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Homeopathic Practice.
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HAND-BOOK
OF
HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE.
For the Use of Families.
BY
WALTER K. KELLY, M.B.,
FORMERLY ONE OF THE MEDICAL offFICERS OF THE HAHNEMANNIAN
INSTITUTION, WELBECK STREET.
Tenth Edition.
LONDON: JAMES EPPS & CO.,
48 THREADNEEDLE STREET,
170 PICCADILLY, AND 112 GREAT RUSSELL STREET.
18707
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EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY OLIVER AND BOYD.
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INTRODUCTION:-
CONTENTS.
I. How to use this book
II. Administration of the Medicines
III. The repetition of the Dose
IV. Diet and Regimen
V. Evidences of Disease
List of Medicines prescribed in this book
CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES OF THE MEDICINES pre-
scribed in this book, and indications for their use
DISEASES, SYMPTOMS, AND MORBID CONDITIONS, WITH
THEIR TREATMENT:---
Apoplexy
Appetite, Loss of .
Appetite, Voracious
Asthma
Bilious Attacks
Bleeding from the Nose
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Boils
Brain Fever.
Breast, Inflammation of the
Breath, Offensive
Bruises. Contusions
Bunions
Burns and Scalds
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Inflammation of the Brain
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Chicken Pox. Swine Pox. Hives. Varicella
Chilblains
Cholera, Asiatic
Cholera, English .
Cold, or Catarrh
Colic. Gripes
CONTENTS.
Congestion, or Determination of Blood to the
Head
Constipation
Convulsions.
Corns and Callosities
Cough.
Cramp in the Legs and Feet
Cramp in the Stomach
Croup
Diarrhoea
Dysentery
Ears, Disorders of the
Emotions of the Mind.
Epilepsy
Erysipelas, or St Anthony's Fire
Eyes, Inflammation of the
Faceache. Tic Doloureux
Face, Swelling of the
Fainting
Fatigue
Feet-sweating
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Gout
Gums, Bleeding, Sore
Gumboil
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Flatulence
Galling or Chafing of the Skin
Giddiness. Vertigo
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ib.
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108
109
ib.
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112
113
ib.
ib.
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119
ib.
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122
ib.
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ib.
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ib.
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ib.
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ib.
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ib.
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Headache
Heartburn and Waterbrash
Hoarseness
CONTENTS.
Hooping Cough .
Indigestion. Dyspepsia
Infants and Children, Disorders of
Inflammation of the Bowels.
Inflammation of the Lungs. (Pneumonia)
Influenza
Insects, Bites and stings of
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Itching
Jaundice
Knee, Swollen. (Housemaid's Knee)
Labour and After-pains.
Lumbago
Measles
Miliary Fever. (Milaria)
Milk Crust
Miscarriage.
Monthly Flow, Disorders of the
Mumps
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Nettle-rash. (Urticaria)
Nightmare
Nipples, Sore, Chapped
Palpitation of the Heart
Piles. (Hæmorrhoids)
Pimples
Pleurisy
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Rose. Roseola
Scarlet Fever. Scarlatina
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Pregnancy, Disorders incidental to
Protrusion of the Lower Intestine. (Rectum)
Quinsy. Sore Throat.
Rheumatism
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ib.
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ib.
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ib.
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ib.
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CONTENTS.
Scarlet Rash. Purple Rash. The Purples.
Sciatica
Sea Sickness
Shingles. Zona. Herpes Zoster
Sleeplessness
Small Pox.
(Variola).
Spasmodic Croup.
Crowing Disease. Millar's Asthma.
Spitting of Blood .
Sprains and Strains
Stiff Neck.
Stye
Teething
Thrush. (Aphtha)
Toothache
Crick in the Neck
Acute Asthma of Infants.
Urinary Disorders
Uvula, Elongated
Vomiting
Warts
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Water on the Brain. (Hydrocephalus)
Wetting the Bed .
Whites. (Leucorrhoea)
Whitlow
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Worms
Wounds
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ib.
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INTRODUCTION.
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I. HOW TO USE THIS BOOK.
THE whole practice of homoeopathy is based on
the fundamental principle that like cures like; or, to
paraphrase this terse formula, the medicine that
most surely, promptly, and safely cures a given
disease, is that one which would produce in a
healthy subject symptoms the most closely resem-
bling those of the disease in question. Hence the
first requisite towards the right use of medicines is
to be cognizant of their disease-producing properties,
since these are the exact counterpart of their cura-
tive virtues; and when we speak currently of the
symptoms of a medicine, we mean those which it
can both excite where they are not already present,
and cure where they are present.*
The reader should begin by familiarizing himself
with the leading characteristics of the medicines
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enumerated in the first part of this book, so that he
may have, at least, a general acquaintance with the
nature and uses of the instruments with which he
has to work. The more he advances in this kind of
knowledge the more intelligently will he be able to
act upon the instructions given in the second part
for the treatment of disease. And be it clearly
understood that to use homoeopathic remedies suc-
cessfully they must be used intelligently. There
are no two things on earth more irreconcilably
opposed to each other than homoeopathy and the
spirit of line-and-rule routine. If diseases were
invariable in their nature and aspects, if the same
name always corresponded accurately to the same
definite assemblage of symptoms, it would be possible
to lay down rules beforehand which should apply
with mathematical precision to each individual case,
But disease is not a self-existing thing; it is only
a state of being, liable to countless unforeseen
modifications from inward and outward causes. No
set of positive rules, however numerous, could
embrace all these fluctuating phases, and adjust
remedies to them, so as infallibly to present like to
like. A book which should attempt to do this to any
considerable extent, would be unfit for popular use,
from the multitude of details with which it would
bewilder and perplex the unprofessional reader.
If it be required to know how any disorder-as,
for instance, a cold in the head, a bowel complaint,
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or a fit of colic-is to be treated, look for the com-
plaint, by its popular name, in the second part, in
which diseases and symptoms are ranged in alpha-
betical order. If the word looked for does not
appear in its expected place, it will be found in the
index. Having discovered the article you are in
quest of, read it, and any others referred to in it,
before you select a remedy. Should the names of
two or more remedies be mentioned, without special
directions how to choose between them, seek such
indications for yourself, by reading over and com-
paring the characteristics of those medicines, in the
first part, and testing their respective fitness to the
case in hand, by the principle of like cures like.
II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE MEDICINES.
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The most convenient form of homoeopathic medi-
cines for domestic use, is that of globules. These
may either be placed dry on the tongue, or given in
solution. Their action in the latter way is more
forcible than in the former. Wherever, in the fol-
lowing pages, a medicine is prescribed, it is to be
understood, unless otherwise expressly stated, that
one globule is a dose if the patient is under six
years of age; two if above that age and under twelve;
three if above twelve. The globules should be put
into a tumbler or a wineglass, not in a bottle, which
could not be easily made quite clean from the wash-
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ings of a former medicine, and as many spoonfuls of
water added as there are doses of globules: teaspoon-
fuls for children, tablespoonfuls for adults. It should
be covered with a cap of white paper, and kept in a
cool place, excluded from the light-light acting
chemically. If two medicines are administered
alternately, each should have a spoon, which, unless
porcelain, should not be left in the solution. This
should be made fresh every day in warm weather,
every two or three days in cold weather, if it con-
tinues to be required. It should be well stirred up
previously to each dose being taken. The glass
which has contained one medicine, should not be
used for another, until it has been not only well
washed in hot water, but also thoroughly dried.
The water used, should be soft water, filtered.
Some persons prefer the medicine in the form of
pilules. Two pilules is a dose for an adult. If the
patient is under twelve years of age, one pilule; if
under six, dissolve one pilule in two teaspoonfuls of
water, and give one spoonful for a dose.
The strongest form in which medicines are admin-
stered, is that of tinctures. One drop in a table-
spoonful of water, is a dose for an adult; if the
patient is under twelve, a dessertspoonful for a dose,
and if under six, a teaspoonful.
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III. THE REPETITION OF THE DOSE.
In exceedingly urgent cases, when a crisis for
life or death is impending, it may be necessary to
repeat the dose as often as every ten or fifteen
minutes. Generally, however, in acute diseases
(those which run their course rapidly), it will be
sufficient to administer a dose every two, three, or
four hours, in the beginning, according to the vehe-
mence of the symptoms. As soon as the medicines
have produced a manifest amendment, their use
should be suspended, during all the time the patient
continues to improve. When he ceases to do so,
it will be time to resume the medicines, or give
others, as the present appearance of the case shall
dictate. As the violence of the disorder diminishes,
the intervals between the doses should be lengthened
to six, eight, or twelve hours. In chronic (long
continued) disorders, the medicine may be given
morning and evening, until it appears to have had
some effect. A pause should then be made for two
or more days, or an alteration of the medicine should
take place. Each dose should be taken, if possible,
at least an hour before, or two hours after, a meal.
IV. DIET AND REGIMEN.
With respect to what is called homoeopathic diet,
the most erroneous notions have obtained currency.
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It is too often supposed, that whoever consults a
homœopathic physician, must submit to a multitude
of strange, irksome prohibitions in the way of eating
and drinking, and lead altogether a very ascetic sort
of life. Indeed the enemies of homoeopathy have
insidiously availed themselves of this popular error,
in order to discredit our science, by ascribing the
cures effected in its name, to the action of diet alone;
the fact being, that in a majority of the chronic cases
which come under homoeopathic treatment, the
patients are not required to make any material
departure from the regimen which experience has
already taught them to adopt as the least injurious.
The articles of diet generally prohibited by homœo-
pathists, as regards invalids, are of two classes:
first, those which are hard to digest; and, secondly,
those which possess medicinal properties, and which
would therefore interfere with the operation of the
homoeopathic medicines. The reasonableness of the
law which precludes such articles can surely not be
denied. As to its application, that must sometimes
obey the modifying influence of circumstances; for
in medicine a pedantic stickling for the letter of the
law is as little to be commended as a lax observance
of its spirit.
To the first class belong those things which are
hard of digestion, such as veal, geese, corned and
smoked meats, salmon, lobster, pastry, unripe fruit,
raw vegetables, &c., &c. About these there is no
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difference of opinion among medical men of all
schools.
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To the second class belong coffee and green tea in
the first place; wine, spirits, and fermented drinks;
snuff and tobacco; spices and aromatic substances;
black tea. Coffee ought never to be taken by in-
valids except as a medicine; green tea is adulterated
with poisonous ingredients, and should never be
used under any circumstances; the Chinese, who
make green tea for us foreigners, never drink it
themselves. Black tea is often allowable, but is
injurious in certain conditions of the stomach,
accompanied with nervous debility. As for the
rest of the list, they may be sparingly allowed, when
long use has made them almost indispensable.
Cocoa may be generally recommended as a safe
and agreeable breakfast and afternoon beverage. It
is very nutritious, and is particularly suitable whilst
nursing.
In fine, the dietetic doctrines professed by the
followers of Hahnemann may be thus summed up:
The food of an invalid should contain so much
nutriment, and no more, and of such a kind, as he
can easily digest.
His drink should be such and so much as may
best allay his thirst; for which cold water is best.
His food and drink should be food and drink
only; neither of them should be medicinal.
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V. EVIDENCES OF DISEASE.
THE BREATHING.-Accelerated, laborious, or irre-
gular, with a difficulty of taking a full breath, or ex-
panding the chest without pain. Breath offensive.
This may be either constitutional, or the result of a
want of attention to the cleanly state of the mouth;
otherwise it is the result of a derangement of health.
MOUTH.-Excessive saliva or dryness in the mouth,
indicating derangement of the glands. Unpleasant
taste in the mouth, if not the result of food taken,
may be traced to a deranged state of the stomach, in
most instances.
PAIN, INFLAMMATORY.-This is known by its being
Increased by pressure or heat; and in extreme cases,
even by contact.
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is the language in which we are told, that there is
an excess of pressure internally, either the result of
flatus, or an unhealthy enlargement of some part.
PULSE. In the normal state its beats are regular.
It varies in pulsation in different individuals from 70
to 120 beats in a minute; and it is more rapid in
women than in men. That of the infant varies from
100 to 120; children under seven years, from 86 to
96; and from the seventh to the fourteenth year, from
80 to 86; robust men in full vigour, from 70 to 75;
small healthy men, from 72 to 78; healthy women,
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from 80 to 85. The pulse gradually decreases as the
years increase, so that at sixty years of age it may
be as low as 55 beats.
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The mode of ascertaining the beat of the pulse, is
to place your fingers on the inside of the arm of the
patient, just above the root of his or her thumb, with
your thumb pressing lightly on the opposite side;
counting the beats and comparing with a minute of
time by your watch. Any material deviation from
the before-named must be considered unhealthy: if
accelerated, it indicates fever or inflammation; or if
depressed, torpor or want of power.
SKIN.-In health it has that happy medium, it is
neither too hot, too cold, too moist, too dry, too tight,
nor too loose; but with physical derangement comes
the change. In fever, the skin becomes burning hot
and dry, or alternates with sweating; but if with the
return of moisture to the skin other symptoms abate,
such change may be considered favourable, but not
otherwise. If the skin become cold, and the patient
complain of internal heat, then the attention should
be directed to the restoration of the balance. If the
skin become tight, it may be the result of poison.
TONGUE.-Coated; this state generally results from
the state of the stomach, and if attended with indi-
gestion, indicates fever, the tongue becomes dry, the
thirst excessive, and the pulse accelerated. If the
tongue is yellow it indicates an excess of bile, and
jaundice may follow.
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Antimonium tart.
LIST OF MEDICINES PRESCRIBED IN THIS BOOK.
Arnica
Arsenicum alb.
Belladonna
Bryonia
Calcarea carb.
Carbo veg.
Chamomilla
China
Cina
Cocculus
Coffæa
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Mercurius solubilis
Nux vomica
Opium
Phosphorus
Pulsatilla
Rheum
Rhus toxicodendron
Sambucus nig.
Sepia
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External Remedies.
Arnica montana, Calendula, Rhus toxicodendron.
Concentrated Solution of Camphor (saturated spirit).
This preparation must be kept apart from the other medicines.
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CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES
OF THE
MEDICINES PRESCRIBED IN THIS BOOK, AND INDICATIONS
FOR THEIR USE.
The headings in italics are the abbreviations commonly used for the
names of the Medicines.
ACONITE.-Acon.
INVALUABLE for its power of subduing inflam-
matory fever, and the first or congestive stage of
inflammation. The chief symptoms of the aconite
FEVER are chills down the back, shivering fol-
lowed by burning dry heat; full hard quick pulse;
hurried breathing; thirst; restlessness, moaning
and tossing, fear and anxiety; nightly delirium;
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constipation; scanty, deep-coloured urine.
favourable crisis is generally attended with copious
sweat. The concomitant symptoms indicate con-
gestion or inflammation of one or more organs, as
of those of the
HEAD, shown by giddiness; heat within and
without; fulness, heaviness, and violent pain, with
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PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
throbbing of the temporal arteries; red, or alter-
nately red and pale face; noise in the ears, also
with great sensitiveness to sound; dislike of light
obscuration of sight; inflammation of the eyes;
bleeding at the nose.
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CHEST.-Dry hard cough; cough with blood-
streaked or thin frothy expectoration; short, imper-
fect, laborious breathing; feeling of heat in the
lungs; sharp stitches; palpitation of the heart, with
great anguish; fainting fit after an attack of oppres-
sion of the chest, with icy coldness.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Dry mouth and tongue;
sore throat, with stinging, burning, and dark red-
ness; nauseous taste; loss of appetite; slimy and
bilious vomiting; painful pressure and weight on
the stomach; pain, with tenderness of the region of
the liver; flatulent colic; hard stools, with strain-
ing; white, scanty, loose, with tenesmus; watery;
obstinate constipation; with red urine.
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GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Acute rheumatic pains in
the muscles and joints; darting, tearing pains;
shifting irregularly from one part to another, but
generally alternating with heart symptoms; pains
with a lame and numb feeling in the affected parts.
Jaundice. Inconsolable anguish and despair; loud
lamentations, bitter complaints and reproaches;
fearfulness; great tendency to start; delirium.
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ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM.-Ant. t.
The action of this medicine is especially exerted
on the mucous membranes of the stomach, alimen-
tary canal, and respiratory organs, and on the skin,
in which latter it produces pustular eruptions, like
that of smallpox, as also visibly in the lining mem-
brane of the mouth, gullet, and windpipe, and
probably in other parts of that membrane through-
out the air-passages and alimentary canal. Its
effects are manifested in the
DIGESTIVE ORGANS, by violent nausea, vomiting,
and diarrhoea. The vomiting is preceded by an
exceedingly troublesome feeling of nausea, anguish,
yawning, profuse watering of the eyes, and violent
pressure at the stomach; it is followed by great
languor, drowsy and weary feeling, loathing, desire
for cooling things, pale, sunken face, and dim swim-
ming eyes. Violent colic, flatulent distention of the
abdomen; diarrhoea.
HEAD.-Dulness, dizziness, stupefaction; heat,
increased by motion; headache, with pressure from
without inwards.
NOSE.-Sneezing, bleeding, running of mucus,
with chilliness, deficient taste and smell.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Voice feeble or in-
audible; cough induced by violent titillation of the
larynx; rattling of mucus; short, difficult breath-
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the heart.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
THE FEVER is characterized by cold creepings,
chilliness, with tremor, great uneasiness; heat,
thirst, profuse sweat, irresistible desire for sleep,
increased secretion of urine; quick, feeble, tremu-
lous pulse.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS. Rheumatic pains; ex-
tremely painful cramp in the thighs and calves;
cold hands and feet. Spasmodic movements and
convulsive twitching. Tremor during every motion.
of the body, particularly of the head and hands.
ARNICA MONTANA.—Arn.
A sovereign remedy for the effects, immediate
and remote, local and general, of blows, contusions,
&c. It corresponds to a torpid condition of the
nerves, whether resulting from mechanical injury,
as in a bruise, bedsore, concussion of the brain,
and so forth, from the depressing action of cold,
as in frozen limbs, from fright, apoplexy, or ex-
hausting disease. Among its symptoms are, painful
and excessive sensitiveness of the whole body;
heaviness in all the limbs, with painful lameness
in all the joints, during motion; stinging and
tingling; pains, as of contusion; pains in the
joints, as if sprained; twitchings and tremor of
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the limbs; great weariness and weakness; drowsi-
ness; starting, crying, moaning, and talking in
sleep; frightful dreams; wetting the bed; involun-
tary passing of fæces in sleep.
HEAD.-Burning, the rest of the body not being
hot; frontal headache; frequent bleeding from the
nose; hot, red, shining swelling of the cheek.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Excessively fetid breath;
white or yellow furred tongue; bitter, or putrid,
slimy taste; dislike to meat and broth, desire for
vinegar; heartburn, nausea, retching, vomiting of
coagulated blood; flatulence, smelling like rotten
eggs; looseness of the bowels.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS. Frequent sneezing;
short, dry, hacking cough; expectoration of blood;
difficult breathing; stitches; bruised pain in the
joints, and in the cartilages of the chest; pain in the
region of the heart as if it was squeezed together.
SKIN.-Pricking, stinging, burning; small boils;
itching rash, produced by the outward application of
the tincture.
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ARSENICUM ALBUM.-Ars.
Inflammation rapidly approaching that intense
degree, at which decomposition of the blood and
mortification set in; and constitutional irritation
of the ganglionic system of nerves, tending to para-
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ing by arsenic. Hence its curative power in
morbid conditions in which there is great depression
of the vital energies, local and general. It is par-
ticularly suited to the impoverished, exhausted,
and nervous constitutions, to the leuco-phlegmatic
temperament, to persons disposed to catarrh,
disorders of the mucous membranes, dropsical
swellings, chronic eruptions, ulcerations, and sup-
purations.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
FEVER. Several forms of intermittent fever;
hectic; typhus; fever of a low asthenic character,
with shuddering and chilliness, then burning heat,
then profuse sweat, cold, clammy; intense thirst,
drinking frequently, but little at a time; pulse
rapid, small, wiry; feeble; intermittent; suppressed.
HEAD.—Throbbing, tearing headache, particu-
larly in the forehead, with nausea, debility, aggra-
vated in the room and by movement; frequent
paroxysms of headache, particularly in the forepart,
with great sensitiveness to the air, constant move-
ment of the head to and fro, and pressing it against
hard bodies; stupefaction; dizziness; soreness of
the scalp; swelling of the head and face; pale,
ghastly face; yellow; brown; lead coloured.
EYES.-Ophthalmia; weakness of sight; dread
of light; swelling of the lids.
NOSE.-Swollen; burning; violent bleeding;
dryness; sneezing; profuse discharge of acrid
watery mucus.
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MOUTH AND THROAT.-Tongue, bluish or white;
trembling; insensible, as if burnt; scraping, burn-
ing, and tearing in the throat; fetid breath; bitter,
saltish, or putrid taste.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN. Frequent eructa-
tions and hiccough; nausea, waterbrash, vomiting;
excessive burning, weight, and pressure in the
stomach; great tenderness; violent colic; diarrhoea,
with frequent discharges and great weakness; tenes-
mus and burning at the orifice; burning hæmor
rhoids; burning, itching.
MENSTRUATION.-Profuse, premature menstrual
discharge; acrid excoriating leucorrhoea.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Short hacking cough,
with soreness, as if the chest was excoriated; diffi-
cult expectoration, streaked with blood; oppression,
laboured breathing; suffocative paroxysms at night.
SKIN.-Jaundice; parchment-like dryness, cold-
ness and blueness; burning, itching; blue spots;
nettle-rash; miliary eruption; pimples; pustules;
vesicles; blisters; unhealthy ulcers.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Burning, particularly in
the interior of the affected parts; arthritic and
rheumatic pains; trembling of the limbs; rigid
spasms; convulsions; burning and tearing neuralgia
(nerve pain), mitigated by warmth, aggravated by
movement.
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BELLADONNA.—Bell.
Belladonna is akin to Aconite in its action on
the living economy, but differs from it in certain
particulars of great practical importance. It pro-
duces congestion of a much more violent kind,
gorging the capillaries with blood almost to bursting;
the inflammations caused by it reach a more ad-
vanced stage (technically called stasis), are far more
intense, and marked by much more dangerous
concomitant symptoms (delirium, coma, convul-
sions, &c.), Belladonna having an especial tendency
to affect the brain. Aconite corresponds to simple
inflammatory fever, or the feverish reaction of the
arterial system; Belladonna, to fevers with symptoms
indicating a more or less distinctly marked inflam-
matory action of the brain. The more delicate the
inflamed organ, or tissue, as an organ of sensation,
the more suitable is Belladonna. Among its most
prominent symptoms are stinging or burning pains;
swelling and shining redness of the affected parts;
aggravation by motion and contact; nerve pain;
spasms and convulsions; trembling of the limbs;
great general debility; paralysis; liability to cold;
and great sensitiveness to cold air; drowsiness;
lethargic sleep, or ineffectual longing for sleep;
great acuteness of the senses, or confusion, stupe-
faction, absence of mind; anguish about the heart;
immoderate laughter; foolish manners; weeping,
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moaning, and howling without any cause; delirium,
rage, frenzy.
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HEAD. Giddiness; aching in the forehead,
forcing the eyelids to close; headache on one side
headache as if the whole brain were forcibly dilated;
buzzing and roaring in the ears; bleeding at the
nose and mouth; convulsive shaking and bending
backwards of the head; violent redness and heat of
the face.
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EYES.-Pain and burning; dread of light; in-
flammation; dilated pupils; dimness of sight;
blindness; things seen double; things seen upside
down.
MOUTH AND THROAT.-Parched; slimy; pro-
fuse salivation; inflammation of the throat and
fauces; feeling in swallowing as if there was a
ligature round the gullet; inability to swallow even
liquids; intense aversion to liquids of all kinds, as in
hydrophobia.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Loss of taste; disgusting
taste; long lasting aversion to food; burning thirst;
absence of thirst; violent hiccough; vomiting of
bile and mucus; violent pain about the pit of the
stomach; griping and clawing in the abdomen,
particularly about the navel; pain as if the whole
abdomen were raw within; constipation, or frequent
loose stools with tenesmus; involuntary passing of
stool and urine.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Hoarseness; dry cough;
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cough with taste of blood in the mouth; stitches,
cutting and cramp-like pressure in the chest.
SKIN.-Red spots; scarlet spots and rashes;
erysipelatous inflammation; glandular swellings;
bleeding soreness in the bends of the joints. Bell.
is a preventive against Scarlatina.
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BRYONIA ALBA.—Bry.
Bryonia is related in its mode of action to Aconite
and Belladonna. It produces violent irritation both
of the circulatory and the nervous systems, and
especially affects the serous membranes, the process
of absorption, and the secretion of bile. Hence its
utility in rheumatic, bilious, and catarrhal com-
plaints, in engorgements, as, for instance, of the
nursing breast, in effusions of lymph or serum, in
typhus fevers, and inflammatory fevers which assume
a typhoid character. It is especially suitable to
persons with brown complexion, dark hair and eyes,
and irritable temper, disposed to constipation; to
morbid conditions brought on by exposure to dry
cold weather and sharp wind; by anger, vexation,
excessive bodily exertions, or a sedentary life; and
to such as are subject to ill humour, and chills
and coldness of the whole body.
HEAD.-Heaviness; headache, with nausea and
vomiting; feeling of compression from ear to ear;
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headache in both temples, pressing from within
outwards; beating and jerking; giddiness, as if
intoxicated; the headache sets in principally in the
morning; it is aggravated by stooping, by opening
and moving the eyes, and by movement generally;
the scalp is painful to the touch; it burns; hair
very greasy.
NOSE.- Swollen, with violent ulcerative pain
when touched; bleeding; violent sneezing; pro-
fuse violent running; with obstruction of the nose
and chilliness; with dartings in the head or pain in
the forehead.
FACE.-Red and bloated, or pale, clay coloured,
or with circumscribed redness of the cheeks; lips
dry and chapped.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Mouth and tongue very
dry; white coated tongue; foul breath; sickly,
putrid, or bitter taste; loss of appetite; voracious
appetite; violent thirst, obliging one to take long
draughts, but not often; eructations; nausea ;
vomiting of food, bile, and mucus; pressure as of a
stone in the stomach; intolerance of the least pres-
sure in the pit of the stomach; tension, burning or
stinging in the region of the liver; hard swelling
round the navel and below the false ribs; colic, with
diarrhoea; obstinate constipation; hot, red, scanty
urine.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Dry cough; violent
cough, with expectoration or hawking-up of mucus
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or of coagulated blood; stitches in the chest, making
it impossible to draw a full breath; palpitation of
the heart.
SKIN. Jaundice; burning, itching, and stinging
in different parts after lying down at night; burn-
ing and itching, red rashes, and pimples; rash of
lying-in women, and their infants; white miliary
eruption.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS. Rheumatic pains, also
with heat and swelling, intolerably aggravated by
movement; sweat of the affected parts during rest,
and trembling during a remission of the pain; acute
rheumatism of the joints; lumbago. The symptoms
are aggravated at night, or towards nine o'clock in
the evening; also on waking from sleep, after a
meal, by movement and contact; amelioration
during rest.
