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 PREFACE TO THE TENTH ENGLISH 
 EDITION. 
 
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 In issuing this edition of the Manual, the author 
 cannot forbear making a slight reference to the increased 
 esteem in which Homoeopathy is now held as compared 
 with its position fifteen years ago. The great demand 
 for this and other works of the author is no slight evi- 
 dence of the rapid extension of homoeopathic practice. 
 Is it too much to suppose that these works have con- 
 tributed to the popularity of this method of the art of 
 healing? Increased acquaintance with it has led to 
 increased demand for its literature ; and increased diffu- 
 sion of literature has led to extended knowledge and 
 practice. By " Stepping-Stones " many wayfarers have 
 crossed the stream of uncertainty to a " better land " of 
 health, and have beckoned others to come thither by 
 the same means. So they and others have advanced 
 and have increased their numbers until the Homoeo- 
 paths are not now a small and feeble band. In the pres- 
 ent edition the author has again endeavored to express 
 his gratification at the wide appreciation of his humble 
 efforts to extend Homoeopathy, by embodying some of 
 the results of his enlarged experience during the fifteen 
 years that have elapsed since the first edition of this 
 book was published, by maintaining it on a level with 
 the progressive character of Homoeopathy and medical 
 science in general, and by presenting a longer list of 
 complaints, with ampler treatment, than is included in 
 
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4 PREFACE. 
 
 any similar work with which he is acquainted. It has 
 been revised throughout, and improved by the insertion 
 in numerous parts of fresh observations of a practical 
 character. Nearly every page will be found to include 
 changes or additions which it is hoped will render the 
 work increasingly useful. 
 
 Domestic Homoeopathy. — The profession of medicine 
 cannot in this age of progress be treated as a mystery. 
 The aim of the enlightened physician is to make its 
 principles as extensively known as possible, conscious 
 that thereby the greatest amount of good will accrue 
 both to the profession and the public. Still, the objec- 
 tion is often urged that domestic Homoeopathy trenches 
 on the legitimate sphere of the profession, and is 
 dangerous in its tendency. Neither objection is valid. 
 Drugs are, and we believe ever will be, employed in 
 nearly every household — antibilious pills, Epsom salts, 
 rhubarb, sulphur, magnesia, quinine, etc. We are Hot, 
 therefore, the originators of domestic treatment; we 
 have rather sought to reform it, by substituting remedies 
 and measures which are not only far less harmful but 
 very much more efficacious than those ordinarily 
 adopted. Failure in health, of a simple and uncompli- 
 cated nature, may often be arrested at the outset by 
 carrying out the instructions contained in the following 
 pages, while if neglected till the symptoms assume 
 forms which seem to justify the consultation of a 
 medical man, it may become converted into serious 
 and even fatal disease. 
 
 Justification. — A fact which specially justifies the com- 
 position of this Manual is the necessity of meeting, so 
 far as possible, the requirements of persons residing in 
 localities where professional homoeopathic treatment is 
 
PREFACE. 5 
 
 inaccessible. An extensive correspondence with persons 
 in various and remote parts of the country and of the 
 world convinces the author of the importance of making 
 some provision for patients placed in such positions ; at 
 least, till professional men have been universally led to 
 the study and practice of the discoveries of the illus- 
 trious Hahnemann. 
 
 Advantages of Professional Treatment. — While making 
 these statements, we feel it to be our duty to recommend 
 that, in every serious or doubtful case, or when the treat- 
 ment herein prescribed is insufficient to effect improve- 
 ment in a reasonable time, the patient or his friends 
 should consult a qualified homoeopathic practitioner. 
 The vast and ever-accumulating resources at the dis- 
 posal of a professional Homoeopath unquestionably 
 place him on high vantage ground compared with a 
 domestic practitioner. The repertory at his command 
 is always increasing, and must, under almost all cir- 
 cumstances, be more extensive than any that a private 
 individual possesses ; his reading and professional inter- 
 course make him acquainted with remedies of which 
 ordinary persons are ignorant ; and diversified experi- 
 ence enables him to detect subtle symptoms which at 
 once point to the employment of specific medicines. 
 
 Progress and Opposition. — In this age of scientific pro- 
 gress it is gratifying to observe that medicine, instead 
 of being in the rear, is advancing to the front rank, and 
 that Homoeopathy is in the vanguard of medical ad- 
 vancement. This is proved by its rapid extension, and 
 by its powerful, though indirect, influence on medical 
 and surgical practice generally, causing it to do homage 
 to the instincts of humanity, and banishing every meas- 
 ure or drug that is harsh and destructive. Hostile re- 
 
6 PREFACE. 
 
 sistance to Homoeopathy there is, but it comes exclu- 
 sively from persons ignorant of its principles, or inex- 
 perienced in its actual results. The great majority of 
 medical men, and, indeed, almost all who are outside 
 the homoeopathic circle, are completely in the dark as 
 to its theory and practice, and are consequently incom- 
 petent to give a reliable opinion on the subject ; just as 
 the driver of a stage-coach or the commander of a sailing 
 vessel lacks the knowledge and experience to pronounce 
 on the merits of railways or steamers, although all are 
 alike intended for the transport of passengers and mer- 
 chandise. On the other hand, those who have been 
 trained under the beliefs and practices of the old system, 
 and have been converted to the new by investigating its 
 theory and observing its results, are placed in a position 
 to form and express a candid opinion of the merits of 
 both. The author of this work is in this position. 
 With the confidence, therefore, which knowledge of, and 
 experience in, both the old and new modes of treatment 
 alone can impart, he heartily recommends a trial of 
 Homoeopathy. 
 
 Importance of Health.- — The design of this Manual is 
 to point out some of the means by which much human 
 suffering may be prevented, bodily functions preserved 
 unimpaired, and life prolonged to the full period of 
 man's existence. The importance of the subject will be 
 obvious when it is considered how inconsistent physical 
 incapacity and suffering are with moral well-being. 
 When the habits and circumstances of man are inimical 
 to good health, all the capacities of his nature are dimin- 
 ished and deteriorated. The application, therefore, of 
 means for guarding or restoring the health of the body 
 at the same time provides for the exercise of the intel- 
 
PREFACE. 7 
 
 lectual and moral powers in their highest state of per- 
 fection. Perhaps there are moral benefits and oppor- 
 tunities consequent on weakness and disease ; but who 
 can doubt that those attendant on health and vigor are 
 far greater ? Impaired health is a moral as well as a 
 physical disadvantage. Reason asserts this, and expe- 
 rience confirms it. Who has not learned that an impor- 
 tant way of" keeping the body in subjection" is to keep 
 it free from the uneasy sensations and disabilities that 
 accompany ill-health? If this be so, it places the 
 highest value upon the perfection of our bodily organs, 
 and stamps that profession whose duty it is to promote 
 " the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate" 
 as one of the very highest that can be exercised by man. 
 From such a standpoint we see in every disease cured 
 the removal of a blot which marred the image of God's 
 noblest work, and new power given to brighten and 
 lengthen man's earthly life. Thus, alleviating human 
 suffering, and so allowing the fullest exercise of man's 
 higher nature, we are permitted to be humble followers 
 of Him who " healed all manner of diseases," and whose 
 wonderful and beneficent life has been embodied in the 
 simple phrase, " He went about doing good." 
 
 E. H. RUDDOCK. 
 
PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. 
 
 In preparing a new edition of Dr. Ruddock's " Step- 
 ping-Stone," the editor has taken advantage of the oppor- 
 tunity afforded of submitting the work to a thorough re- 
 vision. Without in any way altering the arrangement or 
 scope of the book, the reviser has endeavored to bring it 
 abreast of the times, and has made such alterations, 
 either in the way of correction or addition, as he 
 deemed w^ould render it still better fitted for the pur- 
 pose it has so well fulfilled hitherto. To this edition a 
 chapter on the chief diseases of women has been added, 
 which will greatly enlarge the practical usefulness of 
 the book. In giving the uses of the Twelve Tissue Reme- 
 dies, and incorporating them with the other homoeo- 
 pathic medicines mentioned, the editor feels confident 
 that this addition will be welcomed by all who may 
 have occasion to refer to the book, since the application 
 of these precious remedies is not only a very wide one, 
 but their uses are easily understood and readily ap- 
 plied by the intelligent layman. In its present form, 
 this little volume is not only a stepping stone to 
 Homoeopathy, as Dr. Ruddock aptly designates it, but 
 it is also in itself a complete, though concise, treatise for 
 the domestic treatment of all disorders. 
 
 It does not attempt to supplant the physician's ser- 
 vices, but rather to supply such intelligent co-operation 
 as every physician welcomes, and to be a reliable guide 
 before his arrival in the management of all diseased 
 
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10 PREFACE. 
 
 conditions. Such popular treatises are of great use to 
 Homoeopathy — are its most successful missionaries— 
 and prepare larger and wider spheres for active work 
 for homoeopathic physicians. 
 
 WM. BOERICKE, M.D. 
 Philadelphia, July, 1890. 
 
HINTS TO THE READER. 
 
 I. The novice in Homoeopathy should first make him- 
 self familiar with the introductory chapters. 
 
 II. When the work is consulted for the treatment of 
 any particular disease, the whole section devoted to it 
 should be read before deciding on the course to be 
 taken ; and if difficulty be experienced in choosing be- 
 tween different medicines, the Materia Medica should be 
 referred to, and an endeavor made to discover the es- 
 sential features peculiar to each remedy. 
 
 III. Persons desirous of being able to act wisely and 
 promptly in any emergency, for the prevention or re- 
 moval of suffering, should read this Manual through. 
 Hurried perusal under excitement does not admit of 
 that calm consideration of details which is often neces- 
 sary to determine the most speedy and effective remedy. 
 The body of the work, Part II, i3 devoted to diseases 
 and their treatment— Part III to Materia Medica. Both 
 should be studied carefully. 
 
 IV. When medical terms are used, they are either 
 explained in the text or in the index, at the end of the 
 Manual. This index is now very copious, and every 
 subject of importance may be found by consulting it. 
 Reference is further made easy by division of the work 
 into parts, chapters and sections, and by a table of con- 
 tents at the commencement. 
 
 V. To this new American edition of this Manual a 
 Clinical Directory is appended, which, it is hoped, will 
 
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12 HINTS TO THE READER. 
 
 be found of great use to those who have attentively- 
 studied disease and Materia Medica. It contains, in a 
 condensed form, prescriptions for diseases and symp- 
 toms, many of which and the remedies prescribed are 
 not referred to in the body of the work. The Clinical 
 Directory has been carefully arranged, and is really the 
 essence of the varied experience of many professional 
 medical men. It is, therefore, of more worth to those 
 who know how to use it than many who glance at its 
 few pages would suppose. The chapter on Diseases of 
 Women is also a special feature of this edition. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 ON HOMEOPATHY AND HYGIENE. 
 
 CHAPTEE I. page 
 
 Homoeopathy 17 
 
 Introductory — Early History— -Status of Professional Homoe- 
 opaths — Indirect Influence — Its fast-increasing Adoption 
 by its Quondam Opponents — Homoeopathy pirated by Allo- 
 pathic Professors — Is Homoeopathy going down ? — What is 
 Homoeopathy ? — Appeals to Facts — The Single Eemedy — 
 Small Doses — Homoeopathy not Opposed to Experience — 
 Faith not Homoeopathy — Veterinary Homoeopathy in the 
 British Army — Diet not Homoeopathy — Medicines in 
 Health — Illustrations: Light, Seed and the Magnet — 
 Advantages of Homoeopathy — Economy — Homoeopathic 
 Success — Is the Public a Competent Judge ? — Homoeopa- 
 thy and Cholera — Constipation — Statistics — Gentle Meas- 
 ures — Jerr old's Death-bed — Homoeopathic Medicines are 
 Specific — Homoeopathy and Children — Experimental Prac- 
 tice — Preventive Medicine — Future of Homoeopathy — 
 Magna est Veritas, et preralebit. 
 
 CHAPTEE II. 
 
 Observations on Health {Hygiene) 33 
 
 General Hints — Diet — Water — Fresh Air — Light — Bathing 
 — Clothing — Exercise — Tobacco and Snuff — Drugs. 
 
 CHAPTEE III. 
 The Tissue Remedies 45 
 
 The Theory of Biochemistry and History of the Tissue 
 Eemedies. 
 
 Medicines : their Administration, etc 49 
 
 Forms of Medicines — Globules, Tinctures, Triturations — 
 Genuine Medicines — Medicine Case — Directions for Taking 
 Medicines — List of Medicines — Hours — The Dose — Eepe- 
 tition of Doses — Alternation of Medicines. "*" 
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14 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. p AGE 
 
 Nursing, Diet, Baths and Other Accessory Treatment 54 
 
 On Nursing : The Apartment, the Bed, Cleanliness, Bever- 
 ages — Diet : Milk Diet, Meat Diet, Extraordinary Diet — 
 Regularity of Feeding — Food not to be Kept in the 
 Sick-room — Moderation in Convalescence — Baths, etc.: 
 Warm or Hot Bath, Hot Foot-Bath, Wet Pack, Throat 
 Compress. Abdominal Compress. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 
 
 CHAPTEK I. 
 
 General Diseases. — (a) Blood Diseases . 63 
 
 Smallpox — Vaccination — Chickenpox — Measles — Scarlet 
 Fever, Scarlatina — Typhoid Fever — Simple Fever — 
 Ague, Intermittent Fever — Cholera — Whooping-Cough — 
 Mumps — Influenza — Erysipelas. 
 
 CHAPTEE II. 
 
 General. Diseases. — {b) Constitutional Diseases 92 
 
 Acute Rheumatism, Kheumatic Fever, and Chronic Rheuma- 
 tism — Lumbago, Pains in the Loins — Gout — Phthisis Pul- 
 monalis, Scrofulous Consumption. 
 
 CHAPTEK III. 
 Diseases of the Nervous System 102 
 
 Epilepsy, Falling Sickness — Infantile Convulsions — Spas- 
 modic 6roup, Child Crowing — Headache — Sick-Headache. 
 
 CHAPTEK IV. 
 Diseases of the Eyes, Ears, and Nose Ill 
 
 Inflammation of the Eyes — Stye on the Eyelids — Inflamma- 
 tion of the Ears — Earache — Discharge from the Ears — 
 Deafness — Bleeding from the Nose. 
 
CONTENTS. 15 
 
 CHAPTEE V. page 
 
 Diseases of the Respiratory System 118 
 
 Croup — Cold in the Head, Catarrh — Hoarseness — Bronchitis 
 — Asthma — Inflammation of the Lungs, and Pleurisy — 
 Cough 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Diseases of the Digestive System 134 
 
 Thrush, Frog — Disorders of Teething — Toothache — Sore 
 Throat — Quinsy — Indigestion — Vomiting — Seasickness — 
 Dysentery, Bloody Flux — Rupture and Strangulated Her- 
 nia — Worms— Diarrhoea, Looseness of the Bowels, Purging 
 — Diarrhoea in Children — Colic — Constipation, Confined 
 Bowels — Piles — Protrusion of the Bowel — Biliousness — 
 Jaundice. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Diseases of the Urinary System . , 172 
 
 Difficulty in Urinating — Incontinence of Urine — Wetting 
 the Bed — Bleeding from the Urinary Organs — Spermator- 
 rhoea, Involuntary Emissions. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Diseases of Women 178 
 
 Puberty and First Menstruation — Suppressed Menstruation 
 — Painful Menstruation — Profuse Menstruation — Flood- 
 ing — Leucorrhoea or "the W T hites" — Change of Life — 
 Morning Sickness — Sore Nipples — Troubles of Lying-in 
 Period. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Diseases of the Cutaneous System 184 
 
 Nettlerash — Itching of the Skin — Ringworm — Shingles — 
 Chilblains — Ulcers, Sores — Boil — W'hitlow — Corn — 
 Warts. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Unclassified Diseases , 193 
 
 Palpitation of the Heart — Hemorrhages and Hemorrhagic 
 Diathesis — Spitting or .Vomiting of Blood, from Rupture 
 of a Bloodvessel. 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTEE XL 
 Injuries— Accidents 
 
 Apnoea (from Drowning, Hanging, Suffocation by Gas, etc.) 
 — Fainting, Insensibility — What to Do when a Dress 
 Catches Fire — Burns and Scalds — Frostbite — Sunstroke — 
 Bruises — Wounds — Poisoned Wounds — Bites and Stings — 
 Foreign Bodies in the Eye or Ear— Bloodshot Eye — 
 Broken Bones — Sprain — Fatigue and Overexertion — 
 Poisons. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 198 
 
 PART III. 
 
 CONCISE MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 Remedies . , 
 
 Aconitum, 
 
 Antimonium, 
 
 Apis, 
 
 Arnica, 
 
 Arsenicum, 
 
 Belladonna, 
 
 Bryonia, 
 
 Calcarea carb., 
 
 Cantharis, 
 
 Carbo, 
 
 Chamomilla, 
 
 China, 
 
 Cimieifuga, 
 
 Cina, 
 
 Coffea, 
 
 Colocynthis, 
 
 Drosera, 
 
 Dulcamara, 
 
 Gelsemium, 
 
 The Twelve Tissue Eemedies 
 Calcarea fluor., 
 Calcarea phos., 
 Calcarea sulph., 
 Ferrum phos., 
 Kali mur., 
 Kali phos., 
 
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 Hamamelis, 
 
 Hepar, 
 
 Ignatia, 
 
 Ipecacuanha, 
 
 Kali bichromicum, 
 
 Lycopodium, 
 
 Mercurius, 
 
 Nux vomica, 
 
 Opium, 
 
 Phosphorus, 
 
 Podophyllum, 
 
 Pulsatilla, 
 
 Bhus tox., 
 
 Spongia, 
 
 Sulphur, 
 
 Tartar emetic, 
 
 Veratrum album, 
 
 Veratrum viride. 
 
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 Kali sulph., 
 Magnesia phos., 
 Natrum mur., 
 Natrum phos., 
 Natrum sulph., 
 Silicea. 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 Clinical Directory 
 Index. 
 
 237 
 
THE 
 
 STEPPING-STONE TO HOMEOPATHY 
 AND HEALTH. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 
 1. — Homoeopathy. * 
 
 Introductory. — This Manual is issued as a " Stepping- 
 Stone " to the domestic practice of Homoeopathy ; a few 
 remarks, therefore, explanatory of this system of medi- 
 cine may appropriately precede its practical teachings. 
 
 Life is the noblest gift of God, and health one of its 
 greatest accompanying blessings. To recover health 
 when lost, and to preserve it in its integrity to the 
 allotted period of human life are the objects contem- 
 plated in the publication of this little volume. The 
 reader is requested to pause a few minutes before enter- 
 ing on the subsequent practical details, in order briefly 
 to consider some of the more prominent features and a 
 few of the advantages that would arise from the more 
 general and extended adoption of Homoeopathy, 
 
 Early History. — Homoeopathy is a system of medi- 
 cine for the cure of all curable diseases, first discovered 
 and adopted nearly a century ago (A.D. 1790) by that 
 great physician, Hahnemann. But we do not claim 
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18 HOMOEOPATHY. 
 
 for that distinguished man the invention of Homoeopa- 
 thy ; he only removed the obscurity which had hitherto 
 shrouded the subject of medicine, and unfolded to man- 
 kind a great law of nature, just as Newton discovered 
 the principle of gravitation. Glimmerings of this 
 science had been caught many centuries before by Hip- 
 pocrates and others, but the illustrious Hahnemann 
 was the first fully to grasp the principle and to enun- 
 ciate it as the law of healing, and therefore of universal 
 applicability. At first its professors were few, and 
 consisted of the immediate friends and disciples of 
 Hahnemann ; but, ever since, they have been steadily 
 multiplying, so that now medical men of great intelli- 
 gence and high moral principle are to be found prac- 
 ticing Homoeopathy in every civilized portion of the 
 globe. There are about three hundred avowed legally 
 qualified practitioners in Great Britain ; while if those 
 who approve the system and practice it in part or 
 secret were added, the number would be far more than 
 doubled. In the United States of America there are 
 upward of 10,000 practitioners and many State-sup- 
 ported hospitals, universities and medical colleges. 
 
 Status of Professional Homoeopaths. — It is often rep- 
 resented that homoeopathic medical men occupy an 
 inferior position to those of the old school. Nothing 
 could be further from the truth. The homoeopathic 
 practitioners have the same legal rank and have passed 
 through similar courses of study as their brethren of 
 the old school, supplemented by the special study of 
 Homoeopathy and the homoeopathic application of 
 drugs, by which knowledge they are enabled to cope 
 with many forms of disease against which the old school 
 practitioner, without this special knowledge, is power- 
 less. 
 
INDIRECT INFLUENCE. 19 
 
 Indirect Influence. — Moreover, there are many who 
 practice homceopathically, but have not the courage to 
 avow it; and many others who, impelled by the influ- 
 ence which this system is everywhere exerting, are 
 greatly modifying their practice. Even the Lancet oc- 
 casionally opens its pages to the teaching of Homoeop- 
 athy : an Allopath describes the successful treatment of 
 nausea, retching and vomiting by a drop of Ipecacuanha 
 wine in a teaspoonful of water, repeated at first every 
 hour, and afterward every four hours. The writer 
 states that he was induced by the recommendation of a 
 medical friend (no doubt a Homoeopath) to use this 
 treatment, that he did it with the greatest skepticism, 
 and with the fullest expectation of finding these small 
 doses useless. Repeated successes, after the failure of 
 lengthened trials of the usual allopathic armament, 
 compelled him to believe in their efficacy. Indeed, 
 Aconite and various other of our well-known remedies 
 are frequently prescribed ; and cases successfully treated 
 by them are quoted in the allopathic journals. The 
 use of single remedies in one or two-drop doses, or even 
 smaller, by medical men of the old school satisfactorily 
 proves the growing influence of Homoeopathy, espe- 
 cially when, as we have seen, the remedies so used are 
 prescribed for diseases to which they are homoeopathic. 
 The good thus effected by the discovery of Hahnemann 
 is immeasurable. Its influence is both direct and in- 
 direct, acknowledged and unacknowledged, but always 
 beneficent. Not only medical men, but tens of thou- 
 sands of intelligent persons in every civilized portion 
 of the globe confide in Homoeopathy as the best and 
 most natural system of cure. 
 
 Homoeopathy Pirated by Allopathic Professors. — But 
 
20 HOMOEOPATHY. 
 
 the most convincing proof of the advance of Homoeop- 
 athy is to be found in the more popular of the allo- 
 pathic works on materia medica and therapeutics, such 
 as Dr. Lauder Brunton's Pharmacology, Therapeutics and 
 Materia Medica, and Professor Sidney Ringer's Hand- 
 book of Therapeutics. In these books homoeopathic 
 remedies are recommended by the hundred, but no 
 acknowledgment is made to Homoeopathy or Hahne- 
 mann. And this is what constitutes the dishonesty of 
 their action. In science and literature to appropriate 
 the works of another without giving due acknowledg- 
 ment to the real author of them constitutes piracy ; and 
 the works of the writers we have named are at once an 
 unintentional monument to the genius of Hahnemann, 
 and an equally unintentional monument to the writers' 
 own disgrace. 
 
 Homoeopathy going Down ? — It is true, the statement 
 is often made by its opponents that the new system is 
 on the decline. " Homoeopathy is going down," once 
 remarked a medical man of the allopathic school. It is 
 going down. Not, however, in the sense he wished. It 
 is sinking deep into the understandings and hearts of 
 the people. Almost everywhere they are directing their 
 attention to the subject. They try it, and in the hour 
 of sickness confide in it ; and if not conversant with the 
 scientific proofs of Homoeopathy, they recognize in it a 
 power to heal superior to that which they have ever ex- 
 perienced under the old plan of treatment. 
 
 What is Homoeopathy? — It may be advisable to an- 
 swer succinctly this question before going further. Ho- 
 moeopathy is a system of administering medicines for 
 the cure of the sick, based on the fact that drugs have 
 the power of causing in the healthy, diseased states similar to 
 
SINGLE REMEDY. 21 
 
 those they have the power of removing in the sick. Thus 
 quinine, which cures ague, has the power of causing 
 attacks of fever like the ague fits: and Belladonna, 
 which mitigates and prevents scarlet fever, produces, in 
 the healthy, fever, sore throat, and a rash very like the 
 symptoms of scarlet fever. 
 
 Homoeopathy Appeals to Facts. — It is deserving of 
 remark that, in the discovery of Homoeopathy, Hahne- 
 mann did not first conceive a theory, and afterward 
 seek for facts with which to uphold it. No ! At start- 
 ing, and at each successive step, he relied solely upon 
 facts. What he learned was from well-observed and 
 unquestionable facts, based upon carefully conducted 
 experiments. His assertions were grounded upon facts, 
 the result of patient and oft-repeated investigations. 
 For several years he kept his discovery to himself; at 
 the same time he was arranging and accumulating evi- 
 dence founded upon facts, which were diligently col- 
 lected and closely scrutinized. At last he could speak 
 with the confidence of a man who was well assured 
 that the statements he made were true, that underneath 
 his superstructure of theory there was not an uncertain 
 foundation of supposition and probability, but the firm 
 rock of natural and immutable reality. Homoeopathy 
 is still upheld by facts. Its foundation cannot be shaken. 
 Its position is firm in spite of all the storms by w T hich 
 it has been assailed and all the tests by which it has 
 been proved. It is because it has stood the trial of ex- 
 perience that it has been preserved to the present time, 
 and will be transmitted to the latest generations. 
 
 Single Remedy. — Homoeopathic treatment is not only 
 distinguished by its simple evolution from facts, but 
 also by its simple exhibition of methods of cure. Only 
 
22 HOMCEOPATHY. 
 
 one remedy is given at a time ; thus the pure action of 
 each separate drug is ascertained, and the confusion 
 resulting from mixing different substances in one pre- 
 scription is avoided. Every remedy has an action pecu- 
 liar to itself, and it cannot but happen, when several 
 drugs are introduced into the system at the same time, 
 that they interfere with each other. If, under such cir- 
 cumstances, good is effected, it is often impossible to 
 determine which drug or how many out of the number 
 have contributed to the result. Or if no good follows, 
 and it be necessary to alter the prescription, then it 
 must be also impossible to know what change to make, 
 what remedies to omit, what new ones to add. Dr. 
 Paris, a distinguished allopathic physician, says he was 
 once told by a practitioner in the country that the quan- 
 tity and complexity of the medicines which he gave his 
 patients were always increased in the ratio with the 
 obscurity of their cases. " If," said he, " I fire a profu- 
 sion of shot, it is very extraordinary if some do not hit 
 the mark." " A patient in the hands of such a practi- 
 tioner," adds Dr. Paris, " has not a much better chance 
 than a Chinese mandarin, who, upon being attacked 
 with any disease, calls in twelve or more physicians, 
 and swallows in one mixture all the potions which each 
 separately prescribes." In Homoeopathy we only give 
 one medicine at a time; its action upon the system is 
 then simple and undisturbed, and we are no longer in 
 doubt as to what is doing good. 
 
 Small Doses. — Homoeopathy does not necessarily mean 
 a small dose, as it is often erroneously supposed to do. 
 The term is intended to designate a certain relation of 
 medicine to disease, not a certain quantity of the medi- 
 cine. The grand principle — that which forms the basis 
 
HOMCEOPATHY NOT OPPOSED TO EXPERIENCE. 23 
 
 of the science — is, like cures like, irrespective of the quan- 
 tity of the dose. Hahnemann, after he had discovered 
 this principle, employed doses of the usual quantity. 
 Experience and further investigation, however, taught 
 him that smaller doses were not only sufficient and 
 safer, but that, when frequently administered, they were 
 more effective than large ones. Others have learned 
 the same lesson, which is enforced by the testimony of 
 all subsequent medical men who have fairly tested the 
 point. The assertions of others who have not so tested 
 it cannot claim confidence. 
 
 Apart from the greater curative power of small doses, 
 it is a matter of perfect indifference to the followers of 
 Hahnemann whether they administer medicines in 
 large or small doses. If they found large doses more 
 efficient in curino; diseases than small ones, thev would 
 assuredly administer the former rather than the latter. 
 "We may suggest three reasons why small doses, admin- 
 istered in harmony with the homoeopathic law, are 
 efficient : First, because they are exactly suited to the 
 exalted susceptibility of the diseased part, and act upon the 
 same class of functions that nature has already called to 
 her aid. Secondly, because they act directly on the part 
 which requires to be influenced, and not on other parts ; 
 their force is not, therefore, expended on healthy parts. 
 And, thirdly, because only one remedy being adminis- 
 tered at a time, its action is not interfered with by one 
 or several others. Doctors who always administer drug's 
 
 %j o 
 
 in combination have no idea of the power of single drugs 
 in small doses. 
 
 Homoeopathy not Opposed to Experience. — The results 
 obtained by homoeopathic practitioners with small doses 
 have been said to be opposed to all experience. But 
 
24 HOMCEOPATHY. 
 
 the truth is that, prior to the researches of Hahnemann 
 and his followers, we had no experience whatever in the 
 matter. It is, consequently, just as absurd for medical 
 men to deny that homoeopathic remedies can effect the 
 cure of disease because such cures are contrary to the 
 experience of those who have never tried them, as for a 
 certain King of Siam to have treated as false the state- 
 ment that in some countries, and in some seasons, water, 
 under the influence of frost, becomes changed from a 
 fluid to a solid, permitting persons to walk upon it, be- 
 cause in his country no such phenomenon had ever 
 been witnessed. Siamese philosophers are not yet ex- 
 tinct. 
 
 Faith not Homoeopathy. — That the efficacy of Homoe- 
 opathy is not dependent on faith or imagination is 
 proved by its curing the diseases of infants, of patients 
 in delirium, and of inferior animals. The writer is per- 
 sonally acquainted with many intelligent farmers who 
 employ none other than homoeopathic medicines in the 
 treatment of their sick animals. It must be admitted 
 that the farmers of this country are generally shrewd, 
 calculating men, not easily deceived in matters affecting 
 their interests, and, moreover, usually conservative in 
 their notions ; nevertheless, great numbers of them de- 
 clare that Homoeopathy cures diseases that were incura- 
 ble by the old method ; that it cures more quickly, at a 
 less cost, and without damage to the constitutional 
 powers of animals. We have in such declarations as 
 these the best evidence that the success of Homoeopathy 
 is not the result of mere faith, but of valuable medicines 
 properly administered. 
 
 In truth, the success of Homoeopathy is anything 
 but the result of faith in those who practice it. Per- 
 
MEDICINES IN HEALTH. 25 
 
 sons are generally slow to believe in it, and seldom 
 have recourse to it at first without doubts and misgiv- 
 ings. Yet benefit is derived in spite of their unbelief. 
 Cure overcomes their incredulity. Faith comes and 
 grows only as the cure progresses and is complete. 
 The very improbability of a dose so small and so un- 
 like what had been formerly given acts, so far as the 
 imagination has any influence upon the cure, unfavor- 
 ably instead of the reverse. Conviction does not heal; 
 it is the healing that produces the conviction. 
 
 Diet not Homoeopathy. — Neither does Homoeopathy 
 consist in dietary measures, as often stated. All the 
 interference of the homoeopathic doctor in this particu- 
 lar only amounts to the discouragement of the use of 
 such articles as are needless or injurious, and just such 
 as any accomplished and faithful physician would pro- 
 hibit. As physician for many years to a large dispen- 
 sary in Reading, the author often remarked that some 
 of his most successful cases had been cured without 
 any reference to the question of diet at all, and never 
 proscribed the moderate use of coffee, tea or anything else 
 that agreed with the patient. In many cases a strict set 
 of dietary regulations would be useless, for dispensary 
 patients have generally but little choice of food ; yet 
 none have benefited from Homoeopathy more than the 
 poor. 
 
 Medicines in Health. — A story has often been told 
 of a child swallowing the contents of a tube of globules, 
 which created great alarm but took "no effect." Sup- 
 posing the statement true, it does not at all compromise 
 Homoeopathy. Homoeopathic medicines, in the form 
 in which they are usually administered, are prepared 
 with the view of acting on the constitution in disease* 
 
26 HOMOEOPATHY. 
 
 when the parts are far more sensitive and much more 
 easily affected than in a state of health. A healthy 
 constitution has no susceptibility for attenuated drugs ; 
 to insure their action in health they must be adminis- 
 tered in a low or crude form, so as to produce unnatural 
 effects — in short, a kind of poisoning. 
 
 Illustrations — Light. — For instance, a ray of light 
 falling upon a diseased eye will cause pain, or even 
 become intolerable, although in health the same eye 
 might be unaffected by the broad light of day. The 
 susceptibility of the eye has, in fact, been heightened 
 by disease. Millions of rays of light afforded pleasure 
 in health : now one ray gives pain. Just so in reference 
 to the tube of globules ; that which will produce no disturb- 
 ance in health will, in disease, ivith heightened sensibility, act 
 powerfully. 
 
 Seed. — Small doses may be taken without producing 
 effects, just as seed may be sown without yielding fruit. 
 It were as reasonable to expect a plentiful harvest from 
 seeds scattered on the seashore or on a beaten path as 
 to expect " effects " from infinitesimal doses when the 
 natural accessories are wanting. As seed will not grow 
 unless the soil is congenial and prepared, so small doses 
 will not act if the symptoms calling for their action are 
 absent. 
 
 The Magnet. — To borrow another illustration: The 
 disease must have the same attraction for the medi- 
 cine as the magnet has for iron. You could not tell by 
 touching the loadstone with a piece of copper that it 
 had any power of attraction ; neither could you tell by 
 taking an attenuation of Aconitum in a state of health 
 that it had any power. But try the magnet with a 
 piece of iron and Aconitum with a quick pulse, and then 
 their respective energies will be demonstrated. 
 
ECONOMY. 27 
 
 When it is said that the globules took " no effect," 
 the meaning is, no such " effect " as follows allopathic 
 doses, viz., vomiting, purging, extreme pain, etc. And 
 here we have an illustration of the safety of homoeo- 
 pathic remedies, and see how favorably they contrast 
 with the strong drugs and severe measures often em- 
 ployed under the old system of treatment. Well, in- 
 deed, would it have been for thousands of allopathic 
 patients if bleeding, Mercury, blisters, purgatives, etc., 
 had also taken " no effect." 
 
 Advantages of Homoeopathy. — We are thus led on to 
 the consideration of the advantages arising from the 
 adoption of homoeopathic treatment, but we have only 
 space to refer to a few. 
 
 Economy. — Economy is secured chiefly from the 
 shortened duration of diseases. The use of strong drugs, 
 whose deep and injurious effects are often not known 
 or recognized, blistering, purging and other debilitating 
 measures are discarded, so that, the disease being cured, 
 the patient soon regains his strength, because it has not 
 been expended by exhausting treatment. Tedious con- 
 valescence and permanently shattered health too often 
 follow allopathic drugging. Patients often suppose 
 they have not fully " got over " the disease, when in 
 reality they are suffering from the effects of drugs ad- 
 ministered to master the disease. To the industrial 
 portions of the community, whose livelihood depends 
 upon continuous work in their calling, a speedy restora- 
 tion to health is of great importance. Now, it is a fact 
 of too common occurrence that much inconvenience, 
 and even destitution, often results from the injudicious 
 and protracted measures of the old system; for the 
 poor patient is long in recovering. On the other hand, 
 
28 HOMOEOPATHY. 
 
 there is no medicinal exhaustion from which to recover 
 when the disease has been overcome by homoeopathic 
 remedies. 
 
 Homoeopathic Success. — In respect to successful treat- 
 ment, Homoeopathy is immensely superior to Allopathy. 
 Patients who have been under both systems are best 
 able to judge of their comparative merits, and such al- 
 most always give the palm to Homoeopathy. 
 
 Is the Public a Competent Judge? — It may be said 
 the public are incompetent to judge of such a matter; 
 but it is not so ; and although they might for a time 
 be deceived, the deception could not last long. In mat- 
 ters affecting their personal interest the public are re- 
 markably shrewd, and seldom fail to arrive at a sound 
 conclusion. Not only the general public, but also phy- 
 sicians among the most highly educated of the profes- 
 sion, after due investigation and experiment, have re- 
 nounced the old for the new system of practice ; while 
 some of the most profound scholars and greatest minds 
 in the land are Homoeopaths. The clergy and minis- 
 ters of ail denominations are rapidly embracing the 
 system. So, we venture to affirm, will all those act 
 who have the moral courage to inquire, investigate and 
 think for themselves. 
 
 Homoeopathy and Cholera. — The superiority of homoe- 
 opathic over allopathic treatment applies both to acute 
 and chronic diseases. Under the old system, when 
 cholera prevailed in England, tivo out of every three pa- 
 tients were lost ; on the other hand, under Homoeopathy, 
 two out of every three were saved. This is proved from 
 published statistics. The same is true of all other epi- 
 demics. In all, the duration and suffering are much 
 shortened, and patients do not have a long and tedious 
 convalescence. 
 
ge:;tle measures. 29 
 
 Constipation. — Take a further illustration of the su- 
 periority of Homoeopathy, as seen in the treatment of 
 constipation of the bowels. Allopathy cannot cure this 
 complaint. It can only give aperients or purgatives ; 
 and these, so far from removing the evil, in the long 
 run generally aggravate it ; whereas, by a little perse- 
 verance in the use of her remedies, Homoeopathy cures 
 it, even in the most inveterate cases. 
 
 Statistics. — We confidently refer, in proof of the suc- 
 cess of homoeopathic treatment, to the statistics of the 
 various hospitals and dispensaries conducted on homoe- 
 opathic principles. We have not space here to record 
 even a selection from that accumulated evidence which 
 has now become so voluminous. Numerous volumes 
 of homoeopathic clinical information, and the reports 
 of the results of the practice of our hospitals and dis- 
 pensaries, are open to the inspection of all ; for Homoe- 
 opathy, differing in this respect from every system of 
 quackery, courts investigation. Nothing is considered 
 more inimical to its interests than concealment. Facts 
 so bear out its inherent truth as to carry with them 
 their own irresistible credentials ; and these, we are con- 
 fident, will eventually remove every impediment to its 
 general study and universal practice. 
 
 Gentle Measures. — Pass from stern statistics to more 
 pathetic associations. Contrast the chamber of the al- 
 lopathic with that of the homoeopathic patient. Even 
 if it is not true to-day to such an extent as it used to be, 
 that the repulsive leech, the blister and its accompani- 
 ments — -sores, salves and dressings — the emetic and its 
 disagreeable results — the inevitable purgatives and their 
 disgusting and hurtful consequences — are the constant 
 signs of the presence of the old school physician, still 
 
30 HOMCEOPATHY. 
 
 they are to a large extent, and always do we find large 
 quantities of nauseous medicines in large bottles to be 
 taken in frequent doses ; or what is worse, violent 
 poisons are injected subcutaneously, and the patient is 
 thus drugged into unconsciousness. Think of such a 
 course of treatment offered during the last and most 
 sacred hours of life, and being often inflicted on help- 
 less infants and terrified children, as not merely un- 
 necessary, but pernicious beyond calculation ; as often 
 destroying, or deadening, by such harsh appliances, or 
 stupefying drugs, the very life intended to be saved ! 
 Turn now to the chamber of the homoeopathic patient. 
 He is very ill, but the law of self-preservation is re- 
 spected, and the " life's blood is spared." No leeches 
 or blisters are used ; the linen is clean, and the air is 
 sweet ; for there has been no emetic, no purgative or 
 salivation, rarely a hypodermic syringe. Perhaps the 
 only article indicative of sickness is a glass or bottle of 
 medicine, inoffensive alike to both taste and smell, but 
 potent to mitigate the sufferings of the patient and re- 
 store him to health. 
 
 Jerrold's Death-bed. — "Why torture a dying creature, 
 doctor ? " were the words and remonstrances of Douglas 
 Jerrold to his medical attendant within a few hours of 
 his death. The doctor insisted on administering medi- 
 cine and cupping, notwithstanding extreme exhaustion. 
 His son and biographer, Blanchard Jerrold, says, " We 
 waved the fans about him, giving him air ; and still, at 
 intervals, he talked faintly, but most collectedly. The 
 dawn grew into a most lovely summer morning. At 
 ten o'clock the patient was cupped. He could hardly 
 move in bed, and again said, i Why torture a dying 
 creature, doctor?' But the cupping took no effect." 
 
HOMOEOPATHY AND CHILDREN. 31 
 
 This is a sad picture. Thank God, Homoeopathy puts 
 an end to these inhuman means, by substituting 
 natural and gentle appliances, such as shall conserve 
 the life-powers, and diminish, not aggravate, existing 
 sufferings. 
 
 Homoeopathic Medicines are Specific. — An important 
 advantage attaching to our medicines is, that they only 
 act on the diseased parts. Thus, in affections of the 
 brain, the bowels are not operated on by purgatives ; or 
 the liver, mouth and bones by Mercury ; or the skin 
 by blisters ; but such substances are administered as 
 have been proved to operate directly on the brain itself, 
 and upon the brain in that particular diseased condi- 
 tion which exists when it is brought under treatment. 
 So in diseases of the chest : the bowels, liver and skin 
 are undisturbed, and only that part acted upon which 
 is diseased. This is a great advantage. Under such 
 treatment disease cannot be j)roduced in healthy parts, 
 and the disappearance of the primary disease is a sign 
 that it is absolutely cured. 
 
 Homoeopathy and Children. — Our medicines are not 
 disagreeable. This is an advantage which every 
 mother who knows that her children have a natural 
 and 'proper disgust of old physic, can appreciate. Adults 
 swallow nauseous draughts and pills in the hope of de- 
 riving benefit therefrom ; in the case of children, how- 
 ever, the prospect of benefit is often far more than 
 counterbalanced by the horror and disgust which the 
 abominable compound excites. And, further, the dis- 
 eases of children are influenced most strikingly and 
 favorably by homoeopathic medicines ; and every prac- 
 titioner has often received the warmest thanks of 
 parents from whose children the most alarming dis- 
 eases have been removed as by a charm. 
 
32 HOMOEOPATHY. 
 
 Experimental Practice. — We do not try experiments 
 with our drugs on the sick. The practice of trying the 
 effects of drugs on persons suffering from disease is 
 cruel and dangerous : cruel, because it torments the pa- 
 tient already suffering from disease; and dangerous, 
 because it often undermines the constitution, and inter- 
 poses obstacles to that natural tendency to recovery 
 which Infinite Goodness has interwoven with life. 
 Homoeopathic drugs, on the contrary, are always tried 
 on medical men and their friends when in health, in 
 repeated and sufficiently large doses, to ascertain their 
 properties before administering the smaller and atten- 
 uated doses of such medicines to the suffering. 
 
 Preventive Medicine. — But Homoeopathy is 'preventive 
 as well as curative. Its medicines have the power of 
 preventing, or arresting at the very outset, many dis- 
 eases, such as colds, influenza, various fevers, cholera, 
 etc. In the practical portions of this work it will be 
 found that we have suggested preventive as well as 
 curative measures. 
 
 Future of Homoeopathy. — It may be asked, " Will Ho- 
 moeopathy ever become universal ? " We reply, most 
 great discoveries and improvements have been obsti- 
 nately opposed at first, but, having truth for their basis, 
 have triumphed in the end. So Homoeopathy, in spite 
 of the bitterest and most unprincipled opposition which 
 it has received from the very commencement, has con- 
 tinued to spread in an ever increasing ratio, so that now, 
 wherever the sun shines, and the light of European civ- 
 ilization has penetrated, and suffering humanity is 
 found, Homoeopathy is acknowledged and embraced as 
 one of the greatest and most humane of modern discov- 
 eries. We have an impressive illustration of this in the 
 
GENERAL HINTS. 33 
 
 case of Hahnemann, the first expounder of Homoeopa- 
 thy — he was cruelly persecuted, and finally driven 
 from his native Saxony ; yet now, the very city of Leip- 
 sic, from which he was banished, is adorned by a mon- 
 umental statue, in bronze, and a large homoeopathic 
 hospital which perpetuate his memory. If Homoe- 
 opathy then could not, in its early infancy, be de- 
 stroyed, it has little to fear now that it has grown to 
 the proportions of a giant. Many of its present ad- 
 herents have been converted from the old system 
 through experiencing or witnessing the superior advan- 
 tages of the new, in the face of those deeply rooted 
 prejudices which it is difficult entirely to discard. 
 Thousands of families are now being reared under ho- 
 moeopathic influences who have never espoused, and 
 probably never will espouse, any other system. The 
 tendencies of such persons will be in the right direction, 
 and they will become its consistent and unwavering 
 advocates. Judging then of the future by the light of 
 the past, and believing that truth will prevail, we are 
 led to the inevitable conclusion that Homoeopathy, 
 founded as it is upon truth, upon an immutable natural 
 law, will ultimately become the exclusive and universal 
 mode of curing all diseases which are curable by drugs. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 2. — Observations on Health (Hygiene). 
 
 General Hints. — -All persons should, if possible, take 
 moderate daily exercise in the open air, or, when the 
 weather is unsuitable, in well-lighted and properly- 
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34 OBSERVATIONS ON HEALTH. 
 
 ventilated rooms. Undue indulgence in any passion, 
 all excessive emotions — grief, care, anger, worry, etc. 
 — must be guarded against. The active requirements 
 of business, as well as all its cares and anxieties, 
 should be strictly confined to ten or twelve hours 
 each day, and the remaining portion of the twenty- 
 four hours appropriated to rest, recreation, and the 
 general improvement of the mind and body. The 
 regular habit should be formed of going to bed early 
 and rising early. Even children, who generally wake 
 early, should never be compelled to lie in bed, as 
 nature seems to have intended every one to rise early. 
 On the other hand, be careful about disturbing the 
 morning sleep of weakly children or the debilitated 
 generally. A passing remark on these topics is all our 
 limited space permits, except on two or three points, to 
 which additional paragraphs are appropriated. 
 
 Diet. — The grand rule to be observed is that persons 
 should partake of easily digestible and nourishing food, 
 sufficient to satisfy hunger ; and of such drinks only as 
 nature requires to allay thirst. 
 
 Avoid everything that you knoiv, from experience, disagrees 
 with you, and do not get to be a slave of any dietetic 
 theories, and remember that one man's meat is another 
 man's poison, hence the impossibility of laying down 
 any universal rules. But, in a suggestive way, the fol- 
 lowing may be observed : 
 
 Dinner. — Meat, prepared for the table so as to retain 
 all its juices, and properly cooked vegetables, varied 
 from time to time. In addition, for ordinary diet 
 nothing is better than an old-fashioned light suet pud- 
 ding, with gravy or preserves. Pastry is not so whole- 
 some. Breakfast may consist of bread or dry toast, with 
 
DIET. 35 
 
 butter or a slice of bacon, or a lightly boiled egg ; but 
 eggs should not always be taken, especially by persons 
 of sedentary habits. Oatmeal, cracked wheat, or others 
 of the mushes, with cream and sugar. A breakfast- 
 cupful of cocoa, made from the nibs or from one of the 
 cocoa " essences," such as Epps' or Alkethrepta, is more 
 nourishing than tea, and less prejudicial to the nervous 
 system. Many diseases come under our notice, espe- 
 cially in dispensary patients, from the excessive and 
 almost exclusive use of tea as a beverage. Cocoa nibs 
 produce a highly agreeable beverage, and, from per- 
 sonal use. we recommend its daily adoption, especially 
 for breakfast. For the evening meal, one or two small 
 cups of black tea may be taken instead of cocoa, 
 although the latter is more nutritious. Tea, after it 
 is made, should never be allowed to stand longer than 
 five minutes, at the outside, before it is taken. It 
 should never be taken without a plentiful supply of 
 milk. For growing children, and persons to whom 
 nourishment is a matter of importance, cocoa should 
 always be chosen instead of tea or coffee. It, and espe- 
 cially milk, with bread, crackers and " mush," should 
 form the principal articles of diet for the young. The 
 meal should also include bread, or dry toast, with but- 
 ter, fruit, marmalade, green vegetables, etc., as may be 
 found most digestible and agreeable. Coffee, well made, 
 is better for many patients than tea. The nervous 
 should use it but sparingly, and tea should be avoided 
 by those suffering from flatulency. Cheese may be eaten 
 if it agree and the digestive organs are healthy ; but it 
 should not be taken late in the day, as it requires many 
 hours to digest. Cooked cheese, in the shape of cheese 
 biscuits, and finely grated cheese added to soups are 
 
36 OBSERVATIONS ON HEALTH. 
 
 both nutritious and digestible. Nearly all that it seems 
 necessary to state further in this chapter is — the diet 
 should be regulated by the person's own observations, 
 intelligently made, as to what kinds of food and drink 
 best agree with him ; meals should be eaten slowly, in 
 a cheerful spirit, and taken at regular intervals — usually 
 not more than three in the day ; and no severe exercise 
 — mental or physical — should be practiced immediately 
 after a meal. For further and full information on this 
 subject consult "Essentials of Diet; or, Hints on Food 
 in Health and Disease," by Dr. Ruddock. 
 
 Water. — Water is the natural drink of man, and may 
 always be taken in moderation w T hen thirst is present. 
 It performs important purposes in the animal economy, 
 and is absolutely indispensable for life and health. 
 When there is intolerance of plain water, as in some 
 conditions of the stomach, toast-water may be substi- 
 tuted, and this nearly always agrees. Water enters 
 largely into combination with all our food, and acts as 
 a solvent of everything we take. It acts also as a ve- 
 hicle to convey the more dense and less fluid substances 
 from the digestive tract to their destination in the body. 
 It gives fluidity to the blood, holding in suspension or 
 solution the red corpuscles, albumen, fibrine and other 
 constituents which enter into the different structures of 
 the body, the whole of which are formed from the 
 blood. Not only the soft parts of the body, but even 
 the very bones, or the materials of which they are com- 
 posed, have at one time flowed in the current of the 
 blood. To show how essential water is for the develop- 
 ment and maintenance of the animal body, we may 
 state that a calculation has been made which proves 
 that a human body weighing 154 lbs. contains 111 lbs. 
 
WATER. 
 
 37 
 
 of water. Such a fact should suggest the necessity for 
 obtaining water pure, and taking it unpolluted by 
 animal and mineral ingredients. Water may be ob- 
 tained tolerably pure in rain or snow collected in suit- 
 able vessels in the open country, away from crowded 
 dwellings and manufactories. Spring, river, sea, sur- 
 face, well and mineral water all contain various sub- 
 stances dissolved in them, which frequently render 
 them, without distillation or filtration, unsuitable for 
 drinking, or even for the preparation of articles of food. 
 In some cities can be had an aerated distilled water, 
 which is both palatable and perfectly pure. The purest 
 natural water is obtained from deep wells, bored 
 through the earth and clay down to the chalk (artesian 
 wells). For cooking purposes and even bathing the 
 purest water that can be obtained should be used. 
 
 All water for drinking purposes in our cities — and it 
 is advisable in all cases — should be first boiled and then 
 cooled. The same rule is to be observed in using; water 
 as a vehicle for our medicines. 
 
 In nausea, morning sickness, seasickness and weak 
 condition of stomach an aerated water is sometimes 
 very grateful. In these cases soda water or any effer- 
 vescing water will be found useful, but for constant use 
 only pure, natural water should be used. 
 
 In some forms of dyspepsia and catarrhal conditions 
 of the stomach hot water is of great benefit. But it 
 must be taken an hour before meals and also at bed- 
 time (if constipation be present) and sipped slowly, 
 taking about a quarter of an hour for it. Again, in 
 chronic catarrh of the head and throat, gargling with 
 water in which may be dissolved a little ordinary table 
 salt is very beneficial. So, in catarrhal conditions else- 
 
38 OBSERVATIONS ON HEALTH. 
 
 where — leucorrhoea, for instance — a similar local use of 
 water is desirable and harmless. 
 
 One important object contemplated by the writer of 
 this work is the removal of a foolish prejudice, which 
 unhappily exists in the minds of many, against pure 
 water, an element which God has provided for His 
 creatures with the most lavish abundance ; and of pro- 
 moting, both for internal and external purposes, a more 
 regular use of this invaluable boon. Pure water has 
 justly been regarded as an emblem of innocence, truth 
 and beauty. In a community in which this element 
 shall be used as the chief beverage and more abund- 
 antly for purposes of purification we may hope to find 
 in the morals of the people reflections of that virtue of 
 which water is so vivid a type ; and — a matter which 
 more immediately bears on the subject of this Manual 
 - — that suffering may be more easily controlled by our 
 remedies, and the development of those latent tenden- 
 cies to disease most effectually prevented, which the 
 habits and fashions of the present age seem to favor. 
 
 Fresh Air. — A proper supply of pure, fresh air is es- 
 sential for the preservation of life and health. Although 
 life may not be suddenly destroyed by breathing an 
 impure atmosphere, still the vital energies are slowly 
 but surely impaired, especially those of growing chil- 
 dren and persons suffering from disease. 
 
 Bedrooms, in which about one-third of human life is 
 passed, are generally too small and badly ventilated. 
 The doors, windows and even chimneys are often closed, 
 and every aperture carefully guarded to exclude fresh 
 air. The consequence is that long before morning 
 dawns the atmosphere of the whole apartment becomes 
 highly noxious in consequence of the consumption of 
 
LIGHT. 39 
 
 its oxygen, the formation of carbonic acid and the ex- 
 halation of impurities from the lungs and skin. In an 
 atmosphere thus loaded with effluvia the sleep is heavy 
 and unrefreshing, partaking more of the character of 
 insensibility. Due provision for the uninterrupted ad- 
 mission of free air and the free escape of impure air 
 secures lighter, shorter and more invigorating sleep. 
 An airy , w ell-ventilated sleeping apartment should he re- 
 garded as one of the most important requirements of life, 
 both in health and sickness. With few exceptions, the 
 w T indow of the bedroom may be left open, except in 
 fpggy weather, with perfect safety. A current of air 
 may be prevented from playing on the face of the occu- 
 pant by placing the bed in a proper situation, or by sus- 
 pending a single curtain from the ceiling. The objec- 
 tion that is often urged against night air is met by the 
 consideration that there is no other air to breathe. 
 
 Light. — The importance of sunlight for physical de- 
 velopment and preservation is much undervalued. It 
 is not commonly known that there are chemical rays 
 as well as rays of light and heat, and that they have 
 an important influence on the healthy growth of all 
 animated nature. Women and children, as well 
 as men, in order to be healthy and well devel- 
 oped, should spend a large portion of each day where 
 the solar rays can reach them directly. In very hot 
 weather, during the excessive heat of the day, a shady 
 tree or grove, or even an airy house, may be sought ; 
 but dark parlors and rooms should be shunned, for the 
 cold u damp of death." is often within them. Houses 
 that have been penetrated and purified by the solar 
 rays in the daytime are alone fit to be occupied at 
 night. 
 
