bled for this disease by an alloeopathic physician, we may give him  China, one globule upon the
tongue, and afterwards give China and Aconite in alternation, in teaspoonful doses of a watery solution every
two hours.
Old-school physicians describe two forms of pneumonia which deserve a mention in this place, pneumonia
notha and malignant pneumonia. Pneumonia notha or
spurious pneumonia is characterised by the following
symptoms: soft but hurried and small pulse, slight
stinging pain in the side which is only felt when drawing a long breath; great anxiety and feeling of weight
in the lungs, bloody expectoration, which increases from
day to clay; faint sound of the voice, and interruption
of the speech by frequent paroxysms of cough.  In
this disease our first remedy is Aconite, to be followed
at a later period by Mercurius, as soon as an aggravation
of the symptoms take place.
For a dry and hacking cough, with constrictive sensation in the chest, we give Chamom., and if there is
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246       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASESo
a cupful of water, is sometimes sufficient to cure this
severe disorder; if it should not yield to Aconite, this
remedy may be alternated with Bryonia an alternate
dose every two hours; in more  protracted  cases, a
dose of Sulphtur may be interpolated every now and
then.
If the disease sets in after heavy lifting or other
severe labor, Acon. and tlhus may be given in alternation every two hours.
There is a spurious pleurisy which sometimes creeps
along in a very insidious manner. The disease is sometimes preceded by lassitude and heaviness of the limbs,
until the patient complains of aching, stitching and
burning pains in  the chest, which are considerably
aggravated by going up stairs and by other exertions.
The cough is generally dry, but frequently very racking as though head  and chest should fly to pieces.
There is very little if any fever, and the general health
of the patient is pretty fair. A leading remedy against
this disease is Arnica, to be given in water every four
hours.  In some cases Bryonia is preferable, if the
patient is restless and feels feverish.
Infiammation of the Air-passages. (Bronchitis.)
The same causes which may bring on an inflammation of the lungs, may likwise result in inflammation of
the air-passages.
The patients complain of a stinging and burning pain
under the sternum, or of a feeling of anxiety and oppression.  This is accompanied by cough which is at first
dry, but afterwards is attended with expectoration of
bloody mucus.  The breathing is exceedingly labored,
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243       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
clean; the proffered nourishment is very seldom refused
by the little patients. In many cases the fever is inconsiderable.  A  striking symptom  is thepcae conmpexion
which is observed at the very onset of the disease.  In
most cases the pulse which is at first hard, becomes
soft, but remains hurried.
In the course of the disease the breathing sometimes
becomes so easy that it seems as though the child was
in full tide of recovery; but suddenly the dyspnoea
again becomes so violent that the patient seems threatened with suffocation.  The  attack  passes. off; but
another similar attack soon takes place, and the whole
course of the disease is marked by a continuance of
such paroxysms.  Between the paroxysms the child
generally dozes, and is not much troubled with cough.
If the disease increases in intensity, the dyspncea becomes more violent and the remissions are much less
frequent.  Sopor supervenes; the lips assume a slightly
blackish-yellow  hue, which is likewise seen to some
extent on the cheeks.  Not infrequently we observe
spasmodic twitchings of the limbs, especially on one
side of the body.  Even at this stage signs of recovery
sometimes deceive the anxious parent; but suddenly
the child dies in a fit of suffocation.
The disease runs a course of five to seven days; acute
cases may end in a few hours.
It is difficult, and not always possible to distinguish
bronchitis from pneumonia; the following characteristic
distinctions may be kept in view.  In bronchitis the
face is genercally pcae, in pneumonia it is otherwise.  In
acute bronchitis the dyspncea is much more marked
than in pneumonia; hence the anxiety is much greater
in the former than in the latter.  The panting murmur



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which almost always exists during an inspiration in
bronchitis, is seldom heard in pneumonia. The pulse
is accelerated, but it is less hard and tense than in pneumonia.  A  physician will always be able by means of
he physical signs to obtain a correct diagnosis.
The leading remedy is likewise Aconite which is given
mn the same manner as in pneumonia, in water, a spoonful every fifteen minutes.  If no improvement sets in
in a few hours, we alternate it with Bryonica in water.