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CALCAREA CARBONICA.-Calc. c.
The use of Calcarea is, for the most part, limited
to chronic affections, in which it is of great and
extensive efficacy, including in its range of action
the mucous and serous membranes, the fibrous
tissues, the bones and their appendages, the ner-
vous system, the venous and the lymphatic systems
of the abdomen and the skin. It is one of the most
important remedies in all chronic affections, which
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those functions, by means of which the solids and
fluids are formed, and continually renovated-the
reproductive or vegetative functions, as they are
aptly termed. It is the chief remedy in rickets, or
softening and curvature of the bones; in retarded
closing of the sutures of the head in children, and
difficult teething; warts; in all scrofulous affections;
and in those which depend on the presence of worms
in the intestines. It is especially useful in diseases
of infants, such as ophthalmia, muscular and nervous
weakness, acidity of stomach, and others already
mentioned. To young children it may be given in
several successive doses (the younger the oftener) if
it continues to be called for by the symptoms; but
in affections of the aged, a second dose without any
previous intermediate remedy, is almost always
prejudicial. Other disorders in which it may be
advantageously employed are gout, especially its
precursory symptoms; chronic eruptions, particu-
larly on the face; inflammation of the tonsils, and
proneness thereto; purulent discharges from the
ears; chronic catarrh of the nose, windpipe, and
lungs; dyspepsia, with want of appetite, acidity,
heartburn, and vomiting; obstinate constipation;
chronic looseness of the bowels, especially in infants;
diarrhoea, with descent of the lower bowel; exhaust-
ing sweats; excessive flow of the menses, if they
return before their time, not otherwise; leucorrhoea;
superabundance or deficiency of milk in nursing
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women; falling off of the hair, after delivery or
acute diseases; hysteria; hypochondria.
A great many of the leading symptoms ascertained
in the provings of Calcarea on persons in health,
bear a striking resemblance to those of Carbo vege-
tabilis and China.
CALENDULA OFFICINALIS.-Calend.
What Arnica is to bruises, concussions, and
sprains, without laceration, Calendula is to wounds
and lacerations with, or without, loss of substance.
It is the true specific for such injuries, healing them
speedily without suppuration, except in the case of
very large wounds; and even then, if it does not
wholly prevent suppuration, it at least greatly
abridges the process, and mitigates the attendant
fever. Wounds dressed with Calendula lotion leave
no prominent scar. The action of this interesting
agent, as an internal remedy, is unfortunately very
imperfectly known.
CAMPHOR.-Camph.
"The sufferings," says Dr Gray, "which emi-
nently indicate Camphor, are those usually called
asphyxia, sinking of the forces, paroxysms of
embarrassment of the respiration and circulation,
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most part attended by tremors, or even severe
cramps in the muscular system, and cold sweats
especially about the head and neck. If this or a
similar state be connected with catarrhal discharges
or with diarrhoea, the indication for Camphor is
strengthened." It may be used as a preventive of
a number of severe diseases, especially catarrhal, in
the precursory stage. Dr Gray has "found it
often efficacious in interrupting the development of
paroxysms of epilepsy," giving it in one or two
drop doses every three to five minutes during the
premonitory symptoms of a fit, until these were
fully subdued. According to Lobethal, it is a
specific in Asiatic cholera as long as the body has
a natural colour, however low its temperature may
be. Camphor is the principal antidote to a number
of vegetable drugs, especially such as have a drastic
effect, and cause vomiting and diarrhoea, paleness of
the countenance, and loss of consciousness; also for
the injurious effects of cantharides (Spanish flies,
blistering plaster), and for the stings of insects; in
such cases it may be applied to the skin as well as
administered internally. Camphor is often a valu-
able remedy in suppression and retention of urine;
to infants labouring under either of those affections,
it may be administered by inhalation, the phial con-
taining it being held to the nostrils for a few seconds,
at intervals of a quarter of an hour, until relief
ensues.
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CARBO VEGETABILIS.-Carb. v.
Carbo vegetabilis surpasses Camphor in its de-
pressing effects, both as to duration and intensity.
It retards the decarbonization of the blood in the
lungs, even to the degree of asphyxia, with blueness
of the skin all over the body, fearful anguish about
the heart, and icy coldness of the surface. Hence
its eminent utility in Asiatic cholera. Certain
observations tend even to the conclusion, that carbon
acts preventively of that disease; but this needs
confirmation. It agrees generally with Calcarea
and China, in its tendency to produce a morbid state
of those organs, on which depends the nutrition of
the body, and to cause venous congestion in the
abdomen, and its attendant train of local symptoms,
with increased irritation of the sentient nerves, as
seen in hysteria and hypochondria. There is also
an analogy between it, and China, and Arsenic, as
regards a tendency to gangrenous inflammation.
Carbo is suitable to weakness caused by an exces-
sive loss of animal fluids, or consequent upon acute
diseases; to morbid conditions, brought on by damp
hot air; catarrhal and rheumatic affections; the
evil effects of the abuse of Mercury, and Quinine;
disordered stomach, and headache from excesses of
the table.
HEAD.-Much giddiness; dulness and difficulty
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in thinking; loss of memory; aching in the back
of the head; in the forepart; on the top, with pain-
fulness of the hair when touched; cramping, cutting,
pinching, tearing, darting pains in various parts of
the head; headache, as if the integuments of the
head became contracted; congestion, burning in the
forehead, heat in the mouth, pain in the eyes, buzz-
ing and crackling in the head; great falling off of
the hair; great paleness of the face; many pimples
on the face and forehead; swollen and chapped lips;
eruptions on the chin; burning, smarting, and sore-
ness in the eyes; itching round the nostrils; chronic
bleeding of the nose; cold in the head.
MOUTH AND THROAT.-Bleeding and soreness
of the gums; they recede from the teeth; tongue
coated white or yellow brown; pain and soreness of
the roots or sides of the tongue, difficulty of moving
it; great dryness of the mouth on waking; increased
flow of saliva; biting and burning in the palate and
top of the throat; feeling as if the gullet were con-
tracted or closed; sore throat.
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DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Bitter, salt, or sour taste;
great weakness of digestion; with much distress
after a meal, particularly from flatulence; heart-
burn; waterbrash; spasms in the stomach; pain in
the liver, as if bruised; aching, stitches, and ten-
derness in both sides below the ribs; constipation;
scanty hard stool, with great urging; mucous,
bloody, and putrid diarrhoea; swollen and painful
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hæmorrhoids; great desire to urinate, with greatly
diminished or increased flow; dark red urine, some-
times depositing gravel.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS. Hoarseness; loss of
voice in the morning; roughness and tingling in
the throat; dry cough, also with retching; cough,
with profuse expectoration of mucus; tightness of
the chest, and short breathing, as from flatulence
pressing upwards; aching and stitches in the sides
of the chest; palpitation of the heart.
SKIN.-Itching day and night; burning, as of
sinapisms; chronic nettle - rash; bleeding, fetid,
burning ulcers.
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MENSTRUATION, &c. The menses return too
soon; the menstrual blood is thick, black, with an
acrid smell, or pale and scanty; leucorrhoea, itching,
burning, and soreness.
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GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Anguish, irritability, peev-
ishness, tendency to start, nightly fear of ghosts;
attacks of sudden faintness; uneasy, broken sleep;
great drowsiness by day; much chilliness and cold-
ness; flushes of heat; great disposition to sweat;
small, weak, frequent pulse, fluttering, impercep-
tible ; painful stiffness in the neck and back; tear-
ing, darting, and burning pains, in almost every part
of the body and limbs; stiffness and bruised feeling
of the joints; the limbs go to sleep; cramps in the
soles of the feet, particularly in bed at night. Most
of the pains come on in the open air.
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CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS.-Cham.
Excessive sensibility to pain, and impatience under
its visitation, is a most important indication for the
use of Chamomilla. Coffea resembles and antidotes
it in this respect, and vice versa. Chamomilla is suit-
able in various affections of infants, and of women,
particularly when pregnant or nursing; and in hyste-
rical weakness and fainting fits; sufferings in con-
sequence of a chill; affections (resembling acute
bilious fever) produced by a fit of anger; convulsive
and spasmodic attacks; excoriation of the skin;
tendency to ulceration from slight injuries; bilious
and gastric affections; excoriation of the nipples;
catarrhal cough with hoarseness, chiefly in children;
colic and diarrhoea of infants.
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HEAD.-Pain as if the head would burst, on
waking; tearing, darting, throbbing headache; gid-
diness;
dulness of sense, as if in a waking dream
eyelids swollen and glued together in the morning;
fluttering, scraping, and humming in the. ears;
bleeding from the nose; obstruction of the nose,
with discharge of mucus; face hot, red, burning,
or redness and heat of one cheek, with paleness and
coldness of the other.
MOUTH AND THROAT.-Putrid smell from the
mouth, particularly after dinner; dry mouth and
tongue, with thirst; red tongue; stinging vesicles,
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on and under the tongue; sore throat, with dark
redness; with swelling of the parotids; violent
toothache, increased by warmth, sometimes by cold;
with swelling of the cheek.
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DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Sour or bitter taste; sour
or bitter, bilious vomiting; flatulent swelling of the
abdomen; excessively painful colic; diarrhoea, slimy
or watery, greenish or white; hot yellow urine,
with flocculent sediment; pain in passing water.
MENSTRUATION.-Colic before the menses; pains
like those of labour; copious discharge of deep red
blood, and of clots.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Dry cough; hoarseness,
from tenacious mucus in the windpipe; oppression
of the chest, as from flatulence; burning, aching,
and titillation, under the breast-bone.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS. - Рeevish, quarrelsome,
choleric humour; nightly sleeplessness; moaning,
starting, screaming, and talking in sleep; rheu-
matic, darting, tearing pains, with a paralytic or
numb sensation, in the part affected; cramps in the
calves; the pains are worst at night, and are fre-
quently accompanied with unquenchable thirst;
fainting fits.
CHINA, OR CINCHONA.-Chin.
The general action of China is like that of
Arsenic, but less intense, and results in exhaustion
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of the vital powers, of the whole organism, or of
single parts, organs, and systems, accompanied with
excessive sensitiveness and irritability of the nerves,
or with relaxation of the solids, deficiency of animal
heat, disposition to passive hæmorrhage from every
orifice of the body, and decomposition of organic
matter. Diseases with periodical type, point to
China. Its use in intermittent fever is notorious.
It is particularly suitable for debility, occasioned by
a great loss of animal fluids, either from natural or
artificial causes; in diarrhoea, from weakness and
atony of the digestive apparatus; after severe acute
diseases, and in affections resulting from the con-
tinuance of immoderate passion, mental exertions,
and sitting up at night. In all such cases some of
the following symptoms are generally present.
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HEAD.-Darting, tearing, or pressive headache;
megrim; nervous or rheumatic faceache; great
tenderness of the scalp; congestion of blood to the
head; dimness of sight; pupils contracted or much
dilated; singing, ringing, and roaring in the ears;
paleness of countenance; yellow tinge of the eyes;
dry, swollen, chapped lips; swelling of the glands
under the jaws; darting, throbbing toothache, chiefly
after dinner, and at night.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Bitter taste in the mouth,
and of food; slight or entirely deficient appetite;
furred tongue; swelling of the soft palate and
uvula; the throat feels contracted; hard, flatulent,
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painful distention of the abdomen; hardness and
swelling of the liver; of the spleen; indigestion,
vomiting, heartburn; jaundice; diarrhoea; passing
of undigested food; tingling and burning of the
anus, and discharge of thread-worms; deep coloured
urine, with sediment like brick-dust; frequent urg-
ing to urinate.
RESPIRATORY
ORGANS.-Convulsive cough;
stitches in the ribs; congestion to the chest.
MENSTRUATION. Congestion to the uterus; pro-
fuse menses; suppression of the menses; obstinate
whites.
FEVER.-Coldness and shuddering, followed by
heat, then copious sweat; thirst for the most part
during the sweating stage only.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Painful pressure between
the shoulder blades; pains as if strained in every
joint, in the bones and periosteum, with darting and
tearing, particularly in the back, small of the back,
thighs, and knees; debility, exhaustion; swoons;
sweat from the least movement, and during sleep,
particularly in the nape of the neck, back, chest,
and thighs; dropsical swellings; restless night-
sleep, disturbed by frightful fancies and dreams;
excessive irritability of all the senses; extreme
anxiety and fearfulness; angry vehemence; fitful
temper; hypochondria. The symptoms are excited
or aggravated by touch, by motion, at night, or
after a meal.
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Cina may be administered for affections of chil-
dren, caused by worms, with the following symp-
toms: evening chilliness; small, rather hard
frequent pulse; little sleep, tossing, cries and
starting during sleep; grinding of the teeth; great
ill-humour; passing attacks of delirium; contrac-
tion and jerking of the hand, and of the fingers;
cramp-like extension of the legs; heaviness in the
limbs; alternate paleness and redness, heat and
coldness of the face; dilatation of the pupils; con-
stant rubbing and picking the end of the nose;
lying on the back with open mouth; tenacious
mucus on the tongue; hunger after a meal; offen-
sive eructations; vomiting; hot, distended abdo-
men; colic; loose, involuntary, whitish evacua-
tions; discharge of ascarides; frequent emission of
urine; wetting the bed; the urine soon becomes
turbid.
Cina is often serviceable in the convulsive stage of
hooping-cough, in children affected with worms. It
also deserves attention in the bronchial catarrhs,
which remain after measles, especially such as have
a kind of hectic fever with them.
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COCCULUS.-Cocc.
The stomach, the brain, and the spinal marrow,
appear to be peculiarly susceptible to the action of
Cocculus. Hence its utility in disorders affecting
those organs severally, as in spasms of the stomach,
convulsions and spasms caused by wounds, para-
lysis, &c., and in such as affect two or more of those
organs jointly, as, for instance, sea-sickness, or
sickness caused by the motion of a carriage, in
which the stomach sympathizes with the disturb-
ance of the brain.
HEAD.-Stupid feeling; vertigo, as from intoxi-
cation (when sitting); vertigo, with nausea, even to
fainting; headache, as if the eyes would be torn
out; pain in the head, with a feeling as if it was
hollow and empty.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Dryness and roughness in
the mouth, throat, and gullet, without thirst;
metallic or sour taste in the mouth; excessive re-
pugnance to food, accompanied with hunger; incli-
nation to vomit, with headache, and pain in the
intestines as if bruised; griping, tearing spasms
of the stomach; sensation in the abdomen as if
it were hollow and empty; pinchings, stitches,
and tearing in the abdomen; flatulent colic; pain-
ful disposition to inguinal hernia; constipation,
with ineffectual desire; hard and difficult evacua-
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tions; frequent desire to urinate; also in pregnant
females.
MENSTRUATION.-Premature, scanty menses, with
cramps in the abdomen.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS. Contractive sensation
in the windpipe, as if irritated by smoke, inducing
almost constant cough; short, difficult breathing ;
pressure and stitches in the chest.
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GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Fainting fits of hysterical
females; paralysis of one side; paralysis of the
lower extremities; jerkings of the muscles; aching,
drawing, and paralytic pains in the back and limbs;
cracking in the joints; painful stiffness of the
joints; alternate going to sleep of the feet and
hands, in transitory paroxysms; great weakness;
trembling of all the limbs. All the symptoms,
especially those of the head, are aggravated by
drinking, eating, sleeping, talking, smoking, by
coffee, and by cold air.
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The general indications for the use of Coffea, are
excessive nervous susceptibility, and morbid irrita-
tion of the senses; intolerance of the least pain;
exceedingly painful neuralgia; sleeplessness from
nervous excitement; desire to lie down and close
the eyes, without being able or willing to sleep;
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bad consequences of unexpected or excessive joy;
intense headache, from congestion of blood; megrim
(coffee shortens the paroxysms, but does not cure
them); very painful sore throat; nervous toothache;
cramps in the stomach; frightful crampy pains in
the abdomen and chest, especially in women; diar-
rhoea; also during teething; weakness of digestion ;
derangement of an overloaded stomach; excessively
violent labour and after-pains; retention of the
menses or profuse menstruation.
The pains are
aggravated in the open air.
Coffee is an invaluable antidote for all narcotic
poisons. A strong infusion of genuine coffee, not
over roasted, with sugar, but without milk, should
be given, immediately after the stomach has been
thoroughly emptied, in all cases of suspected poison-
ing, in which the patient is delirious or insensible,
or seems as if intoxicated, or is stupified and sleepy,
his face red and turgid, or pale, cold, and cadav-
erous.
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COLOCYNTH.-Coloc.
Colocynth is a medicine of intense power, but
limited range of action, affecting almost exclusively
certain nerves of the head and face, the abdomen,
the lower part of the back, the hips, thighs, and
legs, and exciting, through the medium of those
nerves, violent neuralgia and exceedingly painful
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cramps. It promotes the secretion of mucus con-
siderably but not permanently; hence its use in
allopathic practice, in which it is familiarly known
as a drastic and very griping purgative. Inflam-
matory affections, or such as depend upon organic
changes, or pressure of morbid growths or effusions.
on the nerves or nervous centres, are not likely to be
benefited by Colocynth, otherwise than in an indirect
and secondary way. On the other hand, its efficacy
is very great in the following affections :-
MEGRIM (neuralgia of one side of the head) and
FACEACHE, being purely functional affections of the
nervous filaments, dependent on rheumatic, gouty,
or gastric irritation, or on congestion of the fifth
pair of nerves. Such neuralgia of the frontal nerve
are sometimes accompanied with violent pains in the
eye, and alternate with colic (neuralgia of the coeliac
plexus). In the faceaches for which Colocynth is
suited, there are no twitchings of particular muscles
of the face, and palsied feeling of the affected side.
The pain follows the course of the infra-orbital
nerve (which issues through an opening in the
cheek-bone beneath the eye), and is accompanied by
toothache.
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COLIC pains (neuralgia of coeliac plexus and
its branches) are particularly likely to be removed
by Colocynth, when they occur as substantive affec-
tions, not caused by derangement of stomach, but by
cold, vexation, or anger; complicated with spinal
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irritation and neuralgia of the great nerves of the
thigh, with hæmorrhoids, chronic diarrhoea, and
worm symptoms. Colocynth is suited in an especial
manner to a peculiar kind of colic, with the follow-
ing symptoms:-Pains in the lower belly; pressive
pain about the bottom of the backbone, below the
vertebræ, with sensation of pressure on the rectum
and bladder, in women on the uterus and vagina,
as of labour; pain in the upper part of the thighs
is a frequent concomitant. In women, in whom
it not unfrequently occurs at each menstrual period,
during the development of puberty, the symptoms
resemble greatly those of prolapsus or retroversion
of the uterus, but come on in paroxysms, and are not
relieved by change of posture.
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The SCIATIC pains (neuralgic affections of the
hips and lower extremities), which are most under
the control of Colocynth, are those arising from
cold, from violent emotions, mechanical violence, or
connected with gout, suffused hæmorrhoids, or com-
plicated with colic and flatulence, irregular action.
of the bowels, and urinary disorders.
Among the mental indications for the use of
Colocynth, the following are of great importance :-
Indignation and great irascibility provocative to
anger; great disinclination to speak.
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CUPRUM ACETICUM.-Cupr. ac.
The chief affections in which this medicine is
employed, are partial or general spasms, and convul-
sions, hooping-cough, cutaneous eruptions, old ulcers,
and Asiatic cholera. It is more particularly indi-
cated when the symptoms appear at irregular
intervals, and in alternate groups, with piercing
shrieks; when they begin at the fingers and toes;
deep sleep, with jerking of the limbs; delirium;
craziness; vertigo; most violent headache; pale
face, blue lips, deep sunken eyes, with blue margins;
foam at the mouth; features spasmodically distorted;
violent vomiting, with cramps in the abdomen,
aggravated by touch, and by movement; excessive
horrid pain in the region of the stomach; violent
diarrhoea; short, difficult breathing, with spasmodic
cough, and rattling in the chest; spasm in the
throat, which hinders speech; violent palpitation
of the heart.
DROSERA.-Dros.
Useful in the convulsive stage of hooping-cough,
and catarrhal affections after croup, and when the
following symptoms are present:-Tickling in the
larynx, inducing a short hacking cough, with sen-
sation as if a soft body bad lodged in it, with fine
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stitches in the larynx, extending down to the right
side of the gullet; rough scraping feeling of dry-
ness in the soft palate, and behind it, exciting
cough, hoarseness, with deep base voice; con-
tractive pain in the sides under the ribs, arresting
the breathing; cough, with fits so rapid that the
patient can scarcely breathe, with bluish face,
suffocation, bleeding from the mouth and nose, and
vomiting of food.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
DULCAMARA.—Dulc.
Disorders arising from damp, cold air, or from a
thorough wetting, are controlled by Dulcamara, and
even prevented, if it is taken immediately on the
appearance of the symptoms indicating its use. It
affects chiefly the skin, the mucous membranes, the
joints, and the secretion of urine, and is suited to
the following conditions, more especially when they
result from cold, and are accompanied with turbid,
badly smelling urine :-
CATARRHAL AFFECTIONS.-Cold in the head,
with dryness of the nose, and headache; acute and
chronic bronchitis, with copious expectoration;
moist asthma; sore throat in the secretory stage;
ophthalmia; bronchial disorders, with cough, and
slow fever, after measles.
RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS. Slight attacks of
rheumatism, especially of the upper extremities;
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stitches and painful stiffness in the back of the
neck; acute rheumatism, with little fever, increased
thirst, and violent lancination and aching in the arms
and back, especially violent at night and during
repose, abating when moving the arms.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
SKIN AND GLANDS.-Dropsy after fevers, or expo-
sure to cold when heated; swelling and induration,
or suppuration of glands, particularly those of the
neck, and those under the jaw; stinging and burning
itching of different parts, chiefly at night; fetid sweat;
dryness, heat and burning of the skin; nettle-rash;
violently itching vesicles, upon a red base; milk crust;
suppurating, humid, corroding tetters, forming crusts,
or dry and peeling off like bran; warts, particularly
on the face.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Derangement of stomach
characterized by flat soapy taste, great thirst, repug-
nance to food; dirty white coated tongue, increased
secretion, and even vomiting of thick mucus;
diarrhoea; pimples and little ulcers in the mouth;
salivation, with loose and spongy gums; flatulent
swelling of the abdomen; colic; slimy diarrhoea, with
faintness; diarrhoea of white or green mucus; desire
to relieve the bowels, sometimes coming on suddenly
with violent urging, but the rectum is inactive, and
scanty hard fæces are expelled with great straining;
turbid white urine; badly smelling urine; at times red,
at times white sediment; painful difficulty in passing
water; burning in the passage; catarrh of the bladder.
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MENSTRUATION, &c.-Retarded flow, with watery
blood; heat, itching, tetters and pimples.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Paralysis of the tongue,
hindering speech (in damp and cold weather);
paralysis caused by sudden suppression of an erup-
tion. The symptoms are aggravated at night and
by rest; they are relieved by movement.
GRAPHITES.-Graph.
Graphites acts with great energy upon the skin,
the mucous membranes, the lymphatic system, the
venous system of the abdomen and the uterus. The
medicine to which it is most analogous is Calc., but
it has also many points of resemblance to Ars.
(which it antidotes), Carb. v., Chin., Hep., Phosph.,
and Sil. It is particularly suitable to persons of
blond hair, pale complexion, knobby finger nails,
with skins habitually dry, or the reverse, and prone
to fester from slight injuries. Graphites is a most
important remedy for a great number of chronic
disorders of the skin and its appendages, and is
frequently indispensable in cases of chronic consti-
pation, and of retarded menses, leucorrhoea, &c.
HEAD, MIND, &c.-Sadness, despondency, an-
guish; great tendency to start; irritability and rest-
lessness; vivid, anxious, or frightful dreams; talking
in sleep; lethargy; dislike of all exertion; absence of
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mind; forgetfulness; vertigo, with inclination to
fall forwards, when looking up, or when stooping;
painful dulness of the head early in the morning,
with nausea; aching in the forehead and crown of.
the head; in the back of the head; burning on the
top of the head; intolerance of light; roaring,
thundering, hissing, cracking, or detonation, as of
a gun in the ears; smell too sensitive; offensive
illusions of the sense of smell; continual feeling as
of a cobweb on the face; partial paralysis of one
side of the face; pain in all the bones of the face
alternately.
EYES.-Itching and smarting in the eyes; cold-
ness over the eyes; redness and inflammation of the
eyes and eyelids; frequent watering of the eyes; the
eyelids are glued together in the morning.
EARS, NOSE, Mouth, Throat, &c.-Dryness or
offensive discharge from the ears; stoppage of the
nose, with nausea, and headache; copious discharge
from the nose; soreness of the tongue; painful swell-
ing of the gums; swelling of the glands under the
jaw; toothache, especially at night; fetid or urinous
smell from the mouth; sensation as of a plug in the
throat; scraping and rawness in the throat; stitches;
swelling of the tonsils.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Weakness of stomach, with
distress of various kinds after a meal; flatulent
distention; rancid heartburn, waterbrash, hiccough,
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sides; colic; constipation; hard, knotty stool, or
not thicker than a quill; swollen piles; frequent
urination; wetting the bed at night; dark coloured
urine, depositing a red or white sediment.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Cough, dry and hacking,
or loose, with much expectoration; asthmatic pa-
roxysms; pain and pressure in different parts of
the chest; severe stitches; violent palpitation of
the heart.
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Back And LimbS.-Violent pain in the small of
the back; in the nape of the neck, with stiffness;
rheumatic pains in the joints; stitches; cramps;
cold feet and hands; burning of the feet; offensive
sweat of the feet.
SKIN.-Itching of the hairy scalp; falling off of
the hair; dry or oozing scurfy eruptions on the
head, especially behind the ears; ringworm of the
scalp; chapped lips and nostrils; ulcerated corner
of the mouth; eruption forming scabs on the chin;
black pores on the nose; small red itching pimples,
with their tips full of pus; spots like fleabites on
different parts of the body; small boils on neck,
back, and arms; chafing and soreness of the skin
between the fingers, and toes, and of the fold of the
thigh; brittle skin of the hands, with chaps and
fissures; thickening and distortion of the nails;
hard knotty enlargements about the joints, espe-
cially of the fingers; scrofulous ulcers, with fetid
smell; painful corns.
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The symptoms are aggravated, morning and even-
ing, in the open air, and in the cold.
HEPAR SULPHURIS.-Hep.
Hepar is particularly suitable for all disturbances
of the lymphatic system; for disorders of the glands,
and scrofulous affections; for salivation and other
injurious effects of mercury; also for chronic erup-
tions, especially of the face; for abscesses in the
suppurative stage; for inflammations of the air
passages, in the secretory stage, and especially in
croup, for the purpose of arresting the tendency to
effusion. Hepar is a chemical combination of lime
(calcarea) and sulphur, and as a medicine, it holds a
place, as it were, midway between them, in relation
to all diseases of the reproductive system, dependent
on some vice. It is often very serviceable in chronic
dyspepsia.