40 OBSERVATIONS ON HEALTH. 
 
 The value of sunlight, with its accompanying influ- 
 ences, for animal development may be illustrated by 
 such facts as the following : In decaying organic solu- 
 tions animalculse do not appear if light is excluded, 
 but are readily organized when light is admitted. The 
 tadpole, kept in the dark, does not pass on to develop- 
 ment as a frog, but lives and dies a tadpole, and is in- 
 capable of propagating its species. In the deep and 
 narrow valleys among the Alps, where the direct rays 
 of the sun are but little felt, cretinism, or a state of 
 idiocy, more or less complete, commonly accompanied 
 by an enormous goitre, prevails as an epidemic, and is 
 often hereditary. Rickets, deformities, crookedness 
 and swelling of the bones are very common among 
 children who are kept in dark alleys, cellars, factories 
 and mines. It has been found that, during the preva- 
 lence of certain epidemic diseases, the. inhabitants who 
 occupy the side of the street and houses upon which 
 the sun shines directly are less subject to the prevail- 
 ing disease than those who live on the shaded side. In 
 all cities visited by the cholera it was invariably found 
 that the greatest number of deaths took place in nar- 
 row thoroughfares, and on those sides of streets having 
 a northern exposure, frdtn which the salutary beams of 
 the sun were excluded. It is said that the number of 
 patients cured in the hospitals of St. Petersburg was 
 four times greater in rooms well lighted than in con- 
 fined and dark rooms. This discovery led to a com- 
 plete reform in lighting the hospitals of Russia, and 
 with the most favorable results. 
 
 Bathing. — As an invaluable aid to health, every per- 
 son should bathe or sponge the whole body with cold 
 water, immediately following it by vigorous friction, 
 
BATHING. 41 
 
 and soon afterward exercise in the open air, to pro- 
 mote reaction. This tends to health by the removal of 
 impurities which clog the pores of the skin, preventing 
 free perspiration and the action of the atmosphere. 
 Merely washing the hands, face and neck is by no 
 means sufficient; the entire surface of the body re- 
 quires the application of water, not only for the pur- 
 pose of cleanliness, but as a means of invigorating the 
 capillary circulation, and so fortifying the system as to 
 enable it to resist atmospheric vicissitudes. The secret 
 of attaining these ends consists in employing water in 
 such a manner and of such a temperature, with the 
 body in such a condition before and after the applica- 
 tion, that the reaction or glow shall be simply perfect. 
 The best time for a cold bath is on rising from bed, be- 
 fore the body has become chilled or fatigued. Cold 
 bathing should not, therefore, be practiced when the 
 body is cold or cooling, or when it is exhausted by 
 exertion, or is naturally too weak. It is not always 
 necessary to suspend the morning bath during the 
 monthly period ; but if cold acts injuriously, tepid 
 water should be substituted. A bath should not be 
 taken too soon after a meal; nor should the time spent 
 in the bath be too long ; that should vary, according to 
 circumstances, from about one to four minutes. The 
 addition of sea-salt to the water imparts a stimulating 
 property which favors reaction; but the use of sea- 
 water whenever it can be had permits of bathing to the 
 highest perfection. Persons subject to rheumatism, or 
 to feeble action of the heart, should not, however, bathe 
 in water that is quite cold. Persons with delicate, dry 
 skins should not bathe so frequently as those who per- 
 spire freely, and have abundant secretion of the seba- 
 ceous or oily matter which lubricates the skin. 
 
42 OBSERVATIONS ON HEALTH. 
 
 Clothing. — Clothing should be arranged with a view 
 to comfort, and according to the requirements of the 
 season. Summer clothes should not be put on too 
 soon, or winter ones too late. Thin-soled boots and 
 shoes are destructive to health. So are stays. The 
 body is strong enough to support itself; while stays 
 often bring on diseases of the lungs and other impor- 
 tant organs. The muscles of the body were intended 
 to sustain it erect, but when stays are applied they 
 soon become indispensable, by superseding the action 
 of the muscles ; and, in accordance with a well-known 
 law of the muscular system, when the muscles cease to 
 be used they cease to grow. 
 
 The following passage on clothing suggests points of 
 great practical importance : 
 
 " The clothing may be either insufficient or im- 
 proper ; and this insufficiency or impropriety may be 
 either constant, as in leaving uncovered the abdomen, 
 thighs and legs of young children, and the neck, chest 
 and arms of children and young girls, and in the neg- 
 lect to put on flannels in winter ; or it may be only oc- 
 casional, as in the adoption of muslin and low-bodied 
 dresses by ladies, and thinner neckties, vests and boots 
 by gentlemen, for evening parties ; and in the neglect- 
 ing to add more clothing during sleep. The frequency 
 with which disease results in children from the inhu- 
 man practice of leaving their digestive, respiratory and 
 other organs, and their extremities, exposed to the 
 chilling blasts and varying temperature of our atmos- 
 phere, is unfortunately too well known to need that I 
 should enter into any proof; nor need I more than 
 protest against the cruelty of leaving those parts naked 
 in children that we find it absolutely necessary to 
 
EXERCISE. 43 
 
 clothe the most warmly in adult life ; and more espe- 
 cially when we reflect that in childhood the body is 
 small and the stock of animal heat insufficient, and the 
 bodily growth in progress, and that growth is retarded 
 and checked by cold and favored by warmth; that 
 there is absence of reason and experience to teach how 
 to keep up the warmth of the parts exposed ; while in 
 adult life the body is large and the stock of animal 
 heat more adequate, the growth complete, and reason 
 and experience possessed. I am convinced that many 
 of the cases of infantile diarrhoea, cholera, constipa- 
 tion, remittent fever, dropsy after scarlatina, maras- 
 mus, phthisis, bronchitis, pneumonia, quinsy, hoarse- 
 ness and ophthalmia result from this exposure."* 
 
 Exercise. — This is essential to health and long life. 
 No one in health should neglect to walk a moderate 
 distance every day in the open air, if possible in the 
 country, where pure air can be freely inhaled. Other 
 things being equal, this will insure the proper action 
 of every important function. The walk for health 
 should be diversified, including ascents and descents, 
 and varying scenery ; and be alternated, when circum- 
 stances will admit of it, with riding on horseback, 
 rowing, swimming, gardening, or similar pursuits. 
 Such modes of exercise, practiced moderately and reg- 
 ularly, and varied from day to day, are much more ad- 
 vantageous than the exciting, immoderate and irregu- 
 lar exertions of the ball-room, the hunting-field, the 
 cricket-ground, or the rowing match. For feeble and 
 infirm persons, carriage exercise, if it may be so called, 
 and frictions over the surface of the body and extremi- 
 
 * " Taking Cold," by J. W. Hay ward, M.D. 
 
44 OBSERVATIONS ON HEALTH. 
 
 ties, by means of towels and bath-gloves, may be sub- 
 stituted for active exertion. 
 
 The proper periods for exercise are when the system 
 is not depressed by fasting or fatigue, or oppressed by 
 the process of digestion. The robust may take exer- 
 cise before breakfast, but delicate persons, who often 
 become faint from exercise at this time, and languid 
 during the early part of the day, had better defer it 
 till from one to three hours after breakfast. An evening 
 walk, in fine weather, is also advantageous. Exercise 
 prevents disease by giving vigor and energy to the 
 body and its various organs and members, and thus en- 
 ables them to ward off or overcome influences which 
 tend to impair their integrity. It cures many diseases 
 by equalizing the circulation of the blood and the dis- 
 tribution of nervous energy, thus invigorating and 
 strengthening weak organs, and removing local torpor 
 and congestion. 
 
 Tobacco. — Tobacco and snuff, in every form, are highly 
 prejudicial if taken in excess or by the young. To- 
 bacco-smoking often induces thirst and vital depression, 
 and, as it is generally accompanied by spitting, w T astes 
 the saliva and leads to the worst and most obstinate 
 forms of indigestion. The secretions of the mouth 
 should never be expectorated, unless they are the pro- 
 ducts of disease, as in catarrh. Under no circumstances 
 should any one become a smoker till after the full de- 
 velopment and maturity of the body — that is, from 
 twenty-five to thirty years of age. The habitual use of 
 tobacco at an early period retards, if it does not stunt, 
 the growth of the body. Boys and young men, too, 
 have not the excuse for smoking which may be pleaded 
 by older men, that it soothes the excitement of the 
 
THE TISSUE REMEDIES. 45 
 
 nervous system and drives away " the blues," for they 
 •^e exempt from the hard wear and tear of adult life. 
 
 There is no doubt that the use of tobacco often pro- 
 duces catarrhal conditions of obstinate character and 
 an irritable condition of the heart, and should not be 
 indulged at all whenever these conditions are present. 
 
 Drugs. — All persons, and especially those under ho- 
 moeopathic treatment, we strongly advise not to take 
 herb tea, senna, salts, castor oil, pills, soothing sirups 
 or other drugs. Caution in respect to aperient drugs is 
 especially required, now that such numerous patent 
 medicines are advertised and sold in every part of the 
 country, doing an incalculable amount of injury. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 THE TISSUE REMEDIES. 
 
 The new treatment of disease based upon Biochem- 
 istry, first introduced by Dr. Schuessler, of Germany, 
 has gained so rapidly in acceptance by leading physi- 
 cians, and as these remedies, the so-called Tissue Rem- 
 edies, have been found to be curative agents of the very 
 highest order for all forms of disease, Ave take pleasure 
 in presenting a brief outline of this new method, refer- 
 ring to the larger and fuller exposition of it in the 
 books of Dr. Schuessler, and notably m the recent vol- 
 ume on the " Tissue Remedies " by Drs. Boericke and 
 Dewey. 
 
 The following indications for the use of these remark- 
 able remedies can be relied upon, and have been veri- 
 fied by hundreds of physicians in all parts of the 
 
46 THE TISSUE REMEDIES. 
 
 country. The theory is based upon the following con- 
 siderations. 
 
 The body i3 made up of cells. Different kinds of 
 cells build up the different tissues and organs of the 
 body. The difference in the cells is largely determined 
 by the kind of inorganic salts which enter into their 
 composition. If we burn the body or any tissue of it, 
 we obtain the ashes. These are the inorganic constitu- 
 ents of the body, the salts of iron, magnesia, lime, etc., 
 which build up its tissues. 
 
 They are the tissue builders, therefore, and both the 
 structure and vitality of the body depend upon their 
 proper quantity and distribution in every cell. 
 
 The Tissue Remedies are these inorganic cell salts, 
 prepared by trituration according to the homoeopathic 
 method, and thereby rendered fine enough to be ab- 
 sorbed by the delicate cells wherever needed. 
 
 Health is the state of the body when all the cells 
 composing the various tissues are in a normal condi- 
 tion, and they are kept in this state when each of them 
 receives the requisite quantity of the needful salt re- 
 quired for the upbuilding of the different tissues. Dis- 
 ease is an altered state of the cell, produced by some 
 irregularity in the supply to the cells of one of the in- 
 organic tissue salts. Imperfect cell action results, dis- 
 eased tissues and organs follow, and all the phenomena 
 of disease are developed. Now, the cure consists in 
 restoring the normal cell growth by furnishing a mini- 
 mal dose of that inorganic substance whose molecular 
 motion is disturbed, which disturbance caused the dis- 
 eased action. To do this successfully it is necessary to 
 know what salts are needed for the upbuilding of the 
 different tissues and for their normal action. This 
 
THE TISSUE REMEDIES. 47 
 
 knowledge is derived from physiological chemistry, and 
 hence this treatment of disease by supplying the needed 
 tissue salt is called the biochemical treatment. 
 
 In the following pages are given, under the different 
 names of diseases, the respective tissue remedies that 
 will prove curative, based upon the kind of tissue af- 
 fected by the different diseases. Thus, in catarrhal 
 conditions, for instance, the remedies will be the same, 
 whether the catarrh sl\ow r s itself in the throat or nose 
 or other organs, since it is the mucous membrane that is 
 involved ; and mucous cells, therefore, call for a tissue 
 remedy that is lacking. 
 
 By giving a tissue remedy in such a dose as can be 
 assimilated by the growing cells the most wonderful 
 and speedy restoration to healthy function is brought 
 about in every case of curable disease. All diseases 
 that are at all curable are so by means of the tissue 
 remedies properly prepared to the needs of the organ- 
 ism. This is very important, and on it depends the 
 success of the treatment, just as much as on the correct 
 selection of the particular cell salt. It seems reasonable 
 that to make the cell salts immediately useful they 
 should be prepared in the same delicate form in which 
 nature uses them, and that, if they are absorbed by the 
 microscopic corpuscles, they must themselves be finer 
 than the corpuscles. We know that the mineral or cell 
 salts are infinitesimally subdivided in the different 
 kinds of food we take, thus capable of assimilation by 
 the cells. 
 
 The cells of each tissue group receive their own spe- 
 cial and peculiar cell salt ; for instance, those entering 
 into the promotion of nerve cells are Magnesia, Potash, 
 Soda and Iron ; of bone cells, Lime, Magnesia and Sil- 
 
4S THE TISSUE REMEDIES. 
 
 ica, etc., etc., which are, as a rule, extracted by the body 
 from the food we take. 
 
 There are twelve Tissue Remedies — the twelve inor- 
 ganic salts found in the ashes of the body — all essential 
 to the proper growth and development of every part of 
 the body. They are the 
 
 Of Lime, Calcarea phosphorica. 
 
 Of Iron, Ferrum phosphoricum. 
 Phosphates \ Of Potash, Kali phosphoricum. 
 
 Of Soda, Natrum phosphoricum. 
 
 Of Magnesia, Magnesia phosphorica. 
 
 ™ 7 . 7 (Of Potash, Kali muriaticum. 
 
 Chlorides ] ' . . 
 
 I 01 boda, JNatrum muriaticum. 
 
 f Of Lime, Calcarea sulphurica. 
 
 Sulphates \ Of Soda, Natrum sulphuricum. 
 
 1^ Of Potash, Kali sulphuricum. 
 
 Fluoride of Lime, Calcarea fluorica. 
 
 and 
 Pure Silica, Silicea, 
 
 Of these, those entering into the formation of Nerve 
 Cells, and hence useful as remedies in diseases of the 
 nervous system, are Magnesia phos., Kali phos., etc. 
 
 Of Muscle Cells — The same and Kali mur. 
 
 Of Bone Cells — Calcarea, Silicea, etc., etc., etc. 
 
 This method of treating all forms of disease has been 
 eminently successful, and can be confidently recom- 
 mended as an appendix to the ordinary homoeopathic 
 remedies, as they are twelve of the most important reme- 
 dies in the Materia Medica not all included in the regu- 
 lar homoeopathic books. 
 
 For the chief uses of the Twelve Tissue Remedies see 
 chapter on Materia Medica. 
 
TRITURATIONS. 49 
 
 3. — Medicines : Their Administration, etc. 
 
 Forms of Medicines. — The following brief description 
 of the different forms of medicines used in homoeo- 
 pathic practice will afford the beginner the necessary 
 information on the subject. The preparations are of 
 three kinds — Globules or pellets, tinctures, and triturations. 
 
 Globules. — Globules or pellets are of different sizes — 
 from the smallest poppy-seed size to large pills. But 
 usually the medium-sized ones are saturated with the 
 tinctures, and from six to ten are given as a dose, dry, 
 on the tongue; or from ten to twenty may be dis- 
 solved in a few spoonfuls of water, and teaspoonful 
 doses taken of the solution. Pellets are very conven- 
 ient for administration, especially for infants and chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Tinctures. — Tinctures contain the more active princi- 
 ples of the vegetable medicines in a greater or less con- 
 centrated form, and are supposed to be more decided 
 and rapid in their action in acute diseases than pellets. 
 It is therefore advisable for those who reside at a dis- 
 tance from medical aid to be furnished w T ith a selection 
 of the tinctures adapted to sudden and acute diseases, 
 in addition to a complete case or chest of the globules 
 or pellets, especially the more common ones. The best 
 strength of the liquid preparation for domestic use is 
 the third dilution of all vegetable medicines, and the 
 sixth of all mineral. It is entirely unnecessary to use 
 stronger preparations, and the so-called mother tinct- 
 ures should never be used without the advice of a 
 physician. 
 
 Triturations. — Triturations are in powder, and contain 
 a portion of the original crude substance, triturated 
 4 
 
50 medicines: their administration, etc. 
 
 with a given quantity of sugar of milk ; they are nec- 
 essary to the administration of the lower attenuations 
 of insoluble medicines, such as Calcarea carbonica, He- 
 par sulphuris, Mercurius, Silicea, etc., but are not largely 
 used in domestic practice, excepting triturations of the 
 Tissue Eemedies. 
 
 Genuine Medicines. — To obtain a beneficial action 
 from the remedies prescribed in this Manual it is es- 
 sential to procure them absolutely pure. As a safe- 
 guard, it is best to obtain them from a person who has 
 been educated and is exclusively engaged as a homoeo- 
 pathic druggist. Although there are now many re- 
 spectable firms in whose ability and integrity the fullest 
 confidence may be placed, yet caution is necessary; 
 many persons offer for sale homoeopathic medicines who 
 have had but little pharmaceutical training, or who are 
 chiefly occupied in preparing or selling strong-smelling 
 drugs and other articles likely to deteriorate delicate 
 and carefully prepared homoeopathic remedies. When 
 domestic treatment is likely to be much resorted to, as 
 in districts distant from a professional man, or in the 
 cases of clergymen, missionaries or emigrants, a medi- 
 cal man should be consulted, who will not only be able 
 to direct to trustworthy persons of whom the medi- 
 cines may be obtained in their pure and most effi- 
 cacious forms, but also to suggest hints as to the most 
 useful remedies, the dilutions, etc., most likely to meet 
 special requirements. 
 
 In our larger cities can always be found homoeo- 
 pathic pharmacies that can be relied upon for the purity 
 and accuracy of their preparations. 
 
 Medicine Case. — A medicine case should be con- 
 structed expressly for the medicines, and used for no 
 
MEDICINES. 51 
 
 other purpose; it should best be kept locked, and be 
 protected from light and heat; it should also be kept 
 apart from substances which emit a strong odor. Im- 
 mediately after using a vial it should be corked again, 
 and the corks or medicines never changed from one 
 vial to another. If these directions be carried out, the 
 medicines may be kept unimpaired for years. 
 
 Directions for Taking Medicines. — Pellets may be taken 
 dry on the tongue, or, when convenient, dissolved in 
 pure soft water. They should not be swallowed whole. 
 If tinctures are used, the required quantity should be 
 dropped into the bottom of a glass or cup, by holding 
 the bottle in an oblique manner, with the lip resting 
 against the middle of the end of the cork ; the bottle 
 should then be carefully tilted, when the tincture will 
 descend and drop from the lower edge of the cork. 
 AVater should then be poured upon the medicine in the 
 proportion of a tablespoonful to a drop. The vessel 
 should be clean, the mixture kept covered, and the 
 spoon used should not be left in the mixture. If the 
 medicine have to be kept several days, a new bottle, 
 with a new, sound cork, should be used. 
 
 Medicines. — A list of the chief medicines, and their 
 dilutions, prescribed in this Manual : 
 
52 medicines: their administration, etc. 
 
 LATIN NAMES. DIL. ENGLISH NAMES. 
 
 1 Aconituni napellus 3 Monk's Hood. 
 
 2 Antimonium tartarieum 3 Tartar Emetic. 
 
 3 Arnica montana 3x Leopard's Bane. 
 
 4 Arsenicum album 3x Arsenic. 
 
 5 Belladonna 3x Deadly Nightshade. 
 
 6 Baryta carbonica 6 Carbonate of Baryta. 
 
 7 Bryonia alba 3x White Bryony. 
 
 8 Calcarea carbonica 6 Carbonate of Lime. 
 
 9 Carbo vegetabilis 6 Vegetable Charcoal. 
 
 10 Chamomilla 3x Wild Chamomile. 
 
 11 China lx Peruvian Bark. 
 
 12 Cimicifuga racemosa 3x Black Snake Boot. 
 
 13 Cina 3x Mugwort of Judea. 
 
 14 Coffea 3x Mocha Coffee-Berries. 
 
 15 Colocynthis 3x Bitter Cucumber. 
 
 16 Drosera lx Sundew. 
 
 17 Dulcamara 3x Bitter-Sweet. 
 
 18 Ferrum muriaticum 3 Perchloride of Iron. 
 
 19 Gelsemium sempervirens lx Yellow Jessamine. 
 
 20 Hamamelis 1 Witch Hazel. 
 
 21 Hepar sulphuris 3 Liver of Sulphur. 
 
 22 Ignatia amara 3x St. Ignatius's Bean. 
 
 23 Ipecacuanha lx Ipecacuanha. 
 
 24 Kali bichromicum 3 ... Bichromate of Potash. 
 
 25 Lycopodium 6 Common Club Moss. 
 
 20 Mercurius 6 Mercury. 
 
 27 Nux vomica 3x Vomit Nut. 
 
 28 Phosphorus 3x Phosphorus. 
 
 29 Podophyllum 3 Mandrake. 
 
 30 Pulsatilla 3x Wind Flower. 
 
 31 Rhus toxicodendron 3 Creeping Poison Oak. 
 
 32 Silicea 6 Pure Flint. 
 
 33 Spongia tosta 3x Burnt Sponge. 
 
 34 Sulphur 3 Sulphur. 
 
 35 Veratrum album 3x White Hellebore. 
 
 Also the strong Tincture of Camphor, to be kept separately. 
 
 The Twelve Tissue Remedies: 
 Calcarea fluorica. Kali muriaticum. Natrum sulphuricum. 
 
 Calcarea phosphorica. Kali phosphoricum. Natrum phosphoricum. 
 
 Calcarea sulphurica. Kali sulphuricum. Magnesia phosphorica. 
 
 Ferrum phosphoricum. Natrum muriaticum. Silicea. 
 
 External Remedies. — Arnica montana, Calendula officinalis, and Rhus tox- 
 icodendron. 
 
 For information respecting the properties and uses of the medicines in the above 
 list, and a few others occasionally prescribed, consult the Materia Medica. 
 
ALTERNATION OF MEDICINES. 53 
 
 Hours. — The most appropriate times for taking medi- 
 cines, as a rule, are on rising in the morning, at bed- 
 time, and, if oftener prescribed, about an hour before, 
 or two or three hours after, a meal. 
 
 The Dose. — In determining the quantity and strength 
 of doses, several circumstances should be considered, 
 such as age, sex, habits, nature of the disease, etc. As 
 a general rule, without reference to individual peculiar- 
 ities, the following may be stated as the proper dose in 
 domestic practice : For an Adult — One drop of Tinct- 
 ure, six Globules, or one grain of Trituration, or 
 about a powder size of a pea. For a Child — About 
 one-half the quantity. For an Infant — About one- 
 third. A drop is easily divided into two doses by 
 mixing it with two spoonfuls of water, and giving one 
 spoonful for a dose. 
 
 Repetition of Doses. — The repetition of doses must be 
 guided by the acute or chronic character of the malady, 
 the urgency and danger of the symptoms, and the effects 
 produced by the medicines. In violent and acute dis- 
 eases, such as cholera, croup, pleuritis, convulsions, 
 etc., the remedies may be repeated every ten, fifteen, or 
 twenty minutes. In less urgent cases of acute disease, 
 the remedy may be repeated every two, three, or four 
 hours. In chronic maladies, the medicine may be ad- 
 ministered every six, twelve, or twenty-four hours. In 
 all cases, when improvement takes place, the medicine 
 should be taken less frequently, and gradually relin- 
 quished. 
 
 Alternation of Medicines. — To avoid the confusion 
 resulting from mixing different drugs in one prescrip- 
 tion, and to ascertain the pure action of each, Homoeo- 
 paths do not mix several together; but in acute dis* 
 
54 NUIlSIiNG, DIET, ETC. 
 
 eases, where the symptoms of the malady are not 
 covered by a single remedy, and a second one is indi- 
 cated, the two are sometimes given in alternation; that 
 is, the one medicine is followed by the other at certain 
 intervals of time, and in a regular order of succession. 
 But the alternate use of medicines should, as much as 
 possible, be avoided. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 4. — Nursing, Diet, Baths, and Other Accessory 
 Treatment. 
 
 On Nursing.— The following hints on the nursing of 
 the sick generally, and persons in fever particularly, 
 should receive special attention : 
 
 1. The Apartment. — If practicable,the patient should 
 be placed in a spacious well-ventilated room, which 
 allows an uninterrupted admission of fresh air and the 
 free escape of tainted air. Fresh air can only be insured 
 from an open window or door, or both. In severe 
 and prolonged fevers, there should be two beds in the 
 room— one for the day and the other for the night. This 
 allows the beds to be made and aired, and the fever- 
 poison immediately around the body changed. It is 
 generally desirable to have a blazing fire kept burning 
 night and day, both in summer and winter ; this also 
 assists ventilation; but the patient's head should be 
 protected from its direct effects. 
 
 In contagious diseases, and in blood-poisoning, thorough 
 ventilation is imperatively required ; for only when the 
 
CLEANLINESS. 55 
 
 poison of the disease is sufficiently diluted with atmos- 
 pheric air, does it lose its power and become inopera- 
 tive. The room should also be divested of all super- 
 fluous furniture — carpets, bed-hangings, etc. The light 
 from the windows should be subdued, noise shut out, 
 and unnecessary talking forbidden. 
 
 2. The Bed. — A spring-mattress, or a frame, made of 
 fine chain-work, with a horse-hair mattress over it, is 
 the best kind of bed ; it is sufficiently soft, and the heat 
 may be regulated by the coverings. In a sanitary point 
 of view, a feather-bed is most objectionable, for after 
 being slept upon from year to year, even by a person in 
 health, it becomes foul and impure. But if the body be 
 diseased, especially if the disease be an infectious one, 
 the feathers imbibe the poison, and may become the 
 means of further dissemination. Feather-beds should 
 be everywhere superseded by mattresses, or, at least, 
 the feathers should be purified at regular intervals, and 
 after every case of infectious disease. Feathers may be 
 purified by exposing them to the highest degree of heat 
 they will bear without scorching. Such instances as 
 the following are far from uncommon : A severe and 
 fatal case of smallpox, typhus, or scarlet fever occurs 
 in a family ; and there properly arises a strong preju- 
 dice against the bed on which the patient died. The 
 correct course would be to burn it ; but too frequently 
 it goes to the broker, who, after, perhaps, renovating its 
 exterior a little, sells the pest-laden bed to carry con- 
 tagion and, perhaps, death to its future owners. 
 
 3. Cleanliness. — The personal and bed-linen, includ- 
 ing the blankets, should be frequently changed, and all 
 matters discharged from the body immediately removed. 
 The patient's body should be sponged over as com- 
 
56 NURSING, DIET, ETC. 
 
 pletely as possible at suitable intervals with tepid or 
 cold water, as may be most agreeable to his feelings, 
 and quickly dried with a soft towel. Vinegar and water 
 may now and then be substituted for simple water. 
 Vinegar is often very grateful to fever patients. One 
 part of dilute acetic acid to six parts of hot water makes 
 an excellent lotion. It may be used thrice daily in 
 fever, and is very refreshing, if used in the morning, for 
 patients in consumption. Rapid sponging of the whole 
 surface of the hody should never be omitted in fever ; 
 it reduces the excessive heat, soothes the uneasy sensa- 
 tions of the patient, and is indispensable in maintaining 
 that cleanliness which is so desirable in the sick-room. 
 Frequently washing with soap and water also tends to 
 prevent the occurrence of bed-sores, by keeping the skin 
 in a healthy condition. The mouth should be fre- 
 quently wiped out with a soft wet towel, to remove the 
 sordes which gathers there in severe forms of fever. 
 
 4. Beverages. — As a beverage,especially in mild cases 
 of disease, and at the commencement of all fevers, pure 
 w r ater, toast-and-water, gum-water sweetened with a 
 little sugar,* or barley-water, lemonade, soda-water and 
 other effervescing drinks, or grape-juice, orange-juice or 
 jelly is nearly all that is necessary. Tea and coffee, of 
 ordinary strength, are often pleasant stimulants, and 
 may be given in moderate quantities. If given in too 
 large or frequent doses, they may prevent sleep. But 
 to relieve thirst, cold water is best and most pleasant, 
 
 * Gum-water is prepared by adding one ounce of gum-Arabic, 
 and about half an ounce of loaf-sugar, to one pint of hot water. Gum 
 is a mild nutritive substance, admirably adapted to inflammation of 
 the mucous membranes, as in catarrh, bronchitis, inflammation of 
 the bladder, etc. 
 
DIET. 57 
 
 and no patient ought to be refused this. In acute fever, 
 cold water is like the " Balm of Gilead." Both inter- 
 nally and externally, it is an agent of supreme impor- 
 tance, and acts favorably by lowering the excessive tem- 
 perature, and also as a tonic, giving vigor and tone to 
 the relaxed capillaries in which the morbid action prob- 
 ably chiefly goes on. The use of water will prove a 
 valuable adjunct to the medicinal treatment prescribed, 
 and will accelerate those favorable changes which are 
 hoped for. 
 
 5. Diet. — In most cases of acute disease, no solid food 
 is admissible : simple water, or milk-and-water, gum-, 
 rice-, or barley-water, grape or orange-juice, or jelly, 
 together with Liebig's extract of beef, being quite suf- 
 ficient. This extensively used and extremely valuable 
 article of the invalid's dietary is the extracted juice of 
 meat, and, by the addition of hot water, instantly 
 makes agreeable and nutritious beef-tea. There are 
 many varieties. Under other conditions the diet is 
 varied as follows : * 
 
 Milk Diet. — This includes all kinds of light puddings, 
 made with milk. Arrowroot, gruel, tapioca, rice or sago, 
 boiled in milk ; milk-and-bread, etc. ; also tea or cocoa, 
 and bread-and-butter. 
 
 Meat Diet. — When this is ordered, meat should be 
 taken twice daily ; but for breakfast eggs may sometimes 
 be substituted. In many hospitals, the daily allowance 
 of meat is fib., including bone. In other respects ordinary 
 diet may be taken. 
 
 Extraordinary Diet. — In hospitals, this includes meat, 
 fish, poultry, etc. ; also wine, brandy or porter, as speci- 
 
 * See "Essentials of Diet," bv Dr. Kuddock, 
 
58 NURSING, DIET, ETC. 
 
 ally ordered by the doctor. The quantity of spirits 
 wine or beer to be taken by a patient should be regu- 
 lated by the special order of a medical man, and none 
 taken unless so ordered. Stimulants should also always 
 be discontinued when the cause for which they were 
 prescribed ceases to exist. 
 
 Different diseases and different constitutions, how- 
 ever, require varied kinds of food. Thus, in case of 
 diarrhoea, fruits and vegetables should be avoided, 
 while a confined state of the bowels is sometimes bene- 
 fited by the free use of these articles ; also when febrile 
 symptoms are present, meat, eggs, butter and other 
 stimulating food should be omitted, and the diet re- 
 stricted more particularly to fruits and farinaceous arti- 
 cles, or, as before stated, to water and mucilaginous 
 drinks alone. For further remarks on diet, see the ar- 
 ticle " Dyspepsia." 
 
 6. Regularity of Feeding. — Another point of great 
 importance is, that nourishment should be administered with 
 strict regularity ; in very extreme cases of prostration, 
 every half hour or hour, both day and night. Fre- 
 quently the functions of digestion and assimilation are 
 so greatly impaired that a large quantity of nourish- 
 ment must be given to sustain the patient till the dis- 
 ease has passed through its stages. " Little and often " 
 is the golden rule for a patient's diet. 
 
 7. Food not to be kept in the Sick-room. — Do not keep 
 the food, drink or delicacies, intended for the patient, 
 in the sick-room, or within his sight. The air of the 
 apartment is liable to deteriorate them, and the con- 
 tinuous sight of them to occasion disgust. Rather take 
 up for him, at the fitting time, and, by w T ay of surprise, 
 two or three teaspoonfuls of jelly, several segments of 
 
BATHS, ETC. 59 
 
 an orange, or as many fresh grapes as he may consume 
 at once. Or, if it be appropriate to his condition, a 
 small cup of beef-tea, covered with one or two narrow 
 slips of toasted bread, is very much preferable to in- 
 viting him to swallow even a less quantity from a ba- 
 sinful that has been kept for hours within the reach of 
 the patient's hand and eye. 
 
 Serving daintily is often as important as the food it- 
 self for many invalids. Have everything pertaining to 
 food for the patient immaculately clean, and remove 
 the tray at once after he has had sufficient. 
 
 8. Moderation in Convalescence. — Relapses are very 
 liable to occur from indulging the appetite too freely 
 during convalescence ; and, therefore, toast and black 
 tea, jellies, light bread-puddings, white fish, mutton- 
 broth, extract of meat, a small quantity of tender 
 chicken, broiled mutton, etc., may only be allowed in 
 great moderation, but never to the capacity of the ap- 
 petite till the tongue is clean and moist, and the pulse, 
 skin and temperature have become natural. . Even 
 then, extreme moderation should be exercised, as the 
 appetite is often excessively craving. 
 
 5. — Baths, etc. 
 
 Warm or Hot Bath.— The patient should be im- 
 mersed in warm water up to the neck, and directly af- 
 terward a towel or sponge, squeezed out of cold water, 
 applied to the head ; the cold towel or sponge may be 
 applied for about three minutes, but the patient kept 
 in the bath for ten or fifteen minutes. The tempera- 
 ture of the w T ater for a hot bath should be about 98° F. 
 to 102° F. ; or what can be agreeably borne by the bared 
 
60 NURSING, DIET; ETC. 
 
 elbow, and for a ivarm bath about 95° F. A thermom- 
 eter is, however, the best guide to the heat ; and as 
 they are not expensive, one should be kept in every 
 family. The temperature should he fully maintained, by 
 additions of hot water carefully poured down the side 
 of the bath, till the patient is taken out. The bath 
 should be given in front of a good fire, and a warmed 
 blanket be in readiness to wrap the patient in directly 
 he leaves the bath. The hot bath is of great service in 
 convulsions, tetanus, etc. ; it draws the blood from the 
 overloaded brain to the general surface of the body. 
 It is also useful in simple or severe febrile diseases ; in 
 spasmodic affections of the bowels, or bladder; in 
 prurigo, etc. 
 
 The Hot Foot Bath. — The following will often ar- 
 rest colds and fevers in their incipient stages, and im- 
 mediately relieve congestive headaches, etc. : On re- 
 tiring to bed, the feet should be put in hot water, the 
 water rising nearly to the knees ; the patient should be 
 undressed, but abundantly and warmly covered; the 
 temperature of the water should be maintained and in- 
 creased by fresh additions of hot water for ten, twenty, or 
 thirty minutes, according to the strength of the patient, 
 or until perspiration breaks out about the face. The patient 
 should then get into a warm bed, be well covered with 
 clothes, and the perspiration encouraged by drinking 
 cold water freely. On rising in the morning the cold 
 plunge bath should be taken, or the whole surface of 
 the body quickly sponged or rubbed over with a wet 
 towel or sheet, followed by vigorous friction with a dry 
 one. The hot foot bath should not be used too often. 
 
 The Wet Pack. — A mackintosh sheet or stout blanket 
 or quilt should be spread on a mattress, and over it, 
 
THROAT COMPRESS. 61 
 
 leaving a margin at the head, a thick linen sheet, 
 wrung out of cold water. In fevers, the colder the 
 water is the better ; for very delicate persons with 
 feeble reaction, water at 68° may be used. The patient 
 is to be extended on his back, naked, on the wet sheet, 
 so that the upper edge comes to the top of the back of 
 the neck, while the lower edge projects beyond the 
 feet ; holding up the arms, one side of the sheet is to 
 be thrown over the body and tucked in : the arms are 
 now placed by the sides, and the other part of the wet 
 sheet is thrown over all and tucked rather tightly in, 
 turning in the projecting ends under the feet. The 
 mackintosh or blanket is then to be brought over all 
 the sheet, and well tucked in round the neck, at the 
 sides, and over the feet, so as completely to exclude the 
 air. A stout quilt or extra blanket is to be put over all. 
 In a short time the patient will become warm ; the sen- 
 sation is most agreeable, especially in fevers. The pa- 
 tient may remain in the pack three-quarters of an hour 
 to an hour, then be put into a shallow bath of water at 
 64°, well washed, dried and put to bed. It may be re- 
 peated once, twice or thrice a day, according to cir- 
 cumstances and the violence of the attack. Perspira- 
 tion may be encouraged by frequent sips of cold water. 
 If the head becomes congested, or the face flushed 
 while in the pack, a cold compress should be applied 
 over the forehead. The wet pack is invaluable in the 
 early stages of all fevers; and in scarlatina, measles, 
 smallpox, etc., it assists in bringing out the eruption. 
 
 Throat Compress. — This is an excellent domestic 
 application in various affections of the throat, and may 
 be used preventively or remedially in the following 
 manner : A piece of linen or flannel should be wrung 
 
62 NURSING, DIET, ETC. 
 
 out of water, not necessarily cold, and wrapped in two 
 or three thicknesses around the throat; this should be 
 covered with oiled silk or gutta-percha tissue, and then 
 two or three thicknesses of flannel to maintain the 
 warmth. When this is applied, the patient should re- 
 tire to bed, and he will generally have the satisfaction 
 of finding his throat difficulty much relieved in the 
 morning. In obstinate cases, the compress should be 
 worn day and night, and re wetted as often as it be- 
 comes dry. When the compress is taken off, the 
 throat and chest should be bathed with cold water, fol- 
 lowed by a good rubbing with a towel. However often 
 repeated, the wet compress never relaxes the throat. 
 
 Abdominal Compress. — This consists of two folds of 
 linen, or a napkin, wrung out after immersion in cold 
 water, and applied over the front of the abdomen, cov- 
 ered with oiled silk and secured by a flannel bandage 
 around the body over a^« 
 
PART II. 
 
 DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT, 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 GENERAL DISEASES.— (a) BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 6. — Smallpox (Variola). 
 
 Varieties. — This highly contagious disease is termed 
 discrete when the pustules are separate, and confluent 
 when they are run into each other, and form contin- 
 uous suppurating surfaces. 
 
 Symptoms. — The attack commences like most other 
 fevers, and about twelve or fourteen days after the re- 
 ception of the poison. There are chilliness, heat, head- 
 ache, a thickly furred, white tongue, a deep flush upon the 
 face, a feeling of bruised pain all over the body, but es- 
 pecially in the back and loins ; more or less pain or ten- 
 derness at the pit of the stomach, and sometimes vomiting. 
 When the pain in the back and vomiting are violent, 
 they may be regarded as the precursors of a severe 
 form of the disease. On the third day the eruption 
 appears in the form of red spots, or small hard pim- 
 ples, w T hich feel as if they were shot in the skin. It 
 first comes out on the forehead and on front of the 
 wrists, is gradually extended over the body, and may 
 also be seen upon the palate. The eruption being com- 
 pleted, the fever subsides, the pustules begin to fill like 
 boils, are depressed in the center, and are surrounded by 
 
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64 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 a circular inflamed ring. The eyelids, face and hands 
 are swollen, and often the features obliterated. A pe- 
 culiar disagreeable odor now begins to emanate from 
 the patient, which, once smelt, cannot easily be forgot- 
 ten. In about eight days from the first appearance of 
 the eruption, the pustules break and discharge their 
 contents ; scales then form, which dry up, and, in a 
 healthy state of the constitution, fall off in the course 
 of four or five days, leaving purplish spots, which do 
 not fade away before the sixth or eighth week. 
 
 Diagnosis. — In the early stage, smallpox is chiefly 
 distinguishable from the other eruptive fevers by se- 
 vere pain in the back and vomiting ; also by the sensa- 
 tion which is given by the dots to the finger, as if small 
 shots were imbedded in the skin ; this latter is a most 
 useful sign by which to determine smallpox from 
 scarlatina and measles. 
 
 Dangers. — The greatest danger arises from the sec- 
 ondary fever, about the ninth to the twelfth day, when 
 the pustules are ripening ; for then the fever is likely 
 to return, after the vital strength has already been 
 much exhausted. 
 
 Treatment. — Antimonium tart — This is a prominent 
 remedy in the disease, and often strikingly relieves the 
 spasmodic retching, nausea and hoarse cough, which 
 are often very distressing. Ant tart should, therefore, 
 be given directly smallpox is suspected, either alone 
 or in alternation with one of the following remedies : 
 
 Aconitum, every third hour, for fever, headache and 
 restlessness ; if the pulse be not lowered or the skin 
 moistened, Veratrum vir. (lx), in hourly drop doses, 
 should be resorted to if there be much sickness with 
 the fever and very rapid pulse. See also Belladonna. 
 
SMALLPOX. 65 
 
 Belladonna. — Stupor or delirium, severe headache, or 
 ophthalmia. Bell has a direct action upon the brain j 
 it also tends to retain the eruption upon the surface. 
 
 Apis. — Considerable swelling of the face and eyelids. If 
 the swelling be attended with hoarseness and pain in 
 swallowing, Apis and Bell, should be alternated. 
 
 Mercurius. — Ulcerated throat, enlarged glands, saliva- 
 tion and diarrhoea, the stools being bloody. 
 
 Carbo veg. — Low typhoid symptoms, with a ten- 
 dency to putrescence. 
 
 Galcarea phos. should be given as a tonic during con- 
 valescence. A dose three times a day. 
 
 Accessory Means. — As soon as the eruption appears, 
 the patient should be placed in a moderately dark 
 room, in which there is ample provision made for the 
 uninterrupted admission of fresh air, and the free es- 
 cape of tainted air; if possible in a room with opposite 
 windows, and these should be kept open day and 
 night in all seasons. If the weather is very cold, a 
 good fire should be kept in the room, and the windows 
 left open, the patient having an extra blanket to avert 
 cold ; if the weather is mild, the patient should be ab- 
 solutely treated in the open air. Nothing is of so 
 much importance as pure air, and that in unlimited 
 quantities. The patient should be kept cool, and the 
 sheets and linen be frequently changed. The posture 
 of the patient in bed should be frequently changed, so 
 as to avoid constantly lying on his back, or on partic- 
 ular parts, otherwise troublesome bed-sores will be 
 formed. The diet should be liberal, as the disease is 
 an exhausting one, but it must be given in such a form 
 as to be readily digested and absorbed ; it should in- 
 clude a liberal allowance of milk diluted with about 
 5 
 
66 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 one-third soda-water, raw eggs beaten up with milk 
 (cold), beef-tea, arrowroot, sago, etc. Tea or coffee, in 
 moderation, is often grateful and useful ; but to quench 
 thirst, nothing is more pleasant and refreshing than 
 pure cold water. Any objection to cold water on the 
 part of nurses or friends is to be firmly combated. 
 Lemonade, soda-water and other effervescing drinks 
 may also be allowed. As soon as the eruption is well out, 
 the whole surface should be smeared over with bacon 
 fat, the anointing being repeated twice or thrice daily. 
 A piece of boiled bacon cut horizontally, leaving about 
 a quarter of an inch of fat adhering to the skin, may 
 be used to anoint the eruption. It completely prevents 
 pitting and allays irritation. As the pimples begin to 
 ripen into pustules, and before they break, the skin 
 should be sponged with glycerine and rose-water, in 
 equal parts, and directly afterward, by the aid of a 
 soft puff, the skin covered with a powder prepared by 
 mixing one part of the 1st trituration of Tart emetic 
 with eight of violet powder. The glycerine water 
 causes the powder to adhere, and pitting is effectually 
 prevented. The process should be repeated as often as 
 necessary. If the patient is a child, his hands should 
 be rguffled to keep him from scratching, which might 
 lead to ulceration. Two or three times a day, when- 
 ever the skin becomes hot or irritable, great relief will 
 be afforded by sponging it with tepid water, in which 
 carbolic acid has been mixed in the proportion of one 
 to sixty. Tepid sponging adds much to a patient's 
 comfort; it also hastens convalescence. When the 
 pustules have burst, powdered starch should be freely 
 applied, to absorb the matter. 
 
VACCINATION. 67 
 
 7. — Vaccination. 
 
 This is the process by which the disease — vaccinia — 
 is artificially introduced into the body for the purpose 
 of protecting it against smallpox. 
 
 In performing vaccination there are four precautions 
 to be observed : (1) The vaccine lymph should be taken 
 direct from the calf, and only when this cannot possibly 
 be obtained, from a child free from scrofula or any con- 
 stitutional taint. (2) The lancet employed should be 
 absolutely clean. (3) The matter should be inserted in 
 the left arm, or whichever arm comes least frequently 
 in contact with the nurse's body, or in the thigh. Much 
 care should be taken to avoid rubbing or irritating the 
 vesicles. If the operation is successful, well-marked 
 scars will be left. (4) It should be repeated at the age 
 of puberty, the great changes which take place at this 
 period of life rendering its repetition necessary, and 
 during an epidemic. 
 
 8. — Ohickenpox (Varicella). 
 
 On the second day of a slight fever an eruption ap- 
 pears similar to that of smallpox, for which it may be 
 at first mistaken. But it differs from smallpox (1) in 
 the mildness of the fever which attends it ; (2) in the 
 appearance of the eruption on the trunk first, on the 
 face afterward; (3) in the rapid appearance of the 
 spots — twenty-four hours ; (4) in the spots having no 
 inflammatory ring around them in the first stage ; (5) 
 in the vesicular character of the eruption, the spots of 
 which become filled with a watery fluid about the 
 second or third day, which is rarely converted into yel- 
 low matter ; (6) in the absence of hardness to the touch ; 
 
68 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 (7) in the absence of odor ; and (8) in the rapid course 
 of the complaint. Generally on the third day the pus- 
 tules dry up, forming crusts or scabs, but no pits. 
 
 Treatment. — It generally requires little else than 
 attention to diet and warmth, unless the fever be con- 
 siderable, when a few doses of Aconitum may be given. 
 For headache and disturbance of the brain, two or three 
 doses of Belladonna. 
 
 Hepar may be given to hurry the healing process. 
 
 9.— Measles (Morbilli). 
 
 Measles is a disease of childhood, usually unattended 
 with danger, unless improperly treated ; but in adults 
 it is often a severe or even dangerous malady. Like 
 scarlatina and smallpox, it is highly contagious, often 
 epidemic, and generally attacks the same patient only 
 once, although there are exceptions to this rule. 
 
 Symptoms. — About eight days after the reception of 
 the poison the disease is ushered in with the symptoms 
 of a common cold — sneezing, running from the nose, red, 
 swollen, and watery eyes, frontal headache, aching in back 
 and limbs, shivering, a hoarse, harsh cough, and fever. 
 On about the fourth day from the commencement of 
 the illness, the eruption appears on the face and neck, 
 and soon after on the whole body. It is in the form of 
 minute raspberry-colored pimples, which multiply and 
 coalesce into blotches of a more or less crescentic form, 
 slightly raised above the surrounding skin, particularly 
 on the face, which is often a good deal swollen. In 
 four or five days the fever abates and the eruption de- 
 clines, a bran-like scurf being afterward thrown off the 
 skin. 
 
MEASLES. G9 
 
 Measles differs from scarlatina m several respects. The 
 eruption is rough, so that on passing the hand over the 
 skin considerable inequalities may be detected, and it 
 is of a darkish-scarlet color ; in scarlet fever the rough- 
 ness is absent, and, in simple cases of the disease, the 
 rash is of a bright-scarlet color. The sneezing, lachryma- 
 tion and other catarrhal symptoms which characterize 
 the primary stage of measles are usually absent in 
 scarlet fever. 
 
 Treatment. — Ferrum phos. may be given as the first 
 remedy, and continued so long as the patient seems 
 to be doing well, or alternated with any of the other 
 remedies that may seem to be indicated. Whenever chest 
 symptoms show themselves — cough, pain, etc. — it will be 
 the surest remedy. Dose : A powder, size of a pea, dry 
 on tongue, or a larger powder dissolved in a tumbler half 
 full of water — teaspoonful doses every hour. 
 
 In mild forms Ferrum phos. is all that is needed, 
 though in severer cases one or more of the following 
 remedies may be required : 
 
 Aconitum. — Patient is very restless. Febrile symp- 
 toms, either at the outset or during the progress of the 
 disease. A dose every hour or two, as long as neces- 
 sary. 
 
 Gelsemium. — If the eruption is slow to appear, the 
 patient is drowsy and languid. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Almost specific when symptoms of cold, 
 derangement of the stomach and much phlegm in the 
 chest are present. It is most useful after the fever has 
 been modified by Aconite or Ferr. phos. ; in the absence 
 of fever it may be given alone. Dose every two or 
 three hours. It is also useful as a preventive measure. 
 
 Belladonna. — Considerable affection of the throat, dry, 
 
70 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 barking cough, etc. ; restlessness and tendency to deli- 
 rium. A few doses, at intervals of two or three hours. 
 
 Bryonia. — Imperfectly developed or suppressed erup- 
 tion; stitching pains in the chest, difficult breathing, 
 cough, etc. In addition to this remedy, a sudden reces- 
 sion of the eruption might necessitate a hot bath. 
 
 Antimonium tart. — Complicated with bad congestive 
 bronchitis. 
 
 Sulphur. — After the eruption has completed its natu- 
 ral course, and the other remedies are discontinued. A 
 Jose morning and night for several days. 
 
 After-effects (Sequels) .--Measles is often succeeded 
 by diseases of the lungs, eyes, ears, bones or some affec- 
 tion of the skin. These are often far more serious than 
 the malady itself, and generally require professional 
 treatment. They may generally be prevented by the ad- 
 ministration of Sulphur as just directed. Sequelae are 
 very infrequent after homoeopathic treatment, unless 
 constitutional evils are latent. 
 
 If Sulphur is not sufficient, give Kali mur., a small 
 powder size of a pea, morning and evening for a week. 
 
 Measles and Consumption. — Tubercular disease of 
 the lungs, or more often of the bowels, is by no means 
 an infrequent sequel in delicate or strumous children. 
 Cases of this nature are often under our care, and from 
 long observation we have reason to believe that such a 
 connection is far from uncommon. Whenever, there- 
 fore, a child makes but a slow or imperfect recovery 
 after an attack of measles, more particularly if there be 
 a high temperature, tenderness, pain or enlargement of 
 the abdomen, diarrhoea or irregular action of the bowels, 
 a grave constitutional disease may be suspected, and no 
 time should be lost in obtaining professional homoeo- 
 
SCARLET FEVER — SCARLATINA. 71 
 
 pathic assistance. Until such is obtained, give Calcarea 
 phos., a dose morning and evening. 
 
 Diet and Regimen. — The general directions in the 
 chapter on Nursing should be carried out — sponging 
 thrice daily with a mixture of one pint of dilute acetic 
 acid to six pints of hot water. The wet pack is useful 
 at the commencement of the fever. It is especially 
 necessary, while securing efficient ventilation, to guard 
 the patient from cold, and, except during the very 
 height of summer, a fire should be kept burning in his 
 room. Exposure to strong currents of air may cause 
 the eruption to recede, and bring on bronchitis or pneu- 
 monia. But a constant supply of fresh air may be 
 secured without exposing the patient to draughts of 
 cold air. The patient should be kept warm in bed. 
 The room should be equally warmed, well ventilated, 
 light, but the eyes protected from strong light. The 
 diet should be light and not stimulating. 
 
 Preventive Measures. — Measles is contagious, but 
 may generally be prevented, or modified, by giving 
 children who have not had the disease a dose of Pulsa- 
 tilla, morning and night, during the prevalence of the 
 disease. 
 
 10. — Scarlet Fever — Scarlatina (Febris Rubra). 
 
 This is a contagious disease, the poison of which is 
 only second in virulence to that of smallpox. The ssc- 
 ond, third, fourth and fifth years of life are those in 
 which it is most prevalent ; after the tenth year its fre- 
 quency rapidly declines. The opinion that the disease 
 does not attack children under two years of age is erro- 
 neous: as also is the idea that there is a difference 
 
72 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 between scarlatina and scarlet fever ; for the terms are 
 synonymous. 
 
 The increasing prevalence of scarlatina during the 
 present century leads us to assign to it that pre-emi- 
 nent rank among the causes of the mortality of child- 
 hood which was formerly occupied by smallpox ; in- 
 deed, the mortality from it often exceeds that from 
 measles and smallpox combined. The mortality in 
 towns is double that in the country. Its fatality during 
 the epidemics of 1869-70 was again very great, and for 
 many weeks during the latter part of 1870 the mortality 
 averaged 108 per w T eek in London alone. In 1884 the 
 mortality from the disease in England was 10,863, and, 
 in London, 1,530. 
 
 Symptoms. — Scarlatina has a latent period of about 
 five days. The disease commences with the ordinary 
 precursors of fever — shivering, hot skin, frequent pulse, 
 thirst and sore throat, headache, backache, and, often, 
 vomiting. On the second or third day, after these 
 symptoms, the eruption appears, first on the neck and 
 breast, and then over the great joints and body gener- 
 ally, as a scarlet efflorescence, minutely point-shaped, but 
 not raised above the surrounding skin so as to be felt; 
 and somewhat resembles a boiled lobster-shell. On the 
 fourth or fifth day the eruption generally begins to de- 
 cline, and gradually goes off, the outer skin desquamat- 
 ing in large flakes. The distinctive characters of scar- 
 latina are — (1) the scarlet rash, just described ; (2) the 
 high temperature of the skin and blood, which becomes 
 higher than in most other fevers, rising often to 105°, 
 from 98°, the normal standard ; (3) the papillae of the 
 tongue are red and prominent, and may be first seen pro- 
 jecting through a w T hite fur, or, as this fur clears away, 
 
SCARLET FEVER SCARLATINA. 73 
 
 on a red ground, suggesting the term — "the strawberry- 
 tongue;^ (4) the sore throat. The throat is congested 
 and swollen round the soft palate and tonsils, and the 
 mucous membrane of the mouth and nostrils is gener- 
 ally involved. 
 
 For points of difference between scarlatina and measles, 
 consult the description of measles. 
 
 Degrees of Intensity. — There are three recognized 
 degrees of intensity, viz. : Scarlatina simplex, in which 
 the skin only appears to be affected ; scarlatina an- 
 ginosa, in which both the skin and throat are in- 
 volved ; and scarlatina maligna, with extreme de- 
 pression of the vital strength, super-added to the 
 affection of the throat and the skin, the fever 
 assuming a malignant character. In this form, the 
 tongue is brown, there is low delirium, the eruption is 
 imperfect, darker than usual, and appearing and disap- 
 pearing alternately. The throat is dark, livid and even 
 sloughy. Often this form of the disease terminates 
 fatally on the third or fourth day, and is always one of 
 such extreme danger that none but patients of very vig- 
 orous constitutions, w T ith whom skillful treatment is com- 
 menced early, survive it. 
 
 Dangers. — (1) Exhaustion from virulence of the 
 poison; (2) inflammation of the heart and brain; (3) 
 ulceration of the throat, suppuration through the ear, 
 and consequent deafness; (4) disease of kidneys and 
 dropsy ; (5) rheumatic fever, consequent on exposure 
 during convalescence. (See also After-effects.) 
 
 Scarlatina is more prone to assume a malignant form 
 than any other of the eruptive fevers, and sometimes 
 prevails as an epidemic in low, ill-drained districts. 
 
 Epitome of Treatment. — Scarlatina Simplex. — BelL, 
 Aeon.; Ferrum phos. 
 
74 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 Scarlatina Anginosa. — Merc, (ulceration of the throat) ; 
 Apis (excessive swelling) and Kali mur. 
 
 Scarlatina Maligna, — Kali phos. and Baptisia. 
 