This remedy is particularly indicated, if the patient has
to sit up in order to obtain relief. In the case of scrofulous individuals, and of persons who are subject to
chronic affections of the respiratory organs, and to frequent attacks of catarrh of the air-passages, these two
remedies are not sufficient; in such cases we may have
to give Phos2phorus every hour, until an improvement
sets in.  Other remedies may likewise be indicated, the
symptoms of which I here subjoin.
Aconite is given at the commencement of the disease,
if the pulse is hard and quick, the skin hot and dry, the
cough dry and short, and the breathing hurried, moaning and anxious. Scanty and fiery urine.
Bryonia; for the same symptoms as those which have
been indicated in pneumonia, especially if the patient
has to set up to obtain relief.
Phoslphorus; pale face, hard and hurried, or else feeble
and quick pulse; loud, panting breathing; dry cough,
with expectoration of bloody mucus.
Arsenicum; small, hurried pulse; pale face; dry
cough, with expectoration of blood-streaked mucus;
burning sensation under the sternum; suffocative dysp
noea, prostration.
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SORE THROAT.- QUINSY,                251
hot vapor were  rising from  the  pharynx; violent
thirst; painful dryness or else copious ptyalism; stinging pains when swallowing, with constant urging to
swallow; stinging in the  tonsils  and  submaxillary
glands; sensation as if something were sticking in the
throat, which has to be detached.
Belladc.; stitches in the throat, shooting as far as the
ear, with constant urging to swallow; spasmodic constriction of the fauces, with inability to swallow any
thing; liquids return by the nose.
Chacmomilla; sore throat with swelling of the parotids,
hoarseness, pain on swallowing as if a plug were sticking in the throat; excellent in the catarrhal sore throat
of children.
Pulsatilla; feeling of swelling and contraction of the
throat during deglutition; dryness of the throat after
midnight, with tenacious mucus in the morning.
fepcar sulph.; stitches in the throat, when drawing
breath or turning the neck.
Ignatic; feeling as of a lump in the throat between
the acts of deglutition, or soreness during deglutition;
stitches in the throat, almost always between the acts
of swallowing, or passing off by continued swallowing.
Bry., ERhus, Cocculus, Lactc7esis, Sulphur, China may
have to be used in exceptional cases.
An inflammation of the cesophagus scarcely ever
occurs except as a consequence of injuries; it is not
visible in the throat, the pain is felt lower down and
posteriorly near the spine.  Arnica may be required
together with the above named remedies.
A  chronic disposition to sore throat may be extirpated by Mercurius and Se2iat, and in scrofulous individuals, Su7J2hur. A dose of the appropriate remedy may



254       TREATAIENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
spasmodic twitchings of the facial muscles, contraction
of the pupils, obscuration of sight, supor stupor, coldness of the extremities, violent burning in the bowels,
rapid prostration, fainting fits, etc.
If the inflammation has its seat in the lesser intestines, where it is most frequently located, pains are then
most violent in the umbilicac  reggion, accompanied with
fever, nausea, restlessness, vomiting, dry tongue, intense
thirst, singultus.   If the pain commences below  the
umbilicus, invading this relion of the bowels at a later
period, we may assume that the larger bowels are primarily attacked by the inflammation.  In cases where
the symptoms are chiefly located in the hypochondria,
assuming the form of pleuritis or hepatitis, the colon or
ccecum is the chief seat of the affection.  If the pain is
felt deep in the groin, the patient experiences frequent
urging to stool, passing only some tenacious mucus, the
rectum  is the locality where the inflammatory process
has taken up its abode.
If typhoid symptoms are present, the diagnosis of the
disease is much obscured.  The phenomena of typhoid
enteritis are much less marked than those of the simple
acute form of this disease; not infrequently the existence of the disease is only  fully  and satisfactorily
revealed by a post-mortem  examination.  The pulse is
very small and quick, sometimes rather soft than hard
and contracted, the features sunken and altered, the
eyes dim, the abdomen puffed.  Soon the extremities
become paralyzed, stool and urine are passed involuntarily, the power of speech and deglutition becomes
extinct.  If the disease is consequent upon the sudden
suppression of a flow  of blood from  the uterus or
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258       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
recent, without any difficulty, but extirpates even the
least trace thereof in inveterate cases.
These derangements may result from various causes,
immoderate eating and drinking, abuse of coffee ol
ardent spirits; emotions, such as anxiety, chagrin,
grief, fright; they may also have a catarrhal origin, by
getting the feet wet or cold drinking when the body is
over-heated.