HEAD, MIND, SENSES.-Great nervous irritabi-
lity; every impression on the mind or body excites
the nervous system, even to trembling; extreme
vehemence from the slightest cause; weak memory;
vertigo and headache, especially in the morning and
evening; boring pain at a small spot in the head;
twinkling, with sensation as if a gauze were before
the eyes; whizzing, throbbing, and snapping in the
ears; sleeplessness after midnight, or dosing with
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confused thoughts of business; anxious and fright-
ful dreams; starting up from sleep in sudden
fright; weakness and weariness, with nervous
depression, and palpitation of the heart; sudden
violent swoon towards evening, the pains being
slight.
EYES, EARS, NOSE, MOUTH, &c.-Aching in
the eyeballs; inflammation, redness, and swelling
of the eyes and eyelids; the lids gummed together
in the morning; darting pains in the ears; itching;
increase of ear-wax; discharge of pus from the
ear; redness, heat, and swelling of the nose, bleed-
ing, stoppage and sneezing; darting, jerking tooth-
ache; the gums bleed readily, they are inflamed;
very painful soreness and burning of the tip of the
tongue.
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DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Difficulty in swallowing,
with or without sore throat; stinging in the throat,
as if caused by a splinter; the stomach is frequently
and easily deranged; thirst; appetite only for sour
and piquant things; hiccough after a meal; nausea,
heartburn, waterbrash; pressure and tension in the
region of the stomach after eating, forcing to un-
button; stitches in the sides when walking, diffi-
cult evacuation, as if from want of contractile
power in the bowels; diarrhoea, clay-coloured,
greenish, or tinged with blood; burning urine;
escape of prostatic fluid, during or after stool.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Hoarseness; fits of dry
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cough in the evening; cough with expectoration of
mucus the whole day, excited by a scraping in the
larynx; hoarse, anxious, wheezing respiration when
lying down; violent palpitation of the heart; diffi-
cult breathing.
FEVER.-Nightly feverish chills, without subse-
quent heat; chilliness, and dry heat at night; pro-
fuse sweat, day and night.
SKIN.-Yellow; unhealthy; tendency to ulcerate
from the least injury; pimples and tetters; boils;
chapped lips; rash on the face; deep chaps and
fissures, on the hands and feet; whitlows; chil-
blains; erysipelatous inflammations; great falling
off of the hair; unhealthy, bleeding ulcers.
MENSTRUATION.-Hæmorrhage from the uterus;
delayed menses, with previous headache, and much
itching during the flow.
BACK AND LIMBS.-Bruised or darting pain, in
the muscles and joints of the back, and the limbs;
burning or sweaty cold hands; swelling and stiff-
ness of the fingers; cramps in the hips, thighs, legs,
feet; swelling of the feet; cold sweaty feet. The
pains are greatest at night.
HYOSCYAMUS.—Hyos.
Like Bell. Hyoscyamus produces great functional
disturbance of the brain, raging, timorous or crazy
delirium, spasms and convulsions; but it manifests
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little of that power of exciting local inflammation,
which so strikingly characterizes Bell. The latter
tends to exalt the irritability of the heart, and
increase the frequency of the pulse; the primary
effect of Hyoscyamus is the reverse of this. A
dose of twelve grains of resinous extract of Hyos-
cyamus, taken by a healthy young man, quickly
reduced the pulse, from 85 to 59, the pulsations
being very small.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
MIND AND
SENSES.Jealousy; indomitable
rage; horrid anguish; constant suspicion, and fear-
fulness; insanity; vertigo as from intoxication;
want of memory; far-sightedness, with dilated
pupils, or the reverse; obscuration of light; dim,
lustreless, or red, sparkling eyes; illusions of sight;
small things seem very large; all things seem red
or golden yellow; excessive wakefulness; or its
alternate symptom, deep sleep; frightful dreams;
moaning and gesticulating; talking, grinding the
teeth in sleep; waking with a scream; plucking at
the bed-clothes.
HEAD, FACE, &c.-Constrictive, stupifying head-
ache, alternating with absence of all pain, ease and
exalted fancy; undulating sensation in the brain ;
sensation in walking, as if the brain were shaken
and loose; bluish face; brown, red swollen face; tear-
ing toothache, with congestion of blood to the head.
MOUTH AND THROAT.-Burning and dryness of
the tongue, lips, and throat, with thirst; impeded
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speech; much spitting; saltish or bloody saliva;
foam at the mouth; constriction of the throat; in-
ability to swallow; dread of drinking.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Bitter eructations, nausea,
vomiting, hiccough; burning in the stomach; colic
with flatulent distention, and painful sensitiveness
to touch; copious loose evacuation; moderate diar-
rhoa; costiveness; frequent passing of thread-
worms; retention of urine; frequent emission;
paralysis of the bladder; involuntary passing of
urine.
MENSTRUATION.-Profuse menses, preceded and
accompanied with hysterical symptoms.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Dry, spasmodic cough,
particularly at night, relieved by sitting up in the
bed; difficulty of breathing, with occasional rat-
tling stitches in the chest.
SKIN.-Dry and brittle, or else soft and warm;
itching; inflammation, with vermilion redness;
large pustules in clusters on various places; alter-
nate appearance and disappearance of brown spots
on the whole body; gangrenous spots and vesicles
here and there; tetters on the nape of the neck;
large boils frequently.
FEVER.-Coldness at night, with inability to get
warm; burning heat of the whole body, without
redness; excessive sweat; small weak pulse; irre-
gular.
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motion; great weakness; repeated fainting fits;
convulsions; epilepsy; St Vitus's dance; spasms
from worms; spasms during pregnancy or teething.
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IGNATIA AMARA.—Ign.
Hahnemann remarks that "although the effects
of Ignatia are very similar to those of Nux v.,
nevertheless these two drugs correspond to very
different conditions. Ignatia is not suitable
for persons or diseases characterized by anger, vehe-
mence, &c., but by sudden alternations of cheerful-
ness and grief, or by those other moral conditions
which Ignatia realizes in the healthy body, provided,
of course, that the physical symptoms likewise cor-
respond." He notices also a very remarkable pe-
culiarity of this medicine. "The primary symptoms
of Ignatia," he says, "constitute a double series
antipathic the one to the other; and being reproduced
in the treatment of disease, if the first dose act by
its series corresponding to the disease, a second dose
cannot be administered without aggravating the
disease, realizing in this manner all the injurious
secondary effects of a palliative. Hence it is that
Ignatia can only be used in sudden attacks and acute
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diseases."*
It must not, however, be inferred from
this that Ignatia never admits of a repetition of doses.
In the passage we have just quoted, Hahnemann
talks of a first and second dose with reference to
* It is a general law of the animal economy, that action
infers reaction. Nature maintains the balance of the func-
tions by ordaining that every manifestation of them shall be
followed by another manifestation of the opposite kind.
Thus, exercise induces sleep, and sleep desire for exercise.
The eye that has gazed long on any colour becomes for a
while insensible to it, and sees only its complementary.
Thus, also, all drugs exhibit two kinds of effects upon the
living body; the one primary and direct, the other secon-
dary, and exactly the reverse of the former. The primary
effect of wine is to exalt and rouse all the faculties; its
secondary effect is to depress them. A great increase of arte-
rial action is a primary effect of Aconite; its secondary effect
is to reduce the pulse, sometimes as low as to thirty-five beats
in a minute. The primary effect of a cathartic medicine is
to cause an increased exhalation of fluids from the mucous
membrane of the intestines, with increased activity of their
muscular fibres, and, consequently, a loose state of the
bowels; after that state has continued some time, it is suc-
ceeded by the contrary one of diminished secretion and mus-
cular action; and thus constipation presents itself as the
secondary effect of the drug. Hence we see why it is that
purgative medicines never have cured, and never can cure,
one solitary case of habitual costiveness. They can only act
as palliatives in such cases, relieving the symptoms for a
while, but rendering the conditions on which they depend
more and more inveterate. Hence, too, we see why burns
heal far more favourably under warm dressings than under
the application of cold water.
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chronic diseases, in which it was his practice to ad-
minister remedies at exceedingly long intervals.
Ignatia should be administered in the morning,
except in cases of necessity; if taken just before
bedtime it disturbs the night's rest.
HEAD, MIND.-Sadness; sensitiveness of feel-
ing; delicate conscientiousness; quick, but transi-
tory ill humour and anger; excessive, anxious
desire to do now this, now that; great tendency
to start; silent mood; brooding over inward
chagrin. Headache increased by stooping; head-
ache, as if a nail were pressed into the brain;
tearing headache relieved by lying on the back ;
inability to bear the glare of light; deep sleep or
sleeplessness; horrid dreams; dreaming all night
of one object that haunts one even after waking.
EYES, NOSE.-The eyelids glued together in the
morning; soreness of the outer corners; ophthal-
mia; ulcerated nostrils; stoppage of one nostril;
cold in the head, with dull pain in the head and
hysteric nervousness.
MOUTH, THROAT.-Soreness of the inner mouth;
increase of saliva; feeling as of a lump on the
throat, which is sore only when swallowing; sting-
ing in the throat only when not swallowing; aching
and darting in the glands under the jaw.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Bad taste in the mouth;
loss of appetite; gulping up of a bitter fluid, or
of the food; hiccough after eating or drinking;
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stomach; periodical abdominal spasms; much trouble
from flatulence; rumbling in the bowels; mucous
stool; falling down of the lower intestines; frequent
emission of watery urine.
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RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Incessant inclination to
short dry cough from irritation in the throat; op-
pression of the chest; slow, laboured inspirations;
quick, easy expiration.
SKIN.-Innumerable fine prickings, like fleabites;
itching, easily removed by scratching.
FEVER.-Chilliness, which yields readily to ex-
ternal warmth; heat of single parts, with coldness,
chilliness, and shuddering of others; the heat is
almost always external; the thirst occurs only in
the cold fit.
MENSTRUATION.-Premature; profuse; with clots.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Pains in different parts,
which become excessive by contact; pain as if
sprained or dislocated in the joints of the shoulders,
hips, and knees; continual sticking pain about the
joints; deep sticking, burning pain in different
parts; jerks through the whole body when falling
asleep; spasms in children and hysterical females,
in consequence of fright and chagrin: consequences
of deep-felt emotions, especially grief.
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IPECACUANHA.—Ipec.
Derangement of the stomach, with much nausea,
vomiting, and diarrhoea, are very prominent symp-
toms of Ipecacuanha. Among its other general
effects are spasmodic and congestive affections of
the respiratory organs, hæmorrhage of internal
organs, gastric and typhus fever. It is useful in
fevers characterized by sighing breathing, which
almost always indicates the approach of a rash
eruption.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS. Aversion to food of all
kinds; nausea; vomiting of food; of mucus; of
bilious, greenish, or acid matter; horrid pains in
the stomach; indescribable sick feeling at the pit of
the stomach; pinching, cutting, tearing colic; diar-
rhoea; frothy, slimy evacuations; green as grass;
tinged with blood, or consisting of bright blood only;
burning pain at the orifice, as in piles; scanty red
urine, with brickdust sediment.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Dry cough, provoked by
titillation in the windpipe and bronchial tubes;
rattling of mucus in the air-passages; convulsive
suffocating cough; spasmodic asthma, especially at
night; hæmorrhage from the lungs.
MENSTRUATION. Premature, profuse menses;
discharge of bright red blood and firm clots.
FEVER.-Constant chilliness, increasing near the
fire; external coldness and internal heat; burning
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feet, followed by slight sweat; night sweat.
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GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Bruised pain in all the
bones, those of the head included; pain in the
joints, as when the limbs go to sleep; rigid
spasms of the whole body; sudden jerking of the
arms towards one another.
LACHESIS.-Lach.
Lachesis is a medicine of the first importance;
it resembles Ars. in its faculty of depressing the
vital powers both locally and generally, and Merc.
in the energy with which it acts on the mucous
surfaces. It is very rarely suitable to persons of a
sanguine disposition, with a blooming complexion,
and soft, fine skin. It is more frequently adapted
to thin than to fat persons.
MIND AND DISPOSITION.-Despondency; restless-
ness; anguish; attacks of nightly fear; mistrust
and suspicion; indolence; indecision; captious
peevishness; hurriedness; morbid sensibility; great
absence of mind; great weakness of memory; in-
ability to think intently.
HEAD.-Frequent momentary vertigo, particu-
larly on closing the eyes; headache generally; many
of the pains are deep seated; aching under the
skull all over; heat in the head; whizzing; violent
headache, with twinkling before the eyes; with
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nausea; soreness and tenderness of the skin of the
head, especially of the left side; itching; swelling
of the head and face.
EYES, EARS, NOSE.-Pain from reading, particu-
larly by candle-light; squeezing pain, as if the
sockets were too narrow; stinging; itching; in-
flammation; also of the lids; faintness and dim-
ness; black flickering before the eyes; bright blue
ring round the light, or fiery ring with fiery rays;
white ear-wax; hardness of hearing; great sensi-
tiveness to noise; crackling, chirping, roaring,
drumming; pains in the nose, proceeding from the
head; itching when eating; sore borders; dropping
of blood on blowing the nose; discharge of pus and
blood; dryness; stoppage of the nostrils; running
of thin water.
FACE.-Pale, sunken; distorted; swollen; itch-
ing; small pimples; rash, going and coming; puru-
lent blotches; erysipelas; faceache, above and
below the eye and in the jaw-bones, darting, tear-
ing, digging.
MOUTH AND TEETH.-Dryness; soreness; accu-
mulation of water in the mouth; burning of the
tongue, as if from pepper; inflammation; difficulty
of speech; swelling and bleeding of the gums;
toothache; darting, tearing in the teeth; remark-
able brittleness of the decayed teeth; they are de-
stroyed more rapidly, but without pain.
THROAT.-Tingling; soreness; also extending to
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the ears; constant pain for months when swallowing
saliva; sensation as of a plug, lump, or tubercle, &c.,
in the throat; inability to swallow; drinks return
by the nose; dryness of the whole throat or of small
spots; hawking up of mucus.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Salt taste; bitter; taste as
of old grease; loss of appetite; gnawing hunger;
increased desire for wine, which aggravates the
pains; acids occasion diarrhoea, or arrest the
curative action (salt things likewise); weakness of
stomach; dyspepsia; many of the pains make their
appearance a few hours after a meal; violent eruo-
tations, like vomiting up air; gulping up of sour
water; nausea and vomiting, as accompanying
symptoms of other complaints; pressure in the pit
of the stomach; sensation in the stomach and
bowels, as if a lump was gathering; pain in the
sides when coughing, as if ulcerated; tight clothes
cannot be borne round the waist; hard distention
of the abdomen; great trouble from flatulence,
which escapes with difficulty; chronic constipa-
tion; ineffectual urging as if the orifice would not
relax; diarrhoea; protrusion of the gut after stool;
hæmorrhoidal sufferings; frequent, copious emission
of urine; burning in the passage.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Hoarseness, with ineffec-
tual hawking; cough occasioned by ulcers in the
throat; by pressure on the larynx; by titillation,
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sleep, without being conscious of it; dry cough, or
with expectoration of phlegm, slime, or purulent
matter; shortness of breath; suffocative fits; stitches,
soreness, burning in the chest.
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BODY AND LIMBS.-Pain and weakness in the
small of the back; stiffness of the nape of the
neck; great painfulness of the neck, and sensitive-
ness to contact even of the linen; burning or bruised
pain in the limbs; frequent short attacks of swelling
of the neck; swelling of the hands; the feet; the
legs; the knees; aching and lame feeling in almost
every bone; great weakness and weariness of the
limbs; rheumatic pains in the shoulder, wrist, hip,
and knee joints; stinging, tingling in the tips of the
fingers, the toes, the knees; whitlow; icy cold feet.
MENSTRUATION.-Scanty, delaying, intermittent;
sufferings at the change of life.
SKIN.-Prickling, itching, stinging, burning;
pimples; pustules; gangrenous blisters; itching
vesicles on the hands and feet; erysipelas, particu-
larly in the face; scarlet fever, with swelling of
the glands of the neck, black lips and tongue;
warts on the hands; proneness to sweat; great
coldness, or burning, dry heat, or heat with intervals
of shivering.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Weariness, with bodily
languor and mental excitement; great desire to lie
down, particularly after eating; frequent fainting
fits; trembling of the whole body; convulsions;
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paralysis. Wakefulness at night; drowsiness in the
morning; dreams all night, with frequent waking.
Suppurations, particularly of deep-seated parts;
breaking out of old wounds; malignant ulcers.
Pressure in the region of the heart; palpitation ;
feeble, quick pulse; tremulous, intermittent. La-
chesis appears to act principally on the left side.
The symptoms are aggravated in damp weather,
during rest (except the intense inflammatory rheu-
matic pains), and after every sleep in the day or
night. Several of the pains terminate in catarrh.
The pains and the paroxysms of fever have a ten-
dency to recur periodically every day, or every
second, third, or fourth day.
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MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS.—Merc. sol.
Mercury exceeds all other remedies in the multi-
plicity of the inflammatory conditions to which it
is applicable. It affects more especially the absor-
bent vessels and glands, the exhalant vessels of the
skin and mucous membrane, the organs of secretion,
the bones and cartilages. It is particularly called
for in inflammatory affections, which result from, or
issue in, suppression or vitiation of any of the
secretions.
MIND AND DISPOSITION. Great restlessness;
anguish; anxiety and apprehensiveness; great ten-
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thing; peevish, taciturn, suspicious mood; quarrel-
some, disputative; craziness; great weakness of
memory, of intellect; vertigo in various postures.
HEAD.-Aching, as if the head were tight bound;
with pressure from within outward, as if the head
would burst; frontal headache, worse when lying
down, relieved by pressure with the flat hand;
stitches through the whole head; heat and burning;
catarrhal and rheumatic headache; painfulness to
touch of the whole skin of the head; itching of the
hairy scalp, day and night; falling off of the hair
without headache; moist, itching, sore eruption,
eating away the hair.
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EYES.-Soreness as from sand; stitches; cutting;
itching; burning; watering; the lids gummed to-
gether at night; inflammation. Black motes; com-
plete vanishing of sight, for a few minutes; misti-
ness of one or both eyes; dazzled by the glare of
a fire or the light of day.
EARS.-Violent tearing or sticking pain; sore-
ness and excoriation of the inner ear; discharge of
blood or pus; hardness of hearing; roaring, buzzing,
singing, fluttering; swelling of the parotid glands.
NOSE.-Red, shining, swelling; itching; bleeding,
of various degrees of violence; purulent discharge
from the nose; sneezing and violent cold in the
head, dry, or with profuse discharge of watery,
corrosive mucus; moisture dropping in abundance,
without cold in the head.
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FACE, JAWS, AND TEETH.-Clay-like complexion;
feverish heat and redness of the cheeks; tearing in
the face; dry lips; soft, red swelling of the upper
lip; ulceration, cracks, and chaps at the corner of
the mouth; immobility of the jaw, with violent pain,
scarcely permitting the mouth to be opened; loose-
ness of the teeth; pain in the front teeth, increased
by the air drawn in; tearing, darting, throbbing
toothache, especially at night, aggravated by eating,
by heat and cold, intolerable in the warmth of the
bed; gums-sore, swollen; ulcerated; receding from
the teeth; bleeding.
MOUTH.-Fetid smell; aphthæ; ulcers and sores;
dryness; salivation; slimy, tenacious saliva; furred
tongue; sore and stiff; benumbed; loss of speech;
taste in the mouth-bitter; putrid; saltish; sweet;
sourish; slimy.
THROAT.-Sore, with pain as if something small
had lodged in it; heat ascends in the throat; pain-
ful dryness, obliging one to swallow continually;
stinging pain in the tonsils when swallowing;
elongation and swelling of the uvula; ulcerated
tonsils.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Ravenous hunger; loss of
appetite (sometimes both combined); much thirst,
particularly for cold water; eructations of air;
heartburn; bitter waterbrash; hiccough; nausea,
with shuddering, headache, giddiness; violent vomit-
ing of bitter mucus; bilious vomiting; burning
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pain, and great tenderness of the pit of the stomach;
pain, swelling, and tenderness of the region of the
liver; stitches there stopping the breath; colic and
flatulence, with or without diarrhoea; incessant in-
effectual desire to relieve the bowels; chilliness
or shuddering preceding every evacuation; clay-
coloured stool; diarrhoea-in the evening and at
night; bloody; dark green, bilious, frothy; green,
slimy; sour smelling; with burning at the orifice ;
with nausea and eructations. Thread-worms creep
out at the rectum. Frequent very copious dis-
charge of urine; frequent ineffectual desire; burn-
ing in the passage; discharge of blood;
smelling urine; dark red; extremely turbid, depo-
siting a sediment; white, as if mixed with chalk.
sour
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Catarrh with cough,
cold in the head, sore throat, chilliness, dread of the
open air; dry cough; cough with expectoration;
inclination to vomit with the cough; shortness of
breath when walking or going up stairs; burning
or bruised pain in the chest.
FEVER.-Violent thirst; continual coldness of
the hands and feet; internal chilliness; violent
shaking chills; paroxysms of fever, especially at
night, consisting of general flushes of heat and
frequent chills and shuddering; profuse sweat,
which does not relieve the pains; pulse very rapid,
or feeble, slow and trembling.
SKIN.-Itching, aggravated by the warmth of
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the bed; small itching pimples, changing to ulcers;
red raised little spots with stinging itching;
measle-shaped rash; tetters, burning when touched;
suppurating pustules; unhealthy ulcers. Jaundice.
BODY AND LIMBS.-Bruised pain in the back;
swollen stiff neck; rheumatic pains in the joints
and limbs; aching of all the bones; contraction of
the fingers of both hands; exfoliation of the finger-
nails; dropsical swellings of the legs and feet;
swelling of all the toes. Swelling of the glands in
the neck, groin, &c.
MENSTRUATION.-Suppressed; too profuse; leu-
corrhoea, mild, acrid, purulent; inflammatory swell-
ing; tormenting eruptions.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Sleep by day, wakeful-
ness at night; great weariness and weakness;
paroxysms of spasmodic contraction of the limbs;
local or general catalepsy; stiffness and immobility
of all the limbs, though they can be easily moved
by others; paralysis; apoplexy; excessive emacia-
tion; palpitation of the heart. The symptoms
generally become worse in the evening and at night.
The pains become intolerable in bed at night.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
NUX VOMICA.-Nux v. or N. vom.
Irritation in every part of the cerebro-spinal and
ganglionic systems of nerves, is the primary general
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in spasm and functional derangement than in inflam-
mation. In cases of fatal poisoning by the crude
drug or by its active principle, Strychnine, it is only
the stomach and bowels that show signs of inflam-
mation; the other organs are generally sound, but
some of them have their vessels loaded with dark,
tar-like blood, that has lost the power of coagulating,
and parts of the spinal marrow are softened. Nux
vomica is particularly suited to persons of spare
habit, firm fibre, of lively and energetic or irritable
disposition, inclined to costiveness and piles. It is
of singular efficacy in derangements of the stomach
and abdominal viscera, resulting from sedentary
habits, inordinate exertion of body or mind, or
intemperance; in hypochondria; spasmodic affec-
tions of the womb; many periodical disorders, such as
neuralgia, some forms of intermittent fever, &c. &c.
HEAD, MIND, SENSES, &c.-Excessive sensitive-
ness to external impressions; intolerance of noise,
talk, strong odours, and bright light; ill-humour;
dislike to work of any kind, but not to exercise;
indecision, want of will-power; confusion and
stupefaction; vertigo; headache, especially in the
forehead; semi-lateral headache; congestive; with
nausea and vomiting; bruised feeling of the top of
the scalp; ringing, roaring, tingling, hissing, in the
ears; stitching, cramp-like earache; burning, itch-
ing, smarting of the eyes and eyelids; catarrhal
ophthalmia; painless effusion of blood into the
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white of the eye; motes before the eyes; weakness
of sight; cold in the head; pale, earthy com-
plexion, with yellowish tinge round the mouth and
nose; redness, heat, and swelling of the face;
darting, tearing toothache, beginning in a hollow
tooth, and extending to the whole row; tearing
faceache.
MOUTH AND THROAT.-Offensive breath; dry
tongue; yellow or white-coated; swelling of the
uvula and of the soft palate; sore throat, particu-
larly catarrhal; scraping, burning sensation in the
throat as from rancid heartburn.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS. Sour, bitter, or putrid
taste, particularly in the morning; aversion to
food, even with hunger; sour eructations and
vomiting; waterbrash; rancid heartburn; nausea,
and pain in the stomach after a meal; griping, tear-
ing, cramp-like pains; burning; tension, obliging
to unbutton; stitches in the region of the liver;
jaundice; flatulent colic; premonitory symptoms
of inguinal hernia; constipation, with rush of blood
to the head, and as if from constriction of the
bowels; ineffectual urging, frequent and painful;
loose, acrid stool after constipation; spasmodic
stricture of the orifice; blind and bleeding piles;
itching and burning; expulsion of thread-worms;
retention of urine; burning and itching in the pas-
sage when making water.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Dry cough; tightness
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of the chest when walking, or going up stairs;
shortness of breath from flatulence in the stomach
or abdomen; congestion of blood to the chest, and
palpitation of the heart; soreness of the breast-bone
as if bruised.
MENSTRUATION, &c. Too early and scanty;
whites; precursory symptoms of miscarriage; false,
spasmodic labour-pains.
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SKIN.-Burning, itching, and stinging pimples in
the face; boils; chilblains, with burning itching;
the corns are sore, like boils.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Rheumatic pains in the
nape of the neck, back, loins, chest, and limbs;
worst during motion; stinging shocks through the
whole body; bruised pain in all the joints; trem-
bling of the lower limbs; cramps; convulsions and
spasms; fainting; languor and heaviness in all the
limbs; excessive sensitiveness to the open air;
great liability to take cold; emaciation; great
drowsiness by day, especially after a meal; heat,
restlessness, and scanty sleep at night; violent
starting on going to sleep; horrid dreams; quotidian
and tertian intermittent fevers. Many of the symp-
toms are aggravated or excited by coffee, wine,
smoking, watching, and mental exertions. Many
of them appear early in the morning, also after
dinner. Nux is particularly suitable if the symptoms
are worst early in the morning, above all if the
patient wake at three o'clock in the morning, and
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afterwards fall into a heavy sleep full of dreams,
from which he awakes more weary than he was on
lying down.
OPIUM.-Op.
Opium acts primarily on the organic nerves alone,
but ultimately also on those of the brain and spinal
marrow. It has been found in practice to be suit-
able only to recent cases, and it seems probable
that, like Ignatia, it has a double series of contrary
primary symptoms (see p. 50). It has been em-
ployed with success for ailments consequent on
fright or other sudden violent emotion; lethargy;
delirium tremens; apoplexy; constipation; lead
colic; ailments of old people, &c. Opium is often
useful to arouse the deficient nervous energy, and
render the system susceptible to the action of other
remedies.