 If possible, this disease should always be under the 
 eare of a homoepathic physician, as the mildest forms, 
 neglected, have often led to the worst results. 
 
 Leading Indications. — Belladonna. — Immediately 
 scarlatina is suspected, and especially when the rash 
 begins to appear, the swallowing becoming difficult, and 
 the throat inflamed, Bell, should be given every first or 
 second hour, according to the severity of the symptoms, 
 and as long as the eruption is bright-red. In the simple 
 form of the disease, scarlet fever will frequently yield 
 to its action without the aid of other medicines. 
 
 Aconitum. — If the fever be severe and the patient is 
 very restless and anxious, a few doses may precede. 
 
 Ferrum phos. may follow Aconite if the fever does not 
 goon lessen, and it can also be advantageously alternated 
 with Bell, and continued so long as the patient appears 
 to progress favorably. Dissolve a powder, the size of a 
 lima bean, in ten teaspoonfuls of water, and give one 
 teaspoonful every two hours in alternation with Bell. 
 The Bell, will be best prepared, also in water, by dis- 
 solving five drops in ten teaspoonfuls and giving spoon- 
 ful doses. 
 
 Gelsemium.— -In simple cases when the eruption is 
 not clear, when the symptoms are remittent, and there are 
 much drowsiness and great languor. Face looks darkly 
 flushed. 
 
 Rhus tox. — When rheumatic symptoms appear, and 
 the patient cannot bear to be still. 
 
 Mercurius. — Inflamed, swollen or ulcerated throat. 
 If there is a predominance of the throat symptoms, 
 
SCARLET FEVER — SCARLATINA. 75 
 
 especially malignant sore throat, Merc, is most valuable. 
 This may be alternated with Kali mur. 
 
 Terebinthina. — Disorder of kidneys ; urine smoky and 
 dark. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Great prostration of strength ; cold 
 clammy sweats; frequent, weak pulse; threatened 
 dropsy. Ars. is also valuable during convalescence ; it 
 expedites desquamation and tends to prevent sequela?. 
 
 Sulphur. — When the disease is on the decline, to pre- 
 vent secondary complaints. A dose morning and night 
 for several days ; then follow in the same way with Kali 
 mur. 
 
 For the remaining debility, give a dose of Calcarea 
 phos., a small powder dissolved in a tumbler of milk, 
 morning and evening. 
 
 General Measures. — The hints on Nursing should, 
 so far as possible, be strictly carried out. The surface 
 of the body should be sponged thrice daily with vine- 
 gar or alcohol and hot water to moderate the great heat 
 and allay restlessness. Sucking and swallowing small 
 pieces of ice are both useful and grateful. A wet band- 
 age to the throat, when it is affected, is a sovereign rem- 
 edy, and seldom fails to relieve. It should be fastened 
 both at the back of the neck and at the top of the head, 
 so as to protect the glands near the angles of the jaws. 
 Inhalation of steam from hot water is useful when the 
 throat is sore and painful. Also the wet pack. 
 
 Prevention. — During the prevalence of scarlatina, a 
 dose of Bell. (6 pellets) should be given morning and 
 night to children who have not had the disease. Should 
 the disease occur notwithstanding this treatment, its 
 severity will be much mitigated. Daily out-of-door 
 exercise. 
 
76 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 After-effects (Sequelae). — There are several sequelae 
 that may follow scarlatina, especially in unhealthy pa- 
 tients or districts, or when the disease has not been 
 skillfully treated. (1) Inflammation and swelling of 
 the glands of the neck, which in scrofulous children 
 attain a large size, often suppurate, and burrow under 
 the muscles of the neck. Merc, should be administered 
 immediately any swelling is observed ; and after several 
 days, if the improvement be not rapid, follow with Cede, 
 phos. (2) The inflammation of the throat may be ex- 
 tended along the Eustachian tabes (small canals which 
 extend from the throat to the ear), producing deafness 
 by their obstruction, or by the suppuration of the tym- 
 panum (drum of the ear), or some other mischief of the 
 ear. The remedies recommended are Ferrum phos. and 
 Kali mur. (3) But the most frequent and dangerous 
 sequel is anasarca (dropsy), which takes place about the 
 twenty-second day from the commencement of the fever. 
 Dropsy is more frequent after a mild than after a severe 
 form of scarlatina, owing probably to the disease not 
 having expended all its force, and some of the poison 
 remaining in the system; or it may be due to the want 
 of caution in such cases during convalescence. Can- 
 tharis, when there is suppression of urine, and Arsenicum 
 when there is no suppression, are the chief remedies re- 
 quired. When there is blood in the urine, the urine 
 appearing smoky, give Terebinthina y a dose three times a 
 day. 
 
 11. — Enteric or Typhoid-— Typho-Maiarial Fever. 
 
 Symptoms. — The most characteristic are — Great debil- 
 ity, gradually coming on; dizziness; weariness and 
 
TYPHOID AND TYPHOID-MALARIAL FEVERS. 77 
 
 restless anxiety ; ringing noises in the ears ; and often 
 deafness ; black spots before the eyes ; low mutter- 
 ing delirium; stupor; gray-colored watery stools are 
 a decided symptom, followed often by bloody and of- 
 fensive stools ; tongue coated at first with a gray fur, 
 then brown and dry, gums and lips covered with a 
 darkish matter, called sordes ; face yellowish ; eyes dull ; 
 loss of appetite and great prostration ; gradual rise of 
 temperature, with marked morning remissions. Fever 
 lasts from two to six weeks. 
 
 Epitome of Treatment. — First Stage. — Baptisia. 
 
 Great Prostration. — Ars., Verat., or Rhus tox. 
 
 Involvement of the Lungs. — Ferrum phos. and Bry. 
 
 Involvement of the Brain.— Bell., Rhus. 
 
 Involvement of the Bowels. — Ars., Bapt., Carbo veg. 
 
 Nervous Debility following. — Ferrum phos., Kali phos., 
 China. 
 
 Leading Indications. — Gelsem. — Rapid pulse, severe 
 headache, vomiting, and even delirium. Very tired and 
 drowsy. 
 
 Baptisia. — Follows Gelsem, after a few days, and when 
 typhoid is strongly suspected. Tongue coated, marked 
 gastric disturbance, dullness and headache. 
 
 Bryonia. — Bitter taste, brown-coated, rough tongue, 
 bilious derangement, nausea, confined bowels, stupefying 
 headache, cough, stitches in the chest, and irritable dispo- 
 sition. When there are furred tongue, rheumatic pains, 
 and restlessness, Bry. may be alternated with Rhus 
 every third hour. 
 
 Belladonna. — Violent headache, redness and conges- 
 tion of the face ; a wild, red and fiery appearance of 
 the eyes ; throbbing and distension of the bloodvessels 
 of the temples ; wakefulness and nocturnal delirium, 
 and other cerebral symptoms. 
 
78 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 Mercurius. — Copious debilitating perspirations; thick- 
 coated tongue, foul mouth, throat, breath, etc. ; diar- 
 rhceic evacuations, greenish or yellowish ; tenderness at 
 the pit of the stomach. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Extreme debility, prostration, rapid sink- 
 ing, with very small, thready pulse; burning thirst; 
 dark, offensive diarrhoeic discharges; cold perspira- 
 tions * t symptoms worse at night. 
 
 Rhus tox. — Foul discharges from the bowels ; livid 
 color of the skin; paralytic symptoms; extreme weak- 
 ness and prostration ; low muttering delirium ; picking 
 of the bed-clothes; offensive, putrid, or bloody diar- 
 rhoea; dry, cracked tongue; great thirst, and scanty 
 urine. 
 
 Carlo veg. — Offensive smells from the patient; invol- 
 untary putrid evacuations ; deep-red urine ; pinched, 
 sunken countenance ; burning in the abdomen and pit of 
 the stomach ; cold extremities ; rapid sinking, and scarcely 
 perceptible pulse. 
 
 Administration. — Of the selected remedy, put ten 
 drops in a tumbler containing twenty spoonfuls of 
 boiled, cooled water, and give the patient a spoonful 
 every two or three hours. Do not give the remedy in 
 pellets dry on the tongue, as the patient sickens of it 
 very soon. 
 
 Accessory Treatment. — Offer frequently sips of pure 
 cold, previously boiled water. 
 
 Watching Patients. — Fever patients should never 
 be left alone, but attended and watched day and night. 
 Their urgent and incessant wants require this, and their 
 safety demands it. Instances have occurred of patients, 
 in the delirium which so frequently attends fever, get- 
 ting out of bed, and even out of the window, during 
 
SIMPLE FEVER. 79 
 
 the absence of the nurse, and losing their lives from 
 injury. 
 
 12. — Simple Fever (Feverishness). 
 
 Simple fever is the mildest form in which a feverish 
 attack occurs, and as it generally disappears in from 
 twelve to thirty-six hours, it is termed an ephemeral 
 disease. 
 
 Symptoms. — A feverish attack usually commences in 
 the afternoon or evening, with alternate chills and 
 flushes, followed by heat and dryness of the skin ; hard, 
 full, quick pulse ; dry coated tongue ; thirst ; hurried, 
 anxious breathing ; and highly colored and scanty urine. 
 Also, often, pain in the loins, headache, deranged bow- 
 els, and loss of appetite. As these symptoms may be 
 precursors of serious diseases, they require prompt 
 attention. 
 
 Causes. — Suppressed perspiration, exposure to damp 
 or cold, sudden changes of temperature, wearing damp 
 clothes ; errors in diet ; injuries, internal or external ; 
 fatigue, etc. ; o.r it may be a modified variety of one of 
 the forms of fever described in the preceding sections. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum is found to be the chief rem- 
 edy for all such symptoms as those above indicated, 
 when there is no toxaemia (l)lood-poisoning) ; and it will 
 most effectually calm the arterial excitement; it has 
 been termed the homoeopathic lancet. Perspiration fol- 
 lowing its administration is the welcome indication of 
 its beneficial action. A dose every two or three hours, 
 or, in urgent cases, every half-hour or hour, till perspira- 
 tion breaks out, when this remedy may be discontinued. 
 
 Ferrum phos. may follow Aconitum or may be alternated 
 with it, especially if there are symptoms of a cold on the 
 chest, cough, pain, etc. 
 
80 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 Gelsemium is often called for in children, when they 
 have feverish attacks, often in the afternoon— the dry 
 heat increasing toward night, and then passing off with- 
 out perspiration. The little patient is drowsy, dull, 
 stupid, tired, and has no appetite. 
 
 Camphor. — Sudden seizure of chilliness ; shivering, with 
 lassitude, and general indisposition which has come on 
 rapidly. Two drops of the strong tincture on a small 
 piece of loaf-sugar, or half a dozen pellets, repeated 
 three times, at intervals of fifteen or twenty minutes, 
 may precede Aconitum, or it may be alone sufficient if 
 taken promptly at the onset. 
 
 Accessory Treatment. — For ephemeral attacks, cold 
 water is generally the only beverage required. If the 
 attack continues a day or two, a milk diet should be 
 adopted. 
 
 13.— Ague — Intermittent Fever: 
 
 Intermittent fever is so named because the febrile 
 symptoms return in paroxysms, between which they 
 entirely pass off. It is not infectious. 
 
 Symptoms. — A typical paroxysm of ague has three 
 stages — the cold, the hot and the perspiring. The first 
 stage commences with chilliness and rigors, chattering 
 of the teeth, aching of the back and limbs, oppression 
 of the chest, yawning and sighing. The face and lips 
 are pale, the features and skin contracted, the pulse 
 frequent and small, the tongue white, and the urine 
 scanty and frequently passed. In the second stage flush- 
 ings come on, until the entire body becomes hot, with 
 thirst, bounding pulse, throbbing headache and rest- 
 lessness, the urine being still scanty, but high-colored. 
 
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 At length the third or perspiring stage succeeds, and the 
 patient feels much relieved. Thirst diminishes, the 
 pulse declines in frequency, and the appetite returns : 
 at the same time there is a red deposit of urates in the 
 urine. A paroxysm usually lasts about six hours, 
 allowing two hours for each stage. The period between 
 the paroxysms, as already explained, is called the 
 intermission ; but by an interval is meant the whole pe- 
 riod or cycle between the beginning of one paroxysm 
 and the beginning of the ne 
 
 Types. — There are three chief types of ague : 1st — 
 The quotidian has a paroxysm daily, coming on in the 
 morning from 7 to 9 a.m., and an interval of twenty- 
 four hours. 2d — The tertian has a paroxysm every 
 other day, coming on from 10 to 12 o'clock at noon, and 
 an interval of forty-eight hours. 3d — The quartan has 
 a paroxysm every third day, coming on from 2 to 4 p.m., 
 and an interval of seventy-two hours. The tertian is 
 the most frequent and has the most marked hot stage ; 
 but the quartan is the most obstinate, and chiefly oc- 
 curs in the autumn. There is still another type, in 
 which, though there is an attack every day, those only 
 resemble each other which occur on alternate days. 
 
 Effects. — From the recurrence of internal conges- 
 tions in each cold stage the functions of the liver and 
 bowels become disordered, the patient is sallow, his 
 limbs waste, but his abdomen is distended, and his 
 bowels constipated. The spleen is especially liable to 
 be enlarged, sometimes to a great extent, so as to be 
 felt externally. This condition is popularly called 
 ague-cake. 
 
 Causes. — The exciting cause of ague is marsh miasma, 
 which is probably a microscopic fungus (bacillus malaria) 
 6 
 
82 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 growing on decomposing vegetable matter, and most 
 rife when the land is drying after having been pre- 
 viously soaked with water. It is, therefore, most fre- 
 quent in the spring and when the rains have fallen 
 upon the decaying leaves in autumn, and where the 
 ground is dug up. 
 
 Laws. — Malaria obeys the following laws, which, 
 practically, are worth nothing : 1st — It spreads in the 
 course of prevailing winds. 2d — Its progress is arrested 
 by rivers and running streams and by rows of trees. 3d — 
 It does not rise above the low level. 4th — It is most 
 dangerous at night 
 
 Preventive. — Persons going into malarious districts 
 should take for a short time before two grains of sul- 
 phate of quinine (ix), night and morning, and con- 
 tinue the same at increasing intervals during their stay. 
 If Quinine is not tolerated, two grains of Ars. (3x) 
 should be given in the same way. In persons sensi- 
 tive to the action of Ars. the third centesimal tritu- 
 ration may be given in place of the third decimal. 
 
 Treatment. — Palliative treatment is adopted during 
 the paroxysms to mitigate the symptoms, and consists 
 chiefly in imparting warmth during the cold stage, 
 removing the patient's coverings and giving cooling 
 drinks during the hot, and supplying him with warm 
 and dry linen when the perspiring stage has passed by. 
 The curative is adopted during the intermission, and is 
 of the greatest importance. 
 
 China. — Ague in marshy districts, with its regular 
 stages; yellowish complexion, drowsiness, tender or 
 swollen liver or spleen and watery or bilious diarrhoea. 
 A dose just before an expected paroxysm and every 
 four hours through the intermission. 
 
CHOLERA. 83 
 
 Arsenicum. — Simultaneous or alternate heat and 
 shivering, or internal shivering with external heat; 
 burning heat, thirst, pains in the stomach, debility and 
 tendency to dropsical swellings ; also when Quinine or 
 Bark has been used to excess. 
 
 Ipecacuanha. — Xausea and vomiting, distressed breath- 
 ing, watery diarrhoea and other gastric symptoms. 
 
 Xatrum mur. — When the chill is apt to come on in 
 the forenoon, about 10 o'clock ; much thirst, little blis- 
 ters form around the mouth ; and after much Quinine 
 has been taken. This remedy alone will often cure the 
 most obstinate chills. 
 
 Accessory Measures. — If practicable, residence in a 
 well-drained district, with a dry, bracing atmosphere. 
 If compelled to remain in a malarious atmosphere, the 
 patient should sleep in the loftiest rooms in the house, 
 and not expose himself to night air. Air and light 
 should be freely admitted during the middle of the day 
 into the house, but night air carefully excluded. Light, 
 nourishing diet may be taken, but the digestive organs 
 not overtaxed. Fatigue and cold draughts of air must 
 be avoided, and the clothing should be sufficient to be 
 comfortable. 
 
 14. — Cholera (Cholera Pestifera). 
 
 Definition. — This is an acute, miasmatic disease, 
 characterized by 'purging of profuse watery discharges, 
 unmixed w T ith bile; vomiting ; coldness of the surface, 
 tongue and breath ; unquenchable thirst; suppressed urine ; 
 collapse, and, unless reaction comes on, death. 
 
 In this much-dreaded disease, which resists the 
 efforts of the old system, Homoeopathy has won bril- 
 
84 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 liant triumphs. Its success in the prevention and cure 
 of cholera and other violent diseases has contributed 
 greatly to its rapid spread in every part of the world. 
 
 Treatment. — If possible, cholera should always be 
 treated by a homoeopathic practitioner, but the admin- 
 istration of Camphor should be commenced immedi- 
 alely the earliest symptoms are noticed. We shall only 
 indicate a few of the remedies and measures which 
 have been found most useful. 
 
 Camphor (strong saturated tincture) is one of the first 
 and most important medicines to be administered, un- 
 der whatever form the disease presents itself. Its spe- 
 cial indications are sudden prostration, the body gen- 
 erally becoming cold ; pains in the stomach and bowels ; 
 irregular pulse ; cold sweat on the forehead ; giddiness ; 
 noise in the ears; swelling of the abdomen from wind; 
 and severe purging. Two to five drops of the strong 
 tincture on a small piece of loaf-sugar every five or ten 
 minutes; as soon as the patient becomes warm the 
 doses may be given less frequently, and discontinued 
 when full perspiration takes place. At the same time 
 the patient should be placed in a warm bed, have hot- 
 water bottles applied to the feet and abdomen, and be 
 allowed to sip cold water or suck ice. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Violent burning pains in the stomach; 
 excessive thirst ; suppression of urine ; clammy sweat ; 
 weak, tremulous pulse ; cramps and entire prostration of 
 strength. It is the great remedy when the time for 
 curing with Camphor has passed. Two-drop dose every 
 hour. 
 
 Veratrum. — The chief indications for this remedy are 
 violent and continuous vomiting and purging ; cramps in 
 the legs; a shriveled appearance of the skin; cold 
 
WHOOPING-COUGH. 85 
 
 tongue; cadaverous and pinched appearance of the 
 face. Two-drop dose every hour. 
 
 Preventive Measures. — During the prevalence of 
 cholera there are usually premonitory symptoms, such 
 as general uneasiness, bitter taste in the mouth, fullness 
 and pressure at the pit of the stomach, cramps, slight 
 diarrhoea, a rumbling in the bowels; the symptons should 
 be promptly checked. Much time may be saved, and life 
 spared, by families providing themselves with a small 
 case of homoeopathic remedies, including a small bot- 
 tle of Arsenicum and Veratrum ; also a bottle of Cam- 
 phor, which must be kept by itself. It is a well-estab- 
 lished fact that workers in copper mines, and others 
 impregnated with the metal, possess immunity against 
 cholera. From this has come the use of the copper 
 plates worn next the skin. 
 
 The following advice is worth remembering : " Should cholera prevail, the 
 means to avoid an attack are to maintain cheerfulness of spirits (remembering 
 that the disease is not contagious) ; using a temperate but generous diet; avoid- 
 ing late suppers ; keeping early hours ; sleeping in the highest room in the house ; 
 and carrying a small bottle of strong camphorated spirit in the pocket for the use 
 of others as well as yourself; and, if compelled to pass the neighborhood of 
 fetid drains, ditches, or other suspected places, to moisten the tongue with a drop 
 of the camphorated spirit before inhaling the stench, it being known to Homoe- 
 opaths that as Camphor is the antidote to most of their infinitesimal medicines, so 
 it is an antidote to the cholera poison suspended in the air, and inhaled into the 
 lungs in infinitesimal quantity, provided the Camphor is applied before the poison 
 has begun to operate on the blood." — H. Kemsall, M.D. 
 
 15. — Whooping-Oough (Pertussis). 
 
 This is an epidemic and contagious disease, usually 
 of a mild character in healthy children, but a distress- 
 ing and sometimes a fatal malady in the delicate or 
 scrofulous. 
 
 Symptoms. — It generally commences as a common 
 cold, accompanied by hoarseness and a cough, which 
 
86 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 returns in fits at intervals. In about a week the cough 
 returns at short intervals, in paroxysms of extreme se- 
 verity, the child turning red or almost black in the 
 face, and appearing as if choking, during which the 
 lungs are emptied of air to the last degree ; and then a 
 long sonorous inspiration, taken to refill them, consti- 
 tutes the " whoop." This is the sign of safety. The 
 attacks recur every two or three hours, or, in severe 
 cases, oftener, and are worse at night. Sometimes 
 blood escapes from the nose, mouth, and even from the 
 ears. The fits pass off with the expectoration of glairy, 
 ropy mucus, and sometimes sickness. If dentition be 
 going on, convulsions are not infrequent. Whooping- 
 cough is sometimes complicated with measles, small- 
 pox, bronchitis, etc., which add to the difficulties of 
 treatment. 
 
 Cause. — A specific unknown poison, communicated 
 through the atmosphere, which irritates the pneumogas- 
 tric nerve. 
 
 Treatment. — It is not always easy to positively 
 diagnose whooping-cough before the setting in of the 
 whoop ; but it is always best in an epidemic to give 
 preventive remedies, which will tend to modify the at- 
 tack. 
 
 Preventive Treatment.— Give Corallium, six pellets, 
 morning and evening for three days, then Drosera in 
 the same way, and continue for some time. 
 
 Drosera. — When the cough is loud and hoarse, the 
 paroxysms frequent and violent, causing perspiration 
 and vomiting of food and mucus. A dose every four 
 hours or after every fit of coughing. Drosera is often 
 sufficient in uncomplicated cases ; but scrofulous chil- 
 dren require professional treatment. 
 
WHOOPING-COUGH. 87 
 
 Belladonna.— For dry, spasmodic cough, worse at 
 night ; head hot, throat sore and dry ; much thirst. 
 
 Arnica. — When there is bleeding from the nose, or 
 spitting of blood with each fit of coughing ; or when 
 there is rupture of a small bloodvessel under the cov- 
 ering membrane of the eye (conjunctiva), causing the 
 white of the eye to become blood-stained. 
 
 Veratrum. — Great exhaustion, cold perspiration, invol- 
 untary escape of urine during the cough ; pains in the 
 abdomen and groin ; anxious expression. 
 
 Magnesia phos. is sometimes almost specific. If no 
 other remedy seems specially indicated, give a small 
 powder, size of a pea, every two to three hours. 
 
 Ferrum phos. and Bryonia should be given when 
 there is danger of bronchitis or lung fever, of which 
 there is danger, if not carefully guarded against. 
 
 Accessory Means. — In warm, fine weather, the pa- 
 tient may remain in the open air during a portion of 
 each day; but if there is fever present, the patient must 
 remain in the house, and, so long as the fever lasts, in 
 bed. If the paroxysms are very distressing and fre- 
 quent, considerable relief can often be obtained from 
 inhaling the steam of cresolin or carbolic acid, a few 
 drops of either being put into an atomizer, and the room 
 impregnated. But it is a disagreeable procedure and 
 not always necessary. Exposure to damp and draughts 
 should be strictly avoided ; also fits of anger, as they 
 add to the violence and frequency of the paroxysms. 
 Infants should be watched constantly, taken up as soon 
 as a fit comes on, and placed in a favorable posture. In 
 obstinate cases, change of air, if only for a short dis- 
 tance, will prove of great utility. Frictions with olive 
 oil, or with simple liniment, over the chest and along 
 the spine, in a warmed room, are often palliative. 
 
88 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 Diet. — Light, digestible food only, in moderate quan- 
 tities, and shortly after the fits. Cold water is the best 
 beverage ; but for variety the following may be given 
 as required : barley-water, gum-water or toast and water 
 are grateful and somewhat nutritive. 
 
 16. — Mumps (Parotitis). 
 
 This complaint consists of inflammatory swelling of 
 the salivary glands, especially those below the ears, 
 frequently with pain, soreness and difficulty in moving 
 the jaws. A curious circumstance connected with this 
 disease is, that as the swelling of the neck and throat 
 subsides, there is liability to swelling and tenderness of 
 the testicles in the male, and the mammae in the fe- 
 male, especially when the swelling subsides suddenly, as 
 on exposure to cold or from cold applications. It is 
 contagious and painful, but not dangerous. 
 
 Treatment. — Mercurius is the first and chief remedy, 
 and is generally sufficient to effect a cure. A dose 
 three or four times daily. 
 
 Belladonna. — Severe pain, with a tendency to deli- 
 rium ; mumps following measles, or with an erysipela- 
 tous inflammation. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Useful when the breasts or testicles are 
 affected. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Frequent hot fomentations, cov- 
 ering the parts in the interval with a flannel bandage. 
 The patient should be protected from cold, damp or 
 excitement, as a liability to relapse remains for several 
 weeks. 
 
 If the testicles become swollen, apply hot Hamamelis 
 extract, and wrap up in a soft flannel. 
 
INFLUENZA. 89 
 
 17. — Influenza — The Grippe (Catarrhus Epidemicus). 
 
 This is an epidemic catarrh, and is so called from 
 the Italian word which means " influence," because it 
 arises from some peculiar condition or contamination 
 of the atmosphere. It most commonly attacks adults 
 of feeble resisting power. 
 
 Symptoms. — These differ but little from common 
 cold, except that the general debility is greater and more 
 persistent. There are chilliness, anxiety, heat, head- 
 ache, pain of the back and limbs, cough, nausea, suffu- 
 sion of the eyes, sneezing, and an acrid discharge from 
 the nostrils, with great depression of strength. 
 
 The most recent epidemic, that raged throughout 
 Europe, and to some extent in this country, was charac- 
 terized by very defined symptoms. As a rule, the at- 
 tacks set in rather suddenly, with aching and soreness 
 throughout the body ; patient feels as if beaten, as if 
 bones were broken, with rheumatic pains through the 
 joints everywhere, coming and going quickly. Sleep 
 restless, throat scrapy, dry, hot; head more or less dull 
 and aching ; very thirsty and restless. The cough sets 
 in later, with great soreness under the sternum ; every 
 time the patient coughs, it feels sore and raw. Sneezing 
 and coughing, great aching and prostration, are the chiej 
 symptoms. 
 
 Diet and Regimen. — Beef-tea, milk-punch and fari- 
 naceous food, with repose in bed, or confinement in a 
 room of uniform temperature. During fever, loss of 
 appetite, etc., toast-and-water or barley-water will be 
 more suitable, adopting, as the fever abates, a generous 
 diet. It is best to put the patient to bed. 
 
 Treatment. — The first remedv to be thought of is 
 
90 BLOOD DISEASES. 
 
 Gelsemium, which corresponds to the languor, feverish- 
 ness and headache and general malaise 
 
 Ferrum phos. — Fever, pain in joints and cough, sore 
 throat, muscular pains. 
 
 Bryonia may be alternated with it when above symp- 
 toms are present and every movement is painful and 
 the patient is very thirsty. 
 
 Rhus. — When, with all the soreness and lameness, 
 patient must move his limbs to get relief. 
 
 Euphrasia. — Congestion of nose, eyes and head ; 
 symptoms of coryza with much cough and expectora- 
 tion. 
 
 Arsenicum. — For great prostration, restlessness, much 
 fluid, burning discharge from nose ; thirsty, but patient 
 drinks very little at a time. 
 
 Administration. — Dissolve the remedy selected in 
 water, and take a dose every hour. 
 
 18. — Erysipelas — St. Anthony's Fire. 
 
 Symptoms. — Simple erysipelas, the variety treated 
 of here, is marked by a spreading, inflammatory red- 
 ness of the skin, with puffy swelling, tenderness, burn- 
 ing, and a painful sensation of tingling and tension. 
 The color of the skin varies from a light-red to a dark- 
 red or purplish color, becoming white under pressure, 
 but assuming its former appearance on removal of that 
 pressure. An attack is often ushered in with shiver- 
 ing, languor, headache, and sometimes nausea, vomit- 
 ing, or diarrhoea. 
 
 Causes. — Debility, and loss of resisting power from 
 disease ; the habitual use of stimulants ; exposure to 
 cold ; impaired digestion ; wounds ; badly ventilated 
 
ERYSIPELAS — ST. ANTHONY 's FIRE. 91 
 
 or crowded apartments ; and certain conditions of the 
 atmosphere. A recent wound or bruise is a chief exciting 
 cause ; neglect of cleanliness, intemperance, unwholesome 
 food and bad air are the predisposing causes. 
 
 Treatment. — Ferrum phos. — When there is much 
 fever. 
 
 Belladonna. — Severe, bright-red, smooth eruption, 
 with headache, thirst, constipation, thick urine, etc. 
 
 Apis, — Rapid swelling of the parts, stinging pain, 
 rosy hue of skin, scanty urine. 
 
 Rhus tox. — Vesicles (little bladders), whether on the 
 face or body, with swelling, shiny redness of the parts, 
 and restlessness. A dose every second or third hour. 
 
 Accessory Measures. — In mild cases, no external 
 application is required, unless fluid exudes, which may 
 be absorbed by dusting powdered starch or flour over 
 the surface. In severe cases, warm fomentations, and 
 afterward flour or fine starch, should be sprinkled over 
 the parts. Incisions, poultices and bandages may be 
 necessary, should matter form. 
 
 Diet. — Gum-water, barley-water, or pure water, to 
 allay thirst. Bad and tedious cases require beef-tea 
 and good nourishment at regular intervals and, subse- 
 quently, change of air. 
 
92 CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 GENERAL DISEASES.— (b) CONSTITUTIONAL 
 DISEASES. 
 
 19. — Acute Rheumatism — Rheumatic Fever — 
 and Chronic Rheumatism. 
 
 Symptoms. — Acute rheumatism sets in with general 
 febrile disorder, followed by acute inflammation of the 
 fibrous structures about one or more of the larger 
 joints — the shoulder, elbow, knee, ankle, etc. The 
 affected joints are swollen, tense, stiff, slightly red- 
 dened, very painful, and the pain is so increased by 
 movement that a patient often says he has lost the use 
 of the limb. The skin is hot, tawny in color, but 
 covered with a sour sweat, having an offensive odor; 
 the pulse is round and full ; the tongue is furred ; the 
 urine is highly colored and turbid when cool, and the 
 bowels generally confined. Palpitation and continued 
 pain in the heart are unfavorable symptoms. The in- 
 flammation is liable to metastasis from one joint to 
 another, or to other fibrous structures, as the pericardium 
 the valves of the heart, etc. (See also under " Gout") 
 
 Muscular rheumatism includes lumbago (see the 
 next section), pleurodynia or false pleurisy — rheumatism 
 of the muscles of the chest —crick in the neck — when 
 the cervical muscles are affected, etc. The treatment, 
 however, is nearly the same in the different varieties. 
 
 Causes. — Exposure to cold and wet ; sudden suppres- 
 sion of perspiration ; and especially evaporation from 
 wet clothes, causing chill, induce an altered condition 
 of the blood which produces pain. It occurs most fre- 
 
RHEUMATISM. 93 
 
 quently in young persons, from twenty to thirty years 
 of age, or younger. Joints which have been sprained, 
 long and excessively exercised, or otherwise impaired, 
 are particularly prone to suffer. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — Acute rheumatism, chiefly 
 at the commencement; violent shooting or tearing 
 pains, aggravated by touch ; swelling and redness of 
 the affected parts; impaired appetite; high-colored, 
 scanty urine, and other febrile symptoms. A dose 
 every second or third hour. 
 
 Ferrum phos. — For similar symptoms. Pain and 
 swelling of joints ; fever. 
 
 Bryonia. — Lancinating or stitching muscular pains, 
 ivorse on movement or touch; rheumatism affecting the 
 joints and muscles of the chest, with catching or pain- 
 ful breathing (false pleurisy). 
 
 Rhus tox. — Pains worse during rest, the patient con- 
 stantly turning about for ease, yet finding but little ; 
 deep, tearing, or bruised pains ; rheumatism from get- 
 ting wet, aggravated by damp or cold weather. 
 
 Mercurius. — Puffy swelling of the affected parts ; the 
 pains seem to be in the bones, and are worse with 
 warmth and at night; profuse perspiration without relief. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Wandering rheumatism; rheumatism re- 
 lieved by cold; sensation of torpor in the limbs; pale 
 face; diarrhoea, etc. 
 
 Calcarea phos. — Pain in joints at every change of 
 weather. Rheumatism in young people who are 
 developing. 
 
 Accessory Means. — During the fever, the patient 
 should remain in bed, and the diet be restricted to free 
 draughts of water, milk-and-water, barley-water, gruel, 
 etc. ^ranges, grapes, lemons, may be given ; but apples, 
 
94 CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. 
 
 pears and stone-fruit should be withheld. Warm baths 
 or hot compresses are both useful and comforting. 
 Wet-packing of the whole body (pp. 60, 61), or of the af- 
 fected parts, according to circumstances, is a most use- 
 ful adjunct. When the heart suffers, a hot linseed-meal 
 poultice or hot flannels should be frequently renewed 
 over the region. During convalescence great attention 
 must be paid to the joints ; they must be diligently 
 worked both by the patient and the nurse, and rubbed 
 with oil to prevent their becoming stiff. 
 
 Chronic Rheumatism. — Chronic rheumatism re- 
 quires similar remedies to the acute form, Bry. y Am., 
 Cimic, Phyto. y Merc, and Rhus tox. being the chief. 
 Persons liable to rheumatism should wear flannel and 
 warm clothing generally, and avoid damp and cold. 
 Warm-, salt-, vapor- or hot-air baths are useful. After 
 the use of warm bathing, cold should be gradually 
 tried, as it tends to prevent subsequent attacks. Turk- 
 ish baths, judiciously taken, are often efficacious. Fric- 
 tions with Arnica oil are beneficial in local and limited 
 forms of rheumatism. Errors in diet should be guarded 
 against, as attacks are very likely to follow derangement 
 of the digestive organs. 
 
 20. — Lumbago — Pains in the Loins. 
 
 Rheumatism of the muscles of the back, on one or 
 both sides of the loins the pain being increased by move- 
 ment of the back. 
 
 Tartar emetic. — Lumbago, the vertebrae feel as if they 
 rubbed against each other. 
 
 Rhus tox. — Chronic lumbago; pains worse during 
 repose, and at night; and when the disease has arisen 
 from getting wet. 
 
GOUT. 95 
 
 Cimicifuga. — Useful in a large number of cases ; espe- 
 cially when there is restlessness, with depression of 
 spirits. 
 
 Bryonia. — Intense pains, causing the patient to walk 
 stooping, increased by movement or a draught of air, 
 with shivering or biliousness. 
 
 Arnica oil, rubbed into the affected parts, is often 
 very useful. 
 
 21.— Gout (Podagra). 
 
 The ancient name of this blood disease — podagra, 
 foot-pain — indicates the parts usually first affected. 
 
 Causes. — Gout generally occurs in elderly persons 
 who live luxuriously, and suffer much from heartburn, 
 and other symptoms of acid dyspepsia. 
 
 Distinctions between Gout and Rheumatism. — 1. 
 Gout rarely occurs till about or after the middle period 
 of life; rheumatism attacks the young. 
 
 2. Gout chiefly affects the small joints — the metatarsal 
 joint of the great toe, for instance ; rheumatism the large 
 joints. 
 
 3. Gout is often associated with chalk-stones (urate of 
 soda) ; rheumatism is not. 
 
 4. Gout is decidedly hereditary ; rheumatism is less so. 
 
 5. Gout is not attended with profuse acid sweats; 
 rheumatism is. 
 
 6. Gout is often the punishment of the luxurious and 
 indolent; rheumatism is rather the lot of the hard-work- 
 ing and the exposed. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — Fever symptoms, especially 
 at the commencement, and in plethoric patients. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — May be alternated with Aeon, from the 
 
\)b CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. 
 
 commencement, or given alone when the joint has be- 
 come attacked. 
 
 Nux vomica. — Attacks traceable to stimulants or lux- 
 urious living, with indigestion or irregular action of the 
 bowels. 
 
 Bryonia. — Gout implicating the chest, or with bilious 
 symptoms ; pains increased by movement. 
 
 Natrum sulph. — Is the remedy for chronic gout. 
 
 Administration. — Dissolve the selected remedy in 
 water and give a teaspoonful of the solution every half 
 hour in acute cases ; in less acute, every two hours ; in 
 chronic, twice a day. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Flannels and application of heat 
 often give relief. The affected limb should be raised. 
 
 Preventive Treatment. — The patient should be 
 well nourished, but the consumption of animal food 
 diminished, and the tendency to acidity guarded against 
 by avoiding indigestible, saccharine, highly-seasoned or 
 greasy food, twice-cooked meat, raw vegetables, and 
 stimulants. Moderate and regular exercise should be 
 taken in the open air, and the sponge-bath every morn- 
 ing. Perspiration should be encouraged, with care that 
 it is not checked by chill. 
 
 22. — Phthisis Pulmonalis — Scrofulous Con- 
 sumption. 
 
 In cases of phthisis (from thio, to consume) there are 
 deposited in the lungs certain morbid bodies called tu- 
 bercles, in which the processes of suppuration and ulcer- 
 ation are set up. Although no period of life is exempt, 
 phthisis is most frequent in the course of youth, espe- 
 cially from the eighteenth to the twenty-second year, 
 
m PHTHISIS. 97 
 
 and, of all the diseases that claim our attention, is the 
 one that proves the most destructive of human life. 
 When once fully developed, it is generally supposed to 
 be incurable ; but in the early stages of the disease, 
 while the tubercles are yet small, and but slight irrita- 
 tion has been set up, our preventive and remedial 
 measures may be employed with much hope of success. 
 
 Symptoms. — The early symptoms of consumption are 
 obscure, and consist chiefly of chronic hoarseness; 
 cough ; shortness of breath on moderate exertion ; wan- 
 dering, irregular pains, and constriction about the chest ; 
 excessive sensitiveness of the lungs to cold air ; impaired 
 digestion ; debility and loss of flesh without any assign- 
 able cause ; haemoptysis ; flushing of the cheeks, and 
 quickening of the pulse in the evening, followed by dis- 
 turbed sleep and early morning perspirations. 
 
 Spitting or coughing up of blood often takes place, 
 and usually gives the first intimation of the real nature 
 of the malady ; its occurrence before or soon after the 
 setting in of a cough always indicates danger. As the 
 disease advances, breathing becomes very distressing, 
 the sputa more purulent, and exhaustion and emacia- 
 tion, from impairment of the digestive functions, are 
 now confirmed and progressive symptoms. From thick- 
 ening or ulceration of the respiratory mucous mem- 
 brane, huskiness or loss of voice is produced. Other 
 organs often become implicated, especially the intestinal 
 canal, in which a deposit of tubercles takes place, pro- 
 ducing diarrhoea. The skin covering the parts on 
 which the patient lies is apt to become sore and in- 
 flamed, and even to perish from the pressure of the 
 attenuated body. Apathx (little ulcers) of the mouth, 
 pharynx, etc., or swelling of the feet, ankles, and even 
 7 
 
98 CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. 
 
 legs, ensue, and the long and weary struggle is at last 
 terminated by the gentle approach of death. 
 
 The 'physical signs observed by auscultation and percus- 
 sion tend to remove that uncertainty which formerly 
 prevailed on the subject; but as these signs can only 
 be appreciated and interpreted by a medical man, they 
 are not further referred to in this work. All doubtful 
 cases should be early submitted to professional homoeo- 
 pathic treatment. 
 
 Causes. — Tubercular phthisis is generally hereditary; 
 it may arise-in early life from an enfeebled condition of 
 the system induced by a confined and impure atmos- 
 phere, unhealthy or too prolonged occupations, innutri- 
 tious food, anxiety, etc., to which an hereditary predis- 
 position and the scrofulous constitution powerfully 
 contribute. 
 
 Tkeatment. — Where tubercles exist in the lungs, 
 either in a latent or partially developed state, we 
 strongly recommend the following measures : 
 
 1st. — Highly nutritious and easily digestible food. The 
 diet should be nourishing, digestible and sufficiently 
 abundant, including animal food once or twice daily, or 
 occasionally fish, stale home-made or brown bread, far- 
 inaceous puddings, green vegetables, mealy potatoes, 
 milk, lightly boiled eggs, etc. Condiments, pastry and 
 all articles of food that occasion nausea, eructations, or 
 other symptoms of indigestion, are to be avoided. The 
 diet should include Cod-liver oil, in small quantities. 
 The continued use of oil, judiciously given, controls 
 the expectoration and night-sweats, soothes the cough 
 and checks emaciation. 
 
 Cod-Liver Oil. — Cod-liver oil is an agent of great 
 value in the treatment of many constitutional diseases, 
 
PHTHISIS. 99 
 
 especially for the one under consideration. That kind 
 of oil should be chosen which the patient finds most 
 easy of digestion. A teaspoonful, once or twice daily, 
 taken before, after or between meals, as may prove 
 most agreeable, is generally sufficient, especially at the 
 commencement ; and, by slightly warming the oil, or 
 taking after it a lump of sugar on which a drop of some 
 essential oil has been placed, or some coffee, or orange- 
 wine, etc., the unpalatableness may be in great measure 
 removed. Inunction over the chest and between the 
 shoulders is also generally beneficial. 
 
 Kumyss, or fermented milk, is very beneficial and 
 generally liked by the patient. It may be used alone 
 to the exclusion of all other food, or can be taken at 
 any time when the patient desires it. 
 
 2d. — Daily exercise in the open air, employed in such a 
 manner as to bring all the muscles — especially those of 
 the chest and upper extremities — into moderate and 
 agreeable action, and with the body in an erect posture, 
 as in walking. Riding on horseback is also favorable, 
 as affording a large amount of fresh air, the exercise 
 not exciting great difficulty of breathing. In unfavor- 
 able weather, some of the well-contrived apparatus for 
 arm and back exercise, especially that of the cross-bar, 
 should be used in the house, with open windows. 
 
 3rd. — Bathing, followed by vigorous friction, by 
 means of a bath-sheet, is an important measure, and, ex- 
 cept in confirmed consumption, is generally beneficial. 
 The water may be applied in the form of baths, spong- 
 ing or wet-sheets, and may even include sea-bathing. 
 Weak children or delicate patients may use tepid water, 
 and gradually reduce the temperature. When admis- 
 sible, the best plan is rapidly to plunge a child in water, 
 
100 CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. 
 
 which obviates the exposure consequent on sponging, 
 and insures a quick and complete reaction. A healthy 
 action of the skin will thus be promoted, and the gene- 
 ral circulation equalized. But cold bathing is injurious 
 when the surface is rendered cold and pale, and the patient 
 is left languid and dejected. In such a case, warm salt 
 baths should be first used. In consumptive cases, spong- 
 ing the patient every morning with one part of vinegar 
 to six parts of hot water is most agreeable as well as 
 refreshing. 
 
 4th. — Residence in a moderately warm climate. Warm 
 air soothes the trachea and bronchial tubes, and the ex- 
 ternal warmth tends to keep the blood to the surface of 
 the body, and so obviates congestion of the lungs ; and, 
 further, the warm air being rarefied, less oxygen is in- 
 spired, and less carbonic acid given off, so that less vig- 
 orous breathing is required; and, also, the liver, in the 
 warmer climates, seems to take on some of the offices 
 of the lungs. The climate, however, must be dry, as 
 damp is prejudicial. The writer is strongly convinced 
 that entire change of climate, if adopted before the dis- 
 ease has produced irreparable changes in the lungs, is 
 the most effective and permanent remedy. The climate 
 of many parts of California, Arizona, Florida, Victoria 
 in Australia, is probably the best to which a patient of 
 consumptive tendency can be sent ; but never send any 
 patient away from home and relatives in the last stages 
 of the disease. It is simply cruelty. 
 
 5th.— Lastly, all excesses are to be avoided, whether 
 in the pleasures of the table, wine or liquors, business, 
 intellectual pursuits, or in the gratification of any pas- 
 sion which overstimulates and fatigues the mind or 
 body. 
 
PHTHISIS. 101 
 
 By the early and persevering adoption of these sug- 
 gestions, and the administration of homoeopathic reme- 
 dies, much might be done toward the prevention of 
 consumption, as well as for the restoration to compara- 
 tive health of tuberculous persons. 
 
 We have often administered our remedies with 
 marked and permanent benefit to consumptive patients 
 but the treatment should always be conducted by a 
 physician. Experience in the treatment of a large 
 number of private and dispensary patients enables us 
 to encourage hope even in grave and complicated cases. 
 In the early stages of the disease, a cure can often be 
 effected; even when considerably advanced, life may 
 be prolonged for many years ; and in the last stages of 
 the disease, the patient's sufferings may be mitigated to 
 a marked degree. 
 
 Among the articles of diet may be mentioned the 
 various extracts of malt and maltine and especially 
 kumyss. Cod-liver oil is also of great importance where 
 it is well tolerated. It should be taken two or three 
 times a day immediately after food. When it is not tol- 
 erated Iodine given homceopathically will sometimes do 
 more than the cod-liver oil, which contains iodine. Also 
 suet and milk may be taken as a substitute. It is made 
 by simmering an ounce of finely chopped mutton suet 
 in a pint and a half of milk, until the whole is reduced 
 to one pint. Skim carefully and strain. It should be 
 taken warm, and makes an excellent supper. 
 
 Medicinal Treatment. — This will always be directed 
 by a homoeopathic physician when possible. Among the 
 most useful remedies are : 
 
 Calcareaphos., especially for incipient cases. Debility, 
 cough, hoarseness, night-sweat and diarrhoea are all 
 
102 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 
 
 benefited by it. May be given in powder, size of pea, 
 three times a day in warm milk. 
 
 Phosphorus. — Irritative cough, with expectoration of 
 mucus streaked with blood. 
 
 Ferrum phos. — Breathing short, oppressed and hurried, 
 accompanied by heat and feverishness. 
 
 (See also " Cough," " Hemorrhages" and " Clinical 
 Index.") 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 
 
 Nervous diseases have considerably increased of late 
 years throughout the civilized world. Undoubtedly 
 this is due to our modern ways of living ; the result 
 of the overtaxed energies and feverish excitement in 
 which great numbers live, and the large amount of 
 stimulants taken to sustain that excitement. It is not 
 overwork that kills, but worry. What is most needed 
 in the prevention and treatment of nervous troubles is 
 true temperance in all things ; a less selfish and anxious 
 pursuit of wealth ; daily exercise and recreation in the 
 open air; simple food, well prepared, and a release once 
 in a while from the hurry and bustle of daily business 
 life. 
 
 Looking to higher and more important things than 
 mere money-making will tend to be an effectual anti- 
 dote to many causes of nervous diseases. 
 
 23. — Epilepsy (Falling Sickness). 
 
 Symptoms. — Epilepsy means literally a seizure; for 
 often in a moment the patient falls to the ground with 
 
EPILEPSY. 103 
 
 sudden and complete loss of consciousness, struggling 
 and foaming; the eyes roll spasmodically, the teeth 
 are clenched, the tongue is often bitten, the breathing 
 is labored, and the face purplish and swollen. Some- 
 times a fit is preceded by depression of spirits, a 
 gloomy mood, drowsiness, or the aura epileptica, a 
 peculiar sensation, compared to a stream of warm or 
 cold air, the trickling of water, or the creeping of an 
 insect. It is followed by deep sleep, from which the 
 patient awakes with headache and sense of weariness. 
 
 Causes.— Hereditary tendency ; injuries or malforma- 
 tion of the head ; local irritation ; derangement of the 
 nervous or sexual system ; self-abuse ; fright, or fits of 
 rage; the irritation of worms; the sight of other epi- 
 leptics, etc. The evidence of hereditary tendency 
 exists in the fact that two or more cases of epilepsy 
 frequently occur in the same family, far more frequently 
 than it w r ould do if it were a mere coincidence. Still, 
 evidence of a local irritation as a cause should be 
 sought after, so that it may, if possible, be removed. 
 
 Treatment during a Fit. — Tight articles of clothing 
 must be loosened, particular care being taken that there 
 shall be no pressure on the vessels of the neck; the 
 patient should be placed in a cool, airy place ; the head 
 and trunk slightly raised ; a cork or linen pad placed 
 between the teeth to prevent the tongue, which should 
 be pushed back, from being bitten; and the patient 
 withheld as much as possible from injuring himself, 
 without restraining him beyond what is absolutely nec- 
 essary. Dashing the face with cold water and the appli- 
 cation of smelling-salts to the nose are of no advantage ; 
 the fit had better take its course. After it is over, the 
 patient should be allowed to sleep. 
 
104 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 
 
 Treatment between Fits. — Belladonna. — Great irrita- 
 bility of the nervous system, the patient starting at the 
 least noise ; convulsive movement of the muscles of the 
 mouth, face and limbs ; dilated pupils, fixed or con- 
 vulsed eyes, intolerance of light; stammering; con- 
 gestion of blood to the head ; and when an attack 
 commences with a sensation of crawling in the upper 
 extremities. 
 
 Ignatia. — Nervous, sensitive patients; when anxiety or 
 grief has been an exciting cause, and there are deep 
 sighs between or before attacks. 
 
 Nux vomica. — Indigestion; irregular action of the 
 bowels; great irritability between the fits; and the 
 patient takes too little open air exercise. 
 
 Opium. — Fits traceable to fright ; deep, lethargic sleep 
 between the paroxysms ; fullness of blood. 
 
 Chamomilla. — From gastric derangements in children ; 
 an attack is preceded by colicky pains, and followed 
 by stretching of the limbs, clenching of the thumbs, 
 sour vomitings, paleness of one cheek and redness of 
 the other. 
 
 Cina. — From the irritation of worms. 
 
 Sulphur. — Epilepsy following a suppressed eruption 
 or discharge; chronic cases; also as an intercurrent 
 remedy. 
 
 Administration. — For the premonitory symptoms, a 
 dose every one, two, or three hours ; during the inter- 
 vals, twice daily. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Regular exercise and amuse- 
 ments, but not carried to the point of fatigue. Many 
 attacks are brought on by errors in diet ; hence plain, 
 nourishing food, in moderate quantities ; cold ablutions 
 every morning. Patients with a tendency to plethora 
 
INFANTILE CONVULSIONS. 105 
 
 or congestion should wholly abstain from stimulants. 
 Bodily and mental fatigue, violent emotions, excesses 
 of every kind, more especially sexual, must be strictly 
 avoided. 
 
 24. — Infantile Convulsions. 
 
 Symptoms. — Unconsciousness, rolling of the eyes, 
 grinding of the teeth, clenched hands, contortions or 
 stiffness of the body and limbs; sometimes the face 
 is purplish, and the breathing labored. The attacks 
 terminate with trembling, chillness, paleness of the 
 face, and evacuation of the bladder and bowels, etc. 
 
 Causes. — Errors in diet ; unwholesome and indigest- 
 ible food; irritation of the brain from pressure of a 
 tooth upon an inflamed gum, or anything which over- 
 excites the nervous system ; disease of the brain ; an 
 insufficient supply of blood to the brain, as in badly-fed 
 children, or an impure supply of blood, as in the 
 eruptive fevers; the irritation of worms ; fright ; in 
 suckling infants, powerful emotions of the mother. The 
 remote causes are hereditary predisposition, etc. 
 
 Treatment. — The clothing about the neck, chest and 
 body should be loosened, the head raised, the face 
 sprinkled with water, and plenty of fresh air admitted. 
 A w T arm bath for about ten minutes, maintained at 98° 
 by additions of hot water, is generally advisable; at 
 the same time cold water should be gently poured on 
 the head for one or two minutes, or a towel squeezed 
 out of cold water applied to the head ; the child should 
 be quickly dried and wrapped in warm flannel or 
 blanket; then put to bed. A medical man should be 
 summoned if possible. 
 
 Belladonna. — Convulsions with determination of blood 
 
106 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 
 
 to, or inflammation of, the brain ; hot or flushed face ; 
 dilated pupils, ete. Bell, is especially useful in stout 
 children, and should be given early, and repeated every 
 five minutes for several times ; a drop of the tincture 
 in a teaspoonful of water, or a few pellets on the tongue. 
 Magnesia phos. may be given after a few doses of Bella- 
 donna, and generally suffices for all ordinary convulsive 
 attacks. 
 
 Chamomilla. — Spasmodic twitching of the eyelids and 
 muscles of the face, one cheek red and the other pale ; 
 clenched thumbs. It is most suitable for irritable 
 children, and in fits from disorders of the digestive 
 functions. 
 
 Opium. — Convulsions from fright, followed by stupor, 
 labored breathing, confined bowels. 
 
 Aconitum. — Fever — restlessness, flushed face — and 
 when convulsions are threatened. 
 
 Accessory Treatment. — Diarrhoea during dentition, 
 unless excessive, should not be interfered with. It may 
 be regarded as an effort of nature to relieve congestion 
 of the brain. " Keeping the head cool and the feet 
 warm," washing the patient in cold water daily, and 
 allowing him to be much in the open air tend to pre- 
 vent determination to the head. Purgatives are to be 
 avoided, and the bowels regulated by suitable diet or by 
 homoeopathic treatment. Costiveness in infancy is due 
 to errors in diet ; if obstinate, or if worms be present, 
 injections of water may be used. The mother or nurse 
 should abstain from all indigestible food. 
 
SPASMODIC CROUP. 107 
 
 25. — Spasmodic Croup — Child-Crowing {Laryn- 
 gismus Stridulus). 
 
 This affection is distinct from croup proper, described 
 further on, for it is a purely nervous disease, inducing 
 spasm of the glottis. It occurs at the youngest age, before 
 the end of the first dentition. 
 
 Symptoms. — It comes on suddenly, usually at night, 
 with a spasm of the muscles of the throat, so that the child 
 struggles to get his breath, with a choking noise, and 
 becomes livid in the lips. It generally occurs during 
 dentition or from irritation of the stomach and bowels, 
 occasioned by improper food or worms. Under proper 
 treatment, the attack usually soon passes off, but some- 
 times it is premonitory of disease of the brain. It is 
 distinguished from true croup by the absence of barking 
 cough, feverishness, anxiety of countenance .and distress 
 between the attacks. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum, in alternation with Spongia, 
 should be given every few minutes till improvement 
 ensues. 
 
 Gelsemium is an excellent remedy when the above do 
 not meet the case. 
 
 Administration. — The remedy may be given in drop- 
 doses in half a teaspoonful of water every ten minutes 
 for three or four times. After the attack is passed, the 
 medicine should be given three or four times a day, for 
 two or three days, to prevent subsequent attacks. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Fomentation to the throat, by 
 means of a sponge wrung out of hot water ; the warm 
 bath and the removal of any known exciting cause. 
 
108 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 
 
 26. — Headache. 
 
 Headache may be merely an incidental symptom of 
 a general disease, such as indigestion, common cold, 
 deranged menstruation, congestion or inflammation of 
 the brain, etc., or it may be a more or less local affec- 
 tion, resulting from some irritation of the cerebral 
 nerves. The treatment of chronic headache should be 
 regulated according to its cause, and be under the care 
 of a homoeopathic physician. Headache from conges- 
 tion or inflammation especially requires professional 
 treatment. 
 