By neglecting these derangements, serious disorders
may often result from  them, such as cancer of the
stomach, consumption.  Hence it is advisable to at
once employ proper treatment, and institute a careful
comparison of the subjoined remedies, six pellets of
one of which may be dissolved in a cupful of water, of
which solution the patient should take a small spoonful
morning and night for four days, after which no medicine need be taken for some weeks or even months,
even if a momentary aggravation should take place
after first taking the drug.
If one remedy does not seem sufficient, two may be
given in alternation; if Nux is indicated by local symptoms, and the patient has been afflicted with an eruption
for which Sulphur would have been a specific remedy,
these two medicines may be given in alternation; or
if, in the case of a nursing female, much debility had
been caused by nursing, Nux and China may be given.
In giving a list of the most important remedies for
this disease, I have mentioned the most important ones
first.
Nux vomica; suitable to drunkards and lovers of
coffee; also a remedy for the consequences of an excessive use of Chamomilla.  Violent contractive, pressing,
crampy, tearing sensations in the stomach, with sensa



INFLAMMAI ON OF THE STOIACH.               265
sunken, the features very much altered.  Headache,
delirium, labored breathing, spasms of the cesophagus,
fainting  fits  and  hydrophobic  symptoms  likewise
supervene.
The causes which may induce an attack of gastritis,
are quite numerous; a successful treatment of this disease renders a knowledge of its causes absolutely necessary   An inquiry into the cause of the existing symptoms should never be omitted.  The disease may have
been caused by poison, and the poison would have to
be removed, unless this should have taken place previously; in accordance with the rules laid down under
the head  "Poisoning."   Gastritis  may likewise  be
caused by swallowing ice when the body is over-heated,
by the use of acrid spices, spirits, the introduction of
pins, glass-splinters, fish-bones and other pointed bodies
into the stomach, violent concussion of the region of
the stomach by blows, etc., suppression  of existing
cutaneous diseases by external means, suppression of
habitual losses of blood, such as hdemorrhoids, menses,
lochia, etc.  In investigating the causes of gastritis, we
should never suffer ourselves to be misled by a speculative theory; if the cause cannot be ascertained with
positive correctness, the symptoms alone can guide us
in selecting a proper remedy.
If there is much heat, and the pulse is full, hard and
bounding, Acofite should be given in water, a small
spoonful every fifteen minutes.  If violent vomiting is
present, which does not afford the patient any relief; if
the features are altered and the extremities cold, Arsen.
should be administered as the most perfectly corresponding homoeopathic specific.  Six  pellets may be
dissolved in a cupful of water, of which the patient may!^^ -,   ICn= —._ ______ ___ _______ ___ ^^____  -~____   ~ —i~m__;_ ____ l;_ _ l   _I — _  -l —.r-~.i



266       TREATMENT OF LEADING DISEASES.
take a dessertspoonful every thirty minutes.  If the
patient cannot keep the water on his stomach, a pellet
may be placed upon his tongue every half hour.
Other medicines may likewise be required, especially if the inflammation: invades neighboring organs.
Among these we distinguish:
Nux vom., gastritis of drunkards; burning, especially
at the pyloric orifice.
Belacldonru; burning pains in the stomach, with delirium, dread of liquids.
Bryonia; burning in the stomach aggravated by motion, the vomiting sets in after drinking.
CcrAntcirides; stinging or burning pains in the stomach,
with pains in the bowels, kidneys or bladder.
lIyoscyamus; vomliting of blood, dread of liquids;
spasms after drinking.
Phosphorus; if Arsen. is not sufficient, and the following symptoms are present: burning in the stomach with
violent thirst, anxiety, altered features, spasms in the
facial muscles, coldness of the extremities, feeble pulse.
If gastritis is caused by vegetable poisons, the antidotal treatment recommended in the article on "Poisoning " should first be resorted to, after which a few drops
of the spirits of Camphor may be given every five
minutes on a lump of sugar, or in a small spoonful of
tepid water.
Beside the medicinal treatment the patient should
pursue the strictest diet.  He should only drink small
portions of slimy drinks, and never unless he experiences a desire for drink.  In order to quench his
burning thirst, he may swallow every now and then a
spoonful of fresh water. Great relief is likewise afforded
by frequently rinsing the mouth with fresh water. The