HEAD, SENSES, &c.-Every degree of dulness up
to complete insensibility; delirium; frightful visions
and fancies; vertigo, as if everything was turning
round, or as if one was suspended in the air; con-
gestion of blood to the head; staring, glistening
eyes; pupils at first dilated and insensible, after-
wards contracted; stupor, with half-closed eyes;
humming and ringing in the ears.
FACE.-Bluish, clay-coloured, bloated dark red,
cherry brown; the veins distended; spasmodic
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movements of the facial muscles; distortion of the
mouth; relaxation of all the muscles of the face,
giving it a very stupid expression; hanging down
of the lower jaw; lockjaw.
ABDOMEN, &c.-Darting and cutting colic; great
flatulence; costiveness; retention of stool and urine;
liquid, frothy stools, with itching, burning, and vio-
lent tenesmus. Opium sometimes suppresses, some-
times excites the urine.
PHOSPHORUS.-Phos.
Phosphorus belongs to that class of drugs, the
general effect of which is rapid depression of the
vital powers; but in the manifestation of that
common character it exhibits many specific pecu-
liarities. These may, perhaps, be due to the power
which it appears to possess of destroying one of
the elements of the blood, viz., fibrin. This fact,
which seems established by physiological experi-
ments, may account, among other things, for the
tendency to cause hæmorrhage and ecchymosis
(effusion of blood, as in a bruise, a black eye, &c.)
in the skin and mucous membranes, and to gorge
the spongy tissue of the lungs with blood so as to
obliterate the air-cells (hepatization), both of which
are such prominent characteristics of Phosphorus,
and the latter of which renders it so inestimable a
remedy for pneumonia, or inflammation of the sub-
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stance of the lungs. Phosphorus is suitable to
persons with blond or red hair, to thin and slender
persons, and such as have a tendency to consump-
tion. When there is excessive sensibility of the
nervous system, it is expedient to precede the
exhibition of Phos. with a few doses of Nux. v. or
Chin. Phosphorus is often indicated in scrofulous
affections and rickets; catarrhal affections; ailments
from chagrin; weakness from loss of fluids; hysteric
and hypochondriac affections; inveterate gout and
rheumatism; diseases of bones; glandular abscesses,
with fistulous ulcers and unhealthy suppuration;
chronic, wasting diarrhoea; chronic inflammation of
the stomach and bowels; typhus and hectic fevers;
after effects of acute eruptive diseases, cholera,
&c. &c.
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MIND AND DISPOSITION.-Great lowness of spirits;
great irritability; anxiety; spasmodic laughing
and weeping; fanciful delirium; various kinds of
vertigo.
HEAD.-Dull, stupifying headache; oppressive;
constrictive; pain as if the head would burst;
throbbing; stitches; jerks and shocks; congestion
of blood; violent itching of the scalp; scales, and
itching blotches; great falling off of the hair.
EYES.-Inflammation; watering and smarting;
swelling and gumming together of the lids; weak-
ness of the eyes; short-sightedness; things are seen
as through a gauze; black spots before the eyes;
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frequent attacks of sudden blindness in the day-
time; sparks before the eyes in the dark; green halo
round the light of a candle.
EARS AND NOSE.-Dragging, darting, tearing
pains; strong echo in the ears; loud whizzing and
humming; hard hearing, especially after typhoid
and inflammatory diseases. Frequent bleeding from
the nose; dry and fluent coryza.
FACE.-Pale, sickly complexion, with deep,
hollow eyes, and blue circles round them; violent
itching; pimples; pustules and scurf; miliary
eruptions; tetters and ulcers about the mouth;
dry lips; chapped; tearing in the jaw-bones and
teeth.
MOUTH AND THROAT.-Sore gums; inflamed;
bleeding; dry, furred, or white slimy tongue; pain-
ful vesicles and suppurating blotches in the mouth;
swelling of the tonsils; dryness of the throat;
hawking up of mucus in the morning.
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DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Taste as of bad cheese
bitter, sour taste; no appetite or thirst; ravenous
appetite; weak digestion; much suffering of vari-
ous kinds after a meal; sour stomach; heartburn;
waterbrash; vomiting; also of bile; inflammation
of the stomach; colic; sore or inflammatory pain
in the whole abdomen; coldness or burning in the
abdomen; constipation; loose evacuations, with
burning at the orifice, and great weakness; chronic
diarrhea; hæmorrhage; involuntary emission of
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urine; profuse; white, flocculent sediment; or like
brick-dust; greasy pellicle on the urine.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Roughness of the wind-
pipe; hoarseness; dry cough, or with much expec-
toration of mucus, sometimes with blood; tension
and tightness of the chest; stitches in various parts;
feeling of contraction in the lungs; rush of blood to
the chest; pneumonia.
SKIN.-General itching; trifling wounds bleed a
good deal; yellow spots; violet coloured; blotches.
BODY AND LIMBS.-Pain in the back, as if broken;
stiff neck; large neck; tearing stitches in the arms
and shoulders; heat of the hands; trembling of the
hands; darting pain in the knees; quivering and
cramps in the calves; cold feet; swollen; pain
in the soles, as if ulcerated; numbness of the
tips of the fingers and toes; chilblains, inflamed
and burst.
MENSTRUATION, &c.-Delayed; scanty and watery;
green sickness; whites; inflammation, induration,
and suppuration of the breasts.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Agitation of the blood,
the patient thinks he hears it rush through the
body; pulsations in the whole body; hæmorrhage
from the lungs, the gums, piles, &c.; low, asthenic
fever; drowsiness by day, wakefulness or uneasy
sleep at night; waking unrefreshed from sleep.
The majority of the symptoms appear early in the
morning, and in the evening in bed.
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PULSATILLA.—Puls.
Pulsatilla is a specific in diseases of the whole
venous system, and disorders dependent on passive
congestion; as, for instance, varicose veins, varicose
ulcers, spitting of blood, &c.; disorders of mucous
membranes, with increased secretion; derangement
of the stomach and bowels, particularly if caused
by fat rich food; rheumatism; imperfect menstrua-
tion; eruptive fevers, especially measles, against
which it is a prophylactic. Pulsatilla is particularly
adapted to the ailments of the female sex, or to
persons of a gentle, playful disposition, easily ex-
cited to laughter or tears.
HEAD.-Confusion and pain, as after intoxica-
tion or watching; vertigo, particularly when sitting,
rising up, stooping, or looking upwards; headache
when moving the eyes; megrim, as if the head
would burst and the eyes fall out; tearing on one
side of the head, in the ear, and the teeth; head-
ache from disordered stomach; sweat on the head
and face; pale face.
EYES, EARS, NOSE.-Pain, as if from sand;
burning and itching; inflammation; also of the
lids; stye; watery eyes in the open air; blear-
eyedness; hardness of hearing, as if the ears were
stopped; earache; inflammation of the outer ear;
purulent discharges from the ears; noise, as of
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wind, or rushing water, singing, chirping; bleeding
from the nose; cold in the head, with loss of smell
and taste.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Toothache, renewed by eat-
ing, or by warmth; darting toothache, as if the nerve
was stretched and suddenly let loose again; foul or
putrid smell and taste in the morning; much saliva,
with inclination to vomit; viscid mucus on the
tongue; scraping, raw sensation in the throat; every-
thing tastes bitter; natural taste, but diminished;
loss of appetite; thirst; vomiting of mucus; of bile;
salt or sour vomiting; waterbrash; flatulence; colic;
painful sensitiveness of the abdominal walls; fre-
quent expectoration of mere mucus, or mucus and
blood; green or slimy diarrhoea at night, preceded
by rumbling and cutting; watery diarrhoea; obsti-
nate constipation; blind piles; difficult emission of
urine; incontinence of urine.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Dry, night cough, only
when lying down; cough, with yellow expectora-
tion, disgustingly salt in the morning; with bloody
expectoration; spasmodic difficulty of breathing;
tearing and sticking pain in the chest; congestion
of blood to the chest and heart at night, with
anxious dreams, and starting with a scream.
BACK AND LIMBS.-Sticking pain in the nape of
the neck; between the shoulder-blades; tearing,
darting, or jerking pains in the muscles of the
limbs; pain in the joints, as if bruised or strained;
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pains shifting rapidly from one part to another;
also with swelling and redness of the joints; hot
swelling of the feet and legs; itching, tingling, and
burning in the toes at night, as in frozen limbs.
SKIN.-Biting or burning itching; hot red spots
with biting pain, like nettle-rash; boils here and
there; unhealthy ulcers inclining to bleed; chil-
blains, with blue, red swelling, burning or throbbing.
Puls. is curative of measles and their secondary
ailments, or bad consequences of their suppression.
MENSTRUATION.-Delayed or suppressed; thick
black discharge; or pale and watery; pain in the
back; menstrual colic, headache, palpitation, and
many other sufferings; whites; false labour-pains,
or delaying and deficient; excessive after-pains;
suppression of the lochia; swelling of the breasts.
FEVER. Pulse quick and small; feeble and
slow; feeble and almost collapsed; intermittent
fever, for the most part consisting of chilliness
without thirst, then heat with thirst, with simulta-
neous or subsequent perspiration, mostly commencing
in the afternoon or evening, and passing away
towards morning.
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GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Low spirits; frequent
waking at night, remaining awake a long time, with
drowsiness by day; starting; exclamation in sleep;
nightmare; ailments from fright or mortification ;
pain, as if bruised, or as from an ulcer under the
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pains are aggravated or excited when sitting after
long exercise, or rising after long sitting; they are
generally worst in the evening, at night, or before
midnight, some of them early in the morning or
after dinner. The symptoms appear with particular
violence every second morning.
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RHEUM.—Rheum.
Rhubarb (Rheum) is used only for certain
derangements of the bowels of somewhat frequent
occurrence, and for these its utility is incomparable.
The special indications for it are excessive acidity
in the alimentary canal, and colicky, sometimes
ineffectual urging, the stools being bad fæcal matter.
Rheum is not suitable to merely mucous diarrhoea,
nor to dysentery, since the evacuations it causes
consist always, in part at least, of fæces. It is
always the first medicine to be had recourse to in
sour-smelling diarrhoea of children, and in nightly
crying and tossing about of infants, which are
probably owing to colic.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON.-Rhus t.
The action of this medicine is most prominently
displayed on the skin and mucous membranes, the
muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Sometimes, too,
the brain is specifically affected by it. It is suit-
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able to certain kinds of cutaneous eruption, espe-
cially those attended with vesicles, heat, pricking,
and itching; rheumatism, particularly when the
pain and stiffness are greatest when beginning to
move the parts, and diminish as motion is con-
tinued; strains, sprains, and mechanical injuries
generally, by which the affected part has been
stretched; dysentery; diarrhoea; megrim; bron-
chitis; influenza; sufferings from drinking cold
water or exposure to it; paralysis; low fevers.
MIND, HEAD, &c.-Low spirits; anxiety; dis-
couragement and fear about the future; peevish-
ness; incapacity for mental labour; vertigo; fulness
in the head; aching in the forehead; in the head
and nape of the neck; in one temple; over one
eye; daily periodical headache; itching and ten-
derness of the scalp.
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EYES, EARS, NOSE.-Redness and swelling of
the eyelids, with itching and burning; gluing to-
gether of the lids; watering of the eyes; confusion
of sight; earache; swelling of the parotid glands;
scab on the nostril; bleeding of the nose; sneez-
ing; fluent coryza.
FACE.-Pale; swollen; erysipelas; tetters; sore
pimples.
MOUTH AND THROAT.-Increase of saliva; red-
ness, soreness, and pricking of the tip of the tongue;
pain in swallowing.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS. -Bitter taste; partial or
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total loss of appetite; nausea; sleepiness imme-
diately after a meal; pain in the stomach; pain in
the regions of the liver and spleen; painful disten-
tion of the abdomen, with colic after a meal; con-
stant tenesmus; diarrhoea; slimy; bloody; smart-
ing and burning at the orifice; increased flow of
urine; diminished; deep red urine.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Frequent short dry
cough from tickling in the pit of the throat; rough-
ness and raw sore feeling in the throat and wind-
pipe; acute bronchitis; dull pain in the left side of
the chest.
FEVER.-Chills, general or partial, especially in
the back; coldness of the extremities; general
sweat; night sweat; typhoid fever, with thick
brown coating on the tongue, and redness at the
tip; small quick pulse.
SKIN.-Excessive itching; small burning vesicles;
with redness all over, except the scalp, palms of
the hands, and soles of the feet; nettle-rash; pus-
tules; swelling of the lymphatic glands.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Violent spasmodic yawn-
ing, threatening dislocation of the jaw; restless,
unrefreshing sleep; dreams about the events and
thoughts of the day; rheumatic pains; often con-
fined to one side, or shifting from one side to the
other; pains in muscles when first exerted, disap-
pearing after continued action; stiffness of the
joints; jerking, trembling, or shaking and paralytic
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weakness of the limbs; paralysis; great weakness
and inclination to lie down. Some of the symptoms
occur or are aggravated in the evening or in the
morning; aggravation from change of weather; from
wet weather.
SAMBUCUS NIGRA.-Samb.
The use of this medicine is almost confined to a
few affections of the respiratory organs, among
which, however, there are some of a most formi-
dable character:-Acute asthma of children (Millar's
asthma); croup; croupy cough; hooping-cough;
cough with profuse expectoration of a saltish or a
sweetish taste, aching in the chest; difficult breath-
ing, emaciation, dropsical swelling of the feet, &c.;
stoppage of the nose in infants. Its most charac-
teristic symptoms are:-
Violent obstruction of the breath; suffocative fit
after midnight, waking up with crying, the eyes and
mouth half-open, wheezing in the chest, bluish
bloatedness of the face and hands, heat without
thirst, and stitches in the left side of the chest below
the nipple; long-continued aching in the middle of
the spine; pinching in the abdomen, with emission
of flatulence; great tendency to start; continual
ill-humour; tearing, aching, and cutting stitches in
various places; frequent emission of urine ; chill
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and there, and remarkable coldness of the hands
and feet; intolerable dry heat, with dread of un-
covering oneself; heat without thirst; profuse sweat
at night without thirst; pulse slower and fuller, or
quicker.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
SEPIA.-Sep.
This medicine is of signal efficacy in some chronic
eruptions, and in morbid affections (particularly of
delicate females, with fine sensitive skin), which
may be traced more or less directly to disturbances
of the circulation and venous congestion, even
when the cause of the latter is in some degree
mechanical, as, for instance, the pressure of the
pregnant womb.
HEAD, &c.-Great sadness; despair about one's
health; timidity; peevishness; apathy; weak
memory, dulness; vertigo in the morning; when
walking in the open air; sick headache; megrim;
rush of blood to the head; bursting or contractive
headache, particularly about the forehead and eyes;
stitching headache in the fore or back part of the
head; itching of the scalp; great falling off of the
hair.
EYES.-Pain and heaviness of the eyelids when
waking; jerking and twitching of the lids; itching;
gum fastening them together in the morning; swell-
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the eyeballs; dimness of sight; half-vision, one
half only of an object is seen; black spots and
luminous appearances before the eyes; green halo
round the candle.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
EARS.-Earache; severe stitches; itching and
purulent discharge; great sensitiveness to noise;
loud sounds, humming and beating; hardness of
hearing.
NOSE.-Swollen, inflamed, with ulcerated nostrils;
frequent bleeding; frequent sneezing; great obstruc-
tion.
FACE.-Pale; yellowness round the mouth;
yellow spots; flushes of heat; itching; pimples
and tetters; hot lips; aching and tearing pains in
the bones, also in the teeth; throbbing toothache,
especially in pregnany.
MOUTH AND THROAT.-Dark red, swollen, sore
gums, bleeding readily; sore vesicles on the tongue;
dryness and roughness of mouth, throat, and tongue,
in the morning; sensation of a lump in the throat;
stinging sore throat.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Sour, bitter taste; much
thirst; absence of thirst; aversion to food, espe-
cially meat; everything tastes too salt; excessive
appetite; sufferings after a meal; heaviness, pain,
burning, cramp in the stomach; stitches in both
sides, particularly the right; griping and burning
in the abdomen; loud rumbling; tenesmus and
straining, with hard or loose stool; burning, itching,
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and stinging at the orifice; prolapsus; painful
piles; turbid urine with brick-dust sediment.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS AND HEART.-Hoarseness,
with dry cough; habitual night cough; spasmodic
cough; expectoration tasting very salt; blood-
streaked; purulent; asthmatic fits; pressure on
the chest; stitches; burning, sore pain; con-
gestion of blood to the chest; palpitation of the
heart.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
MENSTRUATION, &c.-Too early; scanty; bear-
ing down of the womb; prolapsus; acrid whites ;
nausea and vomiting in pregnancy; toothache in
pregnancy; disposition to miscarriage after the
fourth month; enlargement of the abdomen after
childbearing; soreness of the nipples.
SKIN.-Sore feeling all over; itching; small red
pimples, with oozing of watery humour, or dry with
roughness and cracking of the skin, chiefly on the
inside of the joints, also on the face in children;
ringworm; warts; burning and aching corns, even
with wide shoes.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Darting pains in all the
limbs; they go to sleep readily; fidgets; stiffness
and pain in the back; day drowsiness; restless,
unrefreshing night sleep; tendency to take cold ;
chilliness alternating with heat; great disposition
to perspire; heat or icy coldness of the hands and
feet. Disturbances of the circulation in females
with the following symptoms:-Flushes of heat,
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redness, swelling of the face, general determination
of blood to the head and right temple; general
swelling of the upper part of the body, more in the
morning; swelling of the chest, stomach, and abdo-
men; hands and feet cold; throbbing at the lower
part of the back; palpitation of the heart, with
occasional intermittent pulse, scanty urine, costive-
ness. The symptoms are worse during rest, in the
evening and night. The pains are attended with
shuddering; they are relieved by warmth.
SILICEA.-Sil.
Almost unequalled for its influence over the
absorbent and exhalant vessels, especially of mem-
branes, such as those of joints, sheaths of tendons,
&c. It promotes suppuration, mitigates the atten-
dant fever, and is of great use in suppurations of
all sorts, with good or bad pus. Also in lymphatic
tumours; housemaid's knee; running at the ear,
and hardness of hearing; ulcers on the transparent
part of the eyeball (the cornea); scrofula and
rickets; worm fever; infantile remittent fever;
slow teething, &c. The mental symptoms of Silicea
are almost the same as those of Sepia.
HEAD.-Headache from the nape of the neck to
the crown of the head; vertigo that seems to ascend
in the same direction, with inclination to fall for-
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ning jerk or shaking in the brain when turning
rapidly, stooping, or jarring the foot; feeling as if
the head teemed with living things whirling round
in it; much itching on the scalp; great falling off
of the hair.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
EYES.-Redness, smarting, watering; itching of
the lids; they are gummed together; twitchings;
the eyes are dazzled by the light of day; letters,
&c., look blurred; sparks or black motes.
EARS.-Earache; diminished hearing; feeling as
if the ear was obstructed, sometimes giving way
with a report; noises of various kinds in the ears;
swelling of the parotid glands.
NOSE.-Itching, vesicles, scurfs; troublesome
dryness; obstruction, continual watery discharge,
excoriating; with bleeding; frequent sneezing; loss
of smell.
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nose, burning and painful when making a slight
exertion, especially after a meal; moist eruptions
and ulcers about the mouth.
MOUTH, THROAT, &c.-Constant dryness; tearing
toothache, most violent at night, or during and after
a meal; also with swelling of the lower jawbone,
and heat all over; sore gums; inflamed gums; tongue
sore or numb; swollen, elongated uvula; stinging
sore throat only when swallowing; bad smell from
the mouth in the morning, almost as in mercurial
salivation.
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DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-In the morning, bitter,
putrid, oily, bloody, or sour taste; loss of appetite,
even with ravenous hunger; great thirst; sour
eructation, heartburn, distention, colic, and other
sufferings after a meal; load in the stomach like
lead; burning in the pit of the stomach; colic with
constipation; much straining with hard or soft stool;
very painful piles; scalding urine; the urine speedily
becomes turbid; sandy deposit.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Dry, hacking cough;
cough with expectoration in the morning, sometimes
salt, sometimes rather putrid; thick purulent mucus;
transparent mucus; bloody mucus; with vomiting of
purulent matter.
BODY AND LIMBS.-Stiffness of the back; of the
nape of the neck; frequent stitches in the right
shoulder blade; darting, tearing, and cramp pains
in the limbs, feet, and hands; fetid sweat of the
feet; cadaverous smell of the feet without sweat;
icy cold feet; burning; swollen, intensely painful
corns; frequent whitlows.
MENSTRUATION, &c.-Too early; increased men-
ses; smelling strongly; painful, smarting whites.
SKIN.-Painful tenderness of the whole skin;
itching and biting all over after lying down, not
removed by scratching; general eruption like
chicken-pox, with violent itching; extremely painful
pustules like small-pox on the head, breast, and back,
turning to ulcers which suppurate copiously.
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GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Congestion of blood to
various parts-head, chest, arms, &c. Hectic fever;
worm fever; teething fever; infantile remittent
fever, generally setting in from ten in the morning
to six in the afternoon, and from midnight to early
in the morning. There is little sweat, and during
the remissions the child is sullen and cries, when
touched or spoken to. Profuse, exhausting perspi-
ration, especially at night; epilepsy. The pains
are increased by motion. Many of the symptoms
are aggravated when the moon changes, particularly
at full moon.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
SPONGIA TOSTA.-Spong.
The lymphatic vessels and glands, and the lining
membrane of the windpipe, are the parts most
peculiarly affected by Spongia. Its chief use is
in croup, with the following symptoms :-Cough
not very violent; windpipe very dry; hoarseness;
oppressed breathing with long inspirations, or as if
the air was cut off by suddenly closing a valve, or
as if a plug had lodged in the throat; the larynx
is raised and depressed in breathing; the head is
bent backwards, the throat pressed outwards; saw-
ing respiration; pale face; look of anguish. Chronic
hoarseness, roughness and burning in the windpipe,
with occasional expectoration of tenacious mucus; dry,
irritating cough from burning titillation in the larynx.
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SULPHUR.-Sulph.
Sulphur ranks among the foremost of those medi-
cines that are capable of exerting a deep and con-
tinuous influence over all parts of the animal
economy, although it evinces a special predilection
for the skin and the mucous membranes. It is a
remedy of primary importance in affections depen-
dent on any cachexia or general vice of the consti-
tution, whether spontaneous, as scrofula, or caused
by excessive abuse of mercury or other mineral
drugs; and there is scarcely any deep-rooted chronic
malady in which it may not be of service, either as
a principal remedy, or as an adjunct to be used
occasionally for the purpose of arousing the dormant
nervous energies, and so rendering the system more
susceptible to the action of the medicines specifi-
cally indicated.
For this latter purpose recourse
may be had to it also, upon occasion, in acute dis-
orders; as, for instance, in scarlatina, with lethargy,
vomiting, and other symptoms threatening extinc-
tion of the vital powers.
HEAD, EYES, EARS, &c.-Vertigo when rising
up or walking; sick headache; every step affects
the head painfully; heaviness; pressure; beatings;
stitches; rush of blood to the head; feeling of
coldness; itching pimples on the scalp; ringworm;
itching, burning of the eyelids; they are glued
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together; ulcerated margins; dryness; purulent
mucus; styes; ophthalmia; earache; shootings;
running at the ear; humming and whizzing; swell-
ing of the nose; bleeding; loss of smell; intole-
rance of odours; violent coryza; pale face; deep
sunk eyes, with blue margins; lips hot, chapped;
upper lip swollen; itching and painful pimples
about the mouth and chin; faceache.
MOUTH, THROAT, &c. - Burning vesicles;
aphthæ; dryness, burning; fetid smell after a
meal; beating toothache; swollen, throbbing, bleed-
ing gums; sore throat; pressure as of a lump;
elongated uvula; spasmodic constriction of the
gullet.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.—Putrid, sweetish, and
nauseating, sour or bitter taste; aversion to animal
food; complete loss of appetite; constant thirst;
repletion, and various sufferings after a meal;
heartburn; waterbrash; sour vomiting; great ten-
derness of the region of the stomach; coldness or
burning; spasms of the stomach; swelling, tender-
ness, painful pressure and stitches in the liver and
spleen; all parts of the abdomen feel raw and sore;
flatulent distention; colic; diarrhoea; constipation,
with frequent unsuccessful desire; passing of undi-
gested food; of worms; burning at the orifice;
stitches in the lower intestine; protrusion; blind
and flowing piles, with colic, costiveness, tenesmus,
pains in the small of the back, &c.; scanty urine;
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ORGANS.
in the passage.
RESPIRATORY
Hoarseness; loss of
voice; with dry cough; coughing up greenish
lumps of a sweetish taste; wheezing in the chest;
asthmatic paroxysms; stitches in the chest.
MENSTRUATION, &c.-Itching; burning and
soreness, with or without leucorrhoea; menses too
early or too late, with various local and general
sufferings.
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SKIN.-Itching and prickling all over, worst at
night and in the morning; the itching places are
painful after scratching; nettle-rash, with fever;
itching, burning pimples and vesicles; dry or
oozing tetters, forming scabs, scales or scurf;
boils; dropsical swellings; chilblains; chaps and
fissures on the hands and fingers; great disposi-
tion to sweat; extreme sensibility to cold; obsti-
nate ulcers.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Rheumatic pains in the
back, loins, and limbs; spasmodic jerks of parts or
the whole body; weakness, weariness; agitation in
the blood; palpitation after the least exertion;
want of vitality, internal coldness; heat almost
constantly alternating with chilliness; dreading the
heat when in a cold temperature, and vice versâ.
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VERATRUM ALBUM.-Verat.
Veratrum acts with great promptness and energy
on the organic nerves, causing constant vomiting,
diarrhoea, slow pulse, impeded breathing, diminished
animal heat, and indescribable feeling of discomfort
and anguish. It immediately affects the spinal nerves
and the brain, and the results are spasms, convul-
sions, paralysis, delirium, insanity. It is strikingly
homoeopathic to the morbid effects of sudden intense
fright, and to cholera, both English and Asiatic, in
which it has been very extensively and beneficially
employed.
HEAD, &c.-Dull pressure on the top of the
head in the morning after waking; pain as if the
top of the head was pressed flat, changed to a
beating pain by motion; paroxysms of pain partly
as if bruised, partly pressure on various parts of
the brain; sick headache; feeling of warmth and
cold on the head, at the same time, the hairs being
sensitive; cold sweat on the forehead; chilliness on
the top of the head, and at the same time about the
feet; sensation as of a piece of ice on the head;
sensation as if a cluster of hairs was electrified;
pale face; cold, disfigured, as of a dead person;
extreme redness and heat of face; painful ophthal-
mia, with excessive headache; excessive dryness
of the eyelids; contraction or excessive dilatation of
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the pupils; black spots and sparks; double vision;
night blindness, commencing at twilight; sensation
as if the inside of the nose was too dry or ulce-
rated.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINES.