 Treatment. — Belladonna. — Throbbing pains, shooting 
 from one point to another ; fullness, pressure and heavi- 
 ness above the eyes, aggravated by noise, light or mental 
 efforts ; congestion to the head, with redness of the face, 
 glistening of the eyes and excessive sensitiveness. A 
 dose every hour until relieved ; afterward less fre- 
 quently. Bell is often useful after, or alternately with, 
 Aeon. 
 
 Aconitum. — Heat in the head from excitement, and 
 aggravated by motion, with a sense of coldness in the 
 rest of the body ; sensation as of a tight band round the 
 head ; pain accompanied by swelling ; cold water to the 
 head gives relief. Much feverishness, restlessness and 
 anxiety call for it. 
 
 Iris. — Sick-headache, with much vomiting of bile, 
 pain in the forehead and right side of head, aggravated 
 by movement. 
 
 Nux vomica. — Headache from intoxicating drinks, 
 sedentary habits, too close attention to business ; stupe- 
 fying headache with giddiness and heaviness in the 
 morning after unrefreshing sleep, or after meals, with 
 
HEADACHE. 109 
 
 other symptoms of indigestion. It is well indicatad 
 by a dark, bilious complexion, irritable disposition, and 
 irregular action of the bowels. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — From rich food, with acidity, heaviness 
 of the head, pain on one side of it, shooting into the 
 ears, paleness, fretfulness, and shiverings. Also in 
 women from suppressed period. 
 
 Bryonia. — From cold, most troublesome in the morn- 
 ing, or after a meal ; digging or tearing pains, and a 
 feeling as if the contents of the head would protrude 
 on stooping. Rheumatic headache ; headache during hot 
 weather ; also with bleeding of the nose, or torpor of 
 the bowels. 
 
 Ferritin phos. — Headaches of children. Throbbing 
 pain, red face, pain worse stooping or moving. 
 
 Kali phos. — Xervous headache, hysterical mood, very 
 sensitive. Headache of students. Gone feeling in 
 stomach. 
 
 Nabrum mur. — Chronic and sick-headaches ; men- 
 strual headache ; for school-girls who apply themselves 
 too closely ; with constipation. 
 
 Preventive Treatment. — -An attack of headache 
 may sometimes be warded off by a dose or two of Nuz 
 vomica (if from indigestion), or of Aconitum (if from 
 catarrh), if taken immediately the first symptoms are 
 observed. 
 
 Accessory Means. — The hands and feet should be 
 plunged in hot water for ten minutes ; the temples 
 bathed with vinegar and spirits of wine in equal parts ; 
 food should be abstained from for a time to give the 
 stomach rest and quiet the nerves, if the headache be 
 brought on by dietetic errors ; simple nourishing food 
 should be taken frequently, if the headache be nervous. 
 
110 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 
 
 General Treatment. — The cause should, if possible, 
 be ascertained and removed. In cases of difficulty, an 
 observant physician can generally detect the cause, and 
 almost as often point out the cure. Highly stimulat- 
 ing food and drink, especially spirits, strong tea and 
 coffee, should be avoided ; there should also be regular- 
 ity of meals, adaptation of clothing to the changes of 
 the seasons, a healthy action of the bowels, and a suffi- 
 cient amount of daily open-air recreation. 
 
 27. — Sick-Headache. 
 
 This, the headache of indigestion, is often errone- 
 ously called bilious headache. 
 
 Symptoms. — Giddiness, dizziness, swimming in the 
 head, sickness, etc. The headache is stupefying or 
 agonizing, generally commences in the morning, and is 
 often confined to one spot on the side of the head, on 
 the forehead or over the eye. 
 
 Causes. — Errors of diet ; indulgence in wine ; seden- 
 tary habits ; or may occur in a person whose digestion 
 has been previously impaired without any immediate 
 dietetic infraction. 
 
 Treatment. — See the preceding section, and also 
 that on " Indigestion." 
 
 The chief remedies are Nux and Iris. Take a dose of 
 each in alternation every half hour ; w T hen better, not 
 so often. After the acute attack it is advisable to take 
 the remedy corresponding to the general state of the 
 patient every night on going to bed. Very often, one 
 of the Tissue Remedies will be found to be needed for 
 the radical cure of the disorder. Among these consult 
 Calcarea phos., Natrum mur., Ferrum phos. and Kali phos. 
 
INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. Ill 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 DISEASES OF THE EYES, EARS AND NOSE. 
 
 28. — Inflammation of the Eyes (Ophthalmia). 
 
 Ophthalmia is a general term for inflammation of 
 the mucous membrane which lines the eyelids and the 
 front part of the eyeball. There are several varieties, 
 such as catarrhal ophthalmia, from cold ; strumous oph- 
 thalmia, from a scrofulous habit, marked by an extreme 
 intolerance of light, etc. 
 
 Symptoms. — Soreness in the ball of the eye, sensation 
 as of sand under the lids, redness of the eyes, with 
 swelling of the vessels, itching and shooting pains, pus- 
 tules and scales on the lids ; the pains increase in the 
 evening and on exposure to cold, and there is aggluti- 
 nation in the morning. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconite. — Acute inflammation of the 
 eyes of any kind, especially after injuries or operations. 
 
 Arnica. — Inflammation from external injuries. It may 
 be used both internally and externally. 
 
 Belladonna. — Pain, redness and swelling ; throbbing in 
 the temples ; flushed cheeks, glistening eyes and intoler- 
 ance of light. 
 
 Calcarea carb. — Chronic ophthalmia in scrofulous de- 
 bilitated children ; secretion of mucus, causing the lids 
 to stick together in the morning. 
 
 Hepar sulph. — Chronic scrofulous ophthalmia, espe- 
 cially if much Calomel has been administered. It is 
 generally most beneficial after the acute symptoms have 
 yielded to such remedies as Aeon, and Bell. 
 
 Sulphur. — Frequent relapses in scrofulous persons ; or 
 
112 DISEASES OF THE EYES. 
 
 it may follow other remedies after the more urgent 
 symptoms have subsided. 
 
 Accessory Measures. — If inflammation has been 
 caused by sand, dust, lime, flies or hairs of the lids, 
 the irritating body should be immediately removed; 
 and if the inflammation be considerable, a shade should 
 be worn. Strong light, wind, and cold air should be 
 avoided. To prevent the eyelids from being cemented 
 together in the morning the margins of the lids should 
 be gently smeared with a little olive oil by means of a 
 camel's hair brush, or with simple cerate, or vaseline, 
 at bedtime. Except the Calendula lotion, the only further 
 local application admissible in domestic practice is a 
 piece of lint wetted with tepid or cold water. Patients 
 in crowded and unhealthy towns should remove for a 
 time to the country, where they can take daily out-of- 
 door exercise in a pure and bracing air. The food 
 should be plain and nourishing, the habits early and 
 regular, and frequent bathing should be practiced. 
 Chronic, especially strumous ophthalmia requires Cod- 
 liver oil Persons predisposed to ophthalmia should 
 guard against exposures to the wind. 
 
 29. — Stye on the Eyelids {Hordeolum). 
 
 The stye is a little boil projecting from the margin 
 of the eyelids, causing pain till relieved by the escape 
 of matter. 
 
 Treatment. — Pulsatilla is the chief remedy and the 
 the first to be used, unless considerable inflammation 
 exists, when it may be preceded by one or two doses of 
 Aeon. But Puis, will not prevent a tendency to its re- 
 turn. For this purpose we give 
 
 Silicea. — Patients predisposed to styes. 
 
INFLAMMATION OF THE EARS. 113 
 
 Administration. — In acute cases, every three hours ; 
 in chronic cases, morning and night. 
 
 Auxiliary Treatment. — Fomentations of tepid 
 water; if pus forms, a bread-and- water poultice at 
 night. The eyes should rest, and be protected from a 
 strong light, especially from gaslight. 
 
 30.— Inflammation of the Ears (Otitis) — Earache 
 (Otalgia). 
 
 Symptoms. — Sudden pain, sometimes so acute as to 
 cause delirium ; tenderness and soreness ; unnatural 
 noises ; deafness or morbid sensibility to sound ; more 
 or less redness and swelling of the ear-passage ; flush- 
 ing of the face on the affected side. 
 
 Causes. — Cold currents; imperfectly drying the ear 
 after washing; injudicious bathing; probing or syring- 
 ing an inflamed ear. Inflammatory affections of the 
 ear frequently follow the eruptive fevers in strumous 
 children. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — Recent inflammation from 
 cold. 
 
 Belladonna. — Tearing pains in the head, with ten- 
 dency to delirium. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Sticking or tearing pains in and behind 
 the ear, swelling and a feeling as if the ear were closed. 
 It is specially suited to the earache of children, and after 
 the inflammatory symptoms have been controlled by 
 the former remedies. 
 
 Chamornilla. — Earache from cold or suppressed perspi- 
 ration; stabbing, tearing pains in the ears; extreme 
 sensitiveness and irritability. 
 
 Mercurius. — Pains in the ear extending to the cheeks 
 and teeth ; discharge ; swelling of the glands, etc. 
 8 
 
114 DISEASES OF THE EARS. 
 
 Sulphur. — After the use of other remedies, as an in- 
 termediate one, or to complete the cure. 
 
 Dose and Administration. — See p. 53. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Hot fomentations, poultices, or 
 the steam of hot water, to mitigate the pain. Cotton 
 wool should be put in the ear for a short time after- 
 ward to avert cold. 
 
 31. — Discharge from the Ears (Otorrhea). 
 
 This disease is commonly met with in scrofulous 
 children, and, if not soon amenable to the remedies, 
 should be treated professionally. 
 
 Treatment. — Mercurius. — Thick, bloody or fetid dis- 
 charge; tearing pains in the side of the head or face; 
 snivelling and tenderness of the glands about the ear ; also 
 when the complaint follows scarlatina, measles, small- 
 pox, etc. A dose thrice daily. 
 
 Hepar sulph. is preferable if the patient has been 
 dosed with Mercury. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Simple discharge from the ear, with deaf- 
 ness, in non-scrofulous children. 
 
 Calcarea phos. — Tedious cases in strumous children. 
 
 Kali mur. may be given after Mercurius or Pulsatilla, 
 a dose morning and evening, for one week. 
 
 Accessory Measures. — Change of air is often neces- 
 sary ; county air, in a dry, salubrious district; or, in the 
 autumnal months, sea air is generally of marked utility. 
 Cod-liver ml is also strongly recommended. 
 
 32.— Deafness (Surditas). 
 Causes. — Deafness is generally a symptom of some 
 other disorder, such as inflammation of the ears, severe 
 cold 5 glandular enlargement or chronic disease of the 
 
BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE. 115 
 
 ear. It may also be occasioned by loud noises or by 
 the accumulation of ear-wax or other substances lodged 
 in the ear-passage. 
 
 Treatment. — Deafness of recent date may generally 
 be quickly cured by skillful homoeopathic treatment; 
 long-standing cases are often obstinate. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Recent deafness from cold, with noises in 
 the ears. 
 
 Mercurius. — Catarrhal deafness, with swollen glands of 
 the neck and throat; suddenly suppressed discharge 
 from the nose and ears ; roaring and buzzing sounds in 
 the head. Also deafness after smallpox. 
 
 Phosphorus. — Deafness of nervous patients, or following 
 any nervous disorder. 
 
 Administration. — In recent cases, a dose every four 
 hours ; in chronic, twice daily. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Hard ear-wax, or any foreign 
 substance, causing deafness, should be early removed 
 by skillful hands, after first gently syringing the ear with 
 warm water. All nostrums, to be dropped into the ear, 
 should be eschewed. Mullein oil may be dropped on a 
 little cotton and inserted at bedtime. 
 
 Ferrum phos. and Kali mur. may be given when no 
 other remedies seem to be indicated. They will benefit 
 a large proportion of cases of catarrhal deafness. Take 
 a powder morning and evening, alternating every week. 
 
 33. — Bleeding from the Nose (Epistaxis). 
 Bleeding from the nose is of frequent occurrence in 
 children, a fit of sneezing or coughing, a slight blow, 
 severe exercise or even the heat of summer often serv- 
 ing as the exciting cause. Bleeding from the nose also 
 occurs in the course of many diseases, or at their termi- 
 
116 DISEASES OF THE NOSE. 
 
 nation, and often affords considerable relief. It should 
 not be interfered with unless it is excessive, recurs too 
 frequently, or takes place under a weak state of the sys- 
 tem. When it arises from injuries, or in patients 
 already reduced by disease, and is excessive, remedies 
 are necessary. 
 
 Causes. — Undue fullness of the bloodvessels of the 
 head ; local disease of the nostrils, or a constitutional 
 hemorrhagic diathesis. In men it frequently succeeds 
 suppression of hemorrhoidal discharge, and in young 
 women it may be vicarious of the menstrual function. 
 Under peculiar conditions of the constitution, epistaxis 
 often occurs periodically in some adult persons, and 
 then its cessation, without judicious treatment, may be- 
 come a source of danger. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — Bleeding after being over- 
 heated, or in plethoric persons, with fever, strong pulsa- 
 tions of the arteries of the temples and neck, and full, 
 hurried pulse. A dose every fifteen or twenty minutes 
 during the bleeding. 
 
 Belladonna. — With flushed face and congestion to the 
 head. 
 
 Bryonia. — Coming on every morning. 
 
 Arnica. — Hemorrhage from violence — a blow, fall or 
 excessive bodily exertion — preceded by heat and itch- 
 ing of the nose. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — In females, from suppressed or scanty 
 monthly discharge. (See also Bryonia.) 
 
 China. — If the loss of blood has been such as to 
 weaken the patient, producing paleness, fainting, etc., a 
 dose three or four times daily for a week or ten days. At 
 the same time the food should be nourishing and taken 
 at regular hours, avoiding, of course, overrepletion. 
 
BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE. 117 
 
 Ferrum phos. may be given morning and evening for 
 a week after an attack, should the patient be subject to 
 them. It will prevent their recurrence. 
 
 Accessory Measures. — So long as the hemorrhage 
 continues, the patient should be kept standing, as that 
 posture favors fainting, which is often nature's mode of 
 cure. If the hemorrhage has caused debility, a nour- 
 ishing but digestible diet is necessary. 
 
 Cold is a most successful means of arresting hemor- 
 rhage ; it may be applied to the nose or forehead by a 
 handkerchief wetted in cold water, or by ice, or by the 
 sudden application of cold water to the neck or back, 
 or by placing a cold key or any other iron instrument 
 to the spine. In these latter instances the influence of 
 cold is not restricted to the part to which it is immedi- 
 ately applied ; the bleeding is arrested by the sympa- 
 thetic constriction of the bloodvessels which it pro- 
 duces in remote parts. In most cases, however, the 
 simple plan of causing the patient to raise his arms 
 above his head, and holding them so for a little time, 
 promptly arrests hemorrhage. 
 
 All stimulating food and drink must be withheld, 
 and every circumstance likely to quicken the circulation 
 avoided. 
 
 Plethoric patients, predisposed to this complaint or 
 to congestions, should lead a temperate life, avoid stim- 
 ulants, use frequent ablutions of cold water, and take 
 moderate exercise daily in the open air, avoiding, at the 
 same time, sudden changes of temperature. Immoder- 
 ate exertion, fatigue and much stooping are injurious. 
 
118 DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 
 
 34. — Croup (Angina Trachealis). 
 
 Croup proper is inflammation of the mucous membrane 
 of the larynx and trachea, with swelling from effusion into 
 their tissue. There is probably no real membranous 
 formation, as in diphtheria, but only a secretion of 
 tenacious mucus. Croup is a serious and dangerous 
 disease, as death may occur suddenly from convul- 
 sions, spasm of the glottis, exhaustion, the formation 
 of a coagulum in the heart, or from the excessive 
 swelling of the lining of the windpipe, by which the 
 patient is choked. The disease should be placed under 
 the care of a professional Homoeopath as quickly as 
 possible. 
 
 Symptoms. — It begins as a catarrh, with a peculiar 
 barking cough; and afterward, usually at night, the 
 symptoms become aggravated, with paroxysms of 
 dyspnoea, rapid breathing, quick, wiry pulse, thirst, 
 hoarse voice, loud brazen cough, and great distress, the 
 child throwing its head back to put the windpipe on the 
 stretch. The metallic ringing sound, heard in the 
 inspiration and cough, has been compared to the crow- 
 ing of a young cock, or to the barking of a puppy. 
 The disease is often fatal in from two to four days. 
 
 True croup is less frequent than spasmodic croup (p. 
 107), and generally occurs in the period between the 
 first dentition and puberty. Remember that the more 
 sudden and violent the attack, the less danger of its 
 being true croup. It is most likely only spasmodic 
 
CROUP. 119 
 
 croup, and the child will get oyer the attack in the 
 course of an hour or two, although likely to have 
 another attack the next night. But should the attack 
 come on gradually and insidiously, and the child 
 remain markedly hoarse, and show fever during the 
 day, you must be on your guard, and obtain the advice 
 of a physician. 
 
 Causes. — Damp and unhealthy situations ; sudden 
 changes of temperature ; wet feet ; poor or scanty food 
 or clothing ; previous illness, etc. One attack "oredis- 
 poses to another. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — Great heat, thirst, short dry 
 cough, and difficult breathing. Aconite is often of price- 
 less value in the early stage of the disease ; if indicated, 
 it may be given in alternation w T ith one of the following 
 remedies : 
 
 Spongia. — If Aconite produce perspiration ; but if the 
 difficult breathing continue, Spongia should be substi- 
 tuted, particularly if the breathing be labored, loud and 
 wheezing, and the cough hoarse, hollow, barking or whist- 
 ling, and worse toward evening, the patient looking 
 anxious, pale, and as if he would be suffocated. 
 
 Hepar sulph. — Loose cough, having the ringing or 
 brassy sound peculiar to croup, with a constant rattling 
 in the chest, during which the patient tries in vain to 
 get relief by expectoration. 
 
 Tartar emetic. — Loose, rattling cough, difficult respi- 
 ration ; patient is drowsy and sweaty. The homoeo- 
 pathic cough and croup syrup is a preparation of Tartar 
 emetic. It is an excellent thing to have on hand for 
 emergencies. When children wake suddenly at night 
 and begin with a hoarse, barking cough and difficult 
 breathing, a few doses in rapid succession will generally 
 suffice. 
 
120 DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 
 
 Phosphorus and Carbo veg. are useful in removing the 
 hoarseness and cough which often remain after an 
 attack of croup. 
 
 Administration. — In severe cases, every fifteen or 
 thirty minutes ; in mild, or during convalescence, every 
 four or six hours. 
 
 Accessory Means. — A warm bath, and hot water 
 applications to the throat, are highly advantageous. 
 The feet should be kept warm, there should be no 
 strings or tight articles round the neck, and everything 
 avoided that would be likely to excite or irritate the 
 patient. During an attack, as a beverage, water only is 
 admissible. In convalescence, milk-and-water, arrow- 
 root, gruels, extract of meat, and, gradually, more sub- 
 stantial food. A change of air, especially to a dry, 
 healthy soil, hastens complete recovery. 
 
 35. — Cold in the Head — Catarrh (Coryzd). 
 
 This is a very common complaint, and often the pre- 
 cursor of serious and fatal diseases. It is the cause of 
 half our diseases. It consists of inflammation of the 
 mucous membrane of the air-passages of the nose, 
 throat, etc. 
 
 Symptoms. — It usually comes on with slight shiver- 
 ings, pain and a feeling of weight in the head, redness 
 of the eyes, obstruction of one or both nostrils, accom- 
 panied with a discharge of thin colorless, acrid mucus. 
 These symptoms are soon followed by sore throat, 
 hoarspr^ess, sneezing, dry cough, chilliness, general 
 weakness, more or less fever, quick pulse, and loss of 
 appetite. 
 
 Causes. — Exposure to wet, cold winds, draughts, 
 changes of temperature, insufficient plothing, and 
 
COLD IN THE HEAD. 121 
 
 especially deficient warmth when the body is cooling after 
 having been heated. A weak condition, an empty- 
 stomach and a disordered stomach are predisposing 
 causes. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — This is a remedy of great 
 power, and undoubtedly surpasses every other in effi- 
 cacy at the beginning of a cold, or in the precursory 
 6tages of all diseases resulting from a cold. If appro- 
 priately and early administered, it will generally re- 
 move all the morbid symptoms consequent on cold, 
 and so obviate the necessity for any other medicine ; a 
 dose every second or third hour. If the cold has re- 
 sulted in any of the diseases so often following it, Aeon. 
 may be alternated with, or substituted by, one of the 
 annexed, or some other remedy, according to the direc- 
 tions given in other parts of this Manual. 
 
 Camphor. — This remedy is only suited to the chill or 
 cold stage, when its prompt administration in two-drop 
 doses, every half hour or hour, repeated several times, 
 will often terminate the disease in the first stage. It 
 should be chosen in preference to Aeon, during the 
 chill stage, and especially if the patient has still to be 
 exposed to changes of temperature. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Coryza, with copious, watery, acrid dis- 
 charge, and soreness of the surrounding parts, with great 
 lassitude ; especially for weak and wheezing patients. 
 
 Mercurius. — Running cold, with sneezing, soreness of 
 the nose, thick discharge, profuse perspiration ; sensitive- 
 ness to cold; and aggravation of symptoms toward 
 evening. 
 
 Nux vomica. — Sense of weight and pressure in the fore- 
 head; discharge during the day, and stoppage at night ; 
 "stuffy cold." 
 
122 DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 
 
 Pulsatilla.— In females or children, with loss of appe- 
 tite; diminished or perverted taste and smell ; much thick 
 yellow or green discharge from the nose ; heaviness and 
 confusion in the head, worse in the evening, or in a 
 warm room. 
 
 Accessory Measures. — Copious draughts of cold 
 water, and abstinence from solid food, when there is 
 much feverishness. The hot foot-bath (p. 60) may be 
 used before retiring to rest. 
 
 Prevention. — Persons liable to cold on slight expos- 
 ures should take a cold sponge-, shower-, or plunge- 
 bath, daily, at all seasons of the year. Delicate persons 
 may begin by using tepid water for a few days, grad- 
 ually lowering the temperature till the natural coldness 
 is reached. Except for constitutionally delicate persons, 
 the writer strongly deprecates the habit of washing in 
 warm water. Proper clothing, regulated by the season, 
 is of great importance for all, especially for children 
 and young girls. The feet should be kept dry and warm. 
 Warmth may generally be secured by free out-of-door 
 exercise, sharp walking, the use of the skipping-rope, 
 etc. The hardening process of out-of-door exercise in 
 warm clothing which protects the chest and abdomen, 
 should be gradual. Catarrhal, wheezing patients, going 
 out on a cold day, or passing from a warm to a cold 
 room, should keep the mouth shut, by breathing through 
 the nose. Cold cream applied to the nostrils will give 
 relief in dry, cold, windy weather. 
 
 Chronic Catarrh. 
 
 Calcareaphos. — An excellent remedy to begin the treat- 
 ment of chronic catarrh and to use it as an intercurrent 
 remedy after others have acted for some time. It has a 
 
HOARSENESS. 123 
 
 decidedly tonic action. Give a dose morning and 
 evening. 
 
 Kali bich. — Chronic catarrh, with hoarseness, tough 
 stringy sputa, chronically inflamed or ulcerated throat, 
 cough, etc. An additional indication is a concurrent 
 affection of the digestive mucous membrane. 
 
 Sulphur, — Chronic catarrh, with free discharge. 
 
 36. — Hoarseness. 
 
 Hoarseness is a frequent accompaniment of a common 
 cold, croup, consumption and other diseases ; it may 
 also follow the excessive use of the voice, as in reading, 
 speaking or singing. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — Dryness, roughness, and 
 sensation of fullness in the throat, with feverishness. 
 
 Belladonna. — Hoarseness, with sense of constriction and 
 rawness of the throat. 
 
 Phytolacca. — Catarrhal roughness, dryness, or inflam- 
 mation of the throat, with hoarseness. 
 
 Ferritin phos. — Hoarseness in those who use the voice 
 much, singers, etc. 
 
 Dulcamara. — Hoarseness from damp or wet 
 
 Arnica.— From excessive use of the voice. It may also 
 be used as a gargle (five drops of the strong tincture to 
 a wine-glass of cold water). 
 
 Hepar sulph. — Weak and hoarse voice; wheezing 
 breathing. It is indicated in old standing cases, and 
 when Mercury has been largely taken. 
 
 Carbo veg. — Obstinate chronic hoarseness, worse in 
 damp weather, after talking, and in the evening, and 
 for patients who have been dosed with Mercury. 
 
 Phosphorus. — Dryness and soreness of the throat and 
 chest, especially in the chronic form of the affection, 
 and for patients having a consumptive tendency. 
 
124 DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 
 
 37. — Bronchitis (Cold on the Chest). 
 
 Bronchitis — inflammation of the mucous lining of 
 the bronchial tubes — is a diffused disease, extending 
 more or less through both lungs, and differs from cold 
 or catarrh, which only affects the lining membrane of 
 the nose and throat. When the upper portion of the 
 chest is chiefly affected, patients often describe it as a 
 " cold in the chest." It most frequently occurs in old per- 
 sons, although it sometimes affects children. 
 
 Symptoms. — Acute bronchitis begins with febrile 
 symptoms — headache, lassitude, and anxiety — these 
 are soon attended with a feeling of tightness or con- 
 striction of the chest, especially the front portion ; op- 
 pressed, hurried, anxious breathing, with wheezing or 
 whistling sounds ; severe cough, at first dry, then with 
 viscid and frothy expectoration, and sometimes streaked 
 with blood, subsequently becoming thick, yellowish 
 and purulent. The pulse is frequent, often weak ; the 
 urine scanty and high-colored; the tongue foul; there 
 are throbbing pains in the forehead, and aching pains 
 in the eyes, aggravated by the cough, with other 
 symptoms of fever. The usual cause of death in bron- 
 chitis is the complete obstruction of the bronchial tubes 
 with an adhesive mucus resembling that expectorated 
 during life. The unfavorable symptoms are cold per- 
 spirations covering the skin ; pale and livid cheeks and 
 lips ; dry, brown tongue ; scanty urine ; cold extrem- 
 ities ; extreme prostration ; rattling, and a sense of suffo- 
 cation in the throat ; and complete insensibility, ending 
 in death. In favorable cases, however, the disease 
 begins to decline between the fourth and eighth day, 
 and under good treatment and management soon disap- 
 pears ; otherwise it is apt to assume the chronic form. 
 
BRONCHITIS. 125 
 
 Causes. — Exposure to cold draughts of air, to keen 
 and cutting winds, or sudden changes of temperature ; 
 insufficient clothing ; inhalations of dust or other irri- 
 tative substances. Bronchitis also arises during the 
 course of other diseases. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — A rapid and full pulse, hot 
 skin, frontal headache, palpitation of the heart, dizzi- 
 ness, constipation, and other febrile symptoms. A dose 
 every one or two hours till improvement takes place. 
 
 Ferrum phos. — May be alternated with or follow 
 Aconite, especially in the chest affections of children. 
 Breathing is short, oppressed and hurried, and there is 
 cough, generally dry. 
 
 Kali bich. — This remedy has great power in bron- 
 chitis, especially when chronic, with accumulations of 
 tenacious, stringy mucus, difficult to expectorate; cough 
 and dyspnoea. 
 
 Antimonium tart. — Most valuable in the second stage, 
 when there is much wheezing; with sickness induced by the 
 great accumulation of mucus ; and paroxysms of cough, 
 dyspnoea, palpitation, etc. Extremely valuable in the 
 bronchitis of children, with rattling of mucus in the 
 chest. Prostration, with perspiring skin, is a great in- 
 dication. 
 
 Bryonia. — Heat, soreness, and pain behind the sternum 
 (breast-bone), and irritative cough with scanty expecto- 
 ration, constituting a " cold on the chest." It is most 
 useful when the large air-tubes are involved, but less 
 so when the inflammation extends to the smaller, 
 where Ant. tart, is superior. Bryonia is very useful in 
 acute attacks of children, with suffocative cough, rapid 
 difficult breathing, great agitation and anxiety. Phos. 
 may also be considered. 
 
126 DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 
 
 Additional Remedies. — Ipec, Arsen., Bell, Carbo 
 veg., Merc, Spong. and Sulph. 
 
 Administration. — The selected remedy should be dis- 
 solved in a tumbler half full of water, and teaspoonful 
 doses given every hour until improvement sets in, then 
 less often. 
 
 Diet. — During an attack, gum-water, barley-gruel, 
 jelly, etc. ; but cold water or toast-water is the most 
 appropriate drink. In elderly or feeble patients, ex- 
 haustion is liable to come on, requiring nutritious and 
 frequent support, cod-liver oil, etc.; the latter is often 
 an important item in the treatment of bronchitis (pp. 
 98, 101). 
 
 Accessory Measures. — In acute cases, the patient 
 should be kept in a warm atmosphere (65 to 70 
 degrees), which should be moistened by steam emitted 
 from a kettle on the fire, or from a can of boiling water 
 at the bedside. Ventilation of the apartment, however, 
 should not be neglected. Hot linseed-meal poultices 
 applied to the chest are beneficial, as they relieve con- 
 gestion. 
 
 Chronic Bronchitis. 
 
 This form of bronchitis is common in advanced life. 
 The milder varieties are indicated only by habitual 
 cough, shortness of breath and copious expectoration. 
 Many cases of winter cough in old persons are exam- 
 ples of bronchial inflammation of a low type and pro- 
 tracted character. 
 
 Treatment. — Kali bich., Carbo veg., Bry., Arsen., 
 Phos., Hepar sulph., Ipec, Lye, Calc. and Sulph. Also 
 cod-liver oil. See under "Acute Bronchitis. " 
 
 Preventive Means. — Cold bathing in the morning is 
 
ASTHMA. 127 
 
 the first and most important, that form of bath being 
 adopted which is found most useful and convenient 
 (See " Bathing/' pp. 40, 99.) Another preventive is the 
 beard, which protects the respiratory passages against 
 the effects of sudden changes of temperature. The 
 beard and mustache are a kind of natural respirator, the 
 shaving off of which is a frequent cause of acute and 
 chronic bronchitis. Can we doubt the wisdom and 
 the beneficence of the Creator in giving this ornament 
 to the man, who is so frequently exposed to atmos- 
 pheric vicissitudes, and withholding from the woman, 
 who, as the keeper at home, requires no such appendage? 
 Hair is an imperfect conductor of both heat and cold, 
 and, placed around the entrance to the lungs, acts as a 
 blanket, which promotes warmth in cold weather and 
 prevents the dissolving of ice in hot weather. In many 
 instances, the hirsute appendages would protect lawyers, 
 clergymen or other public speakers and singers from 
 the injurious effects of rapid variations of the atmos- 
 phere, from which professional men so often suffer. 
 Acquiring the habit of keeping the mouth shut and breath- 
 ing through the nose, especially when exposed to cold 
 or damp air, is a great protection. This habit should 
 be taught in early life, and mothers should see that 
 their infant children sleep w^ith the mouth closed. 
 
 38. — Asthma. 
 
 This is a spasmodic disease, recurring in paroxysms, 
 characterized by great difficulty of breathing, a feeling 
 of tightness across the chest, wheezing cough, and often, 
 at the close of an attack, a discharge of phlegm. The 
 air-tubes of the lungs are encircled by minute bands 
 of muscular structure, which, like other muscular 
 
128 DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 
 
 fibers, may be affected by spasms. These spasms con- 
 tract the air-tubes, and the difficulty of breathing and 
 the wheezing respiration are caused by the air being 
 forced through the narrowed channels. 
 
 Symptoms. — An attack often comes on suddenly at 
 night or toward morning, attended with a distressing 
 sense of suffocation, the patient springing up, or even 
 flying to an open window, wheezing loudly, until 
 after an uncertain time, perhaps an hour, it passes 
 off with more or less expectoration of mucus. 
 
 Causes. — Atmospheric changes; smoke, dust, gases, 
 metallic and other particles floating in the air ; certain 
 odors, as of hay, Ipecacuanha or vapor of sulphur; 
 irregularities of diet, especially heavy suppers ; sexual 
 excesses and hereditary influence. It is not peculiar 
 to any age, children as well as adults being liable to it. 
 It is often the consequence of suppressed eruptions. 
 
 Treatment. — The treatment should be directed to 
 strengthening the organs during the intervals of attack, 
 and quickly relieving the acute symptoms during the 
 attack. 
 
 Ipecacuanha. — A feeling of tightness of the chest; 
 panting and rattling as if the windpipe were full of 
 phlegm ; coldness, "paleness, anxiety and sickness. Dur- 
 ing an attack, a dose every ten or fifteen minutes; 
 afterward every three or four hours. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Short, anxious, and wheezing breathing, 
 aggravated at night by lying down, and upon the least 
 movement ; with attacks of suffocation, spasmodic con- 
 striction of the chest, and pale, sunken or bluish face. 
 It is especially required in asthma from suppressed 
 eruptions, and in feeble and impoverished constitutions. 
 
 Antimonium tart. — Often loosens expectoration. 
 
INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 129 
 
 Nux vomica. — Suitable for robust persons, and for 
 attacks occurring about S or 4- o* clock in the morning, 
 or after a heavy meal, or for patients of too studious 
 habits, or addicted to stimulants. 
 
 Aconitum. — Often very useful during a paroxysm, with 
 tumultuous action of the heart, oppressive anxiety, la- 
 bored breathing, etc. 
 
 Xatrum sulph. — For the permanent cure of the mal- 
 ady, give a dose every night for a month, and then less 
 often. This remedy has cured many cases radically. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Holding the breath will some- 
 times break a spasm. Inhalation of steam, especially 
 if medicated with the appropriate remedy, affords re- 
 lief. The diet should be strictly moderate, simple and 
 digestible, as disorders of the stomach often occasion 
 an attack. Suppers are especially to be avoided. In 
 some cases the food should be weighed, the meal-hours 
 fixed and strictly adhered to. Drill and calisthenics 
 should be resorted to for the purpose of expanding the 
 chest. Cold sponging, with frictions, in the morning, 
 moderate and agreeable exercise in the open air, and a 
 strict avoidance of the usual exciting causes are to be 
 observed. The atmosphere best suited to the patient 
 depends entirely upon idiosyncrasy, as some can only 
 breathe in a mountain air and others only in the fogs 
 of London. 
 
 39. — Inflammation of the Lungs (Peri-jmeiimonia), 
 and Pleurisy {Pleuritis). 
 
 Pneumonia affects one or both lungs, or, in technical 
 
 terms, is single or double. The right lung is more 
 
 liable to inflammation than the left, and the lowei 
 
 lobes suffer oftener than the upper. In pleuriiis, the 
 
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130 DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 
 
 inflammation affects the pleura or serous membrane in- 
 vesting the lungs and lining the cavity of the thorax. 
 These diseases frequently co-exist, require similar med- 
 icines, and should be treated, if possible, by a homoe- 
 opathic practitioner. 
 
 Symptoms. — Shivering ; headache ; hard, wiry pulse, 
 about 100 in a minute, and other symptoms of fever; 
 the breathing is hurried, the patient refuses to take a 
 full breath, and inspiration is often interrupted by a 
 " stitch " or " catch," by a cough which is short and 
 painful, by lying on the affected side, and by pressure. 
 This is 'pleurisy. In pneumonia, the skin is burning, es- 
 pecially about the ribs and armpits ; there is no moist- 
 ure in the nostrils, and the eyes are tearless; the 
 breathing is much more hurried than in pleurisy, but 
 the only pain is of a dull, aching character ; the cough 
 is frequent and short, and there is spitting of tough, 
 rusty-colored phlegm, subsequently streaked with blood. 
 Favorable symptoms are less labored and frequent 
 breathing, freer expectoration, moister skin and tongue ; 
 also increased excretions from the bowels and bladder. 
 Unfavorable symptoms are small feeble pulse, cold, 
 clammy perspiration, rapid breathing, blue lips, foul 
 tongue, offensive breath, excessive debility and languor. 
 
 Causes. — Atmospheric changes, sudden checking of 
 the perspiration, mechanical injuries, etc. These dis- 
 eases often arise during the course of the eruptive and 
 other fevers. Feebleness of constitution- is often a pre- 
 disposing cause. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — Is pre-eminently suitable, 
 either alone or in turns with other remedies, whenever 
 inflammatory symptoms run high, and the secretory func- 
 tions are suspended. 
 
INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 131 
 
 Ferrum phos. — Especially in children, when there is 
 fever, dry cough or hurried respiration. Often advan- 
 tageously alternated with Bryonia. 
 
 Bryonia. — Labored, short, catching and rapid breath- 
 ing; stinging, shooting or burning pains in the side 
 aggravated by inspiration; the cough is painful, dry, or 
 with expectoration of glairy sputa ; the patient is irri- 
 table, restless, weary and disposed to retain the recum- 
 bent posture. Wants to keep perfectly still. 
 
 Phosphorus. — Severe sticking pains in the chest, 
 excited or increased by breathing or coughing; the 
 breathing is short, the cough dry, or accompanied by 
 rusty-colored expectoration. 
 
 Antimonium tart. — Greatly oppressed breathing ; cough 
 attended with much rattling of mucus ; nausea ; profuse 
 and difficult expectoration ; violent throbbings of the 
 heart and a feeling of suffocation. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Tedious cases with extreme prostration of 
 strength ; painfully oppressed breathing. 
 
 Sulphur. — When the prominent symptoms have 
 yielded to other remedies. 
 
 General Treatment. — See " Accessory Measures," 
 pp. 54-59. External applications of heat — hot flan- 
 nels, linseed-meal poultices, etc. — afford much relief. 
 Rubbing the chest and back with cod-liver oil or olive 
 oil nourishes and warms the patient. Plenty of fresh 
 air, at a temperature of not less than 65°, moistened 
 with steam, facilitates the action of the lungs. Diet 
 should at first be light, without stimulants; later on, 
 stimulants judiciously given may be necessary. Blood- 
 letting in every form must be avoided. 
 
132 DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 
 
 40.— Cough (Tussis). 
 
 Cough, like hoarseness, is rather a symptom of some 
 more general disease than a disease in itself. It is 
 often the forerunner or attendant of some of the most 
 fatal diseases of our climate, and should, therefore, 
 never be neglected. There are many varieties of cough, 
 but our prescriptions are only intended for such as are 
 common and uncomplicated. Cases that persist in 
 spite of one or more of the annexed remedies should 
 be regarded as too serious to be treated merely by the 
 aid of books. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum.- — A dry, hard cough, accom- 
 panied with inflammatory symptoms — flushed face, head- 
 ache, thirst, scanty urine, confined bowels, restlessness, 
 etc. 
 
 Ipecacuanha. — Irritating, nervous and spasmodic 
 cough, attended or followed by vomiting (also Droserd). 
 The chest is oppressed by the accumulation of mucus 
 in the air-vessels, rendering breathing difficult, almost 
 to suffocation. 
 
 Belladonna. — Short, dry, hollow, convulsive cough, 
 generally worse at night, in bed, excited by a sensation 
 of tickling in the throat, and accompanied by flushed 
 face and headache. 
 
 Dulcamara.- — Loose cough from getting wet, with much 
 phlegm and oppression at the chest. 
 
 Bryonia. — A hard, dry cough, attended with pain in 
 the side, chest and head ; cough aggravated by passing 
 from warm air to cold, or vice versa; loose cough, with 
 w T hite or yellow expectoration, sometimes streaked with 
 blood. 
 
 Hepar sulph.—* Irritating cough, with hoarseness an.d 
 
COUGH. 133 
 
 smarting of the throat, excited or aggravated by cold to 
 the surface of the body or exposure to atmospheric 
 changes. 
 
 Phosphorus, — Dry cough, excited by tickling in the 
 throat; hoarseness and pains or soreness in the chest, 
 with rusty-colored, bloody or 'purulent expectoration. 
 
 Ferrum phos. — Cough, especially in children; colds 
 on the chest; dry cough; hoarseness. 
 
 Kali mur. — Loud, noisy stomach-cough ; also croupy 
 cough. 
 
 Carbo veg. — Cough on taking the least cold ; obstinate 
 hoarseness or loss of voice. 
 
 Kali bich. — Cough, with very tough expectoration, pre- 
 ceded by great wheezing, with difficult breathing, and 
 followed by dizziness. 
 
 Sulphur. — Obstinate dry cough, with tightness in the 
 chest and retching ; loose cough, with expectoration of 
 whitish or yellowish mucus during the day, and dry 
 cough at night, attended with headache, spitting of 
 blood, etc. 
 
 Beverages. — Gum-water, barley-water and other mu- 
 cilaginous drinks, or, if preferred, simple cold water in 
 small quantities at frequent intervals are highly bene- 
 ficial in almost every variety of cough. 
 
 Preventives. — Cold bathing or sponging the whole 
 surface of the body every morning, as directed under 
 " Bathing. " Clothing adapted to the varying conditions 
 of the atmosphere. Exercise in the open air every day, 
 if possible, beyond the boundaries of a town or city. Fa- 
 miliarity with a free atmosphere affords a security 
 against excessive sensibility to variations of the weather. 
 Morning air is the best ; damp or confined air or the 
 air of crowded assemblies should be avoided. Here, 
 
134 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 again, keeping the mouth shut, and breathing through 
 the nose, is a great preventive, more especially when 
 irritability or tickling of the throat exists. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 41.— Thrush (Aphtha)— Frog. 
 
 Symptoms.— Small vesicles or white specks upon the 
 lining membrane of the month, sometimes so connected 
 as to form a continuous, dirty, diphtheritic-like cover- 
 ing over the tongue, gums, palate, etc. In some forms 
 of the disease microscopical parasitic plants are devel- 
 oped in the mucous membrane, which are readily trans- 
 ferred to the mother's nipples ; but they are never de- 
 veloped on the interior of the stomach or bowels, being 
 limited to those portions of the mucous membrane 
 which are lined with scaly epithelium. Severe diar- 
 rhoea, fever and other constitutional disturbances indi- 
 cate great peril. In adults the disease is the result of 
 some constitutional malady, as consumption, enteric 
 fever or senile decay ; it is then also always of grave 
 import. 
 
 Causes. — A delicate or strumous constitution ; insuf- 
 ficiency or unhealthy condition of the mother's milk, or 
 an unsuitable quantity or quality of food in infants fed 
 with the bottle or spoon ; general want of cleanliness ; 
 constitutional disease. 
 
 Treatment. — Borax. — The child's mouth should be 
 w T ashed with a weak solution of Borax (four grains to 
 
DISORDERS OF TEETHING. 135 
 
 half an ounce of glycerine and half an ounce of water), 
 by means of a soft brush or soft rag. It has a specific 
 power over this affection, and will cure it probably 
 quite as well if used internally only, and, if the disease 
 is limited to the mouth, without the aid of any other 
 remedy. After awhile it may lose its efficacy, and then 
 some other remedy must be resorted to. 
 
 Kali mur. — A dose every two hours should be the first 
 remedy given ; improvement will soon show itself. If 
 necessary, after a few days, recourse may be had to one 
 of the following remedies : 
 
 Mercurius. — Is indicated by dribbling saliva, diarrhoea, 
 offensive breath, etc.; if administered when the white 
 specks first appear, it is often alone sufficient. A dose 
 every six hours for several days. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Dark color of the eruption ; offensive odor 
 from the mouth; exhausting sickness and diarrhoea; great 
 debility. A dose every four hours. 
 
 Sulphur. — This remedy may follow any other, when 
 the latter does no further good ; when the thrush has 
 nearly subsided, to prevent a relapse ; and when there 
 are eruptions on the skin, or sour-smelling breath. 
 
 General Directions. — Cleanliness, ventilation, fresh 
 air and proper diet are essential. When thrush is due 
 to ill-health in the mother or nurse, the infant should 
 be at once weaned. 
 
 42. — Disorders of Teething (Dentition). 
 
 Teething is an important process in the development 
 of a child, and in delicate children is often accompa- 
 nied by various local and general symptoms of dis- 
 order, some of which are referred to under the follow- 
 ing remedies. Other complaints, such as constipation, 
 
136 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 diarrhoea, convulsions, etc., may be treated according 
 to the instructions given in this book, under those 
 headings. 
 
 Causes of Disordered Dentition. — Excessive quan- 
 tities of food, or improper food ; keeping the head too 
 hot; local affections of the gums; strumous constitu- 
 tion, etc. The period at which the milk-teeth appear 
 is important. Too early dentition taxes the constitu- 
 tion beyond its powers of endurance ; too late denti- 
 tion indicates a feeble scrofulous constitution. In the 
 latter cases, professional treatment should, if possible, 
 be obtained.* 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — Heat, redness, pain, swollen 
 gums, and restlessness. Aeon, is often invaluable dur- 
 ing detention. 
 
 Chamomilla. — This may follow Aeon, for dry cough ; 
 short breathing; fretfulness; flushed cheeks; loose, 
 green, or frothy stools. It is a sovereign remedy in 
 many of the ailments of dentition. 
 
 Coffea. — Morbid excitability, sleeplessness, restlessness 
 and frequent changes, especially in the absence of 
 fever. 
 
 Belladonna. — Congestion to the head, with redness of 
 the face and eyes; cerebral excitement; convulsive move- 
 ments of the limbs ; sleeping with the eyes partially 
 open ; child cries out, is hot and sweaty. 
 
 Calcarea phos. — Slow or late dentition, especially in 
 scrofulous children subject to looseness of the bowels 
 with loss of flesh and strength. This is the best general 
 remedy to give during the teething period. It will 
 
 * For fuller particulars regarding dentition, see the author's 
 "Diseases of Infan's an J Children." 
 
TOOTHACHE. 137 
 
 regulate the function and prevent many serious trou- 
 bles. Give a powder of the 3d trituration, about the 
 size of a pea, three times a day, either dry on the 
 tongue, or dissolved in the child's milk, or in a little 
 water. 
 
 Magnesia phos. — Colic, loose bowels, spasmodic symp- 
 toms. Often useful after Bell, and Cham. 
 
 Sllicea. — Similar symptoms to those of Calcarea, es- 
 pecially when dentition is tardy, though the teeth are 
 on the point of coming through. Like Calc, Sil. gener- 
 ally obviates the necessity for lancing the gums. It is 
 valuable for rickety children. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Bad hygienic habits affecting the 
 mother or child should be corrected. Out-of-door air is 
 necessary for both ; also regularity in the hours of 
 meals and sleep, and bathing or sponging of the whole 
 body daily. The child should be provided with an 
 elastic india-rubber ring to bite at. 
 
 43. — Toothache (Odontalgia). 
 
 Causes. — Decayed teeth, sudden changes of tempera- 
 ture, indigestion, pregnancy or general ill-health. Neu- 
 ralgic toothache occurs in paroxysms, and comes and 
 goes suddenly. 
 
 Treatment. — If strong Kreosote or Laudanum has 
 been used locally, the mouth should be thoroughly 
 cleansed before taking any of the medicines recom- 
 mended in this section. 
 
 Epitome of Treatment. — In this classification the 
 remedies are prescribed in the order in which they are 
 most frequently required : 
 
 1. From Cold. — Merc, Aeon, (from a draught) y Puis. 
 
 2. From Decayed Teeth. — Merc, Kreos. 
 
138 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 3. Nervous Toothache. — Cham., Coff. 
 
 4. Pains extending to neighboring Parts,- — Merc, Bell., 
 Puis. 
 
 5. With Swelling of the Face or Gums, — Cham., Merc, 
 Bell. 
 
 6. Toothache during Pregnancy, — Nux vom., Bell., Puis., 
 or Cham. 
 
 7. In Children, — Cham., Aeon., Calc 
 
 Leading Indications. — Mercurius, — Decayed teeth, 
 with tearing pains extending over the side of the face, 
 and to the glands and ears ; pains aggravated by eating 
 or drinking anything cold, or by cool or damp air; 
 swelling of the face, soreness of the gums, gumboils, 
 profuse flow of saliva, perspiration etc. 
 
 Aconitum, — Full-habited patients, with flushed face, 
 hot, swollen gums, thirst, restlessness. 
 
 Belladonna, — Drawing, lacerating, or shooting pains, 
 affecting several teeth, the ears, and side of the face, 
 worse at night, in the open air, or by contact ; determi- 
 nation of blood to the head, swelling of the cheek, etc 
 
 Chamomilla. — Toothache from a draught, suppressed 
 perspirations, or from mental emotions; jerking, shoot- 
 ing, violent pains, which affect the ear on one side of 
 the face, are worse at night after eating, and after taking 
 anything hot ; agitation and restlessness ; swelling and 
 flushing of one cheek with paleness of the other. 
 Especially suited to the tootliache of children. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Throbbing or digging pains, extending 
 from the decayed tooth to the eye, with semilateral 
 headache ; the pains are worse in a warm room,, in the 
 evening and in bed, but are mitigated by cold air or 
 water. Pids. is most suited to mild persons of light 
 complexion and to females with suppressed or scanty 
 period. 
 
TOOTHACHE. 139 
 
 Nux vomica. — Toothache from sedentary habits, 
 stimulants or coffee, with indigestion, irregular action of 
 the bowels, etc. The pains are worse at night, in the 
 morning on waking, or when engaged in mental labor. 
 
 Bryonia. — Rheumatic toothache, worse in warmth, 
 but relieved by cold applications. 
 
 Kreosote. — When the teeth are decayed, but without 
 gumboil. 
 
 Administration. — Every fifteen or twenty minutes till 
 the pain is mitigated; afterward, every three or four 
 hours. After three or four doses of any remedy have 
 been taken without benefit, another should be selected. 
 
 Accessory Treatment. — Brush the teeth in the morn- 
 ing, after eating animal food and at bedtime. They 
 should be brushed on their inner as well as on their 
 outer side, and up and down, and not merely from side 
 to side ; a moderately soft brush should be used. The 
 idea that frequently brushing or cleansing the teeth is 
 liable to lacerate the gums and separate them from the 
 teeth is erroneous, for it is one of the best methods of 
 restoring them to a healthy condition when they are 
 spongy and inclined to bleed. Charcoal should be 
 avoided because it is gritty. In very cold weather, 
 tepid water should be used. 
 
 The digestive organs should be maintained in a 
 healthy condition by means of proper food and correct 
 habits. Chewing or smoking tobacco, or the habitual use 
 of strong drinks, drugs, ice or extremely hot food is 
 likely to injure teeth naturally good. 
 
 In some cases the only remedy for toothache is 
 extraction, especially if the tooth be loose, much decayed 
 and unfit for mastication ; but in most cases the pain 
 may be speedily relieved by homoeopathic remedies. 
 
140 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 If the caries be recent and slight, the decayed portion 
 may sometimes be removed, the cavity filled with a 
 suitable material, and thus a useful tooth may be pre- 
 served for years. A qualified dentist should be con- 
 sulted. 
 
 Extraction should be delayed as long as possible. 
 The first set should be preserved quite as carefully as 
 the second, and, when practicable, decayed teeth filled. 
 Early extraction of the first set of teeth lays the seeds of 
 future trouble with the second. 
 
 Gumboil. — When the gumboil forms, hot fomenta- 
 tions or the application of the inner part of a roast fig 
 to the suffering gum will relieve pain; at the same 
 time, Hepar sulph. or Merc, should be taken every two or 
 three hours. Frequently the extraction of a decayed 
 tooth is necessary to obviate a recurrence of the trouble. 
 If there be an abscess at the root of a fang, extraction 
 may prevent disease of the jaw-bone. 
 
 Preventive Means. — The face, temples, ears and 
 neck should be well bathed with cold water every day, 
 and afterward rubbed with a dry towel: also the mouth 
 kept sweet and clean by rinsing it with cold water 
 Incipient decay of teeth or sponginess of the gums 
 should be corrected early. 
 
 44. — Sore Throat (Dolor Faucium). 
 Simple soreness or swelling of the throat, uncompli- 
 cated by ulceration, quinsy or syphilis, is a very common 
 accompaniment of cold in the head, and is generally 
 easily curable by Aeon., when the throat is very dry and 
 rough, and there is a hard, dry cough ; by BelL y if there 
 be great redness of the parts, with a raw or scraped 
 sensation; by Merc> if the throat feels swollen, the 
 
clergyman's sore throat. 141 
 
 glands sore or enlarged, with slight deafness ; or by Nux 
 if the stomach be disordered. The throat compress (p. 
 83) expedites the cure and tends to prevent a recurrence. 
 (See also the section on " Cold in the Head.") 
 
 Clergyman's Sore Throat. 
 
 The following remedies are recommended for the sore 
 throat and hoarseness to which clergymen, public 
 speakers and singers are liable: 
 
 In the incipient and acute form. Aeon., Am., Bell., Ferr. 
 phos., Phyto. ; in the chronic, Hepar sulph., Carbo veg., 
 Kali bich., Caust., Baryta carb., Calc, Sulph. The wet 
 compress at night is an excellent auxiliary. 
 
 Prevention. — The morning bath; a uniform and 
 equable exercise of the voice ; the wet compress, after 
 prolonged exercise of the voice; breathing through the 
 nose, especially on passing from a warm to a cold atmos- 
 phere ; and the cultivation of the mustache and beard. 
 On the latter we subjoin a few remarks. 
 
 Cultivation of the Beard. — The beard and mus- 
 tache should be permitted to grow, as they afford an 
 excellent protection to the delicate organs of the voice 
 of those in whom it is subjected to undue or irregular 
 exercise. After a public address, the tissues in the 
 vicinity of the throat become relaxed ; and on leaving 
 the place of assembly and entering the open air, in- 
 flammatory action commences, and, if repeated, chronic 
 affections of the throat and bronchial tubes are often 
 induced ; but the unshorn natural respirator, which our 
 Maker intended to be one of the distinguishing features 
 of the male sex, effectually protects these important 
 parts. The hair planted on the human face by the 
 wisdom and goodness of our Creator has its uses and, 
 
142 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 we may add, its beauties. Let the young man, there- 
 fore, never become a slave to the false and pernicious 
 fashion which compels him to shave off the beard, as 
 it is found contributory to the health, if not to the per- 
 sonal improvement, of those who wear it. See also 
 under " Bronchitis." 
 
 45. — Quinsy (Cynanche Tonsillaris). 
 
 This consists of inflammation of the tonsils and of 
 the subjacent mucous membrane. 
 
 Symptoms. — Heat, redness and rapid swelling of the 
 tonsils, with hoarseness, severe throbbing pain, difficult 
 swallowing and expectoration, and general fever. If 
 prompt and skillful means be employed, the pain, 
 swelling, and other inflammatory symptoms gradually 
 subside; otherwise, matter forms, indicated by shiv- 
 ering, throbbing, and darting pains extending to the 
 ears. 
 
 Causes. — The predisposing are scrofulous constitution, 
 abuse of Mercury, and previous attacks of quinsy ; the 
 exciting are cold, atmospheric changes, wet feet, etc. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — Sore throat, with general 
 feverish symptoms — chills, thirst, headache, dizziness, 
 and restlessness. Generally required at the commence- 
 ment. 
 
 Baryta carb. — Is specific in simple quinsy. It may 
 be given alone from the commencement, or alternated 
 with Aeon, or Bell. 
 