MOUTH, THROAT, &c.-Burning, as of pepper
in the mouth, tongue, and throat; sensation, like
that caused by peppermint; flow of watery or viscid
saliva, alternating with dryness which cannot be
removed by drink; scraping, roughness in the
throat; lockjaw; toothache, with nausea and
vomiting, bruised feeling and coldness of the
limbs, cold sweat on the forehead, intense and un-
quenchable thirst.
DIGESTIVE ORGANS.-Desire for fruit, acids, and
cooling things; diminished taste; sensation of heat
rising from the throat into the mouth; unquench-
able thirst; vomiting of food and drink; of mucus;
of bile; black vomit; violent cramps in the stomach
and the whole abdomen; colic; costiveness, with
copious urine; costiveness, owing to the hardness
and size of the fæces; suppression of all the secre-
tions; frequent, violent diarrhoea, with extreme
weakness, pallor, and sweat; urine scanty and
turbid; acrid; profuse; passing off involuntarily.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-Paroxysms of constric-
tion of the larynx; suffocative fits, with protruded
eyes; breathing impeded by tenacious mucus in the
larynx; constriction of the chest; suffocative op-
pression of the breathing; palpitation of the heart,
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with anxiety and hurried audible breathing; severe
dry cough, night and morning; cough, with profuse
expectoration, blue face, and involuntary emission
of urine.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS. - Paralytic and bruised
pain in the back and limbs; difficult walking from
pain in the hips and thighs; the limbs go to sleep;
cramps in the calves; coldness of the whole body;
sudden alternation of complete paleness with heat.
and redness of the face; internal cold chill from
the head to the toes; cold sweat all over; with
excessive thirst; weak pulse; almost or wholly
imperceptible; excessive
excessive weakness; epilepsy;
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WITH THEIR TREATMENT.
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For the Doses of the Medicines, see the Introduction, p. 3.
APOPLEXY.
DOMESTIC treatment may do much towards pre-
venting a fit of apoplexy, warning of which is often
given by the usual symptoms of congestion to the
head, and particularly by great drowsiness, ster-
torous breathing, indistinct speech, difficulty in
swallowing, numbness or prickings in the limbs,
distortion of the features. These symptoms call for
one or more of the following remedies:-Acon.,
Bell., Op., N. vom., Verat., Lach.; a dose three
times a-day; light farinaceous diet and cool drinks,
and abstinence from bodily and mental labour.
Acon., followed by Bell., or alternated with it, is
suitable when there are strong signs of active con-
gestion; Opium for old people, especially when the
pulse is slow and full, and there is constipation;
N. vom. for persons of sedentary or intemperate
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habits, and nervous bilious temperament; Lach.
under nearly the same circumstances, particu-
larly when there is threatening of paralysis of
the left side, and headache and other pains aggra-
vated after every sleep; Verat. when there is dull
pressure on the crown of the head, buzzing in the
ears, sensation in the tongue as after taking pepper-
mint, distortion of the mouth. Sometimes the fit
occurs without warning, and then the same medi-
cines will still be found appropriate; and we may
add to the list Arn., which is particularly indicated
when there is paralysis, especially of the left side,
stupor, with snoring breathing, and moaning, blue-
ness of the face and extremities, particularly of the
nails, and involuntary passing of fæces and urine.
The popular notion that bleeding is indispensable
in apoplexy is a gross error. Even the best autho-
rities of the old school incline to the belief that
bleeding oftener kills than saves the apoplectic
patient.
LOSS OF APPETITE.
APPETITE, Loss of.
For the dose, see p. 3.
This is always an evidence of impaired power of
digestion, and is to be dealt with accordingly, ever
remembering that food which lies undigested in the
stomach can only do mischief, and nourishes not the
body, but the disease that preys on it. When, as
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apparently as an isolated affection, relief may be
had from one or other of the following medicines—
three globules, fasting every morning for three
days; then wait three days, and if not better take
one of the others in the same way :-Antim. t.,
Sulph., China.
APPETITE, VORACIOUS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The conditions of which a morbid craving for
food is most frequently a symptom, and the reme-
dies generally indicated by it, are as follows :—
WORM AFFECTIONS: Cin., Merc., Calc., Sil.-
CONVALESCENCE after violent diseases or loss of
fluids: Chin., Verat.-PREGNANCY: N. vom., Sep.
ASTHMA.
For the dose, see p. 3.
There are two varieties of asthma, the dry and
the moist. The latter is, in fact, a chronic bron-
chitis, with severe cough and expectoration, which,
when copious, affords relief by clearing out the
obstructed air-tubes. Antim. t. is very often ser-
viceable in such cases; next to it in value are Ars.
and Ipec.
For dry or spasmodic asthma, with
slight cough, but suffocating tightness of the chest
and difficulty in breathing, Ipec. is the principal
remedy; in some cases Cupr. or Hyos. will be of
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service. Two or three globules of one of the above
medicines, dissolved in a spoonful of water, may be
taken during a paroxysm, and repeated at intervals
of one, two, or three hours, if necessary; but for
a radical cure you must have recourse to profes-
sional aid. For infantile asthma, see SPASMODIC
CROUP, p. 164.
BILIOUS ATTACKS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
In common parlance almost every slight disorder
of the stomach is attributed to the liver, and is
talked of as an affair of bile. The bilious attacks
meant here are those in which there is actual vomit-
ing of yellow bile, this symptom having been pre-
ceded by heaviness, muddy or jaundiced complexion,
furred tongue, nauseous or bitter taste in the mouth,
loathing and vomiting of food. The bowels are
sometimes confined, sometimes relaxed; frequently
there is headache, pain in the right side and under
the shoulder-blade, quick, full pulse, hot skin, and
thirst. These last-named symptoms call for Acon.,
either singly or in alternation with Ipec., to be
followed when the vomiting has been subdued, by
Merc., alternately with N. vom. or Bry. if there be
constipation; the latter especially, should there be
also rheumatic pains, or Puls. if the bowels be re-
laxed or the stomach have been disordered by errors
of diet, or Cham. should the attack have been caused
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by a chill or a fit of passion. The medicines should
be given at intervals of from one to four hours.
BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
When spontaneous and not excessive it is often
a salutary effort of nature which should not be
interfered with. Otherwise cold wet cloths, quickly
renewed, may be applied to the back of the neck,
and in urgent cases to the lowest part of the abdo-
men, whilst the feet are kept warm. Holding the
arms at full length above the head, as long as pos-
sible, is often of service. If clots of blood form,
they must not be removed. If the bleeding have
been caused by a BLOW or concussion, Arnica may
be used internally, and as a lotion to the face and
nose (twenty drops to a tumblerful of water); when
it is caused by PHYSICAL EXERTION: Rhus. or Arn.—
by being OVERHEATED: Acon, and Bry. alternately
-in DEBILITATED subjects: Chin., Carb. v.
during SUPPRESSED or too SCANTY MENSTRUATION :
Puls.-in women at the CHANGE OF LIFE: Sep.,
Lach. on the most TRIVIAL OCCASIONS, after
eating, &c.: Sil., Sulph., Sep., Calc. c., Graph.
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BOILS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Take a teaspoonful of Arn. (see p. 3) every three
or four hours, or alternately with similar doses of
Bell. if the boil is very red and painful. If matter
form, apply a bread-and-water poultice, and take
solution of Hep., a teaspoonful every four hours.
If there are several small boils, Arn. will be the
most appropriate remedy. A single boil of a livid
colour, increasing beyond the ordinary dimensions
of a boil, especially if it occur on the face, head,
nape of the neck, or shoulders in aged or weakly
persons (malignant boil, carbuncle, anthrax), should
be treated with Lach. and Ars. alternately, until
professional aid can be procured. It is often
attended with great danger.
BRAIN FEVER.
INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN.
For the dose, see p. 3.
An attack of this most dangerous malady is often
preceded by symptoms of congestion (see p. 108),
and may be prevented by the timely administration
of Acon. and Bell. In children, the approach of
inflammation, which would end in water on the
brain, is always to be apprehended when these
symptoms appear: head very hot, feet cold, skin
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hot and dry, sleeping with the eyes half open, scanty
urine, constipation or diarrhoea. Give immediately
two globules of Bell. and Bry., each alternately
every two hours until relief is obtained.
BREAST, InflamMATION OF THE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Whatever tends to disturb the orderly secretion
of milk, or its due removal from the breasts when
secreted, may produce the most excruciating affec-
tion. To the former class of causes belong mental
emotions, cold, blows, &c.; to the latter too tardy
application of the infant to the breast, and a sudden
cessation of suckling. A succession of painful
abscesses continuing for weeks or months, chronic
indurations, unsightly scars, and even entire ex-
tinction of the power of the breast to perform its
natural function, are among the evils consequent upon
the mismanagement of this formidable complaint.
A few doses of Dulc. promptly administered
when the cause is manifestly a sudden chill, may
cut short the mischief. So too may Arn., adminis-
tered inwardly, and also in the form of a tepid
lotion,* when the breast has suffered an external
injury. But if these remedies do not quickly afford
relief, recourse should be had, as in other cases, to
* Lotion: twelve drops of Tincture of Arnica to a
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Bry., a dose every two hours, either singly, or in
alternation with Bell., if in addition to suppression
of milk and tumefaction there be also erysipelatous
redness of the skin. After twenty-four hours of
this treatment, if the inflammation does not diminish,
give Phosph. in the same way; and lastly, when
there remains no hope of preventing suppuration,
give Hep. to promote the process, and open the
abscess. When the discharge has begun, give Sil.
in alternation with Hep., a dose every four hours.
As to external applications in this complaint, the
utility of cold lotions is very questionable, in con-
sequence of the reaction which follows their first
impression. A safer, because a less abrupt and
more continuous cooling process is, to lay on the
heated surface a light linen rag dipped in warın
water, and suffer it to evaporate. Poultices may
be used in the suppurative stage, but not before.
OFFENSIVE BREATH.
BREATH, OFFENSIVE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
An offensive smell from the mouth may proceed
from sources removable by increased attention to
cleanliness, or from carious teeth, for which the
dentist should be consulted. It may be caused by
GUM BOILS OF SORE GUMS (which see), or occur as
a symptom of deranged stomach, which will yield
to the treatment proper for that affection. When
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none of these causes exist very obviously, a dose of
Sulph. (four globules, dry) may be taken once a-
week at night, and on the other six days a similar
dose of Puls. and Merc. s. alternately in the morn-
ing. After a week of this treatment, pause four
days, and begin again, if necessary. Do not fail
to drink a tumbler of water every morning before
breakfast. The diet should be simple, and animal
food should be taken sparingly.
The following remedies are more particularly in-
dicated under special circumstances:-Bad breath
only in the morning: Arn., N. vom., Bell., Sil.-
after a meal: Cham., N. vom., Sulph.-evening or
night: Puls.-in young girls at the age of puberty:
Puls., Sep., Bry., Bell.-from abuse of Mercury:
Hep., Carb. v., Lach.-and in all cases, Sulph., as
an assistant remedy at long intervals.
BRUISES. CONTUSIONS.
If fleshy parts only are affected, and there is no
laceration, keep the bruised place constantly wet,
until the pain and swelling have subsided, with
Arnica lotion made by adding two teaspoonfuls of
the tincture to half a pint of cold water. Take
also a dose of Arnica (four globules in a table-
spoonful of water) every two hours. (See WOUNDS,
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BUNIONS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Silicea is a sovereign remedy for these painful
deformities. It may be administered internally, a
dose daily or every second day, and a piece of lint
wetted with a solution of twenty globules of Sil. in
half a wineglassful of water may be applied to the
part, the moisture being retained by a covering of
oil silk. Of course no cure is to be expected whilst
the cause of the ailment, undue pressure, is allowed
to continue in action.
BURNS AND SCALDS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Slight injuries of this kind may be quickly cured
by holding the injured part to the fire; but it
requires some fortitude to do this. At all events,
whatever be the extent or degree of the injury, do not
apply cold water; temporary relief so obtained would
be dearly bought at the cost of much subsequent
pain, and the cure would be much more tedious.
For severer cases, soap is an excellent remedy.
Take white curd, Castile or common yellow soap,
shave it fine, and rub it up with a little lukewarm
water into a thick salve. Spread this thickly on
strips of linen with which the burnt part is to be
covered, taking care that the salve everywhere
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touches it. Over the linen put a thick layer of
cotton wool, bind the whole up securely, and leave
it untouched for forty-eight hours; at the end of
which time, the same dressing should be renewed as
rapidly as possible.
If there be fever, a dose of Acon. may be taken
every two to six hours. In any case, the diet must
be low, and cold water must be taken freely, but
in small quantities at a time.
CHICKEN POX. SWINE Pox. HIVES. VARICELLA.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The appearance of this contagious eruption is
somewhat like that of small-pox, from which, how-
ever, it is distinguished by its much milder char-
acter, as well as by the more pointed form of its
pustules, and by their coming out irregularly and
in successive crops, so that some are already drying
up whilst others are in their first stage of develop-
ment. It generally runs its course in six or seven
days, leaving no marks on the skin. It is accom-
panied with slight catarrhal symptoms and fever,
seldom of much severity.
Three or four doses of Acon. may be given at
intervals of four hours, to be followed by Antim. t.
a dose every six hours. If some of the pustules
suppurate, Merc. will be useful.
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CHILBLAINS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Wet and rub the part frequently with strong
Arnica lotion (1 part tincture to 20 of water), and
take Arn. internally, a dose every day or two, alter-
nately with Puls. should the swelling be of a livid
colour. If there be severe inflammation, Bell. is to
be preferred, or Rhus. t. if blisters form. If the
chilblain burst, Ars., Carb. v., and Phos., either
singly or in alternation, may be given; a dose every
six hours.
CHOLERA, ASIATIC.
For the dose, see p. 3.
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An attack of Asiatic cholera is very often pre-
ceded for some days by painless diarrhoea, for which
a dose of solution of Ars. should be administered
after every liquid evacuation. No disorder of the
bowels, however slight, should be neglected during
the prevalence of the epidemic. As a means of
preventing an attack, Ver. and Cupr. should be
taken, three or four globules of each alternately
every third day, dissolved in a tablespoonful of
water. Upon the actual occurrence of the disease,
Camphor is always the first remedy; two drops of
the spirit should be administered on a small bit of
sugar, if possible; if not, then in a teaspoonful of
strong brandy and water (if iced the better), every
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five minutes until a marked improvement has taken
place, when the intervals may be gradually extended
to two hours. The patient should be closely enve-
loped in blankets, with hot bricks or bottles of hot
water to the feet. If violent vomiting and evacu-
ations like rice-water supervene, Verat. is to be
given as often as these discharges take place, the
dose being two drops of the tincture of the third
dilution in a teaspoonful of water.* If the patient
is not better in four hours, another remedy must be
chosen. Ars. is particularly indicated by intoler-
able burning at the pit of the stomach, scalding
evacuations, and intense fear and apprehension of
death. Cupr. by cramping pains in the limbs,
changing to convulsive jerkings, and by spasms of
the chest stopping the breath. In the last stage,
when all active symptoms have ceased, and the
patient lies like a corpse, though life is not yet
extinct, Carb. v. has sometimes succeeded in re-
storing animation.
CHOLERA, ENGLISH.
For the dose, see p. 3.
English cholera generally occurs in summer or
early autumn. The symptoms are, bilious vomiting,
thirst, violent watery diarrhoea, griping, tenesmus,
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cramps, and coldness of the extremities. The prin-
cipal remedy is Verat. Milder cases, in which there
are less coldness and cramp, and in which the diar-
rhoea consists of fæces mixed with mucus, will yield
to Ipec. If Verat. be insufficient, it should be alter-
nated with Ars., especially if there is excessive
prostration of strength and almost constant purging,
the stools tinged with blood. The medicines should
be given in frequent doses (see p. 3) as often as
every quarter of an hour if necessary, until the
patient is better; then at intervals of one to four
hours. An attack of cholera may often be warded
off by attending to the symptoms of gastric or
bilious derangement that generally precede it. (See
BILIOUS ATTACKя, p. 95.)
COLD, OR CATARRH.
For the dose, see p. 3.
After exposure to a damp cold atmosphere, take
Dulc. immediately as a preventive of cold; after a
thorough wetting, Rhus; after exposure to cold
wind or a draught of air, N. vom. When feelings
of general discomfort, chilliness, shuddering, and
headache, give warning that a cold is coming on,
take one or two drops of Spirits of Camphor on a
bit of sugar, bathe your feet in warm water at bed-
time, and take some warm gruel in bed, or another
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When sneezing and stoppage of the nose announce
a cold in the head, take immediately a dose of
N. vom. or Puls., according to temperament, and
repeat it every six hours. When the running at
the nose begins, Merc. is indicated, or Ars., should
the discharge be thin and acrid, with shiver-
ing. For infants and young children, Cham. is the
best remedy. Hep. may sometimes be taken with
success, when Merc. has failed; so, too, Lach., par-
ticularly when there is swelling and soreness of the
nose.
In common cold in the chest or catarrhal fever,
Acon. should be taken in the beginning at intervals
of four hours, until the dry heat of the skin and
the thirst abate; or, alternately with Bry., at in-
tervals of three hours, if there be dry hollow cough,
racking pain in the chest, inclination to vomit,
severe headache and aching in the limbs.
When the acute symptoms abate, and the cough
becomes looser, and the expectoration freer, Merc.
or Ars. may be given, a teaspoonful every four
hours, the former should the expectoration be thick,
the latter if it be thin or frothy. When the air-
passages are so loaded with mucus as to render
breathing extremely difficult, Ant. t. will often be of
signal service. (See COUGH, INFLUENZA, pp. 112
and 136.)
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COLIC.
GRIPES.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Violent tearing and twisting pains in the belly,
occurring in irregular paroxysms, often accompanied
by flatulent distentions, rumblings, and eructations.
There is usually slight diarrhoea, but sometimes
constipation; very rarely fever. The patient in-
stinctively makes pressure over the navel, which
relieves the pain. By this symptom we may dis-
tinguish colic from inflammation of the bowels, in
which the pain is aggravated by pressure.
Coloc. is the medicine most generally applicable
to colic, especially to its most intense forms, and
when there are pains in the back and loins, and
cramps in the legs. N. vom. is suitable when there
is constipation, with flatulence, pressure on the
bladder, and difficulty in passing water. So also is
Cocc., which may be alternated with the former.
Puls. is useful when there is diarrhoea, in colic after
indigestible food, and in menstrual and hæmor-
rhoidal colic. N. vom. is also suited to the latter
case. Cham. is particularly suited to women and
children, for bilious colic, or bilious vomiting and
purging, either alone or in alternation with Ipec.
Ignat. or Bell. may be given for hysterical colic,
and Verat., followed by Cocc., for severe colic during
the menstrual flow, for which other remedies have
been unavailing.
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Colic may be greatly relieved by warm fomenta-
tions and injections of warm water.
CONGESTION, OR DETERMINATION OF BLOOD TO
THE HEAD.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The symptoms of this affection are: fulness of
the veins and arteries of the head and neck; the
beating of the latter is felt by the patient himself;
heat and redness, or paleness of the face; giddi-
ness; headache, chiefly above the eyes, increased
by stooping and coughing; dimness of sight; buzz-
ing in the ears; tightness round the throat; drow-
siness by day; unrefreshing sleep at night. The
remedies most generally useful are Acon. and Bell.
Besides these, some others may be required by the
circumstances of each case; they are chiefly :-
For persons addicted to strong drink: N. vom.,
Carb. veg.-of sedentary habits: N. vom., Acon.-
weakened by illness and loss of fluids: China-
girls at the age of puberty, or during stoppage of
menstruation: Puls., Acon., Bell., Sep.-teething
children: Acon., Coff., Bell., Bry., Cham. When
constipation is the cause: N. vom., Op., Bry.—
when a cold: Dulc., Bry., Rhus t.—when a blow or
fall, &c.: Arn.
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CONSTIPATION.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The English probably take more purgative medi-
cine and of more violent kinds than all other
Europeans put together. Constipation, neverthe-
less, continues to be the abiding and peculiar
torment of Englishmen. A very practical hint may
be drawn from these two facts if they be rightly
put together. The chief remedies for constipation
are, N. vom., Puls., Bry., Ign., Opium, and Graph.,
for the respective uses of which, see "Properties
of Medicines," p. 11.
Plenty of fresh air and exercise, regular hours,
and abstinence from heating and stimulating food
and drink, are indispensable to the cure of habitual
constipation. It is an excellent practice to drink a
tumbler of cold water every morning on waking.
Make it an invariable rule to solicit the bowels
punctually at a certain hour daily, whether they
respond or not. An injection of tepid or cold
water may be used if the bowels remain long inert
in spite of medicine, and if much inconvenience
result, but not otherwise.
CONVULSIONS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
In children the brain is larger in proportion to
the body, and the nervous system generally is more
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excitable than in adults; hence the greater liability
of the former to those irregular actions of the
muscular fibres which constitute the well-known
phenomenon called convulsions, and are caused by
irritation of the nervous centres through teething,
worms, indigestion, &c. Immediately on the occur-
rence of the attack, immerse the legs in hot water,
dry them carefully afterwards, and wrap the child
up warmly, but keep his head cool. This may be
`repeated frequently, and if relief be not otherwise
obtained, a thin stream of cold water may be poured
gently over the head. Meanwhile give a dose of
Cham. or Bell., or both alternately, every quarter of
an hour, or in some cases Ign. Cham. is the chief
remedy, and often suffices alone. Bell. is particu-
larly indicated when the pupils of the eye are much
dilated, when the attacks are preceded with smiles
and laughter, and there is such excessive sensitive-
ness that a slight touch will often renew the attack.
The indications for Ign. are sudden flush of burning
heat in sleep; waking up with a convulsive start;
tremor of the whole body; muscles of single limbs
convulsed; violent cries and shrieks; periodical
recurrence of the fits.
CORNS AND CALLOSITIES.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Corns always owe their origin to unequal pres-
sure, and their radical cure to its entire removal.
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It is a mistake to suppose that corns
"extracted by
the roots" will not grow again. The so-called roots
are no roots at all, but thickened sheaths of scarf
skin investing the irritated and enlarged papillæ of
the sensitive skin, which must be gradually restored
to their natural condition to ensure permanent relief.
To effect this, soak the feet well in warm water
every second night, scrape away the softened por-
tion of the corn, and next morning apply round it
one of those shields sold by chemists under the
name of mechanical corn plasters. They are circular
patches of buff leather or German tinder spread
with soap plaster, with a hole punched in the
middle, which should be enlarged if necessary with
a penknife, so that the leather rim may exactly
enclose the corn without pressing on any part of it.
If the corn be very painful it should be washed,
after it has been pared, with Arnica lotion (ten
drops of the mother tincture to a tablespoonful of
water). Soft corns are always seated between the
toes; they should be cautiously trimmed with a pair
of scissors and washed with Arnica. A piece of
cotton wool worn between the toes will relieve them
from pressure. Callosities, which are corns with a
broader base, should be treated in the same way.
In bad cases both of corns and callosities, Graph.,
a dose of four globules, should be taken every
night for a week. A great proneness to have corns
upon slight provocation is a gentle hint from nature
that there is something wrong with the constitution.
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COUGH.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Cough is but a symptom-a part of a disorder,
not the whole; sometimes, however, it is so leading
a part as to be a sufficient index to the treatment;
at other times, it will be necessary to consider a
great number of concomitant symptoms. The
varieties of cough are very numerous: there are
some, for instance, which are caused only by the
sympathy of the respiratory organs with the
deranged stomach, womb, bowels, &c. We can
only enumerate the most common varieties, with
the remedies generally adapted to them :-
Catarrhal COUGH; DRY: Acon., Cham., Bry.,
Rhus t., Bell., N. vom., Ign., Phos., Hep.-мMOIST,
LOOSE: Puls., Merc., Ant. t., Ars., Phos., Dulc.
NERVOUS OR SPASMODIC: Bell., Hyos., Ipec.,
Bry., Dros., Hep., Lach., Cina, Sulph., Verat.
COUGH WITH FITS OF SUFFOCATION: Ipec., Ant.
t., Cham., Bry., Dros., Ars., Lach., Sulph.-with
VOMITING OR RETCHING: Ipec., Ant. t., Verat.,
Puls.-with HOARSENESS: Hep., Carb. v., Lach.,
Dros., Merc., Phos.—with FEELING OF SOMETHING
IN THE WINDPIPE : Lach., Calc.-with BLOODY
EXPECTORATION: Puls., Arn., Phos.
DRY NIGHT COUGH: Hyos., Bell., Sulph.-
CHRONIC MOIST COUGH: Sep., Sil.-COUGH WORST
AT MORNING: N. vom.-AFTER SLEEP: Lach.
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CRAMP IN THE LEGS, ETC.—CROUP.
CRAMP IN THE LEGS AND FEET.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Verat., N. vom., Rhus t., or Cham.; a dose every
two or three days, with a dose of Sulph. every eight
or ten days, will often remove this troublesome
affection. Verat. is more particularly indicated
when there is great coldness of the feet at night.
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CRAMP IN THE STOMACH.
Give, every ten minutes, a drop or two of Spirits
of Camphor on sugar, and foment with flannels
wrung out of hot water. A threatened attack may
sometimes be prevented by smelling Camph. N.
vom. and Carb. v. are useful in some cases. Consult
your physician.
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CROUP.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Domestic treatment should begin the instant this
most dangerous malady appears, but professional
aid should as instantly be sought.
Croup is a disease almost peculiar to childhood,
seldom occurring after the age of seven years. Its
first approach is often insidious, assuming the
appearance of a common catarrh; but even at this
early stage, a peculiar whizzing sound may be
heard at the upper opening of the windpipe by
placing the ear upon the back of the neck or upon
the throat; and sometimes there may be discovered
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upon the tonsils, a thin layer of false membrane,
or viscid matter, like boiled white of egg, which
by choking up the air passages, constitutes the
peculiar danger of this affection. Erelong the real
nature of the case is made apparent by other signs.
The breathing is more laboured, the expirations
quick, the inspirations slow, sawing, crowing, or
ringing; there is a peculiar single cough, frequently
repeated, with a metallic or a hollow barking sound,
and the pain it causes makes the child carry his
hand to his throat; the voice is sometimes deep and
hoarse, sometimes shrill and squeaking; the counte-
nance is swollen and anxious, the head thrown back
to facilitate respiration.
Give Acon. and Ant. t. alternately, every half-
hour, or oftener if necessary, until the feverish heat
and the hardness of the pulse diminish. If the
other symptoms also appear improved, continue the
Ant. t. so long as it seems to do good. When a
change of medicine is manifestly required give Hep.
and Spong. alternately, at intervals varying from a
quarter of an hour to two hours, according to
circumstances. Meanwhile, let the patient's neck
be kept wrapped from the first in a thickly-folded
linen bandage, lightly wrung out of cold water,
and refreshed from time to time when it grows hot.
Wash the back of the head, neck, and spine
frequently with cold water, and give cold water to
drink. (See SPASMODIC CROUP.)
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DIARRHEA.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Looseness of the bowels, with or without griping
pains, with fæculent or mucous discharges; generally
unattended with fever. The chief remedies are:-
Dulc.-Of almost universal application in diar-
rhoeas, especially in those caused by cold, teething,
worms, repelled eruptions, errors in diet, &c.
Ars.-Burning evacuations; severe colic; fetid,
putrid (alternately with Carb. v.), profuse, with
great prostration of strength; occurring after mid-
night; diarrhoea caused by acids, fruit, cold drink,
or ice.
Rheum.-Sour smelling fæculent evacuations,
with griping; shuddering before and after; particu-
larly suitable for infants.
Cham.-Watery or slimy; of a grass-green or
whitish, curdled appearance; smelling like rotten
eggs; with incessant, tearing colic; nausea, vomit-
ing; caused by cold or passion; particularly suitable
for infants.
Merc.-Profuse, watery, or frothy; sometimes
tinged with blood; preceded by griping and feeling
of cold in the abdomen; followed by tenesmus, or
burning at the orifice.
China.-Clear, without any fæcal matter; con-
taining undigested food; sour; great weakness;
loud rumbling; occurring immediately after eating,
or in the night.
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Puls.-Diarrhoea from errors of diet; urgent desire;
frequent; slimy; worst at night.
Bry.-Diarrhoea from the heat of summer (also
Ars., Merc.); with bilious, rheumatic symptoms
(alternately with Rhus t.).
Hyos.-Painless diarrhoea during pregnancy.
Sulph.-Chronic diarrhoea, exhausting; and gene-
rally in cases which resist other remedies.—A dose
of the selected remedy may be administered after
every liquid evacuation.
DYSENTERY.
For the dose, see p. 3.
An inflammatory disorder of the large intestines,
characterized by frequent liquid evacuations of
mucous or purulent matter (not fæces) mixed with
blood, painful straining (tenesmus), cutting and
burning pain, with more or less fever. Its chief
causes are, warm, damp weather, marsh miasmata,
bad drainage and ventilation, and bad food. In the
acute stage, the patient should abstain from food,
both solid and liquid, and drink only cold water,
and should have his abdomen fomented with very
hot flannels. Give Merc., at intervals of one, two,
or three hours; and if there is much fever, Acon.,
every six hours. If Merc. alone does not afford
sufficient relief, it may be alternated with Ars. In
some cases, injections of cold water after every
evacuation afford evident relief.
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EARS, DISORDERS OF THE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
For inflammation of the outer ear, Puls. is the
chief remedy; it may be aided by Acon. if there be
much fever. Puls. may also be of use in nervous
or rheumatic earache; in inflammation of the in-
ternal ear with more or less discharge, and when
the outer ear is hot, red, and swollen. The indica-
tions for other medicines are: Bell.-digging, boring
pains in paroxysms, extending to the throat; prick-
ing and shooting pains in the parotid glands; pains
increased by touching or moving; head and eyes
affected; delirium. Cham.-stabbings, as with a
knife; pains intolerable; inner ear dry, without
ear-wax; particularly when caused by checked per-
spiration. Merc.-burning outwardly, with inward
cold feeling, affecting the cheek also; violent
twitches, tearing and shooting; ear damp with
sweat, but without relief; increase of pain in the
warmth of the bed; discharge of pus; soreness of
the passage.
The torturing pains of earache, when there is no
discharge, may in many cases be relieved by insert-
ing in the ear a bit of cotton or wool, moistened
first with hot water, and then with a drop or two of
tincture of Aconite, first dilution.
For chronic inflammation, with discharge of ear-
wax and mucus, the chief remedy is Merc., also if
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the discharge occurs after smallpox; with purulent
discharge, Hep.; in very obstinate cases of either
discharge, Sulph. Puls. is suitable to the discharge
which follows measles; Bell. (also Merc.) to that
succeeding scarlatina.
For deafness consequent upon a cold, take Merc.,
a dose every six hours.
EMOTIONS OF THE MIND.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Disorders arising from violent passions and emo-
tions require appropriate remedies.
FRIGHT; Acon. if there be increased activity of
the circulation; Op. if the patient seems as it were
stunned and stupified; Verat. if there is coldness,
sickness, diarrhoea; Bell. after Acon. should there
be much nervous agitation, and tendency to start.
Samb. oppression of the chest not yielding to Op.
or Acon. Excessive JOY: Coff. A fit of PASSION:
Bry. or Cham., according to the temperament,
aided, if necessary, by Acon. or Cocc. JEALOUSY:
Hyos. Deep INDIGNATION: Coloc.
Silent GRIEF :
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EPILEPESY.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The curative treatment of this disorder must be
committed to professional hands. The domestic
treatment consists chiefly in taking care that the
patient does not hurt himself in his fall, and in
providing for his safety when he has fallen. Loosen
his garments, shelter his eyes from any glaring
light, and keep the room cool and quiet. Remove
everything against which he might hurt himself;
but forbear from all attempts to restrain his contor-
tions by force, as not only useless, but certainly
injurious. A piece of cork or soft wood should be
placed between his teeth, to prevent his biting his
tongue; and he should immediately have a dose
(four globules in a spoonful of water) of Bell., or
of Opium, if his face be dark and humid, and his
breathing laboured and snoring. Drink should not
be given him in glass or earthen vessels until long
after the fit has ceased.
ERYSIPELAS, OR ST ANTHONY'S FIRE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
A diffused inflammation of a portion of the skin,
accompanied with more or less fever. The affected
part is hot, swollen, tense; its colour generally
ranges from bright red to dark red or purplish,
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changing to white on pressure, but resuming its
original appearance when the pressure is withdrawn.
The local sensations are stiffness, tingling, pricking,
burning, and sometimes tearing or shooting pain.
Sometimes vesicles filled with limpid or yellowish
fluid, appear on the inflamed surface, and then the
fever is more severe. As the inflammation is about
to subside, the colour changes to a pale or dirty
yellow, and finally the cuticle peels off. When
erysipelas attacks the head or face, medical aid must
be sought without delay.
The chief remedies are Acon., Bell., Bry., Puls.,
Rhus t. If there be much fever, begin with Acon.,
a dose every two or three hours. After three or four
doses, proceed in the same way with Bell.; or
begin with it in case of smooth erysipelas, if without
fever. Bry. may be substituted for Bell. when
the joints are more particularly affected; or Puls.
when the erysipelas shifts rapidly from one part to
another. This medicine is also indicated when there
remain after the eruption bitter taste, want of appetite,
nausea, or when these symptoms return after too
early indulgence in full diet. If the convalescent
patient goes out too early and takes cold, or if his
temper become angry and irritable, and fever returns,
give Cham.; or Rhus should there be coldness of
the feet, great lassitude, and dry tongue.
Rhus is the proper specific for vesicular erysipelas,
and should be given immediately on the appearance
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of the vesicles, or as soon as the fever (if violent)
has been subdued by Acon. Should there be symp-
toms of irritation of the brain, such as delirium,
lethargic sleep, twitchings, and anxiety, Bell. should
be given in alternation with Acon. If inflammation
spread to the mouth and throat (after the fourth day)
Rhus will be indicated. If fresh patches are con-
tinually appearing, so that while one spot is desqua-
mating, another is reddening and forming fresh
vesicles, give Ars.
EYES, INFLAMMATION OF THE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
In common ophthalmia, or inflammation of the
eyes, with redness, itching, heat, and pain as from
sand, sensitiveness to light, copious flow of tears,
and oozing of gummy mucus, with more or less
fever, the chief remedies are Acon., Bell., Merc.;
the two former to be alternated in severer cases with
much fever or intense redness. Merc. may be given
from the first in milder cases, or after Bell. in others
when no further improvement takes place. Sulph.
may also be required under such circumstances, and
it is generally indispensable in chronic ophthalmia.
For inflammation of the eyes and eyelids, caused
by foreign bodies, bruises, &c., weak Arnica lotion
(one part in fifty of water) may be be applied, unless
the patient has an irritable skin or a tendency to
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erysipelas, then Calendula lotion (same proportion),
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FACEACHE. TIC DOLOUREUX.
For the dose, see p. 3.
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Excruciating pain in the face of a purely nervous
kind (neuralgia), that is to say, occurring indepen-
dently of any apparent symptoms of inflammation,
and corresponding in its seat to the course of the
facial nerves. It comes on in sudden paroxysms of
variable duration, which often as suddenly cease.
It is a very intractable malady, though not neces-
sarily incurable. The chief remedies are Bell.,
Cham., Ars., Chin. (in debilitated subjects), Coloc.,
Verat. (See Medicines under those headings.)
FACE, SWELLING OF THE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
A common attendant on toothache, and yielding
to the same remedies. If not give Puls., a dose
every six hours should the swelling be pale, the
patient low-spirited, with shivering or flushes of
heat; Cham. if the swelling be very hard, and there
be much heat and redness of the face and mouth;
Merc. should the glands under the jaw be swollen
and tender, with an overflow of saliva; Acon. if
there be full, quick pulse. Should suppuration take
place, give Hep. and Sil. Foment the face with
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flannel or spongiopiline wrung out of hot water, or
infusion of Chamomile if Cham. is administered in-
ternally.
FAINTING.-FATIGUE.
FAINTING.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Lay the patient quite flat; loosen all bands,
strings, buttons, &c.; give plenty of fresh air;
sprinkle the face, and if need be, the chest and pit
of the stomach, with cold water, and hold Spirits
of Camphor under the nose. Any further treat-
ment must be determined by the exciting cause
—such as FATIGUE, Verat.: debility from illness
or loss of blood, Chin.; excessive PAIN, Acon.,
Cham.: very SLIGHT PAIN, Hep. (See also EMO-
TIONS, p. 118.)
FATIGUE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
If much wearied by walking, rowing, &c., take
four globules of Arn., and wash your feet and hands
in warm water with a tablespoonful of Tincture
of Arnica in it.* Coff. is suitable for exhaustion
* A gentleman who hunted in Leicestershire informed me
that he was in the habit of giving his horses six drops of
Tincture of Arnica in their water, after a hard day's run.
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from long abstinence from food and bodily exertion
conjointly; N. vom. for the effects of excessive
mental exertion, or long and anxious night-watch-
ing; Cocc. for fatigue experienced after slight
exertions of body or mind; Acon., either alone or
followed by Bry., for isturbance of the circulation,
palpitation, difficulty of breathing caused by violent
exercise.
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FEET-SWEATING.
In some cases Sil., in others Graph., three
globules every second day, will remove this dis-
agreeable affection.
FEVER.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Acon. is specific for simple inflammatory fever;
for the symptoms of which affection, see that medi-
cine, p. 11. As soon as they appear, the patient
should be put to bed, lightly but sufficiently covered,
and the room should be kept airy, sweet, and cool,
the light partly excluded, and all noises and dis-
turbing causes entirely so. He should drink freely
of cold water; and for food, which should not be
officiously forced upon him, he should have thin
gruel. The same regimen is to be observed in all
acute fevers, eruptions, rheumatic, gastric, &c.
Constant sighing breathing in fever generally indi-
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cates the approach of a rash eruption, and calls for
Ipec. Typhus and typhoid fevers are characterized
by great prostration of strength, parched, blackish
lips, and dry brown tongue. They require Rhus
and Ars. alternately, every two or three hours.
(See BRAIN FEVER, BILIOUS ATTACKS, RHEU-
matism, Smallpox, &c. &c. Also note p. 158.
FLATULENCE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
For slight cases, arising from actual errors of
diet, Puls. is generally efficacious, two or three
globules for a dose. See also N. vom., Cocc., and
Carb. v. Cham. is especially suited to the flatu-
lence of children.
GALLING OR CHAFING OF THE SKIN.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Should the cause be mechanical, wash the part
with Calendula Lotion (1 part tincture to 30 of water);
should the secretion be acrid, take Cham. morn-
ing and evening, for two days; on the third day,
Sulph. one dose, and repeat, if necessary, after an
interval of two days. For the chafing of infants,
perfect cleanliness and careful drying and powdering
will generally be sufficient. If not, a few doses of
Cham. or Ign. may be given (one daily), to be
followed, if necessary, by Merc.
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GIDDINESS.
VERTIGO.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Vertigo is never an isolated affection, but always
symptomatic of some more general disorder, as of
CONGESTION to the HEAD (it is almost always so
when worst on stooping), of INDIGESTION (see
articles on), of general debility, or of disease of the
heart. The treatment must depend on the cause.
The following are a few of the special forms of
vertigo, with the remedies suited to them, other
symptoms agreeing. Sulph. corresponds to almost
every form.
Vertigo when LYING down: Ars., N. vom., Rhus
on RISING from a seat: Acon., Bry., Phos.—
in the open AIR: Calc., Graph., Puls., Sep.-coming
into a ROOM from the open air: Merc., Phos.—
looking UP: Puls., Sep., Sil.-looking DOWN:
Sulph.
GOUT.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Upon the occurrence of an acute attack, the
patient may take a dose of Arn. every two or
three hours, or Acon. if he be of a robust, full
habit of body, and have much fever; but gout is
too complicated a disease to admit of treatment
by unskilled hands.
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GUMS, BLEEDING, SORE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Merc. is a specific for that condition of the
mouth in which the gums are spongy, swollen,
painful, jagged at their margins, parted from the
teeth, the saliva is too abundant, and the breath
fetid; unless, indeed, this condition has been caused
by abuse of Mercury, when Carb. v. and China
may be administered alternately. A dose may be
taken night and morning. The diet should be nour-
ishing, but not stimulating. Avoid salt meat.
GUMBOIL.
For the dose, see p. 3.
At the beginning of the inflammation, give Acon.
and Bell. alternately every two or three hours, to
be followed, if necessary, in twelve hours by Merc.,
or begin with Merc. if the swelling have already
attained some size. When the swelling softens
and throbs (signs that matter is forming), give
Hep., and when it has burst, Sil. When the
gumboil is occasioned by a carious tooth, Sil. may
be given from the outset. It is also the best
remedy when there is inflammation of the jaw-
bone, and after the extraction of a tooth, in alter-
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HEADACHE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
There are some few kinds of headache which
may be regarded in some degree as distinct affec-
tions, and treated accordingly; but, in general, the
cure of headache is involved in that of some more
general disorder. (See INDIGESTION, BILIOUS
ATTACKS, CONSTIPATION, COLD, CONGESTION,
EMOTIONS, MENSTRUATION, &c.)
In nervous headache, or that kind in which the
pain in the head appears to be the primary
symptom, and all others to depend upon it, the
following remedies may be considered:-Puls.:
megrim (one-sided headache) with nausea; low
spirits; paleness or flushing; worse in the evening,
or when sitting still; better in the open air-Ign.
(often with good effect after Puls.): megrim; pain
as if a nail were driven into the head (clavus);
momentary relief from change of posture; worse
after taking coffee; profuse flow of urine-Coff.:
megrim; clavus; great intolerance of light, of out-
ward impressions generally, and of pain; it may
be alternated with Cham.; the latter is the chief
remedy for headaches of children-also Sep., Sil.,
and Sulph., in chronic cases. See those medicines.
Rhus. is specific for headache after bodily fatigue;
Nux v. and Cocc. for that caused by sedentary
labour and late hours; Bry. and Sil. for headache
during hot, sultry weather.
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HEARTBURN AND WATERBRASH.
For the dose, see p. 3.
A hot, acrid sensation in the stomach, with
risings of watery or rancid oily matter that burns
the throat. It is a symptom of INDIGESTION, and
generally indicates (as the concomitant symptoms
determine) one or other of the following remedies,
especially the first three :-N. vom., Sulph., Carb. v.
Puls., Cham., China, Calc., which see.
HOARSENESS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
This is a common attendant on catarrhal dis-
orders. When it presents itself almost as a solitary
affection, or at least as the most prominent one
with or without dry cough, give Hep., three doses
daily, to be followed, after four or five days, if
necessary, by Lach.
HOOPING COUGH.
For the dose, see p. 3.
In its first stage, which generally lasts from a
fortnight to three weeks, hooping cough differs in
no apparent respect from a common catarrh, and
will naturally be treated as such. Should it be
known, however, that the epidemic is in the
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neighbourhood, it will be proper to use Bell. as a
principal remedy in every case of catarrh occurring
in children. In the second stage, the cough be-
comes convulsive and suffocating, and that peculiar
whoop is heard which gives name to the complaint.
The fits come on every three or four hours, or
oftener, when the disorder is at its height, and
terminate with an expectoration of mucus, some-
times with vomiting. In severe cases, the face is
swollen and livid, and blood escapes from the nose
and mouth, or into the cellular tissue round the eye-
lids, and under the transparent covering of the eye-
ball. In the intervals between the attacks there is
a complete remission; the child is lively and appa-
rently well, except for the weakness and loss of
flesh caused by the repeated ejection of food and
drink from the stomach.
Dros. is the remedy most generally suitable in
the convulsive stage, and should be given when the
whoop is distinctly heard; a dose after every fit
until the cough improves, and then at gradually
increasing intervals. When there is fever more
or less constant, with much chilliness, thirst, cold
sweats, and small, weak, rapid pulse, Verat. will be
very serviceable. After either of these remedies,
Carb. v. will expedite the cure, especially if the
vomiting continue after the cough has decreased.
Cina is the preferable remedy for children affected
with worms, and who have convulsions, or become
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stiff all over during or immediately after the fits
of coughing. If there be bleeding at the nose,
&c., or effusion of blood in or around the eyes,
give Bell.
In the first stage of hooping cough, the diet
should be light; in the convulsive stage, it should
be easy of digestion and highly nutritious. Slops
would aggravate the vomiting.
INDIGESTION.
DYSPEPSIA.
For the dose, see p. 3.
For a casual fit of indigestion, caused by over-
loading the stomach, take immediately a cup of
strong coffee (not chicory!) without milk or sugar,
For any symptoms remaining afterwards, recourse
may be had to Puls., N. vom., or Ipec. For indiges-
tion caused by FAT food, pork, salmon, pastry, &c.:
Puls., Ipec., Carb. v.-by ices, fruit, or other things
which CHILL the stomach: Ars., Verat.-by beer,
WINE, or spirits: N. vom., followed by Carb. v.-
by SALT food: Ars. and Carb. v. alternately-by
TOBACCO-SMOKING: N. vom., Puls., Cocc., Ant. t.—
by FLATULENT food: Carb. v., Chin.-by ACIDS:
Ars., Carb. v., Hep.
The chief remedies for recent cases of dyspepsia,
or impaired digestion, with its multitudinous atten-
dant sufferings, are N. vom. and Puls.; the former
being more suitable to persons of impulsive and
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energetic temperament, the latter to the placid and
phlegmatic; N. vom. to persons disposed to consti-
pation and hæmorrhoids; Puls. to such as are
rather disposed to a relaxed state of all the mucous
surfaces, those of the bowels included; N. vom. to
morning, Puls. to evening exacerbations; thirst is
a frequent symptom of N. vom., want of thirst is
equally characteristic of Puls. For further details
see those medicines, and also Ign., which is suitable
to persons of a nervous temperament and variable
spirits. It may sometimes follow Puls. with advan-
tage. Should vomiting be present or threatened,、
Ant. t. or Ipec. will be of use. Cham. or Bry.
is indicated when there is bilious derangement,
properly so called. Hep., Calc., and Sulph., are
the chief remedies for chronic dyspepsia.
INFANTS AND CHILDREN, DISORDERS OF.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Many of these are the subjects of separate articles
in this book.
CRYING: When an infant screams continually
without any apparent cause give Bell.; if it draw
up its legs to its belly, and appear to be griped,
give Cham.; when the face is red, Bell., when it is
pale, Cham. If there be diarrhoea, see next page.
SLEEPLESSNESS: This often proceeds from dis-
ordered bowels. In other cases, Coff. will be suit-
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able, or Acon. should there be much feverish heat.
For long-continued sleeplessness when weaning, Bell.
CONSTIPATION : N. vom. or Bry., or the two
alternately every twelve hours; or if they fail, Op.
DIARRHŒA: Green, watery, slimy: Cham., aided
if necessary by Merc.; sour but consisting of fæces
with mucus: Rheum; also when, with all care to
keep it clean, the child smells sour all over; long-
continued diarrhoea, with weakness, but little pain:
Sulph., and in scrofulous children, Calc.
RETENTION OF URINE: Let the child smell
Camph. If that fail to relieve, give Acon., to be
followed, if necessary, by Puls., and put the child in
a warm bath.
PUKING UP OF MILK: Let the infant suck less at
a time, and, if necessary, give Ipec.
JAUNDICE: Give two globules of Cham.; repeat
the dose in twenty-four hours; if necessary, on the
following day give Merc.
Snuffles, or constant obstruction of the nose, N.
vom., or, if that fails, Samb.
OPHTHALMIA : New-born infants are sometimes
affected with inflammation of the eyes from exposure
to too strong a light. Give Acon., and afterwards.
Bell., if there be much redness; for any lingering
remains of the affection, Sulph. or Calc.
RUPTURE: When the navel protrudes, a linen
rag, folded into the form of a pad, should be care-
fully applied, and the nurse should keep back the
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swelling with her fingers whilst she is putting on
the roller. For rupture at the groin no bandage is
required. Give N. vom., a dose every second day,
and Sulph. once a-fortnight.
HICCOUGH: This affection will often cease when
the child is laid warm to the mother's breast; or it
may be given a pinch of powdered sugar, or a little
cold sugared water; or, lastly, a globule of Bell.
SWELLING OF THE BREASTS: This subject is
mentioned here for the purpose of denouncing the
stupid and mischievous practice of squeezing the
breasts of new-born infants, in order to force from
them a natural secretion, which does no harm while
it remains there, and will disappear in due course
if left alone. Nurses should have strict orders
on this point, and they should be closely watched,
lest they disobey them. If this caution has been
neglected, and the breast have become inflamed by
rough usage, let it be washed every three or four
hours with weak solution of Arn. (three drops to a
tablespoonful of water). Should matter have formed
give Hep., a globule or two every eight hours.
RED GUM: An eruption of minute red pimples
and red spots about the face, neck, and arms; it is
of very trivial importance. If there be much irri-
tation, Acon. may be given, a dose every twelve
hours.
HEAT SPOTS: Small vesicles, transparent or
slightly coloured, on an inflamed base, forming
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scabs and sores, the eruption is preceded by fever
and sickness, and is apt to return. Its most frequent
cause is overheating. Acon., followed by Rhus, will
usually be sufficient. In obstinate cases Sulph. may
be necessary.
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
A disease that demands the promptest and most
efficient treatment. Until advice can be obtained
give Acon. and Bell. alternately every half-hour,
and apply hot fomentations. Inflammation of the
bowels may be distinguished from colic by the
presence of fever, and by the excessive tenderness
of the abdomen, which makes the slightest pressure
intolerable. (See COLIC, p. 107.)
INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. (PNEUMONIA.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
Examination by the ear (a trained ear of course) is
often necessary to determine with certainty the
existence of this dangerous disorder. It may be
suspected when the following symptoms are present:
short, difficult breathing; dull pain in the chest,
confined to one spot; great depression and anxiety;
cough causing great pain, first dry, afterwards moist
with gluey expectoration tinged (not streaked) with
blood; general fever. Call them by what name
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you will, these symptoms plainly indicate Acon.,
which should be given every hour or two, while
awaiting the physician's visit. Pneumonia is some-
times complicated with PLEURISY, see p. 150.
INFLUENZA.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Influenza is an epidemic catarrh attended with
rheumatic pains, and great depression of the mental
and bodily energies. On account of the latter
symptom Ars. is always a principal remedy for
influenza; the others are generally those applicable
to catarrh; but every influenza has peculiarities
which must govern the choice of the medicines.
(See COLD, p. 105.)
INSECTS, BITES AND STINGS OF.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Smell Spirits of Camphor, and rub the bitten or
stung part with it. In a few hours, if any pain or
swelling remain, use cold Arnica lotion (1 part to
30 water). Bees always leave their stings in the
wound, and these should be extracted with a pair
of tweezers. If stung on the tongue take Acon.
immediately, afterwards Arn., and should the inflam-
mation not abate in two or three hours, Bell. every
half-hour.
ITCHING.-JAUNDICE.
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ITCHING.
For the dose, see p. 3.
This troublesome complaint sometimes occurs
without any visible eruption. The chief remedies
are N. vom., Sulph. When it is accompanied with
moisture of the skin Merc. may be useful; when it
is easily relieved by scratching, Ign. Sponge the
skin at night with a tepid infusion made by pouring
boiling water on bran.
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JAUNDICE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
This disorder is easily identified by the yellow
hue of the eyes and skin; the evacuations are
whitish, the bowels are sometimes relaxed, more
frequently constipated, the urine dark red; there is
a bitter taste in the mouth, want of appetite, low
spirits, and loss of strength. The first remedy is
Merc. a dose every two, three, or more hours.
After three or four days of this treatment Chin.
may follow.
If a fit of passion have caused the
attack, Cham. is to be preferred; Bry. may also be
of use in such a case, if the angry temper continue
and there be much chilliness. Either medicine may
be followed by N. vom. Should the attack be
ushered in with fever, Acon. will be required from
the outset, and it may be given the more freely
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inasmuch as it specifically affects the secretion of
bile.
KNEE, SWOLLEN. (HOUSEMAID'S Knee.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
Let the limb have perfect rest; apply a linen
compress to the knee, wrung out of cold water, and
cover it with oil-silk or thin mackintosh. Take a
dose of Sil. night and morning.
LABOUR AND AFTER-PAINS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
There is no field of practice in which the bene-
ficial effects of homoeopathic remedies may be more
strikingly displayed by the skilful physician than in
the management of pregnancy and labour. It may
be necessary sometimes when the Homoeopathic
practitioner is not at hand, to engage the services
of an Allopathic accoucheur; but on no account
should he be allowed to prescribe a single dose of
medicine. The common practice of giving castor
oil in a day or two after delivery is most reprehen-
sible. It is a piece of ignorant meddling with the
wholesome course of nature, according to which
the ordinary action of the bowels ought to be
suspended for some days, whilst the vital powers
are diverted from them to the accomplishment of
new and most important tasks. Do not be solici-
tous about the bowels during the first week after
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delivery, so long as the patient perspires freely.
It is my clear conviction that many a mother has
been KILLED by a dose of castor oil or other
"mild aperient."
LUMBAGO.
FALSE labour pains are such as torment the
patient without advancing the birth. They come
on at irregular intervals, and do not increase at
each return, like true labour pains. N. vom. is
specific for them, especially when they affect the
lower part of the belly, and are accompanied with
frequent urgency to stool and desire to make water.