 Belladonna. — Acute, bright-red sore throat, with heat, 
 dryness, painful difficulty in swallowing, flushed face 
 and headache. A valuable remedy, either after, or in 
 alteration with, Aeon. 
 
 Mercurius. — Swollen throat ; copious accumulation of 
 
INDIGESTION. 143 
 
 saliva in the mouth ; swelling of the gums and of the 
 tongue; shooting pain on swallowing; an inclination 
 to swallow the saliva, although painful ; a disagreeable 
 taste in the mouth; fetid odor of the breath; ulcers 
 on the sides of the mouth ; pains extending from the 
 throat to the ear. 
 
 Administration. — In acute cases, a dose every one or 
 two hours, at first; in subacute, every three or four 
 hours ; during convalescence, every six or twelve hours. 
 "When swallowing is extremely difficult or impossible, 
 two drops of the remedy on a small piece of sugar may 
 be placed on the tongue. 
 
 Accessory Means. — In severe cases, a hot poultice 
 across the throat, extending nearly to each ear ; in mild 
 cases, the throat compress (p. 61) may be applied. Bits 
 of ice at times give instantaneous relief; sometimes 
 frequent inhalation of the steam of hot water or a 
 warm milk-and-water gargle wall be found soothing 
 and useful. The patient should remain indoors, and, 
 in bad cases, in bed. 
 
 46. — Indigestion (Dyspepsia)* 
 Digestion is the process which food undergoes in the 
 stomach and other organs, for the formation of chyle, a 
 milk-like liquor, from which blood is formed for repair- 
 ing the continued waste of the animal body ; this proc- 
 ess goes on in health easily, quickly and completely. 
 Indigestion is a deviation from this healthy function in 
 one or more of the qualities just named: it may be 
 painful, slow or complete. 
 
 Symptoms. — Impaired appetite ; flatulence ; nausea 
 
 * See also u Essentials of Diet." 
 
144 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 and eructations, which often bring up bitter or acid 
 fluids ; furred tongue and offensive breath, especially in 
 the morning ; confined or relaxed bowels ; heartburn j 
 pain, weight and inconvenience or fullness after a meal ; 
 headache ; palpitation and other symptoms. 
 
 Causes. — Excessive eating; too short an interval 
 between meals ; irregularities in diet ; food of a heavy, 
 indigestible, fat, sour, flatulent or bad quality ; eating 
 too quickly ; imperfect mastication ; warm and relaxing 
 drinks; spirituous liquors, tobacco, or the excessive use 
 of tea or coffee ; purgative drugs ; too little out-of-door 
 exercise; excessive bodily or mental exertion; late 
 hours ; exposure to cold and damp, etc. Business or 
 family cares and anxieties are also frequent causes of 
 dyspepsia. " The battle of life " is too often fought 
 with almost overwhelming anxieties and disappoint- 
 ments, or with much mental and bodily wear and tear, 
 and the digestive organs are often the first to suffer. 
 
 Remedies. — The use of medicines, and the observ- 
 ance of such rules and habits as are suggested a little 
 farther on, must ever go hand in hand ; for the former, 
 however carefully selected, will alone be unavailing in 
 the end. 
 
 Nux vomica. — Distension, tenderness, and fullness of 
 the stomach after meals ; heartburn, sour acid eructa- 
 tions ; flatulence ; hiccough ; frequent vomiting of food 
 and bile ; sour or bitter taste in the mouth ; confused 
 head, as after intoxication ; sleepy feeling after a meal, 
 and incapacity for mental or physical exertion ; sallow 
 complexion; frequent but ineffectual urging to stool. 
 Nux vom. is particularly indicated for too studious or 
 anxious persons, of a dark or bilious complexion, who 
 take too little open-air exercise, eat too much, or drink 
 
INDIGESTION. 145 
 
 alcoholic liquors. A tendency to piles is a further indi- 
 cation for this remedy, as also for Sulphur, which should 
 then follow it. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Disposition to mucous derangements ; 
 heartburn, with acid, bitter or putrid taste; thickly 
 coated whitish tongue ; nausea ; frequent mucous evac- 
 uations, chiefly at night, with little pain ; indigestion 
 from greasy or flatulent food. Puis, is generally best 
 suited to women, or to mild, timid persons. 
 
 Bryonia. — Aversion to food and craving for stimu- 
 lants ; waterbrash or eructations after eating ; pressure 
 and a sensation as of a weight or stone in the stomach; 
 colicky pains ; stitch-like pains, extending from the pit of 
 the stomach to the shoulder-blades ; torpor of the 
 bowels ; irritability. 
 
 Lycopodium. — Indigestion of weakly patients ; delayed 
 digestion ; sleepiness after meals, specially after dinner ; 
 abdominal flatulence; torpid action of the bowels; 
 gravelly urine. 
 
 Antimonium crud. — Loaded mucous membrane, causing 
 slow digestion with fermentation ; nausea, or vomiting of 
 mucus or bile; foul eructations, or tasting of the food ; flatu- 
 lence of a fetid odor, soon reproduced; alternate consti- 
 pation and diarrhoea; haw T king and expectoration of 
 phelgm; milky-white, thickly coated tongue; irritabil- 
 ity of the bladder, with mucus deposit; pimples on 
 the face, sores on the lips or nostrils, pustular eruptions, 
 chilblains, or concurrent skin affections. 
 
 China. — Indigestion from exhausting discharges, or from 
 residence in an aguish district, with a feeling of sink- 
 ing, relieved by food, but soon returning ; or simple, 
 generally painless diarrhoea, leaving the patient ex- 
 hausted. Much flatulence. 
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146 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 Ipecacuanha. — Simple retching and vomiting from gas- 
 tric disturbance, without inflammation of the stomach 
 or any grave affection of the mucous membrane. 
 
 Hepar sulph. — Chronic indigestion, when nearly all 
 kinds of food disagree; also if Mercury has been used to 
 excess. 
 
 Sulphur. — As an intercurrent remedy, when only par- 
 tial relief has followed the use of other remedies ; also 
 in chronic cases. It is more particularly required in 
 indigestion following or associated with eruptions, piles 
 and constipation. 
 
 Natrum phos. — Acidity, sour risings ; heartburn and 
 waterbrash. 
 
 See also the sections on " Headache," " Sick-head- 
 ache," etc. 
 
 Accessory Measures. — Dyspeptics should correct all 
 improper habits, pay strict attention to the quality and 
 quantity of food, and the hours at which it is taken. 
 Directions for particular cases cannot be given, as what 
 suits the constitution and circumstances of one may be 
 inadmissible in those of another. But it is most im- 
 portant that the symptoms of indigestion should be 
 early corrected, or the patient may sink into a morbid 
 condition, in which life is deprived of its rich oppor- 
 tunities of enjoyment and usefulness. 
 
 The following habits require correction : Eating too 
 much at one time; eating too seldom, or too often ; late 
 suppers ; too great a variety of food at the same meal ; 
 imperfectly chewing the food ; the too hasty resuming 
 of bodily or mental occupations after a meal ; seden- 
 tary habits ; neglect of personal cleanliness ; habits of 
 drinking, smoking or chewing tobacco, and opium eat- 
 ing; the excessive use of tea, coffee, or any liq T ,.ld s and 
 
INDIGESTION. 147 
 
 eating unripe fruits or improperly cooked vegetables. 
 It is especially necessary that the dyspeptic's stomach 
 should never be overloaded. 
 
 If possible, the meals should be taken regularly and 
 with cheerful companions, avoiding reading and study, 
 and dismissing business anxieties from the mind, which 
 should then be free from all injurious tension. Persons 
 much occupied should not eat full meals during the 
 hours devoted to industrial pursuits; a light repast is 
 best in the middle of the day, making the principal 
 meal at 6 or 7 in the evening, when the work of the 
 day is finished. Heavy meals in the hours of physical 
 labor, without sufficient rest, are almost certain, eventu- 
 ally, to lead to indigestion. 
 
 In the list of articles to be avoided by the dyspeptic, 
 we particularly notice the following : Hard, dried meats, 
 veal, pork, sausages, salmon, lobsters, crabs, cheese, 
 pastry, flavored soups, new-baked bread ; too much tea 
 or coffee, or any other liquid, and all substances known 
 to disagree. Generally, malt liquors, wines and spirits 
 are injurious; certainly they are never necessary in 
 health. 
 
 One of the most common causes of indigestion is 
 the existence of carious teeth, by preventing due masti- 
 cation of the food. This is often the sole cause of 
 indigestion, and in all cases it cannot but aggravate 
 dyspeptic symptoms originating elsewhere. The earli- 
 est signs of decay should, therefore, be corrected by 
 appropriate medicines, and by avoiding all causes which 
 tend to impair the integrity of the teeth. Those teeth 
 which are hopelessly diseased should be at once removed? 
 and, if necessary for mastication, artificial substitutes 
 should be provided. 
 
148 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 Feather beds and too much sleep should be avoided ; 
 the patient should retire early and rise early ; bathe or 
 sponge the body every morning with cold water ; and 
 take sufficient recreation daily in the open air. Neglect 
 of everyday out-of-door exercise is, according to the 
 author's experience, the most prolific cause of indiges- 
 tion. Further, a general cheerful and tranquil state of 
 mind is useful in the cure or prevention of this com- 
 mon affection. 
 
 In general, have no hobbies about diet. Avoid every- 
 thing that you know from experience disagrees with 
 you; but you need not necessarily avoid anything 
 simply because it disagrees with others. Simple plain 
 food, well and appetizingly cooked and served, and 
 eaten in cheerful company at the home table, will do 
 more to prevent and cure dyspepsia than all detailed 
 rules of diet concocted by others. 
 
 In addition to cocoa for the morning meal, and tea 
 (not drawn longer than two or three minutes) for the 
 afternoon, the moderate use of pure water is perhaps the 
 only fluid required in health. This liquid, so often 
 despised, and even considered by many as prejudicial, 
 is one of the best means for preventing or curing indi- 
 gestion. Too much cold water, however, should not be 
 taken at meal-times, for it reduces the temperature of 
 the stomach, and checks its action. Sometimes cold 
 water is not tolerated ; in such cases toast-and- water is 
 almost always well borne and agreeable. Hot water is 
 an excellent remedy in the treatment of some forms of 
 dyspepsia, especially cartarrh of the stomach. It should 
 be taken one hour before meals, and sipped slowly, tak- 
 ing about a quarter of an hour to drink a tumblerful. 
 Sometimes it is well to take the medicine in that way. 
 
VOMITING. 149 
 
 47. — Vomiting (Vomitus.) 
 
 Causes. — Indigestion, of which vomiting is often a 
 prominent symptom; too much or improper food; 
 pregnancy ;* disease of the brain or derangement of 
 the nervous system ; ulcer or cancer of the stomach ; 
 obstruction of the intestines ; most of the eruptive 
 fevers, etc. 
 
 Prognosis. — Nausea and vomiting occurring in dis- 
 eases of the brain, or in epilepsy, are unfavorable indi- 
 cations; in pregnancy, or hysteria, they are merely 
 symptomatic of irritation reflected by the nervous sys- 
 tem to the stomach. "When vomiting affords relief, it is 
 a favorable indication ; but if the symptoms preceding 
 sickness be not relieved by it, but increase, the disease 
 must be regarded as serious or complicated. 
 
 Treatment. — Ipecacuanha. — Simple copious vom king 
 with an extremely sickly sensation. 
 
 Antimonium cruel. — Nausea ; thickly furred white tongue; 
 eructations ; loss of appetite, etc. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Burning in the stomach and throat, ex- 
 cessive weakness, purging, coldness of the hands and 
 feet, etc. (also Verat. alb.). Even in vomiting from ma- 
 lignant or cancerous disease of the stomach, Ars. often 
 gives relief. 
 
 Xux vomica. — Vomiting, with dryness of the mouth, dis- 
 turbed sleep, and constipation. It is especially indi- 
 cated when vomiting follows the use of strong drink, 
 indulgence at table, or late or irregular hours. 
 
 Accessory Means. — In violent vomiting and long- 
 continued retching, sucking small pieces of ice is grate- 
 
 * See the " Lady's Manual of Homoeopathic Treatment." 
 
150 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 ful and soothing. Extract of meat, in small quantities, 
 is the form of nourishment generally best adapted to 
 the imperfect condition of the digestive functions, till 
 ordinary food can be taken. In other cases, soda-water 
 and milk, in equal proportions, given in small quanti- 
 ties, can be retained and digested. Iced champagne is 
 efficacious also. 
 
 48. — Seasickness (Nausea Marina). 
 
 Symptoms. — These need not be described, as they are 
 so well known to persons embarking for the first time, 
 especially during the early part of the voyage, and when 
 . stormy weather prevails. 
 
 Cause. — The motion of the vessel. The seat of the 
 affection is in the brain, with which the stomach is in 
 close sympathy. Some persons of delicate nervous or- 
 ganization are subject to similar derangement from the 
 oscillations of a carriage or the movements of a swing. 
 
 Treatment. — Nux vomica. — The complaint may be 
 prevented or modified by taking this remedy thrice 
 daily, for several days previous to embarkation. It i3 
 also useful after the sickness is over, and may be alter- 
 nated with Arn., if the muscles have been severely 
 strained and feel sore. 
 
 Glonoin and Petroleum are, in our experience, the best 
 curative agents. 
 
 Accessory Means. — For several days before embark- 
 ing, indigestible food, overloading the stomach, and 
 other irregularities should be avoided. During the 
 early part of the voyage, unless the weather be very 
 fine, the traveler should remain a good deal in a recum- 
 bent posture, avoid looking at the motion of the waves, 
 and keep his attention diverted from the subject. Iced 
 
DYSENTERY. 151 
 
 champagne is probably the best and most grateful 
 palliation. 
 
 49. — Dysentery — Bloody Flux. 
 
 Dysentery is inflammation and ulceration of the 
 large intestine, and is most frequent and violent in In- 
 dia, the Chinese seas and other hot climates. In this 
 country it is most frequent in autumn. From its being 
 an attendant on war, it is the most anciently described 
 of all diseases. 
 
 Symptoms. — This disease is generally attended with 
 thirst, dry skin and tongue, headache and other symp- 
 toms of fever. The most marked symptom of dysentery 
 is frequent, painful desire to stool, with great straining 
 (tenesmus) without any evacuation, except a little mucus 
 and blood, shreds of fibrine which the patient some- 
 times thinks to be the coats of his own bowels, and 
 lumps of hardened faeces (scybalx). In hot climates the 
 attacks are acute and violent, the pain being very se- 
 vere around the navel and at the bottom of the back. 
 The bladder often sympathizes with the rectum, excit- 
 ing frequent efforts to pass water. 
 
 Causes. — Exposure to sudden and extreme changes 
 of temperature, as from the heat of day to the cold and 
 damp of night; insufficient protection from cold and 
 wet, as sleeping on the ground ; intemperance ; a poor 
 or irregular diet. It is, therefore, often epidemic among 
 people reduced by privation, particularly soldiers in 
 camps. The effluvia from dysenteric evacuations are 
 infectious, and consequently may be a cause of spread- 
 ing the disease ; they should therefore be disinfected 
 and immediately removed, or, if convenient, buried. 
 
 Remedies. — Aconitum. — If febrile symptoms are well 
 
152 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 marked, the early use of this remedy will often arrest 
 the disease at its onset. It should be administered sev- 
 eral times, at short intervals. 
 
 Mercurius cor. — Bloody evacuations, with pain and ex- 
 tremely severe straining. This is the principal remedy. 
 
 Colocynthis. — Is often required after Merc, especially 
 when the colicky pains are severe and periodic, and the 
 discharges mixed with green matter or lumps. If Merc. 
 has not been previously administered, it may be alter- 
 nated with Coloc. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Extreme weakness ; burning pain ivith the 
 evacuations; coldness of the extremities; cold breath; 
 feces and urine putrid, offensive, and often passed 
 involuntarily. 
 
 Ipecacuanha. — Autumnal dysentery, with nausea, much 
 straining and colic ; the evacuations are first slimy, after- 
 ward bloody. Often advantageously alternated with 
 Bryonia. 
 
 Administration. — In severe cases, a dose every 
 twenty or thirty minutes ; in mild, every two or three 
 hours. 
 
 Accessory Means. — The patient should maintain a 
 reclining posture in bed, in a well-ventilated apartment, 
 and in bad cases use the bed-pan instead of getting up. 
 Local applications afford great relief, the best of which 
 is the cold compress — i. e., two folds of linen, or a napkin, 
 wrung out after immersion in cold water, and applied 
 over the bowels, covered with oiled silk, and secured by 
 a flannel bandage around the whole abdomen. If the 
 pains are very severe, flannels wrung out of hot water 
 should be applied, a second hot flannel being ready 
 when the first is removed. The best beverages are cold 
 water, gum-water, milk, etc. ; the diet should be restricted 
 
RUPTURE. 153 
 
 to arrowroot, cocoa, boiled milk, macaroni, oranges, ripe 
 grapes, etc. Even broths are inadmissible during the 
 worst stages. Animal food and stimulants should be 
 withheld, except during recovery and in chronic cases, 
 when extract of meat should be taken. In extreme 
 cases, patients may be kept alive on wine alone, when 
 the stomach will retain nothing else. Claret is the best 
 in this country, and in wine-growing countries the ordi- 
 nary table wine. Eight ounces may be taken daily, as 
 much as two or three ounces being given at a time and 
 extremely slowly. Rice-milk — milk having had rice 
 boiled in it for two or three hours and then strained — 
 may afterward be given as well. A teacupful may be 
 given two hours after the wine. Great care is required 
 in returning to solid food, and the importunities of pa- 
 tients must be strenuously resisted. Cold and sudden 
 changes of temperature and damp night air should be 
 carefully avoided. The feet and abdomen should al- 
 ways be kept warm. 
 
 50. — Rupture {Hernia), and Strangulated 
 Hernia. 
 
 Nature. — Rupture is a protrusion of some portion of 
 intestine or its covering through the walls of the 
 abdomen, causing a swelling. If such a portion of 
 the intestine become constricted in any way, so that 
 the contents of the bowel cannot pass onward, and the 
 circulation of blood is impeded, it is said to be 
 strangulated. 
 
 Symptoms. — A painful, tense and incompressible 
 swelling ; flatulence and colicky pains ; desire to go to 
 stool, and inability to pass anything, unless there be 
 fsecal matter in the bowel below the rupture. If relief 
 
154 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 be not obtained, inflammation sets in, with vomiting, 
 extreme pain, small wiry pulse, etc. ; and, finally, mor- 
 tification with cessation of pain, and death. 
 
 Causes, Predisposing. — Weakness of the abdominal 
 walls from disease, injury, or congenital deficiency. 
 Exciting causes — violent exertion, as in lifting ; immoderate 
 straining, as in passing urine through a stricture, or in 
 relieving the bowels. Continuous crying of infants. 
 
 Treatment. — In simple rupture there is no danger. 
 A medical man should be sent for, and the patient kept 
 lying down. Where there are symptoms of strangulation 
 — pain, sickness, collapse — the danger is great, and a 
 medical man should be summoned immediately. In the 
 meantime unskilled persons should not meddle with 
 the tumor. The patient should be placed on a board, 
 raised so as to form a steep inclined plane, the legs up- 
 permost. The legs should be drawn up, to relax the 
 walls of the abdomen. The head should be supported 
 by a pillow. Nux vom. should be given every five 
 minutes. 
 
 To prevent a recurrence, a suitable truss should be 
 worn ; and as it is important that the truss be exactly 
 adapted to the case, a surgeon should be consulted. 
 
 51. — Worms (Helminthia). 
 
 Intestinal worms being the attendants of certain 
 morbid states, the treatment should be directed against 
 the disease itself, rather than against the products it 
 engenders. The effect of most allopathic remedies is, 
 at the best, to excite a discharge of the worms, without 
 correcting the morbid condition on which their presence 
 and reproduction depend. 
 
 Varieties. — There are three chief species of worms 
 which infest the human body, viz.: 
 
WORMS. 155 
 
 1. The Oxyuris vermicular is, or threadworm, infests 
 especially the rectum. It is small, about a quarter to 
 half an inch long, occurs chiefly in children, and occa- 
 sions much local irritation. The chief symptom is an 
 intolerable creeping itching within and about the anus 
 in the evening, aggravated by the warmth of the bed ; 
 also picking of the nose, fetid breath, depraved appe- 
 tite, and disturbed sleep. 
 
 2. The Ascaris lumbricoides, or round-worm, also exists 
 in children, its habitat being the small intestines, where 
 it feeds on the chyle, and attains a length of six to twelve 
 inches. The symptoms, often obscure, are pains in the 
 belly, fretfulness, grinding of the teeth, disturbed sleep, 
 or convulsive attacks ; also itching of the nose and anus. 
 The child becomes sallow, its limbs waste, but its belly 
 is enlarged, hot and tense; the appetite is uncertain, 
 often voracious ; the breath is offensive ; and the stools 
 contain much slimy mucus. The worms sometimes 
 travel upward into the stomach and are vomited, 
 or downward into the colon, and are passed with the 
 stools. 
 
 3. The Txnia solium, or tapeworm, is nearly white, 
 flattened, and of a jointed structure; it attains a great 
 length, even many yards, by repetition of the joints 
 and exists both in adults and children. The symptoms 
 being masked, its presence is often unsuspected until 
 portions are passed in the motions, the head still remain- 
 ing. There are seldom more than one worm present at a 
 time, yet each joint possesses an ovary, and its eggs are 
 millions, but they are discharged with feces, and de- 
 voured by unclean animals — swine, ducks and rats — in 
 these creatures they become developed, but not into 
 tapeworms, for they go through several generations be- 
 
156 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 fore returning to the jointed form. They are probably 
 introduced into the human body by eating unwhole- 
 some animal food, especially " measly " pork, or tripe, 
 and sausage-skins, improperly cooked. The ova some- 
 times reach the circulation, and in the liver or other 
 organs are developed into encysted entozoa, commonly 
 called hydatids. 
 
 General Symptoms of Worms. — Sudden changes in 
 the color of the face; dark semicircles under the eyes; 
 copious flow of saliva; nausea; insipid, acid, or fetid 
 odor of the breath ; a voracious, alternating with a poor, 
 appetite ; itching of the anus ; talking, and grinding the 
 teeth during sleep ; thick and whitish urine ; tight- 
 ness and swelling of the lower part of the abdomen; 
 frequently emaciation ; and, sometimes, convulsions or 
 delirium. Perhaps the only certain sign is the presence 
 of worms in the stools, or in the matter vomited. 
 
 Treatment. — Cina — A valuable remedy for the con- 
 dition producing threadworms or round-worms, with 
 the following symptoms : Boring at the nose, livid 
 circles round the eyes, tossing about, or calling out 
 suddenly during sleep. Convulsions, nausea and vom- 
 iting, griping, itching at the anus, and white and thick 
 urine, sometimes passed involuntarily. 
 
 Mercurius. — Diarrhoea, slimy stools, distension of the 
 abdomen, difficult teething, and augmented secretion of 
 saliva. 
 
 Ignatia. — Intense itching at the seat, nervousness^ 
 epileptiform attacks, etc., especially in mild, sensitive 
 persons. 
 
 Natrum phos. — Worms, whether thread or round. 
 Pain in bowels ; restless sleep. Itching at seat ; grind- 
 ing of teeth ; acidity, pricking of nose, squinting. 
 
DIARRHOEA. 157 
 
 Calcarea. — In patients having a hereditary predispo- 
 sition to worms, with scrofulous symptoms, and after 
 discontinuing other remedies. 
 
 In addition to the treatment here prescribed, the 
 tapeworm requires other remedies, and often in large 
 doses. The oil of male fern, given fasting, is generally 
 necessary. 
 
 Accessory Means. — The food should be simple, easy 
 of digestion, and taken only at regular hours ; underdone 
 vegetables, pastry, malt liquor, sugar, sweetmeats and 
 sweet-made dishes should be strictly avoided. Salt, as 
 a condiment, should be taken with the food ; it assists 
 digestion and poisons the worms. A draught of spring- 
 water should be swallowed on rising; also injections, as 
 follows : 
 
 Injections. — These are useful as means for expelling 
 the worms, and partly to prevent their re-formation; 
 half a pint or more of tepid water, in which ten drops 
 of common turpentine have been mixed, once or twice 
 repeated, will often suffice to relieve a patient thus 
 troubled. It is better administered at bedtime. After- 
 ward, a simple cold or tepid injection should be used 
 regularly about three times a week, for three or four 
 months, to wash away the slime in which the ova 
 exists. But the general and medicinal treatment only 
 can be relied upon for correcting the health and pre- 
 venting their re-formation and future development. 
 
 52. — Diarrhoea— Looseness of the Bowels- 
 Purging. 
 
 Common diarrhoea is a functional disorder, consisting 
 of frequent liquid faecal evacuations, without inflamma- 
 tion of the intestines. 
 
158 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 Causes. — Unusual, excessive, acrid, or indigestible 
 food, especially unripe or decaying raw fruits; pork, 
 veal, etc. ; putrid or diseased animal food ; atmospheric 
 influences ; fatigue ; suppressed eruptions ; mental emo- 
 tions, etc. 
 
 Diarrhoea is often a symptom of other diseases, as 
 hectic and phthisis, when it is called colliquative diar- 
 rhoea, because it appears to melt down the substance of 
 the body ; the diarrhoea of typhoid fever ; bilious diar- 
 rhoea, from excessive flow of bile, as in hot weather, or 
 after passing a gall-stone; and serous diarrhoea, with 
 watery discharge. Looseness of the bowels is also a 
 very common precursor of cholera, when that disease is 
 epidemic. 
 
 When the diarrhoea arises from indigestion or dissi- 
 pation, it may be regarded as an effort of nature to 
 expel substances which might otherwise give rise to 
 more serious disturbances. 
 
 Treatment. — Camphor. — In sudden and recent cases, 
 with chilliness, shivering, cold creeping of the skin, 
 severe pain in stomach and bowels, cold face and 
 hands, and cramps in the legs or stomach. Two drops on 
 a small piece of loaf-sugar, every twenty or thirty min- 
 utes, for three or four times ; if ineffectual it should then 
 be discontinued. 
 
 Antimonium cruel. — Watery diarrhoea, with white furred 
 tongue, disordered stomach, nausea and eructations. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Mucous diarrhoea, occurring chiefly at 
 night, with little pain; the tongue is coated with a 
 whitish fur; the taste is diminished or altered, and, 
 generally, nausea, foul or acrid eructations, etc. Pulsa- 
 tilla is curative in diarrhoea from fat or rich food. 
 
 Golocynthis. — Brown watery or faecal diarrhoea, with 
 much griping pain. 
 
DIARRHCEA. 159 
 
 Podophyllum. — Diarrhoea coming on in the morning, 
 yellow watery or slimy motions, tendency of the bowel 
 to protrude. 
 
 China. — Simple summer diarrhoea; little pain, food 
 passes imperfectly digested. 
 
 Mercurius. — Green or clay-colored stools. Never-get- 
 done feeling. 
 
 Dulcamara. — Catarrhal diarrhoea, watery or yellowish, 
 with little or no pain, traceable to damp, particularly 
 in the summer and autumn. 
 
 Natrum sidph. — Diarrhoea, worse in the morning and in 
 damp weather. Flatulence generally present. Chronic 
 diarrhoea. 
 
 Sulphur. — Chronic diarrhoea, watery, great urging, 
 coming on in the morning in bed, griping and strain- 
 ing ; from suppressed eruptions. 
 
 Veratrum. — Choleraic diarrhoea, with copious watery 
 discharges, occurring in gushes, and accompanied with 
 severe vomiting, debility, etc. ; involuntary diarrhoea; 
 summer diarrhoea, watery, with much griping; diar- 
 rhoea from cold. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Diarrhoea, accompanied or ushered in by 
 vomiting, with great heat of the stomach, ascending to 
 the throat ; a burning sensation attending the discharge 
 of the motions ; griping watery stools ; coldness of the 
 body, pallid and sunken face, and great prostration. It 
 is chiefly suited to chronic diarrhoea, with symptoms 
 indicating organic disease. 
 
 Administration. — A dose every one, two or three 
 hours, according to the violence of the symptoms, or after 
 every motion, until relieved. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Rest in the recumbent posture; 
 warmth to the extremities, and avoidance of sudden 
 
160 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 changes of temperature. Individuals subject to diar- 
 rhoea from slight causes, and having a feeling of cold- 
 ness about the body, should wear a flannel roller 
 around the abdomen. Night air and late hours predis- 
 pose to attacks. Except in severe cases, moderate out- 
 of-door exercise should be taken daily. Mental excite- 
 ment and physical excesses of every kind should be 
 avoided. 
 
 Diet. — Food should be given cool and sparingly, con- 
 sisting of light non-irritating substances — sago, tapioca, 
 milk, rice-milk, arrowroot, baked rice puddings, white 
 fish, etc. ; bland drinks. No coffee, spices, acids, eggs, 
 fruit or stimulants should be allowed. The white of 
 egg beaten up into a froth, and flavored with a few drops 
 of lemon juice and a little sugar, is an excellent thing in 
 diarrhoea. Beef-tea must be avoided. 
 
 53. — Diarrhoea in Children. 
 
 Healthy infants have usually two or three motions in 
 twenty-four hours. If the discharges become much more 
 frequent, unnatural in color, watery, and accompanied 
 with pain, medical treatment is necessary. Depending, 
 moreover, as it often does, on functional causes only, it 
 well repays our careful attention. 
 
 Chamomilla. — Diarrhoea during teething, or from cold 
 with colic, crossness and restlessness ; greenish, watery, 
 bilious, frothy and offensive motions, with pinching 
 pains and fretfulness. 
 
 Ipecacuanha. — Summer diarrhoea, with vomiting ; di- 
 arrhoea from overloading the stomach. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Loose, greenish, bilious motions, with flat- 
 ulence or griping, from indigestion, especially in fair 
 and delicate children. 
 
COLIC. 161 
 
 Calcarea phos. — Diarrhoea in teething children, espe- 
 cially when they are scrofulous or rachitic. Stools are 
 hot, watery, offensive, sputtering. 
 
 See also previous section. 
 
 Administration. — See the previous section. See also 
 under " Teething," " Worms," and " Thrush." 
 
 54. — Colic (Enteralgia). 
 
 Symptoms. — Severe twisting, griping, tearing pain 
 about the navel, recurring in paroxysms, but relieved 
 by pressure, so that the patient lies on his belly, press- 
 ing his abdomen with his hands, writhing in agony. 
 There is a frequent desire to relieve the bowels, but 
 often nothing passes except a little flatus. Febrile 
 symptoms as in inflammation of the intestines are ab- 
 sent, and the pulse is not quickened, unless it becomes 
 so from anxiety. The symptoms abate when vomiting, 
 eructation or a discharge from the bowels takes place. 
 
 Causes. — Cold ; a mass of heterogeneous, acrid, indi- 
 gestible food ; worms ; constipation. A condition re- 
 sembling colic may also arise from stricture of the 
 intestines (intussusception). Painters' colic arises from 
 the poison of lead. 
 
 Treatment. — Colocynthis. — Violent pains, compared to 
 stabbing or clawing, with flatulence and diarrhoea. 
 
 Magnesia phos. — Flatulent colic. Must bend double, 
 or draws the legs up. Better by friction, warmth and 
 belching. 
 
 Xux vomica. — From indigestible food, suppressed pe- 
 riod, or during pregnancy, with severe contracting pains 
 low in the abdomen and relieved by pressure, ineffect- 
 ual efforts to relieve the bow T els, or alternate constipa- 
 tion and relaxation. 
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162 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 Chamomilla, — Particularly suitable for children. See 
 the symptoms in the preceding section. 
 
 Oma.— Colic from threadworms. 
 
 Opium. — Lead colic. 
 
 Accessoky Means. — An injection of a pint of tepid 
 water by means of the enema apparatus frequently 
 gives immediate relief. Applications of heat to the 
 abdomen, or a warm bath, are also useful measures. 
 Persons subject to colic should avoid food of a flatu- 
 lent character, not take too much liquid, or fast too 
 long, should wear flannel round the abdomen, and 
 keep the feet dry. 
 
 55. — Constipation — Confined Bowels. 
 
 A tendency to costiveness, or sluggish action of the 
 bowels, is not so grave a symptom as many persons 
 suppose it to be ; indeed, individuals thus predisposed 
 generally live long, unless they injure themselves by 
 purgatives, while those who are subject to frequent 
 attacks of diarrhoea are soon debilitated, and often be- 
 come prematurely old. The common idea that ape- 
 rients contribute to health, not only in sickness, but also 
 occasionally in health, and that impurities are thereby 
 expelled from the body, is most erroneous and mis- 
 chievous. 
 
 This may be easily demonstrated. Let purgatives be 
 taken for a week, and, however good may have been 
 the state of health previously, at the termination of 
 this period all sorts of impurities will be discharged, 
 especially after taking jalap and calomel As this is an 
 invariable result, even in the case of those who have 
 never been ill, it proves that impurities are produced by 
 those drugs. 
 
CONSTIPATION. 163 
 
 In sickness purgatives are also most injurious. Disease weakens the whole sys- 
 tem. " The bowels, therefore," writes Dr. Yeldham, "in common with the legs, 
 the arms, the stomach, the brain and every other organ, partake of the general 
 debility, and become deprived of that power by which, in a state of health, they 
 are enabled to discharge their proper functions. Why should they, more than the 
 other organs, be impelled to the performance of a duty to which, at the time, they 
 are totally unequal ? 
 
 " Again, under the process of disease, the whole vital power is deToted to the 
 struggle which is going on in the affected part. The attention to the system is, as 
 it were, drawn off as well from the bowels as from every other organ not immedi- 
 ately engaged in the contest. On this account also they remain quiescent ; and 
 auy interference with that quietude, by diverting the vital energy, weakens that 
 force which nature requires to be undivided, to enable her to conduct her combat 
 with disease to a successful issue — an additional reason why purgatives should 
 be avoided. 
 
 " Constipation is an effect, not a disease ; if it were, there might be some show of 
 reason in the use of aperients. But being merely a temporary loss of power, we 
 can no more restore that power by forcing the action of the bowels than we can 
 impart strength to a weakened leg by compelling it to walk. In the latter instance, 
 we should instinctively rest the part, until, by the removal of the disease, motion 
 might be resumed. The same reasoning applies with equal force to the removal of 
 constipation. The exercise of a little patience, and the employment of judicious 
 means for the eradication of that disordered condition on which the inaction de- 
 pends, will as infallibly restore the bowels to their duty, as in every other instance 
 the effect must cease when the cause is removed." 
 
 Causes. — Sedentary habits ; dissipation ; an improper 
 quality of food, especially the too exclusive use of 
 bread without vegetables; the use of superfine flour; 
 the adulteration of bread by alum ;* mental anxiety ; 
 diseases of the liver; exposure to the action of lead, as 
 in painters ; mechanical obstruction from tumors, her- 
 nia, stricture of the rectum, etc. ; inflammatory disease 
 of the intestines, brain or spinal cord. 
 
 But a frequent cause of constipation is loss of tone 
 of the mucous lining of the bowels /rora the habitual use 
 °f purgatives. Many persons take a purgative once a 
 week, the primary effect of which is a sort of diarrhoea, 
 but the secondary effect is constipation. 
 
 An important point will be gained if we can bring 
 
 "Alum is very extensively used to improve the appearance of 
 inferior flour. 
 
164 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 persons to consider constipation simply as a result of 
 other causes, and a want of balance in the general sys- 
 tem, and when measures shall be directed to the cor- 
 recting of this condition as the only rational means of 
 curing constipation. 
 
 Constipation and Old Age. — Daily evacuation, 
 which, perhaps, should be the rule in youth and mid- 
 ble life, is often in excess in advanced life, when thrice 
 or even twice a week is often sufficient. It is desirable 
 that this physiological fact should be known, as old 
 persons often trouble themselves needlessly on this 
 point. The chief evil of the condition lies in the ner- 
 vous anxiety it occasions. 
 
 Treatment. — If headache, dry tongue, hot skin, etc., 
 co-exist with constipation, one of the following reme- 
 dies may be selected : 
 
 Nux vomica. — Frequent ineffectual inclination to stool ; 
 irregular action of the bowels ; constipation, with nau- 
 sea and sickness in the morning, distension and heavi- 
 ness in the stomach, ill-humor, fullness or pain in the 
 head, uneasy sleep, etc. It is suited to constipation 
 following intoxicating drinks, eating too much or too great 
 a variety of food at one time; overstudy and sedentary 
 habits. It is especially suitable to patients of a dark 
 bilious temperament. 
 
 Bryonia. — Torpor of the bowels (thus differing from 
 the ineffectual or irregular . action indicating the pre- 
 vious remedy) ; constipation, with chilliness, headache, 
 and irritability, or associated with rheumatism, or heat 
 of the weather. 
 
 Opium. — Constipation from a general paralytic con- 
 dition, leading to inertia of the intestines ; obstinate 
 constipation with a feeling as if the anus were closed ; 
 
CONSTIPATION. 165 
 
 hard, lumpy motions ; headache, dizziness, dry mouth, 
 thirst, listlessness, and dusky face; also in chronic 
 cases, from too little out-of-door exercise. Especially 
 adapted to the aged, 
 
 Lycopodium. — Itching and tightness of the anus ; 
 rumbling and flatulence in the abdomen; waterbrash; 
 heartburn; the bowels feeling warm, dry, and dis- 
 tended ; loaded urine. 
 
 Sulphur. — Habitual costiveness, piles, burning and 
 itching of the anus, etc. It is also valuable as an inter- 
 current remedy, and frequently aids the action of Nux 
 vom. 
 
 Accessory Measures. — No medicines can be of per- 
 manent benefit if the bad habits which led to the con- 
 stipation are persisted in. Moderate walking exercise 
 is useful, particularly in the morning in the country. 
 Water (see p. 36, and under " Dyspepsia") is an ex- 
 tremely valuable adjunct, both for internal and exter- 
 nal use. Cold baths, especially the shower and the 
 sitz, are strongly recommended as being easy of applica- 
 tion. The wet compress at night is often an invaluable 
 remedy ; also injections, as recommended farther on. 
 Regularity in attending to the calls of nature is impor- 
 tant; the best time to solicit the bowels to act is in the 
 morning, usually after breakfast. By fixing the mind 
 on this operation for a few days, the bowels will gener- 
 ally respond, and constipation be sometimes removed 
 by attention to this point alone. 
 
 Diet. — Meals should be taken with regularity, ani- 
 mal food eaten sparingly, but vegetables and ripe fruit 
 freely. Peas, pea-soup, hard eggs, boiled rice, boiled 
 milk, coffee, strong or green tea, claret, port wine, 
 spirits, highly seasoned food and late suppers should 
 
166 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 be avoided; roasted apples, stewed figs, and prunes 
 and tamarinds may be taken. Oatmeal porridge, 
 with treacle, may be taken for breakfast ; and brown bread 
 should be preferred to white. If brown bread be not eaten 
 exclusively, a little should be taken with nearly every 
 meal ; its effects will thus be more uniformly exerted 
 through the alimentary canal than if only taken occa- 
 sionally. 
 
 Injections. — In obstinate and protracted constipa- 
 tion, and when the lower bowel is obstructed with fgecal 
 matter, either in too large masses or too hard and dry 
 for discharge, and if the means before suggested prove 
 ineffectual, the enema may be used as a certain means 
 of obtaining the desired relief, while it reduces the tem- 
 perature of the rectum, and removes the sensation of 
 congestion. At the same time, the use of the enema 
 does not interfere with the administration of any 
 homoeopathic remedy necessary to cure the disease, of 
 which the constipation is a symptom. The injection 
 should consist of a pint or more of water, according 
 to the portion of the bowel where the accumulation 
 exists, and should be slowly injected up the rectum 
 by means of an enema apparatus. On commencing to 
 use injections, the temperature of water for this pur- 
 pose should not be lower than 72°, and gradually re- 
 duced to 64°. Unirritating in its operation, and acting 
 directly on the seat of obstruction, an injection is 
 greatly preferable to deranging the whole alimentary 
 tract with strong drugs, which, after the unnatural exci- 
 tation has subsided, only settle back into a state of 
 greater debility and torpor than before. Still, it is not 
 advisable to use them too regularly, but rather only 
 occasionally. 
 
PILES. 167 
 
 56. — Piles (Hemorrhoids). 
 
 These consist of small tumors, sometimes outside 
 (external piles) and sometimes within (internal piles) the 
 opening of the lower bowel, either with or without 
 bleeding. They vary in number, from one small 
 intensely painful swelling, to numbers clustering to- 
 gether like a bunch of grapes. These swellings are 
 attended with pricking, itching, shooting, throbbing, 
 burning, or pressive pains, increased on going to stool, 
 and sometimes with dull pains in the loins. Blood is 
 often passed with the evacuations, sometimes only in 
 drops, but at other times in considerable and even 
 alarming quantities. 
 
 Causes. — Obstinate constipation ; drastic purgatives ; 
 heating and stimulating food or drink; a luxurious 
 life ; sedentary habits ; pressure of the enlarged womb 
 upon the vessels of the pelvis during pregnancy ; sit- 
 ting on cold stones, damp grass, or on warm or soft 
 cushions ; excessive boat or horse-exercise ; overexcite- 
 ment of the sexual organs ; or whatever causes a re- 
 laxed state of the mucous membrane or hinders the 
 return flow of blood from the lower bowel. 
 
 Treatment. — Nux vomica. — Valuable in almost every 
 form of piles, especially if associated with sedentary 
 habits, confined bowels, or the use of intoxicating 
 drinks, strong coffee, etc. See also Sulphur. 
 
 Sulphur. — Chronic piles, from abdominal plethora, 
 especially when associated with constipation. The 
 evacuations are often mixed with blood ; there is great 
 pain, and the tumors protrude considerably, and are 
 pushed back with difficulty; also with itching and 
 burning of the anus, and smarting pain in passing water. 
 
168 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 Sulphur is often alternated with Nux vom., the latter 
 administered at night, and the former in the morning ; 
 or Sulphur may follow Nux vom. to complete the cure. 
 
 Belladonna.— Eelieves throbbing and bleeding, and 
 lessens congestion to the brain in apoplectic subjects. 
 
 Arsenicum. — A hurning sensation, as from hot needles, 
 and general prostration. 
 
 Aconitum. — Profuse discharges of blood, throbbing 
 and inflammatory symptoms in the parts. 
 
 Additional Remedies. — Hamamelis, when there is 
 much bleeding. JEsculus, when there is little bleeding, 
 but constipation and knotty stools, and pain in the back. 
 Pulsatilla, in bilious persons, mucous discharge. Aloes, 
 rawness, soreness, much bleeding, loose bowels, and 
 prolapse. 
 
 Calcarea fluor. — Chronic piles. 
 
 A lotion of Hamamelis (ten drops to a teacupful of 
 water), to be used after motions and two or three times 
 a day, and applied to the parts on a piece of soft linen 
 at night, is nearly always helpful. JEsculus cerate is also 
 an excellent application, or the remedy may be applied 
 as a suppository and inserted at bedtime. These sup- 
 positories can be obtained at all homoeopathic phar- 
 macies. 
 
 Diet and Accessory Means. — Patients should avoid 
 highly seasoned dishes, coffee, peppers, spices, alcoholic 
 beverages and all kinds of indigestible food. Light 
 animal food, properly cooked vegetables and ripe fruits 
 form the most useful diet. Sedentary habits, too much 
 standing, and the use of cushions and feather beds are 
 prejudicial. The pain attending blind-piles may be re- 
 lieved by ablution with cold water, or with tepid water, 
 or tepid vineger and water, in equal proportions, if that 
 
PROTRUSION OF THE BOWEL. 169 
 
 be found more agreeable. Bleeding piles may be relieved 
 by drinking half a tumbler of cold water, and then lying 
 down for an hour. The horizontal posture should be 
 maintained as much as possible, especially for ten or 
 fifteen minutes after an evacuation ; this gives great re- 
 lief, and favors recovery. An occasional injection of 
 about half a pint to a pint of water up the lower bowel, 
 by means of an enema apparatus, acts most beneficially 
 by constricting the bloodvessel, softening the faeces, and 
 obviating straining at stool. The wet compress is also 
 recommended preventively, directly the first symptoms 
 are noticed ; and also curatively, with the other means 
 pointed out. 
 
 57. — Protrusion of the Bowel (Prolapsus Ani). 
 
 Causes. — This complaint is occasioned by long-con- 
 tinued constipation or diarrhoea, purgatives, straining at 
 stool, the irritation of worms, laxity and delicacy of con- 
 stitution, or like causes. Although not confined to 
 children, it is most frequent in them. 
 
 Treatment. — Ignatia. — This remedy is often specific 
 and sufficient, and is generally the first to be used. A 
 dose thrice daily, for two or three days ; afterward morn- 
 ing and night. 
 
 Podophyllum. — Bowel comes down with stool. 
 
 Mercurius. — Itching, discharge of yellowish mucus, 
 diarrhoea, and hard swollen abdomen. 
 
 Lycopodium. — Obstinate cases, and when other reme- 
 dies only partially cure. 
 
 Accessory Means. — When the bowel protrudes, it 
 should be reduced by placing the child across the lap, 
 and making pressure on the protruded part with the 
 fingers, previously lubricated with oil, and carried be- 
 
170 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. 
 
 yond the contracting ring of the muscle around the 
 anus. Bathing the parts with cold water every morn- 
 ing, and injections of water are useful. The action of 
 the bowel in the evening, just before going to bed, should 
 be encouraged, or the child should lie down on its back 
 for half an hour, with the legs raised after each motion. 
 A soft pad of lint, kept on the anus by a bandage, will 
 facilitate cure. The diet should be wholesome and un- 
 stimulating. A weak dilution of Calendula will relieve 
 soreness. 
 
 58. — Biliousness. 
 
 What are popularly called " bilious attacks," and sup- 
 posed to be due to derangements of the liver, are almost 
 invariably symptoms arising from and common to indi- 
 gestion, such as furred tongue, vomiting of bile, giddi- 
 ness, sick-headache, etc. One of the following remedies, 
 according to the particular symptoms, with a restricted 
 diet for twenty-four hours, and cold water ad libitum, 
 will usually suffice to cure an attack : Nux vom., Puis., 
 Iris, Pod., Bry., Merc. 
 
 Natrum sulph. — Excess of bile ; bitter taste, flatulence, 
 vomiting of bitter fluid ; morning diarrhoea. 
 
 Iris. — Headache, vomiting and diarrhoea. 
 
 Nux vomica. — When the pains are as if a nail were 
 driven through the head; giddiness, confusion and 
 fkintness ; worse in the open air. 
 
 Pulsatilla.— One-sided pains; better in the open air 
 and from compressure. 
 
 Administration. — Dissolve the selected remedy in 
 water, and take a teaspoonful every half hour until 
 better. Lemonade is frequently a grateful beverage in 
 this condition. 
 
JAUNDICE. 171 
 
 The whole section on " Indigestion " should be con- 
 sulted. 
 
 59. — Jaundice {Icterus). 
 
 Symptoms. — Yellow tinge of the white of the eyes and 
 skin ; the perspirations staining the linen ; bitter taste ; 
 light or clay-like motions. Constipation or, especially 
 in children, diarrhoea ; scanty and high-colored urine, 
 staining the linen yellow, depositing thick sediment; 
 slow pulse; dejection of spirits; and, often, febrile 
 symptoms. 
 
 When there is an obstruction from a gall-stone the 
 sufferings are most acute ; the pains come on in par- 
 oxysms, often with vomiting and hiccough. 
 
 Causes. — Interruption of the biliary functions, or 
 obstruction to the elimination of bile, so that it again 
 enters the circulation. The condition may be due to 
 the impaction of a gall-stone, organic disease of the 
 liver, atmospheric changes, unrestrained fits of passion, 
 dietetic errors, dissipation, etc. 
 
 Treatment. — Mercurius. — This is a valuable remedy, 
 especially after the inflammatory symptoms have been 
 modified by Aeon. A dose every three or four hours. 
 
 China. — This is preferable for patients who have been 
 drugged by allopathic doses of Mercury, and when due 
 to gall-stones. 
 
 Chamomilla. — Jaundice in passionate or fretful pa- 
 tients, especially children. 
 
 Nux vomica. — Jaundice, with costiveness, sensitive- 
 ness in the region of the liver, and connected with sed 
 entary habits or indulgence in alcohol. This medicine 
 following Merc, will give relief to all cases that are not 
 caused by organic disease or gall-stone. 
 
172 DISEASES OF THE URINAKY SYSTEM. 
 
 Other remedies are often necessary, but domestic 
 treatment should never be trusted to when professional 
 treatment can be obtained. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Cold water, to appease thirst; 
 extract of meat, toasted bread, scalded with hot sweet- 
 ened water and a little sugar ; roasted apples. Flannel, 
 wrung out of hot water, relieves pain. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 DISEASES OF THE URINARY SYSTEM. 
 
 60. — Difficulty in Urinating (Strangury). 
 
 This condition often arises from causes similar to 
 those which produce incontinence of urine, and requires 
 nearly the same remedies. It is a symptom of many 
 diseases, is often extremely painful, and life may even 
 be jeopardized. The treatment should, therefore, if 
 possible, be confided to a homoeopathic physician. 
 
 Tkeatment. — Aconitum. — Inflammatory symptoms, 
 often in alternation with some other remedy. 
 
 Camphor. — Spasm at the neck of the bladder, espe- 
 cially if caused by Cantharides ; a drop on a piece of 
 loaf-sugar every fifteen minutes for three or four times. 
 
 Cantharis. — Urging, with cutting pains. 
 
 Nux vomica. — Painful ineffectual urging, from the use 
 of wine or spirits, spasmodic stricture. 
 
 Mullein oil. — Constant urging with burning. Give 
 drop doses every hour until relieved. 
 
 Arnica. — Retention from a blow or fall, or other 
 mechanical injury, or from the irritation of calculi. 
 
INCONTINENCE OF URINE. 173 
 
 Accessory Means. — The introduction of the catheter, 
 so often resorted to under old school treatment, is fre- 
 quently superseded by our more efficient remedies; 
 still it may be necessary in some cases, and requires 
 professional skill. External applications — warm baths, 
 hot or cold cloths, fomentations and injections — greatly 
 aid the action of the medicines. Relief may often be 
 obtained by directing the patient to step suddenly, with 
 naked feet, on to the cold floor, or into cold water ; or a 
 sponge, saturated with cold water, may be suddenly ap- 
 plied over the region of the bladder. A simple and 
 often successful method is to plunge the hands deeply 
 into cold water, and move them about, as in the act of 
 washing. The diet must be sparing, and in severe cases 
 restricted to demulcent drinks, such as gum- water, bar- ' 
 ley-water and gruel. 
 
 61. — Incontinence of Urine (Enuresis). 
 
 In this disease there may be partial or entire loss of 
 power to retain the urine in the bladder, with frequent 
 urging. The muscular fibers of the bladder are over- 
 strained and lose their expulsive power, so that the 
 bladder remains filled and overflows in constant drib- 
 bling. 
 
 Causes. — Paralysis of the muscular fibers which sur- 
 round the neck of the bladder, from injuries, tedious 
 and protracted labors, the pressure of tumors, calcu- 
 lous deposits, syphilitic diseases, the irritation of 
 worms, etc. 
 
 Treatment. — Cantharis. — Acute inflammation of 
 the urinary organs, with irresistible desire to urinate, 
 and discharge of only a few drops of bloody, acrid 
 urine. 
 
174 DISEASES OF THE UKINARY SYSTEM. 
 
 Gelsemium. — Involuntary urination from a relaxed or 
 paralytic condition of the neck of the bladder. 
 
 Ferrum phos. — Incontinence during the day. 
 
 Nux vomica. — Urine retained with difficulty or passed 
 involuntarily, from irritability consequent on the use 
 of alcohol. 
 
 Aeon., Bell., Cole., Caust, Lye. and Sulph. are addi- 
 tional remedies in our list often required. 
 
 62. — Wetting the Bed (Enuresis Nocturnd). 
 
 Causes. — Irritation of worms ; too large a quantity 
 of fluids, especially if taken warm and in the evening ; 
 improper food or drink, giving rise to acrid urine; con- 
 stitutional weakness. The cause is often obscure, and 
 generally requires professional treatment. 
 
 Treatment. — Cina. — Enuresis from worms. 
 
 Belladonna. — Irritability of the urinary organs, with- 
 out any irritating property in the urine, especially in 
 sensitive children with too active brains. 
 
 Sulphur. — In cases of long standing give a dose once a 
 day for a week ; then stop one week, and again com- 
 mence with the remedy. 
 
 Mullein oil has been found a very efficient remedy in 
 this complaint, and may be tried in obstinate cases. 
 See the previous section. 
 
 Accessory Means. — All sharp, salty and sour articles, 
 malt liquors, spirits, tea and coffee should be avoided. 
 Meat in moderate quantities, but little fruit and no 
 flatulent food. Milk and water, or cocoa, may be taken 
 in the morning, but nothing hot toward evening. Cold 
 water and mucilaginous drinks may be taken in mod- 
 eration, as they diminish the sharpness of the urine. 
 The patient should sleep on a hard mattress with light 
 
ELEEDING FROM THE URINARY ORGANS. 175 
 
 'covering, take exercise in the open air, and have shower- 
 baths or daily ablutions with cold water. The whole 
 process of ablution, including drying with a large towel, 
 should not occupy more than five or six minutes. The 
 bladder should be invariably emptied before getting 
 into bed, and sleep after w r aking up in the morning 
 should not be indulged in. 
 
 63. — Bleeding from the Urinary Organs 
 
 (Heematurid). 
 
 The source of the hemorrhage may be the kidneys, 
 the bladder, the prostate gland or the urethra. 
 
 Causes. — Hemorrhage from the kidneys may be due 
 to the irritation of renal calculi, blows on the loins, con- 
 gestion resulting from scarlet fever, inflammation, and 
 such diseases as typhus, scurvy, etc. Hemorrhage from 
 the prostate gland, bladder or urethra may be caused 
 by the introduction of instruments, the irritation of 
 stone, venereal disease, abuse of Spanish fly, or by the 
 existence of an ulcer or tumor, of wdiich, indeed, it is 
 often the first manifestation. 
 
 Diagnosis. — Hemorrhage from the bladder may be 
 recognized by the discharge taking place principally 
 after the escape of urine ; and the quantity is also 
 greater, and often the clots are larger and more irregular 
 than when derived from the kidneys; the severe pain 
 in the lumbar region, the intimate admixture of the 
 blood w r ith the urine and other symptoms that ac- 
 company the bleeding from the kidney are not present. 
 
 Treatment. — Cantharis. — Discharge of pure blood in 
 drops, or copiously blended w r ith the urine, especially 
 when associated with difficulty in passing w r ater ? scald- 
 ing urine and spasmodic pains. 
 
176 DISEASES OF THE URINARY SYSTEM. 
 
 Camphor. — Hematuria from the use of Spanish fly 
 (Cantharis), as in allopathic treatment. 
 