If they become intense give Coff. When the pains
are too FEEBLE give Puls.; also when the expul-
sion of the after-birth is delayed.-Should the pains
suddenly CEASE, and symptoms of oppression of the
brain appear, give Op.-For severe after-pains the
chief remedies are Arn., Coff, Cham. The first
of these should be given immediately after delivery;
and if the labour has been severe, tepid Arnica
lotion (six drops of tincture to two tablespoonfuls
of tepid water) should be applied. This practice*
tends greatly to prevent after-pains and URINARY
DISORDERS, see p. 171.
LUMBAGO.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Rheumatic pain in the small of the back. If
there be much fever, give Acon. every two hours.
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When the pains are aggravated by the least motion,
Bry. and N. vom. are indicated, also when constipa-
tion is present; when worst during rest, Rhus and
Puls.; when they are insufferable at night, Merc.
When the affection has been caused by straining
the back in lifting a heavy weight, or otherwise,
Arn. may be administered both inwardly and out-
wardly; or that failing, Rhus. (See RHEUMATISM,
p. 153.)
MEASLES.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The ordinary symptoms of catarrhal fever (severe
cold), with red, swollen, watery eyes, sneezing, run-
ning from the nose, short cough, and hoarseness,
exhibit themselves for three days; on the fourth
day all these symptoms are increased; there is much
drowsiness; the sleep is restless, and the eruption
comes forth in the following order: on the face,
behind the ears, on the neck, the chest, the arms,
the body, the thighs, and legs; and in the same
order it declines, and ends with bran-like scaling of
the cuticle about the ninth day. The eruption is
like a raspberry in colour, turns white for an instant
under pressure, and feels slightly rough when
brushed by the finger, being composed of extremely
minute pimples, which form clusters of a half-moon
shape. The disease is more dangerous to adult than
to young patients, and in all cases it has a ten-
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dency to leave behind it, when badly treated, very
serious affections of the mucous membranes, espe-
cially those of the lungs.
Puls. is the principal remedy, and should be
given from the outset, aided more or less frequently
by Acon. in proportion to the violence of the fever.
Should the eruption fail to appear in due time, or
recede after it has appeared, Bry. must be given
every half-hour, until that very dangerous condition
is removed. Recourse must also be had to that
remedy when there is evidence of inflammatory
action in the chest, such as stitches or darting pains,
anxious, painful breathing, and very great general
uneasiness. Ipec. will be useful if there be nausea,
vomiting, pain and oppression of the stomach; and
Bell. should there be much inflammation of the
throat, intense thirst, hot, dry skin, headache, rest-
lessness, or delirium.
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MILIARY FEVER. (MILIARIA.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
The distinguishing characteristic of this disease
is the eruption of small, round, hard, transparent
vesicles, of the size of a millet seed (hence the
name), which after two or three days become
opaque, dry up, and fall off in scurf. There is
usually a considerable degree of fever, the chest is
more or less affected, and there is profuse perspira-
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rally comes out on the fifth or sixth day of the
fever, and is preceded by itching, stinging, and
burning in the skin. Miliaria less frequently occurs
alone than as an attendant on other maladies, and
is essentially a disorder of the perspiratory organs.
A frequent case of it is too high a temperature in
the sick-room. In its treatment we must therefore
avoid whatever might tend to excite or abruptly
check perspiration.
Acon. may be given to subdue the fever; to be
followed by Coff. should there be much restlessness,
or by Bell. if the head is much affected, or that fail-
ing, and especially upon a sudden disappearance of
the eruption, Cupr. ac. In the latter case, when
there is oppression of the chest, nausea, vomiting,
fainting, Ipec. is also indicated. Cham. is the remedy
best adapted to children, and Bry. to lying-in women.
MILK CRUST.
For the dose, see p. 3.
An eruption incident to infants at the breast
(hence its name), and consisting of clusters of small
vesicles, whitish at first, afterwards turning yellow
and forming scabs. It appears first on the face,
whence it sometimes spreads over the whole body.
-Give Rhus t. three doses daily for two days,
Sulph. every third day. These medicines must be
preceded or accompanied with Acon. if there be in-
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flammatory redness of the skin or fever. The only
outward application admissible is tepid soap and
water, and hair powder to allay the itching.
MISCARRIAGE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Whenever threatenings of this accident present
themselves, the patient should lie down, and not
rise from her bed until the danger is past. She
should be kept cool and perfectly quiet; her diet
should be of the least stimulating kind, and she
should take no warm drink. If she has had a fall
or blow, Arn. should be given immediately, and
repeated at intervals, varying from ten minutes to
an hour according to the violence of the symptoms.
In most other cases, Bell. may be administered until
medical aid arrives. When the symptoms have
been occasioned by some EMOTION OF THE MIND,
recourse should be had to one or other of the
remedies mentioned under that head. Sep. is specific
against the tendency to miscarry between the fifth
and the seventh month.
MONTHLY FLOW, DISORDERS OF THE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Habitual disorders of menstruation are not fit
subjects for domestic treatment. The following
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recent cases :—
RETARDED or deficient flow: Puls. night and
morning, for two days; Sulph. on the third day,
one dose; pause a day, and repeat if necessary-
TOO COPIOUS: Bell. in general; if so profuse as to
amount to flooding, Ipec.-too copious and also
BEFORE ITS TIME: Calc.-a dose of one or other
of these medicines, three times a-day. (See COLIC,
p. 107.)
MUMPS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
An inflammatory affection of the large salivary
glands (the parotids), situated at the angle of the
lower jaw. It often occurs epidemically, particu-
larly in cold, damp weather; is more incident to
children than to adults, and seldom attacks the same
person twice. It generally reaches its height by
the end of the fourth day, after which the symptoms
decline and disappear altogether by the seventh or
eighth. Under favourable circumstances, the only
medicine required will be Merc., a dose every six
hours. Should symptoms arise indicating disturb-
ance of the brain, they must be promptly met with
Bell. The affected parts should be muffled in a
silk handkerchief, and the patient kept in a mode-
rately warm and equable temperature. The only
danger contingent on the complaint is that which
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may be caused by cold and damp, which are apt
to cause sudden shiftings of the inflammation to
other parts.
The diet must be altogether exclu-
sive of animal food.
NETTLE-RASH.
NETTLE-RASH. (URTICARIA.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
An eruption well named, both on account of its
external appearance-white elevations and wheals
on a red ground—and of the peculiar tingling and
pricking that accompany it. Fresh patches of the
eruption often suddenly appear, and as suddenly
disappear, seldom remaining many hours. It is
generally attended with fever of moderate severity,
nausea and vomiting, and is often a consequence
of indigestion caused by certain articles of food,
such as crabs, lobsters, pork, goose, &c. In chil-
dren, it is sometimes occasioned by teething. The
attack is often sudden, especially when caused by
* One of the severest cases of nettle-rash I have ever seen
occurred in a woman who had used, by advice of an hospital
nurse, a lotion composed of tincture of myrrh and water,
to cleanse the scurvy surface of a varicose leg. One appli-
cation of the lotion at bedtime perfectly fulfilled that
intention, but was followed in a few hours by a furious
attack of nettle-rash. I saw the patient on the following
evening, and prescribed Rhus t. One dose gave her instan-
taneous relief, and three more completed the care
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indigestible food. It begins with weight and fulness
in the chest, nausea and giddiness; then vomiting
and violent action of the bowels; then a pricking
and choking sensation in the throat, cough and
difficulty of breathing caused by swelling of the
lining membrane of the mouth and throat. Next
the tongue becomes swollen, and then the face
and head. The nose, lips, and ears are burning hot,
and itch violently, and by degrees the rash spreads
over the whole body, affecting chiefly the skin of
the joints.
Rhus is the principal remedy. Acon. will be
required if there be much fever. Ipec., Ant. t., and
Puls. may be given singly, or in alternation with
Rhus, when improper food has been taken. Bry.
will be of use should the eruption suddenly recede,
and symptoms affecting the chest present themselves.
N. vom. is indicated by headache, thirst, hoarse-
ness, and constipation, and especially when stimu-
lants have been the exciting cause; Bell., when
there is severe throbbing, headache, and redness
of the face. Dulc. is particularly adapted to
chronic nettle-rash (also Ars.), violently itching and
burning after being scratched, appearing in the
warmth and disappearing in the cold, with bitter
taste in the mouth and slimy coated tongue, vomit-
ing, intense aching in the stomach, restlessness and
sleeplessness, night sweats, turbid, dark urine, diar-
the pain in the limbs.
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NIGHTMARE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Anything which tends to impede digestion, or
impair the general health, may excite this well-
known painful affection. Heavy suppers, and
mental exertion prolonged to the last moment of
wakefulness, are almost sure provocatives of dis-
turbed sleep. "That student shall sleep miserably,"
says Lord Bacon, "who like an ass lieth down
under his burden." If there be feverish heat,
thirst, full hard pulse, and palpitation of the heart,
take a dose of Acon. immediately, and repeat it
next night at bedtime. N. vom., and Puls. are
suitable when the affection has been caused by
errors in diet (see INDIGESTION); the latter is more
especially indicated by dreams of black animals
sitting on the sufferer, &c. Op. may be given
in very severe attacks with suppressed breathing,
half-opened eyes, open mouth, snoring, rattling
in the throat, cold sweat on the face, convulsive
twitchings, and jerkings, &c. Phos. alternated with
Acon. is suitable to persons disposed to congestion
of the chest with palpitation, and who suffer fre-
quently from nightmare. In other chronic cases,
Sulph. and Sil. given alternately will often effect a
radical cure.
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NIPPLES, SORE, CHAPPED.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Soreness of the nipples is sometimes a great
impediment to suckling. It may to a great extent
be prevented by daily washing the nipples with
cold water, or should they be very tender, with
brandy and water during the last few weeks of
pregnancy. To cure this affection, apply Arnica
or Calendula lotion, ten drops to a wineglassful of
water, taking care to wash it off thoroughly before
the infant is put to the breast. Should this treatment
not suffice, try Sep., and lastly Sulph., singly or
in alternation with Calc., a dose every four hours;
at the same time applying externally a solution of
twenty globules of the medicine in a teaspoonful of
water.
PALPITATION OF THE HEART.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Violent and irregular action of the heart, if
constant, or nearly so, is probably symptomatic of
an organic disease, and calls for professional aid.
As a casual affection, it may be caused by
EMOTIONS of the mind (which see), by debility,
after long illness, or loss of blood or other fluids,
when Chin. will be appropriate; or it may proceed
from derangement of stomach, and be curable by
N. vom., Puls., Cocc., or Bry. For nervous and
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hysterical females, the chief remedies are Puls.,
Cocc., Coff, and Cham. Special indications for
Puls. are shivering with occasional flushes of heat,
great depression of spirits, frightful and confused
dreams. Acon. is suitable to full-blooded persons,
and when the affection is worse at night, attended
with feverish heat, and with pulsations audible to
the patient. Sulph. may be advantageously used at
intervals of three or four days after any of the above
remedies to complete the cure.
PILES.
PILES.
(HÆMORRHOIDS.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
Small tumours at or near the orifice of the
lower bowel, formed by varicose distention of the
veins. They are either external or internal,
bleeding or blind (that is, not discharging blood).
They are frequently associated with habitual con-
stipation, and may be occasioned by anything
which obstructs the venous circulation in the
abdomen, as, for instance, disordered liver, preg-
nancy, &c. They sometimes lie dormont a consid-
erable time, and then an acute attack supervenes,
with severe pain in the tumours and at the loins,
occasionally accompanied with colic. The chief
remedies are N. vom. and Sulph.; the former is
always indicated when there is constipation, with
or without difficulty in passing water. After N. vom.
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has been given for some days, Sulph. may be
taken with advantage. The alternate use of these
remedies, at intervals of a few days, is to be
recommended in cases of long standing. Ars. is
indicated when there are burning or shooting
pains in the tumours, or when there is great loss
of strength; Bell. or Rhus when there is insuffer-
able pain in the lower part of the back. See
COLIC, p. 107.
PIMPLES.
For the dose, see p. 3.
For pimples resembling small boils, such as may
occur on any part of the body, but seem to have
a predilection for affecting the face, Arn. is specific.
A dose may be taken night and morning. Hep.
may sometimes follow Arn. with advantage. For
certain kinds of pimply eruptions to which Sep. is
peculiarly adapted, see p. 79.
PLEURISY.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Inflammation of the membrane that lines the
walls of the chest and covers the opposite surfaces
of the lungs. Its symptoms bear a strong general
resemblance to those of PNEUMONIA; its peculiar
characteristics are acute lancinating pain in the side
of the chest, increased by attempting to draw a
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tender on pressure. Immediately on the appearance
of these symptoms, give Acon. and Bry. alternately
every hour, and apply to your physician.
PREGNANCY, DISORDERS INCIDENT to.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Pregnant females generally enjoy an immunity
from the graver kinds of disease, but are liable to
certain functional sufferings, which are sometimes
very distressing.
MORNING SICKNESS.-In general, it begins soon
after conception, and ceases spontaneously shortly
after quickening. It may be relieved by N. vom.,
one dose at bedtime; or Ipec. should the bowels be
relaxed. Ars. will be of use if besides morning
sickness there be excessive vomiting after eating
or drinking, with fainting and great weakness.
CONSTIPATION.-A very frequent attendant on
pregnancy: the principal remedies are, Op., N. vom.,
Bry. Of these three, the first-named is perhaps
the most homoeopathic to this particular kind of
constipation.
DIARRHOEA.-See p. 115.
TOOTHACHE.-Pregnant women are often an-
noyed by toothache, which is not confined to
decayed teeth, and is not to be cured by extraction.
As you would avoid miscarriage, never have a tooth
extracted during pregnancy. Sep., Bell., N. vom.,
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and Puls. are the remedies most frequently useful.
See TOOTHACHE, p. 169.
CONTINUED MENSTRUATION.-Always injurious;
often a precursor of miscarriage. The physician
must be consulted.
URINARY DISORDERS.-When there is too fre-
quent desire to pass water, Cocc. will afford relief;
or Puls. or N. vom. if the desire be ineffectual, or the
effort painful.
VARICOSE VEINS.-Puls., which has the property
of causing dilatation of the veins, is specific for this
affection. It may be aided by N. vom., Carb. v., or
Sulph., when there are piles; and by Ars. when
there is a burning sensation in the varices.
PROTRUSION OF THE LOWER INTESTINE (RECTUM).
For the dose, see p. 3.
The principal remedies are N. vom. and Ign. To
complete the cure, give Sulph. Merc. may be of
use for children with hard, swollen bellies.
QUINSY.-SORE THROAT.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Bell. and Merc. are the medicines most generally
serviceable in inflammation of the fauces, whether
in that milder form which constitutes ordinary sore
throat, or in the more aggravated degree which is
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commonly called quinsy. Acon. may or may not be
necessary in the outset, but will be required occa-
sionally in the progress of the treatment, according
to the degree of fever. The special indicationr for
Bell. are, tightness of the throat, as if there was a
ligature round it, heat and dryness of the mouth,
much thirst and bright redness of the throat and
tongue; sometimes external swelling of the throat
and of the glands of the neck; sometimes inability
to drink, liquids returning through the nose; pain
in speaking; fever sometimes with delirium. Merc.
is especially suitable when the mouth is filled with
viscid, tenacious mucus, smells offensively, has a
bad taste; when there are shooting, stinging pains
extending to the ears; inflamed, swollen, and ulce-
rated tonsils; shiverings alternating with heat.
The treatment may begin with the one or the other
of these medicines, according as their respective
symptoms predominate; often they may be alter-
nated with good effect. Sore throat caused by a
wetting, or by damp, foggy air, will often yield
quickly to Dulc.
The medicines should be taken every hour at
first, afterwards at longer intervals. In severe
cases relief will be obtained by inhaling the steam
of hot water, and applying a hot poultice to the
throat, or flannel wrung out of hot water and
covered with a dry neckcloth. In slighter cases,
apply, in the same way, a compress wrung out
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of cold water. For relaxed sore throat, see
UVULA, p. 172.
Persons whom nature has furnished with a beard,
and who are habitually subject to quinsy, may save
themselves from much suffering by the easy expe-
dient of not shaving below the chin. (See COLD,
HOARSENESS, SCARLET FEVER.)
RHEUMATISM.
For the dose, see p. 3.
A peculiar inflammation, affecting the fibrous and
membranous structures, especially the muscles and
the large joints. Acute rheumatism is generally
accompanied by a bitter taste in the mouth, coated
tongue; languor, shivering; hot skin, sometimes
dry, sometimes profusely perspiring; very quick, full
pulse; thirst; scanty high-coloured urine depositing
a red or pinky sediment; intense pain on moving
the affected part, which is swollen, red, and heated.
So long as it is confined to muscular parts and
joints, it is not dangerous, but it becomes highly so
when it shifts its seat to the membranes investing
the brain, the heart, &c. As soon as the above
symptoms present themselves, the patient should go
to bed, and take a dose of Acon. every hour until
the arrival of the physician.
Chronic rheumatism assumes a great diversity of
forms, and points to various remedies, many of
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which require to be applied with very nice discrimi-
nation. The following are among those most gene-
rally useful :-
Bry.: aching and shooting pains, aggravated by
motion, accompanied with violent symptoms; and
especially when the chest is affected.-Rhus t.:
gnawing, tearing pain in the fleshy parts, sensation
as if the bones were scraped; worse at night, during
rest, and still more so on beginning to move, better
after continued movement; rheumatism caused by
a thorough wetting.-Puls.: pains shifting from
one place to another, worse towards evening;
shivering.—Merc.: pains chiefly affecting the joints,
worse when getting warm in bed; puffiness and
swelling; profuse perspiration.—Dulc.: rheumatism
provoked by damp cold; affecting chiefly the back
and the large joints; pain as if bruised or beaten;
aggravated by continued rest in one posture, relieved
by motion.
In chronic rheumatism, a dose may be taken
at intervals varying from six to twenty-four hours.
ROSE. (ROSEOLA.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
This mildest of all the eruptive fevers is also
called "false measles," from its liability to be mis-
taken for the true. It is for the most part confined
to children and delicate women, and is not infectious.
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The eruption occurs in little red patches, without
the elevation, roughness, or deep hue of measles;
like them, showing itself first on the head and
breast, and thence spreading downwards; there is
also soreness of the throat, but none of the catarrhal
symptoms of measles, and the fever is very slight.
The eruption seldom lasts more than three or four
days, and it vanishes without desquamation of the
cuticle or any unpleasant after-symptoms. The
itching and tingling which accompany the eruption
are often very irritating to infants, and may call for
Coff. or Acon. For adults medicine will scarcely
be necessary; rest and quiet in a cool atmosphere,
abstinence from solid food and from all heating and
stimulating drinks will be sufficient.
SCARLET FEVER.-Scarlatina.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Exhibiting in its precursory stage all the symp-
toms common to the class of eruptive fevers, scar-
latina may even then be distinguished from measles
—with which it was formerly confounded-by
the absence of catarrhal affections, by the presence
of sore throat, by the extreme quickness of the
pulse, and often by that peculiar strawberry-like
appearance of the tongue, dotted all over with
little scarlet points, which is always exhibited in
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the course of the disorder, and not unfrequently
at its commencement. In favourable cases, the
eruption usually comes forth on the third day,
sometimes earlier, beginning on the face and neck,
thence spreading to the trunk and arms, and
finally to the lower limbs. In the same order it
declines, and scales off by the fifth or sixth day.
It consists of innumerable little points, forming to-
gether broad, irregular patches, of a smooth, glossy,
bright redness, which turn white for a moment under
pressure, and giving the skin an appearance like
that of a boiled lobster-shell. In severer cases, the
inflammation of the throat runs very high, even to
the degree of ulceration; and there is an exceed-
ingly dangerous form of the disease, in which the
eruption is either entirely wanting, or pale and
scanty; the mucous membranes are threatened with
gangrene, and the fever assumes a malignant
typhoid character.
Bell. is perfectly specific in the pure and simple
forms of scarlet fever, and may be administered
at intervals of four, six, or eight hours. Sometimes
scarlet fever is complicated with scarlet or purple
rash, and then the treatment must be modified ac-
cordingly (see SCARLET RASH). When the throat
is much inflamed, clogged with viscid mucus, or
ulcerated, Merc. must be alternated with Bell.; and
Acon., as in all other inflammatory affections, is to
be employed in proportion to the vehemence of the
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fever. When the eruption is scaling, Rhus. t. should
be used, one or two doses a-day.
The heat of the skin is some degrees higher in
scarlatina than in any other fever of this climate.
It is, therefore, an excellent practice in this com-
plaint to wash the skin with cold water, more or
less frequently and extensively according to the
urgency of the heat.* Great care should be taken
to keep the patient's apartment cool and well venti-
lated. During the fever no stronger aliment should
be allowed than cold barley-water, and the return
to fuller diet in convalescence must be gradual and
cautious. Scarlatina is sometimes followed by
secondary disorders similar to those consequent
upon measles, and by one which is peculiar to
itself, namely dropsical swelling of the face and
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when the skin is hot and dry; the relief it affords is great,
and almost instantaneous. Upon a superficial view, the
practice may appear at variance with the homoeopathic prin-
ciple, but in reality it is not so. The case stands thus: An
inordinate degree of heat is generated in fever; water is then
applied to the skin, not for the purpose of suppressing that
action, but for the purpose of co-operating with nature, and
in the direction chosen by herself, by enabling the excess of
heat to be more rapidly thrown off by the skin. The vessels
of the hot, dry skin are gorged or congested with blood; to
apply moderately cold water to them is a strictly homoeo-
pathic act, for cold applied to the healthy skin produces just
such a state of congestion.
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extremities, which usually appears in the second
week after the decline of the eruption, and continues
a fortnight or longer when left to itself. Except in
rare cases, it is not dangerous, and generally yields
to Bell.; a dose three or four times a-day.
Bell. is so perfectly specific as to pure scarlatina,
that it acts as a preservative against that complaint,
either preventing it altogether, or greatly mitigating
its attack. But as scarlatina is often complicated
with scarlet rash, for which Bell. is not specific, it
is advisable to alternate Acon. with Bell. in the pre-
ventive treatment. A dose of each of the medicines
may be taken daily whilst there is danger of infec-
tion; wine and acids should be avoided.
SCARLET RASH. PURPLE RASH. THE PURPLES.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Often confounded with scarlatina, but essentially
different from it, and requiring a different treatment.
Scarlatina is always a primary self-subsisting dis-
order; scarlet rash is often a symptomatic affection
superadded to some other disorder, as measles, small-
pox, and scarlatina itself. Scarlatina attacks a
person but once; one attack of scarlet rash affords
no security against a recurrence. Scarlatina observes
a regular course of progress and decline with certain
critical days; nothing of the kind is noticeable in
scarlet rash. The eruption of scarlatina is smooth,
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bright red, and turns white under pressure; that
of scarlet rash is rough, with little granular eleva-
tions of a dark red hue, and does not become white
under pressure.
The principal remedy is Acon.,
which will sometimes suffice singly; if there be
great restlessness, nervous agitation, and headache,
it should be alternated with Coff. When there is
tightness of the chest, with sighing breathing, Ipec.
will be useful.
SCIATICA.
For the dose, see p. 3.
This is a neuralgic affection of the sciatic nerve,
the main trunk of which passes from near the hip-
joint down behind the thigh-bone, and sends off
branches in various directions. Being almost always
accompanied with derangement of the digestive
organs, the principal remedies for it are N. vom.
and Puls. The former is the more suitable when
the pain is worst in the morning; the latter when
the pain is aggravated in the evening or at night,
and is better in the open air. Ars. may be useful
in cases of long standing, when there is internal
burning heat, or else a sensation of cold; and when
the pain is relieved by outward warmth, Coloc. is
sometimes very efficacious, especially when the
right leg is affected. (See LUMBAGO; RHEUMA-
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SEA SICKNESS.
Cocc. and Petroleum* are the remedies which
oftenest succeed in allaying this distressing affection.
They must be taken in frequent doses, since the
cause of the malady is in continual operation.
Begin with Cocc.; if not better after a few doses,
take Petr.; and, lastly, try the effect of alternating
the two.
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For the dose, see p. 3.
An eruption of small vesicles on a crimson ground,
generally in the form of a band, extending half
round the waist. There is a common notion that
if the band were to complete the circuit of the body
the result would be fatal. This is entirely erroneous.
The extreme rarity of a complete girdle of shingles
has, no doubt, given rise to this popular dictum;
but such cases have occurred without confirming
the melancholy prognostication. The chief remedy
is Merc., of which a dose may be taken three times
* Petroleum is not included in the list of medicines given
at page 10. Persons going to sea will do well to procure from
a homœopathic chemist two phials, containing respectively
six drops of Tincture of Cocculus 3, and six drops of Tinc-
ture of Petroleum 3, both diluted with four ounces of water.
Take a teaspoonful for a dose. Or else get pilules of Petr.
3, and prepare the medicines as directed at page 3.
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a-day, to be followed by Rhus, morning and evening,
when the eruption is drying up.
SLEEPLESSNESS.
For the dose, see p. 3.`
The sleeplessness of the sick-bed is not to be
dealt with as a thing apart from the patient's
malady; cure this, and sleep will return. When
want of sleep is the most prominent affection,
consider whether or not it is caused by mental
fatigue, if so, N. vom. will relieve; or by an
overloaded stomach, or INDIGESTION, or by EMO-
TIONS of the mind, which see. Sleeplessness,
accompanied with nervous excitement or great
vivacity of thought, will often yield to Coff., a dose
of which may be taken every hour. If you would
sleep well, do not go to bed with your head full of
thought or your stomach full of food. Be careful
about the ventilation of your bedroom.
If you
wake up in the night, feel hot and uncomfortable,
and cannot go to sleep again, adopt a practice like
that recommended by Benjamin Franklin. Get up;
turn down the bed-clothes; walk about the room
without any other covering than your night-dress,
which you may wave to and fro, so as to fan your
whole body; wash your face and hands in cold
water; and when you are cool and comfortable (do
not wait till you are cold), go back to bed again.
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Franklin used to undress himself completely, and
take what he called an air bath. Any one may
safely follow his example, whilst the skin is hot and
dry.
SMALL POX.
SMALL POX. (VARIOLA.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
The precursory fever of small pox is distinguished
from that which precedes other eruptions by the
following symptoms :-Severe pain in the small of
the back, and also at the pit of the stomach, the
latter increased by pressure. The eruption comes
out on the third day in the same order as measles
and scarlatina, appearing first in the shape of small,
hard, red pimples, which, in about three days,
assume the appearance of watery vesicles, depressed
in the centre, and surrounded by inflamed margins:
about the sixth or eighth day the contents of the
vesicles become purulent, the central depression
disappears, and as soon as the watery vesicles
(pustules) are matured, they burst, and the escaped
matter either dries and falls off in crusts, about
the fourteenth day, or forms moist scabs covering
sores that leave behind them permanent pits and
There are two forms of small pox-the dis-
tinct and the confluent-so called from the appear-
ance of the pustules. In the former they remain
distinct from each other; in the latter they are so
thick-set as to run together. Confluent small pox
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is much the more formidable of the two; the severity
of the symptoms is much greater throughout the
whole course of the disease, and the filling of the
pustules is generally attended with secondary fever.
As soon as the precursory symptoms appear, the
patient should lie down, and take Acon. and Ant. t.
alternately every two hours. Medical aid should,
of course, be sought without delay. Through the
whole course of the disorder, the most scrupulous
attention to cleanliness and good ventilation will be
indispensable, for the foul emanations from the
diseased body are capable of reacting very injuri-
ously on the patient, who should be kept cool, and,
if thirsty, drink freely (a little at a time) of cold
water, or toast water. The marks left by small pox
are always worst on the uncovered parts; hence
will be seen the importance of excluding the light
as much as possible from the time the pustules have
begun to fill, until the crusts have fallen off. Whilst
this process is going on, it will be necessary to
wash the skin frequently with tepid water.
SPASMODIC CROUP. ACUTE ASTHMA OF INFANTS.
CROWING DISEASE. MILLER'S ASTHMA.
For the dose, see p. 3.
An affection often mistaken for true croup, but
distinguishable from it by this cardinal fact, that it
is not ushered in by the symptoms of an ordinary
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cold or catarrh. It makes its attack without warn-
ing and with extreme suddenness, generally at
night. The child starts up from sleep, frightened and
choking; the breathing and cough are croupy: the
cause, however, is not inflammation, but a spasmodic
closing of the orifice of the windpipe. The first
attack, if not fatal, ends in a few hours with sneez-
ing, eructation, and vomiting: after this the child
sleeps calmly, but another and more severe attack
may be expected in twenty-four hours, unless pre-
vented by homoeopathic means. Samb. is the
principal remedy. It should be given at intervals
varying from ten to thirty minutes, according to the
violence of the symptoms.
SPITTING OF BLOOD.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Ascertain whether the blood comes from the
lungs, or from the mouth or back of the nostrils.
Blood from the lungs is warm, has a sweetish taste,
and its discharge is generally accompanied with
soreness and burning in the chest. If the hæmor-
rhage is sudden, the patient should take (until the
arrival of the physician), at such intervals as the
urgency' of the symptoms may indicate, Acon.,
alternated with Ipec. when the blood is bright red, or
with Arn. if it be dark. He should be kept cool,
and perfectly quiet, not even speaking.
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SPRAINS AND STRAINS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The bones, where forming joints, are bound
together by exceedingly strong fibrous membranes,
called ligaments. The forcible extension of these
ligaments produces very severe pain and tedious
inflammation, which extends to the surrounding
parts. Arn. is the first of remedies in such cases,
and should be used both internally and externally,
in the form of a lotion, to be applied by means
of a linen compress over which a piece of oiled silk
should be fitted, so as to prevent the evaporation of
the moisture. The lotion should consist of two
teaspoonfuls of tincture to half a pint of cold water.
If the pain and swelling do not yield to Arn. re-
course may be had to Rhus. t., which should also
be preferred from the first for patients who are
known to have a constitutional tendency to ery-
sipelas. In any case, the use of Arn. should not
be continued too long after the inflammation has
subsided, since it may aggravate the disorder of the
digestive functions, which want of air and exercise
is likely to have occasioned. The cure may be com-
pleted by pouring cold water from a height on the
affected part night and morning, for fifteen or twenty
minutes, rubbing the part afterwards for a few
minutes with a thick lather of Castile soap, made
with one part of water and two of brandy, and then
bandaging it carefully, and with an even pressure.
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STIFF NECK. CRICK IN THE Neck.
For the dose, see p. 3.
A very good remedy for this rheumatic affection
of the muscles of the neck is the old popular practice
of applying a hot smoothing iron to the part, with
a piece of flannel interposed between the iron and
the skin. For internal treatment, Dulc. or Bry.
will generally suffice. See RHEUMATISM, p. 154.
STYE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The small inflamed tumour, like a boil, that
sometimes forms on the margin of the eyelid, will
generally yield to Puls., a dose three times a-day.
In obstinate cases Merc. may follow Puls. with
advantage; and Hep. may be given if suppuration
take place. Lukewarm water is the best outward
application to allay irritation. To eradicate a
chronic disposition to this affection, Puls. and
Sulph. may be administered alternately at intervals
of a week.
TEETHING.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The process of developing the first teeth usually
begins about the sixth month, and is completed
about the eighteenth, but sometimes its beginning
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and ending anticipate those periods, or are retarded
beyond them. Teething-time is always a trying
one for children of weakly constitution; and though
healthy children do not suffer much during this
natural process, any casual ailments which then
occur to them should be met with peculiar vigilance,
lest they issue in congestion of the brain, lungs,
&c. (See BRAIN FEVER, p. 97.) The treatment
there indicated will also be applicable when there is
dry cough, with hurried, laboured breathing. Should
there be constipation, give N. vom. The diarrhoea
which generally accompanies teething is, like the
drivelling of saliva, a salutary relief provided by
nature, and is not to be interfered with unless it
become excessive, in which case Cham. may be
given, or Merc. if the discharge be watery. If the
child's mouth be very hot, and gums swollen, red, and
painful, give Acon. Should the child be excessively
restless, sleepless, and ill-tempered, Coff. or Cham.
may be given. When the teeth are nearly ready
to come through, Sil. will expedite their appearance.
So far as I can judge from my own experience, the
use of this remedy renders the operation of lancing
the gums quite superfluous. When teething is
delayed beyond the usual time, some constitutional
defect is to be suspected, in the treatment of which
Calc. will probably be found useful; but a physician
should be consulted. (See CONVULSIONS; INFAnts,
DISEASES OF; DIARRHEA, &c.)
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THRUSH. (APHTHA.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
This disorder, which is common among infants,
consists of small round white ulcers in the mouth;
it is seldom dangerous, but often troublesome and
injurious. Borax, which has been used for it time
out of mind, is a very appropriate remedy, and
presents one striking instance of the accidental
practice of homoeopathy before the principle was
known. The child's mouth may be washed with a
soft brush dipped in a weak solution of borax, one
grain to an ounce of water. If there is much
drivelling of saliva, offensive breath, and diarrhoea,
give Merc., a dose every twelve hours. When the
ulceration is very extensive, and the bowels and
the skin are likewise disordered, Sulph. will be
useful, a dose every second day. The child should
be well washed twice a-day in tepid water, and the
utmost cleanliness should be observed.
TOOTHACHE.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The varieties of this distressing complaint, and
the remedies corresponding to them, are extremely
numerous. It would be little to the reader's advan-
tage if the whole catalogue were set forth in a
work like this, which is intended only for domestic
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use.
We will content ourselves with mentioning
the chief remedies, which are-Acon., Bell., Cham.,
N. vom., Puls., Sep., Sil., and Sulph. In the treat-
ment of toothache, as in that of every other com-
plaint, account must be taken of all the symptoms
of every kind with which the patient is affected.
It will be necessary, therefore, to study the proper-
ties of the above medicines, in order to make a
right choice among them. A few leading indica-
tions may suffice in this place.
Acon.-General febrile action; violent throbbing
toothache in the whole jaw or on one side; redness
of the cheek. Bell.-The same; also heat and
dryness of the mouth and throat; great thirst;
pain extending to the ears. Cham.-Pain extort-
ing cries and lamentations; insupportable at night,
increased by the warmth of the bed; redness and
swelling of one cheek; the hair is moist; great
thirst; swelling of the glands under the jaw; par-
ticularly suitable to women and children. N. vom.
-Constipation; worse at night, in the morning, or
in the open air. Puls.-Pain worst from sunset till
midnight, relieved by the open air; diarrhoea;
imperfect menstruation. Sep.-Chronic throbbing,
with shooting pain; throbbing toothache of pregnant
women. Sil.-Pains like those of Sep., but more
in the jaw-bone than in the tooth itself; swelling
of the periosteum (the membrane covering the bone);
unhealthy skin. Sulph.-Swollen gums; throbbing
URINARY DISORDERS.
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like the tooth itself; pulsative headache; tenesmus,
constipation, and shivering.
URINARY DISORDERS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The severe forms of these affections lie manifestly
beyond the bounds of domestic medicine; but
means for their relief ought to be taken without
delay upon emergencies. In case of RETENTION
OF URINE, or painful, very scanty and difficult
passing of urine (STRANGURY), let the patient be
put into a hip bath of the temperature of 94° Fahr.,
after having previously taken at intervals of a
quarter of an hour (while the bath was preparing)
two doses, each consisting of two drops of strong
spirits of camphor on sugar. If by the time he
has been ten minutes in the bath relief be not
obtained, let him be put to bed and have Puls. and
Acon. alternately every quarter of an hour, in case
of retention, or every hour or two in cases of
strangury. In the latter disorder, when very
severe and attended with discharge of blood, Can-
tharis* is often indicated. Arn., alternated if
necessary with Rhus, must be employed in urinary
* Not included in the list given at p. 10, the symptoms for
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difficulties caused by a blow or a fall on the back,
or other mechanical injury. N. vom. may be had
recourse to when from accidental causes the urine
has been suffered to accumulate in the bladder (a
most dangerous practice), and a temporary loss of
power to expel it has ensued. Retention of urine
after childbirth generally yields to Bell., with which
Acon. may be alternated if there be fever and much
local pain.
When the urine is TOO PROFUSE, or passed in-
voluntarily, N. vom. may generally be had recourse
to in the first instance, unless the accompanying
symptoms point more distinctly to Verat. Bell. and
Hyos. are suitable to children, females, and persons
whose nervous system is easily irritated. Incon-
tinence of urine during pregnancy often yields to
Cocc., and that which follows delivery to Puls.
Should the latter not relieve in a day or two, Bell.
may be substituted for it.
UVULA ELONGATED.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Relaxed sore throat, with elongation of the uvula,
is often a result of disorder in the digestive or-
gans, the condition of which should be considered
in the first place. With reference to the treatment
of this affection, when there are no symptoms more
particularly indicating other remedies, N. vom. may
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be taken every second night, and Calc. every seventh.
Much benefit will be derived from the practice of
having a stream of cold water poured over the back
of the neck once or twice a-day, followed by brisk
friction..
VOMITING.
For the dose, see p. 3.
If it occur after too full a meal, or taking indi-
gestible food, it should be aided by copious draughts
of warm water. When nausea and retching still
continue after the stomach has been emptied, give
Ant. t. should the tongue be foul, or Ipec. if clean.
For vomiting caused by fat, oily food, Puls. is
specific. Vomiting of blood must be treated pro-
fessionally. Upon a sudden emergency give Acon.
alternately with Ipec. when the blood is bright red,
with N. vom. if it be dark. After the vomiting has
ceased, a dose or two of Arn. will be of use.
WARTS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
The chief remedies for these unsightly excres-
cences are Dulc., Sep., Rhus t., Sulph., and Calc.
In most cases Rhus will suffice. It should be.
taken twice a-day; and at the same time the warts
should be touched with a drop of the mother
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tincture. When the warts are very numerous or
of long standing, and especially when there is any
scrofulous taint in the constitution, Sulph. and Calc.
will be serviceable, either singly or alternately, at
intervals of four or five days.
WATER ON THE BRAIN. (HYDROCEPHALUS.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
The approach of this dreadful malady is often
very insidious, but seldom fails to manifest itself,
however obscurely, by these signs-that the child is
mopish, averse to play, always wanting to be carried,
and fretful and peevish whenever raised from the
horizontal position. When these symptoms are
observed, not a moment should be lost in obtaining
professional aid. Homœopathists have repeatedly
proved that water on the brain is not incurable.
Sometimes this malady begins with acute symptoms,
for which see Brain Fever, p. 97.
WETTING THE Bed.
For the dose, see p. 3.
In children this habit is frequently a symptom of
the presence of worms in the intestines, for which
Cina is a remedy. If that fail, see WORMS, p. 177.
If the affection cannot be traced to worms, it is at
least a sign of a weak constitution; therefore take
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close heed of all existing symptoms and treat the
patient accordingly. In obscure cases-that is to
say, those in which there are no other very obvious
symptoms-Bell. given every morning may avail.
Be careful as to the child's diet; and do not let him
have much drink or slops late at night. Do not
deal harshly with him for an involuntary fault;
that would only do mischief. Sponging the lower
part of the spine for a minute or two, night and
morning, with cold water, or in cold weather with
water raised to 52° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, is
often of much service.
WHITES.
WHITES.
(LEUCORRHEA.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
Casual occurrences of this complaint may almost
always be traced to obvious causes, the removal of
which will be followed by a cure. A common, but
often unsuspected cause of whites, is inordinate
indulgence in the use of tea. In such cases, China
may be taken with advantage, as also in those of
long standing, and when the constitution has been
weakened by disease. Sep. is suitable to slender
and delicate females, prone to perspire much after
walking, subject to irregularities in the monthly
flow, and to bearing down pains. Puls. is indicated
when the discharge is thick and milky, the menses
delayed beyond their time, and the bowels relaxed.
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Graph. when the monthly flow is scanty and
irregular, the skin harsh and dry, or readily per-
spiring, the discharge is profuse, watery, and acrid;
also when there is habitual costiveness. An occa-
sional dose of Sulph. will often be required to aid
the operation of the other remedies.
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When the disorder appears very obstinate, the dis-
charge profuse and often coming away in gushes,
do not tamper with it, but seek medical advice.
WHITLOW.
For the dose, see p. 3.
This name is given to an extremely painful
abscess of the fingers, generally beginning at the
tip near the nail, or under it. As soon as the first
symptoms of heat and pain are felt, take Sulph. and
Lach. alternately every three hours. After four
doses, if the inflammation still increase, and the
pain become throbbing, take Hep. and Sil. in the
same way. Keep the finger immersed in water as
hot as can be borne, renewing it from time to time
as it cools. At night, and at other times when
that cannot be conveniently done, apply a poultice.
If there be general fever, take a dose or two of
Acon.
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Womb, Falling
WOMB, FALLING OF THE. (PROLAPSUS.)
For the dose, see p. 3.
When the displacement is slight and of recent
origin, it will generally yield to N. vom.; a dose
night and morning. In cases of longer standing,
when a very little exertion causes much suffering,
Sep. will afford great relief. Should mechanical
support be resorted to, that kind only is advisable
which has its resistance externally.*
WORMS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Three kinds of worms infest the human intes-
tines-the lumbricus, or round worm; the tænia,
or tape-worm; and the ascaris (plural, ascarides),
or thread-worm. This last is much commoner than
the other two.
The presence of worms in the intestines is both
an effect and a cause of disease. Indigestible or
innutritious food, insufficient or too warm clothing,
bad ventilation, residing in an unwholesome locality,
or anything else that tends to impair the general
health, may occasion in the stomach and bowels an
increase of the mucous secretions in which these
parasites find lodging and food. They will then be
generated in great numbers; and by the irritation
they cause, will foster the existing malady. Hence,
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the first thing necessary towards their extermination
is, to remove all the outward causes that favour
their development; and the second is, to repair
the mischief done, by remedies appropriate to the
symptoms. The worm cakes and powders of the
quack, and the vermifuges of his licensed competitor,
may kill whole hecatombs of worms (and sometimes
the patient into the bargain), but that is all they can
do; and by itself that is nothing.
The only certain evidence of worms is their being
voided at stool; but whether they are seen or not,
matters little as to the treatment to be pursued
whenever the following symptoms are present:-
paleness and emaciation, with puffiness of the face,
and especially of the upper lip; livid or dark circles
round the eyes; irritation of the nose; craving
appetite, with gnawing at the pit of the stomach;
hard, tense, swollen belly; itching and burning at
the orifice of the lower bowel; irregular action of
the bowels, with unhealthy evacuations; difficulty
in passing water; grinding of the teeth and start-
ing in sleep. When these symptoms, or a majority
of them, are present, they are sure to be accom-
panied with more or less fever, for which Acon.
will be useful; it may generally be followed, after
a day or two, by Cina. If the bowels be constipated,
N. vom. should be given; and Ipec. when there is
diarrhoea, with vomiting, sinking, faint feeling at the
pit of the stomach, oppression of the chest, suffo-
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cating cough. Merc. will be suitable if with loose-
ness of the bowels there is also increased flow of
saliva, with fetid breath and foul tongue. In almost
all cases, Sulph. will be requisite to complete the cure,
either at somewhat long intervals between the other
remedies, or subsequently to them. Calc. may be
administered in the same way when the appetite is
excessive, and there are glandular enlargements.
The diet of patients afflicted with worms should
consist chiefly of animal food, plainly cooked, and
farinaceous vegetables. Sweet things, milk, suc-
culent vegetables, and fruit should be avoided.
WOUNDS.
WOUNDS.
For the dose, see p. 3.
Wounds are technically divided into four prin-
cipal classes: viz., incised (made with sharp-cutting
instruments); contused (made with blunt instru-
ments which bruise as well as cut); punctured; and
lacerated. Small incised wounds should have their
edges joined evenly, and be bound up with a linen
rag or roller; the coagulated blood will form the
best dressing for them, and they ought not to be
uncovered until they are healed. Larger incised
wounds may require to have their edges held to-
gether with sticking plaster, which should be cut in
strips with concave edges, so that their narrowest
part may be over the wound. A linen compress
soaked in Calendula lotion (two teaspoonfuls of
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tincture to a tumblerful of cold water) should then
be applied, kept in its place by a tight bandage, and
constantly moistened with the lotion. Lacerated
wounds should be treated in the same way, after
first carefully washing off with Calendula lotion, any
particles of dirt adhering to them. Punctured
wounds should be dressed with Arnica lotion, and
also contused wounds, if they partake more of the
character of a bruise than a wound, otherwise with
Calendula.
Should the patient have lost much blood, give him
China. If he has been much frightened, give him
Opium. If he faints from loss of blood, do not try
to rouse him with stimulants of any kind; while he
faints, he bleeds less. If the blood be bright red,
and comes away in jerks, feel for the artery where
it beats on the inner side of the limb, and try to
compress it. This may be done at first with the
handle of a large key covered with flannel, and
afterwards with a cork placed lengthwise on that
part of the artery nearest the heart, and secured in
its place by a thickly-folded compress laid above it,
and a tight roller. After severe wounds, it will be
well to give Arn. and Acon. alternately, two doses of
each daily. For a very painful state of the wound,
preventing sleep, give Coff. Should the lips of the
wound. become swollen and present a red margin,
give Puls. Sometimes wounds are followed by
ERYSIPELAS, see p. 119.
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ABORTION, See Miscarriage, 143.
After-pains, 138.
Anger, 118.
Brain, water on the, 174.
Breast, inflamed, 98.
Breasts of infants, 134.
Anthony's Fire, St (Erysipelas), Breath, offensive, 99.
119.
Anthrax, 97.
Antimonium tartaricum, 13.
Aphtha, 169.
Appetite, loss of, 93.
voracious, 94.
Apoplexy, 92.
Arnica, 14, 123.
Arsenicum album, 15.
Asthma, 94.
of infants, 164.
INDEX.
BAD BREATH, 99.
Bedsore, 14,
Bees, stings of, 136.
Belladonna, 18.
Bilious attacks, 95.
Bites and stings of insects, 136.
Bleeding from the nose, 96.
of the gums, 127.
from wounds, 179.
from the anus, 149.
Blood-letting in apoplexy, 93.
Blood, determination of, to the
head, 108.
-, spitting of, 165.
vomiting of, 173.
Bloody flux, see Dysentery, 116.
Boils, 97.
Bowels, confined, 109.
looseness of, see Diarrhoea.
115; dysentery 116.
inflammation of, 135.
-, griping in the, 107.
Brain, concussion of the, 14.
fever, 97.
shortness of, see Asthma,
94.
Bruises, 100.
Bryonia, 20.
Bug bites, 136.
Bunions, 101.
Burns and Scalds, 101.
Calcarea Carbonica, 22.
Calendula, 24.
Callosities, 110.
Camphor, 24.
Carbo vegetabilis, 26.
Carbuncle, 97.
Catarrh, 105.
Chafing of the skin, 125.
Chicken pox, 102.
Chilblains, 103.
Children, disorders of, 23, 132.
China, 30.
Chin Cough, see Hooping Cough,
129.
Cholera, Asiatic, 103.
English, 104.
Cina, 33.
Cocculus, 34.
Cocoa, 7.
Coffæa, 35.
Cold in the head, 105.
on the chest, 106.
water in fever, 124.
Colic, 37, 107.
Colocynth, 36.
Confinement, see Labour, 188.
Congestion of the head, 108.
Constipation, 109.
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151.
of infants, 133.
Contusions, 100.
Convulsions, 109.
Corns, 110.
Costiveness, 109.
Cough, 112.
-, hooping, 129,
Cramp in the stomach, 113.
in the legs, 113.
Crick in the neck, 167.
Croup, 113.
spasmodic or bastard, 164.
Crowing disease, 164.
Crying of infants, 132.
Cuprum aceticum, 39.
DEAFNESS, 118.
Dentition, see Teething, 167.
Diarrhoea, 115, 133.
Diet and regimen, 5.
Disease, evidences of, 8.
Dizziness, see Giddiness, 126.
Doses, 3.
Drosera 39,
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Dulcamara, 40.
Dysentery, 116.
Dyspepsia, 131.
EARS, DISORDERS OF THE, 117.
inflammation of the, 118.
noises in the, see Congestion
of the Head, 108.
Emotions, 118.
English cholera, 104.
Epilepsy, 119.
Eructations, see Flatulence, 125
Erysipelas, 119.
Excess in food, 131.
Excoriation of the skin, 29.
Eyes, disorders of the, 121, 133.
FACEACHE, 122.
Face, swollen, 122.
Fainting, 123.
Falling in the lower bowels, 23, 152.
of the womb, 128.
of the hair, 24.
sickness, 119.
False measles, see Rose, 155.
Fatigue, 123.
Fat food, 96.
Feet-sweating, 124.
Fever, 124.
Fever, brain, 97
-, catarrhal, 106.
, miliary, 141.
scarlet, 159.
Fit, apoplectic, 92.
Fits of children, 109.
Flatulence, 125.
Fright, 118.
Foul breath, 99.
Flux, bloody, see Dysentery, 116.
GALLING OF THE SKIN, 125.
Gathering of the finger; see
Whitlow, 176.
Giddiness, 126.
Gnat bites, 136.
Gout, 126.
Graphites, 42.
Greasy food, indisposition after
eating, 131.
Grief, 118.
Gripes, 107.
Gum, red, 134.
Gums, bleeding, sore, 127.
Gumboil, 127.
HÆMORRHAGE, 165.
Hæmorrhoids, 149.
Head, blood to the, 108.
cold in the, 105.
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Headache, 128.
Heartburn, 129.
Heart, palpitation of the, 148.
Hepar sulphuris, 45.
Hernia, 133.
Hiccough, 134.
Hives, 102.
Hoarseness, 129.
Homœopathy, 1.
Hooping cough, 129.
Housemaid's knee, 138.
Hydrocephalus, or water on the
brain, 174.
Hyoscyamus, 47.

IGNATIA AMARA, 50.
Indigestion, 131.
Infants, disorders of, 132.
Inflammation of brain, 97.
bowels, 135.
lungs, 135.
Influenza, 136.
Insects, bites and stings of, 136.
Ipecacuanha, 54,
Itching, 137.
JAUNDICE, 137.
Jealousy, 118.
KNEE, INFLAMED, 138.
LABOUR, 138.
Lachesis, 55.
Leucorrhoea, 175.
Looseness, or diarrhœa, 115.
Lumbago, 139.
Lungs, inflammation of, 135.
MEASLES, 140.
Menstruation, disordered, 143.
Mental emotions, 118.
fatigue, 124.
Mercury, 59.
Miliary fever, 141.
Millar's Asthma, 164.
Milk crust, 142.
excess of, 23,
deficiency of, 23.
Mind, emotions of the, 118.
Miscarriage, 143.
Monthly period, 143.
Morning sickness, see Pregnancy,
151.
Mumps, 144.
NERVE PAIN, 37.
Nettle-rash, 145.
Neuralgia, 37.
Nightmare, 147.
Nipples, sore, 148.
Nose, bleeding of the, 96.
running at the, 106.
itching picking at the, see
Worms, 177.
, swelling of the, 46, 80.
Nux vomica, 63.
OPHTHALMIA, 121.
Opium, 67.
Over-exertion, mental, 124.
-, bodily, 124.
PAINTER'S COLIC, 67.
Palpitation of the heart, 148.
Passion, 118.
Pastry, 131.
INDEX.
Petroleum, 161.
Phosphorus, 68.
Piles, 149.
Pimples, 150.
Pleurisy, 150.
Pneumonia, 135.
Poisoning, 25.
Pregnancy, disorders of, 151.
Protrusion of the lower bowel, 152.
Purples, see Scarlet Rash, 159.
Purging, see Diarrhoea, 115.
Pulsatilla, 72.
Purgative medicines, 51, note.
QUINSY, 152
RASH, ROSE, 155.
scarlet or purple, 159.
Repetition of dose, 5.
Rheum, 75.
Rheumatism, 154.
Rhus toxicodendron, 75.
Rich food, 131.
Rickets, 23.
Rose, 155.
Rupture, 133.
Sambucus Nigra, 78.
Scalds, 101.
Scarlatina, 156.
Scarlet fever, 156.
rash, 159.
Sciatica, 38, 160.
Sea sickness, 161.
Sedentary habits, 20.
Sepia, 79.
Shingles, 161.
Silicea, 82.
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Skin, excoriation of, 125.
itching of, 137.
Sleep, disturbed, 66.
Sleeplessness, 162.
Small pox, 163.
Smoking, 131.
Sneezing, see Cold in the Head,
106.
Snuffles, 133.
Soap, 101, 166.
Sore throat, 172.
Sorrow or grief, 118.
Spasms in the stomach, 113.
Spasmodic croup, 164.
Spitting of blood, 165.
Spongia, 85.
Sprains, 166.
St Anthony's fire (Erysipelas), 119.
Stiff neck, 167.
Strains, 166.
Strangury, 171.
St Vitus's dance, 50.
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Stye, 167.
Sulphur, 86.
Supper, 147.
Suppuration, 167.
of breast, 98.
Surfeit, see Indigestion, 131.
Swine pox, 102.
Swoon, see Fainting, 123.
TEA, 7.
Teeth, extraction of, 151.
Teething, 167.
Thrush, 169.
Tic doloureux, 122.
Toothache, 169.
INDEX.
ULCERATED THROAT, see Quinsy,
152.
Urinary disorders, 152, 171, 174.
Uvula, elongated, 172.
VARICOSE VEINS, 152.
Veratrum, 89.
Vertigo, 126.
Vomiting, 173.,
of blood, 173.
WAKEFULNESS, 59, 162.
Warts, 173.
Wasps, stings of, 136.
Water on the brain, 174.
difficulty in passing, 171.
Waterbrash, 129.
Wetting the bed, 174.
Whites, 175.
Whitlow, 176.
Wind, see Flatulence, 125.
Windy colic, 107.
in children, 23.
Womb, falling of the, 177.
Worms, 177.
Wounds, 179.
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