 Arnica. — Hemorrhage from external violence, strains 
 or severe efforts. If the patient be robust, and inflam- 
 matory symptoms predominate, in alternation with 
 Aeon. A dose every hour at first ; afterward Arnica only, 
 every four hours. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Demulcent drinks — linseed-tea, 
 gum-water, etc. — may be taken in considerable quanti- 
 ties. The wet compress over the loins when the hemor- 
 rhage proceeds from the kidneys, or over the whole region 
 of the bladder, when the bleeding proceeds from that 
 organ, will mitigate the pain and hasten the cure. 
 
 64. — Spermatorrhoea — Involuntary Emissions. 
 
 In the early editions of this Manual, the subject 
 of this section has been incidentally mentioned under 
 one or two medicines in the materia medica ; and since 
 the first edition was published, the author has been 
 consulted by many hundred persons, in various parts 
 of the country, suffering from seminal weakness, prov- 
 ing that the evils of this affection are widespread as 
 well as serious. The author's practice and correspondence 
 with patients lead him to conclude that the disease is 
 much overlooked or underrated by medical men gener- 
 ally, although, probably, in some cases his treatment 
 has been adopted from an indisposition to refer per- 
 sonally to a medical man in the patient's neighborhood 
 on such a subject. 
 
 Causes. — The discharge alluded to generally occurs as 
 the result of a bad habit — self-abuse — either accidentally 
 acquired or learned from associates, especially in schools, 
 and continued under the influence of a morbid imagina- 
 
SPERMATORRHOEA. 177 
 
 tion, and often in ignorance of the consequences of the 
 vicious practice. Other causes may be an unhealthy 
 condition of the urethra, or of the rectum ; a too long or 
 narrow prepuce, causing irritation from the retention 
 of the secretions ; sexual excesses ; frequent excitation 
 of the sexual passion ; irritation from worms, piles, or 
 excessive horse-exercise ; disease of the brain or spinal 
 marrow, etc. 
 
 Effects. — The effects of spermatorrhoea are depres- 
 sion of spirits, often very marked; loss or weakness 
 of memory and of the senses ; indigestion with oppres- 
 sion after food, flatulence, constipation, headache, etc. ; 
 sunken eyes and loss of the healthy tints of the lids and 
 face, the patient looking older than his years. When 
 indulgence in the habit has been long-continued, the 
 effects, which need not be here particularized, are more 
 serious and general. Happily a course of judicious 
 treatment is sufficient in nearly every case to effect a 
 cure. 
 
 Treatment. — The treatment, both medical and hy- 
 gienic, must be varied in almost every instance, and 
 include all available methods for establishing the con- 
 stitutional strength, soothing local excitement and irri- 
 tability, and forming healthy habits both of the mind 
 and body. 
 
 No treatment can be successful unless the bad habit be 
 utterly relinquished. 
 
 The medical treatment involves the administration 
 of homoeopathic remedies (only two or three are de- 
 scribed in this work — China, Phosphorus, etc.), the se- 
 lection and the doses of which can only be determined 
 by the local and general symptoms of individual cases. 
 An important feature in the medical treatment should 
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178 DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
 
 be the correction of any concurrent affection from which 
 the patient may suffer. 
 
 The hygienic treatment involves influences of wide ex- 
 tent, and embraces the commercial, social and moral 
 relationships of the patient, occupation, recreation, 
 books, meals, sleep, bathing and mental and moral 
 discipline. The management of these several points 
 must be regulated according to the exigencies of each 
 case, and involves details which cannot be described 
 here. Under no circumstances whatever should the 
 patient read or consult the treatises advertised in the 
 newspapers or consult those advertising quacks. With- 
 out any exception, they play upon the fears of the patient, 
 and always do harm. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 DISEASES OF WOMEK 
 
 65. — Menstrual Disorders. 
 
 The first menstruation generally sets in about the four- 
 teenth year, but it may appear later, sometimes earlier. 
 There' are frequently premonitory symptoms, such as 
 headache, flushed face, pains in back and lower part of 
 abdomen, languor, irritability and pains in the breasts. 
 For such symptoms it is well to give a few doses of Pul- 
 satilla three times a day, and, after a few days, follow it 
 up with two doses a day of Calcar. phos. Keep this up 
 for several weeks until the function is regularly estab- 
 lished. After its establishment, great care must be 
 taken to prevent either cessation of the flow from cold 
 
PROFUSE MENSTRUATION. 179 
 
 or an excess of it from too stimulating food, late hours 
 or excitements. Warm clothes, and especially warm 
 shoes and stockings, are of primary importance in es- 
 tablishing the monthly flow and in preventing its sup- 
 pression. 
 
 Suppressed menstruation, when due to cold or sudden 
 shock of an acute disease or mental emotion, is gener- 
 ally relieved by a warm hip-bath, taken at bedtime, or 
 a warm foot-bath, to which a little mustard has been 
 added, and taking internally Aeon, and Puis. Take 
 six pellets alternately every two hours. Quite obsti- 
 nate cases of suppression of menses are met with on 
 change of residence from inland to the seaside, also in 
 chronic weakness, incipient consumption, etc. For the 
 latter condition Calcar. phos., a dose three times a day, 
 will prove of much benefit. 
 
 Painful menstruation. — More or less pain at tho 
 monthly period is very common in unmarried women, 
 but homoeopathic remedies will relieve most cases when 
 not due to organic troubles, which is rare. Use no local 
 treatment, but use the remedies, together with rest at the 
 time, and warm applications to abdomen. A hot water 
 bag to the back often gives wonderful relief. Magnes. 
 phos. is the first remedy, and should be taken in hot 
 water, a dose every hour or more frequently when pain 
 is severe and spasmodic. 
 
 Pulsatilla is the remedy for painful and scanty menses, 
 especially in mild-tempered, blonde girls, and patients 
 who are always chilly, yet feel better in the open air- 
 During the interval between the menses Calcarea pAo.^ 
 should be taken morning and evening. 
 
 Profuse menstruation may arise from weakness of tho 
 system, overexertion near the time of the month, late 
 
180 DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
 
 hours, etc. Avoid rich foods or stimulants, and rest im- 
 mediately before and during illness. China should be 
 taken if the discharge is dark and there are faintness 
 and weakness. Ipecac, when there are nausea and sick- 
 ness, blood bright. During the flow, no hot drinks 
 should be taken — cool lemonade is the best. During 
 the intervals take a dose of Ferrum phos. in the morning, 
 and a dose of Calcar. phos. at bedtime, "which will often 
 correct the tendency to profuse and long-lasting men- 
 struation. 
 
 Sabina. — Painful and profuse menses. 
 
 Hemorrhage from the Womb — Flooding (Metrorrhagia). 
 — This may occur under various conditions, many of 
 which are of such an intricate character as to be quite 
 unintelligible to non-professional readers ; indeed, it 
 would require a considerable treatise to describe the 
 various functional and organic derangements of the 
 womb, of which hemorrhage is but a symptom. We 
 shall therefore only suggest measures likely to be im- 
 mediately beneficial until medical aid can be obtained. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — At the commencement of 
 the discharge, or when the first symptoms appear, when 
 there are excitement, palpitation, anxiety and restless- 
 ness, etc., especially in full-blooded patients. A dose 
 every hour for several times. 
 
 Ipecacuanha. — Flooding of bright-red blood with 
 nausea. 
 
 Secale. — Painful, dark, and offensive discharge, which 
 is increased by movement or coughing ; pale face, cold- 
 ness of the extremities, extreme weakness. 
 
 Arnica. — When the hemorrhage follows a fall, strain, 
 misstep, overexertion, or other mechanical injury. 
 
 Additional Remedies. — Sab. } Croc, Ham. 
 
LEUCORRHCEA. 181 
 
 Accessory Means. — The^ patient should lie down 
 quietly on a hard mattress, with the shoulders low and 
 the hips raised, and move as little as possible ; the mind 
 should be kept calm, and order and quietness main- 
 tained in the apartment. In urgent cases, hot water 
 (120° F.) should be injected into the vagina. This is 
 superior to cold water or ice as a stayer of bleeding, and 
 it does not deprive the patient of strength as the appli- 
 cation of cold does. Should, however, there be no hot 
 water immediately at hand, cold water must be injected, 
 or pieces of ice introduced into the womb, or pushed 
 up the rectum. 
 
 Leucorrhoea, or " the whites," is due to general weak- 
 ness more than any other cause in young women. An 
 inactive life, indolent habits, late hours, imprudence in 
 dress, too stimulating food, habitual constipation, etc., 
 all tend to produce this condition. Avoiding these and 
 leading a rational, useful life, not self-centered, with 
 plain food, sufficient exercise in the open air, and 
 avoiding, in the case of young unmarried women, all 
 local treatment, except such as cleanliness requires, and 
 relying on homoeopathic remedies, will generally cure 
 the disorder. 
 
 Among the most useful medicines are the following : 
 Calcarea, especially in weakly, sluggish women in whom 
 the monthly flow is copious and too frequent, or if it 
 is attended with severe itching. Take a dose at bed- 
 time. 
 
 Sepia, especially for delicate individuals, or if the 
 discharge is acrid or corrosive. 
 
 Pulsatilla, two doses daily, if the discharge is thick 
 and the patient is of mild disposition, tearful, chilly, 
 and still feels best in the open air. In married women, 
 
182 DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
 
 leucorrhcea is frequently the result of other causes, and 
 needs the attention of a physician. 
 
 Change of life takes place usually between the ages 
 of 40 and 50 ; it may be a question of a few months ; 
 more commonly, however, it may linger several years. 
 In women who have led a natural life, been married 
 and borne children, and who have not interfered with 
 nature's methods, there is, as a rule, no disturbance 
 of any kind ; but more frequently, however, it gives 
 rise to much discomfort, anxiety, palpitation, flushes of 
 heat, unusual perspirations, fidgetiness, and even more 
 serious troubles, mental and physical. The first symp- 
 toms of the change are irregularity in the appear- 
 ance of the menses, and abnormality in its character. 
 The patient may pass several months and then have a 
 flowing spell that may be most profuse. Sometimes, 
 besides the usual symptoms above mentioned, there is 
 a sense of fullness of the abdomen which leads some 
 women to believe that they are pregnant, but it is only 
 another of the numerous nervous disturbances peculiar 
 to this period. A good deal can be done with remedies. 
 
 Treatment. — Lachesis is the most frequently in- 
 dicated remedy, especially for the flushes, palpitation 
 and general condition. It is well to take a dose of this 
 remedy two or three times a week for several months. 
 
 Kali fhos. may be taken after Lachesis in the same 
 way. Avoid all stimulants and narcotics. The tem- 
 porary relief they afford is delusive. Avoid overeating 
 as well, which is a common failing at this time. 
 
 Belladonna will greatly relieve the flushes and head- 
 aches. 
 
 Morning sickness of pregnancy occurs during the first 
 three months, but sometimes even during the entire 
 
SUPPRESSED SECRETION OF MILK. 183 
 
 pregnant state. Strict attention should be paid to diet. 
 Light and nourishing food, taken frequently in rather 
 small quantities, and cold effervescing water and cham- 
 pagne may be required for extreme vomiting. Milk 
 and lime-water, kumyss, popped corn or a little salt fish 
 will often be beneficial remedies. 
 
 Ipecacuanha when there are much nausea, loose 
 bowels and cough. 
 
 Nux vomica in bilious patients with constipated 
 bowels. 
 
 Arsenicum when patient is greatly prostrated. A dose 
 should be taken every two hours in severe cases, in milder 
 forms two or three times daily. 
 
 Sore nipples are often due to a naturally tender state 
 of the skin, or the too frequent nursing of a child af- 
 fected with thrush. Perfect cleanliness is absolutely 
 necessary. Applying arnicated water, made by dissolv- 
 ing ten drops of homoeopathic tincture of Arnica in a 
 teacup of water, immediately after nursing, and taking 
 a dose of Arnica pellets internally every three hours, will 
 cure the milder forms. A nipple shield will have to be 
 worn if the fissures should be severe In the latter 
 case give Silicea, morning and evening. 
 
 Inflammation of the breast may result from cold, or 
 excess of milk, due to the fact that it is not drawn off 
 at regular intervals. Great care is required to guard 
 against the influence of draughts and external injuries. 
 Should there be feverishness, give a few doses of Aeon. 
 half an hour apart, and soon follow it up with Bryon., a 
 dose every two hours, should there be any pain or lumps 
 forming " caked breast." Always consult your physician 
 in any disturbance of the lying-in period. 
 
 Suppressed secretion of milk may be caused by chill, 
 
184 DISEASES OF THE CUTANEOUS SYSTEM 
 
 mental shock or weakness. It should be remedied at 
 once. The breast should be fomented with warm flan- 
 nels and rubbed with sweet oil afterward. Give Aconite 
 and Pulsatilla, a dose every hour alternately. 
 
 Excessive secretion of milk may be due either to 
 weakness or exuberance of strength. Regulate the diet 
 and treatment accordingly. The full habit requires a 
 moderate diet, but little liquid food — the weakly re- 
 quires generous living. In the latter case give China, 
 especially if there be much perspiration, disturbed 
 digestion, and tendency to diarrhoea 
 
 Calcarea phos. may be given in either case, a dose 
 three times a day. 
 
 Suppression of the lochia may be due to cold, getting 
 up too soon or inflammation. Hot fomentation should 
 be applied to the lower abdomen, and warm vaginal in- 
 jection should be given, also a few doses of Aconite, until 
 the physician can be summoned. If the flow is begin- 
 ning to be re-established, give Pulsatilla every two hours 
 until all untoward symptoms have been removed. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 DISEASES OF THE CUTANEOUS SYSTEM 
 
 66. — Nettlerash (Urticaria). 
 
 Symptoms. — Prominent, round or oval elongated 
 patches or wheals of the skin, resembling those pro- 
 duced by nettle-stings. They appear and disappear 
 suddenly, are easily excited by scratching or exposure 
 to cold, and cause severe heat and itching. The eleva- 
 
ITCHING OF THE SKIN. 185 
 
 tions contain no fluid, and do not end in scaling of the 
 skin. It is not contagious, and may trouble the same 
 patient repeatedly. Chronic urticaria is very rebellious 
 against treatment, unless the cause be detected and 
 removed. 
 
 Treatment. — Apis. — Urticaria, with stinging or burn- 
 ing itching, and much swelling. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — If indigestion or dysmenorrhcea is present. 
 
 Antimonium crud. — From gastric disturbances. 
 
 Dulcamara. — From cold, with much stinging. 
 
 Rhus tox. — From eating shell-fish, etc. ; worse in bed ; 
 rheumatic patients. 
 
 Aconitum. — ^Vith feverishness. 
 
 Calcarea. — Chronic nettlerash, especially in scrofulous 
 patients. Also Sulph., the irritation coming on chiefly 
 at night. 
 
 General Treatment. — Bathe all over with warm 
 water into which a little carbolic acid has been dis- 
 solved, sufficient to give it some odor, then dry, and 
 powder all over with corn-starch. Smearing with bacon 
 fat gives great relief. A milk diet, and no stimulants. 
 
 Preventives. — A dry, uniform and moderate tem- 
 perature, plain food, exercise in the open air, cold or 
 tepid bathing, and great cleanliness. As the use of 
 flannel may be an exciting cause, by the irritation it 
 produces, it should never be worn by such patients 
 next to the skin. 
 
 Avoid shell-fish. 
 
 67. — Itching of the Skin (Prurigo). 
 
 This condition consists of an eruption sometimes 
 nearly imperceptible, which occasions the irritation. 
 Causes. — Rich, indigestible food, stimulating drinks, 
 
186 DISEASES OF THE CUTANEOUS SYSTEM. 
 
 extreme heat or cold, a constitutional taint, chronic dis- 
 ease, etc. 
 
 Treatment. — Sulphur. — Severe itching, with dryness 
 of the skin, worse in the evening, in warmth and in bed. 
 A dose twice or thrice daily. 
 
 Carbo veg. — When Sulph. only partially cures. 
 
 Aconitum. — Feverish heat, redness of the skin, thirst ; 
 symptoms worse at night. 
 
 Rhus tox. — Itching and redness, with swelling and 
 tingling. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Itching, with burning, or an eruption 
 emitting a small drop of watery fluid ; chronic cases 
 with constitutional feebleness. 
 
 Gale, Merc, Hepar and Puis, are also remedies in 
 our list sometimes required. 
 
 Accessory Measures. — Medicated ointments should 
 not be used, as they might transfer the disease from the 
 skin to some internal organ, where it would become far 
 more serious. In severe cases, temporary relief may be 
 obtained by bathing the parts with alcohol and water, 
 in equal proportions, or sponging the skin with a warm 
 infusion made by pouring boiling water on bran. Very 
 troublesome prurigo is much benefited by a warm bath 
 (p. 59), which is both soothing and curative; it should 
 be taken in the evening or when the patient has not 
 to be again exposed to atmospheric changes, and fol- 
 lowed next morning by the wet sheet squeezed out of 
 cold or tepid water, rapid drying, and friction. If the 
 irritation or eruption be limited, the use of a wet com- 
 press over the parts will also be beneficial, although at 
 first it may increase the irritation. Scratching must be 
 avoided. The skin should be strengthened by daily ab- 
 lutions with cold or tepid water — sponging, shower- 
 
RINGWORM. 187 
 
 baths, etc. — also by regular exercise in a bracing air. 
 Stimulating food and drink, pastry and other indigest- 
 ible diet must be avoided; also irregular hours of 
 meals. Look to the condition of the bowels and avoid 
 constipation. Without good hygienic measures, medi- 
 cines will be of little permanent utility. 
 
 68. — Ringworm (Herpes Circinnatus). 
 
 Symptoms. — Small round vesicles, filled with clear or 
 yellow fluid, on the head, at the roots of the hair, and 
 on various parts of the skin. The rings or patches vary 
 in size from a quarter to that of a dollar. There is 
 much itching, and in old standing cases the whole 
 scalp rnay be implicated; but the general health is 
 rarely disturbed. 
 
 Causes. — It is an epidemic affection, readily commu- 
 nicated by the touch ; and ill-health, poor food, dark, 
 badly ventilated dwellings, etc., favor its spread and 
 activity 
 
 Treatment. — Internal — Sepia.— This is usually the 
 only remedy required. Take a dose night and morning. 
 
 Local. — -Cut short the hair and wash well with soap 
 and water. Apply a little cod-liver oil to the spots 
 night and morning, rubbing it in gently with the finger. 
 Afterward, if this is not sufficient, the local applica- 
 tion of Sulphurous acid, Carbolic acid, or Oleate of Mer- 
 cury will destroy the parasite which causes the eruption. 
 
 General Treatment. — Cleanliness and change of air 
 are of great importance. The patient's towels, hair- 
 brushes, combs, sponges, etc., should on no account be 
 used by those unaffected. The hair and head should 
 be well brushed so as to excite the vital action of the 
 skin by the friction. A nutritious diet is recom- 
 
188 DISEASES OF THE CUTANEOUS SYSTEM. 
 
 mended; also an occasional tepid bath. Scrofulous, 
 emaciated children may require a teaspoonful of cod- 
 liver oil twice a day. Sudden and extreme changes of 
 temperature should be avoided. Popular remedies — 
 ink, tobacco-water, etc. — are dangerous. 
 
 69. — Shingles (Herpes). 
 
 Symptoms. — An eruption of vesicles on an inflamed 
 patch of integument, accompanied with a burning, 
 tingling sensation, and occasionally severe neuralgic 
 pains. Neuralgia may precede or follow the eruption 
 as well as accompany it. It is usually found in a half- 
 circle around the waist or chest. 
 
 Treatment. — Rhus. — In recent cases, much burning 
 in the vesicles. 
 
 Arsenicum. — More chronic cases, and in debilitated 
 persons. Dose: Six globules of the selected remedy 
 may be given three times a day. 
 
 It is a good plan to paint the eruption over with collo- 
 dion, or powder with corn-starch. 
 
 70. — Chilblains (Perniones). 
 
 Chilblains are due to a languid circulation of the 
 blood, and consist of a low kind of inflammation of the 
 skin, generally of the hands or feet, and are attended 
 with itching, tingling, burning, swelling, and sometimes 
 ulceration. 
 
 Chapped Hands. — This affection consists of slight 
 inflammation of the skin of the back of the hands, 
 which become cracked or "chapped." It occurs in 
 frosty weather, when it sometimes gives rise to much 
 inconvenience and pain. It requires similar external 
 treatment to chilblains. 
 
CHILBLAINS. 189 
 
 Causes. — Exposure to cold, damp, or to sudden 
 changes of temperature ; feeble circulation. 
 
 Treatment. — Tamus communis, in nearly all cases 5 
 either removes the disease or affords material relief. 
 Unbroken chilblains should be painted morning and night 
 with the strong tincture of Tamus, or it may be used as 
 a lotion. Should the skin be broken or ulcers exist, 
 Calendula should be substituted for Tamus, and applied 
 as a lotion, or in the form of cerate. Carbolic acid and 
 oil (one part of the former to six of the latter) ; Arnica 
 and soap liniment (one part of strong tincture of the 
 former to eight of the latter) are also efficacious. In- 
 ternal treatment is generally required for chilblains. 
 
 Arnica. — Hard, shining skin; pain and itching of 
 the parts. 
 
 Belladonna. — Inflammation, pulsative pains, fiery red- 
 ness, and swelling. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Burning pain, accompanied by ulceration, 
 especially in emaciated children. 
 
 Sulphur. — Chilblains of a blue-red color, with itching, 
 aggravated by warmth. Also to remove the constitu- 
 tional tendency. 
 
 Accessory Means. — For ulceration, poultices or other 
 mild applications should be applied until relieved. 
 Pork, salted meats, and all irritating or indigestible 
 articles of food should be excluded from the dietary. 
 Extremes of temperature are to be avoided, such as a 
 cold stone floor, and warming the feet on a fender, or 
 the hands close to the fire. After washing them, the 
 hands should be well dried. The soreness of chapped 
 hands may be much mitigated by wrapping them in a 
 water-bandage and covering them with oil silk on re- 
 tiring to bed. 
 
190 DISEASES OF THE CUTANEOUS SYSTEM. 
 
 71. — Ulcer ( Ulcus) — Sores. 
 
 Ulcers may arise from burns, bruises, inflammation, 
 varicose veins, or constitutional disturbance. They 
 require careful management, and many can only be 
 successfully treated by a homoeopathic practitioner. 
 
 Treatment. — Kali bich. — Ulcers on the leg, deep, with 
 hard bases and overhanging edges. 
 
 Belladonna. — Painful ulcers, having an erysipelatous 
 blush. 
 
 Arsenicum. — Ulcers with burning pain, easily discharg- 
 ing blood or thin matter, and presenting a livid appear- 
 ance. 
 
 Carbo veg. may follow, or be alternated with, Ars. if 
 the ulcer have an offensive smell. 
 
 Silicea. — Simple ulcers. Ulceration following abra- 
 sion of skin. 
 
 Hepar sulph. or Sulphur may also be required. 
 
 General Treatment. — A little soft linen or lint, 
 wetted in cold water, placed on the sore, covered with 
 oil silk, and lightly bound up with a bandage ; or Ca- 
 lendula lotion in the same manner. Ulcers on the legs 
 require rest, the horizontal posture, and constitutional 
 treatment. Open-air exercise should be taken, especially 
 during recovery; but much standing, or sitting with the 
 legs hanging down, is unfavorable. Among dispensary 
 patients, we find ulcers on the legs very intractable, as 
 the necessary rest and general hygienic conditions can- 
 not be observed. 
 
 72. — Boil (Furunculus). 
 An inflamed, pointed tumor, painful or tender, of a 
 deep-red color, terminating in suppuration. Boils gen- 
 
WHITLOW. 191 
 
 erally indicate a disordered condition of the blood, as 
 the result of insufficient, poor, or indigestible food, 
 anxiety, insufficient test, etc. 
 
 Treatment. — Belladonna. — An excellent remedy for 
 arresting a boil in its early stages, before matter has 
 formed ; it also relieves the pain. 
 
 Hepar sulph. — Pain of a pulsative character, indica- 
 tive of suppuration, which it promotes. 
 
 Silicea. — Indolent boils. 
 
 Sulphur. — To prevent a. recurrence of boils. 
 
 General Treatment. — As soon as Hepar is indi- 
 cated, a poultice, covered with oiled silk and one or two 
 thicknesses of flannel, should be applied. The poultice 
 should be kept hot and renewed until suppuration is 
 nearly completed, when a wet compress should be sub- 
 stituted. To prevent a recurrence of boils, attention 
 must be directed to their causes. If from derangement 
 of the digestive organs, seasoned dishes, pastry, sweet- 
 meats, etc., should be avoided, and a generous diet, 
 including animal food once a day, should be adopted. 
 Proper food, daily bathing, and recreation in the open 
 air will go far toward eradicating a predisposition to 
 boils. In obstinate cases, change of air is exceedingly 
 beneficial 
 
 73— Whitlow (Panaris). 
 
 This is an inflammatory swelling at end of the finger, 
 with a tendency to suppuration. 
 
 Causes. — Cutting the nail to the quick; a bruise, 
 burn, or other mechanical injury ; the introduction of 
 poisonous or acrid matter into scratches on the finger ; 
 unhealthy constitution. 
 
 Treatment. — Silicea. — The first and often the best 
 
192 DISEASES OF THE CUTANEOUS SYSTEM. 
 
 remedy for whitlow ; administered early, it often pre- 
 vents its maturation. If necessary, a warm bread-and- 
 milk poultice may be applied, anil the finger held in a 
 raised posture. 
 
 Aconitum and Belladonna, in alternation, every three 
 hours, if there be much pain, redness, throbbing, thirst, 
 restlessness, etc. 
 
 Helpar sulph. — During suppuration. 
 
 Poultices and general treatment as for boils. 
 
 74.— Corn (Clavus). 
 
 Causes. — Long-continued pressure or friction, or both 
 combined. 
 
 Treatment. — If medical treatment be required, one 
 of the following may be chosen: Calcarea, Sulphur, 
 Silicea. A dose morning and night, for a week or ten 
 days. After waiting a few days, if necessary, the same 
 or another remedy may be administered. 
 
 Accessory Means. — Corns can only be eradicated by 
 wearing easily fitting boots and shoes, frequently wash- 
 ing the feet and changing the stockings. As soon as a 
 corn appears, the surrounding skin should be softened 
 by a warm foot-bath, the hard head of the corn gently 
 extracted with the finger-nail, or some convenient 
 instrument, and the thickened skin pared off with a 
 sharp knife; the corn should then be dressed with 
 Arnica lotion (thirty drops to a wine-glassful of water), 
 and next morning a piece of Arnica plaster, or an Arni- 
 cated corn-plaster, having a hole punched through its 
 center, applied. The dressing may be repeated until 
 the inconvenience is removed. 
 
PALPITATION OF THE HEART. 193 
 
 75. — Warts (Verrucx). 
 
 Treatment. — Thuja. — The warts should be painted 
 once or twice daily with the mother tincture; at the 
 same time a dilution of the same medicine may be 
 taken internally, morning and night ; it is especially 
 necessary when the warts appear in crops. This course 
 may be followed for a week or ten days; and if improve- 
 ment ensues, as it often does, the treatment should 
 be continued longer. When Thuja does not succeed, 
 Rhux tox, may be used internally, a dose morning and 
 night. 
 
 Sulphur y once a day for a week or two, is an excellent 
 remedy for numerous and obstinate warts upon the 
 hands. It is also useful after other medicines and as a 
 preventive. 
 
 CHAPTEK X. 
 UNCLASSIFIED DISEASES. 
 
 76. — Palpitation of the Heart (Palpitatio Cordis). 
 
 Is a normal condition we are scarcely sensible of the 
 heart's beat; when, however, its pulsations become 
 much increased in force and frequency, the unpleasant 
 sensation known as palpitation is experienced. 
 
 Causes. — Predisposing — Nervous temperament ; hys- 
 teria ; a full habit ; diseases of the heart. Exciting — 
 Excessive joy, long-continued anxiety, fear, or other 
 mental emotions ; severe exertion ; the excessive use of 
 tea, coffee and other stimulants; profuse discharges: 
 menstrual derangements, etc 
 13 
 
194 UNCLASSIFIED DISEASES. 
 
 Treatment. — The following is only for simple cases. 
 If possible, palpitation should be treated by a physi- 
 cian. 
 
 Aconitum. — From excitement, with anxiety, coldness, 
 numb extremities, or a sensation as if the heart ceased 
 to beat; short, hurried breathing; hot and flushed face ; 
 and in plethoric patients. 
 
 Belladonna. — Oppression, tremor, palpitation extend- 
 ing to the neck and head ; congested face 
 
 Gelsemium. — Nervous palpitation. 
 
 Spigelia. — Palpitation with pain at the heart. 
 
 Ignatia. — When caused by grief or anxiety ; nervous 
 headache; hysteria. 
 
 Coffea. — Wakefulness and nervous restlessness ; palpi- 
 tation from joyful excitement. 
 
 Chamomilla. — Palpitation from passion. 
 
 Opium. — From fright, with drowsiness, etc. 
 
 China. — After loss of animal fluids — blood, milk, 
 mucous discharges. 
 
 Pulsatilla. — Hysterical symptoms, and in females 
 suffering from deranged period. 
 
 Administration. — During an attack, a dose every 
 twenty or thirty minutes; as the symptoms decline, 
 or in mild cases, every six or twelve hours. 
 
 Accessory Measures. — The causes should be avoided. 
 Pure air, cold water internally and externally, moderate 
 exercise, a contented disposition, and light, nourishing 
 and regular diet are excellent auxiliaries. Avoid watch- 
 ing the heart's action, counting the pulse, etc., and dis- 
 card fear. 
 
HEMORRHAGES 195 
 
 77. — Hemorrhages and Hemorrhagic Diathesis. 
 
 By the term "hemorrhage" is meant the escape of 
 blood from those vessels in which it is naturally con- 
 tained, whether the discharge be external or into one of 
 the internal cavities of the body. Profuse and long- 
 continued hemorrhages being dangerous, and the re- 
 sults often most serious, it is undesirable, except in 
 emergencies, to trust to domestic treatment. In con- 
 sideration, however, of the frequent suddenness of such 
 occurrences, the impossibility of securing at all times 
 the immediate attendance of a medical man, and the 
 importance of being prepared to act promptly to afford 
 temporary relief, we have devoted two or three sections 
 to the immediate treatment of several forms of hemor- 
 rhage. 
 
 Hemorrhagic Diathesis. — In some patients a pre- 
 disposition to hemorrhage exists which may be heredi- 
 tary or acquired, and is designated the hemorrhagic 
 diathesis. This condition probably consists in defective 
 contractility of the arteries, which may also be fragile 
 or soft from diseased processes, so being unable to resist 
 the force of the circulation, especially in congestion; 
 and in loss of coagulability of blood, from a defective 
 or altered character of the fibrine. the chief agent in 
 coagulation, and of some change in the red corpuscles. 
 Hence the most trivial wound bleeds almost uncontrol- 
 lably, and even life may be jeopardized, by a slight 
 injury or surgical operation. As stated, the hemorrha- 
 gic diathesis may not in all cases be hereditary, but 
 caused by diseases of the liver, spleen, etc., which then 
 exert a deleterious influence upon the constituents of 
 the blood. The knowledge o£ the existence of such 
 
196 UNCLASSIFIED DISEASES. 
 
 a diathesis is important, as it might materially modify 
 the medical and surgical treatment of the patient. 
 
 78. — Spitting (Haemoptysis) — Vomiting of Blood 
 from Ruptured Bloodvessel (Haematemesis). 
 
 It is not necessary here to determine whether the 
 blood comes from the lungs or stomach, as the immedi- 
 ate treatment should be the same in either case. It 
 may be stated, however, that when blood comes from 
 the lungs it is usually of a bright-red color, is discharged 
 with coughing, or is hawked up, and is often frothy; 
 but when from the stomach, it is of a dark color, is 
 vomited, and is sometimes mixed with food. Calmness 
 and judgment are especially necessary, as the discharge 
 of considerable quantities of blood is otherwise likely 
 to cause alarm, and disqualify for action. 
 
 Treatment. — Aconitum. — Chiefly indicated when 
 flushed face, palpitation and anguish accompany the 
 hemorrhage; or for the premonitory symptoms — shiv- 
 erings, quick pulse, palpitation, etc. Two drops in a 
 spoonful of water, repeated in ten or fifteen minutes, 
 or in one, two or three hours. See also "Accessory 
 Means." 
 
 Arnica. — Hemorrhage from a fall, a blow, or severe 
 exertion. 
 
 Ipecacuanha. — Haematemesis, with paleness of the face 
 and frequent inclination to vomit ; or short cough and 
 expectoration streaked with blood. 
 
 China. — Chiefly required after hemorrhage, for remov- 
 ing the consequent debility. Its chief indications are 
 frequent taste of blood, shivering, flushes, dizziness, 
 feeble pulse, cold hands or feet, fainting, etc. 
 
 Ferrum phos. — Bleeding from nose in rapidly growing 
 children. Bright-red blood. 
 
SPITTING OF BLOOD. 197 
 
 Arsenicum. — Difficult breathing, extreme palpitation 
 of the heart, anguish, burning heat and thirst, small 
 and quick pulse. 
 
 Hamamelis. — A teaspoonful of the extract may be 
 diluted with a tumblerful of cold water, and spoonful 
 doses given every ten minutes, alone or in alternation 
 with any of the above remedies. 
 
 Accessory Means. — The patient should immediately 
 lie down on a sofa or mattress, with the head and 
 shoulders elevated. All tight-fitting articles of dress 
 should be removed, and the patient kept cool and quiet, 
 and on no account be allowed to talk. There must be 
 no crowding round him, no talking, noise or confusion ; 
 and the room should be kept cool and airy, at about 55° 
 F. For some time, food and wine are not admissi- 
 ble, and the only drink that can be allowed is a little 
 cold water or the sucking of ice. Should faintness 
 occur, no alarm need be excited, as it is often nature's 
 method of arresting the bleeding. After the hemor- 
 rhage has ceased, the patient must still be kept cool, 
 quiet and free from excitement, and the diet be light 
 and unstimulating, while the position of the body should 
 be such as to favor the cessation of the discharge. 
 Gradually beef-tea, broth, milk and cocoa may be 
 taken, but not hot. These measures are necessary to 
 obviate a recurrence of the symptoms. Sometimes 
 hemorrhage is vicarious, as in females, when bleeding 
 from the nose or stomach takes the place of the menstrual 
 discharge. In such cases the treatment should be di- 
 rected to the establishment or restoration of the monthly 
 period. 
 
198 INJURIES — ACCIDENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 INJURIES— ACCIDENTS. 
 
 79.— Apnoea (from Drowning, Hanging, Suffo- 
 cation by Gas, etc.). 
 
 No time is to be lost. The two points to be aimed at 
 are : First, to restore breathing ; second, circulation and 
 warmth. Loosen everything about the chest and throat. 
 Place the patient on his back, the head and shoulders a 
 little raised by means of a coat rolled up and placed be- 
 
 Fig. 1.— Inspiration. 
 
 neath. The mouth should be cleansed, the tongue 
 drawn forward beyond the lips, and kept in this position 
 by means of a piece of tape or ribbon tied over the 
 tongue and under the chin. Taking hold of both arms 
 above the elbows, they should be drawn slowly and 
 steadily upward above the patient's head, and kept 
 stretched while counting, one, two. This is inspiration, 
 
APXCEA. 
 
 199 
 
 for by this means air is drawn into the lungs. The pa- 
 tient's arms should next be turned down and pressed 
 gently but firmly against the sides of the chest, count- 
 ing, as before, one, two. This is expiration, or emptying 
 the chest of air. These movements should be repeated 
 about fifteen times in a minute, until natural breathing 
 occurs. It is altogether wrong to suppose that life is 
 extinct if breathing does not soon take place, persons 
 haying been restored after persevering in this treatment 
 for many hours. Next — not before — commence rub- 
 
 FlG. 2.— EXPIRATION. 
 
 Figs. 1 and 2.— To illustrate the position of the body during the employment of 
 Dr. Sylvester's Method of Restoring Breathing. 
 
 bing the limbs upward with firm pressure, using hand- 
 kerchiefs or flannels, to favor the return of blood to the 
 heart. Warmth may be favored by the application of 
 hot flannels, hot bottles, or heated bricks wrapped round 
 with flannel, or by any means at hand, to the pit of the 
 stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the 
 soles of the feet Wrap the patient in a warm blanket. 
 A small quantity of warm brandy and water or hot 
 coffee should now be given. 
 
200 INJURIES ACCIDENTS. 
 
 80. — Fainting — Insensibility. 
 
 In all cases of insensibility, loosen the clothing round 
 the neck and chest ; and if caused by an injury, the 
 patient should be gently and carefully put to bed, and 
 kept perfectly quiet while a doctor is sent for. 
 
 The ordinary fainting fit is not as a rule dangerous, 
 and will be caused by several things, among which may 
 be mentioned " tight lacing." The patient's head should 
 be pressed down between the knees and kept there for 
 two or three minutes. The clothes should now be 
 loosened, and all tight clothing likely to interfere with 
 the free play of the chest removed. A good plan is to 
 place the patient flat on the floor, the head on a level 
 with the body. Bathing the face and head with cold 
 water is beneficial, and a stimulant, such as coffee or 
 wine, may be given. 
 
 81. — What to do when a Dress Catches Fire. 
 
 Place the patient on the ground in a horizontal posi- 
 tion, and if necessary use force to accomplish this, since 
 flames mount upward. Then take a rug, table-cloth or 
 coat, and throw over the flames, pressing it w r ell down 
 in all directions ; the flames are in this way easily ex- 
 tinguished. If this be promptly done, the frightful 
 injuries which are occasionally seen as a result of this 
 accident may be altogether prevented. 
 
 82. — Burns and Scalds. 
 
 Severe injuries from burns or scalds, especially those 
 implicating large surfaces, are very dangerous and often 
 fatal. 
 
 Treatment. — First, remove the dress ; and if any por- 
 
BURNS AND SCALDS. 201 
 
 tions adhere closely to the surface of the body, do not 
 tear them away, but cut around them as closely as pos- 
 sible. The burned part should then be placed in warm 
 (not hot) water, which will remove the adhering por- 
 tions. The most important thing to be done now is to 
 exclude air from the wound ; this may be accomplished 
 by dusting on flour by means of the common dredger, 
 or by applying gently a paste made with whiting or 
 chalk. If oil be obtainable, any sort (with the excep- 
 tion of mineral oils, such as paraffin) will do; the 
 application of this will give immediate relief. (The best 
 preparation is the "Carron oil," consisting of equal 
 parts of linseed oil and lime-water.) Soak in it a piece 
 of folded linen rag, and apply to the wounded surface 
 so as to completely cover it ; over this place some cotton 
 wool or wadding, and secure it in position by means of 
 a bandage. This dressing should not be interfered with 
 until the wound is healed, unless it has become fetid 
 from the discharge, when it must be removed very cau- 
 tiously, and a fresh dressing, prepared beforehand, ap- 
 plied at once. If the wound is very serious, and the 
 patient is suffering from " shock to the system," he 
 should be wrapped in a blanket and kept warm, and 
 medical aid at once sent for. 
 
 If, after the dressing is finally removed, ulcers exist, 
 Calendula cerate is a valuable application. 
 
 If there be very much discharge it must be carefully 
 and frequently removed, and the parts kept as clean as 
 possible. 
 
 Internal Treatment, except in the slightest cases, is 
 always necessary and must be suited to the part injured, 
 its extent and the constitutional symptoms present. 
 As a general rule, Aconitum, given early, does good, by 
 
202 INJURIES ACCIDENTS. 
 
 allaying fever, mitigating pain and moderating reaction. 
 In very severy cases a little warm brandy and water are 
 of service. 
 
 83.— Frostbite. — Sunstroke, 
 
 The aim of all treatment of frostbite is to restore the 
 emulation gradually. Nothing can be more hurtful 
 than bringing a person who has been frostbitten into 
 a warm room immediately afterward, or placing him 
 near a fire. The bad effects of this may be seen to a 
 lesser degree in the production of chilblains, by hold- 
 ing the hands near the fire in place of rubbing them 
 briskly. Therefore the patient should be kept in a cool 
 place, and the parts affected rubbed with snow or bathed 
 with cold water. By this means the circulation will be 
 gradually but surely restored. 
 
 Sunstroke.— The clothing should be at once removed 
 and the patient placed in the prone position, with the 
 head and shoulders slightly raised. Cold water should 
 then be poured, from the height of three or four feet, on 
 to his head and allowed to trickle down his back. If 
 an ice-bag, or bladder filled with ice, can be procured, it 
 should be applied to the head. Should the patient be 
 very much collapsed, a mustard plaster may be applied 
 to the nape of the neck. Give Glonoin internally 
 
 84o — Bruises (Contusions). 
 The prime object should be to excite as speedily as 
 possible the absorption of extravasated blood. If pos- 
 sible, the injured part should be raised, and a warm 
 Arnica lotion (one part of the tincture to ten of water, 
 applied by means of lint saturated with the lotion, cov- 
 ered with oiled silk, and secured with a bandage. If, 
 
WOUNDS. 203 
 
 however, the skin be broken, Arnica must on no account 
 be used, as it may induce erysipelas. Fomentations of 
 hot water used immediately after the injury, and at in- 
 tervals afterward, are often useful. A " black eye," or, 
 as the Scotch people more appropriately say, a " blue 
 eye," may generally be prevented by Arnica lotion, 
 applied immediately after the injury. Hamamdis or 
 Calendula should be substituted if the sufferer is sub- 
 ject to erysipelas. Where the bruise is very severe, be- 
 yond giving the part absolute rest, it cannot be dealt 
 with satisfactorily, except by medical knowledge. 
 
 85.— Wounds. 
 
 Wounds of the soft parts are of four kinds — incised, 
 made by clean-cutting instruments ; punctured, such as 
 pricks and stabs ; lacerated, the parts being torn, and the 
 lips of the wounds irregular; and contused, or bruised, 
 the surface being broken. 
 
 Treatment. — The following are the chief points: 
 1st. To arrest the bleeding. In slight cases, the elevation 
 of the bleeding parts, the application of cold, moderate 
 pressure, and the coaptation of the edges of the wound, 
 after cleaning them, will suffice. A Calendula lotion* 
 will serve to arrest hemorrhage, and check suppuration. 
 See, also, further on. 
 
 2d. The removal of foreign bodies. Dirt, hair, glass, 
 clots of blood, etc., should be removed by the fingers, or 
 sponge and water. 
 
 3d. To bring the injured parts nicely together. Any 
 muscular fiber likely to prevent complete reunion 
 should be snipped off with a pair of scissors, and after 
 
 * See Materia Medica, Calendula. 
 
204 INJURIES — ACCIDENTS. 
 
 the sides of the wound have been accurately adjusted, 
 they should be kept so by strips of adhesive plaster, 
 first applied to that side of the wound which is most 
 movable, and then secured to the other. Very long 
 strips should be used, to give as much support as 
 possible to the parts. But in extensive wounds, where 
 plaster would be insufficient, stitches must be employed. 
 
 4th. To promote adhesion. To secure this, the part 
 should be kept at rest, and if the injury be severe the 
 patient should remain in bed. 
 
 5th. When a wound is dressed, say once every twenty- 
 four hours, a sponge or rag should be wetted with warm 
 water, and laid over the dressing, so that it may be re- 
 moved without the risk of disturbing the surfaces which 
 may have partially united. Often the lotion may be 
 renewed by removing the oiled silk only, pouring a 
 little lotion on the rag or lint, and then replacing the 
 oiled silk. 
 
 6th. To control dangerous bleeding, as from a sharp- 
 cutting instrument. When blood flows in a steady 
 stream, and is dark-colored, it is from a vein, and can 
 generally be checked by applying cold water and ex- 
 posing the cut surface to the cold air. But if large 
 veins be wounded they should be compressed with the 
 fingers, or by a bandage. A few thicknesses of linen, 
 with steady compression, are more efficient than heap- 
 ing on a large quantity. When the blood is bright-red, 
 and flows in jets, it is arterial, and the same means must 
 be adopted as just pointed out, unless the bleeding is 
 excessive, in which case a handkerchief should be tied 
 round the limb, near the wound, and between it and the 
 heart, a stick inserted under the handkerchief, and a 
 firm compress over the course of the bloodvessel ; the 
 
WOUNDS. 205 
 
 stick should then be twisted until it stops the circula- 
 tion and, consequently, the bleeding (Fig. 3.) But this 
 is only a temporary expedient, for wounded arteries of 
 size require ligature or torsion by a surgeon before bleed- 
 ing can be permanently arrested. If no surgeon can 
 be obtained, a clever manipulator should grasp the 
 wounded artery with a pair of forceps, and draw it 
 slightly and gently forward, so that it may be securely 
 tied by means of a strong ligature of silk. 
 
 Fig. 3. 
 
 7th, Should a wound or bruise be followed by con- 
 stitutional disturbance— fever, chills and throbbing in 
 \he parts — medicines should be administered. Arnica 
 (as prepared for internal use) and Aconitum will gener- 
 ally meet the requirements of such cases, and should be 
 administered every one to three hours, in alternation, 
 for several times ; Belladonna, pain and swelling of the 
 injured part ; Hepar sidph,, when suppuration is estab- 
 lished ; Silicea, unhealthy suppuration. 
 
206 INJURIES — ACCIDENTS, 
 
 86. — Poisoned Wounds — Bites and Stings. 
 
 The treatment consists in the prevention of the spread 
 of poison through the body. This may be accomplished 
 by (1) Destroying the poison at the seat of injury by 
 cutting out the part. (2) Cauterizing the wound with a 
 knitting-needle made red hot, or with nitrate of silver 
 (caustic). (3) Tying a ligature tightly between the 
 wound and the body. (4) Sucking the wound, and in 
 doing so extract the poison. Before doing the last, the 
 operator should be sure that his mouth and lips are 
 free from fissures or cracks. If the mouth be sound 
 the poison can do him no injury. 
 
 When the wound results from a scratch with a rusty 
 nail or any similar object, our first care should be to 
 encourage bleeding. This may be done by sucking the 
 wound, or by placing it in hot water. The wound can 
 then be treated as an ordinary one (see preceding sec- 
 tion). If, in spite of these precautions, the wound be- 
 comes painful and throbbing, a poultice of bread or 
 linseed should be applied ; and if suppuration (gather- 
 ing) takes place, it should be opened with a large 
 needle or penknife, and the poulticing continued. 
 
 The stings of bees or wasps should be treated by ex- 
 tracting the sting, which may often be seen in the 
 wound, by pressing the open end of the tube of a small 
 key over the seat of injury. Ledum is a useful local 
 application. Tincture of Apis may be given internally, 
 as well as applied to the injured spot. 
 
 87. — Foreign Bodies in the Eye or Ear. 
 
 If a particle of sand, a fly, or a hair gets under the 
 upper eyelid, let the patient sit down, and, standing 
 
BROKEN BONES. 207 
 
 behind him, place a pencil over the lid, take hold of the 
 eyelashes, and turn the lid upward; the offending body- 
 can then be removed with the corner of a handkerchief. 
 If under the lower lid, turn it down, and remove in the 
 same manner. If a particle of lime has got in the eye, 
 care should be taken not to use water to remove it. A 
 weak solution of vinegar should be used. When the 
 foreign body has been removed, Aconite should be given 
 every half-hour, and Calendula lotion may be applied to 
 the eye on lint or soft linen. The patient should avoid 
 rubbing the eye to remove a foreign body. 
 
 In the Ear. — If any insect gains admission to the ear, 
 it may be killed by pouring in a few drops of olive oil. 
 If a body such as a pea, bead, etc., is the offender, a 
 piece of wire, with the tip slightly bent to form a hook, 
 should be introduced above the foreign body, so that it 
 may be turned out easily. 
 
 88.— Bloodshot Eye. 
 
 Treatment. — Two or three doses of Aconitum every 
 three hours, and the eye frequently bathed with tepid 
 water. If from mechanical causes, and there be no 
 abrasion of skin or mucous membrane, Arnica lotion 
 (six drops of strong tincture to a wineglassful of water) 
 may be used. Arnica may also be administered inter- 
 nally. If the condition be chronic, or recur without 
 mechanical injury, Arsenicum, thrice daily, should be 
 administered. 
 
 89. — Broken Bones (Fractures). 
 
 Symptoms. — A broken bone may generally be de- 
 tected by having felt it snap; there may be some 
 deformity, such as bending, or shortening ; and if the 
 
208 
 
 INJURIES — ACCIDENTS. 
 
 upper end of the bone be held firmly by the hand, the 
 lower part may be moved independently, and if the 
 broken ends are rubbed against each other, a grating 
 noise may be heard. There will further be pain and 
 loss of power in the injured part. 
 
 Causes. — Mechanical violence is the most frequent ; but 
 old age, paralysis and prolonged disuse of a limb ren- 
 der bones liable to break from trifling causes. 
 
 Fig* 4. 
 
 Treatment. — Before moving the patient, a temporary 
 Splint should be adjusted in order to prevent the certain 
 jolting that would occur. Anything that will give sup- 
 port to the injured limb without adding much weight 
 to it will do. If the fracture is in the forearm, it should 
 be immediately supported by a sling, which may be 
 made with a handkerchief and tied round the neck. If 
 it is the leg that is injured, a roll of music or newspaper 
 
BROKEN BONES. 
 
 209 
 
 may be used to encircle the limb, or an umbrella or 
 walking-stick may be placed at the side of the leg, and 
 secured in position by means of three or four hand- 
 kerchiefs. 
 
 The patient should now be raised gently, the injured 
 part being supported, and special care taken to prevent 
 the broken bone being forced through the flesh and 
 skin. He should be placed on a stretcher or litter and 
 
 Fig. 5. 
 
 taken to his home or to a hospital. A litter may be 
 made of a couple of poles and a horse-cloth or sack ; 
 even a door or hurdle may serve the purpose. Placing 
 on this, and carrying by two men, is much better than 
 removing him in a cart or carriage. It is important 
 not to be in a hurry, as an injury is often greatly aggra- 
 vated by carelessness or too hurried measures. When 
 a surgeon is within a moderate distance, after making 
 14 
 
210 INJURIES ACCIDENTS. 
 
 the patient as comfortable as possible, it is better to 
 wait for him to superintend the moving. 
 
 If there be a wound in the skin and much bleeding, 
 see " Wounds." 
 
 When the patient has been placed on a firm bed or 
 mattress and the injured part examined, the surgeon 
 will bring the broken ends of the bone into close ap- 
 position in their natural form, and, having done so, 
 maintain them in perfect contact and at rest, till firm 
 union has taken place. To maintain the proper shape 
 and length of the limb, bandages, splints and various ap- 
 paratus are required. Beyond the mere management 
 of such accidents, however, till he arrive, only a surgeon 
 can treat such cases. 
 
 Broken Ribs require a flannel bandage about two 
 hands broad round the chest, and shoulder-straps to 
 keep it up. A rather tight-fitting bandage lessens the 
 movement of the chest in breathing, and is a great 
 comfort. 
 
 90. — Sprain. 
 
 Treatment. — In severe cases the chief point is to 
 keep the parts at perfect rest, by means of a roller 
 nicely applied, or controlling the motions of the joint 
 by a splint. In simple cases the application of rags, 
 saturated with Arnica or Rhus lotion and covered with a 
 piece of flannel, will hasten the cure. The use of oil 
 silk should be avoided as dangerous. In all cases 
 Arnica or Rhus should be given internally. When the 
 pain and swelling subside, the joint may be partially 
 liberated, and gentle motion allowed ; but the greatest 
 care must be observed for several weeks in using the 
 limb, or the cure will be rendered difficult and tedious. 
 
FATIGUE AND OVEREXERTION. 211 
 
 91. — Fatigue and Overexertion — Blisters. 
 
 If the feet be swollen or blistered, or the ankles ache 
 after walking, a warm foot-bath may be used, to which 
 a teaspoonful of the strong tincture of Arnica has been 
 added, the relief afforded being immediate and perma- 
 nent. If the hands or wrists ache after excessive or 
 unaccustomed exertion, they may be bathed in about 
 a pint of water, to which twenty or thirty drops of 
 Arnica have been added. If necessary, in one or two 
 hours the application may be repeated. In muscular 
 fatigue from long-continued or short but severe exer- 
 tion, affecting the hips, thighs, etc., a hip-bath, contain- 
 ing a drachm of the strong tincture of Arnica, is an 
 excellent remedy. The patient should remain in the 
 bath about five minutes. Whatever kind of bath is 
 used, and to whatever part it is applied, it should be 
 ivarm if used in the evening or immediately after exer- 
 tion, but cold or tepid in the morning. Apart from the 
 external use of Arnica, that remedy should always be 
 taken internally, as it has a wonderfully restorative effect 
 in such cases. Alcoholic drinks should not be taken 
 after a fatiguing day. The formation of blisters may 
 be prevented by wearing easy but well-fitting boots, 
 that have become shaped to the feet, made of soft 
 upper leather and stout soles. After the evening bath, 
 whiting should be rubbed into the feet. Before starting 
 in the morning, spirits may be rubbed into the soles, 
 heels, and sides of the feet. Before taking very long 
 walks it is a very good plan to soap the insides of the 
 stocking feet. Silk stockings covered with woolen ones 
 will lessen the friction. Woolen stockings are greatly 
 to be preferred to cotton when silk cannot be obtained. 
 
212 INJURIES ACCIDENTS. 
 
 92. — Poisons. 
 
 When it is known that a poisonous substance has 
 been swallowed, immediate treatment should be pro- 
 ceeded with. A few minutes' delay may cause the loss 
 of the patient's life. 
 
 There are two classes of poisons — one in which an 
 emetic may be given, the other where an emetic must 
 be avoided. 
 
 1. Where there are no signs of burning or corrosion 
 about the mouth or lips, give an emetic. 
 
 2. Where these signs are present, an emetic must not 
 be given. 
 
 If an acid has been swallowed — oil of vitriol (sul- 
 phuric acid) is the most common — this burning or 
 staining on the lips will be seen. Dissolve some com- 
 mon baking-soda (the bicarbonate) or washing soda, in 
 some water, and give the patient immediately. If 
 neither of these is obtainable, scrape some plaster 
 from the wall, mix it with water, and give this. A 
 dose of castor oil may be given afterward. Milk, or 
 gruel made with milk, should be given to allay the 
 great thirst accompanying this form of poisoning. If 
 an alkali has been swallowed — potash, soda, ammonia, 
 hartshorn, etc. — acids must be employed. Vinegar, 
 mixed with half its quantity of water, or diluted 
 lemon juice may be given freely, alternated with olive 
 or salad oil. 
 
 If a metallic poison has been taken, such as arsenic, 
 antimony or copper, an emetic of mustard and warm 
 water should be given at once. If corrosive subli- 
 mate or white precipitate be the substance swallowed, 
 give &n emetic, and follow this with white of egg, beaten 
 
poisons. 213 
 
 up in water. This is the direct antidote/ and maybe 
 given in any quantity. Belladonna (deadly nightshade), 
 Digitalis (foxglove), Fools' parsley (hemlock) are some- 
 times eaten by children. Give an emetic of mustard 
 and water, followed by hot coffee or tea, and keep the 
 patient warm. 
 
 The following is a convenient emetic: For a child, 
 a teaspoonful of mustard to a teacupful of warm water ; 
 for an adult, a tablespoonful of mustard to a breakfast- 
 cup of water. This may be repeated as often as neces- 
 sary, so as to empty the stomach as completely as 
 possible. 
 
 Poisoning by opium (laudanum). It is most impor- 
 tant to keep the patient from sleeping ; once let sleep 
 overtake him, and his chances of recovery are indeed 
 small. An emetic should be given. The patient should 
 then be made to walk up and down in an airy place 
 supported by an attendant on each side (who can be 
 relieved if necessary), for an hour or more, until he can 
 sit down without going to sleep. As soon as he can 
 swallow, he should be given some hot and strong coffee, 
 but alcohol in any form must be avoided. Opium is 
 specially dangerous to children, even in small doses. 
 The same treatment may be used, but, in addition, rub- 
 bing the limbs with hot flannels should be practiced. 
 
PART III. 
 
 CONCISE MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 In this part we have only pointed out a few of the 
 leading indications for the use of the principal reme- 
 dies, including the Twelve Tissue Remedies. Many, 
 such as Aeon., Nux vom., Ars., Sulph., etc., are termed 
 polychrests, medicines possessing curative power in 
 many diseases. 
 
 In prescribing for so many complaints from such a 
 limited list of remedies, it is necessary to remark that 
 the Homoeopathic Materia Medica now includes several 
 hundred medicines; domestic practitioners, therefore, 
 who restrict themselves to these forty or fifty, must not, 
 in cases of failure, conclude that they have exhausted 
 the resources of Homoeopathy, or despair when so 
 wide a range of appliances is available to the profes- 
 sional man. 
 
 Many missionaries in foreign lands, as well as persons 
 at home, desirous of spreading the benefits of Homoe- 
 opathy among the poor, or in districts distant from a 
 physician, have sought instruction from the author 
 of this Manual, and during the number of years that 
 have elapsed since the first edition of this little work 
 was published, not a few have been actively engaged in 
 restoring to health multitudes from those classes who 
 need and claim such aid. 
 
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ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 215 
 
 1. Aconitum napellus. — The English names of this 
 plant are icolfsbane and monkshood, because its beau- 
 tiful flowers resemble the hood which monks used to 
 wear. " This medicine/' writes Hempel, " constitutes 
 the backbone, as it were, of our Materia Medica," there 
 being scarcely an acute disease in which it is not more 
 or less required. 
 
 The prominent uses of Aconitum are as follows : All 
 feverish and inflammatory affections, chiefly at their com- 
 mencement, and often during their course. Its especial 
 indications are thirst, and dry, hot skin ; chills and 
 shiverings, succeeded by burning heat ; strong, rapid 
 pulse ; restlessness, anxiety, flushing of the face ; pain ; 
 quick or labored breathing; dry cough, with fever; 
 deficient, hot, and high-colored urine; first stage of 
 cold in the head, etc. It probably surpasses all other 
 known remedies in its power of controlling the circu- 
 latory system, and triumphantly supersedes the lancet 
 and the leech. " To enumerate," says Dudgeon, " the 
 diseases for which it is suitable would be to mention 
 the acute inflammation of every possible order and 
 tissue of the body ; and if it be not for all of these the 
 sole remedy, it is almost always useful either previous 
 to, or in alternation with, another remedy which has 
 perhaps a more specific relation to the part affected." 
 Had Hahnemann's labors been limited to the discovery 
 and demonstration of the wide curative power of this 
 great remedy, they would have entitled him to the 
 gratitude of countless myriads of his fellow-creatures in 
 every succeeding generation. He most appropriately 
 ranks it as first and foremost in his Materia Medica, not 
 because its name begins with the first letter of the 
 alphabet, but because of its transcendent power and 
 
216 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 extended sphere of action : he terms it a most precious 
 plant, whose efficacy almost amounts to a miracle. 
 
 2. Antimonium crud. — This remedy is chiefly valu- 
 able in affections of the mucous membrane and the 
 skin, and more especially when they are concurrently 
 diseased. 
 
 It is indicated when the mucous membrane of the 
 stomach and alimentary canal is loaded with mucus, 
 producing eructations, foul, bitter, or tasting of the food ; 
 in nausea, with occasional vomiting ; fetid flatulence ; 
 loss of appetite; constipation, alternating with diarrhoea; 
 mucous discharge of the anus ; secretion of tenacious 
 mucus, with much hawking for its removal; milky- 
 white tongue ; slow digestion, with drowsiness, loss of 
 strength, etc. It corrects that unhealthy condition 
 of the digestive organs which favors the production of 
 worms. 
 
 Its skin indications are pimples or blotches ; rough 
 irregular eruptions on the nose or cheeks; ill-condi- 
 tioned, unhealthy appearance. 
 
 3. Apis mell. — Rapid swelling (oedematous) of vari- 
 ous parts; erysipelas, with great oedema; nettlerash, 
 and itching-stinging eruptions, with swelling ; stings ; 
 hoarseness and dry cough, with urinary difficulties; fre- 
 quent urging and inability to pass water ; dropsy after 
 scarlet fever, etc. 
 
 4. Arnica mont. — Its chief uses are in affections 
 resulting from injuries, tingling of the skin, convulsive 
 and spasmodic affections, lock-jaw, active discharges of 
 blood, vomiting and spitting of blood, and other com- 
 plaints from bruises, falls, etc.; severe concussions, such 
 as often occur in railway accidents, or in the hunting 
 field, without leaving external marks of violence; 
 
ARNICA MONT. 217 
 
 pains, supposed to be rheumatic, from long, heavy, 
 physical toil ; concussion of the brain ; immediate 
 treatment after operations and childbirth; rheumatic 
 pains ; stitch in the side ; fatigue ; chilblains, with hot 
 swelling and tingling ; swelling of the breast, soreness 
 of the nipple, etc. 
 
 External Use. — Bruises, concussions, incisions, fract- 
 ures, sore nipples, after extraction of teeth, etc. — The dis- 
 coloration, stiffness, swelling and soreness consequent 
 on bruises by blows or falls may be almost entirely pre- 
 vented by the prompt use of this remedy. Its striking 
 and rapid remedial effects, however, depend greatly 
 upon the promptitude with which it is applied after the 
 injury. 
 
 Formula for a Lotion. — Ten to twenty drops of the 
 strong tincture to about half a teacupful of water ; the 
 bruised parts should be bathed with this lotion, or 
 cloths, saturated with it, applied and covered with dry 
 cloths to prevent evaporation. Generally, Arnica, as 
 prepared for internal use, will hasten the cure, and 
 should be administered at the same time. 
 
 Caution. — In some constitutions the application of 
 Arnica lotion produces a very troublesome eruption 
 closely resembling erysipelas. For such constitutions, 
 Ruta grav. or Hamamelis virg. is a safer and better 
 remedy. Arnica should never be applied when the skin 
 is broken, nor should it be diluted with hot water. 
 Arnica oil is an excellent preparation for rheumatic 
 pains, stiffness and soreness, especially useful in chronic 
 rheumatism and aching joints. 
 
 Arnica cerate is the best preparation for cuts and 
 wounds as a dressing, after the lotion has been applied. 
 
 Arnica plaster is medicated, adhesive or court plaster, 
 and preferable on that account. 
 
218 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 5. Arsenicum. — Cold, influenza, asthma, bronchitis, 
 with difficult expectoration, wheezing breathing, etc.; 
 fevers — intermittent, typhoid and putrid — with great 
 thirst, debility, etc. ; diseases marked by depressed and 
 almost exhausted vitality ; cholera, in the more violent 
 forms of the malady; diseases of the stomach and bow- 
 els, especially when accompanied by great prostration or 
 burning pains ; severe vomiting, diarrhoea, with watery, 
 green or dark burning motions ; • skin diseases, particu- 
 larly those of a scaly nature ; eruptions about the 
 mouth and other parts, attended with burning, and the 
 discharge of a thin, watery fluid ; old or obstinate ulcers, 
 with burning or itching, or with a bloody, thin, or fetid 
 discharge ; and dropsical complaints. 
 
 6. Baryta carb. — Quinsy ; chronic enlargement of the 
 tonsils. 
 
 7. Belladonna. — This medicine almost ranks in im- 
 portance with Aconite in inflammatory diseases, charac- 
 terized by bright-redness of the parts, pain, intolerance 
 of light and sound, and other brain symptoms. It is 
 often required after Aconite, in inflammation of the 
 eyes, with dilated pupils, dread of light, etc. ; sore throat 
 with redness and sense of rawness; toothache, with 
 throbbing, and congested face ; complaints marked by 
 congestion in the head, or with convulsions, neuralgia, 
 and delirium. Affections of the brain and nervous 
 system ; eruptive fevers, especially simple scarlatina and 
 erysipelas ; violent headache, especially frontal, with 
 throbbing and redness, aggravated by movement; rheu- 
 matic inflammations with hot swellings, and swollen 
 glands. Its power in preventing attacks of epidemic 
 scarlatina, as well as of curing that disease, has been 
 abundantly established by facts. 
 
BRYONIA — CALENDULA. 219 
 
 8. Bryonia. — Pleurisy; pneumonia; dry, severe cough, 
 with a sensation of tickling under the breast-bone ; 
 cold in the chest ; stitches, and shooting pains in the chest, 
 acutely increased by coughing, a deep inspiration, or 
 even movement ; derangements of the liver and bowels ; 
 lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism of the joints, and all 
 rheumatic affections in which the pain is aggravated by 
 movement; bilious headaches, rheumatic fever, jaundice, 
 etc. The prominent gastric symptoms are waterbrash; 
 bitter or sour risings ; pressure on the stomach, or sen- 
 sation as if a stone were there ; and constipation from 
 inertia of the bowels. An irritable temper, and a 
 gloomy depression of spirits, are additional indications 
 for Bryonia. 
 
 9. Calcarea carb. — This remedy is chiefly used 
 in scrofulous, rickety and tuberculous affections. Gland- 
 ular swelling of the neck and abdomen; eruptions 
 around the eyes, and agglutination of the lids ; difficult 
 or delayed dentition, with heat and swelling of the gums; 
 deafness, with snapping and roaring noises in the ear, 
 and chronic disease of the ear; chronic diarrhoea; 
 incipient consumption of the bowels ; swelling of the 
 mesenteric glands ; cough, with fetid or bloody expec- 
 toration, or difficult breathing ; obesity, from a lax con- 
 dition of the tissues, or, on the other hand, emaciation; 
 diseases of females, when the menses appear too soon 
 and are too abundant; sterility; leucorrhoea; chronic 
 headache, worst in the morning, from mental fatigue; 
 also in inveterate and obstinate diseases of the bones 
 (rachitis) and skin. As a general rule, Calcarea is best 
 adapted to affections of women and children, and to 
 chronic diseases. 
 
 10. Calendula {marigold), — This remedy is used ex- 
 
220 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 ternally, and exerts a most favorable influence in 
 promoting the union of wounds with the least re- 
 sulting scars, and with the smallest amount of sup- 
 puration. Cuts, whether accidental or inflicted in oper- 
 ations, or injuries in which the flesh is much torn, and 
 which do not heal without the formation of matter; 
 wounds penetrating the joints, etc. In such cases it is 
 much preferable to Arnica, especially in constitutions 
 having a tendency to erysipelas. It controls hemor- 
 rhage and relieves the pains attending accidents. 
 
 Formula for a Lotion. — A teaspoonful of the pure 
 aqueous tincture to about half a teacupful of water. 
 Calendula cerate is the most useful application to aid 
 the healing process. 
 
 11. Camphor, Homoeopathic Tincture of. — This rem- 
 edy is valuable in the invasive stage of influenza (when 
 its administration will often terminate the complaint) ; 
 derangements in general, with chilliness and shivering; 
 malignant cholera, in the incipient stage of the disorder ; 
 excessive, sudden prostration of the nervous system 
 from any cause ; fainting and dizziness ; cramps in the 
 arms, legs, or abdomen ; severe purging. " It is antido- 
 tal to almost all the drastic vegetable poisons ; relieves 
 strangury ; procures reaction from cold, congested con- 
 ditions ; is the great anti-choleraic ; and quiets nervous 
 irritability sometimes better than Coff., Ign. or Hyos. 
 This is its whole clinical value — and a great one it is — 
 in a nutshell " (Holcombe). — In sudden attacks, two 
 drops on a small piece of loaf-sugar, repeated every fif- 
 teen or twenty minutes, for three or four times ; in 
 cholera, four drops, administered in the same manner, 
 every ten, fifteen or twenty minutes. The strongest 
 (Rubini's) preparation is the best. In consequence of 
 
CANTHARIS — CHAMOMILLA. 221 
 
 its volatile properties, it must be kept separate from all 
 other homoeopathic remedies. 
 
 12. Cantharis. — Affections of the urinary organs; 
 pain in the loins; scanty, scalding, and even bloody 
 urine ; tenderness about the bladder ; strangury ; sup- 
 pression of urine from acute congestion, etc. 
 
 External Use. — In burns and scalds with threat- 
 ened or actual blisters. 
 
 For a Lotion. — Ten drops of the strong tincture to a 
 teacupful of water. Cantharis cerate is the best local 
 remedy for chilblains, burns or scalds. 
 
 13. Carbo veg. — Affections of the digestive organs, 
 with oppression after eating ; flatulent distension of the 
 stomach, with acidity or heartburn; burning and con- 
 tractive pain and emission of fetid flatulence ; a burn- 
 ing sensation in the lower bowel; tendency to diar- 
 rhoea ; piles ; worms ; toothache, with spongy or ulcer- 
 ated gums ; hoarseness, loss of voice, and sensitiveness 
 to variations of weather ; chronic nettlerash ; itching 
 and burning of the skin ; unhealthy, burning, fetid 
 ulcers. Carbo veg. counteracts the injurious consequen- 
 ces of Mercury and Quinine. 
 
 14. Chamomilla. — Diseases of children and women 
 affecting the nervous, biliary, and uterine systems. 
 Convulsions, arising from teething, anger, or pain in the 
 bowels ; neuralgia, with tearing, dragging and lancinat- 
 ing pains ; toothache, the pains being worse at night, 
 tearing and stitching, with swelling of the cheeks, and a 
 feeling as if the teeth were elongated ; difficult dentition, 
 when one of the cheeks is red and hot, the gums swollen 
 and sensitive, the child irritable, and convulsions are 
 indicated ; diarrhoea of children, from cold or teething, 
 when the motions are watery, slimy, green, or yellow, 
 
222 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 and preceded by cutting pains ; dentition-fever, with 
 crossness, restlessness, and irregular circulation, one 
 cheek being hot, the other cold; catarrhal cough of 
 children, with hoarseness and rattling of mucus in the 
 throat. The action of this remedy upon the sexual sys- 
 tem of women is very marked, especially in dysmenor- 
 rhea, and in various derangements during pregnancy ; 
 after-pains. Also for the consequences of passion, and 
 when pain seems to be intolerable, owing to the extreme 
 sensitiveness of the patient. 
 
 15. China (Peruvian bark). — Weakness, with easy 
 perspiration consequent on exhaustive discharges — loss 
 of blood, diarrhoea, prolonged nursing, sexual excesses, 
 etc. ; consequences of intermittent and other miasmatic 
 fevers, purgatives, mercury, broken rest, etc. It is spe- 
 cific to many forms of fever of a periodic type ; debility 
 marked by disposition to sweat; exhausting night- 
 sweats ; diarrhoea, especially summer diarrhoea, with or 
 without pain, and when the discharges are slimy, bil- 
 ious, or mixed with undigested food, and very offensive ; 
 loss of appetite; bilious taste; flatulence; jaundice; 
 enlargement of the spleen, with a dirty-yellow complex- 
 ion ; debilitating seminal emissions from sexual vices, 
 with undue excitement of the sexual instinct, in pa- 
 tients weak, low-spirited, and dyspeptic. 
 
 16. Cimcifuga rac. — Rheumatic affections chiefly of 
 the left side, especially when there are uterine diffi- 
 culties or irregularities; nervousness; pains in the left 
 side below the breast in females ; pain in the lumbar 
 region ; crick in the back ; headache, with aching pain 
 in the eyeballs; palpitation of the heart; sinking at 
 the stomach (not of gastric origin) ; disorders of preg- 
 nancy and the critical age, etc.; menstrual troubles, 
 especially painful menses. 
 
CINA DULCAMARA. 223 
 
 17. Cina. — Homoeopathic to the condition which 
 produces intestinal parasites, and to affections arising 
 from their irritation ; especially threadworms, indicated 
 by picking the nose, grinding the teeth, convulsions and 
 spasms, voracious appetite alternating with poor appe- 
 tite, itching at the seat, diarrhoeic motions, discharge of 
 worms, wetting the bed, cutting pain in the abdomen, 
 hoarse, hollow cough in children, and other symptoms 
 from verminous affections. 
 
 18. Coffea. — Morbid sensitiveness and irritability of 
 the nervous system, especially the effects of joy; fret- 
 fulness and wakefulness of children ; nervous toothache; 
 almost insupportable labor-pains or after-pains ; nervous 
 sufferings of highly excitable children or hysterical 
 women. 
 
 19. Colocyntliis. — This drug has not a wide range of 
 action, and is chiefly prescribed for griping, flatulent 
 colic, with diarrhoeic evacuations ; neuralgia, sciatica, etc. 
 
 20. Cuprum. — Derangements of the nervous system, 
 cramps, convulsive movements, etc. ; St. Vitus' dance ; epi- 
 lepsy, with violent convulsions, paleness of the face, 
 dizziness, and great debility ; general nervous affections, 
 accompanied by spasm and emaciation; cramps and 
 vomiting of cholera ; extreme pain in the bowels, with 
 prostration, sallow complexion, and vomiting ; some 
 cases of whooping-cough, etc. 
 
 21. Drosera. — Whooping-cough, with suffocative symp- 
 toms vomiting, or bleeding from the nose, especially 
 when the " whoop " has become fully developed, and 
 after the use of Ipec. and Bell. ; also in spasmodic cough 
 generally, with a tickling sensation in the throat, vomit- 
 ing or wheezing breathing, and a feeling of suffocation. 
 
 22. Dulcamara. — Various affections — cold in the 
 
224 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 head, nausea, catarrh of the bladder, mucous diarrhoea, 
 etc. — from damp or a thorough wetting; itching and 
 stinging eruptions of the skin, and other conditions fol- 
 lowing a cold. If taken immediately after exposure to 
 damp, Dulc. will often prevent the ordinary conse- 
 quences of a cold. 
 
 23. Gelsemium. — This drug has a sphere of action 
 midway between that of Aeon, and Bell. Under the 
 nervous system, it is useful in nervous shiverings with- 
 out chilliness; excitement of hysteric patients; lan- 
 guor, etc., from night- watching ; neuralgic faceache, 
 with twitchings of the muscles near the affected part ; 
 spasmodic croup, when Aeon, fails or the brain is in- 
 volved ; simple sleeplessness of children, or from men- 
 tal excitement. In scarlatina it is useful when Aeon, or 
 Bell, fails to bring out the eruption bright, especially in 
 young children ; also in this and other fevers when there 
 is a tendency to remittency. . Weakness of sight, with 
 dimness or double vision, with dull heaviness in the 
 head, and dizziness ; palpitation of the heart ; pure ner- 
 vous toothache — many ailments of children during 
 teething, as sleeplessness, pain with sudden outcries, 
 spasm of the glottis, etc.; wetting the bed ; acute pain in 
 the muscles, from overexertion, etc. 
 
 24. Hamamelis. — Varicose veins ; hemorrhage from 
 veins; painful and bleeding piles; tendency to hemor- 
 rhage from various parts ; vicarious menstruation ; dys- 
 menorrhoea from disease of the ovaries ; discoloration, 
 as from a bruise. 
 
 External Use. — Ham. is sometimes a good substi- 
 tute for Am. when the latter does not agree with the 
 patient. It is a good application for chilblains, bleeding 
 piles, etc. One part of the strong tincture to four of 
 
HEPAR SULPH. IPECACUANHA. 225 
 
 water, or the Distilled Extract of Hamamelis may be 
 used, one part to three of water, especially in all kinds 
 of hemorrhages. 
 
 25. Hepar sulph. — This is a compound of Sulphur 
 and Calcarea, and has points of resemblance to each, 
 influencing the skin like Sulphur, and the glands like 
 Calcarea. It has also an action differing from either 
 of these remedies separately. It is chiefly prescribed 
 in inflammatory affections of the windpipe and air-passages, 
 croup, wheezing breathing, hoarseness; consumptive 
 coughs, etc. ; also for scrofulous enlarged glands discharg- 
 ing matter ; abscesses ; scaldhead ; salivation and other 
 consequences from large doses of Mercury. Like Silicea, 
 but to a less extent, it favors the suppurative process. 
 
 26. Ignatia. — This remedy is valuable for the con- 
 sequences of grief in persons, females particularly, of a 
 highly sensitive temperament, who often change from 
 high spirits to a low state of despondency ; nervous 
 headache ; hysteric, convulsive or spasmodic disorders, 
 consequent on grief, disappointment or ill-humor, with 
 the sensation of a ball rising in the throat (globus hysteri- 
 cus) ; nervous affections of girls at puberty, and women 
 at the critical period ; also some of the symptoms 
 of hypochondriasis in the male sex ; convulsive affections 
 of infants and children from worms ; prolapsus ani, etc. 
 
 27. Ipecacuanha. — Chiefly useful in affections of the 
 respiratory and digestive organs. Spasmodic, suffocative 
 cough with tickling in the throat, sometimes with nau- 
 sea, vomiting, bloody expectoration or bleeding from the 
 nose; spasmodic asthma, especially at night; whooping- 
 cough, during the spasmodic stage, with rattling breath- 
 ing ; hay-fever, and some varieties of bronchitis. De- 
 rangements of the digestive organs, characterized by 
 
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226 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 simple nausea and vomiting, with or without diarrhoea, 
 colic, with loose, fermented or dysenteric stools, especi- 
 ally in children. Hemorrhage from various organs, the 
 blood being bright-red, with anxiety, pale face, vomit- 
 ing, and much nausea. 
 
 28. Kali bich. — Affections of the mucous membranes and 
 the skin. On the respiratory mucous lining it has great 
 power, especially in chronic bronchitis, with much tough, 
 itringy mucus, difficult to expectorate; cough, with 
 wheezing, difficult breathing; chronically ulcerated 
 throat ; hoarseness ; chronic catarrh ; croup ; polypus of the 
 nose. It is curative in catarrhal and strumous ophthal- 
 mia, and in syphilitic affections of the eye. In the 
 digestive tract it is valuable in chronic dyspepsia, with 
 heartburn, eructations, nausea, thickly coated, yellowish 
 tongue, bitter taste, etc. An additional indication for 
 its use is a simultaneous affection of the respiratory and 
 digestive mucous membrane. Affections of the skin, 
 within a sphere of the action of this remedy, are chiefly 
 pustular eruptions, ulcers of the legs (see also Calendula 
 as an external remedy), especially of a syphilitic char- 
 acter, and pimples on the face. 
 
 29. Lyeopodium. — Atonic affections of the digestive 
 organs ; pain, sensitiveness or distension of the abdo- 
 men; waterbrash ; chronic constipation; gravel and 
 stone; moist eruptions; scaldhead; glandular swell- 
 ings, rheumatic complaints ; scrofulous ulcers ; loss of 
 hair. 
 
 30. Mercurins. — There are various preparations of 
 Mercury used by homoeopathic practitioners; but in 
 this Manual we have chiefly referred to two, as under : 
 
 1. Mercurius sol. — This remedy is prescribed for 
 glandular affections, with swelling and sometimes sup- 
 
NUX VOMICA. 227 
 
 puration ; sore throat, with swelling, pain, difficulty 
 in swallowing and ulceration; profuse flow of saliva 
 from the mouth with a fetid odor; thrush; cancrum 
 oris ; toothache from decay, with aching, tearing pains, 
 extending to the temples and glands, and a tendency 
 to gumboils ; jaundice, yellowness of the skin and of the 
 whites of the eyes ; ophthalmia ; agglutination of the 
 eyelids ; ulcers on the cornea ; discharge from the ears, 
 soreness, deafness ; diarrhoea, frequent desire to relieve 
 the bowels, preceded by chilliness, with green, clay, or 
 various-colored, slimy and offensive, evacuations, especi- 
 ally the diarrhoea of infants and children ; torpid liver, 
 with deficient secretion of bile, as shown by pale, fetid 
 and costive motions, dull pain in the right side, poor 
 appetite and dejection of spirits; long round worms; 
 syphilitic and scrofulous swellings of the glands in the 
 groins; gonorrhoea; syphilis, etc. Two marked symp- 
 toms indicating this remedy are aggravation of the 
 pains and general symptoms at night, and profuse 
 perspirations that afford no relief. 
 
 2. Mercurius cor. — Dysenteric affections, with tenes- 
 mus, burning pains in the abdomen and discharge of 
 blood and mucus ; ophthalmia. 
 
 31. Nux vomica. — Functional gastric derangements 
 from a depressed condition of the nervous system, 
 especially the following : Constipation, with ineffectual 
 desire for stool ; constipation alternating ivith relaxation, 
 the action being inharmonious and spasmodic; water- 
 brash, heartburn, flatulence, the symptoms being of a 
 spasmodic character ; headache, w r ith giddiness, flushed 
 face, constipation and other symptoms dependent on 
 gastric conditions ; acute indigestion with nausea and 
 violent vomiting, headache, trembling hands and other 
 
228 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 affections following intoxication. Chronic congestion 
 of the liver ; spasmodic asthma ; dry coryza ; irritable 
 bladder and spasmodic stricture, from abuse of alcohol. 
 The pains which point to Nux arise from spasm, and 
 not from inflammation. It is especially valuable in 
 affections resulting from sedentary habits, want of out- 
 of-door recreation, too close brain labor, anxiety and 
 business cares, night-watching, indulgence at table, and 
 the abuse of alcohol or tobacco. It is best adapted to 
 persons of spare habit, firm fiber and of energetic, 
 irritable or hypochondriacal disposition, with tendency 
 to irregular action of the bowels and piles. The symp- 
 toms come on or are worse early in the morning, and 
 are increased by taking food or by mental effort. 
 
 32. Opium. — Obstinate constipation, from paralytic 
 obstruction or want of peristaltic action of the intes- 
 tines; lead colic; paralytic retention of urine; recent 
 affections from fright or sudden violent emotions; 
 apoplectic conditions with stertorous breathing, and slow 
 and full pulse ; typhus fever with sleepiness, listlessness 
 and partial retention of urine; general mental and 
 physical torpor. As may be inferred from the last in- 
 dication, Opium is often useful in that nervous insus- 
 ceptibility through which remedies, although clearly 
 indicated, fail to effect improvement, when by restoring 
 impressionability it places the patient in a condition to 
 be benefited by the appropriate remedy. 
 
 33, Phosphorus. — Chiefly valuable in affections of 
 the lungs, and in long-continued, exhausting diseases 
 of w r hich the following is an epitome : Pneumonia, 
 especially in children ; chronic bronchitis, with con- 
 siderable constitutional irritation ; hoarseness ; dry cough, 
 or cough with expectoration of mucus, sometimes with 
 
PODOPHYLLUM PULSATILLA. 229 
 
 blood ; chronic cough ; consumption, in which it is 
 of signal use, moderating the cough, diarrhoea and con- 
 gestion of the lungs; chronic wasting, diarrhoea and 
 hectic; chronic inflammation of the stomach and 
 bowels; atrophy of the liver and other hepatic affec- 
 tions; malignant jaundice ; fatty degeneration in any 
 part ; typhus and other fevers, with want of vital reac- 
 tion ; also physical and nervous weakness from loss of ani- 
 mal fluids, especially from sexual excesses and self-abuse, 
 
 34. Podophyllum. — Biliousness, diarrhoea, watery, es- 
 pecially urgent in the morning, and prolapsus of the 
 bowels. 
 
 35. Pulsatilla. — Mucous dyspepsia, with thickly coated 
 rough tongue, nausea and vomiting of bile, mucus, or 
 of a bitter, sour fluid, with diminished or altered taste ; 
 indigestion from fat, pork, pastry or other rich food ; 
 mucous diarrhoea, with little pain, chiefly at night ; 
 heartburn. It assists in cleansing the tongue, moder- 
 ating the catarrh, and checking the diarrhoea in measles, 
 chickenpox, remittent fever, and other diseases of children. 
 In the respiratory mucous membrane it is chiefly useful 
 in catarrhal affections and subacute bronchitis, with much 
 mucous discharge. Puis, is much used in profuse 
 lachrymation, agglutination, twitching, styes and other 
 affections of the eyelids, especially of a subacute char- 
 acter, and in scrofulous persons. Deafness from catarrh, 
 or following measles, with noises in the ears ; earache 
 of children, with purulent discharge. Varicose veins, and 
 embarrassed venous circulation, especially during preg- 
 nancy. In gout and rheumatism, it is chiefly indicated 
 when the attacks are subacute, and the pains shift from 
 one part to another. The most remarkable property, 
 however, of this remedy is its action upon the female 
 
230 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 sexual system, as in tardy, scanty or suppressed men- 
 struation ; leucorrhoea ; false, delayed or deficient labor- 
 pains ; retained placenta ; excessive after-pains ; sup- 
 pression of the lochia and a deficient secretion of milk. 
 It is also useful in swollen testicle and other affections of 
 the male organs. Generally, however, Puis, is more 
 suited to the female sex, or rather to persons of gentle 
 dispositions or fair complexion, easily excited to 
 laughter or weeping, and with a tendency to relaxation 
 rather than constipation. 
 
 36. Rhus tox. — This remedy is chiefly used in 
 rheumatism and in affections of the skin. Rheumatism, 
 subacute and chronic, worse during rest and on 
 first attempting to move, but relieved after a little 
 movement ; lumbago, especially after the use of Aeon. ; 
 rheumatism ; sciatica ; paralysis, partial or complete, 
 especially from exposure of the back to damp and cold ; 
 vesicular erysipelas ; chickenpox ; ringworm ; shingles ; 
 scaldhead, etc. Rhus is valuable in sprains, injuries to 
 ligaments , tendons, joints and the membranes investing 
 the joints ; also in extensive superficial burns. The stings 
 of insects, old chilblains and sometimes warts are re- 
 lieved or cured by it. 
 
 37. Spongia. — We have inserted this remedy in our 
 list, not because it is in very frequent demand, but be- 
 cause it ought to be at hand whenever required. 
 
 Its grand use, alone or more generally in turns with 
 Aeon., is in croup, especially in the earliest stage, when 
 it will frequently terminate an attack in a short time. 
 It is also useful in dry, hard, barking cough, worse at 
 night; hoarseness, with dry cough and obstructed 
 breathing ; croupy cough, such as frequently precedes 
 or follows croup ; goitrous enlargements, etc. 
 
SULPHUR — TARTAR EMETIC. 231 
 
 38. Sulphur. — This drug has a specific action upon 
 the skin, and less so upon the mucous membranes ; in 
 a minor degree it affects all parts of the animal econ- 
 omy. In affections of the skin, it is indicated by an 
 irritation or itching, which yields an agreeable sensation 
 on scratching, and is aggravated by the warmth of bed ; 
 eruptions, chiefly papular, but sometimes vesicular; 
 boils, preventively and curatively ; chilblains ; whitlows ; 
 scaldhead, and in many scrofulous affections. Sulphur is 
 strictly homoeopathic to boils, since it is well known 
 that they often result from the excessive use of this 
 drug, as in drinking sulphur-waters. In affections of 
 the mucous tract, Sulphur is chiefly required in those of 
 the eyes, the urethra, and the rectum, as in strumous 
 and catarrhal ophthalmia; incontinence of urine; 
 chronic gonorrhoea ; prolapsus of the womb ; burning 
 and itching of the anus; piles and chronic constipation. 
 
 Sulphur is often of service in arousing dormant nerv- 
 ous energies, so as to render the system susceptible to 
 the action of medicines indicated. 
 
 39. Tartar emetic. — The chief sphere of action of 
 this medicine lies in the mucous membrane, the lungs and 
 the skin. In large doses it produces a kind of catarrhal 
 inflammation, beginning in the lining membrane of the 
 throat, and extending to the trachea and bronchial 
 tubes, and even exerting its irritant influence on the 
 lung tissues themselves. Clinical experience has amply 
 proved its value in certain inflammations involving 
 these parts, especially in catarrhal croup, bronchitis and 
 pneumonia. 
 
 On the skin it causes a pustular eruption resembling 
 that of smallpox. It also produces vomiting, and that 
 peculiar alteration of the blood which is character- 
 
232 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 istic of smallpox. As it might be supposed, then, Tart 
 emet. has been found a remedy of the first importance 
 in this disease, and, if timely used, scarcely requires the 
 aid of any other medicine. The vomiting to which this 
 remedy is homoeopathic is nervous and sympathetic 
 rather than gastric, and is attended by nausea, cold and 
 pale skin, and great prostration. 
 
 40. Veratrum album. — In autumnal diarrhoea, when 
 vomiting is superadded to the purging; English and 
 Asiatic cholera ; diarrhoea and painful gripings ; violent 
 vomiting and purging, short of that sudden deadly col- 
 lapse which indicates Arsenicum. Cramps in the bowels 
 or limbs ; headache with vomiting ; cold sweat and 
 coldness of the whole body ; black vomit; great weak- 
 ness and convulsions ; vomiting during pregnancy. It 
 is often beneficial in the convulsive stage of whooping- 
 cough. 
 
 41. Veratrum viride. — Fever, with severe headache and 
 brain symptoms, rapid pulse, and sickness; remittent 
 fever of infants ; the invasive stage of scarlatina, mea- 
 sles, etc., with head symptoms as above; erysipelas, 
 especially the vesicular variety ; here it may also be ap- 
 plied externally — thirty drops of the strong tincture to 
 half-a-pint of water — congestion of the head during 
 teething; pneumonia, etc. Inflamed corns, bunions, 
 etc., may be touched with the strong tincture. 
 
 Antidotes. 
 
 In the event of an overdose of any of the above med- 
 icines having been administered, two drops of the strong 
 Tincture of Camphor or a strong infusion of Coffee will 
 generally arrest any unpleasant consequences. 
 
THE CHIEF USES OF THE TWELVE TISSUE 
 REMEDIES. 
 
 1. Eerrum phosphoricum (Phosphate of Iron}. — All 
 ailments arising from disturbed circulation, fevers, in- 
 flammations, congestions ; thus whenever heat, pain, 
 redness, throbbing, quickened pulse are present. The 
 first stage of all acute diseases, colds, pneumonia, 
 p]eurisy, bronchitis, croup, diphtheria, diarrhoea, rheu- 
 matism, etc. It is the best and surest remedy for colds 
 on the chest in children, whether simple catarrhal 
 affections or going on to pneumonia. Nosebleed always 
 calls for it, or any hemorrhage from any orifice of the 
 body. Compare with Aconite, Gelsemium and Veratrum 
 viride. 
 
 2. Kali muriaticum (Chloride of Potash). — All ail- 
 ments characterized by exudations, infiltrations, swell- 
 ings, during the later stages of acute diseases ; thus, after 
 or in alternation with Ferrum phos. All ailments ac- 
 companied by a white or gray coating of the tongue ; 
 thick white discharge and expectorations, skin diseases, 
 dysentery, etc. An excellent constitutional remedy 
 for old chronic ailments, hereditary complaints and 
 dyscrasias. Compare w r ith Bryonia, Mercurius and Pul- 
 satilla. 
 
 3. Kali phosphoricum (Phosphate of Potash). — The 
 great remedy for all forms of nervous debility. It is 
 indicated in all diseases or symptoms arising from want 
 of nerve power, brain exhaustion, neurasthenia, sleep- 
 lessness, want of energy, irritability, lack of confidence, 
 
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234 TWELVE TISSUE REMEDIES. 
 
 gloomy forebodings, morbid fears, hysteria, hypochon- 
 driasis, melancholy, etc. Nervousness. Neuralgia and 
 pains generally, especially in those who are run down. 
 Headaches in delicate and excitable, nervous patients. 
 Paralyzing pains in limbs. Also the remedy for very 
 offensive discharges, offensive ulcers, etc. It is the 
 remedy for all nervous people, curing their headaches, 
 neuralgias, sleeplessness, despondencies and pains. 
 Compare with China, Ignatia, Lachesis and Phosphorus. 
 
 4. Kali sulphuricum (Sulphate of Potash). — A want of 
 this salt causes yellow, slimy deposit on the tongue, 
 slimy, thin, decidedly yellow or greenish discharges and 
 peeling of skin. Useful in any ailment where this con- 
 dition prevails, especially if patient is worse toward 
 evening, and in heated room. Catarrhs from any mu- 
 cous membrane — head, vagina, etc. — when secretion is 
 yellow and slimy. Frequently called for toward the 
 end of a cold, when the discharge is profuse and comes 
 up easily. Compare with Pulsatilla, Antimonium crud. 
 and Sulphur. 
 
 5. Magnesia phosphorica (Phosphate of Magnesia). — 
 Chief remedy for nervous complaints of a spasmodic 
 nature. All ailments with intense pain, darting, spas- 
 modic, constricting. It is the great anti-spasmodic 
 remedy, hence useful in convulsions, colic with flatu- 
 lence, St. Vitus' dance, spasmodic cough, cramps, neu- 
 ralgia, palpitation, toothache, writer's cramp, etc. 
 Chief remedy for baby's colic. Compare with Colocyn- 
 this, Belladonna, Ignatia and Coffea. 
 
 6. Calcarea phosphorica (Phosphate of Lime). — The 
 great remedy for the young and growing. Indispensable 
 during dentition and puberty. The tonic after acute 
 diseases and for constitutional weakness, consumption, 
 
NATRUM SULPHURICUM — NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM. 235 
 
 emaciation, bone diseases and all ailments that prove 
 obstinate. Slowly developing, weak children, chlorosis 
 and difficulties during menstruation; leucorrhcea and 
 pains during menses, especially in young girls. The 
 great remedy for transition periods of life — dentition, 
 puberty, old age. Compare with Phytolacca, Chamomilla 
 and Silicea. 
 
 7. Natrum sulphuricum (Sulphate of Soda), — Acts on 
 the cells of the liver and kidneys, and regulates the 
 amount of water in the tissues. Biliousness, headache 
 with vomiting of bile, bitter taste, diarrhoea, gravel, 
 sandy urine, intermittent fever, dropsy, diabetes, liver 
 troubles ; troubles arising from living in damp places. 
 Compare with Podophyllum, Bryonia and Nux vom. 
 
 8. Natrum muriaticum (Salt). — Is found in all the 
 tissues of the body. Useful for all pains, such as indi- 
 gestion, etc., when accompanied by either flow of saliva 
 or increased secretion of tears, vomiting of water or 
 clear mucus. Catarrhs with frothy, watery mucus or 
 blisters. In all catarrhs where the secretion is clear 
 and transparent. Headache, costiveness, intermittent 
 fever, with catarrh of the stomach. Compare with 
 Arsenic and Rhus. 
 
 9. Natrum phosphoricum (Phosphate of Soda). — Is the 
 remedy for those diseases that arise from an acid condi- 
 tion of the system. It is especially suited to young 
 children who have been fed with too much sugar, and 
 suffer from acidity. Dyspepsia, acid risings, sour vom- 
 iting, greenish, sour diarrhoea, tongue is coated with a 
 yellow deposit and thick like cream. Whenever this 
 condition is present, no matter what disease, this rem- 
 edy will prove curative. For worms and complaints 
 caused by their presence. Compare with Cina, Mercu- 
 rius and Antimonium crud. 
 
236 TWELVE TISSUE REMEDIES. 
 
 10. Calcarea fluorica {Fluoride of Lime). — A disturb- 
 ance of the equilibrium of the molecules of this salt 
 causes a dilatation and relaxed condition of elastic 
 fibers, hence useful in varicose veins, hemorrhoids and 
 vascular tumors. Also in hard bony swellings. For 
 piles ; if they are apt to bleed it may be advantageously 
 alternated with Ferrum phos. Compare with Silicea, 
 Hamamelis and Pulsatilla. 
 
 11. Calcarea sulphurica (Sulphate of Lime). — Acts on 
 the connective tissue and is the most useful remedy in 
 suppurations. Abscesses, mattery discharges, tubercular 
 ulcers, rheumatism. Compare with Hepar, Calendula 
 and Silicea. 
 
 12. Silicea (Quartz). — Is useful in suppurations, but 
 it promotes the formation of pus, maturing abscesses, 
 while Calcarea sidph. comes in later to heal the wound. 
 Diseases of the nervous system, paralytic symptoms, 
 spasms, rheumatic pain in limbs, etc. Compare with 
 Rhus and Calcarea. 
 
PART IV. 
 
 CLINICAL DIRECTORY. 
 
 The object of the Clinical Directory is to enlarge the 
 utility of this Manual by prescribing for numerous dis- 
 eases and conditions, arranged alphabetically, that 
 could not otherwise be included in the work, and to give 
 at a glance some of the leading remedies that the author 
 and other physicians have found valuable in practice. 
 
 To use this portion intelligently, it is essential to pos- 
 sess a knowledge of Materia Medica, as it is only in- 
 tended to refreshen the memory of the initiated, or to 
 consult it always in connection with a good work of that 
 description. 
 
 While we have endeavored to arrange the remedies in 
 the order of their importance, or in that in which they 
 are most likely to be required, our success cannot always 
 be taken for granted ; and, indeed, in some cases, our 
 necessarily brief list may not include the true homoeo- 
 pathic remedy at all. Individuality and idiosyncrasy 
 may greatly modify the choice. The perfection of pre- 
 scribing lies in a concentration of attention on individ- 
 uals, and in bringing into the focus of thought, as it 
 were, the morbid symptoms and signs present, with the 
 various circumstances of parentage, habits of life, pro- 
 clivities to diseased action, and any peculiarities which 
 may influence the patient. 
 
 Finally, we take the liberty to add, the Directory 
 consists of prescriptions that have been largely tested 
 and amply confirmed by clinical (bedside) experience. 
 
 *k* The contractions alt, int., and ext., signify alternately with, in- 
 ternally, and externally, respectively. 
 
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CLINICAL DIRECTORY. 
 
 Abscess.— Acute: Bell., Hepar sulph.; Merc. 
 
 Chronic: SiL, Calc, Sulph., Phos. ; Chin, (excessive discharge). 
 Mammary: Phytol., Bry. (for the earliest symptoms); Bell. alt. 
 
 Hepar sulph.; Phos. (chronic cases) ; Mere., Chin. 
 Threatening : Ferr. phos. 
 Acid Dyspepsia (heartburn): Carbo veg.,Bry.,Nux vom.; Lye. (in elderly 
 
 persons); Pulsat., Veratr. alb., Natr. phos. 
 Acne : Kali mur. 
 
 After- Pains : Sec., Kali mur., Puis., Arn., Cham., Magn. phos. 
 Ague: Chin, or Quin. ; Ars. (chronic); Veratr. alb. (severe and obsti- 
 nate); Phos. ac, Ceclron ; Nux vom. or Ipec. (much gastric dis- 
 turbance); Sulph. quin. {obstinate, symptoms variable); Ign. (much 
 
 chill with frequent paroxysms); Natr. sulph. 
 Alcohol.— Effects of Excessive Use of : Nux vom., Opium, Ars., 
 
 Caps.; Ant. tart, (gastric irritation); Laches.* 
 Alopecia (loss of hair). — From Previous Illness, Grief, etc.: 
 
 Phos. ac, Ign., Calc, SiL, Chin., Canth. (and ext. in pomade). 
 
 Thorough brushing with long-bristled hair-brushes. 
 From Mercury : Carbo veg., Hepar sulph. 
 With Frequent Headache : Fluor, ac, Mtr. ac, Phos., Sep. 
 Amenorrhoea (absent or deficient monthly period) : Puis., Sep., Calc 
 
 phos., Conium (chronic); Ferr. (with awxmia); Senec, Sulph. 
 
 See also Menstruation. 
 Anaemia (deficiency or poverty of blood): Ferr., Chin., Calc. phos. 
 Anger. — Effects of : Cham., Aeon., Bry., Coloc 
 Angina Pectoris (breast-pang) : Ars., Dig., Samb., Veratr. alb., Cact., 
 
 Laches., Veratr. vir., Strych. 
 Ankles.— Swelling of: Ars., Chin., Bry., Phos., Ferr., Apis. Also 
 
 rest in the prone posture. 
 Weakness of : Calc, Phos., Sulph., Sil. 
 Anus. — Itching of : Sulph., Nitr. ac ; Cina, Ign. or Merc, (from 
 
 worms); Ars., Aeon, (burning itching ivith dryness). Apply Ver- 
 
 bascum ointment. 
 Prolapsus of : Ign., Nux vom., Podoph., Merc. Local bathing, 
 
 injections, and carefully returning the prolapsus. 
 Anxiety, Care, Grief, etc.— Effects of : Ign., Aur., Nux vom., Phos. 
 
 ac, Puis., Gels., Chin. 
 Aphonia (loss of voice): Aeon., Caust. (catarrhal); Bar. carb., Phos., 
 
 Merc; Ign. or Bell, (hysterical); Kali hydr. (syphilitic); Arn. 
 
 (from overuse) ; Ferr. phos. 
 Chronic: Kali, bich., Hepar sulph., Phos., Carbo veg., Caust., 
 
 Kali mur. 
 
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 Aphthae (thrush) : Borax int. and at.; Merc, Ars., Snlph.; Sulphur- 
 ous acid spray (one part to ten of water) ; Kali mur. 
 Apoplexy: Aeon., Opium, Bell., Glonoin, ISux vom. 
 
 Predisposition to : Strict temperance in eating and drinking; 
 avoidance of excitement, haste, heated rooms, etc. 
 Appetite — Loss of: Chin., xsux vom., Puis., Rhus, Ars., Ferr. 
 
 Voracious or Depraved: Calc, Cina, ISux vom., Sil., Veratr. 
 Ascarides (see Threadworms) : Natr. phos., Cina. 
 Ascites (abdominal dropsy) : Apoc. can., Ars., Apis, Dig., Chin. 
 Asthma : Ars., Aeon., Ipec, Lob., Euphr., Cupr., Sulph. 
 
 Of Cheldren : Ant. tart., Samb., Ipec, Ars., Cupr., Natr. sulph. 
 Atrophy (wasting): Iod., Calc, Sulph., Phos., Ars., Calc phos. 
 
 From Worms: Cina, Merc, Ant. crud. 
 Backache. — From Exertion: Arn., Rhus, Bry., Gels., Natr. mur. 
 From Painful Period : Bell., Puis., Sec, Coca, Plat. 
 From Spinal Irritation: Chin., Ign., Kux vom., Gels., Kali 
 
 phos. 
 See also Lumbago, Menstruation: Painfue. 
 Baldness. See Alopecia. 
 Barber's Itch : Ant. tart., Cinnab., Ars. 
 
 Bed-Sores : Glycerine cream or Calendula lotion ; also Calend., Arnica 
 oil, or Arnica plaster. In bad chronic cases a water- or air-bed. 
 Prevention of: Washing the parts exposed to pressure morn- 
 ing and evening with tepid water ; and, after drying with a soft 
 towel, a little Glycerine or Arnica oil should be rubbed evenly 
 over the parts. When there is much redness, and the skin is 
 unbroken, a little brandy or other spirit of proof strength should 
 be applied. 
 Belching (see Eructations): Chin. 
 Bilious Attacks : Iris (sick-headache) ; Ipec ; Cham, (in children and 
 
 excitable females); Bry., Natr. sulph., Xux vom., Puis., Ars. 
 Bites and Stings : Ledum, Apis, Khus, Canth., all int. and exL 
 Black Eye : Arn. exL, immediately ; Ham. (broken skin or discolora- 
 tion) ; Ferr. phos. 
 Bladder.— Catarrh of : Ant. crud., Puis., Ferr. phos., Canth., Cann. 
 Inflammation of : Canth., Tereb., Apis, Aeon., Ferr. phos. 
 Paraeysis of : Bar. carb., Nux vom., Ars., Bell., Opium, Kali 
 phos. See also Urine. 
 Blear-Eyes : Euphr., Sulph., Puis., Merc. , Ars., Calc, Clemat. 
 Bleeding {see Hemorrhage) : Ferr. phos. 
 Bloody Urine. See Hemorrhage : From the Bladder. 
 Blotches : Ars., Bell., Hepar sulph., Ant. crud., Graph., Lvc, 
 
 Clemat. 
 Boils: Bell., Sulph., Hepar sulph.; Arn. (much pain); Apis (numer- 
 ous and small) ; Sulph., Hepar sulph. (to prevent recurrence). 
 Bones.— Caries (decay) of : Sil., Phos. ac, Sulph., Calc. fluor. 
 CurvatVre of : Calc, Sil., Sulph. 
 
 Exostosis (abnormal growth of) : Aur., Merc, iod., Calc fluor. 
 Pains in: Merc, Aur., Mez., Ars., Merc iod., Eup. pur. 
 
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 Bowels.— Inflammation of: Aeon., Bell, Coloc, Merc, cor., Ars., 
 Bry.; also hot fomentations, poultices, or wet compresses. 
 
 Pain in. See Colic. See also Constipation, Diarrhoea, Anus, etc. 
 Brain.— Concussion of: Arn., Aeon., Bell. 
 
 Congestion of: Glonoin, Bell., Aeon. 
 
 Inflammation of : Aeon., Bell., Yeratr. vir., Bry., Hyosc, Opium. 
 Breast-Pang. See Angina Pectoris. 
 
 Breath. — Fetid : Merc, Carbo veg., Spig., Aur., Aeon., Puis. 
 Breathing.— Difficult. See Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, etc. 
 Bright' s Disease : Ars., Phos., Merc, cor., Tereb., Canth. 
 Bronchitis. — Acute: Aeon., Ant. tart., Biy., Ipec, Phos., Kali bich., 
 Ferr. phos. 
 
 In Children : Phos., Ant. tart., Ferr. phos. 
 
 In the Aged: Carbo veg., Ant. tart., Senega, Squill. 
 
 Chronic: Kali bich., Hepar sulph., Phos., Carbo veg., Ars., 
 Kali mur. 
 Bruises : Arn. (externally). See also Contusion and Ecchymosis. 
 Bunions : Veratr. vir., Am. or Ruta, as a paint. Arnica oil. 
 Burns and Scalds : Canth., Rhus, Kreos. or Urtica, ext y very dilute; 
 
 Canth. cerate. 
 Cancer : Ars., Hydrast., Conium, Phytol. 
 Canker of the Mouth : Kali mur., Merc, Ars. (idiopathic) ; Carbo 
 
 veg., Mtr. ac. (mercurial) ; Sulphurous acid spray, locally. 
 Carbuncle: Bell., alt. Sulph. (early stage); Apis (much swelling); 
 
 Ars. (bad cases); Aeon, (much inflammation) ; Sil. (indolent). 
 Caries (decay) of Bones : Sil., Phos. ac, Aur., Mtr. ac, Merc 
 
 Of Teeth : Kreos., Merc, Staph., Phos. 
 Cataract : Conium, Phos., Cann., Calc, Sil., Sulph. 
 Catarrh.— General Tendency to: Calc phos., Natr. mur. 
 
 Thick Yellow Discharge : Calc sulph. 
 
 Chronic : Sulph., Kali sulph. 
 Chancre (a syphilitic sore): Merc, Mtr. ac, Kali hydr., Phytol. 
 Change of Life {see Menstruations Cessation of. 
 Chapped Hands : Arn., Calend. cerate, Arnica oil. 
 Chickenpox : Rhus, Sulph., Ant. tart. 
 Chilhlains : Petrol., Rhus, Cantharis cerate ext. 
 Child-bed Fever. See Puerperal Fever. 
 
 Chlorosis (green-sickness) : Natr. mur., Ferr., Puis., Sep., Calc. phos. 
 Cholera. — Infantum: Calc. phos., Veratr. 
 
 Malignant : Camph., Veratr., Cupr., Ars. 
 Chordee : Aeon. int. and ext; Gels., Bell., Canth., Chloral. 
 Chorea (St Vitus' Dance): Cupr., Agar., Veratr. vir., Bell., Ign., 
 
 Cimic, Ars. 
 Circulation.— Feeble : Calc phos. ; Carbo in old people. 
 Clergyman's Sore Throat: Ferr. phos., Phos., Hepar. 
 Cirrhosis (a diseased, contracted liver) : Phos., Merc cor., Dig., Ars. 
 Cold in the Head: Aeon.; Ars., Merc; Nux vom. (stuffy cold) ; Euphr. 
 (lachrymation) ; Kali bich., Kali hydr., or Sulph. (chronic). 
 
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 Cold on the Chest : Bry. alt. Aeon, or Ferr. phos. See also Bron- 
 chitis. 
 Cold Feet. See Feet. 
 
 Colic: Coloc. (with diarrhoea) , Nuxvom. or Plumb, (constipation); Iris 
 (flatulent colic)] Collin., Magn. phos. 
 Lead : Opium, Alum., Sulph. ac 
 
 Menstrual : Coca, Plat., Xux vom., Sec, Magn. phos. 
 Congestion of the Brain : Aeon., Bell., Glon., Opium, Gels. 
 
 Of the Liver : Merc., Bell., Aloes, Bry., Chin., Ars., Iod., Aeon. 
 Of the Lungs: Aeon., Phos., Veratr. vir., Ant. tart., Ferr. phos. 
 Constipation: Nux vom. (frequent ineffectual efforts) ; Bry. or Opium. 
 (torpor) ; Lye. (with flatulence) ; Sulph., Collin., or iEscul. (with 
 piles) ; Plumb, (obstinate). 
 Consumption: Phos., Ars., Phos. ac., Ferr. iod., Dros., Calc. iod., 
 Lycop., Cannab. 
 Of the Bowels: Iod., Calc, Ferr., Sulph., Merc iod., Ars. 
 Contusion : Arn. ; Ham. (with discoloration) ; Conium (of the female 
 
 breast) ; Ruta (of the shin-bone) ; all int. and ext. 
 Convulsions : Bell., Cham., Veratr. vir. (with cramp); Gels, {rigidity) ; 
 Opium (from fright). Also enemata of warm water. See also 
 Epilepsy. 
 Hysterical : Camph., Magn. phos., Moschus, Ign., Hyosc. 
 Corns: Calc, Sulph. Also Arn. (simple), or Veratr. vir. (inflamed), 
 
 ext. use of. 
 Corpulency. See Obesity. 
 
 Cough. — Catarrhal : Aeon., Bell., Bry., Caust., Ferr. phos., Phytol. 
 Chronic : Kali bich., Sulph., Phos., Bry. 
 Croupous : Spong., Hepar sulph., Cupr. 
 Hysterical : Coral., Hyosc, Ign. 
 Whooping : Ipec, Dros., Coral., Veratr. vir., Gels, or Bell, (head 
 
 symptoms) ; Magn. phos. 
 In most cases cough may be modified by strong efforts of the will 
 to resist it. 
 Cracks of the Lips, etc: Graph., Merc. Also Arn. or Calend. cerate. 
 Cramps. — In the Abdomen. See Colic. 
 
 In the Calves : Veratr., Nux vom. ; Arn. (from fatigue) ; Bell., 
 
 Cupr., Gels. 
 In the Stomach : Nux vom., Diosc, Cocc, Magn. phos. 
 Crick in the Neck : Aeon. alt. Bell, (cold) ; Cimic, Bry. 
 Critical Age. See Menstruation : Cessation of. 
 Croup: Aeon. alt Spong., Iod., or Hep. 
 Cyanosis (blue disease) : Dig., Ars., Cupr., Veratr. 
 Cystitis (inflammation of the bladder): Canth., Tereb., Apis. 
 Dandruff (scurf on the head): Ars., Graph., Lye, Sulph., Rhus. 
 Deafness.— From Cold : Aeon., Merc, Bell., Puis., Dulc, Kali mur. 
 Mullein oil locally is of marked benefit. 
 From Enlargement of Tonsils : Merc, iod.. Bell., Calc. phos., 
 
 Bar. carb.; Iod. or Kali hydr. (chronic). 
 After Measles : Puis., Sulph., BelL 
 
242 CLINICAL DIRECTORY. 
 
 Deaf ne8s.— After Scarlatina : Bell., Hepar sulph., Calc. 
 
 After Smallpox : Merc., Sulph., Bell. 
 
 From Nervous Disease : Phos., Phos. ac., Chin.; Petrol, (noises). 
 Debility : Chin., Ferr., Phos., Phos. ac. (from loss of blood, etc.); Calc. 
 
 phos., Ign., IocL, Nux vom. (nervous) ; Kali phos. 
 Delirium Tremens : Stram., Opium, Bell., Hyosc, Nux vom. 
 Dentition (difficult) : Calc. phos., Cham., Aeon., Kreos., Veratr. vir., 
 
 Phytol. 
 Depression of Spirits : Ign., Aur., Chin., Nux vom., Plat. ; Merc., or 
 
 Podoph. (from disordered liver) ; Kali phos. 
 Determination of Blood. See Congestion. 
 Diabetes (excessive sugary urine): Phos. ac, Ars., Nux vom., Helon., 
 
 Uran. nit. 
 Diarrhoea — From Indigestible Food : Ant. crud., Puis., Ipec. 
 
 From Cold: Aeon., Dulc, Merc, Camph. (sudden). 
 
 From Worms: Cina, Ars., Merc, Natr. phos. 
 
 With Colic : Coloc, Veratr., Magn. phos. 
 
 Nocturnal: Puis., Chin., Khus {morning). 
 
 Summer : Chin., Veratr., Cham., Ars., Iris. 
 
 In Children : Cham., Merc, Rheum, Ipec, Dulc, Calc. phos. 
 
 In the Aged : Phos., Ars., Chin., Ant. crud. 
 Diphtheria: Merc cy., Bell., Phytol., Mere, iod., Ferr. phos. and 
 
 Kali mur. in alternation every hour. Phytol. as a gargle. 
 Dizziness: Aeon., Bell., Nux vom., Cocc, Bry., Puis., Gels. 
 Dropsy : Ars., Apis, Dig., Bry., Chin., Apoc. can. 
 
 Of the Abdomen. See Ascites. 
 
 Of the Brain. See Water in the Head. 
 
 Of the Chest: Dig., Ars., Bry., Helleb. 
 
 Of the Extremities. See (Edema. 
 
 Post-Scarlatinal : Apis, Ars., Canth., Helleb. 
 
 Of the Scrotum : Iod., Rhod., Graph., Aur. 
 Drowsiness: Opium, Aeon., Bell.; Lye (after dinner) ; Gels. 
 Dysentery: Merc, cor., Ipec, Ars., Aloes (chronic, with piles), Ham., 
 
 Kali mur. 
 Dysmenorrhea. See Menstruation: Painful. 
 Dyspepsia. See Indigestion. 
 Ear. — Aching of: Bell., Puis., Merc, Cham., Aeon., Plantag. 
 
 Discharge from : Hepar sulph., Calc, Puis., Carbol. ac, Merc, 
 Caust.,, Kali mur. 
 
 Soreness of: Mur. ac, Puis; Caust. (eruption about the ear). 
 
 Inflammation of: Aeon., Bell., Puis., Merc sol. 
 
 Noises in : Aeon., Chin, sulph., Nux vom., Sulph., Natr. salic 
 Ecchymosis (blackness under the skin) : Ham., Am., Bhus. 
 Eczema (a non-contagious itching eruption) : Ars., Calc, Merc, Bhus; 
 
 Crot. tig., Sulph. (much iiehing) ; Kali mar. 
 Enuresis (see Urine).— Incontinence: Mullein oil. 
 Epilepsy : Bell., Cupr., Hyosc, Stram., Veratr. Yir., Ign. ; Ars., Zinc, 
 Calc (chronic) \ Bufo. 
 
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 Epistaxis {bleeding from the nose): Ham. (dark blood); Ipec. (bright 
 
 blood) ; Puis, (absent or deficient period) ; Bry., Aeon., Ferr. phos. 
 Eructations: Bry., Xux vom.. Puis., Sulph. ac, Lye, Carbo veg., 
 
 Ars., Cham., Arg., Natr. 
 Eruptions : Sulph., Ars., Kali mur. 
 
 Erysipelas : Aeon., Bell., Rhus, Veratr. vir., Apis, Canth. 
 Excoriations of Infants : Cham., Calc., Lye., Sulph. Also Hydrast. 
 
 or Calend. ext. ; or the parts dusted with powdered starch. 
 Preventive : Tepid washing, followed by careful drying, moruing 
 
 and evening. 
 Eyelids. — Agglutination (gumming) of: Merc, Hepar sulph., Calc, 
 
 Sulph., Puis. 
 Eyes.— Inflammation of._ See Ophthalmia. 
 
 Soke: Merc, Clematis, Nitr! ac, Euphr., Bell., Merc cor. 
 Squinting of (strabismus): Bell., Hyosc., Gels., Stram. 
 Weak: Sulph., Phos., Iod., Bell. 
 YvV)UNDS of: Arn. alt. Aeon. ; Bell., Ham. 
 Faceache: Aeon., Bell., Coloc, Spig. ; Cimic (when the eyeballs are 
 
 affected) ; Cham., Sticta. See also Gumboils. 
 Fainting : Mosch., Caniph., Ign., Veratr., Iod., Chin., Magn. phos. 
 Feet. — Burning in: Sulph.. SiL 
 
 Blistered, etc., from walking : Arnica bath. 
 Cold: Sep., Puis., Ferr. The daily nse of the skipping-rope. 
 Fetid Sweat of : SiL, Petrol., Xitr. ac, Graph. 
 Fever. — Simple: Aeon, or Ferr. phos. 
 Fistula : SiL, Fluor, ac, Calc. ; also Hydrast. ext. 
 Flatulence : Xux vom., Carbo veg. (stomach) ; Lye (bowels) ; Chin. 
 Flooding. See Menstruation : Excessive. 
 Flushing: Aeon, (from excitement): ]Nux vom. (after food); Bell. 
 
 (with headache); Cimic, Sep. (change of life); Amyl nit. 
 Fright.— Consequences of: Opium, Aeon., Ign., Cham. 
 Gall-stones: Aeon., Merc, Podoph., Xux vom.. Chin, [preventive). 
 Ganglion (an encysted tumor on a tendon of the foot or back of the hand) : 
 
 Rata, Arn., Iod., SiL, Calc, Benz. ac Locally, Benz. ac cerate. 
 Giddiness: Bell., Xux vom., Bry., Aeon., Puis., Gels. 
 Glands. — Enlarged : Merc iod., Bar. carb., Bell., Hepar sulph., 
 
 Iod., SiL, Calc phos., Phytol. 
 Gleet : Cinnab., Canth., Cann., Puis., Nux vom., Sulph., Kali sulph. 
 Goitre : Merc, Calc. fluor. 
 Gonorrhoea: Cann., Gels., Thuja. 
 Gout : Aeon., Colch. or Bry. (during an attack) ; Rhod., Cimic, Puis., 
 
 Xux vom., Lye; Arn. or Aeon, ext.; Arnica oil. 
 Gravel: Lye, Ant. crud., Xux vom., Bry. 
 
 Green-Sickness (chlorosis): Ferr., Puis., Sep., Conium, Natr. mur. 
 Gumboils: Aeon. alt. Bell, (first symptoms); Merc, SiL, Hepar sulph.; 
 
 Phos. (to prevent recurrence) ; Calc. sulph. 
 Gums. — Scurvy of: Merc, Nitr. ac, Carbo veg., Ars., Kali mur. 
 Haemoptysis (spitting of blood). See Hemorrhage. 
 Hemorrhage. — From the Bladder: Canth., Tereb., Ham., Arn. 
 
244 CLINICAL DIRECTORY. 
 
 Hemorrhage. — From the Anus (see Piles) : Ham. extract. 
 
 From the Lungs: Ipec., Ham., Arm, Mill., Aeon., Ferr. phos. 
 
 From the Nose: Aeon., Ipec., Ham., Bry., Am., Ferr. phos. 
 
 From the Stomach : Ipec, Ham., Nitr. ac. 
 
 From the Womb: Croc., Sab., Sec, Plat., Ipec, Cauloph. 
 
 In all cases of hemorrhages, iced water should be sipped or 
 small pieces of ice swallowed. 
 Hands.— Undue Moisture of: Fluor, ac 
 
 Habitual Coed: Ferr. phos., Sulph. 
 Hair. — Loss of. See Alopecia. 
 Hay-fever: Sabad., Euphr., Ipec, Ars. 
 Headache. — Bieious: Iris, Bry., Nux vom., Puis., Ipec, Sep. 
 
 Catarrhal: Aeon., Bell., Merc, Nux vom., Bry. 
 
 In Children: Ferr. phos., Calc phos. 
 
 Chronic : Plat., Arg. nitr., Plumb., Zinc, Phos. 
 
 Congestive : Bell., Grlom, Aeon., Veratr. vir., Nux vom. 
 
 Nervous (in one-half of the head): Ign., Aur., CoiF., Cham., Nux 
 vom., Phos., Aeon., Spig., Sulph. 
 
 Rheumatic: Aeon., Bry., Nitr. ac, Rhus, Spig., Phytol. 
 
 Sick (see Bilious): Sang., Iris. 
 Heart. — Disease of: Cact., Dig., Naja, Aeon., Spig., Ars. iod. 
 
 Feeble Action of: Dig., Cupr., Mosch. (with fainting). 
 
 Inflammation of Membranes of: Aeon. alt. Spig., Bry., Ars. 
 
 Palpitation of: Aeon., Cact., Mosch., Nux mosch., Phos., Puis. 
 
 Rheumatism of: Spig., Bry., Cact., Cimic 
 Heartburn : Puis., Bry., Carbo veg., Sulph. ac, Veratr. alb. ; Calc. 
 
 carb. (chronic) ; Natr. phos. 
 Hectic Fever : Chin., Phos. ac, Ars., Sulph., Sang., Calc. phos. 
 Hiccough : Nux vom., Aeon., Ign., Sulph. ac, Veratr. vir. 
 Hip-joint Disease: Sil., Phos., Calc. carb., Ars., Sulph.; Aeon, and 
 
 Bell, (at first, and when necessary). Also perfect rest. 
 Hoarseness : Bar. carb., Caust., Phytol., Hepar sulph., Phos., Spong., 
 
 Carbo veg. See also Aphonia. 
 Hypochondriasis : Aur., Nux vom., Lycop., Anac, Kali phos. 
 Hysteria : Ign., Plat., Asa., Valer., Gels., Puis., Kali phos. 
 Hysteric Convulsions : Camph., Mosch., Opium (from fright). Also 
 
 cold douche to the face. 
 Ices, Ice-cream. — 111 effects therefrom : Ars., Carbo. 
 Impotence: Phos., Agnus cast., Nux vom., Ferr., Bar. carb., Chin., 
 
 Nuphar, Phos. ac 
 Incontinence of Urine. See Urine : Incontinence of. 
 Indigestion. —Acute: Ipec, Puis., Nux vom., Bry. 
 
 Chronic: Kali bich., Hepar sulph., Carbo veg., Sulph., Chin., Lye. 
 
 In Children : Cham., Puis., Nux vom., Sulph., Ant. crud. 
 
 In the Aged: Ant. crud., Kali bich., Carbo veg., Nux vom., Ars. 
 
 From Cold: Aeon., Ars., Merc, Bry. 
 
 From Fat or Kich Food : Puis., Ant. crud., Kali mur. 
 
 From Anger: Cham, (with bilious symptoms). 
 
 From Anxiety, Grief, etc : Ign., Chin., Nux vom., Puis. 
 
CLINICAL DIRECTORY. 245 
 
 Infants. — Screams of: Cham., Jal., Aeon., Kali brom. 
 Soreness of. See Excoriations. 
 
 Restlessness of: Cham., CofF., Bell., Gels., Kali brom. 
 Influenza: Camph. (the chill stage); Aeon, {chills and heats); Ars. 
 (prostration); Kali bich. (troublesome cough); Gels., Rhus, 
 Euphr., Cepa. 
 Intermittent Fever. See Ague. 
 Itching of the Anus. See Anus. 
 
 Of the Skin: Aeon., Arg. nitr., Mez., Sulph., Ars., Kux vom., 
 Crot. tigl. Also Mez. or Veratr. vir. ext.; Urtiea. 
 Jaundice: Aeon., Bry., Merc., Chel., Ars.; Phos. (malignant); Chin., 
 
 Kux. 
 Joints. — Pain in : Aeon., Arg. met., Bell., Bry., Ruta, Ferr. phos. 
 
 Swelling of : Iod., Puis., Calc., Sil. 
 Kidneys. — Inflammation of: Canth., Tereb., Aeon., Bell. 
 Knee.— Inflammation of: Aeon, alt Puis., Bry.; Iod. (much 
 
 swelling). 
 Labor-pains : Cham., Puis., CofF., Gels., Magnes. phos. 
 
 False : Puis., Cimic., Cocc., Kux vom., Bell. 
 Lead Colic : Opium, Alum., Plat., Bell., Sulph. ac. 
 Legs.— Swelling of. See (Edema. 
 
 Lepra (scaly patches on the skin) : Ars., Merc., Sulph., Iod. 
 Leucorrhoea. — Sep., Cocc, Puis., Calc. carb., Sil.; Kreos. (corrosive); 
 Conium (chronic). Lotions of Hydrast. as injections. Also fre- 
 quent ablutions, moderate exercise in the open air, sufficient 
 rest, and nutritious, digestible diet. 
 Liver. — Enlargement of: Merc. iod. Also abdominal compress. 
 Inflammation of : Aeon., Bry., Merc. cor. 
 Pain in: Bry., Phos. 
 Torpid: Merc, Podoph. 
 Liver Complaint : Merc, Podoph., Kux vom., Sulph., Kitr. ac, Phos., 
 
 Lycop., Leptand. 
 Liver Spots : Sulph., Borax Lycop., Sep. 
 Lock-jaw: Aeon., Bell., Arm, Kux vom., Gels. 
 Lowness of Spirits. See Hypochondriasis. 
 Lumbago: Ant. tart. ; Am. (from overexertion); Rhus (sudden, from 
 
 cold; worse during rest); Cimic (muscular pains). 
 Lungs.— Inflammation of : Aeon. cdt. Phos., Bry., Chel. maj., Ant. 
 tart., Ferr. phos. 
 Congestion of : Ferr. phos., Veratr. vir. 
 Measles: Aeon. alt. Puis.; Gels., Bry., Bell.; Kali bich. (laryngeal 
 
 cough) ; Sulph. (to prevent sequelce). 
 Melancholia : Aur., Ign., Plat., Phos., Zinc, Sulph. See also Hypo- 
 chondriasis. 
 Memory. — Weakness of : Phos. ac, Anac, Zinc, Kali phos. 
 Menstruation (the monthly period). — Delay of the First: Puis., 
 Ferr., Sep., Phos., Sulph., Sec. 
 Irregular : Sep., Puis., Sulph., Senec. 
 
246 CLINICAL DIRECTORY. 
 
 Menstruation.— Painful : Cimic, Coca, Croc, Bell., Cham., Puis., 
 Plat., Ign., Gels., Veratr., Magn. phos. 
 Excessive: Sec., Croc, (dark and clotted)] Sab. (bright-red) \ Calc. 
 
 carb., Ipec. ; Chin, (after excessive discharge). 
 Scanty : Sep., Ferr., Puis., Conium, Sulph., Helon. (ancemia) ; 
 
 Natr. mur. 
 Suppressed : Aeon., Puis., Bell. ; Conium (chronic) ; Sep., Plat., 
 Khus. Sudden suppression further requires a hot hip-bath, 
 after which the patient should retire to a warmed bed. 
 Recurring too Early (in less than a month from commencement of 
 previous period): Calc. phos., Sab., Ign.; Kreos. (offensive dis- 
 charge) ; Sec, Nux vom. 
 Recurring too Late : Puis., Phos., Ferr., Sep. 
 Vicarious : Ham. virg., Bry., Puis., Phos., Senec. 
 Too Short Duration. See Scanty. 
 Too Long Duration. See Excessive. 
 
 Cessation of (change of life): Chin, or Ferr. (profuse discharge); 
 Sulph., Glonoin, Lach., or Sang, (flushes) ; Cimic, Gels, (sinking 
 at stomach, etc.) ; Kali phos. 
 Milk.— Suppressed or Scanty: Puis., Agnus cast.; Aeon, (with 
 fever) ; Bell, (with brain symptoms). 
 Too Abundant: Calc. carb., Phos., Iod. ; Chin, (with debility). 
 Milk Fever : Bry., Aeon., Cham., Veratr. vir., Bell. 
 Milk Leg : Aeon. alt. Ham. or Puis. ; Phos. 
 Milk Scab (vesicular eruption on the face of infants) : Rhus tox., Sulph., 
 
 Viola trie Corn-starch powder locally. 
 Miscarriage : Sec, Caul., Croc, Ipec, Cedron, Arn., Bell. 
 
 Threatened : Puis., Cham., Bell., Sab., Arn., Sec At the same 
 time, the patient should lie on a mattress, in a cool, well-venti- 
 lated room, till all clanger is past, and avoid hot drinks. 
 Prevention of : Calc. carb., Cimic, Chin., cold sitz-bath daily at 
 bedtime, with the shoulders and legs warmly wrapped. 
 Moles : Carbo veg., Sulph. ; Calend. ext 
 Monthly Period. See Menstruation. 
 Morning Sickness : Ipec, Kreos., Nux vom., Puis., Ars. 
 Mosquitoes. — Stings of : Ledum ext. If a sting of a mosquito or wasp 
 remain in the skin, the open end of the tube of a small key should 
 be pressed firmly over the part. 
 Mouth. — Sore : Kali mur. 
 
 Mumps : Merc, iod., Merc sol., Merc cor., Bell., Puis. 
 Nausea : Ipec, Kreos., Ant. crud., Lob., Tabac, Puis., Nux vom. 
 Neck. — Crick in the : Brom., Cimic, Dulc, Aeon., Bell. 
 
 Stiffness of : Bell., Bry., Lye, Nux vom., Merc. 
 Nervous Debility. See Debility. 
 
 Nervousness : Cham., Coff., Ign., Hyosc, Cimic, Gels., Chin., Kali 
 phos. Occupation and open-air recreation. See also Hysteria, 
 Hypochondriasis, etc. 
 Nettlerash : Apis, Ehus, Puis. ; Kali mur. 
 
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 Neuralgia.— In the Face: Aeon., Ars., Bell., Coloc., Cham., Spig., 
 Gels., Sticta, Magn. phos. 
 In the Head: Glon., Bell., Nux vom., Sticta, Cimic. 
 In the Back : Nux vom., Oxal. ac., Cimic., Veratr. 
 In the Thigh (sciatica) : Coloc, Ars., Nux vom., Cann. 
 In the Side (intercostal) : Ehod., Ars., Cimic. 
 Nightmare : Nux vom., Puis., Kali phos. A light diet, out-of-door 
 exercise, and a sponge bath daily are recommended; also 
 avoidance of suppers, stimulants, fatigue, and heavy, close bed- 
 clothes. 
 Night-sweats: Chin., Ars., Phos. ac, Merc, Sil., Calc phos. See 
 
 also Hectic Fever. 
 Nipples. — Sore : Sulph., Sil. Also Calend., Hydrast., or Arn. ext 
 Nosebleed: Aeon., Bry., Ipec, Ham. virg., Puis, (in women)) Chin, 
 
 (in weak persons) ; Arn. (from a blow) ; Ferr. phos. 
 Nose.— Sore: Ars., Sulph., Graph., Aur., Caust; Iod. (with fetor). 
 Numbness and Tingling : Aeon., Rhus, Xux vom., Calc phos. 
 Obesity (excessive accumulation of fat): Ars., Ferr., Calc carb., Sulph. 
 
 Also and chiefly, avoidance of starch and sugar. Phytoi. 
 (Edema (vjatery fluid under the skin): Chin., Ferr., Apis, Ars. 
 Ophthalmia.— Catarrhal : Aeon., Merc, Euphr., Bell., Puis. 
 Chronic : Clem., Calc. carb,, Sulph., Merc, Hepar sulph., Kali mur. 
 After Measles: Puis., Sulph. 
 After Scarlatina : Bell., Hepar sulph., Merc 
 After Smallpox : Merc, Sulph. 
 
 Scrofulous : Calc, Iod., Graph., Hepar sulph., Merc, cor., Ars. 
 Syphilitic: Merc, cor., Nitr. ac, Thuja, Aur. 
 In Infants: Arg. nitr., Calc. carb., Sulph., Merc. 
 Palpitation : Mosch. (nervous) ; Aeon., Spig., Bell., Cact. grand, Phos., 
 
 Puis., Ars. 
 Panting : Bry. 
 Paralysis: Bar. carb., Nux vom., Arg. nitr., Plumb., Bhus, Phos., 
 
 Gels., Aeon. 
 Perspire.— Tendency to: Chin., Merc, Veratr., Carbo veg., Sil. 
 Photophobia (intolerance of light) : Bell., Ant. tart., Merc cor., Euphr., 
 
 Calc, Ign. 
 Phthisis (to waste away). See Consumption. 
 
 Piles : Sulph., Ham., Collin., Aloes, Nux vom., ^scul. ; Ham. ext. 
 Pimples: Bell, (in the full-blooded) ; Puis, (in girls); Sulph., Kali bich., 
 
 Ant. crud., Hepar sulph. 
 Pleurisy : Aeon. alt. Bry. ; Phos., Iod., Ars. 
 Polypus : Kali bich., Teuc, Calc, Sanguin. 
 Prolapsus.— Of the Anus : Ign., Nux vom., Podoph., Merc 
 
 Of the Womb : Stann., Sec, Bell., Sepia, Nux vom., Helon. 
 Prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate) : Bell., Puis., Kali hydr. 
 Prostration. See Debility. 
 Proud Flesh : Sil., Fluor, ac, Nitr. ac, Phos. 
 Puerperal (child-bed) Fever : Aeon., Bell., Bry., Stram. 
 Purple Rash : Bell., Cham., Calc carb, 
 
248 CLINICAL DIRECTORY. 
 
 Prurigo (a papular eruption, with intolerable itching). — Of the Anus: 
 Nitr. ac, Sulph. Also Glyc. of Hydrast, or freshly-made chlo- 
 roform ointment (£ss ad adipis §ss), ext. 
 Of the Pudendi: Aeon., Sulph., Sep., Lye., Collin.; Glyc. 
 of Hydrast., or a solution of Borax (pulv. Boracis grs. xx. aq. 
 ij. ext.). 
 Of the Scrotum : Petrol., Merc, cor., Nitr. ac, Ehus, Aeon. Also 
 frequent ablutions with tepid or cold water. 
 Quinsy: Bell., Bar. carb., Merc. iod. ; Kali permang. (as a gargle, 
 
 gr. xii. ad aq. des. §vj.). 
 Rash.— During Teething : Cham. ; Ant. crud. (with diarrhoea) ; 
 
 Ars. (with prostration) . 
 Red Gum (infant rash) : Ant. crud., Bry., Cham., Puis. See Rash. 
 Relaxed Throat : Kali bich., Hepar sulph., Bar. carb., Phytol., Phos. 
 Remittent Fever : Gels, (especially in children); Ars., Veratr., Chin., 
 
 Ipec, Rhus. 
 Retention of Urine : Canth., Nux vom., Opium, Aeon., Camph., Cann. 
 Restlessness of Children: CofF., Cham., Aeon., Bell., Gels. 
 Rheumatic Fever : Aeon., Bry., Bell., Cimic., Ferr. phos. 
 Rheumatism. — Of the Back. See Lumbago. 
 
 Of the Chest (intercostal muscles) : Rhod., Bry., Arn., Cimic. 
 Of the Heart : Spig., Cimic, Cact. grand., Bry., Dig. 
 Of the Joints : Kuta, Bry., Rhus, Cimic., Caust., Kali hydr. 
 Of the Neck : Bry., Rhod. 
 
 Chronic : Rhus, Arn., Sulph., Rhod., Cimic, Kali hydr. ; locally, 
 Arnica oil. 
 Rickets : Silic, Calc, Sulph. Also out-door air, cold or tepid salt- 
 water baths, and a teaspoonful of cod-liver oil twice a day. 
 Ringworm. — Of the Scalp : Sep. 
 
 Of the Skin : Tellur., Rhus, Sep., Sulph. 
 Salivation. — From Mercury : Nitr. ac, Iod., Hepar sulph. 
 
 Non-Mercurial : Merc. 
 Scabies (the itch) : Sulphur ointment. 
 Scaldhead : Calc. phos., Ars., Sulph., Ant. crud., Lye ; Rhus, Kali 
 
 mur. Powder with corn-starch. 
 Scalds (see Burns): Urtica and Cantharis cerate. 
 Scarlatina. — Simple: Aeon. alt. Bell. ; Sulph. (convalescence). 
 With Throat Affection (anginosa) : Merc, Apis. 
 Malignant : Ailanth., Ars., Mur. ac, Carbo veg. Condy's Fluid 
 
 topically. 
 Preventive: Bell. 
 Sciatica: Coloc, Rhus, Ars., Nux vom., Cann., Kali phos. 
 Scorbutus (scurvy) : Merc, Nitr. ac, Carbo veg., Ars. 
 Screams of Infants : Cham., Aeon., Jal., Bell., Calc. phos. 
 Scrofulous Affections : Iod., Calc carb., Sulph., Phos. 
 Scurvy of the Gums. See Gums. 
 
 Seasickness : Petrol., Cocc, Tabac, Nux vom., Glonoin. 
 Shingles : Rhus tox., Sulph., Ars. 
 Sick-Headache : Iris, Ipec, Puis., Nux vom., Sep. 
 
CLINICAL DIRECTORY. 249 
 
 Sickness : Ipec. (simple) ; Puis, (from rich food) ; Nux vom. (from 
 alcohol) ; Iris, Ant. tart. See also Vomiting. 
 Morning : Ipec, Kreos., Nux vom., Puis., Are. 
 Skin.— Itching of : Arg. nitr., Sulph., Ars., Mez. ; Veratr. vir. (pain- 
 ful sensitiveness). See also Excoriations, Prurigo, Scabies, etc. 
 Sleepiness : Opium, Aeon. ; Lye. (after dinner) ; Gels. 
 Sleeplessness : Passiflora, Coff , Bell., Hyosc., Gels., Ign. 
 Smallpox: Ant. tart., Merc., Bell., Bry., Sulph. 
 Smell.— Loss of : Puis., Merc, Gels., Aeon., Sang., Calc carb., Plumb., 
 
 Natr. mur. 
 Sneezing. — From a Cold : Merc, Ipec, Aeon., Ars. 
 Sore Eyes : Merc, Clematis, Sulph., Calc carb., Euphr., Nitr. ac 
 Sore Throat: Aeon., Bell., Merc; Kali permang. or Phytol. as a 
 
 gargle ; Ferr. phos. and Kali mur. alt. 
 Spasms and Cramps : Camph., Nux vom., Coloc, Cocc, Gels., Magn. 
 
 phos. 
 Spermatorrhoea : Phos., Chin., Phos. ac, Arg. met., Gels., Nux. 
 Spine. — Concussion of : Arn., Hyper. 
 
 Irritation of : Chin., Ign., Nux vom., Gels. 
 Spitting of Blood. See Hemorrhage : From the Lungs. 
 Sprains : Bhus tox., Arn., or Ruta, int. and ext. 
 Squinting: Bell., Hyosc, Gels., or Stram. (cerebral causes); Cina 
 
 (from worms) ; Spig., Phos. 
 Stammering : Bell., Hyosc 
 
 Sterility : Phos., Plat., Conium, Bar. carb., Cann., Sep., Borax. 
 Stiff Neck: Bry., Cimic, Bell. 
 Stings : Lep., Apis, or Rhus, int. and ext. 
 Stitches in the Chest : Bry., Aeon., Cimic, Phos. 
 Stomach. — Acidity of: Puis., Nux vom., Bry., Lye, Carbo veg., 
 Calc, Natr. phos. 
 Inflammation of: Aeon., Ars., Bell., Phos. 
 Ulceration of : Ars., Hydrast., Kali bich. 
 Stone and Gravel : Lye, Nux vom., Calc, Cann. 
 Stricture of the Urethra : Aeon., Nux vom., Canth., Cann. 
 St. Vitus' Dance : Agar., Bell., Cupr. met., Artem., Stram., Zinc, 
 
 Ars., Cimic, Ign., Veratr. vir. 
 Stye: Puis., Sulph., Merc; Staph, (to prevent return); Sil. 
 Summer Complaint (diarrhoea) : Chin., Iris, Bry., Ant. crud., Calc 
 
 phos. 
 Sunstroke : Camph., Bell., Glon., Gels., Veratr. vir. 
 Suppuration : Sil., Hepar sulph., Chin, (when very profuse) ; Calc 
 
 phos. 
 Sweat.— Undue : Phos. ac, Calc phos., Sulph., Phos., Samb., Veratr. 
 Fetid, under the Arms : Petrol., Carbo veg., Sil. 
 Tendency to : Chin., Merc, Veratr., Carbo veg. 
 Sweaty Feet and Hands : Sil., Nitr. ac, Petrol., Graph. 
 Swellings.— Dropsical : Ars., Apis, Dig., Apoc. can. 
 Glandular : Merc, Bell., Hepar sulph,, Calc phos. 
 
250 CLINICAL DIRECTORY. 
 
 Swellings.— Of the Face: Merc, (from gumboil)] Bell, or Cham. 
 (from toothache) ; Apis (from erysipelas); Chin, or Ars. (dropsical.) 
 
 Of the Feet (oedema) : Ars., Ferr., Apis, Dig., Chin. 
 
 Of the Joints: Iod., Bry., Puis., Bell. 
 
 White : Bry., Iod., Sil., Cale. carb., Sulph. 
 Syphilis: Merc, Nitr. ac, Thuja, Arg. nitr., Aur. 
 Tapeworm : Fil. mas, Kous., Sabad., Pumpkin seeds, Cocoanut. 
 Taste Impaired : Puis., Merc, Plumb. 
 Teeth. See Toothache, and Dentition. 
 
 Testicles.— Enlargement of: Puis., Clematis, Spong., Arn., Aur., 
 Aeon. Also the use of a suspensory. 
 
 Wasting of : Iod., Conium. 
 Tetters.— Dry : Merc, Iod., Ars., Petrol. 
 
 Moist : Aeon., Khus, Ars., Phytol., Graph., Calc, Sulph. 
 Threadworms : Cina, Teucr., Ign., Nat. phos. 
 Throat. — Sore : Aeon., Bell., Merc, Hepar sulph., Puis. ; Phytol. as 
 
 a gargle. 
 Thrush : Borax, Merc, Ars., Sulph. 
 Tic-douloureux. See Neuralgia. 
 
 Tongue. — Coated: Ant. crud. (milky white); Kali bich. (yellowish); 
 Puis, (roughish white) ; Khus, Bapt. (brownish). 
 
 Swollen : Bell., Merc, Aeon., Mur. ac. 
 
 Ulcerated : Merc, Nitr. ac. ; Hydrast. as a wash ; Kali mur. 
 Tonsils.— Enlarged : Bell., Merc bin., Calc phos., Kali hydr., Bar. 
 carb. 
 
 Inflamed. See Quinsy 
 Toothache : Aeon. alt. Bell, (redness of face, with throbbing) ; Puis. 
 
 From Decay : Kreos., Merc, Staph., Phytol. See Gumboil. 
 
 Nervous: Coff., Cham., Ign., Gels. 
 
 Of Children: Cham., Kreos. 
 
 Of Pregnancy: Bell., Nux vom., Cham., Coff. 
 Tremors.— Nervous : Aeon., Ign., Chin., Coff., Bell.; Nux vom. 
 
 (from stimulants). 
 Tuberculosis (the condition of the body in which tubercles are deposited) : 
 
 Iod., Phos., Calc carb., Ferr. iod. 
 Tumors. See Swellings. 
 
 Typhoid (Enteric) Fever : Bapt., Ars., Mur. ac, Khus, Bry. 
 Ulcers : Hydrast., Silic, or Kali bich. int. and ext. ; Bell., Lye 
 
 In the Leg : Bell., Ars. ; Merc, (syphilitic) ; Caust. ; Hydrast. int. 
 and ext. 
 TJrine.— Bloody: Canth., Tereb., Ham. 
 
 Burning or Scalding : Canth., Cann., Gels., Aeon. 
 
 Fetid: Aeon., Bar., Tereb., Nitr. ac. 
 
 Painful Passage of: Apis, Canth., Lye, Nux vom., Cann. 
 
 Incontinence of: Lye, Bell., Caust.; Cina (from worms); Phos. 
 ac, Gels, (in the aged) ; Canth., Ferr., Mullein oil. 
 
 Ketention of : Canth., Nux vom., Opium, Camph. 
 Varicose Veins : Ham., Puis., Fluor, ac, Calc. fluor. 
 Voice.— Loss of. See Aphonia, and Hoarseness. 
 
CLINICAL DIRECTORY. 251 
 
 Vomiting.— From Indigestible Food : Puis., Ant. crud., Ipec, Iris. 
 
 Chronic : Kreos., Ars., Hydrast. 
 
 Of Blood : Ipec, Ham., Nitr. ac, Chin. 
 Walking.— Delay of the Power of : Calc. phos., Phos., Sulph. 
 Wakefulness : Coff., Bell., Gels., Glon. 
 Warts: Thuja, Rhus tox., or Nitr. ac. int. and ext; Sulph. 
 Wasting. See Atrophy. 
 
 Waterbrash : Lye., 5s ux vom., Carbo veg., Bry., Ars., Natr. phos. 
 Water.— In the Chest : Bry., Ars., Dig., Apis. 
 
 In the Head : Helleb., Bell., Apis, Calc. phos. 
 Watery Blood : Ferr., Chin., Phos., Calc. phos. See also Anaemia. 
 Weakness. See Debility. 
 Wetting the Bed: Mullein oil. 
 Whites. See Leucorrhcea. 
 
 White Swelling,— Of the Knee: Bry., Kali hydr., Puis. 
 Whitlow: Silic, Fluor, ac, Hep. See also Abscess, and Boils. 
 Whooping-Cough : Ipec, Dros., Ferr. phos., Coral., Cupr., Veratr. ; 
 
 Bell, (with head symptoms) ; Magn. phos. 
 Wind. See Flatulence. 
 Worm Fever : Aeon., Cina, Sil. 
 Worms. — Thread: Cina, Teucr., Ign., Urt. ur., Sant., Chin. 
 
 Long Round: Merc, Spig., Sulph., Aeon. 
 
 Tape : Fil. mas, Kous. 
 Wounds : Calend., Ham., or Ruta, ext. 
 Wry Neck : Nux vom., Bell., Bry., Merc. 
 Zona (shingles) : Rhus, Ran. bulb., Aeon., Sulph., Lye 
 
INDEX.* 
 
 For " Hints to the Reader," see pages 11-12. 
 
 Abdomen, distended, 84, 153 
 
 Abdominal compress, 62 
 
 Accidents, 198 
 
 Aching of the teeth, 137 
 
 Acid dyspepsia, see " Heartburn ;" also 
 
 " Gout" 
 Aconitum, uses of, 215 
 Administration of medicines, 49 
 Advantages of Homoeopathy, 27 
 Aged, constipation in the, 164 
 Ague, 80 
 
 Ague-cake (enlarged spleen), 81 
 Air, value of good, 38 
 Alternation of medicines, 53 
 Anasarca (dropsy), 76 
 Antidotes (remedies to counteract the 
 effects of anything poisonous 
 or hurtful), 232 
 Antimonium crudum, 216 
 
 tartaricum, 231 
 Anus, prolapsus of, 169 
 Aphthae (thrush), 134 
 Apis mellifica, uses of, 216 
 Apnoea (suffocation), 198 
 Appetite, loss of, see " Indigestion," 143 
 Arnica, uses of, 216 
 
 caution in the use of, 217 
 
 oil, 217 
 
 oil in rheumatism, 94 
 
 cerate, 217 
 Arsenicum, uses of, 218 
 Ascaris lumbricoides, 155 
 Asphyxia (temporary suspended circu- 
 lation), 198 
 Asthma, 127 
 
 Atmospheric influences in consump- 
 tion, 99 
 Back, pain in, 94 
 Baryta carbonica, 218 
 Bathing, 40, 99 
 Baths, 59 
 
 hot foot, 60 
 
 warm, 59 
 Bed, the, 55 
 
 wetting the, 174 
 
 rooms, airy, 38 
 
 for the sick, 54 
 Belladonna, uses of, 218 
 Beverages for the sick, 56 
 Bilious headache, 110 
 Biliousness, 170 
 Bites, 206 
 
 Bladder, bleeding from, 175 
 Bleeding, how to stop, 204 
 
 from the lungs, 196 
 
 nose, 115 
 
 stomach, 196 
 
 womb, 180 
 
 wounds, 203 
 
 the urinary organs, 175 
 
 piles, 167 
 Blistered feet from walking, 211 
 Blood diseases, 63 
 Bloodshot eye, 207 
 Bloodvessel, rupture of, 196 
 Bloody flux, 151 
 
 urine, 175 
 Blows, see u Bruises " 
 Boils, 190 
 
 Bones, broken (fractures), 207 
 Bowels, confined, 162 
 
 relaxed, 157 
 
 relaxed in children, 160 
 
 protrusion of, 169 
 Brain affections, 102 
 Breakfast, 34 
 
 Breast, inflammation of, 183 
 Breathing, organs of, 118 
 
 how to restore suspended, 198 
 Broken bones, 207 
 
 ribs, 210 
 Bronchitis, 124 
 
 chronic, 126 
 Bruises, 202 
 
 Bryonia alba, uses of, 219 
 Burns and scalds, 200 
 Calcarea carbonica, uses of, 219 
 
 phos.,uses of, 234 
 
 fluor., uses of 236 
 
 sulph., uses of, 236 
 Calendula, uses of, 219 
 
 lotion and cerate, 220 
 Camphor, uses of, 220 
 Cantharis, 221 
 
 Carbo vegetabilis, uses of, 221 
 Catarrh, 120 
 
 chronic, 122 
 Chamomilla, uses of, 221 
 Change of life, 182 
 Chapped hands, 188 
 Chest, cold in, 124 
 Chickenpox, 67 
 Chilblains, 188 
 Child-crowing, 107 
 
 * Many diseases not included in this index are referred to in the "Materia 
 Medica" and " Clinical Index." 
 
 (252) 
 
IXDEX. 
 
 253 
 
 Children, adaptation of Homoeopathy 
 
 to, 31 
 Children's Diseases— 
 
 Bleeding of the nose, 115 
 
 Bronchitis, 124 
 
 Chickenpox, 67 
 
 Constipation, 162 
 
 Convulsions, 105 
 
 Croup, 118 
 
 spasmodic, 107 
 
 Diarrhoea, 160 
 
 Discharge from the ears, 114 
 
 Earache, 113 
 
 Measles, 68 
 
 Mumps, 88 
 
 Nosebleed, 115 
 
 Protrusion of the bowel {prolapsus 
 ani), 169 
 
 Ringworm, 187 
 
 Scarlatina, 71 
 
 Sleeplessness, 136 
 
 Teething, 135 
 
 Thrush, 134 
 
 Toothache, 137 
 
 "Wetting the bed, 174 
 
 Whooping-cough, 85 
 
 Worms, 154 
 China, uses of, 222 
 Cholera, 83 
 
 prevention of, 85 
 
 success of homoeopathic treatment 
 of 28 
 Chronic bronchitis, 126 
 
 catarrh, 122 
 
 rheumatism, 94 
 Cimicimga racemosa, uses of, 222 
 Cina, uses of 223 
 Cleanliness in the sick-room, '55 
 Clergyman's sore throat, 141 
 Clinical directory, 237 
 Clothing, 42 
 
 of children, 43 
 Climate in consumption, 100 
 Cod-liver oil, 98 
 Coffea, uses of, 223 
 Cold in the head, 120 
 Cold on the chest, 124 
 Cold compress, 60 
 Colic, 161 
 
 Colocynthis, uses of, 223 
 Comparisons of tissue remedies, 233- 
 
 236 
 Compress for the abdomen, 62 
 
 for the throat, 61 
 Concussions, see ' ' Bruises " 
 Confined bowels, 162 
 Constipation, 162 
 Consumption, 96 
 Contusions {bruises), 202 
 Convulsions, 105 
 Corn, 192 
 Corn-plasters, 192 
 Coryza, 120 
 Costiveness, 162 
 Cough, 132 
 
 whooping, 85 
 
 Cramps, see " Camphor," " Veratrum," 
 
 etc. 
 Croup, proper, 118 
 
 spasmodic, 107 
 Cruprum, uses of, 223 
 Cuts, 203 
 
 Dainty serving of food, 59 
 Deafness, 114 
 
 Debility, see under " Arsenicum," 
 4 ' China,' ' ' ' Phosphorus,' ' 
 etc. 
 Dentition, 135 
 Diarrhoea, 157 
 
 of children, 160 
 Diathesis, hemorrhagic, 195 
 Diet, hints on, 34 
 
 extraordinary, 57 
 
 for the dyspeptic, 165 
 
 meat, 57 
 
 milk, 57 
 Difficulty in urinating, 172 
 Digestive organs, diseases of, 134 
 Dinner, 34 
 
 Directions about medicines, 51 
 Discharge from the ears, 114 
 Discovery of Homoeopathy, 17 
 Diseases of children, see under "Chil- 
 dren" 
 Domestic Homoeopathy, 4 
 Dose and its repetition, 53 
 Dress, 42 
 
 when catches fire, 200 
 Dropping tinctures, 51 
 Dropsy after scarlatina, 76 
 Drosera, uses of, 223 
 Drowned persons, how to restore, 198 
 Drugs, injurious, 45 
 Dulcamara, uses of, 223 
 Dysmenorrhea (painful menses), 179 
 Dysentery, 151 
 Dyspepsia, 143 
 Dyspnoea (difficult breathing), see 
 
 asthma, 127 
 Ear, foreign bodies in, 206 
 Earache, 113 
 Ears, discharge from, 114 
 
 inflammation of, 113 
 Economical treatment, 27 
 Emaciation, see under "Calcarea" 
 Emetic, a convenient, 213 
 Emissions, 176 
 Enteric fever, 76 
 Enuresis (incontinence of urine), 173 
 
 nocturnal (icetting the bed), 174 
 Epilepsy, 102 
 
 Epistaxis (bleeding from the nose), 115 
 Erysipelas, 90 
 Ex'ercise, 43 
 
 Experimental practice, 31 
 Expiration, how to produce artificial, 198 
 Eye, bloodshot, 207 
 
 diseases of, 111 
 
 foreign bodies in, 206 
 
 inflammation of, 111 
 Eyelids, stye on the, 112 
 Fainting, insensibility, 200 
 
254 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Falling sickness, 102 
 
 Faith and Homoeopathy, 24 
 
 Fatigue, 211 
 
 Febricula {simple fever), 79 
 
 Feeding, regulating of, 58 
 
 Feet, blistered from walking, 211 
 
 Ferrum phos., use of 233 
 
 Fever, intermittent, 80 
 
 rheumatic, 92 
 
 scarlet, 71 
 
 simple, 79 
 
 typhoid, typhoid-malarial, 76 
 Finger, gathering of, 191 
 Flatulence, 143 
 Flooding, 180 
 Flux, bloody, 151 
 Food, not to be kept in the sick-room, 
 
 58; see also" Diet " 
 Foot-bath, hot, 60 
 Foreign bodies in the eye, 206 
 Fracture of bones, 207 
 Fresh air, 38 
 Frog (thrush), 134 
 Frostbite — sunstroke, 202 
 Furuncles, 190 
 Future of Homoeopathy, 31 
 Gastric (pertaining to the stomach) ,143 
 Gastric {enteric) fever, 76 
 Gathering, 191 
 Gelsemium, uses of, 224 
 Gentle measures, 29 
 Genuine medicines, 50 
 Giddiness, etc., 110 
 Globules, 49 
 Gout, 95 
 Grippe, 89 
 Gumboil, 140 
 Gum-water, 56 
 Hseniaturia, 175 
 Haemoptysis, 196 
 
 Hemorrhages (losses of blood) , 180,195 
 Hemorrhagic diathesis, 195 
 Hemorrhoids, 167 
 Hahnemann, 17 
 Hamemelis, uses of, 224 
 
 extract (Pond's extract), 225 
 Hands, chapped, 188 
 Hardness of hearing, 114 
 Headache, 108 
 
 sick, 110 
 Head, cold in the, 120 
 Health, hints on, 33 
 
 importance of, 6 
 Heart, palpitation of, 193 
 Heartburn, 145 
 Hepar sulphuris, uses of, 225 
 Hernia {rupture), 153 
 Herpes, 187 
 Hiccough, 144 
 
 History of Homoeopathy, 17 
 Hoarseness, 123 
 
 clergyman's, etc., 141 
 Homoeopathy, 17 
 
 advantages of, 27 
 
 early history of, 17 
 
 introductory, 3 
 
 Homoeopathy and children, 31 
 
 and cholera, 28 
 
 and diet, 25 
 
 and faith, 24 
 
 appeals to facts, 21 
 
 its future, 32 
 
 its influence, 19 
 
 its progress and opposition, 5 
 
 its success, 28 
 
 not opposed to experience, 23 
 
 pirated by allopathic professors, 19 
 
 what is, 20 
 Hot foot-bath, 60 
 Hot water, use of, 37 
 Hygiene {relating to health), 33 
 Iced-champagne in seasickness, 150 
 Icterus {jaundice), 171 
 Ignatia, uses of, 225 
 Illustrations of the homoeopathic 
 
 principle, 26 
 Incised wounds, 203 
 Incontinence of urine, 173 
 Indigestion, 143 
 Infantile convulsions, 105 
 Inflammation of the bronchial tubes, 124 
 
 ears, 113 
 
 eyes, 111 
 
 Jiver, 171 
 
 lungs, 129 
 Influenza, 89 
 Injections, 166 
 Injuries— accidents, 198 
 Insensibility, 200 
 Inspiration, how to produce artificial, 
 
 198 
 Intussusception {stricture of the bow* 
 
 els), see " Colic " 
 Intermittent fever {ague), 80 
 Intestinal worms, 154 
 Involuntary emissions, 176 
 Ipecacuanha, uses of, 225 
 Itching of the skin, 185 
 Jaundice, 171 
 Jerrold's death-bed, 30 
 Kali bichrom, uses of, 226 
 
 mur., uses of, 233 
 
 phos., uses of, 233 
 
 sulph., uses ot, 234 
 Kidneys, bleeding from, 175 
 Kumyss in consumption, 99 
 Lacerated {torn) wounds, 203 
 Lactation, disorders, 183 
 Laryngismus stridulus, 107 
 Laudanum, 213 
 
 poisoning by, 213 
 Leg, broken, 207 
 Leucorrhcea, 181 
 Ligaturing an artery, 205 
 Light, 26, 39 
 List of medicines, 52 
 Liver, inflammation of, 171 
 Lochia, suppressed, 184 
 Loins, pains in, 94 
 Looseness, 157 
 Loss of appetite, 143 
 Lumbago {rheumatism of the loins), 94 
 
INDEX. 
 
 255 
 
 Lunibrici (round-worms), 155 
 Lungs, inflammation of, 129 
 
 tubercles in, 96 
 Lycopodium, uses of, 226 
 Lymph, vaccine, 67 
 Magnet, 26 
 
 Magnesia phos.,uses of, 234 
 Malaria, its laws, etc., 82 
 Materia medica, 214 
 Measles, 68 
 
 and consumption, 70 
 
 differs from scarlatina, 69 
 
 prevention of, 71 
 Meat diet, 57 
 Medicines, administration, etc., 49 
 
 alternative of, 53 
 
 directions for taking, 49 
 
 dose, etc., 53 
 
 forms of, 49 
 
 list of, 52 
 Medicine-case, 50 
 Menstrual disorders, 178 
 Mercurius cor. , uses of, 227 
 
 uses of, 226 
 Miasma {noxious effluvium), 82 
 Miasmatic {containing miasma), 82 
 Milk, excessive secretion, 184 
 
 suppressed secretioa, 183 
 Milk diet, 57 
 Mineral poisons, 212 
 Moderation in convalescence, 59 
 Monkshood (aconitum), its uses, 215 
 Morbilli, 68 ' 
 Morning sickness, 182 
 Mumps, 88 
 Mustard water, 213 
 Muscular rheumatism, 92 
 Natrum mur., uses of, 235 
 
 phos., uses of, 235 
 
 sulph., uses of, 235 
 Nausea marina, 150 
 Neck, crick in, 92 
 
 swelled, 88 
 
 stiff, 92 
 Nervous diseases, 102 
 Nettlerash, 184 
 Neuralgia, see Clinical Index 
 Nipples, sore, 183 
 Noises in the ears, 115 
 Nose, bleeding from, 115 
 Nursing, diet, etc., 54 
 Nux vomica, uses of, 227 
 Odontalgia (toothache), 137 
 Ophthalmia, 111 
 Opium, poisoning by, 213 
 
 uses of, 228 
 Otalgia, 113 
 Otitis, 113 
 Otorrhcea, 114 
 Overexertion, 211 
 Pain in the back, 94 
 
 in the ear, 113 
 in the head, 108 
 
 about the navel, 161 
 Painters' colic, 161 
 Palpitation of the heart, 193 
 
 Parasite (a being which lives upon or in 
 
 another), 154 
 Patent medicines, 45 
 Pellets, 51 
 Percussion, 98 
 Peruvian bark, 222 
 Phthisis (consumption), 96 
 Phosphorus, uses of, 228 
 Piles, 167 
 Pleurisy, 129 
 Pneumonia, 129 
 
 Podophyllum peltatum, uses of, 229 
 Poisons, 212 
 Polycrests, 214 
 Prevention of cholera, 85 
 
 of measles, 71 
 
 of scarlatina, 75 
 Preventive medicine, 32 
 Professional treatment, advantages 
 
 of, 5 
 Prolapsus of the bowel, 169 
 Prurigo (a papular skin disease, with 
 
 severe itching), 185 
 Pulsatilla, uses of, 229 
 Purging, 157 
 
 Purulent ophthalmia, 111 
 Pustules in smallpox, 64 
 Quinsy, 142 
 Rash, nettle, 184 
 Regularity of feeding, 58 
 Relaxed bowels, 157 
 
 in children, 160 
 Repetition of doses, 53 
 Respiration, how to restore suspended, 
 
 199 
 Respiratory system, diseases of, 118 
 Residence for the consumptive, 100 
 Restlessness of children, 136 
 Retention of uriDe, 172 
 Rheumatic fever, 92 
 Rheumatism, 94 
 Rhus tox., uses of, 230 
 Ribs, broken, 210 
 Ringworm, 187 
 Rupture, 153 
 Scalds and burns, 200 
 Scarlatina, 71 
 
 prevention of, 75 
 Sciatica, see Clinical Index. 
 Scrofulous consumption, 96 
 
 ophthalmia, 111 
 Sea-salt, 41 
 Seasickness, 150 
 Self-abuse, 176 
 Shingles.188 
 Sick-headache, 110 
 Sick-room, 54 
 Silicea, uses of, 236 
 Simple fever, 79 
 Single remedy, the, 21 
 Skin, diseases of ; 184 
 Sleeplessness of infants, 136 
 Small doses, 22 
 
 Small of the back, pain in, 94 
 Smallpox, 63 
 
 dangers of, 64 
 
256 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Smallpox, prevention of pitting in, 6G 
 Smoking hurtful to parent and off- 
 spring, 44 
 Snuff injurious, 44 
 Sore mouth, 134 
 
 nipples, 183 
 
 throat, 140 
 
 throat, clergyman's, 141 
 Sores and ulcers, 190 
 Spanish fly (Cantharides) ,221 
 Spasms (colic), 161 
 Spasmodic croup, 107 
 Specific medicines, 31 
 Spermatorrhoea, 176 
 Spongia, uses of, 230 
 Sprain, 210 
 St. Anthony's fire, 90 
 Statistics 29 
 
 Status of professional Homoeopaths, 18 
 Stiff neck (crick in the neck), 92 
 Stings, 206 
 Strangury {difficult passage of urine), 
 
 172 
 Strangulated hernia, 153 
 Stricture, spasmodic, 172 
 Stye on the eyelids, 112 
 Success of Homoeopathy, 28 
 Sulphur, uses of, 231 
 Sunstroke, 202 
 Suppression of menses, 179 
 Swollen face, 137 
 Tapeworm, 155 
 Tartar emetic, uses of. 231 
 Teething, disorders or, 135 
 Theory of the Tissue Kemedies, 45 
 Threadworms, 155 
 Throat, sore, 140 
 
 compress for, 61 
 
 Thrush, 134 
 Tinctures, 49 
 
 Tinctures, how to drop, 51 
 Tissue Kemedies, 45, 233 
 
 list of, 48 
 Tobacco, hurtful, 44 
 Tonsils, inflamed, 142 
 Toothache, 137 
 Triturations, 49 
 
 Typhoid and typhoid-malarial, 76 
 Ulcers, 190 
 
 Urinary difficulties, 172 
 Urticaria (nettlerash), 184 
 Vaccination, 67 
 Varicella (chickenpox), 67 
 Variola (smallpox), 63 
 Veratrum alb., uses of, 232 
 Veratrum vir., uses of, 232 
 Voice, loss of, 123 
 Vomiting, 149 
 Vomiting of blood, 196 
 Warm baths, 59 
 Warts, 193 
 
 Watching fever patients, 78 
 Water, 36 
 
 how to purify, 37 
 Water, hot, use of, 37 
 
 aerated, 37 
 Wet pack 60 
 Wetting the bed, 174 
 Whites, the, 181 
 Whitlow, 191 
 Whooping-cough, 85 
 Womb, hemorrhage from, 180 
 Women, diseases of, 178*. 
 Worms, 154 
 Wounds, 203 
 
 poisoned, 206 
 
 For diseases not referred to in the foregoing index, consult the "Materia 
 Medica " and " Clinical Index,"